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FARM NOTES.

 

The Osage Orange Hedge.

Some years ago the planting of hedges
was ,qu'it'e popular in some sections of
Michigan, and a good deal of osage orange,
Some,locust>and other varieties. of hedge
wer'e'planted. On favorable soils, this
hedgemade a. good stand and a rapid
growth.; In ‘the" writer’s neighborhood
the owners of the farms on both sides or
the road leading toiour little village plant-
ed osage‘ hedge and‘gave .‘it good care for
manyi‘yéars. * The result ‘was that the
plants dived» well and grew rapidly, and
as the (hedges were kept well’ trimmed
this stretch of road, which is perfectly
level and had been well graveled, added
not a little to the attractive appearance
of the locality, and was the subject of
favorable comment from many passing
travelers. But as its age and vigor in—
creased, the task of keeping it trimmed
became increasingly difficult, while the
increasing scarcity of farm labor in re-
cent years made it impossible for the man
with a considerable amount of this hedge
on his farm to keep it properly trimmed,
and the inevitable result has been that
from a welligtkept hedge resembling that
shown in the accompanying cut, which
is from a. photograph taken in one of the
southern counties of the state where this
hedge is and plentiful, this stretch or
road soon became bounded on both sides
With an overgrown mass‘resembling that
shown in the‘ second illustration. The
problem then became what to do with it?
Some of it was cut dowu and by per-
sistent sprouting and cultivation was
finally killed out and a wire fence sub-
stituted; Other sections were trimmed
out, leaving a thrifty plant every few
feet and the balance of the plants killed
out by persistent effort. The plants that
were left were used for the attachment
of barbed wire and are now becoming
quite trees. Other sections were cut
down and allowed to grow up again and
were retrimmed. Just one section of this
long stretch of hedge Ehas remained in
good condition, for the reason that it
was planted after the grower had had
experience with the hedge. Instead of
encouraging it to grow into a full heighth
fence as soon as possible it was kept
trimmed down to a height of about three
feet for years, and this close trimming
has enabled him to keep it down to a
reasonable heighth until the present time.
The writer had a stretch of only 80 rods
and made the common mistake, of get-
ting it up high as soon as possible, but
has kept it well trimmed every year until
the present, altlro it has gradually grown
in heighth until it got too high to trim
easily, for which reason it was allowed
to grow this summer, with the intention
of cuttingit back to a heighth of two or
three feet this winter from which to make
a new starting point to which we will
keep it trimmed down as closely as pos-
sible again. This will not, be an easy or
desirable task for the reason that the
barbed wires which were stretched above
it when the, plants were small were left
right there and are now closely inter-
woven with the branches of the hedge.
But it seems the best solution of the
hedge question in our case, since we have
so little of it that it is really not a great
task to keep it trimmed so long as it
can be kept within reasonable bounds as
to heighth and width. -

But this is a live question to the farm-
ers ofwevery section where osage hedge
has been planted to any extent. The
locust. hedge is not so troublesome in
this respect, as it is not nearly so vigor-
ous a grower and does not need as fre-
quent or persistent trimming. However,
the same question will arise with this
rhedge after it has been out for a long

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enough time. Some farmers are solving
the question by puling it out, root and
branch, with horses, as the best means
of getting rid of it. But where it cannot
be kept well trimmed for any of the rea-
sons given above, we believe from ob-
servation of the different methods of
handling it the best plan is to grub out
a part of the plants, rleaving one say every
three feet to grow into a tree. Osage
is said to be a durable wood for fence
posts, and as the plants are well estab-
lished in a hedge it seems a pity to de-
stroy the stand entirely when a lot of
valuable posts could be grown in a few

and if properly handled that revenue may
be made sufficient to at least pay for
the entire cost of the hedge experience,
if not more. -

Summer Crops for Hay.

Could hairy vetch be depended upon
for a hay crop in Clare 00.? Would any
saccharine sorghum make a. hay crop
here? Could you suggest any grain or
hay crop that could be sown on wild land
and make a crop the first year?

Clare Co. LOUIS KOCK.

There is no reason why sand or hairy
vetch could not be successfully grown in
Clare county, if it is considered advisable

to grow it, which is a question of doubt.

 

 

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Trimmed Osage Orange Hedge.

 

The Neglected Hedge, a

years by this method. Then the appear~
ance of'the roadside when this-plan is
followed is not at all bad, as with a little
trimming these trees may be made to
run up a straight body for a sufficient
distance to give a good view of the fields
along the roadside between the trunks.
This is the day of-practical forestry and
this method of handling the osage orange
hedge where it cannot well be main—
tained as a fence is the most practical
kind of farm forestry for those who are
confronted with the problem, as it will
ultimately insure a revenue from what is
now considered a nuisance in many cases,

 

 

 

 

Problem for the Owner.

While it is unquestionably a great soil
renovator, yet there are some serious
objections to growing it. It has shown
an inclination to become a weed in many
localities where it has been tried out,

fbhe seed is rather expensive and its trail-
"ing habits do not make it well suited for

a hay crop, at being difficult to harvest it
on this account. It may be sown either
in spring or fall. If sown in the spring
it will mature a crop and seed the first
year, but if sown in the fall will afford
some pasture and if it winters success-
fully may be utilized as a hay crop the
following year. It is questionable, how-

    

   
 

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ever, whether it is profitable to use it at
all, unless as a. crop for green :ni’anure to.
improve the soil, the same to be plowed
down before the seeds have matured to
a germinating point.

Sorghum is not as well adapted to our
conditions as a forage crop as is com.
Corn is easily the king of grasses for our
latitude for the production of forage.
Sorghum is sometimes utilized as a for-
age crop for soiling purposes, but less
than in former years, the larger varieties
of corn being recognized as its superior
in the production of either green forage
for soiling or silage purposes or to be
cured in the shook.

There is no better combination to sow
on wild land ,without special fitting than
clover and timothy. This may be sown
at alniOSt any time of year, so long as
it is sown directly after the land is
cleaned up and burned over, and if a
liberal amount of seed is sewn a fair
stand will be secured which may be
utilized for pasture. The best time to
sow is in the late summer or early fall
after the land is cleaned up, but if the
season is a dry one so that little growth
starts up in the fall, the seed may be
sown in the late fall or even in the winter
or early spring with profit. If the soil
has been well prepared there is no bet—
ter combination for hay that can be Sewn
and harvested the same season than oats
and peas. This crop may be utilized
either as a hay or a grain crop, and
makes excellent feed when handled in
either way. It is a combination too little
used in Michigan, especially in northern
localities, where the crop will grow lux—
uriously and where the corn crop is more
or less uncertain.

Growing Beans on Sandy Land.

“'ill someone who has had experience

in gl‘llWll‘lg being on sandy land please
adVise with regard to cultural methods?

Saginaw Co. SUBSCRIBER.
Years ago, when Michigan first began
to be prominent as a bcun growing state

the bulk of the, crop was grown on the
sandy i‘nrnis, w'hci'o wheat had begun to
fail in yield or to prove uncertain. Good
eiops were, sccurcd for a time, but the
yield of the bean crops begun to fall off
within a few years aftcr making them a.
factor in the crop rotation on this kind
of land; clover sccdiugs also became. in-
creasingly dilllcult to get, and the-bean
crop fcll into disrepulc with farmers hav—
ing this kind of soil, with the result that
today the greater portion of the bean
acreage, will be found upon the heavier
soils of the, state, while the sandy land
farmers are more generally growing po-
tatoes as a cash crop instead of beans.
This result has doubtlcss been due to

the handling of the soil for the crop
rather than to the fact that the bean
crop is particularly hard upon the land
from the standpoint of the plant food

which it takes from the soil. In fact,
lit-ans are :L lcguminous crop, having
much the same power to fix the free nitro-
gen 0f the air in the roots as is pos—
sessed by clover, thru the action of a
similar bacteria which produces the root
nodules in which this mysterious process
takes place. In the earlier days the
worst character ever given to farming
land was that “it wouldn't raise white
bcans,” indicating that; in the opinion of
our pioneer farmers beans could be de-
pended upon to produce a crop on land
that was too thin and poor for the prof-
itable production of other crops. Rut this
is not saying that the present day farm—
ers located on sandy land have no found-
ation for their prejudice against the bean
crop. The fact remains to be explained
that the crops became steadily smaller
and the clever increasingly hard to get
upon the sandy farms where bean cul—
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rotation. But, , as above noted, we peeve
this result was due niore‘tor the methods
‘ employed by the groWers than to the
crop itself. Beans were ordinarily used
as an extra crop in the rotation in fitting
the land for wheat, and later, when the
wheat crop was largely abandoned by
sandy land farmers, for rye. Ordinarily
the sod ground was plowed for corn and
the corn ground was planted to beans
the following year and the land again
seeded to clover with rye, or perhaps
with cats the following year. Now the
result of this method was that the soil
was rapidly depleted of its supply of
humus by the two cultivated crops in
succession, as the vegetable matter in a
sandy soil nitrifies rapidly under cultiva-
tion of this kind. Then the rye crop
was sowed, and this crop, being a good
gleaner and accustomed to thriving under
hardships, appropriated most 'of the avail-
.able plant food in the soil with the result
that the clover failed to catch, and for
Very good reasons; first, because the ex-
haustion .of the surface soil.of available
plant feed did not enable the young
plants to make an early and vigorous
start, and second because the exhaustion
of the humus in the soil made it less re-
tentive of soil moisture, and with the
first drouth the weak clover plants died
from its effects.

These deductions being accepted, if
beans are to be grown on a sandy soil
other methods should be foil-owed. They
should be given the first place in the
crop rotation and planted on a clover sod.
Then, if given a little supplementary fer-
tilization with the mineral elements of
plant food, a good crop may be expected
under normal conditions, and if the land
is at once put into some small grain and
resecded to clover the humus content of
the soil will be such that a minimum of
trouble will be experienced in getting a
Seeding of clover, probably no more
trouble after a bean crop than after a.
corn crop or any other crop that ma-
tures seed. But for best results the
rotation should be varied, putting some
other crop where the beans were this
year when the land is broken again, so
that the beans will not rccur on the same
land oftcner than once in six years, with
two crops of clover intervening. If such
cultural methods are used beans may be
employed as a cash crop on sandy land
without injurious results, but where so
employed a short rotation of crops should
be used, and the short rotation is best for
this kind of land and no matter What
crops are grown in the rotation.

PLANTING FOREST races.

 

As I have about three acres of springy
land I would like to set out to forest
trees, would like to know how the Calalpn.
speciosa would do on that kind of land
or what kind of land would the Cutolpn.
speciosa do best on?

Sanilac Co. SUhSCRIBEn.

Most of our forest trees—Amik, bccch,
maple, spruce, silver fir thrive best on
a fresh soil (when only ll‘ilm‘s of moisture
are left on the land after prcssurc bcing
applied to a handful of soil). \Villows,
poplars, ash and elm prcfcr :l moist soil
(when water falls in drops from a clod

on pressure being applied), but absolutely
stagnating moisture is not favorable to
any kind of tree growth.

Cutalpa spcciosa, commonly known as
hurdy catalpa, wcstcrn cutulpu, catawba-

tree, has a natural range from south-
western Tennessee to (-cniral Indiana,
but does not reach Michigan. ’l‘hruout

its range the tree makes a rapid growth
on well drained, fertile soils, such as are
:nlli‘ptcd to the growth of big yields of
rum. When brot to Michigan, for north
of its natural range, it usually winter
kills badly unless very favorably placed.
Individual specimens exist and make a
yearly growth as far north as Grayling.

There are a great many of our native
trees that will make a much better yearly
growth and are adapted to a far greater
range of soils than the catalpa. I do not
recommend the planting of catalpa for
forest plantations in central and northern
Michigan.

Agrl. College. J. FRED BAKER.

THE FAIRS AND THE AFTERMATH.

 

 

In these busy lives of our we are prone
to be recipients of benefits, and at the
same time do not stop to enumerate them
and render the credits where credits are
due. The fairs are looked forward to as
an opportunity for relaxation and pleas-
ure, and very many do not consider that
they are, or can be, a source of education
and profit.

Fairs Are Expensive.

If we were to figure out the sum total
of the actual cost of one state fair, for
instance, the amount would seem to be
prodigious, and some would say that they

 
    
  

 

 

pended for atomic ,r'a ,. of the grounds
and the equipments, another large sum
expended for the pm that are com-
peted for during the me. Still another
large sum for the expenses of running
the fair, as well as other large sums ex-
pended by those who make the exhibits
at the fairs. If we were to add to thou
sums already mentioned the amounts ex-
pended by those w’ho visit the fair in
order to get to them, we would begin to
get at the Outlay necessary to make a
successful fair, as the admission fees and
privilege fees must make the sum total
equal to the preparing and equipping the
grounds, the prizes and other expenses.
In other words, the visitors must pay
all the accumulating bills before and dur-
ing the fairs in addition to the expenses
necesary to get to and at the fair. The
question naturally arises as to whether
it pays and _
Who Are Benefit'ed by the Fall-s.

It is proper to consider that the fairs
are a means of educating and advancing
.the best interests of the masses. Were
it not for the fairs, there would not be
an opportunity to get together, compete
for prizes and see who has made the
greatest progress along the many lines or
work. It is or should be, a matter that
awakens within us a feeling of pride that
we live in an age in which there is being
made greater progress than during any
age that has preceded us. It is a con-
solation to know that we live in an era
of the greatest possibilities known in the
history of man. The fairs furnish an
opportunity to see and know who has
reached the highest point in the world’s
progress, and who has lived, or is living
the nearest to the limit of their possi-
bilities.

In the first place, those who, by prac-
tice, make the effort to get out with their
exhibits and help to make the show, re-
ceive meat benefits. If it Were'not so
they would not continue to show their
wares year after year. There is a finan-
cial benefit, which most of us consider
first. and there is the developing of the
business for the future as well as the
developing of the strength of character
of the individuals. Each has a. chance
to measure up with others and decide
just where they stand.

In the second place. those who attend
the fairs, and, in reality pay a large share
of the expenses, have an object lesson
before them which tells, by seeing, more
than could be done by word of mouth, or
by the force and capabilities of descrip—
tion by pen pictures. There are multi-
tudes of illustrations as to what others
have accomplished, and it ought to stim-
ulate, not onlv an interest in each indi-
vidual’s line of work, but arouse in them
a now desire and a new ambition to do
better work along their several lines of
business. That all do not catch the
spirit of the times we are very well
aware, .but that does not lessen the op-
portunities.

The Aftermath.

I believe we are prone to consider after
a fair season has passed, that all the
benefits that can be derived from the
fairs have been accomplished. We do
not stop to think that in many ways the
fairs are but the season for distributing
ideas, that like good seed, will, in due
time, spring up and bring forth an abund-
ant harvest.

Like the blessings of true patriotism,
the spirit and desire for advancement is
nourished in the homes and in the social
circles. During the social hours that fol-
low after the fairs, the many things of
interest seen there are pretty sure to come
up and be talked over. Each and every
individual has something to add to the
stories that will be told about the fairs.
No one has seen it all. No one could
comprehend and remember it all if they
made the effort to do so, but by talking
these matters over they become more
firmly fixed in the minds of those who
talk and those who listen, and all that is
retained becomes a part of the sum of
their knowledge, to be used in the future.

The exhibitors have measured their
ability in the production of wares for
show beside the wares produced by oth-
ers. If they succeeded they feel encour-
aged. If they failed to come up to the
mark they had set before the fairs, they
should make their failures a stimulus to
a greater effort during the coming year,
and it is after the fairs that one is best
prepared to stop and consider just where
the weaknesses are and devise means to
make them better during the coming
years. Often a failure to win what was
expected beforehand, is the cause of re-
newed effort in the future that brings
better results to, the individual, than
would have been accomplished if a smooth

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Incoming zip-the, benefits that come-
,as a result of the fainf there are my

things to be considered. “ Much benefit
is received thru the influence of ex-
ample. The exhibitors at the fairs are
able to perceive which of the samples
shown are the most desirable. Among
the farmers they are able to tell which
is the best varieties of fruits, vegetables,
grains, grasses, etc., to raise on the
farms, and which are the most popular
in the markets. The teaching and ex-
ample of the exhibitors after the fairs,
bring about a general improvement in the
various things raised on the farms. All
have an opportunity to receive a benefit,
and the majority of farmers are ben-
efited'.

With the live stock shown there are
object lessons for both exhibitors and
visitors. By patronizing the classes of
stock that are accorded the highest honors
on account of possessing the greatest
merit, the general character and' useful-
ness of the line stock of the country can
be improved. It is safe to conclude that
the result of the fairs is to benefit each
and every class of people interested in
farm operations. N. A. CLAPP.

FREE DEAFNESS CURE.

A remarkable offer by one of the lead-
ing ear specialists in this country, who will
send two months’ medicine free to prove
his ability to cure Deafness, Head Noises
and Catarrh. Address Dr. G. M. Brann-
man, 102 East 12th ,St., Kansas City, Mo.

 

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Foresight Pays Better than Hindsight.
You have heard what Mrs. O’Leary’s
cow did to Chicago back in ’71. It is safe
to say that had the good dame known
What was going to happen, she would
have done everything she could to have
avoided the catastrophe that cost many
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ands homeless. That one dark, straw-
littered, and without a. doubt unsanitary
stable, was the starting point of a dire
disaster. Mrs. O’Leary’s stable was low
cated in a big city, but it was no more
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such a. stable endangers the health and
even the lives of the farmer’s family and
hundreds of city folks whose milk sup-
ply is from that source. Farmers and
dairymen should not take the risk of
doing irreparable damage that they will
later regret, when a few dollars spent
for modern barn equipment, a test for
the herd, and a little care will forever
forestall all trouble and remove all pos-
sibility of blame attaching to them. The
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as well as safety for your family and
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‘ The New Marlin Hanger.

The new Marlin hanger is entitled,
“Quail Shooting in England.” and depicts
most effectively the intensely enjoyable
moment when the shooter, with gun at
shoulder, and eye just finding the bird
along the top of the barrel, is increasing
the pressure of his trigger finger with the
certainty of a clean, quick kill. The
hunter and bevy of quail rising over the
knoll, the grass. shrubs, field and sky
have been worked out in exquisite detail,
but the real interest centers in the thoro-
bred dogs, which, in characteristic atti-
tude and with tense, strained muscles,
are holding the point until they may be
released by the short. A copy of this
hanger will be sent to any of our readers
who will send six cents in stamps to The
Marlin Firearms Co., New Haven, Conn.

' .‘ ' _“'. , .‘ .
' ' The pleasin‘ .. name

These carriers

meaning in thelndi’anfi ‘ w,
of Many Waters," is an- ,
county, a river and a in, , j W
on area of approximatelfi W ignore
miles between the Blue, muffins , nd
Snake and Columbia rivers, near ' he
southeastern corner of the state of Wash-
ington. Its rail transportation necessities
are supplied by the Northern Pacfic'Bail-
way. This valley offers tothe newcomers
a wide variety of opportunities. It is im-.
possible to more than briefly touch on
details, but the Walla Walla Commercial
Club is at all times pleased to supply facts,
figures and descriptive literature. There
are opportunities for wheatmen and for
stockmen, but it is in other lines that the
profits are most alluring, such as garden-
ing, fruit raising, poultry raising and
dairymg, The soil in different sections
of the. valley varies considerably in its
composnion. Here is a condensed state-
ment taken from a report prepared by.
the government observer: “The climate
of Walla. Walla. is second to none, this
section having fewer disagreeable or in-
jurious features than any other in'Am—
erica. There has never been a cyclone,
tornado, hurricane or blizzard in the state.
There are no sudden or extreme weather
changes, the average from one day to an-
other for the year around being not over
five degrees. Thunderstorms, hailstorm:
and logs are ccmparatively rare. The
average wind \e ocity is six miles an
hour. The annual rainfall (including
snow), averages a. total precipitation of
17 7-10 inches, and less than 1-10 at this
full: {fur us the lax-vest months.” Ali
varieties of fruit, except the tropical and
some of the semi—tropical. attain a degree
of perfection here that has attracted med-
als and prizes from expositions in all
parts of the country. Cherries produCe
as high as 15,000 pounds from a single
acre. Peaches yield tremendously. All
kinds of berries, currants, grapes, pears,
prunes, plums, apricots and nectarines
thrive exactly as they should. But apples!
They are the staple! At the Paris Ex-
position this valley took the prize over
apples from all parts of the world. At
the recent National Apple Show at ,Spo-
Rome the same valley did. some more prize
winning. Walla Walla is something more
than a commercial and financial center.
It is a city of homes, schools and
churches, its educational facilities being
unexcelled anywhere on the Pacific Coast.
It is the county seat of Walla Walla
county and is located on Mill Creek, in
the center of the valley.

 

 
  

  

 

 

 
 
  

 

     
 

Fred Shattuck Demonstrated HI: Nerve.

Every year the' best shotgun shots in
the land assemble in competition for the
greatest of all shootinghonors—t-he Grand
American Handicap. It was held at Chi-

cago with the big event scheduled for
Thursday, June 24. Shooters came in
from all corners of the United States.

Fred Shattuck, of Columbus, Ohio, the
winner, gave such a. demonstration of
pluck that his name will always be promi-
nent in the shooters Hall of Fame. The
race is for the best score out of 100 tar-
gets. After 80 had been shot, one man
had missed only‘one and several only two
and three. Shattuck had missed four.
The last 20 targets try a man’s mettle and
Shattuck, knowing this, counted himself
in the race "tho some thot he had little
show. He had the grit and skill to break
those last 20 without a miss which gave
him a total of 96. All eyes were on Shat-
tuck now, when it was learned that three
other leaders in the race had missed
enough to make their score 96 and tie
him. His 20 straight under such a. strain
as that was marvelous shooting. The
four men who were tied then had to shoot
it off on a string of 25 targets. This is
the most gruelling test of all. Shattuck
was at 19 yards. Two men had an ad-
vantage of him—one at 16 yards and one
at 17 yards. The referee lined up behind
the four men and the race started anew.
“Dead! dead!" he shouted, as Shattuck
broke bird after bird. It was not a run-
away race, for all were scoring breaks
with clock-like regularity. The 25th bird
was reached—all had missed but Shat-
tuck. Crack! and he breaks the target
clean as a die. Then a great shout for
one of the gamest finishes ever recorded
—-45 straight. Who could beat that? All
bats were thrown in the air to Fred
Shattuck. Shattuck lays much import-
ance upon the fact that he used UMC
Steel Lined Shells which have a tough
band of steel around the smokeless pow—
der. No other shell made has this im-
proved feature. One man is reported to
have remarked: “I never saw a man
shoot with such confidence as Shattuck
There must be something extraordinary
about those UMC shells he used. He
makes the 12th winner who has ruled
them and only 18 Grand American Handi-

caps have ever been held!” “That’s
right,” his friend said. “And no other
make has won more than six. You can

trust one of those boys to know the best
shells on earth. They urcn't going to take
any chances of losing out.”

 

 

 

 

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for the same grade of article than would
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A New msEcT'pEs-r APPEARS IN
THE WEST.

 

Lucern leaf weevil, a species of the
cotton weevil which has cost the cotton
states of the south millions of dollars,
has broken out in Utah and, according to
authorities, will soon be a pest in the
entire United States, despite all that can
be. done to prevent it. Prof. E. G. Titus.
entomologist at the Agricultural College
of Utah, who is considered an authority
on pests in the western country, has given
out a statement that it is but a matter
of a few years before almost every dis-
trict in the country growing lucern, yel-
low-clover or red-clover, will be suffering
from the pest the same as Utah is at the
present time. This year the loss onvthe

30,000 acres of lucern in Salt Lake county

has amounted to over $300.000- The yield
has been reduced to an average Of 500
pounds of hay to the acre.

The first indication of the pest was
discovered early last spring when a field
of lucern near Salt Lake City was prac—
tically blighted by insects. Immediately
Prof, Titus and others started an investi-
gation, found some or the insects and af-
ter examination declared them to be the
weevil which has ravaged the southern
part of Europe for many years, causing
great damage. The pest spread rapidly
all summer until now it is in practically
every field in Salt Lake county and is
gaining each day despite the efforts
Which are being made to check it.

“The means of fighting it,” says Prof.
Titus, “are limited and of such a nature
that'it would be almost as easy to get
.rid of all the house flies in the country
as to get rid of the weevil. As far as I
know it has never broken out in any part
of the country excepting in Salt Lake
county, but the start it has here assures
its growth into a national danger. The
pest was brot here probably by immi-
grants. The means of distribution are
numerous. The insects can be spread
by means of railways, wagons, in cloth—
ing, bedding, freight, exported hay or in
any one of a thousand different ways. By
dropping into lucern patches in other
districts the pest is started. The princi-
pal means of spreading is in the full
grown stage, when’they pass from field
to field by walking and at certain times
of the spring and fall distribute them-
selves by flying for considerable distance.
“I dare say that it has already got a
start in some parts of the country but
has not been identified as weevil. All
manner of means have been employed in
trying to get rid of the pests but nothing
has been gained. We have quarantined
the hay, used acids and sprays and fire
but all to no avail.

“The greatest amount of injury is
caused during the younger stages of the
insect. The eggs are laid by the full
grown weevils early in the spring, prin-
cipally in April and May. The eggs .are
placed in various parts of the plant but
generally in the sheath, from which the
younger leaves and buds are growing.
They hatch in a few days into pale, yel-
low worms. They at first feed concealed
in the developing leaves, buds and even
flowers, but as they grow older they
work their way to the larger leaves and
completely defoliate the plant. When
the worm is full grown it is green with
a white stripe down the, back and is over
a quarter of an inch long. The full
grown larva drops to the ground and
spins a lace-like cocoon in which it later
turns into the weevil. From two to
three weeks after 'the cocoon is formed
the fully developed. insect makes its way
out, crawls up the stem of the plant and
begins feeding. 'Rhe weevil at first is
light brown in color with several lighter
lines running lengthwise on its back.
it has hard wing covers and distinct bit-
mg parts. Early in the fall the weevils
begin leaving the fields for new territory.
This migration has begun in Utah and
undoubtedly next spring farmers in many
parts of the country will find their lu-
cern fields affected with the weevil pest."

Utah. H. M. WHITE.

 

, HARD VS. SOFT DRAIN TILE.

_I would like to ask Mr. Lillie which
kind .of tile he would advise me to use
for tile draining, the hard or glazed tile
or the soft tile, or isn’t there any dif:
ference? Land to be drained is clav soil
with hard clay subsoil. '
Barry Co. E. 0.

After tile are laid in the ground below
the frost line, there is practical/ls; no dif-
ference in the value of the hard glazed
tile and the soft burned tile, Glazed tile
do not absorb moisture and consequently
when they freeze do not flake off like the
soft tile. Therefore, it is better, even
when you lay soft' burned tile to have
several tile at the mouth of the ditch

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the soft burned at the mouth of the ditch
will, after a’ while, crumble from the
effects of the frost. Soft tile can usually
be hot for a little less per thousand; but,
on the other hand, there is greater loss
in breakage in the soft tile than there
is in the hard. Really, I do not think
there is very much difference and yet my
preference would be the hard glazed tile.
Some people argue that the soft tile
are better because there is more oppor-
tunity for the water to get into the drain,
arguing that the moisture from the land
seeps or oozes thru the tile itself. There
is nothing in this idea whatever. The
water gets into a tile drain between the
ends of the tile and not thru the pores
of a tile itself, so that the water will get
into a 'hard glazed tile drain just as

readily as it will into a soft tile drain.

COLON C. LILLIE.

OATS FOR GREEN MANURE, 0R

PASTURE.

This year I had a 20—acre field of oats
that the grasshoppers trimmed up con-
siderable, altho I cut them quite green.
This ground I disked over and now have.
a splendid stand of oats 4 to 6 inches
high; by the middle of October they will
probably be 8 to 10 inches. The ground
needs fertilizer. They will also make an
immense amount of fall pasture. Which,
in your estimation, will be the most prof-
ita-ble, to plow the oats under or pas-
ture, and why?

Emmet Co. H. S. L.

I think you will get more good out or
this crop of oats to pasture it than to
turn it all down as green manure. In
fact, I would’t plow it this fall. I would
pasture it and then leave the green roots
in the ground over winter to prevent the
ground from washing and leaching and
plow it early in the spring. I desire to
qualify this statement, and specify that
I would pasture this oat crop, providing
the land was of such nature that it would
not be injured by pasturing, if the fall
should happen to prove somewhat moist.
In other words, if it is sandy land, 1
would pasture it. If it is clay land and
would be injured very much in its me-
chanical condition by the tramping of
cattle providing the ground was wet,
then it would not do for pasture. Now,
oats is not a valuable crop for green
manuring. When you turn the cm:
under, you add nothing to the sell only
what was originally there, except a cer-
tain amount of organic matter. 01'
course, this organic matter is a splendid
thing for most soils because it adds to
the amount of humus in the soil; but this
late growth of oats this fall will not add
any large amount of carbonaceous matter
and by pasturing you will still have the
rots of the crop, which will add some to
the store of vegetable matter in the soil.
The most valuable crop for green ma—
nuring is, of course, a leguminous crop

THE MICHIGAN FARMER.

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like clover or vetch or peas, or something
of that nature. These crops not only add
vegetable matter to the soil the same as
the cat crop, but they also add nitrogen
which they take from the atmosphere
and thus enrich the soil in that valuable
plant food. Oats make a luxuriant pas-

ture as long as they last, and I belicvc‘

you will get the most good out of this
crop by pasturin'g it this fall and then
plowing it in the spring.

COLON C. LILLIE.

 

SOME EXPERIMENTS WITH AL-
FALFA,

Having a meadow that was badly run
into June grass I determined to sow al-
falfa. After mowing the hay I covered
the ground with a good coat of barnyard
manure and turned it under the last of

July, then put on the harrow and har-i

rowed it down after we. had a light
Shower. I then waited until we had
another shower and sowed my alfalfa
Seed about August 10.

The alfalfa came up in good time, also
a good crop of weeds with it. I waited
until the weeds were well above the al-
falfa, then put the. mowing machine at
work. Now my alfalfa. is from 9 to 15
inches high and growing rapidly.

My second experiment is with a piece
of rye stubble which was sown on August
15. I did not have any manure. to put on
but have a fair stand of alfalfa with
some volunteer rye mixed with it. Will
report later on my success or failure.

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I would not advise the average farmer
to go into the business of breeding, grow—
ing and developing high class draft horses

[unless he is a. good feeder and naturally

takes pride in driving and handling the
better class of draft horses. It' requires
skill and a liberal system of feeding to
grow and develop high grade draft horses
and the actual difference in cost between
growing and developing the right kind
and mongrels is so small that it is folly
for a man to go into the business with
a lot of old scrub mares and depend upon
the excellent qualities of the stallion to
correct their natural weaknesses and
deformities in the progeny.

The farmer who knows how to care for
and feed his work teams so that they
will keep in good flesh and vigorous con«
dition can well afford to invest a few
hundred dollars in a few well-bred brood
mares and grow horses for market. The
farmer who is in a position to sell one
or two good draft: teams every year has
an addition to his income, that is from a
much easier source than many other
branches of stock raising and feeding.
After selecting a few well-bred mares
that are sound and free from all heredi-
tary disease, mate them with a stallion
of one of the leading breeds of drafters
and one that is an eitcellent individual
and represents the type and conformation
of his breed. The stallion should not
weigh to exceed five hundred pounds
more than the mares with which he is
mated. In all lines of live stock breeding
we find that nature abhors a union of
widely different types and that it will
usually produce better results to mate
the mares with stallions somewhere near
their weight and resembling them in form
and general characteristics.

General Care of the Brood Mare.

The mare should be fed at all times
with a liberal amount of clean and nour-
ishing food, and should have an abund-
ance of pure water. The feeding should
be done with caution andshe should have
no more at one time than she will eat
up clean. When the mare relishes her
food it is a good indication that shc is
thriving. Oats and bran with pcrlmps
an ear of corn, especially if she is being
kept at work on the farm, form an ideal
grain ration, and the amount, may be
regulated by the amount of work she is
compelled to do and her general flesh and
appetite. All of the‘huy that is given
her should be clean and from from dust.

As fooling time approaches the mare
needs the best of care and the most care—
ful feeding. Much of the risk usually
Common with mares while they are foal-
ing can be eliminated by careful fcwliug;
ller supply of milk may be regulated so
that it will not form a hard caked udder.
I believe that as a rule it is safer to with-
hold all rich milk producing food for a
few days before the mare is due to foal.
After she has fooled, especially if she
gives promise, of being a heavy milker,
she should be fcd sparingly until her
How becomes regulated to meet the de-
mands of the foal. If the mare is a
scanty milker it will be necessary to feed
her more milk—pmducing food.

V‘Vlu-n the mare does not foal after pro-
tractor] efforts, veterinary aid should be
summoned at once, for delay often results
in the loss of either the mare or foal, and
oftentimes both. As soon as the colt
is born and pulsation ceases the navel
should be tied with a string about three
inches below the botly and then severed
about two inohcs bclww where it has
been corded. The string should be dis-
infected and the whole navel region (lis-
int‘cctctl by sprinkling with a powder
madc from sulphur and tannic acid mixed
equal parts. This should be done several
times until well healed.

After the colt has nursed close watch
should be kept of its bowels and if they
.‘ll’t‘ not in propo-r condition do not give
:- strong dose of physio, but use a syringe
and the cause will be removed without
(longer of deranging and interfering with
the whole digestive system.

Turning the Marc and Foal on Grass.

\Vlu-n the more has been kept at work
‘ID to a short time before fouling and
lots been fed a grain ration and then,
after fooling, is turned out with her foal
it is safe to say that the foal’s death
warrant has been signed. Mares that
have been worked m-Oderately up to the
time they have foaled are pretty certain
to have good husky colts and after the
colt gets a. good start on its dam’s milk,
that} has been formed from ric‘h grain

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the milk is changed and the grass milk hi
Like so ,mnch poison .to'the colt; its
bowels become loose, and he sucks more
and more, until at last he .has the scours
and dies. This result is not caused by
eating poison grasses or weeds, but by
the sudden change in the composition
of the man’s milk due to the change 01
food.

When it is desired to tum'the mare
and foal out to grass get them accus-
tomed gradually. When the mare is al-
lowed to run off the pasture at night
and fed a full grain ration, she may safely
be turned out to grass with her foal, but
~.cr grain fod Should be kept up to insure
the best results. Mares and colts should
have a little grain food every day, altho
not every farmer will follow this practice.

Weaning the COR.

The loss .of flesh and conditio“ may be
reduced to a minimum at the ime the
colts are weaned if they are taught to
eat grain with their dams before weaning
time. It is not the best practice to feed
the colt large quantities of grain while
with the mare, but rather to get him to
eating small amounts. Teach him to
stand tied with a halter, before weaning
time so that he will not fret when taken
away from the mare. Colts that are ac-
customed to being led and tied are much
easier to manage during weaning time
than those that have not been handled.

About six months of age is the proper
time to wean a strong colt. Many. good
horsemen prefer to wean them at once
while others wean them gradually, allow-
ing them to suck once a day for a num-
ber of days and then remove them en-
tirely. After the colt has been removed
it is essential that the mare have good
care and her udder should be bathed at
least once a day with cold water and
spirits of camphor. This will dry up the
milk glands and prevent the udder from
becoming caketl and feverish.

When the colt is taken away from the
mare he should have a box stall that is
well lighted and ventilated. The box
stall will afford him more exercise than
a single stall. After giving him a box
stall do not think that he should have
no more exercise, but turn him out every
good day and allow him to run around
in the yards. Bran and oats make an
ideal grain ration and timothy and clover
hay mixed make a good roughage.

New York. W. MILTON KELLY.

VALUE OF CORN SILAGE FOR BROOD
MARES.

 

\\'hat is corn silage worth per ton in
thc silo cut from corn that matures and

is then cut up ear and stalk together?
Silo holds about 150 tons. Will it be ad-
visable to winter breeding mares on this
kind of silage?

Iosco Co. W. H. S.

Good, mature corn silage is usually tig—
llred at $2.50 to $3.00 per ton. It is
really worth more than this as a food in
comparison with foods we have to buy,
with bay, for instance. at $10 to $15 a
ton, corn silage is worth more than that.
Then again, it has another value which
is little appreciated and this is its suc-
culency. This is not figured at all. Ani-
mals will «lo butter for having a succulent
food in the ration. A succulent food
helps to digest and. assimilate the dry
part of the ration and keeps the digestive
organs in good condition.

I do not think it would be advisable to
winter brood mares upon corn silage.-
alone. This would be the height of folly
because it is too succulent for an entire
ration and, besides, it is too wide a ra-
tion; that is, it hasn't sufficient protein
in proportion to the carbohydrates. Con-
sequently, to get the best out of it you
ought to feed a dry, bulky fodder like
clover hay, and then a grain ration, or a
concentrated feed richer in protein than
clover hay. By doing this your corn
silage will go a great deal farther and
you will get better and more economical
results. Fed in this way, corn silage
would be a. splendid food for brood
mares.

COLON C. LILLIE.

 

 

THE FARMER’S MEAT SUPPLY.

The old—time custom of killing a beef
for home use on the farm is one that
should not be allowed to fall into disuse.
The tendency is to buy beef from time
to time from the village butcher. This
may be very convenient, but it is costly.
The butcher must have compensation for'
his time and work.

In many instances the farmer’s beef is
a yearling, well grown and well fattened.
Such an animal will probably be about,
16 to 18 or 20 months of age, according

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to the data or hirth'm mull was

alive from 809 to 900 pounds. It should
dress out about 450 to 500 pounds. ‘Such
an animal furniShes meat. good'and ten-,
der, and in consequence is well adapted
to such an end. It has the further ad-
vantage of being cheaply raised, when
killed at the age mentioned. ,

In some instances, however, such a
beef may not be had. When it may not,
a substitute may frequently be found in
the dairy herd. One of the cows; it may
be, is going to be discarded for dairy
uses. It may sound strange at first that
to talk of using such a. cow for the
farmer’s meat supply, but why should it?
Suppose such an animal is fattened mod~
erately well after it has been dried off,
suppose it has been fattened on succu-
lent foods along with a supply of meal.
and supopse it has been fattened quickly,
will not, such an animal make good eat-
ing? The quick fattening on succulent
foods, such as rape, roots or silage, along
with meal adds much to the tenderness
of the meat, so that even an aged cow
may be made to serve such an end sat-
istactorily.

Illinois. W. H. Unnnnwoon.

 

LIVE STOCK NOTES.

The western ranges began shipping
their cattle to market much later this
)ear than usual, owing to a late spring
and the necessity of giving the stock
plenty of time for putting on flesh after
a hard winter, during which they became
run dovm. Owners have been making up
for lost time in recent weeks, and the
receipts at Chicago and other western
markets have reached extremely liberal
proportions, giving buyers at good chancL
for stocking up with beef. These large
supplies have been the means of holding
prices down in recent weeks, and while
the movement continues on such generous
proportions owners of native cattle would
do well to go slowly and watch the
market reports carefully. As soon as the
range cattle supplies fall off there will be
a splendid chance for cattle feeders, and
higher prices may be looked for, as there
is known to be a. serious shortage in
feeding sections nearly everywhere. 560v

 

retary of Agriculture James \Vilson isr

calling attention in a graphic way to
startling conditions existing in the beer
trade of the United States, and it is well
for farmers to note well the facts that
there has been a decrease of 2,187,000 head
in the number of cattle in this country
within two years and that the exports of
cattle have fallen off nearly 100,000 head
in the last nine months. Last year, for
the first time in history, the shipments
of South American beef into England ex-
ceeded the shipments from North Am—
erica, and now it appears that Americans
have been gatl'iering data in Uruguay
relative. to exports of beef and mutton
from that country to New York. It is
not unlikely that this will be accomplished
before long, as the price of beef cattle in
this country is almost certain to rule
higher before very long.

As the season for marketing Idaho and
other range flocks of lambs and sheep
draws nearer an end sheepmen are hurry-
ing up shipments, and recent sup-plies in
Chicago and other western markets have
been materially increased. Prices for
lambs, including the fattest flocks, have
had some sharp declines in reccnt weeks
and buyers have had a better opportunity
to load up with good range feeder lambs
on rather more favorable terms, many
delayed buyinglorrlers having been filled.
Indications are pretty strong that much
less feeding will be done the coming win-
ter than in recent years, and experienced
sheepmen will stand a good show of mak—
ing fair profits when they come to ship
their holdings to market.

During most of this year eastern ship--
pcrs have been prominent factors in the.
('lhicago hog market, and their liberal
pin-chases of the choicer offerings have
made keen competition between local and
outside buyers and done much towards
putting prices on an unusually high level.
In recent weeks, however, conditions have
undergone a marked change, and eastern
packers have withdrawn to an unusual
cxtcnt from the Chicago market, thus
enabling the Chicago packing concerns to
check to a large extent the upward
course of values. Such large eastern
packers as Squires and North, both of
which are controlled by Swift & Company,
have changed their methods and have
had buyers scouring farming sections
commercially tributary to Chicago in
search of good packing hogs. They are
still buying largely from the farmers
direct, and by this means hogs have been
kept from soaring to higher figures. On
a recent Monday less than 2,000 hogs were
shipped from Chicago, being the lightest
Monday shipments for more than a year.

North Dakota is still producing a good
many cattle, for the market, and a train
of thirty-one cars of cattle shipped from
Medora in that state, was offered on the
Chicago market on a recent Monday.
S. N, Lebo. the owner of part of these
cattle, said: “There are, a good many
cattle back in the western part of North
Dakota. From present indications the
bulk of them .will be. shipped late in 0c—
lober and early in November. cher dur-
lng my twenty years residence in that
country have range conditions been bet-
ter. There is an abundance of food and
plenty of Motor. and this may explain
why so many cattle will be marketed later
than usual this season.”

. Too liberal feeding of new corn to pigs
in various parts of the corn belt is work-
ing out the'usual bad results, and sick
pigs are bemg shipped to‘ Chicago and
other western markets in increasing num-
bers. These victims of careless feeding
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“ butchers, and when-sold go at “extremely

low rices compared with» good droves
of hopgs. It would seem that atsuch a
time stockmen would realize the great
importance of taking the very best care
of their pigs, for there is an unusual
shortage in the supply about everywhere,
and the season‘s marketings at western
packing points have ran about 11 per cent
shortlof a year a o. The number 01
stock hogs in the nited States, as re-
ported by the Department of Agriculture
on September 1, was 88.9 per cent of last
year, and their condition was 94.9, com-
pared with 94.5 last year.

Provisions sell ,unusually high, owing
to the dearness of fat «hogs, and the re—
markably small stocks of pork, lard,
hams, bacon, etc., in western warehouses.
During a recent week lard shipments
from Chicago were the smallest seen for
many years, and manufacturing of pro-
ducts was on a very. contracted scale. It
was stated that not more than 5,000
tierces of lard were manufactured during
the entire week. The lard shipments for
that week were unusually small, and but
for that the stocks in Chicago would have
been almost wiped out. Pork is selling
at the highest prices seen in twenty-seven
years.

LIVE STOCK AWARDS AT WEST

MICHIGAN FAIR.

(Concluded from last week).
HORSES

 

Percherons.

Stallion, 4 years or more—Maywood
Stock Farm, Indianapolis, first and third;
John Schipper, Fillmore Center, second.

Stallion, 3 years and under, and 2 years
and under—Maywood Stock Farm, first;
A.- E. Metz, Niles, second; John Han-
ghett, Sheridan, Mich., t‘hird.

Hewitt, city; second,rW. J. Henkel, De-
troit' third, J. W. Magee & Son. Detroit.
itGe ding, 3 years old—First, C. S. Nobles,
c y.

Gelding, 2 years old—First, Wood, city,
second and third, ,0. W. Benedict, Cedar
Springs, Mich.

Mare, 4 years or more—First, Charles
N. Halsted, city; second, H. T, Baldwin,
city; third, Nobles, city. «

Mare, 3 years old—~First, Nobles.

Mare, 2 years old—First, Wood; second,
Oldfield.

Mare, 1 year old—First, F. W. Hicks,
0' y.

Four colts, under 4 years, sired by same
standard bred stallion—First, Oldfield.

Carriage Horses.

Coach or carriage pair, mares or geld-
ings (2,200 to 2,800 pounds)—First, Endi-
cott; second, Edna, M. Hankinson, City;
third, J. W. Blodgett, city. .

Pair of park horses, matched—First,
Halstead, city; second, Henkel, Detroit.

Gentleman’s pair and turnout—First,
Henkel; second, Endicott.

Tandem of horses—First, Halstead;
second, Henkel.

Road Horses.

Pair of roadsters, mares or geildings—
First, Collier; second, J B. Martin, city;
third, William Hewitt, city. .

Single roadster, gelding—First. Hal-
stead; second, Martin; third, N. Heft.

Single roadster. mare—First, Halstead.

Horses and runabout—First, Endicott;
second, E. D, Conger, city; third, Henkel.

Ladies driver—First, Henkel; second,
Mrs. Francis Campbell, city; third, Hal-
stead.

Ponies Other than Shetlands.

Saddle pony, mare or gelding—First,
Clay Hollister; second, Nobles; third,
George A. Heyl, Washington, 111.

 

 

 

Choice Shropshire Ram Shown at State Fair by W. P. Pulling & Son.

Stallion, 1 year and under—Metz, first
and second; Schipper, third.

Stallion colt—J. W. and C. B. Stege-
man, Allegan,

Mare, 4 years and under~Mctz, first;
Stegeman, second; Wm. McCroden, Dut-
ton, third.

Mare, 2 years—McCroden,

Mare, 2 years—Sdhipper.

Special Prizes Offered by Percheron

Society.

Best American bred stallion—John
Hanchett, Sheridan, Mich., first; Schipper,
second.

Best American bred mare—Schipper,
first; McCroden, second.

Champion stallion—Maywood Stock
Farm, first; Metz, second.

Champion mare—Schipper.

Best five stallions—Maywood Stock
Farm, first; Metz, second. .
Best American bred five stallions——
Schipper.

Belgians.
Stallion, 4 years or more—~First and

third, Maywood Stock Farm; second, Co'l-
lier, Pontiac, Mich.

Stallion, 3 years and under—First and
second, Maywood Stock Farm.

Stallion, 2 years and under—Maywood
Stock Farm.

Stallion colt,
Collier.

Mare, 4 years or more—First and sec-
ond, Collier.

under 1 year—First,

Clydesdales.

George Ackerman & Son, Elkton, Mich.,
all prizes except stallion 2 years and
Lndcr 3 t0 Maywood Stock Farm.
Cleveland Bay, Hackney and American

Coach,

John Endicott, Detroit, takes all prizes
except stallion colt under 1 year to Geo.
Ackerman & Son, who also take second in
2 years mare and under.

Standard Bred Horses.

Stallion, 4 years or more—First, Collier;
second, A. A. Carroll; third, E. Clark,
i-ity.

Sta'llion, 3 years and under 4—First and
rot-ond, Collier; third, Schipper.

Stallion, 2 years and under 3—First,
Collier; second, Mrs. Charles Baragar,
city.

Stallion, 1 year and under 2—First,
Collier.

Mare, 4 years or more—First and third,
Collier; second, A. M. Wood, city.

Mare, 3 years and under 4—First,
Collier. .

Mare, 2 years and under 3——Fll‘st, Col-
lier; second, Charles Oldfield, Cedar
Springs. _ .

Mare colt, under 1 year—First, Collier.

~ Non-Standard Horses.

Gelding, 4 years or more—First, William

  

 

Pony to harness, mare or gelding—First,
.l-iollister; second, Heyl.

Match team, in harness—First, Bert S.
Smith; second, Nobles.

Shetland Ponies.

George A. Hoyl, Washington, 111., takes
all prizes except second to \Villiam Mc—
Crodcn, Dution, stallion.

General Purpose Horses.
.Ge‘lding,_ 4 years or more. First, Wil-
liam HeWitt, city; second, Schafer Bros,
Bei\l/Iinont,4Micli.; third, H. M. Edison, city.

are, years or more—Fir , T. .
Kendall, R. R. . St G

Mare, 3 years old—First, Nobles, city.
S Matre, Iii yieai's old—First, Manley Heft,
par a, ic 1.; second, Glenn P' 1 ‘ -
stock Park, Mich. ”m' (40m

Brood mare, with colt under 1 year——
First, Ackerman & Sons, Elkton, Mich;

 

(sptcond, Wood, city; third, John Dice,
.V.
Pair general purpose horscs‘First,

gondall; second and third, Ackerman &
uUnS.

Saddle Horses.
ttBestt saddle mare—First, J. W. Blodg-
c , 01 y; second, 0. B, Nobles, ' - ‘-
B. C. Evei‘liart. Clty’ thud,
BestDsrtiddlte gelding—First, J. W. Ma-
gee, er01; second, Bl d , - ' ’
Henkel. o gett, third,
Best ladies’ saddle mare or 1 '
First, chkcl; Second, I‘ldwarfl:e (Egg;
City; third, Helen Blodgett, ciiv. '
High school horse—First, C. ‘S. NobleS'
second,.L, :l‘. McCrath. city. ,
Combinatlon horses—First, J. W. Magee
Son, Detroit: second, Mrs Francis
Campbell; third, McCrath. '
Grade Draft Horses.
Gelding 4 year ’1 years mare 4
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It will bring in a good, sure return. because it will
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You cannot aiford to let good corn fodder go to waste. Worked up by a. Deere Husker
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Three years old and pair farm —
Manley Heft, Sparta, two prizes. mules
CATTLE.

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Bull 3 years old or over—F‘r ’-
ter & Sons, Clarkston, Mich. lSt’ LeSSl
Bull, 2 years old and under 3—First,

Lessiter & SonS' . '
Ypsilanti. , second, Kelly & Nash,

Bull, 1 year old __
Lessiter & Sons, and under 2 First

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BREWERS’ DIRECTORY.
CATTLE.

ABERDEEN- ANGUS.

Herd headed by UNDUI.A’I‘A BLACKBIRD
11‘083836. one of the best sons of PRINCE [TO 1
50006. and Grand Champion Bull at the Detroit
and Grand Rapids Fairs of 1907. 1908 and 1909. Herd
consists of Ericas. Blackhlrds. Prides. etc.
WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ioniu. Mich.

’ )UY Herd and Flock Headers at Kalamazoo. De-

troit and Grand Rapids Slate Fairs. 6 Polled Dur-
ham and Angus bulls.10 South Down and Hampshire
Rams. oi Clover Blossom Herds. Pt. Austin. Mich.

AYBSIIRES_A Dairy Breed of much merit.
Young stock tor sale—also Berk _
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Eggs in season. Mich. School for the Dea1.Flint'
HEREF0RDS=-.%2‘:.sxe1sdsl:se
China hogs. R. E. ALLEN. Paw Paw. Mlch.’
HDLSTEIH BULLS‘o‘. 35153.??? Efilt‘éi‘h‘g‘ysafé“

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1 yearling with a :10- lb ‘l- year-old dam and six ‘36.? :-1 lb.
grand dams 8 of the best bull calves I ever offered
for sale. I have cows. too. but Want to sell every
bull by Oct. 15th. Buy your hull early. don’t wait
but \\'l'llt‘ at once. L. E. L‘ONNELL. Fayette. Uhlo. .

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“014811?“le fgvsgiSXEi': ggt)dc%hg aotrsga Each.
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for service. \Villiam I}. Hatch. Ypsilanti. Mich.

TOP NOTCH HOLSTEIN S

Top Notch registexcd young Holstein Bulls com-
bining in themselxes the blood of cows which now
hold and have in the past held \Vorld’s Bettords for
milk and butter- fat at fair prise

llicPii ER SUN FARMS (30.. Howell. Mich.

BOARBMTN SlOlllKl FAIRM, lllillSlBlll Came.

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Hm! more iInIioI-ltledI llolstein-Frieoinn Cows
thun our sin In in the Middle \Vest. Registered

 

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We have some splendid young bulls for sale. Some
of them are old enough for service. They are from
cows with records of 300 to 425 pounds so! butter last
year Write for description and prlCe

COLON C. LILLIE. Cooperesvllle. Mich.

MARSTON FARM—JERSEY CATTLE.

'l'. P. MARSTON. Bay City. Michlxan.

 

; J. B. GHOUSE STOCK Hill, %%“{§.;§N?53“$2

Have some choice cows and heifers at right prices-

RED POLLED BULLS.

I have four bulls irom one to three months old
that I will sell for $20 to $30. according to age.
as I will have fno milk to feed them in two weeks.
Alsooldcr bulb and young cows for sale. EZRA
BRACKETT, Monteny Stock Farm. Allegan. Mich.

 

 

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Also a few heifers. good notes as good as Cash-
.I. B. Hummel. Mason. Mich.

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FINZEL. Maple Leaf Stock Farm. Gladwin, Mich.
()0 HEAD year old Reg. Oxford Rams: 35 Breeding

Ewes. took Champion Cup Detroit Fair. Prices

reasonable. J. J. England dz Son. Caro. Mich.

OXFORDS A few choice. heavy wooled. registered

rams for sale at reasonable prices.
C. B. ASHLEY. Oak Shade Farm. Sand Lake. Mich.

DELAINE RAMS‘E35g§'£§.'l§§."teffi‘iol’fifi‘li‘:
Also 20 good ewes. 8. J. COVVAN. Rockford. Mich.

FOR SALE--Dorset and Cheviot Rams;

good ones. GEO. C. WOODMAN. Bennington. Mich.

Registered Rambouillet Rams for Sale.
WILLARD HALL. R.;1. Martin. Mich.

 

 

 

 

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SHEEP.
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Ram Lambs. E. A. HARDY. Dorr. Mich.

RAM LAMBS AND

HAMPSHIRE several extra good
YEARLINGS. All Registered.

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not be of satisfactory service to you. Ram lambs.
weight 70 to 125 lbs. Grade X315: grade XX $20;
grade XXX :25. Have rams one to live years.
weight 150 to 25011.9. Grade X 315. XX $20; XXX 326.
Can also supply you with registered hornless de-
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order now and I will pay the express charges.
BOMEYN C. PARSONS.
Michkan’s largest breeder of good sheep—over
twenty years in the business. Addre.
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ERSEY BULL CAL]? born Mar. 13. ’09. 2nd calf
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first calf as 2-year~o.ld tine individuaL THE
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bred to. imported
prize- winning rams. for sale. Address either B. F.
Miller. Flint. Mich. or Geo. L. Spillane. Flint. Mich.

RAMS EWES.

 

LR. WATERBUR Y
mum Mich.

 

leader. MANN. Rockford. Michigan.

LORlMEll KlPP Breeder of registered Delaine
0 sheep. High~class Rams for sale.

shipped on approval. Rockford. Kent 00.. Mich.

HIGH-GLAS

size. well co vered.

 

Merinos & Delalnes: ewes shear
up to 241115.. rams to 301bs.. large
S. H. Sanders. Ashtabula. Ohio.

 

I-LG. itAMliUUll.LlIfl‘S«64 rams. 200 ewes and lambs. Flock
founded l lf’, with 40 select ewes. All rams used imported
or from imp. llrcs an-l dauu. J. Q.A. COOK, Monica, Mich.

V H Ra b in t Ba
REGISTERED ..°1'%...‘:.‘.”:.5$.’.-..‘é‘..".“ “ This?
W , ckoil. Rambouillet U S A.. Orchard Lake. Mich.

has choice registered Rambouliiei
L08 cabin Farm Sheep of both sex for sale at farmers'
ucu ( itizeu Phone August-a. “is. l“. Koster. Augusta. Mich.

 

 

 

( hoice MAPLE LAWN FARM
Shropshire llama A. E. BACON &SON. Prop’s
ror Hale. Sheridan. 8.. 10. Mich.

Ki (1: hook. Mich.. oi? rs .
(OPE'HJI F‘RII 1111;;l shill two-year-old Slfropggiiie
ewes and bucks at prices you can adord to pay.

SUHIYSIDE sunnrsmnrs. 3.532}; .133 9.322%:
nm rams. Also ewes bred to my imp. stock ram
"The Dream. " H. C. Cramton, Metamora. Mich.

SHBOPSHIRE RAMS, $332.53.“; 13.13%“..3
horses cheap. I am closing out all my stock.
J. W. SLATER. Traverse City. Mich.

HROPSHIRE Rams. Also 0. I. C. swine. spring
k, harrowing. either sex. not akin. and imp. stock
ram for sale. E. E. Beach & Son. R3, Brighton, Mich.

' —Good ones from Imported
Shi‘lipSllll'e RaInsand Canadian stock. Also
eight ewes. Willis 8. Meade. B. No.3. Holly. Mich.

.SllllOPSlllllE IIALI. STOOK FARM.

Will make special prices for thirty days. on ewes
from 1 to 3 years old. all bred to Imported Cooper.
and Manse” rams to lamb in March and April. also
on very choice ewe lambs this is to make room 101' an
importation that is going to arrive this spring.

1.. S. DURHAM a SONS. Concord. Miohisan.

 

 

 

 

 

Ism shirem Yearling RAIKS and all]!
p hot best wool mutton type.
lGeorge P. Andrews. lmmDanIIvilla. Ingham Co..Mich h.

HROPSHIKES. all ages. both sexes. extra qual-

ity and breeding in lots to suit. Also a few large.
robust Rambouillet and Delalne rams. Will be priced
so as to move them quickly. Correspondence and
inspection invited. C. LBMEN. Hamburg. Mich.

 

 

HOGS.

BERKSHIRES

A few bred sows left yet. but no boars. Spring pigs
of best families. Guernsey Cattle. Plymouth Rocks.
Pekln Ducks and M. B. Turkeys HUPP
FARM. Birmingham. Mich. G. C. HUPP. Mgr.

oi the not lash-

BERKSHIRE ]onable type and

strains. C. S. BARTLETT. Pontiac. chh.

 

 

 

 

 

uonrnrnn GROWN BEBKSHIBES.

liOYCltUFT FARM .Sidnuw. lilicll .

W0 130er, do for tall service. A few Gilh loft. Also afine
lot 0! fall pigs ready ior weaning. Either sex or pairs
no kin. A. A. PATTULLO, Decksrville, Michigan.

PuanA“ “En” of Chester Whites. Estab-

lished in 1896 and the peer 0!
any in America. Bred sows; spring and [all pigs
for sale. WILL W. FISHER. Watervllet. Mich.

 

 

 

Choice pigs of March and
improved Chesters- April furrow. either sex.

Also Holstein Cattle. a few cows and young hulls for
sale. W. 0. WILSON. Okemos. Mich. Both Phones

lMl’llOVEil CHESTER WHIIES. ggggggsggrgsg
rowed in March and April. Price 315. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersvllle. Mich.

assoc imssr SWINE. artist as: i.-

for 15. J. H. BANGHART. Lansing. Mich.

DUROC JERSEYS

CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastlnas. Mich.

UROC Jersey of size and quality. 40 Boars ready
for service. 50 sows at Farmers Prices. Salis-
factlon Guaranteed. J. C. Barney. Goldwater. Mich
My herd is needed

0.]. C. SWINE- with a grandson of

Jackson (:hiet. the world’s Champion and Grand
Champion. the greatest O. I C. boar in the world.
He Is also grandson of 'l‘utesy. the world’ s Champion
sow. Pigs by him at live let live price

A. J. GORDEN. R. No. 2. Don. Mich.

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FOR 0. l. . i’gf’ESEESWFMSv?

write John Berner a Son. Grand Ledge. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0R SALE—0. I. (L’s—2 extra good boars. Some
choice pigs. Bose Comb Brown Leghorns. April
hatch. standard bred. at prices that will move them.
Satisfaction guaranteed. J. R. Inskeep. Holly. Mich.

romwncnm sons-barges: $3.25;
blg litters. $10 up. Shropshire Bucks. lambs $10:
yearlings 315. J. 0. TM Portland, Mich.

 

 

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OCTOBER ET, 1909.

(Continued from page 2819.~ .
Senior, bull calf—First, Kelly & Nash.
Junior bull calf—First, Lessiter & Sons.
Cow, 3 years old or over—First, Les-
‘siter & Sons; second, Kelly & Nash.

Heifer, 2 years old and under 3—First,
Lessiter & Sons; second, Kelly & Nash.
Heifer, 1 year old and under Z—First
and second, Lessiter &' Sons; third, Kelly

 
 

& Nash. _ ‘
Senior heifer calf-r—First, Les51ter &
Sons; second, Kelly & Nash,
Junior heifer calf—First, Lessiter &
Sons. _
Exhibitors’ herd—First. Less1ter &

Sons; second, Kelly & Nash.

Breeders’ herd—~First, Lessiter & Sons.

Senior champion bull, 2 years or more
——Lessiter & Sons.

Junior champion bull, under
Lessiter & Sons.

Senior champion female,
more——Lessiter & Sons.

Junior champion female, under
——Lessiter & Sons.

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2 years or

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years

Grand champion male—Lessiter &
Sons.
Aberdeen Angus.
All prizes taken by \Voodcote Stock
farm, lonia, ich.
Herefords.

Bull, 3 years old—L. Norton, Quimby,
Mich.; Wolcott & Plumb, Conrad, Mich.,
second; William H. Anderson, Grand
Rapids, third.

Bull yearling—L, Norton, first.

Senior bull calf—Vi'olcott & Plumb,
first.

Junior bull calf—L. Norton, first.

Three—year—old cow—Norton, first;
VVolcott & Plumb, second; Norton, third;
Anderson, fourth.

Heifer, 2 years old——Wolcott & Plumb,
first; Norton, second and third. VVol

Heifer, 1 year old—Nortonn first;
(‘ott & Plumb, second and third; Norton,
fourth.
Junior heifer calf—Norton, first; \Vol-
cott & Plumb, second. r
’ Exhibitors’ herd—Norton, first; Vi ol—
'-‘ cott & Plumb.
Breeders’ herd—Norton, first; VVolcott

& Plumb, second.

 

 

- Senior champion bull—Norton.
t,» Junior champion bull—Norton.
~ Senior champion female—Norton.

.lunior champion female—Anderson.

Grand champion male—Norton.

Grand champion female-—Norton.

Gailoways.

Bull, 3 years old or over—First, Mieh- ‘

igan Premium Stock company“ Daws—
"‘ burg, Mich.; second, Chamberlein, Flat
Rock, Mich. .

Bull, 2 years old and under 37*Fll‘St,
ZMichigan Premium Stock company.

Bull, 1 year old and under Z—First,
Chamberlein.

Senior bull ealffiC‘ha'mberlein.

Junior bull calfietlhamberli-in.

COW, 3 years old or over—First, Mich—
igan Premium Stock company; second,
Chamberlein.

Heifer, 2 years old and under 3~First,
Chamberlein; second, Michigan Premium
Stock company.

Heifer, 1 year old and under 2—First,
Michigan Premium Stock company; sec-
ond, Chamberlein.

Senior heifer calf—First and third.
Chamberlein; second, Michigan Premium
Stock company.

Junior heifer calf—First, Michiean
Premium Stock company; second, Chain—1

’ bcrlein.

Exhibitors’ herdwFirst, Michigan Pre-'
mium Stock company; second, Chamber-
lein.

Senior champion bull. 2 years or more——
Michigan Premium Stock company,

Junior champion bull, under 2 years—
(‘hamberleim

Senior champion female, 2 years or
more—«Michigz’in Premium Stock com-‘
pany.

.Tun’or champion female. under 2 years
—-1\'liehi;.:‘an Premium Stock compiny,

Grand champion. malcilVlichigan Pro-
mium Stock company.

Grand champion. female—“Michigan
Premium Stork company.

Red Polls.
Bull, 3 years old or over—First, (‘bam-
, bcrlein; second, E. \V. English, Clarks-
l ville Mich.

Bull, 2 years old and under First,
James Reynolds. Port lluron, Mich; sec-
ond, Chamberlcin.

Junior bull ealf——l“irst, English; second
and third, Chamlwrlcin.

Cow, 3 years old or over First. Eng-
lish; second, Reynolds; third and fourth,
(,‘hamberlein.

Heifer, 2 years old and under Ree—First
and second. English; third, Reynolds;
fourth, Chamber-loin.

Heifer, 1 year old and under 2—First,
(‘hamberlcim second, Reynolds; third,
English.

Senior heifer calferiiglisli.

Junior heifer calfe—First, (lliamberlein:

‘1 second. Reynolds.

Ex-hibitors' herd—First, English; sec-
ond, Chamberlein. '

Senior champion bull, 2 years or more—«-
Chambcrlein,

Junior champion bull, under 2 y9{1rg.__
English.

Senior champion female, 2 years or
more—English.

Junior champion female, under 2 years
—Englis11.

' Grand champion, malo—(‘hamberleim

Grand champion, femalev—English.

Fat Cattle—Pure Bred or Grade.

Steer, 2 years old and under 3~—First,,‘
Lessiter & Sons; second, Chambcrlein.
Flat Rock M h.

Steer. ] year old and under Z—First,
Lpssip-r & Sons; second, VVolcott &,
Plumb. Conrad, Mich: third, Michigani
Premium Stock company, Davisburg.‘
Mich.; fourth. Chamberlein. ’

Herd of 3 fat steers. under 3 years old
—First, Lessiter & Sons; second, Cham-
berlein.
Polled Durham.

Kelly and Nash, of Ypsilanti, took all
firsts showed for, their having no compe—
tition.

.. Brown Swiss.

  

G. W, Bolton, of Sparta, first on 2-year-
‘old heifer; first on junior heifer calf. l

    

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With every cow lined up in her stall, the stables are easily cleaned.

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There are many brands of Portland Cement manufactured
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FRESH IMPORTATIUN ARRIVED SEPT 8, 1909.

BLACK PERCHERGNS
25—2 ENGLISH HACKNEYS

These Horses are all Prize-Winners

from the leading shows in Europe; ages from two to four years old; terms to -
. Byron is located on the Toledo & Ann Arbor R. R., 44
m1les north of Ann Arbor and seven miles south of Durand, immediate

Every horse guaranteed, and all at low prices.

CAULKINS 8: AUGSBURY Props., BYRON, MICH.

Worm Remedy

For Horses

 

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Rénowncd for nearly 50 years as the
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convinced. Terms to suit purchaser.

PRAIRIE sTocx FARM.
The leading Horse Importers in the State of Micigan.

We have opened the eyes of all Michigan horsemen by our large exhibit at
In the previous issue of the Michigan Farmer they gave tho
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We won every prize in the stallion and more classes except the «in: prize in thé
All of our horses are now at our barns ready for sale for less money than a good
horse can be bought elsewhere with a guarantee that has stood the test for the past 38 years.

E. METZ Horse Importing 00., Niles, Mich.

want the best horses. horses
with b o n e , quality, size,
action, and best breeding,
stallions or mares: if you
want fair and liberal treat-
ment; if you want lowest prices consistent
with good merchandise. visit Oaklawn.
Catalog shows the place and the horses.

W. 5., J. B. 8: B. Dunham, Wayne ,IIL

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POU LT RY NOTES.

 

There is a more or less prevalent belief
that if hens are forced. to moult by being
starved, a larger number of eggs will be
produced when the hens are put back
on full feed. To test this point the Penn—
sylvania station 'made a trial with two
pens containing eighteen \Vhite Leghorns
each. Beginning August 16 of last year,
one pen was fed a pound of mixed grain
and the other was continued normally.
August 31, pen No. 1 was again given
the normal amount and both pens were
fed alike from that date. Pen No. 1 laid
130 eggs in September, 126 in October
and 39 November, ‘

 

in while pen No. .-.
laid 185 eggs in September, 95 in October
and 36 in November. The total lay for
the former was 295 eggs and for the lat-
ter 316, thus indicating that there is no
benefit from forced moulting. The two
pens were. laying practically alike when
the test began.

When fowls are confined for fattening,
sour milk will be found to aid digestion
and prevent the fowls from becoming
feverish. If milk is not available some
form of animal or green food must be
supplied if good gains are to be expected.
If a fattening fowl shows signs of going
off its feed a brief run in the yard will
do wonders in restoring the appetite.
Water should be given once a day and
grit several times a week.

In selling chickens uniformity of pro—
duct as well as quality should be consid-
ered. A crate of chickens of one breed
and of the same size will find more ready
buyers than a promiscuous lot of different
sizes and different color. Vththcr the
farmer ships the chickens alive or dressed
will depend on market requirements and
prices. In catering to a select retail
trade, it will usually be necessary to dress
them, but the killing and dressing must

be carefully done, otherwise it will pay
better to ship tht-m alive,

It should be remembered that fowls
require a variety of foods as well as

properly proportioned rations. Oats come
the nearest to being a perfect food of
any of the single grains. but it would be
foolish to make oats an exclusive grain
diet day after day. in fact, almost any
other grain will be eaten by the fowls in
preference to oats. No single grain
should be made an exclusive diet. The
bcttcr plan is to make a combination or
three or more grain foods that will when
combined give the. proper ratio of l to
6. A good combination is equal parts of
whcat, oats, barley and peas; or oats,
Wheat. buckwheat and corn can be com-
bined, using about half as much of the
corn and buckwheat. Any combination
of grains can be used if properly propor-
tioned. It is a good plan to have a num-
ber of combinations and change the bill
of fare frequently. In making up a grain
ration the properties of the other foods—-
animal and vegetable foods‘should also
be taken into consideration.

The placing of 20 to 40 chickens in a
small yard, say 50 by 100 feet, and keep-
innr them there eight to tWt'lVP months
in a year is one of the means of intensi-
fying the propz’tgation of intestinal
Sites of all kinds. The degree of infesta-
tion of a yard or run or poultry house
depends upon the size. the number of
poultry kept in them. the length of time

poultry are kept in them. and. to some
bxtcnt. on weather conditions. A large
area. as a yard or pen. will not become
alarmingly infested with intestinal or
other parasites as quickly as a small
area. Likewise, the fewer the birds the
shorter the time the birds are kept in

a given place. the less. in degree, the in-
fcstalion.
with Very few chickens having good feed
t‘llltl wide range can fine, healthy
birds. But when this same man attempts
to raisc a large number on a small rang“.
yard, or run. he fails. and his chickens
are less vigorous or healthy and conse-
quently less profitable.

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IS FOUL BROOD ON THE INCREASE?

Reports from various bee sections, more
especially from the western states, would
create the impression that American foul
brood is increasing at an alarming rate
and that it is undoubtedly the bee—keep—
er‘s worst enemy. This apparent in—
trease is ascribed to the ignorance or in—
difference of many people concerning the
nature of the disease. Many bee men do
‘not realize that it is a germ disease, while
as many more have never been made to
understand how insidious a disease car-
ried by spores or “germs" may be, or

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Cholera, Roup, etc.

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portant function to look after—food itselfis not all.
the largest ratio of growth and production made.
more milk in the cow and 'more flesh on the steer.
small doses and sold on a written guarantee.

Except in Canada and Extreme West and South.

 

   

Faulty-Yard
Insurance

There's a. way of handling and feeding poultry which practically
amounts to a guarantee system. Poultrymen call it "Thebn-Hen Idea,"
and the “gist” of it is that the process qf (iteration has more’to- do with
basket than has the quality or quantity of the food given.
That is—a sm 1 feed, ‘wa'll digexted, is better than a la:
through indigextian. Practice proves this true. Fowls receiving small doses of

DR: HESS
Poultry PAll-A-BE-A

every day in soft feed lay more eggs; fat quicker; are more hearty, healthy,
active and contented than those fed without it. The reason lies in the tonic

properties of the preparation. It acts beneficially on each organ—not as a. stimulant or excitant, but as I

Dr._ Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a, given as directed, means a. paying poulhy buJineu to

the man who gives it. It helps tide over and shorten the moulting season.

It keeps young chickens growing every minute, and when fowls

_ have passed the profitable age it puts them in good condition .to sell at a good price.

A penny’s worth feeds 30 fowls one day. Sold on a written guarantee.

1% lbs. 25c; null or express 401:; 5 lbs. 60c; 12 lbs. $1.25; 25 Hamill, 82.50.

Except in Canada and Extreme West and South.

DR. HESS 8: CLARK, Ashland, Ohio
Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess llB-ptage Pauliry Back, free.

Dr. Hess Stock Food gives

100 lbs- $5.00: 25 lb. ll $1.60

Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess Sled Book. fut.

feed half wasted

Any farmer or stock feeder can increase his profit balance at the year’s end by
following Out "The Dr. floss Idea” in feeding farm animals. Diem-lion is an im-
A strong digestion means the greatest preparation of food used and
great digestive power, therefore it makes
It also relichs the minor stock ailments. ‘

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rounded the warning that; gaso a will soon be a
automobiliats. armors nrelast realizing whatthia
888011118 engines.

‘ gsoline. yet. costs only half as muc

own this astoundin

alcohol or gasoline wit. out change 0! equipment.

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chines. silo fil
hired help and is mounted on skids
all parts of the farm by two men.

from our sutis users.

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There are now 2.000 of these
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ITBI AND BUF!‘ ORPINGTONS from my prize-winning

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WANT

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been breeding them con-

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DOGS.

FOX , AND WOLF HOUNDS

of the beat English strum: In Ameri-
ca: 40 years experience In brooding
these fine bounds for my own sport:
I now offer them for sale.

Send stump for Catalonia.
T. B. HUMPETH, SIM”, liaison 80.. Mo.

~Brad in the purple. Choice Collie Pups
For sale at tnrmcrs’ prices. Write your wants.
FAVEBDALE KENNELS. Schoolcruft. Mich.

 

 

 

 

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DeKlelno Bros. Box 41. J amoetown.Mlch.

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Always mentim the Michigan Farmer

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OCTOBER- 931909.

how easily it spreads from hive to hive.

'L‘ndertsuch conditions it is not surpris-

ing that the disease instead of. being
stamped out appears to be gaining
ground. Complete knowledge of its na-
ture, however, will not furnish absolute
security as is evidenced by an authentic
report that European foul brood has re-
cently been discovered in the apiary of
Dr. Miller, a veteran contributor to
Gleanings and an apiarist of recognized
ability. Surely foul brood is no respecter
of persons,

The bee-keeper will observe the first
symptoms of the disease in the capped
combs, the caps being more or less sunk-
en with occasional perforations. The af-
fected larvae within are at first light
brown, and, later, when decay has pro—
gressed, become very dark brown. This
decayed matter in the cells has a dis-
agreeable odor, like old glue, and is of
ropy consistency. A toothpick or match
stuck into this mass and then slowly
drawn out takes with it some of this
rotten matter, which stretches out for
two inches or more. This latter feature
is not a characteristic of European foul
brood, and it is furthermore claimed that
American foul brood, from which bee-
keepers wish to defend themselves, rarely
attacks queen or drone larvae, while
the European variety will infest both.

Observations made at the government
and state experiment stations show that
this disease is caused by a “germ,” just
as typhoid, malaria, yellow fever, tuber-
culosis, etc., is each caused by its rela-
tive germ, and that it is easily transmit-
ted from one colony to another, either
by the bee-keeper himself in handling
a diseased colony first and then a clean
colony, or by robbing, or by placing, in a
clean 'hive, infested frames, comb, 01"
honey. The importance of this fact can
not be emphasized too prominently to the
bee-keeper and should be carefully borne
in mind when handling bees.

Effective Treatment.
The Minnesota experiment station has

found that treatment for American foul "

breed is best given when honey is abund-
ant, and in the evening. Remove dis-
eased comb and shake the bees into their
own hive, having first placed in the ‘hive
clean frames [with foundation starters.
Let them build comb for four days. On
the evening of the fourth day take out
the combs which have been started, and
which may be partly filled with diseased
honey, shake the bees on to new frames

*with foundation starters, destroying the

comb and honey which they first made
before other bees have acceSS to it. This,
the officials of the station state, should
effect a cure. One’s hands should ‘be
thoroly washed, and the tools used in
this work carefully cleaned with boiling
water or alcohol to prevent contaminat-
ing another colony. The hive should also
be disinfected previous to inserting the
second set of frames with starters, pre—
ferably by placing straw in same and
burning, slightly charring the interior.
The alighting board and entrance should
be disinfected in the same way. All ’in-
fectcd honey and comb should be de-
stroyed by burning, at night, to prevent
rubbing and consequent spread of disease.

If a bee—keeper bears in mind the in-
fectious character of this disease, pre—
cautions to be observed in the handling
of diseased colonies will naturally suggest.
themselves to him. He should also hear
in mind that where a colony is dwindling
from the effect of foul brood, it should
be carefully guarded against being rob-

bed, since robbing may be the most pro- ‘

lific cause of spreading the disease.

A bee away from home, or laden with
honey, never volunteers an attack. Thus,
in order to render bees harmless, it is
only necessary to cause them to till them-
selves with honey, and this is done by
frightening them with smoke. Vthn
smoke is driven into a hive the bees at
once, begin filling themselves with honey.
But with them, as with human beings, it
is the most experienced that are slowest
to take, fright. So when the old bees are
at home it is more difficult, and takes
more time, to compel them all to fill
themselves. For this reason it is much
safer to handle bees during the warmest
part of the day, or at a time when the
greater part of the old bees are in the
field. When you wish to open a hive of
bees, if you desire to be perfectly safe,
arm yourself with a smoker. cover your
head with a veil, and step boldly to the
front of the hive; send smoke thru the
opening for half a minute, or until they
make a steady hum, which will
that they have given up the desire to
fight. Then open the hive, smoke again
gently, and you may lift the combs, one
after another.

 

 

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can be used on any ordinary wagon truck.

in expensive wagon gears.
WE GUARANTEE

that the Kissel when loaded can easily be drawn
by two horses. .
The heaviest load cannot break it, because
no cast iron is used. Every iron part is mal—
.leable.
It will spread as well as the highest priced

SPECIAL FEATURES

purchase price.

Only spreader box built with all malleable iron

‘par’cs instead of cast iron. _ .
The KISSEL has the Simplest, most effective feed
0

mechanism ever used on any spreader. .
Box 16 inches high, greater capac1ty than any other

PRICES

 

Complete manure spreader without truck, consisting of wagon box,

   

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Don’t tie up your money

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You will save from $30.00 to $60.00 on the

The increase in fertility of your

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you spread fifty to eighty loads.

wagon box spreader; adjustable to any width gear; flaring

box, reducing friction, making lighter draft, doing away

with the need of a force feed attachment; uniform spread-

ing assured even on windy days by our double steel rake.
Sixty days’ trial right on your own farm.

driving mechanism, driving

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$1111 fact, evergthing shown in the large illustration except the truck. Mud lugs are extra and furnished

only when ordered and the proper price is allow‘cd.
operating accompany each machine. _ .
rates from our factory in Southeastern Wisconsm.

Complete instructions for putting together and.
Shipped knocked down so as to secure the lowest poss1ble freight.

No. 11X990 55-Bushel Kisscl Manure Spreader Box for use on narrow track standard $44.95

gears measm‘ing 38 inches between bolster stakes.

gears measuring 42 inches between bolster stakes. Weight, 710 pounds.
No. 11X992 Set of Eighteen Mud Lugs. Weight, 10 pounds.

Price. ..

o-onuoouoooce

Weight, 625 pounds. Price. .. .. ..

No. 11X991 65-Bushel Kissel Manure Spreader Box for use on wiill’c'truck standard
r1cc..............

49.95

1.65

IF A TRUCK ALSO IS WANTED WE CAN FURNISH AT THE PRICES QUOTED BELOW.

No. 11X993 55-Bushcl Kissel Manure Spreader Box. complete with truck, 3x0-inch
cast skein, 3X %—inch tires; Wheels, 3 feet 4 inches by 3 feet 8 inches lngh;I~)i—foot 6-inc
rice... .. .. .. .

track only; 38 inches between bolster stakes. Total weight, 1,275 pounds.

$80.70

No. 11X994 65—Bushel Kissel Manure Spreader Box, complete with truck, 3x9-inch

cast skein, 3x3/g-inch tires; whceIS, 3 feet 4 inches by 3 feet 8 inches high;I:)'i-foot 2-inch
r1cc..........

track only; 42 inches between bolster stakes. Total weight, 1,355 pounds.

85.70

All the features and points of superiority are fully explained in our latest big Spreader Circular No. 65010, ‘j

a‘cop'ynof whic‘h is waiting for you.
results of government investigations on the value of barnyard manure.

SEARS. ROEBUC

Ask for it today and we will send you at the same time a valuable booklet giving .

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THE DAIRY

CONDUCTED BY COLON C. LILLIE.

 

 

METHODS OF GETTING BETTER
MILK.

 

As it is true that sanitary precautions
are less necessary where one cow is kept
than where scores are stabled, so it is
that when many sources are available
for the supplying of milk to a trade It Is
more dangerous to become careless about
surrounding conditions. Many sources
multiplies the chances for contamination
with unsatisfactory flavors and with dis-
ease germs. While it was not imperative
for our forefathers to study dairy condi—
tions because the cows were scattered
and few and the possibility of trouble
coming from a commingling of the ani-
mals and products of many farms very
little; today such a study is necessary.
And with the contemporary study of food
values among the consuming population
of the country it becomes doubly import—
ant to the dairyman and the manufac-
turer of dairy products to be acquainted
practically with methods of reducing
to a minimum dangers of contamination,
and provoking conditions that will get a
better milk product. Among other places
where work on this subject has been
prosecuted is the \Viseonsin experiment
station. which institution has published
a'bullctin givingr the following methods:

Competition among creamcries, cheese
factories and city milk supplies has in—
directly resulted in making patrons more
careless. This practice leads the indif-
ferent milk producer into bad habits and
discourages the tidy and progressive ones.
If milk or cream was hot on its merits,
then the painstaking.r patron would be en-
couraged and \x'ould lead the careless one
to better efforts. It is too often the case,
howchr, that the same price is paid for
all milk or cream, whether good or bad,
If milk is to be hot 011 its merits it would
be 1111111ss'11rv to have c11ope1:1tion l1(tween
1‘1'11tori11s :111d (llV milk
only will such :1 ms“
it is possible where

1- r11 :1111-1 ri1 s, 11111s11
dealers, for then
tem be satisfae torv.
the pations we the p11'1111ieto1s of the
chce. 1' fuctmics or 1111‘re11m11i11s to adopt a
system like this, 1ealizing that l1ctt111 milk
which

(NUTS?-

mak1 s hijjl icr $1: 11111 1l11iry 111'1111111ts
will sell fo1 hivhcr prices and
(11101111) 111111 1111111: plotit for the patrons.

Sever: 11 s\ stems for bming milk on its
meiils 1111111 been piopos1 d \11111111r su1h
systems may be, mentioned (1) The use
of the some t'ar;d (:3) tin method of sort-
ing tainted milks from those of e.\1-11il111t
conditions; (‘1) the, piacti1e of :Lc11-pting
only milk of 11X1'ellcnt condition.

"ilhc score card systems as devised by
I'M-arson 111111 '.l‘ru1-111;1n, 1lc:1l only with the
sanitary and hygienic phases of the pro—
duction of good milk. There is 1111 dues—
lion but that milk handlcd :11‘1'111‘1llli: to
thcii plans would be of 111:1“1ll1-11t quality.
’l‘he objection 1111111111 to 5:-111l1 '11, sys-
:111d others is the extra amount of

1cm,
1111111, luboi, 111111 expense \\hi1.h is in-
volved. as Well as the salu‘gility of milk,

that may score low thru some defect.
The sorting systcm consists of so-pu-
rzitimr 11111 best grades of milk from the.
A and the products madc from

inferior ones,
each are sold for whatcvcr
bring and the patrons paid .
The advantage of :1 system like this is
that it tends to make the patrons exen
cisc more care in the handling of their
milk. This system is not practical in
small 1':1ctori11s on account of the in—
111.:1s1'1i amount of labor involved.

\t'coxdinw to the third system.
milk 111 11x1 11111l1nt quality will be accepted.
'1 111s method requiles (101:1sion'11l i11s11ec~
lieu of the burns. in order to see that
1311111111311 sanitary hygienic rules are
and '11 careful inspection of the
factory, for

they will
accordingly.

only

\vcll
f11ll(1\V1'1I,
flnlk on its arrival at tho
taints, dirt, and the condition of the cans
it is hauled. Perhaps the best
and quickest results can be obtained
under this system if :1 premium be paid
the patrons for the better grades of milk.
The price obtained for :1 better product
than compensate for the

in which

would more
premium.
At :1 milk supply
Denmark, and those of many othc
17ean milk depots. the patrons are res
quircd without premium to follow sani-
tary and hygienic methods under the
supervision of a committee consistingr or
:‘1 physician and :1 Veterinarian who make
frequent visits to the various places
where milk is produced for these depots.
\Vomen are also daily employed at the
depots for the special purpose of in-
specting and tasting the milk as it ar-
rives. In addition to their salaries a

company‘s depot of
r Huro-

. .»..- .-I :1
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defective milk that they discover.

The condensaries of this country have '

‘met this problem of obtaining sweet,
Wholesome milk in another way. The
farmers are bound under contract to fur-
nish milk according to certain qualifica—
tions among which: the‘kind of feed, care

of the animals and barn, the handling,

of the milk, etc., are considered the most
important. To enforce the Qualifications,
the conden'saries employs .men 'whose
duty it is to visit all farms and see that

the contract. Much credit is due con-
densaries for thus educatingtheir pat-
rons as to how good milk can be pro—
duced.

THE MAN BEHIND. THE COW. -

 

Much
time. regarding scrub cows,
animals that fail to return a profit to their
owners. but with all this well timed crit-
icism, is it not a fact that we have among
us as many scrub, or careless, disinter-
ested caretakers as dairys? And is it
reasonable to expect good results from
imprOper and indifferent breeding, care
and feeding?

In my judgment the average dairy cow
is more. “sinned against than sinning,”
and the owner is by far the most respon—
sible for the prevailing unsatisfactory
and unprofitable condition.

\threycr you find a dairyman who is
bigger than his herd you will also find
expansion and improvement from year
to year. but on the other hand, if the herd
is bigger than the man. they will surely
drop to his level, and quickly.

It is safe to say, it’s the “man behind
the cows." B. W. PUTNAM.
DAIRY FARMERS' MEETING AT THE

NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW.

During: the meeting: of the National
Dairy Show to be held in Milwaukee,
“'is., from October 14 to 24, a day’s ses-
sion will be given over to the special in-
terests of the dairy farmer. The follow-
mg,r program has been arranged for this
particular session and will challenge the
attention of all farmers who are, con-
cerned in the production of milk upon
their farmS:

Tuesday, October 19,10 A. M.

(hairman, Fred M. VVainer,
of Mic1hig1n.

Address of “'clcome—Francis A. Can-
non. Sccrctary (.‘itizens' Business League,
Milwaukce.

Response to address
IV. lilarsh. W'utcrltm,

The economical
J.P.‘\l1is11u.lC,i<'in

of welcome—VV.
Iowa.

production of milk—-
III.

A1'l1lr1ss a l‘he cumulative effe1t of cow "

tt-sl'inf" assorizitions I’iof. .I. I1. Hills,
Dnettoi of Experiment Station, Burling-
ton, Vt

2 P. M.
Chairman, R. H, ltawl.

Profitable dairy f:1r1ning——N. P. Hull
‘l’limondalc. Mich, Master State. Grange:
Science and practice in feeding dairy
cowswl’rof. ’1‘. i1. Haecker, Professor of

hairy Husbandry,
51 -:l l
Lix 1 stock s11111t11t1on~P111fHumphrey,
Professor 11f Animal Husbandry, Univer-
sity of W’isumsin. ‘
Principles of bre11ding~—Prof. H. H.
Schilling,

University of Minne-

Dean, Guelph, Ontario.

Community breeding—TV. F.
Northfield, Minn. Pres. Minn.
(‘ommissimr

"‘he profitable dairy cow—Herbert Van
Alstync, New York.

Dairy Farmers’ Banquet.

On Tuesday evening, October 19, will
l11'1 h11ld :1 banquet for the dairy farmers
l‘i‘csclll. with le—t'iov. \V. l). llourd, of
“'isconsin, acting,, as toastmuster.

Responses by

Governor Fred M. \Varner, Governor
of Michigan.
R_ H. Rawi Chief of Dairy Division,

1'. S. Dept. of Agritultme

Ilean H. R. Russell Wisconsin Uni-
versity. -

l). H. Jenkins, editor Jersey Bulletin.

S. B. Shilling, editor of Chicago Dairy
Produce.

A. .J_ Glover. associate editor Hoard’s

Dairyman.
M. ituddick, Canadian Commissitmer of
Agriculture. .
John I'). Nichols, President
tional Milk Dealers’ Association
Dairymen's Association.

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“7 13. Barney Pr1sident Iowa State.
Dairv'men s Aassociation
F. Marston President Michigan

Dairymcn’ s Association.

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A meeting of cow testers and members
of cow Misting associations will be held
at the Auditorium in Milwaukee, October
20, at 2 p. m., in connection with the
National Dairy Show to he held there
October 14—24. Subjects of interest to
dairymcn and particularly to members
of cow testing associations will be dis-
cussed. and papers will be read by three,
prominent dairy educators.

01111 of the features of the Dairy Show
will be a working dairy herd Where the
weighing of the feed. the weighing and
testing of the. milk. etc.. will be done in
the way in which it is done in cow test-
in}: associations. The record for each
individual cow will be posted in a con-
spicuous place in the stable. and it is
hoped that this part of the show will be
of special educational value;

Governor 1

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PERMANENT PASTURE.

 

I have read your accounts in the Mich-
igan Farmer about permanent pasture
and would like to have you answer a few
questions. How many different kinds of
seeds do you mix together and in what
proportions? How many pounds do you
sow to the acre? Do you sow with a grain
crop in the spring or fall? After it is
once obtained do you ever plow it up to
renew it or how do you- renew the spots
that give out? I have a hilly lot that I
dislike to work and would like to get it
seeded permanently. Any_ other pomters
you may be able to give Will be gratefully

received.
Kalamazoo Co. G. J. B.

01’ course there is no hard and fast
rule as to the kinds or number of differ-
ent kinds of grasses which should be
sown for a permanent pasture. The
idea is that a combination of grasses in
a pasture Will furnish better feed for the
cattle than any single grass grown alone.
Not only will it furnish a better one, but
it will furnish more feed. The idea is
that one kind of grass will catch better
in a» certain spot than another; that if
one grass does not get a good, permanent
stand in one portion of the pasture, an-
other is apt to take hold there. Conse-
quently, you get more uniformity and a
more abundant crop by having a com-
bination of grasses. Then again, different
grasses mature at different seasons of the
year, consequently your pasture is prime.
for a longer period during the summer
time when you have a number of grasses.
Now a good combination for a perma-
nent pasture is common red clover, a1-
falfa, timothy, orchard grass, meadow
fescue, tall meadow. oat grass. Some,
other varieties of grasses might be added
to this list that would increase the value
of the resulting pasture.

Again, as to the amount of seed to he
sown per acre, there is no hard and fflSt.
rule." Put on plenty of seed, that should
he kept in mind. What you want is to
get a thick stand of grass at once be—
cause you cannot afford to wait two or
three years to have a good stand. Sow
four quarts of clover, two quarts of tim-
othey and two quarts of alfalfa, then one
peek of meadow fescuc and one peek of
tall meadow oat grass per acre. You will
think that this is too much seed, but it
is not. It will pay you to sow as much
as this on every acre.

I would not sow a permanent pasture
with a grain crop. Sow the grasses
alone. You can sow in August or early
September, or in the spring, as you pre—
fer. If you have your ground prepared
and are ready and there comes a good
timely rain about the middle of August,
sow the permanent pasture, it will get a
good hold that fall. Don’t pasture it that
fall and the next spring after the grasses
get a good start, you can pasture them
light, but do not tramp them to death
the first season until a good sward is
formed.

If you sow in the spring, fit the ground
and sow as early as possible, then I
would not pasture it that summer, at
least not until toward fall, and then only
with light weight animals. Heavy weight
animals will tramp and kill much of the
tender grasses if they are turned on
before the grasses are permanently es-
tablished. If in the spring the grasses
start unevenly and are growing too tall,
it is a good plan to clip it. with a mowing
machine once, and perhaps twice. Then
in the fall if it has made a good growth
you can pasture and the next season
you will have a good stand of grass: but
I would never think of sowing with wheat
in the fall, or with oats in the spring.
If you sow this mixture of grasses and
SOW Plenty of seed your ground will be
all occupied and there will be no room
to grow any other kind of a crop. Per-
manent pasture is what you are after
and not oats or wheat.

 

HIGHER STANDARD FOR HERDSMEN.

 

Tue day is not far distant when a man
to be eigible and qualified for a herds—
man, that is, the person to have the
immediate charge of a herd of cows, their
feeding and care, must be one who has
made a special preparation for the work.
In the feeding of a good sized herd of
cows there is a chance for a careful man,
one who understands his business, one
who knows something about compounding
rations. one who knows something about
digestion and assimilation and knows
how to get results, to save his wages
every day fer the dairyman. The ordinary
man who has paid no attention to these
things, has not studied the question at
all, and who does things by the rule of
thumb, is not a real profitable man on a
dairy farm, and the man With a large
herd of cows is going to be willing to
pay a better price for a herdsman who

      
   
   
   
    
  
     
     
  
   
     
  
    
   
     
   
     
  
   
    
   
 
   
   
   
   
    
 
   
   
  
    
   
    
  
  
   
   
   
    
  
   
     
    
   
  
     
  
    
   
   

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has accurate knowledge about such things,
than for the common man. It will pay
young men who want employment to fit
themselves 'for this sort of work.

AWARDS FOR “AIRY CATTLE AT
WEST MICHIGAN STATE FAIR.

 

The following is a report of the awards
for dairy cattle exhibited at the recent
W‘est Michigan State Fair:

Jersey Cattle.

Aged bull—T. F. Marston, Bay City,
first and second; C. B. Pierce. Grand
Rapids, third.

Bull, 2 years old and under 3—Mars-
ton; first; M. H, Edison, Grand Rapids,
second; C. Vogt, Coloma, third.

Bull, 1 year old and under 2—~Marston.
first and third; Edison, second; Pierce,
fourth.

Senior bull calf—Marston, first and
fourth; Pierce, second; Edison, third.

Junior bull calf—«Marston, first; Edison,
second; Vogt, third; Edison, fourth.

Cows, 3 years old or over—Marston,
first and second; Pierce, third; Edison,
fourth.

Heifer, 2 years old and under 3~-Mars-
ton, first; Edison, second; Vogt, third;
Pierce, fourth.

Heifer, 1 year old and under 2~Edison,
first; Marston, second and third; Edison,
fourth.

Senior heifer calf—Marston, first and
fourth; Edison, second; Pierce, third.

Junior heifer, calf—Marston, first;
I’iercc, second; Vogt, third; Edison,
fourth.

Exhi-bitors’ herd—Marston, first; Edison,
second; Vogt, third; Pierce, fourth.

Breeders' herd—Marston, first; Edison.
second; Vogt, third.

Senior champion bull—Marston.

Junior champion bull—Marston,

Senior champion female—Marston.

Junior champion female—Edison.

Grand Champion male—Marston.

Grand champion female—~Marston.

Holstein-Frieslans.

Bull, 3 years old or over—First, Eager
& Son, Howell, Mich.

Bu] 1, 2 years old and under . —-First,
Pierson Stock Farm, Hadley, Mich.
Bull, 1 year old and under 2—First,

Pierson Stock Farm; second and third,
Eager & Son.

Senior bull calf~—First, Pierson Stock
Farm: second, Eager & Son,

.lunior bull calwairst, Eager & Son,
second, Pierson Stock Farm.

(low, 3 years old or over—First and
fourth, Eager & Son; second and third,
I’icrson Stock Farm.

Heifer, 2 years old and under 3—First
and third, Eager & Son: second and
fourth. Pierson Stock Farm.

Senior heifer calf—-First and fourth,
Pierson Stock Farm; second and third,
Eager & Son.

Junior heifer calf—First and third,
Eager &' Son; second and fourth, Pierson
Stock Farm.

Exhibitors’ herd—~First, Eager & Son;
second, Pierson Stock Farm.

Breeders’ herd—First, Pierson
Farm; second, Eager & Son.

Senior champion bull, 2 years or more—-
First, Eager & Son; second, Pierson Stock
Farm.

Junior champion bull, under 2 years——
First and second, Pierson Stock Farm.

Senior champion female, 2 years or
more—First and second, Eager & Son.

Junior champion female. under 2 years—
First, Eager & Son; second, 'Pierson
Stock Farm.

Grand champion, male—Pierson Stock
Farm.
rGrand champion, female—Pierson Stock
Aarm.

Stock

Ayrshires.

Bull, 3 years old or over—George S.
Chase, Hillsboro, Ill.

Senior bull calf—Chase.

Junior bull calf—First, Chase; second,

. (7. Freeman & Son, Lowell, Mich.;
third, Chase.

Cow, 3 years old or over—Chase.

Heifer, 2 years old and under 3~Chase.

Heifer, 1 year old and under 2—Chase.

Senior heifer calf Chase.

Junior heifer calf—Freeman & Son.

Exhibitors’ herd—~Frecman & Son.

Senior champion bull, 2 years or more—-
Freeman & Son.

Junior champion bull, under 2 years—
Freeman & Son.

Senior champion female, 2 years or
ll‘lt)l'(‘—-~I“I‘(‘t‘ln{ln & Son.
qGrand champion, female—Freeman &
. on.

Full, 3 years old or over—~First, E. &
.l. ’l‘. 1V[iller, Birmingham, Mich, R. R. 2.

Bull, 2 years old and under—First, E.
G Krehl, Birmingham, Mich.

Bull, 1 year old and under 2~First,
Miller; second, Krehl.

Senior bull calf—First, Miller; second,
Krchl.

Junior bull calf~First, Miller, second,
Krehl.

Cow. 3 years old or over—First. Miller.

Heifer, 2 years old and under—eFirst.
Krchl,

Heifer,
Miller.

Senior heifer calf——Millcr.

Junior heifer calf—~First,
ond. Krehl. -
yExhibitors’ herd—First, Miller' second
Txrchl. ’ ”

Rrecdcrs’ herd~Miller.

Senior champion bull, 2 years or more~
Miller. ‘

.Tunior ch '
Miller. ammon bull, under 2 years—
—'I:/I(lll]ll(“nrrt champion female. 2 years or more
Millh’I‘Im PhamDIOH female, under 2 years—«
Grand champion, male——Mmpr_

Grand champion, female~Miller.

 

1 year old and under—First,

Miller; see-

From An Advertiser,
The Grand Rapids Veterin r
Grand Rapids, Mich. say: a‘Tn C:€£I‘E,:fl"%
to our advertising with you, would say
we are very well satisfied with the rel‘
turns from your paper and will continue
to do busmess with you in the future.”

This MICHIGAN. ,EARMeR.

      

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so CENT

IITTER

BEFORE CHRISTMAS:
AND WHAT IT ENS

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.“50 CENT BUTTER BEFORE CHRISTMAS”

—-is the .prediction freely made by the big leaders in butter
production, based upon their close knowledge of trade
conditions.

Butter at anywhere near such a price means that a
De Laval Cream Separator WILL PAY FOR ITSELF
BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR in its savings 3
over any gravity or setting system.

It means that a De Laval Cream Separator WILL PAY
FOR ITSELF BY SPRING over any competing make of
separator in use or on the market.

It means that an Improved De Laval Cream Separator
WILL PAY FOR ITSELF WITHIN A YEAR over the
older style De Laval Cream Separators in use. ,e'

Itgmeans that no one separating cream from the milk
of even a single cow CAN AFFORD to continue to do so
a day longer than can be helped Without an Improved
~De Laval Cream Separator.

And buyers should remember that a De Laval Cream
Separator—on which there is just one reasonable price for
everybody—can be bought at a fair discount for cash down
‘ or on such liberal time that it WILL PAY FOR ITSELF
out of its own savings.

‘ That means that NO ONE need go a day longer
Without a De Laval Cream Separator than may be necessary
to order and receive it, and that they CANNOT AFFORD
to do so.

It emphasizes the urgent importance of seeing the
local De Laval agent or communicating with the Company
directly AT ONCE, with a material dollars-and-cents loss
EACH DAY of delay in doing so.

Then WHY delay another day?

 

 

 

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,There is perhaps no bet-

ter index of the prosperity
of a. country or state than
the business done by its
banks during a. given period as compared
with similar periods of tinge in the past.
That Michigan is in a prosperous condi-
tion is evidenced by the figures contained
in State Banking Commissioner Zimmer-
man’s report, recently issued. According
to this report the highest mark in the
history of incorporated banking in Mich-
igan was reached on September 1, of the
present year. These figures, which, or
course, refer wholly to state banks show
a gain of $14,600,000 over the highest
mark preceding the recent panic, and an
increase of $26,800,000 over the lowest
point recorded during the panic; and of
this increase $17,000,000 is in savings de-
posits alone.

Since the first of this year 22 state
banks have been incorporated, with a
capital ,of a half million dollars. One
gratifying condition is made known in
the statcmcnt that there has not been
a single failure during the year of a
state bank, and that all of them are
showing unusually prosperous conditions.

The legal reserve of the state banks
September 1 amounted to 348.091.597.20,
constituting a reserve of 21 per cent of
of the total deposits, which were $224.-
494,043.33. The cash reserve maintained
by these banks on that date was $15,-
607,536.33, equalling a cash reserve of 6.8
per cent.

The report covers the condition of 371
state banks and llvc trust companies and
shows illcse institutions to have $11,-
385.062.7.‘? surplus and not undivided prof-
its amounting 1o $4,477.509Jl6.

The aggrogaie busiucss on February 2,
1008, iho low water mark. roachcd during
the panic, was .2.'i<..94»l,142.38, while on
Scpiomhor l, 1000, the footings were
$265,080.95046, while the savings deposits
of the panic): timcs were $132.133.74S.46,
as comparod with $118,505,98033, the first
of Scpl‘cmbcr.

The last provious report of the
l'tanks was mado on June 23, 1909, and
during the intervening period, loans, dis~
counts, bonds, mortgages and socnritics
have incrcascd $4,854.17Sdl; commercial
drposits, $1,800,912.94: savings deposits
$887,950.39, giving a total incrcaso in do—
posiis for the period of 535.697.763.23. As
(omparcd with a report of a year ago.
loans, discounts, etc. have increased over
331000.000 and dcposits $19,530,59000.

'\\'hcn we take into consideration the
fact that the business of tho national
lauks and tho private banking companies
must be added to these figures to secure
llio aggrcgalc, and the fact llllll’ the bulk
of lhc crops of 1.009 is yct to lie movcd
lhcsc figurcs are most saslifaciory cvi<
doncc of the prosperity of the state as
a whole and its farmers in particular.

Evidence of
PrOsperIty.

state

In our last issue
was outlined a move-
ment inaugurated in
Pennsylvania by the
and other iniorostcd
crganizalions and dcpartmcul‘s in that
slato, looking toward the amendment of
1h;- national nlr-omargarinc law in such a
manner as to better protect the butter
industry of that slalc. llclicvinf..r that
lhc dairy farlncrs of Michigan will be
inlcrcslcd in the dctails of that move-
mcnl, wo givc bclow a synopsis of the
changcs advocated by the commilloo rcp-
lhcsc allicd inlcrcsls, which in
substance are as follows:

’l‘hzli llio word “knowingly" nsod‘ in rela—
ticl‘ to the pcnall'y inllictcd for tho violation
of tho law practically nullilics succcssful
proscculion in many cascs, and should
bc rcn'iovcd from tho law; that tho dcfi-
nillon of olcomargarino undcr tho fcdoral
law should bc so changcd that bullcr.
with or without coloringr mailcr. shall
not bc uscd in the manufacture of olco~
inarc’arinc. iho uso of butter in tho man-
ufaciurc of this product bcing ohjcciion—
ablc because it makcs the fraudulent
produtl more difficult, to detect. The
committco also contends that tho I’niled
Status llcvonuo laws should ho changed
so as to require a record to be kcpl of
lho sorial number of stamp on oach pack-
age of olcomargarino. rcnovaiod and
adullcratod bullcr that is placcd upon lhe
market, as is the case with other articles
subject to taxation. so that every pack-
age, whcrcvcr found, may be successfully
traced to the dealer or manufacturer;

That the national law should be so
changed that it will not be necessary to
prove that the yellow color of oleomar-
garinc is due to a foreign substance in-
troduced for the purpose of giving color,

Proposed Changes
in Oieo Law.

allicd agricultural

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so "as to make it practically conform to
the Pennsylvania. law on this subject. it
would aflbrd protection to pure butter
which is not at present given bynationa‘.
law on this color question; '

That, asgthe Revenue laws now stand,
revenue collectors can, by and with con—
sent of the secretary of the treasury,
settle by compromise all civil and crim-
inal cases arising from violations of the
law, which opens the way for abuses on
the part of violators who are able to
bring men of prominence and influence
to their rescue; consequently,.any such
feature or .provision of the law should be
eliminated; '

That the present Internal Revenue
Laws have been so interpreted by United
States District Judges as to permit the
concealing of stamps, marks and brands
after they are placed on packages of
oleomargarine, renovated butter and
adulterated butter, this statute requires
to be so changed that stamps, marks and
brands shall be exposed to the public;

That the Federal law needs to be so
amended that manufacturers and dealers
in uncolorcd oleomargarine shall not dis-
pose of coloring matter in such manner
that retail vendors can be assisted to
escape paying the ten cents per pound
tax as required under the Grout bill.

With the open

The Game Law and season for most of
the Hunter? the game birds
and animals just

at hand, the farmer who lives adjacent
to electric lines in particular will be again
face to face with what he has come to
consider a great nuisance. But he will
not be alone in his indignation, for often
the farmers situated further back from
these avenues of travel will be aggrao
vated almost beyond measure by a class
of sportsmen (‘2) who tramp thru their
fields, leave open their gates or perhaps
if of the. more reckless type destroy prop-
criy by shooting at it when there is no
game astir. Owing to the deprcdations
of this rccklcss class of hunters more
and more farmers have each year been
driven to the expedient of posting their
land. prohibiting trespassing by hunters.
Others who are inclined to be accommo—
dating to true sportsmen who abide by
the law are subjected to mistreatment
by lhe lawlcss hunter, who should be
(urbcd in his career of lawlessness at the
carilcst opportunity. To the end that
cvcry farmer may know just what the
game law is and when it is being vio—
lated, we publish hcrcwith a synopsis
of the general law relating to the hunt—
ing of game in Michigan, as amended by
the last legiSIati.1re and compiled by the
secretary of state under the direction of
the state game warden. Local laws gov-
crning the hunting of game. in certain
localities are not included in this sy-

uopsis:
Game Animals.
Moose, Elk and Caribou—Unlawful to
kill until lilltl.

lilk~ellnlawful to kill until 1918 on Bois
Blane Island.

Decr~0pon season from November 10
to Novcmbor 30. inclusive. Unlawful to
kill without having procured license.
Resident hunter's license, $1.50; non-
resident huntor's license, $25, Unlawful
for any person to kill more than two.
l'nlawful to kill in red coat. or fawn in
spotted coat. Yul-awful to pursue, kill
or capture any deer while it is in the
walcr. l'nlawful to uso dogs in hunting.
Ynlawful to use artificial lights in hunt—
ing. I'nlawfnl to kill, until 1910. in Kal—
kaska county. l'nlawi'ul to kill. unlil
lflli‘. in Arcnac. Bay, Bcnzio, Choboyg‘an,
‘mect and licclanau counties. Unlawful
lo kill, until lfllh'. on Bois Blanc Island.
I'nlawt’ul to knowingly trap, injure or
kill any door or offspring thcro of which
arc kcpt in or have escaped from any
privalc cnclosurc.

Rabbits—Ilnlawful to use ferrets to
hunt in "\Vashlonaw, (“liar'lcvoix Lake,
\Vayne. 'l‘useola, Lapcor. Cass, Kalama-
Zoo, Saginaw, Grand 'l‘raycrso, Living—
ston. (“allioun Ottawa. Clinton. Kent,
Macomh, iarrv. Jackson and Monroe
countios, and Paw Paw township, Van
Huron county, Allcgan county, oxcopt in
tho iownships of Sana'al'uck, (hinges and
(‘asco and lngham county, cxccpl‘ in the
townships: of Meridian and Lansing, Lan-
sing: city.

Squirrel—Open season for Fox, Black
and Gray, from Oclobcr 15 lo Novembcr
.‘10. inclusive".

l'nlawi‘ul to kill in
parks, or in any incorporated
village.

public or private
city 01'

Fur Bearing Animals.

Roavcr—l'ulawful to kill until January
1. 1.012.

lioar. Ottcr_ Fisher, l\'lariin. Fox, Mink,
Raccoon and Skuukisllnlawful to take,
lrap or kill from April 1 to November 1.

Muskrai»—T’nlawful lo lakc. trap or kill
from April 15 to Novcmbcr 1.

Muskrat or Beaver Houses—I’nlawful
to dcsiroy, disturb or molest at any time,
or set any trap within six foot of a musk—
rat house. Unlawful to set or put our
any muskrat traps preceding the. day of
the open season.

Wolf. Lynx and Wildcat—Bounty for
wolf over six months, $25; for wolf under

 

mace. it the Federal law we: amended sizzmonths,‘ $10,10r1ynx,"$s;‘tor wild

. _ . . cameras _
‘ Mongolian or English Pheasants. Wild
Turkey, Hazel Grouse am!" Wild Pigeon-—
Unlawful ’to kill until 1910. “'1‘“ -

15Q113114—Un1awtul to kill untilect‘Ober

Prairie Chicken—Unlawful to kili‘ or
capture at any 'time. - '

Partridge and Spruce Hen—0 on sea-
son, lower peninsula, October 1 to No-
vember 30, inclusive; upper peninsula,
October 1 to November 30, inclusive. Un-
lawful to kill more than twelve in any
one day. Unlawful to. have more than
fifty in possession at any one time.

Unlawful to kill Partridge, Manitoba
grouse, dal—ryper and ptarmlgan on
Grand Island, Alger county, until 1910.

European Partridge-Unlawful
until 1912. ’

Homing Pigeons and Mourning Doves——
Unlawful to capture or kill at any time.

Non-Gama Birds. ‘

Unlawful to kill or capture, excepting
Blackbirds, English Sparrows, Crows,
Cooper's Hawks, Sharp shinned Hawks,
and Great 'Horned Owls.

Wattrfowl.

Duck, Plover, Snipe and Woodcock and
any kind of Game Waterfow1——Open sea-
son from September 1 to January 1, in-
clusive. Snipe, Geese, Brant, Blue Bill,
Canvasback, Widgeon, Pintail, Whistler,
Spoonbill, Red Head, Butterball and Saw-
bill Duck may also be killed between
March 2 and April 25, inclusive. Unlaw-
ful to kill more than twenty-five in any
one day, or have more than seventy-five
In possession at any one time. Unlawful
to use any floating device propelled by
steam, gas, naphtha, oil, gasoline, or
electricity, or sail boat, or ‘to use any
sw1vel'or punt gun, battery; sinkboat
or Similar device. Unlawfulto use gun
of greater size than ten calibre.

Further sections refer to the transpor—
tation of game, but as the transporta-
tion companies will not knowingly aid
the hunter in violating the law in this
regard its publication here is not essen-
tial. All violations of the law should be
at once reported'to the State Game and
Fish Warden, Lansing, Mich, to the end
that the nuisance of the lawless hunter
may be abated to the greatest extent
possible.

 

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HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

 

Foreign.

In the latest reports from Spain and
the .field of battle in Morocco. it is the
opinion that the war there is nearing an
end, with the Spaniards victorious. Prac-
tically all of the territory for which them
was contention is now under control ol.‘
the European troops. In Spain there is
such confidence of the struggle being at
an end that bonds and securities have
advanced and stocks of all kinds are in
a much more favorable, condition than for
the few weeks past. Not only this but
the government has called the cortes
for October 15 and-the demands of the
republicans and other radicals for relief
along the line of constitutional rights will
be within the power of the government
to .give in part without endangering its
policies or position. It is understood. how-
ever. that the sultan of Morocco has not
g1vcn up and is using every means at
hand to arouse the people to drive out
the Spaniards. Germany, it is asserted,
lS landing arms and ammunition for the
use. of the tribcsmen.

Dissatisfaction reigns among the citi—
zens of Greece where mass meetings are
being held and dcputations sent to the
king demanding that reforms be insti-
tuted. The king promises that the de—
mands will be given consideration.

The government of Paraguay is con-
fronted with a revolution in which the
use of arms have been necessary to do—
fend itself against rcbcls. In an en—
counter recently the federal forces lost
twenty men and the rebels over 100. The
number of rebel forces in the field is
placed at 1,500 while the government has
at its command 8.000 troops.

The cases for the consideration of tho.
govcrumcnis of the United States and
England concerning,r the fisheries of Can-
ada and Newfoundland are now before
be two governments for arbitration after
about nine months have been spent in
gathering material.

An I‘Ingllsh syndicate has accepted the
conditions for the projected Turkish loan
of $35,000,000.

Seycntccn balloons entered the race
which started at Zurich, Switzerland,
October 3, for tho Bennett cup. The wind
was such that the air crafts moved to-

ward Russia. and for this it is belicvui
that tho mcn will be able to make now
rccord, since they will not be hindered

by the sea.

Franco now possesses the, largest sub—

marine boat afloat, which was recently
lanchcd.
Two .lapancsc rcprcscntatives are in

England studying recent advances made
in the construction of airships.
National.

The report just issucd by Bank Exam-
incr Zlmmcrman. sliows that the present
condition of the banks of Michigan is the
most prosperous in the. history of incor—
porated banks of the state. The increase
in the. deposits since last June amounts
to over $5,000,000.

The Palisades state park along the
Hudson rchr was recently dedicated.
This park will‘be one of the most attrac—
tive of the largo city parks of the coun—
try. It stretches along the Hudson river
for a distance of 17 miles and contains
700 acres. At the highest place the'chfi
rises to a point 300 feet above the. river.

A woman’s auxiliary to the department
of commerce and labor was advocated at
the recent meeting of the national wo-
men’s trade union held in Chicago.

The German evangelical synod of Iowa.
passed resolutions making it optional With
the young people‘s societies of the de—
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the English language if that language is.
better understood by the-audiences than
the German language. This action .is

. likely to augment the teaching and use or

English among the German immigrants
who come to regions affected by the
church.

The national guard of the United States
has increased 8,000 in number during the

ear.
ySo urgent is the necessity for better
transportation facilities in New York City
that a scheme for placing a monorail track
abOVe the present elevated railroads is
receiving consideration. Tracks will be
erected in a suburb for trial and after~
wards if successful the scheme will be
placed before the council for acceptance.

A drought in the territory occupied by
the Cherokee Indians of Oklahoma has
reduced the suppliesof the inhabitants to
such low condition that the Indians are
now facing starvation.

Owing to the lack of rains in the Alas-
kan gold fields there is too little water to
wash and the amount of gold mined for
the past season is no larger than last
year‘s output.

‘The demand for the Hudson-Fulton
series of postal stamps has been so great
that the government has authorized the
publication of another 20,000,000 or what—
ever number less that the plates will
stand to run.

The seventh centennial of the organi-
zation of the order of Franciscans was
commemorated by the addressing of an
apostolic letter by the Pope at Rome to
the different orders thruout the world.

A company recently purchased all of
the water power rights along the Huron
river. Not only will dams be constructed
but the course of the river will be so
changed as to make navigation for small
boats possible by the aid ofcranes at the
dams.

St. Louis is celebrating her 100th anni-
Nersary. On Monday 300 mayors of Am—
erican cities were guests 0f the Missou-
rian metrOpolis.

Wilbur Wright made a successful flight
at New York city last Monday by flying
from Governor’s Island to Grant’s Tomb
and return in thirty minutes. The avi—
ator was greeted by thousands all along
the route of his flight. He later in the
day attempted another flight but an ac-
cident at the time he was to start pre-
vented.

A number of policemen, and officers
connected With a Brooklyn jockey club
were arrested Monday for aiding in book-
making at races held in Brooklyn.

Ten balloons entered the race for long
distance flying which was started at St.
Louis, Monday. Two races are included,
one for balloons containing 40.000 cubic
feet and the other for those of 78,000
cubic feet displacement.

An uprising among the Indians of the
Cheyenne River in South Dakota is giv-
ing the inhabitants there concern.

A. company was organized in New York
state recently for the manufacture of
balloons, aeroplanes and other air craft.

Germany, Great Britain, Italy and The
Netherlands will participate in the 140th
anniversary of the discovery of San Fran-
cisco Bay, which will be celebrated dur-
ing the present month.

 

CROP AND MARKET NOTES.

 

Oceana Co., Sept. 29.—Thru September
we had all kinds of weather here. On
the first we had a frost which cut corn,
potatoes and beans on low ground quite
badly. After that we had summer
weather until the mornings of the 26th
and 27th, when we had two more slight
frosts, but as our corn and beans were
row nearly all in shock or stack no dam-
age. was reported, except to some very
late potatoes on low ground. ,Corn is
nearly all in shock and promises to be a
normal crop. Some pieces on high ground
estimated at 100 bu, to the acre, while
some on low, wet ground will not yield
over half of that, running from 75 to 80
per cent of a full crop. Early potatoes
were badly injured by the drouth in Au-
gust while late ones will be a fair crop
in this locality. Both kinds will average
around 100 bu. per acre. with a short
acreage planted on account of our cold,
vet spring. A large acreage of wheat
has been sown owing to the increase in
price and the crop has been planted in
spite of dry and hard groun’d. The tail
end of the West Indian hurricane brot
us a splendid rain which was badly need-
ed to put the ground in fine shape to fin—
ish up our seeding. Hogs are scarce in
this part of l\l’lichigan and as a conse—
quence prices are high, our local market
paying Sc lb. for pork. The, beau thresh—
ers are now at work and report a fair
yield, running from 10 to 15 bushels per

acre. Some being sold on contract: at
$1.50 per bu.. machine cleaned. \Vheat
$1.03: oats, 40c: apples from 50c to 75c,

according to quality; peaches, Tfic to $1.23.

St. Joseph Co., Oct. 4.~VVc can not
rl-mcmber when there has been so fav-
orable a season for all kinds of crops
as the past summer has been in this lo—
cality. \Ve have not missed having rain
at least once a Week but once. and that
was in haying, since last April, and all.
crops but clover hay and clover Seed are
fine, and that was the result of dry
weather last year. The yield of wheat
was from 18 to 35 bu,. oats, 25 to 40 bu.
Corn, the best for years. is well ma--
turcd and will be ready to crib early.
The early crop of potatoes was good and
are (big and sold. The late crop is still

green, owing to the frequent rains and
the tops have. made a heavy growth.

\\'hat the yield will be is hard to tell.
l'lry weather and frost would be accept-
able to the late potatoes. Spring seeding
could hardly be better and has made a
large growth. More than an average
amount of wheat has been sown, and it
is looking well. The season has been a
little too wet for sheep to do well, but
other stock has done well and all have
good pasture yet. “’heat selling at $1.08;
oats, 35c; potatoes, 45c: butter, 240; eggs,
22c; labor, $1.50 to $1.75 per day. Light
frost Oct. . _

Genesee Co., Sept. 22.———A mce rain fell
last night and conditions indicate further
showers. Wheat ground which has been

f érare MxichAN- PARMER.

ready will now be seeded. It is feared
that the rain comes too late to help late
potatoes. So far no serious damage has
been done by frosts except on .low ground.
Northeastern fair here this week. All
departments filled with entries and indi-
cations point to a successful fair. Farm
products continue high. Butter and eggs
scarce; milk raising in price owing to
short pastures. Many are feeding stock
as in winter.

Livingston Co., Sept. -18.~—We are now
experiencing one of the rmost severe
c’rouths in years. Pastures are dried up
and it is necessary to feed stock. But
very little seeding done as yet, farmers
waiting for rain before sowing. New
seeding drying up and unless rain comes
soon will be ruined. Bean harvesting
about completed, crop secured in excel—
lent condition. Corn cutting, well under
way. Corn will be an average crop. Late
potatoes will be a light crop on account
of lack of rain. Owing to t‘he.dry weather
but very few pieces were left for clover

seed, the what has been left is well
filled. Large fruit of all kinds is very
scarce. Market quotations as follows:
Wheat, $1.05; beans, $1.90; rye, 620; oats,
32c; hogs, on foot, $7.50; butter, 22c;
eggs, 21c.

Osceola Co.,.Scpt. 29,—Potato digging

commenced, and a light crop is reported,
but of fine quality. gThe long continued
dry weather did not give them much
chance to grow and a killing frost on
Thursday morning, Sept. 2, killed nearly
every field in this neighborhood. It aISo
did a large amount of damage to corn
which was not quite ready to cut, which
would otherwise have matured in a week
or ten days. Corn which was not hurt
by the frost matured in fine shape and is
yielding good. Considlerable corn has
been huske'd. The frost cut the pickle
crop short; some fields had just corn-
menced bearing when killed. A good rain
Sept. 21 relieved the drought, the. pas-
tures and meadows have turned green,
but too late to make much growth. New
seeding is looking fine in spite of the
prolonged dry weather. Very little fall
seeding done, it 'having been too dry to
plow. Prices here are as follows: Cut—
tle, 21/2@>3c lb;' potatoes, 35fir40c bu; but-
ter, 220 lb; butter—fat, 290 lb; egg, 22¢
per dozen.

 

REPORTS OF‘ LOCAL FAIRS.

 

Narthern District Fair.

The second annual Northern District
Falnlicld in Cadillac. closed Sept. 15,
Receipts show that the fair was a finan—
cial success.

it' was a Sli<‘('cSS as an ct'cnt of that
kind. The country comprising this fair
district, \i'cxford, Mlssaukce, Kalkuska

and a port of Osceola counties, is sparsely
Settled as compared to fair districts in
the southern part of the slate.

I'l‘he exhibits in the fruit and vegetable
line were. of such a meritorious character
111 point of quality and excellence that a
number of the, leading business men here.
determining to exploit the advantages of
W'exford Co. as an agricultural district.
obtained space to place an exhibit in the
Coliseum building in Chicago wherein
will be held from Nov. 20 to Dec. 4 the
U. S. Land and Irrigation Exposition.

The success of the fair was the more

remarkable because of the fact that it
was originated and managed exclusively
by newspaper men of this fair district

at whose head are Perry F. Powers, pres-
ident,‘ and John II. 'l‘crwilliger, secretary.
Among the attractions and in addition
to the excellent races were speeches by
U. S. Senator Burrows, Licut. Gov. Kell-
ley and '1‘. Id. Niles, steward of the state
grunge.
The Eaton County Fair.

The 55th annual fair of the Eaton
County Agricultural Society Was held
Sept. 21 to 24, at Charlotte. The attend-
ance was good all thru. Thursday was
the big day, over 27,000 people being on
the grounds. Every department was well
filled and the fair was fully up to its
past record as one of the very best countv
fairs in Michigan. l

Charlotte is one of the clean, pretty
little county seat cities, with no saloons.
A nice orderly crowd of people Were in
attendance at the fair. More money Was
offered for speed trials than usual, bring"
mg out some of the noted horses of the
state.

A special attraction was the
.wattomie Michigan Indians from their
reservation at Athens. fifty men, women
and children camping on the fair grounds
duringr the, fair.

The natural beauty of the grounds and
the good location added greatly to the
success of this fair.

Leslie Fair.

The third annual home, coming and fair
was held at Leslie Sept. 2;}, 24. 25 with
a larger crowd in attendance than ,llSU‘dl.
The strong feature was the remarkably
fine exhibit of fruit, grain and vegetables
in the town hall. Certainly no exhibit
m the state could show those of higher
quality. _’I‘hc farmers around Lesliekare
commcncmg to spray their fruit trees
and the results have. exceeded all ex:
pectations. No finer apples were grown
In Michigan than those shown, was the
verdict of all who saw them. The Ishow
of corn was also especially nice. In an—

Polla-

Othcr indications show that

other hall the ladies showed canned fruit, ‘

flowers _and fancy work. Taken ulte-
gcthcr It was :1 nice exhibit and would
ha'x e been a credit to many of the larger

. fairs.

Leslie people are loving the fon dat'o
forut district fair some time, in the Ifutulrclf

'Ihe value of the exhibit can hardly be
overestimated, showing people what
could be done, in their own township or
neighborhood. It certainly was a sur—
prise to all who saw it and was something
for the contributors to be proud of. I

 

 

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We hear considerable about the setting
of prices on farm produce by almost all
factors except the farmer himself. While
there is considerable truth in some of
these assertions, we must accept the fact
that unless an output is controlled by a
monopoly the two factors of supply and
demand are the basal regulators of price.

However, tlfia fact that the farmer ap-
pears to have no voice in the making of
prices on the products he ,produces re»
mains the same, and this is what seems'
unfair to him. He goes to a store of any
kind and he finds unchangeable prices set
on everything he may want; he then pre-
sents butter, eggs, or any farm produCu

\in pay for it and again they set the
price.
‘vwheat, oats, corn, or live stock to mar—
ket and again he is offered an unalterable
price. This may all be fair enough, or
at least we can hardly suggest a remedy,
but it is gal‘ling to the intelligent farmer
when he stops to think of it. It makes
him feel a little bit childish to have all
these things done for 'him when he thinks
himself abundantly able to do a part of
them himself. Let the merchant put
himself in his place and rhe can appre-
ciate the farmer's feelings.

It seems to me the grower of fruit for
a local market is about as independent
as any class of farmers so far as setting
prices is concerned. if he has a good out—
let to a general market and wishes to
assert that independence. Of course, he
must pay what the manufacturer or re-
tailer asks for what he wants or go
without, but he an in a way demand the
same from his 1: stomers. I do not mean
to say that he can fix exorbitant prices
and maintain them or that he can be
arbitrary in charging for his products;
he must let supply and demand, also
competition, govern his prices: but I do
mean that he can set them himself, which
is some satisfaction, and he can set and
change them in such a way as to dispose
of his entire product, or he can sacrifice
a part of it for the balance if he desires.

These assertions presuppose that his
product is of good quality and that he is
not forced to sell in any one market. He
should be prepared to meet gluts and send
his surplus to another market to relieve
them, and he should be able to restore
prices to a reasonable level after a tem-
porary glut. Prices should certainly be
set by the grower and not by the buyer
for he knows what it costs to produce the
crop, and is a better judge of the crop
probabilities. If consumers do not wish
the fruit at his prices they may refuse
to buy or may purchase elsewhere, for
competition is generally free in fruit
growing. This forms a self—regulator of
prices.

Some will have concluded by this time
that all this is theory and that it will
not work out in practice, but I assert
that it will in a small local market where
there is not too much competition or an
oversupply. When I takc berries, apples,
popcorn, or anything r-lsc in this line to
the grocer I ncvcr ask him what he will
pay. I have looked up the markets and
know about what it is worth. I have
also kept an account of the cost of pro-
ducing it and know what I must sell it
for to realiZc any profit. I ask the grocer
if he wants any of the article I have for
sale. He asks me what I want for it. I
tell him. He takes it or not, as he
chooses. I never change my price at that
time or place, in fact, I generally know
where I can get the price. I can ship the
product, advertise in the home paper and
sell from the house, or hold for a raise
in prices if the commodity is not perish-
able. Take popcorn, for example. 1
grade the ears, selling only'the firm large
ones as No. 1 and consider it is worth
more than the general run of corn as the
small has to be disposed of at a loss.
The retailer is in the custom of giving
about 75 cents per basket. I asked $1.00.
He said that he did not believe he could
get that price from his customers but
that I could, which is very true. In such
cases I have advertised and sold to cus~
tomers direct, but in this case I wrote
another dealer and shipped him the en-
tire crop at my own price. This is simply
an illustrative experience. If we haVe
the quality we are safe in demanding the
price, otherwise we may have to re-
trench occasionally.

In selling berries it is the same. We
set the price and the dealer handles the
fruit on commision. He makes a fair
profit and stands no chance of loss and
is generally satisfied. A grocer who has

 

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handled fruit in season all hisdife tel‘s
me that more often the grocer comes out
of berry season a loser rather than a
gainer. Neither was the, grower the
gainer, but the waste was, due to bad
fruit and spoiling. If the grower is re-
sponsible for the fruit there will be less
waste- if he is on the ground to look
after it. .

As for the general farmer, he can not.
set prices so easily unless he can get up
a reputation for superior grains for seed,
or stock for breeding, a. field which pre-
sents unlimited possibilities,

Calhoun Co. S. B. HARTMAN.

ON GRAPE GROWING.

 

It would be unsafe to guess the number
of times this season the command “Thou
shalt not covet" is broken. Those who
are without fruit plantations, tempted by
baskets of lus-
cious fruit, are
pretty apt to wish
W i t h i n t h e i r
hearts, if they
do not give ex--
pression to their
desires, that they
owned a vineyard,
or orchard, or
garden like their
neighbors. T h a
little illustration
herewith s h o w s
one of the worsr.
of these tempters. Grapes have a way
of working into the very soul of a man
and making him acknowledge that he
likes them.

Not a little less attractive is the ro-
mantic history of the grape in this coune
try. That love for the rich bunches has
ever lcd the human race, since the
effort of the spies who went. out into the
promised land and came back laden with
the vinous fruit, to more than ordinary,
efforts, and what Americans have done
to establish the European varieties on
this side of the Atlantic and to bring
from the native wild varieties kinds that
will please the palate, make quite as
fascinating pages as the imaginations Of
the novelist.

It is out of the question to give any
part of that history here, but we wish
to take the opportunity of impres-
sing upon the person and persons who
are tempted with baskets, like the one
illustrated, to make such a deep mental
note of what the harvest is like, that
when the time comes for starting a vine-
yard upon his own lands that he will not
be delinquent. Men make excuses for
not doing these things, but after all it is
only a matter of wanting it real earnestly
at the time when the work is to be, done.
You want grapes bad enough now, but
laow about next spring when the vines
should be planted? Should you allow
your taste to die out, other matters will
have first consideration then and, if they
occupy all the time, the grapes are left
implanted. Should you, which is very
seldom the case, get the other duties
done and yet find time, then perhaps the
family will be blessed with such baskets
of fruit from the home grounds. So make
the mental note indelible.

In the spring you will not have grapes
to taste and you cannot decide what var-
icties will best suit you. You can do that
now. Your neighbors will gladly allow
you to experiment with their varieties.
If thcrc :irc specimens that suit you well,
learn the kind and its characteristics and
make a written note of the same, if the
memory is bad, so that in the spring you
will not only be more impressed with the
importance of planting grapes but you
will have something definite to dO—to
order from your nursery the varieties you
have chosen. And When you have Once
made an investment it is not so difficult
to go ahead, for human nature naturally
looks to make investments pay.

STORING OF THE LATE CABBAGE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So many different methods for the stor-
ing of this crop are in use that it is diffi-
cult to say which plan is best of all, and
in fact, it may be, that circumstances
should largely decide the matter. Quan-
tities that are to be carried over for the
spring market will necessarily require
more painstaking than those to be stored
temporarily. For this latter purpose, I
have found storing in rows wholly above
ground to be convenient and entirely sat-
isfactory. The location should be high
enough that danger from water standing
near, or soaking under them will be en-
tirely eliminated, and it is a good plan to
form a slight ridge when the heads are
to stand. A liberal layer of straw should
be placed, and upon this turn the heads

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,upside‘down, two to four side by side

and inclined sufficiently. that the roots
will come together. A good plan is to
place one row squarely on the head, then
set another row each 'side of this on the
slant as above stated, which makes it
sufi‘lcientiy wide and in good shape to
cover. The outer leaves are all left on
and over this a layer of straw is put on
with as much earth as desired. If kept
until cold‘ weather, more covering of soil
and manure can be added to hold them
without freezing, or this will not injure
them if they are not allowed to alter—
nately freeze and thaw. Many follow this
plan, carrying them thus until spring.
For late keeping, however, another plan
which I prefer to this, is a pit say two
feet deep and as wide as desired. Use a
layer of straw on the bottom and trim
the heads of all outer leaves and stumps.
Pack in layers upside down and when
the ground level is reached narrow the
pile to V shape. Cover with straw and
earth leaving a ventilator every few feet
which is filled with straw.

In whatever way they are stored they
should never be put away while wet or
damp. The essential points for long
keeping are to keep them dry as possible
in a low but even temperature. Damp—
ress and change from heat to cold are
the points to guard against, a plan which
I have. seen successfully tried is to pull
them late in the season and turn them
upside down along the rows, avoiding, of
course, low places where the water
would affect them. This is an easy way
to store them and said by those who have
followed it to be safe and entirely suc-
cessful.

The above ways of storing are, no
doubt, the cheapest plan of handling, un-
less it be that a dry basement and one
that can be ventilated is at hand. Al-
most owithout exception, the late winter
prices are far in advance of those realized
in the fall, and where they can be kept
without danger of too great loss it gen-
erally pays well to make the effort. The
house ecl‘ar is no proper place to store
as the unpleasant odor is far too thick,
and .sOITIe other place ought' to be pro-
vided for the home supply.

Wayne Co. J. E. MORSE.

 

HANDLING PEARS.

 

Too few persons understand the proper
method of handling pears. The fruit
would be more popular if better methods
were employed in caring for the crop.
The handling differs from that of other
kinds of temperate fruits. Instead of al-
lowing the specimens to stay upon the
tree until they have gained their color
from the sun and until the texture is
mellow from ripeness, they should be
harvested as soon as the full size has
been attained. It appears that the cellu-
lar content is partially occupied by a
gritty substance when the pear hangs
upon the tree too long. And this addi-
tion to the content of the cells makes the
texture undesirable and gives the flavor
a spice that is not wanted, as well as
destroys the keeping qualities of the fruit.
There is, of course, a difference in the
varieties. Some may be left on the trees
longer than others. Some will rot at the
core when too long attached to the fruit
spur. Kciffers are among those most
benefited by the practice of picking early.
If they are taken to a cool place as soon
as they have attained their full size and
allowed to ripen slowly in the dark the
user will be surprised at the remarkable
difference between the fruit thus matured
and such as may be matured on the tree.

At the recent meeting of American
pomological society at St. Cat'harines,
Ont., this topic came up for discussion
where growers who had made a success
with this variety declared that the fault
that is generally charged against the
fruit was not due to it, but to the method
of handling. If, says Mr. Collins, of New
Jersey, the fruit is taken early, a month
before the average person would think
of picking, and put in a cool, dark place
the quality will be very desirable'and the
keeping qualities en‘hanced. This grower
shipped one season a hundred carloads
of the fruit to Europe and they were at
the time of the meeting sending across
the Atlantic ten cars per week.

Another matter in the handling of pears
is to see that the varieties are. mixed in
the orchard so that cross-fertilization can
occur. This knowledge would have saved
the speaker much trouble and brot to
him much profit had he been possessed
of the information when be planted his
trees. He 'afterwards learned it by the
aid, of the department of agriculture and
since then has enjoyed splendid harvests
thru the use of grafted branches of other
kinds to furnish pollen for the Keiffers.

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SOME QUERiflESf-As' TO ONIONS. that otherwise'could not be. It will be
_ ‘ " ._ . ' ‘ no burden to fruit. men to know what
In reading yOur article. “Securing the these heaters will do, and knowing it

gglgggtrogl"llgv§§§ $0:ng gvfifi’fifirggsgg much anxiety might be eliminated and
-pull onions before the'tops are dead? I much actual loss prevented.

have a small patch. (30 sq. rods), and

the ha e done finely all summer. and
at gresegt they are falling down, and some GROWING ONIONS ON MUCK LAND.

of them seem to be rlipenlng up. Tlrnle _
$321: kgfepthgigenhilfi gills: :‘éS-‘él giltthterg .f Coma you tell me thru your columns
are getting big necks,_ which I suppose inuggmns WdOUIdThtgo s‘gfill on gery deep
Will» spoil them. All of them have nice 1 f’groun . . s goes own 1sev
large bottoms. I am trying to learn how grad deet andthis necessa“ YTgflel‘Y 005:;
to grow onions and have succeeded in hgs beg; dnblacf; asdhmsrdfgm anlg igrgélrlrlh
getting them along thus far in fair s’hape, 'n‘at'vel r no land Als D W0 Id m
but am at a loss to know W“ What to Siercilal 3fertilvivzer pay fog, itsellf C(give
do next. I have pulled a. few of them, 9 . . -,

but the tops were real green, but they Inal‘gstliitOng?meI C. A. SMITH.

have fallen over. How long can they lay _
out doors? Which is the better way, to The OWOH CTOP needs a constant SUBDIY
cut, or pull the tops off? of moisture during the growing season
W _ J' G' and for this reason it would seem that
As to your first question—as YOU? on- the soil of the correspondent would not
ions have already made good growth 9! be desirable for this purpose, since he
bulb 01‘ bottom and the necks are still states that it becomes very dry in sum-
enlarging, I think I WOUJd pull them at mer. As soil of this kind gets firmer
once, green or ripe. The necky ngWth after being worked for some time it is
doubtless comes from one of two causes: likely that after a few years this soil
Either the use Of strong, green manure will make ideal onion ground, but for the
01‘ a poor strain 0f seed. Either ls liable coming season we would not advise the
to cause it, and especially the former. planting of this crop. Commercial fer-
The latter -will sometimes cause it or it tilizers, under ordinary conditious, pay
just as frequently produce scallions. As when applied on the onion field. The
a future preventive, try to make sure plants are surface feeders and for that
that your seed is 0f the best strain Ob‘ reason the fertilizer should not be plowed
tainable, and avoid the use Of green under but simply worked into the surface
manure. If a considerable portion have where it will remain till the rootlets of
run to big “901“" it will very likely injure the onions take it up. Of course, if your
the sale of them, but if the bulbs are field is well supplied with plant food ele—
E'OOd size and SOIid it Will hardly impair mcnts you can get a good crop without
their value for “59- It is getting late and the use of the commercial fertilizers and
I would lose no time in pulling and euro the application of them would not get
ing them. you the results under such conditions
AS t0 hOW long they can lie on the that would be derived if the soil was
ground, will depend largely upon weather wanting in this regard. Then, too, the
conditions. Well ripened bulbs will re- application of‘barnyard manure is con-
quire bill a few days Of good weather in sidered one of the best preparations for
which to cure. If the tops are green and growing onions, especially where it can

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some’what rank they must have longer be applied for some previous crop that
t""6 and will be better for frequent, care- it might become thoroly incorporated with
fUl stirring. When the tODS are well the soil and the elements fully available
withered cut them Off, and allow them a for the use of the crop. A commercial
‘feW days more Of 300d weather. AVOid fertilizer analyzing about four per cent
handling or storing them while wet or of nitrogen, eight per cent of phosphoric
piling in ’heaps and they W111 dOUtheSS acid and ten per cent of potash is about
harden sufficiently to keep. A5 to which what the best growers use on soil that
is the better way. cutting or pulling off is fairly well supplied with plant food.
the tops, do WhiCh ever way it can be They use from a quarter to three—quart-
done quickest and easiest. With small, ers of a ton per acre according to the
dry tops you can pull them faster than condition of the 3011,

you can cut them, but heavier, greener
tops will be more easily out than pulled.
You also spoke of pulling some that were
very green and asked if they would ripen
sufficiently to keep. I think there would
be no trouble as the pulling would stop
the growth, and the maturing bulbs would
absorb the substance from the drying
tops, and with careful storing I think
they would keep.

Wayne Co.

STRAWBERRIES IN THE FALL.

 

The extreme drouth of the past summer
made us feel that the strawberry pros-
pect for next year was becoming very
poor. However, we are apt to exaggcralc
the evil effects of a drouth, which Ilils
likely had a more serious effect upon
our minds that upon our crops. So, I
am satisfied that if the early and late
fall provides us with abundant rains,
ORCHARD HEATERS' strawberry plants will yet lay in a cap-
" ital stock to be turned into berries next

The Dl‘RCtiCC 0f western fl‘Uit growers ycar. A good root and crown are essen-
in protecting their fruit CI'ODS from com liuls to large production. The main
nights or frosts by burning oil or other drawback during the dry time is in
material in the orchards when frosts are propagation and thru rooting of new
expected, is growing. Men interested in plantS.
fruit are finding that they cannot afford While the farmer is busy in his fall
to take a chance with the frosts. They seeding and potato harvest, late matur-
liave too much at stake. With a crop mg weeds are apt to put in some unde-
worth from $200 to $1.000 Der acre on the sii‘ablo work, while crowding the plants
trees that can be transferred into ‘1 total and sapping the ground, they will mature
loss in a. Single flight is a Drl‘D‘lSlthn sccd unless the utmost vigilance is usvd.
that demands the best insurance DOS‘ Following out the prerogative of nature.
sible, and it is dawning upon them that they will mature seed, even vury late,
they can afford to pay a 300‘} premium unless destroyed in season. Such weeds
to make their CTOD safe. will cause plenty of mischief during the

There appears a tendency to use more producing season to follow. My straw—
heaters rather than consuming the same berries were considerably diminished in
amount of burning ii’iatcriul in fewer yield by a rank—growing weed, known w
places. The efficiency of the practice IS me by t‘he name of wild Camomile, or
greater in the wcstcm lands Where the what is often called musk. Had this
danger from frosts is larger, bllt it seems weed been looked after in the fall of 1908,
that in the east where there is almost it would have done little or no injury,
every year some loss to fruit men of but there it was, ready to make. a rank
every section from this source. the DraC- growth when the pla,nts.should have had
iicc should become more a part Of the all the space. Strawberries are simple
1‘01nOIOgiSt’S duty. in their requirements, altho rather ex—

A large number of devices are upon the acting. Given the entire use of the
market for this purpose. But if the man grOUDd, and plenty of fertilizing, the
is ingenious he can devise a heater that plants will sometimes produce astonish-
will meet the conditions, and thereby iilg results. I 'have a variety that would
save to himself EXDGUSG, nevertheless. fill a basket about as quickly as small
it would be better to purchase heaters “1113]”, while another kind was 1.0311“,
than to be without if there is any con- tedious to pick.
siderable amount of fruit that is likely N. Y.
to be endangered by frosts.

There is a fUI‘II'llt‘I‘ use that these heat- Here’s a Book on Bob Sleds and Wagon
crs can be put than saying the crop after Boxes Sent Quick.
it is once matured; it is the protection A good time to write a postal for a
which can be provided against the de- low. price, from $9.50. up direct from the
otmoionmo of bloom in the sumo; H... {itsmagician:“sirensraisin:
where the crop can be cut oft in its VGIY is right now. \Vllen the time comes that
inception. the heater question is quite the rcadcr wants tin-extra box or the
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Th9 things that should decide you in selecting
the right engine are: what will it cost to run
the engine—(1) how much gasoline does it use;
(2) how many parts are there to get out of order;
(3) what will the repairs cost; (4) will the mixcr
always work; (5) will the gasoline pump get out
of order; (6) ‘if water is left in . ,
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guarantee worth. Anybody can paint a cheap engine
to look good; I never built cheap goods

and never will. ‘W-hen I took hold 01
this business my task was easy be—
cause I did not have to start a new
concern. It had already gone through
over twenty years of succcss. The

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any part of an Olds Engine that Olds Engine—lie cannot help it. I care
breaks or becomes worn, from more for huvms‘ u pleased Olds user
ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, than T do to sell a large number of
within one year from date of ship- "llfs’lni‘s. Evcry user of 2m (lids En—
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one you think should be borne by any other kind of a customer.
the manufacturer. YOU ARE TO I guarantcc every Olds Engine to be
BE THE ONLY JUDGE- There in Dl‘l‘fcct running order when it leaves
is to be no argument, no delay in the factory. I know the engine you
returning old parts and getting get is all right. and that the high Olds
new ones, you decide and l abide standard is maintained. It is the best
by your decision. .VOu can buy, thl’lli-i' you pay more or

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gasoline pump. The piston sucks the them to. A
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. _ _ i'lgl. '0 make so many iii :1 vear

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finanCial respousmility of the concern of pynfit slilnll. You arc I'l'HlIl' gctting

making it. Ask your bunker whethcl' rm cnginc of the very highest possible

we are gOOd for What we say. Canlity at the right price. In fact,

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ours. and their catalogues contain ‘ '

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that has been claimed and promised an “n.4,“, “The for it tod b r

about other gasoline engines selling at you “1.0.06 it ay e ore

all kinds of prices, we have been mak- ‘“ ’

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that has become the standard of the you want lhc cosine to do. and van

world. will; get a personal lctter from me that
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the. Olds. that has Olds quality of ma- reprefionfaf-‘ivp. Ito to my nearest

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Adversities as Character Builders.

0 not worry over adversity, it is
D the battles of life that bring you

out the victor, or- prove you the
weakling. The so-called blessings of calm
and peaceful living, with never a ripple
to disturb the smooth pathway, will make
your life insipid and your character weak
and faltering. It is the storms and the
tempests, the rugged hills we must climb,
the sacrifices we must face, and the
temptations we must overcome, that gives
the full life with strong character and
well balanced judgment.

How many people we meet who are
continually fretting over the walls fate
throws in their pathway. No one but
themselves are so harrassed, no one has
quite such temptations nor so many dis-
appointments. They are always miser-
able because t‘hey grieve over their little
adversities instead of accepting them with
a brave heart and smiling face, taking
them as the necessary thorn among the
roses, the unpolished gems to brighten
their final diadem.

“'ant, confinement, opposition, rough-
ness, alternating with smoothness, diffi—
culty with ease, storm with sunshine and

joy with sorrow—these constitute the dis-
cipline of life, the education which makes
a man a man, and not a mere living be—
ing. It is with life’s troubles, as on the
battlefield, there is always less danger
to those who stand firm, than to the
coward who turns his back 'and flees
from it.

The person who starts in early life to
control his temper developes into the
steady, dependable character. The boy
who cries every time he is hurt, is jeered
at by his companions, and the girl who
expects every one to give up to her
whims and fancies, becomes a selfish, dis-
agreeable woman.

It is the man who takes the bright side
of life for his constant companionship
that reaps the most sunshine. If we are
looking for trouble, for slights and for
the dark side of every situation, we are
most liable to receive them with full
measure. Overcoming mountains, not
cowering under them is what makes us
mount the highest pinnacle with a proud
head, chest expanded and the gratifying
feeling of a conqueror.

ELISABETH.

 

TH E ROSARY.

 

The hours I spent with thee, dear heart,
Are as a string of pearls to me;
I count them over, every one apart,
My rosary.

Each hour a pearl, each pearl a prayer,
To still a heart in absence wrung
I tell each bead unto the end, and there
A cross is 'hung.

O, memories that bless—and burn, ,
O, barren gain—«and bitter loss!
I kiss eac‘h bead and strive at last to
learn
to kiss the cross,
Sweetheart,
To kiss the cross.
—Robert Cameron Rogers.

THE GREATEST WOMAN.

Not long ago several hundred club wo-
men in one of the eastern states were
asked to reply to this question: “Who
is the greatest woman in history?”

The rcplics would have made a very
interesting volume if they could have
been printed. There were all sorts of
answers, and a great many women known
to the world were named. A prize had
been offcrcd for the best answer, and
this prize was won by a woman of clear
insight, who knew how to give to thing
their true value when she sent in this
reply:

“The wife of a man of moderate means
who docs her own cooking, washing and
ironing, brings up a large family of boys
and girls to be useful members of society,
and finds time for her own intellectual
and moral improvcmcnt, is the greatest
woman in all history."

“’hat an army of truly great women
there are in this republic of ours! \Ve
are coming more and more to the convic—
tion that no women in all the world fill
a more useful or more honorable port
than the real housemot'hcrs. They are
among the uncalcndorcd great women of
the world, who are the salvation of the
home and the predominating influence for
good in the lives of their children—Moth-
er's Magazine.

 

 

 

TEACHING CHILDREN TO SAVE.

 

There has never been a time when the
price of farm products, taken all to—
gether, was so high, nor when money
was more plentiful on the farm. The
average boy or girl of sixteen handles
more money today and spends more thail
his father or mother did at his age. My
own observations, in various homes,
prove that there is a great lack in train-
ing in the use of money.

I know a boy Who. to use his mother’s
expression, is “chicken crazy." In the
beginning She gave him the money to go
into the fancy chicken business and the
craze. developed after he [won the first
prize. Now he sells setting of eggs, at
very good prices. He has a sign on the
gate post announcing them for sale. He
as his prize money and the money he
gets from the sale of his family poultry
and eggs, but he will not provide even a
shirt for himself. His father requires no
accounting for the feed of his poultry,
nor for the money he gets. He does not

save it nor spend it for his own clothing.

The younger children have money given

to them frequently and it fairly burns
their pockets till they can get to the vi]-
lage to spend it. It goes also in‘andy,
gum, or some such commodity.

I know another little girl who is given
ten cents a week by both father and
mother. Out of this sum she has to buy
her pencils, pens, note books and all her
small school supplies, and is required to
kecp an account of how she spends her
money. She is only nine years old, but
she has already former an excellent habit
of considering carefully before she spends
her dimes,

As soon as a child is old enough to
spend money he is old enough to be
taught to save his pennies. Putting a.
dollar into a bank for each child, every
year from the time they are born, and
letting them see the bank account grow,
teaching them to save their pennies in a
toy bank to be added to the general fund,
is another good plan

The penny savings bank system has
been introduced into many city schools
and has proven not only a means of pro-
moting t‘hrift, but of promoting health,
since money formcly spent for indigestible
eatables is carried to the teacher to be
put into the bank. Such a. system is
never likely to be adopted in rural schools,
but all rural purcnts can plan a savings
system for their children, Which wilt
not only save the money, but have a
splendid effect on general character
building—E. J. Lynch.

 

MAKING COMFORTABLES.

 

BY E. E. R.

At the approach of cold weather the
provident housewife assures lichelf that
an abundant supply of bedding is ready
for use. Usually there are one or more
new comfortablcs to be made, as well as
repairs to those on hand.

The days of piecing the covers for
quilts and comfortables have about
passed. There are so many demands
upon her time that the house—mother
cannot spend hour after hour piecing
blocks. If there is a grandmother in the
family, who would busy her otherwise
idle fingers in this way, good covers may
be often made from material already
possessed, otherwise it is far better to
purchase the cloth outright. The printed
cotton shallie at five ccnts a yard is both
attractive and serviceable. If something
a little better is desired, silkolene at :1.
shilling is serviceable. Either of these
'make desirable covers and the material
is to be had in a great variety of colors
to harmonize with any furnishings.

It docs not pay to buy the cheap bats
for filling. A good quality not only gives
better satisfaction in use, but it goes
farther, as the bats are larger and open
out to better advantage.

Opinions differ concerning the number
to be used in filling, but from the stand-
point of convenience and also of economy
five to six will be none too many in a
good sized comfortable. Some prefer
more. The best grades are very light
and fluffy and do not make the covering
heavy.

In size bed covers should be ample.
One which is too small to tuck in well

MICHIGAN FARMBR

   

 

at the foot and come down over the sides
of the bed Is an annoyance. Beds are
larger now-a-days than they used to be
and require larger. covers.

Tying with twine, each knot holding
a tuft of zephyr seems to be the most
approved method of fastening the batting
in place. For this it is not absolutely
necessary that quilt frames be employed.
The tying may be done on the dining-
room table 'if preferred, and instead of
binding the edges they may be turned
neatly in and run together with needle
and thread.

Since the end of the comfortable placed
at the head of the bed is the first part
to be soiled it is a wise provision to baste
a strip of cloth to come down several
inches on either side of it at that point.
This can easily be removed, washed, and
replaced as required.

SOME DELICIOUS WAYS TO SERVE
QUINCES.

 

Bak'ed Quinces.——Take ripe quinces, rub
off the down, and pack them in an earth-
en baking dish. Add one-half cup of
water, and bake in a moderate oven for
three or four “hours. If they dry on top,
baste them, and cover with a tin. When
perfectly tender, cut them up into a serv—
ing dish, sprinkling them liberally with
sugar as you proceed, then pour the juice
over the whole. Serve ice cold.

Quince Trifle.——For each pound of fruit
take three-quarters of a pound of sugar,
and one-half cup of water. Boil the sugar
and water together, then add the quinccs,
pared, cored, and cut in small pieces.
Cook until tender, then place the fruit in
a glass dish, in alternate layers with
macaroon or sponge cake crumbs, and
add the syrup. Pour over all a rich cus-
tard made with the yolks of six eggs,
three tablespoons of sugar, three cups of
milk, one—half teaspoon of almond ex-
tract. Let get very cold, then heap on
top a meringue made of the whites of two,
eggs beaten stiff with two tablespoons of
powdered sugar. Garnish the top with
preserved cherries, and serve.

Quince Tapioca.—-Cook a cup of tapioca
in water until clear, and thick as jelly.
Add sugar to taste, and flavor with nut-
meg and lemon juice. Then place it in
layers in a buttered. baking dish with
chopped preserved quinces. Cover with a
meringue, brown slightly in the oven, and
serve with the juice drained from the
preserves, as a sauce. Or serve with
whipped cream.

Quince Pie—Line a deep plate with
puff paste. Press thru a colander one
cup of quince pulp, add one-half cup of
sugar, the well beaten yolks of two eggs,
and one cup of milk. Fill the plate with
the mixture, and bake. W'hip the whites
of the eggs to a stiff froth with two tab-
lespoons of sugar, spread over the pie and
brown lightly,

Quince Mold.—Pare the quinces and
cook until tender, press thru a colander,
and add sugar and any flavoring desired,
then into the hot pulp beat thoroly one
envelope of minute gelatine, and pour
into a mold wet in cold water. Set in a.
cold place to harden, and serve with
whipped cream.

CHOCOLATE BLANC- MANGE.

The recipe for this delicious dessert
was given by a cook who has a reputa-
tion for excellent and toothsome daintics:

Baker’s chocolate, two sections, one
quart of milk, a half box of Cox’s gela-
tine, or the amount indicated on the box
for a quart, a half cup of sugar. Soak
gelatine till soft in barely enough water
to cover it. Put the milk and sugar in a
double boiler. Vthn hot drop in the
chocolate and stir till thoroly dissolved.
Let it boil fifteen minutes. Add the gela-
tine, take off the fire immediately, but
stir thoroly till gelatine is well mixed.
Pour thru a strainer into moulds which
have been wet in cold water. Let it stand
twenty-four hours, or on ice until firm.
Serve with cream and sugar.

REQUESTED RECIPES.

 

The kind of fried cakes that are always
sought after at the church socials:

Onc cup of sugar, one cup of sour milk,
one egg, two large tablespoons of melted
lord, a pinch of salt, one teaspoon of soda,
(mix soft), fry in hot lard.

A cabbage salad which is dainty enough
for the bride’s table:

Cabbage shaved very fine, mix with
salt, pepper, and sugar to taste, also a
trifle of vinegar, then add the white of
one egg beaten stiff, and half a cup of
sweet cream. beaten likewise. Keep cold
until served—An Expert Cook

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Milking A Good
' Impression

A Person WIIII Bad Breath Invariably
Impresses People llniavorably.

Every one desires to make a good
impression with other people with
whom they come in contact, whether in
a business or social way.

No matter how well dressed a person
may be, or how well educated or ac—
complished, if he or she has an offensive
breath, every other consideration and
good Cluality is likely to be overlooked,
and the impression made is likely to be
an unfavorable one.

The employer in selecting an employe
is almost certain ,to reject the applicant
whose breath is offensive, even though he
may seem a good acquisition in every
other way.

No merchant cares to employ a clerk
whose breath is foul, to wait on his cusm
tomers; he would probably drive trade
away. Neither does an official desire to
have such a person employed in his office.

Many a person making an application
for a position has been rejected by a
prospective employer on account of this
undesirable possession, which proves so
disagreeable to other persons, and often
the applicant hasn’t the slightest idea
as to why he was “turned down.” since
he seemed to fill the requirements of the
position in all particulars.

Every one who is so unfortunate to
possess bad breath, whether caused by
disordered stomach, decayed teeth or
nasal catarrh, should use STUART’S
CHARCOAL LOZENGES, which afford
immediate relief from this trouble.

Charcoal is a powerful absorbent of foul
gases, and quickly oxidizes and purifies
bad breath. The charcoal from which
these lozenges are made is the best that
money can buy, and possess a higher
power of absorption not present in other
and minor brands.

Bad breath from any cause cannot ex-
ist for a moment when they are used, and
all persons who are subject to foul and
offensive breath should rid themselves of
what amounts to a positive nuisance by
using these powerful absorbing lozenges.

Use them freely before going in com-
pany, or to church, or to the theater, in
fact, to any place where you will be
brought into close contact with other
people.

Before visiting your dentist, or your
physician, or your barber, purify your
breath, and take a box of Stuart’s Char—
coal Lozenges with you, and keep your
breath pure and free from taint.

These lozenges surpass all others In
their marvelous powers of absorption, as
it has been proved again and again that
they will absorb one hundred times their
own volume in gases.

Every druggist has them in stock, price
25c per 'box. A free sample package will
be sent to “you, if you will forward your
name and address to the F. A. Stuart
Co., 200 Stuart Bldg, Marshall, Mich.

MEN WANTED

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WANTED IN EVANS’I‘ON. ILL., one or

two strong. reliable GIRLS for
housework. No small children, good home, warm
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Self Threading Needles.

A comfort to everyone who lows. Easily threaded without
straining the eyes. Ladies try them Ind you will use no
other. Package of 10 noodles non! for 10 cents poltpaid.

.l. R. McCullough. 716 24th St.. Detroit, Mich

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This very pretty and ' -
original shirt-waist design
is a. combination of eye-
let, cut—w‘ork and shadow
embroidery. The stitches,
or combination of stitches
in the flowers is some—
thing new, and for the
lack of a better name we
will call it, shadowette
embroidery, as it is partly
shadow stitch, with but
little shadow. The design
is to be worked on thin
material with No. 5
merc erised cotton.

It is somewhat tiresome
to do all the stemming
first, so we will complete
each spray as we go
along. The stems are
worked, with the regular
stem stitch, which has
already been described in
a. previous article. Thu
leaves are first outlined
with the running stitches,
using coarser cotton for
this. The ends should
all be bmt up from the
under side of the goods,
without any knots as
line of over and over stitches.
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they are in the way and make
the work lcok uneven.
With the shank point of the

scissors, cut straight thru the
middle, and lengthwise of the
leaf, leaving a little margin

at each end without cutting.
With the mercerised cotton be-
gin at the lower end of the leaf,
not forgetting to bring the
thread up from the under side.

over, being careful to bring the
needle up just outside and close
to the outline thread, each
stitch is followed closely by the
next until the starting point is
reached, then fasten the thread
securely on the wrong side.
Each leaf is worked in turn un—
til all are, completed.

The petals of the, flowers are
first embroidered like the leaves,
that is, with the cut—work. Then
turnng to the wrong side of the
goods each petal or leaf of the
flower is covered with the
shadow emly'eidery in this way.
Beginning at the lower or stem
end of the petal take up a
short stitch. with the needle
pointed toward you. close. to the

The next stitch is taken so the point of the needle

the lirst stitch, the third is taken on tho

OPPOSite side of the leaf with the point of the needle coming out where it did

for the first stitch, the thread

is carr cd
another stitch is taken, etc., until the stitches meet at the top of the leaf.

across to the other side again where
When

the thread is fastened on the side it is worked. On the right side of the goods

the stitches should look

like machine stitching close around

the outline of the

leaf, while the threads that cross from side to side look like a filling of lace.
The center of the flower is a tiny eyelet, and those that surround it are the

same—Mrs. Ida M. Cole.
ONE HUSBAND OFFERS A FEW SUG-
GESTIONS ON THE PRESERV-
ING QUESTION.

 

I have been reading all these letters in
the Michigan Farmer about women pre-
serving their husbands, and notice the
roasts the men are coming in for, es-
pecially from “Mrs. M. C. S.” and “Mrs.
C. U. 0.,” and I thot it was time some
man put in a word of defense for the
poor, long—suffering husbands.

Men don’t need any preserving, if you

treat them right, but when some hen-
]:ecking nagging woman cverlustingly
whines and scolds at you, it is enough

to make a decent man go off and shoot
himself. I have no doubt a lot of men
are mean to their wives, stingy with the.
money, and not always as pleasant as
they might be, but in over half the cases
they are driven to it, by their wives con-
tinually making it so disagreeable for
them, that they become careless and
don't care what happens.

Before you marry a girl she is always
neat looking, smiling and agreeable,
would not let you see her show off her
temper, and acts as tho She believes you
are a smart man. After a few months
of married life, she becomes sloppy
around the house. frets over little things,
whines if you cross her, and will scold
ior three hours because you brot home
the wrong kind of coffee. She don't give
a hang how often she lets go her temper
then. and talks to you as the she thot
you were little better than an idiot. ls
it any wonder at man becomes grumpy
and tells his wife he hates her.

“Mrs. C. U. C.,” I bet there is no danger
of your spoiling your husband by too
much sweetness. May be if you would
try it for a few days, you would find
that he would quit swearing and treat
you more respectfully. But let me Just
give a tip to all the women readers of
this page. If you are not living in peace

and happiness with your husband, try,
just for a week or so, to treat him with
the some attentions you would if he was
a guest in your house. lie polite, Show
him a few courtcsies, talk about pleasant
things, don’t go off in a huff if anything
comes up you don’t like, make yourself
and the house tidy and neat, and if he
is any kind of a man at all, he will come
back at you in the same way. If he don’t
he ought to have his head knocked off.
A MERE MAN.

GREEN TOMATO MINCE-MEAT.

 

Frosty nights bring busy days for the
careful housewife; and one of her duties
is to gather the last crop of tomatoes.
Some will ripen. but there is generally
:1 otmnlity of green ones left after our
supply of chow—chow, etc., so here is an-
other way to utilize them.

One peek of green tomatoes.
fine. two pounds of raisins, seeded and
chopped, two pounds of brown sugar,
juice and grated rind of two lemons, two
tablespoons of cinnamon and one each of
cloves, allspice, and salt and one pint of
vinegar. Boil the tomatoes, Vinegar and
sugar for three hours, then add raisins
and spices, cook twenty minutes andl
can. It makes delicious pics in winter. II

If tired of tomato catsup try this. l
Apple Catsup. I
Peel and quarter a dozen tart apples,’
stew them until soft in as little water as‘
possible, then pass them thru a sieve;
To a quart of the sifted apple add a tea—
cup of sugar, one teaspoon of pepper,
one of cloves, one of mustard, two of cin—
namon and two medium—sized onions,
chopped very fine. Stir all together, ad—
ding a tablespoon of salt and a pint of.
vinegar. Boil one hour and bottle while
hot. Seal very tight. It should be about
as thick as tomato catsup, so that it will »
run from the bottle.-—E. L. R.

chopped

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DETROIT WHOLESALE MARKETS.

October 6, 1909.
Grains and Seeds. ‘

Wheat—Occasionally there are days
when the primary receipts in the north-
west are as large as on corresponding
days of a year ago but for the period
since threshing began there has not been
'liberal selling on the part of farmers
either in the northwestern or the south-
eastern sections. This action is holding
the market close to the top of the high
figures reached a week ago and the mar-
ket has every appearance of being quite
firm in the position. In the winter wheat
belt the new seeding is getting a poor
start on account of dry weather; this
condition is urging farmers of those sec-
tions to be conservative about selling
this year’s crop. Canadian farmers are
good sellers and the receipts from that
side of the line are quite liberal. Liver-
pool is firm wit'h a good increase in the
world’s supply. The milling demand
continuesto be an important factor in the
news of the bulls. One year ago on this
market $100974, was paid for No. 2 red
wheat. Quotations for the week are as

follows:
No. 2 No. 1

Red. White. Dec. July.
Thursday ....1.17% 1.16% 1.18 1181/2
Friday .......1.171,é 1.16%, 1.18 1 181/),
Saturday .....1.171,§ 1.16% 1.18% 1.19
Monday ...... 1.17%, 1.16% 1.18% 1.19
Tuesday ..... 1.18 1.17 1.19174, 1.20

XVednesday ..1.19 1.18 1.201/2 1.21%,

Corn.-—To the buyer of corn the tend-
ency of the past week has been pleasing,
the splendid weather thruout the corn
region being so ideal for the perfection
of the big crop that traders and others
interested are counting on all that could
be expected from the acreage and stand.
Over the largest part of the corn terri-
tory the crop is out of danger and in
many places husking is well under way.
On Tuesday of this week there developed
a little firmer feeling in the local market
A year ago 790 was the price paid for
No. 3 corn. Quotations for the weellilars:

O. H

No. 2 Yellow.
Thursday . . . . . .......... . 66 661/2
Friday . . . . ............... . 66 661/2
Saturday ................. 64 641/2
Monday . . . . .............. 63 641/2
Tuesday ........... . ....... 63 04
\Vednesday ............... 63 64

Data—There is little taking place to
change the conditions of this trade and
the market is steady at figures slightly
higher than those of a week ago. The
demand for oats is strong and the supply
is not liberally supported by the fresh
receipts from the farms which are small
for this season. One year ago the price
for No. 3 oats was 531/30 per bu. Quota-
tions for the week are:

. Standard.
Thursday . . ............... . ...... 42174
Friday .................. 421/2
Saturday ...... . .......... 42%
Monday . . . . ...................... 421/2,
Tuesday .......................... 421/2
Wednesday ....................... 421/2

Beans—Reductions have followed the
general understanding that the bean crop
oi the state is getting harvested in un-
usually fine shape and the large acreage
will produce a high average of market—
able beans. The supply kept over is
short, due to the light crop of last ycui,
and it will demand a good part of the
present crop to fill up bins as soon as
these beans are available. This will favor
the farmers. Quotations for the week

are:

Cas‘h. Nov.
Thursday .................. $2.10 $1.95
Friday ..................... 2.10 1.9;)
Saturday ................... 2.00 1.90
Monday . . . ................. 2.00 1..)0
Tuesday . . ................. 2.00 1.99
\Vednesday ................ 2.00 1.1:)

Cioverseed.—Tlie strength of this mar-
ket is now being reflected in the prices
that are quoted. Occasionally there is
a little hitch in the adjustment of supply
and demand which causes a downward
trend in the values offered, but the mar-
ket readily recovers and the tendency (if
prices is upward with the probability that
good figures will be paid in the spring
by the farmers, who fail to have. seed to
put 0 nthcir fields. Quotations for the
put on their fields: Quotations for the

Prime Spot. Mar. AlSlkP,

Th irsda' ........ $0.00 $9.40 $9.25,
Fl‘itliav .‘ .......... 9.00 9.2 3.2::
Saturday ......... 3.85 0.15 8.23
Mondav‘ ........... 3.90 9.20 8.2.3
'l‘uesdav .......... 9.00 9,25 8,22
\Vcdncsday 0.00 9.15 8.2:)

Rye.#Another advance was made this
week. Trade easy. Cash No. 1 is selling
at 740 per bu., which is an advance of 10
over last week. .

Visible Supply of Grain.
This week. Last week.

. ............... 19,442,000 16,460,000
Faisal: 3.367.000 2360,000
Oats ................. 12,801,000 11,792,000

Ive ...... . ........... 458,000 407,000
Barley ............... 3,593,000 3,010,000

Flour, Feed. Provisions, Etc.

Flown—Market active, with prices un-
changed. Quotations are as follows:

(‘lcar ................. $52")
Straight ................ 5.40
Patent Michigan ............ 5.35
Ordinary Patent ............ 5.50

Hay and Straw.—Trade is firm. Cariot
prices on track are: No. 1 timothy, nPW.
$13.506314; No. 2 timothy, $126313; clover.
mixed, $126313? rye straw, $7637.50; wheat
and oat straw, $650637 per ton.

Feed.—Markct steady at unchanged
prices. Bran. $25 per ton; coarse mid-
dlings, $26; fine middlings, $30; cracked
corn, $30; coarse corn meal, $30; corn and
oat chop, $28 per ton.

Potatoes.—The decline a week ago was

 

the marks has continued busy supplying
the call at unchanged prices. Michigan
goods are quoted at 60@6Ec 'per bu. '
ProvisionafFamily pork, $24@25; meSS
pork, $24; light short clear, 24.50; heavy
short clear, $25; pure lard, 134%,0; bacon,
17@180; shoulders, 120; smoked hams,
1435c; picnic hams, 12c. -
Dairy and Paultry Products.

Butter.—The firmer tone noted last
week still holds, but receipts continUe
sufficient to prevent an increase in vai-
ucs. Quotations are: Extra creameries,
300 per lb; firsts, 29c; dairy, 23c; packing
stock, 211,40.

Eggs.—Another 1/-,.0 advance has been'

made during the past week and the mar-
ket is very firm under an active demand,
Fresh receipts, cases included, case count,
now quoted at 24c.

Poultry—Despite a very fair demand,
supplies of poultry the past week have
been sufficient to make this market a.
quiet, easy one. Chickens are quoted
somewhat lower. The range on ducks
is narrowing down, while geese are 10
higher. Quotations are: Hens, 13c; roos-
ters, 90; ducks, 126313c; geese, 9@100;
turkeys, 1563160; broilers, 13@131/§,c.

Cheese.——Steady. Michigan full cream,
1563160; York state, 170; limburger, 161/20;
schweitzer, 200; brick cream, 17c per lb.

Calves.——Choice to fancy, 110;. ordinary,
963100 per lb.

Fruits and Vegetables.

Cabbage.—Steady. Home-grown, $1
per bbl. .

Tomatoes.——Higher and selling at 75@
800 per lb.

Onions.—Domestic offerings, $2 per
bbl; Spanish, $1.40 per crate.

Pears.-——Bartletts, $1.75@2.25 per bu:
common, $1631.25.

Grapes—Delaware, 30@350; Niagara,
3063350 per 10-1b. basket; Concord, 15@
170 per 8-lb. basket.

Apples.——Best grades, $2.50@3 per bbl;
common, $150632.

Peaches—Michigan grown ,range _in
price from $1.75@2.50 per bu, according
to grade,

Cranberries.—Cape Cod berries selling
at $2.25 per bu.

Vegetables.—Beets, 500 per bu; carrots,
500 per bu; cauliflower, $1.25 per doz;
cucumbers, 2563300 per doz; eggplant,
750 per dozen; green beans, 750 per
bu: green onions, 121,60 per doz; green
peppers. 750 per bu; lettuce, 400 per bu;
mint, 250 per doz; parslcy, 25611300 per
doz; radishcs, $63100 per doz; spinach, 600
per hamper; summer squash, 300 per box;
watercress, 2563300 per doz; wax beans,
750 per bu.

OTHER MARKETS.
Grand Rapids.

Wheat continues to advance, the local
mills paying $1.12 Tuesday. Rye is up
40 and corn is off 10. Beans are coming
in at a lively rate and $1.75 is the pre-
vailing price paid. The butter market is
unchanged. Eggs are 1/20 higher. Peaches
are scarce and higher, selling up to $2.25.
The apple market is unchanged. Pota-

toes remain steady at 6063650; tomatoes,‘

4063500. Hubbard squash is worth 1,60
per lb. Farmers were asking 110 for
drcssed hogs Tuesday.

Quotations follow:

Grain—\Viieat, $1.12; oats, 41c; corn,
68c; buckwheat, ~600 per bu; rye, 64c.

Beans.—-Machine screened, $1.75,

Rotten—«Buying prices, Dairy, No. 1.
2363240; creamery in tubs, 291/20; prints,
231/267300 per lb.

Eggs—Case count, 230.

Peaches—755161.“ .25 per bu,

Apples—5006331; pears, 900631.25;
quinces, $1.75 bu; grapes, 9@100 per 8 lb.
basket.

Voget‘ables.—Tomatocs, 3563400 per bu;
(zibbagc, 3063400 doz; cauliflower, $15063
1.75 per doz; onions, 60c; beets, 400 per
bu; carrots, 450; turnips, 350; Hubbard
squash, 1/20 lb.

Hogs—Dressed, 101/363110.

Live Poultry.——Fowls, 1063120;-roosters,
7613c; turkeys, 1463150; spring chickens,
1363140; spring ducks, 1163120; young
geese, 963100; young turkeys, 1663170.

Chicago.
“meat—No. 2 red, $1.17l/2; December,
$1.01; May, $1.03.
Corn.——No. 2.
571/241 May, 601,160.
Hats. No. 3 white, 381463391/20; Decem—
l~cr, 39140; May, 41%c.

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hitter. Steady to firm under good de—
mand. Creamcries, 241/2611290; dairies.
2261260.

Eggs—Firm, with pri'me firsts, case
count, cascs included. 240 per dozcii.

Hay and Straw.—Strong under raihcr
moderate receipts. Quotations: No. 1
timothy, $14.5061,15; No. 2, $13.5061‘14; No.
2’. and No. 1 mixed, $126313; No. 3 and No_
2 mixed, 31050611150; rye straw, $8.50
619; out straw, $6637; wheat straw, $5636.

 

New York.

Button—Firm and unchanged values.
\Vcstcrn factory firsts, 2363240; creamcry
specials. 310.

Eggs—Firm. \Vestern firsts to extras,
2-11/.611261/_.c; seconds, 2361240 per doz.

Poulfi'y.~r13rcsscd. Western chickens.
1461190; fowls, 131/263160; turkeys, 1863200
pcr lb. Live—Firm. Fowls, 17c; western
chickens, 17c; turkeys, 150.

Crain.——VVheat, No. 2 red, $1.281/2 per
bu: corn, No. 2, 691/20 for old; oats, mixed,
411/0617430 for new.

Hav and Straw—Receipts liberal but
trade. is active. Small bales are weak.
The market for large bales is well sus—
tained. Hay, timothy, prime, large bales,
per 100 lb. 950; No. 3 a 1. 80617921/2c;
shipping, 7563800: packing, 4563500; clover
and clOVOT‘ mixed, 6563900; straw, long
i‘yc, 3063350; short and tangled rye, 550:
out and wheat, 3563400.

St. Louis.
Grain.——VVheat.No. 2 red, $1.19@1.21;
corn. No. 3 white, 600; No. 3 yellow,
60120; oats, No. 2, 391/20; rye, No. 2, 71c.
Haw—Mixed timothy and clover steady
with-better grades in good demand but
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_','foiiowed b ‘ an actIVe demand and since

grade clover and alfalfa scarce and in

strong demand. Timothy, No. 1 selling
at $15@15.50 per ton; No..‘ , $12 50@13;'l

2 .
No. 3, $10; clover, No: 1, $13614; No, 2,
$11@12; clover mixed, $13@1'4; alfalfa
quotable at $17@-18 for No. 1 and $15@16
for No. 2. .

Peaches—Offerings of Michigan fruit
not very desirable as to quality. Market
slow and weak with Michigan stock
selling from $1.25 per bu. basket for
small, to $1.50@1.60 for best offerings.
imam-grown quoted at 600@$1.25 per
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Boston.

WOOL—The demand for wool is not
abating and both domestic and foreign
offerings are having a strong trade. The
prices are made by the sellers. The firm
position of the market has led brokers
to the belief that no downward trend in
values will occur in the coming six
months and on that basis many dealers
are already seeking contracts for the
1910 clip on the sheep’s back. The lead-
ing domestic quotations range as follows:
Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces—XX, 3661)
37c; No. 1 washed, 4063410; fine un-
washed, 27@280; half-blood combing, 37c;
three-eighths blood combing, 37c; quarter
blood combing, 3463350; delaine washed,
40@41c; delaine unwashed, 3363340. Mich-
igan, Wisconsin, and New York fleeces—-
Fine unwashed, 2563260; delaine un-
washed, 3163320; half blood unwashed,
3463350; three-eighths blood unwashed,
34@350; quarter blood, 3363340.

Eigin.

Butter.-—-Market firm at 30c per 1b.,
which is last week's price. Sales for the
week amounted to 692,300 lbs., compared
with 697,300 lbs. for the previous‘week.

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Buffalo.

October 4, 1909.
(Special report by Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards,
East Buffalo, N. Y.)

Receipts of sale stock here today as
follows: Cattle, 175 loads; hogs, 15,200;
sheep and lambs, 21,000; calves, 1,400.

The cattle market today was fairly ac-
tive and all the desirable kinds sold at
about last week’s prices. There was a
good demand for good milch cows and
springers and they sold strong While the
common kinds moved slow. The besr
feeders sold a little stronger today. About
everything is sold at the close.

We quote today’s prices as follows:
Best export steers, $6.75@7; best 1.200
to 1,300 lb. shipping steers, $6636.25; best
1.10 to 1,200 lb. do., $5.50635.75; medium
1,05 to 1,150 lb. steers, $5635.25; light
butcher steers, $4.50634.75; best fat cows,
3425611475; fair to good cows, $375634;
light cows, $3633.25; trimmers, $2632.25;
best fat heifers, $4.75@5.25; fair to good,
$4634.25; common do., $3.50@3.75; best
feeding steers, 800 to 900 lb. dehorned,
344060460; 700 to 750 lb, dehorncd stock—
crs, $375634; 600 to 650 lb. do., $3.25@3.50;
little common stockers, $3633.25; beSt
bulls, $4.25@4.50; bologna bulls, $350611
3.75; stock bulls, $3633.25; best fresh
cows and springers, $476360; fair to good
do., $356345; common, $256330.

With liberal receipts and lower prices
in the west today our hog market Opened
563100 lower than Saturday and closed
steady at the opening with a good clear-
ance. We quote:

Best heavy, $8.30@8.40; mixed and
medium, $8.15638.30; best corn yorkers,
$8.10@8.20; Michigan yorkers, $170613;
light yorkers, $7.50637.70; pigs, 257.2560
7.30; roughs, $7637.25; stags, 35575611625.

The sheep and lamb market was fairly
active today at the prices. We look for
little better prices after Wednesday.

We quote: Best lambs, 372563730;
fair to good. $6.50637.25; culls, $52563
5.75; skin culls, $4634.75; yearlings, $7.15
605.50; wethers, 647563515; ewes, 354.5063
4.65; cull sheep, $2633; bcst calves, $9.50
639.75; fair to good do., $7639; heavy
calves, $4635.

 
 

 

Chicago. ‘
October 4, 1909.
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Rcccivc-d today .....29,000 24,000 35,000
Same day last year..34,109 30,791 24,426
Received last week..64,148 25,801 111.417
Same week last year.57,091 101,805 91,620
Cattle were marketed here last week
after Monday in such moderate numbers
that sellers were in a position to demand
higher prices, and lots good enough to

;scll above $6 were largely 250 higher,
(oolcr wcat‘her starting up an increased

(oiisiimption of beef. The poorer grassy
stccrs sold around $4635, while the best
licuvy corn—fed beeves went for $8633.50,
the top figure showing another high
rccord. The greater part of the steers
cold at $5.50637.75, and good to fancy
,\cnrlings brot $7.25638.40, while 1,275 to
1.400—lb. export steers were salable at
3690611760. Butcher stock had its share
in the advance, with light offerings. cows
and heifers being in active demand at
6321063550 and a limited number of prime
licifcrs selling at $5.756DG.50. (Winners
and cutters brot $2613. and bulls sold at
32.50635. calves at $3.50639.25 per 100 lbs.,
and inilkcrs and springers at $306165 pcr
hcud. Forward springcrs were especially
active. but the backward cows had to be
sold to killers. “Vestern range cattle
were in smaller supply than a week car-
iicr and ruled higher under an active
demand. Range steers went at $4617.15.
the top figure paid for a load of Montana
deliorncd grass—fed Herefords establish-
ing another high record for the season.
and the best price in seven years. Range
cows and heifers sold at $3634.90, and
fccdcrs paid 5532563475 for rangers. The
general stockcr and feeder trade was
(licckcd by the lack of really good cattle
Llld high prices, stockers going at $29063
4.50, and feeders at $3.80635.50, not many
buyers caring to pay over $5.
_Today, Monday, cattle were in exces-
Sive supply, the offerings incliiding about

from western ranges. Choice
beeves were firm, and both heavy and

.

light-yearling steers brot $8.50, but cattle'

that were.not fat were slow and 10631.0
ower. ' .
.Hogs have been marketed for still an-
other week here and elsewhere in only
moderate numbers, while the eastern
shipping demand was unusually small,
eastern packers getting larger supplies
from nearer home, as well as from small
western receiving points and direct from
western stockmen. Lack of genuine out
side competition enabled the Chicago
buyers to prevent advances in prices,
and values were inclined to follow a
downward course, particularly for the
poorer grades of light hogs and little
pigs. Stockmen are still marketing a
good many grassy and light mixed hogs,
sales of Which are slow at a big discount
from prices paid readily for properly ma-
tured swme. The hogs coming here av-
erage in weight 23.2 lbs., compared with
235 lbs. a few weeks ago, 209 lbs. a year
ago and 247 lbs. two years ago. High
)l‘lC‘eS for hogs, as well as for cattle,
sheep and lambs of the better class, seem
to be practically assured for the coming
winter. Today, Monday, hogs were active
at steady prices, with sales at $7.50@8.40.

Sheep and lambs were marketed quite
extensively last week, altho not so lib—
erally as a week earlier, and some new
features were developed as the week
advanced, a decreased proportion of fat
lambs bringing about good advances in
fat flockS. Prime natives were hard to
find and sold up to $7.50 per 100 lbs., and
range feeding lambs were plentier and
active at $6636.65, while feeders competed
with killers for the best range yearlings.
Native lambs that came on the market
averaged poorly in quality, and there was
a decreased percentage of range mutton
lambs. Sheep were apt to show weak-
ness, altho the small percentage of prime
mutton flocks had a good sale. An ac-
tive demand from feeders for lambs
checked the efforts of the packers to force
lambs lower.

Today, Monday, receipts were liberal,
and prices averaged 1063150 lower.
Lambs were salable at $4637.20, with
fancy quotable around $7.25@7.35. Ewes
were salable at $2@4.85, wethers at $4.50
615, and yearlings at $5635.50. Feeder
wethers were wanted at $4634.50.

Horses have not been shipped to mar-
ket for a week past in unduly large num—
bers, and prices for good animals of each
class have been well maintained under
the influence of a strong local and out-
side demand, with eastern buyers in
large attendance. The best demand is
for choice heavy drafters at $22563250
per head, with a few going at $300 or
even higher, while cheaper ones are sell-
ing at $175 and upward. Expressers are
taken freely at $175@225, and 100 log-
gers and feeders are sold at $170@225,
most of the feeders going to Ohio and
Pennsylvania. Southern chunks are ac-
live at 67563125, with not enough offered,
and drivers are selling steadily at $15061)
300, chiefly at $175@225. Inferior and
thin horses are the only bad sellers.

LIVE STOCK NOTES.

Vi'itliin a short time pork has sold in
the Chicago market around $25 a barrel,
the highest price recorded in twenty-
seven years, and lard, short ribs,, hams,
bacon, etc., have been selling remarkably
high, as a natural result of the unusuallv
meager stocks held in warehouses there
and at other western points of storage.
in ordinary times such high prices for
provisions would result in materially
lessening their general consumption, anu
for some months past there has been a.
big decline in their exportation abroad,
l~ut so far as the domestice consumption
is concerned no marked reduction has
ill'i‘ll observed. The largest demand is
for frcsh pork products, however, and
those are having such a large sale ev—
erywhere that butchers and packers find
it a matter of the greatest difficulty to
obtain sufficient numbers of hogs to sat—
isfy the demand. With such abnormally
small numbers of hogs sent to market.
the production of lard. pork and cured
meats is nccessarily of the smallest pro—
portions. und 'high prices for products
for a long time appear to be assured.
’i‘lic stocks of provisions in Chicago ware—
liUllSi‘S October 1 were down to 51,604,230
lbs., compared with 82.416000 lbs. a month
earlier and 69,441,936 lbs. a year ago.
The western packing since March 1
amounts to 13.190.000 hogs, a decrease or
i.465,000 hogs compared with a year ago.

Farmers are making a serious mistake
in sacrificing their healthy growing pigs.
and young hogs, illlf the packers are do-
ing all they can to discourage'such a
course. as they know that it means a
great lack of matured hogs for the win-
tcr packing season. Marketing 100 to
150-11). pigs is bound to cut down the
future supplies of 200 to 300-11). hogs to
a serious cxtcnt. Every farmer that can
do so should get busy at sccuring prolific,
healthy breeding sows and raise as many
hogs as he possibly can for the market,
inking every possible care to ward of
discase and to fatten the pigs in first-
cluss style. for hog raising is one of the
most profitable branches of farming.

In recent weeks the western markets
have been farily gluttcd with cattle on
the grassy order, due to the hurried
movement from northern ranges. as well
as to lively marketing of cattle that have
been pastured in Kansas .and Oklahoma.

Farmers, too, have been hastening their
grass—fed cattle to market, and it is no
wonder that big drops in prices haVe
taken place at different. times under the
large loads. Fat corn-fed beeves, which
have comprised but a small percentage
of the receipts, have been much the slow—
cst to weaken in value. and higher prices
for these, as well as for the medium kinds
of cattle. are predicted as soon as the
niarketings of range stock is over. NOW
is a good time to buy StOCR 'heifers at
reasonable prices in Chicago or other
western markets and . thereby utiliZe
rough feed. The scarCity and extraor-
dinary dearneSs of well—bred heavy feed-
ers tend to lessen their sales.

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Thursday’s Market.

October 7, 1909.
Cattle.

Receipts, 1,345. Market steady at last
week’s prices. Good grades and stockers
and feeders in active demand' and 10c
higher.

We quote: Dry-fed steers, $56,135.75:
steers and heifers, 1,000 to 1,200, $4.50
@5; steers and heifers, 800 to 1,000, $4@
4.25; grass steers and heifers that are.
fat, 800 to 1,000, $4@4.25; grass steers and
heifers that are fat. 500 to 700, $3.50G1:3.75;
choice fat cows, $4; good fat cows, $3.50
@375; common cows, 32.50413; canners,
$1.75@2; choice heavy bulls, $3.500“; fair
to good bolognas, bulls, $3.25@3.50; stock
bulls, $3; choice feeding steers, 800 to
1,000, $4@4.40; fair feeding steers, 800 to
1.000, $3.75@4; choice stockers, 500 to 700,
$3.50@3.75; fair stockers, 500 to 700, $3.25
@350; stock heifers, $361, 3.25; milkers,
large, young, medium age, $40@60; com-
mon milkers, $25fg1‘35.

Roe Com. Co. sold Gerish 15 steers av
871 at $4.25; to Thompson Bros. 9 (:oWs
av 877 at $3.60; to Rattkowsky 4 cows and

bulls av 862 at $3.50; to Mich. B. CO. 12
steers av 792 at $4.10; to Hammond, S.

& CO. 1 cow weighing 770 at $1.75, .3 bulls
av 1,126 at $3.50; to Erban 2 Stockers av
515 at $3.50; to Frisbie 6 do av 463 at
$3.35, 1 do weighing 560 at $4, 1 do weigh-
ing 520 at $3.50, 10 feeders av 773 at $4;
to Sullivan P. Co. S cows av 950 at $2.75,
1 bull weighing 1,260 at $3.25, 5 steers av
1,016 at $5, 1 do weighing 930 at $4, 12
cows av 1,010 at $2, 2 heifers av 715 at
$3.75; to Mich. B. Co. 30 butchers av 815
at $4.25, 17 do av 816 at $4, 18 do av 821)
at $4; to Bresnahan 2 canners av 885 at
$2, 5 do av 800 at $1.75; to Sullivan P.
Co. 1 cow weighing 1.250 at $3.75, 8 butch-
crs av 781 at $3.50; to Breitenback Bros.
5 do av 614 at $3.15: to Goose 51 do av
‘750 at $3.75; to Greene 2 stockcrs av 515
at $3.25; to Mich. B. Co. 2 bulls av 050
at $3.40; to Kamman 11 steers av 900 at
$4.50, 4 do av 502 at $3.60; to Thompson
4 cows av 1,030 at $3.60.

Spicer, M. & R. sold Sullivan P. (‘o. 11
butchers av 680 at $3.40, 7 do av 420 at
$3.25, 2 cows av 865 at $2.50; to Hammond,
S. & (10. 2 bulls av 665 at $2.75, 18 steers
:iv 844 at $4.30, 11 do av 840 at $4.30; to
K1111 26 butchers av 891 at $4.20; to Bres-
nahan 1 cow weighing 890 at $2; to (loose
10 butchers av 457 at $3, 7 do av 311 at
$3; to Greene 7 stockers av 543 at $3.50,
2 d0 av 485 at $3.50, 12 do av 575 at $3.50,
2 do av 600 at $3 50; to Mich. B. (‘o, 27
butchers av 843 a $4.30, 28 do av 803 at
$4.25; to Rattkowsky 0 do av 545 at $3.25;
to Regan 4 do av 640 at $3.50; to Greene.
3 stockers av 583 at $3.50; to Schlischcr
7 butchers av 851 at $3.80; to Sullivan P.
Co. 2 cows av 1.050 at $3.25, 1 do wcigh—
ing 1,070 at $4.25; to Hammond. S, & Co.
7 steers av 814 at $4, 2 do av 945 at $1.75,
0 d0 av 786 at $4, 1 cow weighing 890 at
$3, 1. bull weighing 1.180 at $3.50. 1 do
weighing 1,200 at $3.75; to Mead 25 food—
ci‘s av 847 at $4.35: to Lavalt 15 butchers
$13578 at $4; to Regan 7 do av 553 at
c r .u 5).

Bishop, B. & IT. sold lllich. B. (‘o, 3
steers av 800 at $3.50, 3 bulls av Rso at
$3; to Bresnahan 42 stockcrs av 557 at

$3.45: to Converse 1 111111 weighing 870 at
$3.25; to Cooke 3 steers av 1,090 at $5.25,
5 do av 983 at $4.75, 3 do av 777 at $4. 10
do av 1.140 at $5.75; to Munro 10 stockors
av 558 at $3.20; to ScinScher 1 bull weigh-

at $3.25. 6 butchers av 886 at
$4.50, 2 do av 825 at $4, 4 do av 505 at. $3,
2 do av 715 at $3.50; to Breitcnback Bros.
12 cows av 930 at $2.75; to Kamman 5
butchers av 640 at $3.75; to Hammond,
S, 8: Co. 3 do av 750 at $4.70, 14 stccrs
:I\’ 834 at $4.10, 10 do :1\' 800 at $4.25: 10
Regan 18 butchers av 524 at $3.40. 2 do
:1v 550 at $3.50; to Sullivan P. (‘1). 5 bulls
av 884 at $3.25, 3 cows {Iv 1.033 at $21.50,
5 do av 826 at $2.25, 4 do av 820 at $2.50,
5 d0 av 1.016 at $3.25; to Hammond, S. 1%
(‘0. 3 bulls av 1.063} at $31.00: to lW-lrko—
\vitz 2 cows av 915 at $2.50. 4 do av 1.15:0
at $3.25, 2 steers av 1.175 :11 $4.50: to
(loose. l butchers av 450 at $3; to Frisbic
7 stocltcrs av 481 at $3: to Munro '3 do
:1\' 580 at $3.35: to Schlischcr 2 cows 11v
3'15 at $2.75, 12 butchers av 135 at $3.40,
4 do av 605 at $3.25; to Kamman 8 do av
665 at $3.50, 1 steer weighing 1,000 at
$5, to Markowitz 4 do av 722 at $3.80, 1
bull weighing 730 at $3.

Kalaher sold Hammond, S. & Co. 2
row and bull av 1.200 at $3.50, 8 butchers
av 873 at $4.25.

Haley sold same'll do av 340 at $3.25,
3 bulls av 473 at $3.

Stlnlv sold Korff 30 feeders av 847 at
$1.10.

Johnson sold Greene 13 stockers av 630
at $3.00

Bohm'sold Mich. B. Co. 4 cows av 1,190
at $3.75.
Haley sold Thompson 6 butchers av

783 at $3.80, 8 bulls av 532 at $2.75.
Same sold Bordine 7 feeders av
$3.50, 3 stockers av 450 at $3.25.
Haley sold Kamman 5 steers av 800 at
$4.10, 1.3 butchers av 602 at $3.50.
Wagner sold same 8 do av 685 at $3.50.
Halev sOId Rattkowsky 5 butchers av
830 at "$3,611, 2 do av 510 at $3.35.
Allen sold same .3 cows av 1,016 at $3.50.
14 heifers

943 at

Haley sold Sullivan P. (‘o.
av 600‘ at $3.65. 22 do av 650 at $3.60, 3
do av 543 at $3, 14 butc‘hers av 486 at
3.40.
$ Haley sold Lingeman 2 steers av 920
at $4.85.

Tubbs & St. sold same 3 do av 990 at $5.
Haley sold Marx 4 butchers av 785 at
$3.55, 2 do av 610 at $3.50.

 

Ronni .51.; same 9 do av 759' at $3.85.
Haley sold Goose 4 cows av 1.045 at

$3.45.

Veal Calves.
'Receipts, 552. Market 50c@81‘ lower
than last week; very dull; quality com—
mOn. Best grades, $8.50; others, $3@8;
milch cows and springers, strong for
good; common, dull,

Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. B. Co. 6 av
155 at $9, 15 av 135 at $8.50, 2 av 125 at
$7, 1 weighing 150 at $8; to Hammond, S.
& C0. 1 weighing 190 at $3.

Hceney sold Mich. B. Co. 5 av 155 at
8.75.

Boyle sold same 1 weighing 130 at $8.75.

Clark & McK. sold same 3 av 107 at
7.50.
$Belheimer sold Hammond, S. & CO. 7
av 140 at $6.50. r

Duelle sold Sullivan 5 av .145 at $8.22).

Spicer,“ M. R. sold Mich. B. Co. 13
av 140 at $8.50; to Goose 1 weighing 360
at $6, 6 av 250 at $4; to McGuire 7_ av
150 at $9, 6 av 130 at $7.50, 2 av 10;) at
$7.50; to Bumstine 2 av 200 at $6, 6 av 12):)
to Mich. B. Co. 2 av 125 ,at $7.50,

sold Ildhc’lman 2 av
200 at $3.25; to
Sullivan P. Co, 5 av .130 at $8.50. 5 av
145 at $8.50; to Mich. B. Co. 3 nv_150 at
$7, 4 av 112 at $7.50;,to Breitenback Bros.
2 av 145 at $5, 8 av 13 at $8.50; to New-
ton B. Co. 3 av 170 at $8; to Hammond,
S. & Co, 1 weighing 140 at $6, 6 av 155
at $8, 2 av 140 at $6. 18 av 140 at $8.

Kalaher sold Hammond, S. & Co. 4 av
140 at $8.50.

Haley sold Newton

130 at $8. _
)VVagner sold Barlage 7 av 145 at $8.

B. & H,

Bishop,
to Goose 6 av

105 at $8:

13. Co. 1 weighing

Haley sold Brcitenback Bros. 5 av
145 at $2. . _
Voightner sold Burnstme 3 av 150 at
8.50.
$ (iroff & S. sold same 13 av 135 at $8.50.

(‘armmiy sold same 2 av 150 at $8.50.
Downing sold same 8 av 145 at $8.10.
Cheney & H. sold Newton B. Co. 23
r1v 130 at $8.
‘ Halev sold Goose 11 av 22:: at $2. .
Kendall sold Markowitz 9 21v 140 at $8.29.
Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts, 6.350. Market opcncd steady
at last week’s prices, will close lower.

Best lambs. $6.5()@6.65; fair to good
lambs, 2 .
$4404.75: yearlings. $4.25fir4.75; fair to
good sheep, $375604; culls and common.
$2.511m‘3. ‘

Spiccr. M. & R. sold Mic'h. B 03' .38
sheep av 100 at $4.25, 11 do av 90 at $3.32;
(1 Newton 1‘). (‘0. 01 lambs av 75 at $43.25,
30 do av 76 at $6.60; to Sullivan P. (lo.
35 do av 80 at $6.60; to Stacker 15 do av
50 at $4.75; to blich. B. (‘0. 11 shccp av
115 at $3.25; to Eschrir-li 26 lambs 11v 60
at $5.50; to Sulilvan P. (‘o. '12 do av 60
at $5.75; to l\'ll(‘h. B. ("0. 52’) do av >611 (if.
$5.75; Thompson Bros. 301111 av 12 at
$5.50, 10 sheep av 90 at. $3.30; to 1:117..-
patrick Bros 41 lambs av 68 at $5. ".1. 1.!
sheep av 80 at $3.50, 8 do av 10:) at $2.50:
to Mich. B. Co. 70 lambs av 75 at $6.50.
.35 do av 58 at $5.60; to Thompson Bros.
21 shccp av 70 at $2.50. .

Bishop, ll. & H. sold Eschrich 31 lambs
av 55 at $5.50, 35 do av 57 at $5.25; to
Sullivan P. (‘o. 33 do 21v 831 at $6.60, 81
do av 77 at $6.80, 30 do av 73 at $0.50, 18

sheep av 95 at $2.50, 31 do av 115 at .,:,.75,
at $6:
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26 lambs av 75 at; $6.60, .0 do av 68
to Mich. B. CO. 28 do av 70 at $6. 2
sheep av 100 at $3. 16 do av 110 at $3;
to Stacker 8 lambs av 60 at .575. 11 lambs
av 45 at $4; to Mich, B. (.‘o. .34 sheep av
120 at $3: to Erwin 04 lambs av 75 at
$0.25; to 3rcitcnback Bros. 25 do av 60
{It $0.271; in NP\\'lnll R. (‘11, '76 do :1V 13
at $6.15; to Friedman 18 do av 70 at
$5.25; to liaise 60 do av 60 at $6.25; to
Sullivan 1’. (‘0. 0 s‘hccp av 120 at $24.50:
to Fitzpatrick Bros. 20 lambs 21v 7.» :11
$6.25; to Feldknap 56 fcc'lcrs av 65 at
$6.50, 187 do av 65 at $6,511, 50 do av 55
at $6; to Fitzpatrick b-os. 1.”. lambs 11v

70 at $6.50: to llaisc 24 do av 75 (it 95.1.1.1,

9 do av 40 at $1.511, .

Roe (‘om (‘11, sold Erwin 43 sheep av
88 at $4, 44 lambs av 75 at $6.25, 67 do
av 771 at. $0.50; to Mich. B Co. 23 shccp

{iv 90 at $3.25, 17 do :1\' 00 at $3, 51 lambs
av 60 at $5: to Mich. 11. (‘o. 5 sheep av
110 ta. $3.25; to Thompson Bros. 02 do
av 67 at: $3.50; to 11:1111111111111. S. & (‘0.
43 lambs av 75 at $6.50, 47 do av 70 at
$6, 5 do av 55 at $5.
Ilalvv sold Newton 1:. (‘11. 51 lambs av
71', at $6.35, 10 shccp av 110 at $3.75.
Grot't' &'S. sold same 12 lambs av 77
at $0.65.
Dovning sold same 16 do av 65 at 36.
Clark & Mclx’. sold same 10 do av 56 at
$5, 40 11v 65 :11 $0.
("ormody sold Young 53
:11 $0.25.
11cc11cy sruld Fitzpatrick Bros. 63 lambs
:1\’ 711 ;1t $11,711). I" sllt‘t‘D 21V 111.8 {It $1.25.
3111111 sold Mich. B. Co. 31 lambs av 7:
at $11.2”). 36 do av 55 at $5.
Kalahcr sold Hammond, S.
lambs :1v 80 at $0.25.
Bellieimcr sold sumo 11 do av 68 {1t $5.50,
Hecncy sold Rreitcnback Bros. 20 lambs
av 00 at $6.25.

lambs av 70

& Co. 38

“'anncr sold Barlag‘c 50 lambs av 58
at $6.25.
Hogs.
Rccclpls. 4,597. Bliirkct 25171401' lowm‘.’

hogs weighing from 120 to 150 lbs, very
dull and not wanted.

Range of priccs: Light to good butch—
crs, $7.75: pigs, $075717; lighl yorkcrs,
$7017.40; stags, 1,4. oft‘.

Roe Com. (,‘0. sold Sullivan 1", (‘o, 10,
av 153 at $7.15, 20 av 173} at $7.25, 25 av‘
1.35 at $7.10. 00 av 150 at $7.20, 210 av 1701
at $7.50 175 av 160 at $7.35.

Spit-er. M. & R. sold same 20 av 150 at
$7.50. 66 av 175 at $7.70.

Spiccr, MI & R, sold Tiannnond, S. &

o. 2:: av 21.: at $7.75, 357 11v 1.97. .11 $7.65,,
47 av 190 at$7.60. 255 av 170 at $7.50.

Bishop. B. & .11. sold Parker, \V. & (‘0.
121 av 1.00 at $7.70, 885 av 155 at $7.00. 418
av_ 150 at $7.55, 112 av 170 at $7.65, 256 av
145 at $7.50. 81 av 140 at $7.40.

 

Work is progressing on a railroad from
La Paz, Bolivia. to Arica, Chile, which.
when .completed. will be 33 miles long
and will affosd Bolivia a port for the ex-
portation of her products.

.me‘;.~MicriieAN1 FARMER. ’

$5606.95; light to common lambsflhut

:Wonderful “Awl for All”

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has a sore hip; most of the trouble ap-
pears to be at the point, causing the flesh
to rot away from the bone. A. .1. H., Hcs~
peria, Mic‘lL—Apply peroxide—hydrogen to
point of hip twice a day and apply etlu‘dt
parts powdered alum, borac acid and
mdaoform, ten or fifteen minutes after us-
ing the other medicine.

Spraincd Stiflc.—I wish you would tell
me what to do for my two-year-old colt.
Every few days 1 find be has great ditli-
Culty in extending one hind lcg forward.
I am somewhat inclined to think that he
has trouble in both legs. but more in one
than the other. XV. A. C.. '\\'eidman,
MiclL—Thc ligaments of stifle joint are
“'0111( allowing the patella (cap) to IMF
tially slip out of place, and when out of
position the foot cannot be raised or brot
forward. Now, in order to remedy a
chronic case of this kind the colt should
be placed in a stall with the fore feet
three or four inches lower than the hind
ones and the colt obliged to remain in this

posture and the stifle blistered lightly
every few days for three weeks. You
can safely use any of the blisters that

are regularly advertised in this paper;
however, there is no special advantage in
applying severe blisters.

Indigestion—Surfcit Buds—I have a
.Vflung horse that was brot here from
Cleveland, 0., last December. Soon after
arriving here be discharged from nose,
rccovcrcd. He now has stomach
trouble which I would like to have cor~
rccted; gas seems to form. in the stomach

and bowcls and there are several small
bunches on skin with considerable dan'd-
1'11t’t'. Ilc is in fairly good flesh and has
run on grass 1121 summer. L. Mctro-
politan. Micthour horse suffers from
stomach trouble and no doubt has i111—
purc blood. (live a tablespt'mnful of the.

following compound powdcr in fccd tbrcc
timcs a day: Powdered fcuugrcck, gcn—
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:1 toblcspoont‘ul does not help him. givc
twice thc quantity at a dose. Apply to
sore. parts of body one part bi—c‘l‘iloridc
of mercury and 1.000 parts water twice

 
  
 

  

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a day. A change of fecd will do no harm.

Crib-biter.—-l have a two-year old colt
that is a crib-bitcr, but does not appcar
to suck wind. ’l‘l1is colt has had t'nc run

of a large pasture lot and is given :1
i'ccd of grain every day; whcrcvcr the

colt can get hold of things 111-: gnaws 11:.
111cm. 1 11:1vc commenced breaking him
which helps him tired and I also tic him
away from objects that he is likely to
crib 011. The mother is a good brood
mare and I had thot some of raising some

more colts 1'1-o111 her, if you think thcrc
would be no danger of the colts being
vi‘ib-bitcrs. .\. 11.. Hanson, Pa.—Crib—

biting is vcrv ot‘tcn the result of indiges-

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this habit by imitation. The mother bc~
ing a crib-bitcr the cult soon contracts
the habit of doing exactly as his mothci-
docs, by imitation. ’l‘hcrct‘orc. 1 should
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stable the colt try to prevent it from

crib-biting by having no manger situated
high 11p so that tho colt can bite it, make
1.1111 cut off the floor or (1111 01 a very low

tub or manger. Drugs will not help your
colt: much.

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mar.» that is eight y-‘rirs old; \vl1c11 two
)‘t-ul‘s (11d 1 inltiwwl slli‘ had 11 pt-t'lllldl'
action \\l1c11 bucking: in he stall and it
sccmcd «litiicult 1111‘ her to lift 1111111 I‘m-L
and when doing so would always clcvatc
licr tail, cspccially wliwu backing. 'l‘his
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limos \l'llcli liilcllcd to the wagon it
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that it did 1111' any good. Shc Works on
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A HUNTER HUNTED.

BY FLORENCE M. GWINN.

After serving in the war of 1812, Reuben
Dodge found the life to Which he returned
in New York state too quiet and unevent-
ful to suit his restless nature. He had
early imbibed a passion for the woods
and the roving life of a hunter and trap-
per, especially when backed by the pros-
pect of gain.

During the war he had spent some time
at the fort in Detroit, so he determined
to return thither and penetrate still far-
ther into the then unbroken wilderness.
It 'was a daring undertaking in those un-
settled times, but these hardy rangers
of the woods and waters were fearless;
besides they had a genuine love for their
Occupation and never seemed to tire at
the paddle or oars. For days at a time
they would follow the winding courses of
the river or penetrate the secluded re-
treats of the great forests in search of
game.

Tall, well built and muscular, Dodge
was well-fitted for his chosen vocation.
He cared but little for the perils of hard-
ship, hunger, wet or cold, or the still
greater danger of falling a victim to some
merciless Indian, or maybe the prey of
some wild creature of the forest.

It 'was early in April when the hunter
left New York, and it was late in Octo-
ber when he found himself in the waters
of Saginaw Bay, with no companion but
his faithful dog Chase. On foot he 'had
traveled uncounted leagues, and with the
aid of a strong but roughly built canoe
had coasted up the shore of Lake Huron.
He had stopped for several days at dif-
ferent places along the shore, to hunt,
and had found an abundance of game.
The red deer had not yet retreated be-
fore the rifie and axe of the pioneer.
He needed only his gun and a handful of
salt and he could have his dinner when
and where he chose. Occasionally he
caught sight of a red man or a wandering
coureur de bois, but otherwise no sound
broke the stillness of the somber-shaded
forest save the songs of the birds or the
footfall of some startled deer as it sought
refuge in the dark recesses of the woods.

In the early dusk of the evening his
canoe glided into the mouth of the Pigeon
river, whose banks were covered with a
luxuriant growth of oak and pine woods.
After half an hour’s hard paddling, for
the river at that point forms several
loops similar in shape to a horseshoe, he
reached the place now known as “the
rapids.” It was too dark to go farther,
so he concluded to land and make a
camp for the night. He drew the canoe
up on the low bank and, selecting a place
a few rods back, well secured from View
by the thick undergrowth, soon Ihad a.
comfortable shelter from the cool night
air, There might be Indians in that
vicinity so he was very careful about the
light of his camp fire. “Old fellow, you
are all the company I care for tonight,"
he remarked to Chase as he patted him
on the head. After supper the hunter
rolled himself up in his blanket, lay down
on the bed of hemlock branches and
was soon sound asleep.

It was just breaking day when he
awoke. He could now get a good view of
his surroundings. “This place just suits
me,” he said to himself as he walked
around and noted the advantages for a
permanent camping ground. Here he
could hunt and fish to his heart’s content,
and by spring would have a considerable
stock of furs to dispose of.

He began at once the erection of a rude
log cabin, for he would need better shelter
in the winter months than he had now.
In a week he had it completed. At one

 

 

 

end of the small room was a fireplace
where he did his cooking, and at the
other a rudely constructed bunk which

served for a bed. As the building was
low it was concealed from sight by the
thick growth of underwood and trees on
every Side. The river did for a well, and
it was an easy matter to go into the fore
est and return with enough venison to
last a month. Nearby was the bay with
its abundance of fish. An ideal hunter's
paradise for a man like Dodge.

The first. thing he did after building his
camp was to secure enough jerked veni-
son to do him for the winter. It would
be better trapping later on. The hind
quarters of the deer he cut into large
slices which he sprinkled with salt. He
then took four crotched sticks, drove one
end of each into.the ground, placed two
sticks lengthwise in the crotches and
other sticks across these, forming a rack

    

 

on which he la’d the slices of V9151!”-
Beneathr he kindled a islew fire which
smoked as well as dried the meat. W‘hen
t'h-oroly dry he packed.“ into sacks made
‘of tanned buckskin and suspended II:
from the ceiling near the fireplace.

By the middle of December he had se-
cured a goodly share of furs and had a
line of traps extending half way up Point
Charity, which' projects far out into the
waters of the bay, and «another line
around the shore of Wild Fowl bay and
up Fish creek for a mile or more. Thus
far he had not been troubled by Indians
who often came on hunting expeditions
thru this part of the state. Aside from
a fierce encounter with a. bear a few days
before, in which his dog Chase had been
severely injured, he had been unusually
fortunate, and the amount of furs already
procured surpassed 'his expectations. “I’ll
have a fine load for the canoe in the
spring,” 'he remarked to himself while
viewing his spoils.

Inured to solitude the hardy hunter
was not the man to lament the dearth of
neighbors. The forest with its varied
scenes, the rivers and lakes were his
dearest friends. Nature spoke to him as
a mother does to her child and he was
content.

One morning Dodge set out just as the
darkness of the night was giving way
before the coming of the day, to make
the rounds of his longest line of traps.
If he.were successful it would be late
night before he could return to camp.

“You’ll have to stay home today, old
fellow,” he said to Chase. “That hear
was a little too much for you.” With his

’ltunting knife and hatchet at belt, and
musket on shoulder he strode swiftly
away. The zigzag trail led up Point
Charity thru woods that stretched away
for miles, mingling pine and hardwood
growth, having here and there swamps
bristling with close-set cedar, and then
again the sandy ridges which run parallel
with the waters of the bay.

The evening shadows were beginning
to fall when he reached the last trap on
Fish creek. Altho fatigued he was well
satisfied with the goodly store of pelts
‘he had to show for his day's tramp. It
was all of five miles to camp and the
moon did not rise until an hour after
dark, so he started homeward at a brisk
pace. It seemed rather lonely without
Chase trotting at his heels. He would be
glad to reach home after his long walk.

He must have been a good mile from
camp when suddenly a queer sound
reached his well—trained ear thru the
stillness of the forest. The hunter stop—
ped short and listened intently for a.
moment. From far back up the trail
came the sound of flying feet. That sug-
gestive sound, so conspicuous on the ex.
pectant silence, might signify the coming
of Indians on their ponies, or some dan-
gerous creature of the woods. It was
evidently unlike a deer or bear in move—

ment. A man works by hints in the
forest. As he stiffened in his tracks and
listened, eyes, ears and nostrils were

intently alert. He had seen traces lately
that led him to believe there were Indi-
ans in that vicinity. If so, he did not
care to encounter them. They might
confiscate his booty if they did not do
any worsc. It would he politic to give
them a wide berth. He might escape
their notice by slipping aside into the
(101139 thicket of scrub—oak and pine.

The hunter had but little time for re.
fiection, however, for the sound now came
nearer and clearer on a little puff of
breeze. That unnamed sixth sense which
men of the woods ofttimcs develop,
warned him that something hostile was
on his track. It was r-vidcntly a heavy
animal, for he could distinctly hear the
snapping and crashing of the, bushes and
branches as it dashcd forward in his
direction,

Dodge forgot his fatigue, and started
down the trail on the run. He. could run
as fast as most men but the pursuer was
gaining rapidly. He should be overtaken
before he could get half way there. The
only way was to use strategy, so he
darted into a thick growth of underwood
that lincd both sides of the trail. The
moon had not yet risen, but he could see
the way by the soft shadowy light hang-
ing like a mist among the tree—tops,
which thinned the darkness. To his dis-
may it also turned and was evidently in
full pursuit.

In a few minutes such a crashing and
smashing of the undergrowth ensued that
Dodge turned his head for a glance be—
hind, endeavoring to ascertain the nature
of his mysterious enemy. Like a flash
of lightning it burst into view—a full-
grown moose with his nose to the ground
on the hunter’s tracks.

There was no time to spare. Some-
thing had enraged the fierce brute, which

   

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was not less than fifteennpacesfroni him.
Instinctively he Jerked his gun 'to his
shoulder. There 'was a spurt of flame,
a belch ,of smoke and a. resounding crash,
but to the hunter’s horror the animal
neither stumbled nor fell but charged
furiously forward with a blood-curdling
bellow and a resistless toss of its tre-
mendous antlers as if it meant to appease
its wrath by the destruction of its foe.
It was a sight never to be forgotten. The
full peril of his situation came over the
hardy hunter, but life is dear and he de-
termined if possible to outwit the infur-
iated moose.

Backward and forward, around and be-
tween trees went Dodge with his power-
ful adversary in full chase. To reload
his gun was impossible, and he realized
that his strength was growing less every
moment. Something must be done and
at once to end this unequal contest. Near
by was a tree with low-down branches.
If he could but reach that before the
moose. It was a desperate venture but
there was no other way. Jumping aside
with all the agility of which he was
capable, the hunter dodged between two
trees—and none too soon, for the en-
raged beast was at his heels. It made
a furious charge at his back, but luckily
for Dodge the spread of its huge ant er-s
proved to be his salvation. One lo ,
keen spike caught for a moment in the
branches of the trees and the hunter
managed to Scramble up into the strag-
gling limbs of the hemlock just in time
to escape the lunge of its heavy body
and the vicious swing of its mighty ant-
lers. It was a close call, for the hot
breath of the angry moose steamed after
him as he drew himself into safety.

For a few moments Dodge lay with his
face against a limb, panting like a dog.
The physical exhaustion and nervous
strain were terrible and, while he was
safe from immediate danger, who could
tell how the affair was to end. He was
trapped and freed, destined to pass the
night, it seemed, in this unpleasant situ-
ation. His dangerous opponent might
stay for hours, or even longer by the
tree. His gun had been dropped in his
flight so he was powerless to help him—

self. The moon had now risen and he
could see distinctly, but the night was
very cold. Stars, which seemed to quiver,

dilate and almost snap, shone in the high
vault which appeared thru the rifts be-
tween the hemlOck branches.

Dodge had a good view of the enraged
moose as it stamped its sharp hoofs and
wrenchéd and twisted the lower branches
off the tree with its antlers. The great
creature presented a picture that was
far from being reassuring, with its short
thick neck, asinine head, protruding eyes,
prehensile lips, heavy broad ears and
tremendous antlers. The coarse thick
mass of hair that covered the top of its
neck was erected into an imposing mane.
Suddenly the keen eye of the hunter de-
tected something that brot cheer to his
heart—a fine trickling of blood down the
foreshoulder of the moose. He had
struck the animal, then, and in time the
loss of blood would weaken the brute.
The obstinate creature stood beneath him
as watchful as’ ever, or tore round and
round the tree, snorting and bellowing
with rage at the escape of the hunter.

Thus half an hour went by and Dodge
wondered how much longer this state of

affairs would continue, for he was now
chilled to the bone. Suddenly the mighty
animal stOpped short, wavered a mo-

ment, then with a deep moan sank down
upon its side. For at least fifteen min-
utes it struggled and kicked, then
straightened out its great limbs and lay
still.

A wave of thankfulness swept over the
hunter as he came down from the tree
and stood looking at the body of the great
creature. “Well, that was a pretty nar-
row cscape,” he ejaculated. “No more
fights with a moose for me if I can help
it.” Cutting its throat, he left the moose
there until morning and was more than
glad to reach the camp after his hair-
brcadth escape, for victory ”has not always
been with the hunter in a fight with a
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The pupil is better than the teacher; but
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is hard. He is unorthodox. He is new,
strange.
artist offers a painting, which treats of
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hard for recognition, for the unknown
is shunned, and instinctively repelled.
It is the tragedy of life to know your
own true worth and at the same time to
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BY MARY L0 WE.

A sweet, calm island set in summer seas,

A radiant sky, from which a cooling
breeze

Rippled soft waves and fluttered thru the
trees; ’

'While' white sand stretched to meet my
raptured eye

And gleamed like silver as our boat drew
nigh;

“A paradise on earth” I gladly cry,

“Oh, leave me here, and come not back
again

Till days shall swiftly glide away, ‘till ten

Shall warn me that my brief vacation’s
o’er

And that I must return to haunts of
men.”

They left me on that island in the seas;

For ten long days I roosted in the trees,

For that white sand was just alive with
fleas!

They pounced upon me as I touched the
shore,

They traveled o’er my body, o’er and o’er,

Around, and cross-wise, till my heart
grew sore.

And there I sat,
the breeze

Sighed a sad requiem o’er the murdered
fleas

With which I strewed the white, the
treacherous sand,

Till the boat’s coming brot me hope and
peace.

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THE PETERS WASHING.

BY HOWARD BANNON.

Augreat rivalry had grown up between
Mrs. Peters and her nearest neighbor,
Mrs. Meekins. For ten years they had
lived in their present locations and there
had been a continuous strife, each 0hr)
trying to outdo the other. If one got a
new dress, the other must have one also.
If one of the women purchased a new
hat, the other one would secure new
headgear at once and it must have, at
least, one more feather or flower than
was upon that of her rival.

But the one great rivalry between the
women was to see which one would be
the first to hang the ram’ly washing upon
the line. Each would watch her neigh-
bor’s back yard with the eye of an eagle,
upon wash day. As may be supposed,
the men folks did not approve of this
rivalry, especially when it came to rising
long before the break of day. To them
Monday was a day of trial. No time for
preparing “breakfast that morning, lest
a few minutes of the precious time be
wasted and the neighbor’s washing be the
first to appear upon the clothes—line.

As the years passed by, the women
kept rising earlier and earlier, until a
time when the washing was usually upon
the line before sunrise. One morning
Mrs. Peters stepped out into the back
yard, carrying her huge baskctful of
clothes. As she placed the basket upon
the ground, she murmured to herself:
“I guess I’m first again. This will make
the eighth time, hand-runnin’. Them
Meekinses always was a slow set."

As she shook the first garment, pre-
paratory to hanging it upon the line, she
glanced over her shoulder toward the
Meekins back yard. To her great aston-
ishment, the Meekins washing was peace-
fully waving in the early morning breeze.

“Fer the land’s sake," she exclaimed
as she made a spiteful attack upon the
damp clothes, “if Miry Meekins ain’t
beat me.”

“You shore got the washin’ out airl'y,
this inornin’,” said Mr. Peters when his
wife returned to the house.

“Yes, but Miry Meekins got her’s out
first,” answered Mrs. Peters.

“VVal, I wouldn‘t mind that,” replied
Mr. Peters. “It don’t matter much any-
how. Mis’ Meekins ain’t beat you fer a
long time."

“She’ll not beat me the next time, tho,”
snapped Mrs. Peters. “I’ll git the water

an’ everything ready the day before, if
it is Sunday. “'c’ll git up an hour car-
Iier, too.”

At this announcement Mr. Peters settled
back in his chair and a melancholy look
overspread his face. He resolved to de-
vise some plan by which this terrible
rivalry between the women could be
stopped. Words were of no avail, for
once upon a time he had dared to remon.
strate against the early rising on each
Monday morning, but his wife had
promptly overruled his objections and the
somi—brmkfastlcss mornings continued.

The next Sabbath day arrived and the
Peters and Meekins families attended
church services as usual. The day was
clear and Mrs. Peters smiled as she thot
of what a fine time Monday morning was
going to be for her to wash. Her thots
were so taken up with the washing that
she scarcely heard the minister’s sermon.
-After returning home from the church,
Mrs. Peters turned her attention to the
wash. It was her invariable rule to have
sufficient articles to till the clothes-line,

  

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several things that were of spotless clean-
liness, yet she must have them or she
would not have enough to fill the line.
She looked upon the pantry shelves to
make sure that she had plenty of soap
and starch. Then the kettle of water was
brot in and placed upon the stove, so
that it would be in readiness.

When Mr- Peters returned from milk-
ing and doing up the chores at the barn,
he found his wife making preparations
to retire.

“What! You ain’t goin’ to bed so soon,
are you?” he asked.

“Yes, I be,” she answered.

“Seems to me as if it’s awful airly
yit,” he replied. “I was caclatin’ on
lookin’ up the preacher’s text’ fore I
went to bed.”

“I wasn’t,” she replied, shortly. “I’m
goin’ to bed so I can git up airly, an’ git
that washin’ out ’fore Miry Meekins gits
her’n out. You’d better go to bed, so’s
you won’t be so sleepy in the mornin’.”

“All right,” Mr. Peters answered with
meekness.

“What are you laughin’ at?” inquired
the woman as she heard a chuckle from’
Mr. Peters, who was locking the door.

“Nothin’ much. I was just thinkin’ oi
somethin',” was the indifferent reply.

“Well, I think you’d better be goin’ to!
bed instead of laughin’ around to your—
self,” she said. “I’m goin’ now!”

Mr. Peters finished looking the doors
and seeing to the window fastenings. He
was standing before the stove looking at
the boiler of water with it’s worldly ap-
pearance, when Mrs. Peters called out:
”What are you potterin’ ’round about,
Hiram. Why don't you come to bed!
Remember that we have to be up airly
in the mornin’.”
“Yes, Hester, I’m comin’
wind the clock,” he answered.

After winding the clock he blew out ihe
light and started toward the bed and,
after falling over a chair, gave vent to
some words that again aroused the wom—
an’s ire.

“Hiram Peters, why don’t you come to
bed? It ain’t right to be usin’ such words
on the Sabbath,” said the aroused woman

“'l‘aint right to break the Sabbath by
makin’ ready to do a washin’ at such an
onreasonable hour, either,” retorted Mr.
Peters.

This served to silence Mrs. Peters and
without any further mishaps Mr. Petersl
retired. He was still softly chuckling tof
himself when Mrs. Peters fell asleep.

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Upon waking, Mrs. Peters was surprised
to find that Hiram was already up and
stirring abOut. This was something no—
usual, as he always insisted on taking
one more nap after the alarm clock had
sounded its warning. It seemed strange-
that the alarm had not awakened her.
The hands pointed to three o’clock and
she must be hustling about,

Hastily dressing herself and after peep-
ing out at the window to assure herself
that no light was gleaming from the win.»
dow of the Meekins domicile. she went to
the kitchen where Hiram had a brisk fire
in the stove. The water was already
steaming hot.

“Up airly enough fer you this time?"
inquired Mr. Peters as she stepped into
the kitchen.

“Yes, but not any too airly,” was the
answer.

It seemed as tho she was much sleepier
than usual this morning but then it was
a little earlier than common. Mr. Peters
was in a. good humor, however, and in-
sisted upon helping, which was something
unusual. He seemed to be interested in
having the washing out on the line as

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Everything went smoothly and in but
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faint sound in the bedroom, she peered
in at the half-Open door and saw Mr.
Peters lying upon the bed, dressed, and
fast asleep. ’

“Hiram!” she again called out.

Mr. Peters stirred slightly but con-
tinued snoring. This aroused her ire and,
advancing to the bed, she seized the
sleeper by the shoulder and shook him.
That served to arouse Mr. Peters and he
sprang to his feet with wide-open eyes.

“I—I just dropped down fer a little
bit,” he stammered.

“I ain’t had any time for sleepin’, and
if you want anything to eat you’d better
clear them tubs an’ things away,” replied
the irate woman.

Mr.,Peters hastened to obey his wife’s
command and soon had the water emptied
and the boiler and tubs stowed away in
the cellar. All the time he was softly
laughing to himself. .

“Hester,” he said as he again returned
to. the kitchen, “don’t you think its awful
airly for breakfast?”

“A little bit,” she answered as she
glanced out at the window to where the
snowy white clothes were glistening in
the moonlight.

“How airly is it, anyway?” inquired the
smiling Mr. Peters.

“thy, just about five o’clock,” replied
his wife as she stepped toward the bed-
room door and looked at the little alarm
clock. “What on earth are you laughin'

Hiram and observed the broad grin that
overspread his face.

“I was just thinkin’ as how the clock
might have got a. bit too fast,” answered
Mr. Peters. “Does seem as if it’s power-
iul airly.”

Just then the big clock in the sitting-
room began slowly striking. They both
stood listening. One. two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
twelve times the bell rang out.
“Hiram! \Vlmt on earth does this

mean?” gasped the astonished woman as
shc sank down in a. chair.

““‘hy—why, Hester,” it means that it‘s
just midnight.” answcrcd Mr. Peters, and
his loud shrieks of laughter awoke the
echoes.

“Good gracious!” exclaimed Mrs. Pet-
ers. “An' here I’ve done my washin’ on
Sunday/'

“I guess you have.” replied Mr. Peters,

“but then you beat Mis‘ Mcckins, all
right. Don't you think we’d better go
to bod ngin?”

Mrs. Peters made no remonstrance.

The light was blown out and quietness
again reigned in the Peters mansion,

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got out of kclter," murmurcd Mr. Peters
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thots affect tho nerves. controlling the
.musclcs. in such a way that for the time
ibcing he is rr-ndcrcd physically unable
to make a loop of the ncccssziry length.
’l‘ht- old proverb has it: “VVcll begun is
half done.” This substitution might be
madc: “chll thot is half done,” and
conversely, “Badly thot is half defeated.”

It: is true that the man who says, “I
can” usually does; it is just as true that
‘he who declares, “I can’t” gcucrolly does
not. Men have sirlw-n for success, while
entertaining and fostcrint,r groundless un-
ticipntions of failure. Almost always
prosperity consisicntly cvndcs such men,
cvcntuully bringing on their ruin. Possi-
mism sympathetically inspires a lack of
cffort and inability; optimism sympatheti-
(ally creates an abundance of effort and
ability.

? A pessimist expects dismal defeat: the
:optimist anticipates brilliant victory.
i’i‘hc former searches for evil and the
dcbasing; the latter, for good and the
1uplifting. Each meets with the confirma—
‘tion of his expectations, and ‘each dis—
covers that for which he searches. Pes-

 

 

at?” she demanded as she turned toward-

   

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sim'lsm renders life miserable and filled
with gloom, whereas optimism makes it
radiant and cheerful. Who would not
prefer to be a brother to the smiling boy,
exuberant with optimism, and with him
sing:
“I like candy by the p0und,
And peanuts by the peck——
When I’m a man I’ll‘buy
Whole dollar’s worth. I spec.”

 

SMILE PROVOKERS.

Kind Lady—“What is your name, little
boy?" Little Boy—“Joshua Shadrach
Lemuel Yotts.” Kind Lady—“Well, well!
Who gave you that name?” Joshua,
Etc—“I dunno yet, but I’m on der trail!"
—Chicago News.

 

 

Jack—We furnished our flat with soap
premiums.

Fred—Good idea, old man. But how in
the world did you ever get enough fur-
niture in that way?

Jack—Oh, that’s easy. We furnished
one room——-the rest of the rooms are full
of soap.

“And you have made Jim Jackson a.
deacon in your church ?”

“332s, sah—dat is, he's a brevet deacon,

 

“And what is a brevet deacon, George?”
“He’s a deacon dat don't handle no
money, sah."

 

An editor received $2 and a cork from
a delinquent subscriber. When they met
again the editor said: “I understand
about the money because that was the
amount you owed, but What does the cork
mean?" The subscriber answered,
“stop’er.”

 

That thcy had progressed fairly on the
way to intimate friendship may be judged
from the fact that Phelim O’Toole thus
suddenly addressed his fellow-emigrant,
Micky Free:

“‘Wus ye ever in prison?” he asked.

“Surc, wancc—and wance only."

“And phwat for, Micky?”

“Just borrowin’ a little money, Phelim.”

“But ye c’udn't be locked up for thot,
man!”

“Indade, but Oi was. and it wuz loike
this: There wuz a mon called Dennis
Doolin, and Dennis had money, and Oi
had none. I just axed him to lind me
the loan av a sovereign, but, bedad, Oi
had to knock him down three times be
fore I cud get it.”

Chinese Government Buys American

Telephones.
An American telephone system, with
American instruments, switchboards,

cable and appliances, is soon to serve the
city of Pekin. The Chinese Empire, tho
absolutely lacking in any such improve-
man up to today, has at last awakened
to the need of a modern system of com—
munication. In the face of the most bit-
ter competition with munufaciurcrs from
all ports of the world. the V’Vcstcrn Elcc-
iric Company, four millions of whose in—
sirumcnis are in use in the United States,
has sccurcd the contract. Before deciding
on so momentous a stop the Chinese gov-
crnmcnt sent officials to this country, in-
vestigated, deliberated and delayed. The
two switchbourds sold by the Western
Electric Company to the Government are
the first common battery boards in the
cntirc Empire, yet China has an estimat-
cd population of over 400,000,000. Our
own country, with a population but onc-
fifih as large, has zibout six and it half
million telephones and morc than 1,000
telephone exchanges lorgcr lhun tho two
intended for Pckin, bcsidcs fully 15,000
smaller switch-boards insiallcd in the
smaller cities and towns. This gives
some idea of the magnitude of the field
still to be opened in the far East. Learn-
ing of the specifications for the proposed
l’cltin exchanges. ihc \Vcstern Electric
Company sour o spccizil cmissory to
China. So did Siemens & I’lzllsko, the
grout German conccrn; so did the Erics-
son interests. It was another internu—
tionol invasion of China. The prize was
wcll worth striving for,“involviug for thc.
successful company a foothold in a field
entirely undeveloped and bromising wou-
dcrful things in the future. Last fall Mr.
F. H. Drcsing, foreign advisor to the
Board of Communications, and Mr, Wu,
secretary to the board. while on an Amer—
ican tour, visited the \Vcstcrn E‘lcciric
Company, and modc known the intcntion
of the Chinese govcrnmcnt to develop the
use of the tclcphonc in the Empire.
ncsc commissioncrs visitcd this country.
inspcctcd ihc lolopllono plants of the large
tolcphone mnnufacturcrs and made rccom—
mcndations io ihcir gm'crnment which
rcsultod in the placing of the Pckin order
with the VVcsicrn Electric Company. The
American invasion of Pckin recalls the
similar exploit of this company in Paris
last fall. When thc Guitcnborg exchange
handling the service of the. business sec-
tion of the French capital, was burned
down. European makers hesitated about
supplying a new Switchboard because of
the time, limit imposed by the govern-
ment. It was a tremendous task. but the
American company stepped into
breach and “delivered the goods.” The
board was made at Hawthorne, just out-
side of Chicago, shipped across the coun—
try, conveyed to France and accepted, all
within sixty days. It was an object les-
son for foreign makers.

 

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to-day.

 

 

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Here is a beautiful watch fob now
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HINTS TO HUNTERS—641m” booklet, giv-
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OCTOBER 9,. 1909'; 7
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“AAAAAAALAAAALA"A AAA!

Address all correspondence relative to
the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. W.
L. Cheney, Mason, Mich.

.Assoclatlonal Motto. , , ,
The skillful hand, with cultured mind,

is the farmer’s most valuable asset.

‘Assoclatlonal Sentlment.—
The farmer; he garners from the soil
the primal wealth of nations.

SEPTEMBER.

 

Paper read by Mrs. Eugene Bagg at
the .September meeting of the Summit
Farmers’ Club:

“Oh, sweet September! Thy first breezes
b i‘ .

r n

The leaf’s rustle and the squirrel's
laughter u H

And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.

The air is still, calm prevails, the
summer storms are over. The sun shines
with mild radiance on the hills where only
a few weeks ago men and horses swelt-
ered in the successful effort to glean one
of the most bountiful harvests of recent
years. The harvest is over, the fields
stand waiting to be made ready for the
seeding which shall soon come for we are
promised by the kind giver of all things,
"A seed- time and a harvest.”

Truly, as we enjoy the almost Sabbath
stillness, broken only by the chirp of the
cricket and our other insect friends; as
we look at the woods, not yet decked
in their autumn glory, but still wearing
their summer green, we think how very
good God has been to us in this bountiful
land of the free, and We feel that our
lives should be in accord with His plans
for us, and we should wall: in the paths
of peace.

“The autumn gives us melons.
The peach, the pear, the plum;
Oh, from the fields and orchards

A host of good things come.”
An Autumn Scene.—Sonmt.

The golden rod and aster, and all the
yellow marsh flowers spread before us
their flaring beauty as we ride along the
road. Our own home flowers still glow
with beauty, which ere long will be
dimmed by the rough attention of Jack
Frost as he comes to visit us once more.
Then will autumn’s splendid array of col—
ors shine 'before our delighted eyes. Soon
also, will be heard the crack of the hunt-
er’s piece as he shoots our quail and so
robs us of one of our best friend's. His
advent makes us realize that the last
quarter of the busy year is at hand and
cold winter approaches us with its own
peculiar pleasures and pains.

Now again the school bell rings and
the children again meet after the long
vacation to gain new knowledge and to
develop their own ability from which
they expect so much. in the lives of
these children is the welfare or fate of
our nation. May it be safe with them!

As from the fingers of a. sleeping child
The loosened toys so gently slip and fall,
He has no knowledge of their loss at all,
So by the thickets with song gushes wild
Reclines the peaceful autumn, reconcxled
To early loss; for fairer dreams forestall
The goldcnrod and milkwecd's airy ball;
The for off brooding splendor of the mild
And sober afternoon. On southern walks
The grapes begin to purple; the peaches
turn
ln blushing beauty to the light that falls
Subdividcd and soft; the drowsy crickets
lcurn
A song of sorrow. and the partridge calls
In sadder strains as sunsets fainter burn.

 

CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

 

A Profitable Question Box—The ques-
tion box in charge of T. E. Lemon, brot
out some interesting thots. “Would a
quarterly meeting of the County Associa-
tion of Farmers’ Clubs be worth While?"
C. A. VVhelan—“Do not think it would.”
B. Muttoon—“Do not think we arc get-

ting as much good out of our clubs as
we might and the matter of quarterly

meetings is under consideration.” “What
is the outlook for lamb feeding the com-
ing winter?” J. C. Curruthers—“Ruther
risky. Lambs and feed stuffs are too
high.” “W'ill it benefit corn that has
been frosted to let it_sta.~nd?” E. Hois‘
ington—“Think not. It should be cut at

once.” “How much wheat would you
sow pcr acre?” B. W. Mattoon—“Two
bushels on ordinary ground. On poor
ground, more; (in very rich soil, less.”

“Can a. farmer on 80 acres afford to own
a, manure spreader?” A. Strand)—
“Could not say but think they are be-
coming a very necessary part of the farm
machinery, but a farmer should have two
or exchange with his neighbor.”

The Farmer as a Cltlzen.—-The Perry-
iBennington Farmers’ Club met at the
I home of Mr. and Mrs E. A. Rurk‘hart,
Friday, Sept. 3, after a vacation of two

 
    

   

months.’ , Many of the members .were
usy» harves, their beans and others
ing so‘ t ere were but a few in
attendance. Pres. ‘ absent
vice-president E. Burkhart acted as chair-
man. Club opened by singing, followed
by prayer by Rev. A. J. Martin. An ex-
cellent paper was given by Rev. A. J.
Martin, “The Farmer as a Citizen.” A
citizen denotes anyone that can vote. No
society can live without a government.
A farmer has no more rights than anyone
else but has a. right in helping make laws
to protect our own property and person
and also in defending law:; that protect
our neighbors. A citizen ought to recog-
nize the laws and live up to them and
see that laws are enforced. One should
vote for whatever is best for a commu-
nity. In the discuSSlon M. D. Grout stat-
ed that anyone living in a civilized coun-
try will have personal liberties taken
from them. If we had all the personal
liberties we wanted we would have to
revert to barbarism,

Fear Effect of Oleo._—‘-‘Dairying as a
future industry,” was given to Mr. Beck—
ley and he being absent, Mr. Burkhart
called on different ones. Mr. Winegar
said that one great cloud in the dalry bus-
iness was the selling of oleomargarme
as butter. Mrs. Martin thot petitions
sent to congress would have an influence
'in prohibiting the sale of this oleo. The
question box was conducted by Mrs._ A.
J. Martin. “Do Women approve of dairy-
ing generally?” Mrs. Winegar said when
they had to wash the separator tiwce a
day they didn’t but when they got the
check tiwce a month they did.

The Farmer’s Work.—“What a Farm-
er’s work may Teach Him,” was the sub-
ject assigned to Mr. Chas. Lawrence.
at a recent meeting of the Howell Club.
He said while riding thru the country he
observed that one farmer might have his
farm in good condition and the one across
the road might be all run down.

Go West, Young Mam—“What do you
think of a. young man going west?” was
rendered in a very pleasing manner by
Mrs. Chas. Chandlcr. She described the
condition very nicely. saying that they
needed the staying qualities in order to
make a success of it and also she said
there were now about five bachelors to
every woman out thcrc. She thot if a
young man could go out there with the
intention of sticking it thru, making up
his mind to live in a 10x12 Shack with a
little table up to the side of the wall and
soap boxes for chairs and dried fruit for
luxuries, he might possibly make a stay
of it, but as a general thing they come
back thinking Michigan good enough for
any one. C. Case was also called upon
as he spcnt a year in the west and he
said he never was so homesick in his life
and that old Michigan is good enough
for him. Ile thinks, take it all around,
that Michigan is the best state in the
union.

Will Hold Club Fain—The September
meeting of the Spring Arbor Farmers
club was held at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Anthony Carter. Quite a goodly
number were in attendance after the, long
summer vacation and a thoroly good time
was enjoyed by all. No forenoon session
was held. After the dinner had been
served and a good visit enjoyed the club
was called to order by J. A. French. The
meeting was opened with singing by the
club, “Bringing in the Sheaves,” followed
by prayer by Mrs. E. A. Harrington. The
minutes of the last meeting had to be
omitted as the secretary was absent. A
motion was made, and carried that the
club hold a fair in connection with their
next meeting, and a committee of six was
appointed by the president to take charge
of the exhibits on that day. The follow-
ing short program was then carried out,
as quite a number that were on to take
part were absent. Mrs. A. Carter favored
with a reading on the “Best education
for our girls,” followed by “Curent
Events,” by John W. Dart. The question
for discussion, “My mistakes in farming
this spring,” was fairly well discussed,
but quite a number could not think or
any they had made. After the discussion
of a few questions that were asked in
the question box the club adjourned to
meet at the town hall the first Saturday
in October. The program for the after-
noon will consist of music and recitations
and an address by the Hon. Chas. E.
Townsend. All are cordially invited and
a good time is expectedwClub Reporter.

The Care of the Kitchen Drain—At
the September meeting of North Owosso
Club, with Mr. and Mrs. S. Henderson,
there was nearly a full roll with a num-
ber of guests present. “On the care of
the kitchen sinks and drains,” Mrs. Laura
Partridge gave the following practical
idcas about the most careless thing it
rural housewife can do in the kitchen is
to neglect the sink. Continual usage,
with forcthot and a little determination
will save many hours of work and labor.
(‘lcanlinoss is very important. See that
your sink is clean as well as your dishes.
A brush with a. handle that costs four
cents is just the thing to clean with. Do
not empty dirty dishwater, neither the
greasy water from fryingpans, nor any
water containing food into the sink.
Farmers are supposed to keep pigs and
the swill pail Is _as handy as the sink.
Water that beans are parboiled in should
bc,cmptied on the ground. A teakettle
of boiling water used twice a week with
the suds from the boiler on wash day will
help keep the sink in a sanitary condi-

tion. then there is chloride of lime and
(‘opperas all cheap and good for such
purposes. The building and construction

of a good drain is one of the jobs, the
men folks say they will do when they
have time. They seem to think when the
drain pipe from the sink is just thru the
house that will. suflce. In many homes
you may observe just two boards nailed
together for the drain. so it lies with the
women folks to give their strict attention,
as stagnant water will be the result. ' By
moving so~called drain from right to left
occasionally will overcome some bad ef-
fects. Air slacked lime is invaluable in
this connection and will help to purify the
earth, scatter it freely on the wet places.

 

HE? MICHIGAN FARMER

 

LERANGE ' i

Our. Motto——-“The Farmer is of more
consequence than the farm, and should be
first improved."

 

 

 

 

THE OCTOBER PROGRAMS.

State Lecturer’s Suggestions for First
Meetlng.

”When I have been asked, “What is the
most striking characteristic of people in
Michigan?” I have aiways said, “It is
their passion for education."~—Ex-Presi-
dent J. ,B. Angell.

Song (some well known school

Reminiscenccs of school days,
men and two women.

Conditions in our local schools.~—
(Report of committee appointed to visit
our schools, or other actual school pat—
rons).

School
1909.

School question box, in charge of the
“'oman’s Work Committee.

Paper, or talk, “My visit to the Agri-
cultural College."

Song, “America.”

Suggestions for Second Meeting.

If one pulls up a weed, he must quickly
fill the hole with some other plant, or
nature will tuck another weed into it.~
L H. Bailey.

Fruit Growing—1.
cation and climate.

A funny story and select readings, by
one or more young men.

song).
by two

Legislation in the session of

General outlook, lo—

Instrumental music, by Grange or-
chestra.
Cookery—~1. Hints on why and how to

work.
Humorous reading,

“An Old Recipe,”
by a young matron.

13011 call, responded to by answering,
“Where have I been? What have I
seen?”

 

HIGHER IDEALS.

 

Paper read before Western,
Co.) Pomona Grange by Mrs.
Dunning.

From infancy We are constantly form«
ing idcals. How important it is then that
HWY Should be somctlling noblc, some-
thing worthy of following. What beau-
tiful visions fancy pictures to us as we
toil on toward the idcal we have formed;
Jul when we reach the longwl for goal,
how often we find that the ideal of yes-
terday is not the ideal of today. Beyond
that which we have reached we have
been unmmsciously building another far
surpassing in bcuuly and grandeur the
one we pictured long ago.

Think you, if our brother could have
the idcal form so perfect in his imagina—
tion he would stop there? Do you think
he would say. “l have rcallzed my idcul,
I have rcuclwd pvrfccliou and
tented?” 1 do not think he Would. I
believe the life he must live to obtain
his first idcul would teach him of greater
things. and tho surrounded by wealth and
beauty, he would still be looking forward
toward a new und higher idcul which had
gradually unfolded to him as he pursued
the first.

The ideal home in imagination, so beau-
tiful, so peaceful, so restful, don't you
think if it were ours there would be some-
thing lacking? I doubt if we could stop
ihcrc, Before us would be somotlling
higher to rem-h, a new ideal, formed as
we advanced with the world.

And is it not right that it should be
thus? Is not the forming or m-w and
higher ideals and striving to attain them
the world‘s ii'uc progression? Thc top
of the ladder is not reached by a single
bound; it is I10 who climbs slop by step,
ulwzlys looking for Sillhl'lIlIllg‘ better, :11—
ways with :1 higher aim in Vli'W, who wins
out at lust.

And again one there different ways of
working toward an ideal. I do not like
the life that lukcs a high aim and then
works blindly towurd il, sowing Nothing.
caring for nothing, loving nothing but
the bountiful shining idcal it has set itself
10 Win. Stu-ll u lifc is too narrow. How
much it has lost; how many kind acts
undone; how many loving words unsuid:
how many blossmns by the wayside passed
unhccdcd only those who have stopped to
gather them could tell. And if at lust
that ideal. is reached, it is only to find
there is still something grander beyoud.

Take, for instance, a woman whose
ideal is 21 home of pcrfcct ucuincss; who
is miserable if the children lcuve a play-
lhiug out of order, or the husband chance
to leave a muddy foot-print on the im—
maculate floor; who shuts herself within
the four Walls of home .1an toils. blindly
on, her form bowed and her voice grow—
ing sharper with constant toil and fret-
ting lost a particle of dust shall shatter
hcr idcal. Her husband and children
soon learn to find their pleasures away
from home, and she is left in her per-
fectly ordered home, her solace that the
people say, “What an excellent housekeep-

(Ottawa
Charles

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er Mrs. So-andrSo is. There is not a par-

ticle of dirt to be found near her?” And
is she happy? She has attained her ideal.
But would it not be far better if, when
the star of life was setting, she could
look backward and say, “I have never
reached my ideal, I have been too. busy.
1 have paused so often for the sake of
my husband, children and friends, there
was no time left to keep my house as I
wished.”

Then‘there is the man whose ideal is
wealth, who toils blindly on, denying him-
self and family the pleasures and some-
times the necessities of life, hoarding
and saving for the bright day so far
ahead, when, the goal reached, they shall
enjoy the rest of life. You have all seen
such lives. You know that when they are
ready to live the loved ones are scattered,
their health is ruincd and life is to them
a disappointment.

The true ideal of life is the life so lived
that every day is an ideal. God has en-
dowed us with'a nature that requires
some aim in life to perfect it, and whether
of high station or low, we all form ideals
and day by day struggle toward them;
and in this struggle we are forming our
character, are writing our lives. HOW
necessary then that we should pause to
consider all the little things that make
up a life. How many there are who drop
from the ranks before they have even
caught a glimpse of the beautiful ideal
fancy had painted.

Then let us tcuch ourselves and our
children to leave no kind act undone;
no kind word unsaid in our everyday life,
yet, always to be pressing forward form-
ing new and highcr ideals as we advance
step by step and striving that at last,
amid a golden sunsci. we may reach the
highest ideal of all, rm ideal heaven.

AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.

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ului' with the mombcrs of Liberty Grange,
of Crutiot Co. \VIlt‘ll at the regular
mccting on Sept. 4 it was found that the
time limit on their library was nearing
expiration it was voted that the library
be returned and a new one ordered.

A Harvest Social will be enjoyed by
members of Coopersvillc Grange, Ottawa.
(‘11.. Saturduy evening. Oct, 9. The pro-
gram is a light one and thoroly appropri—
ate to the occasion.

Annual Plowing Match.——Marion Center
Grange. of Churlovoix (’70.. will hold, dur-
ing October. the plowing match which has
luw-omc a popular aulmul feature with this
Grange. This Grunge is steadily increas«
ing its membership. Like the other
(‘lrungcs of this leading Grange county,
its members arc at present diligently col—
lm-liug fruit and other products for ex-
hibition at State Grunge. .

Grand Marais Grange.—A Grange was
instituted at Grand Murals, Alger C0.,
Thursday evening, Sept 2.3, by Deputy
John W'ilde, with the following officers:
Master, John Peterson; overseer, Isaac
Smith; lecturer, Kutc (*oosh; steward,
.Iumcs l\'Ic.-'\llislcr; asst stcward, James
Itudcliff; lady ass'l sic-ward, Florence
llzulclil'l“: clmpluiu. Anna Smith; treasurer,
(Thus. Propsl; secretary. Frank Borehm;
gulc kccpcr, John Monllii; Cores. Mary
[fix-'«lril-ltsoii: Pomona. Mrs. J. McAllister;
Flora. lilmclia Peterson .

The Marketing Problem.——At its next
meeting Grand Traverse Grunge will not
only discuss the various methods of sort-
ing and packing fruit but will consider
the fcusibility of forming an association
for the purpose of nun'kcliug its mom—
b-crs' fruit, tlicrt‘by doing away with the
middlemun. Such :Issociutions have
worked lo the chlirc satisl‘ucliou of grow-
ers in many scwlimm of the, country and
it is presumed llmt one \vould bcncfit this
rapidly advum‘ing fruit SH'IlHn. 011 :1C-
(‘ouul of tho grout int-rouse in acrcuge
this year and what is planned for the
coming spring, the time is considered ripe
by many for launching such an enter-
prise, and the consensus of opinion of the
members on this important matter will
be of general interest,

COMING EVENTS.

 

 

Pomona Meetings.

Faith, (Schoolcraft Co), at Munistique,
Saturday, Oct. S).

Western (Ottawa (‘0) with Georgetown
Grunge, Friday, Oct, 32.

Iszllmllzl (‘o.. with I‘IIIIOI'IILIH Grunge, at
Rom-bush, 'l‘ucsduv, Oct. [3. County cou~
vcmion will occur with this meeting,

Lancer (‘o., with May-field Grange, ur
Lapccr, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29 and
5-H). Saturday's session will be “Young
People‘s Pomona.”

Kent ("on
day, Oct, 37.
speaker.

with. Paris Grange, VVedncs-
MISS Ida Chittenden, state

_ Grange Fairs.
Sumner Grange. Gratiot (30., Thursday
afternoon, Oct. 21.

 

BOOK NOTICES.

Dumas. Le Comtc do Monte Cristo.
Edited by C. Fontuinc, B. cs l'... L. on D.,
(Th-airman of French Department, High
School of Commerce, New York. In or-
der to avoid the excessive length of Du-
mas’ famous romance in the original
form, this edition gives in an English
resume the plot of the introductory por—
tion of the story, leading up to the im-
prisonment of Dante-s. and omits the lat—
ter portion, dealing with his vengeance,
as unsuited to class reading. Cloth. lfimo,
208 pages, with notes and vocabulary.
Price, 40 cents. American Book Com-
pany; Chicago.

  


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