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1  ‘ Friday Will Probe Milk

Dr. David Friday, president of the
Michigan Agricultural College, an-
nounced last week that he will in-
vestigate the milk business in De-
troit to see if it is possible to reduce
the. price of and still pay the pro-
.ducer more for his milk.

He said he hoped to be able to get
it down to 12 cents.

About a month ago farmbrs pro-
ducing for the Detroit market de-
manded more money from the dis-
tributors. The distributors refused
to accede, on the ground that it
wguld necessitate raising the retail
,p ce.

No agreement could be reached,
and Nov. 30 the farmers and dis-
tributors decided to submit the mat-
ter to Dr. Friday. A meeting was
held in East Lansing, and Dr. Fri-
day agreed to an increase to the
farmers of 40 cents per 100 pounds
of milk, making their price $3.

He also agreed to the increase in
the retail price form 13 to 14 cents
a quart. This increase was on con-
dition that he be permitted to exam-

ine the books of the’ distributors and
producers.

These new prices were to hold for
December, and after that new prices
were to be fixed.

$3.45 Milk Sold for 12 Cents

" Since that meeting Dr. Friday has
been investigating conditions in
other cities. He has found that in
Philadelphia milk sells retail for 12
cents a quart, and the farmers re-
ceive $3.45 per. hundred pounds,
2 cents cheaper for the public and 45
cents more per 100 pounds for the
producers.

Milwaukee has milk for 10 cents
a quart, and Kalamazoo gets it for
13 cents a quart, with the farmers
receiving $3.40 per 100 pounds. The
producers’ price is $3.20 but a prem-
ium for good quality milk makes it
practically $3.40, according to Dr.
Friday. ~

“I am going to see if it isn't pos-
sible to cut 50 cents per 100 pounds
out of the cost of production and
50 cents out of the cost of distribu-
tion,” said Dr. Friday. “That will
permit 12-cent milk."

Resolutions of Farm Organizations

Resolutions adopted by the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation in con-
vention at Chicago, December 11th
to 14th. See story on page 3.

RESOLVED: (1) That we urge
further progress toward proper
marketing of farm products as co-
ordinate with economic production
in equalizing the present handicap
of the American farmers;

(2) That the American Farm Bu-
reau Federation shall continue to
give outstanding attention to the
marketing problem and continue the
policy of strengthening and en-
couraging co—operative commodity
marketing organizations;

(3) That the American Farm Bib
reau Federation maintain a division
of co-operative marketing, to be
managed and directed by capable
and experienced co—operative mark-
eting specialists;

(4) That this division shall in
every possible way stimulate and
promote the co-operative marketing
movement in the United States and
shall plan and carry out an extens-
ive national educational campaign
for co—operating marketing of farm
products;

(5) That the American Far-m Bu-
reau Federation, acting through
this division, shall formulate the
fundamental principles of true com-
modity co-operation as exemplified
in the history and experience of suc-
cessful farmers' co-operatives and
give the same wide circulation;

(6) That this division shall tend-
er its services as counselor and ad-
viser to state and district organiza-
tions and agencies on questions .re—
lating to type and plans of organi-
zation, campaign methods, problems
of operation and other related sub—
jects;

(7) That this division shall en-
deavor to unity or co—or-dinate all
organizations, agencies and interests
in behalf of a comprehensive and
united program of co-operative mar-
keting in the United states;

(8) That the F_arm Bureau Fed—
erations, National, State and County,
shall be active in educating produc—
ers of farm and live stock products
to the advantages offered by the co-
operative marketing agencies that
have been and shall be established,
stressing the fact that the success
of these agencies depends primarily
upon the loyality and patronage of
the producers themselves.

Resolutions \adopted by the Mich—
igan State Association of Farmers‘
Clubs, in convention at Lansing,
Michigan, December 6th to 6th. See
story on page 3. ‘

1. We endorse and approve of
the Congressional Farm Bloc in
statesmd'nship, it has broken down
sectional lines and has followed the
,, sayi of Abraham Lincoln “That He
<woul work with any man for the
'things which are right."

2. We insist on rural credit

asure which will aflord farmers
.pccess to credit in the same measure
Mother lugging”. 5, We also indexes

sion suitably financed by the federal
Government to conduct our foreign
trade.

3. We ask that the water power
of the country remain in control of
the whole people or to be developed
by the United States Government
directly or indirectly.

4. We favor the enforcement of
the prohibition law and will support
for office only those who are pledged
in favor of the 18th amendment and
enforcement of same. 'We are op-
posed to any weakening of the Vol-
stead Law by permission to manufac-
tfl‘i beer or wine.

A motion was made by Hon. A. B.
Cook of Owosso that the Association
go on record as favoring the most
liberal dealing with the boys dis-
abled in the World War. This mo-
tion was carried.

Resolutions on State Affairs

The State Association of Farmers’
Clubs do hereby endorse a policy of
close co-operation with all existing
organizations of our state that have
for their object a better country life,
and that we urge upon every Farm-
ers’ Club in our territory the oppor-
tunity of developing an educational
program that shall reach every phase
of country life. ,

Whereas, the heavy traffic on our
roads by busses, trucks and other
vehicles used to carry freight or
passengers for hire, greatly increase
the cost of maintenance, we recom-
mend that the Legislature amend’the

 

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and that the money raised , m such .

increased taxation be used for. high

f way purposes.

Whereas, the reaf’property tax in
Michigan has become oppressive‘and
the tax Constitutional Amendment
was defeated at the-last election on
account of lack of a better under—
standing of merits,- and, whereas,
relief is necessary in the matter of
real taxation immediately, therefore,
Be It Resolved, at the State Asso-
ciation of Farmers' Clubs recommend
to the coming Legislature the pass-
age of a gasoline tax to be used for
the improvement and maintenance of
our highWays, thereby reducing the
amount to be raised by property tax.

Resolved that the Quail be per-
manently placed on the list with the
Michigan song birds, that its protec-
tion may become permanent. ‘

Whereas, the State Income Tax .

has__met with untimely defeat and.
whereas, the tax system places on
real estate a burden wholly out of
proportion to its rendered compen-
sation and, Whereas, the old tax
system, good in its.day ts completely
outgrown, Be It Resolved, that we
reamrm our faith in the principle
that net income be made to bear a
fair share of the expense of state”
government and indebtedness.

Whereas, President Friday has
won a National reputation as an
economist of first rank and Whereas,
his services to the farmers'lof Mich-
igan will be beyond compution and
Whereas. the prbper agricultural
aliveth is now so difficult to state
in the light of diversified interests,
Therefore, Be it Resolved, That we
extend to our new President at M. A.
0., our most hearty co-operation and
wish further 'to reassure him of Our
faith in his unquestioned ability to
deal with the agricultural situation.

The following resolution was pre-
sented by Hon. J. N. McBride and
adopted: The need of an agricul-
tural conference to establish a work-
ing program or better understanding
was apparent, Therefore, It Was Re-
solved, That the president assume
the initiative in appointing a com-
mittee to provide for a conform of
delegates from the various farm or-
ganlsations and other agricultural
bodies, including the College and
University heads.

WHY THE APPLE SHOW?
ICHIGAN’S apple show at Grand
Rapids this winter was a suc-
cess, in so far as the display
of fruit was concerned, but the at-
tendance was a disappointment. The
meeting of the State Horticultural
Society was well attended by fruit
growers, but the city of Grand Rap-
ids never seemed to awaken to the
fact that there was a line exhibit of
a product upon which so much of

her prosperity depends.

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What, then, is the apple show forf'.
Is it not to advertise our. state‘s best; 
products? If that is the case" 
ought to be held, notwhere the fruit? 1;
is grown, but where it is not; . In- ‘
stead of Grand Rapids or Detroit, '
take the display to New York, Phila- ,_ '
d-elshia,  Pittsburgh, or to >

a doses southern cities, where there- .

are thousands of ‘consuma'e. ’No,”

question abont the attendance, nor

the demind for the trait that would
follow. What good does it do unto
claim that our apples are the best
that grow, so long as we do not show
it to others?

Michigan apple men, you are hid-
ing your light under a bushel. Um.
cover it, so that others can see. Get
together. Next fail be ready with a
display that will open the eyes of
people in a half a doaen of the large
cities‘outside the state and make the ‘
year 1923 famous in the annals of
Michigan horticulture. E. E. G.,
Monroe, Michigan. _'
-——The foregoing is just what many
fruit growers have been thinking
about of late years. What is now
needed is for a leader to take up
the idea and develop it to a definite
end. It is something that interests
not only. the fruit producers, but
everyboody in the state. When it is

. considered what the orange growers .

have done to create a market for ‘
their product, the possibilities of_ the
apple seem almost without limit.—
Frank D. Wells.

MICHIGAN 7TH ALFALFA STATE
N alfalfa production, Michigan
has stepped into the lead among
the states east of the Mississippi
River ,and is now in seventh place
among all the states of the Union as
a result of the great increase in
acreage in the last year. This in-
formation was given out by Prof. J.
1". Cox, head of the farm crops de-
partment of the M. A. 0., who has
compiled statistics showing the rela-
tive position of Michigan.

‘Not only is the state assuming a
place of prominence in alfalfa pro-‘
duction, but the rapid increase in the
number of acres planted to this crop
gives promise of revolutionizing the
agriculture of Michigan in an eco-
nomic sense This state has been
and probably will continue to be
known for the diversification of its
farm products. Increase of alfalfa
is not likely to lessen the diversifica-
tion, but it is bound to have an im-
portant eflect on the proportions of
the various products placed on the
market by the Michigan farmers.

A CONSUMERS" COOPERATIVE

MILK DISTRIBUTING PLANT

. R the opening of the No. 2 plant

of the Franklin cooperative

Creamery Association of Minne-
apolis, on October 21, a rather elab-
orate program, extending through
the afternoon and evening, was pre-
pared.

This association is a development
in the field of consumer cooperation.
It was formed by 360 dairy workers
who were on a. strike, and by 1650
consumers. A model plant with
modern equipment and a capacity of
3,000 quarts per hour was erected.
Business began on March 12, 1921. '
By the close of the calendar year
sales amounting to nearly $850,000
has been made, upon which were net
earnings amounting to over $37,000. 
During the first nine months of 1922
the sales were $1,186,630 and the
net earnings $83,412.17. The num-
ber of consumer patron's is now many
times the original 1050. ‘

LARGER
ONION CROP
Production of commercial late
onions is estimated tit-34,074 cars
of 500 bushels each by the United -
States ' . of ' Agriculture. '
Productionin 1921 Was 18,823 cars. '

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rce Big Farm Organization Meetings Agree
and Farmers’ Clubs, in Meetings Held this Month, Practically as One on Big D
Farm Problems, Both National and Local

‘.   Fann‘nBureau; Grange

 ' IME was, and not so lOn‘g ago
 - either, when they said: “Farm-
. . ers never stick together”, or
' , “you'll never find two farmers who

think" alike, they’re always houerin’

 i. like stuck-pigs about something, but
 .- neverabout the same things!" ,

Let the city-saplings who spilled

 those lines, prepare to take them

back. The resolutions passed by

7 ,three great farm organizations, rep-

resent every>faction of the farming
business in Michigan at, least, are
practically in agreement on every
vital issue in which the farmer is
interested.

7 ‘During the first two weeks of De-
cember have been held the Golden

 Jubilee convention of the Michigan

State Grange at Kalamazoo, the
Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the
Michigan State Association of Farm-
. ers Clubs at Lansing and the Fourth
Annual Convention of the National
Farm Bureau Organization at Chi-
 cago.

MEETING OF FARMERS CLUBS

East Lansing, Dec. 5-6 ——-’l‘he 30th
annual meeting of Michigan State
Aesociation of Farmers Clubs held in
Senate Chamber, Capitol Building,
Lansing was attended by over 80
ilelegates and was one of the most
instructive and interesting programs

v.that was ever held by the association. "

Professor W. D. Henderson, talk,-
ing on “Signs of New world”
brought to the attention of the dele-
gates the great part that Agriculture
had played in the past and the part
it must play in the future.‘ In clos—
ing‘ Mr. Henderson statics that "The
. World must learn that every man
is your brother, all must have goods
and'these must be supplied by the
’farmer.”

Hale Tennant, Director of Markets,
spoke of the diversified lines of Agri-
culture that had had to be dealt with
by the Farm Bureau, also stating
a better organization of the farm or-

. ganizations was needed as no respect
would be shown agriculture until

there was power, power brings pro-
tection. The work of the farm or-
ganizations must also be to make
life on the farm just as attractive as
life in the city and he could see no
reason why agriculture could not be
just as well protected as labor.

In closing Mr. Tennant - said:
“Farmers will never get anything-
without a, fight so lets us fight.”

Mrs. Louise Campbell, Acting
Dean of Home Economics addressed
the Association on the proper food
for the child and the great need of
special attention in the rearing of
the child as the children of today
will be the men and women of the
coming generation. -

Mr. J. H. Brown, of the Auto Tour
Association showed in moving pic-
tures how tourists camped. The trip
the coming year being to Washing-
ton, D. C., where a week .will be

'spent in visiting the Capitol City.

The presidents address brought
very forcibly the need of discretion
in‘ the production of crops. This
was discussed by many present, some
thinking that the great need was not
in discretion in production but lack
of knowledge in the time to market
crops. .

Dr. Eben Mumford spoke on
“Farm Organization” and emphas-
ized the great need of the same as
only by this can agriculture 'win.
He spoke of Agriculture being at the
present time at the lowest possible

.basis and this was always the case

in the past that when this occurred
there was a bright cloud ahead, this
he suggested as his idea of the out—
look for the farming business.
Mrs. Jeanette Lyons, Secretary of
the Girls Protective League gave a
very able address on the work ac—
complished in the help of unfortun-

' ate gh‘ls that is being looked after

by the organization.
The session on Wednesday, Dec.
5

6th, was opened by an address by W.
W. Waltman, Secretary of the Anti—
Saloon League, in the absence of
Grant Hudson. Mr. Waltman in his
remarks suggested that every nation
was looking to the United States to
see what they could do with the
liquor question and it was necessary
for us to take the proper attitude in
this manner as it would govern their
decision largely. Much has been
given' us and much is expected of us.

A report of the Federated Com-
mittee was given by Hon. J. N. Mc-
Bride, who gave in detail the work
accomplished the past year by this
committee and although not success-
ful in having the Income Tax amend-
ment pass had awakened the people
to see the need of the same and in
some future time not far away this
will be accomplished.

Dr. W. W. Diehl addressed the
delegates on Spiritual Values on
Country Life very forcibly impress-
ing on all present the great advan-
tages in the country life to that of
the city although the wages earned
did not compare with that of the city.

Miss Vaughan of M. /A. C. gave a

short talk on the Boys’ and Girls’

Club work showing how the club
work not only taught how to raise a

calf but how to write the story and

how to keep accounts to figure the
profits.

G. N. Otwell, Supt. of Rural Edu—
cation gave a talk on the better edu-
cation for the rural community and
showed the great need of this if our
children had .the same education the
city children have.

The following officers were elected
for the coming year: President, Lee
S. Noble, Oxford; Vice President, W.
A. Cutler, Grass Lake; Secretary-
Treasurer’, Mrs. I. R. Johnson, Rush-
ton; Corresponding Secretary, Sarah
0. Broderick, Ithaca. The directors

if Michigan Exhibitors Led Field at International Hay

L ICHIGAN/can be, and is, proud
of her many business farmers
~who exhibited at the Hay and

Grain Show at the" 1922 Internation-

al for they not only held their own

but won more prizes in farm crops
than any other state. And these
winnings were made against the stiff-
est competition ever gathered in

America, the products from 38 states

being entered. . -

One of the greatest surprises of
the entire show came in the corn
judging. For region number 2,
which includes the states of Wiscon-
sin, ~the Dakotas, Iowa, Pennsylvania
and New York, Michigan growers of
yellow cor‘fi walked away with. 15
of 25 prizes. In this class, 10-ear
eXhibit, Michigan winners and posi-
tions for the first ten places are:
First: L. H. Laylin, Mason; Second,

‘ H: W. Mann, Dansville; Third, T. H.-
1 Hanna, ,Dansville; vFourth, A. W.
 Jewett, Jr., Mason; Sixth, F. M.
- Mann, Mason; Eighth, Robert Laugh-
5 ' 'lin, Dansvill'e; Ninth, Roy How, Sagi-
‘»~.naw, 'W.‘S.; Tenth, Douglas Bow,~
Saginaw, W. S. In the exhibit of a
"Single ear of corn Michigan also was

its strong. contender, Winning first?”

th and tenth’p'lace in Region 2.
be winners are: >31. in _
7  ’ A both of Dansville,
' A "  am. of Kalamazoo,

not

W. ' Mann, .

twenty-five out of thirty at the 1921
show. Also first place escaped from
them being won by John W. Lucas,
Alberta, Canada. But in spite of the
fact that the blue ribbon must be
shipped to Canada, Michigan growers
fcel that after all it is a victor for
Michigan to a certain degree as it was
won onan exhibit or the Rosen vari-
ety, which originated in this state.
Last year nine out 09' lbs first ten
awards came to Michigan while this
year the state won eight out of the
first ten positions. Wolverine farm-
ers among the first ten winners are:
Second, L. H. Laylin, Mason; Third,
W. H. Warner, Concord; Fourth, A.
W. Jewett, Jr., Mason; Sixth, Lynn
Jewell; Leslie; Seventh, Garfield Far-
ley, Albion; Eighth, A. E. Hilliard,
Mason; Ninth, Melvin J. Smith,
Springport; Tenth, R. F. Jewett,
Mason. This class included competi-
tion from all of the United States and
Canada.
' . Win Many Prizes on Hay

In the hay classes Michigan got
the first‘six awards on timothy, five
out of ten places, including the first
three, on red winter clover, six out
of fifteen awards on alfalfa, and A.
WK'Jewett, Jr., of Mason, received
the blue ribbon for having the best

sample of hay at the show,’ winning

it on asample of timothy. Wolver-

ine winners ., and positions in' the
timothy class are: First, A. W. Jew- .

ett, Jr., Mason; Second, L. H, Laylin,
Third, Richard J ewett, Ma-
odrtb, R.‘ F; "Jewett, “Mason; 

. mentioned.

Fifth, A. E. Hilliard, Mason; Sixth,
Lynn Jewell, Leslie. Although Mich-
igan was not quite so fortunate in
the red clover class, first place was
won by Lynn Jewell, Leslie; Second,
A. W. Jewett, Jr., Mason; Third A.
E. Hilliard, Mason; Sixth, L. H. Lay-
lin, Mason; Eighth, R. F. Jewett,
Mason. In the alfalfa class Michi-
gan growers won fourth, fifth, sixth,
ninth, tenth, and eleventh prizes.
The winners are: L. H. Laylin, Ma-
son; A. W. chett, Jr., Mason; R.
F. Jewett,'Mason; Lynn Jewell, Les—
lie; A. E. Hilliard, Mason; Richard
Jewett, Mason, and they won in the
order mentioned.

As a wheat producer Michigan al-
so made a great mark, Wolverines
winning thirteen out of twenty—five
prizes in the soft red winter wheat
and all five places on white winter
wheat. In the soft red winter wheat
farmers from Michigan took the first
five awards in the order named: C.
D. Finkbiner, Clifton; A. W. Jewett,
Jr., Mason; John W. Vietengruber,
Frankenmuth; Lynn Jewell, Leslie;
and A. J. Lutz, Saline. In the white
winter wheat class A. W. Jewett, of
Mason; Lynn Jewell, Leslie; A. E.
Hilliard, Mason; R.,F. Jewett, Ma-
son; and L. H. Laylin, Mason, car-
ried off the five awards in the orde

Oats Awards to Michigan
Nineteen of‘ the thirty-five prizes
oifered on oatsin region 2 came to
Michigan, and of. the first ten places
farmers, from:  g state captured

are: G. A. Millispaugh, Oxford and
W. J. Brookins, Ovid.

The meeting closed as one of the
best ever held and all members went
home enthusiastic.

THE GRANGE MEETING

Kalamazoo, Dec. 11-15—The 43,-
000 members of the Michigan State
Grange will ask the thousands of
members of other farm organizations
to join with them in supporting leg-
islation they consider vital to the
farmers.

In the Grange convention, which
closed here Friday, the delegates
urged the closest co-operation with
the State Farm Bureau; indorsed the
continuance of the joint legislative
committee of all farm organizations,
and in speeches and discussions
voiced the opinion, time after time,
that “the rich man, the. city man
and the moneyed interests have had
their innings—~let’s have ours.”

The farmers will concentrate on
three major taxation propositions.

They want an income tax, to be
voted on in 1924, which would tax
only the person with an income of
$5,000 or more. This exemption,
they believe, will secure the labor
vote which went against the income
tax in the last election.

Demand Gasoline Tax

They will demand that the maxi-
mum limit of $10,000 in state Cor-
poration Tax Law be removed “to
give the state a chance to collect
from the big corporation at the same
rate as it assesses the small one.”
They also suggest that the minimum
limit be lowered from $50 to $10,
and the rate increased from 3 to
4 mills.

If the Legislature refuses to
amend the law as suggested, a fac-
tion of the Grange prepared, speak-
ers said to initiate an amended cor-
poration tax law.

The farmers’ organizations will

(Continued on page 17.)

and Grain Show

five of them. Their names and posi-
tions are: A. W. Jewett, Jr., of M8.-
son, won Fourth place; L. H. Laylin,
Mason, Sixth; Richard Jewell, Ma-
son, Seventh; Lynn Jewell, Leslie,
Eighth; C. D. Dailey, Kalamazoo,
Tenth.

Michigan was also out to get her
share of the awards on soy beans
and in regions 1 and 2 won five of
the ten positions. The positions
won by Michigan growers are:
Fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and
tenth and the following farmers won

~the positions in the order named:

Albert Jacob, Merrill; J. J. Kraker,
Beulah; H. C. Oven, Ovid; A G. ,,Wil-
son, Mason; and W. O. Skiver, Cedar
Run. In the barley class, six rowed,
Michigan also had winners. A. W.
Jewett, Jr., took Seventh‘place and
R. F. 'Jewett won Eighth place.

Varieties developed by the farm
crops department“ of M. A. 0., under
the supervision of Prof. F. A. Spragg,
famous plant breeder, were respons-
ible for practically all the state’s win-
nings in crops, The list includes
Rosen rye, winner of all 30 places in
rye, Red Rock wheat; M. A. C. Dun-
can corn, developed by Robert Dun-
can of the college staff; and Wolver—
ine oats. I

It -was the greatest collection of
farm crops exhibits ever gathered in

America.” says Professor J. F. Cox,‘

head of the M. A. . farm crops de-
partment. “This ct makes the
Michigan winnings particularly_note-
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plight of John and Mollie Rutledge.
of Gratiot County, come from the
press, than our readers began to
'take the problem to their\hearts.
Let it never be said that the farmers
of Michigan are not sympathetic.
Time and again we have proved that
their hearts are as big as mountains
and their thought just as deep.
There is a heap of good advice in
these letters for all of us particu-
larly for hundreds of other Johns
and M‘ollies, scattered over the
farms of not only Michigan, but of
all America. These last two years
have been full. of discouragment
and many are those who have been
about ready to give up and take
What which appeared to them “the
easiest way"——into the city sweat-
shops. But read for yourself in
prose and poem 110w our readers ad-
vise John and Mollie:

Stick to the Farm

Real good advice for John Rut-
ledge is stick to the farm. Take an
old woman’s advice. We have had
the sa' row to hoe and have five
children. The farmer is the only
one that is always sure of his liv—
ing. He can not do better in the
city. It is true he can get more
money but the question is can he
save it? I have five boys in the
city of Detroit working at $11 per
day and ‘not one of them can save
a dollar. I do not know whether
they will be able to buy their coal
this winter. Stick to the farm, it
is the best place—Mrs. Navarre,
Livingston County.

Doing Remarkably \Vell

It appears to that John Rutledge
has done remarkably well for a
renter. Any man who can go on
a rented farm and buy things to
farm with- and live the first year,
although he may not meet all of his
debts, has beat the factory worker.
a long way, as he has the necessary
tools to farm the coming year. He
does not have to make the purchase
of farm tools every year but most
of the city workers have to go in the
same track, and it leads to nowhere.
John’s failure this year is in his
head not in fact. as he made the
mistake of having his debts come
due too early in the fall. His ex-
perience this yea should teach him
something, and he can learn each
year from his experience on the
farm. In the factory he has no
chance to cultivate what there is in
hill‘. and later in life he is nothing
but a hired servant spoiled by the
lure of big wages and short hours
that in a few years will ruin any
'nat'on. I had the same beginning
largely that John has. I stuck 'to
the farm and it has paid out big.
.I say stay by the farm, it makes
men.——J. C. Haskins, Shiawassee
County. ‘

Good Farmer “'ill' Pull Through

I am going to write a few lines
for the benefit of n Rutledge.
I started without a dollar back in
1879. Sold my first, crop of oats at
16 cents, corn at 12 cents! a bushel.
hogs at $3.00 per hundred pounds.
I was like John. I had to sell.

I had a chattel mortgage oh my
team that had to be paid. I sowed
80 acres of wheat in.1896 on shares,
got 30 bushels from what I cut. Lost
a colt each year for three years.
It took me four years to get out of
debt and have $50 ahead.

, I think John figured a little too
fast in buying a farm the second
year, but if he likes to farm he can’t
do any better than to stay with it.

This changing around don’t get a.
, man anyWhere. -Don’t go in debt
" for a knot tools that you cando
uwith‘out. Buy a pure bred'cQbe

1' NO sooner than was the issue of

» I‘ your choice of breeds. _ Keep all‘tha;
1' sheep that your place. will "stand, they .

.keep them instead
whenlth’ey gofldowu.

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Don’t be in too big a hurry to bhy a.
farm, rent is cheaper than interest
and taxes around here. It is just

.a Question if a man wants to work

for himself or others. If he is a.
good farmer he will make good!—
John S. Lint, Branch County, Mich.

Many Cases Like John's

Thecase of John Rutledge is sim-
ilar to a great many other cases in
the State ,of Michigan. The auto-
mobile business of which Michigan
is the center has for years out-
stretched their hands to the young
men upon the farm. Whether" John
Rutledge should stay upon his
Gratiot county farm or not must be
determined largely by how John
Rutledge feels in regard to it. If
he loves the farm and takes an in-
terest in developing his live stock
and the improvement of his soil, and
is willing to be patient, he is better
off upon his Gratiot county farm
than in the big factories of the
cities.

The farmers purchase 60% of the I

manufactured products of the
country, and unless the farmers
presper and have a good purchas-

‘ing power manufacturing industries

of the city cannot continue to man-
ufacture. When that time comes,
John is better on the farm than in
the city. V

'111e agricultural interests are go-
ing through trying times. The pend-
ulum so far as they are concerned
has swung' well to the left, but if
I read the signs of the times right,
it will soon swing to the right and
then John will come into his own
on his Gratiot county farm.

A rolling stone gathers but little
moss and the shifting from [the
country to the city and from the
city to the country wears away and
exhausts our savings. My adviseto
John would be to sit tight or he
may find he has jumped. from the
frying pan into the fire—John A’.
‘Doelle, Commissioner of Agricult-
ure.

Farming Discouraging "at Present

I read your article about the farm
and city. I have tried them both
and am sure that if farming stays
as it has been there will be more
than John Rutledge trying the city.

If the farmer buys a plow, wagon,
or any piece of farm machinery he
pays war prices and if he buys a

' barrel of flour he has to sell enough

wheat to make two barreds of flour
to pay for it. Taxes are so high
that it is just about like renting to
pay for them. A farmer pays about
$2.50 an acre a year taxes on the
farm he owns.

The average farmer
5 A. M. to 8 P. M. If the man in
the city would work the hours
that the farmer does he would earn
and save dollars where the farmer

works from

can not make enough to pay his
unreasonable taxes.
The average bean crop is about

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————.———To John and Mollie Rutledge

I would build no stately 'mansion
But in a humble small spot
I’d make me a lowly cottage
, The whole of the world forgot.
A path leading up to a vineclad door
Sunbeams dancing, snow white floor
For music I'd havemy children’s smile
Laughter and glee all the while!
Trees for shade and refreshments there
No crowded street, people to stare
A deep 0001' well, garden too
I’d work so willing the long day thro'. K
A stream idling by in lazy ways , » /
A place to dream, a pleasant haze_
But not forgotten, important things , '~
The ideals, “realities to make men kings I
‘ I would have me a helpmate too
Her eyes should be of a Steadfast hue
And all my life I would hold her dear _
, , 7 I would shield her alwaysI $31 a? tear . V
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Our Readers are Almost Unanimous in Their Advice
to, Young Farmer Torn Between City and Farm

in this county, wheat and rye about

twelve bushels per acre. . It‘ costs '

money to plow, sow, harvests and
thresh. Count the cost and what
has the farmer left for his work.
If it were not fer the few cows and
hogs that are kept in this county
farmers would not have enough
The
hope of doing better next year is
what makes the farmer *‘stick to
the farm. I am not a kicker but
the city people should know more
about What the farmer is up against.
—H. F. B., Gladwin, Mich.

Many IVould Rent Farm

I feel that it is up to some of us
to help solve the problem that is
puzzling John and Mollie.

You very seldom‘ hear the city
man’s side of the case—his worries
and financial troubles. You see it is
not policy to publish them. Our
factories must be filled, so that the
products may be turned out on
schedule time. And the seamy side
of a factory man’s life is scarcely
ever heard of. (Yes, this is from
Flint; but it applies to other cities
as well.) '

It Was not many months ago that
over the noon-day lunch, many heart
to heart talks could be heard among
the men. Theirs was the all-absorb-
ing topic of ‘how the cut-down
wages (in some cases a cut of 50%)
could bestretched to cover the family
budget.’ It was a pretty heavy load
to carry—for man and wife; and
many had hard work making the
grade.

Yes, it is better rightnow. But
remember, the good old days are
past when the sky was the limit, as
far as work and wages went. You
have to work for what you get;
and the employment offices are filled
with men seeking work—«always
more men than jobs, especially at
this time of the year. _

I don’t want to discourage any
one who is bound to leave the farm
and come to town. But remember,
the average workman’s life is not
always a bed of roses. He gets a
living, of course, but he practices
economy just as carefully as~ his
country brothers.

How do I know? I have lived
both as a farmer and as 'a factory
man. A fortunate deal has given
me a farm again; and I hope to pass
the rest of my days there.

Do many feel as I do? Listen.
Unfortunately I was unable to move
onto the farm this spring. I in-
serted a small liner ad in the local
paper, and receivedl‘more than 80
replies mostly from factory men.
I chose one of these as my tenant,
and am glad I did so. He and his
wife have made good there; and I
am proud of them and the place—
scarcely a weed on it; and the stock
shows excellent care. The tenants
themselves are doing well financial—
ly, too. And, best of all, they are
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‘working for themselves. Ask them“

which they preferA—the . present ‘jéb,
or punching a time clock card each
day in a.’ factory.’ They will soon
tell you.‘

There are hundreds here who
would be glad of their chance, but
the opportunity does not come “to
all- They might not'all make good
as Tof and Ida are doing, but they
would be glad of the chance to
try.”—‘W. L. Buckland, Oakland
County.

How Falser the Siren Smiles

It may be I too stood at the side
of Mollie and John as “Flint fell,” a
slump that took strong men by the
throat and drew great scalding tears
down the cheeks of women, homo
makers who had saved-and saved.
putting every cent in a little home
on the, “flat” or parks around Flint,
the ye“hick”le city of the world.
You notice I spell vehicle with a.
hick!
not stand the wave of prosperity.
Builded on sands and all that.

And what good was a measly little
lot and a house contract when n
fellow got the blue ticket! Finally
“let her go back” couldn’t help it.
Then back to the farm and farmer-
ish ways, ways less grasping, a.
friendly hand'a laugh now and then,
a trip to town on Saturday night.
Hard work? I’ll say! But how:
about Sunday? Do you remember
the last Sunday dinner you ate in
Flint? After the slump? Did you
have chicken and biscuits? Or even
salt pork and milk gravy, a great
delicacy if prepared right. You did-

n’t have little button radishes and ‘

green onions, did you?‘ And yellow
sweet .butter and home-made bread?
No, you probably had oleo and
baker bread, and for the rest lets
just say “canned stuff.”

Did you ever stop to'think the
Canned
food, canned fun, and a grinding
futility of being canned if you can’t
keep up to the endless chain system,
in or out of a factory door.

Your child has all the fresh milk _

he can drink. In Detroit milk cards
are given out to children who come
to school undernourished, that they
may have one glass of milk in the
morning. Look'at your child, his
bright eye and rosy cheek! Dare
you think of. going back? _

In Detroit and every city are
found some wonderful paintings,
works of art. . Then right now, look
out of your kitchen window! Did
you ever see a more beautiful pict-
ure? Nearly Christmas and the
green of the grassy meadow and blue
of the sky blends in perfect har-
mony: like a chameleon, the picture
changes; with the season, would you
in ignorance tradeiall this for a
daub of paint faded with years may-
be. Remem‘ber, the only. painting
worthy of a second glance is this,
the ever changing, unfading one of
“The Great Master."

Music! A charm for‘the souL'
What if you haven’t a player piano
and Victrola. The robins sinan
the spring, the snow bird calls ’and
fall on_.
your ear! What singer sends such
thrills as these! A ,

Rare perfumes and costly incense
just for the taking. The lilacs and
the roses blow. apple blossom and
berry mingle with'the odOr of peach

_ and plum, later new mown 'hay; ex}

quisite smell of baking bread and
tasty pie. All these, not~ chemical
compounds at dollars an ounce.

And when the snowlms drifted
white in field, on fence, just to know
you have enough in‘ the cellar to eat
poem I Wrote long ago. while on a
visit to my grandfather’s farm. In
an'incidenta'l 'way I might men/tion'
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heading the opposition. His white hair and
heard give the former German monarch a
dignified and imposing appearance. Until re-
cently he kept himself .in seclusion but now
he leaves his estate, according to reports, and
goes for long walks throughout the surround-
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America’s champion farmer is a Michigan boy. His name
is Andrew ‘Vhite and his age is 17, and he comes from the
Upper Peninsula. Residents in and around Iron River.
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Young “’hite has won many prizes in live stock judging and General Manager. Sueeessively Detroit Po]-
and his most recent triumph is the winning of a scholarship ice Commissioner, President of the Detroit Board
to the Michigan Agricultural College. llis ambition is to of (bullpen-0,, and Mayor of Detroit from l919 to
become the owner of the. finest herd of pure bred Guernseys 1922, during which time he successively won the
in the United States and he already has taken several steps 50-year tight. to oust the l). U. R. and give
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President his holiday dinner but this year, due to the scarcity of large turkeys,
one weighing 41 pounds could not be obtained until the last minute. making it
too late to be sent by messenger or train. As a result of an appeal to the
General Motors Truck company of Pontiac, Mich., to deliver the turkey at the
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country, the entire ex'pense being paid by the Egyptian Government. “’hile in
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first year will be spent at the Michigan State Automobile School, at Detroit,
where courses in automobile and tractor mechanics,advanced automotive elec-
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shop work, will be taken. During this time, the men will also study the manual
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“Three daysago.’ Since then‘ I

, j-have not seen old Donald until to—.
‘ nights.
~~hini out there in_the timber.

met
I de-
livered the telegram you sent him.
After ,he had read it I showed him
mine. He scribbled sOmething on a
bit of paper, folded it; and pinned it
with a porcurine quill. I’ve been
mighty curious, but I haven’t pulled
out that quill. Here it is.”

From his pocket he produced the
note and gave it to Aldous.

“I’ll read it a little later,” said
Aldous. “The ladies may possibly
become anxious about us.”

He drOpped it in his pocket, as he
thanked Blackton for the trouble he
had taken in finding MacDona’d. As
he climbed into the front seat of the
buckboard his eyes met Joanne’s.
He was glad that in a. large measure
she had recovered her self—possession.
She smiled at him as they drove off,
and there was something in the
sweet tremble of her lips that made
him almost fancy she was asking
his forgiveness for having forgotten
herself. Her voice sounded more
natural to him as she spoke to Mrs.
Blackton. The latter, a plump little
blue—eyed woman with dimples and
golden hair, was already making her
feel at home. She leaned over and
placed a hand on her husband’s
shoulder.

“Let's drive home by way of town,
Paul," she suggested. “It’s only a
little farther, and I’m quite sure
Miss Gray will be interested in our
Great White Way of the mountains.
And I’m crazy to see that hear you
were telling me about,” she added.

Nothing could have suited Aldous
more than this suggestion. He was
sure that Quade, following his own
and Culver Rann’s old methods, had
already prepared stories about Jo—
anne, and he not only wanted
Quade’s friends—but all of Tete
Jaune as well—~to See Joanne in the
company of Mrs. Paul Blackton and
her husband. And this was a splen-
did opportunity, for the night carni-
val was already beginning. .

“The bear is worth seeing,” said
Blackton, turning his team in the
direction of the blazing light of the
half—mile street that was the Broad—
way'of Tete Jaune. “And the wo—
man who rides him is worth seeing,
too," he chuckled. “He’s a big fellow
———and she plays the Godiva act.
Rides him up and down the street
with her hair down collecting dimes
and quarters and half dollars as
she goes.”

A minute later the length of the
street swept out ahead of them. It
is probable that the world had never
before seen a street just like this
Broadway in Tete Jaune—the pleas-
ure Mecca of five thousand workers
along the line of steel. There had
been great “camps” in the building
of other railroads, but never a city
in the wilderness like this—a place
that had sprung up like magic and
which, a few months later, was
doomed to disappear as quickly.
For half a mile it blazed out ahead
of them Two garishly lighted rows
of shacks, big tents, log buildings.
and rough board structures. with a
rough street between.

To-night Tete Jaune was like a
blazing fire against the darkness of
the forest and mountain beyond. A
hundred sputtering “jacks” sent up
columns of yellow flame in front of
places already filled with the riot
and tumult of the night. A thou—
sand lamps and colored lanterns
flashed like fireflies along the way,
and under them the crowd had gath-
ered, and was flowing back and forth.
It was a weird and fantastic sight
———this one strange and almost un—

Almost by accident I

M canny street hat was there largely

for the play and the excitement of
men.

Aldous turned to Joanne. He
knew what this town meant. It
was the first and the last of its kind,
and its history would never be writ-
ten.
tains knew nothing of it. Like the
men who made up its transient life
it would soon be a forgotten thing
of the post.
.would forget it.
once, as he stood a. part of it, his
blood had warmed at the thought
of the things it held secret, th

 things that would ,die with it. the

big human dream it stood for, it
hidden tragedies. its savage romance.
its  comedy. ,He, found

     

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SYNOPSIS

OANNE GRAY le‘one of the passengers on the train that connects “The-
Horde” with the civilized world. For eighteen hours she hos been riding
steadily bound for Tete Jaune cache. the home of “The Horde". Where also

has no friends and all will be strange to her.

The train stop:- it n to“

composed of several-tents and learning that the train will not leave for two

hours she goes in search of food and I: bath.

She is directed to “Bill's Shock” .

and it is here where she meets Bill Quode. who not only owns and operates

“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 oil the street.
corner is John Aldous. a well known novelist.

Quads says
As they pass
The new-

He sees the strange girl enter

the place and believes she has made a mistake and as he stands in the door-

way his eyes rest upon the
ande have passed.
eyes flushing. Quade follows
some money but before

curtained doorway through which 'the girl and
In but a moment the I“! sit on out her face flaming and
her apologetieally. He starts to ofler the girl
he can do so Aldous steps to the girls side and floors

Quads with a terrific blow. Aldous hurries the girl away from the scene to

the home of friends.
cabin. She accepts.
her husband, Mortimer

i urtner at Tate Juane. Culver 3mm,
her from 0‘1"“ and h s p friend who declares he has seen the grave.
rival at Tete Juana they are met by friends of Aldous at whose
to stay during their stop.
wounded by a hidden enemy.

place they are
MacDonald has been

He then asks the girl to be his guest at supper-Vin his
Joanne tells Aldous she is going
Fitz'flugh. Aldous decides to go with her to protect

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something of his own thought in Jo—
anne’s eyes ,
“There isn’t much to it," he said,
“but to—night, if you made the hunt,
you could find "men of eighteen or
twenty nationalities in that street."
“And a little more besides,"
laughed Blackton. “If you could

write the complete story of how Tete.

Jaune has broken the law, Aldous,
it would fill a volume as big as
Peggy’s family Bible!" , .

“And after ‘all, it’s funny,” sald
Peggy Blackton, “There!” she cried
suddenly. “Isn’t that funny?”

The glare and noisy life on both
sides of them now. Half a dozen
phonographs were going. From up
the street came the softer strains of
a piano, and from in between the
shreiking notes of a bagpipe. Peggy
Blackton was pointing to a brilliant—
ly lighted, black-tarpaulined shop.
Huge white letters on its front an-
nounced the Lady Barbers were
within. They could see two of them
at work through the big window.
And they were pretty. The place
was crowded with men. Men were
waiting outside.

“Paul says they charge a dollar
for a haircut and fifty cents for a
shave,” explained Peggy Blackton.
“And the man over there across the
street is going broke because he can’t
get business at fifteen cents a shave.
Isn’t it funny?"

As they went Aldous searched the
street for Quade. Several times he
turned to the back seat, and always
he found Joanne’s eyes questing in
that strange way for the some one
whom she' expected to see. Mrs.
Blackton was pointing out lighted
places, and explaining things as they

' passed, but he knew that in spite of

her apparent attention Joanne heard
only a part of what she was saying.
In that crowd she hoped—or feared
——to find a certain face. And again
Aldous told himself that it was not
Qu-ade’s face. '

Near the end of the street a crowd

"was gathering, and here, for a mo-

ment, Blackton stopped his team
within fifty feet of the objects of
attraction. A slim, exquisitely form-
ed .woman in shimmering silk was
standing beside a huge brown bear.
Her sleek black hair, shining as if it
had been oiled, fell in curls about
her shoulders. Her rouged lips were
smiling. Eyen at that distance her
black eyes sparkled like diamonds.
bhe had evidently just finished tak-
ing up a collection, 'for she was fast-
ening the cord of a silken purse
about her neck. In another moment
she bestrode the bear, the crowd fell
apart, and as the onlookers broke

into a roar of applause the big beast '

lumbered slowly up the street with
its rider. '

“One of Culver Rann’s friends,"
said Blackton sotto voce, as he drove
on. “She takes in a. hundred a night
if she makes a cent!"

Blackton's big log bungalow was
close to the engineers’ camp half a
mile distant from the- (one lighted
street and the hundreds of tents and

shacks that made up the residential _,

part of the town. Not until they
were inside, and Peggy Blackton
had disappeared with Joanne. for a.

few moments, did Aldous take 014'

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folded the bit of paper, and read the

few crudely written words the moun- '

tain man had sent- him. Blackton
turned in time to catch the sudden
amazement in his face. Crushing
the note in his hand, Aldous looked
at the other, his mouth tightening.

“You must help me make excuses,
old man,” he said quietly. “Itawill
seem strange to them if I do not
stay for supper. But—~it is impos-
sible. I must see old Donald as
quickly as I can get to him.”

His manner more than his words
kept Blackton from urging him to
remain. The contractor stared at
him for a moment,
growing harder'and more direct.

“It’s about the shooting,” he said,
“If you want me to go with you,
Aldous——————”

“Thanks. That will be «unneces-
sary.” ~-~

Peggy Blackton and Joanne were
returning. Aldous turned toward
them as they entered the room. With
the note still in his hand he repeated
to them‘ what he had told Bl'ackton
——that he had received word which
made it immediately urgent for him
to go to MacDonald. He shook
hands with the Blacktons, promising
to be on hand for the four o’clock
breakfast. .

Joah’ne followed him to the door
and went out upon the "Veranda.
For a moment they were alone, and
now her eyes were filled with fear
as she clasped her hands closely in
his own. ‘

“I saw him," she whispered, her

' fingers tightening convulsively. “I

saw that mnf‘Quade—at the sta-
tion. He followed us up the street.
Twice I looked behind—and saw
him. I am afraid—afraid to let you
go back there. I believe he is some-
where out there now—waiting for
you!”

She was frightened, trembling;
and her fear for him, the fear in her
shining eyes, in her throbbing breath,
in the clasp of her fingers, sent
through John Aldous a joy that al-
most made him free her hands and
crush her in his arms in the ecstacy
of that wonderful moment. Then
Peggy Blackton and her husband ap—
peared in the door. He released her
hands, and stepped out into the
gloom. The cheery good—nights of
the Blacktons followed him. And
Joanne’s good—night was in her eyes
-—-following him until he was gone,
filled with the entreaty and their
fear.

A hun’dred yards distant, where
the trail split to lead to the camp
of the engineers, there was a lantern
on a pole. Here Aldous paused, out
of sight of the Blackton bungalow,
and in the dim light read again Mac-
Donald’s note. ' V
' In a cramped and almost illegible
hand the old wanderer of the moun-
tains had written: '

Don’t go to‘ the cabin. AGul—
ver Renn waiting to 1:111 you.
Don't show yourself in town;-
Cum to me as soon as you can
on trail striking north to Mon *
Lake. Watch yoreelf. Be
ready with your gun.» , ‘

, Donaldxeoneoeld. ,, .

- the darkness, listening

-proof of her fear.
moment he felt a keen‘de‘sire to’ can»; _
front Quade face to face out there:

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for-“the- So

of a footstep, Joanne’S'words still.

rang in his ears. ’ “Igbelieve. h‘e‘i‘s

said; and, chuckling softly in the

gloom, he told himself that nothing“ ‘
would give him more ‘ satidfa‘ctibn’i ,
immediate "and ~ material/ ‘ 
In the present. i

than an

in the lantern—glow, and settle,.wi=.th
the mottled beast once and for all.

out t-here—é-waiting for you,” she had.

The fact that Quade‘ had seen 'Jow‘

anne as the guestof the Blacktons :3"
hardened him in 'his determination.
Quade could no! longer be in possible’

error regarding her. He knew that
she had friends, and that she was not
of the’ kind who could be made or
induced to play his game andGulver
Rann’s. If he followed ‘her after
this ,

Aldous gritted his teeth and stared
up and down the black trail.

 

\ Five .
minutes passed and he heard noe-

thing that sounded like a footstep, '

and he saw no moving shadow in the
gloom.
the road until he came to where a
narrow pack—trail swung north and
east. through the thick spruce and
balsam in the direction of Loon
Lake. Remembering MacDonald's
warning, he kept his pistol in his
hand. The moon was just beginn-
ing to rise over the shoulder of a
mountain, and after a. little it lighted
up the more opé‘n spaces ahead of
him. Now and then he paused, and
turned to listen.
with slowness and caution, his mind
Worked swiftly. He knew that Don-
ald MacDonald was the last man in
the world to write such a message
as he had sent him through "‘“c‘n
ton unless there had been a tremend-
ous reason for it. i 1.,
ed himself again and again, should
Culver Rann want to kill« him?
Rann knew nothing of Joanne "‘6
had not seen her. And surely Quade
had not had time to formulate a plot
with his partner before MacDonald
wrote his warning. Besides, an at—
tempt had been madeto assassinate
the old mountaineer! MacDonald
had not warned him against Quade.
He told him to guard himself against
Rann. And whatreason could this
CulverflRann have for doing him in—
jury? ' The more he ‘thought of it
the more puzzled he became. And

then, in a. flash, the possible solution ,
. of it all came to him.

Had Culver Rann discovered the
secretmission on which he an‘d'the
old mountaineer were going into the
North? And was their aesassina-
tion the first step‘in a plot to se-
cure possession of the treasure?

The blood in Aldous’ veins ran
faster. He gripped his pistol harder.
More. closely he looked into the
moonlit gloom of the trail ahead of
him. He believed that he had
guessed the meaning of MacDonald's
warning. It was the gold! More
than once thought of the yellow
treasure far up in the North had
thrilled him, but never as it thrilled
him now. Was the old tragedy of
it to be lived over again? Was it
again to play its part in a terrible
drama of men’s lives, as it had
played more than forty years ago?
The gold! The ‘gold that for nearly
half a century had lain with the
bones of its dead, alone with its
terrible secret, alone until Donald.
MacDonald had found it again! He
had not told Joanne the story of it,

Slowly he continued along .

As he progressed "

urn), . - -‘

the appalling and almost unbelieve—f

able tragedy of it. He had meant
to do so. But they had talked other
things. He had meant to tell her
that it was not the gold itself that
was luring him far to the. north-—
that it was not the gold alone that

was taking Donald MacDonald backr L

to it. -. , .
And now, as he stood-for a mo-
ment listening to the low sweep of

thawind‘in the sprnmstops, it seem.- 
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. , deeper‘ih the black for-
t , eached downth the bank 
’01 the Fraser, It was the night
fieall'fiof an dwl—one of the big gray '
 that turned white as the snow ’
in. winter. Mentally he counted the
3notes in theicall. One, two, three,
:four—and a flood of relief swept
over him. It was MacDonald. They
, , had used that signal in their hunt-
‘ ing,‘when they had wished to locate

"7 each other-without frightening game.

 Always there were three .notes in the
gbig gray owl’s quavering cry. The
' forth was human. He p t his hands

"to his mouth and .sent b ck the an-
SWer, emphasizing the fourth note.

"aThe light breeze had died down for
a moment, and Aldous heard the

. old mountaineer’s reply as it floated
faintly back to him'through the for—
est. Continuing to hold his pistol,
he went on, this time more swiftly.

MacDonald did not signal again.

,The moon was climbing rapidly into
the sky, and with each passing min—
ute the night was becoming lighter.
He had gone had? a mile when he
stopped again and signalled softly.
MacDonald’s voice answered, so near
)Lhat for an instant the automatic
flashed in the moonlight. Aldous
stepped out where the trail had wid-
ened into a small open spot. Half
"a dozen paces from hini, in the bright
or the moon, stood Donald MacDon—
ald.
’ The night, the mean—glow, the
tense attitude of his waiting added
to the weirdness of the picture which
the old wanderer of the mountains
made as Aldous faced him. Mac—
Donald was tall; some trick of the
night made him appear almost un—
humanly tall as he stood in the
center of that tiny moonlit amphi—
theatre. His head was bowed a lit-
tle, for he was old. A thick, shaggy
beard fell in a silvery sheen over
his breast. His hair, gray as the
underwing of the owl whose note he
forged, straggled in uncut disarray
from under his drooping rim of a
battered and weatherworn hat. His
coat was of buckskin, and it was
short at the sleeves—four inches too
short; and the legs of his trousers
were cut off between .the knees and
the ankles, giving him still a great-
er appearance of height. '

In the crook of his arm MacDonald
held ’a rifle, a strange-looking, long
barrelled rifle of a type a quarter of
a century old. AndDonald MacDong
vald, in the picture he made, was like
his gun, old and gray and ghostly,
as if he had risen out of some grave-
yard of the past to warm himself in
the yellow splendor of the moon.
But in the grayness and gauntness
of him there was something that was
mightier than the strengthof youth.
He was alert. In the crook of his
arm there was caution. His eyes
were as keen as the eyes of an ani-
mal. His shoulders spoke of a
strength but little impared by the
years. Ghostly gray beard, ghostly
gray hair, haunting eyes that gleam-
ed, all added to the strange and
weird impressiveness of the man as
he stood before Aldous. And when
he spoke, his voice had in it the
deep, low, cavernous note of a part—
ridge’s drumming. .

“I’m glad you’ve come, Aldous,”
he said. “I’ve been waiting ever
since the train come /in.' ,I was
afraid you'd go to the cabin!”

Aldous stepped forward and grip-
ped the old mountaineer’s outstretch-
1er hand. There was intense relief
‘in Donald’s eyes - .

“I got a little camp back here in
the bush,” he went on, nodding riv-
erward. “It’s safer ’n the shack
these days. Yo’re sure—there ain’t
no one following?”

“Quite certain,” assured Aldous.
“Look here, MacDonald—what in the
thunder has happened? Don’t con-

; rtinue my suspense! Who shot you?

Why did you warn me?”

. “Same fellow as would have shot
you, I guess,” he answered. "They
made a bad/ job of it, Johnny, an
awful bad job, an', mebby there’d
been a, better man layin’ for you!”

He was pulling Aldous in the bush
as he spoke. For ten‘ minutes he

 dived on ahead through a jungle in

'- which there was no trail. Suddenly
' he turned, led. the way arOund the

edge of a huge. mass of rock, “and

d a ngment later before a

_ “a ‘4 l ’

"-thatflMaeDonald hadflbeeh living here ‘

for several days.

“Looks as though I’d run. away,
don’t it Johnny?” he asked, laughing
in his curious, chuckling way again.
“An’ so I did boy. Fromthe moun-
tain up there I’ve been watching
things through my telescope—been
keepin’ quiet since Doc pulled the
bullet out. I’ve been layin’ for the
Breed. I want him to think I’d
vamoosed. I’m goin’ to kill him!”

He squatted down before the fire,
his long rifle across his knees, aifd
spoke as quietly as though he was
talking of a parridge or a squirrel
instead "of a human being. He
wormed a hand into one of his
pockets and produced a small dark
object which he handed to Aldous.
The'other felt an uncanny chill as it
touched his fingers. It was a mis-
shaped bullet. ‘

“Doc gave me the lead,” continued
MacDonald coolly, beginning to slice
a pipeful of tobacco from a tar—black
plug. “It come from Joe’s gun. *
I’ve hunted with him enough to know
his bullet. ,He fired through the
window of the cabin. If it hadn’t
been for the broom handle—just the
end of it stickin’ up”——-he shrugged
his gaunt shoulders as he stuffed the
tobacco into the‘bowl of his pipe——
“I’d been dead!”- he finished tersely.

“You mean tat Joe ”

“Has sold himself to
Rann!” exclaimed MacDonald.

Culver
He

time he showed excitement.
eyes blazed with repressed rage. A .

sprang to his feet. For the "first
His

hand gripped the barrel of his rifle
as if to crush it.
to Culver Rann!” he repeated. He’s
sold him our secret. He’s told him
where the gold is, Johnny! He’s
bargained to guide Rann an’ his
crowd to it! An first—~they’re goin’
to kill us!’{

With a low whistle Aldous took
off his hat. He ran a hand through
his blond-gray hair. Then he re-
placed his hat and drew two cigars
from his pocket. MacDonald ac-
cepted one. Aldous’ eyes were glit-
tering; his lips were smiling.

“They are, are they, Donald?
They are going to try to kill us?”

“They’re goin’ to try,” amended
the old hunter, with another curious
chuckle in his ghostly beard. “They
are goin’ to try, Johnny. That’s why
I told you not to go to the cabin.
I wasn’t expecting you for a week.
Tomorrow I was goin’ to start on a
hike for Miette. I been watching
through my telescope from the
mountain up there. I see Quade
come in this morning on a hand—car.
Twice I see him andQuade together.
Then I saw Blavckton hike out into
the bush. I was worrying about
you an’ wondered if he had any
word. So I laid for him on the trail
—an I guess it was lucky. I ain’t
been able to Set my eyes on Joe. I

“He’s sold himself.

looked for hours through the1 tele— I
scope—an’ I couldn’t find himp 'He’s .

gene, or Culver Rann is keeping him

out of ’sight.”

For several moments Aldous look- .
ed .at his comparison in silence
Then said?”

“You’re sure.of all this, Donald?
You have good proof—that Joe has
turned traitor?” *

“I’ve been suspicious of him ever
since we come down from the north,”
spoke MacDonald slowly. “I watch-
ed him—night an’ day. I was
afraid he’d get a grubstake an’ start
back alone. Then I saw him with
Culver Rann. - It was late. I heard
’im leave the shack, an’ followed.
He went to Rann’s house—an’ Rann
was expecting him. Three times I
followed him to Culver Rann’s house.
I knew what was happening then, an’
I planned to get him back in the
mountains on a hunt, an’ kill him.
But I was too late. The shot came
through the window. Then he dis-
appeared. An’——Culver Rann is get-
ting an outfit together! Twenty
head of horses, with grub for three
months!”

“The deuce!
Is it ready?”

“To the last can of beans!”

“And your plan,.Donald?”

All at once the old mountaineer‘s
eyes were aflame with eagerness as
he came nearer Aldous.

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HERE, boss,” said John Hobart,
in a gentle tone of voice, as
he finished stripping the last

cow. He was pleased with himself
on this crisp New Year’s Eve—and

' he had reason to be, for everything

about him radiated his success as a
farmer. The buildings, were freshly
painted. and in good repair, were
models of sensible architecture; the
steel stanchions for his thorobred
cows, with their individual drinking
fountains, the milking machinery
and the tractor, all demonstrated the
good judgment and sound business
principles of the man who owned
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John Hobart was decidedly a suc-
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fact entirely which brought an an-
ticipatory smile to his lips, as he
picked up his. 300 candle power Ian'-
ten and prepared to leave the barn.
No, it was that his chores were now
finished and he would soon be at the
house having a deliciously warm sup—
per, after which he would be free to
the cozy comfort of the living room,

. there to peruse the columns of his

favorite farm magazine. Already, in
fancy he could see the subdued light
of the reading lamp and hear the
cheery roar of the flames, as they
went up the chimney.

Outside, the stars shone brightly,
and the snow crunched under his
feet with a. pleasing sound as he
walked. A few minutes more and he
would be having supper, after which
———the paper! As. he climbed the
back steps , he could hear the low
toned gr-r-r-r of the cream separator,
in the milk house at the end of the
kitchen. Evidently Harry hadn’t
finished running the milk through
yet. That boy would have to hurry
if'he intended taking the girls to the
New Year’s party at Benson's.

“Supper ready?” greeted John
Hobart cheerily, as he thrust his
head in the kitchen door.

His wife looked up and smiled
wanly. A tired looking face was
hers, the sparkle gone from the. eyes,
and vertical wrinkles premafiirely
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labor of turning the ten gallon bar-
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“No, dear, but I’ll have it ready
soon. The batter doesn’t seem to
form; I’ve been churning for two

hours, and still it looks no different ‘

I’ll need a.
Will

than when I started.
pail of fresh water soon, too.
you get it?"

Her husband grunted.

"‘I'll get some,” he said, “but it
does seem that we could manage to
have our work done a little earlier
at night.”

“Sup-per is on the stove," said
Mrs. Hobart, “but you’ll have to wait
a little until I can put it on the
table.”

The man grunted again. Already
hislittle plans for the evening were
being threatened. But he wilt out
to the well for the pail of water.

Like many another mam John
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his mind upon the article, and» at
last, ‘in desperation, he tossed the
magazine upon the center table and
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Then he caught a. few words of
the conversation in the next room
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“Uh huh,” agreed Margaret.

“He has made lots of improve-

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Ami we couldn’t ask for lore;
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Upon the kitchen shelf
The lamps stood in a row,

Each with a spotless chimney
When I’d time to make it so.

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The kerosene. lamp was very good}.
It served us with the rest.

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a washing machine and a 
churn to make her work. saw '2. _
Wasn‘t everything as ambient as ,
possfble under the sire-mew ,
But what were these dream”! ,
Were they  diluent m 
ones with w lch he- had to contend
every day in his business oi farming?
He» had to admit that they were not.
Gradually his resistance was broken
down by the evidence at his ma
reason. It was true that when it ,
seemed that his cows must have para,
running water he had supplied it; it
was true that when changing our
ditioas had seemed to warrant the
use of the motor truck and a tractor
he had not hesitated in porches!“
them. And was the present matter-
any difiereat in principle? No! . .

'He had wondered about that tired

look in his wife’s eyes; now he uni
derstood it. - What an unmitigated,
selfish fool he had béen not to have
known it before! Why ' uh! cows,
even though they are blooded stack,
he provided conveniences which, his
wife did not have! Why, she was
worth more than all the cows in the
world!

And then therecane a sand of
heavy footsteps outside the living

room, and John Hobart leaned well ” 

hack in his chair and aim tilted
slumber. The person out the

room, and between partially closed  *“2
eyelids the man saw that it. was his /‘ 

son, Harry. At that moment Harry -
was not in the best of humor-.10: 
was scowling darkly. He came
tramping across the room, but. when
he noticed the supposedly sleeping
form oi his father he finished the
walk to his room on tip toes. The
elder felt guilty through and through _
and in that instant a great light
flooded his soul. He had never be-
fore realized all his. children meant
to him. He must. keep them inter-
ested in the farm! And then he
made a resolution. -

As soon as
room, the father quietly left his
chair and made his way to the
kitchen where he found Mrs Hobart
puttslng on supper.

“Did the butter come out all
right?” he asked.

“No, dear” she said, “but it was
taking so long. I. thought you'd
like supper first. I’ll finish churn-
ing after we eat.”

“No you won’t,” said her husband,
and-tells looked at him in astonish-
ment. ‘ -

“Because,” he continued, “Pm
goin’ to do it myself. An' what’s
more, you’re never goin’ to churn
by hand again! Tomorrow—no,
tomorrow is New Year's—tho day
after tomorrow, we are gain” to town
with the truck an' fetch home a‘ lot
otthingu. A'gasenginstoputfn-
the cellar, a power waahta’ 
as, power attac ts tor thesau-
erator an' the eh The engine

will do all the‘charmu‘, run the sep- - ~

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thehoassanerIcaahanitwired.
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' “J on numerous

RAISE MUSKBA'I‘S

fLTI-IO, the average person has
net found the place “where
 _ dollarsgrow on bushes” during
recent years thousands of trappers
uhfaverliterally “picked dollars out or
Lille water” 'in the form of. muskrat
pelts. This good thing however
could not last long for the wild su,-
ply could not stand the “picking.”
only a very few years ago when
best muskrat pelts were worth less
than a dollar to the trapper there
Mfurore untold millions in nearly all
liponds, lakes and streams through-
j'out North America. How is it to-
day? « Greatly~ increased value or
‘ muskrat furs during the past few
yeam‘has caused this fur producer
f, to be closely hunted and trapped,
/  not only by boys and amateurs, but

': » professional trappers as well.

‘ 1 Five years ago the waters of such

states as Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, the akotas, Nebraska,
Iowa, Illinois an Indiana were the

- homes otwvlarge numbers of muskrat

 "but when the value went to $2, $3

' and oven $4 each the animals greatly
deceased owing to persistent efforts
of the for hunters and trap-pore.

The past summer, during a three
months’ 'stay in Antrim County,

Michigan, from which place I often
drove out 30 miles into Grand
Traverse, Kalkaska, Charlevoix,
Gtsego and Crawford Counties'very
little muskrat sign was Seen altho
I kept an eye out for sign and was

streams and lakes.
Trappers and buyers said that there
was not one muskrat in these count-
ies to five a few years back.

, What is true of the Michigan sec-
tion is largely true in most states.
In Ohio where the lawful muskrat
Season lasts from November 15 to
March 1 the crop will be small——
twenty-five to thirty—live per cent of
only a few years back. Indiana and
lllinois both report short supply
while under date of September 12 a
well known dealer of Western Penn-
sylvania wrote as follows:

, "‘We have miles of the finest
muskrat creeks that do not have a
rat track on them as high prices
{allowed by high water and no
closed season has left this section
of the state with very few muskrat.”

What does all this mean? If
present demand continues, and indi-
cations are that it will, raising sure-
ly offers the only solution. The
trappers of muskrat and others are
not all idle by any means for I have
received numerous letters from vai

rious parts of the country in re-,

gard the raising of this animal and
they range from those who are
thinking of building a pond to those
who wish to buy or heat a marsh or
lake. Both methods no doubt, at
present prices of muskrat pelts, can
be made a. paying business.

The would—be raiser should select
a pond, lake or stream that abounds
in wild rice, flags,
these make ideal food and building
material for muskrat. It is not ex-
pected that all of these grow on
any one stream or pond but at least
one or them should. It is well to
have the food supply well ’started
“before the muskrat crop becomes
too numerous, yet of course, they
can be fed corn. pumpkins, turnips
and other mots.

Actual experience is what counts
and the following is from a Minne-
sota raiser of some ten years ex-
perience who says: 'thters average
5 to 8 and three litters each season.
Theuyoung are born six weeks after
-, mating. The first litter by early
5' .. April usually. They Like their own
_ ‘,or natural food best, suchaas roots,

'etc., so we seldom teed except car-

rots, corn and apples. I plant marsh

potatoes and my muskrat are kept
in a natural ~sWampy place—some
, in wire enclosures, but costs a great
' ,. deal more—«and the muskrat seldom
leave it not disturbed and kept in
v feed. ..My observation covering ten
years (of muskrat farming, gives
these, mots: A. tract of marsh one-
_ _’£‘..mile. wide and one  long
‘9‘ d  profit on investment than
her in. 0; course an
‘ " l 511' ' edto got overa-

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inused portion by freight collect and
tell them to go ahead _with suit, if

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rain fail they may leave it pond
dries. This is prevented by flood—
ing with dams. Our advice is select
ponds or small lakes with an abund-
ant supply of deep water and your
rat farm where tresspassers can be
kept of by law and you have a
profitablefiide line, in fact, makes
a worthless swamp worth hundreds
of dollars per acre.

There are thousands of small
ponds and lakes in Michigan. Wis-
consin, Minnesota, the Dakotas and
Iowa that ofier golden opportunities
for muskrat raising. Such places,
I think, ofier by far the best places
to quickly build up your supply or
muskrat for remember that they
breed as a rule three times a year.
Artificial ponds, of course, can be
built but ponds or small lakes where
the food supply is already started
should not be overlooked. The rais—
ing of muskrat is a business that
surely promises well to those who,
know something of the nature and
habits of this now valuable but fast
disappearing fur animal.

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PAY AS YOU ENTER—FOR A JOB!

An ambitious school teacher who
wants to make her salary go farther,
sends us the ciircular of the Profes-
sional Service Bureau, “a national
organization,” Goebling Building,
Detroit, which offers for “$1 down
and ‘52 more when earned” to put
the young lady in touch with those
who want spare—time work done at
home. She wants to know if the
company is reliable.

We always give a proposition the
benefit of the doubt, but two letters
to this company have failed to bring
any response and there is no such
concern listed in the Detroit tele—
phone directory, so we have a fair
idea that this lady saved a dollar,
at least, by writing us before she
“bit.” Allow me again to repeat in
this column, that the job you have
to pay to get is usually not worth
the price you pay for it!

- Well, it looks as though what we
predicted in the Nov. 11th, issue
had come to pass. The American
(alias Canadian) Silverware Com—
pany, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
who by postal card advised thou—
sands of farmers, that they werethe
“lucky” winners of a set of silver-
ware and only had to send 98 cents
to “pay the postage”, are out of busi-
ness. The assis ant manager of The
Bank of Monte 1,, advises the pub-
lisher, that, “their office at 43 St.
Francois Xzavier street is closed.”
So endeth another lesson! We hope
our timely warning saved .a few of
you from the clever scheme of the
international boundary— line grafters.

A ROOFING GUARANTEE

I herewith inclose guarantee order
blank for which I signed and ordered ,
1/2 barrel Saveall Roofing. This '
came when we were very busy on the
farm and did not get it on for per—
haps four weeks. The next time
It rained it leaked as bad as ever.
They also sent 40 gallon instead of
3/2 barrel. I wrote and told them
the roof still leaked and ofiered to
to send the balance back. They told
us it was not put on right and said.
it we didn’t pay by return mail they
would sue. Please tell us what to do.
——Inasmuch 'as the Franklin Paint
Company, Cleveland, Ohio, states”
very plainly in their order blank

that the roofing is guaranteed for-'1
ten years, ’and you agreed to pay in

four months, if it was all they claim—
ed, or that you would repért prompt-
ly and there was to be no charge
for the amount you had uSed. ' ,.

Under the above circumstances I
do not believe this company has a
possible chance of collecting any
money fromyqu in  court in the ,
land. My suggestion is to return the .

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NOW

I  '50 YEARS IN OSHKOSH

260 Main Street

‘43

Exactly fifty years ago-Percey's Fur House was established
at Oshkosh to barter With the Indians and other hoppers.
Peroey ‘s fau- treatment and square deal policy built such a reputation that
suppers went out of their way to secure Percey’s prices. A man’s word
was as good as his bond in those days, and through the northwest Pemy's
word was “as good as gold." It still is.

Muskrat - Skunk :— Mink
We need all the Muskrat, Skunk, Mink, etc., you can ship on

right now. For 50 years Percey"s fair treatment and square
deal policy insures you full market value for your furs. Make sure your
name is onour list. We will advise you of every change in market prices
and corrditions. Send us a postal Today Sure. For fifty years Percey’s
Price List has been the standard of the northwest.

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Percey’s Prices
Percey’s Prices are bonafide based
on standard grading that insures of experience having the highest
you the largest metums. reputation among fur shippers.

Percey's Checks

Percey’s Checks for your furs means the most money for your catch.We
pay express and parcel post charges on all shipments where charges do
not exceed 10% of the value of the furs.

RUSH YOUR SHIPMENTS

Ship to Percey"s NOW While prices are high. Honest grading, highest
market prices and .o. s uare deal to all Fur Shippers for 50 years has made
Percey’s the Leading or House of the northwest.

We cater to dealers’ lots and will send a representative on.
request. Write us TODAY Sure for Price List and Shipping Tags.

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CHAPTER I

His Childhood and School Days

ENRY FORD belongs to that
H stern, strong, creative genera-
tion of Americans that has ser-
ved our country so well in the days
of its critical development. He
has the simple faith, the sturdy life,
the unflaging industry, the love of
family that typify the best Ameri—
cans. This brief chronicle of some
of the vital periods of his life will
give his fellow countrymen a clearer
understanding of the character and
purposes of the man.
I . O 0

Two years after Michigan became
a state the first link in the railroad
connecting Detroit and Chicago was
built to Dearbornville, then a small
village ten miles from Detroit. In
those early days the settlers drove
to “town” in ox carts over corduroy
roads that they themselves had
built with logs from the surround—
ing forests. The coming of the first
train, therefore, a great day in Dear-
bornville. The pioneers gathered
in the shade of the stockade walls
of the arsenal and debated the new
invention. There were many pessi—
mists among them who were sure
that the crude locomotive of that
time would never be (if practical
value. William Cremer had wagered
that his white faced correl mare
could out-run the iron horse in a
race from Ten Eyck’s tavern to the
village; and it did, William reining
in his horse at the arsenal before
the train came in.

In the group that witnessed this
triumph of the horse and the sub-
sepuent arrival of the train was a
young lad, William Ford, who lived
between Dearbornville and Fort
Wayne——a post where U. S. Grant
was stationed a few years later as a
lieutenant. William Ford had recent-
ly come over from Ireland.
twinkle in "his blue eyes, the glow
in his cheek and his ready wit told
that, but his speech and his manners
spoke of his English ancestry. He
had cleared and put under cultiva-
tion the land where fhe lived, and
some years later married Mary th0-
got, the daughter of his nearest
neighbor. In the five years that fol—
lowed five children came to" bless
their home.

On July 30 in the third year of
the Civil War, Henry Ford was born
and was named after his uncld who
Owned an adjoining farm. The
war and the still wonderful iron
horse were general topics of conver-
sation in the days of Henry Ford’s
childhood. He heard * the grim
tragedies of the conflict retold; he
knew many of the soldiers at the
arsenal and he often saw bluecoated
army ofiicers splashing along; the
road to Detroit. As he grew older
he accompanied his parents when
they drove to the small Episcopal
church in; Dearborn'where William

Ford was aivestryman and where the ..

services were conducted by, the arm f
chaplain from ‘fFo‘rt“-’-Wayne. Thu,
war. lia'd its part in .his boyhoodgas

titer. days or his lite.

,, in “l v _ _ s
.  1%: five F0 d, children attended ‘
ye",  ‘ri._.'-.1,U:-,-,._ ‘  :2  l r ’    v ‘  - " "

The

"brother,

An. Amazingly Fascinating-Story'of the Rise tol‘World F cine ofsMich‘igan’ksh.
Famous Citizen !—The Most Talked of Book of the Year.“

"where water power can, be developed.
At one time John Haggerty- was:

the old Scotch settlement school
when very small, and when Dear-
born and Springwells townships were
land they Went to the Springwells
school. Every day that weather
permitted, the five children walked
the two and a half miles where th y
were taught reading, writing, spe 1-
ing, geography and arithmetic. No
attention was paid to history even
though it was then in the making.
The schoolmaster was Mr. Brush
Whose son Alonzo Brush, a playmate
of the Ford children, was years later
the inventor of the Brush automo-
bile. Henry Ford’s deskmate was
'Edsel Ruddiman, who for twenty-
five years has been Dean of Chem-

,g'istry at Vanderbilt University and
after whom Henry Ford’s only son

James Ruddiman, Edsel’s
later married Mr. Ford’s

is named.

sister.

One of the earliest childhood re—l

collections of Henry Ford is his long-
ing to see the iron horse that he
could hear a mile away beyond the

woods. A frail child, he had been
forbidden to.venture aw from his
home alone, so he woul climb a

fence top when he heard the distant
whistle and try to make out the
strange machine as it toiled over
the grades. His childish imagination
could not believe that the ugly, sil-
ent monster of iron that he saw
when occasionally he went to the
village with his parents could be the
fiery thing that whooped through
the woods like an Indian—and in
those days it was said that Chief
Pontiac still roamed the forests of
the region. .

Henry Ford showed early in life
that interest in machinery that
shaped his later career. The story
runs—~and although it is fiction it
may be repeated here—that when
six years old Henry eluded his

'father and mother one Sunday nibrn-

l~ ; TFBushnell.’  

ing as they were entering church,

and was found later trying to put _

together a playmate’s watch which
he had taken apart. At 14 the lad
was confirmed in the village church
by the bishop and to this day he
frequently attends seiuvice there.
There are many authentic stories

of his boyhood interest in mechanics. ,

About the time he was ten or twelve
years old he developed a great in—
terest in the steaming teakettle that
sang and jiggled on the kitchen stove.
While the other children romped out-
doors Henry kept close to the hot
wood stove, watching with the round
eyes of childhood as the steam lifted
the kettle top and rattled the lids
of the vegetable sauce pans. In the

dining room of the Ford heme was-

an old fashiOned fire place. One day
Henry secured a thick earthenware
teapot which he filled with water;
then he stuffed the spout with paper
and tied down the lid

“Now let’s see if you can lift that
lid, old Mister Steam,” he said as
he thrust the teapot close to the

fire. Then he sat down tosee what
Mr. Steam‘cou‘ld do. An explosion,
followed by a child's cry'of pain,
soon brought Mrs. Ford, running
from the kitchens Scattered about
the room were fragments of the tea
pot; One piece had shattered a win-
dow pane, another had broken a
mirror, while a third had cut a. gash
in Henry Ford’s head. His face, too.
was badly scalded. To this day a
faint scar remains to show what Mr.
Steam did. '

Mary Ford possesser that quick’

understanding sympathy of the true
mother. “My dear child,” she said
after the wound had been attended
to, “I am afraid you are going to

hurt-yourself many times it you try

to imprison steam or make other ex-
pe‘riments.”

After the children had been put
to bed that night she told her hus-
band of the incident. “Henry is
eaten up with curiosity," she declar-
ed.\ “He asked questions I could
not answer in a thousand years. I'
am afraid he is different from other
boys; they are satisfied with ex-
planations but Henry has to in—
vestigate everything for himself. I
wish you would watch him closely
when he gets near machinery. I am
worried about him whenever he goes
to the barn, for he doesn’t know the
meaning of fear.”

Sometime later his parents noticed
that Henry was not returning from
school .until twilight. Induiry
brought out the following explan-
ation: Near the school was a creek
bordered by twisted weeping wil-
lows, whose cool shade afforded a
delightful place'for boys to lounge
and plan the great things of boy-
hood. While the other pupils spent
their noon hour in games, Henry

Ford and his group of chums busied

themselves in building‘s. dam across
the creek with stones and other
materials gathered from the nearby
fields. When ‘the dam was done
they fashioned a rude water wheel
that revolved with gratifying rapid-
ity. But the dam caused the waters
of 'he creek to back up and this
brought protests from the farmers.
Schoolmaster Brush ordered the
youthful engineers to tear out the
dam. “When this is done," he con-
cluded, “Henry, who is your ring-
leader, can remain with me after
school each day until I tire of his
company.” And that was 'why Henry
returned home each evening at twi-‘
light.

Today Mr. Ford counts among his
most treasured possessionea picture
of the old creek showing the dam
and the water wheel and a group of
his long ago companions sitting in
in the shade of the willows. Mr.
Ford’s keen interest in water power
still persists. He has traveled thru
Michigan and- other states buying
water rights and sites for dams, and
is formulating plans for locating
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The Author’s Preface to This Stury J

N publishing this biographical sketch, I wish to acknowledge my
gratitude for the co-operation of Mrs. Henry Ford and of Prom‘
inent Detroiters who were associated with Mr. Ford in his early

days—among them being James Couzens, A. Y. Malcomson, Horace
Rackham, E. G. Pipp, C. A. Brownell and many others.

From Mrs. Henry Ford, I secured most of the data.
helped me to secure accurate and authentic information.
she gave me liberally,.of her time in order that I might compile this
This assistance entailed a sacrifice, for
she shuns publicity, heartily. dislikes any attempt to draw her into
the limelight and objects to having her name appear in print.

Mr. Malcomson’s financial support made Mr. Ford’s success possible.
Had there been no Alexander Malcomson and no James Couzens, the
inventive genius of Henry Ford probably never would have reached
the heights it has. From Mr. Couzens, I secured the figures of the
stock subscribed by the first Ford stockholders.
known as the former editor of the Detroit News, was most kind and
generous in assisting me on certain difficult and important points.
I am indebted to Mr. ~/ Brownell for his friendly help and interest.

He was for many years an executive ofiicer of the Ford

In this little book I have  to include only points which are
discussed and .to- use carefully only information which 'I
, have been cluelest to Mr. Ford for

the asttm .,   ""all Who assisted"  , may amvsincerelrsrfite-
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Henry Ford's deskmate at the

Springwells school.

ing a watch. At the most interest-

ing point in their investigation the 
sheltering geographies fell with a"

bang'and their occupation was re-.

vealed. Mr. Brush serveyed them
sadly. “Now John,” he said at
length, “I will trouble you and

Henry to bring me that watch. You
are senthere‘ to get book learning.
The idea of big boys like you, al-
most 16 years old, playing like child-
ren. You can stay after school and
try to put the insides of that watch
back like they were before you be-'
You‘ might
as well learn right now that it is
wrong to start anything and leave
it unfinished. ' '
When Henry {was 14 his mother
died and the little family was over:
whelmed with grief. , With the fine

courage of the early settlers Mar-‘
garet Ford, the oldest daughter, took

up the labors and responsibilities of
the household; and the father did all'
he could to fill the mother's place,
but the family life was sadly
changed. Mary Ford was a remark-
able. woman; she taught all her
children that to be useful to their

     
    
       
     
   
   
   
     
   
     
   
   
 
  
 
 
 
  
  
     

One attention”
the two boys, hidden “behind new.»
open geographies, were busy dissect- ‘

country and cemmunity was the best .

of all ambitions, and she imbued
them with noble principles‘ and
ideals. At 18 or 19, when she
married William Ford, she was a
rosy-cheeked, dark-haired, beautiful
girl, calm, well poised and courag-
eous. In those years a mother's
tasks were many and heavy, especial-
ly in the country districts. Mrs Ford
met each day’s problems with a
cheerfulness that made her seem
wonderful in the eyes of her son,
Henry. She taught him that he
must net drink, smoke or gamble,
and to these teachings he has re-
mained steadfast all' his life. She
impressed upon him that he must
be true to conscience and duty, and
she taught him that courage which
bore fruit in after years. '

;

At 17 Henry Ford finished the ‘

eighth grade at the Springwells
school and a year later he set‘out
for the city, Detroit.

‘ CHAPTER II.

The City Beckons

,Like most active country boys
Henry Ford had made himself a tool
shop, where (he spent many busy,
happy hours on the farm. 80 adept
did he become that as he grew older
he became a general handy man for
the neighboring farmers. He fixed
many broken farm implements and
before he was 18 he was in charge
of his father's saw mill. But the
city called him and he went.

Alone and unknown, he secured .

‘ a jobwith the Flower Manufacturing

company, engaged in the making of
steam engines and employing more
than a hundred men. The company
was at that time one of Detroit's
largest manufacturing concerns. 'His-
apprenticeship there was practically
a abuse in mechanical engineering,
and he was paid $2.50 a week. This

~was less than William Ford paid his
hands on the farm and did not cover.

the cost of Henry’s room and board
in the city. But the place had this
compensation: It brought him op-
portunities that were out of reach
on the farm. He could spend his
idle hours in the city library among

the companions he valued most of-

all—the books and journals on
mechanical engineering. To supple-
ment his "salary" he made arrange-
ments with a. jeweler whereby he
could repair watches, That was one
of the red—letter days of his youth,
rivaling that other when he has al-

lowed to mend a. neighbors sewing I,
'machine: . -‘ ,‘ i I  '
He worked hard and long, his two : “

occupations keeping him busy from,
the morning until" slant

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in thought waves. LIt‘is pos-
sible for two or more inventors, hun-

‘on the same problem without any
knowledge .that someoné else is en-
gaged on the same project? It was

about-this time that the restless de-

sire began to‘ formulate itself in

" Henry Ford’s brain to build a vehicle

that would compete with the. ‘iron

' horse of childhood memory.

After seven months in the employ

cfthe Flower Manufacturing com-'
" pany young Ford went‘to work

for \ the... .Drydocks Engine com-
pany, thse specialty was marine
machinery. He was doing well, and
opportunity for advancement was
just ahead when one day came word
from his father urging him to return
to the farm. William Ford said that
his health was poor, that he was
growing/old, the farm hands were
becoming careless and indifferent
and beyond his ability to manage.
He needed his boy, he saidfto care
fer the home place. It was a blow
to the young man in Detroit, but his
mother’s teachings made his decision
certain. Putting aside ambition, he
answered the call of filial duty and
gave up his place in the city to re-
turn to the farm where he was
needed. This summons, as will .be
seen later on, was the turning pomt
in his life. ‘

Brief mention will not be out of
place here of the other sons of W11-
liam Ford. . John Ford remained on
the farm. Some time later he be-
came a member of the Springwells
school board, a position he retains
William Ford, another
brother, became in later years Mayor
of Dearborn and member of Dear—
born school board.

Today two miles from the old Ford
homestead can be seen the tall
smokestacks of the great River
Rouge foundry. This gigantic plant,
owned by Henry Ford, was used dur-

‘ ing the 'world war as a naval station,

and also in the making. of the Eagle
boats and submarine vchasers. These
boats were launched directly into the
River Rouge and made the long
voyage through the Detroit river,
Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, through
the Welland Canal and down the St.
Lawrence river to the sea—and ser-
vice. But that is getting ahead of
the story.
' CHAPTER IV. ‘ —
His Courtship and Marriage

Up to this time Henry Ford had
rough-hew-n his life; now Destiny
stepped in and began to shape his
career. He spent the spring, sum-
mer and autumn following ‘his re-
turn in plowing, planting and har-
vesting on his father’s farm. But
Fate was preparing a reward for his
self-sacrifice and entrusting the de-
tails of Romance. Henry soon again
became a favorite in the countryside,
his city-learned ways adding to his
popularity. When winter came he
showed that he was still the best
skater in the neighborhood. “In
those days,” as an old-timer has said,
“no one went to Florida or California
in winter. Instead they stayed at
home and enjoyed the best sports of
the year.”

Henry bought a bright red cutter.
As it sped over the smooth roads
with many bells a-jingle, it was gen-
erally admitted that he was the best

-,..a$..eep; ‘ r 
6 ‘said that invention

dreds of milesapart, to be working

 
    
  
  
 
 

    
 

    
 

that 0 ion wasgpgtennanimOus; five
.mi'l'es army, 1- Greenfield township,
lived: Clara Bryant, local belle and
beauty, “'Tiivith" beaux a-plenty. She
cared mt a snapof her pretty fingers
.for Henr Ford, his city ways‘ and
his new cutter—and, she made no
secret of her opinion. -

Naturally such indifference chal-
lenged young Ford’s attention and
quickened his interest. He forgot
Detroit and mechanics and set about
accomplishing a bigger undertaking.
His red cutter was an asset of which
he made effective use; good natured:
ly he carried many a laughing crowd
to and from skating parties. At the
Greenfield club one evening he quiet-
ly produced a curious watch, the
like of which the countryside had
never seen. It had two sets of hands
and recorded both standard and sun
time. As he displayed this wonder
he dropped vague hints of other and
greater inventions.

“Mother,” said Clara Bryant the
morning after the Greenfield club
party, “Henry Ford is different from
the rest of our crowd. He can in—
vent the most interesting things. He
is the best skater and he dances as
well as he skates. We sat out two
dances last night because I wanted
to See a watch he had made. It is
the queerest watch you ever saw.
He says he is going to make some-
thing else and let me see it.”

Mrs.'Bryant, wise mother that she
was, said nothing. She was ac-
quainted with her daughter’s sudden
enthusiasms.

During that winter 'Henry Ford
invented his first tractor, although
it did not bear that modern name.
It was a machine to use in plowing
and harvest time, and it was fash-
ioned out of an old wagon body,
some wagon tires, harrow teeth and
other pieces of discarded farm ma—
chinery. As he toiled over his new
machine the young inventor did not
dream that in later years his name
would be known ’round the world
wherever ground is broken and har-
vests gathered. About this time he
took 'a course in Goldsmith’s college
in Detroit, but study and invention
did not crowd one other plan out of
his active mind.

“Father,” he asked when he was
twenty-four years old, “if I should
marry what part of the land would
be mine?” '

“I’ll do for you just as I intended
to do for John and William,” his
father, replied. “You can have
enough timber to build a house and
can have eighty acres facing Reck-
nor read. When I’m gone there will
be forty acres more for each of you
children.” '

The sonwent about his courtship
with the determination and enthusi—
asm that marked his undertakings
in mechanics. Likewise he set about
the building of a home for his future
bride. Such methods could not fail
and Henry Ford and Clara Bryant
were married one April day 1888.
Their new home, a modern structure
with broad verandas, was ready for
them. It stood in the midst of roll-
ing farm land, with its red dairy
and barns grouped in, the rear. For
three years the young couple dwelt
there in happiness. The husband
was busy with his farm work, but
the hum of machinery still was music
to his ears. In this time he built
three saw mills-and! often he was to

 

eighb'orhoed. 

_ home they wanted.

'be seen sitting in theirsliade, of a

spreading oak figuring,with pencil
and paper; often, too, he was busy
in his" tool house with odds and ends
of machinery, '
One evening came the revealing of
his great resolve. “Clara” he said,

“ it looks as if I could not stand the .

farm any longer. I’ll have to go
back 'to Detroit and begin work on
my horseless carriage. I can’t do
much on it here.”

His young wife was aghast. Her
glance took in the many comforts
of their home, the opened piano with
its sheets of music, the cheerful fire
on the hearth, the large carved arm—
chair that her mother had brought
from Warwick, England, the old-
fashioned English clock that William
Ford had given them as a wedding
present. She loved that cozy-home,
and she never had heard of a horse—
less carriage. Was her husband los-
ing his mind?

“Why, Henry,” she exclaimed,
“you are the best farmer around
here. Your engine is a wonder—
and whoever heard of a horseless
carriage!”

“Bring me a pencil and a large
piece of paper and I will ShOW you
what it is,” her husband replied.

From the piano where she had
been playing she took a piece of mu—
sic. On the Wide, white back of the
sheet Henry Ford drew with quick,
sure strokes, until to his wife lean-
ing over his shoulder the strange
vehicle took form and semblance.
He explained each part as he drew
it, his eyes sparkling, his hand trem-
bled with his enthusiasm. As he
pictured the vehicle to her it did
not seem improbable. He spoke of
the motive power and fire engines;
he talked confidently of resilience
and gasoline. It was midnight be-
fore he finished and then his wife
had caught his enthusiasm.

“If you want to go back to De—
troit we’ll manage it somehow,” she
promised him.

Soon they were house hunting in
town and found on Bagley street,
then in a residential district but
now a business thoroughfare, the
It was a small
building with a large red, brick barn
which would serve as a workshop.
They soon moved to the city and
Mr. Ford, then twenty—eight years
old, went to work for the Edison
company. He had, in addition, an
incOme from his farm and three saw
mills and was not a poor man. How—
ever, he had to make the most of
time, money, material and effort.
Mrs. Ford was sympathetic and opti—
mistic and she was a great help to
him in those days when his home
surroundings were such a factor in
keeping his hopes high and his de-
termination unshaken. It was by

‘good management and hard work

that he rubbed Aladdin’s Lamp and
became one of the world’s richest
and most famous men.

CHAPTER IV.

The First Car and the First Race

For two years that horseless car-
riage “ate its head off.” Always
it consumed money, money, more
money. Bicycle wheels were bought
for it, but all other parts had to be,
made to order and by hand. And
often these parts would not fit and
had to be made over. But Henry
Ford never grew discouraged, never
lost confidence in the ultimate suc—

 

  

Would not delay. 
what that strange
do, Mrs. Ford caug
and followed her
street. ‘ '

   

As he clanked’away‘all sortsof
,If the machine
did not kill him he probably would.

fears assailed her.

die of pneumonia. The noise of the

vehicle would awaken the neighbor— :

hood. She wished for the moment
that she had not encouraged him in
his work. As her inin recalled the
days and months of study and labor,

a loud noise heralded her husband’s

safe return. The horseless carriage
would go! Flushed with pride and
excitement, the inventor pushed the
strange little machine into the barn,
locked the doors and went into the
house.
milk, spread his dripping clothes be-
fore the fire and went calmly to bed
to enjoy the best rest he had known
since their return to the city.

In the days and weeks that follow-

ed friends and neighbors flocked to.’

see the new machine. Mr. and Mrs.

Ford created a sensation every time.

they rode through the streets; in
the country horses dashed into
ditches or fences when the horseless
carriage approached. Country peo-
ple regarded them as much as they
did a circus. Every time the vehicle
was dragged from the barn Mrs.
Ford made some eXCuse for accom-
panying her husband on his ride.
She was optimistic by nature, but
she felt that sooner or later some
accident would occur—and she want-
ed to be with him then. He was
anxious to test the machine’s hill-
climbing powers. The neighborhood
was flat and the one hill in Wayne
street was too near the river to make
a test prudent. So Mr. and Mrs.
Ford drove ten miles around the
boulevard to the graded approach to
the viaduct, Mrs. Ford said nothing
of her fears but waited. The little
car did not tip over or roll backward
down the grade, but- slowly, inch
by inch, it gained the'tOp.

Those Were'wthe days when every:
one rode a bicycle and Woodward
avenue was thronged with men and
women on their wheels. One day
as Mr. and Mrs. Ford Were making
their slow progress along the boule-
vard a bicyclist—a “scorcher”—— ap-
proached their car. So astonished
was he at sight of the strange con—
trivance that he fell under the Ford
car. The two occupants were terri-
fied. Mr. Ford urged the fallen
cyclist to lie still; then he and his
wife hastily got out. A wondering
crowd gathered. There was but one
thing to do and that must be done_
quickly. Carfully Mr. Ford lifted
the car OK the fallen rider, who
scrambled to his feet unhurt, While

the crowd roared with laughter. As
Mr. Ford wiped the perspiration
from his forehead he remarked,

“That was a close call for us.”
Later came another unpleasant,
adventure. The proudest possession

‘ of a wealthy resident of Boston boul- ~»

evard was a pair of fine driving
horses. The first time those horses
saw the new car they snorted, reared
and bolted. Their owner’s wrath.
was almost beyond words as he
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BABSON PREDICTS FARM PROSPERITY
FOR 1923

“ NOTHER reason I am optimistic ll
A on accoun t of the crop situation.
Now, at times when the country has
small crops and high prices, the farmers
are happy, but it is not good for the nation;
and there are times when we have bumper
crops and low prices, the people in our cities
are then happy, but it is not good for the
famcrs. v- A

“The nation as a whole is best of! when
we have fair crops and fair prices and I hope
that the next twelve months will show some-
what such conditions.

“I find that the farmers of this country
will receive a billiOn dollars more for this
year’s crop than they received for last. ' “

“Now, as operating cxpcnscs of the farms
must have been less this year than last year,
that means that the farmch will have con-
siderably more to spend. As a third of the
people of this country receive their incomes
from the farms, that means that a third of
the people of the country will have more
money to spend in 1923 than in 1922.”—
Roger B. Baboon, Famous Business Analyst,
at Chicago, November, 29, 1922.

 

PRlITOHARD’S WEATHER FORECAST

OU remember the blizzard which covered
Y northern Michigan with a sheet of ice the
week of February eighteenth, last year?
Trains stopped, telephone and telegraph lines
sagged and fell. It was a near catastrophe in
some sections. Well, the United States weather
bureau for that week predicted: “Cloudiness;
occassional snows, normal temperature." Mr.
Pritchard predicted a “rain, sleet or snow storm"
and pointed out his reasons why it might be dis—
astrous, thus warning the readers of his column
of what they might expect.

L. N. Pritchard is a Michigan man who has
become famous the past few years by his almost
uncanny predictions of what the weather is going
to— be a few weeks or months ahead.

Turn to page 23 of this issue and read what
the weather will be for the next two weeks! You
don’t think anybody can predict the weather?
Well, mark down what Mr. Pritchard says about
next week and New Years day on your calender
in the kitchen and then see how near he hits it!

TOO MANY ON THE FAR-DIS?

VER at Kalamazoodast week, Mrs. Stock-
man, according to the press dispatches told
the state Grangers that we already have

too many farms and too many farmers... This
may be true and if it is, the present movement.
which has been pretty general all over the
country from the farms into the city, should be
solving the problem. We do not question but

ened the labor requirements of the farms. Nature
does a. heap of a lot of the manufacturing of
tum products, with only the assistance which.
nowadays one man and machinery can give her
a. lot of, in ashort space of time. Now, if that

  will only pay enough ,forfarm products, so that , ,
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RUSSIAN
ESTERDAY'from the lips ‘of a man I have
know intimately for many years, I heard a
story of horror and suffering, which. had I
read it or heard it from one I did not know, I
never should have believed. My friend, David
A.‘Brown, a. self-made man who by his. unselfish
service to humanity during the past few years
has'mado himself typify the best side of dynamic
Detroit had within the week returned from a six
months trip in Russia and the Ukraine. district.
He was a member of a commission sent out of-
ficially to getthe facts regarding the famine and
America’s work to relieve it. He said:

“In the south of Ukraine, people have and

ire still, dying by the thousands. W‘agons .

go around the streets each morning to pick

up their loads of those who have died during
the nights. People go to the cemetaries and
dig their own graves, rather than be dumped
into open pits by the wagons. I haveseen -
the actual proofs of canibalism and in some
parts, the authorities will not allow ground-
meat to be sold, knowing not but what it
will contain human flesh! In houses and.
buildings, attics and closets are searched
for unfortunates who crawl into them to die.

Of the millions of bushels of grain sent

over by the United States for seed, not 25%

reached the soil, because the hunger—crazed.

people ate it to fill their empty bellies! In
unheated hospitals and abandoned asylums

I saw old men and women lying on boards

stretched over boxes, with only one single

blanket to Cover their wretched nakedness.

The 'vermine, the stench, the horror of a

visit to one of these places drove me nearly

frantic.”

Remember please, that Mr. Brown was talking
of a white race, who but a few years ago were
boasting of their'culture! You will not believe
Neither would I, if my tauthority
were not unquestioned, nor would Mr. Brown,
until he had seen it with his cum eyes.

‘The redeeming feature is, however, that the
American Relief agencies directed by Herbert
Hoover, supported by countless charity organiza-
tions and aided by the twenty millions of dollars
donated by the United States Government, have
actually been the means of feeding and thus
keeping alive 11,000,000 of these unfortunate
people. Everywhere, according to Mr. Brown,
the Russians speak of America as they would
God, with reverence and devotion. The job is
not completed. Political Russia is still in the
hands of the Soviet. But with seed planted under
American guidance and by American machinery
in the wonderfully fertile valley of the Ukraine
during the coming spring, Mr. Brown, believes
that the attendent crop will relieve the suffering
and place this agricultural country once more on
a. self-sustaining basis. '

Does it seem possible that these conditions
can exist today or that they can be brought
about in. so short a. space of years. It seems
only yesterday that Russia. was the greatest
food exporting country in tile world, now America
must attempt to feed her, ‘whilc millions die
from hunger! ' ‘

 

LONG TERM CREDITS

NE of the major questions which will un-
doubtecLly confront the next Congress will be
the establishment of long-time credit for

. farmers. Nearly all farm organizations and news-

papers have been so insistent in their demands
for a revision of the banking laws that they
cannot very well be ignored. There is no, ques-
tion but what the farmer ought to have the
same access to credit as do the business men of
the city. When he produces a crop in the fall
of the year and desires to borrow upon it for a
matter of six months or longer, he ought to be
able' to do it with the same ease with which
mechandise. Just what the government can do
to improve the situation is problematical. It is

really a question for bankers, but cursed with

their traditional conservatism, they will usually
wait in this . case as they here in others, until
the government goes ahead” and at least points
out the way for better Wits.

 

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HORRORS SUBSTAWW . kept :a. 5* watch on our on]. on

' inciation s.

build up their herds will have'nothing to regre

~ said at that time he proposed to go to the bottom

of the Business Farmer are open for hisuse

. Now it is all over and he can go back to his farm

’ there are always a bunch anxious at the trough \ 0% g

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various cows arenow‘joining 
For the first. time since it ..
been in the {dairy business they know. 
cows they should keep and which they’ishould
sell, or kill. ..It’s no longer a. case of guessi ’

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J ust now the pure-bred dairy industry is in the
doldrums. But it’s sure to have a. come-beck.
and very soon. Dairy cattle'arex-going ’tot 'V
shambles by the thousands-and ‘the day is not
far distant when their places must be taken by
new and better cattle. That will be the day of,
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STARTS OFF ON HIS RIGHT room

NDER the heading of “Concerns Kicks Up 
Heels Early/’3. Washington press dispatch"
quotes Senator Couiens as saying:

“I am not yet sufficiently familiar with.
\ the details of the subsidy bill to say how 1..
will vote when it come up for final passage.
I am firmly convinced the bill Should not
'be passed on in this session and for that
reason -I have joined in the move to diSplace
it and take up the Farm Credit Bill. Almost
everybody seems to agree on the need for
some such measure. It is fundamentally dif-
f forent from the subsidy bill in that the sub-
srdy proposes toetake money from the public;
treasury and give it to a special interest,
whereas money extended in the form ‘of
credit to the farmers ultimately will be paid -
back._ The farm bill is founded on the right
principle and there is no partisan divisio

- over it.” -

            
      
     
      
       
       
       
         
      
      
      
         
 

Last issue, on this very page, we said We.be-
lieved before ‘a year from that time Mr. Couzens '
would find among his best friends at home our '
farmers, but we had no idea of prophesying that
he would come out so plainly for a square-deal
for farmers, almost before he had his seat in the
Senate warmed! If you folks admire a fighter.
you’ll like our new Senator.

 

WE‘RE WITH YOU, BROTHER FRIDAY!

RESIDENT Friday of M. A. 0., who an
arbitrator set the price of milk in‘ the
Detroit area for the month of December,

is proving that it was not press talk, When he 

of the milk situation. Now. we hear he has
actually gone to work on a job that is not exactly
a pleasant one for a man in his position, but it " ' ‘
is a mighty necessary one. We want Mr. Friday . 
to know that the farmers of Michigan, altho not
all in this area nor all milk producers, will back
him to the limit in a thorough investigation.
And we want him to know also, that the columns

during this campaign. If you milkprqducers .
in the Detroit area have facts thatMr. Friday .
ought to know in making this investigation, now

is the time to send them to him. If you feel that
you have been subjected to injustices in the past,
now is exactly the time to give them an airing ‘ V
and East Lansing is the address of 'the gentle-
man who will be mighty glad, we believe, to
receive them. ‘

 

 

J. R. Howard, who steps down from the pres—  '
idency of the American Farm Bureau, has felt ' i
all the sensation of the national president. He
has ben praised, censured, blamed, coerced, bull- ‘ .
dozed, lied too, talked about and talked to death! (I 

and watch the other fellow get it in the neck- '5" (i
as he did for three years. The wonder is‘ that '

to get the rope around their necks!

 

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ECENTLY therewas an article in '

the! M. 'Bn/Fg reciting the mis-

fortune of~ “John and Mollie,”~..

[and it was suggested that some one
give some thought on the subject of
'those‘ who have had. 'hard luck on

the farms, the reason and the rem-'

’ edy, if any.
' “Nothing is without sufiicient
. cause,” is a truism, and it as true
infregard to the “Johns and Mollies”
as it is true in other fields of
thoughtand being, beside that of
agriculture. We are living in a
universe of law and order, so far as
the physical universe is concerned,
_ and man-made laws are presumed to
be made in the endeavor to bring the
I greatest good to the greatest num-
ber of people. In other words, laws
should be made so as to bring just-
ice to all men, or as nearly that
as is possible for man to do.

Now why do the Johns and
-Mollies fail on the farm? They
.raise good crops, «hay, corn, meat,
eggs,'and a vast variety of good
stuff. There are several reasons
. for'the failure to make good. Con-
ditions over which the Johns and
Mollies have no control, or at least
exert a. very trifling amount of in-
fluence. They have no' political
sower, hence exert no influence in
legislation. Laws are made favor-
ing the large corporation, banks,
railroads,
lines, while the ownership of coal
mines, copper, iron and all-minerals
as well as timber lands have now
passed into the hands of the capital-
ist class. The big corporations
make the price on lumber, all build-
'1ng material and determine all food
values. The greater part of the
farming element are compelled to
sell the products of the farms at
harvest time and then later these
products are re—sold at advanced
prices. The railroads, capitalized
at about three times their real value,
. are charging exhorbitant rates for
transportation in order to make div—
idends. Almost all of the necessities
of life are owned and controlled by
men who toil not, neither do they
spin,—only fine words for the work-
ers to practice greater economy, and
to produce more goods”

Another reason for failure of
John and his wife is that we are in
one, if not the mostly highly devel-
--oped industrial countries in the
world. The wealth of the country
is being centralized in'fewer hands
and is located in or near the large
"cities ,and our population is drift-
ing cityward. The workers in the
cities derive nO'benefit from the
cheap produce on the farm, for

transportation rates and the middle -

man add to the cost of cheap farm
products, and the consumers, to
their own detriment, pay the bills.
In other words, the farmer is carry-
ing three or four parasites on his
back, in the shape of three or four
well-dressed, “well-fed and well-

housed men, who sport fine autos:

and front seats at the Gaiety.

, Take for an example of our mod-
-ern industrialism, Mr. Ford, of De-
' troit, and Mr. Ford is an exception
to the general run of men of the
capitalistic class. In spite‘ of the
fact that he pays his employees a
generous wage, compared to What
'some employers pay, yet the 75,000
men who make the autos for him
have turned over to Mr. Ford at the
end of say twenty years an‘ amount
today of over four hundred million
of dollars. He hires experts to
manage the business, -but as a phe-
nomenon in our social life, it can-
not be interpreted as being other
than a menace. ,

The Federal Reserve Bank, with
the‘power invested in a few men to
inflate our -currency at their own
discretion, is a fruitful cause of in-
' "justice. The farmers of the country
, have lost billion of money, in depre-
.. dated farm and produce values, “in
 the last "three years. U It has been
., politely scalled ‘fthe era of readjust-

'  siesta. but“ Ill.” 1’9"“ “1° e" M

telephone and telegraph '

. me to the quick.

the milk producers would organize
as they did recently in’ Minneapolis,
and sell their» milk in the city theme
selves, they might stand a chance
to get a whole melon, which would

be much better for all except some .

very fine parasites.

There is no solution for the prob-
lem of the Johns and Mollles save
through the method of co-operati .
We will have to become more scien-
tific in, our exchange of commodities
and in the production of them, in

larder that we may make a nearer

approach to' justice—E. H. Barrett,
Macomb County.

.“I WANT A LITTLE PERSONAL
FREEDOM"

F my case were exceptional, I could
I not write this letter. My pride
would prevent it. But I know that
in this community at least it is the
rule, not the exception and so for
once and hoping that somebody may
be benefltted by it, I am going to
speak out.

I was married when a very young
girl and came on a farm with my hus-
band. I knew nothing of farm life

but he had been raised on one and,

so I took it for granted that he knew
all about it. He began managing
everything and I, being very much in
love and feeling my ignorance so
keenly, laughingly acquiesced. Now,
I blame myself for that very acqui-
escence. I feel that if .I had asserted
myself then and demanded the man-
agement of my household affairs,
perhaps things would not be as they
are now. I felt then, however, that
he knew best but I resolved that I
Would leave no stone unturned to
learn. I studied everything I could
find about, farm work and house
work on a farm and I watched my
neighbors for pointers.

I learned rapidly and soon wished
to take over the management of the
house. But he held tight to the
rens and to this day, though we have
been married sixteen years, I have no
freedom even to do my own work
when and how I seeTflt. He buys
what he decides we need; I have no
say in it at all. I have studied the
needs of my children and it hurts me
to know what‘they ought to eat and
yet not be able to feed them right,
especially when I know it would be
cheaper than what we do eat.

It is just the same in the matter
of clothes. He buys what he wants
us to have when he wants us to have
it. ‘I go until I haven’t a decent
house—dress to wear 'to the front
door and finally he’ll decide I need
something and he’ll go and buy what
he wants me to have. I don’t get
to select one dress out of ten that I
have. And it’s just the same with
the children’s clothes. I have borne
seven children. I do all my own
work: washing, ironing, cooking,
scrubing, gardening, and I used to
go to the field. I haven't done
that for several years because my
strength will not permit. But with
all that, I never have five cents of my
own. My market eggs must buy
household necessities; he generally
sells them himself. If I have any
chickens to sell, he sells them and
takes the money or if he hands it to
me, he tells me what I must do with
it. I have canned a good deal for
market; that money goes the same
way. I do not expect him to feel as
I do over church work. But he need
not cut me off from church because
he doesn’t care for it. We have a
small church so Of course every mem-
ber needs to do his or her part. But
I never know until I begin to get
ready whether or not I will be per-
mitted to go or not. The distance is
too great to permit of my walking
especially as I always have a baby so
I'can only go when he will let me
have a way. I can’t pay anything
without begging for it and it cuts
It isn’t right and
it makes me feel like a pond slave.
To sum it .all up I have absolutely
nofreedom" of action. '

He considers himself a good hus-
band. ‘

cares for me in his own way. I
wish-j hesould realize that I'd be
it uh more to, my family if I

-‘ . “pee «L nd~~‘and,foot.

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 , , RESOLUTION ‘ 
ET“ u‘s resolve that in "the future
we will always exercise our vot-
ing privilege to the best of our
knowledge and ability, that we will
never be slackers in this particular,
that we will read, think and talk
matters of public interest over and
then go faithfully to the poles and
*castvour. vote for good government
and clean politics. Only then may
we be called 100 per cent Americans.
Only then may we deserve to be citi-
V, sens of the best country on the face
of the earth.

A A" FITTING new“: -

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A RELIGIOUS DUTY
HE National League of Women
Voters” campaign to teach v'ot-
ers that exercise of the franchise
‘ is a sacred duty and an obligation of
conscience has a new champion in
Dr? George Horton, poet, novelist,
and U. S. Council General at Smyrna,
who is spending a leave of absence
in Washington. He has written a
prayer for the use of voters and has
given it to the National League. A
prayer used by the Florida League
has been widely circulated and in
some cities was read out in churches
on the Sunday before election. The
League hopes that religious observ-
ance of the Sunday before election
will become a national custom. Dr.
Horton heartily favors the movement
to establish such a custom and ‘con-
tributes the prayer in the hope that
it will prove helpful. It is a brief

and simple prayer, for, says the au-_

thor, emergencies in which “you
have to pray” have taught him the
value of unadorned language and to-
the-point utterance. The prayer is
as follows:

0 God, help us to realize that this
vote which we are about to cast is
the greatest instrument for good or
ill that can be weilded by human
hands; that it can set the worthy,
however lowly, in high places and is
a thunderbolt to cast down tricksters
and tyrants. Help us to vote
thoughtfully, reverently, and prayer-
fully and with an eye single to the
common good. And especially, 0
God, to whom all minds are an open
book, save us from voting for any
selfish or dishonest candidate, or for
any unpatriotic measure. And this
we ask for Jesus’ sake, Amen.

WOMEN AS INVESTOR-S

N.ofiicial of The Union Trust Co.,
A of Detroit, said to me recently,

that statistics showed that 70%
of the insurance money paid to wid-
ows was totally lost thru unwise in—
vestment.

It is a sad commentary on the
average woman’s ability to invest
money wisely and the over confid-
ence she places in some promoters
word. A big interest rate is a temp-
tation and it is almost always true
that the larger the rate of interest
promised the greater the risk.

Many commercial stocks are good
but these stocks are influenced by
business conditions that no one can
with any certainty forsee and are al-
together beyond even the wisest and
emost honest management.

Mortgage bonds are safer than
stocks and money loaned on real
estate. is safe providing the loan is
not too large for the property, 60%
of the value of farm property is con-
sidered safe.

, Many stocks, that a business man,
who watches the market, could safe-
ly invest in would not be a good in-
vestment for the average woman.

The business woman has a better
chance to act wisely than the woman
'who has always lived a protected
life an._ had all business matters
managed for her, and money sufiic-

ient for her needs and those of her,

family handed to her. She has prob-
ably gone on in, a happy care—free
way until some calamity throws her
upon her own resources then she be-
comes the natural prey of the un-
scrupulus promoter.
. ,V This is one of the issues in which
this department hopes to be of use
to'women, if you write for advice
‘ the opinion you get will be from a
' source whoSe honesty and -high
-  standing is above question and whose
knowledge of financial matters is as
’ good as any in the land.

CORRESPONDENTS COLUMN
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_  ..-;.ta;_su,_d;'; its. .jvontlt.3".._sear..yqur
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i ‘ .Aflepaxlment for the W «u s

fldited by MRS. GRACE NELLIS JENN‘?‘

is often willing to give a fair price
for the mahogany. A grand piano,
not too large, makes a fine desk,
being both handsome and useful.
It needs an expertgcabinet maker
to handle such work. I have not
found any music house that will take
a piano for the wood.

Mrs. A. R.—All dresses are made
most simply this winter. Generally
hanging straight from the shoulder,

‘ ‘ NEW YEAR’S EVE

 

 

ENG out, wild bells, to the wild
sky, .
The flying cloud,
light,
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells and let him
die.

the frosty

Ring out the old, ring in the new;
' Ring, happy bells across the snow.
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the
true. ,

Ring out the grief that saps the
mind.
For those that here, we see no
more;
Ring out the fued of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

' Ring out a slowly dying cause,

And ancient forme of party strife;

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with a low girdle, which is worn well
down around the hips. Giirdles may
be of silk or of the goods if of the
latter they are not over three of four
inches in width. Small wooden
beads about the size of a pea are

much used as trimming around the'

neck and sleeves. Silk tassels may
‘be used on girdle ends. Sleeve and
girdle ends may be faced with a
color. The length from the floor
may be from five to seven inches.
A bit of hand stitching is good, as
the long, in and out stitch or the
chain stitch. The girdle made of
silk cord is very popular. Metal
girdles are much worn, particularly
by the young girls.

I think the prevailing styles are
most attractive when well carried

out. In the matter of comfortand
simple beauty they are modern con-
ceptions and adaptions of the gowns
worn in Ancient Greece, and at no
time have those gOWns been excelled
in their simple elegance, conforming
to the lines of the figure but giving
the utmost freedom Cf movement.
They are an expression of this ath-
letic and active age, when it is a dis-

grace not to be' busy if one ’has‘the‘

blessing of good health and that is

 

 

Ring in the nobler modes of life, ~
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the false pride in place and
blood,
The civic slander and the spite
Ring in the love of truth and right,
' Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of
gold; .
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of
peace. '

Ring in the valiant man and free.
The larger heart the kindlier
hand; ,
Ring out the darkness of the land,
RingintheChristthatistobe.

—A1fred Tennyson.

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more and more becoming a factor to
be controlled by ones self, by right
living and right thinking.

Attention! Ellsworth, Michigan ——-
Received 24 cents for two patterns
but no name given. Please send full
address and patterns will be for-
warded.

Please look your pattern orders
over well before mailing. So often
the size is not mentioned or the ad-
dress is not complete or the stamps
are forgotten and it all means con-
fusion to your editor and a delay
to you. Yes, there is just one Mrs.
Jenney busy on this page and re-
sponsible for all of it. I get the
pattern orders out the same day they

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Simplicity, Service and Style
Patterns 12 Cents
Address orders to Mrs. G. N. Jenney, Pattern Department, M. B. F.

FASHION BOOK NOTICE

Send 12c in silver or stamps for our up-to—date fall and winter 1922-1923
Book of Fashions, showing color plates, and containing 600 designs of

Ladies’, Misses’

and Children’s Patterns,

a concise and comprehensive

article on dressmaking, also some points for the needle (illustrating 30 of
the various, simple stiches) all valuable hints to the home dressmaker.

A Stylish Coat

4209. Black Vel-
vet and squirrel fur
are here portrayed.
This is a good model
for broad cloth. vel-
ours. and
cloakings. The col-
lar is convertible.
It may be turned up
high, or rolled low
with the fronts open.

The Pattern is cut
in 5 Sizes: 6, 8, 10,
‘12, and 14 years. ~A
10 ear size requires
2 -4 yards of 54
inch material.

other

A Smart Style For
The Growing Girl
4206. The girl who

likes something dif-

ferent will be pleas-
ed With the style
lines of this made].
,. The long waist and
side closing; are
youthfulgand becom-

Ing. Plaid suiting

in brown touch with

bands of red broad
cloth developed this
style.

- The Pattern is out

in 4 .Sizes: 8, 10.

12 and 14 years. A

12 year size requires

3 1—4 yards of 44

Inch material.

could have

blue homes un with

: , pining: .
oranges Or in black panne “velvet
pass ,stitcheryin green or white. ' M.

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in. arms or a

re

A Pretty Set For
aby's Wardrobe_
4224. Comprising

a pretty dress, a

daint cap and com-

forts. le shoes. The
dress may be made

of cambric, lon g

cloth. nainsook, or

voile. The cap of
lawn, silk or crepe,

\ or of embroidery

and the shoes of silk,

flannel, suede. satin
or kid.
To make the dress

2 1-4 yards are re-

quired. For the cap

3-8 yard and for the

Shoes 1-4 yard, of

material 16 inches

wide.

A Stylish Frock
With New Features
4 2 1 9., Broadcoth
or satin- could ,be
used for this model,
with braiding or em-
broidery for decora-
tion. T h e cascade
. dra p ery may be
omitted. The sleeve
V is a new close fitting
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ottmst. is? 1-5 an. 

it then there win. no. disappo‘mfi” 
m9“ caused by delay. Notify, m... _

if the pattern does, not arrive in a»

weeks time. Giving if possible the‘
date ’of your order. That, will save-
me much time but notify me any“
way. We will always make good on?
ever order. ' '
I you wisha pattern fer any pur-_ ‘
pose and do not find “(just writr
and ask me about it. We have
sometimes had patterns. drafted es--

.pecially for readers of the Business-

Farmer.

GERANIUMS WANTED

I was reading in the paper about
seed/ling geraniums. A lady said:
that she had bought a packetof seed.
from a seed house and that she had
some fine specimens. I had! fifty of
them and only two of them blos-'
somed and they are both single. I'
would like some double pink 01165,
White and scarlet; I am a great lov-
er of flowers. My name is .Mrs. Ed.-
Tubbs and my address is Appdegate,
Michigan. '

\

DILL PICKLES ‘
I saw a request in the Business1
Farmer for a recipe for Dill Pickles
and I offer the following: Wash
cucumbers and wipe dry, now place
layer each of horseradish root, dill,
bay leaves, cucumbers, few 'whole
cloves, one whole pepper, continue
the same until the crock is full, then
cover with 3 quarts Vinegar, 1 quart
water, and 1 cup salt, then place
over same, sack containing 5 cents
worth of white mustard seed, held
in place by close fitting plate.
The above has firoven satisfactory,
its keeping qualities also being good.
Mrs. J. T. Daniells.

Am sending my dill pickle recipe
in hopes that it may benefit Mrs. N.
L., Ellwell, Mich.

1 quart vinegar, 4 quarts water,
1 cup salt, piece of alum size "Of a
marble. Place layer of grape leaves,
pickles and dill until crock is full,
then pour over liquid. Alum and
salt must be dissolved. Weight the
pickles so juice will always be above-
them. Sometimes the top layer will
soften and there will be a scum on
top but this does not affect pickles»
on the bottom.

DARK CHOCOLATE CAKE

Here is a cake recipe worth trying-

2 cups brown sugar, 1,4,, cup coto,.
suet or lard, 2 eggs well beaten, 1,9
cup sour milk, 9 tablespoons hot
water, 2 teaspoons cocoa and 1 tea-
spoon soda, mix and put in cake, 2
cups flour, salt, 2 teaspoons baking
powder, lemon or vanilla. This is"
delicious.— .

W'ill some reader please send a
good recipe for nut bread?——Mrs.
Lloyd Eckhardt.

MAKE CANDY WITH CORN SYR/UP
Will you please print in the M. B.
F. or tell me where I can get the
directions for making candy with
corn syrup. I saw some in the pa-
per some time ago. I made delic-
ious candy, one was peanut brittle,
but I cannot find the paper now. I
would like to make some for Christ--
 Wm. W. "

WILD GRAPES FOR' WINE

Sometime ago I saw an item ‘ (in
the editorials, I think) stating that
wild grapes were no good for‘~making
grape juice. I wanted to write right
away and contradict the statement
but did not get at it. Here is my
way of fixing them: Gather and
clean the grapes then put them over

, the fire with just enough water to

keep them from burning and a tight
cover to keep in the steam. In. a

‘ few minutes they will soften so they

can be mashed with a potato masher.
Do so, then let them come to a boil
and strain the juice through a bag.
Re-heat and can without sugar. Now
this is not a bit good to the taste
but when ready to... use, to one cup-
ful of the juice, add a gallon of water
and about 11,5 to 2 cups of sugar.’
I forgot to state that the grapes
must be thoroughly rips or the flavor

is notyso good. f~» , V ~ ,
Here is ysnother hint for those
who can't-drink coffee. Roast some
d

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WANTS TO KNOW ADDRESS

I Would like to have the address
of the lady 'who makes sleeveless
sweaters, and- want to know how‘
muCh yarn it would take to make
size 48 in bust measure. Thanking
youé—Mrs.’A'xel Lindquist, R. 3, Le—
Roy, Michigan.

POEMS WANTED
Can you tell me where I can get
the poems, Brier Rose and Lasca?
They begin this way: /
‘ *‘Said Brier Rose’s mother tolthe
naughty Brier Rose,

Wha will become of you, my
chi d,

The Lord Almighty knows."

Lasca

“I want free life, I want fresh
air,

I sigh for the canter after the
cattle."

YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER

I have given the floor oil formula
before, in fact just a few weeks ago
but will gladly re—print it. Someone
else may have missed it also. 2-3
Parafin oil, 1-3 Gasoline, 1 table-
spoon full of turpentine to one quart
of the liquid. ,

This is splendid for cleaning and
polishing all woodwork. It will
keep your varnished floors looking
fine. 'I always use it on my dust
cloth. Just put a little on a white
dust cloth and do the dusting, it will
prove to you how eflicient it is. It
is something like putting a good
cold'cream on your face, it will sink
in and take 06 dust that soap and
water will not touch. If this is a
confession I will let it go at that.

, SCALE ON FERN
Mrs. L. H. S.-——There is no way
to rid a~ fern of the scale shown on ‘
the leaf you sent me. .I would d‘e—
stroy the fern and thus protect the
other plants from the insect.

YULETI‘DE SWEETS

At the Christmas season one's
thoughts naturally turn to candy-
making, especially now that the price
of sugar is “sliding.” When the
war was still being fought, every
loyal citizen gave up the making of
candy, and since the Armistice was
signed sugar has been so expensive
that it was only used when astolute

necessity demanded.

The place of candy in diet is un—
doubtedly at the end of a meal. If
eaten betWeen meals, the digestion
is forced to work when it should be
resting, and the appetite for the
meal is apt to be spoiled. Home
made Confections are more whole-
some than those made commercially,
as the ingredients are purer, and
are thus better for children. They
should on no‘account be persuaded
to do things with the promise of
candy as a bribe.

Our old friends, 'stufied dates, pea-
nut brittle and divinity fudge are
shown in the illustrations to remind
readers of recipes they have used
before and the following recipes may
give some new ideas:

White Creamy Fudge

" 3 cups of sugar, 1 tablespoon fat,

#4 cup condensed milk, 1,4 cup water,
2 cups shelled walnuts, 2 teaspoons
vanilla.

Place sugar, fat, milk and water
into-.a saucepan and boil until a soft
ball is formed in cold water. Re-
move from the fire, add vanilla and
let stand undisturbed until cold. .
Stir in the nuts and work with the
hands 16 to 20 minutes. Shape into
rolls and slice. Milk may be sub-
stituted for the condensed milk and
water, but the flavor is not as good.
While being worked in the hands,
this candy gets very soft, but will

finally~come off easily.

Lemon Taffy
3, cups sugar, M, teaspoon cream
of. tartar, 1' teaspoon lemon extract,
and .1 cup water. Put sugar and
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two inches in diameter, wrap in wax-
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Velvet Fudge
3 tablespoons fat, 2 tablespoons
chocolate or 2 teaspoon cocoa, 3 cups
sugar, 1 cup milk, 1 cup nuts. Put
the fat, chocolate, sugar and milk
into a saucepan and cook to the soft
ball stage when tried in cold water.
Do not stir. Remove from the fire
and set aside to cool. When cold,
add the nuts and work in the hands
15 or 20 minutes. Shape in long
rolls and slice.
Molasses Chips
2 cups brown sugar, 1,4 cup mo-
lasses 4 tablespoon butter, 54 tea—
,spoon salt, 1k cup water, 1 teaspoon
.vanilla. Dissolve the sugar in the
water; add butter, molasses .and
salt. Boil until a hard ball is form—
ed in cold water. Remove from fire,
add vanilla and pour into rough.
shaped pieces.

“THE HUNTED WOMAN”

(Continued from page 7)
“Get out of Tete Jaune to—night!”
he cried in a low, hissing voice that

quivered with excitement. “Hit the
trail before dawn! Strike into the‘
mountains with our outfit—far
enough back—and then wait!”
“Wait?”
“Yes—wait. If they follow us—
fight!"

Slowly Aldous held out a hand.
The old mountaineer’s met it.
Steadin they looked into each others
eyes.

"‘If it had been two days ago I
would have said yes. But to-night
—-it is impossible.”

The fingers that had tightened
about his own relaxed. Slowly a
droop came into MacDonald’s shoul-
ders. Disappointment, a look that
was almost despair settled in his
eyes. Seeing the change, Aldous
held the old hunter’s hand more
firmly

“That doesn’t mean we’re not
going to fight,” he said quickly.
“Only we’ve got to plan differently.
Sit down, Donald. Something has
been happening to me. And I’m
going to tell you about it.” 7

A little back from the fire they
seated themselves, afid Aldous told
Donald MacDonald about Joanne.

He began at the beginning, from
the moment his eyes first saw her
as she entered Quade’s place. He
left nothing out. He told how she
had come into his-life, and how he
intended to fight to keep her from I
going out of it. He told of his fears,
his hopes, the mystery of their com-
ing to Tete Jaune, and how Quade
had preceded them to plot the de-
struction of the woman he loved.
He described her as she had stood
that morning, like a radiant goddess
in the sun; and when he came to
that he leaned nearer, and said
softly: -

..“And when I saw her there, Don-
ald, with her hair streaming about
her like that, I thought of the time
you told me of that other woman-—
the woman of years and years ago——
and how you, Donald, used to look
upon her in the sun, and rejoice in
your possession. Her spirit has been
with you always. You have told me
how for nearly fifty years you have
followed it over these mountains.
and this woman means as much to
me. If she should die to-night her'

spirit would live with me in that
same way. You understand, Don-
ald. I can’t go into the mountains
to—night. God knows when can
go—now. But you ”

MacDonald had risen. He turned
his face to the black wall of the
forest. Aldous thought he saw a
Sudden quiver pass through: the

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m 'V n Neice's 1:" P

In“! line to let you know fl 

won the prize for describing ' 

how to' make Christmas gifts. “The
winner is Anna Madzelan, R 1, Man-
'ton, Michigan, and the prize a pack-
' age of holiday postcards. And Anna
was the only one to guess what the
“ prize was so she received two pack-
ages of cards.

, Many did not understand about the

prize oifer and sent stories believing ,

that I was offering a prize for the
best Christmas story instead of how
to make Christmas gifts so I am
going to award a prize to the best
story writer. I think the most inter-
esting story I have received is “Pab-
lo’s‘Christmas” by Ruth Vandebogart
of Augusta, Mich. She receives a
package of holiday cards.

I suppose many of you think “Why
does he give postcards when there
are other things that would be more
interesting and useful? If I won I
would rather have a book or pencil
box or something I could use every
day" You all remember that re-
cently I asked you to remember all
your friends this Christmas, although
you may only send them ,a Christmas
card. Well, I gave cards so that the
prize winner could do this.

When I began this letter I only
intended to write a few lines to tell
you about the prize winner but when
I get started on letters to you girls
and boys it seems there are so many
inan things to write about that
I run on and on. But I must say
good—bye. I wish you all a merry,
merry Christmas and a happy New
Year—UNCLE NED.

OUR GIRLS AND BOYS

Dear Uncle Ned—I read in the
November 11th issue about your
Christmas contest, and as I was busy
last week making cheap and simple
gifts I might give a few suggestions

to my cousins in this circle.
‘ The five gifts that I decided to
explain how to make are a
sewing box or case, a handkerchief
box. a calendar, a vanity case and
a pretty handkerchief.

The simple way to make a sewing
case is: You first get a box of suit—
able size and cover it up with cre—
tonne., crepe paper or wall paper is
good enough, then you line the in-
'- side with some nice soft cloth or pa-
per will do- Then make six parti-
fions in the box, leaving six compart-
ments, one for needles, one for pins,
another for buttons, another for
thread, one for thimble and another
for goods or material.

The handkerchief box is very
simple to make too. A match box
is suitable for that. Cover it with
crepe paper, wall paper or cretonne.
The inside is lined and then a little
bag is made, filled with sachet pow-.
der and given along with the 501:.

A calendar is suitable for the old-
at persons. It is made by getting
a clean white paper, and a piece of
card board about nine inches by four.
Cover this up with the white paper.
Theda nice design can be drawn on
the front of it. A winter scent or
something like that. You can buy
those little calendars for a penny.
Then paste this just under the pic-
ture. This makes a very nice gift
especially if the picture is drawn by
some daughter or son and given to
their parents.

A vanity case is very nice and
easy-to make too. All you have to
do is get a box, good size, sort of
oblong shape, cover with black satin
or most anything is suitable. Line
the inside with bright colors, par-
tition off little places for powder and
puff, hairpins, handkerchief, money
and miscellaneous articles. A look—
ing glass can be pasted on under side
of the cover. This is very nice for
young girls.

And the pretty handkerchiefs that.
can be made are nice for almost any
one. You can get a piece of lawn,
cut in suitable sizes. Hemstitching
makes it very pretty. A pretty de-
sign can be embroidered in one cor-
ner.
tive. .

Well I- think I will fill up the
"whole page prettysoon so I will close
hoping to win a prize. Also hope to
- hear from all the cousins. I remain,
' ."Your nieceé Miss Anna Madzelan, R.
.1’, Manton, Michigan.

P. S.——I think the prize you are
giving away is a pretty- story or a
package of cards—Anna. -

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‘and enjoy them very much.

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reading the letters in the‘M. B. F.
I read
about your contest in the paper, so
I thought I would try and win a
Christmas present. I think the pres-
ent will be a pencil.

Pablo’s Christmas

Quite 'a. long time ago there was
a little Mexican boy named Pablo.
He was tall for his age, his hair
was black, and his eyes dark. Pab-
lo was a very bright little fellow.
His clothes were patched, he had
never remembered of getting a nice
new suit of clothes. Christmas was
drawing near. Oh how he wished
he could have some money to buy his
dear little sister and mother and
grandmother a Christmas present,
but he could not get any money, so
what was Pablo to do. His father
had been killed in a coal mine.

Pablo Went and asked them what
they wanted for Christmas, Grand-
mother said she had seen a picture
of a little boy and (love, she would

dearly love to have that picture. His ,_

mother wanted a music box, she
wanted so much to hear someone
sing while_she done her work, his
little sister wanted a fairy book,

Next door to Pablo was an Indian
woman who said she wOuld teach
Pablo to sing. So when Christmas
morning came Pablo stood in the
doorway of his grandmother’s home
with a dove. She said iti was a great
deal better than the painted one she
saw. Then to his mother he sang
and how she was pleased to think
her son could sing so well. To his
little" sister he told the stories
he read at school and that was her
fairy book. That night Pablo went
to bed thinking he was the happiest
boy that ever.1ived. After a while
he heard someone walking on the
porch, he got up and to his surprise
there was a brand new suit of clothes
that his little friends had given him.
Pablo was a very much surprised
boy that Christmas eve.

I will close, from your neice.-——
Ruth Vandebogart, R 2, Augusta,
Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned—May I join your
merry circle? We take the M. B. F.,
and enjoy it very much.

Does any of the neice’s or neph-
ew’s know Helen Steel’s address?

'She and I corresponded with each

other for about a year, then I did
not hear from her any'more. I am
making a number 0 Christmas pres-
ents. I am 13 ye rs old and have
blue eyes, brown hair, and am 63
inches tall, and weigh 117 pounds.
I think that “Curiosity Carmella"
contained a very good lesson and I

think that everybody who reads it

ought to learn a lesson from it. I
am in the eighth grade at school and
I have a very good teacher, his name
is Mr. George Robbins. I think the

present that Uncle Ned is going. to

give away is a good story book. Am
I right Uncle ,Ned? Wishing Uncle
Ned and all the neice’s and nephew's
a merry Christmas, will close, hoping
to hear from some cousins. I re-
main as even—Miss Eva Hall, R. 3,
Springport, Michigan.

A Happy Christmas

Jack McMaster was a rich boy.
His father was very rich and Jack
had everything that he could wish
for. One day Jack generously
thought that he would get some of
the poor boys of his school some nice
presents far he had a kind heart.
He said to his father “I thought I
would get some of the poor children
in the school some Christmas pres-
ents.” To which his father made

the reply, “I have no objections if"~

you earn the money yourself.” This
hurt'Jack’s feelings very much but
he resolved to do it just the same.
He found many small jobs as unload-
ing a load of coal, 75 cents. His
father gave him 25 cents for carry-
ing an invitation to his friend. Mr.
Smith gave him 50 cents for carry-
ing some cabbage to their house. He
received a $1.50 for leading a cow
a half mile from the city to the
country. At-last he went to the
store to see what he could buy with
the $3.00. He bought a pocket knife,
a sled, a mouth organ and many
other things for the boys. That
Christmas he was happier than he
had ever been- before for he had
helped to make other people happy.
Violet E. Grandy, Evart, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned—I just thought
that I would write to you. I am a
farmer’s daughter 12 years of age.
I've been on the farm two years and
would hate to go back to the city.

On Saturday I always sit by a win-
dow and watch the mailman for the
M. B. F, I enjoy reading the Child-
ren’s Hour. I am going to try my
luck at a Christmas story.

A Russian Santa Claus

In Russia the Santa Claus is dif-
ferent from the American. There a
man dresses up very funny and then
he goes to the childrens homes on
Christmas day or the day before.
But he has no sleigh full of toys or
the tiny reindeer. He takes a strong
whip with him. When he gets to
the ‘boys’ and girls’ homes he walks
right in and the children must read
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and girl lived. .-Wh,en  got to “the
house he met the mother of these
children. She took him into the
house and showed him" where the
children were. He went over to them.
and when the boy, who was sitting
behind the stove saw him, he picked
«up a club and hit old Santa can
on the nosaand smashed it. Be-
sides he broke a piece oil! of his
mother’s kitchen stove. Poor Santa
went home with a smashed nose.
“It's the last time I’ll be Santa," he
said. Let some one else get their
nose mashed.‘ v

I hope this story is all right.
a true story,
mother. _
and I did too. - I have three brothers
and one sister. I'm in the 7th grade
~Well I think I’d better leave‘ off. I
think the Christmas gift is a school
bag with an assortment of pencils,
tablets, etc. I wish some of the
children would write to me.—Lydia
Sounart, R. 1, Milford, Michigan.

told to me by my

Dear "Uncle Ned—«This is the first
time I have written to you. But I
thought I would write a little story.
to try my luck. I am 12 years old
and in the sixth grade at school. I
have five brothers and no sisters. «I
guess I had better start my story.

The Time That Santa Got Lost

One time Santa started out on his
annual round on Christmas eve. A1-
ter he had gone a long way and had
seen no house, he reached for his
compass to see where he was, but
alas,—he had forgotten to bring it
along. “What shall I do,” thought
Santa. The only thing to do is to
drive straight on, so on he went.
And soon he came to a tall gate.
“This is queer," thought Santa
“I never happened to come across
this before." So he rode on, and
again he came to a gate, he came to
it three times and was just wonder-
ing what to do when, lo——he saw
some smoke curling up among the
hills, his heart was filled with thank-
fulness. He got his task completed
for another year, and never again
did he forget his compass. I will
close wishing you a merry Christmas.-
I am your loving little neice.—Thel-
1113 M. Shine, R. 1, Cadillac, Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned—I. am a farmer
girl, 14 years old and in the 10th
grade at school. I have two sisters
whose names are Laura and Pauline.
Laura is in the same class with me
at school and Pauline'goes to the
country school, is in the 4th grade.
I was beginning to be afraid of there
being a “green Christmas” but it
was quite cold today and it snowed,
so I have my hopes. I suppose you
cousins are all looking forward to
Christmas. I am. Do any of you
know anything about a girl whose
name is Georgia Brown? The last
I knew of her she lived in Globeville,
Michigan. She was my twin, her
birthday being the same day, she be-
ing the same age, and. in the same
grade. If any of you know anything
about where she is please let me
know. Your‘ neice, Ina B. Lake,
Homer, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned—How are you
these days? I live four and one half
miles south and east of Sherwood
and west of/Union City. It is very
very lonesome where I live. I live
on a farm of 120 acres. I go to the
Smith school, we have a basketball
team. Well I will close with hopes
that I will get many letters from the,

~boys and girls. Signing off at 8:00

P. M.——Richard GaW, Sherwood.

‘Michigan. ‘ I

—I bet you have a radioin your

home. Haven’t you?—-—Uncle Ned.
_.__.

Dear Uncle Ned—May I join your
merry circle? I am 5 feet 7 inches

< tall and weigh 140 pounds, I have

dark brown hair and blue eyes, and
am, in theseventh grade at schOol.
Who can guess my age? Who guess-
es my age correct will receive a long
letter from are. I» have three and'
one half milestogo’ to school. 011%
nearest neighbors x'live 1 mile from

_ I wish
of thewhoys’ and girls' would
wr , ,bme.

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AID . FARE, * "BOARD AND
  ONLY EXPENSES .
‘MI have been requested ’by the
master 'of our Grange to write to you
.to‘get some information regarding
your offer to give a demonstration
__of radio for actual expense. We
do not know whether our grange
could stand the expense to ‘White
Cloud if we meet. you .there and pro-
vvide you with board and lodging
while there? My husband is a sub-
scriber to the“ Business Farmer and
I saw ‘your- ofler and brought it
up‘ before the grange, hence. this
letter.—.Mrs. H. S., White Cloud.
 _stated in], our last issue the
only cost will be actual traveling
expenses and board and lodging for
a night. By traveling expenses we
mean railroad fare from Benzie
county to your nearest station, or
if you live near this County you can
go and get the editor and take him
home by auto. This would make
the traveling expenses only cost of
gasoline, wear and tear on the auto
and time spent by a man calling for
and taking the editor back to his
home, the amount depending upon
the distance you live from the edi-
tor’s home. We already have re-
quests frem several different parts
of the state, from granges, gleaner
organizations, churches, etc. and as
soon as we have dates arranged we
will publish them In this depart-
ment We will have this all arranged
by our January. 6th issue. In the
vmeantime if you would like to have
the editor come to your community
for an evening do not hesitate but
write at once or someone else will
secure the date you would like.

THREE BIG FARM ORGANIZA-
TIONS AGREE
(Continued from page 3.)
bring pressure to bear on the Legis-
lature to enact a gasoline tax. They
want the revenue turned to highway
maintenance and bond retirement.

The. farmer organizations, it was
indicated, will favor appropriations
for the Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege, but are likely to oppose large
sums for the University of Michigan.
A resolution was offered suggesting
that the mill tax for the university
be cut one mill.

- An effort will be made by the
Grangers and their allies to have
trust Companies put on the same
taxation basis as banks. They also
want building and loan associations
reasonably taxed, are». against tax-
exempt bonds, and would like a ton-
nage tax on railroad cars and ships
to fatten the state treasury and re-
duce the property tax.

The outstanding sentiment of the
convention was that the farmer is
overtaxed, that he has not been get-
ting a fair share in state tax matters,
and that every possible means to pro-

' duce revenue for the state from other
. sources than real property taxation
must be encouraged.

The Grange went definitely on re-
cord against capital punishmentand
in favor of continuing rigid prohibi-
tion enforcement. It also let it be
known that it is against extrava-
gance in public life, including auto-
mobile for public officials at public
expense.

American Farm Bureau Meet

Chicago, Dec. 11 to 14—0utstand-
ing attention to co-operative market-
ing problems 'and a policy of
strengthening and encouraging co-
operative commodity marketing or-
ganizations were made the policy
of the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eratidn according to resolutions
adopted by the delegates to the
fourthannual meeting of the organ-
ization held at Chicago, December

' committee.

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capoifltiye stand on transportation

andfimmigration problems as they

afleet agriculture. - The ship subsidy
was rejected. Congress was asked
to' grant "adequate financial support
to, the U.'S. Department of Agri-
culture and the Federation again
voice‘d its objection to transferal of
any bureaus of the department of
agriculture to other government de-
partments.

O. E. Bradfute of Xenia, Ohio,
vice-president of the A. F. B. F.,
was unanimously elected president
for the coming year. He succeeds
J. R. Howard, who served three
years. Mr. Howard stood fast to
his previously announced intentions
of retiring at the close of his pres—
ent term.

W. Walker of Willows, California,
was elected vice-president. Em-
ployment of a secretary and treas-
urer rests with the national execu-
tive committee. John W. COVer-
dale of Iowa is .the present secre-
tary. Charles W. Gunnells, treas-
urer, has resigned. Several changes
were made in the national executive
In the Central region,
wherein Michigan lamest interested,
J. F. Reed of Minnesota replaced
Ralph Snyder of Kansas and W. H.
Setle of Indiana replaced John G.
Brown of Indiana.

Transportation resolutions in-
cluded such items as demands for
further reduction of freight rates
until they shall be brought into.
proper working relation to the sell—
ing price of‘farm crops. a demand
on the railroads to provide equip—
ment suflicient to prevent the con—
gestion of freight traffic which
makes impossible the proper distri-
bution of farm crops. State and
national government were called up—
on for highway improvement and~
improvement of commercially feasi-
ble inland waterways. Opening of
the Great Lakes—St. Lawrence water—
way was stressed.

The U. S. Senate was asked for
prompt passage of the Voight anti-
filled mil‘k bill. Previous resolu-
tions in favor of 'l‘ruth-in-fabrics
legislation and acceptance of the
Henry Ford offer for completion and
operation of the Muscle Shoals Ni-
trates projects were asked.

The bureau went on record as in
favor of immediate and thorough in—
vestigation by the Tariff Commis-
sion of tariff rates on all imports
which farmers buy and an immediate
reduction of excessive rates to such
lower levels as shall only equal the
differences in production here and
abroad.

The Michigan State Farm Bureau

was represented by nine member"

of its state executive committee and
its secretary. They took an import—
Mich—
igan made the outstanding report of
Farm Bureau accomplishments, par—
ticularly in the matter of successful
co—operative marketing agencies de—
veloped by the Michigan State Farm
Bureau.

JOHN HOBART MAKES A NEW
YEAR’S RESOLUTION

(Continued form page 8.)
haven’t been drinking any of that
spoiled cider, have you?”

Her husband laughed—‘loudly and
long, setting echoes to ringing thru
the house, and three young people
to wondering.

And then John Hobart confessed.

“I’ve been an awful brute, honey,”
he said afterward, “but I never knew
it until I overheard the girls. I’ve
been thinking I was a. successful
farmer, but all I’ve been is a bar-
barian. But I’ll make amends, by
heck!"

And the light in his wife’s eyes
would have rewarded any one.

“TRUTH ABOUT HENRY FORD”

(Continued from page 11.)
threatened to have Mr. Ford arrest-
ed for causing a runaway. Years
after this same Detroiter told of the
incident with much amusement. He
had called Mr. Ford “3. public nuis-
ance" for driving an automobile in
the street. ’

Long afterward Mr. Ford saw in
a. French magazine a picture of- a
car which a Frenchman had invented
and which was called an "automo-
bile.” This was ’the first time he
.- er heard the word that everyone

, knows today.
_  . '- settlemorssne.“

«m :Bureau also took

 f White-or-ngg

in Calumet a Vital” Element"
Most Baking Powders Lacki,

Don’t. use a leavener that does not
contain white—of-egg. When you do
you take chances—you  the risk
of spodmg your  -

CALUMET  

W BAKING POWDER?

contains a small amount of White-Of-egg. This
makes it pOSSlble . for representatives of the
company to test it frequently for leavening
strength—right on the dealer’s counter. Nothing
but absolutely fresh stock is permitted to remain
on the dealers’ shelves. It must always be up
to the high Calumet standard.

Remember thewhite-of-
egg 1n Calumet protects
the . success of your
bakings. ‘ It is the eco-
lnomical positive bake-
day aid and its sale is
21/2 times as much as that
of any other brand.
A pound can of Calumet
contains full 16 ounces.
Some baking powder:
come in 12 ounce instead
of 16 ounce cans. Be
sure you get a pound
when you want it.

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005%. list the date of any live stock, sic in
Michigan. I! you are considering a 1 is ad-
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for you. Address. Live Stock Editor. M. B
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STOCK AUCTIONEERS

WAFFLE & HOFFMAN

OUR SPECIALTY:

 SPOTTFD POLANDS AND

 DL ROC JERSEYS

We are experienced salesmen, Expert Judges and
moiiiéhigeiifirc‘és. Write today for good dates and

 i ll es. either of us.
our temlill UL\IllllgFl’LE Goldwater, Mich.

M.
JOHN HOFFMAN, Hudson, Mich.

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LIVE

U-Need-A Practical Competent Auctioneer
to insure your next sale. being a success_
Employ the one Auctioneer who can fill
the bill at a price in keeping With prevailing
n itions. ‘
co satisfaction GUARANTEED or NO (.HARG-n
ES MADE. Terms $50.00 and actual ex-
penses per sale. The same price and service

to everyone. in selling Polands, Durocs, and

I ecialize
Chestzfs. Let me reserve a 1922 date for you.
Dallas City,

rite or wire.
WHARRY A. ECKHARDT.

JOHII P. HUTTOII

LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEER
ADVANCE DATES SOLICITED.
ADDRESS 113 W. LAPEER 8T.
LANSING, MICH.

 CATTLE 

HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN

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LB. DAM—HERE'S : BgLL
ba sin the up Q1110, .Ol'i.
Nerf. 3rd, 1921 hght service. mce
marked. more w to than black. . _
Ilia dam, a great grand—daughter of King Segis
and Pontiac Korndyke. was 2nd. Prize Junior 4
ed in both 7 and 30 day divisions
ichfilgan in 1918; her records being 30.7
53.10 lbs. milk in 7. days and 124.
79 90 lbs. milk in .80 d3
Hie . labyason of Popthe
lander. a 35.43 lb. Michigan champion. ' .
lb. dam of his sire is also 2nd ’m.Ml..Chlga_'n
the Sonic 4 17 day d1vrs'ion in
L o. b.
. E photo on
r uest. LB . AD
eq 180 N. Wells Street, Chicago, Ill_

8 LB. SIRE—40
a t will

EXCEPTIONAL FINE BULL CALF BORN
Dec. 12th. The Dam is the best cow We hue and
has A. R. . reoor Sire Romeo King Segre
Pontiac Komdyke—son of the $30,000 bull.
The first $2500 gets him—«don’t linger. Entire

h d ire frrm T. ..
er SCHAFFER BROS., R. 4, Oxford, Mich.

_-_.__._..___
OCT. CLEARANCE SALE. WE ARE OFFERING
20 heifers and bulls. Heavy producing dams. Sire
has 7 dams averaging neary 1.100 lbs. on yearly
Free from ’1‘. ., $50.00 and up.
WOLVERINE DAIRY FARM
Prop.-—H. G. Booth Giadwin,

FOR SALE-HOLSTEIN CALF, 8
weeks old. Dani 28.91 lbs. sire 33 lbs,
with 1,100 lb. year reco Price $300.00 or
will excha. e for air table female

congx BROS.. Fowlervllie, Mich.

 

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FOR SALE—REG. HOLSTEIN BULLS FROM
. 0. dams read for service.
WM. cnirriis, R. E, Howell, Mich.

snon'rnonivs'

Richland Shorthorns

We have tw0 splendid white yearling bulls by
Imp. Newton Champion, also"eome young cow-
uid heifers that we are offering for sale. W:ite
tor particular: to v

C. H. Prescott & Sons

Herd at Office at
Prescott, Mich. Tawas City, Mich.

SHORTHORNS AND POLAND CHINAS——NOTH-
ing for sale at present. Are holding Ior public sale
Nov. 15th. Write for catalogues.

SONLEY pROS., st. Louis, Mich.

A POLLED SHORTHORN HERD BULL 2
years old Scotch Orengeblossom Family. Fit to
head any herd. Younger ones for sale.

L. C. KELLY & SON, Plymouth. Mich.

GLADWIN COUNTY SHORTHORN BREEDERS
otl'er the best in beef and milk strains. All ages.
both sexes. W. S. HUBER. Sec’y. Giadwln, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DURHAMS

FOR SALE—FIVE .REGISTERED DURHAM
bulls from ten months. to one year old I have
also a few fanale Uni-hams for lilo.

HENRY J. LYHOH, laydile, Tuecola 00., Mich.

 

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the farms of our readers. Our advertising rare

mxen agate lines to the column Inch
or paid on or before the 10th

R D AND WE WILL PUT IT IN TYPE

Address all tters

,M’r. CLEMENS, MICH.

GUERNSEYS

 

FOR SALE—REGISTERED GUERNSEY HEIF-
ere at reasonable prices, also choice bull calves of
May Rose breeding.

H. w. WIGMAN, Lansing. Mich.. Box 52.

SECURE YOUR NEXT BULL FROM
with both A. R. Sire and Dam. I have whatoiIrInEr
want. I also offer a few choice femiiles.

A. M. SMITH. Lake City, Mich.

GUERNSEY BlIL 3”“ Heifer Yearling

Heifer. Heifer calf Best
of breeding. From ood producers. Pri ' '
Write G. A. WIGEIS'I'. Waterviiet. Mich?e new;

 

 

 

 

AYRSIIIRES

‘ FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE ‘
buds and bull calves, heifers and heifer calves
Also some. choice cows.

FINDLAY BROS... R 5. Mich.

 

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BROWN SW'ISS

 

FOR SALE—~REGISTERED BROWN
bull Grit No 8919 born Sept. 14, 19218.“(I’%?i
13g:  as a seéiiolrifcalf at the State Fair.
, cows n '
Herd federal socgedi P: em Of equal ment.
ERWIN R. MOORE, Osseo, Mlch., R. 3_

 

 

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BUYING, FEEDING
AND SELLING FAT

CATTLE

at present. is too much like

GAMBLING

All experience proves Baby-Beef growing

THE BETTER WAY

GROW HEREFORD BABY REEVES
V

Bu: 1Contractors are anteed top prices by
edr'otl Packing Co. ommission, yardage, Feed
ugly .81 other expenses, except transportation——
0 fl,taere cut out. Our plan opens the way to
pro t‘lble beef-making, by Michigan Farmers. In
no 0 erlway can as much money per cow be
gamed, With so little labor. If you have no beef-
regtuog’ws,mxe hzge thelél {fin hand or listed.
. I p ii an e ccn' . ‘
wire or write. Right NOW. "need home.

T. F. B. SOTHAM & SONS

(Cattle Business Established 18
Phone 250 Saint Olalgs
—FOR

BIVEBVIEW HEREFORD Bulls,

few females. WM. 0. DICKEN, Smyrna,

Michigan

 

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also
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RED POLLED
—A few, choice bulls

   and heifers for sale.

ROYSTAN STOCK FARM
Cottle, R. R. 1. West Branch
—-Botli sex Oxford

   :inii Tunis Rains.
orkshire Hogs. E. 8. CARR. Homer, Mich.
FOR SALE——OUR RED POLLED HERD BULL.

Cos Elle Laddie. and a f ' ~
Pl no: BRO'8.. Eaton Raplilasvflfllllclfir mnes‘

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JERSEYS

REG. JERSEYS POGIS 99th OF H.

MaJesty breeding. Young stock for 8311':- {15.3
fully accredited b State and Federal Government.
Writtaunvr véi-iit or prices and description.

WILBUR, BELDING, Mich.
  #YEARLING JERSEY BULLS
J. E

Siiopie 19th Torme t i
. MORRIS. Famingzon.niv(i)iroht.medmg'

DUROCS

DUROC JERSEYS

NELLS LITTER: SIRED BY LIVN
PRIDE {arrowed July 24 these igsl cgrisii'il‘t’ubz
b’eat. Neil has farrowed 59 pin four litters
IRODUCTION is the'big word 01 today, '
get a boar out of this litter, and start on pro—
duction. LAPHAM FARMS, Pinciiney, Mich.
Our new herd boar.

SEIISATIOII MARS Sired b
wine Show

Reserve rand champion National

192 . I e are taking orders for gilts and sows

for spring furrow bred to this wonderful boar.
SCHAFFER BROS., Route 4, Oxford, Mich.

 

 

 

DUROC JERSEY BOARS READY FOR -
vice. trod by Fannie’s Joe Orion 825 25:111.
Will chi 0. 0. D. Write us now.

H. E. LIVERMORE a. SON, Romeo. Mich.

 

DUROCS—POPULAR BLOOD LINES—6
{fur wants to OCEANA CO. DUR C JERESIEIY,
00 A88 N. V. Lidgard Sec. Heaps . Michigan
ofl'ers choicer weanling

   Duroc pigs. either

sex. Priced ve reasonable. Write us.
INWO D BROS.. Romeo, Mich.

 

 

 

ANGUS

\
WE HAVE SOME FINE YOUNG ANGUS BULLS
from International ‘Grand Champion Stock at
r'emnable prices. E. H. KERR ‘ 00.. Addison,

 

SALE—JIX YOUNG ABERDEEN-ANGUS
and heifers. Well bred. good individuals,

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Price 58' 0 F. . .
GEO.0(H(ATHAWAY A‘ SON,‘OYid. ~lloh.

HILL CREST DUROCS, PERRIHTON HIGH
We are twenifi sows and h n gilt's
to a son of GR AT 0 ION SENSA 0N, ear-
ggg, @2118 and fall boars. NEWTON BLANK

I'm miles stral ht v
Gratlot 00.. Mich. 9 “mm of M'ddluoll.

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FOR SALE—FOUR CHOICE DUROO Jl
beers from Agriculture College herd. Juslmrligyhst
for December service. Prices reasons. le.
HUGH REID, Clifford. Mich.

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Bull for e at a reasonable 

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BETTER QUALITY LAMBS MEANS
INCREASED CONSUMPTION

MPROVE-MENT in the quality of ”

live stock is undoubtedly one of

the most practicable and profit—
able ways of increasing meat con-
sumption. No branch of the~live
stock industry offers more promising
possibilities than the production of
sheep and lambs. The annual con-
sumption of mutton and lamb in the
United States is only about six
pounds per capita, or about 4 per
cent of the total consumption of all
meat.

The head sheep buyers of one of
the larger packers is author-
ity for the statement that the con-
sumption of “native” lambs (which
means lambs produced East and
South of the Missouri River) could
be increased 550 per cent “on qual—
ity alone”, if the producers of these
lambs could be induced to castrate
their ram lambs when they are
young. This, he states, would elim-
inate the large number of cull and
medium natives we get, as the ram
lambs are after two or three months
of age worry the ewe lambs in the
flock, as well as themselves, and
prevent the entire flock from fatten-
ing.

The same authority states that
certain sections of the country mar-
ket as high as 85 per cent of their
lambs undocked and uncastrated.

_Every one who has observed the

large percentage of inferior lambs
coming to large central markets will
agree that the income of sheep pro-
ducers could be greatly increased by
the adoption of these modern prac—
tices in sheep management.

There is much evidence to indicate
that a shortage of sheep and lambs
is impending, and the sheep raisers
can ill afford to neglect these simple
operations that have such an impor—
tant relation to profits.

'The profit-making possibilities of
the small farm flock have never been
fully appreciated in this country.

New Zealand, with nearly twice
the area of Illinois, has over half as
many sheep as the entire United
States. This indicates the opportun-
ity for developing the industry in
this country, by a Substantial in-
crease in the number and quality
of our farm flocks.

BIG-TYPE HOGS FAVORITES,
SAY NEW U._ S. BULLETIN
HERE is no “best” breed of swine

but within the different breeds

the “big—type" pig is now find-
ing most favor in nearly all parts of
the country, says the United States
Department of Agriculture in a re—
cent Farmers’ Bulletin, 1267 Breeds
of Swine, by E. Z. Russell. The
bulletin, which is well illustrated
with photographs of specimens of all
the leading breeds of some minor

ones. gives a brief history of the ori-

gin of all these breeds now found in
the United States, descriptions of
their characteristics, and names of
the record associations, with names
and addresses of the secretaries.

The unusual classification under
lard and bacon types is given. The
breeds included under the first are
the Duroc—Jersey, Poland China,
Chester White, Berkshire, Hamp—
shire, and Spotted Poland China.
The Tamworth and the Yorkshire
are the only breeds of the bacon type
grown to any extent in this country
and the only ones concluded.

Thebig-types animals, says the
author, are found in all breeds, but
are more numerous in some breeds
than in others. Owing to an increas-
ed demand for cured hams and bac‘on
of high quality, the type of hog be-
comes a matter of much importance.
Hams weighing from 12 to 16 pounds
are more likely to cure with high
quality ’and flavor than lighter or
heavier pieces. Neither hams nor
bacon should carry excessive quanti-
ties of fa. . but should be “well mar-
beled.” he opportunity for produc-
ing meat of this character is greater
in the quickly grown big-type than in
the distinctly small-type. The most
profitable has is the one that can
be ~ grown, to the . requiredkmerket

"is-mu ' "time ii?

3.. .

. amazoo County, Michigan.

bred and well-fed animals/of the
right type will make the market
weight in 7 to 10 months. The 7
market weight is generally from 176
to.225 pounds:

Copies of the bulletin may be ob-
tained free by adressing the depart-
ment at Washington, D. C.

_ VETERINARY 
DEPARTMENT

FISTULA
I have a horse that has a fistula.
Can anything be done Jor it? Is‘ an
operation effective?——A Reader, Kal-

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—A surgical operation, properly per-
formed should perfect a cure, how—
ever, it depends a great deal upon
the location. In conjunction with
the operation I would strengly re-
commend the use of vaccine injec-
tions. Employ a good surgeon and
you will be ahead in the long run.

COW NEARLY BLIND

I have a cow that went blind about
one month ago. I first noticed that
she would go around the pasture
field with her head down and I
finally discovered that she was prac-
tically blind. I consulted a veterin-
ary and he pronounced it, contagious
abthalmia, and left some eye medi-
cine for the treatment, but she did
not improve and she seemed to be in
pain when being milked, and in fact
she nearly quit giving milk entirely.

' I again called up the veterinary, and

told him the circumstances. He said
for me to put her in a pen by herself
and fatten her, as I had lost her, as
for the use of a cow. Now she keeps
turning in circles. When she walks,
she never walks straight. She can
see a little but very little. She is
very thin, but she eats, drinks and
chews her cud. Now, I "want your
opinion about this cow and just what
you think I ought to do with her.—
R. D., Yale, Michigan.

—It would appear that the veterin-
arian had given you some sound ad—
vice. Evidently the cow’s sight has
been destroyed as the result of ab-
cess or’ ulcer formation and the fact
that the animal keeps turning in
circles would indicate that pressure
at least is being exerted upon the
brain. If this is true, unless the
brain involvement can be relieved
which is not probable, the animal
will die in a. short time.———.B J. Kill-
ham, State Veterinarian.

SELLING cow SUFFERING FROM
_, LUMP-JAW ‘

Would like to know if it is unlaw-
ful to sell for beef a. cow that has
lump-jaw.——-Farmer, Montcalm Co.

—Thls disease is not ordinarily con-
sidered as contagious but it is in-
fectious. Section 10, of Act 181 of
the Public Acts of 1919, as amended, '
states in part, in referring to animals
afflicted with contagious, infectious
or communicable diseases, “Nor
shall any person. sell, ship, drive,
trade or give away any such diseased
animal, any animal which has been
exposed to centagion or infection or
move or drive any domestic animal
in violation of any direction, rule,
regulation or order establishing or
regulating any quarantine.” In mak-
ing a disposition of an animal afflict-
ed with lump-jaw, it would be advis-
able to ship to some point where an
efficient inspection is maintained.
The animal should be shipped sub—
ject to post mortem inspection and
the examination would reveal
whether or not the carcass was fit
for foodi—B. J. Killham, State Vet-
erinarian.

COWS HAVE BUNCHES ON BACKS-

My cows have bunches on their
backs with, a small opening in them.
Would you please "'tell me what this
is and the ca.use?—Reader, Oakland
County, Michigan.

-—-I would say that these b'unches are
caused by a. parasite, the Hypoderma
lienatum. The only treatment is to
squeeze out the worms and disinfect
 I openingséwlth a~ mild coal tar-

  _Mi".fl’  Hu‘ ‘,:~

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1;. g the exception, of one, the
"Michigan Agricultural College
r  ‘ won more prizes at the Inter-
,“ national Live Stock Show at Chi-
r oago‘, than any other state institution
,having entries at the show. Never
: before has a Michigan exhibitor re-
.‘;_ceived as many rewards.
 The college won many firsts in
stile-classes entered, one of the most
, minent being that which fell to
'Jup'iter, head of the Belgian herd
“at the college, who was shown. in
nine, ofdur year old Belgian stallion
‘. Other first included: Year-
'iling Belgian marefwether lambs in
.hOth Oxford and ,Hampshire sheep
classes, yearling Rainboullete ewe
(Grand Champion), Berkshire hog
in the 450-550 pound class (Reserve
Champion), and Tamworth hogs in
both 3‘50-t50,and the 450—550
pound classes, the latter being
' Grand Champion of the breed. The
total winnings of the college were
was follows: -
Cattle
Aberdeen-Angus: Senior yearling,
7th place, 26 shown in this class;

’ ~- junior yearling, 3rd, 9 shown; herd,

5th, 10 shown.
Hereford: Junior yearling,
29 shown; herd, 5th, 9 shown.
Grades and Crossbreds: Senior
calf, 2nd, 26 shown.

Swine

Poland China: 350-450 lb. bar-
row,r7th; pen 250—350 lbs. 4th; pen,
350-450 lbs: 3rd; pen of five 7th.

DuIVJc Jersey: Pen 250—350 lbs.
6th; pen of five 6th.

Hampshire: 150-250 lb. barrow
I 6th; pen 150-250 lbs. 4th.

Chester White: 150-250 lb. bar-
row 6th; 350-450 lb. barrow 3rd;
pen 150-250 lbs. 4th.

Berkshire: 350~450 lb. barrow
2nd; 350—450 lb. barrow 6th; 450-
550 lb. barrow 1st; pen 350-450 lbs.
2nd; Reserve Champion. .

Tamworth: 150-250 lb. barro
2nd; 2540—350vlb. barrow 3rd; 350-
‘ 4.50 lb. barrow 1st; 350-450 lb. bar-
row 2nd; 350-450 lb.’ barrow 3rd;
450-550 lb. barrow lst; pen 350-
450.1bs. 1st; pen of five 1st;

, Champion Barrow; Champion Pen.
‘ Sheep
Wether lamb

6th,

Shropshire:
24 shown.
Hampshire:

3rd,

Yearling wether 3rd,

IV: . llakshown; yearling wether 4th, 11

shown; wether lamb lst, ‘10 shown;
pep of 3 wethers 2nd, 3 shown.
Oxford Down: Yearling wether
3rd, 9 shown; wether lam-b 1st, 6
shown; wether lamb 2nd, 6 shown;
wether lamb 3rd, 6 shown; pen of
8 wethers 1st. "

Southdown: Wether lamb 3rd, 22
shown. '

Cotswold: Yearling wether . 3rd
'4 shown; wether lamb 4th, 12
shown ; pen 'of 3 wethers 3rd.

Rambenlette: Aged ram 4th, 4
shown; yearling ram 5th, 7 shown;
yearling ewe, 1st, 16 shown; flock
3rd, 4 shown; pen of 3 ram lambs
4th; pen of 3 ewe lambs 4th;
Champion Ewe.

Horses

Belgians: Stallion 4—5 yrs. let, 6
shown; mare 3-4 yrs. 4th, 7 shown;
mare 2-3 yrs, 3rd, 6 shown; mare
1-2 yrs let, 9 shown; Filly Futurity
1st; Res. Jr. Champion Mare.

Percherons: Stallions 1—2 yrs.
_ 4th; stallion futurity 4th; mare
. 4—5 yrs. 3rd, 8 shown; mare 3-4 yrs.
3rd, 9 shown.
_ Clydesdale: stallion 2—3 yrs. 5th,
7 shown; stallion foal 4th, 8 shown;
Stallion Futurity 4th.

Carcass Classes
\ Hogs: 300—400 lbs. 1st, Chester
White; 300-400 lbs. 2nd, Berkshire;
300—400 lbs. 3rd, Berkshire.

lSHORTHORN DEMAND GOOD
The two White bulls we have ad-
vertised in your paper have been
sold. Remington & Graham of Caro,
Mich., buying the white bull, Meteor
7. _and. Peter Zimermman & Son, of
‘ Traverse City, buying Richmond
‘Choice. '\
,~  We have just shipped the show
“cattle vhome’from the International
show at Chicago. Were quite suc-
 this year and won the fol-
doting  First on {Junior year-
’ lieutenant! on, two-(year old
~ f ’ '  best pair of bulls by

fourth . on: three- bulls

: used. ,, , .

w

 seasoan show herd were sired “
'by Sterling Supreme.- It was a

great misfortune that we had to lose"
this bull last March. ‘

The demand for good Shorthorns
is very keen and we look for a good
trade through the winter and spring.
C. H. Prescott & Sons, Tawas City,
Michigan. , ~ V

HOLD FIRST FAT STOCK SHO‘V
ORTY stock raisers of the south-
ern part" of Michigan exhibited
the choice of their herds at De-
troit’s first fat stock show conducted
last week, Monday to Wednesday
evening, at the Michigan Central
Stock Yards by the Live Stock Asso-
ciation. ‘The show was conducted
in the interest of the production of
better beef and prizes to the aggre-
gation of $1,100 were given away.
No entry fee was charged and prizes
were awarded for health conditions
of the car lots regardless of strain
or breed. Exhibits totaled 400
head of cattle, 1,000 lambs and 1,000
hogs.- At the judging on Tuesday
the following awards were made:
Cattle, carload lots—First prem—
ium, August and Ezra Lesser, Dex-
ter, Mich.; Aberdeen Angus steers;
second, R. Binder & Co., Battle
Creek, Mich, Herefords; third George
B. Conley, Marshall, Mich., Here—
fords; fourth, C. A. Beamer, Bliss—
field, Mich., Herefords. -
Cattle, single head-—First, W. E.
Scripps, Detroit, Aberdeen Angus
steer; second, R. Binder & Co., Bat-
tle Creek, Mich., Durham steer;
third, R. Binder & Co., Hereford
steer; fourth, August and Ezra Les-
ser, Aberdeen Angus yearling steer.
Hogs—First, J. .L. Underwood,
Britten, Mich., carload of Chester
Whites; second, Owosso Sugar Co.,
Alica, Mich., Duroc—Jerseys; third,
point exhibit of A. J. Spittler, Her—
man Gross and F. R. Clements,
Saline, Mich., Poland China and
Chester Whites. The prize winners
were sold at .auction on Wednesday,
and the first prize steer brought 80
cents per pound, the highest price
ever paid in Michigan for a steer.

SIXTH WEEK OF THE INTERNA-
TIONAL EGG LAYING CONTEST
HE high pen for the week of
December 12 comes in the Wy—
andotte class when the Ever—
green Poultry Farm completes the
Week with a production of 42 eggs.
In the Barred Rock class, Denni-
son’s pen still leads but with a de—
creased margin. Brummers' still
holds second place but Christophel’s

pen exceeds Kent’s pen by one egg. '

In the Wyandotte class the Ever-
green Poultry Farm has the lead ,of
7 eggs over Sink‘s pen who still
holds second place. Hollis’s pen
takes third place withva total pro-
duction of 138. Murphy’s pen drops
to fourth place with a total of 135
eggs.

The first three places in the An-
cona class remain the same, being
held by Van Ralte, Degroot and
Beckwith respectively.

The Red pens remain unchanged
in their standings.

This week Shaw’s pen is again
holding first place with a produc-

tion of 235 eggs which is 10 eggs“'

over the production of Hanson’s
pen. Taylor’s pen has dropped
down to third place with a produc-
tion of 222 eggs. Thompson’s and
Hollywood remain the same.

The honor at the close of the first
month for the individual bird goss
to the Barred Rock class when one
bird completes the month with a
total of 27 eggs to her credit. A
pen sister completes the month with
a total of 24 eggs; also one in an-
other shares second honor with 24
eggs during the month.

In our pen of White Rocks one
bird has a total of 22 eggs to her
credit.

Of the nine White Wyan-
dotte pens one bird completes the
month with a total of 23 eggs. Three
others have a total of 22 eggs each
for the month. ,

In the Rhode Islan Red 'pens one
bird finishes the men h with a total
of 23'eggs. In the White Leghorn
class four individuals complete the
month with a total oil 23 eggs.

Artificial lights are now being
on r-the contest birds, having

,V lightening" otgthe days
_, bring preductinn up dur-
ing-the next few weeks. - -

The “birds at the contest are re-
ceiving“ a standard ration, having
a scratch feed of equal parts cracked
corn and wheat. It is fed in the
litter twice a day, a light feed in
the morning and all they will clean
up at the evening feed. The mash
consists of the following consti-
tuents:

Corn, 30 parts; oats, 20 parts;
bran, 20 parts; middlings, 20 parts;
meat scrap, 20 parts.

The birds are supplier with grit,
shell and charcoal in hoppers and
are given two feeds a day of sprout-
ed oats for a green feed. Cats can
be readily sprouted Where a warm
basement or room is available. The
grain is soaked for 24 hours; allow-
ed to drain for 24 and it is then
spread out on trays. to a depth of 2
inches and fed when the sprouts
are about three quarters of an inch
in Tength.

“AMERICAN BRED SHORT-
HORNS”—Wlfl( NOT?

M enclosing check for renewal
A of my paper which I enjoy

reading on account of the fear-
less stand you take on any question
regardless of who it hits. Long
may you continue on that line. You
have my best wishes for succes.

As I am a breeder of shorthorn
cattle I would like to see a discus-
sion or views of other breeders on
a few questions of breeding. I do
not wish to find any fault or cast
any shadow on our great families
of shorthorn cattle as we have some
great Shorthorns in this state as well

' as, other states, but ,I am what you"
might call a full fleged American."
I believe we could beat the world

'if some of our big men as breeders/1v.”

,would have the nerve to head a big -.
herd with this hea‘ding‘: “American,

Bred Shorthorns.” I belive we have
men big enough and cattle good K
enough to beat the world. What

do you think?—-—-Peter Kunz, Barry
County.

FRUIT and ORCHAR

EDITED BY FRANK D. WELLS

 

NOTES AND OOMNEENTS

The San Jose scale is not alto-
gether a thing of the past, but it
has been robbed of its terrors. Spray-
ing has helped some, but the little
insect friends have done many times
more. However, the scale did some
good while it lasted. It taught
fruit growers the importance of at-
tending to business and it put\ the
careless, indifferent man out of the
game.

Nurserymen are preparing for an
unusually large amount of business
this winter. So many fruit tree.
growers have given up that the
amount of stock is small. Orders
should be placed early. Apples are
liable to be scarce next spring, so
are cherries.

The diseases that have been kill-
ing the raspberries have been worse
than was supposed at first. A short—
age in this fruit looks like a certain-
ity. Now is the time to plant, if
it is possible to get plants free
from disease.

 

 

 

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KALAMAZOO TANK & SILO C0.

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WHY DREAD
CALVING ?

Take no chances with your valu-
able cows at this serious period.
There's no need of it. If the cow's
health is fully up to par, nature will
do the rest. Two weeks before calv-
ing and about three weeks after.
feed the cow 3. tablespoonful of Kow—
Kare morning and evening. Her
health will be assured and a. strong
calf result.

Kow—Kare acts directly on the
genital and digestive organs, making
them strong and active. Disease has
no chance to get a foothold.

Kow-Kare is a sure, safe remedy
for the ailments of milking cows,
Barrenness, A b o 1' ti o n, Retained
Afterbirth, Scours, Milk Fever, etc.

Sold by feed deal-
ers, general stores.

Wists—$1 25 and

 

 

dealer is not sup-

plied. 32-psge book,

‘IHE HOME COW MCIOR."

tree on reuuest.

DAIRY ASSOCIATION
CO.. INC.

Lyndonville, Vt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rheumatism

A Remarkable Home Treatment
Given by One Who Had It

In the year 1893 I was attacked by Mar
culsr and Sub-Acute Rheumatism. I suffered as

those who are thus afflicted know for over
I tried remedy after remedy, but
such relief as I obtained was only temporary.
Finally, I found a treatment that cured me
completely and such a pitiful condition has
never returned. I‘llave given it to a number who
were terribly afflicted, even bedridden, some
them sevonty to eighty years old,
results were the same as in my own case.

I want every sufferer from any form of mu-
oulnr and subacute (swelling at the joints)
rheumatism to try the great value of m —
roved "Home Treatment” for its remar ble

ling power. Don’t send a cent- simply m

ur name and address, and] will send it free
0 try. After you have used it. and it has prov-

_ _ be that long-looked for mean! of
getting rid of such forms of rheumatism. you
may send the price of It, One Dollar, but un-
derstand I do not want your money unless you
are periectly satisfied to send it Isn‘t that fair?
Why suffer any longer when relief is thus of-
fered you free. Don’t delay. Write today.

MARK H. JACKSON

265J Durston Bldg., Syracuse, N. I.
Mr: Jackson is responsible. Above statement true.

 

 

Raise Silver Foxes
Most Profitable Livestock.
We sell outrigil or fir monthly

payment; within your reach.
Write NOW.

SILVERPLUME FOXES
Box 8-31, Keeseuille, N. Y,

 

 

 

 

HAMI’SHIRES

A OHRNGE TO GET SOME REAL HAMP-
shires. Boar pigs, sired by Gen. Pershing Again.
Gilt Edge Tipton, 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—BPRING BOARS AID BRED
3111: from ‘25 cows to select from.~ Place your
order now or you may be to late. 10th out.
JOHN W. SNYDER. R. 4. 81. Johns. itch.

 

 

 

HGMPSHIRE BRED GILTS,
I0“ $80—$50: Guarantee safe
cared free. . F. Luckhard. Bach.

 

 

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5: use a. I. o. slum: eons nun
’ v I n to
.  .Eafisii'h. ' N  more. Inch.

 

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SHEEP

 

REGISTERED SHROBSHIRE VEARLING

ram and ram lambs of exceptional quality and

size. Priced to sell. Flock lished 890.
c. LEMEN. Dexter, Mich.

—10 RE \
 Choice oiggnfimfwss'

DAN BROOHER. Evan. R. 4, Mlch.

‘PETS’IOGK

 

 

 

 

FOR SALE—4 VEARLINO

Shetlend Ponies. Reg.-

8 ewe lambs. A bargain.‘ H R
A SONG. Honda". R. 8, Rich.

 

PUREIRED soot-cu 'coulz ’
white or the beautiful black ad... “um #33,
heel—Private.

:10 us the . . , I -
summons-r It: NIL...“ In.
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Advertisements inserted under
this heading at 30eper agate line,
per issue. Commercial Baby Chick
adVertlsements 45c per agate line.
Write out what you~have to offer
and send it in. “’0 will put it in
type. send proof and quote rates by
return mail. Adar-'03s The Michigan
Business Farmer, Advertising De—
partment, Mt. Clemens. Michigan.

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CHICKS

THAT GROW, LAY AND PAY
Barron English White Leg-
horns, Brown Leghorns and
Anconas.

PURCHASE THIS YEAR’S CROP

— OF .CHICKS from tested la ers headed

m Ilarge vigorous 260 to 2 8 I’edlgreed
aes.

CUSTOMERS REPORT BIG PROFITS

with these wonderful layers. :erte today
for our large Illustrated catalogue. It
tells all about them, It's free.
WYNGARDEN HATCHER).
Box B, Zecland, Mich.

 

 

LAYING PULLETS

A limited number of laying Whitc'lieghorn
Pullets; these I’ullets are in prime condition and
will make you a good investment for eggs this
winter and in the spring.

pen of very fine Anoonas
Buff Orpingtons. ‘ ‘

White Leghorn Cockerels, English breeding;
also White Rock Uockerels.

Let us quote you on these birds.

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION
202 Chase Building, Kalamazoo,

PULLETS, HEIIS AIID GOGKEBELS

S. C. White Leghorns and S. U. and It. .0. Black
Minoroas. Must make room before cold weather.
About ready to lay.

LAPHAM FARMS,
RHODE ISLAND WHITES. THOROUGH-

and puilets for sue.
HARTGERINK. Zeeland, Mich.

LEGHORNS

LEGHORNS

S. C. Buff Leghorn Ilens, I’uilets and (lockerels.
Hens and pullets $2.50 each; cockerels $3.00 to
$5.00 each. Show birds a matter of correspond-

ence. LAPHAM FARMS, Plnckney, Mich.

  May hatched s. 0. White’ Leg-

horn Pullets also Rose and Single
Comb Rhode Island I'ullets. VALL Y
RIDGE POULTRY FARM, Bloomingdale, Mich.

BROWN LEGHORN

and one pen of

Mich.

Plnckney, Mich.

S. O.
bred cockerels
JNO. A.

 

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FOR SALiE—IF' k'cl H t l
0(ckerels, t is lg nu . " lose are ex ra gout .
{2.00 each, one or more. E. HIMEBAUGH,

62 Marshall St... Goldwater, Mich.
——-SINGLE COMB. Early

  Ilntched Cockereis.
J W. WEBSTER, Bath. Michigan ‘
PEDIGREED ENGLISH W. L COOKERELS,

t 300 at record Price 52.00.
275 OJOHN . MORGAN, YRS, Mich;

 

 

RHODE ISLAND REDS

RHODE ISLAND 51:00, 'romr-Klnsfls'rnmh
Both combs. Stock for sale after September mh.
WM. H. FROHM, New Baltimore, Mich R. 1.

SINGLE COMB REDS, DARK RICH COLORED
cockerels $2.50 each. lleims strum
LOUIS MORRIS, Mt. Morris, Mich., R. 1.

SINGLE COMB 'R. I. RED COCKERELS
April hatch $2. 0, \Vhitinkers Strain. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Hampton a Son. R. 1, Bangor, Mich.

I

WHITI'AKER’S R. l. REDS, 200 SINGLE

wmb red pullets at $2.50 to 5.00 each. Also

both Rose and Single Comb coo and cockerels.

write for celatog. Interlakes Farm, Box 4,
Lawrence. Mich.

PLYMOUTH ROCK

 

 

 

 

  

FOR BEST RESULTS HIENS NEED
, OUTDOOR EXERCISE
OOD results in egg production
cannot be obtained when the
flock ‘is confined during the
entire year, according to tests that
have been made by the United‘States
Department of Agriculture. The
Department has kept ,a pen of 50
Rhode Island Red pullets and one
of 50 White Leghorn pullets eon-
fined in poultry houses throughout
the year, giving them a good vari-
ety of feed, including sprouted oats,
and alfalfa meal, the later being
used in the mash. These trials have
extended over three years and. the
result has always been the same-—
lower egg production and excessive
mortality.

The Leghorns stood the confine—
ment much better than the Rhode
island Reds, but even in this Case
the production was too low to be
profitable. In the different years
the pens averaged‘98 to 109 eggs
per hen while the other hens on the
farm, given good yards or free
range, produced from 125 to 160
eggs.

The hens that were confined to
the house produced well during the
.winter months, but in the spring
the yield was only fair and during
the summer production almost ceas—
ed. Many poultrymen keep hens
used for egg production confined
during the winter months, and this
practice is satisfactory if the hens
are not used to breeding. Hens
kept as breeding stock should be
given as much freedom as possible
and it is the policy of the Depart-
ment to let their hens out every
day regardless of the weather.

In these flocks that were kept
penned up during the entire year
there was a death rate of almost
50 per cent in the case of the Rhode
Island Reds and ‘25 per cent in the
Leghorn flock. Most of this loss

 

 

BUFF BOOK GOGKEHELSALIZ’xtl'y‘stX:

l the result of years of careful breeding.
.‘i°"é‘.°%fipp 1. sons. Box M. eamuo, ln‘d.

THOMPSON STRAIN BARRED ROCKS—DARK

lets $1.50. Light and
pulMRS. FRED KLOMP,

WYANDOTTES

 

St. Charles, Mich.

 

 

dark cookerels $3.00.-

 

-———1 50 WHITE WYANDOTTE

  Cockerels and pullets. All from
my prize winning stock of very best American
White Wyandottes laying strain. They mm for

 

. The will win for you.
me  w. CASE, Rochester, Michigan
WHITE WYANDOTTES—MARTIN STRAIN
Michigan State Fair winners, 1922. Cockereis

ullets. $3 to $7.
WA NE CHIPMAN. Washington, Mich, Route 2.

 

FOR SALE—HIGH GRADE WHITE WYAN.
‘dotte and It. 0. Rhode Island lied 0)C.I(I“.l('ll‘i-
’ 3.00 each until January 1.

3. w. HEIMBACH. n. 1, Yam Rapids-

fi ANOONAS

.fi i
g, o, AAIOONA gocKERdELs Hfchgl5E30 FROM

ve es, or or eary . , i.
Talielé’grcfi. s ITH, Rapid cnv. lVllch., nfaczl.

 

 

 

 

'TURKEYS—DUCKS—GEESE

RITE HOLLAND TURKEYS. OF QUALITY
m, 1000. trio $30.00. Tou-
u... .99... as. o, .00. mq.$2o.oo.
mgr direct. from this ad to msure filling order,

' . Vbnt N . 1 stoc.
'sL'hEunowI-II'rooms? Byron Center, Mich.
 m ml” 1"“ 'wnmo'houjnd hm S .a‘ h ‘
‘ 5" tide of wblg'edinz-to ofler of orthern E033
‘. k. Tom :10 to :12. Hens _ to :9. Birds
- be well,..cr¥ed..and.,mtistactwn cunts

m'y..iygg.,,.,nm,  out: cm.

 

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Mich“

occured during the summer and
fall months. Normal mortality in
good—sized flocks kept in yards or
given free range averages about 10
per cent, according to the Depart-
ment’s experience. The mortality
is usually higher with generaLpur-
pose breeds than with the Leghorns.

There is no definite amount of
yard space that must be supplied
for hens, but the larger the yard
the better. More hens can be kept
on a certain space of light, sandy
soil t an on a heavy soil because
the light soil is more easily cleansed
by rain and sunshine. When only
small space is available it is ad-
visable to use the double-yard sys—
tem so that one yard can be used in
growing a crop while the other is
used for the poultry. Alternating
the use of these two yards for the
hens keeps the soil in good condition
and does not endanger the health of
the hens.

DO NOT FEED WHOLE RYE TO
/ TURKEYS

‘ HE writer has before him a. sit-
T uation regarding a flock of
turkeys, that under his
observation recently. These turkeys
were feeding where a large crop of
rye has been ,thrashed and the tur-
eys were allowed to range freely
about the thrashing ground. The
owned oi! these tur‘keys owned a
fine herd of high class registered
Berkshire swine and they too were
permitted to pasture around this rye
thraslfing lot. The turkeys were
first noticed to go wrong, first be-
coming lame and would fall over
and laid around for several days
and finallt’ die. Not one of ‘the flock
escaped. To make a bad matter
worSe, they were a high class flock
of exhibition turkeys that were ma-
turing for exhibition and breeding
turkeys. ,

Very soon the “ hogs were,,'-acting
very much thesame way- Some of
the sows had good litters of pigs,
some almost. ready to .farrow: and
other guts of the finest quality. The
sows mothering pigs soon failed-on
their flow of milk, the pigs could
be found laying around over the
lot, weak and ~- unable--te get-up,~=in

 

' we they rare. as  W 411°

 

  
 

could not walk, and some of the fine
gilts died. A veterinarian was con-
s .lted and he pronounced it as us-
ual. genuine hog'cholera. I exam-
ined both the hogs and turkeys and
I found that the hogs were suffering
with poison rye ergot, and. the turk-
eys were ‘sufi’ereing from the same
poison, but It was acting on their
liver. Rye is the most dangerous
feed that could be given to brood
rows or turkeys. It may not injure
any other fowls or animals, but I
know from my own personal ex-
perience, that feeding rye on two oc-
casions cost us thousands of dollars,
infore we knew what was the
trouble. This convinced me that
ignorance was the most costly dis—
ease of all. Now, since this trouble
with rye, has just come under my
observation ‘again recently, I am
positive that whole grain rye will
kill turkeys, as rapidly as any pois-
on you could give the-m and if fed
to brood sows it will cause loss of
pigs, death to the sows and efiect
the sows so severely that it would
taka from two to three years for
them to get over the trouble if they
ever did,‘

The way we handled our turkeys,
when we found out what was the
matter, was using a remedy an old
pioneer turkey grower gave me for
any form of liver trouble in turkeys.
This same remedy is great for the
so-called “black—head” in turkeys.
Go to your druggist and procure
crystals of copperas and sprinkle
it in the drinking water. Confine the
turkeys for a few days until they
get their system well charged with
the medicine and compel them to
drink this water and no other. This
was his remedy for rye poison in
hogs, except he sprinkled the cop-
peras in ashes and salt. The hogs
will eat the ashes and copperas
freely and there is nothing that will
relieve them as quickly.

However, it’s much better to not
allow turkey or brood sows to feed
on rye, as it is sure death to the
pigs and frequently to the sows.
However, rye shorts or ground rye
make a fine feed for fattening mar-
ket hogs, but being full of ergot,
it is unfit for brood sowsand it will
not do for turkeys for any purpose.
Only two years ago, we purchased
some commercial wheat shorts of
a. feed merchant here in our town
and sloped our brood sows. Very
soon we noticed, one going wrong, in
a day or two we found she had lost
hem pigs. In having her shorts
analized, we found they contained
1-6 per cent rye bran, so that ac-
counted for the trouble we noticed
approaching in our herd. We never
buy shorts any more except from the
flour mil] here, that is guaranteeed
to be pure wheat shorts—J. 0.
Chem).

MARKINGS on RHODE ISLAND
RED

Please advise me regarding the
markings of a purebred Rhode Island
Red—H. M., Mt. Clemens, Mich.

—The proper shade of red that is
demanded-by poultry judges is very
difficult to describe. Rhode Island
Reds vary in color from cherry to a
deep mahogany brown. At the pres-
ent time the mahogany color of Red
is the most popular. It is easier to
eliminate the slate or dark under
color if this shade of surface color
is used in selecting birds for breed-
ing purposes. 'The lighter colored
reds that may be classified as the
cherry, usually show too great a 'vari-
ation in shade of color over various
sections of the body. .For instance,
the hackle or neck feathers usually
run light red, the back'a shade dark-
er, "and the saddle or back feathers
will take on a different shade of red.
The standard Exhibition Red should
be of the same shade of red in every
section. ' TheI under color should 3.1-

so be a deeper red avoiding the light

or dark under color. .

‘ 1 The primary feathers of the wings

have the upper webred In Color and

theilower web' black. The’maintall

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‘quickly double his profits by dou-
bling his egg yield through the re-

markable discovery of M. B. Smith,-

a. Kansas City chemist. '

W 0 r kin 3
along entirely
original lines

in winter than
in summer.
and perfected
a. formula that
turns
into layers and profit makers.
Within five or six days'thls discovery,
which is called Ditto Egg Tablets, will
reJuvenate your fleck. Your hens will
go strutting and cackling about with red
combs and full of life and pep. Every

 

nest will yield an egg 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 raisers testify
to the value of Mr. Smith's products. ‘

Although differentfrom anything you
ever heard of, Ditto Egg Tablets are
easdy..admmistered by simply dropping
in drinking water. ‘ '

So confident is Mr. Smith yOu can

double or triple your egg, yield. that he
offers to send 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 cest only $1
on this introductory offer, otherwise,
nothing.

I Send no moneijust yourr'name and
address to M. B. Smith, 1261 Coca Cola.
Building, Kansas City, M0. The two 81
packages will be mailed immediately.

When they arrive, pay the postman
only $1 and postage. Use the tablets 10
days. If you are not getting more eggs
or are not satisfied for any reason, simply
return unused tablets and your money
will _be returned immediately without
question. A big Kansas City bank guar-
antees the reliability of this offer. Write
today before this introductory offer is
Withdrawn. as you can sell one package
to a friend and thus get your own free.

 

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shipment, for prices. etc. address
R. W. ROBOTHAM, Hesperla. Mloh.

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Michigan‘s best strains. large healthy birdss.
Belmont. Mich.

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DETROIT POULTRY SHOW LARG-

EST EVER HELD IN STATE

N Sunday evening of this week

the largest poultry show ever

held in Michigan came to a
close. It was staged in the Light
Guard Armory under the name of
Detroit National roultry Exhibit and
Rabbit Show and opened on Wed-
nesday of. last week. Breeders from
seven states gathered at this show
and displayed 2,000 chickens and
rabbits, the finest ever shown in
this part of the-country.

In the poultry section Rhode

Island Reds and Wyandottes led the
field in number exhibited.
V The quality of entries this year
was well above the average. Some
idea of the competition may be
gained from the fact that it took
the judge more than an hour to
name the winner in the Single Comb
Rhode Island Red class.

Ewald Scheiwe, of Detroit, exhib-
iting for the first time, showed Buff
Wyandottes. "He took two firms,
four seconds, a third and a fifth.
This is considered a record for a
first time exhibitor. One of his
birds. the cockerel,

FARM ME

HOW TO STORE EXPLOSIVES
LL explosives, including caps and
fuse, dumorite, picric acid, or
dynamite, that are to be kept
over winter, should recieve the care»
necessary to keep them in good con—
dition for use next spring. All of
the explosives mentipned will be just
as good next spring as they are now

‘ if proper storage conditions are pro-

, cidents should be taken.

vided. Cold, freezing temperatures
will not do them any harm provided
they are dry when placed in storage.

Water is practically the only en:
emy of modern ,explosives. For all
practical purposes the explosives
available to land clearers these days
will keep a long, long time if they
are protected from moisture at all
times. If they have been kept dry
up to this time and are stored over
winter in a dry, well ventilated build.—
ing, they will be as good a year from

,now as they are today.

It is very treacherous to store ex—
plcsives in a basement, :1. root collar.
or any similar damp place. Dyna-
mites do not have to come in direct
contact with water to become damp-
ened; they will absorb moisture from
the air and the effect is just the same
as if water is mixed with them.
That is the reason the building in
which they are stored shOuld be well
ventilated. '

Stored explosives are dangerous.
Every precaution against possible ac-
If a farm-
er must store explosives over winter,
he Should observe the following
dont’s: '

Don't store explosives and blast-

.l-ing caps in the same building.

offing.

Don’t store explosives or caps
where children or irresponsible per-
sons can get at them.

Don't/cover explosives with old
dirty rags, straw, etc.

Don’t store caps “under the eaves”
of a building; they may be disturbed
and fall with disastrous results.

Don’t fall to remember that ex-
plosives will deteriorate if they are
not stored in a dry, well ventilated
building where snow and rain cannot
blow in on them.

WINTER MONTHS OFFER BAR—
GAIN COUNTER TO BUILDERS
ORE Americans are flocking to
,the‘ building bargain counter
this fall than at any time since
the warvhalte'd home construction.
Contractors and architects, usually
the first to feel the approaches of
cold weather with a, slump in busi-
ness, re‘por  steadily increased _ vol-
ume of i quiries"and city officials
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,An' educational display by Prof.
M. 'E.;Dickson, formerly of Mich-
igan Agricultural College, Poultry

 

Department, and the University of

Wisconsin, included culling demon-
strations as well as on the correct
methods of feeding the Winter egg
production. He explained the latest
scientific methods as determined by
him at experimental stations. A
senic display of manufactured
feeds en-route from mill to con-
sumer by use of electric train load-
ed with minature bags of feed was
about the most interesting'feature
of the show.

POULTRY NOTES

Selection of 3 Breed

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Leghorns, Minorcas,
Blue Andalusians, Cam-pines
Anconas are egg breeds.

Plymouth Rocks, “'yandottes, Or-
pingtons, Javas, Dominiques, Rhode
Island Reds, and Cornish are gen-
eral purpose breeds.

Brahmas,’ Cochins and Langshans
are meat breeds.

Size is sacrificed when we breed
for egg production. One of the gen—
eral purpose breeds is best for the
farmer because he usually desires
both meat and eggs.

The strain is more important
than the breed. Get stock always
from some one who has developed
a strain bred to lay. The trap-nest
is the only that.

CH_ANICS

and masons, have long known the
economic advantage of building in
the “slack season.” For several
years the industry has waged a steady
campaign to bring this fact before
the public and spread the congested
activity of a few months over the
entire year.

When the greater portion of build—
ing is crowded into seven months,
prices reach their highest in the
spring and summer when the demand
crowds supply. The same situation

obtains in the labor phase of the,

work.

By building in the fall and as far
as possible into the winter ,this
demand is more nearly proportioned
among 12 months of the year; mills
and factories are able to maintain a
steadier flow of production; raw
material is stabilized; workmen are
not shifting, jobs are often, and the
contractor and architect are able to
keep their basic organizations intact,
thus decreasing overhead expenses
and assuring more satisfactory and
efficient work.

Men in the industry see in this
autumn’s increased building, the
prospect of a broadening of the old
short season and a consequent stab—
ilization of building costs, in esti—
mating that the certain success of
the home owners who are building
this winter will prompt many others
to take the step in succeeding sea-
sons.

The manufacturers of cement par-
ticularly have waged steady cam—
paigns on this one subject, in per-
fecting methods of using their pro-
duct 3in cold weather to the best ad—
vantage, and to bring a realization
of the savings to be affected before
the public.

That such campagns have borne
fruit is evidenced in reports for pro—
posed construction from many ,cities
which show a greater volume of all
classes of building on the books for

- fall and winter than eyer before.

 

The sigh on the little weather-beaten
shon read: “Five miles to Hiilsdale. If
you can't ‘read, ask the blacksmith.”

After the tourists had forgotten the
laugh provoking sign board and jolted a
mile or so further along, t e silent, sol—
emn-faced man from His Majesty’s Navy
broke upon the silence: “I have it!
Bah Jove! Rippin', too! Suppose the beg-
gar wasn’t in i"—-Judge.

Young Lady: "W'ere you pleased with
the new school, little boy?"

Little Boy: “Naw! They made me
Wash me face an’ when I went home de
dorg bit me 'cause he didn’t know me."

 

' Leslie had always bee very much
afraid of dogs. One day. aster, a struggle
to get to pass a large (19' onflthe» corner,
his mother scolded him '
Ba fear. - -'

of. d“malfuvvas his reply, “ ou'd!  afraid,
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Feed

hold still.
her hop around.

eat.

just get eggs—eggs.

an industrious hen.

breakfast.

100 hens, the lZ-Ib. pkg.
60 hens, the 5-113. pkg.

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See to it that there is song and
cackle, scratCh and action, going on in

That’s when the eggs come.

Dr. ‘ H ex: Poultry

PAN-A-CE-A

See them get busy. It gives hens pep.

Nux Vomica is what does it——that greatest
of all nerve tonics. A Pan-a—ce-a hen can’t
It’s her good feeling that makes

Pan-a-ce-a has Quassia in it to make hens
hungry. Great combination! One makes them
eat—the other helps them digest what they

No dormant egg organs when that com-
bination gets to work on a hen’s system.

A Pan-a-ce-‘a hen is always a hungry hen—-
She gets off the roost
winter mornings, ready to scratch for her

Tell your.dea1er how many hens you have.
There’s a right-size package for every flock.
200 hens, the 25-lb. pail
500 hens, the 100-“). drum

Ashland, O.

  
 
  
  

 
     
    
      
   
     
     
      
      
    
    
   
   
      
       
     

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Advances in prices for all grains
have been in gratifying feature of
the developments in trade and in-
dustry the past two weeks. Farmers
are getting g00d prices for the new
crop of corn, which is being market—
ed freely, as well as much better
‘ prices for their remaining stocks of
wheat, corn and rye. The increase
in aggregate buying power of the
producers is great in actual money,
and the effect of the stronger mar-
kets has been welcome from a senti-
mental standpoint as well. The im-
proved agricultural conditions, as
reflected in the higher markets, has
been. coupled with further improve-
ment in general industry.

Money conditions are still favor—
able and rates for loans are at
about the same levels as recently,
with ample funds available for
commer-ical and industrial enter-
prises. Collections are reported
good for this time or the year, and
there has been an excellent retail
trade as a general proportion, al-
though some lines of seasonable
goods were slow, owing to the open
weather up to this time. For holi-
day goods the trade reports indi—
cate an excellent business, compar—
ing favorably with any previous
recent year.

The steady gain in the
iron business, with the
of a seasonable slowing of trade,
has been gratifying. However,
there is every indication of great
building activity for at least another
year, judging from the plans pro-
jected, both in way of big building
and a continuation of the small
buildings erected on a large scale
the past year.

The windoup of the year shows
the automobile industry going ahead
at full speed, on a scale seldom, if
ever witnessed before.

Wholesale trade reports are fa—
vorable. In the 'shoe and leather
trade the outlook is said to be much
brighter than a year ago. Rubber

steel and
exception

company officials are more sanguine\
as to the future outlook also, and "

believe that in the coming year they
will make more progress towards
normal than was the case this year.

As an indication of the changed
situation in agricultural communi-
ties as a result of the better prices
prevailing for farm products, ag—
ricultural implement manufacturers
report sufficient demand from the—
interior to warrant increases in
their production Iprograms, which
is the first time this has occurred in
some time. Railroads are placing
orders for equipment and supplies
in substantial volume and this is a
_favoring feature of the situation.

. WHEAT
Wheat prices advanced sharply
last week and attained new high
points for the season. Strength was
more pronounced during the early
part of the week than it was later
on. A great deal of the buying was
in anticipation of better export
trade. This, it was expected, would
be brought about by some legislation
which would be the means of furn-
ishing credit to importing nations.
The time of the year is coming when
foreign demand for American wheat
should improve. , Lake navigation
is closed and after the Canadian
supplies new at eastern ports are ex-
hausted Europe will be forced to de-
pend more upon the United: States
for grain. By that time Argentine
wheat “ill be on the market in
larger quantities, but the southern
hemisphere cannot ship enough
wheat each Week to supply the
European requirements. Unfav-
orable crop news from -Argentina,
the strength in sterling exchange
and the fact that premiums for cash
wheat are steadily maintained were.
also bullish influences. There was a
big improvement in the volume of
trade. Interest was stimulated by
the advance in prices and more gen-
eral trading was done than for some
-_time. ,«The movement of wheat to
. » r m markets sin-awed.

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MARKET “SUMMARY A ~ - - '
Bullish reports of crop conditions give strong tone 'to wheat market.

Corn, firm. Oats steady.

Rye advances.

Beans unchanged after recent

advances. Supply of butter and eggs small and demand good. Poultry

firm but inactive.
Hogs higher.

Sheep in demand.

Dressed hogs wanted. cattle active and strong.

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(Note: The above cummth Information was received AFTER the balance of the mar.

ket page was set In type. It contains last minute Information

loins to ores: —Edltor.)

up to withla one-ham hour of

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ing off. Trading in cash wheat was
quiet.
Prices V

Detroit—~Cash No. 2, $1.42; No.
2, White and red mixed, $1.40.

Chicago—No. 2 hard, 31.27% @
$1.29. . -‘
New York—No. 2 red, $1.38%.

Prices one year ago—Detroit, Cash
No.2 red, $1.19; No. 2 white, $1.16;
No. 2 mixed, $1.16.

CORN /

Corn also worked to a new high
level, selling at Detroit on Friday
of last week at the highest price
yet reached by the 118W~ crop. The
market followed the trend of wheat
closely and at times the trade was
active. Trading was fair on the
closing day of last week. The gov-
ernment report for December gave
the total production of the United
States for 1922 at 2,890,712,000
bushels. Although this report was
in the favor of the bears the mar-
ket‘was not inclined to be affected
by it. Shipping demand was light
last week. Receipts were large but
prices held their own as bulls would
not allow enough to accumulate on
the market to be a drug. Reports
state Argentine corn is being offer-
ed abroad at lower prices than Amer-
ican. As a whole the market looks
fairly good and as long as it con-
tinues to hold up in the face of bull-
ish‘news and conditions as during
the past week we need not feel
alarmed.

Prices

Detroit—No. 2 yellow, 800; No.
3 yellow, 79c; No. 4 yellow, 780;
No. 5 yellow,- 67c.

Chicago—N0. 2 mixed“, 761/§@
76%0.

New York-«No. 2 yellow, 94 %0;

Washington, D. 0., week ending
December 16th.

Dairy Products: Butter markets
barely steady. Prices at Chicago
have declined account accumulation
resulting from high prices. Eastern
markets ruled steady during week.
Some foreign imports coming in, but
quanties not large. Closing prices
92—score butter: New York 541/2c;
Phila. 55%c: Boston 54c; Chicago
52 1-80. Cheese markets firm but
trading is slow, partly due to usual
seasonal dullness. Wisconsin pro-
duction holding up well, but cold
weather is hampering shipments.
Movement of goods from storage
light. Dealers view general situa-
tion with confidence. Cheese prices
at Wisconsin primary market: Dec.
15: Daisies 271,4c;' double Daisies
27c; Longhorns and Square Prints
271/4c.

Feed:
steady.
livery good.

Western feed markets
Offerings for deferred de«
Transit shipments in
fairly good request. High protein
feeds dull especially cotton-seed
meal, which is quoted 50c—$1 lower
in many distributing markets. Corn
feeds in good supply, demand fair.
Production most feeds good. - De-
mand from interior in most sections
below normal with supplies in
dealers hands slightly'above normal.
Receipts and movement good. Quot-
ed Dec. .15: Bran $23, middlings
$22.50, rye middlings $21.50, flour
middlings $26, Minneapolis; 36 per
cent cotton—seed meal $42.50, Mem-
phis; $43.50 Atlanta; white hom-

iny feed $28.50 St. Louis; $30 Chi-p
.34 Per. will; Linseed; meat

(3880;

No. 2 mixed, 93140.

Prices one year ago—Detroit, No.
3 yellow, 52%c; No. 4 yellow, 50%c.

OATS '

Oats continue to act in sympathy
with wheat and at the close of last
week the market was higher and
the trading larger. The market re-
ceived considerable support from
commission houses at Chicago. Re-
ceipts were somewhat smaller last
week and domestic shipping demand
slow. The government report for
December gives the production of
the United States for 1922 as 1,215,-
496,000 bushels, compared with
1,078,341,000 bushels in 1921 and
1,569,281,000 bu. two years ago.

Prices.

Detroit—No. 2 white, 52%c; No.
3 white, 510; No. 4 white, 49%c.

Chicago—No. 2 white, 47@480;
No. 3 white, 4.5@461j§c.

New York—No. 2 white, 58@
581/20. r

Prices one year ago—Detroit, No.
2 white, 39%c; No. 3'white, 36%c;
No. 4 white, 3355c. .

RYE
Trading in the rye market was
inclined to be quiet last week but
the price at Detroit managed to ad-
v'rce 1 cent during the week, and
tone was steady atthe finish.
as report of the Department of
Agriculture on the crap Was decid-
edly bearish. :Their final report
raised the total production to 95,-
597,000 bushels, compared with
61,675,000 bushels last year. This
year’s crop is the largest on record.
Prices
Detroit—Cash No. 2, 940.
Chicago No. 2, 92c;
Prices one year ago—Detroit, Cash
No. 2, 870.

Official U. S. Marketgram V

T S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics

$49.75 Minneapolis; $52 Buffalo;
gluten feed $39.35 Chicago.

Live Stock and Meats: Chicago hog
prices were from 25 to 35c lower
for the week. Cattle prices were on
the downward trend also. Beef
steers were 25 to 75C lower. Beef
cows, heifers, canners, cuters, bulls
and veal calves remained about
steady. Stocker and feeders were
25 to 400 lower. Choice fat lambs
were steady to 10c lower, feeders
strong to 250 lower. On Dec. 16
logs closed active; steady with Fri—
day’s close. Cattle and sheep prac-
tically steady. Dec. 16 Chicago
prices: Hogs, top $8.20, bulk of
sales $7.85 to $8.10; medium and
good beef steers $7.50 to $11.50;
butcher cows and heifers $3.50 to
$10.50 feeder steers $5.35‘to $7.75;
light and medium weight veal calves
$8.50 to $10; fat lambs $13.25 to
$15.60; feeding lambs $12.75 to
$14.75; yearlings $9.25 to $13; fat
ewes $4.75 to $7.75.
feeder shipments from twelve im-
portant markets during the week
ending Dec. 8 were: Cattle and
calves 92,929; hogs 19,909; sheep
66,798. In eastern wholesale fresh
meat—markets beef and veal ranged
from steady to $1 higher; lamb $1
to $2 higher; mutton firm on good
grade, $1 to $2 higher on medium
grade, light pork loins $1 to $2 low-

ed and heavy loins~$1 to 50c higher

for the week. . On Dec. 6, beef, veal,
lamb, mutton and pork were practic-
ally steady. Dec. 16 prices good
grade meats: beef $14.50 to $16k

veal 7615 'lm $19 713mg -$i23~-to - $23 

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Stocker and r

‘ Detroit market made

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Our belief that the biggest
of this year's crop of beanseare'stfli
in the farmers’ hands became strong-é,
er when last week the pricepn 
r 7, end ad-vafnc
ces, aggregating 65c, in :1 andgthe
tone of the market was firm right;
along. It appears to us that dealers-V
want the beans quite badlyhand 2th "'7
think a sudden spurt upwards inf?
prices would flood the market‘with”
beans. Maybe it will, it generally“;

does, but we wouldn't sell all of our”;

surplus at this price nor would we
advise holding your entire supply for
still higher prices. Beans are worth
a pretty good price now and if you
can sell at a profit on the present
market we say sell,

and can afford to wait.

The U. S. Department of Com- v

merce advises the farmers of this
country to plant more'navy beans.

“For,” it states, “this nation has be— a

come such a country of bean eaters
that world markets are searched by
American importers, the domestic
supply not keeping up with thede-
mand.” The Department goes onto
say “Rumania is an important bean
producing country and the navy bean
is the most extensively cultivated
and is exported in large quantities.
During the first seven months of this
year nearly 40,000 tons were export-
ed from that country.” This would-
lead one to believe thatgthe navy

bean would be a profitable crop for

the American farmer to plant every
year—4f the hands of the market
manipulators could be tied in some
way. However, the manipulators
have seen the writing on the wall,
in the form of cooperative market- ‘
ing and their power to control the
trend of the market is fast waning.
PriCes ~‘

Detroit—C. H. P., $7.50 c‘wt.

Chicago—C. H. P., $8.50.

Prices one year ago—Detroit, C.

H. P. $4.30.
_____&.___

POTATOES "
Prices gained from 5c to 150 in
the majority Of the large potato mar-

kets of the country last week. The
market had a stronger tone at ship-
ping points north and east but weak-
er at western points. Receipts have
been small. Contributary causes to

' the decreased movement are a rather

evenly distributed yield, sufficient
local supply attmany points together
with low prices, and the continued .
car shortage. Movement for the four
weeks ending December 9th was
nearly 15,000 cars, compared with
28,000 cars the previous four weeks.

'While shipments during the past few

Weeks from 18 of the leading late
shipping states were heavier than for
the corresponding period last year
the total movement for these states is
about 15,000 cars behind last sea-
son to date. The final estimate of
the government on this year’s crop
is 451,185,000 bushels, Or more than
a million bushels over the final esti-
mate on the 1921 crop.
Prices

»Detroit—-94c@ $1.00. ‘
Chicago—85 @ $1.00.

Prices one year
$1.70. ‘

aga—Detrbit,

_ “ HAY

Prices in the hay market rule un-
changed and the tone is quiet with
the usual holiday dullness. Receipts
are about normal and demand light. “
The government in its final estimate

places the production of all hay in_ -

the United States this year at 112,-
971,000 tons, compared with 97,- "
770,000 tons last year and 105,351,-
000 tons in 1920-.
7 Prices -
Detroit—No. 1 timothy, $16.50@
$17; Light standard,.$16@$16..50;

Light? mixed, $16@s16.5o‘;‘j ‘No. *

timotmy. $1.4@$1'5. . , .
Chimes-No. 1 light clever mixed
$ 19.. @ $ 20 ;s No. 1 timothy, $ 20 @ $2,
No. 1; clover, $18@$19..   
Prices one Year ago-=36.
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'7 CHESTNUTng @

‘&G@50c‘; fresh, candled and graded,
6'3’1@5 5c; ~refrigerator, 28 @ 31¢ per
I‘ddzen. . -‘
‘ APPLES-Greenings, $1.50@$1.-
75; Baldwin, $1.25 @$1£50; Spy,
2 @ $2.50 ;v Jonathan, $1.75 ,@ $2.25,
her varieties, $1 @8150 per bu;
, est-ern "boxes, $2@ $3.“ «
. 30c per lb.
 'HONEYe—Comb, 23@25c per lb.
' » -LCABBAGE——Home groWn, 7 5 @ 80
cents per bushel. ' '

. :. ".POPC(5RN———4@41;§; Little Bust-

- dozf

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‘ term

War, 7%@8c per lb.

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.CELERY——Michlgan, 30 @ 50c per
sauare, $1.25@$1.50; Cali-
fornia celery, Jumbo, 60c, extra Jum-
bo, 85c@$1; mammoth $1.10@$1.-
25 per dozen.

ONIONS—~$2.75@$3 per sack of /

.100 lbs; Spanish, $2@$2.25 per
'per crate...’ _ r
DRESSED HOGS—9O t0130 lbs.
11@12c; 130 to 160 lbs, 10c; heavy,
6@8c per lb. 
DRESSED CALVES—Choice, 150;
edium, 12@14‘c; large coarse, 5@
1 c perlb. «-
\' FURS—Mink, dark No. 1 large,
$10; No. 1 medium, $7; No. 1 small,

$5. Raccoon,vNo. 1 large$6; No. 1‘

medium, $4.50; No. 1 small, $3.25.

 

 

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(Editors Note—~Read the introduc—
tion of our new weather forecaster,
on the editorial page 12, this issue.
Mr. Pritchard welcomes letters from
readers of The Business Farmer and
will answer them when addressed
return envelope is enclosed, address
him in care of this oilice.)
Week of December 24 r
The predominating features of this

 

 

' week in Michigan will be the cold

weather.

The early days of the week will
be especially cold in Michigan; this
includes Christmas day which is al-
so expected to be fair.

About the middle of the week the
weather will be cloudy and windy
continuing until near the close.
During this period there will be
numerous snow flurries throughout
the state.

The temperature in this state will
fall again at the end of the week.

Week of December 31

The last day of 1922 and the first
*of 1923 is expected to be mild in
temperature. New Year’s day will
be stormy with rain, snow and high
winds. Precipitation if it falls dur-
ing the mid-day hours will be rain
or sleet or at best, very wet snow
but if precipitation falls during the
night, late afternoon. or early morn-
ing, it will be in the form of snow.
- These conditions are figured for
central Western Michigan and hold
good for the southwest part of the
state also. For sections to the
north, east‘and southeast most of
the precipitation will be snow and
not rain.

By Tuesday or Wednesday this
rain period will have passes east-
ward bringing fair, cold weather
that will continue for the remainder
of the week in Michigan.

“January Thaw" late in Month

The weather conditions during
1923 will average .pretty
close to normal but we expect many
sudden extremes during this period.
Most severe storms will occur during
first half of month. Temperatures
will average low during first two
decades of January but during last
ten days average temperatures will
show marked change to warmer.
"The usual “January Thaw”
come during thelast mentioned per-
iod in .Michigan.

“We’believe the greatest amount
or moisture in this state, either in
of rain or snow, will occur
:heteie’ .the. 15th. 'After that date
evaporation will be greater that con-
densed!) ltlfough the latter condi-
' ~ be entirely absent in

ourr’éu't freéeipts, _.

:10c;

will ‘

1,.h ' andltw'n .«three
‘ ' “mid " *--°.ati’ses 

HIDE’S—‘Afilor-l cured, 12c; No. 1
green, lie; 0. 1 cured bulls, 8c;
No. 1 green'bulls, 7c; No. 1 cured
calf, 15c; No.,1 green calf, 14c; No.
1 cured kip, 120'; No 1 green kip,
No. 1 horsehid’es, $3; No. 2,
horsehides, $2. Sheep pelts 50c@1.-
50. No. 2 hides 10 under N0. 1;
calf and kip 11,50 under N0. 1.

WOOL MARKETS

A continuation of very quiet trad-
ing, but with prices firmly maintain-
ed at ther recent levels, is reported
in the middle western markets.
Some dealers are looking for an in—
crease in activity before long, but
at any rate the tone seems to be one
of optimism, as far as the keeping
up of present price levels is con-
cerned. Trade is limited not only
by lack of insistent buying demand,
but also by shortage of stocks.
Manufacturers are not inclined to
force the market by buying much at
the present time, when stocks are
so low;

PRODUCE MARKETS AT THE

. YEAR’S END
The general trend of the market
the middle of December was upward.
Cabbage and onions were higher
while apples and potatoes held firm.
Shipments of a dozen leading fruits
and vegetables were only 58,025 cars
for Nevember compared with 111,303
for the previous month, but Were
heavier than for November 1921
when 44,725 cars moved. Apples,
cabbage, grapes, onions and white

potatoes show greatest decrease.
Onion Market

The steady advance of the onion
market has been a feature of the
month. The rise started the third
week in November and continued
until Middlewestern Yellow Globes
had gained $1 and were selling in
leading markets at $2.25—$3 per 100
lb. sack. Eastern stock followed

'the trend of the market closing at

$2—$2.50. Spanish Valencia declined
slightly to $1.50-$1.75 per crate.
Shipments for the past four weeks
were around 1,500 caars compared
with 900 for the same period last
year. ,
Barreled Apples Firm

\flrm tone prevailed in apple mar—
kets for leading varieties of barreled
stock but box apples weakened
slightly. New York Baldwins A 2%
advanced to $5 per bbl. in a few
markets early in December, but clos-
ed slightly lower at $4.24—$4.75 a
net gain of 250. Prices ruled firm
at $4 f. o. b. shipping points, while
Rhode Island Greenings from cold
storage ranged $4—$4.50. Virginia
York Imperials strengthened 750 to
a close of $3.75-$4.25 and Middle-
western Jonathans held at $4.25-$6
in city markets reaching high point
in Chicago. Northwestern boxed
stock was slow and weak in most
leading markets. Extra fancy Jon—
athans and Spitzenburgs bréught
$1.50-$2.50 and Delicious $2.25-$3.
Carlot movement decreased rapidly.
Movement for the past four weeks
was about 5,000 cars from barrel
shipping areas and nearly 9,000 from
box areas, compared with 1,700
from barrel sections and 7,000 from
box‘ States for the same period a
year ago.

Cabbage Market Strong

The carlot movement of cabbage
decreased about 400 cars a week
early in December, but a strengthen-
ing market encouraged heavier ship-
ments during the weed ending Dec.

V 9 they increased to 757 cars, making

a total for the month of more than
2,300. New York Damish type stock
advanced $10-$12 per ton in eastern
markets to the season's high point of
$22-$30, while at shipping points
prices more than doiibled reaching
$14-$15 f. o. ’1). Northern Danish
stock advanced in Chicago to $24

"and in St. Louis to $35, but receded

at the close to $80-$32 in the latter
city, andheld at $15-$16 f. o. b.,
Wisconsin points.

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Growers and Shippers of Farm Produce

We have reliable customers in the market every day for carloads of

Potatoes, Apples, Hay, Beans,
Also Hand Picked Beans in Bag Lots

Ship to us and receive the highest market price.
Wire or write for dependable market information.

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Brokers and Distributors
Twelfth Street Produce Yards

Selling charges

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December 15, 1922.

r0 OUR MEMBERS AND THOSE WHO OUGHT TO BE:
GREETINGS:- \

It is with no small feeling of pride that the
officers ofythe Citizens"Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
point to the record of the year just clOsing. ‘

.The December Slst figures are net, of courSe, as
yet available but will only enhance the statement of November
Elst, which showed assets as-follows: ' ’

CaSh   ..‘..o.e.a...o.oo...o..$175,047.91-
Accrued Interest .................. l;716.10
Salvage and Accounts Receivable ... 11,207.20
Office Site and Building .......... 27,727.44
Ofifice Furniture and Equipment ..... 16,894.85

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To date the Company has paid out for,ite members
$1,256,169.87 in settlement of fire, theft, liability and
collision claims. '

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to know that they are protected from the risks involved when
they drive their automobiles or trucks and we, as officers,
feel that there is no better or more practical manner in which
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