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What a School—Camp Did for Some lVlichigan Boys

 

 

 

 

 

 

HE average farm boy thinks of

farm life in terms of Fourth of

July hayings, cultivator dus
clogging his nostrils, and plow han-
dles jabbing into his ribs. If such
thoughts are not sufficient to cultivate
in him a desire to shake the dust of
the farm off his feet he may reflect
further upon the father who “knocks”
his own business; or the teacher who
hurries to the city every Friday night
and pities him because he must re-
main in the country; or he may be
blessed with a preacher who continu-
ally talks about a world which is be.-
yond his imagination and who doesn’t
know the difference between alfalfa
and pi weed. Added to these there is
also the alluring city with its automo-
bile factories and their five dollars
per day.

The cumulative effect of the above-
named reflections causes us to won-
der, not why the boy should want to
leave the farm but why, in the name
of all that is eternally boyish, he
should want to stay! And, most of
them don’t want to stay. They are
leaving our farms in large numbers
every year in answer to the challenge
which comes from the city. The fact
that they are leaving the farms gives
us one good reason for having county
life commissions, rural conferences
and “back to the land” movements. Of
course, such conferences and move-
ments talk a great deal about “tenant

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farming” and its remarkable increase;
about “depleted soils,” “rural credits,”
“social centers,” and about innumer-
able other high-sounding things. But
the crux of the whole rural problem
lies in the fact that the rural popula-
tion is degenerating both in numbers
and vigor. If the man on the farm is
properly educated for his business and
is in love with it there will be no ten-

School-Camp thirty-two
their vocational choices, with the following results:
become farmers.
become engineers.
become teachers.
become bankers.

boy decided to become a business man.
boy decided to become a musician.

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see! And, one of the things that we
see very plainly is the inability of
solving the problem by means of the
“back—to-the—lander.” Our only hope
lies in the boys and girls who are now
living on farms. Who’s who in Amer-
ica, and every other evidence of suc-
cess in this country proves to us that
the rural community always has been
the best place to develop leaders for

 

 

School-Camp Boys Talking Over Vital

ant problem, no need for rural credits,
and the soil and the social life will
both be replenished. These commis-
sions, conferences and movements
have done very little in the way of
giving actual assistance but they have
in a measure opened our eyes to the
seriousness of the problem. We still
“see through a glass darkly,” but we

 

Life Problems Around the Camp-fire.

both the city and the country. If we.
are to retain or r gain our splendid

system of rural life which consisted
of farms operated by the men who
owned them, then we must educate
rural boys and girls for rural life.
Various methods have been promoted
for bringing about this new rural ed-
study of

ucation. The agriculture,

 

  

 

which has been at work for fifty years
is at last wedging its way into the
rural schools. The United States De-
partment of Agriculture, through the
epoch-making Smith-Lever bill, is ex-
tendiig 0 its work so that the applied
knowledge of agricultural science will
be placed at the fa1me1 3 very d001-
step, not in the form of a well-written
bulletin but in the form of actual hu~
man help. In this program the boys
——the farmers of the next generation
—are not neglected. Nearly every
state in the Union has organized agri-
cultural and home economics clubs for
boys and girls. There are over a half
million of them at work on home pro-
jects this year. These club boys are
getting a comprehensive education for
rural life. They are putting into prac-
tice on their own farms the applied
knowledge of scientific agriculture.
Each club member agrees to grow a
farm crop or raise a farm animal ac-
cording to the best known practices
of his state. And they perform every
operation in connection with their club
project, from seed testing to selling
the crop and handing in an accurate
report of all operations, costs and
profits. Last year the farm boys of
Michigan averaged sixty-seven bushels
of shelled corn per acre. The average
for the farmers of the state for a ten-
year period was about thirty-two bush-
els per acre. The potato growers of
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CURRENT COMMENT.

 

The advantage in
In Diversity Lies diversified agricul-
Wealth. ture to the farm-
ers of any section
is well illustrated in Michigan this
year. Notwithstanding the fact that
there are general and sectional crop
losses in Michigan this year, the av-
erage yield of all crops in the state
is approximately normal, being esti-
mated at 99.1 per cent of the tenvyear
average in the general. review of crop
conditions prepared by the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture for October 1.
Favorable weather since that date has
undoubtedly improved late crops to a
degree which would make the compo-
site condition of all crops in the state
fully up to the normal average yield
for the state. Without the great di-
versity of agricultural production for
which Michigan is justly famous, the
situation would be vastly different,
yet very many farmers do not fully
appreciate the state’s advantages in
this regard. This can be illustrated in
no better way than by a review of
crop statistics for any one of the
southern states where the one crop
system generally prevails. In those
states when the cotton crop fails,
when there is an overproduction or
marketing difficulties which reduce
the revenue from the crop, the farm-
ers suffer for even the necessities of
life, for the purchase of which they
have no adequate income from other
sources. So serious was this condi-
tion the past year, that the govern-
ment, aided by the commercial organ-
izations of the south, conducted a gen-
eral propaganda for a greater diver-
sity of crops on the farms of the
south. This propaganda was success-
ful to some degree, and will add some-
thing to the prosperity of the farmers
of that section of the country, but it
will need to be carried on for many
years before even a desirable degree
of diversity in farming is brought
about, and a wide diversity such as
characterizes the agriculture of Mich-
igan will never be attained. Truly
Michigan farmers are fortunate to
live in a state where nature has so
well adapted the soil and climatic con-
ditions to the production of a wide
variety of farm crops.

The recently pub-

The Sugar Tariff lished announce-
Program. ment by Secretary
of the Treasury

McAdoo relating to the probable trend
of new legislation to be enacted by
Congress at the next session contains
an item of more than passing interest
to a large class of Michigan Farmer
readers. According to this statement
the administration program will in-
clude the retention of the present duty

THE, MICHIGAN FARMER

on sugar'as one means to the end of
sustaining the needed revenues of the
country, which have fallen off materi-
ally on account of the great shrinkage
in importations since the outbreak of
the European war. Notwithstanding
the necessity which this unexpected
contingency has compelled the govern-
ment to face, there is a business side
to this proposition which should not
be overlooked. Subsequent to the pas-
sage of the administration tariff law,
which provided for the gradual elimi-
nation of the duty on sugar importa-
tions, government agents were sent
into Michigan and presumably into
Louisiana, where there is a consider-
able cane sugar industry, to investi-
gate the cost of producing sugar.
These investigators took into consid-
eration the cost of producing the raw
material on the farms of the state as
well as the cost of manufacturing the
finished product in the sugar factories.
While no public report of the result of
this investigation has been made, it is
a reasonable presumption that govern-
ment officials are in possession of ac-
curate data on these points, and inas-
much as the southern state of Louis-
iana as well as the northern state of
Michigan has a vital interest in the
equitable adjustment of this schedule,
it is also a fair presumption that busi-
ness, rather than political and general
rather than local, considerations would
predominate in the settlement of the
problem. If, as seems probable, the
proposed retention of the present duty
on sugar is based on the investiga-
tion above mentioned, as well as the
necessity for the conservation of the
national revenue, it is a tentative ad<
mission of, as well as a strong argu-
ment for the review and revision of

all tariff schedules on a business rath- '

er than a partisan or political basis.
This is not a new theory nor one
which is lacking the support of think-
ing people of all classes and political
affiliations. But the putting of the
theory into actual practice would be a
new departure in our legislativr pro-
gram which there should neither be
incentive nor reason for covering with
the cloak of temporary expediency.

The battle now being
waged in Michigan
against tuberculosis,
for which the last
Legislature appropriated $100,000 to be
expended by the State Board of Health
was officially begun early this month.
The plan will be for the officers en-
gaged in this work to visit one county
at a time. Wexford county has been
selected as the scene of the first ac-
tivities, and Barry and Ottawa coun-
ties will follow in order. In each
case Dr. Kleine, who is in charge of
the work, and his helpers, will spend
one, two or three weeks in a county
in an effort to interest the people in
their important health problem. An
attempt will be made to locate each
case of tuberculosis within the county
and to have nurses visit these patients
in their homes for the purpose of giv-
ing them instructions on how to live
in order to most successfully combat
the disease. .
In addition, a complete survey of
the counties will be made to deter-
mine the actua‘l health conditions. The
physicians of each county will be ask-
ed to co-operate with these agents of
the state board of health as a means
of enabling them to quickly locate the
cases of tuberculosis in each county
and to .carry on the work after the
agents of the state board of health
have passed on to other fields of 1a-
bor. A specialist in tubercular trou-
bles will hold daily conferences with
the physicians in regard to the latest
and best methods of treating and pre-
venting the disease. “Health First”
has been chosen as an official slogan
in this movement. Certainly no more

The War on Tu-
berculosis.

important appeal could be made to
the people of any section, since with-
out health other human blessings are
of little avail. The people of each

county of the state should one and all
do everything in their power to co-op-
erate with the authorities charged
with this important work, to. the end
that early progress may be made in
this important battle and final victory
won in the practical eradication of
the dreaded white plague‘ from our
state.

MICHIGAN CROP REPORT.

 

Wheat.-—-The‘ estimated yield of
wheat in the state is 20.18, in the
southern counties 21.17, in the central
counties 21.61, in the northern coun-
ties 16.22 and in the upper peninsula
21.53 bushels per acre. The final es-
timated total yield for the state, sec-
tions and counties will be given in the
November Crop Report. The per cent
of acreage sown this fall as compared
with last year is 94 in the state, 95 in
the southern counties, 90 in the cen-
tral counties, 96 in the northern coun-
ties and 99 in the upper peninsula.
The average date of sowing wheat in
the state is September 24th, in the
southern counties the 27th, in the cen-
tral counties the 23rd, in the northern
counties the 20th and in the upper
peninsula the 16th.

The total number of bushels of
wheat marketed by farmers in Sep-
tember at 74 flouring mills is 175,055
and at 89 elevators and to grain deal-
ers, 229,712 or a total of 404,767 bush-
els. Of this amount 297,626 bushels
were marketed in the southern four
tiers of counties, 93,452 in the central
counties and 13,689 in the northern
counties and upper peninsula.

The estimated total number of bush-
els of wheat marketed in the two
months, August-September, is 1,750;
000. Thirty—seven mills, elevators and
grain dealers report no wheat market-
ed in September.

Rye—The per cent of acreage sown
this fall as compared with last year
is 96 in the state and southern coun-
ties, 93 in the central counties, 99 in
the northern counties and 103 in the
upper peninsula.

Barley—The estimated yield per
acre in the state is 28.12, in the south-
ern counties 28.19, in the central coun-
ties 28.91, in the northern counties

25.34 and in the upper peninsula 30.04

bushels.

Oats—The estimated average yield
per acre in the state is 39.72, in the
southern counties 42.67, in the central
counties 37.85, in the northern coun-
ties 34.46 and in the upper peninsula
40.64 bushels.

Corn.~——The estimated average yield
in the state is 27.77, in the southern
counties 31.49, in the central counties
26.78 and in the northern counties
18.15 bushels per acre.

Potatoes—The estimated average
yield in the state is 67.56, in the south-
ern counties 68.98, in the central coun-
ties 60.99, in the northern counties
60.14 and in the upper peninsula 96.38
bushels per acre.

Beans—The estimated average yield
in the state is 9.44, in the southern
counties 9.90, in the central counties
9.30, in the northern counties 8.55 and
in the upper peninsula 12 bushels per
acre.

Sugar Beets—The estimated aver-
age yield in the state is 9.88, in the
southern counties 10.38, in the central
counties 9.74, in the northern coun-
ties 9.09 and in the upper peninsula
eight tons per acre.

Buckwheat.——The estimated~ average
yield in the state is 14.42, in the south-
ern counties 16.25, in the central coun-
ties 13.48, in the northern counties
12.10 and in the upper peninsula five
bushels per acre.

The estimated yield of beans, corn
and potatoes is 26, 15 and 22 per cent
respectively, below the ten years’ av-
erage from 1905 to 1914, inclusive.

Seventy-three per cent of our crop
correspondents in the southern coun-
ties complain of severe damage to
corn, beans, potatoes and sugar beets
by cold weather, excessive moisture
and blight and 80 per cent of corres-
pondents in the central and northern
counties and upper peninsula, report
corn, beans and potatoes badly injur-
ed by_ rain and frost.

 

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

 

Foreign.

The European Wan—At the close of
last week the Germans made gains on
all three fronts. They succeeded in
capturing Belgrade, the capital of Ser-
bia, pushed back the Russians along
the river to the west of Dvinsk and
by a counter attack at Tahure in the
Champaigne district of France they
recaptured a strip of territory about
100 yards deep and two and onehalf
miles long which constitutes a small
portion of the land taken by' the
French in the recent drive. It is not
expected that a real battle will de—
velop on the Serbian front for some

OCT. 16, 1915.

time as the engagements so far are
.w1th the outposts of the defending
army, the main line being back from
the Danube in more mountainous dis-
tricts. The Anglo-French forces are
now marching north from Salonika,
Greece, to aid the Serbians. The Bul-
garians have not opened their cam-
paign; they are probably waiting to
learn the success of the German in-
vasron andthey may fear the attack
of the Russran and Anglo-French fleets
upon her coasts. The Germans are
endeavoruig to carry out their Russian
program by taking Dvinsk and are
meeting with some success as indicat-
ed by the advance mentioned above,
but the Russian opposition is strength-
ening which, with the other demands
upon the Teutonic armies may mark
the end of the great invasion of Rus-
sra. France reports advances else-
where in the Champaigne district that
balance the Germans’ success at Ta-
hure. There has been artillery action
in belgium, around Atrois, to the
north of Avre, and in the district of
Argonne an intense bombardment is
in progress. Germany is establishing
a submarine base on the Bulgarian
coast, it is reported. A British sub-
marine torpedoed a German vessel in
the North Sea, while two other steam-
ers, one British and the other Greek,
were sunk last week; the crews of all
three vessels were saved. The Italian
attack upon Austria has broken down
and with it the fear has developed
that the Teutonic Allies may send an
expedition through northern Italy and
attack France from the south. Gen.
Joffre is now in consultation with
Gen. Cordona of the Italian forces,

presumably on the possibility of such

an undertaking.

Official advices have been received
at Washington from South American
countries of agreements to the pro-
posal to recognize the Carranza gov-
ernment organization in Mexico as the
de facto government. The extension
to Carranza of this recognition is ex-
pected within a week. Despite the
action of the Pan—American govern-
ments, General. Villa is reported to
have decided upon continuing his op-
erations against Carranza. This coun-
try will bar the exportation of arms
to other Mexican factions. It is be-
lieved that this handicap to his ene-
mies will enable Carranza to gain con—
trol of the country.

Failure of Germany’s state depart-
ment to reply to a note on numerous
passport frauds against this govern-
ment which pointed to the implica-
tion of high German diplomats, is
causing concern in Washington and
Ambassador Gerard is instructed to
make a special request at Berlin for
an answer.

National.

A memorial signed by leading busi-
ness men of the Philippine Islands has
been sent to‘this government protest-
ing against the conditions imposed by
the recent seamen’s act passed by
Congress. These men complain that
disaster to the industries of the is-
lands will follow the enforcement of
the law.

Landslides into the Panama Canal
are offering additional trouble as dirt
above is falling into the channel as
fast as the dredges can clear it away.
It may require till near the first of
next year to free the watercourse so
traffic can be resumed.

The directors and counsel of the
New Haven railroad will face trial
this week in New York upon the
‘charge of conspiracy in an attempt to
monopolize traffic in. New England.
These 12 men are being tried under
the criminal clause of the Sherman
anti-trust law.

The indifference of Chicago saloon-
keepers toward the law culminated
last week in a public demonstration
of those standing for decent govern-
ment. Fully 60,000 people marched
through the streets as a protest to the
law violators and largely as a result
(tihe 7,000 saloons were closed on Sun-
ay.

American consular and commercial
representatives in foreign countries
are being instructed to secure exhaus-
tive reports on industrial organization
and the relations between industry
and the government in the countries
where they are located. The reports
will include a thorough investigation
of industrial and business systems
throughout the world.

The program of the Naval League
of the United States contemplates the
organization of a junior department in
which special efforts will be made to
teach the children the patriotic his‘
tory of their country and to drill naval
boy scouts, junior naval reserve troops
and to organize girls into first aid
groups and nursing corps.

The International Peace Congress
opens at San Francisco October 10 for
a three-davs' session. -

Fire visited a lumber yard in West
Detroit Sunday and did damage to the
amount of over $50,000.

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER

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Developing Northern Lands

gan are of continued interest to

one agriculturally minded.
There are continually new viewpionts
and new adaptations of crops to suit
conditions. The many, many square
miles of stump lands and low spots
needing drainage is one of the state’s
farm problems. Migration has swept
over and around these lands for the
western states as a whole, while men
with persevering faith in these lands
have proven their worth as farms.

The small farmer who can get a
few acres under cultivation and free
from stumps has the bean and pea
crop as a quick cash return. At even
the very smallest villages is a pickle
salting station which is another im-
mediate cash crop which lends itself
to new land conditions most admir-
ably.

A 1a'bor income in the city at com-
mon shop work may be $500 or $600
per year, with outlay of over half for
rent, fuel and farm portion of living,
i. e., eggs, vegetables, etc. Ten acres
of cleared land will give a gross re-
turn for the legume crops equal to
the average laborer’s income. In the
meantime there is being constantly
added more cultivated land and im-
provements and finally a well-equip-
ped farm with good crop conditions
results.

The land looker carries with him a
posthole digger and insists on a mix-
ture of clay or a clay subsoil. It is
the latter that has the fundamental
soil conditions. In Europe there has
been re-bottoming of land by putting
in a strata of ground lime a foot or so
under the sand top and by growing 1e-
gumes the land becomes very produc-
tive. Nature has attended to these
conditions where a clay subsoil exists
and that is what the man with the

THE northern counties of Michi-

ued assaults 011 the stumps and brush
in the area beyond. The newly-built
school house is always in evidence
which is notice to the world that the
land is to be permanently cultivated
and civilization advanced on a sub—
stantial basis.

While not intimately connected with
agriculture, yet relating to the live
stock industry, is the importation from
the Yellowstone National Park of a
herd of elk. There are twenty—three
in number and these are being pastur-
ed in a quarter-section of wild land
enclosed with a 72—inch woven wire
fence on the Michigan Forest Reserve.
A full grown elk will weigh around 700
pounds and live almost entirely on
browse and wild grasses, with occa—
sionally a feed of hay in the winter
season. Full grown antlers of the elk
have been known to weigh 40 pounds.
Elk were formerly native to this state
and their presence is remembered in
the “Thumb” section in naming one
town Elkton.

Shiawassee Co. J. N. MCBRIDE.
CLEANING THE CHIMNEY.

At this season of the year the chim-
neys should be carefully cleaned, as
hot fires will soon be in order and
many fires result annually from the
accumulation of soot burning out and
overheating the adjacent woodwork.
I have used two methods of cleaning
out our chimneys with considerable
success. The first method is to take
a limber apple bough and scrape it
around the chimney until all of the
soot has fallen down where it may be
shoveled from the chimney hole with
a small scoop shovel. The second and
best method is to take an old grain
sack and fill it with several small
stones. Fasten this securely to a

 

MORE and more, motorists are
learning that power is more
than a matter of correct mechanical
adjustment.

If the fuel charge escapes down
past the piston-rings during the
compression stroke, power plainly
goes to waste. If, on the power
stroke, the force of the expanding
gases escapes past the piston-rings,
power again goes to waste.

Piston clearances vary in differ—
ent types of motor. You cannot
secure full power unless you main-
tain a proper piston seal.

Again: Different types of lubri—
eating systems are used in different
motors.

Unless the oil you use is adapted
to the feed system of your motor,
incomplete lubrication must result.

In buying Gargoyle
Mobiloils from your
dealer, it is safest to
purchase in original
packages. Look for
the red Gargoyle on
the container. For
information, kindly
address any inquiry
to our nearest office.

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So a very important demand of
full power is high-quality oil ofror-
rev! [201le for your molar.

Belowis shown our Chart ofAuto-
mobile Recommendations which for
years has been the motorists’ stand-
ard guide to scientific lubrication.
Here you will find listed the correct

oil for your car.

If your car is not listed, a com-
plete Chart will be sent on request.

After you have cleaned out your
motor and filled the crank case with
the grade of Gargoyle Mobiloils
specified for your car, you will dis-
cover what full power means.

If power is what you want, you
should stop guessing about your
lubricating oil and act on the scien-
tific advice furnished in the Chart

on this page.

 

Mobiloils

A grade for car/z 2:176 of motor

The four grades of
Gargoyle Mobiloils
for gasoline motor
lubrication, purified
to remove free car-
bon, are:

Gargoyle Mobiloil "A”
Gargoyle Mobiloil ”B"
Gargoyle Mobiloil "E"

Gargoyle Mobiloil
" rctic”

 

CORRECT AUTOMOBILE LUBRICATION

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Stationary and Portable Engines
Your oil must meet the heat conditions in your engine. Many oils thin out
too much in the cylinders. Three troubles result: (1) Compression escapes
and power is lost. (2) The cylinder walls are exposed to friction. (3) Excess
carbon is deposited. The oils specified below will prove efiicient. ,-
Water-cooled engines—Use Gargoyle Mobiloil “A” in summer; use
Gargoyle Mobiloil “Arctic” in winter. Air-cooled engines~Use Gargoyle
Mobiloil “B” the year ’round.

hardships and hard work ahead in day of expensive fuel it is good man—
making a farm out of the northern agement to obtain a dollar’s worth of
cut-over lands and that there iS land heat for every dollar’s worth of fuel
not suited to farming, yet fOI' the man consumed. Another point in buying
who has foresight and is willing t0 a stove is the fact that you will sel—
work there are Opportunities 110’; t0 be dom buy a stove too large for your
overlooked when one is seeking a farm use. The small stove has to be crowd-
home. ed on a cold day and that results in a

There are occasional settlements of rapid burning of expensive fuel plus
Polish people with the huddling of the fact that the bulk of the heat goes
farm buildings in a distinctive foreign up the chimney. The large stove can
manner. At fiI‘St glance 0118 WOllld be used economically in all kinds of
imagine that he had come into an In- weather as it can be regulated from a
dian settlement, with their teppees moderate fire to the hottest blaze and
greatly increased in size. Closer ob- as the radiating area is large the re-
servation shows the pyramidal piles suits on a cold day will be very good
of fire-wood around the Polish homes. and the heat will not go up the chim-
There is an air of thrift in these set- ney. The best of stoves will fail with-
tlements that is seen in the flocks of out clean chimneys and now is the
chickens, also pigs and cattle. The time to climb up on the roof and push
land is completely cleared up to a cer- down the soot.
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THE MICHIGAN FARMER

EARLY all~general farm crops
are sensitive to an acid condi-
tion of the soil and will
thrive much better if a certain amount
of lime carbonate is present. As is
well known some of these, particular-
ly alfalfa, clover, blue grass, timothy,
beans, beets, and others can scarcely
be grown with success unless the soil
contains a liberal amount of carbon-
ates. A few plants, on the other hand,
do better on an acid soil, such as blue-
berry, cranberry and the common sor-
rel. In practical farming such a great
majority of the crops to be grown do
better on well-limed soils that it is
unprofitable to have the soil in an
acid condition, provided only that
limestone can be obtained at an eco-
nomical price. The use of cover crops
especially legumes, emphasizes the
importance of lime in connection with
fruit growing. Comparatively little
data is available as to the direct ef-
fect of liming on the growth of var-
ious fruits, but in general it is known
that the tendency of lime is to check
excessive wood growth and promote
fruitfulness.

Phenomenal results are often obtain-
ed from the practice of liming the
land, and since it is such results that
are most talked about, there is some
danger that those just beginning the
use of lime-stone may be led to expect
too much from it. When attempting
to grow certain crops, particularly
alfalfa on acid soils the use of lime-

“stone as against using no lime quite

frequently makes all the difference
between a success and complete
failure, and of course the value of
liming in such cases can hardly be
overestimated. In general‘ practice
the use of lime should be expected to
produce results that are mild and last-
ing, rather than phenomenal and
short-lived, and its use should be part
of a systematic scheme for building
up the soil in respect to its content of
phosphorus, organic matter and lime
carbonate and for improving its phy-
sical condition.

At the New Jersey Station one ap-
plication of two tons per acre of
ground limestone gave the following
increases per acre of crops grown dur-
ing a period of five years following:
Of grains, corn gave an increase of
4.3 bushels; cats 4 bushels wheat 6.7
‘bushels; rye 8.0 bushels; of vegeta-
bles, potatoes were not increased, but
beans gave a gain of 2.1 bushels; to-
matoes 4,870 lbs; cucumbers 3,500 lbs;
of forage crops, oats and peas. gave
an increase of 400 lbs. dry matter;
vetch and rape 2,750 lbs; timothy and
clover 690 lbs; rye and cowp‘eas 370
lbs.

Experiments by the Ohio station
showed that lime does not take the
place of other fertilizers or manures,
but supplements them. Contrary to
the generally accepted theory of its
tendency to liberate potassium, it sel-
dom has any practical effect of this
kind. When the use of lime in any
form is continued alone and no ade-
quate provision is made for maintain-
ing the supply of other fertilizers and
organic matter, crop yields cannot be
kept up, and the returns from the use
of lime in such a system become less
and may finally drop below that of
land unlimed.

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ed lime the theory has often been ad-
vanced that it is better to use than
the limestone. There is no evidence,
however, from any carefully conduct-
ed field test to show that this is ever
the case. On the other hand, nine
years of comparative trials in the
field at the Ohio Agricultural Experi-
ment Station, four years at the Ten-
nessee station, 11 years at the Mary-
land station, elaborate experiments at
the Pennsylvania station and at the
Rhode Island station, together with
much other evidence from this and

 

 

Experiments in Liming SOils

from foreign countries, have shown
that ground limestone gives at least
as good results, and often better, than
its equivalent in burned lime. These
experiments cover soils of various
types, containing much and little or-
ganic matter; and they deal with
small, medium and large applications
of lime and with nearly all general
farm crops. These experiments en-
tirely discredit the theory that burn-
ed lime is any more effective for soil
improvement than its chemical equiva-
lent of ground limestone. They Show
that ground limestone is likely to pro-
duce better results on the average
than burned lime. Ground limestone
is safer to use, since applied in almost
any quantity at any time, it can have
no injurious effect (excepting that it,
as any material capable of neutraliz-
ing acidity, produces conditions more
favorable to development of potato
scab). Instances are on record, on the
other hand, of positive injury to crops
from the use of caustic lime. Ground
limestone is so much more conven-
ient to handle that this fact alone will
usually lead the farmer to decide in
its favor after he has once had experi-
ence in applying the two forms.
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Notwithstanding that the above
data is based on the results at many
experiment stations, there are cases
in which caustic lime can be used to
advantage. The writer had an experi-
ence two years ago in preparing a
field for alfalfa where ground lime-
stone was applied in the spring before
sowing the alfalfa in July. The sup—
ply of ground limestone became ex-
hausted before the entire field was
covered and a wagon load of hydrated
lime was purchased in the local mar-
ket and used to finish out the field.
The ground limestone was applied at
the rate of two tons per acre and the
hydrated lime at the rate of about 500
pounds per acre. In all other respects
the soil was handled the same, yet
good inoculation, and a good crop the
first year after seeding was secured
on that portion of the field on which
hydrated lime had been applied, as
well as on a small part of the field
where ground limestone had been ap-
plied two or three years previous. The
balance of this field, or that part to
which the ground limestone had been
applied did not become well inoculated
until the following year and produced
only a small growth of alfalfa the
first year after seeding. The next
season, however, there was no differ-
ence'to be seen and there was no
doubt that the application of ground
limestone will suffice for a much long-
er period.

This experience indicates, however,
that in cases where liming is done
just before sowing alfalfa, it is better
on an acid soil to apply some caustic
lime in order to get early results. In
liming a field the following year we
used both the ground limestone and a
small application of hydrated lime.
Also where a farmer lives a long dis-
tance from the railroad station from
which the ground limestone must be
hauled, it may be more profitable to
use hydrated lime or some form of
caustic lime. As a general proposition,
however, ground limestone is doubt-
less the most satisfactory amendment
for acid soils—Ed.

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One plat at the North Dakota Ex-
periment Station that has been in
wheat for 15 years has produced 206
bushels. A similar plat that has been
in corn one year followed by wheat
three years, and so on throughout the
15 years, has produced 233% bushels
of wheat, while another plat on which
the corn was manured and followed
by three (crops of wheat, produced
262% bushels of wheat. The total re-

OCT. 16. 1915.

turns for the three plats were:
the first, $109.39: for the secbnd.
$170.30, and the third $196.09 or nearly
twice as much as fromthe first one.
This is a fine demonstration of how
the most simple rotation greatly in-
creases the returns.

MISTAKES lN TILE DRAlNAGE.

S the labor and expense of drain-
A ing land with tile is considera-

ble it is well to guard against
certain errors quite likely to be made
by the inexperienced.

In laying out a field for drainage
the first consideration will be the
grade, and if small tile are used more
fall is required—at least one-half inch
to the rod, although one may get along
with less where the grade is kept
quite regular. It is quite possible,
however, to have too much fall, for a
very rapid current tends to undermine
the clay around the tile so as to get
them out of place. The head of the
drain needs more fall than elsewhere;
otherwise it may fill up with dirt on
account of the slow current and small
volume of water. Place a stone at the
head of drain, taking care to make all
joints very tight for at least 15 or 20
feet from the head. Small flat stones,
earthenwareor thick glass are excel-
lent for this purpose. An uneven
grade is a stumbling block for most
beginners and this alone may serious-
ly impair the drain, even if it is all
right in other respects. This makes
the tile more liable to fill up while it
is more difficult to make close fitting
joints. This error can largely be over
come by using a small spirit level at-
tached to a thin bar of iron about
eight feet in length, three-sixteenths
of an inch in thickness and about one
inch wide. The level being placed in
the middle of bar and laid on bottom
of ditch to test the grade. The bar
must be straight and the edges per-
fectly true. We have laid a good many
rods of tile and have had excellent re-
sults in grading with this simple con-
trivance which does not cost over 35
cents at a hardware store.

Many tile drains are unsatisfactory
for the simple reason that too small
tile and not enough of them are used
to drain the land. And right here we
would emphasize the importance of
making drainage systems so complete
that.they will drain the whole field.
If one is to tile drain a ten-acre field
there is one thing to be determined
before any digging is done: Can it
be done by a single system, that is,
with one line of large tile with sev-
eral lateral connections, or must there
be several separate lines each having
an outlet of its own? The former is
the more desirable method; but can it
be done? That is for the owner to
determine and if in doubt he should
consult an experienced man as the
success of the job and economy of
construction will depend on a wise de-
cision. Be sure to drain the whole
field; if part is tiled with one wet spot
left this may stop operations in the
field and delay in seeding be the re-
sult. It may not be necessary to tile
the whole ground, but all the wet
places should be. I would rather have
one field thoroughly drained than have
the same number of tile placed in sev~
erai fields.

Another error commonly made is a
poorly constructed outlet. If-soft tile
are used at this place instead of hard
burned ones they will soon need re-
placing. The last tile may not be
properly protected by walling around
with stone to prevent washing and
filling up of outlet. If the outflow is
into a creek or rivulet where there is
a large volume of water in time of
freshets it is better to have it enter
at an acute angle instead of right
angle as the latter tends to retard the
flow, but with an acute angle directed
down the stream the outcoming water
will naturally be borne along with the

current. The same principle holds
current.
Ohio. H. E. WHITE.

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AM aware that with the many

farmers, breeders and raisers of

pigs there are those who claim
that breeding and feeding fall pigs
does not pay. There are reasons for
such an opinion.

Where pigs are raised from inferior
stock in a neglectful and indifferent
manner, there are good reasons for
the lack of profit. If the pigs are
pinched for sufficient feed to enable
them to grow while young, the habit
of unthriftiness is fixed for a long
time, if not for life and, of course,
they will not pay a profit on the feed
they consume. If, while young, the
pigs are compelled to sleep, in the fall
of the year, in a damp nest where
draughts of cold air can strike them,
and storms beat upon them, it is not
to be wondered at if they are not heal-
thy, strong and thrifty. If the pigs
are compelled during stormy weather,
to pick-their feed, which may be en-
tirely corn, from slush and mud, seek
shelter wherever they can find it, we
need not wonder if they make known
their discomfort by vigorously squeal-
ing and chasing about the yard, and
do not thrive and make good returns
for what little food they are allowed
to consume. Under such conditions
about all a pig can eat is required to
keep him alive.

Among some pig raisers there has
a system prevailed of allowing pigs to
run with the herd until the mother
tires of them, weans them and then
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THE MICHIGAN FARMER

Making Fall Pigs Profitable

In the first place, good breeders and
feeders are careful about the selec-
tion of the breeding stock from which
they raise their pigs. The funda-
mental thrifty habit has been fixed in
the ancestors and that desirable char—
acteristic has become inherent.

In the second place, the breeding
stock has been roaming in the pas-
tures during the summer, have had
an abundance of exercise to put them
in proper condition to bring healthy
pigs, and transmit to them strength
and vigor. Good breeders see to it
that the sows are not emaciated in
flesh, or loaded with a superabundance
of fat.

In the third place, the great variety
of green feeds has put the SOWS in
condition which will enable. them to
yield a large flow of milk, which will
start the pigs along, filling them up
and growing rapidly. Under such con-
ditions the sow should not have a
large amount of rich, heating feeds.
The fall grass, together with a moder-
ate amount of light feeds, such as
wheat middlings and ground oats in
slop given in moderate quantities, with
a little corn, is all that will be requir-
ed the first two weeks.

In the fourth place the weather con-
ditions are generally ideal in October
for saving and starting young pigs.
The warm weather is such as to in-
vite the little pigs to come out of the
nest and play on the“ soft carpet of
green grass, nip at it at will, and learn
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The Pigs Can be Made to Weigh 50 Pounds Each at Weaning Time.

selves. Under such conditions, the
larger hogs crowd for the best places
at the trough, get the best places
where grain is thrown out, and the
pigs must take what they can secure
by stealth and nimble movements to
get out of the way of the larger hogs.
Such a practice brings about a ner-
vous disposition which makes them
restless, ill-shaped and unthrifty. Such
pig raisers will fatten their hogs for
market only as fast as they grow to
the point when they can crowd the
smaller ones back, get the bulk of the
best feed, and, in course of time, be-
come fat enough to kill. Those do
not plan to market their hogs at any
particular season, but sell when some
of their hogs are fleshy enough to be
accepted by the drovers.

Raised under the conditions describ-
ed we need not wonder if fall pigs do
not pay well. It would surprise us if
they should pay, even part of the
time. It is no wonder if there is a
great percentage of losses by death in
such cases. The practices are likely
to bring about conditions among the
pigs which will enable diseases to in-
vade the premises and dwarf the
young pigs, if it does not destroy them.
Such conditions are the reasons why
fall pigs do not pay some people.
More Humane and Profitable Methods.

There are a good many breeders and
pig raisers who look upon the fall of
the year, especially during the month
of October, as the ideal time in which
to start the young pigs and secure
good results. There are good reasons
for the expectation of profits which I
will :try. to describes. u;

out of the nest and basking in the
sunshine, playing in the open air, is
just the thing needed to promote the
health of young pigs and at the same
time avoid the many diseases that are
likely to claim, as prey, the pigs rear-
ed under unfavorable conditions.
Promoting Growth.

One of the first things to consider
while the pigs are young and small, is
means by which a rapid growth can
be promoted. The more constant the
growth the more rapid the gains in
weight, and the better the quality the
meat, the larger the percentage of
lean meat, and the less it will cost to
produce the gains.

By the time pigs are three weeks
old they will begin to look for feed of
some kind and they should be furnish-
ed something to chank on. A little
shelled corn thrown where the mother
can pick it up, is a good beginning for
the pigs will see her pick up the ker-
nels and they will imitate her and
learn to eat the corn. Take a little
extra pains with them by putting a
small and shallow trough in a creep
where the sow can not get to it and
fix up some unusually palatable sloppy
feed and put in the trough and get
the pigs to walk over to the trough,
smell the feed, taste of it and learn
to eat. I never found any better feed
for this purpose than scalding a little
fine wheat middlings, sweeten a little
with say a tablespoonful of cheap mo-
lasses, mix with sweet milk and put
in the trough while warm. As soon as
the pigs come to the trough they smell
the feed, taste and eat it greedily.

‘ 1.77;? 4.

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household goods, stock, 14 head choice
registered Shorthorns, cows, bulls,
heifers, 60 choice registered Poland
Chinas, sows, boars, gilts, and pigs,
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. the tree.
_ others, the work begins with the thor-

.are next.attended to.

f ment filling and must
ismooth edge against which to bring
f the surface of the cement.
§ interior of the cavity is thoroughly
: disinfected, say with car-holineum, and
I painted with one or more coats of tar
jor heavy pruning paint.

needed, are put in position.
7 is now ready for filling. The mixture
. used is rather rich, about three parts
:' of bank gravel to one of Portland ce~
ment.

lity and pressed
' “wet method," however, some kind of
\dam is contrived in front of the cav-

ILLING with concrete is suitable
for Small cavities in large trees,
where no strain will be brought

to bear on filling when tree bends and
twists. It is also suited to treatment of
“basal” cavities, that is, those occur-
ring near the ground, where the tree
bends little and where the drainage is
good. It is not suited to large compli-
cated cavities extending far up into
In this method as in all the

ough excavation of all of the dead

: wood. This is a laborious process em-

ploying many different tools, such as

ggouges (mainly the inch and three-
5quarter size),

augurs and hatchets.
The edges of the mouth of the cavity
They must be
so shaped as to tend to retain the oc-
present a

Then the

Braces, if
The tree

It is mixed fairly dry as a rule
so that, it can be built up into the cav~
into place. In the

ity and a wet mixture, such as is used
in ordinary cast concrete, is used.
Concrete fillings are usually divided

 

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Essentials of Tree Repair—3

the oakum is reinforced with a few
wires run through staples at the sides
of the cavity and it is then painted
thoroughly with asphalt cement. This
method seems to be of much value,
especially in New England, where of—
tentimes cavities have to be filled
cheaply without excavating the rotten
wood in order to prevent Gypsy moths
'sfifie usodap 01 mam Burrows 1110.11

A method of cavity treatment which
has been used a long time is the cov-
ering of the mouth of the cavity with
sheet metal, just as you would cover
a knothole in a grain bin. This meth—
od issuitable for cavities with small
openings, but is not suitable when the
opening is so large that the mouth
“opens and shuts" in a storm, for in
that case the metal will be torn away
from the nails which hold it.

Fairly heavy sheet zinc should be
used in this work and never light roof-
ing “tin” which‘is sheet iron washed
with tin and quickly rusts out at the
edges. The cavity is excavated and
disinfected as for a filling of concrete,
but the edges are cut with a special
ledge, upon which the metal is nailed.
The edge of the zinc is close to and
just back of the Cambium, so that the
young callous will quickly cover the
naiiheads. The zinc should be paint-
ed. When a small hole is found in the
center, when a large limb is cut off,
zinc can be used to cover it.

The Best Method of Treating Cavities.

Finally, there is the open system,
in which no filling or covering is used.

 

Concrete Filling of Basal Cavity. Cross Section of Trunk. Enlarged Section
Showing how Concrete is Kept Just Below Bark.

 

into horizontal sections by inserting a
sheet of paper every ten or fifteen
inches. This is done to control the
formation of the inevitable cracks.
Concrete for Filling Purposes.

When the filling is “roughed in” it
is allowed to protrude farther than it
is in the finished job. After the con-
crete has stood half a day and become
firm, this excess is trimmed down
with a trowel and the filling smoothed
oif. The surface of the filling must
come just back of the cambium, the
growing layer- between the bark and
the sap—wood, so that the callous which
forms at that point will quickly seal
the joint between the concrete and
the wood. The final step in the proc-
ess is the painting with tar, after
the concrete has thoroughly hardened,
of the surface of the filling.

Asphalt has been used in many dif-
ferent ways as a filling for cavities.
It has the advantage over concrete in
that it is much more like wood than
concrete. Being elastic it binds in-
stead of breaking when the tree
sways and it does not draw water
from the moist wood, as the cold con-
crete is liable to do. The asphalt can
be mixed, when hot, with sand, for use

 

in some types of cavity. It can also
be used in combination with excelsior
and sawdust to make a very econom-
ical and effective filling. Asphaltic
cement, with a little oil added to pre-
vent it from getting brittle in cold
weather, can often be poured hot into
split crotches, and is the best mate-
rial for that purpose.

Quite recently oakum, the material
used by ship-builders, has been sug-
gested as a filling material. After be-

 

 

This method is appropriate for almost
all kinds of cavities, especially shal-
low ones and complex ones in which
no filling would be successful. It has
the very great advantage that the in-
terior of the cavity can be inspected
at any time. if decay starts again it
can easily be corrected. In my opin-
ion the open system is the best treat-
ment for cavities and should be used
whenever conditions permit. All of
the dead wood is excavated and the
interior of the cavity is very thor-
oughly treated with disinfectants, as
carbolincum, and with heavy asphaltic
pruning paint or repeated coats of tar.
These dressings must be renewed ev-
ery few years. No special shaping. of
the cavity is required, except that a
“pot” at the bottom of a cavity, which
would hold water, must be drained in
some way or filled with the melted
asphalt.

In this brief sketch of the treatment
of cavities, enough has been said to
illustrate the difficulty and expense
which are involved, and to drive home
in the same degree the importance of
the preventive measures which make
this laborious cavity work unneces-
sary. It is not often that farmers and
orchardists will find it profitable to
treat any but simple cavities and I
recommend that they use the open
system whenever possible. But every
farmer and fruit grower should make
himself master of and use constantly
the methods of correct pruning, wound
treatment, bracing and other measures
I have described for the prevention of
the decay and physical injury of trees.
For the farmer, that is by far the
most, important part of tree repair.
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The butter market is fooling every-
body. It has kept. everybody guessing
all summer. Early in the season it
was predicted that the make would
be lighter than usual as some farmers
had gone out, of dairying almost en—
tirely owing to the increased price of
grain. But this prediction did not
prove true. If we have a less number
of cows they have yielded more, for
the make this season has been about
the largest in history. All the storage
houses are full to overflowing. Butter
merchants became alarmed when the
totals were made known. They began
to wonder what they would do with
all the butter on hand. The best of
them predicted that the price must go
lower to stimulate consumption, yet
the price must not remain low very
long for the storage butter was put
away at good prices and the market
must, be cared for to prevent loss on
the stored product. Now the unexpect-
ed has happened and a good export
demand has developed which bids fair
to more than take whatever surplus
there is, and keep the market firm and
even at an advance above what was
hoped.

It seems that Great Britain’s source
of supply in former years has been
cut off, or has been lessened by the
unusual conditions prevailing in Eu-
rope, and she turns to America for
butter. ‘We have it to sell, and this
export demand will control the mar-
ket. It is claimed that much more
will be exported at present if refrig-
erator room was aiailable. Every out-
bound steamer is carrying all she can.

The Danes are probably finding a
market in Germany for their butter,
which formerly went to England. It
is said that last winter, owing to a
scarcity of hay and grain in Germany,
many cattle were killed and consumed
as beef. This cuts down the make of
butter and all dairy products. Now
the Germans are buying from the
Danes and we can sell to England. So
our big crop of butter will find a good
market at good prices. Let them have
it, we can produce more.

Healthy Strong Calves.

We are. getting the most uniform,
healthy crop of calves this fall that we
ever had. They are all from one sire
and they look as near alike as so
many peas in a. pod. We have a good
man to care for them, and they are
getting a fine start. The cows also
are starting on their year’s work in
good shape and bid fair to make a
good showing. They are well fed,
well cared for and they ought to do
well. But they don’t always do it.
Some years they seem to be in better
vigor than others. \Vhether this is
due to the season’s influence on the
feed, on the weather, or a combina-
tion of causes, I am not sure, but I
know‘ that natural conditions have
something to do with it. Last season
was a good one for forage crops. They
matured properly and produced food
of good quality. I believe this has
much to do with health and vigor
now. Perhaps some have never no-
ticed that stock do better some years
than they do other years, but I have
noticed this in particular.

We have begun to harvest sweet
corn and the cows have a change in
feed. Now they are getting fresh,
sweet corn husks in place of peavine
silage. They enjoy this change even
though the husks are. no better food.
I hope frost will not come until we
get the silo filled. The better the food
the better the cows will respond, and
the healthier and more vigorous they
will be. However, frosted cow silage

is much better than no silage. We
need to have the frost hold off for the
whole month of October. However,
we are fortunate as it is, for some
sections have already had frost.

The best investment a dairyman can
make is to get his heifers in the stalls
they will occupy when fresh, fully two
months before they freshen. They
should not depend on pasture alone;
they need a little grain. In fact, they
need a full ration to properly develop.
They hardly ever get a full ration in
pasture. Besides, they should become
accustomed to their surroundings be-
fore they freshen. It never pays to
have a heifer freshen out in the back-
woods lots. She ought to be in a box
stall and should have had the ac-
commodations of a comfortable barn
for two months before freshening, and
a good liberal ration. This will make
a cow of her if she bred right.

ENSlLOlNG FROSTED CORN.

We are having rather cool nights
and I am afraid our corn will be nip-
ped before we can cut it. If it should
freeze, would it be fit to put in the
silo if out at once and put in as soon
as possible after freezing?

Huron Co. E. B.

The proper way is to cut the corn
as soon as possible after freezing and
put it at once into the silo. If it is
very green, it might be best to let it
lay in bunches for a day or so and
partially dry out, then it will still have
sufficient sap to make good silage.
But if you let it get too dry, water
must be added when filling.

AMOUNT OF WATER TO ADD TO
DRY CORN FOR SILAGE.

Will you kindly give me the neces-
sary advice on putting my corn crop
into the silo? My silo was not finish-
ed when my corn was frosted so I
had to cut and shock it. The land was
also so wet that I could not haul it in.
How much water would be necessary
to run into the silo? Is there any
danger of getting in too much and
would the flow of a half-inch pipe be
enough? Would it be good to put in
SOnle salt? 0. F.

The size of the stream of water to
be added when dry corn is cut into
the silo will depend on how fast the
silo is filled. Manifestly, if a small
cutter is used and the silo filled slow-
ly, the stream of water should not be
as large as where a large cutter is
used and the silo filled rapidly. I
should think that for a small cutter
the half-inch pipe would supply
enough water. Here again the amount
of water that will flow through the
pipe depends on the pressure back of
it. If water is supplied from an ele-
vated tank, the pressure will be great
and much more water will be forced
through than there would be from a
tank elevated but little above the
cutter.

If you fill with a large cutter that
has a capacity of eight or ten tons per
hour the half-inch pipe will not sup-
ply sufilcient water unless it is under
more than ordinary pressure. It is
evident, therefore, that one cannot tell
offhand how much water to use, but
there is little danger of getting on too
much water. The danger comes from
not, using enough. You want the corn
wet. There should be as much mois-
ture added as the corn formerly con-
tained sap or juice, and this is more
than one would ordinarily suppose.
Put in enough water so you think you
are getting on too much and you will
then have little enough.

This water is best applied by hav-
ing the stream run into the blower.
Then every particle of the dry fodder
is moistened. If you try to wet the
corn after it is put into the silo, the
moisture will not be evenly distribut—
ed and the silage will be mouldy in
spots.

Adding salt can do no ’.arm, and it
will make the silage more palatable,
but it will do little good towards pre-
serving the silage. It is water the
dry fodderneeds to make it pack well
to exclude the air.

 

 

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Practical

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PRESERVATION OF FOOD PRO-
DUCTS.

 

BY FLOYD W. ROBISON.

Drying, Concentrating, Etc.

One of the old and well known
methods of food preservation is the
application of the principles of dry-
ing. This method of food preserva-
tion has been used for an indefinite
period and is very commonly under-
stood by many of the wild tribes. In
fact, it may be said to ante-date civ—
ilization. When the American conti-
nent was discovered, the early explor-
ers found this method in active use
by the Indian tribes with which the
continent was peopled. The princi-
ples of drying at that time- were in-
voked in the main in the curing of
meat products and in the preservation
of certain vegetable products (such as
tobacco. Meat, a product very prone
to decomposition under ordinary cir-
cumstances becomes, when thorough-
ly dried, very resistant indeed to the
agencies which promote decomposi-
tion. It is not strange that the wild
nomads very early discovered this
fact and made extensive use of it for
their particular purposes. Even at the
present time this is one of the most
familiar and popular methods of pre-
serving food products. \Ve take dried
beef, dried fish, dried apples, peach-
es, apricots, and the like, as very
wholesome types of preserved foods.

Absence of Moisture Unfavorabie to
Bacteria.

The scientific principle underlying
the preservation of food by drying is
mainly conceived to be the creation
of an unfavorable condition for micro-
organism growth. Micro—organisms of
all types require moisture in consider-
able abundance for their most favor-
able development and consequently to
discourage their activity a most ef-
fectual way is to remove the moisture
from the food product. This same
principle holds in the preservation of
food products by concentration, al-
though perhaps the introduction of
other principles here materially ef-
fects the life activity of the organ-
isms. A very efficient method of con-
centration of syrups is by prolonged
boiling. Of course, the boiling itself
destroys the organisms present but
the same result may be accomplished
by an evaporation of the syrup at a
low temperature by which procedure
the moisture is rapdily withdrawn
from the product until quite a concen-
trated state is reached. Taking the
case of a sugar syrup which has been
concentrated to the point where the
sugar is 50 per cent of the total
weight, there is still sufficient amount
of moisture to encourage the active
growth of bacteria and other micro-
organisms so undoubtedly we have
the effect here of some other scientific
principles, for a 50 per cent syrup will
keep without spoilage for a very con-
siderable period of time.

Concentrated Syrups Exert Very

High Pressures.

What this other principle involved
is has been somewhat disputed, but
undoubtedly the principle of osmotic
pressure enters in here to materially
‘affect the life activity of many organ-
isms which may be present. In plain
language any organisms which may be
existing in sugar concentrated to the
extent of 50 per cent will live under
exceedingly artificial condition. They
must adapt themselves to a condition
such as individuals would meet were
they transported a great distance be-
neath the surface of the ground. For
instance the pressure existing in a 50
per cent sugar solution would amount
to an atmospheric pressure in the vi-
cinity of 500 pounds per square inch.

THE'MICH'IGANgFARMER

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Science.

If we take the types of organisms
such as a mold or yeast, and attempt
to propagate it under the pressure of
500 pounds to a square inch, we would
find some considerable difficulty in
getting the product to grow. So the
absence of moisture and the creation
of an artificial atmosphere of an ex-
ceedingly high pressure undoubtedly
are two of the greater factors influ-
encing the preservation of the food in
a concentrated medium.

Molds Very Hard to Destroy.

Probably one of the most resistant!
types of organisms to all of the con-
ditions which we have described, are
the molds. They seem to develop in
the comparative absence of moisture
at times and on fairly well concen-
trated products. In some types of
foods they are exceedingly destruc-g
tive and very difficult of extermina-I
tion. They will develop in a very cool
atmosphere and frequent spoilage of
vegetable products, particularly, can
be laid to the activity of molds.

Fat a Good Preservative.

Still another method of the preser-
vation of food products, particularly
meat food products, is by interposing
next to the meat itself a layer of ani—
mal or vegetable fat. Fat products
are practically destitute of moisture.
Absolutely pure fat will not observe
more than about 0.3 per cent of mois-
ture and consequently bacterial action
or the action of other micro—organisms
of the ordinary type attack fatty pro-
ducts very slowly. When, therefore,
all of these matters are taken into
consideration and the destruction of
the micro-organisms present is ac-
complished by the aid of heat the
types of food preservation known as
concentration, evaporation, dessica-
tion (in the case of eggs) and ordi-
nary drying will be found to be very
effective and very desirable types of
food preservation.

 

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farm buildings, with bill of material
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from readers of the Michigan Farmer.

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sells at 50 cents per copy. The above
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who will send dealers’ names.

The Iron Crib & Bin 00., Wooster,
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HERE!” said the mother, as she
rose to her feet. “It looks
mighty pretty!”

“It certainly does,” Anne agreed, as
she surveyed herself with naive satis‘
faction in the inadequate mirror.

The rosy ribbon, pinned about her
waist, fell in long streamers over her
dark serge skirt. The effect was some-
what startling, but Anne and} her
mother had no doubts. They were far
away from the subtleties of metropol-
itan fashion, they liked plenty of color.

A coarse straw hat with a pink rose

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WORLD EVENTS

 

 

Robt. Burns Crosses Continent Afoot
in Eighty Days, a New Record.

Little Anne

 

in the City

By TEMPLE BAILEY

was set on Anne’s sunburnt hair. Be-
neath it the girl’s eyes looked out
eagerly.

“Oh, mother,” she breathed, “I’m
glad David’s goin’ to drive me to the

station! He ain’t never seen me look
like this!”
“Well, you needn’t worry,” her

mother teased. “He’d think you was

 

 

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Russian Village Burning After the Retreat of the Czar’s Forces from Brest-

Litovsk

 

During the Recent German Drive.

The Boston Red Sox, Champions of the American League, who Non by a
Narrow Margin over the Detroit Tigers. ‘

 

all right if you hadn’t nothing on but
your old blue gingham. He looks at,
you as if you was a red apple, and
he’d like to eat you.”

“Hush!”

The rattle of wheels outside took
them to the front dome—Anne walking
a little stiflly in the closeness of her
new suit, Mrs. Stubbs shuffling in old

 

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Photo Taken at Encampment in Washington.

slippers and the freedom of a loose
Wrapper.

“Dave,” said the older woman, as
the mud-spattered buggy stopped at
the step, “you are early enough. You
will have to wait when you get, to the
station.

“I didn’t want to miss the train,”
the boy explained.

But there was
his promptness.
behind the half~dozen

another reason for
When they had left
tow-headed

youngsters who waved at them from
the front: gate, and the big man who

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Dr. Cox, of New York, Invents a
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The World’s Fastest Trotter, Uhlan, Having a Record

 

 
   

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of a Mile

in One

Minute and. Fifty-four and One-half Seconds.

 

 

 

The Pitching Staff of the Philadelphia National

; .

League Team which Won

the Pennant in the National Association for 1915.

Copyright by Underwood a Underwood. N. v.

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Tools of
Yesterday

The reaper has long since
displaced the old cradle of
our grandfathers.

And scientific factory
methods build better clothes
for men than the little tailor
who used to stitch away at
his bench—never doing the
same thing twice alike.

Clothcraft was the first line of

men's clothing to be built on pro-
gressive methods.

After 69 years it is still leader
in style, fit and service value to the
man who spends from $10 to $25.

Come into the store and see the
Clothcraft Blue Serge Specials
“4130" at $18.50, “5130" at $15,
and other Clotha'aft suits and
overcoats.

It's the best way to be sure of
solid, guaranteed value for your
money.

The Clothcraft Store

(IN YOUR TOWN)
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THE MICHIGA.

hallowed from the field—when they
were beyond the sights and sounds of
the farm, and had come upon the quiet
of the forest road, he let his horse
walk. .

“Anne,” he began, and stopped.
Her glance met his, and she laugh-
ed nervously.
“Look here!”
here, Anne.”
“I’m lookin’," was her tremulous re-
partee. .

“Look here, ain’t you goin’ to let
me kiss you good-by?”

“Here?" The great trees bending
above the road made for them a sane-
tuary of love. “Here?” she whispered
again.

“Yes. There’s so many people at
the station!”

“But I ain’t never let you kiss me,
Dave.”

“You ain’t never been away before.”

“I know—but I’m comin’ back in a
week.”

“Somethin’ might happen.
kiss you, Anne.”

He dropped the reins and the old
horse stopped. The girl swayed to-
ward him, and he took her in his
arms. She was only a sunburnt moun-
tain child, but her eyes shone like
stars, her cheeks were as pink as the
rose, her lips were warm and sweet.
To him she was altogether lovely.

On the platform he warned her:

“Don’t you fall in love with any of
those city fellows!”

“Of course not," she laughed, con-
scious of her power.

“You won’t?” he urged jealously.

But she gave him no further satis-
faction than a coquettish—

“You’ll see!”

At the city end of her journey she
was met by Margaret Drake. Her
father had supplied fresh eggs and
butter to the Drakes for ten years,
and it had been Margaret’s whim to
bring the little country maid to town
and show her the sights.

Anne was half afraid of the luxury
of the claret-colored cushions of the
limousine, but she was more afraid of
the dancing eyes of the young man
who had come with Margaret. He was
like a being from another world, with
his soft, white hands, his smooth,, fair
skin.

“So this is our mountain rose,” he
said, and Anne blushed to the roots of
her hair.

When they reached the big house,
Margaret showed Anne to a room all
pink and white and gold, and said:

“You can dress for dinner, dear, and
then I’ll come for you."

Anne gasped.

“I——I haven’t any other dress,” she
stammered.

“Oh!” Margaret apologized. “I nev-
er thought of that. But—I have a
White gown with a short waist—~I could
make it fit you, I think.”

So it happened that when little An-
ne came into the dining-room that
night she created something of a sen-
sation. Margaret had looped up the
rough locks with a bit of silver rib-
bon, and two curls bobbed over one
ear and were caught by a white rose.
The silken gown swept in folds about

He hesitated. “Look

Let me

'the tiny straight figure, and hid the

awkward feet, while a chiffon scarf
made a charitable place of conceal-
ment for the red hands.

The young man who had driven
home with them came forward eag-
erly.

“Cinderella!” he murmured, laugh:
ing into Anne’s startled eyes.

“Don’t teaSe her, Mark,” Margaret
protested, with a perceptible note of
irritation in her voice. _

“Is he your beau?” Anne asked her
friend eagerly, as they sat together,
later, in a dim corner of the library.

The men were smoking on the bal-

. cony, which, overlooked the Italian

garden.
“I’m not sure,” Margaret said, with

a catch in her voice. “We are not en‘

 

gazed, if you. mean that.”

NfiFARMER

“Has he ever kissed you?” Anne de
manded.

Out of a long silence, Margaret
whispered:

“If he had, what then?”

“Because that would show that he
wants to marry you. Dave kissed me
this morning on the mountain—sand
that means that I’m his!”

“You dear!” Margaret said quickly,
and then turned the subject to other
things.

But that night, when little Anne
was in bed in the pink and white
room, Margaret came in, looking very
beautiful, with her long braids fram-
ing the white oval of her face, and
hanging dark and glossy against the
silken folds of her scarlet gown.

“Tell me about Dave,” she com-
mandedm

It was a simple little tale, but it
breathed of youth and love.

“And when you marry him,“ Mar-
garet brooded, “you will live up there
on the mountain, and take care of
your babies, and wash and scrub for
the rest of your days!”

“Well, that’s just what mother did,”
was little Anne’s easy philosophy,
“and she’s mighty happy.”

Remembering the wholesome radi<
ance ovars. Stubbs, Margaret was
forced to acquiesce.

“I believe she is, and she has raised
ten of you.”

“Eleven,” little Anne
"with the new baby.”

“Mark wants to marry me,” Mar-
garet said slowly. “He asked me t0<
night, after you came up.”

Little Anne sat up in bed.

“Then it’s all settled?”

“No, it isn’t settled. I can’t be sure
of Mark. He knows that I have mon-
ey, and that father has influence, and
he is an ambitious young lawyer. 0h,
little’Anne”—she threw herself down
beside the wondering child—“I am
afraid it is not love he gives me!”

Little Anne, puzzled by complexities
which had never disturbed her pellu-
cid mind, reiterated: ‘

“He wouldn’t have asked you if he
didn’t love you.”

In spite of her doubts Margaret was
comforted by that simple faith.

. Next evening, little Anne again
wore the white gown. After dinner
she sat alone on the balcony with
Mark, while Margaret played for them.
Below the balcony the garden was
asleep under a silver moon. From be-
yond the stone walls came the soft
night-sounds of the city streets.

“Do you like it here, little Anne?"
Mark asked.

“I like it, but I miss mother and
Dave,” she told him.

“Dave?”

“I’m goin’ to marry him.”

“You’re much too pretty to marry
a countryman.”

He threw his cigar away, and sat
down on the marble coping which en-
circled the balcony. His change of
position brought him just behind her,
so that she had to turn to look up at
him. He bent toward her suddenly.

“Such a waste of sweetness!" he
murmured, and kissed the parted lips.

She flung him from her, and stood
very still and silent in the white
moonlight.

“If you were up on the mountain,
Dave would surely kill you for that!”
she said at last, and he shrank from
her primitive fierceness.

In the other room the music had
stopped.

“Come here,” Margaret called, “both
of you!”

Anne went to her swiftly, like a
bird flying to cover. Mark followed
slowly. When they stood beside her,
Margaret talked of plans for the next
day—a matinee and dinner at Bartin's
or the opera and Russian dancers.”

“You—you needn’t plan for me,”lit-
tle Anne said. “I’m goin' home.”

Margaret stared at her in amaze-
ment.

“You promised me .a week.”

“I’m sorry, but I’ve changed my

corrected,

OCT. 16, 1915.

mind,” little Anne insisted obstinate-
ly. “Mother needs me."

But that night she crept into Mar-
garet’s room. ‘
“It’s Dave I want,” she confessed.
They clung tOgether for a moment
in the darkness; then Anne whis-

pered:

“Don’t you marry Mark, Margaret.”

“Why not?” was the sharp demand.

"Because~oh,” she whispered, with
a shuddering sense of the secret she
must not share, “wait till somebody
loves you like Dave loves me, Mar-
garet!”

The next day Dave, driving to the
mail train, found more precious
freight.

A soft rain fell on the mountain,
and made the forest road a thing of
moist fragrance and misty vistas.
Dave'drove the old horse to the place
where he had stopped the morning of
little Anne’s departure. Then he let
the reins drop, and held out his arms
to his sweetheart. She yielded this
time Without resistance.

“I ain’t ever goin’ away from you
again Dave!” Her face was hidden
in his rough, wet coat. “I ain’t ever
goin’ away again!”

He laughed with a triumphant sense
of possession.

“I knew them city fellows couldn’t
take you from me,” he said. Then,
with a sudden savage certainty, he ad-
ded: “I’d ’a’ killed them if they had!”

Value of Music

By W. Trub

USIC makes a greater appeal to

the race than any other form

of entertainment. It calls up-
on the finer emotions, it arouses the
higher ideals of friendship, love and
patriotism, and modern science is sat-
isfied that music indirectly influences
the body through the mind. Even to
the allaying of bodily ills melody will
do much, while the layman knows in—
stances—many of them~where this
refining medium has proven a balm
to wounded spirits, a solace to those
who mourn, a comfort to the lonely,
and a real promoter of joy and happi-
ness.

Such a display of merits is bound
to affect the popular mind and as a
result we today think of music as a
necessity. And to give emphasis to
this conclusion provision is made in
the home for it. Children are slighted
if their training does not include a
course in music of some sort and it is
rare to find a public organization, or
institution, that fails to use this form
of entertainment to keep afire the
spirit of brotherhood and fraternity
and to stimulate national loyalty and
patriotism. If we could by some act
of magic rob civilization of the capa-
city to produce and enjoy music we
would leave very little that would
make life worth the living.

In 1785 Thomas Jefferson wrote
from Paris to his friend Bellin, the
following, giving his appreciation of
music: “It is an enjoyment, the de
privation of which, with us, cannot be
calculated. I am almost ready to say,
it is the only thing which from my
heart I envy them (the French), and
which, in spite of all the authority of
the Dacalogue, I do covet.”

We are living in a most fortunate
age so far as theggenerous benefits of
music are concerned, since modern in-
ventions have made it possible for all
to enjoy the very best musical eflforts
regardless of the fact of having a
member of the family, or a friend who
is accomplished. Never before was
music so popular as today. The best
work of the masters and artists may
be found in the humblest cottage.
there to ease the load of labor and
responsibility, to give pleasure and
joy and to arouse and develop the
musical instinct in growing children.

Highoclass phonographs may now be
secured at so low a cost that every

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OCT. 16, 1915.

DECIDING FOR FARM LIFE.

(Continued from First Page).
Michigan average about ninety-seven
bushels per acre. Last year the pota-
to club boys averaged 246 bushels per
acre. The club Organization for each
state is in the hands of a state leader.
This person co-operates with the rural
schools, the granges, the farmers’ in-
stitutes, the county Y. M. C. A., the
banks and with every other agency
which has rural welfare at" heart.
While this work is too new for a final
judgment as to its merits it is not too
early to begin applying a few tests. ,

The state leader in charge of club
work for the state of Michigan con-
ceived the idea of bringing a repre-
sentative number of these club boys
to the Agricultural College, not merely
for a sightseeing trip but for the pur-
pose of answering a few queries about

- this phase of the new rural education.

He planned for these boys a ten days’
school and camp which was intended
to bring them into a new relationship
with agriculture as a whole. He also
wanted to determine whether or not
the farmers of the state had reached
the point where they were willing to
allow their boys to get this sort of a
vacation. And he wanted to know if
club work was making an impression
upon their lives.

Thirty-nine boys came. They repre-
sented twenty-one counties. Some of
them were county prize-winners and

THE MICHIGAN-FARMER

to rural school facilities. Each boy
took notes and was urged to teach
these new games in his home commu-
nity. The regular college tank wasz
used for swimming lessons and every1
boy learned to swim during his stay!

In this manner these farm boys
were brought into direct contact with
the fountain-head of progressive agri-l
culture in their state. They talked!
and walked with college professors in?
the very shadow of the first buildingi
devoted to agricultural education ini
the United States. They observed .
modern practices in the college barnsi
and on the college farm. And the ex—‘
amination which they wrote at the
close of the camp indicated that many I
of them had gotten a new vision of,
agriculture and farm life. I

Each evening about the camp fire;
these farm boys would open up their
lives to their comrades and leaders.
Real and vital problems were discuss—
ed in an intimate fashion. And then.
one evening they talked about what;
they wanted to be when they grew up.
It resembled in many ways an old-
fashioned religious experience meet-'
ing with the exception that there was
nothing of the emotional about it.
Each boy told what he liked and what
he did not like about farm life. That'
night, looking into the future through I
the flickerings of the camp fire, thirty- ‘
two of these farm boys made one of‘
the most, if not the most, important
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Much of the Monotony of Country Life would Disappear if the Boys and
Girls Knew how to Play Organized Games.

some of them were unsuccessful con-
testants. They left their farms for a
ten-day period which happened to
come in the midst of the haying sea-
son. During their stay at the College
the boys lived in tents which were
erected on the banks of the small riv-
er which runs through the College
farm. Each day they went through
the following program:

6:00 a. m.-Rising time.

6:10 a. m.——Morning exercises.

6 : 30 a. m.-—Breakfast.

7:30 a.m.——Camp duties.

8:00 a.m.—~Nature study and agri—
culture.

12 : 00 a. m.—Dinner.

1:30 p. 111,—C2llnp duties.

:00 p. ni.——Recreationa1 talks.
3 : 00 p. m.——Games.
4 :30 p. in.—Swimming.
6:00 p. nl.———SUDDOI‘.
7:30 p. 1n.——Camp fire.
9:00 p. m.——Taps.

Four hours each morning were giv-
en over to observation courses in na-
ture study and agriculture. The fol—
lowing subjects were covered in this
course: Birds, trees, weeds, bacte-
riology, poultry, farm crops, farm an-
imals,,farm practice and dairying. The
camp was divided into two sections
and each section was continuously in
charge of a camp leader. The camp
leaders were chosen because of their
ability to work with boys and all of
them were teachers of agriculture in
various high schools about the state.

The afternoons were devoted entire-
ly to games and recreation. Dr. Hen-
ry S. Curtis, the national authority on
rural recreation, lectured to the school
each afternoon. This was followed by
actual play demonstrations. Emphasis
was placedon such games as are

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ed upon to make. They decided upon
the vocation which they would take
up as their life work. Eight of them
had decided to become engineers,
bankers, teachers, business men or
musicians, and twenty-four of them
had decided to become farmers. In
some manner this seventy-five per cent
had been inspired with the future of
agriculture and they made their de-
cisions for farm life.

Could such a result have been ex-
pected ten or twenty years ago? Ex-
perience says no. For at that time
farming had not yet made its chal-
lenge to the farm boy. The agricul-
tural club with its challenge to the in-
tellect as well as the muscles had not
been born; and agriculture had not
yet wedged itself into the rural school
system. And the Department of Agri-
culture and the various colleges of ag-
riculture had not extended their influ—
ence beyond the printed book or bul-
letin and the few students who sat in
the halls of learning.

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NEVER knew that ants lived in
I a city,” said Billy Be By Bo Bum.
“Where is it Tinker?"

“Deep under ground,” replied Tink-
er Teedle Tee, “but you have often
seen the gate that leads down to it,
only you thought it was nothing but
an “ant hole.’ Now how would you
like to take a journey to Antland and
see for yourself how the Little People
live in their underground city.”

“Oh, I would like it very much in-
deed,” replied Billy. “But how in the
world can a big boy like me get into
an ant hole?”

“You just leave that to me,” an-
swered Tinker Teedle Tee. “An elf
knows lots of secrets and ways of do-
ings things that they don’t teach you
in school. But first we must hunt up
my old friend Jack-in-the-Pulpit and
get him to give us some fairy dust so
I can work a little magic. Come on,
Billy Boy, we’ll go hunt up the old
fellow and then I’ll have you in Ant-
land almost before you can say Jack
Robinson,” and the merry little elf
spread his wings and darted into a
clump of bushes.

I’m Tinker Teedle Tee

And if you’ll follow me,
I’ll show you lots of fun.

\\'e will go with the ants

To their home underground
And see how their city is run.

sang the merry little elf as he scur-
ried through the bushes in search of
Jack-in-the—Pulpit.

“Here we are,” shouted Tinker a
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tucked away almost out of sight un-
der a bush, Billy saw Jack-in-the—Pul-
pit nodding his head in welcome.

“Good morning Jack,” said Tinker
Teedle Tee, but the flower nodded its
head harder than ever. So Tinker
climbed up the stalk and, standing on
the edge of the purple pulpit whisper-
ed something to the little yellow flow-
er inside. Of course, Billy could not
hear what Tinker said, but Jack must
have understood, for he nodded his
yellow heat at a great rate. In fact,
he nodded so hard that a cloud of gol-
den dust floated down from his head
onto the edge of the pulpit.

“Thank you Jack, that is just what
we wanted. I’ll do you a good turn
one of these fine days, see if I don’t,”
said the elf as he dropped to his knees
and carefully brushed up the golden
dust and tied it up in his tiny hand-
kerchief. Then be spread his wings
and darted off through the bushes.
Billy followed as fast as he could, and
in two jerks of a lamb’s tail they were
back again under the old apple tree
where the ants were still feasting on
lilly’s cookie.

“Now then, Billy Be By 130 Bum, I’ll

Show you a trick with a hole in it,”
said: Tinker as he took off the weeny
copper kettle he wore for a hat. “But
first I must get some fairy water with
which to mix my magic brew,” and he
ran to a big bluebell and shook the
slender stalk so hard that several
drops of dew rolled out of the flower’s
heart and splashed into the copper
kettle. Tinker ran to another blue-
bell and did the same thing and kept
it up until his hat was filled to the
brim with clear, sparkling dew.

“Ho, little glow worms, lend me
your fire,’ shouted Tinker as he hung
the kettle up on a twig, and would
you believe it, a dozen fat, shiny glow-
worms crawled out of the grass and
piled themselves under the kettle,
where they glowed so brightly that it
looked for all the world as though the
pot was resting on a bed of hot coals,
and in a jiffy the dew was boiling.
Then Tinker dumped in the fairy dust
he had got from Jack-in-the-Pulpit and
stirred it up with a tiny black wand
he pulled from the pocket of his coat.

“Thank you, kind glow-worms, that
will do very nicely,” said Tinker when
the magic brew had boiled several

 

OCT”. 16, 1915.

minutes, and the fire crawled away
through the grass.

“Now, Billy Be By Bo Bum, drink
this cup of fairy tea, and be sure you
don’t leave a single drop,” said the elf.

So Billy picked up the kettle and
drained it at one swallow, and it
wasn’t a very big swallow either, for
the kettle didn’t hold as much as his
mother’s thimble. And as he drained
the last drop, a wonderful thing hap-
pened, and I’ll tell you all about it
next week.

THE VALUE OF MUSIC.

 

(Continued from page 338).
farm home in particular is, or will
soon be, supplied with an abundance
of music suited to the taste of the in-
mates. In the past farm folks have
lacked to some degree its refining
influence but today they are en-
joying the same quality as the city
people are privileged to listen to.
There was a hungering and thirsting
for good music and when the opportu-
nity offered to satisfy those desires it
was graciously and quickly taken ad-
vantage of.

The couplet from Wordsworth which
runs:

“The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more.”

Indicates how the great writer felt the
power of music within when the
instrument had long been silenced.
And Auerbach testifies that, “Music
washes away from the soul the.dust
of everyday life.”

 

outside a good sized town. He

wished to earn some immediate
cash for taxes during the last two
weeks in February, before the spring
plowing began. He decided to collect
garbage. The civic improvement club
had for years employed the city teams
and drivers, mapped out the city, the
daily papers warned everybody to put
the garbage out on the sidewalk ready
for the collectors. The junk sold from
the city clean-up kept a good sized
fund in the treasury for .improvements
but that was not until May or June.

When G. drove up with his big team
and wagon and asked at the back door
for garbage many women simply in-
dicated where it was and told him to
take it. He took from one to seven
or eight boxes or sacks at each place,
in each instance asking fifty cents for
“the time and trouble.” The first week
from the fees and the sale of junk he
made ninety dollars. The second week
he made a hundred and twenty dol-
lars.

This year increased taxes and a sick
Wife made him thank God for this
chance to earn some more extra cash.
He went over the same route. He
earned four dollars in two desperate,
discouraging weeks. He complained
to me, “the women have the garbage
but they won’t let me have it—said
the Civic Improvement Club collected
it for nothing.”

I replied that that was true. "The
club pays $4.00 per day for each team
and driver. Last year you made, in
the first week, nearly twice what it
cost the club to clean up the entire
city. I heard several women say you
asked them fifty cents for “your time
and trouble.” For one you carried
away two sacks of junk, for another
a box of bottles, an old range, a heat-
er, a sackful of tins, the winter’s ac-
cumulation of rubbers, all of which,
except the tins, you sold; for another,
four sacks'of stuff and she gave you a
discarded wardrobe which you said
your wife could use for her canned
fruit. You asked in each case just as
much again as any drayman in the
town would have asked. You proba4
bly took rubbish from, say, twenty
houses per day—that makes a wage of
ten dollaws, which few skilled work-
., men in the whole world make."

1- “Walk? ‘he argued, “not a woman of

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By GOLDIE ROBERTSON FUNK

’em objected when I said it would be
fifty cents."

“No," I replied, “they’re doing their
objecting now. You don’t often ‘do’
the same person twice.”

An elderly woman who does beauti-
ful hand work for herself told me
since her husband’s salary had been
lowered she’d tried to think of some
way she might make some pin money.
I’d seen some of her buttonholed scal-
lops and initials on towels. I asked
her what she would do a dozen for me
for? She thought a moment and nam-
ed a price ten cents higher per towel
than any of our church societies, to
one of which she belongs, would have
per yard for buttonholing and per inch
asked. (They have a uniform price
per yard for buttonholing and per inch
for initials). I gave her a dozen to do
at her price. «Later I took her four
dozen napkins to initial and six dozen
towels to scallop and initial, work
which I had asked my friends to give
her, when to my surprise she turned
the whole thing down because she felt
she ought to have five cents more per
initial “because she did such careful
work!” The work was finally distrib-
uted among the church societies, ev.
ery one of which does “such beautiful
work,” but for fifteen cents per towel
less than the elderly lady, Whose time
was her only asset.

Mrs. L. solicited the children’s sew-
ing in a certain family where the
mother always had a two-dollar-a-day
dressmaker come to the house twice
per year to make and mend. Mrs. L.
was tried on several simple garments.
The work was not satisfactory and
Mrs. L. did not offer to correct it, and
besides, she suggested a price for her
work that would have made it come
at the rate of three dollars per day.
The mother of this family is convinc-
ed that an expert is cheaper than one
not accustomed to measuring work
for money, and Mrs. L. thinks sewing
for others doesn’t pay. The expert in
this case has earned a house and lot
and has for years taken care of her-
self and her parents with her scissors
and needle. 4

Another woman went into the chick

en business. Through a number of peo-
ple Iifiard ” nevWade, gfjsalie oft

chicks or eggs or live dressed chick-
ens, but that she complained of the
market price, hinting that she ought
to have a little more for hers than
“what you could get at the stores” be-
cause hers were “so fresh.” The mar-
kets were full of fresh eggs, healthy
chicks and fat, well-cleaned poultry.
She said she might better pack or eat
her stuff than sell at the market
prices. In the third year she closed
out her business and could not now be
convinced that there’s money in the
chicken business.

In striking contrast are the two sis-
ters living in Tacoma, who a year ago
went round the world on the proceeds
from their always perfect angel food
and sunshine cakes, whose reasonable
prices changed only as the price of
eggs changed. The woman who in
two seasons built up a trade in can-
ning string beans until this year she
is already swamped with orders and
divided with a neighbor. She guaran-
tees and asks a reasonable price for
her work. The other day she told me
she had only to replace six cans last
year out of seven hundred quarts
which she put up to order.

Another farm woman took orders
for canning home-grown tomatoes. She
screened her entire house—fourteen
full length Windows, three doors, and
front and back porches, with the pro.
ceeds from last year’s work. This
year she has doubled her orders from
her old customers. She, too, guaran-
tees her work.

I know a school girl who has by
faithful work and a reasonable price
kept for three years the same custom-
ers for family mending. A city girl
who is artistic spends her leisure m0-
ments making original place-cards for
special days. She keeps a supply
ahead and about five weeks before the.
special day she calls up different so-
ciety women till she has disposed of
all and taken orders for other kinds.
This is her sixth year and she has not
lost a customer because she is deter-
mined to please her customers. She

keeps her prices at a point that gives-

her just a reasonable profit.
A certain Connecticut woman buys
pasteboard boxes today by the thou-

makes a delectable doughnut, a. trifle
larger than ordinary, wraps eachin
thin paraffin paper, puts twelve in a
box and sells the whole for twenty
cents. 'Three New York restaurants
take her entire product, paying all
shipping charges. This enormous trade
resulted from one of the men, by
chance, eating one of her doughnuts
while on business in her town. I have
seen” the product of her hot-fat pots
taken away by the wagon load. Her
doughnuts have never ceased to be
the same toothsome, home-made, over-
full weight articles that first took the
restaurant man’s taste.

I might go on indefinitely, for I’ve
watched this pin-money making from
a shifting residence in nearly every
state in the Union. I’ve conned pages
of household journals giving careful
records of tried schemes, and I’ve fur-
nished accounts of dozens of them my-
self, and I've not begun to exhaust
the ways and means I’ve seen tried
successfully. .

The pin-money maker too often ov-
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a professional, more than the market
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“There’ll be nuts to crack
And goodies to smack
At Lou Cropley’s shack

On All Hallowe’en.
Please come, for we mean
To make our fun keen.”

This was the invitation that Lou
Cropley sent to her friends when she
decided to have a Hallowe’en party
without the ghosts and witches that
had figured at every affair of the kind
that she had ever given or attended.

On Hallowe’en night the rooms were
decorated with brilliant autumn leaves
and the lights glowed through shades
made of leaves. A bright fire burned
in the grate. As the guests entered
each one was tagged with the name of
a nut—~“Hazel,” “Almond,” “Nigger
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kiss from the girls themselves.

“Right before everybody?”
Charley Reynolds, naively.

The girls were in the secret and'
readily agreed that they would do
their part.

A doughnut contest was one of the

first games of the evening. Strings
run through ring doughnuts suspend-
ed them from a bar placed high up in
the kitchen. The hands of the guests
were tied behind. them and thus each
endeavored to,eat his doughnut. The
one who succeeded first received a
prize of a box of candied nuts.
\ Then the. party gathered around a
table on which had been placed a
pound of peanuts in the shell. A hot-
tle of glue, pins, string, shears and
toothpicks were brought and the
guests were told to each make two
animals from the peanuts. When all
were finished they were arranged in a
Noah’s ark row and guesses were
made as to what each animal was sup-
posed to be.

Just before refreshments were serv-
ed, the girls disappeared upstairs and
the boys assembled in the hall below.
Down upon their heads came an un-
expected shower of nuts. Each, when
he tried to pick up a nut, found that
there was a string attached to it. Fol-
lowing up this clue, which led him a
wild and merry chase, he at last came
upon the girl who was destined to be
his partner for supper.

The supper was simple, consisting
of peanut butter sandwiches, cream
cheese and pecan nut sandwiches,
pineapple salad, doughnuts, nut layer
cake. coffee and nut-filled bon‘bons.

After supper the crowd went nut
gathering in the attic. Chestnuts and
English walnuts were hidden about in
all sorts of out-of—the~way places. When
everyone had found a goodly handful
the company grouped themselves
about the grate fire and Lou produced
a toasting pan for the chestnuts. They
were put in the pan by twos and
named for a boy and a girl. When
the two nuts separated it signified a.
quarrel between the lovers; if they
approached one another after the sep
aration, the quarrel was made up; if
the nuts sizzled contentedly side by
side, a quiet, happy married life was
betokened. If one of the nuts burst,
it prophesied a short life; if either
one proved uneatable, it meant a
worthless character; if unusually good
to the taste, a good character was evi-
‘denced.

When somebody cracked an English
walnut he discovered that it contain-
ed a written fortune instead of a nut
meat. This led the others to quickly
.crack theirs and discover their fate.

As the evening drew to a close the
beys teasingly reminded the girls what
was due some of them. But the laugh
.was on the boys when each of the
girls held out a handful of candy kiss-

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ibit of mischief was performed was
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What could she do with him? There
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which she. could punish him. He
agreed readily with all her lectureson
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others. He was simply perfect, the
one saint in a fold of sinners, and it
looked suspicious to teacher. Yet
there seemed no way to reach him.

She ran over her own none too irre-
proachable childhood. What had most
influenced her in that not very dis-
tant past when she was freckle—faced,
giggling Mary Whitely, instead of
Teacher? It wasn’t the threat of
staying after school or the promise of
a prize. Staying in didn’t hurt and
the prizes were never anything you
wanted anyway. What was it reached
her and transformed her from the ter-
ror of the school into its model pupil?
It was a story. Not a story where an
impossible hero was unbelievably good
and had a fortune left him to pay for
it, but a story about a real bad boy
who decided to be good just to see
how it would feel to have folks say,
“There goes the best boy in town,” in-
stead of, “There goes the worst boy.”
It was hard work for him, too, but he
kept at it just because he felt better
inside when he knew he’d done a
good thing, and he didn’t get any great
reward for it either. His reward was
the feeling of satisfaction he had be-
cause he was lionest and square and
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yourself. The Angel Boy got so he
looked straight at teacher even when
she wasn’t reading. He became less
obviously good. He quit frowning at
the rest when they had lapses from
grace. Better still, the whole atmos-
phere of the school changed. And the
thing that accomplished the miracle
was a story.

Parents often wonder why their
children go contrary to all their
preachments. They intend the boy
for a doctor and he turns into a farm-
er. The girl is to be a teacher, and
she insists on being a movie actress.
They are brought up in sound ortho-
dox churches, and they desert the
faith as soon as they are old enough?
\Vhy? Largely because of what they
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powerful than the spoken. Because
the spoken word is seldom forcefully
delivered, never accompanied by a pic-
ture, as is the story.

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BABY’S PICTU RES.

BY L. M. Tiioigyron.

When you have my picture taken,
remember that although I am just a
baby now, by and by I shall grow up
to be a man, shall marry probably and
have little boys of my own perhaps.

 

Childhood Pictures Increase in Value.

Then in the family album we will
want my picture as’I looked when a
baby, but the very fact that I have
grown away from you will make the
little, likfiness in my first pants the

through flannel.

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more cherished and you will cling to
it even though you may feel that it
ought to be mine.

Now is the time to guard against
heart aches for both of us in the fu-
ture, and whenever you have my pic-
ture taken, before supplying aunts
and cousins and a score of friends,
and the neighbors who say, “How cute
he is,” and the milk man who brought
me flowers in the summer and apples
in the fall, and the dear gushing ac-
quaintance who says, “Now you really
must give me one to set on the piano,”
put away a picture for yourself and
one for me.

If I have little brothers and sisters
save one. picture for every child in the
group taken as well as your own. It
may necessitate giving a larger order
than you otherwise would, it may
mean denying some friends who would
be glad of the little gift, but it’s the
only fair and honorable thing to do,
in the opinion of Baby.

KEEPING FRUIT JUlCES.

11v 0. n. (‘iiizsmiz

Many people have considerable trou-
ble in keeping cider and fruit juices
sweet and unfermcnted. It is not a
difficult; thing to do, however, and no
chemicals are necessary. Here is a
method that never fails to keep the
products perfectly. The unfermented
liquid is placed in an enameledware
or earthenware kettle and the temper-
ature then slowly raised almost, to the
boiling point. If a thermometer is
available, note that the temperature
should not be allowed to go above 200
degrees. This means stopping the
process at the simmering stage. The
liquid must not boil.

To get a clear product allow it to
stand over night. and then strain
This removes all the
sediment which settles as soon as
heated. Repeat the process the next
day and put the liquid in bottles and
cork tightly. Bottles having the pat-
ent spring top are best. If these are
not available put the juice in any kind
of jar or bottle and seal with paraffin.

Sweet. cider, grape juice, and all
kinds of fruit juices, may be kept
from fermenting and scoring by this
process. Many of the impurities of
new cider are removed by sterilizing
and straining.

PLANT TULIP AND NARCISSUS
BULBS FOR NEXT SPRING.

If you would have rich beds of tulip
or give the beds or the corners of your
lawns a beautiful spring-like yellow or
white glow of narcissus, daffodil and
jonquil, you must begin to think of
the early spring appearance of your
garden in the fall, for the bulbs of
these two flowers must be planted in
the fall before the ground is frozen.
In fact, this work Should be undertak—
en as soon as, or before, an early frost
has begun to make the. annual flowers
in the beds look weakened. In deal-
ing with narcissus, which is the fam-
ily to which the daffodil and jonquil
belong, it might be well to think of
trying to naturalize the narcissus to
grow and blossom on the lawn much
as do the wild flowers. How to plant
and handle the bulbs as well as the
best method of getting them to be-
come spring residents of grassy cor-
ners, are described in the following
directions issued by the bulb special—
ists of the United States Department
of Agriculture:

These bulbs should be planted, in ..

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' depth of at least ten inches. The tulip

bulbs should be set five inches apart
and four inches deep and the narcis-
sus bulbs about ten inches apart and
five inches deep. If they are to be
grown in pots or window boxes, light,
rich soil should be used. Place one
to two inches of Cinders or broken
pots in the bottoms of the pots or box‘
es to insure good drainage. After
planting, place the pots or boxes out
of doors and cover them with about
four inches of ashes or sand; or they
may be placed in a dark,'cool room or
cellar for a few weeks until the bulbs
have formed a quantity of roots. They
may then be brought into the light
and heat for flowering. Keep the soil
well moistened from time of planting,
but avoid overmoistening, for if kept
too wet the bulbs will decay.

If planted in beds, the surface of
the soil should be loosened after each
rain and the bed kept free from all
weeds. In the late fall or early win-
ter months it is well to cover the beds
with a light mulch of straw or leaves
to prevent injury to the young roots
from the alternate freezing and thaw-'
ing of the soil. This mulch should be
gradually removed in spring, as soon
as growth appears above the ground.
The bulbs are quite hardy and are not
injured by severe cold it the soil is
well drained.

Tulip and narcissus plants are per-
ennial, and if given proper care and
grown under suitable soil and climatic
conditions will increase and multiply
from year to year. The bulbs may re-
main in the ground two or three years
or until the clumps begin to crowd.
After blossoming in the spring, from
six to eight weeks should elapse to
allow the foliage to die partially down,
when the bulbs may be lifted with a
spade or fork. Shake the soil from
the roots and store the bulbs in a
cool, shady place where they will rip-
en and cure. When the old leaves and
roots are thoroughly dry they may be
easily rubbed off and the clusters of
bulbs divided. The bulbs may then be
planted in the same manner as the
original bulbs. In this way the stock
may be increased in a few years.

The narcissus often becomes natur-
alized when planted in the sod or par-
tial shade, where it will continue to
grow, blossom and multiply for many
years without further attention. Sim-
ply make a small hole in the soil five
or six inches deep, insert the bulb
pointed end up, press the soil over the
top, and nature will do the rest. For
naturalizing, avoid planting in rows or
rigid geometrical figures. A good plan
is to scatter the bulbs like seed and
plant where they fall. This method
of planting is extensively followed in
the home grounds and parks of Eng-
land and other countries in Europe.
In portions of North Carolina, on large
estates along the James river in Vir-
ginia, and in old gardens in New Eng-
land, narcissuses that were planted
over half a century ago are still grow-
ing vigorously and every spring pro-
duce beautiful displays of blossoms.

HOME QUERIES.

 

Household Editorz—Kindly tell me
how to remove mildew from colored
goods without injuring colors. Also,
are raw potatoes harmful to the hu-
man system and in what way?——V.
L. L.

To remove mildew, wet the spots in
strong soapsuds and cover with a
paste made of soap and powdered
chalk, or chalk and salt. Put in strong
sunlight for hours. If the mildew
stains are old they will not come out.
It is better not to eat any starchy
vegetables raw, as the starch is much
more easily digested after cooking.

. Household Editor : -—-Will someone
give 'a meme for rye bread, without
the use of any corn meal ?——Mrs. W. S.

One pint of scalded milk, two table-
spoons of butter, one tablespoon of
sugar, two teaspoons of salt, one-half
cake of compressed yeast, three-
fourths cup of luke-warm water, three
cups of white flour, three cups'of rye.

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

Put yeast cake in water to dissolve,‘

and butter, sugar, salt and milk in
mixing bowl. When the milk is luke-
warm, add yeast cake and make a
sponge with the white flour. Let rise,
add rye and knead. Let rise again
and knead into loaves. Let rise again
and bake about an hour and 15 min-
utes in an oven not so hot as for
white bread.

Household Editorz—I would like to
ask if anybody can tell me what to do
to destroy carpet bugs?~—~Mrs. G. H.
S., Goodells.

Take the rug out doors and beat
thoroughly, then spread on a clean
floor in an empty room, saturate thor-
oughly with gasolene and leave in
the room 24 hours, being sure the
room is as near air-tight as possible.
Meantime go over the floors and wood
work of the infested room with hot
water, and when dry saturate all the
crevices in floor and woodwork with
gasolene. Shut the room tightly and
leave for 24 hours. Of course, you
must have no fire or lights in either
room. At the end of 24 hours, hang
the carpet on a line outdoors to allow
the gasolene fumes to evaporate, and
open doors and windows in the room
that was sprayed with gasolene. When
the fumes have passed away, you may
again lay the carpet.

 

When stewing pumpkins for pies
try cutting them in small pieces and
cooking without peeling. When the
pumpkin is run through the sieve the
peeling is separated from the rest.
This is much easier than peeling be-
fore cooking. Your pies will brown
and the flavor is not injured—E. T.

A simple and easily home-made pol-
ish for the nails is the following:
Pulverized starch, 11, oz; powdered
boric acid, 1/4 oz; talcum powder,
11;. oz.——S. B.

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cost of producing the product,
are themes of deep concern alike

to the farmer with a few cows and
EEthe dairyman who keeps many. Be-
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. Eother milk consuming institutions

space Conditions there am very sim-
lilax to those in every other dairy com-
munity 0f the state except perhaps
that the business is carried on a little
more intensively and has been con-

.than in most other counties.
Prices this Past Summer.
Prices for milk during the past
summer have been around $1.20 per
In a few instances

made up in the latestgflé ducted for a greater number of years

this price has been exceeded. Usually

sumption more work is required to
get the milk in condition and there-
f01e higher values are 1"equi1ed to in-
duce the farmeis to sell to this tiade
instead of to the condensaries and
For
EiOCtober the prices have been advanc-
ed to $1. 45 by the condensaiy at Adri-
an, and othei local buycis are meet-

Eling this advance. In another section

‘of the county the September price was

E.$1.40 for milk testing 3.5 and 4.5 per

Ecent of butter-fat and $1.60 for October
: At Hudson
‘Eit was reported that prices are ruling
Elower than a year ago.

Heavy Production Responsible.

Low piices f01 July, August and
September weie due to the heavy p10—
duction of milk. Pastures we1e as
good duIing these months as in June,
whe1eas usually they dry up and the
ilcows slnink in their milk unless sup-
Be-
sides this larg e output, cooler weather
{prevailed than in most years, so that
it was possible to market practically
every gallon of the milk without its
becoming sour and spoiled for domes-
tic use. In hot seasons much waste
results by reason of the milk becom-
,1ng too warm before reaching the
consumer. This same cool weather is
also responsible for cutting down the
consumption of ice cream, an indus-
try which requires a considerable por—
tion of our best milk during these
months. As a result the milk was di—
verted to other channels which tended
to depress prices.

Probably Shortage this Fall and
Winter.

But the outlook for this winter is
different; the cows have been produc-
ing a maximum flow of milk over a
long period of time, much longer than
usual. They are now exhausted and
the yield has suddenly fallen off. Pro-
ducers generally attest to this condi-
tion and buyers are already becoming
anxious over the situation. The sup-

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ply has dropped from a heavy surplus
to below normal already, and the
promise is that there will be a consid-
lerable shortage in the near future.
.The demand from our large cities for
domestic use will make such inroads
Eupon the supply that there is likely to
be sharp competition for milk this fall
and winter.
European Agents Buying.

Besides the above bullish features
of the situation, foreign agents were
recently here buying dairy pr0ducts.
Among their purchases were orders
for 400,000 cans of condensed milk,
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Milk—Cost and Prices

‘1While the Production Has Been Heavy this Past Summer

the Probable Yield this Fall and Winter Will
be Comparatively Light.

obtained a surplus during the season
of heavy production of milk, they were
glad at the time of the sale to have
this outlet and made arrangements at
“rock bottom” prices. Most of these
concerns, however, are sorry over this
deal, in that they are now obliged to
fill their orders with milk purchased
on a much higher price basis. Then,
too, a year ago we were buying con-
densed milk from Europe; under nor-
mal conditions western European
countries are able to produce this pro-
duct and ship it here at a lower price
than we can produce it ourselves. But
the war has not only created an ad-
ditional home demand for products of
this character but also greatly re-
stricted the output, so that instead of
being exporters they are now import-
ers and will likely remain so until the
end of the great conflict.

Keeping in mind the above condi-
tions, it would appear wise that farm-
ers should not be hasty in contracting
their output for the winter. Dealers
will naturally be anxious to make ar-
rangements in that their interests
would undoubtedly be better looked
after where early engagements of sup-
plies are affected. Most concerns
however, make a proviso that they
will agree to pay any general advance
over contract prices that the regular
trade warrants.

Favor Selling Cream.

Quite a number of the dairymen
present were.c0nfident that better re-
turns were secured from cream than
for milk.
period of heavy production of milk
the wagon routes of those buying
whole milk were shortened and the
farmers cut off by this change were
obliged to separate their milk on the
farm and dispose of the cream. It has
been discovered in a good many in
stances, that these farmers have re-
fused to go back to the plan of selling
whole milk because they were confi-
dent that they were getting more mon-
ey out of the cream. Not only do they
feel that prices for cream are compar-
atively better, but these prices fluc‘
tuate less than do quotations in the
milk trade. Besides the attractive quo-
tations these parties have the skim-
milk at hand and in the best possible
condition for feeding purposes. They
contend that the value of this skim-
milk far exceeds the additional trou-
ble of separating the milk and caring
for the separator.

Cost of Production Basis for Selling

Price.

Feeling that the best basis for de-
termining what the dairymen should
receive for milk is the cost of produc-
ing it, the association at its previous
meeting nominated different members
of the society to investigate and re-
port at this meeting what it was cost-
ing different dairymen for the milk
produced upon their farms.

As may be expected, the members
of this committee acting independent-
ly arrived at different conclusions as
to the cost of producing a hundred
pounds of milk. The prices reported
varied from $1.121/2 to $1.50 per hun-
dred weight. The average price of all
the reports was $1.30 per hundred
weight. In calculating these results,
feed, labor, depreciation, interest on
investment, besides the income from
the cow from milk, the sale of the calf
and the value of manure produced
were included. They do not take ac-
count, however, of overhead charges.
Every milk dealer, condensary, cream-

It appears that during the”

ery, cheese factory and all other con-
cerns having anything to do with the
milk after it leaves the farm figure on
their “overhead.” It would seem per-
fectly just and proper for the farmer
therefore, to- add to the cost of pro-
ducing milk a reasonable overhead
charge. Of course, this is difficult for
the farmer to determine, in that his
living is so closely tied up with his
business. Nevertheless, the managing
ability of the farmer and the many
general expenses incident to the dairy
business should be charged, for which
reason it would seem that the prices
given at the meeting were very con-
servative. The work done along this
line in Connecticut and New Hamp-
shire were reviewed at the meeting.
It was determined in those states that
the cost of milk was higher than re-
ported by the Lenawee farmers. At
'Storrs’ Conn., work extending over
five years showed the cost in 1907 to
be $2.49 per hundred weight; in 1908,
$2.00, and in 1909, $1.98; in 1910,
$1.94, and in 1911, $2.21.

Why Cost of Production Varies.
Following the discussion of these
gures, some of the factors entering

into the cost of production were men-
tioned. The matter of greatest value
is the question of individual cows
and the importance of knowing exact-
ly what each cow is producing was
emphasized. As a general proposition,
the animals producing large flows of
milk are the most economical. Ex-
perimentation tests in general seem
to uphold this conclusion. Neverthe-
less, it is not always true, and the
owners should carefully figure the
cost of feed in connection with 'the
output of the animal to definitely de-
termine the amount of net returns.

Silo Reduces Cost.

The second consideration is the silo.
Almost invariably dairymen find that
they can cut down the cost of milk by
feeding good ensilage. It enables them
to supply succulent feed through the
winter months, thus keeping the cows
in good physical condition and able to
produce a maximum flow. Besides this
advantage, the farmers save materi-
ally in the amount of feed secured
from a definite area of ground and
are also able to secure this feed much
cheaper than by the old method of dry
storing.

A third factor influencing produc-
tion is the addition of alfalfa to the
crop list. This plant not ony provides
an excellent feed, but because of the
large annual yield per acre is a cheap
one to grow, and dairymen, especially,
cannot afford not to grow a liberal
acreage of the crop. In the important
dairy sections the portion of the farms
devoted to alfalfa is gradually in-
creasing in size.

Another important practice is for
the dairymen to suit the breed of cat-
tle he keeps to his market, or vice
versa. It does not pay to use cows
adapted to the production of high-
grade cream or butter when one is
selling milk to a cheese factory. And,
on the other hand,
have heavy milk producing cows for
supplying a fancy butter trade.

Users Like Milking Machines.
The use of the milking machine was

considered at some length. Several
of these machines have been installed
in Lenawee county, and from the re-
ports given they have been successful.
Farmers who are using the machines
are well satisfied with the service
they are getting out of them. No one
present, however, seemed to have any
definite figures on the economical ad-
vantage resulting from the introduc-
tion of this equipment in their barns.
Such figures as one would like to
have are rather difficult to obtain;
even the most careful experimentation
is subject to possible question by rea-
son of the fact that when you milk
cows with the machine it is impossi-
ble to milk them at the same time by
hand.

One farmer, however, conducted a.
rather unique test, to see if he could

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determine the influence of power milk-

ing on the flow of milk. After he had
been using his machine for some time
he ceased milking with it for three
days and milked by hand. Following
this he used the machine again for
three days and then milked by hand
for another similar period. He then
used the machine again for a full
week, after which he milked by hand
for a full week, and found that during
the week when the machine was used
his 30 cows gave 119 pounds more

milk than during the week of hand

milking. From this experiment and
general observation he was convinced
that the machine did not reduce, at
least, the milk flow. Another party
who operates a machine stated that
occasionally their engine got out of
order and they were obliged to milk
by hand, and there appeared to be no
difference in the amount of milk se-
cured. The number of cows milked by
the men having machines ranged from
ten upward.

In preparing milk for market there
appeared to be general agreement that
cooling can be most effectually done
by the use of the aerator. Notwith-
standing this, .city boards of health
seem to object to their use. The rea-
son for this position is that on dry
dusty days considerable foreign mat-
ter escapes from the atmosphere into
the milk during the process of cooling
and this dust later develops an unde-
sirable fermentation in the milk. Some
of the farmers stated that they had
less trouble, however, with the milk
when it was cooled by an aerator than
they did after dispensing with these
machines and cooling by placing the
milk can in a tank of water and stir-
ring the contents.

Farmers Glad to Improve Quality of
Milk.

It would appear from many press
reports that producers of milk are
about ready to take up arms against
city boards of health because of the
requirements for the delivery of milk
for municipal use. Judging from the
spirit shown at this meeting, nothing
could be quite so far from the truth.
These farmers seem to be just as in-
terested in the welfare of the babies
in the city and consumers generally
as are the boards of health, and pos-
sibly even more so. They seemed anx-
ious to learn how they can produce a
high quality of milk and how to get it
to the transportation lines in the best
possible condition. The main protest
made Over the situation was that
there ought to be a reasonable com-
pensation for the additional demands
'made upon them as to the arranging
of their barns, the use of more costly
quarters, the installation of milk hous-
es, etc. Farmers are already coming
to recognize these factors as neces—
sary in connection with milk produc-
tion, and if a price is paid that will
compensate them for this additional
expense and trouble, and if the re-
quirements are demanded of all farm-
ers alike so that a premium will not
be received for evading the restric-
tions, there need be little fear of a
general uprising among producers.

 

T H E, M'I c H 1
Crop and Market Notes.

Michigan.

Arenac Co., Oct. 4.—~Wheat yield is
fair; oats 35 to 65 bushels per acre.
Clover seed not good. Corn will be a
small crop./ The potato crop is ruin-
ed. Beans one-third of a crop. Some
fall grains sown, but most ground too
wet. There will not be much live
stock wintered. Wheat 900; potatoes
65c; apples 750@$1.25 per bushel;
beans $2.75.

_Berrien Co., Oct. 6.—The wheat
yield ranged from 12 to 35 bushels;
oats 30 to 70 bushels. About the us-
ual acreage of wheat will be sown.
Corn maturing slowly, needs two
weeks of favorable weather. Potatoes
all blighted. Beans badly damaged.
Lite stock healthy, but not much feed-
ing will be done.

Branch Co., Oct. 2.——Corn cutting
begun and the cr0p is good; silo filling
is in progress. Yield of wheat and
oats very good. Clover seed light.
Potatoes affected with blight, also rot-
ting badly. A good acreage of fall
grains sown. Beans a fair crop; pas-
tures abundant, and a large amount
of feeding stock on hand. Apples are
a good crop in well cared for orchards.
Wheat $1; corn 750; oats 30c; pota-
toes 300; butter 250; eggs 24c.

Livingston Co., Oct. 5.—-—Corn was
injured by frost. Beans are a poor
crop. Wheat and oats are yielding
well, though there is a large amount
of inferior wheat. Not much seeding
done. Farmers are busy filling silos.
A large amount of second growth hay
is being harvested.

Hillsdale Co., Oct. 5.—Potatoes are
poor, both in yield and quality. Not
much wheat sown, but the acreage
will probably be larger than usual. No
corn cut, but with no frost for a few
weeks the crop may yet be good.
Much threshing to be done, and both
wheat and oats are yielding bumper
crops. Buckwheat is a big crop. Ap-
ples apparently of better quality than
usual. Wheat $1; rye 820; oats 28c;
eggs 23c; fowls 11@14c.

Shiawassee Co., Oct. 4.—Excessive1y
wet; very little wheat sown and a
large amount of plowing yet to be
done. Wheat yields from 30 to 48
bushels; oats 40 to 80 bushels per
acre. Corn backward and many fields
cut with the frost. Clover seed filling
fairly well. Potatoes badly injured,
some fields not worth digging. Beans
are also badly hurt. A few cars of
lambs coming in for feeding purposes.
Apple crop very poor. Wheat 95@
98c; potatoes 60c; apples 50@80c;
eggs 22c; butter 200.

New York.

Niagara Co., Oct. 5.—Wheat averag-
ed 30 bushels to the acre; oats 50
bushels; corn fine and mostly harvest-
ed. Acreage of wheat sown is large.
Not much feeding stock on hand. The
yield of apples and pears is light, but
the quality is good. Wheat $1; pota-
toes 60@750; apples $2.25@4 per bbl;
peaches 500 per bushel.

Pennsylvania.

Lancaster Co., Oct. 5,—Wheat yield-
ed 25 to 30 bushels per acre. Oats
scarce; no clover seed. Corn about
half a crop; potatoes scarce; wheat
seeding about half done. Not enough
feed on hand for home use. Apples
and pears about half a crop. Wheat
$1.05; potatoes 500; apples $1 per
bushel; eggs 350; butter 350.

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Medina Co., Oct. 5.——Wheat yield is
from 25 to 40 bushels; oats 60 to 80
bushels per acre. Corn is being cut
but has not eared well. Many silos
are being filled. Potatoes are blightted
and rotting badly. The usual amount
of ground has been plowed for wheat,
but rains have delayed seeding. A
large number of hogs being fed. Ap-
ple and peach crop very heavy. Wheat
$1.02; oats 300; hay $14; potatoes

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NATIONAL CROP REPORT.

 

The Crop Reporting Board of the
following estimates from reports of its

Bureau of Crop Estimates makes the
correspondents and agents for Oct. 1.

CI‘OIL Indications. Chance since Final Esti-

, Oct. 1, 1915, Sept. 1. mate 1914.

Winter wheat, bu...... *656.866,000 ......... 684,990,000
Spring wheat, bu ...... *345,163,000 1‘ 22,700,000 206,027,000
All wheat, bu...., ...... $1,002,029.000 T 22,700,000 891,017,000
Corn, bu. .............. 3,026,159,000 T 41,164,000 2,672,804,000
Oats, bu. ...... *1,517,478,000 1109,808000 1,141,060,000
Barley, bu. ........... . *236,682,000 1' 13,746,000 194,953,000
Rye, bu. .............. * 44,179,000 ......... 42,779,000
Buckwheat, bu. ....... 16,738,000 1: 818,000 16,881,000
W'hite potatoes, bu ..... 368,151,000 1 37,758,000 405,921,000
Sweet potatoes, bu ..... 64,800,000 1 474,000 56,574,000
Flax, bu. .............. 17,655,000 1: 516,000 15,559,000
Rice, bu. .............. 26,251,000 I 10,000 23,649,000
Tobacco, lbs. .......... 1,098,804,000 1 21,345,000 1,034,679,000
Cotton, bales ..... 10,950,000 1: 869,000 16,135,000
Peaches, bu. .......... * 64,218,000 ......... 54,109,000
Pears, bu. .......... 11,131,000 1: 123,000 12,086,000
Apples, bbls. 71,632,000 :1: 433,000 84,400,000
Hay (tame) tons ....... * 80,983,000 ......... 70,071,000
Hay (wild) tons........ * 20,293,000 ......... 18,615,000
Sugar beets, tons....... 6.158.000 , 5,288,000

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*Final estimate; 'l'increase since Sept. 1; tdecreas

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GAN FARMER

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Hay Presses

ERE is the good market for hay? In the
cities. Why don’t you sell your hay in the
cities? Because it is not baled—it is too bulky
to ship—there is too much waste in handling
unbaled hay. Bale it with an International hay
press and sell it in the best market and for the
highest price. Bale it and you will find it, also,
far less wasteful and easier to handle for home
feeding.
International hay presses are made in three styles

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of bale chamber—14x 18, 16x18 and 17x22 inches. They all
have self-feeders, bale tension and spring roller tuckers, which
insure compact, smooth, even bales.

If you want to market your hay with profit, look up the I H C
local dealer, and write the address below for information about
International hay presses.

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HATCH HERD

YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN
Consigns 20 Head to

Lenawee County Sale at Adrian, Oct. 22

There will be I8 choice females bred to
our Herd Sires:

King Pontiac Jewel Korndyke No. 94184,
one of the best sons of King of the Pontiacs.
Average record 50 dams in his pedigree 31.25
pounds in 7 days. Average per cent of fat
3 nearest dams 4.37; of own dam 4.93. Sires
in first 3 generations of his pedigree already
have 600 ARO daughthers;

King Lunde Pontiac Korndyke I 5th N 0.
142487, a richly bred young sire combining
very closely the blood of the 3 greatest Hol-
stein sires that ever lived, King of the Pon-
tiacs, Pontiac Korndyke, and Hengerveld
DeKol, the 3 having more ARO daughters,
more 20-pound daughters and more 30—
pound daughters than any other 3 sires of
the breed. His sire is a brother to the only
44-pound cow and to the only Iooo-pound
semi-official 2 year old. His dam is one of the
best. daughters of Pontiac Korndyke and
carries 62 I—2 per cent the same breeding as
King of the Pontiacs as well as of the first
two 37-pound cows and the only cow of any
breed to produce 1000 pounds of fat and
carry a calf during any part of the test.

 

 

Please mention the Michigan Farmer when. you
are writing to advertisers and you will do us a favor.

 


THE MICHIGAN FARMER

OCT. 16. 1915.

 

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WEATH ER FORECAST.

 

For week beginning October 13 for
region of the Great Lakes. Local rains
are probable Wednesday and again
about Friday in the upper lake region.
Otherwise generally fair weather will
prevail. It will be somewhat colder
Wednesday in upper lake region but
an the whole temperature will be mod-

 

GRAINS AND SEEDS.

October 12, 1915.

Wheat—Wheat values have fluctu-
ated considerably the past week. The
situation is without precedent. This
country has an enormous crop; there
is a small movement from the farms
and the world’s stocks are the lightest
they have been during the past 15
years. These conditions together with
the political complications about the
Dardanelles, a short crop in Italy and
a larger demand from western Euro-
pean countries than was earlier antici—
pated, all give a hopeful View of the
market from the standpoint of the
producers. The conservative market-
ing by farmers will enable them to
secure their part of the better prices
by discouraging speculation. One year
ago No. 2 red wheat was quoted local-

 

ly at $1.08% per bushel. Quotations
for the past week are:

No. 2 No.1

Red White. Dec.
Wednesday .....1.13 1.10 1.15
Thursday ...... 1.12% 1.09% 1.16
Friday ......... 1.10% 1.07% 1.13
Saturday . ...... 1.10% 1.07% 1.13%
Monday ........ 1.12% 1.09% 1.16
Tuesday ............. .

Chicago—N0. 2 red wheat $1.12%@
1.13%; December $1.047/8; May $1.06.

Cornr—Slight reactions have occur-
red in the corn market. during the
week. Complaints of serious crop
damage are increasing and predictions
of unsettled colder weather and a
bulge in wheat prices are giving trad~
ers more confidence in the grain. One
year ago No. 3 corn was quoted at
721/20 per bushel. Quotations for the

week are:
No. 3 No. 3

Mixed Yellow.
Wednesday . . . ..... 65% 66%
Thursday ........... 65% 66%
Friday .............. 65% 66 %
Saturday ........... 65% 66 %
Monday ............. 65% 66 %
Tuesday ............

Chicago—No. 2 yellow corn 63@
63%c; December 573/80; May 5914c.

Oats.——There has been little activity
in this market. and values are ruling
about steady with a week ago. Farm-
ers are delivering very meagre quanti-
ties of the grain. One year ago stan-
dard oats were quoted at 47%c per

bushel. Quotations are as follows:
No. 3

Standard. White.

Wednesday ......... 39 37%
Thursday ........... 39 38
Friday .............. 39 38
Saturday ........... 39 38
Monday ............. 39 38
Tuesday ............ . . . .

Chicago.~—Standard oats 37 % @

38%c; December 37%0; May 391/40.

Rye.—An advance of 1%c is noted
for No. 2 rye which is now quoted at
96%c per bushel. There is a good de-
mand for the cereal at present.

Barley.—At Milwaukee malting bar-
ley has advanced from 55 to 63c per
bushel and at Chicago the price is 52
@60c.

Peas—Field peas are firm at, $2.15
@225 per bushel for new, sacks in-
cluded.

Beans—Cash beans have advanced
15c more to $3.40 per bushel for im-
mediate and prompt shipment. Octo-
ber delivery is $3.25 per bushel, an
advance of 25c. At Chicago the mar-
ket is firm with pea beans hand—pick-
ed, good to choice $3.25@3.35; do.
common to fair $2.75@3; red kidneys
$3.50@3.75 per bushel. At Greenville
the farmers are offered $2.70.

Clover Seed—Market about steady;
prime spot $11.75; October $12.50;
prime alsike $10.25. At Toledo prime
cash $12.60; October $12.40; prime al-
sike $10.25.

Timothy Seed.—Lower at $3.50 per
bushel for prime spot.

FLOUR AND FEEDS.

 

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

3 Feed.——In 100-lb. sacks, jobbing lots
are: Bran $26; standard middlings
$29; fine middlings $32; cracked corn
$24.50; corn and oat crop $31.60 per
ton. »

New Hay.—No. 1 timothy $17@18;
standard timothy $16@17; light mixed
$16@17; No. 2 timothy $14@15; No. 2
mixed $12@13; No. 1 cloverv$10@11.

Chicago—Market firm and supply
of good hay is light. Inferior grades
plentiful and dull. New timothy $8@
18 per ton.

Straw.——--Rye straw $7.50@8; wheat
and oat straw $6.50@7 per ton.

DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.

Butter.-—At Detroit creamery butter
has advanced 2c during the week. De-
mand is active and offerings limited.
Extra creamery 28c; do. firsts 27c;
dairy 21c; packing 19c.

Elgin.—Offerings and sales were
light, with higher prices indicated.
The price based on sales is 280.

Chicago. Higher. Extra creamery
27%c: firsts 24@ZG%c; extra dairies
26c; packing stock 19@20c.

Eggs.—-Market higher and demand
good. Candied firsts 270; current re-
ceipts 25c.

Chicago—Receipts are small and
demand good. Firsts 25@25%c: ordi-
nary firsts 24@24%c; at. mark 20@

 

 

250, cases included.

Poultry.—Fowls are higher, spring
chickens lower and other kinds un-
changed. Turkeys 10@14c; spring
turkeys 20c; fowls 10@14c; spring
chickens, general run 13%c; ducks

 

12@130; geese 10@120.
Veal. Quoted steady at 14%@15c

for fancy, and 13@13%c for common.

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

Apples.—Market higher with the de-
mand good. Fancy $2.75@3 per bbl;
common $1.25((pl.50. At Chicago the
demand is good for barrel and bulk
stock. Western boxes easier. No. 1
Wealthys, Wolf River and Alexander
$2.50@3; .lonathans No. 1 $3@3.50;
Snows and Spies $2.75@3.25.

Potatoes.—~Market is steady with
Minnesota offerings at 70@75c and
Michigan 60@65c per bushel. At Chi-
cago market rules strong with fancy
stock advancing rapidly. Prices range
from 62@ft70c per bushel. At Green-
ville the price has advanced to 620
per bushel and farmers are delivering
quite freely.

 

 

DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.

 

The eastern market is doing far less
business than a year ago, largely be-
cause of the shortage in the local po-
tato and apple crops. Much better
prices are prevailing now than then.
Potatoes are selling from 90c@$1 per
bu; apples 50c@$1.25; peaches 50c@
$1.25; carrots 600; grapes $1; cabbage
400; onions $1; pears $1; celery 20@
250 per bunch; eggs 38c; honey 15c
per section; loose hay is coming in
slowly and demand is good with the
price at $18@22 per ton.

 

 

GRAND ‘RAPIDS.

 

The potato market shows steady ads
vances, with buyers at Greenville and
some, other outside points quoting at
55c early this week. The crop is still
for the most part in the grcund and it
is not known just what. the yield will
be. The bean market is also higher,
with quotations to farmers now around
$2.75 and few sales at. this figure. Se-
vere cold in this section on October 9
did much damage to grapes, tomatoes
and other late crops. Apples are the
principal fruit now, with Spies quoted
at 75c@$1; Baldwins 65c; Greenings

75c. The egg market. is firm, with
price at 26c for fresh laid. Dairy
butter is quoted at 22@23c. Grain

prices are about the same, with No. 2
red wheat at $1.02; white oats 35C;
corn 750; rye 80c.

LIVE STOCK MARkETs.

Buffalo.
October 11, 1915.
(Special Report of Dunning and Stev-
ens, New York Central Stock
Yards, Buffalo, N. Y.)

Receipts of stock here today as fol—
lows: 217 cars of cattle: 85 d. d. of
hogs; 50 d. d. sheep and lambs; 1200
calves.

With 217 cars of cattle on our mar-
ket here today, the best cattle sold
from 15@25c per cwt. higher, the me-
dium cattle about steady, light butch-
er cattle 10@15c higher, fat cows a
shade stronger, and ,common cows and
canners about steady. The good stock-
ers sold steady and the lighter grades
a little lower. Milch cows and spring-
ers sold about steady with last week.
With these heavy runs in the west, we
cannot stand very heavy runs for next.
week, but we look for steady market.

We had a moderate supply of hogs
here today, demand good for all class-
es and market higher all around, bulk
selling at $8.90@9, with a few selected
lots carrying some weight up to $9.10;
ordinary grades of yorkers $8.50@8.75,
and the general run of pigs $8.25; the
skippy kinds down to $6.50; roughs

 

$7.75@8; stags $5.50@6.50. Every-
thing sold at the close and late trade
was strong.

Lamb market was active today, the
prices being steady with close of last
week. All sold and we look for about
steady prices balance of the week.

We quote: Lambs $9.15@9.25; cull
to fair $8@9; yearlings $6.75@7.50;
bucks $4@5; handy ewes $5.75@6;
heavy ewes $5.25@5.50; wethers $6.50
@675; cull sheep $3.50@4.75; calves,
good to choice $11.75@12; common to
fair $8.50@11; heavy calves $6@9.

 

Chicago.

October 11, 1915.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Receipts today..25,000 18,000 20,000
Same day 1915..22,562 22,470 44,369
Last week ...... 44,927 81,533 86,591
Same wk 1915...47,685 104,057 161,637

Shipments 'from here last week ag-
gregated, 1,104 cattle, 1,813 hogs and
no sheep, comparing with 3,381 cattle,
21,698 hogs and 5,054 sheep a week
earlier, and 16,635 cattle, 22,112 hogs
and 76,214 sheep a year ago.

The opening of the cattle trade to-
day was delayed a gOOd deal, buyers
holding off, and indications were that
sales woul show declines of 15@25c
except for the choicest lots. Receipts
were large, an included 5,500 western
range cattle. Hogs advanced 10@15c,
and sold at $7.80@8.90. Hogs market-
ed last week averaged but 214 lbs., or
13 lbs. less than a week earlier. Sheep
and lambs were stronger today, with
a good demand for lambs.

Good cattle sold better last week
than a week earlier, because of the
moderate offerings, with values show-
ing substantial advances, despite the
insignificant shipments from here that
resulted from the quarantining by
most eastern states. The larger part
of the steers crossed the scales at
$7.50@10, with prime beeves at $10.10
@1035, the top being paid for prime
heavy steers. Fancy little yearling
steers and heifers topped the market
at. $10.50, a sale being made of 43 head
that averaged 969 lbs. at that price,
with the next best sales at $10.35. In-
ferior little, thin grass-fed steers sold
to a limited extent at $4.50@5.50, while
better light grass steers brought $5.60
@650, with sales of common to me-
dium warmed-up steers at $6.60@7.80,
medium to good handy short-feds at
$7.85@8.50, good to choice corn-feds
at $8.60@9.45 and choice to fancy steers
of good to heavy weights at $9.50@
10.3 . Good to fancy yearlings were
salable at $9@10.50, with sales made
all the way down to $7.25@8.50 fori
common to fair yearlings. Butcheringl
cows and heifers were in active de-.
mand on the basis of $4.70@9 for?
ordinary to prime offerings, with bet-l
ter cows bringing $7@7.50 and the‘
best yearling heifers going at $7.50@
9. Cutters sold at $4.15@4.65, canners
at $3@4.10 and bulls at $4.35@7.15.
The best calves were active sellers at
$11.50@12 per cwt, with sales down to
$4@9, for ordinary to good heavy
weights. Western range cattle were
marketed in fair volume and met with
a good demand on the basis of $7.15@
8.75 for steers and $4637.50 for cows
and heifers. While present quaran-
tine conditions exist stock feeders
should cut down market, supplies to
the smallest possible numbers in or-
der to prevent bad breaks in prices.
Steers advanced 25@50c during the
week, undesirable ones excepted.

Hogs sold wonderfully well last
week, because of the light receipts,
and, despite the insignificant eastern
shipping demand, prices reached the
highest figures recorded since Octo-
ber, 1914. Most of the time supplies
barely sufficed for local needs, and
prime lots sold especially well. Aver-
age weights have declined to 227 lbs.,
comparing with 231 lbs. a week ear-
lier, 244 lbs. a month earlier, 235 lbs.
a year ago, and 213 lbs. two years
ago, when hog cholera was forcing big
numbers of pigs and underweights on
the market. Stocks of provisions are
decreasing unusually rapidly, the de-
crease in the five leading western
markets during September amounting
to 81,178,340 lbs., comparing with a
decrease of 20,840,607 lbs. for Septem-
ber last year and a decrease of 51,289,-

 

 

100 lbs. for September, 1913. Provis-

ions are in active domestic and export}

demand, and prices have advanced?
with those for hogs, although on the
first day of October the five leading
Western packing points held a total of
203,531.462 lbs._. comparing with 284,-
709.802 lbs .a month ago and only 150,-
415,496 lbs. 2. year ago. Closing week
prices were the highest yet reached,
with sales at $7.70@8.30 for heavy
packing hogs, $8.35@8.65 for heavy
shipping lots and $8.45@8.75 for se-
lected butchers. Pigs brought $5@
7.55. A week earlier the best hogs
brought $8.25. .

Lambs and sheep suffered several
declines early last week, with no de-
mand from shippers, the market being
left to the mercy of local packers and
smaller city butchers, but later rallies

 

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in values took place, receipts falling
off in volume. The range offerings in-
cluded supplies from Montana, Wyom-
ing, Idaho and Oregon. Receipts look
meager when compared with those for
other years. After prime range lambs
soared to $9.25 a general decline took
place, leaving lambs at $7@9, the best
natives going at $8.60. Yearlings clos-
ed at $6@7.65, wethers at $5.75@6.75,
ewes at $3@6 and bucks at $4.25@5.
Horses met with an active general
demand at unchanged prices, with the
pr1nc1pal trading in army horses.
Horses rejected by the British and
French inspectors sold around $65@
130, while limited numbers of heavy
drafters brought $245@280, and com-
mercial chunks went: at $175@240.
Farm mares brought $140@175.

 

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

 

(Continued from page 345)
65c; apples 50c; peaches 4OC@$1 per
bushel; pork $8.

Columbiana 00., Oct. 4.——Threshing
is about done; yield of wheat fair and
oats a big crop. No clover seed has
been threshed yet. Corn good and
silos are being filled. Potatoes about
half a crop. A good acreage of wheat
sown, but very little rye. Quite a lot
of feeding stock on hand, as there is
more feed than usual. A big yield of
apples and pears. Wheat $1; pota-

toes 65c; apples 50c: butter-fat 30c;
eggs 28c; calves $10.
Indiana.
Elkhart 00., Oct. 5.—Threshing is

about done and wheat and oats are
yielding well. Corn is backward and
there will be much soft corn. Pota-
toes not as good as usual on account
of blight and rot. The usual acreage
of fall grains sown, and the usual
amount of live stock kept. Apples are
a good crop. Wheat $1; potatoes 400;
apples 50@75c.

Minnesota.

Lyon 00., Oct. 4.——A great deal of
the corn is reaching maturity. Many
silos erected here this fall. ..Gr0und is
wet for potato digging, but the crop
is yielding well; beans a good crop.
Wheat averaged 20 bushels; oats 50
bushels. Fruit is scarce. Wheat 88c;
oats 27c; potatoes 400. H

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not on sale in ourtown yet, writeusfor
catalog 0120 dlyfl'erent kinda of Gasoline
Lanterns,Table Lamps, etc. Dealers or
Agents wanted in every locality.

TI'IE COLEMAN LAMP 00.
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stpckmen and motorists. Agents make
big money. Write tonight.

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Send us your Raw Furs and “Ida: and let us
tan and make them into nice coats or fur sets (for
men and womcn) robes. rugs or gloves. We
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or catalog. References: any bank.

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Stockers- Feeders
For Sale

100 head Heifers in good grass condition.
weigh about seven hundred. Good colors, mostly
red. Address Richardson Lumber 00., Alpena,
Mich., or see the cattle at our headquarters, 14
miles east of Wolverine, Mich. which is on M.
C. R. R. in Cheboyan Co. There has never been
any hoof and mouth disease within over a. hund-
red milcs from Where these cattle are located.

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OCT. 16. .1915.

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

19-347

 

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
lnle.

DETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

 

 

Thursday’s Market.
October 7, 1915.
Cattle.

Receipts 1954. The yards opened
in the free area on Monday and now
every kind of live stock may be hand-
led here for any purpose. Stockers
and feeders may be shipped to any
part of the state from here, the only
restriction being that they must be in
clean and disinfected cars. Nothing
as yet can enter Michigan from Chi-
cago and it looks as though the em-
bargo would stay on until Illinois is
in the free area.

The run of cattle was large and the
market about steady with that of two
weeks ago. A large portion of the res
ce-pts were medium butchers that
hung from $6.25@6.50, the demand for
stockers and feeders was hardly as
brisk as it was expected it might be,
the farmers not being aware of the
fact as yet, that they could be ship-
ped back to the farm. Milch cows
sold well but were not very plentiful.
The close was steady as follows: Best
heavy steers $7.50@8; best handy
weight butcher steers $7@7.25; mixed
steers and heifers $6.50@7; handy
light butchers $6@6.50; light butchers
$5.50@6; best cows $6@6.50; butcher
cows $5@5.50; common cows $4.50@5;
canners $3@4; best heavy bulls $6@
6.25; bologna bulls $5.50@5.75; stock
bulls $5@5.25; feeders $6.50@7; stock-
ers $5.50@6.25; milkers and springers
$50@90.

Haley & M. sold Newton B. Co. 4
cows av 1025 at $6.25, 1 do wgh 1080
at $5.50, 10 butchers av 767 at $6.50,
3 do av 553 at $5.50, 14 do av 850 at
$6.50, 2 steers av 850 at $6; to Sulli-
van P. Co. 2 cows av 975 at $5.25, 2
heifers av 560 at $5.75, 10 cows av
920 at $5.65; to Newton B. Co. 1 steer
wgh 900 at $7, 4 do av 1150 at $7.35,
8 cows av 1065 at $6.15, 2 steers av
840 at $6.25, 1 bull wgh 1150 at $5.75,
2 steers av 1145 at $6.75; 1 cow wgh
980 at $4.50, 1 bull wgh 1140 at $5.75;
to Kull 1 bull wgh 1370 at. $6.25; to
Cooke 5 steers av 850 at $7.15; to
Hammond, S. & Co. 20 steers av 1031
at $7.50, 3 do av 933 at $6.50, 16 butch-
ers av 625 at $5.85; to Kirschbaum 10
do av 812 at $6.90; to Rattkowsky 3
cows av 1040 at $6.

Reason & S. sold Applebaum 2 heif-
ers av 780 at $5.20; to Sullivan P. Co.
12 butchers av 670 at $5.85; to Park-
er, W. & Co. 2 cows av 945 at $4; to
Costello 6 butchers av 576 at $5.40.

Veal Calves.

Receipts 531. The veal calf trade
was active and the general price for
best grades was $12; a few extra fanCy
brought $12.25@12.50 and common
and mediums from $8@10.50.

Sandel, S., B. & G. sold Sullivan P.
Co. 1 wgh 200 at $12, 3 av 155 at $12,
2 av 210 at $8, 1 wgh 160 at $12, 1
Wgh 150 at $10.50; to Hammond, S.
& Co. 13 av 165 at $11.50.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Sullivan P. Go.
5 av 165 at $12; to Parker, W. & Co.
15 av 175 at $12, 14 av 160 at $11.50,
6 av 150 at $11.50, 13 av 165 at $12;
to Hammond, S. & Co. 12 av 160 at
$12, 4 av 150 at $11.75, 4 av 250 at $9,
9 av 160 at $12, 2 av 160 at $11.75,
2 av 165 at $11.50, 9 av 160 at $12.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 5757. The sheep and lamb
trade was active and good lambs
seem to be badly wanted. Quite a few
feeders went back to the country and
everything was cleaned up early.
Swift & Co. bought five or six doubles
for New York and Nagle also bought
freely. Best lambs $8.50@8.75; fair
do. $7.50@8.25; light to common lambs
$6@7.25; fair to good sheep $4.50@
5.25; culls and common $3@4.

Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co.
6 sheep av 110 at $5, 55 lambs av 75
at $8.50, 12 do av 165 at $8, 34 do av
70 at $8.35, 6 sheep av 120 at $5, 13 do
av 80 at $4.50.

Reason & S. sold Costello 30 lambs
av 48 at $7; to Newton B. Co. 156 do
av 65 at $8.45, 5 sheep av 105 at $4.50.

Sande], S., B. & G. sold Mich. B. Co.
9 sheep av 115 at $4.75, 51 lambs av
75 at $7.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 39 do
av 70 at $8, 70 do av 68 at $8, 9 sheep
av 100 at $5, 7 do av 115 at $4.50, 5
do av 125 at $5, 3 lambs av 77 at $8.50,
5 do av 60 at $7, 38 do av 80 at $8.50,
26 do av 80 at $8.65 5 do av 70 at $7,
4 sheep av 115 at $4.50, 83 lambs av
78 at $8.35. ‘ 1 '\

Hogs.

Receipts 6439. In the hog depart-
ment the quality was the worst of the
season and the trade was dull on this
account as follows: Pigs $7@7.25;

35%,; . 1

LIVE STOCK NEWS.

 

With the Chicago market eliminat-
ed as a source of supply of range feed-
ing lambs and sheep this year, be-
cause of the quarantine against the
hoof-and-mouth diSease, this import-
ant business is necessarily removed
to other markets. Most of the trade is
now being carried on in the Missouri
River markets, and Omaha is getting

by far the larger share, having ship-
ped out in a recent week nearly 100,-
000 head of range feeding lambs and
sheep, about half of them going to
Iowa, where farmers are utilizing the
abundance of feed in this way. There
is an unprecedented inquiry this au-
tumn from various parts of the coun—
try for range feeder lambs to fatten
for the future market, but the short-
age is so great that it is impossible to
meet anywhere near the wants of in-
tending buyers. Naturally, high prices
are paid for desirable feeders, and at
the same time fat lambs are bringing
extremely high prices most of the
time. In the Chicago market the re-
ceipts are running mainly to lambs,
with a slim display pretty much all
the time of yearlings and sheep, in-
cluding both wethers and ewes. Most
of the lambs are shipped from the
ranges of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming,
Nevada, Utah, Washington and other
states, with occasional big shipments
from California, and these lambs evar-
age extremely high in quality, selling
far higher than native lambs. Within
a short time the best range lambs
have sold for $9.25 per 100 lbs., while
top for native lambs stood at $8.90.

Arthur Meeder, of the firm of Ar-
mour & 00., says: “We are doing
business with all the allies every day
to the full extent that orders are al-
loted to us, and we have every con-
fidence that when our case is adjud-
icated by England, we will be accorded
fair treatment and be paid in full.”

The recent quarantining of Illinois
live stock by New York and several
other states is largely the cause of
the late extremely small shipments of
cattle, hogs and sheep to the Chicago
market, which is the greatest market
in the world. While the shipping de-
mand in that market has undergone a
marked falling off, the meager offer~
ings have vastly assisted sellers in
maintaining prices, particularly for fat
consignments. Cattle offerings have
been very limited, and in point of
quality there has been distinct de-
terioration, with fast diminishing of-
ferings of choice corn-fed weighty and
light yearling cattle. This hastended
to strengthen values for cattle of the
better class, including heifers, as well
as steers. \Vhile there is a larger .call
for fat little yearlings than for the
heavier class of corn-feds, the meager

offerings of the latter class are mak- '

ing higher prices for these than usual
at this deason. It is extremely unfor-
tunate that at a time of great abund-
ance of feed and unsurpassed pastur-
age everywhere, there should be such
persistence in shipping in thin cattle
on the stocker and feeder order, as
the inability to ship such stock to
feeding districts enables the killers to
purchase them on their own terms.
Obviously, the thing for owners of
well-bred cattle to do at this time is
to finish them off in decent shape be-
fore shipping to market, as there is
knOWn to be a serious shortage of the
best class of beeves in the country.

With the corn-belt states reported‘

full of pigs, good marketings are gen-
erally looked for before long, with
quarantines the only obstacle. But it
is. possible that falling prices of corn
Will result in stockmen feeding it free-
ly to the pigs instead of marketing
underweights. Within a short time
prices .for the most desirable barrows
have risen to the highest figures seen
at any time this year, with an ex-
tremely wide spread between prices
for prime light and medium weight
shipping hogs and the numerous
coarse, heavy packing hogs. As is cus-
tomary at around this season of the
year, there has been a marked falling
off in the average weight of the swine
marketed in recent weeks, however,
and this is likely to be continued in
the near future.
Chicago are reported as having a
greabmany young hogs about readv
to ship to market, and this will tend
to check the eastern shipping demand
in the Chicago stock yards. Provis-
ions have shared in the advances in
hog prices, as has fresh pork, with
late sales of. that article for 19 cents
per pound. As lard and coarse meats
are in poor demand, stockmen owning
thrifty, healthy young hogs should not
make them weigh more than 250 lbs.
when shipped to market. Hogs that
weigh more than this do not furnish
popular weights .of loins.

The ranges have marketed the
greater part of their fat lambs. and
receipts at Missouri river markets are

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Copyright 1915
b

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R.J. Reynold!
Tobacco Co.

That tip-top-clever—taste is right there—jimmy pipe
——quick as you put a match to Prince Albert tobacco.
Just makes you happy because it is so good and so sat-
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is made fixes that—and removes bite and parch!

know the goodness of

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the national. joy smoke

We know it is all there in satisfaction; we
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Prince Albert is sold everywhere in toppy red
bags. 50; tidy red tins. 10c: handsome pound
and half-pound tin humidore. and in that fine
crystal-glass humidor with sponge-moistener
top that keeps the tobacco in first-class shape.

I. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Wlnslon-Salem, N. C-

Lay down a nickel or a
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watch how they wear-twice as long as other school shoes,

sold at the same price. Double leather toes, strong, pliable uppers,
solid oak tanned soles, seams sewed with extra rows of stitching. Good-
looking, stylish, built to fit growing feet. THEY WEAR LIKE IRON.

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

We make Mayer Honorbilt Shoes in all styles for men, women, children;
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ELGIIIN llarcs line pedigree, hunks 4 lunnths $2.50 earh.

utility bucks $1.00 each. fine healthy st wk. No Does for
sale. Rose Comb White Leghorn (torkerels $1.00 5. S. llam—
lmrg (‘nckerels $1. liiverview Farm. It. 8, Vassar. llioh. ‘ . .
J. B. Mormon writes in American
Poultry Journal: “Danish farm-
ers became keenly alive to the fact that
when fowis \vere intelligently bred and
well 0d they laid larger eggs, and so captured
the ondon egg trade." You can capture your
eggmarkct by feeding Red ()ombMeat Mash,the
great egg maker for chickens, ducks or turkeys.

It Costs
You Less

to feed Red Comb
than to buy the ma-
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—for Sept. and Oct. fairs. 500
Barred Husk conkerels yearling hens and puilels for

shows and breeders. W. C. Coffinun. It. 6, Benton Harbor, Mich.

BA RRED ROCKS‘Xti-is Ziiigié’fiiaifi

season. FRED ASTLING. Constantine. Michigan

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let, 1015 an average of 130 eggs per hen per month. Prieest‘) g7 {Seai‘lfl SEN/S‘”We

liens $10, 12 hens $18, ‘20 hens, $25, 50 hens for $60. They are
pure bred. large and closely related to our first winners at
Chicago, t‘inci.xnnii and Indianapolis shows. Suitable males
to go with them at $2 to $5 each. 1:300 young birds growing.

G. EARL HOOVER. R.7.Matthews. Indiana.

use Red Comb.”
Ask your dealer.
Write for free book,
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Minneapolis winners. Show birds after November 1. 344-GN. Elizabeth SI.
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tion or money back. 36 page free catalog gives prices
and particulars. Write for it and save mon v.

9.
FEBBIS LEGHORN FARM. 934 Union, Grand Rapids. Michlglll.
Pine Crest While Drpingions, ”“3 may f“ ‘3"

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Mrs.Willis Hough, Pine Crest Farm, Royal Oak. Mich.

llose Comb Brown leghorn Cockerels
from Mad. 8 . winners $1.00 each.
CLAUDIA B TTS, Hillsdale. Michigan

HODE ISLAND REDS and PLYMOU TH ROCKS.
Males 5 to 12 lbs. according to age $2 to 35:1), R. hens
weight 5 to 9% lbs.. eggs 15 for $1.00: P. R. eggs $5 per 100.
Mammoth Bronze Tom Turkeys. 8 to 38 lbs. according
to age 38 to $25, 10 eggs S3. A. E. Cramp ton. Vassar. Mich

R O. and S. O. RHODE ISLAND REDS from prize
0 strains. fine layers with long bodies and rich red
color. JENNIE BUELL. Ann Arbor. Michigan.

SILVER Laced Golden and White Wyandotte Eggs for hatch-
ing. Ten cents each or 30 for $2.50. a urcel post

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charges. C. W. BROWNING, Portion , ichigan.

‘ a line lot, male and female at
White Wyandotte low price and write 'our
wants. DAVID RAY, 202 Forest Ave., Ypsilanti. ich.

hite P. Rocks. Pekin and white runner ducks,
White guineas. eggs and day old ducks and chicks,
H. V. HOSTE'I‘LER. St. Johns. lifiohigan.

‘17IZARIJNG. BREEDICRS, \V.Runucr and Bull
Orpingtonllhmks. $1.00 each or 5 ducks and 1
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or any kind of skin with hair or for on.
We ion and ilnish them right: make
them into coats (for men and women),
robcsmugs or gloves when ordered.

Your fur goods will cost you less than
to buy them. and be worth more. Our
Illustrated catalog gives 8. lot of in-
formation which every stock raiser
should have. but we neversend out this
valuable book except upon request.

.It tells how to take off and cure for
hides: how and when we pay the ireighi
both ways :abont our safe dyeing: pro-
cess which is a. tremendous advantage
to the customer, especially on horse
hides and on" skins; about the for
goods and game trophies we sell. taxi-
dermy. etc. If you want a. copy send us
your correct address.

The Crosby Frisian Fur Company. \
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THE MICHIGAN FARMER

Farm Fattening of

HEN a farmer thinks of selling
K/‘/ a cow, steer, hog or any other

kind of live stock, the first
thing he thinks of is how to fatten it.
Very few would consider selling any
of their live stock without fattening it.
But, what do they do when it comes
to the annual fall selling of their sur-
plus young stock and old hens? Don’t
they, some evening, make up their
mind to sell them the next day be-
cause they happen to go to town with
the big wagon? Orders are given the
boys to drive as many of the chickens
and hens into some coop, and see to
it that it is properly c105ed. The next
morning they are hastily cooped up
and taken to town, because the big
wagon happened to go to. town. When
they are told that the spring chickens
and hens are in poor condition they
act surprised; but the local buyer is
thoroughly acquainted with this char-
acteristic behavior and with a few re-
marks as to the poor condition of the
fowls, buys them all about four or five
cents below the market quotations.
Farm Poultry Market in Poor
Condition.

Is the Ordinary farm poultry in good
or poor condition? Just, the other day
I asked this same question of one of
the leading poultry dealers in town,
and he replied, “all farm poultry
comes in unfattened, and in very poor
condition. Seine,” he said, “were in
such poor condition that they have to
stand up against a fence to cackle.”

Very often the question is asked,
“how much does it, cost per pound

 

  
    
     
   
 
      
       
   
 
     
 

 

 
    
   
   
    

 

 
   
    
    
     
    

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gain in fattening fowls?” This, of
course, depends to seine extent on the
cost of feed. At the Iowa State Col-
lege, 44,000 birds were fattened under
packing house conditions. The stock
was ordinary farm poultry. The first
week the average gain was one pound
pei bird. The second week the aver-
age gain was but eight—tenths of a
pound. The average cost per pound
gain was. four and one-half cents. The
United States Bureau of Animal In-
dustry, in experiments, produced a
pound of gain at. six and one-half cents
per pound. Present high prices of
feed no doubt will bring the cost of
producing a pound of gain between
six and one-half and seven cents.

In fattening poultry first see to it
that the birds are free from lice. Birds
picked from the range, with large
frames and in a vigorous condition,
will produce the most gain at the
least possible cost. Average farm
stock can be fattened very profitably.

On the farm pen fattening will no
doubt be most profitable. Crate fat-
tening, however, produces the best re
suits for the producer supplying a se-
lected trade. Milk fattened poultry

 

 

 

COLD WEATHER WILL SOON BE HERE!

Have you a. FUR COAT or ROBE that needs a NEW LINING, FASTENERS. or the FUR repaired?
THE BLISSFLELI? ROBE 8i TANNING 60., will gladly pay the CHARGES if sent to them, and by
return mail Will give you a. low estimate on putting your FUR (i00DS‘in condition as good as new.

.THE BLISSFIELD ROBE 8: TANNING COMPANY,

demands a premium in most markets.
Length of Fattening Period.

As a rule it does not pay to fatten

poultry for longer than two weeks.

The first few days feed very sparingly,

gradually'increasmg the amount until

 

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OCT. 16, 1915.

Poultry Profitable

at the beginning of the second week
they are getting all they will eat up
clean twice a day.

The following ration is a good one
for fattening: Corn meal 2 lbs; shorts

1 lb; ground oats 1 lb; beef scrap
1 lb; buttermilk 10 lbs. Turkeys will
fatten readily on the following: Corn
meal 5 lbs; shorts (wheat middlings)
2 lbs; meat scrap 1 lb; buttermilk
14 pounds.

Turkeys will not fatten in confine-
ment, hence it is better to allow them
some exercise. Some turkey raisers
merely increase the amount of corn
in their regular ration when they de-
sire to fatten them.

For fattening ducks this is a good
ration. Equal parts of wheat bran, mid-
dliugs, corn meal and 10 per cent of
beef scrap, three per cent of sharp
sand and five per cent of green food.
This is moistened with milk or water
and fed three times a day all they will
eat up clean, but no more.

A good fattening ration for geese is
one part low grade flour, four parts
corn meal, one part sifted barley meal,
one part ground oats (hulls removed).
This is moistened with buttermilk or
sour milk to a crumbly consistency.

Texas. F. W. KAZMEIER.

 

THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPER
FEEDING.

There is no phase of poultry raising
which has more to do with profit and
loss inthe poultry business, than that
of feeding. With practically no more
expense and with no increase in the
number of hens, the egg production
of the country could undoubtedly be
nearly doubled if the proper feed was
used. Balanced rations have been
given wide attention in the feeding of
cattle and other stock but for some
reason the hen has generally been
allowed to run about and pick up what
she could, and in winter when she
could not balance her own ration she
is fed in a haphazard way, usually
with what is handiest.

When we consider that the hen lays
several times her weight in concen-
trated food matter we realize that she
must be fed something out of which
to make these eggs. Therefore to get
results which will fill the egg basket
the balanced ration is necessary.

Haphazard feeding is expensive,
whether the feed given is high-priced
or not, because it gives practically no
results outside of keeping the bird
alive. Feeding the proper foods, even
though they may cost considerably
more than what is ordinarily fed, will
assure one a. profit if he uses common
sense in the management of the
poultry.

Scientific feeding or feeding the hen
according to her requirements, is a
matter which often takes considerable
Study and trial. Many do not have
the inclination 01' feel that they have
the time to give the subject the atten-
tion it needs. For those and others
who have not had the success that
they feel they 01 ght to, the prepared
poultry feeds offer a convenient solu-
tion of the feeding problem. These
feeds are scientifically balanced ac-
cording to the ”needs to which they
are to be put. Furthermore they are
sweet and clean, and cleanliness in
poultry feeding is highly essential if
one wants to keep the poultry healthy.

“'ipter is the time when eggs are
high, because the hen cannot pick out
her' own feed. There is no reason
why she will not lay in winter if prop-
erly fed, so proper feeding in the Win-
ter will insure the greatest profits. It
is not extravagant to buy, if neces-
sary, feeds essential to high egg pro-
duction but, instead it is an indication
of good business judgment because it
will be a profitable investment. By
all means, if better profits from poul-
try are wanted, give attention to the
feeding ‘problgmgjy ._ ‘ "

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THE. MICHIGAN FARMER.

21— 349

 

OCT. 16, 1915.
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Address all communications relative Our Motto:-—“The farmer is of more

to the organization of new Clubs to
Mrs. J. S. Brown, Howell, Mich.

Acsociational Motto:

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

 

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

MINNESOTA FOLLOWS MICHI-
GAN’S LEAD.

 

Will Organize a State Association of
Farmers’ Clubs.

With the approach of the annual
meeting of the Michigan State Asso-
ciation of Farmers? Clubs, Michigan
Club workers will be particularly in-
terested in learning that steps have
been taken toward the organization of
a similar federation of local Farmers’
Clubs in Minnesota. A large number
of local clubs exist in Minnesota, the
movement there having been promot-
ed through the activities of the Exten-
sion Division of the College of Agri-
culture of the state university, but up
to the present time no central organ-
ization has been formed. A meeting
of members of local clubs interested
in the organnziation of such a federa-
tion was called to meet at the Minne-
sota State Fair, and it is now planned
to have another meeting for the actual
work of organization which will be
held early in January. As a prelimi‘
nary toward this action, the director
of the extension division who is pro-
moting the movement asked for data
relating to the Michigan State Asso-
ciation of Farmers' Clubs and was for-
warded copies of the constitution and
by-laws and the report of the last an-
nual meeting containing club statistics
for this state.

In connection with the suggestion
which was recently made in this col-
umn that the practical work of the
local clubs be broadened, a few brief
items indicating the nature of the
local work which is being carried on
by a few of the Farmers’ Clubs in
Minnesota will perhaps be appreciat-
ed. The following items of this na-
ture were gleaned from a recent pub-
lication of the extension division:

The Farmers' Clubs in the Bear
River Valley in Itasca and St. Louis
counties, are making an agricultural
survey in an effort to secure a branch
railway for the valley.

The Farmers’ Corn Club of Morri-
son countyis going to build five miles
of good roads.

The Carmel Farmers' Club of Bel‘
tramit' county is making a study of
farm equipment. At a recent meeting
models of practical farm gates were
exhibited. At the succeeding meeting
home-made wagon jacks were on dis-
play.

The members of the Do-good Farm-
ers’ Club of Waseca county, are join-
ing with other farmers to raise a $500
fund to be used this summer in keep-
ing on hand a supply of hog cholera
serum. '

At the last meeting of the Hawley
Farmers' Club of Clay county, each
member responded to the roll call by
naming his farm’s worst weed enemy
and gave his method of eradication.

The Farmers’ Clubs around McIn-
tosh in Polk county have organized a
live stock shipping association.

The Silver Dale Farmers’ Club of
Koochiching county raised $67.17 at a
basket social recently as a nest egg
for a fund to be used in erecting a
club hall. Other clubs working ~.on
club hall plans are: Lake Johanna,
Ramsey county; Forbes, St. Louis
county; Columbia, Polk county; Peli-
can, Crow Wing county; Perch Lake,
Carlton county. '

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consequence than the farm, and should
be first improved.”

COMING EVENTS.

 

Ionia County Pomona will meet at
Danby, October 20. A good program,
which includes two addresses by State
Master J. C. Ketcham, a talk on the
benefits of the Wolverine paved way,
by Chas. Lundquist, and a discussion
of the work of the subordinate Grange
secretary, will be given.

AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.

Grange Participates in “Prosperity
Week."—‘The Grange at Galesburg
had a booth in which products of the
farm and the home were exhibited.
The booth was a square one with a
roof covered with dogwood branches
of green leaves and red berries. The
corner posts were of cornstalks on
which were hung wreaths of farm
grains. The back of the booth was of
white latticework entwined with ivy
vines. Shelves containing flowers,
fresh fruit and canned fruit, etc., were
also at the rear. At the ends were
displayed all kinds of fancy work. In
the center was a show case contain-
ing baked goods. At each side was a
mound of fruits and vegetables of all
kinds. Every inch of space was filled
with flowers and autumn leaves. Mes-
dames Chas. Delong, J. J. Campbell,
Bert Hayes and Minnie Simmons, with
John Vosburg and L. L. Joy deserve
credit for the work done on the booth.
J. R. Blake had a fine apple display in
one corner of the building, with the
words, “Hilltop Orchard," made from
red apples, with green ones for a back-
ground. Roscoe Rice also had a very
pretty exhibit of apples. His were dis-
played in pyramids with the words,
“Grown for you in Kalamazoo.” R.
Rice was printed on the apples of each
pyramid. The letters were formed on
the apples while they were ripening,
by means of strips of transparent tis-
sue paper with black letters on them.
This shut off the sunlight from the
apple underneath the letters and as a
result the red apples had letters on
them that were very nearly white.

The County Fair and the Farmer
was discussed at Olivet Grange meet-
ing September 29. Many ways were
suggested in which the farmer can
get help from the county fair. One
member said that it was an excellent
place for a farmer to exhibit his stock
that he wished to sell, while the man
who wants to buy can usually find the
stock to suit him at the fair. It was
also suggested that the annual fair
could be used to get boys interested
in staying on the farm by having them
exhibit grain, vegetables or stock
which they raise. Their interest in
the work for the sake of the premiums
will later grow into an interest in the
work itself. The women, too, found
that the county fair could be of bene-
fit to them in a great many'ways. Dur-
ing the evening readings were given
by Mrs. Kate VanAuken and Mrs.
Chaney Osborn. Mrs. W. J. Hickock
acted as lecturer in the absence of
Mrs. N. D. Lamphear.

Emma Grange m'et September 29
with less than the usual number in
attendance owing to the extremely
busy time. Some were threshing un-
til 3 late hour, while others were
working at their beans until late,
while still others were detained by ill-
ness. Nevertheless the usual interest
was manifested and the following del-
egates were appointed for the county
convention: Mr. and Mrs. Horton
Bryan, and Mr. and Mrs. Carter John-
son. After an excellent musical and
literary program, meeting adjourgell,

 

 

GRANGES ORGANIZED AND RE-OR-
GANIZED.

 

The number of Granges organized
and reorganized from October 1, 1914,
to September 30, 1915, both inclusive,
is as follows:

Organized.

California 3; Colorado 30; Connec-
ticut 3; Delaware 2; Idaho 3; Illinois
13; Indiana 11; Iowa 13; Kansas 90;
Kentucky 1; Maine 5; Maryland 11;
Massachusetts 8; Michigan 26; Min—
nesota 4; Missouri 2; Montana 7; Ne-
braska 39; New Hampshire 1; New
York 33; North Dakota 6; Ohio 83;
Oklahoma 6; Oregon 25; Pennsylvania
38; South Dakota 21; Washington 18;
West Virginia 17; Wisconsin 10; Wy-
oming 13. Total 542.

lie-organized.

Colorado 1; Kansas 1; Michigan 3;
Ohio 2; Oregon 3; Pennsylvania 3;
tVillashing'ton 6; West Virginia 1. To-
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west—and this Fall is the

29 to Dec. 4.

Dec. 2-4.

Pacific International Live
land, Ore., Dec. 6-11.

San Diego.

Remember—the low rate
turn limit is Dec. 31.
cisco closes Dec. 4. See

season.

UNION PACIFIC

least expense.

W. R.

 

Northwest onYour Cal- -
ifornia Exposition Trip

Every farmer East of the Rockies

ought to know how men make money
on the new lands of the Great Pacific North-

been to get that information. You can get it by in-
spection of the lands themselves on your way to Cal-
ifornia or by attending one or more of these shows:

Northwest Live Stock Show, Lewiston, Idaho, Nov.
0. W. R. 8: N. Corn Show, Walla Walla, Wash..

National Apple Show, Spokane, Wash, Nov. 15-20.

Manufacturers and Land Products Show, Portland,
Ore., Oct. 25 to Nov. 13.

You are going to take a western trip sometime—
take it now when you can get the benefit of our low
rates made for the great fairs at San Francisco and
Moreover, you can see these two expo-
sitions, which have never been equaled and which
will not be duplicated during your lifetime.

The Exposition at San Fran-

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Write for full information about the

which takes in the whole of the West at the

Alexander, 0. A.
11 Fort St” West
Detroit,

best time there ever has

Stock Exposition, Port-

ends Nov. 30 and the re-

the great citrus groves of

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350—22

BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY
CATTLE.

ABERDEEN ANGUS

If you are in need of an extra good bull or afew
choice young cows or heifers. we have them. for Sale.
Our herd is headed by the Grand Champion Black
Monarch 3rd. We invite you to come to 'our Earm
and see them. They are bred right and priced right.
U. L. Clark, Hunters Creek. Mich. Sidney Smith.Mgr.

ABEgDEEN-ANGUS

ESTABLISHED IN 1900.
TROJAN-ERICAS and BLACKBIRDS only.
Also breeders of Percheron. Hackney and, Saddle
Horses. Young bulls and Percheron stallions_for
sale. WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionia. Mich.

‘YRSHIREs-—One of the foremost dairy breeds. The
most economical milk reducers. Calveh
for sale. White Leghorn cockere s; Duroc. Jersey
swine. Michigan School for the Deaf. Flint.Michigan.

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

 

MILO D. CAMPBELL CHAS. J. ANGEVINE

BEACH FARM
G UERN SEYS

The buyer of breeding stock should know that the
herd from which he buys is healthy. We believe the
Iicach Farm Herd is as near perfect health as is loss-
iblc. 'l‘hc tuberculin test does not show the cast
sign of reaction. We never had a casc oi contagious
Abortion. Have went a whole yearwv’ithout calling a
Veterinary or giving a dose oi Medicine.

“I: OFFER Will SA LE
Registered Guernsey Bulls
Very High Bred Grade Guernsey Cows

Bred Heifers, Open Heifers and Heifer Calves.

CAMPBELL 8i. ANGEVINE, Goldwater, Mich.
GU ERN SEYS'dlififti‘i‘é‘h‘é

Containing blood of world champions. ‘
HICKS' GUERNSEY FARM. Saginaw. . 8.. Mich.

 

 

 

VUI‘IRNFI'JY BULLS FOR SALE. ready for service from A. R.
I Dams. If you want the right kind write for price and
breeding. BYERS 6i. BARNES BROS“ Coldwater. Michigan.

EGIS'I‘EHEI) Young Guernsey Bulls, great grand-
sons of Gov. Chene. Servicable age nicely marked.
exceptional brooding. Avondale Stock Farm. Wayne, Mich.
F0" S‘LE A choice lot of Registered Guernsey
cows. heifers and bulls of May Rose breed-

ing. H. \V. WIGMAN. Lansing. Michigan.

G U E R N S EY S‘Grfiifi‘éa‘ér’fi‘é

reasonable prices. E. D. JESSOP. Lansing. Mich.
2 Registered Guernseys Male
OHN

FOP sale: (Talvcs7montlis old.
C. CHALMERS, ANN ARBOR. MICH. R.F. D. 8.

REGISTERED II(ilstciiis~IIsr(i headed by Albma Bonte Butter
Boy. Ilixdaiii has A.Ii.0. records as follows: at ‘1 yrs. milk
430. but er 15.85. 4 yrs. inilk 504.8. butter 27.03: at ti yrs. milk
t20, butter 2am lbs. W. B. READER. Howell, Mich.

Do You Want A Bull?

Ready For Service.

From a grand daughter of The King of the
Pontiace. Sired by a bill] that is more than a half
brother to the Champion Holstein Cow of the
World. and whose dam is a 30 lb. 6% 5 fat daughter
of Pontiac Aggie Korndyke‘who has more 30 lb.
daughters than any other livmg bull. If you do
write for pedigree.

EDWIN S. LEWIS, Marshall, Mich.

 

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

YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN

Registered Holstein-Friesian sires. grandson's of
World’s greatest dairy sire. out of choice A. Ii. 0.
dams and King I’ontiac Jewel Korndyke; Brother of
K. P. Pontiac Lass 44.15: average record of 50 dams in
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 generntions already have over 600 A. Ii. 0.
daughters. A few females bred to "King“. Prices
reasonable.

The Two Greatest Bulls

KING OF TIIE PONTIACS
DE Kill. Zd’s BUTTER BOY 3rd

I have young bulls from cows having high official
records and Granddaughters of above bulls. Stock
extra. good. Prices reasonable

BIGELGW’S IIOLSTEIN FARMS,

BREEDSVILLE. MIC H.

Espanore Farm,
LANSING. MICHIGAN.

Offers for sale, registered Holstein Cows bred to
the great bull Pledge Spail‘ord Calamity l’aul. If
you ll(‘(‘(I a bull. write for prices and pedigrees of
our bull calves.

CHASE s. OSBORN,
ADAM E. FERGUSON, i Owners-

High Class HOLSTEINS £3.

is headed by Smithdelo Alcsrtra Pontiac. whose dam
is the famous Alcsrtro Polk-dot. Have few youn bulls
and females for sale at reasonable prices. Wi I buy

 

 

a few heifers about 15 months. not bred. Farm 3‘ mile
from court house. BETH B. RUBERT. Howell. Mich.

 

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

 

A. R. O. cows and ofl‘springs.

and Pontiac Korndyke.

Apple Korndyke and Pontiac Pet.

Record cow Lindenwood Hope.

Kol,
Sll'eS of Similar breeding.

liIich.-'I‘iiiie October 21!. 1915.

early for catalog.

Mgr. Adrian, Michigan.
Consignors:- Kennedy llolstcin Farm (,‘o.,
(ieo. W. Rising. Fayette, ()Iiio.
Adrian, Mich.
Anthony. Adrian, Mich.

Lenawee County Holstein Breeders’

Second Consignment Sale
100 Head of Pure Bred Registered Holstein Cattle.

Fair Grounds Adrian, Michigan.
This offering is charaCterized by,-—Splendid Individiuality, Popular and
\Vorld Record Breeding, Young and of Vigorous growth, large percentage of
Cows bred to bulls out of World record dams.
Sons and Daughters of Prize winners at National Dairy Show.
Note the quality of Herd bulls to which Offering is bred,-—-
6 to——King Pontiac Jewel Korndyke, Sired by King of the Pontiacs,
Jewel Korndyke 2nd and a daughter of DeKol 2nds Butter Boy 3rd.
10 to—“King Luiide Pontiac Korndyke l5,”

3 to—Sir Iohanna l’ontiac I’et, a grandson of

3 to—Duke Ornisby l’ietcrtje DeKol 3rd.
5 to—liisinghurst Johanna Orinsby l’lope, Sons of the Great Worlds Year

20 or more to—Priiice Bawn Maxie DeKol, son of Crown Princess Maxie De
23nd world record Senior tour year old 30 day division. Others bred to

All animals tuberculin tested by state-approved veterinary.
Follows sailcat llowell, Mich. Breeders from
attend both sales and select from over Zoolicad.

Auctioneers:- (Yol. I’erry. Columbus, Ohio.
l’iigli & Son. Toledo. Ohio. _ _
Manngers:- >1. '1‘. Wood. Sales Manager. Liverpool, N. Y.

Adrian. Mich.
1.. IC.(‘oiiiicll.
Rogers liros.. ()ilsti-d, Mich.
.Elwiii Hark, Adrian, Mich.

October 22, 1915.

dam
a son of King of the Pontiacs

Colantha Johanna Lad, Rag

Reniember—lewo Adrian,
a distance can
Catalogs ready October 15th. Write

(‘ol. Burton, Adrian, Michigan. Vols.

’.I‘.(3. Kennedy, Businms
Iliitcll IIt'I‘lI. Ypsilanti. Mich.

Fayette. Ohio. IA‘lltht‘t‘ Stock I’ariii,
It. I'. Clement, Adrian, Mich. Dr. B. W. '

 

 

 

 

Purebred Registered

HOLSTEIN
CATTLE

With thirty common cows. each giving 3,000
pounds of nlilk per year, introduce a purebred reg-
istered Holstein Illlll. Iii two years you will be
milking grade Ilolsteins yielding with llrst cali4,000
to 5,000 pounds. ln 3ycarsyoii‘ll have 6,000poiind
cows and will need to keep only liftcen cows to get
the same amount, of iiillk. In scvcii years, you'll
have 8,000 to 10.000 pound cows and and a ten-
cow llcrd will produce \2 much milk as your thirty
cows do now. Quite a saving in labor, feed and
equipment to say nothing oi the increased value of
your cows and calves. Investigate the big
“lilack-ziiid-Wliitcs.”

Send for FREE Illustrated Descriptive Booklets
The Holstein-Preston Association 0! America
F. L. Hougiiton. Scc’y.. Box I64. Braltleboro. Vi.

 

 

 

 

 

Top Notch Holsteigs!

Before buying your bull look ahead and think of the
tine herd you hope to own in a few years. li‘ii'ty per
cciit, or over. of its value depends-on your bull. i'l'hcre-
fill‘i‘, got. a good bull. And don't be too particular
about the price if you can Ill' siireol‘ the quality. .\Ic}’.
Farms (‘o. sells bulls oI'stJ‘ictly high quality. Then:
use insures a successful. pi‘olitablc herd. Write your
wishes to McPherson Furius 00.. Howell. Mich.

YEARLIXG registered Holstein llcirci‘. Sire is son of
iorincr state cliaiiiploii cow, 32.04 lbs. of butter ill

7 days. Very nice every Way. 8125 brings her right to
your station. Saic arrival guaranteed. Write for
pedigree. Hobart W. Fa). Mason, .\I icll.

 

' 6 mo. old. 30 lb. sire and from a
IIOISIBIII all” 03” proniieing2 yr. old dnin $60 with
all papers. Elmer E. Smith. Redford. Mich.

FOR SALE Registered Holstein Bulls

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

Reg. Holstein Friesian Bull Calves
From hem-y roducing dams. Bargain prices.
DEWEYP C. PIERSON. Hadley. Michigan.

HOLSTEINS AND GUERNSEYS

Our Holsteins combine the blood of Belle Korndye
and Belle] 2nd. Our Guernseys are strong in Lady
Gempsey. Glenwood Boy of Haddon. and Stranford's
Glenwood of Pinehurst blood. Some tine bull calves of
both breeds for sale. Boardman Farm. Jackson. Mich.

hicismiin HOLSTEIII cumin:.9.‘::‘.~.%..i‘h§:

Send for description. W. C. TAYLOR. Milan. Mich.

()LS’I‘EIN CATTLE and Duroc Jersey Swine.
Choice pigs of both sex now ready toshi . Prices
reasonable. E. R. CORNELL.-Howeli, ichigan.

Magnificent Hol-
only $40°00 Delivered‘ stien biiil calf, by
24 lb. butter bull. Ten weeks old. 250 lbs. A beauty.
5‘». white. ROUGEMONT FARMS, Detroit, Mich.

I‘XIIS'I‘I‘IIK I61) HOLS'I'I‘IIN ‘ 1" EM ALICE. Choice
5 cai‘lirigs—Tl'll'oycar oldsand iiiat ll I‘C(i cows. Haven’t
the room t‘orthenil iniistsell b’ci'oi‘e winter. If interested
come and Hectheni. they are good sLiiil'. in nice condi-
tion. J. M. \VILIJAMS. No. Adams. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

We will take your note for one year at 5%-
tiien why not buy a

Holstein Bull

at once, and got pick of 12 from best Breeding
in Michigan. chd for prices and pedigrees.

LONG BEACII FARM. AUGUSTA, MICH.

 

 

erseys. Bulls ready for service. extra unlity sired
by Jacoba‘s Fairy Emanon. No. IOTIIY. from high
producmg dams. SMITH & PARKER. Howell.Mich.

FOR SALE—High class Jersey Bull

. Calves from Register
of Merit ancestry. WATERMAN & WATER-
MAN. Meadowland Farm. Ann Arbor. Mich.

 

 

from high-producing dams.with
Jersey HUIIS Inf sale testing Asso. records. also on
semi-official test. 0. B. Wehner, R. 6. Allegan. Mich

ILLSIDE _Farm Jerseys. yearling bulls. solid

, color,lialf.brothers'to ex-world’s-reccrd senior 2yr
old and from R. of. M. dams, with records from 400 lbs.
to WU lbs. 0. and O. DEAKE. Ypsilanti. Michigan.
2 yr. old Jcrscy bull, grand

MUSI Be 80” II OIIGG. son of Champion Flying

Pox. 1mm nizidc 405' lb. butter in 10 mos, (:iiai-antccd
in every respect. Price is right. Write for Particulars.
L. D. DcGRAW. Lamb. Michigan.

M i I king Shorthorns l:%“s‘iz§."-2%Ef$
DAVIDSON & HALL. Tecumseh. Michigan.

 

 

 

OCT. 16, 1915.

  
 

  

O O
30W WEIGI'IED 932 LBS.
A 23 MONTHS OLD

    
   

    

I have started more breeders on the road to suc-
cess than animan living. I have thelargest and fin-
est herd in t e U. 8. Every one an early developer.
ready for the market at six months old. I want to

lace one hog in each community to advertise my

erd. Write for my plan.“flow to Make Money from
Hogs. 0. 8. BENJAMIN. g.u.,| 0 Portland. "'0!!-

   
    
    
 
     

 
   
    

 

! —Bred sows bred ilts. s ring pigs
0- 'I c s bothsex. ervice Soars. rice low.
A. R. GRAHAM. Flint. Michigan.

REGISTERED 0. I. C. BOARS 8 GILTS

El h class fall igs at reason ble i- .
5. CARL JEWETT, Masog. Mpg-hoes

0 l C SPRING BOARS of good type and
. o - Red Polled bul calves.
John Berner and Son. Grand Ledge. Mich.

o ' c SERVICEABLE BOARS. Priced to
I I I sell, and recorded in buyer's name.
H. W. MANN. Dansvllle. Michigan.

0. I. C.’s STRICTLY B I G TYPE.

March April and May pigs Sired by Lenghty Prince,
“'hite Monarch and Frost‘s (‘hoicenall big type boars
and sows weighing from .300 to 700 lbs. with uality
second to none. Can furnish in pairs not akin. rices
reasonable.

Newman's Stock Farm.

 

 

 

Mariette. Mich. R. I.

 

n I cls two yearling boars anda lot oilast Spring pigs
- - not akin. Also a lot of this iallplgs at $10each
at S to 10 weeks old. Good stock. ‘5 mile west of depot.

OttoB.Schulze. Nashville, Mich. Citizens phone 124.
0 l C Choice eighteen mos. old boar.
o o 0 Grand Champion at West Michigan

State Fair1915 and Mar. and A r. gilts. ilso fall ‘
A. J. BARKER, BELMONY,MICH.l R. IVOYII‘G.

O 1 C95 Spring lioai‘s ready (for fall

. o a service. Write
JUL IAN P. CLAXTON. Flint. Michigan. R. 8.
The home of the big

Way IIIOIIIGIS SIOGI Farm- hone 0.1.0. Hogs. Stock

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

Brookwater Farm
This herd won fourteen first prizes. besides sev-
oral lesser ones, also Grand Champion Boar
and Grand Champion Sow at Michigan
State Fair. Evcry entry was bred at Brook-
ivatcr with thrce exceptions and they were far-
rowed there. he Grand hampion Boar
Hoosier is for sale also a (’llUiH‘ lot of spring
pigs and yearling boars. If you wish something
considerably better writc or visit—
BROOKWATER FARM. R. 7., Ann Arbor. Mlch.
Cagitol Herd Duroc Jersey Swine. Established 1888

pring pigs for sale. satisfaction guaranteed. I‘Jx'
J. H. Banghart. East Lansing. Mich.

 

press prepaid.

 

BIDWELL SHORTHORNS

For “Beef and Milk"

Registered Bulls, Cows
and heifers, Scotch-
tonped roans. and reds
for sale. Farm at
N. Y. Central Depot.
also D. '1‘. & I. Ii‘y.

    

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BIDWELI. STOCK FARM

Albion Stamp 3.32670 Box B, Tecumseh, Mich.

 

   

 

 

Shortliorn Cattle oi both Sex ior Sale

W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.

H young bulls also female. farm
SIIGIIIIGIIIS For sale bimilce‘istof Daviscrossingon
A. A. R. R. W. B. MCQU'LLAN. Howill, Mich.

 

—Dairy or beef bred. Breeding stack all
SIIOIIIIOIIIS ages for sale at farmers prices. 0. w. (Yrum.

Secy. Cent. Mich. Shorthorn Breeders' Assn. McBride. Mich.

' of best Bates Strains. Young
”a", Brad Shothorns bulls '7 months old for sale.
Price $100 each. J. B. HUMMEL. Mason, Mich.

F 8 I , Shortliorn bull. 2yr.old. dark roan. Grand—
or a 3- son of Avondalc. Also, cows and heifeBi.3E.

J. FRANK. Montgomery, Michigan. R.l

H005.
Durccs 8i Victorias‘G'W Of a...

due March and April.

Comprising the blood

of Superba. Defender. Much 00].. Orions and others.
A few young boars. M. 'l‘. STORY. Lowell. Mich.
0R SALE—Berkshire hogs. both sexes and difierent ages.
Bred gilts for fall fin-rowing. l’ull Angus Bull t‘xilf. not reg-
istered. Price right. Chase's Stock Farm. R. l. Mariette. Mich.

' T 1‘.” ‘l ,
HCI‘RSIIII'CS. we 1 gi ts bred for Aug. & Sept.

farrowing and a choice lot of April
gilts for sale. A. A. PAT'I'I'LLO. Deckcrvillo. Mich.

' —April boar well marked.
HoyaIIOII Bred BeIkSIIIIGG also the fine mature boar
Royalton Emperor. Both registered with papcrs at. fair
p.ilce. Write to I). F. Valentino. Supt. 'l'enmnrmweMich.

. . sold by the pound and SIli i cd
HCEISIGIGII Berkshlres on approval. Bears 8e,‘1Ynd
sows IOC Der pound.B. B. REAVEY. Akron. Mich.

BERKSHIRE need to move quick. Farmers

stock. ELMHURB STOCK FARM. Almont. Mich

DUROC JERSEYS‘fimiSV .n‘ii‘.i‘Ii§

rcady to ship. Carey U. Edmonds. Hastings. Mich

Choice spring bears and gilt-

—March pigs either sex. also am book-
DUIOC Jersey ing orders for fall pigs'for Nov. ship-
mcntunspection invited. E. I). HOY'IBIIIIEPH.wnylfllllI.MI(‘Il.

AMPSHIRE Bwine—Breedina stock of all ages
from most popular strains. Yrite for breeding.
Inspection invited. Floyd Myers. R. 9. Decatur, Ind.

 

 

' Young bulls of best individualit
PIIIBIIICII “OISIeInsnnd breeding‘at reasonable price:
Write us. G. L. SP] LLANE AzSON, li.]). 7. It‘lint,Mich‘
‘l ucrnseys registered. for sale at VVatcrvliet, Mich.
I May liose breeding. Seven A ). cmvsinhcrd.
Address J. K. Bltltchi‘ord. Auditorium Tower, Chicago, Ill

 

Maple Lane Register of Merit Jersey Herd. Tuber-
culin tested by U S Government. For sale bull
calves and heifer calves from R of M. dams and
grand dams. and Hood Farm Sire.

IRVIN FOX. Allegan. Michigan.

LAST BULL Sold to Mr. A. Fleming of Weid-

man. Just one bull left, age 10
mo. He’s a barrain at $2.00. brecdin conformation
considered. Brot or to former World s record 3% yr.
old Holstein. M. L. McLeulIn. Redford. Mich.

illie Farmstead Jersey Cattle. Bull calves from R.
of M. Cows. also heifer calves and several bred
heifers for sale. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersville. Mioh‘

HE WILDWOOD Jersey Herd. Re istered Jersey
Cattle of Quality. Herd headed by Majesty's Won-
der 90717, one of the best sons of Royal Majesty. The
daughters of Majesty's Wonder are mated to a son of
Majesty‘s Oxford King. Herd tuberculin tested. We
have for sale a few choice young bulls for fallservice

 

 

 

from high producingcows. Alvin Balden. Oapac.Michp

‘0. 'o c.

Blg Type, 0.I.c’s and Chester White Swine.

400 fall pigs either sex. pecial prices for the next
30 days. also bred gilts and service males and we are
booking orders for spring pig . all our stock is good
enough that I Will ship C. () D. and reg. free in the
O. I. C. or Chester White Asso. We won. more prizei
than all other breeders ut together. at Ill.. and
Wis. State Fairs. Write or Show record.

ROLLING VIEW STOCK FARM
Cass City, - Michigan.

' ~Spccial prices on March hours for
CIIGSIGI WIIIIGS next 30 days. JFall Pigs.
F. W. ALEXANDER. Michlflnn.

» —Are on on t
O. I. C. SWINE max-Get forh:
choice bred sow to farrow the last of Aug. or fore
part of Sept? If you are. write me. I have them.
A. J. GORDEN. R No. 2. Don. Michigan.

Vassar.

Choice Gilts bred for Sept. farrow.
survivable boars. Snringnigs not akin.
ALVIN V. HATT. Grass Lake. Michigan

0. l. C. GILT BREII SPRING PIGS

 

ready to ship. E. J. FEBLEY. Holt. Michigan.

 

I)I'R0(' JERSEYS~Spring pies: either sex. Gilts bred for

 

Sept. furrow to a son of Volunteer Grand (‘linnipion at
Interna 1 Stock Show Chicago. F. J. Ilrodt. R. 1. Monroe. Mich.

Dumas of the best of breeding. April farrow either
sex or pairs for next 30 days $20 each. Two fall

boars. Oct. farrow $30 each. Also Holstein bull one

year Oct. 6. H. G. KEESLEH. Casscpolis. Mich.

nhunoc JERSEYS'QESi‘JJtfi
canons nacho:htélnch.:.3.€’w‘ihhghz

nunoclicsn sons Moroccan.

not akin. W. C. TAYLOR, ilan. Michigan.

J. w. KEENEY’ Erie, MIGII. Iii-coder of Diiroc,

Swine l). M. (Y .1.

local from Monroe or Toledo. chncy Stop.
Iii ’l‘YPF. P. 0. Either sex. pairs or tries not akin.
Bred sows and gilts. Have several 1 lb. boar pro~
spects. Absolutely no larger breeding. Everything
guaranteed right. FRANK KRUGER. Ravenna.Mich.

f th ' .
POLAND CHINAS rgady fgrgdgviEIeYeSowfggd

for spring farrow. A. A. Wood & Son. Saline. Mich.

IIIIGE TYPE P. 0.583%: Y5§§.i§.°’?§rt§.i“s“é‘£ ’é‘fi’é
in February. W. J. HAGELSHAW. Augusta. Mich.

' two extra good Slimmer Yearling
Largo Sham P. c- Roars. Bred gilt-s are all sold
Spring pigs that are beauties, sired by Big Defender.
the boar that everybody goes wild over. Come and
sec Iiiiii. H. O. SWARTZ. Schoolcraft. Micli.

IG Type Poland (Ililnas, hours as big, as good asgrow
in Iowa with quality to please you.
ROBERT MARTIN. R. F. I). No. 7. Hastings. Mich.

IG TYPE POLAND CHINAS. Some choice boars
now ready to ship‘i Satisfaction guaranteed.
G. W. TINT/TON. R. 0.11. Kalamazoo. Michigan.

Spring Plg‘s at Half Pricezvgfg‘fafggg
strain of Poland Chinas on earth. none bigger. If
you ever expect to own a. registered Poland ins,
this is your opportunity. (let busy and order at once.
Pairs and tries not akin $15 each. A few brcd sows at
12.). J. C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich. Boll Phone.
LARGE Type P. C. Herd Boar Hoosier Giant 2nd 2380]]. Pigs

sired by him. One Big Smooth Juiiiho Boar. Hrcd sows. prices

right. MRS. J. E. BRAI'IHWAITE. Brant. Mich.

IG type Poland Chinas with
feed right. and Rrigd right

homes and do right.

quality bred right.
to so to their new
. Ionia. Mich.

 

 

 

POLANDGRERINAS

The Large Prolific Kind

We have a

.0. SPRING BOARS
At Farmers’ Prices.

ALLEN BROS.,

Paw Paw. - - Michigan.

For Sade Poland Chinas °f fig?“
Al‘i-eshire Bull. B. M. WING & SON. Sheridan. Mich,

REGISTERED YORKSHIHES

Imported Strain. Both sexes. Prices Reasonable.

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Hatch Herd, Ypsilanti, Michigan. ‘

 

50 YORKSHIRES‘é‘fiases- “9d Foiled Cattle.
Rocks. I. R. Ducks. E.XS§%B§RPHB£ESR. Yogi:

' Gi
Large Yfiprikghires Synge: :35
October arrow. erv ca. 6 boars. Pigsa ls es. Prices
reasonable. W. . Cook. Route 42. Ada. ifichigsn.
I l _A
Yorkshire Somco Boar: Diff. .ifiivikififlngaéto 3%.?
Send for Photos. CHAS. METZ. Evart. Mich.

—-Weanilng pigs. airs not akin. Bred
MUIBIOOI "023: sows and gilts or fall farrcw two
0. F. BACON. n. 3. Britten. me...

Breeders’ Directory-+Coutinued on page 851.

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER

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MAKING FALL PIGS PROFITABLE.
(Continued from page 333).
After the pigs have learned to eat
they can be fed regularly at least
twice per day, once in the forenoon
and once in the afternoon. They
should be given only as much as they
can eat up clean in a short time. Re-
member that at’this time they are de-
pending a good deal on the mother for
food. What is given in the trough is
extra, and serves two purposes; it

 

: helps to furnish food which they need,

and it helps to expand the stomach,
which will enable them to eat more
feed as they go 'along a little later,
and make greater gains at less cost.

After the pigs have been fed the
dainty feed in the trough a week, one
can feed a variety of feeds, ailittle
coarser in quality and cheaper in
price. Ground oats with the hulls sift-
ed out make a good addition to the
middlings. This year the oats are as
cheap as any feed we have and can
be used liberally with profit. A little
wheat bran can be added to keep the
bowels in a healthy condition. Sour
milk can be used instead of the sweet
milk. Allowing them to run at grass,
at will, will benefit them as they will
eat some green feeds which help ex-
pand the stomach, separate the parti-
cles of grain consumed, and make di-
gestion of the feed more perfect. The
exercise necessary to gather the green
feeds, promotes a healthy condition
which insures a constant growth.

From the time the pigs are two
weeks old the sow should be fed lib-
erally on feed that will enable her to
yield a heavy flow of milk, which will
do much toward promoting growth
and development while the pigs are
yet young, establish a thrifty habit
with the pigs, which is a point well
worth striving for if one is endeavor-
ing to secure large gains in weight
for the feed consumed.

If the pigs are crowded along as
rapidly as possible, it is not a difficult
matter to get them to weigh 50 pounds
each when the mother is taken from
them at the end of the eighth week,
and they will be so accustomed to eat-
ing other feeds than the mother’s milk
that there need not be any check in
growth at this time. The pigs will be
strong and healthy, anxious to con-
sume feed enough, if properly and reg-
ularly fed, to weigh 80 to 90 pounds
each when three months old.

Now at the end of three months
you have thrifty young hogs to feed
instead of little pigs. Treat them in
a reasonable manner by giving a va-
riety of feeds regularly and in such
quantities as the appetite demands.
Never give more at a time than they
will eat up clean. Feed both sloppy
and dry feeds through the winter, and
if the sloppy feed can be given warm,
all the better. Give some forage feed
regularly, such as June clover, alfalfa
or corn ensilage. Be sure that they
have a dry, comfortable place in which
to sleep. Do not subject them to cold
draughts of air at night, a damp, fil-
thy nest, or leave more than three
feet of air space above them while
sleeping in the nest. Cold air coming
from above, or at the sides will retard
growth.

It is while the pigs are young that.

rapid growth can be promoted and
profits on the feed secured. If feeds
rich in protein, such as wheat mid-
dlings, oats, grass and palatable for-
age feeds, with some corn are given,
growth will be rapid and the quality
of the meat just what the market de-
mands. Muscle or lean meat is made
while the pigs are growing. Muscles
can be grown cheaper than fat can be
made later in the life of the pig.
thereby yielding a liberal profit on the
pigs, and at the same time securing
quick returns for the feed and labor
bestowed. If kept constantly growing
the pigs areready for market at any
time it may seem desirable to sell
them. ' '

Wayne Co. 2 .. * N. A. CLAPP.

 

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g Veterinary. g

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all“IllllllllllllllllllllllllllllifllllllflllllllllllllllllllfllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfi
CONDUCTED BY W. C. FAIR, V. S.’

 

Umbilical Hernia—I have two fillies
four and one-half months old that, on
account of fast running have develop-
ed navel ruptures. At first these
bunches were the size of a hickory
nut and are now about as large as a
goose egg. One Vet. wants to cut a
slit in outer hide, then lacerate and
sew up inner membrane, also place a
bandage over the colt’s body over the
breach. The other Vet. said he can
fix the breaches by gathering up the
surplus skin after pushing intestines
up where they belong, then tie a stout
cord or place a clamp on the surplus
skin, then with a needle insert some
fluid inside where breach developed,
to start an inflammation so as to heal
inner membrane. I understand that
this latter method is not always suc-
cessful. In case it did not prove suc-
cessful, could a person resort to the
other method? Which method would
you advise and what is the best age
to operate at? P. C., Coopersville,
Mich.~——The writer has performed both
operations hundreds of times and on
an animal that age, either of the meth-
ods should prove satisfactory. The
latter method is the simpler one of
the two, therefore, I would advise you
to use it. A second operation is some-
times necessary, but it should not be
in your case.’ Now or a little later is
the proper time to operate.

Chronic Lymphangitis.———Two years
ago my horse had an attack of lym-
phangitis, was not treated properly
and the result was thick leg. Occa~
sionally the leg inflames and stocks. I
have applied kerosene and lard which

     
 

 

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THERE are many kinds of Auto-
loading and Pump guns—some to
be had at very low prices.

But: it. is typical of sportsmen that the great é '.
majority prefer Remington-UMC Pump and w‘
Autoloading guns in the hands of the average man.

If you shoot at traps or in the field, go to the
Remington-UMC Dealer in your community and
let him Show you these guns. You will know him
by his display of the Red Ball Mark of Remington-
U M C—Sportsmen’s Headquarters— andhe knows
the difference in guns.

   

  

 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Remington Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Co.
Woolworth Building (233 Broadway) New York City

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appears to make him worse. H. G. A., THE BEST lINIMENT Black Top 08'1an Sheep. pngggfefaflzckorfily.
Charlotte, Mich.-Give your horse 2 Freon. Relohert, Elm Ridge Farm. Ann Arbor, Mich

drs. of acetate of potash and 1 dr. of
potassium iodide at a dose in soft
feed three times a day. Dissolve 1/1,
lb. of acetate of lead in a gallon of
water and wet leg two or three times
a day.

Weak Heart.—I have a lamb six
months old apparently in a healthy
condition, but when driven faster than
a walk it pants and opens mouth. D.
E. M., Big Rapids, Mich—Give your
lamb one drop of tincture nux vomica
and 3 grs. potassium iodide at a dose
three times a day. I am not sure but
what your lamb should be marketed
if fleshy enough for food.

Heaves.——I have a young horse that
is bothered with heaves and I would
like to know what to do for him. R.
F. H., Milan, Mich—Give 1 dr. of
powdered lobelia, 1 dr. of fluid ex-
tract gelsemium and 1 dr. of fresh
chloral hydrate in a pint of water two
or three times a day. Feed no clover
or musty, dusty, badly—cured fodder,
and exercise her daily.

VVeakness.—Pigs six months old
have been doing well until lately; now
they are weak and this weakness af-
fects the hind quarters most. Their
food supply has been mostly mid-
dlings, bran slop and oats. J. Z., So.
Lyon, Mich—Your hogs should be
kept in a dry, clean, comfortable place,
fed some lime water and powdered
sulphate of iron in their feed. They
should be fed mostly oats, skim—milk
and grass. Apply equal parts of tur-
pentine, aqua ammonia and raw lin-

 

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Good Yearling Field Rams
oxmrd now“ ”WW- and ewes of all ages for sale.
M. F. GANSSLEY. Lennon. Michigan.

   

 

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. good ewes from one or best flocks in Michigan.

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dock}? Iblll-‘L OTTO A: BEYhR' back. Write today for Special Price List 24. y
Pl‘lcb.l.'o pOl' bottle. .Sold by druggisu, or cont A. H. FOSTER. Allezan. Michigan.
by no express prepaid. Write for Booklet R.
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' 3 year-old stock ram, 2-year—old yearlings
ShNDShm and lamb rams. 'ml-mutton type.
S. P. ANDREWS. Dansvllle, Michigan.

  

 

 

 

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seed oil to their back three or four
times a week. Ailments of this kind
are usually the result of feeding ani
unbalanced ration, or keeping pigs in
damp basement barns that are filthy
and badly ventilated.

Cow-pox—I have four milch cows
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reasonable prices.C. J. Thompson. Rockford,Mlch.

 

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‘: 0F PARSONS "defgggprn
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' and RAM LAMBS. Registered.
ShropShlre Rams large and Well \wmlvd. “'rite
your wants. A. E. BACON db SUN. Slicridnn, Mich.

 

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Merino: I'ld nelamespstaple, oily, heavy shearcrs.
m s , s_ m Delivercdmrlced tosell. S. H. Sanders, Ashtahula,()hlo.

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on form a hard scab and some of
them fester.
bolic acid and vaseline, also peroxide1
of hydrogen. One other cow had these{
sores but got well. The other twof
cows had some fever when the sores1
first appeared and have not given
much milk since they became diseas-i
ed. J. H., Breckenridge, Mich-«Ap-l
ply one part oxide of zinc and three
parts vaseline or wool fat to sores on
udder twice a day. Give 1 oz. of sul-
phate of soda and 2 drs. of acetate of
potash at a dose three times a day.
Exostosis.—We have a cow that had
a lump on her lower jaw for two
years. When we first noticed it, it
was about the size of a hickory nut
and at the end of the first year it was
about the size of a man’s fist and has
not increased in size any since. This
hunch is as hard as bone and appears
to be firmly attached to jaw bone.
The cow is in good condition and I
would like to know if this is a case
of lump jaw. And will it have any
bad effect on her milk? L. B. .,
Wayne Co., Mich.——Her milk is fit for
use and my advice is for you to leave
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Maplecrest Korndyke Hengerveld at the head of the
herd. The only sire of the breed in service whose dam
and grand dam each made over lQOO-lbs. of butter ina
year, and whose dam, grand dam and great grand dam
each made more than SO—lbs. of butter in 7 days.

Bull calves from this great sire for sale, from cows
up to better than 30—lbs. of butter in- 7 days.

A few very fine heifers and young‘ cows in calf to,
this bull for sale, at reasonable prices.

D. D. AITKEN,

FLINT, MICHIGAN.

  

 
       
   
   
   
   
     
    

 


 

All the Comfort YOu’d Want
More Wear Than You’d Expect

Man—now listen. When you buy a pair
of rubber boots or shoes, you naturally
expect long wear and water-tightness, and
you’d welcome the addition of comfort at
the toes and heel, wouldn’t you? Of
course, you would; but it’s hard,
mighty hard, to find a boot that
Combines all these good qualities.

   
    
     

"Lamco.” Short Boot
ii, Made of pure, thick
i,’ rubber with seven heavy rub-
' ', ber ribs. VVon‘t crack or
A boot that will

        
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

But there is one line of
rubber boots and shoes that
you can buy and be assured
of heaping value for your
money. This brand is sold
by reputable dealers every-
where, under the trade-
mark name of

    
    

. “Lamco,” Four Buckle Arctic ;_ 1
ji Pure rubber throughout.
’2} Heavy ribs that add strength and -'_.,; i
I” :turdiness. Four steel buckles. Made :
it; in all-rubber and cloth top. Red
- Ioles and heels.

  

    

    
 

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.. 13:" a. \ L‘ éfit‘s‘f‘.‘ "

     

    

"Snag-Proof Perfection" 5',”- I
Combination Shoe and Felt ,
This combination
means wear, warmth .

 

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and comron. Extra heavy a.
are the “Lamco” and 27233.13353533$322.27.? ‘ *f
“Snag—Proof” brands A $513323:gird‘iiggrsillbber' .
of boots and shoes, "'3‘
taken from the exten-
sive Lambertville Line. Study ,.
them. Note the extra heavy , ‘ 5 .
soles; the strong reinforcements . ’
at points of greatest wear. The "~ ' if}
only thing that we can’t illus-
trate about these boots is the quality of 2‘ka
the rubber used in making them. But “~42: ::::

the quality is there, and it’s ace high.

Just you examine a pair at your dealer’s

this very day. Slip your foot into one

——it’s soft inside—it’s comfortable—it gives with
the foot. Yes, sir, the very feel of it denotes last-
ing quality, but the actual wearing proves it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Representative merchants in ’most every locality
sell Lambertville Rubber Footwear. If your
merchant does not carry this famous line, write us, giving
his name, and we’ll quickly make it possible for you to
obtain these goods at regular prices.

  

lur’l‘ 'I .;~ :4’.
“Snag-Proof ” Short Boot
Built to stand the test of
time and service. Heavy
sail duck with seven thicknesses of

pure rubber. Extra quality Para
rubber soles KIVE extreme wear.

 
  

 
      
     
   

LAMBERTVILLE RUBBER co., Lambertville, New Jersey