$1 PER YEAR 3 era Pmmmr ' ed—'~Farm lU ltural" higan 5 “Ag Has Arr Owned and Mic ricu. S D t n C d m C 0.. em 10 n I n A SATUEDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1923 Friday Confract Edited in Farm Magaz : ' Beet 13 \ ECZZZ FCC—Z: .:E:E_ ,. :E:::_ ‘ 5:53 4 V n- = ICIO|.|.|.'C|. _ _ f \I \ \>A/ Ff VOL. X, NO Sailing Under False Colors ENATOR YOUNG hae'introduced Senate Bill No. 62 intheMichignnLegidnturgknownutheWuil aewhw.” Undethogdudo‘lohtymitmemreallr— AnaddifiondtuoIQTMorJu-ttothouemo! Wutioninm rho motion don m «we re: more 1.5.... —~... soon—-yo-uu-vuon—u—vu an——..a.~_—~-—-———u_-—u. '—'..."J'—“.'."..."'..'7'a'.".";1:_-_-_-r-_-‘-‘w-J-.n;-_-_-_!-.-_~_-_.-_'-_-_?.-_'_‘.-.'.’.'.’.'_'..".."."_’..'_"—'.".".. Wmhmm. Greater hazards to the men, It is to protect, since it divides Minty. 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Charlene, Miclrigam (1) ‘For $1 enclosed you will enter or renew my subscription for 2 years: My Name R. F. D. No P. 0 State—1 (Ummnmwinginndhlndaddr—hbelfromreoentiuue) (3") For $1 enclosed renew my own subscription as above 1 year and ' ’ 7 add the‘fo‘ilowing new subscribers name paid=in-fllll £0!" 1 ye": ‘, New Name R. F. -D. No ' we; do ’ awe ' inept i’o. CLEARING T0 START-FEB. 19 ~ seams of forty-one land clear-, ing , meetings arranged for northeastern Michigan by N. A. Kessler, assistant land clearing spec— ' ialist of the Michigan Agricultural College with the co—operation of the Northeastern Michigan Development bureau, will. start at Midland Feb— ruary 19. As with the land clear- ‘ ing schools conducted by the college last fall, the Michigan Central and Detroit & Mackinaw railroads are co-- operating in this project. The program at each meeting will consist of movies and a talk on land clearing by L. F. Livingston, land clearing specialist, of the M. A. C.. and a discussion of the dairy busi- ness in northern Michigan by E. J. .Loonhouts, assistant agricultural agent for the New York Central lines. A part 01 the land clearing talk which will e of vital interest to the farmers wil be that on how explos- ives, both government and commer- cial, may be obtained at a lesser cost than heretofore. Allof the meetings will be held in the big white demonstration car which has a seating capacity of o hundred people, and is admirably equipped for the showing of moving pictures. It is expected that this car will be taxed to its capacity at the various places listed in the itinerary. FARMERS OPPOSE DAYLIGHT SAVING FFICIALS of the Michigan State ' Farm Bureau state that the bar- reau’s questionnaire distributed recently among the farmers of the state, clearly shows the attitude of the Michigan farmers as regards var- ious problems affecting rural life. The majority went on record on opposing the proposed sorta-n time for the state, the abolition of the primary school fund, and the creo- tiou of county 89.880011. The questionnaire shorted that the farmers favored a. state income to: law calling for a $4,000 exemption limit, and sprogreseive rate, the ro- ' moval of the existing corporation tax limits, 8. minimum two—cent gasoline tax, the primary election law, state and federal laws to abolish- tax-ex- empt securities, and the state regu- lation of motor busses, and commer- cial operating over state highways. POTATO GROWERS Am FOR GREATER EFFICIENCY EANS of bringing about greater efficiency in Michigan potato production were brought out before the meeting of the Michigan Potato Producers Association at M. A. 0., Farmer Week. - Thomas Buell, of Elmira, presi- dent of the association; Hal B. Ful— lerton, director of agriculture for the Long Island Railroad, Redford, Long Island: and J. W. Weston, extension specialist in potato work with the H. A. C. crops department. were head- liners on the program. Increase in the use of certified seed potato stocks of high quality was discussed by Mr. Buell, who also pointed out the large amount of’ Michigan seed stock which is going outside of the state each year. F‘ul— lerton told of disease control work being carried out amongthe Long Island potato growers. Recommendations that Michigan potato growers aim in 1923 for bet- ter seed, better culture, better grad— ing and better storage were contain- ed in J. W. Weston’s address. Wes- ton told of the ways in which the college extension department is en- deavoring to bring about greater ef- ficiency "in the state‘potato industry. ~ GERMANY T0 'REDUGE PUR- CHASES 0!" AMERICAN CORN , MATERIAL reduction‘ in the do- vmand for American corn in Ger- many because of the. large po- tato crop harvested in Germany in 1922, is indicated in reports received by‘ the United. States Department of Agriculture from its agricultural representatives at Berlin. , Germany - has been American cornylargely for the manu- teem—r00? all0101101.. sheaths . Jem- importing A granted German distillm by Ministry of Agriculture to use - toes in the production. of 60 per cent of the alcohol instead of 20 per cent \ as heretofore. Normal exportation oi corn from, .. the United States to Germany Ba totaled about 6,900,000 bushel! ll-' ~MU. ' In .1021, euportations we nearly 13,000,000 bushels, an! in: 1921 more than 80,000,000 We. Itis estimated tut in recent months fuliy 75 per cent‘of this con was. used‘ by German distillories, leaving little more than the normal‘exporta- tion for other uses. - ' The estimated 1923 production of alcohol in Germany is 53,000,000 gallons, so that it will still be pos- sible to manufacture 32,000,000 from potatoes. This will leave only 21,000,000 gallons to be manufac- tured from other materials, includ- ing corn. Even though American corn is used exclusively to produce this remaining 40 per cent, the dis- tilleriee will require only abo_ut 8,000,000 bushels, of corn in 1923, the Department of Agriculture says. FIGHTS BOVINE » ULOSIS , HAT is regarded as the most important and efl'ective step yet taken in Shiawasee county in the tight for the eradication of bovine tuberculosis, has been ordered by the state commission of agricul— ture. in proclaiming a quarantine SHIAWASSEE against the entrance of any cattle, V not tuberculin tested, for dairy o breeding purposes. ' The ban also prohibits the oflering at a public sale of any cattle not tested and found to be free from the disease. ‘ ,. Apenaltyofafinenottoaxcee $500 or a jail sentence of not to ex-' coed six months, is provided for vio- htion of the proclamation. ' Testing has been under way in that county for nearly a year and 11: of the sixteen townships, have been inspected. The percentage of reacting cattle isvery * low. MICHIGAN HEREFORD BREED- nns norm ANNUAL mum ICHIGAN Hereford Breeder's: Association held their banquet usedlby distillerieaifnecauae ‘3: a; ., potato surplus, permission has been; .; the? v and annual meeting at the“ Kerns Hotel. Lansing, January 30th during Farmer’s Week. . The Hereford judging demonstra- tion called at the Stock Pavilion at 10 A. M. was well attended and new breeders were -much interested in the good points brought out by Pro- fessor Brown and T. F. B. Sotham during the demonstration of II. A. C. Herefords, two sires four matrons and three steers being used in the ring. At six 1’. M. forty seven Hereford boosters set down to a banquet; Michigan Earlirlpe Hereford Beef be— ing served for the occasion. After all had done justice to the ban— . quot everybody joined in the singing of the Hereford song; as everybody on the program was present the in- structive talks were given and en— joyed by all present. The omcers elected for 1923 are Presidents, Frank H. Sanders, Eaton Rapids; L. Whitney Watkins, Man— ~, cheater; E. V. Morgan, Boon; Warner ’ E. Ramsey, Pt. Hope; and Earl C. McCarty, Bad Axe, Earl C. McCarty. Secy.—Treas.——- ‘ (IO-OPERATORS PROSPEB - PAST YEAR. '1' the annual meeting of the Co- .; opentive Shipping association .held at Mason recently, the F former ~ofllicers of the association ,. were all re—elected as follows: presi- dent, John Coy; vice president, H. W. " Lyon ; Edgar ; secretary-treasurer, Claude manager, 13. T. Lasenby. The report or the-secretary showed an harem, in business .amOuntin‘g' to around $74,0’00~during the past year. , The total receipts of theme— .._... w”..- . , elation for the year were $312,939; A ~ .532 and the total disbursements were $311,983.93, leavinga surplus on hand at the present ‘timego‘f 5&7 men» . 4i ' "‘.‘d\ , "‘:d\ led body of growers. VOL. ‘1, N0. is. Being absolutely our column- are 0 m M- ‘ mining to the famine business. } L BUSIN its. alum full when thfi'mey!“ Ess FARM «stigma " “arm ow Form Hagazine Owned and Edited in Michigan” m .‘ .m- in. mm ‘32!!!sz a tr I”; “J Ind: us, 1879. K / i . —~——. ' “5060’? ’ sugar Beet Contract Arrives % Owosso Company irst to. Meet Growers" Fight for Square Deal Years Ago—Big Meeting at Durand Hears Good News , MITRER milestone in the pro- v gross of the business of turning in Michigan was passed last week. when it was announced that had b! a mitten representing the growers, ' with the president of the Owosso Sugar Company whereby that com- pany shes the growers the “50-50” contract as long desired. _ Host gnomes: in Michigan will well remember the organization of the Michigan Sugar Beet Growers Asso- ciation three years ago and the vall- ont efforts made by that small body of enthusiasts, led by The Business Farmer, to sconce recognition and an equitable contract from the beet sugar manufacturers. At that time the manufacturers, condemned the efforts as “radical,” hinted that the men behind it ought to .be deported as “undesirables” and returned point—blank to contaminate themselves by exposing themselves in any meeting, open or secret in which the representatives of the organized growers were present. Since that time a lot of water has run under the mill! Sugar prices have been down in the basement, along with the farm prices of wheat, earn “and a few other staples that fall with a sickening thud when old man Hers Was tumbled over. Emily in the fall of 19.22., A. B. Cook of Owosso, head of the Michi- gan Grange, who has long been a leaders in the beet growers fight, opened negotiations with C. D. Bell, Vice—President and General Manager . of the Owosso Sugar Company, who had indicated an interest in the pro- ‘ posed "50-5-0" contract, if he could be assured that the growers would be willing to run the risk of a split in losses, as well as a split in profits. Mr. Cook assured him that the farm- er was calloused to taking the whole loss and possible prospect of having to split the loss for a season would not drive the boot growers panicy. Negothtions from this point pro- gressed rapidly, because Mr. Bell, represented a sensible company which recognized that the future suc- cessful operation of their factory, depended pretty largely upon a satis— The Owosso oommy was the first in Michigan to lift their heads out of the sands into which they had shoved them like . silly ostriches when the growers asso- ciation first loomed on the horison seven years“ ago. C. E. Ackerman, of Durand, secretary and undaunted new“ of old beet growers mutation, worked with Mr. Cook, as did B. S. Rowan, St. Johns; Bert Hemmer, m; and Fred Hollan Swartz Creek. * Meeting Called at Durand . THE “50-50” SUGAR BRET CONTRACT As suggested by the Michigan Sugar Beet Growers Association and first accepted by the Owosso Sugar Company. What it is—(thrce sections of the actual contract being adored Growers, which explains method in which the “50-50” contract guarantee): 1;. n.an s mum-show the method .hou ductihod: If 160,000 not has of beets are delivered by the m to file company. from which pounds of will be 250 sugar are made, 00,000,000 If the avenge market minds of nut. e olmb MMhMMIOf Paulina!» to be 6.75 hund- red poun , the value of sugar produ per net ton a beeth 316.88,”:nd the GI mustard“ then behold 50% . 1% WV Mr shall be paid on 15. For beets Siam! seventy-divs cents (75¢) per ten or 88.44 per net ten of . Th omen that substantial pm per net ten 0 beets town and delivered under this contm month, for ed during the pleading month. the fifteenth of February, 1924. delivered and unloaded by the war h: beet sheds t , - g0 I fine factory on sddi liminsry mymenia to payments to be made the by signing up a liberal acreage, and to talk the “60-50” contract to all growers. , (3) To arouse enthusiasm among the Association membership to work for “50-50” contracts from other companies, and to try to solve other problems of the growers. Beet Raising Conditions Mr. Cook spoke on the beginning and growth of the ,sugar beet in- dustry in Michigan from the experi- ments conducted by the late Dr. Ked- zie, of the Michigan Agricultural Col- lege. How this earnest professor convinced that the beet sugar in- dustry was a promising one for Mich- igan, and after much effort interested capital in the beet sugar manufacture in the state. From a first factory at Bay City, the industry has grown rapidly to the present time at which there are 17 factories in the state. Some seven years ago the growers became dissatisfied with the prices they were receiving for their beets and sponsored by the Grange and Gleancrs, the present state Growers Association was formed. At that time it was figured outthat a “50— 50” contract was the most just price arrangement between the manufac- turers and growers. During the seven years since, the Association has worked toward this contract as an ideal. Finally the Owosso Sugar Company has granted their growers the long fought for “50-50” contract. The contract is fair, continued Mr. Cook, just what the growers wanted and they should come across with a good acreage. Backed by the “50'- 50" contract, sugar beet raising is sure to be a. permanently profitable industry. The “50450” contract is the best one out, better than $100 atonwlthii centsugar “11131.00 3 ton mine, for each cent raise in sugar price. Mr. Cook concluded by ‘fihe the "50-50" . saying. turer, hence the name “50—50” con- tract. It is the simplest form of contract. The grower can follow market quot— ations and figure his own price as well as can the manufacturer. To insure fairness on the part of the manufacturer, the Owosso Sugar Company has oflsred to have a'certi- fied public accountant audit their books at the end of the seasons and furnish the Growers Association with a report of the tonnage of boats bought and the yield of sugar. The Growers Association also has permis— sion to station men in the factories during the campaign to tally the sugar production. Mr. Ackerman explained how it was decided seven years ago. that a ~ ‘50-50” contract would be most just. The grower and manufacturer have about equal investments. To grow a ton of beets, however, requires six times as much labor as is required to manufacture them. On the other hand, the manufacturer takes much greater risk than the grower. He cannot turn his equipment to other uses as the grower can, and he has no other enterprises to fall back on in case the sugargbusiness proves un- profitable. The factory has the by-products, which are sometimes, however, so low in price that it hard— ly pays to handle them. The increase in price to the grower under the “60—50” contract over that under the old contract was pointed out. The old rate was $7.00 a tan with sugar at 6 cents, and a raise of $1.00 a. ton for each rise of one cent in the price of sugar. The “50-50” rate for 6 cent sugar, assuming the sum yield to ire-average, 250 lbs per ton, the sugar from a ton of beets would be worth 6 times 250 or $16, of which the grower gets one half or $7.60, an increase of 50 cents, a ton over the old rate. Should sugar 01‘ a cannot be nae ‘ ’ than the “50-50” cum-act,” deem-oi contract is not Inected by - “fir-W W interest rates to pay for labor if they wish to hire their own. Mr. Ackermon spoke of the possi- bility of other companies coming across with a "50-50" contract. The Association should work for state- wide "50-50" contracts for growers. The Continental Sugar Company, op- erating three factories in southern Michigan, have already offered a “45- 55'” contract. Mr. Ackerman doubts if the Mich~ igan Sugar Company, operating seven large factories in the state, will come across with a “50-50” contract. The company is said to be controlled by eastern capitalists whose holdings are largely cane interests, and Mr. Ackerman believes the trust will dis- pose of its holdings in beet sugar factories and confine its capital to cane sugar rather than meet the growers demand for a “50—50” con— tract. Since the Owosso Sugar Company has taken the lead in offering “50— 50” contracts, it is hoped other com- panies will follow. Mr. C. D. Bell, Vice President and General Manager of the Owosso Sugar Company, told the meeting of the manufacturer’s side. Mr. Bell spoke of the efforts of the Associa— tion to get a ‘50—50" contract. "It seems to me that Mr. Cook or Mr. Ackerman have interviewed me seven times a day every day for the last seven years in behalf of a “50-50” contract, until we have finally given it to them." Mr. Bell, who is re- sponsible for the “50-50” contract offer of the Owosso company, ad— mitted that it seems to be the fairest basis for a growers contract. The manufacturers will profit in that the growers will try to raise better beets with a higher sugar content, for they will be paid for the sugar which the . factory gets out of their beets. A factory must be equipped with effic- ient machinery which will recover all the sugar from the beets before it can afiord to offer the growers a "50-50" contract. The Owosso Sugar Company spent $350,000 last year for better machinery before they could offer a, “50-50” contract. They now recover from 30% to 40% more sugar from the beets than by the old process. Mr. Bell concluded with the statement that the “50-50” contract will not the grower higher pay for his beets than any other contract out. Mr. N. C. McBride, of Burton spoke on “Industrial Relations.” For farmers and manufacturers to make a satisfactory bargain, there must be a profit for each. Mr. Ms- Bride believes that sugar beets is one of the most profitable crops at the present time. There is prospects of a sugar price rise, the “50—50” contract assures the growers a square deal, and the tariff is satisfactory. 'Hichigan consumes more sugar than she produces, so a market is assured. High freight rates will act only as a protection. A grower of grain or other crops takes a, chance of losing his pro- fit by selling- when the market is low, but a best grower with a "50—50" price fluctuations; With .s. “50-50” con- tract, the growers and manufacturers will have the best industrial rela- tions, their interests will be thesame, and they share equally in the profits. Beet growers with the the new con— tract now have the best assurance of . , J a profitable crop they have had for = years. Beets are a. money making crop at present prices, and the pros— _ ' posts are that the prices to higher. Mr. McBride concluded by . assuring the growers that they Md , get a. ' 7, Med I DR. DAVID FRIDAY President Mlchigan Agricultural College and acknowledged as one‘ of the foremost economists in United States. LTHOUGH the fountain of youth has never been discovered. about four thousand farmers of Michigan found a fountain of inspir- ation and. new ideas in the 1923 Farmers’ Week at M. A. C. The Farmer’s .VVeek visitor this year found himself in the predicament of a; spectator at a three ring circus. there was so much to see and hear that it was impossible to take in eyerthing. , .The outstanding idea impressed upon the Farmer’s Week throngs Was the necessity for lower cost of production of farm products. Pre- igdent David-»Friday, who needs no ~ fitroduction to Michigan farmers, in [s opening address predicted that there will be a steady decline in prices for at least a few years. His prediction was seconded by Dr. G. F. Warren of Cornell, the noted farm managment expert, in an address later in the week. If the farmers of Michigan hope toprosper, they must produce their crops, liVestock, poult— ry products, milk, and fruit at a lower cost than now prevails. Mr. Friday believes there are wonderful opportunities for cutting the produc— tion costs of fanm products in Mich— ijgan. - _ An idea new to many farmers, that Of a policy for agriculture for the state a'nd‘nation, (see page 6 this issue) was the subject of President Friday‘s first address to the Farmer's Nit-ck audience. Michigan’s policy for agriculture should be to lower (50st of production by better methods and by the use of better seeds and livestock; to make farming suffici— ently renumerative and attractive to keep an intelligent and highly cult— ‘ured class of people on the farms. A thorough survey‘of markets is also needed, Reclaiming of waste land, in President Friday’s opinion, is a great waste of time and energy at {the present time when land can be bought within ten miles of most of the cities of the state for the value of the improv— ments on it. He also brands agitation for a “back to the farm” movement as foolishness. There are enough people on farms now. ' The vital importance of " tuberculosis eradica- tion was impressed on the livestock men by Dr. \V.. J. Kiernen of the Bu— reau of Animal Industry, Washington. This mat- ter was also discussed at several of the live stock association meetings. and resolutions were passed tion by the legislature to make possible the im— mediate resumption of this, work which is now halted in Michigan for lack of funds. Rep. \Sidney Anderson of Minnesota, an agri— cultural leader in Congress, gave marketing some good advice on farm products. Produce what the consumer wants, standardize your products, and market as near home as possible was Mr. And- erson’s word to the farmers of Michigan. Dr. Friday Discusses Taxation Dr. Friday gave his viewpoint on that vital question of the hour, tax— ation, in' a talk before the Michigan Press Association at the close of the week. We cannot hope for a lowering of taxes, in Mr. Friday’s opinion, for we will continue to de— mand public improvements at the same rate as in the past. Mr. Fri~ day’s plan for a more just placing of the burden of taxation provides for the removal of the upper valua— tion limit in the corporation tax, the enactment of the gasoline tax, and a reduction in the general property tax of about 25%. Regarding the gasoline tax Pres— ident Friday said “I believe that the gasoline will :pass, although it is not entirely equitable.” Dr. Eugene Davenport, formerly Dean of Agriculture at the Universi- ty of- Illinois, told of the conditions necessary to a permanent agricult— ure. If the farmers of our country are to be land ownersha farm must yield a su‘fiiCient income-to provide the farmer a comfortable living and a large enough surplus to enable him to pay for the farm in twenty years. If farm incomes prevail below this level, the land will revert to a land- owning class and will be farmed by a tenant or peasant class. How Russia, through changing conditions in the Black sea area, has lost her supremacy amongnations for world export of wheat and other cereals, and how it has resulted in making the United States the great— est exporter of these products; was explained by Louis G. Michael, for— eign agricultural economist for the requesting an appropria? Farmer 5 Week a V- 1g ‘ ' Big Round-Up‘of, Farmand Live Stock Organizations at Ea'st'Lansing Lauds Work Being Done at Agricultural College By osoncsmvms United~ States department of agri¥ culture. _ . Mr. Michael’s statements, had the authority behind them of eight years research and agricultural experi- mental work in the countries of southeastern Europe. ' ‘fWhen the countries ‘of the world awake sufficiently to realize they are interdependent on one another in the economics of agriculture, then pros- perity for the world can be assured and the present state of unrest find an end,” said Signora Oliva Agresti of Italy, in an address to some 5,000 farmers Thursday afternoon, The annual meeting of. the Michi- gan State Farm Bureau was held at the College during Farmer’s Week, there being 126 voting delegates pres ent» The only changes made in the officials of the Bureau Were in the president’s office, where Walter Phillips’ of Decatur succeeds James Nichol, and in the election‘ of one new member to the Board of Direct— ors, V. Gormely of Newberry. The Housewives Congress for farm women was an important feature of the week. Several prominent wo— men addressed the Congress on home making, clothing, and nutrition. An interesting talk by Bess Rowe, Field Editor, revealed the fact that most farmer’s wives in Michigan are sat- isfied with their lot. The results of a contest Miss Rowe has recently conducted show that a large percent— age of farm women of Michigan are willing to have their daughters marry farmers. Milinary, clothing, and nutrition exhibits in the W0— men’s Building of the College were an additional source of interest and information to the women visitors. The annual meetings of most of the livestock breed associations Were held during Farmer’s Week this year for the first time. The County Agent’s Conference boosted 100% attendance, this year. Talks by members of the agricultural faculty and of the research depart— ment, gave them the latest informa— tion on college and experiment sta- tion. activities. The COunty ’ Club Agents were also out to a man for their Conference. State Leader R. A. Turner reviewed the work of the past year and outlined the program for 1923.- .. Grain and Potato Shows Two new Farmer’s Week features s V this year were the grain show ofthe Michigan Crop Improvement AsSOci—. tion, and a potato show. Both were well supplied with entries by state growers, and were prominent points of interest to the farmers. The Horticultural Show displayed an even greater collection of. apples than usual; thirty-eight varieties were entered. Allegan County won first place in county collections. The Round—Up Poultry Show attracted considerable interest. and a‘ large number of entries from breeders of the state. , The central idea running through all exhibits this year was lower cost of production. The Michigan exhibit at the International Livestock and GrainShow atChicago' last fall were re-assembled by the Farm Crop De'-' partment as their exhibit for" Farm- er’s Week. A large wall eXhibit showing how Michigan cheape'ns pro- duction by growing alfalfa, it'proved one of the-most attractive Of the ex- hibits. ‘ ' ' ’ " NA pig feeding exhibit showing the value of skim milk, by the Dairy De- partment attracted much, 'rinterest. Two pens of pigs, oneyfed‘on corn alone and the other on Corn and skim milk were of such’ great differenCe in" size that it was almost unbelievable that they were from the same litter. A record attendance viewed the campus parade, Thursday afternoon, when the student body and all mov- able equipment‘and live stock ap- peared in a. procession which ex- tended for more than a mile and a half. The parade was the biggest and most impressive ever put on by the college, M. A. C. officials'said. -'« Educational exhibits by every de—' partment of the college filled all available space. All the engineer- ing shops, and’ laboratOries were open to the visitors throughout the' week. and student guides were ready to show arid explain the equipment. All machinery was kept in operation most of the each day. ‘ That Michigan ‘ranks foremost among the several states of‘ the union in agricultural education was plainly demonstrated, it was agreed by numerous leaders of agriculture who visited M. A. C. during the fifth annual Farmer’s Week. At the final check of the total registrations of visitors at the college during the week, it was reported that close to 4,000 names had been recorded. The drop in attendance at the 1923 Farmer’s Week of about 20% from‘ that of last year’s, due to the almost impassable roads in the cen- tral part of the state during most of the Week, is by no means discour— aging when we consider that the next largest Farmer’s Week held this year, that of IoWa, had an at- tendance ranging from 300 to‘800. Had road conditions been more favorable in the central part‘of the state, it is believed the total registra— tion this year would have far ex- ceeded that of any previous year. The heavy registration of the first two days was attributed to the fact that the early comers are usually depend- ent on railway transportation while the attendance during the last few days is swelled by motorists who drive 40 or 50 miles to the exhibits and return the same day. It was a cut in the latter class of visitors which has tended to keep the total figures. for attendance about equal to a year ago. , " _ The Michigan Farmer’s Week is by far the largest and best annual state wide convention of farmers ever held; and is yearly becoming of greater benefit to Michigan farmers as a source of new ideas, broader views, and a better understanding of farming conditions. I - ;-. as...“ _\_ _,._ at Philadelphia, Mummers hold belated New Year parade—Philadelphia, paid belated tribute to King Momus by turning out a record crowd recently to view the postponed parade of New Year Mummers. 'Prizes were given \ The above shows the prize—winning cape ver 100 attendants were required to carry it. the most fancy and‘co'mic displays. in the fancy division. Youngest lawyer in New York State—11in Bo- berta. Levthho at the age of 21 holds the rare distinction of being- th {youngest lawyer in New York State. At presen a. member orgu Brooklyn, N. ‘Y. law firm, Mlss‘ Levy is pretty and? ninth—date in every way. She is a graduate ofthe: Brooklyn, Law School. but had to wait 2 years for admission to the bar after graduation because of her ’age.‘ ‘ ‘ British drive with money they could hard-hearted away for He refuses to be handicapped.——-Karl Herman hlhnus, 72, veurs old, is u. living example of optimist Crippled by the loss of his bends, he was nothing duunted and began to learn' to use his feet. "8511113 taught ‘hun‘dreds' of German crippled soldiers how to work withotqt their hands. Photo, shows him reading a letter which he holds with‘his feet. ' -' debt commission lender, they owe us sometime, even if it. takes forty or fifty years. I finally nrrives.—After years of They insisted found Uncle Samuel becuyuse be on A new photograph of the Duke of York—He's a, fine looking chap. is the set-0nd son of King George of England, and Its no wonder the girls all like him. It has been rumored in London, where surh things generully start. that the Duke of York is paying court to the charming Lady Elizubeth Boews Lyon and she. mny'be using the title of "Duchess" as. :L prefix before long. . ‘ 4’s Va..'ifiesult;’.of the. invésion of Mum -‘m-e '2 . 9 f «'3. r in?“ a “firmed «iii . ;, ' ‘- 1mm fi-x m, , “League of Nations”, _\w Waffles. i had ‘the in; h 7 feet day' of winter ‘sp 1 and made it one',ot; the features of the. on. :, . . _' _\ 3 > .. . . ' ‘ ' iter cprmvi l inrNew ’Ilvnmpshirek—w To complete a per- these merrymakers lenéufed in "ziitug—iit—ws,ir contest giver hold at Jackson. ' ' E, . 4 , ’éw'flh Inpshir‘e.‘ delay England fln- ally sent over the above group whose duty it was to strike a bargain, the best their Uncle Samuel. was it their paying the billions An Agricultural Programfaian' IT NO LONGER interests people greatly to be told that the farm- er is dissatisfied. That fact has been beat in upon the public mind during the last eighteen months through. both. the spoken and the written word until we feel a little like an audience that has been list- ening to a snare drum solo The farmer has had abundant cause for dissatisfaction. His prices have fallen more than the average. Hie flmis it diflicult therefore, to main- tain his customary standard» of liv- ing. to say nothing of meeting the debts he may have incurred in the optimistic days when Europe was ruining its monetary system and its financial standing to pay him, as well as other producers fabulous prices for the things it wanted. What the country wants to know now is how the farmer is to be got out of his present situation and re- stored to prosperity. Not the pros- perity of wartime, for that comes only several times in a century, but a stable and dependable state of well-being such as he enjoyed from 1&98 to the outbreak of the war in 1914. American agriculture suf— fered more seriously during the de- pression of 1894 to 1896 than dur- ing these last two years. Yet in the spring of 1900 Ray Stannard Baker, who knew the agricultural situation well, opened his book Our New Prosperity with these para- graphs: A witty Western writer, sum— ming up the marvels of growth, ex— pansion and prosperity of the year 1899 in the United States, made this telling climax: “And every barn in Kansas and Nebraska has had a. new coat of paint." As anyone who knows the great unpainted West of 1896 and 1897, with its bare, weather-stained hous- es, its dilapidated barns, its farm machinery standing out in the rain, its ruinous boom-towns, its discon- tented inhabitants crying out for legislation to relieve their distress this bit of observation raises a pic- ture of improvement and smiling comfort such as no array of figures, however convincing, could produce. Nor did agricultural prosperity cease with 1900. During the next fifteen years the gross value of farm products more than doubled. In 1899 they amounted to $4,700,000,- 000; by 1914 they stood at $9,800,- 000,000. The number of people on- gaged in producing'this product had increased by only 10 per cent, while the volume of farm products had increased by more than 30 per cent. Prices of farm products ,had' risen more than 50 per cent, while the wholesale prices of other commodi- ties had increased less than 30 per cent. If the 'farmer was prosperous in 1900 he must have been well of! indeed by the outbreak of the Eur- opean war. The problem that in— terests the public is how this march of agricultural prosperity can be re- stored. The Farmer as Exporter There are those who believe that agricultural improvement will come through political action. But the fact that the increase in well—being which preceded the fifteen years be- fore the war came about without any political action whatever, casts doubt upon the efficacy of the legis- lative measures that politicians have been willing to enact for the farm- er’s benefit. It is dawning upon the rural community that political re- lief can aid him but slightly. In the long run some benefits will un- doubtedly accrue from the legisla- tive measures that have been pass- ed, but immediately they will avail the farmer little. Neither badger- ing speculators, nor regulating pack- ers, nor providing credit that enable the farmer to borrow money to be repaid in the far-dis- tant future, will help him material- ly. f The root of the farmer's imm'edi- ate Moulty is not to be found in " that nature- of our credit structure; not in the» speculative markets that have developed out of the experience “of threat for the marketing“, his 5pm: sorts the at in- . .V .. .Htl i“ .. my- museums and ' By DAVID FRIDAY ‘ mm HIUHIGAN AGRICULTURAL OOLLEé! (Reprinted from the Saturday Evening Post. Wt 1928 by the Curtis Publishing 00.) ‘ ‘ g mm-umnmmmmmrmdmw nmvmmmmsmmm'mmmm 'ruudfllhflfleluhgnmmy. Kym too-inch posed: by the leaders i'u as moot article. mmds.rwmngmfllhm,mm*s,mm HyenivmttulmovahIohmnimhmto particular! mom yum. of autism. dustry agricultural present trouble arises rather out of the disheveled industrial situation in those foreign countries that have bought his product heretofore. It was the foreign situation which brought about the fall in prices in 1920 and. 1921.. Almost simultane— ously industrial depression struck our home industry. The consequent fall of productive activity and of purchasing power among our indus- trial groups accentuated the down- ward movement of agricultural prices. Nor does production for the for- eign market promise the farmer much for some years to come. In the disheveled state of European in- production is more. nearly normal than are manu- facturing and mining. Agriculture differs from other industries in one important respect: Business depres- sion always reduces the output of manufactures. mines. industrial con—' struction and building operations, but it has practically no effect upon the acreage of crops planted or upon the average yield. We have seen again during the last few years that the farmer does not lower either his acreage or his activity when prices are falling and times are hard. At such times he tries to make up through increased production for the fall in prices. Those of us who liv- ed through the depression of the ’90’s as farmers flouted the idea so commonly put forth during the win- ter of 1920-21 that agricultural acreage and output would be reduc- ed because of the price decline. Noth- ing of the sort happened; it never does. European agriculture is not dif- ferent from ours in this respect. The war and proceeded, with their fam- ilies, and with their sons who had returned from the armies and from. the disturbed industrial centers, to till their fields. These were not so fertile as they had been in 1913 and 1914; the work animals were poor- er; the quality of the seed had been‘ deteriorated but the farmer pro- ceeded to utilize his labor and re- sources to the full. The result is a more nearly normal state'of produc- tion in agriculture than in other lines of industry. Europe is not so well supplied with agricultural pro- ducts as she was before the war or as she would like to be. But she is better supplied with these pro- ducts than with the manufactures she must send us in payment if she is to buy farm produce in America. Europe is in. no position. to buy large quantities of American agri- cultural products at high prices. We produce a surplus for export which must be sold on the European mar- ket, and that portion of the product sold at home will not bring a high- er price than ‘that which'ugoes abroad. In view of this situation,~ome'of the was for getting the farmer out of trouble is. to take "him as far as possible off the international mar:- ket. For through the home entered from the business disam- sion that mended. from the latter part of to. the of 159312, . the pa; ' _ogpewer oi! the Me has now. been restored with the m- used-.01 m. batons has m another twelve months. The pro- duction; of automobiles defeats all previous» records and industry gen- erally is enjoying a revival of pros- perity. Though this may slum somewhat after the building boom has spent itself, there can be no question of its existence at present, Large production, complete employ- ment of labor, rising profits, wages and prices are the order of the day. The best evidence available indicates that the total wages and salaries paid by government and by indus- tries other than agriculture amount- ed to $38,000,000,000 for the year 1920.‘ They felt in 1921 to» $30,- 000,000,0‘00. They cannot be less than $33,000,000,000 for the year 1922, and will probably be larger in 1923. It is doubtful whether these payments were ever as large as $18,- 000,000,000 in any prewar year. The purchasing power of the inhabitants of our cities and towns is, therefore, adequate to absorb a large volume of agricultural products at prices materially higher than those of the. prewar period. Purchasing Power of Home Markets Nor do wages and salaries consti- tute the. entire income of the people living in cities and towns who: buy and consume the products of our farms. They are less than three- quarters of that income. fonts, in)» terest and profits make up another $12,000,000,000 of income for the urban dwellers. When this is: add- ed to the wages and we hm a total spending power in our citlnv and towns of “5,000,000,090 for 1922. If prosperity continues for 1923 it will amount to even more. As a consequence of this revival 0f purchasing power amongour people the gross value of the farmers' pro- duct will be almost fifteen billion dollars for 1922 as against twelve and one—third billions in 1921,, and less than ten billions in 1914. Our towu dwellers have, there- fore, $7,000 of spending power for each of the six and a half million farms in the United States. No oth- er agricultural population in the world has within its own nation any market remotely comparable with this in purchasing power. In states like Michigan, which have, become predominantly industrial during the last decade, the urban purchasing power is even larger. Though the UnitedStatesasawholehas two and one-third persons living in town for every one on the farm. Michi- gan has three and one-third. The townspeople of that state have a net income which morn-nos to more than $11,000 for’every one of its 196,000 farms. m they have ac. cess to» an urban - demotecmflsm’ The problem of getting the Rich tamer out of may n.1,“. ‘_ g panoramic a ' , ii the at $116.93“ “1’ 9" ‘ L gmz; A z .' m- this mm to- cm with the “Wallets... growth of purchasing power among * ourindustrial population. " 'rf the foreign '.situation nor the my: freigti rates. that now prevail an , one new used! coli— ' earn him M Elie will: adjust " cameos-mortals"? mm ensue Home a‘ pm (and! m In Hebigan, ._., like on! W commou- ‘ mm has new a net import of, ._ « ‘ m products. Hermie-mosaic ii- ' .s ."1t‘ ‘. :2“ flaws:- he pm. the prevailing freight rates. The great mot our producers for the home: whet cm ‘ H -' v reach. the consumer em and roads ' . with motor tracks. The Mobile rs eneof'thefswthimthncan he bought nonempty now than in the prewar period. In this manner the farmer amen paying. a wage tbr rail- way labor and: a for coal con— sumed; which. are twice as high as in I the prewar period. The. firmer who . ‘ — ms. wheat finds the tnsernational , musket tsunami-fished and has been ,v ‘ r forced tonsil; for a dollar” a bushel er 1 i " less The W‘ of potatoes finds ~ the market, v overcrowdbd this year. But the growers of early tomatoes for the meal market were receiving $2.60 a bushel when the grower of ever early potatoes was re- ceiving only thirty-five cents. The product of Michigan’s vine- yards was five or six tons of grapes an acre. The price was sixty dol- . lacs a ton. ‘ v The hope of our Michigan: farmer must lie, then, in the developement of production for his home markets. Thus will he escape at once both the ruinous competition of an tmpovu- , ished for‘eign market and the high ‘ freight rates that are necessary to » cover the labor and- fuel‘ cow that " ' have been saddled. upon railroads sad " to provide ,the investors who own _ . - these transportation "systems with a ‘ l r paltry five per cent return. The same situation prevails in many of our other states that have x a mixed industrial and agricultural “ population. In the New England . and Middle Atlantic States we find . .’ almost eleven persons in cities and town for every one on: the farms. Ohio has four; Illinois five; and Dae- ware and Maryland, i41ch the » . District of Columbia, have three and ~ ' \' one-third and live and threé—quar- - f' ters respectively. The Pacific States . have four and one-half. are re- maining states there are, on me IV- era-ge, only one and- one-fifth: towm- folk for each person on farms. Thirteen states have more people on farms than in cities or towns. Adjustments mucus, ' ' This situation is of such recent- development—in the Great Lake basin at least—that agriculture has only partly adjusted itself to the new conditions. Twenty years ago the population on farms and. in urban v communities in Michigan almost evenly balanced. The towns ind one and a quarter persons for every . one on the farm. In 19:10 the ratio ' ’ had risen t6 one and three~quarters and now it is three and’a third. We. have had an industrial revolution in the Middle West since 1901), and Michigan has enjoyed more. than its share of it. The wages and salaries paid by manufacturers in the state have multiplied by ten (1th ' g the last two decades. Twenty years ago' ‘ ‘ v the income of the total population of . J L the cities and towns of the state ‘ amounted to less than. 82.000 ~mr each farm ;. in. 1910 it‘had‘ become al- most $4,000 and today it is, $11,000. Yet during these twenty years the acreage of a crop like strmsberriies has fallen 20- per' cent, when it should have doubled. . . v ; The man nor in While it the firming industry is organised- ” males I h—H_H.4_A nhssosrvsauouousona anagram-uopenness—unanu_-g--_____ :7 ‘ ' - What» v shaft and“ M’methgdsv- he ' 9 ”' “ agth .7 ._ their“ change which charactertacs ‘ inm.m manufacture- ‘ « ~ ' 3% m in the organization ‘ cream-1cm and other “ind-utmost1 ' is one of the chief facts that underlie ‘ What is commonly mu as the agri- cultural problem. _ It is the principal ' reason for- the failure of agriculture 1 to reduce its output in times of de- pression and falling prices. When ‘ “curtailment of demand has reduced the price of manufactured products to the point where they ne‘longer cover the cost of labor and materials and leave a profit, the manager ceases hiring labor and purchasing materials until the curtailment in the output of commodities has raised their prico once more above cost, or until wages and material have fallen .far enough to make production at a ‘ profit possible once more. But the farmer is'at once capitalist, manager and laborer. He cannot dismiss him- self without a net loss. He pur- chance few materials produced by ‘ 0th” than His farm is quite as much a tool which he util- u p _ iza to sell his labor as it is a capital ~ ‘ ' investment which might yield its ‘ owner a living without working. 7 Diversity of Output 4 , It is clear that the individual farm- er canndt undertake any adequate analysis of the market situation which will keep him informed of the varying opportunities it aflords. Our state contains cities that have grown from 13,000 people to more than 90,-000 during the last twenty years. It is small wonder that production has not adjusted itself to the chang- j ed demand tint this growth has ‘ brought. The co—operative market- . ing organizations in the agricultural field have grown largely out of this f « necessity for adequate market anal- _ 1 ysb. They perfirm their most use—- ! ful function in keeping this analysis up to date and in combining the pro- , ducers into a compact organization such that the volume of output may be adjusted he needs. ‘ The Depart- ; meat of Agriculture and the exten- « 1 sins divisions of agricultural colleges , must assist in this task in all our F f industrial states. The inflexibility of agricultural . production which grows out of the nature has been supplemented by an- , . other set of forces which impeded ' ‘3 the adjustment of production to mar- p 1 kets. From 1915 on, the European ' demand for American food products carried the prices of cereals, meats {and other animal products, such as condensed milk, to unheard-of heights. Even at these high prices Europe stoo‘d ready to take all we could supply. In an industry where the manager owned his plant and ' equipment and furnished more than half the labor, there was no necessity for adjusting production to the changed situation. War and war prices were a, sedative which made v him content to remain in old paths. V Transportation costs, controlled as they were by public authorities, long lagged behind the general price level, as did the level of wages. Today ag— ‘ ' riculun'e in the Middle Wést faces a situation that gives little promise of incl-eased prices for the commodities . \ ' done in any state depends on one ” facter——that of diversity of output. is in 4/2 '73 (nm‘fignfc‘h F,,l///.,,.:/;_—/, . “x i "' "'1 c ‘ ‘ " ' 43.4 m lint I... gw‘p _ W s ' / The car for the Woman On the Farm . 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America’s Formost Aauior of the 'Great Northwest (Copyright by Junos on"; our-cod ‘ SYNOPSIS Cache. the home of “The Horde," where she has no friends and all will be JOANNE GRAY is one of the passengers on the train bound for Tete Jaune The train stops at a town composed of several tents, she strange to her. goes in search of food and a. bath. She is directed to “Bill’s Shack” and here she meets Bill Quads. who not only owns and operates “Bill's Shock” but Is also leader of the lawless men of the town. can rent and that he will show it to her. newcomer enters the doorway leading 03 the street, He sees the strange girl enter the place and Aldous» a Well known novelist. Quads says he has a room she As they pass out of the room a The newcomer is John believes she has made a mistake and as he stands in the doorway his eyes rest upon the curtained doorway through which they have passed. face flaming and eyes flashing. He starts to other the girl money but before he can do so moment the girl steps out, her apologeticalll Aldous steps to the girl’s side and floors Quads with a terriflic blow. hurries the girl away from the scene to the hom'e of friends. In but a Quads follows Aldous Joanne tells Aldous she is going to Tete Jaime to find her husband Mortimer FitzHugh. Aldous decides to go with her to protect her frOm Quads and his partner Culver Rann. clares he has seen the grove. Aldous believes Fitzflugh is dead and locates a friend who do- Upon their arrival at Tote Jaune they are met by friends of Aldous. the Blacktons. at whose place they are to stay dur- ing their stop.- Later they secure horses and Supplies and start off into the wilderness accompanied by Donald MacDonald who believes he knows whero the grave of FitzHuzh is located. (Continued from Feb. 3 issue) “ E doesn’t know Whether he buried his wife or left her her lying on the sand floor of the cave. He doesn’t know how he got out of the mountains. But he did, and his mind came back. And since then, Joanne—for a mat-‘ ter of forty years—his life has been spent in trying to find that cave. All those years his search was un- ayailing. He could find no trace of the little hidden valley in which the treasure-seekers found their bonanza of gold. No word of it ever came out of the mountains; no other pros- pector ever stumbled upon it. Year offer year Donald went into the North; year after year‘he came out as the winter set in, but he never gave up hope. “Then he began spending the‘win- ter as well as the summer in that forgotten world—forgotten because the early gold rush was over, and the old Telegraph trail was travelled more by. wolves than men. And al- ways, Donald has told me, his be— loved Jane’s spirit was with him in his wanderings over the mountains, her hand leading him, her voice whispering to him in the lonliness of the long nights. Think of it, Joanne! Forty years of that! Forty years of a strange, beautiful madness, forty years of undying love, of faith, of seeking and never finding! And this spring old Donald came almost to the end of his quest. He knows, now; he knows Where that little treasure valley is hidden in the mountains, he knows where to find the cave!” “He found her—he found her?" she cried, “After all those years—he found her?” “Almost,” said Aldous softly. “But the great finale in the tragedy of Donald MacDonaldls life is yet to come, Ladygray. It will come when once more he stands in the soft white sand of that cavern floog, and sometimes I tremble when I think that when that momentt comes I will be at his side. To me it will be terri— ble. To him it will be—what? That hour has not quite arrived. It hap- pened this way: Old Donald was coming down from the North on the early slush snows this spring when he came to a shack in which a man was almost dead from smallpox. It was DeBar, the half breed. . “Fearlesst McDonald nursed him. He says it was God who sent him to that shack. For DeBar, in his feverish ravings, revealed the fact that he had stumbled upon that little Valley of Gold for which MacDonald had searched through for forty years. 01d Donald knew it was the valley, for the half-breed raved of dead men, of rotting buckskin sacks of yellow nuggets, of crumbling log shacks, and other things the mem- ories of which stabbed like knives into Donald’s heart. How‘he fought to save that man! And, at last he succeeded. “They continued south, planning to outfit and go back for the'gold. They would have gone back at once, but they had no food and no horses. Foot by foot, in the weeks that fol- lowed DeBar described the way to the hidden valley, until oldest Mac- Donald kneW‘mt‘ he ‘ ' t'“ ,. When they reached Tete Juane he came to me. And I promised to go with him, Ladygray—back to the Valley ofVGold. He calls it that; but I—I think of it as The Valley of Silent Men. It is not the gold, but the cavern with the soft white floor that is calling us.” In her saddle Joanne had straight.- ened. her lips were parted, and her eyes shone as the eyes of Joan of Arc must have shone when she stood that day before the Hosts. “And this man, the half-breed, has sold himself—for a woman?” she said, looking straight ahead at the bent shoulders of old MacDonald. “Yes, for a woman. Do you ask me why I go now? Why I shall fight, if fighting there must be?” She turned to him. Her face was a blaze of glory. “No, no, no!" she cried. “Oh, John Aldous! if I were only a man, that I might go with you and stand with you two in that Holy Sepulchre —the Cavern If I were a man, I'd go:—and, yes, I would fight!” And Donald MacDonald looking back, saw the two clasping hands across the trail. A moment later he turned his horse from the broad road into the narrow trail that led over the range. CHAPTER XV From the hour in which she had listened to the story of old MacDon- ald. a change seemed to have come over Joanne. It was as if she had risen out of herself, out of whatever fear or grief she might have pos- sessed in her own heart. John A1— dous knew that there was some deep significance in her visit to the grave under the Saw Tooth Mountain. and that from the beginning she had been fighting under a tremendous mental and physical strain. He had expected this day would be a terrible day for her; he had seen her efforts to strengthen herself for we approach— ing crisis that morning. He be- lieved that as they drew n<~arer to their journey’s end her suspense and uneasiness”. the fear which she was trying to keep from him, would, in spite of her, become more and more evident. For these reasons the Change which he saw in her was not only delightfully unexpected but deeply puzzling. She seemed to be under the influence of some‘new and absorbing excitement. Her cheeks were flushed. There was a different poise to her head; inher voice, too, there w s anote which he had not noticed before. ' It struck him all at once, .thbt this was a new Joanne—a Joanne who, at least for a brief spell, had broken the bondage of oppression and fear that had fettered her. In the nar- row trail up the mountain he rode behind her, and in this he found a pleasure even greater than when he rode at her side. Only when her face was turned from him did he , dare surrender himself at'all to the emotions which had transformed his soul. From behind he could look at her, and worship without fear of discovery. new and exquisite thrill; every danc- ing light and every darkening aha." _ glow in her shimmerinng dad o: Her head was thrown back, . JOHN‘L‘iéSLTf'DE-ERE Every movement of her ‘ slender, graceful body gave him a ‘ V i Wrilof our I. I. 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II on quality dxnctp' mm seedan todoy. " s. I. ISBDJ. & WMPANY ' ‘733 Heel-cola Sr. (4-2) Jock-on. men. ‘ . III-M. H luwa Hus - ' ‘OVB y in these wonderful memengsu-a ' _ yah‘emher presence was so near, and ‘ yet hereyes ‘did not see him, could he submerge himself completely ‘_ in the thought of what she hadng to. him and .of what .she" meant to ~ : , . him. , * n g'. I ' During the. first hour of their * climb over the. break that led into ’the valley beyond they had ,but little , i v opportunity for. cbnversatioj‘ny. The ", ‘f- ~ trail Was anabandoned India-n. pa‘th, " . narrow, and ‘in places extremely steep. Twice Aldous helped Joanne from her horse that she might travel afoot over places where he considered dangerous. When he assisted her into her saddle again, after a stiff ascent of a hundred yards, she was panting from her exertion, and he felt the sweet thrill of her breath in his face. f‘ For a space hishappiness obliterated all thoughts of other things. It was ._ MacDonald that brought them back. Theyhad reached the summit of the break, and through his long brass, telescope the old mountaineer ‘ wasascanningthe valley out of which they.» had come. Under them In? TeteLiJaune, gleaming in the morng ing sun, and it dawned . suddenly gun..— I from which MacDonald havd’spied ' , upon his enemies. He lookedf'atJo‘? i anne. _ I . she looked upon the wonder of the ' scene below.- Suddenly she, turned - and encountered his eyes. I “They might—follow?” she asked. I He shook his head. I “No danger of that,” he assured I» her. . L MacDonald had dismounted, and now he lay crouched behind a rock, i ’ with his telescope resting over the . 1 top of it. He had leaned his long ; rifle against the boulder; his huge I forty-four, a relic of the old Indian days, hungat his hip. Joanne saw these omens of preparedness, and her : eyes shifted again to. Aldous. His " . .303 swung from his saddle. At his waist was the heavy automatic. She smiled. In her eyes was understand- ing, and something like a challenge. : She did not question him again, but I under her gaze Aldous flushed. A moment later 'MacDonaId closed his telescope and without a word mounted his horse. Where the de- 4 scent into the second valley began he i paused again. To the north through the haze of the morning sun gleamed the snow—capped peaks of the Saw Tooth Range. Appargntly not more than an. hour’s ride-distant rose a ‘huge red sandstone giant which seemed to shut in the end of the valley. MacDonald stretched forth a long arm in its direction. “What we’re seekin’ is behind that mountain,” he said. “It’s ten miles-T from here.” He turned to the girl. “Are you gettin' lame Mis’ Joanne?" Aldous saw her lips tighten’. “No. Let us go on please.” She was staring fixedly at the som- bre red mass of the mountain. Her eyes did not take in the magnificent sweep of the \valley below. They saw nothing of the snow—capped peaks beyond. There was something . ‘ .wild and unnatural in their steady gaze. vAldous dropped behind her as they began the gradual descent from . the crest of the break and his own heart began to beat mare apprehen— sively; the old question flashed back upon him, and he felt the oppression that once before had held him in its grip. His eyes did not leave Joanne. And always she was staring at the mountain behind which lay the thing they were seeking. Her face had ; not paled. Its conloli- was like the g hectic flush of a fever. Her eyes , alone betrayed her; their strange in- v tensity—the almost painful steadi- ness with which they hung to the distant mountain and a dread, jofa “ what was tc-come seized upon‘h'i'm. -’ ’ Again he found himself asking ques- . tions which he could not answer. ' Why had Joanne not confided more 1) fully in him? What Was the deeper significance of this visit to the grave, and of her mission in the» mountains? Down the narrow Indian trail they passed into the thick spruce .timber. Half an hour later they came out into the grassy Creek bottom of the During that time Joanne did. not look hlihind her, .and helm )wi‘thc‘ut "not. .. , , , , " thing'sinist‘er, and sullen about it. on Aldousvthat ‘ this was the-"spot 1 i' She was breathing Quiclirlyia‘s‘‘~ ’y meantaiw I There was 1.85m? It was ugly and broken. No ve’ge- --taticn grew upon it, and through the haze ofsunlight its barren. sides and battlemented crags gleam-ed. a dark humid red after the morning mists, as if freshly stained with Aldous guessed its effect 'upon ‘Jo- anne, and he determined to put an end to it. Again he rode up close beside her. “I want you to get better ac- quainted with old Donald,” he said. “We’re sort; of leaving him out in the cold, Ladygray. Do you mind if I tell him to come back and ride with you for a while'?”' “I’ve been wanting to talk with him/"she replied. “If you don’t mind ” “I don’t,” he broke in quickly “You’ll love old Donald, Ladygray. And, if you can, I’d like to have you tell him all you know about—Jane. Let him know that I told you.” “I wil-l,"»she Said. A moment later Aldous was telling MacDonald that Joanne wanted him. The old mountaineer stared. He drew his pipe from his mouth, beat out its *ha‘lf-burned' cements" a'nd {thrust it into its accustomed»~ pocket. ‘ ' .“She Wants ‘to-See» me?” he asked. “God bless her scul'——1what for?” ‘ .“Because she thinks you’re lone— some. up here alone, Mac. And look here"—Aldcus leaned over to Mac- Donald~“her nerves are ready to snap. I know it. There’s a mighty good reason why I can’t relieve the strain she is under. But you can. She’s thinking every minute of that mountain up there and the 'grave behind it. You go back, and talk. Tell her about the first time you ever came up through these valleys—you and Jane. Will you, Mac? Will you tell her that?” . MacDonald did not reply, but he dropped behind. Aldous took up the lead. A few minutes later he looked back, and laughed softly under his breath. Joanne and the old hunter were riding side by side in the creek bottom, and Joanne was talking. He looked at his watch. He did not look at it again until the first gaunt, red shoulder of the sandstone moun- tain began to loom over them. An hour had passed since he left Joanne. Ahead of him perhaps a mile distant, was the cragged spur beyOndyIfhfc according to the vsketch”which Kalil” had drawn for him at the engineer-{s} camps—was the rough canyon lead-“ 1‘ ing back to the basin on the far side ‘ He had almost ’ reached this when MacDonald rode of’ the mountain. up. “You go back, Johnny,” he said, a singular softness ‘in his hollows voice. “We’re a’most there.” , He cast his eyes over the western peaks, where dark clouds were shouldering their way up in the face of the sun, and added: “There’s rain in that. I’ll trot on ahead with Pinto and have a tent ready when you come. 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Akron, 0. for free instructs»: ‘ Endence o (Janeen- f Send sketchl or ,_ KP“ gffhgocgs Io'zalbgiag' hmmhlnihnfn&-WL allsout an up. % ‘WBITING TO ADVISE-V MON-~THE ,wM." B.‘ F. $2:i':iamp equation. uoooolory. \- > i 'oll oompldlm or you. All Inoulrloo mun NOTIFY HIGHWAY COMMISSION- ER REGARDING CULVERT Who should I notify if a. culvert in a quarter line is out, making the road unfit to travel? same has been out all summer. I have notified the Highway Commissioner of same but he fails to repair same.—-C. E. R., Sanilac, Michigan. ——-The statute provides that it is the duty of the Highway Commissioner to see that the road is kept in rea- sonable repair, safe and fit for pub— lic travel and in case he neglects this duty, after receiving your notice you should then bring this matter to the attention of the township board—H. H. Partlow, State High- way Department. PAYING TUITION Does the district have to pay the tuition for a child if the application was filled out and filed with the director on or before the fourth Mon- day of June and the child remained in the district until November 16, 1922? At this time the parents moved to Lake View, Michigan, but the-child was attending Owosso high school.-—J. W. S., Lake View, Mich. “The question apparently arises be. cause the parent is now living in a. school district that maintains a legal home no tuition would be chargeable. Section 1 of the tuition law, which i is Section 5380 of the compiled Laws inf 1915, found on page 320 of the .1921 school laws, provides in part 5 as follows: . g “The district board or board of {education of any school district which does not maintain a high ischool shall have authority and is J hereby required to vote 3‘ tax sumo- ient to pay the tuition to any high school which is approved by the sup- erintendent of public instruction of any children of school age residents of said district'at the time of giving notice as hereinafter provided. The parents of the child in this case were living in a district which did not maintain a legal high school at the time of making application for tuition. The statute quoted pro— vides that if that is the case the dist- rict must pay the tuition for that school year. The fact that the par- cut may move into a district that maintains a. high school would not relieve the district where the appli- cation was filed from the payment of high school tuition, if the parent continued to send his child to an— other high school. This construction of the tuition law is in accordance with justice both from the standpoint of the child and the district. If a child has entered high school it might cause v an interference with his work if he were required at anytime if the par- ents moved into a high school dist- rict, to change high schools. It might, be also that the child could better attend some other high school than the one in the district where his parents had moved. There might be several reasons Why this would be true. Further, if the parent is living in the district at the usual time of making application the child’s name is on the census list of the district and that district will draw primary money for the follow- ing year, regardless of where the par— ent may move. If the parent has any property in the district it would be on the assessment roll and sub- ject to tax. You will see, therefore, that there is no hardship to the dist- * rict because it is obliged to.pay~ the tuition—W. L. Coffey, of, Public Instruction. Dept. LINE FENCE DISPUTE I own a farm along the corpora— tion line of the village of Portland. There, is no street laid out along the line. I and the man I- bought of, had the County S.urveyor,,, survey it out. There are corner stakes at each end one-half mile apart. It is on a section line. :3 rod. from. the line on my farm. Now aparty'has bought an acre of land om- _ fiche place has {been worked“: __ . so many mend (A Oloorlno Department for formon' ovary day would“. amt roouoou for Information lddl'llt“ to um department. We no hon bo oooompanlod by full I: emo and addms. Homo not mod If so me high school and if the child were at n Then I stretched barb- ~ ed wire a‘nd fastenedit to trees about , not anything. stipul g. plowed to the line. Now he has grub'bed out the extra land, and claims the fence is the line, and has cut the trees the wire was fastened to, has planted corn right up «to the fence so that my stock can reach through the wires and eat it. Would those wires be called a line fence?‘ How long would it have to be there to be an established line fence? I have filled in between the trees with- stakes and posts to held stock. . I put the wires all along the cor- responding line. \ Would I have to deal with the party on the place or the man that holds the deed‘l—C. V. P., Portland, Mich. —You do not state in which one worked and claimed the rod of fence to the corporation line. To gain title by adverse possession to the rod strip of landit requires something more than just laying idle and growing up to weeds. If your title by deed goes up to the section line it would re- quire some overt act claiming title to the strip adverse to the title by deed and it must be continuous and without interruption for 15 years. A two strand wire fence may be a line fence but not a lawful fence. A line fence is the line between two properties and may be marked by any line even though that line may not stand the test of a lawful fence. If you claim to own the strip of one rod of land and another has taken possession and not necessarily with the man who owns the adjacent land. His contract to the purchase of one acre may not include the strip'but only to the section line. I think you will need to consult with a good at- torney to explain to him just what the facts are so he can tell you what your rights area—Legal Editor. MUST BUILD SHARE OF LINE FENCE I own an apple orchard and it is open on two sides to public high— ways that is no fence. There are two forms that join to my famn on the two sides. I have no stock and no need for a. fence. Does the state require me to share the expense of fencing?—~J. Ii, Holland, Mich. -—-Chapter 68', of the compiled laws of 1915 provide a method whereby abutting property owners of improv- ed lands may compel you to con- struct and maintain your portion of the line fence between your or— chard and the adjoining property owner. There is nothing‘in the law however that requires you to con- struct highway fences on the two sides of your orchard abutting the public highwayL—H. H. Partlow, State Highway Dept. COMMON LAW MARRIAGE I understand that if a couple live together as man and wife and pass for the same, it is called a common law marriage after a few years say 10 or 12 years. In case such couple should separate, does a divorce have to be obtained before the parties are free same as in a lawful marriage? Can a common law wife claim any of a man’s prop- erty if he has no other heirs?—C. D. H., Muskegon, Mich. “The law is that if a couple live together for a period of two years or more and hold each other out to the world as man and wife, it is a common law marriage and it would be necessary for either of them to secure 'a divorce; their children would be legitimate and the wife could inherit property from the man, or the man from the woman—C. DeL. LAND CONTRACT In regard to a land contract, what right has the second party to the tim- ber on the same farm. Here is the condition of the contract: “It is expresser agreed as a part of the consideration that first parties may have their fire-wood. for their own domestic use from the premises herein conveyed for a. period of 135 years from the date hereof, they to out the some from dead and down or dying timber and to clean up tops and leave the premises in. a and and wOrkmeulike 7 manner." ' ‘ ' sted tor 3&0- l Dick’o Blmard‘ ' vol 1923. All model'sare self-f mmSome have automatic flood; control. All in Big New Circular Sent Free Bib-utdomtouttfiw ’E; I. I " - No udtor I _ , 1) time. won 1: .Mlo. ‘ ' solo. Writola lore-hoo- Outurl for (I a I ° .Wonderful money opportunity for fence buyers. 1?:- molo Peerle- _Fenoo now commi- .low o- 170 o V rod—Iowan prices over Ioorlooo fence. FREE Writo'todoy for lfl-pouo outdo. giv- ‘ infilowdiroet 1r. {my pro-u ll'onco, Got-é“ orb Wire. 8 M. Roofing and nts. Sines” . leoo'Hr ‘ ’ Shanda oponodvtbeir door! “1. for-Ion it moons oeleor loving of“. 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He may hold the seller to his con- tract to use‘only such wood as is required for domestic purposes, and may recover from him (or any wood in excess of this amount. or in vio— lation of any terms of the contract. rum that the seller takes the choice of the down timber does not alone make him liable, however, so long as he is permitted by the eon-é tract to out down such timber. Assistant Legal Editor. MIXTURE OF COUNTY ROAD FUNDS I would like to know through the columns of your paper if the Board of County Road Commissioners have the authority to spend the good road money for other purposes other than to- construct and maintain high— waysl—A. E., Waltz, Michigan. —’!‘he county road law specifically provides for the purchase of right of ways for relocations of highways, for the purchase of lands for gravel, borrow or other necessary material to be used on the highway, also they are given authority to pay for the services of a Deputy County Clerk when such clerk is necessary by reason of the volume of work. They are also given specific authority to employ such servants and laborers as may be necessary and may pur- chase such machines, tools, appli- EDITED- BX J. HERBERT FERRIS RADIO DEPARTMEN FOR YOUR PROTECTION! ' HE following Fire Insurance Un— derwriters rules should be pre- serVed and studied. The pro- per installation of a radio set is not a fire hazardmbut it the rules are not followed, you may lose your in- surance, no matter what the cause of fire may be!—-Radio Editor. FOR TMNSi/fl'l'mNG STATIONS Antenna—{.mamennas outside .0! buildings shall not cross over or nnderelectric light or power wires 0! any circuit or more than six hund- red (800) volts or railway trolley, or feeder wires, nor shall it be so located that :a failure of either the antenna or or the above mentioned electric or power wires can result in a contact between the antenna and such light and power wires. Antennas shall be constructed and installed in a strong and durable manner and shall be so located as to prevent accidental contact with light and power wires by sagging or swinging. Splices and joints ‘ln the antenna span shall,’ unless made with ap- proved clamps or splicing devices, be soldered. Lead-in Wimm-h—Lead-in wires shall be of copper, approved copper-. clad steel or other metal which will not corrode excessively and in no case shall they be smaller than No. 14 B. & '8. Sage. ‘ Antenna and counterpoise con- ductor-fund wires leading themirom to ground switch, where attached. to “tidings, must be 11rme mounted live (5.) inches clear of the surface at the building, on. non-absorptive insulating supports such as treated wood pins or brackets «nipped with insulators having not less than five (5) inch creepage and air-gap dist. also. to inflammable or conducting material. Approved suspension type 'rinsalainrsmaybeused. lie-11: pissing the antenna or ewan lead-in into the build— ushiag- o! . ' non-als- ‘gshsail‘. he lied ' La or» b I 7 flint choice“ (It the-twin“ - about “is, was or V when. it was customary to cut ‘ ing supports. The litigation hashes-flax; their“ 'v‘illkfilflnt she necessary ‘or conveni- .The statute further provides that the Board of County Road Commis- sioners shall have all the authority in respect to roads, bridges, culverst, etc, which is vested in highway oi- flcea in townships and the statute specifically provides that township “for. the» proper carrying a. of mar commissioners shall provide a suit~ able place for the storage and proper housing of alltools, implements and machinery that are owned by the township. It would theretoro tollow that Boards of County Road Com- mMoners are vested with the au— thority to purchase land and erect the necessary buildings for housing and storage of their equipment and for making necessary repairs inci- dent to such equipment. I believe this constitutes their au- thority tor the expenditure of money with the understanding of course that the superintendents. engineers and the construction of bridges are included in the above w“ " Dart- low, State Highway Department. ANYONE KNOW WHERE TITUB GHAULKLIN IS? Some time ago We published a re- quest from Mrs. Bergman, R. 1, Gull- iver, Michigan, in this department. She desired information regarding her nephew, Titus Chaulklin, whose home'address is Ensign, Mich. In June, 1922, he worked for a motor company in Musliegon. She received a letter from him at that time and he advised he was about to move. Since that time none of his relatives have received a word from him. They are afraid something has hap~ pened to him. He is 5 feet 5 inches tall, 21 years old, and dark complex- ioned. His mother is nearly heart broken and any word from a reader who knows anything about where the boy is will be appreciated. Address your letters to Mrs. John Bergman, R. 1. Gulliver, Michigan. W inches to any extraneous body. If porcelain or other fragile material is used it shall be installed so as to be protected from mechanical in- jury. A drilled window pane may be used in place of bushing pro- vided five (5) inch creepage and air- gap distance is maintained. Protective Grounding Switch—- j.—-A double-throw knife having a break distance of tour (4) inches and a blade not less than one. eighth (as) inch by one-half (35) inch shall be used to join the an- tenna and counterpolse lead—ins to' the ground conductor. The switch may be located inside or outside the building. The base at the switch . . shall be oi! nonaabsomtive insulat- ing material. are not recommended. This switch must be so mounted that its current- carrying parts will be at least live (5‘) inches clear of the building wall or other cand'nctors and located pre- ferably in the most direct line be- tween the lead—in conductors and the point where ground connection is made. The conductor from ground— in; switch to ground connection must be securely supported. Protective Ground Wilro--k.—An- tenna and counter-poise conductorsl must be eilectively and pemanently grounded at all times when station is not in actual operation (unattend- ‘ ed) by a conductor at least as large as the lead—in and in no case shall it be smaller than No. 14 B. & S. ‘ gage copper or approved copper-clad stool. ,, This grou wire need not be insulated or no nted on insulat— ground wire shall be run in as straight line as possible to a good permanent ground. Preference shall be given to water "piping. Gas piping shall not be used tor the ground connec- tion. Other permissiole grounds- are the grounded steel [runes of buildings and other grounded metal work. in buildings and artificial grounding. devices such as driven . cones. etc. The PM Mites. ground wire shall be protected Slate base switches against mechanisch injury. 7 An ap— , v switch ' 2’ Engine "was... r not F. o. B. 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This they did by§:5piacing the point of the cone to one. side, so' that the defect was ‘oea'ted on the spot where a two inch hole had to be drilled for the valve seat. Production Was started :- u'nder this method, but another de- *loiy‘..was experienced because of the slow method of outting the tubes. rEmde set to work again and de- signed and built a shear to be used instead of a steel saw. The re- sult‘was that 4,000 cylinders a day wereproduced. In other plants the valve housings, intake and exhaust were acetylene welded to the top _'of the, cylinder. Emde with a com- 'pan'ion,- (Riemenschneider, worked outs method‘of butt welding which ',»made a superior weld and saved much time. This «method was sub-' sequently‘adopted by other makers of the Liberty meter. .Inall 511,854 cylinders were made by the, Ford company. ‘Approxi‘mately 125,000 were used at the Ford plant and the remainder delivered to the gov- ernment for other Liberty engine makers. The company also turned out 700,000 bearings for the Liberty motor, and these were so superior that the govermment had placed or— ders with the company for all the ‘Liberty‘motor bearings made in this country. Up to the day of the publication of the Hughes state— ment 400,000 of these hearings had been delivered. ., Another important war-time achieVement of the Ford company was in the making of caisson axles. The problem was to get away from the solid axle forgings, as these re— quired the drilling of a‘ three and one—half inc-h hole for seventy-six incihes through ‘s'olid metal. The Ford :company made the axles from ' ,1 ftubing‘ at one-sixth the cost. \ 1 every axle passed the govern— menttest. ' ',--‘}'But Mr. Pipp vknew much more about the achievements of the Ford company. It had delivered 2,000,- 000 steel helmets, 8,000 caissons, more than 8,000 trucks and 25,000 Ford'cars and 6,000 ambuiances, several hundred of which were given free. Nor 'was that all. Much experimental work- had been done on three-ton tanks and a smaller two-man tan‘k. More than a million fdo'llars’ worth of work had been '[do’n'eiin producing special devices _ :for.:.the ‘British navy, and the, Ford chemical department had co-oper- Iated,‘in the making of gas masks. Motion picture reels for the Lib- erty‘gLoa-n, the Red Cross (and other patriotic uses were madeby the company» and sup-plied tot-he gov— ernment in suflicient.quantities to be used all over the country. Other motion pictures were sent to the American forces on every fighting Jifront. e . I i HoW' much of this information he would be warranted in publish— ing as, an answer to the Hughes criticisms: Was the problem that {confronted Mr._ Pipp. However, iti-me pressed and he set to work, and" a, statement was completed on “Menday rmorning. Just as he fin— ished his labors (Mr. Ford, who was jin'the room, started to the tele- iphone. “I want to get Eunde,” he explained. “I want to tell him not to worry." Emde, it is true, was ‘born'in Germany, but he had been a naturalized citizen of the United States for many years. “Let-me read this statement to you fifSt,” urged .Mr. Pipp. “Then I" in give it to the papers. Any ‘ ay in getting it published may mega. " your defeat.” " ‘ If “this; candidate {has to go w-Idon’t Want to 'go Ford. 1 “‘Wait until ' mericd Darin conversation with E-mde, gh thiscsort of tiring-to get > When Mr. Ford had finished his Mr. Pipp induced him to' read the statement. Mr. Ford a'ppr0ved it and 'Mr. Pipp sent it to the neWSpapers. It was too late; the Monday noon papers had gone to press and it was these editions that the Ford managers had relied upon to undo the harm wrought by the Hughes statement, for they circulated throughout the state. The statement did get into the night editions, but these have little country circulation, and the papers that reached the rural dis- tricts on election morning carried the Ford statement tucked away where comparatively few saw it. It is probable that many who read the Hughes statement never saw the Ford answer. This was as follows: _ .“Our policy is to ma'ke men, not to break them. In times of panic great injury and injustice are often try to keep our heads. “We would not allow injustice, to be done to an old, trusted and valued employee, even though he was born in Germany. The results speak for themselves. «Mfr. Ermde, referred to as the special example in the Hughes report, has been .with us a little over twelve years, and he is a most able and excellent engineer and has' al- ways giVen perfect satisfaction. Not one word could be found by Mr. Hughes or anyone else with‘regard to ‘Mr. Emde’s actual work. We in the (plant 'know that he gave valu— able assistance and many suggestion-s with regard to the development of the Liberty tmotor cylinders, which are being furnished to all the man— ufacturers, with a saving of three hundred and forty-five thousand dollars a month to the government over former orders. From the beginning of the war we have taken the greatest precau- tion. * * * We have had no inter— ference with our work that could be in any way traced to enemy aliens. * * * The United States Marshall can speak for himself as to our organization and work with re— gard to that. Mr. Ford was a witness before Mr. Hughes, but he was not asked a single question with ref- erence to enemy aliens, Mr. Emde or anyone else.” Under the Ford reply was printed a statement from the United States Marshal: “We have had ‘less trouble with enemy aliens in the Ford plant than in any other large plant. If there is any blame with regard to the Forn plant, it should be on the ' marshal’s office and not on the Ford people. The Ford company did not employ a single German alien with- out a permit of the marshall’s office. Friends who dropped in to see Mr. Ford that day still expressed confidence that he would be elected,, but as he and Mr. Pi’pp left the campaign headlquarters together Mr. Ford said to his companion, “I noticed that you did not join with the others when they were insisting that I would win tomorrow. “No,” replied Mr . Pipp. “I think you have plain sailing. I think you have a fair fighting chance, but only a fair one.” “But that wasn’t what you said Saturday.” -‘ ‘enryik g7 I'World War—Chicago Tribune Libel Suit (Copyright by Reilly & Lee Co.) “No; if the election had been held Saturday you would have Won. But today is Monday and it’s a different story." ‘ . “Do you mean that you think the Wilson letter'——” « . “In \my estimation,“ interrupted Mr. Pipp, “the Wilson letter cost you ten thousand votes. You could spare that many. There were peo- ple in Michigan who had forgotten all about party lines; they only re- membered that you were a candi- date and they wanted to pay you the highest honor they could. The Wilson letter jerked them up. It reminded them that they were Re- publicans and that you are running as a Democrat. I would wager that letter cost you their votes. You could spare ten thousand votes, but you can’t spare many more.” “Then you thing the Hughes» statement4—J’ “The Hughes statement will wonk more ~havoc than anything else could have done. People will not have time to learn the truth. If I could have got a reply out in. time for it to reach every voting precinct it would have helped some. Up-state and in the" rural districts they won’t see tomorrow’s papers, but you can be perfectly sure that they’ll get word of the Hughes report. If they don’t see it them— selves some one will pass it along. The gossip that you’re keeping a German working in your cylinder department will reach them. Com- ing from a ‘man of Mr. Hughes' prominence it will carry weight. I know ‘that last minute rumors often turn the tide. In 'my opinion you have a fair fighting chande. You may pull through, by .a narrow margin. You probably will lose by between five and ten thousand votes.” The first election reports gave the state to Commander Newberry by 7,567 votes. The official re- count, some eighteen [months later, changed the figures somewhat, but not the result. fM‘r. Pipp had been right. - The -results of that contest were far reaching. If Henry Ford had won there would have been an equal number of Republicans and Democrates in the .Senate and the Vice-President, a Democrat, would have cast the deciding vote where there was a tie. Moreover, the Re- publicans would not have had the chairmanships of all the commit- tees. Finally, but for the Repub- lican (majority of two in the Senate the League of Nations might have been endorsed. |The many good Americans who are opposed to the League feel that it 'was fortunate for the country that Commander Newberry was elected. Many others, finm be- lievers in the League, regard the outcome of the Michigan campaign as a defeat, not alone for Henry Ford but for the hope of penmanent peace. was involved in that contest. It was not until a short time ago, on May 2, 1-921, that the case was finally disposed of by the decision of the United (States (Supreme Court at Washington, which set asidethe conviction of our Commander New- berry in the Michigan District Fed— " underhand )methods. v him the most pleasure . A‘ND DEVELOPED Certainly the whole nation“ ;,f 5 ed "a ' Z_. stitut o'nal ' -Corrupt ‘ Pr aj: ‘- ' .tices act, under been'indicted: ' There are those who sa’y‘that Mr. ‘Hughes never made the statement. attributed ,‘to. him, and that he would now have stooped to such campaign methods had. he been aware of the. .Republican cdmlin‘it- tees plan. ~‘"T.hat statements-7w” ‘ held back until the last minute so thatv‘Mr. Hughes wouldvnot have an opportunity to deny it,” they argue. * ‘ His defeat brought 'to Henry Ford, no doubt, a feeling of relief. ‘He had-'made the best fight any candidate could make. He was Sur— prised and hurt by the eleventh- hour methods of the Republican organization. For himself his con- . science wasclear; he had fought a clean fight and had not stooped to , Long before the votes were recounted andthe ofiicial election figures filed he had received several citations ,from‘ the United States War Department, which meant much more to him than a seat in the’United States Senate. The citation which gave is printed herewith: , “'To Ford Motor’IComrpany, Detroit, Michigan: “In accordance with the recom— mendation of the Director of Air Service a certificate of merit has been sent to you under separate cov- er. v ‘ . “The citation by the (Director of Air Service is as follows: “THIS COMPANY. PR'O‘DUICED 3,950 COMPLETE LIBERTY—12 MOTORS OF UNUSUALLY GOOD QUALITY. THEY ALSO PRODUC< ED ALL CYLINDER FORGINGS USED BY ALL PILANTS IN‘THE MANUFACTURED ‘ OF LIBERTY MOTORS, AND THEY INVENTED SPECIAL MA- CHINERY AND PROCESSES FOR Tails PURPOSE. THIéS PLANT W'AIS 100'PER CENT ON WAR WORK. W . “The Chief of Ordnance also made similar recommendation and cita- tion: “IT IS .VERY GRATIF‘YING TO ME TO BE E'NA'BLED TO TRANS— MI’I‘ THIIS VIlSIBLE RECOGNITION . OF PATROTIC WAR SERVICE. ' GEO. W. BURR, \ ' ‘ Major General, ' Assistant Chief-of-JStaff.” This proved that Henry Ford, in his own field, had done all that any living manicould do for his coun- try. Without doubt he had been the medium of saving the lives of many soldiers. -. The strangestgthing about this Senate race ;was that Mr. Ford" was not a Democrat. He was and is a Republican. He made the. race for Senator because he belived ;.in.._ the‘ principles for which Prelsident-_»~Wil- son was standing. With the"ex— ception of that one campaign, and. the time, When he votedfor the‘re-r election of .Woodrow -.'Wilson, he has always voted the Republican ticket. Yet he was the stonm.cen- ter of one ofthe bitterest,political battles that ever has been waged. “CHAPTER VII. The Chicago Tribune Libel Suit. Shortly after the time of the Ford-Newberry canpaign an east- ern writer "came to Detroit to se- cure material for a boo’k dealing with Heifi'y Ford and his achive- «ments. He failed to secure the “copy” he wanted and for that or some other reason gave out a story dealing? with ~Ill/Dr. Ford and the American flag that hadno founda— tion in fact. ‘The story was widely circulated - among newspapers throughout the country and was, also, the subject of much editorial‘ comment. ~ g should be said , that many newspapers printed‘the orig- inal telegram from 'DetrOityin 'goOd faith, merelylas a matter?ng news. and. with...no thought at they-time that the‘article was untrue.” '. ' .. .The' editorial‘i‘vcomlnfentthat the '. ‘*‘fa‘ke” story provoked how'r-. . ._-ever, extremely severe .inmany in: . of" stances and especially in seme i bite his "UM the w'ii ioh he .had. Doll: in your spare time. 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Eli-mere? — ho brongktlt—nnd tent , .Boo tell- oll—it'lIroe . ‘ qnd auto-Id. ‘ II. M. KELLOGG CO. A. _ s coo: ' Three givers, Mloh. Made from Your OWE! Horse or. Cow lele. We make this cost to measure from the hide you send. Write usfor special low price. Any Kind of Skin We make up any kind of skin to . suit your needs. 1 Also Ladlee’ Coats and Furs. Robes. etc. We have been in the tanning since 1878 and guaran- moon. ’ ‘l’ s; l w“ editorial writers .madééthék’pharge against him. Mr. Ford'waited patiently, but the at— tacks continued. Finally, his pa- tience exhausted, he placed the matter in the hands of his attor- neys, who sent letters to the of- fending papers, were printed. , At length 'Mpr. Ford and his aid-- visors decided that in defense of his good name he must act. The leading paper among the group that had attacked. him most bitterly was "selected- and. suit for libel was started’_ against. "it. in the Circuit Court for Wayne Countyfat' Detroit. , .This paper swasathe Chicago Trib- une. It had challenged his pa- triotism, had termed him an igno— rant idealist and had linked his name 'With the names of noted an— archistleaders whom Mr. Ford did not know and with whom he never had had any connection whatever. A more absurd charge probably never was brought against a well known man than the allegation that Mr. Ford was an anarchist. At his great plants in Detroit an Ameri— canization school had been main— tained for five years, one of the primary purposes of Which was to instill respect for American prin- ciples in the minds of the foreign- born employees of the Ford com- pany. This school had prepared thousands of i‘mlmagrants for the duties of citizenship. cMr. Ford, himself, had done great things for his country in the critical days of the _war and the beneficial results of his example and influence were far- reaching. He 'Was a member of the Episcopal church, attended services regularly and was by instinct as well as by training a champion of law and order, of patriotism and truth. He ‘knew little andcared less about history, although he played a part in its making, and concerned himself with what could be done today for the good of his fellow men, rather than with what had transpired in past ages. He enjoys books on philosophy and science and is a close read of Tol- stoy. Darwin, Maeterlinc‘k and Emerson. A volume of Emerson is always to be found beside a couch in the library where, after dinner, he frequently spends much time reading before a huge fire- place- , . In bringing suit against the Chi- cago Tribune IMr. Ford’s position was simply th 8: He disliked the idea of protracted litigation and all the attendant publicity, but he was no coward, and once he had de— cided that he must act,- act he did and vigorouslys He reasoned that in order to secure adeq‘uate satis- faction frolm the paper that had libeled‘hini he must demand a sum that Would make a lasting impres- sion on the press of the country, hence the million «dollars asked in the bill filed by his attorneys. He believed that his suit would have a. salutary effect ,upon the" press in general. and serve as a warning that .4... MUSINGS OF A, ROSE early, being..tired of the. bed where I spent 'most of my v ’ 1 time since last October, being ill' With' typhoid fever. ' Was given a dish of oat meal por— ridge spread thick with brown sugar, which I crave. As the sun became higher I was bundled up and then hobbled to the barn. My wife wishing me to look at the stock and mows. It was fine to see the horses. I believe they knew that I had been absent. ‘ ' Stood gazing up the silo chute, wishing my leg was equal to my eye. ' ,Returned to the house, weak of leg. Commended my wife on the fine condition of the stock; thanks gm first as 'r N 12's" 3‘“ ‘ M12 i that he wasv‘f‘h'dt” an‘ anarchist and‘ ‘Ahad nofr‘sympathy-tfwiflr anarchists, but no retractions “free speech” does not shield the slanderer.' He felt too that .hezwas cham'piOning the cause of other men similarlywronged, but not so well equipped financially for a long and expensive struggle in the courts. He was not fighting the newspapers; he was fighting false- hood. Elaborate preparations for the suit were made on both sides. Al-i fred Lu'cking, Congress, and senior counsel for Mr. Ford, was assisted in the pres- entation of the caseby Judge A1— fred Murphy, who resigned from the Wayne County bench to enter. the case.‘ The case came to trial in the summer of 1919 at Mt. Clem— ens, where it was sent on a change of venue from Detroit. Among the attorneys for the Tribune was El—~ liott G. Stevenson, who had been counsel for the Dodge brothers in their suit against Mr. Ford a. few years before. Mr. Stevenson is an expert in cross examination, adept in the ridiculing of a witness, catch— ing him off his guard and discon- certing him with sudden and unex- pected questions. Report reached Mr, Ford and his lawyers that Mr. Stevenson had boasted that he would force Mr. Ford to read aloud in court long documents and ex- tracts fro'm books with which the inventor was unfamiliar. Mr. Ford was determined to do nothing of the kind. Upon the day when he was on the witness stand he care— fully neglected to take his glasses to court, and whenever documents were presented to him to read he‘ It was following Steven- bland— refused to do so. one such refusal that Mr. son, with profuse apoligies, 1y said to the witness: “Mr. Ford, I dislike to ask you this questiOn, but I have heard that you cannot read or write. Is it true?” Counsel for Mr. Ford were on their feet instantly with vigorous objections to the question and the argument was sharp and bitter. To say that a. boy who had grown up on a Michigan farm under home conditions such as had marked the childhood of Henry Ford, was illit- erate was, of course, absurd. Mr. Ford’s friends believed that the sole purpose of the question was to supply a basis for a sensational newspaper story that would be widely circulated and thus further wound the inventor. _ (Continued in March 3rd issue.) INTERESTED IN FORD STORY Dear Mr. Slocum—It is with great pleasure that I enclose $1.00 for the re- newal of my subscription to your very valuable paper. We have found it al- most invaluable. We are very much in— terested in the Ford history, and would be disappointed should we miss a single number. I consider it one of the best farm papers published. Long may it live and .prosper.~—~Prof. W. Scott, Com_— missioner of Municipal Market, Ypsilanti. Michigan. _(DON’T \VANT T0 hIISS A COPY "Your paper surely is of great help. ' We don’t want to miss a single copy of it. :ifj'possible.,——-Mr. Andrew Kallungi, Houghton ' County, Michigan. PLAIN FARM ER.___’_ toh'er, and the. good neighbors; who "have beenmostvkind. . - ‘, Was ordered to my couch, my ,w1fe being rfirm about my rules of exer— cise, more so than the good nurses at the hospital. Was aroused for dinner which I attacked with vigor, having an ap- petite like an ostrich. . 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TL: ev one when wriuux my: "I new your sdvertisunent Inc-gun Busine- B'srmerl" It will minutes honest dealing “The Farm Paper of Service” FABMER MUST PWPEB TOO! “ '1‘ takes no prophet to scan these facts- and foretell an early collapse of the present city prosperity unless the farm- er soon gets his equitable share. This pres- ent prosperity is a sham, because it is the opulence of some at the depletion of others, the profits of unfair and therefor ruinous , trade. Half this country cannot long run riot in plenty abstracted from the capital of the other half. The source will run dry. The way out? Only the slow integration of farmers into powerful economic‘ groups and a recasting of the whole system of agri- cultural finance and marketing. 1 This is a national need and a national duty."—Gray Silver, Washington Rep. American Farm Bureau. A TEST FOR LEGISLATORS F‘ we had been consigned to Lansing in either the house or senate by the voters of our dis- trict, which we will assume was largely rural we would set for ourselves a sort of laboratory- test to which we would put each bill that came up, for our vote. Perhaps we would even have it printed up on cards so that we could hand them out to the persistent lobbyist, male or female and thus save ourselves many an ear—full of absolute- ly meaningless information or advice. We would print in two colums and under heads as follows: VOTE "YES" Lower Taxes Lower Salaries Lower Expenditures Less Jobs VOTE “NO” Higher Old Tax Any New Tax ‘ Higher Salaries More Jobs Less Oificials More Officials Less Legislation More Legislation And under these classifications we believe we could easily arrive at a sane answer for any bill which would come up in Lansing during the pres- ent session. Only, last week nearly five hundred business men, representing practically every industry, came to Lansing as a. “committee-in-boots" to beg for, insist on or fight to a finish for—EXACTLY WHAT THE FARMERS OF MICHIGAN ARE DEMANDING— LOWER TAXES! Thus, for once, are the people on both sides. of the town line demanding the same thing. Every man in Lansing who has been sent there by popular vote has promised to lower taxes—- every man among them from Governor down, has premised on his word NOT‘to increase state ex- penditures. Pretty soon, the people of Michigan are going to call a “show-down" and they are not going to be satisfied with anything but a hard-boiled proof that these pro-election promises have been lived up to. THE “50-50” CONTRACT ARRIVES! VERY beet grower from Meteors. Cook and ' Ackerman down, can feel a glow of mu m the fact that their seven years at m endeavor to have the manufacturers of beet-sugar ,‘ulflclrignseethen‘eeasityofasqm.hn- minnofruifl a: nan-gen of the ‘— 19m of? plm‘l‘mm rose! in“ as "the: would. at which: will the "film" " stion o-f'tho industry economy The Busineslesrmel-‘hopes that before another issue goes to press we will be able to announce the names of other manufacturers who are willing ' ‘to give the plan a trial for two or three: seasons at least. - We importuno the: beet-growing farmers to stand, by the word and the; spirit of this contract to the letter. When a man: shows you he is will- ing to work with you, that is your opportunity to show what you are made of. There is no indication but what this will be a profitable year for the, manufacture of sugar, but if by any chance this contract should: not' prom as wont- bocause of a slump in the sugar—market or some other unforseen reason, let the beet-growers show the stuif they are made of—it will bbe an object lesson for big business who now make the easy claim that farmers are "good flair-weather sailors!" _ ' . There are a dozen branches of the farming business that ought to be operated on a. 50-50 basis—perhaps this will. be an opening wedge in that direction. _ we are more than happy that The Business Farmer played its part in getting the producer and the manufacturer of beet-sugar working harmony—now let’s make it unanimous! THE DEATH PENALTY IN MICHIGAN . S often as the legislators meet at Lansing comes forward from its depths the skeleton of “capitol punishment.” We thought this had been the subject of enough school-room de- bates to settle it, pro and con, for all time to come, but like Abel’s ghost it haunts us always! When that crazed criminal, “Gypsy Bob," al- ready serving a. life-sentence for two terrible murders, jumped from his pew in the prison- chapel and stabbed the warden pf Marquette prison to death, inflicting almost fatal wounds on the warden's son and a guard, we said: "‘that ' man should be killed!" and the state echoed with the demand that such a dangerous member of society had no place among living men. When, within the past fortnight, a man was re~ leased from Jackson, who had by mistake of just- ice, been serving a. sentence for a crime which he did not commit, we said “how fortunate that he was not hanged for the crime!” That seems. to be the whole answer to this prob— lem of society’s right to take the life of the mur- derer. If we know that a man or a woman is guilty of a. murder which has been planned and executed in cold blood as was the warden’s slaying by “Gypsy Bob", then why should we let that being live as a constant menace to others? But, if there is any possibility of innocence, what right have we to take that which no power on earth can replace——lifef FARMEBS’ WEEK AT EASE LANEING HATEVER has been your own personal opinion of the annual Farmers' Week at - the Michigan Agricultural College in former years, prepare to change" it for unless your opinion was formed this year, you are draw- ing your conclusions regarding it from the days before Dr. Friday was brought to head our institution. , Not that other Farmers’ Weeks have not been filled with worthhwhile meetings and worth-while speakers, but this year's Farmers' Week, showed the guiding hand of a man who was determined that the farmers 'who braved the February ele- ments to come to East Lansing should have some insight into what was going on in the world to influence their business. On one program Dr. Friday, introduced a man who was the avowed representative of “big busi- ness,” as represented in the ownership of the great railroads of these United States. This man dre- fended present-day freight rates and apologised only because they had» not kept pace with the high-prices of farm produce during war-times, nor had they come down when prices hit the toboggnn. A great many farmers and others who heard all or part 'of this talk criticised Dr. Friday for his allowing such a speaker. Cornered, how- ever, by‘ the thinking business farmers in attend- ance, these critics had to admit that what the h‘haMMam,_Wmm~ mes; a . contender 1:, . _ att‘hofiig'ee ,, Between 5mm and four: 'Wnd. pro- j . .. per cent of their living mm. an the, ’ ‘ live—stock and crop impromut must- ings were well attended. ‘ " ' " — It the college wants any-cottondance at ten", ' thousand farmers neatyeor, This Me;- offers the foliowhrg motions: (1.) Awsssivelj advertising and publicity, thesame as is m the state and county Mira; tum atxnighat adieu the eventing misting m. nemmrmm,emm.mm- a. large crowd, if they werevmtohiigod to m over night in Mug. (3)- For-this purpose; one big. day, any Thursday,_in which. morning attu- noon and evening meetings were devoted to (he top-Mb speakers. Association and of.“ melt- ings am on other days. , . ‘ ’ ‘ Farmers’ Week can be made- the- biggest in Michigan: tor the farming business at “In first year under the direction of Dr. Friday, will the help of his very able stat, a long step In that direction. ‘ HE Billion» dollar mark in» loans to- farmers through the federal farm loan system B in sight. At the close of business December 31. 1922,. the total of loans closed by the federal land banks and joint stock land banks since orgmisa- ti'on was “90.506382. More than 250,000 farmers have borrowed. at. these banks. The fed- eral land banks loud in every one at than forty- eight states, while the joint stock land banks ep- erate. in thirty-nine states. ' The federal land banks, cmoperstivelyomd, ’ furnished the farmers of‘ the country more than $081,000,000- of credits, while the joint stock land banks supplied $209,000,000. While the first loans made thrOugh the system were placed in 1917', it was in 1922 that it ex- perienced its largest growth, when. nearly #350.- 000,000 of loans were made, of which nearly $230,000,000 were through the twelve federal land banks and over $120,000,000 through the joint stock land banks. The great volume. of business since organization justifies the expecta- tions of the farmers of the farm roan. act, and is evidence that. the farmers use. extensively both branches of the system. THE JOINT STOCK LAND BANK ROM the published reports of the total loans made by both branches of the Federal Farm Loan System. it is. appth that Michigan has been laggard in. its use of the facilities. oner- ed by the Joint Stock Land Banks. Out of a total of gamma borrowed by farmers of Michigan‘from the inception of the system to December 31,1922, only 859,0“ had been borrowed from the Joint Stock Laud Miss, altho in states like Iowa. and Illinois, the some report shows that more money has been borrowed from these than from the Federal Land Banks, altho they are both operated under control of the same act. » _ There aresdvantages, which were. well planned by the framers of the Farm Loan System to both divisions of this service. It is obvious that the farmers of Elohim are not acquainted macient- - )3 with both systems, to judge between them. 1, We will be, glad to answer questions- oi our read— ers who are contemplating- loans from either branch. The appointment of’ Honorable L. Whitney Watkins of Manchester, to be commissioner of the state department of agriculture, filling in the un— expired term of John A. Doeile, who leaves to be- come associated with the Federal Land Bank at St. Paul, will meet with the approval of most farmers in lichigan. ’Mr. Watkins will not re- sign his position on the Board of the Agricultural College, nor should be. This will mean that prac- tically all of his time" will be devoted, to the farmers .problems at Lansing. The Business ent. in making bu W Ifltbat it should mean. to the. We at . o ’- u ‘ . _ , up story a me sag, the. set. out in mug of e curriculum emails: (2'). m on- every road into. Lansing, leaving that out It the lime Whitsunmt‘omrm.‘ Lansing for‘the first meetings of a. do!“ n-f omoonauimmmda "Finite-evens n1 no F33” and tried to write me = X a" - during December. N a recent issue of M.-“B. F. you published an article on the whole milk situation of Detroit district [7.111 which you made reference to Dr. Friday‘s decision which gave “the producers $3.00 per cwt. for milk Sudh advance in‘ price was not only fair and Just but lent encour- agement to many who had, become discouraged. M ‘ Recent reports would indicate that he favors a cut of 50¢ per cwt. ‘ to the producers in order to give De- . , troit consumers milk at 120 per ht. Dr. Friday allows that in several . districts producers 7 are receiving $8.40 to $3.60 per cwt. whilst con- sumers pay but 12c. Knowing as he .unust, what conditions of laboring classes are better. in Detroit than any other industrial center of the U. s. (Men as .a whole boasting of high ‘wages received.) - We fail to understand why he chooses to flavor Detroit dealers and consumers. at the expense of the farmer who is struggling against great odds to melke ends uneet. If D'r. Friday is really interested in the welfare of farmers, we feel confident he will use his good office in our behalf that we also may be- come something more than mere ser- vants for Detroit consumers—J. B. Younglove, Monroe County, Mich. —’l‘he inference that some city paxp- ' ers gave, that Dr. Friday would give the consumers 12c milk at the ex pense of the producer was not cor- rect. Dr. Friday, represents the farm- ers of Michigan first and in his pres- ent investigation, he hopes to prove that the cost of distribution is un- justified and should be split in a sav- ing to the consumer, which would in- crease the demand for milk and a greater price to the producer, which Would increase the production. AGAINST CHANGING PRIMARY SCHOOL LAW E print the following reso— - lntion in the Business Farmer ‘ at your earliest convenience: Whereas; Two bills willabe pre- sented to the present session of our State Legislature for changing the Primary School Law. Whereas; The present lawis an equal benefit to all. Whereas: The proposed change would benefit some, and harm others. Therefore; Be it resolved that the Fayette Grange No. 1368 of Fair- banks ’rerwnship, Delta County, heres by puts itself on record as being op- posed to any change in the present Primary School Law, and that we respectfully urge our representatives in the legislature, Hon. Edward R. Carter, and Hon. Frank Bohn to op- pose any change in the present Pri- mary School Law, and that copies of this resolution be sent to our above named, representativesr—Fay- ette Grange No. 1368, Marie Peterg son, Secretary. MANISTEE BEEIS STILL IN GROUND sugar beet question is again I about to get another airing out. I wish to inform' you that the farmers of Manistee township had, the pleasure of growing sugar beets last year and some of them made barrels of money and others are go- ing to make barrels of money when they dig their crop in the spring. One of my neighbors contracted- ' one-half acre and he raised one full wagon load which netted him $5.00 and some odd cents, others did equally as well. Another tamer done his weeding with a spring teeth barrow and planted corn for a nurse crop. The 'best field of sugar beets thatwasgrorwnhereisleftinthe ground for the company 'to come and get them, but the company has not come; $5.50 per ton was their price. One day, last April, the agent, 7 can“ '11 “fimamd If! one of "-011! temers, a Imember_ 91-131, . cranes. and 'a "backer" of the 1‘1We~ had, a'real ends] ’information you can on what has . Step by step, America is leading the .m' door open and lets the dies gins—E‘le “38181110- ._ Ital-H dependently rich in growing beets _ and now they didn’t lsnow what they wanted. so I had to tell him what the growers wanted and when they got it (a fair deal, 60-50) to come and see me. He bid me good bye and we shook hands over a barbed wire ' fence. - I wish to ask one question: “Are the beet growers organized?” The reason I ask is because I talked the matter of growing sugar beets with our county agent as he was in favor or having them tried out here at $5.20 per ton. He insisted the growers were not organized and said that he .wonld organize them here, but there’s one thing I am sure of when it comes to organizing the sugar beet growers here he will have toget out a bench warrant to find the growers.——Joe Switalski, Menis- tee County, Mich. PAY EACH WHAT HE EABNS WOULD like to say a word in behalf of "Mr... Warnock" of Presque Isle county. I think he has struck the nail on the head. When everything is run economical- 1y. and for the benefit of all not for a few, then the people in general will have some heart to work. Let everyone get paid for what they produce. If it's $6 or $10 per day let it be that and no more, and those that do not work with hand or brain, that is, those that are able to perform a day’s work, and those that will not work, shall not eat. 'Not let a few "stalwarts" be the means of impoverishing the many, same as our system is composed to- day. A few rides the backs of the many, get their living by the sweat of some other one’s brow. You can call it what you are a mind to but that is the only remedy.——S. H. Slagle, Harriette, Mich. —-Over in Russia right now they are having an interesting experiment right along the line which Mr. Slagle suggests in his letter above. Everything was usurped by the rev- olutionary government. The rich class on so—called aristocray of Russia was driven penniless into the streets from their homes and pal- aces. The czar, his family and many, many thousands of men and women and children were murdered in cold blood. 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ISBELI. & COMPANY 132 Mechanlo 8t. (48? Jackson, on: For Healthy orchards 1. * . -' Buy handsome. thrif t ‘ ’2'". mmYlnaR‘. berry bushesfvroses and ‘o ‘ '0‘, 18mm!“ "u I: if rd poo ro so you ‘ 0 or now. Our Nos f d e as o able trees free for the Celery City Nurse 1 A :’6‘ .y.. rice, ‘ m flip? Mic higcm Grow Trees _ 1 discourage no one. A- . daiit bearer.. SOME“"NEW APPLES HE Delicious may still be class-ed} among the new , varieties, though it ls. now widely known and deservedly popular. de'mandfor the trees which nurseries have reported make it evidentthat within a brief time the fruit will be” one of the common apples in the Great Lake district, but that need It is impossible that the supply will equal the de- mand for years to come.. ‘ ' While the fruit has received most attention as a dessert apple, it has other uses as well. It is not trat enough for sauCe and pies, but for baking it has few equals. Indeed. if anything can bring the baked apple intd the place it, deserves on the American table it will be this variety, The tree is a good grower when on heavy soil, but not one of the early bearers. However, if one has thrifty stock of any kind he need not wait long, for the Delicious re- sponds generously and quickly when» top worked. This is something that has not received the attention it do- serves. Large trees of undesirable varieties. so long as the wood is sound, can by grafting be changed into profitable members of the or- chard in three or four years. There are many such trees. The coming spring will be a good time to begin. Golden Delicious The Golden Delicious is correctly named, in so far as the apple is con- cerned, but names so nearly alike for two distinct varieties are liable to cause confusion. The apple is a golden yellow and the flavor fine. Really, it seems as though it might have stood on its own merits, in— stead of borrowing from another variety by having ‘Delicious’ tacked upon it. To most persons the Golden Delic- ious is known as a highly advertised possibility. Those who have really become acquainted with it have found the fruit at high quality and a good keeper. The tree is a wonder- ful grower and an early and abun- When top—worked on strong stock it has produced apples the second year of grafting. The value of the tree for a com- mercial orchard is still in doubt. Such a rapidly growing and early maturing tree may be short lived, or it may be a poor bearer as it grows older. Too much should not be expected, but it may fall far short be a desirable variety. That it will take the place of the time tried Grimes Golden remains to be seen. Whitten The Missouri Agricultural Ex- periment Station has brought out a new apple, the result of cross fertili— zation 13 years ago by Dr. J. C. Whitten, using pollen of the Delic— ious upon Ingram blossoms. The variety has been named the Whitten. It is said to possess“the size and shape, sweetness and aroma of the Delicious, also the firmer and jucier flesh of the Ingram, a combination which is hard to improve upon. By some special freak of fortune, late— b‘iooming is added to the other de~ sirable qualities. The Whitten is a promising var-r lety, but is not to be recommended for commercial planting until further test has been made, for which pur- pose scions or to be distributed among the apple growers of the state. The results of the coming .four years will be awaited with in- terest. valuable addition to the list of ap- ples, or it may develop weak points that will make it useless. After so many years 'of waiting it is certain— ly to be hoped that the propagator will not be dissappointed. ROOT GALL S root gall injurious? The nur— ‘ seryman says it is not, the or— chardist says that it is, and each prove his point by examples. Several years ago a Michigan nur- serymanr selected the worst’ spool:s means of gall? he could find among 1 _ tedthem Edited by some The’ ' large? ‘ -man puts his-experience. of the claims made for it and still' D. WELLS three good crops, then were'killed by a severe winter.. , After standing seven or eight years. they were pulled out. No galls Were found on‘ the roots. . A similar test was made by a Mis— souri nursery. Two rows of apple trees were planted, one composed of badly diseased specimens, the others being clean. After twenty years there was no diflerence between em. A pioneer nurseryman of Michigan stated that when he began business in the early fifties, trees with bunches of fibrous roots were at a. premium. Nobody had heard of gall in thosa days. Infected trees had been planted that had developed into thrifty, pro- ductive orchards that 'had stood fer 60 or 70 years. Against this evidence the orchard Some of his trees have been weak, sickly or have died, the first or second year after planting. On digging them up he found galls on the roots, some— times many and large, so that it is hard to convince him that they are harmless. ' From the evidence thus far sub- mitted it may be concluded that the gall may kill a tree or it may not. If it'can easily be cut or broken clean -. from the root and the tree is otherwise healthy and viborous it will probably overcome the disease, but it is not safe to plant a tree with a large gall at the crown or on a. main root, which has become inspar- able from the wood. Such trees are liable to die the first or second year. It is unlawful for nurserymen to send out trees with galls on them and pay for such stock cannot be collected. But these much abused gentlemen should not receive too much blame. Reputable firms care- fully guard ag‘ainsf sending out un- desirable stock. Nevertheless, some trees will be overlooked by the best of sorters. The nurseryman has many trour bles of his own, so it is no more than fair to suppose that the poor fellow is doing the best he knows how. If anything is wrong with his stock he should be treated honestly and given a chance to make good. BUSH EVERBEARING STRAW- BERRY ‘ Can you tell me anything about the Bush Everbearing Strawberry? Do you think it is worth planting? Is it really a strawberry or what is it?—-R. A. P., Akron, Ohio. —The strawberry in question we have not seen, but reports regarding it are not favorable. Are any of our readers acquainted with this “won- der?” If so, we shall be pleased to hearfrom them. Meanwhile, go slow in planting it. The variety may prove a_ Make YOUR Barn a Profitable Workshop OUR' crops, live stock, dairy ‘ products labor'allpass through the barn. Make more , money in 1923 by equi ping your ' barn on a business asrs with ' - Porter labor-savmg. cost-cutting equipment. Porter products will money for on thi' the keratin whi‘ you are intyereoteg page. your name ten thonarginnndmoillthgektons. LE. Porter Corporation 0mm. Illinois 588 Guion Street : . pm Molten "em" YOU 03. < 3 YOUR FARM? INCE last November we have had under investigation the Warren McRae Farm Agency, of Logans- port. Indiana, who judged by the number of‘inqhiries that have come from our readers, must have been carrying on extensive advertising, principally by mail, to the farmers of Michigan. . When the first of his circulars was sent us by a reader, we read them, saw that they resembled a class of so—called "farm agencies" who us- pally advertise under assumed :names as."farm buyers," so we Wrote asking for their references and also the names and addresses of Michigan farmers who had sold farms through their agency. Some weeks passed and a letter finally arrived from Mr. McRae, in which he stated, “this is a new agency and has only been operating a few weeks. We have not made any sales as yet, but have several very good, prospective buyers.” A bulletin of farms offered for sale was enclosed and we wrote the four Mich- igan farm owners who had, presum~ ably accepted Mr. McRae’s proposi- tion and sent him $10 each, to have him list their farms. One answered: ’ my farm, nor had any prospective buyers from. the Warren McRae Farm Agency, however it was late in October when’I listed with him.” Another: “I have not heard a word from Warren McRae since the list- ~ings were given, nor of any of his so—called buyers he writes about!” ‘The third answer said in part: was “I overloaded and needed the money badly, therefore the ridicul- ously low price, as it was cash that I wanted and still do want, asI must sell this property to save some other property. So he sent me a special delivery letter asking me if I still 'had the 880 acres and if so he would send me a buyer. I have not sold it‘ yet and the ¢**But “I have not sold‘ \ .7 L ‘ f 1 j‘ ‘ . g Anna others in the Spring“ The , IZUBLISHERS dDES time to seii--jis;whéix the buyers are ready "to" buy. ‘If you are going to be one of the lucky ones act at once.” Mr. McRae certainly 'lets no grass grow underhis feet, for when our reader did not rush his hard-earned ten-Spot back by the next mail, he received. this letter dated only three days after the first. “Dear Mr. Blank:— “Mr. M. A. Brown is very much interested in Michigan farm lands and is doing to take a trip with his car some time within the next couple of weeks through your section. “Mr. Brown is a well—to-do farmer living in the Northern part’ of Cass County, Indiana. His son and a couple of friends will go to Michigan with him.‘ Mr. Brown does not want to buy a farm for himself, but will help the other “boys select a good farm home. He also informed me that there are other men in his neighborhood that are look- ing for farms in a cheaper sec— tion. I will call on these men at once and try and get them in- terested in your section as the land is a great deal cheaper there than it is here. “Some of the people that I have interested in 'Michigan farms were under the impres— sion that most of the farms that I‘ have listed were misrepre- sented because I did not person— ally inspect them myself, but when I explained that I charged a listing fee and that no one would pay a listing fee unless they really meant business and Were anxious to sell, they were satisfied and are willing to I G A 1r ‘3 AU 5;: as: s ' F A R as a . spend their money to make the trip and, investigate. 'In- case: . these people does riot'hpy; please let me know and ,I_ ‘wiitiz‘k 4." on sending' you.‘ buyers’ui‘i ' you make a deal. ‘ ' ~ i"; " “Plea'se hurry your? listing along as I would like to get a few more listings in your section before sending the buyers.” Very truly yours,‘. ' ‘ Warren McRae. onerwto turn your farm immediatell 3"-ins¢+g;;sslsea cash, he cuts hisflgtinl fee-rte" $2.50! But read our’ ' ,scribers letter: We would be interested to know if . any of the readers of The ‘Business Farmer, have sold their farm thru the McRae agency, to Paul Paulinski, of Logansport, Mr. McRae’s home city. As recently as January 11th, Mr. McRae wrote one of our readers: “Mr. Paulinski of this city has just recently sold his farm for $400 per acre and we have him interested in Michigan as hewants to buy where land is cheaper than it is here and where land will increase in value. Mr. Paulinski is mostly interested in a well improved farm with good buildings and will pay cash for anything that suits him. He also will con- sider a couple of small cheap farms that can be bought right for speculation. Mr. H. L. Skinner has also just sold his farm and will be leaving for Michigan within a few days. We have several renters that ’will be buying Michigan farms between now and March 1st.” But the most recent disclosure, vouched for by one of our readers, is that Mr. McRae is so determined not to loose his postage, that if you do not send him $10, he gets impatient and cuts his regular listing fee to” -$5, and then—becoming desperate at your lack of appreciation of his “I am a subscriber of your: paper and like it very much.‘ I'would now like to asks favor; of you. Could you find out for I me if the Warren McRae Farm Agency, Logansport, Ind;,’. is' a ‘ swindle or are they wdrking in good faith. I received a letter 1 for them last Sept.'. claiming; they had been in this locality" and were, delighted with condi-‘ tions here, etc., and with a list- ing fee of $10 would guarantee a sale within 90 days, for which “ they charged 259% commission. The $10 to be taken out of the commission at the time of sale. I filled out the blank for listing- but told him I would deposit the $10 here in the bank in his name. If he sold the farm with- “ in 90 days I Would give him the $10 besides the commission, and if he sold it within 60 days I would give him $15 besides the commission, but I could not send him the $10 as I must pro- tect myself from fraud. “They did not answer this let- ter. After a little while I re- ceived another letter saying that for a certain number of days they had cut the listing fee to $5 and urged me to act. quickly as they knew of men with means who wished to buy farms. I did not answer this letter. After a while I received another letter saying that for a certain-time cut the listing price to $2.50. I filled out another blank tak- ing more pains and telling things I neglected in the former. (Continued on page 23.) has not arrived l" buyer .Mr. McRae’s letters, which many of our readers have sent in are really very clever. -. One letter starts off, with the address and Dear Mr. Blank, 'filled in by a typewriter on an imi— tation typewritten letter, signed in ink, supposedly, by none other than Warren McRae himself: ' “Dear Mr. Blank:— “The writer had the pleasure of visiting your section a short. time ago and was very much impressed with your farming community; also the low price that farm land was selling for. “Upon his return to this State he got several of our good Indiana farmers interested in your neighborhood. These .are all good farmers and hard wprkers, but want to get away from the high—priced land. Most [of them have several thousand dollars to invest and will be ready to do business within the next sixty days. “If you are looking for good, quick sale, kindly fill out the enclosed listing form and re- turn to me with the regular list- ing price of $10 and I will send the buyer direct to you and noti- fy you when to expect him so you can meet him at the station. In case the first one does not buy, please let me know and I will keep on sending you buyers until you do make a deal., “I do not care to charge'this listing fee, as I make my profits on commissions, and would not have to do so if every one was 'on the square and meant busi- ness, but as we do not have, a representative in your section ‘ we simply have to protect our- «selves against triflers, curiosity seekers and men who try to get “twice what their property is "worth. This listing fee is simply -a guarantee of geod faith and 'will‘ he returned to you when ;your property is sold. \ a 1 s e « - “I only want a limited num- zsber offfarms in your section for li tsthatiare ’ ON more than three hundred and fifty thou- sand farms, the Hercules Engine is doing the drudgery. in efi‘ort and wages. *' ter and summer, day in and day until the work is done. ~ Engine Division .1 w ,. It saws the wood, grinds the feed, runs the washing machine and the work- shop, turns the grindstone, pumps the water—- does all the wearing work that costs so much An alléweather engine is the Hercules. Win- to the job—consistently, uncomplainingly— The Hercules is equipped with latest type of magneto. Out-of-doors in rain or snow it keeps ~ the engine at work. A stream of water directly . H THE HERCULES CORPORATION Evansville, Indiana sene. SHORTfWORK on the magneto will not afl'ect its efiiciency. 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Home n u u u c n u a . . c - u n n o n e u I n q a o e u . u o s u u o a n o g . s n o c u o u u n o n . a on Auction __ 26 __ Accredited Reg. Holstein: i 10 Cows—8 Heifers—'45 Heifer Calves E 2 Bull Calves—HERD SIRE ‘ Horses—Hogs—Sheep Farm Tools ‘ ' —ON-— I =wetlnesday, Feb. 28 ’ T at 10 o’clockst I: p _ I . :II , rt “ storm: R. R. humus? ,nai son as mm:- mrs'm .1 (Downed from” 7.} agriculture within the state are di- recting their efforts. When the pro- gram has been carried out the indust- . rial cities and towns of, the state should be more abundantly supplied with food products of a higher qual- ity than they have ever enjoyed be- fore. These should be furnished to them at prices that are reasonable ' and that will pay the farmer a profit far greater than he could make by producing for the foreigne market. This is Michigan's program for tak- ing her farmers 01 the international market. , r The other source of relief for the farmer is to be found in his costs of production. These are, upon the whole, far larger than they need be in view of the advance which scientific agriculture has had and of the meth- ods which our best farmers are prac- ticing. An industry may prosper, even when prices are falling, provid- ed it can reduce its costs. The auto- mobile industry is a good example; it is selling its product at less than prewar prices, yet is is one of the most prosperous lines of business to- day. Though it is impossible to prove absolutely that the prices of agri- cultural products may fall during the remainder of this decade, it would be the sheerestfolly to base any ag— ricultural program upon an assump- tion of rising prices. Even now prices of agricultural products are twice as high as they were during the ’90’s, and 60 per cent above the decade of 1900-09. They are 38 per cent higher than they were in the five-year period of 1910—14. The gross value of agricultural output in 1922 is 65 per cent higher than in the half-decade 1910—13. Though the prices of farm products may attain a level slightly higher than at pres- ent, there is no reason to expect any pronounced or constant rise during the remainder of this decade. Prof- its must be increased, if at all, through the reduction of costs. Checking Up Hens and Cows Fortunately this is quite within the! mounds of possibility To any- one unacquainted with the technic of scientific agriculture and with the practices of our best farmers, it is startling to learn the wide range of difference that prevails among the productive units with which the farm- er carries on his business. An ordi- nary flock of one hundred hens norm- ally contains thirty that lay no eggs whatever. A man trained in poultry can discover these by inspection. If these hens are segrated the seventy remaining ones will lay as many eggs as did the one hundred. The average production of such a flock will be about 600 dozen eggs a year. Obvi- ously the webs elimination of the coils has increased the average pro- duction per hen from six dosen to, almost nine? and it has decreased the cost of prodiction by approximately one-third. Furthermore, your poult- ry expert will find ten hens out of the flock whose everage egg produc- tion is around twelve dozen. If these hens are segrated and supplied with a cockerel of a high—producing strain the chicks from these eggs will not contain more than 10 to 16 per’cent of culls. If this process if culling is repeated during a period of three years the average. production of the flock will increase from six dozen to more than ten dozen can. and the I cost of production will be correspond- ingly reduced. Thu-e are further important eco- nomic (inferences between the output of an ordinary flock of hens and of 1 one first has gone through this pro- cess of evolution. A hen that «lays ' only six or’sesen dozen sags win .produce most .of them during the months from March to June inclusive. Even the-crows lay eggs at this oes- son of the year, and alt do the season of overproduction and :low senses“ The hen whose production amounts :to twelve or more .a gear 'wm produce a substantial portion or her J output during the months from“ No- vember to February. 'This is the .. seasons! the year~when the demand» for eggs must now be satisfied large- ~lyout of cold stances eggs, and fresh- ‘ mice. The mm Michiganhas 10,000,000 and they now produces 004000.000 Olsen eggs. It has on its W‘GOIL loge faculty one of the ablatnultry- men in the world. son why a like number of hens should not be p ' 100,000,000 dozen eggsby the'end of three years. To accomplish this we must bars a tre- mendous campaign ‘ of education which shall aim to reach practically all the 196,000 farmers in the state. This will cost $60,000 a year for the next three-years; and the legislature will be asked to appropriate this amount within the next few months. Surely there can be no question about the wisdom of the expenditure, for if the program succeeds in ac- complishing only half what is hoped for, it will increase the income. of the farmers from this source alone more ‘ than $6,000,000 3, year. At this point someone is sure to raise the objection that such a cam- paign of efficiency in production is self-destructive for the farmer be- cause it will increase production to the point where the decline in price will offset the decrease in cost. Though this will benefit the consumer it does not necessarily help the poult- ryman; indeed his last state may be worse than his first. And this might be the case if this were a program for the whole United States ; but we are formulating a program for only a single state. Besides this, the methods here outlined will probably be applied quite universally within . the next decade. The road to success for any one state in such a situation is to enter upon the program first and to push it more vigorously than anyone else, for ageneral improve- ment in the methods is bound to lower prices. Profits can be main- tained only if the reduction in costs proceeds as rapidly as the fall in prices. Time is of the essence in this situation, so that those who start earliest on a campaign for cost re- duction will find that their profits are increased. Those who reduce their costs only when they are forced to do so by competition will suffer a de- cline in profits.\ The situation in the dairy industry illustrates well the possibilities of reduction in costs. The State of Mich- igan has 800,000 dairy cows N two years old and over. 3,600 pounds of milk, on the average. The total output for the state, there- , fore, is somewhat under 3,000,000,- 000 pounds. This average of 3,600 pounds is made up ofcows that give 20,000 pounds of milk a year, and of others that give 16,000 and.12,000 respectively. There are large herds in the state that average 10,000 to 12,000 pounds of milk a cow. No man is considered 3. successful com- mercial dairyran unless his output averages 6,000 pounds an animal. And yet it must be quite obvious that if there are many cows which produces 6,000 pounds of milk or more, at least half of all the cows of the state must yield less than 8,000 pounds, in order to bring the average down to 3,600. These cows that give so low a yield are being fed and cared for at a loss. Much could be accomp— Iished to increase production and de- crease cost through better feeding; but no phenomenal decrease in the cost of milk can be obtained until 400,000 scrub cows that are now grafting upon farmers’ lame and ef- fort are eliminated and replaced by animals of superior breeding. Raising the Average of the Herd To accomplish thm is undoubtedly a slow process. for it involm testing all our dairy herds with a view to discovering the unfit inddsiduals. Two hundred thousand «cows are so poor that they am be eliminated simply by inspection. If ,we can induce our farmers to sell these for beef during the next year or We, and to practice better tending, we shall «mobs.ny pro- dsoeas. much milk with the 600,000 cows remaining as we are now get- ting from the larger number. But the great improvement must heme drum superior selection and breeding. It is nothing more or less [than exproblmn in eugenics. These gnafters, .or Bomb cows, are what, 61! booms they new r r they are wary liarg £201 ‘“~M‘~“dt.a. as... ‘ There is no ‘ They produce " _ s ’l' I V . . em; '8.“ in... V -thsse,"‘1¢.m artwon ' scrubs. the of dairy cows. ‘13! they can be elimi- nated within the next year or two and replaced by pane-bred dairy fires of good kneading, an immense step will have been taken toward as. re- duction in the cost of producing dairy products in the future. The Agricult- ural College. through its extension department and the county agents of . the state, has, for some time past been planning -a state-wide series of bull funerals for these scrub sires. v ‘ The plea is to have these animals brought to the market and sold to: sausage meat, and to leave in each community at least one puredmed sire of good lineage. There—amber there must be an intensive campaign for the elimination of scrub cows and for better seeding. Such a campaign should increase the net profits-of the dairy business by $15,000,000 a year ' during the next two years, and by twice that amount in four years. i The crux of these programs for the lowering of production costs is the fact that the efficiency of the individ- ual" productive unit varies so widely. This is a. stubborn physical fact, the economic implications of which are of tremendous import. The product- , ive capacity of hens varies from 300 eggs down to zero. Even the ordin- .ar.y flock will vary from 180 eggs to zero. . This variation is by no means con~ fined to the animal kingdom. It holds for seed quite as truly. The ‘ necessity for selection there is just as great and the possible results are just as striking as in the animal king- dom. The situation prevails even as between two crops. There are more than 1,600,000 acres on old and es- tablished farms in the state of Michi- gan which do not produce crops worth ten dollars an acre, but which should produce annually thirty dollars' worth of alfalfa. Besides producing a profitable forage crop these old and run-down soils would be renovated and restored. At present there are only 350,000 acres of alfalfa in the state. . We must have an aggressive program directed to the sowing of 400,000 acres a year for the next four years. Michigan can raise alfalfa profitably at a price that is no great- er then the cost of freight and hand— lingchanges from the points where it its supply us now grown to the point of consumption within the state. No doubt the reader has questioned before this why it is necessary to formulate programs and legislate public money to put into effect prac- tices that are so obviously to the ben- efit of the individual farmer. If the question is one of defending the use of public money for the promotion of more economical production of agri- cultural products the answer must be that an abundant food supply at a cheap price is a matter of public in- terest for Which it is» quite legitimate to spend public revenue. It must al- ways be in the public interest, too, that the production of public necessi— ties thatgo to make up the standard of living? whether food, clothing or shelter, shall be efle‘cted with the minmnm of toll and labor. If the problem is not that of de— fense, but of explaining why the farmer has neglected to do of his own initiative what .is so obviously to his own self-interest the answer will be found in the nature of the organiza- NE-W LAM? 94% Am Seth "Electric or G” A new oil lamp that gives an amaz- ingly brilliant, sort, white light. even better than gas or electricity, has been tested by the U. 8. Government and 36 leading universities and found to be superior to 10 ordinary oil "lamps. It burns without odor, smoke or noise—no pumping all. is simple, clean, safe. . Burns 94% .air and 0% common kerosene (coal on). . - inventor, A. R. Johnson, 609' W. Lake St... encammu is offering to send~a lamp on‘fl‘o FREE ' trial,“ or even to give one FREE to . ‘the m user him}! help him, f. . to—dgg‘ ' ‘* introduce it. srenot’flt'to boiathémm ' mm ' jysmare 'tlisn'sixty men. 7, his sufiiel’ent to‘enable it to pay for. allelic materials it uses, and to leave .. 3.150.000 for the-payment of salaries, ‘ wages, taxes and? interest, and to pro- , the Iarmer. , »’ emge‘ farmer _ at,ij months money for their anal- ems _ _, . we II ride tbrdepreciation. , What remains. eonstflutes profits; - “of the farming industry is vér? affer- . eat. There are only 35,000 people engaged‘on our 196,000 firms: and this number includes the farmers themselves. Their average annual ', . Mile of products does not, at this I " thus, exceed $2,500“ a farm. 7 . Expert. Guidance Needed It in clear: that most of the manu- ,' teeming sentiments have enough st stake and command an income that enables them to employ man- ‘ your: and professional men who shall ‘ keep the processes of the establish- men-t abreast of the discoveries made by? science. pertainingto the line of moustacture in which the concerns are engaged. As long as we have re- search laboratorries and technical schools we shall have, a continually advancing body of knowledge and 9. ~ supply of professional men who stand ready to sell their services to those who desire the latest advances of science incorporated in the art of manufacture. Ordinary commercial motives. move the individuals coucern— ed to avail themselves of the services of. these men. ‘ But in agriculture, where the tarm- er is not only manager of the estab- lishment.‘ but constitutes its chief laborer as well, and where the gross money income is less than $2,500, it is apparent that the individual farmer will'not hire the services of sci’ent-' fats and other professional experts. Something can be done in this direc— tion by co—eperation, but for the most part ordinary commercial pro— cesses, under the urge of self-inter- est, will not. insure that the advances made by scientific agriculture are in- corporated in the every-day processes of farming. If they are to be so in- ? corporated this must be accomplished in pursuance of public policy and at public expense. Ou’r agricultural colleges are not only institutions of research and learning; they, through their extension departments and the county agents, must render to the agricultural industry a. professional service comparable with that which the manufacturer hires upon the mar- _ket. No industry organized on the small scale that prevails. in agricult— ure will. keep pace with the rapid progress of our modern world unless, this public service is rendered it. In the past the knowledge of the scientist. and the practice of the best farmers have been incorporated into the‘industry all too slowly. The rea- SOn has been that the various insti— tutions charged with this duty have used almost exclusively the methods of education. They have printed bul- Ietim and sent them to those. who wrote in concerning, their problems. If no: bulletin answering the inquiry was available the technical expert in whose field the problem lay wrote to It the problem was new and oil sufficient interestefield men were sent out" to- conduct research on the spot. In this manner only a. very small number of, the managers and opera-tors at our farms have been reached. The average farm s'tm lags far behind the best practice, and has availed itselzf to. a. disappoint- ing degree of the best that is known about agricultural production. Cooperative Eflort Of late the Department of Agricult- ure and the colleges have supplement. ed; these methods of education by the methods of publicity and propaganda. Michigan expects to rely upon these methods to a. large extent in carrying through its program for taking the farmers. of the. international market, and for reducing their costs of pro- dution. They must have skilled as- sistance tn gnawing their. local mar- ina... which have grown so rapidly and hes-mo so» complex- that the av- on neither the have continuous and Will research, and ed ode- spew- . \ , .. . .. , ‘rbmliieths waste!!!— has productive nfith‘ods and v the My of reducing his" costs and in‘creadng “his. product by the practice of better ones. To accomp-’ fish this the farmers must be or- ganized into groups along lines of their common interest. Each of these groups must set up, for itself. definite ends for realization. ‘ It is just at this point that the co-, operative spirit which has been so greatly in evidence during the past few years will find its chic: field of activity and useiulness. People must be made conscious of this pro- » gram, of its value, and of the import- ance of the methods through which it will be realized. brought to this state 'of self-con- sciousness by co-operative endeavor and discussion. Such a program of publicity and propaganda will be ex- pensive, meesmd by the standards of the past; but it should return twentyiol‘d every dollar spent. In our endeavor to help the farmer we have poured water into’ the sand in driblets, as it were. We can never create a river in that way. - ' Political action plays small part in this program. .It may just as well be frankly stated that those who have evolved it have but slight con- fidence in most or the political action that is being proposed for the benefit of the farmer. The spirit of co-op- eration and of interest in agriculture at a; They will be” which led people to political. action, and which culminated in the. forma- ti'oo of the term bloc, is significant. It has brought about social cohesion among the group and has stimulated an interest in agriculture that will lead to fruitful activity. Every great intellectual movement must have as its motive power a reservoir of emo- tional heat. Considered from this point of view our political activity has been of great benefit. Consider- ed from the point of view of any. practical legislative suggestions now before the public the results are bound to be disappointing. We in ' Michigan shall pin our faith primarily to a program that proposes to take our agriculture 01! the international market, and that looks to the reduc; tion of costs as one of the chief roads to the maintenance of profits. BEAVER CUIA‘URE LTHOUGH the practicability ‘of beaver farming has not been fully demonstrated, the U. S. Department of Agriculture believes that the business of raising beavers for their fur may develop, under proper control measures, into a profitable branch of fur farming. With as small beginning, the enter- prise seems to promise an advance to good returns and even greater possibilities. A fertile field for beaver culture may be found in connection with projects for the reforestation with ,coniters of burned or cut—over time ..ber-:1I>Idl~ MW of . , cleatred by ax .or fire and later cov- ‘ ' these areas, ered with a second grthh of aspen, ' willow. and “pin cherry, are tor the time considered almost worthless. Over much of the northern border of the United States and still larger areas of Canada where such land is found it is generally unsuited for agricu‘ture and would not pay taxes until covered by valuable forest tim- ber, but would supply ideal food. for beavers, and if stocked with them could be made to yield an income while the process of reforestation is going on. The animals should not be intro- (lced or uncontrolled into places where their activities may menace irrigation or power ditches, import-. ant road or railroad grades, or ag- icultural districts. A suitable food supply and permanent water should be assured—Dakota Farmer. THOSE WHO FAIL The farmer who takes everything out of the soil, and gives but little back to it; the one who neglects to make the home attractive to the young folks, gradually driving them to the city—all these, and then some, are but examples of farmers who fail to render a maximum they they must give—A. F. Sheldon. You can not do wrong without suffering wrong. ‘m-ns.be_ l g In developing the McCOrmick- Deering I5-30,the Harvester Con» ' pany has produced a tractorwhich 3 gives maximum service and econ- ' 3 omy in operation. The features in t design of thistractor- are the result i of field experience gained through 5 18' years of contact with tractor fanning conditions. Ball and roller bearingshavebeenusedatthepoints of high speed/or extreme strain, and all other parts have received the same consideration. The resultant ‘ smooth- running, modem tractor l V _ Youwiu’smmtto-Immumoreabout mid-Darin; W. Ask the McComidc—Deerisg dealerfor complete“: or «pricier ourch Chiéago ’ QSMHouaanIWDedasi-tkUnMSm x,/ \ 4 . \7"?I%‘fi""”’“”"i"! «, .11 r " " \ _ I A Three—Plow Tractor With Ball and Roller Bearings at 29 Points bar work. .INranAnoNALHARVES'inR COMPANY U 3 Ar of America Elmrpouuqi] .J p. _. meets the many power require- ments of the present—day farm. Practical design, ease of operation and handling, make the McCor— ~mick—Deering tractor an ideal three-plow power unit. It also de— velops a surplus of power to handle a great variety of belt jobs (threshing, silo filling, husking and shredding, feed grinding, etc.) and its smooth, flexible operao tion and increased speed make it a leader for all kinds of dran m 'rmnn unmet? By ,slz-‘Mnnmiwmon’ ~ - I (One Hundred Poems) My tiny lady, can it . Be true that you and I ' .. On something called a planet I Are somewhere in the sky? Yes—and at such a tearing V And madcay speed we’ve spun, That you with dreadful-daring - Have thrice been round'the sun.‘ Nay ,it yet more amazes, . ‘That my.far-.-venturing girl , Can be asfresh as daisies I After '30 Wild a whirl!'_ , And now ’neath western billow The sun is put to bed And you, too, on your pillow Must lay a golden head. Ah, tears—they come so quickly For grief so Quickly gone! Yet joys have rained 'a‘s thickly ~Forvyou to dream upon. _ N THE CONQUES'I‘ OF FEAR ' HAVE just finished reading the above named book, written by Basil King and feel that when one has happened upon anything, so reasonable and so convincing, it is selfish- not to pass the knowledge of it on, especially as the ideas set forth in the book if put into practice would certainly make many people happier, and as the author says eVen richer, according to the author. Anyone and I believe that means every one who fears for his health, his family, or his business, who fears the future, who fears to live or fears to die and who reads this book, with an open mind, will receive some benefit from it. I am going to print a bit from the first chapter but to give an ade— quate idea of his philosophy would not be possible in this column. We are neither selling nor advertising the book—I am just passing a good thing along. ‘ “When I say that most of my life I have been a prey to fears I take it for granted that I am expressing the case of the majority of people. I cannot remember the time when a dread of one kind‘or another was not . in the air. In,childhood it was fear of going to bed, of that mysterious time when regular. in life was going on down stairs, while I was buried alive under sheets and blankets. Later itrwas the fear of school, the first "contact of the tender little soul with life’s crudeness. Later still it was the experience which all of us know of waking in the morning with a feeling of dismay at what we have to do on getting up; the ob- vious duties in which, perhaps we have grown stale; the things we have neglected; those in which we have made mistakes; those as to which Iv we have wilfully done wrong; those zw-hi'ch we weary. or bore or annoy or ediscourage us. Sometimes there are more Serious,;.th,in,gs still; bereave- ments, or frightfully adverse condi— tions, or hardships We never expected brought on us by someone else. It is unnecessary to catalog these situations as we at all times in our lives have to face them daily. Fear , dogs one of in one way and another, L but jBYfll‘YODGflII some .way. ' iLo'ok at, th,e,p'eo‘ple ~you,,run :up against in the course 0113 few hours. Everyone is living in .fear. ‘The mother is afraid,for her. children. The father is afraid for his business. The clerk for his job. The worker is afraid of his boss or his competitor. There is hardly a man who is not afraid that some other man will not do him a bad turn. There is hardly a woman who is not afraid that the thing she craves may be denied her, or what she loves may be snatched away. There is not a home or an. office or a factory or a school or a _church in which some hang-dog ap- prehension is'not eating at the hearts of the men, women and children who go in and out. If, therefore one has the feeblest contributions to make to the defeat oféri‘sujchwa; foe it becomes difficult to withohi it.”.‘ . , This is just part~ of the opening , enamel-grand ,from...«ther-e the author sgoes "on thru 270 {pages ~‘to give :a . ’ fear,» one that'-hu,not only. ‘ ‘ ‘ snail f them. I r x . I, ’ (J '1 Q sources some deep in the past, others of so recent a date that the very day or hour when they‘revealed them- selves is known. He has just" put these ideas thru the mill of his own mind developed and practiced them and benefltted to such an extent that he has The dominant idea on which he builds is,‘th“at every one is neces— sary to his Creator'an‘d to his com- ' munity, each one"h_as a, part to play and a destiny td‘w‘ork out and there- fore by’putting himself in harmony with the plans of his Maker has for him he draws upon such resourCes as he cannot estimate. He may put himself in a state of mental quiet and trust and draw upon a limitless supply of devine energy, drawing unto himself the health, success and happiness he craves. BRINGING UP CHILDREN HIS subject is as old as life itself, T animal or human. The dumb animals of the wild train their young and the hear of today is the same in nature as a hundred years ago. , But in the human, well, we hear parents make the remark. I don’t know where my children or child got such ideas, I never was that way, - showing that there are influences in human life not met with in animal life, or rather these influences are not dealt with in the human as in - the animal.. A story will illustrate. Preacher No. one, proud father of a little boy called with his wife and boy on preacher No. two who had two ' children, boy and girl. When bed time for the children came preacher No. two said to his children, it’s your bedtime now, put away your play- things and get ready for bed. They immediately complied without any resistance. Whereupon preacher No. one remarked to preacher No. two. will they always do that? to which preacher No. two replied “Will they.” We furnish the will, rest. The point is parents do not furnish the will while the child is yet too young to judge and use his will correctly. We furnish, them a home, clothes,,food; watch over them and guard them against injury, why not furnish them the Will while they .. ' " 5 :-~ .. The Farm Home . w s, . . ADepartmeut for Hm ' Edited by MRS. GRACE NELLIB JENNY constrained to broadcast~ they ‘do the ; are dependent. little folks. We mis- take ter‘nper for will. Temper is .a “ . and masseuse-twat.make' “one?” for .vwlhich .steel has been brought- ' by ' a: processor heating, cooling and drawing until we know just what its temper is. Until then it is of no use. “So”- with children. We can help temper‘theni. - ‘ 1 Rememberutha‘t every proclivity" a child displa’ysis the direct product _of.their subconscious mind and‘this product is in,...turn the result of re- peated . that of their forbears. What I -~am in my subconscious mind up to the age of reason is what as before stated was the oft repeated conscious thot of my progenitors. What I am in my subconscious mind after I reach the age of reasoning is what I allow to reach my subcon- scious mind, thusthere is a great work for us to begin at that age, take an inventory of our. procliv—ities and-if we find there undesirable ones, supplant ,them with desirable ones, alWays remembering the law that two things cannot" occupy ,the‘ same place at the same time. Under- standing and, doing this work in my- » self I can start the work for my children earlier in their life thus saving them much hard work later in life. “It is man's privilege to take part in the‘process of his own creation", We enter and leave this world without having anything to say about it, but we have all to say about it while we are here and if we do the work above stated while here we will be kept busy. As to the bouyancy of children spoken of by Mrs. Bacon. Be glad of it siSter, ,you cannot guide‘a ship unless it is under motion.—M. A. Connor, Grand Haven, Michigan. SPRING FASHIONS HILE Winter still lingers in the . ' lap of Spring we .know that in a few short weeks we will have to lay aside our-drab_.,winter cloth-‘ ing and blosson out like the crocuses. A little planning and a few patterns chosen from our paper or our splen- did new catalog, which by theway has been reduced to 12c will make the accomplishment easier. I good thing, in steel it is ’a-“condit‘ion, aed' say—eth-ts'unextrl. - gun. on. that-looked like. a snapshot“ foffi‘tilv congregation on the tower of Babel," so varied and grotesQu‘e ‘wer'ev the : figures. The windows show . many pretty sport skirts of silk. a ' V " dine-areal! use as formerly. Vi'eyila flannel makes {a splendid skirt blouse-:for, summer Wear, a planet! or plain skirt buttoned On one side and a blouse such as .those pictured _‘ m the last; issue wilt make-,3 em»; . *' tical and ...pr_etty'cutiit. This. flannel :7 " *“ . e-WOPI- -' n ‘ In cottons, pique, poplin, and giant? ,. will neither fade nor shrink and of ' . course wears exceedingly; well. It comes in the lovely useda green ,so ,_ much worn this coming Summer’afidt. in 'many other colors»: I, “saw one , very attractive design, thegidrtpf of cream colored wool, .:‘si.de' plaits. all around, worn with a pretty: gre‘em, crepe de chine blouse. A soft white- hat completed the costume. In cloth 7 suits of dark material-"(messes the ._ plain straight lines in coat and’ skirt. and long, close sleeve. UNDER PONTIUS PILATE My letter to the publishers of this book. bout which we had an in— quiry, as answered as follows: . Dear Madam:-—- , ' M We are in receipt of your "ifaipl" of the 20th regarding the authentic— ity of the letters published in Mr. Schuyler’s book “Under Pontius Pilate.” We beg to advise you that the letters are not authentic but are. the creation of the late Mr. Schuyler, based on historical documents which came into his possession. We believe- they are authentic as far as the de- scriptions of the happenings are con; cerned, but they are not translations of actual letters. Very truly,—Funk: & Wagnalls Co. Per N. G. D. CORRESPONDENCE COLUMN Your offer to print anything that promises to be 'ofrmutual is fine, I think our Editor is ‘doing her share - in offering those fine patterns, for Some of our new blouses are very - gay. Made of crepe de chine in most =——_——AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING " Fbr Simplicity, Service and Style Address orders to Mrs. Jenney. Pattern Departznent, M; B. F." SPRRING Catalogs 12 cents FASHIONS Patterns 12 cents FASHION BOOK NOTICE Send 12 cents in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING and SUMMER 1923 BOOK OF FASHIONS, showing color plates, and . containing 500 designs of Ladies’, CONCISE and COMPREHENSIVE ‘_ ~ A Practical Utility ‘ Skirt 387l—Here is a pleasing version _of the “wrap” skirt, which is made in one 38?! piece and closes like EE~r a coat, or~}»wrap. The E” advantage is at once _:: apparent. No disar- if: ' ranged hair or ' blouse, just ease and _ comfort in adjusting 5 EC and removing this 3 a skirt. It may be ‘ 3 made with or with- :u. . ., out a back seam. The style is nice for as well as for taffeta, It is excellent sports materials, moire, prunellaand crepe. for wash materials. The Pat’tern is cut in 8 sizes: 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, and 38 inches waist meas- ure. A 30-inch size requires 2 5-8 yards of material 44 inches wide if made Without back seam. and 2 7-8 yards of 42-inch if ' - \‘.’li.i1 the scam. The Width at the foot is about 2 yards. r A servicable Practic- al Skirt 2696—This is a splendid model for maternity or invalid service. The side gores and back have. g. I . a, _ .., . I! ‘- w. mad°._9¢h-- .5. ;. ~ 1 i he, satin, velve 6 and crepe. also wash grabrcs are good for T this style. * ‘ x'i‘he Pattern is out i2n 7 sizesfiz, 24, 28; , _8 "30, o'hesewai PI?!” ” Witness: at; and 34. ~ Misses’ and Children’s Patterns, a : ARTICL'E' ON, .DRESSMAKING. ‘ A Desirable‘whiodef 28994—'Men’s ‘ ‘and' Boys’ Shirt- with TwoBtyles of Collar and iwith‘. Regulation 1" Coat Closing. Suit— ble for maxim, per- " » bale, linen,..cam‘bric, silk, soisette, or 'flan— nel. The Pattern is out n 8 sizes: for Men: 6, 38, ’40, 42, 44, 46, 48' and 50 inches, breast measure. and in 4 sizes for Boys: 10, 12, years. It 4 3—8 yards of 27 inch material for a 36 inch size. A Serviceable Pract- .- ical Model 3939.—Madras, per- cale, gingham, sols' ette, poplin, uneK, pique, flannel and silk are nice for this ' style. ‘ The short sleeve-is a new feat- Hu’re‘an‘djfine for warm .rwork- ,- ‘v y f-The Patternsis cut \ure. neck measure tof- . correspond in sizes, 1.5.»;15 1,-2. 1o, '16 1:2. 11".“. 1.2 and. 1 ire! 3 1 women and children at that price. Others charge war pricos. Ye Editor allow us women to sendin _ our favorite quilt patterns and could. we have them illustrated?.-. Would we have to send them pieced ‘of cléth? It would help the cider‘w men pass away many tedious}hou"r‘a piecing; and designing. ,There is, no- farm paper that does print 'q'fi-iltpatf- . terns "and your subscribers‘f‘iwigouldig surely 'betpleased.—’Reader. n —We will be glad to make up the patterns sent in, just send a’drawing, having all lines carefully and clearly», marked using a good ruler so that‘ .Would. '. the lines may be perfectly straight. I and mark the length of each line in inches. . ' r " I Notice Please _ A pattern here for Mrs. D. A. Nichols.- It was sent to wrong ad- dress. A stockingfootvpattern and child’s romper suit also ad- dress. I will forward themjinéfien correct address. The Michigan Agricultural College is sending out; a? splendid bulletin ,on _ home manning, taking.11;1_,.11mit_gi mg; etables’ I and meats; .Full' 2 directions are given and illustrations ~0f equip- ment used. The One-Periodf Cold Pack .. method. is given i preference. Canning, drying and brining are the three methods resorted to ingpre- serving food but thefi‘rSt is recom- mended as it keeps the products in a condition more like freshly cook— ed foods, also they can be prepared ‘ for the table so much more quickly. (zeol'iiinnéibt artist newer. than. B. .1792: ytlragyas the ‘ name ‘01 j of theimneasnryu under. 3_ Send to the M. A. 0., East Lansing, Michigan, for this bulletin." It' is Club Bulletin No. 10. * Mrs. J. A.,—-I read your request for a ‘preparation‘tov'make labels stick to syrup cans. We had the same trouble until we used cooked starch, we .._apply .it with a lather .- bru‘sh, the same as used for shaving. The. brushnen be cleaned afterward. ,' -The€labélsis£ick now.——Mrs. ,G. D.. I wéoflifliiti-mcmm’g' ' _“aecretarar" _ gdmnuomg n.mum»»~ OU‘E'E’UQ "Iwif wee=erseea rrrrv-Niv‘w . flour. starch, 1% pints cold water. '2 . nemvrtolthos a, "x 1...; onstant reader ofyour 'go'od vpapereMrs. S; H.’ Andrews." ' E—‘Sy'ali‘n'on P. Chase was Secretary of, '~ r the Treasury under Lincoln. ' he who "originated the Greenback It was mbeeyi 3" F‘. Pi-erch-After the war, the ‘th'e'Kaiser was sent to Doorn, Hol- ' land,’ and remains'there, virtually a . priéoner-of ‘war, having freedom only of' his house and grounds: . He is obliged most simply. His first wife died since the war and ,recently he married‘ again, a -widow much younger than himself. She has a family of children. The report is current that they do not .g‘et’along very happily, in fact, that they have virtually separated, living in entirely different parts of the dom— icle. It is also reported and no . doubt true that his health has failed, that he is, broken in mind, spirit and bo'dy, " practically deserted by his children who entirely disapproved of his second marriage. Mrs. M. C.——Many thanks for your good letter. You may be sure that when I am in your locality again I shall be most happy to pullthat latch string you speak of. I can imagine what your view must be and surely would enjoy seeing it and you. Does any reader have directions for making hominy with soda? I would like to print them. Mrs. H.—Peroxide will bleach the hairs and .in time kill them. Elec— tricity kills the roots but is rather trying. There are many good and safe depilatories on the market. If you wish I will send you the name, of several that can be purchased at any drug store. RECIPES, ASKED FOR Corn Starch Cake 2 cups pulverized sugar, 1); cup of butter, 1 cup of corn starch dis- solved in 1 cup of sweet milk, 2 cups of flour, whites of 7 eggs, 2 tps of baking poWder, mixed well into the Cream the butter and sugar, add starch and milk, then add the whites ,and flour gradually. Flavor with lemon or rose. -... Panned Oysters 18 to 30 small oysters, 1 tbls but— ter, 1 tbs cracker crumbs, salt and pepper to taste. . 1 tps lemon juice, ~a dash of cayanne. Put oysters on in their own liquor and when they boil- up add the other ingredients. Cook one minute and serve on toast. r Oyster Stew . 1 quart of milk, 1 pint of oysters, butter,: salt and pepper. serves four people. Let milk get hot, then add oysters aand cook until they shrivle, add a generous piece of butter, sea- soning and serve pipinlghot. ‘ .v . Canning Sausage , I will give my way that I have used for years. Having never lost a quart, I clean small casing’s and fill with sausage, usually the day after but- chering. I fill pans and skillets and fill-my oven. Then I have my jars sterilized and ready. I cook meat just enough to get the water out, do not bnown, fill the cans, use the cook- ed out liquid to pour over the saus- age in the cans. Adding lard if the liquid runs short. I put on rubbers and caps and boil 30 minutes in my boiler. Then tighten covers very ~. tight.—Mrs. V. Lidgard. I found the followingrrecipe in a government bulletin on maple sugar making. It has proven very satis- factory. Purchase ungummed labels and apply paste. It does not rust the cans as acid does and it sticks. 17$ oz. silicate of soda, 1 oz. corn Mix soda and starch with a little water, add all of the water and cook in a double boiler until clear. Yours truly—Mrs. Fred Rowlander. AWAY WITH sro'rs AVING received so much help ' ‘V ' ~.n-’om our paper, I feel that I “must db my‘bit to help'lsome, others: I , am sending some stain removers and hope. these will~ be of an be y... glad. it -_ . nejc'an‘tell me. and Oblige.'—'— ~ .last issue there are instructions for ,tence rail and,with‘his predecessor on the heitate, to , g. . chloroform willremove the oil from the finest goods. Place .. piece of blotting- paper under the spot and drop a ‘few -'drops of chloroform on soiled spot. ' I To remove rust stain—Make a paste of cream of tartar and water, cover the spot and hang the article in the sun, when dry brush' off, re- peat this until the spot is removed. ~ To remove mud stain—From white goods by dipping in kerosene before washing. From the colored clothes by letting the mud dry, brushing out as much as possible and covering the spot with a mixture of salt .and flour, let stand several hours in a dry place and then brush oif. To remove tar—Rub the spot with lard, let stand a few minutes then rub to loosen tar and [wash in the usual way. ' ~ To ,remove axel grease—Put sweet cream on white goods, leave until dry then wash with soap and water. To remove mildew—Mix two tea- spoons of baking powder with the juice of one lemon, apply and let article dry. After drying, wash and hang in the sun. ' To remove perspiration stain—If the spots are of recent origin, rins— ing with ammonia is usually suffic- ient: if the stain has been on the goods for some time, treat the stain with oxalic acid and rinse in water. My favorite cookie recipe is for ginger cookies. 1 cup sugar, 1 cup -.shortening, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup of hot water, 1' tps. each of soda, salt, ginger, and flour to roll out. Hermitsndrop from spoon: 1- cup of brown sugar, V2 cup of short— ening 1/2 cup each of molasses and warm water, 1 egg, 1 tps soda, 1 tps vanilla, 1/2, tps salt, 1/2 tps nutmeg, 3 cups of flour, 1 tps baking powder, $42 \cup of fruit or nut meats. Pancakes—Part buckwheat flour can be used, 1 quart of skim milk, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar, 1 tps salt, 2 tps. baking—powder, flour to make Are Not Worth. the “or one If they are the “big can and" ‘ cheap” kind because they may mean baking failures. THAT’S WHY CALUMET . W BAKING POWDER It the biggest bra-ml in the world; its sales are over 350% greater than that of any other brand Don’t let a BIG AN 0; a very low prlce mis- lead you. Experimenting W1th an uncer- ta1n brand lS a batter, 2 tbls of cream will im- prove them. If the lady will put a spoonful of borax in her starch, her irons will not stick I have written so much I fear you will not want to hear from me again—Mrs. R. E. Combs. —Indeed we will, and many thanks" for all the help in your letter. In -._ caring for a fern. WHAT IS YOUR MILEAGE? HE inspiration for the motion picture was finished by a Tired Housewife to whom her hus- band remarked one evening. “You have nothing to do but housework. I don’t see why you should always be so tagged out at night.” , The wife decided that she would prove to her husband some reason for being tired. In order to do so she purchased a pedometer, hooked it to her belt, gaged to the length of her step, to measure the steps she took about the house. In one average day’s work she had taken 27,840 steps. They covered a. distance of nearly eight miles. At the rate she was going she could have walked around the world in less'than ten years. This, of course, did not include the “labor of heart or hands," but it was suflicient to call the attention of her husband to the amount of actual physical energy which was being con— sumed in her housework and to in- duce him when he made an addition to the house to include in his plans a model kitchen that would save steps. 7 A FABLE Having slept for three months, a boa constrictor woke up with an appitite that respected neither weak nor strong, friend or oe. As a first victim he caught a rabbit which he devoured in his usual way. poor bunny being but a. mouthful. Having whetted his appetite with this tidbit, the boa. constrictor started out on the quest of further victiials. Presently he came to a rail fence and started under it. But the undigested rabbit made a lump which could not pass through the fence. Too stubborn to backout, the reptile remained m that position until another ra-bbit came along and was also sWallowed by the boa constrictor. This rabbit went down as far as the other "side ,of' the fence formed a, perfect locking arrangement which held' the bee. constrictor so firmly that he oould"m‘bve neither forward nor. back and fell an easy - Zihctimto a farmers-who came.- along. . just , en...“ .. I I -' ' Moral 2‘ Wh; .. :i’ , tent; to W'plkOHif. " ’Montéomery Ward 8 ;.- rs no: modems v. -r ~- expensive ——-be- cause it Wastes m 3, ms, timeand money k 0 BAKING pawns I HIMlmtllml a” Buys All the Wall Paper- fiu- An Entire Room Here is a big Montgomery Ward offer! A DOUBLE ( LENGTH roll of wall paper for only 6c. Enough to paper an entire room 10x12 for as‘llttle as 82c! This ‘ includes side wall, border and ceiling paper. Send for our new book of Wall Paper Samples and see the MANY OTHER bi values we have read for you. It shows you our complete new assortment ' 101'- ‘8. tapestries, oatmea papers, leather patterns, fabrics. And all at prices to > suit your pocketbook. Among the better grades, we have a big variety for only 50c and . up per DOUBLE LENGTH roll. And remember, you get twice as much wall paper ' in one of our 16-yard DOUBLE LENGTH rolls as in the ordinary 8-yard single roll. ‘i'his Wall Paper BookE = Contains over 100 Actual Samples ' It? Be sure .to get a copy of this book be- fore plannmg your Spring decorating. It is made up of actual large~sized samples. With each side wall is shown a sample of the border to match. _Easy and pleasant to select your wall peg; this way. d for this interesting and valuable book today. Ask for Wall Paper Sample Book. No. 192301) Address our House nearest you. mlmlmlmll'a Intro! *Ir’ov [‘1‘ m" v k: '_ ... fin ‘ [‘2 N7" d_ I...” V o. CHICAGO fiOR‘I’ WORTH KANSAS COTY EORTLAND ORE. 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Four sizes: Nos. 10, 13, 16, ' and 19. ‘ Catalog tells all abort the m ' - shows how it will parlor itself inth years. Write for it today. “APEC MACEHNE COMPAIY Shorty-me.” Yank LEA“ v * —: 7 ‘p’ul’llmmumm mumumm-mnmu rumurnv-ruwm- u u H‘: n - u; ~... "a? ‘3, 008 "at the date of my use stock sale In I t once end we will elelm the date ‘3' :4: "3.. Address. lee stock Editor. M. s. i" l. Clemens BREEDEPS DIRECTORY advertisements Inserted under tnls needing for "DMD breeders of the stock at women low rates to encourage the growlno of ure-oreds on the farms of our readers. Our edvertlslno rate ls Thirty Come (800) per scale Inc nor lneertlon. Fourteen eoate lines to the column lnoh or $4.20 per Inch loss 2% for cash if sent wlth wot- or Id on or hotel. the Nth of month following date of lnsortlon. BEND m YOUR AD AID “E Ill-L NT IT II TYPE see how men lines it will nu. a: , REGTORV. *HOHIGAM BUSINESS FARMER, MT. OLE“, me. i .3 FREE. so yeu eon BREEDERS DI am DATE 2331;.) To one... comma...“ “we as will without a CLAIM YOUR. .1. a all. Ifyouereeonslderlnotfllfiu' EEEEEEEEEH”? IT—Poland Chimes. Witt Bros” Adrien. n—numc J Clyde Godfm. Jon-segue. L N p -— ole Ohm . dbl-m » n in“... ST—Polend China. J. E. Hyum, St. Johns. zs—Poland Chime, Chas. Wet-e1 & Bone, lthecs. I—Polend Gaines. Archie Ward, Breck- enridge Mich. 2—4?“ Bolt-ad Chime. 0. Watson. F—Bolsteinl. E. E. Butters. Cold-star. Fag???” WM & Bodi- Hslsbeinsmlneoli! Bron, South '1 mam.» Humans". best reasons for Holsteins. Size Means: llflherdeeu-Amus Russell Bros. , Ian-i man More Heat Value at the End of ’Hml‘s‘ffi 9"“ “m 3"“ 5‘ neir mg Days ~ cliner mu TellY theWhl 5m 'dmfi'fimcoie EXTENSION SERVICE,- HOLSTEI‘N-F‘RIESIAN 130 But Ohio Street. also-so. m. 001'. CLEIRKNOE SALE. WE ARE OFFER“. i2. fist. has from T B Q Prom—4|. Mien end prod dens. fire I 1 I“ on yearly . ., s 0.60 end up. WOLVEINIE DAIRY FARII (I. Booth Gledwln, Mloh. . Every man who makes his living 2 CL ‘7‘ TM' 1mm" mm ing cows knows that size is one of the Capacity - Running“ - Economical Production - 5m Calves “outlive— Abilily to Turn Rang-h Feed Into Mil - J the Holstein-Frieda: Aesodetion of M ‘ HOLSTEINS' Enos! ATIOI FAB Auction 3 ‘ 1923. 1 P. M. 10 our. 7 ' olives; 1 w Percheron e " Percheron J sour" sum or... my. 21 o ' 1 - . F. oLeov. um. rach noon newness. Parasol-d. was. My son ssm—nwsrmso HOLSTEIN cows hag". bud so from 80 lbs. to 88 1b; milk. 180 to 25¢. ' n '-3 field-Rhetopheowhenmldhetefled‘.‘ , be sold in the sale, Neeltji Terzool Segis. DISPERSION s A LE. I or 35 Pure 313d Holsteins MARCH 7, 1923 Representing 22 years of selecting and breeding. All but herd sire are direct decendants of two cows bought one in fall of 1900 and one in fall of 1901, one of which won three firsts at Sheboygan County Fair at Plymouth. Wis, in 1905, with N. J. Jelet of Rosendale as judge; first as best Holstein cow shown, first as best of all breeds shown and first as cow giving most milk at fair. A daughter of hem won first over Meneva Beats, the cow that has won more state and na- tional prizes than any other of the breed. A granddaughter of has: is to She has a 7 day record of 28.46 lbs. butter and 633.5 lbs. milk, milking 99.4 he. her best day as a 3-year-old. There are also 2 of her sons to be sold. They are from the herd sire to be sold, Paul Pieterje Wm Princi; his dam has a record of 117 lbs. milk in a day and an average of 107 lbs. for 30 days with 30 lbs. butter in .7 days and 122 lbs. hi 30 days. He has two sisters that at 21,5 years of age milked 80 lbs. and 35 lbs. respectively and made 22 and 24 lbs. butter each. There are also 13 , of his daughters in the sale. The herd has passed tour tuberculosis tests without a reactor and they will be sold on ado-day mates retest. ' . The herd is also free am Mon. ’ . W. H. Krouse, Thom, Wis; Home! Green, Bronson, Mic-11.; Auctioneers _ event. 1' - H.~-...«, ._. . ... 9 Write to E: In. Goldwater, Michigan to; Catalng ~- ‘ \ . BROQD SOW OViDE‘ sm'fl» clout bone and mus- cle forming foods, such as «sets, middllngs, on meal, digests! tunings. skim milk, m milk, of one elfelfe. hey, to insure heelthy development of both sow. end litter. ‘ The amount or fattening (nods such as corn and barley should be regu- lated largely by the condition of the sow. Good rations are: ‘ 1. Equal parts by weight of corn and barley, oats and ulddlings. 2. Nine or beeper-tsch withonepartof disaster tankage. By seeding fine alfalfa hay in a rack, bulg and grow- ing constituents are added and a hrger proportion of corn or barley can he need in these retloee. A small amount of roots add variety and new as a conditioner. Provide v plenty of flesh water. If the saw was in flair condition when bred, she should gain from 5:0 to 75 pounds before narrowing. The amount to feed cannot be stated definitely as much depends upon tho__ individual, but one and one-quarter pounds of teed per 100 pounds live weight is a. guide to follow for ma- ture sows. Gills should have about two pounds per day for 100 pounds live weight. - Do not allow thegeow to become overly fat but keep her in em healthy condition. She should gain steadily throughout the period of gestation, but especially during the’ last six or eight'wesks. Give the sow a small amount of w ashes, charcoal or soft coal ocassionally. If your sows in the past have far- rowed hairless pigs, add 10 grams of potassium iodide to each 100 pounds of feed given during preg- .nancy. Exercise is very essential. Give the sow a fair-sized lot to run in. Provide a clean, dry, well-venti- lated, welbbedded pen. This need not be very warm. If the sows are steaming in the morning, they are being kept too warm. A portable cot gives excellent results and exer- cise can be induced by feeding at one end of lot and placing cot at the other end. . Do not keep more than three aver- age—sized sows in one regular sized cot (6 feet by 8 feet) especially near far-rowing time. They are liable to trump on one another and cause abortion or kill the unbornplgs. Do not allow the sow to become infested with lice or other parasites. a couple of times during the whit Put a sow in a iarrowing about ten days before'she lsduo to.» 'farrow. ’ Place a guard rail around pen about ten inches from door and samedlstance from wall so Provide a limited amount-of short or cut" straw for bedding. floor is cement,ch a portion with boards to make a warmer bed. . Allow the .sow exerciseafter he- ing placed in fan-owing pen- Lack . of exercise causes constipation which I causes the death of. large numbers or ' » pigs. Control this by regulating the» ‘ feed rather than by drugs. A small ‘ " amount of oil meal daily‘is a good laxative. The sow should be watched at tar- » rowing time and assistance gluon; if necessary. If the weather is we. put weak pigs in a basket with a covered bottle of warm water or a. warm brick for a short time. See that each pig nurses as soon as pos- sible after being dropped. Do not disturb the sow even to feed, for at least 12 hours, but provide fresh water slightly warmed if weather is cold. Feed very- lightly with a thin slop at first; Gradually increase the amount as pigs consume mere milk. Be very careful to not overfeed at 4‘ this stage as it will cause digestive troubles in the pigs and may injure the sow’s urred. As the pigs develop, feed the sow more liberally as feed fed through the sow will make larger gains in the pigs than the same amount of feed given direct to the pigs after being weaned. A good ration at this stage is 100 pounds each of ground corn or barley, oats and mid- dlings with 20 pounds of oil meal. As soon as the pigs begin to eat, start feeding them, in a separate trough, where the sow cannot molest them. They may be fed as much as they will eat twice a day of the following mixture: 20 pounds of middlings, 10 pounds of ground cats, 10 pounds of ground corn, barley or rye with sumcient skim milk to make , a. fairly thin slop. If skim milk is not available, 11/2 pounds of 60% d’igester tankage or 2% pounds of oil meal should be added to the above ration. , If ground cats are led in fairly large proportions, the hulls should be screened out, as they are apt to cause digestive disturbances. Remember that s brood sow worth keeping is deserving of close atten- tion. Catering to the individual needs is what spells success with any class of live-stock.—W. E. Edwards, Animal Husbandry Dept, M. A. C. Breeders Meetings During Farmers’ Week The 15th annual meeting of the Michigan Horse Breeders’ Associa- tion was held at Michigan Agricult- ural College on Wednesday, January 31, 1923,, in conjunction with the annual Week. A parade of prise winning horses owned at the college was the first This was followed by a judg- ing contest in which the breeders of the state participated. In the stallion foal clues, list, 2nd, and 3rd went to C. M. Hicks and Son of minute", Michigan, end 4th to X. A. (3. In the yearling class 1st went to M. A. 0., 2nd to M. A. Hatch, Okemos, 3rd to L. 1). Cook, Willamstown, Michigan, and 4th to M. A. C. John Starkey of Bellevue tied the ribbons. A meeting of the Association fol- lowed the horse show. President Ray Whitney of Onondaga, presid- ing. An address of welcome by Dean Show, F. T. Ridden of the Farm - . Management Department, M. A. 0., . ‘followed with a talk on.“The Results ‘ :of a Survey of Michigan Farms to ‘ Determine the status of the horse and Tractor Situation." Addresses by John Sharkey of Bellevue, and John Jacobs of Musing on the ”Supply and Market for Work Horses” was followed by Jacob DeGens, who spoke on “The Supply and Market in Rx- istered Belgians." An of the changes in the Stallion Law was given. unusual interest. The meeting was unique-gm theta!) some. um, ‘ 'ns-ell and . ' ‘ ing meetings ever put on by the As- sociation. The meeting adjourned until 1:39 when after 9. dinner with the Exchange Club of Lansing tho . meeting was again celled to order for the business session. Upon mold-on of John Sharkey of Bellevue a rising vote of apprecia- tion was extended Superintendent Hudson and College authorities for the splendid improvement and work being done with College horses. ' Following the reading of the min- utes and Treasurers. report oflicors were elected as follows: - President, John Jacobs, St. Johns; I Vice-Pres., Jacob DeGeus, Alicia; . Sec’y—Treas., R. S. , Hudson, East? Lansing. Executive Board.- John Sharhey. Bellevue‘, O- E. Belle, Mason; L.‘ C. All model an tumor-— I " , real cal! “teen r bdfill‘iiu‘ than sconce. Also I few us mm.“ _ “A’éfian ’ 1"" for use "if, ‘3? 1"“ Y"a""'goi’d‘lml-Iymouuu. Mloh. it ran ens—nee teases-b Itfi ‘ blood 7 NW" HORTRORN"!!! m am“ El: In. .‘ 800']. OIIMI. Infill. llllllll tiles but an m KELLY k ‘ E HERD 0F SHORTHDRI r N seLb—EN'IYIR , bi‘dd numbed. . , II ‘1 and cow to. as):wa rite n . . _ g . L LWERMORI. Roma. lieu. . - H. ,SHORTHORN BREEDERS‘ 6'"ch flanges}. both 'nilk and bed breedmc. with“ See", Milieu me. snug-noun curl-Ls russnounm Teena r “I”. . suntan ,uleusu, llliddleville, Isles. x DURIIMIS LE—Fm REGISTERED DDRHAI‘ gglgfggntenmom encyeueldlheu sloo- e. iew tangle Durham- fot ale. HENRY J. Lmn, infirm Tweets 00., men. ANGUS L WE HAVE “HI Ell: YOUNG INNS “LI: Chamon Stoci from International co” Au“... reasonable WIOBS- 5- Mich. m "E—GIX vouno seasonal-Mucus cows a813- heifers. Well bred. I indinduah, . F. o. . . Pmta‘éf’h‘l‘lumv a col. om, Illa: Polo: on" abLLe.-mnomo III . the on Jan. lot. 1928. to 11 men ", m. ' ‘7 3 GUERNSEYS D um HE!!- ers at globe bull calves d M“It. Vl'. b . WHO: Kids. DI 51- # enemas—on won menu acolmrnu‘om : no“: N: mummies. 1% YEA‘RG' OLD. OIRY ,mflwfim; em 3‘ 03°- 1 * hadklfll‘ffl.L-Ie: it. me _ in Jinan. coon cash at!“ It. I. AID, 1’er ' E gains mm" ' tho? 0. wiisba." afieldu'o.'mm. anon was. no FOR Mu. mo- m m and . as sisaafi‘mz mums: “E‘s. m. R. f. Relevance. plan. Grand H. KERR. SPEcfiLAL “3° mnueeuu. . F. 0 GUERNSEY BULL and . L. I. FOR Sill—“317mb museum *1” main mm“ was FOR SALE—REOISTE , ED BROWN SWISS! Herd federal soc ‘ — “disarm. or wrih for what you want. Ervln R.,Iloone, Deuce. lick. RED FOLDED BED POLL!!! GATTI. ‘ M M“ “‘1” u “oeuvres-a. for ROYSTA '1" wm Dottie. n. a. 1. West Branch L a use POLLED HE auu. a? M - . i I in! bag: Elva. PI no: sun's. Eaton Rapids, men. n. 1. pol.‘ nun: 9mg! 0 sues: 4 re 12 Heifers same. 0. White GilmwL “r em arr. one... In... FOR m , Ihulls and bull calves. heifers and heifer summits _ INSTan AYROHIRI calves oiee cows. 08.. R 3. Veneer. Ileh. some ch FINDLAY IR HEREFORD! PMUOI- YOUR 0W FEEDER! BID N Ilohlg- . iii-TR. swim. W0; :Wufl St. , Johns.‘ I. c taken upon > ' the matters: , ,1. A resolution requesting the State Fab Board to make premium-s in Horse Classes uniform, ie., giving as large a premium for young ani- ;mals as for old making a class for hrood mares and colts, and putting the book on a. par with that of , other states. 2. A. request that the Extension Division of the College, through the State, Club Leader, give some atten- tion to thud- formation of colt clubs, as well as mgs and calves. 3. The dbcontinuance of the small premium oifered at the State ,Fair by the Association and the money used in Club work it nec- essary. _ 4. To accept the invitation of ili‘arm the date to be set by the .Executive Board working with Mr. DeGeus. .' 6. To put on a. banquet in con- ' nection' with next years’ meeting. Meeting adjourned—attendance EO—R. S. Hudson, Sec’y-Treas. DUROG BREE-MR8 MEET The Michigan Duroc Jersey Breed— ers Association held their annual meeting on Jan- 30th, 1923, at East - Lansing, Mich. The morning session was a regu— . let go: together meeting, new mem- bers were received and oflicers for the coining year were nominated. MrJC. C. Terrell of New Vienna, Ohio gave us a very interesting talk on Duroc Salesmanship and was vot- ed the thanks of the association. Bob Evans was also on the pro- gram, but notified the association that business made it impossible to be present. The “Lion's Club” then entertain- ed the visitors at a luncheon held in . the College Gymnasium and Prof. xGardner addressed the breeders and . gave the boys lots of encouragement for 1923. — The atternoon. session opened at 1:00 P. M. Pres. Foster called the .meeting to order and the following oflicers were elected for 1923: Pres, O. F. Mich, Sec’y, and Trees, F. .l'. Schni- fer, Detroit. Mich; Directors, V. A. 'Freeman, East Lansing, Mich, Carl Story, Lowell, Mich, N. Bernhart, St. Johns, Mich. A resolution was then oflered by V. A. Freeman that all county as- sociation be made member of the state association and that each county has a representative at. the state meetings. ’ Mr. N. Barnhart was then elected to represent the Duroc Association , at the Mich. Swine Breeders Associa- tion on the 1 ton Litter Club, with toll power toast. The meeting then adjourned and he balance oithe day was spent in visiting the fine new hog houses and splendid display oi Dairy and Stock Cattle. The poultry exhibit was al— so largs and the lime display of draught horses was very complete.— F. J. 8., Sec'y. L DID McRAE “SELL” YOUR Fm? (Continued from page 17.) I sent no money but made him the same offer as in that of the first letter. I also told him that winter would soon be here and I hoped his rich Mr. Brown and the other wealthy men he spoke - of were» not setting around and ’ missing opportunities to buy good- terms, waiting for him to get a tow dollars out of some poor widow woman. I have never heard. from him since. He is now running J an ad in the Benzie Record published at Ben- lah, Michigan. My neighbor a widow, with a farm told me yes— terdny that she sent him $5. Iamn‘nxioustolnnowitheisa ‘ swindle” ' From the above, you may take it YOU OR , that Mr. W is not exactly living up to his. Went to the publisher under the date of. December eighth, :last, when he said. “We are here to stay and expect to build up a nice . clean. business! ” Settled woman. wishes to reduce expenses 0: trip any pheasant or ' a om Names. 'Would I " “see..— ; I cornea, M. 'Jacob DeGeus to visit the Prairie AFFORoTo HAVE SICK OR BACKWARD cows Kano-Kore Insure: Profitable Dairying for- Thoueands All Over the Country Cut out the constant leeks .ot deli-yin: that molt from sick cows and disappointing milk-yield. and you will betfn to reap the reel ' tn. Stoplookinlmncowdireues u ineutablc: they CAN be prevented The cow's winter diet is hard on her db- nutin and genital arcane—um- them down. Over-feeding of rich concentrates och .mvetee the condition. What is needed to keep the milk-making and digestive or- m healthy enough to maintain top-notch production and at the some time throw ofl disease. Kow-Ku-o has the medio- lfld properties to accom- plkh Just that. It set M on the vital organs of the mileh cow. toning up and‘ dving strength. thk- Melons rebuilding oe- tion that has made Kare famous in the meat of cow diseases, was done. up could not get up or innrin with no feeding low-Kare tun H E . B.” ’ Rat“ :rflrth. Agrarian. Hm 8001111. Milk ever. J. g thou-gala: 1* ASSOCIATION n r boner-Wu, h: I CO” Inc. ‘ ’l"'!! Ll‘ “graham m. ' i. ,. v. f LYNDONVILLE one bad milk fever. on one " ‘ VERMONT On Farm 3 50 cows and heifers. from 25 to 29 lbs. 2 daughters of 1000 lb. cows. 4 thirty in the World, others bred to him. Catalogs ready March 1st. Dispersion Sale Registered Holstein Cattle Farm sale at 10:00 o’clock a. m. Cattle sale at 12:30 p. m- 4 bulls, two from 30 lb. dams, two with yearly backing. 5 are now on S. 0. Test. 14 daughters of King Ona Champion one of the best bred bulls Herd under State supervision. (60 day retest guarantee) MUSLOFF BROTHERS, SOUTH LYON S, MICHIGAN (32 miles from Detroit, Michigan.) Saturday, March 10, 1923 lb. cows. 8,0thers with records Foster, ' Pavilion, ’ i rm" HILL FARM quality. Cholera immuned. Send ‘—Bred Sow Sale of Chester White Swine MARCH 8th, 1923 Consisting of 37 bred gilts, 2 tried sows and 1 spring yearling boar, all well grown and of the best blood lines to be had.» Big type and ALEXANDER & mDMER, VASSAB, MICHIGAN for catalog. Duroc Bred Sows and. Gilts at Private Sale Abfdlpiseeitbermfieeeeresiredbyes bredtoStateFaJr oceere low and satisfaction guaranteed. Pub '0 sale of bred sows limb 9. MIOHIOANA FARM. Pavliion, Illoh. orfers choice weanlim Duroc pigs, either In. Pm' ea V875 reasonable. Write us. I W0 D BROS.. Romeo. Mloh. HILL CREST DU'ROGS', PERRIN‘I’ON MICH. We are breedinfi‘ twentfi cows and eiihtecn gilt! I can of GR AT 0 ION SENSAT ON_ Year— , mm a boars. EWTON J BLANK, 4 miles Mluht Middleton. an“ 00., Midi. °""°°smi““'n3m'°‘-‘”J “63" 1°25 25$ ice as on flabby ebb. . Write us now. I. LIVERHORE ‘ SON. Romeo, Mich. south 0! CHESTER wnrrns ‘ BRED SOWS AND l:EAI_.L GILT‘S' FOR SALE #0 some fell ms. furms e . ILIUR JON 8, Route No. 1. Reese. Mich. _ 91-31.0- sniffing» of}. 0. “skin olL'rs FOE ale. Weighing 250 lbs. few full 'oars. J. n. In ETTE . Cllflord, men. WSHIRES I GHANOI To GET 80.5 REAL HAMP- Ihires. Boar ' Gilt Edge n. Messenger All .Over 10111. n Pershing 2n ., and other great boars Writes for list an DETROIT CREAMEBY H00 d D1108. FARM, Rollin 7. Ht. Clemens, Mich. HAMPSHIREs—SPRING BOARS Anh‘IIED gilts from news to select from. your order now or you may be to late. 10th Er. JOHN w. SNYDER. R. 4. St. John. b. SHEEP 800 BRED EWES FOR SAL inlotsoifiOormore,blsckfeeed.fmnl 4 o ~no'n;okenm the ingood’wfin. ny and xfor'd m to ted :32 miles 5. W. of Dctro all Do- d Highway. Tel— Inca troit and 'lloleco electric on b kwood. ALMOND B. CHAPMAN, So. Rockwood, llleh. HIGH CLASS REGISTERED CHROPSHIRE Ewe-bredtorunaofth . Inlotstomit. [Argo well covered mg 90. c. LEMON a so 8. Dexter. men. sunopsmnr —t?...:‘.‘°.'.§;':“n:m."“- DAN anoousn. Evert, n. 4. Mich. WHEN WRITING TO ADVER- TISERS MENTION THE M. B. F.‘ A An ‘ I Auction Duroc Jersey Swine ON , f Tuesday, March 13, 1923,12 o’clock We will seflRegister-ed Duroc Jerseys consisting of 7 BOARS--35 SOWS and GILTS Bred to “SENSATION MARSI” ' i" ‘ Famemileseastofogdmnocbmkod. ' Macaw free. museum. seiner, Ouceare. .SCl-IAFFER ascent. gasoline. g .1..- A V. worth of common kerosene or coal or] 1’0 Cets 1_‘ 300ch power of the purest. whitest and best light known to science. Nothing to wear: ‘ simple; safe; 15' Dan' Trial. ' As a special introduc- tory 0 er, we will give you a 300 Candle Power SgnrayLantern FREE With the first purchase . of a.Sunr-y Lamp. L1 to up the fyard or barn like a search light. “to today or full information and agency proposition. KNIGHT ucur co.. Dost. 93-02 chic-in. m. ' SMOKESHIS MEAT BY PAINTING IT Utah Farmer’s Simple Method Gives Wonderfully Delicious Flavor and Saves 20 pOunds in Every 100 You can flavor your hams and bacon deliciously and save time, money' and meat by the easy method ' successfully used by W. H. Laws, Richfield, Utah. Mr. Laws simply paints his meat with Wright’s Smoke, which smokes meat perfectly in a few minutes with- out flre, trouble or loss, gives bet— ter flavor, keeps insects away and saves 20 pounds in every 100 by pre— venting shrinkage. Mr. Laws sugar cures his meat with 27 pounds of salt and a bottle of Wright’s Ham Pickle. Large bottles of Wright’s Smoke or Wright’s Ham Pickle cost little at any drug store, and are guaranteed. Send your name to the E. H. Wright 00., 850 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo., and receive, free and postpaid, a new $1' book, “Meat Prouuction on the Farm,” which tells how to cure every kind of meat. This $1 book is free to farmers only. Write for it today. Rheumatism A Remarkable Home Treatment Given by One Who Had It In the year 1893 I was attacked by Mus- cular and Sub-Acute Rheumatism. I suffered as ‘ d know for over were terribly amicted, even bedridden, some of 1 them seventy to eighty years old, and the results were the same as in my own case. I want every euiferer from any form of mus- cular and sub-acute (swallinz at the jomts) rheumatism. to try the great value of my im_- I roved “Home Treatment” for its remarkable ailing power. Don't send a cent; simply mail your name and address, and} Will send it free to t . After you have used it. and it has prov- en igelf to be that long—looked for means 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 perfectly 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 265.1 Dunton Bldg. Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. Jackson is responsible. Above statement true. -‘LADIE'SB§§§§.5UFRBE ’ EVERYBODY cm HAVE our o t b autiful 7jcwel, 10 year gun - ar’itgeerslfgoeld filled Bracelet Watches. I V015??? ABSOLUTELY fREE 1”“ RUSH {33.33832 Qflxhr‘fi‘ii‘pifilt‘éie‘.’ $3.31; Plan. Don't Johann“. “ we: SUPPLY CO H0” . . _ ' g as .9 - l 7 __.__.__fi ___._ and Oral B d. Bil, a“ i a ’ ‘c run“ “A” Saw" ‘fi-n. ash or , trees, chewing their ends. _, winter. ‘ . Nieces and Nephewsz—I do not know what to write this week. My brain does not ap- pear to be working just right I seem to be suffering from a popular di- sease which quickly spread over the world about two years ago. I am all right during the day at the of- flco but as soon as I gethome I sit down andsit for hours and hours in one spot. My loved ones talk to me. but I hear them not and then be- coming vexed they call in loud tones but still I do not hear and they are obliged to touch me to attract my attention. And still all of this time there are sounds, passing into ears—- beautiful music, songs, talking and also strange noises that are not so pleasant to hear. I contracted the disease from the bite of an in—v sect and while it is said that while one may get better they will never become the same as before. One that contracts this disease desires to sit up until all hours of the night, bed having no attraction for them until around three o’clock in the morning: that is if the disease has secured a good hold upon you. Yes, I was bitten by an insect, a bug in fact, the “Radio Bug,” and I have a small receiving set. I am sure all of you girls and boys who' have radio sets in their homes know just how I feel. I hope that some day all readers of the Children's Hour will own radio sets so that they can hear the interesting and educating lectures, fine music, songs, and stories, that are in the air near- ly all hours of the 'day and night. Maybe when that time comes we can call each other up just like we do over ’the‘ telephone. .It’s about time for a Detroit broadcasting station to open one of their programs so I am going to sign off and listen to it.—UNCLE NED. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS Dear Uncle Ned and Cousins:— We still take the M. B. F and like it very much. I enjoy reading the Children’s Hour. I am in the eighth grade at school and hope I will pass. I thought I would tell you of a day’s outian I had in the summer. One nice summer’s day mother, sister and I took our lunch and went out in the woods. We stopped by a spring and ate our lunch. After lunch we gathered a large basket full of beau- tiful flowers and walked through the woods. It certainly was wonderful scenery, trees growing on the slop- ing banks and flowers growing on the mossy banks along the cool rippling stream. And our cows were lying under the shade of the large maple We also saw many beautiful birds such as the robin, canary, bluebird and many others. Their melodious voices were delightful to hear. It was about four-thirty when we reached home. Somewhat tired, but pleased with our day’s outing. I will close, with love to Uncle Ned and Cousins.— Eleanor D. L. Stovel, Hubbard Lake, Michigan. Dear Uncle Ned and Cousins:——I suppose you will be very much sur- prised to hear from me as I have not written in so long I expect you have forgotten me. How are all of you? I hope well and enjoying this lovely It is snowing this morning. We’ve had a lot of snow this winter. I wonder how many of the cousins have ever gone to a spelling match and for a sleigh ride. I mean go to another , school and spell against them. Well we went last Thursday, January 18. We went to a school six miles from our school. We just went a little ways off the main road Pthough when we had to get off the sleigh and walk a ways, it was thaw- ing a little and the sleighing had all gone off and left the mud so we would have had a mud ride instead of a sleigh ride if we hadvstayed on the sleigh, don’t you think so? Well we got to the school at last but they were not expecting us and I\ guess they got afraid and they didn’t want to spell very badly so we played a. few games and came home. We had a good, time, though. Nellie ,Inman, if youal‘e'reading-this-ietter {wish . .~., g~¥9~u would er.l?9«t9.:me againor did .4. that picture 'of me scare you? I _hope not, you know you have not written since I sent it to you. Well I will be taking up all. of the space if I don’t stop. Won’t some of the cousins please write to me? I am a girl 14 years old and I am now sick in bed and would like to hear from- you. :Goodbye everyone. 'Fromyour, niece and cousin.—'—Audrey Conlin, R. 4, Bay City, Michigan. Dear Uncle Nedz~I have never written before and I only saw one- letter from around here, so I thought I would write. What is the matter with our page, is it going to sleep? Lets' wake up cousins and write some nice letters. Well I will describe myself. I am 63 inches tall, have dark brown hair and light brown eyes and a light complexion. How many of you cousins wish summer was here I do. We have a big ditch near our place but the ice is no good, there is too much snow on it. This is my first letter and it is not very good but I will write again‘and that will be quite soon. What! Am I hearing you sigh Uncle Ned? Oh, I did not intend to write a story book. Will Myrtle Baress of Owen- dals please write to me. Oh,'I for- got to tell you my age. I am 14 years old. Please cousins, boys and girls, write to me and I will try and answer everyone—Alma Holland R. 2, Qwendale, Michigan. ‘ Dear Uncle Ned:——May I join hand in hand in the circle of letter writ— ers? This is the first time I have written to you or any of the rest. . I am a farmer’s daughter, 13 years old. We have a farm of 40 acres and also took a contract for pickles so this means work. I am attending Hemlock High School now and am in the ninth grade. Some mornings when my partner and I go to school there is ice on our coat collars so you may be sure it is cold. I often wonder why we don’t have school in summer and not in winter, be- cause in winter it is too cold to go to school, while it would be warm in summer. Your niece.-——Catherine Baker, R. 4, Hemlock, ,Michigan. P. S.——I think it would be a nice thing for you to put a umber of words on our page for us to see who can get the most words out of it, if the rest will second the motion. ‘ Dear Uncle Ned:——I am a girl 15 years of age and live on a farm of 800 acres. We came out here from Michigan over three years ago and all want to go back in the spring as we do not like it out here. I am in the second year of high school, and I like my school and teachers very well. I think I will have to close now. I enjoy reading the let- tors in the M. B. F., from the ‘bther boys and girls very much. Will some readers of the M. B. F., please send me the piece “How Little Katie Knocked,at the Door of Heaven?”— Miss Fairy M. Dunklee, Farmersville, Station, New York, Box 102. ~Dear Uncle Ned:——May I join your merry circle. My father takes the M. B. F., and I enjoy reading the Children's Hour very much. I haVe one mile to walk to school and I am in the 5th grade. There are 32 children in our school. We have examinations every month. We have them on Thursday and Fri- day. I am 10 years old, my birth- day is the 12th of May. I have 7 sistersland 1 brother. We have 5 cows, 3 calves. ,2 horses and 96 chiCkens. I live on a 120 acre farm. We have 2 pigs, 2 cats and 1 dog. I remain your niece,—Ida Gill, ’R. 1 Box 100, Kalamaz’oo,"Michigan. Dear Uncle Ned:-——'-I have read in the M. B. F., many interesting let- ters of boys and girls, and enjoyed them very much and thought I wOuld write to you.‘ I have 1 brother and for pets I have a bull dog and a. cat. I am 13 years old and lathe 8th grade. My birthday is January 9th; I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas as much as »I did mine. If ‘I have any. twin sisters or brothers When tune iszon‘th‘e ‘ d ‘ Dear Uncle ~“Ned:—-:-I-Iere “I. again.‘ How are you and encode- ins? today. I live on an 80-acr'e'farm} For pets I have 1 dog and 2 esteem dogs name is Shep. my father the Mr. 1B. F.,.«aud I 'likeit'v’ery’fiéll: I have 3 sisters. My two greatest sports are skating and skiingvrat .11: which I have. a. very good time. “I‘M? birthday comes May let, and I’Will be 16 years old? inch tall. Have I a twin? ~Your friend.—,-—F‘rank Stimax, Engaldine, Michigan. Dear Uncle Ned—«May I join your merry circle? I will be 13 years old next Sunday and I am in the Seventh grade at school. four inches in rheighth and. weigh about 90 pounds. I have'blue eyes, brown hair and light complexion. I 1: live on a ~40-;tcre farm and-wehave 4 cows and {horses and 8 sheep.- We have about 200 hens and 6 turk- ‘ ies. How many of the girls know how to knit? I do. I am knitting my little niece a scarf. She was. 5. years old last Sunday. I got agring, a sweater, two pencils .and. tablets, a _air of stockings, and shoes, a book of “Timothy’s Quest" and candy, and nuts last week—Miss Bernice Drew, Hubbardston, R; 3, Mich. ,, Dear Uncle Ned—Is there enough ' room for another cousin'? I will tell you about myself. I 'am 13 years old, in the 8th grade. I weigh 80 lbs: I have brown hair, brown eyes, fair complexion and wear glasses. ,My birthday is July sixteenth. Have I any twin sister or brother? I have 3 sisters and ‘2. brothers. Uncle Ned did you‘ ever go coasting, well if you didn’t you have missed a lot.. I am sending-you a story. Will sime of the cousins write to me? Your twice—Francis Nielsen, Coral, R. 2, Box 4, Mich. Once upon a time some boys were playing at the edge of a pond in which lived a family of frogs. The boys amused themselves by throwing stones into the pond so as to make them skip on top of the water. Th stones were flying thick and fast- and the boys were enjoying them- selves very much; but the poor frogs in'the pond were trembling p with fear. ' At last one of the frogs, put his he‘ad out of the water and said, “Oh please, dear children, stop your, cruel play! Though it may be fun for you, it means death to us!” Always stop to think wether your fun may not be the cause of an- other’s unhappiness. ~—~Yes, I have coasted and it sure is great fun—that is if you don’tgtip over and get a lot of snow down your neck. Your story led-he.— Uncle Ned. ' THAT WOOD-BOX H, gee whiz. That wood-box makes me sick. I have to trot, and trot and trot, To fill it stick by stick. And then it simply disappears Within the big stove door, I And Ma she up and hollers out for me to get some more. ‘ No matter where I want to go Or what I want to do 7 Why Ma looks in the woodshed and at the wood-box ’, And if the wood ain't piled up high, And split up nice and fine, V _ She frowns and tells me, “No Siiee, You cut up. wood. till nine. And if the sun’s a shinin’ I And you have got some ski’s, ‘ ’ tasin Halifax, by gee. -~ ' ' ,. You see the other neighbor‘boys: ' Go rear-in' tearin’ 'by. :r ' i" u wish‘ the darned bidirooda-bon ‘And someone whispers,- ‘-‘Goinefon, e'--_ ., _ I Can’t you get but. on. the; sly)" ,..- Then-if-youirnutter -. l I 3 And ‘outthe‘door youlslips,‘ I When, y‘ouj get {back you “saver to {go And pick up. all the . " T; - And so I-say,~ev n”. " 14114» e I have no twin sisters or, brothers -1; , I'am fine. .. I was, heme from school one week and I started: again I have lightrhair g; and eyes and I am 6 feet and 1' ' Box 101, t i I’m five feet and ” VBI’ 301 of, for and- Eh? ,1: ‘.l- 7 \ CARE AND REPAIR OF THE - FARM TRACTOR V, ‘ CERTAIN amount of time regu- larly employed should be given _ to the care and repair of the farm maeh'inery. It is now the ac—‘ ' oeptable time to investigate the ills of the iron family and remedy them ‘V for their maximum efficiency in the spring. The tractor, of all modern farming tOOlS;/lS perhaps the least under- stood and will be considered first. ‘.The rtractor‘, after each, year’s use, shoul'djbe given a thorough examin— admirer wear and defeCtive parts. In ‘or'dinary 'usage, connecting rod bearings, piston pin bearings, rings and pistons will show signs of wear, which should be attended to at this time. A competent repair man is desirable" for this work as a job poorly done is worse than no job at all. A manufacturing company should be‘better able to furnish com- petent help at this season than any other time. However, for the owner mechanic- ally inclined, the following is a sug- gested procedure for the adjustment of loose connecting rod bearings. Remove lubrication oil and necessary covers to make connecting rods and crank shaft accessible. With spark plugs removed, place crank shaftso that pistons are about one—half way on their strokes. Grasp the lower end of the connecting rod for one piston and move up and down and also sidewise in a direction parallel to the crank shaft. The up and down’ motion Will indicate the extent of the looseness which requires adjustment. The looseness will be evident. Do in like manner with the rest of the rods. Assuming that all rods are loose, re— move cotter keys and loosen nuts, holding caps of bearings to the body ' HUBAM CLOVER As we would like to try some of the Hubam clover seed would like to have your advice on this. Whether it 'is necessary to inoculate-and is it advisable to sow it with the grain? Does it withstand the Winter? Also about what time to cut it for hay and can‘ clover seed be threshed from this and is it a good soil builder? We have a clay and sand mixed soil. +J. S. Y., Burr Oak, Mich. ——Hubam may be sown with a grain crop or, when used for pasture and the land is comparatively free from weeds, may be seeded alone. The soil should be well supplied with lime, the seed bed should .be well firmed, and the seed should be in- oculated. Hubam is an annual and does not live through the winter. Seeds scattered on the ground during the late fall usually germinates and pro- duces a crop the next season. In tests conducted here at the Agricultural» Experiment Station practically the same yield has been secured from Hubam as the biennial white sweet clover when sown on the same day. The root system pro- duced by the biennial white sweet clover the first season is much more extensive than that produced by Hubam. ' r iSweet clover should be cut for hay just before the blossom buds appear, and if cut at this stage the Hubam is not likely to produce a . with new ones, replace covers and ICHIGA ’ arms” 13' _ ":71 in of the rods. Adjust one by one by first removing' cap then ..-r.emov— ing liner on both sides of-t‘liefbear‘i-ng. The cap is replaced with the‘remain- ing liners fastened rigidly .to the rod by means of the bolts and nuts. Considerable care should be exercis- ed'in making sure that the nuts are - drawn tightly against the cap and the liners properly placed. Turn the starting crank and note its ease in turning. If it turns too easily, it is an indication that not sufficient lin— ers have been removed. Remove more until, when assembled in place, there will be considerable effort re- quired to turn the shaft. The ad- justment is now too tight. Again remove cap, add a thin liner and re- adjust. This should be the correct setting. If not, repeat the operation. Now unscrew the nuts (by: about one turn and proceed to the next connecting rod‘ until all are adjusted. tighten all caps, replace cotter keys add the required amount of new lubrication oil. Where there are no liners betweenthe bearing halves, it will be necessary to carefully file the cap to eliminate the looseness. When thick liners are used, apply the file to the liner for adjustment. Bearing adjustment is not difficult. It requires a little patience but is worth while. Just as the tractor will require attention from time to time, so will the various other farm machinery. Proper housing is a great factor in preserving machinery. At least a week each year should be set aside, know as farm machinery week, when each farmer can give his im— plements the attention that means better service and longer life—«E. C. Sauve, Asst. Prof. Farm Mechan— ics, A. C. N C R OPS seed crop unless the fall is very fav— orable—40. R. Megee, Farm Crops Dept., M. A. C. ' VE’TCH AS A FEED I would like to get all the inform— ation I can about sand vetch as a feed, the time to sow, amount of seed 'per acre and time to harvest.— H. E. C., Secord, Michigan. —Hairy vetch may be sown with rye and used for seed, pasture or for plowing under. When sown with rye it should be planted about the middle.of August using a bushel of rye and from fifteen to 'twenty :ounds of hair vetch seed per acre. Hairy vetch is also used with oats for hay in 'eh case it should be sown during the early spring, using approximately two bushels of oats and twenty pounds of hairy vetch seed. Circular No. 50 on the culture of hairy vetch may be secured through the Business Farmer by ad— dressing Director R. S. .Shaw of the Michigan Agricultural College, East Lansing-«C. R. Megee, Farm Crops Dept., M. A. C. Two ways to work a1 jalfa into the rotation: , Corn, oats, alfalfa, alf- alfa; potatoes, wheat, alfalfa, alfalfa. Club girls baked 370,000 loaves of bread in 1921 in connection with extension club work carried in by extension club workers in the United States. FfiaMER,“ \ Michigan Farm Bureau Brands include'the Best varieties of alfalfa, clo- ver, seed grains and other field and grass seeds. Their Vitality; Description and Purity are guaranteed to be as represented to the full amount of the Purchase Price. MichigarownAI-Fal Fa Seed Monroe County, lVIichigan, has been producing one strain of Alfalfa seed for thirty-seven years. The farms on which this Alfalfa has been grown are mostly heavy clay with poor drainage. These conditions are commonly considered the most difficult for Alfalfa production. .f‘ \ / \ We believe this Monroe County Alfalfa is the best strain of‘Chrn- mon Alfalfa grown anywhere and that it is thoroughly adapted to Michigan conditions. I For further information write us for our pamphlet or write the Farm Crops Department M. A. C., East Lansing, for their lit— erature. Order early from your Local Co—op. Get Farm Bureau Brand . Seeds of all kinds. Farm BureauBrand Seeds are tagged with our analysis and guarantee which covers the full amount of the purchase price. Seea’ Deparfmenf MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU LANSING . MICHIGAN Made in All Styles” Breechingless, Side Backer, Express, etc. on this new way of making harness. which is three P OSt Yourself times stronger than buckle harness. Before you buy harness, let me send youa set of Walsh No4Buckle Harness on 30 days' Free Trial, to show you why this harness is three times stronger without buckles. better looking and handicr in every way. If not convinced. send it back at my expense. The Walsh is a proven success on thousandsof farms for over 8 years. Three Times Stronger Than Buckle Harness Buckles weaken and‘tear straps. Walsh 1%—inch breeching strap holds over 1100 lbs. The same strap with buckles will break at the buckle at about 350 lbs. pull. Ordinary harness has 68 biickles._ Walsh Harness has no buckles. Easy to see why Walsh is three times stronger than ordinary harness. Packer's'Northern Steer Hide Leather—best that can be tanned. COSTS LESS —— LASTS TWICE AS LONG The Walsh Harness costs less because it saves many a dollar in repairs. Users show average repair cost of only 9. cents per year. N o patching. no mending. because no rings to wear straps in two. no buckles to weaken and tear straps. Greatest advance in harness making. Easily ad just- ed to fit any horse. Write today for new reduced prices. $5 AFTER THIRTYJ DAYS’ FREE TRIAL , 4 Balance easy payments. or cash after trial if you wish. Write today ’ for free book, prices. easy payments and thirty days' trial offer, also . ' ' how to make money showing Walsh Harness to your neighbors. rover 40 years. The Jamos M. Walsh, Prom, WALSH HARNESS C0. Walsh is the best yet." 129 Keefe Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin W23 _ YOur Copy ls Readu-Wri'ie Today .\ Th rough Straps No Buckles NO’RIngs See How Buckles To a r J Straps Thousands Praise " Walsh Home" The Welsh is strong- est. neatest, most con- venient harness I ever put on a team." Geo, Heath, Penn Yan.N.Y Mr. C. G. Anderson, Aitken, Minn., who bought his first Walsh 5 years ago and bought 3 new sets since for his other teams . says:— "Walsh has buckle har- ness beat a mile." Mr. E. E. Ward, Sen- eca Falls. Wis.. says: "Have used harness for Endorsed by Agricultural ‘ o l l e 3 ea, Government Experiment S t a t i o n a. leading horsemen and r thousands of ii i ii e v e r y state. i , ’2" j, \ A. ‘. Raise Silver Foxes Most Profitable livestock. We sell outright-or for monthly ' 'onyinenh Willi!!! your reach. Writ. NOW. \ SILVERPLUME. FoxEs Bo; 3-31, mammalN. Y. ONE YEAR l9?!“ . Bun the New Butterfly Jr. No.2” ' 0.0m“ - l 5‘— Uzht running. close skimmins din-ble- NEW Bill I ERFLV‘ can: "rinsed": lifetime t abet. in material and wot ~ 33 a i up b if? Qrv From selected, he: he um .Anoonu so Rent-fig- 3’ ‘53::&Zg “mugs. I m p and the as. push! Id _ WWW “"1 wn‘wflwwmn ' 'WIRSTROI FARM & “ATOHE‘IIEB. I0! I ‘5. m IARRED ROCKS IT WV T'I'E . . . . . . . . ..-... Ule and DUFF LEOHO Whmdoor. 10.1, livodoiiveryrumteedmmmwm Morencl, Mich. . \ RNS... ._.... . /~CUARANTEED CHICKS Hatched - ' u I main-Imus Quahtyli‘owloonhoounn.mbfl‘mm nsos, muoncu. mas.» ' woo. one», DUFF Rocks u.#3:=' ' 1 51:02.. 4: leather I..I. '0. l.’ roflts with our famous RURAL Strain PURE BRED 8. c. lROWII LEGHORNS end AHCONAS. hey have at of . W n modern lss'nres r mature more lrnprdly vvalth roor'eesedtee {30% ml hm eyes-s. e n ve em '0 . rested in n lock of t will five on your mmm’wfl at why on time. _ RURAL POULTRY FARM. Dept. B, Route 1, Iceland. Ildh. 150,000 RURAL CHICKS can double your H 81" Am ENG- the once. Beautiful 7- 100 13; aims, 56, $38“; 100 $15; M EADOW BROOK FARM —ENGLISH WHITE LEGHORNS, BROWN LEGHORIS (Holland Importa- tlon Strain), 50 ROOKS, REDS. BUFF WHITE WYA-NDOTI'ES deliver! guaranteed. All this advertisement and 33:2 family for rd to please y Prue. so 62.50- 1.000, 120. BARRED q' s ado, 3172.533; 1.11300i u31w. From heavy laying w condition, insuring VIGOR e following varieties end yLIn mush ,10 1. a, rim eom‘gosgd of Selected Heavy sers. 0 or now from y nt them. have produ mod oh and Kl W HOW. I want ‘3?" business and will try (h Bonk Reference. MEADOW 00K FARM. H De Proprietor. Route 1 H, Holland. Mloh. Member Mlohlgen 8. 0. A. RDY, HEALTHY MICHIGAN CHICKS well-fed and housed (owls in best vigorous breeding CKS FOR OUR CUSTOMERS. That Is what you get ’ and BROWN LEGHORNS. nca: HITE 50. 7: £120. AVON , 50, 87.50; 100. 814; I500, $25: delivery guaranteed. We want your businem and WANT TO HOLD IT when we do get it and will endeavor on right. Order now right ' WANT 11on cm from fins ed and GET THEM WHEN YOU State Burk. CITY LIMITS HATGHERY. Box I, : ES—WIHT‘E. IR RRED ROCKS WHITE IIIORCAS. 50. 085‘}: 100. post 1 rpm rfimgo‘gfi ‘DOORE 01’ ‘ . . SAVE flfi. €2.81“ tree. Reference. Geneva THE GENEVA HATGHERV, lo: :05. Geneva. Ind. c H I c K s $12.00 per 100 and Up TENXED 50,$6 Lawn huncflooks our.de [HECTFROMTHISADM "a. #:2- noc'ns and BUl-‘F barina‘i‘ous.’ 'orewelliedsnd T HILLV IE W H A T C H E R Y GUARANTEED TO ARRIVE .. $31955 "id: Efig’fis fihsgwm'fifignho'gieyg'gfi’n 100 318- we: ease"i ' xrgu oooo IARRED s, 60' each; 106. 1650': in 1.1:}: door and 11V. delth 0g RAKE A PROFIT. Gino II a trial will come 33in. HILLVIEW HATCHERV, Route 12 E. Holland. IMImn EUALITY guicxhl GUARANTEED. I ‘E emBredflricks I. LECHORIS ' so i- “ end BABY 0HIOKS . .mns-A'rnu . LIV-mum.“ Cured Her ' . "'Rheumatim ALL; WORLD'S GREATE‘W' EGG PRODUCERS Sheppard Famous (1 selected flocks on tree unan_ w-m mil-nth. CHICKS ammo-m o. a my. Lupin-no "* Attention-Guaranteed Baby Chicks 3 . m ‘ whichhmilhemnzbm tobreednummoetmw_h it. ’Itmmmmmw’ mmamm. j ...1 mummy snow 1mm Demon FW' wm ' EMBERS oi' the try association met in contor- ence three days atM. A. C. Formors’ Week. ' ‘ Judge Chas. Gibson, Ellwood, Ind; spoke to the association Wednesday on the general care of rabbits, while scientific selection for egg produc- tion was taken up by Professor E. .C. Foreman of the M. A. 0. Poultry de— partment. , Profiessor W. R. Graham of the Ontario Agricultural College I told of experimentsin poultry nutri- ‘ tion .cnrried on at the Canadian college. ' On Thursday, 0. M. Ferguson, M. v A. C. Poultry Extension Department ' discussed. how invironmeut aflected egg production. Professor W. R. Graham, 0. A. C., told of Canada’s National Egg Policy. Different kinds of poultry feed and the feeding were taken up by D. E. Hale, Chicago, who judged the Poultry Show. At the meeting on Friday, Protes- , sor E. C. Foreman outlined various forms of poultry house construction. This was [allowed by a caponlzing' ' experiment conducted by C. M. For- guson of the college Poultry exten- sion department. Over 400 entries were made tor - the annual poultry show. The larg- est entries were found in the classes White Wynndottes, Rocks and Dark Barred Rocks "mak- ing the competition exceptionallyf strong here. One of the attractions of the show j was a four-legged pullet exhibited by the college. This bird caused much comment among the visitors. Judging in the various classes was done by Judge D. E. Hale, of Chicago, one or the best known poultry ex- perts in the easily. POTATOES AS POULTRY FEED OTATOES should be boiled or steamed before being fed to iowls and are fed to best advan- tage when mixed with mash. Since potatoes are quite tattening,‘ they ' should be ted in limited quantities to laying hens or growing chickens, and- should be used in connection with other feeds. One hundred hens will consume about 10 pounds 01 cooked potatoes daily, and these potatoes can be used to replace cornmeal in the poultry mash. It so used, an equal weight of potatoes and mash may be mixed together-m A laying ,- rnash for this purpose may be made of 1 part meat scrap, 1 part mid-_ dlings, 2 parts bran, and 4 parts potatoes,‘ by weight—Colorado Agri- cultural College. " WATCH WHITE DIARREEA Diarrhea is one of the W most deadly diseases we have It has at— Y in the poultry yard. tained its present prevalence over the country largely because poultry ‘ have failed to take organ- ized stops town-rd its eradication ' . through the simple means of break- ’ ing up the life cycle of the germ. -. This is done by the simple expedient A of refusing to use any birds in the , breeding pen which have had the disease or chicks. It reaches its greatest activitytwo or three days after the chicks are _ hatched, oftentimes killing an entire, , brood. Some may survive and appar- '- entiy be inmellent health, but the truth dfiemthmhtbutthegenas Ire still in fine :mneflve organs, where any Wisdom We dowl muons Ito eggs, mil Onewotm&mlfi ’. ‘ menses; Branoh oi the American Poul- _._J....44 "m I 00-; Light Barred i were exposed to it as‘ r. *' ‘: r - , as: Bad on.” flood 10o our use: new ‘».‘.m FREE "HP-1" H‘ - H 7:; L . am. "» r ~I Warren 70 a same, rm.fl{j_ reams-mates...“ w ,. HELP WANTED MAJE' SALEM can! ORPOBJ'UIITY son? on ‘to mm " cellist ‘ and' moon on” item! Mica-1d ban. Mirna rumours. AM" ' re deal. Wm‘ .m - ‘mmnns OIL“? cummin‘z Cleve , Ohio. WE PAY $300 MONTHLE SALARY, FURN- nnd nan t3 mt e figramigég paw mgllgfim‘im )1 ANY. hnle‘lAflTED nglTlOl—fiufl woezssruL’ mm“. r "flower no dlfldl‘n. rm. men .3 honestt‘ 3g- and ’ intelligent worker. Grad to, . o: liner. dress :hIm' , . Akranulanmster County. , “inmost “sum. .5. . won 11 ropes r an an automobile to hustl rs. W(§LVEKMDIE E8 G a emrm. lioh. 30” . I‘ll 1* FAM AND LANDS I?" a I 3' i 25‘ I? 5 '3 a .9 mu” ' 9 sized 50 0'00 2:. gha- 1'ooo m . 10- In home, biz b use: ' er . Is to ogerete $5.500 takes it. team. 8 cows, 4 h , 6 try, full modern laments. Nina Indigo, veeelnbla included, nun any,” s'rnou AMI gtfiubérlugm Marquette . , n1. ' 4 m ' FIRST cuss use new on rm. 6 lupin tron About “For sell: at 1017263“ 153mm” 7 ENFELD'I‘. It. 5.’ 1mm, ‘0 ACRES '0 Windmill 1 we: rows. one A mmx' Write n T Bmdusk‘y. man; .Q' 5%: El 1‘ renames: GOOD_180 AGRES, ALL BROKE. DIE MILE Saskatchewan. Bell for ash or trade sum-s P m as St. £592; ,' MIHLL’ ' “8 mum run. 10 sense. oooo .wc Ion black sell an trucking. R. 1. Box at, at;an 0 none: ‘ m brickho F all 4. IITRAWBERRT PLANT PIER THOUS- and. Guaranteed strrctly‘ first 3:: 117 yum. . ' um Our free illustra- u ‘-— fourteen but varieties. including um. Fn' flmos a son. Mm u" m""' use «one 10! hum: pr bushel. snu'rgz SEED .00., m] 26?: FOR SALHORTHERN "3m 11W! Qweet Clover cleaned .OOEImi I’d .for p I V a Fri 18 let. my nwxfz‘izdn'r moMmmcnassm-y and. ‘ EDS. GOOD LAYING STOOL FIRE . , . once we Limited lumber o! . 10.00 a. ' ‘ A: o-om‘f‘hrfim lion. jfl% non ens—nuns” or ruu. 31.033 B‘s-em"m~w hr “.91.: m no me. a a. - m 0-H!- C- Q In. - r I g. _ , M “noun. . . ’ -' . 006 '. *- P " 'WhiteLeghom —E' RecordsZ'ZjOto "e u“ in one year—Brfidwmn‘cvorg Erect“ 1F!” 'metm’m h envoy. give and 'SUPERIOR POULTRY FARNIS ’ zone-ma. m WASHT E NAW ' ' WK. PRIOE‘: ’ p h 26th‘3aml . a f” that? it: , guarantee live mm ’ emu. '3. But Leghorn. 3' $1.50: ; 5W .. ll‘rom muffin. 19m 100 to these prices. arm on mean. m m Iliu- DeKoster’s Hatchery r " erence. ~ . Bin 5!!" Hie-WHEY, Bu X. will. "Idl- " if 1' PgleSs 3' “my?” rec. rema- MWHERY & POULTRY FARM, Box 10. Iceland. Iloh_. nu culcxug [hitched from h v‘ 11101: flocks of E H v33 (ll-[ORB AND. ' P LE use gun ' man . ‘ i a We guarantee 100 pa cent nul‘nvc chicks on mu]. lPAl-D- I vices some 1:. 1M Chou and“ 'eee Spoon . QUALITY HATc - RV, Box A11. Iceland, llloh. a?” S. G. Vl. LEEHORIIS E AMERIéAN-ENGLISH STRAIN but? . w r from ‘ ’s lingegt n' . to . thmn dwarfs meager mm: M lam Fem and 1mm some“ ' m 832! only. —’ fih‘shction mu ad. I Dam-find“ circula- um m Gout them. It's trel- m HERRERA C M, R. 1, W. Mtg e hutch our Pris. reasonable. slum am smells am kind wwm hay and n. . Inn-non ' 4 m names. 1 serum egath 8 0.“. Prie- m rec and up. Send for cant“, free on one and feed the poultry. ‘ KARSTEII‘S nail; ruined. lichluul 15 ' ' .healthx. t chicks. the tat that ‘ you; x m perfec dc, ' ms admins-town: float hated and bred f pro- se v: ' " enemas ' 1 23332:? he°b#n‘:§°'lo« Em m % “cm‘ In mealtimes H. A. 0.; ' ' ‘ all! r poultry farm 2 .233 ygfzmmnm proud?» own 3.“ ‘ “of pvr'o; g m dehm and p shipments. " Eli-Sfesn‘fiflgfi‘ n',’°“-';35'J 05:53 £32 » f White elm: Wyflg rm .8... l 1‘ fl hatclsier Member smudge: “mm, prices: mvlrmmwm a.“ mm." , .355 oe‘hici dwdc'fiodeimd human- Iflla . was good soc-herein left. 0mm Breeds of fihoéiehlfiend Reds, both combs. , Y m Us FM I“ m “hi-r I. ‘Ia. am canvas. BIRMINGHAM, men. twee slaw; 1 {I : . ii i any "my..qu FIRIBRID. 3' W Wann- ‘ a: "lit! . pug-um... not. , N .. 'or mash hoppers. or the droppings. As soon as. their is any evidence of it in. the brood kill op sight every chick “pasted up” behind and keep the droppings cleaned up- in the run sev- eral times a day. Be very particular ing chilled. ‘ After the chicks are two weeks old there is practically no danger what- ever of infection. It seems to be most . virulent the. first two, days. PROTEIN FOR LAYING FLOCK I want to know what would be the 'best and cheapest way to furnish protein for chickens. How about for winter feed?’——Mrs. G. M. ‘——-Al‘falfa leaves steeped, but more i able protein. Steamed alfalfa leaves are somewhat bulky for a chicken to properly handle. Alfalfa leaves help, of course, but as the only source of protein they fall somewhat short. I would keep on feeding steamed alf- ‘alfa leaves and in addition would supply protein in some other form. In the winter, pieces of raw meat, , such as a dead rabbit, or portion of any animal that did not die of some Idisease can be kept hanging in the poultry house where the chickens can pick at it. The probabilities are that with alfalfa leaves and fresh meat together with soaps from the ' ficient protein. Another good way to supply alfalfa is by using it as litter in place of straw. The egg production of a. flock is almost entirely governed by the amount of protein fed. If a suflic— ‘ient amount of protein is not fed the chickens cannot be profitable egg producers, therefore under average conditions it seems only wise to feed protein in an excessive rather than in a scanty manner. A good ration for laying hens consists of either one _ quart of oats or one quart of barley fed as scratch feed, that is, it is thrown in the litter as a morning feed. One quart is usually sufficient grain for from 12 to 20 birds de— pending on the breed. The evening ,meal consists of one quart of corn for every 12 to 20 birds, then in ad- dition to the scratch feed they should ;have before them at all times in a self—feeder the following dry mash ’mixture: Equal parts ground oats, ground corn, bran, shorts and meat [scrap andtankage. Under average farm conditions it is necessary to ‘buy the shorts and bran and it is .always necessary to buy meat scrap . or tankage, however an. investment , in these ‘feeds will usually prove pro- fitable in that your chickens will pro- ,duce eggs in such quantity as to make an investment, in such feeds profitable. ROUP General Discussion—This disease resembles in its nature colds in man ‘ and higher animals. It is not, as far as our present knoWIedge goes, . caused by one. specific organisms. Roup is not, etiologically related to disease. On up-to-date farms where chickens are kept under hygienic conditions and are properly fed this disease is seldom seen except under exceptionally bad weather conditions. On the other hand it is rather com— mon where chickens are poorly 'fed and kept in small, damp, filthy or poorly ventilater coops. i i ; the fowls so as to make a general in- ; faction, possible. ’nmctton is in. the nasal cavities. " First a'waterx'discharge is noted es- 7 caning from the nostrils. The: ana- tomical of: the nasal m Beam ct fowls is aunties to make - ma- vary Wanna“th Whales accumulates. and am. _ . unis elf-ms “was to r misprints-oi memes. this pre- ' .- will be. well worth the ex—‘l ‘ peruse and eflort.‘ ' l The disease spreads among chicks I ~ through contamined drinking water ' to prevent the little fellows becom- ’Michigan Chicks steeping alfalfa. leaves in hot water;- especially steamed, furnish consider- . table the chickens will receive suf— - DUFF $50. Postpaid. 11 [chicken-pox but may under certain f 2 conditions occur as an accompanying It is prob- ; ’bable that a number of organisms j are instrumental in the production 3 of this disease, and that these or- ; gamsms, which ordanarily are low in s 'pafixogeni’c power, depend on other : influences to lower the resistance of _ Symptoms—The primary seat of , Guaranteed ,Chklu From Select Pure Bred Flock: ‘v Kent entree rang. (infill): fed and cared for to insure the beet I. of health and or. l~ WHI‘I’E‘hnd SHOW! LEGHORNS, ANGONAG, 50. $1.50: 100. l t - HARRIS!) , REDS. Instances. 50. $3.50; 106 use: 500. l . Writes” Hanson“. German. EXT"; SELECT tre- Plro-Ired , per Midi-u higher. PostingI to your door, full live count guaranteed. Bank Reference. Free talog. We want. our husmeu not only this year but for years to come and we I certs endeavor to handle your order! so as to merit your wnfinued p romeo. MOMAL POULTRY FARMS. Box B. Iceland, Mlchlgan: Guaranteed Michigan , Bred and Hatched ‘ wmrs m m LEOHORNO. Ame. so. or 100 813- 500 500. name ROOKI n. . . -' ' -' ' . 1 “ ho :11: e o. sens, so, so so, 100. $18. 500. $13 RUDD! ISLAND WHITE; 100, $1": 200, $33. Postpdd £1111. live dellven sauteed. strong: “20.0118 Chicks from select hm layi finch. Order NOW rlz‘t from this ad. t them when you want them.’l yt your and will‘ try to hold it. Gee-Jog free. Belem. Hon-ad City State 13311:. . KNOLL'S HATCMY, De! L, Noland. Nicola-n CHICKS WITH PEP, $11 per 100 and‘up flatbed. I‘UFF’ ORPIIG- 8 AIR” and WH. " ram Selected Hour: Tasted Fleets. Poe id full live deliv [u TONS WM. and an... wwmno ashes, $23.23; "5 . :1 : a ace 3. e. and n. c. Rene, no u, ms; 1 0 $18. Alcoa“ and uuvv IRNLERO.‘§O Vas- 100 $14. WH., ha. and eel-1 uomue, so 1‘ 1‘00, :13. mxzo Lt‘. sells-nth. on per 100 smlgn. see. 5.“ cl; 4. 10¢. elf. Reedy I'm 26th. Free Catalog. Member 1. B. A. HOLGATE ' HATCHERY, Box B, Hague, Ohio. SUNBEAM HATCHERY I sell’ are packed under my personal supervision in a good. hatchery which is kept in best j ‘ ' The. yeast stock d and of best navy laying strains, kept on free range, well- “ and properly fed. This enables me to pro in! one man. PRJC S ECO b d on] ' 530 I guarantee full live yprepaxpost. your .mmmvvan w1 svabenyoumnt ference. (.‘rataloz Free. H. B. Tlppln. Ben E, Flndlay. Ohio. Mes-rm" l’. B. O. A. CHICKS THAT MAKE PROFIT 0 an. L. wvnupo'rre’s 50. s . den. Bank $10 PER 10Q AND UP. From vigorous, urn-bred flocks on free lance, selected for heavy-laying lities and well aired for low noes cons g exceptional quality. WHY! , N and UP? L om , 60, 7; 100, $13; 5 $62 ; 1 $120 WHITE and BARRED ROCKS, ITE ANDOTT 3, Bush ORPIMTONS. c RID ANCOIAS, 50, $8: 100, 316; 50a, 512.50: 1,000, 1 Muted, au varletloe for haulers 100 :mcgm. Postpaid to your door direct from this ad and. get them- when you 1: them. B reference. , BLUFFTON "mum. M L. Bluflten. 0M0 _ BABY CHICKS $10.50 PER 100 AND UP From Hogan tested. well-kept and housed heavy laying flocks - its Ree Am It wan Ian-radio ks. Rode. norm: 5., $8.50; 100, $18" 500. 11.50 Buff 0 u to Wyandoihe‘: . . . . . . . . . . ‘0, $9; 100 517$: 50:, 385 White, ‘ and sun Leghorns: . . . . . . . . .. 50, $1.50; 106. $14; 500, $61.50 um. . :" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11 per 190 Itrelght Postpaid, full live delivery ranteed. Order NOW from this all. and get them ' when you worn: them. Catalog roe. ALSO EGGS FOR lIA’l‘UllING. Reference, 4 Banks. TRI-STATE IIITGHERI 8. Box 511. W. onle 'ENGLM WHITE LEGHOIIIS, BROWN LEGHORNS. 11 years of breeding enemy rmn - ' for egg production. Higzhcisg f F Iayglrsét gausfatfin sgzugt :ateed.“ oh'l1.'500. ..romxraseenu . ‘7? Ser- 1001%Mr%os?pmd,, 300% delivery guaranteed. Order now. Bank rder- ‘ once. Oatakm free. 97'“ 2‘ sown. sarcasm! a FARMS. n. 2, Iceland. Mich. s. P. Wlerema. Prop. emcee» per 2.29 at». Postpaid to your door and full live count guaranteed 1 oo s13°80 53%,30 $662020 s: 000 we”: snow»: and sun-- Lecuoaus . . . , . . . . . ..s . . . . an” - mo c as. 8.00 15.0 44.00 12.00 140.00 BARREb ROCKS, BLACK M sons and AN ‘50 16-03 46m) 75‘“ “5.” WHITE ROGKS, WHITE WY'RNDOTTEO md REDS OILERS 60 $6 100 s“ “a. -‘ .325. MIXED Glue“! FOR BR . , , - - fig ggvertyo‘gxuamnteed. Hatched in the best possible manner fro’m 305% 'emus, red. heavy hyilt and: on free rams. Carefully selected and_pa.cked to o safely. 0 mmloz. nier right from this ad. and save time. Reference, Citizens Senna Bank. on take no chancel. IIMCA THE EAGLE NEST HATOHERY, 301 it, up ee Only 7 been won mu names. can roe I p Sawfly. 0H0 on any polnt n Mlchlgan In 24 hours. Rosewood Farm Healthy, Hardy Chicks Well-hatched, carefully packed, Egg Bred White Leghorn omens t... and shipped Select heavy lay— mlem-Itmnm in nun: LE‘GHORNS. so. our lem u if; 13 $13; 500. $62.50' "Inter Bum Sir-III of .000 120. Select mucou- .c. to one. no. ., as 30, $1.50; 1 , s44; ., theselected wag. 506. so so Select sense , mm'dmhem to uni?“ EDI-i7: sicm‘s' 5030' $8508 '51; 1% ' mu h s, smells y: - , . ’os , ‘ve 'very wondland Bel" 250-300 EGG Pedlr guaranteed. Our chicks ‘ reader you éhe best of gr emflourhuedemree satisfaction and you will .COME am TO US. selected,an mated by try spec- We have had long experience in p good ' '_audipspecnexla approved:- , airs and our flocks are second to none. talc: tothelr laying abil ty and health. free. ROSIE/000 FARM. R12 A. Holland, Mich. , Carlotta-n1 ore winner! at (Em Euteylng Con!qu r I M ME R’ s H ATCHER Y ' nu. sumo . "Ogla1:d%“&fi:308§6tfigf§:difo: to“; 53rd}. 1 Chich from se- su . 0"]! In." [In I. . our [CI r em chick bur. “AT GNCE. p amd MN S? 5‘), WNW!“ Lleelandlieht a 36-0 530. $623.50. Quin:- soe, 7.56. nuance; nocx’ s' and - 8.50", 100, r—v 4. Postpaid. full ’d Ev ry Rank scion - ' V0 0 e . F nee. GoedChekerairPnces mrmfis. um ,_ mm m w W!- .-,. fl 8 hp W, chh. Rocks. {8- -MR;_d’-QP (flew me. has: “BI m . . . _ v bani]; int. free xfigmlm Eat-e moo. mag Ifi’bwmflmt Guyana-firm I." count_ no:ng y-iflf‘m’mt ‘m-WEW'W ive cam 02. fie rm“. “v, m. .. ’ [meme men. a Formal 00mm M v her m' A “Amulet. “m‘m-fim mm. o ,. nu,- CHICK-S 7 THAT GROW, my.an PA? ‘ Barron English “horns, Brown “5 ’I'nconas. * H ' renounce flue yum once or on tested ‘ headed a: '13:: ~V||lsorof3m280 to gqum-ud I“. ' ‘ . " ' ~ I: . RT. etc PROFITS- 33:7?mnfi‘n3ongapfl- layers. Write to * lot- our“ large Illustrated catalogue. t to". all ibout them. It's me. " ~ - WYNGARDEN . [yin B. ‘ Roland, Mich.“ go 00 Chicks-t A (400,0 . K8 8. c. a . . . aggstcouns, 50. $8: 100. s15- ' wnrre 00. $19.50. < s . "m 100 1 - 5 . . eur'r oripme one, SILVER www- ogrggapggh Ii.50; 100, $13; 500. ' ' ntco nm' 00% im arrian * “eighth? 'tixcn’l innit. Order direct from this and save time. o r. MODERN NATOHERV Box F. Mt. Blanchard, Ohio CHICKS $10 per 100 and Up From good ha in flocks on free ran e. WHITEle “onus. 50 E1; 106‘ 313- see. $62.50. unis o nods Alto REDS, so so; 100 315kgmbe‘d87150 £10m Extra Silos. 00 . Cookerels. art’s LEGHO us, £5. ' 5850- 100, s; 500. $12.50. unnso noc é AND n be 50.,89- 100. $11: 500 $02.50. Postpaid and, full 1m delivery mmnteftl’ix%rd§'i£$ £00L$§Vadfil%&uog Route 8, Box 8. Holland. Michigan HEAVY LAYING makes an“ as; has 25,000 Thrifty Chicks Weekly | l Write f 14 and up. mid- mm 12 ledghgab D°enmy muted. Ovid's Poultry Farm and Hatchery 133 Boots Street. Marion. iodine 0‘ ,es‘r rue PROFITABLE - sun urine xmn They on his. ingtons W. 8 go 30.25: 08!, mm 5‘ 1 A“ :- ' Mam-1. “a . - l t ' 311' i00 straight. Poet; reference. a We delivegfabllrmlarlreh Bank Ohio. Dept. I. Day Old Chicks 89m. study, 8. C. White Mm} (English min) from large-vigorous. yearling: railed S as; been. on our on runs. Tint by and pay. Bdriodfilecko and Rhode “and Beds, from best layini'tottlinl. Bound for our mutated catalog. free. ’ Hlllorou Poultry Farms and Hatchery I. ll. 2, Holland, Michigan m 300“ Hardy free range stock—71 Pure a“? m Breed Paces-.1 Poultry “yum 1: adopted .to the {farmer poultry, own..." man; stock that“ has proved, of; exceptional practical_ value on Win,qu Bud tune as huh I: 178 nwna; egg. 1. year flock avenue. Send llnoroa for price 113‘. STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION 202 Chase Block alnmazoo. Elohim Ref. THE 808 HATOHERY, R. Iceland, fllchlgan. John Boa. Poop. Ban-on Strain Selected 4 White Leghorn; Produch under my personal care. trona vig- ‘ 0?? P f pleivce defifivegr; . on in . BB y teed. 0 chicks, $7; 100. $13; ‘ goo, $62.50. Get .iour order in ear . ELGtN' HATGHE V, Box 81 A. leoland. Ill . s Whlto English Leghorm. Tom 8 no.1 Band finned Plymi‘llhpure all 'Itog . mid. W do out. I ,f‘ rented. Elem; “MAKER’S B’- l-1 REDS. .00»: M seem" clot ' preparation and the whitewash if so :up.wards and 't the eye. smartest the r disease has ' _defiiive¢rr”the name swelled-head. The , nostrils «being closed the bird is. forced to breathe through the mouth. This will dry [the tip of the tongue which becomes brownish and hard, a condition commonly called “Pip,” which may be observed in any disease causing the bird to breathe through the mouth. Other symptoms egg production and occasionally are dullness, sneezing, suppressed diarrhea. ' ' ’l‘reatment_—As~ improper feeding “ and unsanitary conditions are largel responsible for} anjoutbr‘eakot this disease 'iprom‘pt ‘attenti’p‘n‘ tolthese matt'ers‘ Will '3 ju‘squallv terminate 2' "the attack. 'Diseasé’d items shouts: tie isolated and treated as follows: Re- move dried exudate covering the nos- trils and using a medicine dropper, or syringe wash out the nasal cavities with a 20 per cent solution of baking soda. B. F. Kaupp, North Caro- lina Experiment Station, recom— mends forcing this solution through " the nasal passages into the mouth. He then suggests the use of hydro- gen peroxide in like manner, the former solution dissolving the mucus and the latter cleaning the cavities. Following this treatment he recom- mends injecting a small quantitv of the following mixture: oil of .thyme 1 dram, oil of eucalyptus 20 drops, oil of petrol 2 ounces. It may suffice to remove the crust ever the nostrils and by applying pressure ovor the sinuses force the exudate out thru the nasal openings. Theheads of the fowls may then be dipped in the same solution and in the same man- ner as suggested under chicken-pox. Immunization—Knowing as little as we do about the role played by microorganisms in this disease and having abundant evidence to show that feeding and sanitation may de- termine its seriousness it seems that one should feel fully justified in con- demning the use of vaccines or bac- terins the value of which no one knows. J. R. Beach of the California Ex- periment Station reports a disease which as to external manifestations resembles roup very closely. This disease has een proved to be due to faulty nutifi and may be easily distinguish “ 2 ‘post mortem exam- ination. I. Small, deeply penetrating pustules are found on the base of the J tongue andin the sides of the pha- rynx. The kidneys and sometimes the liver and heart will be found to ' be marked with a fine network of ‘white. lines which probably represent tubules filled with urates. Change of diet will correct this malady. How to Prevent Recurrence When no new cases haveappeared “for some time and the diseased ins - dividuals seem well, a general clean- ing of all coops with burning their litter and thorough disinfection of the interior of the chicken-houses should be undertaken. This includes thei‘isolation quarters. To'disinfect ‘ -;pr.operly one should spray- (soak) the walls, 'roosts, flo’ors, inclosed runs, eating, drinking "and other utensils with a 3 per- cent solution of some reliable disinfectant such as com-f H pound solution of cresol or a similar desired. In the poultry yard "(Nicki » lime maybe used and whenever it is possible to'do so the ground should be turned over by plowing or spad- ing. The isolated birds should, be kept from mingling with the rest of the flock for at least one month after recovery of the last case. How to Make Per Cent Solutions Per cent means parts per hundred, e. g., 2 per cent potassium perman- ganate, 2 parts pt. perm. to 100 parts of water. 1 level teaspoonful 4 grams. 1 level tablespoonful 16 grams. 1 heaping teaspoonful and 1 heaping tablespoonful 5 and 20 grams respectively. 1 full quart milk bottle 1000 cubic centimeters. 1 cubic centimeter 1 grain by weight. 20 grams of a solid or liquid to 1000 grams of water, 2 per cent solution. From thesesoul[valents~ one honld . . be ableto .minwnpaa‘ny sire lads-‘2 urea—H. , Stapéeth, ; mist-19mg! Section, A. C. ' j ’ .’ A at“. "issued. a “tour? . as... and "'tvro'j .sg.‘,f.qrfose. year- B 1‘! ii’fl'etlll'fl. segment! trig? sanders at. in time may lower cyclid the From each V man, Associate" Prdf. i of JPo'h'ltry "Hus- . dried I out .,.w_in..__a,hsot-b considerable . ure from the eggsand' may do more . moisture habitwor evil, set’a‘h'fim afresh 988:6. ,Whenezer...‘possib_ ‘ ’A.‘ B., Carsonfeity, Michi”; ‘ -' . ,i ——’l‘he goose raising enterprise whiéh you mentioned as being carried on by twoparties, A. and B. is an -un- usual one. Poultrymen distributing hatching eggs generally work on 'the basis that for every setting of eggs released they will have the privilege of selecting one cockerel or pullet, when matured. ,' ticula‘r" ass that the party B. should receive at least two thirds of the stoCk produced because he has as-'” sfumed the responsibility in taking cafe”. 01;th95~ brspdiss .. ' raisinga,0¥~:iii§i:s§814nséréfflz I Q. Fortes .bandry, M. A. C. , ’ ':,:‘MOISTURE FOR HATcmNG EGGS ROB‘ABL‘Y no. question concerned with the" incubation 0f eggs has called forth the comment and con- troversy that the moisture question has. Whether it shguld be supplied to hatching eggs during. the incu- bating period or not, is 'one of the favorite topics for an annual spring argument among poultrymen and hatchery operators. . .There can be no doubt but that where the incubation of eggs takes place under hens that there is more or less an application of moisture to the eggs thrOugh external sources. This is responsible, more than any- thing else, for the currency given the idea that moisture ought to be ap- plied externally from time to time during the incubation period- We are not absolutely opposed to the application of moisture, for we recongnize that there are times when this is desirable, but, in the majority of cases, it is unnecessary and will do more harm than good. If good, fresh eggs are set—eggs that have not- been held more than two‘ or three days and not over a. week, if possible, no application of moisture will be necessary unless you are using a very unsatisfactory type of incubator. Na— ture makesample provision for the moisture content of an egg sufllcient to supply all the needs of the de- veloping embroyo chick during the process of incubation provided rea- sonably fresh eggs are set. But as an egg ages the moisture content evaporates and the chance of hatch: ing a good, strong chick diminishes. Many people advocate sprinkling the eggs with lukewarm water from' time to time during thehatching pe—. ‘ riod. We are absolutely. apposed to this direct application 01' mQJ‘st‘ure. to the shell of the hatching egg because We have tried that method time and again and have convinced ourSelves thatlit affects the size of the chick hatched adversely. The more mois- ture applied to the shell of the egg, the smaller the chick hatched. This is due to the fact that the moisture drying off the surface of the shell rapidly, as it is bound~to do, draws. further on the natural moisture con- tent of the egg and thereby decreases the size of the chicks hatched. Of course, the plan of dipping all eggs. in. lynkeyrar‘rn"water is to be discour- agedi fer; the‘ same ,. reason. . ‘ Where- meisture. must be added in the incubator we feelithat; the plan of keeping, a. saucer. of. .water .under the esstfr'er..1b:,the‘bes.t. in. is. naturally - tril that gs ;;wbqasn “incubator well moisture as it warms up and unless it comes from some such source, ,itis bound to come from the. eggs placed in the machine. Incubators that have stood idle in a dry place for a whole season will absorb more moisture than those that have been running- several hatches. . The‘moisture question is taken care of by automaticarrangements on many incubators, more particu- larly on the large . mammoth - ma— chines used in ‘hatcheries for the large flocks. Some of the smaller machines provide sand trays which are to be kept «moist all the time. We see no objection to these provided the sand is kept moist. ~'If'it,hapr pens to dry out overnight or during theday it will, in turn, absorb moist- harm than can‘berepiedied. If you have such a mOistureZ-lt'ray, be sure to keep it moist according‘ltov direc- tions all the time for'thebestrss, f i In order to get..aW%YJf ' I think in'this -p‘a.r-.- " stuck} and‘*ftliéf*~“ p Michigan’s Old" Reliable Hathhery (The met and modern but ; “ - _ equipped Hatchery m the no“) PllllE BllED Wang-.1“: - . Anoonu; B », ‘ Plymouth Rock: nd 11. I. Reds. well hetonod c from tested Houni ‘ range that make wonderful I I H ' one .33": limited-.Paeoel M‘ we to w..door.‘ 1 ‘ 00% live. ' try t?‘ihl33$¢°£fiieh has” uc n solufi‘utlsfection to th do. illustrated free :1 .. u“ . figgtrlwonfipnloe on :th qmll".plll§¥l. . pro. .011 w.- v- . v. -. Holland'l-latohery, R.'1. Holland. lion. 1 From Bel LITE lb Tested. a Flocks oneli‘ree gonad: Weill- : ed and handled to insure strong, and 100°] live delivc er- » Refergnce. Order“ Erect -. from this ad. Circular free. - IORST ROEK. BOX P. Iceland. "loll. c H l c K s \ ln w. cantata; l o 1:30 3 AT am 1' ¢ ANOONAS 0H 0K8. 322 ‘ ‘ . 10 ,, d March 1_st on theste7 specifies?th on 9610i ma low prices on our grade B Chicks. Post- BABY CHI KS Heavy Star Hatchery ‘ From Bel VI us Laying rooting Stool "andBRAHcIDHkIEQ. 50—61 10 14 we '33 else V ., _, llEDfl~ {00—1310 5"} ' 75 'by modern methods machines under our WHITE a HORNS sun sarcasm, Box x. Holland, mi... R. R. 8 M ZEELAND. IIOHJQAI WOLVEIIIIE BABY BHIGKS‘. 55E GHIGKS THAT SATISFY for egg reduction 13 Egghed and, _, pped chicks foryfim W. assures . on success. E WHITE All!) ‘ BROWN" 100% safe arrival ranteec. to for catalogue. It‘s rec. WOLVERIIE HATOHERV, R. 2. . loolend. Mich. WARAITEED .BABY GHIGKS' TOM HARBOR ENG 8. c. WHITE LEONA-llgg 1 500 breeders on our form. March lst.- W at ‘ ' " 33;; cmioz, ufigcefn" I" are m " ~ 1"? ' nevus POULTRY F ‘ R. F. D 1. Wuhlngionfllluloh. ,. Pure-Brod Lube m lent-yon. Certi- greedfinowd ' lnzfllh Trop- outed Pedl l Iirromonn Fro “minim .ltso rdn. Shoo- pand' . Olaf-hood “flute, an. firm m \ “maids. ' "Joel-name's. and strength Reasonable prices. rm. Anooms to. Beds .Wnn— duties vanish. lighmas. Fonton, ion." 3 MO > Ormngto' no, Minors S . whorls . noutrnv FA-am. REMARKABLE FOR Sill gfiBlV ontogsu-t'rgm cacao-r53 FIFPOIS ’ I! on n e .Pw' UN ell . 3m i uhgmam ‘ .nm. its . d 3°" n. i? Slang gem-Lilian? . Aa‘ m. “ ' » r " ’ 71oer 33¢"; 1". .. the same. ddfltheyggre " fi‘a gamer , tter hh Old chicks 9 * Tom 11 strain 'te Lwho erred ' Rocks. Gmmntee,100, r ,cent iii: d 7:17.503 9 fill-giggmmcligfa‘m‘g ets' . season. ‘ stock" so tales Reference Zeehnd Since for ca . m We... smuors POULTRY nnm AND HATOHERY . 1m :: _.L ennzo‘ " Selected Baby C-hielis__ ' Breeding Stock", Fe £9 fink- I n E . ’i ' POULTRYBERS’ ' DIRECT DRY-:— " .‘i . ' Advertisements Inserted under this heading at 30c per agate lino. nor issue. Commercial Baby Chick advbrtisements 460 per "agate line. Write out what you have to olfer and send it in. We will put it in typo, send proof and quote rates by return mail. Address The Michigan 1 Business Farmer, Advertising De- . ~‘ partment, .Mt. Clemens, Michigan. 0 TPIIILETS. HEIIS AIID OOGKEBELS i ' 0. White Leghorn: and s. c. and n. a. Black ,lsiin'om Must make room before cold west} ~r. About ready to lay. ::~ LAPHAM FARMS, Plncliney, Mloh. _ I ' I ‘ ROM ' - . v A COOKERELS HITGHED F ‘ 311° Agog: best. order early, f5.00 Reacg. ll. Eon. ITH. Rapid Glty, Mch., . . a? V ‘ #_ LEGHORNB LL MY IUILoiNos AND “we? artisans. “101 fire A weerk'ixo. was laying 800 en! 8 313%; I!" 1'30 wig” for align hfinltgfnlgfiwi 0 am so ' 1 0 ' 1 them for S mwgfidmtfiegggn'onlco. M. SNOW, Hanover, ’\ ' 4 . - .. " . - LEGHORNSd 0 mm b Hens, Pullets an ac - aggfgum“isharnessesitttnr ' M" 3363.0 effiliii-iASMmrARrMs. Plnckney, Mich. 1 NS ‘ ND WYOKOFE WHITE LEGHOR . ' ~ ’lAiatohing eggs $2.00 a setting. Prliveflahd i: circular. F. Arthur Manln, Indlan Rlver, o . I'v’ PEbIGREED 8. O. ENGLISH W. L. gOOKER- i8 ell. Eu record 275 to 300 each 2.0 h "i ' ‘ JOHN w. MORGAN. Yale, Mic . lo. . ‘ In t L.‘ PURE‘BRED GOGKERELs Eon " [i glf'atul'wo rices $1.50 and $2.00“ X'Vritem‘oh‘ 5?; JOHN BUG NER, R. 1, Box 29, o ey, n- 'r ’ WYANDOTTES a X. ‘ WYAN —HEIMBAOH'S WHITE . - _ 53a. sheeleAl agcléobfirds anacockerels. Hatching ‘ son. ri mph :3 352%? saaEIMBAGH, qu Raplds. lVIlch., R. 5. "’ PLYMOUTH ROCK l f a. ——BIG HUSKY, so BUFF BOOK GOGKEBELS hfealltlhy, din;- ‘ i care u rec in . '5 .‘i‘.°"é‘.°‘iétrip%‘e £“t‘tii‘s,yf“t’§.° M, Saltlllo, Ind. dl m ND PULLETS En ROCK GOGKEREILS‘ A , , L13 famARRAmerioa's best prize-Winning laymgd Bimini is. Winners of 18. first mix “jam-mt an 5.3 4 . chi-351E? dew? n. 1am“. Johns. Mich. v ' BIO BEAUTIFUL BIRRED ROCK :: “Coctlgrgls, Light0 and Eargiglcgi‘Sold on approval. .0 c . u . “'00 to.iosiiN NgfiTON. Glare, Mich. i 1 BY ' ' ' ROCK OOGKERELS. SIRE'D _ . : |3nd Grand Rapids 1st and 2nd prize wm- ners. W. G. Oofiman, Benton Harbor, Mlch., R.3. THOMPSON STRAIN BARRED ROCKS PURE ’ ckerels $3. pullets 2. brfidts‘iaknléadgexcfomr, 8t. charm, Mich. - F BARBED nook cocKEiiELs “328.22: . MR8. E. BELLEN, Whittemore, lch. COOKERELS, NORMAN express pa RRED ROCK _ 1 (L nova S‘ERN. R. 1, Mason, Mich. BtAri h‘pped on n, ei . dings. JEsSiE c. osPING'roNs 'BUFF OHPIIII‘EIQVI‘IncocKEBELS h Cooks strain- A. KER, Elslo, Mlc . RHODE ISLAND REDS If} ii'N'EflfA‘naEfnka ligg‘de fitfiffichgtkemb," bown’s strain. Both . 5. . mm?“ A. PsAcE. Marlette. Mich. FOR . ‘ a... S. c. iillllllEdIi‘iLA1 lllldliED ed, ood n emo or, goo ype. megtlfinguh. in. v N FO‘ISSEN, Hlllsdale, Mich. '8 EXHIBITION 8. O. RHODE I HIGH 1?: AsBarred ck and American White u‘hom H 35.00%.50-31000 each. 21 earn an exhibi . so. action guaranteed no. CARROLL, Jr., Bay City, Mloh. TURKEYS—DUOKS—GELESE BOIIIIBIII BED TUIIKEYS “2:521” 88.80 E in s n. race. a. cAiTAoHAN. Fonton, Mich.__ . ' H BRONZE TpRKEYS. START ’ T buying strong, mourous. pure bred .mcx. {Vl'lte for primed “as. PERRY 8 EB HIS, Saranac, Mlchlgan. LARGE THOROUGH- bmd Bronze toms left yet. Hens all sold. Write " for rtlculars. 8 ROBT. EMERIOK, Harrllvlllo. Mich. Tfive A FEW'MORE MAMMOTH snouzs . Gobblers $10, hens, . 33$?” vibrant}? SPIDLE, East Jordan, when, NlE TURKEYFYOUNG TOMS §f§§0,,,§§%12koo, young hens 8.6.00 and $7.00. Mrs: The E Wilson. R. 4, Plymouth, Mlgh. mas ’* ~ ——MAMMiorii shost Tuniuivs a I Balugfuhacggdiis, Mich. 'VI-III—I—I—b‘ll< P353; . war-1- r r -‘ - ii‘rrg A: FEW EXOELLENT. 7"- MR8, WILiL-r‘biunMAN, _' ’ P’EKIN oucK EGGS FOR 8E'r'rma "z‘Ili'V‘BI’t'im Settings saoo. Also wud . ‘3‘ .same' Dflceqr’g‘rg choicest“. " . An orders’preniid..09!l§r 'Bend' arm.- Oksmos, we iV. -— ' sRo'Nz'E runxsvs new. Fuoicn shl'l'ssbesalstralAu-lris. IA" healthy birds. MRs_ firs samurai-i: , . .1 1-. Belmont. A IAIoh. MAuEns. ‘ n/ 0116‘"! " * . , are due largely to the difference in the moisture content of the eggs. Abso- lutely fresh eggs. set in machines which do not and cannot absorb the natural moisture content, such as in .metal machines or other machines having automatic moisture control do not require the addition of any moisture at all. ‘ The safest nule to follow is to keep in mind that the less moisture ap- plied to the eggs the better the re- sults. If you want to test the truth of our contention, it will be simple enough to apply moisture to eggs in one machine and not apply it in another, but use saucers or other means, keeping all moisture .off the eggs themselves. The results will prove the case. 0 THE HUNT'ED WOMAN (Continued from page 9.) they drench you in a jiffy. Donald is going ahead to put up a tent.” By the time they reached the mouth of the canyon MacDonald was out of sight. A little creek that was a swollen torrent in spring trickled out of the gorge. Its channel was choked with a chaotic confusion of sandstone rock and broken slate, and up through this Aldous carefully picked his way, followed closely by Joanne. The sky continued to dark- en above them, until at last the sun died.out, and a thick and almost palpable gloom began to envelop them. Low thunder rolled through the mountains in sullen rumbling echoes. He looked back at Joanne, and was amazed to see her eyes shin- ing, and a smile on her lips as she nodded at him. “It makes me think of Henrik Hudson and his ten—pin players,” she called softly. “And ahead of us— is Rip Van Winkle!” The first big drops were beginning to fall when they came to an open place. The gorge swung to the right; on their left the rocks gave place to a rolling meadow of buffalo grass, and Aldous knew they had reached the basin. » A hundred yards up the slope was a fringe of timber, and as he looked he saw smoke rising out of this. The sound of MacDon- ald’s axe came to them. He turned to Joanne, and he saw that she un- derstood. They were at their jour— ney’s end. Perhaps her fingers grip- ped her rein a little more tightly. Perhaps it was imagination that made him think there was a slight tremble in her voice when she said: “This—is the place?" “Yes. It should be just above the timber. I believe I can see the up— perbreak of the little box canyon Keller told me about.” She rode without speaking until they entered the timber. They were just in time. As he lifted her down from her horse the clouds opened, and the rain fell in a deluge. Her hair was wet when he got her in the tent. MacDonald had spread out a number of blankets but he had dis- appeared. Joanne sank down upon them with a little shiver. She looked up at Aldous. It was almost dark in the tent, and her eyes were glow- ing strangely. Over them the thun- der crashed deafeningly. For a few minutes it was a continual roar, shaking the mountains with mighty reverberations that were like the ex- plosions of giant guns. Aldous stood holding the untied flap against the beat of the rain. Twice he saw Jo- anne’s lips form words. At last he heard her say: - “Where is DOnaId?” ' He tied the flap, and dropped down on the edge of the blankets before he answered her. “Probably out in the open watch- ing the lightning, and letting the rain drench ’him,” he said. “I’ve never known old Donald to come in out of the rain, unless it was cold. He was tying up the horses when I ran in here with you.” He believed she was shivering, yet he knew she was not cold. In the half gloom of the tent he wanted to reach over and take her hand. For a" few minutes longer thew was no break in the steady downpour and the crashing of the thunder. Then, as suddenly. as the storm had broken, .it began to subside. Aldous rose: and flung back the tent-flap. ‘ “It is almostover,” he said:_“‘Y'Ou had‘ better remain in the tent a little longer, Ladygray. \ I will'goout and ’sée “if-i“ . cuppiaid :hcs.rse9fceedpafinv= arcs: in. sinners" a 1 r as hill-care” {sushi ‘ i | threes;- in‘ifl'r; 3rd issue.) T I I (-3415 29 ., VIGOROUS BREEDERS STRONG (MCKS Mating time is the time that your breeders should be in the pink of condition ——so that they can impart health and vigor to their offspring—the chicks. Begin now to condition your breeders. Feed Dr. Hess Poultry PAN -A-CE-A Then you get chicks that are strong and livable. Chicks that can resist the attacks of dis— ease—the little-chick ailments. Pan-a-ce-a is not a stimulant, mark you— it’s a tonic that does its good work nature’s way. It insures fertile eggs for hatching. Tell your dealer how many hens you have. There’s a right-size package for every flock. 100 hem, the lZ-Ih. pkg. 200 hens, the 25-lb. pail 60 hens, the 5-H). pkg. 500 hens, the loo-lb. drum For fewer hens, there is a smaller package. GUARANTEED DR. HESS & CLARK :1, Allin ‘ “ENS Liv \ I spent :0 years in perfect- ing Pan-a—ce-a. Gimm Hues MD.. D.V.S. Ashland, O. DnHess Instant Louse Killer Kills lice BOWERS Clony rooder More Chicky—Less Coast This hroodcr is a chick-saver and n niches maker. It raise! more and better chicks, at Icon cool: than other hroodcrs. Stove in bed in the world to hold lire—airtight and self- 4059 Guaranteed Incubator Here is the world beating. low rice offer on high ced hawhe v.14.-. "".«.~ hymn, . '1 .»,;:j grade amnt r. on waste money to H i _ y urge. The Detroit has double walls, hot wata mg lutmg' k Elna” wicoal f ‘5‘ Ch” t mat, copper tank. no cold corners big nursery, au- '_ '9 1— ‘ T00 e! , Der CC Y- u,‘ somatic regulation thermometer that can be easily ~ 3‘ fuel code in half. Stove . also burn hard c . A}. cokc.etc. Regulatorrnam- ‘94» taim even hear night without opening door and held in horizontal position so Chi cannot break or knock it down aching 33-?“ dim bi? $34313"? \ day. No trouble. sin. strong. healthy. vigorous ‘ -r for 500 or IOOQ ducks. 7 chicks. g; Lew priced Wm TDD“. F.M.Bowers & SonsCo. 1410 w.w..i..sL a ‘INDIANAPOLISJND. Egglncubat‘or 30 Dogs Trial beige: Eli? out; of the 4 No.23“? _ I “mi Shipped oomplzurf‘let up rundytto‘lfi‘ 140 Egg Incubator and Broodor - $17.78 Equal to Incu- bator Costing Twice the Price BROODER m. i. inmate-asha- :80 Egg Incubator Alone - - - 15.75 80 Egg Incubator and Broodor -‘ 22.00 bargain. Don- nidnx m “III m" high same gel-lim- “liagc'hl 250 Egg Incubator Alone - - - 22.78 “g “mmfmd We: 33”“ . m. i... e. 250 Egg Incubator and Brooder - 31.00 scriptin- You will inc-vol at summit 0: Modeof California Bdelutn lifetime. Positively .w I 0‘.‘ b. M. a. a!" direct M I“- the best value on the market today. Order the size you iced figure I And: “III 1 ma “‘1'; b“ iv;ain‘f‘dgrectefg-rarxziftlnsted. dso ayatrid—moéiey that cut-wt m lean . no res y or n , ' and”. Wm. 0" t". a” until you got our new 1923 catalog. 0' on (5)“ ‘ MSGOISII IIOIIBAI‘OB 00. DenL138 Raclne, Wis. H- E s In your own horse afllletefl , Use 2 large cans. Cost $2.50. , Money back if not samlaatory v can at SI.25 ofth eminent. In, powder IIII'III._ ., NEW. TO’N’S A yeterinary's compound for creel. Cattle and Hon. Heaven. Coughs. D" - .’ .V Indigestion. Worm elxpeller. 30 “gr “I. b(itinditioniar. At dea erl C . . _ parcel post. TI'HE NEWTON hEIEDY 00.. Toledo. Obi] 1 mm LETTER. W W. W. No. _ GREATER contrast betWeen business in the United States and those prevail- ing in several European countries could hardly be imagined, and are- training from getting mixed u h the controversies over there “has saved us from all kinds of em. Furthermore, not only our home trade showing marked improvement over that of last year, but we are still exporting a great deal rot As to the intone, mm are m- ardoms perhaps, but bankers. manu- facturers and believe m sufficient credit willbe 'mnnged to admfi of large «smarts of mood mod other necessities. The railroads re— port the largest movement of height ever :seen at {this season of the year, recent shipments running far ahead of the previous week. as well as far above the corresponding weeks of the last two years. There is a con- tinuance of easy money conditions, and the Chicago banks are making loans on collateral at 4% to 517.4 per cent. Liberty bonds have sold at ad’vanced prices, while government bonds of leading European countries have sold ofi sharply, French issues going down materially, with British finances much better than those of continental war countries and prom- ise of an early settlement for pay- ment of the huge loans made by the United States to Great Britain. While the home trade of this country is active and on sound basis, there is no disposition upon the part of mer— chants to load up heavily with com— modities, and farmers should not look for any boom. It is encourag— ing to know that savings in the banks of this country have shown a large increase during the past year. Lab- or is well employed at high wages, and this means large consumption of meats and other food. Despite the greatly increased marketing of hogs this season, the stocks of lard and hog meats in this country are un— usually small, the prices are higher than last year. Large Sales :of Grain Only a short time ago it was very generally expected that a renewal of war in Europe would bring about much diminished exports of the sev- eral grains and flour, but thus far this has «failed to take place, and such shipments have been running much ahead of a year ago. Besides liberal exports from North America of wheat breadstuffs, Germany and Norway have been large buyers of rye, and other countries have taken a good deal of rye, which is much cheaper than wheat. Exports of corn and cats are smaller than they were a few months ago, and price fluctuations in cats are usually with- in muuwow limits, sales being made at an advance of several cents shove the prices current a year ago. Wheat, while advanc'img in price within a short time, is selling well bellowt‘hepricesotayearago,ta'nd rye is cheaper them last year, but ban‘llq its higher. floor: is titanium mainly by home Enhances, mi its mommy large ‘eonsumoion on the fame is windy tim- its selling nearly ‘20 cents a bushel higher on the Ohiowgo Md of! Trade for Many delivery than .a year ago. Reports from most parts of! the corn belt are that corn is plentiful, ; and farmers are in no hurry about parting with their surplus stories at ' rolling Late reports are that Germany is buying Russian rye at murfii below the American prices. 11 is impossible to smooch-the future, but farmers who market their grain at lair profits are not likely to re- gret it. May wheat has been selling in Chicago at 51.12%, compared 31.31% 2:. mt ago. May corn sells at 716% acumgoommflng with 69 com: a year 830; and May cats at 45% can cumming with 40% cents lost your. Ino- flnm'of Has- !‘he Department of Agriculture 1 shut time can the number otmhmmoi Btu-asun— » n, ‘ _ _ Celdmmmmoestoximguum grabs. follow m of wheat. Beans advance ‘llc with Maud brisk. Eggs steady. Enthu- nd wanted and easy. Pm quiet. We slow and piece unsteady. M: The m m was sat in going to press —Edltor.) W 'flomtlon Mu received AFTER the Salon . m 1m. 11 mm m minute ilnformntlon up u '0' a“ to withln 0 hour or bear out this statement, supplies running far ahead of .a short time ago and a year ago. The Chicago packers, in common with those of other packing centers, want a great many hogs 'to conmt into imsh pork products and lard and cured menu, and there is a very large call in the Chicago market for hogs to ship to eastern packing points, but the large receipts have put prices much lower. The bulk of the hogs sell within a range of about 50 ,cents per 1:00 pounds, with prime light bacon hogs ‘going highest and the best heavy butchers are selling 35 cents below them. Hogs are selling at much lower prices than in recent years, and so long as this keeps up it will be difficult to check the down- ward tendency of prices. The mar— ketings are largely of well matured hogs, Weights being much heavier than in past years, causing killers to pay a good premium her the lighter offerings. Looking ahead, it may be said that all the indications are that large numbers of hogs will continue to be marketed, forcing prices grad- ually lower, and the best authorities advocate marketing hogs averaging from 200 to 250 pounds, as corn valued at feeding points at 60 cents a bushel makes rather dear feed. Provisions are having a large con— sumption in this country, as well as abroad, exports continuing much heavier than a year ago. Stocks of lard in western packing centers are much less than a year ago, but stocks of cured hog meats are far heavier, while prices for provisiOns are high- er. Recent hog sales on «the Emissago market were made at $6.85 to $8.;7fn, comparing with $8 to $10.15 .a your age. Beef Cattle Plentillnl Farmers are feeding many more cattle than usual, and they are ship— ping them to market after short feeding, the shortage on the coinage and other markets including an rm- usually small proportion (of long-fed steers and fat yearl'ings. Much of the time supplies are too large, calm- ing declines in prices, but quite re- cently they have been on 1 *mm curtailed scale, and this mused .azn upward tum in Chicago prices for fat hooves. ll‘lre choicer steers sold for $710 to $11 per 100 pounds, with- =a good class at $9 and upward, the bulk of the stems crossing the sales at {7.77:6 to 1111225, and common to medium at 3336.410 to $7.50. Most of file eoows‘a‘nd more found buyers .at $4.50 to $7.50, and calves sold at $6 to 5:13-50, most of the light ml calves fetching $11 and owner. m checkers and feeder bad a fair sale sat $5 to $8, “the desirable kinds sen- dxg aft 3650 mod lover. Lambs Sell Riga Despite occasional brooks on prices in the Wong-o lamb market, sales are made sill line time at in mm:- flgunes than in most m yours, particularly Imam prewar wanted, and mm mm are making generous profits on well finished enn- signmts of m, “Mound - sheen, while teem; lambs sell as high asthe‘bestk'mers, near enough offered to meet the de- mand. lambs are selling in Chicago at $1350 to 513.25. 7 MA! ’ As we Metal the M who has advanced. date the m in- ndnmced 4 consumer that claimi- nightagoaaditislnapndnon to advance further. The opinion on- tertained by the trade in general is flat the We in Europe , be settled... will soon be bidding in the American market for supplies: "The market was firm all eldest week. “Supplies me with large but dealers only fed “the market What It could take care of. Domestic demand is small at pment-andbmness '1‘er the sea.- board is practically nothing", how- ever, is reported that there is a heavy shortage in Europe, and '33!- though Europe‘s financial condition is handicapping her at present, the bulls in the market think there will be a way out and that American gmin will find the way to Europe. They expect congress to do some— thing to improve Europe’s buying power in this country. Prices _ Detroit—Cash No. 2 red, $1.39; No. 2 white, $1.39; No. 2 mixed, $1.37. Chicago—No. 2 hard, 51.23%; "No. 4 hard, 31.19%" Prices one year ago—«Detroit, No. 2 red, $1.42; No. 2 white and No. ,2 mixed, $1.39. CORN Corn has followed the trend of Wheat during the past couple of 'weeks and prices are somewhat high- er. Advances at Detroit amounted to 4 cents. Although demand has been light there has been consider- able bullish talk about this market, observers believing the supply will be light. Farmers seem ready to sell at prevailing prices and some dealers are disposing of their stock. Pnices Detroit—~No. .2 yellow, 80 1léc; No. 3, 79c; No. 4,, 77c; No. 5, 750. Chicago—No. 2 mixed, 750.; No. 2 yellow, .75.@ 7.51540; No. 2, 740. Prices one year ago—Detroit, No. ‘ 2 yellow, 60c; No. 3, 5.5c. OATS This market made a weak attempt to follow wheat and corn but it tell rather flat. Demand has improved slightly and the suipptl'y is small, but enough to twice «care of present de- mand. The tone of the market is firm . , Prices Detroit—No. 2 white, 5:00.; No. 3, 48 use; No. .4, 41c. Chicago—Jib. 2 white, 45 14 *6 46590;: No. 8, 44~@ 45%0: No. 4, 4354 @ 44c. Prices one year ago—Detroit, No.“ 2, white, disc: No. 3, @9733 BYE Rye remains unchanged with little doing in the way of demand or re- ceipts. The market seems to be in a rut and there is no indication as to whether it will leave the rut and if it does which way will it go, up or down. The future trend or this mar- ket depends considerably on the out- come of the European troubles. Prices - Detroit—Cash No. 2, 900. 89Chicago—Cash No. 2, 87% a c. ' Prices one year ago—Detroit, Cash .No. 2, $1.00. BEANS Elevator men throughout the 1m reported the middle of last week that the bean market was aimless, that they M not dispose of their am very readily and that they wane m- ing the farmer doom $6.25 to $5 )0! hpndrcdmizht. The market ruled thaw-Q N L ,F r. “fax: ‘ulflfiwwt‘ 0:; i7”: cough receipts to hear ithe trend Detroit-«C. H. ~ ., _ Prices one your ago-JDm'olt' _ H. $5.90 per_cwt. 7 ~ ' I r States“ Bureau of - omics to have been or 2.9.7 per cent of the total nod - tion {of those states. I p uc’ include these 1m sale for luminous sumption as wall! as those for fitment, but no not include . ‘tstoc‘ks necessary mannily mum: tlon won the terms where produced 1 nor those retained formed. One year ago the stocks amounted ,to‘ superman huShel‘s and two years ago. 107,991,000 bushels. or the "total stocks on hand this year, Michi- gan held 13,169.2‘00U eoshels. or 141.5 per cent, according to the report is- " sued by Verne H. Church, U. 8. Ag ricultural Statistician and L. Whit- ney Watkins, Commissioner «of age-v V r. This represents 34.8 per. culture. cent of Michigan’s crop. » ‘l'he Dept. estimate caused the market to weaken at some points in the east and declines in prices were made in some instances. ‘ markets were steady. as the car short~ age continues to hold up receiptséand prices have made only slight changes during the past couple of weeks. Holders of “potatoes should not be— como too anxious and unload all of their potatoes at ones. are that the potato market will why- a more healthy condition than at present. Prices Detroit—Michigan, ‘81 @ 1.10.. . Chicago —— Wisconsin, 90-@95c; Michigan, 80@ 850. ‘ Prices one year s 2 2 0 saw—Detroit, 'HA‘Y ' Hay markets generally show very little change. A general 6111111633 has been shown with holders nann- ious to realize. Snow and colder mother exerted little influence in ' ‘0» I- demand conditions. Prices generally _. I B are steady to a little lower. A stronger feeling is reported in New York market at present, but fighter prices have not been realized. _ Detroit—No. l timothy. «$ld@ 16.5‘0; standard ‘31.5.50@:1i6; Mt mixed 31.5.50@tlv6; No. 2 timothy. i145?15,; No. l clover mixed. Sidfi (Shimmy—No. 1 timothy, $19021: , No. 1 clover, $12@.~14; No. i light clover timothy and, «clover mixed, $17‘@1‘8. New York—No. .1 mmmhy, $24; No. 1 light clover mixed, $24; No. 2, 5.2.2@2.3. Moss (one year .ago——Ddéiroit, No. 1 timothy, $19@2.0: stmdamd, :13 @195 No. 2 timothy, 3‘17»@1‘B. ‘ ~ walla—Chicago, No. ,1. amaze. WOOL NOTES mire seaboard moi nominat- him not displayed the activity expected after the recent Mg 3n allow York and sale of finished goods-bi some of the prominent mutating 7 absinthe {Llnified Stem. Thom at which these fabrics were offered melanoma-ohm heennt‘tciauted' bythotmdezasaoosultofit‘Epan-‘lo the prices tor wool have notcth L’ is ‘1 uditmoted to wool of the medium» 1'. » mater-hilly. Moire mention 125,290,000 bu. Those Mes Western“ indicadi ' , “V f the g1 grades such as ‘5‘ Blood and-“'9; Jr; ' ’ Blood mod it any Wetting tendency = :is noticed it is for these grades. It-‘j v . :my be said that the market is mod- { active “with mm: remotely l. easy for a. tow walnut rhesus bum _ mt “ck ‘1?» ,r n. ‘W’ 1-» was two m ~ . am. 1‘7 jifilmlful... Iain- abdttt$lOwen demand“ hand-hominy' teed Quiet, d ‘ ofierings light. prices lower. A Receipts. stcks generally good. Move- en‘t'“ fair. Quoted Feb 9—bran " r50, middlings $26.75, flom' mid- dlings.~$28.75, rye middlings $25, "heapol‘is; " gluten ’ ,34 percent linseed meal $50, Buffalo; 36 54]. Atlanta; white hominy "$30 St. Louis, $30.50 Chicago, " Y & POULTRY PRODUCTS 7 markets firm most of week y are weak at close. Prices have JfldianCed to 21/2 over a week ago. .fl‘heltirmness during the week was Educ to speculative support, ~a1tho ‘interest primarily was lacking in face of the holiday Monday the 12th, and unionist-ed heavy receipts following vthis,’ but little interest in foreign flutter now. Closing prices 92 score .butter: New York 49c; Boston 491/2; ‘Philadelphia 500; Chicago 490. BR . 4 Cheese markets partly stedy to weak. 09 jDecline occurred on Wisconsin ‘30 'cheeoe boards Monday, but trading 1'9 interest is still lacking in view of further declines. Prices on Wiscon- sin primary cheese markets Feb 9: g5 ‘fl‘wins‘24%c; Flats 25%c; Daisies 3- ;p2517éc; Double» Daisies 2514c; Long gr 'Horns 25%0; square prints 26c. .ig 4“ er . we, h! , re ‘1' t~ 5 1d . r . ., . . ‘_ :3 ‘Week of February 18‘ e; ' HE week beginning February 18 :B' » . promises to be quite cold for w the season in Michigan. at The Warmest period of the entire week will occur about Wednesday ant possibly again at the close of . week, while the coldest period 3: ~ of the seven days in question will ’ " cone during the very early part of ‘v the Week. . During Sunday and Monday and probably Tuesday the weather is ex- E 'pscbed to be fair in Michigan but ; during these latter days the temper- ‘ suture will be rising. These condi- ‘ti'Ons will be due to the eastward ad- vance of a southwestern storm that " will bring with it’ much rain, sleet or snow according to latitude and particular portion of any stated town ‘ . in relation to the storm center. ' ‘, 3 We expectthat this will be one of l V' i the greatest moisture carrying storms 9 . of the month and Michigan will re- it ‘ ceive its share of the burden‘as the , , passes which will be during middle 9 -- , part of week. Locally there will be ' ' severe winds, sleet, ice storms and , _ billiards. .t No sudden change to colder is ex- 1, . “peeled immediately following in the ' wake of this storm although the ; ,- temperature will drop and live stock L ‘ K, should not lack attention. There is a probability that storm— }. ‘ meal will again effect Michigan about 8 Saturday with more rain, sleet or *- snow andstrong winds. ’-- Temperatures Below Normal 1 During the next three or four weeks the temperatures will average colder than normal and during this same period there will develop some severe sleet and blizzard storms. Week Ending February 25 The opening days of this week ‘ promises to bring Michigan at decid- .'ed rise in temperature. ‘ The weather will have become 'Wthreetening, the winds increasing and . before Wednesday general-rain or ' . ,snow may be expected in the state. During the storm there may also be .some sleet but in any-event we fig- ' p: are that storminess will be severe penough to cause delays or hinder— ,v’ances to tra’flic and business in at * least parts of the state, . ' Following ' gloss, on the heels of , g» Storm, he e will be a cold wave. Whis decided drop in temperature is, expected. to hit this stats about . week ‘ . - - ' Wot this v: if” tr. 3" ' "fl" er-v—r-c :3 «we A'lfgalfia V teed $42.65 Grate“ on in thank u avg-r had agatemfl‘diupm ‘ thinlnm who on ma. mono- , : thin free with every sale. A thou. ‘ san burg on stoves, rang hire as. new an eo-lnnniousiy fin- ish in blue or an enamel. ml cabin signs and s ' , ‘Omonkte. a! d . trialu ry/v mc , s e 6 Ivory gtmrJ ” teed Sale in £0: limited _ on . tune only—write today. W. DEWW. "Thevsoove an." Kalamazoo StoveCo. 671 Rochester Ave. Mi l ‘y n. V' :~ ‘ ‘k I: l A. rm}; dueling) Dlrcri to You . : ’ w T ‘ flout near a russ BE COMFORTABLE— ‘Wear the Brooks‘Appliance, the modern scientific ventiaon which gives ru ours 3 rs immedmte relief. has no obnoxious springs - 01; ds. Automatic Air ~ ‘ns b and draw together the book- en parts. 0 selves or planters Durable. Cheap. Sent on trial tr prove 111230 vyorfth. gg‘iévare ofk halite 9. ions. 0 or r e-mar ear- . ,inz gortmit and signature of C. "- ‘- E- “'0” E. rooks WlllCll appears. on every Ap hence. None other genuine. all information a. book— let sent. free in plain, sealed envelope. Brooks Appliance Co” 4636 StaleSt., Marshall, Mich. 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Uppers of soft For six months’ wear I ' kid-finish leather. Solid oak leather 5 l . " s b ' comfort cushioned §ilisol:s.es'siz%‘sv gm . 4 p I _ ; _ o by No. eenzas. Order mién U. S. Army . 96 268. Send no'money. Pay $1. 8 ' ‘ Classy stitohdown Oxford for women. \Vondel'fnlly “'- oomfortable and stylisli.- Uppers of dark brown " ' Jeather. Smooth leatIher jungle. fl'lexible stitchéd- ” 2 r . 0W ru er eels. Sizes 2% v H ' ' Fresh stock of heavy lion-skid tires of live mbbe HONGI‘ by NO-- 98fl268. Send. ‘ ' ' " : Generousl oversii. ’6 000 uaranteed but of : no money. Pay only $1.98 and postage on arrival. ‘ A '. i give 8.00% to 10,800 iliiles.gClloice of 'non-skid ]' - - ' l I . ~. . ’ i ‘ ribtread in 30x3 size. Others are on-skid. P Men’s, Boys, and Boys, > 3 " ' - lolr‘i’layl'bargain price listed below and " stone on,l ~ ScOut Shoes .‘ . ‘ v, _ . . “C e I BARGAIN PRICE “81" Fine scoutshoe of sbft, I V _ fi/ ‘2 : V . I ‘ Rubber E l pliable -: Ebrovi'iiv leather. 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