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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31
POULTRY
CONSUL TING DEPARTMENT

Continued from Last Week.
in the shortest possible time. If we
liken the ovary to a cupboard we I'M
derstand the matter more readily. In
that cupboard are so many yolks or
ova and it is up to the owner to get
them out. Nature has placed in that
cupboard sufficient eggs from which
the laying hen can draw for nutri-
ment if she does not get sufficient
food of the right kind. That is why
the feeding of layers is so important.
Let us take the case of a prolific hen
that has turned out $50 eggs in her
pullet year: This bird has been the
best layer bred for that season and
the others similarly bred have aver
aged say $50 eggs. If we bought a
cockerel whose dam laid 800 eggs in
her pullet year and mated him to our
2S0-egg hen, we could not guarantee
that the progeny would lay under 800
eggs each and over $50. The infer
ence is that we do not add to the cup
board or ovary by breeding but mere
ly take more eggs from the cupboard
during the twelve months and see
that as few eggs as possible are de-
voured inwardly. These abnormal
layers provide us with good breeding
cockerels but we cannot do the sum
in figures. By this / mean that we
cannot the first year start with a
flock Of layers averaging 100 eggs
per annum and mate them to a 150-
egg cockerel to obtain a flock average
of 125 eggs from the progeny and in
the second year mate these 125-egg
progeny to a 200-egg cockerel and
breed from them progeny to average
1891 eggs per annum, and so on.
We must increase our flock averages
gradually by breeding and feeding,
so that we work into each lot Of pro-
geny bred the ability to lay as many
eggs as possible in twelve months and
devour as few as possible.
Why is it that the laying hen turns
out eggs without any trouble in the
summer? Is it not because she has
no need to draw on her reserve sup
ply of eggs in that cupboard? She
can get all the food she needs and so
produces instead of inwardly devour-
ing the eggs. | liken the hen to a
fire which needs a constant supply
of coal to keep it going; if the fire
gets low the chances are it will go
out. So that in the winter the hen
deprived of natural food calls for an
extra amount of heat-producing ele-
ment to keep up her energy. If she
does not get that "little extra" she
will devour instead of produce eggs
AS an instance l quote the case OF
the Leghorn. Time was when poul-
try-keepers this side Of the Pond
turned up their noses at the non-sit-
ting breeds for winter egg-production
They invariably kept heavy or sit
| ting breed and a non-sitting variety
the former to lay the winter eggs
and the latter to fill the egg-baskets
in the summer. All the experts fell
into the same trap and recommend
ed the keeping Of two breeds-heavy
and light. 1t was not till the laying
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31
Agricultural Department
Conducted by C. w. PeRett- Agricultural Teacher
in Bedding High School

Question. | can grow clover any
place on my farm. Will | need to in
oculate to grow alfalfa. j. B. c.
Answer. The success of your al
falfa depends upon the number of
nodules developed on the young
roots. In order to be sure that the
bacteria, which form these nodules,
are present it is necessary to inocul-
ate. The cost is small and pure cul-
ture may be obtained by writing Bac-
teriology Department, Michigan Ag-
riculture College, East Lansing.
Why Should We Grow More Barley
In these days of increasing land
and labor values it becomes neces-
sary to grow such crops as will give
the greatest returns per acre with
the least amount of labor. AS a solu-
ton of this problem we see, nearly
everywhere, alfalfa taking the place
of other hay crops because it will
yield four to six tons of hay TO the
acre each year while other hay crops
yield only one and one-half to two
tons. Silage also produces an enor-
nous amount of feed to the acre and
is rapidly taking the place of corn
stalks and grain feed.
When we get to the grain crops
we find that few changes have been
made except possibly in some cases
to get better seed.
The barley crop attracts our atten-
ton as a grain which may be profit
ably grown in nearly any locality. 1t
is, however, seldom grown in this To-
cality and very little interest seems
to be shown in crop so valuable for
feeding purposes. Barley is small
grain crop very similar to oats and
these two crops generally yield about
the same number of bushels per acre.
Barley, however, yields forty-eight
pounds to the bushel, while oats
weigh only thirty-two pounds. So on
a forty-bushel yield we would have
$50 pounds more feed to the acre
from barley and this one item is suf-
ficient to attract the notice and con-
sideration of every crop grower.
The next thing we want to know is
whether this large weight Of grain
has a good feeding value. To anyone
who has fed barley this point needs
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31

no explanation and to others we need
only to call attention to the fact that
the grand champion fat steer at the
recent Fat Stock show in Chicago,
was grown and fattened on ration
consisting largely of barley. This
steer weighed 1,130 pounds at the
age of fourteen months and was
brought to show condition without
any corn in his ration.
Probably the greatest use we might
have for barley is for feeding pigs.
For such use barley should be
ground and the best results are OBJ
tanned if fed with ground oats or
middlings as the barley alone does not
make balanced ration. A good way
to feed this ground mixture is to let
it soak in water for twelve hours and
then feed it as slop feed.
Barley produces not only large
gains, but the quality of the pork is
good. In Great Britain and North
ern Europe barley leads all grains in
producing pork of fine quality both
as to hardness and flavor.
Barley is higher in protein than
corn and as protein is the muscle
building food we can readily see that
barley would rank high as food for
growing animals. The carbohydrates
in barley are little less than in corn
but more than in oats and the feeding
value is about the same per acre as
the grain from corn. OF course we
cannot grow corn on the same field
year after year and barley fits into
the rotation as well as any of the
small grain crops. Barley makes an
excellent nurse crop, being better
than oats because it takes less mois-
ture from the soil. Hooded or beard
less barley may be used as hay if cut
in the milk stage.
A particular value of barley to
Michigan farmers is because of it's
early maturity. 1t may be used to
fatten hogs early in the fall so they
can be marketed before the corn fat
tened hogs of the corn belt flood the
market and cut down the price.
Considering all the good points of
barley, it seems that as a feeding
crop it should occupy place in this
locality on every farm where live
stock feeding is of any Importance.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31
Housewife Gets Moneys
Worth

Time was when the housewife
practiced loose methods in purchas-
ing her foodstuffs.
But not in this age of the high cost
of living. Today she practices bust
ness methods, and she makes it a
point to get her moneys worth.
In her selection Of foodstuffs she
deyotes much thought. She studies
the food market and familiarizes
herself with the different brands OF
foods.
When she strikes the right article
she sticks to it. She wants the best
at the lowest cost and she gets it If
she follows the right methods Of sell
ection.
The housewife should give careful
consideration to the baking powder,
tea, coffee, flour and other similar
foods if she is to get full value for
her money. t4t
There is always one best brand in
every line, and it is the housewives
duty to find that brand.
Some women prefer one kind OF
Baking Powder while other women
demand a different kind. There is
one Baking Powder that has been on
the market for years--Calumet-
which apparently from its steady
sales and increased popularity, hits
the happy medium and pleases every
housewife no matter what her de-
mands.
In purchasing foods be sure that
you practice caution and you'll get
the Advertisement.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31
CONTINUED from Last Week.

iIOfn LdSL Weekl
short bridge. The great trouble with
most OF the defective bridges has not
been in the girders and beams but in
the abuttments. A bridge built on
sand is even less secure than the
house built on sand which has come
down to US as typical of useless struc-
lures. In the construction of the
abuttments of little road bridges pro-
vision must be made for secure foun-
datlons down below any danger of
undermining by floods, and the fresh
cts OF the coming spring will show
whether or not this rule has been OBJ
served In their construction.
All these things are noted here be-
cause the spring conditions show to
the intelligent farmer where road
conditions can be bettered at little
expense He can read the lesson
easily If he has a little help at the
start. Fortunately, he can obtain
That help by the use of two postal
cards. In most states the state
highway department has prepared
bulletins explaining the essentials of
earth road construction and mainten-
ance, and these bulletins will be sent
to any farmer upon application. One
postal card will secure them. The
office of Public Roads and Rural En-
gineering at Washington also has
pamphlets on these subjects for free
distribution. Another postal card
addressed to Logan Waller Page. dir
ector OF that Office, at Washington,
will secure them. Two postal cards,
couple of evenings of reading, in.
telligent observation of the lanes of
mud which are seen in most parts of
the country, and then intelligent, CO.
operative action, will accomplish
wonders. All that is needed to starr
the reform is realization that the
annual mud-bound conditions are
largely avoidable by inexpensive, in
diligently directed work.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31
Shelter the Brood Sow

Extremes of cold and heat injure
hogs more than any other class of
domestic animals, and it is especially
necessary to furnish good shelter for
the brood sow. The shelter may be
good without being expensive, but it
should be warm and ventilated, dry
and so arranged that as much sun
, shine as possible may get in to keep
it dry and healthy. Sunshine is a
great germ killer, but should be aided
by lime sprinkled where it will help
control cholera and other diseases.
Don't cut off the returns from the
mortgage raiser by supplying wet
floors, filth, and dark quarters. In
dividual hog cots and houses serve a
good purpose at narrowing time.
Sugar-Beet Seed
Sugar-beet seed was grown COM
mercially in this county during the
past year in several States from
Michigan to California. The crop of
seed harvested in 1915 was so salts
factory, according to the report of
the Chief of the Bureau of Plant In
dustry of the department, in each of
the areas tested that largely in
creased acreage was planted this
year.
This bureau has assisted in an adj
visory way in growing, selecting, and
SLIDING the roots, planting them in
the spring, harvesting and cleaning
the seed, and, in general, endeavored
!, to produce the largest amount of
commercial seed possible at a mimi
mum cost. Approximately 5000 acres
are in beet seed in this country this
year, while we require the product of
at least 10000 acres for normal
planting, not considering the natural
expansion of the beet-sugar industry
Each new mill will require an aver
age of 200 acres in seed TO meet its
planting requirements. Seven new
mills are in process of construction
for this year.
The problem of drying the sugar
beets for the purpose of increasing
the amount of raw material for the
mill and thereby increasing the
length of the sugar campaign has
been further investigated. The prin-
cipal difficulty has been in finding or
devising a dryer of suitable capacity
to handle enough beets per day to be
profitable. A satisfactory solution of
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31
F A r. M A N d
O r G. III A r d


the problem will be very beneficial
in those small valleys in the inter-
mountain states, where the acreage
is not sufficient to support a sugar
mill and yet the sugar beet is neces-
sary to the highest results in the
farming operations.
Butter HOnOrs
Premier honors for butter were won
at the last National Dairy Show,
Springfield, Mass, by the creamery
at Grove City, Pa, operated under
the supervision and direction Of the
Dairy Division of the Bureau of Ami
NAL Industry.
Twenty-seven States and the DOM
inion of Canada were represented in
the Isl samples entered. All the en-
tries were of high quality, but in the
opinion of the judge the 10-pound tub
from Grove City was the best, with
a score of 90. The award is the more
interesting because the creamery had
been in operation only little more
than a year.
Only fresh, sweet cream and whole
milk of good flavor are accepted by
the creamery and are carefully handl-
ed under sanitary conditions. All
cream is pasteurized and then ripened
with lactic-acid cultures. The high
quality of the product may rightly
be attributed to a good raw product
and proper methods of manufacture.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31

Annie had been to see the new
baby at Willie Browns house. Her
mother found her feeding her best
doll to the flames in the kitchen
stove.
Goodness, child" she cried. What
are you doing?"
"This kind amt no good" replied
Annie wrathfully. II want a really,
truly, meat baby" Grit.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31
Cement Proves to Be Only Durable
Road

We, are learning a good deal about
good. roads" these days, and that
some highways, built at large expense
and sanctioned by state authority as
good roads" do not deserve that IT,
tie in very short time after their
construction. The trouble seems to
be that such roads will not stand up
under the hard pounding and strong
suction of high speed automobiles.
Even crushed stone roads and
screened gravel roads, built on the
most approved principles of road
making go to pieces, and require fire.
quent and expensive repairs, where
the traffic is very heavy. This has
been shown on some of the crushed
stone roads in eastern Michigan.
where hundreds of motor cars pass
over them every day.
One kind of road only has been
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31
Good Roads Department
Conducted Especially for the Banner by Hon. P.
+. Colgrove, President of the Michigan
Good Roads Association.

equal to the stress and strain of hun
dreds and in some days thousands, of
autos moving swiftly over them, and
that is the cement road made of good
thickness, with a comparatively thick
top of rich mixture of cement and
fine sand. The first cost of such a
roadway is heavy, but the expense Of
upkeep is very light, so that on the
main travelled roads, where they can
be afforded, it is economy to build
that kind.
We note that the Kent county road
commissioners, at a recent meeting,
voted unanimously to make the few
main highways Of the county cement
roads, because experience had shown
that only such roads would stand up
under heavy automobile traffic.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31

contests proved over and over again
that the non-sitters could even beat
the sitting breed at winter-laying,
that poultry producers began to sit
down and think. Here was the White
Leghorn beating all corners copetition
after competition and people asking
'"Are non-sitters then winter layers 2"
Before, when the experts were against
non-sitting breeds as winter egg-pro-
ducers, people took their word and
did not trouble to feed and house
their non-sitting birds on egg-produc-
ing lines. They fed up their heavy
birds for the winter eggs and allow
ed the light breeds to lay in the
springs. Things have now changed
and the non-sitter, if well protected
in the winter, and properly fed, is
quite equal as a layer to the sitter.
/ have always been Of the opinion
that non-sitters were at a disadvan-
tage as regards winter laying in that
they could not carry so much flesh
as the sitting breeds and they soon
lost heir energy. The heavy birds
were able to weather the winds and
storms whilst the Light ones were
beaten unless they received an extra
supply of "fuel" foods. The non-sit-
tiers were therefore devouring instead
Of producing eggs in the winter.
1t is then a costly arrangement to
let the layer draw on her cupboard of
yolks in the winter and a substitute
must be found. Fat produces fuel
and energy, and If hen is to be a
satisfactory winter layer she should
possess in her body at the start of,
and right through her winter egg
season, nice layer or membrance of
fat. She will then be able to draw
from this store instead of going to
the egg-cupboard or ovary.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31
Out of the Mouths of Babes

While out walking with her papa
and mama one day, Florence, aged
four, ran some little distance ahead
As she got near mule hitched to a
farmers wagon the animal began to
bray. She wheeled instantly, and
running to her mother as fast as
she could go, said in round-eyed as
constituent, ooh, mamma sumfin said
sumfn. "-Deliineator.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31

Dottie Jagged six)-But you have
only one dolly. l have seven.
Tottie Jagged eight)-Well, none of
our people ever have large families,
anyway.-Boston Transcript.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31
Marriage Licenses

Owen H. Sickle, 80, Campbell
township; Lena M. Smoker, 25,
Freeport.
James Gilchrist, 35, Ionia; Bertha
E. Stevens, 80, Ionia.
Romeo Glossi, 81, Ionia; Pansy NJ.
Joslin, IS, Ionia.
John ODonnell, 81, Belding; Mar
tina w. Fischer, 18, Belding.
Joseph G. Hicks, 81, Mapleton, Pa. !;
Ada Smell, So, Ionia.
John A. Hoffman, %, Ionia; Emma
M. Ransime, 81, Grand Ledge.
Harry Hallock, "a, Ionia; Luana
Bauman, "a, Montcalm county.
Laban A. Smith, 10, Portland; Her
meme Hamilton, Is, Portland.
Most of the worlds heroes dwell
between the covers Of novels.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31
BeIding Market
Quotations

Corrected Tuesday, Jan. 30, 1910
There is a decided raise in the of
practically everything on the list
Meats, poultry, grain and feeds are
all up several cents with the single
exception of wheat, which has taken
a slight drop.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-31

Don't fret over the past, or brood
over the future, but seize the present
and make the most of it.
The Redwood gazette., 1917-04-04

Stevenson.
II. Lorna Doone-R. D.
Blackmore.
II. Luck of Roaring Camp
Bret Harte.
13. Ordeal Of Richard Fever
er-George Merderith.
IA. Pilgrims Progress-John
Bunyan.
Is. Pride and Prejudice-Jane
Austen.
16. Robinson Crusco-Daniel
Defoe.
II. Romola-George Eliot.
18. Tale of Two Cities-Chas.
Dickens.
10. The. Cloister and the
Hearth-Charles Reade.
20. Vanity. Fair-William M.
Thackery.
Fl. Vicar of Wakefield-Oli-
yer Goldsmith.
%. Last of the Mohicans-J
Fenimore Cooper.
%. Scarlet Letter-Nathan-
iel Hawthorne.
"a. The Pilot. F. Cooper.
25. Les Miserables-V. Hugo.
26. The Three Musketeers-
Alexander Dumas.
27. Pere Goriot-Honore de
Balzac.
| %. Anna Karenina Count
Leo Tolstoi.
20. With Fire and Sword
Henry Sienkiewicz.
80. Treasure Island Robert
Louis Stevenson.
-Fairmont Sentinel.
The Redwood gazette., 1917-04-04
CITATION FOR HEARING ON FL
NAL ACCOUNT AND FOR
DISTRIBUTION.
Estate of Oliver S. Dunham

Estate OF Oliver S. Dunham.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Redwood. In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Oliver S. Dunham, Decedent:
The State of Minnesota to all per-
sons interested in the final account
and distribution of the estate of said
decedent: The representative of the
above named decedent, having filed in
this court her final account of the
administration of the estate of said
decedent, together with her petition
praying for the adjustment and al
loWance of said final account and for
distribution of the residue of said
estate to the persons thereunto en-
titled; THEREFORE YOU, AND
EACH OF YOU, are hereby cited
and required to show cause, if any
you have. before this Court, at the
Probate Court Rooms, in the Court
House in the City. of Redwood Falls,
in the County of Redwood, State of
Minnesota, on the Both day of April,
1917, at 10 o'clock a. M. why said
petition should not be granted
WITNESS, the Judge of said Court,
and the Seal of said Court, this 31st
day of March, 1917.
A. R. A. LAUDON,
Probate Judge.
(Court SeaD 37-3t
The Redwood gazette., 1917-04-04
RUNNING A NEWSPAPER.

Deer folks: Now | know why
editors go mad. / ben trying te
run this paper while the editor
is on his vakashun. For three
81 days and mites / ben reading
questions and trying to answer
them, and if / don't quit I'll be
going around talking to myself.
I'm going to answer few more
and then go to the ball game.
Jimmie, the office boy.
l. What is limberneck? }.
Jones.
Limberneck is the country is
Q strange disease of fowls and
chickens. In the city it is di-
sease of human persons caused
by watching fowls-and chick
ems.
2. Do small cows give con-
densed milk? Mable B.
No, Mable. Condensed milk
is made by trying to get quart
of milk into quart milk bottle.
3. Please tell me how hash
is made. w. M.
Hash is not made; it accu-
mulates.
A. Is it all right to feed hogs
corn in the ear? G. K.
No. Put them in trough and
let them help themselves.
5. I am in love with a home
ly girl who works for us but she
don't seem to care for me, while
pretty girl with lots of money
wants to marry me. What shall
I do? Will M.
Marry the one you love, and
send me the name and address
of the other one.
6. My hair is beginning to
fall out. What can | get to keep
it in?
A sack.
Z. Please tell me how to raise
a nice fat hog of about 500
pounds. z.
Get a derrick.
8. How can / tell when ths
water is the right temperature
for bathing baby? Young Moth
er.
If the kid. gets red and holl-
ers, the water is too hot. If he
gets blue and shievers, it's too
cold.
9. I am 40 years old, have a
nice little farm, and am think
ing of taking a wife. What would
you advise? Old Batch.
would advise you to be care
full about whose wife you take.
10. Our old red bull is chas-
ing me around 40-acre field.
What shall | do? Mike F.
| don't know, but don't give
up, Mike; the editor will be back
in q week.-L. L. LIE Bran in
Successful Farming.
The Redwood gazette., 1917-04-04
WHAT SHALL WE READ?


That below is a list of thirty
books that every Fairmont high
school boy and girl should read
as necessary part of their
education. We would only make
one change, i. e., we would sub
stitute Charles Reade's "Put
Yourself in His Place." for any
of those mentioned except Vic
tor Hugo's LESS Miserables."
The list is one selected by the
United States bureau of educa-
tion as the thirty greatest books
of fiction:
l. Adam Bede-George Eliot.
2. Arabian Nights.
The Redwood gazette., 1917-04-04

soon to be added to the list, il
the wishes of certain important
counties are considered.
The question is: Is Minneso-
ia going to turn backward, while
other states forge ahead through
the use Of the county agricul-
tural agent?
Already the question has been
partly answered. Confronting
the measure already preferred
to is another before Minnesota's
lawmakers, which, if it becomes
a law, will make it easier to get
county agents than before and
will put county agents, once they
are employed, on a sounder foot
ing than now.
The Redwood gazette., 1917-04-04
THE COUNTY AGENT IN
OTHER STATES.

While the Minnesota legisla-
ture has before it a measure
which if passed will make it
next to impossible for a county
to get a county agent, the de-
mand for county agents in 9TH
er states is growing. Missouri,
for example, has 13 agents in
the field, and several others are
The Redwood gazette., 1917-04-04
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Rev. A. Schaller, Pastor.

German Communion services
Thursday, beginning at half
past ten.
On Good Friday there will be
German and English services at
the usual time, also on Easter
Day.