cars T\ '0 YEARS $1 600 PER YEAR—5 YRS. $2 och Freda t TERRIS ive S _. . __ __ a. .u. _ m; dent of L i ion— Pres t 1a 0 Owned and Edited in Michigan SATURDAY JULY 21, 1923 Na 1 Assoc a A tian‘a agazme y" t n e d n e p e . d n... I n A ised 5 Farm M be Advert ! to Beans 18511.9 this VOL. X, No. 24 1 VRead in “$W00 IS YALER OF 1922 ~ MICHIGAN DAIRY H. BROUGHTON, Director of. the Bureau of Dairying of the State Department of Agricult- ure, has just completed compiling figures on the milk produced in mo in 1922. lflo figures show that the total hm produced in Michigan in 1922 no 3495, 627,169 pounds. or an increase of 391, 929 679 pounds over the 1921 production. Bio figures show the amount 0! milk used for each dairy purpose and indicates that there was an increase in the amount of milk consumed for every purpose except for cheese manufact— two. There was a marked increase in the quantity of creamery butter manufactured from Michigan milk, although the dairy but“: dropped off. There was a marked reduction in the manufacture of brick cream cheese and farm made cheese al- though an increase in the amount 01 cottage cheese was reported. An increase of nearly 100 per cent in the amount of milk evaporated in the state is shown from 1921 to 1922. The amount of milk used for direct consumption and that used on farms for call and swine feeding was also much larger in 1922 than 1921. “Michigan is fortunate in being able to obtain these figures so ac- curately,” says Mr. Broughton, who is authority for the statement that Michigan is the only state which has a system whereby they can check up on the milk used for every purpose by every creamery and milk peddler in the state. This is made possible through the state’s licensing system rem-fies totaf smarts tron an. s and distributors of dairy products before licenins may be ground. , HE Michigan- Potato Growers’ Exchange has secured Walton Peteet, head of the department at cooperative marketing, American Farm Bureau Federation, to. speak at the fifth annual meeting. Wednes— day afternoon, August 15th. George Wager, manager of the branch sales office at Edmore will also appear on the Wednesday program. Whoa tho banquet for delegates to the annual meeting oi the Michigan Potato Growers’ Exchange is held in Cadil- ewnntng, August F MW Agricultural cases will he the loading smoker on the «van- iag program. MANY BREWERS W m IN THE NEXT TWO W t HERE will be a Hereford Tour T and conducted by the Michigan Hereford Breeders' Association through the southWest part of the state July 24th and 25th, and ending at the Watkins Hereford sale near Manchester July 26th. The Tuscola County Duroc Jersey Breeders are planning a tour about their county July 30th, and the Michigan Chester White Breeders’ Association are going to tour the thumb district July 31st. Mrs. Levi P. Moore, representing the Chester White Swine Record Association will ‘C.G.MeChnn, the ardor of the Midlanders. We , tour that will Mei- , central Michigan has Wu foo August lat, 2nd,“ plat . ward Mr. Filament ot the Pol—I LUE gibbon ham 1 will! be M this and China. Breed Promotion Com-' 7 mitten, has promised to m this tour. The ~tour will end with a general get-together meeting and ' potluck dinner near St. Louis, with the Central Michigan Poland China Bmodcrs' on acting as host. The Leuawee Caunty Duroc Jer- any breeders are planning a mur about their ecunty August 7th, Hmsdale county breeders August 8th and Branch County' Breeders' _ August 9101. Mr- B. J. Evan . Sec- retary of the American Duroc Jer- _ soy Association has promised to be present at these tours and possibly another can the Inn. week. Brood-'- m mm W m moot. cordially 1311'“? to mud on! at m M. A. C ALF’AIJfi AND DAIRY CAMPAIQN IN W COUNTY IDLAND Count-y farmers, twenty—five of ’em, including mother, father, son and daugh- ter, June 27th, toured Bay, Saginaw and Midland counties in the interests of better dairying and alfalfa. rais- ing. They visited the farm of George Ber told, Frank Trombley, James Wil er, T. F. Marston, and George H. Hicks for a study of mod- ern dairy methods and the ideal dairy cow. Plots of alfalfa were pointed out on the return to Mid- land. It rained in the afternoon but such trival things could not dampen Jim gulmnmmumlmummmm « vice. _ _ — — — _ — — — _ _ w— _ — — — _ — — — — — _ _ — — — — _ _ — _ _ _ — _ _ — — — — — _ — _ — _ _ _ — _ — _ _ — — _ — — — — — _ — * — — — — _ — — — — — — — _ — _ _ _ _ _ — — _ — — — _ _’ — _ —' '— — — _ — — — — — — — — - — _ _ — _ — - — — — — — — — — _ — — — — — — — _. —. — _; — _ -- —‘ _. _1 — —4 —, -' —- _ ~ ~ ‘ _ u = — “ .‘ — —' E Good Telephone Service The Managerofyour Telephone Enchongcioreaporuible foragoodbmineosrclotionohipbctwcmyouondthc Telephone Company. Heisrcnponoiblctoyouforthcpmpabfllingforyourocr- Incplteolthemnnyonfegwd’ounodtluougbouttho telephone billing system, more and mimmd‘crntordingo cometimoooocunbutwhentheydmthehfnnagawmtato knowoboutthmandtooorroctdm Younevervdllfind hixnorbitrary. Incnndarorfinkcywbilltothcw. Ifheionbceut. Cooperation on you put was-19mm” tandem-«vice. ”spam-no WdWhmiI-MM The! was. mm m m?” M . 33W MICHIGAN STATE-‘1' as firmers’ Dang .339 m not it mg in, ll .o-nd oil the State Fair at Detroit, as usual Alma—New $100,000 plant man- , “W Luke—42.11119 to be spent “Wt While plant to m m «to . , . » m. ' plant to gravel road nearing completion. Edna’s—Roach & Company to make improvements at’ factory. Manistee—New box foctory con- sidering location of plant. in this city. Ontonagonm-Contract let for con- Storéiction of new hall costing $70,- South Lyons—Detroit Panel and Plywood Company to erect factory here. Zilwauzee—Work on Consumers Power Company’s plant progressing rapidly. Running—430 600 contract let for remodeling FirSt National Bank building. Flint—Plaaa made for construc— tion of new $1, 066, 000 municipal building. Cleveland—Contract let for im- provements oi First National Bank But Mina- Modulates—City Fuel Company buys and will operate Indian Lake Blue lee plant. ~ V Irme—Work aim-ted on pav— . p in: This Road- between Gogebic and Cooper counties Ann Arbor—Work on new library completed 9200, 060 school build- ing to be erected. Adrian-—-Work started on resur- facing country roads. $31, 376 building contracts issued last month. Poutlnc— Oakland Motor Car Company to build a Fisher Body Corporation factory, costing $2, 000, - 000. Laminar—Masonic order to build $600, 000 temple. Contract award- ed for construction at new addition to school for blind, costing $100, 000. Michigan was sixth on the list of states in the number at plants which in 1091 were engaged in manufac-_ turn of Dover and wood pulp. or the 726 establishments engaged in the business 39 were located in . Michigoo. Mantegna—Brunswick tire plant to room and give employment to . 260 M mtmmn of addition to Email! hospital under way. $2, - 0,00 000 improvement wagram inau- enacted in northwestern region of Fountains System. Holm— Improvements nearing completion on Alanna beach road. 876 000 contract let tor construction of Christian high school. Mari Rubber Corporation to move tlr motor! from W to' this city. New hard—surfaced road to be construct- ed to 1m. WWW—Work to start on dredg- #:5th July 1, to cost Plan ”at tor remodel- In"? W m Repairing it 988 $600, - 101' paving ts 011 west- Comatoc Park Lum or Company - starts operation, capital 810 .000. 5 ' $126, 000 contract let tor building new dormitory at , , Plans made for improvement at sex . tire river front; Willem on Street in progress. halt . who use ‘ lease the buying public to be A “The Only Farm Magazine Owned and 11de in Michigan" L TWO YEARS ‘ $1 — L as second-class mat- a‘r‘feriggust 22, 1917. at the st-ofllco at Clemens. icb., under act of March 3rd. 1879- vertlscd by National Association Michigan Nd!) York and California Bean Interests will Push Sale of Navy Beans to Consumer on Same Plan as Citrus Fruit, Raisins and Prunes Growers Operate EMBERS of the New York “State Bean Shippers’ Associa— tion by n unanimous vote have agreed to underwrite its quota for a national advertising campaign to ad , domestic beans in preference to the "interior imported article, with which the American market has been flooded ever since war days. After the vote by every man present to ' upped the campaign, 70 per cent of ; the New York dueto'of $5,805 was Medinwrittenpledges, The amoral campaign calls for an or militate o! :51, 210 in national magazine advertising. Boon shippers in the states of Col-- Heroin, Colorode, Michigan, New ' mmamooe and Idaho, the other , principal been growing states, are . banding together with the New York . men to similar when under the di— . rotation of the National Bean Ship- per-2’ Association. The campaign will be ‘13de next fall, it the oth- er states follow the lead. Access Retailers of Mixing ,Previons to the meeting all the large been shippers at New York were determined that some action must be taken to stop the practice of unscrupulous importers and re- ' tailors of mixing inferior oriental bean-s, imported from Japan, China and Mongolia, with American—grown beans of recognized quality. Ac- cording to food experts, the import- ed beans do not cook well and when mixed with domestic beans it is prac- tically impossible to obtain a satis- factory dish. : These mixed beans have been sold in many places as domestic grown. Under the plan of the association, every bag of beans will be stamped with an American label and. the name of the state in which they were produced. The association will guarantee each bag so marked to cook satisfactorily, a warranty which . the importers of foreign beans have constantly refused to make under any circumstances, say the shippers. O. L. Deming of the stall at the President of Live recent interviews to the Press, Everett C. Brown, President of the National Live Stock Ex- chooxe, is quoted as saying that a .large part of the blame for hogs be— ‘ing $1 90 under the cost of produc- tion is due to “co-opera.tive selling agencies.” He further points out that while hogs are losing money, cattle and sheep are making money and that hes prices are high in Canada. Since the cooperative selling agencies have handled relatively few cattle and sheep as compared with hogs and since there are no “co-ops" in . Canado, he concludes they are the ‘ cause for the low price of hogs, and urges them to return to the “old lino" commission firms. " The absurd statement is made that the concentration of large numbers of stock in the hands or a. " ‘ «imperative selling agency acts as a. 1111111 on the market. Such a state- Vl‘ncnt is contrary to good business print) lplas. Any trader knows that (9mm who controls a large par-' ‘9. of any commodity on a It: can do more to hold up ' hone man who coup-ole only porch-«so of the supply. of gy'ond hence roost one ' 1 process in order that the to demand . ONCE a week every American family ought to pull - up to the table for o good, old-fashioned pan of baked pork and beans! to that statement without argument. Every bean grower will agree As a matter of fact, if every family in America, baked a pan or open- ed o can of beans, every week, there wouldn’t be half enough now. grown and the price would be where it 'wos when the boys were in uniforms. Telling people, through advertising, to eat more raisins, walnuts, oranges and various other farm products has doubled and trebled their old time market. Beans offer the greatest strength and body building food known to and we welcome this practical plan to make this . fact known to the hundred million folks in America alone. New York Commercial, a trade jour- ool which has fostered the idea of averting the bean industry, was present at the meeting and spoke to the shippers on “The Value of Advertising.” Benjamin Gerks, who spoke recently before the Michigan Bean Jobbeu’ Association meeting in Flint, reviewed the work or that meeting and told of the enthusiasm of the California and Colorado job- bers tor the advertising campaign. Under the plan adopted, the ship- pers pledged themselves to pay $300 each toward the campaign with the understanding that the number of bag beans, purchased first hand from growers and shipped, is to be record- ed and that each man is to pay nine- tenths of a cent towards advertising MICHIGAN FIRST IN NAVY BEAN PRODUCTION! HEbean growers of Michigan ought to be proud of the fact that altho the various state and federal agencies have been handing the palm of first place in the production of navy beans to other states these past two or three years, when it came to passing the hat for contributions to the very commendable fund for national advertising and it was apportioned on the basis of 9-10 of one cent per hundred pounds, based on the 1921 crop estimates, Michigan won first place, tea-wit: 1922 CROP—100 Pound Bags California (other than Limos) ....... 1, 480, 000 bags California (Limos ) Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona... Idaho Michigan New York ’0 ' 1,800.00 .................... ounce-noeelooooooonnoooe 645,000 ..... allocation-one-oe-souoosalon-on $13,320.00 7,380.00 0,705.00 16,200.00 5,805.00 5,690,000 $51,000.00 for each bag of beans he ships, which he purchased directly from the grow- er. At the end of six months the shippers either pay the difference be— tween half of the $300 subscribed and the amount they owe on the basis of number of bags shipped, or if they have shipped less than the quota, the association refunds them the difference. The known bean production of the several states for 1921 was taken, and the national quota worked out on the basis of nine-tenths of a cent per bag. The quota for each state was established by the amount of beans it produced during the same year. Spread News of Success Word of the success of. the New York program was wired to the Michigan, California and Colorado associations. The campaign, if und- ertaken, will run for ten months from October, 1923, to August, 1924 The advertising copy will emphasize the value of the bean as a body and tissue-building food. According to statistics presented at the meeting, the bean represents a 23 per cent protein content, a ratio much higher than in almost all foods. In this connection, an effort will be made to demonstrate the value of getting beans of good quality. Michigan Member Expelled That the bean industry intends to ' bring about 111e1'cl1a11dising reforms along with the advertisiig campaign is indicated in the announcement of the Michigan Bean Jobbers' Associa- tion that Hart Brothers of Saginaw, Mich., were expelled from the assoc— iation on a charge of having shipped a carload of beans to Ragon Bros, Evansville, Ind., as Michigan grown beans which contained beans foreign to Michigan. The beans were per- sonally inspected by the association’s inspector, Burkhart, in the ware- house of Ragon Brothers, Evansville, and were found not to be Michigan grown. Samples were submitted to the arbitration committee, which has sustained Inspector Burkhart. Stock Producers'Ass’n Tells What Happened to Market business of his former customers is so successful that they cannot handle it as well as he or the firms he represents. His opinion regard— ing the present low hog market is Wholly at variance with the facts he presumably had at hand. Market statistics show that local cattle receipts for the month of June were the smallest since 1917. Light receipts make for higher prices..Likewise the receipt of sheep for June were the lightest in more than 30 years, so these good prices were due to sensationally light runs and not to the fact that the “co-ops” have not yet invaded those depart- ments of the market as fully as they have the hog department. The same market statistics show that‘mere hogs were on the Chicago market this June than ever before in the history of June markets. A similar condition occurred in 1911, with similar edect, 'and that was long before ecu—operative marketing ' was thought of. Too many begs for the entire market and not just too many hogs tor the competitor of ;the National Live Stock Exchange, was the true cause of the break in prices, Canadian markets received “9,837 50, Mb hogs during June. Can- ._ adieu bacon is always at a premium. hence the licht runs caused good 1.11m 1m Between last November and the last day of June, seven Western markets received 5, 000, 000 more hogs than in the same period in eith- er of the two years just preceding. Hog shipments from eleven corn belt states to all markets increased 32.2 per cent this year as compared with the year preceding in the period from November let to June 1st. The spokesman of the old line commission companies asserts in his interviews that most of the hog salesmen for the cooperative commis- sion companies have not graduated from the farm. The truth is that cooperative salesmen have been chosen for their ability to sell stock regardless of where that training was received, be it with an old line commission firm, buying for the packers, or speculating for them- selves They are hired for the re- sults they can obtain in making sales, and they are retained because they do obtain results. Practically every co-operntive agency has in its 1110s,. applications {.0111 salesmen now with old line commission firms who wish to become members .. of imperative selling stalls. If their selling tal- ent is at the right standard and their «so-operative spirit sincere, they will be called as needed. The success or co-operativo live stock market- ing has given financial independence. ‘eting. when it will be of the greatest assists ., ' Funds are available to hire the best. We who make up and manage the cooperative selling agencies have all been customers of some member ot' the National Live Stock Exchange. We are not unschooled in market‘ practice. We raise live stock to sell, we sell it through our own organiza- tion at the terminal markets, and. are pleased with our own handling' of our own stock. We are returning this year, as high as 30c on every dollar that We have charged for con1~ missions, so we have ample funds to . hire thelbest selling talent, and have done so. Furthermore, we have proven to ourselves that controlling as We do, an enormous amount of live stock offered for sale, we stabnl- ice the price much more than if we were 15 firms doing one-fifteenth of the business We now do. We handle from 10 per cent to 35 per cent of the total receipts in markets Where we operate. - The National Live Stock Produc- ers Ass’n. has yet much work to do. It is destined to play an important part in bringing about orderlygmark— The time is not famdistant ance in diverting the shipments oi: litre stock from crowded markets and putting ~them instead on a. ‘market' that needs them, and will pay a good market price—4. G. Brown. 3. "T- ‘.. ,. . HETHER stacking small grain fiend threshing later in the sea- ‘ son is a better policy to follow than threshing from the shock is a hostion of much importance among ”any farmers in Iowa at the present tine. ' It is true that a large number I farmers in the state rely too much threshing from the shock when Whey do not have a machine of their ,. n or are not certain of getting one .ithin‘-a reasonable length of time, Cc‘ording to “old—timers” who a few ears iback stacked almost entirely ndthreshed later in the year. With large number of threshing ‘jmachines used over the state which are propelled by steam, the uncertain utlook of the miners’ strike at a ime when coal reserves are low of- . era a strong argument for stacking :as a. more profitable means of taking scare of Iowa’s small grain this year, .or even a factor which may save the 1'01). The older farmers have proof for their faith in stacking over shocking and point out advantages which seem to prove it a more desirable way. 'M. L. Soeth, of Wallingford, Iowa, 'in Emmet county, who has farmed 1, 360 acres for several years and “now lives on 160 acres, says that the great advantage of stacking Expenence of Grain Growers of Iowa Show That It 13 More Profitable to’ Stack Small Grains and Thresh Later 1n Season Than to Haul Right to Machine From Field 13y WALTER J. HUNT OUT in Iowa there were many farmers 'asking this question whichis no doubt uppermost in'the minds . of many of the farmers in our own state. A canvass was made of the veteran grain growers of Iowa to find out what their experiences had been and the lo'wa Homestead published this article ”on the results. The - veteran grain growers of that state in the great wheat belt have found that results are in favor of threshing from the stack. Every reader who raises much small grain should read this article with interest as the grain growers state in detail why they find it more profitable to stack their small grain. We would like to hear from any of our readers who have noted their exper- ience over a period of years. two extra handlings necessary in the former method make it a more ex- pensive proposition. However the lat- ter requires about six or seven more men with wagons and about that, many more pitchers in the field. Often it is necessary to help around the neighborhood for two weeks in changing work with 'the chance also farm I know. I use a fork and never walk on the outside tier of bundles, staying in the center and keeping the middle full. Any loose grain picked up can be cared for in the center. About eight loads of bundles should be set up in the form of a large shock beginning at the middle of the stack and setting them in regular the first row of bundles with the butts flush with the original first row or extend them a trifle and then work toWard the center as before. , “Some people are of the opinion that a ‘bulge’ in a stack is for good looks, but its real purpose is for capacity. Stacks should be built to stand wind and rain and not made for appearance ’8 sake. If the edges‘ are kept level there will be sufficient slant from the middle when the stack settles to take care of water. “The ‘bulge’ is started after four " or five rows have been placed. One' side of the butt end of most bundles will be found to be longer than the other, due to the way they sat in the shocks. These can be put either up or down to provide ‘bulge’ as well as to permit them to overlap the others i for the effect. From the bulge the stack can be drawn in gradually to . the top which will need to 'be well- capped.” In addition to being a farmer for several years, Mr. Erickson owned for a time a partnership in a thresh- ' ing machine. “We found oftentimes that the bottom of stacks were very damp and were threshed' with diffi- culty. To get away from this it would be well to plow the ground on which they are build, build comes in wet weather such as we have seen recently. About an average Iowa acreage of grain is raised on the Soeth farm—50 acres having been seeded this year. “When the grain is stacked we go ahead on our place haul- ing manure and getting the fall plowing started early,” says Mr. Soeth. “The straw turns out better for feed and bedding when the grain goes through the ~‘sweat’ in the stack and the grade of the grain after it is threshed is found to be improv- fed. Provided the land is seeded .to grass, the sooner the shocks are removed the better are con- ditions for the grass. . “We have not noticed much 'difierence in the cost of shock and stack threshing, considering : everything on our farm, and be- ‘-'lieve it" would be nearly the same in both cases, with a chance that stacked grain would 'bring a better price on the market. But there is one thing about stacking, which may prove an eliminating factor for the method 011 some farms. This is that-it seems to be a lost art. Too many men are not able to build a good stack. That is why shock threshing has gradually be- ' .come more -c.ommon Frank Erickson, a veteran farmer of; Hamilton county, has operated his 120- acre place for over 30 years and .has had experience with stack and shock threshing which leads him to be partial to the former Mr Erick- son has raised on an average from 40 to 50 acres of grain per year. Farm— 5ers in his 'part of the state plan to ,stack for the most part, as far as he has been able to observe, a con- -dition partly due to the coal short- -' age. “For farms where the gain acreage is around 100 , acres or over, stacking is not desirable because ' a large number of stacks prove rather bothersome to handle -, both at threshing time 'and the time of putting «them up,” says Mr. Erickson. “But for the average farm is the bet- ter plan. I have found that the grain threshed from the stack will sigh more and make ’ iseed than the ther If it is allowed ‘8 .Bat’ in the stack .. 're,~:'v;,i ll be no trouble ”Th - 111g in the bins the presence of the . during t h e ing’ will be bene- " After stacks are of. course, it is to thresh from , tr In shocks. E'veu Well Built Shocks do Not Remain in Good Condition Indefinitely. of delay from bad weather, yet two or three farmers can go together and stack and later thresh with less ex- pense. I have found the expense clear through with both ways to be about the same. “It is true,” asserts Mr. Erickson, “that stacking is a lost art. But there is no reason why the art should be difficult. Any farmer can learn how to construct a stack which will give ample protection against the weather by following a few plain in~ structions. “I like to do it and would rather stack than do anything else on the order until the confines of the stack are reached. Beginning next at the edge, lay a double tier of bundles around the whole stack, the butts of the first row reaching the ground, with the butts of the second row just flush with those of the first row. A single row with the butts reaching just past the bands of the first should be placed next—continuing this method row after row until the mid— dle is reached. ' “The rows may be lapped a little more toward the middle of the stack in order to keep this part full, keep- ing a slope toward the edge, and lay them on old posts or a layer of straw. “It is advisable, it seems, to- take a view toward locating stacks with regard to the pre- vailing winds. Some threshers think they can do cleaner work by quartering the winds instead of setting the machine broadside to them Or in their direct line. The location for stacks should be in a well drained area.” The sides of|a finished stack should be raked down with a garden rake so that all, loose material can be «saved. This is- placed in the bottom of the next stack to advantage. Fire and tornado insurance 'on the lot would be an expensive luxury. A safety ring plowed around the grain may prove valuable. Some farmers like to have a lightning rod on a tall pole near the group. Besides what the two farmers have had to say about the ad- vantages of shock and stack threshing the farm crops depart- ment of the Iowa State College offers some worth-while sugges— tions and considerations based upon their years of experimenta- tion. The department contends that the two additional handlings of grain necessary to stack cost about 1 cent per bushel more than the cost of shocking. On the other hand, ad- ditional labor to thresh from the shock costs about 1 cent per bushel more than that required to thresh from stacks. U. S. G. G. GOES AHEAD; BUREAU PLANS CO-OP. HE U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., will fund its debts and proceed . to set up sales agencies in the various terminal markets. The American Farm Bureau Federation will formu— late a national grain marketing policy based on organization of pro- ducers by states, with long - term‘ contracts, pooling by grades on the basis of milling val— ues, corn to.be handled , net result of the action taken in Chicago on meeting of Mid-West Farm Bureau Presi- dent and Secretaries, called to consider the grain marketing prob- lem. 'The states of Ohio, Indiana... Michi— gan, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, M i s s o 1111, Nebraska, resented, by their re- i . separately. This is the' Kansas and. - North Dakota were rep-I — _l A PORTIA FOR PO0R.——1\Irs. Julia Morris Van Dernoot, who has joined JERSEY \VOMEN AID EAST’S FIRST PUBLIC KLAN lNITIATlON.—-—— the law firm of her husband in New York City in order to assist those who Residents of New Jersey were given a thrill they will not soon forget, when, are without means of seeking legal redress. Mrs. Van Dernoot‘s admission for the first time in the east, the Ladies of the Invisible Empire and the Royal «p to the bar is the consumation of an idea she thought out several years ago, Riders of the Red Robe participated in a. parade of the K11 Klux Klan thrn namely to become a lawyer and give her services to the poor who might be the streets of Point Pleasant. New Jersey, preceding the “naturalization” of deprived of their legal rights bee anse they were without means to retain coun- 300 candidates in a field adjoining Clark's Landing, on the Manasquan River. , sel. This will be her work exclusively. Fully 5,000 visitors witnessed the initiation ceremonies. \ V o. l 1 .i t l , I ‘ A NE‘V STUDY OF THE I’DNTIFF.—-Pope Pills GIVES UI’ I’LEASUKES T0 BECODIE )IISSION- THE TIIRILL 01“ A LIFE TL‘lE.—-H0\v would XI graciously allowed himself to be photographed ARY TO IIEPPZRS.+)Iiss Ethel Canary, 21 Tennes— 3'0“ “kl‘_ t0 change places .“'i“1 ““1191: 9‘ these in the gardens in the back of the Vatican in Rome see girl, who is accompanying her lover, Arthur Ty- dare-devils? The man,‘ LUCIQI:0_ Albertim, know]: h in spite of the fact that he is really the most modest lee, of “'orcester, Mass., on his trip to Paraguay, ‘25 the l‘flll‘baulks of Europe, 1s hanging by hm , ‘ . _ eet, onto the branch of a tree suspended thou- of men—and camera shy to boot. Ihoto shows the bouth America, where he. \v1ll live and help the lepers. sands of feet above the ground, while he-holds Pontifi‘, in his every day robes, taking a walk in Miss Canary will wed her lover after they have lived up a girl with his hands. One slip, and their two years amongst the lepers. careers are ended. the garden. LEADERS 0F BOYS’ AND GIBLS' CLUBS \VHO MET AT \I. A. C.-—-Thirty- five club leaders PRESIDENT RUNS TRACTOR IN KANSAS \VIIEAT gathered at the Llichigan Agricultural College, June 19- 22, holding their annual conference under FIELI).—“’hile on his tour of the western states Presi-' the direction of State Club Leader B. A. Turner. Mr. Turner is in the back row at the extreme dent Harding visited a wheat field near- Hutchinson, left. There was much good accomplished at the meeting and many interesting facts brought out. Kansas, and showed the people that he had not tor- .Besults of the club work, as given, shows that Michigan rates as follows: 3rd in number of clubs gotten how a. tractor or binder operates. This V hotn- orc‘anlzed in U....§.; 4th in number of club members completing Work in 33 north and western graph is furnished through the courtesy of the uter- -stntes; 12th in number of club members completing work in United States. national Harvester Company. . (Copyrlcht keystone View *0 . . people. ’ . [husband becomes liable to pay the 1‘ “Eight 013°?ng oiling her about. the transaction? n,derstand We have all our proper- "-ifty, insurance and everything, jointly. "I am very much opposed to backing notes for anybody, particularly when ’I know they are not reliable parties. ' Can he legally do this without con— sent?——W. S., Bad Are, Mich. —_—’1‘he law does not reduire the wife’ s consent to enable the husband to indorse promissory notes for Other However, in the event the amount of the note, no real property which he holds jointly with his wife can be taken for the payment ofthe obligation.———Asst. Legal Editor. TESTING STRENGTH OF BOR- ' DEAU'X MIXTURE Will you please tell me what acid is used to test Bordeaux mixture to determine if it is strong enough with time to prevent the burning of tree foliage?—G. C. K.,v Summit City, Michigan. ——-I do not know of any acid which is used to test bordeaux mixture to de— termine if enough lime is present. Potassium ferrocyanide is used for this purpose. After the lime and copper sulphate are combined a few drops of this solution are dropped into the bordeaux and if a brown precipitate is formed, lime should be added to prevent the formation of the brown precipitate. I do not know What this bordeaux ‘is to be used for but if it is for fruit trees the general practice now is to use a mix- ture containing considerable excess of lime so that there will be no need of testing for acidity. —N. C. Dutton, Research Associate, Dept. of Horti- culture, M A. C. WIFE MUST SIGN OFF A man has a common law wife. They have been living together over twenty years and have raised a fam— ily and are living together now. I bought 40 acres of land from the man but the common law wife didn’t ign the deed. Is my deed any good?—J. B., Caspian, Mich. —-—The wife would have to sign the conveyance in order to release her homestead and dower rights. The purchaser should procure a sub- sequent deed in which the wife joins the husband, or a subsequent deed executed by the wife alone, in which she should express her intent to bar her dower right—Asst. Legal editor. DID TREE BELONG TO B? If A cuts timber along the line and B claims A has cut one of his trees and makes A pay for same and later A finds that B never owned this tree can A sue B and make B pay back after three years ?———F. W. R., Hawks, Mich. ———lf the tree actually belonged to A and he was coerced to pay B for it, I am of the opinion he could recover his money back from~ B. However, if B forced A to pay for the tree by suing him and obtaining judgment against him, A could not recover the money back after three years time had elapsed.——-Asst. Legal Editor. A FLY REPELLANT ‘We have a large horse fly here that bites or stings the horses so they are almost unable to work. Common fly dope does not keep them off. Do you know of anything that will keep them off?-—A. G., Sigma, Michigan. ——Thc best fly dope with which I am familiar is: 12 oz oil tar, 12 oz turpentine, 12 oz. crude carbolic acid, 10 to 15 cents worth of tannin, Make up 5 gallons withkerosene and apply lightly with atomizer. It is not any too good of course but really there is no idea] fly repellent to use on live.l stock so far as I know. It will interest you, however, to know that horse flies, all of them, breed in standing water over mud and even in pretty thick mud at times. The eggs are laid on objects orerhanging the water and the mag- ggts drop into the water on hatching o t Some twenty-five years ago Dr. surface of pools Whore ‘Zthese creat- , d‘ Iv kill. _'I’brcbinslqr of Russia discovered that , ”the placing of kerosene oil on the want of the dcellar with a r’"t , you. All plnt?ull'l:: to rounding dry land to pupate but also that it killed the adults which have a _- habit of hovering over the water just, before dawn in the morning and dip— ping themselves on the surface. much as swallows will play over the water in the evening. Dr. Porchinsky reports “that. the spreading'of toil killed the horse flies when they indulged in this species of play and that .he saw their bodies. floating on the surface of the ponds in numbers as a result of the treat- ment. I have not had an Opportunity to test this out here but if horse files are very common at Sigma, Michi— gan; it might be profitable to try out this method and see what comes of it—R. H. Pettit, Professor of Ento— mology, M. A. C. HAVE RIGHT rro ACTION A, a farmer of Osceola County de- cided to quit farming last spring, ar- ranged with his banker, B, for his public auction on these terms: B to furnish the advertising, auctioneer, clerk and adjuster; to take all notes, cash, including what A may see fit to bid in, discounting the total 10 per cent, paying A cash for the balance, which was done, all but one cow, which C bought for $51.00. C, think- ing he gave too much for his cow got A to write B that he, A, would take $40, cash, for the cow. As all notes were made to B, C gave B his note and kept the cow. The last A heard from the cow or $40 was a letter from B dated May 31st that led A to think that his monemwould soon be forthcoming. . A has written B several times since which B ignores. What .is your advice to A. The date of the sale was April 26. The notes were given for 8 months—W. H., Ann Arbor, Mich. -—It is my opinion that you would have a right of action against B on his agreement in which he was to take the notes, discount them and pay you the balance in cash—Asst. Legal Editor. CAN SELL REMEDY THROUGH MAILS I have a medicine that is a sure cure for white scours in calves. I would “like to ‘advertise and sell through the mail with a money back guarantee if not satisfactory. I have used it for years and know it is all 0. K Is there any law to stop me selling through the mail?—R. P., Harrisville, Mich. , —-There is no law prohibiting you from selling this kind of a remedy through the mails—Asst. Legal Editor. \VOULD HAVE RIGHT TO TAX LAND I want your opinion on taxing property direct on town and county ditches. Now I own the southeast quarter of section 27 and there has been five ditches dug and I had to FARM TO KEEP WATER OUT OF CELLAR I have a small cellar which has water in it every spring. It is part stone and part cement but has been plastered with cement but does not keep the water out. Is there a way to plasterit to keep water out? Cem- ent will hold water in, why won’t it keep it out?—H. C. 0., Reed City, Mich. —‘—One difficulty which might occur in attempting to plaster a stone cel- lar to keep out water is that it is difficult to place the ’plaster to resist the pressure of water and also some- what diflicult to place the plaster so that it is really applied in single. coat. It must be remembered thit a. job of this kind must be 100 per cent perfect to be made water-proof. One hole the size of a pin head is practically enough to render the work imperfect. It is possible that, by cleaning the gallon. elation of . I ‘11. ' dorm W.- “be accompanied by full 11 am. and,addl'bsll. Nam not wed paywa direct tax on all five. There are two on the north bolt running west and two on the south half rear ning west, and one reading east. Now they are digging one on. the north half, eighty rods apart. "New this first ditch is 80 toils saith Bf my north line and this one they are - letting is 80 rods north of the first one. New whot. I, want to know is. can they tax me on this. ditch, since . I have paid two direct taxes on the eighty already-«E. G., LuGres. -——If your land would be benefited by the ditch, the county would have the right to levy a tax against your land for its construction. It you feel that the assessment against yOur land, ,made by the drain commis- sioner, is unjust, you may appeal to the probate "court to have a board of reviewappointed to pass on your claim.—Asst. Legal Editor. CAN ALL PROPERTY GO TO ‘ HUSBAND? Will you please tell me if in ’a case where there are no children and there is no joint deed, and in case the wife dies first, if her relatives can claim the wife’s share, if she doesn’t leave a will? Kindly answ- er in the Business Farmer, and thank you.——Mrs. 0. P. D., Stanton... Mich. -—If there are no children, nor the issue of a deceased child, then the residue of the estate after payment of debts and expenses of administra- tion would be distributed as follows: One half to the husband and one half to the father, mother, brother, sister, nephew or niece of the wife. If neither of the above are living, then the entire estate would go to the husband—Asst. Legal Editor. SHIPPED MORE THAN ORDERED In the fall of 1922 I ordered a half barrel of liquid Asbestos roofing. The pamphlet stated it was sold in one gallon, five gallon, half barrel and one. barrel lots at so much per Thinking a half barrel would meet my need I ordered a half. barrel and was sent forty gal- lons. Is that a legal half barrel? Will I have to pay for it all? I sent pay for 16% gallons, the amount I supposed I had ordered.— C. W., Beulah, Michigan. ———Yqu would not be required to pay for more asbestos than you ordered, provided you didn’ t accept the addi- tional amount. Unless there was an understanding as to what would be considered a half barrel, the leg-ala- tion half barrel, or 15%, would be the proper amount. ——Asst. Legal ' Editor. IS IIE ENTITLED TO ALL PRODUCE When I pay cash rent, in the way of taxes, insurance and so much in money to make a certain amount same as cash, can I reap all the har- vest such as wheat,, rye and speltz that was sown in the tall? This is MECHANICS thoroughly with water then plaster- ing with a mixture of one. part cem- ent to two parts sand with one pound of lime added in each ten pounds .of cement, the cellar might prove effec- tive. Inuktiuuud insurance against water may be had by washing the ad? ditional coat with a wash of cement and water mixed to the consistency of cream and applied. The only way to insure a job of this kind is by a method which would entail condiderable expense. It is to first cover the floor and walls with“ two or three thicknesses of tar paper which has been painted with asphaltum. . The material is lapped somewhat like the roofing on a house, after which the entire surface ‘ is painted with 'asphaltum or inop- ped with hot pitch. The surface coat of two inches td four inches of concrete is then placed over this to protect it.- We then have a thin membrane of aspbaitu'm or. pitch be— _ tween the original floor mad the new _ . . a .3 in through the court before A one ‘ except it? , deed go through the court nm' 7 "A?-——A. M. Vulcan, Mich. _ -—-Ii the township has aaédd Hi ~ the strgp of land it could - ——If you have an agreement the other heirs, whereby you are raise on said farm. the some is" g“ u: were renting the . flimsy rem basis, , placfi 5n ‘7 ‘ ., _ —--Asst. 7 ‘ We an! having considerable trpuble " with ants. The} are in our house. they get into cupboards and on the food. Can you tell me how to get rid of them? Thank you .~——Sagina'w Reader, Saginaw, Mich. , _, --.The ants that infect houses in Michigan may, for control purposes. be divided into two 03W: those " that like sweets and those that lilte~ grease, the latter being the very tiny red ants that love to collect on bacon rinds and on other greasy objects. The sweetssting ants include the ' large. carpenter ants. which are black, and several species est-brown ants of varying size but all of them larger than the tiny meeting species. _ In order, to permanently rid a dwelling of these nuisances it. is nec- essary that their nests be destroyed, and the easiest way to destroy these nests is to induce the ants them- selves to do the work for you. A mixture of tartar emetic and extract-3 ed honey at the rate of one part of additional amount in money, its con i emotion for your. rum. to use this form we would be entitled to all \ . the poison to twenty of the 'honey ' seems about the right combination for the sweet loving ants, it kills the ants eventually but not quickly enough to hinder their getting back home and destroying their nests. We find that very thick honey is best, we even like to thicken it with pewd- ered sugar and all mixing should be done without heat so as to keep the, honey thick. The reasonis that if the honey is thin the poison will set- tle out and the ants will not get it- . -Get your. druggist to mix up an , ounce or so of this material and 1 place it where nothing but the ants ‘. can get. to it. I would invert an ' empty wooden box over the dish con- taining the poison or label it and put- it away in ‘some such manner that neither children nor any other creat- ures can get to it or mistake it for food. If it is impossible to such precautions then it is better not to attempt to get rid of the ants in this manner. The ants will come to the poisoned honey and usually all that is necessary is to leave the poise on—bait exposed for a few days or weeks until the ants have all had an opportunity to partake. Large ant- nests in the lawn may-be treated in a similar manner. Place the poison- bait in a piece of tin or in a shallow dish on the nest and invert an empty wooden box over the dish and ant- hill, to prevent anything other than ants fiom getting at the poison. take . Remember, that tartar emetic is a . violent poison and extremely danger? one and just as effective against hm: mans and pets as against insects. Take every precaution possible in it's use and as soon as it has accomplish— ; ' ed its purpose bury the remainder or take precautions which will prevent its being the cause of an accident lat: or on. ——R. H. Pettit, Prof. of Ento-l mology, M. A. C. HAS TOWNSHIP GOOD TITLE T0 . LAND? ‘ A road is made on the line on A" 3 land. is a fence on A’s land, 33 ft. from the line, which was built 18 years ago. A agreed .to give 33 ft. for road to the township; -but the town'_- ship made a deed of 66 it. ofroad on A’s land, without saying anything to A about it, which was recorded 13 years ago. 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Each is worthy of your interest in some degree. Read the advertisements. Know what is offered in return for your cash. Hem- all the bids. Compare values. Check up on the otterings. Then you can be sure you are get- ting the most for your money. Know what your money is worth Advertisements tell you mom and Fireside which ac- curstely describes the liquor or ,, booze situation in my section of Michigan and I will gamble that the situation is as bad everywhere in the United States as it is- here, or perhaps worse. Prohibition just simply does not prohibit. I have been practically a teetotsler all my life and my Vote helped to make it dry, but in voting to make it dry I made a terrible mistake, so did every one else who voted tonnkeit dry. What has prohibition done for us? It has deprived us of a market for our rye and barley. I: has de- prived our government of the liquor tax which was an immense sum which went to help pay the cost of government“ ~. Has prohibition done any ood? No. It has done‘grenx harm. here is more booze in 'my territory and I believe everywhere else than there ever was under the open,saloon. I think I am well within the truth in saying there are from two to four moonshine stills on every square mile in the country districts and there are barrels and barrels of moonshine being made in our cities, towns and villages, and it never can be stopped. The prOfits in making moonshine and bootlegging are so enormous there is a large class of our citizens who have and always will take a chance of making and selling it. Where one man gets pinched and imprisoned there are a. dozen more ready to take his place. Has prohibition removed the temp— tation to drink booze by our young men? No. It is worse than ever before. Let anyone who does not l ' of: fifths“ be ‘ belieVe this go to our country re- sorts where they run dancing pavil- _ ions all night, and stay around a while and keep their eyes open and they will soon be convinced. There are more people being killed and others being made phys- ical wrecks from drinking booze at the present time than there ever was under the open saloon. The open saloons were all wrong. Had the prohibitionlsts closed the saloons and then quit, the booze situation would have been a_ million times better than it is today. Had we, today, the army we sent to France and commissioned it to make this country dry it (the army) couldn’t do it. Every farmer who has kept his eyes open Will say the same thing ———'A. A. Lambertson, Kent County. WHAT ABOUT MARKETING YOUR , CROP? . HE old marketing routine is something like this: Sell the crop to a local buyer or, to the casual visiting buyer. If neither of these provide a market then trust that the Lord will take care of “nit wits” and fruit growers by dumping the crop when'harvested into the nearest central market. A fruit grower who consign's his crop in an indiscriminate way has himself trained to feast on air, water and landscape and will be fortunate it he gets more. Now I fancy some of my grower friends are saying, “Don't worry yourself Mr. Townsend, we were “soaked” last year and the year be- * fore but we will not consign any more to the same people." Re— minds me of two young farmers in Sauk county who had lost their fath- er and were bewailing their misfor: tunes, recounting them to a visiting uncle. “I tell you, Uncle John, it is some- thing worse every year. " “That’ 3 too bad, ” says uncle John. _ "What all has hapened?” “Well, four years ago the chickens all died, and I tellyou Uncle John it is something worse every year. " “What happened worse the next year 9” “Three yam ago the hogs all died of the hog. cholera. It’s something worse every year!” “That's dreadful. , ity happened next. " “So worse eVery your Laet’yeari'edodndthieyurthe bull.’ What calam- - kets. i i from m ' ‘ V . m send ng you 8» cm as coneigniut new,“ All chn'signeee . are honest. Always were honest and always will lie honest, , though my neighbor says there are We excep- tions: they are all honest except . week days and Sundays. , Of course consigneee are efficient . but if a buyer visits you from the cents-oi markets for goodness sakes, don’t give him any pro-Voleteadcld er. I: you do he will possibly tell you how much better it is to sell out right to him, than consign be- cause it there is a lot or stock in the market ”they just slaughter things. " Now we are all convinced that con-' slgnoee are bones: and eflctent. What next? The citrus growers were a plucky lot. They were more than that- They were both plucky and plucked ' and that too in a near innocent sort of a way. They shipped to Straus- heime'r on East River Street and Panatelll on West River Street. They were hustlers/and had a variety of things to sell. Naturally they want- ed to keep the retailers coming. Mr. Retailer runs his truck down to Strausheimers to buy supplies but is looking for an “inducement.” Now cutting prices on goods that are own— ed or handled at a fixed price is a. sacrifice of profits but there is a way. You want some oranges and lemons. We can Shade the list on those. The dealer who bought lemons at a shad- ed pri-ce on Tuesday visits Panatelli Wednesday and tells about the cut in price. Panatelli “sees” Straus- heimers cut and goes him one better and so each consignee in the struggle to get business keeps cutting the price to meet some other distributor until the price scarcely pays the freight. If there is stock in compe- tition consigninvg means price cutting at consignors expense and expense to all other growers—loss to all be- cause of flat markets. Produce and fruit merchants often have retail stores or are directly in- terested in such stores but of course they would never, never buy consign- ed goods for their own stores. If they bought of themselves they might cheat themselves and soon go broke but if there were no other stock quite as available it would really be an honor to the shopper to supply stock good enough for the jobbers own retail store. Some jobbers as consignees might feel that if they paid eighty per cent of the value of a consignment and al— IOWed themselves twenty per cent for the honor done the consignee by retailing his stock, that they had done quite well by the shipper. A dealer must keep stock or go out of business. If the consigned supply is insuflicient he~muSt go out and buy stock to keep trade going. Suppose you consign a big lot just after the dealer has bought a, large supply. .Of course he will let his owu stock rot, rot, rot, and hustle ,out and sell the consigned goods. There is a chance though, that you might consign to someone whose ethical sense had been paralyzed by spinal menigitis or something not quite so bad. In such cases the con— signed stock would take second place in selling and may all spoil before the consignee can sell it. Visible supply greatly affects mar— If a large number of cars are in the central markets at the some time buyers are apt to conclude that there will be lower prices and buy little and this furthur disturbs the market. If a considerable part of the crop was distributed to outlying markets the central markets would not be over stocked and the market would be stable. Anyone who will allow his brain to function a little bit will see that com- mission merchants are probably as honorable as other business men but that no matter how honest the sys- tem is interwoven—fabricated- with vicious competition, irregular ’ and often excessive supply. plus a number of other features that make . it a ruinous marketing system. The growers now have their on \ more self-supporting _ less so as regards food supplie Trade between nations is a platter— ;. No notidn I can go on continually buying with“ H this country drlth its .' vest wealth should buy $6M1000, -. 000 more goods than it sold and pear“- in money, in six or seven years its» enormous gold supply would be ex— . of exchange of goods. on: aching. haustod. This, of course, does not take into “count the debit and credit situa-afi tion. Before the war, Europe bed in- ;;.‘ vestments in this country of approxi- mately $5,000, 000,000 with an an- ~ ' nual interest charge of probably $260, 000, 000. paid in goods or agricultural prod- ucts and made a market to that ex-. tent in excess of the regular ex- change of goods. Now the position is reversed. Europe has borrowed from private sources in this country sums estimated from five billion to. seven billion dollars with an inter— est charge of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred and fifty mil- lion dollars. This will be paid by imports in excess of the regular ex- , change of products. Already, in March and April, im- ports in this country have exceeded exports. Aside from this, European countries owe this country eleven or twelve million dollars which we are pressing them for payment. One of our great u'nappreciated blessings is that Europe can’t pay us either in goods or gold this vast sum. To do so would so disarrange our econom~ ical situation as to be disastrous. As Europe gets back to normalcy she will require gold to back up her financial system. We have the gold and she will draw on us for gold in exchange for goods, enhancing the value of gold and lowering the price of goods. In all this I see little chance of any considerable or perm- anent rise in the price of agricultur- al products. ' If this is so farmers are wasting time and energy in promoting legis— lotion for the purpose of raising the price of agricultural products, as economic laws are much more pow- erful than legislative enactments. The farmer lost an opportunity last summer in not getting solidly behind .the government in its attempt to . en'IiVened With anecdotes that Openjhyon a whole world of _, to who Myrna; in. your card . ‘ , , N settle the railroad and coal miners strikes. It was supposed that as soon as railroad earnings permitted there would be a reduction in freight ‘ rates. Instead the railroads are now increasing the wages of the rail- road men. This is natural as rail- road workers are well organized and can make the railroads trouble, while the farmers are divided and a. good share of them are backing rail: road workers in their demands. Of course this will further postpone rate reduction. _ As long as a considerable portion of farmers follow such leaders as La- Follette, Frazier, Brookhart, and our own Herbert Baker, they will play into the hands of those who are1 try- ing to prevent after-war readjust- ments. —K. S. W., Boyne City, Mich. Bunk ileum (Boob reviewed under this heading may be Secured thro “The”: armlcr. and Digit“ ipped - role “post on receipt pof pub her’s brie stated 1 Gardening With Bruins—By Henry T- Finch, ”The best that has so far been written on garden subjects," the world's most famous gardener, Luther Burbank, _ 8‘ wrote to the author of this book. “You get the facts in such 3. 1116181118. ,- human way,” Burbank added, “that they are irresistible. Your articles suggest to me the difference between living, mowing, growing plant life. and the dead. dry, fiat specimens which one sees in herbs:- isms." ‘ This, of course was “ '7 ' 1'3" , >7 sno- :11: urn-cannu- r-l-m "1“; 1..._ A“. .. The important facts are all here, ingih- tied with Wine and witty rer and about us! L .her plans as she used to. L fithesa‘me is a perfect man”. sass-m; ‘ _ manage: While'h'e' bandied; ' 1:26. ' ,nn'rnnn the. Business Farmer pleaders liked the sermon on f _ “The Secret of “Simple Living? ohms, We all can agree that greater emphasis should be placed .on per- m1 irighteous living. Christ plac- v his emphasis here; And anent ' , the- apostle James says, "If any Hmaathinketh himself to be religious in! bridleth not his tongue, this mlsrreligion is void.” 0, yes, this means‘.r0n...’too, good sister. * _ Maris there'Tthat seems to be more : immaterial, ,mare unsubstan- ttalr than speech? ‘yYet, what reac- » flop is attendantupon it. What a sott,*"weak member physically speak- ing, is the'tongue. Yet, what power ‘infliite it commands. Said the wise man of the froward tongue, “That ' thiaman’s religion 13 , soft tongue breaketh the bone." And . 1 again, "There is that speaketh rash- ‘ l-y'";like the piercings of asword.” . _,Words have to do with the cur- '- rent of others’ lives as well as our own. We have learned that on the "mic of the tongue,'many times, do- pendwlarge issues in individual and community life. “The mouth of the ’fool is present destruction to the in- dividual,”_but according to James, itals‘o sets on fire the whole round of nature. Let us notice the effect of the disobedient tongue under three heads: first, free and idle criti- cisms; secondly, gossiping; and again, grudges. Sometime ago, I approached an oflice door in one of our cities which had on it these words, "Come in - without knocking and leave without knocking." Yet, coming or going, we “have the chronic “knockers". In most communities there are habitual critics; “Honest criticism always benefits”. But I am referring to those who indulge in free and idle criticism. To them, human frailty ‘ in others is an invitation" to point out and emphasize the defects. And. the temptation is so alluring that they continue until their own vision is so blurred they, can scarcely see any- ,thing good. They become alert and sensitive and go after their victim' . like ‘a cat leaps after its prey. . Now, anyone who does this is do- ing profound harm to-himself. Re— action is heaviestupon him-and “his religion is vain”. The one criticised may be suppressed in the enthusi- asms of life, but only temporarily. ‘ The springs of his life will come back to' glorify virtue and truth. And . yet the rippling criticism spreads and spreads until the whole neighborhood is affected. What parasitical tongues But I insist that the one ' "who delights in finding flaws in others, who feels a sense of elation in dealing in Jason criticisms of 'dthers, has taken a deadly poison " . that has no known antidote save the spirit of Jesus Christ. The apostle says that'no mereman can tame such tongue. . In the home the man is usually the, critic. He prides himself in it. -. I suppose his coming by a kind of *self—righeousness qualifies him for this lordly thing. His wife, fearing criticism, doesn't come to him with Does she, brother farmer? The children have a certain fear of dad’s harshness. ‘ ‘ “-Ye fathers, provoke not your chil— dren to wrath”. But this is. the ty- W-ranny of the male and the reaction ‘ makes for progressive crustlness. “If any. man stumbleth not in tongue . And ‘ the community pastor must bare his “bosom to the arrows of criticisms. -His ' looks, dress, wife, children, finances; his sermons are too short 7 ortoor long; he speaks truth too severely: and so on. munity that freely indulges in this 'ypnsfi-me is cultivating a spirit of “mind‘nnd heart that makes it quite , possible to retain a wise, qualified preacher. This easy censuring will {arefid'fidistrust and doubt. Certainly hurch with such tendencies have revived in it trust and its. chasm leader. ' » " t 011 sessiping? ,Well, ten ourages gossip. about others“ as idle; talk. Well, a com- ‘ eliminating mafia calls us to“ ac— count tor idle words. . ,‘f'They' say” lives in, every. neighborhood. She throws on her show! and‘dnops into your. home every now and .7 then. Eeigne‘dly,‘ it is but a neighborly borrowing of a cup of sugar. But her practice is her only reward “The words of a whisperer are as dainty mersels which go down into the chamber ‘of the belly”. But, ' socially, this -keeping rumors playing on the tomeis a deep—dyed iniquity. “Rumor hank—and Chance, and Tu- mult, and Confusion, all embroiled", says Milton. It pollutes the com- ‘munity, kindles passion, and drives out love. The Pentecostal fire can not settle dOWn when and where a church and a community are set on fire by the‘tongue. ‘ “There is so much good in the worst of us, ' And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us”. And grudges andloffenses? Blight- ing as they are, they must needs come says the Book; but woe unto the one by whom they come. “It is profitable for him that a great mill stone be hanged about his neck and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea”. At least this is better than the final retribution that awaits this moral tripping-up of others. But where did this enmity start? You will remember you observed some passing attitude or remark you did not like. You criticised it and— ibly. It sounded so good to your titillating ears that you encored yourself. Then you found yourself really liking it and you harbored it so long that it hatched out in genuine grudge. And did you say that it was your nature to hold grudges? But the teaching from Above is, that if anyone be a Christian he has a new nature. And now, in our bet- ter moments, when we are looking in the right direction, we discover it would have been much better to ‘ have passed unnoticed the careless word or even the meant offense. Surely, this occasions much stum— bling. And the gravity of this sin but emphasizes the virtue of self— denial. After all, doesn’t life every- where need to enter into a new era of self-denial? And until it comes Jesus Christ will be pained and heart-broken.‘ Not the conquering of-the other fellow, but of yourself, makes you a militant victor in, your moral Life. And regarding all this, Christian teaching stays the foot as it stumbles over the occasion, the hand as it grasps it, the eye as‘it gloats over it,—all these are the agents of the inner life, and disclose its impure loves, and pleasures,'and desires; and must be cut ed? that evil may not work through them; So, must we apply this rule to our tongue. This is rigorous means but the demand is stringent. Only this can bring about love and good-will in our community. How happy we wouldbe it we were not so sensitive and blundering; if we were able to see the good in others and love and forgive much! But our Savior did. And to let his love and mercy steal our hearts in all its largeness, is to make the slights and aifronts of others seem ' , small indeed. Friends, we shall find that grudging and hating are deep- seated in defective thinking about ' God and in a. starved experience of his love. The Apostle says that with the same tongue we cannot bless the “Lord and Father” and curse men “who are made after the likeness of God". ~ The Chinese have a saying, “that an unlucky word dropped from the tongue cannot be brought back again by a coach’ and six horses". And now we are ready to accept the charge to bridle the tongue. When the baptism of fire sets upon it then . it vwill'be chastened and purified for the Master’s use. 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For the firist time he d seen MacDonald fill h s pockets with the finger-long cartridges for This title, and he had noted. how care- ” fully he had looked at the breech of that rifle. Without questioning, he fihad followed the mountaineer's ex— ample. There were fifty spare cart- » ridges in his own pockets. His .303 Twas freshly cleaned and oiled. He "had tested the mechanism of his automatic. MacDonald had watch- .ed him, and both understood what such preparations meant as they set out on this last day's journey into » the North. They had not kept from f Joanne the fact that they would reach the end before night, and as .‘ they rode the prescribed distance be- hind the old hunter Aldous wonder- .ed how much she kne ' They had , given her to understand that they were beating out the rival party, but he believed that in spite of all their efforts there was in Joanne’s mind a comprehension which she did not re— veal in voice or look. Today she was no different than yesterday, or the day before, except that her cheeks were not so deeply flushed, and there was an uneasy questing in her eyes. He believed that she had sensed the nearness of tragedy, that she was conscious of what they were now trying to hide from her, and that she did not speak because she knew that he and MacDonald did not 'want her to know. His heart throb— bed with pride. Her courage inspir— ed him. And he noticed that she rode closed to him—always at his side through the day. Early in the afternoon MacDonald stopped 011 the crest of a swell in the valley and waited for them. When they came up he was facing the north. He did not look at them. For a. few moments he did not speak. His hat was pulled low, and his beard was twitching. They looked ahead. At their feet the valley broadened until it was a mile in Width. Half a mile away a band of caribou were running for the cover of a parklike clump of timber. MacDonald did not seem to notice them. He was still looking steadily and he was gazing at a mountain. It was a tremendous mountainfperhaps Aldous had nev— er seen another like it. Its huge shoulders were of almost ebon black- ness, and glistened in the sunlight as if smeared with oil. Between those two shoulders rose a cathedral- like spire of rock and snow that seemed to tip the white fleece of the clouds. MacDonald did not turn when he :spoke. His voice was deep and vi— brant with an intense emotion. Yet he was not excited. “I’ ve been hunting for that moun— t’ in fer forty years Johnny!” I‘M-aclzufii ’- Aldous leaned over and laid a hand on the old mountaineer’s shoulder. Still MacDonalddid not look at him. “Forty years, ” he repeated, as if speaking to himself. “I see how I missed it now, just as DeBar said. I .. hunted from the west, an’ on that side the mount 1n ain’t black. We must have crossed this valley an’ (l "Pk/1| ,3, ‘ ago, Johnny ALL IN A DAYS WORK AT THE COUNTRY STORE James O « Michigan’ 3 Own dind Amortca' 3 Format Author of a; Great Northwest Copyright by June- Oliver Garwood come in from the east forty years He turned now, and what Joanne and. Aldous saw in his face was not grief; it was not the sorrow of one drawing near to his beloved dead, but a joy that had transfigured him. The fire and strength of the youth in which he had first looked upon this valley with Jane at his side burned again in the sunken eyes of Donald Mac- Donald. After forty years he had come into his own. . Somewhere very near was the cavern with the soft white floor of sand, and for a moment Aldous fancied that he . could hear the beating of MacDon-. ald’s heart, while from Joanne’s tender bosom there rose a deep, sob- bing breath of understanding. And MacDonald, facing the moun- tain again, pointed with a long, gaunt arm, said: “We're almost there, Johnny. God ha’ mercy on them if they’ve beat us out!” . . CHAPTER XXVI HEY rode on into the Valley of Gold. Again MacDonald took the lead, and he rode straight into the face of the black mountain. Aldous no longer made an efiort to keep Joanne in ignorance of what might be ahead of them. He put a sixth cartridge into the chamber of his rifle, and carried the weapon across the pommel of his saddle. He explained to her now why they were riding behind—that if their enemies were laying in wait for them, Mac- Donald, alone, could make a swift retreat. Joanne asked no questions. Her lips were set tight. She was pale. At the end of three quarters of an hour-it seemed to them that Mac— Donald was riding directly into the face of a wall of rock. Then he swung sharply to the left, and disap- peared. When they came to the point where he had turned they found that he had entered a conceal- ed break in the mountain—a chasm with walls that rose almost perpen— dicular for a thousand feet above their heads. A, dark and solemn gloom pervaded‘this chasm, and Ald- ous drew nearer to MacDonald, his rifle held in readiness, and his bridle rein fastened to his saddle-horn. The chasm was short. Sunlight burst upon them suddenly, and a few minutes after MacDonald waited for them again. Even Aldous could not restrain an exclamation of surprise When he rode up with Joanne. Under them was another valley, a wide—sweeping Valley between two rugged ranges that ran to the southwest. Up out of it there came to their ears a steady, rumbling roar; the air was filled with that roar; the earth seemed to tremble with it und— er their feet—and yet it was not loud. It came sullenly, as if from a great distance. And then they saw that Mac- Donald was not looking out over the sweep of the valley, but down. Half a mile under them there was a dip -—-—a valley within a valley—and through it ran the silver sheen of a stream. MacDonald spoke no word WWMMAR,JH MONTH!- Tm. I! M .W moans m m mom mar ‘now. He dismounted and levelled his long telescope at the little valley. Aldous helped Joanne from her horse, and they waited. A great ‘breath came' at last from the old hunter. Slowly he turned. He did not_give the telescope to Aldous, but to Joanne. She looked. .For a full minute she seemed scarcely to breathe. Her hands trembled when she turned to, give the glass to Ald— ous. ‘ , “I see—log cabins!” she whisper- ed. - MacDonald placed a~ detaining ‘ hand on her arm. “Look ag’in—Joanne,” he said in a low voice that had in it a curious- quiver. Again she raised the telescope to her eyes. , “You see the little cabin—nearest , the river?” whispered lD.onald “Yes, I See it. ” “That was our cabin—Jane’s an’ mine—forty years ago,” he said, and now his voice was husky. Joanne’s breath broke sobbingly as she gave Aldous the glass. Some- thing seemed to choke him as he looked down upon the scene of the grim tragedy in which Donald Mac- Donald and Jane had played their fatal part. He saw the cabins as they had stood for nearly half a century. There were four. Three of them were small, and the fourth was large. They might have been built yesterday, for all that he could see of ruin or decay. The doors and windows of the larger cabin and two of the smaller ones were closed. The roofs were unbroken. The walls ap— peared solid. Twice he looked at the fourth cabin, with its wide-open door and window, and twice he look- ed at the cabin nearest the stream, where had lived Donald MacDonald and Jane. Donald had moved, and Joanne was watching him tensely, when he took the glass from his eyes. Mutely the old mountaineer held out a hand, and Aldous gave him the telescope. Crouching behind a rock he slowly swept the valley. For half an hour he looked through the glass, and in‘ that time scarce a word was spoken. During the last five minutes of that half-hour both Joanne and Aldous knew that MacDonald was looking at the little cabin nearest the stream, and with hands clasped tightly they waitedin silence. At last old Donald face and voice were wonderful calm. “There ain’t been no change," he said softly. “I can see the log in front 0’ the door that I used to cut kindling on. It was too tough for them to split an’ burn after we left. An’ I can see the tub I made out o' spruce for Jane. It’s leaning next the door, where I put it the day be- fore we went away. Forty years ain’t very long, Johnny! very long!” Joanne had turned from them, and Aldous knew that she was cry- 111g. “An’ we’ve beat ’em to it, Johnny —we've beat ’em to it!” exulted MacDonald. “There ain’t a sign of life in the valley, and we sure could rose, and his filled with a ears new new: mom "warm muMwLemmm It ain’t . 'had swung on hinges; “It’s terrible, terrible, ” sh w *' j ered brokenly. And it—-it"s I feel as though Idlers 11111, John. to give my life—to bring Jam ’ back!” " “You must not betra tears J or? grief to Donald,” said A d'ous, draw-.4. ing her close in his arms for a mom- ent. “Joanne—sweetheart—-—it is a ‘ wonderful thing that is happening with him! I dreaded this day-e1, f have dreaded it\for a long time; ”I. thought that it would be terrible to witness the grief of a man with a. heart like. Donald’s. But he is not filled with grief, Joanne. It is joy, a great happiness that perhaps, neith- er you nor I can understand—h—that has come to him now. Don’t you. understand? He has found her- He has found their old home. To-day is the culmination of forty years of hope, and faith, and prayer. And it does not bring him sorrow, but glad- ness. We must rejoice with him. We must be happy with him. I love you above all else on earth or in heaven. Without you I would not want to- live. -And yet, Joanne, I believe that I am no happier today than is Donald MacDonald!” With a sudden cry, Joanne flung her arms about his neck. . “John, is it that?” she cried, and joy shone through her tears. “Yes, yes, I understand now! His heart is not breaking. It is life returning into a heart that was empty. I und- erstand—oh, I understand now! And we must be happy with him. We must be happy when we find the cav- ern——and Jane!” . “And when we go down there to the little cabin that was their home." “Yes—yes! ” They followed behind MacDonald. After a little a spur of the mountain side shut out the little valley from them, and when they rounded this they found themselves very near to the cabins. They rode down a beau- tiful slope into the basin, and when he reached the log buildings. old Donald stopped and dismounted. Again Aldous helped Joanne from her horse. Ahead of them MacDon- ald went to the cabin nearest the stream. At the door he paused and waited for them. “Forty years!” he said, facing them. “An’ there ain't been so very much change as I can see!” Years had dropped from his shoulders in these last few minutes, and even Aldous could not keep quite out of his face his amazement and wonder. Very gently Donald put his hand to the latch, as though . fearing to awaken some one within; and very gently he pressed down on it, and put a bit of his strength against the door. It moved inward, and when it had opened sufficiently he leaned forward so that his head and a half of his shoulders were in- side; and he looked—a long time he looked, without a movement of his body or a breath that they could see". And then he turned to them again, and his eyes were shining as they had never seen them shine before. “I’ll open the window,” he said. “It’s dark—dark inside.” He went to the window, which was closed with a sapling barricade that and when he swung it back the rusted hinges gave way, and the thing crashed down at through his feet. And now the BY Tyson. \_ - ‘b . .‘ ’ . ; =4 . Dfliers was._,not much in theicabin, " ‘ What it hold was earth, heaven, feudal! else to Donald MacDonald. A strange, glad cry surged. from his ’ chest as he looked about him, and now Joanne saw and understood what John Aldous” had told her—for Donald MacDonald, after forty years, had come back to his home! “011, my Gawd, Johnny, they did- n’t touch anything! They didn't touch , anything!” he breathed in ecstasy. “I thought after we ran away they’d come in " He broke off, and his hat dropped fromhis hand, and he stood and stared; and what he was looking at, ___....-._~, m Splash, and Joanne’s hand-gripped John’s, and held to it tightly. Against the wall, hanging as they i had hung for _forty years, were a ‘7 woman’s garments; a hood, a shawl, a dress, and an apron that was half .~ in tatters; and on the floor under these .things were a pair of. shoes. . And as Donald MacDonald went to them, his arms reaching out, his lips moving, forgetful of all things but that he had come home, and Jane was here, Joanne drew Aldous softly . to the door, and they went out into ; the day. . Joanne did not speak, and Aldous did not urge her. He saw her white throat throbbing as if there were a little heart beating there, and her eyes Were big and dark and velvety, like the eyes of a fawn that had been frightened. There was a thickness in his own throat, and he found that it was diflicult for him to see far out over the plain. They waited near the horses. Fifty yards from them ran the stream; a clear, beautiful stream which flowed in the direction from which the mysterious rumble of thunder seemed to come. This, Ald— ous knew, was the stream of gold. In the sand he saw wreckage which he knew were the ancient rockers; a shovel, thrust shaft-deep, still re- , mained in the cabin. _Then he came , out. Very carefully he closed the door. His' shoulders were thrown back. His head was held high. He looked like a monarch. And his voice was calm. “Everything is there, Johnny—— everything but the gold,” he said. “They took that.” ' Now he spoke to Joanne. “You better not go with us into the other cabins,” he said. “Why?” she asked softly. “Because—there’s death in them all.” - , “I am going,” she said. From the window of the largest cabin MacDonald pulled the sapling shutter, and, like the other it fell to his feet. Then they opened the door, and entered; and here the sun- light revealed the- cabin’s ghastly tragedy. The :first thing that they saw, because it was most terrible, was a rough table, half over which lay the shrunken thing that had once been a man. A part of its clothes ._.. -._._..... _ .,_..__. ._ _.,,. .. _‘ ..._._..._.. h ,. <+, still remained, but the head hadT broken from its column, and the , white and fleshless skull lay facing them. Out of tattered and dust- crumbing sleeves reached the naked bones of hands and arms. And on the floor lay another of these things, in a crumpled and huddled heap, only the back of the skull showing, like the polished pate of a bald man. These things they saw first, and then two others; on the table were a heap of age-blackened and dusty sacks, and out of the back of the crumbling thing that guarded them stuck the long buckhOrn hilt of a knife. “They must ha’ died fighting," Said MactDon-ald. “An’ there, Johnny, is their gold!” . . White as death Joanne stood in the door and watched them. Mac- Donald and Aldous went to the sacks.’ They were of buckskin. The years had not aged them. When Aldous took one in his hands‘he found it was heavier than lead. With his knife MacDonald out a slit in one of them, and the sun that came through the window flashed in a little golden stream that ran from the bag. . - V ‘ :We’lltake them out and put 'em, zip it pannier," said MacDonald. “The ,. others won’t, be far behind _us, ‘ may." ' " “ " " ' ‘ carried out f-rlt was a the sun fell upon in a greatpgolden . he said. ,4 . . . cue. suspense“ Wouldn 1:. go in ‘ there, Joanne.’ “I’m going," she whisbered again. "‘It was their cabin—the man an’ his wife,” persisted old Donald. "An’ the men was beasts, Joanne! I don’t know what happened in there—but I guess.” ’ > - ”I’m going,” she said again.. . MacDonald pulled down the barri— cade from the window—a window that also faced the south and west, and this time he had to 'thrust‘ against the door with his shoulder. They entered, and a low cry came from Joanne’s lips—a cry that had- in it horror, disbelief, a woman's wrath. Against the wall was a pile of something, and on that pile was the searching first light of day that had fallen upon it for nearly half a century. The pile was a man crumpled down; across it, her skele- ton arms thrown about it protecting- ly was a woman. This time Aldous did not go forward. MacDonald was alone, and Aldous took Joanne from the cabin, and held her while she swayed in his arms. Donald came out a little later, and there was a curious look’ of exultation and triumph in his face. _ “She killed herself," “That was her husband. him. ‘ put in the soles of his boots—and the nails are still there.” He went alone into the remaining he said. I know 9 . I the cabin," he explained. I gave him the rock-nails he_ . . while idousgst d with 9- “"3976“! not’isthyilong. From ann ful of the little brown sacks. He re- ;ui'ned, and brought a second arm- u . — . “There's three more in that last “Two men, an’ a woman. She must ha’ been the wife of the manrthey killed. They were the last to live, an’ they starv- ed to death. An’ now Johnny ” He paused, and he drew a great breath. . He was looking to the west, where the sun was beginning to sink be- hindthe mountains. ‘ “An’ now, Johnny, if you’re ready, an_’dif Joanne is'ready, we’ll go,” he sai . CHAPTER XXVII S THEY went up out of the basin into the broad meadows of the larger valley, MacDonald rode between Aldous and Joanne, and the pack-horses, led by Pinto, trailed behind. Again old Donald said, as he searched the valley: “We’ve beat ’em, Johnny. Quade an’ Rann are‘coming up on the other side of the range, and I figger they’re just about a day behind—mebby only hours, or an hour. You can't tell. There’s more gold back there. We got about a hundred pounds in them fifteen sacks, an’ there was twice that much. It’s hid some- where. Calkins used to keep his’n finder» the doorman did fourth cabin 'he brought an arm-’ .W find it later. ” .An‘" the 'ri _ dry gulches on both sides valleywthey’re full of it! gold, Johnny‘s—gold everywher. He pointed ahead to wli" , ,valley rose in a green slope b ,t‘ two mountains half a .mile awe “That’s the break,” he said. don’t seem very far now, “(10 Joanne?” His silence seemed have dropped from him 11 mantle, and there Was joy in w he was telling. “But it was a tance that night—a turrible tance,” he continued, before “ could answer. “That was forty-yo, years ago, coming November. Art?" was cold, an’ the snow was deep was bitter cold—so cold it can my Jane’s lungs, an’ that was W made her go, a little later.." slope up there don’t look steep no but it was steep then—with two‘fe: of snow to drag ourselves thrpug ‘ I don’t think the cavern is more’~ five or six miles away, Johnny mebby less, an’ it took us twent‘ hours to reach it. It snowed 3' heavy that night, an’ the wind blow ed so, that our trail was filled my or they might ha’ followed.” '_ Many times Aldous had been" on the point of asking old Donald question. For the first time he as ed it now, even as his eyes slow and searchingly swept over the va w ley for signs of Mortimer FitzI-Iugh and Quade. (Continued on Page 17), a of the ball bearings the life of the tractor. I Guaranteed for Life! McCormick -Deering Tractor Crankshaft and Main Bearings THE crankshaft and the crankshaft ball bearin 10-20 and I 5-30 tractors are guaranteed a or a year, but during the entire [#2) qf the tractor. . ‘ This guarantee covers breakage from any cause whatsoever, and in the case guarantees them from wearing out or burning out during or one of the branch houses. 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JULY'ZI, 1923 lid itnils nd Published THE hUML PUBLISHING OGMyPAIV, Inc. . ' GEORGE M. BLOOD". President - 7 “‘ ' ~ Mt. Clemens. Michigan .. ' Represented in New York, Chicago 9:. Louis and Minneapolis by , ‘ the Associated Farm Espers Incorporated Member of Agricultural Publishers Amociation Member of Audit bureau of Circulations . Grinnell , Hannah“! Editor ‘ , mum ; ‘ Annie Taylor Farm Home ditor - hank D. We Be. Fruit itor ’ Wm Fm“ “m?” ' E. Broom Tamil ditor W. Slocum Treasurer .... ...... ... ....... ...Plsnt Superintendent ONE YEAR 60¢. TWO VEARS $1. FIII YEARS '8- ' , The date following your name on the address label shows when your subseripti on expires. In renewing kindly send this label ~ avmd nfistakes. Remit by check. draft. money— —order or r ..." H... n...- 'letter; stamps and currenc are at your risk. by first-class mail every do r rec Advertising Rates: 45c per a ter line. 14 lines to the column inch 772 lines to the mac. Live Stock and Auction Sale Advertising: We offer s 1 low rates to reputable breeders of live stock and poultry; wrists-1. RELIABLE ADVERTISERS ‘Vi'e will not knowing} accept the advertising of any erson or firm who we do not h vs to be thoroughly honest an reliable. Should any reader have “i cause for complaint aainflt any Ed- in these columns, he. ht'fgublisher would appreciate an im- - mediate letter bringing all In every case when “rm“ say: ”I saw your advertisement 'n The Michigan Business It will guarantee honest den 112. "The Farm Paper of Service" WHAT THE FARMER WANTS HE July issue of the Locomotive Engineers Journal is devoted entirely to “What the Farmer Wants", and comes from the head— quarters ,. of one of the greateSt labor unions in America. It covers every point of the “Farmers Revolt” excepting that it fails to mention that the one thing the farmer wants more than anything else is lower freight rates. It is a. little hard for a farmer to hold the plow handles straight in a rocky field with the sun broiling down on the back of his neck, wondering whether or not the crop he is planting will come safely through and net him a few dollars profit, or whether possibly it will be a total loss, when he looks across the field at the locomotive engineer, in his uphol- stered cab, and realizes that the eigineer with no investment of capital draws about $1.00 an hour for his time, with time and a half for over- time and double time for holiday work! It is rather interesting to see so powerful a labor union taking so considerate a view of the greatest industry in America. The farmer, how- ever, is not one who forgets so easily the laws that were hurried through Washington during the very critical days of the war to satisfy the demands of the railway labor unions. The farmer does not forget that during the past two years when his crops have been selling at prices ' which did not pay'for the actual cost of pro- duction, the labor unions have demanded the “last pound cf flesh.” If the locomotive engineers want to know, “what the farmer wants” and they will go to the actual working farmers in the fields and not the political leaders who claim to champion the farmer’s cause but serve only to betog his issues, they will find that what the farmer wants most, is to know how they f‘put—it—over.” So far the farmer seems to be a. dismal failure in getting what he needs through organization. He gets“ what he “wants”, or what the politicians think he wants, but far from what he needs, which. is, as we see it, a guaranteed return on his in— vestment like Capital gets and a guaranteed wage for his time like Labor gets. GOOD-BYE FOREVER ERE will be no wheels-of—chanco on the Michigan State Fair Grounds this year. This announcement just made by George W. Dickinson, Secretary ‘and Manager, will send a. chill up the backs of thousands of city men and women who have apparently, heretofore, de- pended on “Lady Luck” for their food and rai-' ment. We wonder how they will get along! At former fairs it has been possible to take a chance on the wheel and win anything from a. poor, little, wild yellow bird in a reed cage, to, a basket of sawdust carefully camouflaged over. the top with a layer of fruit. When you consider that there were from one to two hundred chances on the spin of a. wheel, that each chance was sold for ten cents, and 'that the value of the. prize was seldom more than a. dollar, you can appreciate why there were nearly two city blocks of these stalls at the last State Fair, and why the space at $60 per foot for the ten days fair was sold immediately and at a profit to the fair- which we understood to have been $29, 000: ‘ , The passing of the wheel-of~chance marks one ;_ of the last steps in cleaning up the State Fair. 3W . be wonderful eXposition which the, State acquired ‘1; season 1cm center - We acknowledge ~ in Michigan. > ' ter” but we make the above assertion ' With, a knowledge of only a few of the improvements .' : Much credit for which should ,be given to Mr. ' ed ‘udilumi up , meat because he believes that better living cont slim: the phys- ’ m1 condition of the race As men learn to live -’ Simmembdred thatm within . _ The present board oi! managers oi: the State j: ' ' Fair are theretore to be credited with the mark ,. of progress which they have made in doing away with one of the last of the objectionable feature», even at, the cost of $29,000 for a season. 'We ,predict that this money wili’be spent in other quarters or will increase the attractions of the fair in such a way that this amount will be made as the present plans of the management are con- sumated Michigan will, without doubt, finest exposition of its kind on the American continent, if it does not enjoy this position today. ~ Every indication points to the fact that this ' year’s fair will be one of the greatest ever held It is easy to say “Bigger and Bet- which have been made for your approval this year. Better plan ahead now to bring the (folks and spend one day. at least at the State Fair. It is not too early to start planning to come and it you can come for a night or two there will be camping space with running water and all conveniences on the grounds. Tell the folks now you'll come and bring the whole family! BETI‘ER POTATO PRICES THERE is a ray of hope, at least, for the potato growers of Michigan who have garn- bled again against the elements and the even worse effect that'comes from a glutted mar- ket, in the statement just issued by the Michigan Potato Growers Exchange, which predicts a higher price for this years’ potato crop. Only three states, they point out; Maine, Ohio andNebraska, have larger crops than last year, and only Maine is an important contender with. Michigan in the production of this staple. All other states show a decrease in predicted pro- duction, and there is a shortage of over 47,000,— 000 bushels from. the estimate of 1922 taken at this time. , It is not yet safe to predict but that conditions may change and produce an even greater short- age. We hope so for the sake of the potato growers of Michigan who have had the courage to gamble on this precarious crop. The potato market suffers more from over production than it does from bugs and blight. The Agricultural - College and other specialists ought for this reason to give potato marketing a. greater share of their attention. FEDERAL All) FOR STATE ROADS NNOUNCEMENT has just been made in Washington of the mileage of good roads which will be giVen federal aid under the existing bills for that purpose. Michigan, with 4, 582 miles leads her neighbor- ing states in the mileage of good roads which we have available for federal aid. Ohio having 4,606 . miles and . Indiana, only 3,957' miles. This would indicate that Michigan has in reality made some progress in good roads since the fifty million dollar plan was undertaken. The total mileage. of good roads in the United States receiving federal aid, will approximate 187, 406 miles, and will connect nearly every city in the country having a population of over ~ five thousand. It has been stated that these roads comprise a network which will bring good roads within ten miles of 90% of the entire pop- ulation of the country. Good roads are expensive, but America with good roads is prosperous, while China which has no roads whatever, is a. pauper country, with millions of people living shoulder to shoulder in closely congested cities, while millions of acres stretch toward the Great Wall, uncultivated and uninhabited. If the difference between America and China is good rdads, then the price we pay is of little consequence. HOW OLD IS ANNE? SALT LAKE CITY chemist, Dr. Paul Bal- tinke; says that men and women Ought to . live to be a hundred and fifty years old, and will someday learn to live that long. i We' meet a lot oi folksthat we wouldlike to have on earth with us sheathed and fifty you‘re, but once in a. while we meet one that we would .iuet as soon have pass on at the normal ..age Dn: Haitians is. serious. tenements his state- ditions and social There is a greater demand in the metropol up. _ 1111i » The Business Farmer cannot help but feel that , only arrive Wk at this some conclusmn, use have the ‘vwhich operates as surely as the. dawn of. mfi ‘ .tarm‘ such as cider, maple syrup, honey, vi ' .- for the Winter a parcel-“post trade ' centers and the fax-mars cannot at the pro , selling price aflord to pay anywhere near 511-9 amount that. would be necessary for them to late tract labor back to {the farm where it belongs ““ .. All or the inmflgsfiéns that can be madd will there is a natural condition hero to uremia! ‘tation. We have predicted that the shortage of labyr- would decrease the total of the crop production this year to a point where a farmer Could got more for his products and thus meet some otetlm losses he has had to take during the past few years - ” .1 Indications seem to point to the fact that this. f i will be a year 01 small production. The present 3 low price of wheat does not indicate in- any respect“ the possible production. ‘It is, manipulation pure and simple,- which may be due. to ’- the insistent demand frOm same quarters that the Gorernment step in and Control the price of wheat. 1 If it were possible for the. United States Government to control the production of whwt .1 - grown in the Argentine and Ukraine, we might . " he in- a position to set the price of the world’s market for wheat, but inasmuch as that is im- practical, the control of world's wheat price is no less a “will— —0— —the-wisp!" g THE ROADSIDE MARKET ’ ITH the rapid development of Michigan'as ‘ an industrial state a," large proportion of . our farms are in proximity to cities and towns or lie along the network of state highways so that thousands of automobiles pass their gates l daily. This change has brought an opportunity ; for the individual farmer to sell the perishable i and other products of his farm direct to‘ the con- « sumer and at a larger profit to himself. A recent ~i i ‘ ——-—,.—.-——-s.——,.——_——~.‘ .... . g i , _ . r investigation of this growing and profitable busi- ness points out two or three facts which should be brought to the attention of farmers who are thus fortunately located. In the first place, our farmers. must build for ‘ l themselves a reputation for fair and square deal- ing. It is obvious that the farmer can mate i much more for himself and yet sell at a price L‘ " ‘ slightly under the retailer in the city. For the farmer, therefore, to charge the same or a higher price is only defeating his,own best interests. If the city custdmer buys'strawberries at ,25 cents ‘ a hex from the farmer and finds they are selling for 20 cents at his corner grocery store he ishot going back to the country. On the other hand, if the conditions are reversed, that farmer has secured for himself a steady cash customer who comes out to the farm and buys his products, not only for the slight saving that is made, but , because the products purchased, direct from the - farm are fresh, and therefore. more desirable. , Another weakness is the attempt on the part of some to combine with their sales of farm products the sale of “pop”, candy, tobacco and “hot dogs. ” It is obvious that this small store- keeping is seldom done by legitimate farmers, i and is usually attempted because a request is i had once in a While for these articles. Our in- vestigations show_ that this is seldom profitable to the farmer because his family uses up more of the kniCk-knacks which he buys for resale than he actually sells at a profit. While the i- ‘better class of his legitimate customers for farm products pass his place by because it does not E look like a. real farm and they are not interested ,c in trading at an imitation corner store. ' ‘ We know of many farmers who are selling V 4 all of the green vegetables they can convenitnely t' raise direct from the roadside. The children, like " to do this and it givesthem a good business training. It brings in ready cash for the himse- ‘hold expenses and usually more than just "pin . money ” The automobile has made this new roadside market possible, and if our farmers will 4 protect their own interests by fair and square A dealing, offering the best they have at! a tell? - price and keeping their premises clean and im , writing, this business can be doubled with each passing year. 5’ There are any number or by productsE o: m cottage cheese, etc., which can be made a at even larger pisses It is also easy when W. -..' ~ . ..»~ _ , ., ”“01'39noomr at “its! «is new: dear Ma mg: firmware-W a’ to our: our.“ rile-u ur- Iu . Junta. _, y *‘lr’nut‘morvthmc mar. all. oleh'h‘HJ-IILH Iii-utm- p ‘ V THE COME nox GROWING emu tine may bringsome lull ‘ hr' the other departments of 3 ‘~ ' ' term paper but the Collection [30: ‘is busierthan ever,~ if mime, *tryin‘g to keep up 'with:— the c‘om-' plaints we receive. ' _ . _, . The surprising thing is however, ’ W‘few of the complaints which are registered with no ‘we are not sole 'to collect. Moot mail-order houses acknowledge our claim with- inwten days and usually forward the about direct to our reader. Some take longer. A few require many letters and mother! a. personal call from one of our representatives but where. the chin: is clear and un- questioned, we never- Iet. go until our some" claim issatisfied.’ m AUTO 1mm . ‘ is never an end to the let- ters regarding the auto knitter, - which are advertised to liit the We on the old homestead and make it possible for the woman to sit comfortnhly in her rocking chair and with a simplettwist oi the wrist tun «Ethosiery which finds a sale even before it is manufactured- , ' Wewhere, someday, we expect. to find one to these machines. in success- ful operation. There seems to be no , question but that in the hands of an expert they will work, but. whether . they-can be made to produce profit- ably and are worth the ~$50 to $75 which they cost, is another question altogether, and we still contend that we could have to have some mighty . * conclusive evidence before we would care to recommend them for a widow ' lady or- an invalid, and wet it is * most often someone of this type who is interested in this weaned home money—making machine. JONES 0F WHEY VERY month brings is several ‘ - inquiries regarding a gentleman ~~ . whoring: himself "Jones, the real estates-loom 'Olney; Inhale,” - We. have-before us his circular mat- _ tor now, and he gives four bank . , refemcea 'and letters from cashiers Who says he lives up to his promises. ‘ His agreement, however, consists I :~ tercstcd in farm's for ethane!" in. aging. your property.” rm- this you. ' i a 't ' vane, the balance or the commission i farm is sold. It is not easy to sell [farms these days; and there are 1‘ plenty of then ,for sale, so that Mr. {Jones’ W83. night be profitable ’: even though he was not successful ‘ “in selling ans great proportion of, 'those from whom he collected the frame them including those for whom -' he sold farms? ' would like to tell our experience ‘1.» 1" Esme cm ”sf-imam rm ai- ~ -13, .. H’ybmz‘oa. libertine other 300- for meme: to interest“ ed fem lingers, , and printingwan. advertises r . misfit for" you in. theflFarm Buyers ' . Guide, in addition to which he will personal letters to parties in- otfier ways endeavor to aid you in cache, Mr. Jones $7.25 in ad“- $22_.75k, you are to pay him when the $7.25. He has been doing business in Michigan for several years. If any of our readers have had any dealings with him we would be glad to hear BUYING WI! REAL- ESTATE M recent letters I take it that _tho reel estate operators have-7 for some reason forsaken Detroit whichishthe throesofaseamn oi pro-parity, the: like of which has mtheenhtrntornomyears,and_ inmthe hoe of this have gone out to the farmers in the state selling sub- . division lots. . » The property adiaout to Mich- igan’s metropolis, as for north as Maw Bay. south to Ohio line, somewhat west at Lansing and Jack— son, to say nothing of lower Ontario, in subdivision lots, the value of which on farm inn-d or resort pro- party is unquestioned. but as home sites for Ford, Dodge and General Motors workers, we cannot be so enthusiastic. If conditions were re- ; versed, and the farmers were higlfiy 3 prosperous, with city men out of . work, we might understand why the J country was being worked so thoroly, I bit under- existing circumstances we I l i certainly advise any farmer to look very, very carefully before he leaps into Detroit real estate (so-called). - MORE ABOUT McRAE EAR Hr. Slocum—We are much 1' , Think of the glow of satisfaction you would " experience in being able to say, “I own $5000 ' won}: of. Federal first mortgage bonds.” Write for Booklet A6913 Tax Free in Michigm Free from Federal Income Tax of 4% 4 61/2% ‘ FEDERAL BONDMS Are Better Bonds FEDERAL BOND & MORTGAGE COMPANY FEDERAL BOND 8c MORTGAGE BUILDING. DETROIT interested in the talks co“ n— ‘ in; Warren McRne. and we with him. We had a. farm tor sale so answered his and. He wrote us the same‘as he did the others. 0f- fered to take five dollars seeing we would not send ten. We asked for references. before sending any money. AHe’sent us the bank at. that place. 'He probably thought he would fool us that way, but not so, We wrote the bank and they replied he had had 1 ml! account there at i one time, further they knew nothing 3 nbont him. So we kept: our money i. Mmmmllaporforits ad—g‘ vice. We believe farmers appreciate having these things exposed trim: The Briana. Farmer. We enjoy , - our paper very much. Yours truly, » Ira. S. 0., Mora County, Mich. DO YOU LIKE MICHIGAN FRUIT? , . the Michigan fruit—grow- - ers find themselves at a disad- vantage in shipping and mar- keting their product everyone within the zone of. that market and who eats Emit is concerned about it. ' ‘ It its manifestly preposterous that it should" cost more to airing! fruit from the Michigan fruit belt to De— troit than from Kansas City to 7 Detroit. Nor is is reasonable that it should cost more to ship Michigan mm to California than to ship . . California grapes, to Michiganx. And ’Jhere are other perplexftfes. ¥"""*'l"he situation has been met in we here. by organizationamong {flexfrnlf'gromrs on a distrfct basis, ‘ .. separately thornthe national ' The immediate ab- ‘ such meadow is, two- G’Wmméowted.. with a w- I _ “I“ ,_ Michigan is particularly rich in ' its fruit- The Wenatchee and Ya]:— ima apples, large and rosy and high— _ 1y polished, look like masterpieces, but their flavor does not match that of the Michigan product. When the first strawberries appear on the market. everyone immediately re— joices, with the qualification, that.’ when the Michigan strawberries. ap- - pear, then will be tasted strawber— ries de luxe. And none can traverse that wonderful western shore dist— rict along the sand dunes . 1. ‘,- v- .; ”war-a; ..:_{., , . ._.,~ :%:.";‘n,‘,,".~, _ MONEY 0n the 33-Yenr Government Amortization Plan to desirable borrowers who own god, wen-lumgcd farms in “an and Ohio, and wish to borrow not over 50% of the value of their [and plus 20% of theapproised value. of the buildings. No c ' ' ' Luv "first later. No stock hut-at. Unmufly prompt and My "vie. l y. b will meet these requirements, write us. FIRST JOINTSTOCK LAND BANK OF CLEVELAND Gil-Idiom Building, Cleveland, Ohio 45th finer-{cad Greqfer! . Jhort JlorzzM‘tter Com 1920.3. 00.1% Pun & Co; published bu spacial amt wit“ the Wheeler Syndicale. Inc. This will be good news for every reader of The Business Farmer, but great news to the fortunate ones who have ever- read’ any of the famous short stories by 0. Henry. Each story will be complete in the issue in which it is printed. None will be continued, but all are like a slice from life itself. You read the innermost secrets of preacher and teacher, cowboy and bar- room tough, the whole gamut of human emotions which go' to make up the people of the world. , You’ll want to me up every issue of" The Business Farmer! Don't Miss This! Great Feature in ‘ Emy lane. Renew Now At. the New Low Rates—60c. year, Two Yearsfor$l andgfd in a Friend's Subuription With Your at“ ., in!!! affine-amok! OWn! " " _ ts of ne'er ending tail. ' , est richness ofs l, , mind me and thrill me each day; fltlgrin dreams in my heart gr 3. gfltfll greater art this battle of lie to play. In Ithe twilights _I sigh erthe beauties of sky, 1111.1 the sunsets I see o’er the hill. Ie the dawn with its ray another glad day set to my task with a will. .fit's God's own Ian, 1: our lives shoul come out of the soil. nobler task :_11 I ever ask, n to live and to love as I toil. —Charlene Weathers Hopson. is IT WRONG TO HAVE BOBBED HAIR? GREAT deal has been said for and against bobbing the head of our girls. I have listened to so any of my younger girl friends pleading with their parents to con- sent to this cutting that I am wond- ering if the same problem has reach- .ed the girls on the farm. Is it a wrong for them to have their hair f cut? What have the morals or vir- iitues of our girls got to do with bob- bing? I have noticed that some of ‘l .the girls say they Will never go back ‘ to long unsanitary hair again. It is .‘so comfortable that the freedom ‘- from doing up long hair is a thing of ', the past with the coming generation. i Again I notice where one girl has the I; Courage to bob she brings into the circle of bobbed heads all her :friends and each one has a number of. other girls that bob their heads 'andvso all these families are upset until they get used to seeing their daughter and sister with her hair cut. ,I can remember when I first want- ed to wear a corset and my-mother gheld up her hands in horror at the grown up idea I had on my mind. And oh how glad I was with that first pair. I got them on upside down and did not know it until my older sister laughed and told me. ' I am wondering if the same feelings cbme to the bobbed-haired girl. Does it make her move flippant and saucy «or is it just an expression of free- ' dom, no more corsets, no more hair. In the olden days we wore wigs and rumes, silk stockings, garters, rib- bons and laces. They have gradual- 1y brought their dressing down to a. very simple and plain outfit that can be gotten into quickly. Are the girls of to-day trying for the same , goal? I would like very much to get a few opinions about the bobbed head girl and see if our mothers on the farm feel as the city and town _m0thers do. CLOTHES PIN APRON ‘OFTEN see women out hanging up their washing, stooping over two or three times a minute to get the clothes pins out of a basket that they move along on the ground. If they only knew what a help a clothes pin apron is, they would nev- or bend to the basket again. ,The pocket is practically all there .is to the apron. It goes clear across, is twelve inches deep, and comes to within an inch or two of the band. In this way I don’ t have to stoop to reach into the bottom of it. , Ticking or blue denim is best for one of these aprons if you me buy- ing new material. They will wear for years. However, I usually use , hOuSe It may wear out in a year or two but the making is so simple that i I don’t mind if it does. An old pil low ticking can be used and, if you care to, bind the edges with a bright -_tape. LETTUCE AS A BLOOD BUILDER 0 not forget the greens and fresh vegetables are our best friends in keeping our health Let— purifier of our blood. It does ave a filling feeling but if we arm the habit of eating it at ' a great improvement in the complexio. I try ‘ fresh salad all uring the it just seems as the our t the? just something I have around the. "t ce a day with our meals, you . The n . Whethe- -~ ’ just had to be fixed this morning. keeping house. farm home. her opinion. more than ever. still looking for someI more threshing letters. Hoping, to hear from some of our {caders upon these subjects, am Address letters: Mrs. Annie Taylor, Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR EAR FOLKS—I know everybody is busy these days canning, mak- ing jelly and jams for the winter, right now, and I am writing this article and running to my kitchen watching some current jelly that It is a. busy time for every woman I do want you to read and notice how Simple and in- expensive the new method of cold-pack canning can be made in every Read about our bobbed-hair girls and some one write me This is Ia big subject and is going to be this summer 5/” care The Business Farmer, Mt. Ml‘f w% Clemens. Michigan. tuce growing in the open gets tough and bitter. To overcome this plant some seed for mid-summer lettuce in the shade of a tree or plant it in the open and cover with a thin piece of cloth. FLOWERS IN OUR HOMES RY putting'a piece of blotting i paper under the doily before ' setting vase of flowers upon it and you willfind it can be put upon the choicest polished piece of furni- ture. Keep the home supplied if possible with a vase or two of flowers. It makes a room look so cheerful with the bright colors. , HINTS FOR OUR FLOWER GARDEN ET no seeds form and mature on sweet peas and nasturtiums. Pick at least every other day. The Petunia is a most pleasing an- nual and gives so freely of blossoms until late fall. Keep the dead blos— soms snipped off. I have my wind- ow boxes filled with pink and purple petunias with sweet Elysium be— tween the plants and it makes a beautiful sight from the room inside and is beautiful from the lawn. SERVING HOT WEATHER MEALS NICELY URING these warm“ days a good plan is to give the family all the vegetables growing but serve them attractively so they will be in- viting to eat. Beets can be cut in nice slices and served with butter, pepper and *— u salt, or with vinegar, pepper and salt. To serve hot make a sour sauce. , Melt two tablespoons-butter, add two tablespoons flour and pour on the beet juice that has formed from the beets having been cut‘ in cubes. Add one-fourth cup, each, vinegar and cream, one teaspoon sugar, one- half teaspoon salt and a few grains pepper. Serve in a vegetable dish any of these ways of fixing beets and with a large serving spoon one can have them upon their dinner plates and save dishes. Peas can be served hot with just butter, pepper and salt. If you wish to cream them, add enough cream to suit taste and thicken with just a little flour. This should be served in small vegetable dishes. FRUIT JUICES FOR WINTER USE ITH sugar high {in price, why not put away some fruit juices for winter use? Juices from the raspberry, blackberry and grape may easily be canned when the fruit is in season and stored for winter use. If preferred, the boiled juices may be made when required. The way to do this to to wash and stem the berries or grapes and place in a preserving kettle. Crush lightly with‘a wooden spoon, cover with water and cook very slowly for 30 minutes, stirring frequently. Re- move from the fire and pour the juice through a moistened cloth (preserve the pulp for a butter or marmalade mixture). Pour the strained juice into a clean kettle, boil for five minutes and skim. If the fruit juice is being Doing Your Canning By Cold Pack Method ing. and A good rubber can be stretched without ner. breaking It is buy the best rubbers obtainable. year. pack method of canning: OPS for screw-top jars must not be , screwed on tight-- ly during the process- Screw the tops as tightly as possible, using only the thumb little finger, or until juice does not run out when jar is inverted. tightly after jars are taken from the can- Rubbers should Screw top A good ton should not permit thumb nail to be inserted not be used a second economy to The following tests should be applied to rubbers used for the cold a. A rubber should stand a reasonable amount of stretching and pulling without breaking or permanently losing shape. b. Rubbers should be about 1— 12 of an inch thick. rings should measure one inch. A pile of one dozen c. The inner diameter of the rubber ring should be 214 inches; the flange 5- 16 of an inch. This does not blow out. d. A rubber should stand pinching between the thumb and forefinger, and when pressure is removed should not show the effects. e. The color of the rubber ring is no index to the quality. may be either red, white or black. Good rings ' Si 1 a. i e .11 c t ma be 1.1.1.1.. In a... home: mp e 9: 1m n: q pin] “1M“: {rive rock. 3. Improvised holder ‘ l and. wooden rocks. ”bottom. , Garbage {all wool: boiler. -, Wu belle: , j to » remains steamer I. 'I.ar'd can with false ‘on‘d rock for ~ §.. Sims! 0 utensils -. place. " ’ .’ pared in this way use one-third as . fill: g to - . Close immediately, and side to cool._ Store in. a dry- If current juice is being much sugar as juice. FRUIT BUTTERS Fruit butters are made from‘fruit s ‘ cooked to a smooth consistency. It“ , is frequently found to be cheaper to ' make fruit butters from fruit pulp, left after the first extraction of the; pectin in jelly-making. General rules for butterszl . ., - 1. Put the pulp of the cooked fruit through a sieve; remove seeds and skins. - 2. Use half as much sugar as pulp. ‘ ' ‘ ' , . 3.‘ Cook altogether, slowly, until thick. 4. Store as for jelly or canned fruit. ” —--——-*—--—-—1 CONSERVES Conserves are cooked like jam; but raisins or nuts, sometimes both, ' are added, together with oranges cut in small sections. . , General rules for making con- serves: ' L . 1. Cook rapidly. 2. Add nuts about five minutes before removing conserves. 3. Store as for jelly or canned fruit. . Plum Conserve 6- pounds plums; 2 oranges sliced;] 1% pounds large table raisins, seed- ed; 1/2 pound nut meats; 3 pounds sugar. Prepare the oranges as for marm- alade, let stand in water ‘to cover ov- er night. Cook the plums without water till soft and press the pulp through sieve. Cook oranges till tender, add with raisins to the plums and sugar and let cook till the mix- ture is like marmalade. Add.the nuts near the end of the cooking. . MARMALADE To each pound of fruit add one- half pound of sugar. Boil from one to three hours, or until the jelly stage is reached. Pour into hot glasses and seal at, once. Carrot Marmalade 2 cups ground carrot,'1% cups. sugar, 2 lemons, 2 tp, ground ginger root. Cook carrot until tender. Add the sugar and lemons, quartered and cut in thin slices. Cook slowly until thick. Pack in hot jars and process. The ginger root may be omitted if desired. Thisma‘rmalade does not have the jelly-like consistency of ' orange marmalade. ' ' __.____._.., PRESERVES A preserved fruit is one which has been cooked in a cane sugar syrup » until it is clear, tender and trans- parent. It will keep its, form and plumpness and be crisp. . . Preserved Spiced Peaches 1 peck peaches, peeled and cut in' half, 3 pints cider vinegar, 3% lbs. brown sugar, 1 oz. cloves, 1,4; oz. nutmeg, 1 oz. cinnamon (spices tied in a cloth and ‘boiled with the peaches. ). When the vinegar, spices and sug- ar are boiling, add the peaches. When transparent, seal in fruit jars. Serve one-half peach with juice for dessert. Preserved Ginger Apples 4 lbs. apples, pared, cored and sliced thin; 4 lbs. sugar; 1 cup wat- er; 4 lemons, sliced; 2 oz. ginger, root. ' ' Boil altogether until as thick as marmalade. Skim out the ginger root, and.pack as you would jelly or_ jam. Preserved Ginger . Pears Substitute pears for apples in re;- ‘ cipe given above. Mothers Problems ~ ———— 4— E.— THE BABY IN THE FAMILY , DORABLE as the baby in: the ‘ family always is it is not right] v to make 0f him, or of her, a: little tyrant. It is neither good for the baby, nor glad for the elder children, if Baby’ 13 every wish has to be granted. “ At the- same Q -. generous spirit; to , ’ x. l. he was doing wrong. I thing that hurts or . I be, this lstmasxdoll Wand then scold the‘older brother and sister if they are'angry because the baby did it! [.‘such'liberties, it is little wonder if W sub , , stiff Play 1 with. Big Sister 3 r-so painstakingly goonstructed, When Baby is allowed the older children express the wish that a baby 'had never come to their house! ‘ Sometimes, ofcourse, a baby will get aWay from Mother's watchful eye and accidentally destroy some treasured possession of an older brother or sister. .T‘hen must the older children learn a hardlesson. They must learn to forgive the little child who couldn’t understand that The mother must calm them, and guide them along the paths of patience and for- giveness. . “Give it to Baby;" “Let Baby hav that;” “Baby wants that;" are com- mands heard all too frequentlyin many families. Baby soon learns if he can order the household around ; it he finds he can, he proceeds to run things with a high hand. . ' .Be careful in issuing such com- mands as the above. Consider the baby’s welfare and consider the old- or children’s rights. A child does not/ have-to be very old to have a sense of injustice". TEACH HUMANENESS TO YOUR CHILDREN ONTRARY to an altogether too commonly accepted idea, just because a child is a boy is no ex- cuse or reason for him being cruel. Cruelty has no place in God’s scheme of things. Though Man has been given dominion over the birds of the air and the beasts of'the field, he has not been given license to practice cruelties upon them. Boy nature and girl nature are two distinct types. A little girl is the embryo mother. Her mission in life is to give life, not to take life: therefore, if she be a normal little girl, she shrinks from doing any— kills. Little boys, on the other hand, are incipi— ent husbands and fathers—provid— ers, in other words—and in their blood there runs a trace of the blood of their ancesters who, to provide food for their family, must first go forth and kill it. Taking life to them has no horrors. And, since they can contemplate killing without a-qualm, it is only to be expected that they lack the finer sensibilities of their sisters when it: comes to hurting dumb creatures. The trouble is, when a boy prac— tices cruelty on birds or animals, that he has never been taught to feel for them. A little girl seldom needs training along that line; a little boy practically always does. A boy's training in humaneness should begin as soon as he is able to . creep. A love for all living creatures must be taught, an interest in their life and habits must be aroused and 'in their hearts must be instilled the knowledge that all living creatures suffer pain just as we humans do. Until children 'have reached an' age of understanding, keep them away from the. slaughter—pen. The early years of life are highly impres- sionable; let not the'sight of beasts suffering 'make its mark on the child-mind. It is not effeminate for a boy to be humane, unwilling to in- flict needless suffering; it is an ideal manliness. If your boy is cruel, there is someone to blame. Is that someone you? ‘ The Runner’s Bible (Copyright by Houghton—Mifl‘lin 00.) Put on therefore***humbleness of mind. 001. 3:12. 'Betore honor is humility. Prov. 15:33. It is of utmost importance 'to possess humility. It means that one is receptive? teachable; growth and achievement follow naturally. Without humility the world lags, even retrogrades. The lack of this divine attribute accounts for the commonplacen‘ess of the world * in general. .One who hugs his precious . 0"Mfl'fid by old beliefs, pride'or opinion, $1"?msh .contentment. Real opinions to himself clips his own wings, The great ones 9.13 the earth are humble. Greatness tho, knocks at every door, but, the 'door 'is'usually barred, and double humility nothing as it doesthe truth, and ‘ ‘ eddy to re’éeiyes-it, 34. The rc-. admixing! the. frur of the Lord “MW . d life. I’llov. 23:4. .. l unti she breaks-it, or " dOWn. the. toy radio. Big Brother , on tel Line how to take a' red'stain that has gotten“ into a lavender dress, from a red dress. It is a good dress and I hate to have it spoiled—M. I., Brown City. -—-Maybe some reader has had a similar accident and I would appreciate hearing from her. Raising -Flowers for Market—\Vould you please send me the address of some good place where I may obtain books on raising flowers for market; I have been a reader of The Business Farmer for some time but have not found anything along this line..—Mrs. M. G., Fruitport, Michigan. —The book called ”Garden Guide" by T. A. De LaMarl is about as “fine a text book for information regarding the mak- ing of our grounds more beautiful, and it tells how to grow and care for nearly every flower, plant and shrub that is not a freak specimen. It costs seventy-five cents. RECIPES Cocoa Cake—One and one-half cup brown sugar; one- cup sour milk; two eggs; two tablespoons cocoa; piece of butter size of an egg; cinnamon; cloves and nutmeg to suit taste; one teaspoon soda; one teaspoon baking powder; two cups sifted flour. This makes a delicious cake and‘can be baked in a sheet or in layers—Mrs. E. B., Ionia County. Mich. Spice Cake—One cup butter or hard; four cups brown sugar; one cup milk; eight eggs; two teaspoons cinnamon; one teaspoon cloves; one teaspoon nutmeg; two teaspoons baking powder and one and one-half teaspoon, salt. Flour to make as stiff as you like—Mrs. J. W'. H. Molasses Cookies—Two eggs; two cups molasses; one cup sugar; one cup lard; one cup sour milk; four level teaspoons soda; one teaspoon ginger and one tea- spoon salt. Flour to make stiff enough batter to roll out. May be made without eggs—Mrs. J. W. H. Spanish Pickles—Four heads of cauli— flower; dozen large green cucumbers; six bunches of celery; one gallon vinegar: one tablespoon‘tumeric; one-half pound ground mustard; one tablespoon whole cloves; one peck tomatoes; one-half dozen large sweet peppers; one quart small pickling onions; five pounds brown sugar; one-half cup white mustard seed one- half cup wheat flour and one tablespoon ground cinnamon. Coarsely dice vege— tables, leaving onions whole. Soak for 12 hours in brine made up of one gallon of water and one and one—half cups salt. Drain. Boil vegetables and vinegar and sugar for one—half hour. Then make a paste of spices, mustard, flour and a little vinegar; add to boiling vegetables. boil for five minutes, stirring carefully until all is thickened. Seal hot incloan, hot jars. . Sweet Pickled Peaches—one—half peck peaches; two pounds brown sugar; one ounce stick cinnamon; a few cloves and one pint of vinegar. Remove skins from peaches. Stick cloves into peaches, make a syrup by boiling the sugar, vinegar and cinnamon for twenty minutes. Add only one-half of the peaches at the be- ginning and cook until soft. Remove and put into jars and repeat for the other half of the peaches. with hot vinegar and seal. Hot “'ater Dumplings—May be used with chicken or'beef stock. Take enough flour to make what you need for a meal. Say one quart of flour, one teaspoonful of salt in; a dish having your teakettle boiling hard, pour right on flour and salt and roll out and put in stock while hot. They are always flaky and good.~—-Mrs. J. W. H. Chili Sauce—Twelve ripe tomatoes; one red pepper; one green pepper; one large onion; two cups Vinegar; one cup brown sugar; one tablespoon salt; one teaspoon whole allspice; one teaspoon cinnamon; one teaspoon ground nutmeg and one teaspoon ground ginger. Remove skins from tomatoes and chop with the peppers and onions. Add the vinegar and spices and bring to a boil. Stir to prevent burn- ing. Boil until sauce begins to thicken (about one hour.) Pour the chili sauce into hot jars and seal at once. Corn Relish—Eighteen ears corn; one pepper, ground or chopped; three tea- spoons mustard; one quart vinegar; three--fourths cup sugar; four onions, ground and one cabbage, sliced very thin. Cut corn from 'cob, mix with other in- ] gredients and cook thirty minutes. -—-i£ you are “well bred! When‘one is at the. table eating it is not necessary to keep the hands busy every minute. Rest awhile» and chew, what one has in one's mouth before strug- gling .with utensils to keep: putting more food into the mouth. Elbows should not be on the table. Rest one hand in your in from Lavender Dress—Could; “Make Me a\Child Again, ‘. Just for Tonight” Can’t you remember how wonderful 2. slice of bread tasted when you were a child? Maybe it was piled high with brown sugar! An in-between meal smack! Perhaps it was swimming in fresh maple syrup—the kind with the flavor running clear back to the tree. Even now bread tastes just as good—if you use the Lily White flour in baking. Even when you were a child with your bread and butter after school, Lily Whitewas satis- fying thousanth of the best cooks who knew what the flour would do. And through all these years Lily White quality has never varied Always high grade, always regarded as the very best for all baking Lily White today is a standard house- hold necessity in many thousands of homes. Lily White “ The Flour the Best Cooks Use" Our Guarantee W. Guarantee you will like Lily Whit. Flour, "the flour the boat cook: uac' ' better than any flouryou ever used for every rc- quircmcnt ofhome bakinx. If for any reason whatoococr you do not, your dealer will re- fund the purchase price. H. is . no instructed. HOW TO MAKE MILK BREAD Three quarts of Lily White Flour, 3 pints of lukewarm milk, 1 cake of Fleischmann's yeast. Set in morning in warm place and rise until light. 3 teaspoons of salt, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 tablespoon of melted butter or lard. Mix with Lily White Flour until still, or from 20 to 25 minutes. Set in warm place and let rise until light. Make in loaves and work each loaf from six to eight minutes. Set in warm place until light. When light take warm milk and sugar and put over top. Keep good fire and bake slow one hour and when baked wash over again to make nice smooth brown crust. Lily White will Surprise You-~Delightfully. VALLEY CITY MILLING COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN "Millers for Sixty Years” Fill the jars “lap while using fork or, spoon in the other in conveying. food . to ,. month. _‘ l" - AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING The model 4434 to be used for a corset is very fine for the average woman of 12:") to ll?» pounds wright. I use them entirely now and find so much comfort. I ucvcr have a bur-k» acllc. It seems to strengthen all the muscles that ordinarily a corset would support. Nearly all the younger girls in or out of school are wearing this type of corset and they have a big snlc in the Detroit stores. Colored bands folded around the crown of a but are very smart for our midsummer vour. . Such combinations of silk or georgette. of pale pink‘or lavender, blues and yellows make at very striking color scheme. 4434. A Comfortable Practical Model—Here. is a “corset" style that affords ease and cmnfort to the wearer. It may be made of Jean, muslin, linen, brocnded stlk or nicrccrlzed materials. S‘Itlll or drill. (lussels set in at the sides give freedom in movement. These may be of elastic webbing. 'l‘he Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: Small. 34-36; Medium. 38-40; Large. 42-44; Extra Large, ML 48 inches bust measure. A Medium size rc« quires 11/; yard of 36 inch material. For gus- sets of elastic or webbing “ll; yard 9 inches \ude or wider is required. 4447. An Up-To-Date Frock—Mustard ('olot‘ linen was chosen for this pretty model, the collar and cuffs are edged with white bias banding. This is a good model for taffeta. silk. glllgham or ratinc. The sleeve may be finished With it turned back cuff as in the large View, or, the peasant portion may be added. _ The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 6.. S, 10, and 12 years. you Size requires 2% yards of 32 inch material. 4432. A Stylish Blouse—The model has the new hip band finish, and the popular “front the we” in cascade efiect. . hc Pattern is cut in 7 Stores: 34, 36, 38, 40, 4‘. 4 and 46 inches bust measure. A '1 inch size requires 2% yards of 40 inch material. 4441. A Pretty Undergarment—N a i n s o o k, cambric or crepe may. be used for this style. The Pattern is cut in 5' Sizes:_ 2, , . , and 10. years. A’ 10 year Size requires 1% yard of 36 inch material. 4420. A_ Pratt Apron Model—Figured per- cale edged With ric rack braid. is here portrayed. . The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: Small, Med- 1111“,. Large and Extra. Large. A Medium size requires 4 yards of 27 inch material. 4425. An Attractive Negligeef Foulard is here portrayed With girdle and bindings of satin 41/. yards of 40 inch material. the foot is 2% yards. ALL PATTERNS 120 EACH, 3 FOR 300 POST-PAID Order from the above or former Issues of The = ‘ Business Farmer. glvlno number and sign ‘ your name and address plainly. ‘ “on T!“ CENTS FOR SPRING AND SUMMER FASHIQN .BOOK . ' THE BUSINESS FARMLER‘ Pattern Department, Mt. Clemens, Web. . The Width 21 t 1)! a contrasting color. This model is good also , ,3} for crepe. printed veile or crepe de chine. ii p The Pattern ls cut in 4 Sizes: Small 34-36; R, ‘3 Medium, 38—40; Large, 42-44; Extra Large, 46- k ' 48 inches bust measure. A. medium size requires ‘5‘th claim to be important! But . are. you? The master of the farm- ward lets you find your own food In the rims and makes you work until ‘ you are old. But the master send-s . Ius our reod every day and his serv- I ants clean out the places where we . live. ,We do not have to work. We 1. play all day. See how fatwe are." ' So the pigs had the best of the ar- gument. But the master, who had heard it all, said, “If the pigs knew what happened after they were fattened, they would -? not be so ready to boast.” Those who grow fat and do not 1 work are like pigs. Andu-ado they I know what will happen to them? OUR BOYS AND GIRLS . Dear Uncle Ned: -I have been reading ‘, the Children’s Hour in the Michigan ‘ Business Farmer so I decided to write a letter. I am a farmer girl between . the ages of 11 and 17. Whoever guesses , my age right will receive a letter or card " from me. I have brown hair, gray eyes, and I am about five feet and one and one-half inches high. I am light oom~ plexioned. I passed the eighth grade this year. I was sick with scarlet fever last year, and couldn’t take the eighth grade examinations. I have five brothers "and two sisters, and my mother and father are both living. My brother and I have been having the measles. The baby is sick and I think that she is coming down with them. I can int, crochet, knit, embroider and sew. 1 wish some of the cousins that 'can crochet, would send me some new patterns. If they would I would send them some. We have a Ford car that I can drive and I like to drive very much. 'We have a lot of cattle, a truck, tractor, Overland touring car, and a lot of other things that I will not name. As I have written - quite a. lot I will close. I would like . to correspond with some of the cousins. . Someone put this riddle in the. paper. What walks like a cat, looks like a cat, and acts like a cat? I think that the 1 answer is a cat. She said that she would write aIletter to the ones that guessed it right, so I will hope that I get it right, as I like to get letters. Your I niece—Evelyn Soper, R. F. I". No; l, ‘ Gregory, Michigan. -—I am sure many of the girls will be glad to exchange patterns with you as . many of them are real experts at crochet— ‘ ing and have a great variety of patterns or designs. Dear Uncle Ned:—I don’t suppose there is much use in writing because just as sure as you or I are living it will land 1 in the waste paper basket. But what’s the difference? I can say I have written ‘ to you again any way. I wrote to you some time ago and believe me I was surprised to see my letter printed. I received a. lot of letters, from cousins too, they just poured in. I had almost fforty correspondents in all during the first Week. Then some stopped writing for unknown reasons so that at the pres— l out time I only have seven correspond— ‘. ents. I love to write letters don’t you, ‘ Uncle Ned? I like to receive them, too. : You must receive a lot in one day. I . wisri I might help you read them. Some 3 of the other cousins are ”cordially in- vited” to write to me. It’s quite lone- some in the summer time and you have’nt anything to do. In the winter time there - is a. lot to do, for instance school work. ;Your niece, Halcetia Currier, Algonac, . Michigan. ; -—-This is the time you got fooled; your '. letter is pfinted after all. Well, I like . to write letters but like better to receive if them”. Yes, I receive a great many let— ‘ ters every day and every one is welcome. .‘ I read them all with a great deal of ,- interest and hope some day that we can spare space enough to print them all. Dear Uncle Ned:-——Oh my, the weather is warm. We certainly would webome .a min at the present. The crops. are ~f sorely in need of rain too. I live in a i small town, or rather a. railroad junction ‘ and the population is about three hun- dred. The South Shore and St. Paul railroads cross here. About the only work going on in the summer is the work on the section; but in the winter there . is plenty in the camps around here. We 1 have some very beautiful lakes around , here. South of Sidnaw is a lake called ‘ Norway. It certainly is a pretty lake. It is in the midst of Norway pines. You can imagine how nice it is to sit around a camp fire and listen to the among the pines. Went for a two weeks camping“ trip out there about two years ago. My folks . own a one hundred and eightyaove mm- nortb of Sidnaw. so you see I know what it is to be I tarmer‘s 6min: I sw- .pose I would give a sketch of myself. 111mm” yearsotnae. {have dark hair and eyes and have a dark ”- N61101:. Iwfllbeaaehiornextyeu "It has an.” been my plans to take whispering We camp fire girls. I would like to hoax- from both boys 91ml: 0! my age. I will ring 0113.111- loving niece—Marie Powell, Si Michigan. -Yon may find it lonesome at present out shortly sitter the nieces and nepl»ws read this they will begin to write letters toyoumd youwilllbeoobuby immer- :lng £11m all that you will lforget all about being lonesome. Write again. Dear Uncle Ned: -—I wrote to you and the letter was in the M. ‘B. F. last week. [put in smneriddlesrorthe boys and girls to answer and I received 27 letters and one card and I am so ‘lmsy on the farm that I can’t write to them all so I will thank them all for trying to answer the riddles. Out of the 27 letters there was only one that got them right and that was Ruby E. Fletcher, R. 1, Pellston, Michigan. I will give the address so if any one wants to know what she received they may write and ask her. Our crops are coming dandy. My brother is cutting hay. A friend of mine wants some girls to write to him, and also some boys. His addrea \‘is William Grant, R. F D. No. 3, Tawas City, Mich. I thank the girls and boys for trying to answer the riddles. Say Uncle Ned you put my age wrong I will be 16, March the 8rd, 1924.. Well Uncle Ned I will send you the picture of the quarry. Good—bye, Harry Roscoe, Ala- baster, Michigan. ——It was fine of you to send me the pic- ture of the quarry. flunk you. No that picture on your letter does not look like me. Dear chle Ned:-——May I ,join your merry circle. I have been a. reader of the Children’s Hour tier Marty a year. When we first book the M. B. F. we lived at Oxford, Midligan, but We moved a year ago last my. Some move! "We live about a half mile from Saginaw Bay. The water is fine. I was 15 years of age the 29th of last January. Have I a twin? Will the girls and boys write to me? I will gladly answer all letters. I am 5 feet and 1%, inch tall, have med- ium brown bobbed hair and brown eyes. Your niece—Gladys Classman, R. 1, Sebeweing, Michigan. Dear Uncle Ned:———I have never "Writ- ten to the Childrens’ Hour before but I have often thought I would like to be- long to your merry circle. I am 13 years old. I am in the eighth grade. I go to a consolidated school. I have three miles to ride. We have a nice bus to ride in I am the youngest of the family. I have blue eyes and brown hair. I live on a. forty acre farm. 1- am glad we did not put in any pickles this year as I don’t like to pick them and I never did. The answer to Harry Roscoe’s riddles are as follows: 1st, 11 pans; 2nd, a duck; 3rd, hole Rube? Spinach So um black. fblack upon brown, tour legs up and is}: ' ’ 1egs down. As I me going across a I met my Basie Anne. I pulled 10! her m and drank her blood and let Eva‘R‘uth —So you are glad that you do not have. to pick pickles this year. I do not blame ;,yo11 1 never liked to do such work when I lived on the far-111.1! you were picking strawberries it w0uld be different, wouldn't it? You could eat some or the. berries but one does not care for the pickles as they come from the vines. Dear Uncle Ned:——May I join your :merry circle? I have been a. reader of the M. B. F. for some time, and have especially enjoyed the Children’s Hour page. My father has taken the M. B. F. :for several years. I will describe my- :self now. I am five feet in height. I have light brown hair, and dark blue eyes. I am sixteen years of 11913.1 live . ion 3. farm: of 210 acres near the Muske- ,gon river. We girls, and boys are going to raise pickles this summer, and We are to receive two-thirds of the crop. Say, would not some of your cousins enm helping pick them?. I think I have writ- ten quite enough for the first time, so I will close with a riddle, and whoever guesses the answer will receive a can! or letter from me. A duck. a frog and a skunk went to the fair. The duck and frog got in but the skunk did not. ‘Why didn’t the skunk get in? I hope to hour from some of the girls and buys. “—1107- ingly, your niece, —A1ice Kemlpton, R. 1, Box 63, Grant, Michigan. ——I'll bet I can guess the answer to your riddle. He left has (s)oent at home and he could not pay his admission. .Am I right? I hope that the crop of pickles is large and you receive lots of my for your share. Dear Uncle Neely-«How are you these fine days? I am Just fine, I- rmve not written to the Children’s flour for a year, so I 1:110th I would write a low lines. It is raining here today so it is pretty wet. Well Uncle Ned, the cherries are getting ripe down here. Do you like cherries? Come down here and you can get all you want. There are acres and acres of cherry orchards/around here. There is also a canning factory near Northpert where the cherries are canned, and shipped to other places. It is inter- esting to see when the factory is run- ning. My sister is going to work there this summer. I will describe mymlf. I have brown, bobbed hair, blue eyes and weigh about eighty-five pounds. I am eleven years old. My birthday is on “October tenth. Have I a twin? If I have, write to me, and I will answer. 8'; . THE “GLORIOUS EOURTE” N’ TODAY is the Fourth of July! Everybody seems to be havin’ a high 01’ time, noise is every— where an’ firecrackers an’ such is more so. An’ what is it all about? How many of our folks know why we celebrate this one day more’n any other day? "Well, there’s a whole lot’a folks, mebbe they don‘t know why we cele— brate but they know we do an’ they are the ones what sell fireworks. 0!: no, they aint the only ones either. Our big politicians know its a great day with our folks an’ they scramble out 1111’ make a few speeches, many speeches if I may be allowed to say so, an’ they try to tell us why we have saved the country, by jest put-I tin” them in omce. An’ now comes Mr. Couzens, our latest senator, or one of the latest, appointed to fill the vacancy «of a. man elected—well mebbe without without qualifications ’ceptin’ money Anyway Senator Couzens sez r"The Votstead Act is ridiculous an' the folks that passed that law are back numbers,” or words to that eflect. Well now we've always kinder admired Mr. Couzens. As manager of the Ford business, mayor of De- u'oit *an’ a few little things like that, Mr. Couzens was quite :a teller. Mebbe he did as well at that as any- body could do. But when our Sena. tor Couzens sez ’at 5 per cent beer amt an inboxicatin’ drink, when is: see any drink containin 5 per cent alcohol ain't into'xicatin’, then it goes: to show at our new senator lint never had much experience with: per cent beer or else he’ s trytn'la hooteink somebody. Mel-lie m is beer interests have whispered to our new senator, mebbe he likes 5 per cent beer. No matter which way he thinks, no matter what he does or is, good friends, any law that per- :mits 5 per cent beer, light wines or any other 5 per cent stugff is jost an openin’ wedge for all the drinks ’et we ’ve ever had. Mr. Volstead might‘a been out of this head a little when he got the law passed shuttin’ out all the stuff men 311’ women had been 11111.ne— mebbe he wuz a. little wild alt that ltime, but good folks, there aint hardly a m, woman or child today but’li say its a good law. 011, ex- cuse me, there are a lot of 'em 'at sea it ain‘t, but what an who are they? Lickker sellerehwell they don’t like the law so much—drunk- ards, old hard shells ‘at thought ‘at they had to have it~—-aoh my sakes they like the law alright; most of "em are now workin’ an’ savin” money. Who then'aside from the new senator wants '5 per cent beer an’ any other 5 per cent stuff? 011 lhol’ on a minute an’ I’ll tell you. .The big beer Interests, 1111’ that in- cludes all likker interests; the casual drinkers, an' that includes many of our best church‘ members; the ‘bum who doesn’t care what happens if he cangethishootzcb; an’ thaws/tho would lake the privilege of sellin’ all these 5 per cent drinks, he could add a little 40, 60 or 90 per cent stun? an” nobody would be any the wiser. .001126118 may be an swim nice M with? Hit it he ever tfiesthefipermtstmh Quagm- ~m~efl, mumsmheamae em ‘11: nlfly as Bohr and. Ned' .-—This is the first time '- I have eVer written to you. We are hay— in; pretty warm weather out 111519.11 dive ' times houses ‘28:“. 1W ' For pets I have a m dime rabbits. and ten little ones and one his. ten. I am 12 years old and weigh .1181"; pounds. I have brown hair and eyes “ and 31mm feet and three inches tutti I am in fine semnfli grade at school. We have two lanolin curios-n: The- lmt lake is Potter. It is a snail-or ' resort. The other lake is marshy and has no bottom. It has a high bank around it. which is very pleasant. It has a. nice woods about 80 feet from it. Potter lake} » is about 4 rods from it. We have geese ‘ thatfiwormthetalcemnstettheume. The one that mums this riddle mam. ceiveacard from me. Ass-mind‘s” apple as deep as a cup and all the king’s. horses can’t pull it up. Your friend.— Miss Doris Margaret Scott, R. F. D. No. 3, Dawson, Michigan, Beer 144. -—-We too are having warm weather. I do not like it to be too warm; do you? _-. .7 Dear Uncle Neds—I would like to w your merry circle. My father has taken the M. .B. F. for sever-.1 years. I' the on an 80-acre farm'one mile from town on the stone road. I am 14 years old. My birthday is the 17th of May.‘ I em in the seventh grade. I have bobbed hair, blue eyes and am not very fleshy. I have thnee sisters and times bmthers. We have 7 cows, 6 calves, 50 Quintana, 8 little pigs, 1 old pig and two homes. For pets I have a cat and a dog. Will close ’iior this time. Will some of the nlemsmduephewswfloetom. [will end with a few riddles. When my a; pocket be empty and yet have M thing in it? What must you add to nine to make it s'ix2—Etta Bannister, Box 404, Halo. Michigan. Dear Uncle Neat—I did not know what to do tonight so I thought I would write my first letter to the M. B. F. May I Join {be merry circle? I have been mitt ing' the Children’s Hour and like it my - much. Will you please have the drawing contest? I just love to draw and I will send some of my drawings when we‘ have the contest—«Helen Herbert, Box 33, Port Austin, ~Michigan. —Watch our page and read it each week so you will not miss the announcement of our drawing contest. I expect to an- nounce it shortly. ‘ . D83? Uncle Neat—As I am feeling._ sort of lonesome I happened to think of" you and thought that maybe If I’ d write you a letter it may get printed and bring me some correspondence. I sure am yeam‘img for commidenoe, we I am a. ‘ lover of writing. I sure would answer everylettersent‘tome.[am16yeam old and will be 17 on the 28th of next month. I am 5 feet 4% inches tall and weigh about 180 pounds. Altho I am stout, Isureamfulloffim. IIsmhere in Rose City taking my vocation, but my home team is Bay City. 1 lane written you helium and I did apple-job it very much as my letter was painted. I have no mother but my final was rur— ried last month so I got a stepmother now, but I met get used to calling her mother as it seems immovable (or mtodoso. Imudlflnebohanm- remundence mm Issues and nephews «at the age of 16.01? over. Your niece;- Miss Mom Miller, .205 N. Linn St. any City. Michigan ,——Icannottellyouhowsouy1mtlnt your mother is no longer on earth. I do not Winder that you are 11mm but hope that in time you will learn to love your step mutter enough to and 11;; mother. Write when ever you M ii it. Dear Uncle Ned: -—I saw my letter in print and am delighted to know you have permitted me in join your my circle. It is rather warm out here. The sun is shining bright and the green grass and the beamtfiui trees on a wondu‘tisll sight to' look at. Uncle Ned I love the birds and the flowers and everything chats beautiful. In the evening I love to sit out in the swing and hear the whipqpom- will singing. Uncle Ned I saw in the from Cadillac, Michigan by the mam of. Trace] Sweeney. writing you that I wrote Ir a very interesting letter. I want to thank her for her compliment. I will close with " aIew riddles: What is the hinges}. and ‘ yet the shortest thing .in the world; the- " f V. takingmommuawm has while the stand 0: potatoes Plant! of rain. Crops looking good. Wheat half eat. lots of. straw. bottling ‘to: be a disappointing yield“ and quality. . 11‘1".me oats—Gem Roadie. _ W—Hsy short crop. acreage of beans. Oats short. , is ‘ about” 70% of normals-Jihad Bengal. j LAPEEIr—Cnps as a rule are looking good; Wheat is fair, corn and beans are looking fine. oats are short but are growing good now. Has been too dry our now Haying is delayed on account of rain .«Callan Bryant. GRAND TRAVERSE—Crops look good considering late planting. Grasshoppers are bad in some localities. We need more rain. Small fruit looks fair. Quite ‘ a lot of hay and it is a fair crop—Chas. Button. . TUSCOLA—Hay very short and light crop. Weather bad to put up. Beans and corn looking good‘ considering how late they were planted. Oats are poor, too dry forepart of the spring. Wheat and rye good. —-—Robt. B. Chambers. BRANCH—Corn is loo-king fine. Oats good. -Hay poor to fair. Wheat good. Rye fair. Fruit good. Alfalfa mostly good. Crops in general are fairly good. We have had some good rains lately It was quite dry before the 4th., Some road. Work being done. —W. W. Cook. MISSAIIKEE—Haying nicely begun, good! weather and good crop. Most corn looking good Potatoes small, a. poor stand and plenty of bugs. Oats very ' poor. Fruit falling, caused by the hot dry? weather. Pastures are drying up:— H. E Nowlin. INGRAM—All crops coming fine. The wheat harvest is going on where ground is not. too soft. The heavy rains soft- 5 cried the ground many places too much for binder. Corn and oats good. Beans 'fine, large acreage Hay crop fair. Work of haying, harvesting and cultivating all coming together and help scarce and . high priced.——C. 1. Miller. ST. (Junie—Hay on old» meadows light, new good. ' Wheat is a heavy crop and ‘ filling fine, about ready to cut. Oats only fair on account of weather being dry and cold the forepart of season. Corn is look- ing'fine, will be a good crop. Beans are looking good but not far enough along to say much about. Sugar beets are a little late but growing—Isaac Justin. HONTeAlm—The weather is quite dry, with hot days and cool nights. Farmers very busy, some planting. others cultivating and others working in hay. . Grhin almost ready to harvest. The crop will be light in most places. Cul- tivated crops looking none too well on account of late spring. Plenty of most kinds of fruit.——Geo. B. Wilson. , SANILAC—Crops are looking very go‘od' inmost places. Farmers are busy rhaying. The new seeding from 1922 is afafr crop, older meadows are not so good: The wheat on most farms is look- his very good. Beam: and corn on the low’ land are looking very good. Have had a few local showers. In some locali- ties there seems to be just enough rain and not enough in others —Aaron Bartley. JAGKSONL—Weather warm. Crops have been helped by last Saturday's: rain. farmers are finishing up homing. Hay crop is very" limit and many flamers will dispose of their young stock before vim 1131-. No help. Farmers are harvesting ' then wheat which. is fair to good «up this year. Oats light on account of dry mother. Fig crops of huclue berries. miss and pearsscatteM—Gi S. . n.- “ism—Crops are looking fine. mty of main- to make them on 11h}! : ,ip-about’au made autism my 11m , Wheat is a fairly good crop and. no good Potatoes are looking fine so far. Com is as high as the fences Some 16-5 or stock from Pightning. Plenty of . for on who want to» work. only am has to go it the m sumo-1t hr noises for his: produeor—W. Wm: :1 i: .155 5 mm v“get help at any price.” Road a" habitat) extra laborz—J’ C. 1'. mum—Wamer fine with him “drak-MMoae-hauacm Com bolting good. Fruit farmers has» vesting. an enormous raspberry crop. The strawberry crop scarcely paid expenses and the raspberry crop promises to do the same. __ Oats are short. Grapes prom- ise a goodyieldr—O. C. Y. (Editor’s Note—We would be pleased to hear 1rom_any of our readers who would care to send us a. report every two weeks of conditions in their territory. Let us hear from you and we will Send you report cards by return mail.) THE HUNTED WOMAN (Continued from Page 11) ”I’ve often wondered why you ran away with Jane,” he said. “I know what threatened her—a thing worse than ueath. But why did you run? Why didn’t you stay and fight?” 5 A low'growl rumbled in MacDon— ald’s beard. “Johnny, Johnny, if I only 1111’ could!” he groaned. “There was five of them left when I ran into the cabin an’ barricaded myself there with Jane. I stuck my gun out of the window 311’ they was afraid to rush the cabin. They was afraid, Johnny, all that afternoon—an’ I didn’t have‘a cartridge left to tire! That’s why we went just as soon as we could crawl out in the dark. I knew they'd come that night. I might ha’ killed one or two hand to hand, for I was big an’ strong in them days, Johnny, but I knew I couldn’t beat ’em all. So we went." “After all, death isn’t so very terrible,” said. Joanne softly, and she was riding so close that for a moment she laid one of her warm hands on Donald MacDonald's. “No, it’s sometimes—wunnerful— an’ beautiful,” replied Donald, a little brokenly, and with that he rode ahead, and Joanne and Aldous waited until the pack—horses had passedgthem. “He’s going to see that all is clear at the summit,” explained Aldous. They Seemed to be riding now right into the face of that mysterious rumble and roar‘of the mountains. It was an hour before they all stood together at the top of the break, and here MacDonald swung sharply to the right, and come soon to the rock- strewn bed of a dried-up stream that in ages past had been a wide and rushing torrent.’ Steadily, as they progressed down this, the rumble and rear grew nearer. It_seemed that it was almost under their feet, when again MacDonald turned, and a quarter of an hour later they found themselves at the edge of a. small plain and now all about them were cold and towering 'mountains that shut out the sun; a hundred yards to their right was a great dark cleft in the floor of the plain, and up out of this came the rumble and roar that was. like the sullen anger of monster beasts imprisoned deep down in the launch of the earth. \ “Baum got at! his horse, and Ali-In and Joanne rode up to him. In theoldmfs income look of 1'07 and triumph. “It Weren't m tar as I thought it was, Johnny!" he cried. must he’ been, a tum-rim. nights—v- i555 ' terrible fight ‘11me an’ Icomo cavern!” W m (Confined. in “mm With issue) “We are near the J The promotion of agriculture, which means certain increase in profits for the farmer, Is the big idea back of the Michigan State Fair. This great exposition is the clearing house of agricultural knowledge. Here the state and federal governments, agricultural in- stitctions, practical farmers display their latest discoveries. The great yearly growth of the fair during 11:9 74 years of lift: 18 powerful testimony to its value as an educational 1nstitution. $50,000 Free Shows! This year 'WiII sec probably the greatest program of entertainment cvcr Witnesscd. A $50,000 free attraction scheduled is one of the “eye—openers.” Auto‘raccs and horse races. The world’s greatest trottcr, Pctcr Manning. Two stupendous fireworks spectacles, “The burning of Smryna” and “India.” Educa— tional and inspiring! Half a dozen groups of the most skilled and daring acrobats. Balloonists will race from the clouds in par- achutes. Every dive a thrill. A girl will ride a horse 111 a daring 40— foot dive. Thrcc famous bands and many other big acts. Many lOther Features! Police dogs running down “criminals” will be one of the startling features of the all- brccd dog show. A great Better Babies Contest, in which every baby will be given a thorough med- ical examination. The lecturers at the art exhibit will tell you how to make your home and yard beau— tiful. There you will see how, artists work from living models in their studios. Twenty—two great shows on the “Midway.’ Clean, attractive and packed full of fun. And scores of other. activities any one of which is worth coming many m1les to» see. At DETROIT August 31 to September 9 Michigan State Fair Nation’ 5 Greatest Show .'3 "H. H l'lllll ‘ll'llllllilllllll. so mg for repuranu breeders of Live cross as marred: ‘ III we! on the terms of our roe u. Our «veglfln re per Intel-Hon. Fourteen cute lines to the , g on r lneli fee. o In I ‘ I if. month following date 'I‘ lnsertlon. SEN IN vo ‘ REE. so you can see how many lines It wlll flll. . ‘ BREEDERS DIRECTORY. MIOHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, MT. CLEMENS» MIOH. . To avoiu ooiinictmg dates we . out Hot the date of any llve stock sale In , rfllolilgen. If you are conslderln a sale ed- ' Vlso us at once and we wlll clam the date _ ,for mu. Address. lee Stock Edltor. M. B. F" t. Clemens , 0 t. IS—Holsteins Howell Sales Company of c Livin‘ ston County. Wm. :rll'fln, Sec’y. Howe l, Mich. f 17;. P. PHILLIPS‘ THE GOLDEN RULE AUGTIONEER Bellevue Mlchlgan Pedigreed Sa es s Specmlty. Write, wire or call for terms and dates. HOLSTEINS FASOINRTION FARM, VASSAR,‘ MICHIGAN, . Holsteins, registered fully accredited 321,5 1b lire. Write your want. HEREFORDS sent wlth order or n will «IthouI’ ‘ Ir. L. Whlnay Walkins Requests the honor of your presence at WA TKINS FARM . Near Manchester, Michigan on Thursday, July 26th, 1923 lease A. M. RECEPTION; Michigan Hereford ‘ Cattle Brocder'cAu‘n. and visiting Eamon. nioo NoondLUNCHEON Barbecued Hereford a s 'IMI’JW. AUCTION lat Annual Watkins Farm More"! HEREF RD CATTLE. l ted 1 so with their dams) 5 go II :nguhime'npgxllent rain of the [In 1 Here- !ord-le Pe cotton anfifilfi 11:30:5161' out of s o . «I'm. A l the best Hereford blood represented. "i!“ °l"‘ filmm‘i': “to.“ illicit" Solidi“; srin . Lusterallis'o'r shlgzifigr Illustrated Catalog, address. '1'. F. B. SOTHAM & Sons, Sale Mgr’s. ST. CLAIR, MICHIGAN We Have Bred Herefords Since 1860 Herd established _by Gov. H. H. Crapo. We have a few chmce yearling bulls for sale at farmers prices. You are invited to visit our form. ORAPO FARM, Swartz Creek. Mlohluen. n In old on or before» ,1 to no no we win. ru-r Hominy?!» .- Address all letters, ‘ , HEREFORDS Young_Cows with calves by side consrsting of blood from Amer- ica’s foremost herds at rices that enable them under arli- ripe Hereford Beef Plan to pay _ for themselves within a to 18 mes.Z ulls includingyeapli'ize wmnteib'slst thisilar erd showe at _ pruc i :1 prices. .er by Straight Edge 1169786. one of twos s33??? Perfection Fairfax out of a daughter of the , famous Disturber. T. F. B. SOTHAM a. SONS (Herefords slnce- 1839) Salnt Olalr, Mloh. STEERS FOR. SALE 70 Hereford: 100 lbs. 86 Hereford: 550 lbs. 80 Herefords 600 lbs. 48 Hereford: 500 lbs. Each bunch even in size, dark reds, good gross flesh. Also. know of other bunches. If in the market for real quality, well marked Hereford steers one load or more your choice. Write stating number and weights preferred. Some pastures getting short. V. BALDWIN. Eldon, Wapello Co.. Iowa pi ANGUS IAvE HAVE SOME FINE YOUNG ANGUS BULLS from International Grand Champion stock at reasonable prices. E. H. KERR A 00., Addlson. SHORTHORNS Richland» Shorthorns SPECIAL OFFER; Two choicely bred cows. One roan—One white—One with bull calf at foot by son of IMP. Rodney. _ This show stock of real caliber and great foundation material. A bargain at the price. C. H. Prescott & Sons. Office at . Tawus City, Mich. Herd at Tawas City, Mich. Maple Ridge Farm Offers For Sale Shorthorn cows and heifers at a bargain. Repre- sentatives of the Oxford, Pere, Young Mary and Venus (Ruby l’lieonix). Bred for general useful— ness and. all T. B. tested. An inspection of the herd is inVited. J. E. TANSWELL, Mason, Mlchlgan. RAISE SHORTHORNS WITHOUT HORNS Like Kelley does. U. S Accredited Herd No. 28945. For description and price write L. c. KELLY a. son. Plymouth, Michigan. GUERNSEYS FOR SALE—BRYCE FARMS OFFER To THE highest bidder the Herd Bull _Rupert of Thom Hill No. 50133 advanced registered Guernseys. Photo and “pedigree furnished. GIDEO T. BRYCE, Romeo, FOR SALE—LREGISTERED GUERNSEY HEIF- ers at reasonable prices, also choice bull calves of May Rose breeding. , H. W. WIGMAN. Lanslnq, Mloh., Box 52. Mlchlgan. A 1000 Rooms Each W ith Bath _ Rates 44 rooms at $2.50 174 rooms at $3.00 292 rooms at $3.50 295 rooms at $4.00 249 rooms at $5.00 3 I I: 3 , u 1‘: / wl/~\\‘ illliliil 3: mi 3333”“ ..?T§.\~§~ CHICAGO in the Heart of the Loop Convenient to all theaters, , railway stations, the retail and- wholcsale districts,'by living at the ‘ ‘ “.~’_ ._\\—.' O .5” . \\\ _3 ‘33 til , . 1".- ‘I. u- ll~ I —\\—1—'lm\\m I MISSAUKEE GUERNSEYS. A NEW OROP OF calves coming soon. No females for sale. Order tliiit new hull (‘nlf A. R. Sire and Dam. A. M. SMITH. Lake Glty, Mlchlgan. GUERNSEYs—Reglstered .Bull Cheap also grades. Best of breeding for production an size. George Damken. North Manchester. lndlana. Calves, JERSEYS REG. JERSEYS. POGIS 99th OF H. F. Majesty breeding. Young stock for sale. Herd fully accredited by State and Federal Government. Write or visit or prices and description. GUY c. WILBUR. BELDING. Mloh. AYRSHIRES FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIBE bulls and bull calves, heifers and liailer “in; Also some choice cows. FINDLAY BROS.. R 5. Vassar. Mloh. SWINE Q] 0. I. C. 0. I. C.'S. 1 GILT 13 MONTHS OLD, WEIGHT 380, due June 3rd. 10 last fall gilts due Aug. and Sept. 1 last full hour. spring pigs not akin. Record free. Citz. phone. % mile west of depot. OTTO B. SOHULZE, Nashvllle, Mloh. HAMPSHIRES i SPRING VALLEY FARM PURE BRED HAMPSHIRES We haye an exceptionally well bred lot of sorted spring boars, need to sell. These boars b? Sail gGeInaeralMershing gallé‘frndale” boat, a y no essenger v _ Masterpiece Dam. Price or and Mess Ethel . Pershing. ce . 0 have a fine ' W8 ea outstandin April 1922 for service. Sired by (xeneral lS’ershinboar ieady dale, out of Jennie .D. 2nd. $35.00. Registration papers furnished. We ship on approval. ALBERT SGHECK a. SON South Boardman, Mloh. HAMPSHIRES: A FEW BRED GILTS LEFT. Place. your order now'for our Boar pig at a bargain. Pairs not akin. 0th year. JOHN W SNYDER, St. Johns, R. 4, Mloh. DUBOOB HILL CREST DUROOS.. PERRINTON‘ MIOH, We are breeding twenty sows and el hteen gilts ,, .. . ., ,f - ~ vrw Q'v‘YSA'l 0V "our- .. _ . .. ..—.--.‘.,‘.. r —. -q"‘( Farm 4 mllel ctrelolit south u lisdlm' Grctlot 00. M h. , .n' ‘PEAllll mu. ring we... ft... “m, sex. 1? ve reasons a. , millwop Inca. DAIRY mommy SHOWS - RAPID . ~GROWTH ‘ 5 ROM the time the first cows were brought to this "country by the‘ early settlers, there has been a. steady , and at times a rapid, in- . Crease in the dairy business, until there are now more than 30,000,000 dairy cattle in the United States, producing indispensable ”nod pro- ducts which form a'large and im- portant part of the diet of‘ our en- tire population and for which con- sumers pay more than $5,000,000,- 000,000 a year, or about $30 per person. The vital importance of the dairy industry and its relation .to the prosperity and health of the American people have been reviewed by the United States Department of Agriculture in the 1922 Yearbook. While there were more beef cattle in the United States in 1920 than dairy cattle, the latter led in value all classes of livestock; and the farm value of dairy products in I921 rep- resented 45.1 per cent of the total value of all animal products. production is important for a number of reasons, but chiefly because of its favorable relation to the production of crops, the maintenance of soil for- tility, and the seasonal distribution of labor; because of its large total income from the sale of products: because of its stabilizing effect on agriculture in general; because of the large part of our meat, that is supplied as a by-product of dairying; and because milk and its products are so important in the proper nour- ishment of our people. Dairy products form an important part of the diet of, the American people, and records show a notice-- able increase in consumption during recent years. The per capita. con— sumption of milk alone in the United States has increased from 42 gallons in 1914 to 49 gallons in 1921. ,Diet- ary studies made by the department show that of the total amount of money paid for food, a little more than one-fifth—or, to be exact, 20.7 per cent—was spent for dairy pro- ducts. Of this nearly one-third was for butter, and the remainder prin— cipally for .milk, with a little for cream and cheese. ’ The‘ consumption of butter has been increasing. For the your 1921 the consumption was 16.1 pounds per capita, which is a 10 per cent increase over the previous year. Compared with Europeans, the American people are small consum- ers of cheese, the amount used per person being approximately 3.8 pounds, while in some European countries the consumption is 4 or 5 times this amount. Increasing the consumption of cheese offers large opportunities, for development of the dairy industry. If the people of this country would consume as much cheese per capita. as the Dane, the Englishman, the Hollander, the Ger- man, or the Frenchman, 0‘: half as much as the Swiss, it would create a. market for 9,000,000,000 pounds of milk more than is required at the present time. In discussing the development of the dairy industry in the United States it is shown that there has been a steady increase in the total production and value of dairy pro- ducts, the number of dairy cows has not kept pace with the growth in population. In 1850, there were 275 cows per 1,000 population, while in 1920 there wereonly 215 per 1,000 persons. ' The period of 20 years from 1870 to 1890, however, was one of. rapid development in the dairy industry in the United States. Scientific methods were applied to all branches of dairy- ing. The use of the thermometer became general. The centrifugal separator was invented in Sweden and brought to the United States in 1882. Large numbers of dairy or— ganizations were started. The Bob- cock test for measuring the quantity 'of fat in milk was given to the world in 1890. Silos were first constructed in 1873 in the United States, and re- frigerator cars were first used in .1875. , . The average number of dairy cows per farm varies greatly. Wisconsin has 13.6 per farm, Vermont 11.3 per farm, followed by ew York with 8.9, Minnesota. 8.3, California and South " Dakota each with]? ‘ Dairy * 1.2 > , average decreases to 1.64.46. form in South Carolina. ,. ’-The efl‘lcient dairy ‘herd mustbe composed of high-producing cows. , A’study of yearlyvbutterfat and ill-7 ‘ come records of 18,014 cow-testing ; association coWsshowed lupin~ and... L: almost uniform increase in .incom-e‘ over cost of feed as production 111-, f7 " creased. These records showed that the cows giving 100, pounds of but-i terfat a year produced an average ' income for the farmers above feed cost of about $10; at 200 pounds of » butterfat a year the income above, feed cost averaged about $42; at 300 pounds a. year the'income aver-' aged about $72; and at 400 pounds , of butterfat the average income over ' cost of feed was about $106 a year; per cow. - ‘ , ‘ From these records and others the conclusion drawn is that in the econ- omical production of milk and but- terfat, the largest gains are to be obtained through the culling out', of those cows that produce less than 4,000 pounds of milk containing 1983 than 160 pounds of butterfat. This figure has been estimated as' the yearly production of the average dairy cow in this country. Selection, feeding, and breeding could double, this low average. With double the : present average production, fewer cows would furnish the present. sup- ply .of dairy products at much less cost. " ' In spite of the general recbgnition of the value of purebred dairy cattle and their efficiency in breeding up a‘. herd for greater production, they constitute only 2.92 per cent of the dairy cattle reported on farms in 1920. These purebred cattle are widely distributed over the United States, there being very few states that do not have representatives of all five of. the breeds. There would be a. tremendous economic gain to the dairy industry if more of our grade cattle could be replaced by purebreds. The scrub and grade cattle are, however, being gradually though slowly improved by the use of purebred bulls. In 1921 there were less than 80,- 000 purebred bull calves registered by the breed associations. But there were probably as many more born that were not registered for various reasons,.many of which were slaught- ered because their breeders were not able to market them profitably. This is because the average farmer is not yet convinced of the advantages to be derived from the use of purebred sires. If every purebred bull C’ilf born in this country were raised, it would take a three or four years’ crop of calves to replace the 600,000 scrub and grade bulls now being used in dairy herds. HOLSTEIN TOURS ROUNDING INTO SHAPE OUNTY Agents in the twenty- fiVe Holstein Counties in which the tours are to be staged, as mentioned in a recent issue, are ar- ranging for the line of march and for the noon meetings. . Roy W. Weinberg, County Agent of Hillsdale, was the first man to send in his schedule. He writes: “For the combined Holstein Breeders and Calf Club Tour to be held July 3lst, Mr. Matthias and I have decided on five places to call, as follows: “8:30 a. m., Leave Court House, Hillsdale; 9:30 a. m., B. S. Mc- Fate, 1 mile south,'2 west of Pratt- ville; 10:30 a. m., Eli Bennett &. Son, East of Prattville; 11:30 a. m., Picnic Dinner on Bailey ~Lawn, Elisha Bailey, Pittsford. Talk by Earl Cooper, Calf Club Leader for National Holstein Ass’n., D. D. Alt- ken, Ex-Pres. National Holstein Association. 2215 p. m., Wm.'Mc- Cully, East Bason St.; 3:15 p. m., Glenn! Benedict." Eaton County, R. W. Tenny, 00. Agent, bobs up next with a program for his day—July 30th. Tenny writes as folldws: “The plan, tent- atively outlined in my own. mind, , would start us from Charlotte about : " . 8 o’clock in the morning, and hit - Claude Reader’s about 7. miles south west of Charlotte; thence to Noble Sons, east 01 Jten Rapids: the" 93 to Mr. C. ErBurk’s. , _ Edit Rapids”!!! 3 ’ ’ ren’S. no, e - . ha tr He’s.” , _ . “Wind 1.1.9:: atfibgnakr & 1:. using Road use out of e‘old‘b‘u‘s Will surely have to be hi on all four to ftollow Tenny ‘bn‘ race .such as he has planned! “thedate's‘ for the tours arranged ~ My he'State” Holstein Association e “crating with the Dairy Depart; entvot M.» A. 0., and the County entsud local Holstein breeders in t1) ,‘several counties. are as follows: i _ July‘28, Macomb; July 24, _Wash- f aw; July 25, Wayner July. 26, nroe; July .28, Inghsm‘- :,:,J:uly 30,, Eaton; shim; Aug. 1,, Lenawoe: Aug. 2, patina: Aug. 3, Livingston. ‘ g , July 31, Jackson; Aug. 1, Barry; Aug. 2,;Calhoun; Aug. 3, Allegan; -‘ .Aug. 4, Ottawa. .. - . Aug. 7, Gratiot; Aug 8, Saginaw; Aug 9, Tusool‘a‘; Aug. 10, Banilac. - Aug. 7, Shlawassee;"Aug. 9, Clin- _ ton; Aug. 9, Ionia; Aug. 10, Kent; 'Augxll, Genome—Grand Round-up ~ at farm of D. D. Aitken. Ex—Pres. Na— tional Hol.’ Assin. , SPECIAL SWINE REPORT N increase ol.’ nine tenths of one per cent in number of pigs sav— ed from farrowinge in the slx ‘months ended June 1, 1923. as com- pared with the number saved during ' ' ‘the same period last year, is indicat- ed in reports gathered by rural mail carriers of the Post Chloe Depart- _ ment for the United States Depart— ‘ment of Agriculture, from 140,000 , hog raisers in all parts of the country. ‘ For fall pigs, hog ralsers have ex- “ préissed an intention to breed 28.3 per cent more soWs than tarrowed last tall. For the corn belt states the increase is indicated as 25.5 per cent. The Department points out, ‘ however, that last year the actual farrowings ran less than the inten— tions to breed. Producers in the corn belt states last June (1922) ex- pressed an intention to increase fall breeding 49.3 per cent, but the actu— al increase intarrowlngs was 27.8 per cent. In December, they express- ed an intention to breed 15.6 per cent more sows for spring pigs, but the actual increase in sows farrow- ing’in the spring was 8 per cent. For the United States the December in— tention was 13.1 percent, but the actual tarrowings were 3.9 per cent ' greater. » .The’presen-t survey shows a prob- able continuance this year of the tendency to increase fall breeding proportionately more than spring breeding. This tendency has been evidenced both by the market re- ceipts and farm reports for the past two yen-s, especially in the corn belt. and is making for a more uni- form monthly distribution of market receipts throughout the year. NATIONAL MILK WEEK OB DAIRY WEEK HY not a National Milk Week or Dairy Week? It's not a new idea by any means and enough has been done in some local- ities to show that it is possible to in— terest the public generally in dairy products. ‘In St. ,Paul the fourth Thursday ot'every month is that city's official Dairy Day, and al— though it is as yet a new venture, it has been pronounced a success. The St. Paul newspapers carry front page material featuring the food value of dairy products and; boost» ‘ ing dalrylng generally. One paper conducts a. recipe contest. The hotels and restaurants draw attrac- tion to the significance of the day on _ _ their menu cards and serve special , dairy dishes. The large depart- ment stores cooperate by carrying a reference to Dairy Day in their ad- vertisements. One of their window T displays featured the preparation of gadalry dishes. The crowd that gath- ' even on one occasion to see a domes- :tie science expert pull '01! a demon- ”str’ation blocked the trafl‘lc several ”times during (the day. ‘ * 2a. . unanimity Week beginning ‘ opening’ol'. the National Dairy ‘ Quiet-grove: it. might be bonnet-cred.” a en. es- vthin, '. ~io‘ek,“lndivl “ * hear ‘ held at Syracuse, New York, from ' October 5th to lath. Whynot make ' the week of October 8th, National July .31. Hills— - ‘ I also sowed some clover seed and it .10 acres. ,’ The tabulation shows that of all . am are sewn y us. 8.1 , .1 The ”public": would e benefited andthe dair’y- ln- » .dastry‘ would profit item its outer- prifse. ' ‘ . ' This year the Expositionwill be Dairy Week, and then invoke every means and method to acquaint the public with the value-of milk and its productswand pay homage to the dairy cow la a manner fitting her high station‘ln our scheme ol! life? While the nation would be cele- brating its National Dairy Week, the dairy cow, unperturbed, would chew ~ her end and deliver her usual out- put 0! milk which last year averaged 270,009,000 lbs. per day. MICHIGAN JERSEY 00W WINS A. J. C. C. SILVER MEDAL l AN'SY’S Bogis Lassie owned by J. K. Hatfield. Remus, Michigan,~'has broken into the, list of Silver Medal , winners. This: Jersey started test at 2 years 8i months of age and in one year pro-; duced 10132 lbs. of -m11k and 600.29, lbs. of butter fat exceeding the re—f quired yield for a medal by a wide margin. Her sire, Pansy's Peg—is of ' Riverside .17 4549 is a grandson of the great 'Gold and Silver Medal bull, - l’ogls 99th of Hood Farm 94502; and her dam is Hero’s Buttercup 508859. , ‘ Hams UNDER sun i ; I purchased three Jersey heifersl 3 l I at a registered Jersey sale. They are now twenty months old and they have just freshened. When would be the best time to have them bred back? These heifers are too small to suit me and how can I get a better grOwth in body before they freshen again and not injuring them as cows?————R. P. F., Vicksburg, Mich. 5251885. The Tuffest Asphalt ' MULE'HIDE Nora KICK {RAM in” [ii-n. Roormc'. W ‘L I.;‘, M. sums? J ' - two welghts,90 lbs. Roofing Made THE unequalled durability of Mule-Hide roofing is not an accident but the result of a sincere desire to make the best overhead protection on earth! That toughness for which it is famous is built into it through the careful selection of genuine Mexican ashpalt, all rag long fibred felt and skilled workman- ship of exceptional character. MulevH’ldeSlethote Roofing in mode in ; Repair Rebuild per roll of 1m square feet and 105 lbs. per roll of108 square feet. [amid-led in unful- Mnnufnctmd by Till-lulled CO. CHICAGO -——I would suggest that these heiferss be allowed to milk a full twelve} months with their first calf and then' breed them so that they will calve about 15 months from the date they freshened the last time. If they have just freshened, this would mean that they be bred so as to have. their calves a year from this fall. In this way they will have an opportun- ity to grow, but after they have been stunted as calves you can never ex-; pect them to get ‘the full growth( they would have had otherwise—0| E. Reed, Professor of Dairy Hus- bandry, M. A. C. __MICHlGAN CROPS; CRO? FOR BURNED OVER LAND ’ I have some land that was burned over last fall. Will it raise corn or buckwheat? ‘ ‘Would it be best to plow it or disk? I put five acres in oats and it is coming up nice now. is tin—J, W. 13., Homer, Mich. -—You do not state whether your burned over soil is sand. sandy loam, or muck, consequently it is impos- sible to give a very delicate answer to your question. It muck, it prob- ably would not pay to plow for corn. It the soil is low in fertility buck— wheat would be more likely to prove successful.—C. R. Megee, Farm Crops Dept, M. A. C, HOW 40 OHIO FARMERS, RAISED 100 BUSHELS OF CORN PER ACRE XTENSION‘ specialists at Ohio State University have compiled ‘ the experience of the 40 Ohio farmers who in the past six years have succeeded in growing 190 or more bushels of corn to the some on those who have made the “Hundred Bushel Club", 68 per cent have planted corn following clover: 48 per cent have mattered the land; 55 per, cent have used mixed fertilizer; 4-3 Det- cent have used acid phO’S-. phase; and 35 per cent have used acid phosphate and manure. 55 per cent at Unsuccessful con- testants planted their core in checks, and ‘45 per seat in hills: ‘5 per cent planted yellow commend 35 per cent m white satisfies. ~ ‘ Lasts-am; mu that «awn nun who in so an» maddest." m in: 1.1" We policy l . ©1913 eases men to livestock and poultry mddesuiwindeta‘d illuminant Kreso Dip No. l ( STAN DAR mzzo) Parasiticide and Disinfectant Faralllivaluckudl'duy - FREE BOOKLETS ON FARM SANITATION! No. It’d—FARM sum. 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KEPNER, Carson Olty, Mlohlga'n.” has your: man once ”r norm can 9 ,2 " ~ m mm Is your on m mm" i HEAVES "allure-nu. 6.1.2.5.. Money back if not noun ONE can at $1.25 often auflelont. ‘ ' Moat for cost In nowdor term. NE INTO N's ‘ A “We compound II- Horses. Boom. an. Conditioner. At denlera’ C by parcel poet. ’ THE NEWTON REMEDY 00.. Toledo. 0M! $0: . o \ ‘ .i _ $18.55,. _, 'l‘y at the * “only-last month, Thomas Lynch, 2 "$5,000“ .‘6,000 a farmer, and his wife, Mary Lynch," .yds the were riding to town in their auto- ‘.us rye, mobile, ‘when ”it was struck by a \t coun- train.‘ Both father and mother were ushels killed 'and several'children injured. r July Both Mr. and Mrs. Lynch had North .arket American Accident Policies for 85% which they had paid only 75c each! to be of Their children received $1,000 in "dentifly cash from each policy or $2,000 to O a _ keep the wolf from the door! ately, ’ the “equal the r suffered ’ selling a low the The f?" foreign. . in a rece a very lc .substitu' The Business long. There is Just one must enclose SIXTY CENT ness Farmer. . the family providin for each policy. . _ This is YOUR opportunity to do what you have been putting off so plication Blank in the corner of this quired amountr-Seventy policy desired. OLD AS WELL AS NEW SUBSCRIBERS MAY Any or all members of a family secure this policy, member of the family is a paid noredta S for SECURE THIS POLICY! providing they live WeWant Every Business Farmer Reader To Be Insured! THE Business Farmer has made is possible for every single reader to carry $1,000 Accident Insurance for the trifling sum of 750 per year! , This is the total cost of it is issued by the well Company of Chicago. , I There are no other costs if you are a paid-in-advance subscriber to Farmer and you can secure a policy for every member of g one member is a subscriber, at the same cost, 750 the insurance policy here described and -known North American Accident Insurance pe—no medical examination—just sign the Ap- page and send it in -Five Cents (75c) for each policy. requirement——ONE MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY MUST . BE A PAID-UP SUBSCRIBER TO JULY, 1924, or longer—and you the address label from this or any recent copy of, The Business Farmer to prove it. ‘ If your subscription is not paid-up to July, 1924, or longer, add a renewal to July, 1924, and send 75c for each from 16 to 70 years of age may at one address, at which one -up subscriber to The Michigan Busi-' with the re- It is only you need. '“ ‘ tained by th while riding EMERGENC kind of vehi home. DISABILITY, 13 WEEKS OR LESS LOSS OF LIFE, BY BEING STRUCK, KONCKED DOWN OR RUN OVER ON PUBLIC HIGHIVAY B’Y VEHICLE ............ $250.00 What the Policy Gives You because The Business Farmer has contracted-for thousands e wrecking or disablernent as a free or fare paying passenger. .................................... Y BENEFIT ole. $250.00 for death of pedestrian unred moving vehicle. ............................................................ $10.00 a week for 13 weeks for injuries rece .......... of these policies that we are able to offer them at this low price. It is a genuine travel accident policy It may pay you or your but 75c for a whole year’s protection. outlined in this policy it pays for dea that gives you the very protection family hundreds of dollars, it costs Under the terms and conditions th or injury of the insured sus- of any public or private vehicle FOR THE LOSS OF LIFE .................................................................... $1,000.00 FOR THE LOSS OF BOTH HANDS .................. 1,000.00 FOR THE LOSS OF BOTH FEET.... 1,000.00 FOR THE SIGHT OF BOTH EYES. ............................ 1,000.00 FOR. THE LOSS OF ONE HAND AND ONE FOOT ........................ 1,000.00 FOR THE LOSS OF ONE HAND AND SIGHT OF ONE EYE 1,000.00 FOB. THE-LOSS OF ONE FOOT AND SIGHT OF ONE EYE 1,000.00 FOR THE LOSS OF EITHER HAND ................................................ 500.00 FOR THE LOSS OF EITHER FOOT .................... ' ............................ 500.00 FOR THE LOSS OF EITHER EYE .................................................. 600.00 $10.00 Per Week 100.00 ived while riding in any $100.00 for relief of policy holders if injured or taken sick away frmo The Michigan which I enclo ‘ I enclose address 1 , Cl registeped letter. I also enclose my address label .fre Farmer to prove that my subscriptio ACT! Business Farmer, * Insurance Department, Mt. Clemens, Mich. I hereby apply for a $1,000.00 TRAVEL ACCIDENT INSURANCE POLICY of the North American Accident Insurance Company, for ) in check, money—order or se Seventy—«five cents (75 SIXTY CENTS (600) in ddition \ Itlfidoomooefl‘ravel Accident 11 READ WHAT THIS POLICY GIVES YOU AND THEN DELAY IS DANGEROUS! ORDER AND REGISTRATION FORM Date .............. ............ 1923 a recent issue of The Business 18 paid—up for one year. ‘ ($1.35 in_ all) and my old abel, for which you are t mark my subscription paid in ad- ‘ vance One Full Year. , SIGNED Age.................... Poet Office . _ ‘ .. R. F. D. N0............... Tstate Occupation------mum-------~-------------«. consideration '0: my subscri tion I mhy also wish to secure.......... ...... Sad olicies for other members of my immediate, emsmflOrder and Registration forms with my policy. -» . ‘ - THE ‘ CONDITION ‘I' on: confidant NEIGHBORLINESS UT is it so? ' ‘We hear this‘. as- . sertion wherever We go— “Neighbors are not what they used to be." In o-ldentimes—not' so very old, either—neighbors were neighbors. They rejoiced with one .another in prosperity, and gave sym- pathy and support to one another in misfortune. There was alWays time for a , pleasant social evening togeth- er. 'E'very farmer "‘changed work” with his neighbor. - the barnraisings—the cornhuskings -—the old-time country-fair. Ah!- those were the happy days. , Yes, those were happy days. But what of ours today? There is one great fundamental .difference between olden times and 1923 times. That is transportation. First, it was the steam-locomotive. Now, it is the automobile. , When transportation facilities were much less favorable than they are new, communities were thrown to- gether within themselves much more. Each neighborhood was a world unto itself. There was no es- cape. Contact was close by com- pulsion —— whether one liked the contact or not. And since human nature" Was human nature, then as now, occasionally, one can’t help but surmise, this contact was not wholly pleasant or desirable in its conse- quences. Farm feuds such as were common in the old days are far less common today. “The way to have good neighbors is to be one.” There is no place any- where which less forgets or better . remembers that great truism than - the country. Contact in the country is still close enough to lend itself to the develop- ment of real neighborliness. And yet there is always, today, some es- cape from the little world. The married daughter upstate is seen several times a year; in olden times she might have been seen only once in several years. The stimulating, rejuvenating influence of contact with new people, new scenes, is easily obtained. Coming back from an auto trip away, who says it isn’t easier rather than harder to be a good neighbor? SPENDING MONEY TO MAKE MONEY - E can see old Grandmother now, thrifty, shrewd 85-year— old, as she claimed, “I knew it!- I knew Ham Brown would end in debt and failure.” And the rest of us didn't press her for her ex- planation. We knew what it was. Hem Brown had adopted progressive modern dair‘ying practices. He was the first in the township to “grain.” As events worked out, poor manage- ment in other things had put Ham down and out. ‘ Grandmother didn’t. believe in graining. She was a type, some of whom, among the very old, are still found in farming communities. Plenty of good well-cured hay and fodder—~yes. Grain? Only when you are fattening for slaughter. It is hard for the present genera- tion to realize the'widespread farm prejudice against “graining” for milk which existed for years after that practice was first introduced. Many of the thrfftiest and the shrewdest held out against it. And there was a reason for it——ea1i in- ground farm trait which today still holds a great many farmers back. Feeding grain to cattle for milk was a form of spending money to make money. That was why it came hard—-it was spending. The race of farmers had. learned this secret of accumulation: Do without. Spend as little as possible." Save as much as you can. ‘ To'open up and spend freely seem- ed in conflict with a fundamental law of thrift. True, there was a, chance of greater profit, but why abandon a sure thing for-a chance? . - Economic conditions in recent years have changed. The man who has made the most money is the man who . has spent money to make careful, ,lcautious, 11151118.," spending. But heahas b w‘illingto flspend a ' ‘o t‘ 1 And the community gatherings—-— 1 money. xHe :has been thrifty, too— . "had““smt “11' sibilities there" war. , in the _L " - instrunqents slid: f 539“!” -. money“caul’d‘bufi?‘than‘ in” the ., put in savings bank at 4 per cent-{i=2 One of these days we hope’ the a-gricultural' colleges will‘ introduce} a Course in “farmspending.” .. cessful spending has a, heap-ted with successful farming! ‘ .. VT'llE EXPEnlEllcE» Pfifil- 1 Bring your everyday problems In and M4 the expel-louse of other lemon. Ouutlont M! dmcodd to';t2lsbd09arunent’ are :uhllshegl he: an answers on oulI m on .w o~a , graduates of‘th: goho‘ol of Hard “noon and, Experience. I! you don’t want, our, ,0 tor-'0 sdvloe or on expert's advlce. but Just plain, everyday buslnoss' farmers’ advlnopssend 'l‘l- you:I question here. We wlll publlsh-eono each week. If you can answer the other. follow’s questlon. please.“ to, he may am- WOr one of your; some day! lance Pool om element, hiloh. The Euslnes; Former, m. SLIM'E IN SEPARATOR . N THE issue of June 23rd, W. 8., Of Morley, Mich., asksthe cause of slime in the cream separator. Will you please pardon me if 'I answ- er that question for them as Profes- sor Lucas did not answer just. to my satisfaction. If W. S. is very care- ful to thoroughly rinse each part of the separator in plenty of warm (not hot) water before .putting it in the ‘ water centaining any soap or soap powder then wash and scald as us- ual, I know they will have no further , trouble. I know from experience. The milk and the cows are perfectly all right as far as, the slime is con- cerned. The trouble lies in the method of washing separator.——Mrs. L. 8., Milford, Mich. MUSIIGS OF A PLAIN FABMER‘ . HERE was only two families re- mained home June 21st in San- ilac county. The whole popu- lation turned out to the annual farm bureau picnic at Sanilac Park on the shores of Lake Huron. I understand the “these two unfortunate households were quarantined or they too would have been present. ‘ Someone said there was eight t—housand people there but I hap- pen to know they were wrong be- cause .I counted ten thousand cars and surely every car would have to have a driver. But anyway we all set the table under the trees and satisfied the in- ner man. I drank 2 quarts of cold tea flavor- ed with lemon and ate 17$ pound of picnic ham besides a liberal” helping of salad, pie, cake, etc. I was short of breath all, the afternoon. ' Crowding, I believe the doctors call it. ‘ The. band played “Hail! Hail! The gang’s all here!” And we gathered around' the platform. “Honest” Dare Knight made the address of welcome, and introduced the speakers. _ . ‘ County Agent J. D. Martin outlin- ed the progress the bureau has made and said he was tickled» to see us. Then came Mr. Quame of the Fed- eral Farm Loan Board of St. Paul. Mr. Quame gave a splendid talk and farmers should not miss an oppor- tunity to hear him. -‘He was followed by our state rep- resentative, Philip O’Connell, who‘ gave an instructive talk on— taxatiOn problems. Then came our old standby, Dr. ,Mumford. The mosquitos swarmed on my back in mass formation, but I stayed and heard Do- out. I lost some blood but was well paid for it. The picnic was a gala affair all through. Good speaking, lots of' water, ; plenty of heat and every- thing. . I 'would write more about it but that old'cuss of a black cow is mak- ing the wire squeak. The other six- " teen1 are waiting for her to- make .a roa . ' > back up‘againr—A. P. Ballard. , 'A train on a nanny-coins; A colored gentleman ‘et lane, and in.the morning chase-them gravround. " last ride his ., ,5. Adam Exoer- ' who have their diplomas from themes" 9 of. ” members of I’ll have to chase them "down the: f ' ‘ Harvesting Beets A V " tain hired help when you use a JOHN 215'DEERE . . so once. ’ LIP HA %If% I. leAII, R.1.Meaon. Mleh. 8aves Money , Fewer beets are damaged, fewer are left in the field, the ' work is done much easier and quicker and it is easier to re- JOHN DEERE . Ne“. 20 Riding Beet Lifter Lifting blades, shaped so as not to cut or damage the beets, run along the row and lift the beets a short distance, leaving ' .them upright and loose, so that they are easily handled for topping. The bets are protected so that frost does not damage them, and the sun does not dry them out. Remember --you sell beets by their weight. Only two wheeis~easy to operate—no heavy tongue truck to drag over the tops of the beets or to lift at ends of rows. Pivoted-pole,‘_ foot dodge, detachable chilled points. Sold by John Deere dealers. FREE 3008 describes the No. 20 Best Litter. Write toda . ad- dress John Deere, Molina, ., and ‘ all: for Booklet 10-6 33 UAIJTY MADEFAM ‘Iflfllflfl fllSflflVEHS NEW > B’UPTU'HE REMEDY .Akron, Ohio—4A prominent Ohio physi- c1an has discovered a wonderful new method, which is completely revolution- izing the treatment of rupture. This remedy is totally different from any other —-no operation—no cutting, and nothing to "rub on. Anyone can use it without Rain or danger and without losing an our from work. 'Relief is felt almost immediately and _ recovery-is usually so rapid as to seem miraculous. Anyone who is ruptured may obtain full information regarding this remarkable discovery, by writing E. H. Scott, Hernia Specialist, Suite 605T, Scott Bldg, Akron, Ohio, who will send inter- esting booklet in plain sealed wrapper. DOWN ONE YEAR TO PAY NEW BUTTERFLY Illeflno d 11' e '5'1'31 1mm sold “ml! lsnwberebythey . gag-é), what there-ye. 1111-1111:an - save money. ( l) someones-quasi. m ' POULTRY BREEDER’S * =DlRECTORY—— Advertisements inserted under this heading at 300 per agate line, per issue Commercial Baby Chick advertisements 4513 per agate line. Write out what you have to offer and send it‘tn. We will put it in type,‘ send proofland quote rates by . return mail. Address The Michigan Business Farmer; Advertising De- partment, Mt. Clemens, Michigan. PULLETS. HEIS All) GOGKERELS S. C. White Leghorns and S. C. and R. C. Black Minorcas. Must make room before cold weather. Absut ready to lay. ’ LAPHAM FARMS, Plnckney. Mlch. ' LEGHORNS CLE‘GHORNS . C. Buff Leghorn Hens, Pullets and Cockerels. ens and .pulle ts.5$2 Oea‘ch; cockerels 5.00 whb rds a matter of correspon - M8. Pinokney. Mleh. HATCHIN G EGGS DROOK l_uHml"l’¢:I'llfIG_ EGGS. NORMAN I T N 0 W ' 1131131100 LAzrnz Pest! . will be grubbed up this year, MANY DISEASES IN FLOCK I wish toask a little advice about my hens. There are so many of them that the feathers come out or break .off "their backs. ' (They are ‘Rhode Island Reds.) They seem to be healthy. A while ago two hens started dumping and they had diar- rhea and their combs turned purple, and they died—one did and I killed the Other one. Now there are sev- eral seem to be all right, combs red, but they get big bunches on their feet between their toes‘ and they break ’and matter comes out, one is a little lame but the rest are not. I feed good corn and oats, fresh water and they run out and get all the green stuff and gravel they want—H. S., Caro, Mich. ——Evidently you have a number of unrelated symptoms in your poultry flock that are causing these various troubles. The loss of feathers over the back is a ‘common occurrance in the breeding pen and may be due, either to the presence of male birds in the flock during the breeding sea- son or to wearing out the feathers in gaining entrance to the nests. The former. trouble, however, is very common. There is no cure for this complaint- The birds will usually moult and lose their feathers during the regular moulting period. The two birds that were lost undoubtedly died of apoplexy. This is .a common trouble during the spring and sum— mer, especially among large fat hens. The fact that the combs turn- ed purple indicates a congested cir- culation, possibly due to the accum— ulation of internal fat. Severe cull- ing and proper feeding is the only method to eliminate losses among this particular type of fowl. The appearance of so-called bunches on the feet and between the toes of the fowl is known as bumble foot. This is supposed to be due to hens flying from high roosts or in case of shal- low coops, the hens jumping directly to the floor. Some» hens are more sensitive in this respect and develop bumble foot very readily. These bunches should be lanced, releasing lots of . the pus after which any good dis- infectant could be used. The trouble is not considered very serious and it will affect only one- or two individ- uals—E. C. Foreman, Associate Professor of Poultry Husbandry, M. A. C. BABY CHICK MEN TO HOLD AN- N UAL MEET IN WASHINGTON HE eighth annual convention of the International Baby Chick Association. will be held in Washington, D. 0., Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, August 8th, 9th, and 10th. The following is the tentative program as arranged. You will note especially that the dates have been changed from the 1st, 2d, and 3rd to the 8th, 9th, and 10th, in order to bring the International Baby Chick Association and the American Poultry Association con- ventions on adjoining weeks and thus facilitate the joint attendance of persons at both conventions. On Tuesday, the day preceding the convention, there will be a meeting of the Welfare Committee and the Board of Directors, Wednesday will be devoted to the business of the convention, reports of important committees, Boards, and the Presi- dent’s address, and, in the evening, a most important address by Edward Brown of England on the subject “The Poultry Outlook in Europe.” Thursday morning will be devoted to a. discussion followed by addresses covering some of the most important problems which are facing the baby chick producer today. The after- noon will be given over to a business session followed by a banquet with informal discussion of the transpor- tation problem at which repreSenta- tives of the Post Office Department will be present. Friday afternoon one of the features will be a sail on the Potomac River and a trip to Mount Vernon. 011 Saturday special arrangements are being made with the Bureau of Animal Industry for a trip to the Government Poultry Farms at Beltsville. RUIT AND OR( HARD Edited THE BERRY MENACE HIS is the time to look for rasp- berry diseases. Afflicted plants can usually be detected without much difliculty and should be remov— ed at once. Orange rust is frequently found on wild raspberries and blackberries, from which it is transmitted to culti- vated plants. It is easily recognized by the orange colored spores on the leaves and young growth. Plants thus affected are weakened and in a year or two die. There is no cure. The plants should be promptly dug -out . Mosaic and blue stem are appar- ently the same. The disease is not yet well understood, but it is evi- dently something that should receive prompt treatment. Affected plants should be cut out at once as the dis— ease spreads rapidly. If a cone has, dark leaves with light green spots it is to be looked upon with suspicion. If the leaves,or some of them, curl downward and are. undersized, while the new cones are bluish near the base, the whole plant having a sickly look, it is best to dig it out. Leaf curl is not confined to red raspberries, but is not frequent on others. The foliage is dark and, as may be inferred from the name, curly. It is causing much damage to Cuthberts and some other kinds, while Kings are not often afflicted. The fruit of diseased plants is small and crumbly. There is no remedy for either the mosaic or the leaf-curl, but much can be done, to prevent the spread of the diseases by cutting out all weak and sickly plants as soon as noticed. Care should also be taken to secure stock from healthy cones when sets ting new fields. Hundreds of acres of raspberries not ;,- by .FRANK D. bearing WELLS only in Michigan but in Ohio and New York, where the growers have become considerably alarmed over More and Cheaper Silage—Less Labor THE "powerful compression” Automatic- feed of the 1923 Papec takes the place of an extra man at the feeding table. It handles ' heavy corn and crooked stalks. It will cut your silo-filling cost and enable you to fill with a smaller crew. ' No more heaving and pushing- no more “riding the bundles" with the Payee—use your extra man to throw bundles from the wagon- you won’t need him at the feed table. You can buy this im- proved cutter, backed ' by the Papec guaran- tee, at a price in line with farm prod- ucts. Simple de- sign. tremen- dous produc- tion and specia- lizedmachinery makes this pos- sible. Ask your dealer to quote you on the size you need. Catalog FREE Our 1923 catalo fully describes and , ictures the best nsilage Cutter ever uilt. Tells how the Papec will pay for itself' In from one to two seasons. Labor- saving features on smallest size cutter same as on the big cutters. Write for cat- alog today. '_A postal now ma be the means of saving you hundreds 0 dollars. PAPEC MACHINE COMPANY ’- 187 Main Street rtevdle. N.Y. 86 Dutributr‘naiflmu Bilgable Paw we Proms: Service TH ROWS . AND BLOWS ENSILAGE CUTTER __ SAVES ONE MAIN rfl‘ \ ALA; SAVE A DOLLAR $1 ON YOUR TUBES BEN HUR TUBES For Ford - Chevrolet, 30 x 3 $1. 40 30 x 3%.». the situation. An effort is being made to get rid of the trouble by the states mentioned, but at present it Our direct looks like trying to lock the door aft- er the horse has been stolen. TO .MAKE TREES BEAR I have a Siberian crabapple tree ten years old that has never had a blossom. Can you tell me what to do, if anything?———N. B., Grandville. Try girdling. Select a limb, if you do not Wish to risk the Whole tree, remove a narrow ring of bark completely around it, as narrow as you can, but be sure that you go en— tirely through the bark, so as to sev- er the connection between the bark above and that below the ring. Do this between the latter part of June and the middle of July. The wound will close up and next year there should be fruit. This treatment should induce if anything will. Even a Spy has been made to bear at seven or eight years old, though ordinarily it does not produce fruit till ten or twelve. If you try this We shall be pleased to hear about it next year. N0 NOURISHMENT IN SUCKING GLASS An old darky from Georgia was sent to a hospital in Charleston. One of the nurses put a thermometer in his mouth to take his temperature. Presently, when one of the doctors made his rounds, he asked, “Well, Nathan, how do you feel?” “I feel right tol’ ble, boss " “Have you had any nourishment?" :‘Yassil‘ ’9 ‘What did you have?" "A lady done gimme a piece of glass ter suck boss. ".——-Everyb0dy s. POSTPAID TOANY ADDRESS IN AMERICA factory connections: make it possible for us to make, this price on this first grade. fully warranted automobile tube. SEND 4 NO MONEY PAY THE POSTMAN ON DELIVERY1 VALLEY CITY RUBBER CO BOX 409 GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN PATENTS Send sketch or model today for examination sndrepa'f. Record of Invention blank on which to disclose your in- vention and new guide book, “How to Obtam a Patent,"- sent free. Promptness assured. Highest referenmo. WRITE TODAY. CLARENCE A. O’BRIEN, R: W Palm! Lawyzr, 1053 Southern Bldg. ., Washington, D. C. BABY CHICKS Tom kins Strain $15. 00 per hundred. hatg iumlst 22nd. Quality breeder of 1‘8: Island Reds. wm. H. FROHM, R. 1, New Baltimore. Mich. WHITTAKER’S RED CHICKS Both Combs. Cut prices for June and Lu]: Write for rice list. INTERLA E8 FARM, Box 4, Lawrence, Misha BABY CHICKS 12c AND UP. Member “Mid-West Bab Chick Associati 11. T1108. (3. GALLAGHA . Fenton, lllehlooan c. wurrs Lsouonu sssv omen 1 11 unlit 3.9 00 100. ‘ $113in or erdyii'ectfro ”this ad. For pro m. fill-Pile l.8. TOT'I'EN. PltMoM. ”Ohm sELI; noun PURE-Benn Poms. TRY 11121101111151 m FARMER. ‘ = . ‘ .. gnw. " , V IS is .what many wise farmers g are going to do more than ever, (it being. the port oi prudence at a tune when some. ism grooms make so much (letters-returns than others. Some farmers say they in- tent! to cease growing wheat, but ‘ this does not seem generally advis- able, although lowering the - wheat acreage might be a good thing. It is true, wheat has sunk to an unre- munentiye price, but perhaps next year prices will go much higher be- cause or! lowered acreage. Hogs have had an enormous fall in prices, and it does not pay out to feed the present high-priced corn alter the pigs reach a moderate size, but men who have prospered for a long per- iod of years by feeding hogs are not going out of business, even if they , diov breed fewer sows. A discourag- ing feature of. the fiarming industry . is found in the boom in wages paid! to helpers, but this is met in part at 'leost by reducing the acreage to; what one man can handle, harvest time excepted, and then quite a. number oi farmers are increasing the yield per acre by using more manure and other fertilizers. Many men who paid extreme prices for farms during the inflated war period nosw regret doing so, and the farmer who owns clear of mortgage a nice ‘ little farm and raises a. little of everthimg is not going to fail. Most Michigan farmers do not need to be reminded that a. small took of sheep- is a handy thing to own, the manure alone being a valuable article, and some cattle, with hog: following them in the pasture, are well worth owuing. 0i worse, a silo is indis- pensible for stock feed, and the farmer’s Wife can be trusted to see that there are plenty of hens, while a vegetable garden, orchards and grape vines help out a lot. 1hr the territory near Chicago more farmers than ever before are keeping hives of bees, and many of them cultivate flowers to encourage them to manu- facture honey, while stands holding ‘hzoney are offered for sale to the thousands of automobilists traveling , through the farming districts. Enlarged Corn Acreage The Department of Agriculture in its July crop report states that the hay crop of the United States is only 94,000,000 tons, comparing with 113,000,000 tons raised last year. The corn acreage is placed at 103,- 310,000 acres, comparing with. 102:,— 428,000 acres in 1922; and While it is early to talk definitely about the crop, it estimates the yield at 2,877,- 000,000 bushels, which compares with 2,831,000,000 bushels harvest— ed last year. A year ago the com- ing corn crop was estimated at 2,- 860,000,000. bushels. Corn was planted about two weeks later than usual in a large part at the corn belt but it has been shooting ahead rap- idly under hot, forcing weather, with fair rainfalls. The report indicates a promise of plenty of all grain for home consumption, as well as for ex— port, there being a promise of 5,249,000,000 bushels, or 6,009,- 060 bushels over the finals returns ‘ in 1922-. The wheat crop is estimat- . ed at - 41,000,000 bushels less than the final returns last year. The spring wheatcrop otthe four northwestern states is placed at 167,000,000 bush— els, comparing with 220,000,000 bushels harvested las year. The oats crop is estimated at 1,284,000,- 000 bushels, or 83,000,000 bushels more than that of 192.2. The rye crop» is estimated at 69,000,000 bushels, being less than’lm year; while the barley crop is estimated at. 198,000,000 bushels, or 12,000,009 bushels ahead 0! 1922. On; the first of July the farmers .of the Unit- ed Slates held, it, wulesti-aed, 35,- 604,000 bushels of. wheat, compar- ing with 32,359,000 bushels a year ago. . '- ' The July severanent mp re— : , port was a help in putting; pricesflfcr ‘- vtumn to $21,000,000 bushels, or" light. weight cattle. - bars of inferior little steers old at _. '_$,5 ‘to to $9.50. ' .Butcher stock that ‘ . :03 . ‘ ,._:_‘ WWW chectsprice declines-in wheat market. Chm wanted. Oats dull. Beans easy after recontxdeelinos‘. "Butter Mogahdenandandmsudoow rm firm. Vegetable market-cave. . Cattle nukes active. Hogs and sheep slump. more: The above some lfim'm'aflon w. innuendo Dem-slag“ 9pm to pron —Edl e.) um um tin-Juana 0! mi- 1' Infant" I. to: Ullblu WV I. We! wheat still lower, sales being made below $1, and there was not much confidence on the part of holders, with a much smaller export trade in wheat and floor of late than a year ago and no large buying of wheat by American mill-ere. The United States visahle‘ wheat supply exceeds that of a year ago‘, but it is not ex- tremely large, being 3) out 25,090,- 000 bushels. In striking contrast, the visible corn stocks are down to the insignificant amount of about 3,060,000 bushels, comparing with 28,779,000 bushels a year ago, and so much corn has been converted in-- to lard and meats that there is going to be a shortaee in all probability before the growing crop can be har- vested. . Obviously, corn is in a strong poe— ition, prices still tending upward and ruling far higher than in recent summers. Corn, as well as oats, is in much smaller export demand than a year ago, but considerable rye and barley are being shipped to European countries. The visable not supply is down to about 7,000,060 bushel-s, comparing with 42,400,000 bushels a year earlier; while the visible rye supply aggregates 15,450,000 bush- els, comparing with only 1,195,000 bushels a year ago. Speculative in- terest centers in wheat, and expan— sion in the wheat area of the prim cipal exporting countries and the de~ creased buying power of western Europe have caused present low Wheat prices, according to a report by a committee of economists and statisticians who had assembled at the invitation of Secretary of Com- merce Wilson. It was recommend- ed that American wheat growers take steps during the coming au- lower the winter wheat acreage, now about 14,000,000. acres, above the pre—war average. It was pointed out that a corn shortage may devel‘ope by the summer of 1924, a heavy hog production having wiped out large corn surpluses. July wheat sells in the Chicago market at 99% cents, comparing with 31-15% a year ago; J’uy corn at 84 cents, comparing with 62% cents last year; July oats at 38% cents, com— paring, with 34% cents last year; and July rye at 63% cents, compar— ing with 84% cents a year ago. People Are Eating Beef Much has been said of late about. advocating eating more meats, but it would appear that beet is already a popular article. of. food, for large marketing; of beef cattle are going into consumption rapidly, and prices for all good to prime beeves have held. up surprisingly well, with re— actions following weak spots when supplies happen to be unusually lib- eral. Cattle are selling at much higher prices than (me and two years ago, and good profits are being re- turned to men Who understand the game. Prices are tar below the in- flated war figures, but all fat cattle are selling far higher than in pre- war times, and turning back to 1913, it is recalled that common to prime steers were selling at $3.60 to $7.85, these prices comparing with $6.75 to $11.50 paid in the Chicago market recently- The bulk. 01 the steers have been selling at $9 to $11, with good lots taken at $10.25 and up- ward and choice hooves at $11 and upward. Middling kinds sold at $9 and over, with sales down to “TI to $8.75 for common to fair light steers. The best yearling. were not any too numerous and sold at $11. to $11.25, with too large o-pcrcentuge of poorly finished yearlings and Limited new graded well sold high, with not any over large supplies, heifers that graded well fetching $8.25 to $10.25, but less attractive heifers brought $5.50 to $7.50, while plenty of cows sold at $3.35 to $5.25. Cancer and cutter cows brought $3 to $3.50, bulls $4 to $8 and calves $5 to 312,50, while there was a small trade in smokers and feeders at $4 to $8.25, mainly at $5.25 to $7.25. Last week’s Chicago cattle receipts were much smaller than a year ago, and prices were well maintained. Large numbers of prime weighty steers brought $11.50. A year ago common to prime steers brought $0.- 80 to $10.60 and two years ago at $5.50 to $9.50. ' Hogs Marked ed liberally The logs are in the country, and they are moving to market rapidly, owners not caring to held after they are in fair marketable condition. At times, as happened in mm of July week, supplies are held back, but “:5 lollomg week saw a high. recs 0 ceipts for Monday mowing up to 80,714 hogs, causing a drop of about 40 cents per 100 main Later" in the week, however, large applies. were well taken at advanced prices. buyers of the better class or! hogs, and their operations helped to steady prices. Marry grassy sows were marketed, and prices have wid- ened! out materially, the bull: 0:! the transactions covering a range of over $1. Prime light hogs sell high- est, with the best heavy butchers about 20 cents below them. The domestic consumption of fresh pork products and cured meats and lard continues extremely large, but lard exports are running much short of a year ago. According to the recent government report, the spring pig crop was as large as’last year in the corn belt, when the number exceeded all past records. Last week’s Chi- cago hog receipts reached: unusually large proportions, and at. the close sales were made of common to prime grades at $5.70 to $7.55, comparing with $0.20 to $8.05 a week ago and $8 to $115.05 a year ago». At this $35k 1915 bogs. sold at $6-50 to for the year aggregate 23,164,060 hogs, comparing with 18,092,000 a year ago and 38,718,000 two years ago. Larger Lamb Supplies The Chicago- mrket has been re- ceiving much larger supplies at Ian-he, free shipments being mode from. the ranges of Idaho and Wash- ington, and much lower prices, were paid than a short time ago or one and two years ago. Prices are far below war values, but they are far above pee—war times, the best lambs having brought $8.20 eight years ago and $7.55 twelve years ago. An active. demand exists for feeders and breeding ewes, but very few are oiered, and good lots sell high, Within a week lambs have sold oil as much as $1 per .100 pounds, buy- ers paying $8.50 to $15.25, with. feeder lambs at $12 to $13. Ewes sold at. $71.50 to $7, wethers at $5! to $8., bucks at $2.50 to $3 and breed. in; ewe-,at $5.50 to $9.50. A. year ago the best lambs sold at $13.85, two years ago at $11.75 eight years an at $8.20 and twelve years ago at ”$1.55. , . We There is a new“ While“. the- - recent decline in the nu market , honor-e In much. that mm cm been-overdone, t ' tor a. July day, the Chicago re.- ‘ Receipts in twenty marketr' bi no OVersupply a‘ mister, the world can easily, world’s supply. This rm Armour - Groin Co. has issued a .clr‘ii culer‘ showing-only ‘a' normalcurry; over at the end of the-«wheat'yedr and expressing a boliu'thatjri‘ces ' enslave-0gb. Those who helierevthey use the.“ end of thejlump in wheat'priceerand ‘ probably an advance, to a highpr levy 7 el are basing. their faith. on less law arable crop conditions They think rust is doing some harm, that re» turns will he Mppointing. .New- braska reports what not turning out well and it is scarcely to be ex4 pected that both winter m spring wheat will turn out first clam crops. They believe export ‘dema'nd must ' improve because. European supplies are low, and should the Ruhr trouble. be settled it is believed demands will increase, although it is reported that Russia is ready to fill the needs of Germany at very low prices. . The market lacks speculation. Buyers who usually invest in wheat when it begins to move mlfinding some other employment tor their money this season- Millers. report a moderate increase in the domestic» flan trade and there is ‘utive de— mand for all the isodisnartuls the mills can produce. ~ ‘ Prices Detroit—~Cash No. 2 red, No. 2 white and No. 2 mixed, SLIZK. Chicago—Cash: No. area, 31.05% ', No. white and No. 2 mixed, 31.01. mm one year oar—«Detroit, ‘ Cash No. 2 red, $1.10; No. 2 white' and No. 2 mixed, $1.14!. CORN , . Prices in the con marketwere“ afle‘cted some by the slump in the wheat market at Chicago but by the end of last week there was consid— erable firmness to the tone of the ' market and prices closed the week. at Detroit higher than; they were two weeks previous. Hot and dry weather over Texas and Okla- home for some weeks past has lest , a bullish note to the trend of the market as dealers feel that. the yield , will. he very small in that ‘section. , Country altering: to arrive show a decline while receipts at many points increased. Demand is fair tojgood and the market firm at most term- inals. , _ Pricu Deanne-4mm No. 3 yellow; 939.; No. 3, 91¢; No. 4, 99¢; _ ' . Cash No. 2 yellow, ’00.; No. 3,. 84¢. Prices one year ago—~Dotroit, Cash No. 2 yellow, 71c; No. 3, 69 55c; .No.&, 03¢. ' The oat market has just passed through one of the dullest seasons in the year. Price changes wire limited to a very narrow range and selling was very scattered. Domestic slipping demand was fair during the post fortnight and country doling: to arrive were at estundstill. Crop mews was: favorable. - Prices Detroit—Cash No. 2 white, 47c; No- 3, 46¢; No.19, 45c. ' Chicag.e——-Cash No. 2 white, 45c; No. 3, some; ' Prices one year ago—Detroit, No. 2 white, 41%0; No. 3, 391750.; No. 4, 35%@37%_e. ' ' m . Rye experienced an increase in (*8: mood on the Detroit market done; the early part of last week but. by the '1’ closing day there woes decline off, R better trio‘t—C. H. P. $5.50 pa at. , Chitago—é—C. H. P. 8535.635 one year ago-«Detroit. H. P. $8. 80 per cwt. 1' - POTATOES ' . Chicago reports a dull market and “declining while Detroit and points: Gist have a firm and active market. "Receipts are of good size and dealers (who have a supply on hand are ready ‘ . sellers. Prices Detroit —-— Michigan, $1 00@1. 08 7 per cwt ‘ ' Chicago -— Early Ohios, $2. 25@ 2 50 per cwt. ‘ -. Prices one year ago—Detroit, ’ .Michigan, $2.50 per cwt. 7 HAY Markets generally are strong on . good hay but are slow and irregular on the poorer sorts. Farm work is curtailing country shipments and some reports show that not enough hay arrives to test the market. As a whole, markets are steady to firm, especially for good hay. New hay is .reported as generally fair quality. Prices ‘ . Detroit—-——No. 1 timothy, $17.50@ . 18;. standard, $17@17.50; No. 2 timothy, $15.50@1_6.60;rlight clover mixed, $'17@17.50;. ,No. 1 clover mixed, $15@16; No. 1 clover, $13 @14. , Chicago—No. 1 timothy, $23@ 24-:~!§o..2 flmothY. $19@20; light clover mixed, $21@23; No. 1 clover, 17@18; No. 2 clover, $14@16. New York—No. 1 timothy, $27@ 28; standard, .;$15@18 No.2 tim- othy, $25@26; light clover mixed, W5. $27@28. ’ Prices one year ago—Detroit, Standard timothy, $19Q20; No. 2 timothy, $18@19; light mined, $19 @20; No. 1,clover, $15@16. WOOL The wool market feeling is a little than during the past few Week of July 22 MMEDIATELY after the first part of this week storminess Will in- crease in Michigan with very "strong winds and locally heavy rains. About Thursday it is expected that the temperatures will fall for a brief spell but will, change to much warmer before the end of the week has arrived. These warm temperatures will be L the forerunner to series of thunder storms that will continue into next . week. . Week of July 29 The average temperature for this week will be below normal and cool weather will remain until about Fri- day or Saturday. During the entire week we 'are ex- ' pecting little or no rainfall in this state but generally pleasant sun- - shiny days and comfortable, moon- light nights. Not until the end of this or be— , ginning or next week will the sky be- acorns seriously overcast and threat- out”. At this time some amoral showers may be expected. ’ Warm and Dry in August W9 do not look for any storm to -‘ carry a hero! rein fled into this 1 state 1111 about or a or the 10th at time for the growth as? misses the conditions. In; .. .. ,jushiair, ' flinistic as to future trend, and in- "aimed to hold for steady to higher bids. , easier. The first six or seven days .133 . - ‘teen cars were sold during the last ‘week of August, 1922, and twenty- ‘ ‘ d y' 1holders opti— 1 OFFICIAL U. s. MARKETGRAM (U. S. “can of Agricultural Economics) we» I n, D. C. for» the veal: endincllly 13,1223. . Fun—Marketa quiet. Interior demand slow. pales- hold fairly M. a! .111 (listings ta- future . m are light. Honky feed oflsflngs snfll. demand flow, prices m feed mt, plie- unchanged. - Demand and om light. Qioted Minneapolis, Iran $19, middlings $24, flour ‘nfliflngs $28, red-dog $30. Gluten feel Chi- cago $37.15. white 110qu test! St. Louis $31, Chicago 532. 32 per cent linseed meal limeapolla $38,13uf- falo $39. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES—— Virginia Irish cobbler potatoes ir- regular leading markets for the week; ’ slightly weaker at shipping } mints. .South Central bliss tri- umphs pend lower. Watermelon markets decline. Georgia HIM; peaches generally steady. Canta-, lonpes show an upward tendency in most leading markets. Prices re-. ported .nly 12. Georgia Tom Wat- son watermelons, medium sizes $200- 5475 bulk per car, top of $650 in New York, 22-30 1b._average $100- 5375 fob. cash track to growers. Labelled stock $225—$400. South Carolina melons $275-$650 eastern markets, $175-$400 f.o.b. Texas Tom ‘Watson melons 28-30 l'b. average $400-$450 in Chicago and Kansas City, $75—85 f.o.b. usual terms at shipping points. Georgia peaches, Hileys $2-$3 per 6-basket carrier leading cities. Belles $1.60—$2.50, top of $8 in New York, 51.40-51.65 f.o.b. usual terms. -Virginia and Maryland, Eastern Shore cobbler potatoes mostly $5.50-$6.75 per bbl. eastern markets, Norfolk section stock $4.50—$6 consuming centers, $5.50 to $5.75 f.o.b. Kansas Early Ohio 52 .25— $2 60 sacked per 109-1115. in Chicago and Kansas City, $1. 60- $1. 75 f.o. b. South Central bliss tri- umphs $2. 25- $2. 75 midwestern mamts. South Carolina green meats, standards 45’ s .—$1 51. 25 in Baltimore. Calitornia salmon tints standards 45’s $2. 25— $3. 50 eastern markets. Arizona stock $3.—$3.50. DAIRY PRODUCTS—While butter gained strength most of the week and price advances occurred, the tone at the close was barely steady to weak, poor quality due to hot Weather defects has had the eifect of cutting down the percentage of top grades, causing a scarcity of these and some accumulation of und- ergrades. _ Closing prices of 92 score butter -——New York 39; Chicago 38; Phila- delphia 49; Boston 391,4. Cheese markets fairly firm and active fol- lowing advances of around 1c in Wisconsin on Monday which placed trading generally on a higher price level. Considerable quantities have been bought for storage. Rains and cooler weather in some of the princ- ipal producing sections resulted in quality showing considerable im- provement during the week. Cheese prices in Wisconsin Primary Markets July 12—flats 220; twins 2155c; single daisies 220; double daisies 211/20; Young Americas, longhorns and square prints 2234c. BETTER BOOK-KEEPING REQUIRED In order to encourage greater at- tention" to good book-keeping meth- ods among the local marketing as- sociations, the directors of the Mich— igan Potato Growers’ Exchange have recently ruled that no credit will be extended and no loans made to locals unless a monthly financial statement is made and filed with the Enhance accounting department. A YEAR—AROUND BU According to records in 1 or the Michigan Potato “teamwobeealofl M: the ct Jet. 1.223... ‘ . and 26x26 inch cylinMs. ‘ 1023 sun: at... a. c. u I y d , " Bean and Pen Thrashers ,The Bean and Pea Farmer’s m Built in three sizes—1&4 01mg inch ho 11d 0:1 dall. Threslhes an cleans tall mm d b21111: come “11 Sofia“. 2..." a. '3... 1.....11'5 my“ PRICE When you but lb price all thee direshers 70! pm Is rised. Write y for acute. 12. 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