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VOL. CXLV. No.7

Whole Number 3849





DETROIT, MICH.,





SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1915.





50 CENTS A YEAR,

$2 FOR 5 YEARS.





Simplified Farming Is Good Business





CERTAIN man of very wide rep-



utation is a strong advocate of



simplified spelling. While our

system of spelling could no doubt be

made more simple and useful, the sys-

tem of farming handed down to us by

the pioneer and in general use—the

so-called general farming—is far more

in need of simplification.



When the means of transportation

were crude this system was the prop-

er one. It then behooved every farm-

er’s family to be just as near an inde-

pendent, self—sufficient unit as it could

possibly be. But times have changed.

Means of transportation have improv-

ed to such an extent that it has made

possible the employment of the prin-

ciple of the division of labor on the

farm as well as elsewhere. In carlots,

hay, potatoes, etc., can be shipped to

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and even to

points farther east, for less than it

would cost to team them from Owos-

so to Lansing or Saginaw. This shows

how much cheaper transportation com-

panies can serve the farmer in their

line than he can serve himself.



The farmer has been slow to avail

himself of the advantages of this prin-

ciple of the division of labor. In the

opinion of the writer this has caused

the business of farming to lag behind

other pursuits. A business is judged

by the type of homes those engaged

in that business occupy. The country

home should have comforts and re-

finements. Where the farmer is at-

tempting many lines there are always

so many calls for more tools, high

priced stock animals, more barns,

more land, etc., that both the time and

money of the farmer are exhausted

before he gets around to the home.

With a more simple system he has

more time, also more money to invest

in his home, than which there is no

better place for an investment.



Essentials of Success.



There is an impression current that

the successful money—making farmer

must combine the staying qualities of

the dog with the strength of the horse,

and that his wife must be a kind of

an Amazon in order to stand the

strain. On the properly organized

farm the former is entirely unneces-

sary and, where the thought and at-

tention to which its importance on

titles it has been given the home.

there is no reason why a woman with

average strength should not be able

to look after the duties of her house-

hold and have time left for reading

recreation, etc. In developing a prop-

er rural life, and when we say "life"

we mean more than a mere living. two

things are essential. These are at

least a fair degree of prosperity from

a financial standpoint and a reason-

able amount of time away from the

regular routine of business.



“Overhead” Economy.



The idea of taking a kind of a half-

hearted whack at a. large number of

different lines is not what will con.

tribute to an easy financial condition.

Competition is severe in all lines, and

it we get our wires crossed just alit—





tle the, “velvet” is all gone. Hardly a

crop is raised on the farm but what

the attention to some little detail is

very apt to make the difference be-

tween a substantial profit, no profit at

all, or possibly an actual loss. It costs

money and it takes time to look after

these details. These are to a large

extent, what the manufacturer calls

“overhead expenses? that is, it in-

creases them very little when the area

devoted to the crop is increased very

much. Also, when a large area is de-

voted to a crop more care will be giv-

en, not only to the details but to the

care of the crop from start to finish.

The writer once talked with a farmer

who had fourteen separate and dis-





who does not specialize in dairying

shoull keep one or two cows for fam—

ily use. Everyone should have agood

garden, small fruit enough for family

use and a small flock of chickens. The

specialist can raise these things cheap-

er than can the farmer who is not

specializing along these lines, but if

the farmer does not raise them he is

very apt not; to have them, and the

farmer is entitled to live the best of

anyone. With but a few lines attempt-

ed and these on a liberal scale, the

farmer not only has time to look after

the details of growing the crop but he

will take more interest in the market-

ing of his product. He will have a

product of high quality and enough of





 





 





Wheat on this Lenawee County Farm has not Yielded Less than Twenty-

eight Bushels per acre for Seventeen Years.





tinct sources of income, and the total

cash income of his farm was less than

$1,000. Needless to say this is not

economy in over-head expenses. It in-

volves too many steps running from

one job to another, too many details

that should be looked after but are

probably neglected.

Specialties vs. Diversity.



We would not mix up with any crop

or any class of live stock which, with

the results which our experience tells

us we can depend on with reasonable

certainty as to production and prices,

would not yield us at least $500. To

this general rule I would make a few

exceptions, all concerning the farm—

er’s living For instance, the man





it so that he can avail himself of car-

load rates and will succeed in getting

a much larger per cent of the consum-

er’s dollar than is ordinarily the case.

Neighborhood Duties.



“Too busy,” is the excuse given by

many farmers for neglecting to attend

church, grange, farmers’ club, the

school occasionally, as well as insti-

tutes, etc. The farmer who says this

is either mistaken or he should reor-

ganize his business. The business of

farming demands that we develop our

neighborhoods. The reason that both

old and young leave the farm so read-

ily is that the life, home and the

neighborhood have not gained the

place in the heart of the individual





 





 





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that they should. Too much of a

grind, too few of the comforts and re-

finements and not enough sociability

to satisfy the normal nature.



To develop country communities so-

cially every person in that community

should take the time necessary to at—

tend to community affairs. The coun—

try church, the grange, the club, the

institutes are all worth attending, and

not only attending but supporting in

every way. There should be a social

center and the entire community

should pull together, one for all, all

for each, as many as possible in the

same line, for better things.



Cause, Effect, Remedy and Result.



The conclusion is that the business

of farming is hampered by the attempt

to do too many different things, which

results in inadequate financial returns,

a tired body and a sluggish brain. The

remedy—a very few lines attempted,

these on a liberal scale, thoroughly

well done in the most up-to-date man-

ner from start to finish. The result-—

more money to do with and to invest

in home, travel, etc., and more time

for the. home enjoyment and for assist-

ing in the building up of the commu-

nity. W'ith proper environment and

properly managed the farm furnishes

the best place to be born, the best

place to live one’s active life, and the

best place to grow old gracefully that

the world offers.



Shiawassee Co. A. B. Coon.





FARM LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT.





 





Occasionally we hear the remark:

“Life on the farm is a continual

drudge.” Those who take no pleasure

in their work, considering it only as a

means of support, and just barely

make the farm self-supporting, to

them it is perhaps a drudge. City

folks look upon the farmer with envy;

they crave the close communion with

nature that the farmer enjoys, yet

many a farmer slaves along in life,

missing the good things all about him.



“Life is just what you make it.” In

that brief sentence is tucked a world

of philosophy. The man who goes

about his daily task smiling at the ob«

slaClQS that he will have to overcome;

the woman who goes joyously singing

about the kitchen, planning her work

to a certain end: the boys and girls

shouldering responsibilities, knowing

that. they shall share in the pleasure

and profit of the farm—all these have

definite aims. The result may fall

short of their anticipations, but they

have greater hope in the next attempt.

In the face of reverses it is often hard

to laugh with the world, but there is

food for thought in the fact that the

whole spirit to do was in the work.



Any sort of labor may be made a

drudge. A man recently said: “I hate

threshing time; it seems the longest

and hardest work of the year.” While

another remarked: “We push our

threshing and get it over in a hurry;

it’s work, but look at the bins of gol-



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CURRENT COMMENT





 





Our leading article

for this week deals

with phases of one

of the special topics announced for

discussion in the Michigan Farmer

during the current year in a manner

which should engage the attention of

every thoughtful farmer. The produc~

tion of any kind of cash product on

the farm, in the most economical man-

ner, involves considerable special

equipment and not a little study, in—

vestigation and experiment for the

achievement of maximum results, con-

sequently the position that these oper-

ations should be conducted on as large

a scale as seems practical is well

taken.



A still stronger argument for this

method of conducting the farm is that

when one specializes along any given

line, he will make a more thorough

study of the possibilities of that line

of production and will, as a matter of

course, give greater attention to the

essential details, and will more nearly

approach maximum production than

would be the case if the product were

one of less relative importance in his

scheme of farm operation. A cursory

study of crop statistics should impress

the reader with the great importance

of this point. \Vhen one compares the

average yield of the various crops

grown on Michigan farms ‘with the

yields secured by those who have spe-

cialized along any one of these lines,

whether it be a progressive farmer

who applies scientific principles to the

production, whether it be a practical

farmer whose experience and observa-

tion has led to the adoption of sim~

ilar methods, or whether it be a mem-

ber of a boys’. club who is striving to

Win a contest, this interested kind of

work always shows in the results.



If a majority of the farmers in the

state could get into the class who

strive for maximum results along spe

cial lines of production, the agricul-

tural importance of Michigan would

be a matter of common remark

throughout the country. A good ex—

ample of this fact is to be found in

any section where a single crop is giv-

en prominence above all others as a

matter of providing a cash income to

the farmers of the community. Aroos-

took county, Maine, produces about

twice the average crop of potatoes

that is produced in Michigan. True,

natural conditions may be somewhat

superior as compared to the whole

state of Michigan, yet there are farm-

ers in practically every county in

Michigan who grow potatoes so suc-

cessfully that for a series of years

they approximate or exceed the aver-

age for Maine in the matter of yield

per acre.





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THE MICHIGAN FA‘RMER





Other examples might be cited al-

most indefinitely, but when one cony

elders the fact that the farmers of

Michigan are now prosperous with the

growing of present average yields of‘

staple crops on their farms, the possi-

bilities of prosperity provided that

maximum yields were more nearly ap-‘

proached, are stupendous. There is

no question but that the great loss en-

tailed by the growing of minimum

crops could be largely eliminated if

the farming business were simplified

and conducted on better business

principles. If the farmer whose crop

yields are only up to present low av-

erages would study his conditions, de-

termine the cause of, that handicap

and remove it, he would not only be

adding materially to his own prOSper-

ity, but as well to the betterment of

the agriculture of his community and

state.



The many object lessons which pre-

sent themselves to each and every

one of us, if we will but place our-

selves in a position to be benefited .by

them, will convince the most skepti-

cal of the possibilities along this line.

It but remains to apply ourselves to

the task in hand to materially in-

crease the income from the farm with-

out a corresponding increase in the

overhead expenses or cost of opera-

tion.





It is difficult for some

Solving Farm people to realize that

Problems. the average farm prob—

lem 'is an indiv‘idual

problem to the farmer who is con-

fronted with its solution. While gen-

eral experience is in the main a safe

guide and a valuable aid in the solu-

tion of individual farm problems, yet

it is not always applicable to the ease

in hand and it requires a painstaking

analysis of the situation to get at the

cause of this ever present variation.

For instance, the writer of this com-

ment recently attended a. farmers’

meeting in which a county agricultural

agent emphasized the necessity of the

use of lime on most Michigan soils to

secure best results in the conserva-

tion and increase of soil fertility, par-

ticularly in the growing of leguminous

crops. One successful farmer who

was present took exception to this doc-

trine during a conversation which oc-

curred after the colse of the meeting,

since his own experience had been

that he could successfully grow the

legumes, including alfalfa, upon his

soil without an application of lime. In-

quiry developed the fact that his con-

ditions were enirtely difierent from

the average, inasmuch as he was a

large commercial sheep feeder and by

this means made and applied a thou-

snd or more loads of manure to his

farm each year. Because under these

unusual conditions he found that lime

was not required on his soil, he was

inclined to discredit the doctrine ad-

vanced by the agricultural expert.

The publication of conflicting expe-

riences of different farmers relating to

a given agricultural practice is often

particularly confusing to the young

man who is a close student of agricul-

ture and is seeking for the truth as a

guide in his own agricultural prac-

tices. Just a few days ago a young

Michigan farmer mentioned this diffi-

culty to the writer, saying that when

two experiences are published show-

ing opposite results following a given

practice, as is often the case, he found

it dillicult, if not impossible. to be

guided by them in his own practice.

This variation of individual experi-

ences but illustrates the fact that farm

problems are largely individual in

character, due to the fact that in no

two cases will exactly the some condi-

tions obtain, and that in the applica-

tion of general experience an allow~

ance must be made for this fact.

Often a great deal of thought, study

and experimentation is required In

solving the individual farm problem

after it has been found that general

experience along this particular line





does not apply to the individual case

in hand. It is the man who studiously

and patiently seeks for the cause who

finally solves the problem successfully

and who is worthy' of being called a.

good farm manager.





MICHIGAN CROP REPORT.





Wheat—The average estimated

yield per acre in the state is 18.51, in

the southern counties 19.14, in the

central counties 19.17, in the northern

counties 15.92 and in the upper penin-

sula 20.55 bushels. in some sections

of the state wheat has been injured by

the Hessian fly but it is generally con—

sidered of very good quality, however,

the recent heavy rains will undoubted-

ly cause seme damage to the crop.

The estimate at present indicates that

the state will yield about 14,500,000

bushels. The per cent of plowing

done for wheat is 10 in the state,

southern and central counties and up-

per peninsula and 11 in the northern

counties. '



Rye—The average estimated yield

per acre in the state is 14.66, in the

southern counties 14.80, in the central

counties 14.46, in the northern coun-

ties 13.61 and in the upper peninsula

20.24 bushels. According to the above

estimated the state yield should be

about 5,775,000 bushels.



Corn—The condition of corn as

compared with an average is 74 in the

state, southern and central counties

and the upper peninsula and 73 in the

northern counties. The condition one

year ago was 89 in the state, 87 in the

southern counties, 93 in the central

counties, 91 in the northern counties

and 96 in the upper peninsula.



Oats—The estimated average yield

in the state is 36.82, in the southern

counties 39.25, in the central counties

34.41, in the northern counties 33.55

and in the upper peninsula 35.77 bush-

els per acre. The above estimates in-

dicate that the state yield will exceed

62,000,000 bushels.



Potatoes.——-The condition as compar-

ed with an average is 93 in the state,

central and northern counties, 94 in

the southern counties and 92 in the

upper peninsula. The condition one

year ago was 88 in the state, 84 in the

southern counties, 91 in the central

and northern counties and 100 in the

upper peninsula.



Beans—The condition of beans com-

pared with an average per cent is 89

in the state, 87 in the southern coun-

ties, 90 in the central counties, 92 in

the northern counties and 85 in the

upper peninsula. The wndition one

year ago was 88 in the state and

southern counties, 89 in the central

and northern counties and. 95 in the

upper peninsula.



Sugar Beets—The condition of su-

gar beets as compared with an aver—

age is 93 in the state. 94 in the south-

em and central counties and the up-

per peninsula and 91 in the northern

counties. The condition one year ago

was 88 in the state, 93 in the southern

counties, 82 in the central and north-

ern counties and 100 in the upper pe-

ninsula.



Hay and Forage—The yield per

acre of hay and forage in ions is 1.21

in the state, 1.30 in the southern coun-

ties, 1.05 in the central counties, 1.04

in the northern counties and 1.63 in

the upper peninsula. The above esti-

mate indicates that the state yield will

be about 2,600,000 tons.



Pasture—The condition of pasture

as compared with an average is 95 in

the state, 98 in the southern counties,

90 in the central counties, 911m the

northern counties and 104 in the up-

per peninsula. One year ago the con-

dition was 85 in the state, 79 in the

southern counties, 93 in the central





 





counties, 88 in the northern counties





and 100 in the upper penirsula.

Apples—This year is (. nsidered an

off season for apples and pears and

the prospects up to May 1 was six per

cent less than on the corresponding

date in 1914 but the severe frosts dur-

ing the month of May did heavy dam-

age to the tree fruits in nearly all

parts of the state. consequently the

yield of apples will be considerably

less than it was last year, especially

winter varieties. The prospect for an

average crop is 45 in the state, 54 in

the southern counties, 35 in the cen«

tral counties, 37 in the northern coun-

ties and 50 in the upper peninsula.

One year ago the average was 71 in

the state, 63 in the southern counties,

73 in the central counties, 80 in the

northern counties and 88 in the upper

peninsula. The winter varieties that

promise best are. in their order:

Northern Spy. Baldwin, Greening,

Russet, Wagner, Ben Davis, Tolman

Sweet and Canada Red. 0! the early

sorts the most promising are Duchess,

Wealthy, Yellow Transparent. Red As-

trachan, Fameuse, Maiden Blush, Fall

Pippin and Early Harvest.

Poached—Oh April 1 the prospect

throughout the state for an average

crop of peaches was 79 per cent- on

May 1 82, on June 1 66 and on .July'

1 56. which is 22 per cent higher than

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last year's aVex-age, and for the Mich-

igan Fruit Belt 73 per cent, which is

31 above last year’s figures. The no

metres that promise best are, in their

order: Elberta, Crawford, Kalamazoo,

Hill's Chili, Gold Drop, New Prolific.

Barnard and Crosby. ,





 





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK. »





 





. Foreign.



The European Wan—The Austro-

German armies have taken Warsaw

the capital of Russian Poland, and an-

nexed a large territory to'their hold-

ings. The Russian armies are still be-

ing hard pressed, although it is now

thought that they have extricated

themselves from the bold purpose of

the Germans to encircle and capture

practically the entire force. The Aus-

trians by violent attacks forced the

Russians to fall back from the fort—

ress of Ivangorod and other positions

to the southeast of Warsaw, and then

pushed on and threatened the retreat

of the Russian forces, while German

forces succeeded after desperate at-

tacks in penetrating the enemy’s line

to the northeast of the Polish city,

causmg the Czar’s forces to fall back

and increased the possibility of their

capture. This situation made neces-

sary the evacuation of the city, which

was done toward the end of the week.

It appears, however, that the Russian

officials decided to hold the important

forts at Novogeor‘gievsk located at the

junction of the Vistula and Bug rivers

to the northwest of Warsaw. This

will result in a siege but the strategic

position will- hamper the free use of

lines of communication by the Gen

mans. In the direction of Riga the

Germans continue to advance. The

Russians and Turks are fighting in

the Caucasus region with victories

claimed by both sides. The Allied

forces have begun a new offensive

movement at the Dardanelles with

some miner successes reported. The

Italians continue to take the initiative

in the struggle with the Austrians and

progress in the Tyrol, Styria and

Carniola districts is recorded. The

Germans have made minor advances

in the Argonne forest of northern

France where the Crown Prince has

been trying for weeks to find a weak

spot in the French defenses, but the

efforts to recover lost trenches in the

Vosges were fruitless and cost dearly.

Little activity is reported in Belgium.



Russia is declared to have rejected



a proposal of peace from Germany

through the King of Denmark re-

cently.

. It appears that the Japanese crisis

is being straightened out. Count

Okuma has decided to remain in office

as Premier at the special request of

the Emperor.



The British cabinet is now consid-

ering the new taxation bill to be in-

troduced in Parliament this fall to

help cover the enormous cost of the

war. It is expected that some drastic

changes in the income tax will be pro-

posed.



The Brazilian minister to Mexico,

the only diplomatic representative of

the United States in that country, has

been recalled by his government to

for-stall expulsion by Gen. Carranza.



The extent of'the boycott of Jap-

anese goods by the Chinese following

the political crisis between the two

countries a few months ago, has be-

come so serious that Japanese mer-

chants are importuning their govern-

mentt to make some effort to over-

come the difliculty by peaceful means.





National.



Last week American naval forces

repressed disorders in. Hayti. The

presidential elections scheduled for

July 8 have been indefinitely post.

poned.



Mexican outlaws and Texas rangers

and county officers engaged in a sharp

fight at Norias, Texas, Sunday night.

Soldiers are being rushed to the scene.

Six Mexicans were killed and three

Americans hurt. _



Diplomats from United States. Cen-

tral and South American countries are

working in Washington to effect a

plan of reestablishing a government

in Mexico.- A final appeal is to be

made to the different factions to agree





‘upon some plan of reconstructing and





if this is not done, it seems to be the

purpose of the cooperating govern-

ments to resort to force if necessary.



Business men of eastern cities have

joined a military school and will re—

ceive four weeks’ instruction at Platts-

burg, N. Y., under General Wood and

his aides. ,



An advisory committee of members

of the New York assembly met in De-

troit last week to ascertain from en-

gineers just the amount of water that

can be diverted from Niagara Falls

without destroying its scenic beauty.

The assembly expects to. ask Congress

to permit the amount ascertained be~

mg used for power purposes- , .



t is estimated by the government

geological survey that $40,000,000 was

wasted last year by coke companies

through the use of the , old beehive.

oven process of manufacture. .
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' HILE taking my agricultural

\A/ course at the state university

it was necessary for me to

make out numerous maps of our farm

showing the fields, lanes, fences, roads,

etc. Each field was numbered and in

making out crop reports and such rec-

ords the field was always designated

by this number. But now we have

discovered another very important use

for such a map. We made a duplicate

of the other map and now use it for

this new purpose.





In a field that we purchased some

years ago, there was a wet, boggy

basin and we decided to drain it. We

were practically unacquainted with

the farm previous to buying it, so that

now we knew nothing about the ditch-

es in this field. The man from whom

‘we purchased the piece had it only a

short time and we were unable to get

information regarding the ditches.



Finally, we succeeded in locating

one of the 'main tile drains which at

its closest point was a long way from

the basin to be drained. The ground

between this main ditch and the point

to be drained was quite dry and we

thought. that perhaps there was a lat-

eral branch running up to at least

near the basin. Accordingly, we spent

about one whole day (two of us) dig-

ging cross trenches in the hope of lo-

cating it if it existed. We were un-

successful, and concluded that none

existed and promptly proceeded to

haul the necessary tile and strung

them all the way from the main to the

basin. As the ditch was dug, the tile

were laid and immediately covered

with dirt, this being our usual practice.





When we had the ditch dug and the

tile laid to within a few rods of the

basin, we were quite chagrined to run

across the end of the branch for which

we were searching. Evidently, at one

time the ditch had been run up with

the intention of draining the basin,

but for some cause had been stopped

just before the basin was reached.

Here we were with two ditches cover-

ing the same course and one of them

was amply sufficient. Had we known





. of the first ditch, we could have easily





extended it the few rods into the

basin. As it was, our ignorance of

the fact had literally cost us the value

of the several hundred tile that had

been used, and the time and labor

we had spent in digging the ditch,

hauling the tile and in searching for

the suspected old one; in all, a nice

little sum.



The thought irritated us until we

finally analyzed the matter and found

out exactly where the blame rested.

The first fault was with the first owné

ers when they put the ditches in with-

out keeping a record of their location,

and preserving it in a form that could

be readily transferred to a succeeding

owner. The second fault was our

own; we should not have purchased

the piece without first being supplied

such a record or at least the informa-

tion from which we could make it

ourselves.



Thus, to guard against future trou-

ble of that nature, we promptly made

a. ditch map of our farm. The courses

of all the known ditches on the farm

were sketched on the map. The draw-

ing was performed a field at a time,

my father enlightening me on all the

ditches too old for my memory. A

number was given each separate ditch

or branch in each field. This enabled

us to the more easily designate the

various ditches when making out the

records concerning them. The record





stated the various sizes of tile used





in the ditch, their exact location, and

the points at which a change in size

of tile was made. This point was rep-

resented on the map by drawing a

short straight line across that one

representing the ditch. The appear-

ance of the map is enhanced if a dif-

ferent color of ink is used for these





'Make a Drainage Map





two purposes. We also indicated the

ponds-and low places in each field by

making little dotted areas.



As new ditches are made, they can





easily be represented on the map and

the record made. Since using this





map for a few years, we are of the

conclusion that every farm ought to

have its ditch map to pass from fath-

er to son or from owner to purchaser

whenever the farm changed hands.

Ohio. L P. C. Gnosn.





DESTROYING WEEDS AND BRUSH.





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August is popularly supposed to be

the best time to destroy weeds and

brush, it being believed that the hot

and dry weather prevailing will pre—

vent the weeds and brush from any

further growth when out at that time.

But those who have followed this old-

time belief have found that the idea

is wrong, and that the work generally

has to be done over again the follow-

ing year.



To make thorough work with elders.

blackberries, raspberries, wild roses,

poison ivy, hardwood sprouts, and oth-

er pests that are so often seen along

the fences of poorly managed farms,

once cutting will not answer. In our

own experience we have found that

the best, and in fact the only way to

clean fences is to tear the fences

away, mow the berry plants, grub out

the small brush, cut off the sprouts

that are too large for grubbing, throw

all of these on piles and burn them.

Then, take the plow and a strong

team and plow the strip. after which

give it two or three good harrowings.

The harrowing will bring many roots

to the surface that have not been

reached by the grub hoe. These roots

may then be’ cut off. If there are

any stumps that cannot be brought

out with the grub hoe'or plow, they

should be blasted with dynamite be-

fore plowing.



In most of the states, the highway

officers are required by law to keep

the roadsides clean of brush and bush-

es of all kinds. We have observed

that in many places they fail very

badly in this duty. In such cases the

farmer may himself remove the

fences, clean the strip, plow and har-

row it, and sow it to grass. Perhaps

a few sprouts or weeds may come up

the following year, but these can be

removed with little trouble.





Some farmers are very careful to

destroy all growth along fences ex-

cept elders, blackberries and raspber-

ries, and their families gather large

quantities of berries therefrom each

season. For our part, we prefer fences





that are entirely clean and free from;





any and all growths. Surely no one

will deny that clean fences give a

farm much the best appearance. Be-

sides, we could never see the wisdom

of the women tramping a mile or two

for berries when they could just as

well have them in their garden only a

few rods“ from the house.

Indiana. D. L.





SECOND SEEDING OF ALFALFA A

GREAT SUCCESS.





 





Having had a number of very help-

ful hints from your much esteemed

paper, will try to reciprocate a little.

Last season I had six acres that had

been previously seeded to alfalfa but

had been mostly run out by a heavy

June grass sod, which I plowed under

in early spring. I worked it thorough-

ly until June 20, when I seeded it to

alfalfa again. On August 20 I cut

about four tons of hay from the field

and then clipped it back again in Sep-

tember. It now stands about 18 inch—

es high and very thick. It looks as

though alfalfa will solve the feed ’prob-

lem along with the silo in Michigan.



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Farm Notes





Seeding Clover After Beans.





I have about six acres of light sandy

loam that has been very much Iun,

but has had no crops on the last two

or three years. This year I have it to

white beans and they seem to be do-

ing fine. I want to get this seeded.

Can one seed clover in beans with

success? If so, how? I have thought

of sowing vetch and rye in the beans

this fall, turning it under in the spring

and either putting in buckwheat and

get it off in time to seed in the fall, or

to summer fallow. Which would be

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Oceana Co. C. G. P.



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Crimson Clover with Vetch.





Would it be practical to seed crim-

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at the last cultivation?



Oakland Co. SUBSCRIBER.





Crimson clover has not proven uni-

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vetch with rye, either in corn or after

potatoes were harvested than to use

crimson clover with it, both because

the rye would be certain to make a.

good growth to plow under the follow-

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ALFALFA IN NORTHERN WISCON-

SIN.





 





I was interested in reading in the

Michigan meer of July 24,1915, the

of Hillsdalc

County, Michigan, discussing the ques-

tion whether clover is to be succeeded

for the most part by alfalfa in Mich-

igan. His letter set forth the fact

that alfalfa had been grown at first by

many farmers because of successive

failures wth clover, but that with a

favorable year for clover it is found

the alfalfa acreage continues to grow.

It has been discovered, Mr Kaiser

says, that souI soil has to be corrected

for clover as well as for alfalfa.



Clover is very seldom a failure in

Marinette county, Wisconsin, and yet





 





 





alfalfa is growing in favor here. I

have been surprised in trips through

this section to find how large {an

acreage there is in alfalfa. I had

heard in past years the invariabld

statement, “What is the use in experi-

menting with alfalfa when we have a.

sure crop in clover," that I had

thought alfalfa would never gain much

headway against clover in upper Wis-

consin. So I was prompted to ask

Mr. Martin Lorenzen, a farmer living

near Marinette, who is a. successful

grower of alfalfa, why he chose to

grow alfalfa. instead of clover.





“That’s simple,” said Mr. Lorenzen,

“It is worth more. It is worth more if

I sell it, or it is worth more if I feed

to to my stock.- It brings more on the

hay market and it goes farther in

keeping a dairy herd in condition. A1-

falfa is a money crop any way you

look at it."



Lorenzen’s farm is about the light-

est land to be found here, and yet he

has made it yield alfalfa splendidly.

His first cutting this year on a three-

acre piece ran two tons to the acre.

The piece is nearly ready for the sec—

ond cutting (July 24),'and apparently

will run over a ton and a half to the

acre. vThe third cutting will easily

yield up to five tons per acre, which is

the same record he made last year.



“Clover is great,” said Mr. Loren-

zen, “but alfalfa is better. I have

tried both and I know.



Wisconsin. A. C. HAWKINS.





LILLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.





 





The wheat crop is barely harvested.

Much of it still stands in the shock in

the field, and yet here it is the first of

August. It has been a remarkable

season so far in many respects. I

have talked with many and no one

ever remembers such a‘late harvest.

Oats are just being harvested. Some

fields are not ripe yet. No corn in

this section is tasseled yet. Some of

it is barely hip high. What will the

harvest be? There must be no frost

in September or there will be no ripe

corn. The spring started with unusual

promise for a forward season. The

last of April brought the hottest weath-

er thus far this season; then came'a.

cold May, a cold June and a cold July

—~—such is the uncertainty of Dame

Nature.



While cereals and corn are so very

late the legumes, clover and alfalfa

are practically as forward as any year.

We cut the second cutting of alfalfa

in July about as early as any year,

and red clover was ready to cut the

Fourth of July. How can this be ac-

counted for; why is alfalfa as early as

usual and other crops so late?



I planned to plant potatoes after

early peas, expecting to get the pota-

toes planted by the first of July. Peas

were late. Heavy rains delayed and

we got the potatoes planted July. 20.

A friend asked me if I expected to

harvest a crop. I replied that I ex-

pect nothing from a second crop in

this climate, but I may get it. At any

rate I carried out my program and

planted potatoes and sweet corn, and

sowed buckwheat after taking off a.

crop of peas. I have faith I will get

some fodder, and that there will be

buckwheat to plow down for humus

and the land will be all the better for

having grown these crops. Perhaps I

will get some potatoes. They are com-

ing up well. It has been almost ideal

weather to start them—cool and moist.

The great law of nature is compensa-

tion—a late spring, a late fall, a cold

June and a hot September, etc. With

growing weather until October 15 I

will get a crop of potatoes. A frost

the middle of September will knock

me out entirely. The land where the

potatoes are planted has already pro-

duced over $60 worth of peas per acre,

and I shall make no complaint against

Dame Nature if the potatoes are a

failure. I am willing to take the

chance.



I have purchased a threshing ma-

chine and propose to do my own

threshing. Heretofore I have hauled

the wheat to the barn and elevated it

to the top of the hay mows so I could

put the straw into the straw barns

directly over the stables, where it is

kept dry and in splendid condition to

absorb the liquid manure in the sta-

bles. This year I will set the machine

out of doors and blow the straw di-

rectly into the straw mow of the barn,

and thresh the wheat as fast as we

haul it. This will save handling it

once over—no light pob. What straw





cannot be gotten into the barns will





' siderably.





AUG. 14, 1915.





be threshed in the field and the straw

baled and stored. I figure the lessen-

ed expense of handling the wheat crop

will pay for the machine (a second-

hand outfit) in a few years. I could

not ask a, custom outfit to do all this

but can do it with my own outfit.

There is the bad weather risk, but if

it rains we will simply wait till it

dries out enough to thresh. We can

cultivate and hoe corn while the wheat

is drying. It may not work out as

well as it looks to me when planning

it, but I am going to try it.



Some farmers have already thresh-

ed their wheat and have sold it around

$1.00 per bushel. Are they right or

should they hold for higher prices?

My judgment is to hold. I think the

world will need all the Wheat we have

this year, even though it is a bumper

crop. Wheat reserves are low. I

can’t believe Europe will produce a

normal crop. It seems impossible. It

is business for them to report good

crops to influence the price here. Af-

ter a. whole lot of our corn crop gets

into stronger hands you will see, at

least I expect, the price will advance

and the strong hands—~the speculators

——will make a bunch of money. If any«

one holds Wheat it should be the farm‘

ers. I may be all wrong but I have

faith. ‘



COLON C. LILLIE.





RADIUM AS A FERTILIZER.





 





Because so much has been said and

written about the use of radium as

a fertilizer, interest is attached to

experiments made by the Illinois

Station in which radium fertilizer

was used. The soy beans followed

the corn on the same land without

additional application of the radium

fertilizer. Of six trustworthy average

results with corn, three were for and

three against radium. 'Of eighteen

averages with soy beans, nine were

for and nine were against radium.

In all cases the average variation

from the check or unfertilized plant

was so slight and so evenly distribut-

ed for and against “as to lead only to

the conclusion that radium applied at

a cost of $1, $10 or $100 per acre pro-

duced no effect upon the crop yields

either the first or second season.”



The station calls attention to the

fact that even if the radium fertilizer

were to increase the crop yields “the

elfect would be that of a stimulant

and the increase would be secured at

the expense of the soil. Thus the soil

would not be enriched in fertility, but

actually impoverished by such treat

ment.”





FARM LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT.





 





(Continued from first page).



den grain we’ll have." The terrible

hardship overshadowed the mind of

the former. He found little pleasure

in it, While the latter, though thinking

of his material gain was nevertheless

more pleased in what he could and

would accomplish.



The discontent of many people can

be traced to the state of mind in which

they dwell. No one is free from trou—

bles, but he who earnestly endeavors

to surmount his troubles and finally

does so finds great delight in doing so.

If he proceeds with an I—don’t-like—it

spirit there will be little pleasure in

the final accomplishment, if indeed

there is much accomplished. The

pioneer farmers won their way with

cheerful hearts; they aimed at con-

structive ideas. Modern machinery

has eased the labor of the farm con.

But for those who fail to

see the opportunities about them, mag-

nifying the dark side and shrinking

from the daily duties that confront

them, farm life will be a drudge.



Indiana. J. L. JUSTICE.





Cargoes of new fall wheat from the





states are being loaded at Port Col-

borne bound for Montreal, probably to

be exported.
. “Keep tthardcn Weedless





This means much toward lightening





T is of quite as much importance

1 that the weeds be kept from gain-



ingthe upper hand in the garden

after the usual period of cultivation is

over, as during the usual time for

spring hoeing. True, the plants may

have practically reached their full

growth. With some kinds this sum-

mer cultivation is essential to devel-

ppment. Cabbage and cauliflower

must not be neglected, even all through

September frequent stirring of the soil

being necessary. These vegetables,

together with brussels sprouts, make

their principal growth after the exces-

sive heat of summer is past. Fre-

quently the cauliflower plants will

stand practically still until the cool

days commence; then it is a pleasure

to watch them grow. If the weeds

have been allowed to choke them up

during August there is little hope for

good heads to form. The cabbage is

more certain and may head up fairly

well, even if not thinned until late

summer. The best gardeners keep the

weeds from gaining a foothold, how-

ever.



Weeds Do Well in August.



August is a great month for weeds.

Many of the pigweed and ragweed

seeds seem to lie dormant in the earth

until midsummer, and then, when the

gardener is not looking, take the op-

portunity to spring up like toadstools

in the night. Pruslane is one of the

worst banes of long cultivated gar-

dens. It makes its most vigorous

growth after midsummer. Where quack

grass is abundant late summer culti-

vation will help to clean it out of the

soil. The spring cultivation will be of

little use in permanently eradicating

it unless followed up in August. Un-

less all the rootstalks were dug out in

the spring, the few left will multiply

and increase rapidly if the tops are

allowed to grow unchecked. The trou—

blesome rootstalks multiply and

lengthen only in proportion to the

amount of top growth made. There-

fore, to get rid of this worst of weeds,

keep up the cultivation all the year.





Do Not Let Weeds Ripen Seed.



The weeds which come up now are

the ones which will produce the seed

crop for next year. Nearly all the

weeds of cultivated lands are annuals,

that is, the seeds are self-sown each

year. The greatest factor in dealing

with these weeds is keeping them

from ripening seed. Each one suffered

to live will produce a multitude to

keep you busy next year. Not only

should all weeds be pulled out from

the rows of vegetables but the fence

corners and waste borders should be

looked to as well. Also, do not wait

until they ripen seed. Pull them be-

fore they blossom.



Some work may still be done with

the cultivator although many kinds of

plants are too large to allow for get-

ting between the rows comfortably.

About the only thing to do in this

case is to pull the weeds by hand. This

is particularly important among the

cucumbers, melons and squashes.

Where plants like beets, carrots, and

gether, the hand hoe can be used to

parsnips are planted in rows near to-

advantage all summer, even though

the tops are at their maximum size.



Fight the Late Weeds.



The plots where early peas, radish-

es, etc., if they are not replanted to

later crops (the good gardener will

always see that this is done), should

be cleared of all weeds and old vines.

Such spots will serve as weed nurser—

ies to cover the whole garden next

year. Finally, weed patches serve as

hiding places for innumerable insects.

Eggs are deposited there and the hi-

bernating insects find a refuge from

bird enemies. By all means “swat the

weeds.” Along roadsides and in old

pastures and hog pens the scythe

should be used to cut the weeds be-

fore they have ripenedx their--seed.





THE MICHIGAN FARMER





next year’s labor. When weeds are in,

bloom or soon after is the time to

take them down. C. H. CHESLEY.





TROUBLE DEPARTMENT.





Cucumber Diseases. .





What might cause the cucumber

vines to wither and die from tip to

root the entire length soon after they

blossom? Only one vine may be af—

fected in a hill, but this sometimes

spreads until most, or all, of the hill

is gone. Nothing seems to be visible

on the plant and I can find nothing at

the roots. Have you any suggestions?



SUBSCRIBER.





Undoubtedly the cause of your cu-

cumber vines withering is the bacte—

rial wilt. This disease is a trouble—

some one to the cucumber grower be-

cause of his lack of knowledge regard-

ing it and its source of infection. The

striped cucumber beetle is the chief

means of spreading this disease. Oc-

casionally the entire plant dies at one

time, in which case the infection took

place in the roots or at the base of

the plant, but more often the infection

takes place a foot or two from the

base, the first indication of its pres-

ence being the wilting of a leaf or

two. In a few days the entire plant

will die.



As the chief cause of the infection

is the striped'cucumber beetle the

chief means of control will be the con-

trol of this insect. The female beetles,

after feeding on the newlv set plants

for a few days, lay their .ggs in crev—

ices in the soil or the openings around

the plant. These eggs hatch in a few

days into larvae which bore into the

roots or the base of the stem, causing

a weakening of the plant and an in-

fection of the wilt.



The means of control on small

patches is the covering of the plants

when they are young. A dusting with

air-slaked lime, land plaster, or road

dust to which kerosene, turpentine or

some other material of offensive odor

has been added is efficient as a repel-

lant if the dusting is done when the

leaves are moist. A liberal application

of tobacco dust around the plants will

prevent the depositing of eggs in the

soil near the plants. When the plants

begin to grow, spraying with Bordeaux

mixture containing two pounds of cop-

per sulphate and four pounds of lime

to 50 gallons of water to which three

pounds of arsenate of lead has been

added will keep the beetle in check

if done frequently and thoroughly.



Excessive nitrogenous fertilization

occasionally causes a peculiar wilting

and curling of the foliage which may

be the cause of the trouble with your

vines if after a most careful examina‘

tion of the roots and stems you fail to

find any evidence of the boring beetle

larvae. Nothing can be done for this

except to stop using nitrogenous fer‘

tilizers for a while.



In order to lessen the sources of in-

fection all plants infected with the

wilt should be pulled up and destroyed.



The fungous diseases of the cucum-

ber usually cause irregular dead spots

in the leaf and a premature yellowing

of the foliage. Thorough spraying with

Bordeaux mixture and arsenate of

lead throughout the season will keep

them in check.



Growing Garlic.



Your report and illustration on mar-

keting garlic interested me. Please

give me information regarding its cul-

tivation. A. L. F.



Garlic forms bulbs similar to the

multiplier onion. These bulbs are sep-

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NOTES.





 





Pastures are not yielding well this

summer. A cold, dry spring is the

cause of it, I am sure. We have had

plenty of rain in mid-summer but this

did not take the place of early spring

rains. The grass did not get its usual

start and lacked in vigor. A cold May

and dry, too, retarded the growth of

grass and now in July we find short

pastures where they have been stock-

ed to anywhere near their normal ca-

pacity. In consequence of this We are

required to take a. number of our heif-

ers from the back pasture and bring

them down to the home farm so that

we can feed them a ration of silage

and hay. We intended to do this with

a number of heifers fed to fatten this

fall but it is necessary to take out

more of them to relieve the pasture,

else all will suffer from lack of food

before fall. We never had to do this

before. It is fortunate .that we have

abundance of alfalfa and clover hay

and also pea vine silge. Our pea crop

vines this year filled a silo 15 feet in

diameter, 40 feet deep after they were

well settled. Then we will soon have

sweet corn refuse in plenty also, and

the worst part of its will be the extra

labor of putting the cows in their

stables and feeding them morning and

night. I am sure, however, that it is

the proper thing to do. It will not

pay to run them on scant pasture the

balance of the summer. That sort of

work will not tend to develop dairy

heifers to make good dairy cows.

Balancing a Ration.



A new problem comes up in balanc-



ing a ration for the cows. Formerly





we have had corn silage, now we have

Always before we





pea vine silage.





have had clover or mixed hay, also

pea and cat straw, now we have alfal-

fa hay or pure clover bay for dry

roughage. With the corn silage rich

in carbohydrates we need cottonseed

meal, oil meal or gluten feed to bal-

ance the ration, that is, to furnish the

right proportion of food nutrients.

Now with the roughage part of the

ration richer in protein we do not

need this sort of concentrates, but

rather concentrates like ground oats,

corn meal, wheat bran, or ground bar-

ley. Of course, wheat bran is classed

with the protein concentrates. and cor-

rectly so, but nevertheless it is not

nearly so rich in protein as cottonseed

meal or oil meal and makes a better

ration with roughage rich in protein

like pea vine silage and alfalfa hay,

than cottonseed meal does.



I am figuring that ground corn and

oats, (chop), say one-third corn and





 





‘ . two—thirds oats fed with pea. vine sil-





age and- adults hay will make just

about the right proportion of the feed

nutrients, protein, carbohydrates and

fat, for a. well balanced ration for

dairy cows giving milk. Even if these

foodstuffs are abnormally high it will

make as cheap, or cheaper, ration than

cottonseed meal and oil meal fed with

corn silage. I have soy beans planted

with all my sweet corn, so I expect

that my sweet cornstalks silage will

be practically as rich in protein as

pea vine silage, hence this sort of a.

grain ration will answer for the whole

year. Of course, these grains I will

have to purchase as I am not growing

either of them this year. But then,

the other kind of farming will necessi-

tate my buying cottonseed meal and

oil meal so there is little difference in

the financial part of the management.

But there is a. striking difference in

the kind of farming and food problem

involved.





THE FAT CONTENT OF MILK AND

ITS FOOD VALUE.





 





In Mr. Lillie’s comments on my arti-

cle, “The Basis of Milk Values,” he

misses the point which I wished to

urge. True, we have the Babcock test

which shows the fat content of milk,

and this may Sustain a direct ratio to

the other solids, although there is a.

general apprehension that this rela-

tion is different in different samples

of milk. In the instance related in my

former article, coming under my ob-

servation, a cow giving a larger quan-

tity of cream a sample of the milk

tested 5.2, while a sample of milk

which showed a smaller amount of

cream from another cow tested 6.2.

Now, of course, I cannot say that a.

larger proportion of the other milk

solids went into the cream in the one

case, leaving the skim—milk poorer in

these elements than in the other, but

there was certainly a marked‘differ-

ence in the ratio of solids to fat in the

two samples of cream. Prof. Ander-





 





A Well-bred Sire is One of the Important Factors of Successful Dairying.





son, of M. A. C., in an address at an

institute recently is reported as say-

ing that the milk from Holstein cows

is superior to that from other cows

for family or food purposes. Evident-

ly this is because of a difference in

the ratio of these milk contents.

However, I am not disposed to take

issue with Mr. Lillie on this point.

Suppose this ratio is constant and the

fat test is always an accurate test of

the proportion of other solids in milk,

this by no means argues that we

should place the larger emphasis on

the value of the fat and largely disre-

gard that of the other predominating

solids, as is so generally done. If in

a mathematical problem we have the

third power of In as a factor we are

less concerned with the index figure

three than we are with the value of m

cubed. And suppose that in arriving

at the nutrient contents of oil meal or





AUG. 14, 1915'.

corn meal we were dependent on the

amount of fat, as we are in milk, we ’

should be laboring under a decided

economic disadvantage if we centered

our thought almost wholly on the val-

ue of the element of fat, and so 1111"ngL

1y disregarded the larger amount of

other food constituents, as we do in

milk. Our mistake is that while with

foods and feeds we think in terms of

proteins and carbohydrates, when it

comes to milk we allow ourselves to

think almost wholly in terms of fat.





There is always adecided advantage

in placing our estimate of values right

where value exists and not on some

element of minor importance. In

foods and nutrients generally we place

our estimate of values on the larger

proportions as they exist—in the pro-

teins and cerbohydrates——and largely

or almost wholly overlook the element

of fat. Milk is probably more largely

used as an article of food than other-

wise, and the relative proportion of

other solids to fat is similar in milk

to other articles of human and animal

consumption. Why, then, should we

so largely rearrange our estimate of

values when it comes to milk? Be

cause fat is the chief element of value

in butter-making why should we make

this the one criterion in all other uses

of milk? While it is doubtless true

that the fat content in milk is an ap-

proximate, quite possibly an accurate,

indication of the amount of other sol‘

ids, it by no means follows that we

should fall down and worship the fat

and anathematize the larger amounts

of other elements of nutrition for

which we largely use milk. I do not

think Mr. Lillie will disagree with me

on this point.





Allegan Co. EDW. HUTCHINS.





 





SAND VETCH FOR SOILING PUR‘

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How is sand vetch for summer feed-

ing to the milch cows to feed green?

When is the best time to sow it for

next summer cutting and how much

seed to sow to the acre?



READER.





Sand vetch is a good soiling (feed.

ing green) crop. It commences quite

early in the spring and lasts in a

green state about as long as any plant.

Cows and other stock like it and it is

richer in protein even than alfalfa.





It is usually sown in August with

rye in proportion of one part of vetch

to three parts of rye, and' then sow

about one bushel per acre. The rye

helps hold the vetch up so it is more

easily harvested. If vetch is not sown

with rye it lies flat almost on the

ground and is difficult to cut. In a

small way, however, it can be cut with

a scythe or with a mower rigged to

cut peas.





Vetch is much better fed alone than

with rye, yet if the rye is cut at the

proper time, cattle will eat it fairly

well. If one does not need‘ all for

soiling, the balance can be made into

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THE ,MICvHsIGAN FARMER





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'F 1tt1ng "Hogs for Market





N former years it was the practice

to feed the pigs along slowly

through the summer, winter them,



pasture through the second summer,

and fit for market in the following fall

and early winter. One of the prime

objects was to get fat hogs that car-

ried a large amount of lard. Such a

thing as quality in pork, aslfar as

lean meat was concerned, was rarely,

if ever, mentioned. It was fat pork

that was in demand for several rea-

sons, and that is what was produced.





Different Class of Hogs Demanded.



Compared with the hog business of

fifty years ago, the hog business of

today is radically different. Lean meat

is in demand by consumers of pork

meats, and only in exceptional cases

is the fat parts of the meat mentioned

by the consumers, except, perhaps,

when side pork is called for because

it is cheaper than pork chop, hams or

bacon. In the majority of cases it is

the tender, juicy, sweet, lean meat

that is sought for and secured if

possible.



With the facts in mind the pork pro—

ducers have the task before them of

meeting the demands of the consumer.

The problems of producing the lean

meat, at the least possible cost, are

the ones that should receive attention.

One should study the nature of the

pigs, for mature hogs are only a less-

er'factor in the business.



To secure the best results one

should look well to the inherent char-

acteristics of the animals with which

they are operating, as well as to know

the character of the feeds used and

what can be expected from the skill-

ful use of them. If the pigs are sired

by a strong, squarely built boar, and

the mothers are of the large roomy

type that consume a large amount of

feed, then if the mothers and the pigs

are properly fed while the pigs are

young, we may reasonably look for

thrifty, growthy pigs. Thrift and rapid

growth are characteristics that are in-

herited and acquired by pro-per treat-

ment. The inherent characteristics

come along with them at birth, and

can not be changed, but can be utiliz-

ed to good advantage by proper treat-

ment, or impaired by bad usage.



_One should keep in mind the fact

that muscles, the lean meat, come by

inheritance and can be developed by

'liberal feeding while the animals are

young and growing. Constant growth

produces muscles in an economical

way. To check the growth at any time

is to increase the costs of the produc-

tion of the desired weights. The costs

for the increase in weights are less

while the animals are young than lat-

er in life. The prudent producers can

easily see the methods which should

be followed in order to secure the

greatest profits.



As a rule farmers db not concern

themselves very much about the qual-

ity of the meat produced, for the deal-

ers pay about the same per pound for

pigs grown along slowly as they do

for those pushed along rapidly from

birth to market day. There should be

a distinction made between them, for

the meat from the pigs grown rapidly

is of better quality, more palatable

and more easily digested. The con-

sumers can afford to pay more for the

meat of the best quality than for the

inferior meats because they can get

more enjoyment in eating it, and more

nourishment out of it.



Results from Different Feeds.





lam willing to acknowledge that

corn has been relied on, to a great ex-

tent, as feed for the production of

pork from hogs of all ages. When

given favorable conditions corn yields

a large amount of grain per acre, and

at the same time a large amount of

forage, making it a desirable crop for

the, farmers to raise. Considered from

the point of commercial value; and the

means” which can ‘be Obtained from 'it





alone in the production of pork, it is

the mest expensive of the feeds gen-

erally used. It is the richest in car-

bohydrates and consequently causes

the accumulation of too much adipose

membrane, in proportion to the mus-

cle or lean meat, produced. It is a

fact that should be kept in mind that

fat costs more for its weight than the

lean, and as corn alone does not en-

courage the development of muscle in

the right proportion with the fat, it is

an expensive feed.





Excellent But Little Used Feeds.





There are other feeds than corn

that can be used to good advantage.

Field peas are an excellent feed for

the production of pork, both econom-{

ically as well as to the quality of the

meat produced. If sown on the right

kind of rich soil, and at different times .-

from very early in the spring to the;

first of July, and the hogs allowed tol

gather them as they approach matu-l

rity, peas make one of the best and’,

cheapest feeds that can be selectedl

for the production of pork. The cost ;.

of harvesting is eliminated and the}

pigs get just about the right amount'

of exercise while gathering their food

from them.



Barley is an excellent feed on which

to raise and fatten hogs. It has a

feeding value about equal to corn, but

the quality of the pork is. better than

that produced with corn. To get the

best results from barley it must be

harvested, .threshed and ground. Bar-

ley meal mixed with other feeds and

soaked for from 12 to 16 hours, starts

fermentation and thereby increases

the digestibility of the whole mass. It

should not, however, be allowed to

stand so long as to generate an acid

which will injure the alimentary tract

of the pigs consuming it.



A variety of feeds invariably give

better returns in increasing weight

and producing meat of the right qual-

ity than any one feed. Probably peas

come the nearest to a perfect feed for

pigs of any feeds. we use, but they do

not produce well on all soils, and can

not be relied on in all localities.



Wheat middlings are an excellent

feed to start the young pigs, and can

be profitably used with other feeds

during the whole feeding period. When

used alone the meat made from mid-

dlings seems a little too soft and flab-

by, but mingled with other feeds, like

corn meal, it adds palatability and di-l

gestibility, and also helps to balance

the ration making economical produc-

tion more possible than can be the

case without them.



Some Essential Points.



Among the things which should be

kept in mind while fitting pigs for

market to meet the demands at the

present time, are using a thrifty kind

of stock from which to raise the pigs,

promoting the growth early in life,

and keeping up a continuous growth

as long as they are kept on the farm,



As lean meat is what is demanded,

instead of putting the hogs in the pen

and feeding grain alone for a consider-

able time, as was the custom a half

century ago, the pigs are taken from

the pasture fields when in good healthy

condition, and supply the butchers and

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ELATION 0F FERTILIZER INDUS-

'TRY TO AGRICULTURE.





We have no accurate data of the

amount of fertilizers sold in this coun<

try prior to the enactment of the in-

spection laws in 1874 and later; but it

is believed that not over half a million

tons were sold in the entire country—-

most of it in the south, for cotton.

Today fully seven and one-half mil-

lion tons are sold in the country,

chiefly in the Atlantic seaboard states

—-—a marvelous growth in forty years.

Sources of Fertility—the Nitrogen in



Coal.



The framework or bone structure of

all living things is phosphate of lime.

We are finding an abundance of it in

unexpected places. Another funda-

mental element is potash. Nature has

furnished an almost inexhaustible sup-

ply in Germany but the world will not

- be content with one source.



Nitrogen, at present the most cost-

ly element of fertility, is in great

abundance everywhere. It is estimat.

ed that there are 35,000 tons of at-

mospheric nitrogen over every square

acre of the earth; but before this

great reservoir is tapped to any ex-

tent the nitrogen in by-product mate-

rials will he utilized. This is inevita-

ble for I cannot conceive that a proc-

css will be discovered which will

prove cheap enough to take nitrogen

from the air when it can be obtained

as a by—product of essential industries.



We have now reached the limit of

many of these by-products derived

from the soil, such as bone, meat

tankages and seed meals, but we have

not begun to touch the great source

of nitrogen in our coals. When we

come to consider this source the sta-

tistics are assuring.



According to government reports

the United States mined in 1913 a

grand total of 570,000,000 tons of coal.

Taking the statistics of twelve leading

coal-producing states as a guide, it is

safe to say that this coal averaged

about 26.6 pounds of nitrogen to the

ton—r-one and one-third per cent, or

nearly as much as 2:8:2 grade of fer-

tilier contains. This is equivalent in

round figures to 7,500,000 tons of nitro-

gen, or enough nitrogen to give 30

pounds to each improved acre of land

in the United States.



It would be absurd to assume that

all the nitrogen in coal is recoverable;

probably only a fraction can be saved.

England and Germany are recovering

"a very considerable amount from the

soft coals which they consume; but it

is obvious that we should recover as

much as it is possible for us to re-

cover, and when recovering that we

should encourage its use.



At present there are two feasible

ways of recovering this nitrogen. One

is in the manufacture of coke and

illuminating gas. The other is in the

production of producer gas for power

purposes by processes (notably the

Mond process) which conserve the

nitrogen in the form of sulphate of

ammonia, the tar and all the by-pro-

ducts of tar—and they are many and

valuable. There were approximately

200,000 tons of sulpahte of ammonia

produced in the United States in 1913,

chiefly from coal, conserving 40,000

tons of nitrogen, or enough to supply

nearly one-half of the nitrogen requir-

ed for the staple crops grown in New

England. The value of the nitrogen

in coal alone, at 10 cents a pound, or

half the present retail price, is equal

to the value of the coal at the mines,

or $2.50 a ton, leaving the gas, tar,

and its distillates, which are many and

valuable, to pay expenses and profits.

Cheaper Nitrogen an Outcome of the



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the food supply of the world is de-

pendent on the supply of nitrogen,

and predicts that, as the nitrate beds

of Chile will soon be exhausted, we

must find other sources of nitrogen to

sustain the world.



One of the beneficient outcomes of

the present war (and bad as it is I am

sure that good will come of it), may

be cheaper nitrogen. One of the es-

sential ingredients of destructive ex-

plosives is nitrogen. Chile saltpeter

has been the chief chemical source.

While the ports of Germany appear to

be closed, she does not seem to be

disturbed about it. It is evident that

the Teutons are getting nitrogen for

their explosives and their agriculture

from some other source than from

Chilean nitrate, probably from coal

and from the air by a new process.

After the war is over the world will

have the benefit of their discoveries.

It will be remembered that beet sugar





was an outcome of the Napoleonic

wars.

One section which undoubtedly





would benefit is the cereal belt of our

own country, where instead of 14

bushels of wheat per acre we might

see 28 bushels per acre; instead of 29

bushels of corn we might witness 58

bushels per acre. This certainly would

be a boon to this country, and it is

largely a question of cheaper nitrogen.

It is estimated that already the world

outside of Germany is obtaining fully

50,000 tons of nitrogen annually from

the air for agricultural and industrial

uses by new processes put into oper-

ation since 1906.



It is obvious that the utilization of

all by-product forms of nitrogen, in-

cluding municipal wastes, should be

encouraged by everyone and especially

by agricultural chemists and agronom-

ists. If, however, they discourage their

use, as is being done in some quar-

ters, then their utilization will be re-

tarded.



Whether or not artificial fertilizers

are plant food is no longer a debate

able question. That was settled years

ago by Liebig, Lawes and other great

experimenters. Whether or not it is

profitable to use them in all places

and on all crops will always be a de-

batable question; but it is not one

which the chemist or agronomist can

settle for the farmer, for it is an in-

dividual and local problem. The gov-

ernment might as well attempt to de-

termine what the farmer shall eat or

wear, or whom he shall marry, as to

say whether or not it is profitable for

him to use fertilizers. The govern

ment can help him in many ways, but

when it comes to the matter of what

will pay, only the farmer can deter-

mine that for himself, by experiment

on his own soil and crops.



As to the matter of profit, with their

present limited experience in the use

of fertilizers it may not now pay mid-

dle west farmers to use them in suffi-

cient quantity to meet all crop needs.

Assuming that such use will not be

profitable, it does not follow that it

will not pay individual farmers to use

fertilizers to supplement any system of

agriculture which they may adept in

order to improve the quantity, hasten

maturity and insure results. That

alone is enough to justify their use in

the middle west today.



Restoring the Balance—Other Import-

, ant Factors.



Important as our industry is and

will be in helping to. restore the bal-

ance, we must remember that we are

only one factor. Other important fac.

tors will be at work, such as better

cultivation with better implements,

better seed, better drainage, rotation

of crops and the growing of legumi-

nous crops. All will co—operate to help

restore the balance.





‘Many' think. that irrigation will be

the most important factor in restoring

the balance. It-is true that water is





the largest factor in’ crop production, ,

but virgin irrigated lands after a time,





will need fertilizers as much, if not

more, than the unirrigated,‘for the big

crops as the result of irrigation will

make correspondingly big drafts on

the available fertility of the soil.



Italy, like France, has been farmed

for centuries and is still a productive

country. Germany has been farmed

intensively a hundred years and is

now producing 88 per cent of the food-

stuffs required by her 65,000,000 pop-

ulation. Secretary Houston states

that there is only 40 per cent of the

tillable land in the United States un-

der cultivation. When the remaining

60 per cent is brought under the plow,

or, better still, when the whole is

made to produce by intensive methods

twice as much as it produces now

(and western Europe is an example of

what can be done) we shall have food

enough and to spare.



It seems to me the pressing prob-

lem is not of production but of distri-

bution. The excess of farm products

in certain sections and scarcity in oth-

ers as, for example, 25,000,000 bushels

of potatoes in Aroostook county and

an apparent scarcity in New York re-

sulting in potatoes being thrown away

at times in Maine and still selling at

a dollar a bushel in New York, is a

striking illustration. When the facil-

ities of distribution and exchange are

improved this condition should be

remedied, and when remedied every

one should be able to afiord three

square male in our great cities and

the farmer should get his fair share of

the dollar. If‘he does get his fair

share there will be little question of

food supply.



Therefore are you surprised that I

am an optimist and do you wonder

that I am proud of our industry and

the place it holds as a co-worker with

the farmer in the agricultural andin-

dustrial development of our country?





Extracts from a paper presented by

W. H. Bowker at meeting of the Na-

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EXPERIMENTS WITH FARMYARD

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Extensive experiments made by the

West of Scotland Agricultural College

on the storage of manure under cover

and in the field, showed that when

stored for four months in well trodden

heaps the indoor manure lost 16.5 per

cent in weight and the outdoor ma-

nure lost 20.6 per cent, with an aver-

age annual rainfall of 39.32 inches.

The indoor manure lost 20.4 per cent

of its nitrogen and practically none of

its phosphoric acid and potash, while

the outdoor lost 28.4 per cent of its

nitrogen, 21.1 of its phosphoric acid

and 28.3 of its potash. The rotted

manures were in each case poorer in

total and available nitrogen than the

fresh, the losses in this respect being

greater in the outdoor than in the in-

door manure. The greatest loss was

in ammonical nitrogen, amounting to

from 70 to 80 per cent of that of the

fresh manure, 18 per cent of the total

nitrogen of which was in ammonical

form. There was a slightincrease of

amid and of insolute nitrogen in rot-

ted manure. There was no loss of

phosphoric acid and potash where

there was no drainage. The average

increase of crop (potatoes and tur-

nips) in favor of manure stored un-

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OMMY GROVE was standing in



front of the new novelty store



window looking at the display.

There was an aeroplane kite nearly

three feet long, and Chinese dragon

kites, and bird~kites—all kinds of gor-

geous, high-colored things, it seemed,

except the plain old-fashioned sort

with a long bobbed newspaper tail.

That was the kind Tommy had at

home, and it had been made by the

skillful but tremulous fingers of his

old grandfather.



There was the right sort of breeze

stirring, and it was the beginning

of the kite season. All the young peo-

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blood, for those on the street talked

of little else, and already a dozen or

so more or less gorgeous affairs were

jerking and nosing into the air, re-

strained from below by excited, sky-

gazing boys and girls. Tommy had

thought of taking out his own kite just

as soon as he got back from the post-

office, but a sight of the kites mount-

ing into the sky, and a look into the

shop window, rather disheartened

him.



There were a good many young peo-





ple in town, for the summer hotel was





full of guests, and it was derisively.





called “The Kiddery” by the village

people on account of the number of

boys and girls it looked after. The

village was very healthy, with good

water and air and drainage, and city

parents had got into the habit of send-

ing or bringing their children up here

for long visits. A number of them

were 011 the sidewalk now, by them-

selves or with parents or nurses. Just

as Tommy was turning away, a gen-





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tleman and two small girls and a boy

stopped in iront of the Show window.



“Just look at that aeroplane!” cried

the, boy eagerly. “Isn’t it a beauty?

I guess that would fly up into the sky

all right! Buy it, father!”



“Well, I suppose I’ll have to,” re-

signedly. “But. I haven’t much faith

in such showy fellows. Why don’t

they keep some of the old time bob-

tailed kites like I used to fly when a

boy? I wouldn’t give one of them for

a dozen of these painted advertise-

ments. But I suppose they're out of

fashion now.”



“You mean a plain flat kite, with a.

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“Yes, but I don’t believe you know

quite what I mean. I haven’t seen one

since I was a boy.”



“I think there’s one up on top of

the hill, at the little brown house," de-

clared the boy. “I was by there yes-

terday with nurse, and a boy was fly-

ing a kite that I’m pretty sure was

the kind you mean. And it went away

up in the sky, higher than any I’ve

yet seen.”



“That sounds like the old-fashioned

sort,” approved the gentleman. “They

would beat any of these new-tangled

things. Maybe you’re right. We’ll

make our regular walk, over that way

after lunch. If it’s so, I’ll find where

the boy got his, and buy each of, you

one; or if he made it, we’ll hire him

to make some more. That’s the kind

of kite that would sell—or ought to.

But here,” taking some silver from his

pocket and handing it to the boy, “you

may as well buy the aeroplane and

try it, then if we get the other sort

you can judge the two.”



Tommy had lingered a little and

heard all the conversation. Now he

sped along the sidewalk toward home,

his heart full of elation. The gentle-

man and his companions were “board—

ers.” He could tell that from the way

they looked, and, being boarders, they

knew things. And the gentleman had

said that old-fashioned kites were the

best, the very best. He would go

home and send his up into the air at

once, so high that everybody could ee.



But as he ran on another thought

came to him. Money was scarce in

the Grove family, and to help out a

little his mother wove carpet rags,

and Grandfather platted baskets, and

Tommy himself delivered milk for a

neighbor nights and mornings. But

during these later years Grandfather

was becoming a good deal of a child

again, and he liked to be with Tommy

and make and fly kites better than to

weave baskets. Tommy already had

two fine kites, and there was the frame

for a third, which, as the old man said

would be all ready in case one of the

other kites got lost or broken.



V‘Vhen Tommy reached home he

found his grandfather seated on the

sunny side of the house with some

basket wood across his lap, but the

tremulous hands were idle and the old

eyes were gazing dreamily across the

valley. But the gaze dropped as the

boy stopped beside him.



“Pretty fine wind for kites,

my,” he suggested.



“Yes, it’s fine,” Tommy agreed. “But

say, Gran’ther, let’s get out that kite

frame and be at work on it. Maybe

you can sell some,” and he told what

he had heard at the store window in

quick, excited sentences. “And they’re

to come by here this afternoon,” he

finished; “and if we can get this one

done maybe they’ll buy all three. You

could make me another, you know.”



“Sell kites!” the old man quavered,

scarcely less excited than Tommy.

“Who ever heard 0' such a thing! But

if I could ‘twould be sights pleasanter

than making baskets. Tommy, Gran-

’ther & (10., Kite Makers & Sellers,

he, be!”



He rose stiffly and laid the basket

materials aside, and shuffled toward

the house. Tommy gathered up the

basket work and followed him. When

they came out their arms were full of

stocks and paper and string, and on

the wrists of the old man hung a pail,

from which the handle of a brush pro-

truded. That was his glue pot.



“Sell kites,” be repeated, as be

spread his work conveniently around

him. “Never heard 0’ such a thing.

What you s’pose one ought to be

worth, Tommy?”



“Don’t know,” answered Tommy.

“Haven’t any idea. But the aeroplane

was marked three dollars, and the

cheapest kite in the window, a small

dragon, was marked a dollar and sev-

enty-five. What do you think one

ought to be worth?”



“Well, I dunno,” thoughtfully, “but

it takes nigh half a day to make a





Tom-





. as twenty-five cents.





THE MICHIGAN FARVMER





good one, so it ought to sell for much

That would be

fifty cents a day, which I s’pose is all

I’m worth these times, though I used

to make good wages. Now you hold

that end 0’ the stick while I measure

the paper.” -



Tommy helped with the body of the

kite until the old man began to paste,

then was set to bunching paper upon

the string for the tail. But at last

there seemed nothing he could do, so

he rose.



“Guess I’d better do another job be-

fore anybody comes round, Gran’ther,”

he said; “and that is paint a sign. If

we’re going into business we need a

sign, so folks will know. There’s some

black paint left in the cellar.”



He searched around until he found

a smooth heard, about one foot by

three, and then got the paint and

wrinkled his face in anxious thought

for some time before commencing to

work. But at last his face cleared,

and dipping the brush into the paint

pot he began.



The old man was aroused by hear-

ing the board being nailed to the end

of the house. Craning his neck around

curiously, he read in bold black let-

ters, “THE KITERY."



“Sort 0' made up name, ain’t it?" he

queried. “But I guess it’ll be as good

as any, ’long’s it ’tracts ’tention. Who

is that coming up the hill yonder?”

suddenly, as he turned back to his

work. “Are they the ones?”



“Yes,” Tommy answered, his voice

trembling a little with anticipation.

“They're coming straight here. I’m

glad the kite’s just being finished, and

that it’s such a nice looking one.”



“This is the place, father,” said the

boy, a few minutes later, as his party

drew near and grouped themselves

about the kite maker.



“Yes, so I see," acquiesced his fath-

er; “and that is exactly the kind of

kite I used to fly when a boy. And——

why, certainly, there’s the sign on the

house," smiling a little as he noticed

the board just nailed up. “So you sell

kites?”



“Going to, if folks’ll buy,” answered

Gran’ther; “but ain’t yet. Fact is,

Tommy heard what you said down in

front of the store, and came and told

me. I made this, thinking of you.”



“Really?” exclaimed the gentleman.

“Then it was nice of you both. And

as I’m the originator of a new busi-

ness I suppose it’s up to me to send

you some customers. I’ll have to

speak to all my young friends at the

hotel. Now what is areal kite worth?”



“We—l-l, I dunno," hesitated Gran’-

ther. “Seems as if I ought to be worth

fifty cents a day, and it took most half

a one to make that. Would twenty-





five——”

“Pshaw!” interrupted the gentle-

man. “I’m ashamed of you, sir! And





for Skilled labor, too. Why, I paid

three dollars this morning for a flim-

sily made aeroplane, and it’s already

broken up. Suppose we say two dol-

lars. That seems a fair price; and I

would like two more—what!” as Tom-

my came hurrying from the house

with a kite in each hand; “got them

already! But I don’t like to take

yours, boy.”



“That’s all right,” assured Tommy

eagerly. “We’re glad to sell, and

Gran’ther will make me another.”



“Very well,” smiled the gentleman,

“and I can assure you we are glad to

buy.”



He counted some money and slipped

it into Gran’ther’s hand. “There are

six dollars for these three,” he said;

“and I will advertise your work at the

hotel. I’ll promise you at least five

more orders from my nephews and

friends, and I think other boys will

know a good thing when they see it.

Now,” to Tommy, “I want you to come

out on the hill and show my young

people a little, for I'm afraid I’ve

grown rusty.”



Gran’ther watched them'wistfully as

they moved away, as if he would like

to do a little kite flying, too. But just





now there was something eyen nearer





to his heart. He shuffled round to the





back of the house.



“Mandy, oh, Mandy!” he called

shrilly. ‘



A middle aged woman hurried out.



“What is it, father?” she asked anx-

iously. “Don’t you feel well ?”



“Feel well,” exultantly, as he thrust

the six dollars into her hand. “Guess

I do feel well! Mandy, I earned all

that, and two of it in less than half a

day! Four dollars a day, Mandy! And

there’s more coming. I ain’t so old,

after all, daughter, not so awful old.”





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By RANDALL PARRISH.





AUG. ’_ 14, 1915»





Something in the pathetic eager-

ness or the old man brought moisture

to the daughter's eyes. She placed her

hands upon his shoulders.



“You old, father,” she chided. “What

put such an idea as that in your head?

You're only eighty-three, and I've

known men of ninety who worked and

said they felt real young. You’ve made

more today than lots of strong young

fellows.”



The old man chuckled gleefully.



“So I have, so I have,” he mumbled.

Then he shuffled out on the hill to

help Tommy fly the kites.





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CHAPTER XXII.





 





A Step Nearer.





I saw it all clearly enough now, al-

though her situation was not quite as

desperate to my mind as it appeared

to her. Yet it might result even as

she feared, for Pickney would certain~

1y .be furious at the indignity of his

treatment, and Raymond was of a dis-

position to seek revenge; while all I

knew regarding Ramsay was, that he

was a rigid disciplinarian, little given

to acts of mercy. I could not ignore

her plea, nor would I misconstrue it.

It was fear .Which thus drove her to

me; she had more confidence in my

kindness than in their justice—that

was the whole story. The poor girl

was so frightened she had chosen

blindly—she could perceive nothing.

realize nothing, except the necessity

for immediate escape. My own resolve

was instant.



“Do not say any more, Noreen,” I

said soberly, but making no attempt

to touch her. “I understand now. You

me? you wish to ride with me?”



u es,”



“It will be a hard journey, and I

cannot guess the end. But you trust

me fully?”



“Yes,"



“We are to be friends, real friends?”



“I‘ trust you; is not that enough?

All I ask now is, do not leave me

here alone.”



Her fingers clasped my coat, her

eyes suddenly lifted to my face.



“Promise me that, Tom,” she beg-

ged brokenly. “It will be all I ask.”



“ urely; we will go together,” and

I gripped her hands tightly in mine.

“Whatever happens I will do my best.

But we must go at once.”



“Yes, and——and thank you.”



We crept forward along the shadow

of the orchard fence, until we mingled

with the horses fastened at the hitch-

ing rail. There were seven altogether

tied there, and I selected among them,

as best I could in the darkness, two

that seemed well adapted to our pur-

pose. I helped her silently into the

saddle, thrusting one of my revolvers

into the empty holster, and then

mounted myself. There had been no

noise, no disturbance, and the sleep-

ing camp behind remained quiet. Only

one light gleamed from an upper win-

dow of the hotel, and we were safely

beyond its reflection. The girl was

but a dim shape, the riding cloak she

wore completely hiding her form. I

could no longer distinguish the sound

of distant music, but the courthouse

was still aglow.



“Which way had we better go?” I

asked, my face close, our horses touch-

mg.



\“Along the south road at first: there

is \a cutoff just back of the old school.”



‘And the pickets? Do you know

where they are posted?”



“At the ford of the Green Briar——

the main ford.”



“There are none at Benton?”



“No; I do not think they even know

the river is fordable there; it is not

on the maps."



We rode forward slowly, my hand

on her bridle rein, keeping in the deep-

er shadows along the side of the road,

until we passed beyond the last house

of the village. I felt no fear of en-

countering the pickets posted at the

Green Briar, for the wood trail she

mentioned, leading off just this side

of the old red schoolhouse, would take

us a quarter of a mile east. If we

could attain Benton’s Crossing before

daylight out chances of getting hidden

in the mountains were most excellent.

If the camp was not alarmed for an-

other half hour, our pursuers would

be given a hard task. Strange, though,

that the Federal scouts had never lo-

cated the Benton ford. To be sure it

was narrow, and of no value in high

water, yet an ideal place for raiding

parties to cross, and all those hills be-





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yond were full of guerilla bands eager

to strike quick and get safely away.

That they dared to attack small bodies

of troops. and especially poorly guard‘

ed wagon trains, had been demon-

strated more than once, and this se-

cret ford gave them easy opportunity.

The Cowans certainly knew of its

feasibility, and the wonder was they

had never utilized it before. The long-

er I thought the more I began to dread

the unknown dangers ahead—the

gauntlet we must run before attaining

the Confederate lines. We could baffle

pursuit, but if once we came into con-

tact with those irregulars of the moun-

tains—merciless, irresponsible~no one

could predict the result. And every

mile of the way we must now trav-

erse lay directly through their coun-

try—a region bare, inhospitable, open

to all the nameless horror of civil war,

where men fought like wolves, and

woman suspected every stranger. I

glanced aside at the girl, riding so

silently at my side, but she was a

mere shadow in that darkness. Should

I tell her the fear that almost par-

alyzed me, now that I faced it clearly?

Should I compel her to return, and

permit me to go on alone? I could

skulk along through the night, discard





. my horse, travel afoot, and thus avoid





encountering any of those villains. I

was myself a mountaineer, and knew

the secret trails—alone, on foot, with

no one else to care for, or defend, I

could discover some unguarded pas-

sage. But with her beside me, the two

of us mounted, such a feat was almost

impossible. I must find her food and

shelter, and we could not travel on

horseback without leaving a trail un-

concealed. To be sure I knew her of

old; that’she was strong, resourceful,

fearless—yet she was a woman to be

protected from insult, to be guarded

against exposure; more, she was the

woman I loved.



_ But would she be in any less danger

if I compelled her to return to Lewis

burg? To be sure, nothing worse than

linprisonment would be her fate at the

hands of the Federal authorities—but

she would be exposed to indignities, to

almost certain persecution from Ray-

mond. If I understood the inner na-

ture of the fellow his one thought now

would be revenge, and he would halt

at nothing in an attempt to attain it.

I believed she feared him more than

all else; that she would prefer the ex—

posure and danger of the mountains

rather than remain alone within the

scope of his power.



“Noreen,” I said, turning my face

toward her. “Do you really think it

best to try this ride with me?”



“You do not wish me to go?” she

asked, as instantly reining up. “You

want me to return?”



“No, not that. I have no thought,

but for your own good. Only do you

understand the perils through which

we must pass in those mountains?”



“Yes, I do understand,” she answer-

ed soberly, “and I comprehend, as you

cannot, the danger of my returning to

Lew1sburg. I will never go back there;

but, if you think it best for us to

part, I will endeavor to reach Charles-

ton alone.”



“You would rather go on with me?"



“I made that choice, but if you con-

sider me a burden—”



“No, it is not that, Noreen," I inter-

rupted, touched by the regretful tone

of_her' voice. “It was of you I was

thinking; not of myself. Then we go

on together?” .,



She was silent, her eyes on the

darkness ahead.



“It must be your decision," I in-

sis-ted.



“‘I made my choice an hour ago,"

she answered frankly. ,



I waited an instant, thinking she

might say more, but she sat motion-

less in the saddle. Just what her de-

cision signified I could not judge. It

seemed to me that between two dan-

gers she had simply chosen the one
AUG. 14. 1915.





she deemed to be the lesser. It was

not affection for me, but fear of oth-

ers, which urged her forward. Grasp-

ing her bridle rein I rode on through

the dark without another word. The

decision had been made; now we must

both of us abide the consequences.





 





CHAPTER XXIII.





The Raiders Pan.





T the schoolhouse, appearing'a

mere blur on the side of the 11111

we turned west, following a nar-



row weed-grown bridle path through

a tangle of second growth timber.

Seemingly no one ha traveled this

way for months, and I had to dis-

mount in order to discover the choked

passage. It was small wonder its ex-

istence had been overlooked by hurry-

ing Federal scouts, and left unguard-

ed. Benton’s cabin had been burned

six months ago, Noreen told me, and

the old man was believed to be dead.

Few others ever used this cut-off, or

had occasion to pass this way, and

the weeds had quickly taken posses-

sion. I was obliged to feel for the

worn trail, as it wound here and there

along the slope of the hill, and then

finally down a shallow depression to-

ward the river bank. The horses step-

ped cautiously, pressed closely togeth-

er in the narrow rut, and the only

noise was the occasional stumble of a

hoof. Where the cabin formerly stood

on a point of land, nothing remained

visible but a gaunt chimney, and the

remnant of a rail fence. I skirted this

latter, guided by the shining of the

water of the river beyond, and thus

we came down to the shore. My mem-

ory of the spot was hazy and uncer-





 





tain, and I stared across at the black





woods opposite, shading my eyes in

an endeavor to distinguish some for-

gotten landmark.



“Have you ever crossed here?” I

asked doubtfully. “I scarcely remem-

ber where the ford lies?"



“Yes," she replied, leaning forward,

“with my father a year ago. Benton

came dowu and showed us the course;

but I did not think much then of what

he said. We took the water directly

in front of the house, here at the end

of the point, and—oh, yes; there was

a dead tree with one great limb ferk-

ing out on the other bank, we were to

aim directly for. Can you see any‘

thing like that?”



I hollowed my hands and looked, but

nothing along the opposite shore ap-

peared with any distinctness—«it was

a mere blur of trees.



“Was the ford straight across?”



“I think slightly to the left; anoth-

er point juts out there. See, the river

is narrower right across in that direc-

tion,” and she pointed. “I am sure we

only partly met the current. There is

something dark against the sky now;

higher up above the tree line. I am

not sure that is the dead limb, but it

must be almost directly in line. Do

you see what I mean?"



“Yes; at least I imagine so. We

must risk it.”



I swung up into the saddle, and re-

sumed my grasp of her horse’s rein.



“We’ll ride together, but keep your

feet free in the stirrups. If your horse

misses his footing let go of everything

else, and cling to his tail; he'll tow

you ashore, and you used to swim.”



“So you remember my accomplish-

I am not in the least fright-



ened. Don't worry about me,” and she



held out her hand. “You’ll not find

me a bad soldier.” '



“I am certain of that—not if you

are still the same girl I played 'With.”



Her hand was in mine, and was not

withdrawn.



“I—hardly think I am,” she answer-

ed soberly, a little catch in her voice.

“I am not a girl at all any more, but

I keep something of the same spirit, I

hope.” -



I have never understood what spell

there was about her to keep me silent.

I had never before lacked audacity,

yet I dare not speak the words that

were on my lips. Whether the person-

ality of the girl held me embarrassed,

or the peculiarity of our relationship,

I do not know. Surely there was noth-

ing in her manner, or words, to indi-

cate such a thing, yet the thought had

taken firm possession of my mind that

she was the victim of circumstances;

that she accompanied me merely to

escape from threatened danger; that

her graciousness was largely acting,

and that she would remain a compan-

ion only so long as I continued re-

spectfully attentive. I knew I loved

her; I felt now that I had loved her

ever since we were boy and girl to-

gether. The touch of her hand sent a

wild thrill through me, and my heart

throbbed to the memory that she was

actually my wife. But I dare not per—

mit her to even guess the truth, for I

felt that she regretted the weakness

of_ that moment and would resent the

slightest reference to it. I could only

hope that time, and courtesy combin-

ed, would awaken her interest in me.

If I could serve her quietly, the very

love I gave might amuse response—-



’ but not yet.

I released her hand, venturing upon





, rock strewn,





THE MICHIGAN FARMER





no reply,_and we rode down the steep]

bank into the black water. The horses

advanced slowly, cautiously, and I

made little effort to guide them, al-

though from that lower level, I felt as-

sured I saw the fork of the dead tree

silhouetted against the sky above the

opposite bank. There were a. few stars

out, and their light reflected along the

surface of the water, the faint gleam

more confusing than helpful. The cur-

rent was strong, but steady, and the

stream deepened rapidly, until we

were obliged to lift our feet to keep

them dry. The bottom seemed to be

and occasionally the

horses stumbled, splashing us with

water; once her mount stepped into a

hole, and plunged desperately to re-

gain footing, but the girl never utter-

ed a sound, and my grip held. Half-

way across I was certain as to the

dead, tree, and aimed our course

straight by its guidance. The sullen

sweep of the water, out of the dark-

ness above, into the darkness below,l

and the brooding silence, lay hold on

my nerves. The black shore we were

approaching was full of mystery, for-I

est shrouded.





“What is over there?” I asked, un-

able to keep still, and feeling the com-

panionship of my own voice.



“Nothing; just a trail through a

strip of woods up a long hill. The riv—

er road is only a few rods back—the

road to Hot Springs.”



“There is no house near?”



“Only the old Cowan place, two

Smiles south, but that has been burned



own.”





“And to the northeast?”

“I have never been that way.”





Nor had I, yet it seemed to me that

was by far the safer course for us to

follow. Cowan’s gang was to the south,

their headquarters somewhere in Mon-

roe county. No doubt the range of

mountains we must cross would prove

the rendezvous of other bands no less

dangerous, but We would be safer with

any of them than in the hands of Cow-

an. Besides that upper country was

occasionally patrolled by troops, and

the guerillas would be less aggressive

in consequence. It would be compar-

atively easy to avoid the soldiers, for

we would not attempt to travel by

daylight.



The water began to shallow, and we

drew in under the shadows of the

wooded bank. It was so dark I could

discover no break in the forest growth

and was obliged to dismount, and

wade about on foot before I could lo-

cate the narrow path that led up out

of the dale. This mounted steeply, a

mere gash cut through the tangled un-

dergrowth, compelling us to advance

in single file, I ahead leading my

horse. The passage was so narrow

and rough that caution was impossible

in that darkness; we must venture,

and trust to luck. So we pushed our

way through to the top of the rise,

and came suddenly to an open space,

where a dozen acres had been cleared,

the stumps of trees still standing in a

field of weeds. I would have plunged

straight ahead had not Noreen halted

me with a low cry of warning while

we were yet hidden within the wood

shadow.





‘_‘Th_ere is a man over yonder,” she

said in a breathless whisper. “Ay,

more—see! They come toward us.”





I was not sure I saw, yet I backed

the horses into the thicket, and stood

at their heads, gripping their nostrils.

Noreen slipped from her saddle, and

Joined me, peering out through the in-

terlaced branches. Over her shoulder

I glimpsed a section of the open field,

and saw the dim, indistinct shadows

advancing. They were men on foot,

walking so closely bunched as to make

it Impossible to distinguish their num-

ber. The leader, a yard or two in ad-

vance, apparently knew the way well,

and the others pressed on after him

across the open ground almost on a

dog trot. Indeed, they were upon us

before we gained more than a swift

gllmpse of them, plunging into the

narrow opening that led down to the

river. There was no attempt at silence

their hurrying feet stirring up the

dead leaves, and voices calling out

warnings along the line, or raised in

sudden profanity. The noise thus

made saved us from discovery, the

horses moving restlessly in spite of

our efforts at control; but without sus-

plcion the file swept past, scarcely a

dozen feet from where we stood, and

disappeared in the dense blackness

below. I counted thirty-three men,

vague, shapeless shadows, each hear-

ing a gun, and. as the last straggler

crashed by, and disappeared, I felt

Noreen’s hands clasp my arm, and

glanced at her.



“They have all gone,” I said reas-

suringly.



"Yes, I know,” her words a whisper.

“Do you know who they are?”



“Only to make a guess. They were

shadows rather than men—but they

Were not soldiers.”



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UR new neighbor went to town



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low, spearing a slice of bread

with his fork before Grace could catch

up the plate to pass it to him. “She’s

some classy lady, Gracie. You wouldn’t

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last month if you took time to study

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Grace’s mouth tightened in a hard

little line. "I've no doubt I could

learn a great deal besides fashions if

I took the trouble to study her,” she

said grimly. “I don’t see where you

get. time to see how stylish she is. I

thought. you were so rushed with work

you wouldn’t have time to stop for

your own funeral.”



“We’ve always got time to look at a

pretty woman, eh, Bill?” John answer-

ed with a wink at the hired man,

“and she certainly is a beauty. She’s

bright, too . I heard her talking down

at the store last week and she knows

what’s what. Always has an answer

for everybody. \Vhy don't you call on

her, Grace? I’d like to know her

better.”



“I haven’t time to visit my friends,

let alone making new acquaintances,”

said Grace. .“1 don’t believe in pick-

ing up with everyone that comes into

the neighborhood, anyway. Vt'ait un-

til you" see what they are, my mother

always said.”



“And in the meantime let them die

of loneliness,” said John. “Don’t you

know the law says a man’s innocent

till he is proven guilty? But you

women suspect everyone who won’t

give you a diagram of their lives from

the cradle to the grave.”



“Maybe we do,” said Grace starting

for the living-room, “but if we do

that’s better than opening up the par-

lor to a lightning rod agent. Mrs.

Baring may be a fine woman, but no

one knows where she came from, and

I don’t intend to get friendly with her

till I find out,” and she slammed the

door behind her, thus effectively clos-

ing the conversation.



The idea of John calling that red-

haired woman a beauty! GraCe sniffed

contemptuously in the mirror over

the mantel, as she viewed her own

brown locks which just now showed

the need of a brush and comb. She

might be pretty, too, if she had time

to doll herself up every morning and

drive off to town in the cool of the

day. She pushed her hair back from

her forehead impatiently and looked

searchingly for wrinkles. Thank

Heaven there were none,

was a miracle after all she had been

through that summer. And what had

all her hard work got for her? Instead

of being appreciative’John took occa-

sion to admire the first pretty woman

who came into the neighborhood; ac-

tually stopped his work to stare at her

driving by! Well, if he thought she

was going to call on Mrs. Baring and

invite her there for him to get ac‘

quainted with he was quite mistaken.

Mrs. Baring would sit home alone a.

good many days before she took the

trouble to call upon her, and with a

virtuous feeling of superiority Grace

returned to the kitchen and began the

tri-daily task of disbwashing.



Nevertheless her aversion for the

new neighbor did not keep her from

running to the window to watch her

drive by when she sighted the high-

stepping bay and the up to-date trap

coming over the crest of the hill. If

there was one thing more than anoth-





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The Domestic Crucible—14.





Grace Decides Against the “Angel Unawares.”





er that Grace admired it was a fine

horse and a smart conveynce, and she

told herself that it was the outfit and

not the woman that interested her.

Her interest in the horse did not keep

her from surreptiously inspecting the

driver, however. The glance that

swept the. turnout took in the smart

little hat with its clusters of flowers,

the neatly fitting gaberdine suit, with

set-in sleeves and 1915 skirt and the

putty colored driving gloves that cov-

ered the firm, dexterous hands. A

jealous pang shot through Grace’s

heart as she thought of the kimoni-

sleeved coat. she had to wear this sum-

mer and involuntarily she wondered

if the sleeves could not be cut over.

Not. that she would copy Mrs. Baring.

Indeed not. but. the fashion papers all

showed plainly that kimoni sleeves

and sloping shoulders Were entirely

out.



Then her reflections were brought

to an untimely end by a fresh stab.

Aunt Ann was actually waving her

hand at, that woman in a most. friend-

ly manner. Of all things, to be .so

free with a complete stranger! But,

then, GraCe reflected, Aunt Ann was

queer anyway. And besides, she was

past. 60 and had no men to worry

about. Grace turned from the window

with a flounce generated of one part

honest. doubt as to the propriety of

entertaining strangers and nine parts

jealousy. Maybe Mrs. Baring was all

right, but if she was she wouldn’t.

spoil by waiting for time to prove her

worth.



During the afternoon Grace got time

to get. down her last year’s coat and

look it over. It certainly was dowdy





after a vision of what this year had

done to the styles. She got out her

fashion magazines and hunted through

it for direction for making over a ki-

moni sleeved garment, and found

what she thought would do. A little

ripping and cutting and a bit of stitch-

ing would completely change the gar-

ment, and she straightway reached for

her sharpest scissors and began to

snip. The process of making over was

so absorbing that she quite forgot

time and was just trying on the bast-

ed coat when John slammed in for

supper.



“That looks more like it,” he said

admiringly. “I thought that thing of

yours looked queer after I saw Mrs.

Baring’s.”



Grace snatched the coat off, and

flung it on a chair. “Mrs. Baring is

not the only woman in the neighbor-

hood who knows what’s stylish,” she

snapped. “The rest. of us could look

like fashion plates, too, if we could

squeeze out the money to buy new

clothes every time the styles chan'ged.

I’ll have supper in ten minutes,” as

the door between the kitchen and din-

ing-room banged viciously behind her.



\Vhatever faint. possibility there had

had been of Grace’s calling on the new

neighbor vanished, killed by the jeal-

ous spasm that. seized her. Not that

Grace, usually so honest with herself

and others, admitted she was jealous.

She told herself she hadn’t time for

new friends, and that it was far better

to be cautious in making acquaint-

ances, eSpecially when the strangers

were so ultra-modern in clothes and

conversation.



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The Art of Blending Fruits





By MRS. E.





T is not usually thought that the



more choice and expensive fruits



may be successfully extended by

using a foundation of the fruit which

is the most plentiful in one’s own

garden. Another thing of equal value

to the housewife is that some of these

extensions, blends, and combinations

are more agreeable to the taste and

less trying to the digestion.



My experience has been that rhu-

barb, crabapples and any juicy, tart

apple from the orchard are the best

and most common foundation juices.

Rhubarb is first on the season’s list,

then.apples, etc.



Speaking of red pineapple, “where

did you get them and did they cost

more than the ordinary kind?” This

was the exclamation when I first tast-

ed rhubarb-pineapple preserves. These

were made from the red-stalked vari-

ety of rhubarb, the sauce was a bril-

liant color and very delicious. The

pineapple is finely shredded and cook-

ed until tender in just sufficient water

to cover it nicely, next the rhubarb is

cut and added. The right proportion

to use is one part pineapple to two of

rhubarb, using a large cupful of sugar

to a pint of the cooked fruit. After

the combination is stewed until soft I

add the sugar and let the mixture sim-

mer for 15 minutes, then it is sealed

in jars while hot.





A really delicious marmalade is





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made of rhubarb and oranges. For

proportions use two quarts of the rhu-

barb cut fine, to one dozen nice sized

oranges and three pounds of sugar.

First slice off the yellow rind, remove

the seeds, then slice the oranges into





 





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I have also carried currant juice ov- "





er the summer months and combined

it with crabapple. Another good jelly

blend that many of my friends have

complimented is wild grape and crab-

apple. Currant, wild grape and crab

apple make a pleasing combination for

jelly, and it will be hard for the guests

to say which, it is, as it has a. very pe—

culiar flavor.



Two more excellent blends of fruit

are the bar-berry, apple and quince,

apple. Because of the pungency of

both, one part can be used to two

parts of the apple. For jelly I use a

good tart apple, for sauce I use a good

juicy sweet apple. Pears may also be

substituted, but it is very important

that they possess what the barberry

and quince sometimes lack, plenty of

juice.



Another good mixture for making

jelly of a very pleasing flavor is the

juices of sour cherries and wild grapes.

Using crabapple with the cherry juice

is very good.



There are many other combinations

equally delicious, but the above will

afford a great variety of experiments

and each one will have a flavor pecu-

liar to itself. Every housewife should

try one or more of these. You will be

delighted with the results, and you

can have your friends guessing when

they taste the different combinations.





 





HOME QUERIES.





 





Household Editor:—Could you or

anyone tell me where I can get a book

on fortune-telling or palmistry?—B.

M. B

..VVe can not give addresses of busi-

ness firms in this paper. Such re-

quests must be accompanied by a

stamped envelope.



.Household Editorz—Will someone

give reliable recipe for making dill

pickles like those sold in stores?—

Reader.



To make dill pickles place a layer

of dill leaves over each layer of cu-

cumbers as they are picked and put

in the brine. Or put one or' two ‘dill

leaves in each can when the pickles

are scalded in the vinegar.



Cranberries may be washed and

placed in cans, and covered with cold

boiled water and will keep for years.





Vt'hen opened they are soft as though

cooked},I but are perfectly good—Mrs.





the kettle into which the rhubarb and F R





the sugar have already been put. Cook

slowly until the consistency of marma-

lade. Be very careful to save all the

juice of the oranges, and should the

skins be very soft and oily, do not use

the yellow part of more than three-

fourths the, number.



The jam mixtures of currant and

gooseberry, andcurrant and raspberry

are too well known to cause any fur-

ther discussion, unless I may say that

equal quantities of the fruit bring the

best results. «But if we desire a very

choice,‘richly flavored jelly, it can be

had by an even blend of red currant

and red or purple raspberry. Either

the nursery or wild fruit can be used,

whichever we have. My method is to

seal the hot, strained juice and put it

away until the crabapples are ripe. If

the crabapple tree does not bear this

year, use Baldwins or some other good

variety from the orchard. Those that

have blown down will answer this pur-

pose. Use even quantities of rasp-

berry and apple when possible. How-

ever, I have had 'very satisfactory re-

sults with one part raspberry and two

parts of crabapple juice.





Thank you for recipes for uncooked

berries and grapes. ’ Several others

have sent them in.





Household Editor.—Will someone

kindly tell how to finish a floor cover-

ing made of burlap for kitchen or din-

ing room.——-Mrs. L. E. K.





A “HAPPY BABY.”





 





 





BY AILEEN now.

“Come little-fluff, are you hungry?

‘ Come an’ share my'b'r'ead'and milk,

An’ let me pat'your head of silk.

But be sure you know your place,

An’ don’t lick my hands or face."
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PRACTICAL WORK IN THE FARM-

ERSf CLUB.





 





If one who has attended Farmers’

Club meetings fairly regularly for

nearly a score of years, and who has

carefully followed the reports of local

meetings published in the Michigan

Farmer since the inauguration of the

Farmers' Club' Department may be al-

lowed space for kindly criticism, he

would gladly avail himself of it. In

this connection it would be proper to

say that the writer has a very high

opinion of the value of the Farmers’

Club, as at present conducted, to the

people of any cemmunity, particularly

the Club members. But there would

seem to be opportunities for a broad-

ening of Club work to an extent which

would make the organization of still

greater benefit to the members and to

the whole community as well.



'The Club is an educational institu-

tion of no- small value, yet in the dis-

cussion of questions members often

reflect preconceived ideas without evi-

dence of special preparation. It would

be an excellent plan to get reference

books, reports, etc., from the state

library bearing upon the subjects to

be discussed and place them at the

.disposal of the members who are to

participate in the‘ discussions. This

could easily be done by submitting the

subjects to the state librarian and ask-

ing for references, or better yet, by

having a committee of the Club look

up authorities on the subjects propos-

ed for discussion.



Another way in which most Farm-

ers’ Clubs oould increase the educa-

tional value of their meetings would

be through the securing of outside

speakers on topics of economic im-

portance to the members. This is very

easy of accomplishment, since the

teaching staffs of our state education-

al institutions can be called upon free-

ly for work of this kind with assur-

ance that such calls will be responded

to in every case where it is at all pos-

sible. Besides that, men who have

made a notable success along any par-

ticular line will be glad to respond to

similar calls and attend Club meet-

.ings generally without charge other

than the payment of their expenses.

The holding of special lecture courses

during the winter also offers an edu-

cational opportunity which but few

Clubs have improved, but the Clubs

which have once engaged in this line





' of effort will be found enthusiastic in





their praise of its educational possi-

bilities.



There are likewise-problems which

it would be greatly to the benefit of

every community to settle definitely

which the Farmers’ Club could be

largely instrumental in working out

at very small cost to the‘ members, as

for instance the growing of a new

crop, the testing out of varieties, the

efficiency of different methods of soil

preparation, etc., all of which work

could easily be conducted by an inter-

ested committee with whom the mem—

bers of the Club would co-operate, the

report of such trials to be given at





. some meeting at the close of the ex-





periments, to the great benefit of all

concerned.



The Farmers’ Club could also well

be made the nucleus of organizations

for conducting cooperative enterprises

of various kinds, and instead of being

made- a mere occasion for routine

work and social enjoyment, it could

be made of real'economlc value to the

entire oommunity.——-A. F.





THE MICHI





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Our Motto:—“The farmer is of more

consequence than the farm, and should

be first improved.”





 





FARM HOME DEDICATED BY

GRANGES.





 





The Grange from the first has been

centinually striking its roots deeper

into the ideals and institution of the

rural home. The finest fruit of its

strength in this direction is seen in

the new practice of the dedication of

the farm homes of its members by the

Grange as an organization. The ser-

vice used for this purpose is thei

crowning gift of that tireless expound-

er of Grange principles and senti-l

ments, Hon. Mortimer Whitehead. ' I





The first time this ceremony llaSI

been observed in our county of Wash-_I

tenaw and, so far as I know, in the

state, was on July 14-, when the home?

of J. B. Steere was formally dedicated ‘

by Pittsfield, Union and Ann Arbor|

Granges. The Steere family consists

of father and mother and nine chil-Z

dren, all energetic, alert-minded, and"

educated in the Ann Arbor schools“

State University or Ypsilanti College,

between which institutions their home 5

is located upon the trolley line. This

home is unique; it is independent‘

Spirited and individual as its inmates.

Indeed. the house and grounds strike

even the stranger within their gates

as the outgrowth of a virile, happy

family life in which toil and recrea-

tion are cheerful yoke fellows. It is

the “ideal farm home” of which we

prate but too seldom discover.





To this home came officers and mem-

bers of these two local Granges bid-

den by, its owners to dedicate it to the

noble ends inculcated by the Order

and to confer upon it the name by

which it is henceforth to be known.

On account of the mid-summer crowd-





 





 





ing work, no attempt had been made

to hold a rehearsal of the dedication

ceremony but, despite this impromptu

character, the service was very effec-

tive. Its central feature is a flower-

laden altar which little children drape

with the national flag and on which

officers of the Grange .in- turn place

their tributes with appropriate senti-





 





ments. Then follows the unveiling of

the name selected for the farm home.l

In this instance the name, “The Steer-

age,” stood revealed when a tiny child

drew aside its covering; and, of

course, a speech was next in order by

our host, Brother Steere. Nor were

his remarks the least impressive and

thought-provoking part of the pro-

gram. Stanch, fearless, absolutely

democratic himself, this honored apos‘

tle of Jiberty and justice told his





friends and neighbors that he hadl I





chosen this name, not for any face-

tious reason, but because he meant it

to stand for the best principles of true

democracy and that he hoped by this





 





means to help incite in his children

the determination to keep the home in!

.the family for generations to come.





Following the formal dedication the

company distributed itself in groups}

over the lawn, the house and porches

and enjoyed ice cream and cake. l



The free use of favorite Grange andl

patriotic songs throughout the dedica-

tion service and the abundance of

familiar Bible texts which occur in it

make this new Grange ceremony atl

once strong and simple, yet so easy to





render even with little practice, that .





I heartily commend its use to other

Granges.

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Report for .week beginning August

11 for the region of the Great Lakes.

There is a tropical disturbance over

the southern windward island section

and’ the weather for the territory east

of the Mississippi river for the coming

week is largely dependent upon the

movement of this disturbance. At

present the indications are as follows:

For the region of the Great Lakes,

fair weather for several days except

probable showers on Wednesday or

Thursday over lower lake region; un-

settled towards end of the [week with

showers probable. Moderate tempera-

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GRAINS AND SEEDS.





 





August 10, 1915.



Wheat.—Notwithstanding estimates

put the wheat crop for 1915 as the

largest ever harvested in this country,

values have ranged higher the past

week than the week previous. This

was due largely to inclement. weather

which traders believed would limit the

amount of merchantable wheat. On

Monday when more encouraging

weather prevailed there was bearish—

ness aplenty and values sagged. How-

ever, it must be understood that the

market is having good support under

the pressure of the bumper crop. The

American visible supply is the small-

est in years for this season, foreign

markets are higher and they need an

enormous amount of wheat in Europe.

The spring wheat harvest is here

which will converge the early market-

ing with winter wheat and will prob-

ably enable buyers to bear the trade

for a while One yeai ago the price

for No. 2 red wheat was $1.01 per bu.

Quotations for the week are:





No. 2 No. 1



Red. White Sept.

Wednesday . .1. 14 1.11 1.11%

Thursday . . . .1. 14 1.11 1.1134

Friday . ...1 13 1.10 1.10

Saturday . .1.14 1.11 1.11

Monday ........ 1.13 1.10 1.10

T nesday ....... 1.14 11 1.13%





1

Chicago. —Septemb1e2r wheat $1. 071/2;

Dec, $1.08; May $1.12,é.



Corn. -—The government estimate of

corn is less than the t1 ade had figured

upon, however at the opening this

week the grain followed the trend of

wheat. Unusually good Weather will

be needed to makeb marketable corn

of much of the crop. One year ago

the price for No. 3 corn was 88c per





bushel. Quotations for the week are;

No. 3 No. 3



Mixed. Yellow.



Wednesday ......... 82 831/1



Thursday ........... 83 841/1,

Friday .............. 82% 84

Saturday ........... 82% 84

Monday ............. 81% 83



Tuesday ............ 82 83%,



Chicago. —September corn 74.7c;





Dec., 640; May 65. 20 per bushel.

Oats.—The estimate of the govern-

ment shows this grain to be in poorer

condition than has been thought. The

improvement in the weather will save

much from being spoiled by the con-

tinuous rains. Prices are better than

a week ago. At this date last year

standard oats were selling at 4514c

per bushel. Quotations for the week





are as follows:

Standard. Whit3e.

N





0.

Wednesday ......... 57 1,6 57

Thursday ........... 58 1A», 58

Friday .............. 60 59 1/2,

Saturday ........... 60 59 1/2

Monday ............. 60 59 1A)

Tuesday ............ 60 59 1





Chicago.-Septen1ber oats

Dec., 39. 7c: May 42.7 _-pe1 bushel



Rye. ——This ce1eal is inactive with

the nominal price advanced lc to

$1.02 per bushel for cash No. .



Beans. ——Prices 11p 5( Crop dam-

aged by rains.Det10it quotations are:

Cash $2 65; September $2. 75. Chicago

tiade is quiet and steady. Pea beans,

hand- picked, choice, are nominal at

$2. 82@3; common $2. 62@2. 80; red

kidneys $3. 25@3. 50.



Clover See Oc-

tober $8.50; alsike $9.



Timothy Seed.——Prime spot $3.35.





         





FLOUR AND FEEDS.





Flour.—Jobbing lots in one-eighth

paper sacks are selling on the Detroit





market per 196 lbs., as follows: Best

patent $6.50; seconds $6.30; straight

rye flour





$6; spring patent $7.10;

$16. 5.0





Feed. —In 1001b sacks, jobbing lots

are: Bran $25; standard middlings

$29: fine middlings $32: cracked corn

$28: corn and oat chOp $30 per ton.



Hay. ——Market is steady. Carlots

on, track at Detroit are: No 1 tim-

othy: $22@23; standard $21@22; No.





,é bu; potatoes 75c;





2, $20@20. 50; light mixed $21@22; No.

1@in51xed $18@18. 50; No. 1 clover $14

New YOrk.-—Steady. Prime $29; No.

El, $28@29; No. 2, $26@27c; shipping

$22@23 per ton.

Straw.—~Rye straw $8@8.50; wheat

and oat straw $6.50@7 per ton.





DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.





 





 





Butter.—-—Receipts are large; much

is going into storage. Prices are un-

changed. Extra creamery 25c; firsts

24c; dairy 21c; packing stock 18c.’



Elgin.~—Smaller receipts brought an

increase of 1&0 in price. Quotations

for the week are 250 per pound.



Chicago—Market is firm at prices

about 10 lower than last week. Extra

creamery 24@241,éc; extra firsts 23@

231/20; firsts 211/2@221A2c; seconds 20

@210; packing stock 181/2@190.



Poultry.—Market is firm and the de-

mand is good for heavy hens; broil-

ers also sell well. Live—Broilers, No.

1, 19@200; No. 2, 17@180; heavy hens

150; others 12@13c; ducks 14@150;

geese 10c.



Chicago.——Fowls are firmer ‘and

higher, springs slightly lower; other

kinds are steady. Fowls, good weights

131,60; spring chickens 16@17c; ducks





12%@131/§c; geese 8@10c; guinea

hens $2.75@3 per dozen.



Eggs—Good eggs are firm. Much

under grade stuff coming. Candling





is necessaiy. Candled firsts sell at

180; current receipts 160.



Chicago ~Ma1ket is firm and prices

slightly higher. Good fresh stock

moves well. Miscellaneous lots, cases

included 15@171/20; ordinary firsts 15

@16c; firsts 171/1@171/éc.



VeaL——Quoted steady at 14@14%c

for fancy, and 13@131/2c f01 common.





FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.





 





 





Cherries.——-In demand at $2.25@2.50

per bushel.



Chicago—Choice fruit is scarce and

sells well, but poor stock is easy. Sour

sell at $1@1.25 per 16-qt. case; sweets

$1602.25 depending on quality.



Raspberries—Steady and scarce.

Reds are quoted at $4@4.50 per bu;

blacks at $4604.25 per bu.



Chicago.—~Receipts of blacks light,

of reds ample. Good stock of either

sells well. Much poor stuff being re-

ceived. Blacks 750@$1 per 24-pt case;

reds 75c@$1.25 per 24-pt. case, depend-

ing on quality.



Blackberries—Active at $1.50@1.75

per 16-qt. case.



Chicago.——Quality is generally good

and prices low. Good fruit brings pre-

mium prices. Michigan dewberries

sell at $1.25@1.50 per 16~qt. case;

blackberries $1@1.25.



Peaches—Michigan peaches are not

quoted. Supply of southern stock is

good.



Chicago—Receipts heavy and de-

mand not sufficient to absorb arrivals.

Michigan clings sell at 50@750 per

bushel, 10@17c per 1—5 bushel basket.





GRAND RAPIDS.





 





Fall apples are coming in quantities

now, with Duchess selling at 65@75c,

and Astrachans at $1.25. Plums and

first Clingstone peaches are here and

are selling around $1.25@1.50 per bu.

The potato market. is slow, with sup—

ply greater than the demand, and 400

is top figure as a rule this week on

the city market. Red raspberries are

worth around $1.75 per case: black

caps $1.50; blackberries $1.25, and

huckleberries $1.75. New hay is worth

$11@13; new red wheat $1; live fowls

11@12c.





DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.





 





 





Considerable business was done on

Tuesday morning at fairly satisfactory

prices. Tomatoes are coming more

freely with prices from $2.25@3.50 per

apples $1.25@1.50;

cabbage, white 206; do. red 650: rasp-

berries 20c pe'r qt: blackberries $3.25

per 24-qt. case; butter beans 750 per

bu; plums $2; eggs 28@300; lettuce

30c per bu; loose hay offered around

$24 per ton.





LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Buffalo.

August 9, 1915.

(Special Report of Dunning & Stev-

ens, New York Central Stock

Yards, Buffalo, N. Y.)



Receipts here today as follows: Cat-

tle 200 cars; hogs 115 d. d.; sheep

and lambs 18 d. d.; calves 1200 head.



Goo‘d cattle sold 25c per cwt. lower,

and the common and medium cattle

were off 25@5(Ic per cwt. The trade

was very bad on the latter kinds and

several loads are left over that could

not be sold without a big sacrifice.

Chicago and New York markets are

in bad shape. We do not look for

much advance on the common cattle

from now on, as Texas cattle .have

started to move.



We had entirely too many hogs

here today for the good of the trade

about 115 cars, including 25 held over





 





from Saturday. Our market was in a

very unsatisfactory state. While the

prices were a little bit higher, some

grades sold no better than Saturday.

Strictly pigs sold as high as 8c per lb;

yorkers and lights from $7.70@7.90, as

to weights; ligh-t mixed $7.40@7.50;

extreme heavies from $7@7.25, as to

weight and quality. Late market was

strong on anything light, but hogs

weighing above 225 sold rather dull

and some of this kind going over un-

sold. Best roughs sold from $5.75@

5.85; stags $4.50@5. Our prices loo-k

low here compared with other markets

and no doubt will have a stronger

market balance of the week on any-

thing handy.



The market was active today on

lambs and sheep, with prices steady

with the close of last week; most of

the choice lambs selling at $9.50. We

look for steady prices the last of the

week with moderate receipts.



We quote: Lambs $9.25@9.50; cull

to fair $7.50@9; yearlings $6.25@8;

bucks $3@5; handy ewes $6.25@6.50;

heavy ewes $5.50@6; wethers $6.50@

7.25; cull sheep $3@5; veals, choice

to extra $11.50@12; fair to good $8.50





 





@1050. Heavy calves $5@8.50.

Chicago.

August 9, 1915.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Receipts today..22,000 25,000 12,000





Same day 1914..10,845 17,474

Last week ....... 39,161 125,449 71,545

Same wk 1914..31,750 64,496 47,654



The cattle run today included about

3,000 head from the western ranges.

Butcher stock sold freely at steady

prices, but trade was late in the other

kinds, and it looked as though the

market would close 1060150 lower.

Hogs were active and 5@10c higher,

with sales at $6@7.65.

lambs were active at steady prices.



Cattle prices fluctuated last week

more than usual, with higher values

on Monday, when the receipts were

only 15,633 head, followed by declines

later in the week, with larger offer-

ings. Trade requirements on local.

shipping and export account were not

especially larger than usual, and kill-

ers discriminated against grass cattle,

paying good premiums for fat corn-

fed lots, with yearlings that were fat

selling at better prices than heavy

beeves. In fact, heavy steers were

unpopular and moved off more slowly

than heretofore. The bulk of the

steers sold at $8.60@10, with the best

class of heavy steers taken at $10@

10.25, while the best yearlings brought

$10@10.40. Inferior to fair grass

steers of light weight sold at $6@7.50,

common to medium warmed-ups at

$7.60@8.50, medium in good heavy

steers at $8.60@8.95 and good corn-

feds at $9@9.95. Yearlings sold all

the way down to $7.50@8.50 for the

poorer offerings. The western range

season opened on Wednesday, when

31 cars of Montana rangers arrived.

They were in good killing shape and

sold at $7.5.5@8.50, averaging from

975 to 1153 lbs. Butchering cows and

heife1s met with the usual demand,

with sales at $4. 90@9. 50, fat little

yearling heifers selling much the best,

and the best cows going at $8@8.50.

Cutters sold at $4.30@4.85, canners at

$3.50@4.25 and bulls at $4.75@8.

Calves found an outlet at $5@9 for

the heavier class, with the better class

of light vealers going at $10.50@11.50,

the advance being in choice offerings.



Hogs sold last week at an extremely

wide range of prices, with rallies

much oftener seen in good corn-fed

barrows than in the too numerous

rough, grass-fed sows of the heavy

packer class. Some increased runs of

hogs brought about sharp breaks in

values, and a drop of 15@25c took

place on Thursday, with average qual-

ity of the offerings only fair, and about

6,000 hogs being left unsold at the

close. Recent receipts averaged in

weight 239 lbs., comparing with 249

lbs. one year ago and 236 lbs. two

years ago. Fresh pork is having a big

outlet, and provisions are in large re—

quest on domestic and foreign account

with exports of 17,555,500 lbs. from

this country in a recent week, compar-

ing with 10,506,540 lbs. a year ago,

but the heavy production of cured

meats and lard results in unusually

large accumulations. On August 1

Chicago warehousesheld 172,586,573

lbs. of provisions, comparing with 184,-

286.743 lbs. a month earlier and 95,-

867,921 lbs. a year ago. Provisions

have followed the same course as hog

prices, and recent sales of pork were

at a decline of over $6 per barrel from

the price of a year ago During the

last. few davs prices broke sharply,

closing on Saturday at $5. 90@6. 10 for

heavy packers. $6. 15@6. 30 for mixed

packing, $6. 60@7. 35 for selected butch-

ers, $7. 40@7. 55 for light Shipping, $6.40

@680 for heavy shipping and $5.25@

7.45 for pigs.



Sheep, yearlings and lambs have

been doing very much better for their

owners recently than a short time ago,

when prime flocks of lambs were sell-

ing around $8 per 10.0 lbs. Native

lambs and native eyes have shown up

in fair numbers, with the ranges of





25,567





Sheep and





Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washing-

ton furnishing a liberal share of the

daily runs and lambs greatly predom-

inating. Everything at all desirable

in the live mutton line sold much

higher than in other years, and ad-

vices from Missouri river markets”

speak of a demand for feeding lambs .-

from the range at high prices, as high

as $8.10 per 100 lbs. having been paid.



At the close of the week prices were.



Lambs $6. 75@9. 50; yearlings $6. 25@

7.50 wethers $6. 25@6.90; ewes $3@.

6.85; bucks $4.50@5.50. -





THE BROOKWATER DUROC SALE.





 





The Brookwater Farm sale of Du-

rocs On July 28 was well attended, and

the offering was fully up to the high

Brookwater standard set at previous





sales. Although buyers included

breeders from nine states, including

Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois,





Oklahoma, South Carolina, California

and Louisiana, a considerable portion

of the offering, including some of the

best individuals,“ went to Michigan

buyers. The 36 bred sows made an

ayerage of $55.55 While the 13 spring

pigs averaged $38. The high price of

the sale was $133, paid for Orion Chief

Belle IV, (by Tippy Col.),, by Stuart

Acres Farm, of Michigan. The open

gilts, sold with free service to The

Principal 4th, averaged close to $100.

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Thursday’s Market.

August 12, 1915.





Cattle.





Receipts 1501. There was another

heavy supply of cattle on the local

market this week and the quality as a

rule was.common, few good steers be

ing in the receipts and not a head

good enough to bring over $8 a hun-

dred. Many were light stocking grades

for which the demand is very light on

account of quarantine regulations still

prohibiting their return to the farm

101' feeding purposes. The market was

steady at last week’s close on every-

thing but bulls, which were 10@15c

lower. Milch cow vealers who have

been fighting hard to do business have

about given up the struggle and it

looks as though, so far as the yards

are concerned, they will be unable to

do business this summer. Best heavy

steers, dry-fed $8@8.50; best handy

weight butcher steers $7.50@7.75; mix-

ed steers and heifers $6.50@7.50;

handy light butchers $6@6.50; light

butchers $5.25@6; best cows $5.75@

6.25; butcher cows $5@5.50; common

cows $4.25@4.75; canners $3@4; best

heavy bulls $5.75@6; bologna bulls

$5.25@5.75.



Haley & M. sold Feldinan 2 cows av

775 at $4.50, 2 bulls av 900 at $5.40-

to Sullivan P. 00. 2 cows av 1125 at

$5.50, 1 do wgh 1050 at $5, 7 do av

mm at $6, 2 do av 995 at $5.65, 6 butch-

ers av 830 at $6.35, 6 do av 763 at

$6.33. 1 cow wgh 870 at $5.25; to Ham-

mond, S. & Co. 4 cows av 887 at $4;

to Kamman B. Co. 2 steers av 850 at

$7; to Bresnahan 1 heifer wgh 530 at

$5.50; to Hammond, S. & Co. 19 butch-

ers av 600 at $6.10, 20 steers av 937

at $7.50; to Applebaum 3 butchers av

54:; at $5.90; to Feldman 10 do av 838

at $5.20; to Grant 10 do av 565 at

$5.60; to Breitenbeck 17 do av 862 at

$7; to Mich. B. Co. 6 cows av 1000 at

$5.75, 12 butchers av 583 at $5.25, 5

steers av 800 at $6.85, 3 cows av 1040

at $5.50, 14 steers av 925 at $7.60, 1

do wgh 920 at $7, 5 cows av 860 at $6.



Reason & S. sold Johnson 7 cows

av 1140 at $5.90, 4 do av 1122 at $5, 3

do av 970 at $4; to Mason B. Co. 1

bull wgh 1780 at $5.75; to Hammond.

S. & Co. 2 steers av 1070 at $7.75; to

Sullivan P. Co. 2 bulls av 1095 at

$5.50, 3 cows av 1113 at $5.65, 2 steers

av 900 at $8; to Fisher 1 cow wgh

1010 at $4, 1 do wgh 1095 at $5; to

Mich. B. Co. 10 butchers av 914 at $7;

to Thompson Bros. 10 do av 855 at





$7.10.

Veal Calves.



Receipts this week 503. Good grades

of veal calves held about steady, the

best bringing $11@11.50, but common

and heavy were dull and 50@75c low-

er, selling at $5@9.50.



Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. B. Co. 2

av 190 at $11.50, 5 av 130 at $10.50, 6

av 155 at $11, 2 av 275 at $9, 16 av

160 at $10.



Reason & S. sold Thompson Bros.

12 av 170 at $11.75.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 3180. The sheep and lamb

trade opened up Wednesday with best

lambs selling at $9.25@9.50, but broke

around noon and were 25@500 lower

on lambs and on Thursday the top

lambs brought $8.75 and dull at the

decline as follows: Best lambs $8.75;

fair lambs $8@8.50; light to common

lambs $6@7; fair to good sheep $4.50

@525; culls and common $3@4.



Sandel, S., B. & G. sold Parker, W.

8: Co. 40 sheep av 110 at $4.50, 15 do

:v 105 at $4.25, 4 do av 125 at $5, 14

do av 110 at $5, 2 lambs av 75 at $9, 5

do av 80 at $9.25, 57 do av 80 at $9.25,

50 yearlings av 80 at $8, 39 lambs av

65 at $9.25, 15 do av 80 at $9.25; to

Mich. B. Co. 13 do av 75 at $9.25, 96 do

av 45 at $8, 7 sheep av 105 at $5; to

Newton B. Co. 28 lambs av 50 at $5;

in Sullivan P. Co. 53 do av 75 at $9.25,

22 sheep av 115 at $4.75.



Haley & M. sold Parker, W. & Co.

10 yearlings av 100 at $6.50, 10 sheep

av 138 at $4.50, 173 lambs av 72 at

$9.25, 84 do av 68 at $9, 10 do av 58

at $6.50, 6 do av 80 at $9.25; to Mich.

ll. Co. 83 do av 73 at $9, 29 sheep av

100 at $4.50;-to Parker, W. &, Co. 32

lambs av 80 at $9.50, 202 do av 70 at

$9.25; to Mich. B. Co. 10 sheep av 123

at $3.25, 71 lambs av 70 at $9.





Hogs.



Receipts 2498. In the hog division

the trade was steady with Wednesday.

Pigs and lights weights $7.65@7.75;

heavy $7@7. 5; mixed $7.50@7.70.



NOTE—At noon Thursday the fed-

eral government placed a strict quar-

antine on Saginaw county and noth-

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any purpose. It has not as yet been

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER_





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Distribution the Real Problem

By R. H. .ELSWORTH





A New View of the Fruit Growing Business as it Appears to One Who Is

'Thoroughly Acquainted with It from Both the Growing

and Marketing Ends.





HE people of the Grand Traverse



region are expecting much from



the recently organized fruit and

produce exchange. The great prob-

lem before the people of this region is

that of getting the' fruit- growing in—

dustry onto a business basis.



Potatoes Pay the Bills.



The Grand Traverse country has

been a fruit growing section for sev-

eral generations. It has produced

some fine quality fruit with the right

flavor and a few growers have made

money out of the fruit game, some a





fair amount and a very few decent

fortunes. The most of the fruit grow-





ing in the past has been in the nature

of a side line along with general farm-

ing. And in most of the cases there

has been a goodly amount of potato

growing along with the other farm

work. The potato has been the source

of a large amount of the accumulated

wealth of the region. Much more than

half the time the potato crop has been

a profitable one. The annual gross re-

turns for the region have varied from

half a million to a million of dollars.

The potato crop has probably built

more barns and more comfortable

farm houses than any other crop. The

tuber has caused the clearing of more

land, and has furnished the money for

the purchase of more additional acres,

than has all the fruit crops put togeth-

er. It has even furnished a large

share of the capital for the buying of

the fruit trees and the financing of or-

chard propositions until they have

come into bearing.

Why they aré Popular.



The potato has been the backbone

of the prosperity of the region for sev-

eral reasons. First the potato does

well on new land, returns can be ob-

tained in a comparatively short time,

the capital needed to produce a crop

of potatoes is not large, the technical

knowledge required for the growing of

a crop is not great, the potato is not

as perishable as the fruits, there has

been a local cash market for the pota-

to for many years; furthermore, the

climatic conditions are so favorable to

the potato that there is never a total

loss because of weather conditions. So

because of the certainty of a crop and

the certainty of a cash market the po-

tato has been the mainstay of the

iarmers of this section.



Under favorable conditions fruit

growing brings larger returns per acre

than potato raising. Fruit growing

calls for the greatest amount of intel-

ligence of all the farm industries, it

demands a larger amount of capital

per acre than the other industries, and

because of weather conditions has

ronsiderable of the element of specu-

lation in its producing end, and be-

cause of the perishableness of the

product has even a larger element of

speculation in its marketing end. Fruit

growing really calls for the largest

amount of intelligence of all the agri-

cultural industries.



Only Recently Have Large‘lnvest-



ments Been Made.



While the more venturesome of the

people of northwestern Michigan have

been experimenting with fruit growing

for better than fifty years, and while

a few have been eminently successful,

it is only during the last twenty years

that commercial orchards have be-

come known and the rank and file of

the farmers have made heavy invest-

ments in orchard enterprises. A fruit

tree census of the orchards of Leela-

nau and Grand .Traverse counties





made in 1913 showed that over 85 per

cent of the trees than standing had

been set since 1908. If the figures for

the settings of 1914 and 1915 were

available they would show that better

than 90 per cent of the orchard trees

now set were planted during the last

seven years, and that fully tWO-thirds

of the large number of new trees are

yet to come into bearing. A few fig-

ures bearing out these statements will

not be uninteresting. During the years

1909, 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913, 70,718

apple trees were set in the territory

covered by the census. The mostiof

these trees are yet to come into bear-

ing. The total number of apple trees

set prior to 1909, according to the cen-

sus, was but 31,885. The figures for

the cherry orchards are even more

significant. The total number of trees

included in the census was 140,378,

and of this number 125,533 had been

set since the beginning of 1909. In

five years the cherry orchard acreage

increased almost ten fold. If we had

the data for 1914 and the spring of

1915, the increase since 1909 would be

found to be eleven or twelve fold.

Two Classes of Problems.



The number of peach trees has in—

creased from 5,000 in 1908 to over 95,-

000 in 1913. The total is now prob-

ably over 100,000.



The conclusions reached in an an-

alysis of the figures returned by the

census undoubtedly hold good for

thousands of acres of orchard land

not visited by the enumerators. There-

fore it is safe to state that northwest-

ern Michigan is just on the edge of

the problems connected with the fruit

growing. The Grand Traverse coun-

try has advertised itself as being en-

gaged in fruit growing, but its past





him by word of mouth and recorded in





books, as well’as the advise-anthelpr





of the officers of the experiment sta-

tions and the professors of the agri4

cultural, colleges. In a general way

all the experience of those who have

grown fruit, is at his command. The

one factor he cannot handle with cer-

tainity is that of the weather. The

season may be good and the crop re-

turns abundant, or it may be bad and

the grower may have little to show

for his efforts. The weather chance

is a gamble that he has to take. .On

rare occasions unfavorable weather

conditions can he overcome by smudge

pots or other devices, but more often

the fruit grower has to be content

with what is delt him. He has to

do a certain amount of speculating

as to what the season has in store

for him.

A More Serious Problem.



The second group of problems con-

fronting him are those connected with

the marketing of his product. These

are really more serious than the grow-

ing problems, because they have not

been so well mastered by his pre-

decessors. Both problems and so-

lutions are largely in a state of chaos.

Many of the problems lack definitness.

They are intangible, ofttimes unrecog-

nied, and rarely have they been sulfi—

ciently classified to permit of united

action toward a definite solution. This

is largely true because in the past

fruit raising has been. but a part of

farming. This will not be the case

much longer. There is going to be too

much at stake to let things drift. De-

spite the'unorganied condition, occa-

sionally a grower has received returns

that have hinted at prosperity if the

industry were only organized and the

uncertainty as to best methods re-

moved. There is a chance here for

constructive work along the lines of





AUG. 14, 1915.

scientific efficiency. Not only is there

3;;c11fa‘nce but it.is absolutely necessary

that such Work be done and be well

done. Standards .must be established

and values determined.



Eliminate Guessing.



, This, then, is the great problem in

the northwestern fruit section—the

problem of putting the industry on a

business basis. The investment in or-

chard and orcharding equipment is be-

coming so great that as many as pos-

sible of the uncertainties of the indus-

try ‘must be eliminated. Uniform

methods with known elements‘ as fac-

tors must take the place of the least

resistance practices of the past. Ex-

actness must, wherever it can, take

the place of guess. The industry must;

be removed from the realm of luck.



Growers Must Take the Initiative.



The work of putting the industry on

a business basis has already been

started and’ will be continued with

such speed as the fruit growers may

demand until the task has been ac-

complished. It is for the fruit men to

obtain the desirable. They are the

ones who have the heavy investments,

they are the ones who have the most

to gain, and also the most to lose, if

they fail. They cannot expect the

lawyers or the doctors or the shoe-

makers or the bakers to leave their

Own problems and come and solve

those that belong strictly to the fruit

farmers. The men, and women, in the

country, with orchards that will soon

bear generously are the people who

must tackle the big task that is de-

manding attention, and they are doing

this as is indicated by the great stir

along co—operative lines. Within the last

six months four co-operative fruit as-

sociations have been organized or have

taken on a renewed lease of life. In

each caSe the initiative has come from

the men in the country, as it should.





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Get the Home Trade First





By w. TRUB





VERYWHERE the farmer’s pro-

ducts are in demand. There is

not an inhabited township, nor

a single hamlet nor village throughout

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In Distributing and Marketing Perishable Products Storage is Becoming an





Increasingly Important Factor.





Through suitable‘storage facilities only





will it be possible for Growers to Realize the Maximum Returns from





these Products.





and present activities are as nothing

compared with the problems that it

will have to face in the early future,

when the trees, including in the set-

tings of the last seven years, begin to

bear to their maximum.



There are two types of problems

that challenge the skill and resource-

fulness of the professional fruit grow-

er. One class of problems has to do

with the care of his orchards and the

production of fruit; the other with

the turning of his products into nego-

tiable wealth. The growing problems

are the easier for the fruit man to

master. He has the benefit of the ex-

perience of his :prede‘ceséors as given





long survive without some channel

through which they can reach a few

of the common agricultural products.



Why is it, then, that we have almost

altogether neglected the little sta~

tions, the quiet villages, the bustling

towns, and the thousands of smaller

cities, in marketing what is grown on

our farms?



A Historical Reason.



That this has been done can hardly

be denied. It is no rare discovery to

find the commission men in a few of

our large cities supplying hundreds of

the country merchants with farm. pro-

duce. Time and again in following

the course of a crop to the last buyer





the trail leads from the farm to the

small village where, with other ship-

ments it is assembled into carlots and

forwarded to the large city. There it

is parcelled out and some of the par-

cels sent back to "the small country

villages again, indeed, incidents are

not uncommon of these products hav-





‘ing been consumed but a few miles





from where produced after ,they had

traveled hundreds of miles by rail and

water.



Of course, the reason for this seems

apparent. The nation has been a large

producer of agricultural products. In

years gone by only a small portion of

the surplus sent off the farms was

consumed near where grown. In fact,

much was shipped abroad. To get this

surplus into the arteries of commerce

with the least trouble demanded that

it be forwarded to the nearest large

city where it was stored with the sur-

plus from a wide territory and then

started on its road to far countries in

train and boat loads. What a foreign

demand did to bring grain to the large

Cities the packing houses did to bring

live stock, so that the farmers of Am-

erica grew up thinking alWays that

marketing had something in common

with the large cities only. It is little

wonder that they place double empha-

sis upon supplying the score of large

centers of population and utterly neg-

lect the remainder of. the country.



We Are New Large Consumers.



But the day has changed. The na-

tion eats now as well as produces. In

normal years comparatively little of

our farm products get across the water

to Europe and other lands. We have

need of the bulk of them at home.

The large cities that once welcomed

the great streams of grain and live

stock now compose but a small por-

tion of our non-farming people. Here,

and everywhere are men. and Women

employed in other-pursuits than agri-

culture. But a little over forty >per-
AUG-14.1916- . -' THE MICHIGAN FARMER 17—133





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Means More Explosions, More

Revolutions, More Power, Less Fuel





HE big, dominating feature of Instead of the explosion of terrific, equipment with the best European .1

this Oakland “38” is its high- racking forcé, as in ordinary four- builders. ' it costs more to build. 1::

speed motor. - “High-Speed cylinder motors, there are many Each part is lighter and stronger. “" ,



MotOr” applies entirely to the motor more power impulses of less violence

and not to the speed of the car. with no pause between—hence, no

Light, quick power pulses that melt vibration. Greater velocity of fly-

into a continuous flow—eliminate vi- wheel balances power and reduces

bration and 8W9 you a store 0f power car strain. Minimum {“31 consump- Oakland standards of uncompromis-

on tap forany speed of the car—creep tlon. ing quality. Delco electric starting,

at three miles an hour or go the limit. Four cylinders ofaminimum number lighting and ignition; Oakland-Stew- . .

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cent of the 100,000,000 people in the

country live upon farms. The re-

maining 60,000,000 must all be fed,

and we are trying to distribute the

farm produce to them in the same

manner that we sent it abroad. We

seem to want it all to go to the score

or so .of large centers for some un-

explainable reason.



Multiply the Avenues of Distribution.



Now to go on doing this is econ-

omically wrong. There is not one

law of business, transportation, or ‘

economics that demands a continua-

tion of these great central markets

for feeding all our people. The sys-

tem results in congested traffic, con-

gested markets, and we are quite apt

to think, in a few congested pocket-

books. It'offers the very finest oppor-

tunity for manipulators to do almost

What they wish with the trade.



What we need at the present time

“P are not a few exchanges « through

which products are obliged to pass to

reach the consumer, but thousands of

lines of communication and transpor-

tation that will get products to where

they are actually wanted at the least

effort and the minimum of cost. Short-

er routes will do much. They will les-

sen transportation charges; they will

reduce the traffic injury to the pro-

duct; they will deliver the product in

fresher condition; they will discourage

the multiplication of commissions; in

fact, this simplifying of the marketing

of common farm products will go far

toward making the man who grows

and the one who buys satisfied, not

alone with the. transaction but with

life in general, and do not think tooi '

lightly of this last point. 1



Should Help the Ninety and Nine. 1



There are several communities in

this state, however, where the spirit

of co-operation has taken root and is

developing splendidly. Out of a small



beginning some of these associations

4 have grown to good size and there is

confidence in the memberships that

they will continue to expand. The

leven will keep on spreading until it

levens the Whole lump, no doubt.



But where there is one person Who

has a membership in an active co-op—

erative society that undertakes to per-

form some of that member’s business





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there are a hundred farmers who 4, Fir—*7"—

have no such affiliations. And most -





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six. Very ohortly we will announce another master of

its class. to be a large seven-passenger touring car





Oakland Motor Company





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the nearest man of those who needs ' ' f ITO!) A ' BUFFALO NIAGARA FALLS

their surplus gets it. If the South I -— BC]0dt,WlS. ‘ l N A ' c ‘ TOLElDO PT HURON 7

Haven farmer who sold a vealed calf 335533.33:an A :j Q 7 . ALPENA ”ST. IGNACE





to a Chicago commission man had

looked about before he did so he

would rather have made a bargain.-

with his neighbor who afterwardsl

bought the same calf when it had been ;

shipped to a metropolis and back

again. There cannot be a great deal

of wisdom behind a plan that takes

Michigan apples to New York. and

brings New York apples back to Mich-

‘T ‘ igan, even granting that the eastern



fruit is as good as that grown in Mich-





igan. If there is a market sufficiently Will Saw ihteavy cgrdhwood as fast as

can 0 andled to and





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Dally service between Detroxt and Cleveland and Detroit and Bufialozfour trips

weekly lrom Toledo and Detroit to Mackinac Island and way ports: two trips weekly.

special steamer Cleveland to Mackinac Island. no stop: enroute except Detroit and Alpena;

special day trips between Detroit and Cleveland during July and August; daily service be-

tween Toledo and Put-ln-Bay.



RAILROAD TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR TRANSPORTATION on D. & C. Steamers

between Detroit and Bullalo or lmrolt and (‘leveland either direction.



Send two—cent stamp {01' illustrated pamphlet and Great. Lakes map. Address L. G.

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attractive in Michigan to draw apples from the Sam

. from the east our own fruit growers W11 u t

~ g l p 0180,000gallonswater

i should find those holes and fill them. $3ng Derhourdemmdxnir upon “x





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and firms should work—to first satisfy war!)Cglniggngllgrgg-nggg’g g:

the home demand and then, if there be opgfatighle 5' an ground 'fine "1 one —

a surplus. market where the net prof— Strengthv weight. durability. workmanship

its will be greatest. This simple pro- Eifki‘ffioiiinmyfl“ guaranteed by Fair-

gram would not overlook the little -

hamlets and villages, would shift Falrbanks Horse & co

much of the bulk from the big city's W ’ . . . I

exchange, would multiply the channels wfiih§:£$;;?a?3ieégéif



of distribution and incidentally would

help both the producer and the con-

sumer in the way “of getting more effi-





cient service and greater satisfaction.





 





 





Steel Stalls,Watcr Bowls, Cow, Caltand Bull Pena andSteel Home Stalls. I:





26 Styles of Mitchell Garrlers





a, -to select from. Something entirely new in Carriers.

You get the best and save money by ettlng;Mitchell

Barn Equipment. Write for FREE atalog.





' » Mitchell Mfg. Cm, 3100 Forest Home Ave" launches, Wis.

B OYS WATC H .





.Every boy, young or old, would be proud to carry

one of these watches. It is 16 size, with a. nickel

case. Stem set and wind. Regular watch movement

with hair spring. Guaranteed by the makers and

repaired free of charge for one year, if given ordi-

nary care. Any boy who really wants a watch can

easily earn one in one afternoon.



The watch alone free for sending three subscrip-

tions to the Michigan Farmer.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





   

 

 





A farm ditcher and road

“"- grader. No wheels or



. levers. Nothing to get out

Honey-back





“um. Simple—Practical.

lee only custom-ti! of big machines. Does some

work. soon pays for itself. Write to: full inform-

tlon and introductory proposltlon.



Ova-slim Ditchulllndu canc. Bu8300umbon. II.





A Chicago live stock commission

house advises its country patrons as

follows: “Those shipping grassy cat-

tle would do well to take them 01!

grass for two or three days and sub

stitute hay and oats or hay and com

a? ttllilis will sirveflto get lihie grass out

'o em, ma e em 8 rnk less in vv —— -

transit _ and both look and sell better ANTED 3303919 fifilolgunglg:

on the market” fi’s‘fi‘éfi’ti has: 5.33? $351332?
California.





I am getting up a special limited

party of people interested in the

business of farming to make this

trip under my personal escort, be-

cause I believe I can best prove to

you, by this method, what the

Santa Fe has so long been trying

to tell you about this country.





I want you to see the San Joa~

quin Valley and talk to the peOple

about the greater production per

acre, the balmy, healthful climate,

the year-round growing season.

You will be the guests of many

communities in Southern Califor-

nia and San Joaquin Valley. You

will be taken on auto trips to see

their farms, orchards and homes.

We have no land to sell. We just

want you to see and know Cali-

fornia.





Two Fairs—and C L

California—





for One Fare. 2264 Railway





 





Go this fall—on the Santa Fe Farmers’ Special—

spend two weeks seeing by auto the farms and

homes of Southern California and San'Joaquin

Valley. Also take in the two great expositions at

San Diego and San Francisco.





Do this in company with a comfortable, sociable

party of rural folks Who, like yourself, want to

inspect the home-making inducements of sunny

Take your wife along, too.





. Seagraves,

General Colonization Agent,

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry.,





THE MICHIG





Let me tell you at what small

cost this trip will be made. We

will live on our own special cars

most of the time, so saving hotel

bills. Go with us on the Santa Fe,

stop a day at Grand Canyon and

return Santa Fe or any direct

route.





This party will leave Chicago

October 14, reach San Francisco

about October 30, and return from

there at your pleasure up to De-

cembcr 31. A second party will

leave on (late to be announced

later. You’ll see rural California

-——as you could see it in no other

way. You’ll see the two great

world expositions. Also you’ll see

the Grand Canyon of Arizona.





Write me to-day





for itinerary,

particulars and rates.





Exchange, Chicago.





 





 





 





 





POULTRY.





BARRED PLY. ROCKS





First prize winners at Chicago. Cincinnati.

Indian spoils, etc.

gsfrom line l‘Utility Mntings that are bred to lay.

81. E50gs per 15.341150.“ per 100. From best exhibition

ens $10 per 15p $25 or 50. Prompt delivery and good

hatch guaranteed. .Earl Hoover. R. 7, Matthews nd.





1. 0 i h t i i



Barred flock 3.12.121. “1.3““ f’iiii‘w “ tutti: 1.1%

W. 0. OOFF N, R. No. 6. Benton Harbor, Mich

BARRED ROCK farmers}:





lesson. FRED ASTLING. Constantine. Michigan.





 





. ”"16“" S‘LE—Barred Rock Hens 81.00 and 51.;50





R. 0. White 50Leghorn Hens $1. 50 end

aéud 82 while theypnst.





Hamburg Hens $1.50

”Vassar Michigan.





hIogERVIEW FA RM. Iioutefi





. 3 out of 4 firsts Chicago, 19” Eggs bal. of

. Bul’ “oaks! season 81. 50- l5: 56—100. S. C Buff beg-





horn eggs SI- 15, $5 100. Pen of l2 Buff Leghorns 810.

Rock Hens 75 cents to $2. 50. including Chicago and Minno-





IpOlil first prize winners. Bird Lawn I",ar1n Lawrence, Mich.





 





' ' ' —Sledderl hthed

PmecrcsiWhIie Orpmgions 030.35,, gm; $11.1.

Belgian hares 11nd Collie puppies. SWILLIB

HOUGH. Pine Crest Farm. Royal 0.1kR Shiiohigan.





HODE ISLAND REDS and PLYMOU TH ROCKS.



Mules’ 1 to 1?. lbs. .1c1 ordlng 1% ageist’. to 35; P. R. hens

weight5t09%li1s..eggsl:'1for$1.0 P. It. eggs$5per100

Mammoth Bronze ’l‘om Turkeys 08 to 38 lbs. according.

to age 88to $25.10 eggs S3. A. E. (211111111 ton, Vassar. Mich





Ilose Comb Brown Leghorn Cockerels

from Mud. Bq. winners 50 (ts no according to age.

CLAUDIA BETTS Hillsdnle, MichIEnn.





OSE and Single Comb Rhode Island Reds. Prepare to im-

prove your flock by getting hens or young cockerels now from

these laying strains nt Si each. Jennie B11ell.A11n Arbor. Mich.





SALlL‘kORI’ING’lONt Cookerels—IZ wks. 81; 8 wks. 754:.

8 wk 3 pen 8pullet s. lcockerel 510. S. 0. Keller-

at_rass. white M. ’Ihompson. Redford. Michigan.





Slaughter Sale of Barred 8 White Racks



Cocks 83.00 to $5.00. Hens 81.00 to t83.00 Young

stock after September let



Riverview Poultry Farm. Box 798. Union. City. Mich.





' breeding cookereis and year-

3. li- 'hllB ”Shim". ling hens for sale. Also

young white Pekin breeding ducks and drakes. Write

or prices. Sunnyhrook Poultry Farm. R. 3. Hillsdale. Mich.





 





 





SILVER Laced Golden and White Wynnodottle Eggs for hutch-

1ng Ten cents etch or 30 for 11 urcel post

charges. c.w. BROWNING. 110111111111p Mchiflnn.

Whiicilyandofio Eggs 11-33553? 3:88 53:12? ”M71122

30. DAVID RAY Forest Ave Ypsdnnti. Mich.





‘Afhitel’. Rocks. Pekin and white r1

White guineas. e as and day old duokhnzihgd c'iiigiiz'

OSTET ER. St. Johns. Michiran. '





DOGS.





FOX. 000" SKUIIK Ill) Mill” HOUIIIS





Broke to sun and fl.eld P i i

Goon hound pups 85 each. St 112.38%: rgdltly Fox and

..C LYTLE. Frederickshurn.y Ohio.





FOR BALE—Pedigreed Scotch Collie puppies. Color





dark Roldan sable with white ki I"

address‘OHABJ HBEATTY R. {13113333. £31233“





Irainodiiunnin Fox Hounds—3° 1'” “d 0°“ hm"

It.|1np E.‘ IHECKY Hoqgavirl’lgie’bhi as.end





THINK what that q



means. Mybignew/ "

5% profit plan has / ,1

split prices the ,/

lowest ever

known. Getthe



New FREE Book. .





Split Hickory





with 80 eMsdays' free road test

2y guarantee. An da





Ii. c. Phelps. Pros.

The Ohioe

Carr-la

Mtg.





 





 





 





Motor hunks





All Standard parts in 1, I}, 2 and 3% tons

We will demonstrate in any part of state.





THE MORITZ- MULLIN C0..

MICHIGAN DISTRIBUTORS.

‘50 Woodward Ave” Detroit. Mich. Cadillac—840.

“Service First” In “Signal" slogan.





Si. GHABLES HilTEl.





126-130 FARMER ST.. DETROIT

Take Woodward Ave. car to John B. St., hotel half block out





Catering especially to the farmer and his family.



eke this hotel your home when in the city. Hot

and cold running water and telephone in every room.

Rates 31.00 per 1303 and up. Eurospeen plan. Bell

phone: Cherry 1 1401. A. AGE. Manager.





Bags For Sale





2.000 grain bags 10 etc. each: 5. 000 one. two. and two

and one- half bushel potato and onion bugs: 3. 000 flour

an eed bags. All kinds of bags bought and sold.

MICHIGsAglV BARREL AND BAG COMPANY.

3Franklln St" Detroit. Mich.





WANTED AN ‘DEA. Who canthinkofsimple



- thing tomtent‘? Prote at

your ideas. they may brine yOu wealth. Write for

Needed Inventions" nnd‘ wto get vour Patent

and Your Monev.’ RANDOLPH A00 . ATENT

ATTORNEYS. DEPT. 67. WASHINGTOIN. D. O.





4000 FERRETS FOR SALE





 





 





 





 





Price list free. C. J. DIMICK. Rochester. Ohio.





layers exhaust themselves





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KEEPING H ENS FOR PROFIT.





 





(Continued from last week).



Two hours before time to roost hens

should be given liberty to run to pick

flies and bugs and such insects as

they can find, and then called just be-

fore roosting time to the yard and

given a substantial evening meal

made up of such feeds as barley and

corn. That kind of feed will~sustain

the animals during the night and en-

able them to maintain a condition

that is necessary for the maintenance

of the strength and vigor of the fowl.



In the winter time the evening meal

can be made up of the same kind of

feeds, and yet they should be warmed

and never fed cold, because a large

amount of moisture is held in the ker-

nels and if frozen requires a good deal

of heat and energy of the body to take

out the frost and make it possible for

digestion. Changing from warm to

cold feeds has often caused the flock

to stOp laying in cold weather.





Comfortable Conditions.



The comfort of the flock should be

one of the prime considerations. When

caring for the flock do not compel the

hens to endure the hot sun without

shelter in the summer time. If there

are no trees within easy access un-

der which they can secure shelter,

some shade can be furnished, like put‘

ting up a temporary shelter which

will make a comfortable place for

them to spend the time during the

heat of the day.



During the winter time the prime

object should be to keep the hens

comfortable both day and night. Do

not compel them to resist cold winds

outside, or to endure cold drafts in-

side the hen house. While pure air is

absolutely essential, it should be sup-

plied without drafts.



Let the roosting place be so arrang«

ed that the hens can get on to their

roosting place without much effort,

and do not allow very much air space

above the fowls. A large amount; of

cold air coming down from above will

invariably chill the fowls at night dur-

ing cold weather and prevent egg pro-

duction. This point is too often over-

looked and is the cause of failure with

very many who undertake to produce

eggs in winter time.



Do not compel the fowls to eat

snow in order to get drink in winter

time, or to drink cold water. The heat

necessary to warm the water can be

secured cheaply with a little fuel, or.

in otherwords, if the water is heated

before given to the fowls, they will

energy required to warm it before it

can be utilized. Some drink should

always be within reach of the fowls at

all times of the day.



If one has cows’ milk they can util-

ize that to great advantage. It is rich

in albumen, and is one of the bestegg

producers with which we are familiar.

It furnishes an excellent drink, and it

renders the feed, when mixed with it

instead of water, palatable and nutri-

tious. In fact, the digestion and as-

similation of the feed mixed with milk

is more complete than when water is

used.



On the whole, the conditions on the

farm can be so arranged that egg pro-

duction can be continuous throughout

the whole year. This statement we

know to be true from actual experi-

ence. If the caretaker will be regular

in attending to the feeding and caring

for the flock. maintaining conditions

that are comfortable for the hens all

the time, we know that it is possible

to produce eggs in paying quantities

throughout the whole year.



In concluding we will say, in select-

ing the flock each year do not keep

old hens, even if they have been per-

sistent layers. Remember that the good





two years;





 





therefore we will say in





I





1 from the right class of stock.





in about





AUG. 14, 1915.





making up the flock each year make

it up of pullets and yearling hens of

the right conformation and descended

If these

directions are complied with there is

no good reason why the hens on the

farm cannot be made to yield a liberal

and paying income.





Wayne Co. N. A. CLAPP.





 





TREAT FOWLS WITH KINDNESS.



If you start making friends with

your young fowls, your next hens will

be tame ones. Wild hens cause com-

motion and loss all through the sea-

son of hatching and rearing. The

young birds will fatten and thrive bet-

ter when kindly treated and kept quiet

and contented. Anything that scares

poultry and sets them in a flutter

works against their well-being.



If you have a few choice birds you

desire to exhibit at shoWs this season

handle them gently and kindly and

then when they are on exhibition they

will not huddle down in a corner, too

fiustered to show off to a good advan-

tage. I have a friend who has a fine

flock of pure-bred fowls but he takes

no pains to gentle them, when he

wants to call them up to show a visit-

ing fancier they will not come, and‘

they are tight-feathered and frighten-

ed into looking bad when one happens

to get near them.



There are many things that fright-

en poultry and fill them with appre—

hension. A hurried trip to the nest or

chasing a cockerel with the dog when

you want chicken for dinner, will do

more harm than can be undone in a

long time. A fright is recorded in

their memories more incisively than

all one’s good, offices. If birds are kept

tame, and if you will move among

them slowly and quietly, admit noth-

ing to the poultry yard that will cause

commotion, they will come to you

quickly at the call.



The docility of any breed depends

a good deal upon the docility of the

owner. Even the Leghorns, so often

spoken of as a wild breed, may be

made fairly docile if treated right. The

caretaker may win their confidence by

habitual kindness. We begin with the

young birds at meal time, talk to them

while they are eating, pet them—and

accustom they to being handled.



It is a mistake to try to frighten the

desire to sit out of a broody hen. The

mother instinct should be treated

sympathetically. Her broodiness the

hen cannot help and we should cure

this feverish condition. not frighten

or punish her. Some folks will throw

broody hens violently off the nest sev-

eral times a day. This is cruel and

demoralizing to the rest of the flock.

It is expensive to disturb the normal

chatter and cackle of a busy flock. Ex-

citement of any kind I have noticed

causes a very perceptible and immedi-

ate falling off in the egg yield.



Indiana. FRANCES W001).





TREATMENT FOR BLACKH EAD.





 





We have some turkeys which seem

to have what is called blackhead.

What can I do for them?



SUBSCRIBER.



The. recommended treatment for





blackhead is to isolate the affected

bird and put it in a dry, well-lighted

place which is free from cold and

draughts, feeding sparingly of soft,

easily digested foods, with little grain,

especially corn. Preventive measures

are to keep the birds on fresh ground,

isolating sick birds, the destruction of

dead birds and the protection of heal-

thy birds from contamination carried

by other poultry or wild birds such as

sparrows and crows.



For birds under three months of

age, the following medical treatment

is recommended: One-half grain cop-

peras in the morning and a two and a

half grain pill of salicylate of soda in

the evening. Epsom salts should be

given every three or four days, and

the grounds and floors should be well

sprinkled with lime.
Aug... 14,. 1915, ‘

BREEDEIIS’ lllliEC'NRY





' .—well bred pu s. males is:

Sooloh Collins For Sale. “We... ”a... good

stock drivers. Pups ready to ship. Send Post 011109

order. I. HIHEBAUGH. gillsdale. Michigan.





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CATTLE.





LAST BIG SALE

MIT. 21, 1915





son; mvuuon, llowcll, Mich.





ABERDEEN ANGUS





If you are in need ol’. an extraneod bull or afew

choice young cows or heifers. we have them for Sale.

Our herd is headed by the Grand Champion Black

Monarch 3rd. We invite you to come to our Farm

and see them. They are bred right and priced right.

U. L. Clark. Hunters Creek. Mich. Sidney SmithJigr.





 





 





 





ABERDEEN-ANQUS





HERD ESTABLISHED IN i -

TROJAN-ERICAS and BLACKBIRDS only.

Young bulls and Percheron stallions for sale. Also

breeders of Pen: eron. Hackney and Saddle

Horses. WOODCOTE STOCK FA RM. IcnisJiIlch.





 





‘YRSHmEs-—One of the foremost dairy breeds The

most economical milk reducers. Calves

for sale. White Leghorn cookers s: uroo Jersey

swine. Michigan School for the Deaf. Flint.l.iichigan.





 





THE VILLAGE FARM,

Grass Lake, Michigan,

GUERNSEY CATTLE.





 





MILO D. CAMPBELL CHAS. J. ANGEVINE





, BEACH FARM

G UERNSEYS





Combine the blood of the following great producing





sires and dams :—

Masher Sequel - ~ - 6317 :- I‘l- Daughters





G lexy's Sequel - -

eienwood Boy of Haddon g 2‘ n. .





w





Illa Bose King - - .

Dai’rymaid of inehurst - - 910 lbs. fat

Dolly Bloom - - - - - 836 J ..

mp. Itchen Daisy - . - - 714 .. u

801 ms of Pinehnrst - - - 76g

Stanford's Princess -. - 720 “ “





 





Bulls for sale only:





A Dairy Show Every Day.

CAII’BELI. b. AIIEEVIIIE, Goldwater, Mich.





 





Elm Row Guernsey Bulls For Sale





Prisoilla's May King 1m 4 years old. From Adv.

R . Sire and Dam. and will enterthe A. R list before

19 . five dams with A. It. records over he.

Healthy and sure. and the best bid before Sept. takes



in. Reason. Have bought another to avoxd inbreed-

in Also two bulls 11 months old. by the above sire

an from Adv. R . dams with 3 records. Fine

individuals and pr 00 r t.





G. W. RAY, Albion, Mich.

I Cars stop at farm on M. U. T.

and BERKSHIRE





Fl Sanfimh swnuo either sex.

Joli." e '





ll. IO. Holland. Michigan





 





 





GU ER N 8 E Y Signu'ifiibfili‘riig

Containiwblood of world champions. .

HICKS’ OUER EY FARM. Saginaw. . 8.. Mich.





 





UlXNSI’YS—Write‘for prices and particulars. 2

G balls! year old. Several bull calves. all from A. ll.

cowsaad cowsen test. Geo. N.Crswford. Bolton. Mich.





UBRNSEY BULIS FOR SALE. ready for service from A. R.

Damn. I! you want the right kind write for price and

breeding. BYELS & BARNB 3805.. Goldwater. Alicliigsn,





HEREFORDS: 3.73..‘?$ 2.3:. ”fill





fellows. .ALLEN BROS. Paw Paw, Michigan.





Do You Want A Bull?





Ready For Semoe.



From a grand daughter of The King 0‘! the

Pontiaos. Sired by a bull that is more than a half

brother to the ampion Holstein w of the

World. and whoee dam is a30 lb. 6% i fat daughter

of Pontiac Aggie Korndyko who has more lb.

daughters than any living ball. If you do

write for pedigree.





EDWIN S. LEWIS, Marshall, Mich.





Espanore Farm,

LANSING. MICHIGAN.





Home of the great Holstein bull “Pledge Spofford

Calamity Paul"—sire oi a 35-lb. cow and three

over 30 lbs. If you are looking for a bull calf of

this kind of breeding write for prices and ped-





lg s OSBORN

CHASE . .

ADAM s. rmusou. I 0"“9’3-





I 4-YEAII-0LII BULL





by sI-lb. sea of Pontiac Drunks. ands-tot fi-lb.

dam. threshold aadtbrse yearn-shill Tl.

above bulb have ' “1 to

spare. Ah}, a few richly bred bull calves. These

will be priced right. This is a chance to get a

valuable ball for little money. Get busy. as this ad.

will appear but twice.





L.‘ E. CONNELL. Fayette. Ohio.





 





 





 





\/ ftn‘.





THE MICHIGAN FARMER





an' imported daughter of Eminent.





Breakwater l. ”’8. King. Calved Oct.





483 and 524 lbs. butter respectively.

Breakwater King OhIia.





dividual, Price $75.00.





BROOKWATER FARM,





50 Heavy Producing





Central Lines.

Youngstown 6:20. Catalog on request.





HATCH HERD





YPSILANTI. MICHIGAN





Registered Holstein-Frieslan sires. grandson’s of

World's greatest dairy sire. out of choice A. ll. 0.

dams and King Pontiac Jewel Korndyke: Brother of

K. P. Pontiac Lass 4415: average record of 50 dams in

his pedigree 31.25 in'l days: average per cent of fat

three nearest dams i 37; of his own dam 4.93. Sires in

first three generations already have over €30 A. R. 0.

daughters. A few females bred to “King". Prices

reasonable.





The Two Greatest Bulls





KING or m PONTIACS

or. Kill. Zd’s BUTTER Bill 3rd





Ihave young bulls from cows having high ofllcial

records und Granddaughters of above bulls. Stock

extra good. Prices reasonable





BIGEIOW‘S Il0LSI'EIN FARMS,





BREEDSVILLE. MICK.





“TOP-NOTCII” IIOLS'I'EIN





‘1), 25. 30. 35 and 37-11). Bulls from large. milking. A. ll.

U. dams. Nice variety from three farms to select

from. Breed Better; Get the Best.



MoPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell. Michigan.





EGISTERED Holstclns—Hsrd headed by Albina Bruits Butter

R Bay. His dam has AJLO. records as follows: at ‘3’; yrs. “in:

430, but. er $.85; 4 yrs. milk 604.8. butter 27.03; at yrs. I'"

620, butts-r 28.53 lbs. W. B. HEADER. Howell. Mich.





1 Gets 5 mo. K white grandson of Friend Hengerveld

s on De K01 & Maplocrcst Pontiac Flora. Haring. 301i». butter





1 days. 1232 lbs. in 1 yr. K. L. McLAULlH. Redford. Mich.





SALE-REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL

fox born Feb. '45. 1915. Mostly .Whibfl. Dam

has A. It. 0. recorl, also Chester White Pigs.



CHARLES l. COOK. Box 4325, Fowlerwlle, Michigan.





HOBART W. FAY





H i win-Friesian Cattle.

MASON. Mlcfil'GA . Mobil-bed 1934





High Class HOLSTEIngggd





b Smithdale Alcartra Pontiac. whose dam

351.:331033 AICUUI P olkadot. Have few young bu“!

and females for sale at reasonable prices. Will bl”

a few heifers about 15 months. act‘bre‘d. Farm K mile

from courthouse. SETH. B. “Ubhiifl. Boweli. Mich.





sire of several daughieis in the Register of Merit.

with R. of M. records of 440 lbs. butter with two dau hters with R. of M. records of

This bull is soli

Calved Sept. .

Chiba of M. agood producing cow. Bull a dark squirrel gray and an excellent m-

1 These bulls must be seen to be appreciated.





 





3* Choice Jersey Bulls 3





FOR S ALE AT BROOKWATER FARM

- AS FOLLOWS:





Breakwater Eminent Lad 128246. Sire, one of the best sons of avian! Lad. Dam,

Calved Feb. 9,1914. A strong robust but typey

solid colored readylor service bull, Price $125.00.





21, 1914. Sire, Benedictine King 86100

Dam, Loretta D’s. Pogis 232648





colored and choice.





2, 1914. Sire, Benedictine King. Dam,





Ann Arbor, Michigan,





100 Guernseys at Public Auction





at Gustavus, Trumbull County, Ohio, Saturday, August let, 1915,

Beginning at 10:00 A. M.





50 Registered Cows and Heifers. many rich in the blood of Governor of the Chene, Glen-

Woods. Galaxy's Sequel and Golden Noble breeding. including nine Imported cows.



Grade Cows, fresh and close springers.

in nice condition, and Tuberculin tested. Gustavus is reached by Youngstown Branch New York

Oil at Kinsman. Morning train leaves Ashtabula 7:05.

Address B. E. 'I‘O'I‘TEN, Farmdale, Ohio. Route 2.





This stock is young. healthy.





Morning train leaves





BIDWELL SHORTHORNS





For “Beef and Milk"





He istered Bulls, Cows

an heifers Scotch-top-



roans. reds and

white for sale. Farm

at L. S i! M. 8. Defiot.

also '1‘. A: I. ’y.

IIDWELI. STOCK FARM





Box B. Tecumseh. Mich,





Albion Stamp 362670





 





f; ‘3 '31, Lb szr-‘s

Shorlhorns For Sale. .32.... m..." e): A". “‘3‘.

W. B. McQUlLLAN. Chilson, Liv. Co., Michigan.





mums summons-TWO...Elias“?.iiin‘h“





DAVIDSON 5 BALL, Tecumseh. Michigan.





Shorihorn Cattle oi both Sex ior Sale





W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michlg‘a





 





 





 





~—Dsiry or beef bred. Breeding stock all

Shorlllorlls ages for sale at farmers prices. (3. w. Crum.

Secy. Cmt. Mich. Shel-thorn Breeders' Assn. McBride. Mich.





. of best Bates btrains. Young

”all! Bred Shorfllorns bulls 7 months old {or sale.

Price $100 each. J. B. HUMMEL. Mason. Mich.





 





 





 





"005.

—Grand bunch of Gilts





l I

Domes &. Vlolorlas daemon ........

Com rising the blood

of Superba. Defender. Much COL. rions and others.

Afew young boars. M. '1'. STORY. Lowell. Mich.





 





 





0R SALE—Berkshire hogs. both sexes and dlfl’ereni ages.

Bred gills for fall flu-rowing. Pull Angus Bull Calf. not reg-

istered. Price right. Chase's Stock Farm. B. l. Mariette. Mich.





' —-B i '

Hoyallon Broil Ilorkflnm ”.22‘5. flogging

weeks ago with registry fiapers. Write for pedigree and

prices. D. F. VALENTI .. Supt. Temperance. Mich.

' Two fall gilts bred for A . d 8 t.

BerkShlrcSo farmwiugjand a choice Idltgol.’ A3112“

gilts for sale. A. A. PAT'I‘ LLO. Deckerville. Mich.





For Sale Home Jerseys Bred Gills





for Sept. furrow. Carey U. Edmonds. Hastings. Iiicli.





 





 





 





 





HAMPSHIRE Swine—Breedinngstock of all ages

from mostpopular strains. rite for breeding.

Inspection inVited. Floyd Myers. R. 9. Decatur. 1nd.





 





FOR SALE Registered Holstein Bulls





read for service. and bull calves, also females.

FR EMAN J. FISHBECK. Howell, Michigan.





uomm sou clue *fiinimi.ii‘i‘.zo“.:;‘f3

Michigan. Longleach Farm. Augusta. Kalamazoo Co..lich.

ULSTEIN CATTLE and Durm‘. Jer cy Swine.





Choice pics of booh sex row ready to ship. Prices

reasonable.‘ I. R. CORNELL, Howell. Michigan.





 





$200 Buys one r istered Holstein yearling heifer

and one bull 0 months old not akin. white.

King Segis Ind Julianna breeding. B. B. Reeve]. Akron. [ich.





Mltlllliill HOME lllll IIIIlIllIlli SOIIMI.





LAPEER. MICHIGAN

Breeder of High Grade Holstein Cattle. Lists and

prices upon application.





IIOLSTEIN CATTLE and 0.1. C. SWINE

ELMER E. SMITH. Redford, Michigan.

Holstein-Frisian Breeder—fig: “"th 3:1,;

represented. D. D. AITKEN. Flint. Michigan.

Yearling log. llolsloln Bull. éaiiitfl’dféolb‘hfifii





record and making nearly 1000 lbs. butter in a year.

DEWEY C. PIERSON, Hadley, Mich.





ONLY $25.00 DELIVERED





Holstein bull calf 15-16 pure bred. by 24-lb. botterbull.

Heavy producing dam. Rougemont Farms, Detroit.





 





 





 





 





 





Maple Lane Register of Merit Jersey Herd. Tuber-

culin tested by U. 8. Government. For sale bull

oalvesand halter calves from B. at N. do

grand dams. and Hood Farm Sire.

mvm FOX. Allegan. Michigan.





THE WILDWOOD JERSEY HERD





Re istsred Jersey Cattle. of Quality. Tubsroulin

tesged. Majesty's Vendor No. 90717 heads the herd.

Bull calves for sale. also a two-year-old bull that is

right. For prices and description write or come.

ALV Canoe. air 00.. Michigan.





ms and





 





 





Lillie Farmstead Jersey Cattle. Boll calves from R.

.nf M. Cows. also heifer calves and several bred

heifers for sale. Colon C. Lillie. Cooper-villa. [Coir





J' says. Bulls ready for service. extra quality sired

P





cr

by Jacoha’s Fairv flmanon. H .

reducing dams. em a raafisandawelllmfili





JERSEYS—THE nioism or IEIIII on.

WIVA





m PA“ I. No. 7. All AM. '1‘.





(”mussel-sisal with

”3” M testing Assn. rectal-dam on

semi-oilicial test. 0. B. Wehnsr. B. 6. Allegan. Mich





FISHER-1' 0N FARM JERSEY “9"” fl“





 





, grandsons of

Hood Farm Poais’ 9th.. fro Resists l‘ M it d

- rrsurn'rON FARM. onuac.rfiicnllan.am'





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WEST WINDS HAMPSHIRE SWINE. Booking orders

for sow pigs immediate shipment. No males to offer

E. P. Hammond. own:r. N. A. Wiser, manager. Pontiac. Mich





 





OULD like to hear from those desiring to start

a herd of thoroughbred Cheaters. Prices in. trac‘

tive. F. W. ALEXANDER, Vassar. Michigan.





Big Typo, 0.|.0’s and Chester While Swine.





400 full pigs either sex. dpcclai prices for the next

(:0 gays, a :3 breél gilisian service males and we are



c ngo ere or spr pig .3 our stock is d

enough that I will flhlpfg 0 D. and reg. free ingglle

0. I. C. or Chester White Assn. We “on. more prizes

than all other breeders {mt together, at 111., and

Wis. Stats llalrs. Write or Show record.





ROLLING VIEW STOCK FARM

Cass City, - Michigan.





 





 





 





0

saw WEIGI'IED 952 LBS.





23 mourns OLD

‘ IONIAGIRL





I have started more breeders on the road to sue-

cessthsn any man living. I have thelargest and flu-

est herd in the 17.8. Every one an early developer.

ready forthe market at six months old. I want to



lace one hog in each community to advertise my



erd. Write for my plan,“How to Make Money from

Hose." 0. s. BENJAMIN. R.No. I 0 Portland. Mich.





 





V . The home ol’ the bi

Way Brolhers Slack Farm. home]... .10.... mi:

for sale. Registered free. J. R. Way. Pompeii. Mich.





For SALE‘.’,}““{i¥.’li‘i‘éf‘ilfs...53".573‘”





l""u in . .Il.

JOHN MchCOLL. Station A. R 4, Bay c'i'éy. Mlzh.





 





 





Ca ltol Herd Duroc Jersey Swine. Established 18.98.

pring figs for sale, sal islactinn guaranteed. ll‘lx—

press prepa d. J. H. Benghart. East Lansing. Mich.





 





Breeding stock and some

"a“ 'oned Dillon Jane’s! good Show pins for Salt".

M. A. BRAY. Okemos. Ingham 00.. Michigan





 





DIIROC JERSEYS—Spring piss either sex. (lilts bred for

Sept. {arrow to a son of Volunteer Grand l humpion "t

lntcma'l Stock Show Chicago. F. .I. Drmlt. ll. I. Monroe. Mich





 





DUROC Jersey bred gilts. bred for Aug and Sept.





l’arrow from loadingblocd lines; also a few good

boars. Write for circular and prices, W.C.Tsylor. lilan. MII‘II.





 





*March pigs eilher rer. sired by a son

”lilac I009] nf Volunteer Champion of 3Btato Pain

and Chicago Show in 1912.





DUROC JERSEYSCESL‘JE‘;

either sex. from choice strains. 8. C. STAIILMAN.

CHERRY LAWN FARM, bhepberd. Michigan.





E. H. Morris. Monroe. Mich.





 





 





IG TYPE 1’. C. Eilher sex. pairs or tries not akin.

Bred sows and gilts Have several 1000“). boar pro-

spects. Absolutely no larser breeding. Everything

guaranteed right. FRANK KRUGER, Havenna.Mich.





 





POLAND CHINA Spring Pigs from heavy boned

prolific stock. Sous bred for P-‘lirrmer and Full pigs

at close prices. ROBERT NEVE. Pierson, Michigan.





 





Poland Chi as. either sex. all ages. Something good

_ ata low rice. Bargains in boars ready for ser-

v1ce. P. l). ONG. R. F. D. 8. Grand Rapids. Mich.





f ‘ .

POLAND CHINAS rgiidyt‘hfgr mgviageSow§§:;d





for spring furrow. A. A Wood 6; Son. Saline. Mich.





LARGE TYPE P. critic?ginssliicigir; is:

bred gilts. W. J. HAGELSHAW. Augusta. Mich.





 





 





 





I I r ' ' .

Big Boned Poland Chloas. infi’gfllfzd'fi‘laovéelil:

ROBERT MARTIN. ii. F. D. No. 7. Hastings. Mich.

' two extra good Bummer Yearli

Large Sham P. 6- Bears: a few choice sows bred f2:

Aug. dz Sept. farrou . Spring pigs that are beauties.





sired by Big Defender, the boar llint evcrybridy goes wild over.

Come and see him. H. U. SVVAIITZ. Schoolcraft. Mich.





 





 





BIG TYPE IPOLANID‘ (‘llIlgAS f Some choice boars

, now waxy to a up. ails zu'tlnn uaranteed.

G, VI. HUL’I‘ON. ii. No. 11. Kalamazoo.g Michigan.





FALL PIGS AT HALF PRICE





Bred from the largest strain of Poland Chinas on

931111, none bigger. you ever expect to own a reg-

istered Poland China. this is your opportunitv. Get

busy and order at once. Pairs and trios not akin $15

each. J. C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich. Bell Phone.





Big Type Poland Chinas.





You can buy a p‘ig now cheaper than you can next

fall. 0 guarantee satisfaction.

BEAN CREEK FARM, ADDISON, MICHIGAN





 





 





 





IG TYPE P. C. Chief of Irvin wood 843's . '

. Gilant 2nd Bred sons. Slprin gigs. can infirm:

in price. M88. J. E. BRA TB AI'I‘E. Brant. ich.





lG Type boars by Big Smooth Jumbo. G

boar in State. 748 lbs at. 17 me. These boall‘zataeg





long. tall. big bone. sold at formers rices. shi ed

’3 I Call or write. Wm. Wafl'le. oldwaler..\'I)ili~h.





REGISTERED YDRKSHIHES





Imported Strain. Both sexes. Prices Reasonable.





Hatch Herd, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

g0 Y0RKSHIIIES“6;‘,:gs-Do§gg $2333ch

A





ocks, I. s. Ducks. E. s. c an. Homer. Mich:





 





 





 





of March and A ril farmw

O- l- c- PIGS andBechlled ulls.Write

JOHN BERHEB 8 SON. B. 4. Grand Ledge. Mich.





FOR S‘LE Lawnenge Lodge Yorkshires. Boar's from

3 to 8 mos. ol . Woanling pins to ship

Sept. lst. GEO. McMULLEN. Grand Ledge. Mich.





 





JEWEIT’S fifgésildz‘ififi 0. I. I}. ’s

Growthy type. Photos. J. Carl Jewett. Mason. Mich.





O I 9 —Sows bred to {arrow last of June

s s ' S and July. Prices reasonable.

G. P. ANDREWS. Dansville, Michigan.





0 I c -—Gilts bred for Aug. and Sept. furrow.

I I I Will take orders for March and April

pigs. H. W. MANN. Dansvllle. Michigan.





0 I c. —-Spring igs. pairs and tries. not

0 s 3 akin. rom state fair winners.

AVONDALE STOCK FARE. Wayne. Mich.





0. I. ll.’s——SIIIII)TLY BIG TYPE





Gilts'bred for Sept. furrow and March pigs now ready

ggggipl) lillétra tgfléi? Oilafiullil’rb prllcss that “hm "111mm



.3 noan.w epeaaedtosltem

0 . . and record them free in pnrohaeer’spname.





NBWIAH’S STOCK FARM R. No. I. Mariette, Mich.

—-Are you on the





0- Is Ce SWIN market for a





choice bred sow to (arrow the last of Aug or fore

part of Seat! If you are. write me. I have them.

A. J. GOBDEN. R. No. 2. Don. Michigan.





 





 





o I c’ -8 last fall gilts bred to I’m-row last of Aug.

' ' 3 and in Sept. Bis rrowthy stock. also lost

Swag piss and on- iut fail beer. )4 mile want of





 





dep OTTO B SCHULZE. Nashville. Mich.

both P Imam “II.



0. 's C's'ti'm..., “laziest?” nsras-



u. A. ‘- GRAHAM. Hint. M.





For Sale—Yorkshire Gills





from large litters. bred for fall farrowin Water

Waterman. Ann Arbor. Mich. Meadgwlnnd r3:





.—Weaniing pigs. airsn t k' . B

Mill-3‘0“ "99- sows and slits or fall) {grigm {:3

servnce boars. C. I". BACON. B. 3. Britton. Mich.





illie Farmstead Yorkshires. Bo re d f '

L Gilts bred for Sept. farrnw. Siriillgapi‘gs?r:iegd?d

tries. not akin. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersvil e. Mich.





YORKSHIRES





Bred gilts. service boars. 8e to be i '

Prices reasonable. W. C. CDOCnK. PaigPXd‘rl‘Ilplbfi.





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W A N T E D . ° B‘liynsbmglgdlws





Address R. 1). No.1. Box 96. Standish. Michigan.

HORSES





FOR SALE‘BS our. Eiamiischwaiei

I‘





spectiou invited. F, L. KING dz SON. Cha otte.Mich.





—Beg. Shetland Po ies. ostl

Plgflon POIIL Farm spots.1 spotted stallionn andlgonn: ‘

stock for so . Dr. W. T. Morrison. Pigeon. Mich.





Registered Percheron:

Brood mares. Fillies and Young some” Priced

to sell. Inspecti'onl vlted.



L. C. HUNT & 00.. Eaton splds. Michigan.





SHEEP.





 





 





 





 





 





II. I. I}. Pin, 8 lo 10 Wool: Old 31 . I???“





Reg" ’- free. 0. J. Thompson. Rockford, Mich.





a ' a Choice (Hits bred for Sept. fan-ow-

. e s ecu-vinnble boars flnrinrnilrsnotakln.





 





ALVIN V. 'HATT, Grass Lake, Michigan: .





 





Black Too Maine Shem l2:fl駧.i“’;lici°’§3l?3

Fred E. Reichert. Elm Ridge Farm. Ann Arbor. Mich.





' —Yearlins and ram lambs from Chum ion

I-OICISIN'S flock of Thumb of Mich. Also select Biro-

shire swine. Elmhurst Stock Farm. Almont. Mich.
”242k \Vm‘cmv-‘wmrr -“





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