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livery of a consignment of white paper

accounts for the crowded condition of

this issue, compelling the publication

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CURRENT COMMENT.





 





There is so much

talk about prepared-

ness these days and

so much discussion

of the proposition of increased mili-

tary and naval appropriations by Con-

gress, that the matter of agricultural

appropriations is not Teceiving atten-

tion to which it is entitled. The esti-

mates for agricultural appropriations

submitted by Secretary Houston are,

however, only about two million dol-

lars less than the appropriations for

the current year. These estimates to-

tal $30,000,000.



The money asked for includes pro-

posed appropriations for research

work in the production of dyestuffs

for the coloring of raw materials pro-

duced in this country; the proposed

plan is to work out practical methods

for utilizing domestic products in the

manufacture of dyes, and to get fur-

ther data concerning the coloring sub-

stances, both natural and artificial,

which are found in food products. Mar-

ket investigations would be expanded

by the use! of $136,000 asked for the

collection and distribution of data on

the supply, commercial movement,

disposition and market prices of fruits

and vegetable crops. A small apo

propriation is also asked for fibre

plant investigations, the importance

of which is emphasized by the advance

in price of sisal flbre which is a raw

material used in the manufacture of

most of the binder twine used in this

country.





Agricultural Ap-

propriations.





Nearly every



Delay in Live Stock week since the

Shipments Detroit s t o c k



_ yards were reop-



ened as free territory subsequent to

the quarantine for the eradication of

foot-and-mouth disease, there has

been complaint with regard to delay

in deliveries of stock at the yards.

Sometimes this has been due to slow

delivery at the terminal under pre-

vailing conditions of heavy runs; at

other times it has been the delay of

stock in transit at junction points,

and at other times a lack of cars for

the loading of ,stock,fizatlflshjppingg





points. Last week another compli-

cation resulted in dissatisfaction

which was less avoidable; this was

the unloading of a large shipment of

army horses in transit, thus increas-

ing the’difficulty of transacting the or-

dinary weekly business at the yards.



State Railroad Commissioner Cun-

ningham and State Director of Mar-

kets McBride have been working to

gether and with the railroad officials

to the end that a satisfactory solution

of the problem involved might be found

and the congestion and delay in live

stock shipments avoided. As a means

to this end, at the suggestion of Rail-

road Commissioner Cunningham a

conference was called for December

30 at the Detroit Live Stock yards to

which representatives of the carriers,

representatives‘of the shippers were

invited to meet representatives of the

Railroad Commission and the State Di-

rector of Markets for a discussion of

the problems involved in the render—

ing of adequate service.



Another marketing problem in



which shippers of live stock are also

interested is being investigated by the

State Director of Markets. Data is be-

ing collected with regard to the rules

governing the marketing of live stock,

particularly hogs, in other large mar-

kets of the country where the rules

for dockage are considerably at var-

iance with those practiced in this mar.

ket and generally more favorable to

the shipper than fire the rules in force

here.

The apparently suc-

cessful termination

of the campaign for

the eradication of

foot-and-mouth disease is a matter for

general congratulation among farmers

and live stock owners of the country.

The general interest taken in the dis-

cusion of problems related to eradi-

cation work at the conference called

by the Assistant Secretary of Agricul-

ture at Chicago last month also

promises well for the future, should

other campaigns of the kind ever bo-

come necessary.



In this connection the secretary of

the United States Live Stock Sanitary

Association which held its annual con-

vention in Chicago during the early

days of last month transmits copies

of the resolutions adopted by the as-

sociation endorsing the methods em«

ployed by the Bureau of Animal In-

dustry in the stupendous task of erad-

icating foot-and-mouth disease; recom-

mending that the federal and state

governments be liberal in their recom-

pense to owners of live stock for loss-

es to the extent of the full commercial

value of animals destroyed in this

campaign; opposing the appointment

as chief of the bureau of a man lack-

ing scientific training and experience

in dealing with animal diseases; com-

mending the action of the Secretary

of Agriculture and expressing appre-

ciation of the work of the assistant

secretary; advocating publicity of the

freedom of pure-bred herds from tu-

berculosis as a. means of encouraging

such freedom, and commending the

manager of a creamery in Steuben

county, New York, for his diligence

and care in applying intelligent meth-

ods of sterilization to by—products re-

turned to the farmers of the commu-

nity when the knowledge of an out~

break of foot-and—mouth disease in the

community was received.



These and other echoes of the cam-

paign for the eradicationof foot-and-

mouth disease should have the desir-

ed effect of enlisting the attention and

co-operation of every farmer and live

stock man in the country in case his

co-operation should ever be needed in

the early suppression of an epidemic

of this or any other infectious disease

in the live stock of his community.

The December esti-

mate of the crop re-

porting board of the

acreage, production

and value of farm crops for the coun-

try 19.19.15,. affords some interesting





Echoes from the

Campaign.





Crop Production

and Values.





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comparison-s. A review of data con-





tained in this estimate shows the yield





of staple cereal grain crops to have

been higher than Last year and mate-

rially higher than the five-year aver-

age from 1909to 1913. As a natural

consequence the farm price on these

grains is somewhat lower than on

December 1 of last year, although in

every case the total farm value of the

crops is materially larger than the val-

ue of last year’s crop. ,



The farm value of all other crops

which are staples in the north central

states is also shown by these esti-

mates to beconsiderably higher than

last year, thus indicating that the farm-

ers of the country as a whole, will re-

ceive a greater income than last year

by many millions of dollars, notwith~

standing the fact that in limited sec-

tions the season was an unfavorable

one for some crops, thus reducing the

total production below that of last

year, and in some cases below the five-

year average.



Nature’s great law of compensation

has in this case come to the rescue of

the producers of these commodities in

an advance of price which is out of

proportion to the decrease in yield,

while the strong export demand has

supported our markets in the case of

other crops in which the increased





yield would, under normal conditions,‘





have brought about a much greater

decrease in price than has obtained.





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





 





Foreign.





The European Wan—As the year

1915 draws to a colse the warring

powers of Europe are concentrating

their forces and ammunitions for at

least two significant struggles. One

of these is at Saloniki, Greece, where

the Allied troops are increasing their

numbers, improving defenses and pil-

ing up stores of food and fighting

equipment, while the central powers

are preparing to attack the fortifica-

tions protecting the city. Greece ob-

jects to the Bulgarians invading her

territory and Germany insists that she

will not attack the Allied armies with-

out the aid of the Bulgars. Just how

the dilemma will be met without im-

posing upon Grecian neutrality is a.

matter for diplomats to settle. The

other struggle is expected in the west.

Here every evidence of an impending

battle of huge pro ortions is evident.

Large numbers 0 troops are being

brought from other fronts by the Ger-

mans, supply trains are crowded to

capacity and artillery duels are fre-

quent. On December 21 the Teutonic

forces lost heavily in an attack be-

tween Armentieres and Ypres without

gaining ground. It thought that the

attack was merely a.’ relude to more

retentious fighting. ontinuous rains

n the west have delayed plans, ac-

cording to Berlin reports. On the Rus-

sian front winter weather has forced

the abandonment of all active cam-

paigning. Italians and Austrians con-

tinue artillery fire along the Tyrol-

Carnia-Trentino front while the situ-

ation is quiet in Isonzo. British and

French forces have abandoned certain

positions held on the Dardanelles,

either because these points were made

untenable by greater effectiveness of

Turkish guns, or because of the de

mand for troops at other centers.





The fighting forces of Gen. Villa of

Mexico is being rapidly dissipated.

Last week the last of his enerals,

Rodriguez, surrended to the arranza

organization. Hope of Carranaa's gain-

ing complete mastery over warring

factions, is more general than for a.

long time back.





National.





Although the possibility of the peace

ship Oscar II, succeeding in its mis-

sion is becoming more and more re-

mote by reason of the illness of the

leader, Henry Ford, and other difficul-

ties, there is a growing appreciation of

the generous spirit that prompted the

undertaking:



New Yor and New England suffer-

ed severely from a wierd storm last

Sunday. Wind blowing from 70 to 90

miles an hour did much damage to

wire lines, shipping and railroad

property. The storm .was accompa-

nied by thunder and lightning, snow

and rain. Seven persons are known

to have been killed directly or indi-

rectly by the storm. _



Shipmentsof good from America to

Belgium during the month of Decem-

ber established a new record in phil-

anthropy. If arrangements are carried

out an avera e of one ship load for

each da of t 6 month will have sail-

ed for t e rostrated country.



On no C ristmas since the installa-

tion of the Detroit weather bureau





office 44 years ago, was. there so much A;





snow on the ground as on December

25, 1915. Thefall of snow on Friday

n1 ht was 7 9-10 inches.



etroit is amo 9. Ion

where cases of i uenza ave reached

an unusually large number, fully 100,-

000 persons having been afflicted here

accordi to the health officers of this

mumcrp ity. Besides the percents. e

of fatalities from bronchial troub e

and pneumonia is increasing.



The Reliance Engineering Corggany,

of Lansing, Mich., have purchas the

Seager Engine Works, of Lansing,

manufacturers of the Well known Olds

line of gas and kerosene engines,

which have been giving service to the

farmers and contractors of this coun-

try for the past 38 years. The Seager

Engine Works will be now known as

The Reliance Engineering Company.

The trade name of Olds engines and

Reliance cream separators will not be

changed.





MICHIGAN EXPERIMENT ASSOCIA-

TION. .





 





The fifth annual exhibition of the

Michigan Ex eri‘ment Association will

be held at ast Lansing, January 18

to 22. Full classifications are provid-

ed for corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye,

beans, including kidney and soy beans,

cowpeas, buckwheat, alfalfa, medium

clover and alsike clover.



Aside from individual exhibits, class-

es are provided for Farmers’ Club and

Grange exhibits and a special- class

for boys and girls under 18 years of

age. There is also a class for local

associations.



Liberal premiums are provided in

every class. The Michigan Farmer

cup will, as usual, be awarded for the

best single ear of Dent corn. The an-

nual meeting of the association will

be held Januar 20-21.



Write Prof. . M. Shoesmith, sec-

retary,_East Lansing, Mich., for we

mium list which gives rules governing

the contest.





 





MICHIGAN FARMERS’ INSTITUTES,

JANUARY 1-15, 1916.





 





County lnstitutes.——Presque He 00,.

Mlllersburg, Jan. 4-5; Alpena Co.,

Long Rapids, Jan. 6-7; Alcona Co.,

Harrisville, Jan. 7-8; Iosco Co., Whit-

temore, Jan. 10-11; Arenac Co., Stan-

dish, Jan. 12-13; Gladwin Co., Gladwin,

Jan. 13-14.



One—Day Institutes—Montcalm Co.,

Vestaburg, Jan. 3; more, Jan. 4;

Sidney, Jan. 5; Crystal, Jan. 6; But-

ternut, Jan. 7; Carson City, Jan. 8.



Newaygo Co., Sitka, Jan. 3; Brock-

side, Jan. 4; Fremont, Jan. 5; Bitely,

Jan. 6; Troy, Jan. 7; Grant, Jan. 8;

Newa§go, Jan. 11; Big Prairie, Jan.

1%, nsley, Jan. 13-14; Hawkins,





Branch Co., Algunsee Jan. 3; Cali-

fornia, Jan. 4; Kinderbook, Jan. 6;

Gilead, Jan. 7.



St. Joseph Co., Moore Park, Jan. 3;

Constantine, Jan. 4; Three Rivers,

Jan. 5; Riverside, Jan. 6; White Pig-

eon, Jan. 7; Florence, Jan. 8.



Barry Co., Woodland, Jan. 3; Carl-

ton, Jan. 4; Hickory Corners, Jan. 5;





Banfield. Jan. 6; Assyria, Jan. 7;

Nashville, Jan. 8; Creamy,I Jan. 10;

‘(Illasslz Creek, Jan. 11; iddleville,

an. . -





Huron Co., Grant Twp., Jan. 4; Pig-

eon Jan. 5; Elkton, Jan. 6; Verona

Mills Jan. 7; Ubly, Jan. 8; Harbor

Beach, Jun. 10; Port Hope, Jan. 11.



St. Clair Co., Capac, Jan. 4; Em-

met, Jan. 5; Goodells, Jan. 6; Adair,

Jan. 7; Blaine, Jan. 8; Starville, Jan.

10; Smith Creek, Jan. 11; Avoca, Jan.

12; Yale, Jan. 13.



Benzie Co., Platte Twp., Jan. 5; Hon-

or, Jan. 6; Lake Ann, Jan. 7; Inland,

Jan. 8;' Thompsonville, Jan. 10; Frank-

fort, Jan. 11.



Leelanau Co., Empire, Jan. 4.



Lapeer Co., Lapeer, Jan. 8; Dryden,

Jan. 10; Almont, Jan. 11; Clifford,

Jan. 12. .



Genesee Co., Atlas, Jan. 10; Grand

Blanc, Jan. 11; Swarta Creek, Jan. 12;

Gaines, Jan. 13; Linden, Jan. 14; Fen-

ton Jan. 15.



Cass Co., Marcellus, Jan. 10' Adams-

ville, Jan. 11; Union, Jan. 12‘ Jones,

Jan. 13; Lagrange, Jan. 14; Fokagon,

Jan. 15.



Van Buren Co., Kendall, Jan. 10;

Bloomingdale, Jan. 11; Glendale, Jan.

12; Keeler, Jan. 13; Lawrence, Jan. 14;

Hamilton Twp, Jan. 15.



Allegan Co., Chicora, Jan. 10; Pull-

man, Jan. 11; Casco, Jan. 12; Glenn,

Jan. 13; Ganges, Jan. 14; Saugatuck,

Jan. 15.



Hillsdale Co., Church’s Corners, Jan.

10; Plttsford, Jan. 11; Cambria, Jan.

12; Montgomery, Jan. 13; Litchfield,

Jan. 14; Allen, Jan. 15.



Muskegon Co., Holton, Jan. 11; Dal-

ton, Jan. 12; Norton, Jan. 13; Fruit-

port, Jan. 14; Ravenna, Jan. 15.



Ingham Co., Locke, Jan. 12; Holt,

Jan. 13; Aurelius, Jun. 14; Leslie, Jan.

15‘ Dansville, Jan. 17-18.



Saginaw 00., Cha in, Jan. 12; Brant,

{£11. 13; Freeland, an. 14; Burt,.Jan.





Tuscola Co., Cass City, Jan. 13;

Ma ille, Jan. 14; Fosteria, Jan. 15;

M11 ngton, Jan. 17; Vassar, Jan. 18;

Reese, Jan. 19; Akron, Jan. 20,; Union-

ville, Jan. 21. ' ‘ , , , , ,





list of cities 4





.1- V
JAN. 1, 19i6.





TH E MICIf’lG‘A N .. F A'R M E R:





Covering Our Bald Spot





N June, 1913, we planted the hill

on our farm to alfalfa. Neighbors

had spoken of this hill lot as the



part of the farm that had never look-

ed covered, and they called it the

“bald spot.” We decided to show

them that it could be covered. At

this time alfalfa was a comparatively

new thing in our community, but as we

had read extensively about it, we de-

cided that we would try it.





The hill had an area of four acres

and was rather steep, not so much so,

however, as to make it diflicult to

work. We plowed early in the spring

and kept the ground in good condi-

tion throughout the spring months.

The first of June we applied two tons

of lime to the acre, and the last of

the month we planted the seed, first

treating it with the bacterial culture.





We sat back then, and waitedfor

developments, and believe me, we

were disappointed. All that could be

seen growing during the summer was

a healthy crop of ragweed. Some-

times by diligently searching, we

could find an alfalfa plant, but it al-

ways had an unhealthy look. It will

be remembered that the summer of

1913 was extremely dry and this, I be-

lieve, was the cause of the poor

growth that year. However, we gave

the plants all the chance we could,

by clipping the weed growth with the

mower several times during the sum-

mer.



The spring of 1914 the field looked

better but the plants were very thin

on the ground. The first cutting gave

us about one and one-half tons from

the whole field. After we had drawn

the hay to the barn we went on with

the disc harrow and disced the field

both ways. Father was not content

with this, so I went over it again with

the spike-tooth drag. The field cer-

tainly looked sick when I finished,

and our neighbors thought that we

had given up our efforts to cover our

“bald spot.” The second cutting was

rather slow in coming on but it show-

ed the good effect of our cultivation.

We put up two and one—half tons at

this time and one ton at the third

cutting, making a total of five tons

from the field for the year. Rather

small yield, you may say, but our crop

was improving and we were learning

things about it that paid us well for

the time spent.



The following winter we top-dress-

ed the field lightly with manure, and

when the growing season started last

spring we saw that our work had been

worth while. There was not a bare

spot on the hill all summer- We used

to go back Sunday afternoons to sit

on the fence and watch it. It seemed

that we could actually see it grow.

The plants were still rather thin on

the ground but they stooled out ‘and

grew to a good height. And they had

a rich green color and healthy look,

while some other farmers were com-

plaining that their alfalfa looked yel-

low. The yellow color was, I think,

due to the plants being too thick on

the ground.



The first cutting fulfilled expecta-

tions. We cut six tons of prime al-

falfa hay from the four acres. The

other two cuttings were somewhat

lighter, but in all we had fourteen

tons, and we felt well repaid for our

work. A few farmers whose alfalfa

had a poor color during the spring,

came to us to ask how ours had stay-

ed such a good color and had always

looked healthy. We attributed our

success to the fact that our plants

were much thinner on the ground than

theirs, and we recommended that

they use the disk harrow and drag on

their crops. Those that did this not-

ed a marked improvement in color

and general appearance of the plant.



We had heard many times that a

rain or two would spoil a whole crop

of alfalfa, but our experience this

summer seemed to prove the contrary.

Our second cutting was out for two

weeks and during this time it rained

every day. But after the deluge, we

found the crop too valuable to throw





away, so we cured it well and stored

it in the barn. Aside from the discol-

oration, it seems to be fairly good

hay and our cattle find it nearly as

palatable as that not rained on. Some

clover hay that was out during the

same period was a total loss.





Many farmers, no doubt, have had

better success with the crop than we

have and have raised larger yields.

However, our experience with alfalfa

is worth much to us, and we are look-

ing forward to a big crop next year.

But what is better, we turned the laugh

on our neighbors, and have succeeded

in covering our “bald spot.”



Ingham Co. S. E. TAYLOR.





 





DOES OVERWORKING PAY?





 





The farmer who overworks to give

himself an opportunity to retire is on

the wrong track. Moderate work as

long- as a man lives will be happi—

ness throughout life, while fifty years

of overwork plus twenty years of do-

ign nothing will just about ruin the

life of the best farmer who ever liv-

ed. The farm is the best place on

earth on which to retire and good

health is the most important asset of

the retirement. Overwork means ruin-

ed health and the city is no place for

a farmer to retire. A man to be hap-

py must have some work to do. It

need not be heavy work but the man

past his prime who still has some

duties with the poultry and the gar-

den will get out in the air and remain

active after the “do nothing retired

farmer” has closed up his books for-

eve.



Overworking is more often the re-

sult of too many jobs half done rath-

er than a few jobs done well. The

few jobs well done will nine times

out of ten bring more profit than a

lot of poorly done work, so what is

the use of overworking for nothing.

The farmer with 500 hens may not

have much time to care for more

than 200. Three hundred might as well

go to the market. The farmer with

200 acres may be steadily perform-

ing his own work and the work of the

hired man whom he hasn’t hired yet.

The result is overwork and it doesn’t

pay. Eighty acres more intensively

farmed would reduce the heavy work

and possibly as much money would be

made on the farm if the interest on

the investment should be subtracted

from the profits.



On a farm there is practically no

limit to the work that can be done if

a man has the inclination and the

strength. The trouble comes right

here. There is no limit to the work

but there is a limit to the strength

and the man who has ruined his

health through overwork is the man

who did not know when he had reach-

ed his limit until it was too late. I

know of one farmer who is over fifty

years old who is now peevishly boss-

ing a couple of hired men and feeling

unhappy because he is unable, be-

cause of the doctor’s orders to per-

form one stroke of manual labor. I

know another farmer with 160 acres

who is now walking the streets of a

nearby city and living in a small rent-

ed house because he is unable to

stand any of the work of the farm.

He has plenty of money but no work

to make life interesting. Both of

these men worked like tigers and

knocked off fifteen years of their work-

ing period in a mad rush to save ex-

pense and pile up money. They are

now retired intellectually and physi-

cally. They left their work half done

because they tried to finish it too

soon.



There is plenty of laziness in this

world and a lot of men need no .en-

couragement to rest, but at the same

time a lot of men who need the rest

never take it. Overworking has nev-

er paid except in checks on the bank

of poor health. A man must always

work as long as he lives to be happy,

so what’s the use of trying to finish

the job too soon.





Ingham Co. R. G. KIRBY.





 





 





 





 





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Farm Notes





Wild Carrot and Horse Nettle.





Our farm is infested with wild car-

rot and horse nettle, which I am told

is almost impossible to exterminate.

Will salt kill same and how should it

be applied? 1 hoed and pulled the

horse nettle several times and last

summer the plants on examination

seemed to be in a most healthy condi-





tion.

. Van Buren Co. H. C. K.

Of the two weed pests, horse nettle

is the most persistent and diflicult to

eradicate. If newly introduced and

the area covered is not too large, salt

may be used in the form of hot brine,

or caustic soda or kerosene oil may be

used to kill it. Where scattering

plants are to be dealt with, if they are

cut off below the surface of the ground

with a spud and a little gasoline is

poured over the freshly cut roots it

will destroy most of the plants. Where

it has thoroughly infested the land,

short rotations should be used. Cul-

tivated crops which are given thor-

ough tillage and hood to keep the

plants from developing above the sur-

face, alternated with such crops as

rye or rye and vetch, will tend to keep

the plants in subjection. Two or three

seasons of continuous effort will be

required to fully eradicate the pest.

The wild carrot is a bad weed in

pastures and permanent meadows, but

is easily destroyed in cultivated crops

where it will give comparatively little

trouble if very thorough cultivation is

practiced. Pulling or spudding out the

individual plants is the best means of

controlling it in grain and grass fields.

Sawdust in Manure.





I am drawing manure from a~livery

barn where the use sawdust for bed-

ding, and woul like to know if it will

hurt the land. I mean the sawdust.

I have been told it would sour the





E. L.



Manure made in stables who e saw-

dust is used as an absorbent W14. not

prove detrimental to the soil. ‘On

heavy impervious soils it may prove

advantageous by improving the me-

chanical condition of the soil. Saw-

dust contains some plant food, and

where finely divided and spread with

the manure, the plant food and humus

which it contains will be gradually

made available in the soil. It contains

about half as much nitrogen as straw

and approximately the same amount

of phosphorous and'potassium. It is

a much better absorbent than straw

and will conserve a greater propor-

tion of the liquid manure.



Lengthening the Crop Rotation.





I have a field which I intended to

put in wheat. this fall, but it was so

wet it was impossible to do so. I

had it in oats last summer. Would it

be advisable to put it in oats again

the coming season and seed it in the

oats? If not, what would be best to

do? The land is quite heavy.



Barry Co. SUBSCRIBER.





In a case of this kind where circum-

stances make it necessary to lengthen

the crop rotation, it would be better

to sow a different small grain crop

than to sow oats again on this land

which grew oats last year.



Barley is generally considered a bet-

ter crop with which to seed clover.

Why not sow barley instead of oats?





THE CORN SHOW.





 





At this time of the year the corn

show is in evidence—the general

rounding up of the season’s campaign

for “More and Better Corn for Mich-

igan.” All over the state boy’s corn

contests are being held and the boys

are anxiously awaiting results. Hav-

ing scored corn in numerous contests,

I have had opportunity to note some

of the facts and results, and I regret

that I am forced to conclude that in

the majority of cases the boys have

not had a square deal.



At every contest I find that some

have entered with a very limited

knowledge, and some without the

faintest conception of the standard by

which the corn is to be or should be

judged. Many of them have started

with seed from which the best corn

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Many times the corn is judged by

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boy with the poorer sample finds that

he is defeated, but why he did not

win, he does not know. The next year

he tries again with renewed energy,





making the same mistakes and arriv— '





ing at the same results. If he has

enough pluck he may try it the third

time. At last he concludes, “ The no

use to try,” and he “wasn’t cut out for

a farmer anyhow,” and he turns his

attention to something else, and thus

the boy who might have made a suc-

cessful farmer is turned away from

the farm by the very means calculat-

ed to keep him on the farm.



Wouldn’t it be better, wherever corn

clubs are formed and contests are

held, to secure the services of some-

one who knows the score card and is

acquainted with the principles of seed

selection, and who has been fairly suc—

cessful in contests of this kind, then

get the boys together in groups and

let him take them through the prac-

tice of selection by the score card,

give them some of the vital points in

seed selection, etc., a few hours of this

work, while it would not make them

experts would start them in the right

direction. Object lessons are more

easily learned and are more attractive

than printed lessons.



Certainly it is unfair to the boy to

let him put in one or two summers of

hard work with failure inevitable and

discouragement certain, when it would

cost so little to start him right. Cer-

tainly, if any benefit is being derived

on’account of some of the boys doing

well, the benefit would be multiplied

if all of them were dOing their best.



The question of cultural methods

has been thoroughly threshed out,

while the question of seed selection

has been sadly neglected.



Teach the boy how to select his seed

from which to grow his crop, then if

he is going to exhibit, teach him how

to select his sample, and he will do

the rest, and you will find him doing

his work intelligently from start to

finish.



Hillsdale Co. D. E. TURNER.





THE TRAMP QUESTION.





 





The tramp question as discussed by

J. A. Kaiser in your issue of Decem-

ber 4, certainly should be given state-

wide attention.



The writer ls interested in both

manufacturing and farming and has

found by experience they are just as

big a nuisance around a factory as

they are on a farm. Any person who

feeds an able-bodied tramp is doing

himself and the tramp a grave in-

justice.



I would suggest when our state rep-

resentative asks for your vote next

fall that you tell him frankly that he

must help enact an anti-tramp law if

he gets your vote. If the farmers will

start the ball rolling every city and

village will surely help to work for

this kind of legislation. Make it a.

misdemeanor to ask for food or alms

by any person who is not a resident

of the township unless said person

has a written permit to do so, signed

by a resident physician or the super-

intendent of the poor, and punishment

to be not less than 60 days in county

jail.



When a law of this kind is passed

there will be more labor available,

less cases of larceny, less losses from

fire caused by tramps smoking in our

haymows, and if we should by chance

he called out in the evening our wives

need have no fear of tramps.



Eaton Co. F. H. B.





 





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Ashes should never be mixed with

manure as this practice involves the

loss of the most valuable fertilizing

constituent of the manure, namely,

nitrogen. The lime in the ashes con-

verts the nitrogen of the manure into

ammonia gas which quickly escapes

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Growing Pears for Profit.





HE pear is one of our most de-

l licious fruits,"_but unfortunate-

‘ ly it is" the least dependable of

all our tree'fr'uits. In fact, the prob-

abilities of failure in the culture of

this fruit are so great that those who

understand the present conditions

have abandoned planting pears with

the exception of one or two varieties.



There is no mystery about the

causes of failure. The pear tree is

easy to grow, it flourishes in almost

any soil and climate, and b10sSoms

and produces fruit quite as regularly

as other kinds of tree fruits, but it is

subject to a bacterial disease, the

blight, which is so deadly and hard to

combat that pear culture has been

practically abandoned throughout a

great part of the central states. Of

all the varieties there is only one

that can be planted with much con-

fiednce and that is the Keiffer.



The Value of the Keiffer Pear.



What the Keiffer has been worth to

the nation is difficult to estimate, but

we are safe in saying that without it

the pear would have almost totally

disappeared from a large section of

this country. I should, then, recom-

mend the Keiffer as the variety to

plant in the proportion of at least

ten to one of any other kind. It is

not a pear of high quality but if pick-

ed early and laid away in a cool, dark

place it will ripen up into a very fair

table fruit.



Its greatest value is in its canning

qualities where it is easily the equal

or superior of high quality sorts and

consequently the housewife annually

piits up millions of bushels when, in

its absence, she would have to go

without any. The Keiffer is a large

pear and the trees bear abundantly.

Along in the fall it turns from green

to a beautiful golden yellow that has

deceived many an innocent purchas-

er, for this rich color is no sign of

mellowness and usually the pear is

found to be hard and unfit to eat.

When laid away, however, it soon be-

comes mellow.



The next best kind for general

planting is the Garber, a sort of twin

brother to the Keiffer, resembling it

much in its vigorous habits of growth

and resistance to blight. It has also

the valuable features of ripening near-

ly a month ahead of the Keiffer, of

being a handsomer pear and of bet-

ter eating grade. For canning it is

a good market pear and sells well on

any market, and it comes in enough

earlier to avoid competition with the

Keiffer. I have found it slower to

come into bearing but this may have

been partly due to over-rich soil.



The Quality Pears.



It is no use planting such varieties

as the Bartlett and Clapp’s Favorite,

splendid in quality but so subject to

the blight in many places that the

planter is lucky if he gets the benefit

of one crop.



I should plant some Seckel and a1-

so try a few dwarf Anjou and Duch-

ess. The dwarfs flourish in rich soil

and can be planted around the yard

and garden. Ashes and soapsuds

to their health and vigor.



In choosing a site for a pear or-

chard I should select a poor piece of

land, one in which there would be no

danger of their making a rapid

growth. Long experience has taught

that fast grewing trees are always

the first to succumb to the blight,

while slower growing ones are the

most exempt. A soil with little nitro-

gen in it is what we want for the

pear, but potash and phosphorus

should be applied if at all deficient in

order that the fruit may be large and

well colored.



In addition to a thin soil the growth

of the trees may be further checked

by sowing the land in grass which is

usually advisable as soon as the trees

are large enough to come into hear-

ing. Until they do, it is best to stim-

ulate the young trees with cultivation

so that they may the sooner arrive at

fruiting size. There is no profit in

stunting trees when they are young.



In local markets the Keiffer usually





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sells for one dollar a bushel but in ‘

the large cities they sold last year

wholesale for only 30 to 50 cents.

Even at 50 cents there is a good prof-

it in raising this pear for they will

bear earlier and more heavily than

apples.



While there is no remedy for the

blight the trees can be rendered

much mere resistant by spraying

them regularly with lime-sulphur so-

lution, either the self-boiled or the

commercial kinds. Cutting out of all ,

blighted wood and disinfecting of the

wounds with corrosive sublimate

will prove almost a complete check

and controller in most cases.





New York. S. VANAKEN.





MULCHING THE STRAWBERRIES.





 





Mulching the strawberries was fin-

ished December 7, which was consid-

erable later than usual, the work hav-

ing been delayed because of other

work. However, the plants suffered

no injury through the delay, for there

had been thus far no severe freezing,

and beside, an early mulch- had been

made in October over the 16-inch

space between the twin rows. For this

early mulch, beet tops, gladiola strip—

pings, and cornstalks were used. No

part of this material was permitted

to overlap the crowns, though a con-

siderable portion of the leaves, many'

of which overlapped across the space,

were, of course, covered. This mulch

would have afforded considerable pro-

tection in the event of a heavy freeze.

Then, too, there was a little snow part

of the time.





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local demand, so that some outside

market must be found for any surplus

Which accumulates in the merchant’s

refrigerator.



In Benzonia, we have two trades-

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‘ and ship this butter as to get a bet-





ter price than that paid for packing

stock. Much of the surplus butter

they shipped was of good quality, and

by sorting this out and shipping it to

Cadillac or other city markets, it was

hoped that the returns would be great-

-er than if all the individual rolls and

crocks were packed together in a. sin-

gle barrel into which they were dump-

ed from their original containers. This

expectation was not realized, how-

ever; farm butter from small villages

is almost universally classed as pack-

ing stock, and sent to the renovators;

it cannot compete with creamery but-

ter, and as dairy butter it varies so

greatly in quality that the retailers in

the cities have no faith in it.

The Local Merchant Loses.



The consequence is that the village

merchant has to be satisfied with a

net return of 18 cents on butter for

which he has paid 22 cents. On one

shipment of 600 pounds, a Benzonia

merchant lost $75. To be sure, the

merchant has to make good this loss

by adjusting his margin of profit on

other goods handled. It is plainly evi-

dent, however, that neither the farmer

nor the merchant nor the consuming

public are getting the proper satisfac-

tion from such a system of handling

the product. ,



As pointed out by the Benzonia mer-

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tendency in modern grocery work is

to put up produce in small cartons

and labeled and weighed packages,

rather than to handle the various com-

modities in bulk. One solution of the

farm butter problem which this mer-





butter be printed by the farmer in one-

pound molds, and handled in cartons

bearing the name of the farmer as a

guarantee of the contents of the pack-

age. This merchant said that he al-

ready had one butter maker among

his patrons, who adopted the pound

roll, to whom he paid 29 cents when

others were only paid 22 cents.



Good Demand for Quality Butter.



In other words, there is always a

fair demand for topnotch butter, and

it would seem that if the farmer can

cater to the needs of the retail trade,

with a fancy product rather than com-

pel his merchant to act as a distribut-

ing agent for something that nobody

wants, he could realize a greater re-

turn for his dairy butter.



From the farmer’s point of view, the

suggestions for the solution of the

problem presented by the merchant

were various. Mr. R. B. Reynolds, of

Bendon, states that in his village the

difficulty is solved by shipping cream.

Butter is amanufactured product, and

if it is to be uniform in quality, it must

be made under competent supervision.

Mr. Reynolds and some fifteen of his

neighbors ship their cream individual-

ly to the Blue Valley Creamery of

Grand Rapids, and in this way the

only farm-made butter placed on the

local merchant’s counter is that com-

ing from the dairyman who has but

two or three cows, and cannot accum-

ulate cream in sufficient quantities to

warrant his hauling it to the depot.



What a Local Merchant is Doing.



During the past summer, the Ben-

zonia merchant who lost $75 on a ship-

ment of packing stock has been on-

deavoring to get the farmers to ship

their cream. His method isto gather

the cream twice a week, using his

auto; test a sample from each can

by the Babcock method for the, deter-

mination of butter-fat, then to place

the various lots of cream in ten gal-





 





chant suggested was that the dairy,





- JAN. 17,1916.





lon cans and ship it to one of the

nearest creamerles. In making ‘ the

returns to the farmers, he pays at

the rate allOwed by the creamery, less

two cents for express and one cent for

handling and testing.



This method has proven very pop-

ular with a number of farmers. They

are relieved from the responsibility of

churning, or of hauling cream to the

depot. As one farmer expressed it,

“if Judson can haul my can of cream

for fifteen cents, I’ll let him, for .I

don’t figure that I can afford to at

that price.” Having the merchant call

on the farmer periodically for cream

frequently proves an advantage, too,

in that an order can be placed for

groceries needed, thus saving the

farmer a trip to town, and allowing

the merchant to tax the capacity of

his auto or delivery wagon.



The Butter-fat Test.



Other farmers, however, hang back

in suspicion at the Babcock test.

had a creamery built in Beulah not

much more than a year ago, and the

complaint of the farmers in many cas.

as was that their fat test, and conse-

quently their cream check, varied in a.

manner which excited their belief that

there was something wrong with the

test. This may or may not have been

true, but the fact remains that at

present the creamery is idle, having

died from lack of patronage. Many of

these same farmers still insist that the

best way to determine the richness of

their cream is to churn it and sell the

butter. In cases where these farmers

have worked up a local trade at same

such price as 30 cents the year around

to private customers, it doubtless is

true that at times the pay check from

a creamery would not compare favor-

ably with the return from local butter

sales.



In spite of the fact that some farm

butter makers can get the highest

price for their product, the fact that

faces the merchant who handles the

bulk of the output is that the supply

exceeds the demand. We can hardly

blame the merchant, therefore, when

he seeks to get the farmers to ship

their cream. E. H. BROWN.





 





THE BEST ENSILAGE CORN.





 





What kind of corn is best to plant

for silo corn, and what distance apart

each way? ’ W. D.



To all such inquiries I would say





dent corn that would properly ma-

ture in each locality is the best crop

to grow for the silo. Other crops can

be substituted at times for corn to

good advantage, it com fails, for in-

stance, or if some other crop cannot

be secured in any other way, but all

things considered, corn is best for the

silo and the silo is best for the com.



I would use a larger and later ma-

turing variety of corn. in southern

Michigan than in northern Michigan.

It is stating the matter correctly to

say, grow the largest variety of dent

corn for the silo that will properly ma-

ture in that locality. It would not be

good business to grow a small early

variety in southern Michigan because

a larger variety will furniSh more

food per acre, and it would not be ad-

visable to grow a large southern vari-

ety in northern Michigan because that

variety would not properly mature.

Ensilage corn should be glazed and

much of it dented before it is fit to

put into the silo.





HOLSTEIN BREEDERS' MEET.





 





The West Michigan Holstein Breed-

ers’ Association held an interesting

and well attended meeting December

8 at the Association of Commerce

Building, Grand Rapids. 'President

Arthur Clarke was in the chair, and

first came some impressions of a visit





We





paid by E. W. McNittto the farm of;





Francis M. Jones, of Clinton, N. Y},

where the first 44-pound A. R. O. cow

was bred and developed. The cele—

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her dam and was pleased with her. .





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that cows in good flesh seemed to hold

up better at the pail, though there are

good individuals in both types. He

likes a cow with good muzzle, wide

between the eyes, and good barrel,

with well sprung ribs, and not meaty

over the shoulders.



Elmer W. McCoy, who led in the

discussion, also agreed that the cow

that puts on a little flesh is a better

performer at the pail. W. M. Willard

says he likes a smooth, well propor-

tioned cow and knows she makes a

pound of butter cheaper than does the

ungainly, peaked, loose animal. It was

the general opinion that thick necks

, in heifers are desirable, as thesur—

' plus flesh will soon go after fresh-



ening.



Secretary Lilly, of the West Michi-

gan State Fair, thanked the breeders

for their support at the fair this year

and asked for suggestions as to how

to make the fair better this coming

season. A committee composed of W.

M. Willard, Peter Both and C. Huns-

berger, was appointed to confer with

the secretary regarding fair matters.

Secretary Harper stated that milk and

butter contests at fairs are jokes and

amount to nothing.



Holstein milk advertising in Grand

Rapids, its advantages and disadvan-

tages, were discussed at the afternoon

session by C. Hunsberger, W. M. Wil-

lard, H. E. Rising, of Woodland, and

others. Cyrus Hunsberger, who was

in active charge of the publicity work

that was started last spring, gave a

report that was substantially as fol-

lows: The appropriation of $50 that

was made by the associationl to start

with, was not sufficient and at a con-

ference of breeders it was recom-



' - mended to ask for voluntary contribu-

tions from owners of pure—bred cattle,

‘ t " the sum asked being $1 per cow. The

total sum raised for advertising reach-

ed $233, and there is a balance on

hand of $12. Display advertisements

were first used in the daily papers,

then classified advertisements, then

street car advertising was tried, the

cards bearing cuts of black and white

cattle, and reading something as fol-

lows: “Mothers with poorly nourish-

ed children should use Holstein milk.”

The street car advertising is still in

progress. D. E. Waters, of Grand

Rapids, contributing another $50, and

others doing as well as they fell able

to in continuance of the publicity.

Mr. Hunsberger also went to the city

hall and copied birth records, as the

basis of direct appeals by letter to

these homes regarding the value of

Holstein milk for children.

The report of the Grand Rapids





   





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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tween the fingers of big Bryce

Langdon as he sat at one of



the correspondence tables of the Vin-

cene House at Altona, with his head

propped upon a broad calloused hand,

lost in thought. His eyes were di-

rected at an ink stained blotter, but

he saw nothing. He had journeyed

from his farm near Brannock to the

city upon an unpleasant mission and

he feared little good would result.

Two harvests back, John Dalton, a

neighbor’s son, had left home after an

altercation with his stern father and

traveled to the city where he sought

employment. After many futile calls





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Turning the New Leaf





By Bill Himself.





he succeeded in hiring himself to a

contractor at a modest wage.



Being accustomed to hard work and

long hours upon the farm, John felt

that by reason of his energy and faith-

fulness he was gaining the good fav-

or of the foreman. He nurtured this

feeling until one Saturday night late





in November when he was cooly told

that his services were no longer

needed.





The days.,that followed brought





conditions too trying for his nature

and after a fortnight he sought shel-

ter in a cheap lodging house. Congen-

ial spirits soon tempted him to go be-

yond the discipline of his early life,

and it was not long before he was

rapidly traveling the beaten path

down through the different stages of

idleness, drinking, carousing and

gambling, until one day a year later

John found himself in a room of a

rescue mission, telling a kindly look-





ing social worker his history and

troubles.



On the morning of the following day

a letter was received at the Dalton

home addressed to John’s mother in

the strange hand writing of the mis-

sion worker.



Mrs. Dalton, a submissive and over-

worked. woman, was soon in tears,

and knowing the unrelenting disposi-

tion of her husband took counsel over

the telephone with her near neighbor,

Mrs. Langdon. This resulted in Bryce

Langdon’s trip to the city.



At the mission the wayward son

was found seated in a much used

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over a somewhat dissipated face rais:

ed some doubt as to the young man’s

identity.



Had John been warned of Mr. Lang-

don’s coming, in all probability he

would have avoided a meeting, but it

was now too late. Recognizing his





old friend, the disgraced'youth hesi— ‘





tatingly arose and extended his hands

with the words, “I’m most ashamed

to show myself, Mr. Langdon, but

I’m glad you’ve happened in.”



“Haven’t things been going well?’,’

was the sympathetic query.



“Everything’s going wrong, as you

may guess,” replied John apologetical—

1y, “I’m about done,” and he turned

his face to the floor.



Seating themselves in a quiet cor-

ner of the mission, the older man, by

kindly questioning, learned much of

the boy’s trouble, and while the lat-

ter felt keenly the disgrace that had

come upon him, he did not seem in-

clined to accept suggestions made by

his benefactor, especially any refer-

ence to his returning home.





“A jump from the bridge would be

easier for me than to return to Bran—

nock,” he rejoined. “No, I cannot go

back.”



“T’will be hard no doubt, but things

are hard with you here, John, besides

you owe something to your parents.”





“To my mother I owe much, but to

father’s unreasonable demands for

work I credit my presence here. You

know, Mr. Langdon, that the old farm

hasn’t a modern thing on it, and I was

always criticized if I failed to do

barehanded what the neighbor boys

did with proper equipment.”



“But if your father would meet

you half-way?” queried the anxious

nan.



“I have the smallest confidence in

his changing. No, Mr. Langdon, while

I appreciate your interest in me, I

will not return.”



The look in the young man’s face

was resolute, and Mr. Langdon well

understood the futility of pressing

his appeal further at this time.



“John, I can’t go and leave you like

this. Come over to the hotel with

me and we’ll go by ourselves and

spend the evening.”



But that same independence which

stood in the way of the young man’s

going back to Brannock not only

brought a decline to this invitation,

but also the refusal of an offer of

financial assistance. .



“I’ll pull myself together,” contin~

ued John, “and‘make a go of it, or I’ll

abide by the results.”



“You’re plucky, John,” spoke the el-

der man in a low voice with his eyes

fixed upon the other. “But the diffi-

culties are large. A little assistance

now will aid you more than it would

later. Would you object to my com-

ing to see you again tomorrow morn-

ing?”



“No, Mr. Langdon, there are no ob-

jections, but do not entertain any

hope of persuading me to go back to

Brannock; my mind is made up on

that point.”



That same dogged quality that had

made the father a severe master was

observed by Mr. Langdon in the son.

His close acquaintance with the fam-

ily caused him to doubt the possibil-

ity of reconciling this young man and

his father, as he walked slowly back

to the hotel. At the telegraph office

he wired this message:



“James Dalton,



Need your assistance. Come



down on evening train. At



Vincene. Bryce Langdon.”



“The telegram was misunderstood

by Dalton and he made haste to com-

ply with the request to assist his old

neighbor. At the hotel he came

upon Mr. Langdon seated at the cor-

respondence table.



“What’s the trouble, Bryce?"



"Hello, Jim, here before I expected

you. Come up to my room. There

are some matters you and I must talk

over tonight.” '



The two broad shouldered, bronze

faced farmers commanded attention

as they passed through the lobby, ab-

sorbed in thought. At room '105 they





Brannock.





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preliminaries. Mr. Langdon was the





.first to speak.





“Jim, I don’t know how you’ll take

matters, but I’ve called you down‘

here because of John.”



“What? John?”



“Yes, he’s here in town.”



“You well know, Bryce, that that boy

and I have parted for good, and I

shall have nothing to do with any

matter which concerns him.”





“Yes, I know,” replied Langdon a

little uncertain how to proceed, and

then continued, "But the circumstan-

ces are such that unless something is

done immediately, this boy may be

driven to acts that may publicly dis-

honor the name he bears.”



The suggestion of a possible dis-

grace, together with the sympathetic

tone in the voice of the speaker had

a penetrating effect that resulted in

Dalton’s yielding a point by asking

the question, “Where is he?”



“He is down and out Jim, and is

now taking lodging in the Clark Street

Mission.”



“He couldn’t stand it. I’ve al—

ways thought he lacked the Dalton

spirit,” replied the father half to his

companion and half to himself, and

after a moment’s silence he leaned

toward his neighbor and added,

“Bryce, this boy’s course is no sur-

prise. It proves the wisdom of my

attitude toward him.”





Langdon was thoughtful. Inwardly

he felt that the boy’s accusation

made in the afternoon’s conversation

was largely true, but would he gain

or lose the father’s assistance by re

lating’ it? Then, too, if the idea was

to’ be suggested, should it be as Lang-

don’s.opinion or as that of the boy?

But before these questions were quite

across his mind, a more promising





' course intruded.





“Jim, these problems are badly

mixed. It is often diflicult to deter-

mine just who is responsible for cer-

tain results. About ten years ago I

was fully confident that everything a

man in my circumstances could do

was being done to make life tolerable

and comfortable for the family. But

one night a heart to heart talk with

Mrs. Langdon caused me to realize

some shortcomings. It was gracefully

pointed out that I had individual

drinking fountains for the cows, but

the women folks could run several

rods from the house every time they

wanted water; my stables were per-

fectly ventilated, while the sleeping

rooms in the house each had one pes-

ky little window; the best driving har-

ness was fitted with silver mountings,

but the family used pewter spoons,

and so on. That night I did not sleep,

but kept awake thinking of what I

might do to redeem myself. This

thinking resulted, as you may recall,

in the installation of the water sys-

tem with baths, etc., the power wash-

er, the furnace, and finally the elec-

tric plant which Mrs. Langdon has

quite fallen in love with. I confess,

too, that I hardly "missed the money

these improvements demanded, but I

did enjoy life a hundred times more

because the Wife and girls thereafter

had energy left to get really acquaint~

ed with me. Now the hard thing about

the matter was that I had thought I

was doing the best by them when in

reality I was very selfish—”





The shrill scream of a whistle, the

clatter of horses’ feet and the rumb-

ling of wheels over the pavement

brought the two men to the window

where they saw people rushing by

and an instant later flames leaping

from a four-story building in the ad

jacent block. Hurrying to the street

they succeeded finally in getting near

the firemen who were tugging with

the heavy hose. Suddenly the atten-

tion of the throng became fixed upon

the act of some courageous civilian.

He was scaling an adjacent roof and

making his way toward an unfortu-

nate woman who was appealing for

help from one of the upper stories of

the burning building.



“Bryce, few men would undertake

that,” said Dalton in a. spirit of ad-

miration, as the man found an old

window shutter and-upl‘acmg it upon

the coping 'of the roof formed a bridge





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to thc'sill of the window where the

frantic, woman was something. The

bridge inclined dangerously and, was

no fit support for theweight of a man,

at such aheight. By thoughtfully dis-

tributing his bodily weight the rescu-





er succeeded .in reaching the window_





and finally pulled himself up beside

the woman.



The crowd was breathless. Besides

the predicament of the two persons,

it was apparent that the woman was

fainting. It seemed to tax the strength

of the man to hold on and prevent

her from tumbling down between the

buildings. Already the flames were

reaching adjacent windows, and from

no direction except up and over the

roofs did it seem possible for anyone

to offer assistance; But with a tug

and a swing that seemed miraculous,

the man succeeded in placing the body

of the woman upon the shutter with-

out knocking it down. He painfully

hung on and at the same time labor.

ed to slide her down toward the oth-

er roof. Her body moved until her

feet caught against the wall at one

side of the blind, when his best efforts

made no further headway. So, lifting

his end of the frail bridge and

slowly working the opposite end from

the top of the brick coping and then

giving the whole a shove, he succeed-

ed in slipping the woman and blind

over onto the roof some three feet

below.





There was a cheer from the crowd,

but it was short, as the man had cut

off his own escape. His only remain-

ing course lay) in jumping thechasm

between the uildings. he distance

was perhaps nine or ten feet. He had

the advantage of being a little above

the coping of the roof opposite, but

there were handicaps that made the

jump a real athletic feat. .However,

he had no choice, and redoubling his

energy leaped. His feet struck the





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side of the wall and dislodged tiles

caused the, hands to lose their hold'

and in a second his body Went tumb-

ling out of sight of the spectators.

But a fire squad had by this time

reached the roof, and soon the uncon-

scious woman was receiving first aid.

The man had fallen a short distance

onto a network of wires where it, was

possible for the firemen to rescue him





' with their ladders.





The morning papers featured the

heroic effort of the man. He was a

tramp but would not tell his name. At

the hospital he confessed that he was

on his way to the river brid e when

he hea dthe fire alarm, saw t e burn-

ing bui dmg and the pleading woman.

He then forgot his purpose and be-

came possessed with the idea of res-

cuing her.



The description given and the ciro

cumstances led Bryce Langdon to sue.

pect that the rescuer might be John

Dalton, sohe called the mission and-

learned that the youn man had left

at about the time the e started.



“Jim,” he said, after they had break-

fasted, “let’s go over to the hospital

and see the fellow who rescued the

woman last night.”



“Glad to do so, Bryce. I cannot get

out of my mind the pluck of that

man,” was the answer.



At the hospital Langdon knew at

once that his inference was correct,

but the unshaven and swollen face,

however, made a successful mask

against the father’s recognition.



“Bruised badly and his left forearm

is broken,” volunteered the nurse.

“But there is no reason to believe he

will not recover.”



“Like to talk to him when he

awakes, and will be back in an hour."



0n nearing the hotel Dalton broke

the silence by asking about John.



"You may not belieVe me, but John





'was the hero who rescued the woman





last night.” -



This unexpectednews startled the

father who, in an uncertain voice re~

plied “Bryce Langdon, I can’t under-

stan you. That was not John.” The

sentence was half question and half

exclamation.



The only proof Langdon could offer





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CHAPTER V.





“Majesty, I must ‘run down to the

siding,” said Alfred Hammond, con~

suiting his watch. “We’re loading a

shipment of cattle. I’ll be back by

supper time, and bring Stillwell with

me. You’ll like him. Give me the

check for your trunk.”



She went into the little bedroom

and, talking up her bag, got out a

number of checks.



“Six! Six trunks!” he exclaimed.

“Well, I’m very glad you intend to

stay a while. I hope you packed a

riding-suit. If not, you’ll have to wear

trousers. You’ll have to do that, any-

way, when we go up in the moun-

tains."



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“You sure will,.as Florence says.”



“We shall see about that. I don’t

know what’s in the trunks. I never

pack anything. My dear brother, What

do I have maids for?”



“How did it come that you didn’t

travel with a maid?”



“I wanted to be alone; but don’t

you worry—I shall be able to look

after myself. I dare say it will be

good'for me.”



She went to the gate with him.



“What a shaggy, dusty horse! He’s

wild, too! Do you let him stand that

way, without being haltered? Ishould

think he would run off.”



“Tenderfoot! You’ll be great fun,

Majesty, especially for the cowboys;

and in three days they’ll be fighting

one another over you. That’s going

to worry me. Cowboys fall in love

with a plain woman, an ugly woman—

any woman, so long as she’s young.

And you! Good Heavens, they’ll go

out of their heads I”



“You are pleased to be facetious,

Alfred. I think I, have had quite

enough of cowboys, and} I haven’t

been here twenty-four hours."



“Don’t think too much of first im-

pressions. That was ,my mistake

Good-by—I’Il go





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now. Better rest a while. u You look

tired.”



The horse started as Alfred put his

foot in the stirrup, and was running

when the rider slipped his leg over

the saddle. Madeline watched him in

admiration. He seemed to be loosely





fitted to the saddle, moving with the





horse.



“I suppose that’s cowboy style,” she

said. “How different from the seat

of the English Guards!”





Then Madeline sat upon the porch

and fell to interested observation of

her surroundings. Near at hand» they

were not prepossessing. - The street

was deep in dust, and the cool wind

whipped up little puffs. The houses

were low, square, flat-roof structures

made of some kind of red cement. It

occurred to her that this must be the

adobe she had read about.



There was no one in sight. The

long street appeared to have no end,

though the line of houses did not ex-

tend far. Once she heard a horse

trotting at some distance, and several

times the ringing of a locomotive-bell.

Where were the mountains? wonder-

ed Madeline. Soon, low over the

house-roofs, she saw a rugged outline,

dark-blue in the distance. It seemed

to charm her eye and fix her gaze.





She knew the Adirondacks; she had

seen the Alps from the summit of

Mount Blane; she had stood under the

mighty shadow of the Himalayas; but

they had not drawn her as these re.

mote Rockies. This dim horizon'l‘i‘ne,

boldly cutting the blue sky, laminated

her. Florence Kingsley’s expression,

“beckoning mountains," returned to

Madeline. She could not see or feel

so much as that. Her impression was

rather that these mountains were

aloof, unattainable, that if approached

they would recede or vanish like the

desert mirage.



Madeline went to her room, intend-

ing to rest, and she fell asleep; She



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was aroused by Florence's knock and

call. ’



“Miss Hammond—your brother has

come back with Stillwell.”



“Why, how I have slept!" exclainr

ed Madeline. "It's nearly six o’clock."



"I'm sure glad. You were tired, and

the air here makes strangers sleepy.

Come, we want. you to meet old Bill.

He calls himself the last of the cattle-

men. He has lived all his life in Tex-

as and here.”



Madeline accompanied Florence to

the porch. Her brother, who was sit-

ting near the door, jumped up and

said:



“Hello, Majesty!"



“I want to introduce my friend Still-





ter I’ve so often told you about—Ma-

jesty.”



“Wal, wal, AI, this is the proudest

meetin’ of my life!” He extended a

huge hand. “Miss-Miss Majesty,

sight of you is as welcome as the rain

an’ the flowers to an old desert cattle-

man."



It was all that Madeline could do to

repress a cry as he crunched her hand

in a grasp of iron. He was old, white-

haired, weather-beaten, with long tur-

rows down his cheeks, and with gray

eyes almost hidden in wrinkles. If he

was smiling,“ it was a most extraordi-





. nary smile; but an instant later she





realized that it had been a smile, for

his face appeared to stop rippling, the

light died, and suddenly it was like

rudely chiseled stone. The quality of

hardness that she had seen in Stewart

was immeasurably intensified in this

old man’s face.



“Miss Majesty, it’s plumb humiliat-

in’ to all of us thet we wasn’t on hand

to meet you,” Stillwell said. “Me and

Al stepped into the P. 0. an' said a

few mild an’ cheerful things. Them

messages ought to hev been sent out

to the ranch. I’m afraid it was a bit

unpleasant fer you last night.”



“I was rather anxious, at first, and

perhaps frightened,” replied Madeline.



“Wal, I’m some, glad tt: tell you

thet there's no man in these parts, ex-

cept your brother, thet I’d as lief’ hev

meet you as Gene Stewart.”



“Indeed?”



“Yes, an' thet’s takin’ into consider-

ation Gene's weakness, too. I'm allus

fond of sayin’ myself thet I’m the last

of the old cattlemen. Wal, Stewart’s

the last of the cowboys. Sure, he's

young, but he’s the last of the old, pic-

turesque style, an’ chivalrous, too, I

make bold to say, Miss Majesty, as

well as the hard-ridin’ kind. Folks

are down on Stewart. I’m only sayin’

a good word for him because he is

down, an’ mebbe last night he might

hev scared you, you bein’ fresh from

the east."



Madeline liked Stillwell for his loy-

alty to the cowboy, but she remained

silent.



"Miss Majesty, the day of the cattle-

man is about over; an’ the day of the

cowboy, such as Gcnc Stewart, is over.

There’s no place for Gene. If these

weren’t modern days, he’d come near

bein’ a gunman, same as we had in

Texas when I ranched. there in the

seventies. But he can’t fit nowhere

now; he can’t hold a job, an’ he’s goin’

down.”



“I’m sorry to hear it,” murmured

Madeline. “But, Mr. Stillwell, aren’t

these modern days out here just a

little wild, even yet? The conductor

on my train told me of rebels, bandits,

raiders. Then I have had other im-

pressions of—well, that were wild

enough for me."



“Wal, it’s some more pleasant an’

excitin’ these days than for many

years,” replied Stillwell. “The boys

hev took to packin’ guns again. owin’





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JAN.‘ 1, '1916. '





Grande valley. An’ these little towns

are full of greasers, all disturbed by

the fightin’ down in Mexico. We’ve

been hevin’ shootin’ scrapes an’ knifin,

scrapes, an’ some cattle-raidin’. I hev

been Iosin’ a few Cattle right along.

Reminds me of old times, an’ pretty

soon, if it doesn’t stop, I’ll take the

old-time way to stop it.”



“Yes, indeed, Majesty,” put in Al-

fred, “you have hit upon an interest

ing time to visit us.”



“Wall, that sure ’pears to be so:”

rejoined Stillwell. “Stewart got in

trouble down heah today, an’ I’m more

than sorry to hev to tell you thet your

name figgered in it. But I couldn’t

blame him, fer I sure would hev done

the same myself.”



"That 80?” queried Alfred, laugh-

ing. “Well, tell us about it.”



It required no great perspicuity,

Madeline thought, to see that Stillwell

loved to talk. The way he squared

himself and spread his huge hands

over his knees suggested that he

meant to do justice to this oppor-

tunity. .



"Miss Majesty, I reckon,~ bein’ as

you’re in the west now, that you must

take things as they come, an’ mind

each thing a little less than the one

before. If we old fellers hedn’t been

thet way we’d never hev lasted. Last

night wasn’t particular bad, ratin’

with some other nights lately. There

wasn‘t much doin’; but I had a. hard

knock. Yesterday, when we started in

with a bunch of cattle, I sent one of

my cowsboys, Danny Mains, along

ahead, carryin’ money I bed to pay off

the hands, an' I wanted thet money to

get in town before dark. Wal, Danny

never showed up. I don’t distrust the

lad. I’m plumb sure he’s been held

up on the trail. There’s been strange

greasers in town lately, an’ mebbe

they knew about the money comin’.

Wal, when I arrived with the cattle,

I was some put to it to make ends

meet; an’ today I wasn’t in no angelic

humor. W'hen I hed my business all

done, I went around pokin’ my‘ nose

heah an’ there, tryin’ to get scent of

ihet money. I happened in at a hall

we hev thet does duty fer jail and

hospital an’ election-post an’ what

not. Wal, jest then it was doin’ duty

as a hospital. Last night was fiesta

night—these greasers hev a fiesta ev-

ery week or so—an’ one greaser who

hed been bad hurt was layin’ in the

hall, where he hed been fetched 'from

the station. Somebody hed sent off

to Douglas fer a doctor, but he hedn’t

come yet. I’ve hed some experience

with gunshot wounds, an’ I looked

this teller over. He wasn’t shot up

much, but I thought there was danger

.of blood—poisonin’.



“The hall was full of cowboys,

ranchers, greasers, miners, an’ town

folks, along with some strangers. I

was about to get started up this way





. when Pat Hawc come in. Pat, he’s





the sheriff. I reckon, Miss Majesty,

thet sheriffs are new to you, an’ for

sake of the west I’ll explain to you

thet we don’t hev many of the real

thing any more. Garrett, who killed

Billy the Kid, an’ was killed himself

near a year or so ago-he was the

kind of sheriff that helps to make a

self-respectin’ country. But this Pat

Hawe—wal, I reckon there’s no good

in me sayin’ what I think of him. He





come into the hall, an’ he was roarin’.





about things. He was goin’ to arrest

Danny‘ Mains on sight. He swore

Danny made off with the money. Wal,

I jest polite like told Pat thet the

money was mine, an’ he needn’t get

riled about it, but if I wanted to trail

the thief I reckon I could do it as well

as anybody. Pat howled thet law was

law, an’ be was goin’ to lay down the

law. Then be cooled down a bit, an’

was askin’ questions about the wound-

ed gi-easer when Gene Stewart come

in. Whenever Pat and Gene come to-

gether it reminds me of the old days,

for Pat hates Gene, an’ I reckon Gene

ain’t very sweet on Pat. '

(To be continued).





 





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JAE. 1, 1916.





TURNING A NEW LEAF. .





 





(Continued from page 10).



was the great change that had come

over the man which caused him

to doubt his identity on the prev1ous

afternoon. and he went on further to

say, “it was largely for this change

that I felt obliged to call you here.

Jim, it seems to me from what. we

have seen that John deserves a little

re ard.”



he thoughtful couple had reached

the ‘ hotel and were ascending the

stairs when a bellboy called Langdon’s

name. “ A telegram call, sir. Long

distance.”



At the other end was Mrs. Dalton.

She nervously attempted to excuse

her anxiety, but desired to know the

situation. In a few words Langdon

related the story of finding John in





the mission, his telegraphing, the fire,‘





rescue and accident and the visit to

the hospital.





' “John’s condition is not serious,” be

“But it will in all probar





continued.

bility require two weeks before he can

be removed. I feel sure it would help

if you would come down. Would you

care to speak to Jim?"



“Better not do so unless you think

it wise. Mrs. Langdon is here with

me,” was the reply.



“Call her to the phone, please.” In

the conversation that followed detail-

ed arrangements were completed for

Mrs. Dalton’s trip to the city. A day

later she was at the hospital while her

husband and Langdon were traveling

homeward. An event occurred before

their departure, however, that caused



don to wonder how things would

eventuall shape themselves:

who had earned from a later issue of

the morning papers, that the hero was

his son, refused to return to the hos-





pital with Langdon, and the latter was,





obliged to go alone. He did so, and





saw that the young man had the best





medical attention.





There are those who place little val-.5





ue in the word of mouth. Deeds are





the only evidence they will accept.‘





James Dalton talked in deeds. He said

nothing of plans, if he had them in





mind at the time he left the city, but,





during the two weeks of John’s con-

valescence, he did things which show-

ed him to be a changed man.

Christmas week saw the home in

disorder. Workmen had been busy





and it was not until the last days of '





the month that things were cleared

away.

to Mrs. Dalton, was this sentence:

“Impress upon John that his

father is very anxious for him

to return home, and I shall

be disappointed if you both

cannot be here for the New

Year holiday.”



It was a genuine welcome that the

mother and son received at the sta-

tion, for John had been persuaded,

while under the care of his mother, to

return to Brannock. When they pass-

the threshold that New Year’s eve,





they gasped at electric lights, at.





registers in the floor, and later were

startled at a motor washing machine,

running water and other strange

equipment.



It is as easy for some men to con-

fess their faults as it is diflicult for

others. With all the evidence about

that he had fully capitnlated, it re-

mained impossible for James Dalton

to speak of the matter, to tell his son

that he was sorry for things of the

past, and to confide to his wife that

during their many years of married

life he had imposed upon her good na-

ture by compelling her to do without

the things she was entitled to have.



But without this verbal confession

there seemed to be an understanding

between the three—the old restraint

was gone, the very air seemed freer

and there was only a strangeness pres-

ent for lack of expression of the

things they all felt, and here Mrs. Dal-

ton came to the rescue with the sim-





ple statement, “You know it seems





like we are beginning anew."

At that the old clock struck twelve





and simultaneously the telephone rang. '





and Bryce Langdon responded tothe

‘Helhfi’nwuh “A Happy New Year to

you a .





 





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To prove the brotherhood of man,



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To crgrwn with ove this glad New

ear.





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A message clear as song of Spring

And full of faith, of love and peace

A prophesy that war shall cease



nd nation unto nation (all

“Fling out the white flag over all

While we as brothers now will stand

United in one noble band

And God who sets from carnage free

Shall be our King on land and sea."





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even strokes of the broom went over

the rug, bearing down to loosen all

the dust. The surface looked clean

and bright when she had finished, but

Grace knew that when she used the

carpet sweeper tomorrow morning,

clouds of dust which the broom could

not touch would arise to fill her nos-

trils. ,



“I can’t do a bit better,” she sigh-

ed, “No flesh and blood woman could.

It needs a machine to clean carpets

where they are used like this.” With

a final sigh she turned to dusting. In

spite of the precautions of damp pa-

per everything was covered with a

thick coating of dust, and the “dust-

less” dust cloths required frequent

shakings at the door. As she came to

the mantle she caught sight of herself

in the mirror, and paused, fascinated

by the wierd sight. A coating of gray

dust covered her face and filled her

nostrils; a smudge adorned the end of

her nose, and her cap and apron,

which had been fresh when she start-

ed were streaked with grime and dust.



“Well, you are a sight,” she re-

marked to the vision in the glass.

“Wouldn’t you feel fine if the new

preacher and his wife should call this

minute? You’d better hurry and get

this place straightened around, for

Friday is their visiting day, and it

would be just your luck to have them

stop here today.”



A few minutes more sufliced to put

the room into presentable order and

by dint of slighting corners, with a

promise to do them sure next time,

she succeeded in cleaning the room

before time to start dinner, which

must be ready at twelve sharp if she

was to keep her record.



It was a very tired young woman

who dropped down in an easy chair

by the library table when the men

had finally finished dinner and de-

parted.



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she declared wearily. “You can have

washing machines, but sweeping

must be done by hand. Come to think,

though, must it?” she demanded of

the table full of magazines. “Who

said vacuum cleaner?”



She sat up briskly with the thought

and reached for the latest publica-

tions. Every farm paper she found

contained an advertisement or two of

some helpful sort of sweeper.





“Of course, it can’s be electric yet,”

she mused, turning the pages to study

the different kinds. “We haven’t the

power yet, but we’re going to have it,

though John doesn’t know that yet.

But almost any of these cleaners

would be better than a broom. They

take the dust up along with the sur-

face dirt and you save your complex-

ion, hands, lungs and temper. Imust

have one, but how?”



How! That was the question. The

Ludlows had just put in a furnace,

and Grace had a strong suspicion

which amounted almost to positive

conviction that John would buy noth-

ing more for the house that winter.

However, it was worth trying, so over

the fried ham and eggs, creamed po-

tatoes and coffee that evening, she

broached the subject.



“Bank’s busted,” John remarked

briefly, and devoted his entire atten-

tion to the delicately browned ham.



“But I really ought to have one,”

Grace urged. “All this dust getting

on my lungs is apt to cause tubercu-

losis.”



“That must be what ails mother,”

John replied, “She looks as if she was

going into a decline, doesn’t she?

What did she say she weighed, 225

pounds? And she’s been sweeping

carpets 40 years.”



“Your mother is different,” Grace

flung back. “The older generation

had stronger constitutions. I’ve got

to take care of myself.”



“Where’s today’s paper?” John de-

manded, rising suddenly and closing

the conversation. “If beans go any

higher. I’ll go out and shoot myself.

Highest price on record and I didn’t

raise one.”



He disappeared through the living

room door, and Grace, accepting her

defeat, arose to clear the table.



Still she must have a vacuum clean-

er. She had had no hopes of getting

the money from John, so she was not

in the least disappointed. Yet having

set her heart on owning one she would

not give up. A hand-power cleaner

would take no more strength to oper-

ate than sweeping with a broom re-

quired, and besides it would do better

work and there would not be the

clouds of dust which now bothered

her.



How should she get it? She pon.

dered ways and means as she washed

the dishes. She might save enough

out of the butter and egg money, in

time, but she was saving from that

now to buy a set of furs. Already she

had saved $12.50 towards a $15 set. A

sudden thought struck her. Why not

get the cleaner instead of the furs?

That white fox set she had been sav-

ing for wasn’t fox anyway; nothing

but a cheap imitation. Why buy it to

wear three or four months and then

lay away, and do without a household

necessity that could be used every

day in the year? The furs were so be-

coming, even if they were imitation!

But the cleaner would be more sensi-





ble. The white fur set off her pink

cheks so well! But if she kept on

covering her face with dust every

week she would soon be without pink

cheeks.



She sighed impatiently. Why could

not a person have everything she

wanted as soon as she thought of it

without having to plan and save and

give up one thing to get another? She

slammed the dishpan viciously on its

hook and went into the living-room to

read again the glowing descriptions

of vacuum cleaners, and look longing-

ly at the picture of the furs she had

selected from a mail order catalogue.

What should she do? John settled it.



“Going to order that cleaner to-

night?” he mocked teasingly. “It

ought to be here by next Friday if

youdo.”



He thought he had her and she

couldn’t get one, did he? Well, she

Would show him she wasn’t entirely

dependent. And the next day’s mail

bore away an order for a 1916 cleaner,

so light a child could run it, and war-

ranted to take up all dust.





THE JANUARY WHITE SALES.





 





BY GRACIA SHULL.



Farmers’ wives should keep a look-

out for the big, white sales held in the

cities in January. All large stores

hold them and real bargains are to be

had in muslins of all kinds, curtain

materials, bed spreads, lace curtains,

underwear, white cotton crepe, thread,

lace, white gloves and hosiery, table

linen, etc. In fact everything in white

may be purchased at from one-fourth

to one-half cheaper in January at

these big sales than at any other time

in the year.



It will pay to purchase an entire

bolt of. half bleached muslin and make

it up into sheets and pillow-slips. Em-

broider the pillow slips, using some

simple design or your monogram in-

side a wreath of leaves and eyelets.

Hemstitched or scalloped, the slips

will be handsome and expensive-look-

ing, but costing, in reality only a few

cents each.



January is the month to buy towel-

ing, either for kitchen, bathroom or

guest chamber: For eight cents a yard

I am able to purchase dainty, white

huck with neat floral patterns.‘ This

huck is 18 inches wide. I use it for

dresser and wash stand runners and

towels for my spare chamber. 1 hem-

stitch the ends, then set in a crochet

initial in the center of one end and on

the same end I sew crochet lace, us-

ing a simple pattern from one to three

inches wide.



White crepe night robes, combina-

tions, petticoats, drawers and corset

covers are extremely dainty, cool, com-

fortable and so easily laundered. Lit-

tle if any trimming is needed for these

crepe garments, although I use a bit

of tatting or crochet edging, beading,

and narrow silk ribbon and the cost

is very little.



White lisle gloves and hosiery

should always be purchased in mid-

winter, as one is able to purchase two

pairs at the price of one, if they will

only take interest and attend the big

sales. Farm women usually have more

time for sewing in January than they

have in June, and this is a good time





to do the purchasing and get the white

sewing “done up” and out of the way.

White lawns, swiss and dimities for

the children’s frocks and aprons,

white outing for the new baby’s diap-

ers and nighties, white yarn for the

sacques and booties and slumber robe

should be purchased, made up and

laid away until needed. Storage will

cost nothing and waiting to purchase

will cost a lot.





THE BEST CAKE “PLATE."

BY LEE M’CRAE.



When acting as one of the judges

at a recent state fair I was surprised

to see how few women—all fine cake-

makers—knew how to exhibit their

products. Fully two-thirds of the cakes

were displayed on Ordinary dinner

plates, the lower centers of which al-

lowed the best baked cake to sink in

the middle. This condition was es-

pecially noticeable in layer cakes as

the sinking of the plate and the soft

fillings worked together to ruin some

very fine ones. When fresh this set-

tling is not so noticeable but after

standing several days, as exhibits

must, it was marked enough to rob

several of well-earned prizes had they

been properly placed.



“A large, inverted lard can lid is

the best possible basis for a cake in a.

place of this kind,” said one of the

judges, a woman of skill and experi-

ence. “It gives the flat, smooth sur-

face necessary, extends out beyond

the cake, has a protecting rim, and is

inexpensive enough to leave behind

when the fair is over.”



Few, of course, enter such contests

as these, but many of our women senu

cakes to church or social affairs and

these should consider the best way of

caring for their fine wares.





CEREAL FOOD PRODUCTS.





 





(Continued from page 15).

dant and suitable supply from which

to select.



This has not, it seems, been suffi-

cient for human beings. Endowed

with teeth they fail to properly chew

their food, with acute olfactory nerves

and keen eyesight they fail to properly

select their food. With masticating

conveniences they fail to satisfactorily

mix their food and so it goes into the

stomach a. mass improperly selected,

improperly chewed and becomes a bur-

den many times instead of the bless-

ing intended.



The tiny one-celled organism has the

advantage of us after all. If it doesn’t

like the food with which it comes in

contact it bounds away and places its

affection elsewhere. In man particu-

larly he is burdened not only with se—

lecting the food, but he must provide

likewise for the removal of the reject-

ed material. Man’s greatest trial is

to provide some regular scheme which

will promote the onward movement of

the products in the alimentary canal

and thus bring about the removal of

the burned and rejected material——the

food residue.



Cereal breakfast foods have taught

men something. They have studied

themselves more and the effect has

been good.





Part of our family is very fond of

one kind of cake icing, which the rest

do not like, so» when I make a cake I

often have one-half of it frosted with

one kind of icing, and the other half

with another. I fix layer cakes in the

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Cereal Food Products

' By‘FLOYD W. ROBISON.





ROBABLY the greatest stimulus

to the study in general of die-

tetics has been brought about





through the examination of the cereal





breakfast foods. As we have stated

before, the origin of this class of pro-

ducts came about through a desire to

establish a scientific foundation for

the use of a certain type of food pro-

ducts. A considerable amount of suc-

cess attended the efforts of those who

were prescribing a special prolonged

preparation of Vegetable, and particu-

larly cereal foods, as cures for stom-

ach troubles. Disturbances of diges-

tion seemed to be a very prevalent

form of illness among our people and

it was not unnatural to ascribe this to

a lack of careful preparation of the

food previous to consuming it.



How Should Breakfast Foods be



Prepared.

Inasmuch as breakfast porridges of





. which oatmeal particularly, and in ad-





dition Wheat meal, formed a large

part of the diet, the question of how

these products should be best prepar-

ed to make them not only wholesome

and nourishing, but to secure the

greatest amount of nutrients which

they contain, has been a rather broad

topic of discussion. Many maintain

that oatmeal, for instance, should be

cooked at a boiling temperature for

two to four hours before it is suitable

for eating. Others have claimed that

it was simply necessary to stir into

boiling water a cupful of oatmeal and

allow it to simmer a few minutes,

when it would be entirely ready for

food. The real fact of the preparation

of these foods is, that very seldom

have they been sufficiently cooked.

Oatmeal is rarely cooked enough, corn

meal is rarely cooked enough, and

wheat meal has very rarely indeed

been cooked sufficiently long to make

the cooking process of any special

significance, and coupled with this the

prevailing mode of eating among a

good many people, that is, hurrying

through the meal, has rendered an

abundance of opportunity for the ap-

pearance of gastrointestinal disturb~

ances. Stomach troubles and troubles

of digestion generally have indeed

been very common and it was very

natural to look to the food and to the

mode of preparation of the food to as-

certain the source of this trouble.

Science was called into play to see if

a food could not be prepared artificial-

ly so that some of the labors of the

digestive organs would be performed

before the food product itself was eat—

en. This idea did not arise because of

any desire to lighten the burdens of

the digestive organs, as many manu-

facturers have advertised, and as some

dieticians have claimed, but arose be-

cause it was realized that the natural

digestive processes were not given

ample opportunity to perform their

function properly and the digestive

fluids did not have a properly prepared

food material to operate upon. It was

thought, therefore, that by a pre-treat-

ment mechanically the digestive proc-

esses could in this way be assisted.

When Digestion Begins.



The first act of digestion is a com-

bination of grinding and masticating,

by which the food material, if sufli-

ciently 'and properly chewed, becomes

ground quite fine and intimately mix-

ed at the same time with the saliva of

the mouth. The saliva is a juice se-

creted by the glands of the mouth, al-

kaline in reaction, and contains a very

active chemical ferment called pytalin.

Inasmuch as this is practically the

only portion of the digestion process

which is under the control of the in-





' dividual, it is apparent that this phase





is one which would first be inquired

into, and we find as a matter of fact,

that this salivary digestion exerts al~

moot entirely chemically its influence

upon the starches, that particular con-

stituent or proximate principle for

which cereals and vegetable foods are





essentially noted. A disturbance of di-





gestion caused by cereal or vegetable

foods would therefore (a priori) indio





'the juices of the body.





cate a lack of mechanically grinding ‘





the food between the teeth, or it could

indicate likewise an insufficient mix-

ing of the food with the saliva and an

insufficient time for any considerable

activity of the ferment.





The Factory Treame at.





As a matter of fact, in our ordinary

diet individuals are at fault on every

one of these counts on the average.

Not only do we not chew our food fine

enough, but it is not chewed long

enough. The term Fletcherize has

been used, which simply is a term

named after a man, and is used to in-

dicate the advocacy of the prolonged





chewing of food. Some have main?





tained that food should be chewed un-

til thene is no longer any taste to it»,

which is an indication that it is then

fit to be swallowed into the stomach.

The cereal breakfast foods therefore

have been treated mechanically to

make it possible for them to be pul-

verized with comparative ease.

mechanical treatment has

brought about by flaking the grains,

which flaking is usually done by pass-

ing the product over hot rolls after





the kernels have been cooked and then 1

drying them and toasting them in at





hot reel oven. The cooking of the food

is designed to take the place of cock.

ing in the home and many manufac-

turers maintain that they have given

the product a much more thorough

cooking than it would ever get in any

home. In the process of toasting a

portion of the starch is converted into

soluble sugars which is analogous to

the conversion of the starch into mal~

tose in the month by the ptyalin fer-

ment. Other manufacturers still fur-

ther supplement this mechanical and

heat treatment by mixing the flour

with malt flour which contains the ac-

tive diastase ferment. This mixing is

done at a temperature which permits

the malt diastase to attack the starch

which has been liberated from its cel-

lular walls by the heating process and

converts it into malt sugar and dex-

trine.





The First Act of Digestion is to Put





the Food in Solution.





Starch is insoluble in water or in

Maltose is sol-

uble in water and in the digestive

juices, and as the first real act of di-

gestion consists in putting the food

into a form where it may be dissolved

in water, in other words, into a soluble

condition, it may be seen that this in-

troductory mechanical preparation of

the food does really perform some of

the functions that it is necessary for

the digestive juices to perform. In

this way it is expected that some of

the evils of hasty eating and insuffi-





cient masticating of the food will he.





OVGI‘COIIIE.





Digestion in Man and Higher Animals





is a Very Interesting Phenomenon.





The lower organisms, like the bac-

teria and one-celled structures, go out

in search of their food and having

found it begin the phenomenon of ab-

sorption at once directly through the

cell wall. An amoeba wanders appar-

ently aimlessly along .until mere

chance brings it in contact with food.

An oyster, while itself practically sta-





tionary, has the power of directing a‘





concerted action of its cilliory or





hairs which bring a current of water;

in its direction and thus a supply ohm

food. But before any food is accepted'm





it must prove acceptable to the vital

sense of the one-celled body and the

judgment or instinct displayed is al-

most unerring.



The way animals have of securing

their food is by having it pass in re-

view as it were, along down the intac-

tinal canal and the various fluids and





agencies present along this canal





reach out and'eelect what they can

find especially adapted to their needs.

Nature has provided animals with

apparatus to so modify the food which

they have at their command that the

body commissary will have an abun-

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Why Legislate on Marketing





’ilT‘HIRTEEN states have market-

ing officials endeavoring to aid



in distribution of farm pro-

ducts. There is a general awaken-

ing to the fact that food is not neces-

sarily a matter of private distribu-

tion, nor a matter of public indiffer-

ence. When the federal government

once began to aid production it was

but the logical thing to aid also in

distribution.



In fact, the consumer has even a

greater claim in this direction for aid-

ing in production is but little help to

him.



The collection of the great staples

from the farm is largely in the hands

of a class called buyers, and these in

turn sell to jobbers, manufacturers,

wholesale dealers and finally retail

dealers. Too often buying of farm pro-

ducts is in too many hands. Formerly

it was supposed that many buyers got

the producer the best possible price.

But in many cases this competition

was more of pretense than of fact.

The volume of business did not allow

each buyer to work up to efficiency.

Much has been written to show that

the farmer was wasteful and was not

entitled to much consideration on that

account. But careful analysis shows

that between him and the consumer

distributive waste as well as produc-

tive waste, was put on the producer

especially when the crop was large,

and upon the consumer when the

crop was small.





Governmental Interest Needed.



The actual percentage that trans-

portation or railroad haulage 'took

was carefully guarded by federal and

state government, and to the credit

of the railroads, this was done at

very reasonable rates. The price of

produce on the farm, and the final

price paid by the consumer has left

an almost imperative demand for

government investigation. Like Mark

Twain said about the weather, “every-

body had complained abdut it but no

one had remedied it.” Economic laws

are not quite as certain as those as-

cribed to the Medes and Persians but

the general trend of action was in fa-

vor of larger units of sale in distribu-

tion. The carload shipper of products

saw that he was receiving greater re-

turns than when he was selling in

small quantities. If the individual

producer did not have a full carload

why he could co-operate with his

neighbor and ship together, and eco-

nomically ,co-operation became a fix-

ed idea in selling and buying.



The weak point of co-operation ev-

en handled otherwise correctly, was

the inability to co-ordinate these

larger units to prevent them from

competing and thus causing losses in

price and waste in product. In fact,

it was better that produce waste on

the farm than on the market when

transportation and packing expenses

had been added. It is at this point

that economists have agreed, and be-

yond lies the problem.





Reducing Number of Retailers.



Germany has used the official or-

ganization of agriculture,'with tariff

regulations to make compensatory

prices an imperial question and then

passed the word down from the Im-

perial Chamber of Agriculture to the

remotest local organization after the

supply had been determined from the

local organization up. Denmark, the

land of the most successful co—oper-

ators, came upon the same problem in

preventing the competition among the

larger units by a statutory regulation

passed in 1912. The right was given

any organization or corporation to

file with the Industrial Commissioner

of the Kingdom the size and form of

package or container with unity of

contents, and the right to mark the

retail price on his goods. There was





a fine of around $50 in our money for

any retailer to sell at a less price

than marked thereon, unless under

some conditions of bankruptcy or per-

mission of the producer. The object

sought by the Danish co-operative so—

cieties was to make everyone become

a co—operator so as to enjoy this priv-

ilege, to prevent unprofitable compe-

tition among producers and prevent

the consumer from being exploited.

Incidentally it tended to reduce the

number of retailers who then did a

larger volume of business, and the

consumer bought in larger quantities

at a time.

Fixing Prices.



This idea has been the basis of the

Stevens bill introduced in Congress to

allow proprietary articles which have

or may be trademarked to have the

retail price fixed by the producer,





and a fine for the cutting of prices.



The distributors of proprietary ar-

ticles feel that they are entitled to

have their product sold at a uniform

price, and argue that where the cons

sumer may get it for a less price in

one place that the loss in selling by

the dealer, is made up by increasing

prices on less known articles. That

the introducer of this bill is now the

counsel for the Federal Trade Com-

mission is somewhat interesting as to

the action of that body in relation to

so-called price fixing.



The majority of states have made

the market office in connection with

the land grant colleges so as to work

in conjunction with the federal agen-

cies of state and nation. It looks as

if ultimately the states will occupy a

somewhat similar relation in market-

ing to the United States as does the

various state railway commissions do

to the interstate commerce commis-

sion, for trade knows no state lines.

A state like New" York or Illinois,

with large marketing cities, could

very easily discriminate against other

states, especially when there was a

surplus crop. What the various states

are doing and propose to do will be

given at another time.



Shiawassee Co. J. N. MCBRIDE.





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Federating Michigan Co-op Societies





T has been about a year since the



co-operative idea began its rapid



and phenomenal spread through-

out the farming districts of this sec-

tion. For twice that time, the move-

ment has been in practical working

order in some localities. This may

seem a short period by which to

judge the stability and permanence

and success of a great movement.

The time, however, is long enough

to justify the writer in stating some

facts which even the most bitter op-

ponents of the co-operatie movement

must admit to be true.



In the first place, it is evident that

there has never been another great

movement in this section, that has

taken such a hold on the people in so

short a time. It is probable that

there is not a single shipping point

in Hillsdale county where coopera-

tive shipping associations may not be

found operating. With amazing rap-

idity, the idea spread from neighbor-

hood to neighborhood, from township

to township. More than this, from

the nucleus at Litchfield the move-

ment has spread into other counties,

and at this writing, Branch, Calhoun,

and Lenawee counties are awake to

the co-operative idea, and have nu-

merous co-operative associations.



In regard to the permanence and

stability of the movement, little doubt

need be entertained, in the light of the

facts. No co—operative association

has “shut up shop,” and the tendency

is rather in the other direction. Op-

ponents of the system have been un-

able to make any perceptible impres-

sion on either the increase or stabil-

ity of these associations. These or-

ganizations have come to stay, and it

is evident that as time goes on, the

activities and interests of the asso-

ciations will tend to increase. As

yet, the shipping of live stock is the





great stronghold of the co-operative

movement in this section. Indeed, so

signal has been the triumph ”of the

idea in this line, that the old-time

stock buyer has been swept from the

map. Farmers everywhere have awak-

ened to the real state of affairs, and

in the shipping of live stock the co-

operative method has surely come to

stay.



In addition to the handlingpf stock

and other farm produce, some asso-

ciations are doing a thriving and sat-

isfactory business in supplying the

farmers with necessaries such as bar-

rel salt, mill feed, coal, machine oil,

and other needed articles. In this

field, too, as far as tried, the co-oper-

ative movement works out splendidly.



In setting forth the merits and suc-

cess of the co-operative system, per-

haps it ought to be stated that it is

still possible to find in nearly every

community, farmers who still View

the movement with suspicion. Prob-

ably the reasons for this unfriendly

attitude would not be found to be

identical in any two cases. Disap-

pointed hopes in regard to holding an

official position in the association; un-

willingness to throw in the individual

interests for the common good; dis-

like for the movement because it has

thrown a relative or friend out of the

stock-buying business—these and oth-

er petty considerations enter into the

situation. In any case, it is a failure

to grasp the significance of the inno-

vation. It is, above all, a misconcep-

tion of the true spirit of the times and

the real significance of the new order.



In the supervisor’s rooms at the

court house in the city of Hillsdale,

there recently occurred a meeting of

significance and importance, that dem-

onstrated the truth of the foregoing

paragraphs. The gathering consisted

of about 100 farmers, representing the





 





Best Bunch of Cattle to Arrive on the Detroit Market in Years. Were Fed

Near Clare, Averaged 1750 pounds and Sold at $9.00





co-operative idea as worked out in

this section. At the meeting repre-

sentatives from 13 co-operative asso-

ciations were present. Five counties

——Hillsdale Lenawee,_ Branch, Cal-

houn and Williams count, Ohio—sent

delegates to the meeting. The prin-

cipal address was delivered by James

N. McBride, State Director of Markets.

The purpose of the meeting was to

form a federation, for the mutual ad-

vantage and mutual protection of the

numerous local co-operative associa-

tions.





At the gathering thus briefly out-‘





lined, a temporary organization was

formed to be called the Federation of

Cooperative societies. John Hoblin—

han, of Montgomery, was chosen as

temporary president, and Louis Mat-

this, of Batavia, temporary secretary.

At a future meeting by-laws will be

adopted, and a permanent organiza-

tion will be formed.



If any doubt has been entertained

of the permanence and significance of

the co-operative movement, surely

this step to federate must dispel all

such illusions. The meeting at Hills-

dale marks a new phase in the co-op-

erative idea in this section. Just as

in Denmark co-operation spells suc-

cess for the farmer, so more and

more, it will mean success and pro-

tection for the farmers of Michigan

and of America. The opportunities

are vast, the time is opportune, and

the farmers are awake to the situa-

tion. The community which has a

part in launching the movement, may

feel proud of the fact.



Hillsdale Co. J. A. KAISER.





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Crop and Market Notes





Michigan.



Berrien Co., Dec. 21,—Wheat and

rye well protected with snow. Sleigh-

ing good. Corn generally poor, but

plenty of good roughage for live stock.

Some hogs have cholera, other stock

in good condition, but not a great

number being fed. Hogs $5@6; veal

90; chickens 10@12c; wheat $1.10;

oats 35c; corn 450 per basket; hay $14

@15; potatoes 55@600; apples 50@

60c; butter 25c; butter-fat 34c.





Mecosta Co., Dec. 20.—Wheat win-

tering well. Corn crop very poor, so

farmers are anxious to sell their stock

and cattle prices are very unsatisfac-

tory. Yield of clover seed poor, be-

ing about one bushel per acre. Beans

better than was expected. Potatoes

about 60 per cent of an average crop,

and bring 60 cents per bushel. Butter

25c; eggs 290; hay $7@8; chickens

11c per pound.



Sanilac Co., Dec. 20.—Ideal winter

weather with some snow. A consid-

erable amount of fall plowing was

done. All live stock in winter quar-

ters, with more cows kept than usual.

Very little produce being marketed.

Some hay sold at $10 per ton; wheat

$1; oats 38c; beans $3.50 for hand-

picked; hogs $5.50; lambs $7.25; but-

ter 320; eggs 30c.



Pennsylvania.





Lancaster Co., Dec. 20.—Fall sown

grains are below the average. Farm-

ers have only enough feed for their

own use, corn having been a short

crop. Much feeding stock on hand.

Wheat $1; potatoes 90c@$1; apples





500 per bushel; hay $18@20; butter-V





fat 36c per lb; milk $2 per cwt; steers

and hogs selling low and cows at high

prices.



Ohio.





Clermont Co., Dec. 20.—Wheat and

rye are in good condition. Most farm-

ers have enough feed for own use.

Butchering is the order of, the day.

Cows high, $50@100; butter 300' eggs

33c; wheat $1.10; com 550; potatoes

500; timothy hay $14.



Wayne Co., Dec. 20.——Winter weath-

er prevails, which is hard on wheat

with no covering of snow. Farmers

generally have plenty of feed for own

use, and some hay to sell. Feeding

cattle not very plentiful and very few

hogs being kept over. Fat cattle $6,

live weight; hogs $7; live; corn 75c;

oats 35c; hay $12; potatoes 75c; ap-

ples 400 per bushel.



New York.



Niagara Co., Dec .20.—Fall sown

grains seem in good condition. Farm-

ers have plenty of oats and corn but

will have to buy hay and have not

very much feeding stock on hand.

Farmers are feeding straw to save





hay. Apples are not keeping good in .





storage. They are $3@4.50 per bbl;

wheat $1; rye 80c; beans $4.50; hay





$18 poultry, spring chickens, heavy, .

11c others 9@100; turkey 200; butter .





28c: eggs 360; sugar 7c.





 





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- HE great potato growing. dis--

trict of northern Maine is also

a. great starch manufacturing

district. Scattered throughout Aroos-

took county, in almost every village-

and hamlet, are factories for the turn-

ing of surplus potatoes into starch.

Some years when potatoes are cheap,

it is not only the smaller and unsal-

able ones that are ground up, but the

large tubers as well.’ There is no

money in raising potatoes primarily

for the starch factory, for, as a large

planter told the writer, they cannot

afford to grow them for less than 40

cents per bushel. In fact, that is

about the average cost. It is well

enough to sell the culls for the small

price the factories usually pay. There

are one or two factories of large ca-

pacity and any number of smaller

ones. One turns out eight to ten tons

of starch per day.



The process of making starch is

not a complicated one. In a factory

which the writer visited some time

ago the potatoes were hauled in upon

the Second floor and dumped into the

bins. From these receptacles the tu-

bers are shoveled into a chute and

carried through a revolving tube

where they are washed by streams of

water under heavy pressure. In this

way all the dirt is washed away.

From the tube they pass directly onto

the grater. This is a sort of cylinder

over which are nailed strips of perfor-

ated iron, making a. rough, file-like

surface. From the grater the pulp

falls upon a moving screen where it

receives the force from streams of

water. This pressure forces the

starch through the screen into a

trough below. The waste pulp is car-

ried on and either falls into the river,

from which the plant receives its

power, or upon a dump to be carted

away. The starch passes through sev-

eral troughs and finally into a large

vat upon a lower level. In this vat

the starch sinks to the bottom and

terms a. sticky mass. The next morn-

ing the water is drained into still oth-

er vats and receives a violent agitat-

ing before being allowed to settle.

The starch is also shoveled over into

the other vats, water turned on and

agitated a given length of time, after

which it is again allowed to settle. By

this time the starch is clean and pure.





Again the water is drained and the*





starch shoveled into baskets and talc-

en to- the drying floor. Here it is

spread upon slats placed above a

As it dries it is rak-

ed over until it falls through to the

floor below.



The dry-house is usually a) separate

building and? the slatted floor lain-the

second: story. As the starch dries

and halls through it is shoveled into

great heaps until the building is full

It is usually put up in barrels holding

500- pounds each and shipped direct

from the factory to all parts of the

country. This starch is used princi-

pally by manufacturing concerns.

Power to run. these meteries is tur-





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rivers. and. brooks at northern Maine.

Usually the plants- run only during

the cm to grind up: the unsalable po-

tatoes. Sometimes, however, when

the market is poor, as was the case

some years age. the tubers that were

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Prizes Awarded to Western Canada for

\ Wheat, Oats, Barley, Alfalfa and Grasses





The winnings of Western Canada at the Soil Products

Exposition at Denver were easdy made. The hat comprised

Wheat. Oats. Barley and Grasses, the most important being the

prizes for Wheat and Oats and sweep stake on Alfalfa.



No less important than the splendid quality of Western Canada’s

wheat and other grains, is the excellence of the cattle fed and

fattened on the grasses of that country. A 'recent shipment

of cattle to Chicago topped the market in that City for

quality and price.



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assoc. Stock SIBDO. Fixtures aboutfbm including Ford Delivery

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GRAINS AND SEEDS.





 





December 28, 1915.





Wheat—Further advances were

made in wheat values last week. De-

spite continuous heavy receipts in

both the winter and spring wheat dis-

tricts, the bulls were able to crowd

values to higher values, there being

h wever, a slight weakness in the tone

0? the trade following the Christmas

holiday. The strength is apparently

dependent upon foreign buying. Last

week purchases by foreign countries

amounted to ten million bushels. The

United States visible supply increased

4,263,000 bushels, while wheat in bond

decreased 5,817,000 bushels. One year

ago No. 2 red wheat sold here at

$12634 per bushel. Local prices last

week were:





No. 2 No. 1

Wednesday . . . . .1.23 1.20 1291/...

Thursday . . ..1.25 1.22 1.30%

Friday ..... ‘. . . .1.26 1.23 131%,

Saturday ......

Monday ........ 1.26 1.22 1.311/2

Tuesday ....... 1231/2 1191/2 1.28





Chicago.—-December wheat $1.231/z;

May $1.241/2 July $11614.



Corn.——Export sales of this grain,

the large amount of inferior grades

and unsettled weather gave a firmer

tone to the deal at the opening Mon-

day and allowed the bulls to advance

values one cent. Offerings are small

and the demand lively. One year ago

No. 3 corn was quoted at 700 per bu.

The visible supply increased 1,305,000





bushels. Last week’s prices were:



No. 3 No. 3



Mixed. Yellow.

Wednesday 70 711/2

Thursday 71 721/2

Friday coco-ooo-oocoo 721/3 74

Saturday ..

Monday .......... . . . 731/2 75





Tuesday 721/2 74

Chicago—December corn 71.7c per

bushel; May 75.6c; July 76.40.

Oats—After having ruled steady for

about two weeks, oats advanced a 1/20

at Monday’s session of the board. Last

week’s export sales were more liberal

than for some time past. Domestic

demand is normal. One year ago

standard oats were quoted at 521/2c per





bushel. Last week’s local quotations

were:

No. 3



Standard. White.

Wednesday ......... 46 , 44

Thursday .......... . 46 44

Friday .............. 46 44

Saturday ........... . . . .

Monday ............. 461/2 441/2

Tuesday ............ 46 44





Chicago—December oats 42.3c per

bushel; May 47c.



Rye—Dull at 960 for No. 2.



Peas.—Chicago’s market steady and

quiet with field peas at $2.35@2.65,

sacks included.



Barley.——Chicago’s market is higher

at 64@73c.



Beans—Sales are few; cash quota-

tions steady at $3.55; January up 10c

at $3.45. At Chicago pea beans, hand-

picked $3.85@3.90; prime $3.70@3.75;

red kidneys $4.65@4.75.



Clover Seed.——Prime spot $12.20 per

bushel; March $12.10; prime alsike

$10.25.



Timothy Seed.—Prime spot $3.85.





FLOUR AND FEEDS.





 





Flour.—Jobbing lots in one-eighth

paper sacks are selling on the Detroit

market per 196 lbs., as follows: Best

patent $6.20; seconds $6; straight

$55.30; spring patent $6.50; rye flour



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Feed.—In 100-lb. sacks, jobbing lots

are: Bran $22; standard middlings

$25; fine middlings $30; cracked corn

$30; corn and oat chop $28 per ton.



Hay.—No. 1 timothy $18@19 a ton;

standard timothy $17@18; light ixed

$17@18; No. 1 mixed $14@15; o. 2

mixed $10@12; No. 1 clover $10@12.



Straw—Wheat and cat straw $6.50

$7; rye straw $7.50@8 per ton.





DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.





Butter.——The demand is steady but

the feeling is somewhat easier than

last week. Prices are unchanged. Ex-

tra creamery 34c; firsts 311/30; dairy

220; packing stock 18c.



Elgin.—The market has eased up

some but prices remain the same.

Storage stock is being pushed. The

quotation, based on sales, is 340.



Chicago—Holiday accumulations

and late arrivals have kept the mar-

ket well supplied. The trading was

slow. Prices are lower. Extra cream-

ery 33@33%c; extra firsts 31@321,éc;

firsts 26@30c; extra dairies 30c; pack-

ing stock 19@19%c.





 





Eggs—Increased receipts have caus-

ed a decline of 1c in prices. Current rc-





‘ceipts are quoted at 27c; candled firsts





300 per dozen.



ChiCago.—More liberal supplies of

fresh eggs have eased the market and

brought lower prices for all grades.

Firsts 271/.) @280; ordinary firsts 261/2.

@27c; miscellaneous lots, cases in~

eluded 22@271/2c; refrigerator April

extras 21@21%C.



Poultry.—The holiday demand has

brought a firm, active market, and

higher prices for all kinds of poultry.

Turkeys 18@20c; spring turkeys 23@

24c; fowls 9@131/2c, according to qual-

ity; spring chickens 13@15c; ducks

18@190; geese 15%@160.



Chicago—Large receipts brought

lower prices notwithstanding a good

demand. Turkeys, young and old 160;

fowls 9@111/2c; springs 1215c; ducks

13c; geese 10@130.





FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.





 





Apples.--The market is quiet and

prices are lower. Greenings at $2.50

@3; Spys $3.50@4; Baldwins $2.50@

3; Steel Red $4.50@5. At Chicago the

market is well supplied and trading is

quiet. Prices for some varieties are

slightly lower. No. 1 Greenings$2.50

@3; Jonathans No. 1, $2.75@3; Bald-

wins $2.50@3.50; Wageners $2.25@

2.75; Spys $2@3.75.



Potatoes—Last week’s prices pre-

vail. The demand is good. Michigan

and Minnesota whites are now quoted

at 80@850; Minnesota reds 80@82c.

At Chicago the market is firm and

prices are higher. Fancy Michigan

Rurals sold for 78@800. Other prices

range from 70@800.





GRAND RAPIDS.





Growers with large quantities of ap-

ples in storage do not like the way

the market is acting. The situation

was encouraging in the fall, with indi-

cations that growers who lost out on

peaches would make it up on apples,

but the market has not taken the right

turn as yet. Very good apples are

being peddled around town at 500@$1

per bushel, with storage stock quoted

at $1@1.75. Potatoes are somewhat

higher, with quotations outside at 62

@650, while some sales in Grand Rap-

ids are reported as high as 750. Eggs

brought up to 34c for the Christmas

trade, but are now back to the 300

mark. The poultry market is steady.





 





DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.





 





Apples were the chief commodity on

the Eastern Market Tuesday morning

with the bulk selling between 900 and

$1.25. No potatoes offered. Onions

75c@$1.50; parsnips 75@8OC; cabbage

50@65c; celery of inferior quality 20c

per bunch, eggs 400; loose hay moving

slowly with prices around $20 per ton.





LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Chicago.

December 27, 1915.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.



Receipts today..19,000 25,000 12,000

Same day 1914..17,291 32,407 16,240

Last week ...... 43,668 249,620 48,628

Same wk 1914..13,235 205,521 52,997



Shipments from Chicago last week

amounted to 8,952 cattle; 32,758 hogs

and 6,621 sheep, comparing with 11,822

cattle, 53,983 hogs and 15,880 sheep,

a week earlier, and 3,156 cattle, 20,868

hogs and 2,265 sheep a year ago. Hogs

received last week averaged 189 lbs.



The week opens today with unusu-

ally small live stock receipts and a

firmer cattle market, while hogs are

15@200 higher, selling at $5.65@6.70.

Sheep and lambs are 15@25c higher

with prime ewes selling at $6.40, and

prime lambs held as high as $9.85.



Cattle prices closed weak to a little

lower for the less desirable offerings

on the opening day last week, but lat-

er much reduced receipts brought

about a reaction, with average prices

higher. No strictly prime long-fed

beeves and fancy yearlings were of-

fered. The best lots brought $9.50@

9.75, while the bulk of the steers mar-

keted found buyers at $6.75@9. A

good class of steers at $8.75@9.45, me-

dium class short-fed $7.50@8.70, infer-

ior to fair stalk-fed lots $4.75@6.50.

Choice beeves have been closely mar-

keted, and from now on there is ex-

pected to be a lack of this class.

Butcher stock has had a good sale at

$4.65@6.85 for cows and at $4.40@8.50

for heifers. Cutters brought $4.05@

4.60; canners $2.75@4; bulls $4.25@7.

Calves were in good demand, with

sales anywhere from $4@7.75 for the

heavier lots up to $8@9.85 for light

vealers of fair to prime grading. Had

any fancy heavy steers or yearlings

been offered, it is probable that as

high as $10 or perhaps more would

have been paid. Cows and heifers sold

off 15@250. :



Hogs held up remarkably well dur-

ing the early days of last week, not-





 





withStanding the enormous offerings,

the Monday receipts aggregating 64,306

head. On that day good shipping hogs

sold as high as at the‘close of the

previous week, and the commoner

light hogs actually sold a dime high-

er. Later in the week, however, prices

declined under. increasing supplies,

and sales took place at the lowest fig-

ures of any time of this year. Recent

receipts have gained in weight, but

the average weight has been only 191

lbs., comparing with 229 lbs. a year

ago and 215 lbs. two years ago, the

increase in average weight since the

latter part of November being 11 lbs.

Eastern shippers have been taking de-

cidedly fewer hogs than a week ear-

lier, and this helped to depress prices

for hogs of the shipping class. After

prime hogs sold at $6.50, there was a

rally on Friday that left quotations at

an extreme range of $5.50@6 for light

bacon hogs, $6.05@6.25 for light ship—

ping, $6.10@6.40 for heavy packing,

$6.45@6.55 for heavy shipping and

$4@5.40 for pigs. A week earlier hogs

brought $5.90@6.80.



Sheep, yearlings and lambs arrived

last week in greatly reduced numbers.

Prime lambs showed'especial anima-

tion and firmness. At times sheep

were too scarce} to warrant quotations.

It is well at this time to sound a warn-

ing to sheepmen to market no stock

that is not prime and fat. Prices ’clos-

ed the week as follows: Lambs $6.10

@960; heavy lambs $7.50@8.50; year—

lings $6.25@8; wethers $6@6.75; ewes

$4@6.15; bucks $4.50@5.25..





Buffalo. '

December 27, 1915.

(Special Report of Dunning and Stev-

ens, New York Central Stock

Yards, Buffalo, N. Y.)



Receipts of stock here today as fbl-

lows: Cattle 105 cars; hogs 110 d. d.;

sheep and lambs 38 d. d.; calves 450

head.



With 105 cars of cattle on the mar-

ket here today the shipping cattle sold

from 25@400 lower than last week

and the butcher cattle sold from 15@

25c lower. Butchers seem to be all

filled up with Christmas cattle and to-

day there is hardly any demand for

the beef and our butchers staid right

out of the market. The bull trade

was a quarter lower. Extra good cows

and springers $2.50@5 a head higher

and common cows about steady. No

demand for late springers. Stockers

and feeders about steady.



We had just as many hogs as expect-

ed today, but receipts'at all western

markets were short and market 10@

15c higher than Friday’s close, pig

weights as much as 250 higher. Bulk

of the sales around $6.75, with a few

fancy loads at $6.80@6.85; pigs and

lights generally $6.25; roughs $5.75@

6; stags $4.50@5; about everything

sold at the close and it looks like we

should have a fair trade for the next

few days.



The sheep and lamb market was ac-

tive today and prices 250 higher than

the close of last week. All sold and

we look for steady to shade lower pric-

es the balance of the week.



We quote: Lambs $10.40@10.50;

cull to fair $7@10.25; yearlings $7.50

@9; bucks $4@5.25; handy ewes $6.25

@650; heavy ewes $6.25@6.50; weth-

ers $6.75@7; cull sheep $3.50@5; veals

good to choice $12@12.50; common to

fair $8@11.50; heavy $6@9.





 





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but his stifle joints are loose, and I

might mention that both of his joints

dislocated last summer. J. J., Harris-

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apply one part powdered cantharides

and four parts lard every two weeks.

You can safely apply any of the com-

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Wounded and Infected Joint—I had

a colt cut on barb wire about ten

weeks ago. The fore part of hock

joint was cut open; our local Vet. has

been treating the case without much

success. The joint has now opened in

three different places and the colt

holds leg up most of the time. E. H.,

Eaton Rapids, Mich—Dissolve 1 dr.

permanganate of potash in a pint of

clean water and apply to wound two

or three times a day. Recovery in

this case is very doubtful.



Light Milken—Two weeks ago I had

a cow come fresh; calf was very small

and cow gives only a pint of milk at a

milking", but when she came fresh a

year ago she gave an abundance of it.

She appears to be perfectly healthy,

has a good appetite and so far as I

can tell is not sick. M. S. L., Lawton,

Mich—Massage udder gently three

times a day for not less than or 15 or

20 minutes. Milk her clean each time.

Also change her feed, feeding her sil-

age, clover or alfalfa, well cured corn

fodder and not forgetting to feed her

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Mich 60 head of Pure bred hogs all 3 es. Commenc-

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DETROIT LIVESTOCK MARKET.





Thursdags Market.

ecember 23, 1915.

' Cattle..



Receipts 1418. The run at the local

yards was only about half what it.

was a week ago and fairly good ser-

vice was rendered by the local rail-

roads. The yards Will be closed on

Christmas day. Anything arriving will

be cared for, but the scales will not

be open and no business will be done.

It is expected the same will apply on

New Years, but as at the question

has not been definite y settled.



There was no change in the cattle

situation, the quality was common as

a rule, and the trade, while being fair-

ly active was no higher than last

week. A few stocker buyers were on

hand and had no trouble finding what

they wanted. Mllch cows were dull

and good ones scarce. The close was

dull as follows: Best heavy steers $7

@725; best handy weight butcher

Isteers £6.75@7; mixed steers and heif-

ers $5. 0 6.50; handy light butchers

$5@6; lig t butchers $4.50@5.25; best

cows $5@5.50; butcher Cows $4.25@

4.75; common cows $3.75@4; canners

$2.50@3.65; best heavy bulls $5.50

'6; bologna bulls $4.75@5.25; stoc

bulls $4@4.50; feeders $5.50@6.50;

stockers $5@6; milkers and springers





 





Bishop, B. & H. sold Charles 4 cows

av 905 at $3.65, 3 do av 807 at $3.25,

3 av 910 at $3.50, 4 av 780 at $3.50, 2

av 850 at $3.60; to Hammond, S. &

Co. 3 stockers av 990 at $6.50, 11 cows

av 1114 at $4.75, 2 bulls av 1365 at

$5.60; to Breitenbeck 4 butchers av

1070 at $6, 7 do av 1060 at $6.75, 4

cows av 1167 at $4.50, 7 butchers av

900 at $6, 2 do av 890 at $5.50; to Mc-

Donald 6 feeders av 720 at $5.50, 10

do av 803 at $5.40; to Lintel 6 do av

745 at $5.50, 11 do av 846 at $5.40; to

Bray ; cows av 1005 at $4.50, 6 do av

1000 at $4; to Bresnahan 2 butchers





av 635 at $5, 2 do av 635 at $5, 1 cowl





wgh 1320 at $5, 1 do wgh 1220 at

$5.25; to Bray 7 cows av 1017 at $3.80,

to Miller 8 stockers av 571 at $6; to

Sullivan P. Co. 2 steers av 925 at $6,

4 do av 1175 at $7, 2 cows av 840 at

$5, 6 do av 895 at $4.25, 1 bull wgh

1530 at $5.50, 6 cows av 983 at $4.15,

2 cows av 960 at $4, 2 steers av 1085

at 6.75, 3 cows av 1030 at $4.75; to

£33581. W. & Co. 27 stockers av 980 at





Roe Com. Co. sold Bray 2 cows av

990 at $3.75; to Stevenson 2 stockers

av 645 at $6.25, 1 do wgh 700 at $6.50;

to Golden 3 cows av 937 at $4.50, 7

butchers av 646 at $5; to Hammond,

S. & Co. 1 cow wgh 990 at $3.75, 1 do

wgh 1030 at $5, 2 do av 835 at $3.60,

1 o wgh 1150 at $3.75, 2 do av 1070 at

4.25; to Miller 3 feeders av 700 at

6.25; to Bresnahan 3 heifers av 817

at 5.40; to Golden 2 butchers av 685

at 4.50; to Parker, W. & Co. 1 cow

wgh 1030 at $5, 2 do av 835 at $3.60,

3 do av 1053 at $3.85; to amman, B.

Co. 2 do av 885 at $5.75; to Sullivan

P. Co. 2 cows av 1050 at $4.60, 2 do av

970 at $4.50; to McCoy 18 steers av

906 at $6.



Veal Calves.





Receipts 696. The veal calf trade

was a. trifle stronger than early in the





, week and just about the same as last





week. Best grades brought $10@

10.50; common and heavy $7@9.



Sandel, S., B. G. sold Hammond.

S. & Co. 2 av 115 at $8, 2 av 160 at

$10, 2 av 130 at $8.50, 4 av 140 at

$9.25, 3 av 165 at $10; to Nagle P. Co.

2 av 180 at $10, 6 av 145 at $9, 9 av

1:53;}; $8.50; to Burnstine 4 av 165

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Sheep and Lambs.





The run of sheep and lambs was

very light and the market about

steady; one or two small bunches of

lambs brought $9.60, but the bulk of

the best went at $9.50. Swift & Co.

bought three or four loads for their

New York houses and the close was

steady as_follows: Best lambs $10.50

@965; fair lambs $8.50@9; light to

common $7@8; yearlings $8; fair to

good sheep $5.50@5.75; culls and com-

mon $4@4.50.



Sande], S., B. & G. sold Nagle P. Co.

16 lambs av 70 at $8.75, 30 do av 80

at $8.75, 23 sheep av 125 at‘$5.75, 5





 





do av 90 at $4.60, 88 lambs av 8a at

$9.25, 68 do av 80 at $9.15, 9 do av

75 at $9, 4 do av 70 at $9, 10 sheep av

143 at $5.85, 4 do av 95 at $5.50.



Roe Com. Co. sold Nagle P. Co. 26

lambs av 75 at $8.75, 10 do av 62 at

358.238.7775 do av 60 at $8.25, 26 do av 73

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Reason & S. sold Thompson Bros. 32

lambs av 75 at $9.25, 21 do av 80 at

$9.50; to Nagle P. Co. 58 do av 2’5 at

$9, 25 sheep av 105 at $5.





Hogs.



Recei ts 17,077. In the hog division

the tra e was dull; in fact nothing

was sold until late. All markets are

lower and the market here was big

10c lower than on Wednesday. Pigs

$5.50; yorkers and heavy $6@6.10.





 





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Your hogs are almost certain to be troubled with worms right now; in fact, at

all seasons of the year. Unless you treat for worms and ge rid of them you

can’t fatten your swme at a profit.



How about the spring pigs? The chances are that your brood sow: are worm-infested. This

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I guarantee that if you feed my Stock Tonic regularly asdirected. you will rid your hogscf worms.

they Will keep toned up and vigorous. resist disease better and fatten quickly and cheaply.





Dr. Hess Stock Tonic





25-1.. pail, $1.60. 100 “18.. $5.00.

A Fine Conditioner—A Sure Worm Expeller





Your horses. cattle and sheep are apt to be out of fix right now.

because animals off pasture and on dry feed are deprived of the

laxatives so plentifully furnished in grass.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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I guarantee that this fine poultry tonic will help your hem lay.

It will keep them toned up, arouse the dormant on organ: and

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Canada and the tar West.)





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Ind chicks with it, sprinkle it on the roasts. in the crack.

or. it kept in the dust bath, the hens will distribute it.



o destroys huge on cucumber, squash and melon

vines. cabbage worms, slugs on rose bushes. etc. Comes

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RED-TO—LAY R. C. Rhode Island Reds, Breeding

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ANNUAL MEETING OF STATE

GRANGE. .





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(Continued fro mlast week).



On the subject of co-operation the

master said that one ounce of practice

was worth a pound of theory, and. he

hoped that this economic phase of

Grange work would be brought into

greater prominence in the future. The

Grange has been very successful in

but there is a

very great need for co-operative sell-

ing, as was shown especially in the

marketing of the peach crop this year,

and Mr. Ketcham hoped that the

Grange would give more attention to

this side of cooperation.



On Wednesday afternoon the lectur-

er”s open program was given. At this

time she gave her report, which will

be given in detail in a future issue of

the Michigan Farmer. Other features

of the program were organ selections

by Earl Moore, head of the pipe or-

gan department of the U. of M., a

drill by Burton Grange and an ad-

dress by E. C. Lindemann, state

agent for boys’ and girls’ club work in

Michigan. Mr. Lindemann’s talk was

illustrated by lantern slides and in an

interesting manner it showed the great

value of this work. In conclusion he

told of the 1915 boys’ potato club con-

test and of how Howard La France

won the state championship. A fea-

ture of this part of his talk was to

introduce the boy himself and have

him read his excellent essay on how

he grew his potato crop. This essay

appeared in the last issue of the

Michigan Farmer. Following this ad-

dress Ivan Chapel a. Lansing boy, gave

a declamation entitled, “Only a Boy,”

which wasan eloquent appeal for the

cause of prohibition. The program

was closed by the

Peace,” which simply but effectively

symbolized Faith, Hope and Charity.

After this program the ladies of the

Grange were invited to the gymna-

sium, where they saw a class of girls

at work and were served tea.



Wednesday evening was devoted to

a round-table talk on “Co—operation.”

Among those who took part in this

were C. H. Bramble, who spoke on the

extent of co-operative buying and sell-

ing in this country; N. P. Hull, who

discussed Grange life insurance, and

R. H. Ellsworth, who told of the ex-

periences of the Grand Traverse co-

operative association. Mr. Ellsworth

urged the Grange to work for legisla-

tion providing for inspection and stan-

dardization of perishable products and

also for legislation which will provide

speedy settlement by common carriers

of just claims of the shippers. He

hoped that in the future the interstate

commerce commission would have it





,as part of its duty to publish all trans-





portation tariffs, as this would have

a great tendency toward equalizing the

freight rates of the country.



Thursday the Grange delegates were

guests of the University and were tak-

en through many of its interesting

buildings. In the afternoon they were

tendered a reception by President

Hutchins and other University people

in the Alumni Memorial Hall. Thurs-

day evening was devoted to conferring

the fifth and sixth degrees.



Secretary’s Report.



In her secretary’s report Miss Jen-

nie Buell said that during the year end-

ing November 30, 1915, one Pomona.

Grange was reorganized and 33 subor-

dinate Granges organized. During the

fiscal year 830 subordinate Granges

sent reports and dues for one or more

quarters, but as 35 of these Granges

did not report for the quarter ending

June 30, the number of active Granges

in the state was placed at 795. The

Granges that have reported during the

year show a membership gain of 315

over last year. Of the 72 Pomona





 





Granges which reported only 33 held





“Pantomime of,





summer rallies, a small'number when





the possible benefit of such an occa-





sion is estimated. -- Reports to the sec-

retary indicate that the Granges are

active in community betterment, the

projects engaged in including loCal op-





'tion campaigns, farm bureaus and





county agents, standard schools,

Grange Day at fairs, good roads, breed-

ing associations, watering troughs and

sign-boards on rural roads, Grange

warehouses and public rest rooms.

Treasurer’s Report.



In presenting his report, Treasurer

Coward explained the loss of total re-

sources of $358.65, as compared with

last year as being due to expenditures

authorized by the last State range for

the purpose of assisting in the organ-

ization of the new life insurance com-

pany. This amount, however, promis-

es to be returned many times over in

the future, as by an agreement with

the insurance company the Grange will

receive a, small percentage on the re-

newal premiums. He also brought at-

tention to good showing of the trade

contracts account which showed an

increased percentage of nearly $300





over last year. In closing he _gave_ a

word of caution regarding various 1n-





terests which are working through

their agents in the endeavor to curtail

service and increase rates. He sug-

gested that the Grangers use care in

supporting any changes which the pub-

lic service interests would advocate.

The following is a condensed form

of the treasurer’s financial report:

Invested Securities.





Bonds and securities on hand

Dec. 1, 1914 .............. $42,000.00

Bclrilllg and securities paid in





 





..................... 1,000.00



Bonds and securities on hand

Dec. 1, 1915 ...... .. ...... $41,000.00



Notes of Patrons Mutual

Fire Insurance Co.. ..... . 4,000.00

Cash on hand Dec. 1, 1915.. 2,545.00

Total invested funds. . . . .$47,545.00



Sash on hand in general fund

Dec. 1, 1915 .......... -. . .. 1,714.59





Total resources of Michigan

State Grange Dec. 1, 1915. .$49,239.59

Invested Funds Cash Balance.

Cash on hand Dec. 1, 1914. .$ 1,903.49

Interest collected 1914. . . . . . 450 00





Interest collected 1915 ..... . 2,095200

Grange Life Insurance 00.,

note paid 1,000.00

Total ..................... $5,448.49





Transferred to general fund 2,903.49





Cash on hand in invested



funds .................... $ 2,545.00



Classification of Receipts.



On hand Dec. 1, 1914 ........ $1,244.55

From co-operation ......... 5,349.99

Fifth and sixth degree fees. . 260.00

Transferred from invested



funds .................... 2,903.49

Dues from subordinate



Granges . . . . . ........... . 11,790.53

Supplies sold ........... :.. 1,213.95

National Grange Extensmn



Fund ..................... 650.00

Lecturers’ Bulletin . .. . . . . . 36.36

Grange Life Assurance Asso-



ciation payment of loan.. 500.00

Miscellaneous .............. 46.25



Total receipts ........... $23,995.12





Classification of Disbursements.





Session of State Grange....$ 7,196.42

Expenses of executive com-





mittee .............. . . . . . 826.47

Expenses of special com-



mittees .................. 314.98

Sixth degree fees paid Na-



tional Grange ............ 93.50

National Grange dues ...... 2,280.59

Fifth degree fees returned to



Pomona .............. . . . 20.00

Supplies purchased . . . . . . . . 830.79

Printing and stationery. . . . . 973.93

Salaries of state officers. . . . 2,780.00

Co-operation ........ . . . . . . . 962.21

Organization ....... . . . . . . . . 982.14

Supervision ......... . . . . 1,222.14

Rallies .............. . . . . . . 926.59

Leciurers’ department . . . . . 354.85

Secretary’s office expense. . 115.92

Miscellaneous (Life Ins. Co). 2,086.24

Postage ......... 313,78





Total disbursements . . . . .$22,280.55

Cash on hand. . . . . . 1,714.57





$23,995.12

As usual, the Friday sessions were

devoted to the consideration of recom-

mendations of committees and the

day was a busy one, the work being

carried well into the night. The only

relief from this final siege of work was

an illustrated talk on the value of

birds, by Mrs. Munger of the Audubon

Society, and a musical program by the

University Glee Club, which were given

before the opening of the evening bus-

iness session.





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Association'al TOpic for January.—

“What can cur Club do to help the

State Association the coming year?”





CLUB DlSCUSSlONS. .





Will Promote Corn Clubs.—The De-

cember meeting of the Columbus

Farmers’ Club was held at Cardiff

Vale Farm with Mr. and Mrs. C. M.

Davxson. The spacious house was

made beautiful with decorations of

Christmas greens. A Christmas bas-

ket filled with simple gifts, to which

all the members had contributed, ad-

ded to the festal occasion. Mr. Clar-

ence Cook, the efficient and aotive

young president, had charge of the

meeting. The subject for discussion,

“Live Stock for Profit,” was subdivid-

ed into horses, cattle, sheep and hogs.

Emphasis seemed to be given to the

cattle and sheep. The matter of be-

ing more cleanly in taking care of the

cream and the cans in which it is tak-

en to the factory was given much at-

tention. Music was furnished by the

Misses Gertrude and Alice Boyce and

Alice Davison andEffie Reading. Phyl-

lis Every recited “Mother’s Lullaby.”

The next meeting is being planned as

a public one, with a state speaker and

the schools of the township to be in-

vited in the interest of forming corn

clubs. The delicious roast pork and

baked apple sauce, scalloped oysters

and pumpkin pie dinner was much

enjoyed by the company of about 60,

including four of the teachers, who

Spent this most pleasant and profit-

able day for them.—Maude Smith, Re-

porter.



Two Good Meetings—The Salem

Farmers’ Club held their November

meeting at the pleasant farm home of

Mr. and lLrs. Fred Bird. A goodly

number assembled and a very inter-

esting program was given, consisting

of music, recitations, readings, etc.

Rev. Carter gave a helpful address on

the subject of “Tithing.” Thought

farmers especially should bring all the

tithes into the store house, as they

have been blessed with the bounties

of God. Report showed our petition

for a. rest room in the court house at

Ann Arbor was lost for this year at

least. The annual meeting of the

Club was held at the town hall, Salem,

December 1. About 60 guests and

members were present and partook of

the fried chicken-pie dinner, and en-

joyed the social hour. The program

consisted of music, readings and reci-

tations, also an address by Rev. Baker

on his early experiences on the farm,

which was both helpful and enjoyable.

Officers for the new year were elect-

ed as follows: President, G. H. Thomp-

son; vice-president, Irving Johnson;

treasurer, Ira Soper; recording secre-

tary, Grace Geiger; corresponding

secretary, Helen C; Thompson.



Hold Annual Meeting.—The Ray

Farmers’ Club held their December

meeting Thursday, December 9, at the

home of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Wyman.

After an elaborate dinner served by

the ladies of the Club, the meeting

was called to order by the president,

J. A. Priest. Music was rendered

by the Club, and a. prayer by chaplain,

Mr. Mills, was followed by the elec-

tion of the following ofl‘icers for the

ensuing year: President, J. A. Priest;

vice-president, Mrs. Lewis Broughton;

secretary, Miss InezWyman; treas-

urer, Wm. Rowley; corresponding

secretary, Mrs. J. A. Jewell; organist,

Miss Hazel Jewell. It was anticipated

that the report of the state delegates

Mr. and Mrs. Herman Curtis, would

be the principal feature of the pro-

gram, but as the convention did not

close in time for their return, a ques-

tion box was instituted instead, which

brought forth many very humorous

discussions. Two very pleasing songs

were rendered by the women of the

Club, also severa solos by Miss Hazel

Jewell. The next meeting will be the

annual oyster dinner, January 13, at





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Center Farmers’ Club held its Decem-

ber meeting at “Riverside,” the home

of Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Curren. The

Club was called to order by President

Crowel, mlnutes read and approved

and considerable miscellaneous busi-

ness_dlsposed of before adjourning

for dlnner. The social hour is one of

the most enjoyable features of the

Club, as well as the excellent dinner

which is always served. Roll call was

well responded to by telling "what a

home ought to have.” After a select

reading, the delegates gave an inter-

esting report of the State Association

of Farmers’ Clubs, held in Lansing

December 7-8. The Club elected the

following officers for the ensuing year:

President, S. Y. Crowel; vice-presi-

dent, Mrs. F. L. Cook; recording sec-

retary, Mrs. S. N. French; treasurer,

Mrs. Frank Heinlen; corresponding

secretary and Organist, Mrs. B. S. Gill-

man. Next meeting will be held at

Elmwood with Mrs. and Mrs. S. N.

French the second Thursday in Jan-

uary. ‘
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In a genuine case of roup there is a

very peculiar and offensive odor about

the mouth and nose. A little later on

the eyes often swell entirely shut

Upon noticing the first sign of roup in

the flock, we put all the sick birds in

a warm, dry, and well ventilated place

all by themselves and where there is

plenty of light and sunshine. This

should be somewhere away from out-

buildings which can afterwards be

thoroughly disinfected. The next thing

to do is to remove all the litter from

the hen house and runs and disinfect

the house and runs thoroughly with a

good coal tar disinfectant. Also lime

should be scattered about the floors.



For preventing roup, ventilation

without drafts is most effective. Have

an opening near the floor of the house

to take out all the bad air, if' it is

nothing but the exits left open and

covered with screening. Poultry

houses often breed this dreaded dis-

ease on account of not being properly

constructed. A poultry house should

be plenty large, well lighted, well ven-

tilated, sanitary, and fairly warm

through the winter. After meeting

these requirements there will be very

little roup in the flock.



Many people believing that bad air

in a poultry house collects near the

ceiling, make Openings there. This is

a great mistake. These openings take

off all the pure warm air, but the bad

air which breeds roup, settles close to

the floor. So in addition to the shut-

ter, curtain, or open front, it is well to

have a small opening near the floor in

the front part of the house, in order

to complete ventilation and take care

of the bad air.



Where the proper precautions are

taken there will be little roup. In a

bad case of roup and where ideal con-

ditions failed to make a cure the best

thing to do is to kill the birds before

it spreads among the flock. I once

had a valuable bird but rather than

have the disease spread I had to re—

move him and after trying all cures

we know of he died. This is the only

one We ever lost with roup.



Penn. H. A. Sworn.





 





THE CHAMPION HEN.





 





Escorted by a platoon of mounted

policemen and accompanied by a brass

band, Lady Eglantine, the champion

hen of the world, arrived in New

York to take a conspicuous part in

the great Palace Poultry Show in Pal-

ace Garden. This little White Leg-

horn lady, who tips the scales at a

trifle more than three and a quarter

pounds, won the right to the title of

champion by laying 314 eggs in 365

consecutive days in the International

Egg Laying Contest conducted by the

experiment station of the Delaware

State Agricultural College at Newark,

Delaware, thus establishing a new

world’s record for egg production.



New York was not slow in honoring

this newly crowned queen of poultry-

dom, and a public reception attended

by many prominent city oflicials was

only one of the events arranged in

her honor.



Lady Eglantine arrived in New York

from her home at Eglantine Farms,

near Denton, Md., on a Pullman, for

when traveling Temple Smith, her

breeder, never lets her out of his

sight for a minute. On the way north,

the party stopped off at Philadelphia,

and several thousand residents of the

Quaker City turned out to pay hom-

age to her ladyship. '



But New York outdid old Philly in

the matter of showing its apprecia-

tion of the economic importance of

her accomplishment. She was met at

the railroad station by a delegation





several hundred strong, headed by a





brass band. A platoon of mounted

policemen escorted bev- thmneh the

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ed the hotel, she found the lobby

crowded with an enthusiastic throng

anxious to make her acquaintance.



Lady Eglantine was taken to the

desk where the clerk tied a pen to her

leg and placed her on the hotel reg-

ister. Maybe Lady Eglantine didn’t,

sign her name, but she sure did make

some chicken marks, and at that

there wasn’t so much difference be-

tween her autograph and some others

on the same page.



“It may be of interest to those not

familiar with the chicken business to

know the economic importance at-_

tached to Lady Eglantine and what

she means to the United States and

the entire world," said Mr. Smith, her

breeder. “The poultrymen are striv-

ing to produce more chickens that

will lay more eggs, so that you may





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be able to buy better eggs at a lower

price.



“The results aimed at will bel

achieved through improved breeding!

along scientific lines; and just as sure- 3

ly as it is with horses bred for draught ‘

or speed, or cows bred for milk pro-1

duction, so it is that in chickens the}.

ability to lay a large number of eggs I

is an inherited trait. I



“This bird performed the amazing

work of laying 314 eggs in a year.

She was a member of a pen of five

which averaged 242 eggs each for the

year.



“Her bill of fare is varied, coarse

bran, corn meal, gluten feed, ground





 





 





 





Lady Eglantine, Champion Egg Pro-

ducer.





 





oats, middlings, fish scrap, beef scrap,

low-grade flour, cracked corn, wheat,

white oats, barley, kai‘fir corn and

buckwheat being the chief articles of

her diet. Dry mash and meat scrap

are kept before the birds in open hop-

pers at all times, and the scratch feed

if fed in deep litter three times a day.



“We do not believe in coddling, but

keep our hens in open front houses

the year round, being careful, of

course, to see that strong draughts

do not strike them, and the birds are

stronger and more Vigorous for this

treatment.”





Penn. H. KNAPP.





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If you pessess good birds do not be

afraid to place them in competition

with the neighbor’s stock. Even if no

prizes are won the effort will be worth

something and you will learn just

what your flock is lacking in order to

come nearer to the Standard of Per-

fection.



Visit the poultry show early in the

day Wh’n the birds are lively and the

owners: blue ribbon stock are look-

ing over the‘tr‘entries. It may give

you an opportunity to converse with

experienced breeders and learn prac-

tical points. At least you avoid the

crowd of partially interested observ-

ers who clog the aisles and know lit-

tle about the poultry business.



Study the winners. Some man who

knows the poultry business has acted

as judge and placed certain birds as

first, second, third, etc., and disquali-

fied others. Try and learn why he

gave certain birds the ribbons they.

have earned and why other birds with

considerable quality are ,not placed

among the winners.





Ingham Co. R. G. KIRBY.





 





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ABERDEEN-ANGUS

HERD ESTABLISHED IN 1900.

TROJAN-EitICAS and BLACKBIRDS only.

Also breeders of Percheron. Hackney and Saddle

Horses. Young bulls and Percheron stallions’for

eels. WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionia. Mich.





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If you are in need of anextra good bull or a few choice

ouiig cows or heifers. we have them for Sale. ()ur

erd is headed by the Grand Champion Black



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



see them. They are bred right and need right. U. L.



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‘YRSHIREs—One of the foremost dairy breeds. The

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THE VILLAGE FARM,

Grass Lake, Michigan,

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BEACH FARM

GUERNSEYS





The buyer of breeding stock should know that the

herd from which he buys is healthy. We believe the

Beach Farm Herd is as near perfect health as is )oss-

lblo. ’l‘lie tuberculin test does not show the cast.

sign of reaction. We never had a case of contagious

Abortion. Have went a whole vcar without calling a.

Veterinary or giving a dose of Medicine.



“'1‘: OFFER FOR SALE

Registered Guernsey Bulls

Very High Bred Grade Guernsey Cows





Bred Heifers, Open Heifers and Heifer Calves.





CAMPBELL 8!. ANGEVINE, Goldwater, Mich.

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EGISTEH El) Young (inernsey Bulls.‘ great grand-

sons of (iov. (lhene. Servicable age nicely marked.

exceptional breeding. Avondale Stock Farm. \i'ayiie. Mich.





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A choice lot of Registered Guernsey

cows. heifers and bullsot‘ May Rose breed-

. WlGMAN. Lansing. Michigan.





‘of service age and calves from

Guernsey Buns choice. Adv. reg. brccdiiig.

T. V. HICKS, Route I, Battle (Ieeek. Mich.





Calves from A. R. dams and whose

Guernsey Bull dams are running for A. R. ()iie ready

for service. G. A. WIGEN’I‘. Watervliet. Mich.





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Guernseys Seven A. R. cows in herd.

Address J. K. Blatchford, Auditorium Tower. Chicago, Ill.





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Yearling and Calf bulls. Fcinales all

lief cl 0 f d 3 ages. I’olled and Horned. All registered.

W. H. McCarty & Sons. Bad Axe, Mich.





Do You Want A Bull?





Ready For Service.





From a grand daughter of The King of the

Pontiacs. Hired by a bull that is more than a half

brother to the Champion Holstein Cow of the

World. and whose dam is a 30 lb. 6% 1: fat daughter

of Pontiac Aggie Korndylrewho has more 30 lb.

daughters than any other livuig bull. If you do

write for pedigree.





EDWIN S. LEWIS, Marshall, Mich.





OLS'I‘lCIN Bull Calf: Born Nov. 8:11. A nice indi-

vidual.wcll grown. about evenly marked. His dam

and Sirc'sdam have A.R.U. records that average Butter

7d.iy524.s3 lbs. Milk 563 lbs. W. B. READER. Howell, Mich.





The Two Greatest Bulls





KING OF TIIE PONTIACS

DE Kill. 2d’s BUTTER BIIY 3rd





I have young bulls from cows having high official

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extra good. Prices reasonable





BIGELIIWS IIOLSTEIN FARMS,





B RE EDSVILLE. MICH.





DAIRY TYPE Plus PRODUCTION

Equals Crandall’s





Holstein Filosian Galllo





Two very Good young Bulls for sale. Sired by Beauty Walker

Pietertje Prince 2nd. No. 107658. Dam. Hengerveld DeKol's

Best Daughter. Butter 33.62, iiiilk 582.70. Write for Pedigree

It wanting bull.





Frank R. Crandall & Son, Howell, Mich.





$50 fits another 2 mo. old Hazel-let grandson of



aplecrest De K01 Parthenea and Pontiac

Maid 30.2]b. butter 7 days. Dani traces to Pontiac

Korndyke twice PietertJe 2nd twwe. DeKol 2nd five

times. M. L. McLaulin. Redford, Mich.





 





 





 





HOLSTEIN BULL —s. large big boned blocky fellow

6 mos. old.His dam isa cousin to Finderne Holingen

Fayne, the World's [record 3 yr. old. Write for price

and pedigree. EARL PE FERS, Samaria. Mich.





WANT!“ to buy a Holstein Bull Calf with a 30 lb.

record of his five nearest dams.

D. E. DEAN. MILFORD. MICHIGAN.





 





 





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yet produced for yearly production.





D. D. AITKEN, . .





 





MapleoreleorndykoHongervoldandfinderne Pontiac lohannaKorndyke





The' two great Holstein sires at the head of the herd.

Hengerveld’s dam and grand dam each made more than lL’OO-lbs. of butter

ina year, and including the great grand dam each made more than 30-le. of

butter in 7 days. His sire has sired three daughters that averaged over 1200-1bs.





Finderne Pontiac Johanna Korndyke is the son of the world’s champion

-cow, Finderne Pride lohanna Rue, who gave 28,403-lbs. of milk and made

1470—1bs. of butter in ayear He was sired by a brother to the 401b. 4 yr. old

Mable Segis Korndyke. The dam of the sire is a 30—1b. daughter of Pieterje

This is believed by many to be one of the most

productive combinations in Holstein breeding.



I take pride in tendering the services of these animals to the breeders of

Michigan who are interested in yearly production. Many people feel it is the

yearly work that makes the greatest profit and our effort is along the lines of

yearly records. These two herd sires represent the highest culmination ever





A few high class heifers in calf to Maplecrest Korndyke Hengerveld. and a few bull

calves from dams with records as high as 30-lbs. butter in 7 days, for sale.





 

 





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Holstein Bulls Reedy

For Service.-





Grandsons of Friend chgcrvcld DcKol liuttcr

Boy and Pontiac Aggie Korndykc. l“l'0lll high

record A. it. t). dams at farmers prices.





LONG BEACH FARM,

Augusta, Michigan. (Kalamazoo 00.)





FOR S‘LE 10 High Bred Holstein Heifers l-yt‘. old. 1

"iine grade Holstein Bull (limo. old) % white.

1 Reg. 0. l. C. Boar 9 mo. old. 1 Reg. 0. l. (J. Sow 9 mo.

old. 20 Pure Bred Barred Rock (.‘ockercls.

Ralph C. Woodard. R. No. 2, Elsie. Mich.





Choice Holstein Bull Calves





Ready for service, World's Champion Parentage





IIILLCREST FARM - Kalamazoo, Mich.





' Bull Calves and Cows

I Have "Distal“ Bulls, that I offer for sale.

I can show breeding, records, individuality and nurse-

tive prices. 1.. 1'1. CONNELL. 1*‘ayette.01iio.





Espanore Farm,





LANSING. MICHIGAN.





Oil‘crs for sale five Holstein Bull Calves sired by

tho great bull l’lcdge Spoil‘ord (.‘alaiiuty ’aul and

out of good A. R. t). cows. This Sll‘e has more

daughtcrs with rccords of ovorfio lbs. than any

bull in the statc. if you are looking for this klnd

of breeding, write for priccs and pedigrees.

CHASE S. ()SBOl’tN, -

ADAM E. FERGUSON, i 0“?“9’3-





Top Notch Holsteins!





iii-fore buying your bull look ahead and tlllll‘l'K‘Uf the

fine herd you hope to own in a l’cw ycars. l: I’lty per

cent. or over, ofits value de iendsvon yourbull. There-

fore, get a good bull. An don t be too >articular

about the price if you can be sure of the qua ity. MeP.

Farms Co. sell 'bulls of strictly high quality. ‘Vj‘rite

them for a 800 bull or come and see their lop-

NOtch"bulls for yourself. McPherson Fin-ins Lo..li.iwell.lllicli.





' ' ' —-Is son of former state

Registered Holstein Bull Sire champ...“ m, 32.9.

pounds of butter in '7 days; two months old: mostly

while; a beauty in every particular. bringvsvhiitm

right to your station, sa 'c arrival guaranteed. “rile

for pedigree and photo. Hobart W. 14 ay. Mason, i l( i





() .S'l‘l‘lIN-li‘liIESI/LN bargains. Highgrade heifers

I $35 to $7.3 each. INg. heifers $100 to $1n0 each. Reg.





Bulls Sit) to $75 each. B. B. Reavey. Akron. Mich.





HATCH HERD





YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN





Registered Holstein-Friesian sires. grandson‘s of

World‘s greatest dairy sire. out of choice A. It. 0.

dams and King Pontiac Jewel Koriidyke; Brother of

K. 1’. Pontiac. Lass 44.15; avcrzige record of :30 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 1n

first three generations already have over 600 A. R. 0.

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

reasonable.





FOR SALE





Rezistcred Holstcin bulls ready' for service,- and

registered Holstein bull calves, the best breeding in

the world. grandsons of (in race Fayneilnd s Homestead.

Pontiac Korndykc. King Faync chis and Hengerveld

Dc Ho]. The daiiisof these bulls and calves, have

largc advanced registry records For prices, write





Callam Stock Farm, 204 Bearinger Bldg., Saginaw.Mlcli.

FOR SALE Registered Holstein Bulls





ready for service. and bull calves. also females.

FREEMAN J. FISHBECK. Howell. Michigan.





Reg. Holstein Friesian Bull Calves





From heavy producing dams. Bargain prices.

DEWEY C. PIERSON. Hadley, Michigan.





' Young bulls of best individuality

Purflbred "OISIGIHS and breedinglat reasonable prices.

Write us. G. L. SPILLANE AKRON. R. D. 7. Flint.Mich.





 





' ' All from A.R. 0 Dams. Semi-of-

chmce Hakim" Buus' yearlv records 720 lbs butter in Jr.

4‘". old class toover 1000 lbs. in matureclass Breeding: Cross

‘ King ofthe Pontiacs" and the ”Demmick blood. "Cherry

Creek Stock Farin.Hilliards. Mich. M. E. Parmelee. Proprietor.





 





' ' Bull calves at reasonable

"OlSteIn-FHOSIDH prices. Pontiac Korndyke.

Hengerveld DeKol breeding. John A. Rinre.Wari-sn.lich.





- . BULL cALv . ' .

Rowland Holstein rm... 1...... .§.%.?.i2.f ’A'Smt’i‘l





 





reasonable prices. Fred J. Lange. Sebewaing. Mich.





Duroc Jersey Bears and Sows

The Record of this Herd at Detroit Proves Conclusively that Our Durocs Have the

Individuality and Blood Lines that Insure Good Results.





Choice Spring Pigs and Mature Stock. A large herd gives ample opportunity for

selection. Send for our new circular and state your wants. Write, or better come.





Swine Dept, Breakwater Farm, Ann Arbor, Mich.





12 Registered Holstein heifers. 3 toflfi mos., $12’ieach.

delivered. 4 are bred. Alsobull calves. tooclieap to

mention price. Ernest A. Black. It. 3. Howard City, Mich.





$75.00





Buys a pure bred Holstein bull calf 11 mos.old. a son of

Colant_ia Johanna (‘reaiiielle Lad. One of the nod

producing sires. GEO. D. CLARKE, Vassar, ll ich.





 





/ JAN. 1, 1916.





noes. .

Homes 8:. Violorias'ameunch or a...





o m i {’1‘ hid it...“

o r s n



of Superba. Defender. Much 00].. B e

Afew young boars. M. ’1‘. STU





 





rions and other-I.

RY Lowell. Mich.





 





I have started thousands of breeders on the road

to success. I have a very large and line herd. Every

one In early'developer, ready for market at Ill ‘

months old.’ i want to place one boy In each com- 4‘

munlty to advertise my herd. Write today.





G. S. BENJAMIN Portland, Micliig.'in'§,.fI





 





 





   

 

   

   





 





erkshlres~sons. daughters, grandsons, granddaugh-

tersfof such noted boars as Rival's Champion,Baron

Duke 170th, Symbeleer's Star 2nd. Grand Champion

breeding,“ fnrniers' prices. T.V.Hicks, R.l.Battle Ci'eek.Mich.





' —Fine October pigs both

Buyallon Brod Berkshires .exe.,.,...d 1,, “mm.

Emperor, registered with papeis at fair prices. Write

to I). F. Valentine, Supt. Temperance. Michigan.





SWIGARTDALE BERKSHIRES





Are the kind that win at the Fairs and also produce

the litters as all of our show stock are regular’breeders.

They have the size with the bone to carr them and

their breeding is unsurpassed. All the lean ing families

are represented. We have a few choice Spring Boars

now crowding the 300 lb. mark. for sale, prices from

7 up. We are now booking orders for liall pigs for

January delivery, Can furnish choice Trios not skin,

for $4.") to $50. We Guarantee Satisfaction.





Swigartdaie Farm, Pctersburg, Mich.





' of best breeding. Special price

BerkSh'res on two Spring lionrs.

D. W.SMITH, Wixom. MiChigan.





 





' at cut prices. Choicespringboars. ()pen or

Bprksmres bred gilts. Sow l’ai'row iii Dcccinbcr. Fall

pigs. noakiii. (‘hase'sStock Farm, Marlette,.\lich.lt.1.





 





 





lllie Farmstead Jersey Cattle. Bull calves from It.

.ol! M. Cows. also heifer calves and several bred

heifers for sale. Colon O. Lillie, Coopersville. Mich'





° Have a choice lot of'gilis. Iain breed-

BCPKSIII‘I'BS ingl’orspring farronl'ing. “'i'ite me

your wants. A. A. Pattullo. Deckerville, Mich.





 





 





APLE Lane R. of M. Jersey Herd.’l‘uberculin tested

by the U. 8. Government. For sale R. of M.





cows, bullcalves and heifer calves from R. of M.

dams and grand dams and Hood Farm Sire.

IRVIN FOX. Allegan. Michigan.





Modem Berkshires I havc forsalcyouiig Hours and



- sows oi May i'arrowing. Also

a few sows about tcii mos. old of approved typos. and

aristocratic brooding tliail will sell at prices Iulow market





 





 





The All-Around

.‘ is thefarmer’scow. She’s his

Jerseyfricnd and pride—the beauti-

» ful,gent1e,cver-payingmilkmachinethatlifts‘

the mortgage, builds up the fertility of the

farm, and puts the whole business on a sound,

paying, permanent basis. She ads is herself

to all climates and all feeds an does not

need fancy care. She matures early and

lives long. And she’s so sleek,cleancut and

handsome, as to be the family pet and

,. pride. She produces well

and sells well. Learn

about her in our fine, free '

book,“About Jersey Cat-

tle." Write for it now.





THE AMERICAN JERSEY

CATTLE CLUB .

346 WutZSdSt" N.Y.City





 





 





 





 





HE WILDWOOD Jersev Herd. Registered Jersey

Cattle of Quality. Herd headed by M ajesty'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 fall service

from high producingcows. Alyin liaideii, Capac,Mich.





 





erseys. Bullsready for ser\vice. extra unlity sired

by Jacoba's Fairy Emanon. No. 1071 . from hi h

producing dams. SMITH & PARKER. Howell.Mic .





from high-producing dams.with

JETS” Bulls lor sale testing Assn. records. also on

semi-official test. 0. B. Wehner. R. 6. Allegan. Mich





Jerseys For Sale

Young Cow just Fresh.

Ann Arbor. Mich.





$100 Buys Jersey Bull. Calved March 5, 1913,

Sired by Prince of Oxfordale. his Grandsire

Marstons Interested Prince. Sire of ten cows in R. 01M.

and he by Interested Prince, First Prize Yearling bull

at Pan American Exposition 1901, sire of 32 cows in

R. of M. R. B. FOWLER, Hartford. Mich.





 





 





Waterman & Waterman.





HILLSIDE Farm Jerseys. yearling bulls. solid

color.hali' brothers to ex-worid's-record senior Zyr-

old and from R. of. M. dams. with records from 400 lbs.

to 800 lbs. 0. and O. DEAKE. Ypsilanti. Michigan.





MILKING SHORTHOHNS- i’iifiii’hfi‘iiii‘iof’“23133453:





DAVIDSON & HALL. Tecumseh. Michigan.





Shorthorn Cattle ol both Sex for Sale





W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.





 





8 young bulls also females. farm

Shorlhurns For sale M mite east of Davis crossing on

A. A. R. R. W. B. McQU'LLAN. Howell, Mich.





 





—Dairy or beef bred. Breedin stock all

Sharlhorns ages for sale at farmers prices. . W. Cruni.

Secy. Cant. Mich. Shorthorn Breeders’ Assn. McBride. Mich.





BIDWELL SHORTHORNS





'Foi- “Beef and Milk’!





Registered Bulls. Cows

and heifers, Scotch-

tooped roans. and reds

for sale. Farm at

N. Y. Central Depot.

also D. T. & I. R'y.

BIDWELI. STOCK FARM

Box B. Tecumseh. Mich.





 





 





Albion Stamp 352670





 





 





l .. . '

Shorthorn and Mind Durham: i‘LTdm‘AanHJ‘ifi

white. C. CARLSON, LeRoy. Michigan.





—-18 Sh rt Horn BullsbyMaxwzilton Monarch

For salt 2nd. azon of Avondale. fmm2 to 13 mos. old

John Schmidt. Reed City. R. No. 5.. Michigan.





—A good registered Shorthorn

For Sflle Bull call 9 months old, weight

750 lbs. C. V. Tracy. Ithaca. Michigan.





A few mung bulls for sale





”till “"903. Shorfllorns from good milkingcows.All





 





cows hand milked. M.A. Bray.0kemos, ( Inglinn Co.)Mieh.





 





values. Correspondence solictitc i. M. I. Ogilvic. 3 (liks. Mich.

—A few choice





nunoc JERSEY spring BUARS





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





 





capitol Herd Duroc Jersey Swine. Established 1888.

Spring pigs for sale, satisfaction guaranteed. Ex-

press prepaid. J. H. Banghflrt. East Lansing, Mich.





 





—Blg Type, Heavy Boned Boa rs ready

”limo 10'8“!” for service. reul herd headers Sired by

Volunteer (xraiid Champion. l~‘,.l. Drodt.R.l Monroe. Mich





I ti r .

nunoc JERSEY was :2.





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





 





 





-—Fall and springpigs either HP .from

”um Jerseys choice strains. is. 0.8'1‘AIILMAN.

CHERRY LAWN FARM. Shepherd.





J. W. KEENEY, Erie, Mich.





local from Monroe or Toledo.





Michigan.





 





Breeder ol‘ Duroo

Swine D. M. & T

Kcency Stop,





 





FROC Jersey, Mar. & Sept. pigs either scx sired by

a son of Volunteer. And two Holstein bull calves





and 2 Holstein cows. It. H. Morris. Monroe. Mich.





DUROC JERSEYS~A few choice sows bred or

. . opcn. Also two extra good

springboars. VI m.W. Kennedy. It. 3. Grass Lake. Mich.

_C}ioice spring boars and sows of best

”WOO JOISBIS breeding also 5 high grade Holstein

heifers due in Dec. Priced to sell. Eh.(‘oriie1l.Howoil.Mich

of the growthy, heavy boned

Duroc Jersey soars type also a few giltis. Inspec-

tion inVited. It. D. Hiovnicsiumk, Wayland. Mich.

DUROCS of: the best of breeding. April furrow.

' hither sex. The gilts will be bred for Apr.

farrow. l’rice $20.00 to $23.00 while they last.

H. G. Keesler, R. No. 5., Cassopolis. Mich.





FOR SALE. i‘fiiiffiftii..”“i§~’"l lithi'zigi’i‘fsii‘Pfl





 





 





 





TEKONSHA. Calhoun (30., Michigan.





CHESTER WHITES:’3}’.‘fi.i".§L‘i.”Wind:3215.1233212:

Meadow View Stock Farm. It. 5, Holland, Michigan.





' Chester White males and females. Reg.

RESISIBTW Holstein male calves. herd bull and cows.

Parham's Pedigree Stock Fr rm. Bronson, Mich.





AMPSHIRE HUGS—the belted beauties. One year-

lingboar and spring pigs. either sex. Writcyour

wants. John W. Snyder. St. Johns, Mich., R. No. 4.





HAMPSHIRE swms. “on“





makes such big gains on pasture. Havea few choice

fall pi ’s for sale. also one July hour. 1 havc ii very





 





 





 





choice 19er of breeding sows oi“ the best blood lines,

headed by a mammoth son of thc Great Look Out. Am

booking orders now for spring pigs, can furnish iairs

and tries not akin. Geo. E. Starr, Grass Lake, . ich.





AMI’SHIII E Swine—Breeding stock of all ages

from most popular strains. Write for brcedin .

Inspection iiiVited. Floyd Myers. li.9. Decatur, In .





.. 0. Soon i

Stock For Sale—All





 





 





O. I. C. SWIN E’éi‘iié’é‘ $2.“:

choice bred sow to farrow the last of Aug. or fore





part of Se t.? If you are. write me I have them.

A. J. ORDEN, R No. 2 Dorr. Michigan.





0 ' Serviceableboars. choice Gilts not bred. Spring

' - ' pigs not akin, also Toulouse Geese. Write for

low prcies and photo. Alvin V.Hatt, Grass Lake,Mich.

I ~—yearling sows. gilts, fall pigs. Ve

0- II c 8 reasonable. Satifaction guarantee .

A. R. GRAHAM. Flint. Michigan.





REGISTERED 0. I. C. BOARS 8 GILTS





Hi h class fall in at reasonable rioes.

I. CARL 133m". Mason. M ch.





0 I C SPRING BOARS of good type and

- 0 . Red Polled bull calves.





'-Jolin Berner and Son. Grand Ledge. Mich.





Breeders’ Directory—Continued on page 23.





 





 





 





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JAN. :1, 1916.2 ,





- Feeders’ Problems

7 Corn Silage for Fattening Sheep.





Kindly advise if silage is good for





fattening sheep. ‘

St. Clair Co. bUBsoRIBER.





Silage is a valuable feed for fatten-

ing sheep or lambs and is now used

by the majority of commercial'sheep

feeders. 'It should not, however, be

fed too liberally. For lambs one and

one-half pounds per day should be con.

sidered a maximum ration, while

sheep may be fed two pounds per day

with good results.



An average of seven experiment sta-

tion trials shows a marked decrease

in the amount of hay and corn re-

quired per 100 pounds of gain. In

these trials 100 pounds of corn silage

saved eight pounds of corn and 44

pounds of clover hay, which at one

cent a pound for the corn and $10 per

ton for the hay, gave the silage a feed-

ing value of $6 per ton or at least

twice its estimated farm cost. At

present pricas of corn and hay‘, the

saving would be still greater.



Besides cheapening the gains, the

addition of silage to the ration usually

results in a higher- finish and conse-

quently a better selling price for the

lambs, as the addition of this succu-

lent feed increases their thrift.



Oats for Feeding Steers.





I am feeding steers 20 lbs. of corn

silage, once a day, corn in bundle

once a day, and mixed hay once a

day. The corn I am feeding and the

silage, is not very good; would yield

about 75 bushels, mostly soft corn. I

have not got enough silage to feed

twice a day. Which would be the

cheapest grain ration to feed with en-

silage, ground oats (that are colored)

at 300 per bushel, cottonseed meal at

$40 per ton, or shelled corn (old corn)

at $1.40 per cwt?



Shiawassee Co. G. B.





In the proper answer to this inquiry

something would depend upon the age

and present condition of the feeders,

the length of the feeding period con-

templated and the degree of finish

which it is desired to secure.



With silage, shock corn and mixed

hay of the quality mentioned, and with

the available supplementary grain

feeds at the prices quoted, there is,

,however, no question in the writer’s

mind but that the ground oats would

be thecheapest available supplement-

ary feed and would give excellent re-

sults, particularly during the first part

of the feeding period. Ground oats at

30 cents per bushel make a very

cheap feed. We are not accustomed

to giving oats much consideration as

supplementary grain for steer feeding,

because cats are usually high in price

as compared with other grains which

might be used as the sole supplement-

ary concentrate in feeding operations.



In experiments conducted at the

South Dakota Experiment Station, in

two trials of 101 and 115 days respec-

tively, oats were found to be nearly if

not quite equal to corn for fattening

steers when fed in connection with

corn silage and a small feeding of oil

meal. At the Montana Station oats

were found to have a. high value for

fattening steers, particularly in the

first part of the feeding period.



If made the sole additional grain

concentrate with the ration now being

fed these steers, oats will balance the

ration better than corn, but will still

leave it a trifle deficient in protein.

As the feeding period progresses it

would perhaps be profitable to add

some corn and a little cottonsed or oil

meal to the ration if a high finish is

desired. If, however, a maximum

growth and reasonable flesh covering

is desired, it is possible that the

cheaper ration of silage and shock

corn with oats and mixed hay would

give the greatest net profit on the

feeding operation. As above noted,

this phase of the problem can be prop-

erly solved only when the size, age

and quality of the cattle and the mar-

ket for which they are being fitted is

considered.



Flaxseed Meal for Calves.





Can flaxseed meal be safel fed

with skimmilk to a calf one weei old?

Leelanau Co. N G





After a calf has been fed whole milk

for a week or ten days, skim-milk sup-

plemented by the addition of a jelly,

made by mixing fiaxseed with boiling





L‘ T'|





THE MI‘CH





water to supply a substitute for the

fat taken from the milk in the form of

cream. This substitution should be

gradual in order to avoid digestive

disturbances, and at first about 9. ts.-

blespoonful of fiaxseed. made into a

jelly should be used to each quart of

skim-milk.



As the calf becomes older, this

amount can be somewhat increased

and in the course of a month or six

weeks, corn meal and other farm

grains can be gradually substituted for

the flaxseed meal as a supplement to

the skim-milk.





RAIN WATER FOR STOCK.





 





runs off the barn or house, would say

that it is the best of water for the

family or for live stock, if it is runl

through a filter.



I have had some experience in that

line. I worked on a farm in Kansas

where it was impossible toget water

close to the house. The landlord dug

a cistern 22 feet deep, walled it up

with sandstone, then laid a small tile

from the center to the corner of the

house. Where the cave troughs came

to the ground he took a large barrel,

bored a hole in one side to fit the tile,

let the barrel in the ground so the

tile connected with the barrel, then

put two or three layers of coblestone

in the bottom of the barrel, then put

in a couple 'of bushels of charcoal,

then filled the barrel with coarse grav-

el to within six or eight inches of the

top. The conductor pipe emptied into

the barrel, the water running through

the gravel and charcoal was filtered

and was fine to drink, and also for

cooking. We used it for all purposes

We had a spring well at the barn and

a good one, but I preferred the soft

water to drink. The cistern being so

deep the water was very cold, only a

few days following a big rain.



I had the same experience in Illi-

nois. No one need to be without wa-

ter in a locality where it is a big task

to find water by digging. I would say

(dig the Well where you want it and if

you do not find water make a cistern

out of it.



St. Clair Co.





With reference to using water that l ‘





 





H. SCIILEE.





GROUND FEED FOR STOCK.





 





 





Is it advisable to grind feed for

stock? A great many farmers have

settled this point for themselves, but

three are also many who are in doubt.

In our own experience, we have con-

cluded that for young stock, and for

animals advanced in years to that

point when their teeth are failing,

ground feed is the best. It is not in-

frequently that animals with good

teeth eat so fast that no small amount

of grain passes into the stomach with-

out being broken, consequently but

little of the food elements contained

in such broken grain is absorbed in

passing through the syste .m



If ground feed is fed in the dry

state, it cannot be eaten faster than

the saliva will moisten it, and is there-

fore more readily digested. Some-

times, owing to the pressure of a par-

ticular job of work, horses can only

be allowed a short time to eat their

morning or noonday meal. In such

cases we feed ground feed that has

been moistened at the rate of a pint of

water to six quarts of feed. If damp-

ened hay be fed, the horses will be

able to eat twice the quantity in a

given time than if fed dry. Of course,

no one would doubt the wisdom of

feeding ground feed to cows in milk.



A point often asked in connection

with the matter of ground feed is,

does it pay to own a feed grinder? To

this we would say that a feed grinder

together with a gasoline engine to run

it can in these days be obtained so

cheap that the average 80-acre farmer

can certainly afford to own a feed

grinder to grind his own feed.





Indiana. D. L.





A. E. B—acon & Sons, Sheridan,

Mich, under date of December 13,

write'





“Shropshire rams all sold, Hamp-

shire boars all sold. The Michigan

Farmer certainly sells stock. Please

change my advertisement to Pekin

and Rouen drakes, and oblige.”





 





 





 





IGAN IFARMER





23—23





 





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“If I only knew of something to stop

that Backacher-help my Rheumatism~cure my

Neuralgia, I would send and get it at once.”





Get It.





Gombault’s Caustic Balsam will give you immediate





Relief. A Marvelous Human Flesh Healer and a never failing

remedy for every known pain that can be relieved or cured by

external applications. Thousands testify to the wonderful healing and

tiring powers of this great French Remedy. A Linimeut that will





cc

l“ soothe, heal and cure your every day pains, Wounds and bruises.





Gombault’s' Caustic Balsam





The Great French Remedy‘

Will Do It





Penetrates, acts quickly, yet is





I 4 It Helps Nature to Heat and Care.

a perfectly harmless. Kills all Germs and prevents Blood Poison. Nothing





so good known as an application for Sores, Wounds. Felons, Exterior

Cancers, Burns. Carbuncles and Swellings.





“I had a bad hand with four running sores on it.

I used Caustic Balsam and never needed a. doctor after that.”





worse it got.

- —Ed. Rosenburg. St. Ansgat, Ia.





The more I doctored the





Mrs. James McKenzie, Edina, Mo., says: “Just ten applications of





Caustic Balsam relieved me of goitrc.





My husband also cured eczema with it.





and we use it for corns, bunions, colds, sore throat and pain in the chest."

A Safe, Reliable Remedy for Sore Throat, Chest Cold, Backache,





Neuralgia, Sprains, Rheumatism and Still Joints.





Whenever and





wherever a Liniment is needed Caustic Balsam has no Equal.

Dr. Higley, Whitewater, Wim, writes: "I have been using gaustic Balsam





for ten years for diiIerent ailments.





It has never failed me yet.





A liniment that not only heals and cures Human Flesh, but for years

the accepted Standard veterinary remedy of the world.



Price, $1.50 per bottle at all Druggists or sent by us express prepaid.

Write for Free Booklet and'rcad what others say.





THE LAWRENCE WILLIAMS C0.. Cleveland. Ohio





nous

0. l. C.’s STRICTLY BIG TYPE.





March, April and Ms pigs Sired by Lenghty Prince,

White Monarch and root s Choice,all big tgpe boars

and sows weighinéz from 50) to 70011». wit uullty

second to none. on furnish in pllrl not akin. rioes

reasonable.



Newman’s Stock Farm.





 





Mariette, Mich. R. I.





O l C Sows bred for March and April far-

- o 0 row. Priced to sell. From beat of





stock. E. B. MILET'I‘, Fowlerville, Michigan.





0 I 0 Choice 18 mos. old boar. Grand Champ. at. West





Mich State Fair 1915 also Mnr. nndApr. gilts.

A. J. BARKER, BELMON'I.MICH. R. No. 16.





o l C ’s 3July boars. Bred gilts with size

' ‘ ’ and qualitY. $22 to 830 each.

C. J. THOMPSON . Rockford. Itichigan.





Way Brother: Slack Farm. 53;. 3378; fifigg'ihficlc'f

for sale. Registered free. J. R. Way. ThreeRivers, Mich.





o I c serviceable boars. tried sows. gilts bred for

- . . March and April furrow, summerand fall pigs.

Ipsy express. 6. P. ANDREWS. Dansviue. Mi in.





o l c Gilts bred for March. April and lMay

I I I furrow. Recorded in buyer's name.

1!. W. MANN. Dunsvnne. Michigan.





0. l. C. and CHESTER WHITE SWINE





Big type with quality. We have the undefeated breeders

young hard at seven State fairs this year. They were

sired b Abo 2nd, one of our many good herd boars.

pocia prices on all boars for the next 30 days. Get

a Gilt bred to the Great Schoolmaster. the hi est

p‘rlced hour of the breed, Champion over champ one.



'rite for our big catalogues with history of the best

herd in the whole country. Come and see them.





lloll‘lsg l‘los Slut Farms, Om Oily, Iich.





Choice 8 ring boars and bred Gilts.



0- '0 Co We pay knees and He later free.



Glenwood Stock Farm, Zeeland, ichlgnn.



O I C’s Spring Boats and silt bred

. a o sows. ‘





t9

JULIAN r. mxron. min. median. n. s.





' Attractive prices on full

Ioglztmtl'll. l- c 3- and last spring gilts. anti-1%:

large litters. Elmer E. Smith. Redford. Mich.





 





 





o ' c Service boars and fall lgs not akin and 25

I I - bred sows. 'Extra stock. One extra last

Mar. boar, wt. 300, blgtype, eavy bone. Come and see

them. is mils wuss of depot. Otto l. Schulss, Nashville, lich.





POLAND-CHINAS





From our thousand pound Grand

Champion Boat and Big Stretchy

Sows, of best breeding. Spring Boats





at a bargain:

Kalamazoo, Mich.





est Farm, ..

IG TYPE P. O. lithe! lax. l ort ' t .

”algal-ed sows and gllts. Have 83:8?“ 1001i.)1 ll;I “bone :9 :13,

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guaranteed right. rnsni'fiwonn. t....l:;’ili‘.'i‘

Poul" cm“ gum bred for March and April for-



row. Fall pl ., satisfaction ar-

antced. G. W. BOLTON, alamazoo. Mich gun.

”lull call‘: of the big type. Boers ready for

service. Barred R0 k C k



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' two extra good Bummer Ye 1'

hip :lrllll P- c- oars. Bred Its are allmsdlxil’lg

p n. Mam are lunatic. sire by Big Defender,

the hour at eve be? gin; wild e and

R . aft. Mich.





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inFebruary. W. J. HAGELSHAW. Augusta. Alli-h.





" BONED POLAND CHINA Sprint.r Hours and

'1', gilts not akin. Also older stock. Prices right.

CLYDE F SHER. St. Louis, Mich.





Spring Pigs at Half Price: $35223;

strain of Poland Chinas on earth. none bigger. If

you over as to own a registered Poland China,

this is your opportunity. Get busy and order at once.

Pairs and tries not akin 815 each. A few bred sows at

825. J. O. BUTLER, Portland. Mich. Bell Phone.





' ' -»VVestern bred extra large

Blg Iype Puland chm! boned. Stock for sale. Pairs

not akin Satisfaction guaranteed. 1

W. BREWBAKER & SONS. Elsie. Mich. R. No. 5.





igiTypo Roam all sold. Have several good Gilts

bred to Smooth Jumbo. Jr. Top Boar of J. D.

Collin Sale. Priced right to goq ick. A.D. Grcgory.lonin,Mlch.





[C Type Poland (‘hlna Gilts. bred to a good son of

Wonderful Wonder. He sold in Iowa for $025. This

willp lease you. Robert Martin, R. 7, Hastings, Mich.





' Spring Pigselther sex. both medium

Pallnd chmas- and Ming: fromlargelltters. Prices

right. L. W. Barnes :1. Bryon, Michigan.





25 BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA boars sired by Big

Smooth Jumbo 810 lbs. at 20 mos. and Giant Des

Moines 743 lbs. at 17 mos. At farmers' prices. Sent

C. O. . Write or come and see l30besd of good big

types. Wm. Waffle. Goldwater, Michigan.





For Sale Poland Olin: $7323.35 i‘i’StS‘fi‘é‘é'.

P. D. Long. R. P. D. No. 8. Grand Rapids, ich.





n. I .d Poland Chlnmi. Both sex and all a coat

a" on bargain ’prices. so, B. P. took

Oockerels. ROBERT EVE. Pierson. Michigan.





‘ a I ‘. Stanton, Mich. Colby's Ranch, has

- I .I 1 for sale 100 head of Registered Poland

China. Bears and Sows. Prices reasonable.





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lsrlchlrs 8mm Bum ”if. mild: ni'é‘ho 3:“

Sand for Photos. CHAS. METZ. E13112. Mich.





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Lar eYorkshiros mini.“ é‘éi‘ii‘é‘:

boars. i‘gs all yes. Prices Reasonable. W. C.

COOK. oute o. I, ADA, MICHIGAN.





 





—Fall Pigs. Brood Bow; and

Mdefoot Hogs Guts. Young service Boar-s. Pairs

not akin.Write for prices. C. F.Bacon. R. 3 Britton,Mlch.





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Oxionl On" Show. S:3‘..‘£:‘3l’.: ”Twill?

M. F. GANISLEY. Lennon. HI Iran.





 





Oxford Oosn Sheep and Pulled Durham Dalila





For Sale. J. LdJQGai-mo. R. No. 26, Muir, Mich





 





Ram Lambs.

Yearlin Ewes.

IUIR. ICH.





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Shropshire Ewes For Sale

DAN BOOHER. R. 4. Ewart. Michigan.





 





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l ' ‘ ~Yearlin and ram lambs from Champion

.m‘ U" flock of humb of Mich. Also select Berk-

shire swine. El-mhurst Stookl‘arm, Almont. Mich. .-
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