S. $2 YR Al —5 V J T‘VO YEARS $1 14 aga-zme Owned and TERDIS' 600 PER An Independent - Farm M' n a .wb h .m .m d e .rh d E ‘ 8y SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1923 IN NO. 23 ’ . X VOL . V. A .. . , V ‘ Under thé Spreading Chestnut Tree” igdn. H y, Mich S . U13 ut Mane xpejrt Expla Worry Abo {awful Year-13 ’t S Marketsw—Dori .s :1 Ha 't Growers to Compete in World’s i F m fishnets“ A'l.‘ ILA. c. 1 JULY 27TH Itohigen farmers were called to- gether in 1918 to consider the pos- sibillty of greater when; median... Michigan hmem’ day, which will beeelehmtedluly althoftfls'yenr. has become one or the term III-lim- tioen of the same. but you 5,-0.0 person attended the meeting end this year the day, which coincldm with the ending of summer M is expected to luring as my to the local campus.’ Tile your the morning probably will be given over to an inspection of the college farm, the experiment plots, the herds and flocks and other iteminwmchmeactnalfillersot the-allth lemm- noon, following a. m dinm. son. of the but how: men of the country will be mt to discuss condition of agriculture. ‘ lemmrmmm mm Since the Michigan Live Stock Exchange organized in: (lo-operative commission house at Detroit 3 “we more than a year ago, the mil-er. ship of the Exchange had grown from 112 locals to 1:81 locals, thirty- one locals of this number have join- ed the Exchange since March 1, 1923. Successes of the Michigan Live Stock Exchange (Do-operative Commission Merchants and the splendid service being given the shippers is steadily adding members to the Live Stock Exchange. it is l ‘ Illilllll! (Jul). I“ put H e II I! 3? gI -I I a D g? ' E Initiated during the war when! Hickman live Stock Exchange prop- osition joins up without further loss of time .and starts shipping to the . at Jul: recently the Michigan Live' Stock Exchange's Commission House at Detroit pro- rated a. patronage dividend at about $7,000 on 113 8rd; you“: bulimia. representing a ten per cent refund on 3 POTATO Gnowmes ANNUAL MEETING The regular annual meeting of the (in-brim ’ hauling-It 15am 16th be great exporters of red clover, {Summer Gut Price Clean Up Sale ’22..“ l? as :31"? “El Elli E353 5a, 312555 - v o u a e . . . . —¢ 5 a Postage ' ll. a .5 ‘ S nunAmflwmn, .1 ’mn‘ need 8 m- bm carillflgaxrior ndtlwestern‘xrewn claims. it wint- er kills. : .Hilllom of pounds of (his Interior slut inbound .torcome in find will be mixed with good seed by some distributors. The Michigan ' Seed Dept. State Bureau handles only northern grown Michi- gan aid northwest seed. When you plant Farm Bureau brands, you can’t go wrong. WADE TO SPEED —FAm SUPPLIES . 1 .. Spodal service in transporting farm supplies has been guaranteed V we keying association; in the m and middle-west states by 12 big railroads as the result of a conference held between representa— tives of the roads and the tarmors' network. Including pflmdteedseeda-dm. WI 0801’ IN BIG!!! W W SHOWS mm The 1923 wheat crop in eight tor- eign that last your pm- dueed more than one-fifth the total world crop is forecast at 756,785,069 bushels as compared with 656,988.— 900 bushels in 1922 rounding to ‘radlograms mooivedhy the United sates Department of Agricultmre from the International Instimbe of q i2;_.:_" . (1-1.1 unnaummsc; I ‘ This. island Sew "if 3 on July Isl: themes“: Growers’ Exchange opened a. sales omoo at Elmore in' montcnlnr} Freemont to have $'4~6,0fl0 modern hotel. Ewen—~New hank building to be, erected. . . . Pickford—New high school to he. logo to have new $190..” gymnas- ium. ‘ Inlegnlmrg — Com Power (30mm to tarnish light and power Port Heron—Gama to be opened ' betweenlnke flu-on and Black. nver. Ironwood—Admit“ charter grant- ed to Merchants & I National Bank, capital $130,000. ‘ 5.000.000 bonds issu- ed for road improvements. I. A. C. to build $160,000 stadium. Work started on widening Woodward ave. ~ - Winter pump-to be Installed on north side of dry. Work .mrtodonuewhaudmadonfiiver mW' Gasstrueklndfllflngfor Wmmvmmlines ofskllledlabor. me u in- mm organized” has. w o.‘ Boyle to and large once funding “Latch-ire. mm ents ' to be made in m W. :State Sheet to be widened soon. Work started on paving N lath Street. Saginaw—$509,090 bonds Issued for street improvements. Shriners to erect a new temple. Gonna-ac, t let for 00MB]! of new club house. Institution for Blind to be enlarged at cost of $49300. house to be erected soon, $12,000 mm billet to be constructed. Saginaw in midst of building boom. The Nafional Electric Association ls making a survey to Wine the location at power plants and trans- Mn lines in Ilium, 11., Mm, 111., W, m Ind. and Ky. tor the m of providing tn:- the develop- ment of eleclnc' cur-rent throughout» the entire Hiddle Wen sounding to a plan that will avoid duplication and waste. WM!‘ height service to. Cleveland to be inaugurated by end of month, three hydrophm with M‘ of 1300 lbs. truism: each to make daily trips. Masonic order to and $5,000,000 temple, covering entire block and using 8.000 tons put through 1923 and 1924. “Maud pots-l; humour-Isoldfiormmombers Growers Exchange. This is 500 cars; more than were handled last year. _Kris P. Bemis of Scottviller rep— resented. the Michigan Potato. Grow ers’ Exchange on the recent" ’T potato growersf tour of Long not at the firm Cbmmvunity _ .1 ."i A}: a . a ., % .er NHMmHHI—ln-H- nu‘d_-um Pdfl'HfiOOtb Qalzsisszssn ill-l .2 - > r, t" ’2' f‘ h l . Mug initiale indcpendent ' V f \ a. a); Maj for the. ' . ‘ In as re - » ' ' ‘ , TWO YEARS $1 kt. 22. gigé’atntaht; st-oflico at Mt. Clemens, ’ ich., under act of March , 3 . 1879. “The Only, Farm Magazine Owned and Edited in Michigan” (shells, m. —‘ rd 1 . - to t ‘ of why California fruit can be plaCedon the market at Detroit so 9 that it will sell for less money-than : :_,mm the fruit belt of Michigan ' , delegates \from 25 of Michigan’s , V leading fruit shipping associations met-at Benton Harbor on June 19th. MINE!) that they will get he bottom of the question organization known as the Michigan Growers, Ina, ‘ a state-wide * "co-operative fruit selling agency for _ local associations and their mem— Officers and the Executive Com- ‘mittee were chosen and the Ex- --‘ change will begin doing business shortly. Central headquarters will be located in Benton Harbor while temporary ofiices will be established , r ' apple shipping season. ‘ The new Exchange will be amliat- » ed with the Michigan State Farm Lf. _ Bureau under the commodity type of " '«organiha’iion in the same way that the Michigan Elevator Exchange, the Michigan Potato Growers Exchange, Michigan Milk Producers Associa- tion, Michigan Livestock Exchange and the Michigan Produce Exchange are now connected with the State ' Farm Bureau for the promotion of their mutual interests. . Strong for Organization . ' , The Benton Harbor meeting p'rov- ed that the fruit grewers are thor- oughly convinced as to value'of co- ] operative organization and realize - that they will-never obtain the full return from their crops until they unite and work together in merchan- dising their crop. " The Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc., is interested in promoting better ~ market returns for Michigan fruit ' v men through co—operative selling, , ‘ grading, packing and advertising of ’ w the Whole Michigan fruit crop. The Fruit growers are also interested in . better and cheaper transportation 1:: . _ service. " One of the biggest problems con- fronting the new organization is a . shortage of refrigerator cars for moving the 1923 crop. A census of ' the refrigerator requirements of I each of the local associations repres- i»~; ’ outed at the organization meeting ft; was taken with a view of informing 3.,“ the railroads of just what the actual requirements will be for the coming season. lir. E. L. Ewing, traillc ‘ manager of the Michigan State Farm Bureau, will handle all questions of _ you have been worrying about ,\ how to pay your banker, tax-col- lector and undertaker, forget it, I ~ because your own state of Michigan , has mere cash on hand in its general I-funds, at the close of its fiscal year, June 30th, than it has had in years. - H The exact figures will not be avail-1 able for a few weeks, as the account- ing division of the State Administra- tive Board will not close its books {until July 10. But, reckoning from last monthly balance sheet up to 'June 1, the approximately correct figures are that the State will enter ’thenew fiscal year with $9,273,000 can; in the General Fund. . 'cher items in the assets of the eneral Fund are: V . ‘ “Deposit to the credit of the State el' Administration, being the” ' or set aside for the administra- " earlylast winter but not used, .‘;.'bankers’ztrust deposit for. , ,srest,__3132,172.50; ' ‘ ‘ do 3 7 ‘ ‘10 2.- , The outCome of this meeting was an» , in Grand Rapids during the winter niza n Underme'dancc of Mitrhigan State Farm Bureau l 1 / NOone is more aware of the sleeping- sickness which has hovered over the Michi . the fruit growers themselves. own children buying apples wrapped in Pacific coast they began to rub their eyes ——now they are wide-open, and we predict that five years will see Michigan apples, peaches, cherries, grapes and pears in control of the markets. Michigan fruit has that unbeatable quality called “Flavor”— everyone here knows it, now the fruit growers will tell trade-marked wrappers, the world about it! gan fruit industry than When they found their car supply and other transportation problems for the Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc. Officers of the Exchange are: Pres- ident, James Nicol. South Haven; vice—president, M. D. Buskirk, Paw Paw; secretary and treasurer, F. L. Bradford. The officers and Henry Weltman, Stevensville, and Herbert Nafzinger, Millsburg, constitute the executive committee. Mr. JamesNicol, former head of the Michigan State Farm Bureau ex- ‘ pressed himself as very enthusiastic over the new organization. To Fight Competitors “We found it necessary to organ- ize,” said Mr. Nichol, “because there are problems with which we cannot deal through the national organiza- tion. We shall continue to make use of the national organization wherever our interests are identical with those of other sections of the country. We are Willing to agree with the national marketing agencies not to dump our products into mar- kets already supplied, or we are will- ing to accept aid in promoting the interests of our industry in a nation- al Way, such as by advertising or in the opening up of new marketing areas. . “But We have problems which we cannot expect the national organi- zation to help us in. We cannot hope that the national organization will take sides with us in sectional questions, for it is the function —of such an organization to represent the industry as a whole. “But the Michigan fruit growers, having come into' the markets more Elegantly, find that the fruit growing ' lots which have long been or- ganized have things pretty much their own way. “This is particularly true of the 450; public utility appraisals receiv—‘ able, $185,987.46; automobile li- cense .fees available for the State Highway Department but not appor- tioned, $491,960; uncollected State , tax levy for 1922, $4,000,000. Total Assets $16,200,000 The total of the General Fund as- sets is $16,200,000. The liabilities of the General Fund are about $10,- 000,000, the largest item being be- tween !6,000,000 and $7,000,000 of legislative appropriations made in 1921 but not paid out. Others ofthe larger of the State’s " financial assets not in the General Fund are: In the war loan sinking fund, $658,000; in the soldiers’ bon- us sinking fund, $1,631,000; in the highway bond sinking fund,~ $1,650,— 000; in the auto theft fund, so-call- ed, being moneys received formotor car title certificates, $733,000; in the fund in whichis kept maneys re- ceived at branch offices for auto li- w causes, $215,000,;1ees receiVed from meter neenaes.- $343s- v California fruit growers, who have perfected a most efficient organiza- We have to hand it to them; whatever they want they seem able It is because of their efiorts and the influence they exert Washington that we find our indust- ry so discriminated against in the matter of freight rates. “The fruit growers of Georgia, also enjoy many such preferential rangements. This they have attain- ed through organization. South is rapidly developing into a favorable market for our products. but we find that it costs us more to send our fruit to Georgia than it costs Georgia growers their fruit in our markets. “At present we are not strong an effective pro- test, but within a year or so we are going up to the Interstate Commerce Commission with our complaint and We expect to have united support from the fruit growing interests of Michigan and the powerful co—opera— tion of the Michigan Farm Bureau. Going After Railroads “The problem of portance to us is that of refrigerator There are not enough of these cars to meet the needs of the fruit Accordingly the best or- ganized districts have had more than their just proportion of this service. We are going to serve notice on the railroads of the needs of our indus- try this year and make a demand for the needed number of cars. "If we do not rec: ’ e proper con- sideration from shall be prepared to present our case enough to render railroads we We are informed that We have cause for damages if the railroads refuse to give us adequate service after we have given them Commission. in the highway construction fund, $1,717,000; motor car license moneys not yet transferred to the general fund, $1,949,000. The fiscal year 1922-23 is the first to close in which a balance sheet was made at the end of each month showing the condition of the General The State Board of Tax Commis- sioners has the «I preliminary work pretty well in hand for the annual meeting of the State Board of Equal- ization, which convenes Monday in August. the tax board will present to the equalization board its valuation of each county. Official notification of these gvaluatiOns being furnished to the counties, each county, beginning the third Monday in August will have a chance to give reasons, if it .has any, .whyuits, new valuation shouldbd’reduced. ' Detroit’s assess- ed valuation this year is about $200,- 0, higher than Meatless; _ On that date the assessed them proper notice of the amount of commodities we are prepared to chip. “The utmost of our energy will be exerted to improve the quality of the Michigan fruit output. In this re- ' spect Michigan is at a disadvantage as compared with such highly or- ganized fruit—shipping districts as California and Florida. Those states ship only their best fruit. They can not afford to let poor stuff go to mar- ket. In consequence of their sys- tems of grading the quality of their output is always uniform, and the reputation of their product is estab— lished in every market. “We want Michigan fruit to be as favorably known wherever it is offer- ed for sale, and the only way to at— tain this is to grade the output and offer only articles of approved stand- ards. Not Against Retailers “It is no part of our plan to cur- tail production or to increase prices to the consumers, or to do away with retailers. We recognize that the men engaged in retail trade perform a valuable service. We want to in— crease the demand for our products by making them more desirable, for that is the only effective way to build business.” The fruit growers already have taken an advanced step toward im— proving the condition of their prod— nets on the market by establishing Dre—cooling stations. These are plants having cold storage equip— ment in which the fruits are chilled and reduced to the proper moisture content before packing in refrigerat- or cars. It is said that fruit so treat— ed can be marketed in perfect condi— tion anywhere in the country. The fruit growers’ exchange now has four of these stations in the fruit belt and expects to increase the num- ber perhaps to 20 01‘ more. Associations which ratified the by— laws of the Exchange are located at the following shipping points: St. Joseph, Stevensville, Bridgeman, Millsburg, Sodus, Lawrence, Bangor. Fennville, South Haven, Paw Paw. Decatur, Grand Haven, Hart, Shelby. Onekama, Kibbie, Grand Rapids, Saugetuck and Benzonia. Delegates from the Byron Center and Coloma associations were present but lacked home authority to vote. Associa- tions at Sawyer, Hartford, Fremont, Brunswick, Scottville, Dowagiac and Frankfort, are expected to affiliate with the EXchange later in the sea- son. Don’t Worry About Money, Michigan Has $10,000,000, Says F ullcr Commissioner George Lord, of the tax board—the equalization board is composed of the three tax commis— sioners, Commissioner L. Whitney Watkins, of the State Department of Agruculture, and Auditor-General Oramel B. Fuller—being a resident of Detroit, has been given the work of looking after Wayne County’s valuation. All of the 83 counties are grouped in three lots with one tax commissioner looking after val— nation's in each group. A table compiled by Commissioner Lord shows that of the $5,622,913.- 389 assessed valuations reported this year by the 83 counties, about 80 per cent is real property and 20 per cent personal, the exact figures being; Real, $4,490,284,601; personal, $1.- 132,628,788. Last year the SLate' was equalized at $5,000,000,000. ’ Information at the tax board’s oi- flces is that the valuations of, the 8;; counties submitted to the equalizae tion board will show tomrvaluatioqg close to $6,000,000.000. " , m . .r )Ma ,-, v. ,,» .. n.6,]. .A r s“ V-m “‘71. "z; A year . .. : “whiz; is;- ; HE. Dairymen’s League Cooperat- ive Association, Inc., has just ., cempleted its second successful year as a commercial organization. We, who are,managing your af- “fairs are conscious of the great handicap under which you men are laboring. We know that there has never been a time in the history of this country when the purchasing power of farm products, including milk, was as low as it has been for the past few years. This condition has been with us so long that our patience is very apt to give way. We are worried about our 'investments .and our future and those who have been most progressive are the hard- est hit. For many, many years farm- ing including dairying, has been ex- tremel discouraging and for two gen- erations we have watched the boys and girls leave the farm because of the many unattractive conditions. I say unattractive when compared _to 'the more attractive environment of the cities, for the cities have taken the best youth in the land and have. prospered. Why? Because they have had the benefit of the wonder- fully fertile farms of America and the low prices which the consumers have paid for farm products. City groups have ‘ organized, country groups have tried to work as individ- uals. We cannot help but observe our great disadvantage. These are all facts which you haVe known. You all know we have hit bottom, therefore, I could have easily passed them over, but I be- lieve it is better for us to face the facts, firm in the conviction that the way we are following leads to the only logical solution of our economic problem. Look Into the Future The turn of the tide is here, so let us look for a moment into the future. Although during the past two years we have been burdened ' with a great milk surplus, which has brought about ruinously low prices, it is perfettly evident that right now we have one of the most active milk markets that we have knowu since the war. At the same time every other business is prosperous. Our slogan “Cost of production plus a reasonable profit” is now within the realm of possibility, and I ask this question, “Why are we not getting Did a‘Gross Business of Over $8 ‘ / 2,130,000 and.Estal)lishes Twenty-Seven Neui'Plants During .2 ’. Second Year of Operation ” ’ i, , - ‘ * - ‘.~ THE Business Farmer is giving space to the majorrpart of the president’s report to members of. the Dairymen’s League of New York state, at the close of their second suc- cessful year, because it is, of vital interest 'to‘ the dairymen of Michigan and other dairy states. the way for successful co-operative 'milk distributing. New York is blazing it is a gigantic undertaking, as you will see by reading this re- port. opposition. each to-make success of co-operative .marketing. It means going into Big Business, against odds and It takes men, brains and money, and plenty of The New York milk shed is first, but Detroit is Fourth City. Our dairymen must be prepared for the inevitablel—Editor, it—why was the price 'of milk re- duced last month and this—why were four millions of dollars taken from the incomes of the dairymen of _this territory in just two months?” Why? Because some farmers still believe in going out alone or in com- peting groups. Review Progress Your organization has proceeded along lines always progressive, and at the same time conservative,——con- servative in that it still refuses to plunge into new and untried fields without careful consideration and preparation. The adoption of a fixed marketing program is decidedly a progressive move. FIRST came the development and expansion of our fluid business. New plants have been built, or ac- quired, plants have been improved and put under the New York Board of Health. A year ago we had only 400 cans of direct fluid trade, while today we have over 8,000, and of this only 2,000 were obtained by purchase. On June 13th, this reach— ed a new high level, when our own plants shipped into New York City 10,257 cans of milk and 110 cans of cream. SECOND, the development and ex- pansion of our evaporated milk bris- iness. During the past year our plants have been brought up to the highest point of efficiency in produc- tion and sanitation with greatly in- creased capacity. Our policy is to turn out the best evaporated milk in the world. It was upon this plan, permanently fixed in'our minds that our new selling and advertising cam- paign was based, putting Dairylea milk on the same price level with other leading advertised brands of evaporated milk. Fluid Milk First, Evaporated Second We ‘have selected these two lines of production in which your associa- tion has a distinct competitive ad- Vantage. Fiuld milk always first, and evaporated milk second. This does not mean th’at‘ future changes in marketing conditions may not lead us into other endeavors. For this coming year, however, our whole ef- forts are being thrown into selling these two leading products. In having these great evaporating plants, our farmers are kept con- stantly under the New York Board of Health supervision and a great vol- ume of class one milk is available for shipment on a moment’s notice and at times, when it is. not needed for fluid consumption, we are divert- ing this high grade product, not into butter and cheese, but into the much more profitable by—prod'uct, evapor— ated milk. In the selection of the new trade name “Dairylea,” we have a difierent idea with but little change. This name is unique, and all our oWn. Subject to Attack During the past year, cooperative associations have been subject to at- tacks frofn certain interests that still seem to cherish the hope that they will be able to break up these farm- target. ,beginning to recognize your, associas“ tion, not only as a progressive busi- e'rs’ organizations. The League has, of course, had to withstand its share ; of these attacks. In its marketing operations, "it. has been a popular Much of this criticism, we‘ ‘ know, has been due to a lack~ of un« derstanding of what the association is trying to do. However, recent months have witnessed a. decided weakening of this hostility toward 5’ the organization. Business V men, bankers, and the public generally are ness concern but as an institution destined to accomplish a great work; in lifting farm life to a higher level than it has ever attained before. In all its business relationships, the association has maintained _a business-like attitude. Your officers and directors have felt that only by adhering strictly to constructive. policies can any co-operative enter- prise hope to achieve real and last- ing success. This attitude, perhaps, more than any one thing is gradually winning for the association stronger support from its members and from the general public. In short, we are beginning to real- i'ze more fully our responsibilities to each other as members of one great enterprise. We also recognize, as an association, our responsibilities to all other co-operative marketing and buying associations throughout . the length and breadth of this land. They have many things in. common. The misfortunes of one has_its sym- pathetic reaction in all the others. Likewise, the successes of one of them carry encouragement and hope to all the others. More than this, we recognizeour great responsibilities as a big service organization to the general public, especially the consuming public. Our great purpose is not to fix the price of,the commodity which we have to sell, but to so work out the problem of distribution and' marketing that the farmer will get a fair price for his milk and the consumer will get all the benefits of uniform quality and service that orderly marketing can provide. Within one year the League has put its own plants in a position where they can do their part in tak- (Continued on page 17.) v Expert Explains What is Happening in the Sugar Market By SIMON G. PALMER, Sugar Statistician, Washington, D. C. HE recent spectacular rise in the price of sugar, the second with- " in the past three years has at- 'tracted universal attention and con— demnation. Responsibility for such perpendicular market movements us- ually is traceable to the parties who have most to gain'by them. Nor- mally, all of our sugar comes from two sources; domestic, including beet, Louisiana cane and insular, and foreign sugar from Cuba. Inasmuch as the domestic crop had all been harvested and most of it marketed befOre the rise came, most of the domestic producers had nothing to gain, however high prices might go. The reverse of this condition existed in Cuba, which had just started grinding a crop estimated at about 4,000,000 long tons, of which only 343,663 tons had been made and ex— ported. when the rise began. From late in December and all - through the first three weeks of January while domestic beet sugars were being marketed the N. Y. price of imported raws and of refined imade from them was falling, the total amounting to 1%;c per pound. All of a sudden the price of both . raw and refined shot upward, raws ,advancing‘ $3.19 and refined $3.33 per hundred. 1 I One of the reasons which our sea- board refiners assign for the rise is that the tariff on sugar was increased ate last year. _ “the steady decline which preceded ' "'is'e,fnor do they explain how an asset duty of sixteen one—hun- Vth's, of one cent per pound could a onsible for an increase of over Hr" hundred in the price of They do not allude: ' board refiners is that one of the four leading sugar statisticians of Cuba reduced his earlier estimate of the Cuban crop now being harvested to 3, 670, 000 long tons. ‘The three other statisticians adhere to their estimates of 3, 725,000; 4,000,000 and 4,119,000 long tons, respectively. It is worthy of note that during all this sugar shortage excitement, VVil— lett & Gray our most reliable sugar crop statisticians have not reduced their Ouban crop estimate of 4.000,- 000 tons and on the world crop, their latest figures show an increase of 513,182 tons over‘last year‘s crop. S . ‘4‘ . ' STEERS IN LOT [N M. A. 0. FEEDING EXPERIMENT we have the nine steers. that fiver-e ted normal silage in, the feeding C. lm‘winter. ‘il‘his ’ e,”qu Item _ Here conducted, by the M. A. ‘ _,vusr”',¢‘£wte It thus would appear that both rea- sons given are mere camouflage, used for the purpose of fooling the Ameri- can people. Present Price and Production Cost Nor does it appear that the present high price of sugar bears any rela- tion to the cost of' production. At the time the sensational perpendicu- lar rise began, Cuban sugar was sell— ing at prices more than one-third higher than the average price Cuba had received for her sugar for 10 years prior to the war and hence it is to be assumed that her producers was, appraised at. $10.25 experiments ‘ ' already were making a handsome profit. Sugar has gone up consider- ably over 3c per pound and since the rise set in Cuba has exported 2,108,000 tons, on which a rise of 30 would net her producers an extra profit of $126,000,000. But, this is only beginning. On May 19, the port warehouses of Cuba were bulg-* ing with 812,000 tons of sugars, on which 30 a pound represents an ex— tra profit of over $49,000,000. In - addition to this, on May 19 there were 532,000 tons of manufactured sugar at plantations .and in transit to shipping ports, on which an extra profit of 30 per pound means an ad- ditional $32,000,000. ' this, based on the lowest crop esti~ mate yet made by any sugar statis- tician, they will produce another 248,000 tons before they cease grinding, on which an extra 3c per pound will yield them still another $15,000,000. So that altogether, the 3c rise wii‘l have cest the Ameri- can people the enormous sum‘ of $222,000,000 and will have addeda like, sum to the net profits of pro- ducers of sugar in Cuba. Itlis not to be assumed however, .. that this $222,000,000 of extra profit bled from the American people goes to enrich the people of the Island of Cuba, for the Cuban sugar in- dustry is no longer Cuban. Ever since the Cuban reciprocity 20 years -' ago Americanseaboa‘rd refining an other American interests have grad- produced by Americana’s,,"T yr“; that the I. V a ' (Cont ' In addition to , WORLD’S LARGEST SHIP RETURNS FROM TRIAL RUN.—-Uncle Sam’s ELEPHANTS PULL MACHINERY ON CIRCUS FARM.——-On the. “'allaco giant liner. the Leviathan, on the recent trial run to the Bahamas and re— farm which \'as established by the late I). E. “'allace. founder of the Ilagen- turn acquired the title of “Queen of the Seas” by proving herself the fastest beck-“’allace circus, such sights are common during the winter months. This liner afloat, establishing the record of 28.04 knots in one hour. It will be farm is the winter quarters of the John Robinson and Sells—Floto circuses, is remembered that the Leviathan is the former German Vaterland and that composed of 550 acres and located near I’eru. Indiana. ' manure spreaders the United States has been reconditioning the liner. This month it will make like the one shown here are used on this farm and many times they are pulled its first trans-Atlantic trip under the flag of the United States Shipping by elephants as the spreadch are loaded so heatily that often horses or mules Boa-rd. Officials are pleased with the performance of the Leviathan on her cannot pull them. It is through the courtesy of the International Harvester trial trip and state that she will do even better in crossing the Atlantic. Company that we are able to publish this photograph. to it is lg 1t '. d. n. ‘s. of ye 3.3 y )I]. k. 16 L'e he f NEW PREMIER ARRIVING AT No. 10 DOVVN- HUNDREDS VIE‘V WEST POINT GRADUA- NEED A GOOD TINNING JOB DONE?—Here g-‘ ING STREET.—Here we have the latest picture TION EXERCISE.‘.—-—High military otflcials helped is Mrs. (‘atherine Fellers of Cincinnati, Ohio, who 3“ I of Premier Stanley Baldwin arriving at his new make the graduation exercises at \Vcst Point, New at sixty-five, is just beginning to get a little fun .. ' home in London, N0. 10 Downing Street. to begin York, memorable. Parades, drills, etc., “ere, the out of life. She is the only woman tinner we ever I“ the business of prime ministering. Although he. order of the day, and the men acquitted themselves Irard of. and has been in the business for forty , accepted the position only a short time ago he is as good soldiers should. Photo shows Gen. l'er- years. She first started as a helper to her husband re filling the place of the former prime minister very shing congratulating Cadet Francis Rarick Johnson, after they were married, and when he died she , ' satisfactorily and his friends predict that he will of Tacoma, Washington, the honor student of the took over the job alone. Mrs. Fellers is just as ' ,t become one of England’s greatest premiers. class of 1923. spry today as she was years ago. S] ta. d- to ti- Is- ~es CEMENTING THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN AMERICA AND FRANCE.—— MOUNT ETNA ERUPTS AGAIN.—Europe’5,greatest volcano, Meant Etna. American and Frenchsoldiers took part; in the unveiling ceremonies of a. beauti- has just completed an eruption that caused damage amounting to over fol monument erected at; ‘Chaumont, France, depicting the aid and'triendship $14,000,000. Towns were wiped out. and hundreds of lives lost during the“ V b mecmricans during the World Waryto the French. Its symbolic iew days the burning lava poured down the sides of this great inountahr ' - as! am. > ’r . e > ‘ V which is located in Sicily, Many new craters were opened.,.. . ;» (Copymht Kenton e» fair-fith Other sizes equally low priced. Over 5,000 dealers carry these engines in stock and will save you money on freight. FAIRBANKS, MORSE & C0. Chicago Manufactm'ers BEWN' . ONE YEAR TO PAY vention died. 4 P ‘sc t free. Prom assured. t m warm mun. can-cues A. (refine W PczrniLmya, g”: Southern Bldg. Washing“, D. C.‘ He tried to beat the cars. But he didn‘t. ., Hiswifehadtogotowork. I To support herself and child. hehad no insurance.» * 24 right 110'- CAN CON TROL-‘VBLAGK V PLUM 4 ‘ Is there any clire fprBlackknot on plum trees?—-——W. M.,' Clayton. ‘Mlch. ——The Black Knot of plumgtcan be Knots 0F ‘ controlled by carefully cutting cut and removing from’ the orchard all of the diseased parts. The best time to do this trimming. is in the winter or spring before growth starts. If the disease is- well start- ed, the cutting out of knots must be continued through the summer and close impaction will be necessary the first year to eradicate the new knots which will appear. After the disease is well in check a single annual in- spection will keep it under control. Sprays help to some extent ‘but will not take the place of cutting out the knots—+0. W. Bennett, Research Assistant in Plant Pathology, Mich- igan Agricultural College. ' NOTE OUTLAWS 1N SIX YEARS Suppose one party has a note a ainst another for a certain amount 0 money, without any security only names of husband and wife owing the money. The note has been run- ning three and four years already. But is only made for one year. Little is being done in keeping up the in- terest. About one and a half years interest has been paid so far. I would like to know if there is any such thing as the note becoming out- lawed awarding to Michigan laws? Is there such laws in efiect? What is the time limited? What should one do to keep the note from being outlawed if there is a danger and what is your best advice to collect any on the note?—G. H. 8., Boyne City, Mich. - ' —'l‘he time within which suit must be brought on a note in Michigan is 6 years. Payment of interest would revive the debt, however, and the 6 year time limit, in that event, it would probably be advisable to be figured from the date of the last poet of collecting in any other way sue on the note—Asst. Legal Editor. ~ MARKEI'ING MOHAIR . sketch model for ' Recudoflmflmkmwhidmdisémemin; 1 Will you please tell me a reliable ‘place to market Angora goats wool or Mohair and how much more should it bring per pound than lsheep's wool?——V. N., West Branch, Mich. —-—I believe that you could market this through the wool pool of the State Farm Bureau to excellent ad- vantage. The Secretary of the American Angora Goat Breeders' Association is C. E. DeGoif, Reed Springs, Missouri, and he could no doubt give you valuable information as to mills which are purchasing mo— hair. The value of mohair per pound varies a great deal, even more than sheep’s wool. Where one takes excellent care of his goats and produces a first class quality of mo— hair, it brings a higher price per pound. On the other hand, where the goats are not well cared for and properly handled, it is worth very little more than wool.———Geo. A. Brown, Professor of Animal Hus- ‘ bandry, M. A. C. WANTS TO C’OLLEC'I STORAGE CHARGES ‘ I would like a little information on this subject. An agent came to my place on the 18th of July, 1921, with a second—hand separator and asked me to buy it. I told him “no” I did not want'it. But he wanted to put it in the house for a while as he said he didn’t have room in his auto to take it home, so I let him leave it. He said “use it it you want to." In three months he came back and I told him again I didn't want it. We were going to move in a few days and he asked me it I would take it with me to help him So I told him I would. He said “if you can sell it I will give you 85." Now after bothering with it he doesn't want to pay me any— thing to; my trpuble. He me lastweek he had sold“ it and the man would be after it. I wrote him ‘ ' “ ' filig."pafid' for you; All mum. man be monolingual“ by full, 11 and ad interest payment. If there is no pros; ~ um cornmeal 'i. says we used it and that paid as for our trouble. ‘ Can he takeit without paying storage on lit—E. B., Bent- ley, Mich. v—In absence of any or “11'. plied agreement it would be assum- ed that your use of the separator would be your compensation for keeping it. greater amount, it would be neces- sary to show that the agent expressly agreed to so compensate you. or that thecircumstances were such as to imply such an agreement.-—Asst. Legal Editor. - I SPRAY TO USE ON PEAR, PLUM AND PEACH TREES I am writing to ask your advice about a suitable spray solution to be used for pear, plum, cherry and peach trees. I use lime snlpher and arsenate for apple trees but ‘I have 'set out some of the above named - fruit trees this spring and would like 'to know what to spray them with.— E. R., Standish, Mich. - ——'I‘he pear, plum and peach trees should receive the dormant applica- tion of lime-sulphur solution. The cherry does not ordinarily need to be sprayed with the dormant applica- tion. It is too late now, however, to make this application on any of the trees and it is probable that there was not much need for the spray ex- cept possibly on the peach trees for leaf curl. They should all be spray- ed early next Spring in order to prevent injury from San Jose scale and from- leaf-curl on peaches. We will send you our bulletin giving dir— ections for spraying all kinds of ' fruits—W. 0. Button, Research As— sociate, Dept. of Horticulture, Mich. Agricultural College. TAXIN G CATTLE On the 7th day of May of this year I had 300 steers shipped here to graze. Will sell and ship them out this fall. Will I be compelled to pay taxes on them here? At that late date would they not be assessed where I bought them, near Bad Axe, Michigan? How long would cattle have to be in a township before they can be assessedT—J. Gaylord, Michigan. ——Uuder the provisions of. the Tax Law of the State of Michigan, it is presumed that all property will be assessed. Section 17 of the General Tax Law provides that “no change of location or- sale of any personal property after the first day of May in any one year shall affect the as- sessment made in such year”, yet this does not mean that the assess- ing ofllcer is limited to the first day of May in making his assessment. It only provides that a change in location or sale of property after the first day of May shall not af— fect the assessment. Some years ago we requested an opinion‘from the Attorney General as to whether or not an assessing officer could add to his assessment roll personal property brought into the assessing district after the sec- ond Monday in April. In his opin- ion, the Attorney General said that “assessing officers are not obliged to assume that property which comes into their assessing district after the second Monday in April, or even after the first day of May, has been assessed for taxation in some other district. In a good many cases de— lays in transit occur, or delays in the actual work of assessing in the district from which the property came, or in other cases property coming in from some other state where the time of assessment is dif- ferent from that of Michigan, might vitally aflect the question. Where, however, the owner of the property feels he has been wrongfully as- sessed. he should undoubtedly make 0., , his showing to the b’oard oi reviewr and obtain such relief as he is en- titled to. Unless you can show that the cattle were actuall assessed for this (year in the locali y where they were purchased, we believe the as— them upon , ‘ Sign the assess- Board 0 r r Tax Goa; as. we.“ have .. f— drsu.‘ Items not and If In order to recover a' sessing pincer will be justified in . in placi 40 f it was-thetime you planted __ this~ls true I‘ would like ' ” what ‘is the cause and What‘tim, the year they'should be planted? ~WV. W. W., Quincy, Hich. —-I believe that much of the trouble“ ed now-a-days, is really It consists in tumigating‘with carbon disulphide which costs about Go per pound now, if purchased of the milk- are in fifty pound drums. , sure it costs ten or twelve tines that much if purchased at the drug stores; One on " in one or two pound lots. pay for the drum and get his money back after returning the drum. This material can be :used to kllllf" woodchucks, gophers and other very... min about the farm. Use about one pound to fifty bushels in‘ a tight bin, and take every precaution possible to avoid accident by lire or by breath- ing the fumes. V The fumigation should be put on during warm \Weather since no fumigant works well when the temperature is down. I This fumigation should be done at a distance from barns and other build- ings sinceth'e fumes from the carbon . ‘ disulphide might work down, and kill animals in the barn. V Also! t 9 insurance lapses during the opera- tion it done in the barn. beans well after the operation is completed in order to rid the beans of the oder. The beau weevil will continue to work in dried beans until they are completely destroyed. should be carried on not more than sowing * “boggy? . The treatment ' To .139, Air the ( Fumigation « forty—eight hours since a longer ex— ' poem is likely to injure the germ- iuatlve power of the seeds. As a final warning, great care must be exercised to avoid accident . from an explosion or from anything breathing the fumes—~11. H. Pitt, Professor of Entomology, H. A. C.- WHAT SHARE B GIVE? .. If A furnishes a brood sowpvfor a to raise pigs or hogs on shares what share should he give if pigs were .. sold when old enough to wean, and. , ., what share should he give it be fitted j - them for market (light weights) ?— Reader, Byron, Mich. ' --—If the pigs were sold at the wean-- ing age B should receive whatever share would reasonably compensate ; him for his labor in taking care of them and for the feed- required from f f the time he received the brood sow. If they were fitted for the market B I would be entitled to a. greater share-3, because of his greater expense in lit- ting them for the market. A should give B whatever share is reasonable according to the circumstances and .W the general custdm observed in the,‘ -' community.——Asst Legal Editor. HORSESHQE meme ‘ SUPPOSE you horseshoe pitching fans are planting ’em right next . to the stake (those that aren‘t ringers) figuring on trying for the big silver loving cup given. by the _ Business Farmer to the champion pitcher of Michigan, decided at the State Fair. and practice. There is no question in my mind but that there is a farm- er in Michigan who can win from. Mr. Wilks but don’t forget, this man from Battle Creek was in Florida,T - last Winter playing, finishing seventh? in the national tournament, while. you were wallowing through snow , banks. So you better practice. And say, don’t argue, -F_‘armer torfa free 0091.0! the N Last year it was Won' by ' Mr. L. M. Wilks of Battle Creek but ' he must win it two times more be- - fore it belongs to him permanently . so, you have ample opportunity to “‘ wrestle it from him, that is provid- -' v ing you “slipper slammers" get busy ,9 ‘ just send to' the Horseshoe Editor of the Business: arguing prove it to him. No, many of you have held local tour” ments at _ . hear about the —l—rr!r—l"I,—I——l" v.1— ».cill. i. . 1.: ‘1 l 52:43:1- 1. t. l 4 igan State Fair’s race not ‘only 1 to hold supremecy but to win international su’premecy is predicted by” Secretary-Manager George W. Dickinson for this year’s exposition which will be held in Detroit from August 31 to September 9. The Michigan State Fair is now ,a $5,000,000 project. ,The premiums , will go over $100,000 and $50,000 worth of free attractions will be of- ' fered' for the entertainment of visit- ors in addition to the many exhibi- tions and the twenty—two .big shows f ;_ on the “Midway.” The live stock and. agricultural exhibits are constantly growing and the fair officials are struggling with the problem of accomodating them. Within the next year, however, spac- ~.ious new buidings will be erected under the latest $1,000,000 bond issue, which was authorized by the legislature this year. These exhibits this year are ex- pected to excel in quantity and qual- ity the exhibits of former years. An interesting action of the fair management this year is the increase in accomodations and premiums for horses. Horse lovers and horse breeders have felt that this subject had not received enough attention in years past so the fair board decid— ed to do everything possible from now on to encourage the breeding of fine horses of every class. Mr. Dickerson is now In corres— pondence with the state and federal » ' governments in an effort to bring on even more extensive exhibits this year. The federal government has already pledged an excellent dairy exhibit which should, prove of great value to every dairyman. The 1923 dog show should be a “thriller.” Dogs of all kinds will be exhibited but the big attraction will be the demonstrations by trained ‘PolIce Dogs. They will show how they guard property, find lost ob— jects and catch fleeing criminals. Cat show, poultry show, domestic science and manual training exhibi- tions, gardening exhibit, apiary ex- hibit and many others have been arranged. The electrical and me- chanical exhibits are expected to be quite complete and very interesting. “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” is something Mr. Dickerson believes in. As a result he has arranged an entertainment program that will be without equal in the nation. ~ On the “Midway” where there wil be twenty—two snappy shows, life will be one round of pleasure. In selecting these shows Mr. Dickerson and members of the business com- mittee made a special trip to Indiana in order to make sure that the shows were not only real high class, worth while attractions, but also that there would be nothing in any of them that .might'offend the wives and children of fair visitors. , The shows, which have been high- ly praised by the press in many cities passed the Michigan State Fair’s in- spection with flying colors. _The entertainments classed as free attractions include many of the best acts in the country. There will be horse races featuring the famous trotter, Peter Manning, driven by America’s P r e m i e r reinsman, Thomas W. Murphy. Peter Manning will race against the Michigan State trotting record of 1:59% and Mr. Dickerson predicts , that a new mark will be set. Three great bands have been en- gaged for concerts and other musi- cal numbers. The 91st Highland band of Canada, an organization that made an enviable reputation before and during the war will appear und- er the direction of Lieutenant Star es. Cervonis concert band and a military . hussar band also have been engaged. * There Will be auto polo matches, thrilling balloon and parachute races, a girl will ride a horse in a 40- foot dive and there will be a number of tumbling and exceptionally good « aerial acts. Two great fireworks demonstrations have been arranged. One will Lbe given twice daily during the fair. The burning of Smyrna will be. depicted the first three days and from then on the spectacular ..«lteature"‘1ndia,". which includes live elephants driven by Hindus- in native costumes hold forth. - r as halts do step ‘forWard in "the, Mich- Wire or one straight stake as is some times used for grapes, should be pro- vided, and the vine tied to it with soft strings. use three light‘stakes driven down in the form of a triangle and tied together at the top. ,A tomato vine that is trained to one straight trunk should reach a. height of four or. five feet, depending on the variety. The sun can reach every part of it, piloted by crack drivers, will be ent- ered. Keen competition is promised and it is hoped records Will be set for this track. 30th from the agricultural and entertainment viewpoints the fair this year will excel any that has been held in- the country and fully half a million persons are expected to at- ten'd during the ten days. Arrange— ments are being made to accomodate each day 1,000 automobile tourists. They may pitch their tent within the fair grounds and “keep house” there for a reasonable sum. MICHIGAN FAIR DATES FAIR PLACE DATE Alcona .......... ..Harrisville .......................... .. Allegan ......... ..Allegan .......... .. Aug Alpena .......... ..Alpena Arenac .. Armada. .. Baraga . Calhoun Caro ....... .. Charlevoix .....East Jordan ...................... .. Cheboygan .... ..Wolverine .... .. Sept. 25-28 Chippewa Ste. Marie Sept. 10-13 Chippewa ..... ..Pickford ...... .. Sept. 17-19 -—Clare ............ ..Harrison .... Sept. 18-21 Clinton --------- "St. Johns .......... .. Sept. 3-6 Cloverland .....Stephenson ........................ .. Copper --------- --Houghton ...... .. Sept. 25—29 Croswell ........ --Croswell ........ .. Sept. 11-14 Delta ------------ --Escanaba ...... .. Sept. 18-21 DiCkinSOD ---- --Norway Aug. 31—Sept. 3 Eaton ----------- «Charlotte ...... .. Sept. 25-28 Emmet --------- «Petoskey ........ .. Sept.‘ 11-14 Flint River ....Montrose Fowlerville ...Fow1erville e . u e . - o . e e . u u . . . . . . - . . . u . . . . .- n e n u a . e e . . . . . . . . . . . . a a . . .- Genesee -------- --Davidson ...... .. Aug. 27-31 GladWin -------- --Gladwin .............................. .. Gogebic -------- --Ironwood ...... .. Aug. 28-31 Grange Fair ~-Centerville .... .. Sept. 17-22 Grangers, Gleaners’ and Farm- A erS’ Fair ----Big Rapids .... .. Sept. 25-29 Gratiot ---------- --Ithaca .... .. Aug. 28-Sept. 1 Greenville .... ..Greenville . Hillsdale ...... ..Hmsdale Huron ------------ --Bad Axe ........ .. Aug Imlay City ----Imlay City .... .. Sept. 11—14 Ionia .... .5 ---- --Ionia .............. .. Aug. 14-17 10500 ---~ ---- --Tawas City Sept. 11—14 Iron .............. "Iron River .......................... .. Isabella -------- "Mt. Pleasant ...... .. Sept. 4-8 Jackson -------- --Ja.ckson ........ .. Sept. 10-15 Lenawee ...... «Adrian .......... .. Sept. 17-21 LivingStOYl umHowell ............ .. Aug. 28-31 Luce ............. --Newberry .......... .. Sept. 4-6 Mackinac ----- --Allenville ........ .. Sept. 20-22 Manistee ...... --Onekama ............................ .. Marquette ---- --Marquette ...... .. Sept. 10—15 Mason ---------- --Scottville ...... .. Sept. 12-14 Mich. State ----Detroit .... .. Aug. 31—Sept. 9 Midland ------ -- Midland .............................. .. Missaukee ---- --Lake City .......................... .. No. Branch --North Branch .. Sept. 18-21 N. W- Mich- --Traverse City, Sept- 17-21 Northern Dist. Cadmac . . . . . . . . . . - . . . . . . . . . u u . e . . - e . . .- N. E. Mich- --Bay City ........ .. Aug. 27-31 Oakland, -------- ~-Milford ...... .. Sept. 12-15 Oceana --------- --Hart .............. .. Sept. 18-21 Ogemaw ------ --West Branch .... .. Sept. 5-7 Otia -------------- --Brahman ............ .. Sept. 15 Otsego ---------- --Gaylord .......... .. Sept. 18-21 Ottawa, Ken Marne .................................. .. Presque Isle-Minersburg .... .. Sept. 12-14 St. Clair ------ --Yale ................ .. Sept. 25-28 Saginaw ...... "Saginaw .. . pt. 10-16 Sanilac ........ ..Sandusky Sept_ 4—7 3011001013“ "Manistique .... .. Sept. 25-27 Shiawassee "()wosso ............ .. Aug. 21—24 South Ottawa. & W. Allegfim Holland .......... .. Sept. 11-14 Stalwart ------ "Stalwart .............. ..Oct. 4-5 Tri-CO- Fair"Buckley .............................. .. Tuscola, Hur- on & SanilaC--Cass City ...... .. Aug. 14-17 VanBuron ....Hartford ........ .. Sept. 25-29 Washtenaw ..Ann Arbor Sept. 18—22 Wayne .... umNOI‘thVille ...... .. Sept. 25-29 West. Mich. ..Grand Rapids, Sept. 17-21 TRAINING TOMATO VINES NE tomato vine properly pruned and trained to a support.of some kind will produce as much fruit as two that are allowed to grow at will. The tomatoes will also be of better quality and ripen more uni- formly. By pruning, I mean the re- moval of surplus growth which ap— pears usually at the base of- each branch‘after fruit has begun to set. There is a, general opinion that the ground for tomatoes should not SW 10‘ N . ENT R A L NES/ ‘-—. \ HE Government does not income. The rates fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission are intended to be such as will enable the railroads as a whole to earn at least 5%% on the value of their properties. Out of this net in- come they must meet interest on debt, pay divi- dends to the stockholders and build up a surplus as required by prudent business management. The railroads earned 3.31% in 1921, and 4.14% in 1922. This year they hope to do better. They must do better if necessary new capital is to be attracted to railroad development. It was only during the period of Government operation thatrailroad net income was guaranteed. That income was based on pre—war earnings, and averaged 5%??? on the value of railroad property. If any railroad fails to earn 5%% on its invest- ment, the Government doesn’t make up the difference; and the law provides that anything earned above 6% must be equally divided with the Government. As stated by the Interstate Commerce Com- mission in a recent decision, the rate provision of the Transportation Act “carries with it no guarantee”, but “it is, instead, a limitation”. ()uremmnhgplhi hauling your products guarantee us any \— NEW YORKVCENTRAL LINES BOSTON fiALBANY-v MICHIGAN CENTRAL-'BIG FOUR " PITTSBURGH fiLAKE ERIE ' AND THE NEW YORK CENTRAL AND SUBSIDIARY LINES General Ofiices—466 Lexington Ave., New York $ {30 days' free trial-then, if sut- Isfled, only 87.50 and a few easy gaymentI-and-the wonderful olzlmn Molotte Separator is you". No Money Down! Cat-lo; tolls all—WRITE l ' U. 8. But! 201 ll Cantu)”, shows thlut :lbtil-otion fir '- of the bowl an. Catalog F I! E E Sendtodu p boo containing full description. 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The three thousand repeaters now in use on Bell System long distance lines have Increased the talking range of every telephone by > By making possible the use of smaller gauge wires, repeaters have kept down the cost of equipment by millions of dollars. ‘ out of scores of scientific developments of equal or greater importance in the advancement of telephone service. Bell System progress has been a continual encounter with seemingly impossible barriers, and a continual finding of new ways to overcome them. Each step in extending the range of speech has come only after years of study. ; Each important piece of telephone apparatus has had to be created for the need. Each working day this pioneering goes on. Nature is harnessed to a new duty and mechanical ingenuity improves the tools of service, as fast as science finds the my. V Not only is the Bell System daily conducting résearch within its own nation-wide organization, but it is study— ing the discoveries of the whole world of science for their possible application to telephone service. Only ' by such eternal vigilance has the United States been the best and cheapest telephone service in the wor . toward Better Service “ BELL SYSTEM” AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED Consumes ' One Policy, One System, Universal Sorvieo, and all dineth 7. BUSINESS FARMERS EXGEIANGEE Ads Under this Head 100 per Word, per Issue 2 nuuuuululmuuuumumxmumm FAIlM AND LANDS SHORE_ FAR! Ill FRUIT BELT, 3 HORSES, cows, .mrnng crops, poultry. _ implements, etc, included to settle immediately; um ll. R town: rich loamy ' . «water-e cherry tram. otha' ' ' ' Suture. woodlot, 40 fruit. a; ne 2—star: T-room house, cc heat; 60—11 T. barn. To settle now 85500 e ' llllllllfllllllllllllfl the ID. pert cash. Debit as: 28 111113. CotsthBfirlfuns—msn mm. ‘0 free. 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Dept. 1I9 SIPIEIE TIE continua-mm ‘gt;Q#:PUTTH$NEW ‘»¢ ngfinwmn ~c‘ , OLD .sTOWER ‘ 1 got title. it ever. interest your uticlcoicu more Markets and I see no reason why a. Farmers”,mrket could not be as. and be run successfully. Why has a population of 3,000 and hbot to well employed here. One teeter, hue employs 1006 to 1200 men and of course there are other smaller institutions. Laboring men 'are so can ‘ 'by the factory that it is next to impossible for a. tarmer to hire a man. our county agent, Br. I- I. Sons, and he): going to take it up with the Chamber at Commons, the edit- others. A word at encouragement from. you might help the matter along. Anything you: can do along ——-—E. G. Storm, Gunny, Mich.- ———0Ir readers near Onaway, ought togeth rishtavny if thoywnnt to get a. farmer'mrkot in opera- tion there this season. We suggest a. Saturday morning market to- start with. Mr. E. G. Storm deserves the active help of the business farmers near Onaway and we are sure he will get it.——E.ditor. DOESN’T LIKE WORK OF HIGH- WAY DEPARTMENT .WOULD you like to know some- thing about Branch Trunk Road No. 57, Boync Falls to Boyne City and then to Walloon Lake? Why has thest'ate beenvover five years on "part of this road? Why does the state spend money on road across private property which has not been condemned but Which must be before they can get title? Why do they abandon. good road along settiml and cleared farms which has been used and kept up at a cost of $1,800 per year by state and county for years for an almost impossible route through swamp for three miles with no family on same and one-half mile longer-'2' Why fight? Court battled over three years and they started work before the outcome of the court proceedings. Have they the advantage of pro—court decision? Do you think it is right for private money to have to foot the bills for those proceedings? Whenfinished it will be just a gravel road but it has already cost enough to have made the old road a 20—ft. cement driveway. The building of this road is in a sinking swamp. Rebuild- ing it this spring and again next spring as will be necessary will cost more than the entire old route would. Rogers turned this route down and it was given up invfavor of the old route before the war, but two men were powerful enough to have it reconsidered. So at last Rogers said in letter that he would build on proposed new route if right. of way Was got and they are still fighting for that right of way. But they have fooled Rogers into thinking they had it, so he let contract. He knows now that one of the many suits that have been brought is pending in the. Supreme Court and also some talk of investigation. - He has, for awhile, at' least, quit work on road and re- fused to gravel but the powers—that- be here in county regardless of state actions are going ahead on the two most disputed farms so as to get travel on it this summer. The two tar-ms are ruined by road as was promised they would be if owners fought the road. Nearly $100,000 has been wasted so far. WOuld 'you like all the facts or history of this road back over 15 years? This is not very much of this history but ‘ enough to find out it you are inter- ested. {the .déal has been rotten, the facts as stated and. many more Went to on. spent over $6,000 on '- MARKER? ’ .,;‘, , Hmusnaawnhxgmuwmnnra Wed in our ntttocity oi ommy _ Ihvetaksuthhmttorupvith. or at our paper-tie Outlook. ' this line will be greatly appreciated. . ‘1‘ Literary part of . Friday evening, June nu. fie Question m: the: a ‘ prucflcnl education is better this: DcWitto, Sawyer- _ Herr-old. The afirmaiive was sup- ported by Samuel Dollastn' no, Floyd H. Smith and the Incentive side by Shirley L. Burr and George B-L Smith. The afllrmetlve contended that the most succeme men. including Abraham Lincoln did not go No school beyond the eighth grade, that: the prisons are iull oi college grad-,- 2 ' uatcs. and that students from the agricultural college are at with practical farmer-3.. A case was cited where an agricultural student who hired out on a farm. tried to harness 3. team oi mule by putting the crupper straps around the mules necks. They also contended that taxes paid to support our high , schools are putting. the farmers in _~ . the. hole financially, causing bunk-7 ruptcy in many cases: - In the opinion of the judges the , negative effectually tore down the arguments of the aim-motive by ctt- A lug actual statistics. regarding the use of college arduous m- .r . prison, and also the percentage of college graduates in prison, and also the percentage of auccmiul men j who are college graduates, having acquired theoretical training beidrei entering upon business. They contended that the farmers financial troubles are caused rather ‘ by a neglect of theoretical training in the principles of economic and gov- ernment. _ They pointed out that theoretical training along mechanic-r V a] lines, has produced great labor g " saving devices on farm and in took. cry, but that a lack of proper theo; retical training in economics _ government, had brought about an " . unfair distribution of the benefits (19- ; rived, the result being that 659' of v the present wealth of the country s in present wealth at the country is in . the hands or 2 per cent of the popu- lation. They maintained -thst this condition could be corrected by sup- porting the schools through excess prom. taxes and surtaxas instead of direct taxes as at present. ‘ They charged that neglect of thou-- retical education among the masses , on the subject of taxation, is fostered by millionaires who endow colleges and contribute campaign funds to both political parties, in order that they may keep the voters in ignor- , ance 6r confused on these important j subjects, so that: in the last session ' V of Congress such taxes were reduced ‘ rather than increased. ' They even expressed the belief, that, with an increase of theoretical 1' education on this one subject. an dustrtal ruthenium can be brought I "about by one decisive election, you; ‘ siny that or next year, that the farmer be freed tron: m: ant hoary burden of taxes; by in: it upon those better able“) that currency deflation . 830mb! the money ._ checked. if farmers um study Int! strong-attention W mwwflflro, and fire. Hour)" " a.mmneé;- 'vantage when placed in competition; . ‘ ‘ nut-w. noun-n“ u as. F3 E'dflfi‘fi BI‘HQQ'Q Jim n he i ha acacia an tuna-l; l auasgcérs E 533:: s. an 01'. ms. ‘Mfifl?’ m an- : . ,, unto the'day is the tiered.” Aid there is in this day to test well ' r‘ outlook on life; to test it: do:- m. With “wars and “lore of Mahatmaan modern life; its intempenaee. lu- ‘m, geeky, and irtlidallty; hapuch contusion. And we tor an me We shall lad it in the secret of-aimple living. ‘Mmmmnmlthem’etm lifts ls fondly longing to discover Someone has am this generalioh is given over to “food and than.” What folly! We live in bewilderment and «canme hecaasewe lire tor the _' wt and for ourselves in:th of llrlngtortwo worlds anxious-others. ‘ ‘ ’fty'haefm’e lite loses genuine simplici- But what is the secret or simple _ ,Paulfoundltinamtain "goal" toward which he was press- ing; in a specific type of character ' 2th he called the “high calling of God." This he calls a secret of such ‘ j comparative value as to count all ' other things as but refuse. In Em- " was not eating and drinking but a “ high-orderd purpose to establish , the Reign of God. ' Then that life iaeimple which is .’ langaighted in its vision, and which , runs along the far-reaching plans of ' our Mar in heaven. That lite i 'Wconplaxamivordlywhich ill-hort- 5 suited in its vision: out of touch withGodandhisplans forthe ages: ' cumbered about with temporal things ‘ “ instead of heingdlrgad with an elm- ~ al'purpose; and which is concerned suntan experiences. . 'Whenihall weaeethatthosimplo life is one controlled by tho'inner, ‘law! In proportion as we‘have to be controlled by external law; by j outward restraints; in that propor- tion is our life complex and disord- erly. Otoonrse, immaturelileismg- ‘” ulated, for the most part, by an ex. law' of restraint, as for in~ stance, the life of children. But do ‘we want to remain as children in ' mind and morals. Then control ing,'high in your thinking, and ex- alted in your resolves and purposes. In‘World War days I took a. party of friend: to visit the Wright aviation field at Dayton. We appeared at the but I had forgotten my page. hen he Spoke to a corporal higher gum-‘.mvaere weighing matter. ’ was an WU._Who Mimi; whatthispartymightbo my upon llmcle Sam’s soul 1" ‘ m 8331! "we , out!!! or" in,flrinkhg. .‘hlddm hour Mug. had in , value or simple dressing. /.I.ld or the Spirit for modest at- , thepurpose of God, there is security any. today or tomorrow we will go . . I law 'of the Spirit; that writing upon the heart. _ . needs a. dedication to this life princ- lphotuole-IrsttholovootGod-e and the love at ole'a neighbor, to ‘ omit hit to .a, m ot harmony and peace. That we have .the_ oppmite of peace means that we are at cross‘ purposes God. _ , ' So when life is centered in the love of God anion-fellow man; eat- and droning are but the-etherelaWIyaaddmpfldty. W, there is a‘ demand for a growing Wm of the. ml The de- fine is that we night he “a typical instance of all who were to believe in him (Christ) and gain' mm life.”——Mo!fat. This ideal will rid as of ranch of the vanity and moll— Mum shown in present day dress— ing. SanflhsBMefthe Colum- hla School of Oratory. culture will do this. Wally, christian culture will for Christ an that such pride and guadiness is but the hangins-on of paganism. - Neither, defile your body tiara foods. Hare again, is demanded the imam law of restraint. Even Topsy, the old iamlly mane had it, for father said. no matter it she gets to the oalohieshewilleataomorethan she needs. This kind of horse some is much need by some humans. Know yenot thatyourbodyisnotanex- perimenial lahratory? But “Know ye not that your body is a temple of the HolySm‘rit ye have» from God”? Dollie it not thru in— tanperanoe in eating or drinking. But simplicity touches all phases of living and is meant to be both a personal and a social asset to the, world. It has to do with our home a life, our pleasures, and our business. , But one cannot be simple in the de— ‘ tailed outa' life until simplicity ; touches one’s thinking and one’s re— solves; the aspirations and loves of one's heart. So again, the secret is discovered in Isaiah 26: 3, “Thou Wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee”. “The mind is its own place and can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven”. And says the Infinite Pur— pose, “Asa. man thinketh in his heart so is he”. With a mind stayed on and fine prospect. Ideally, with this man, there should be no worry about what io—morrow might bring forth- “Snfiicieut unto the day is the evil thereof.” This is the secret of simple living. , But many of .us have not yet reached this celestial plane in life. Yetit isenouvgh to bereaahlng after it. Still. multitudes of folks have their minds stayed on self. And some at them livein the M. B. F. parish. ~ Day after day you have gone to your fields and your kitchens depending . upon our own right arm, our own strength; in a. word, self-confident. You did it yesterday and succeeded. Why not today? Yoda-day your body was strong, brain was clear, and foot was sure. You depended on our OWn self and was not disappointed. Why not today? And so it happens that today again you easily cope with all the daily demands. And why not to- marrow? Well, tomorrow comes with the first illness, the first gray hair. the first revelation of the low of strength. And What disappointment! You had not seen yourself before as becoming enfeeble ' You had stayed Your mind on what you supposed to be a perfectly able self. Now, your support is going, your life is shrink— ing, occasioning a bitter surprise. Your house is beginning to fall. And are you’still anxious for tomorrow? Learn the secret of simple living, which is a God—reliance instead of a self-reliance. “Come now, ye that into the city and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain; whereas ye know not what shall be on the marrow- What is your life? For ye are a. vapor that appeareth for a little while, and then ramiaheth away." And James says further that “all each glut-yin; ls evil" when God is left out of our plans. ' Here is the essential, “Seek first? And the whole .world‘ . A landside supports the mar, making an “all-whecl— - ' harried,” level-rumfing plow—all weight is rolled—none ' tinged. Nebottom friction against furrow wall or furrow bottom—moj‘sledtfing” or “running on its nose.” That’s why unusually good work and Unusually light drafl: are fea- ‘ John Deere Syracuse No. 110 Sulky Flows at desired depth when turning square comers—the lever that controls the front furrow wheel is right at tin oper— ator's hand. 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Kreso Dip No.1éauafiihlrnhges ailing“. mm'mrm Parke, Davis 8: Co. . om, mm“ 'flleycontain J YOU’LL BE INTERESTED IN . \VHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER Irs ON race 24 .. ii“ . .. when m, waited 1 atient'l'y’ iitil‘ e returned. He mo- V tiOned Aldous ‘to’lseat himself close ' at his ;;side. Both men lighted their pipes before the amountaineer spoke._ “We can’t both sleep at once to- night, Johnny,” he said. “We’ve got to take turns keeping watch.” _ “You’ve discovered something to- ' day?” ' I “No. It's what I haven’t discov- ered that counts. There weren’t no tracks in this valley, Johnny, from mount’in to mount’in; They have- n’t travelled through this range, an' that leaves just two things for us to figger on. They’re behind us—or _DeBar is hitting another trail into the north. There isn’t no danger ahead right now, because we’re get- tin' into the biggest ranges between here an’ the Yukon.‘ If Quade ands. Rann are in the next valley they can’t get over the mount’ins to get us. Quade, with all his flesh, could- n’t climb over that range to the west of us inside 0’ three days, if he' could get over it at all. They’re hikin’ straight for the gold over an— other trail, or they’re behind us, an’ mebby both.” “How—both?” asked Aldous. “Two parties,” explained MacDon- ald, puffing hard at his pipe. “It there’s an outfit behind us they were hid in the timber on the other side of the snow-ridge, and they’re pretty close this minute. Culver Rann—or FitzHugh, as you. call him—is hust—' ling straight on with DeBar. Mebby Quade is with him, an’ mebby he ain’t. Anyway, there’s a big chance of a bunch behind us with special in- structions from Quade to cut our throats and keep Joanne.” That day Aldous had been turning a question over in his own mind. He asked it now. “Mac, are you sure you can go to the valley of gold without DeBar?” For a long half minute MacDon- ald looked at him, and then his voice rumbled in a low, exultant laugh in his beard. “Johnny,” he said, with a strange quiver in his voice, “I can go to it now straighter an’ quicker than De- Bar! I know why I never found it. DeBar helped me that much. The trail is mapped right out in my brain now, Johnny. Five years ago I was within ten miles of the cavern—an’ didn’t know it!” “And we can get there ahead of them?” “We couldf—if it wasn't for Joanne. We’re makin' twenty miles a day. We could make thirty.” “If we could beat them to it!” ex- claimed Aldous clenching his hands. “If we only could, Donald—the rest .would be easy!” MacDonald laid a heavy hand on his knee. “You remember what you told me, Johnny, that you’d play the game fair, and give ’em a first chance? You ain’t figgerin’ on that now, be you?" I “No. I’m with you now, Donald. it’s " “Shoot on sight!" “Yes.” Aldous rose from his seat as he spoke. “You turn in, Mac,” he said. “You’re about hushed after the work you’ve done to-day. I’ll keep first watch. I’ll conceal myself fifty or sixty yards from camp, and if we have visitors before midnight the fun will all be mine." He knew that MacDonald was asleep within fifteen minutes after he had stationed himself at his post. - In s'pite‘of the fact that he had had almost no sleep the previous night, he was more than usually wakeful. He was filled with a curious feeling i AH. HEW SALEM“ s ’WonK ' Wrn-I ‘TH: Co'uii-n' 'AGENT‘, "amass", ‘ I that events were impending. Yet the hours passed, the moon flooded the valley again, the horses grazed with- out alarm, and nothing happened; He had planned not to awaken old Donald at midnight, but MacDonald roused himself, and came to take his place a little before twelve. From that :hour until four Aldous slept like dead. He was tremendously re- freshed when he arose, to find that the candle was alight in Joanne’s tepee, and that MacDonald had built a fire. He waited for Joanne and went with her to the tiny creek near the camp, where both bathed their faces in the snow-cold water from the mountain tops. Joanne had slept soundly for eight hours, and she was as fresh and as happy as a bird. Her lameness was almost gone, and she was eager for the day’s journey. As they filed again up the valley that morning, with the early sun transfiguring the great snow-topped ranges about them into a paradise of colour and warmth, Aldous found himself mentally wondering if it were really possible. that a serious danger menaced them.. He did not tell MacDonald what was in his mind. He did not confess that he was about ready to believe that the man on the snow—ridge had been a hunter or a prospector returning to his camp in the other valley, and that the'attack in Tete Jaune was the one and only efiort Quade would make to secure possession of Joanne. While ,a few hours before he had al— most expected an immediate attack, he was now becoming more and more convinced that Quade, to a large extent, had dropped out of the situation. He might be with Morti- mer FitzHugh, and probably was—a dangerous and formidable enemy to be accounted for when the final set- tlement came. But as an immediate menace to Joanne, Aldous was beginning to fear him less as the hours passed. Joanne, and the day itself, were sub ficient to disarm him of his former apprehension. In places they could see for miles ahead and behind them. And Joanne, each time that he look- ed at her, was a greater joy to him. Constantly she was pointing out the wonders of the mountains to him and MacDonald. Each new rise or fall in the valley held fresh and de- lightful surprises for her; in the craggy peaks she pointed out castle- ments, and towers, and battlement—' ed strongholds of ancient princes and Kings. Her mind was a wild and beautiful riot of imagination, of wonder, and of happiness, and in spite of the grimness of the mission they were on even MacDonald found himself rejoicing in her spirit, and he laughed and talked with them as they rode into the North. They were entering now into a. hunter’s paradise. For the first time Joanne saw white, moving dots far up on a mountain-side, which Mac- Donald told her were goats. In the afternoon they saw mountain sheep feeding on a slide a half a mile away, and for ten breathless minutes Joanne watched them through the telescope. Twice caribou sped over the opens ahead of them. But it was not until the sun was settling to- ward the west again that Joanne saw what she had been vainly searching the sides of the mountains to find. MacDonald had stopped suddenly in the trail, motioning them to ad- vance. When they rode up to him / It‘lf / \i r. reheating ‘éurweod‘ . _ \.Micfiigon’s Own and America’s Format Author of the Great Northwest . ' goomlght by James Oliver_ Garwood r he pointed to a green slope tw hundred yards ahead. ‘ “There’s yo’r grizzly, Joanne,” he said. . , . ‘ A huge, tawny beast was ambling slowly along the crest of the slope, and at sight of him Joanne gave a little cry of excitement. “He’s hunting for gophers,” ex- plained MacDonald. he don’t seem in a hurry. He don’t see us because a b’ar’s eyesare near- sighted, but he could smell us half a mile away if the wind was right.” He was unslinging his long rifle ” as he spoke. Joanne was near enough to catch his arm. “Don’t shoot —— please don’t shoot! ” she begged. “I’ve seen lions, and I’ve seen tigers—and they’re treacherous and I don’t like them. But there’s something about bears that I love, like dogs. And the lion isn’t a king among beasts compared with him. Please 'don’t shoot!" . “I ain’t a-goin’ to,” chuckled old Donald. “I’m just gettin' ready to give ’im the proper sort of a hand- shake if he should happen to come this way, Joanne. You know a grizzly ain’t partic’lar afraid of any- thing on earth as I know of, an’ they’re worse’n a dynamite explos- ion when they come head-on. There ———he’s goin’ over the slope!” “Got our wind,” said Aldous. They went on, a colour in Joanne’s face like the vivid sunset. They camped two hours before dusk, and MacDonald figured they had made better than twenty miles that day. The same precautions were observed in guarding the camp as the night before, and the long-hours of the vigil were equally unevent- ful. The next day added still more to Aldous’ peace of mind regarding possible attack from Quade, and on the night of this day, their forth in the mountains, he spoke his mind to MacDonald. , For a few moments afterward the old hunter smoked quietly at his pipe. Then he said: “I don’t know but you’re right" Johnny. If they were behind us they’d most likely have tried some- thing before this. But it ain’t in the law of the mount’ins to be care- less. We’ve got to watch.” “I agree with you there, Mac,” re- plied Aldous. “We cannot afford to lose our caution for a minute. But I’m feeling a deuced sight better ov- er the situation just the same. If ’we can only get there ahead of- them!” “If Quade is in the bunch we’ve got a chance of beating them,” said MacDonald, thoughtfully. “He’s heavy, Johnny—that sort of heavi- ness that don’t stand up well in the mount’ins; whiskey—flesh, I call it. Culver Rann don’t weigh much more’n half as much, but he’s like iron. Quade may be a drag. An’ Joanne, Lord bless her!~——she’s fac- ing the music like an’ ’erp, Johnny!” “And the journey is almost half over.” “This is the fourth day. I figger We can make it in ten at most, meb- by nine," said old Donald. “You see we’re in that part of the Rockies where there’s real mount’ins, an’ the ranges ain’t broke up much. We’ve got fairly good travel to the end.” On this night Aldous slept from eight until twelve. The next, their fifth, his watch was from midnight until morning. As the sixth and the seventh days and nights passed un« * long ago, and old DOnald was abo , to reap the reward of a search that I had gone faithfully and untiri'ngly ‘ through the winters and summers 'of 1 He spoke seldom that ‘ day. There were strange lights, iii?" And once his voice. was, husky and strained when he saidfito” “That’s why . . . rei’ ed The "eighth day dawned. . . a new excitement took possessiongot Donald MacDonald. Joanne and'Ala dous saw his efforts teasuppressqit; but it did not escape their eyes. The? were nearing "the tragic scenes ' forty years. his eyes. Aldous: “I guess we’ll make it to-morrow, ‘ Johnny—jus’ about as the sun’s go- ing down.” ‘ They camped early, and Aldous. rolled himself in his blanket when Joanne extinguished the candle in her tent. He found that he could not sleep, and he relieved MacDonald ‘- at eleven o’clock. “Get all the rest you can, ,Mac,” he urged. morrOw—at about sundown.” There was but little moonlight now, but the stars were clear. He lighted his pipe, and with his rifle in the crook of his arm he walked slowly'up and down over a hundred- yard stretch of narrow plain in which they had camped. That night they had built their fire beside a fal- len log, which was now a glowing mass without flame. Finally he sat down with his back to a rock fifty paces from Joanne’s tepee. It was a splendid night. The air was sweet and cool. He.leaned back‘until his head rested against the rock, and there fell upon him the fatal tempt- ation to close his eyes and snatch a. few minutes of the slumber which had not come to him during the early hours of the night. He was, in a doze, oblivious to movement and ' the softer sounds of .the night, when a cry pierced the~ struggling consc- iousness” of his brain like the sting of a dart. Inan instant he was on his feet. ‘ In the red glow of the log stood Joanne in her long white night robe. She seemed to be swaying when he first saw her. Her hands were clutched to her bosom, and she was staring—staring out into the night beyond the burning log, and in her face a look of terror. He sprang to- ward her, and out of the gloom be- yond her rushed Donald MacDonald. With a cry she turned to Aldous and flung herself shivering and half-sob- bing into his. arms.‘ Gray-faced, his eyes burning like the smoulderin coals in the fire, Donald MacDonal stood a step behind them, his long rifle in his hands. “What is it?” cried Aldous. “What has frightened you, Joanne?” She was shuddering against his breast. “It—~it must have been a dream,” . 'she said. “It—Alt frightened me. But it was so terrible, and I’m—I’m sorry, John. I didn’t know what I - was doing.” MacDonald had drawn very close. Joanne raised her head. I ' “Please let me go back to bed, John. ,It was Only a dream, and I’ll tell it to you in the morning, when there's sunshine—and day.” Something in MacDonald’s tense, listening attitude caught Aldous’ eyes. . “What was the dream?" he urged. She looked from him to old Don- ald, and shivered. . “The flap of my tepee‘was open,” she said slowly. “I thought I was awake. I thought I could see the glow of fire. But it was a dream— a dream, only it was horrible! For as I looked I saw a face out there in the light, a white, searching face—- and it was his face!” “There may be doings to- ‘. ' .w..—'wuvrr .— .. —— ‘ .u vv I \1 I l .fis orally its ’cause the man has done here-wrong—ethat’s always her plea ‘ w—she. has”"b‘een betrayed by him” V). ggiixi I dear,”- ,‘5‘Try and sleep again. , _ “get all the rest you can.” I He closed the flap after her; and You must 7 " turned back toward MacDonald. The. old hunter had disappeared. It was .ten minutes before he came in from .out of the darkness. He went , straight to Aldous. “Johnny, you was asleep!” “I’m afraid I was Mac—just for a minute.” MacDonald’s fingers gripped his arm. A “Jus’ for a minute, Johnny—an’ in that minute you lost the chance of your life!" ' ‘fWhat do you mean?” “I mean”—-and old Donald’s voice was filled with a low, choking trem- ble that Aldous had never heard in it before—“I mean that it weren't no dream, Johnny! Mortimer Fitz- Hugh was in this camp tonight!” CHAPTER XXV ONALD MacDONALD’S startling assertion that Mortimer Fitz- Hugh had been in the camp, and that Joanne's dream was not a dream, but reality, brought a gasp of astonishment and disbelief from Aldous. Before he had recovered sufficiently from his amazement to speak, MacDonald was answering the question in his mind. “I woke quicker’n you, Johnny,” he said. “She was just coming out of the tepee, an’ I heard something running off through the brush. I thought mebby it was a wolverine, or a bear, an’ I didn’t move until she cried out your name an’ you jumped up. If she had seen a bear in the fire-glow she wouldn’t have thought it was Mortimer. FitzHugh, would she? It’s possible, but it ain’t like— ly, though I do say it’s mighty queer why he should be in this camp alone. It’s up to us to watch pretty until daylight.” " “He wouldn’t be here serted Aldous. i’ the light, Mac. whole gang isn’t - “They ain’t in MacDonald. “I hea -- a hundred yards out the queer thing about 1 n’t they jump on us the chance?” “We’ll hope that it was . - replied Aldous. “If Joann dreaming of FitzHugh, and whie vstill half asleep sawsomething in camp, she might easily imagine the rest. But we’ll keep watch. Shall I~move out there?” MacDonald nodded, and the two men separated. For two hours they patrolled the darkness, waiting and it was surely an unpleasant he comforted her. v t r e = 0 camp. begin breakfast. night had on her.‘ reassurred him. to arouse Joanne and He was" anxious to see What effect the incident at the Her appearance When he referred to the dream and the manner in blushes into her face. He which she _had come out into the night, a lovely confusion sent the kissed her until they grew deeper, and she hid her face on' his neck. And then ‘she whispered 801116- thing, with her face still against his shoulder, that drove the hot blood into his own cheeks. ‘ “You are my husband, John, and I don’t suppose I should be ashamed to let you see me in my bare feet. But, John—.you have made me feel that way, and I am—your wife. 'He held her head close against him so that she could not see his' face. “I wanted to show you—that I loved you—that much,” he said ’ scarcely knowing what words he was speaking. “Joanne, my darling ’ A soft hand closed his lips. “I know, John,” she interrupted him softly. “And I love you so for it, and I’m so proud of you—oh, so proud, John!” He was glad that MacDonald came crashing through the bush then. Joanne slipped from his arms and ran into the tepee. In MacDonald’sface was a grim and sullen look. “You missed your right, Johnny,” he found where a horse was tied out there. The tracks lead to a big slide of rock that opens a break in the west range. Whoever it was has beat it back into the other valley. I can’t understand. S’elp me God I can’t, Johnny! chance, all Hugh come over into this valley alone? And he rode over! I’d say the devil couldn’t do that!” He said nothing more, but went out to lead in the hobbled horses, leaving Aldous in half—stunned wonderment to finish the prepara— tion of breakfast. Joanne reappear— a little later, and helped him. It as six o’clock before breakfast was yer and they were ready to begin day’s journey. As they were wing the hitch over the last verything may happen today, ‘ I figger ‘We’ll reach the sundown. An’ what don’t ere may happen along the u a rifle-shot behind with I I figger I 'f’there is any, an’ I ‘ . e'Ii ' EECIG Rubec Spinac " WHAT’S COMIN’ NEXT? ’8 gettin’ to be a pretty lively 01’ world, now, ain’t it? We’ve pretty night got to go armed even to go up town. Well mebbe it ain’t so bad as that here in my home tOWn but when I read of the things that're goin’ on in other places I’m gettin’ scart just a bit—I’m takin’ not so many chances an’ go out in daylight an’ not very far then. When I read the papers and learn that 15 year old girls have commenc- ed shootin’ ol’ tellers, killin’ ’em deader’n a door nail, I’m just lettin' ' lots of daylight shine between me an’ all kinds of women. .Anna Daidoue, age 15, shot an’ killed her suitor, Frank Loranto, aged 40. At 15 Anna should not have had a suitor—she should be playin’ with her dolls an’ livin’ like a girl of that age ort to live. At 40 Frank Loranto ort to have known better’n to be foolin’ around with young girls of 15 years of age. . Killin’ a man like that mebbe is helpin’ society some—~any way we can git along without men like that, but it ain’t always Frank Loronto’s that’s bein’ killed. ' You know it’s gittin’ to be rather a common thing for a woman to shoot *a. manmalways, or most gen- ‘she kills~him an’ a‘ jury will us- , anal ' " diathemurder charge ' " a o eezoutianfibebe- ‘ afraid. thing that would rile some female- woman up, a little, I’ll jest stop right here. RUBE. trayed a-gin an’ me other guy who hap her kind of love. \ I’m not sayin’ but w _ q j.“ I s g g ‘l I a few of ’em myself—but same I don’t believe wome . . have a monopoly on the 1 business. An' so you see I’mxk ' keepin’ sly of meetin’ ’em "’ca ‘ they’re gettin’ ‘ arm’aments. Women are all r' - in their proper place if you get w 7“ I mean. I sort of kinda like ’em an’ all that, but I don’t like the idea of ’em bein’ so handy an’ being ready to snuff a man’s life out without a minute’s notice. No man should ort to be killed without a little chance to git ready for the change. It’s a serious sort of a thing to jump out of this world into another—None we don’t know a thing about, an’ so I sez there should growled. “I Why should Fitz-. THEYMA EEVER “will ' i I . ‘w l : K (4))me .l, I l l, , {l M l A * . x 1 ‘ _ 'il i . .41 Copyright 1923. y The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 00.. Inn A v n “My Goodyear Klingtite Belt enables meta take advantage of every minute in the working day. I have been through four threshing seasons with mine, and it has never delayed opera ations for a second.” —E. w. AMBs, Wichita, Kansas YOU put an end to your belt troubles when you use a Goodyear Klingtite Belt. It is slipless, powerful, and easy-runo ning. It requires no dressing. It needs no “ ‘—___ ._.— be a curb of some sort put onto our women. 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The double gears, and all moving parts, are entirely enclosed and flooded with oil all the time. It gives more service with less attention than any other piece of machinery on the farm. To get everlasting wind-mill satisfaction buy the Auto-Oiled Aermotor, the most efficient windmill that has ever been made. Forfidix'nfor- C0. Chicago Dallas Des Moines mation write Kansas City Minneapolis Oakland WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO YOUR FAMILY ) IF YOU WERE ACCIDENTALY KILLED? - SEE PAGE 24 AND ACT! January, 1924 For 25c! We will mark your NE\V or RENE\VAL subscription PAID-IN-FULL to JANUARY, 1924 if you send 250 in currency or stamps with the coupon below within 30 days. This is the greatest offer we have l ever made and is based on our cooperative plan which eliminates an agent being sent to your home for your subscription. THE BUSINESS FARMER, Mt. Clemens, Mich. . I enclose 25c fpr which to pay my subscription in full to JANUARY, 1924. , . . ' ‘ NAME .................... ........... .. R. F. D. No....f ..... P. 0.. ..... ....... .... State .................. .. .IIUOQIIoIJ-Qooo-OUO F (If this is a renewal mark x here ( ) and enClose’om label.) " mm mm m»mmn-r Minimum 'Mnm mum J'th hauling Malibu-n mum ' M ti. letter: W m at: your risk. It: mm by first-class mail every dofiu received. . “HE-Ir. fit: in lilfinfinmm 1mm bmwwm “mum” “chrth . a m on menu in: an _ ems] my ad- mgmflitm will up“ n: he " it» 1%“. 151. every case when ‘1' saw your a mi: ‘ The Michigan Business will guarantee honest dealing. "Tfig Fun Pam of Santa" STATE TREASURY FLUSH ’ BQUT the most welcome news that We could hope to spread from this page is the report from Mr. 0. B. Fuller, Auditor Gemnl, that the state of Michigan closed the fiscal year on June 30th with nearly 3103003000200 in cash in its state funds. Farmers. are going to begin. to wonder right. away if it is not possible to reduce the tax burden which has. been around their weeks for the past. .few years, and The Business. Farmer wants to go right on record that this is no time for the state to accumulate a cash reserve when the farmers of the state have been suflering, from. so long, a depression. Mr. Fuller issues. another Will We in that the 1923 state tax is; likely to: be, $16,000,006 which would represent a reduction of $1,300,000 from the 1922 levy. During the past few months Wayne», Maconb, and! St. Clair Counties ham been tlulllixirely,n reassessed and it is said that this magnum assessment in: Wayne County alone amounts to $200,000,000, which indicates in a small way, at least, the growth. and. prosperity of: Michigan’s. metropolis. With the- iucreased’ valuation and the) lowering of state expwditures which Governor Groesbeek has worked: so. diligently on, it is tn be hoped that the yoke may be lightened at least somewhat during this year. There is abmlutelly’ mt the slightest question but what increasing taxes. were arriving at a point. where agriculture in tinsstalte could not hear the load which it. was asked: to carry. The new of lowmd taxes is therefore most gratifying and will do much to rebuild a sound agriculture in Michigan. NEW YORK DAIRY 1182531712 A SUCCESS you are a [hde shipping in the: Detroit. area. you ought to be interested in. the president’s report which is. practically a. sum— mary oi the second successful year at the New York Dairynen’s lasagna which has gone into the milk situation in America‘s greatest milk market. in a manner that is strikingly commendable. Nearly one-tenth of all the men, women and children in the United States of America live in the New York Mills: area, and each morning must find on their doorstep iresh milk tor their food requirements. The problem of producing this milk and getting it to them fresh and econ-om- ically is one which staggers the imagination, and that the-dairymen themselves, after years of un- successful dealings through middlemen, in this market, should have come to the solution of op- erating their own business and providing a means of outlet for their by—products is an object lemon ion the dairymen oi Michigan. Our milk-producers must not overlook the fact that Detroit is now fourth city and that other metropolitan districts of Michigan are increasing in population more rapidly than any other simi- lar section of the United States, The“ problems of New York state are or will be identical with our own. Our ‘dairymen might as well be pre- pared for the inevitable. Like every other cooperative marketing asso~ elation, the Dairymen’s League has beensub— jected to a consistent attack which is aimed (as all other similar attacks are aimed) at the . morale of its members. It the enemy of coopera- " tive marketing can destroy the faith of the indi- SL'vldual member inthe officers or leaders of the Rm hem-Io: “newts. We: the m Win tie Mdifiqtdmri Mammuttmmmmmm, would split the possible no” utm‘m- to mm a ’ / — mmemrmeypmm m of Win. However, those in? m- hflotthmadonmsmumto mang- mummfidumimefiemom m th’--ilk producers ‘of Michigan must. hWIh-m whiethYmkm has been m out with the was indicated h Wommmfikmeducorhtakethe now, (I‘M this copy aside. until he has time, to read and digest this report. " » W B mo 10 SUGAR. ms: you have been wondering what is going to happen to the: sugar beet industry now that. the agar mmch once again have in. their control the: m a: sugar in these United States. . you will be interested in the arm by Simon G. Palmer in this issue. The heat sugar industry in America. is facing a. citing Not that the. crick- is. any more acute today than it was five years age, but it is: more apparent. As has been pointed out, the United States, which could raise all the sugar needed. in the world. in its own beet fields, now supplies less than two-fifths of its owu consumption, and de- pends on the cane growers of Cuba and other foreign cmtries for the principal supply at one oi it greatest necessities. Ellen. this is protected it is easy tn profit-t that within: he years bats will be flying through factories in Michigan, Colorado and California, and the tow"- ering smoke stacks will be only monuments to an industry which once promised so much to both the producer and the consumer. M. A. o. POT sum. Home: WE predicted. that the. ousting at Dr. Friday, former president of the Michigan Agrixml- utxall College, would clean: the at- mosphere or move to. be a step in. the; right direction unless; it be that his martyrdom. should. markthe ending of politics in the administration all our college. New reports tell us that the state tive board has withheld all extension funds un- til the college authorities give the board the in,— fmmtiom in desires regarding the. connection: be tween the extension turd madmws and activi- ties of the Michigan State Firm This order withholds approximately Macaw approp- riated tor the mafia by the last legislature, and means that so long as this horn-locking, con— threes mm work at the college will have to cease. ‘ ’ ' Some time: 1gp the state administrative board decided to investigate the claim that the partial payment of the; county agent by the State Farm Bureau» was leading to a virtual by that examination. The, See-return of State was empowered toinvestignte and ~Iris claim new is, that he has not. been able to get the interma— tion which n claim from Farm Metals. ‘01! course all of this is a petty squabbte, in which the innocent hay-stander, which hummus in this case to be our on agricultural millage, is the only one that will particularly Met. Right now, at a time when extension work is most important? in a' season of the year when the farmers of Michigan most need its unions and when they are beginning to cash-in on. the work which the extension department can. do for them. there arises a political squabble which makes this de- partment entirely inactive and impotent. Over in Oklahoma. as you will note by reading "This Week’s. Editorial” they are having the same kind of trouble where partners has crept into the administration of the state's‘agricnitural college. If. you get any consolation out at others’ troubles similar to your own, you can read that with some satisfiaction. In the meantime news item tell. us of the weakening oi the excellent faculty which M. A. C. was building up. Today we read that Profes- sor C. A. (longer. acting head of the department of zoology and physiology has- resigned and is leaving for Wesleyan University. How can. they expect the farmers of this state tube patient in the face of such conditions? . BANK COMMISSIONER ammo E get accustomed to renting a lot of more or less irresponsible information as to the farmer’s condition. Often we are inclin- ed to give credence tothese Statements directly in as counts» .tion. ' y v 'f, »‘ ' » - pm whichwousfl not re— * 1's was, , m mime on Sev the L either nth om arm it the‘ms.’ 1! his um go on record,'mthat mm at“ crisis is over, by saying that the bankers _ lean... can whole, have by extending cream. 1" his? I! ,6 and advice helped m.mnars to seat safe and sound footing. The farms are lot thee-Hy one“ had to 3. through this period of adjustment following ‘ the war-time» m. We have heard it said». that as businesses were able to catch stag the slowing down of! the‘demand which W n the war, and. nearly every business; found that! ’ loaded. up with more expense that it can“. ‘ ‘ flit were tosimwaproflt. Thetamsaitfi- country have: hat to go through this sumo lat 0!! Mn, his bad to lay of the hired help. which they found my though- the m,‘ hm had to strictly economies: in order to bring, their expenses within the margin of their receipts: This year, 1328, is» the your in which. we :hve predicted the farmers: of America, and particular 11: at Michigan. the scare we know best, win, , stage a come-back. which will he felt in. business dates everywhere. ‘ r ' _' It gives u: a testing at stability, theretue, hm Mr. High A. Won, state Ina-Hi: eon- n’mioncr, M cur optimism when he ml. “The: farmers. of Michigan as whole, are in pretty good muncial shape. or course, than are some communities that’hazve been. hit harder than oth- ’ ' ers. But as a. whofie, the. farmers” bank W have not kept step in decrease in communism with the. price he has received iron his wallet. m tamer isgrflmmmmmthckh ad imncial sham, and with a good mm, he will bebmktovherehewas in 1929,17!er bank deposits may be taken as. a basis for the as- Mien.” FREE GMWEBS AWAKEN! ‘ISTORY was written at Benth Harbour last . week when the bruit growers u" state-wide Wm fruit waning agency under the title of “The Michigan Fruit; Grams, Inc,” with James Nicol, former head of the Pam Bureau. as pres-Heat. . ' This is. net the first statewide fruit growers organization. -We have had" horticultural moie- ties, in years back without number, but this is the first time- that an organization. has. been mm— . slated, the sole purpose of. which is to seem : wide-r and better market in MicLigan trait. ' The mmple set. by the fruit gmwersotfhlia for-uh and the Pacific Coast have not missed un- , noticed by those who are familiar with: the q ral— ity of Michigan fruit and recognize the position it should occupy on the markets of the worm. It the fruit groWers- in other states can swamp- lish a demand for their products which raises ‘ the price to a. point where it is profitable to the grower then it. can be. alone in Michigan and the organization of the. fruit growers: into a solid, well financed and we}! managed business 0m “ zation‘ is necessarily the first step in the right directm' ‘ " HIGHWAY FUNDS ABOUT GONE.“ A report submitted to the state Adminis- trative Board today by the State Accounting Division shows that the State has mt'ativeh authorized highway work which exceeds by $111,597 the money it. will have available this year, including the $5,000,000 hold is sue recently authorized but not yet sold. Therepmtshmflnt the State owes $2,854,039 on my:th contracts and . $3,544,344 on projects contracted since June 1 udthoseanthmimdbythebwfi button- which contracts have not yet been placed. Other contingencies will out the State 3285,- 403, making a. total tentative indebtednea_ of $5,583,232. Against this the State has in the highway tend 31.57%,190 and $5,000,- 000 to be raised from thesale 0t bonds leave ing’a deficit at $111,537.—-—Newa Item. S means that may 01 the projects about ‘ halt completed through the state wilt have” to remain untouched the balance of 1933. It means also that parts of some roads will be may to be rebuilt, by the time they are completed from end to end. It means more than this how-‘ ever—it means that some manner of getting a . larger-share ottheroad tandem those‘who; use the roads- mwt, must be devised. , The strange thing about it use the roads for hauling or pleasure are iy willing to in: the necessary costar sandmandmws... 3' .. so mung; tithe: those ‘ I y ., . _ W.~...w.t a...” .,. . I." ' I" 'u .2 .. . a ' i :r‘, '. V. .; oi the thou- .o-tnur‘ readers who have " .. been breathlesst counting their . .young roosters preparatory to 'ship- ping them to George Beuoy, of Kan- sas who advertised in other farm papers under the heading. “Young ' \ Roosters Wanted" and altered to pay $2 to $ 3 for each young rooster that could be: spared, we have secured some information. ’ In the first place,‘ Mr. George Beuoy, is the manufacturer of instru--. ments for caponizing poultry, and in the letter which. he sends in answer to your reply as to how many roost- ers you have ready or shipment, and of what—breed, he tells you that, he. will send a complete caponz-ling outfit for $5, that is, if you order within two weeks. We have no doubtpbut that the method of canon- izing is s_ound,and the instruments valuable, but there is no excuse ior a manufacturer stooping to advertis- ing which misrepresents the facts in order to get inquiries, and it is up to the publisher who accepts this ad- vertising to- investigate it before it runs in his columns. You can let your young roosters go. George Beuoy of Kansas doesn’t want them! . REGARDING THE ANNEKA JANS BOGARDUS ESTATE ,VERY day our readers are send- ing in , additional information regarding the Anneka Jans Bo- gardus Estate, which as we under stand it, Owns the lower part of New York City. They tell us it only re- mains for a few shrewd lawyers to properly present their claims and the courts will return a fortune to the estate which will make Mr. Henry Ford’s ready-cash look like a Sunday school collection. We learn, for instance, that there is an Anneka Jans Bogardus Society in Michigan, of which L; C. Tefl't, of Leslie, is president, and Ethel Kels- ey of Iackson is secretary and treas- urer. We_mention in particular the fact that this society has a treasurer, and dues, which we understand for the state society is only 50 cents, but for the national society is five dollars “for registration” $2.00 per month forever afterwards. This ought to build up a considerable estate for someone, if there are enough direct or indirect descendants, and it should not be hard to prove at this price per head that there are a great number. For instance, if there were five hundred descendants who paid in $2 per month, not to mention the original $5 registration fee, this ‘ not notice that they were particular- "would‘crieate a fund of $1000 per .monthyor it'there are 5000, which we would more readily expect, this would create a fund “$120,000 per year, which wouldin time, if proper- ly invested, create a nice little nest egg for those who are piloting th destiny of, the society. _ - In a printed circular which comes to our hands, we notice—that what the National Committee is most wor- ried about, is that their plans are getting some publicity, and they beg of each member of this society to keep as quiet as possible as to the amount they are paying ‘in and what they are doing. Perhaps we haven’t taken this matter seriously enough, but recent- ly we were in New York and we did ly worried down on Wall or Broad Street, in fact they seemed to be con- tentedly going ahead building thirty and forty story buildings on proper- ty which, if we are to believe the letters We get, belong to folks scat— tered all over Michigan. Apparently the investors in these sky-scrapers are taking a long chance on the faulty title which the heirs of one Anneka are about to prove! « FINANCING THE FINANCIERS LARGE amount of money has been invested in the so—called mortgage and loan companies, and we have received several inquir- A5 my; mar new as For investment of July funds there are no finer securities w than Federal first mortgage bonds. Write for Booklet AG916 ' Tax Free in Michigan Free from Federal Income Tax of 4% ies during the past few weeks from farmers who have recently been , asked for further investments. My I advice is, to ascertain at what price I these stocks are being quoted on the Detroit market. Most of them are selling way below par, as you wil' notice for example, in a special l‘u» port just received regarding one at them, which we believe to be reli— able. , “The Bankers Mortgage & Loan ‘ Co., is not listed on the Detroit Stock Exchange but is traded quite a«"[l\“(»“' here in Detroit as an unlisted stock The market at the present time i noted at $3 bid, and $3.50 asked for the unit. The preferred has paid their dividends since the organization of the company but we believe there has been a delay of from 10 to 20 days in mailing the checks. The com— pany is well managed. and we feel that at the present market value the stock is quite attractive.” If you are thinking of buying any loan or mortgage stock we will be glad to get you a special report re- garding the company and the price at which the stock is being sold on the Detroit. market. @“igeks Editorial , IN (OKLAHOMA TOO! ' NOTHER political explosion .at the Oklahoma Agricultural Col— lege. Ont goes the president appointed two years ago and with him will doubtless go a large per- centage of the present teaching staff. In comesanother president with new ideas and a new bunch of faculty members. The'new president will stay until another turn of the wheel of politics. Then he, too, will go into the dis-x card and there will be a new deal all around. This sort of thing has been hap- pening right along. There have been five presidents at the Oklahoma Ag- riculture College within 11 years. The longest term of service of any director of the experiment station since the- college was founded has been three years. The average form of service of other faculty members has been scarcely longer. _. - A condition like this is not good for the school. Teachers like to stay put. They want to be measured in terms of usefulness, not of politics. For many years it has gradually he- .come increasingly harder to get'good teachers to come to the college at 'andthe courage of"i.he teaching can itself has been steadily declin- ‘ ‘t thecollese is» , . . ' Which boththe state ‘ r as « sad: States a. great experi- be'a political-minded board of agri- ~ «with or as thousands of dollars to find out things about farming. No experi— ment can be proved in less than five years. No director of the station can do much in the three years which is his maximum term of of— fice. It is a safe bet that, regardless of the best efforts of the teachers and experiment station workers themselves, half of the annual ap- propriation has been wasted every year by the frequent changes of plan and method. Neither can any man do his best work when he lives under the shadow of a sudden dis- missal without cause. I am quite willing to assume that every man who takes a. job there goes in with high ideals of service and a desire to do his best for the farm boys and girls of Oklahoma. But noneof them, from the president down, gets very far toward a realiza- tion of his ideals. The college is too much the football of politics for that. Educators in either agricul— tural colleges speak of it as a. sort of a joke. They know that no col— ege run as this one can deliver the goods. , What is- the trouble? Funda- mentally it is-merely‘ that the col- lege and all its works are controlled culture, the majority of whose mem- bers are appointed by the governor and may be removed at any moment ithout cause. . The presi- . wmaer'm*m 61/2% I FEDERAL BONDS Are Better Bonds m FEDERAL BOND &'MORTGAGE COMPANY FEDERAL BOND 8t MORTGAGE BUILDING. 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The Michigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mich. I‘ enclose $... ........... .. for a .............. .. years subscription, this entitles me to every department of Business F armor, Service, without further cost for the full period of my sub- scription. , ~ ‘ ' a: ..... .. ............... .umumnm”umumuumumuw”m RFD Nomflm.‘ \ smummmw mohair-mm mkxm and" . " i, any recent matte "did mistakes. D W "n? a" w "a" ‘ a dreadful threat. for a boy to V, r' a boy of three or four ' “ heard it- a thousand times or We» , .Mt‘tillyour'Pa comes home, my lad, see‘What you’ll get for being bad. alt till your Pa comes. home, you .scamp! .T mp! Q'ye tracked the floor with your muddy “feet fought with the boy across the ,- street; 'y‘e torn your clothes and you look a sight! \ ut wait till your Pa : to—night." - comes home, “Now since I'm the Pa of that daily threat Which paints me as black as a thing of jet rise in protest right here to say . Won’t be used in so fierce a way; No child of mine in the evening gloam Shall be afraid of my coming home. 'want him waiting for me at night ’With eyes that glisten with real delight; 8 right that punished my boy should be I don’t want the job postponed for me; I want to come home to a roundof joy And not to frighten a little boy. H 3 FE ’Wait till your Pa comes home 1" Oh, dear, What a dreadful threat for a boy to . hear. ,Yet that is ever his Mother’s way Of‘saving herself from a bitter day; And well she knows in the evening gloam 'He won't be hurt when his Pa comes ' home. ‘ (Copyrighted: Edgar A. Guest.) CANNING THE “COLD-PACK” HE last issue told how to use a boiler for the new cold-pack method that is being used by all the modern housewives and I am go- ing to give you a few simple rules to * follow. ' Points to Remember: Use absolutely fresh products ‘only. To prepare preserved peaches, pears, apricots, plums, strawberries, raspberries, etc., follow the general directions for canning fruits. ' 1. Wash the fruit in cold water. ‘2. Blanch—that is, scald in vboil— ing water, from five to ten minutes, or steam from fifteen to twenty min— 9' 'utes. ‘ 3. Plunge two minutes. 4. Peel or skin—as needed. ‘ 5.. Remove seeds, stems and blos- som ends according to common sense. ' . 6. Pack as much as possible into absolutely clean scalded jars. '7. Cover with a heavy syrup ~ made of the following proportions of "sugar and water—two and a half- -pounds of granulated sugar to three , quarts of water—boiled together for * five minutes. ' . 8. Place a new rubber on each jar, and partly close down the cov- PB. Te 9. Place the cans in the boiler, fcoverwith cold water until the jars are submerged at least two inches. ,1 ‘ 10. Put on boiler lid, bring to “boiling point, and boil steadily the length of time allowed in the can- ' ning table. - Then remove, close perman- ‘i‘fently without opening, no matter ow- much the material in the can may have shrunk. If more conven- ent, cool in the water. 12. Turn upside down on a cloth and cool, away from draughts. .~~If the jars leak, new rubbers Will have to be put on and the process ‘ "sated. rep Store in a dark place, moder- ately cool. ‘ Various blends of flavoring may be preserving, as a little stick innamon or a few whole cloves in hQIgyrup for citron, apples, pears, «peaches, currants, or fresh figs; lem- on or. orange rind with that for ' pineapples, prunes, figs or rice, etc. Sometimes in pre- ng, it is possible to blend fruit ' rs by using a contrasting fruit instead of water in making the 1 into cold water for 5 SAVE WILD FRUIT ‘ days the automobile and 3 .bring the countryside reach of all, and wild ’ye soiled the walls with your fingers I will pay one dollar each in the paper. " Remember I am still working and saving all the letters re- ceived. _, Let us all take an interest in this work. Help one another. - , arm enment for the . Edited ., by Mas. . THRESBING Tllle’ RECIPES, _ BE recipes for our cook book have been splendid and I feel that our readers have really taken a keen interest in the work. and hope to ' have a splendid book for the farm women of M. B. F'. like to receive some of your tried recipes for the threshing season that will be with us in so short a time. I would like to have some letters .. upon simplifying the work for the farm women during these days. for every letter accepted for use . l %,%W, . } Address letters: Mrs. Annie Taylor, care The Business Farmer, Mt. clemons, Michigan. - - ‘1“. ‘ ,UI' ANNIE {carbon V I would 771M ‘- ways including ‘a basket with your impedimenta when you take excurs- ions afield. ' Spiced Wild-Apple Jelly—To mak this jelly, cut up any desired amount of wild apples or tame ones. Put in a kettle and add cold water and vin- egar (three-fourths water to one- fourth vinegar) until you can just see the apple, boil until a mush, stir- ring and mashing. Strain through jelly-bags, measure. Allow three- fourths cup of sugar to each cup of juice. The pectin test may be us- ed if desired. Boil the juice with a muslin bag of mixed spices very rap- idly for twenty minutes; then add sugar which has been heated and boil five minutes or until it sheets from a spoon. Pour into sterilized glasses, cool, seal the glasses with hot paraffin and cover. Monadnoc Blueberry Pudding— For this puding, stew one quart of fresh berries—or same amount of canned ones—~sweeten to taste, and fill a mold with alternate layers of berries and sliced buttered bread; pack closely, fitting the bread into the mold so that it may be perfect when turned out. Be sure that the bread, berries and juice are so pro- portioned that the bread may be well soaked. Stand over-night, if pos- sible. Eat cold with whipped cream. OKLAHALIA HOUSEWIFE JEIAIJI- ED WHOLE CHERRY ORCHARD UST as the cherries were ripe a J severe hail storm came up and so damaged the entire crop that it was not worth picking, so far as the general market was concerned. The wife of the owner of the cherry orch- ard had witnessed a demonstration of concentrated fruit pectin and knew that with its use cherry juice could be converted into pure, delic- iOus cherry jelly. So she gathered the entire crop, promptly made juice of it and little by little, as she found time, she converted the cherry juice into jelly. The cherry is a fruit so deficient in pectin arrived to help out the housewife, she was unable to make a single glass of cherry jelly, much less “jell” an entire orchard. ———Pectin, as'you know, is the gel- atinizing principal of certain ripe fruits and it is on the market now for use in making jellies from fruit that never would jell without it. CANEP COOKING OR cooking, the following utens- ils are necessary. 'Be sure to take a large fryingpan, kettle for cooking vegetables, a coffee-pot, and a knife, fork, spoon, plate, cup and bowl for each person. If you are to camp in a rocky country, it is better to take plates , cups and bowls of aluminum or heavy' tin, for enamel ware will chip if dropped. When you go into camp, take enough supplies with you to last sev- ‘ eral days so that, although‘you may be near enough to town to ’run in at any time, you do not have to do so. The relief from the necessity of pre- paring the daily schedule for mark- eting is wonderful. The fact that you do not have to. make a definite effort -to go somewhere and talk to . people adds more than you think it does to the rest and repose of camp life and the benefit that you will re- ceive from it throughout the year. You can take a far greater variety of canned vegetables and fruit‘into a camp near home than is .possible, when the camp lies at the end of a _ long day's paddle through the wild-b- . erness lakes with so ethiffportages" or “carries’flbetween. There every ounce counts, for you carry your en- tire supply of food aswell as every- thing else on these lake and forest camping trips—The Designer. CLOTHES TO TAKE ON A CAMP- ING TRIP . MOTHER packs a knicker suit if she has one or bloomers and middy. She needs also a warm skirt and sweater, a rain-coat and hat, rubber boots or storm rubbers, and comfortable shoes and sneakers. Don’t forget the favorite sunburn remedy. A bottle of iodine, a pack- age of gauze, a roll of bandage and a spool of adhesive plaster practically complete the first-aid kit. The men of the family will take what-ever outdoor clothing they have, including khaki and wool trousers, a flannel as well as cotten shirt, a sweater and a rain outfit. It is entirely practical to dress both the younger boys and girls in boys’ khaki suits of “shorts” with flannel shirts and woolen trousers if it is cool in summer in your part of the country. Every one should have a complete rain outfit. Do not allow any mem- ber of the family to go about in wet clothing. It is just as easy to be comfortable in camp as it is at home—The Designer. Mothers Problems DAD LOVES THE CHILDREN, TOO ON’T forget that Dad loves the children, too! They are not his alone to punish and sc'old, and yours to love and enjoy. All day long you have them—when they are good, when they are. naughty, when they are mischievous: Dad sees them for a much shorter time each day, and he ought to see them at their best. But do you let him? Many mothers do not. For Dad they store up every childish misdeed that has occurred; they “fill him up” with stories of how naughty his boys and girls are, how mischievous, how saucy, how disobedient,’ till Dad’s idea of his children becomes sadly warped. Perhaps he becomes “Lord High Executioner”, punishing the ofienders till they learn to fear him; or perhaps he remains silent, regard- ing them with such a stern eye of authority and disapproval that they shrink-from him and endeavor to keep out of his way. When Dad comes in from the field, let him find his children happy and glad to see him. Let him take them as they are, and get acquainted with them with an unbaised mind. There’s time enough after the little folks have been tucked in bed to talk over their various misdeeds—and Dad and Mother should talk them over, for the children belong to both par— ents and two heads are required to solve the problems that arise in the raising of children. You, the mother, have seen them so much and have become tired by the care of them, you cannot think clearly the best and the proper means of overcoming some fault, some habit, some actual misdeed, but Dad, whose mind all day has been on difierent matters, can give a clear, unwearied mind to child problems. \ Sometimes, it' is true, Dad must punish, but never, never let him be- come, .“The Punisher." It destroys ‘ his happiness in his children; it des trays their happiness in» him. ' my not; lies “I th" r tied mother’s at" 7 y A. 1 Dad loves the children, too! Malt-- :. 'milk attractive to a child. He a” . garet Bartlett. . v- THE CHILD WHO REFUSES MILK OMETIMES, even on the farm S- where there is generally milk in abundance, the child weaned from his wholly milk diet and init- iated into the delights of solid food. will refuse to drink milk. times, at the age of two or three, he will suddenly rebel against, drinking milk. All too many times.he is al- lowed to drink it, or not as he chooses. If «he refuses to drink it, no Or, some— ‘ effort is made to bring back his taste ' and enjoyment ofit. . This attitude, however, is wron Milk is needed, I and needed in abundance, by the growing child. No other food can take its place in_ the, child’s diet. Somehow he must again acquire the habit of drinking milk. But how? There are many "ways of making Some- times a pretty cup or class, never us- ed for anything else, will make a child willing to drink milk, just for the pleasure of handling the attract- ive bit of glass or china. ways appeals to- children, especially if two or three drops of flavoring ex- tract has been added to the milk. One mother succeeded in winning back her child’s lost appetite. for milk by tinting it delicately with pure vegetable colors. Pasting a pretty picture 'on the bottom of the glass (outside) for her little girl to see when she had drain- ed the glass was the ingenious meth- od employed by another mother. A piece of hard candy dropped in the glass, or a stick of gum, has served the same purpose: the child would drink the milk in order to obtain the “sweet.” No tea or coffee should ever be al- lowed children, but cocoa and cereal coffee are beneficial. These can be made entirely of milk, except for the small quantity of water needed to dissolve the powder. Such “en‘couragements” need us- ually be used but a short time. Soon the habit of drinking milk in one form or another will be res-establish- ed, and, with a little care on the part of the mother, it never again need be broken.———Margaret Bartlett. Personal Column Remedy for Removing Wild Hairs—- Here is a remedy I have saved from an- other paper we take, for the subscriber who asked for a remedy for wild hairs in the eyes. I do hope G. 0., or any one needing such a remedy will try this. I suffered for 18 years with them, tearing and scratching my eye spending hours with my hand glass and tweezers in removing those little needlelike irri- tants until I was in despair. One day I had an inspiration—alum and vaseline! I drew out every hair in my eyelid, moistened the alum and gently rubbed it over each lid, until they felt puckered. then at night. a tiny bit of vaseline on ’ Drinking . .the milk through straws nearly al- ..,- V? “t ' v7:— the tip of my little finger was rubbedu in thoroughly. I procured a tube of the white vaseline, but I suppose any clear vaseline would do as well. I rubbed this in every night for a week, and whenever I had to use my tweezers I followed with alum. tion grew less, and almost before I real- ized it a new growth of eyelashes was in evidence. Now for more than two years I have taken such comfort, seldom hav- ing to use the tweezers—A Subscriber. Can Anyone Help this Girl?——-This let- ter was received the latter part of May and I am giving you folks the important parts of it and you can have the writ- ers name upon request. sent it to me. _ In reading our last M. B. F. I see you want to exchange your quilt pieces for something useful. Now as am a stranger to you I would say that my cir- cumstances- are such that I’m badly in need of bedding at the present time. I live on a farm and have three children. My oldest daughter is a mute, also she is crippled in her arms to such an extent as to make hard work for'her impossible. - In less than a month the irrita- ' A subscriber " She does wonderful crochet work in any ' patterns that are called fillet crochet. And as we are in very poor circumstances she crochets and does odd sewing (plain) to help her go to the Flint school for the deaf. We could make good- use of your pieces either on shares or in exchange for needle work. We have tried several friends who we thought would do,.this' one and could not buy. sisters kee r her in," but never could get enough to piece 2‘ g... JV“ W, K» ‘ JV“ "j". conditions—A subscriber. -of glycerine and stir. "onion juice. . set in pan of hot water. cover with but: wit one“ Wot-whit sauce to which is tubercular: father- 'has “cans Sent in by ‘a Subscriber—W6 will be waiting ‘ for .you all in the ' summer time to come, , when the whip-poor- wills will awaken you from nine o'clock to one. You will miss the street-cars and busses when the hills loom up in View, but I don't believe you'll regret it, yet you’ll think that you really ’do. You have simply formed a habit that theptasks you must perform must surely be complied with from the day that you were born. ’Tis true, we all must labor but not as some can see, for labor. should be a pleasure it appears that way to me. The change from shop to freedom, the sunshine, and the hills, will surely make ’a difference when it comes to comparing Iills. Just a habit boys I tell you a habit pure and strong, all it needs is the scent of clover,- then you’ll see where you are wrong. ' Just a change avchange will show you, just one glance in freedom’s clime will make up for the difference, and the years you have left behind, The ever- greens will charm you lads as you were never charmed before, and old gray haired- dad and mother will be waiting at the door. Old Spot he too will wel- come you. your playmate of years ago, he also, will be waiting for the comrades he used to know. Sleeveless Sweaters Made—In the M. B. F. of May 12, I saw that Mrs. G. M. .would like the address of a lady who could make sleeveless sweaters. I made a number of them for the soldiers. I was complimented on my knitting the other day. As I have some spare time I would like to get something along that line to do.——Mrs. Genevieve Vanderberg, Plainwell, Michigan. For Colds that have not gone too far— One cup sugar, one—half cup water, cook until like a molasses, cool and add one- half ounce paragoric and ten cents. worth Dose: One-half spoonful for children and one spoonful for adults—Mrs. Julia Hipkins, Maconnb County, Michigan. 'Pine Tar and Honey for Cough~Would like to ask you to tell me how to prepare homemade pine tar and honey as a cough syrup. Four of our children are cough- ing similar to whooping cough, but do not whoop. They contracted this in the wake of measles. Would appreciate your advice—Mrs. I. H., Allegan County. The Runner’s Bible (Copyright by Houghton-Mifl’lin Co.) Be Ye Thankful: Col. 3:15~— Begin to give thanks even before you open your eyes in the morning. As consciousness creeps over you, follow it with a thank- ful prayer for life, that a new day, an- other chance is yours, and be glad in your heart of hearts that you have faith in God, and at least a partial under- standing of devine law. Be thankful for the beauty of the morning, that you have eyes to see it and the faculty to enjoy it, and'as the day advances, forget not' to be grateful over the small joys as well as the large ones,-——-the new flower, the book, the letter, the meeting with friends, the kindly word; be thankful for knowledge, for the, lessons that come through mis- takes and misfortune; be glad that the misfortune is no worse; in fact be thank- ful for everything. The least you must give is a. thankful heart, and a thankful heart is a fertile field; the Lord plants the seeds of his richest blessings in just such a field. ’ RECIPES For Bumps and Bruises—Butter and brown paper.-——Mrs. M. E. K., Grand Ledge, Michigane Cup Cakes—This is my best cup cake recipe: One and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup shortening, one-half cup sweet milk, two cups flour, three eggs, one-half teaspoon cream tartar, one- fourth teaspoon soda and one teaspoon vanilla. Beat sugar and shortening to a cream, add beaten yolks and beat again, add milk and ’flour alternately. Flour should" be sifted three times, add soda dissolved in a very little water, add egg whites beaten very stiff with cream tar- tar beaten in them at the last—Mrs. C. W. James. I Rancid Lard—A subscriber asked for a cure for rancid lard. 1 Heat and boil raw pared sliced potatoes in lard and it will completely take away the rancid odor. For a large spider full I use three or four potatoes—A reader. Pea. Timbalcs—Cook one quart of peas or the equivalent of one can of peas. Rub through a sieve; To one cup of pea ’ pulp add two beaten eggs. two table- spoons melted butter, two-thirds teaspoon salt, one-eighth teaspoon pepper, a few grains of cayenne, and a few drops of Turn ,‘into buttered molds, urea. Paper, and bake until flrm. Serve ' [egg slices, and surround with a hot, rich v put in glass cans, fill up with cold water, - many more berries, without crushing too. ‘season with pepper, salt and vinegar to fitting hat, dark gloves, dark shoes. ’Do not walk up anddown aisles. ., ‘8, och 0 ~ required, quantity of spinachhi‘n its own juice, drain; chop fine, season“ with salt, pepper, a" pinch of sugar and liberal butter to taste. Heap in a amound, smooth, garnish with airing of tomato sauce; serve at once. ‘ .i Canning ‘ Rhubarb—For canning rhu- barb for pies, wash, out into inch pieces, one teaspoon of salt to; a can and seal. Canning- Strawberries—While making your syrup fill cans with berries and set in oven and you'll find you can get in Have ready some boiling water, pour on syrup and fix‘ your cans as you would for cold pack. Then set your cans in the boiling water off the stove and leave un- till water is cool, take out and seal tight—Mrs. M. E. K., Grand Ledge, Mich. I Brown Cake—One cup sugar, one-half cup shortening, one-half cup molassesk pinch of salt, one teaspoon cinnamon, one—half teaspoon cloves, one-half tea- spoon ginger, two eggs, one cup boiling water, two teaspoons soda, two and one- half cups flour. Bake in a moderate oven—Mrs. R. H., Allegan County. Steam Brown Pudding—Two table- spoons butter, two tablespoons sugar, cream together, one egg, one-half cup of boiling water one-half cup molasses, one teaspoon soda, one and one-half cups of flour. Add dates or nuts and steam one and one-quarter to one and one-half hours.—-—Mrs. R. H., Allegan County. Salmon Loaf—After removing the bones from one can of salmon, add two table- spoons of butter, two eggs, one cup of bread crumbs, one cup milk, salt and pepper to taste, put in tin and steam for one hour.-—Mrs. J. W., Sinlac County. Sauce for Salmon Loaf—One cup of boiling milk one tablespoon of cornstarch, one egg, boil till it thickens,_ pour over salmon loaf and serve while hot—Mrs. J. W., Sinlac County. Chocolate Pie—Two tablespoons grated chocolate, one and one-half cups milk, beaten yolks of three eggs, stir one tablespoon of flour until smooth with a little milk one-half cup sugar, stir all in boiling milk and cook until it thickens, bake crust first, put in filling, whip the whites of eggs with a little sugar and flavoring, spread on top and brown in oven—Mrs. J. W., Sinlac County. Cherry Conserve—Three cups of cher- ries, three cups of pineapple, three cups of red raspberries, three oranges, twelve cups of sugar. Grind cherries, pineapple and oranges. Boil slowly until it thick- ens. Add any other fruit desired; for every extra cup add a cup of sugar.— Mrs. L. V. Johnson. , Cream of Pea Soup—Four cups of milk, one quart of peas, one-half small» onion, salt and pepper, one tablespoon of butter, enough boiling water to cook peas and onions. Boil peas and onions in very little water until done. Remove onions and pass peas through colander. Have milk scalding in a double boiler and add butter and flour after blending them to- gether. Add peas and serve with a. spoonful» of whipped cream.-——Mrs.‘ L. V. Johnson. Salmon Salad—One can red salmon, two large potatoes (diced), two hard boiled eggs chopped fine, three small onions chopped fine, two or three stalks of celery improves it. Mix together and taste, if there happen! to be no salad dressing made and no time to make it. Mrs. Carpenter. Dumplings that are always light—— When making chicken and dumplings, instead of boiling the dumplings take part of the gravy, put in a kettle or in bake dish that can be covered tightly then put in the dumplings and bake in fairly hot oven. For a small family take two cups of flour, one-half teaspoon of salt, one large teaspoon baking powder and add sweet milk to make a ‘soft dough. Divide into eight or ten dump— lings and drop into gravy and bake.— Mrs. Carpenter. Chicken Diarrhcar—Sweet oil applied to the vent of a little chicken that shows signs of white diarrhea will save its life, if it is bad the remedy will need to be used several times, and feed raw white of egg in ’water if real weak.—-—Mrs. N. Lindley. To Whiten Curtains—Towels, pillow— cases or wash cloths, put a tablespoon- full of cream of tartar in the boiler and boil up as usual;—-—K. L. -—if you are well bred! .T‘raveling-Dress—Dark suit or dark one piece dress or the new tweed sports suits with a blouse to either match or white tailored waist. With dress a wrap, close Accept no attention from strangers. Stay in seat and ,read, write, or nap. Lily White “ The Flour the Best Cooks Use" From the Finest Wheats From the finest wheat one has reason to expect the best flour. From the finest flour one may well ex- pect the best baking. Lily White is milled from the finest wheat grown in this country and not surpassed anywhere. It is scrupulously cleaned, scoured and washed, and milled by the famous six—break system to a granu- lation that is perfect. Its volume, color and flavor are just right for the making of appetizing, whole- some breads. From Lily Whiteryou may expect the best baking. We guarantee it. You will pro- duce better baking and like it better than with any flour you ever used. Our Guarantee Wo Guarantee you will like Lib Whit. Flour. "the flour the. boot cooks luo' ’ better than any flour you ooor non! for ooory requirement ofhorno baking. I f for any roanon what- soever you do not, your dealer will refund tho purchase prico. Ho lo so instruct-d. Parker House Rolls made will: Lily White You are protected while trying out Lily White. Call your grocer now. VALLEY CITY MILLING COMPANY ‘ GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN " “Miller: for Sixty Years ’ ' AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING A Stylish Afternoon Gown 4407. Satin crepe was used for llllrl model, the under- dress being headed in an ’1” over de- sign, and the reversed side of the crepe uscd for the anels. This is a smart style, that “ill lcnd itscl to various combinations of material. The Pattern is out in 6 Sizes: 3 , 3 ), RR. 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. A 38 inch size requires 4% yards of 36 inch material for the dress and 2% yards for the panels. The width at the foot is about 2 yards. To make dress with short sleeves 1/; yard less material is required. A Comfortable Top Garment 4093. For cool days of all seasons, and for all materials for all seasons, this model is very appropriate. Gabardine and taffeta are nice for a light weight garment of this kind. For more wm‘mth, one could have broad cloth, velour-s or serge. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: _6 months, 1 year, 2 and 3 years. A 2 year Size requires 1% .V'll‘d of 40 inch material. A Popular One Piece _D_ress _ ' 4392. .TlllS style has slenderizmg hues and is. becoming to. youthful and mature figures. Ginghanr with lincn_xvoul<‘1 be fine for this, or ratine w1th_ binding in ,a contrasting color. Taf- feta too W‘lll baattractive for _thls st is. The Pattern is cut in 8.S1zes: .6, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 .48 and 50 inches bust measure. A 38_ inch Size requires 6% yards of 5:2 inch material. The Width at the foot of the dress is 2% yet s A Comfortable “Smock” 4415. This model reflects the most popular of this season’s dresses for young girls. It has a comfortable raglan sleeve, which may be fin- ished in wrist or elbow length, _and a jziunly collar._ Dotted percale With facmgs oféuhitc linen is here illustrated. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: ‘1, 8, l0 and 12 years. A your size requires 2% yards of 32 inch material. Collar and sleeve innings of contrasting material require 3.13 Yard. A, Practlcal Undergarment 4406. Namsook, crepe. _Slll{ and muslin are good for this model. .It is especially suitable or stout figures affording comfort and ease. The Pattern 15 cut in 4 Sizes: Small, 34—36: Medium, 38-40; Large, 42—44; Extra Large. 46:48 inches bust measure. A Medium size re- quires 2 yards of 36 inch material. A Smart Dress for the Growing G'rl 4413. _Str1ped and_ plain ratine are combined in this instance. ‘ ' woolen, ‘ igured and pin crepe, and linen .are also attractive for his model. The Pattern 18 cut 1n‘ Sizes: 12, 14 and 16 years, ’ year one requires 3% yards of one kind of material 32 inch wide. To mrke as illustrated requires 2 yards of plain and 1% yard of figured material. ALL PATTERNS 120 EACH, 3 FOR 300 POST-PAID Order from the above or former Issues of Th0 Buslness Farmer, giving number and sign your name and address plainly. ADD TEN. GENTS FOR SPRING AND SUMMER FASHION BOOK » THE BUSINESS FARMER Pattern Department. Mt. Clemens. Mich. one whose life has not a flaw- ‘;boys that strive to make his ' ‘ili‘u's you need not feel alarm, .eboyetbntwewmhthefuture re the on the good old farm. chore are girls that think the city g 'Iu‘lho only place to go; There} are girls that do not care for “kins, ' . Who have never time to knit or sew: There are girls that think the Joy of " .p living II on auto or a dress so fine: not the girls that we want in the future A." the girls with the 4-H Sign. gill/hens are clubs for girls in sewing, There are clubs in canning, too: lil'here are clubs that teach us to feed poultry As the best of poultry breeders do— fl‘heto are clubs for raising corn and v . Caters, Feeding pigs, or sheep, or baby beef: .All these clubs to make us better farmers Are the clubs of 4—H leaf. There are clubs to spend your money, There are clubs to join for fun: There are clubs to chase along the cattle, Or with clubs sometimes a game is won— There are clubs we often swing for dumb- bells, There are clubs that father took to me, “ 'But the finest club you e’er could Inontion Is the Boys and Girls Club for me. Dear Uncle Nedz—May I join your merry circle. I wrote before but I guess ‘ it went in the wast—paper basket. My father has taken the M. B. F. for several years. I have brown bobbed hair and gray eyes. But I'm not very fleshy. I have five sisters and three brothers, Mae, Grace, Gertrude, Edna and Thelma, Ar— »; thur, William and Thomas. The first four mentioned are married. I am in the . seventh grade. We had a picnic the 25th _ of May at Sand Lake about 9 miles from ' here. We took our dinner and had a good time. I went in Freeman McCrory’s car. Coming home we came around by the Hemlock Road and up through Reno to Halo. There was Grace Graves, Aud— rey Harris and my sister Edna and I in Freeman's car. I live on a farm of fifty acres. We have 12 cows, 9 calves, 11 pigs, and about 85 chickens. I will close by asking some riddles. What is the most beautiful piece of furniture? What reaches from New York to Boston with— out moving. Will close, your niece, -——-Erma White, Hale, Michigan. -My, I’ll bet you had a fine time at your picnic. I often think that I would like to hold a. picnic and have all the mem- bers of the Children’s Hour attend it. It would be some jolly crowd wouldn’t it? Dear Uncle Nedz—Mav I join your merry circle? Have been a silent reader ‘ for some time, so thought I would write. - But I’ll bet my letter will never escape the waste basket. I will describe my- self: I am 10 years old, four feet seven -inches tail, light complexioned. brown eyes and brown hair. I live on the 10500 V, County Farm, of which there is 160 acres of land. We will be here two years this coming year. We have all the conven- ‘; iences like they have m the city. We {-yhave thirty head of cattle, two horses and one sheep. The sheep belongs to my brother Herbert. For a pet I have a dog named Rex. I have three sisters and three brothers. My two youngest b1 others and myself are going to school. Our school let out May 12th. We liked our teachers real well. Their names are Mr. Curry and Miss Iiietz. I have a nice home, Uncle Ned. You ought to see it. My mother and father are both good to us children. They give us anything we want. My sisters are all good to us. We can stay with them any time. I like birds, Uncle Ned, and I wouldn’t harm them on a bet. I must close. Will some of the nieces and nephews write to me? I will answer all letters received. We like your paper. Your niece, Floreen Mil- ler, R 1, Tawas City, Michigan. , P. S.--—I don’t know your address so am sending it to the Michigan Business Farmer. Hope you get it. Would you state your address in the paper. ——You must be a happy girl with every- '. one so good to you. I am sure you ap- _.preciate it and do everything'to show ' that you do. My address is: Uncle Ned. 'Michigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Dear Uncle Nedt—I have been a silent reader of your merry circle for, some time and enjoy reading it very much. May I join your merry circle? I am 5 feet_3 inches and a half tall, have black hair and blue eyes. I am 17 years of 7 age]. Iglive on a 10 acre farm. I wish the girls and boys would write me. I will try and answer all the titers I' receive. Your niece—Julia M. moon, North Branch, Michigan. ‘ eargUncle Nedz—May I join your ‘7 circle as “I have never written “I am‘ fourteen years old. my : is April 6th. Havo I a twin? feet 1 inch in height. Have “and blue eyes. Am in the ads as I 'Just got my diploma. . and girls r'of‘my age write to , me I will answer them. I am going to/ send Phyllis Gibson some riddles. Now, I will close with ‘a riddle: Black _and white and read all over? Your niece—- ,Gladys Harris, R. No. 5, Paw Paw, Mich, P. 8.—-I think the ,answer to Anita Ruth Cromwell's riddle is a cat. —-Surely you may join the Children’s Hour. I hope you are going to attend high school this fall. Are you? _Dear Uncle Nedz—I thought I would try my luck in writing again. I suppose everybody is wondering how old I, am. We'll I am going to tell. I was 17 the eleventh of January 1923. Have I a twin? If so I wish they would write me a letter. Uncle Ned you said maybe ‘ we could hold a draWing contest, now would we draw anything we wanted to or everyone draw the same thing?» I would like to have a. drawing contest. Uncle Ned do you like cherries and rasp- berries? If so, this is the place to get them. I am your Nephew,'——Lawrence Chapman, Alma. Mich, R. F. D. No. 1. -—Well, well. Lawrence, I am glad to hear from you again. Yes, I think we will be able to hold a. drawing contest in the near future. According to my present plans you would all make a draw- ing of the picture on the front page of the issue in which I announce the con- test. More details soon. Dear Uncle Nedz—It’s raining to-day. We haven't had rain up here for so long that I think the swamp must be drying up and the ladyslippers are surely look- ing rather sad. You can see from this, Uncle Ned, that I must live up in north- ern Michigan where they have lakes and swamps. In fact I can claim a mile of beautiful lake shore and arbuius and ladyslipper beds for my very own and a ramshackle old dock with one redeeming featureba spring board. My home is on the edge of the resort region and a little to the northwest lies Lake Michigan with its chain of beautiful summer colonies—— Charlevoix, Petoskey, Roaring Brook and Harbor Springs, the little Indian town where Father Marquette erected a cross and where later. a. convent was built, is not unattainable. A road winding in and out among the maples along the shore connect it with Harbor Springs. Right here in our own little lake is an island where the Mormans held the Feast o of Fruits. If you have ever been'.here’ you know how ‘wonderful it all is. I seem to'have gotten this letter a little mixed up. Perhaps you would like to. know something about who is writing this but I won't say much except that I am sixteen, a. senior .in high school and swim. Sometimes I amuse myself by making baskets. I shouldn't like to hays an Indian see them though. They might bob my hair a little too close to my head and I don't want it bobbed. at all. I bayon't any brothers or sisters and so sometimes I get just a wee bit lonesome and I would like to have some of the other boys and girls write to me. Do you suppose they would? ' Your niece, Virginia Lehmann, R. 2, East Jordan, Michigan. ‘ -—_—My, what a very interesting letter. I hope you will write often. I like to read your letters and know that the members of our circle will too and will want to hear more about the country around your home. \ Dear Uncle Nedt—Here I am again. I'm rather lonesome so thought I would write to you for pastime. It’s certainly fun to write letters and I enjoy it. The last time I wrote to you I mentioned my sister who wanted the girls and boys to write to her, so they did but never thought about me. She received over three-fourths of the letters. That wasn’t hardly fair, was it Uncle Ned? I go in swimming quite often and enjoy the water very much. Diving bothers my nose but. I dive in spite of it, although it chokes me. Next month my brother Leander is going to take our family to Ann Arbor when he gets a cast for his back. He has tuberculosis of the spine and the doctors order him to wear a cast. He suffers driving this terrible warm .weather, I wish it could rain. If any of the cousins have the words to "Star I of the East” would you please write them and send them to me as I’d like to know the words when my sister plays the piano? With love to Uncle Ned and all the cousins—Iris Arnold, R. 4, Box 474, Mt. Clemens, Michigan. ———So your sister get nearly all of the letters. Well, that did not seem ex- actly fair. But you never can tell,‘ may- be you will get all of them the next time. If you will wet the inside of your nos- trils with your fingers when going into EDITED BY J. HERBERT FERRIS RADIO DEPARTMENT VACUUM TUBES THAT OPERATE ON DRY CELLS You say the radio to" the farmer is a Godsend. You probably can im— agine what it is to an invalid farmer confined to his home, isolated from his family. I have an outfit, my problem is the storage battery. Can you give me more information about the improvement you mention in your editorial in the issue of June ninth or tell me Where I can get all details and oblige—M. I. T.,' Birch Run, Mich. , -———The improvement referred to in the editorial in our June 9th issue is vacuum tubes that operate on dry cell batteries instead of a storage battery. One new tube is called UV-201—A or C—301—A according to the company that makes the tube. This tube is a five volt tube and can be worked on a six volt storage bat- tery if you wish but I find it better to use three dry cell batteries, making 4% volts. It is possible to do this as the tube draws only one-quarter ampere, so three dry cells on one tube last for about a month if set is used two hours a day. The tube fits the standard socket and you need no vernier on your rheostat; howev- er if your rheostat is the vernier type you need not change it. Also you do not need a potentiometer as the tube is not sensitive to plate voltage. There is a slight difference in the hook-up but this is explained in the literature that comes with the tube. With a one—tube set using this tube I had very good results last winter, re- ceiving from Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, N e b r a s k a, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey: and I also had Texas and Cuba—only once though. Another tube is the WD-11 or “peanut tube” as it- is called. This tube requires a special socket so if you already have your set built you would have to get an adapter. The WD-12 tube operates the‘ same, "the only difference is that'it is'meZde to .‘ fit a standard socket. The “peanut tube” draws only one—quarter am- pere and is designed to operate on a single dry cell battery of 11/; volts. One dry cell will operate one of these tubes intermittentily from 60 to 90 hours depending upon the length of intervals the tube is used. I have used one of these tubes with very good results and at the present time am using a. WD-12 tube for a. detect- or and a UV—201—A tube for an am- plifier. .Of course the first tube is operated by one dry cell while the other is operated by three. With the WD—11 or WD-12 a \ernier on your rheostat is very useful but there is no advantage gained through using a potentiometer. You _ will find with this tube that a slight turn~of the rheostat or vernier will make a difierence in your receiving while with the UV—ZOI—A or C-3OI—A the signals or music come in just as strong when the filament current is juét turned on as when turned on in full. The “peanut tube" does not light up like the other tubes. When the current is first turned on youcan not see that the filament is burning but when current is turned on full it shows a, slight glow. A new tube on the market is the UV-199 made by the General Elec- tric company. I have never tried it but many experts say the tube works fine. This tube requires so little filament energy that an ordinary dry cell battery will operate one tube for ‘. a long time. The tube seems to be very delicate and needs to be handl— ed With care. All of the vacuum tubes I have discussed can be used as detectors or amplifiersL but the UV—201-A tube .is declared to prove the best ampli- fier of the three kinds. All of these tubes sell for $6.50 each and you should be able to secure them from yOur local dealer in radio supplies. Information on the difference in\ hook-up comes with theitubcs. If we can furnish any other informa- ‘tion write us: we are always at our readers’service. “ k ' .‘fi°::>-W ~8firu~ . ' three year‘sor I was old (in June mth. I. a. I ‘ ‘ .cq .h blue. eyes and natural curly, bo' ,_ _hsi'r.“ take up eleventh grade work" man ‘year. I live‘ on a one and ten acre farm, two and one-le miles from the nearest. school. I have four brothers and one sister elder than, I and little twin brothers, four years old. I wish some of the boys and girls would write to me. 'I will answer all letters received. As this is my first attempt I will close. Your niece, Henel Marsh, Bro'wn City. Michigan. ‘ ~ ‘ -—-So you have read the Children's Hour for three years or more and have never written. You have been silent, too long I would say. Let us hope you do not wait another three years before writing again. . Dear Uncle Nedz—I have been reading the Children’s Hour and I liked it. May I join your circle? I am eleven years old, my birthday is September 19th. I have bobbed dark brown hair. I am in the sevcmth grade. I go to country, school and take music lessons. I have 'been to my friends home. She said she.wrote and had her letter put in the Children’s Hour and is corresponding with a girl. I have a pet kitten, its name is Snipp’y. We have seven cows. I milk one. We raised a nice lot of chickens. We have a. pet colt, its name is Ruby. We have another colt named Pansy. I feed and water them. I would like to have some girls write to me.——-Mlss Edna Brown. R. F. D. No. 2, Carson City, Michigan. ———You must have a. great time with the two little colts. You have given them very nice names. ‘ Dear chle Neck—I have been reading the Children’s Hour and I found Sumo pretty interesting letters. Myrtle Taylor, Watronzville, Michigan; suggested having a. drawing contest. I think this is a good suggestion and that it would be u. lot of fun. I for one, love to draw and will send in some drawings if you will have the contest. I am fifteen years old and will be a sophomore when school begins. I have dark brown eyes. I am writing this letter just to let you know that I am very much interested in the drawing contest, but I hope to write a longer one the next time. Will some of the boys and girls please write to me? I will try to answer all letters. Edna. Weifenbach, Box M, Beulah, Michigan. “Another young artist who wants us to hold a" drawing contest. We will soon. so begin practicing in real earnest. Hello Uncle Nedz—May. I join your merry circle? I have been a silent mem- ber for quite a while. I have written a .few times before, but only one of my letters was in print. LastSunday it was my birthday, the tenth of June. My age is between ten and fourteen. Who ever guesses my age will receive a. card or letter from me. Uncle Ned, I certainly would like you to hold a drav'ving con- test. I like to draw veryinuch, and I will Surely join the contest. It seems as though we were going to have plenty of tame and wild strawberries this year, our pasture is \vh tc wiih strawberry blossoms. I love to pick strawberries or any kind of berries. Don’t you want to come over and pick strawberries with me? Well I see that Waste waste paper basket eyeing my letter. and I am afraid he will catch it. I enjoy reading the children’s Hour. Your niece,——Dorothy Postma, R.‘ 1, Rudyard, Michigan. -—I guess we will have to hold a. draw- ing contest sometime soon. If I can not come and help you pick strawberries how Would it be if I help you eat them? I like that kind of a job. Dear Uncle Nedz—I always enjoy read- ing the girls and boys letters and thought I would write too. I am sixteen years old, am I too old to join the merry circle Uncle Ned? I am 5 feet and 1 inch tall. I have medium brown hair and it is bobbed and I have a fair complexion and wear "specks". I have three sisters and two brothers. I will be a junior in High School next year. I am going to take the following subjects: English III, French I, Modern History, and Book-keeping. I have 8% credits so far. I go to schoOl at Charlevoix. I'live on a. farm of 80 acres and love farm life. \Ve have a good view of Lake Michigan and receive the cool lake breeze in the summer time and the cool wind in the winter. \Ve can see the Manitou and Missouri. go by nearly every day. Northern Michigan is the place to live in the summer time on account of its cool and heziithy climate. Many resnriers come up 1.0 Charlevoix every year. Well“I am going to do some guessing. The answer to Anita Ruth Cromwell’s riddle is a "kitten", and Helen Goodrow’s age is sixteen. I agree with you Myrtle Taylor, I wish Uncle Ned would let‘ us have a drawing contest for I love to draw. Well, I will havef to ring off Uncle Ned, ur yo'u‘wiil not want me to write any moron-Edith EL Chew, Bay Shore, Michigan. _ ‘ ——You are indeed lucky to slivers, hearts. 'the lake as tbe.‘lake breess .is, so cool“ ., _ V. and. refreshing; “:I live .a' Y c " r :- ‘ moccasin: We ‘ . time. Mile of 6876!? mum demands for fluid milk ‘at any On March.31, 1922, the’associa- tion was operating eighty—four plants, of which " number forty-six _ were shipping milk or cream or were in position to dose. Eleven were» manufacturing case goods, twenty- iive were making butter or cheese. on March 31, .1923, the association was operating one hundred and elev- en plants and out of this number eighty-three were under board of health inspection, either shipping or ready to ship fluid milk into New York City at a moment's notice. And the Test Game! Probably never again in the hist- . cry of the association will there be so remarkable an example of the possibilities of organisation and plant control as was furnished, when on April 1, 1922. a considerable group of the dealers who bad form— erly bought of us refused to sign the association contract. ‘The produc- tion department was called upon to divert and handle through its own operation a million pounds a day more on April 1 than was handled on March 31. But with the aid of field men the emergency was successfully met so that less than one tenth of one percent of all the milk with- drawn was left on the farms to be hand skimmed or otherwise disposed of. Five veterinarians have been em- ployed by the association during the past year and have been kept very busy making the required examin- ations of dairies and dairy barns throughoutthe territory. The great increase in our selling activities, especially in view of the stress the League has put upon the high quality of its products, has made our central laboratory at Utica one of the most important parts of the organization. The laboratory has kept a. daily check on the character and quality of every product that has been put upon the market. No consignments are released for ship- ment from any plant until an analy‘ sis has been made, not only at the plant but at the central laboratory at Utica . Advertising and Selling “Dairyiea‘” All sales and advertising activities have been planned with a view to increasing the farmers' net return per hundredweight on raw milk de- livered. To accomplish this, two distinctive objectives have been set up; first, better marketing facilities for fluid milk, and second, better merchandising of by—products. Grad— ually, we have been working toward the time when we will sell a maxi- mum proportion of our milk directly to the channels which serve the con- sumer. By adopting “Dairylea,” which is applicable to all our pro- ducts, as our new brand name we have emphasized our transition from the bartering stage of collective bar- gaining into the field of propriety brand merchandising. Because we know that unbranded merchandise never commands more than the bulk market price. we have already taken steps to co-ordinate our manufactur- ing and-sales effort so that we pro— duce nothing but the highest quality of merchandise worthy of bearing the League’s brand. Heretofore, the League has sold from fifteen cents to seventy cents below the market due to lack of ad- vertising and sales snort.- Ice cream has been advanced fif- teen cents per gallon above other dealers within the last few weeks without loss of business, and it is our belief that it is only a question of time when all other by-products of the association will bring the highest market price to which their high quality entitles them. In order to get the full value of our cheese oper- ations, however, it will be necessary eventually, We believe, to manufac- ture a high grade package article under Our own brand. . The fluid milk department room— mines the greatest field for future = development. The New York prob- lem, however, remains to be solved, andwebelieretheboaguemustbe- cementum factor in the direct to War, business before it will ,_ have a s' lentiy great influence on ,iitan market toI we. ' so. "maxi: \ our domestic price. 7the Kingdom of God." in- ' V m a lame W a The export department has made' distinct improvement in' its field. of operations during the past six “months. Over 100,000 cases have been sold since the first of January. A large part of this has been shipped to Germany, which netted from five cents to fifteen cents per case above ' League milk is now on sale in Germany, England, South Africa, West Africa, Palestine, Syria, Cuba, and Panama. During the coming year we will have a man in England who will be in close touch with our heaviest ex- port markets. and will be in the clos- est possible touch with the situations which may be turned to our advant- age in the above mentioned coun- tries. 15 Schools Feed Milk Gladly The bureau of nutrition has been mainly occupied the past year in in- augurating in several schools of the city the program of milk feeding. The children in fifteen public schools in the city are now drinking from one-half pint to one pint “of milk at . recess time every day. The results are already beginning to show that the children thus fed are better and stronger both physi- cally and mentally and that the-con- sumption of milk in the homes of these children has been increased. Milk in Tank Cars. The traffic department has been experimenting during the past year with the transportation of milk in tank cars. If these experia ments finally prove successful, it will probably revolutionize the transport- ation of uid milk to consuming centers. The tank which we have used is built on the idea of a thermos bottle and requires no ice and it would do away with the present method of handling these thousands of heavy milk cans every day. Our legal department has seen a very busy year and has been success— ful in every stand it has made for the association. You are» all famil- iar with the several court decisions made during the year establishing the League’s right to do business as a co-operative association and rec- ognizing the fairness of its methods. You are also familiar with the decis- ions ot the courts establishing the legality of your pooling contract. Every suit in which the legality of the general operations of your asso- ciatiOn was involved has been decid- ed by the trial courts in your favor, and while some of these cases are now pending in the appellate courts, your directors have entire confidence that the judgments already will be affirmed. During the fiscal year just closed the gross sales of milk and milk products made by your association amounted to $82,130,‘902.17. The total deduction for certificates of in— debtedness for the year amounted to $4,622,579.76, or five and three- fifths percent of the total sales. The total amount‘of deductions for ad- ministrative expenses. for the year was $2,335,192.63, or two and four— fliths percent of the total amount of sales. In the history of mankind are certain milestones that denote the time and the place where humanity, as a whole, took a forward step to- wards better living conditions, some- times towards better understanding of spiritual matters, and sometimes toward better economic conditions that vitally afl'ect us. Such a for- ward step towards better economic conditions is now being taken throughout this entire land in the co— operative marketing movement. We have been leaders from the start and we shall never falter. THE SECRET OF SIMPLE LIVING (Continued from Page 9) Faith in this principle will tear one away from the rubbish of life and the surface ‘satisiactions at our day and make certain one’s possibilities for happi- ness and success. And when we get back to the simple. modest tastes otrtrue lite We are doing much to unify and simplify the social lite about us. To be "in tune with the Infinite" is to radio the secret or true living. 2 . ‘ on m FAULT ‘ Li‘iidghomvzu.” lllllllllllllllllll Better Crops Puma... AV LIMESTONE SOLVAY is. so easy to so safe, so economical that it makes less work but bigger crops wherever used. Make this year a big— ger year—in crops, in profits. You can do it with SOLVAY. _ Detroit, Mich. ‘ Less Work THE SOLVAY PROCESS C0. Sales Agent, Wing & Evans, Inc. Real Estate Exchange Building Write for the new lime booklet—sent free! Tells you in- teresting profitable facts you should know about lime. 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Business Farmer, partment, Mt. Clemens. Michigan. POULTRY BREEDER’S ‘—DIRECTORY-—' ' inserted under Commercial Baby Chick “'e will put it in Address The Michigan Advertising De- or sprouth oats. Cover a I . l grade _ preservative stain—Ilse With proJectmg lips and two q C . Cover tipping bac Minorcss. sectlons folding shutting Fowls eat from either side. Side LAPHAM PULLETS. HEIS All) OOGKEHELS White Leghorns and S. C. and R. C. Black Must make room before cold weather. About ready to lay. FARMS, Plnckney, Mlch. protected from dirt. litter ' 6 Order direct from this ad or booklet to~day. We guarantee PULLETS—ENGLISH WHITE LEGHORNS HENR WATERWAY, R. for..luil_e. July and August for prloe llS t. 4, Holland. Mlchlm. HATCHIN G EGGS LEGHORNS BARRED ROCK HATCHING EGGS. eavy Ia ‘ ‘ . IRS. J SBIE B. DEAN, R. 1, Mason, Mich. NORMAN $5 00 en (‘8. ea LAPH LEGHORNS S. C. Buff Leghorn Hens. Pull Hens and pallets $2.l_50 each; cockerels Show birds a matt AH FARMS. Plnekney, Itch Der ; $3.0 eta end Cochran. MRS. FRED THO-P80“ STRAIN BARRED ROQK by 9 lb. males, bred to lay. l5 0 per 30 prep. KLOMP, St. 5008 Dark mat-1118! ‘1-75 éharles. Mlchlgan. 53.00 to or of correspond- b‘our large. 0. BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! DO SILVER LACED beautiful roosters. Ens w. BROWNING, Portland, Michigan. AND WHITE WVAHDOTTES 81.50 per 15. IT NOW See Page24 MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCK EGGS FOR $2.00 or two settings $3.00. Also uck eggs same price. orders prepaid. coder Bend Farm. Okemoe. SETTING . Wild Mallard Very choxcest stock. All Ileh- the THAT CURIOUS DEVICE FOR MAKING FIRE It was only seventy-five years ago that a woman of the Middle to her cousin in New York: “Last winter I was told of 2, on {11:18 consisted of small splinters ,. Don’t overlook the advertisements. |news for you and your family. enable you to bursts into home when Advertising conveys the The: The: save rious new device for making fire. 9 of wood with tips of some substance rubbed on a rough surface. can proonre some of them for me I shall be grateful.” Matches were in general use in Europe for this country. There was no means for en the new invention that contributes to‘eomfere or country over. hhxoeorldahoieeewenpooted M . ears before they were soon in 3 such love rapidly. convenience is quickly information. The tor-eve wife on these things so the city woman of the are heralds of progress with rod! 1 you time, lighten your work and ' the utmost in value for the money you spend. . m, m 1'0 muse THE ADVERTISEMENT! West wrote If You Today, has"! x ,.- .V v r.- Nearly everyone else owns a car! Why not you? It is not a question of money. Your spare time for a few weeks, mixed with preseverance and “gumption,” is all that is necessary to win this latest model Chevrolet Touring Car. . Or, if you already own a car, get a radio set, baby chicks, pure-bred fowls, poultry books, etc. It is the official organ of the Michigan State Poultry Association that makes this oifer and our reliability is unquestioned. Someone is bound to win the car—why'not you. Send post card for details. $10.00 PER DAY CASH’ If you prefer cash, drop us a post card at once, and we will send you details of our new method that enables any honest energetic person to make $10 per day, or more. . This is our own method, which we have tested for the past 6 months, and we know it gives an agent 50 to 500% better chance to earn real money, than any other ever tried. ‘ Free Pamphlet “VITAMINES SAND CHICKS” y , Prof. E. C. Foreman, Head of the Poultry Dept. at Michigan Agricultural College. The big feature of our May number is Prof. Foreman’s “Vitamine” article, which announces the wonderful effect of Vitaminé foods on Baby Chicks. He gives actual facts and illustrations of results al— most miraculous when ~Vitamines were supplied._ Luckily, these Vitamine foods are common to every household, and Prof. Foreman explains which ones to use. Already the demand for this article has almost exhausted our May edition, so we reprinted it in pamphlet form which we will give free to readers of the “Business Farmer” who subscribe direct from this ad., at our special trial price of 50c per year. ORDER TODAY, before the pamphlets are exhaust- ed. MODERN POULTRY BREEDER Battle Creek, Mich. Mimi . 'r " i -eaqi merits inserted under this heading tor reputanu breeders of Live Stock at speciai nun] Afiggntlgeenoourage the growing of ure-nreds on the farms of our readers. Our advertising rate is Thirty Gents (800) per agate Inc. For insertion. Fourteen agate lines to the column Inch or $4.20 per Inch, less 2% for cash If sent with order or paid on or before the 10th of month following date of insertion. SEND IN YOUR AD AND WE WILL PUT IT IN TYPE FREE to you can see how man"l lines it will fill. Address all letters. BR’EEDERS DIRECTORY, IGHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, MT. CLEMENS, MICH. HEREFORDS YOUR. ' ‘ DATE”; we; 35;, . . Young Cows with calves by ica’s foremost herds at It, . t. Clemens ——- H 11 8 es Company ’of 0m:- 18Livli1n°lsttgriim 011:5? Griffin, Sec y. Howell: Mich. practical rices. H PirfsufithEg-‘i‘e 118i78‘lp a. herds h -ec on ax ou famous Disturber. o a u! tar 0‘ 1'. F. B. 80THAM a SONS (Hereford: since 1839) — HEREFORD? side consisting of blood from Amer- .te ye win withou‘ rices o 'gzoighecoggactmg sill; 5:”; stock Sam m that IEmit? them under arli- Michigan it you are considering a sale fid‘ 336mm o1rd Bait-Pm” w my vise us at once and we will claim thfiud‘ée let msgislfi'nwiigifidingmn-“n for on. Address, Live Stock Editor. . . winners at the larger 8110 “E: at eaded . one of two sons of the Saint Clair. Mich, c. P. PHILLIPS - . LDEN RULE AUCTIONEEB '"‘>°..°...=a'a.ri°rmm ' or cell forum-Ail! dates. lish You are in We Have BoredJ Herefosz Since 1860 have“: few choicey virgin Ebafi gel-“$1. v2, (FRIED FARM. WI 0 k. Miami-am? ANGUS E! H Vi 80MB FINIYOUNG Aieus BULLS .r tel-national G Chem In Stock at ’ We! 3”“ saloon. , . new County: ‘ Shorthorn HOLSTEIN MEN PLANNING ‘ TOURS . REEDERS of Holsteins are plan- ning a series of. tours to start July 24th and to cover 25 of the main Holstein counties of the State.T_he.plan is to spend one day in. each county visiting farms where matters of Holstein interest are to be found—a 'boy’s calf, a prominent sire, a well arranged barn,‘77a.--iirofltable cow testing associ- ation bunch, a herd of good individ- uals, cows with creditable A. R. C. or semi-official records, etc. The tour— ists will halt at noon for basket lunch and a speech or two. Amongst the corps of speakers secured for the several counties are D. D. Aitken, Ex-President of the National Hol- stein Rsociation; Earl Cooper, Calf Club leader, and C. M. Long, manager of Field Work, both of the Extension Service of the National Holstein Association; E. L. Smith, President, and H. W. Norton, Secre- tary of the State Holstein Associa- tion; A. C. Anderson, former head of the Dairy Department ofM. A. C., etc.‘ The tours are being arranged by the local Holstein oflicials and the County Agents in co—operation with J. G. Hays, the Holstein Field man for Michigan. Full details will be announced later, meanwhile Holstein fans should start grooming the old flivver for the chase. MICHIGAN SHORTI—IORN BREED-. ERS’ ASSOCIATION TOUR HE three day tour arranged by the Michigan Shorthorn Breed— ers’ Association; covering parts of Ingham, Eaton, Calhoun, Branch, Hillsdale, Lenawee and Wayne Counties, proved to be very valuable to the breeders Who made the trip and deepened the interest in the breed along the entire route. The tour started from the Mich-. igan Agricultural College, where their fine herd of Shorthorns and other breeds of live stock were in- spected with considerable interest. The remainder of the day was spent in Eaton County, visiting the follow- ing herds: I. P. Zimmerman, Dimon- dale; Wm. Geisenhafer, Dimondale; L. P. Otto, Charlotte; and Simpson Brothers, Charlotte. The last stop was made at Simp- son Brothers, Charlotte, where lunch was served and a number of short talks given by the breeders and oth- ers present. The Eaton County breeders are a live bunch, there be- ing over twenty cars out and about eighty people present at the last stop. The next morning the hikers gathered at the Branch County Farm where a good herd of Polled Short- horns has been maintained for sever— al years. From here, J. E. Sander- son’s herd at Goldwater was inspect- ed after which the following Hills~ dale County Herds were seen: Ralph Wheeler, Quincy; Ed. Franks, Mont— gomery; Wm. ossius, Hillsdale. During the afternoon a short time was spent at J. R. Rogers & Sons, Morenci, dispersal sale of their herd of Shorthorns. This herd has for many years been developed along dual purpose lines and while many of the cows offered had records of from eight to eleven thousand pounds of milk yearly, they, also showed a blockiness and thickness of fleshing that was very commendable. The prices realized were not high, but good cattle sold where they can be raised at a profit. R. J. Bidwell’s herd, Tecumseh, was visited the same evening, where their sale cat- tle, sold a few days ago, were in- spected with considerable interest. The third day was devoted largely to Washtenaw County herds. Calls were made on the following breed- ers: Ferman Clemens, Saline; Adam Knapp, Manchester; M. P. ’Ale, Manchester; Jay Smith, Ann Arbor; H. W. Hayes, Chelsea; Tl'os. Smith, Ann Arbor. . _ “ A picnic dinner Was served on the lawn of Mr. Hayes, after which a. short meeting was held and talks given by. Prof. W. E. J. Edwards, An. Husb. Dept, M. A. 0., East Lansing; P. P. Pope, Mt. Pleasant; V. A. Free- man, Livestock Ext. Spec... M. A. C.' H. S. Osler, County Agent, Washte‘ and, others. At this time the Southeastern _ Michigan Breeders? Association It organized With the following. oflic- ers: President W. H..Hayes, Chelsea, Vice-President, ’J. smith, 'Ann Arbe or; Sect.-Treas., Ferman Clemens, Saline; Directors, Thos. Smith, A-nn ‘ Arbor; Nathan ~Alber, Manchester; Wm. Kelley, Plymouth; , , Kelly, Ypsilanti. A great deal of enthusiasm was shown, fully 140 be- ing present. During the day more than thirty cars were in line at one time. This made quite an impress- ive array and elicited considerable comment along the route. Later in the afternoon, the cavalcade‘ direct- farm at Dearborn.— On the way a stop was made to see L. C. Kelly & Son’s herd at Ypsilanti, who main- tain herds of Shorthorn and Polled Shorthorns. The visit to Ford’s farm was of particular interest. Mr. Ford pur- chased the' DeGarmo, Highland, Michigan, herd, last fall. Practic- ally all of these cattle are of Duchess breeding and it is understood that Mr. Ford plans upon developing this herd still furthur along dual pdrpOse lines. Many fine individuals and herds were seen on this tour, so many that space will not allow of particular mention. The hospitality exhibited by the breeders visited and the enthusiasm shown by the large number who took in the trip demonstrated that they still have great confidence in the reds, whites and roans and that and L. C.‘ 'ed its progress toward Henry Ford’s . the Shorthorn is one of the most ' solid stones for building the found- ation of a permanent agriculture. FEEDING TOO “TIDE A RATION We have a flock of sheep and fed them all the ensilage they would eat and cornstalks and hay (clover and timothy mixed). When the lambs came they would get the scours when a’ few hours old and die in two or three days. What was the cause? ——H. S., Harrison, Mich. —The trouble which you are having with your sheep is due to the fact that you are feeding too wide a. re- tion, that is, one containing too much carbohydrate material and not enough protein material. With all. the silage they would eat, cornstalks and mixed hay, the sheep would eat larger proportion of silage and would take only a very small ialmount of the clover from the mixed ay. The amount of silage fed to breed- ing ewes should be limited to not to exceed two and one—half pounds per head daily and in addition they should receive a good amount of clover or alfalfa hay and a. small amount of grain for the last thirty days preceding lambing. As a grain ration, there is noth- ing better than oats, which should be fed to the extent of one-half pound per head daily.—Geo. A. Brown, Professor of Animal Hus- bandry, M. A. C. MICIHGAN’S NEW CHAMPION HOLSTEIN MPRESS Prilly Rosewood, a Hol- E stein cow owned by Bayne of Romeo, Mich, has surpassed all former records of butter-fat pro- duction for the breed in 305 days as a Junior four year old, and is declar- ed new state champion by the Ad- vanced Registry. In 305 days she produced 20746.9 lbs. ofmilk and 650.23 lbs. of butterfat. This fat production is equal to 812.78 lbs. of butter. VETERINARY ’ DEPARTMENT l RINGWORM l Ihave'a barn full of cows and steers and heifers and a few of these seem to have a skin disease that seems to be catching. It looks sim- ilar to ringworm and is around the eyes. The hair comes off and it is a. grayish color, sort of scurf, no mat-, ter comes from it. comes on the body. It is rough like a wart but does not bunch up like a. war . Can you tell me what it is i and whatrI can do for it?.—S. Mon. ‘Sparta, Mich. , V . . Afterwards it . ' '1" .' A ‘ Ittaheslesthanflvemhmtestomix the Carbola powder with water and haveit readytomeas a white paint and powerful disinfectant. No watt- ’ilgorstrainingm0 ' of Doesnotspoil. Doesnotpeelorfla_ . Disinfectant is right in the paint powder—one operation instead of two. Gives better results. costs less. Used for years by leading farms. ‘ Y. hardware. mint and or dedu- has nae—,3: & iin’éflngaa.msm .m'fi'a? “a. ~mfiam sign-11;? cod: tau-In! map-id m {h «use autumn-amassing CAIRO“ GEMICAI. (XL. he. MIWAm Lmbh-dmr.N.Y. _ K 3v. I v I. One came of B-K is diluted with three gallons of water to ‘ sterilize cans, pails, strainers, separators, etc. B-Kkillsthe germs that sour milkandcream. Makes things _ _sweet and pure. B-Kis the, dependable, recognized stan- dard. one genuine with- out the big blue label and trade mark. Mane back ‘ if not satisfied. t your dealer.Writefor bulletinBZOA - General Laboratories 420 Dain- _St., Madison, Wisconsin snonrnonus ”' Richland Shorthorns SPEaAL OFFER; Two choicely bred cows. Ono man—One white—One with bull call at foot in ‘ by .son of . 7. . is show stock of real ‘ it; ‘ caliber and great fm.mmt A bargain at the rmce. -‘ C. Prescott & Sons. Office at - H rd t Tawas City, Mich. Townseolgy, Mich. gzrgfifi'fi .3 Maple Ridge Fara-Oils“ For Sale r Slut-thorn cows and heifers at a bamin. Rare- sentatives of the Oxford. Pore. Yount Mary and Venus (Busby Pheonix). Bred for general useful- ne. T. B. tested. will Inspection of the herd l8 muted. ‘ , J. E. TINWELL. Mason. Michigan. Et'SEK “some”. was new 1 e e 8 0m. . or X 28945. 1%:- ' n and price writs r N“ L. c. KELLV A‘oou. Plymouth. masque. GUERNSEYS ro “L: are: slim orren , a _ —-8 Had . Jo 1115-:1 ~ No. 50183 advanced- !wstered Gm ' Pinto and «Sign: furnished. . ClllEl)‘3 . BRYCE. Rom... “Emu, ., FOR sALs—nsolgrenso ounnussv HEIF- - , rs “amenable prices. also choice bull calves of - r in: W re ’ .r II. . I" 1!. kW' film" Box. 82. . caps [ii 7a d" form or am When feasible it inadvisable to cup at the hair and soften up the crusts with _soap and'warm water. 'I‘hls’may be followed by painting. the areas with tlncture of iodine. , to treatment with any disinfectant. ——-John P. Hutton, Asso. Prof. of Surg. 8; Med., M. A. C. , - CRSE OF MASTITIS I have a cow which came in about one week ago. From the first there was something wrong with one of her front teats. When milking this teat gave only two or three squirts at a time. In about ten minutes she would give a little more. Her teat does not seem to be soft and spongy like the rest and a hard tube has formed inside of the teat. There is also a small bunch where the tube goes up into her bag. The bag is also a. little bit caked‘ in the quarter where the sore teat is. She gives about twelve quarts of milk from the other three. I have tried a milk tube but it doesn’t help. Will be much obliged for any information on what to do for hen—W. G., LeRoy, Michigan. —I am very much afraid that the cow will lose the teat. You have a case of mastitis where treatment will do very little good. When the teat canal becomes thickened pad the quarter gives but little milk treat- ment is usually very unsatisfactory. The milk glands of the attested quar- ter change into connective tissues so that they do not function any more and there is no treatment that will restore them to a normal con- ditlon again. The best thing per— haps that you can do is to dry the quarter up as soon as possible. Should you decide to try treatment I would suggest that you put the case in the hands of a. competent veterin- arian who can give the case his per— sonal attention—J. P. Hutton, As- sociate Professor of Surgery and Medicine, M. A; C. FARM MECHANICS ‘ STORING DYNAMITE NE of the most serious problems to the farmer who is anxious to make use of dynamite as a labor-saving device on the farm is the question of the safe storage of his explosives and accessories. Where only a small amount of ex- plosives is used from time to time, and where a dealer is conveniently located who has storage facilities, it is probably best to buy only the quantity of explosives required for the day's work. Of course, the dealer charges a profit on his ex— plosives sales so that the farmer in this case has to pay part of the deal- er's storage charges. If the farm is large enough to support a magazine of its own, the farm owner can save a considerable amount on his explo- sives by building a small magazine at a safe distance away from roads and'dwellings where the dynamite can be kept under lock and key and where'it will be protected from fire and flying bullets. Neither dynamite n‘or detonators, which latter term includes both blasting caps and electric blasting caps, should be kept in any dwelling house whatever. Neither should the blasting caps or electric blasting caps be stored in the same building with dynamite. It must never be forgot— ten that it is in the combination of the two that the greatest storage hazard exists. It dynamite alone is set on fire, it generally burns up peacefully without exploding. and While the caps would explode if they were in a burning building, the dam- age that they would do is relatively small as their action is very local. However, if dynamite and caps stor- , ed together should take fire, the ex- ploding caps would detonate the dynamite which would do an im- mense amount of damage. The only. other way of exploding dynamite is to fire a. rifle or pistol bullet into it. Therefore the dynamite should be stored in a. place where a stray bullet cannot penetrate. ' Dry storage is necessary for both and explosives. Moisture is bound -’to spoil dynamite in time. Therefore dynamite should never be stored in a dug—out. cellar, or under- , our room at any kind. should Most - cases 'yleld ’ other, thus obviating delays in load- bod _ line-field injunction . to heap powder dry applies With equal force to twentieth century high explosives and blasting caps as it'dld to the black powder or Crom- well's time. I It is hardly necessary to add that dynamite anddetonators should be kept under lock and key at that. as it gives one an. uncomfortable feeling ’ to have dynamite stolen, and it is certainly not a safe plaything for children. _ Care should also be taken to keep dynamite out of the reach of cattle, as it has a sweetish taste which cat- tle seem to like, but dynamite should be labeled “for external use only”. Taken internally, it is decidedly poisonous—Arthur LaMotte, Mgr. Technnical Section, Explosives Dept, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. EXPERT EXPLAINS WHAT , IS HAPPENING IN SUGAR MARKET (Continued from Page 4) Cuba exceeds one billiOn dollars and that they own four and one—half mil- lion acres of cane land capable of producing 11,000,000 tons of sugar annually when all of it shall have been planted. The Sugar Trust alone now producing 180,000 tons of raw sugar in Cuba, owns no less than 32,000 acres of virgin tropical cane . land. It thus will be seen that the bulk of the profit arising from the present sugar gouge is finding its way to the plethoric pockets of our seaboard refiners who would not dare unduly to increase the margin be-, tween raw and refined for fear of our anti-trust and trade regulatory laws.‘ But owning sugar estates in Cuba they can without fear, raise the price of raw sugar at will, mak- ing their inordinate profits out of production instead of refining in America and snap their fingers at‘ our Department of Justice. Cuba Produces Sugar at Lower Cost By reason of various local condi- tions which prevail in Cuba, that is- land produces sugar at a lower cost , than it can be produced at home. in . our insular possessions, or elsewhere ‘ in the world and hence a reasonable ‘ duty must be maintained on sugar . if the domestic industry is to con- : The removal of this 1' duty is the measure for which the E tinue to exist. refiners have been persistently work— ing for more than 20 years. With the removal of this duty the sea— board refiners would be able to “dump” Cuban sugar onto our mar- ket, at so low a price as to destroy the domestic industry in one season, after which with no competition to fear, they could raise the price at, will. The price the American people would have to pay for sugar can be judged by the price which now pro- vails and the price which prevailed in 1920 when they pegged the price of raw sugar at 2c per 1b. f. o. 1). Cuba. In the United States we have suf— ficient sugar beet area from which to produce the sugar of the world but we produce at home only about two-fifths of the sugar we consume; importing the balance from Cuba which is beyond the reach of our trade regulatory laws. The extra $222,000,000 which the present sugar gouge is ’costing the American people is a sufficient sum with which to erect nearly 200 one- thousand ton beet sugar factories with a capacity of producing 2,000,— 000 tons of sugar at year. Not only Would this insure the American people against future sugar gouges, but under normal conditions of 6c sugar and $6.00 beets the 17,000,000 tons of beets required to make this 2,000,000 tons of sugar would an— nually turn $102,000,000 into the pockets of American owners instead of its going to the exploiters of Cuba who never miss an opportunity of robbing the American people. However, much or little sugar we produce at home, American produc— ers, dealers and speculators all are amenable to every United States law which has been or which may be enacted to protect consumers from extortion. The solution of the sugar question would appear to be plain. Radio is revolutionizing Missis- sippi river shipping and speeding up the arrival and. departure of freight putting the skipper and the. boat companies in close touch with each ing and unloading freight or in wait- ing on the arrival or departure of .HEAVES I" WOULD you pay tv’vo cents for an hour’s ipare time a day? Would your wife? It doesn’t cost that, even, to gain an hour on pumping water alone, a o—vWith a Hercules Engine. Saves so much time on so many chores! Suppose you pump 60 gallons of water from a well 50 feet deep, and carry the water 100 feet. Time you've done that little job, you’ve logged 500 pounds a quarter of a mile. And it will take you all of fifteen minutes to do it. For less than two cents, a 1544!. pt Hercules will pump 60 gallons 3 minute for sixty minister-and deliver it 100 feet or more away. It will saw wood, or grind feed, or run a separator, or a fanning-mill, or do any of a dam other muscle-racking chores just as easy—«and just as cheaply! And still you worry along without a Hercules! Why don’t you send {or the book that tells you what one can ac- tually SAVE you and gain in: you? THE HERCULES CORPORATION Engine Division, Dept. L, Evansville, Ind. HERE [III 3 EN 61838 I: yum oil has. Inlet-n Use 2 lane ems. Cost 02.50. "any back if not statutory can at “.25 can sufficient. II We term. Host la out “II-0:“ N E "Us l “ A vsterlmry's compound for 7/12?- Eorses, Cattle and Hogs. Hooves. Coughs. Distemper. . . Indigestion. Imark: expeller. ' oner. W 30 Wm” “19 by parcel post. 0‘ THE NEWTON nuenv c... Tale“. 0M- ONE ‘ JERSEYS REG. JERSEYS, P0618 99th OF H. F. All! Majesty brooding. Young stock for sale. Herd fully accredited by State and Fedeml Government. Write or visit for prices and description. 11 c. WILBUR, BELDING, Midi. AYBSHIRES FOR BALE—REGISTER D AVRSHIRE bulls and bull calves, better and heifer 0“" Also some choioe OOWI. FINDLAY BROS.. R 5. Vassar. M1511. BRO \V N S \Y [SS are. snows smss lfdlt‘ml'; for sale. E. T. Spencer. n. R. 1. Sunfiald , SWINE O. I. G. o 1 figs IARCH FARROWED 80W AID l C Boar Pigs, sired by Michigan Gunt‘ with plenty range and good ks, Dam In nil over two yrs. prune $20. Registered and e pa1d. Maple Valley Stock Farm, north Mam O. I. 036. 1 GILT 18 MONTHS 0L0. WEIGHT 380, due June 3rd. 10 last fall zilts due Au. and Sept. 1 last fall boar, spring pigs not Record free. Cltz. phone. ‘79 mile west of dam T '80, Well. 0 B. SCI-JULIE, Hm“ H i AMPSHIRES HAIPSHIRES: A FEW BRED e.an LEFT. lose. your order now_for your Boar pig 3!: ., bureaus. Pans not skin. 10th year. JOHN W SNYDER. St. Johns, R. 0. mm. DUROCS mu. cREsr ounces. ream-ro- mos; We are breedln twenty sows and eighteen ‘ ' toasonolGR "Tqrg; “ “I'll? ORION straight south of Id p Film 4 miles Gratlot 00., Mich 5.. -. .rms HILL runs. gs. an. cox. Pnoed our reasonable. rite Illng 3808.. ,Romgmufi'fi -The famous Tom Barron, English, Imported White Leghorn and Sheppard's famous Anconas. Bred direct from our thoroughly culled selected stocks that are headed With pedigreed males of 250 to 280 egg attain. Carefully. batched in ‘ our large up-to-date incubators. These hl‘h grade, vigorous chicks will increase your profits. Special bargain prices for June. July andAuxuct delivery if you order now. 10%w1th order—balance ten days before shipment. 100% live delivery guaranteed. Satisfaction guaranteed. or we return your money. Our illustrated catalog of chicks free for the asking. write for your copy tonight. 01' order direct from this ad enclosing remittance in full. We will ship immediately at the . . follovging extremilg 33v s‘fgfitralgglscéegiasggk 25-$3.25: — -. r “"3" 50- .50;100 . z . ; ' . . , ' Silver Ward Hatchery, Debt. 3 Iceland. Michigan. U- 5- withMAO 'wf' — 150,00 CHICKS 1 JUNE nd JULY deliveries. REDS and ROCKS, mated . .. . N d ‘ ‘ re uce prices. _ re a a 1 - __._ AlgTEEDmeOSTPAIAD. Stilong chicks from Vigorous. Heavy Laymgnflocks. Catalog BREE. g; BIG REDUCTION FOR JUNE AND JULY YOU CAN'T BEAT OUR PRICES AND CHICKS. ‘v nd Bred to Lay Chicks. They will pay you in June and July. Ehzhgrgirs 12:11}! Olfttilizgd) i‘xittio: Rocks Reds Anconas, Minorcas, Mite Wyandottes 130; Orpingtons and Silver Wyandottes 150. Safe delivery. Postpaid. Illustrated Catalog free. )5 "HOLGATE HATCHERY, Box B, Holgate, Ohio. fispucso PRICES to Sept. lst, 1923 Variety Price on 5530 $3002) $452020 B o n Bufi Leghorns .......................................... ..$ . . ‘ . Rd‘cirls,'3. c. Reds, White Wyandottes, Black 52 5° Minorcas, White Rocks, Anconas... .. s . Bufi Orpingtons ............................ 8.60 16.0 White Minorcas, Sheppard Strain Anconas. .60 $8: 385 Assorted, All Varieties ............................................... "bfiDER DIRECT FROM THIS t 'd t our door, full live delivery guaranteed. ADPO’I‘gaISAlyEy TIME. Reference: Bank THE GENEVA HATCHERV, ' 'BABY ‘ Star Hatchery CHICKS ’ From Select, Vigorous, Heavy Laying Breeding Stock ' Prices Reduced of Geneva. . Box 505, Geneva, Indiana HIGHEST QUALITY CHICKS Michigan’s Old Reliable Hatchery (The most modern and best equipped Hatchery in the state) PURE BBE Eng- lisli ' American S. (i. . Hgtrlicd by modern methods 301 %\ £1“. and . I I . inl best machines under our ‘ LLAggfmcmeAN \V. Leghornls, Ci . H v " personal supervision. (lawfully Anconas, 3 iii r C( ' i k parked and sent posipaiil and Plymouth Rocks and R. I. Reds. Strong, 100% we denvery guaranteed..Bank Reference. well hatched chicks from tested Hogunized ’ in ordering STAR BABY Free range stock that make wonderful ' dificmke Plat-Shag)??? order now and get them Winter layers. P M v '+ u 9m Chicks sent by insured.Parcei_Po‘st reps “hen you wan“ 1] it) your door. 100%, live (leln‘ciy gunnin- STAR HATOHERY. Box X. Holland. Michigan flflWNS’ BHIBKS Extra Selected, English White Leghorns from my very best breedng pens, on and after June 15th at . 0 per hundred. Bonk orders now. Write for my 16 page White Leghorn Catalogue. “7 . A . D O W N S Washington, Mich. teed. Fifteen years of experiencenn pro- ducing and shipping chicks has given ad- solute satisfaction to thousands. Write for illustrated free catalog and .price list. Get lowest price on best quality chicks be- fore you buy. and Mich. Holland Hatchery, R. 1, Holl , | Reduced Prices V BABY CHICKS B e s t Paying, Heavy Laying, Purebred Strains. Tom Barron English . O. W. eghorns, 25, $2.60; 50, $5; 100, $10; 500, $45; 1000, $90. Park's Strain Barred Rocks: ,._._ BABY GHIGKS 8. Rhode island Reds-25, $3; 50. $3; c. 100, $12; 500, $65; 1000, $110. Good strong broiler chicks, $8 per 100. Place your order at once: avoid dis- 133,335,?” 632:3; ofsugifauflsnli} appointment. Get your chicks when you Wyn-fa LEGHORNS AND want them. 1000],, live deliver guaran- Aucouns 3350 FOR teed postpald. Instructive cats. 03 free. men éaa-paopuc1|ou_ Prices on mature stock, 8-12 weeks old pullets on request. Brummer-Frederlckson Poultry Farm, Box 28, Holland, Mich. - . We guarantee 100 per cent u. .m; chicks on arrival. Postage PAID. Jriczis reasonable. Instructive Catalog and tires free on request. QUALITY HATCH- ERY, Box A11, Zeeland, Mich. ‘ Buy '51:: A..." ,qu 1,, Pure Bred Chicks n... Home “355" WI" 9”“ Rex we: nicest-.2: Wilts. "usages , R. l. Reds or Black inorcns - - rfgfilgutegchgoéifhite Leghorns. Anconas or Broilers Bd- W0)i 0" Reds-"3:30 Light Bra mas ...... .190 12c each in 100 lots. All chix less than 100 White Rox...§l....k..1¢'Im/2cr Shephesg Anconas 12c lots 14c. Order now for June, July and A 1st. . no no on: ...... .. c ' , Our 13th ear producing chix that please. ept. Add 35c if less than 100 lots wanted. 01mm“; echix 15° Sgaifiht an.“ FARM LAWRENCE POULTRY FARM “REE LAWN Po . Dept. 8 Good Reference R. 1. Grand Rapids, Mich. South of High School, Fenton, Michigan. BABY CHICKS WHIT'I'AKER’S RED CHICKS #121] Combo. Cut prices for June and July. v rite , for price list. Tom kins Strain $15.00 per hundred. Last INTERLAKES FARM. Box 4. Lawrence» Mlch- hated fingyst 22nd. Quality breeder of Rhode Islan e . BABY cilch ’30; °s.‘.’. ieadin§°b$§$ Special attention to small orders. 1 Ha H. PIERCE, Jerome, Michigan QUALITY Chick Price Cut WM. H. FROHM, R. 1, New Baltimore. Mich. BABY CHICKS 12c AND UP Member Mid—VVcst Baby. Chick Association. THOS. G. GALLAGHA , Fenton, Michigan “‘"" 33% “Semi?” $3“ 5" o'r‘é’f'.‘ 33? Si was: corn." . . . .. . . ‘ ' . _ I or: Assrt. large breeds. 10c. Catalog free. -_ geuvery order direct from - A‘ssrt. this ad. ,Mlsso Pittsfield. Michigan. [ESULTsi paper brought us a great deal of business, and we are ‘ well satisfied. . TOTTE N, URI POULTRY FARMS, Columbia, Mo. RALPH s. Holland Hatchery and Poultry Farm, Holland, Mich' l . a: i have you for sale? f HENS GET LAME AND nnoorr. AND THEN DIE My hens get lame and droopy and then‘ die. I, thought you could print in the Business Farmer what would be good for them.-——Mrs. M. S., Har-' risenville, Mich. ——Lameness and droopiness are com- mon manifestications ofvarious dis- eases. For this reason it is difficult to make an accurate diagnosis on-the’ basis of symptoms alone. The— fact that there are a. number so involved in the flock would indicate the once of disease. Lameness is one of the clinical, symptoms of Tuberculosis. Fowls may have this infection for a long time Without showing any external symp- toms. The following symptoms, however, are present in SE) afiected birds: Emaciation, leg weakness, or lameness, pale comb and ,wattles, ruffled feathers, and finally droopi- ness. The appetite of the fowl us- ually ’remains good until shortly be- fore death. Upon opening the af- fected birds, the liver in many cases will appear "spotted with white no- dutes or areas. The fact that les— ions are present, however, is not al- ways an indication of Tuberculosis and for‘ this reason it sometimes re- quires a laboratory examination to make sure of diagnosis. Practically all domesticated birds are more or less susceptable to this trouble and the healthy birds should not be exposed to the affected stock. The germs are disseminated thru droppings which contaminate the premises, food, and drinking water, thus communicating the infection to other birds. . In preventative treatment, the houses should be maintained in as sanitary a condition as possible. Dropping boards should be used and plenty of light and ventilation sup- plied. It has been the writer's ex- perience on many extention trips throughout the State, that this dis- ease prevails more commonly where dirt floors are in use and Where drop- ping boards are absent. Thorough cleaning and disinfect- ing is of course, necessary in control- ing this disease. Sunlight should be made possible in the yards and houses and lime should be liberally used in the runways in the cleaning up process. The young stock should be raised away from the parent flock because this disease is not transmit- ted thru the egg and if a high 111 - tality results in the parent flock" he young stock can be raised, a. new soil absolutely free from this trouble. ' It may be necessary to dispose of the entire old flock and‘allowing the poultry houses and yards to remain unused until the disease is thorough— ly cleaned up. A reliable disinfect- ant used in a three or five per cent, solution should be liberally applied. The drinking utensils, roosts, floors, hoppers, etc., should also be thor- oughly soaked with disinfectant. The young stock can be introduced after a thorough disinfecting of the house and yards, with the assurance that further trouble will seldom break out if sanitary conditions prevail.— E. C. Foreman, Associate Professor of Poultry Husbandry, M. A. C. PURE BRED BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK Kindly furnish me the require- ments‘of a pure—bred Barred Ply- mouth Rock.-——A. W., .Stockbridge, Michigan. ‘ The common disqualifications for the Barred Plymouth Rock areas follows: Red in any part of 'the plumage; two or more solid black feathers in the primaries, secondar- ies, or maintail feathers: shanks other than yellow, dark spots do not disqualify; side springs on the comb or feathers on the. shanks; comb other than single. Color: comb, face, wattles, and ear lobes: bright red; beak: yellow; eyes: reddish bay; shanks and toes: yellow; plumage: grayish white, each feather crossed by regular nar-l row 'parallol sharply defined dark pres- bars that stop, short of peeitive black. from, , ha: .28. brownish. tins" r, ., , metallic sheen; the light and dark bars to be of equal width, in number proportionate to the length of feath- ers and to extend» through out the length of feat ers in all the fowl; each eather en ing with a. narrow dark tip; the combination‘ of overlaping feathers giving the plum— age a bluish. appearance and of even shade throughout. ” ' Weight: I cock 9% lbs.; cockeral 8; hen 7 %; pullet 6.-——E. C. Forman, Associate Professor of Poultry Hus- bandry, M. A. C. ' ' - THE EXPERIENCE POOL Bring your everyday' problems in and get the experience of other farmers. Questions ad- dressed to this department are published here and answered by goo, our readers who are graduates of the chool of Hard Knocks and who have their diplomas from the Coll e or Experience. you, don’t want our ad tor’s advice or an expert’s advice, but Just plain, everyday business farmers’ advice, send in your question here. We will publish one each week. If you can answer the other follow’s question, please do so, he may ans- wer one of yours some day! Address Exper- ience Pool, care The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Mich. b\—__—_ HOW TO. SET A TRAP FOR - \VEASELS - . AST year during my dinner hour a litter of weasels attacked and killed about half my ‘fiock of turkeys and this is the way we caught them: ’ We shot two and five of them we caught in a. trap. 'I found three of the little dead turkeys after they had made their raid and one I used for bait and two I tied in a sack. This is the way I set the trap: I saw a. weasel in an old smoke house where I had a hen setting in a box. There was a hole under the sill that they used for a runway so I drove a. stick about eighteen inches long in the ground near the sill and set my trap between the stick and sill and tied, the little turkeys feet to the top of the stick, allowing the head to hang eight or ten inches above the ground. The weasel will rare to get his prey. Hens cautious not to get in the trap when he goes up but When he comes down he is not watching where he lands. Of course the trap ustbe set on the side of the stick Where the head hangs down. With the three little turkeys and a. sparrow I caught» four in this place. I placed a. loose coil of old barbed wire around the stick to keep out the poultry. The seventh one I caught in the chicken house. Upon noticing a commotion among the chickens at roosting time I went out there. house I saw a dead chicken and caught the scent of a weasel. I us- ed just the head and all' the neck and set the trap same as before except that I leaned boards up around the trap leaving spaces at the bottom for weasels to get in.—M. M. 0. FRUIT and O‘RCHAR EDITED BY FRANK D. WELLS ' a i — NOTES AND COMMENTS Some good varieties of black sweet cherries are wanted for Southern Michi- gan. Of all fruits suitable to this cli- mate, the black cherry is the hardest tree to grow. It persists in dying at the slightest provocation, or with ap- parently no excuse at all. No better service could be done the horticulture of this section than to discover some variety that will be satisfactory. Who knows of some seedlings that are proud- ising? II I. t The peach may be budded on either peach or plum stock, and grow. At one time the plum was used because it was supposed to be hardy, so was a point for the tree agent with an easy con- science. But the tree is slow in growing and never really does well, so most nurs- erymen have abandoned the plum for this purpose, the peach stock being so much more desirable. But‘ it still remains a. talking point for some salesmen. O U 0 There is a. small demand for plum grafted on peach stock. _-For orchards on . light soil that are to. be grown in a. r hurry this kind of a tree may be of usc,,_ f- but is short-lived. On heavy soil, which is best fitted for the plum. a. tree on cottons of ' Q i As I entered the » y i Wheat is a sore spot with agriculture and has been constanfly growing- . .wol'se since the termination of the war. Wheat prices, this spring, have been " averaging close to $1.20 compared with $1.35 for the corresponding months a' _ yearago and $1.70 two years ago. ' , Acreage this season was reduced five and one-half per cent from last year ’and June forecasts indicate production five per cent under 1922 and two per cent less than the 1917-22 average. ' Of the 1920 crop, 44 per cent was sent abroad; the 1921 crop, 34 per cent; and by June 30, 1923, the exports of the 1922 crop will probably show about 26 per cent. _ The coming crop will face moreserious competition abroad if Broomhall’s prediction of increased EurOpean production (Russia included) this year is correct. 'Canada’s output also promises to be as large as the record of last season. lndia has produced an exportable surplus of fifty million bushels over 1922. I Efl'orts are under way to stimulatedomestic wheat consumption which has been declining. Per capita consumption around 1840 averaged 3.8 bushels; around 1880, 4.9 bushels; and 1910, 5.6 bushels. From this high point it has fallen to 4.8 bushels for the four year average 1919-22 and 4.5 bushels for 1922. b ‘ PORK—- new '; " erotica; ' f r nation Exports to the extent of 20 per cent of the crop and per capita consumptl on the’basis of pro-war would equal 1923 production as new forecasted. 4‘ Fat hogs are now around $7.00 compared with $10.50 a year previou‘ There is a surplus of about 12 per cent above last year's production to ' sorbed. Exports which since the war have been taking about 15 per cent the pork output, are now running 40 per cent higher than the corresponding: months in 1922. ' ' 1' 3 Per capita consumption of pork for four post-war years averages 71 pounds compared with 72 for four pre-war years. Per capita consumption of beef, " however, has been declining, the average since the war running at 59 pounds compared with 75 pre-war. The livestock industry has laid plans for a campaign to increase the use of [1»th- ' PRICES— ‘ . yr"? Prices of farm products are 5 per cent higher than a year ago and food '7 prices 4 per cent higher. This compares with an increase of 15 per cent for clothing; 28 per cent for metals; and 26 per cent for building materials. The . purchasing power figure for farm products in terms of all commodities is 70,- which is 5 less than the corresponding month last year. , : i 7 '. n Emu-En Tnde 6. Stock and Bond Prices: June 8, May 11, June 8, I“ ‘ I L Pradum and l E ( 0 .ltted 'l.‘ M the Endi 20 Ind l k 1 $1923 $1923 31993250- ' I . : U. . Production—000,000 omitted . room: 0 0 0m ) on on n: ustr al stoc s. . . . .. . . . . . . . 96.66 96.45 . ’ 2 '- A'"°“"“" 8 i . April April“ 20 Railroad stocks . .. .. . .. . . 83.31 82.20 83.37 Average: Cmoduy: 1923 1922 1922 40 Bonds 0 t s o s o e s o u s s s u o a s s e o s s o o a i , - ~ Forecast 1922. 1917-1921 Per Cent Grand total . . . . . . .8318, 5; $311,331 $3,223,327; -7 B I F .I w k E d! 1 Winter wheat bu. . . . .. . . . 581 586 590 99 Beef and veal, lb. . . . . .05 ,169 , , . usiness at urcs: -—— ee n by » ' Pork, lb. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 75,686 46,396 678,815 575.530. 1 M 31 1923 n 8 .1922 - , Spring wheat, bu. . . . .. . .. 236 .276 245 9“ Lard, l-b. 85,475 42.459 794.837 704,314 madame“ " _ O . fine} 923 aym. Ju o3“ All buts-oaosssoot Nani-rail lard; lb-ooasussos Duns . . sooeanooeeoieeaoees Oats. bu. 1256 1201 1378 91 Butter, lb. 810 922 8,510 5.535 1 B I bu 196 186 192 102 Cheese, lb. .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . 1,664 478 7.635 6.535 b 0y. ' ‘ ' ‘ ' ' ' . ' ‘ ' ' ' . and o o o e s n a s e ‘ Rye. bu. o 72 1:: 99 100 Corn, bu. 5,270 18,485 87,(5)(8)3 153,35 ' , 11, ton............ 99 Meal and flour, bbls...... 91 _ 2:16: bu s ‘ 187 201 160 11? Wheat, bu. ' . . . . . . . . _ . . . I 4,943 4,856 135,726 lfiyggg l. Wholesale Prices of Farm Commodities: r ’ ' Flour. bbl-s. 1,167 1,243 13,093 . _ a “3°11”. bu- - ' - - - - - - - 47 57 ‘3 11" Oats, bu. .... . . . . . . . . . . .. 484 1,725 17,965 6,574 qummn' “ Chicag" 9:33:33? “$3,, You. A ‘As per cent of average 1917-1921. Meal, rolled, 1b.. . . . . . . . . 13,259 5,967 101,971 74,818 1923 A20 Ago " 3N2: bf-nd “nuts-a- -f- - 237$: I Fat hogs, cwt., average. . . . . . . . . . . . .8 7.15 $ 7.30 $10.30 I , egaeosan a... . a t ' . . '- . 3- ""“M ("Mm 3mm Bank 0‘ N" “m ' . Sugar. lb. ..... .. ...... .. 88,087 274,430 581,075 1,306,422 fixagfi’gfrcgfifidagggg j n 12.22 1:23 :. litan- express production as a percent of norml- In efll- nwblffggv lb. ~ - - - - - - -- 40-;33 40%32 362-33? 3&3? Fat 811881). OWL, average. . . . . . .... .. 5.65 7.25 6.60 mating normal production, due allowance is made for seasonal Wool. in). Z ' ' . Z : 2 . Z 28 38 '412 ’818 Wt;(})3166tol’111)() delaine . . . .575 575 .575 _ wilth end 1081' ‘0 3°“ 1’0"“1- Butter, 92 score. lb. . . . . . .. . .. .395 .395 .32 April, 1923 March, 1923 April, 1922 2. Imports (000 Omitted) : Nine Months Ending ggeese, No. 1 twins, lb. . . . . . . . . . . . . .2275 .24 .1812 . ‘ . _ ___M ch“ _. ‘ _ gs, fresh firsts, doz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2225 .2525 .2212 “and” if“; ' ' ' " ‘ 7 ‘ ' ‘ ' ‘ ’ ' ' 34 3 Commodity: 1923 flu.1922 19 1922 Poultry. hens. - - -25 .22 ' B'itumm‘m 0° - H - ° ' - ' ' Grand total ... . . . .. . .8 398,178 8 256,177 $2,724,837 $1,877,778 Wheat. N0. 2 hard. bu-- --- . - 1.20 1.15 y ‘ Beef and veal, lb. . . .. . 947 1,004 28,347 19,881 833. 22 vtailligd.bl>u. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .05 .gégs v ' r : Pork, 171 57 678 786 . - I . we . . ' . 3' “annually”. (redon'l nae". Bulk 9! new ,Yo n Butter, 1b. _ n , , . . . , _ . . 3,057 174 11,263 9,308 Rye. No. 2, bu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68 .79 .8825 :J Wheat Flour ......o............ 110 122 95 Cheese. 1b_ "Hun." 3,142 2,046 40,215 24,404 Barley, bu. .. .... . . . . . . . ..x. .81 .68 .585 " ‘ neat . . . ~ 119 96 Hides, skins. 1b. . . 51.414 30.394 502,384 277,722 Kem- No- 2 White. cwt- (K. v- - 1-66 1.80 1-41 122 132 124 Com. bu_ . _ I _ _ . u . . u 15 26 76 91 Hay, No. 1 timothy, ton. . . . . ._. . . . . 23.50 23.50 23.00 511831? a.- "NH-"HUNHH'" oats, bu. "Hunuu 31 244 265 1,263 Flax. N0. 1, bu. (at Minneapolis)... 2.835 2.945 2.48 »‘ Cotton - . - - - -' - -- -- - - - - - - - -- 101 107 3" Wheat, bu. . . . . . . . . 345 2,673 14,133 11,142 Cotton. middling. lb. (New Yprk) . -- 2780 2865 ..2330 r1: iron . .. .. .. .. . . . .. . . .. . . . .. 114 110 67 Wheat flour, bbla. . . .. 5,180 10,907 72,882 84,847 Beans. white, wt. 0- 0; b- Michigan) 710 7-65 9.60 .y Steel meat . . . o . c . . 99 99 74 mm, and nuts . ‘ . _ _ . .3 5,497 5.754 49,322 60,602 Potatoes. northern whites, cwt. . . . . 0.95 .95 1.875 ,. 90 ‘91 59 Vegetable oils and fats 8 4,766 7,133 41,701 38,182 Onions. Texas yellow nermudas, crate ...375 2.65 1.875 .. Z _ Copper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .§ Sugar, 1b_ . _ . ' _ . _ . _ . . 1,294,919 1,280,720 6,027,043 5,374,213 Apples, winter varieties, bbl . . . . . . . . 6..)0_ 6.75 . . . "v ' ' Gasoline . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . " 121 95 Leaf tobacco. lb. . . . . . . 4,480 7, , , 46,816 Hides» NO- 1 native, heavy, lb. . . ‘. . . .165 .185 .17 Wood pulp . . . .. . . .. . . . . . .. . s 100 92 Cotton. bales .. . . . . . . . 53 60 v 393 316 Sugar, fine granulated, lb. (N. Y.) .. .095 .097 .06 , ' i ' 133 146 111 Wool, 1b. . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,706 43,809 371,123 166,203 Cement - - - f - - - - - - - o - - f - - - - - ' - - . 136 95 a 2. U. S. Department of Labor Relative Wholesale Prices: WOO] - - O ‘ " ' ' ' ' ' ' " ' ' ' ' ' ' ’ ' ' . 91 79 8. Prices 01 Foreign Drafts: Price of Demand Drafts Prices in year 1913 equal 100- ' . T°b8°c° - - - - - ' - - - - - - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' Nominal Gold Value June 18, May 21, June 19, May, 1923 Apr., 1923 May, 1923 ' ‘ Not available. § Preliminary. Par of Exchange 1923 1923 1922 All commodities (weighted average gngland . . .. . :3 1 fr Sterling. $43.62 $4.63 $4.38 or general price level) . . . . . . . . . . . 156 159 . . rance .6 ram: .1954: 6.6650 8516 Farm products . . . . 139 141 4- Bum"! E"""“"‘""“ (Bud‘m) ' Germany . .. . . .2381: 661 mark ... .0006c .002c .31o Food products ...... .. .. .. ...... .. 144 144 ; (000 omitted) Belgium . . . . . . .~18.3c to 1 from: . . . . . . 5.2456 5.746 8.156 Cloths and clothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 201 205 " Per cent Italy . . . . . . . . . .1131: to 1 lire . . . . . . . . 4.536 4.85c 4.78c Fuel and lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 200 1923 1923 Increase Spain . . . . . . . . .18.3c to 1 peseta . . . . .14.906 15.276 15.500 Metals and metal products. .. . . . . . . 152 154 ‘-. , Austria . . . . . . .20.3c to 1 crown . . . . . .0014c .0014c .0072c Building and materivih . . . . . . . . . .. . 202 204 January. 164 ctfles- -- -- - - o n 4194.782 3141.191 38-0 Denmark . . . .2e.8c to 1 crown .. .17.84c 18.62c 21.20c Chemicals and drugs ............ .. 134 136 l'ebrusry, 164 cities. . . . . . . . . . 221,827 136,274 62.8 gorge! . . . . . . :3 i crown . . . . . 13.3? 16.656 Houseu Furnishings . . . . ..... . . . . . . 12; 187 w on ....... .c crown . c .76 25.456 Misce aneous . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.. 126 m 165 °1“°"" 377331 “3'53: 55'1 Holland . . . . . . .40.2c to 1 florln .... . .39.25c 39.14c 38.20c $794 “a $521 5” “52 3 érgonfln. ., ,. .3254: to } peso . , . . . . .39_90c some 35,330 3. Prices of Farm Products at the Farm Relative to l9l3: first uartor .............. . , . razil 2.4cto mllrels .....10.45c 10.406 12.63c q __.____ __ Endla . . . . . . . . .13.? to i rupee ... . . .3l.05c 31.05c 29.00c (U‘ Sbfi’é‘g’fi: 0y’eég’1‘3‘fgtuefifl: “E'fifm’c” - span .cto yen ........49.006 49.026 47.806 . , ' - April, clflwaosossasso- C‘n‘da ........loocm 1 dollar . .' .. .97‘80c 98.00c 99‘060 C Commodity . Apia, Mar., Apr” May, 151 cltioe.............. 255,829 243,546 5.0 GEE-trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12 ' 4-. Di'°°""*“m°”h° 31"“0' RIM“ Whoot'.°.'IZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIZZI143 136 .. ‘. Tnmpomflon: , Week Same Same Week Mg; 16, 1923 Msogh Lego {git-Ago Hay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 113 118 . . c o Potatoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 114 m Ending WW“ we“ Ending - 0 Beef cattle .................... .. 98 95 94 June 2. Month Year June 2. Ho 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ........ .. 100 100 , _ , g 118 rrmmcu 1m“: 1923 Ago no 1923. [11. Money ma Eggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 113 109 , Total . . . . 932,041 961,029 750,645 124 , Go” Gummy and Bank Baum (000 000 omitted)_ 3,1323“ - WW"; """"""" -- fig (mm and grain products 32,340 34,097 37,931 84 " ' ' ' ' " ' " " ' ' ‘ 5,1 mastock . . . . . .. . .. .. 29,399 33,508 27,792 104 gig-2331. Alléié‘izlal. ligzl. 4. Relative Purchasing Power of Farm Products: v'l ,3‘ Coal . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . 171,248 175,866 86,626 197 Stocks of monetary gold m the (U. S.‘ Bureau of Agricultural Economics) I Coke . . .1............ 14,389 15,100 8,927 156 United States 3.982 S 3,969 6 3,767 The quantity of various commodities which‘ a given amount of V Forest products . . . . . . .. 73,637 72,154 58,923 126 Total. Supply 0f currency in the each farm product would purchase at prices prevailing in 1913 x E a of V 73 390 37 943 31 552 228 United States . .. 4,668 4,656 4,385 is put equal to 100. The figures given represent the percentage . .L. e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ . r I April 3, Dec. 29, Mar. 10, of this quantity which the same amount of farm products would .4; Merchandise and 1415061. 537.638 592.361 498.894 108 19 1922 1922 purchase in April, 1923. Prices at the farm are used for ' , " 'As. percentage of week year ago, . Total deposits in National Banks..$17.036 $17,420 $15,390 atggicultural grtoducts, and wholesale prices at central markets for r 0 er commo 1 ice. , * b. Emmam: . V 2.—Gold Movement (000 omitted) : Ten Months Ending Alllfiam- Clgtths. Fuel, Metals, Building noun V .....Am-u— .....Apfi1__ mo es c. etc. ‘ etc. Mtls. 111‘ a; , May- Apr“: May, 1923 1922 1923 1922 Cotton . . 136 106 108 141 , 106 116“ x: ‘ 1923 1923 1922 Exports of gold. . . . . . .6 855 8 1,578 5 47,640 8 22,337 3V?" t ” ' " g; (75; 9“ 71 77 ' cut of 64 industrial centers employment: Imports of gold. . . . . .. 9.188 12,243 218,499 466,347 Ha)?“ 72 56 57 $1 2‘; 75 Increased over previous month in. . . . . . . .. 31 38 4s . - . Potatoes. ' ” 79 61 63 82 62 ii pm“ ow]. pmlom month m. _ ‘ . . . . . . 33 26 16 3. Federal Reserve Ratio: June 6, May 16, June 7. Beef cattle. 62 43 49 6‘ 48 52 1923 1923 1922 Hogs . . 63 49 .50 65 49 7 '3‘,“ Damn: ~ Ratio of total reserves to deposits ” Eggs . . . . . 74 57 58 76 57 ' ' and Federal Reserve note liabil- Butter . . . . 94 73 7 4 97 73 Units of 31.000.000.000 ities . . . .. . .. .. . . . .. . .'.. .. . .. 75.7% 75.3% 77.6% Wool .. 148 115 117 , 153 115 1 May. 1923 April,1923 May, 1922 t1feverago Diagnosing power or all {gm progucts in terms of #3:. . u o . H. . _ ‘ 4. _ Intel-oat Rates: Ma , ' A nu, ’ o er commo es. sme asis as a on ta 9. a ' New York. City $20 70 $20 48 $21.65 19.2: 1323 1:132 1913 100 December, 1921.......,_,..- Outside bank debut-"nun 19-37 1832 16.32. . , 1014 112 February, 1922......... ' a 4-6 mos. commercial paper.......... 5.25% 5.25% 452% 1815 106 April ._ m," cm, 5.11.3: Eleven Months Ending 60-90 days commercial paper. .. . 5.12% 5.12% 4.28% 1916 . . . .. .. .. .. 89 July . . . . .. .. .. ..,’ p I ..OIIIQOIOOOOOIOOOIO IICII|IIIIOCOOB .no 4 - “as y 1922 “as . I”: 5. Discount Rate of Federal Reserve Banks: gig - u -- -- -- n -. govomrr . .. ...........‘.~. 7 ~ , ' ' asssasssossssgsssseo sees-sooaggg's v, Wm a, op...no,796,431 8 6,377,076 $103,492,457 6 71.991.sz Bali” 0foxia 22245.1 iiiisl’ Jig 1' ni’iili' ii 512:?“ I”? gamer. ,. 18,466,379 14,477,092 193,105,507 150,192,803 an livestock paper. . .. .. u tat-5% 454-576 434-576 19:: III I I I I I IIIII I I II I II to April .IIII 232133; ; ‘ berries of the state into greater pop- ”ular‘favor, although they already are -suffered a great decline, grooms MARKET rm“ BY W. W. FOOTE. Advertising Michigan mu ‘_ roman: Agricultural College is planning a campaign to bring .the famous fruits and 'well known and highly regarded in this part of the country. Its near- ness to Chicago, Milwaukee and other. cities and Lake Michigan steamers render the peaches, straw- berries, plums, cherries, etc., easily obtainable; to say nothing of the delicious Michigan grapes, which since the prohibibtion amendment to the UnitedStates constitution have, been even more» popular than hereto— fore. Michigan’s need is to identify its products, and a campaign of ad- vertising may be expected to be of material help. Duluth Rye in Chicago A cargo of 240,000 bushels of Du- luth rye has been unloaded in Chi- cago, and another cargo of 280,000 bushels .was shipped there a little later. A large acreage was devoted to rye in the United States last year, the main object in view with most farmers being to meet the expected big European demand. Unfortun- ately, the foreign outlet failed to equal the surplus supply, and prices July rye selling a short time ago 26 cents be- low the high time of the season. The tall in prices started up a fresh foreign demand, and Norway bought in a recent day 500,000 bushels at a very low price. Rye is now being substituted for corn as stock feed, it being cheaper than corn, with the visible corn supply of insignificant proportions, while rye stocks in sight ~ a short time ago aggregated 15,420,- 000 bushels, comparing with only 2,580,000 bushels a year ago. The while the visible corn supply at the same date was down to 3,165,000 bushels, comparing with 31,326,000 bushels a year ago. Germany is the principal buyer of our surplus rye, but up to a short time ago that coun- ‘ try had imported 70,000,000 bushels '= less than we expected. Bye for July delivery sells in the Chicago market at 63 cents, comparing with 851/2 cents a year ago. The Fall in Wheat Extremely sensational declines have taken place in wheat prices in 7 recent weeks, sales for July delivery in the Chicago market being made 1 close to $1 per bushele—the lowest , prices touched in a very long time and too low a figure to. make grow- ing this cereal at all profitable for farmers. A marked falling off in speculative trading is generally un- . derstood to be the main cause of the cheapness of wheat, sales being made at much lower prices than in recent years. It has gone well below. the prices of one year ago, while it is far OK as compared with other years, [having sold a little more than two years ago around $1.33. _ Naturally, crop conditions exert their influence in establishing prices for wheat. nut the prospective foreign demand 13 probably a more powerful factor. Owing to the fluctuations in foreign money values and other conditions abroad, Europe is to buy a month 3 supply of wheat at a time, instead of two months’ as of late. This will cut out purchases of around 50,000,.- 000 bushels per month in the world’s markets, it is estimated, and it prom- ises to be a highly important factor in depressing prices. Little that ’ was not already known was brought out by the recent wheat conference in Chicago. Wheat harvestlng 1S ’7; working its way northward, having .began some time ago in the south- western winter wheat states, where the weather has been forcing, while it has been hot in the northwestern spring wheat states. Wheat and flofir'ex‘ports are still exceeding those armada: ago, but eXports of corn, 70MB: "Endive are much smaller than afflict time. The visible supply. in “t of United States is decreasing week- ’hnt it is larger than a year ago ~: 6,000,000 bushels. Oats ' ‘ »_ ts'higher than a year ply 111,, this soon- ‘prime heavy cattle, I MARKET S‘UMMA‘RY , Wheat quiet.’ ‘All other. grains are easy. Butter and eggs in‘ good demand and steady. Poultry Wanted and market firm. Dressed calves steady. vegetables easy and active. fair demand. Hay scarce and am. Cattle trade sluggish and Hogsaedve at unevenly higher prices. Good. demand prices 011'. ‘ for sheep turns prices upward. m.m (Note: m m mind [storm was received AFTEB the bat-Ice of the more wlfln “fit. of Inn-MIth Marital-chateau». going to prose—Editor.) . information! I! to try being reduced to about 9,000,000 bushels, comparing with over 44,- 000,000 bushels last year. Late sales were made of July wheat at $1.02, comparing with $1.14% a year ago; July corn at 7 8% cents, comparing with 02 cents last year; and July oats at 40% cents, comparing..wifh a year ago. Hogs Go Up and Down Fluctuations in hog prices of late have been greater than usual, with rather sharp advances at times when the receipts fell off materially, fol- lowed by as severe declines when higher values brought in much larger supplies. According to all accounts, plenty of swine are left in feeding districts, and the tendency is to get them marketed whenever prices un- dergo ~ any considerable advance. Eastern shippers are large buyers on some days, thus far their operations have not been large enough from one week to another to maintain prices on a higher level. In short, exist- ing conditions show no marked change, with the average quality of the Chicago market receipts much poorer than several weeks ago and a consequent widening out of prices, the bulk of the sales showing a spread of 75 cents per 100 pounds. Consumption of fresh and cured hog products continue on an extremely large scale, with especially heavy sales of lard, stocks of which are far from large. Still, prices of lard are lower than last year, and cured hog meats are far lower, with weekly ex- ports of provisions greatly ahead of a year earlier. Grass hogs are com- prising increasing proportions of the marketings, and they sell at a big discount. _ The recent appearance of cool weather meant a great deal to farmers who were marketing their hogs, as the previous extremely .hot spell was hard on hogs in transit, large numbers of dead hogs being taken from the stock trains arriving in the Chicago stock yards. Chicago received last week 215,096 hogs, comparing with 184,713 a week! earlier'and 177,493 a year ago. Com- bined receipts in twenty markets for the year to late date aggregate 21,- 707,000 hogs, comparing with 16,- 956,000 for the same time last year. There were late sales in Chicago of hogs at $5.80 to $7.25, the top be- ing 20 cents lower than a week ear. lier and comparing with $11 a year ago. Light hogs sold highest, with the best heavy butchers a dime un- der them. Grass Cattle Go Lower As the season advances grassy cattle comprise an increasing propor- tion of the receipts in western mar- kets, and Chicago is getting its share of these, the result being the usual decline in prices. The cattle receipts have been reaching generous propor— tions, and the declining percentage of good corn-fed beeves has made them sell very well, although they had to go at generally lower prices than during the previous ‘ week. Even prime cattle sold lower as a rule, hile yearlings of all kinds sold 11: terially lower. Weather con- ditions had a great deal to do with the market, the terrific heat of sev- eral days causing a great falling off in the consumption of beef, followed by increased consumption afterit turned cool. The week’s top price, $10.40 was paid on Monday for being a dime lower than ' the highest’ price paid. during the previous week. Fat", butcher stock was sold much better than grassy cows and heifers, being in good demand, While the latter were away off, undesirable cattle,‘ including steers, being as much as 75 cents lower. There was a small stocker" and feeder trade, most lots selling much lower, with the bulk going at $6.25 to $7.75. The best beef steers sold after Monday at $11.10 to $11.20, the bulk of the steers bringing $8.65 to $10.85 and good to choice steers being 25 to 40 _ cents lower. Common steers sold at $6.50 to $7.50, and cows and heifers brought $4 to $8.50, while canner- and cutter cows went at $1.50 to $3.50. Calves brought $4 to $10.75. A year ago the best beef steers sold at $10.10 and two years ago at $8.85. Lambs Scarce and High The meager. supplies of native lambs offered on the Chicago mar- .ket last week sold readily, the desir- able flocks selling much lower, how- ever, than a week earlier, while or- dinary lots sold badly. The main trouble with the lamb market is the serious check given to the consump- tion of mutton because of its dear— ness. The southern lambs have been mostly marketed, and western range flocks have hardly started to move freely, the season being very late. A few feeding lambs sell at $11.75 to $13, and breeding ewes are taken as fast as offered at $5.50 to $10, yearlings going highest. The lamb market was firm at $9 to $15.75. I WHEAT The weakness in the wheat mar- ket increased during the two weeks ending June 30 and prices declined. At Detroit the market closri 9c be- low what it was on‘the opening a fortnight before. During the last week at one time a firmer tone came because of the taking of a couple of million bushels for future export and for a short time it looked like an end of the long slump. Probably a ma- jority of dealers favored higher prices and the little advance was well received only to prove a fizzle. There was not enough buying power behind the talk‘ of strength to hold the advance let alone put prices higher. The market lacks invest- ment buying and there is not enough demand to take care of the sales of new wheat from the southwest. Ev- erything favors an easy market ex- cepting the fact that prices are al- ready too low to give the producer a profit on his work. New wheat is in the market competing with the carry-over from last year’s crops and oflerings are heavy. Other export- ers are selling to Europe under Am- erican prices and the market lacks life. Dealers are greatly discourag- ed by the long slump and are afraid it may be a great deal longer. ' The new winter wheat crop is being har vested and threshed under favorable conditions while the spring crop is growing well with the best of weath— er. Some of the winter wheat is of fine quality, but the southWest will have a great deal of light grain ac- cording to recent reports from Kan- sas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. The new rules under which the grain trade is to operate have been pub- lished and appear to amount to noth- ing much aside from the fact that all dealings are to be reported and this is expected to make people a little more careful about speculating in case they do not wish their identity to be known. 7 Prices Detroit—No. 2 red, $1.114; No. 2 white, $1L1.4; No. 2 mixed, $1.14. - Ohimgw—No. 2- hard, $1.05%. Prices one", year ago—Detroit, No. 2‘ red, $1.199“ No. 2 white and‘No.‘ V.‘ mixed is .17% .Cash No. 2, 88%c. took place in the can market during the week ending Juno 232d and there was a steady. tone to the. market, The steady tone con-- tinued up to disclosing days of last , week and than. the market weakened and prices. declined leer e prices at many pointsonlymir above what they wore two» weeks ago. Receipts seem to be on the/in- crease while consumption in. decline ' a ing. Demand for the industries has been reduced considerably during the last week or two and several manufacturing plants have closed .,down claiming that they cannot make money with raw material so high. Prices Detroit—400. 2 yellow, 91c: No. 3,. 900; No. 4, 88¢. . Chicago—No. 2 mixed, 79% 80%c;"No. 2 yellow, 81%@821;4? Prices one ,‘ year ago—Detroit, No. 2 yellow, 0734c; No. 3, 66c; No. 4, 64 yes. OATS Oats followed the trend of corn and on the close of last week the prices at several points were higher than they were two weeks previous. Trade has not been large. Prices ' Detroit—No. 2 white, 481;“; No. 3, 47 $0.; No. 4, 4695c. Chicago——No. 2 white, 42% @4342; No.3} 41%@4217§c; No. 4, 4134c. Prlces . one year ago—Detroit, No. 2 white, 411/10; No. 3, 391,66; No. 4, 35%@87 55c: RYE Regarding this market we have no further information than Mr. Foote has already given you in his letter in this issue. .He has covered this market thoroughly and we would ad- vise that you read again that part of his letter so as to be sure and get all the information contained in if. Detroit—N0. 2, 680. Chicago—No. 2, 620. Prices one year - BEANS The present market for beans is hard, to understand. In spite of all indications. that prices should go higher the Detroit market was con- tinuously headed downward during the past two weeks and the total loss amounts to 90c. Conditions in the market are practically the same as they were two weeks ago. Im- portations continue to come in but they are not getting the attention they commanded a few months" ago. Many of the large dealers of the state are of the opinion that Michi- gan beans at $7 or less per hundred- , weight are a good buy and state if price does not go above $7 the old crop will be well taken care of bo— fore the harvest this fall. If the price should go above, and stay above $7 per hundredweight for a time they anticipate a carry-over in- to‘the new crop. While we can not tell what the trend of the market will be for the next few weeks we feel that prices cannot remain at the present low level for long and we- hope to see them return to at least $7 in the near future. Prices Detroit—C. H. P., $6.10 per cwt. Chicago—C. H. P., $7 @150 per cwt. ' Prices one year ago—~Detroit, C. H. P., $9.00 per cwt._ . POTATOES - . 01d potatoes are fast becoming ex- tinct as far as the consumer is con- cerned, new stock being within reach at slightly higher prices. There was a slight advance. in prices of old stock in the east during the past two weeks but new potatoes are getting» practically all of the attention. The advance was due no doubt- to reports on the new crop. the‘ and yield these sections ionseyeral weeks. ' Detroit—~Michigan',’ [$1.03 a :1. ,1; ago—Detroit, I Reports show that _ the crop is somewhat below normal, . reduced . throughf,‘,7 a ~' ~ drouth which has been prevaile'at'in V ' . . .15.» saw seine indicate that a but >9Q'per cent of the marketable . “nrplusoi the 1922 crop had been ’ ims‘rketed, 9.8 per cent ot ’ and 97- per cent of'the'psrsirie. 'Tho .. timothy surplus is slkltly larger ’ than. at the corresponding tins ht year, while the amount at finite and prairie is lightly less than remained unsold on June 15, 1922. . - All of the-important timothy pro- ducing States. With the exception ot w “New York~ and Wisconsin, and pos- sibly Michigan, will-flip ontpmtic-_ ‘ ally all oi the 1023 crop hetero the new crop arrives. . New York reports stocks of tin— othy yet to be marketed at 2‘ per cent of the surplus, and Wisconsin 15 per cent. while Michigan appar- .‘ently will have a slightly larger carry-over thanlast year. ’ Remaining supplies of alfalfa hay _. in shippers’ and producers' hands are unusually light, Colorado and .Idaho being the only States report- ingas’muchasfiper cent oi the, 1922 crop yet to be disposed of. All the other important producing States have sold, or will sell, all of the old crop by the time the new hay is ready for market. The same, con- dition applies to to prairie hay sit- uation. Very little old hay remains unsold. Missouri reports about 8 per cent, while the surplus in the other important States ranges only from 2 per- cent to 3 per cent. Reports from the principal con- suming areas indicate that dealers’ u stocks of ‘ hey are generally below -normal for this season of the year. Considerable local forage is avail- able in most sections but the amount probably is not so much as last year because of dry weather in some sec- tions of the East and South. Com- mercial industries are reported to be slightly more active than last year, and southern consumers are said to be in a better financial condition on account of higher cotton prices than they were at the beginning of the 1922 crop year. . The quality of the 1923 crop, as reported by shippers throughout the, United States, will be only fair, with the exception of a. few of the import- ant alfalta producing States in the Southwest, where hay is produced almost entirely by irrigation. Timothy hay will be short in many Week of July 8 , URING Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of this week the weath- er is expected to be generally fair and the temperatures moderate: 1y cool for the season, especially dur- ing the nights and mornings. About Wednesday or Thursday temperatures will again b'egin rising in Michigan which will be the signal that scattered showers and thunder storms will- occur about Thursday and Friday. _ Temperatures will againifall about Friday and bySatnrday will be low for the month. The weather at end of this week will be fair. “Week of July 15 . Fair Weather during last part of last week will continue during the first half 0! this week. During this same period temperatures are not ex- pected to be overly high tor the sea- son. During last half oi! week temper- atnres will be rising, reaching the high point about Saturday. of this ' week. No sudden changes in temp- "? erature are expected although read— ings willhe abovemmalbyend of week. , ~ Scattered electrical ,storms and ‘Ihowers will occur in. dur- ing last three days 0: this Week, hut flare will he a noticeable lack}! next three or tour weeks matures in Michigan will. avers lawn-the ,July Rein- 4:51 the finite, ' , however, ” 1' we]. it {ll-“breaks... flfl the Into-fling of al- taiia has been seriously longed by wet wealth. and most ot the hay from this cutting will be of inferior quality. This excessive moisture, has been beneficial to the Malay in that territory. and re- port! indicate that an increased acre- age to be, harvested was reputed as follows: Minoan-i, 5 percent: Okla- homa, 10 per cent; Kenna. 10 per cent; and Nebraska, so percent. Prices Detroit—No. 1_ timothy, 317.590 18; standard, $16.50@17; No. 2 timothy. 316.500.“.50; No. 1 clov— :Iinlxoll 314016;,No. 1 clover, $12 4. Chicago—No. 1 timothy, $230 24: light mixed, $20622; No. 2 atiny-slum, 319022; No. 1 clover. 31¢ New York—No. l timothy, $250 25: light M’stczs: No. 2 timothy. $21024. ‘ .Prices one year ago—Detroit, Standard, $19@20; No. 2 timothy, $18@19; Light mixed, snore; No.1 clover, $15@16. WOOL MARKET Apathy still characterizes the wool situation in the West. according to reports received by the United States Department of Agriculture from its field representatives. During the two weeks ended June 23 only a few small sales have been reported in Montana, where producers apparent- . iy are holding firm or are making ar- rangements to consign. The same period has seen practically no sales of importance in California, either by growers or dealers, the former be- ing unwilling to release holdings at the prices offered while the latter are not active. Reports from Wyoming indicate the existence of a practical dead- lock, with buyers altering around 43 cents while growers are holding for 45 cents and more. Advices from Texas report little trading at 40 to r 45 cent oflfers. The various reports ' show that approximately 18 per cent of the Montana clip, 45 per cent of the Wyoming clip, 75 per cent of the California clip, and practically all of the Washington, Arizona and Utah clips have been sold or shipped. WEEKLY MARKETIGRAM (U. 8. Bureau ’of Agricultural Mosaics) Washington, D. C.—~—For the week ending June 29, 1923. FEED—Markets rather quiet with offerings and demand nearby ship- ments evenly balanced and prices a. shade lower; Interior buyers show- ing little interest. South—western ofterings wheat-feeds deferred ship- ments quite plentiful but Northwest- ern offerings not so heavy. Linseed meal holders asking higher prices. offerings good, demand fair. Cotton— seed meal slightly easier and firm, bids under the market are accepted. Hominy feed quoted lower, demand and oflerings light. Gluten feed prices steady, offerings by re-sellers good. Larger mills have withdrawn July—August otterings. Receipts and supplies good. Quoted bran $20, middlings $25, flour middlings $29.50, rye middlings $24.50, Minneapolis; gluten feed $37.15 Chicago; 32 per cent linseed meal 538 Minneapolis, $39 Buffalo; 36. per cent cotton seed meal $36 Memphis; $36 Atlanta; white hominy teed $32.50 Chicago. DAIRY PRODUCTS—Butter mar- kets unsettled during the week and weak at the close. _Approximately 8 million pounds have gone into stor- age in the 4 markets during the week but there is a lack of confidence at- tached to this class of trading. It is generally felt that production is close to peak for this season. Clos- ing prices 92 score butter; New York 38c; Philadelphia 391:; Boston 39c; Chicago 380. - CHEESE markets dull Mowing declines. which occurred during thelwissk. Some storing be- ing done but it appears to be mostly temporary protection against loss, prospect. WW pr ary cheese markets June 28;. flats ‘lzfie; twins Blfio; ‘daishs Itc’ dwr'dflsioulfic: Yo ms 21“ c; " he *‘fiafi .L. shine and Fires and Grain BUM—Bestfimeryih tubs, 250371: pa- lb. . 1 ndled, first. 23924c; m receipts, 20350211541: per «lo-en. ‘ CHERRIES—Early Richmond. 82.- 7503 per. 24-quart use. PEACHES—Georgia, early rose, A, $4.50 04; B, $4 @435 per bushel. APPLES—Good, 83.2564 no r bushel; Intern boxes. $4@4.50. HONEY—Comb. 2305c per 119. POPCORN—4 @455e; Little Bost- er, . 7 at @813. LETTUcE—Etetk per bushel; California. loehrg. $5.50@6; Wash— ington, $6 @6 per case. DRESSED (MINES—Best country dressed 14015:: per lb; ordinary grades. 12613:: city dressed. 170 18¢ per lb. CELERY—Kaiamamo, '15 8 9% per demealirornia, in the rough, $18 @29 per case. ASPARAGUS—Mlchigan, 32.750 3 per case. ' LIVE POULTRY—Broilers, tancy mots, 2 lbs up, 45 @48c; leghorn broilers, 30@ 34c; stage, 13c; hens, 2362M; .leghorns, 17@19c; roost- ers, 13c; geese, 12c: small ducks. 18c; large ducks, 24©25s; spring ducks, 5 lbs and up, 28@30c per lb. ‘ \ , IN OKLAHOMA T00! (Continued from Page 13) dent of the board is a party candi- date elected by the people and must play the game in order to keep in good standing with the party work- ers. So whenever a new administra— tion comes in the resulting political earthquake is felt to the uttormost confines of the appointive power. There is a general feeling in Okla- homa, especially among the hamlers,f that all educational institutionsi should be taken out of politics. The; thought is especially strong in regard? to the agricultural college. But it cannot be done without amending the constitution. It is strictly with- in the law to make a political play- thing out of‘the seeped job of edu- cating the boys and girls. The only remedy is an amendment to the constitution of the state of Oklahoma. It should provide that the governing boards of educational institutions shall be appointed for terms so long that a majority of the members will never go out of oifice during the administration of any one governor, that no governor shall have power to remove them except with the consent of the legislature itself, and that these board members shall have no job except that of mak- ing good schools. The wording of the amendment is immaterial. Its purpose 8 "n o u l d be plainly to take the schools en— tirely out of politics and keep Uigm out. If such a result can come, the present upheaval in the administra- tion of the state schools in Oklahoma will be thoroughly worth while.— The Oklahoma Farmer-Stockmztn. AGRICULTURAL BULLETINS OF INTEREST DURING JULY SMALL list of Farmers’ Bulletins and Circulars of general interest during July is believed to be of value to our readers. Copies may be ob- tained free by addressing the Division of Publications, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., as long as the supply lasts. Specify number and name and whether Farmers’ Bulletin or Department Circular. Farmers’ Bulletin 707, The Commercial Grading, Packing, and mining of Cant- aloupes; 766, The Common Cabbage Worm; 825, Pit Silos; 842. Methods of Protection Against Lightning; 850. .How to Make Cottage Cheese on the Farm; 871, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables as Con- servers of Other Staple Foods; 900. Homemade Fruit Butters; 943, Hnymak- lng; 959.1110 Spotted Garden Slug: 984. Farm and Home Drying of Fruits and Vegetables; 1007, The Control of the Onion Thrips; 1112. Culling for Eggs and Market; 1115, Selection and Preparation 01 Fowls for Exhibition; 1145, Handling and Transportation of. (.‘antaloupes; 12.11, Home Canning Fruits and Vegetables“; 1217, The Green Bug or Spring Grain Aphis; 1225, The Potato Leafliopper and Its Control; 1246. The Peach Borer: How to Prevent or Lesson Its Ravages, 1258, webworms Injurious to Cereal and For. age Crops and Their Control; 12“, Pm- mration of Peaches for Market; 1290, [the Bulk Handling of Grain; 1310, The Corn Barman. \ Department Circular 98. The installa- tim of Dust Como: m. on Thresh- ing of Explo- Cleaning; I anthracite” ot Muskmelons; 274, can market your pro- ‘ since more profitably through the Farm has! Produce Exchange. Hm tuners hi shippers are not receiving the best market prices. Increase your returns through the service of the Fem has “Mitten” Outlet FOR BEST BEULTS ship through your local Co-operat- ire Association. Your co-op. manager is kept thoroughly in- formed by us on WHEN and HOW to make shipments. —SHIP NOW ALL KINDS OF POULTRY Especially Broilers, Hens and Ducks Shipping lags modinformation gladly furnished on request. Other Products Handled and Marketed Asparagus, Strawberries, Goos- berries, Raspberries, Celery, Potatoes and all kinds of fruits and vegetables, also eggs. Producers unable to ship through a co-op. should write as for information on how this service may be obtained. A Dept. of Midnight: state Farm Bureau DETROIT, MICHIGAN 2739.31 RusseIISt. Cadillac 2270 - t A: ' :1, 3,]. BEN: HUR TUBES For Ford - Chevrolet 30x3 $1.40 30x35‘2. roams TO ANY ADDRESS IN AMERICA\ Our direct factory connections make it possible for us to make this price on this first grade. fully wnrrsnled automobile tube SEND NO *7 MONEY PKY THE POSTMAN ON DELIVERY I VALLEY CITY RUBBER CO sex 409 GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN x modem an irth for 1.5,.- % Cerbunclg? In ectio Blood 'Polson- ‘ flu Itch blamed in ds , ml, Burns. . 11 Person vy ed or Gathered Breast an editions. Writs lor- Fros Souls FLAXO CO., Farm, or both. in. short time 8300. write for information. Kotke Forms. 3 SILVER FOX °§fmfi§m§mguzo we: If tw Mun Wt! Iscausi 1 “5030mm * AUTOMOB “Same -—"" ,. Ir'o‘oxryn mu. m or maniac \ . ‘ . MW“ . . “Morn-u. mm. ‘00:; .0 “5‘5 '- Cat r.”.'°s..‘.:°;.':.::":. .: 0‘ l mu a. saint: Uionoos. s 'u I sou-nos am in am. /‘ . w um in mm, ,m mum oils: mmr. Jello. In M ' M I»; he. will)” ‘ I 1‘ ' - i. "M: W '91. o I 1p.l‘,c”n I ' "sub! Willfiu be A THE. Brsinesfi Farmer has made it possible for every , sing e rea er to carry $1 000 Accident lnsuran the triflin‘g sum of 75¢ per year! ce for This is the total cost of th ' ' _ . _ . I e insurance policy here de- . scribed and it 18 issued by the well-known North American ' “ Accxdent Insurance Company of Chicago. There are no other costs if ' ' V . . . you are a aid-m-advanc . a subscriber to The. Business Farmer and yo}; can secure 2 -———- pohcy for every member of the‘family providing one mem- i . ‘ ‘ s ’ What the Polio Gives You ' s a subscriber’ at the 3m m” 75° f" 6”" pm" " Y W W E ' ' It is only because The Business Farmer has contracted for thousands of these p01101es that we are able to offer them at this low price. 1t is a genume travel accxdent policy that gives you the very protection 0 e you need. It may pay you or your family hundreds of dollars, it costs . , . ° but 750 for a whole year’s protection. Under the terms and conditions . Th‘ - . » outlined in the policy it pays for, death or injury of the insured sus- . '3 ‘5 Opportunity to do what you have been tamed by the wrecking or disablement of any public or private vehicle ' putting off so long ‘ - ' While riding as a free or fare paying passenger. - Th . ' . a FOR THE LOSS OF LIFE ................................................................ .. 1,000.00 . ere 18 n —_ ' ' ' ' ‘ FOR THE LOSS OF BOTH HANDS ............................. ............. "$1,000.00 3; n th A 1- 0 red tape .110 medical examinatmn—Just £311: $3? £332 3; gang; 1‘31]?er ......... "é .............................. .. 1,300.00 g d ,te, PP Icatlon Blank “1 the come? 01: ibis Page and . ' B TI EYE .............................. .. 1, 00.00 sen l ‘ ' I . FOE THE Loss 01“ ONE HAND AND ONE FOOT .................... .. 1,000.00 75 fm “nth the. required: amount—SeventY-Fwe Cents FOR THE LOSS OF ONE HAND AND SIGHT OF ONE EYE 1,000.00 ( C) 01' eaCh policy. I i ‘I ‘. . . sis is 1.5332 grasses” SIGHT 0F EYE Just one .eq - . 'ONE MEMB ' ‘ ' fl 4" ‘ ‘ . .................... .. 50 .00 uiremen — £311: ggg £332 31;. $.21? 233-33 FAMILY MUST BE A PAID-UP SUBSCRIBERO'IF YOUR DISABILITY 13 WEEKS OE LEJSSJ” .. “$100033” “leek 1924 or lon er—l— d i 0 JULY’ Lossuobr 3.1g}; B13? :Eéilob s'riaocx, KNOCKED gogVN on from’ this organy an 3:0“ muufefll‘dose the address label V O U HI H‘VA’Y BY VEHI L .......... .. $250.00 recen C0 ' EMERGENCY BENEFIT ...................................................................... .. 100.00 prove it. , Dy 0 he Bus'ness Farmer to kn?10.00 n wcgk for 13 weeks for injuries received while riding in any ‘ b d of vehicle. our ‘ ‘ ' o \ $100.00 for relief of policy holders if injured or taken sick away I Ssu scriptlon ls nOt paid-up to JUIy, or from home. - . . . _ ‘ onger, a IXTY CENTS for a renewal to July, 1924 and $250.00 for death of pedestrian under moung iehicle. send 75¢ for each POliCY desired. ’ Don’t Put It Off-~-Your Accid t M 322 Right Around the Cornee'i'! ay Only last month, Thomas Lynch, a farmer ' ° lVlary Lynch were riding to town in their autohgrbcllzlsw‘hfrei It. was struck by a tram. Both father and mother were killed and several children injured. BOTH MR. AND MRS LYNCH HAD. NORTH AMERICAN ACCIDENT POLICIES; WHICH. 333D PAID” ONLY 75c EACH! Their c 1 ren receive , in cash f ' ‘ ‘ to keep the wolf from the door! mm 'eaCh poncy or $2,000 ld 'AsWell- As New Subscribers ‘May III-III.IlllllIIIl_-IIII ORDER AND REGISTRATION FORM The Michigan Business Farmer. Date .................. ......1923 Insurance Department, Mt. Clemens, Mich. ‘ I hereby apply for 3. $1000.00 TRAVEL-ACCIDENT INSUR- ANCE POLICY of the North American Accident Insurance Com- pany, for which I enclose Seventy—five cents (750) in check, money—order or registered letter. v ’ D I also enclose my address label from a recent issue.of The Business Farmer to prove that my subscription is paid-up to July 1924, or longer. -~ D I enclose SIXTY CENTS (600) in addition ($1.35 in all) and my old address label, for which you are to mark my subscrip- tion paid-up to July 1924. or longer. a Secure This Policy! Any or all members of a family from 16 to 7.0 years of age may secure this policy, providing they all live at. one address, at vwlnch one member of the family is a paid-up ,gmyber to 1112 Mick‘gggfigsiness Farmer ” READ WHATTHIS Pou'cr cw- You AND TH (49?! PEI-AX ,Is, DAN "iv—Row * 3" SIGNEDIIIOOICIOIIOIOIOI'IIQIIQIIIIOOOIOI.IOIOOOOO;OIIIOOOOIOOIOU...IIOOOOI Age...‘0l..ll.'0.tiil 0. C; Post Office" - - .. R. F. n. State.......... . Occupation......................,......... _ 'rlw'-l7€’f£m1s§"m,_.":§f“ni, “ramm- 4 352,5, ' In consideration of my Motion I may also wish to sec clonal $1000.00 Trove Accident Policies for other members 0: in {its family. send necessary Order and Registration forms wt 1" '4 II’IIIIIjlllvllIIIIII