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25, I915.

Solving the Farm Storage Problem

HE farm storage has passed be-
yond its experimental stage. For

a number of years the house type

of cellar has rendered ellicientservice.
During the last eight years the writer
has been dealing more or less with
three such structures intended espe—
cially for storing apples. is dillicult
indeed, to have. a house cellar ansWer
this purpose on a commercial scale.
It is wanted for other things; it is too
dry for fruit. when tires burn contin—
ually in the rooms above and the
house cellar as ordinarily constructed
is too variable in temperature to meet.
the re1u1ir1-1ments of the case. in cas-
es where a furnace is in the basement
the problem becoi'nes doubly hard.
There is no doubt. but that. house cel-
lars can be so 1,:onstructcd that they
will meet the demands of a, storage
cellar, but such cases are rarely met.
Unless a considerable amount of
pains is taken to insulate walls, a
storag e is mole. satislwattor v and easier
regulated if the basement is as much
below ground as possible. A low tem-
perature in the warm days of late fall
and a' temperature above the danger
point during cold periods in winter are
features that must: be reckoned with.
The accompanying cuts represent a
storage that we built, on the farm last
fall. It is located at a point in the
orchard where the ground slopes to
the north. The basement of this build-
ing is 40 feet. square and eight feet
high, built entirely below the ground
on three sides. It is possible with the
slope of the land to have a driveway
into the basement on the north and
also a driveway into the storage room
above from the south. With this ar-
rangement produce can be hauled di-
rectly into the cellar from the north
and can be sorted, packed and loaded
at convenience on either floor for mar-
ket during the winter. Retaining walls
on either side of the driveway into
the basement make it possible to bank
earth on the north side, thus protect-
ing a large part of even this wall
against warm and cold weather Heavy
doors, well packed, and double win-
dows, as well as a ceiling overhead,
make this structure quite independent
of the outside weather. Last winter

with several thousand bushels of ap-
plcs in this storage the tcmpemtuie
was held without dilliculty at a point.
ranging from 32 to 34 degrees l1‘. Ap<
ples were stored in barrels, baskets,
crates and in large. piles in bulk, with
good results. A pile of Spies some 15
feet square and three or six feet deep
kept all winter with little waste, and
no sorting until they went, to market.

As will be seen from the cuts this
building is constructed Very largely
of cement. Not, only are the walls
and basement tloor built of this mate—
rial but the ceiling, upper walls and
roof are also made of the same. stuff.
\Nire, paper and cement have entire.-
ly taken the place of boards for sid-

ter this the house aL gain crown-d
with a. fine woven stock hand poultry
fence and the cement was spread on
this foundation for a surface. A type
of stucco that anyone can put. on and
which makes a massive boulder as-
pect, is easily applied according to
the. operator's lane}. with a large
round sponge and cement and water.
If the sponge is given a rotary motion
as it, hits the wall there is produced a
mum] boulder aspect that is pleasing

The cement roof is something, of an
experiment and we would rather re.-

port on the success of this a year or
two later. It is attractive in appear-
ance and it is needless to add that
the writer had some

faith in this kind

 

 

Storage Building in

ing, so the frame, roof boards and 11p-
per floor are all the parts that are not
made of concrete and wire. This is
not only a cheap form of construction
but it is easy to keep up and presents
a tidy appearance without much paint.

The basement, .walls are made of
solid concrete eight. inches thick. The
siding above is composed of two thick-
nesses of wire, one of tarred felting
and two coats of cement. An ordinary
stock fence was first stretched on the
frame sufficiently tight to stay firm.
Then a layer of tarred felting was put
on for a backing for the cement. Af-

 

 

Process of Erection.

of construction or it would never have
been attempted. Fence wire was
stapled to the roof boards, a little rais-
ed for reinforcement. Previous to this
tarred paper was spread over the
boards to prevent warping while the
cement set. Cement was put on about
one inch thick in sections about two
feet. square. The narrow space be-
tween the blocks of cement. was filled
with boiling tar with as much cement
stirred in as could be put in without
making the cement too thick to pour.
This mixture ran some in hot weather
and had we had a hot summer I fear

the mixtinc would have run away
badly. Vtc‘ have reason to think that.
a mixture of sawdust. and hot tar or
asphaltum would answer the purpose

better. With this one point .»:1tisfa,c-
torily solvml, namely a binding be.

[Ween the blocks oi cement Ihai will
be suilicieinly pliable not to (rack in
winter, and lirm enough to hold its
place in summm, we haw in cement.
not only an inexpensivc and attrac-
tive roof, but one that for permanence
and lire protection is in a, clas with
cement shingle, tiling and slate

The roof to the stoiaat- in 111:1 stion
was covered with a wash “Hide of two
parts of cement to (meet hydrated
lime and mixed with water. This gives
to the general appearance of 1b»- roof
at 11'1etalic lustre that is v1 ry att1active
and permanent.

The cost of such a .‘ll‘llt'Nilt‘ be-
Cornes an interestina iactor to contem-
plate. \\'ith the method of construc-
tion usually in 111;.111 it would be an
easy matter to get a consideiable sum
of money tied up before even the in-
sulating portions or the buildin: were
complete.

The heaviest item of expenre to
charge against the structure 11 as, the
time of the owner, who spent a month
with three handy boys on the farm.
Except for a few days. on cornice,
windows, doors, 11112. no expert assist.-
ance was employed.

With a power sprayer that shows
in one of the, illustiations ,, we made a
Continuous mixer to run with the en~
gine and bolt on the rear of the spray
wagon. lt took less than a half day
for two men to make this mixer,
which was built with less than one
dollar’s expense for material. This
mixer would deliver cement ready for
walls as fast as one man could shovel
sand and cement.

With two men the writer built the
ground wall, in total length, 160 feet,
114111 feet high and eight inches thick,
and built the forms as we Went along
in five days. The excavation took
two men and two teams about as
many days more. The. super-structure
consumed about three weeks more
time, with a force running from two

(Continued on page 260).

 

 

 

Front View of Storage House, Showing Second Story, Used for Storing of
Tools, Barrels, Crates, Etc., and a Cider Mill.

Rear View of Storage House Showing
Doorway Being Eight Feet

Grade Entrance to the Basement, the
High and Ten Feet wide.

 


 

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CURRENT COMMENT.

 

On another page of
this issue will be
found a detailed re-
port of the meeting of
the Michigan Bean Growers’ Associa—
tion which was held at Flint last
week. This meeting was fairly repre-
sentative :of the bean growers of the
state, audits action will have an im~
portant significance to every bean
grower if this report is carefully stud
led and kept in mind during the com—
ing months.

A. careful study of crap conditions
would make it appear that the esti-
mate placed upon the season’s crop
and the market values which ought to
be maintained under the circumstances
are conservative. If conditions do not
improve before the crop is harvested
-—and there is every likelihood that
they will be worse instead of better
with the coming of frost—there would
seem to be every reason why prices
should hold at around the figures fixed
by the bean growcrs’ association as a
fair minimum value for the crop. If,
by adhering to the price schedule fix-
ed by thc association, which was $3.00
per bushel for October, with an ad-
vance of 10 cents per bushel each
month to and including January, and
five cents each remaining month for
the balance of the marketing season,
and withholding their beans from the
market when these prices are not ap-
proximated, the growers can discour—
age any speculative trend of the mar-
ket designed to enrich Speculative op-
erators at the expense of either grow-
ers or legitimate dealers, this attempt
at controlled marketing will go down
into history as a success and the end
sought by its promoters will have then
been obtained; and this result would
seem comparatively easy of accom-
plishment.

Even with a small crop, if every
bean grower attempted to cash in his
beans at the opening of the season,
prices would be demoralized, but if
the price schedule with the monthly
advances fixed as reasonable by the
Bean Growers’ Association at its re-
cent meeting can be maintained, the
result will be a more even marketing
of the product and more money for
the growers without in any way in-
creasing the cost of the product to
consumers. That is to say, the spec-
ulative feature of the market will have
been eliminated to a desirable de-
gree. An unreasonable price mainte-
nance would not be possible through
a loose organization of this kind, but
with the making of a reasonable mini-
mum price based on the season’s yield
and the prospective demand for the
crop, it becomes an easy matter. Re-
gardless of the attitude of the bean
jobbers, the bean growers of the state

Marketing the
Bean Crop.

should practice conservative market-
ing methods under the plan advanced
at the association meeting and refuse
to sell beans on any other basis unless
this may be deemed expedient after
thorough discussion at some future
meeting of the association.

The bean growers of the state have
an opportunity which is enjoyed by
the producers of no other agricultural
commodity, owing to the fact that the
greater percentage of the country’s
crop is produced in Michigan. It lies
with them to take advantage of the
opportunity presented through the in-
itiative of this organization, to elim-
inate the speculative fluctuations in
market values of their product, and
thus stabilize the trade in this food-
stuff in a manner which will prove
beneficial to consumers as well as to
growers.

Our leading article
for this issue is
one of the special
articles announced

The Farm Storage
Problem.

for the current year on the important-

subject of solving the farm storage
problem. This article tells how it was
solved on a central Michigan fruit
farm. It is a problcm which needs a
similar solution over a large section
of the state Where perishable fruits
and vegetables are produced in quan-
tity and must often be marketed to a
disadvantage. unless there is at hand
a suitable place for storing them until
market conditions become improved.
The method adopted by the author of
this article may not be the one best
suited to the reader, but, it will give
him some valuable ideas on construc-
tion methods which can be worked out
along lines which are suited to his in-
dividual needs.

The cost of such storage will often
be repaid within a single year, as was
practically the case in this instance.
The loss of perishable products due to
unsuitable storage and the losses in
income due to the necessity of plac-
ing such crops on the market at an
unfavorable time are items of consid-
erable magnitude in this state. The
solution of the farm storage problem
in a manner which will reduce these
losses to the minimum with the least
outlay in the way of permanent in-
vestment is the one which should be
sought upon every farm. A little care-
ful planning along this line will be an
item in farm management which will
stand greatly to the credit of the pro-
gressive farm owner. This is a point
where economy of production and eco—
nomical marketing overlap.

In a day's drive
through the op-
en country one
will be impressed with the unkempt,
dilapidated condition of the average
rural cemetery. In few cases is there
any attempt made toward keeping the
grass and weeds mown and an attrac-
tive greensward covering the ground.
In very many cases the ancient mark-
ers are broken down“ and fences in a
state of dalipadiation, and even volun-
teer brush may cover considerable
portions of the enclosure. In a few
communities interested people have
taken the initiative and made a desir-
able improvement in the appearance
of the local rural cemetery. In asmall
number of communities where improve‘
ment organizations have been formed
with this object in view commendable
work has been accomplished in the
improvement of the cemetery and its
surroundings. ‘

Since the inception of the Memory
Day movement, of which mention ls
made in another column of this issue,
this work has been given an impetus
which is most gratifying. With the
prospect that the observance of Sep-
tember 30 as Memory Day may be-
come general, not only in Michigan
but in other sections of the country
as well, the outlook for the improve-
ment of rural cemeteries is more on-
couraging. While this movement had
its inception in one of the farmers’

The Rural Cemetery.

organizations of ,the state, yet every
farmer in the state should be interest-
ed in it, whether or not he may be
affiliated with that organization. If
the rural cemetery has been neglect-
ed, why not take the initiative now,
get the neighbors interested and util-
ize the day especially set apart for
that purpose for the improvement of
conditions so that there will be no
necessity for apology to the stranger
for the appearance of a spot which
should, like memory, be kept forever
green.
As noted in an an-
The Stock Yards nouncement on the
Quarantine. market page of this
issue, the Detroit
Stock Yards are in process of a final
disinfection and clean-up preparatory
to the lifting of the quarantine due to
the outbreak of foot-and-mouth dis-
ease. With the re-opening of the
yards feeder stock and milch cows
will again be received at the yards,
thus greatly facilitating the movement
of these classes of cattlein Michigan.
During the many months during which
stock has been received for immediate
slaughter only, under the quarantine,
farmers having feeders or cows for
sale wore obliged to find local custom~
ers for them. The only alternative
was to sell the feeders at a sacrifice
for slaughtering purposes and keep
the cows. The reopening of the De—
troit. yards to these grades of stock
will relieve this situation and will also
facilitate the buying of feeder cattle
by farmers and feeders on a competi-
tive market where they can be sorted
into even grades. This will remove a
handicap which has been a serious
problem for farmers and feeders since
the outbreak of foot—and-mouth dis~
case last fall.

The last Legisla-
ture made 'an ap-
propriation of $100,-
000 for the purpose
of fighting tuberculosis in Michigan.
The fight for which this appropriation
provides the ainews of war is to be
waged by the State Board of Health,
which body has formulated definite
plans for the campaign which started
recently with free examinations for
all who were suspicious that they
might have the disease, in accordance
with Governor Ferris' proclamation to
that effect. The plan under which
this law will be administered contem—
plates the appointment of a nurse and
two assistants in each of the districts
into which the state has been divided
for the purpose. Under the direction
of the supervising nurse the assist-
ants will cover the whole district.
They will administer to cases of tu-
berculosis already located, see that
the patients are receiving the proper
care and livingunder proper sanitary
conditions and cite‘any unusual fea-
tures of each case to the physician
and state board. One of the ends ac-
complished by this means will be to
Secure a more accurate tuberculosis
survey of the state than has ever be-
fore been attempted. In the end it is
contemplated to encourage the coun-
ties, either singly or cooperatively, to
build sanatoriums to which the cases
may be removed when in need of hos—
pital care.

In this first official attempt to sub
due the scource of tuberculosis in
Michigan, the people of the state can
be of great assistance to the officials
charged with the administration of the
law. This can be accomplished in var-
ious ways, but most important of
these is the observance of proper san-
itary promotions in all cases where a
patient suffering with tuberculosis
lives or is treated outside of a sans.-
torlum or hospital. Such precautions
are most essential to the safety of oth-
er members or the family and the pub-
lic and should never be neglected.
There are many other ways in which
the public can cooperate with the
health officers in the fight against tu-
berculosis, which will appear after the

The Fight Against
Tuberculosis.

work is organized, but the most im-
portant thing at the present time is
the development of a strong public
sentiment in favor of the work of
eradicating the disease. Every public
spirited citizen in the state should in-
terest himself to this end.

 

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

 

Foreign.

The European Wan—The Germans
have taken Vilna during the past
week. ‘ ThlS point has been the objec-
tive of the Germans for several weeks
past and the present position of both
Bussmn and German forces, accord-
ing to the reports of the two govern
merits, is such as to make almost in-
evitable a decisive battle near Vilna
of greater import to the two. contest-
ants than any since the fighting be-
fore Warsaw. The Germans have ex—
posed their forces in their attempt to
flank the Russian armies operating in
that vicinity which movement, while
it threatens the latter troops with cap—
ture, also imperils the German sol-
diers with the same fate. For this
reason a big battle seems the only al-
ternative for both sides. In Galicia
the Russians are on the offensive and
have achieved some minor successes.
The announcement has been made
that the Teutonic allies will make a
drive through Serbia beginning in QC.
tober, to get aid to Turkey and to
gain the allegiance of Bulgaria and
Roumania if possible. The attitude of
the two Balkan states toward the con--
testing nations is still in doubt, the
rulers having arranged a meeting to
discuss the situation and agree on
some future policy. The French and
English allies arc pushing their cam—
paign of the Dardanelles with all Vig-
or, as they feel that with the an-
nouncement of the Teutonic campaign
through the Balkan states that the sit--
nation is now one of a race to reach
Constantinople before Turkey’s allies
arrive and give assistance.
vantages are reported to have been
gained by the French and English
forces in this district, but they appear
to have cost heavily in men. From
Italy no news of important changes
in battle front has reached us. Along
the western battle line vigorous artil-
lery fire has been participated in dur~
ing the week, including the bombard
ing of German positions on the Bel--
gian coast by English battleships. No
general adjustment of lines and few
minor alterations have occurred.

During the past week the position
of General Carranza in Mexico seems
to have gained strength with the
members of the Pan-American confer-
ence. The conferees are now proceed-

ing to investigate the possibility of'

Carranza's being able to form a strong
central government at Mexico City.
An urgent appeal is being made in the
interests of the inhabitants of Mexico
for relief as funds in the hands of
philanthropic societies are practically
exhausted in the effort to keep alive
large numbers of starving inhabitants
in different places, but particularly in
Mexico City.

The Anglo-French commission is
arranging with American bankers for
a mammoth credit loan amounting to
probably $800,000,000. It will take
some time before the details can be
fully arranged, but the interest rate
has been agreed upon at five per cent.
It is altogether likely that an agree;-
mcnt will be made that the. money
realized from this arrangement will
not be available for the payment of
contracts for munitions of war. It is
hinted that another arrangement will
be made to finance war contracts, and
it is probable that Russia will partici-
pate in the latter loan.

National.

Documentary evidence is being
brought forth to reveal the efforts of
the British government to regulate
and control trade between the United
States and the rest of the world. The
conditions are in effect that American
manufacturers are obliged to use raw
materials obtained in British posses—
sions, are compelled to sign guaran-
tees not to dispose of goods manufac-
tured from this raw material to any
foreign country without the consent
of the British government. This re-
striction aflecta the rubber supply of
the United States, of which 70 per
cent comes from British possessions,
one-half of the wool supply and mac
tlcally all of the tin used here.

It is likely that President Wilson
may call the United States Senate in
extra session in October for the con-
sideration of pending treaties with
Columbia, Nicaragua and Hayti.

A serious landslide occurred north
of Goldfiill on the Panama Canal on
Sunday. It is estimated that 100,000

cubic yards of earth is in the canal, ‘

which will require a week before the

dredges can clear the channel sum»-

clent for the passage of vessels of
light draft.

Minor ad?

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SEPT. 25, 1915.

Making a New Farm

this part of the state and all

kinds of men selling it, as well
as all kinds of people buying and try-
ing to make farms of it, with the in-
evitable result that opinions, stories
and recommendations are so many
and varied, that the proposition has
become so befogged that the prospec-
tive investor is afraid to touch it.

We are writing this article in the
hope of clearing up this fog to some
extent and being of real assistance to
those who, possessing moderate
means, wish to invest in 40 or 80 acres
of land and make a home on it.

The prospective buyer will ask,
first, what kind of land will I buy?
second, how will I buy it, and third,
how will I make a farm of it when I
get it? We will try to answer these
questions in the order mentioned.

The Kind of Farm to Buy.

In selecting the land is where so
many make their great mistake, the
poorest land is the most widely ad-
vertised, and as a rule sells for the
highest price. Why? Because the
real estate companies have bought
this land for a song, and consequently
own more of it than any other kind,
and then most buyers judge the qual—
ity of the land by the price, hence as
a real estate dealer—selling land that
we would not pay the taxes on—once
explained to us: “If I offered my land
at a less price I could not sell an acre
of it.”

Thus a man makes up his mind to
buy a farm, he answers a real estate
advertisement, is taken in hand by
the company, is shown some really
good farms, and sold a piece of worth-
less land a short distance from it. He
invests his capital and goes to work
at the making of his home and in the
course of two years or three he wakes
up to the fact that he can not make a
living on his land, and then goes back
whence he came, cursing northern
Michigan.

Here is a queer situation which
should be kept constantly in mind by
the buyer, the best and the poorest
land often lay side by side, some—
times within a mile of each other, and
then there are all grades of land be-
tween the best and the poorest. We
will try and describe the different
grades of land so that the layman will
“recognize the child” when he sees it.

The best land invariably grows, or
has grown, hard maple, beech, bass-
wood and hemlock timber. Good land
may grow other timber but these are
always present. This land is good for
general farming, it being largely up to
the farmer to say what line he will
pursue.

Then there are good swamp lands
but that will be the subject of another
article. The second grade land is
where the large white pine timber
once grew. This grade of land often
produces a heavy growth of soft ma-
ple, white birch and what is locally
called popple. This land is good for
general farming but will not stand
the abuse that the heavier land will
stand. Where the soft maple and
white birch grows is nearly always ex-
cellent hay land.

The land which once produced the
Norway pine and large yellow jack
pine, I would class as third grade.
This is good g1azing land, and most
of it, by careful treatment, can be.
built up to a high state of efl‘iciency.
This, together with the second grade,
is what is sometimes called the clover
land.

And then comes the worthless jack
pine plains. This land grows scrubby
jack pine timber, with limbs from the
ground up, turkey foot grass, and in
the most hopeless cases the ground is
covered with a green-brown moss
which is about two inches deep and
very brittle. This land is, during June,
July and August, fair pasture land,
but that is all that it is good for.

THERE are all kinds of land in

THE MICHI

To take up the second question. If
he wants to buy a small piece of land
he will do well to steer clear of the
real estate dealer and go out among
the farmers, make a few inquiries and
look over the land until he finds what
he wants, having an eye to location,
roads, etc., and then look up the own-
er and bargain for it. If he wishes to
purchase a large tract he had best
deal with real estate men, but be sure
and insist. on the type of land he is
looking for. Real estate men will at-
tempt to sell their undesirable land
first, and will sell their best land only
when they can’t sell anything else.

Making the Farm.

Now we come to the question of
making the farm, which is just as im-
portant as any of the previous steps.
The matter of buildings we leave en-
tirely to the buyer and his means. To
get the land cleared and ready to
farm is usually a hard task if the land
is good. Having helped to clear over
800 acres we feel competent to advise
the beginner. It is very important to
clear the ground thoroughly. An acre
of land properly cleared is worth five
acres covered with stumps and boul-
ders, not only in extra work and brok-
en machinery, but in actual crop pro-
duction. Not only do you lose the
ground where the stump stands, but
also a strip on each side of it that the
plow doesn’t get, which makes a har-
bor and seed bed for briars, June
grass and weeds. Comparing the
quantity and quality of the crop, to-

 

gether with the cost of getting it from ,
two fields, one cleared thoroughly and?

the other covered with stumps, the dif- I I \
ference in two years .will clear awgyi m

the stumps from the latter.

The quickest and most economic
way of taking out stumps is with dy-;
namite, the dynamite not only takes
out. the stump but splits it up and
shakes the soil from its roots and
leaves it ready to pile and burn,
which is of even greater importance
than the difference in cost of getting
the stump out as compared with dig-
ging them out or the stump puller.
Then, too, the dynamite loosens up
the subsoil for some distance from
every stump.

Having his land cleared it only re-
mains for our man to apply good busi-
ness management and not a little en-

ergy and “elbow grease” to make a
successful farmer.
Otsego Co. G. F. DELAMATER.

ARTIFICIAL PROTECTION FROM
FROST.

 

We lately have had two quite se-
vere frosts in northern Michigan, and
I see some newspapers speak of
“smudges” being used to prevent
damage from early or late frosts.
Please give us a chapter about this
smudge business. How is it made
and of what material? How should
it be used in a com field, 01 to pro-
tect gaIden truck? How far apart
am the fires? Does smoke apply bet-
ter than open fires? Give us some de-
tailed instructions via The Farmer.

Delta Co. W. H. O.

\Vestern orchardists in locations
which are likely to be visited by
frosts during the period when the
fruit is setting commonly resort to
smudges, so-called, as an artificial

 

protection from frost. Special devices
are used called “smudge pots” in
which crude oil is burned to produce
a dense smoke which has much the
same effect as clouds in warding off

 

impending frosts. These have to be
placed at frequent intervals through
the orchard or field, involving so
much labor and expense that the plan
has never been put into practical op-
eration except for the protection of
valuable crops like fruit during the
critical season of its early develop-
ment. If it is feasible to protect
ripening farm or garden crops by
this means in Michigan, that fact has
not been demonstrated as yet, to our
knowledge. i

 

GAN FARMER 3—259‘

Hidden Factors of Service
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Records, statistics and accounts
kept like this are available for a
complete knowledge of the cost
and efficiency of each depart-
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telephone line like this, which
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Such methods result in a tele-
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'or even try to stifle it?

  
  
   

LILLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.

 

When all the public roads are gbod,
prominent roads, that is, properly
graded and surfaced with some good
permanent material then will the bus-
iness of farming be a much more
pleasant one and withal a. more profit-
able one. Between Lillie Farmstead
and town, a distance of four and one-
lialf miles, we now have a prominent
county road Of the state reward type
of two miles. A township has built a
fair gravel road of half a mile and our
road district graveled half a mile last
year, and if it stops raining long
enough we will gravel another half
mile this year. I doubt if any com-
munity in this state, unless it be
parts Of Lenawee county, can apple
ciate good roads better than this com-
munity. We have always had the
travel through the mud, and clay mud
let that, all our lives, both spring and
fall of each year. Now we have some
road that is not affected by rains. It
is a good road after a rain. But we
must go through mud to get to it.
When rains come at intervals of a
few days a dirt road can be kept in a
fairly passable condition if you have
the right kind of highway overseer.
The modern road drag, if employed
at the right time, will keep the road
in fair condition, but when it rains
every day nearly, as it has done this
season, this system will not accom-
plish much. There must be some sur-
face material, gravel, crushed stone,
concrete, etc., that is not affected by
water. At the present time, Septenr
'bcr 13, it is almost impossible to get
to town with an automobile. One fair-
lly risks his life on the slippery clay
lroads that have been lately graded.
There has been a great change in
sentiment about building good roads
in the last few years. You no longer
hear farmers complain of the cost.
They simply want good roads at any
cost, provided there is no grafting,
and more, they are going to have
them.

Many people ask the question, is the
farm truck practical? The only ques-
tion is roads. If you have good roads
yes. If you have poor roads, no.
When we first began harvesting peas
this year, the last of June, the roads
were dry and I could draw 2,500 lbs.
with ease to the canning factory. Af-
ter two or three rains it was almost
impossible to haul at all. Build a
permanent road before you buy a
farm truck. Then you will be pleas-
ed with the truck. If you don’t build
the road you are liable to be disgust-
ed with it. A pleasure car is a little
different. You can stay at home or
.go with a horse until the roads dry Off
and settle, but a truck is for business
and you want to use it when business
demands.

I wish to thank Mr. McBride for his
article on “The Farm Complete.” It
solves the whole problem. The farm
and the system of farming is bound
to reflect the individuality Of the man,
and it should. No two men are alike
or have the same ideas exactly about
farming, and consequently the farms
will not be handled alike. Lectures on
farming, or courses in agricultural
colleges are not interpreted the same
by different men. They are valuable
for all, of course, but no two farmers
can apply them the same, because of
their individual differences. And
what a glorious thing individuality is.
Who would, for all the world, stifle it
,There is ab-
solutely no need in America today to
try to stifle it. There is room and Op-
portunity for all. Perhaps some time
in the future it Will be necessary to
have some more uniform system of
farming than we need now. I pre-

 

 

 

 

sume it would be better now. That
is, from an economical point Of view,
but it would not be half so much fun.

iAs you approach uniformity in farm-

l

mg you destroy or stifle individuality,
and some one person or group of per-

sons, must direct instead of each in-' ‘

 

SEPT. 25. 1915.

dividual. This stifles thought and in—
dividual responsibility. It mightmake
a community more prosperous from a
financial standpoint but when any of
us must let others do our thinking for
us, then we cease to be genuine Amer-
ican citizens. For my part, I would
prefer to be a free American citizen,
if I don’t make so much money and
do my own thinking and planning,
than to have the government or some
delegated authority, either authorized
by law or by common consent, do the
thinking for me. Don’t encourage a.
community to lean on one man or on
a committee, or on a government for
their methods and system of farming
Let each man think and try to solve
his own problems. He will walk more
erect, thing more Of himself and be a,
better man. I am not attempting to
knock at agricultural extension work,
far from it. I believe in this work.
It is the salvation of our farming and
of our county. We must be opposed,
stirred up, aroused by this method,
but we must not accept theories with-
out due consideration. We must be
able to apply ideas to meet our own
environments. I do not mean that
we should not accept the advise Of
other people. That would be foolish.
I want uniformity only when it is
consistent with individuality. Neith-
er do I ignore the importance of co-
operation. I feel thatacertain commu—
nity should and will make a special-
ty of dairying, another Of fruit grow1
ing, another Of some other line, and
they should act on business princi-
ples and co-operate. But I want the
individual to put his own personality
into his farm, into his dairying or
fruit growing, as the case may be. I
want him to lean on himself and act
for himself. COLON C. LILLIE.

SOLVING THE FARM STORAGE
PROBLEM.

 

(Continued from first page).
to four men, as they could be spared
from the regular farm work. This
gives an idea Of the labor required for
construction.

The material required from town
was hauled with the motor trucx
shown in the illustration, while the
gravel was hauled from a pit near the
farm with a farm team. It took about
50 yards of this material to complete
the structure. The bill for cement,
windows and walls ran about $140. A
ventilating shaft built of 16-inch clay
tile cost $18 more, while the lumber
required was taken from the farm
woodlot and sawed at a local mill
near by. This lumber was mostly No.
2 elm and soft maple that was not
saleable. It took of this material 2,200
feet for the roof boards, 3,200 feet for
a double floor to the room above, be-
sides the material used in the frame
that in all figures about 3,000 ft. more.

It would thus be seen that while
this structure covers considerable
space and comes to the rescue of the
farm in many ways as a housing
structure for much material that it is
hard to keep under cover, yet it does
not stand the farm out any great
expense.

The plastering work was easily
done. With a boy on the farm that
showed an aptness for spreading ce~
ment, for an assistant, we found the
plastering coats could be readily and
satisfactorily applied.

With a large crop of apples last fall
moving at a low figure, this storage
came to the rescue in a substantial
way that would leave it owing the
farm but little if a cyclone carried it
away before another harvest.

In this storage the writer has at—
tempeted to demonstrate two things
that need emphasis: The importance
of farmers carrying such equipment
that will make them able to hold a
product when it must otherwise go at
a loss; and, second, the practicability
of cement as a permanent and attrac-
tive form for such construction.
Shiawassee Co. C. B. COOK.

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

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SEPT. 25, 1915.
OBSERVATIONS OF A {/ETERAN
FARMER.

I am a rather close reader of thei
Michigan Farmer and have just read,
“A City Man’s Vacation,” and the:
editorial rejoinder, and as I finished?
the first article 1 think I had about1
the same soliloquy over it that I found l
expressed in the editorial.

I think the case taken for an “ob-
ject lesson” is rather an isolated one,
or rather, an exceptional case. Now
I live in a very thickly populated
farming and fruit growing country of
Allegan county and I cannot call to
mind a similar case. Not all the farms
have the water piped. into the house
and barn, but many have and those
that are not so equipped have the well
with windmill or gasoline engine very
close to the house so that there is not
much “running” for water. As for
good and wise farm management, to
remedy that evil I think the farmer
would have to be “made over” in the
“upper story.”

Here we have employed much hired
help in the last twenty years, and the
last five years’ time two tenant men,
married men, each season, one by the
year and the other by the month for
the season. The one man has been
with us nearly eight years, and I do
not know but he may remain for eight
years more, and the others did not
stay only the one year principally be-
cause we did not care to employ them
another year.

We know of several of our largest
farmers and fruit growers that have
kept some of their men for several
years, and others changing them ev-
ery year because they are not satis-
factory, and often the hired help would
think that they could do better in
wages, but as a general thing my ob—
servation has been that a desirable;
farm hand does not have to hunt for:
a job.

I have in mind a. man that was a
good worker and understood farm
work well, but never seemed to stay
more than a year at a place, and I am
of the opinion that if our city “busi-
ness man” should in the future take a
few more “vacations” at different
places he might come to see things
differently, as we are all rather in-
clined to sometimes “jump at conclu-
sions.” As an illustration of this, a
friend and I were discussing the mer-
its of a certain book and I remarked
that the incidents narrated seemed so
simple to me, and my friend replied,
“you do not like it because it is writ-
ten up in the Scotch dialect,” and I
was constrained to reply that was the
very thing about it that I did like.
These are the observations of a Civil
War veteran farmer.

Allegan Co. H. H. GOODRIen.

 

 

 

UNEVEN RIPENING OF BEANS.

Would like a little information and
advice concerning my bean crop this
year. They were planted about the
first of June after potatoes on a clay
loam soil of fair fertility. Have flour-
ished nicely and promised to be a
good crop but now when they ought
to be harvested the field is spotted
intermittently with green beans, prob-
ably two-thirds being ripe and the
dry pods beginning to split open here
and there. Which is the most eco-
nomical way to handle the crop, to
pull now, green beans and all, or wait
for the green ones to get ripe and
thus incur the loss by some of the
ripe ones splitting?

Livingston Co. T. B. F.

Where two-thirds of the bean pods
are mature. it will not be profitable
to wait for the immature pods to rip-
en, as the. loss from the shelling of
the ripe beans will be greater than the
gain from the ripening of the back-
ward pods. Where the beans in the
late pods are quite well developed
more of them will mature to mer-
chantable quality after they are har-
vested than would be thought before
they are pulled. Most of the immature
beans which do not develop to mer-
chantable quality will remain in the
pods when threshed, and will make
the same more valuable as roughage.

 

TH'E MICHIGAN FARMER

5—261

 

 

 

 

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Improved body finish
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(‘Six”

 

 

  

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Timken axles

New body —- hand—

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Improved high speed Adjustable pedals
motor ———and 15 further to-
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Improved cantilever
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two-passenger car value on the

 

 

 

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When Your Dreams Come True

When you make a purchase, do you look ahead into
the future making calculation upon the service you are
to obtain measuring up to the price you are to pay P

It is a disappointment to find after a while that for
some reason you could not foresee, your calculations

are not to be realized.

Take no chances in buying footwear. but get shoes

. of known reputation for quality.

Rouge Rex Shoes

have that reputation, a reputation founded
upon the satisfactory experience of thous-
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manufacturers, are bound to maintain by
putting every ounce of genuine service

 

into the shoes that

Trude lurk
lurk of Quality on every Solo GRAND RAPIDS

modern methods of tanning and shoemaking make possible.

Ideal shoes for' this time of year are our No. 487, black and 489, tan
blucher shoes. The leather is a combination tannage of close fibre
and made as nearly waterproof as leather can be made. They have
half double soles, double tips and full bellows tongue.

Write for descriptive book and dealer's name

HIRTH-KRAUSE COMPANY

Hide to Shoe Tanner: and Shoe Manufacturers

 

MICHIGAN

 

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BUSHEL BRATES

Made from Elm timber.
, hum-lied down or nailed up

2 APPLE BAHRELS

Standard Size— W I‘ll Made.

Slruihers Cooperage Co.

Romeo, Michigan

 

 

LILLIE'S SPECIAL BRANDS

BUFFALO FERTILIZER

Made from best. material. Always reliable.
Lime, Potash. Acid Phosphate. Nitrate of Soda.
Agents wanted in unoccupied territory, Ship di.
root to farmers in carlots. Fertilizer questions
answered and farm soil surveys made on request.

Colon C. Lillie, Sales AgL. Coopersville, Mich.

Pulverized lime rock for “sour"
soils. Write for LOW PRICES
DIRECT TO YOU and we will
send sample and full particu-

lars. Write to office nearest you.
LAKE SHORE STONE COMPANY.
Muskegon. Mlch.. and Benton HarborJMlch

-—You should get the highest grade
of limestone manufactured. Buy
it upon the basis of analysis. We
manufacture the highest. rude pul-

verized'llmestone sold in iehigan.
Let us prove it. Ask for sample and analysis.

CAMPBELL STONE 00.. Indian Rlvor. Mlcll.

“" AN OPPORTUNITY

to represent a. well established house (manufacturing
Stock and Poultry Medicine) is open to fimtplass mon .
who have standing with farmers in their territor . No .
investment necessary. For further particulars a drag
THE SAL-B-VIM 00.. Inc.. Penneburg, Pa

 

 

 

 

 


 

262 -6

On Pear and

URING the month of July and
August the effects of apple and

pear blight are mostprominentg.

I believe most growers realize that it
is often impossible to cut out the dis-
eased wood of a badly infected tree.
Still the wretched appearance and the
loss of the trees makes the grower
anxious to do something. If there
w as nothing else to do on a fruit farm
but trimming trees most men would
he sure to cut out the blight as soon
as it appears. The rapid spread of the
disease in some orchards makes it ab-
solutely impossible to keep in control.
The only way seems to be to let it
run its course and if the tree is not
too far gone, pruning it, or if injured
too much cutting it out completely
later.
Sterilizing Tools Important.

I think, from what I have observed,
that most men sterilize the trimming
tools after each operation, and also
sterilize the wound made. In one or“
chard the grower, several years ago,
did some pruning without sterilizing
and the. results of his experiment. Were
evident to him later. Every wound he
made seemed to be the center of a
new outbreak.

This summer the writer had occa-
sion to travel through \Visconsin, Illi-
nois, Michigan, Ontario, Canada, New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Del-

eware, Maryland, Virginia, and por-
tions of North Carolina. By keeplng

a note book it was possible to get
some idea of the large number of
trees, or rather the areas in which
blight of apples and pears is preva-
lent. The orchards in which blight
was not found are very scarce. I be-
lieve the fruit belt of Michigan to be
less infected than any area I had the
opportunity to look over.

The Blight Bad in Other States.

I have in mind some apple orchards
in New Jersey which were well kept
and about 15 or more years old. The
entire tree in many cases was com-
pletely killed. In one orchard com-
prising perhaps 40 acres, 15 per cent
of the apple trees were completely
destroyed and 50 per cent were so
badly ruined that if they recover it
will be years before they can produce
limbs to take the place of those lost.
l’ear orchards have suffered even
worse. Of course, in many orchards
only the smaller twigs were affected
and no permanent harm may result.

The question arises immediately
whether or not most of these orchards
are not neglected. This is not the
case, as most of the orchards in the
fruit section of these states receive
fairly good treatment. Not all of
them, however, are in the fruit sec-
tion, and, of course, are not as well
cared for as where fruit growing is
the principal industry.

The Influence of the Soil.

The treatment of the soil, and the
disposition of the cover crops has a
great influence on the tree. We can-
not unbalance the tree and expect it
to go on normally in its processes. It
is impossible to stop blight by soil
management but surely there is no
question as to its inhibitive effect.
The writer has in mind an old and
prominent fruit grower in Michigan
whose success in growing pears is
proverbial. I have noted some blight-
ed branches in his orchard, but of
course, they were immediately cutout.
But the trees were not so subject to
blight, although he had all varieties,
and his neighbors had blight in their
orchards. It seemed to be his master-
ful way of handling the soil, fertiliz-
ing. and cover cropping. Location of
the orchard, as to drainage, etc., indi-
cated good foresight at planting time.
Another large young pear orchard in
the same vicinity, now four years old,
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THE MICHIGAN FARMER

Orchard Observations

Apple Blight

only a few trees have shown the ten-
dency to blight. , , .

The secrets of the soil are many and
it behooves every fruit grower to
study the soil and the tree intently.
Reactions are produced which, if care-
fully observed may unlock many mys-
teries still unsolved, and enable us to
cope with destructive agencies that at
present threaten great losses.

Kent Co. C. N. FREY.

TROUBLE DEPARTMENT.

 

Time for Setting Blackberry Planta-
tion.

I wish to set out some blackberry
bushes, also some red raspberry bush-

. year. .
had in transplanting the plants when

es. Could I set them this month or
the first of Septemberxor would it be
best to wait till spring?

Isabella Co. R. S.

It is not advisable to set out rasp-
berries or blackberries at this time of
Satisfactory results cannot be

they are in foliage. Unless great care'
is taken to take a good sized clump of
earth with the roots the plants will
lose their foliage and will send out
new leaves and growth after they are
transplanted, if they live through the
transplanting. This growth will not
have time to mature before the winter
sets in and winter injury is likely to
result. Spring is the proper time for
setting out these fruits and dormant
plants will give the best results. Late
fall, after the foliage has dropped, is
the next best time. Firm earth well
around roots at this time.

Vegetable Growers’ Convention

HE eighth annual meeting of
the Vegetable Growers’ Asso-
ciation of America was held at
Cleveland, Ohio, September 7-9. The
attendance was fine. Cleveland is the
place where the association was or-
ganized and the local growers turned
the meeting into a most enjoyable af-
fair. Addresses of welcome were de-
livered by Rev. H. R. Cooley, director
of Public Welfare of the city, and by
John F. Cunningham, on behalf of the
Cleveland growers. On behalf of the
visiting growers Mr. Howard W. Sel-
by. of Philadelphia, responded. The
report of the treasurer showed the or-
ganization to be sound financially.
The afternoons of Tuesday and Wed-
nesday were devoted to sight-seeing
trips among the famous garden sec-
tion of the Sixth City. Tuesday the
delegates went by street car to Rocky
River, where they were metby 100
automobiles owned by members of the
Cleveland Association. They were
then taken to several commercial
greenhouse establishments. These are
all large plants with one and a half
to two and a half acres under glass,
each. One company has a basket fac-
tory in connection with its growing
establishment where splint. baskets
are made, the splints being taken from
the logs and the finished baskets pre-
pared for use. The growers of this
district bring manure from as far as
the Chicago stock yards, in addition
to what they can get locally.
Visits to Market Growers of Cleveland.
011 Wednesday afternoon the trip
took in the famous market gardens of
the district known as South Brooklyn.
The delegates went to the locality on
cars and were met again by the car-

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avan of automobiles. Some of the
gardens were labeled to show the va-
riety that was growing at the time, as
well as to tell of the previous treat~
ment and the use that was to be made
of the ground later. These were all
studied with care, because such infor-
mation is working capital for the vis-
itors.

In this district are some of the very
finest garden views to be seen any‘
where. The section is rich in produc-
ing power, and on account of a gently
undulating surface afford a number of
eminences from which beautiful views
may be had.

The leading greenhouse crops of the
Cleveland district are lettuce, cucum-
bers and tomatoes. Outdoor work on
an extensive scale is done with celery,

asparagus, spinach, rhubarb, root
crops, etc. The gardens are in an ad-

vanced state of cultivation. They
have been cultivated for a great many
years without any show of diminution
of fertilitymin fact, from the liberality
with which they have been fed most
of these acres are richer than they
ever were before. They are watered
artificially by the Skinner system, and
most of the greenhouses are ready for
a fine shower of fine rain whenever
the grower wills that such is neces-
sary. Little time is lost. One crop
rapidly replaces another. At the time
of our visit several of the houses were
yielding cucumbers for the trade. Oth-
ers were starting lettuce for fall con-
sumption; cucumbers were a few inch-
es high in others. The bench system
of culture is used scarcely at all. The
ground is plowed and seldom changed.
It is sterilized and fertilized instead.

On Wednesday morning, Mr. H. W.

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SEPT. 25, 1915.

Selby, of Philadelphia, led a very in- _
“Marketing

teresting discuSsion on
Problems.” The keynote of the whole
was the crying need of the standardi-
zation of products and co-operation in
placing these on the market. Several
delegates from the south discussed at
some length their methods of prepar-
ing their vegetables for long ship-
ments. The greater part are shipped
in refrigerator cars so that the vege-
tables will arrive in sufficiently good
condition to be in competition with
the hot-house products of the northern
grower. A Virginia delegate mention—
ed the fact that in their section many
of the unmarketable sweet potatoes
are canned and in this manner the
growers do not flood the market at the
height of the season.

The Advantages of the Motor Truck.
The use of the motor truck came in
for a good share of the discussion and
it was generally acknowledged that it
was a most important factor for the
“trucker” in marketing his produce.
Several instances were sighted where
the truck played an important part in
timely marketing and as a result the
grower was able to take advantage of
a higher price than his neighbor who
depended upon the horse drawn be-
hicle. The fact that cheaper land can
be purchased a short distance from
the city than in the city limits was
brought out and with a motor truck
the city market is as easily accessible.
Advertising also received considera-
ble attention. Neat packages and at-
tractive labels were approved as a
means of making a certain product or
brand distinctive. Paper'and maga~
zine. advertising was advocated as a.
profitable means of marketing.

On Wednesday evening genial Dean
Watts, of Pennsylvania State College,
conducted an interesting discussion
on “Greenhouse Problems.” The prin-
cipal question raised was that of
means of enlarging the greenhouse so
as to increase the capacity with a pro--
portional increase in profits. It was
agreed that this was a problem for
each individual case and that general—
ities would not apply. Among other
questions were those of crop substitu—
tion, greenhouse soil treatment, and
combatting insects.

Soil Problems.

Perhaps one of the most interesting
sessions of the convention was that
conducted on Thursday by Prof. Paul
Work, of Cornell University, on “Muck
Land Problems.” He gave a brief but
interesting talk on the formation of:
muck soil in which he enumerated the
succeeding steps, namely: 1, ponds.
with their depositions of water plant
life; 2, shaking bogs; 3, soil on which
alders will grow: 4, soil on which con--
iferous trees will grow; 5, soil on
which deciduous trees will grow. Soil
taken from any of these forms dis-
proves the oft made assertion that all
muck soils are alike.

The discussion of drainage was pro—
ductive of valuable information. It
has often been claimed that muck
soils cannot be drained by tiling due
to the unstable soil beneath; that
sufficient drop cannot be obtained so
as to prevent the tile from becoming
clogged. Numerous experiences were
related which show that muck land
has been tiled successfully where
boards were placed beneath the tile
so as to give a firm foundation. One
delegate stated that such a system of
tiling had been in successful operation
on his place for over 50 years.

The Fertility of Muck.

W'hile muck soil is not deficient in
nitrogen it is unavailable, due to the
absence of aerobic bacteria. Manure
contains these bacteria and when ad-
ded to muck soil will aid in making
the nitrogen available. Most “muck-
,ers” add a complete fertilizer with ev-
ery crop. Furrow and sub-irrigation
is largely practiced throughout the
country; overhead irrigation is used
by a few but is too expensive to come
into general, practice at present on
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SEPT. 25, 1915.

Feeders Problems

Fattening Sheep on Standing Corn.
Will you please inform me through
the columns of your paper whether or
not it is profitable to turn sheep right
into corn field? And which is best,
lambs or wethers? J H

Ionia Co.

Several of Michigan’s prominent
sheep feeders have used this method
of fattening sheep and lambs, with
very satisfactory results. Yearlings
and lambs have been successfully fed
in this way, but the larger operators
and those with the longest experience
seem to favor yearlings for this meth-
od of feeding. Of course, considerable
care must be taken in getting lambs
or yearlings on this kind of feed with-
out any deleterious results, but the la-
bor economy of the method and the
results obtained have made it popu-
lar with some of Michigan’s best:
sheep feeders.

Pasturing Lambs on Second Growth
Clover.

We have ten acres of second growth
clover and ten acres of new seeding
after wheat, all of which will be ready
to cut in about two weeks, but the
excessive rainfall in this section has
already made the ground so soft that.
should there be any more rain it will
be impossible to cut this second crop
Would you consider it safe to pur-
chase a carload of lambs and pasture
these fields, by allowing them to feed
about an hour only in the morning
and the same in the afternoon. And
would it be necessary to feed some
stringent in grain at the same time ‘3

Lenawee C0. F. P.

If sufficient care is taken in getting
the lambs accustomed to the. succu-
lent. pasture, there should be no ser—
ious danger in pasturing either west—
ern or native lambs on this feed. in
fact, it will make the best kind of
pasture and the lambs will make bet-
ter gains on it than on any other pas—
ture which could be used.

The writer has successfully pastur—
ed lambs and sheep on alfalfa and
rape pasture for many years by using
reasonable care in getting them ac-
customed to same, without the use of
any other corrective in the ration. We
have never met with any losses What.-
ever, although we have known losses
to be incurred where sufficient care
was not taken in getting the lambs ac-
customed to the feed.

Rye and Vetch vs. Oats and Peas.

l have five or six acres of ground
that is in ensilage corn which lays
in a field that I will have to pasture
next year. The soil is a sandy loam.
Now, what would be the best to sow,

rye and vetch this fall when the corn'

is off, or oats and peas in the spring?
If the former how much of each and
‘tvhen would be the best time to plant?

Genesee Co. J. W. T.

Where an area of land is to be ad-
ded to a pasture field for next year’s
use, rye would be a much more satis—
factory plant as the basis of the .pas-
ture, since it will get a good start this
fall and would make early pasture
next spring, whereas if oats and peas
Were sown they would not be avail-
able to pasture at the time it might
be desired to turn onto the grass. A
little vetch added to the rye, say ten
pounds per acre, would help the pas-
ture somewhat, provided it is a favor—
able fall and winter, but if on. land
that. is devoted to a regular crop r0-
tation, including wheat, it would he
better to omit the vetch and seed the
rye to clover in the spring, since the
vetch is inclined to be an undesirable
weed where grown on land which is
devoted to wheat. at some time in the
crop rotation.

LIVE STOCK EXPERIMENTS.

The following interesting experi-
ments were conducted at the Oregon
Station:

Two lots of pigs fed a ration of
crushed wheat, bran, and tankage,
5:4:1, lot one being self-fed on dry
feed and lot two hand~fed on soaked
feed, required per pound of gain 5.12
lbs. and 4.88 lbs. respectively. In a
second trial lot one consumed 4.18 lbs.
of feed and lot 2, 5.37 lbs. of feed per
pound of. gain. In this experiment the
self—feeder lot ate more feed daily and

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gained more rapidly at a small cost of
nutrients than did the hand-fed 101:.
Two Duroc Jersey sows with seven-
day-old pigs consumed during the time
of suckling the pigs 1,220 lbs. of a feed
mixture composed of Wheat, shorts,
and tankage 5:4:1, while the 15 pigs

total value of $122.68, or 8.74 cents per
pound of live weight of pigs, estimat-
ing the birth cost of the pigs to be $3.

In an experiment to determine the
practicability of utilizing cull eWes for
the production of early market lambs,
20 such ewes were fed during the win-
ter in an open yard with a shed, the
lambs arriving at irregular intervals.
Thirteen lambs averaging 40 lbs. live
weight were sold the first part of April
and the seven remaining 70-lb. lambs
were sold the latter part of June. The
ewes cost $82.42 and the feed $149.68.
After the sale of ewes, lambs, and
wool, a loss of $40.59 had been re
alized.

FAT AND LEAN BROOD SOWS.

There is a wide diversity of opinion
among farmers and breeders of swine
as to how much flesh the brood sow
should carry in order that she may
produce the best results as a breeder.
Farmers are quite apt to neglect their
brood sows and allow them to become
too run down in flesh to secure the
best results and the breeders who are
anxious to obtain the best results err
in the other direction and over-feed
their sows until they take on too much
fat to produce the most vigorous pigs.
A sow running down in flesh when,
bred. the same as the one that is too
fat. is likely to disappoint her owner
in the size of her litter and the qual-
ity of the pigs. The fact that a vigor-
ous sow in comparatively low flesh
will produce large litters has no doubt
led to the belief that the sow should
be thin when doing this important
work. On the other hand, the small
weak pigs born to the sow in high
flesh are no doubt parent to the be-
lief thut a sow should not be in high
flesh while reproducing her kind.

These conclusions are correct if ap-
pearances at farrowing time only are
considered, but if the observations ex—
tend over a period of a few weeks it
will be found that the fat sow and her
pigs have an advantage over the thin
sow and her litter. The strong pigs
from the lean sow start well on ac-
count of their strength but they soon
sap the stored up strength of their
mother and have her exhausted before
they begin to eat from the trough,
with the consequent result that they
come to a standstill for a time. The
smaller pigs from the fat sow grow
right along from the start and by the
time their dam is reduced in flesh con-
dition they are ready to eat from the
trough. The kind of flesh the sow car-
ries has all to do with the quality of
her litter. Too much fat produces
fever and a lack of exercise makes
her a dangerous mother. She is fever-
ish and vicious and the pigs will sufler
from this if they are fortunate enough
to live. If her flesh is properly laid
on by eating a variety of food, includ-
ing pasture and forage crops, she will
be in first class condition to give her
pigs a good start in life.

It is very seldom that sows have an
inclination to eat their pigs when they
farrow in the pasture during the sum-
mer. A sow carrying a proper amount
of flesh usually does well with her lit-
ter and she will remain quiet longer
after farrowing while the lean sow
will be up looking for something to
eat.

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N FARMER

HERE is one branch of the poul-
try business that deserves more
attention from the farmer than
it gets. This is the hatching of fall
chickens for the spring trade. Our at-
tention was called to it by having
some hens steal their nests an dhatch
out the latter part of October. Those
chicks did nothing but eat and grow,
and along in April we could get al-
most any price for the birds. Chicks
hatched in the fall and fattened dur-
ing the winter are known as soft
roasters and in certain poultry sec
tions it is a regular business to sup-
ply birds of this kind for the big mar-
kets. Smaller markets are neglected
and it is catering to these cities that
the farmer will find his golden oppor-
tunity.
October Chicks Bring Money.

Most professionals hatch their soft
roaster chicks by the latter part of
September as this gives them an op-
portunity to place broilers on the mar-
ket during the winter. In our own
case we prefer to hatch them later.
The latter part of October is plenty
early enough. To do this with success
means that warm and well-protected
quarters must be provided. The brood-
er house, which is usually idle during
the early part of the winter, can just
as well be used for late fall chicks as
early spring chicks. There is one cir-
cumstance that makes raising fall
chicks a special delight. We do not
have to fight lice and mites. In our
own case, also, the little birds seem
less liable to disease. At any rate it
is no harder to handle a November
chick than a. February one.

It is not always possible to get fer-
tile eggs in the fall. One should be
sure not to breed from the spring-
hatched cockerels. In most cases the
chicks from such matings will be lack-
ing in vigor. If an old male is avail-
able turn him out on the open range

iwith the hens and feed the birds well.

We never fail to get a considerable
number of eggs during September and
October under such conditions. They
are always fertile and batch out a
large proportion of healthy chickens.

The Best Breed for Hatching.

For fall hatching there is no breed
that will excel the Rhode Island Red.
We have also had excellent success
with the White Wyandotte and the
Barred Rock. Whatever breed we use,
we- would prefer it to be one of the
larger ones. In general it may be
said that the bird that dresses off
with yellow skin and clean appear-
We have also tried the
Light Brahma. but the principal ob-
‘jection seems to be that it must be
kept longer to reach maturity or a
marketable size.

In feeding fall-hatched chicks we
follow the methods advocated for
spring, except that a moist mash is
fed after the birds have reached the
age of four or five weeks. This can
safely be given once a day and helps
to make the chicks put on fat. The
object is not to make laying hens of
the pullets, hence it is advisable to
feed as much fattening food as they
will take. Soft roasters should be
“butter fat.” This condition cannot be
attained unless the birds are kept fat
from the beginning. Pullets will ma-
ture faster than cockerels and it is
well to separate the sexes. Some mar—
kets pay even more for the females
than for the males.

The Proper Housing.

Fall—hatched chicks should be allow-
ed plenty of air but should have quar-
ters fully protected from cold winds.
Chicks hatched in incubators will need
indoor brooding. Those hatched un-
der hens may be safely left to the
care of the mother birds, provided
each flock has a. pen by itself. After
the youngsters have reached the age
of two months they should have open-

 

front houses but it is better not to

 

SEPT. 25, 1915.

Fall Hatched Chicks for Spring Trade

provide roosting places if the bottom
of the house has a floor to keep them
from sitting on the cold ground.

New Hamp. C. H. CIIESLEY.

 

CLEANLINESS A FACTOR IN PROF‘
lTABLE POULTRY RAISING.

Reading the article of Mrs. L. F. L.,
of Tuscola county, prompts me to ask
other poultry raisers to give their
mode of managing the hens.

My method, from the fresh egg to
the old hens. is “as follows: I have
every nest a separate box with the
top as a lid and with only one end
open. I kerosene the meets and nests
every week. I never fail to do this. i
feed the best wheat and com I can
buy, and like the Missouri woman, l
feed all they will eat three times a
day. I clean the houses every day
and never have any lice or mites. l
water the hens in crooks which [wash
every day. There will a slick slime
settle around the side of the drinking
crocks in 24 hours which is certainly
very Unhealthy and should be washed
out. I feed all kinds of green feed.
cloves, grass, lettuce, wild lettuce.
mustard, etc.

By this method my hens always
;ive me eggs. have never had white
or any other diarrhea, gaps or any
other disease among them.

I keep 6 to 100 in one—quarter of a
common town lot, which I keep well
cleaned. This thing of dirty, filthy
henhouses, roosts and nests is respon-
sible for non-paying, diseased poultry.

Indiana. G. M. STREET.

 

FATTENING TURKEYS.

During the summer months, the
turkeys will grow nicely with very lit—
tle feeding, the range furnishing an
abundance of insects and weed-seeds.
But when the cool days of fall come,
and food on the range becomes scarce.
the farmer should gradually increase
the grain food until they are getting
all they will eat morning and night,
This increase of food should be made
gradually, since if the turkeys are giv-
en all they will eat of grains they are
not accustomed to, their digestive sys-
tems will suffer.

While getting in shape for market
the turkeys should not be confined. If
fed regularly, they will not wander far
from home, and will take no more ex-
ercise than is necessary to keep them
in a good vigorous state of health.
A turkey that is poorly fed during the
fall months, will, in her futile search
for food. run off some of the flesh she
made when food was plentiful during
the summer months.

The best grains for turkeys are corn
and Wheat. If possible nothing but
old corn should be fed. If necessary
to feed new corn, it should be fed
very sparingly at first, and gradually
increased as the digestive system of
the turkey becomes accustomed to it.
New corn. unless fed with judgment,
will cause Iooseness of the bowels.

Two or three weeks before the tur-
keys are to be marketed, it would be
advisable to increase the food to three
full meals a day. The corn and wheat
should still be fed mornings and
nights, and in addition to this, a mash
mixture, composed of corn meal and
ground oats, mixed with milk, should
be fed at noon. Heavy feeding calls
for a liberal supply of grit.

Indiana. '1‘. Z. RICHEY.

If one is interested in bees and can
give much time and thought to his
apiary, there is profit in the business
if you are in a good locality. Our hon-
ey is gathered mostly from white clo-
ver. Some years we get fruit blos-
som honey which is delicious, and we

always have some buckwheat honey,- .

which is rather strong flavored. We
save all refuse wax, clean, melt and
make it into foundation.

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Fifteen years ago an assistant in
the dairy department of the Univer-
sity of Missouri began to keep record
of the milk and butter production of
a small Jersey cow. This assistant
has gone and others have come and
gone, but the Jersey cow is still on
the job. In the 15 years she has pro-
duced 108,968 pounds of milk and
5,000 pounds of butter-fat, or 5,833
pounds of butter.

Her best year’s record was 13,322
pounds of milk and 730 pounds of
butter.

During the 15 years the cow, Grace
Briggs, has given birth to 12 calves.
Her last calf sold for $300, and the
average for the 12 is about $200.
About $2,400 was obtained from the
sale of all the calves. Figuring the
entire milk production for 15 years at
eight cents a quart, the total would be
$4,358.72. The approximate cost of
keeping her was $50 a year, or a total
of $750.

The average daily production of
milk for the 15 years was a little
more than nine quarts a day. During
her best year she produced a little
more than 18 quarts a day.

If the butter was sold instead of the
milk, at the price of 35 cents a pound,
,the total for the butter production
from Grace Briggs would be $2,041.55.

HOLD FOURTH ANNUAL PICNIC.

 

On August 25 was held at Long
Beach Stock Farm on the shores of
hill Lake, Kalamazoo county, the
fourth annual picnic of the Western
Michigan Holstein Breeders’ Associa—
tion.

Although the weather was cold and
threatening, more than one hundred
enthusiastic Holstein breeders enjoy-
ed the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. F.
S. Kenfield at their beautiful home on
Gull Lake.

\Vhile music by the Dalton Band
entertained the women and children
during the forenoon, the men folks
inspected the fine barns and herds
of Long Beach Farm and also showed
much interest in fifty acres of alfalfa
from one to three years old that is
producing a wonderful yield.

After a bountiful chicken dinner
served in picnic style, Mr. Kenfield
opened the afternoon program with
an entertaining speech of welcome.
Many of the young farmers present
were interested to learn that Mr. Ken-
field started with an animal that cost
him $300 for which he has refused
$3,000.

Mr. Arthur Clarke, of Alto, Mich-
igan, President of the Association,
acknowledged Mr. Kenfield’s greet-
ings in a very humorous and inspiring
talk on Holsteins.

Honorable Frank H. Williams, of
Allegan, Michigan, spoke on the fra-

ternal spirit among Holstein men, and'

their opportunities. His talk was very
impressive, telling how the Holstein
breeders are striving for an ideal ani-
mal and lauding the fact that many
wealthy men who in the past have
devoted their time and money to fast
horses, striving to breed a horse that
would cut another half second off the
record, are now taking up the Hole
Steins and breeding for better milk
records with the same enthusiasm and
concentration with which they went
after speed records. Mr. Williams has
been breeding Holsteins for twenty
years and to hear him tell of the
good they do to the farm, how they
return more than they take off (some-
thing that cannot be said of crop
farming), was very encouraging to
the young men present, many of

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

whom are starting pure-bred herds.

Honorable P. T. Colgrove,,of Hast-
ings, Michigan, gave a very interest-
ing talk regarding Holsteins on the
Michigan farm and on the good roads
movement. Mr. Colgrove and Mr.
Kenfield are old boyhood friends,
both of whom have made good in their
respective lines of work and are now
devoting their time and talents to
raising Holsteins. Mr. Colgrove was
elected prosecuting attorney of his
county when twenty-one years of age
and continued in that office for several
years. He has been honored by his
party by being sent to the legislative
halls of his state, and today, after
many years of active public life, is
putting in his time working for better
roads and more and better Holsteins
for the Michigan farmer.

Following Mr. Colgrove’s excellent
speech, the business reports were read,
which showed the association to be in
a flourishing condition.

At the close of the program the
visitors were entertained by a trip
around the lake and with music by
the band. Upon their return they
Were served with ice cream and cake;
everyone leaving for home with a
hearty vote of thanks to the genial
host and hostess of Long Beach Farm
and a feeling that the day had been
well spent in mingling with the men
and women who are doing so much
for the Holsteins and the farmer.

GERMAN MILLET FOR SlLAGE.

I have a field of German millet
which I would like to put into the silo,
but do not know whether it is a suit-
able crop for ensilage. I would like
to hear from someone with experience
regarding its value. C. B. A.

I would advise making the millet
into hay. It is not a good plant to
ensilo. It does not readily pack down
close enough to exclude the air suffi~
ciently to make the best quality of
silage: It can, however, be readily
made into hay. Cut before it is too

dry and cock in good sized cocks?
These cocks will cure out in a few,
days, like alfalfa and clover, and you?

have some fine hay.

This crop can be ensiloed success-
fully if you take great pains in pack-
ing it when filling, and then there
should be some weight on top. If you
could fill the top of the silo three or
four feet with green corn or sorghum
it will weight down and make fairly
good silage. Even with this it will be
none too good, for the hollow stems
of the millet will contain so much air
that considerable fermentation will
take place.

Corn is the best and cheapest crop
for the silo, and we want a dry rough-
age to feed with it. Millet makes a
very good dry roughage, of course,
not so good as clover hay or alfalfa to
feed with corn silage, but it makes
good forage.

FROSTED' BEANS AS SILAGE.

 

I have four acres of beans that were
frosted. Would you advise putting
them in silo with corn fodder? I
would pull them now and put them on
poles until corn was ready for silo.

Mecosta Co. W. D. C.

A silo is for the purpose of storing
green succulent food. It is not the
place for dry plants. The beans can
be pulled at once after being frosted
and run into the silo while they still
have their natural juice, and make a
very good silage. But to leave them
until the corn is matured and let them
get thoroughly dry will mean that you
must wet them thoroughly while fill-
ing the silo or you will have dry
mouldy silage.

Dry corn is sometimes put in the
silo by wetting it while filling and it
makes fair silage, but it should be put
in while yet green, that is succulent,
which means full of sap.

If you pull the beans now and cure
them dry, I would store them dry and
feed them dry. Bean hay made in
this way is good hay and has high
feeding value.

 

 

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266—10

The greatest sanitary objection to
the use of the old type cess pool or
vault in the farm home is probably its
menace to the home water supply. It
is almost notorious that much of the
water used on farms is entirely unsafe
for drinking purposes, due to the sur-
face, or undersurface,‘ contamination
from some such contaminating cen-
ters as a cess pool or vault. Very
frequently the water supply is taken
from a point where surface drainage
from the farm yard is very readily
identified in the water supply. There
ale, of course, many other valid rea-
sons why a decided change in the dis-
posal of sewage is desirable. The fly
nuisance is very closely connected
with the old unsanitary type of sew-
age disposal, to say nothing of the
foul odors and many other objection
able items, and it is found that an im-
provement. in the sewage disposal mat-
ter provides a household convenience
instead of making it necessary to sac-
rifice convenience to sanitation. The
installation of most sanitary devices
and facilities is uphill work because
it entails the sacrifice of some other
easily manipulated system but. in the
matter of sewage disposal the secur-
ing: of a proper disposal of the waste
becomes at, the same time a source of
home convenience.

Economical Considerations.

in one sense of the word, it may be
dillicult to. establish the fact on a
small farm that, these devices, such as
a sewage disposal system, safe and
sanitary water supply and
lighting facilities, are economic condi-
tions but insofar as the sewage dispo-
sal factor is concerned and the water
supply problem is concerned, we must
repeat the position which we have
time and again taken that sanitary
conditions must in every instance take
precedence over those of economy.
We fully believe that the installation
of these facilities is not uneconomical
but we do not approach this subject
on the ground of economy. Just how
much these factors have to do with
the satisfaction of living upon the
farm is too broad a question to deal
with at this time.

Description of a Septic Tank.

,A septic tank is nothing more nor
less than a large sedimentation basin
of sufficient capacity to hold the sew-
age material until its solids are com-
pletely reduced through the medium
of reducing batceria. The size of the
septic tank necessary, therefore, must
vary with the needs of the home in
which it is installed. in the ordinary
farm home it need not. be of any great-
er size than an unusually large cis-
tern. It should be placed at some con-
siderable distance from the house, and
in fact, if the ditch into which the
farm drainage runs is at a consider-
able distance from the house and the
fall is sufficient, the septic tank may
be placed on the bank of the ditch so
that the overflow has ready access
into the drainage system. In building
the septic tank in such a position
there should be a manhole at inter-
vals perhaps of twenty rods and the
provision for the carrying off of any
gases produced by bacterial action so
that they will not follow the. sewer
line up into the house. These are
merely details of the establishment
of the sewer and plumbing and are
pretty well understood by most plumb-
ers, but the farmer should see to it
that the opportunities for the escape
of these gases are present. Provision
should be made in the septic tank to
stop the ordinary flow from one end
of the tank to the other. For this rea-
son it is quite customary to provide a
series of baffles which deflect the cur-
rent from the intake to the outlet so
as to insure the overflow only of thor-
oughly liquified matter.

A well operating septic tank will
after a time have a thick bacterial

proper

 

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

écwagc Disposal on the Farm

By FLOYD W. ROBISON

crust over the entire surface and be
a rich culture of the bacteria which
affect the solvent action on the solid
matter in the tank. When the tank is
working properly the overflow, or ef-
fluent, will be perfectly clear and free
from any suspended matter whatso-
ever. An analysis of it will show the
absence of any insoluble organic com-
pounds, the practical absence of any
nitrogen in the form of nitrates or
nitrites. but an abundance of nitrogen
in the form of different ammonia com-
pounds.

The Overflow of the Septic Tank.

The accomplishment of results as
detailed just above marks the end of
the action which is possible in the
septic tank. So far the action has
been practically an action in the ab—
sence of air. It now becomes neces-
sary to accomplish the two other
steps which are necessary before the
outgoing liquid can reach a state of
complete rest whereby it is directly
suitable for nature’s building up proc-
esses again, such as are typified by
nitrogen in the form of nitrates. This
next step must be accomplished in the
presence of air and the more abundant
the aeration the more rapidly do these
changes take place. It would be well
therefore that the overflow from the
septic tank run into an open ditch
with a satisfactory flow or into a
ditch with large tiles where there is
an abundant activity of air organisms.
The ammonia in the overflow of wa-
ter, if under the conditions which we
have outlined, there speedily oxidizes,
first to nitrites and finally to nitrates,
in which condition, in the presence of
air, no further changes take place

The Drainage Should be Good.

The effluent, however, from a sep—
tic tank should pour into a ditch or
drain which has a perceptible flow so
that it does not become stagnant. if
the ditch becomes clogged up with
weeds and sticks so that, the water
does not drain off, the same type of
organisms which were present in the
septic tank and operated in the ab—
sence of air, begin again to operate
antagonistically to the work of the
air organisms and we get the reduc-
tion of the nitrates to nitrites and fin-
ally the reduction of the nitrites to
ammonia again and the accompanying
foul odors of putrifaction. It is this
condition which has brought the con-
demnation of the septic tank in cer-
tain quarters, simply because a thor-
ough understanding of its operation
bacteriologically has not been had.
Connect up the Water Supply Also.

The adopting of this system makes
necessary the installation of some
type of household water supply for it
is well that sewage which enters the
septic tank should be fairly well di-
luted when it enters. This dilution is
provided for by the ordinary closet
flush system in the homes such as is
used in the homes in cities. Of
course, it is not necessary that this
be made automatic but if it is made
automatic then the likelihood of the
pipes becoming clogged before the
sewage reaches the tank will be re-
duced to the minimum.

There is practically nothing in this
method of sewage disposal which can-
not be performed by the average farm-
er. He is familiar with the laying of
tiles and drains and familiar gener-
ally with the simple problems in con-
crete construction. The septic tank
may be quite ideally made from con-
crete. The main expenditure will be
for toilet room facilities, such as the
flush tank, and bowl. We would
strongly urge the farmer to consider
the possibility on his farm of putting
in a complete water system at the
same time the sewage system is in-
stalled. This has been avoided by
many farmers because of the expense
but there are many times during the
year when a. little'planning ahead will

permit the farmer himself to do the.

major part of the work. It might be
advisable for him to consult with
someone competent who would lay
out for him a general plan to which
he can gradually work. When the
sewage disposal proposition has been
satisfactorily settled on his farm.
when a convenient and safe water
supply is conveniently at the com-
mand of the farmer’s wife in the
kitchen, then the farmer’s home will
not seem to be much less convenient
than the home of his friends in the
city.

NODULES ON CLOVER ROOTS.

 

Will you kindly advise me what my
soil lacks or why it is that my clover
does not have nodules on the roots?
I plowed my ground in the spring of
1913 and sowed the clover without a
nurse crop and got a good stand. I
pastured it the latter part of the sum-
mer, cut it for hay in 1914, pastured it
the latter part of that summer, and
cut it for hay again in 1915. This
summer it made a big gworth after
being cut for hay and now I am plow-
ing it for wheat, but I have been un-
able to find any nodules on the clover

roots.

Berrien Co. C. C. V.

The only reason why clover would
not have nodules on .its roots would
be an acid condition of the soil which
would make it an unfavorable medium
for the development of the nitrogen
fixing bacteria which causes the root
nodules. The proper course of treat—
ment in such a case would be to lime
the soil when preparing the seed bed
for the wheat. The kind and amount
of lime to apply would depend some-
what upon local conditions. If locat-
ed near a railroad station so that the
expense of hauling would not be too
great, and if the area to be limed is
sufliciently large to make it feasible to
purchase the ground limestone by the
carload, then it would perhaps be best
to apply finely ground limestone at
the rate of say two tons per acre. In
case only a small area is to be treat-
ed or the material has to be drawn
from a considerable distance, it would
be more economical of labor to use
hydrated lime at the rate of say 500
pounds per acre. Something also
would depend upon the equipment
available for distributing same, since
the better the distribution, the better
will be the results secured.

Nothing is said in this inquiry re-
garding the nature or previous treat-
ment of this soil, but from the fact
that it was seeded to clover without
a nurse crop, it is a reasonable deduc-
tion that there has been previus diffi-
culty in securing a stand of clover on
same. The lands which need lime
most generally are of the more open
sorts which have been more easily de-
pleted of their lime supply by the ac-
tion of rain. There are very large
areas of these lighter and more open
soils in Michigan, which would be
greatly benefited by a liberal applica-
tion of lime. In most cases they will
grow clover readily after such treat-
ment, and root nodules will be plenti-
fully developed. On very rich soils
which are liberally supplied with hu-
mus and consequently high in their
content of nitrogen, clover plants
might not develop many nodules, sinCe
they could secure an abundance of
nitrogen from the soil. This, how-
ever, would not be the case on most
Michigan soils.

The nodules which form on clover
roots are smaller than those seen on
alfalfa, and appear singly rather than
in clusters but are normally so well
distributed over the roots that they
would scarcely be overlooked where
a plant was pulled from the plowed
furrow, which might easily be the
case with alfalfa from which the
nodules are more easily stripped in
shaking the plant free from the soil.
By liming this ground when prepar-
ing for wheat and fertilizing liberally,
there should be no trouble in securing
another good seeding of clover upon
which root nodules would develop
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HE earth is teeming with mys-
teries, but we have lived amid
them so long that they have be-
come commonplace in our eyes. The
mysteries of plant life are all about

”us, and yet how little attention the un-

thinking give them. Everything'which
has life has intelligence. Plants have
intelligence, the same as human be-
ings. They have senses just as we
have; perhaps the same senses. We
know that plants have the senses of
feeling, tasting and touching, and very
likely they also see, hear and smell.
Everything which God blesses with
life he also blesses with a kind of in-
telligence, an intelligence which fits
that thing to some extent for protect-
ing and prolonging its existence.

And each plant has an individuality

 

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Intelligence of Plants
By ISAAC MOTES.

as distinct as human beings, or as any
animal of the animal world. Why, for
example, does one plant grow straight
up, tall and slender, another creep
along the ground, and still another
climb up a pole? Because plants pos-
sess an intelligence and an individu-
ality distinctively their own. A tree
is, of course, a specimen of plant life,
the same as the modest blue violet
that pushes up» through the brown
leaves covering the earth in early
Spring.

\Vhat else but intelligence impels
a climbing vine to reach out its sensi-

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tive tendrils until they come in con-
tact with a pole or bush up which they
may climb? The pole or bush may be
a yard away, but if it is the nearest
support the vine can reach it will send
out these sensitive arms in that. direc-
tion in the effort to reach and climb
up this object, or any other object
strong enough to give it support. A1111
if contrary winds or other forces tend
to prevent the delicate shoots from
reaching their support they will per-
sist, and manifest a stubborn tenden‘
(*y to reach this. their natural support
and this peculiarity continues to man-

   

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ifest itself throughout the growing
season of the vine.

Climbing plants also know their nat-
ural friends from their enemies, the
same as human beings do, or animals.
Luther Burbank, the plant wizard of
t..‘11lifornia, made an experiment which
proves that plants have more intelli-
gence than they are given credit for.
lie planted the seed of a climbing
Ville, then set an iron rod in the
ground near by, and. a little further
:m'uy, in the same direction from the
plan. he set a wooden rod, and when
‘1111 vine got large enough to send out:
11s tender arms or “feelers” for some-
‘hing on which to climb, the arms on
‘he side next, to the rods crept along
7E111 ground by the iron rod nearest the
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clination to climb up it. Instead they
crept on two or three feet further and
climbed up the wooden pole. This
was because the vine had intelligence;
it had senses just as we have, and its
senses, either of sight, smell, feeling
or some other natural instinct told it
which direction to go to find a natur-
al, friendly support on which to climb.
It recognized the wooden pole as a
friend. and the iron red as a stranger
in whom it was not its nature to trust.

I have said that plants also have
the senses of taste and touch. The
roots of plants taste fertility in the
soil in which they grow; the natural
elements a growing plant needs. You
can attract the roots of trees to a cer-
tain spot of ground near the tree by
making that spot much richer than
the surrounding soil, just as you can
attract a hungry boy to the dining-
room by the smell of a savory dinner.
Plants get hungry and thirsty the
same as human beings and all animals.

Fruit growers know that in order to
make the roots of a tree spread out
at“ a distance around the tree the soil
must be equally fertile out as far as
you can make the roots extend. If you
put the fertilizer close around the tree
you gradually bunch the roots near
the foot of the tree, and if the local-
ity in which the tree stands is sub-
ject to storms or high winds you make
the tree more liable to blow down,
while with a widespread root system
the tree is anchored securely in the
ground, and resists the fury of storms.
The roots of the tree feel, taste, see
or smell the fertilizer. (call it what
you will), and are drawn in that di-
rection.

The roots of tree also have intelli—
gence to go in the direction of mois-
ture. If the orchardist puts a thick
mulch of dead leaves close around a
tree the leaves protect the ground and
keep the moisture from drying out.
The leaves therefore keep the mois-
ture near the top of the ground, and
if this practice is pursued for years
many of the tree roots will grow close
to the surface of the ground; so close
that you can rake the leaves away
and many of the roots will be in view.
This shows that roots of trees have
intelligence to grow toward moisture.
VVhother they taste, feel or see the
moisture we don’t know. but they
have some quality or sense which
makes them conscious of the presence
of moisture.

A western writer tells pf a eucalyp-
tus tree which grew on the outskirts
of a town in California in a semi-arid
region, where there was not enough
moisture in the ground to sustain the
normal growth of the tree. A number
of these trees grew in this locality,
and all of them showed unmistakable
signs of a lack of sufficient moisture

[except one, which was always green

and flourishing despite the dry weath—
er. It was a mystery to everyone
why this tree was so luxuriant, for it
stood in no more favorable place than
any of the others.

There was, however, a sewer about
ninety feet from this tree, with a tiny
hole in the clay pipe of which the
sewer was made, allowing a little wa~
ter to leak out, and making the soil
around the hole moist down two or
three feet below the surface of the
ground. Investigation ' showed that
one of the roots of this eucalyptus
tree had smelled, felt or tasted this
moist earth ninety feet away, and had
traveled straight towards it, never
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rection, and how else can you explain
such a phenomenon than by saying
that tree roots, along with all other

. plant life, have intelligence?

Everything God blesses with life he
blessed with intelligence of a kind.
Animals have one kind of intelligence,
and plants still another kind.

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CHAPTER XXX.

 

A Way of Escape.

“Explain first,” I said shortly. “As
far as trust goes I have confidence in
you, Nichols, just so far as I can see.
What is below?”

“Five steps leadin’ down inter a
wood tank,” he explained slowly, real-
izing that his only hope of release lay
in a full description. “It’s empty now,
an’ dry as a board; ain’t been a bap-
tism yere in six months. The place
whar the water runs out is at the
south side, right dowu ’gainst the bot-
tom; ther cover ter the opening is
screwed tight by a wheel. 01’ Ned
Cowan made ther contraption, an’ yer
kin stand on ther upper step an’. open
an’ shut the thing, an never git yer
feet wet.”

“The entire cover comes off?"

“Sure, if yer unscrew it fer enough.”

“And how big is the opening?"

“Wal, I don’t know, but I've crawled
through thar fixing a leak, an’ if I did
it onct, I reckon I kin again. 'Tain't
mor’n ’bout six feet beyond ther wall
till it hits the edge 0’ ther rav1ne.
Thet’s why the Yanks didn’t make no
attack on thet side 0’ ther church—
thar ain’t no room.”

The whole situation lay clear be
tore me. I had no thought of utiliz-
ing this unexpected opportunity my-
self, for I meant to stay with the oth-
ers, and perform my part of the fight-
ing to the end. But here was protec-
tion, and possible escape, for Noreen.
Yet could the preacher be trusted?
Would he play fair if I released him,
and left them alone together? Did
not his interests also lie in getting
away safely? What act of treachery
could he commit, and, besides the girl
was armed.

“How do you light this church?”

“Candles mostly,” surprised at the
question, “yer ain’t goin’ fer ter light
up, are yer?”

“Not here—no: but below; where is
there one?”

“I reckon on thet shelf in the pulpit
yer'll find a dozen or so.”

“Bring a couple here, Noreen.”

She slipped across silently,
came back with two in her hand.

“You are going to try to get away?”
she whispered cautiously.

“No, not now. An opportunity may
come later. If it was possible to slip
all these men out I Would gladly do
so—but it is already too late for any
such attempt. But there is a chance
for you, and it is even barely possible
that, when all hope of defense is over,
I may find some way of joining you.”

“You—you promise that?" she ask-
ed. “If I consent to go, you will come
later if you can ?"

“Yes; I will pledge myself to accept
every chance, when I can do no more
fighting. I’ll come to you, if I live.
Now, Nichols, listen—~I am going to
set you free, and permit you to slip
down through that trap door with this
lady. She is armed, and she knows
how to shoot. Attempt one treacher-
ous trick and you pay the penalty."

“I ain’t thet kind,” he whined.

"Oh, yes you are; but it will never
pay this time. Don’t take your eyes
off him, Noreen; the moment that
trap door closes light the candle, and
keep the revolver ready. Make him
unscrew the cap, and leave it off out
of. the way. Set the candle down in
one corner as far back as possible.
You better go out first." ‘

“1—1 am not to wait for you?” be-
wildered.

“Not in there——no; outside, for they
might fire the building. Nichols, where
is the best place for the two of you
to hide so I could find you?”

“In the woods to the west; there is
a trail half way down the ravine a
climbin’ up—an ol’ hog trail.”

My fingers touched his throat, and
I bent lower looking straight into his
eyes.

“Now, mark well what I say, Nich-
ols. I am going to release you, and
give you a chance to get away. But
you stay, with the girl—do you hear!
Stay with her until you both reach
the Confederate lines at Covington.
If I ever get out of here alive, and
learn you have attempted any trick,
I’ll run you down, Nichols, if it takes
ten years. Now I’ll cut the rope, and
you creep over to where that ring is
in the floor, and wait my order.”

Evidently his limbs were numb from
the tight cord, for he crept the few
feet painfully, and then sat. up rub-
bing the afflicted parts With both
hands. I swept one glance out through
the window, and then about the dim
interior, endeavor-ing to locate the
men nearest us. Only one stood clase
enough to observe our movements,

and

and I sent him with a message to the
sergeant.

“Now, Noreen,” I whispered swiftly,
“this is the best time. Take these
papers; they are for Jackson; give
them to the first Confederate officer
you meet, and have them forwarded
at once. Don’t trust Nichols for a sin-
gle moment out of range of your re-
volver."

“You will not come?”

“Not now; you would not wish me
to desert my comrades—would you?”

“Oh, I do not know! I do not know!
It' is so hard to decide. You really
WIS? me to go? It will please you?"

It es ’1

“And you will come if—if you can?
I am to wait, and—and hope for you ?"

“I pledge you my word, dear girl."
_ She clung to my hands, her face up-
lifted in the moonlight.

“1—1 am your wife,” she said softly,
“and I——.I want you to—”

_Three shots rang out clear and dis-
tinct without, and a voice shouted
hoarsely.

“Stand to it, lads!" cried Harwood
from the dark vestibule. “The Yanks
are coming!”

I swung her light form across the
platform to where Nichols crouched.

“Quick now, both of you! Careful;
don’t fall, Noreen. Go on, man; I’ll
close the trap—and God help you if
you don’t remember!”

CHAPTER XXXI.

 

 

The End of Defense.

HAD no time for thought—action

called me. Yet her last unfinish-

ed sentence rang in my memory.
Could it be that she cared also, that
out of this strange association there
had grown an awakening interest?
Could she have meant that? Was that
what she sought to say in those final
words? I would have given much to
know, yet the faith that it was so
flamed up in my heart instantly, and
seemed to blot all else out. For a
Single moment I stood there motion-
less, my feet on the lowered trap, dim-
ly conscious of the uproar about me,
yet scarcely able to realize the immi-
nence of the peril. They were pour—
ing volleys into the front door—the
roaring of discharge ending in the
sound of splintered wood, and sharp
cries of pain. Carbines cracked in re-
sponse, and Harwood’s voice sounded
cgnéinually through the hideous dis—
0 r .

“Get back, men! get back! ay, be-
yond the partition, you fellows in
front there! No, don’t leave the win
dows; _ they’ll charge presently, and
there is no use firing those carbines
now—the range is too long. Load
again—load and stand ready. Wyatt!"
“Here, sir."

:Any work for you there?”

. No; only a half dozen Yanks in
Slglfit from this end.”

“ ring all but two men, an e
here! Wharton, O’Hare, standi foggy
to take a hand. Ah! there the blue-
bellies come, lads~—now give them the
lead! fire!”

The little squad of us lea ed
the aisle, and Wharton's ande’Htiifi‘g'ii

men clambered over the benches.
cursmg and yelling. Already the
smoke of the carbines filled the

church, and we could see littl t
in thefiash of the gun-fire. Tieejs?ilil
of bodies hurled me to the right, away
from where Harwood stood, I
brought me in front of the opposite

Through this opening, and the
narrow Window beyond, I got a
glimpse outside~at a black mass of
men sweeping straight toward us.
their guns gleaming viciously, their
veiCes echoing in savage shout. It
was a mere glimpse, an infernal vi -
ion, and, almost at the same instant.
they came chrashing against the shat‘
tered door, heating it down with their
gun-stocks, and leaping through into
the maze of overturned benches litter-
ing the vestibule. The door fell in
splinters, the frenzied assailants plung-
ing headlong among the debris, yet
hurled forward by the mad impetus
of those behind. The discharge of
guns lit up the restricted space with
red glare, giving us sight of faces, of
brandished weapons, of wiggling, ad-
vancmg forms. It was a glimpse into

the pit, a scene of horror never to be ‘

effaced from memory. How the of
through that tangle of death I lingw
not. Into their very faces we poured
our fire—our own men, caught within
the narrow space, striking at them
With clubbed guns—but they were too
many to be held. Over the dead pour-

ed the torrent of living, firing, curs~ z

ing, striking, jamming the few gray— ’

jackets against the inner wall, and, in

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selves against both vestibule doors.

Wedged in the portals i saw all this
so clearly that each detail stands out
in memory—the infuriated _faces, the
falling bodies, the disfiguring blood-
stains, the savage glint of steel. Those
who came first were not soldiers——
they were Cowan’s men, gaunt, rough
fellows, bearded and dirty, their fierce
curses sounding above the uproar.
And they fought like fiends, driven by
Cowan’s voice, and pressed remorse-
lessly forward by the cavalrymen be-
hind. I saw him once, a blood spot on
his cheek, and I fired over the heads
of those between us, but though he
fell, he came to his feet again and
was swept to one side by the rush of
men. I saw all this, and no more; it
was like a flash on the screen—and
then everything became an indistinct
blur. They were upon us, jammed in
the narrow doorways, each man fight-
ing for life. I used gun and revolver,
fist and stock; I knew not who stood
who fell; in the red mist before me
were black shapes, hateful faces, and
I struck to kill. Twice I lost foot and
fell, but was up again, fronting them.
I stepped on dead bodies, slipped in
pools of blood; falling men caused me
to stagger; a slug of lead tore burning
through my shoulder; a glancing knife
blade ripped my forearm. i had no
time, no room, in which to reload; my
hands gripped the hot carbine barrel
and I swung the stock like a flail.

It was stifling—I could hardly
breathe; the room choked with smoke
and our bodies were reeking with
sweat. A gripping hand ripped my
shirt open, clutching for the throat,
and I jabbed carbine barrel into the
bearded face. Yet we could not hold;
could not stand against that torrent~—
there were not enough of us. Inch by
inch they won through the door; we
could kill, but not stop them, and they
hurled us back, stumbling over the
dead, clambering across overturned
benches, but unable to stem the in
creasing tide. We were all together
now—~Har’wood, W'harton, O’Hare—
the sole handful left, and we made a
fight of it, the best we could. There
was a moment’s pause, the merest ins
stant in which to breathe, and my
eyes met Harwood’s. He was naked

, to the waist, hatless, blood dripping

from a cut over one eye, the stock of
his carbine shattered.

“Ah, gunner of Staunt-on,” he called

‘ out cheerily, although his voice crack-

ed with dryness. “Didn’t I tell you if
you wanted a good time to jine the
cavalry.”

“Forward, men! forward.” It was
Fox's voice, although I saw nothing of
him. “Once more, and it’s over with
——forward!”

“Now, lads, meet them!” burst out
Harwood. “About me, Third Ken-
tucky—here they come!”

They drove us in so as to encircle
us, yet the jumble of benches served
as some protection to our rear. Per-
haps the fact that there were Yank—
ees between us and the pulpit pre—
vented firing for we met hand to hand
in a death grapple. I have seen bat-
tles, yet nothing like that; it was as
though beasts of the jungle fought;
men struggled with naked hands,
struck death blows, fired into each
other’s faces, trampled over writhing
bodies, cursing, or yelling defiance as
they fell. ’We scarcely knew friend
from foe, blue from gray. I cannot
even tell what occurred to myself in
those breathless moments. I know I
fought madly, blindly—again and
again sweeping a space clear with my
weapon; hands gripped my throat, :my
hair, and I tore loose; fingers clutch—
ed at my legs, but I kicked free. I
was conscious of blows, of wounds; I
knew when Harwood fell, and was

' trampled under foot; I heard O’Hare

scream; I saw the hated face of Anse
CowarLin the ruck and leaped for him,
but who my mad blow struck I could
not tell. Some rush, some quick pres—
sure of bodies, hurled me side-wise,
caught me in a vise; I tripped over a
dead man, staggered to my feet again.
I got footing on the pulpit platform,
and held it for an instant, my gun-
barrel crashing into the mass of faces
below. Wharton joined me, a bull
mad with rage; I saw him rend the
pulpit stand from the floor, and hurl
it with all his strength into the ruck.
Then twenty hands gripped him, haul-
ing him down, a clubbed musket de-
scended, and the sergeant pitched for
ward like a log of wood. There was
a shot, the blow of a rifle barrel, and
I went down, the very breath of life
seemingly knocked out of me.

I fell on the platform, back of where
the pulpit desk had stood, and a body
lay across me. If I lost consciousness
it was for no more than an instant,
yet my whole body felt numbed and
useless. I could scarcely move my
fingers to unclasp them from the gun-
barrel, and every breath I drew was
in pain. Still I realized all that hap-
pened, distinguished voices, and the
shuffling of feet on the poucheon
floor. I heard Fox shouting orders,
as the mad hubbub ceased. >

“That’s enough! that’s enough

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men! It’s all over with. Here Ser-
geant, round up those prisoners; God
knows there are few enough of the
poor devils left. Guard those able to
walk outside. Now, Herzog, carry
the wounded over here. What? Why
of course, you idiot, we are not sav—
ages—-those fellows fought like men,
and are to be treated decently. No
distinction, mind you. Let the dead
lie where they are till daylight, but
don’t overlook a wounded man.
Where's Cowan? Does anyone know?”

“Shot, sir; he’s here in this pile
somewhere.”

“See if the fellow is alive. Who is
his lieutenant?”

“I am, sir; my name’s Kelly.”

“Well get your crew of scoundrels
out of here, what’s left of them. Do
you hear! This is soldier work, and
I want you fellows outside.”

“You used us all right when thar
wus fightin' ter do—”

“That’s enough, Kelly. I didn’t use
you—Moran did; and you can go to
him with your complaints. I know
how you treat prisoners, and would
hang the whole of you, if I had my
way. Now get out, and don’t answer
me—those are your orders. Lieuten-
ant Raymond.”

“He was here a minute ago, sir,” a
voice answered from the vestibule,
“but he went outside. I think he was
touched a little in one arm.”

“Pity it wasn’t in the mouth; has
anyone seen a woman ?”

No one answered.

“No! that’s strange! Here Green,
take a couple of men, and feel your
way along the walls; Jasper make a
light of some kind—who wants me?
Colonel Moran? Tell him I am the
only officer present, and I can’t leave.
The place is a shamble!”

The searchng party was to the
right of me, against the black shadow
of the wall. It was darker than ever
in the church, as though a cloud ob~
soured the moon, but far away a rud—
dy glow reflected along the beams ov-
erhead, as someone coaxed a reluc—
tant torch into flames. A medley of
sound arose all about me—the mutter
of voices, the shuffling of feet, groans,
and cries for assistance, with the oc-
casional thumping of a musket stock
on the floor, and the rattle. of broken
glass. This was my chance, my one
and only chance to slip away unob-
served. In five minutes more the
searching party would find me there,
and hear me along with the others. I
wiggled out from under the weight of
the body lying across my legs, and
groped about in the dark until my
fingers encountered the ring embed-
ded in the floor. I still lay thus, cons
scious of soreness in every muscle,
afraid of attracting some eye if I mov-
ed, when a man leaped onto the plat~
form, and strode across to the near-
est window, his rough shoe actually
grazing my hand as he passed. I heard
him call some order to those without;
then the thud of horses’ hoofs to the
left The fellow leaned far out, watch-
ing.

There would be no better time than
this, for no one else was within thirty
feet of me, and the light of the sput-
tering torch still left the pulpit plat—
form in shadow; Fox was at the other
end of the church, his sharp voice
rasping out orders. I got to my knees
and lifted the trap barely far enough
to squeeze through. There was a
gleam of light below, sufficient to re-
veal the dark outline of the steps
leading down. Some eye might distin-
guish the glimmer, yet I thrust my
body through the narrow opening
noiselessly, and lowered the cover to
the floor level. There was no cry, no
sound indicating that the movement
had been observed. I waited an in-
stant, crouched breathlessly on the up—
per step, listening. Someone walked
across, directly over my head—the fel-
low who had been at the window, no
doubt—and jumped from the platform
to the floor. My eyes surveyed those
contracted surroundings curiously.
The candle, a mere fragment, burned
dimly in one corner, revealing what
appeared to be the interior of a huge
box, with a platform built half across
it, its outer edge protected by a low
rail. The wood was damp, and water-
soaked. half way up, but there was no
unpleasant odor. A small Wheel in-
geniously arrangedto operate a lever.
occupied one end of the platform, and
directly across was an opening in the
side of the wall next the floor, barely
large ‘enough for a man’s body to
squeeze into. Nothing else was visi<
ble; no evidence left of the two who
had already passed that way.

(Continued next week).

 

Vigilance in watching opportunity,
tact and daring in seizing opportunity,
force and persistence in crowding op-
portunity to its utmost possible
achievement—these are the martial
virtues which must command success.
——Austin Phelps.

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HE mothers’ club was in solemn

assembly in the home of a

“prominent member” when the
young son of the hostess broke into
the kitchen and sent up loud calls for
help. Investigation showed that he
had fallen into a mud—puddle and was
most literally “a sight.” The hostess
presented him to her guests, and then
laughingly excused herself long
enough to bathe the lad and put on
fresh clothing.

“If that had been my boy,” remark-
ed the “hen with one chicken,” during
the absence of the hostess, “I should
have spanked him soundly and sent
him to bed without any supper. There
is no use of children making their
mothers so much work. She humors
her children too much for their own
good." '

“Oh, I don’t know, replied the
mother of six. “I don’t suppose he
fell into the mud because he wanted
to. You don’t feel comfortable when
you are covered with mud. If she
spanked him it would be just to re»
lieve her own feelings, and she could
not conscientiously tell him it was for
his own good.”

“She would be teaching him thought-
fulness for others,” came back the
first mother. “Children can be taught
to be careful. I’d like to see my boy
come in looking like that.”

“I believe half the punishments
children get are undeserved,” broke in
the president. “We punish them not
so much because they are downright
naughty as because the things they do
bother us. I saw a. mother slap a
child’s face last week for breaking a.
dish. Do you think she was right? Is
any woman ever justified in striking a
Child for a thing like that?”

“A certain man sent his son to bed
the other night because he bummed
and whistled while father was trying
to read the paper,” broke in another
mother, before anyone could reply to
the president. “Wasn’t the father
wrong?”

“A woman put her small daughter
to bed for three hours for tearing her
new white dress,” confessed a third
mother. “Did the child deserve the
punishment?”

“My neighbor told her small son to
stay in the yard while she went to the
store. He went fishing instead. She
let him off with a threat of what she
would do next time, but spanked him
later when she found he had got his
feet wet and torn his pants,” volun-
teered another member. “Shouldn’t
she have punished him for his disobedi-

ence and overlooked his careless-
ness?”

“Mamie took a dish off the table
.when she was told not to. She was

not punished for disobeying, so she
took it up again next day, dropped it
and broke it. Then she was whipped
soundly for breaking the dish,” con-
tributed still another. “Should she
not rather have been punished the
first time for not minding?”

“Johnnie threw snowballs at the
house. He was told to stop as he
might break a window. He kept on
untilhe did break the window, then he
went to the woodshed. When should
he have been trounced?” asked John—
nie’s aunt.

The hostess here returned and a
chorus of voices greeted her with,
“Why didn’t you spank him? Would
you have done it if we hadn’t been
here?” ' .

“I don’t believe I would have,” she

 

Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?

laughed, “though some days I might
have felt like it. Do you think I
should have punished him?” she ask-
ed a little wistfully. “I want to do
the best thing.”

“We’ll put it to vote,” said the pres-
ident, “and make everyone give her
reasons.”

The vote stood three for punishment
and seven against, and the reasons
were most interesting. Then the club
fell to discussinglhe .other cases and
the program was forgotten for a sym-
posium on punishment and childish
crime. Are. not children all too often
the victims of parental bad temper
instead of the beneficiaries of what is
“for their good?”

What does the reader think? Should
carelessness be punished, or corrected
by moral suasion? \Vel'e the children
whose cases the mothers discussed
whipped at the psychological moment?

- » DEBORAH.

ELDERBERRIES FOR PIES.

As a material for winter pies, or
pics for any season, the humble elder-
berry, so plentiful in waste places
during the early autumn, is worthy of
attention on the part of the house-
wife. '

Take the. berries when fully ripe
and remove from the stems. Weigh
and for each three pounds take one
pound of brown sugar and one scant
half pint of vinegar. Cook slowly
until rather thick. Add spices if pre-
ferred, then put into cans and seal. If
there are not cans to spare the fruit,
will not spoil in an open jar by cook-
ing down thicker and keeping it 011
the cellar floor. To use take one cup-
ful for a pie, add water and a gener—
ous sprinkling of flour, bake with two
crusts—E. E. R.

N
The Sweater Coat
By MAE Y. MAHAFFY

NY worker in yarn can crochet

a medium sized sweater coat in

lhe single crochet stitch. If de-
sired a border, ten stitches in width
on the fronts and bottom and five
along the neck, may be of a. different
color to the main body, but this is a
matter of choice. About eight hanks
will be needed.

Begin work at the bottom of the
front and chain 86 stitches for width,
and one to turn. Make 20 rows this
Width, the first ten being of the trim-
ming color if it is used. Decreased
one every 10 rows after this, until 76
remain. Make 28 .rows of 76 each.
Increase one every 10th row until
there are 82. Make six rows of 82
each. Drop 10 for armhole, and one
at front edge of border to‘start neck.
Continue leaving off one stitch at neck
each row, and omit two at armhole
every third row, until 60 remain.
Then make armhole straight for 36
rows, but continue Omitting last stitch
each row of neck, and if border is of
different color keep inner edge to cor-
respond, so that it is just five stitches
wide each row. Decrease for shoulder
2 sts. each row until only border re-
mains. The opposite front is made in
same way. Button molds are covered
with crochet and. attached to one
front, and loops crocheted on the oth-
er to correspond.

For the back chain 126, and one to
turn. Decrease to correspond to
fronts, and crochet Straight from the
waist to armhole. Decrease armhole
and shoulder to fit fronts.

 

 

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Make bottom of sleeve 62 ists across,
with one more to turn. Make 10 rows
straight, then increase one each side
every 6th row until there are 92 sts.
Decrease one on each edge until 34
only remain. -

it no border is used add collar and
cuffs of same or contrasting color.
Gul‘t‘s should be 18 rows deep, and may
have a picot edge as a finish, if liked.
Turn back over bottom of sleeve.

Make roll collar by chaining 5, and
one to turn. Increase one in end st
every other row until there are 32 sts.
Work even for 28 rows. Decrease at
end for remaining half, so that it Will
correspond with first. If picot was
used on cuffs make similar edge to
collar. All seams are united by a slip
stitch. ‘

MiLLlCENT KEENE’S TOMATOES.

BY nus. M. KENNEDY.

If one has the time and strength,
the best way to market tomatoes is to
can them. A bushel of tomatoes will
make 16 quarts of canned tomato,
which our local dealer will give 18
cents per can for, making $2.88 per
bushel for tomatoes, less 83 cents for
cost of cans, leaving the selling price
$2.05 per bushel.

I scald the tomatoes and remove
.zkins. also all hard places, never us-
ing one that is at all decayed. I out
in pieces that will go in jars Without
mashing, put a little water and one
teaspoon of salt in can and pack in
tomatoes as closely as I can without
mashing them. I lay a cloth in the
bottom of galvanized tub and set my
cans on this with cloth wrapped be-
tween them. When all are in I fill the
tub up to within one—half inch of can
covers and set on stove to cook. Cov—
er and boil hard for 20 minutes, after
it begins to boil, remove from tub and
seal, using contents of one can to fill
up the rest if they are not full when
cooked. , '

These are fine in the winter to serve
just the same as you do raw toma-
toes. Tomatoes for stewing are pre-
pared the same, only cooked on the
stove in an open dish, cooking them
till thick and dark red. These are
sometimes served plain, merely sea-
soned with salt, pepper and butter, or
if something more tasty is desired I
put either whole crackers or stale
bread broken up in the serving dish,
add one-half cup of sweet cream to
plain tomato, let boil up, pour over
crackers or bread and serve at once.

If one likes tomato raw, with sugar
and cream on, they will find the first
mentioned very good if a few cans are
put up without salt. '

Tomato for soups is canned in pint
cans, simply cooking up tomatoes,
skins and all, and putting them
through a wire seive. This is cooked
down in a jar in the oven till thick
and canned hot.

Catsup is prepared in the same
manner, putting the tomato through
the sieve, as soon as it is well boiled
up as it goes through so much easier,
than when cooked thick. When cook—
ed down thick as sour cream I re-
move jar from oven and season to
taste, with sugar, vinegar, salt, a very
little pepper, cinnamon and just a
dash of ground cloves. Cook slowly
for a half hour, put in bottles, boiling
hot, put corks down. in neck of bottle,
leaving half an inch above cork. to fill
with melted parafine. If red peppers

are liked they can be cooked in catsup
and removed. before seasoning.
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SEPT. 25, 1915.

in tiny bits, put in a glass, pour cat-
sup over it and let'set for one hour
before using. It has a much better
taste than catsup cooked with the
onion in. -

Tomato preserves are made as fol-,

lows, and are very fine: Seven pounds
of tomatoes cut in small pieces, seven
pounds of granulated sugar stirred in

. well and let set till sugar melts. Wash

two lemons, peel off the yellow rind,
very thin and add to preserves. Next
peel off the white skin and throw it
away, cutting the lemon in small
pieces, rejecting seeds, and add to
preserves. Stir well and cook in oven
till it is rather thick and transparent

- looking. Put in glasses and cover with

parafine. Great care must be taken
not to scorch, as it burns easily.

Some people add raisins but we do
not like them.

GRAPE JUICE.

 

BY ELLA E. RDCKWOOD.

No beverage is more Wholesome
than grape juice. It is also delicious
to the taste and no home in Michigan,
where the Concord grape grows to
such perfection and in such abund-
ance, should be without a plentiful
supply. - -

Gather the grapes when fully ripe,
wash carefully and remove from the
stems. Place in an agate kettle, cov—
er with cold water and heat slowly
until the fruit bursts. The latter proc-
ess is quite necessary else the juice
will not be perfectly expelled. Pour
into a cloth bag and allow to drain.
For grape juice of first quality do not
squeeze in the least, although gentle
pressure which does not force the pulp
through the bag is permissible. When
thoroughly drained, add sugar, a small
teaspoonful to the quart, bring to a
boil and seal in fruit cans or in ster-
ilized bottles. The bottles must be
covered well With melted paraffin
about the corks.

The juice may be. put up without
sugar but it is not so nice. And where
this is added at the time of using it
does not readily dissolve.

A bushel of grapes should produce
at least 20 quarts of juice when ready
to put into the cans.

TABLE SYRUP FROM WASTE WA-
TERMELONS.

 

A delicious table syrup can be made
from watermelons, and affords to the
farmer, according to the fruit-juice
specialists of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, a convenient
means of using the surplus watermel-
ons which otherwise are allowed to
spoil in the field. This syrup can be
used immediately or can be bottled
hot in sterilized jars and kept just as
is done in the canning of fruit. It is
reddish brown in color, very sweet.
and well flavored and will serve most
of the purposes for which syrup is
used in the home. It has been tried
with satisfactory results in making
ginger cake, home—made candy and as
a sweetening and flavoring in ice
cream.

As the specialists point out, while
the juice of commercial watermelons,
such as the “Tom Watson,” contain
on an average only about seven per
cent of sugar, or less than many oth-
er fruit juices, the ease with which
the juice can be pressed out partly
offsets the low sugar content. The
method described below calls only for
utensils found in every household.

Remove the pink flesh and seeds
from the rind of sweet, fully ripe mel-
ons. Crush the flesh with a potato
masher or by running it through a
meat chopper. Place the crushed pulp
and seed in cloth bags, and squeeze
out the juice, which flows out readily.
About five-sixths of the pulp will
squeeze out as juice. About 13 gal-
lons of the juice will make one gallon
of syrup. This amount of juice can
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.THE MICHIGAN FARMER

melons weighing from 22 to 25 pounds
each.

The juice is boiled down into a sy-
rup in an ordinary serving kettle.
The juice boils Without much foaming
until it begins to thicken, when the
fire should be slackened to prevent,
foaming and burning. The red color-
ing matter in the juice coagulates dur-
ing boiling and part of it rises to the
surface where it can be removed by

skimming. The remainder floats about

in the juice forming red particles
which gather near the top. Toward
the last of the boiling the syrup must
be watched constantly. If the house-
wife has a candy thermometer she
should take the syrup from the fire
as soon as it reaches a temperature
of 220 degrees Fahrenhein, otherwise
she should let it cook until a small
sample on cooling is about as thick as
maple syrup. When the boiling has
finished, the syrup can be set aside
to cool in covered vessels or can be.

poured while hot into cans or glass

containers and sealed.

Where a cider press is available the

melons can be cut into pieces and ar-

ranged on the press so that the pres:

sure will extract the juice of the pulp
before it presses the rind. The juice
of the. rind is not so rich in sugar,
and experiments with rind juice alone
indicate that it is not suitable for
syrup.

[f it is desired to make syrup free
from red particles, start the syrup
boiling and when some of the coagu—
lated matter has been removed by
skimming, transfer the juice to tall
glass jars or other tall containers and
allow it to settle and cool for a few
hours. This alIOWs the red particles
to settle to the bottom. The upper
part of the juice can then be poured
off and boiled into syrup.

MICHIGAN FARMER PATTERNS.

 

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Waist of 1230 cut in 6 sizes, 34, 36, 38,
40, 42 and 44 inches bust. measure.
Skirt 1329 cut in 6 sizes, 22, 24, 26, 28,
30 and 32 inches waist measure. It
requires three yards of 26—inch mate—
rial for the waist, and 4% yards of 44-
inch material for bolero and skirt for

a 36—inch size. Skirt measures about
2% yards at its lower edge. This calls
for two separate patterns which will
be mailed on receipt of 100 for each
pattern. ‘

No. 1327—Ladies’ Costume with
Convertible Collar. Cut in 6 sizes, 34,
36. 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust meas-
ure. _It requires 6% yards of 44-inch
material for a 36-inch size. The skirt
measures about 314 yards at its low-
er edge. Price 10c.

No: laid—Girls Dress with Lining.
Cut in .4 Sizes, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years.
It reqmres 3% yards of 44inch mate—
rial for an 8—year size. Price 100.

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Bean Prices This Fall

Bean Growers Send Delegation to Confer with a Committee
of Jobbers for Purpose of Agreeing on Minimum
Price Basis'for 1915 Beans.

HE present outlook for the bean

crop in this state is certainly

discouraging to say the least.
At the Bean Growers’ Associational
meeting at Flint last Wednesday, rep-
resentatives from fifteen important
bean growing counties were present.
These representatives, who had care-
fully polled their respective counties
reported at the meeting and the aver-
aging of these reports shows an esti-
mated yield of threshed beans of 38
per cent of a normal crop. The fol-
. lowing are the estimates placed by the
different representatives: Saginaw
331/5; per cent of a normal crop; Sani-
lac 33 per cent; Midland 35 per cent;
Montcalm 40 per cent; Shiawassee 45
per cent; }enesee 35 per cent; Clin-
ton 60 per cent; Isabella 45 per cent;
Eaton 65 per cent; Huron 35 per cent;
Ogemaw 40 per cent; St. Clair 10 per
cent; Tuscola 33%; per cent; Lapeer
30 per cent; Gladwin 50 per cent.
The bean jobbers estimate for the
state is 40 per cent of an average
crop.

But this low threshing yield is not
the worst. \Vhile there may be 38
per cent of a normal crop as measur-
ed from the baggers of the bean
threshers, a very large per cent of
what is threshed will never go into
commerce; the amount of injured
beans will be so large as to make pick-
ing unprofitable. Of those that will
be sold for human consumption it was
difficult to arrive at any satisfactory
estimate of the amount of picking,
but the concensus of opinion seemed
to be that it would probably be as
high as ten pounds per bushel on the
average.

Government Restricts Shipment.

To add to these already overwhel-
ming burdens of the bean growers
this year, the federal government has
placed a ban upon diseased beans be-
ing shipped as interstate commerce
for canning purposes. We do not have
a copy of this order, but we under-
stand that it refers to any beans af-
fected with mould, disease or fer-
ments. This restriction will probably
amount to a considerable handicap in
a season like the present when so
many beans will be slightly discolored
from different causes and the dealers
will find it difficult to know just how
the government inspectors will grade
the product, hence to make themselves
safe they will naturally put these
beans with culls and sell them for
stock feed rather than take a chance
by selling them for human consump-
tion. The government makes no
claim, we understand, of these beans
being unwholesome; they merely state
that they do not look well. Although
the ruling may be just, it is certain
that because of it the consumer will
be required to pay a higher price for
beans which will discourage consump-
tion and hurt the market for the
product.

From the various reports it appears
that the weather during the first half
of September did the crop much dam-
age. In a number of sections the
fields were promising up to the first
of the month, but since then many of
these fields have been almost totally
destroyed. Even while the tops re-
mained green, the rust, blight and an-
thracnose were getting in their de-
structive work on the pods.

There appeared to be no uniformity
' of results from early and late planted
fields. In Isabella county and at the
Agricultural College there seemed to

be less damage done to the late plant-
ed, While in Huron and Tuscola coun-
ties, the opposite was reported to be
true. It is possible that local weather
conditions in these sections may ex-
plain these opposite results. The con-
fliction, however, gives the farmer lit-
tle or no guidance, as he cannot guess
the weather conditions when he plants
his crops.
The Program.

The session of the growers’ associa-
tion was called to order at the ap-
pointed hour by President Swan, of
Genesee county, who called upon Sec-
retary McBride to lay before the dele-
gates the purpose of the meeting. Af-
ter this, Mr. Potter, a Flint banker,
pointed out the close relations that
ought t.o,exist between the banker and
the farmer. Now that farming has be-
come a specialty, it cannot be suc-

   

  

  

Price started on $1.. 75 basis.

   

Z. 1915 Crop, 2,700,000 bu.
Price?

 
   
 

Michigan Bean Crops for Past Three
Years. What Should this Year’s Price
for October Beans Be?

cessfully followed by those who lack
the capacity to succeed in other busi-
nesses, but demands at least an equal
amount of business sagacity and fore-
sight. 14‘01' this reason Mr. Potter be-
lieves that the future farmer will be
a better student than the present gen-
eration, and that general co-operation,
will become common. He also believes
in inter-cooperation, that is, the work‘
ing together of The farmer with other
classes of business men, and chief
among these should be the farmer’s
co-operation with his banker.

Most farmers can and should estab-
lish a line of credit; to do this they
call on their banker and give state-
ments of facts covering their assets
and liabilities. This is as consistent
as going to a doctor and reciting the
symptoms of our ailments or placing
before an attorney the facts in cases
we desire to prosecute or defend.
Farmers should borrow money at the
most opportune time; as specialists
in financial matters, the advice of
bankers should be sought as to the
best time to make long loans. When
money is high, short loans should be
secured and vice versa.

Bean Diseases.

Following Mr. Potter’s much appre-
ciated talk, Prof. J. H. Muncie, of the
Agricultural College, spoke briefly of
the diseases that are now damaging
and destroying the beans. Severe epi-
demics of plant diseases accompany
excessive weather conditions. The
large amount of rain that fell this
summer in most sections of the state

1913 Crop 7,000.,

Price started on $1.85 basis.

191+ Crop, 5,000,000 bu.

FARMER

has resulted in the unusual develop-
ment of the diseases infecting beans.
Prof. Muncie’s position holds out much
encouragement to the growers, as he
believes that the great damage done
this year will be repeated only when
we have similar abnormal rainfall, and
the chance of this recurring in the
next few years is very small. The
diseases have been worse in fields not
properly underdrained. He also ob.
served in experiments made at the
College that the late planted beans
were less affected with diseases than
those planted early. Beans put into
the ground June 28 were in very fair
condition on September 14. He fur-
ther observes that the beans in many
diseased pods were perfectly white.
Prof. Muncie emphasized his convic-
tion that the experience of farmers
this year should not discourage them
from growing beans hereafter. He
felt that seasons like the summer of
1915 are unlikely to recur and that
the farmers can illy afford to go into
some other line of farming and aban-
don this cash crop because of having
met with a single season’s handicap.
The important. thing to give attention
to is the planting of clean seed and
proper rotating of beans with other
crops. So far nothing definite has
been accomplished by spraying. The
New York Experiment Station thought
a few years ago that diseases could

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be controlled through the use of chem-
icals, but later experience has discour-
aged their recommending this meth-
0d of protecting beans.
Bean Developed Under Dry
Conditions.

Mr. Shoemaker, special agent of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture, also
spoke along the same line. He men-
tioned that the New York Station had
discovered a strain of beans which
they thought resistent to anthracnose,
but when the disease was virulent
these beans succumbed. However,
their work indicated two things: that
there were plants of varying resisting
powers and that the diseases attacked
with different degrees of virulency.
Mr. Shoemaker also pointed out the
fact that, practically all of our staple
crops, including beans, were deveIOped
under an arid system of agriculture.
Babylon, Egypt, the plateaus of Mex-
ico and Peru were the birthplace of
important staple crops, the bean
probably coming from the latter two
localities. Here irrigation was prac-
ticed and being developed under such
conditions, it takes no flight of fancy
to assume that an abnormally wet sea-
son would prove more detrimental to
such a crop than a season that lacked
in moisture.

Planting in Clean Ground.

Mr. Shoemaker also suggested that
seed be planted in clean ground. By
this he meant ground not infected
with the germs of these diseases.
Here, however, is a problem, for no
one seems to know how long the
spores of these troubles will remain
in the soil and still be able to repro-
duce. It is reasonable, however, to
think that after four or five years
there would be less likelihood of in-
fections than where the beans follow-
ed beans or a rotation shorter than
four years is practiced. He also felt
that the conditions in Michigan this
year did not warrant the discontinua-
tion of bean growing, and also urged

SEPT. 25, 1915.

that unusual care be given to the see
lection of seed. He reported on one
New York grower who had not been
troubled with bean diseases to any ex-
tent in thirty years, and that this man
had practiced the careful selection of
seed, taking particular pains that no
diseased specimens were included in
his plantings. This same man, how-
ever, felt that added insurance would
be gained by selecting pods before the
beans were threshed, and out of these
clean pods taking beans for planting.
Committee to Set Prices.

Following the program the associa-
tion went into a business session and
selected a committee to confer with
a similar Committee of the Bean Job-
bers’ Association for the purpose of
agreeing upon a reasonable minimum
price for beans in October and upon
the minimum advance to be added
each month thereafter. This commit-
tee was also advised to secure a bet-
ter understanding of the methods of
grading and picking beans and the
rules appertaining thereto. There ap-
pears to be no uniformity followed by
the jobber-s in different sections of
the state. The growers felt that if
the rules could be standardized and
possibly simplified that there would
be less objection made on the part of
the grower and possibly less opportu-
nity for unscrupulous jobbers to take
financial advantage of the producer’s
ignorance along this line.

The association voted to extend the
present temporary organization and
the terms of the present officials to
the date of the round—up institute at
the College next March, when ,a ses-
sion would be held to affect a perma-
nent society.

SELLING FRUIT BY AUCTION.

 

Fruit auctions under the auspices of
the New York State Department of
Foods and Markets hopes to aid both
producer and consumer. More than
50,000 barrels of apples were disposed
of at the first day’s sale. If the auc-
tion idea is successful it will be‘ex-
tended to every type of fruit and pro-
duce extensively grown in the state.
The state will charge a commission of

five per cent and will have charge of

the auction.

Eighteen years ago the great bulk
of Florida oranges were sold at pri-
vate sale by large jobbing houses; to—
day less than 15 per cent of the or-
anges and grape fruit is sold in that
manner, remarked a prominent Flori-
da grower who was in Washington re-
cently. Eighty-five per cent of the
Florida oranges and grape fruit now
is sold at public auction.

This method of selling fruits has
been taken up in California and the
northwest Pacific coast, and Oregon
and Washington are now auctioning
their apples and other fruit. Auction-
ing fruit relieves the grower and the
packer of many difficulties, is less ex-
pensive, and more satisfactory all
around. It reaches the consumer at
less cost than if sold by a jobber, for
then it must go through perhaps half
a dozen hands before it is finally plac-
ed on the market stall of the retailer.
The time will come when fruits of all
kinds from all sections are sold by
auction.

DEVICE FOR SAMPLING GRAIN.

 

A simple and new device for samp-
ling grain, seeds and other material
has been developed by specialists of
the Department of Agriculture primar-
ily to meet the demands of grain and
seed dealers and laboratory workers
for a method of securing a reliable
sample of grain or seed from a larger
portion of the material to be examin-
ed, graded or analyzed. The construc-
tion and the process used in the de-
vice have been made very simple, and
yet are such as to insure reliable sam-
ples. The device does not require
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terial to be sampled over a cone,
which is provided with separate ducts
in a way to insure thorough mixture
of the grain. The device also can be
so arranged that one-half of the sam-
ple can be used for testing and grad-
ing, and the second half provided for
the seller or buyer. It can also be
used for blending two or more streams
of wheat or other grain in one or more
sets of rows in a mill. The device also
can be used for sampling flour, meal,
feeds, coal, ore, or any other material
of like kind, or to mix or blend and
divide two or more streams of unlike
material, and yet provide a thorough
mixture of all the kinds of material.
A bulletin describing same is publish-
ed by the Department of Agriculture.

FROST DAMAGE IN MICHIGAN.

 

Recent frosts have caused much
damage in the northern counties. Ear-
ly reports painted the situation very
black and when sent in the severe
drouth was unbroken and added much
to the distress. There has been lots
of rain since that time and the situa-
tion is somewhat brighter. It is bad
enough still.

Following are reports from Scoun-
ties sent in from September 4 to Sep-
tember 7, in reply to an inquiry made
of merchants, produce dealers and
bankers in various sections by the
Michigan Tradesman. The most dam-
age was done the night of August 30.
It was a freakish frost as usual, work—
ing hit and miss and often in ways not
understood. Low grounds were hit
hardest, also inland places. Lake
Michigan and the bays and lakes were
a protection over many miles of coast.

The figures given represent percent—
ages of loss to crops. For example,
“potatoes 50” Would indicate thatthe
crop was one-half destroyed. A num—
ber of correspondents were still un-
certain as to the damage done and it
is safe to say that reports made now
would be brighter.

Practically no loss was sustained in
the southern counties, an Eaton coun-
ty man saying: “No frost around
here.” Oceana reports slight loss, A1-
legan no losses, except to cucumbers.

Saginaw, no damage in vicinity of
Oakley; Lapeer, only slight damage to
corn and potatoes; Ionia, corn, beans
and potatoes 15 per cent injury; Lake,
Cukes, potatoes and beans gone. An-
other correspondent says corn and
beans will be one-half crop; Gladwin,
cukes 50, other crops 10: Gratiot,
cukes 50, corn 5; Luce, corn and
beans killed, potatoes 50; Mackinac,
corn 75, potatoes 40 to 50; Emmet,
corn 75, potatoes 60, buckwheat and
beans 85; Newaygo, most crops 50;
Crawford, corn, buckwheat, millet and
beans all gone, potatoes 50: Charle-
voix, potatoes 50, beans, buckwheat,
millet and cukes almost total loss:
corn being put into silos and bean
ground being cleared and put into fall
crops; Manistee, damaged corn im-
proving, beans and late potatoes hurt;
Cheboygan, corn and beans fully 75,
potatoes 50; Otsego, potatoes 50, corn
and beans 75; Chippewa, potatoes 50,
buckwheat 75, oats 25; Marquette,
corn and beans total loss, potatoes 75;
Antrim, potatoes, beans and corn 50
to 75, cukes and buckwheat almost a
total loss; Mecosta, buckwheat 75;
other crops 25 to 50; Isabella. 20 per
cent injury to crops; Montcalm, re-
ports vary from no damage to 25 per
cent to corn, beans and cukes, and 15
per cent to potatoes; Mason, corn and
beans 50 to 75, potatoes 25 to 35; Os-
ceola, corn and beans 50, potatoes 40;
Missaukee, corn 75, beans 85, potatoes
65, buckwheat 90; Grand Traverse, po-
tatoes and beans 40, cukes 60, buck-
wheat 50; Leelanau, corn and pota-
toes 50, beans 60, buckwheat and
cukes 75. Other sections of this coun-
try report corn and potatoes 25,
beans 35; Menominee, buckwheat to-
tal loss, corn and beans 90, potatoes
25; Benzie, corn, beans and potatoes
50 to 75; Kalkaska, corn and beans
75, potatoes 50; another report says
“no corn, potatoes one-third, beans
one-half.” Another report says “many
potato fields will not be dug. Buck-
wheat hard hit. Wexfordeesick re-
ports no corn. Another section of
county reports corn 50, potatoes 30,
beans 50, buckwheat 80; Clare, cukes
total loss, beans one-third, potatoes
one-half.

Kent Co. ALMOND Gammn.

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Crop and Market Notes.

Michigan.

Washtenaw Co., Sept. 13.—-—Potato
blight has mined many fields. Wheat
averaged 41 bushels, oats from 45 to
52 bushels. Bean crop fair. Prospects
for clover seed and alfalfa good. Late
apples and pears fair yield. A few
farmers are buying large herds of

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

feeding stock. Wool 28@33c; wheat
97c@$1; butter-fat 29c.

Mecosta Co., Sept. 13.—Wheat, oats
and rye good average yield, but much
wheat sprouted. Potatoes about 60
per cent of normal crop, corn 65 per
cent, beans 35 per cent. Blight and
frost injured the beans. A good deal
of plowing done for‘wheat, but very
little sown as the ground is too wet.
Clover seed filling well, but mostly
cut for hay. Potatoes not yet hit by
late blight and none rotting. Feeding
stock scarce and in good demand.
Very few late apples or pears. Eggs
20c per dozen.

Ohio.

Ashtabula Co., Sept. 14.—Yie1d of
wheat 15 to 47 bushels; oats average
40 bushels. Wheat being sown with
slightly increased acreage. Potato rot
and blight prevalent. Pastures and
meadows good; corn poor. Potatoes
40c; wheat 900; com, shelled 95c;
eggs 24c; butter 28c; veal 90; pork
$7.50; milk $1.25.

Carroll Co., Sept. 13.—Threshing is
mostly done. Quality of wheat poor,
and oats very smutty. Potatoes not
damaged seriously by rot and blight.
Farmers busy preparing for wheat
sowing. Large crop of apples, peach-
es, plums and pears, and market for
fruit poor.

Clermont Co., Sept. 13.—~No rot in
potatoes, but considerable blight and
scab. Tomatoes grown for canneries
rotting badly. The usual amount of
wheat and rye will be sown. Corn an
average crop and being cut for silage.
Alfalfa and clover seed good; good
crop of apples and pears. Butter 25
@300; cream 24c; eggs 24c.

Guernsey Co., Sept. 13.—Wheat av-
eraged 15 bushels; oats 30 to 35 bush-
els. Potatoes :1 good yield but are rot—
ting. Some preparations for wheat
seeding. Clover seed prospects good.
The usual amount of feeding stock.
Not many late apples and pears. Wool
28@30c; wheat $1.25; butter-fat 300.

Hardin Co., Sept. 13.—Wheat yield
is good but quality only fair. Oats
poor quality, some fields being left un-
cut. 'Potatoes rotting badly. Not
much plowing for wheat. Alfalfa a
heavy crop. Clover seed small yield.
Apples and pears fine. Wheat 85@
950; oats 25@35c; old com 850: pota-
toes 600; cream 230; hay $8@12.

Highland Co., Sept. 14.—Hay and
alfalfa good. Wheat eight to 25 bush-
els per acre; oats a good crop; rye
light. Corn extra good; potatoes a
good crop. Fruits of all kinds good.
Wheat 950; wool 28@300: cattle $7@
8; butter-fat 280; eggs 220; butter
250; hay $10@12. '

Holmes Co., Sept. l4,.—Plowing for
wheat is well along and the average
acreage will be put in. 'Wheat and
oats yielding well. Corn will be good
if.it matures. Late potatoes affected
With blight and early potatoes rotting.
Clover seed light. There is more pas-
ture than live stock to make use of it.
Apples plentiful but markets are poor.
Wheat $1.02; oats 400; hay $15; tim-
othy seed $3; butter-fat 26c; eggs 22c.

Fairfield Co., Sept. 6.—Clover seed
is not ripening very well. Yield of
wheat averaged 15 bushels, but much
of it damaged by rain. Some oats, rye
and wheat still in the shock; potatoes
fair yield but much complaint of rot.
Corn promises a good yield if we
could have some warm dry weather.
Fall plowing about all done. Apple
crop generally good except where the
blight was bad. Peach crop immense,
but where trees were heavily loaded
the quality was not the best. Pears a
light crop. Feeding cattle are not
plentiful: about the usual number of
hogs. Wheat $1: corn 85c; butter 25
@300: wool 28@30c.

lndiana.

Wayne Co., Sept. 13.—-Wheat and
oats .damaged by sprouting. Wheat
yielding 15 to 30 bushels; cats 40 to
55 bushels. Corn promises a large
yield. Early potatoes made a good
yield, but damaged considerably by
rotting. Late potatoes poor. Alfalfa
good; clover seed almost a failure. An
unusually large crop of late apples and
pears, all of good quality. A good
amount of live stock arid in good con-
dition.

Wells Co., Sept. 13.—Threshing is
finished. Hulling clover seed begun
and early cutting well filled. Early
potatoes are rotting badly. Corn ear-
ing well and will be a big crop. Lots
of apples, no peaches. Corn $1.05 per
cwt; wheat 88c; oats 27c; rye 750;
clover seed $7.75; timothy seed $3;
butter 26c; eggs 20c; fowls 10@13c.

Wisconsin.

Waukesha Co., Sept. 12,—F‘rost last
month injured corn and potatoes.
Wheat 30 to 40 bushels; oats averaged
75 bushels. Seeding is late. Clover
seed fair. Late apples good; no pears.
A good stock of hogs on hand, no cat-
tle. Wheat 90c; butter-fat 20c.

Minnesota.

Stearns Co., Sept.'13.———Wheat yield
24 bushels; cats 60 bushels; barley
35 to.40 bushels. Corn is far from be:
ing ripe. Beans a good crop. Some

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September 22, for the region of the
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with heavy frosts Wednesday and
Thursday. The latter half of the week
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GRAINS AND SEEDS.

 

September 21, 1915.

Wheat.—A good feeling prevailed in
the wheat market at the opening this
week and prices held steady with the
close last Saturday. The conserva-
tive marketing by farmers is giving
the trade much support as the current
demand is absorbing the receipts and
the anticipated heavy movement that
speculators hoped would come to give
them a chance to secure supplies on
a low basis, is not materializing. The
American visible supply increased less
than two million bushels. There is
little foreign demand in the states at
present due to the heavy marketing
of the large 'Canadian crop which al-
ways sells on a lower basis than the
grain on this side, and consequently
is purchased before agents turn their
attention to this country. Millers are
heavy buyers at present and the bet-
ter grades are being readily taken by
them as fast as the farmers sell. \Nith
the announcement of a Teutonic drive
through the Balkan states, the possi-
bilities of Russian wheat getting
through the Dardanelles are diminish-
ed, making it more probable that Am-
erica will again have to supply the
western European nations. One year
ago No. 2 red wheat was quoted lo-
cally at $1.10 per bushel. Prices for
the past Week are as follows:

No. 2 No. 1

Red. White. Dec.
Wednesday . .1.11 1.08 1.06
Thursday . . . . 1.12% 1.09 % 1.08
Friday . . . . . . . . .1.14 1.11 1.09
Saturday . . . . . . .1.12 1.09 1.06
Monday . . . . . .1.12 1.09 1.06
Tuesday ....... 1.12 1 09 1 06

Chicago.—~September wheat $1.01%
per bu; December 930; May 96.20.

Germ—Generally speaking, weather
conditions have been such as to carry
the corn crop well along toward ma-
turity without serious damage from
extreme cold. In most districts a week
or ten days of freedom from frost will
finish the crop and enable the farmers
to secure most of it in merchantable
condition. A few sections, however,
have already suffered and the damag-
ed corn is being largely cared for in

silos. The price is holding at about
steady. One year ago No. 2 corn was

quoted at 81c per bushel. Prices for

the past week are:

 

No. 3 No. 3
Mixed. Yellow.
Wednesday 78% 81
‘ Thursday 78% 81
,Friday 78% 81
Saturday 78 80%
' Monday . . . ......... 77% 80
Tuesday . . .......... 77 79 %
Chicago. September corn 71.6 per
bu; December 56.30; May 57.4c.

Oats—Values for this grain have
improved and there appears to be a
good local demand. Foreigners are
seeking the grain, which has added
strength to our market. The visible
supply increased 3,574,000 bushels. A
year ago standard oats were selling
at 49%0 per bushel. Quotations are

as follows:
Standard. White.

No.3
Wednesday . . . . . . . . . 38 36%
Thursday 38 36%
Friday 38% 37
Saturday 38% 37
Monday 38% 37
Tuesday .. . . 38% 37

Chicago—September oats 37.2c per
bu; December 35.40; May 37.4c.

Rye.——This cereal advanced 2c with
the market firm but quiet. No. 2 rye
is quoted at 91 %c per bushel.

‘ Barley.—-At Milwaukee malting bar~
lcy is quoted at 52@60c per bushel.
Chicago quotations are 50@57c.

Beans.——All grades have advanced.
Crop outlook is very discouraging.
Farmers should get at least $3 per
bushel for October beans. No dealing
here. Bids at Detroit now are:
Cash $3 per bushel;
Chicago trade is quiet and steady. Pea
beans, hand-picked, choice, are firm at
$3@3.25; common $2.62@2.80; red kid-
neys $3.50@3.60. At Greenville the
elevators quote $2.60.

Peas.—At Chicago field peas, new,
quoted at $2.37@2.50 per bu., sacks
included. -

Timothy Seed.——Steady. Prime spot
$3.75 per bushel.

October $2.90»

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

FLOUR AND FEEDS.

Flown—Jobbing lots in one-eighth
paper sacks are selling on the Detroit
market per 196 lbs, as follows: Best
patent $5.90; seconds $5.60; straight
$5.20; spring patent $6.60; rye flour
$6.20.

Feed.——ln 100-lb. sacks, jobbing lots
are: Bran $25; standard middlings
$29; fine middlings $32; cracked corn
$24.50; COI“1 and cat chop $31.60 per
ton.

New Hay.—No. 1 timothy $18@19;
standard timothy $17@18; light mixed
$17@18; No. 2 timothy $16@17; No. 1
mixed $14@15; No. 2 mixed $11@12;
N0. 1 clover $11@11.50.

Chicago—Demand good and supply
of good hay is light. New timothy
$8@17 per ton.

Straw—Rye straw $7.50@8:
and oat straw $6.50@7 per ton.

wheat

DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.

 

Butter.—The tone of the market is
firmer and prices are higher. Extra
creamery 25c; firsts 24c; dairy 21c;
packing stock 180.

Elgin.—-Market ’is quiet but light
supply of fancy creamery advanced
prices 1c. Quotation for the week is
25c per lb.

(Thicago.~Market is firm and prices
slightly higher for the good grades.
Extra creamery 250; extra firsts 23%
((124%c; firsts 22%@23c; seconds 21
@22c; packing stock 19@19%c per lb.

Poultry.—-—The market i. good for all
kinds. No change in pri es. Live.—
Broilers No. 1. 150; No. 2 l4€i14%c:
heavy hens 14@14%c; «thers 11@
13%c; ducks 14((015c; geese 10c; tur-
keys 15c;

Chicago.-—Trade is gool and offer-
ings are liberal. Ducks ani geese are
slightly lower. Fowls, gocd weights,

140; others 10@120; spring; chickens
160; ducks 12611130; geese 10fi12c:

guinea hens $2.75@3 per dozen: tur-
keys, good weights, 14c; spxing tur—
keys 20c. ‘
Eggs—Market is firm with offerings
light. Candled firsts sell at 24c: cur-
rent receipts 230.

Chicago.»—A good demand exists and
fresh stock is taken readily. Prices
are slightly higher. Miscellaneous lots,
cases included 18@23c; ordinary firsts
22f1‘2tlc; firsts 23@24c.

VeaI.—Quoted steady at 14Q‘il4%c
for fancy, and 13@13%c for common.

FRUITS AND VEST—Antes.

 

Apples—Supply good. Fancy $2.25
@250 per bbl, and 75@80c per bu:
common $1@1.50 per bbl and 40@500
per bushel. At Chicago the market is
in poor condition. Bulk stock is hurt.-
ing market. Wealthy sells for $1.50@
2; Maiden Blush $1.50@2; Alexander
$1.75@2.25.

Pears—Market is fair for good
stock, good Bartletts bringing $45061)
4.75. At Chicago desirable stock is
scarce. MiChigan Bartletts sell for
$4@4.50 per bbl., 75c@$1.25 per bu;
other varieties $2@3.

Potatoes—Market steady for good
quality stock. Michigan tubers sell
for 25@500 per bu. At Chicago Mich-
igan whites are selling at 40@48c per
bushel in carlots. At Greenville 27@
300 per bushel is being paid, the qual-
ity being good.

Peaches.-—Market active and firmer.
Demand is good. Fancy peaches are
bringing $1; AA’c 60c; A’s 500; B’s
30@400. The market at Chicago is a
little firmer. Michigan fruit sells for
5069650 per bushel, 10@12%c per one-
fifth bushel basket.

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

The peach market has gone to
pieces in the wet, hot weather, with
no signs of relief as yet. Fruit. .has
not. been fit to ship so that sales have
been for local consumption only, with
supply far outrunning the demand. It
has been one of the worst seasons
for peaches and plums in years and
nominal quotations for peaches are
40@600, and 30@50c for plums. Some
system of co-operative marketing and
advertising Michigan fruit seems to
be urgent. Southern and western
growers are liberal advertisers and
this competition seems to be more
keenly felt in Michigan each year. Po-
tatoes are selling around 400 with
demand slow. Dairy butter is 21c;
fresh eggs 22%c; wheat, No. 2 red,
has advanced to $1.05 and other grain
is unchanged.

 

DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.

 

Business was active on the eastern
market Tuesday morning and prices
were being well maintained. Potato
values ranged from 55@80c according
to quality. Apples 600@$1.50; peaches
50c@$1.50, with the stock moving
quite freely; tomatoes 50c@$1.50; cab-
bage 35@400; string beans $1.50; mel—
ons 50c@$1.25; onions 65c; butter 35c;
eggs 35c; comb honey 150 per frame;
extracted honey 50¢ per quart; loose

hay selling mostly at $18@22 with
some good loads reaching $24.

LlVE STOCK MARKETS.
Buffalo.
September 20, 1915.
(Special Report of Dunning & Stev~
ens, New York Central Stock
Yards. Buffalo, N. Y.)

Receipt of stock here today as fol-
lows: Cattle 92 cars; hogs 80 d. d.;
sheep and lambs 38d. d.; calves 800
head.

With 92 loads of cattle on the mar-
ket here today, we had a good all
round market. The heavy cattle sold
from 25@400 per cwt higher than last
Monday, and the butchers’ cattle from
15@25c hlgl'K-‘l‘. Nothing but a light
run saved us from a bad market here
today. Chicago came in with 25,000
and lower, but our market kept up
strong on the good kind. We had one
load of little white faced yearlings,
weighing 1045 lbs, that sold for $9.25
per cwt, which was the top of the
market. The government is going to
lift the quarantine Wednesday so that
we can handle stockers, feeders, milch
cows and springers. Think when we
get regulated that there will be "good
demand for all this kind of stock and
We think it, would he a good plan not
to rush too many in at one time, let
them come along gradually. We also
think that the rangers will be pretty
well in in two or three weeks, as they
are affecting the market now in the
west.

We had a fair run of hogs today
and a lower market on everything but
pig‘ stuff. Demand good for all class-
es of pigs and prices anywhere from
157125c higher than the close of last
week, while the best. grades of hogs
sold 10((3115c lower. and in some cases
extreme heavies as much as 25c lower
than Saturday. Bulk of the handy
weights sold at $8.40: mixed and me-
dium grades from $8.20m835; heavies
$775478: roughs $6616.50: stags $5@
5.50. There was quite a range in the
prices of pigs, weight and quality gov-
erning the price. Ilulk changed hands

:‘t $7.}:52‘r735. with some strong
weight stuff as high as 8c. Market

closed rather dull and a few good
weight hogs going over unsold.

The market today was active on
both sheep and lambs, with prices
steady with the close of last, week on
lambs, sheep firm: most of the choice
lambs selling at $9.25. Look for steady
prices last of week with moderate re-
ceipts.

\\'e quote: Lambs $9.2FS@9.35; cull
to fair $7.50m9: yearlings $7607.25:
bucks $365: handy ewes $5.50@5.75:
heavy ewes $5035.25: wethers $6@
$6.25: cull sheep $3 (3)475; veals.
choice to extra. $11.25@11.50; fair to

 

good $8.50@11; heavy calves $56)
$8.50.
Chicago.
September 20, 1915.
(Tattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Receipts today..26.000 24.000
Same day 1914..21.189 24,845
Last week ...... 38,987 102,811
Same wk 1914..59,746 81,705

Shipments from here last week ag.
gregated, 6,782 cattle, 22,149 hogs and
8.960 sheep, comparing with 9,580 cat-
tle, 28,009 hogs and 2.912 sheep a
week earlier and 20,789 cattle, 19,989
hogs and 23,593 sheep a year ago.
There was a big run of cattle today,
including about 5,000 western rangers,
and trade was unusually late in open-
ing, with bids anywhere from 10@250
lower. Hogs were mainly steady, with
a single car of light weights sold at
$8.10. Hogs marketed last week aver-
aged 238 lbs. Sheep and lambs were
steady to a dime higher.

Cattle suffered such large reduc-
tions in prices week before last, be-
cause of the unusually large receipts,
that country shippers sent in much
smaller supplies last week, aid this
resulted in sharp advances, the up-
ward movement being mainly in desir—
able lots. By Wednesday a good many
fat steers were selling 60c higher than
the low time on the previous Thurs-
day and Friday, and there were in-
stances of gains of 75c and even more,
the general demand being brisk and
competition between buyers keen. The
advance started on Monday afternoon,
and not until Thursday was there any
decline in prices, the hot weather be-
ing one of the reasons given by buy-
ers, who claimed that it was checking
the consumption of beef throughout
the country. The; lesser advance was
shown for cattle 'going below $9, al-
though the $8@9 kinds showed ad»
vances by Wednesday of 40@50c over
the wrecked prices late in the preced-
ing week. Western range cattle show-
ed up in only fair numbers, with 48
cars from Canada offered on Wednes-
day, and range stock shared in the up-
ward movement. The bulk of the na-
tive steers received during the week
went at a range of $8.25@10.15. with
the choicest class taken at $1‘0@10.40
and some fancy 1516-lb. steers taken
at the top price, or 50 higher than

SEPT. 18, 1915.

was paid for tho choicest little year-
lings. Inferior to fair thin steers of
light weight taken off grass brought
$5@7, while sales were made of com-
mon to medium warmed-up steers at
$7.10@8.20 and medium to good handy
steers at $8.25@8.95, with good to
choice corn-fed steers at $9@9.95.
Yearlings sold all the way‘from $7.25
@850 for the commoner class up to
$10@10.35 for the choicer class.
Butchering cows and heifers sold free-
ly at $4.90@9.25, ruling largely 354@
500 higher, with the best cows going
around $7.50 and few heifers good
enough to sell above $8.50. Cutters
went at $4.30@4.85, canners at $3@
4.25 and bulls at $4.25@7.50. Calves
mounted up to $11@12.f0r light veal-
ers, with sales all the way down to
$4.75@7.75 for the heavier weights.
Western range cattle sold at $7"@8.75
for steers and at $4@-7.50 for cows and
heifers. .

Hogs were in active local shipping
demand most of last week, and prices
had some good advances, followed by
declines after the best light weights
had brought $8.45. Recent receipts
have averaged in weight .238 lbs., com-
paring with 247 lbs. a. month ago, 241
lbs. a year ago and .331 lbs. two years
ago. The best hogs sold at the high-
est prices recorded since October 10,
1914. The range of prices remained
about. as wide as at any time of late,
the commoner grades failing to move
up as much as the strictly prime con-
signments. Pigs continued to go at a
large discount from prices paid for

hogs. The sudden appearance of ex.
tremely hot weather caused a. large
number of dead hogs in arriving

trains. A sensational decline in prices
took place during the latter part of
the week, with sales at $6.15@8, light
hogs being plentier, slow and leading
the break. The packers used the de-
cision of the British prize courts
against them as a. bear argument and
refused to buy.

Lambs and sheep sold at much low-
er'prices last week, particularly lambs,
despite the moderate receipts, killers
holding off much of the time. The of-
ferings were larger than a week ear-
lier, but showed up small when com-
pared with those in recent years.
Fluctuations in lamb prices from week
to week are exceedingly wide, and
only a short time ago the best lots.
sold at $9.50, while week before last
the tOp was $9.10. Idaho furnished
most of the range lambs, although
some big hunches arrived from W'ash-
ington, California, Nevada and Utah.
W'ethers were scarce. nor did many
ewes show up. Lambs sold at the
close at $6.25@8.60, yearlings at $5.75
@7, wethers at $5.25@5.90, ewes at $3
4€155.50 and bucks and stags at $4.25@
.7 .

Horses were marketed freely last
week and had a good sale, the greater
part going to Great Britain and France
for army purposes at unchanged
p.ices. Desirable little chunks sold at
$350@375 per pair, while single ani-
mals that weighed not over 1400 lbs.
went as high as $190. A heavier class
of chunks brought $195@240 or more,
and pairs of good, big horses sold at
$540@550.

 

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

 

(Continued from page 273).
plowing done, but no seeding yet.
Very .dry and we are greatly in need
of ram. A lot of feeding stock on
hand and no corn. Wheat 90c: oats
27c; barley 370; eggs 15c; apples $1.

. Illinois.

Marion 00., Sept. 13.——Potato crop
good, though some complaint of wt
tmg. Corn good except on flat land.
No beans to speak of. Wheat yield 10
to 30 bushels; oats 30 to 50 bushels.
There will not be as much wheat
sown as last year“ Not much clover
seed. No feeding cattle, and not very
many hogs. Prospects good for late
apples; no pears. Butter-fat 24%0.

_ Kansas.

Lincoln 00., Sept. 13.—Weather dry
and threshing is progressing nicely.
W'heat yielding 15 to 25 bushels: oats
50 bushels. Wheat land needs rain
before seeding can be done. Corn is
good and ripening fine. Not much al-
falfa standing for seed. Apples and
pears good. Wheat. 85@900; cream
210: eggs 180.

Smith 00., Sept. 14,—Most of the
plowing for wheat is finished. Corn
will make a good yield if frost keeps
off. Potatoes are good. All fruits
yielding well. Wheat 750@$1: corn
58c: potatoes $1; butter 16@20c; but-
ter-fat 200; eggs 18c: fowls 8@10c.

Nebraska.

Pierce 00., Sept. 13.—Wheat yield-
ing 10 to 30 bushels; oats 25 to 40
bushels. Some corn is poor while
other fields look fine. Beans are good;
potatoes seem good but none dug yet.
Not much seeding done. No live stock
shipped out. Wheat 96c: oats 25c:
corn 61c; cream 22c; eggs 17c; but-
ter 20c. Recent hail storms damaged i
late apples to some extent.

 

 

 

 


 

 

SEPT. 25, 1915.

THIS IS THE FIRST EDITION.

The first edition is sent to those who
have not expressed a desire for the
latest markets. The late market edi-
tion will be sent on request at any
time. '

 

DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

 

Thursday’s Market.
September 16, 1915.
Cattle.

Receipts 1691. There was a heavy
supply of live stock of all kinds on
sale at the local yards this week. Es-
pecially so with cattle. Word was re-
ceived here that the Buffalo yards
start cleaning Friday morning and

will probably be open again on Mon-

day for shipments from clean terri«
tory only. This bars anything from
here, and now nothing can be shipped
out of here to either Chicagoor Buf—
falo yards and everything coming here
must be for immediate slaughter. This
condition will prevail until the Mich-
igan Central cleans these yards again,
which it hopes will be at once. With
the yards open for stockers and feed-
ers there would have been no trouble
disposing of the large supply, but they
cannot go out until the yards are
cleaned and as a consequence, Wed-
nesday night found a large number
still unsold at dark. The market in
the cattle division was very dull and
all grades were strong 50@75c lower
than last week, and on Thursday they
were no better and the close ‘was ex-
tremely dull as follows: Best heavy
steers $7.25@7.50; best handy weight
butcher steers $6.75@7; mixed steers
and heifers $5.75@6.50; handy light
butchers $5.75@6; light butchers $5@
5.50; best cows $5.25@5.75; butcher
cows $4.50@5; common cows $4@4.25;
canners $3@4; best heavy bulls $5.25
@550; bologna bulls $5@5.15.

Reason & S. sold Parker, W'. & Co.
2 cows av 710 at $4; to Kull 1 do wgh
1140 at $4.75; to Parker, W. & Co. 2
bulls av 650 at $4.50, 2 do av 1090 at
$5; to Kull 6 steers av 966 at $7.35,
2 do av 775 at $6.25; to Garber 4 cows
av 1092 at $5.35; to Watts 11 butchers
av 732 at $6.30.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Fineman 11
cows and bulls av 913 at $5.35: to
Mich. B. Co. 1 bull wgh 1280 at $5.75;
to Kull 7‘steers av 780 at $7, 1 cow
wgh 1090 at $4.75; to Parker, W. &
Co. 7 cows av 867 at $4, 1 bull wgh
910 at $5, 1 do wgh 910 at $5, 1 cow
wgh 820 at $4; to Hammond, S. & Co.
4 cows av 1282 at $5.40, 1 steer wgh
950 at $7; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 butch-
ers av 933 at $6.50, 2 cows av 900 at
$4.75, 3 do av 1100 at $4.75, 7 do av
870 at $5.25; to Parker, W. & Co. 6
bulls av 1081 at $5.25; to Goose 26
butchers av 573 at $5; to Parker, W.
& Co. 2 bulls av 1140 at $5.50; to
Cook 8 steers av 1030 at $7.50; to
Mich. B. Co. 3 cows and bulls av 970
at $5, 2 heifers av 585 at $5.75, 7
butchers av 820 at $6.25, 13 steers av
1020 at $7.25.

Haley & M. sold Resnick 5 butchers
av 898 at $5; to Newton B. Co. 6 do
av 750 at $5.50; to Sullivan P. Go. 13
cows av 1063 at $5.25; to Hammond,
S. & Co. 28 steers av 884 at $6.65, 3
cows av 980 at $6, 4 butchers av 907
at $6.50, 1 cow wgh 900 at $5.25, 1 do
wgh 1150 at $5.75, 1 do wgh 1170 at
$4, 2 do av 1045 at $5.25, 2 canners av
860 at $3.75, 4 cows av 1095 at $5.40.

Veal Calves.

Receipts 527. The veal calf trade
was steady with Wednesday on good
grades, but heavy and common grades
were very dull and $1.50@2 a hundred
lower than last week. Best grades $10
@1150, with bulk at $10.50@1l; me-
dium and heavy $5@9.50.

Sandel, S., B. & G. sold Nagle P. Co.
3 av 195 at $8, 6 av 150 at $11, 4 av
150 at $10.50, 2 av 195 at $11.50, 1 wgh
190 at $11.50, 4 av 180 at $9, 9 av 175
at $11.50; to Hammond, S. & C0. 10
av 150 at $11, 3 av 130 at $10.50, 2 av
205 at $10, 2 av 125 at $11, 3 av 150
at $10.75; to Nagle P. Co. 2 av 130 at
$10; to Rattkowsky 3 av 140 at $11,
2 av 125 at $10.50.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 7060. The sheep and lamb
trade was steady with last week, the
bulk of the good ones selling at $8.50.
Swift &. Co. bought nearly a thousand
helping out in good shape and the
close was steady. Best lambs $8.25@
8.50; fair lambs $7@8; light to com-
mon lambs $6@7; fair to good sheep
245.30@5: culls and common $2.50@

Roe Com. Co. sold Nagle P. 00. 15
lambs av 80 at $8, 100 do av 85 at
$7.90. 15 do av 55 at $6.50, 49 do av 85
at $7.85, 12 do av 65 at $6.5L‘fi3‘7 do av
70 at $8, 18 do av 45 at $6.50, 27 do
av 90 at $7.75, 5 sheep av 155 at $4.75;
to Barlage 2 sheep av 95 at $4, 11
lambs av 85 at $8.

Hogs. -

Receipts 7601. In the hog depart-
ment the trade was steady to Sc lower
than on Wednesday. Light pigs $6.50
@675: good pigs. $7@7.25; .vorkers

$8.10@8.15; heavy and. mixed $7.75@8.

 

 

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

THE MICHIGAN CENTRAL STOCK
YARDS CLOSE FOR CLEANING.

 

The Michigan Central Stock Yards
are to be cleaned and disinfected for
the third time since last November,
starting at once and no live stock of
any description will be received here
after 12:00-noon, Thursday, Septem-
ber 23, until the job is completed.
Anything arriving after this time must
go direct to packing plants for imme-
diate slaughter. It is expected that it
will take about ten days to do this
work and after same has been com-
pleted and the yards released by fed-
eral inspectors, stock may be shipped
to any point for any purpose and
slockers and feeders and Michigan
cows may be handled as before the
quarantine was placed. No stock. will
be received unless same originates in
the free area. All Michigan, after
yards are released, will be in this
area. Shippers should bear in mind
that Detroit packers do not want pigs
or extreme heavy hogs and they must
use. care when loading to packing

plants.

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

 

Warts on Teats.—I saw a treatment
for warts on cows’ teats published in
Michigan Farmer, but I have mislaid
paper and I would like to know what
to apply to take scores of warts ofi
udder. Between these warts the skin
cracks, consequently her udder is very
sore. R. V 0., Berlin, Mich—Warts
on teats are often very troublesome,
but if you will apply pure olive oil af-
ter each milking, you will perhaps get
rid of most of them. Or you might
apply one part carbolic acid and 19
parts vaseline. Those that have necks
should be clipped off with a pair of
sharp scissors and wound touched
with lunar caustic.

Cold Abscess—I have a ten-year-old
mare that has a large bunch about ten
inches in diameter on shoulder and I
would like to know what can be done
for it. Four years ago she had a sim-
ilar bunch which opened, discharged
ireely, then she got well. The pres-
ent bunch first showed itself last fall.
A. W., Gaylord, Mich—Apply equal
parts of tincture iodine and spirits of
cainphor to bunch daily, or perhaps
you had better secure the services of
a Vet. and have it opened.

Apoplexy.—l am anxious to know
what ails my pigs; they seem well
up to a certain moment, then drop
over dead. While they were eating
this morning, one made a little noise,
fell over and was dead in less than a
nunute. This is the fifth one that has
died recently, every one of them show-
ing similar symptoms. J. S., New Bos-
ton, Mich—Your hogs die, either the
result of apoplexy, brain hemorrhage,
or heart disease. It is possible that
they inherit predisposition to a weak
heart. Less food and more exercise
might perhaps help them; however,
it is doubtful.

Barrenn(ass—Contagious Abortion.—
Last spring I commenced to farm
on a new piece of land; had three
sows, two of them I had bred to a
good boar. One of them I bred twice
and she did not come in heat again
until it was time for her to farrow.
The. other dropped her pigs three
weeks before time; they are both
young sows.
boiled beans, middlings and
They run on a creek bottom in the
brush. I am told that feeding these
sows .ra‘pe prevents them from breed-
ing; is it so? C. E. W., East Jordan,
Mich—I do not believe feeding sows
rape will prevent conception, neither
do I believe it a caUSe of abortion. I
am inclined to believe that your sow
suffers from contagious abortion and
as you know, this is one of the com-
mon causes of barrenness. You had
better fatten them and buy others, as
I believe the sows you have will prove
unprofitable. for breeding purposes.

Barren Mares—l have two young
mares that have not apparently come
I nheat this summer and I would like
to know what can be done for them.
W. S. F., Detroit, Mich.—Hopple the
mares securely, apply a twitch to Up-
per lip snugly and oblige them to sub-
mit to a forced service, then they will
perhaps soon come in heat; perhaps
they come in heat regularly, but do
not show it.

Feeding Smutty Oats to Horses—4
would like to know if feeding smutty
oats to horses would have any bad ef-
fect on them and have a tendency to
produce heaves? A. L., Levering,
Mich.——Feeding smutty oats is not
likely to produce heaves. Feeding
badly cured clover and bulky, badly
cured fodder is one of the causes of
heaves. .

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100 Acres $5500

Stock, Tools and C. ops Included.
'l‘lirco horses. i9 cows. bull, machinery, Mittens. all
tools and crops go to quick buyer of this splendid New
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AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.

 

One of the Most Enjoyable of the
social sessions of Ypsilanti Grange
was held September 4 at, the pleasant
home of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Austin.
The feature of the day was the ad—
dress given by Floyd \V. Robinson,
formerly of the M. A. C. Experiment
Station, and now connected with the
Michigan Farmer. “The Science of
Agriculture in Relation to Farming,”
’as the topic for discussion, in which
the fact was impressed that there is
always a necessity of replacing in the
soil a well balanced condition of that
tripod of agriculture, potassium, phos-
phorus and nitrogen, in the form of
barnyard manure or other fertilizers.
A field may be non-productive in the
presence of an abundance of fertility,
by over fertilizing. The speaker spoke
of the importance of the M. A. C. as
an experiment station. saying that it
is the first “Land Grant Act College”
in the United States. and that it has

recently celebrated its fiftieth anni-
versary. Mr. Robinson stated that he
believes that dairymen are not re«
ceiving adequate compensation for

their milk and that the price paid per
quart is not. a six per cent investment.
He gave some kindly advice as to the
prevention of the multiplying of bac-
teria, the care of the lacteal fluid
from the time it has left the udder of
the cow until it is in the hands of the
consumer and viewed the milk prob-
lem through the eyes of both the city
board of health and the dairyman.
The lecture was a scientific one and
the consensus of opinion was, at its
close, that it had not only been thor-
oughly instructive, but interesting as
well. Variety ‘to the program was

 

BREEDERS’ DIREC'NRY
CATTLE.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS
HER ESTABLISHED IN 1900

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TROJAN-ERICAS and BLACKBIRDS only.
New breeders of Percheron. Hackney and Saddle
Horses. Young bulls and Percheron stallions for
sale. WOODCOTE STOCK FARM, Ionia. Mich.

ABERDEEN ANGUS

If you are in need of an extra good bull or a few
choice young cows or heifers. we have them for Sale.
Our herd is headed by the Grand Champion Black
Monarch 3rd. \‘Ve invite you to come to our Farm
and see them. They are bred right. and priced right.
U. L. Clark. Hunters Crook. Mich. Sidney Smith.Mgr.

HEREFORD ; sagas: ”it;
fellows. ALLEN BROS. Paw Paw. Michigan

 

 

 

Young bulls that will add most desirable qualities to
registered herds or transform grades into near full
bloods in appearance and production.
fifty per cent. or over of the herd.

 

 

Do You Want A Bull?

Ready For Service.

From a grand daughter of The King of (he
Pontiacs. Sired by a bull that is more than a half
brother to the. Chainplon Holstein Cow of the
World. and whose dam is a 30 lb. 6% ‘5: fat daughter
of Pontiac. Aggie Korndyke who has more. 30 ll).
daughters than any other living bull. If you do
write for pedigree.

EDWIN S. LEWIS, Marshall, Mich.

Espanore Farm,

LANSING, MICHIGAN.

Home of the great Holstein bull “Pledge Spofiord
(‘alamity Paul”—siro of a. :Sfi-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-

igrees.
CHASE S. OSBORN.
ADA M E. FERGFSON,

I don’t want to sell anything but

HULSTEIN BULLS

and I have some bull bargains. Don’t

buy a bull until you know I have not got

what you want. Come and see bulls.
L. E. CONNELL, Fayette, Ohio.

HATCH HERD

 

 

‘YHSHIHEs—One of the foremost dairy breeds The
most economical milk reducers. Calves
for sale. White Leghorn cockere s; Duroo Jersey
swine. Michigan School for the Deaf. Flint.Michigan.

 

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

i Owners.

 

 

MlIA) l). CAMPBELL CHAS. J. ANGEVINE

BEACH FARM
GUERNSEYS

Combine the blood of the following great producing

sires and dams :—
57 A. 11:. Daughters

 

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Dairymaid of Einehurst : 9101i?“ f9}: Registered Holstein-Friesisn sires, grandson's of

Dolly Bloom '. 836 . World's greatest dairv sire out of choice A. It. 0
Imp. I“??? Daisyt- ' 3%; . dams and King l’ontiah Jewel Korndyke: Brother of
89M“ 0 ”181m" ' K. P. Pontiac Lass 44.15: average record of 50 dams in

Stanford's Princess — . .
Bulls for sale only.

A Dairy Show Every Day.
CAMPBELL &. ANGEVINE, Coldwater. Mich.

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For Sale—Beg. Guernsey Cattle E‘iiixdi; out?” .333
JOHN EBELS, R. 10. Holland. Michigan.

his pedigree 31.25 in 7 days: .average per cent of fat
three nearest dams 4 37; of his own dam 4.93. Sires in
first three gencrntions already have over 600 A. R O.
A few females bred to “King".

daughters. Prices

reasonable.

The Two Greatest Bulls

KING OF TIIE PON'I'IACS

 

 

 

GUERNSEY amiss ”5 Kol “’5 BUTTER Bl" 3rd
Oontsinin blood of world .ohamgé’ons. Ihave young bulls from cows having high official
HICKS‘ OUER SEY FARM. Saginaw, . 8.. Mich. records and Granddaughteru of above bulls. Stock

extra. good. Prices reasonable

BIGELOW’S IIilLSTEIN FARMS,

BREEDSVILLE. MICH.

BROOKWATER FARM
Caters to Discriminating Buyers.
Read the record of our winnings at the
Michigan State Fair, then decide Whether
or not there is a better place to buy
Durocs. Why not. buy a boar before
they are picked over?

BUOOKWITEU HUM. ll. 7. Ann Arbor. Michigan.

 

‘i UERNSEY BULLS FOR SALE. ready for service from A. R.
I Dams. If you want the right kind write for price and
lirrzding. BYERS 8L BARNES BROS" Goldwater, Michigan.

EGISTERED Young Guernsey Bulls. great grand-
R sons of Gov. Chane. Servicable a e nicely marked.
arm. Wayne. Mich.

 

exceptional breeding. Avondnle Stock
Hm SALE A choice lot of Registered Guernsey
cows. heifers and bulls of May Rose breed-
ing. H. W. WIGMAN. Lansing. Michigan.

GU E RN 8 EYS’EmE‘ 21:35:32

reasonable prices. E, D. JESSOP. Lansing, Mich.
Grandson of Imported

 

Top Notch Holsteins!‘

The hull is ,
McPHERSON FARMS CO.. Howell. Michigan. ‘

furnished by a solo by John Graves,
1a reading by Mrs. Roy Lewis, and a
‘recitation by Mrs. Floyd E. Budd, af-
ter which a delicious supper was
served—A. C. A.

Over 200 people attended the annual
tbasket picnic of Kent County Pomona
[Grange at Comstock Park Aug. 28. It
{was not quite as large a gathering as
llhei'P has been some years but for all
’that it was a very pleasant affair. The
,crowd gathered in the agricultural
1 building during the forenoon and spent
,a couple of hours in renewing old ac-
tquaintances with friends of Granges
:’ from other parts of the county. After
tthe dinner baskets were emptied the
iGrangcre and their friends gathered
together to listen 10 the program
which had been prepared by the com-
Emittee. Pomona President T. H. Macs
Naughton, acted as chairman and in-
troduced Hon. Huntley Russell, who
,delivered the address of welcome in
gthe place of Joseph Brewer, president
iof the fair association. who had been
tcalled out of town on business. Mr.
iRussell said that the fair grounds
seemed to be just the place for these
gatherings as the interests of the
itirang’e and the fair association were
lidentical and it was with great pleas-
}ure that he welcomed Pomona Grange
'to the place. E. R. Keech responded
and was followed by Mrs. J. J. Lillie
and A. Peterson, lecturer of Ottawa
County Grange. in readings. The fife
and drum corps from the Soldiers’
Home helped along the good feeling
with patriotic selections and also ac-
companied in the singing; of “The Star
Spangled Banner,” in which Mr. Rus-
sel'l took the leading part. At the
close of the meeting “America” was
sung to the accompaniment of the fife
and drums. Lee M. Hutchins gave an
address refuting the idea so prevalent
in many rural communities that the
American business man is primarily a
money grabber. He insisted that the
reverse is true, that the average Am-
erican business man is not only noth-
ing of the kind, but he is more than
willing to co-operate with the farmer
and the Grange to the end that both
may be successful and be constructive
agents in the community. Mrs. O. J.
C. Woodman, of Paw Paw, chaplain of
the State Grange, gave a helpful ad-
dress on co-operation and community
spirit, as being necessary to the suc-
cess of the Grange. Mrs. Woodman
especially frowned on the present
growing war spirit, and declared the
attitude of Theodore Roosevelt and
others of his school is detrimental to
the welfare of the nation.

Lincoln Grange, Alcona county, took
the leadership in a farmer’s picnic
which is an annual affair, and partici-
pated in by the whole countryside.
There was a parade, water games and

 

 

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md'raady forgot-vice. Eugene Wilcox. R; 4, Hartford. Mich.

Breeders’ Directory—Continued on page 279.

 

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SEPT. 25, 191,5.

cowboy, on a wild pony, carried of a
child and was in turn run down and
captured after a pistol charge, and
then h‘ung, amid the approving cheers
of an incensed crowd. Later the peo-
ple repaired to a quiet grove, over the
hill from the town, and gave attention
to addresses for an hour before sep-
arating. It was a great day generally.
It raised the question, why do we not
prepare and publish in our Grange
columns helps for features in parades
at rallies and for simple, spectacular
plays of modern type?——J. B.

The Washtenaw Pomona Grange
meeting, held September 14, in the
Masonic Temple ,was largely attended
by representative citizens from every
quarter of the county. The speaker
of the day was Mrs. Olivia J. C. Wood-
man. of Paw Paw, who spoke on
“Temperance.” Year books were plan—
ned. and a committee appointed to
have charge of this. An invitation
was received and accepted from the
\Vayne Pomona. for atri-county meet-
ing to consist of the Pomona Granges
of Wayne, VVashtenaw and Lenawee,
to be held in Wayne on October 16.

COMING EVENTS.

 

Monroe County Pomona Grange will
meet with Raisinville Grange, Tues-
day, October 5, at 10:30. Election of
officers and delegates to the state con-
vention.

 

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS BOY?

Eugene W. McNamara, 14, son of
John E. McNamara, 188 Victor ave,
nue, Highland Park, has been missing
from his home since August 11.

Wednesday, August 11, the mother
gave Eugene $3.50 to buy a new pair
of shoes. She saw him board a car
for down town and has not seen him
since. When he left he wore a pair
of khaki pants, the first pair of long

 

 

EUGENE W.

trousers he had ever worn; a dark
blue coat, a white waist and a gray-
checkered cap. He is about five feet
one inch- tall and weighs about 110
pounds. His hair is dark brown, his
eyes hazel hue and he has a scar near
his lower lip. According to Harry
Waters, one of Eugene’s chums, the
youth had at times expressed his
longing to live on a farm. Other boys
who knew him say they can think of
no reason for his leaving home.

A RAZOR SNAP.

MCNAMARA.

 

 

A new lot of Imported German
Razors at 50 cents while the supply
lasts, is now offered by the Michigan
Farmer.

The razors are made of the best
German steel, five-eighth inch blade,
and black handle. We will not say
just: what these razors ordinarily re-
tail at, as prices on razors vary with
each dealer, but we have seen razors
no better sold at $1.25 and $1.50.

Every man who shaves ought to
have at least three razors as it is a
proven fact that giving a razor a rest
is beneficial to it, and here is your
opportunity to get a supply at very
little cost.

So, only while our present supply
lasts the price is 50 cents each, post-
paig. or a half-dozen at $2.00, post-
pai .

 

A Strop Bargain, Too.
_We. also have a new lot of Presto .'
All-in-One razor strops that dealers
sold at $1.00 each. These strops are
made of finest horsehide leather and
one side is treated With All-in-One
solution which makes it possible to
put a hair-splitting edge on the dull-
est razor. It Combines the strop and
hone in one.
The special price on the strop
alone, while the supply lasts, will be
50 centshpostpaid, but if ordered t0-
gether. With one of the above razors ‘
the price of both will be only 75 cents i
postpaid, or $1.15 with the Michigan .
Farmer one year; $1.60 for three years
This would make a nice present,
worth double the cost.
and $2.10 for five years.

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

SEPT. 25, 1915.

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

2 1—277

 

 

 

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OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSO-
CIATION OF FARMERS’ CLUBS.

 

President—R. J. Robb, Mason.

Vice-president—C. J. Reed, Spring
Arbor.

Secretary and Treasurer—Mrs. J. S.
Brown, Howell

DixectorS—Alfred Allen, Mason; Jos-
eph Harmon, Battle Creek; C. B. Scul~
1y, Almont; C 'I‘. Hamline,Aln1a; W.
K. Crafts, Grass Lake; Edward Burke,
St. Johns

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

 

Associational Motto:
“The skillful hand with cultured
mind is the farmer’s most valuable

asset."

 

MEMORY DAY.

Public attention will this year be
called to September 30 as Memory
Day in a more impressive man-
ner than ever before. A recent ad-
vice from Ex—Associational President
J. T. Daniells, to whose initiative the
Memory Day movement is due, states
that Governor Ferris has informed
him of his intention to issue a procla-
mation inviting the people of Michi<

 

dorsed also by the State Grange, then
in session; and

Whereas, At the following session
of our State Legislature, an act was
passed in ,conformity with the spirit
of the above resolution,
has resulted in an improved condition
of the cemeteries within our state—
this through the creating, thereby, of
a better public sentiment—and which
benefits we believe should be extend—
ed over this entire land; therefore,
be it

Resolved By this State Association
of the Farmers’ Clubs of Michigan
that we do, hereby, most earnestly pe-
tition our National Congress, through
the members thereof from this State
of Michigan, to enact that September
30, of each year, be designated “Mem-
ory Day” and be devoted to improving
the condition of the cemeteries within
these entire United States and mak—
ing beautiful with flowers and loving
care. the graves therein.

With this movement which was first
launched at a meeting of the State
Association of Farmers' Clubs gaining
such general recognition, the members
of local Farmers’ Clubs within the
state should give it an added impetus
by arranging for a proper observance
of the day in their own communities.
In order to facilitate the holding of
suitable exercises, we are reproducing
the Memory Day hymn which was
prepared for this purpose at the re-
quest of Ex-President Daniells. Oth-
er suitable exercises will suggest
themselves to the local committee in
charge, while the important work of
cleaning up the rural cemetery and

Memory Dayix

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gan as a whole to observe September
30 as Memory Day.

The Memory Day movement, which
originated in Michigan, is also gath-
ering national force and the time is
not far distant when the day will be
recognized by Congress as it has been
by the Legislature of our own state.
At the last annual meeting of the
State Association of Farmers’ Clubs a
resolution was adopted urging upon
Congress to enact suitable legislation
looking toward the making of Memory
Day a national affair. This resolution
was later presented to Congress by
Senator Smith, of Michigan, and it is
hoped that legislative action will fol-
low. The text of the resolution fol-
lows:

Whereas, This State Association of
the Farmers’ Clubs of Michigan did,
at its annual meeting of 1904, adopt
a resolution asking that September
30, of each year, be designated “Mem-
ory Day” and be devoted to improving
the condition of the cemeteries
throughout the state, and of the graves
therein, and which resolution was en-

placing it in a more attractive condi-
tion should interest the people of the
entire community, making the event
a community matter.

Let every Farmers' Club worker of
the state give this Memory Day move-
ment his hearty and whole~souled sup—
port, to the end that the community
may be made more attractive and its
ideals more noble through the giving
of a day to the cherishing of the mem-
ory of departed friends. We bespeak
for Memory Day a general and more
feeling observance than has been giv-
en it in the past.

The placing of the rural cemeteries
in a better condition Will benefit the
community in many ways. The doing
of this work will induce wholesome
reflection on the part of those engag-
ed in the work, and its accomplish-
ment will reflect the general progres-
siveness of the community, indicating
that where proper Care is given to the
burial ground of the dead, life will be
better worth living.

and which ;

 

 

History of the World.

ping over into the next.

tracts.

has never been equaled.

Coast and on the way.

for Free Book No. 6

ticket via

W. R. Alexander,
11 Fort St...
Detroit. Mich.

 

CTOBER IS
F A R M E R S ’
MONTH at the
Panama-Pacific Fair

Every farmer who can should visit
California and the Exposition during October.
YOL will find more agricultural exhibits and more

events which will interest you than ever before
were shown in one place in one month in the

There will be at least 24 national and international
stock shows and conventions, with one event lap-

off in the great agricultural sections of the New
West and see how the farmers of this section make
money on great ranches and on smaller irrigated
And you will see the Great Panama-Pacific
Exposition, which for beauty and general interest

All this you will see at the lowest fare in years—a rate made
particularly for the expositions. This is probably the best chance
of your lifetime to make the western trip you have been thinking
about—to make it at the least cost and to see the most on the
You will find living expenses very rea-
sonable—all hotels are under agreement not to raise rates. Write
-—-Tells what to see and cost of trip.

For the quickest trip over smoothest road bed and to travel through
the region of greatest scenic and agricultural interest, buy your

UNION PACIFIC-SOUTHERN PACIFIC

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gas stoves, etc., from Kalamazoo lactory.

souvenir. “'Reclpes 1n Rhyme.” Both free.

We manufacture stoves ran
kitchenkabinets arid tabla. $138

Trade Mark
Registered

Direct to

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stoves, furnaces and white enameled
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SEED WHEAT—Jim! Wave, Poole and Winter King;
(‘lmrr 'limnthy, Alsike. Alfalfa and all kinds of

Pure Field Seeds. direct. from produror to consumer.

Free from Noxious weeds. Ask for Samples.

BIO TYPE POLAND CHINAS,Ma1-ch and April pigs

at reasonable rioes.
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‘malouey’s TREES

Fruit and Omanuntal trees, vines, shrubs. etc. for (all plant
ing, in small or large lots at wholesale prices. Grown and guar-
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RO SEN RYE. Best yielding rye ever discovered.
Will yield from 25 to 50 r cent more than common r‘ 8.
SI 50 per bu. A. D. GEE OBY. R. No. 3. Ionin. Mich.

RED WAVE SEED WE". 21%.“51‘vi'1iiail? $22.;

and description. W.C TAYLOR. Milan, Mich.

 

 

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AVIBOI‘OHB. red. bearded wheat. very stifl’ straw. and
of good milling qualities. :1 good yielder. write for
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WINTER VETCH

NEW CROP MICHIGAN GROWN
YOUNG-RANDOLPH SEED CO.. Owosso, Mlchlgm

Hairy Vetch Seed For Sale

150 pound. $8 00 bushel. Sacks free

 

 

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WANTE —-RYE and VETCH MIXTURE
SEND SAMPLES FOR 1 1D T0

YOUNG—RANDOLPH SEED CO., Owosso, Mich.

 

 

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1.35 [)1 1- bushel. for 5 buhels or more sacks free.
F. C. Mc EUEN. Mason. Ml blxsn.

 

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Also other olovers and gimotéhy seed. Send sample
an
o. M Scott 8: Sons Co. I’ 12 Main St. Maryanne. o.

D is Oct. 13.
limrnmni Farmers Wanted. (3:33“;'l.‘.°{;. 11...,
quarters. Write OZMENT 17 F. St. 1:19.

ROSEN RYE 5.... 5.. 55.1... I..-
I mediate shipments. Sum-

lo on request. 32. 50 per bu. in lore than ten bu lots.
g‘en bu. or over 82. 00. Bags free. J. A. Oampho ll & Son
(Member Mich. Experiment Association) Penna. Mich.

 

 


278— ~22

  

LIVE STOCK AWARDS AT THE
STATE FAIR.

 

Cattle.-——Shorthorns. .

Bull, 3 yrs. or over 1st, Michael A.
VVtigner, Fremont, Ohio; 2nd, John
Lessiter’s Sons, Clarkston, Mich.

Bull, 2 yrs. and under 3—1st, A. E.
Stevenson, Port Huron; 2nd, Adams
Bros., Litchfield, Mich.

Bull, senior yearling~1st, Wagner.

Bull, junior yearling—1st, Lessiter’s
Sons. ‘

Bull, senior calf—1st and 4th, A. E.
Stevenson; 2nd and 3rd, Lessiter’s
Sons; 5th and 6th, Adams Bros.

Bull, junior calf—lst, 2nd and 3rd—
Lessiter’s Sons; 4th, Wagner; 5th,
Adams Bros.

Cow, 3 yrs. and over——1st, 2nd and
.‘h'd, Wagner; 4th and 5th, Stevenson;
6th, Lessiter’s Sons.

 

Heifer, 2 yrs. and under 3——1st and
4th, Stevenson; 2nd, W'agner; 3rd,
Lessiter’s Sons; 5th and 6th, Adams
Bros.

Heifer, senior yearling—let and 3rd,
Stevenson; 2nd, Wagner; 4th, Lessi-
ter’s Sons; 5th, Adams Bros.

Heifer, junior yearling—1st and 4th,
Stevenson— 2nd, Wagner; 3rd, Lessi-
ter’s Sons; 5th, AdanisBros.

Heifer, senior calf—lst, Wagner;
2nd, Stevenson; 3rd, Lessiter’s Sons;
4th, Adams Bros.

Heifer, junior calf—lst and 4th,
\Nagner; 2nd, Lessiter’s Sons; 3rd,
5th and 6th, Stevenson; 7th and 8th,
Adams Bros. ,

Bull, senior championmlst, Wag
ner.

Reserve champion—Stevenson.

Bull, junior championwlst, Steven—
son.

Reserve cliaiiipionuW'agiiei'.

Bull, grand championwlst, Wagner.

Reserve champion—Stevenson.

Female, senior champion—1st, Wag—
ner.

Female, junior championulst, Ste-
venson.

Female, grand champion—1st, \Vag-
ner. _
Reserve champion—Stevenson.

Graded Herdv—lst, \Vagner; 2nd,
Stevenson; 3rd, Lessiter’s Sons; 4th,
Adams Bros.

Breeders young herd—lst, Steven—
son; 2nd, Wagner; 3rd, Lessiter’s
Sons; 4th, Adams Bros.

Breeders’ herd, calf—lst, Steven-
son; 2nd, \Vagner; 3rd, Lessiter’s
Sons; 4th, Adams Bros.

Produce of cow—1st, Wagner; 2nd,
Stevenson; 3rd, Lessiter’s Sons; 4th,
Adams Bros.

Get of sire—lst, Wagner; 2nd, Ste-
venson; 3rd, Lessiter’s Sons; 4th,
Adams Bros.

Galloways.
Bull, 3 yrs—1st, Jas. Frantz.
Bull, 2 yrs—lst, Frantz Bros., Bluff-

ton, Ohio.
Bull, senior yearling—1st, James
Frantz.
Bull, junior calf yearling—~1st,
Frantz Bros.
Bull,,senior calf—1st, Jas. Frantz.
Bull, junior calf—1st, Frantz Bros.
Cow, yrs. or over lst and 2nd,

 

Jas. Frantz.

Heifer, 2 yrs—lst and 2nd, James 13

Frantz.
Heifer,
Bros.
Heifer,
Frantz.
Heifer, senior calf—1st, Jas. Frantz.
Heifer, junior calf—1st, Jas. Frantz.
Exhibitors’ herd—lst, Jas. Frantz;
2nd, Frantz Bros.
Four get of sire—1st, Jas. Frantz;
2nd, Frantz Bros.
Two produce of
Frantz; 2nd, Frantz

senior yearling—1st, Frantz

junior yearling—1st, James

cow—1st, James
Bros.

Senior champion bull—1st, James
Frantz.

Junior champion bull—1st, Frantz
Bros.

Senior champion female—1st, Jas.
Frantz.

Junior champion female—lst, Jas.
Frantz.

hand champion bull—1st, James
Frantz.

Grand champion female—1st, Jas.
Frantz.

Cups for the grand champion Gallo-
way bull and grand champion Gallo-
way female were awarded to James
Frantz, Bluffton, Ohio.

Aberdeen Angus.

Bull, 3 yrs. or over—1st, Clark Bros.
Grand Blanc, Mich.; 2nd, F. C. Rom-
she, Vt'apakoneta, Ohio; 3rd, Marshall
Kelly, Charlotte, Mich.

Bull, 2 yrs.——1st, U. L. Clark, Hunt-
er’s Creek; 2nd, Clark Bros.; 3rd and
4th, Romshe.

Bull, senior yearling—lst. Clark.

Bull, junior yearling—lst, Clark;
2nd and 5th, Kelly; 3rd and 4th, Rom-
she.

Bull, seniOr calf—1st and 2nd, U. L.
Clark; 3rd, Clark Bros.; 4th, Romshe.

Bull, junior calf—1st and 2nd, Clark
Bros.; 3rd, Kelly.

Cow, 3 yrs—lst, U. L. Clark; 2nd
and 3rd, Clark Bros.; 4th, Kelly; 5th,
Romshe.

Heifer, 2 yrs.—1st, U. L. Clark; 2nd
and 4th, Romshe; 3rd, Kelly; 5th,
Clark Bros.

THE MICHIGA_N FARMER

Heifer, senior yearling—1st and 2nd,
U. L. Clark; 3rd, Romshe.

Heifer, junior yearling—1st,
she; 2nd and 3rd, Clark Bros.;
Kelly.

Heifer, senior calf—~—1st, U. L. Clark;
2nd and 3rd, Romshe; 4th, Kelly.

Heifer, junior calf—1st, U. L. Clark;
2nd and 4th, Clark Bros.; 3rd, Kelly.

Exhibitors’ herd—1st, U. L. Clark;

Rom-
4th,

2nd, Clark Bros.; 3rd, Romshe; 4th,
Kelly.
Breeders’ herd—1st, U. L. Clark;

2nd, Romshe; 3rd, Clark Bros.

Calf herd—1st, U. L. Clark; 2nd,
Romshe; 3rd, Clark Bros.; 4th, Kelly.

Four get of sire—1st, U. L. Clark;
2nd, Clark Bros.; 3rd, Romshe.

Two produce of cow-—1st, U. L.
Clark; 2nd, Clark Bros.; 3rd, Romshe;
4th, Kelly.

Senior champion bull—1st, L.
Clark; reserve, Clark Bros.

Junior champion bull—lst,
Clark; reserve, Clark Bros.

Junior champion femalenlst, U.
Clark; reserve, Romshe.

Senior champion female—1st, U.
Clark; reserve, Romshe.

Grand champion bull—cup—U.
Clark; reserve, Romshe.

Grand champion female—cup—U.
Clark; reserve, Romshe. ,

Polled Durham.

Bull, 3 yrs. or over——1st, L. C. Kel-

1y, Ypsilanti, Mich.

U .
U .

rrrrr

Bull, 2 yrs-elst, M. M. Garrett,
Goldwater, Mich.
Bull, junior yearling lst, Kelly.

 

Bull, senior calf—lst and 2nd, Gar-
rett; 3rd, Kelly.

Bull, junior calf—1st and 3rd, Kel-
ly; 2nd, Garrett.

Cow, 3 yrs.——1st and 2nd, Garrett;
3rd and 4th, Kelly.

Heifer, 2 yrs.—1st, Garrett; 2nd and

3rd, Kelly.

Heifer, senior yearling—let, Gar—
rett; 2nd and 3rd, Kelly.

Heifer, junior yearlingwlst, Gar-
rett; 2nd, Kelly.

Heifer. senior calf——1st, Garrett;
2nd, Kelly.

Heifer, junior calf—1st, Garrett;
2nd, Kelly.

Exhibitors herd—1st, Jarrett; 2nd,
Kelly.

Breeders’ herd—1st, Garrett; 2nd,
Kelly.

Calf herd——lst, Garrett; 2nd, Kelly.

Four get of sire—lst, Garrett; 2nd,
Kelly.

Two produce of
2nd, Garrett.

cow—~1st, Kelly:

Senior champion bull—Garrett, re-
serve, Kelly.
Junior champion bull, larrett; re—

serve Kelly.

Senior and junior champion female
~“Garrett.

Grand champion bull—cup———Garrett;
reserve same.

Grand champion female—cup—Gar-
rett; reserve, same.

Red; Polled.

Bull, 3 yrs. or over—lst, Calhoun
Bros., Bronson, Mich.

Bull, 2 yrs—1st, Herbison Bros.,
Birmingham, Mich. '

Bull, senior yearling—lst, Calhoun
Bros.
Bull, junior yearling—1st, Calhoun
ros.
Bull, junior calf——lst and 2nd, Her-
bison Bros.

Cow, 3 yrs.——1st and 3rd, Herbison
Bros.; 2nd and 4th, Calhoun Bros.

Heifer, 2 yrs—1st, Calhoun Bros.;
2nd, Herbison Bros.

Heifer, senior yearling—lst, Cal-
houn Bros.

Heifer, junior yearling——1st, Calhoun
Bros.; 2nd, Herbison Bros.

Heifer, senior calf—1st,
Bros.; 2nd, Calhoun Bros.

Heifer, junior calf——1st and 2nd,
Herbison Bros.; 3rd, Calhoun Bros.

Exhibitors’ herd—1st, Calhoun
Bros.; 2nd, Herbison Bros.

Breeders’ herd—1st, Herbison Bros.;
2nd, Calhoun Bros.

Calf herd—1st, Herbison Bros.; 2nd,
Calhoun Bros.

Four get of sire—1st,
Bros.; 2nd, Calhoun Bros.

Two produce of cow—lst, Calhoun
Bros.; 2nd. Herbison Bros.

Senior champ. bull—Herbison Bros.

Junior champ. bull—Calhoun Bros.

Herbison

Herbison

Senior champion female—Calhoun
Bros.

Junior champion female—Herbison
Bros.

Grand champion bull—cup—Herbi-
son Bros.

Grand champion female—cupral-
houn Bros.

Brown Swiss.

All first and championship awards
in this class went to Hull Bros.,
Painesville, Ohio, the only exhibitor.

Fat Steers.

Steer, 2 yrs. and under 3—1st, John
Lessiter’s Sons, Clarkston, Mich.

Steer, 1 yr, and under 2—1st, Lessi-
ter’s Sons; 2nd, Jas. Frantz, Bluffton,
Ohio.

Steer, 6 mos. and under 1 yr. 1st,
Lessiter’s Sons; 2nd, L. C. Kelly, Yp-
silanti, Mich.

Herd, 3 age lots—1st,
Sons.

Champion, any age under 3 yrs.—
lst, Lessiter’s Sons.

 

Lessiter’s

 

Swine.——Chester Whites.

All awards went to Adams Bros.,
Litchfield, Mich, except second premi-
um of four of either sex which went
to Geo. W. Heskett, Fulton, O.

Duroc Jerseys.

Boar, 2 yrs. or over——lst and 4th,
Brookwater Farm, Ann Arbor, Mich.;
2nd, Zale Barton, West Unity, Ohio;
3rd, M. T. Story, Lowell, Mich.

Boar, 18 mos. and under—lst and
3rd, Brookwater Farm; 2nd, C. A.
Story, Lowell, Mich.

Boar, 12 mos. and under 18 mos.—
lst and 2nd, Brookwater Farm; 3rd,
Barton.

Boar, 6 mos. and under 12 mos.—

lst and 3rd, Barton; 2nd and 4th,
Brookwater Farm.

Boar's, under 6 mos—1st and 2nd,
Barton; 3rd and 4th, Brookwater
Farm.

Sow, 2 yrs. or over—1st, Barton;
2nd, Brookwater Farm; 3rd, M. '1‘.
Story; 4th, C. A. Story.

Sow, 18 mos. and under 2 yrs—1st,
Brookwater lt‘arm; 2nd. M. T. Story;
‘ird, C. A. Story.

Sow, 12 mos. and under 18 mos.—

1st and 3rd, Barton; 2nd and 4th,
Brookwater Farm.
Sow, 6 mos. and under 12 mos.—

lst, 2nd and 3rd, Barton; 4th, M. T.
Story.
Sow, under 6 mos—1st, F. J. Drodt,

Monroe, Mich.; 2nd, 3rd and 4th,
Brookwater Farm. .
Exhibitors’ herd—1st, Barton; 2nd,

Brookwater Farm; 3rd, M. T. Story.
Breeders’ young herd—1st, Brook<
water Farm; 211d. M. T. Story.
Four, either sex. get of same boar—
2nd,

1st, and 4th. Brookwater Farm;
Barton: 3rd. M. T. Story.

Four of either sex. under 6 mos,
produce of same sow—lst and 3rd,
Brookwater Farm: 2nd. Barton; 4th,

F. J. Drodt.
Champion boar 1 yr. or over—lst,
Brookwater Farm.

Champion boar under 1 yr.—1st,
Barton.

Champion sow 1 yr. or over—~15t,
Brookwater Farm.

Champion sow under 1 yr.—1st,
Barton.

Grand champion boar—1st, Brook-
water Farm.

Grand champion sow—lst, Brook-

water Farm.

Cups were awarded the Brookwater
Farm, Ann Arbor, for grand champion
boar and grand champion sow.

_ Poland Chinas.
Boar, 2 yrs. or over—lst, Hillcrest
Farm, Kalamazoo, Mich.; 2nd, Bean

Creek Farm, Addison, Mich.

Boar, 18 mos. and under 2 yrs.—1st,
Bean Creek Farm.

Boar, 12 mos. and under 18 mos.—
lst, Bean Creek Farm.

Boar, 6 mos. and under 12 mos—1st

Bean Creek Farm; 2nd, Hillcrest
Farm.
Boar, under 6 mos—1st. and 2nd.

Hillcrest Farm;
Creek Farm.

Sow, 2 yrs. or over—1st, Bean Creek
Farm; 2nd, Hillcrest Farm.

Sow, 18 mos. and under 2 yrs.—1st,
Bean Creek Farm.

Sow, 12 mos. and under 18 mos——
1st, Bean Creek Farm; 2nd, 3rd and
4th, Hillcrest Farm.

3rd and 4th, Bean

SEPT. 25, 19.15.?-

w. a L. J. Miner, Caledonia; 4th,'
Ebels.
Boar, under 6 mos.——1st and 4th,

J. L. Miller; 2nd and 3rd, E. W. &. L.
J. Miller.

Sow, 2 yrs, or over—1st, Hamilton

Farms; 2nd, L. Miller; 3rd, Swi-
gartdale Farm.
Sow, 18 mos. and under 2 yrs.—

1st and 2nd, Hamilton Farms; 3rd, J.
L. Miller; 4th, Swigartdale Farm.

Sow, 12 mos. and under 18 mos.—
lst, 2nd and 3rd, Hamilton Farms;
4th, J. L. Miller.

Sow, 6 mos. and under 12 mos.—
lst. Hamilton Farms; 2nd and 4th;
J. L. Miller; 3rd, Hamilton Farms.

Sow, under 6 lTlO‘Sr—‘1St, J. L. Mil-

ler; 2nd, Hamiltdn Farms; 3rd and
4th. E. \V. & L. J. Miller.

Exhibitors’ herd—1st, Hamilton
Farms; 2nd, J. L. Miller; 3rd, Swi-

gartdaJe Farm.

Breeders’ young herd—1st, J. L. Mil-
ler: 2nd, E. W. & L. J. Miller; 3rd,
Ebels.

Four of either sex, get of same
boar—1st, Hamilton Farms; 2nd, J. L.
Miller; 3rd, E. W. & L. J. Miller; 4th,
Ebels.

Four of either sex, under 6 mos.,
produce of same sow—lst, J. L. Mil-
ler: 2nd, E. W. & L. J. Miller; 3rd,
Swigartdale Farm.

Champion boar,
Hamilton Farms.

Champion boar, under 1 yr.—Hamil-
ton Farms.

('hampion sow, 1 yr. or over—Ham-
ilton Farms.

Champion sow, under 1 yr.—Hamil—
ton Farms.

1 yr. or over—

Grand champion boar—Hamilton
Farms.

Grand champion sow—Hamilton
Farms.

Premier champion for exhibitor—~
Hamilton Farms.

Premier champion for breeder—
Hamilton Farms.

Cups were awarded to Hamilton
Farms for grand champion boar, and
grand champion sow.

Fat Hogs.

Best barrow under 1 yr.—1st, 2nd
and 3rd, Brookwater Farm, Ann Ar—
bor, Mich.; 4th, Clark Bros., Grand
Blanc, Mich. .

Best pen, 3 barrows under 1 yr.—
lst, Brookwater Farm.

Victoria and Small Yorkshire.

Bear, 2 yrs. or over~1st, C. A.
Story, Lowell, Mich.

Boar, 18 mos. and under 2 yrs.—1st,
M. T. Story, Lowell, Mich.

Boar, 12 mos. and under 18 mos.—
lst, C. A. Story.

Boar, under 6 mos.—1st, T.
story; 2nd, C. A. Story.

Sow 2 yrs. or over—1st, C. A. Story;
2nd, M. T. Story.

Sow, 18 mos. and under 2 yrs.——-lst,
C. A. Story; 2nd, M. T. Story.

Sow, 12 mos. and under 18 mos.—
1st. C. A. Story; 2nd, M. T. Story.

Sow, 6 mos. and under 12 mos.——-1st,
M. T. Story; 2nd, C. A. Story.

Sow, under 6 mos—1st, M. T.
Story; 2nd, C. A. Story.

Exhibitors’ herd——lst, C. A. Story;
2nd, M. T. Story.

Breeders’ young herd—lst,
Story; 2nd, C. A. Story.

Four of either sex, get of same boar
1st, M. T. Story; 2nd, C. A. Story.

M.

M. T.

 

Haggai afar’H‘i.£§§dz’;.dl2an‘3°§a Hearse rhetseggogetsd“ S“):
Hillcrest Farm. Story, , , ’ .
— Haas 1 overc-—
I:a1111:1hibit,ors’ herd—1st, Bean Creek Stggampion boar, under 1 yr.—M. T.
1“‘1§i?éz.difl‘~§: $3512" Editing Bean sagas}; ‘s’éévirfigt i' 533%. A.

Creek Farm; 2nd, Hillcrest Farm.

Four, get of same boar—1st, Bean
Creek Farm; 2nd, Hillcrest Farm.

Four of either sex, produce of the
same sow—1st, Hillcrest Farm; 2nd,
Bean Creek Farm.

Boar, champion, 1 yr. or over—Hill-
crest Farm.

Champion boar, under 1 yr.—-Bean
Creek Farm.

Champion sow,
Creek Farm. _

Champion sow, under 1 yr.—Bean
Creek Farm.

Grand champion
Farm.

Grand champion sow—Bean Creek
Farm.

1 yr, or over—Bean

 

boar Hillcrest

Premier champion for exhibitor—~
Bean Creek Farm.
Premier champion for breeder#

Bean Creek Farm.

Silver cup for grand champion boar
awarded to Hillcrest. Farm; and sil-
ver cup for grand champion sow, to
Bean Creek Farm.

Berkshires.

Boar, 2 yrs. or over—1st, Hamilton
Farms, Gladstone, N. J.; 2nd, J. .
Miller, Caledonia, Mich.; 3rd, John
Ebels, Holland, Mich.

Boar, 18 mos. and under 2 yrs.—
1st, Hamilton Farms; 2nd, Swigart-
dale Farm, Petersburg, Mich.

Boar, 12 mos. and under 18 mos.—-—
lst, Hamilton Farms; 2nd, J. L. Mil-
ler; 3rd, Ebels. -

Boar, 6 mos. and under 12—~—lst,
Hamilton Farms; 2nd, Miller; 3rd, E.

Story.
Grand champion boar—C. A. Story.
Grand champion sow—C. A. Story.
Premier champion, exhibitor—C. A.
Story.
Premier championship, breeder—C.

A. Story.
C. A. Story, Lowell, Mich, was
awarded cups for grand champion

boar, and grand champion sow.
Hampshires.

Boar, 2 yrs. or over—1st, Clark
Bros., Grand Blanc, Mich.; 2nd, W. C.
Gilliland, Van Wert, Ohio; 3rd, Gar-
vin Denby, Farmington, Mich.; 4th,
E. P. Hammond.

Boar, 18 mos. and under 2 yrs.—1st,
Gilliland.

Boar, 12 mos. and under 18 mos.—
lst, Adam Alt, Rockford, Ohio; 2nd,
Gilliland; 3rd, Denby.

Boar, 6 mos. and under 12 mos.—1st,
Alt; 2nd and 3rd. Gilliland; 4th, Alt.

Boar, under 6 mos.—1st, Clark
Bros.; 2nd, Gilliland; 3rd, Alt; 4th;
Clark Bros.

Sow, 2 yrs. or over—4st, Alt; 2nd,
Gilliland; 3rd, Clark Bros.; 4th,
Denby.

Sow, 18 mos. and under 2 yrs.——lst
and 3rd, Alt; 2nd, Gilliland.

Sow, 12 mos. and under 18 mos.—
1st and 2nd, Alt; 3rd, Clark Bros.;
4th, Gilliland.

Sow, 6 mos. and under 12 mos.—
llstdand 2nd, Alt; 3rd and 4th, Gilli-
an .

Sow, under 6 mos—1st and 3rd, Gil-
liland; 2nd and 4th, Alt.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Exhibitors’ herd—1st, Alt; 2nd, Gil-
liland. _ .

Breeders’ young herd—1st, G1111-
land: 2nd, Alt; 3rd, Clark Bros.

Four of either sex, get of same boar
—~-lst, Alt; 2nd and 3rd, Gilliland;
4th, Clark Bros.

Four of either sex, under 6 mos,
produce of same sow—lst and 3rd,
Alt; 2nd, Clark Bros; 4th, E. P. Ham—
1nond,Po'ntiac, Mich.

Champion boar, 1 yr or over—W.
C. Gilliland.

Champion boar, under 1 yr.—Clark
Bros.

C hampion sow, 1 yr. or over—Alt.

Champion sow, under 1 yr. ——A1t.
Grand champion boar—Gilliland.

Grand champion sow—Alt.

Premier champion exhibitor—Gilli-
land-

Premier championship, breeder—Gil-
liland.

Cup for grand champion boar was
awarded to W. C. Gilliland, of Van
Wert, Ohio, and cup for grand champ-
ion sow awarded to Adam Alt, Rock-
l'ord, Ohio.

Tamworths.

All awards in this class went to
Adams Bros, Litchfield, Mich, the
only exhibitors.

Horses.——Percherons.

Stallions, 4 yrs .—lst, Lonzo Mc-
Clain & Sons, Lima, Ohio; on Lauri-
er; 2nd,Loese1 Bros, Ligonier, Ind.;
on Lincoln; 31d, McClain & Sons on

Sullys. .
Stallions, 3 yrs.——lst, McClaIn &
Sons on Madagascar; 2nd, Loeser

Bros. on Morning; 3rd, A E. Steven-
son, Port Huion, Mich., on Marinos.

Stallion, 2 yrs.,~1st Loeser Bros.
011 Glenwood.

Stallions, 1 .yr.—1st, McClain &
Sons 011 Mignon; 2nd. Chas. W. Ste~
venson, Smith Creek, Mich, 011 Peter-
bury.

Stallion colt—1st, A. E Stevenson
on Patroclos.

Mare, 4 yrs—let, A. E. Stevenson
on Limonite; 2nd Same on Liason;
3rd, same on Lanonaille.

Mare, 3 yrs. —1st, Loeser Bros. on
Mandarin; 2nd, McClain & Sons on
Lena; 3rd, A. E. Stevenson on Magi-
cienne.

Mare, 2 yrs.—1st, McClain & Sons
011 Vericourt.

Mare colt—lst, A. E. Stevenson on
Philemon; 2nd, same on Patricion.

Champion stallion—McClain & Sons
on Madagascar.

Champion mare—A. E. Stevenson
on Limonite.

Clydesdales.

Stallion, 4 yrs. -—1st, Jas. Inness,
Marquette, Mich. 011 Marquis Best;
2nd, Findlay Bros, Vassar, Mich. on
Rinelda; 3rd, Ackerman & Sons, Elk-
ton, Mich, on Safton.

                              

tyre, Sault Ste. Maxie, Mich” on Syl-
vander’s Favorite; 2nd, Findlay Bros.
on Shorty; 3rd, Ackerman & Sons on
Decorate.

Mare 4 yrs.-—1st,Ackerman & Sons
on Queen Carogan; 2nd, same on
Cherry Carogan; 3rd, same on Lady
McQueen.

Mare, 3 yrs.-—1st, Findlay Bros. on
Hither Lady; 2nd, Same on Princess
Hither.

Mare, 2 yrs.——lst, Ackerman & Sons
on Oakland Queen; 2nd, same on Sat-
Lon's Gift.

Mare colt—lst,
on The Graceful;
Mine.

Mare with 2 colts—lst, Ackerman
& Sons; 2nd, Findlay Bros; 3rd, Ack-
erman & Sons.

Champion stallionflInness on Mar-
quis Best.

Champion mare—Ackerman & Sons
on Queen Carogan.

Shetlands.

Stallion, 3 yrs—«lst, Geo. A. Heyl,
Washington, 111., on‘ King Larrigo;
2nd, Pelletier Farms, Orchard Lake,
Mich" on Perfect Harum; 3rd, Mrs.
Grace Gordon, Birmingham, Mich., on
liarum’s Addition; 4th, same on
Prince Royal.

Stallion, 2 yrs—let, Heyl on Lari-i-
gos Perfection; 2nd. same on Duke
Larrigo.

Stallion, 1 yr.—Heyl on Larrigo’s
Triumph; 2nd, Gordon on Billy G.;
3rd, Pelletier Farms on Kennedy’s
Lad; 4th, Gordon on Dandy.

Shetland colt—lst, Gordon; 2nd,
Pelletler Farms.

Mare, 3 yrs.—1st, Heyl on Princess
Larrigo; 2nd, Pelletier Farms on
Mac’s Princess; 3rd, Heyl on Pearl;
4th, Gordon on Princess C.

Mare, 2 yrs .—1st, Heyl on Orbetta
Larrigo.

Mare, 1 yr.—lst, Hey! on Maple
Leaf Larrigo; 2nd, Gordon on Topsy

Mare colt~1st, Heyl on Larrigo’s
primrose, 2nd, Gordon on Lily C, 3rd,
Pelletier Farms on Maida P.

Champion stallion—Heyl on King
Larrigo.

Champion mare—Heyl on Pearl.

(Continued next week).

Ackerman‘ & Sons
2nd, same on Mary

 

Look beneath the surface anywhere
and you can find ugly things enough.
especially if you have a taste for the
revolting. ~——‘Stephen.

 

THE MICHIGAN ‘FARMER

THE OCTOBER SALE

120 -' Registered Holsteins - 120

Sales Pavilllon,
Howell, Michigan

THURSDAY, DDTDBER l4, I9I5

Choice individuals of the bat of breeding. Many cows with A. R. 0. records and

daughters of A. R. O. cows well along 1n call to bulls combining the best producing
strains of the breed. An Opportunity to select foundation stock at your own price.

Ninth Public Sale

The Michigan Breeders Consignment Sale 60.,
H. W. NORTON JR., Mgr., Howell, Mich.

Send for Catalog.

031.21 HDRRII Sale 091.21

Sales Pavillion, IloIIIeII, llioh.

100 choice registered IIolsteinyoung Cows with
records from 19 to 241113. Daughters of A. R. O.
cows in calf to some of the best ‘10 lb. bulls in the
State. Heifer calves and yearlings with A. R. 0
dams and sires, a few bulls.

laslSale of I915 at IloIIIeII

Oct. 21. 101109.111. Three Auctioneers, Perry.

Ellis, Mack. CatalOgs Oct. 10.

The Howell Sales Company
of Livingston County.

F. C. Johnston, Columbus, 0., Pod. Expert
A. R. Eastman, Sec., Howell, Mich.

 

Michigan-bred Holsteins are Ere-est from Disease.

 

BIDWELL SHORTHORN S

“Beef and Milk"

Rezintered Bulls, 00:9
" . and heifers. Boom

topped roans. and mdli
for sale. Farm at
N. Y. Central Dot 1..
also . it I. y.
Blown-51'0“ FAR“
Box B. Tecumseh, Mich.

 

 

Albion Stamp 36%70

 

   

 

 

8 oung bulls 11.100 female. farm
Shorflwms For sale Kymile east of Davis crossing on
.R W. B. McQUl LLAN. Harrell, Mich.

 

Sh dh ——Dairy or beef bred. Breeding stock all
0 0f“: ages for sale at formers prices 0. W. Cram.
Socy. Cmt. Mich. Shorthorn Broeders‘ Assn. McBride. Mich.

of best: Bates Strains. Y
Dairy Bred SDDTIDDTDS bulls '1 months old for 221‘...
Price $100 each. J. 3.11MB": . Macon. Mich.

 

 

 

20 Registered H. F. Bulls

FOR SALE

Tested dams 30 lb. sires. Sept. price $50
to $100, according to breeding. Age 1 to
24 1110. W rite what you need.

A. R. EASTMAN, HOWELL, MICH.

EGISTERED Holsteins—llord headed by Album Boole Butler
R Boy. Hisdun has A R. 0. records as followu: at 2 ’13. milk
430 but. at 18.85; 4 yrs. milk 004. 8. butts 1' 27.03 ; pt 6 rs milk
0211.1.1mm- 28.551 1115 W.B . 1111. ADM: Howel. Mich

High Class HOLSTEINS $35.1

is headed by Smithdnlo Alcartm Pontiac, whose dam
to the famous Alcartn Polkadot. Have few young bulls
and females [or sale at reasonable prices. Will buy
a few heifers about 15 months notb bred Farm 56 mile
from court house. SET H B. RUBERT. Howell. Mich,

 

1100. Highland Holstein Rollers ?.i‘.’.‘.§”‘.l‘l”‘.‘lli’y It}?

cliiered free. 3.1111 arrival g1121r.1ut.cod Vl’rite
pedigree and photo. Hobart W

' 6 1110. old 30 lb. sire and from a
TTOTSTBITI Bu” ca" promisiu '2 yr old 1111111 560 with
all papers. Elmer E. Smith. Redford. Mich.

FOR SALE Registered Holstein Bulls

ready for service. and bull calves, also females.
FR EEMAN J. FISHBECK. Howell. Michigan.

Fay, Mason, Mic.h

 

 

' ' ‘ —-"lho best fami-
HolsteIn-Fnesun Breeder n9, 0, the use,
represented. D. D. AII‘KEN. Flint, Michigan.

 

Reg. Holstein Friesian Bull Calves
FromD lglvva producing dams. Bargain prices

WEY C. PIERSON. Hadley. Michigan.

Only $30.00 Delivered. $5333? 53;-

% white. six wks. old. tlioroulzhbred. but not eligible
to registry. ROUGEMONT FA R.MS Detrol t Mich.

HOLSTETNS AND CUERNSEYS

Our Holstein; combine the blood of Belle Korndye
and DeKcl Zdn . Our Guernseye are strong in y
Gempsey. Glenwood Boy of Haddon. and Stranfom' s
Glonwood of Pinehurat blood. Some fine bull calves of
both breeds for sale Boardman Farm. Jackson. Micli.

REGISTERED IIDLSTEIII RULI,3:LV§3,;’:J;,,E,,§’,}$;

Send for description. A.YLOR Milan, Mich.

OLSTEIN CATTLE and Duroo Jersey Swine.
Choice pigs of both sex now ready t 3311117111099
reasonable R.C ORNELL. Howell. lchl ltan.

RegisIorod IIoIsIeanllll‘SafiNufi‘éPlég 5;?” ‘°’

B. B. REAVEY. Akron. Duelllxan.

aple Lane Register of Merit Jersey Herd. Tuber.
M culin testedb y U. S. Government. For sale bull
calves and heifer calves from R of

grand dams. and Hood Form Sire
IRVlN FOX. Allognn. Michigan.

“LL Sold to Mr. A. Fleming of Weid-
LIST B man Just one bull left, ago 10
mo. He' 3 a bar am at $200 breeding conformation
considered. Bmt or to former uorld' 1-1 record 3% yr
old Holstein. M. L. Manulln. Redford. Mich

THE WILDWOOD Jamey Herd. Be later-ed Jersey
Cattle of Quality. Herd headed by ajesty’ 5 W011-

17,0110 0 the best eon- ot Royal Majesty. The
daughters of Maiesty’ s Wonder are mated to a son 01'
Majesty' 13 Oxford King. Herd tuberculin tested. We
have for 3316 a few choice young bulls for full service
(non high producing coon. Alvin Baldon. Cam. Mich.

illi- Pumstoad Jersey Cattle. Bull calm from R.
of II. Cows. also 110th calves and several bred
heifers for sale. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersville. Mich'

Jot-eye. Bulls ready for service. extra malty sired
by Jacoha' 6 Fairy 17111111111011.0107 from hi h
producing dams. SMITH 1k PAINKER. Howell. Mic

FOR SALE*mclnug01-§egnflull

of Merit ancestry. IWATEBMAN & WATER-
MAN .Moadowhnd Farm. Ann Arbor. Mich.

1““! 8"“: f“ :d. froniinléigh- producinrfidnmmwith

semi—emote! test 0 B. Wellness". 1'3ch lowsfllg:

ILLS Fun-1 Je e.rseys marlin hulls. solid
.I. .rlinsi“;"'°'i" " was; win-11.1.1111:
. out; w
to 800 lbs. 0. and O DEAKE Ypsilanti. Michigan.

B ll 1 $2it $50.11” -
3L [Allied “33”,“ 11 ”gigs.“ stztion ineM‘lglrI.

3m8mo. old Also Heifer-calves: Smo. marina. and
two wyoar old Bred All VII-Ito
J.W .nxnmn 111111111138 momd For dam” "M

For Sale”T°“*°3 Registered Jersev Sire. fine breed.

his credit 1goo§31v£$g£iten running over 400 113,130

Chan °<Bfi00 mason
13-000ka Own-co.n1cn.n.uo. 1.

Milking Shorthornsm1 “““ R 25.22232“

DAVIDSON & HALL. Tecumseh. Mlchlzan.

 

. dams and

 

Shorlhorn Cattle 01th Sex for Sale

W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.

 

 

uocs.
Dumas 8,, Victorias‘§.f:li..¥;li‘°2.3f1‘32?"

0111 r1 hung the blood
of ‘luperba Defender nMuch 001.. rions and others.
A few young boars.

.OST RY. Lowell Mi(:.h

 

108 SALE— Berkshire hugs. both sexes and dIll’crent axes.
Bred uilts for fall {III/rowing. Poll Angus Bull Calf. not 10:;-
Istel ed Price right. Chase 5 Stock Farm. R. l. Mariette Mich.

' 'T wo Tall cilts bred for A & S t
BefllSllll‘eS- furrowiufi and II choice lilltzof Aiir’ll
gilts for sale. A. A PAT’l 1LT 0. De -ckcrville. Mich.

 

 

Royallon Bred Berkshires—13.232,Piffigmggq ‘0 “W

.. um 114
weeks ago with registry p are. W rite lor pedigree and
prices. D.F. VALENTINE) Supt..'1‘en1peranc.e Mich

F O R S A L E‘Ef’il‘ihlsrfia REEL ills?

right. Priced right. W. N. LISTER. Ypsilanti, Mich.

For Sale Duroc Jerseys Bred Gills

for Sept. farmw. Carey U Edmonds, Hastings Mich.

 

 

——March pigs either FOX. also am book-
Duroc 13730! in“ orders for i all pigs lor Nov. BlllD-
Int-111. Inspection invited E. D. Hey lenln' l'k W :Iylnnd Mich.

 

AMPSHIRE Swine—Breedingstock of all ages
from most popular strains rito for breedin
Inspection invited. Floyd Myers. RB, Decatur. In .

WEST \VINDS HAMPSHIRE SWINE. Booking orders
for sow pigs immediate shipment. No males to offer
E. P. H ’.1unuoud cw11-2r.N.A. Wiser manager. Pontiac, Mich

 

onLD like to hear from those desiring to start
.'I herd of thoroughbred Chesters. Prices 8' trac-
tive. F. W. ALEXANDER Vassar. Michigan.

Big Type, 0.1.8’3 and Chester While Swine.

400 fall pigs either sex. pecial prices for the next
30 days also bred gills and service males and we are
booking orders for spring 0813 , all our stock is good
enough that I will shipO D. and reg. free in the
8‘31 Char t(:i‘liestgr mhiteAss tot Wehwon, more prizes

no. car re ers u oetern
Wis. State Fairs. Write fpr Shogw recordt Ill ' and

ROLLING VIEW STOCK FARM
Cass City, - Michigan.

-—Gilts bred for Au and Se 1..
0. '0 GI Will take orders for Max-clipanflmArgxyil
pigs, ll.W. MANN. Dan-ville. Mlc.hl:an

0- L 0- SWINE—2.12.1.2: w u...

f
choice bred sow to farrow the last of Aug, oroEorg
port of Sept. '1? If you pro, write me I have them.

A. .conm: N, R No.2 2.1)orr,‘MIcmgan.

n l 018—8 last. fall gilt: bred to farrow last of Aug.

and in Sept. Big frowth y stock. also last
Spring pi and one last a 1 110211234 mile west of
depot, TO B. SCHULZE, Nashville. Mich.

 

 

 

Choice Gllts bred for Se 1:. i'
a. 'o c. Benioable boars. SDI-111315112: [10:33:
ALVIN V. HA'I'I‘. Grass Lake,Mlchlg.a11

0. l. C. GILT BRET) SPRING PICS

ready to ship. H. J. FEBLEY. Holt. Mldzlzan.

l ——Bred sows. bred 11111181 ‘
0- I. c 8 both sex. Service 5 133%?
A. B. GRAHAM. Flint. Michigan.

REGISTERED 0.1. C. BOARS 8 GILTS

High class fall pigs at reason bl l
J. CARL JEW ,Masoxal. Sign?“

John Berner and Son,

 

“C SPRING BOARB of good typo and
Rod Pollel bull calves”
Grand Ledge, Mich.

0.1 c'. STRICTLY B It: TYPE.

M (II-ch April and May p Sired by Ignght Prince.
White Monarch and post“;fl Choicefll blgt type boars
and 110m weighin 1715111 51X) 1.070011» . witli uallty
second to none. ganfu furnish in pairs not akin. rloea
reasonable.

Newman'o Stock Farm, Marlette. Mich. R. I.
The home of the bi

Way Butlers Stool Farm. hon...) I 0,, go... 8.0,:
for sale. Registemdfrce. J. R.Way.Pompeil. Mich.
FOR snlE-hey lined glib, full malel. spring pigs.
of the large smooth kind. Price to Hell.

JOHN “CHICO“. Station A. R 4, Bay City. Mich.

 

 

 

 

Control Edi-I! Dam Jersey Swine. Established m
Spring lgs for sale, satisfaction guaranteed.
pm modal. J. H. Mart. But Lansing. Mich

UROC JERSEYS—Spring pizs either sex. Gilts bred for
Sent. tan-0w to a son of Volunteer Grand (‘hampion at
[chm-'1 leckSho'Chcogo. 1.0101“. Kirk.

um —Harch also elfiornx. olmdb
of Volunteer Champlmi of SState Fair-
nnd Chicago Show in 1912. E H. Morris. Monroe, Mich.

 

 

n of the best of breedlmz. April furrow either
"roe: sex or pairs for next 30 days Sm each. Two fall
boars. Oct. furrow 530th Also Holstein hull one
year Got. 6. G. KEESLER. Cassopolls. Mich

 

 

23~-279

THIS

* 0.1 e. as

am WEIGHED 9.12 LBS.
A 23 mourns 01.1)

‘ IouIA GIRL

I have started more breeders on the road to sue-
omth meniman living. I have thelargeatand fin-
est; herd int 0 U 8. Every one an early developer,
ready tortho market at six months old. I want to '
K1309 one hog in each community to advertise my

erd.2Vrlhtor my plan,‘ ‘How to Make Money from ='

11.03:. (I. 8. IINJAMIll.I-llo.l 0 Portland. moh. '

 

 

DUROC JERSEY 1533.333
either sex, from choice strains. S.C.S'I‘ATILMAN.
CHERRY LAWN FAHM, rhepherd. Michigan.

 

Marge brood sown in pig and Herd Boar
Duroc Jimenyij all full blood at the right price.
C. UFF. R. 1. Mendon. Michigan.

 

IG TYPE P. 0. Either sex. pairs or trim» not akin.
Bred sows and gilts Have several 1000111 boar pro-
spects. Absolutely no lower breeding Fverylhing
guaranteed right. FRANK KRUGER. Ravenna. Mich.

 

Poland Chi as, either sex. all ages. Something good
at a 111thle Bargains in boars ready for 3e1-
Vioe. B. F. D. 8. Grand Rapids, Mich

1' th bl Boa

POLAND CHINAS rgady fgrsegvigape Sowsbrgd
for spring far-row. A. A. Wood & Son. Saline Mich.
URDE TYPE I’. 05.151231" Xenf'bS‘Siii‘En‘luféfié ’32:
bred slits. W. J. HAGELSBAW. Augusta, Mich.
gig Boned Poland China. 33' 1.83;?“26‘6'33‘30‘2191‘11‘;
BERT MARTIN. B. F. D. o. 7. Hastings. Mich.
largo StrainP. 0 is“ °“”1“3°31§l‘£t‘g‘35.¥$2§“&§
rs: a e - 1 1

Aug. &Sept. furrow . “gm-lug pigs that are beauties.

sired Irv Big DIfcndeI'. the hour that ever body goes wild over.
Come and see 111111. E. 0. SW ARTZ. cboolcraft. Mich.

 

 

 

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS. Some choice boars
now read\ to 1111 “1% lSatiefaction guiran
'l. O.

W. HHTfl‘HN l Kalamazoo. Michigan

 

Spring Pigs at Half Pricez—Bred from

the largest
strain of Poland Chinas on earth. none bigger. If
Vou ever expect to own a registered Poland China,
this is )our opportunity Get busv and order at 01119.
Pairs a. 1nd trloa not akin $15 each. A few bred sows at
825. J. (l. BU’T LE It. Portland Mich. Bell Phone

 

ARGE Type F. C. Herd Boar Hoosier Giant 2nd 238011.159
J I-irod lvv lIiIuJ Ono Bin {41110111 1111111 0 Pu m. 111ml. 'oVIs. pncea

yi1ht.NlRS.“.BRAIXHVVATTE Brant Ml.ch

For Sale Poland Chinas 0f 33*“-
Ayroshiru 11.111. B. M. WING 11 sou, Sheridan, Mich,

 

 

IG type Poland China. with quality bred right,
feed right, and Kribn.lR right to go to their new
homes and do right. RECORY. Ionia. Mich.

 

l)()LAND CHINA Spring Pigs from heavy boned
prolific stock. Also. Oxford Sheep. both sex at

bargain prices ROBERT NEVE. Pierlon,Mlchl¢an.

REGISTERED YDRKSHIRES

Imported Strain. Both sexes. Prices Reasonablo.

Hatch llerd, Ypsilanti, Michigan.
50 YORKSHIRES‘S‘.‘ gig)??? E2223 “It“?

Rocks. I. R. Ducks. RB Homer Mich

 

 

 

Gilts b d I
Large Vorkshiress “mg; .35
Octolmrfarm“ Servi(:al)lel:.oars Pigssallnges. Prices
reasonable. W. C. Cook, “on” 42. Ada. Mirhixan.

illie Farmstead Yorkshiros. Bears ready for service.
Giltsbrod for Sept. furrow. Spring gpigfi. airsand
tries, not akin. Col Ion C Lillie. CooperI-Ivll . Mich.

MUleTOOT H0g3:—“ eanilng pigs. airs not akin. Brod

sows and 3111.6 or fall farmw, two
BNACO HR 3. Britton. Mich.

MULE FDDT IIDSS REGISTERED- 2 3.2" ”$3 2331‘

right. LONG BEACH FARM. Aulrusta. Mlch.
._.._.._...______.._____
HORSES

FOR SALE—Registered Percheron Stallion Mares
and Fillies at reasonable prices. In-
spection invited. KING d 8.0 N Charlotte. Mich.

—~Reg. Shetland Ponies. mostly
Pigeon P011192) Farm Two“, 1 spotted stallion and young
T. Morrison Pigeon Mi

Registered Percherons

Brood mares. Fillies and Young Stallions. Priced
tone 1. Inc ('tion invited.
L. C. HUNT &1CO.. nton Rapids. Michigan.

PerchuronsJIoIsIeins. to s, ShropsIIIm, Dams
DORR D. BUELL, lmlra, Michigan.

SHEEP.

Slack TupDelalne S -.R:‘.,’.li:‘...“:1‘:..i°’::l$
Fred E. Reichert. 111111111

39 Farm, Ann Arbor. Mich

Good Y 1'
Mord no" Shm- and owe:a;fmfl ”Ingest-alga
M. F. GANSSLEY Lennon.M

SHROPESHIRE RAMS

good big t{lollcsws with qgnliliy. t. 83160”; prices on than
[R mont 99 our PX ) I H d
KOPE KON FARM. lélndl: rhdilil ‘il'aigh Pen?“

FDR SALE SIIRDI’SIIIRE RAMS $2322”??? {1123
toes. M.A. BRAY, Okemoo. :Inflham Co.I Mlch

Shopshires Eve: and Ram lamb: for Sale.

DAN BOOHER. Marlon. Michigan.

rervioe boars. C. F.

 

stock for fine

 

 

 

 

Dig Robust Wool-Motion Shropshire Rams
Priced cright I-nd satisfaction guaranteed or money
Write fltoday for Special Price Li st 24.
A FORTFR. Allexan. Mlchlltnn.

3 yearmldb stock ram. 2-1oar-old yearling!
shropGShireAIm lbam rams. W'ool- mutton type
NDREWS. Dnmvllle. Mlihmn.

snaorsnmrs. starlets-5.11.1.1.11:52.1

reasonable prim-etc L'Ihompoon RockfoM.M lcll

FOR SALE h't'isiedptrstzmh'hm2318:
F. H. CONLEY ___& SON, Maple Rapids. Mlch.

F0“ s‘lE Registered you-ling shropoohlre Rm,
with both sine and (guilty. Aldon.-

Iriotorod Poland China plan 01' bot ELIE

I. BOWEN 0..2 MANCHESTER. MICE.

and RAM LAMBS. Re istered,
SDI’DPSDIW Rams large and well wooled. I; Write
your wants. A. E. BAC()N& SON. Sheridan, Mich.
[BIGOSISI‘S—YMIHM and ramM lambs from Champion

flock of Thumb otM Also select Bork-
shire swine. Elmhurst Stock Farm. Almont Mich.

 


 

  
  

1916 y _ At $655
Amwgl Including Electric Starter
. , . and Electric Lights
._ / (‘1', - ’ 3 | l

 

 

, The“ Wonder Car" } w
y A Stampede lo the 1916 M . , \ ; ;

' axwell
ii! = i§=>

llflafijillfi‘m . ‘ Today, the. 1916 models of every important make of automobile
Vi7"flllllllli have been \‘1e\\'e(l.b.y the most critical Jtll')‘ in the world——the
w American automoblhsts.
Already the record-breaking sales of the 1910 Maxwell show an
absolute buying stampede to the "\Vonder Car.”
The “wise ones” who have given the 1916 filaxwell the verdict,
base their judgment of real automobile value upon these four Vital

 

:l-cylimgfr Ugit Power Plant with P01 I llS .' l' wander. fill“: 5:13
u I ‘ . s t 3 a
W “ed Y “' °°' "'d °'“‘°"- 1 st~—‘ l he first cost’ of the car . arm‘siwmfitt'mm m“

 

2nd-~The “after cost" of the car
3rd~~The quality of the materials and workmanship in the ear
4«tl1——~The equipment and the “completeness" of the car
The 19113 Maxwell’s new price. $655. fully equipped. with electric starter,
electric lights, high-tension magneto. demountable rims, "one man" mohair top,
and every other high-priced—ear feature. has earned it tint place as the car of
record low “First Cost.”
The 1916 Maxwell’s lowering of all economy records for—
lst——l\liles per set of tires
2nd—BIiles per gallon of gasoline
3rd——l\liles per quart of lubricating oil
4th Lowest year-in-and—year-ont repair bills

Demountable Rim: are resale-r has earned it first place as The Car of Lowest "After Cost.”
equipment of the 1916 Maxwell.

 

 

fNote the compact ma ement
The 1910 Maxwell’s pure stream—line body. new rounded clean—cut radiator o ”are eumfl'mlh' tmd

license bracket.
design, and handsome “one—man” top, have earned for it first place as “the
prettiest thing on four wheels.”

The 1916 Maxwell’s special heat—treated, laboratorytested steel, built into a
Twentieth Century Automobile by men who really know how.——-has earned for it
first place as the. car of record low repair bills. And this record will extend over
the entire life of the 1916 Maxwell.

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

1916 Maxwell lllgh-Priced-Car Features, all included for $655
Electric Starter and Electric Horn Handsome Rounded Easy Riding and Mar-
Eleetric Lights Double Ventilating Radiator and Hood velous Flexibility
Demountable Rims Windshield (clear Linoleum covered Unusual power on
High-tension Magneto vision and rain-proot) running-hoards and hills and in sand _ , , .
" "One-man”MohairTop Aluminum Transmis- floor-boards Abilit to hold the ' ” .
New Stream-line sion Housing Automatic Tell-tale roa at high speed . . .. n _ .
Front view showing the handsome Design Robe Rail with back Oil Gauge Improved Instrument {fifcfi'f'wn'éb‘imm ““3""
line. 0‘ “1° new "am“ ”Id h°°d‘ Wider Front and Rear of front seat leather Heat-treated, Tested Board with all in- :2 ' "1.233 of‘opnomcmm.’
Seats covered Steel Throughout struments set flush
Every feature and every refinement of cars that sell at twice its price
Built complete by PRICE F. o. B. DETROIT 16 Great ,Maxwell
the three gigantic Serv1ce Stations—35
Maxwell factories at Write for 1916 Maxwell Catalogue, and thé'name of Maxwell Dealer nearest you. Address Dept. C. F. Digging Cl)flice8-—Over
_ . . . . 2, 0 ea ere—all iv-
113232;; ]farms and MAXWELL MOTOR COMPANY, 1110., Detrort, Michigan. mg Maxwell genie:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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