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asohne Tax SOlve the Highway Problem?

Honcho 5. Earle, “-Good Roads’.’ Earle, the Pioneer Fighter for Improved Highways in Michigan says,
“A 0118 Mill Tax on Property is More Equitable”

_ OW shaﬁ‘we maintain ﬂie high-
: way jet?
. . to: on aleroperty of the State
at Michigan. Then the Highway
Department. will ~not have to go to

every session of the Legislature and

. ,bog‘for money. We take care of the

university of Michigan in that way
you _

to educate the rich; and then
prom to exempt the rich from pays
. "Ting taxes on their property to build
and nepair the roads that make it

I 1 cosy to get-to church, school, library,
" fund‘la-st, but not least, to your neigh- ~

bbr'asitting room and dinner table.

A If there be thOse who do not want,

, , topay taxes on their property then
Let them sell or give it away.
Every speciﬁc tax is a robbery;
it exempts some from paying their
»-share of the cost of running the
state, and it robsothers to do it for
_ them. The corporation tax robs the
. mall corporation, and to that extent
(”exempts the large corporation. If
Henry Ford paid the same rate of
corporation tax that the small cor-
poration does, he would pay ten
dimes as much as he now has to pay,
so the Legisiature that enacted that
law was working for Henry Ford,
but was not on his payroll.
T-oll roads again proposed, in-
stead of collecting at the toll gate,
collect at the gasoline tank; going
'back to pioneer times. One man
centuries ago won fame for himself
by leading the Israelites out of the
wilderness; now we have a plan to
‘ ,."lead.us back into the toll road woods.
There is not one iota of justice in a
gasoline tax, for instance: take the
man who works for Henry Ford and
who will use one gallon a day; he
will pay one cent tax, while Henry
, Ford Who will possibly use ﬁve gal-
lons per day and pay ﬁve cents tax.
- Yet Henry Ford is worth one million
times as much as the man who pays
One-ﬁfth as much taxes to maintain
the highway budget as does Henry
Ford. This is nothing less than
class legislation taxing the poor and
exempting the rich.
A gasoline tax collecting depart-
ment will have to be instituted where
room of polﬂcal pnoteges, who one
not wanted at home will secure pos-
itions at the expense of the poor
who have to pay them greater salar-
ies than the poor get for their ser-
vzlws. I cannot blame those who are
working {or the. gasoline tax,‘ for
. they know thatit Willi relieve some
mummmm of Michigan and place
the burden which they should be
willing to share onto the automobile
industry. I say this burden would
be placed on the industry, because
whatever hurts y—dur customer in the
and hurts the producer. ‘

I «do not say this for my own per-,

sons} ”beneﬁt, for I own sumcient
property in the State, "so that it
would be much to the beneﬁt of my
own pocketbook to place a tax of ten
cents per gallon on gasoline and so
reduce tho taxes which I have to pay,
and which I am willing to pay on my

. own property. But you say the poor

farmer is ﬁle one whom we am try-‘-
* lngﬁﬁ relieve; that is your excuse,
' but not the real reason, and you
know it. I am a farmer and I own
as times as much farm land as does
average farmer, and I pay nifty
tines ' as much taxes as the. average
W pays, yet I protest against
W: the poor to relieve me any
m or the expense of running
' , Wand I consider the roads
m only to the schools or the

By a. one mill.

 
“My pocket book says put 10 cents a gallon tax on gasoline: but
my sense of justice says put a one mill tax on my property to main-
tain the highway budget. ”-——Horaﬁo S. Earle.

 
of the City of Detroit do ninety per
cent of their running on Detroit
pavements, toward the building and
repairing of which the State does not
contribute one dollar; .yet you pro-
pose to tax them for wearing out the
roads. . .

” Seventy—ﬁve per cent of the truck
hauling of the" state is done over city
pavements; yet you propose to tax
them for wearing out the roads.
Who is making the most money on
the load that'is being hauled by the
truck, the truckman, or the pro-
ducer and the consumer?

I am always looking for wood-
chucks in the aﬂfairs of Government,
and I can see the railroad wood-
chuck in this proposition, using the
farmer as an excuse to make hauling
more expensive so that they can get

back the short hauling to do, which .

they never did and never will handle
to the satisfacti’én of the shippers.
They contend that the roads being
built by the taxpayers and given to
the truckman over which to haul
Without cost is a hardship for the
poor farmers,.when they mean them-
selves; but they never say a word
about how that every town through
which their railroad runs bonded
for enough to build the railroad thru
that town; they think that was so
long ago that it has been forgotten.
But if they can get exhorbitant taxes
levied onto the truck industry, cre—
ated by robber freight rates, and—-
“the people be. damned” policy of

Dr. Friday Sets the Price of Milk at

fa DAVID FRIDAY, president of
the Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege, at East Lansing on last Fri-
day handed down his decision as to
the price whichdistributors in the
Detroit area should pay the producer'
for his milk during the month of De-
cember and thus raised the price to
the consumer one cent per quart.
Under the ruling made by. Dr.
Friday, producers will receive an
increase of 400 a hundred pounds
and distributors are authorized to
add the increase to the retail
price, advancing the retail price from
13 to 14 cents a quart. The pro-
ducers who have been receiving
$2.60 a hundred pounds, demanded
$3.20, and Dr. Friday’s decision
gives them $3, an increase of 40
cents a hundred pounds.

enema to Give $2.75

When representatives of the pro-
ducers and distributors gathered in
Detroit last Wednesday to agree on
the price, the producers said that,
increased costs made an advance in
the wholesale price necessary, and
asked that the price be raised to
$3. 20. The distributors refused to a-
gree to this demand, and offered to
pay $2.75, and not raise the price of
milk to the consumer.

The producers rejected the in-
crease oﬂfered, insisted upon the
$3.20 price, and named a committee
composed of N. P. Hull, of Lansing,
president of the Michigan Milk Pro-

“ tins,

Wm. H. Vanderbilt, that their rates
will be satisfactory.

One in every three of the adult
population of Michigan owns some
-ind of an automobile, and let me
predict that the old saying “the gob-
lins’ll get you if you don’t watch
out” will be changed to read “the
automobile will get you if you enact
a gasoline tax.” and if you do they
will elect the next Legislature and
the next Governor, and they will re—
peal the gasoline tax, and place a one
mill tax on the statute books of the
State which will give to the State
Highway Department six million

yearly, and which, with the automo—’

bile license money, will be sufﬁcient,

' With the National aid, which we will

get to take care of the highway
budget without turmoil every two
years about it.

“Let well enough alone,” is what
I think the State better do, put no
more taxes onto the automobileists
who are already paying ﬁve per cent,
or double the tax on anything else
except booze, and the bootlcgger col—
lects that and invests it in real estate
and you propose to exempt him from
paying back some of the proﬁts he
has; made. It would be as sensible
to tax the school marms for the ex-
pense to running the schools, as to
tax the men who work for me, run—
nng my businesses, and the truck
owner is working l'Or me when he is
hauling my product to the consumer.

Who is making the most money,

ducers’ Association, and C. E. Git-
attorney, of Detroit, to meet
with the committee of distributors
composed of W. J. Kennedy, of the
Detroit Creamery Company, and Lee
Henry, of the John Schlaff Creamery
Company, Detroit, to settle the con-
troversey.

Dr. Friday Chosen

The two committees could not
agree, and Dr. Friday was unani-
mously chosen as arbiter, with au—
thority to ﬁx the price.

Dr. Friday, in reporting his de—

' cision, said that all dairy commodit-

ies have increased in price, and cited
the fact that the retail price of milk
recently has been increased to 14
Cents a quart in New York, Cleveland
and other large cities. A shortage
of milk, which always prevails at
this season of the year, was given by

Dr. Frday as the chief reason for.

authoriz'mg the increase.

"There is no question but that the
farmers are entitled to more money
for the milk,” Dr. Friday said.
“They have it coming. The question
is whether the dealers can pay .the
increase without raising the retail
price.

“They claim they can’t. There is
no way of knowing whether the
spread, between their price to the
farmer and the price to the consumer
is too great wthout an investigation
of the business and an examination
of their books. Pending such an in-

 
“The Truth About Henry For ”

'l. The Complete and Authentic Life History of Michigan’s
most interesting citizen begins in our next issue—see page 8.

 
-—the truck man or me? Exempt the
cement manufacturer and tax the
truck owner who hauls the cement
to the road. Exempt the gravel pro-
ducer and tax the truck owner who
hauls the gravel to the road. Which
of these is the best able to pay the,
taxes to maintain the highway bud-
get?

Remember that the most costly
roads to build are those built of con-
crete (Portland cement concrete, or
asphalt concrete)’ and the least ex-
pxnsive to repair; also, that one
sharp—shod horse going over these
kinds of roads does more damage
than one thousand automibiles; yet
you say we are going to tax the ones
that wear out th. roads. In reality
you are exempting the horse owner
and taxing the city’s automobiles, the
widow’s washing machine, the farm-
er’s pumping system. the farmer's
tractor, the clothes—cleaning estab—
lishments, motor boats, aeroplanes,
and hundreds of other things that
never touch the roads.

Away! Away with all this foolish-
ness! Place a one—mill tax on all
real estate and personal property of
the State and maintain the highway
budget. I challenge the gasoline tax
advocates to go to the legislature
and ask them to submit two proposi-
timls to the voters at the April elec-
tion: One—~the gasoline tax. The
0ther,—a one—mill tax on all pro-
perty of the State to maintain the
highway budget, and, as goes elec-
tion, so goes Earle.

Editor’s Note—This is not _. a
“private ﬁght,” anyone can get in
who will furnish lads. This support
of improved highways is a big issue
and The Business Farmer will con--
tinue to print both sides, so that the
farmer may decide for himself.

$3 for December

vestigation, I favored the increase.
It seemed the only way to give the
farmer more money.

“There are 46 quarts in each 100
pounds of milk.- The increase of 1
cent will yield 46 cents. Of this
the farmer will receive 40 cents. and
the driver of the milk wagon 6 cents.

Boost is Justiﬁed

“Because of the increase in the
Detroit demand. and the normal
shortage at this time of, the year,
the boost ‘in price is justified on
strictly economic grounds

“If the spread between the farm-
trs’ price and that paid by the con-
sumer is too great then tho in-
creased retail price is unfair. The
dealers and farmers plan to investi—
gate this, and Prof. King and myself
may do the job. Prof. King. a. grads
Hate of the University of Michigan,
ﬁxed the milk price for Philadelphia.

“If we do it, and we find the
price too high, then it will ile- de—
creased the ﬁrst of the year.”

Dr. Friday estimates that the
boost of 1 cent a quart will mean
$90,000 to the farmers for Decem-

her.
0 i 3

The Business Farmer believes that
Dr. Friday made a manifestly fair
decision in viéw of the fact that the
milk price in other cities of equal
magnitude has been set at 14c for
the month of December. We assume
that he means by this that the pro-
ducers in the New York, Cleveland
and other large city areas are re-
ceiving $3 per hundred for their
milk which costs the consumer 140 a
quart, if not, then there would be
just cause for dissatisfaction on the
part of our milk producers.

 
, ‘ ‘ ‘ .

 
Lake Superior and close to
the southern boundary and
in imuch'of the region be-
tween, these extremes. The
Indians drew largely upon
this storehouse of sweetness
and the whites were quick
to follow their example. In
hollow trees colonies of
bees laid up great stores of
honey, highly, appreciated
by man and beast alike.
Some trees, like tamarack
_ and pines, exuded gums‘and
pitch that were prized for
medicinal as well as gusta~
tory qualities. Medicinal
herbs of many sorts were
procured from the forest.
The native fruits were of
many kinds: The wild
cherry, plum, apple and
grape; raspberry, straw—
berry, huckleberry, cran—
berry, wintergreen and
thimbleberry (properly the
“salmon—berry or white—

 
Reproduction of an old map, of Michigan Territory in 1824, when only the counties of Mou-
Mncomb,
Note the surveyor-’5
Peninsula.)

the Business Farmer.

\V a slit on :1 w,

surveyed.
(the
1'0 1'

i'oe, Lenawee, “hype,
and Sanilac had been
l\Iichigan and (‘hippcways
Library, Lansing, especially

Upper

ICHIGAN agriculture and rural
life began in an environment
of forest, lake, and stream, of

climatic and soil conditions, that
have deeply inﬂuenced the course
of their development from ﬁrst to
last. Much of the southern portion
of the state bore a forest COthT ox"
hardwoods—beech, maple, elm, oak,
hickory, ash and other characteristic
trees of this latitude while to the
,northward, especially beyond the
line of Saginaw Bay and Grand Riv—
er, was» the great pinery of the state,
dominating the sandy ridges and
occasionally taking possession of
areas of clay where,
the species had no right to be. Still
farther north, in the Upper Penin—
sula, hardwoods and pines alternat—
ed and sometimes conrmingled, even
to the Lake Superior shore. The
ﬁrst farmers of the state had the 0p-
tion of taking possession of land
on one of the rather numerous small

 
prairies, or “oak openings” which
were characteristic features of the
South Michigan landscape, due,

chieﬂy, it is believed to the practice
“among the Indians of periodically
burning over considerable tracts to
drive out the game. Some settlers,
however, were attracted to the areas
densely forest—covered, on a theory
that, where such a splendid growth
of trees had taken place, there the
soil must be superior in quality; and
after a generation or so, only forest-
ed lands wcre left and must be en—
tered upon and cleared if farms were
to replace the forest primeval.

The pioneer ﬁercely assailed the
forest since it stood between him
and those products of the soil upon
Which his existence 'mainly depend—
ed. With axe and ﬂame .the war—
fare was waged year after year, and
the‘forest slowly but surely receded
and became only-a memory save
where the farm woodlot preserved
it in miniature for such services as
it might render or just for senti—
ment’s salke. The passing of the
great forest is not pleasant to think
upon, yet the forest had to go if
agriculture and a vigorous rural life
were to exist in 'Michigan.

‘ Nevertheless, the pioneer’s wel-
fare was closely associated with the
forest. The forest yielded building
material and fuel. It restrained
the ﬁerce blasts of winter. It temp—
“ered the heat of summer. It stead—
'ied the ﬂow of streams and gave
logs and timbers for the construc-
tion of mill-dams that would afford
Qwer for the operation_of grist—
,r'milis to grind the farmers grain and
saWamills that. turned logs into
: Many articles of house-
Sold use and many implements used
‘ ' hefarm came mainly out of the
. Short logs, hollowed out,

    
by all rules,

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Oakland, Shiawassec, St. Clair. Lupeer.

curious conception
Photographed at the

served as sap—buckets and other
containers, and longer logs similarly
treated made troughs and conduits.
two wooden rods joined by a thong
made a ﬂail that threashed the farm-
er’s grain, while handles of all sorts
were almost ready made on demand.
Stools, and tables, beds and whatever
furniture the rude conditions of
pioneering required, with little fash—
ioning,—— were derived from, the
same source. The farm-house it—
seu, rose log upon log, with ﬂoors
of puncheons and roofs of shakes,
with doors hung on woodenlhinges
and fastened with a wooden latch,
with wooden chimney chinked with
,.clay,——the whole building held to-
gether with wooden “pegs and pins,
without a nail, a bolt or
anything else wrought of metal,—
the gift of the forest. A little search—
ing in the forest revealed some shape

of branch or tree-trunk that, with
little improvement, Would serve as
neck-yoke or whiffle—tree, an “A"-

drag or plow-beam, well—pole or sled-
runner. A disc cut from the end
of a well-rounded log on occasion
served as wagon—wheel and the en—
tire log as a land—roller. With some
skill, staves for barrels, buckets
and kegs, with the hoops that were
to bind them together, were wrought
at home on winter evenings.
c h a r a c teristic

Saginaw
of the balance of
Blichigun

SCI‘GW OI"

‘seemed to be,

The

ﬂowered raspberry”), the
elderberry; the nuts of the
walnut, butternut, beech,
hickory and hazel; while
the watered areas carried
wild rice and mint. Wild
animals ﬁt for food, abounded in the
forest—even to a greater extent, it
is claimed, in the second—growth ‘of
the forest than in the forest prime—
val because of the better cover there—
by afforded. The red—deer, the rab—
bit and squirrel, the partridge,
pigeon and wild turkey, water fowl
and ﬁsh in profusion were available
to the frontier settler of‘Michigan;

State

while his domestic s-tock’got nutri—

ment from the same source. In time
of drought the brush was, good to
browse upon and in winter the tops
of felled trees Were quite as ser—
viceable. Pigs were fed On the mast
of the forest ﬂoor, although it is said
that they did not always fatten
thereon. It used to be said in Len-
awee County that these mast—fed
pigs were so thin that it became
necessary to tie knots in their tails
to keep them from slipping out be—
tween the rails of the fences. Allin
all, the forest, vast and lonely, even
threatening and appalling as it
conferred upon the
early farmers of Michigan many
favors, if also many days of toil.

Forest Fires of Value .
Even in/ its ashes it bestowed its
beneﬁts. They stimulated the pro—

ductivity of the soil for a time, and
they yielded lye and salaratus use—

F i’“ 1” WW“?! 0f a Short. Clean, Ham ,
Outline of Rural Life in MiChigqnv . .
.. By PROF. L. A.“CHASE

Head of Departmenﬁot History, Northern State Normal Sci-11631;"
Marquette, Michigan. ,

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fut in the manufacture, cf. soap and,

in cookery. The forest afforded
work to part time farmers, needing
an immediate money income from
employment as a lumberman or from
the. sale of forest products, and its

presence led to the establishment of,

wood-using factories for the manu-“
facture within the state of agricult—
ural machinery and implements. Be-
tween forest and farm in Michigan,
there has always been a very inti-
mate relationshixp. The forest litter
deposited on the surface of the land
gave humus to the soil, at points
otherwise too light and sandy to be
favorable to vegetation, and the re-
moval of this litter and humus by,
ﬁre has been doubtless a potent
cause in rendering certain portions
of the state unﬁt for agriculture.
The abundant vegetation partly de-
composed, collected
courses and in the beds of lakes,

gave the state those areas of muck.’

.and peat lands that have strongly
inﬂuenced agriculture in particular
portions of Michigan. '

Natural “Taterways

The waterways were also of some
importance in early agriculture.
There are occassional references to
farm products going by river to mar-
ket in sections where road or rai1~
road transportation was not yet
available, and even now there are
isolated farming communities along
the shores of the Great Laikesfwhich
make use of boats rather than wagon
or car for getting their marketable
commodities to outside shipping
points. In the pioneer period,
swamps and marshes often rproved
formidable obstacles for interior
travel and communication, and be-
cause of them, we frequently come
upon accounts of the manifold trials
and tribulations which beset all
those whose business would not per—
m't them to remain at home. In
di tance and in traveling—time mills
and markets were usually far away
and often the better part of a week
was required in making the return
journey. Oxen very likely hauled
the loads of wheat and ﬂour, .of
lumber and such human freight as
chose to ride under conditions, where
to walk or go forward on horseback
might be the lesser of the two evils.
Streams were for the most part un-
bridged and fords were worth know-
ing about.

The marshlands begat mosquitoes
which were troublesome enough on
their own account, but they also

' (Continued on page 16)

 
excellence o f
each species of-
tree were known
and determined
the uses to
which each was
put. If the for-
est gave the pi—
oneer farmer of
Michigan a bat-
tle for existence
that the prairie
,farmer was able
to avoid, the for-
est also rendered
many indispens—
able services, for
even the people
of the western
prairie were glad
to import at con-
siderable e x '-
p-ense forest pro-
ducts from :Mich—
igan, but they
lacked the conve-
nience of having
a forest close by
, to draw upon for
their necessities.
The forest al-
so provided food
in many forms.
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of her soul.

Outside, alas, things were emu--
ent. Therewasonlytheshellofa
former stable; the shed was tumb-
ling down, and, when rain deseend-
ed in anything worse than gentle
showers, Jenny‘s “indoors" loolmd
like asyndicate of milk pans, the
leaks were so many and the dripping
of water continuous. *~ '

It had been that way for three
years, ever since the autumn that
her mother had died; and her fath-
er, who had followed his wife in
everything, followed her to ﬁle
grave a month later.

His last words to his daughter
had been: “I‘m sorry to leave you
alone, Jenny, but I’d feel better if
only I’d leftyou shingled. Your
mother and me was laying up and
laying up ever since we got married.
We bought the house and ﬁeld, paid
on! the mortgage and gave you good
schooling. We are furnished up as
well as most 0’ the neighbors, but
when your mother's health got slim
and my strength begun to fail, we
couldn’t seem to get any farther
than meat, drink and clothes for
the three of us. The buildings
couldn’t be kept up, that was the
long and short of it.”

“I know, I know, Father. Haven’t
>I.seen how hard you tried.”

“Now I’m on my death-bed," said
the old man. “There’s money enom
in the bank to buy the shingles, but
God knows whether you can aﬂord to
hire a man to put 'em on, labor!
so scarce and so high.

“Don’t worry, Father! I don't
want your last days troubled with
fears about me and the roof. I’nI
twenty-two and I can earn my living
somehow, somewhere!”

“ ’Tisn’t so easy to earn your liv-
ing and keep your buildings shin-
gled too!” sigher her father.

“Maybe not, but I’ll do it, in the
course of time!" said Jenny stoutly.
“I’ve heard enough, all my‘ life,
about shingles; also about clap-
boards and paint. There isn’t a
young man in the neighborhood that
I’d want to go to church with, but
it one of them ever chance to ask
me to have him, I'd say, ‘Shingle the
house and I’ll say yes!"‘

The girl’s father smiled in spite
of his pain as he whispered: "Don’t
be too easy when it comes to bar-
gainin, Jenny! Stipulato ﬁrst qual-
‘ ity cedar shingles, him to buy ’on

as well as put ’em on! You're worth
it!”

“I shall never have a chance to
‘stiperlate,’ ” thought Jenny, as she
went to the kitchen to make gruel:
, and, as a matter of fact, although
Jenny was good to look upon, and
had an acre of timber land that
would' bring in something ﬁfteen
years later, no lovelorn swain had
offered to take her and her leaky
house for better, for worse.

Later on there were other rea—
sons Why Jenny had no opportunity
to “stiperlate.” The anxious and
dreary months went on relentlessly
after her father’s death, when new
misfortunes descended upon her—-
an accident—unskillful treatm
too long delayed—ﬁnally, the loss of
a footw—a crutch—eternal lameness.
No wonder, as she dragged herself
about the house and little garden
before she had had time to accustom
herself to her inﬁrmity, that River-
boro sympathetically called her
“Creeping Jenny." Her nearest
neighbor, Mrs. Day, a widow, lived
within easy walking distance (it
seemed longer when you limpe‘dl),
and the village itself was only I
quarter of a mile away, so she did
not lack of an occasionl call, the
offer of. anerrand or message, and
often a. drive to church, made
wretched by the wonky of mount-
ing and descending the wagon, with
the added mortiﬂcation of limping
into a rear pew.

Still she kept things together,
sewing, crocheting, knitting, send-
ing braided and drawn-in rugs to
Boston, selling the butter from the

  
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have earned her living; but the
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door stood open; there was a
ﬂicker of sun now and then and
was in the pantry wondering if
could venture to take away some
the milk~pans that dotted the hitch-
enﬂoor,allofthemathirdfuilo¢
dripping: from the ceiling.

She heard the swinging of the gar-
den gate and a knock made her take
her crutch and limp to the kitchen
door. ’

A good—looking young mam fairly
well clad, with his left sleeve hang-
ing in a strange sort of stiffness,
raised a shabby felt hat with his
right hand and asked:

“Is this Miss Jenny Tans?"

“Yes, sir.’

"They told me at the station you
were minus a. man and might have
a few days' work for me.”

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I live alone, but I have a little money
to spend on keeping up the place."

The young man glanced in the
door with a boyish sort of inform:-
ality and asked: “Do you keep a
dairy farm?”

Jenny laughed outright, and kept
on laughing as she answered: "No
wonder you asked, __but I shouldn’t
ad: milk on the ﬂoor and it's water
in the pans. It’s a water farm!”

The laughter was mutual now, and
the audacious youth, moving to the
lower step and glancing upward,
said: “I see you’re a little shy on
shingles?” ‘

"Just a triﬂe,
milk panel”.

“I‘hey told me you were a ﬁrst-
class farmer, but——er—a little hand—
icapped on the outside work.”

but I'm long on

Jenny leaned against the door».

frame and stroked her crutch with
a smile. _

“Footicaped would be a better
word,” she said. “Are you a strang-
er in Riverboro? Won’t you rest a
moment? Make your way through
the milk pans to the rocking chair.
I do need a little help in getting my
winter wood in." ‘ .

“You’ll require a lot of wood un-
less you get a tight roof over your
head," said the stranger. “I’m a
Western farmer’s son, or at least I
was; but my mother and father
died while I was in France and I‘m
alone in the world."

“France?" echoed Jenny, with a
new glance in her eye and a new
tone in her voice.

“Yes, but we’ll cut that out!. I
landed in ‘Boston, and ever since

can do with the substitute presented
me by the U. S. A.! I‘m going to
have something more stylish later
on, but I don’t believe it will serve

me any better; you see it’s only my

left arm!”

Jenny stopped her ears.

“Don’t tell me you’ve read 'Polly-
anna' and are glad it isn’t you
right!”

“Sure I’m glad! Who wouldn‘t
be? Who's Pollyanna?"

"She’s a girl in a book who’s alr-
ways glad that things aren't any
worse."

“All right for Polly! More power
to her elbow! Now I’m by no means
dead broke and I’ve got back-m
coming to me from W
whentheygetaronndtett. Bu!
want to train myself to work
anything that comes. n I can't
make good I'll go to a “rational
school, but I want to harden myself
ﬁrst."

"My roof'in November would be a
good piece for that!” said’ Jenny
contemplatively. “What wages do
you ask?"

“Half of what the other men get
around here, because I'm not a skill-
.ed worker at-present Now if you’ve
got a ladder on the premises I can
get up and tear of the old shingles
while you negotiate for the new
ones. Going to buy ﬁrst quality
cedars?" ,-

Jenny grew red and than white,
for memory ﬂashed back. and by an
odd trick she remembered her fe—
ther’s injunction to “stiperlate,” a
word that was to be used in far more
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ward and onward, silently, smoothh‘.
under and over, betwixt and 139'
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had spent hundreds of long, silent,
“lately days, feeling her youth slip-

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used in connection with the power
191‘,“ old alarm clock.

At Itch time Rufus and Jenny
would walk together before she
“gathered up the dishes. She allowed
“W8. sine, and when she attempted

rise and go to the kitchen he
mid say: “Take your ‘nooning,’
1' yearly, same as the rest of us.
The minute you drop your house-
on}: you take out your needle.’
"‘f’I’ye had tobc busy to keep from
'j'thinkfng, these last two years,” she
laid Quietly arranging the knives
’a_ad forks for clearing away. “Now
': I'm afraid of getting idle, for what
.- twith company to lunch, the sound of
hammer or saw all day, and the
' - smell of paint all night, it seems as

if Boston couldn’t be any gayer than

my little house.”
' - Rufus liked to watch the dimple
some and go in Jenny’s cheek, a dim-
x. Is that had enioyed little use till
fatal-r: he also admired the white-
h—s of her neck that rose out of the

the long eyelashes that too often lay

m 1191' check and hid her brown
eyes. He often tried to say some-
"thin that would bring a quick up-
ward glance full of fun or under-
standing. As for his talk, no words
what it was to the girl who

pins! by, a tragedy without a single
‘wituess.
. “Where were you last Christmas,
Miss Jenny Wren? Rufus asked be-
tween pipe—puffs, after lunching
shoulder—of-motton
(He had always called her
Jenny Wren, after the ﬁrst

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Miss
week.

“Hero of course!" she said smil-

3 ing "I was born here, lived here

and probably will die here. All

the rooms but the kitchen had icicles
hanging from the ceilings and win-

The parlor looked

-'-Iike that famous cave in Kentucky
with‘staiactltes in the roof. There
had been a bilzzard on the twenty-
thirdsmd I couldn’t go to the
church Christmas tree. It was near-

'1} a bad the Christmas before. I‘ve
never celebrated Christmas Day, ex-
cept to plant a little hemlock twig in
a ﬂower pot and hang Mother’s and
Father’s pictures on it."

“Jehosophat!” ejaculated Rufus.

‘ "fIt wasn’t so bad as that in the

trenches where I was. Plenty of
company—of one sort and another.
ll declare women arways have the
hardest o1: it in this old world,
somehow. Trenches and over-the-
tops were exciting compared to what
you‘ve gone through. They were
life! A man generally has life and
adventure with his hard knocks;
but women are always saving,
scrimping, doing without, suffering,
nursing, burying, paying other
people‘s burdens. Rotten luck, be-
ing a woman?" and he knocked the
ashes from his pipe furiously.

"I never thought of it that way,”
said Jenny serenely. “I have my

, one burden, but it’s my own, no-
body else’ 8!”

"Say, if I’m hereabouts to help,
suppose you give a kind of a house-
warming this year; some sort of a
make-shift Christmas and show at
the shingles! Hey?"

“‘Who would come?" cried Jenny
“And how would I compete with the
church Christmas? Besides you are

to Boston."

"I haven’t decided about Boston
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, for the company, Mrs. Day could
~ some, _ and Alfonso (hate-
ful little beggar, Alfonso”, Mrs.
Strout, who boards me; and there's
the station master that adviSed me
its coins to you for a job, and the
m I bought the shingles of, and
an store-menu we owe for nails—
quite a good crowd! You put
few ﬁlly friends and I believe
name up a party that
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mirth. The point of view was to
fresh, so young, so unlike River-
boro. "You don’t know how funny
you are!” she exclaimed. “The min-
ister calls twice a year, but always
in summer. ”

"Tell him to make it once and
come Christmas Eve!” said Rufus,
imperturbably. “Tell him your leaks
are stopped and you’ll show him a
wounded soldier who did the shin-
gling. ‘Feature’ me, don’t you know?

Tell him you'll have my Medan1 of;

Honor on the marble—top table.”

“You’ve never shown it to me,”
said Jenny, softly. -»

“It’s in Boston with my best
clothes. Besides I’ve told you all
about it. - There happened to be a
lot of fellows about when I was up
against a hard job and theyytold on
me. The boys didn't all have that
luck or the U. S. A. couldn’t have
turned out medals enough to go
around. Now it's time to work
again. You think about that Christ;
mils party before I buy my ticket
I’m going to patch up
that bad place by the chimney,” and
Rufus went out the shed door and
mounted the ladder.

Oh! the terrors of that high lad-
der and that sloping roof to Jenny,
from the very beginning! With a
white, knit cape over her shoulders
and a white scarf tied around her
head, she used to limp to some un-
seen point of advantage and watch
Rufus with her heart in her mouth,
lest he should slip and lose his hold.
Sometimes he would catch her at her
post, and looking down, think that
her face looked like a love- apple, all
pinky red and creamy white. And
the warm glow of having someone
down below caring a little whether
he slipped—he, Rufus Holt, 9. down-
and—outer!

He never, did make a mlsstep, for
he was a very demon of ingenuity
and skill in using his one arm.

“Brave, clever, good, big-heart-
ed!" sang Jenny’s heart from the
ground. ,

“Plucky, cheery, sweet and
sound!” sang the heart of Rufus
from the roof—but neither of them
said anything in words.

Mrs. Day said considerable, but
she liked Jenny'Lane and stood up
for her when the postmistress said
there was more in that shingling
business that met the eye.

“I don’t see anything wrong in
it.” Mrs. Day maintained stoutly.
"Jenny's roof would have fallen In
on her if she hadn't shingled this
fall. It looks like Providence to
me.”

“He’s so slow at it that it looks
like courting to me," observed the
postmistress while scanning the
morning's postcards to see if any-
thing interesting was likely to hap-
pen in the neighborhood.

"Alﬁnso thinks the world of Mr.
Holt, and he’s getting ten cents a
day now. It’s true Alfonso takes
three of it away from him every
night. He says ﬁve is due to him
because he’s a twin, but he only
takes three cents because he don’t
do any work.”

“Alfonso’s goin’ to make a good,

business man when he grows up,’
said the postmistress.

It was half-past four in the after-
noon but in the short December days
it was nearly as dark as mid—night.
. A cheerful ﬁre enapp‘d in Jenny's
highly-polished kitchen stove. The
yellow—painted ﬂoor with its braided
rugs reﬂected the light of the kero-
sene lamp, the cat was asleep in the
rocking-chair with the crebonne
cushion, and Jenny sat by the table
‘making out a crochet pattern from
a magazine in front of her. She
had changed into her afternoon
dress of brown cashmere with

perigee collar and cuffs and apron,

so that she looked more than ever
like Jenny Wren, Ruhr: Bolt
thought, as he came in from the
tool-house with a lantern.

'“Alfinso is splitting and stung an

kindling,"hesaid. “ROM!”
”Mandmbuhqmmm.
Alfonso told him there‘s a ghost
between here and the sum. Gr»

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care.

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ions! Can any parlor in the world
beat a kitchen for comfort when
it’s rigged out and kept like yours!
‘N0,.DuSs, I wouldn’t have you move
for the world, even if you offered
to! I’ll take a wooden chair!"

“The cat is spoiled,” said Jenny.
“And you look tired. You ought not
to be doing rough work or you
won't get to be yourself again.”

“I’m myself, right enough: in fact
I never was so much myself since I
was born. I’m not tired; the sight
if you and this kitchen rests me
clean through to the bone "

Jenny changed colOr ,but studied
pattern wit: renewed

“I don’t miss my arm any more,”
Rufus continued, playing with her
thread. “I’ve learned to do Without
it. I never thought I should, but
I have with the help from a. lady
friend. I never was bitter about it
like come. When you come to think
of it, Miss Jenny Wren, it’s wonder-
ful how Almighty God has given us
two of a kind in most things—on
the outside, anyway. As to the in-
side furniture, the doctors have
shown us how to get along without
most of that. If We’d been started
out. with one eye, one ear, one arm
and one leg, where would we have

' been nowadays?”

“We’ve only one nose and one
month ," objected Jenny.

“And how would we have looked
with two?" laughed Rufus. “But
that’s not to the point. The house
is ﬁnished, Jenny Wren ,and what
would you think of buying a few
second-hand boards and letting me
make the cow-shed more comfort—
able for winter?” , .

This moment had to come. Jenny
had been reading it for days. There
was a pause, then: “I’m going to
sell the cow,” she stammered.

Rufus looked surprised. “Are you
troubled about the price of feed, or

afraid the winter work will be too

much for you?‘ That’s why I’d like
to make a better place for .her and
patch up the piece of shed you have
to walk through to get to her—after
It’ s a wonderful season but
it’s the eighteenth of December and
snow must be coming along soon.”

There was another moment of
silence, then Jenny spoke recklessly.
“You see, Mr. Holt, we’ve gone on
from one thing to another for three
weeks, because the leaky roof ruined
the house in so many ways ,and
there’s never been a man to help,
since father died. We’ve patched
the ﬂooring, put in new door sills
and weather strips. on the windows,
papered the sitting—room and plast-
ered the kitchen ceiling—and all the
time I've known I was goin too far.
I paid you ﬁfteendollars the ﬁrst
week, Ibut it wasn’t half what you
earned and you gave me back three
for lunches. Then you wouldn’t
take the last two-weeks’ wages be-
cause I was buying bricks and lumb-
er and you said we could settle up
when the work was ﬁnished. . . I

't let it runon, Mr Holt, Icant!
I’m not in want; Ive} something in
the bank and my hay—field more than
pays for my winter fuel; but I have
to be careful, and the house is so
nice and cozy now it would be self-
indulgent to do more. I'd better
sell the cow. You're as kind and
generous as you can be, but you are
a stranger after all, and I have no
claim on you.”

Rufus gave her a long, searching
look.

“You honestly feel I'm a stranger,
do you?"

"Well, I—-—I don’t exactly feel that
you are, I only know it. My mind
tells me so.” ,

“it’s funny!” said Rufus. "Now
--I feel like a partner, not a strang-
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Jenny clutched a the saving-s

word. "You have been the best of
partners," she acknowledged,
straightforwardly. -

“Oh, no! Not the best!
able of being a has better partner
than I have been. Now stop cro-
chafing; m: to no, and don’ t speak

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place. do you like me!”

Jenny ﬂared at this. -

“Why do you ask a questin like
that? You know that nobody could
help liking you! You know you- ’re
as sunshiny and thoughtful as you
can be, and as for being interesting
and funny and unlike anybody else
in the world, you know well enough
you’re that; so why do you ask such
foolish questions only to hear your-
self praised?”

Rufus made a sudden movement
and then subsided again into his
chair.

“That’s satisfactory, so far as it
goes ” he said calmly, “Though it

-doesn’t go far enough to suit me.

There are things I’ve got to say to
you, and When they’re over, we need
never speak of them again. I haven’t
any home, nor any people but a.
married brother in Kansas, whose
Wife and four children I’ve never'
see. He always worked the farm
and it fell to him as was right. I
got a little money from my father,
earned more at my trade in Chicago
and saved it. Then I went across
with the other boys. You don’t
really know anything about me ex-
cept what I tell you, but I’ve got
a clean record to show the neigh-
bors, and I swear to God there's
nothing wrong with me except that
I’ve got one arm instead of two.
When I came down this road from
the station three weeks ago I took
a good look at you, skimming
around with your crutch, and swing-
ing your right foot off the ground.”

“Don’t!” cried Jenny, covering her
eyes.

Rufus put his big hand over her
little ones and wiped the tears away
with her crochet work. “I’ve got
to show how I feel about you, and
then I’ll ask What you think of
me,” he explained. “I said to my-
self that day: ‘Here’s a. chance to
help somebody that’s had to bear
what I have.’ They told me at the
station you needed some work done,
so I just plunged 111, made good,
and got the job. But I had no "er.
of falling in love with you, Jenny;
that’s your fault not mine. I want
to marry you but I don't know how
you feel about it.”

“I don’t want to be pitied and
married just to be helped," said Jen-
ny stubbornly. “After my accident
I just made up my mind I would
never marry.”

“Why?" asked‘Rufus.

”You know Why,” Jenny answer—

“Then the reason you don't want
to marry me shows me that I had
no right to ask you, isn’t that so?"

“No, it isn’t; it's different with a
woman. Besides, I do want to marry
you, but. I won't.

Rufus moved a little nearer.
“Jenny, we’ve each got a minus sign
against us—there’s no getting over
that; but Holy Moses! you’re hung
all over so thick with plus signs that
your minus doesn’t show up at all!
Your face, your eyes, your hair,
your voice, your disposition, your
spunk, your common sense—all
plus! The trouble is with me.
There would be times when a girl
might blush if she had a one-armed
husband!”

“Blush? If she did she ought to
be struck by lightning!" and Jen-
ny’s eyes ﬂashed.

Rufus caught her hands. “Jenny,
Jenny, be true with me, speak
straight out! Do I seem a little
short of a full man? How do you
see me in your secret heart?”

Jenny rose to her feet under a
kind of spell that made him rise to
meet her. She leaned against him
and said: “I see you whole, and
strong and precious and splendid.
Rufus!"

Rufus held her elem, dry!
secret tears on her hair. ng his
“Oh, you little brick!” he whisp-
ered. “You darling, winsome little.
brick! Would you mind kissing
not"

“Not in the least!" she answered.
and was proceeding to do it with all

her heart when Alduso entered with

‘ hose mini of kindling, which
Rammed into the woodbox with
such force that the house shook.
“,AIInso you dropped something.
I heard you distinctly? Rufus was
cool and collected as he put Jenny
back in her chair. “Now I’ve some

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ON GRAIN RUST

president of the State Farm Bur-

eau Federation; J. A. Doelle, state
commissioner of agriculture, and
Walter F. Ruddy, state leader of the
federal barberry eradication forces,
represented Michigan [at the second
annual meeting of the Conference
for the Prevention of Grain Rust,
held on Nov. ,14 at St. Paul. ,

They were among the 75 delegates
from thirteen north central states to
vote unanimously for the resolution
urging Congress to appropriate
$500,000 for the continuation of the
war on the common: barberry bush
next year and reCOmmend that the
various spring wheat states partici-
pate in the campaign in proportion
to the seriousness of their individual
rust problem's.

NEW PLAN FOR SOLVING AGRI-
CULTURAL PROBLEMS

HE Commodity Council Plan is
T is the name given to a new

way of handling certain of the
big agricultural problems by the
United States Department Of Agri-
culture. In the past different phases
of a crop situation, for instance,
have been handled separately by the
various bureaus and‘ ofﬁces. The
new plan which recently has been
put into operation brings all the
various persons interested in the
problem together into a council
where each may present his views
and where a deﬁnite inclusive policy
may be decided upon.

Already councils have been called
to discuss the cotton and potato sit-
uations and recommendations have
been made for action that would be
beneﬁcial in view of present condi-
tions. Department men who are
specialists in the culture of the'crops,
in soils, diseases, pests, grading, and
marketing each contributed to the
ﬁnal recommendations. From time
other commodity councils will be
called to take up problems that are
troubling the producers of various
other crops and live stock. ‘

CLEMENCEAU TO ADDRESS
FARMERS
EORGES CLEMENCEAU, the
G “Tiger” of France, will address
the opening session Of the
fourth annual convention Of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
in Chicago on December 11, France’s
war premier declares that he will ar-
range his itinerary in order to meet
the potent body of public opinion
represented in the world’s largest
body of organized farmers—the
~ American Farm Bureau.

Mr. Clemenceau will speak on the
topic, “The Farmer as a World Citi-
zen." It is expected that he will de-
velop the international aspect of the
farmer’s problems. How the Ameri-
can farmer may develop a freer mar-
ket for his huge surpluses in the
nations of Europe will be explained
by the distinguished President of the
Peace Conference. .

SUGAR CARDS BEAPPEAR IN
GERMANY
N December 1, sugar cards, dis-
0 continued some two years ago,
were reintroduced in Germany
and factories deliver sugar only to
authorized wholesale dealers who in
turn distribute it to the retailers of
speciﬁed districts. Only. the organ-
ized wholesale trade and the coop-
eratively organized consumers will
be permitted to trafﬁc in sugar and
all dealings are subject to rigid con-
trol.

ULL endorsement of the Land

Certiﬁcation of the State De-

partment of Agriculture was
given by a conference of real estate
dealers, railroad agents, and develop-
ment bureau secretaries, at a meet-
ing held in Lansing on November 27,
where the plan ,was discussed in de-
tail. The chief elemente of the pro-

in lands surVeyed under thodirectio

4mm

 
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JAMES NICOL at Grand Haven,"

ENDORSE LAND CERTIFICATION-

posed legislation involved the crew's.
ties of a list of certiﬁed dealers.
‘ They will agree to deal exclusively

  
ture at their own expense audience
will be classiﬁed as agricultural and
non-agricultural, to be sold on the
basis Of this survey: Theidea of
land certiﬁcation was developed'to.

engender the conﬁdence of thd-pros-v :-

pective settler in Michigan's geod
farm lands and to make it difﬁcult
to Tsell what is manifestly nonaagri-e

     
cultural land for agricultural ‘pur-A it

poses. _'The certiﬁcation plan involv
ves a penalty of felony for violation. ,

A COOPERATIVE OREAMIEBYV

WITH NEARLY A THOUSAND ‘

. PATRONS ,
NE of‘ the largest\cooperative
creamery organizations in the
United States, is the claim made
by J. R. Murphy, Manager of the
Danish Creamery Association, Free-
no, California, in his last annual re‘
port to the stockholders.'

rons scattered over a. territory of
ﬁfty miles wide by one hundred miles
long. Twenty—ﬁve trucks are re-
quired to haul the cream to the two
plants. More than 8,000 pounds of,
butter made daily and, as‘ every
pound brings a premium of one cent
because of the “Danish Creamery"
brand under which it is sold, the
“velvet" amounts to more than $80
a day for a year of 365 days—$30.-
000 a year. Not only do the Danish
Creamery patrons get the one cent
a pound premium but they get a roy-
alty of 65c a thousand pounds on
high grade butter manufactured by
afﬁliated creameries and sold
through a central marketing agency
under the' Danish creamery brand.
The association was organized in
1895 and the same butter maker has
been employed for seventeen years.

AUSTRIANS LIKE AMERICAN
HONEY

GOOD market in Austria awaits

American exporters of honey,

says Consul Foster, Vienna, is
the report to the Department of Com-
merce. The preferred varieties are
dark—colored strained honey of acacia
and linden ﬂavors, packed in glass
jars containing about one quart, one
pint, or one—half pint. The Austrian
Republic can not produce enough to
supply its need. From July 1 the
retail price of honey rose from 18
cents per kilogram to 54 cents per
kilogram on September 30.

FOURTH WEEK OF EGG LAYING
CONTEST

HE ﬁrst four weekly period of

the International Egg Laying

Contest at East Lansing ended
November 28th, with the White Leg-
horns ﬁnishing in advance but giving
the honors for the last week’s pro—
duction to the heavy birds. Several
birds are showing some moult par-
ticularly among the lighter breeds.
Three birds have put in a perfect
week’s work with 7 eggs each. Mr.
Shaw’s pen from South Haven had
a narrow escape when it topped the
list for the first month with a pro-
duction Of 166 eggs with E. D. Tay-
lor’s pen from Kalamazoo just one
egg behind. Third place is held by
Hansen’s pen from Oregon with 154
eggs and the Hollywood Poultry
Farm from Washington tying with
Thompson’s pen for fourth” place
with 144 eggs.

In the Barred Rock class Denni-
son’s pen No. 9 has an easy lead
with 133 eggs. Brummer’s‘Poultry
Farm is second with 123 and also‘
second for the week with 43 eggs.
Kent’s pen from New York is only
one egg behind Brummer‘s for the

week and is third to date with a ~~

total of 114 eggs. ' Christophel’e pen’
No. 16 is fourth with 110 eggs. In
the Wyandotte class Evergreen Poul-
try Farm ﬁnishes one egg ahead of .
Sinks pen which has been leading
up to this week. They ‘also claim.
the honor for high pen for the week.
Murphy’s pen is third with 99 eggs
and Hollis fourth with 96.

Van Realto heads the AncOnaYclass : g

with 76 eggs to date, Dunni’ ngfs
Reds have a. comfortable lead ﬁnish-5;;

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RIGHT OF TEACHER T0 PUNISH
CHILD

The teacher in our district keeps

the children in at recess and noon
for oﬂense- To—da’y she gave them
18 minutes to learn the words of
a song. Some of .them could not
sing it so she gave them no recess
and only 25 minutes lunch time.
One boy has stayed in since Sept.
28 to Nov. 15 andvshe said he'll
have till the 30th because he would
not apologize for some little. thing.
For whispering they stay in eight
days and the, same for listening, or
talkng to them at recess. Our school
director said she has no right to do
so. Is this so or not and can she
make them stay after school or tour
o’clock for being tardy?-——P. G.,
Ludington, Michigan.
—The statute remains silent with
reference to the type of punishment
that may be ministered by the teach-
er. The law does not give the school
heard any authority to» make and
enforce suitable rules governing the
external affairs of the school. You
will ﬁnd this provision in section 17‘
given on page 37 of the General
School Laws for 1921. The Supreme
Court has rendered a decision that
the teacher has delegated parental
control over the children while un-
der her jurisdiction and that she has
authority to administer any reason-
able punishment.

Conditions might arise where in
the teacher’s judgement the approp-
riate type of punishment would be
to keep a child in at recess or after
school. It seems to me that the
character of the offenses as well as
the temperament of the child should
govern in determining the punish-
ment. If a child is tardy on account
of having played along the road, it
might seem advisable to ask him to
stay after school and make up the
time. In~this case, the child has
the alternative of escaping the pun-
ishment by being on time.

No teacher would have a right to
treat a child in a brutal manner or
in such a way as to cause permanent
physical injury. The type of pun-
ishment that might be adapted to
one individual child would not be
suited to another, so one must know
the individual child and as I see it
no general rule can be given with
reference to this matter.——-B. J.
Ford, Department of Public Instruc-
tion.

MORTGAGE AGAINST HOGS

A year ago last July or August I ‘

bought two hogs. Since then I have
killed the hogs and find that there
was a mortgage against the hogs.
I paid for them and still have in
my possession bill of sale signed by
the party in the presence of a law-
yer. Will you please tell me if I
am compelled to pay for the hogs
again?~—-F‘. C. M., Curran, Michigan.
-——11 the mortgage was properly ﬁled
you would be liable "for the value
of the hogs not exceeding the
amount of the mortgage. You
might be able to make the mortgagor
pay for selling you the mortgaged
property, unless the bill of sale you
received contained the statement
that the sale was subject to the
mortgage—Legal Editor.

COST OF TILING 160 ACRES
0F MUCK

Can you give me some idea of cost
of tiling 160' acres of muck land.
Have direct outlet into dredge ditch.
Muck not deep, eighty acres spotted
with clay and sandy loam.——H. A. S.
Capac, Michigan.
-——Ordlnarily, muck land which is
underlaid with clay will require
practically the same sort of drainage
as clay land because after the muck
has been drained it will settle and
work into the clay so there will be
practically not much left after a few
years of cultivation. I would sug-
gest that this be drained about 4
rods apart. 11, hOWever, you have
2 feet of muck it might be drained
5 rods apart. The tile should be laid
at least 3 feet deep and better 355
foot if. you bays 2 toét of muck be-

cause the much will settle at least .

 
a foot leaving your tile only 2%
*feet underground. I am assuming
that the tile in this case will be laid
in the clay subsoil. It the tile are
spaced 4 rodd’apart it will take ap-
proximately 600 tile per acré.

If soft clay tile are used. they will

probably cost delivered at your eta--
tion about $35 per thousand. The
glazed tile would cost around $45
per thousand. This would mean
that it will cost for tile—~32]. to $27
per acre. The digging should be
done around 50 cents a rod, which
will cost $20 per acre whére the
tile are spaced 4 .rods apart. I am‘
assuming in making these calcula-
tions that you wish, this tsrm

thoroughly drained so that it will be

suitable for nearly all kinds of crops,
espcially cultivated crops. If the
muck land is merely intended for hay
it might be possible to get satisfac-
toryﬂainage by 'spacing the tile
drains 10 rods apart.
will cost practically the same as the
low land.When tiled 4 rods apart.
The drains on high ground, however,
should not be put more than 2%
feet deep—O. E.. Robey, Extension
Specialist in Drainage, M. A. C.

SECURE COPY OF RULES

I bought a boiler and it had' been
uSed. Itvwas a portable boiler but
the wheels have been taken 01!. It
is ten miles from where I wish to
use it. I have been told I must
have the boiler inspected before I
move or nee it. If so, to whom must
I apply for inspection? I Wish to
run a small saw for cutting lumber
on my farm.——-E. J. 13., PetOBkey,
Michigan.
~11 law was passed in 1917 provid-
ing for the appointment of a board
of boiler inspectors. I do‘ not know
who was appointed. I think that
if you would write Hon. C. J. De-
Land, Secretary of State, and ask
him for the rules of the board au-
thorized by Act 174, of the Public

Acts of 1917, he may be able to send.

it to you ‘or tell you where you can
get it.——Legal Editor.

WHAT RENTER MUST no

If owner of farm rents his farm
to B and the owner has all the tools
and horses and lets renter use them
for nothing, also the feed for horses,
and all seed for farm, and this farm
rented one half of crops to renter
and half to owner, does the owner
have to take care of his part? For
instance we have to haul our po-
tatoes ourselves, and have to husk
and haul corn. We dug and picked
our potatoes ourselves. Does the
renter have to do this for us?-——P. J...
Boyne City, Michigan.

——What the renter is to do is usually
placed in the lease and it so incor-
porated it would control; but 11 the
lease simply provides that renter is
to do all the work I would be of the

opinion he Would have to husk the,

corn, dig potatoes and haul potatoes,
and all the work the owner would
have to do if he'did not rent the
farm.——Legal Editor.

CANNOT REMOVE FAMILY FROM
NEIGBORHOOD

In our community We have a very
undesirable colored family. They
uphold their children in all kinds
of stealing,
such. They allow their children to
have ﬁrearms and threaten [other
chldren as they wish. What are the
steps necessary to have them move
from the country? Who should I
go and see? Mrs. A. P., Flushing,
Michigan.
——You would have to proceed against
them the same as other children.
You would need to make a complaint
. for any of the things you enumerate
and it the children are old enough,‘
have them punished. If they are
not old enough have the pages 01-
ﬁcer, truant oﬂlcer, or sheriff
take charge of the matter. .The bet-
ter way would be for, such persons
as are interested to place the matter

before the prosecuting attorney or .

loounty agent and ask them to ad’-
131st 11.
than tojbe removed :16

--—-1 call your attention

The upland _.

'you would not have the right to

window breaking and ’

 
You would have no right
,J lid

  
writing the speed gt load, in
empty trucksr—H . ' 3’
Branch. Mich. ‘ ' ’

 
14, of Act 132 o: the Pm ’
of 191! which limits the “
speed '0 motes trucks \
the size or the tire in the
manner: '
' 2 inch tire, single 30 miles per
hour. double 18 miles per lo
2% inch tire, single 30 miles ' , _
hour, double 18 miles per hour:
inch tire, single 20 miles, double
18 miles; 355 inch tire. single 20'
miles, double 16 miles; 4 inch tire, _.
single 18 miles. dauble 14 miles; 95
inch tire, single 16 miles. double
13 miles; 6 inch tire. single 14
miles, double 12 miles: 7 inch tire. -
single 12 miles, double 10 miles
The above is the only speciﬁc
limitation placed on the rate or
speed of trucks and trailers aside . _
from the general limitation of all .
motor vehicles, which is a maximum
speed of 35 miles per hour.——6tats -
Highway Dept. .

CANCELLED CHECK IS RECEIPT

Six years ago I left Iowa for Mich-
igan, paying all debts except one to
a doctor for $6. 50. I later paid it
and received check back, after that
the doctor tried to get another pay-
ment through another company.
Can he collect it?-——H. H., Rudyard, <6
Michigan.‘
—-If you paid the doctor in tall by
check and have the returned check
endorsed by him you would not be
Obliged to pay the debt again. The
cancelled check is evidence of the .
payment. ——~Lega1 Editor. '

NEIGHBO‘R NOT OBLIGED TO.
’ DRAIN OFF WATER '

In case water drowns out my grain
does my neighbor have to take care
01 the water in case there is nocther:
run for the water but through his -
farm, and there is lots of tall?——N.
N. F., Glennis, Michigan. "
——You would be obliged to take‘aIl
the water that comes upon your farm
‘just as it would come in a state
of nature. Your neighbor would
have no right to gather the water ‘ _ :
1n ditches and cast, it upon your farm “ '
in unusual quantities nor at unusual
times. Neither would you have the .7 " ' ‘
right to ditch your farm and throw
the water from your farm onto your
neighbor below in unusual quantities‘
or at unusual times. You can ﬁll ‘ ., ,
in any sags on your farm without 4—_ ~
harm to your neighbor below but CI;

         
ditch. The only way to get such
draining is to have a public ditch .
constructed into which you may”
drain your farm and others to the
same. -——Legal Editor.

 
WHO PAYS «THRESH BILL?
Who should pay the threshing bill ,1
in this case? I as second party, 3 , ’ .
rented a farm for one year, ﬁrst ’ .
party to furnish everything to carry
on farmingrand I do all the manual ;- '
labor and give ﬁrst party two thirds

and the — ﬁrst party keeps all the l
straw.——F. 0., Sherman, Mich. . .
-—I would say that in order to ans- _ 'l ,- 1
wer the above question more detail [ff
should be given, thus making it clear . 4, ‘ l '

what the status is. w “ - 2'

The customary rule is to divide
expenses such as threshing in the 1
same proportion as receipts. In ,
this case the landlord would stand 1
two-thirds of the threshing bill. g. . 1

‘ 1
l

 
However, as he is securing all the j? %

straw there should be an adjustment ~

for his share of the straw. Such 4 h

items as these should be agreed up—

on when the centract is made, thus- ’

avoiding misunderstandings later.——-

F. T. Riddell, Farm Mandgenienh ‘

Demonstrator, M. A. C. f
’ 1

How To F114E CLAIM
On July 28th 1922 I had a valu
able cow killed by a train two miles 1
north of Homer, on Lansingﬁhm
or N. Y. Central. Shéggot ' .

the company‘s fence and
"rho! '

on their ground.
ﬁlled on k;
presto


l , good cider.

 
make out afcl'aini term

' 36 caused" .‘_"'you and'keepjicopy
and his a copy ‘with the claim axon-t
"if he railroad at your nearest sta-
ﬁoﬁvand if not paidgsoon I would
employ a lawyer to assist main col-’1
hating it. »I have knownrailroad

W . . ,Qould ’t

much could she collect a week if
any and could she for ten years?—
Mrs. M. H, M., Akron, Mich...

'——The mother might récover for any-

thingthe son has promised to pay;
but services rendered by the mother

‘ antes; to delay and annoy, a wand-son living Itogether is presumed

ant to discourage the making
a! iaims. It would be fair to allow
them. some time to investigate their
liability. but 'it ;is unreasonable

Flake months and even over one .

m to compensate a person if the
company is liable for the damage.
“The railroad company is not neces-
t‘Sarlly liable just from the mere“ fact
”the. cow was killed on their track.
“'..I would believe that you would be
money: ahead it you employed some
~ one who knew haw to getthe damage
; it» you are entitled ,to it.——-Legal
. 7Editor. ' ' ‘ ’

. . MAKING VINEGAR
. : WOuld you pines tell me, does any
kind of apples make vinegar, or is
'there. anything you put into cider
to make good vinegar?———Reader.

"-——All kinds\of apples do not make
_ However any apple that
'..produces a 'juice with a sufficient
' amount at sugar present to make a
iOur per cent alcohol will make vine-
, gar. .
~ We furnish a vinegar yeast cul-

' “hire at the rate of twenty-ﬁve cents
" each for the purpose of starting the

alcholic fermentation, the first step

of the vinegar making process. We
likewise furnish a vinegar bacteria

" culture for the purpose of controlling
~ the acetic acid fermentation. These
cultures are sufﬁcient for one barrel
two-thirds full of vinegar stock.—
« , R. L. Tweed, Res. Asst in Bacteriol—

, ogy, M. A; C. ,

. {SELL SUBJEC’I‘ TO MORTGAGE
. " . If C sells his farm to ‘B and takes
" mortgage on the farm, can B sell
~. it to C and oblige A to leave mort-
- ' gageon farm without A agreeing to
such? Mortgage is due in ﬁve years
' ' {rem date-+1). M., Hudsonville,
“ gMichigan.

I' Ur:-—B~may-sell the farm at any time

subject to the mortgage. A cannot
require the payment of the mortgage
until it is‘ due regardless of who
owns the-.farm.——Lega1 Editor.

PURCHASER 0F WHEAT LIABLE

My neighbor bought wheat from
.me a year ago last September.
asked him. to pay for same in two
weeks. I sold. the grain as it was,

_uncleaned', for the market pricethen. ‘
I also sold »

Hehas not yet paid me.
it under condition, it I got a higher
price for my wheat when I sold the
balance I had, he was to pay me
that price. ASince selling him the
Wheat the price raised to $1.30, and
that is what I sold the balance for.
I have ,no papers to show for any of
this. Could I make him pay inter—
est -on this money since he agreed
to pay me in full?———Mrs. M. B., Mer-
rlll, Mich.

——The purchaserof the wheat would
be liable for interest if he did not
, pay for it at the date agreed upen.
~- ———Leghl Editor. '

NOT LIABLE FOR DAMAGES

If a man hired to work on a farm
by the day, month, or year should
accidentally or through his careless-

ness be injured, is the man whom he" “

is, emplbyed by liable for damages
”ﬁnder the Compensation -Law of
I Michigan?———J. W. K., Orleans, Mich.

i-;-— ’ Section 5424 of the C. L. 1915
is. as follows:

7 “The provisions of Section 1, shall

not apply to ﬁctions to recover dama-

ges-for personal injuries sustained

by household domestic servants and

ram? ..1aborers.”—-—Legal Editor.

mans Newman MONEY

’ n semis tor his rm‘ether- to
and ‘ buys, half ‘- tlie {house-
11;": she jive .t’iigether. and

a
_her

em hei'bies‘eet. there
' ' m' as

l

I..-

. forced one against another.

to be gratuitous. The promise to
pay or do certain things may be in-

5191-and following provides that a
child «may be-cOmpelle‘d to support
and care‘tor a parent and the poor
board may~ enforce it.——Lega1 Editor.

DOES FLY BITE?
-. Am writing you in regard to an
argument which arose between two
persons, as to whether ﬂies (the com-
mon house ﬂy) bites or not.
very anxious to learn whatyou can

Section '

Iam.

whethe ' e:~ '

" gﬂyg‘bitesjoir hot, I quote'itrpm. Flies
‘ and Diseases” by Graham Smith;

“The common ~house "ﬂy is called
MuscaDomestica. Stomoxys Calcit-
runs, the stable .ﬂy or biting heuse
ﬂy, is about the same .size as the
house ﬂy and is very frequently unis-
taken for’ it. It is more stoutly
built ‘and may ‘be_ distinguished by
the appearance of its proboscis which
is modiﬁed into an awl-Iike structure
adapted fbr piercing and sucking.
It is commonly mistaken for the
common house ﬂy which is, there-
fore, often accused of biting.”—
Michigan Department of Health.

CHILD WOULD GET NOTHING
I am married and have four nice
children. The oldest girl, 8 years

'old, now, is not my husband’s right

child. Her father died when she
was three weeks old. When she
was a year old, I married again.
She goes to school now and uses her

‘. tithes'sw are; egp, ,
papers to show she . can use his name. ~

I and my second husband own a
nice farm- and have a joint deed.

In caserI should die, would this.
child. get ’as much as the rest 0‘
them, and has- she just as mu -
right as the rest, or would it I
better it my husband would adopt.
her as his own, or doesn’t it/inatter
so long as she uses his name?-——A.
H. M., Saginaw, Michigan.

~41! you should die ﬁrst and"the

farm is in the joint'name of your- "

self and husband the child by your
ﬁrst husband would inherit nothing
from the farm. It would all belong
to your husband. He could give the
child what he wanted to but the law
would give it nothing unless he
adopts the child by legal adoption.
The mere keeping the child and
treating it as his own would give
no right of inheritance but if he
would adopt the child it would then
share equally with the other children
in his property as well as yours.
It would be better to have a legal
adoption made out.——Legal Editor.

 
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The present conditions in the business of the farmer

~ and 1n the fertilizer industry call for serious thought.

Both are going through a readjustment period, with
its hardships and doubts.

The farmer may well ask whether he is using the most prof-
itable fertllizer. The fertilizer salesman may well inquire
whether he is selling the kind that will do the farmer the
most good, and lead‘to larger sales in the future.

During the war America could not get Potash, and the use
of sold phOSphate increased. Central Europe could not get
' phosphates, and the use of Potash Salts increased. Today
plenty of Potash can be had at less than pre-war prices. Now
is the rlghttime to restore the balance by using more Potash
1n the fertilizer formulas than the average amount used
before, 5 to 10 per cent.

Crops take from the soil very much more Potash than hos-
phoric sold. On any s01] Where Potash'has been roﬁta 1e it

is not unreasonable now to use at least as muc
hosphoric ac1d. Ask the fertilizer agent for prices on this
nd of goods, and rebuild your soil While Potash is cheap.

Potash as

Recently 1t.has been shown that a lack of available magnesia
causes serious injury to im ortant crops on some soils.
German Kainit and Manure alts furnish this soluble mag-
nes1a W1thout extra cost.

SOIL & CROP SERVICE, POTASH SYNDICATE
H. A. HUSTON, Manager

42 Broadway

New York City

_ .1 Ask for POTASH—Buy POTASH-Use POTASH

 
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’ ’whi'ch ,he had already

   
,. .- . ed 711‘ ..
whichlhad' gathered in" his face.
. A soft light shone in her eyes.
‘ ‘iI guess Mrs. Otto chas been like
a mother to that popr little boy,"
she explained. ' “When you and Mr.
Stevens went up to buy the outﬁt
this morning Jimmy ran over to tell
her the news. 4 We were all there—-
at breakfast. He was so excited he
could scarcely breathe. But it came'
out, and he ran back to camp before
you came because he thought you
wouldn’t want me to know. Wasn’t
that funny? He told me so when I
walked a little way up the path with
him.”

“The little reprobate!” chuckled
Aldous. “He’s the best publicity
man I ever had, Lady Gray. I did
want you ta. know about this, and
I wanted it/to come to you in just
this way, so that I wouldn’t be com-
pelled to tell you myself of the big
and noble act I- have done. It was
my hope and desire that you, thru
someone else, would learn of it, and
come to understand me more fully
what a generous and splendid biped
I am. I even plotted to give this
child of Stevns’ a silver dollar if he
would get the news to you in some
one of his innocent ways. He’s done
it. And he couldn’t have done it
better—even for a dollar. Ah, here
We are at the cabin. Will you ex-
cuse me while I pick up.a few things
that I want to take on to Tete Jaune
with me?”

Between the two trees close to
the cabin he had built a seat, and
here he left Joanne. He was gone
scarcely ﬁve minutes when he reap-
peared with a small pack—sack over
his shoulders, locked the door, and
rejoined her.

“You see it isn’t much of a task
for me to move,” he said, as they
turned back in the direction of the
Ottos’. “I‘ll wash the dishes when
I come back next October.”

“Five months!” gasped Joanne,
counting on her ﬁngers- “John Al-
dous, do you mean ”

“I do,” he nodded emphatically.
“I frequently leave dishes‘unwashed
for quite a spell at a time.
the one unpleasant thing about this
sort of life—washing dishes. It’s
not so bad in the rainy season, but
it’s ﬁerce during a dry spell. When
it rains I put the dishes out on a
flat rock, dirty side up, and the
good Lord does the scrubbing.”

He looked at Joanne, face and
eyes aglow with the happiness that
was sweeping in a mighty tumult
within him. Half an hour lied
worked transformation in Joanne.
There was no longer a trace of an-
guish or of fear in her eyes. Their
purity and limpid beauty made him
think of the rock violets that grew
high up in the mountains. Her lips
and cheeks were ﬂushed, and the
soft pressure of her hand again rest-
ing on his arm ﬁlled him with the
exquisite thrill of possession and joy.
>He did not speak of Tete Juane
again until they reached the Otto
tent-house, and then only to assure
her that he would call for her half
an hour before the train was ready
to leave.

As soon as possible after that he
.went to the telegraph ofﬁce and sent
a long message toMcDonald. Among
other things he told him to prepare

 
their cabin for a lady guest. He
knew this would shock the old
mountain wanderer, but he also

knew that Donald would follow his
instructions in» spite of whatever
alarm he might have. There were
other women at Tete Jaune, the
wives of men he knew, to whom he
might have taken Joanne. Under
the conditions, however, he believed
his own cabin would be her best
refuge, at least for a day or so.
In that time he could take someone
into his conﬁdence, probably Black-
ton and his wife. In fact,- as he
thought the circumtances over, he
saw the necessity of conﬁding in the
,Blacktons that very night.

He left the station, growing a bit
nervous. Was it right to ‘ take
Joanne to his cabin at all? He had
‘a tremendous desire to do so, chief-
ly on account of Quade. The cabin
was a quarter of a mile in the bush,
and he was positive if Joanne was
there that Quads. and perhaps Cul-
ver Rann, would come nosing about.
This would give him the opportunity
or putting into execution a plan
arranged for

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, .-
OANNE GRAY is one of the passengers on the 'train that connect-*“Tho

Horde" with the civilized world.

For eighteen hours she has. been ridinl’

steadily bound for Tete Jaune Cache. the home of “Thir Horde". where she

has no friends and all/will be strange to her.
composed of several tents and learning that
hours she goes in search of food and a bath.
and It is here where she meets Bill Quade,
“Bill's Shack" but is also leader of the lawless men of the town.
he has a room she can rent and that he will show it to her.
of the room a newcomer enters the doorway leading off the street.
novelist. He sees the strange girl enter
a mistake and as he stands in the door--

comer is John Aldous. a. well known
the place and beliopes she has made

The train stopsl aha town
the train will not leave for two
She is directed to “Bill's Shack” _
who not only owns and operates
Quade says '

As they pass
The new-

way his eyes rest upon the. curtained doorway through which the girl and

Quade have passed.
eyes ﬂashing.
some money but before he 'can do so
Quade with a terriﬁc blow. Aldous
the home\of friends.
cabin. She accepts.
her husband. Mortimer
her from Quads and his part
FitzHugh is dead and locates

Fit-1"“ gh.

Quads follows her apologetically.

Aldous steps to the girls side and floors
hurries the girl away from the scene to
He then asks the girl to be his
Joanne tells. Aldous she is going to Tote
Aldous decides to f"! with he"
nor at Tete Juane. Culver Rann.
a friend who declares he has seen the grave.

In but a moment the girl steps out her face ﬂaming and

He starts to offer the girl

guest at supper in his
Jaun to find
to protect
Aldous believes

 
himself and old McDonald. On‘ the
other hand, was this arrangement
fair to Joanne, even though it gave
him the chance to square up ac-
counts with Quade? ,

He stopped abruptly, and faced’
the station. All at once there SWept
upon him a’realization of how blind
he had been, and what a fool he had
almost made of himself. Blackton
was one of the contractors who were
working miracles in the mountains.
He was a friend who would ﬁght for
him if necessary. Mrs. Blackton,
who preferred to be on the ﬁring line
with her husband than in her luxur-
ious city home, was the leader of all
that was decent and womanly 1n
Tete Jaune. Why not have these
friends meet them at the train and
take Joanne direct to their house?
Such recognition and friendship
would mean everything to Joanne.
To take her to his cabin would
mean

Inwardly he swore at himself as

 
he hurried back to the station, and

his face burned hotly as he thought
of the chance of such a blunder, on
his part would have given Qua'de and
Culver Rann to circulate the stories
with which they layed their scoun-
drelly game. He sent another long-
er telegram. This time it was to
Blackton.

He ate dinner with Stevens, who
had his new outﬁt ready for the
mountains. It was two o’clock be-
fore he brought Joanne to the sta-
tion. She was dressed now as he
had ﬁrst seen her when she entered
Quade’s place. A veil covered her
face.
he caught the soft warm glow of her
eyes and the shimmer of gold-brown
tendrils of her hair. And he knew
why she wore that veil. It set his
heart beating swiftlyrthe fact that
she was trying to hide from all eyes
but his own a beauty so pure and
wonderful that it made her uncom-
fortable when under the staring gaze
of the Horde

The hand that rested on his arm
pressed closer to his side as they
walked up the station platform, and
under his breath he laughed softly
and joyously as he felt the thrill of
it. He spoke no word. Not until
they were in their seat in the coach
did Joanne look at him after that
pressure of her hand, and then she
did not speak. But in the veiled
glow of her eyes there was some-
thing that told him she understood
—a light that was wonderfully
gentle and sweet. And yet; without
words, she asked him to keep with-
in his soul the things that were
pounding madly there for speech.

As the train rolled on and the
babble of voices about them joined
the crunching rumble of the wheels,
he wanted to lean close to‘ her and
tell her how the few .hours had
changed the world for him. And
then, for a moment, her eyes turned
to him again, and he knew that
would be—a sacrelige to give voice to
things he wanted to say. For many
minutes he was silent, gazing with
her upon the wild panorama. of

mountain beauty as it drifted past]
the car window. A loud voice two "
seats ahead of them proclaimed that

they“ .wereabout. to make" Temple-
ton’s curve. ,This man was talking

. to his companion.

.“Theyj- shot up a h’undredr‘thbui

sand no as . ’of ‘Lbiaekﬁpowder j‘snf

rm

Through the gray ﬁlm of it .

dynamite to make way for two hund-
red feet of steel on that curve,” he
explained in a voice heard all over
the car. “They say .you could hear
the explosion ﬁfty miles away. Jack
Templeton was near—sighted, an’ he
didn’t see' a rock coming down On
him that was half as big as a house.
I.helped scrape up What was left
of ’im an’ we planted him at this
end of the curve. It‘s been Temple.-
ton’s Curve ever since. You’ll see
his grave—with a slab over it!”

~ It was there almost as he spoke,
marked by a white-painted cross in
a circle/of whitewashed stones. John
Aldous felt a sudden shier pass thru
his companion. She turned from the
window. Through her veil he saw
her lips tighten. Until he left'the
car half an hour later the man in
the second seat ahead talked of Tem-
pleton’s grave and a dozen other

[graves along the right of way.

He was a rock—hog, and a ,spec1al-
ist on the subject of graves. In-
wardly Aldous cursed him roundly.
He cursed him all the way to Tete
Jaune, for to' him he attributed the
change that had again came over
Joanne.

This change she could only partly
conceal from. him under her veil.
She asked him many questions about
Tete Jaune and the Blacktons, and
tried to take an interest in the scen—
ery they were passing. In spite of
this he could see that she was be-
coming more and more nervous as
they progressed toward the end of
their journey. He felt the slow
dampening of his own joy, the dead-
ening clutch of yesterday at his
heart. Twice she lifted her veil for
a moment and he saw she was pale
and the tense lines had gathered
about her mouth again. There was
something almost haggard in her
look the second time.

In the early dusk of evening they
arrived at Tete Jaune. Aldous waited
until the car had emptied itself be-
fore he rose from his seat. Joanne’s
hand clutched his arm as they walked
down 'the aisle. He' felt the ﬁerce
pressure of her ﬁngers in his ﬂesh.
On the car platform they paused for
a moment, and he felt her throbbing
beside him. She had taken her hand
from his arm, and he turned sudden-
ly. She had raised her .veil. Her
face was dead white. And she was
staring out over the sea of faces
under them in a strange questing
way, and her breath came from be—
tween her slightly parted lips as if
she had been running- Amazed for
the moment, John Aldous did not
move." Somewhere in that crowd
Joanne expected to ﬁnd a face she

knew! The truth struck him \dumb
——made him inert and lifeless. He,
too, stared as if in a trance. And

then, suddenly, every drop of blood
in his body blazed into ﬁerce life.

In the glow of one of the station
lamps__ stood a group of men. The
faCes- of all were turned toward
them. One he recognized—a bloat-
ed, leering face. grinning devilishly
at them. It was Quads!

A low, frightened cry broke from
Joanna’s lips, and he knew that. she
too, had seen him. But it. was not
Quads that she, had: looked for. ‘It
was not his face that she had .ex-
pected ’to see norlbecause ofhimjthat

.she had lifted herveii tenths “mob!
., . tile-steeped .dpmﬁienstthscsr end
‘. gave .her his, 'f hand

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» dons by name. . It -Was .
His thin, genial face with its- little -

spiked moustacherose above the see?

" surged up. in him.

‘instant her eyes

3 Will that be too/much trouble
:yousng

 
as: ﬁngers ‘

    
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_ ‘A moment..3._later some-on ”came
through the.:cr0wd,Tand; calf: , t4
Blackto .

of heads about him, and as he Came
he grinned a welcome. v. Q

“A beastly mob!" he exclaimed,
as he gripped his friend's hand. "I'm.
sorry I couldn’t bringmy Wife nearer
than the back platform.”' - '-

Aldous turned to Joanne. He

was Still half in a daze( His heart "
was choking him with its swift and"

excited beating. Even as he intr0+
duced her to Blackton the voice kept
crying in his brain that she had ex-
pected to ﬁnd someone in this crowd
whom she knew. For a space it was
as if the Joanne whom he had'known
had slipped away from him. She
had told him about the grave, but
this other she had kept! from him.
Something that _Was almost anger
His face’ bore
marks ‘of the strain as he watched
her greet Blackton. In an instant.

it seemed to him, she had regained ,

a part of her composure. Blackton
saw nothing but the haggard lines
about her eyes and the deep pallor'
in her face, which he ascribed to
fatigue.

“You’re tired, Miss Gray,” he said.
“It’s a killing ride up from Miette
these days. If we can get through
this mob we’ll have supper in ﬁfteen
minutes!”

With a word to Aldous he began
worming his long, lean body ahead
of them. An instant Joanne’s face
was very close to Aldous’ so close
that he felt her breath, and a tendril
of her hair touched his lips. In that
looked into his
steadily, and he felt rush over him a
sudden shame. If she was seeking
and expecting, it was to him more
than ever that she was now looking
for protection. The haunting trou-

‘ble in her eyes, their ,entreaty, their

shining faith in him told him that,

and he was glad that she had not,

seen his sudden fear and suspicion.
She clung more closely to him as
they followed Blackton. Her little
ﬁngers held his arm as if she were
afraid some force might tear him
from her. He saw that she was
looking quickly at the faces about
them with that same questing myst-
ery in her search.

At the thin outer edge of the
crowd Blackton dropped back be-
side them. A few steps more and
they came to the end of the plat-
form, where a buckboard was wait«
ing in the dim light of one of the
station lamps. Blackton introduced
Joanne, and assisted her into the
seat beside his wife. - ,

.“We’ll leave you ladies to become
acquainted while we rustle the bag-
gage," he said.
Aldous?”

Joanne had given Aldous two
checks on the train, and he handed
them to Blackton. Together they
made their way to the baggage-
room.

“Thought Miss Gray would have
some luggage, so I had one of my
men come with another team,” he ex-
plained. “We won’t have to wait.
I’ll give him the checks.” ‘

Before they returned to the buck
board, Aldous halted his friend.

“I couldn’t say much in that tele4
gram,” he said. “If Missl Gray
wasn't tired and unstrung I’d let her
explain. I want you to tell Mrs.
Blackton that she has come to Tete
Jaune on a rather unpleasant mis‘
81011, old man. Nothing less than to
attend to the grave of a—a near rel-
ative."

.“I regret that—I regret it very

gmuch,” replied Blackton, ﬂinging
away the match he ~. had lighted
without touching his cigar.’ “I had

guessed that something was wrong.
She’s welcome at our place, Aldous
-—-for as long as she remains in Tete
Jauneu Perhaps I knew this rela-
tive. If I can assist you or—her—J'

“He died .before the steel came,”
said. Aldous. “FitzHugh was his
name. Old Donald and I are going
to take herto- the grave. Miss Gray“
is ”Malagasy of mine,” heulisd
boldly. ‘ “We want to start animus

  
"‘Got the checks, ,

 
.gan has been arranged by Harry F.

"of the dynamite work with the land
,.-eight schoolsof instruction in upper

. »Mi_chigan this year, will direct the
' Work in the western half of the pen-

1 e—eaStern section or the noninsula.
_ use ~

‘ -,.'};CAMPAIGN to eliminate 3, 000
» inefﬁcient cow’s throughout the
upper peninsula 012’ Michigan
begin January lst of next year.
actual work will be carried on

  
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','largely through the medium of the

cow testing association which have
already been organized in Dickinson,
Gogebic, Iron, Delta and Marquette
counties. .

The scrubs Will be replaced with
high-producing grade animals, hav-
ing an average record Of '8,000
pounds of milk annually. The coun-
try agents say this is vital, in view
10! the fact that the average mil:

' (production, per cow, in the state of

Michigan today is but 4,000 pounds.

. it it it
To Place Certiﬁed Seed

Another feature of the ensuing
year’s program will be the placing
of 50,000 certiﬁed seed potatoes
among the farmers Of the upper pen—
insula of. Michigan.

Most of the certiﬁed tubers will

be procured from the upper Michi-
gan territory, and re distributed to a
picked group of farmers. The two
types to be emphasized in the cam-
paign are the Petosky Russet and
the Green Mountain. J. W. .Weston,
potato expert for the Michigan Ag-
ricultural College, will be directly in
charge of this campaign.
_ “We aré going to try to inculcate
into the minds of the farmers that it
is not more potatoes, but better po-
tatoes, that we want in upper Mich-
igan,” Mr. Weston declared.

at it *
Other Features

Poultry culling is another agricul-
tural phase in upper Michigan which
will receive the attention of the ag-
riculture college, in the near future.
An effort will be made, during the
ensuing year, to cull out every non—
producing hen in the upper penin—
sula, replacing the ineﬂ‘icient birds
with producers, Wherever possible.
E. C. Forman, oi the Michigan Ag-
rucultural College will direct the
work.

Next-year’s schedule also calls for
fruit tree pruning and Spraying dem—
onstrations. In addition, crop tests
for better varieties will be carried
on in every county in. the peninsula,
and the effort will also be made to
promote the more general planting
of. clover and alfalfa, in place of
much of the timothy now grown.

More handicraft, pig and poultry
clubs are also included in the pro—
gram. Considerable interest has al—
ready been aroused in this work.
which has been carried on, among
the boys and girls of upper Michigan
during the past year, by A. G. Kot-
tunen, leader of boysLand girls’ clubs
for upper Michigan.

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To Encourage Dairying

It was announced during the coun-
ty‘age-nts meeting that the agricul-
tural college will, in the near future,
detail a dairy expert to the upper~
\Michigan territory. It will be his
sole duty to encourage advanced
‘dairying, largely through the med—
ium of pure—bred live—stock. His
ﬁrst duty will be the organization of
cow- testing associations in the coun-
ties which have not, as yet, taken
up this work. -

LAND CLEARING PROGRAM
DEFINITE program for the land

clearing campaign throughout
the Upper Reninsula of Michi—

Livingston, Land Clearing Specialist
for the Michigan Agricultural Col—
lege, according to a recent announce-
ment from the ofﬁce of the M. A. 0.
Extension Department at Marquette.

In order that the peninsula may
be more eﬂiciently served in this
campaign, Mr. Livingston has divid—
ed this section into two districts.
A. J. MacAdams, who was in charge

clearing train which conducted thirty

ins-.1118; George Amundsen, who ac-
companied .Cloverland-‘s, Land ”Clear-
ing Train, will direct the activities in

 
a'

l

 
beable'to duct‘ at least ten meet-

ing; in .eyery county makes it pes-

sible for the land clearing forces to
bring their information nearer to

. the farmer” declared Mr. Livingston

in discussing the program for the
ensuing ‘year. “The carload system
of buying explosives will be dis-
cussed at these meetings and it is
conﬁdently expected that all explos-
ives which the farmers of upper
Michigan will use during the ensuing
year Will be obtained for them in
carload quantity. This means a sav-
ing to the farmer of from 25 per
cent to 40 per cent of the usual
costs for explosives.”

Plans for the 1923 land clearing
are also under way. According to
Mr. Livingston, the schools during
the coming year will differ from
those held during 1922 in that the
train will consist of a caravan of
trucks rather than railway trains.
This system, it is believed, will be
a decided improvement over the rail-
way system, permitting a more ready
access to the districts'in which the
schools will be held, and will elimin—
ate the necessity of the train being

limited entirely to the rights of way.‘

Both MacAdamsand Amundson are
experienced in the'land clearing

‘work, the former being a graduate

from the University of Wisconsin and
considered one of the best dynamite
men in the country; and the latter

 
a year we will '

where he directed similar aetivities
with remarkable results.

Regarding the actual results
achieved this year thus far, with
Upper Michigan’ s land clearing cam—
paign, there is every indication, ac-
cording to Mr. Livingston, that the
60, 000 cleared acres which he pre-
dicted at the opening of the session
will be achieved.

 
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BOOST FARM COOPERATIVES
HE Oregon Chamber of Com-
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ual dwindling of the farm population
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Commerce has established a fund of
$150,000 to be used in support of
the existing cooperative institutions
and to aid in developing others.
The‘Oregon grain and fruit mar-
keting cooperatives, which are fam—
ous throughout the country for their
efﬁcient service, have done much to
cut out the middleman’s proﬁt 011
grain selling and to give the farmer
the benefit of his toil. Prosperous
farmers mean a prosperous state,
and it is a hopeful sign that the
business men of Oregon have at last
come to realize that cooperation by
safeguarding the interests of the
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RADIO EDITOR m ’ COME TO

YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD *‘
HERE are many farmers who
T needs radio in their business of
. being business farmers not only
for .the ﬁnancial returns to‘them but
for the really good things they will
receive through it, bringing pleas-
ure to their-families and to the sick
as well as the hired help. It will

help keep the family at home, it will .

ease the burden of caring for the
sick and 'will bring the church,
school, state and government de-
partments right to_the very door of
those that can not or could not go
to these very same places.

We knowr of the interest in radio
among the farmers and to assist
them and take one more step to
prove that we are “The Farm Paper
of Service" the radio editor will
spend an evening with any group of
farmers and their families in the
state at their request giving them an
evening of entertainment by radio
and at the same time demonstrate
to them the “workings” of the set.
And the only cost to them will be
the travelling expenses, board and
lodging for the night.

If Grangers, Farm Bureau, Glean-
ers, Farmers’ Clubs or any collective
group of farmers will arrange for
a hall and Will pay the actual travel-
ing expenses and supply him with
board and lodging for one night the
radio editorlwill give a. demonstra-
tion that from the amusement point
alone will be worth many times the
cost. Please write us at least one
month in advance of date you desire
to hold the meeting so arrangements
can he made. And in case the edi—
tor is all ready engaged for some
other gathering we will have ample
time to advise you. Also give all
the information possible in your ﬁrst
letter so that We may give you an
into

RBI 1‘ E NERA’III VE
SET

N describing a regenerative receiv-

1 ing set, it is well to understand

what is meant by regenerative,
and What the advantage of such a
set really is to the user and whether
it is better than a plain receiving
set. In describing such a set we
will make our language as simple
as possible and not technical.

To generate means to make or
create and to res—generate means to
remake or make over again or create
over again that which has already
been made or created. Then a he-
generative receiving set Would be
one that made over again the same
signal that it ﬁrst received, and this
is exactly what such a. set does. In
doing this we not.only get the orig-
inal signals that we receive but by
having them repeated by the same
set into and thru itself. we get the
signals much louder, and so we can
either receive messages from a
greater distance or we will receive
them louder

A plain receiving set will operate
on a crystal or vacuum tube detect-
or, but a regenerative set requires a
vacuum tube detector and unless you
intend to make such detector or buy
one, do not go to the trouble or
expense of making a regenerative
set as you will not be able to use it.

The very fact that in this set one
re—generates his signals, means that
the adjustment is a little more diffi-

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cult than with an ordinary set, but Gﬂ/ﬂ A
when patience and a little practice Iﬂf/ﬂ/Z/fm'

have made you familiar with your
set you will get results that you
can not possibly get otherwise.
Right here let us again emphasize
and a good ground.

Mr. Frank H. Jones of Tuinucum,
Cuba, has heard 16 different broad-
casting stations that were over 1,000
miles away, and 4 of these were
over 1,500 miles away, this was
done with a. vacuum tube, detector
and a. regenerative receiver. This
shows what can be done but does
not mean that? you or I will do just
but with care we
should do half as well and it 'we

can do half as well as Mr. Jones did-

we will hear all the news, music and
market reports that we Wish to hear.

To make a. regenerative receiving
set the following articles will be
needed. the screws Mm

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etc. ., you can get anywhere and in.

some cases do without, all depend-
ing upon how ianciily‘ you mount
your set or whether you just as-
semble your different parts all on a.
plain table top where they can all
be seen.

One (1) Vario-coupler, having a
range between 150 to 500 meters.

Two (2') varlometers ,having the
same range as the vario-coupler.
(The wavelength range. can vary
somewhat as each maker has a
slightly different wave length range
for his own instrument.)

Ten (10) brass contact points.

One (1) rotary switch lever.)

These two items go with the vario-
coupler, and are only needed if you
buy the varlo-coupler unmounted.

A board to mount them on apanel
for looks and a table or shelf to set
them on completes the regenerative
receiver

Now to assemble them you must
be careful, follow each wire cen-
nection thru, and then make the
connection. Study the chart of sym-
bols given in one of our articles so
that you are.sure all» connections
are corrections are correct and then
you will know that you can receive
messages from long distances.

One of the variometers we call
the “grid variometer” and the other
variometer we call the “plate vario-
meter” this is because we use one
of these variometers to- tune the
plate circuit of the vacuum tubede-
tector and the other to tune the grid
circuit of the same detector.

In making a. drawing we often
run our lines which represent wires
very close together and very
straight, making sharp turns and
looking as tho it would be diﬂ‘icult
to actually run Wires just so. It is
better not to have connecting wires
run parallell more than necessary,
and so far as being straight or

turning at right angles the best

method is to make all connections
as short as possible, letting no Wires
touch that crOss over each other
and if possible where connections.
are shown between 3 or more points
using one wire for all and not sev-
eral wires, leting the wire run from
one point to the other, pass under
the screw, and on to the next.

One can make the vario—couplers
and variometers, but such good ones

are now on the market and cost

from $3.00 to $6.00 each that much
better results can be had with less
labor if you will purchase these
parts. A complete regenerative re-
ceiver( without detector) costs on
the market today from $25 to $75
and by buying the three parts one
can be made that will do just as
good work, for $10 to $20.

Major Armstrong, the inventor of
the regenerative circuits has just
perfectedanother circuit which he
and with this circuit using 2 vacuum
tubes and the necessary parts, he
can get signals as loud as can be
had on one tube with regenerative

. two-step ampliﬁers,

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How to make a variometer and.
vario- -coupler will be described sherb-
l'y, but ﬁrst we must cover on‘e‘an‘ﬁ
and then we
will take up the making 01'.- the dif—
ierent items that some will want to
make and not buy.

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Right here I want to emphasi’z’o',
the fact that to obtain the most out.
of radio in our rural communities ,.
and in the farm home,-it must be;
done by co—operation. ’

In the home the entire family

will wish to hear the music and en—
tertainments and father the market
reports ,and to son will be given.
the “job” of making a receiving set
and ‘expect him to produce from,
some old wire,
some odds and ends a’dandy receive
ing set, and if he fails the whole
family will say that there is nothing
to radio. But if you will help,

mother with a little butter and egg-p; 2““
sister with a little of her “

berry picking money and brother and
father with a little of the pork or..-
potato or corn money you can'buy
a set that will bring the best of the ~
world’s music to you, the latest
news,

weather and market reportsq

a wooden box and, .. . _

and keep you right in touch with the ,» _

big things of life. Something that

will do you good, entertain you and ‘

your friends and keep your children
at home

In the community, the church, the
Grange, the Cleaners, the Masons or
any organization should get together
and get a radio set that will be of
beneﬁt to the whole community in»
this way the expense can be reduced
to each individual and yet enjoyed
by all Have you wanted to hear
the President of the United States
talk to you?
club‘ or church -and hear him. He
talks over the wireless now and
then.

Get together in this, you can ens
joy it collectively really better than
individually and why not share or
help share with your neighbor part
of the good things that you can
have so simply and at such a little

expense.
t t t

In shipping some Bartlett pears

and Da‘mson plums this fall I watch- ”

ed the Chicago markets as given by

KYW, the Westinghouse Vistation 9.12.. ,y

Then go to your lodge, .

Chicago, and the net proﬁts on two "

shipments, above what most of my ,

neighbors received, paid for my re-
ceiving set. This shows what can be
done, not on fruit alone but on ‘iive
stock, or dressed meats, grain or
anything that the farmers raise or
ship.

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'HARVESTING THE FUR CROP

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USKRAT are - still the most
plentiful of the Michigan fur
bearers and at prime ruling

the past three seasons value of the
catch is much more than that of
either skunk. or, mink. Muskrat
breed twice each season—some say
three times. Muskrat furs are used
imitate seal and other high-priced
furs.

Early in the season muskrat are
rather easily caught, yet after a
few havé been taken, they become
somewhat shy of uncovered traps.
Many trappers use rubber boots,
wadeing‘along the shore, claiming
that their tracks scare the rats
when conspicuous, in the mud,
along the shore. If a boat can be
used it is best, as sets can hem-ads
where otherwise they could not.

Traps of the No.1 and No.115X,
long spring type, and No.1 of the
Blake and Jump, Kangaroo, Oneida
and Coil spring, or under spring
type, are correct sizes to use. Some
experienced trappers, however, use
larger trarps, claiming that they
drown quicker. The trap, regard-
less of size, should be staked as far
out in the water as chain will per-
mit, and the trap set near shore in
about two egvthree inches of water.
Where the paths are leading from
one lake, pond or swamrp to another,
or paths, leading up the bank, no
salt is required. Bait should be
used with sets ’made where there
is but little sign. Corn, apple, pota-
to, pumpkin and parsnip are all
muskrat bait. Corn shelled and
scattered about the trap or the other
baits cut up and placed a foot or
so beyond the trap will usually en-
tice the animal to trap.

Bunches of cat tail and other
weeds or grass showing where
muskrat have been feeding are fair‘
places to 'set. Boards and logs
placed near houses sometimes make
good places to set as muskrat enjoy
resting and eating on them. Traps
baited at such places are pretty sure

- to catch

Some believe that muskrat gnaw
their feet and legs off when caught.
Such is not the case. If caught
in a stiff spring trap breaking the
bone ,they are very apt to get away
bv twisting about. The ﬂesh and
hide of the front foot and leg is
The hind foot and leg is

son it is best to make the catch by
the hind leg when possible. It is
for this purpose that traps should
be set about three or four inches
deep. In swimming to shore or
feeding places the front' feet are
apt to pass over the trap.

The weasel which turns white
during the winter months for some
years has been selling, according
to size, from about 25 cents to $1.00
or more for very best, largest and
pure white. The smallest size trap
will easily hold this animal so that
the No. 0 is much used. Weasel
will be found along old stone fences,
hedges, brush piles, etc. They are
easily trapped and sets at small
“cubbies” are probably as good a
method for catching as any. They
are fond of ﬂesh and the bloodier
the better. Keep this in mind when
setting and baiting for this animal.

There is no open season on beaver
until 1926 so no need to explain
methods of trapping this fur bearer.
There are now very. few marten in
the state so that trapping methods
about, all of the fur bearers, other
than otter, has been explained.
Otter are now quite scarce through—
out the state yet there are some in
all of the Upper Pneinsula and an
occasional one still in several parts
of the Lower Peninsula. Some eight
years ago when trout ﬁshing I
chanced upon an otter slide in Gog-
ebec County. I wrote a trapper
friend, then in that. county, and he
caught three near and at the slide
that season.

Otter are great rovers and may

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ﬁfteen or more miles and be away
for weeks. Otter are very shy an-
heals and frequent streams that are
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conveyed malaria, commonly called

escaped and which sapped the vitali-
ty of the pioneer and gave a bad
reputation to the country which pro-
duced it. The pioneer, untaught by
modern science, did not associate
malaria with the mosquito, but he
was aware that it lurked about the
damp, water-soaked low-lands, and
he surmised it had something to do
with the “miasma’ that afflicted the
atmosphere in such regions. Early;
Michigan, because of the conditions
that are here described, got a gather
badreputation in the East, and it
was early ofﬁcially declared that
very little of the territory was ﬁt for
human habitation. The difﬁculties
were exaggerated, but even so, es-
tablishing a. farming community in
the primeval wilderness was hard
enough at best. The forest, dense
and lofty which crowded round the
settler’s clearing, impeded air-
drainage and hence favored unsea-
sonable frosts, particularly in low
places. It isolated farmstead from
farmstead and made life lonely in
the extreme, so that the settler
sought every occassion for breaking
away and seeking the company of
his fellows even at great distances
from home. The battle with the
trees, and after them the stumps-—
some of them enormous in size and
well-nigh indestructible, was gruel-
ing labor for both man and beast
at a time when high explosives,
mechanical stump-pullers and tract-
ors were not yet at the disposal of
the pioneer, as they are today. If
accident or disease prostrated the
settler, hospital care did not exist
the medical care was difﬁcult to se-
curewsometimes appalling so. Such
amusements as there were, must be
also home—made, and were all the
more eagerly engaged in for being
obtained with difﬁculty. They were
spellingﬂowns and debating at the
school—house, husking and quilting
bees, raisings and camp-Meetings.
They helped to lighter. up the hard-
ships and trials of pioneering, but
one seldom ﬁnds in the recollections
of pioneer life by those who shared
it, any longing for the return of the
“good old days” which did not leave
many impressions save those of toll
and privation.

The Indians

The ﬁrst farmers 'of
were the Indians.
gonquin tribes dwelt within the
borders of the territory now com-
prised ln Michigan—aChippewas in
the north, with Ottawas and Menom—
inees in close proximity to them,
and with the Chippewas and Potts.-
watomles mainly in the south. The
Indian “garden-beds” attracted the
notice of the early settlers, although
just what these were, is still a mat—
ter of some doubt. In Michigan the
signs of these “garden—beds” have
been mostly obliterated. They are
better preserved in the neighboring
state of Wisconsin. In a. small way
Michigan Indians grew Indian or
“squaw” corn, with some vegetables,
such as pumpkins. This primitive
Indian corn—small kernels each
surrounded in its own particular
husk, clustered together as a small
ear, that would now be called a
“nubbing"——is still occasionally
grown largely for curiousity's sake,
although it is thought that it may
have some value for breeding pur-
poses because of its quick maturity.
As ope should expect, Indian agri—
culture, was unmethodical and of
slight importance, as the pioneers
testify and as is indicated by the
frequent famines from which the
Indians suffered. Forest and stream
were the normal sources of the In-
dian’s food, and while game was his
chief article of diet, he produced
maple-sugar in large quantities ap-
parently, although the manner of
its manufacture did not recommend
it to the nicer palates of the whites.
The lakes and marshes carried wild
rice in both peninsulas, but this was
not very nutritious, and thé red man
was prone to swap his. winter's store
for. a drink of rum. Even-yet im-
plements of stone or copper are oe-
casionally dug up in various por-
tions of the state that presumably
once served some agricultural pur-
pose for the Indian, particularly the
Ilndians squaw.
family was not eager for labor of

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the “shakes" or “ague;” which none

A number of Al-'

The man of the .
. we Eateries-»

also were more at home in the'iorestf

or on the Water courses than in the
tilled field: but their farmsteads did
appear close together, chieﬂy in the
southeastern corner of Michigan us-
ually reaching from the waterside
of Lake Erie or Lake St. Clair, or
the rivers ﬂowing into these lakes,
and well back into the country. The
water frontage was' narrow—often

less than sixty rods,——thus bringing ,
these sociable folk into close neigh-.

borliness and giving everyone a
chance at the watery thoroughfare
that abutted on the farm.

These French people were from
Canada and presumably were
brought hither at ﬁrst mainly by the
fur trade. In this trade Mackinac,
Sault Ste. Marie and Detroit were
points of major importance,
trading posts appeared at strategic
points in the interior, one of the
best known being that of Campeau
on the Saginaw River. The trade
was at times very proﬁtable, and ef-
forts were made to control it as a
monopoly both on the part of the
French and English. For many
years the fur trade was very much
more important than agriculture,
and its history remains full of inter-
est and romance; and, although it
is now carried on in a fashion quite
unlike the ways of Henry, of Cam-
peau, of Johnson, of Williams, and
other well-remembered traders of

the golden age of the trade—French-

English and American,-—-—the Michi-
gan fur trade is still of considerable
importance, the annual catch being
still estimated at one million dollars
in value or more.

Easterners Come to Mchigan

If the French were the ﬁrst farm-
ers that settled in the state, they
were greatly out-numbered after the
completion of the Erie Canal, by the
people from New England and New
York, who made their way by this
new waterway in very large numbers
to Michigan. The Erie Canal was
ﬁnished and opened for trafﬁc in
1825. Five years later there dwelt
within the present limits of Michi-
gan less than 30,000 pe‘bple, which
still included a considerable number
of French descent. Ten years later
there were about 212,000 inhabi-
tants in Michigan,—-—largely of
Yankee stock—aggressive, ambi-
tious, restless, and mainly agricult-
ural. Reaching Michigan mainly by
boat, they pushed into the interior.
From Detroit, Mon-rec or Toledo,
ﬁlling up ﬁrst the counties of Wayne,
Washtenaw and Oakland, and then
moving on into the valley of the
Grand, the St. Joseph and the Kala-
mazoo, and otheristreams, taking
up such lands as the surface in-tv‘i-
cations suggested were suitable for
farming, and placing their villages
where water-power or transporta-
tion possiblilities indicated a good
site. These New Englanders and
New Yorkers were mainly of British
descent, were trained in the democ-
racy of the town meeting, were Prot-
estant and Puritanical, while the
French .were Roman Catholic and
not accustomed to self-government
or much interested in it. Just as
their ancestors in New England and
western New York had reared their
dwellings on the frontier, exposed
to the hardships of pioneering and
exposed to the hazards that lurked
in the forest close by from the as-
saults of wild men and wild beasts,
so these American pioneers of Mich-
igan built their frontier cabins and
cleared their ﬁelds without taking
much account of trials, dangers or
the lonely circumstances of their
existence, but they were ﬁt instru—
ments for home-building'amd com-
monwealth building. ‘We are not
surprised that with their coming
came a demand for greater self-gov-
ernment and that this demand cur-
ried Michigan into the Union as a
state in I837.

With the inﬂux of eastern Amer.
loans, there came shortly immigrants
from the old world many of whom
took to agriculture. Germans ar-
rived very early apparently chieﬂy
from the 'Rhinelandnlndustrious,

’ thrifty, hardworking. They began to

arrive even before the Revolution
of 1848 drove many out in search of
greater liberty. Land was dear in
Germany and for many, quite unat-
tainable. It was cheap in Michigan
and probably better in quality in
the southern counties. It would cost
perhaps $200 or

but

/ Grand River,

ore per acre in
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anything, too abundant.

. these German farmers settled in re-
thq’
Soon. _
the‘Dutch from Holland in the late ‘ ,
’40’s sought new homes by the Lake "

ligious communities, such
Mennonites and Moraviaus.

as

Michigan shore in consequence of

religious difﬁculties which had arisen ~

in the mother country.
Scandinavians, _Bohemians, and
other European stocks—all good
material out of which to build a
hardy rural life; and there was even
a considerable settlement of negro

Then came

farmers in ,the south—composed of‘

freed or escaped slaves. Mining at-
tracted Fins to the Lake Superior
country, and many of these later be-
came farmers, and as farmers, the
Finns. constitute one of the most
important racial elements in the
northern peninsula today. They are
not numerous outside of these count-
'ies which border 011 Lake Superior.
Scandinavians, Germans, French and
other European stocks also have es-
tablished themselves in the. agricult-
ural northland.

The Surveying

The land of Michigan, out of
which 196, 447 farms of the state
have been carved, at the outset be.

longed to the Indians, who, as we .

have seen, made very little use of it
for agriculture.
got possession of this land through
treaties with the Indians, such as
that in 1807 which‘ceded territory
in the region of Detroit, the treaty
of 1819 ceding the Saginaw region,
of 1821 ceding the land south of the
of 1836 ceding the
northern portion of the Lower Pen-
insula and the eastern portion of
the Upper Peninsula. Before farms
could be located and described, it
was necessary to survey them. The
surveys were carried out by the Gen-
eral Land Ofﬁce of the United States.
This survey was begun in Michigan
in 1826. In accordance with the
plan of land surveys adopted by the
old Confederation Congress in1785,
a base line and meridian line was run
east and west, and north and south
throughout the state. Townships
were laid out six miles square and
numbered _with reference to their
relationship to the baseline and mor-
idian line. The townships were di-
vided into thirty—six sections and
numbered—the section in the north—
east corner" being number 1.
erposts were set eqi—distant from the
section corners. Local ’ surveyors
could then run the boundry lines of
farms being located with reference
to their postion in the section (as
“the northeast one—fourth," com-
monly written “NE1,4”).

Michigan still described by the anti-
quated and inaccurate method of
“meets and bounds," but the oﬂlcial
United States Surveys are’regarded
as the preferable form' of descrip-
tion.

When land was surveyed it could
be purchased at the United States
Land Ofﬁce of the district. Land
ofﬁces were located at various points
in Michigan, but as much of the land
owned by the United States was dis-
posed of, all land oﬂlce business was
eventually centered at. Marquette
where is now the only U. S. land
ofﬁce in the state, quite capable of
handling all the business connected
with the some 73,000 acres of land
which the United States still holds
in Michigan. Considerable tracts

of land were also given by the Unit- '

ed States to the state, in aid of edu-
cation and internal improvements——
for the construction of canals, roads
and railroads; and a' part of these
grants now form a portion of the
farm lands of the state. After the
passage of the United States home-
stead law of 1862. individuals could
acquire free lands on homestead en-
try, and the state itself now holds
considerable tracts of land also sub-
ject to homestead entry. Much of
such lands were acquired by the state
because of the failure of owners to
pay taxes assessed against them, and

presumably these lands are still dear ,
at any price and are "not desirable,

Quart- '

It is true '
. that there are not a few farms in

The United States ,

)w

for farming purposes even if ac- '

quired without a money payment. It .

is one of the problem: in which the

state ought to be interested, just :
what should be done With the lands '

    
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SOWING 'ALFALFA‘
I am thinking about sowing a
piece of alfalfa next Spring. Have
never had any experience with al-
falfa but have been advised I can
sow with oats. Please give me any
information you have regarding the
planting of this crop. Also what do
you think 'of orchard grass for pas-
ture? -—E. K., Clare County, Mich.

«Alfalfa requires a Well prepared
seed bed, plentifully supplied with
lime and having good drainage.
Many farmers are having success
sowing alfalfa with oats as a com-
panion crop, although as a rule bar—
ley is a better crop to use in place
of cats, as-it is not so leafy and does
not make such a heavy drain on the
water content of the soil. In any
case you should not use over one
bushel of cats or barley to the acre,
and if it is the ﬁrst time alfalfa has
been sown it would be better to use
only two or three peeks. You should
have the land fall plowed for the
best success with alfalfa seeded with
oats or barley.

The'seed bed should be'good and
ﬁrm. If the land is very weedy, or
if it has not been fall plowed it
would probably be better to cultivate
thoroughly until the ﬁrst of June
and then seed the alfalfa alone some
time during that month.

For the best success with alfalfa
in Michigan a hardy variety such as
Grimm, Baltic, or Cossack should be
used, and in any case northern-
grown seed.

Orchard grass has a wide adapt-
ability but is not to be considered
in preference to our other common
pasture grasses as a general rule,
except on'light land or hilly. It
grows rather coarse on rich land but
on rough infertile land it does not
make such a luxuriant growth and
it makes a useful mixture for pas-
ture on this type of soil. It is a
perennial and I think should be used

CUTTING DOWN
< THE FARM OVERHEAD

 
more on some of our rough land
as a part of a permanent pasture
mixture—J. W. N.

 
PEAT HAS LOW FERTILIZER
VALUE

' EAT, in recent years widely ad-
vertised as a fertilizer is not to

be compared with stable manure

or with mineral fertilizers as a means
of increasing crop production. This
is the essence of a statement that
has just been made by the United
States Department of Agriculture as
a result of many investiagtions on
the subject.

Special processes, such as the
“bacterization” of peat, occasionally
are alleged to give it unusual fertil-
izing powers, but tests have not sub-
stantiated these claims. An English
investigator of few years ago report-
ed good results wl‘th the use of “bac-
terized" peat, but experience in this
country has not supported his theory.
No laboratory process for the “bac-
terization” of past has been discover-
ed which materially improves. it for
fertilizer.

The peat or “humus” that has
been marketed in this country as a
fertilizer or plant stimulant has
shown a decided lack of uniformity,
but this is to be expected when it is
known that peat deposits are the
slow accumulations of layers of plant
material of different kinds. The
rather high percentage of nitrogen
occasionally found in peat and muck
is due not to the presence of avail-
able nitrogen, but the accumulation
of nitrogeneous material that is not
available for the use of plants, the
more suluble substances having been
lost._ A well decomposed layer of
peat has in it very little available
plant food of any kind.

Some kinds of‘peat are very use—
ful for stable litter and for compost-
ing. While peat is too bulky and too
poor in available plant food to serve
as a substitute for manure or min-
eral fertilizers, certain kinds of peat
appear to be suitable in the growing
of specialized crops or as potting
soil in greenhouses. In the manu-
facture of mixed fertilizers the use
of peat as a conditioner, as well as
a ﬁller, appears to have been satis—
factory to the mixer. Several vari-

eties of peat and muck soil are farm-
ed, frequently showing high produc-
tivity for many kinds of truck crops
or as grass land. Any peat deposits,
however, are agriculturally unsatis-
factory, and some peats contain sub-
stances distinctly injurious to plants.

 
Exports of corn during each of the
ﬁrst three months of 1922 were larg-
er than during any month of 1921
according to the United States De-
partment of Agriculture.

    
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IT’S ALL OVER NOW!

EST 8. little bit ago Paris said

skirts must go down—they must

be longer. For a short time
actresses an’ a few others wore ’em
longer. Some of the young fashion
women put ’em down. to the shoe
bottoms an’ reformers an’ 01’ ladies,
ol' maids Without any reason for
wearin’ ’em short, all hollered ’at
it wuz good ’an glorious—Jat our
women would be clothed agin in a
proper form. It looked like things
wuz goin' to be—but how long did
it: last? You know it wuz short-
lived—very short—our young wo-
men who have every good reason
for wearin’ their skirts shor'. ain’t
goin 'to hide the reasons by wearin'
’em long.

An' when you stop to think of
the comfort of the short ones—nu
matter what other reasons they may
have, then do you blame ’em for
wantin’ ’em_ short?

Now you nor I think for a mom-
ent that young women wear short
skirts to advertize what they've got.
We can tell by size’n 'em up ’bout
what’s there—it’s ’cause they want
comfort in walkin', in gettin’ onto
street ' cars—for a' hundred diaer-_

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the world knows that already.

«But the ol' fogies—mthe reformers,
the ol’ maids will continue to hell-
er ’bout the short skirts—they are
immodest. disgraceful an’ every
thing. An’ yet did you ever notice
that the reformers, ol’ maids, wid-
ows an’ even 01' women follow the
styles as closely as the bobbed hair-
ed ﬁappers or any other style fol-
lowers?

An’ the young men are no better.
Watch ’em an’ see—every style—
clothes, cut of hair, mustache, eye-
brows—-anything, you’ll ﬁnd ’em in
it. An' if fashion said fer the young
men to powder their nose they’d do
it—-——yes they’d powder their face an’
wear short pants an’ be monkeys if
fashion said so.

, And do you know it took ’bout
a million years ’cordin' to Darwin’s

   
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the class from which Darwin so:
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A NEW FEATURE ADDED

HE Business Farmer is proud indeed to pre-
T sent on page 29 of this issue the ﬁrst com-
plete Agricultural and Business Review in
detail, over to our knowledge printed in an Ameri-
can farm paper. It is presented by special ar-
rangement with the Department of Research of
the American Farm Bureau and is but another
department of service which that worthy organi-
zation is extending to the farming business.

This page summary will be found to contain
the comparisons on every line of business or pro-
duction in which the business farmer is interested.
It boils down into the smallest possible space, in—
formation which could be spread into volumes.
It answers in actual ﬁgures and by comparisons
with the previous month, previous year and pre-
war years, practically every conceivable question
that may arise in your 'study of farm markets
or market conditions.

We hope every earnest farmer will study this
page and thus learn to use it. It will appear
regularly in the last issue of every month and
.will. we believe, further prove that The Business
Farmer is what its readers have come to call it:
“The Farm Paper of Service!”

   
A MILK-FED MELON

Detroit Creamery Company cut a big fat,
i juicy melon the other day. It was a melon
‘ - which the dairymen helped to grow but they
didn’t share in its distribution. The melon was
a 50 per cent stock dividend to all stockholders
of record December 8th. Every person who
owned ten shares of the stock now has ﬁfteen
without the investment of a single additional
' penny.

To be able to cut a melon in times when so
many business enterprises, including farming,
are struggling for a bare existence is a distinct
tribute to the business sagacity of the melon cut-
ters.‘ It may at the same time be a pen‘ectly

~ legal and moral operation. In this particular
case it represents inordinate proﬁts which under
more equitaable conditions would have gone in
part to tho dairymen who produced the milk from
the sale of which the proﬁts accrued.

Those proﬁts were earned by entirely approved
methods. The creamer-y company paid the farm-
“ ﬁe price which had previously been agreed
upon. No former was coerced into selling his
product at that price and no advantage presum-
ably was taken of him in the matter of weight
and but. The milk was sold to .‘he consumer
at a pace previously advertised, and all presum-
ably ntaining the legal amount of butter-fat.
At no stage in the distribution of this milk was
there a single transaction, so far as the average

eye is able to poi-clove, which would not meet
I with the requirements of the most exacting
. statutes.
' The secret of this company's proﬁt-making
\ has to the fact that the company controlled every
lam item of cost entering into the purchase and
tale of the product. It told the farmer what it

 
drivers and factory help what. it would pay‘ them
thdr labor. It told the. consumer what he
- love to pay for the product when sot down
All the way from now

 
.ould pay him for his milk. It told its wagon.

Why?

  
Michigan the Detroit Creamery Company would
not be able to pay out a $2, 000, 000 stock dividend
and annual cash dividends of 12 and 14 per cent.
They would have to bargain with farmers for
their product or the farmers might sell it to
their competitors at a better price. But the
Detroit Creamery Company has successfully
met all competition and therefore controls the
supply and the market in the Detroit area and
to a. certain extent outside that area.

The Business Farmer has always believed that
the farmers themselves should furnisnthc com-

petition so badly needed in the Detroit area",

This melon slicing job has not caused us to
change our mind.

PAINTING THE LILY

N discussing the milk price, W. L. Watson,
I secretary of the Detroit Milk Bottle Exchange,
said: “We do not want to raise the price 6f
milk to the public just before Christmas holiday
season when it' would worko real, hardship. A
little while ago the farmers flooded .us with milk.
Now they are a little short with the supply and
we think they are holding it back to force an
increase in price. We have only the interest of
the public at heart. We do not want higher milk
prices.” .

That was a. nice little speech to be sure. All
who read it in the Detroit daily papers must have
instantly said, “Those wicked farmers are trying
to starve us with their high prices. If it wasn’t
for the creamery companies there's no telling
where milk prices would go.” But the poor
ignorant consumer doesn’t know that the dairy-
men haven’t declared a dividend in a “dog’s ago,”
while the big creamery companies declare ’em
every three months.

TAX EXEMPT?

OHN DUVAL DODGE, son of the late John

Dodge, one of the millionaire brothers who

built their fortunes in a few years Out of the
manufacture of automobiles, is protesting against
the payment of any personal tax An amount,
said at the time to have been two millions of dol-
lars, was handed the young Dodge just about
a year ago and since that time he has been in
the public eye more or less frequently. Now
he does not claim that he spent the two million,
but rather that he has invested 'it all in tax-
exempt bonds and federal certiﬁcates of indebt-
edness. »
t O O t

Tax—exempt bonds are just about as fool—proof
a form of investment as any one could ever hope
to own. It seems a little strange to some of us,
however, that industry» and sweaty labor should
continue to be taxed beyond all reason, when
retired capitalists or fat estates can boast of
tax-exempt securities, which good year and bad,
bring in a golden stream of proﬁt, to their owners.
We do not boast of being economists, but we won-
der if this seeming injustice is necessary. There
must be another way out and the man who ﬁnds
it need not be called a “radical" either!

OUR NAVAL RESERVE IS THE VKEY

IGHT now the thing that is “rocking-the—boat”
R at Washington is the ship subsidy. Our ex-

periment in ship-owning has been mighty
expensive and now various plans. are brought
forth to solve the problem. Most everyone
agrees, however, that it would be a shame to
lose the investnfent we have made or to see the

“American ﬂag again a strange sight at sea.

There is such a thing as “putting—up—a—good-
front," even if it does cost something.

The Business Farmer would like to suggest
a plan that, so far, we have seen no sponsors
for, yet for the life of us, it seems practical, and
economical. It is the coordinaton of the navy
with the-merchant marine. It would make every
man in the pay of the Unted States navy from
Admiral to Seaman, second class, a worker on
the merchant ships which fly the American ﬂag.
Whether the government operated these ships
or they were operated by private corporations,
on one of the plans suggested. would be lmlateria‘l.
The important thing would be that in’times of
peace we would have a great many thousand

navy men actually at sea operating our merchant

ships in every port in the world. yet ready for
instant call in case of trouble.

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. It would give only man on an American
merchant ship a rating in the, Nasal Rosario at;

   
actual competition in the creamery business in

7 ‘ ﬂ ‘
hold on English, German ‘ 1.
There are literally hundreds 1d! thousands at

young men in this country, between 18 and 25,
who would be anxious and willing to serve, lam: ’

a two year enlistment in the navy of their coon;
try, if they were assured that after a very brie:
land training, they would go to sea immediately
as ordinary seamen, on merchant ships visiting

the Aforeign ports of the world.

Arotation could easily be arranged whereby
both oﬁlcers and men would havb certain months
of actual naval training on battleships and with
guns, but the greater part of their time would
be spent at sea and in the actual operation of
ships which is, after all, the most important cons ‘
sideration when war comes. ;

The situation today is; that we have a great
“standing” navy, including single battleships with
crews of a thousand or more men, “standing-by.”
like ﬁremen in a ﬁrehouse, waiting for the alarm.
That is alright, but when war comes, this great
body of men is only a. skeleton of the number
actually' needed for naval service. ‘ So. smooth

' working organizations are broken up into ‘hund-

reds of units, while volunteer "gobs" are hur-
riedly enlisted, most of Whom have never felt
salt-water under their feet. On the other hand,
today, we have a great merchant marine with

hundreds of ships of every size, from the giant

“Leviathan" down, which some say unless the
ship subsidy bill is passed, must, lie at. their
wharvos while the commerce of the greatest na- "
tion in the world is carried on ships that ﬂy the
ﬂags of foreign nations. ’

Cannot these two great similar propositions
be welded into one?

At an actual saving, it would seem possible
for the United States of America to make her
naval strength greater through emciency and
her merchant marine the envy of the rest of the
world.

Can it be that we are the ﬁrst to suggest this
seemingly apparent solution?

' WHO CAN AFFORD WAR?

EFORE the war, the national. debt 'of the
United States was $1,038,546,000 and today
is is $23,922,000,000, Frances national debt

was $6,346,129,000, now it is $23,350,000,000,
while Great Britians has increased frOm $2,485,-
818,000 before the war to $37,910,000,000 today!
That is the price these nations paid for War.
The total monetary loss, alone, of all the
nations in the World War, mounts up to a. ﬁgure
that is simply inconceivable, it staggers even the .
imagination, Some of this money the winners
expect to gouge out of the losers. How much?
Your guess less good as anyone elees. 1 Probably
it is going to bring about a combination which
will include Russia; they will say, “rather than
pay what we cannot pay, we will ﬁght you again! ”
It is a shame that wars can be fought on' credit.
If it were a case of “pay as you enter,” there is
not a nation on the face of this earth that could
get by the conductor.
And that would be a blessing to all people!

“ top my paper on expiration" says F. C. Lee,
Thom sonville, “Potatoes are 16c here!" Yes,
friend Leo, and they probably would always be
150, if it were not for serious minded men and
loyal farmers who know that the way to right
a wrong is to ﬁght it out. The'ostrich sticks
its head in the sand when surrounded by danger!
The human ostrich among farmers harangues his
wife, says all farm organizations are run by
grafters and stops his farm paper! Thus having
cut oil the three sources from ‘which aid would
come, he goes back where he belongs, which is
not in the farming business.

If you farmers are not satisﬁed with the op-
pointmont of James Coupons, as senator to an
the unexpired term of Truman Newborry, it is
because they do not know the man nor his record.
We believe that before a year from date the
Senator from Michigan will have made an envi-

. able record in the senate and that among his

best friends at home will be our farmers.

 
With 17 out, of 24 farm products advanced in
price over a month previous, as shown in the
Agricultural deusinoss Situation. on page 29 of
this issue, it wOuld appear that the farmer can
begin to catch a glimpse of the silver lining,
for which we have all been looking. hoping and
praying! _

You who have wanted to road the Truth about
Henry Ford, will be delighted with our unname-
meat in this issue that we have secured tie

print this

 
gr ‘ .
have cars that do not pay any tax,

_. only their license, and they travel

the roads more than the average
taxpayer because they have nothing

' to keep them at home.

';

The dealers of every county should
pay to the ‘county a certain per cent,
say 50, to go direct to the county
roads and the rest to the state to be
divided equally among the counties
for the state roads.

I am for better roads but just now
the taxes are about high enough.
The license is all right as it is. -

Most of the tractors and engines
sold .now use coal oil so the farmer
would not be taxed for them. What
do you say?——M. B. D., .IsaFelle
County, Michigan.

FORD FOR PRESIDENT

WANT to .Write a little verse,
I I hope you’ll print it too,

And so impress the universe

' With us poor farmer’s View.
The M. B. F. is everywhere

,And everybody reads it
Soif a little space you’ll spare

To give our views to them as needs

it

We want Mr. Henry Ford
In .the Presidential chair
And we’ll thank you
' Farmer
If you’ll help us put him there.
Now' if you think this verse is snappy
Enough to put in print
You’ll make us very happy
And we’ll say you done your stint.
Next presidential election get out
and vote
Ever last woman and man
And please remember you’ll get our
goat
If you make him an also-ran.
Now Mr Harding, he s all right
A good man in the chair
But Henry wants to get in the
ﬁght
And we want to help .him there.
We’ll back Mr. Harding right to the
end,
He’s a mighty good ma‘n,I’ll swear.
But Henry's been the working man's
friend
And we want him in the chair.
—-Fred Packer, R. 1, Fosters, Mich.

Business

ARE WE ECONOMICALLY BLIND
N your issue of October 28th is a
communication from L n m a n
Klink, Eaton County, - headed
“Let’s Fix Our Price”,
Brother Klink, in common with
most farmers reaalize there is some

,thing that makes farming unproﬁt—

able that is beyond the power of the
individual farmer to remedy. In
other words the farmers’.problem
has become social. The Editor’s
answer tid the effect that education
and cooperation would eventually
solve the farmers’ ecouomic difﬁcul-
ties is sound. Cooperation worth
while must be preceded by and ac-
companied with education.

A number suﬁiciently large to

make cooperation powerful enough.

to emancipate the farmer from eco-
nomic serfdom must be of one mind.
They must know what is ,wrong;
and why it is so; and what it is
necessary to do to set it right.
The question naturally arises as
‘to where the farmers are to secure
the educational essential to their in—
dustrial emancipation. Those who
purport to be leaders of thought
among the, farmers should ﬁrst se-
cure the information called educa-
tion; and as a result of that educa—
tion formulate a program. suﬁiciently
extensive, the'carrying out of which
would enable the farmers to remove
- evéry parasite ofbltheir backs; And
I hereby request the Editor of—“The
Mi-chigét'i'Business Farmer” to at
once start educating himself in eco-
nomics so that he can outline} a pro-
gram that will solidify the farmers
of the nation.

Farmers have been led by the eco-,

nomically blind long enough. How
can the farmers whose lives are do.
,_ voted to physical toil do. the neces-
sary mental work incident to a sound

program it such mental work is too

411111th for the editOrs of our farm

journals the professors of our

agricultural colleges?

‘ Last evening I listened to a lecture
with a astiopal gbgfation

I dress was devoted to the deplorable“

condition of the forty per cent or our
population engaged in farming, for

which condition he attributed high

freight rates. Most’ of» us are old
enough to remember when freight
rates were low and we have not for-
gotten that the condition of the
farmers was relatively the Same then
as" now. . Any economist‘ knows that
if farm products were carried on the
railroads free of all charge that the
farmers under existing . conditions
would not beneﬁt thereby. -

.Last Labor Day I listened to an
address by an M. A...»C. professor
in which he recommended the im-
proving of the dairy cattle as a
means of making farming more pro-
ﬁtable. Of course we will agree that
the improvement of anything is very
desirable; but any economist knows
that if every cow in this country was
as good as the one now having the
highest record, that such a desirable
condition would Only result in the
lowering of the price of butterfat to
about the point of production, and
would not, under existing conditions,
beneﬁt the farmers of the country
one farthing.

The study of social economy has
taught me that the “ﬁxing” of the
price of farm products by the farm-
er would only result in increasing
the cost of other commodities to a
point that would more than offset
the additional amount the farmer re-
ceived as a result of his price
”ﬁxing." 7

Farmers are wealth producers who
are tricked into surrendering a large
portion of their wealth to those Who
produce nothing " of value. The
trick consists of making the farmers
believe that they can proﬁt by a pro-
ﬁt system. Farmers not being econ-
omists. are unable to see that since
they pay more proﬁt on the commod-
ities they buy than they receive on
what they sell that the so called pro—

. ﬁt they receive is more than wiped

out by the proﬁt they pay, hence
farmers in general do not on the

average make any ‘proﬁt. I am
aware that any one who points out
that the proﬁt system is what keeps
the farmer poor is at once labeled
as a socialist. But the only sure
test by which one can tell any pro-
gressive thinker from a socialist is
by asking him to state his remedy.

The socialist will tell you that the
remedy lies in voting the socialist
ticket. The writer is of. the opinion
that intellgent cooperation based on
an understanding of social economy

.will emancipate the wealth producers

of the nation. If I am right then

the Socialist Party is not needed. If
I am wrong there are no doubt a-

number of your numerous readers
that can set me right. I am a stud—
ent of economy that is anxious to
get further enlightenment; and for
that reason I am anxious to have the
Editor and others to point out the
faults in my position. Let us have
a real educational debate in these
columns.

I am working on a program to be
based on a scientiﬁc understanding
of social economy that will point the
way to industrial emancipation for
the wealth producing class; and I
am anxious for the assistance of the
Editor and readers of “The Michigan
Business Farmer..”—-Joseph Warnock,
Presque Isle, Michigan.

—The editor has an open mind and
is anxious to receive all suggestions
for the improvement of agriculture.
He is conceited enough to believe
that he is already qualiﬁed to “out—
line a program” which if carried out
would beneﬁt agriculture, but he re—
frains from offering a guarantee that
this program would “solidify the
farmers of the nation.” Just now
there are all kinds of brands of self-
styled “tarni—lcndcrs,“ each of whom
has his pet solution for the agricul—
tural problem. But there are really
few of sound business judgement and
versed in economics who are at
heart in sympathy with the farmers’
problems. It has been my observa—
tion that an academic training is of

 
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ﬁrst “solidify” those. who thin
represent the farmer. And _
not an easy thing to do. For"
hold many diVergent opinions,
each is jealous of the other.

ﬁnd too many so- «no: c:l “economists
disagreeing among themselves as t
which is the best way to proceed to
raise agriculture to the plane of
other lines of business. The great;
problem today as always is to get
the farmers“ thinking and acting i
unison, for as you say any program_
for improving their status must hav
their loyal support. You have offer..-
ed a number of interesting sugge _.
tions. Let us hear from you again.“
—Editor.

UBI ISHER’ S DES

Dear Mr. Slocum: I am'a reader,
of M. B. F. and have taken it for\
years and like it- better as it grows
older. I have 21/2 shares of stock
in the Whitney Tractor Company and .
you will see by the enclosed circulars.
from E. McNeal & Co., stock brokers
in Chicago, that they offer me 100
shares of Mid-Continent Develop-
ment Company stock for payment of
$10 conversion costs, plus $2 con-
version expense. It is an oil com-
pany you will see by the circulars
attached. Tell me what to do.——W.
'l‘uscola County.

——If, as you say the stock in Whitney
Tractor Company is no longer of
value, then the scheme to get you
to convert it into an oil stock by the
payment of further cash, is only a
trick, and We would not advise you
to put any good money after bad.

Mrs. II. E. \V., Oakland county,
sends me the literature of a company
who wants her to paint art-pillows
for them at her home and for which
they promise to pay her liberally. I
have replied to her as follows:

“If the Omaha Tapestry Paint
Company. LnGrange, Indiana, have
a fair and square proposition they
certainly do not indicate it in the
guarantee which they make.

“The guarantee on their order
blank amounts to nothing, and after
they have received your $6. 00, we
doubt very much if you could get
any considerable part of it back
were you dissatisﬁed.

“Any company that was really anx-
ious to get people to work for them
at home would be glad to send you
the Work without cost to you, and
it is pretty safe to look carefully
nto any proposition as a money mak-
ing scheme for home employment
which requires you to send money
in advance to get that employment.

“We are giving this company an
opportunity to give us the names
and addresses of some of their set-
isfied employees in Michigan."

Although my letter to the company
was written November twentieth, no
reply has been received to date.

“Kindly advise me, if the Auto
Knitter Hosiery Co. Inc., of Buffalo,‘
N. Y. is good and reliable, I intend
to buy an Auto Knitter from that
company for $50.00 spot cash, then '
they would give me a contract for 5,
years for making socks on that
machine. They agree to buy all the
socks I can make in 5 years and
they guarantee to pay $1.50 per
dozen pairs of socks, they furnish
the yarn. Would you please write
me if it would be a good idea to
buy this Auto Knitter and work in
spare time to make some money?”,_.

———We would advise you to send no
money to any knitter company.
This matter has been brought up
many times and we have yet to ﬁnd
anyone who is satisfactorily making
money at home by the method which
they advertise.

Until they can prove to us that
the plan is practical, we will not al-
low them to advertise in our col-
umns, and we do not have very much
respect for any publication which
does.

Recently they sent us the
dresses of some users in ._ .
to whom we wrote and two out
three offered their maChines for
If you still want to buy one; we
send you their addresses. "

 
. humble birth
ountry, centuries ago, a man
called .Jesus remains today the
isigniﬂcant event in the history
on. Whatever the measure and
.. e of one’ s honest belief, whether
1‘ not we must regard his as Messiah
s-e—the Christ or the carpenter—we
' e the inescapable fact that this
‘ n in three brief years of active
' inistry exerted a profounder inﬂu-
ence on the subsequent life of the
tworld than any other ﬁgure in its
' ords.
Though there be hundreds of
momnds little interested in either
8 practical or abstract affairs of
. ligion, they cannot escape reckon—
. lug with the fundamentals of ethics

   
hey cannot gainsay the measureless
alue of character. Surrounded by
p: i, “cloud of witnesses" they must
f recognize the immense signiﬁcance

to the world of Him whom St. Paul
' lled the “author and ﬁnisher of
our faith.” For it was this Nazarene
carpenter who taught the world the
Supremacy of character, who gave
to the relationship of men the glor-
iﬁed theory and practice of ethics
'fwho exempliﬁed before the world the
idea of sacriﬁce and service.

By the hard scoffers of his time
this man Jesus was accused of hav-
ing imperialistic ambitions, of hav—
ing designs upon earthly kingdoms.
The world learned later that He
sought rather to introduce the king—
‘ dom 01‘ God to the ungoverned souls
,of men. He did not seek to drive
men into new earthly social and gov—
ernmental alignments. He sought
to realize in us all the latent forces
of personality that we might come
into the appreciation of a greater
kingdom than earth c‘
kingdom of the soul. -

It is our custom to give complete
" approval to the agencies of human
betterment. \Ve accept the immense
values of social service, of church,
of Red Cross, of school and hospital.
' These things but exemjlify the phil—
osophy. of the man whose birthday
We commemorate. We give gifts at
Christmas time because the custom
is remindful of the life and works of
, _One who gave all for others. Christ-
mas is no mere holiday. It .is the
day on which we turn to give our
most impressive recognition to the
great fundamentals of life. With-
out Christmas and its signiﬁcance
life is a dreary endurance. The i1«
luminating fact of the Gallilean
lights up the face of the world It
attaches meaning to an everlasting
struggle.

,“I am come,” said Jesus, “tho:
they might have life and that they
might have it abundantly.” He
came, and life was clothed with new
meaning. It was fraught with new
- abundance.

,_ Whatever good impulse ﬂows fr'im
the human heart today and tome"-
row andrthe next day, whatever
_ kindly word is said, whatever God
'like thing is done, be sure indeed
that Jesus of Nasareth is passing
‘ this wait—Clipped.

               
TIIE TALE OF A CHRISTMAS
PUDDING

Y Cousin Mary Agnes told me

this sad tale, Mary and John

told her, it happened to them

personally, (as a friend of mine al—

ways says fer emphasis) so it is well

vouched for Also Mary Agnes

‘ tasted the pudding or at least she

“tried to but that is getting ahead of
the tale.

Mary and John earn the butter
'. fer their bread and the clothes for
their backs by the highly respected
' but not over—paid art of setting their
mental ramblings down on paper
'and selling What does not reach the
\ waste— basket.

" They live in a cosy little ap: 1rt-
ment and when they do not dine out
”they dine at home, sometimes alone
and often With a member of the
Press Club for good company. Each
Christmas it had been their custom
59?: go into a bakery and at some ex-
, pause buy a delicious Christmas
.— uddng with which to induce the
Wper holiday spirit and to help
ﬁg; ebrate the day.

his year of which I speak, Mary
' in a. well known Women’s or
es" Journal a recipe for a wond-
1' Christmas pudding, it made
mouth water to read about it,
i of Candied peels, of sugar-
0; n“11'ts and raisins. all

  
'in' a? far

End the basis of Christian behavior.»

 
galore. A bright idea came to her,
why not make the Christmas pud-
ding? It would undoubtedly be big-
ger and better and cheaper too
which was to be considered for
many were the demands upon the

modest surplus put aside for Christ— -

mas giving, as they had hearts that
were ever touched by the appeal
of those not so well off in worldly
comforts as themselves.

The very next day, in high spirits
they gathered together all the in-
gredients for that pudding. To be
sure the materials seemed to cost a\
good deal, just how much they did
not care to ﬁgure it might detract
a little from the pleasure they were
going to have. It was borne in up-
on them that while the-pudding
might not be cheaper, it must be
better and certainly would be big—
ger anyone with even a grain of
sense could see that, so with gay
hearts they set about, that evening,
after dinner, to put those products
of many climes together. Dear in-
ektgerienced John was splendid
help, if he hadn’t been, Mary cer-
tainly would have given up in des-
pair, for that pudding like the‘one
011 the old women’s nose, grew in
bulk and weight until, like her,

mADepaﬂment for the Women

lited by MRS. GRACE NELLIS JENJ'J,

  
“and they decided to remember him

with a bit of Christmas joy in the
shape of a pudding. The ac-
knbwledgement of the gift came
shortly in a. letter the terms of
which could be best expressed by an
eloquent dash or two.

There may be a. moral to this tale.
It can be said that _while writers
can produce pi(e)—they would best
not tamper with a pudding.

Now if you have ver worked in
a printing—entice ye will understand
this reference. ~

 
CHRISTMAS
CENTER
PIECE

   
SIMPLE yet effective, center-

piece for the Christmas din-

ner-table, that will suit the
fancy of the season, is arranged on
a circular piece of wood. The cover
from a large candy—pail is just the
right size; this you can get for the
asking. Make, near the edge, two
small perforations, on on each side.
Wind a piece of wire, about twenty
inches long, with red ribbon, and

they wanted to wish it away. Cer- then with holly. The artiﬁcial
tainly it would be BIC-GER, it ﬁlled, kind, which is such a good imita—
every ket- tion of the
tie, in it’s W6 real holly,
place, every F? b»: ~ migg “Q! g: {E Q {E bro N will do ev-
p o t an (1 en better,
every pan, . f or t h 0
they .1- A Christmas Qlarnl wire stems
in o s t, re— ‘ ‘ , H can be eas-
quisitioned .\\'hat means this glory argund 0111' feet, 0” ily bent in
the coffee~ lho magi mused, more bright t 11m morn . a n y way

pot, for the
last sticky
b i t . A t
twelve o’—
clock two
exh a usted
litterateurs
s o u g 11 t
their beds
v o W i n g
that they
were nev-
er born to
be bakers.

The day
b e f o r e
Christmas
Mary Ag-
nes blew in
a 11 d w a s
coaxed to
remain for
d i n n e r ,
they would
s a m p 1 e
the Pud—
ding a u d
anticipate the joys
of tomorrow and
of many days to
come, by the ap»
pearance of the
pantry shelf. The
simple repast was enjoyed to the ut-
most, then came the pudding re-
posing in a wreath of holly, looking
as innocent as you please. Ah! ap-
pearances are deceiving, even in
puddings, for it sat there stolidly
and solidly and utterly refused to
be divided, one could almost hear
it say “In unity there is strength,”
At last it was “decided to remove it
to the kitchen where one might vent
his feelings on that resistant mass
by taking the hatchet to it. The
janitor had one and it was sharp,
one felt its keen edge with joy.
John’s prowess at golf came in hand-
ily, the cut was,made, imagine their
consternation when out from that
break their ﬂowed a stream, a rich
brownsticky ﬂuid carrying with it

. but why any more painful de-

“’.l‘o(lay the Prince

tail? Now for the soap suds and '

the mop and for calm and quiet re-
ﬂection after by the cheerful, blazing
hearth. Who wanted the pudding
any way? -

Said Mary Agnes, “That pudding
is like society, it is hard to break

thru the upper crust, and when you_\
do, you ﬁnd little inside but dough. "

That is notfquite the end of the
tale, for Mary and John happened
to know the editor of that Journal

QEﬁQHEEEQEEEHEEEEEEE

And voices chanted clear and sweet, (1,,
of Peace is born!”

“\lﬂiat means that star,” the shepherds said,
That brightens through the rocky glen?”
And angels, answering overhead,
Sang, “Peace 011 earth, good will to men!” alted

All round about our feet shall shine

A Light like that. the “Visa Men saw,
If we our loving will incline

To that Sweet Life which is the Law.

So shall we learn to understand

The simple faith of shepherds then,
And, claspin’g kindly hand in hand,

Sing, “Peace on earth, good will to men!”

And they who do their souls no -wrong,
But keep at eve the faith'of morn,

Shall daily hear the angel song,
“Today the Prince of Peace is born!”
—-James Russell Lowell. top; con-

\i/ 5:» ','
;:_2 last: :(rfE "

 
The Women’ s Department.

es i r e d.
( over the

a d oily,
then shape
the decor-
wire
in the form
of an arch,
and insert
each 6 n d
in a perfo-
r a t i o n ,
b e n din g
the w i r e
b e n e a t h
to hold it
ﬁrmly i n
p l a c e ;

C h ristmas
bells at the

ceal t h e

g ! $7"? 3 edges 0 f

the board

w i t h a

tl1ick"wreath of

holly, and in the

center of this

place a small gift
for each guest.

To complete the
effectiveness of this little scheme of
decoration there should be four tall
red candles in‘ brass or glass sticks,
ornamented with sprays of holly. and
if the table is a large round one there
might be an individual candle at
each place. Have the dinner-cards
bell-shape, with sprigs of holly, and
the Christmas greeting in red and
green, and on each napkin place a
crisp dinner roll; fold the napkin
over cornucopia—shape and lay a bit
of holly on top.

Another delightful centerpiece for
the family dinner-table, especially
pleasing to the children, is a real
Yule cake; the top and sides are
covered thickly With a glistening
white icing, and there are small red
Christmas candles scattered all over
it. The cake is placed on a candle-
board with a wreath of holly and
lighted candles arranged around it.
At the end of the meal the candles
may be removed, and the cake cut
and served. with some light frozen
dessert.

CHRISTMAS CONTRIBUTIONS
FROM OUR FRIENDS ,_
I am a reader of The Business
Farmer and recieve lots of help from
I wond-

 
board with“

hang three

111 kids
last minute.

to our page. I am making a cute

corset bag of terry-cloth With the}

lazy;daisy stitch. I
stitch in pink. It makes a very use-
ful gift. I am also making some
very pretty aprons out of cretonne
and linen. One can make gifts so
cheaply. I will make Christmas
candies for any one who Wants to
buy. Chocolate fudge at 40 cents
a pound, plain fudge 'at 30 cents
and taffy at 25 cents post paid. My
letter is getting long so I will close.
Ell/{1&0 D. Miner, summit City,
1c .

outline the

 
New Ideas

Buy jewel- cloth and run colored,

threads, san~silk or silk ﬂoss in
the open work. It will make a pretty
and effective lunch-cloth or bureau

gscarf or cover for card tables. French

gingham in ﬁne checks is much
used as borders for guest towels.
It may be put on the ends doubled,

                                 
A Reader of your page.

“Aunt Eliza’s Fruit Cake

I have enjoyed “our department”
so much, but have never contributed
to it before altho’ I have often
wanted to. I’m sure many readers
feel the same Way, but the duties
of the home are many where there
are little folks and before we know

it the paper has come again and we A

have forgotten the old request and
found a new one. I see that a lady
wants a fI‘it cake recipe and I have
a dandy, so will be glad to pass it
along. Will watch for the sisters
reply to that bread query because
I’m having the same trouble and
can’t locate the cause.

Cream one cup of butter with two
cups of sugar, add four well beaten
eggs,1 cup molasses, one cup sour

cream, one pound of 1aisins, seeded’

and chopped, one half pound of cur-
rants, one quarter pound citrOn, or
mixed peel, 1 teaspoon of soda in
the ﬂour, spices to taste, and three
and one half cups of ﬂour. Bake
in a modexate oven. Cream is abso-
lutely essential to the goodness of
this cake which when it is good, is
good.

It is nice made into loaf tins and
kept in a suitable place fer Thanks—
giving and Christmas. ~—<Mrs. Paul
1 ester.

 
Christmas Fruit Cakes

I am sending you a couple of rec-
pes for fruit cakes which we ﬁnd very
good.

Fruit Cake (Christmas) '

3 lbs. raisins, 3 lbs. currants, 1 lb.
ctron,1 lb. butter, lib brown su-
gar, 1— 2 1‘1). lemon peel, 3 cups ﬂour,
8 eggs, 1 teacup molasses, 1 teacup
coffee clear, 1 wineglass brandy (we
always leave out), 2 teaspoons cin~
namon, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 tea-
spoon alspice, 1— 2 teaspoon mace, 1
teaspoon soda disolved in hot water
put in last, add 1— 2 lb. blanched
almonds" ,

White Fruit Cake

3 eggs beaten separately, 1— 4 cup
butter, 1- 2 cup white sugar, 1- 4 cup
milk, 1 cup ﬂour, 2 teaspoons bak-
ing powder, 1— 4 lb. citron peel, 11b
raisins (not necessary white), 1-2
lb candied cherries, 1- 4 lb. blanched
almonds, 1 teaspoon vanila extract,
1 teaspoon lemon extract, 1 teaspoon
almond extract (less of these will
do. )—tCanadian Subscriber.

 
Christmas Hopes

I hope when Christmas comes

around,
You’ll be there to enjoy it.
And if you have a that remorse
i hope you ’11 not employ it.
I hope your gifts will be enjoyed
’Mid laughter gay and jelly,
I hope your heart will lighted be
As in your house with hell-y,
I hope that many gifts you’ll get,
Bedecked with cards and ribbon——
And when that roasted turkey comes
I hope you’ll have your bib on.
I hope these joys will ﬁll your heart
Right up from top to bottom.
And if unknoted ropes, I’ve left
I hope that you will knot "em.
But pray, my friend, remember Him
To whom is dedicated '
This day of icy and gaiety, ‘M
This day of hearts inﬂated. ’

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recipe. .

2 cups granulated sugar, 1 cup of
lard, 3 eggs, one cup of sour cream,
1' bps. soda, 1 tps. baking-powder,
flour enough to roll out not 'too
stin'.

Now will anyone send in a recipe
for ginger-snaps like the Ones you
buy in stores? I have tried several
recipes.but they are right.

i have a brown silk dress which
is stained from perSpiration; can the
stains be removed? Could it be done
successfully?~ Any help will be
much appreciated.-———Mrs. J. W. _

A teaspoonful’of powdered borax
dissolved in a pint of hot water and
applied with absorbent cotton will
remove perspiration stains unless
the. stains are too deep set. The
suit would undoubtedly dye all right
but perspiration rots silk and the

‘I‘will give'you my favorite cookie

 
25mm TO GOOD DRESSING___'_

For Simplicity, Service and Style

Address orders to Mrs. ’Jenney, Pattern Department, M. B. F.
Catalog 15c—Pattern 12c

A Pretty Frock
for "Service or
"'Porch"

4180. Chintz and
unbleached muslin
were combined to
make the style here
illustrated. T h e
model is also 8‘00d

  
‘4 een, and percale.
The girdle may .be
omitted, and the ful-
ness held in place
with a girdle or belt.

This pattern is cut
in 4 Sizes: Small,
34—36. Medium $38140,
La e, 42-44; ixra
Lagge, 46-48 inches
bust measure.

\A medium size re-
quires 4 5-8 yards of
32 inch material. To
make the waist of
contrasting material
' will require 1 3-4

d. The width of the skirt at the foot
Euz 1-2 yards.

l .

A Smart Version
of A Popular
Style
4156. Kasha cloth
or Canton crepe
would be suitable for
this model. It has
simple lines. The
plait fullness at the
sides gives addition-
al width to the skirt.
This is a model that
is easy to develop.
The pattern is cut
in 3 Sizes: 16, 18,
and 20.years. It re-
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'There are many ways to make
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I always have success by putting a
sack by the stove and stirring it
often. Take é‘nough for your bread
in the morning, put in a dish set in
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through but warm until ready to

 
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4179. The simplicity
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practical points that
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way you choose. You may stir in
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until morning. Then set the sponge.
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keep it warm. Be sure to let the
sponge get good and light, then mix
stiff so it will not stick, rub on lard
cover tight. When twice its size
mix down again. When its twice its
size mix in loaves, when twice the
size, bake until done. I have baked
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many ways ’for good bread but the
main thing is to have ripe yeast——
let it have a good start with good
ﬂour you need not worry but your
home new ﬂour.
little, the more aged the ﬂour is the
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pen. Let’s not be a “Curiosity
Uni-mella.”. Many times we are and
, do not know it but if you will
watch yourself carefplly you can
avoid being one. .Peeple do not
like “Curiosity Carmellas” so if you
would have many friends do not
pry into other people’s business.

We have some stories about Chris-
mas by our boys and girls for our
page and will print more next issue.
Noelle so far has guessed what the
prize will be for the best Christmas
story. '

'I once read a quotation that the
thoughts of Christmas bring to my
mind. It is, “The fact that you re-
member means more than the gifts
you give.” Remember all your
friends this-“Christmas. Although
' you may only send Chritmas cards
it will show them that you remem-
_.ber.—-—UNCLE NED.

   
OUl. BOYS ANT) GIRLS

Dear Uncle Ned—May I join your
merry circle? I enjoy reading the
M. B. F.. very much. I read about
your contest in the paper so I
thought I would try to win a Christ—
mas present. I think it is some—
thing useful because Uncle Ned
would not gve anything that wasn’t
useful.

It was Christmas night when the
sun began to lower that Tommy hung
up his stocking to see what Santa
would bring him. As his mother and
father were poor Tommy didn’t ex—
pect much. It was 8 o’clock when
Tommy went to bed and he was not
thinking of his presents but was
thinking of his dear mother and
father. It was near midnight when
Tommy thought he heard footsteps
out on the reef, and sure enough he
heard something coming down the
chimney and Tommy heard him by
the mantle—piece. Tommy knew then
it was dear old Santa and then he
heard Santa return to the roof. He
did not sleep at all, and at daybreak
Tommy went down and to his delight
Santa had brought just what Tommy
wanted himself and for his dear
mama and papa. Then everybody
was merry and happy. I will close
from your neice, Margaret Mills, R.
1, Herron, Michigan.

       
Hello Uncle Ned and Cousins-
I am a farmer girl and go to school.
I am 11 years old and in the ﬁfth
grade. I will guess the present will
be a school outﬁt. I will write a
Christmas story. ‘
Once upon a time there was a boy
who’s name was Jean. He had no
mother and he lived with his aunt.
She was cruel to him. He only had
one slice of dry bread to eat. It
was just the night before Christmas
when Jean went to church and the
rich peeple talked about how they
were going to get lots of toys and
soon the people were ready to go
home and when Jean was going dowu
the church stairs there he saw a little
boy. His hair was like gold and he
was barefeeted. Jean had no stock-
ings only his wooden shoes so he
put one of his shoes on his feet.
When he got home his aunt said,
“Where is your other shoe?” Jean
. told her all about it. Then his aunt
said, “You will only have one shoe
if you don’t get the other. So Jean
went to sleep. In the morning when
he awoke he looked at the ﬁreplace
and what do you think he saw?
Some toys and a pair of new shoes
were among the toys.
Good luck to Uncle Ned and cous-
ins. Good—bye.—Margaret Surjau,
R. No. 1, Rhodes, Michigan.

      
Dear Uncle Ned—I am not busy at
the present time so I will write you
a letter. I received the leatherette
pencil case and am thanking you
ever so much for it. I am ﬁnding
it very useful and appreciate it very
much. I am nine years old and live
on a 120—acre farm. My eyes .are
blue and my hair is light brown, and
I "am about four and a. half feet tall.
I like to go to school and I am in
the third grade. I also have a little

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and his mother has sent him to the seed store and instructed him
to buy every kind of garden seed which can be spelled with the letters
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if necessary, in the name of a seed, although no letter appears more
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for the leatherette pencil case, I re-
main your nephew, Harold Pernie,
Ossineke, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned——Hew are you
these days? We have had quite bad
weather these last few days. We
have about ten inches of snow. I
am a boy tWelve years old and in
the ﬁfth grade. We have had a very
good fall this year. I wrote to the
M. B. F. once before. I wish some
of the boys and girls would write to
me. We have four horses, ﬁfty-eight
head of cattle and Some chickens
and one dog and four cats. I have
three brothers and three sisters. I
live about a half; a mile from school.
We have nine pupils in our school.
I live on a four hundred and four

is CURIOSITY

“ 0 you know what they used to
do to people who are always

peeking and prying?” said
Carmella’s oldest sister Jane.
“They’d hang them up by their

coat collars under a waterspeut in
the eaves and let them get good
and wet.”

She had caught her little sister
opening a package from the store.
Of course there was nothing special
in the package, only a pair of shoes,
but this wasn’t the ﬁrst time, and
every year around Christmas time
when the air was full of secrets, Car-
mella was at her worst. I blush
to say it, but her mother had to
have a padlock put on the old sea-
chest in which the presents were
hidden until the Day.
postman would blow his whistle
Carmella was the ﬁrst to ﬂy to the
door, and My! how she would hang
around am crane her neck while
people op ed their letters! But if
a parcel or package came poor Car-
mella’s curiosity would be come al-
most a. frenzy and unless the owner
came quick and took the package
away, .a little hole was apt to ap-
pear in a corner, or the string would
come loose. '

“I hate secrets," Carmella would
say. “What’s the. use in keeping
presents until Christmas? I'd rath-
er’heve mine now.” .

So one year her. mother. gave her
her‘ presents as they~ arrived and
when; Christmas Day came there was.

- self and thought:

When the "

acre farm. From your friend John
Hann, Franklinville, N. Y.

Dear Uncle Ned—I will write a
few lines as I have been reading the
children’s page in the Business
Farmer and like the letters very
much. We live on an 80-acre farm
and I have for pets a dog, two cats
and a rooster. My dog's name is
Deodie Bug and my uncle and aunt“
keep him for me because I live too
close to school, he would go with me
every day. I am here from Texas
and brought my dog with me. I
have been here nearly two years and
we will makeour home in Michigan.
I like this place just ﬁne and like
to play in the snow. Am in the 4th

and 5th grade and like my teacher.

just ﬁne. As this is my ﬁrst letter
will make—it short and hope to hear
from some of the other boys and
grls as I enjoy reading their letters.
Your little neice, Vera Richardson,
R. 1, Greenville, Michigan.

CARM ELLA E 5

.no surprise for the uttle girl and
she didn’t enjoy‘ herself a bit. Be-

sides it was found that Carmella was '

just as curious about other people’s
gifts as about her own.
“Well this year, you’re not to

have a thing until Christmas Day," _

said her mother, “and that settles
t.’

“If, you don’t stop nosying into
everything," said her father, “you’ll
get your nose into something hot
some day.”

But Carmella only smiled to her-
“They don’t like
it because I’m so clever at ﬁnding
things out.” ‘

And that's what she told her sis-
ter Jane.

It had gotten so bad that her
next-to—the-oldest sister Betty and
her brother Paul asked the post—
man not to give any parcels to Car-
mella but to wait and- give them to
some other member of the family. .,

“Hah!’ thought Carmella. “They
think they can keep things from.me,
buL I’ll feel them.

One day as Chistmas drew nearer
and nearer Carmella heard pounding
in the workshop.

“What’s that? What’s that?” ‘she
questioned. “I‘ didn’t» know anybody
was making anything.”

She ran down to the shop and
tried the door. It was locked and
Paul's voice cried: “Please go ’way.
this is a private job.” . , '

Instead of going, as'she should

have—{V'knewing that Christmas was

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"making delirious "bone It
the kind of he: enemid 'm»:rex-

pact to get “as; most. Jam

made of rough wood and steedon
legs and Paul seemed to be making"
a'cover for it. .

"It's too. small for a Woodbox and
too large for a sewing box,“ she
thbught. “Hum! Here’s a. mystery.
‘Vell,. I’ll soon ﬁnd out." ' . .

"Carmella.” cri'e—d a voice behind
her. "What are you doing?”

"Nothing, Mother,” she, replied,.

“Well, you come into ma“ house

and mind your own business." said ,

mother, with a, knowing leek. Hoth-
er was so hard to feel.

The box puzzled Carmella more
and more. She just couldn’t ﬁgure
out what Paul was making it for
and she felt she couldn’t wait until
Christmas, which seemed ages away.
So she decided to make up to Paul
and coax him to tell her. Paul
must have wondered him had got
into his small sist'er th t made her
’so obliging..
work and let him use her silver
pencil. ‘ But wheh she popped the
‘questien about the box Paul only
grinned and said: ' '

“Wait and you’ll ﬁnd out. kiddo,” ‘ V

and not'anether word could she get
out of him.

”You'd better tell me,”
Carmella, “cause I’ll ﬁnd out any
way.” . ‘

“Help
brother.

I‘Now, Paul," she coaxed, “won’t
you tell me this much? Whose it
for?’ ,

“For myself,” he answered.

"For yourself!” exclaimed Car-
mella. “That’s nice! Giving Christ-
mas nresents to yourself.”

“Well, old Santa’s going to put
something inside, see?” he said. .

This made it worse than ever,
especially as he simply wouldn’t say
another word, yes or no.

“W‘ell, it can’t be rabbits or any-
thing like that,’ said Carmella,
“there’s 1139, opening for them to go
in and out and no windows. It
isn’t a tool box.” .

She certainly would have grown
thin. worrying ever it if she’ had
stopped eating so much, but unfort~

yourself," replied

\una sly llul‘ appetite was good and

‘ so she heard the'pestman’s whistle.
Down stairs she raced and was just
in time to see Betty receive a small
box from him and lay it on the hall
table. ' ~ .

Carmella crouched on the stairs
and waited until Betty had gone.
Then she hurried down and picked
up the little package. It was the
oddest one w'she had ever seen. Tiny
and light it was and ever one end
was a bit of wire screening. What
in the“ world could it contain? She
shook it and listened. She thought
she heard a queer noise;

“I’ll just poke the netting and
maybe it will mow and I can see
inside,” she said, although she
knew the package was addressed to
her brother Paul. '

She pressed the netting quite
hard, and sure enough, it gave way.
With '5 look of triumph she raised
the box up and was" about to peer
inside when something ﬂew out and
lit right on the end of her nose. The
next instant she was shrieking deaf-
ening shrieks. Betty, Jane: Paul
and her mother all hastened to her.

“My-nose!” screamed Carmella.

“Stung!” exclaimed Paul. “Leek,
she’s opened the box of bees that
man in New Yorkpromised to send
me to start my hive with. Gee, I
hope the Qeen Bee is all right.” And
he began to cover the box with his
handkerchief. .

“ha‘ha!” cried Betty.
to stop nosying!"

f‘Never mind,” said mother, ,“I
think Carmella has learned her les-
son and it’s mean to taunt people."

She gently led the little girl away

and put soda on her aching nose; but -

alas! it was many a day before Car—
mella careLto show-that nose. _It
swelled and swelled and grew red

and put-planar! really, although I

felt sorry for her when Isaw her I-

could hardly, keep from, laughing,
she looked so comical. ‘

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“CREEPING JENNY"
(Continued from page 7)
you take care cf the house while I
goto Boston and get all my papers
and passports and_ certiﬁcates and
'army records and honorable dis—
charges and pedigrees, and draw my
back, pay—because I am a stranger
in R1verbbro and I want to get into
society. Why don't you speak?

Aren’t you surprised?”

“I would ’a‘ been," said the boy,
“ ’cept that Alfonso and the post-
mistress both said it would turn out
that way; but Mother stood up for
Jenny; she said, it wouldn’t.”

 
“That’s what all the women will,

'have said," said Rufus. I

"Well, all 'the men will say I
jumped at you, so accounts will be
square!" and Jenny smiled tri-
umphantly back at Rufus, all
blushes and confusion, her heaff.
beating like a» wild bird in her
breast. “Go, Rufus, please," she
said in a low tone, “and take Alﬂnso.
I want to be alone with myself and
get used to——happiness.” _

He bent over her and kissed her
cheek, while Alﬁnso went for his
muffler and mittens.

“Good—by! ”I’ll bring back the
ring; don’t forget the party. We
won’t stint refreshments. I’ll give
the twins a dollar to bring you little
trees and evergreens for garlands,
and we’ll make a brave showing of
the house. Isn’t it lucky there’ll be
a full moon on the shingles? No
doubt about the minister now! He’ll
have to come in the performance of
his duty. Oh! my dear, my dear,
God is being very good to me!”

“Good to us," whispered Creeping
Jenny, putting her lips sdftly and
'shyly against his sleeve. '

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landing .or playground

Some,.-set at
foot. of slide in several inches of
water. The best place. however, if
it can be located; is' where the ani-
mal leaves the water to go upon
the bank. Here the animal is apt
to get caught by a front foot, where;
as the set is at the foot of the
slide, the trap is apt to'be knocked
off by the body and no secure 'hold
obtained.

It takes a strong trap for this
wiry animal. The No. 2, double
spring, is strong enough, but there

   
.is a special otter trap with teeth

and one powerful spring that is
really better. This trap does not
take so much room, being easier to
conceal. A rock or piece of iron
should be fastened to one end of a
wire, then passed through the ring
and staked at edge of water. If the
otter is caught it will make for
deep water and is apt to be drowned.

Otter are great wanders, as 'al—
ready mentioned, and may pass up
or down a stream only a few times
during the entire trapping season.
Streams where otter traveled pre-
vious years are very apt to be used
by otter the present season if any
within miles——sometimes they travel
as much as ﬁfty miles according to
old trappers.

If otter are using a small stream,
only a few feet wide, drive stakes
across only a couple of inches apart,
except where the most favorable
place for thectter to go through is,
leaving about eight inches where
the trap is set. This same set can
be used on all small streams, for
mink, coon or muskrat but of course
opening should be only about six
inches and trap not so large, yet
if otter everfrequent the stream it
might be advisable to use a good
strong trap.

“THE HUNTED WOMAN”
(Continued from page 12)

“No trouble at all," declared
Blackton. “We’ve got a Chinese
cook who’s more like an owl than a
human. How will a four o’clock
breakfast suit you?”

“Splendidly! ”

As they went on the contractor
said:

“I carried your word to McDonald.
Hunted him down out in the bush.
He is very anxious to see you. He
said he would not be at the depot.
but that you must not fail him. He’s
kept strangely under cover of late.
Curious old ghosh, isn't he?"

“The strangest man in the moun—
tains,” said Aldous “And, when you
come'to know him, the most lovable.
We’re going North tOgether." .

This time it was Blackton who
stopped, with a hand on his compan—
ion's arm. ‘A short distance from
them they could see the buckboard
in the light of the station lamp.

“Has old Donald written you late—
ly?" he asked.

“No. He says he hasn’t written
a letter in twenty years.”

Blackton hesitated.

“Then you havn’t heard of his—-
accident?”

The strange look in the contract—
or’s face as he lighted a cigar made
John Aldous catch him sharplyby
the arm. ’

“What do you mean?"

“He was shot. I happened to be in
Dr. Brady’s oﬂicé when he dragged
himself in, late at night. Doc got
the bullet out of his shoulder. It
wasn’t a bad wound. The old man
swore it was an accident, and asked
us to say nothing about it. We
haven’t. But I’ve been wondering.
Old Donald said he was careless
with his own pistol. But the fact is,

'Aldous,—-he was shot from behind!"

“The deuce you say!”

“There was no perforation except
from behind. In some way the bul-
let had spent itself before it reached
aim. Otherwise it would have killed

m."

For a moment Aldous stared in

speechless . amazement into Black-

ton’s face / .
“When did this happen‘ﬂ' he asked

then. . *
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Please inform me as to'the use of
hydrated lime in building brick
chimneys, plastering, stone work,
etc., as a substitute for stone lime.
Doés’it dorm a strong bond with
good sand for brick work and endure
the heat and cold of chimney tops?
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HOW’ TO REDUCE VOLTAGE

Would you please publish in the
Business Farmer what material I
would need and how to assemble an
instrument for reducing an 32 volt
direct current to an 6 or 8 volt direct
current—«C. L. 8., Reed City, Mich.
——The reduction of the voltage can
be accomplished by a small trans-
former in the lamp socket, the trans-
former although minature in design
is constructed a sany other of its
kind, and is designed to reduce the
current to 6 or 8 volts for pressure.
The transformer socket ﬁts into the
regular socket feature and the small
bulb ﬁts into the transformer socket,
the transformer socket can be pur—
chased from practically any manu-
facturer of lighting equipment.—
Floyd E. Fogle, Ass’t. Professor of
Farm Mechanics, M. A. C.

 
A NEW LIME SPREADER
NUMBER of inquiries have come
to the Farm Mechanic Section
of the Station asking for in-
formation on a simple lime spreader.
The need for an inexpensive ma.—
chine of this kind is apparent when
it is noted that the use of lime is
not general and that many farmers
who wish to use it in an experiment-
al way on comparitively small acre-
ages, do not feel that the expenditure
for a commercial spreader would be

. justiﬁed.

The spreader which is shown in
the accompanying cut and herein
described was designed, built, and
tried at this Station and has proved
of such promise that its use is given
over to Michigan farmers. Under
the conditions for which it has been
tried it has done excellent work.
It is possible that some conditions
may be found for which it may not
be adapted in its present form. It
is felt, however, that the (publication
of plans should not be delayed, and
which may be found necessary will
suggest themselves as needed.

The machine has been tested with
pulverized limestone, both dry and
damp. If lumpy material is to be
used it should be shoveled through a
screen of poultry netting or close
mesh fencing placed over the top of
the hopper. The mesh of this screen
should have not more. than 1175-1nch
openings.

{The spreader is designed to be
attached to the rear end of the
wagon box and operated by a rocker
arm dropping from peg to peg on a
disc attached to. and turning with
the rear wheels of the wagon. The
rocker arm moves a board under the’
hopper which serves as an agitator.
The jarring action of the rocker
arm on the agitator and box serve
to feed down the lime.
disc and hopper are easily detach-
able from wagon by loosening four
nuts and can be transferred from

 
gone wagon to. another it necessary.

   
Both wheel ,

If this is done it is well to have
the reach adjustment the same ,on
each. The wagon box should ex-
tend about 18 inches back of the
rear axle, and when the hopper is
hung on the top of the box the

height of the top of the box should,

be from 24 inches to 30 inches above
the axle. . This rocker arm may be
adjusted for different heights of box,

buf‘ where the spreader is to be used-

on two wagons it is preferable to
have the boxes the same height
above and distance .back of the rear
axle.

Where the soil is ﬁrm enough so
that a load of lime may be drawn
over it, the box may be hung on the
loaded wagon and the lime spread
by shoveling directly into the spread-
er. In case the spreading is to be
done over plowed ground it will be
found impracticable to draw the full
load. In this case and where the
lime is in storage or piles, only
enough is shoveled into the empty
wagon carrying the spreader to go
once around the ﬁeld or some other
convenient distance. '

It will not be found practicable
to spread pulverized lime in a high
wind. A moderate wind will not
greatly affect the evenness of spread.

If extremely hard and lumpy ma.—
terial is to ‘be handled it is suggest-
ed that the lower or cutting edges
of the hopper sides be faced with
a strap of iron or heavy galvanized
sheet metal to take the wear. This
facing Should be wide enough to
attach securely to the box and ex-
tend below it one—quarter to one-
half inch to making a cutlng edge.

The construction of the spreader
is comparatively easy and should
not require more than a day’s time.
The material needed includes prop-
er sizes of lumber, the agitator hang—
er, and six bolts. The bolts, which
are all alike, may be made by a.
blacksmith. Or these hanger bolts
may be made by cutting the heads
from long bolts of the right size
angles, which is all that is required.

Extreme accuracy is not required
in the dimensions, but the side
pieces ,and especially the agitator

board, should be reasonably straight

‘ and true.

Two other points should be noted:
that the lower edges of the hopper
boards are dressed to a chisel—like
edge, the point being about one-
quarter inch thick: and that the
top of the agitator board is beveled
to make an even ﬂow of material
over the edge.

To determine amount sown per
acre, tests were made with pulver-
ized limeston’e over different types
of ground with ﬁnely ground lime.
The amount spread is determined
by the adjustment of the nuts on the
hanger bolts which carry the agita-
tor. In the following table is shown
the opening between hopper and agi-
tator board necessary to give ap-
proximate amounts shown.

Distance
. Weigh; Trgveledd
Hop-igimghd Didi-fa“ wiping 100 Pgds
% inches .......... 730 lbs. 1793 ft.
1%, inches ........ 2,200 lbs. 594 ft.
11,4, inches ........ 3,800 lbs. 344 It.
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1% inches ........ 2,4’75 lbs. 527/!L'
2 inches... ........ 4,770 lbs. 274 it.
2% inches........ 6,700 lbs. 195 It.

The. diameter or the Wheel" [on

wagon used was 44 inches. 'Wh'ere
disc is attached to\a wheel-of dif-

ferent size the amounts would ‘be,

less with a large; wheel and more
with a smaller Wheel. , ‘ . ,

Probably a more satisfactory way
to determine amount spread per,
acre is to ‘start with‘ hopper level
ful and run out a 7—inch depth of
lime, with the feed set at some ﬁg-
ure selected from above table,- say
1%‘lnCh. A depth of 7-inch spread
in a. distance of 40 rods would rep-
resent closely one ton per acre. At
the same rate 10 rods would repre—.
sent 1,4 ton or 500 lbs. per acre.
If the same amount were spread in
20 rods double the amount or \2
tons per acre would be the amount

’ sown. Two or three trials will serve

to determine the desired setting.

Since the cuts describing this
spreader have been made the.de—
sign has been changed by reducing
the length of the hopper to 8 feet
3 inches or 1,4; rod inside measure-
ments. By cutting in a known
amount of lime, say 200 lbs, and
noting the distance required to
spread this amount, the amount
spread per acre can be easily calucu-
lated.

Example—«Weight of lime put in
hopper, 200 lbs.

Distance traveled to spread 200'
lbs—40 rods.

Area spread equals 175 x40 equals
20 sq. rods or % A.’

200 lbs. on 1/8 A. equals 1,600 lbs.
per A.

Shortening the hopper also requires
but one division in the hopper and
3 hangers for the agitator board.
It has also been found that if».2-in.
x 4-in. blocks having holes for the
hanger bolts are fastened to the
agitator board the wear of the
hanger bolts on the agitator board
will be reduced and more positive
action of the agitator board will re-
sult—H. H. Musselman, Dept. of
Farm ~Mechanics, M. A. C.

 
The Netherlands was the largest
market, except Canada, for American
corn in 1921, having received 17,-
843,464 bushels, according to. the
United States Department of Agrir
culture. The next largest markets,
in order of receipts, were United
Kingdom, Germany, and Mexico.

Plenty of fresh air during winter
is to be desired for the poultry
ﬂock. but be sure to avoid drafts.

The friends of Gus Holmgren, the
city treasurer, desire to make it
known that they Wish to secure a
second term for Mr. Holmgren for
the reason that he is incapacitated
for work of any kind and is very
much in need of the assistance the
position would give him.—Iron Ore.

 
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Edited by
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PLANTING AN ORCHARD
HE good prices for fruit have
induced many to turn’ their at-
tention to the orchard. Not
onl is this true of land owners, but
also of city dwellers who wish to
retire from their present occupa—
tions and are looking to the orchard
as an interesting vocation as well

as a proﬁtable investment. It is

those who are unaccustomed to the
soil who are most eagerly searching
for information and certainly they
need it before undertaking anytthg
as complex as orchard growing. For
fruit-growing is by no means a simp-
le matter, though it may look easy
enough to plant a tree and wait for

it to produce fruit.

In locating an orchard it is of the

ﬁrst importance that drainage be
considered._ It is not enough that
the trees will grow. Apples, for

example, will grow on a wet soil,
yet never produce fruit enough to
pay for the time and labor of cult-
ivation. Wet land and such as has
a subsoil of quicksand is not desir-
able. A clay. subsoil may be under—
drained, but even then it will hardly
be on an equal footing with land
well-drained by nature. Better use
such land for other purposes.

Atmospheric drainage is another
point which should not be overlook-
ed. There are some lands beside
bodies of water that are protected
against sudden and severe changes
of temperature, but such areas are
in the aggregate, not large. In the
vast interior regions dependence
must be placed 011 elevation. Land
should be selected that has a lower
area around it. There are thous-
ands of acres of such lands through-
out southern Michigan which ought
to be covered :with orchards, while
other thousands of acres of low land
now in orchard might better be util—
ized for other purposes.

All kinds of soil are not of equal

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value. Sandy land will grow trees
quickly. They will bear at an early
age and are soon ready to die. Such
orchards do not endure a severe
winter as well as those on the heav—
ier soils. Yet such orchards may
be proﬁtable for a brief time. The
soil also plays an important part
in the selection of varieties.

'The different kinds of fruits are
not equally adopted to soils and lo—
cations. Peaches are conﬁned to
narrower limitations than any of
the other orchard trees. They really
belong to the sub-tropical regions
and in the district of the Great
Lakes they are far north of their
native land, though it is here that
they reach perfection in quality.
They do best in a gravelly loam, but
even a heavy clay is good if there
is good atmospheric and water
drainage. Wet soil the peach will
not tolerate. Cherries are adapted
to a wide range and so are plums,
though the former prefers the light-
er soils, while the latter is partial
to heavy land. Pears and apples
are rather shortli'ved on light land,
though that is not always the case.

In the .majority of cases it is saf-
est to trust to a clay loam, when
such a choice can be made. How-
ever, good results can be obtained
from sandy land if it can be kept
well fed, while thorough cultiva—
tion will do for correcting the nat-
ural disadvantage of a heavy clay.
Some of the best apple and peach
orchards in Southern Michigan are
on a soil ‘usually, considered too
heavy for orchard purposes.

Now comes the market and on
this depends the value of the orch—
ard. It is the consumer who ulti-
mately decides what kind of fruit
should be grown and the grower who
knows what the perspective custom—
ers will want, or at least can make
a good guess at it, is the one who
will succeed. (Cont’d on page 27)

 
The New World’s Champion in Action

 
ATHER around, brother horseshoe pitchers, and allow us to intro-
duce to you Mr. Frank Lundin, of New London, Iowa, the cham-
pion horseshoe pitcher of America.

at the 1922 National Tournament at the 'Iowa State Fair, Des Moines,
Iowa, playing one whole week and losing only one game.
Jackson, 1921 champion ﬁnished second.
he held of national importance will be put on at St. Petersburg, Fla.,
during the latter part of February. That city is spending $10, 000 on
» hing, carts and it is expected that thei

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—Mr. Lundin won his crown
Mr. Frank
The next tournament, to

February meet will

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MILKERS PAY

Every cow in your herd can be made to pro-
duce up to her full capacity

—if you look well to her ration, her health,
her appetite and her digestion.

Balance the ration. Feed bran, oats and
corn, or their equivalent, cottonseed or linseed
meal, clover hay, alfalfa, Silage—pasture in
season.

Remember, the better the appetite “the
greater the food consumption, the greater the
milk production.

DH. HESS STOGK TONIG

Keeps Cows Healthy

 
Makes Cows Hungry

   
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'grain, hay and fodder into pails of milk.

It contains Nux Vomica, greatest of all
nerve tonics. Quassia produces appetite, aids
digestion. Salts of Iron keeps the blood rich.

. There are Laxatives for the bowels, Diuretics
for the kidneys, to help throw off the waste
materials which so often clog the cow’s system.

  
Excellent for cows at calving. Feed it be-
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Tell your dealer how many cows you have.
He has a package to suit. GUARANTEED.

25-11). Pail $2.25 100-“). Drum $8.00
Except in the far West, South and Canada.
Honest goods—honest price—why pay more?

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I spent 80
years in perfect-
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GILBERT HESS.
M.D.. D.V.S.

Dr. Hess Dip and Disinf'eCtant

Keeps 1 1e Dairy and Statues Heaithful and Clean Smelling

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making harness, which 13 three times stronger than buckle harness.
Let me Send you a set of Walsh No- Buckle Harness on 30 Days' Free
Trial. Let me show you why this harness is three times stronger without
buckles, also how much better looking and handier in every way. No
obligation on your part. If not convinced, send it back at my expense.
The Walsh 13 a proven success on thousands of farms for over eight years.

THREE gIMES STRONGER THAN

   
Themﬂ has

No Buckles
--0 Rings

See
How

 
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Buckles Weaken and Tear Straps. 3501bs. pull. Ordinary harness has ‘r'oar'--’Y
As an example, a Walsh 1% inch 68 buckles. Walsh Harness has no Straps

buckles—easy to see why Walsh is
three tunes stronger. lasts so much
longer Without repairs.

breeching strap holds over 1100 lbs.
The same strap with the buckle
Will break at the buckle at about

COSTS LESS — LASTS TWICE AS LONG
The Walsh cuts harness costs. The rings to wearstrapsin two, no buck— ‘
price is no more than buckle harness, les to weaken and tear straps. Easily
yet it outlasts two buckle harness. and adjusted to ﬁt any horse, rust-proof
saves _many a dollar' In repairs. No hardware, improved hames, etc.
patchmg, no mendmg, because no Write today for new reduced prices.
$5 AFTER THIRTY DAYS’ FREE TRIAL
Balance easy payments, or pay cash Write today for free illustrated
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from factory gives you highest quality 30 day trial oﬁer. also how to make money \
harness possible to make at lowest prices, showing Walsh Harness to your neixthI‘B ;p[;\‘~,
James M. Walsh, President, WALSH HARNESS CO. ’33:"; \
129 Keefe Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ' \ >

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Experiment S t a t i o n a.
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thousands of user.
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_, 1 THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARIt’ER

    
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retee to encourage the

 
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EIVE STOCK AUCTIONEERS

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We are experienced salesmen, Expert Judges and
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Mood-A Practical Competent Auctioneer,
to" insure your next sale being a success.
Employ the one Auctioneer who can In!

the bill at a price in keeping vnth prevailing

conditions.
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ADE. ‘
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one.
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Chester‘s. Let me reserve a 1922 date for you.

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for particular- to

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Herd at Ofﬁce at
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POLLED anon-moon's.
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L. O. KELLY a 80“, Plymouth,

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Edeﬁot‘l‘ivem 00g beef and milk strains. All nfes,
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_ FOR IALE—REGISTERED AYROHIRE
bulls and bull calves. heifer: and heifer coin;
Abe some choice mun.
FINDLAY BROS“ R I. Vets-r. Itch.

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BUYING. FEEDING .
AND SELLING FAT

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at present. in too much like

GAMBLING

All experience prone Baby-Beef growlnp

THE BETTER WAY

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ur ion rec to are uaranteed to prices b
Detroit Packing Co. mmission, ygrdage, Feed
and all other expenses, except transportation——
only; are cut out._ Our plan opens the way to
proﬁtable beef-making, by Michigan Farmers” In
no otheroway can as much money per 'cow be
earned. With so little labor. If you have no beef-

 
_~_ cows, we have them on hand or listed.
Study our plan and be ﬁnned. ‘
wire or write. Right NOW °°n wm’

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(Cattle B ‘11 ﬁt
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come. at once.

oldest breeders of Herefords in the U.wSe. are the
CRA 0 FARM, Swat-u Creek. Mlch.‘
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few females. WM. c. oloxzn. Smyrna, M733.

 
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BEO POLLED OA'I'TLE‘Both “’1 Oxford

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FOR SALE—OUR RED POLLED HE
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PI ROE BRO’S.. Eaton Rapids, Mich, 1:

 
JERSEYS

 
REG. JERSEYS, POGIS‘QSth OF H. F. AND
Mn csty breeding. Young stock for sale. Herd
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“httauor \‘lSlt lor prices and description.

 
c. WILBUR, BELDING. Mich.
FOB SAL —:EARLI1hgtzh TJERSEY BULLS
. opie . orment reeding
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wouldn't you like a real
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war I Junior champion 5920 and o 03:33 b103,)

001) International grand champion 1920. The
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f, . . 130 a choice lot by (Liberty Orion egg
irst prize and grand pron of our A egan

. fair 1921 and 1922. '
rite or come With Pathﬁnder dams.

to m
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REGISTERED SPRING GILTS
A nice assortment. to select from at. Farm Pricee

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BEEF PRODUCTION" coma. E. A ~
0NDITIONS at Glenwood Form
C are similar to those all over the
country. Bull sales have been
which leaves us at present. writing
with a great many bulls on hand.
even though prices have been greatly ‘
reduced. ‘ . .. '
Tight money caused the Western
Cattle men to sell feeders last year
at very low ﬁgures and farmers who

to abandon the plan and buy western
cattle instead. Many did not realize
that a reaction was bound to come,
as soon as money became easier,~as
tight money had two effects. It
made cattle temporarily cheaper be-
cause everybody was selling more
than his custom, to raise needed”
cash, and it made cattle scarce in the
long run. , ' g ,

By another year if the new Con-
gress carries out the program an-
nounced by the progressive Repub-
licans and Democrats for easier
money and credits, farmers will be
sorry that their grade dairy herds
are not bred to Angus bulls, as it
will be impossible to buy the feeders
at all. Now is the time to buy an
Angus bull, while he can be purchas-
ed at a reasonable ﬁgure and while
conditions are such as to» assure a
heavy demand for his get in nine
months. ,

At Glenwood Farm, besides the
pure bred Angus herd, we have a
herd of 30 grade dairy cows. mostly
Holsteins. This year every one of
these cows is being mated with line
bred Doddie, as we know from long
experience that the calves from this.
mating, will top the Buffalo market,
when sold for prime beef. Some of
the pure bred Angus will also be
sold for beef, but the grades will
make the most money, because they
are cheaper to raise. Cross breeding
adds vigor and produces rapid
growth. The pure bred is stronger
than the grade, so we know that
the calf will have the tendency to
ﬂeshen, inherited from the pure bred
sire; while the mother has the tend~
ency to give plenty of milk, also in—‘
herited from a pure bred advanced
Holstein sire. _

Challenger, International Grand
Champion Steer, 1903 was the calf
of a. grade Holstein cow mated with
a very beefy line bred bull, such as
we are offering the farmers at the
present time at very moderate prices.

LIME AND PHOSPHORUS ARE
VITAL TO DAIRY ANIMAL
IME and phosphorus, although

they are. found in relatively
small quantities’in feeds, have
a great deal to do with milk produc-
tion and building up the body of the
unborn calf. If the cow does not
have enough of these elements in her

ration she will draw on the supply .

in her body for a time, and heavy
producers commonly do this. There—
fore, says the United States Depart-
ment of. Agriculture, it is a. good
practice to feed cows well when they
are running low in milk yield and,
when they are dry, so that they may
store up these elements as well as
others in their bodies for use when
the large demand is made.

The common view is that cows
need only enough food for mainten-
ance, but experiments carried on by
the department show thatthis is not
true. The cow is a milk manufac-
turing ,plant, and, like many factor-
ies she must have a reserve supply
of materials to draw on when heavy
demands ”are made. A cow that has
been well fed when dry and has
stored up this reserve is able to pro-
duce more on full food than e. cow
that has given only a maintenance
ration during that resting period. In
this way acow can utilize her ca;
pacity the year round although she-
maynot be giving milkall the time.

‘In keeping up the necessary lime
and phosphorus supply it is well to
keep in mindvthe fact that certain

elements. The feds which contain
the most are the legume hays, which

include c0wpea, soy been. the ele- ‘

vers, and some ‘ others. Of those._
mentioned cowpcaabcy contains the:

most 11mg. (maths otheregaro

feeds are richer than others in these ._

boredom" o'r .. , r ' _ ;
line, _ o? lime. content-other
pends tote. great extent on its dually

     
Leafy alfalfahay contains more lime
than coarse stemmy hay. and “thI~ _.
slow for the last ’couple of years same In probably true. of other have. '. =
The common dairy feeds that con- ,

taln the most phosphorua are wheat
bran, “cottonseed meal, .,
wheat .middllnss. and linseed meal.
in the order given. Less” common
feed: that are high in phosphorus

are, in' order, sesame-oil cake, ﬂed~ _,
had been raising their own, decided .polish, buckwheat middlings. rice ~‘

bran, sunﬂower-seed cake, rapeseed

cake, buckwheat bran, and "malt

sprouts.
No grain or other concentrates

mentioned anywhere near so much

lime as the . legume hays; and no
kind of roughage contains phosphor-
us in quantities comparable to those

found in the concentrates mentioned

above. Grasshays, corn silage._ and
corn products with the possible ex-
ception of those made from the

germs are low in both lime and

phosphorus.

 
TREATING SHEEP FOR STOMACH
WORMS. FEATURE OF UNITED
STATES EXHIBIT
“ HE Story of the Stomach

Worm," is the title of a dem-
onstration and exhibit shown
by the United States Department of
Agriculture at the International Live
Stock Exposition, Chicago, December
2_ to 9. For several years the de-

partment has been testing methods.

for the prevention of Injury and loss
by this parasite, which is one of the
~ most serious pests of farm sheep.
Following a careful study of the life
history of the stomach worm, a prac-
tical and oinexpensive treatment has
been found that will prevent stom-

- ach-worm injury. ..

In its exhibit experts of the depart-
ment demonstrated with a pen of
wormy sheep the method of giving
this treatment, known as the blue-
stone treatment. _ The simple appar-
atus necessary, and the preper solu-
tion to use, was also shown to those
interests . . '

Stomach worms are particularly
destructive to young lambs, \causing
stunted growth and losses sufﬁcient
to wipe out all proﬁt from sheep
raising. By proper use of the blue-
stone treatment losses from stomach
Worms are prevented, at small cost

and lambs thrive and reach market \

size at an early age. _If the sheep
man will acquaint himself with the
principal points in the ‘life 'of this

worm, and apply the bluestone treat-g

ment at the proper time, most of the
losses caused by the stomach worm
will cease .

~ VETERINARY
DEPARTMENT .l

CHRONIC LAMINITIS

'I have a five year old more, who
got in a cornﬁeld and ate too much
new corn and now has the founders.
Her front legs seem to pain her as
she lifts them up all the time.
What can I do for her? The local
veterinarian did not help her.—-M.'
Ft, Caro, Michigan.

-_-From the history given in this
case I am of the opinion the more
is suffering from chronic lamfnitls,
,e. disease that is incurable. Mod-
erate cases can be remedied come-
what by proper shoeing. No doubt
your veterinarian did all he could
in this case to prevent the disease
from becoming chronic, a thing that
is liable to happen in anyone of
lamlnitls or founders. Better con-
eult your veterinarian as to proper
shoeing of the anhnal if this is ad-
viseble. It is necessary, to make an
examination of the feet before giving
advise as to shoeing—John P. Hut-
ton, Associate Pr°fessor of Surgery
and Medicine, M. A. C. .
._._,._..._..__._
WIND PUFF '
Is there any cure for wind puff on
e horse‘s leg? The horse is sound
(in every way, no tar as a known.
Also have, a so" that cite? calving

 
Isn’t “arms became “root end no: _

in... he! limbs. 3.81m ate

out» in 1~ . g .

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standard .

 
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*" ’ 'Ld'f‘ ' ‘R”1-isj usually
Mite.“ enlargement of the
gb'ursae located, at’ the lateral part
and just above the fetleck joint or
' ; the, herse. . If there is/no lameness
connected, with the . blemish, it is
,‘Tvery‘ questionable it it would be ad-
,visable‘to treat. . Rest, absorbent ap-

7 .plic‘ations and bandages would be in- _

.jdicat'ed. However, when the animal
,, [is returned to work the blemish is
' iproneto return. ,In case of lame-
'- 'Qn'ess, I would advise securing the
~- 4 services of a: qualiﬁed, graduate
’ veterinarian.
_ 'Regarding the disease of the cow.
‘ from the‘meagre description 0: con-
' ditions found it would be impossible
to say what the trouble was but pos-
sibly was not caused by injury dur—
ing freshening.

FROM MICHIGAN BREEDERS

MAKES SEVERAL GOOD SALES
Mr. Wm. C. Dicken, proprietor
of Riverview Hereford Farm of
Smyrna, '- Michigan, and breeder
of both Pulled and Horned Here-
ford cattle dropped us’a friendly let-
; ter the other day. In it he advised
that. he had made several sales dur-
ing thepast year. ’One was a cow
sold to C. W. DeGrew of Belding;
another a bull to A. T. Laux and C.
E. Bowen, Smyrna; bull to Richard
Conzzins, Muir, bull to Seth 0. Part-
ridge, Greenvi'lle; bull to J. E. Stanf-
‘ fer, Alto, Michigan. Mr. Dicken also
advises that Mr. Chas Lampkin of
Lowell has just purchased a carload
“of grade Hereford Calves at Kansas
City, Missouri which he will keep to
breed. “The ﬁrst of their kind to
be shipped into this section for that
purpose." says Mr. Dicken.

REPORTS TWO SALES

“Last week we sold a young bull,
12 months old, weighing 960 pounds,
to Guy R. Bill of Snover and also’a
six-months-old calf, weighing 620
pounds, to R. M. Watts of Mclvor,
Michigan.” writes. L. C. Kelley and
Son, Shorthorn breeders living near
Plymouth, Michigan, in a letter dated
November 22.

, sonn FINE BOAR

After having read your article in
your issue of November 11th regard-
ing the purchase of the Duroc—Jersey
boar by Schaffer Bros, I wish to: tell
you of a Dome—Jersey boar that I
sold to Miland Young of Wheeler on
November 7th. He was farrowed on
February 4th 1922, and at the age
of 248 days weighed 397 pounds.
He was sired by Barnes' Fancy King
No. 215475 whose line of breeding
runs strongly to both Ira Jackson’s
and Brookwater’s stock.

Mr. Young is the proud owner of
20 spring , gilts that he intends to
breed to this boar for early spring
{arrow—W. U. Barnes, Wheeler,
Michigan.

PLANTING AN ORCHARD
(Continued from page 26)

Customers who come to the orch-
ard for fruit are rapidly being ed-
ucated to prefer ﬂavor to the other
qualities. Every year the demand
for such fruit is improving and
promises to continue to do so. Good
roads and automobiles make 50 or
60 miles\to an orchard merely a
pleasure trip. -A location within
that distance of” a large city may
well be considered as within the ter-
ritory of the home market. Vari-
eties judiciously selected so as to
give a succession will enable one to
dispose of a large crop.

Perishable fruits that must be
sent to a. distant market should be
chosen for their shipping qualities.
which usually requires a sacriﬁce
of ﬂavor.
good example. It can be shipped.
like a rubber ball, so the. greater
part of the peaches are shipped are
of this variety. But would our
peach;w growers ampliﬁer ﬁrm on-
, other? ‘ ,
Cherriesar'e limited to a few va—
" risk-haul“ the Early men-
mmtirﬁrlt math- lontmorency

. follow, there-are notmany grown
‘ mm to: .market,

VMoririlla' should

heavy crops.

The Elberto pggch is a ,

,m used. As carried on i

‘the trees‘is three cents each.
Michigan~ the beneﬁt would be lim—’
ited by thecomparatively small num- "

:9, ml.- ‘ ‘f, l 1’ ,l Y.
. has been extensively planted.
..,has {proved the most satisiactory oi
‘ the Japanese varieties, but the fruit

grower may now ask himself wheth-
er or not it "is best 'to‘ set out this
tree." It bears early and produces
The fruit is ripe before
the ,Domestics, and it is attractive
in appearance, but will customers
tolerate it if they can get Lombards,
Gages. or'any one of a dozen Eur'op-
can varieties? By the time a ‘plum
orchard, planted now, begins to
bear, will not customers have learn-
ed to discriminate? _

The pear, what can be said about
that? At present the blight makes
it about the most uncertain of fruits.
As 30011 as that difﬁculty is over-

come it. should be a promising fruit.

The apple is in a class by itself.
Near the large, cities there is a good
demand for summer and tall fruit,
picked green, but it is a market de-
pending largely on the good road
and theautomobile. The outlook
for fall fruit which has to be shipped
far is poor. Winter fruits should
have a good future. Experienced
growers advise limiting the plant-
ing to four or ﬁve varieties and
these such as are suitable to the 10-
cality. A variety good in one place
may be poor in another.

THE CERTIFICATION OF
NURSERY STOCK .
WING to the number of fruit
trees furnished by nursEries
which prove untrue to name, the
certiﬁcation of nursery stock by
some trustworthy organization has
been suggested, one plan proposed
being the examination of bearing
trees while in fruit and certifying of
the scigons to be used in propagating.

This method of certifying the
actions would be helpful if the prac-
tice could be country wide, but the
certiﬁcation is conﬁned to Michigan,
it will not be beneﬁcial since less
than ten per cent of the trees planted
in this state are grown in Michigan
nurseries, and even though planters
wish to secure trees grown from cer-
tiﬁed scions, they will not be able
to obtain them. We fear also that
the certifying of the scions’ will not
always secure for the planters trees
that are true to name. The mistakes
made in varieties are either the re—
sult of errors made by the. honest
nurseryman, and of errors or the
fi'auddlent ﬁlling of orders by dis-
honest nurserymen.

Michigan nurserymen as a class
compare favorably so far as honesty
is concerned with the men in any
other line, but we have known of
nurserymen in Michigan as well as
in other states, who apparently do
not hesitate if they do not have the
varieties ordered, to put in other
kinds of which they have a surplus,
labeling them according to the order.
These men are. not likely to change
their methods and would be most
active in calling attention to their
certiﬁed stock. It would be an easy
matter for them to secure a few
certiﬁed scions and their catalog and
other literature could be so worded
that the public would think that
they had certiﬁed stock only.

Each year there is an increased
tendency for Michigan nurserymen
to obtain-their fruit trees from nur-
series in New York, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and
other States and even those who for—
merly grew large numbers of fruit
trees now depend largely upon other

nurseries for their supply except per-_

haps of peach trees, and igve their
haps of peach trees, and give their
mental trees and shrubs.

In Massachusetts, they have at—
tempted in a small way the actual
certiﬁcation of fruit trees. A metal
tag with the name of the variety is
fastened to each tree'by running a
snail wire through a branch and
sealing it. There is no opportunity

‘ for fraud when the individual trees

are marked in this way.
It is quite, feasible with the most

varieties and would be reasonably -

Me 'with all sorts if certiﬂ d scions
Massa-
chusetts the actual cost of certifying
In

her of trees in. the, nurseries-r514. R.

I

You CAN get more milk from your cows
-- now, and all through the winter and
spring. Read how—and why—then act.

Late fall, winter and spring months are a severe

strain on the milch cow’s system.

Winter feeds are

harder to assimilate and turn into milk than green
pasturage. The digestive and milk-making organs
become run down. Less milk and lowered vitality

results.

BUT—you can easily maintain vitality at summer
level and decidedly increase the milk ﬂow by a one-
week-a-month use of Kow-Kare. This famous medi?
cine for cows tones up the genital and digestive
organs— enables them to throw off disease and make

milk faster.

Thousands of dairymen follow this plan and ﬁnd
the very slight cost of the treatment repaid a hundred
fold. iny a tablespoonful of Koleare morning and
mght no required— and only one week out .of the

month.

If disease does creep into the herd, Kow-Kare
goes to this origin of the trouble and acts promptly.
For Barrenness, Retained Aﬂerbirth,Abortion, Scouts,
Milk F ever, Bunches, Loss of Appetite. etc., Kow-Kare
has been the standard remedy the country over for
twenty-ﬁve years.

iMake a test of this more-milk plan—try it on part
of your herd and convince yourself. Your feed dealer,
general store or druggist will supply you—large size
Kow-Kare $1.25; medium size 65c. If your dealeril
not supplied, we mail, postpaid.

Write for valuable free book,
“ The Home Cow Doctor.”

DAIRY ASSOCIATION CO., Inc.

Lyndonville, Vt.

 
. corded free.
Phone. OTTO B. SHULTIE,

 
A CHANGE TO GET SOME REAL HAMP-
shires. Boar pig-9, sired by Gen. Pershing Again,
Gllt Edge ’l‘ipton, Messenger All Over 10th. Gen.
Pershing 2nd., and other great boars. Writes for
list and prices. DETROIT CREAMERY HOG
FARM, Route 7, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 
HAMPSHIRES—«SPRING BOARS AND BRED
gifts from 25 sows to select from. Place your
color now or you may be to late. 10th year.
JOHN W. SNYDER. R. 4, St. Johns, Mlciv.

O. I. C.

PIGS 0F ‘NIOE THRIFTY AUG. AND
' lbs. or more; from large Pro-

9 146nm to litter. Choice

.90 . 0. D. Order now.

0 with each pig. MAPLE

F_A- , North Adams, Mich.

25 LAST 8? ING BOARS. BILTS

not akin; ﬁne is growthy stock. Re-
Onc—half mile west‘ of depot. Citizen

Nashvllle. Mich.
REGISTERED O. l. C. SERVICE BOARS AND
Bred Gilts. priced to sell.
J. R. VAN ETTEN, Cllﬂ‘ord, Mich.

 
O. l. o.
Sep.

 
(”8’8

 
'size. I’rlccdc to sell.

want.

 
SHEEP

SHROPSHIRE YEARLING

lambs of exceptional ﬁnality and

Flock establis ed‘ 1890.
LEMEN, Dexter, Mich.

SHBOPSHIBE

DAN BROOHER,

 
REGISTERED
rams and ram

 
——1O REGISTERED EWES.
Choice wooly Rams.
Evert, R. 4, Mich.

TRONG robust one and two yr. old Wool-Mutton
Shropshire mms priced right. Tell us what
Maplewood Stock Farm, Rum.

OXFORDS RAMS ALL AGEHUARANTEED
breeders and to please. A few ewes also 10 m
lambs. Wm. Van Sickle. Deckervllle. Mloh" R. 2.

Far STOCK

FOR SALE—1 YEARLING 2 SUOKLIKOS.
Shetland Ponies. Reg.‘ Humps ire, bred ewes.
8 ewe lambs. A bargain. HARRY w. GAMAN.
t! SONS, Mention, R. 3, “lab.

PUREBRED SCOTCH COLLIES, SABLE AID
white or the beautiful black and white. From
heel-drivers. $10 and up.

SILVERCREST KEINELS, Gladwln. "lob.

 
«M» A‘lww“ _- d...» an...

bull.
as free from all infection. \.

records.

Cow No.
Cow No.
Cow No.
Cow No.
Cow No.
Cow No.

Fifteen of

sale.
This is an
the highest bidder.

159575—12 years
206121—10 years
427844—4— 6 years
506145— 4 years
538236— 4 years
612617— 2 years

as the records will Show.

 
Complete Dispersion Sale of Holstein-
. Friesian Herd '

6 1-2 miles west of Lake Odessa, Mich" Dec. 14, 1922, beginning at 2 p. m.
25-Pure Bred Registered Females-25 1
Z-Pure Bred Registered Males-2

Twin heifer calves whose Dam is a 27m. cow and their Sire a 30m.
ThIS herd was tested Nov. 13th under State law and passed

A number of these cows have been recently tested for production
Following are some of the results of seven day tests:

old..._......_76 1. 2 lb 8.
01d._-n..-_..5 3 2 . 2 lb 3.
old.~..__...4 6 4. 7 lbs.
old .............. 623.7le.
old... ...... 502.2lbs.
old..._._446.6lbs.

these females will be recently freshened at the time of

estate settlement sale and every animal will be sold to
Shelter tent in case of bad weather.
acre farm will also be sold at auction at this sale.

» Terms for stock—Cash or good approved notes with interest at 7%. L
Notes drawn payable in eleven months. ,
Terms for farm must be either cash or securities readily W , ‘
into cash.“ For-catalogs address, TONY MoCAUl, Claywu.’ Mich." ,

.5

Rutter
26.474lbs.
24.070lbs.
21.1051bs.
27.121lbs.
23.712lbs.
24.155lbs.

Milk

The 100
A. good dairy farm

 
McCAUL & CHEESEROUGIEL om. j,

 
/

C

 
Advertisements Inserted under .
this heading at 3013 per agate line,

per issue. Commercial Baby Chick

' advertisements ‘45c per agate line.

Write out what you have to offer

and send It in. We will put It in

type, send proof and quote rates by

return mail. Address The Michigan

Business Farmer, Advertising De-

partment. Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

WPOULTRY

ye et have a few hundred Pullets in Leghorns.

 
‘ Berred Rocks, White W yandottes and Orpingtons.

The most of these Pullets are mar laying age
and should be put into winter laying quarters
.0011. if you want a flock of winter layers, write
'III now.

Also Cockerels, Bronze Turkeys, Toulouse Geese
And Pekm Ducks.

STATE FARM ASSOCIATION
Kalamazoo, Mich.

PULLETS, HEliS AND GOGKEBELS

8. C. White Leghorns and S. C. and it L‘ Black
Minerals. Must make room before cold “eather.
About ready to lay.

LAPHAM FARMS, Plnckney,

S. C. ANGOHA COCKERELS HATCHED FROM
H. (.‘ecil Sluppords very best. Only a few, order

 
Mich.

 
early 53 00 to .5.00.
H. CECIL SMITH, Rapid City, Mich., R. 2.
8. C. RHODE ISLAND \NHITES. THOROUGH-
bred cockercls 111111 11111El1ts for soc.l
JNO. A. HART E,RINK leeland, Mich.
LEGHORNS

 
LEGHORNS

. C. Buff Leghorn I’ullcts and Cookerels.
ens 11.1111 pullets $11.50 coc'ke1els 3.00 to

liens,
each;

 
85. 00 011111 Show birds a matter of correspond-
om'e. LAPHAM FARMS, Pinckney, Mich.
COCKE'raELS AND PULLETS, S. C. W. LEG-
horns, "111111 1&11r11111 str.1i11,1150 egg utility line,
April 111'1trhe11,$l.31'1. (‘ I.
‘CECIL W. BOVEE, North Star, Mich.
1111,11 11211111011 s. 1?. White Leg—

‘FlIFl Sill.

Comb 111111110
RIDGE POULTRY

E. C. 31 FF LEGHORNS AND BUFF ROCK

l’ullcis also Rose and Single
ltcd l’ullets. VALLEY
RM, Bloomingdale, Mich.

11111'11
1111211111
FA

 
co1'kcr'sr1.'1ls11 a few yearling yearling Brown
Leghorn 1121111111 ut formers )l‘lCl'H.

E. [3. HOLLENBEC Athens, Mich.
F0111 .;.'.:.E——R. C. BROWN LEGHORN
awkvruls 11111 big kind. These are extra good.
$11.00 11111-11, one or more. E. AUGH,
4-”??? M‘rzhall St... Goldwater, Mich.

 
31.111: Lessons—111:1:

J W. WEBSTER, Bath, Michigan

RHODF IS] AND REDS
Races—{sumo REDS, TOMPKINS STRAIN
Both combs. Stmk for sale 111th September 15th.
WM. H. FROHM, New Baltimore, Mich R. 1.

ROSE COM-B R. L. REDS WHITTAKERS

strain. Cockercls (Aprll hatchi $2.00. Satisfac—

thiion guaranteed. HAMPTON & SONS, Bangor.
lch. "

 
WHITTAKER’S R. I. REDS, 200 SINGLE
comb red pullets at $2. 50 to $5. 00 each. Also
both Rose and Single Comb cocks and cockerels.

 
Write for calatog. Interlakes Farm, Box 4,
Lawrence. Mich.
OR-PINGTONS
BLACK OHPIHGTGN GOGKERELS
P. HERGERT, Jonesvlllo, Mich.

 
PLYMOUTH ROCK-

BUFF 110011 cocKEREL _...

healthy, 1111-
iform color. the result 11f years of careful breeding.
J. c. CLIPP a. SONS, Box M, Saltlilo, Ind.

 
THOMPSON STRAIN BARRED ROCKS—DARK
policies $.1 50.1.1151”. 3.1111 dark cockwrels $3.00.
S. FRED KLOMP, St._ Charles, Mich.

WYANDOTTES
#160 WHITE WYANDOTTE

FUII SAL. .Gockercls 111111 bullets. All from
my prize wmnmg stock of very best American
White Wyandottes layim,r 1.1.str1in They win for
me. They will “in for 501

C. W. CASE, Rochester, Michigan

 
CHOICE WHITE WYANDOTTE COCKERELS

 
Pure b'rwed lining strain April hatch, reasonable
M. CONNOR. Jackson, Mlch., D. 5.

WHITE WYANDOTTES—MARTIN STRAIN

Michigan State Fair winners, 1922 Uockerels

and pullets $3 to $7
WAYNE CHIPMAN, Washington, Mich, Ro its 2.

 
FOR SALE—HIGH GRADE WHITE WYAN-
dotte and it. C. Rhodc Island lie! 0114111113—
33.“! 00 each until January

HEIMBACH, R. 11; Bin Rapids,
Ll‘URKEYS—DUCKS—GEESE

Mich.

 
White Holland Turkeys.) Large Healthy Stock
with size and quality. (‘rmnd gobblers $11.00,
$14.00. Females F$9.0 0. Order now and get the

k. A. F. STEGENGA, Lyons, Mich.

 
We Specialize In White Holland Turke s and have
birds of best breeding to offer of Nort1er11 Grown
, 1841100 1!. Toms $10 to $12. Hens $8 to $9 Birds
. will be well Grated and satisfaction guaranteed
Foote’o Turkey Farm. Garden, Delta 00., Mich.

NICE LARGE HEALTHY PUREBRED riWHITE

land 'l‘urkus. for mle. \Vn’tc for
R6. EDNA DRIVER, R. 8, Fowlervlllec, esl'llllch.

PUBEBHEPLPBOSIIZEOJPBNIIEYSR sﬁﬁ:

‘ BEAUTIFUL PUR BRED MAMMOTH BRONZE
091111115115, large an vi mus. You 1 make no

when bu 111; mm me. 0.
$HOM°A8 ROZE 00M, Mmkepon, Mloh., R. 4.
.IOURBgﬂLf RED mTURKEingeu READY FOR
uhipmon or

.0111 eo’rHAﬂI, Hm, 11111111.

FOR SALE—GIANT IRONZIM TURyKEYS
Belmont. Ilﬁ.

h best Ctr: 9
{EV oil's emhetttuhf’” 1,
' a ova ”one 70mm
£15,311. akand vigorous.

 
on: n ,
Jordon, Mich. R. ‘l.

 
CHICKEN POX OR ROUP

I have been losing quite a num-
ber of chickens. Their heads swell
up on one side, and in a few .days
it breaks open and kills them. This
seems to be only in thehalf grown
chickens. Their heads look yellow
and pale looking. They have a.
large well ventilated coop, and are
fed corn, oats, buckwheat and sour
milk. Would the sick ones hinder
my selling the healthy ones?——-F. B.,
Michigan.

-——'I‘he symptoms described by you
would indicate that the chicks are
affected with a form of either Chick—
en Pox or Roup. A postive diagnosis
could not be made, however unless
the birds were sent to the College
and a post mortem' made. We have
noted this trouble is liable to occur
where chicks have been late hatched
and over crowded especially when

they are not encouraged to roost»

while young. The other birds in
the ﬂock are marketable although
in all probabilities they would be
rather light in weight if this condi—
tion is very prevalent. We would
suggest that you eliminate all dis-
eased specimens and feed the. bal-
ance of theﬂock a moist mash con-
taining equal parts by weight of
bran, middlings, corn meal, and
ground oats plus ten per cent meat
scrap. This mash should be fed
once a day. A scratch feed of
cracked corn, and wheat should be
given both in the morning and in
the evening with :1 heavier food at
night—E. (l. Foreman. Department
of Poultry Husbandry, M’. A. C..

 
EXAMINATION REQUIRED

I have a nice flock of Plymouth
Rock chickens, been doing well every
year, but this summer, have lost lots
of them and keep on losing them
They don’t look sick at all that
I notice, but ﬁnd some dead under
the roost, I open them, all the same
trouble. The liver is spotted yel—
low and rotten. They have good
feed, lots of sour milk and fresh
water all of the time. Please tell
us what should be done, I am afraid
I will lose the rest of them.———J. D .
Levering, Michigan.

—The disease spoken of cannot be
diagnosed Without an examination
of a diseased bird or the carcasses
of the birds which have recently
died. The spotted liver may be
found in blackhead, tuberculosis, or
even other diseases' The best way
of settling this question is to ex-
amine some of the fresh tissues from
the diseased birdsp—H. J. Stafseth,
Res. Asso. in Bacteriology, M. A. C.

 
OVER $45,000,000 LOSS YEARLY
FROM BAD EGGS

EW people understand that
F eggs are almost as perishable
- as meat or milk. They belong
to the same class of food, but just
because they are enclosed in a hard
shell, people think they will stand
almost any kind of treatment.

Government experts estimate a
loss of over $45,000,000 every year
from bad eggs. This loss can be
largely prevented by better hand-
ling and marketing.

Five per cent of the eggs in the
United States are lost through
shrinkage. The shell of an egg is
porous, so that the developing chick
can get air during the incubation
period.

Seventy—four per cent of an egg
is water. Whenever an egg is in
a temperature above freezing, ‘this
shell. The higher the temperature
3.11.. the more circulation of air
were is, the faster the evaporation
takes place Eggs grow stale in
warm poultry houses, in hot kitch-

ens on the farm, or in the cupboards

of the consumer. Egg dealers
count that three stale eggs are equal
to a rotten. egg and pay accordingly.
Gather your eggs daily and keep
them in a cool place. Market them
as often as possible—at least once
a weeké—better twice a week. -
Blood rings cause a loss of 5 per
cent of the eggs produced in the

a

Water is evaporating through the

   
United States. This point
ered in the discuss10n of
ceeding chart. 1

Two and one-half per cent of the

3 on the market are rotten. Plack
rot, the rot caused by fertile eggs,
has already been discussed. It is
the most common rot and, as sug-
cv~~Vd before, can be prevented by
producing infertile eggs

There are other kinds of rotten
eggs. _ Bacteria gets in to the egg
throng. the porous shell. These
bacteria develop, causing various
kinds of rot and mold. The tough
.linner membrane of' the egg is pra-
ucally bacteria proof unless it be—
0.111-681 damp.

Don’t let hens nest on the damp
ground. Keep the nests clean and
dry. Don’t wash any eggs you in-
tend to sell. This destroys
ner protective membrane and allows
germs to enter. Large egg dealers
are sending out printed instructions,
“Under no conditions wash eggs.”

Two per cent of the ggs pro-
duced are broken. Some are lrok-
en by you .on your way to market,
but you are not as responsible as the
local packers, the railroads, and the
truck drivers of the large cities.

Two per cent of the eggs which
come to market are dirty. Cust—
omers do not want dirty eggs. The
egg dealers count three dirty eggs

was cov-
tlze pr )-

as the equivalent of one rotten egg, ,

and deduct from the price accord-
ingly. .
lxcep the nests clean. If eggs

get dirty during the muddy weather.

in the spring, wash them, and use
tl 1111 immediately at home. \Vushed
eggs are as good as any if used at
once.

Mold spores enter
same as bacteria. The spores grow
and the egg tastes musty and ill
ﬂavored. Keep the nests clean and
dry, and store the eggs in a cool
dry place. Never put them in a.
musty room or cellar, or pack them
in musty cases. There is only a
small loss from this cause—one—half
of one per cent.

Adding these percentages we ﬁnd
that 17 per cent of all the eggs in
the United States are unﬁt for food.
Help to prevent this loss by produc—
ing infertile eggs, by keeping the
nests clean, by gathering the eggs
daily, by storing them in a cool,
dry place, and by marketing them
‘ often.

the egg the

HODIE PRESERVATION 0F EGGS.

nearly all ”purposes as fresh

eggs. If the preservative has
been properly made and the egg.
are fresh when they are. put into it,
even experts can hardly distinguish
the preserved product from the
fresh. '

Water glass is one of the best
preservatives for home ‘use. ‘lise
1 gallon of water glass to 10 gallons
of water. Boil the water. then add
the water glass, and mix thorough-
ly. Use only clean, fresh eggs.
Pack in a glass or stone jar, or in
a. wooden keg. Have at least two
inches of the solution above the top
layer of eggs. 1 Keep your ‘eggs cov-
ered, and store them in the collar
or some other cool place.

Water glass costs from 60 to 75
cents a gallon. One gallon willpre—
serve from 75 to 100 dozen eggs.
Do not use the solution a second
time.

Lime water can be used instead
of water glass. Slake three pints
of quick lime in three gallons of
water. Add one pint of salt, and
“stir well. Let the mixture settle and
pour off the clear liquid for your
preservative.

Preserved eggs must be marked
as such, if offered for sale.

PRESERVED eggs are as good for

 
“Today we have in the United,

States one cow for every 'four
people while in Japan there is only
one cow to every 1,114 people. Milk
is undisputably the most immort—
ant food in the development and'
growth of the human body. With-
out its use we would soon be a na-
tion of people of small and under—
sized stature.”——Jessie ,Hoover.

.11

the in-'

. packages

I

1 F011 SALE

 
bling his egg yield through the re-
markable discovery of M. B. Smith,
a Kansas City chemist.

W o r kl n g
along entirely
original lines

covered why
hens lay less
in winter than
in
and perfected
a. formula that
turns loafers
Into layers and profit makers.

Within ﬁve or six days this discovery,
which is called Ditto Egg Tablets, will
rejuvenate your ﬂock. Your hens will
go strutting 'and cackling about with 'red
(ombs and full of life and pep. Every
nest will yield an cg g nearly every day
in the week, which means a lot, since
eggs are certaian to sell for 60 cents or
more This is not guess work as over
100, 000 successful poultry rais'rs testify
to the value of Mr. Smiths 11101lucts.

Although different from anything you
ever heard of, Ditto Egg Tablets are
easily administered by simply dropping
in drinking water.

So conﬁdent is Mr. Smith you can
double or triple your egg yield, that he
offers to semi two large $1 packages of
Ditto Egg Tablets (enough for a season)
to any reader who will write for them.

 
If you_ are satisﬁed they cost only $1
on th1s mtroductory offer, otherwise,
nothing.

Send no money—just your name and
address to M. B. Smith, 1260 Coca (‘ola
will be mailed immedi:

When they ar1‘,ive pay the p051,. 1
only $1 and postage Use the tablets 10
days. If you are not getting more eggs
or are not satisfied for a: y mason, simply
return unused tablets and your money
will be icturned immediately without
question. A 1111; Kansas City bank guar-
unlcc s the rcli.i1illty 1.11 this ofﬂr Write
to my before this intr'oductmy off1r is
withdrawn, as you 111111 Sell one package
to :1 illulld and thus get y0u1 own free.

 
T U {K EYS—l)U(IKS—GEESE

 
eObRuON RED TURKEYS—UNRELATED
:11.;11'1{. Under curly £111 11111 111'11:1s.11i11e pups for
11.11. .‘\:so 151111 \\_\21111111it1 l‘11rk11'1ls.

THOS. G. CALL AGHAN, Fenton, Mich.
FINE, LARGE, VIGOROUS. THOROUGHBRED
1111mm '1‘11r1113s.\\‘1s11 to lessen 1111 flock. For

11111111 sale. 111113 $800. Toms “410100
MP8. ROBT. EMER ICK, Harmsvllle, Mich.
MICHIGAN’ 8 BEST GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS
large,vigorousl11rdsofsphndi1l Color from World!
host‘stmins. Unrelated stock f11rni.;h1d.

N EVALYN RAMSDELL, Ionla, Mich.

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEVS FOR IMMEDI-
ate shipment. 1101ng $0. 00, T111115 $8. 0
D. F. MA HALL, Beulah, Mich.

BOURBON RED—TOMS

THOROUGHBRED $111,011 urns $3.00.

J. B. IHUDDLE, Oeresco. Mich

 
PUREBRED BO” 1RBON REDS, LARGE VIGO-
11101111.WI “Evans strain. liens $8 toms $10.
ARY BEACOM, R. 4, Mariette, Mich.

EARLY HATCHED PURE BRED -
1~elt ’i‘urkey.s liens $8 Toms. 12 NARRAGAN
MRS. O. W DEERE, I‘. 'rlan, R. 7, Mich.

 
MAMMOTH TURKEYS.
r1ght by buying strong. vigourous
stock. \Vrite for price '
MRS. PERRY STEBSBINS,

BRONZE START

pure bred -

Saranac, Mlchi’gan.
WHITE PCEKIN DUCKS AND BRAKES 2.

each. S. \V. Leghorn cockerels from 2111123
flock $1. 50 each. These prices are for immediate
(191113,): Oxford. Also 1131‘.“ geese and
t111keys. Mrs. Earl De Lane, R. 1, Oxford. Mich.

W. CHINESE GEESE, PEKIN DU
aragn ch11orns.M1f11re and vo11ngCIl()isrds, R 0

CLAUDIA BETTS, Hillsdaie, R. 1. Mich.

CHOICE )IAIHITE PEKIN DUCKS
11111 ‘ 1 Fr; 11s and
CEDAR BEND A,RM Okemrgsfudeizh.

HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR LIVE AND

Dressed Poultry, EIcol, E r R 1
deal always. 0. ms. £11163. A3 seine?
80. Water St. .. CEhlcago, Ill

 
Michigan Apple and
Potato Show
Grand Rapids, Michigan,

Klingman BuiIding
December 5, 6, 7, 8, 1922
DAY AND NIGHT
During the Meeting of the

Michigan Horticultural Society
' andthe Michigan Potato Pro-
ducers’ Association

Reduced Fares on all Railroads— -
ask your agent for application blank.

Admission 25 Cents;

 
Any poultry raiser can seeily and
quickly double his proﬁts by don-1

Mr. Smith dis— ,

summer. .

  
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SUMMARY:
,fdctors.

  
' 1922. -.

  
"inculy, 1921.
' jkper cent over July, 1921.
.7 Bank clearings outside of

   
price level.

'11. FOREIGN TRADE...

‘\

last two ﬁscal years.

years ending
citizens amounting

   
gold cannot and‘should not continue and are not continuing in this ‘volume.
. , investments in foreign countries may be expected to keep on and increase if ' products advanced in price, 6 declined and 1 remained unchanged. Compared
1 ’ the factor of safety grows. Foreign loans extended by American investors in With a year ago there are 19 advances and 5 declines.
I". » ' . a, Mail Order Sales: 5. Discount Rates of— the Federal Reserve Banks:
I A n 1' Produchon and Trade 1922 October1921 192'2rcn Monolig21 R f t f h t Nov.,1922 Oct.,1922 Nov.,1921
‘7? _ uricu ure: ange 0 re es or t e welve
‘1 U. s. Production—000,000 omitted. Montgomery banks 0" commercm" ”‘1‘
P 11minary* Word ......... $10,288,916 $ 7,604,031 $ 69,841,140 $ 60,950,454 cultural and livestock paper.4-41Ao,% 4-41/2% 5-6%
1922 m 1922 Sears Roebuck.. 19,933,164 17,378,253 141,212,969 144,747,613 6. Stock and Bond Prices:
Estimate Average Estimate ' NOV. 10, Oct. 13, NOV. 10,
l Preliminary 1921 1916-1920 per cent ' 11' Forelgn Trade AVBI'aHB price— 1922 1922 1921
_ Corn. bu. ”......“- 2896 3080 2831 102 l. Exports: ' 20 Industrial Stocks ........... 97.50 102.60 75.61
Wheat, bu. .........'. 810 795 799 101 000 omltted . 20 Rallroad StOCkS ............ 89.50 92.79 73.51
i Oats, bu? . 1230 1061 141.3 87 —Scptenlber-— Nlne Months 40 Bonds .................... 89.30 90.63 81.13
‘ . . - Barley, bu. 196 151 197 100 Commoditys 19 1921 1922 1921 7. Business Failures:
. . 7;; Bye, bu. ...-”......” 80 60 68 118 Grand total, all exports...$307,451 $318,402 $2,685,124 $3,401,562 Week Ending
’ >5 ' ‘ BUCkWheat, bu. . ..... . 13.6 14 14 ’ 95 Beef and veal, lbs ........ 3,069 , .6 ~. 23,138 28.529 NOV 9 1922 Oct 12 1902 NOV 10 1921
Potatoes, bu. . ..... . . 434 347 373 116 York; IbS- -------------- 57.247 86.405 504,238 617,842 Brudstreets ........ ' 3'7 ' 366 d '404
’ .» ‘ Sweet Potatoes, bu. . . 110 99 89 124 Lard, lbs. ............. . 61,120 104,741 559,700 695,059 Duns ...................... 38? 390 364
g ‘ Hay, a“, tons........ . 109 97 102 197 Neutral lard, lbs ........ . 1,598 2,789 14,741 20,515 """"
\ Cotton, bales 10 8 - 12 ' 85 Butter, lbs. ............. 1,077 371 9,488 6,632 IV, Prices
TODECCO, lbs. ......... 1330 1075 1378 97 Cheese, lbs. ............. 334 530 4,059 10,443
, Flaxseed, bu. 12 ,8 11 110 {Hoes and skins .......... 226 433 2,399 2.794 l- Wholesale Prices of Farm Commodities:
_ Ric , b . 39 37 42 94 ‘orn, u. ............... 9,608 18,600 141,‘ 06 104,972 - . .
,. - ..Peazhesl" bu. 56 33 44 129 Meal and ﬂour, bbls ...... 40 84 49 640 Q'uommns at Chlom’” “5““: as “Oth‘
L pears, bu, 13 11 14 126 1‘1hoat’bbbll- .............. 25,987 30,842 126,130 37,445 “$25-21, “ﬁligth ‘29::
. 4‘ A 185: total. bu....... 206 98 179 115 1 our, 5. ............. 1,301 1,802 10,458 12,984 , , g _ ,
- .4 3.331.... com’l, bbls..... 32 21 27 119 Oats, bu. ............... 4,37 224 24,036 2,474 ﬁatfhws; CW}: avértllle-n; -------- $ 7-40 $ 8-85 $ 6-40
, Sugar Beets, to’ns...... 5 8 7 75 Meal and rolled, 1b ....... 9,425 8,719 75,649 79,446 F9? fulﬁls: b‘fgd “We: C‘ll-n Wm 9-85 10440 7-10
; ,: Kaﬁrsﬂbu. 81 115 91 89 Fru1ts and nuts ........ .. 7,301 7,327 43,610 46,171 Ff‘ 3““ 5' C“ .. {”9ng ----------- 14,45 13-55 8-70
_ _. Cranberries, bbls. . .3 .4 125 Veg. Oils and fats ........ 1,035 959 9,875 24,203 at Sleep, cwt., average ........... 7.40 6.10 3.70
y . Beans. bu. 13.0 9,1 13,3 93 Sugar, 1b. ............... 28,824 79,781 1808841 785,984 WOOL 0th delame Unwashed» lb-
. 1% Onions, bu. 20 14 17 122- Leaf tobacco, lb ......... 33,102 33,008 “95,814 403,880 (Bostogl) ----------------------- 565 .555 36
:ﬁ. ,Cabbage, tons . ....... _ 1‘ .6 _ 156 Cotton, bale ............ 369 522 3,849 4,311 butter, J- scorc,_1b ................ .505 4425 .445
.. ~Sorghum Sirup, gal.... 38 46 40 96 Wool, lb. _______________ 26 80 297 1,007 (Fllrcose,fN01. 1ﬁtvv1ns,dlb ............. .2425 .229 .20
', Cloverseed, bu. .. ..... . 1. 1.4 1.5 120 2. Imports: 11553,). ”7,1,, ”ﬁ’; 0‘ """"""" E” 3‘; ‘54
Peanuts, lbs. ..... 691 816 1043 , 60 Grand total, all imports..$228,795 $179,292 $2 181,386 $1,872,696 Wheat ’NO -;‘h.,,,i"1;,', """"""" 1'20 11825 .315
Hops, lbs. ...... 31.5 29 32.1 98 Beef and veal, lbs ....... 10,533 2,066 26,998 22,033 Cm, ’VO '9“,,,,‘..d' 1 """"""" 2. ' 1' 25
'As percentage of average 1916-1920. Pork, lbs. ............... 76 50 435 582 tints, 1(3)" :7 whit; 'bliu """"""" 'aig5 '1275 ‘32—5
‘ World Production—000,000 omitted. Butter, lbs. ............. 89 398 2,735 12,173 ' M ' """"""" ' ' .. .- ‘
. - r 7,. Average Cheese, lbs. .. ........... 3,037 2,571 26,241 15,535 12,3331?“ 2’ b” """"""""""" '29, “2%,? 7‘5}
' F l 1922 1921 1909_]3 ~1’lldCS and SklllS ......... 50,587 32,806 358,765 208,980 l\'ﬂﬁl‘ ‘Nyuo .\\:1;iltzsl.é\.\-.tu(l-"Iiij.... 1.g9 2.03 ' ”J
". Wheat bu (1) 3 012 2 890 Corn, bu. ................ 2 3 97 150 ll'ly 'NO .IHTlIHULll‘V {Hi} \' ' ' I ‘ . 23,60 0' ‘8‘5
. ‘ , . .................. '.- ,, , 0A 1) ,. ‘4 1 Y. ..... ‘ ....... . 22.00 22.00
.. Rye, bu. (2 .......... 77 771 ,‘S’ u- -------------- 37 62 1'2‘1 3,081 I‘lﬂx INC. 1 lm (Mlllnvalmlh') “45 043’ 1735
2‘13 Oats. bu. (3)........... ......... 3,018 2,742 3,008 “heat b‘I- ----------- 4 782 81 14,321 12171 Cotton middlinr' 10 (y Y’ """ “2'4 “"230 ' 7'
Barley. on. (4)............. ...... 843 814 882 Flour. bbl. .............. 42 4 552 7.0 licpns' white an iron M'lrir'i'” 6'90 640 4'13
Potatoes, bu. (5) ................. 3,106 2,430 3,066 limitsﬂnd “ms --------- 3-864 5,268 55,489 48,529 Potatoes moi-thorn wliiieé ‘cwt‘ '95 1‘00 193
‘ Cotton. bales (6)......... ....... 16 14.1 19.6 "82- 0113 and fats ........ . 2,990 3,822 44,079 26,474 Onions ’miuwcst vellow ’c'wt' """ 1'90 150 4'
l” (1) Russia and Mexico excluded. Sugar, lbs. .............. 390,150 315,999 8,484,011 4,747,517 Apples: ”A" grade, 051 .................... 5.00 5.25 8'03
" (2) 18 countries. (3) 27 countries. (4) 25 countries. (5) Leaf tObacco' lbs """"" 2"80 2'60" "1556 361914 Hides, N0. 1 native hcovv ll) ...... 23 225 .155 ‘
)7“ 16 countries. (6) 500 pounds net, linters excluded. 969:3?!1'1023. ............. Ziggg 134.15%; 12%:3‘; ”35:92: Sugar, ﬂne granulated, lb:’(:\'. Y_).. :07 :06'9 .052
. , ' .- , . .............. , , l ,0 a , . i
2. Mining. 3' Prices of Foreign Drafts: 2. U. S. Department of Labor Relative Wholesale Prices.
. Figures express. production as a per cent of normal. In estl- Price of Demand Drafts Prices in year 1913 equal 100
g - mating normal production, due all'owance is made for seasonal Nominal Gold Value or Nov. 20,‘ Oct. 16, Nov.18, . 00'", 1922 Sept.,1922 0ct.,1921
-. l? variation and year to year growth. Par of Exchange 1922 1922 1921 All commodltlee (Weighted average °
Sept” 1922 Aug” 1922 Sept” 1921 England $4.87 to 1£ Sterling.. $4.49 $4.43 $3.99 F or General I “08 Level) """" 154 153 142
Anthracite coal 61 1,9 88 France 19.3ctolfranc 7.410 7.52c 7.22:: Fa”; products """"""""" 138 133 12‘
Bituminous coal .......... 71 ‘ 39 .64 Germany 23.80 tolm rk ...... .015/gc .03c .036c Clmh Droguots .................. 140 138 140
Copper #79 *86 18 Belgium 19.3ctolrrnc 6.96c 7.00c 7.00c 1,.”‘34 “g hlnfi'. CEO --------------- 1’23 183 180
9 Petroleum . 8111 112 96 Italy 19.3ctolllre ..... .. 4.75c 4.19c use 1.1%.,“ J‘gltlnﬁ’"";l".". """" 2‘6 244 139
a, oPrellmlnary. Spain 19.3c tolpeseta . .. 15.38c 15.11c 13.78c Riff ‘1“ {“0131 1"" “”7 """" 137’ 134 116
3 Manuf cturln - Austria ...... 20.3c to lcrown .00140 .00140 .0370 (.Eélilingl ma (31'1ng ,, """"""" 183 180 159
- a 9- Denmark ..... 26.8c to lcrown 20.18c 19.91c 18.45c 1,0,“;6‘19 “.‘31- mts'a """""" 134 134 131
, Wheat ﬂour 123 117 119 Norway ...... 26.8ctolcroWn 1833c 18.20c 14.45c “is“,m‘gﬁpmg 2"” S """"" 1‘26 1'3 18°
.. Meat * 109 97 Sweden 26.8ctolcrown 26.78c 26.72c 23.33c ‘ " .‘ S """""""""" 0 116 118
Sugar 110 144 76 Holland 40.2cto1ﬂorln 39.35c 38.9:lc 35.20c 3- Pm“ 0' Farm Products at the Farm Relative to l9l3=
ev Cotton 92 97 92 . Argentina 42.5c tolpeso 36.6c 35.95c 32.87c Prices in year 1013 equal 100
Pig iron ..... 68 61 34, Brazil ..... .. 32.4c tolmilreis 12.650 11.558 12.870 Commodity. Sept.,1922 Aug. 1922 Sept 1921
gteelb ingot --.- g: 70 38 Indie. 48.7ctolrupee 29.95c 28.95c 27.12c Cotton ........................... 161 170 "107
#mder 1...”... .. 19g 74 Japan 49,9ct01yg 48.35c 43.100 47.870 (lorn ............................ 104 105 127
i Gaosblinlbup l. 133 $7931, Canada .......100 ctoldo lar .....100.00c 100,000 91,200 Wheat ........................... 115 112 99
.. semen. .::::::::::::::::::::: 124 121 110 4- Discount Rate of the Bank of Enolanm 37¢. """""""""""""""" ”9“ 9“ 104
1* Not available. Nov. 15’ 1922 Month Ago Yea: Ago Ikgeiuhgzttle ........................ 12% 1%; $3
; . r . ...................... .- .
4‘ 3mm“: '0 3% .340 Hops ............................ 110 114 102
_ October, October, Ten Months In. Money and Credit Eggs """""""""""""" 15“ 118 121
‘ . 1922 1921 1922 1921 Rutter ........................... 134 124 102
1‘ Contracts awarded in 27 I. Gold, Currency and Bank Deposits: “001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ._ 188 189 9:,
. (FStsvtesﬁd 0 ) ., 000,000 ommed ‘ 4. Relative Purchasing Power of Farm Products:
’1 . _ _ o ge ,0, Oct. 1, Sept. 1, 061.1, The quantity of various commodities which a iven am 11'
Number ..... 9,568 8,096 91,479 65,151 1922 1922 1921 of each farm product would urchas t ‘- g‘ on
‘ 7; ‘ Vaue (000,000 om1tted).$ 253 $ 222 $ 2,887 $ 1,969 Stocks of monetary gold in the is put equal to 100. The ﬁgures giavéln ngcl'geglte‘thldhpirblbnltgig
. .. 5. Transportation: ... United States ................. $ 3,874 $ 3.859 $ 3.453 of this quantity which the same amount Of farm products would
. a“, ‘ Week Same Same Week Total SUPP}? 01' currency in the purchase in September, 1922. Prices at the farm are used for
y, Ending Week Week Ending United btates ........... 4,521 4.394 4.665 agricultural products, and wholesale prices at central markets for
F l ht C r Landings 113;.211, MAonth Year Nov. 11, ‘ 3613391252, Junllggg» 891102115, other conlmodlges. I h .
. reg a : . o A . o All in-
‘ Total Wink; 53,909 9835470 753,046 1i2272 Total deposits in National Bake-$16,529? §16E3211 $14,516] modilies C (bttcii 1721:: Mglgls' Rigging r3193:
-Graln and grain pro uc . 52.501 52,492 34,402 153 0- 'ep- . Cl- . Cotton 105 88 66 ' 120' 89 ' 93
Livestock .......... 38,001 39,141 34.26 1922 1922 1921 C ..... F 5'
Coal .. .................. 188,312 196.926 152,303 iii Deposits in New York City Banks.$3,910 $3.900 $3,740 “82.4 7% 0'3 1?! is: 22 2%
$852.. “presets """""" 33833 8372? 58323 118 2- 6°” "WWW ‘ ' 7‘7, ----- it :23 .40 73 54 57
_ . . . . ..... , , , - ’0 a 088 44 81 60 62
Ore ....... 39,383 46,362 8,658 455 000 0mm“ . Beef cattle 0 50 38 69
Merchandise .............228,050 226,123 215,439 106 . ‘ 19228eptembeg2l 1932“ M02323 Hogs ..... 72 60 45 82 a ‘2:
Miscellaneous . e . ee . e - . ..334,997 352,491 250,858 134 EX 0113 Of Old ...... s 1 399 2 449 13 123 Eggs ------ 102 85 64 116 87 90
‘As percentage of week year ago D g ' 3 ' $ ' 3 13’5“ Butt 88 73
- Imports of gold ...... 29,316 66,085 561,177 214,408 8" 55 10° 74 77
x . ... Employment: , Wool ..... 22 102 77 140 104 108
SBptember, August, July. 3, Federal Reserve Ratio: Average purchasing power of all farm products in terms of all,
- 1922 1922 1922 Nov. 15, Oct. 11, Nov. 16, other commoditles. Same basis as above table.
Out of..65 industrla] centers ‘gmployment - ‘ 1922 1922 1921 13? --------------- 0 December, 1921 .u....... ...8.'
Increased 0781' revious month in....... 48 39 4 , Ratio of total reserv . to deposit 1914 ................ 112 January, 1922 ......c. /
.P 4
,Becteased‘from DTGVlOUS month 111...... 17 26 21 and Federal Reserve note “ab“- , 1915 .............. ..106 March .. ..... r ..... .........~76 ‘-
_, ,ﬂsfnbchmnw . . -ltles combined 752% 75.7% 71.8% iii? ---------------- 13% JMay .7
. , '. _ Units of 61.000.000.000 « 4. Interest Rates" » ' 1918'” """"""" "1y
_ Oct., 1922 Sept. 1922 Oct. 1921: ' Oct 1922 Sept 1922 4 Oct 1921 1919 """""""" 112 August
_ , , , | ., ., . . ............ 1 . 4
ew York City............. 19.67 17.27 16.03 - 4-6 mo. commercial paper..“.-.,. 435% 4.41% .5;94% .r 1920“} _______ 186 4 September e-eevveoqevf‘teveoe“ _
14.78 19.21 «0.90 dav commercial naner.. 4.42%. 4.19%. , 546.2%. . _1921.............. . 67 ' ‘

      
“ Outside New York Clty..,...':-16.96

PRODUCTION AND TRADE.
, Combined crap output in the United
ever produced, the production for 1915 a

increase over October last year.
trade but can be partially explain

exports—were going out of the
The ability 0
imports of gold into the United States,

- _ An understanding of the. ﬁgures On thi
nted each month, enables “the farmer to see
- which indicate the trend of business and prices and
. ‘gweo'hcerning future agricultural“ operations.

   
s page as they are revised and pre-
the position of the important factors

give a basis' for' judgment

is

'The chief; elements in the situation are encouraging in all four groups of

States this year is the third largest
nd 1920 being slightly in excess“ of

Pig ironproductidn has made steady and rapid increase since the low point
The output in October this year registered an advance of 205

New York City, for October, show 28 per cent

This is mainly due to big crops and reviving

country 1

ed by a 9 per cent advance in the general

~.

As shown in last month’s review, wheat and pork—two of the major farm
n unprecedented volume during the
f Europe to buy is partly explained by the net
of 946 million dollars during the two
July 1, 1922, and of estimated foreign investments by American
for the two years to 1,633 million dollars.

Net imports of

 
Revised
pertinent ,
American Film
oration.

ms 1 uatiOn‘

. /. - i ‘ . ' - .
‘the ﬁscal year 1922 Were 64 per cent greater than in 1921 indicating increasing.
conﬁdence in the return of normal conditions abroad. ' \ -

111. MONEY. AND‘ CREDIT. ~- - .
. At the present stage of the business cycle an increase in interest rates and ‘
decline in federal reserve ratio arevencouraging for they may signify expanding 'l
business activity, bringing greater demand for raw materials and shortly there- '-
after a larger supply of ﬁnished products available for consumption. When such
changes come during the crop moving period, they may be reﬂecting mainly a '
temporary need for money and credit. Both sets of facts are probably true in

the present noteworthy advance 1n commerc1al interest rates since last month.

1V. PRICES. -

The September, 1922, purchasing power ﬁgure, based on prices for the
year 1913, was 64, which means that farm productsat prevailing prices can buy
only 64 per cent as much of other commodities as in 1913. if it were possible
to compute the November ﬁgure a slight increase would probably be shown but
at best the gain is small over 62, the low point in farm purchasing power regis;
tered in December, 1921. . .

When volume of production as well as price is taken into consideration, the ‘
situation is more encouraging. A study by the Department of Research in
August showed the purchasing power of the 1920 crops, total value basis.
namely price multiplied by volume, to be 75; the 1921 crops 61; and the 1922
crops, on August forecasts and July prices, 77. November forecasts and prices~
might raise this last ﬁgure slightly. From this showing, which is more signiﬁcant
than the price relationship alone, farmers are about 25 per cent better off this
year than last year but are still over 20 per cent below their 1913 position. it ‘
should be remembered that this is the third consecutive year the exchange ratio

has been unfavorable.
On November 21, compared with a' month previous, 17 out of 24 farm

 
. mum AND MARKET REVIEW

4 HE latter part of November

showed a slight slackening in

. business activity and consider-

, ably less conﬁdence in the grain
markets. At the same time car load-
,ln‘gs continued heavy in all lines and
the car shortage is still acute.
,. Many of the potato sections of this

and other states are reporting a
great deal of difﬁculty getting a sut-
ncient number of suitable cars to
ship out big holdings in warehouses
and to this fact_is attributed part of
the blame for the exceedingly low
prices.

We do not see how business can
continue the same rate of improve-
ment noted the past several‘months
without a corresponding improve-
ment in agricultural circles. Al-
though the prices of most staple
crops have advanced the past ninety
days, the farmers themselves have
received only a small part of the ac-
cruing beneﬁt. Much of the grain
crops went into the hands of the
dealers early in the season and those
who were fore—handed enough to
hang onto the grain are reaping nice
proﬁts. The condition of the grain
farmer is no doubt slightly improved
because of the advancing prices of
wheat, corn and cats, but the potato
farmer is having a bad year of it.
He represents a considerable number
of farmers and all business is bound
to suffer some because of the low
price of his product.

The prices of most items of hard-
ware,.including stoves, of clothing,
shoes, etc., have advanced from 5 to
20 per cent the past thirty days.
Cotton has almost doubled in price
since last spring, with varying in-
creases in the prices of cotton goods.
An up-state merchant recently told

us that he' would have to pay 5 to 20“

per cent more for the same goods
today than he paid some months ago.
Items which have advanced include
shoes, rubbers, underwear, clothing,
socks, mackinaws, wool and cotton
blankets and most of the dress goods.

The blame for the advancing prices
is laid by many to the door of the
Fordney tariff law. Even so no one
would object to higher prices if all
in the same proportion at the same

 
’ prohibitive.

 
. MARKET SUMMARY . . ,

All grain steady with demand slow. Corn shows indications of
bullish tendency in near future. Beans ﬁrm. ‘Demand for eggs and
butter brisk and snpplies__small. Potatoes in ﬂange supply and easy
owing to decrease in demand. Active trade in poultry. Market, for
turkeys quiet.‘ All live stock active with sheep highm- in price. ’

. , ,, > ’

l

(lots: The one“ summarized Imulon was WMJFTEI the homo. of the mar-

tot page was set In type. It contains m minute Information up to

come,“ ”as: M, .)

mum one-hall hour of

_.....

 
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Before the war a Ger-
man mark was worth nearly 25 cents
in American money, A year and a.
half ago it was worth one and one-
half cents in American money. To-.
day, $50 will buy a quarter of a
million marks. The money of nearly
all other nations of the Continent
has so depreciated that the people
cannot aﬂford to buy the products

~of other countries with it. And

yet, millions of bushels of grain are
going across the ocean, and is be-
ing paid for some way, and millions
more will go. i

The mills are active bidders for
wheat and that helps keep the price
up. Just now there seems to be a
slight slump in the market, but we
rather expect to see renewed in-
terest in wheat within another week,
which is likely to be followed by a
dull season over the holidays, after
which a second bull movement isnot
unlikely.

Prices I

Detroit—No. 2 red, $1.33; No. 2
white and No. 2 mixed, $1.31.

Chicago—No. 2 hard, $1.18%@
31.19%.

New York—No. 2 red, $1.32%;
No. 2 hard winter, $1.31%.

Prices one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No. 2 red, $1.25; No. 2 mixed
and No. 2 white $1.22. .

CORN .- ,

If there has been any change in
the tone of corn it has been in favor
of the bear side although it is
doubtful if the market changed

. much in general.

The present out-
look is that prices will be lower and
the market easy in the near future.
Expectations of larger receipts are
bearlng the 'market and should
these expectations be realized un-
doubtedly prices would decline
sharply. Cars were more plentiful
last week and farmers showed an
inclination to sell freely. Export
business has been dull the past fort-
mght.- However there is some de-

mand as houses at seaboard have

been disposing of their supplies in
spite of reports that Europe was
having her needs taken care of by
Argentina. Reports have it that
Argentina has about sold all of her
surplus "and that Europe willso‘on
be back in the American market in
earnest. If this bevtrue our slump
in this market should be short-lived.
Prices
Detroit—No. 2 yellow, 760; No.
3 yellow, 76c; No. 4 yellow, 740; No.
6 yellow,'72c.
71 1A; @

Chicago—No.
73c.

New York—No. 2 yellow, 90%.;
No. 2 mixed, 89%c.

Prices one year ago—Detroit, Old
Cash No. 2 yellow at 59c; No. 3 yel-
low 58c; new yellow.Cash No. 3,
56c; No 4, 54c.

, m’ﬁ
, OATS ~

There is nothing we can say about
this market except what ‘we have
said before. There is no feature to
the market. 'Oats will contiue to
act in sympathy with wheat. Country

2 mixed,

 
T1

THE WEATHER FOR, NEXT

‘7

WEEK

offerings are light and ,
shipping demand moderate. ‘ _
close or last week Chicago reported
sales of 30.000 bushels were Mote
go in store. “

- " Prices

Detrpit—No- 2 white, 49366:» No.” '
g white, 48c: No. 4! White. 4634c. -
Chicago-Jo. 2 white, 4391.29
45%0. ' * ' - . .
New York—No. 2 white 53%; . . ~

Prices one year ago—Detroit, No.1 ,

2 white, 380; N0. 3 white, 356.3%; .
No. 4 white, 305§@33%c. *

BIB
Rye followed the trend ofother
grains during the past fortnight and
the present price is slightly under
that of two Weeks ago. Exporters
are bidding for rye but they want
it for less than prevailing prices.
Last week seaboard reported 100,000 ‘ _
bushels sold for export. We believe
this decline to be: only temporary.
and that the market will: come back
strong in the near future.
Prices
Detroit—Cash No. 2, 89c. '
Chicago—Cash No. 2, 83112:;
Prices one year ag0«——Detroit, Cash
No. 2, 870.

w

BEANS
"I'he bean market rules steady and
ﬁrm. Dealers are not getting any
more beans than they can readily
dispose of. Probably the major part
of it is still back on the farms, the
holders feeling that prices will be

'j very much higher before the next

crop. We rather hold to this view
ourselves, but do not think it would
be good business for any farmer to
hold his entire crop on the strength
of that belief.

’ Prices

Detroit-JG. H. P. $6.75 cwt.

Chicago—C. H. P. $8.50 cwt

Prices one year ago—Detroit, C:
H. P. $4.20 cwt. \ "

———_——d
POTATOES _

No improvement in the potato
market. Prices have taken another
drop since our last issue and a great
many bushels are still offered in ex-
cess Of what the market can absorb .
readily. Farmers living in the vi-.

ci’nity of the large cities have been
~ . particularly ready sellers, their .
spuds commanding from 40 to~60
cents a bushel, depending upon the
locality and the quality of the odor-

As forecasted by \V. T. Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer
time, and wages also keep up to the , .

level. But that does not happen. 'FOSTER’S WEATHER CHART FOR’DEQ 4922

Too often we see farm product prices ' ' ' ' ‘

going GQWH Whlle the Prlces Of Other ' 5 8" 7 c o 10 u :2 13 u 15 it: :7 is 19g) 21 22 23 24 25 as 21 . 31

commod1t1es go up, but very seldom . . :‘uﬂf‘ I; - ‘ ‘ “,AO‘A ings. This price looks good to the

Y \ , g I/ , truck farmer when com—pared with
‘s ’ _ . the 18 to 25 cents per bushel which
» the farmers up—state are angered.

There are as usual many daring
prophets who still talk of dollar
potatoes before the coming of spring ..
but they haven’t much mailed to
back up their argument. It is true
that thousands of bushels are still
in the ground and thousands more
have been fed to stock and other-
wise utilized outside the marketing
channels, and it not altogether im-
possible that the wastage has offset
the usuable surplus. But that is a
far~fetched conclusion. Nothing
but the discovery of a serious error
in the government report can, we
believe, bring about a substantial
increase in potato valubs. On our
part we expect to see better prices
even in the face of the government
estimate, simply bcause the majority
of farmers who have held their
crop this long will not sell at the
prevailing ‘low prices until the last
how for better prices has gone
glimmering. Sooner or later there
must. develop a scarcity of potatoes,
and it won’t have to be much of a
scarcity, either, to inﬂuence higher
prices. With everybody praying tori
higher potato prices it doesn’t re-
quire much of an excuse or effort
to bring them about. '

Right in this connection we are
sure that our readers will be inter-
ested in a letter just received from
a subscriber ln- far-off Colorado. He
writes as follows: "“ . ‘- .

. “I notice your-wail and weeps in
your last November was about 130—. T '
tatoes. It is an'Old Board for Trade“
saying ‘The tail end of‘a- small, crop

is the big end—4Whlle the mused t

 
do We see the reverse.

 
WHEAT .1

 
Little change is noted in what
prices the last fortnight. Both the
Detroit and Chicago markets are
about one-half under What they — -_
were two weeks ago. In that period \ a g A - §
prices have ﬂuctuated up and down, , \ ,a . ‘ I
with the bulls in control one day and . .. x I g ‘ r . W ”,ng o g
the bears the next. However, to s b M‘ . ' ‘- L_ ‘
casual observers of the market it ﬁvmfovm mﬁmemmmﬁﬁéﬁiﬁﬁtguﬂﬁiﬁ
would appear that the bulls seem ”some“ 1.nonhofhtimde47,between “WWMNRmmhammumamm . In”
to have the situation well in hand :tﬁugﬂimgﬁo‘nmdsﬁtgmgﬁmgnmlm”Marngnﬁnégmmel 9"“
and show little fear of lower prices .OoocandRockmutmj—‘bggtotmuidigwgfmmajagmaegjﬁﬁﬁ an °c‘£°§“§?am§f'd"“i
for some time to come. Tamworluuudeﬂx bummmwutdnd. m “lube-law

Wheat has been moving freely for , ‘ w _.....J

export from both the United States
and Canada, the latter country hav-
ing already moved about 175,000,000
bushels. Little of this wheat is com-
ing to the United States because of
the prohibitive tariff; but instead it
is taking the place of American
wheat on the English market. So
far as practical effects are concern—
ed Canadian wheat might just as
well come into the United States as
not, as both countries have a large
exportable surplus which must
eventually ﬁnd its way abroad.

The Argentine wheat crop is near—
ing the harvesting period, but re-
ports of bad weather conditions, and ‘
‘_.vprospective low yields offset the

usual bearish inﬂuence of the crop.
~,..E'ur0pe is desperately in need of

wheat but her purchasing power be-

.,.¢‘omes daily less and inevitably it

must soon- cease altogether unless

drastic measures are taken to stabil-
ise the currency. Germany has been

a. fairly good customer for American

,tpod products since the war, but the

mark is depreciating at a terriﬁc
. rate and the cost or American grain
"laid down in Germany is well nigh

 
Washington, December 8, 1922.-——The cropWeather of North America
for 1923 will average much less favorable than that of 1922; the good
and bad Will not be located as in 1922, because the moisture will not
come from the same ocean and therefore the same rules about sea
level and elevated cannot be applied for two years. In some seasons
the m01sture ﬂoats high, and best crops are above the 1200—foot
level; other seasons it ﬂoats low, and the best crops are below *1200
feet. When the moisture comes from the gulf stream the summers
and w1nters are warmer; when it comes from far northern oceans
they are colder. - _.

Forecast for Michigan: Highest temperatures 9 and 15, lowest
12 and 19; average warmer than usual; not much moisture 9 to 19. ’

The conﬂicts of the forces that operate the machinery of the solar
system are eternal and ﬁerce; it is .not a harmonious family; like the
race, it is divided into groups that war-on (each other, and these
wars are brought to our notice, sometimes by unpleasant methods,
in our storms and other weather features. It issigniﬁcantly strange
,that Homer’s writings about the dispositions of planets toward each
other. This may be noted in- the coming January weather. Saturn
will attack earth January 11, and Homer’s overlordinterferes; that
racket in the family will reach our ears through a bad spell, of
weather. .Then January 17, Uranus, to which Homer applied another
‘name,’ picks -a quarrel with, Venus, queen otthe skies, daughter of
the premier of the heavenly host and messenger of peace, between'

'themverlord and the contending, armies of Troy. Uranus is very
powerful, and before the peace messenger can stop him we. will ,get
many a wintry blast as a result of the ﬁerceness of that great family
of the milky way. . p , . , '- , ‘ . \ 9.? big C61"‘011 is, . emu .. en '
_) , . ,. , . .. . , , -Wouldn’-t_1'it be a reatuag'.._na

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I BUY GLADIOLIIS

at

enacting? '

new the-farmers knowing the
~going toe fbe , worth
vhin’, are feeding them to hogs
tile. sheep, chickens or anything
that will eat or nose' them out of

, the barnyard, into a mud-l ole or .-
"wmanure heap. any way to get them’

onto! the ‘way. I gum there were

111nm spuset'ien'in the fields of Col-
" oracle layingon and (n the-ground

to rot ”than Hichigan raised, and
bean: enough ’to feed your county

.‘an‘dDetroit acid at 25 cents a sack
forahog feed.” , ’

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7' " Detroit—49m m.

, Chicago—83c cwt.
'Prices one year
32.04.

ago—Detroit,

HAY # -
Markets have \shown very little

'Wactivity during the last week and

prices in some markets have declined
owing to heavy receipts of the poor
grades. Good hay’ is meeting with a

steady demand and very little is al-
lowed to accumulate at any of the
. markets.

Prices

Detroit—No. 1 Timothy $17 @
$17.50; light standard $16.50; light
mixed $16.50@$17. _

Chicago—No. 1 light clover mixed
$v19@$20; No. 1 Timothy $21@$23;
No. 1 clover $19@$20.

Prices one year ago—Detroit, No.
1 Timothy at -$19@$20; standard
and light mixed $180$19; No. 2
Timothy $17@$18; No. 1 clover
mined $16@$17. ‘ _

WEEKLYW

'Washington, D. C. for the week

' ending December 2, 192.2.

Live Stock and Meats—Compared
with a week ago Chicago hog prices
ranged from 10 to 20 cents higher.

~Native beef steers largely 75 cents

higher, western grassers mostly 50
cents higher. Beef cows and heifers
steady to 25 cents higher. Canners
and cutters weak to, 10 cents lower.

' "Bulls strong to 15 cents; Veal cel-

v‘es unevenly 50 cents to $1.25 high-
er. On December 2 Chicago hog
prices were 15 to 20 cents lower than
Fridays average. Cattle, sheep and
lamb practically unchanged- Dec.
2, Chicago prices: Hogs, top $8.35;
Bulk of sales $7.90—$8.25; Medium
and good beef steers $7.25-$13.50;
Butcher cows and heifers $3.60-
$10.75; Feeder steers $5.25-$7 75;
Light and medium weight veal cal-
ves $8.50-$‘9.50; Fat lambs $13.25-
$15.50 Feeding lambs $12.25-$14.-
25; Yearlings ”50413.50; Fat
Ewes $4.50—$7.75., Stacker and

[feeder shipments from 12 important

markets during the week ending Nov.
24 were: Cattle and calves 138,489;
Sheep 135,098. In eastern whole-
sale fresh meat markets, beef was
steady to $2 higher, with lamb steady
to $2 lower. Veal steady to $1
higher on better grades; ‘Mutton
ranged from $1 lower to $1 higher
on better grades with pork loins
steady to $1 lower. December prices
good grade meats. Beef $14-$17;
Veal $13-$17; Lamb $23—$27; Mut-
ton $11-$17; Light pork loins $17-
$20; Heavy lions $13-$18.

Feed: Mill feed market inactive;

 
WANIED BEANS——
. & PEAS

Send samples Canadian Field
Peas or any kind of peas.
Consignments solicited of un-
picked pea beans,‘ especially

heavy pickers. Send samples.

Reference: First National
Ex. Bank. Port Huron.

“ CHAMBERLAIN ELEVATOR

FONT HURON. , MICHIGAN

 
BULBS I“
100

t low cash price for immsd is. :1an . '
»"mm No. 1 mixed colon. or $2.00Uor 40
‘30

“95 all the rare ruled sorts. 100 for
‘ or $1.00 . ~ ,
e55, mesa, N. a.

 
.. points.

- prices'by' the;

. ‘4 0W good especially
can reeds: . ‘ReCeiptsteand move—

ment fair Supplies in the dealers

hands are ample - for present
Quoted December 1, Bran
$22.75, Flour middlings $25.50,
Rye middlings $21.50 Minneapolis;
35 per cent cottonseed meal $42.75
Memphis, $43.50 Atlanta; White
hominy feed $29 St. Louis, $30 Chi—
cago; 34 per cent linseed meal $49.-
50 Minneapolis, $51 Buffalo; Gluten
feed $38.36 Chicago.
' Fruits and Vegetables: Potatoes
generally steady in consuming mar-
kets, steady at eastern shipping
points, slightly weaker at northern
points."”Cabbage still continues to

strengthen Danish stock up ,$4-$9,

per ton}.- , New York— Baldwin apples
firm in city markets and at shipping
Northwestern ‘ boxed stock
weaker. Yellow onions up 25-75
cents per 100 pounds. Prices re-
ported December 2: Eastern round
white potatoes sacked and bulk $1.—
25 -$l.50 per 100 pounds in leading
markets, 30-95 cents f.o.b. shipping
points. Northern stock mostly 90
cents-$1.15 in midwestern cities, 60—
70c f.o.b. New York Danish type

_ cabbage $20-$27 per ton bulk in

consuming centers, $12-$16 f.o.b.
Northern Danish $15—$16 in Chicago.
New York Baldwin apples $450-$5—
50 per barrel in leading markets $3--
75-54 f.o.b. shipping points... New
York and Michigan Rhode Island
Greenings $545.50 in Chicago. Vir—
ginia York Imperials 53.50-54.25 in
eastern markets. Northwestern extra
fancy boxed, Jonathans $1.504 2.25.
Middlewestern yellow onions $2-
$2.75 per 100 pound sack in leading
markets, New York stock $225-$2-
50 in New York City.

Diary Prooucts—Butter markets
steady. Supplies light, demand good,
but rumors of possible imports partly
responsible for unsettled feeling, es.
pecially at New York where prices
declined %c on the ﬁrst. Markets
are out of line with each other as
Chicago is now higher than New
York. Closing" prices 92 score but-
ter: New .York 530; Chicago 540;
Boston 52c. Cheese markets steady
to firm but trading quiet following
sharp advances averaging about like
on Wisconsin cheese boards Monday.
These advances are supported to
some extent by decreasing produc-
tion and fairly good demand even at
the high prices. Cheese prices at
Wisconsin Primary markets Decem-
ber 1: Twins 26%0; Daisies 2734c;
Longhorns 26%c; Square Prints
27 9!: cents.

- _——.. _—._._

MISCELLANEOUS MARKET

. QUOTATIONS

BUTTER—Best creamery, in tubs,
45@48c per, lb.

EGGS—Fresh, current receipts,
48@500; fresh, candled and graded,
50@53c; refrigerator ﬁrsts, 26@3OC
per doxen. .e

APPLES—Greenings, $ 1.25 @ 1.—
50; Spy, $2@2.50; Jonathan, $1.75
02.25; other varieties, $1@1.50
per bushel; western boxes , $2@3.

POPCORN—4% @ 5c: Little Bust-
er, 7%@8c per lb.

ONIONS—$2232.25 per sack of
100 lbs; Spanish, $2.15@2.25 per
crate. - .

DRESSED EGGS—90 to 100 lbs.
11@12c; 130 to 160 lbs, 10c; heavy
6@8c per lb. .

DRESSED CALVES—Choice‘, 15
@16c; medium, 12@14c; large, 5
@10c per lb.

MLIVE POULTRY—Best springs,
29c; leghorns, 15c; large fat hens, 21
022c; medium hens, 180; small
hens, 14c; old roosters, 15c; geese,
20c; large ducks, 20c; small ducks,
17@18c; turkeys, 35@40c per lb.

WOOL—Fine and fine med
ium staple, 52@ 53c; 35 blood steple,
51@53c; 11$ blood' cloth ng, 48@
49c; ‘35 blood wool, 47@48c; 34.
blood 44@45c; low 1A blood, 35@
37c; braid, 30032c.

VI

WOOL MARKET
The slight easiness in ﬁne‘wools
hat week was accentuated by the
quiet trading recently, the' Thanks—
giying holiday being a-.iactor, and

,ﬂne and ﬁne medium wools are

Quoted, 1c off, ”while the coarser

’ ‘ wools, though quiet, maintain a very

ﬂ Isms? managed prices.

- Nelson Carand Mam 0 Heater ,
Ca‘u‘be instantly attached to ANY FORD Motor wicks-6'
removmg any part thereof. Guaranteed to save from

20% to 33 1-3% d the GAS and heat the interior of
Car to 70" F.

Retail-7 Price 7
$7.50 Each

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Distributors

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0 el Nelson Will be shipped immediately by insured prepaid parcel post.

TRI-STATE SALES co,

Bronson, Mich.

 
very reasonable.

Phone West 2512

 
Growers and Shippers of Farmvliroduce .

We have reliable customers in the market every day for carloads of

Potatoes, Apples, Hay, Beans,

AIso‘Hand Picked Beans in Bag Lots

Ship to us and receive the highest market price.
Wire or write for dependable market information.

CHARLES J. YOKOM & COMPANY

Brokers and Distributors
Twelfth Street Produce Yards

M_~‘

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BUSINESS FARMER ' 0,,

'Regular Price $1

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$

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. Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Business Farmer one full year.

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MELOTTE, the Edison of Europe, manufacturer of the greatest Cream
Separator the world has ever known, announces a sweeping reduction in
prices. Labor conditions in general together with tremendous re-building and
re-organizing efforts put forth by this big man of Belgium has resulted in cut-

ting production costs to the bone.

And right now a! Mix particular time exchange rates are extremely favorable. Take advantage of
this condition while it lasts. Get the most for your American dollar. Buy now and save money.

Before buying any separator ﬁnd out how the Melotte has won 264 Grand and International
Prizes and hOW, for efﬁciency of skimming, ease of turning, convenience of operation and
durability—the Great Belgium Melotte has won every important European contest. Find out'
why 500,000 Melotte Separators are in continuous use today.

Our 15 Year Quarantee

Every Belgium imported Melotte Cream Separator is
sold under an absolute. ironbound. 15-year guarantee.
No Melotte is ever sold except under this guarantee. A
guarantee written in plain English so that you can un-
derstand it. A guarantee that is 100 96- stronger than any
other separator guarantee ever made. A guarantee that
really guarantees something—upon which you can ab-
solutely rely—an absolute protection to the purchaser,
and which binds us to our bargain.

What U. S. Government
Says :

Vibration of a cream separator’s bowl will soon cost
you more money in cream waste than the price of
your separator. U. S. Government Bulletin No. 201
says that a perfectly true motion of the bowl is abso-
lately necessary. the bowl is the vital part of any
separator—the part where the cream separation takes
place.

ﬁelf-Baiancing Bowl

The Belgium Melotte is the only single-bearing-bowl separator made.This patented bowl hangs from one fric-
tionless ball bearing and spins like a top. It is self-ba/ancz’ng. It skims as perfectly after 15 years' use as when
new. Positively can not ever get out of balance—can not vibrate and thus cause cross currents which waste cream
by re—mixing with the milk. The 600 lb. Melotte turns as easily as the 3001b. machine of other makes. Spins for
25 minutes unless brake is applied. No other separator has or needs a brake. The Melotte bowl has solved the

problem of perfect skimming.

 
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We will send an Imported Melotte Cream Separator direct to your farm on a 30 days’ absolutely Free Trian—no
deposits—no papers to Sign—use it as if it were your own separator. Satisfy yourself that the porcelain bowl is as
easy to clean as a china plate. Compare it—test it in every way. ‘

When you are convinced the Melotte skims cleaner. turns easier, washes quicker, has one-half less tinware to
clean. lasts longer than all others, then pay $7.50 as ﬁrst payment and the balance in small monthly payments

until the separator is paid for.

Send No Money! -—£’as_y- PaymenIS!

After 30 days free trial, then send only the small sum
of$7.50 and the balance in small monthly payments.
The Melotte pays for itself from your increased cream
checks.

You're not to send one cent until you've used this
great Belgium Melotte and have made up your mind

 
Dept. 3309

Without cost to me or obligation in any way, please send
me the~.Melotte catalog which tells the full story of this
wonderful separator and M. Jules Melotte, its inventor.
Also send me your revised price list showmg 22% reduc-

tions.

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The Melotte Separator, H. B. BABson, u. s. Mgr.
2843 West 19th Street, Chicago. Illinois
2445 Prince Street, Berkeley, California

it is the machine you want. Keep it for 30 days and
use it just as if it were your own‘ machine.

Compare the Melotte separator with any other—
test them side by side. Then send your milk to the
creamery. Let them prove which separator skims the
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