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Bacteriology in Relation to Agriculture

0 1elate the benefits to agricul-
hire or any other industry, de-
rived from any single branch of

science, in a large part means a his—
torical survey of its results in their
application to agriculture or some
other field. Also to assume that any
particular branch of science as bacte-
riology stands out independently in
the measure of scientific products, un-
influenced by any other branch of
science or practice, would be prepos-
terous and false. An application of
scientific effort found in scientific
practice is many-sided and is really
the offspring of accumulated observa-
tions and suggestions, of traditions
ever revealing themselves out of a.
period of chaos in definite, tangible
and workable form.

‘ Agriculture has shared freely in the
results of scientific study and the
branch of agricultural bacteriology
has contributed its mite: to this great
industrial domain. However, only the
important and familiarly recognized
goods can be mentioned in a limited
article.

Fermentations.

Men observed fermentations and
utilized them, and also were familiar
with putrefaction long before history
found it possible to tell their daily ex-
periences. They wondered, weighed,
and speculated ove1 many of the mys—
terious ways of nature. In putrefac-
tion and fermentations they were es-
pecially deeply interested for there
seemed to be more than the usual in—
animate material present—there was
seemingly something of life itself in
them. Out of them many suspected
life to come. These phenomena, how-
ever, were processes shrouded in sub—
tle mystery, hidden from the knowl-
edge of man, full of superstitious sug-
gestions and-altogether a source of
reverential ‘ aWe.

\Vhile conductingthe crude fermen-
tation industries, it was soon learned
by man that they were subject to un-
desirable or wayward changes and in—
fluences. The thing sought did not
always materialize as expected; pu-
trefaction interfered with the keeping
of food; and all about was to be seen
deCay and reduction to earthy mate-
rial. Where inert or dead substances
fell to the direction of man, complete
control was exercised, but putrefac~
tion, fermentation and diseases, on the
other hand, were still outside of the
realm of the absolute dominatiOn of

Centuries passed with no improve-
ment in the piactices utilized in con-
ducting fermentations and in the man-
agement 0f diseases. There appeared
to be, during all this period, scarcely
much else than speculation, but to-
wards the close of the period, experi-
ments were attempted.

The first vital blow 'peihaps fell
31-,-_from the hands of an Italian physi-
cian, Redi, who was interested in the
development of visible life from fer-
menting or putrefying substances. He
took meat and divided it into three

By Dr. CHARLES E.

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jar. Over the top of one jar he plac-
ed a screen; over another, parch-
ment, and over the third, nothing.
The flies lighted on the meat in the
open jar and laid their eggs; then
maggots soon appeared. The flies
were stopped by the cover of the
screened jar, and deposited their eggs
on the screen. It was possible to see
the maggots develop from the eggs,
openly before the eyes. But the jar
protected by parchment gave no op-
portunity for the flies to lay their eggs
on the cover or to enter, and conse-
quently they could not lay their egg

Accordingly no maggots developed.
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visible larval life, although it putre-
fied. This was a simple and direct
experiment, originating in a man full
of sagacity.

Aftei this, an effort was made to
reach an understanding of the putre-
faction, still not visible to the naked
eye. In this attempt over two orthree
centuries,~ there raged discussions
which finally stimulated experimenta-
tion. Then, as now, arguments were
the biggest blows some could use,
while others went .quietly to work to

portions, placing each in a separate solve the problem.

 

 

It was not until 1836, nevertheless,
that the yeast cell was first discover—
ed in fermenting fluids and associated
with fermentations. The general ac-
ceptance of the vitalistic cause, the
yeast, of fermentation, and bacteria in
connection with putrefaction, (lid not
occur until about 1860. Throughout
the centuries prior to 1860 control of
fermentations and putrefaction was
not possible. When Pasteur gave defi-
nite answer to the troubles with beer
fermentation, to the nature of vine-
gar fermentation, to the cause of some
milk changes and other fermentations,
he opened a field that was extraordi-
narily fertile for future development

 

 

(See page 306)

as well as concretely contiibuting mil-
lions of dollars to the wealth of his
own country, France, in the course of
a year or so;‘and incidentally to the
world unestimated wealth.

It is only necessary to recall casu~
ally the efforts put forth to direct the

common fermentations on the farm as

vinegar making, the changes likely to
occur in milk, butter and cheese, and
milk drinks, the production of ensi-
lage, the keeping of vegetables, fruits,
meats, canned goods, the decomposi-
tion taking place in the compost heap,

-. material to be secured from

in the manure pile, the soil itself, as
well as in those substances which con-
tribute to the fertility of land, as
leaves and plants of all kinds, includ-
ing green manures. On ex‘ery side in
nature man is confronted with change
and these changes are mostly caused
by micro-orgaisms. lfnder the head of
fermentation and putrefaction, the nu—
tritional processes of micro-organisms,
the recognized forces of microbial life,
will be found a singular skeleton key
not yet well understood unless we ex-
clude from this category the disease-
producing organisms which too doubt-
less produce their disastrous results
by their stru>gle for food.

To-understand what these broad
statements have for agriculture, a
concise yet general outline as they
bear upon seine of the most important
agricultural subjects will be useful.

Soil.

To obtain a comprehensive notion
of soil as it is viewed from the view-
point of a bacteriologist, it is advisa—
ble to consider it in terms of food're-
quirements for plants. 111 a general
way our ideas have gioun out of the
manures or fertilizers added to soil
together with such mineral constitu-
ents as may be already there. Through
these substances fertility has been
promoted. If, on the other hand, We,
should look upon soil as formed of the
rocks which have undergone dissolu-
tion, together with an accumulation of
organic matter, another picture is pre-
sented which in reality is the same as
the former. but approachedvfrom an-
other anglc. It follows from this that
soil may be as variable as the original
constituents of the rocks and the or-
ganic matters which have entered in-
to its composition.

What, then, may be the bacterio—
logical factor in soil making and fer-
tility? This is what we are expected
to answer in a few words.

Sonic 111icro-organis1us live upon
the simplest, more or less elementary
food. From the air and water, with
rocks,
such organisms thiive and build their
organic or bodily substant es By this
simplicity of giowth and by their abil—
ity to live under very primitive condi-
tions. they have been able to do their
share in bringing soil out of rocks to
a state for plant growth. Assuming,
therefore, that soil is formed and that
the maintenance of fertility is the
problem which touches the farmer
sensitively, it may be asked do mi-
c—1001ganisms play an impmtant part
in it?

Bar1ing the slight changes which
would take place through the action
of the air, the insoluble mineral con-
stituents would remain insoluble and
the organic matter in the form of ma-
nure crops as clover, leaves, etc.,
would continue unaltered without
them. There would be no changes,
likewise no fertility. The soil would
be dead and produce no crops. Back
of plant growth are the -mineral con-
stituents and organic matter of the
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MARCH 6, 1915.

 

   

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plants: This preparation and .thiscbné

tinuation of soil food are wholly de-
pendent upon microorganisms. Ac-
cordingly, such organisms as are help-
ful inithis process of preparation must
be enabled to carry out their work. To
hinder them in any manner simply
cuts short possible food supplies.

When organic substances are reduc-
ed, acids are formed as the acid of
vinegar and carbonic acid gas, which
react upon the mineral constituents,
rendering them soluble. Nitrogenous
organic substances are simplified to
ammonia as is so easily detected in a
manure heap, and this ammonia may
be further changed to nitrates for the
use of plants. Nitrogen is also ab-
stracted directly from the air and
made over by micro-organisms for
plant use. Then, again, nitrogen is
taken from the air directly by micro-
organisms which are associated by
means of nodules on the roots of le-
gumes as alfalfa. Thus nitrogen, the
most important and expensive ele.
ment of plant food, is made available
in the first place by means of the re-
duction of nitrogenous organic matter
to ammonia and nitrates; in the sec-
ond place by the direct abstraction of
nitrogen from the air by organisms
which utilize it and pass it on for
plant use; and in the third place by
the direct abstraction of nitrogen from
the air by organisms which grow in
intimate association with legumes an
give to them their high nitrogen con-
tent.

The oxidations and reductions, the
splitting of compounds, the special
sulphur and iron micro-organisms and
other technical aspects of soil fertility
need not be discussed in detail for
such knowledge may be found in many
books. All of these processes men-
tioned or hinted at, have for their ob-
ject so far as man is concerned in
transformation of soil substances to
be taken up by the plant.

Food.

Still another Italian, Spallanzanl,
some time after the experiment with
files related above, became interested
in the general problems of change by
decomposition. He was able to pre—
vent change by means of heat. Dif-
ferent meat and vegetable infusions
by this means were actually preserved
by him. This was about 1770. It does
not follow that food had not been
checked in its decomposition or pre-
served for a time before this, but
there existed no principle or practice
which proved reliable, since every
practice if it rises above haphazard
control, must possess a guiding law,
whether it is pursued consciously or
unconsciously. ‘

Toward the close of the eighteenth
century there was a man who not only
saw the force of Spallanzani’s work
with heat, but who proceeded farther
and applied it to the preservation of
food. Previous to his time there had
been some sporadic practices in vogue
but no general movement was percep-
tible. The introduction of the can-
ning industry by Appert, and his ex-
position of the principles underlying
it, gave the impetus which has made
it as it exists in our time. A struggle
against the organisms instigating pu-
trefaction and fermentations by means
of heat has developed an exact tech-
nique, which has reached every home
and made the lives of our nation not
only happier and wealthier, but health-
ier also. For instance, if each inhab-
itant of the United States averaged
one can each week of either fruits,
vegetables, meat or other materials,
as condensed milk and babies’ food,
5,000,000,000 cans of food would be
consumed each year. This is doubtless
a very low estimate. When all the
commercial canned goods are account-
ed for, then we have all the domestic
canned goods to estimate. While
there is still much of detail to master,
no one can fail to recognize the es-
sence of this wonderful work in the
simple unassuming experiments of
Spallanzani when heheated vegetable

and meat infusions, to see whether he
could kill the living forms which proi
dnced change in them, and prevent
their entrance by sealing his flasks
hermetically.

Food had been dried in the sun by
the ancients. Doubtless this practice
was the direct result of observation,
but it had made no serious progress
till comparatively recent years. When
it was ascertained that the elimina-
tion of moisture by the sun led to a
concentration of the component ele-
ments of the food to such an extent
that micro-organisms would not grow,
a guiding law was at hand which prov-
ed directive and reliable. With this
was linked the influence of salt and
sugar which in reality act in the same
way, for drying makes a concentration
by the elimination of water, while salt
and sugar create concentration by ad-
dition of soluble substances, both proc-
cesses reacting unfavorably upon mi-
cro-organisms. Herein lie the begin-
nings and the foundations for the in-
dustries 'of preserving by salt and su-
gar, and of evaporating, drying and
condensing. A moment’s reflection on-
ly will impress the mind with their
vastness.

Today the cold storage of foodstuffs
and refrigeration have occupied the
attention of the world because it has
become possible for speculators to
control the world’s food markets
through their instrumentality. Little
of refrigeration has been apparent till
very recent years, although the incipi-
ent stages may be noted in the fifties
and sixties. Even ice boxes and ice
houses have had their origin within
the last hundred years. Snow and ice
were stored and used, however, as far
back as the reign of King Solomon.
For purposes of cooling drinks or liq-
uors and later for preparation of ices
for noble families, snow and ice were
stored in trenches covered over with
some loose insulating material. Little
if anything is said of using cold for
the preservation of food. When it be-
came known what caused putrefaction
and fermentations, there was found a
basis of procedure. When the, carcass
of a prehistoric elephant was discov-
ered in the ice of the: polar seas, hav-
ing been there doubtless for centuries,
the importance of coldin preservation
of food seemed to dawn upon man.
Taken together with the economic de~
mands of an increasing civilization,
the above facts vented themselves in
the establishing of an immense in‘
dustry.

There have also crept into these
food industries practices which can-
not be condoned. Lord Lister contrib-
uted one of the greatest known bless-
ings to mankind when he introduced
his method for preventing micro-or-
ganisms entering wounds during oper-
ation. His carbolic acid spray over
the surface where the surgeon was op-
erating was not only effective but
highly suggestive. Out of it there
have been many extensions, and one
had to do with food preservation; for
in the way as carbolic acid can pre-
vent the growth of micro-organisms in
wounds, so can certain substances, as
salicylic acid, boric acid, benzoic acid,
etc., prevent their growth in foods. So
far has this practice been carried by
some commercial houses that laws
have been enacted to control it.

(Continued next week).

This is the eighteenth of 52 special
articles to be published in consecutive
issues. Its author, who was for so
long at the head of the Bacteriological
Department of the Michigan Agricul-
tural College, needs no introduction to
Michigan Farmer readers, very many
of whom will appreciate this message
from him. The article will be con--
cluded in the next issue. The special
article for next week will be “The
glield Pea in Michigan Agriculture.”—

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MARCH 6, 1915,

THE ‘ONE-MAN FARM.

 

Pursuant to the appeal for experi-
ences in managing a. one-man farm,
the photograph from which the accom-
panying ,cut was made, was received,
together with a statement of the gross
receipts from the small farm, the own-
er of whiCh w’as*at once asked for the
more detailed statement which fol-
lows—Eds.

In reply to your inquiry I will give
you a brief outline of ouroperations
en 20 acres of pine stump land in Bay
county, Michigan, in 1914. Our main
money crop- is hogs, of which we keep
from 20 to 60, big and little. 0. I. C.’s
are kept; most of them are sold for
pork and a few for breeders. Three
loads of pork and a few live ones
brought over $850. We keep 150 Bar-
red Rock hens over winter and hatch
from 300 to 400 chicks. We sold $45
worth of chicken meat and a few for
breeders. Eggs, 600 dozen, were most-
ly sold at store prices, but quite a few
at breeders’ prices.

A patch of strawberries containing
105 square rods, yielded 133 bushels,
which sold for $2 to $3.50 per bushel,
averaging $2.50. Plants and berries
brought around $235. We also receiv-
ed about $30 for raspberries. One hun-
dred and fifty bushels of pears at 40
to 75 cents, 50 bushels of potatoes at
50 cents, with cherries, grapes, squash
and other vegetables sold, brought our
sales up to over $1,750.

I expect some readers will wonder
how we did this, and we were surpris-

  

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

My columns are headed as follows:
Number of field, number of acres, crop
planted, date of planting, date of cul-
tivation, (I usually have about three
sub-divisions under this heading),
date of harvest, amount produced,
amount of labor required, approxi-
mate cost, estimated profit. In con-
junction With the information contain-
ed in these columns, I keep a record
of the ranfall, showing the dates, also
I jot down notations of any extraordi-
nary circumstances such as late
frosts, hail storms, etc., that would
have some bearing upon the crops.

A record such as this is very sim-
ple, and will be found interesting, be-
sides furnishing valuable information.
It enables me to arrange my crops in
such a way that there will be little
danger of conflict with regard to cul-
tivation or harvest dates. Also it
serves for a guide for the rotation of
crops. By following a scheme of this
nature, I have been enabled to tell
just where I am making my profits,
and eliminate the useless crops.

Nebraska. P. H. EATON.

 

EVERGREEN WINDBREAKS.

 

After a careful estimate and investi-
gation of the rapid increase in ever-
green tree planting for windbreak pur-
poses, one must come to the conclu-

.sion that an evergreen windbreak is

not only a paying proposition, but in
some cases an absolute necessity
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Home of F. C. Horn, of Bay Co., who Operates a Successful One-man Farm.

ed when we figured up at the end of
1914. The hogs we raise, except an

occasional one for a breeder. \Ve

have to buy some feed. This year,
1914, we had six and a half acres of
corn on leased ground, and still have
70 bushels of that corn after getting
45 head along this far and fattening
over a ton of pork. Vi'e have about
400 fruit trees, from one to 19 years
old, some of which bear and some do
not. We haven’t kept an accurate ac—
count, only just put down the sales as
they came along. we have paid out
around $200 for help, my wife and I
doing the rest.

If pears, apples and onions had been
their usual price, we would have done
considerably better and we still have
90 bushels of apples pitted. “’8 also
drew $31.66 premium money at the
Northeastern Fair and got paid off
like the rest, at 50 cents on the dollar.
This land was brushed 20 years ago,
but not finally cleared and stumped
until five years ago.

Bay Co. F. C. HORN.

CROP RECORDS.

 

Experience. has taught me that the
time to lay out and plan the next
year’s crops and farm routine is be-
fore the time for spring work begins.
I have found a systematic but simple
system of farm book-keeping of a
great deal of value to me in this line.

As abasis for my crop records, I
have laid out my farm on a chart,
numbering each field. I use an ordi-
nary 4ledger with columns which I
have constructed myself in order to
have ‘thein most convenient in form.-

as an obstruction to the wind is felt.
Evergreen trees are especially de-
sirable for windbreak purposes for
several good reasons. When compar-
ed with deciduous or leaf dropping
trees, they do double duty because of
the fact that they retain their foliage
throughout the entire year, while the
deciduous trees drop their leaves right
at a time when they are most needed
to give protection against winter
storms. Two rows will lodge more
snow and check more wind than sev-
eral rows of deciduous trees, and in
addition to their value as windbreaks
are a thing of beauty the year around,
carrying the freshness and verdure of
summer all through the cold winter.

A country home surrounded by ev-
ergreens will put the place a hundred
miles south in mildness and salubrity
of climate, without the mud and chill
that is common to those sections on
the border line of frost. A belt of
evergreen trees afford shelter earlier
in life than any of the leaf-shedding
trees. That there are not more ever-
green hedges than there are can be
accounted for only by the fact that
the farmer feels that he is too busy
to bother with trees that have perhaps
no apparent value at first sight. Men
who have had no experience in ever-
green tree planting are generally of
the opinion that it takes a lifetimes,
perhaps longer, to secure results from
evergreens, and all the time they are
allowing the destructive winds and
storms to eat up their profits by kill-
ing off their crops which are not pro-
tected as they should be. ‘ .

Evergreen windbreaks are of ines-
timabl‘e value to 'the farmer and'fruit

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ask for outside aid.

Dodge Brothers’ factory is financed
and entirely controlled by Dodge

Brothers.

And the' result of Dodge Brothers’
unusual experience and complete
financial independence is shown

in the car.

There isn't a. thing in it. «:r on it. that looks

cheap or is cheap.
The leather is real grain leather.

The tui‘ting is deep and soft; the filling

natural curled hair.

The :55 h. 1). motor is cast en bloc. with re—

movable head.
The rear axle is of the iulLfioatinz type.

The bearings are Tinkezi ~ thruout—with
s. R. 0. ball bearings in clutch and trans-

mission.

The springs are made of throme Vanadium

steel, and are self-lubrimt.ng.

The wheels are hickory, With demountahle

rims.

The body is all steel, including frame. with

a. perfect stream line efiect.
The fenders are of a special oval design
The magneto is an Eisemazm waterproof.

Everywhere you will fill!) drop iorgings and

drawn work instead of casungs.

These are all recognizable as features beyond
betterment; and no matter how minute-
ly you examine the specifications you will
find it difficult to conceive how the ma-
terial, the design or the manufacturing

practice could be imprcved.

You are not merely investigating a.

low-priced car.

You are looking at a. high grade car

moderately priced.

It needs no special salesmanship to

tell of its merit.
It speaks for “so".

conducted
Dodge Brethers do not have to .

We would like to have you write for our Book
B, which will give you a. clear idea. of the
mechanical value of the car, as expressed by
an engineer not connected with the company.

The wheelbase is 110 inches

The price of I

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he car complete is $785
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This No. 53 Planet Jr 2-row Beet and Bean Cultivator is the imple-
ment every beet and bean grower ought to have to save time, lighten
labor, and increase his crops.
\Vorks two rows at once 16,
inches apart—or with extensions, 2'2, 24, 26

 

Wheels adjust for width.

or 28 inches apart. Cultivates within

2 inches of crop at each side. Carries

irrigation steels, discs, and weeders.

Strong and

well-built—-all sleel except the han-
dles. Economical because it does
the work quickly and thoroughly,
and lasts a lifetime. Fully guar-
anteed.

New 72-page Caulog(168 illustr ations)freo

Desc ribes over 55 tools. including
Seeders, Wheel Hoes. Horse Hoes,
Harrows. Orchard- and Beet~Cultiva-
tors. Writ. postal for it today.

8 L ALLEN & C0
Box 1107M Philadelphia Pa

 

 

 

When Writing to advertisers
you saw their Id. In The

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I'lhave decided on.a.-5aginw 5—319”

“That’s just what I said after I had looked them
all over. Now let me tell you the reasons why. I an e up
my mind that I wanted a silo when I saw the success folks
around here were having from feeding silage. The fellow

’fi who had a silo was getting on in the world. ‘
“So I quietly looked at my neighbors’ silos, made
( “ inquiries and watched the silage as it was fed. After I saw

the kind of silos the Saginaw folks built and the service
they were giving,it didn’t_take
me long to make my delusion.

“I wanted a 3110 thlit had .
all the perfect sila e eeping
qualities of a wood8 stave silo
and still have all the strength
and permanence of structural

steel. And I found just what‘
I wanted in the honest sensible
Construction of the Saginaw
Steel-Built Silo. ‘Thatkind of
a building ispractical,’ I said to

myself. .
" “Then I talked With the
Saginaw Agent and he helped mea whole lot—told
him how many head of stock I had and we figured
out the size silo that would fit my needs. He knew his
business alright because it has worked out even better than
he said it would.

I “And then I was told about the Saginaw Redwood 8110,
that I could have a silo made of Yellow Pine but that for per-
manence. Redwood was ahead of them all. Redwood doesn't
rot or decay—guess nature made it just for silo building. It
doesn't shrink or swell. and when I thought of the trouble some
of my neighbors were having tightening and loosening silo hoops.
I said. 'None of that for me~l'll buy in Saginaw Redwood Silo.‘
“Now my silo is up and it’s a dandy. Looks line out there
next to the barn. And say. you should see the silage—sweet.
clean and palatable. the stock just love it. I can almost see those
steeraput on intend that means money in my pocket. And I
never knew real profits from dairy cows until I put up this silo.
Looks as though my feed bill will be less than half what it was
last year. That saving will just about pay for my Saginaw." ,
Let us put you in touch With the local Saginaw Agent. He
will help you solve your feeding problem. He is our direct per-
sonal representative. a man you will enjoy doing business with.

 

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' .-. The McClure Company
‘ (Formerly Farmers' Handy Wagon Co.)

Saginaw. Mich. Ft. Worth. Texas ' "
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over like a cultivator.

The Dunham ()ulti-Packer is a Roller Bear- _
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May :11 be kept. for one year on the product of one acre. It is hardly believable. Keeping seven
cows for a. whole year on one acre goes a long way toward reducing the count milk. .oas’ Eurekl Corns
produced in one year on one acre 70 tons and 800 lbs. of the best quiilit ofcnsilagc. Figuring at. the rate 0150 lbs.
of ensiluge per day, which is a very liberal allowance, this amount wil feed seven cows for one year and enough
left. over for 261 feeds. This enormous crop won our $50.00 gold prise.

We offer $100.001n gold to the first party breaking this record with Rou’ Eureka Corn.
Every bug or crate of Ross Eureka Corn bears our trade mark—the man holding the stalk of corn. We do this
for your protection, because there has been so much corn sold as Eureka which is not Ross' Eureka and does not
produce the seine results.

Ross’Eureka Ensilagc Corn

Grows tallest, has the moat leaves, greatest number of cars. The four heaviest acres of this corn in
one year gave a total yield of 200 tons and ”NHL, an average of 50 tons and 2‘ lbs. r sore. This in
not. much above the average yield for Ross' Eureka. Corn 1! it is hinted under favors le conditions.
Ross' Eureka Corn shelled is always shi pod 'in our tradcvmark burla bags and ear corn is shipped
in rat-proof trade-marked crates holding lie pounds. Either buy direct o as or some ol‘ our agents who
have the genuine. Write at once [or catalogue and quotations.

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. THE 'MI‘CHIGAN FARMER’

grower everywhere, but they perhaps
find greater utility in the treeless,
wind-swept plains and prairies. In
addition to the esthetic benefits and
the general “improvement” value to
the farm it would, in many instances,
be almost impossible to raise crops
without protection from the hot dry
winds in summer and the cold dry
winter winds. When the early settlers

in the middle western states planted

trees so extensively, they did so with
an object in view—to build up a nat-
ural barrier against the wind which
then. swept unimpeded across the
plains, doing great‘damage to their
crops, intensifying the effects of both
cold and hot weather upon their stock
and making their homes almost unin-
habitable. They also found that a.
windbreak was very useful in prevent-
ing the drifting of snow. For the pro-
tection of such winter crops as wheat
and rye, an evergreen windbreak is
very efficient as it serves the double
purpose of causing an even distribu-
tion of the protective snow cover and
of sheltering the plants from the wind
itself when the snow has melted.
The economic importance of tree
planting in the middle west can be
realizcd better when it is known that
in only one township of Mary, in Kan-
sas, there are approximately 170 miles
of windbreaks, and again in Platte
county, Nebraska, my native home

rows, belts and groves, with an area. of
about 500 acres and an average height
of 45 feet. There are numerous other
instances that I could call attention to
where farmers, both east and west.
have resorted to the only permanent
means of protecting their property
from conditions which cannot be alter-
ed otherwise.

From statistics compiled by some of
the most eminent authorities in the
country, it has been shown that the
windbreak lessens the evaporation of
moisture to a considerable extent, and
by the interception of air currents ov-
er a much wider zone, reduces the me-
chanical force of the wind and influ-
ences the growth of crops, which is a
matter worthy of serious thought
among farmers whose lands are expos-

‘ed to all elements such as named

above.

Penn. H. W. SWOPE.

TOP-DRESSING FOR ALFALFA.

When young seedings of alfalfa or
clover on heavy soils are exposed to
the alternate freezing and thawing of
springtime, the heaving is often so
great that the plants are either killed
outright, or they are left with their
crowns so exposed above the surface
that they are cut off by the mower at
the first cutting. After the first sea-
son, however, the danger is much less.
To entirely prevent heaving on heavy
land is almost impossible, but the dam-
age may be greatly reduced by proper
management.

Heaving on heavy land is due to the
alternate freezing and thawing of the
free water in the soil. Good drainage,
therefore, is one of the ways of pre-
venting this trouble. Winter-killing
by heaving is always noticeably less
over and near tile drains through a
field.

When fields have not been tiled, the
best known way of preventing heav-
ing is top-dressing the land with barn-
yard manure during the winter, or
any time before the spring thaws be-
gin. The surface covering of manure
keeps the soil frozen till late in the
spring and then allows it to thaw out
gradually without heaving. A rather
poor stand, of alfalfa was top-dressed
over part of the field last winter. The
untreated portion was nearly all kill-
ed out, while the rest did not heave
and made a fair showing. The ma-
nure not only acts as a blanket to
prevent heaving, but it also supplies

i ‘ nitrogen which stimulates early, vig-'

orous growth.

Ingham 00. H. L. Barnum;

 

 

county, there are over 22 miles of‘

MARCH 6, 1915.

FARM NOTES.

Seeding Alfalfa.

I contemplate sowing alfalfa this
spring and would like your opinion as
to the best time of sewing, on what '
kind of soil to sow, the proper way to
fit the soil for it, and also if it would
be advisable to sow with any grain
or any particular seed, such as sweet
clover. I have often read in the Mich-
igan Farmer that it would be good
policy to inoculate the soil.

Ingham Co. A. W.

Where alfalfa has never been grown
before it is best to fit the ground thor-
oughly and take as much care as pos
sible to have all conditions favorable
to its success. Many Michigan soils
require an application of lime for the
best success of this crop. This is
quite generally true of all sandy soils
and of some clay soils as well. A
good test as to whether lime is needed
or not is the success which usually at
tends clover seeding. Although lime
will be found profitable even on soils
where there is no difficulty in getting
stands of clover or even alfalfa. The
object in the application. of lime is
two-fold, namely, to supply lime as a.
plant food, alfalfa being a heavy feed-
er on lime, and as well the sweetening
of the soil to make a suitable home
for the bacteria peculiar to the alfalfa
plant, and which must be present to
insure its continued success. Natur‘
ally where the soil has not been in a
condition to favor the development of
this bacteria, particularly where alfal-
fa has not been grown, the bacteria
will not be numerous in the soil, and
inoculation is profitable. This can be
accomplished by the sowing of soil
from a successful alfalfa field or from
a sweet clover patch, or by the so-
called “glue” method bywhich some
of the soil is glued to the alfalfa. seed.
or by the use of a pure culture of the
bacteria on the seed. As to the best
time of sowing, much depends upon
the season and soil conditions. It is
a good rule to sow at any time when
conditions are favorable and a good
seed bed has been prepared, although
seeding should not be done later than
early in August and preferably earlier.

As our fields are gotten into the
proper shape for the growing of al-
falfa and the harboring of the bacteria
peculiar to the plant, it will be, in the
writer’s opinion, no more dififlcult to
get a seeding than it now is to get a
good stand of clover, and this result
may be accomplished in the same way
that a clover seeding is obtained un-
der the same conditions.

Using Straw as Fertilizer.

Will you please give me information
in regard to the disposal of a straw
stack? Would it be proper to draw
the stack out on the corn ground
while it is dry, and plow it under, or
would you consider it better to cover
the bean ground, which is a clover
.sod? The soil of the corn ground is
clay loam with clover sod.

Ionia Co. ' O. C. M.

In the writer’s opinion, a better
place to put the straw to be plowed
under for a spring crop would be on
the corn ground, for the reason that
com has a longer growing season than
beans, and there will .be a better op-
portunity for the straw to become con-
verted into humus and available plant
food in time to be of some benefit to
the growing crop. It should be evenly
distributed so that bunches of straw
will not disturb the capillarity of the
soil when same is plowed down. A
better way to use straw is as a top-
dressing on winter wheat, or applied
to grass land in midsummer, which
will promote a better growth of grass
and thus tend to further increase the
vegetable matter to be plowed down,
while the shading of the ground also

 

permits activity of beneficial soil
bacteria.
“The Tower Twentieth Century

Corn Culture,” is the title of an illus-
trated booklet sent upon request by
the J. D. Tower & Sons 00., Mendota,
Ill., manufacturers of Tower cultivah
ore and pulverizers. This is atreatise
on modern cor-n culture. by~ surface
cultivation ,methods. Mention the
Michigan Farmer when writing for
this interesting booklet. ' ‘

 

 

 


  

_MARCH 6. 1915.

THE MICHIGAN 'FARMER

 

 

THAT GERMINATING BOX.

 

ac1e, allowing four kernels to the hill
and the hills to be three and one- half
feet apart, each way Seventy- -five
cents‘will make a suitable tester and
test enough corn to plant ten acres. It
is doubtful if there are any of us but
who appreciates the value of tested
seed corn, but the idea of making the
tester and doing the work is the dis-
couraging feature, One might go to
the outlay for an expensive tester and
apparatus, but that is not at all neces-
sary and many times the simpler ones
give the best results. We have come
to look upon a stand of from 65 to 95
per cent as being nearly perfect, but
this is far from the case. There is
scarcely a year when corn is planted
1 that the germination should be less

than 95 per cent unless the weather
conditions are unfavorable in the ex-
treme. The germinating box will
solve the question of why we have
such a poor corn stand some years. It
has been claimed by some very suc-
cessful corn men that they could tell
weak and strong ears by their out-
ward appearances, but I have tested
enough corn to know that this is not
possible in all cases. I believe it would
be safe to say that not more than one-
half of the ears having poor vitality
will be detected from an external ex-
amination. The germination test is
necessary to reveal the other half of
poor germinating ears.

One of the simplest testers that I
have used is the sawdust tester, and
while this is simple, yet it is eflicient.
Out of some boards around the corn
crib or barns make a shallow box, not
more than two inches deep and as
long and wide as seems necessary. A
sardine box from the nearby grocery
will serve the purpose just as well.
Now take damp sawdust or sand and
fill the bottom of the tester to the
depth of one inch. Take a piece of
white muslin and cut it to the proper
size to fit the box; then fasten it se-
curely on a table and rule off, with a
square and blue pencil, squares hav-
ing two-inch sides. A two—inch square
is about the right size for testing the
kernels from one ear. Number the
squares from left to right, beginning
in the upper left hand corner. Place
this sectioned cloth over the dampen-
ed sawdust and set the box in front
of the row of ears to be tested.

The next operation is to remove the
kernels from the seed ears and place
them in their respective squares. It
is a disputed point as to how many
kernels should be removed for testing
but it is safe to say that if less than
six kernels are germinated, the results
would hardly be reliable. A method
followed by many is to take two ker-
nels from the butt of the ear, two
, from the middle and two from the tip,
‘ making a total of six. Each kernel

should be taken from a different row.

These six kernels are placed in the

square whose number corresponds to

that of the ear. The germ side is up.

After all the ears have been samp-

led and the kernels are in their re—

spective squares, place another cloth

over the corn and spread over this a

layer of moistened sawdust or sand.

This is usually all the water that must

be supplied. The best results are ob-

tained when the germinating box is

kept at temperatures alternating be-

tween 65 and 85 degrees and all the

sprouts should be well formed in sev-

L en days. At the end of this period,
the topcloth may be rolled back and
each kernel 'is exposed to view. One
of the‘advantages of this germinatm
is that the whole root system is ex-
posed for exammation Any ear in
which all the kernels have not germi-
natgg- should be dlscarded This ger-
minating box‘is more convement and
durable than the} plate tester and gives
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MAKES SURE. You see, steels are so 1m-
portant in the building of a car that Stude-
baker takes no chances. When desxgning the
car, before it ever gets‘as far as the shops,
Studebaker metallurgists study the duties of
each of the parts, and dec1de just what kind
of steel is BEST to use.

Then the steels are made just as they specify. And
they come to the plant and are tested—time after time.
And THEN, when the drop forgings are completed,
they go thro’ not one, but a whole series of HEAT.
TREATING operations, like the one pictured here,
that give them that tough, tensile, LONG-lasting quality
that Studebaker Cars are famous for.

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It’s expensive, to be sure, but it gets into this FOUR
quality that gives the car extra safety and makes re-
placements rarely necessary. It makes the car BET-
TER. And you know, as your fathers knew, how
eager Studebaker is to go to any expense that will
make Studebaker products BETTER.

So when you come to see this FOUR at your local
Studebaker dealer’s please STUDY its whole construc-
tion, and see how Studebaker, with its close knowledge
of what the farmer needs, has built this car to give day-
by-day SERVICE and convenience on country roads.

Study its balance, its alignment that makes the car
EASIER riding and so EASY to drive that it answers
to the touch of two fingers on the wheel. Study that
long~stroke, high-speed motor with its over-abundance
of POWER.

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ization that Studebaker has built up, so that wherever
you drive you can always get Studebaker Service.
Study every little detail—and be CRITICAL.

Consider how much you get for $985—and
then, decide if this isn’t the car you want

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THE MICHIGANUFARMER

HE utilization of by—products in
many of our large industries
makes for their success,” was
the-opening statement by Dr. Floyd

' Robison, in an address before there-

cent State Dairymen’s Association at
Flint. A good example of the profits'
to be made from by-products is seen
in the business of the meat packers.
In this great industry practically all
of the profits are secured from the
sale of What would otherwise be
thrown away, the regular line of goods
being placed upon the market for

' practically what they cost. The speak-

er referred to the systematic way in
which the German people take care of
wastes in their different industries,
and it is largely through this practice
that they are able to manufacture so
economically.
Using the By-proclucts of the Cream-
ery.

One of the great obstacles in the

way of successful dairying is the dis-

ture of butter and cheese and in the
sale of cream. Here we have a large
bulk of material in the form of but-
termilk, whey, or skim-milk, which be-
comes an absolute loss if not utilized
in one form or another. The methods
of disposing of these by-products are
important.

The first matter taken up by the
speaker was that of the over-run in
the manufacture of butter. Here he
pointed out how it was possible for
the creamery man to pay the farmer
as much for cream as the manufactun
ed butter would sell for, and yet make
a satisfactory margin by reason of the
over-run, which amounts to around
20 per cent increase in the weight of
the butter over that of the original
cream. This method of securing prof-
its from the ordinary wastes in dairy-
ing is one that is well understood.

Valuable for Feeding Purposes.

The usual method of disposing of
those by-pi'oducts is to feed them to
live stock, including poultry. All of
the constituents in the milk are as
similaicd by the animals and made
use of in their growth. Usually hogs
and calves are used for this purpose,
but good results have been secured by
feeding skim-milk and buttermilk to
dairy cows. Of late these by-products
have been found highly satisfactory
as poultry food, as they supply a con-
siderable amount of protein, which
constituent is usually lacking in other
feeds. Some poultrymen heat these
by-producis to about 140 degrees F.,
after which the excess water is si-
phoned off and the curd mixed with
meal, oats, etc, and placed before the
birds. It has been found that this
feed has a peculiar value in fattening

 

 

 

 

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fowls for market.
Where large amounts of these ma-
ierials accumulate at some of the

. larger creameries, it is found impos-

sible to feed it to live stock, and so
other methods of disposing of them
must be provided. Many products are
now made from the solids of milk,
and we find that the manufacture of
such is being looked upon more favor
ably as a means of disposing of these
wastes. Skim-milk and buttermilk
equal the whole milk, less the butter-
fat; they being composed of water,
casein, albumen, salts and sugar. Dif-
ferent manufacturing methods are em-
ployed to secure these solids for a va-
riety of purposes.

Cottage Cheese from Skim-milk.

From the casein which constitutes
from. three to four per cent of the
bulk of skim-milk or buttermilk, cot-
tage cheese can be produced. This
product usually finds a sale in our cit-

 

ies, and with little effort a considera-
ble market can be established. Care
is required in its manufacture,.and
where this is given and customers are
accorded good service, substantial
profits can" be made from the venture.

 

' This is attested to by the experiences

Utilizing By—Product-s of the Dairy.

 

position of the waste in the manufac-.

that made records which would be a.

of many wide-awake creamerymen._ .
~In the manufacture of the bottage
cheese only the casein .is removed;
there still remains the su'garand salts.
Recent improvements haveram‘adie} it
possible to separate the sugar "from p
the remaining elements hnd to manu- I
facture, what is commercially known
as milk sugar. Because of its digest-i-
bility this product forms an important.
ingredient in many of the so-called
invallds’ and in'fan-ts’ foods. It is us-
ually found in theform of a white
crystaline powder. The salts remain-
ing after the manufacture of milk su-
gar can be utilized as a fertilizer.
Commercial Uses of By-products.
Beside the use of the casein for
making cottage cheese, it is also em-
ployed in certain manufacturing proc-
esses. The method of securing this
casein is comparatively simple. A
mixture of acetic and sulphuric acids
in proportion of one-half to one per
cent of the bulk of the milk is used to
coagulate the casein. The whey is
then drawn off after which the curd
is washed several times in warm wa-
ter. It is then ground in a peg mill,
and dried in an oven. This material
is used in the preparation of certain
paints, in the sizing for paper, and for
other purposes.
By the employment of these and
other methods that are being devel—
oped, it will be possible to make use
of every part of the milk from our
dairy cows. The speaker was of the
opinion that careful inquiry should be
made along this line, locking toward
economical methods of handling these
by-products. He believes that a con-
siderable amount is still being dump-

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Many cows are really capable of a ’
greatly increased milk yield but do
not do their best through a chronic
aluggishness of the digestive organs.
Such cows need a medicine—just as
human beings occasionally need
medicines.

KOW-KURE is a scientific cow
medicine, which has a direct and
lasting tonic effect on the organs of
digestion. For over twenty years it
has been the standard medicine for
the prevention and treatment of such
common cow ailments as'Abortion,
Retained Afterbirth,Barrenness,Milk
Fever, Scouting, and Lost Appetite.

You cannot afford to let a cow get
down in health. Better keep Kow-
KUiu: constantly on hand. Sold by
feed dealers and druggiats, in 50c and
$1.00 packages. ‘

Our valuable treatise on cow diaeaaea— 5;:‘3
“The Cow Doctor” is your: for the asking.

Dairy Aaaociation Co.,
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ed into sewers and the sooner a gen-
eral movement can be started for the
proper utilization of such wastes, the
better it will be for those concerned
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BROWN SWISS CATTLE.

 

I would like information concerning
the Brown Swiss breed of cattle.
There are a few grade cattle of that
breed in this locality, but none pure-
bred except one bull. A considerable
of his get is scattered around the
community. We have two half Jer-
sey heifers, one giving milk now.
Opinion is very divided locally, con-
cerning the Swiss breed. Some claim
they are relatively no good, and others
say they are excellent. Personally we
are very well suited, as far as we
have seen, but wish to investigate
thoroughly before specializing on this
breed. Can you publish in your paper
a story of this breed of cattle, discuss-
ing them thoroughly? C. A. W.

The Brown Swiss breed of cattle

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small. Famous a'tentcd Curved Disc bowl,
owned exclusively {y us, ekims warm or cold milk
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came from Switzerland, of course, as
one would imply from their name.
They are a hardy, heavy-boned animal
supplying the Swiss people with a gen-
eral purpose breed. Many of the
steers are used for work oxen and in
this they excel. They are excellent
grazers and do well on the mountain
pastures of their native cotlntry.

In this country people differ as to
whether they should be classed as
dual purpose cattle or as dairy cattle.
Late years, however, they are being
considered as an exclusive dairy
breed. As a breed they are not as
popular as Holsteins, Jerseys and
Guernseys as dairy cattle, but this
may come from the fact that they
were not introduced into the country
at so early at date. These other breeds
were well established before ' the
Brown Swiss began to be imported in
any great number, therefore we Would"
not expect them to be so Widely dis-.
tributed unless they had very superior
dairy qualities. '

 

 

At last the dairym3n can get thefeed he'hasr
long wanted—a Ready Ration—to be used
right out of the sack without any mixing or
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cows healthy. Sold on a plan of money not:
ifyouaronotlatiafiecl. “Magenta ev-
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As a breed they have not made rec~

 

ords at the fairs equal to the other
three breeds above named. Individual
cows have, however, made excellent
records. Our experiment station at‘
Lansing has hadBrown Swiss cows"

credit to anybreed of dairy cattle.
There is good reason to believe thatl

 

 

 

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The milk for one calf will pay for
raising three was on

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the steers of this breed can hold their
own with those of most any dual pur-
pose breed, so far as economical beef
production is concerned, and if one is

sure that he wants a breed just for -

butter and not for beef, the Brown
Swiss will come as near filling the bill
as any breed we have.

The crossing of Brown Swiss and
Jersey or any other pure breed should
be discouraged. It is practical to use
a Brown Swiss bull upon a female of
miscellaneous breeding and then breed
the resultant heifers back to Brown
Swiss bulls, and so on, but the pure-
breeds should never be crossed, and
with females of miscellaneous breed-
ing, if the blood of one predominates
making them grades of that breed,
then it is better to use a bull of that
breed. It is slow and unsatisfactory
work to tear down one breed and build
another from it. There are plenty of
good breeds, and they should be kept
as pure as possible.

SOME POINTS ABOUT THE MODEL
COW STALL.

 

As I am going to remodel my cattle
barn and want to install the so-called
model cow stall, that 1 read about in
the Michigan Farmer a few years ago,
1 would like some advice as to how
high the manger and feed rack should
be built. Can cement floor be put in
011 a level, with a couple of inches’
slope towards the walk, or is it better
to have a drop of several inches be—
hind the cows? If so, how long should
the platform be when used with these
stalls for my 1a1ge Shortho1n cows?

Lapeer Co. T. N.

The ensilage and grain manger
should be on a level with the floor of
the stall. The bottom of the hay man-
ger should be 18 inches above this
grain manger and should be very nar-
row (four or six inches) at the bot-
tom. The slats that form the part of
the manger toward the cow should
slant back at an angle of 45 degrees
and extend up as high as the front or
feed alley side of the manger. This
front side or feed alley side of the
manger should be four feet high.

The gutter or drop is an essential
pa1t of the model stall. The floor
should haie a couple of inches slope
to furnish drainage.

half feet is the usual length of stall E

that is, from the front part of the

manger to the end of the stall parti-l

tions. The essential part of the model
stall is the 2x4 which is fastened edge-
wise across the stall just in front of
the cows’ hind feet.
ger is four inches high and the space
between this 2x4 and the grain man—
ger holds the bedding and forms a
clean bed for the cow to lie on. This
is what keeps the cow clean, or rather
this bed is what enables the cow to
keep herself clean. There is no filth
for her to get into.

 

ADD CORN MEAL TO THE RATION.

 

l have two cows, both fresh; I have
some alfalfa but not enough to winter
them, so I am feeding cornstalks out
fine (half an inch long), atnight and
alfalfa morning and'noon. What grain
ration should I feed to get the best re-
sults? I am feeding two quarts of
bran and same of gluten meal and
about five pounds of beets per cow at
night with the cornstalks. Can I use
corn and cob meal to advantage?

lonia Co. F. E. A.

Here is a splendid chance to use
corn meal to advantage. The two
feeds of alfalfa will furnish a suffi-
cient amount of protein in the ration
and it it is not necessary to have all
the concentrates rich in protein. In
other words, your ration contains pro-
tein in excess. I would recommend
that you mix together 200 pounds of
corn meal, 200 pounds of wheat bran
and 100 pounds of gluten feed. The
five pounds of beets furnish a succu—
lency and make an important addition
to the ration.
and cob meal in place of corn meal,

but you have sufficient bulk already, .

and the cob has no particular food
value.

 

THE MICHIGAN.FARMER

7 -287

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The originals of this style. Perfect pulverizers, unclogg-
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Write us for information on these barrows. They are

 

 

 

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You could use corn

 

the spring tooth harrows that are giving universal
satisfaction.

 

John Deere Disc Harrow

Model “B ”——the disc with third lever—an exclusive
feature.

You can put heavy or light pressure on the inner ends of
the gangs and cut out dead furrows or disc ridges without
burying the harrow. Cuts even depth entire width of gangs.

‘ The Flexible Harrow. Only that part passing over an ob-
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Independent Gangs. A separate lever for each gang.

Write for free booklet, “ Bigger Crops from Fetter Seed
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John Deere Wheel Plows

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John Deere Wheel Plows, known the country over as
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No unequal strain on share.
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John Deere Two-Way Sullry
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John Deere Engine Gangs
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John Deere Spreader
The Spreader with the Beater on the Axle

The beater—aha business part of a spreader—and all its

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Here is what the beater on the axle means to you:

It means: No clutches to give trouble—all
taken off.

It means: No chains to break or get. out of
line—— all thrown away.

It means: Less than half the parts heretofore
used on the simplest spreader—~some two hun-
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means: Manure is not thrown on the axle——
straw and trash cannot wmd around it.

It means: You get big drive wheels and a. low
down spreader, Without stub axles—that
means traction and strength.

It means: Drive wheels back out of way when
loading—you see where you place each fork-
ful.

The John Deere Only Hip High

The top of the box is only as high as your hips. The
John Deere Spreader is easy to load. You see where you
place each forkful.

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To start spreading, you pull back the lever at the driver’s '

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Call on nearest John Deere dealer and see the spreader
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Lock 50 Cows Instead Of One

With West Bend Swinging Stanchions and Cow Stops it’s as
easy to lock or release 50 cows as it is to lock or release one with
ordinary equipment. Onethrow of asinglelever does
it. And the cattle can’t put their heads in any place
but the right one—the West Bend Cow Stops attend to that.
B\ R N Aside from these two features West Bend Swinging Stanch-
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BEET PULP PAYS

It increases production and ivwers the cost. Try
four parts Beet Pulp by 11 right to one, part
Cottonseed \leal orGluten. w: 111 ensflage and hay.
Oats and corn are prety higl wired for feeding.

Try Beet PU“). You (in not lose. You will

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER

MARCH 6, 1915.

 

   
    

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order to insure the ut-
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Bank the Difference

You want a tractor that will save
money—one that can work all the
year round. on all kinds of jobs-
one that won't tie you up a couple
of weeks on the spring plowing
because the ground is too soft-one
that won't pack the soil. Round-
wheel tractors won‘t do—you’ve
.got to have 3 Caterpillar.

The Caterpillar has a long. wide. endless
track, with 8 times the bearing surface
‘of round wheels. Works on soft, rough
or hilly land. Over a dozen imitators,
but only one Caterpillar. Holt has built
itforthelast 10 years. 0ver2000inuse.

log. usluos

Don't say Caterpillar
unless you mean Holt!
Wm for Cu RF I“. It sells
why the Caterpillar wears so well.

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SAVING 0N 008T
0F FEED

Many farmers are now buying molasses at
a less cost. per‘ton than grain.

A pound of molasses contains more degest-
ible nutriment than a pound of corn.

Besides the saving in cost of feed. animals
grow faster and fat quicker. when molasses
is used for 10 to in per cent of the ration.
Cows give more milk when fed molasses-

Farmers who buy Empire Molasses can
make no mistake. either in quality or price
as it is the kind used exclusively by many
State Experiment Stations. Write ‘Vottlol
a Company, Dept. F. Litchfleld. Michi-
gan. for price list, freight rates and full in-

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Farm Horse Breeding.

HE improving effects of good ful management she will perform al-
blood in draft horse breeding most a full season’s work in the field
are as sure as day. Colts of su- while breeding. A little forethought

perior character in the community in avoiding too heavy loads, hard
mark the location of every stallion of backing and slipping or crowding
unusual merit. Wherever there are around corners in Soft ground and a
a few high-class stallions and asprink- little extra feed and care after the
ling of pure-bred or high-grade draft foal becomes dependent on the mate’s
mares, the number of high-class colts milk will enable a mare to go success-
is certain to be correspondingly large. fully through a season of hard work"
So true is this that one can judge ac- and produce this double income. It'is;
curately of the progressiveness of any not necessary to keep her without
community by noting the quality of work more than a few days immedi-
the horses that pass along the coun- ately after foaling. The chances of,
try road or stand about the markets a good brood mare becoming worth-L
on a busy day. less are very small. If she fails to
Good Blood is Essential. breed she can pay for her keep in the
The fact that good blood is neces- harness. There is no need to sell her
sary to produce high-class draft colts at a sacrifice as is the case with other
is not appreciated by the majority of breeding animals. As a safe business
farmers. Location, climate, feeds and investment mares are safer than any
accidents and many other influences other kind of breeding stock.
are blamed by unsuccessful draft Farmers Should Raise their Own
horse breeders for the mediocrity of Horses.
their colts, when in reality the trouble As a general proposition a farmer
is more often With the ancestry. A can raise better horses than he can
few farmers waste good colts by giv- afford to buy. The colts from his
mg them DOOI‘ care, bUt far more mares, the product of one stallion,
waste good care on COltS 0f inferior will mate more closely in disposition
breeding. There are many farmers and be better adapted to his work
who have the ability and skill to han- than horses that he can buy one or
tile high-class draft horses who have two in a place, There is something
not the courage to try. The man who about the working of horses that
takes pride in his farm horses and match in size, strength and disposition
who can keep his farm work teams in that makes the work much easier for
a vigorous and thrifty flesh condition both teams and drivers. It is difficult
should not hesitate to acquire a few to buy well-matched teams of farm
well-bred mares and raise a few draft horses and the necessity of making
colts every year. What good blood up two, three and four-horse teams
and intelligent care will do for others makes it very desirable to have uni-
it Will do f0? him. The very b€St form horses of the same size and
draft colts are bred and reared by traits of character. This can best be
farmers who keep a few well-bred accomplished by breeding a few
mares to do their farm work and de- mares of uniform size and Quality to
pend 119011 the sale 0f young horses one stallion. The surer way of making

 

for a substantial increase to their up efficient farm teams is to breed
bank account each year. A lifetime them. It requires persistence and ad-
Spent breeding COltS from inferior herence to one type until the purpose

mares will not gain one fraction of is accomplished.
the success that attends a few years A Right Start is Important.
of intelligent work based upon a foun- It is important in breeding draft
dation of well-bred mares coupled horses to get started right. The class
With a high-class draft stallion. of colts a mare raises depends largely
Well Bred Mares Profitable. upon her size and general appearance.
The question .of buying pure-bred The grade mare sought by so many
or grade draft mares depends on the farmers cannot produce as good colts
man. If one has plenty of money and as the pure-bred one. Even when
understands thoroughly the keeping, mated with the best kind of a stallion
caring for and mating of such mares she cannot produce a high-class colt;
he should buy them. If he_ does not however, at the prices horses are sell-
he had better leave them alone. The ing for today she can show an ad-
most successful breeders are men who vance over the less remunerative sys-
have made the advance from grade to tern. The downward drag of had blood
pure—bred stock gradually. The desire in the generality of farm mares is too
to own improved blood is praise- much for one mating to overcome. It
worthy, but until a man is fitted by is only by the continued use of the
experience and inclination to care for best stallions of a. certain breed that
it he should not invest too liberally. one can make a short cut to reach
There is nothing mysterious about the greater average size and quality in his
breeding and rearing of pure-bred horses. Even this requires years of
draft horses, still they require better time. In no line of farm work is there
treatment than most farmers give greater need of more thought and at‘
their horses. Pure—bred horses do not tention than in connection with the
require pampering, but they do re- management of the horses used for
quire good care and enough good, work on the farm. On thousands of
wholesome food. farms geldings and mules are being
If one has been successful with used for farm work when the same
grades the transition to pure-breds is work might be as well done and the
an easy one and he will find no differ- profits greatly increased by the use
ence between the grade and pure-bred of good draft mares—~either high-grade
stock. If he knows nothing about or pure-bred.
draft horses he will do well to grade Every farmer who contemplates-
up his horses for some years before breeding draft horses should visit
begining with pure-breds. At least he some of the leading fairs, stock yards
should gain the necessary experience and sales stables and make a 'special
in some way before he makes the study of the breeds, types and mar-
change. ket classes of horses that bring the
The well-bred farm mare is distinct- most money. They are every-day ob‘
1y 8. money maker. Even with lower ject lessons. If a man is surrounded
prices for horses her work would still by plug and misfit horses all his life
yield a profit for her keep. One of he will not be able to recognize, much
the fundamental principles of success- less produce, better ones. Visit the
ful business is to make every dollar shows, stock yards and sales stables
0f the capital invested pay the largest and study the best horses and produce
possible returns. The idle horse is others of their kind. Select thebest
one of the greatest leaks in the farm- mares you can afford and mate them
ing of today. For this reason it is with a stallion that will further your

  
 
 
 
 
 
  
  

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operate l-‘ool Trip Only

Set the depth lever to plow as
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for the day’s plowing. operating the
foot lift only at the ends of the field.
Simply press the foot trip. and the
plow enters the ground point first:
touch it again and out it comes. This
simplicity in construction takes a
whole lot of work and worry out of

lowing as you go round after round
El any kind of a difiicult field.

Floating Bottoms
Assured Depth

The depth of the furrow is the
some all over the field. up hill or
down, as well as in the hard spots.
This is regulated automatically by
the hang of the plow bottoms in the
frame. The plow bottoms have just
enough motion at the cutting edge of
the shares to take away the ‘ pinch"
at the plow points as they turn over
the furrow. It is somewhat like the
flexible movement that you get in a
spade when digging into hard ground,

on must work the handle a little be-
ore the spade will enter. This easy
motion reduces the all-day pull of the
team as the News glide through the

soil. I P in I

Don’t forget the sun-baked fields in
the late summer when your poor horses will
have to sweat and pull turn over the
sort] mound, or next spring when the work
a rushed and your colts are lgreen.
flexible movement is found on y in a
like the .1anesville. The proper suck 0 the
bottoms ls self-regulating according to the
depth you are plowing, 9nd as the shares
become dull more soc is added, another
feature found only in the Janeaville.

No other wheel low hugs the furrow
well like this New anestnlle. This prowdes
steadlnoss allows more tug room, insures
even Width of furrows,and makes easier
work for you and the horses.

These are only a few features found
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the hard work out: of plowing. You save
your team. you have an easier ay yourself,
:Ednyou speed up good plowing with less

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fundamental economy to keep brood ideas of improvement. With correct
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the work or the colt will" nearly pay pose success will reward your efforts.
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FEEDERS’ PROBLEMS.”

 

Pasturlng Hogs on Rye.

I have a five-acre field of rye sowed
last fall. I am planning to .put some
brood sows and pigs in it as soon as
it gets a good start. Would you advise
me to sow anything else in with the
rye? Also, would you advise turning
hogs on rye, especially after it com-
mences to head? I also intend to
seed this lot with timothy and clover
with a disc drill.

Hillsdale Co. F. M. S.

Both store hogs and brood sows
may be pastured on rye with good re-
sults during the early spring. The rye
will not make a very productive pas-
ture after it begins to send up seed
stalks, and the brood sows should be
removed from the field before the
heads begin to fill. The store hogs
can, however, run in the field until
the grain matures, and it can be har-
vested in this manner if desired, al-
though it is not an economical method
of maintaining the hogs. It would be
better to move them to some other
pasture and give them supplementary
grain feed after the rye pasture be-
comes tough and woody.

Sowing Rape for Hog Pasture.

I want to put in an acre of rape this
spring for pigs. When should it be
sown and how much seed should I sow

per acre?
Iron Co. X. F. J.

Rape is sown broadcast on a well
prepared seed bed at the rate of about
five pounds per acre. It may be sown
at any time after the season for sow-
ing oats, with good results.

Rye and Vetch as Hog Pasture.

Would like to know if there is any
danger in pasturing old or young hogs
on rye and vetch in early spring.

Allegan Co. H. W.

Vetch and rye is recommended by
those who have tried it as a hog pas-
ture. We know of no reason why any
danger would attend its use for old or
young hogs at any season of the year
when it is producing succulent forage.

 

LIVE STOCK NEWS.

 

Hog packing operations at western
points continue on a far larger scale
than a year ago, and in a recent week
about 882,000 hogs were slaughtered,
comparing with 580,000 for the corres-
ponding week of 1914. Everywhere
there is an evident eagerness upon the
part of stockmen to get their hogs
marketed as quickly as possible, as
they see weakening prices for hogs
much of the time, while corn and oth-
er feeds are selling unusually high,
even after considerable declines in
prices. The average stockman-farmer
prefers to let his hogs go to market
just as soon as they acquire a fair
weight, as he sees prices are much
lower than in most recent years, while
corn has been selling as much as 150
a bushel higher than at this time last
year. Probably, the last crop of hogs
was underestimated in many quarters,
but it seems certain that the active
movement to market means much
smallen supplies later on, and after
the foot and mouth disease is crushed
out, better price for hogs may be ex-
pected.

The Chicago cattle trade has been a
bitter disappointment to sellers in re-
cent weeks, but under the existing cir-
cumstances, this was almost inevita-
ble, as there were so few points open
to Chicago shippers, because of quar-

antines, that the local packers were .

in a position to dictate terms. Numer-
ous stockmen shipped in fat beeves,
only to meet with disappointingly low
prices when the stock was sold, and
there was frequently no marked dif-
ference in values between pretty fair
cattle and really choice ones. Such a
time is a bad one to market stock in,
and many owners preferred either to
wait for better times or to ship to
other markets, where business was
less hampered. Unfortunately, many
cattle have reached maturity, being
fat and heavy, and owners do not feel
like continuing to feed them with
high-priced corn.

Sheep and lambs have continued to
sell in the Chicago market at extreme-
ly variable prices of late, fluctuations
in the course of a single week cover-
ing a Wide range. Irregular receipts
furnish a partial explanation, for
sheepmen were usually prompt to hold
back their flocks after bad breaks in
prices, butthe restrictions placed up-
on shipments from Chicago gave local
packersfitoo much. power to hold val-
ues down. As the country’s supply is
knownto -beunusually small, every-
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BROODING THE CHICKS.

The first essential in rearing chicks
is plenty of warmth. On the other
hand, too much heat must not be sup-
plied lest the chicks become like hot-
house plants. In connection with the
matter of supplying heat, a friend re-
cently said: “The first year that I
hatched chickens with an incubator I
was not fortunate enough to have
brooders, so I had to improvise ways
and means of my own. That year I
had several hundred chickens to come
out the first of February when the
temperature was several degrees be-
low the freezing point. I had a va-
cant room upstairs which was so ar-
ranged that ~I could put in a stove.
Boxes were fitted up for the chicks,
but during the day they were turned
out on the floor of the room, a fire
being started in the stove. In this
room my experience taught me that
the proper heat for little chicks is of
the greatest importance. A uniform
heat should be maintained; there
should not be a variation of three de-
grees. Below the room in which I in-
stalled the newly-hatched chicks was
the living-room and the floor above
was warm. The chicks never were
uncomfortable, they never huddled to-
gether, they had plenty of fresh air,
they were allowed to scratch in litter
for a portion of their food, therefore
they had plenty of exercise, which is
another essential in rearing chicks
that must not be neglected under any
circumstances.”

It is difficult to raise brooder chicks
successfully where the breeders must
be out in all kinds of weather. The
tender things need some other protec-
tion. Of course, one can raise a few
in this way, but out of doors there is
too great a variation in the tempera-
ture and unless someone constantly
watches the heat it is apt to go too
low for the chicks. By all means,
early in the season especially, place
the brooders in a building or shed
where they will be protected from the
cold winds and rains. Many persons
have told the writer that they have
raised a nice brood of chickens in the
kitchen in a brooder. Everything is
kept perfectly clean, of course, but
that is ve1y easily done. A strong,
vigorous chick will live if one will let
it. We must always consider the
weather conditions. Don’t heat the
little chicks upto a point where they
want nothing but water, for bowel
trouble then results. One should al-
ways use good judgment in brooding
chicks and strike a reasonable aver-
age that is compatible with conditions.

Indiana. W. F. PURDUE.

 

DRUGGING CHICKENS.

 

As a general rule it will not pay to
drug fowls that are suffering from ser-
ious diseases. The cost of the medi-
cine and the value of the time requir-
ed in administering individual treat-
ment is usually worth much more
than the birds cured. And then, it is
never safe to keep a bird that has re-
covered from a serious disease, since
the disease will have left it in such a
weakened condition that it is there-
after susceptible to disease, and will
likely be a carrier of contagion to the
well birds. Several years ago I had
this point well illustrated in my own
One morning I found a hen
sufl‘ering from a bad attack of roup.
The hen was at once isolated and giv-
en treatment.‘ After treating for two
weeks, she recovered and was return-
ed to the henhouse. The following
winter this same hen contracted roup
again, and before the disease was
stamped out, one-half the chickens on
the place either died or had the dis-
ease in such a bad form that they had
to be killed.

The aim of every poultry keeper
should be to increase the vitality of
his flock. This. can only be done by

 

killing all birds suffering from serious

MARCH 6. 1915.

 

    
    

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d-iseas‘e’Sf‘When eggs from hens th‘at"

have had serious diseases are incu-

- bated, the Offspring will be weak, since

the 10w vitality of the,pai'ent ivill‘be
transmitted to her chicks. ,

The poultrykeeper should make a
study of the various diseases, not with
the idea of curing, but more particu-
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The man who knows how to',pi-event
diseases is better equipped to make a
success of keeping poultry than the
man who knows how to cure.

‘ There are three poultry diseases
that should not be treated with the
idea of curing. These are rOup, (in its
virulent form), cholera, or cholera-
ltke diseases, and tuberculosis. These
diseases are very contagious and the
affected birds should be killed as soon
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I have about 50 single comb \Vnhitc
Leghorn pullets. In November 00 I
gotthe first eggs. In December the
Leghorns laid 328 eggs and in Janu:
arv 876. I did not keep a record oi
the feed for—December, but the. feed
for January cost $16.30, and the eggs
sold for $36.13. ,1 fed for scratch teed,
100 lbs. of cracked corn, one bushel
of wheat and one bushel of oats. For
mash I used 100 lbs. of bran, 100 lbs.
of corn meal, 50 lbs. of ground oats
and a small amount of a commermal
egg mash. In January about eight
quarts of sour milk each day was also
given. New, here is my trouble. Since
all kinds 0f feed has gone soaring l
have cut out the wheat and cats in the
scratch feed and the ground cats in
the mash, with the result the egg ’lOld
has fallen off nearly one dozen per
day, and as the price is dropping to
a point where it threatens to eat up
all the profits, I,would like to know
if there is any cheaper feed that
would take the place of the ones that
I have cut out, and still get as good

results?

Kent Co. A. L. S.

In taking wheat and oats from the
ration as given above, a chief source
of protein is taken away and as a re—
sult the ration is too fattening for
egg laying purposes. As the. dairy cow
needs a balanced
eggs, and to make up for the loss of
the properly balanced ration throug
taking out these two grains, one must
use some substitute. Wheat bran,
niiddlings, beef scraps and cut bone
are all foods which contain a large
amount of protein, and may be used
in place of the wheat and oats. As
neither beef scraps nor cut bone are
contained in the ration you are now
feeding, it would undoubtedly be of
great advantage to you to feed either
one of them. Cut bone is a very con-
centrated food, and one must use care
in feeding it. About one-half an ounce
per hen per day is sufficient under or—
dinary circumstances. If the beef
scraps are used, they can be put in
the mash you are now feeding in place
of the ground oats; 50 pounds of the
scraps to 100 pounds of bran and 100
pounds of corn meal would be suffi-
cient. A great factor in a large pro-
duction of eggs is green food, and
there is nothing better than sprouted
oats, even with oats at their present
high price. When cats are sprouted
they will increase to about three times
in volume and a square inch of sprout-
ed oats'is sufficient for a hen per day.
It is advisable to have more than one
grain for scratch food, as the hens
like to pick around for, a variety of
grains, but there is nothing that could
be suggested to take the place of
wheat and oats, and therefore corn
would be your only scratch food un-
less you used some buckwheat, which
is in character quite similar to corn.
It is rather hard to get along satisfac:
torily with Wheat and oats, as both
are great egg producing foods, but/if
you follow the suggestions above, 3’9“.
will undoubtedly get results nearly
cons} to those Obtained in the past.

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CURRENT COMMENT.

 

The local out-
The Foot-and-Mouth break of foot-
Quarantine. and-mouth dis-

ease in the De-
troit stock yards noted in our second
edition of last week’s paper has
doubtless caused some alarm among
Michigan Farmer readers as to the
probable effect upon the movement of
Michigan live stock to points within
or without the state. It is reassuring,
however, to note that this outbreak
was entirely local, occurring as it did
in cattle that had been held in the
yards for some time, and that no other
portion of the state is involved be-
cause of its appearance. The only ad-
ded inconvenience entailed by this
outbreak is the temporary closing of
the Detroit yards for disinfection. The
general quarantine situation is conse-
quently growing better, each order is-
sued being a modification of the pre-
vious quarantine orders.

Information just received from the
local office of the Federal Bureau of
Animal Industry indicates that stock
can now be moved for any purpose to
any point within the quarantined area
not designated as “closed” or “expos-
ed” areas without inspection or spe-
cial permission. Such areas now ex-
isting in Michigan were designated as
being within the limits of Saginaw,
Tuscola and Berrien counties and, of
course, the Detroit stock yards. As
state regulations follow very closely
the line of Federal restrictions, the
comparative freedom with which stock
can be moved within the state will at
once be apparent. In cases where re-
strictions exist, application may be
made for permission to move such
stock where it is desired to ship
breeding stock, to the state or federal
authorities as the case may be. The
general situation so far as Michigan
is concerned is considered very satis-
factory by the officials of the local
Federal bureau, due to the loyal co-op-
oration of the state official and the
farmers within the affected territory.
With the greater portion of the state
now in What is known as the “restrict-
ed area” so-called, and only a small
portion in, the modified, exposed and
closed areas, while other states are
struggling to control the disease, there
is every reason for congratulation on
the situation. ..

~No hesitancy should be felt on the
part of farmers in purchasing breed-
ing stock in sections where quarantine
regulations permit it to be shipped,
comprising the greater portion of
the state as above noted. Live

THE‘ MICHIGAN fFARhMER'

products are used largelyjn the man: .
ufacture of dye stuffs, also as an in-' legislation by Congress to provide for

stock breeders have suffered not a lit-.

tle because of the fear of those desir-
ing to. purchase breeding stock that
there might be a possibility of bring-
ing foot-and-mouth disease onto‘ their
farms through such purchases. This
was a very natural feeling, but With
the progress which has been made in
exterminating the disease, it need no
longer restrict the movement of breed-
ing animals except in a very small
area within the state. Prospective
purchasers who are still timid about
such purchases may reassure them«
selves by writing the State Live Stock
Sanitary Commission, Lansing, Mich.,
for information.

Michigan’s Third
The Country Life Country Life Con-
Conference. ference held at the
Agricultural College
last week is worthy of more than
passing attention from the fact that
it was essentially what the term im-
plies. As a public gathering it could
not be counted a magnificent success
for the reason that there was not a
large general attendance. As a con-
ference of. representatives of different
forces interested particularly in the
solution of the problems of country
life, it loomed large in the history of
country life development. On the pro-
gram were found men who could
speak with authority on the various
subjects relating to country life de-
velopment, ranging from problems of
sanitation and health to finance and
organization. The talks and discus~
sions given at this conference were of
exceptional character and interest and
will be circulated throughout the state
in the form of an extension bulletin
to be published later. Various phases
of the conference will also be taken
up through the columns of the Mich-
igan Farmer to the end that Michigan
Farmer readers may be given the lat‘
est viewpoint on many factors of
country life as discussed at this con-
ference, which was attended not only
by Michigan men who are interested
in various phases of the rural life
problem but as well by leaders in the
solution of these problems as present-
ed in other states. These ideas and
the progress which has been made in
their application will be made the sub-
ject of future comment.

We are becoming so
familiar with fre-
quent announcements
of new applications
of Science to industry, including agri-
culture as well as manufactures, that
a new announcement along this line
causes little comment. All announce-
ment recently made by Secretary of
the Interior Lane, however, well il-
lustrates the fact that new applica-
tions of science to industry are keep-
ing pace with the needs of the world
and its development. In this an-
nouncement mention is made of two
important discoveries by Dr. Rittman,
a. chemical engineer of the U. S. Bu-
reau of Mines, which will contribute
not a little to our national progress
under present conditions. One of
these discoveries, and the more im-
portant, is a new process of increas-
ing the supply of gasoline by means
of which the output of a. given quan-
tity of petroleum can be increased to
about three times the amount produc-
ed by older methods. This process Is
to be patented and given to the peo«
ple, which will make it available for
small producers as well as large, thus
insuring a more adequate supply of
this fuel, the demand for which has in-
creased so rapidly in recent years
since the development of the internal
combustion engine. ' '
Another chemical process; the dis-
covery of which is simultaneously an-
nounced, relates to the production of
toluol and benzol from' petroleum.
Both of these products were formerly
produced from coal tar, the principal
supply coming from Germany where
scientific men have Specialized more
largely on coal tar products than has
been the case in this country. These

Results in Ap-
plied Science.

 

MARCH 6, .1915»,

An effort‘is being made to secure

. . some‘form of rural credits. The pro-
gredient “1 high power explosrves, vision has been attached to the agri-
and the process Will be particularly cultural bill and was being fought out
useful at this time when the supply in the F031? comrliiittee on agricul-
,_ ure ear y is wee .
or such materials from Germany has Chinese organizations in western
been cut off- United States have instituted a boy-
Mention is made of these announce- cott against Japanese goods on the
ments simply to illustrate the extent :3 $533310 ($35333, t'figepglighgelhcgs ,hga’e
. . . . . l a ema s
to much alfphed some ‘3 affecting now being made on China by Japan.
and modIfying our industries at. the A trade balance of the United
present time. This is true of agriCUI- States as shown by the excess of ex—
ture not less than of manufactures, ports over importS,touchedanew,high
and incidents of this kind offer con- Elgaéri‘oéaskggggpggg swig”: 39:31:53
CIUSIVG proof that the research work exp’orts increased nearly $64,000,0 0
which is being done in the laborator- while imports decreased about $32,-
ies of our agricultural colleges and 500:09- _
experiment stations will have a larger Railroads 0f the eastern territory

. . hav b .
effect in shaping the agriculture of the “one ofegg‘rfipi‘ogigfipfivifghegf” gr: rfriiolirce

future than even the most optimistic will affect 750,000 men if successful.
of the present generation realize, and The state public service commission

. - . has valued the telephone service of
emphazxes the fact that this kind of New Y - .
t 2, , .
work, although perhaps not produc- ork Cl 3 at $8 000 000 A new

schedule of rates is to be ordered by
tive of immediately visible results, is the state authorities, using the above
well worthy of the support of the thiiil‘ahuonllas Ethasm' The company
farmers of .the country. Dr. Marshall, on itseiiivgzigient). earn eight per cent
In the spoolal artlcle appearmg m part State oflicials believe that fully 100,-
in this issue tells us something about 900 automobile licenses will be issued
the relation of one of the newer “1 MiChlgahhhhlhg the present year.
. t , 1t (1 l id t l The Detroit Tigers have arrived at
501911095 0 .agricu ure, an nc en 3‘ Gulfport, Miss., for their spring train<
1y pays fitting tribute to science as a mi seagon.
whole in this connection. . re .rigerator company or Green-
v111e, MlCh., had its buildings destroy"
ed by fire Sunday, entailing a loss of
$150,000 and throwing 160 men out of
_ employment.
Foreign. The Board of Commerce of Detroit
European Wan—The positions of declares from its investigation of the
the armies of the west have been lit- labor situation of this city, that at the
fig affected by the events of the past present time skilled mechanics are
week. In the Vosges Mountains both scarce, nowithstanding the fact that
French and Germans report success- the City is full of unemployed.
es; it would appear, however, that the A good roads rally is to be held at
latter have made greater advances. In Grand Rapids, March 9-12, inelusive.
northern France and Belgium accounts. 01,1 Wednesday the Michigan State
of only minor engagements are notice- Highway Department .Will furnish
ed. The Belgian army is said to have speakers for the different sessions,
been reorganized and is expected to while on_ Thursday the program Will
begin offensive operations soon. The be supplied by the Michigan GOOd
eastern campaign is characterized by Roads Assomation. Governor Ferris
severe fighting. The Russians are and United States Senator Townsend
said to be driving the Germans to the Wlll also address the visitors.
north and west of Warsaw and have
retaken Przasnysz, an important base MORE ABOUT CO-OPERATIVE TEL.
for offensive work in Prussia. The EPHONE SERVICE.
Austrians have been checked in West- '
ern Galicia and heavy fighting is in _ , _
progress in the Carpathian moun- Since ertlng‘ the article on co-oper-
tains. Perhaps the most important have telephone companies, published
movement of the week is the bom- ln your Issue of February 6. several
bardment of the forts along the Dar- lnqmrles have come to hand. Some
danelles by French and English war intimated that thefigures quoted were
ships. The latest cables indicate the too low, that aghlgh class 0f service
gradual reduction of the forts as they could 110t be given for $8 per head,
come within range of the guns of the‘and some, llke. Mr. Stafford, asked for
ships. The Turkish capitol has been more information. It would thus ap.
removed from Constantinople to Asia pear that cons1derable interest as well
Minor. The forcing- of this passage as misunderstanding seems to exist.
will probably mark an important stage To clear 11D thls: matter I beg to 0139?
in the history of the great war. the following, given from a viewpoint
The American steamer Dacia recent- Of a farmer: ,
1y purchased from German owners by I thlnk all WIII agree W'Ith me that
an American, and loaded with cotton modern farming demands telephone
for export to Germany, has been tak- serVIce qulte as much as mOdern im‘
en into custody by a French cruiser plements and methods. Also, that
and sent to Brest, France. A prize While the art .Of telephony has made
court will undoubtedly be called upon rapid strides lo the past few years,
to decide whether the purchase of this the service delivered to rural districts
vessel was a valid one or not. has not kept pace With other improve-
A conference is being held at Pekin, ments given the farmer, for it is a de-
China, between representatives of plorable fact that while service and
that country and,_ Japan looking to equipment in the'larger cities may be
ward the settlement of questions good, the rural lines have frequently
growing out of the recent infringe- been the dumping ground of antiquat-
ment of Chinese rights in connection ed and partly wornout equipment, the
with the operations against the Ger- companles apparently working on the
mans at Tsing—Tau and also regarding theory that anything was 800d enough
Japanese privileges in Southern Man- for the farmer.
churia and Mongolia. The latest re- I take the view that the farmer, on
ports are that no agreement has yet account of his isolation and distance
been reached. China stubbornly re: from medical help, etc” should have
fuses to concede the demands being the very best of servrce, and owing to
made by-Japan_ cheaper cost _of construction of rural
To date a total of 150,000 tons of 111198 the Sarvlcefihmfld cost less than
food have been sent from this country in the cities, Wlth _1ts 0°,SUY under-
to relieve the Belgians. Of this amount ground work .and private 111198-
116,857 consisted of wheat and flour. There are m Michigan nearly 1,200
It is reported that Canada has re- telephone companies, about 700 .013
ceivedorders aggregating $70,000,000 Whmh are small companies. Whlle
for munitions of war, accoutrements, some Of these were organized for the
clothing, food and various supplies in- purpose 0f profit, the larger percent
cident to military activities. had for their obJect better servrce.
Bread and flour have been practical- The value 0f serv1ce depends to a
1y eliminated from restaurants and great'extent‘on the percentage 0f fam-
other eating places in Berlin, except flies m a g1ven area that have tele~
upon the presentation of tickets, the p ones. If,_through cheap and satis-
distribution of which has been dlscon- factory serv1ce every family in htOWh‘
tinned. Some of the bakeries are put- ship could have a telephone the value

gng bread or! thg market supposed to 33% bf;igfi’aié‘daig‘fftfifior‘hgtlviii:
eSmade 0f Inge our and potatoes. only a very small per cent could en—
ecretary ryan has protested to joy service This is why small non-
Gen. Carranza of Mexmo, in behalf of profit companies operatin at l w
180 priests who have been arrested by g a 0

rate are able to serve a lar er er-
Eagléogbregon and are being held for centage of the families in ttheir Izer-

. National. rltfiryé also true that upward of 95 per

The Michigan Railroad Commission cent of the farmer’s telephone busi-
has granted to the railroads. of , the ness is done with his oWn switChboard
southern peninsula of Michigan the or, in the case oftone living between
five percent increase ing-Irreight rates two or more tOWns, the buSln‘ess would
for , which the transportation lines ,be divided between these: that While
have been .petitioningitor' nearly; two dealers and ,so-called . .busine‘fsus.~ ‘men
years back. It is estimated that the 'must and'do use ‘Io‘n’g'd'iStan'ce {onscr-
increase will not the roads $1,200,000 vice, the farmers are interested mains
annually. (Continued on page 801). .

 

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'THE MICHIGAN FARMERS

WAS personally gratified at being

assigned to the Russian section. I

wanted to know more about Rus-
sia by seeing it. I think perhaps the
average American, in some respects
at least, is prejudiced against Russia.
We measure it in Siberian scales, so
to speak. We have heard so much
about the cruelties connected with ex-
iles to Siberia that we have judged
Russia in this atmosphere, and this
atmosphere, prejudiced probably, help-
ed materially in accomplishing the
summary abrogation of the long-stand-
ing commercial treaty of 1832, through
the ineffectual attempt to aid the Jew-
ish people.

Americans have always been friend-
ly to Russia and the friendship is gen-
erally conceded to have been mutual.
The “mysterious black fleet” lying off
the New England coast during the
Civil war was regarded as a symbol of
friendship, or guarantee, so to speak,
of a square deal. We have under-
stood that the sealed orders of the
commander of that fleet read, “At the
first authentic information of aid to
the south by Great Britain place this
fleet at the disposal of President Lin-
coln at once.” As evidence of friend-
ship we purchased Alaska, and now,
of course, this makes Russia a com-
paratively near neighbor approximate-
ly seventy miles by the map.

The abrogation of this commercial
treaty lost us, and is still losing us, a
large volume of business, especially in
agricultural implements and it leaves
us official representation in Russia by
courtesy only, and we did not help
the Jews in Russia by abrogating that
treaty. At the time we abrogated it
we were discriminating against Rus-
sian citizens at least as arbitrarily as
Russia was charged with discriminat-
ing against Jewish citizens. We de-
nied, and still deny, citizenship to cer-
tain of the population of Russia today
iand did when that treaty was abrogat-
ed. We have to patch up, then, a
friendship, in one sense, which had
not needed patching, so far as we
know, in all our history before.

But Russia did not permit this ac-
tion on the part of our Congress and
the President to in any way interfere
with the cordial consideration which
they extended to the American Com-
mission in its study in their big
country.

We in America do not appreciate
the bigness of Russia.‘ We have so
long accustomed ourselves to refer-
ring to this country of ours as the
dominion of “magnificent distances,”
and the other European countries are
so comparatively small, that we forget
the dimensions of the Russian Em-
pire, which contains one-sixth of the
earth’s surface. It takes thirty~six
hours from Vienna to St. Petersbxirg,
and it takes, on a fast limited trans-
continental train, eight days from St.

American Commission Visits Russia.
By Wm. B. Hatch, Michigan Member of Commission.

 

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Petersburg to Vladivostock, and; St.
Petersburg is still up in the-northern
part of Russia by the Baltic Seapian'd
it is a long stretch from theresouth:
ward to the Black Sea. - , ' '

This great domain lies in the main
farther north than ours. We are be-
tween 25 degrees and 44 degrees,
while Russia is mainly between 40 de-
grees and 75 degrees. St. Petersburg,
now Petrograd, the capital, is prac-
tically at 60 degrees and this, though
in the neighborhood of 1500 miles
north of the southern boundary of
Russia is still almostras far, if not
quite, south of the northern boundary,
yet this latitude of St. Petersburg is
that of southern Greenland and runs
through the center almost of Hudson’s
Bay.

Here in this imperial capitol are
two million people. They do not raise
corn, as might be expected in this
clime, but Wheat, oats, rye, barley,
flax and vegetables were thriving on
the twenty-fourth of May, apparently
about a month behind the same crops
in southern Michigan. Many of our
common trees are equally common
here. The oak, of a different variety,
however, the elm, ash, poplar, maple,
birch and basswood are as often seen
as at home. One of the best and most
extensive botanical gardens we have
seen is here. Plants brought from
Brazil are so improved on that these
gardens supply seed to Shaw’s gar-
dens in St. Louis, and other noted Am-
erican and foreign gardens. Seven-
teen below zero is usually as low asit
goes here, though in Moscow further
south and inland, it drops to 50 be-
low. A close proximity to the Baltic
Sea probably accounts to some extent
for this more moderate weather. The
day we arrived seemed warmer than
the day we left Venice, Italy. The
long days in summer undoubtedly
makes possible a growth of vegetation
in‘ this northern latitude which would
not otherwise be possible. When we
were there, the so-called “white
nights” had arrived, by which they
mean it does not get dark. The sun
sets at 10:00 p. m. and rises at 3:00 a.
m. and it is twilight meanwhile, dur-
ing which time you can read a news-
paper, provided it is not a Russian
newspaper and you an American.

Among the other evidences of muni-
cipal enterprise which we noticed here
were one or more municipal theaters
built and maintained from their earn- ,
ings. First-class entertainment at low
prices, as well as meals, are provided.
The theater] which I visited was as
good as the best in Detroit, seating
4,000 people; the best seats are fifty
cents, good seats for ten cents. The
best talent appearing on any stage or
in any music hall appears here. The
electric light and gas plants are also
owned and operated by the munici.
pality.

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CHAPTER XXII.

Winston smiled somewhat dryly.
“Then all its virtues will be tested to-
nlght, and I had better make a com-
mencement while I have the courage.
Colonel Barrington is in ?”

Maud Barrington went with him to
the door, and then laid her hand a
moment on his arm. “Lance,” she
said, with a little tremor in her voice,
“if there was a time when our dis-
trust hurt you, it has recoiled upon
our heads. You have returned it with
a splendid generosity.”

Winston could not trust himself to
answer, but walked straight to Bar-
rington’s room, and finding the door
open went quietly in. The head of the

 

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littered table in front of a shaded
lamp, and the light that fell upon it
showed the care in his face. It grew
a trifle grimmer when he saw the‘
younger man. . '

“Will you sit down?” he said “I
have been looking for a. visit from you
for some little time. It would have
been more fitting had you made it
earlier.” . v V .

Winston nodded as he took a. chair.
“I fancy I understand you, but I have
nothing that you could expect to hear
to tell you, sir.” ‘ -

“That," said Harrington, “is unfor-

MARCH 6, 1915.

       

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ILLY BE BY BO BUM was just

about the maddest little boy you

ever saw. Yes, sir, he was as
mad as a hornet, and he had good rea-
son to be. For he had got all tangled
up in a briar patch, and anyone who
has ever had anything to do with a
briar bush knows how their thorns
scratch. ~

You see, Billy had been following
the tracks of Mr. Rabbit through the
White Forest, and when the trail led
into a briar patch, Billy tried to fol-
low. But the sharp little thorns grab-
bed his clothes and wouldn’t let go
until they had torn big holes in his
coat and pants. Then when he did
pull himself loose, the branch would
spring back and scratch his face and
hands. Before long Billy decided he
didn’t want to follow Mr. Rabbit any
further, so he turned around and tried
to get out of the briar patch. But it
was as hard work getting out as it
had been getting in, and by the time
he was back in the open, he had been
scratched in forty-eleven different
places. He had just about made up
his mind to cry when he heard some-
one laughing, and there, on the top of
a stump, sat Tinker Teedle Tee.

“1 don’t see anything to laugh at,”
said Billy, “and you wouldn’t think it
was any fun either if you were as bad-
ly scratched up as I am.”

“I know I wouldn’t, Billy Boy,” re-
plied the merry little elf, “but seeing
you reminded me of that old rhyme:
There was a man in our town

Who was so wondrous wise,

He jumped into a briar bush

And scratched out both his eyes.
And when he saw his eyes were out,

With all his might and main,

He jumped into another bush
And scratched them in again.

You didn’t scratch your eyes Out,
but I’ll bet you won’t try to follow
Mr. Rabbit into a briar patch again.”

“Not if I know it,” replied Billy.

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“But I don’t see why blackberry bush-
es have thorns anyway. They aren’t
any good that I can see.”

“Oh, aren’t they? Well, maybe Mr.
Rabbit thinks differently,” said Tink-
er. “If you were to ask Bunny, he
would tell you that the briar bush,
with its thousands of sharp little
thorns, is his best friend. Why, Billy
Boy, if it wasn’t for the briar bush,
Mr. Rabbit couldn’t life in the White
Forest a day.

“You see, Mr. Rabbit has more ene-
mies than any of the Little People,
and he is in constant danger of being
caught and eaten. If he isn’t dodg-
ing Slinker the Weasel, or his cousm,
Sharpnose the Mink, he is running
away from Fleetfoot the Fox or old
Long Ears the Hound. Then he must
always keep his eye peeled for Hook-
beak the Hawk and T00 Whoo the
Owl, and last of all there are the
hunters and their terrible guns. But
every one of these animals is afraid
of the briar bush, for they know how
the sharp little thorns scratch and
tear. So, when Busybody the Bluejay
shouts his warning that an enemy is
afoot Mr. Rabbit runs for a briar
patch as fast as his legs will carry
him. He knows that if he can reach
the briar’s friendly shelter, he will be
safe. But did I ever tell you how the
briars came to get theirythorns?”

“\Vhy, I supposed they were always
just as prickly as they are_ now,” said
Billy in surprise.

"No, indeed,” Tinker replied. “Once
upon a. time when geese were swine
houses were made of buckwheat cakes
and bricks Were made of batter, the
berry bushes had no thorns. But the
hawks pulled the berries off with their
claws; the squirrels and mice climbed
over them; the cattle knocked them
off with their horns; the possum
twitched them off with his long tail,

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Perhaps the mother didn’t mean to
be rough, but she was so fat and awk-
ward, that she lay down rather sud-
denly, and took the little ones by sur-
prise, so much so that out of thirteen
young hopefuls, only four remained.
This the farmer was unwilling to en-
dure, so he interfered by adopting the
pigs for his own.

How to take care of them was the
next questiOn. Apparently the first
thing to look out for was their milk
supply, for the mother sow was unre-
liable, and apparently quite willing to
get rid of her family, whereas the lit-
tle sucking pigs were eternally hun-
gry. , r . . '

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thought- of than «put into execution.
Fo’ur beer .bottltes, four nipples, and
a board rack .with four- holes. bored to

and
a foster mother was before
our eyes! Everybody laughed when
they saw it, except the pigs. They
were kept cuddled up in a box, under
quilts, and taken out periodically and
allowed to suckle. ,

The milk was nice and warm, made
so by immersing the bottles in hot wa-
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joy life as farm pets and orphans
more than they did as belonging to
the old sow. The farmer, Herman Eh-
man, of Benzie county, has four chil-
dren, the hired men, and his wife, as
well as himself, interested in the wel-
fare of the pigs, and it will be the

admit the necks of the bottles.

behold,

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some lazy old sow.

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.and the deer, with his sharp boots.
would break them down. So the brlar
hush armed itself with sharp spikes
to protect its berries and declared war
on all creatures that climbed trees,
had horns or boots or long tails. This
left the brlar bush at peace with none
except Mr. Rabbit, who could not
climb, was hornless, hoofless and had
scarcely any tall at all. As Mr. Rabbit
had so many enemies always on the
lookout to make a meal of him, the
briar bush took Bunny under its pro-
tection. So, when danger threatens,
Mr. Rabbit flees to the nearest briar
bush, certain that its thousands of
sharp little daggers will defend him
against every foe."

“Well, I’m glad those thorns are of
some use,” said Billy. “And now that
I know they help protect Mr. Rabbit.
I don't mind getting scratched up
nearly so much. But tell me, Tinker,
if the briar bush is such a good friend
to Bunny, why is it that so many rab-
bits get killed ?"

“Don’t you remember I told you Mr.
Rabbit was the biggest coward alive,”
replied Tinker. “When he knows
Slinker the Weasel or Sharpnose the
Mink is after him, he loses all his
courage and even the friendly briar
bush can’t save him, for he gets too
frightened to run to its shelter but
just sits down to wait until he is
caught.

“You know, Billy Boy, if a person
won’t help themselves, all the friends
in the world can’t keep them out of
trouble.”

 

WINSTON OF THE PRAIRIE.

 

(Continued from page 294).
pose as a censor of the conduct of any.
man here, except when it affects the
community, but their friends have sent
out a good many young English lads,
some of whom have not been to dis-
creet in the old country, to me. They
did not do so solely that I might teach
them farming. A charge of that kind
is no light responsibility, and. I look
for assistance from the men who have
almost as large a stake as I have in
the prosperity of Silverdale.”

“Have you ever seen me do any-
thing you could consider prejudicial
to it?” asked Winston.

“I have not,” said Colonel Barring-
ton.

“And it was by her own wish Miss
Barrington, who, I fancy, is seldom
mistaken, asked me to the Grange?"

“It is a good plea," said Barrington.
“I cannot question anything my sister
does.”

“Then we will let it pass, though I
am afraid you will consider what I am
going to ask a further‘presumption.
You have forward wheat to deliver,
and find it difficult to obtain it?”

Barrington’s smile was somewhat
grim. “In both cases you have sur-

, mised correctly.”

Winston nodded. “Still, it is not
mere inquisitiveness, sir. I fancy I am
the only man at Silverdale who can
understand your difficulties, and what
is more to the point, suggest a means
of obviating them. You still expect
to buy at lower prices before the time
to make delivery comes ?”

Again the care crept into Barringi
ton’s face, and he sat silent for al-
most a minute. Then he said, very
slowly, “I feel that I should resent the
question, but I will answer it. It is
what I hope to do." _

“Well,” said Winston, “I am afraid
you will find prices higher still. There
is very little Wheat in Minnesota this
year, and what there was in Dakota
was cut down by hail. Millers in St.
Paul and Minneapolis are anxious al~
ready, and there is talk of a big cor-
ner in Chicago. Nobody is offering
grain, while you know what land-lies
fallow in Manitoba, and the activity
of their brokers shows the fears of
Winnipeg miller-s with contracts on,
hand. This is not my opinion alone.
_I can convince you. from the. papers
and market reports I see before you.”

 

mucus, 1.916.

Barrington could not ccntrovert the
unpleasant truth hepwas still endeav-
oring to shut his eyes to. “The de-

mand from the east may c_lacken,”.he

said.

Winston shook his head. “Russia
can give them nothing. There was a
failure in the Indian monsoon, and
South American crops were small.
Now, I am going to take a further lib-
erty. How much are you short?”

Barrington was never sure why he
told‘him, but he was hard pressed
then, and there was a quiet forceful.
ness about the younger man that had
its effect on him; ~

“That,” he said, holding out a docu‘
ment, “is the one contract I have not
covered.”

Winston glanced at it. “The quan-
tity is small. Still, money is very
scarce and bank interest almost extor-
tionate just now.”

Barrington flushed a trifle, and
there was anger in his face. He knew
the fact that his loss on this sale
should cause him anxiety and was sig-
nificant. and that Winston had sur-
mised the condition of his finances
tolerably correctly.

“Have you not gone quite far
enough ?” he said.

Winston nodded. “I fancy I need
ask no more, sir. You can scarcely
buy the wheat, and the banks will ad-
vance nothing further on what you
have to offer at Silverdale. It would
be perilous to .put yourself in the
hands of a mortgage broker.”

Barrington stood up very grim and
straight, and there were not many
men at Silverdale who would have
met his gaze.

“Your content is a little too appar-
ent, but I can still resent an import!-
nence,” he said. “Are my affairs your
business?”

“Sit down, sir,” said Winston. “I
fancy they are, and had it not been
necessary, I would not have ventured
so far. You have done much for Sil-
verdale, and it has cost you a good
deal, while it seems to me that every
man here has a duty to the head of
the settlement. I am,.however, not
going to urge that point, but have, as
you know, a propensity for taking
risks. I can’t help it. It was probably
born in me. Now, I will take that
contract up for you.”

Barrington gazed at him in bewil~
dered astonishment. “But you would
lose on it heavily. How could you ov-
ercome a difficulty that is too great
for me ?"

“Well,” said Winston, with a little
smile, “it seems I have some ability in
dealing with these affairs.”

Barrington did not answer for a
while, and when he spoke it was slow-
1y. “You have a wonderful capacity
for anyone to believe in you.”

“That is not the point,” said Wins-
ton. “If you will let me have the con-
tract, or, and it comes to the same
thing, buy the wheat it calls for, and
”if advisable sell as much again, ex-
actly as I tell you, at my risk and ex-
pense, I shall get what I want out of
it. My affairs are a trifle complicated
and it would take some little time to
make you understand how this would
suit me. In the meanwhile you can
give me a mere I O U for the differ-
ence between what you sold at, and
the price today, to be paid without in-
terest and whenever it suits you. It
isn’t very" formal but you will have to
trust me.”

Barrington moved twice up and
down the room before he turned to
the younger man. “Lance,” he said,
“when you first came here, any deal
of this kind between us. would have
been out of the question. Now, it is
only due to tell you that I have been
wrong from the beginning, and you
have a good deal to forgive.”

. “I think we need not go into that."
said Winston, with a little smile. “This
is a business deal,- and it‘ll: hadn’t
suited me I would not have made it.”
. He went out in another few minutes
with a little strip or paper. adjust.

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before he left the- Grange placed it in
Maud Barrington’s hands:

“You will not ask any questions,
but it ever Colonel Harrington is not
kind to you, you can show him that,"
he said. I

He had gone in another moment,
but the girl, comprehending dimly
what he had done, stood still, staring
at the paper with a warmth in her
cheeks and a mistiness in her eyes.

 

CHAPTER XXIII.
Sergeant Stimson Confirms His Sus-
- picions.

T was late in the afternoon when
Colonel Barrington drove up to
Winston’s homestead. He had his

niece and sister with him, and when
he pulled up his team, all three were
glad of the little breeze that came
down from the blueness of the north
and rippled the whitened grass. It
had blown over leagues of sun-bleach-
ed prairie, and the great desolation
beyond the pines of the Saskatchewan
but had not wholly lost the faint,
wholesome chill it brought from the

Pole.
There was no colud in the vault of
ether, and slanting sun—rays beat

fiercely down upon the prairie, until
the fibrous dust grew fiery and the
eyes ached from the glare of the vast
stretch of silver gray. The latter was,
however, relieved by stronger color in
front of the party for blazing gold on
the dazzling stubble, the oat sheaves
rolled away in long rows that dimin-
ished and melted into each other, un‘
til they cut the blue of the sky' in a
delicate filigree. Oats had moved up
in value in sympathy with wheat, and
the good soil had most abundantly re-
deemed its promise that year. Colonel
Barrington, however, sighed a little as
he looked at them, and remembered
that such a harvest might have been
" his.

“We will get down and walk to-
wards the wheat,” he said. “It is a
good crop and Lance is to be envied.”

“Still,” said Miss Barrington, “he
deserved it, and those sheaves stand
for more than the toil that brought
them there.”

“Of course!” said the Colonel, with
a curious little smile. “For rashness,
I fancied, when they showed the first
blade above the clod, but I am less
sure of it now. Well, the wheat is
even finer.”

A man who came up took charge of
the horses, and the party walked in
silence towards the wheat. It stretch-
ed before them in a vast parallelo-
gram, and while the oats were the
pale gold of the austral, there was the
tint of the ruddier metal of their own
Northwest in this. It stood tall and
stately, murmuring as the sea does,
until it rolled before a stronger puff of
breeze in waves of ochre, through
which the warm bronze gleamed when
its rhythmic patter swelled into deep-
er—toned harmonies. There was that
in the elfin music and blaze of color
which appealed to the sensual ear and
eye, and something which struck deep-
er still, as it did in the days men
poured libations on,the fruitful soil,
and white-robed priests blessed it,
when the world was young. .

Maud Barrington felt it vaguely, but
she recognized more clearly, as her
aunt had done, the fair and daring of
the sower. The earth was very boun-
tiful, but that wheat had not come
there of itself; and she knew the man
who had called it up and had done
more than hear his share of the prime-
val curse which, however, was appar-
ently more or less evaded at Silver~
dale. Even when the issue appeared
hopeless, the courage that held him
resolute in the face of others? fears,
and the greatness of his projects, had

appealed to her, and it almost counted.

for less that he had achieved success.

lowing grain" she saw him—still as it
seemed it had always been with him,
j amid the stress and dust of strenuous
endeavor. ‘ ' ' ’

THE ‘MICH’I‘GAN FARMER

Once more, as she had seen them
when the furrows were bare at-seed
time, and there was apparently only
ruin in store for those who raised the
eastern people’s bread, lines of dusty
teams came plodding down the rise.
They advanced in echelon, keeping
their time and distance with a mili-
tary precision, but in place of the har-
rows, the tossing arms of the binders
flashed and swung. The Wheat went
down before them, their wake was
strewn with gleaming sheaves, and
one man came foremost swaying in
the driving-seat of a rattling machine.
His face was the color of a Blackfeet’s
and she could see the darkness of his
neck above the loose-fronted shirt, and
a bare blackened arm that was raised
to hold the tired beasts to their task.
Their tramping, and the crash and rat-
tle that swelled in slow crescendo,
drowned the murmur of the wheat,
until one of the machines stood still,
and the leader, turning a moment in
his saddle, held up a hand. Then
those that came behind swung into
changed formations, passed, and fell
into indented line again, while .001-
one] Barrington nodded with grim ap-
provai.

“it is very well done,” he said. “The
best of harvesters! No newcomers
yonder. They’re capable Manitoba
men. I don’t know where he got them,
and, in any other year, ‘one would
have wondered where he would find
the means of paying them. We have
never seen farming of this kind at
Silverdaie.”

He seemed to sigh a little while his
hand closed on the bridle, and Maud
Barrington fancied she understood his
thoughts just then.

“Nobody can be always right, and
the good years do not come alone,”
she said. -“You will plow every acre
next one."

Barrington smiled dryly. “I’m afraid
that will be a little late, my dear. Any-
One can follow, but since, when every-
body’s crop is good, the price comes
down, the man who gets the prize is
the one who shows the way.”

“He was content to face the risk,"
said Miss Bar-rington.

“Of course,” said the Colonel, quiet-
ly. “I should be the last to make light
of his foresight and courage. Indeed,
I am glad I can acknowledge it, in
more ways than one, for I have felt
lately that I am getting an old man.
Still, there is one with greater capa-
cities ready to step into my shoes,
and though it was long before I could
overcome my prejudice against him, I
think I should now be content to let
him have them. Whatever Lance may
have been, he was born a gentleman,
and blood is bound to tell.”

Maud Barrington, who was of pa‘
trician parentage, and would not at
one time have questioned this asser-
tion, wondered why she felt less sure
of it just then.

“But if he had not been, would not
what he has done be sufficient to
vouch for him?” she said.

Barrington smiled at little, and the
girl felt that her question was useless
as she glanced at him. He sat very
straight in his saddle, immaculate in
dress, with a gloved hand on his hip,
and a stamp which he had inherited,
with the thinly-covered pride that us-
ually accompanies it from generations
of a similar type, on his clean-cut
face. It was evidently needless to look
for any sympathy with that view from
him.

“My dear," he said, “there are
things at which the others can beat
us; but, after all, I do not think they
are worth the most, and while Lance
has occasionally exhibited a few unde-
sirable characteristics, no doubt ac-
quired in this country, and has not
been always blameless, the fact that

he is a Courthorne at once covers and
Then glancing further across; the bil-~

accounts for a good deal.”
(Continued next week).

 

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College Graduates as Domestics.

 

FEW weeks ago an article ap-

peared in this department lay—

ing stress on the necessity for
girls learning to cook. It cited the
case of a woman who advertised
for a companion nurse that could cook
and offering $15 a week as wages.
The position went, begging because
none of the applicants could cook. The
article was read by a Michigan Agri-
cultural College graduate who wrote
at once to ask if there were more of
such positions lying around loose. For
her benefit, and the benefit of other
domestic science graduates, the editor
of the department inquired into the
situation in Detroit. The answers
were as diverse as the persons inter—
viewed, but. the consensus of opinion
seemed to point to one conclusion—~
that the girl who is efficient can al-
ways secure work at a good salary,
provided always she is willing to take,
things as she finds them and live
above the unpleasantnesses of her sit-
nation.

Mrs. R. H. Ashbaugh, president of
the State Federation of VVomen’s
Clubs, is of the opinion that there are
plenty of situations in Detroit for
high—class girls, but that the girls
would not accept them.

“The position of the girl is the crux
of the situation,” said Mrs. Ashbaugh.
“She is not a guest, and if she is a
college graduate she naturally feels
that she wants to associate with peo-
ple of a higher type than the average
servants who will. be her companions.

“Her employer’s library and living
room are not open to her, and she can
not meet her employer on terms of
equality. She does not want to do
manual work, she wants a position as
housekeeper. There are many of the
wealthier homes where she could get
a position as housekeeper or cook,
with a scullery maid to do the rough
work. but her position in that home
would be such that she would not
stay. She wants social life and it is
her right. If the thing could be put
on a. business basis, if she could meet
her employer at any time as an equal,
the situation would be cleared and
girls of education and refinement.
would be willing to hold domestic po-
sitions.” _

Miss Hattie Carstens, president of
the Twentieth (‘entury (‘lub of De-
troit, ignored the social situation, and
held to the idea that it would be a
good thing for domestic science grad-
uates to seek positions in city homes.

“There are a number of cooks 1n
homes where they employ scullery
maids to do the rough work, and
where the cooks are paid high salar-
ies. If the girl likes to cook, if she
knows how to do fine work, she could
get: a position with no difficulty, and
should be glad to secure it,” said Miss
Carstens. “I know any number of
families who would be. glad to pay
well for a girl who could give them a
balanced ration on a moderate sum.
Many of these families are now pay—
ing a high-priced French chef, but
would be glad to give the money to a
bright American girl if they ectild se-
cure her. Girls who desire such’posi-
tions should communicate with the
various intelligence offices in the large
cities. Many of the families I know
are securing their help from New
York offices, as they claim they can
get better help for less money In the

east than they can secure here. Of
course, they pay the railroad fare. The
Y. W. C. A. also has calls from the
best families, and could place compe-
tent girls.

“Then there is another line of work
the girls could take up. If they knew
anything of nursing they might get
positions as diet nurses in hospitals.
Lacking a knowledge of nursing they
might become invalid cooks.”

Mrs. H. T. Watt, who has a high-
class employment office in Detroit, was
sanguine as to the chances for girls to
secure positions, but not until after
Easter.

“Things are very quiet just now,"
said she, “and there are many girls
out of work. After Easter the work
will open up again and there will be
many chances for high-class positions.
There are .several families paying
from $10 to $15 a week for first-class
cooks, but. these are in families where
from seven to 14 other servants are
employed and necessitate six meals a
day. The help has a private dining-
room, and different cooking from that
of the family, thus making six meals
necessary. But there is a scullery
maid who prepares vegetables, washes
dishes, makes the toast and coffee and
keeps the helps’ dining-room in order.
The servants have dinner at noon and
supper at night, when the family are
served dinner.

“Besides the families who live on
this scale there are many who pay
their cook from $7.00 to $10.00 per
week, and who employ two or three,
other girls. Girls for general house-
work are always in great demand and
get from $6.00 to $8.00 a Week. High-
class girls can always secure employ-
ment, though I would advise them now
to wait until after Easter, when there
will be many more openings.”

At the Y. W. C. A. the idea seemed
to be that a competent girl could get
work even now, with a wait of only a
day or two. .

“It is the incompetent girl who has
to wait,” said Miss Jane Spence, do-
mestic secretary of the Y. ’W. C. A.
“The girl who is sure of herself, even
if she is not a domestic science ex-
pert, can always secure a position,
while the untrained girl who is not

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self-confident is passed by. Just now
specialized workers, governesses and
ladies’ maids, are not in much demand
but the girl for general housework
and the first-class cook can always se-
cure work. At Grosse Pointe there
are many families paying from $10 to
$12 a week. These positions might
well be taken by girls thoroughly
versed in domestic science.”

At the nurses’ registry office con-
ducted by Mrs. Nellie B. Christin it
was learned that there are frequent
calls for a woman who understands
cooking, to look after convalescents or
chronic invalids. In these places a
knowledge of nursing is not indispen-
Sible, but would help.

“I have frequent calls for girls with
a thorough knowledge of invalid cook-
ing,” said Mrs. Christin, “but none
just now. Everything is. very quiet.
These places pay not less than $15 a
week, some of them more.”

There are many chances, then, for
the domestic science graduate to se-
cure work aside from teaching cook-
ing. Of these chances hospital cook-
ing and invalid cooking would suit her
better, as her social position would be
on a much higher plane than in do-
mestic service. Her associates would
be her mental equals and there would
be no question of her inferior stand-
ing.

Lamentable as it is, her social posi-
tion as cook would be intolerable to a.
college-bred girl of the type turned out
by our state agricultural college. We
hear a great deal of talk about the
dignity of labor and the beauty of
But the
fact remains that the. girl who accepts
a position as a domestic is treated as

IIIIII’I‘

 

By IDA L.

October. The maples were begin-

ning to show their autumn color-
ing, and all nature seemed marked by
ripening shades. The cattle had just
been turned out of their stable and
were leisurely making their way to
the stream windil g in and out among
the willows that almost touched their
branches over its waters. Every foot
of land in sight showed marks of

IT was a beautiful morning in early

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a menial. She is in no sense regard—
ed as the equal of her employer, even
though in many cases she is her equal
mentally, and her superior in morals
and culture. Even the clerks and fac-
tory girls consider themselves a step
higher than the cook and housemaid,
and their freedom is certainly greater.

The cook is expected to use the
side door or the back door, to have
freedmn to leave the house only at
stated intervals and to entertain her
callers either in the (lining-room or
kitchen, and this consent even is
grudgingly given in some homes.

This is the dark side of the picture.
There are many women who recognize
the divine right to happiness of the
girls in their employ. and who make
their homes a home for their servants.
The domestic, too, can save more mon-
ey, and in most cases receives as
much, or more, as the girls in factory
and store. Her wages. too, are clear
profit as she need not pay for board,
room, light, heat or laundry. \Vhat
she earns is net. She is sheltered,
well-fed. and Warm. when the girls
who scorn her employment for the
sake of greater freedom, are worried
as to suitable rooms and often only
half-fed. Furthermore. she can make
her life what she wants it to be. If
her work does throw her among girls
and men who are not her intellectual
equals, she need not descend to their
level. The Y. W. C‘. A. and women’s
clubs offer her a place to meet con—
genial friends, and she can secure
companionship if she goes after it.

In housework, as in everything else,
the work does not determine the char-
acter. It is up to the LL] to raise the
position to her standard. DEBORAH.

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Home.

thrifty farming. The cattle were
splendid specimens of their kind; the
horses already hitched to the plow
seemed powerful enough for any task
that might be given them; the barns
were well cared for and the yards
showed no rubbish or litter; tools
were not to be seen except those in
use, and one could imagine them all
stored away safely under cover, where
the weather could not lteaCh them and
make them unfit for use

Two ye ms before II Iis Firs. Vaurhn
had come here a bride. She had been
a school-teacher in a distant city, but
spending her vacation with friends in
this vicinity, she had met handsome,
black—haired, athletic Dan Vaughn.
Myrtle Allen was not lacking in per-
sonal charm as young Dan soon rear-
ized. It was almost love at first sight
on both sides, and was pronounced by
their friends an ideal match.

So persistent was young Vaughn in
his courtship that instead of going
back to teaching in the fall, ’Myrtle
Allen Vaughn went into this farm
home to take up the duties of a farm-
er’s wife. She loved her big, hand-
some husband, and felt perfectly se-
cure of his love in return. Neverthe-
less the conditions which surrounded
her, the duties which were expected
of her, the lack of conveniences for
accomplishing her tasks, were almost
appalling. She could not understand
why their beautiful home life of which
she had dreamed, must be marred by
this constant drudgery. _

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farm with very comfortable buildings,
,when they were married, This had“
.apparently put them" on .. their feet

financially from .the‘lStart. Still the

first two years had been something of

a struggle owing ‘to the ”buying of
stock and the necessary. equipment

.' for the farm work. This had now been

accomplished, and not only the farm

but stock and tools were free of debt.

This particular morning young
Vaughn had said to his wife just be-

.fore he had gone to the field,

“That forty joining us on the north

is for sale. What do you think. Myrtle,

of our buying it? It is splendid land
and the ten-acre wood lot has some
fine timber.”

“We would have to go in debt for
it,” said Mrs. Vaughn.

“Yes, but we would soon pay for
it,” was the reply.

Myrtle Vaughn looked at her hus-

band with that puzzled look which he
occasionally met, and which he could

not at all comprehend, but only said,

“Dan, dear, please wait just a little.
I want to think.”

This remark was equally incompre-
hensible to the young man, and he
left the house, wondering just What
his wife was thinking.

Left alone, Myrtle Vaughn went to
her room, locked the door and stood
before her mirrow studying the face
She could
readily see that she had changed de-
cidedly during the last two years. The
six months’ old baby in the cradle at
her side might partly account for this
change, but there were young moth-
ers of her acquaintance who did not

'show these marks of fading beauty as
she did. There was an almost imper-
ceptible stoop to her shoulders, and

her face presented a drawn expres-
sion, caused doubtless, by a back that
rebelled against the heavy strain put
upon it. Too, she had lost some ten
or fifteen pounds of flesh. There was
no mistake, she was certainly losing
her physical charms while Dan was
handsomer than ever. She could not

afford to become a mere drudge, but

what should she do?

It had seemed all right to get along
almost any way till’ the farm was
equipped. with stock and tools; but
now to buy more land—-

Her home was sufficiently large, and
the house was well'built. In its con-
struction, however: no study had been
made for convenience in labor. The
cistern had been built outside with
the pump directly over, necessitating
carrying the water up several steps
into the kitchen. The drinking water
was also outside, though the well was
near the kitchen door. Big kitchen
made many steps, while the large floor
of white maple must be kept scrupu—
lously clean if her reputation for good
housekeeping in that particular neigh-
borhood be retained. -

Farm neighborhoods have fads. In
some it is white kitchen floors; others
lay great stress on brightly polished
stoves and tinware; again. a strife
will lie in possessing parlors of differ-
ent degrees of uselessness, which are
though in darkness most of the time,
a great source of pride to their own-
ers, and still again the fad consists in
reputations as cooks. In the neighbor-
hood where the Vaughns lived the fad
was shining kitchen floOrs. '

The week before an experiment
worker from the state agricultural col-
lege had spent a few days in the vicin-
ity and one day, when Dan was away
from home, she had called with a
neighbor who was taking her to the
train. Mrs. Vaughn was very popular
and the call was purely a social one.
Seemingly, quite by accident, the con-
versation fell on conveniences in the
farm home. The stranger immediate-
ly found herself plied, With questions
by the most eager listened she had
had for months. a, , ._ ft.- .

“How could I have hot and". cold wa-
ter in my heme? What“ manner of
heating is the cheapest to install. and
‘what wouldbe its cost? What kind

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THE MICHIGAN 'F'ARMER

of a power washer would be practi-
cal?” were some of the questions
which Mrs. Vaughn eagerly asked.

:Together they made a hasty survey,

and the experiment worker took notes
existing conditions. Then,
promising to write Mrs. Vaughn fully
as soon as she could look the matter
over carefully, she hastened to make
her train that she might meet her ap-
pointments.

Of all this Myrtle Vaughn had said
nothing to her husband, but in her
mind had grown a mighty hope that
she would be able to make things eas-
ier for herself now that everything
was in such splendid shape outside.
But if they bought that forty acres
what would she be and how would
she look when that was paid for?

She turned these thoughts over and
over in her mind as she studied her
face in the glass. Baby turned on her
pillow, threatening to wake, but a
gentle jar of the cradle coaxed her
back into slumber.

Every moment meant lost time in
the kitchen but of this she seemed oh-
livious, so absorbed was she in the
problems before her. At last, with an
air of decision, she turned, just as
the baby opened wide her eyes with
cooing mischief in their depths, and
almost snatching the child into her
eager arms, she said,

“I must, and I will, baby, dear, for
your sake and mine.”

Myrtle Allen Vaughn was no weak-
ling mentally, and she had taken hold
of the problems that confronted her
with a determination born of neces-
sity. Life might mean so much, she

had decided, or she might become just-

a working machine. She wanted to do
her part in every way and meant to
do so. She had made up her mind,
though, that it was far from good
economy to do with her own strength
those things which could be done by
machinery and mechanical contriv-
ances.

After leaving her room she took the
baby to the kitchen, gave her her
breakfast and bath, doing this with
leisure and enjoyment. No matter
what else demanded attention this
hour with baby was. sacred. Little
Doris was extra good on this partic-
ular morning, helping her mother with
the morning work by demanding hard-
ly any attention herself. The wash-
ing of the morning dishes and the
other work was accomplished as if by
magic. No woman ever could make
her “head help her heels” more than
could Mrs Vaughn, and a big purpose
gave quickness to her deft fingers.

The dinner was planned and all
ready to be put over when the rural
delivery man went by. How she hop-
ed that the letter from the experiment
worker would come this morning!
Running out to the letter box, she
found, to her satisfaction, not only the

letter she was wishing for, but a large

bundle of literature besides. She also
found another letter, addressed to her
in a strange hand. On opening the
latter communication, she read:

“Dear Mrs. Vaughnz—I would like
to know if your property on St.,
in N is for sale. My daughter
is about to be married and we would
like to have her live near us. Your
property adjoins my own, and though
it is in pretty bad repair at the pres-
ent time, it could be made into an at-
tractive little place. I would offer you
$1,500 cash for it as it now stands, if
you care to sell. I believe that this
price covers its full value. Kindly let
me hear from you at your earliest cou~
venience. '

 

 

Yours very truly,
N. M. JONES.”

This place was all Myrtle Allen pos-
sessed in the world——when she mar-
ried Dan Vaughn. The house had us-
ually been rented for a small sum but
the repairs and taxes took about all
the rent. It seemed unsalahle in the
small town .of.N—-, and so Mr. Vaughn
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We own Forests—thousands of acres.
We own Mills—the largest of their kind in existence. We

of feet.
have ample cash capital to conduct a

sell direct from forest to consumer—no middlemen.

prices that are simply unbeatable!

Our Price always includes all materials from the ground up -——lum-
ber, plaster, hardware, glass, paint, nails, screws, etc.
with each Sterling Home).
forget this: .Sterllng Lum er comes measured and cut-to-flt. That
saves two-thirds the Carpenter Expense.
pense. on the ordinary house, is a bigger Item than all the Lumber.

directions, easily followed,

Furthermore, you can ut up a Sterling
Home in ONE-THIRD T E TIME it takes
to build a house by slow hand-saw
methods.

Sterling System Built—Homes are built from
the finest timber that grows. They have to
be, otherwise, we would not dare sell on
credit! Buyers would refuse to meet the
monthly payments if our materials were in
any way defective. And these homes are
planned by master designers; by men and
women whose business in life is to design
homes that people love~comfortnble homes,
beautiful homes—homes famous for their
practical arrangements. When you buy
9. Sterling, you get all that a home can
give. Sterling Homes are permanent NOT
portable.

We have Mills and Shipping Stations in
Michigan, Florida, Texas and Washington.
No matter where you live, you get the benefit
of our low prices and easy payment plan.

lnlornollonal Hill and 'l'linbor 60.,
ME-a. Buy City, Michigan
Boom to oddreu Dept. E-3

 

 

We Give You

Two Years In Pay
For this Beautiful Sterling Home

That’s our latest offer—Two Years to Pay for this
Handsome Sterling Home—or any other Home shown in

' 19—299

$441 Brings It
THE “MANOR"—

modern 7-room Home with
th. Can be erected in 13
to Iii-dag. Selling for
$441 wn and $12.25

a month. On:

total price $735.

  
    

Nobody else

  
  
  

for full explanation of
Plan.

Prices

We own Lumber—millions

   
    

time-payment business. We
Thus we set

  
   
 

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$187 BRINGS IT
THE“MARTINDALE"—This handsome
5-room Cottage can be erected in 7 to 9
days. Price and terms: 8187 down and
86.20 a month. Total cost. 8312.

Get Our Free Book
“The Famous F ifty"

.. Untileou bani-sen our intent Book
The nmoun Fifty," you cannot np-
grecmte what wonderful strides have
sex) made in Home Building. The Home
comforts and conveniences that only
the nebestoould have a few years ago
lire at lost In reach of the nvern e tam-
. lie-Sterling 859m has no it.
Get this Book on see the Famous
Fifty Homes—the ick of 2021 master
demgns. Largo ctmo, complete
aura}... dot-pol mm~at
any price you Wish to pay. from 8300 to
seam—39d n full explanation of our
astounding "Two-Yem-To-Pay” Plan.
Never before wns such I Home Buying
ity offered anybody. Grasp
it now ‘hllO you can. Sénd letter enclosing
5, two-cent stamps to cov :- mailing cost, with
these words. ' Hens a nd your latest Book
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WE WILL SEND to the woman who

finds it impossible
to go to the hairdresser for a shampoo
and treatment, a. full half pint jar of
Swedish Shampoo Cream. Among its
other beneficial ingredients it con-
tains pure olive oil for the scalp
and white of egg for the» hair. Leaves
the scalp in clean, healthy condition
and makes the hair soft and glossy.
Guaranteed absolutely pure. Enough
for 12 to 15 shampoos, 50 cents. Swed~
ish Products (30., 703 Free Press Bldg.,
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Ind W. I. on Pom Tou-
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on tin; Guide. nu eye-opener. wor
art. nix colors. 800 pictures. also and...“
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book "How to Grow Alfalfa. the Wonder mop”—n Ch. of
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MARCH 6, 1915.

 

 
 

Made of Recisto veal, the new leatherthat withstands
the alkali of the soil and ammonia of the barn yard.

 
   

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HONORBIL‘I’
WORK SHOES

Stand the hardest kind of wear but
are not heavy or clumsy. Resisto
uppers, double stitched
heavy oak tanned soles-—
solid counters —- double
leather toes—-the greatest ;
leather combination put "viz/mm
into work shoes.

WARNING—Always look for the Mayer name and trade marl:
on the sole. If your dealer cannot supply you, write to us.

 
      
   
   
   
   
   
   

  
 
    

HONORS”

We make Mayor Honor-bill: Shoes in all styles for men, women, children: Dolor.
wot weather shoes; Yer-ma Cushion Shoat. Martha Washington Comfort She“.

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big Introduc-
tory ofl‘er on the
latest scientific
hearing instru—
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Mean Ear Phone understandings-“:23"
In 8 adjustments. instantly changed by a touch of the finger.
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Free Trial 331?.i’Ji'l’e‘lICfi‘éXJé’i’Z.‘f"r’.u’i€ foi'rlhn i2?
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payments if on wush.st the lowest net laboratory prior: direct '
Liam (Xv.

myou. Sen
No. 83

25 lbs. best Granulated Cane Sugar for _98c
when ordered with other money-savmg
Larkin Groceries, such as flour, coffee, tea,
canned vegetables, dried vegetables. ham,

bacon, fish, cereals. crackers, preserved
fruits, relishes, confectionery; laundry
and toilet supplies of all kinds.

GROCERY BOOK FREE

Send 9. letter or postal today for your free
Just say, ‘Scnd me free a copy of
Grocery Book No.61”.

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In your-own home onoof our text
combination DUST-VAC V

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ROOFING

' Defies time and weather; resists rust and
‘ lightning and is fireproof. A new roof free
if our rooting fails to give the satisfaction
' we guarantee. Our bond protects you. Saves
you money every season and every year.
Jilake us prove it. Writetodayfor Catalog and
prices. It means money in your pocket.
We also more (‘orn Cribs, Stork Tanks, Wire

 
 

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gunran teed five years - Delivered pre-
paid. You run no risk. send no money.
Try before you buy. Agents wanted
everywhere. Liberal commission.

THE LACE-OMETER CO.
Adrain, Mich.
have the comfort and

Why "0 convenience of an in-

door closei in your home. The
Woverine Chemical Closet
can be installed in any home It
\‘ery small expense. No water
or plumbing required. Can be
set in most sny room in the
house. Gives you every con-
venien cc of the water closet en-
joyed l); city people. No need
for you to endure the cold and
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new improvements absolutely aurpsss
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on s single stove to buy your winter'-
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Write us for illustrated book.

It will explain the

splendid flue arrangement which makes the top
of every Eclipse Range ’20! all ,
over. Oven kept cool if desired.

Free book tells about all the Eclipse
line. Astove for every purpose, all
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A one ognt post card will deliver—Charges

. and; had, notvbe‘en yfinterfested that; f

‘ This letter ,‘put‘? é. ”different outlook
on ‘ Myrtle Vaughnfs problems. and
simplified them an hundred fold. Her
plan had been to state. her‘ case fully
to Dan that noon and ask for the
needed improvements - in '_the house,

, corresponding to those he had in the
,barns and on the farm.

Now she
would have to think it all over under
this new condition, so she said no
word to her husband‘regarding the
matter during the noon hour.

After dinner Mrs. Vaughn lay down
with baby, to cOax her into her usual
afternoon nap. In the meantime plan
after plan evolved itself, only to be
cast aside. Once she said aloud,

“That is all I have in the world that
is all my own. If I should put it in
here would it still be mine, or would
it be Dan’s Only? I read the other
day about a joint deed for man and
wife. I wonder if ours is a joint deed.”

(To be continued).

 

A BIT OF EMBROIDERY.

 

BY ARTHUR W. PEACH.
It’s not a thing of beauty; artist eyes
Would look upon it as a cause for

mirth;
But my that faded bit of cloth there
198
For me a tender beauty and great
worth.

With dainty strands of many brilliant
threads, '
(That is, they were so, years ago)
she wove
Such gorgeous bloom as ne’er in wild-
wood glades
Or cherished gardens richness lived
and throve.

It’s faded now, but in
bright
As on the day when. with an open
pride,
She spread it out before my wonder-
ing sight
“71th hopeful glance to see me sat:
isfied.

my heart. it’s

Each thread is not a thread but touch
Of love, and countless touches here

 

list $10.00
C U U M

RS. It entirely satisfied, take orders
from only two of your neighbors for 87.50

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I see:
Though as a thing of beauty, it’s not
much,
As treasured gift of hers, it’s love
to me!
RECIPES.

 

Sour Cream Layer Cake.
One cup of white sugar, one well-
beaten egg. Place two tablespoonsful

with buttermilk. One level teaspoon-

ful of soda and salt, two cups of flour

with two teaspoonsful of baking pow-

der. Flavor with vanilla—Mrs. F. S.
Sour Cream Cookies.

One cup of white sugar, one cup of
very thick sour cream, one egg, one
teaspoonful of soda and salt each.
Flavor with nutmeg.
bake in a quick oven.

Sour Cream Molasses Cake.

sour cream, not too thick, one-half cup
of molasses, one egg, one—half tea.-
spoonful of soda, one of salt, ginger,
cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg, one cup
of chopped raisins, two cups of flour.

—-—Mrs. F. S.

To a reader who would like to know
how to make cider sauce or apple but-
ter, I will send my recipe. I put sweet
cider in a. granite basin on stew kettle
on the stove, when it begins to steam.
Then put apples in‘so the cider just
covers them and boil down until thick.
I made some with snow apples '_ this
fall. It was a little tart. That made
withvany good sweet apples is "the:
best. I do not use any sugar. or
spices—Mrs. E. W. S. ’

To Can Beef.

Cut the pieces of raw beef- small
enough to go inside‘ the can, leaving
out all bones, pack in can as tightly

teaspoonful of sal‘t‘and on top of all
place a piece of suet; this hardens
meats T3169 patch rhbb‘er and core!
and screw'down tight. ' Plaeeucans in
boiler ‘with hay in"‘the bottom and

 

around cans to preventjheir«touching.

of sour cream in a cup and fill cup'

Mix soft and

One cup of brown sugar, one cup of '

Bake in a slow oven about one hour.‘

as possible until full, then put in a. .

when cold and "helps to preserve the

'If one .‘lias 3i rack maidefto. ,fit the. ,an-
er," so much‘the better;',Fill:‘the 'bdiler
about one-half full, Orruntgiljjust below

.the 'rubber‘s on cans, filth-cold water,

bring to a. boiIAand bbil"steadily,_ for
three and 'one-half-fhpn'rsi' ‘ Let the
cans remain in thejwiaterfuntil cold.
Should any of the rubberSflOosen dur-
ing the process it will dO‘ino harm to
'remove cover and putu‘onf‘new ones,
providing you do it while the contents
are steaming hot. Whenewanted for
use place meat in a dish in the oven
or on top of the stove, and=brown.
Meat canned in this way will keep in-
definitely, and being cooked in its
own juice has such a delicious flavor.
Pork can also be canned in the same
manner.—-—Mrs. F. S., Mason.

——

THIMBLE CLUB CONTEST.

 

 

BY MAE Y. MAHAFFY.

A needlework club recently held the
following contest at one of their gath-
erings, the queries creating consider-
able amusement and wonder. A doll
pin cushion was utilized for the first
prize. For the booby prize a tiny em-
ery, with the phrase, "A good sharp-
ener needed,” sketched on a short
length of attached ribbon, was used.

The questions, with answers, follow:
1, what the farmer does to his sheep
------- ; 2, to pick one’s way—; 3, what is
thrown away—; 4, a sign of servitude
—; 5, a. berrym; 6, a. blow—; 7, a.
company of musicians : 8, an excla-
mation—; 9, necessary to hang a pic-
ture, and part of the body—; 10, a,
grassy sward—; 11, what the cook
does to the turkey—; 2, part of a
door——; 13, a negative—; 14, a king’s
i'ollowers—; 15, a portion of arn10r——-.

Answers: 1, shears: 2, thread; 3,
waist; 4, yoke; 5, Ilimble; 6, cuff;
7, band; 8, a-hem; 9, book and eye;
10, lawn; 11, haste: 12, panels; 13,
knot; 14, train; 15, shield.

 

 

FASHIONS BY MAY MANTON.

Our latest Fashion Book, cont/lining
illustrations of over 700 of the sea-
son’s latest styles, and devoting sev-
eral pages to embroidery designs, will
be sent to any address on receipt of
fifteen cents. >

 

    

    
 

     

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sizes 8, 10 and L12 years;- , Size 10 re-
quires 3 yds. of ,36ginchf material with
5/3 yd. of‘27-inch forcollar, cuffs and
belt ' ‘ ' '

No. 8488—Apron Dress.-A,Cut,in siz-

es 6,;8 andlo years. SizeB requires
2% yds. of 36-inch material.
No. 7652—Child’s Bishop-Dress. Cut
sizes 6 mos, 1, 2 and: 4l‘ye_ars.' ‘Size 2
requires 1% yds. of,3.6;ihch.material.
No.‘7906—éChild’sf'Enipire' Dress. 'Cut
in sizes --1, 2 and 4 years: fSi‘zeQZ- re-
quires 1% ydsuof 36:1nchfmat‘erialt

No. .. 7235+Girl’s -.Y'ok‘e‘ Apron» " Cut
in L, sizes.,‘6, -, 8_ and '10; yearsfif Size, 8 re-
quires‘zia‘g'des. f ' 36-inch. material. .
«J'I‘he‘i’above' pa terns-will ‘be‘ mailed
to any address by thefashion depart:
ment ‘ofmthe Michigan'Fefi‘mer on re- -

'celpt otten cents *f'or each:

7235 '

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MARCH 6', 1913

Sonia 2io

   

Our Mlifilllil
llrnooooronl

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. - ' Iioolt
M” ..." ' llo. soi'u

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This $12.50 Grocery Order
and Rocker EXTRA All for only 3'25—0-

00 Pesos: Ina. Sugar ...... 01M 2 K-lb. Pkgs. Shred.

2 3-"). Gene Cdfllee...... 1.60 Cocoanut ................. .40

I Hi). Package Un- 3 Pkcs.Carmel Pildd’l .05
colored Japan Toe... .05 0 P k g s , Strawberry

I lbs—lb. Pius. Break- Gelatine .................. .40
fast Oats .................. .45 2 1-lb.Pk¢s.Com Stch. .20

0 M‘lb. Pkcs. -Break- 2 %-lb. Packages Blk.
fast Wheat 'Food..... All Pepper (Hound) ...... .

2 3-0:. Bots. Lem. Ex. .50 20 BarsFam.Laun.Soap 1.00

2 2.05. Bots. Van. Ex... .50 0 1-lb. Cans L n s t r e

a K-le’kzs. Unsweet. BrightScourinz Pwd .00
Chocolate .. 2 Fires. Wash. Fwd..." .20

ll X-lb. CanPhOsphete I 8-lh. Pkg. Gl. Starch .86

 

Baking Powder ........ .25 2 B-Bar Boxes Asstd
i] CausPorlr and Beans Toilet Soap ................ .60
(large si ) ............... 5 Bars Floating Bath
2 l-lh. szs. Noodles. to Soap.......................... .25
2 Cans Hominy .30 ——
: i-lb.kaaSl>a¢hetti .30 Total 012.50

HERE IS OUR OFFER:

We will send you this $12.50 List of Groceries in-
cluding40 lbs. of Granulated Sugar for $1.00 and
this fine upholstered Rocker. all for only 012.50. We want
to prove to you and the thousands of. other families who
accept this oifer that our Factory—to—Home plan of deal-
ing gives nearly double the value you can secure else
where. We manufacture our own goods and sell the
entire out ut of our large factories direct to the home
without t added cost of middlemen.

MONEY BACK IF NOT PLEASED

This Rocker would cost $10.00 or more in any retail
store—the frame is of solid Oak, Golden finish;
trout posts and arms are 1 inches wide: spring construc-
tion seat measures 21x20 inches; back is 27 inches high
trom seat: deep comfortable upholstering of best grade
of black imitation leather. The Groceries too, would
cost Irom 010.00 to 013.00 at retail. 1! when you receive
order, on are not satisfied that we have given you at
least a .00 value for 012.50, Just write us and we will
take entire shipment back at our expense and refund
your money. We have been in business over 25 years-
have more than one million satisfied users of our goods.
Ask any Banker or Postmaster as to our reliability.

Broil: 8: lleed to. 353; lllfioago

. o O U P O N
ORG". & REED 90.. DoptB 186¢lvlea¢o

I enclose 013.50 tor your Grocery Order with
Rocker No. 90174. It is understood that you will re-
tundm money and take goods back at your ex-
pense. t not satisfactory.

 

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0n the Farms of the
“Middle West”

There are thousands of Jackson
cars doing splendid servxce. Many
of these Jacksons are six, seven and
even eight years old. But that isn't so su r-
prising when we consider the sturdy con-
struction of the Jackson.

Jackson “44”- $1250

This new Jackson model has all the old-
time Jackson sturdiness, combined With
the very latest design and equipment.

Sand for new catalog today.
JACKSON AUTOMOBILE COMPANY
[508 ELMain Sh. Jackaon. Mich. _
Jackson “44”

 

 

 

 

 

,re'y, as stated. Mr.

THE‘MICHIGAN FARMER

(Continued from page 292).
ly in local service; that any company
that has for its aim universal service
and rates cannot serve the farmers to
the best advantage.

Just as it would be folly to erect a
costly set of farm buildings on land
with a. faulty title, so it wo id be folly
to attempt to organize and construct
a telephone system until laws can be
enacted giving such companies a right
to live. So I again urge every farmer
who is interested in better telephone
service to ask their hired men at Lan-
sing to work and vote for the Lewis
bill, now before the'House. Even if
no new company was needed, this law
would act as a guarantee of good and
reasonable service, would work no
hardships to the large toll lines or city
service and would still leave plenty of
work for the railroad commission.

If any who doubt that a high class
of service can be given at from $6 to
$10 per year, could come to northern
Van Buren or southern Allegan coun-
ties, he will find that it can and is be-
ing done.

To those like Mr. Stafford who wish
to do something, I can see no help, for
as the law now stands, he cannot build
a. line to his tenant house across the
road, “should anyone object," without
the consent of the railroad commis-
sion. This shows how the farmer’s
hands are tied, and until the law is
changed they must accept what is
offered at the price charged, and pre-
tend they like it.

Should this bill become a law I will
be pleased to take up the subject of
incorporation, financing, construction
and operation of these small non-profit
companies in some future issue. Until
then, I beg of the farmers to get busy
with their representatives and sen-
ators.

Van Buren Co.

WILL THEY STICK?

C. E. DE NTON.

 

For the past few years there has
been a strong “Back to the Farm”
sentiment abroad in the land. The
agricultural press have given space to
all ideas, old and new, which would
tend to lead some down trodden fac-
tory worker from the city into a bet-
ter and more stable way of living. The
daily press of our state have touched
on the matter editorially from time to
time and there has actually been
a back to the farm movement. But
just now it seems to be growing fast-
er and assuming larger proportions
than at any past time. The factories
are closed or running short hours and
the working class in cities, both skill—
ed and unskilled, have been and still
are, out of work and they are think-
ing seriously and also planning to get
out on a farm this coming summer
and the question arises, will they
stick? The farms for sale at a bar-
gain are not always the best or, I
might say, better class and some of
the newcomers are inexperienced in
the actual present day farm problems.
They ,go from the thickly settled cit-
ies. The women are accustomed to
near neighbors and everyday compan-
ionship. The men are accustomed to
working with many other men; they
have, as they say, somethingdoing.
How will they be received? Will they
stick?

The average farm community is not
much of a social center. From April
1 until snow flies there is not much
doing but work, and with old friends
and neighbors around us are we not
inclined to neglect new ones?

The children from the city are not
accustomed to the district school and
the country children are not accus-
tomed to the ways of those from the
City and sometimes they do not mix.
The newcomer may not “have as good
clothes and shoes as the old settler
and is looked down upon on that ac-
count. The newcomer may not have
all tools necessary to carry on the
work as he would like. Will you loan
or rent him at a reasonable price from
your stock, that he may be the better
able to buy for the next season? If
he is inclined to make bad mistakes
Will the old ones get together and
have a good laugh at his expense, or
Will you show him where he is wrong

. and how to go to work to correct it?

1 think that the sticking question
depends upon the sticking qualities of
the newcomer first, and second, upon
how they are received in the commu-
nity, for a lonesome, homesick man or
woman cannot do their best. Hun-
dreds of communities in Michigan will
have new neighbors this summer. I
say, treat them well until they prove
themselves unworthy.

Oakland Co. W. H. MARION.

A Correction.
In the awards of Michigan Farm
Crops Exhibit, published in our issue
of February 13, our correspondent
made an error in his report in naming
the first prize winner on exhibit of
white: beans. The first prize in this
class was won by . W. Terry &
Sons, of Remus, instead of Mr. Cowd-

 

 

 

 

 

21—301

      

Will You Help Save the
Pore Marquette? '

The Pere Marquette is being operated at a loss for one
reason—because the state law has fixed its passunger rates at an
amount less than the cost of operation.

            
       

The road is now in our hands as Receivers appointed
'by the United States Court. We have cut down expenses
to the limit of safety. but economies, helpful as they
are, will not save the situation. ~ It has been necessary
to borrow money to operate the road, even without paying
interest on bonds. The Court, without assuming to make
a recommendation, but following the suggestion of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, has directed us to lay the matter before
the Legislature for such relief as it may find to be merited,
and we have done so.

Why You Should Help Save This Railroad—

You need its freight servlce in your business.

You require its passenger service when you travel.

You know that this railroad is necessary to the prosperity of this
community.

You'know that this railroad is one of the greatest assets of the
state.

You know that the Pere Marquette is an important factor in your
life, directly or indirectly, every day in the year.

It serves this county, this town—it serves you.

It cannot longer continue to do business at a loss and furnish the
service you need and require.

It has reached a crisis in its affairs.
ment are staring the road in the face.

On The Average We Lose

A quarter of a cent every mile we carry a passenger.

Ten cents on every passenger we carry.

Twenty-two cents every mile a passenger train runs.

This does not mean that we do not want your patronage. We do, we
appreciate it. Our loss is greater if you do not give it to us, because
We have to run the trains anyway.

The Interstate Commerce Commission decided after an investigation
of these conditions that 2l/‘2c is a fair rate, and therefore fixed it on
interstate business. This does not help us greatly because we have
but little passenger service outside Michigan. The Pcre Marquette is
a local railroad. The most of its passenger business is local. Isn’t it
worth as much to carry you inside the state as it is to points outside,
or from points outside to points within? Yes, and in some cases more,
when you consider the sparsely settled sections served by the Pere
Marquette.

How You Can Help

Take this matter up right away with your Legislator. See him per-
sonally, if possible; if not, write him at once. He is entitled to your
views and it is necessary to get action at this session. The matter
has been presented to the Legislature and we are now laying the con-
ditions before you with a view of getting your assistance. The railroad
Is as much entitled to living rates as an individual is to living wages.
Urge your Legislator to act favorably at this session, and

Help Us Preserve llle System intact in Michigan

PAUL H. KING,
DUDLEY E. WATERS,
Receivers.

        
  
         
      
            
       
         
        
         
      
    
       
   
   
    
     

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States. Any manufacturer with the price can buy.

The only attempt to secure a “corner” in rubber failed.

Hence no one has a monopoly of crude rubber.

The finest grades 'of crude rubber are used in making Ajax Tires.
It is the higher in-ouilt quality of Ajax Tires that makes pos--
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an von s wor e on an e o nsure a good seed bed that will 0.
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DLE machinery or capital means

money wasted. One of the farm-

er’s mottoes should be to use, if
possible, every tool to its fullest ca-
pacity. This is the reason for many
of the advantages the large farmer
has over the small farmer, and why it
is often unprofitable for the man with
‘few acres to purchase certain kinds
:of labor-saving implements—there not
lbeing enough work to save the cost of
adepreciation and interest on invest-
lment.
, Now, recent investigations have led
{thinking farmers to declare that the
lento-trailer is a vehicle that can be
iused in a variety of ways. And be-
icause of its many uses, some of which
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we shall suggest, these simple rigs
are proving very valuable.

{ In the first place, a trailer increases
5the usefulness of the automobile.

. iFarmers are rapidly finding that the

iauto is a great labor and time saver.
lThis observation is now leading many
i110 buy these modern horseless wagons
lfor the economical advantages oifei'ed.

iBut the carrying capacity of every au-

Reducing Costs with Auto-Trailer.

to his automobile? Quite alittle work
has been done along this line'to deter-
mine the possibilities of the trailer
and it has been found, as would be
expected, that the condition of the
roads has much to do with the size of
the load that can be hauled with safe-
ty. Generally speaking, on ordinary
good dirt roads one can put on the
trailer about four times the'weight he
would load on the rear of the automo-

bile. In the accompanying illustration

the owner found that he could load
nine baskets of tomatoes, upon his
auto and 32 on the trailer. Had he
space he could have added the other
four baskets to bring the proportion
up to that stated above and moved it
Without danger of ovt—rburdening his

car. One live stock breeder and deal?

er has three of these trailers fitted
out with high sides for the purpose of
carrying cattle or other stock. Upon
one of these he will load two full-siz-
ed cows and takes them wherever lie
desires. For a very large majority of
the loads hauled upon, away from and
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er is far in excess of the ordinary de-
mands made upon it. Now, the auto-
trailer makes use of this extra power
and at the same time does not over-
load the automobile. It enables the
owner to save power that is ordinarily
wasted and to give the machine much
additional work. In other words, the
farmer can use the automobile to
more nearly its full capacity.

A Few of the Uses.

A little reflection will suggest some
of the uses to which the farmer would
put an equipment of this kind. In-
stead of harnessing the horse to take
a few cans of milk to the station a
mile or two miles away he would de-
liver it in one-quarter the time with
the auto and trailer. The 100 trips
that the average farmer annually
makes to town would be made with
the new equipment. He could bring
home a barrel of salt, a harrow, a
plow, building material, cement, fenc-
ing, flour, feed, fertilizer; could load
in a critter, a few hogs, sheep or
calves; would find it convenient to go
to his neighbor’s, or into the next
county for seed potatoes, beans, wheat
or corn; would carry posts and Wire
to where the men were to erect the
fence. In all, the farmer would find
a multitude of uses where he could
save much money because he would
be able to save much time.

How Much they Carry.

Now, how much can one expect to

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Small Car and Trailer Carrying 41 Hampers of Tomatoes. ;
tomobile is limited and the horse pow- that the capacity of the trailer, even

{or the small cars, will be sufficient.
With the Auth‘ruck.

Another advantage of the trailer is.
its use with the auto truck. So prom-
ising is it in this connection that there
is reason to believe that the size of
the truck that the farmers are going
to buy will be considerably influenced
by it. Here is the situation: If, for
instance, the farmer is marketing
strawberries or peaches, or Wishes to
carry a crate of eggs, he will find that
with a large truck he must have to
load it to full capacity in order to get
the greatest benefit from the resili-
ency of the springs and move his load
of produce with the least damage. If
he is only half loaded the strawber-
ries or peaches are going to be terri-
bly shaken down and the eggs per-
haps broken.

Now we realize that one should go
to town with a full load, but it too
frequently happens that by reason of
a storm or accident that the farmer
finds a part of a load harvested and if
it is not immediately marketed it will
be a full loss. Should he be equipped
with a small truck he can carry this
load with safety and then when he de-
sires to take a larger load he will at—
tach the trailer. Other advantages
are that the trip can be made much
quicker with the lighter car and the
upkeep is generally believed to be less.

_ ' Some Suggestions.

Experience with trailers has taught
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Fitted with spring seat
post and maple bearing:
with hard oil cups.

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row possesses everyg good

int a reliable harrow should
ave, many of them exclusive
Bradley features. Built to last
and save wear and tear on man
and team. 27 st les and sizes.
Prices $15. 95 an up. Get ac-
quainted with this excellent im-
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Hastings. Mich.. Feb. 23rd. 1915.

NOTICE.

TO THE MEMB EBB ANDT POLICY HOLDERS sor
TEH KIOBIGA N MU TORN ADO OY-
OLONE a WINDSTORM INSURANCE OOMEANY.
0F HASTI‘NG S. MIG 0611.!
Notice is hereby given that.f there will be a special
meetln 550! th 6 members of said company held at
l in the City of Heati .Michiaen. on the
day of March. A D. 1915. at o ’clock. P. M.. for
$0 purpose of voting upon a reeclution to extend
0 corporate existence of acid company for A[poi-lode
of thirty years from the 7th do: of April
end“? said corporate exietencei 9 extended.‘ £11311 do:
or e rpmof poeedenen men
to Shea PM 0109 oft Aviation 0%” said W.ocoiiaie11y.8°0

Directors

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Just Soul... “1.5821513. "3.355.212?"

’ were not built for the rapid travel of

, son of the speed. A good serviceable

_ found in the automobile, regular auto
f tires and good springs.
‘ should be fastened to the frame of the

, ,it would seem the part of wisdom for

{ tion. There are thousands of bushels
.‘ of potatoes in storage on farms, and

. bers to stock. Hens are laying more

' eggs 28c; chickens 15@160.

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

ordinary buggy wheels for this pur-
pose, with the expectation of securing
the greatest satisfaction. These wheels

the automobile. The .boxings are apt to
become loosened and it is very difficult
to keep the bearings properly lubricat-
ed. Then, too, if there is to be travel
upon pavement or hard roads the iron
tires are pretty sure to break by rea-

trailer should be equipped with the
same kind of roller bearings that are

The trailer

automobile, or truck, and not to the
mar axle.

After seeing what can be done with
these trailers, one is convinced of
their practicability on the farm, and

the owner of a truck or automobile
who is looking toward the more effi-
cient use of these vehicles, to' care-
fully investigate this inexpensive ac-
cessory.

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Crop and Market Notes.

 

Michigan.
Emmet Co., Feb. 925. ——-The weather
is such as would indicate an early
break- -up Recent thaws have left the
fields bare; not much damage to win-
ter grain as yet. There is no great
quantity of wheat grown in this see-

some are being marketed at 20c, but
the outlook for this crops is not very
bright, and some are feeding the tu-

freely. Pork $7@8; beef $7@9; wheat
$1.40; beans $2.25@2.50; hay $14;

Isabella Co., Feb. 24.—R0ads have
been icy, but the recent rains and
thaws have brought some of the frost
out of the ground. Considerable beans
were marketed while the price was
high, but there is still some unsold.
There is quite a lot of feed on hand.
Farmers are busy hauling out manure,
so as to help with their spring work.
Red wheat $1.45; oats 500; beans
$2.80; cream 270; eggs 20c; butter
230 per pound.
Iowa.

Osceola Co., Feb. 15.—Plenty of rain
and snow the past two weeks; the
roads are blockaded in many places.
There is an excellent covering of snow

stock is in good condition, but farm-
ers are turning off quite a few cattle
as stockers that are only in fair con-
dition compared with former years.
There is plenty of roughage at pres-
ent, but the cold weather requires lib-

ley 75c; hay $11.50; butter-fat 280.

Missouri.
Vernon Co., Feb. 15.—We'have had
considerable winter for this part of
Missouri, but the weather is growing
warmer and the farmers will soon be
sowing oats. The snowfall was not
as great as a year ago, but have had
more rain. The roads have been bad
most of the winter but are improving
now. Wheat is looking very good.
There is plenty of feed in the country
for home use. Most stock are coming
through the winter in good shape.
Wheat $1.40; oats 500; corn 70c; but-
ter 220; eggs 20c; chickens 121750.
Barton Co., Feb. 16.—~Wheat looks
fine. Some of the earliest sowing is
badly infested with the Hessian fly.
Roads are in fine shape where drag-
ged. but when not dragged have been
pretty bad a good part of the winter.
Farmers have plenty of roughness for
stock but grain is scarce and high.
Dairying has not been veiy profitable
on account of high prices of feed and
poor prices for dairy products. Wheat
$1.50; corn 800; oats 500; hay $8:
cream 26c; eggs 180; hogs $6.25; beef
cattle $5@6.
Kansas.

Lincoln Co., Feb. 15 ———The snow is
all melted, but so far the wheat had
good protection from the severe cold
weather. There Will be a lot of feter-
ita planted this year and also some of
the new Sedan grass will be tried.
Cattle are all in good condition, and
there are no cattle diseases in this
section. Hogs are scarce. Wheat
reached $1.50 per bushel; country but-
ter sells at 200; eggs 22c

Colorado.

Kit Carson Co., Feb. 15. —Weather

continues fine, only one light snow

on meadows and fall seeding. Live '

eral feeding. Corn 65c; oats 52c; bar- .

 

fall this month, but it was gone in a
few days. Roads are splendid. Wheat
and rye are in good condition. All
live stock looking good. Plenty of
feed and some to spare. Not much
surplus products for sale as the high
prices have caused everyone to sell.
Wheatv$1.30;”co‘rn 65c; potatoes ‘80c.

 

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President Wants
War on Stumps Now

“There is a shortage of food in the world
now and that shortage will be .more serious a
few months from now than it IS now.”

“It is necessary that we should plant a
great deal more; it is necessary that our land
should yield more per acre than it does now;
it is necessary that there should not be a plow
or a spade idle in the country if the world is

to be fed.”
PRESIDENT WILSON

Before Chamber of Commerce of the United States February 3rd.

 

 

Every day’s prOgress of the war in
Europe and Asia emphasizes the dominating
position of America as the world’s food
producer.

There is going to be a tremendous de-
cline in food production in EurOpe in 19I5,
because of the millions of men and thousands
of square miles of territory engaged in
military Operations.

It is not only our duty to push our farms
to their highest producing possibilities, but
it will be greatly to our profit.

We must not only get the maximum
production out of every acre of cultivated
land, but we must as far as possible put
under cultivation thousands and thousands
of acres of cutvover timber and swamp
land.

The ground occupied by one good sized
stump or boulder can produce enough food to
feed one person one week

Don’t wait until next spring or summer

To Get Rid of the Stumps.

By using low freezing explosives you can
clear that land before the snow leaves
the ground. You can blast ditches before
the ground is dry enough to cultivate.

Stumpings Powder

Low Freezing

Order through any hardware dealer. Ask 1
him to telegraph. Full instructions free in
our Farmer’s Handbook No. IOO-F.

DU PUNT POWDER 00., Wilmington, Del.

ESTABLISHED 1802.

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GRAINS AND SEEDS.

March 2, 1915.

Wheat—This has been a poor week
for the holders of wheat. Values show
a drop of 120 on the Detroit market.
The reasons generally ascribed for the
rapid decline is the probability of an
early opening of the Dardanelles by
the combined English and French
fleets of warships, and the general
blockade of foodstuffs from Germany
and Austria. With this water course
opened to commerce it will be possi-
ble to send Russian wheat. into south-
ern and western Europe to meet the
demands of Italy, France, England and
Holland. It must be remembered, how—
ever, that Russia’s crop for 1914 was
not a normal one and that the unus—
ual waste due to the exigencies of
war and the care with which beligger-
ent nations must maintain adequate
stocks of grain, make it probable that
with the free movement of wheat
through the Dardanelles the market
will not go to pieces, except of course,
the present abnormal values cannot

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be paid. One year ago No. red
wheat was quoted at 981/2c per bu.
Prices for the past week are:

NO. 2 N0. 1

led. \\'hite -Ma,\
Wednesday “1.54% 1.49% 1.58
Thursday ...... 1.52% 1471/2 1.56
Friday ......... 1.48 1.43 1.51
Saturday . . . 1.51% 1161/2 1.541/2
Monday ...1.461 1.41%; 1.49%
Tuesday .... .1.421 1.37% 1.45

Chicago, (March 2).—.\lay wheat

Corn.——This grain has suffered with
wheat. The supply in this country is
much larger than a year ago. There
was some surprise Monday, however,
when the amount of corn in sight
showed an actual decrease for the
past week and on Tuesday prices re-
covered a half cent of the recent; de-
cline. Primary receipts are lighter.
Argentine promises a corn crop of
335,945,000 bushels of which over 200,-
000,000 bushels will be available for
export. A year ago No. 3 corn was
selling at 630 per bushel. Quotations

No. 3 No. 3
Mixed. Yellow.
\Nednesday ...... .. 73 74
Thursday ........... 72 3
Friday .............. 70 1A, 71 1/2
Saturday ........... 72 1 72 1/2
Monday ............ 70 1/2 71 1,5
Tuesday ............ 71 72
Chicago, (March 2).—-May corn

72.6c; July 74.6c per bushel.
Oats.—The bearish feeling in the
grain trade has extended to this
grain; although traders feel that oats
have. more. native resistance than
either wheat or corn. Farmers are
holding fewer oats than a year ago
when the local pice was 441/20. for

standard. Quotations are as follov s:
Standard. \Vhite.
No. 3
Wednesday ......... 58% 58
Thursday ........... 58 57 1/2
Friday .............. 561/2 5'6
Saturday ........... 57% 57
Monday ............ 561/2 55
Tuesday ............ 561/5 5.”.
Chicago, (March 2).-—-May oats 55 10
per bushel; July 51.30.
Rye.—-Values have declined with
wmat. Supplies are small. No. 2
spot is quoted at $1.19 per bushel,

which is 60 below last week’s price.

Beans—Transactions are limited
and prices steady. Detroit quota.
tions are: Immediate, prompt and
February shipment $3.05; May $3.25.
Chicago trade firm and unchanged.
Stocks are small. Pea beans, hand-
picked, choice, quoted at $340,603.50;
common at $3.15Gi7‘325; red kidneys,
choice at $3.25@3.50; at Greenville
and other primary points beans are
quoted at $2.80.

Clover Seed—Market is easy and
lower. Prime spot $8.90 per bushel;
March $8.90; prime alsike $8.75.

FLOUR AND FEEDS.

 

Flour.——Jobbing lots in one—eighth
paper sacks are selling on the Detroit
market per 196 lbs., as follows: Best
patent $7.30; seconds $7.20; sti-Aight
$7.40; spring patent $7.80; rye flour
$7.10 per barrel.

Feed—In 100-1b. sacks, jobbing lots
are: Bran $28; standard middlings
$28; fine middlings $32; coarse corn
meal $30; corn and oat chop $29 per
ton.

Hay.—Quotations are steady. Car-
lots on track at Detroit are: New,
No. 1 timothy $16@16.50; standard
$15@15.50; No. 2. $14.50@15; No.
clover and mixed $13@13.50.

Chicago—Offerings light and de-
mand good. Choice timothy $17@18;
No. 1, $15@16; No. 2, $13.50@14.

New York—Quiet. Prime $22; No.
1, $21; No. 2, $18@19.

Straw—Steady. Detroit prices are:

 

THE MICHIGAN FA-RMER'

Rye straw $8.50@9;

straw $7.50@8 per ton. ,
Chicago—Rye straw $8@8.50; oat

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

wheat and oat

DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.

Butter.——Market is dull but prices
remain unchanged. Extra creamery
29c; firsts 27c; dairy 210; packing
stock 19c per lb.

Chicago—Business continues light
and prices are slightly lower. Extra.
creamery 290; extra firsts 28@28%c;
firsts 25@261/zc; seconds 23@24c;
packing stock 181,90

Elgin.—The price for the week, bas-
ed on the majority of the sales, is
290 per pound.

Poultry.——Market is firm with de-
mand good. Prices are higher. Live.
Springers 15@151,§c; hens 16@17c;
ducks 16@17c; geese 14@15c; tur-
keys 200.

Chicago—A fair demand and light
receipts keep trading firm. Prices on
fowls and springs 1&0 higher. Turkeys
not wanted. Turkeys 13c; fowls 11@
15c; springs 13@161/éc; ducks 160;
geese 8@100. .

Eggs—Market is active and easy at
prices 50 lower than last week. Fresh
stock sells at. 19940 per dozen.

Chicago—Supply is heavy and de-
mand good. Prices are about 3c low-
er than last week. Miscellaneous lots
cases included 18@19c; ordinary firsts
18 l/é@19c; firsts 191/2c.

Veal.—Quoted steady at 12%@13c
for fancy, and 10@1lc for common.

Pork—Market is steady for dressed
hogs, light weights selling at $8 per
cwt; heavy $7@7.50.

FRUITS—MAND VEGETABLES.

 

 

Apples—Market is active and well
supplied. Baldwins $2.25@2.50 per
bbl; lreenings $2.75@3; Spy $3.25@
3.50; Steele lted $3.50; No. 2, 40@500
per bushel

Chicago.~The demand for apples is
fairly good and a much firmer
feeling is noted. Prices unchanged.
The prices as here quoted are for
refrigerator stock. Baldwins $2.25@
2.50; Kings $2.75@3: \Vageners $2.25
@250; Jonathans $3.25@3.75; Green-
ings $2.50@2.75; Northern Spy $2.50
@350; Western box apples are sell-
ing for 90c@$2.25 per box.

Potatoes.—Offerings are liberal and
demand good. Carlots 35@37c per
bu; At Chicago the market is dull and
steady with prices unchanged. Mich-
igan white, in bulk, are quoted at 38
@420 per bushel. At Greenville p0-
tatoes are quoted at 25@27c.

WOOL.

 

 

While trading last week was slower
the market has lost none, of its
strength and prices all over the world
are tending upward. There seems to
be a greater demand for woolen goods
than there is wool to be manufactur-
ed. Supplies in this country are lim-
ited. Americans are in Australia en-
deavoring to replenish stocks. Mich-
igan fleeces are quoted in Boston at
Eff/“260, for fine unwashed; delaine»
unwashed 27@280; 1/2-blood do. 32@
330; ills-blood do. 350 per lb.

GRAND RAPIDS.

Both eggs and dairy butter open at
220 this week, with eggs in good sup-
ply and in good demand also. The po-
tato market continues dull and it is
estimated that one-half the Michigan
crop is still in the hands of growers.
The bean market is easier, with $3
the top figure now for the white pea,
while red kidneys are quoted at $2.90.
\Vheat barely touches $1.40 this week,
while oats are 55c; corn 75c; rye $1.
Timothy hay brings $11@13. Live

 

poultry is reported scarce, with chick-'

ens at 13@131/2c.
DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.

 

Buying was active Tuesday morn-
ing and most of the farmers were sold
out early. Apples continue to come
freely with prices ranging from 400@
$1: potatoes 45c: cabbage 30@50c;
according to quality; rhubarb 15@35c
per hunch; eggs 300; pork 90; hay
has a good demand with prices from
$176022 per ton.

THE LlVE STOCK MARKETS.
Chicago.
March 1, 1915.

 

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Receipts today..17,000 42,000 13,000
Same day 1914—19,819 41,743. 40,824
Last week ..... 30,877 158,539 57,780
Same wk 1914...49,985 151,576 135,131

Only 5,920 cattle, 28,730 hogs and
9,441 sheep were shipped from here
last week, comparing with 19,538 cat-
tle, 49,030 hogs and 39,145 sheep for
the same week last year.

The week opens with a fairly active
demand for cattle, and early sales
were at steady prices, but buyers neg-
lected the less attractive offerings,
and tried to force them lower, not
many having been sold up to noon.
Hogs averaged 5c higher, with sales
at $6.20@6.75, and rumors of a $6.80

top. Pigs went mostly at $6.10@6.75.

Hogs marketed last week averaged 1915

221 lbs., comparing with 226 lbs. a
year ago and 232 lbs. two years ago.
Sheep and lambs are scarce today,
with a. good share of the receipts con-
signed to packers direct from Mis-
souri river markets. Prices are 10@
20c higher, with prime lambs selling
for $9.85.

Cattle surprised owners last week
by advancing to prices that were
quite unexpected at such a time of
quarantined markets and consequent-
ly restricted demand, but the upward
movement shows what may be accom-
plished by simply shipping in stock
conservatively. Pretty much every-
thing in the cattle line shot up in
price, even the poorer lots of thin
steers on the feeder order sharing in
the rise, and by the middle of the
week steers were going mainly at a
range of $7@8.75, with the choicer
lots of heavy cattle taken at $8.50@
9.10 and good steers going at $8.25
and upward. On Monday inferior
steers went as low as $5.25, but later
in the week common lots sold at $5.50

MARQH,6,_1915. _ .

tions for the bean crop to be grown‘in
. Jas. N. McBride. acting under
the authority of the State Board of
Agriculture will be present. The ques-
tion as to whether farmers are inter-
ested in \improving marketing condi»
tions will best be answered by a large
attendance. Ask yourself and neigh-
bors if it would not be profitable to
spend a fraction of one per cent of
the time required in crop growing to
consider marketing problems.

Gratiot Co., Ithaca, Monday, March
8, 1:00 p. m. ‘

Isabella (10., Mt. Pleasant, Tuesday,
March 9, 1:00 p. m.

Clare Co., Clare, Wednesday, March
10, 1:00 p. m.

Montcalm Co., Stanton, Thursday,
March 11,1:00 p. m.

lonia Co., Ionia, Friday, March 12,
1:00 p. m.

(‘linton Co., St. Johns, Sat, March
13, 1:00 p. in.

Genesee Co., Flint, Monday, March
15; 1:00 p. m.

Lapeer Co., Lapeer, Tuesday, March
16, 1:00 p. m.

Sanilac, Sandusky, Wed, March 17,

: m.

@675, with not much trading in steers 1 00 D

below $6.50, while warmed-up steers
brought $7@7.70 and medium grade
steers $7.75@8.20. Ordinary to prime
yearling steers sold at
while butchering cows and heifers
found buyers at $5.10@8.25, few heif-
ers selling above $8, however, while
the best cows sold at $6.75@7. Cut-
ters advanced to $4.50@5, canners to
$3.25@4.45 and bulls to $4.~75@6.75.
Calves had a good outlet, selling at
$4.75@8 for heavy weights and at $9
@1050 for light vealers. A re-action
set in on Thursday, with cattle buyers
holding back, and prices were general-
ly lower, but the decline was not very
marked. General conditions have not
changed any as yet, and country ship-
pers should continue to follow a can-
tious course and avoid glutting the
market with cattle, especially with im-
mature stock. While fat beeves are
in demand, excessive weight is dis-
criminated against by packers, and
last Wednesday steers weighing
around 1800 lbs. sold at $8.75, where-
as the same day 1592-lb. steers sold at
$9.05 and 1214-lb. yearlings at $9.10.
Some 1542-11). steers that brought $9
were not any better than some that
sold at $8.15 during the early part of
the previous week. Despite a small
decline in prices late in the week, val-
ues still averaged 75c@$1 higher than
early in the previous week.

Hogs were marked up sharply in
price last week, several upturns tak-
ing place because of the great falling
off in the receipts day after day. On
some days shippers operated more
freely than they have been in the hab-
it of doing of late, and this was quite
a help in advanging prices. Prime
light weights topped the market, with

nickel above the best light hogs, and
heavy hogs sold slowly at a discount
of 200 or even more. The offerings
have been showing up well in their
average grading, with no large per‘
centage of pigs. Provisions of late
have developed increased weakness,
selling much lower, but the rise in hog
values has exercised at strengthening
influence at times. After prime hogs
had sold at $6.85 as a top, the market
declined Saturday to $6.20@6.75 as an
extreme range, with pigs at $6@6.75
for the greater part. A week earlier
hogs sold at $6.10@6.65. Ten cars of
Canadian pigs that averaged from 75
to 97 lbs. brought $6.25.

Sheep and lambs underwent several
sharp advances in prices last week as
a result of the continued meager re-
ceipts, with fancy western fed weth~
ers going at $7.75, the best price paid
since 1913. Prime ewes sold for $7.65,
prime yearling wethers for $8.50 and
prime lambs for $9.65, the high point
of {the year. Colorado fed lambs com-
prised a big share of the receipts, with
goodly numbers of fed western lambs
and small offerings of yearlings and
sheep. At the close lambs Were sal-

able at $6.75@9.65, heavy ones weigh- 1

ing from 90 to 100 lbs. going at $8.50
@915, while yearlings sold at $7.50@
8.50, wethers at $6.75@7.75, ewes at
$4.50@7.65 and bucks at $4.50@6.
Sheep were mostly 50c higher than a
week earlier, while lambs were 75@
900 higher, going at the highest Feb—
ruary prices on record.

Horses were marketed freely last
week, and buying for the armies of
Great Britain and France was lively
at unchanged prices. but otherwise
the demand was hardly up to the av-
erage, causing weakness except for
good animals. Farm chunks were sal-
able at $100@160 per head mostly,
while inferior horses sold as low as
$60, with limited numbers of horses
taken at $200@250.

 

A FARMERS’ MARKET CONFER-
ENCE.

 

A marketing conference will be held
at the Court House, or other hall, at
the times and places indicated in the

respective counties as printed below. Th

These conferences have especially to
do with improved marketing condi-

 

$7.40@9.15, 1 00

Huron 00., Bad Axe, Thurs, March
18; 1:00 p. m. ,

'l‘uscola Co., Caro, Friday,’March 19,
' p. m.

Shiawassee Co., Corunna, Saturday,
March 20, 1:00 p. m.

State meeting at Saginaw,
1March 23, to complete state
ion.

Tuesday,
organiza-

 

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hoze, nozzles, fittings and fixtures, re-
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l—ioss Bros. Co., Worcester, Mass,
send a large 1915 catalog of vegetable,
grass and flower seeds. In addition
to a full line of seeds, this catalog
ists many implements and farm ac-
Cessories in its 120 pages.

Moline Pressed Steel Co., East Mo-
line, lll., send literature describing the
Presteel incubator, Presieel brooder
coops, etc., which claims some of the
important incubator developments of
the year.

Conkey’s Poultry Doctor, a handy
book of reference on poultry raising,
published by the G. E. Conkey Co.,
manufacturing chemists, of Cleveland,
Ohio, is the twenty-fifth edition of this
booklet, which will be sent upon re-
quest, to Michigan Farmer readers.

The “K” hand power stump pulier,
manufacrured by Walter J. Fitzpat-
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is fully illustrated and described in a
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to Michigan Farmer readers.

 

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NO DETROIT LIVE STOCK MAR-
KET THIS WEEK.

Owing to the appearance of foot-
and-mouth disease in the Detroit
stock yards as announced in the last
edition of last week’s paper, the yards
have been closed for disinfection and
there will be no market until the
clean-up is completed. In the mean-
time all shipments of live stock to De-
troit will be made direct to local
packing plants.

LIVE STOCK NEWS.

Recent sharp advances in prices for
cattle in the Chicago market go to
show what‘ may be accomplished when
stockmen hold back supplies for a.
short time. Cattlemen should remem-
ber that at the present time even fair
supplies cannot be sold on the mar-
ket without weakening prices, as has
been shown repeatedly. Nor should
it be forgotten that for several months
the country east of the Missouri river
has not been receiving any feeding
cattle, and all this time owners of cat-
tle have lost no opportunity to hurry
them to market whenever any relax-
ing of quarantines permitted. Even
the inferior thin steers of light weight,
as well as the half-fat cattle, have
been headed marketward most of the
time, and after the foot-and-mouth dis-
ease is exterminated it will be found
that the country faces the greatest
scarcity of beef cattle known in many
years. Unfortunately for owners, there
are many cattle that have matured and
must be marketed to prevent further
losses to owners, and many cattle are
sold every week that bring below their
first cost as feeders. This is unavoid-
able, but owners who market thin cat-
tle at the present time are making a
serious mistake, notwithstanding the
dearness of corn and other feed. Such
cattle go at extremely low prices, 10-
cal packers being in a position to dic-
tate terms.

Hogs have been marketed with
great liberality at western packing
centers for months, the result being
that the manufacture of cured meats
and lard has attained enormous pro-
portions, and stocks of provisions in
the leading western packing cities
have been increasing much more rap-
idly than in former years. Stocks are
now much larger than in recent years,
and, unfortunately, the failure of re-
tail meat market to lower prices in ac-
cordance with reductions made by
packers stands in the way of their
normal .consumption. Fresh pork is
having a. very large consumption ev-
erywhere, being the lowest priced
meat to be had, but hams, bacon and
other cured hog meats retail extreme-
ly high.

Recent substantial advances have
taken place in prices for fat lambs,
yearlings, wethers and ewes in the
Chicago market, due to the extremely
small receipts. Conditions are great-
ly in favor of sellers, notwithstanding
abnormal markets just now as a re-
sult of strict quarantines maintained
on account of the foot-and-mouth dis-
ease, but great caution is required in
the holding down of daily supplies
to square with the limited trade re—
quirements. Fresh pork is competing
with mutton in the meat markets of
the country to a much greater extent
than ordinarily, but when sheep and
lambs sell as high as they have
been lately, prices cannot fail to
have its influence on the markets of
the country later on. Recent prices
for sheep and lambs have ruled far
higher than a year ago.

A Danish ship has arrived in San
Francisco with a cargo of 90,000 dozen
eggs from China, the largest cargo of
that kind ever received in that port.
The ship took the Panama Canal route
instead of passing through the Suez
Canal in order to lay in a supply of
fuel oil, which is just now very cheap
in California.

Efforts are being made in Chicago
to bring about five market days in ev-
ery week for cattle, hogs and sheep,

, instead of having big supplies on Mon-

day and Wednesday and slim supplies
on other days. With demand mostly
from local slaughterers, this plan is
commendable, as it would work favor-
ably for both sellers and buyers. It
should be remembered that under
present quarantine orders, all live
stock arriving in the stock yards must
be slaughtered within 48 hours.
Breeding cattle are in good demand
and stockmen are investing in a high-
er grade of bulls as a rule than in past
years. Unfortunately, the quarantines
and foot and mouth disease are mJur-
ing this trade in parts of the country.

Beef-eaters are complaining lthat
while prices for cattle in the Chicago
market have fallen recently to the
lowest level reached in three years,
prices for beef roasts, steaks, etc., are
as high as ever, the retail meat mar-
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great decline in cattle values, but they
have at least made fair reductions,
late quotations showing that No. 1
loins were wholesaling for 18 cents
per pound, comparing with 23 cents at
the middle of last December. They
have lowered No. 1 ribs from 17 cents
to 15 cents, No. 1 rounds from 12%
cents to 11 cents and chucks from
12% cents to 101/5 cents.

The first direct shipment of wool
from Argentine in a quarter of a cen-
tury has arrived in New York. The
amount is given as 200,000 pounds,
and it is said to be of first—class qual-
ity. This importation relieves the
wool situation temporarily.

A quarantine order issued at \Vash-
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tween the quarantined states from
those areas in each state which are
not under quarantine; For instance,
the free counties of Illinois may ship
to the free counties of Indiana, Ohio,
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20 Ann Street.
Nilee. Ohio

FARM FOR SALE
At Auction

MARCH 11, 1915, at 1 RM.

170 Acre: of sandy loam with eleven room house.

basement, barn (new) ”06 x 32. tool shed.
cornorib. shop. hen house. stock shed 14 x 40. wind-
mill and cistern. Fruit—apple and plum trees,
grapes and 3 acres of hucklebcrry marsh and timber.
'l'his farm is located on the shores of beautiful Duck
Lake with about one half mile of water front which
would make a line summer- resort About 3%, of it la
hard land. Teams “ill meet; foronoon trains at
Clyde on the P. M. Oakland 00.. Township of High-
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.\ . V. RICHARDS, Ind. dz Agri. Commissioner.
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—90 Acre farm with house,

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THE MICHIGAN

HEN our practices in agricul-
ture are based upon sugges-
tions we get from nature;
they are very likely to be right be-
cause the practices are carrying out the
natural work to a much more effectual
degree than nature can. Often we err
in overdoing or underdoing the work
but we learn by experience and are
therefore constantly and gradually
making changes in our methods.
Pruning is one ‘of our orchard meth-
ods based upon a natural process. Na-
ture is constantly changing the old for
the new and discarding those not fit
to survive. In trees, to start with, all
sorts and conditions of limbs and
branches grow. Later, those which
have gotten the best of the struggle
remain and the others die. The nat-
ural process of elimination, however,
is a long and crude one. Therefore
the pruning shears and the saw in

 

the hands of a man with the proper
knowledge of pruning will accomplish
lin a few hours what nature takes
‘yea1s to do.

The Young Tree’s Critical Time.

\thn a young t1ee is transferred
from the nursery to the orchard it
goes through a critical period. Its
equilibrium has been disturbed. It is
dormant under artificial conditions for
a while, and when planted again it
will have to adapt itself to entirely
new (‘Olltllli011I<. We should. therefore,
make it as easy as possible for the

FARMEK

The Essentials of Pruning Fruit Trees.

ravage of this insect will not destroy
them all.

Trimming the Young Tree.

The ideal way to start a young tree
is to leave from three to five scaffold
limbs so placed as to form a well-bal-
anced head. These should not start
from the trunk so as to form crotches
and Should be about two inches
from each other. Often the ideal head
can not be formed at the start and
that work will have to be done during
the second or third years.

 

The pruning of the young tree up t0'
bearing time should be nothing but
correcting evil tcndencies of growth.
The reason for this is that there is a
distinct relation between the wood
growth and fruit production and in
pruning the young trce we encourage
sappy wood growth and discourage
fruiting. By pruning when young the
fruiting of a tree is often delayed for
several years. Varieties which tend to
bear early such as the Vi’agcncr apple,
it might be advisable to prune before
they Come in bearing, but on such as
the Spy it would be folly to do so.

Trimming III-shaped Trees.
Cross limbs and lob-sided tops
might be called evil tendencies of

growth. Cross limbs should be cut
out every year. In the case of lob-sid-
ed tops we usually find one or two
limbs which are much stronger and
larger than the rest.

 

 

 

 

Peach Tree
in pruning
away
'all of the bruised roots and cut back

 

 

Stree to start. Therefore,
‘the young tree we should out
about six inches in
lcigth. The roots left are of little
value to the tree in gathering their
£10011, but the new roots that. start from
them arc. To cuco 11a the growth
of young roots the cuts on the old
ones should be made parallel to the
ground and not at right angles to the

all others to

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root itself. The roots are left six
inches long for anchorage purposes
3 mainly.

Leave Plenty of Live Buds.

Because. the roots are cut back con-
siderably and are at disadvantage in
supplying the tree with the food it
needs, the tops should be cut back so
that there will be less of the tree to
support. We might cut all trees to a
whipstalk if it were not for the fact
that we would cut too 1119 ny of the
live buds off and thus make it neces-
sary for the tree to force dormant
ones to start growth. Unless growing
conditions are very satisfactory the
tree has a hard pull of it to grow. On
year-old trees the whipstalk is often
satisfactory because there are quite a
few live buds along the trunk of the
tree Therefme peach trees are often
pruned that way. On account of the
prevalence of the climbing cutworm it
should be considered when pruning

 

[and extra buds left sothat a night’s

 

 

After Pruning.

tend a foot above the rest of the top.
The common practice is to cut these
back to the height of the rest of the
tree. This docs not rectify the trou-
ble, as those limbs will still be the
strongest and will therefore make the
most rapid growth. The proper meth—
od is to cut them out altogether, even
if it makes an ill-Shaped tree for
while. By doing this the remaining
limbs have an equal chance for growth
and the result, with proper training, if.
necessary, is a well balanced top.
vase form of tree. is the host for all
kinds of fruit. This is obtaincd by
cutting out the center limb and lcav-
ing scaffold limbs as suggested bef01e.

Pruning Peach Trees.

Peach trees have a different charac-
ter of growth than other fruit trees
and therefore need somewhat different
treatment. Each year the young tree
should be pruned to properly direct
the shape of the top and to cut out
useless weak limbs. The peach pro-
duces much more annual growth than
other kinds and if left unpruned would
soon have a brushy and tangled top,
and in a few years the lower limbs
would die on account of the crowding.
The principal objects in pruning a
peach tree is to control its production
and’to keep the bearing wood on low
tops. All of the weak grthhs should
be cut out and the others out books"
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'growth of each limb cut out al-
together.

The present tendency is toward less
pruning on all kinds of tree fruits. Af-
ter the tree comes into bearing, all
that is necessary is to do slight an-
nual pruning, cutting out branches
where they are too thick, and. those
which cross. Cherries need practical-
ly no pruning, while the other kinds,
excepting peaches, need the slight
amount mentioned.

The main thing in pruning is to
have a definite idea as to what the
ideal shape of the tree should be and
then prune to get that shape. The
most practical ideal is the vase form
With limbs far enough apart to let the
sunshine in. The bearing wood should
be kept as low on the top as possible
so as to facilitate picking and spray-
ing. Therefore, the tendency of prun-
ing should be downward instead cf up.
ward. Do not cut the lower limbs off
with cultivation. The palm tree type
works where most convenient and is
too lazy to get a ladder and prune
inllJ the top down, or he is very ig-
norant regarding what the shape of a
fruit tree ought to be.

Best Pruning Tools.

The best pruning tools are the Cali-
fornia hand pruning shears and the
pruning saw. Long-handled pruning
tools of all kinds are conducive to
careless work because the work is
done at long range. With the two
tools mentioned, a ladder, and a pair
of rubbers on the feet one is equipped
to get to most any part of the tree to
prune. The rubbers are to protect the
large limbs when one is climbing
about in the tree.

March is the ideal time for pruning
because the cold weather is over by
that time and as the sap starts flowing
soon after, the wounds start healing
quickly. It is rarely possible to prune
during that month on account of oth-
er work, so one must prune earlier.
Any time during the winter will do as
no injury will result from winter-
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and encourage the formation of fruit
buds and Winter pruning to encourage
wood growth. If the trees are making
excessive growth, summer-pruning had
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the middle of July, as new growth will
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An important factor in pruning is to
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What ls Rock
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When at the Ohio Agricultural College
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ton of manure gave increased crop yields
worth 750. This was the result of an
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the most economical and only permanent
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If you think of buying a Corn
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Folder and then go to yourimple-
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the Superior-“The Name Tells
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FOOD LAW ENFORCEMENT IN
AND FOR MICHIGAN.

BY FLOYD w. ROBISON.

(Continued from last week).
Under the first clause, as will be
seen, an article is adulterated if any
substance or substances have been
mixed with it, so as to lower or de-
preciate or injuriously affect its qual-
ity, strength, or purity. Under this
clause would fall cases of adultera-
tion such as the addition of water to
milk, or the addition of chicory ex-
tract to coffee extract, or the addition
to a genuine article of any inferior or
cheaper substance whether harmful
or not.

Under the second clause would come
the addition of cottonseed oil to lard,
for example, or the substitution of
renovated butter in part or in whole
for creamery or dairy butter, or the
substitution of an artificial extract in
part or in whole for the genuine
extract.

Under the third section: “If any
valuable or necessary ingredient has
been wholly or in part abstracted from
it” would fall the removal of butter-fat
from milk or cream below the mini-
mum limit, or the exhausting of tea
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read, in addition to their state pa-
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and written for intelligent people.
A copy sent free of charge to any
farmer or his wife. Drop a postal for it. ‘
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a coffee extract and then subsequently
curing and selling the residual coffee
bean.

The fourth clause is self-explana-
tory, referring to diseased and decom-
posed animal or vegetable foods.

The Crucial Test.

The fifth clause is one of the most
important, if not the most important,
clause in the act. It reads: “If it is
colored, coated, polished, bleached or
powdered whereby damage or inferior-
ity is concealed or if by any means it
is made to appear better or of greater
value than it really is.” Many times
the manufacturer asks the question if
his product, handled in his particular
way, falls within the scope of the food
flaw, and usually if the question is ask-
;ed, if by any means it has been made
;to appear to be, or to be, of greater
‘value than it really is, the question is
very simple in its answer.

Butter Coloring Exempted.

The sixth clause is an important
one, and it is the clause of the food
law which has brought the greatest.
embarrassment to an executive de-
partment in securing its enforcement.
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visions of the food law specifically ex-
empt the coloring of butter from its
provisions.

The express permission given in the
statute to the coloring of butter has

 
  

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Bu Direct at Facto Prices

Our Diamond and 8 note Mesh Farm.Fleld.Btook and
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been a source of very great annoyance
at times to executive officials charged
with the enforcement of the law. We
do not wish to be understood at this
point as urging the abolition of this
clause of the law for we realize that
there is good ground for the use of
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our Mottoz—“The farmer is of more
consequence than the farm, and should
be first improved.”

ddress all communications relative
to the organization of new Clubs to
Mrs. J. S. Brown, Howell, Mich.

 

s-rArr-i EFANGE OFFICERS.

Master—John C. Ketcham, Hastings.
Overseer—C. H. Bramble, Tecum-
seh. .
Lecturer—Dora H. Stockman, Lan.
sing. -

Secretary—Jennie Buell, Ann Arbor.

Treasurer—Frank Coward, Bronson.

Executive Committee—~C. S. Bart-
lett, Pontiac; Geo. B. Horton, Fruit
Ridge; J. W. Hutchins, Hanover; W.
F. Taylor, .Shelby.

PROGRAM FORM-MARCH.

“We invite you to work with us as
we propose to work with you for the
good of all of us.”—Chas. M. Gardner.

State Lecturer’s Suggestions for
First Meeting.

Music, a temperance songs .

Roll call by ten people givmg ten
reasons why they want a “Dry’
county.~ . .

How can the Grange co-operate With
other forces to help in the “Dry Cam-

ai n?” | : ,
p Rgeading, “Uncle Sam’s Soliloquy.’

Resolved, that we favor “busmess
roads,” and a “pay-as—you-go” policy,
by two men. -

Refreshments, candy and peanuts.

Music, an Irish song in costume.

 

 

 

WAYNE AND WASHTENAW.

 

A joint session of the neighboring
Pomonas of Wayne and Washtenaw
was recently held at Plymouth. Some
300 people attended, representing ev-
ery Grange section of the two coun-
ties.

Plymouth Grange, upon which large-
ly fell the responsibility of hostess, is
admirably outfitted and met the oc-
casion finely. Its commodious. well-
equipped building, with hall, dining-
room, kitchen, and smaller rooms, af-
for'lJrl comfort and delightful hospi-
tality to all. .

Both of these old Pomonas are well
ofiicered, Wayne having for its mas-
ter, Hon. Chas. E. Downing; Lecturer,
Mrs. Edith M. Wagar; Secretary, J.
W. Brighton. VVashtenaw’s leaders for

1915 are, Master, Joseph Glasson;
Lecturer, Mrs. C. E. Sperry; Secre-
tary, Mrs. H. H. Kelly. Annual re-

ports of progress, membership and
financial resources made by each or-
ganization was a feature of the morn-
ing meeting, which showed both to be
in sound, prosperous condition.

Resolutions were adopted as fol-
lows: 1, commending the market com-
mission bill to favorable attention of
all local Granges; 2, protesting to Rep.
resentative Beakes, of the second con-
gressional district, against his vote on
submission of the prohibition amend~
ment to the people.

The program of the day was a joint
product. Music was furnished by Ply-
mouth Grange orchestra and North
Sylvan quartette, both of which have
more than local reputations for at-
tractive musical ability.
ported plans for the year; the lecturer
of Harmony Grange telling of a cap-
ital new plan in vogue in her Grange
whereby officers and chairmen of com-
mittees meet occasionally for round-
table conference upon good of their
local Grange. A paper by Mrs. Wm.
Scotney, lecturer of Ypsilanti Grange,
upon “Reading as a Recreation for
Farmers’ Wives,’ was a bit of poetic
prose, evidently out of the writer’s
happiest field.

JENNIE BUELL

If you don’t make the Grange meet-
ings pleasant and enjoyable, your
young folks will go somewhere else in
search of a pleasant hour.

Carry out the Ritual faithfully, and

do itin a way that wins the approval,

of the members.-—-Lecturer’s Bulletin.

COMING EVENTS.

 

, Washtenaw and Wayne‘ Pomonas in.
joint session, at Ann ArbmirilMarch 9 '

+Mmtg‘..l., C. Ketchani
speaker.

w be state

Lecturers re--

Associational Motto:

_“The_ skillful hand with cultured
mind is the farmer’s most valuable
asse .”

 

Associational Sentiment:
:‘The Farmer: He garners from the
6011 the primal wealth of nations."

CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

 

A Prosperous Year and Outlook.—
Looking Glass Valley Farmers’ Club
is enjoying a most successful year.
Beginning with a banquet where 150
guests were seated, while 25 sons
served, and the same number of
daughters catered, with a fine orches-
tra, Prof. Anderson as speaker of the
evening, former President A. B. Niles,
toastmaster, and a long array of
toasts by McBride, of the state, Town-
send, of the county, and several by
the local Club, the program of the
year has moved with a rush. We have
had an apple day, poultry day, and
corn day, with fine exhibits at each,
also a musical day, with women’s day
still in store for March. The Club has
studied “Renovation of wornout soils,”
discussed “My best crop and how I
raised it,” and “co—operation.” At the
February meeting Mrs. Libbie Rice
gave our Club history in rhyme, stat-
ing that we were 11 years old and had
held 84 regular meetings, besides pic-
nics, parades and patriotic celebra‘
tions as side issues. Mrs. Rice was
elected Club historian. The Club is
maintaining a lecture course costing
$245, and have plans well under way
for a still better course another win-
ter. We have a twine and fertilizer
committee, whose business it is to pur-
chase these articles for the Club.
While the Club has done much to bet-
ter our community, we are hoping that
the future will open up many and
broader fields of usefulness—Bel
Maier, Program Committee.

Plan Union Meeting.——The February

meeting of" the Indianfields Farmers’
Club was held on Thursday, February
18, at the pleasant home of Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Henry, in Juniata. A large
crowd of members and invited guests
were present. Among them were Mr.
and Mrs. C. Edgar, who were charter
members, and Mr. Edgar was the first
president of the Club about 15 years
ago. A fine dinner was served by
Mrs. Clara Miller, and after the usual
social hour the committee made their
report in regard to the union meeting
to be held at the M. E. Church, March
4, at Caro. Mrs. Robt. Park read a
paper, “Washington as a Farmer.”
Paper by Mrs. Agnes Terry, and two
solos by Mrs. Castle Taggett. The
question box was full of timely ques-
tions 'which were answered satisfac-
torily. The Club adjourned to meet
March 18 at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Arnold—Mrs. Margaret Arnold,
Cor. Sec.
, Elect New Officers—The February
meeting of Columbia Farmers’ Club
was held at Riverside, with Mr. and
Mrs. W. . Randall. An excellent paper
“The Farmer of the Future," was read
by Mr. C. J. Harper. Mrs. Ball read
a selection. Mr. and Mrs. Hitt gave a
vocal duet and Miss Jedel, of Dexter,
a guest of the Club, gave a piano solo.
Mrs. Jennie Neely read a paper on
“Club Duties,” and thought the mem-
bers were‘not so hospitable now as
some twenty—eight years ago, when
the Club was first organized. The
election of officers was held as there
was no January meeting. The next
meeting will be held with Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. Hewitt in March. Follow-
ing are the officers for the coming
year: mPresident, Clarence Cook; vice-
president, Mrs. C. J. Harper; secre-
tary, Mrs. George Friedrich; treasur-
er, Miss Jennie Neely; chorister, Mrs.
C. M. Davison; chaplain, A. W. Darin;
reporter, Miss Maude Smith—Maude
Smith, Reporter.

A Lincoln Meeting.——The Watson
Road Farmers’ Club met in February
at the pleasant farm home of Mr. and
Mrs. William Richardson for an all.
day meeting. There were about 50
present who did ample justice to the
bounteous dinner served by the ever
ready ladies. Each one answered to
roll call by naming a money—saving
proposition. Discussion on “How can
the producer come in closer contact
with the consumer?” led by Daniel

Baughman. Discussion on household
saving devices, led by Mrs. Pearly
Richardson. The question box was

very interesting. A paper on the life
of Lincoln, by Mrs. A. -P. Rogers. The
program also consisted ot'songs,_read-
ings, and prayer by the chaplain. Club
adjourned to meet at the home of Mr.
and '-Mrs;- Claude-Flinn, - March 11.—
Andrew Richardson, Cor. Sec.

 
  
 
    
 
       
   
 
  
   
   
  
   
 

 

   

  
 
    

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FORTY-THREE YEARS OF

SERVICE CUTS DOWN
WAGON'S COST

My Studebaker was bought 43
em ago from Delbert Lowe of
ebberville, Mich.. by Daniel Her-
rick, n pioneer in this vicinity. now
80 years old.

In 1887. S. E. Dean bought the
wagon from A. B. Herrick. Daniel’s
eon.

Eight yours ego L. C. Dean, son of
S. E. Dean, bought the wagon from
his father nndetill uses the wagon on
hi. fun.

The wagon has stood out of doors
for 26 years; n yard and a quarter
of gravel on be drawn in it now.

Levi C. Dean.
R.F.D.. Webberville.

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A Studebaker

that has served

three generations—

FORTY-THREE years ago
Daniel Herrick bought a

Studebaker wagon. Mr. Herrick's

son sold the wagon to S. E. Dean
and Mr. Dean’s son is using the same wagon on his farm today.

Think of the money that sturdy Studebaker wagon has made
for every one of its four owners.

   
      
    
    
        
     
    
 

But that's the way with Studebaker wagons—they are a line
investment for they always pay dividends on the original cost.

       

Not the Cheapest but the Best

It is true a Studebaker wagon may cost
you a few dollars more than a cheaply
In wagon but when you consider the
years of service you get from the Stude—
baker isn't it much the cheaper wagon in
the end ?

In fact. it is a safe proposition to judge

STUDEBAKER, South Bend, Ind.

CHICAGO DALLAS KANSAS CITY DENVER
SALT LAKE CITY SAN FRANCISCO PORTLAND. ORE.
Adv. 2033

Studebakers last a lifetime

your wagon by what it costs you peryear.
Records prove that you can expect
at least thirty-five years of service from a
Studebaker. Figuring that way it is the
cheapest wagon in the world.
Studebaker also makes Buggies and
Homes: warranted to give satisfaction.

    
      
   
         
 
   
         
 

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leeral \4’.‘ than the old style “horse” pullers. at a fractionof the cost. mic/i,"
0“ Tod ’ », man pulls big stumps In 2 to 10 minutes. Over a dozen style. and I J ‘

er ay i‘ oizeI—nll guaranteed for life. Sold oniree trial fora month and on fii
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Write today ion-Special Offer stating territory desired.

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Chain of Kilns; Atlantic to Rio Grande

Reduces freight cell; fire nnd front-proof; weight
WI illell, ample hoop-lo .nlvuized; priced II
.5' . you. town; 5 rev run-Mr; In: ample.

~A . XII-nus. Tub & Silo C... Kai-mun. Mich.

  
 

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PERFEBTIUN SANITARY ‘BIRBULAH «3e
METAL snoon coup / mm pm

*“ modeentirelyof alvanized iron
which will last a. it's time. They
are pro erly ventilated. and are
Rat, ink. Weasel and Skunk
proof. Just; the coop you are
coking for. erte for circular
lzspeelnl Introductory rices.
Perf H Broo C

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4 / Difference in Silage “ ,

The succulence and palatabillty of perfect ensilage . ‘
produces maximum results at a low feeding cost.
. j No other feed contains as much “succulence value"
, k . as well preserved ensilage. It is the most economical
1; _- .1“. feed for summer as well as for fall and winter. But
~ there’s as big a difference in silage as there is in silos.

I 1‘ , '
', Build your silopf material that lasts for generations
' and keeps ensrlage as fresh and succulent— all the

   

._., year - as the day the corn was cut. Erect a

. The silo that's made of vitrified hollow l
clay tile. whose. glazed surfaces do not s
absorb the silage juices. and admit 3
no air from without. No freez- '
ing. Reinforced by continu- r
ous steel bands. No /'
swelling. shrinking, 1’
warping or crack- ‘
_ . g ‘ __ ing. Nlo :epairs.
not a n n
to ne'fitégtdgpfilggagtorzs slilot trfoubles foreyer. Writ:
ce or s
and for ““102 A . 0 owners inyourState.

National Fire Proofing Company
Orzfzm'ud 1889 Pittsburgh, Pa.

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Was-ranted to alvo Sotlohollon.

Galnbaull’s
Gaushc Balsam

      
   

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Iii: imitators Bul iio competitors.
A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for
Curb, S lint. Sweeny Cspped Hook,
Streine Tcndons, founder, Wind
Pufl‘s, end all lsmeness from Spsvin.
Ringbone and other bon¥ tumors.

Cures all skin diseases or srssite
Thrush, Diphtheria. Removes s
Bunches from Horses or Cattle.
As A Human Rented for Rheum:
sapling. Sore Throat, Inc, It is involutdhrlg'.
“very bottle of Genetic Balsam sold is
Warranted to give satisfaction. Price $1.50
per bottle. Sold by drugglste or sent by ex-
ress, char es paid with tul directions for
ts use. Send for descriptive circulars,
testimonials, oto. Address

‘ [he LawrencEWiliiams Co.,0ievelsnd. 0.

SAVE-
THE-
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THE MICHIGAN FARMER

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CONDUCTED BY W'. C. FAIR, V. S.

Advice through this department is
free to our subscribers. Each com-
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.

 

 

Looseness of Bowels—Hide-bbund
Horse—We have a 12-year-old brood

which is troubled with looseness of
the bOWels. We feed her two quarts
of oats and a few ears of corn; she
has hay and straw to' eat. We also
have a 13-year-old mare that is hide-
bound, has a rough shaggy coat and
scratches on one hind leg. I forgot to
say that we keep them in the same
stable with our cows. J. W. S., Fre-
month, Mich—Give your mare 1 dr.
of powdered sulphate iron, 2 drs. of
powdered catechu, 1 dr. of ground cinv
namon, 1A oz. ground ginger at a dosc
in feed three times a day. Give your
hide-bound horse a teaspoonful of
hypo-sulphite of soda, and a table-
spoonful of Fowler’s solution at a
dose in feed three times a day. Apply
one part oxide of zinc and three parts
vaseline to sore heels twice a day.
Ringworm.——My calves, ranging
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Results Are Permanent

Air. Glenn Owen, Wellington, Knns., writes:
"In spring of 1913, as you will remember. my more got
caught. in the railroad, nearly pulled oil' her foot. Her
leg swelled to nearly three times its natural size. It
unsawi'nl. I am enclosing her picture to see if you can
tell which leg is was. It is now two years, and she has
never tflken a lame step since Save-The Horse got in
its “or 2"

Our Advice Helps Him

J. H. Peters. NM. 26—334 East Congress St. Detroit,
Mich., writes: “I did as ~\ou advised, and I wish to
state that the ringbone is cured. I give her severe

rives ever since, without any trace of lameness. This
was ii severe case and the horse ll valuable one. I want
to thank you for helping me."

Every bottle of Sax-el‘he-Horse is sold with signed
Contract Bond to Return Money ii' Remedy fails on
llinghono~'l‘h0roughpin—SPAVIN or ANY—Shoul-
vier; Knee. Ankle, Hoof or Tendon disease. 19 Years
a Success.

\VRITE and we will send our “SAVE—THE—HORSE
BOOK." Sample contract. and ADVICE—ALL FREE
to Horse Owners and Managers. Address

Troy Chemical 60.. 20 Commerce Ava, Binghamion, ll.l.

pruggists Everywhere sell Seve-The-Horse with CON-
FRALT, or we send by Parcel Post or Express paid.

 

 

 

 

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in your home who
can lay the table?

Girls who are learning to help mother and thus
becoming good housekeepers~giris who are am-
bitious to get ahead—these girls Would be helped
if their parents took Farm Journal. There’s a
special Girls' Club department, with rewards for
spec-ml efforts. "Our children are just as anxious
too see Farm Journal as we are,” writes Mrs. B.
Five years. $1. \North ten times that to your little
girl alone.

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Capital Stock—$100,000. Surplus—$100,000
Home Office—Charlotte, Michigan.

Only Home. Co. in Michigan.

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seem to have. a growing scab disease
over the eye and I am quite sure one
gives it to the other. E. A., Washing-
ton county, Mich.—~Your calves suffer
from either ringworm or warts. Ap-
ply iodine ointment to sore parts cau-
tiously every day or two.

Caked Udder.—I have a cow that is
troubled with a caked udder and as!
she has been fresh for only four
Weeks, I am anxious to save her bag.
B. N. C., Sherman, Mich—Apply one,
part fluid extract phytolacca, one part i
fluid extract belladonna and five parts‘
olive oil to caked portion of udder

 

 

. times a day.

twice a day. Give 1/2 oz. of hypo-sur-|
phite of soda at a dose in feed three,

Indigestion—I have a. bunch of pigs
three months old that went wrong on
account of feeding them too much salt
in swill. They appear to have lost
use of hind legs and are inclined to
eat rotten straw in preference to good
food. I). B., Emmett, Mich—Discon-
tinue feeding your pigs corn, but feed
oats, oil'meal, a little tankage and
give each one 15 grs. hypo-sulphite of
soda and 20'grs. ground gentian at a
dose in feed or as a drench two or
three times a day.

Bunches in Udder—Enlarged Liver
in Chickens—I have a cow that has
three or four hard bunches in one-
quarter of her bag, and she does not
give more than one-half as much milk
out of this quarter as she should.
What can I do to prevent chickens dy»
ing of enlarged liver. G. B., Hudson-
ville, Mich—Apply one part iodine
and nine parts fresh lard directly over
bunches every day or two. Feed less
fat-producing food to your chickens
and see that they get more exerc1se.

Leucorrhea.—~I have a mare that is
14 years old, troubled with leucorrhea
and I would like to know what to do
for her. W. G..H., Vestaburg, Mich.—
First of all your mare should have.
good care, not overworked, and well
fed. Give 1 dr. of sulphate iron at a
dose in feed three times a day. Dis-
solve % dr. tannic acid -and 2 drs. of
carbolic acid in a quart of water and
inject her twice a day.

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T A Horse Knows a Good .

, . Thing When He Sees It!
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«ha 0 . 9 - h"; a.“ mu es are clippe

M. l' XWLKW'ifi—CW‘“ before the spring
”We: " 5 ‘5‘ work begins they
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a M easrly cleaned and feel

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' f ‘4:- If you want to sell them, they’ll brmga much better price.
i - - Insist on having the Stewart, the machine that turns easier-

_ in oil, little friction, little wear. Has 6 feet of new style, ea

’5’ .Wr' Eric. °MY running, flexible shaft and the celebrated Stewart singslg

healthier and look .
x 4.. better. They will dry
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3” 1. :1 taut- better generally -— that

4*) ' \ (1° 1- «- m~ -' means work better.
2’. clips faster and closer and stays sharp longer than any other. Gears
are all cut from solid steel bar. They are enclosed, protected and run
3 5o tension clippin head. Highest grade. Get one from our
, _ dealer, .or send 2.00 and we'll ship C. 0. D. for balance. MO EY

 
   

BACK IF NOT SATISFIED. Ask for one TODAY.

Get More Wool Money!

Clip all the wool and get longer, better wool that will bring the highestprice. . -'

You can easilynet from 15 to 20 percent more from every sheep you ' . l ,
shear With a Stewart No. 9 Machine. Don't labor with hand shears . f '
in the old, hard, sweaty way. Don't have aching, swollen wrists. Don't u
scar and disfigure your shee with uneven shearing and spoil the _wool .
With second cuts. Take 0 the fleece smooothly and quickly With 3

Stewart No. 9—Ban Bearing
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It's the most perfect hand operated shearing machine ever devised. Has 3‘
ball hearings in every part where friction or wear occurs. Has a _ball bearing
shearing head of the latest improved Stewart gattem. Complete. including
four combs and four cutters of the celebrated tewart quality, $1] 50.

Get one from your dealer, or send us $2.00 and we_ Will ship C. O. D.
for the balance. Money back if you are not pleased With it.

CHICAGO FLEXIBLE SHAFT 60., 1 15 N.La$nlle St. Chicago, Ill.
Write for FREE catalogue showing most complete line of Horse Clipping and
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The Stewart
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Contagious Abortion in cows is robbing .
thousands of farmers. Loss runs from $12

to 825 per- year per cow. Stop it. Protect
your herd with Dr. David Roberts’ Anti-Abortion
Treatment. Sold direct t D you from our laboratories
and applied by yourself. It overcomes the germs—
i. in the mother's blood. 2. In the genital organs.
3. In the stables. Dr. Roberts’ Live Stock Prescrip-

tions are sold by druggists—a treatment for every
ailment. There are overssoo Roberts agencies
in U. S. If not in your town, write us direct.

DR. DAVID ROBERTS VETERINARY C0.
9667 Wisconsin Ave.. Waukesho. Wis. ' '

  
  

PERCHBRON SALE.

Farmers and Breeders Attention.

our rices. Your choice for $1000. A lot of good ones
at S Oil-35004600.

A. A. PALMER 6": SONS,

R. R. Orleans. P. 0. Beldinfl, Mich.

FOR SALE—Ono Pair of Oh. Belgian Gold's 5 yrs.

old, wt. 2800 lbs; One Pair of 5 yr.
old Percherons. wt. 2900 lbs; One Pair of Brown
Belgian Geldiiigs,wt. 28501be.:0ne Blue Roan Geldin .
5 yrs. old. wt. 1.540 lbs.: One Brown Gelding 5yrs. ol .
wt. 1500 lbs.: one Bay Blocky More 6 yrs. ol
lbs; One Red Roan Gelding. ut. 1300 lbs. 7 i'rs. , old;
One Black Mare, 8 yrs. old. wt. 1350 in chm

 
      
  
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
 

Geldings suitable for Farm or Draft

for all purposes at. the right prim Quality considered,
STARKWEATHER STOCK FARM.
North vlllc. :-: . ‘» .

Ask {or tree book-
let on Abortion
in Cows.

Dr. Roberts will personally
answer any and all questions

”ruining”. “"9 “0°" “men‘s' and Percheron stallions and mares, from
and will adVise you how to care

 

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JACKS AND MULES

liaise mules and get rich. 230head flnelnrge
, Jacks. Jennys, and mules 14
to 14 hands high. Large reg-
istered Jocks and Draft

  
  
  

 

: i“ ‘ Wanted Trovollng Salesman

1:.“- Experience unnecessary. Earn Big Ply while you

 

foal, weighing 1600 to 1800 pounds.

grains. (Also make 10 sizes of belt mills)

In order to insure quick sales we have decided to cut.

d. wt. 1500
to 2200
lb. Belgian Stallion. No. of other (lingo Mares and
urposes. also

one Bay Road Horse 4 yrs. sired by Onllne. Horses

Michigan.

.. LOESER 'liROS.

\Ve have sixty head of imported Belgian

for and feed your animals. upon weaiilings up. \Ve are also offering a car
lot oi big drafty grade brood mares all 1n

 

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hacking cough for sometime and a
sort of rattling in his throat. I would
also like a remedy for scours in calves
that are raised on creamery milk. S.
D., Lawndale, Mich.~Rub throat with
one part aqua ammonia and two parts
camphorated oil every day and put 1
oz. of guaiacol in 15 ozs. of raw 'lin-
seed oil and give 1 oz. at a dose two
or three times a day. Give each calf
a teaspoonful of bicarbonate soda at
a dose with their milk two or three

 

 

 

. should be persevered in, in order to

times a day. This is dose enough for
a calf six or eight weeks old. I also
suggest that you feed calf out of a
clean pail.

Bog Spavin.——Eight-year-old horse is
troubled with bog spavin and ,I would
like to know how to treat him. E. B.
P., Sherman, Mich—Clip off hair and
apply one part powdered cantharides
and four parts fresh lard, or you can
safelyuuse any of the commercial spav-
in remedies that are regularly adver-
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Dunliams’ Percherons

   
   
  
  

,DUNHAMS', Wayne, DuPago Bounty, lilinolsfi

suit. FINDLAY BROS., Falrgrove. Michigan.

Stallions. cheap now. Mules
by the pair or cariosd. Stock
guaranteed. Write‘u'or prices

: KREKLER’S JACK FARM

“'e have a lot of choice young

GLYDESDAL Stallion-i and Mares for sale
at bargain prices. Terms to

 

 

Registered Percherons,
BROOD MAKES. FILLIES AND YOUNG
STALLIONS at prices that will surprise you.
L. C. HUNT & 00.. Eaton Rapids. Michigan.

are today as tor the past Forty
eight years the brood’s best

As a matter of fact you can'
also get more here for your
money than elsewhere
If you are interested ll.

Percherons

and want to getin touch
with the oldest concern
in the business—the one that handles
the best class of horses. and whoseJ
reliability is proven by the experi

ence of thousands of satisfied cus-i
,tOmers. Come and see us. i
New illustrated catalog on application. i

  
  

' ~Reg. Shetland Ponies, o t]
Pinon Pony Farm spots. 1 smtied stallion undnil'msin;
stock for sale. Dr. W. '1‘. orrieon, Pigeon. Mich.

SOUTH Si. Pillll HORSE & MOLE OOMPAHY.

A 1 Union Stéick fall‘da. Srinllith St. Pgiil‘, Minn.

81‘ 8 8880! men 0 00 orses ]

on hagnd. RIVATE SALES 1mm? u u always

RSE AUCTION EVERY MONDAY.
GET IN TOUCH WITH vs.

PERCHERsz—Impoeant, one of the heaviest
horses in state, at head of stud.

Brood Maren as good. young stock for-sale.

CHAS. OSGOOD s; SONS. Mendon. Michigan

FOR S ALE—Eggifiered Percheron Stallion Mares

 
   

 

    
 
 

  

 
 

 

 
   
   

   
  
  

 

METZ BROS.,

lies at reasonable l . I -
speotion invited. F. L. KING & 80 N, Ohorldtggfuioli,

FIVE REGISTERED PEROHERON STALLIONB.
‘ blocks. from wonnlincs veers old. and

 

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Porcheron Stallions and Mafes sound. WM. MoORODAN. Dutt‘ion. Kent 00.. Mich.

Wehsves fine selection of stallions and mm. Baastered clyd'sd'le Sillllillls for Sale ,
{3?};- Siii“.i¥§n2..§?‘“niiiz €538? it’i‘iSZf’iil’liz ' .

 

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MARCH 6, 1915.

AUCTION

~38 llegislerell llelslelns .
complain Dispersion Sale March 25““

m-lb. cow and 3 beautiful daughters. 26-11:. cow and
daughters. Others with records up to 24.75 lbs. Every
producing anuflal with an A. B. 0. record. nearly all
out of A. B. O. dams. Mc‘ly granddaughters of
nengerveld Dole] and Pietertie Hengerveld's Count
De Kai. Write for catalog.

Hobart W. Fay, Mason, Michigan.

BREEDEIS’ DIRECTORY.
CATTLE.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS

HERD FOUNDED IN 1900.

Strains rented consist of Trojan Briana.

birds and Prides. only. Black uality Ito. a bull of
rare individuality and me'.rit eade erd.
WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionic. Ditch.

 

breeds The

most economical milkrr ucers. Calves
for sale. White ghorn cooker e:s Duroo Jersey
swine. Michigan School for the Deaf. l'lIntJdlchigan.

rPureBredAn us Bulls. Extragoodones. One

show bull. Eightgand nine months old. Priced

reasonable. Inquire l". J. WILBER. Clio. Mich.

Four Registered Aberdeen Angus Bulls, from ten
n.eble

to seventeen months old.
GEO .HATHAWAY & SON. Ovid, Michigan.

MILO D. cIIrranLL. case. J. 2.110):va

BEACH FARM
GUERNS EYS

OUR HERD BULLS ARE:
Ist Riosett’ s Straniord of Ingleside No. 22533 with
xdams that average 705 lbs

2nd Violet 3rd, son of Iowa No. 24107. with four ‘

dams that average 697 lbs. fat and three sires
with over 90A. R. Daughters. and his grand
dam is champion three-year-old cow of
all breeds.

3rd Horizon No. 23091 whose dam made 632 lbs. fat.

Bull celvee from these Sires and A. R. Dams
and also a few older Bulls for rule.

EVERY BULL GUARANTEED T0 PLEASE.

CAMPBELL Cd ANGEVINE.
COLDWATER. MICHIGAN.

THE VILLAGE FARM,
Grass Lake, Michigan,
GUERNSEY CATTLE.

 

FM Sale :13. Guernsey Bulls. Buhhirehogs. sow

ilts bred fore ring ferrow. Write
JOHN Ell-3L a. no.3 nomad Mich! -.

EGISTBRED OUEPNSEY COWS. rm sale at
Watervlict Mich. 8250 and up. Splendid animals
Address. J. K. BLATL'HFORD. Andihrrun Tower. Chicago. Ill.

HEREFORD; fiéthmi‘fi‘fia. ”“

AISLES 19038.. Paw Paw. 11.

FOR SALE

at reasonable prices some
fine young registered

Holstein Bulls

from 3 months to 15
months old. from A. R.
0. Dams of high butter
records.

ligelow's llolslein Farms,M
Breeflvllls, littlest

HATCH HERD.

Ypsilanti, Michigan.

n Fricei ll SIres——Grandsons
The Sir?“ They are out of
choice A. . . dame. Ir sire

Half brother to the Workl's record new 44.15
pounds In 7days. Average record of “dense In
his pedigree 31 25 the. In 7 days. Aver-go per
cent of fat three nearest dams 4.37. Sires in first
three generations alreedy have over 500 A.
daughters. Prices reasonable so you can have thebeet.

—We odor a few

Hereford Bulls for Sale mm. “bu”.
arid” some Pollled bull calves about seven men o.ld
Fad animals and will be priced

right. BRAVEB LA EBANOEG) .Alpens. Mich.

Do You ”Want A Bull?

Ready For Service.

From a grand daughter of The King of the
Pontiace. Sired by a bull that is more than a half
brother to the Champion Holstein Cow of the

MIR he [I 5 fat daugnhtler
otPontlno AggieK or ew as more . .
daughters then any other living bull. If you do
write for Igree.

EDWIN S. LEWIS, Marshall, Mich.

’ Bill calves and Herd Bull. Can

Reg“ Hm su‘pply all want; in Reg. Chester

White swine. Ray B. Parham. Bronson. Mich
—Beed for service Fr

rm kg'm ”m Edi: lllseov yproducin stock fund

advance ' Prices $1 and $15.
DEIVEYom C. s‘l’lIlJlSOl‘l. ‘Hadley. Michigan.

 

Mo. old Holstein Bull—Sire I... urI HI. sister—Dam has
25.77 lb. sister. Delia! 2d. Butterboyld breeding. Price
bw. quality considered. ELMEB E. SMITH, Redford. Mich.

legislated llsltlsls Gallls‘B‘m 0“"6? 5%?”‘5‘33
"iv‘ii‘% 1?“; £33; oul‘l’o‘ifamg‘ek d-J‘é“ Mich

mmhctntlet.18he'edam
aam. cow with, alibi. Dem am

a
calf heifer with record 1465lb s..as a iwo-yesr-old.
09.875 W. B. LEADER Howell. Mlohi i.gan

$25 DELIVERED: "fitfif‘mafigglhm u" l‘b’:
bred m furnished. Seven el hth cm w
ROUGEMONT FARMS. Detroit;

 

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

March l2 Illpllell» llms.ll.lli. BredSoI Salel larch l2

FRIDAY, MARCH 12.

GLENWOOD STOCK FARM. ZBELAND. MICHIGAN.
A high 31. t' “coloring of choice 0.1. O. bred sows and elite and fall "(Skashed or brcd to such famous

s Chall GI
Grand Champion honoured enwOod

larch I2
Our Herd Sire

Long Beach lie Kel Kerndylie

Has a $20, 000 Sire,a $10, 000 Dam,

esr’ s record: Milk 21393: Butter. 1226 lbs. Slight.)
he has a mine site with 94!) lb. dau liters.

ammo da am (year‘s record: Mi mm Butter.

1138 lbs. Bun calves ready for Service 8100 up.

128. L1). Potorroprl
LONG BEACH FARM? Augusta.

ESPANORE FARM,

LANSING, MICHIGAN.
onus roa sun A srLENnm

Hegislered Holstein Bell Ball

A bargain for a quick sale
A few females for sale.

CHASE s. osnons,
ADAME. FERGUSON, lo'nm'

 

Purebred Registered

HOLSTEIN
CATTLE

Superintendent Smith of the Geneva Experi-
ment Station says the average production of
butter-fat per cow in New York State is about

100 pounds per year. The State (‘ allege in
Ithaca has a cow descended from common
stock on one side and from a line of purebred
Holstein sires on the other. This cow hes

need 479 pounds of fat in a year.

This isinteresting as proof that intelligent
improvement of grade herds can multiply the
butter yield by four and five.

Sendin- FREE Illustrated Descriptive Booklet.

The Holstein-Fries!“ Assoclallon oi Amerlosi
Box 164. Brnttleboro. Vt.

ITO'LSTEIN FRIESIANS.

Herd sire M aplecrest Korndyke Hengerveld. the only
sire of any breed having a dam and grand dam that
each made more than 1200-11... of butter in a year. and
he was sired b the only bull of anyb breed that sired

cows eac acli making better than 1%0 lbs. of butter
in a year. one bath four years old. Maplecrest Korn-
dyhc llengerveldis in a class by himself.

AMflneyougb siredbyhimfromLB. 0.
cewsfcrsale;ahcafewehoice lemolestn calfto

iii-for sale.
D. D. AITKEN. FLINT, MIG“.

I “Mfllllfll’l;"olll.f’b: “new ....I
X bl

lzfolsteizn Bul Calf A..R 0. back -
th sides. lucid. aPerfect and hand-

he
:o-gieu Individual. Bongemont Farms. Detroit. Mich.

High Class HOLSTEINSI‘S

is headed by Smithdele Alcertre Pontiac. whose dam
is the famousAksrtr Polkedot. Have few young bulls
and females for sale. at reasonable prices. W I buy
a few heifers about 15 montbano tbs-ed. Far mile
from courthouse. SETH B. ROBERT. Howell. lch.

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FOR 39L}: filifiiifiwLPBblfi‘efii
J GEO. D. CLARK. near.

$50119 cash. balance note nets}! 1".bnll calf. You will
tend of bot th breedinga Findividuality. When
beg“, good ones. II. L. Mckuhn. lodlcrd.1fi¢h.

 

 

 

 

 

buying

“Top-Notch” Holsteins.

me I fl eyoun bull. ”white.bornOctL1fl3.
D::h:sr:o «in recogd of29..401bs butter in'ldays
117.5qu has I. Sireedamlsafllfilh. Lyn-old

d ht d e U.
griffin”! rAbRMl 00.. Howell. lteflm.

HDLSTEIIS FOR SALE

5 Good Bulls, ready for service.
10 Very Choice Bull Calves ‘
2 Two-year-old Heifers, bred.
1 Six- ear-old grand- -daughter of King
69%, (1min December.

L. E. CONNELL, Fay'etto. one...
FOR SALE Registered Holstein Bulls

road f service and bull calves. also females.
BE’ngrAN J. FISHBECK. Howell. Inch hlgnn.

Helstein-Friesisn Breeder, ”'3“ “m"

The
lies of the breed
represented. D. I). AITKEN. Flint. Michigan.

llllllllfllL HOME “9 lBlllllIll. Sllllllll
Breed-ref High Glide- “Holden Catyle. Lists and
prices upon applic-
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J ERSEYS :1: 2.23 e'.:::g:...3:

R8. P. H. WALKER, R. R.

 

Kalamazoo Mich. If a breeder and a member
of ILJ .6 send list of m for sale to the above.
”I“ I: -Jersey Cattle. Yorkshire Hogs.

Oxford Sheep. Write for what you

want. COLON C. LILLIE. Coopersville. Michigan

THE WILDWOOD JERSEY HERD
Jersey Cattle. rich. Majestysm Wonder
PLO head of heti'fimollis sons-how t g Majesty is a:
t e
of]: test!
‘I‘eienewmm‘lsfuel. ms. 0....” ms:
Herd—Tuberculin

rot Merit
MtAestedm by the U. .Government. Porsaie.bulls. bull
calves and heifer calv. fromll. of If dams and grand-
dams. and H Farm sire whose dem' s and grand-
dm's records average 812 lbs.cf butter. lrvin lor.Allegsu.Mich

FISHBRTON FARM JERSEY $35,691.21;
w of l d
Hooiri'é‘fi'mi’ib‘N 'IilAhM. PonflmMIchelgstmsm.

BUTTER [RED yon Weft?”
CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FAR K.
Silver Creek. Allegen County. Michigan.

roe SILWE. lleglehml Jersey cows-$3153..°.’o.§?

Isa—defiant! term. ' 5- :t Ann Arbor. Michigan.

 

Chief Frost's Glenwood G .
ado 11. A great chance to get choice foundation stock. Don't miss

GLBNWOOD STOCK FARM.
R.No. 6, Zeeland, Mich. I IIIGII '2

 

K.. Sid' s choice. salt son of the

ERS Eys—YBARLING BULL READY POI!
SERVICE. Also bull calves.

hwater l'srm. B. l'. D. No. '1. Ann Arbor. Mich.

LINE BIKE) JERSEY COWS AND HEIFERS. Fresh

or due soon. Male calves ell ibl t istration.
CHAS. B. COOK FAR Ow 6 0.13%

Jersey lull: lor Sale"... m" mm'i‘fif’dr‘tttifiifi‘fg‘él
semi-cfloial test. 0. B. We nor-.11 .6. All egan. Mich.

BlDWELL SHORTHORNS
Registered Bulls For Sale.

Big and strong in prime condition for immediate
use. to months old.
Albion Stamp m70b by Ch. Shenato
service.

BlDWELL STOCK FARM
Box I). Tecumseh, Mfchlg__nn.

SHORTHORII COWS
FOR SALE.

Two Sh orthorn cows. 5 years old in June in calf.
Will cslve next month by the Service Bull Adjutant
Duke No 37523. Cows sired b Adjutant 110,381.36

y are in fine condition. T e first check for 8%
will take them. Farm 2% miles northwest of Rivers
Junction. JeehsonCo.. P. 0. Onondaga lich. E. W. Darling.

lllllll Silllllllflllf'Y a“?! u".‘.‘y“3 dlfiul'i’m‘.‘

sale. DAVIDSON b HALL. Tecumseh. Michigan.
:Mms—Dslry or beef bred. Breeding stock all

ages for sale at farmers prices. C w. Crum
Secy. Cent. Mich. Slim-thorn Breeders’ .chride. Mich.

—— l f
Swirl Shelters: cl Inf 1 e .232. £322. °"‘.“.‘.‘Z.';I.
to sell. 1.. C. SHEPHARD. bite Pigeon, Mich.
011 SALE—Shorthorn Bulls. red and roans. by

son-of Avondale and Victor Linwood. both Interna-
tional winners. John Schmidt H. 2. Reed City.Mioh.

”did Bred Shorthorns of Best Bates
ST N. J. a.

HUMMEL. Mason. Michigan.

Silllllllllllllf: E KNCllfllllE lOllllG BULLS Fllll SALE

 

 

 

     

W. .Bowell. Michigan.
SHEEP. I

[IPAYSTOIUYPDIEBRED SHEEPOI'
PARSONS ME...“ 3...:-

I sell and ship heresnd pey express
. , .ohxng'c‘s..& Wnptem for Wdumm glee.- list.
’ ‘ PARSONS. GrandLedgchich. II 1.

llXFllllll-llllfl SHEEP. I0 STOCK Fill SALE.

M. F. GA Nssu: r'. Lennon. mam-en.
[1008.

Heroes & Vielorias‘§§~"iij.§§°i;gfi‘§iiig
B 6 00
L Defender.“ Much COL.

of“ rions and others.
Afew young boars M. T.S OBY. Lowell. Mich.

Berkshire Hogs—Choice gilts bred t. I farrow in March

and April. Also a number of Barred Plymouth
BookCOOKGPOIs. Chase' s Stock Farm. 3.No. l, Marlette. Mich.

BERKSHIRES’RSE§£§.%T°§‘30'°¥5.

choice.ell guaranteed. 6.1!. BIDER.A1mont. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Elll‘lllll“: g0" and GUI- Bred for A ril and
.. .. m. were" nominee-s-

 

Choice spring beaming gilts.
move I . arm
stock. IELMHURBgrlo STOCK mFARM?‘lAl’mont. “1:1?

HAMPSHIRE Swine—Breedin in‘vstook of all age
from most 'mular strains. rite for breeding.
Inspection inn Floyd MyersJ .9. Decatur. Ind

 

 

Hampshire swine. some good Boers for Breeding and some
Pall pigs both sexes at right prices. West Wind Farm.
Pontiac.lli.ch. E. P. Hammond owner, N. A. Wiser. manager.

"ESTER WHITES. August and September pigs. from

sires ss Chickasaw Bud. Modeler. Bronson King. A certificate
ofregistry with each pig. John dinning, Bronson. Michigan.

— i
ll. La .30 'Fllll Tnzifiubm Oho °° 03”" grodhetosone of the
PSON. bRockford. Michigan.

 

 

0
saw WEIGHED 932 IDS.

23 MONTHSO D
‘ lONlA GIRL

Ihave started mo ore breeders on the road to sue-
ocss thanin an man living. I have thelargest and on.
set herdln U. S. cry one an early developer.
ready forthemarket at six months old. I want to
{lace each community to advertise my

n.erd a.I‘Vl’rite for myplan.“Howto toMake Money from

0.5. I“. I-Ie. I 0 Portland. High.

 

 

31—311

1. C’s. nothing for sale at resent but will take
e orders for Mar. and Apr. p gs. pairs not. akin. Beg.
free and shipped on approval. “Howell Ovid, Mich.

o I Gig-Good thrifty stock for sale stall
s s tineA Choice sows bred fch lug
famw. DB .llnnlth. man

9 ~Sri i . ire and t i not
0. I. CS egln n“ log; Imate fair :vion'iiers.
AVONDALE smc'r‘ir

ABM. Wayne. Itch.
I. 0. Choice ilts bred fors ring fan-ow. Se
o'servloeable bgar wei hing £0 lbs. price 830. belong
bodied and big boned k nd. Alvin V. nut. Grass Lehmlich

of the heavy boned type. Bred Bows

llllm 1.“. 3 and fall Pig-so both sex for sale.
M. A. BRA .Oskemoe, Inch am 00.. Michigan.

D -Bred sows and ilts forsprin
O. I. C S far-row Satisf usranteerl.
A. R. GRAHAM. FLINT. MICE GAN.
o I. c Gllts bred for March and April far-
I I rowM Se tember pi ready to ship.
ANI‘I. Dansvlle e. Michigan.
0 I 0’: —'1woW seericsble been new oomingj .-two -.yr -
I - old bred for March furrow. fall pigs. all
stock registered. 8. J. HOWELL. St. Johns. Mich.

A few choice be are and bred gilts
Leghorns and filtock Cookerels.
R..No 4, Bay City. Michigan.

 

uroo Jerseys:
Also W.
J McNIOOLL. Sta.A
--A few choice gilts

Duroc Jerseys b... g... A .u m
ay ferrow. Falkpigseitherser. B. 0. STA LMAN.
CHERRY LAW FARM. Shepherd, Michigan.

DUROC JERSEYS‘b A ’9' {all “gas 0"“ 12

CAREY U. EDMONDSb. Haunts. lllchfgnn.

DUROC GILTS- -Bred to far-row in April and

MayJ35 each. Ifmyselection
does not suit you return sow after inspection at my
expense and .‘Vt your monefibac ROPE KON
FA RM. 8. ING. PROP Kinderhooh. Mich.

0. I. i}. and Maxim While Swine

50 Gilts bred for March and April farrow bred to
White Hall Jr.. second grim aged boar Illinois State
Fair. and Allen. Jr. 0 am ion at Wis. State Fair.
and to Jumbo and Wonder 0;. Here area pair of
big ones and are smooth. pecial prices for the
month of February. Service males and fall rigs of
either sex. Write your wants and come and vs dit the

reatets herd in state. All stock shipped e. 0.

ROLLING VIEW STOCK FARM.
R. No. 2. Cass City. Mich.

PECIAL on Durocc—I will sell 36 choicely bred
we. boars. with all Papers. Sen for cat-
aog. I will put you on mail In; list. Sale March 17.
1915. Phone olinia. H. G. Keesler.Cassooolis. Mich.

-Bred l f
Dunne JEnsEY furrow flirtgd r?;hth.da¥d‘h rig; 13:13!
W. C. TAYLO -:- Milan. ll chlgnn.

Duroc Jersey Bears

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

Brookealer Farm.Aen Arbor,lllcll.,li.F.ll.7.

DUAROO JERSEYS—Aug. boars ready for service.

lso Aug. gllts bred for June farrow to prize-
winning stock. Shipped 0 CD for your lbs 0-
tion. F. J.DROD'1‘ Route No.1. Monroe. Mic.

 

 

 

~March ilte bred to son of Voluntee
nuroc hm! Chauflzfonon 1912 n.i'airs Orders bookelii
for March pigs 11.18 Monroe. Mich.

Ca itol nerd 1);”:lede Swing. Established m8.
1’

J. H. lIA ‘éflnanr. sabre?‘i‘i.‘:le3f“i$i‘i:§l‘.2‘.§i

IIuIIeIIIIIIEII-8 Ignveiswuiile'sanregfn

1088
W. J. BAUMAN. efiurr Oak. Michigan.

POLAND CHINAS 2° “he‘d mrgsistoI-edk boars

A. G MEADE ColbI Ranch. I”Stanton. Michigan.

 

 

 

l

f th bl .
POLAND CHINAS rzady fgr segvifiye’eSowsBl‘I’red

for spring furrow. A. A. Wood A Son. Saline. Mich.

BIG BONE Pilllllll lllllll Elli o‘i‘fiéfmrfl‘i‘ffé

farro ro.w 898 ecial gricee to
MAPLEW OD S OCK FARM. oAllegan. Mich.

NU" lllllHIS‘Ohmc" ”“ ‘md to "BigTy ,3...
boars. L. w. nanil‘é‘émfsgn. 8“ :PIllilfilfiailfi'.’
hi.“ chin. 8“" and GU“ bred for March and

Aprilfurror. Alsolell i tisfact
guaranteed. 0. Vi. H0 IHTUN eggs-:00. M131:

— ih .
llllBE TYPE P. E. 3?...“ ”a? Jfil‘fi‘ifil‘g l3:
bred gllts. W. J. HAOELSBAW. Augusta. Mich.

 

 

 

 

Big Typed Poland Chins Boers and Oilts lenty of
awe and reatfiuslity I know I can please you.
ROBERT BTI RE D. No. 7. Hastings. Mich.

STRICTLY 3.1‘. Polande— —Absolutely none larger or

better. My breeding represents best herds in U. S.
Bred gilte and fall igs kat bargain prices. Satisfac-
tion guarant t.eed rank DHKruger Bavenna. Mich.

POLAND mlNAS—T he type that wins. weighs.
and pays—big with quality.

nd pigs either sex.
SPRINGw BROOK FARM. Thl'( e Oaks. Michigan.

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j and fall boars. will be sold at bargain prices. a few

choice bred ilts no. better breeding. to be had at
price. “.38 WARTZ. Schoolcraft. Michigzixrf

HEAlVlYiBONED POLAND CHINA sows.
boars.

 

Bred
both sexes. pairs not akin. Also older
rces low. Robert Nave. Pierson. Mich.

 

Poland China. either sex. all ages. Somethinggood
at slow rice. Ba ins in boars ready for sor-
0110 R .D 8. Grand Rapids. Mich.

THE FARMERS' HOG. —Butler’ s Big Boned Prolific
Poland Ohinas grow big. kee easy. mature early.
ready for market at 6 months. y? auae we've
bred them that way for more than 20 years. 50 big
boned. long bodied. sows. also 100 fall pigsn at farmers
Eric oes Buy one anda mke more mone your [[033
CHistory Free. J. QBUTLEB. Portland. Mich.

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o I C’s ~311le BIO TYPE. For 13 yrs.
I " Mbee breeding for also and
length with quality. thI'fthyh Prince one of the largest
boarsthe reedever p sdsonr herd.asslsted
by Monarch and Fronts Choice. 2nd.srise under
girl. Egg:- lie-run Mo. Initer State Failro ”Hague
mes. r ces resecnab real.
NEWMAN'S‘I STOCK M R. No. 1. Msrletts, Mich.

as 'n 0.4 flu {.1’0‘? 3" "303‘!“ We hhve some
JOHN mm. 5301'. p all‘and I {edema hhfiohigan

0 [ C’s—One been Gllts bred for sMarch and
April farmw Gug. and
Ip-y am. a. r. ANDIIEAS. Dansville. IRIS.

o. l c5‘—I have extra line lot of lest spring
either sex not skin. ”"32“ mill: 3393.? I119“ 3“:
mo Iii. SCHULZE. Nashville. such rain.
0. I. C. SWIN ‘I'IVJ‘tsima‘lZ' ‘33:
on hand service boars. also other sex of Aug. furrow

I am also booking orders for M rob a d A ll Pi .
A. J. GOBDEN. a. No. 2‘“ Dori-1. sellinun‘.”

 

 

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bo’T boars by Big Smooth Jumbo. Great st
Poems. 748 lbs at 17 mo These boars :re
long“). tail. big bone sold at farmers rlces. shi pod
0. 0.D. Call or write. Wm Waffle. Ogildwafer. A web.
—Largest in Michigan. Bred
Large Type P- C. Gllts. sired by and bred to
the great boar. Big Desmolnes No. 194 41947. wei t 1035
l at 31 months. and out of sows that welg
700 lbs. Gllts of March and A ril furrow wei h from
250 to 326 be. ome and see. xpenses paid If not as
represen

I. LIVINGSTON. Parma. Mich.

—Bred gilts. sprin boars. fall pl 3.

Mlle Fools airs not akin. lder bredsows or
spring furrow. .l BACON Ridgeway. Michigan.
Mule Foot Hogs, both sexes, 4.3.35.3“;
Satisfaction guaranteed. LONG BROS. .Alvada.0 io.
—Ali R P ll (10 ttle.

50 YORKSHIRES .28? 130.3.“ sileé‘p. w. p
Rocks. I. I. Ducks. E. CA .Hcmer. Mich.

YORKSHIRES

Bred lts. l boars September and Octobc
MWDI: w. c. coax. p.42. race.

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Costs You Nothin

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If you own a horse or a cow mail me the coupon
below, or even a post card with your name and
address, and I will send you a big can of: Corona
Wool Fat on 20 days’ trial, With full direc-

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20 days after you get it. Then if satisfied

with results send me 50c. If not satisfied or

if it does not do what I claim, you don’t
have to pay me one penny for it.

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Hard and Contracted Feet, Split Hoofs, Corns,
Scratches, Grease Heel, Thrush, Quarter Crack, Barb
Wire Cuts, Sore Teats of Cows, Ulcers, Old Sores, etc. You
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i) , ,. ’ - . 3, ” / -the Wonderful Healing Compound—is unlike anything you
s . ' . . ever tried or _used. Don’t confuse it with salves or ointments con-
taining grease and blister com ounds. It is the only remedy that will
penetrate a horse’s hoof whic is 60% to 70% water. Grease and water
don’t mix—that is why Corona Wool Fat succeeds where all others fail.
It is not a grease, but“, the fatty secretions extracted
from the skin .and wool ‘of the sheep. It is readily
Read the absorbed, penetrates to the inflamed inner tissues, heals and cures
P I does not burn or blister, leaves no scars, causes no pain, and
C m M100? Kenton will never get ranc1d or decompose.

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ESE'W'S'D°“”“'R°““°“' It heals without leaving a scar and will grow an entirely new hoof.‘
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