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When [Michigan Dons the Royal Purple!

in title issue: A page of pietures Showing); Michigan convicts building roads and an article, “Prism: Labur
May Solve tie Good Reads Riddle” “Shail 'We Hand Pick Oar Beans on the Fam'z?”—~“fiw§. A. C.
' ‘, Attacks Helme’s Stand on Tuberculin Test of Dairy Cattle”~~~~-and many other interesting articles.

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PR E s E N T s
The New Four-Cylinder .Tourz'ng Car

In the development of this new Four touring car Nash fociJsed
enginw'ing effort directly upon those elements of performance
of most vital importance to the farmer.

So you find in this car a Strmtural ruggedness and solidity well
calculated to accept the sternest kind of emplOyment without
faltering or weakening.

And so aptly and scientifically is the car sprung and balanced;
so ably has the motor and Carburetor been refined; that upkeep
figures kept from week to week will show clearly that Nash

Four economy in gas and oil is a very considerable saving.

The braking system has been given even greater surene-ss, pom,
and efficiency by reason of a special Nash application of time-
tried and positively proved braking principles.

In addition, Nash has included in the extensive Went a
numberofnewand praaicalfeaturesthat servetogivethccar
even broader value as an investment.

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Readers Offer Plans for Making Home Bean-Picking Machines and Reasons For and Against
Saving of Present High Cost at Elevator. More Plans and Letters from Readers Wanted

DST women and girls on the
farm would like to find some
sort of work to make pin

money. The manufacturers of home

  
  

 

 

winter. A hopper holding about 2
bushels had a corrogated roller in
the bottom and was elevated above
and at one end of a rolling canvas
table, 12 to 14 inches wide and 5 or
six feet long. The hopper roller
was connected with one of the end
rollers of canvas table by a narrow
belt and a crank on the other end
roller of the table operated the
whole machine. We used heavy
factory double for canvas table.—
Mrs. F. L. Brown, Gobles, R No. 1,

 

- PICKING BEANS AT HOME CONTEST

I the August 25th issue The Business Farmer offered five
11:21:“ milliumfifinigfidfifl dollars for the most practical description of a bean pick-
Evithlfinsté‘naess lindhyet we 1!an that ' ling mgelliiine that could ble built by anhy farmer at home.
6" 0 e W 0 “Y men“ 7° 0“ ‘ we 0 t ose sent in are il ustrated on t is page. '
£285 W 38?;fféggsghfm Remember it is not necessary to be an artist, simply ex-
am of this flat cost from the ma- plain how you made the outfit and draw it as Simply as
- term they make for resale to the possible. Our own artist will make the finished drawmg.
Benjamin Gerks, of Rochester, has added five dollars to

    
     
      
       
       
    
      
  

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It has been our opinion for some
time that beans, should be hand-
picked on the farm and sold by the
farmer as choice, hand—picked, cut-
ting out the expensive labor employed
in the town or city elevators and
keeping this money on the farm in
the hands of the farm women.

There are many idle hours for all
hands on the farm that could be em-
ployed in hand-picking the season’s
bean crop and it would result in a
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the beans would be more evenly fed

.to the markets during the winter
. months.

With this in mind The Business
Farmer adored a prize of five dollars
for the best plan of making a home
bean picking machine, and several
plans have already been submitted,

the prize, making it ten dollars for the best plan and des-
‘ cription submitted. We also offer a year’s subscription,
new or renewal, for every letter published, either illustrat-
ing a machine or giving experience with hand picking beans

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We of which we have illustrated
and appear below.

No less an authority on this sub-
ject than Benjamin Gerks, of R0-
chester, N. Y., says the grower can
profitably hand—pick his own beans
and Mr. Gerks doubles our original
prize ofler in order to stimulate our
readers to give us their plans and
their experience.

Keep Called Beans

It goes without saying that keep-
ing the culled beans on the farm for
profitable use in feeding stock would
alone repay the labor and it would
seem that there is every good reason
why farmers should adopt this plan,
and do it this year with the 1923
crop of beans, which, if properly
marketed, is sure to bring a good
price.

In reading the deseription of the
machines illustrated, kindly remem-
ber that they could be changed to
meet the requirements of the ma—
terial you have on hand, and there
is no reason why any man who is
handy with tools cannot make one
of the simple sets illustrated. We
hope to have many more to offer in
the September 29th issue.

Plan from Mrs. Guy Finch

Having noticed your request for a
simple home~made bean picker, in
the August 18th issue of The Busi-
ness Farmer, thought I would take a
chance toward winning the $5.00
you are giving for a description of
one. Am sending a rough sketch of

the one my husband made about five
years ago, and which has proven
very satisfactory to us, and also our
neighbors. It is very simple to
make and can be made of any mater-
ial» strong enough, that is on hand.
The legs of our were of an old bed—
stead, the balance wheel from an old
cream separator, the belt from a
grain bag cut in a strip 5 inches
Wide and sewed together. The roll—
ers for canvas are cut from a broom
handle. The hopper and other parts
from thin material. The pans for
the poor beans, on either side of can-
vas are square cake pans of the right
size to fit. The hopper has a wide
hinge arranged on back so it may be
tipped back if necessary. A tin is
fitted into the bottom part of hopper,
above the bottom board, in a slant-
ing position, to be adjusted as desir-
ed, to let the beans run out, fast or
slow.

As the dimensions are given on
the sketch, this will be as plain as I
can make it. If it is not plain
enough Will be glad to answer any
questions concerning same. Hop-
ing this will be what you are looking
for and satisfactory to you, am send—
ing it in. My husband was too busy
to do this, so left the job for me. A
reader of Michigan Business Farmer,
Mrs. Guy Finch, Berville, Michigan.

Mrs. Brown’s Simple Plan

Here are directions for hand bean
picker that my father made, and us—
ed to pick 50 bushels of beans one

M. A. C. Attacks Helme’s Stand on Tuberculin Test

{ CCORDING to a press report un-
der date of August 26th Mr.
James W. Helme addressed a

group of farmers at Jackson on the

previous day in opposition to tuber—
culin testing of cattle. Many of his
statements concerning the nature of
the disease were so erroneous, mis—
leading and at variance with the
findings of present day investigators
that the writer feels they should not
uncontradicted. Following, therefore
are several statements concerning
tuberculosis which should SBL the

-, right in regard to his knowledge con-

cerning this disease in case Mr.

‘Helme’s remarks have bewildered
. him.

First, there are "three types of
germs producing this disease, name-
ly, human, bovine and avian.

1. The human type may be trans-

. mitted from tuberculous persons to

other persons but is transmitted with
difficulty to farm animals.

2. The bovine type is quite easily
transmitted from tuberculous. cattle

i to other cattle, to begs, to people,

espedally children drinking infected

. milk. and possibly also to poultry.
1' 3., The trial type is readily trans-

  

mitted from infected fowls to other
fowls, but not easily transmitted to
farm animals or people. . *

‘ Second, in making statements re—
garding the percentage of tubercu-
losis in human beings caused by the
bovine type, most students of the
disease quote Park and Krumwiede
in America who made bacteriologi—
cal analyses of 1511 cases and re—
port as follows:

75 percent of gland cases in chil—
dren is bovine.

66 percent of generalized tubercu-
losis in children is bovine.

18.2 percent to 26 percent of
deaths from tuberculosis in children
are caused by the bovine germ.

Often, too, the findings of the
British Royal Commission are cited,
which are to the effect that

37.5 percent of tuberculosis in
children under 5 years of age is bo—
vine.

29.5 percent of tuberculosis in
children between 5 and 10 years of
age is bovine. -

Milk Unsafe, Meat 0. K.

Third, the milk from an infected
cow‘may be unsafe to drink but her
carcass may be fit for food. Milk

from a cow with tubercules in the
udder is unsafe for human con—
sumption because the germs probably
will be present in the milk. Milk
from a cow with no tubercules in
the udder but which has tuberculous
nodules in the digestive, respiratory
or genito—urinary organs may be
just as badly contaminated With the
germs, not because they pass out of
the udder in the milk, but because
they get into the milk pail during
the process of milking. It is difficult
to keep the exterior of the body of
a cow 100 percent free from the in—
fectious discharges that may come
from any one or all of the three
above-mentioned body tracts. But
if the hypothetical cow just men—
tioned were slaughtered and upon ex—
amination it was found that the
tubercules in her body were not
numerous, were slight in extent,
walled off or calcified, and there was
no evidence of the germs having
gained entrance to the blood stream,
her carcass could safely be consumed
for food after cutting out the af-
fected areas. The same logic would

be applied as is applied by one wish-

ing to eat an apple with a bad spot”,

Michigan.
Hand Picking Hard Job

Have been reading Mr. Gerks’
articles on bean picking on the farm
and am going to give my experience.
Two years ago I took samples of my
beans to the elevator and found they
would pick 10 to 12 per cent. Real-
izing what a loss this meant I start—
ed to hand .pick them. I soon found
out what a job I had. It was im—
possible to work with a hand picking
machine until they were cleaned
through a tanning mill to remove
pods and the fine particles of clay.
After doing this I made better head-
way but the job still proved too slow
and tedious and I gave it up as a bad
job. I noticed that a great number
of culls were flat or irregular shap-
ed and would not roll like the per-
fect beans so started doing a little

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experimenting. I soon had a crude
maching that seemed to be removing
a great many culls and after taking
a sample of these beans run through
this machine to the elevator discov-
ered that it reduced them from 10
per cent to 4% per cent or a little
over 50 per cent. That year I had
460 bushels and by reducing them
from 10 and 12 per cent to 5 per
cent which they averaged it is easy
to figure what I made and cleaned
them at the rate of 4 bushels an
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of Dairy Cattle

or a bunch of grapes containing a
few spoiled grapes—cut out the bad
spot, or throw away the spoiled
grapes, and eat the remainder. Of
course if the tubercules in a cow are
numerous, extensive, shows evidence
of acute inflamation or liquefacation,
the whole carcass is condemned and
rendered into fertilizer.
Tests 96% Eflicicnt

Fourth, the tuberculin tests used
in the testing of cattle are reliable.
They are considered to be about 96
percent efficient when run separately,
and a trifle higher when run in com-
bination. When it is stated that the
tests are 96 percent efficient it means
that 96 out of every 100 reactors
ShOW Visible lesions. The other 4,
however, could quite possibly have
invisible lesions or minute lesions
located in remote parts of the body
that can not be examined or de—
tected at the time of slaughter. Any
person having any experience at all
in the examination of carcasses for
tuberculosis must admit that there
are a thousand and one places in the
animal’s body that he never ex-
amines.-—R. A. Runnells, Assistant
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‘ . HE Sphinx gazing over the sands
of the Sahara never faced a
greater problem than the riddle
which confronted the officials of the
I state of Michigan when the 1923

,\ legislature adjourned without pro—

Viding adequately for the cons trzut—
tion and maintenance of the good
roads program which the people of
the state of Michigan had in 1919
g'iVen their approval at the polls.

No one blamed the legislature for
keeping “hands off” this problem.
On one side was the great popular
sentiment, both from rural and city
owners of automobiles and trucks,
for a carrying out of the paved road
program, while on the other side
stood the overwhelming sentiment of
the people that taxes must be lower-
ed.

The politicians did not know
which way to jump, and no one was
there to tell them. Even the gaso-
line tax which was offered as a pos-
sible solution because it taxed the
man who used the roads according to
the use he gave them, went down to
an inglorious defeat when it was ve—
toed by the governor.

Then in the midst of the black
clouds Which seemed to overhang
the whole road building program in
Michigan came forward a ray of
light in the suggestion that the
state’s great prisons, already over-
crowded, be called upon for their
wasting labor to work directly in the
interests of the people of the state,
who Were being taxed that these men
might be properly confined, during
their period of reconstruction.

Employing Convict Labor

All manner of plans have been
perfected for employing the labor of
the thousands of men who are ser—
ving their terms in the state prisons.
Contract labor, usually employed in
manufacturing work for which the
prisoners found little call when they
left the prison walls, was once a fav-
' orite method of employng this lab-
or. It was neither profitable to the
state nor beneficial to anyone ex-
cept the profiteering contractors who
secured the contracts through polit-
ical connivance.

Several of the southern states
have employed convict labor on the
roads, and at least ten years ago the

f‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

writer recalls having visited a pris-
on camp in Florida where practically
all of the prisoners were colored
men and he vividly remembers the
su1ly overseers with their black-
snake whips and rifles slung across
their shoulders, watching the
many of whom were Working on the
roads with a huge ball of iron and
a chain around their leg. This pic-
ture of modern slavery recalled
and from re-
cent developments it would appear
that the conditions in these southern
prison camps can scarcely be called
better today. How different is the
present experiment of employing
prison labor 011 the roads being con-
structed by the State Highway Com-
mission of the State of Michigan!
Michigan’s Experiment

At the present time there are 460
prisoners engaged in road—building
011 the following state highways: At
the new Hudson camp on Grand
River Avenue, State Highway Route
M-lb‘, there are 145 prisoners engag-
ed in the work of grading, laying
concrete, running all machinery, and
caring for the needs of the camp.

At the Grand Blanc camp on' the
Dixie Highway, in Genessee County,
the work is being done entirely with
prison labor, and early in this month
there were 285 men employed on the
nine miles of which two and one half
miles have already been completed,
and will compare favorably with the
best contract road construction in
the state.

A small group of thirty—eight pris-
oners are engagedat Galesburg on
the Camp Custer road where they
are completing two and one half.
miles.

This marks only the beginning of
construction work by prison labor on
the roads of this state. Already the
state has found it possible to in—
crease the pay of these trusty prison-
ers from $1 to $1.25 per day and yet
this compares with the $5 to $7 per
day which contractors have had to
pay for similar labor, and for which
the state has been charged plus a
profit to the contractor.

Prisoners Like it

A visit to any of the convict
camps above will surprise and de—
light anyone who is interested in the

men,

Experiment Now in Full Operation Seems to Prove Success of Plan---480 Men Now Employed
--Will Mean 500 Miles of New Roads in 1924 Says Governor Groesbeck ‘ ‘

reconstruction of men duringfitheir
period of confinement.
It is obvious that any prisoner is

'anxious to leave the gray walls of

the prison confines such as at Jack-
son, Ionia or Marquette, and join a
group of men in a military camp do-
ing construction work and moving
011 from time to time in God’s open
country.

When you consider that the larg—
er proportion of the men new con-
fined in 'Michigan’s state prisons are
from the larger cities, principally
Detroit, it is not hard to understand
how these men are softened and re-
ceive a new perspective on life from
the open country in which road
building is done. It makes for bet-
ter discipline in the state institu—
tions, because it is a mark of honor
to be allowed to go out and work in
one of the prison road camps.

Practically every man employed
in the work is a trusty, although the
camps are guarded and the men
checked in. night and morning,
which procedure is hardly different
than is employed in the United
States army or navy.

Every convenience is afforded the
men and the efficient management of
the camp is largely in the hands of
men with army experience, so that
the camp takes on all the appearance
of a millitary post and they are
swarming hives of industry.

Governor Pleased “fith Results

Although the plan of prisOn labor
did not get well under way until
early in August, sufficient progress
has been made to date to prove that
the plan is a practical one and most
of the tax payers of Michigan are
glad to see it adopted and are com-
mending Governor Groesbeck for his
distinct interest in it, because there
have arisen any number of discour-
agements connected with it which
would have weakened a less determ-
ined man in his desire to see it made
a success.

Expansion of the highway con-
struction program to 500 miles of
new pavement to be Completed dur-
ing 1924 is now being planned by
Governor Groesfl’eck and Frank F.
Rogers, state highway commission.
Such a mileage of new pavement will

be double that ever contemplated in
the past.

Included in this paving program
will be M 29, from Lansing to Char-
lotte, and M—14, from Lansing to
Mason. These are two of the most
congested trunk line highways lead-
ing to and from the state capitol.

The biggest job to be included in
the 500—mile program for next year
will be the Grand River road, known
as M—16. When paving work now in
progress along this route is complet-
ed this year there will be left unpav-
ed about 80 miles, of which approx-i

Iimately 30 will be between Lansing

and Detroit, and 50 between Lansing
and Grand Rapids. This highway
will have some relocations between
Lansing and Grand Rapids which it
is said will shorten the distance be-
tween the two cities at least 12
miles. This entire state boulevard,
which will run from Detroit across
the state to points on the east Shore
of Lake Michigan ,will have a right-
of-way 100 feet wide with a 20 foot
pavement in the middle. It is said
all the needed right-of—way has been
obtained for this work.

Another one of the longer stret-
ches to be paved next year will be
about 30 miles running through
Lenawee and Washtenaw counties.
The remainder of this huge program
will consist of shorter gaps to con-
nect present pavements and improv-
ed state trunk line and federal aid
roads.

A Thousand Prisoners for Road

Work

At least a thousand state convicts
will be put to work on this highway
construction next year. The gover—
nor and state highway commissioner
estimate that the state can build at
least 200 miles of paving next year
with the prisoners and its own org—
anization. The other 300 miles will
be let to private contractors.

That the cost of paving being done
this year by state convicts will radi-
cally reduce the cost of such high-
ways to the state, .will be shown con-
clusively when the repaving now be—
ing done on M—10, the Dixie high-
way, in Genesee county, is complet-
ed, says the governor. The state
now has close to 500 convicts at

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Why the “Farm Hand” and His Family Are Going Back to City to Live

By THE “FARM HAND’S” \VIFE

Y HUSBAND returned to a farm
in March of the present year,
after working four years in a
factory. He returned joyously, as
one coming home after an enforced
absence, for farming is to him the
profession above all others; the pro-
fession that combines interest and
pleasure and profit and health; in
short the profession in which one
.lives a full and delightful life while
earning a good living. I will admit
that I believe the definition is cor-
rect, in theiry. A farm should com-
bine all these things, and life on a
farm should be a delightful life.

We do not own a farm but we
continue to hope that we shall some-
time own one. We even dare to
hope that our farm will be a sample
of the nearest thing to paradise that
an earthly home can be.

In the meantime, however, until
we can squeeze from the amount of
money which the high cost of living
demands enough to somehow start
for ourselves, we have come back to
a farm as members of that class,
now all too scarce, called farm labor.
Perhaps I may be able, in this short
article, to tell to the farmers who
read. it some of the many reasons
why farm labor is scarce and dissat-
isfied and unreliable; why it does
not stay put.

My husband is a man who loves
his family and desires their comfort
and happiness. He does not want
his wife to get along with a house
whichhas no sink and no bath and
no heating or lighting systems. He
"does not want our three children to
ow up without good advantages
for education and the ability to as-
sociate with refined people. Still
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HERE are thousands of

“farm hands”

like this one

throughout the country. He is going back to the city this
fall and so are many of the others, some will return at a
later day and others will not No doubt his employer had
to “count his pennies” but if this farmer had followed the
rules laid out in the agreement to the best of his ability his
“farm band” would have stayed by him and done his part.
“Encourage them into taking a real interest in your busi-

ness by showing them that you are interested in them,

7!

IS

the motto of some of our most successful farmers and it

seems to be a pretty good rule to go by.

If the “hired

help” is the valuable kind they will soon show it under this

kind of treatment.

If they aren’t the right kind you don’t

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give himself or his family the things
they should have.

He wants a bank account made
from the surplus of money he earns,
not the uncertain bonus his employ-
er hands shim as a gift but which
would never be given unless earned.
He wants to start his two sons and
his daughter with chickens, or pigs,
or lambs,’ himself; not to have his
employer give them something from
those owned on the farm. He de-
sires to put all his interest and his
work into his employer’s farm and
he feels that if he does that his em-
ployers can afford to pay him enough
so that nothing we receive from the
farm will be in the farm of charity
and we shall be as independent as
the owner’ himself.
want his employer to “give" him a
vacation, or take him “on a. trip."

He does not‘

He feels that he earns a vacation,
which he is perfectly willing to take
at the time when the farm can spare
him without suffering for need of his
services.

There are on the farm where we
are now living. and on which the
owner also lives, ninety head of
stock, cattle, horses, swine; and
numerous fowl, chickens, ducks,
geese, and turkeys. None of these
are ours, nor do we want them. They
belong to the owner of the farm. If,
however, by his care and feeding and
fore—thought, my husband saves
more of the young pigs or chickens
than the owner has been able to
save before; if he works-constantly
and intelligently to improve the
dairy stock and to cull out the un-
profitable ones; if he makes feed
carriers and other devices hitherto

not used; all these things should
make him a more valuable man, and,
when he has proved himself capable
and willing to increase the profits of
the owner, the owner should, in
turn, increase his salary or pay him
a commission, and also let him know
that his interest is noticed and ap-
preciated.

The agreement when we came to
this farm was that we were to have
the use of a horse and. buggy, the
privilege of attending church serv-
ices in the village two miles away on
Sundays, house rent and milk free,
feed for our hens, and in the fall
200 pounds of meat. All needed re-
pairs on the house were to be begun
at once. The money salary was $100
per month. It sounded good. Rent
in town was high, food was high, the
houses we were able to afford were
few and offered very limited oppor-
tunity for gardens or for raising
poultry; two things we have always
bad.

So we came to the farm. I shall
never forget that March day. My
husband left at about ten o’clock in
the morning after we had packed
most of the goods, to fetch a. team
from the farm to haul the goods out
there. At twelve, when I was still
gathering up things, the gas man
came and took out the meter. From
then until after three the children
and I waited in the house with no
heat except that furnished by a
small krosene heater. As I was oblig-
ed to go to other rooms for‘ things
not yet put up, the doors could not
be kept shut and the room was un-
comfortably cold. When the teams
came, for the employer came too and
drove the second one, they took

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Actual Photographs'Here Tell Story of Building of Concrete Roads on Michigan State Highways by

     
   
   

shown in back.

proceed to the
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Front view of the prisoners mess hall, with kitchen
Prison Camp on Grand Blane road.

Rear view of the open-air mess room ‘
at the camp on the Grand Blane road. smoothing surface.

Turntable for trucks which allows the truck to

job

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and kitchen Concrete laying gang

  

Interior of the prisoners

 

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and machinery

 

used in the construction camps. Good mechanics to protcct it from the hot sun.

are always available among the prisoners.

        

stuffy cell-block

The open-air military tents are a contrast to the

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Gate for checking D

which prevents deception.

at work with roller for View of stubics for horses um-d in

dining- hall at Novi,
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ANY folks do not think of a
farm home water system as a
means of increasing thefefflc—

iency of the housekeeper, but are in-
clined to think of it as a luxury, if
they think of it at all.

A kitchen sink with a waste pipe
and running water at the faucet will
save more work than a seat on the
cultivator, and in many instances
will not cost any more.

Probably the carrying in of fresh
water and the carrying out of waste
water is the most burdensome task
the average farm woman has. A
little discussion of a few of the
simple ways of developing a water
system may give some folks ideas
that will put them at this important
job.

Many farmers have a windmill, or
a gas engine, and an elevated tank
to supply water at the barn and have
never thought of piping the water
into the house. It is a comparative-
ly easy matter for them to lay a
pipe to the house and run water into
a kitchen sink. It is surprising how
much this one convenience will light-
en the house work.

For those who do not have an ele-
vated supply tank a few of the nu—
merous ways of arranging one will
be mentioned. The most common,
probably, is the galvanized iron
tank on a wooden tower. A more
permanent tank can be built of con-
crete. A concrete tank to hold
water from the ground up makes a
very good reservoir if properly con-
structed- The supply may enter
from the bottom and eliminate dang-
er of freezing. Such tanks should
have a good foundation, that is,
1 should start 18 to 24 inches below
7 the ground level, and should be well
‘ reinforced. The water from some
-‘ wells in the State seems to destroy
i poor concrete. It is therefore well
, to use nothing but good concrete for
'. this kind of work, such as one part
cement, two parts of sand. four parts
of gravel or crushed stone.

Utilizing Nearby Hill

A concrete tank built under-
ground on a hill high enough to give
adequate pressure makes an excel-
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ient hill 8. wooden or metal tank may
be placed on it also, and save the ex-
pense ot a tower. A very useful
reservoir for use near the house is
one of concrete with a coolingroom
and milk-cooling trough below the
tank; with the water fresh from the
well running around the milk pails
and thence to the hogsor horses.

A tank may be placed on top of a
concrete or masonry silo so as to

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weight. It should be placed over a

.partition so it will be well supported

it should have an overflow large
enough to keep the tank from run-
ning over. ~

A good arrangement to have rain-
water handy is obtained Yy placing
a good big tank under the eaves of
the house as high as possible, and
piping the water to the kitchen. For
piping water from an elevated tank
into the house a fi—inch pipe is gen-
erally used. It gives a good flow if
the tank is 10 feet or more above the
faucet in the. house and not too far
away. Under some conditions it
will pay to use a 1-inch pipe.

The pipe from the pump to the
tank is usually 1 54-inch where the
ordinary size pump is used. 'Some-
times to keep the cost of pipe down
on a pipe line 1,000 feet or so in
length, 1-inch pipe is used by pump-
ing the water slowly through it. In
running water from the well to the
tank it is just as well to pump the
water in and let it out through the
one pipe in the bottom of the tank
and this usually saves some pipe.
A check valve should be used at the
well to prevent the water from leak-
ing back. Some prefer to run the
supply pipe over the top of the tank
to avoid trouble with leaky check
The tank is sometimes put in the
barn loft and covered with hay to
prevent its freeing. When the
tank is located in the house or barn
valves which let the water tram the
tank back into the well.

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should be laid deep enough under-
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give a good pressure, unless the
house is on higher ground than the
silo. In order to keep the cost low,
sometimes the elevated tank is put
in the attic of a onestory house. This
does not give as much pressure as is
desirable, but is far better than not
having running water. It has an
advantage over the outdoor tank in
that there is very little danger of its
freezing. Only a small tank of two
to four barrels capacity should be
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where the pipe is brought up to a
hydrant or into the house a valve
should be put in, which in freezing
weather may be used to cut the wat-
er oi! from the tank and which per-
mits the water to leak out of the ex-
posed" pipe through the valve. Frees-
ing of the pipe from the elevated
tank to the ground may be prevented
in the usual winters of this climate
by packing paper or straw in a box
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operated by a lever with a wire from
it. When the section of . the pipe
where it attaches to the tank may be
drained and prevent troublesome

’ freezing there.

A water system without a reser-
voir may be had at' a very small cost
where the water in the well or cist-
ern is not more than 14 or 16 feet
below the floor of the house. A pit-
cher pump may be placed at the
kitchen sink and a pipe run from it
to the water in the well or cistern.
If the lift is rather high the pump
cylinder .may be placed under the
floor of the house to decrease the
suction lift. When the well is not
near the house and the water must
be drawn through. a long horizontal
pipe, the possible vertical suction
lift will be correspondingly less on
account of the increase of friction by
the long. pipe.

Dispoml of Waste Water

The waste water from a kitchen

sink may be handled in any way that

dish water is disposed of; however, -

it is better to run it into an under-
ground drain so it will not keep a
wet spot in the yard. The waste
pipe should be 1% inches in diamet-
er and should have a trap in it just
below the sink. The trap consists
of an S—shaped bend in the pipe
which holds a little mm and pre-
vents obnixious odors coming from
the waste pipe. The waste water
should be carried 20 or 30 feet from
the house in a tight-jointed pipe. It
may then be emptied into open
jointed drain tile and used for subir-
rigation a garden. Where only the
water from a kitchen sink is emptied
into the underground tile about 50
or 100 feet of 4-inch tile will be
enough; the larger amount being
necessary in tight soil. »
When a complete set of plumbing
fixtures are used, including a water

closet, a septic tank must be used '

to! the disposal of the sewage. A
septic tank sewage disposal system
is not expensive, and should not
block the installation of a complete
.set of fixtures in the house.

A good feature of any water sys-
tem is a'hot-water heater. This us-
ually includes a 30 to EEO—gallon gal—
vanized iron tank capable of with-
standing a high pressure. Where
natural gas is available the tank is
omitted. The heater may be used
with almost any kind of fuel. Where

a wood or coal cook stove is used.

regularly a water front may be plac-
ed in it to heat the water in the
tank. In this climate, where the
cooking is done on a kerosene or
gasoline stove most of the year, it is
better to have a kerosene or gasoline
heater for the hot—water system,
separate from the cook stove.

If you do not now have running .

water in your house, the installation
of some of the systems mentioned
may keep your boys and girls from
moving to town at the first opportun-
ity, and will certainly leave the
housewife more strength and time
for work in the garden, milking the
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had to tuition ' year
1821-1922.. The tuition for I!!!

7T was :60, district paying $50 and,
. Daren“ $10; for the year 1922.-1923

the W paid $60 and the parents
:15. We have read that the district
is supposed to pay all. Our director
informed us that he had looked up
the school law and that the district
was supposed to pay up to $60 and
I want to know if there
is any way we can compel this dist-
rict to reinburse us .for the tuition
money we have already paid out?

are seven children from this .

district attending high school.-—-W.
V. B., PlainWell, Mich.

—The non high school districts
must pay the tuition up to the act-
ual cost of the same in high school
districts but not to exceed sixty dol-
lars a year. This applies to eighth
grade graduates. ———-T. E. Johnson,
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion.

GROUNDS FOR SUIT

On' March 28, 1922, my husband
bought a team for $235 paying $100
down and giving a note for balance
with article purchased written on
the face of note. When the note
came due, December I, 19122, he ask-
ed to have it renewed, he paying the
accrued interest. The bank refused
to accept the interest. The man
who sold as the team wanted his-
money or the team. He took the
team and also kept the $100 we paid
down. We would like to know if he
can legally do this as we are just
starting farming and we cannot af-
ford to lose this money if we can
possibly recover it? When the team
went we had no means of traveling
except on foot, nor any way to get
.. ur winter’s wood to the house.—

rs. C. C. W., Sandusky, Mich.
—-The man who sold you the team
could not recover the team and also
keep the $100. I think you had
better consult a lawyer, with a. view
to starting suit for the recovery of
your sloop—Asst. Legal Editor:

. SELLING VINEGAR
Can you tell me how to test vin-
egar so as to know when it is right

to sell? How do you color vinegar
to make it a nice color? Ours is
too light?-—-—A. ' 1., Mt. Pleasant,

Michigan.

-—We presume you refer to cider
vinegar. “Cider vinegar” is con-
strued to mean vinegar derived by
the alcholic and subsequent acetous
fermentation of the expressed juice
of apples, the acidity, solids and ash
of which have been derived exclus-
ively from apples and which con-
Mns not less than 4 per cent of ab—
solute acetic acid. Cider vinegar
which, during the course of manu-
facture, develops in ‘excem of 4 per
cent acetic acid, may be reduced to
not less than 4 per
“cider vinegar"
without having the product regard-

cider vinegar mat brand each task,

,ban-el or keg, or other container,
with his name, place of business and
the words “Fermented Cider Vine-
gar."

In; order to determine the Mode

the meal chemical method employ-
ed for the determination of acetic

standard glassware
and standardized chemical reagents
itis impossible to make this test.
Ordinarily the home is not, equip—
ped with sufficient apparatus or
chemicals to do the work. There

stars which hdicate the strength of
, , however, they are notsub
fictenily accurate to be depended

gar and ask for the acetic acid con-
tent. *We shall be glad to do- the
work for you.

, The color of vinegar ordinarily u
dependent upon raw material and

is Worth to con-
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factored in vinegar facturies. For
use in the home, vinegar may be cel-
ored any desired color. Sugar col-
oring or caramel coloring may be
used to produce the desired shade.
However, section 6 of the vinegar
law, 0. L. 6463, reads as follows:

“No vinegar shall be sold or ex-
posed for sale in which foreign sub-
drugs at acids shall have
been introduced. No vinegar shall
contain and artificial coloring mat-
ter, and all vinegar shall have an
acidity of not less than four per
cent by weight of absolute acetic
acid. It vinegar contains any arti-
flcal matter, or less than the requir-
ed amount of acidity, it shall be
deemed to be adulterated."

Under this section, it is illegal to

‘color vinegar for sale in this State

and it is one of the duties of this
Department to prevent such practice
and to enforce this particular sec-
tion of the vinegar law. —W. C.
Geagley, State Analyst.

ESTATE - SHOULD BE PROBATE!)

I am a reader of the M. B. F. and
sure think it a grand paper. I
wouldn’t think of being without it
and as I know you have a Service
Bureau for your readers and answer
all kinds of questions I would be
very much pleased if you would
answer the questions I am going to
ask you.

My mother-in-law died 2 years
ago July 16th leaving no will and
six sons as her only heirs, and at the

time of her death she had her farm
rented on shares to her oldest son
until April 1, 1922. The mother
was to have done the general house-
work for her son and what help he
hired to help him on the farm. Aft-
er the mother died the son hired a
housekeeper and went on farming,
in the fall harvested the crop and
continued staying on the farm keep-
ing the housekeeper all winter. Can
the son make the heirs pay this
housekeeper or must he pay her
himself as long as he hired her?
After April 1, 1922, the son made
no arrangements with the other
heirs in regards to routing the farm
for another year but went on farm-
ing just as though the mother was
alive, using everything about the
farm as he pleased and planting
cm wherever he liked selling the
cream, the returns from which he
used for keeping the house. The
cows belonged to the mother, the
furniture in the house all belonged
to the mother, which the son has
used ever since her death. The
home being furnished complete by
the mother. Now as long as he
made no arrangements to stay and
work the farm and use everything
can he do so as long as the rest of
the heirs allow him to? Can’t they
collect rent for a furnished house
since April 1 ,1922? There is about
five acres of woods on mother’s farm.

At the time of the mother’s death
there was wood enough on hand out
which has lasted until about Decem—
ber 1, 1922. How about wood he

How To Save Time When Unloading Hay

AKE a piece of three-quarter
inch rope long enough to lay
across your wagon twice. Place

one end across the front end of the
wagon about three feet from the end
if you use a loader and four feet if
you do not. Have the two ends ex-
tend over the side of the rack about
three feet while the center of the
rope which is on the other side of
rack should extend over at least five
feet. You have a large ring in the
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end. This makes your sling. Then
get two ropes long enough to reach

to the farthest posts from the side of _

your wagon over which the two rope
ends hang (see drawing). Put a
grab hook on one end. This hook is
to hook into the ringin the center
of your sling over the top of your
load in the drawing. When you
driveintounload hookthetwolon‘g
ropes, which have been fastened to

. the posts, to the ends ., of your sling.

fastenthe hook of thehsyrope into
the ringinthecentcrefthe sling

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chase from the long ropes, unfasten

the long ropes from the post and

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the’ropes. Your second load rolls
off next to the first and so on until
you reach the back of the now, then
roll the next loads clear back. If
you are filling the driveway of your
barn a straight haul will do, if fil—
ling the sides fasten your ropes as
shown in the drawing. On the
straight haul when the hay is piled
too high for you to haul load off with
success you can fasten one end of the
pull rope high up in the barn and
use a pulley in the center (see dot-
ted line in drawing).

I used by automobile to do the
hauling in place of team as it was so
much faster. From the time the
team stopped at the barn until they
were ready to start for the field

again it has taken us less than two '

minutes; that is to fasten the ropes,
unload the hay and place the slings
back on the wagon again ready to
start, or less than one minute to
place the load in the barn after the
ropes were fastened. We timed
ourselves on four loads—they were
short hauls—and we made four trips
in one hour, with one team and two
men loading. We placed over two
hundred tons of hay in one barn by
this method. Use a third man in the
mow. When you get the idea, by
a little practice you can change the
ropes about and place the hay most
anywhere, providing the openings
are large enough to let full load
through. —— W. H. Caple, Clare
County, Mich.

   

   

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1’ cute for his own use? 'VCan he cut

wood for his own domestic use or
cut any green wood without consent
from the other heirs? I also under-
stand that the son made arrange-

. ments with his brother, one of the

heirs, a year ago and the two worked
the mother’s farm together the son
getting a certain share. Can the
son do this without consent from the
other four heirs? What share
could the brother hold in, such a
case? The son also gave the house—
keeper what chickens she raised
there on the farm and sold the
chickens belonging to the mother.
The son never gave account of what
has been raised or sold on the farm
since mother died. The property
has never been probated yet. The
housekeeper married one of the sons
and they continued staying on the
farm.——Mrs. H. 8., Williamsburg,
Mich.

-—-The rights and obligations of the
mother under the lease would be—
come, upon her death, the rights and
obligations of her estate, or heirs.
Her agreement to do the general
housework would have to be carried
out by the heirs, and if the son hired
a housekeeper, all the heirs, him-
self included, would have to pay
their share of what was a reason-
able amount for such services, up
until the termination of the lease,
April lst, 1922. After that he
would have to pay her himself. The
heirs would be entitled to the rent
due the mother under the lease.

So long as the other heirs do not
object, he could stay on the farm
after April 1st and cultivate the
land, but would be liable to the oth-
ers to pay a reasonable rental for the
use of such farm and house. The
wood cut for his own domestic use
would be taken care of in the rent.
For any wood cut above that
amount, he would have to account to
the rest of the heirs. The son and
his brother could work the farm
under an arrangement of their own,
so long as the other heirs did not ob-
ject, and in that case would both be
liable for the rent.

The estate should be probated as
soon as possible so the rights of the
respective heirs could be legally de—
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HAVE WILL PRODUCED AT
ONCE

I saw by your paper where you
help people. I would like to know,
does a will ever outlaw? When my
father died seven years ago he left
my mother a joint deed of their
farm. She sold the farm and moved
to town. She died it will be four
years the 23rd of next August. She
left a will to my only brother for
all her property. My only sister
and myself didn’t get a thing. , The
will has never been read only as I
went to see if she had a will. Their
lawyer has the will. He told me he
didn’t have any will or papers of
hers. He told me that twice, and I
had been told by my cousin that she
saw it in his office. I told him what
she said and he finally went and got
it and cut it open and read it just to
me. I didn’t see what it said, but
he read it this way. Her property
and personal had all been left to my
brother, she said she had not forgot—
ten the girls but wanted my brother
to have it because he had always liv-
ed with her. Now the will has nev-
er been read in public, nor been pro-
bated. The farm she sold was sold
on contract and isn‘t paid for yet
and it isn't on record in my broth—-
er's name. I have thought it over
a lot and just thought I would drop
you a line and see what you had to
say. If this outlaws, how is it then?
——Reader from Southern Michigan.

——Complied Laws of 1915, Sections
13776 and 13778 provide that every
person, other than the judge of pro-
bate, having custody of any will,
shall within 30 days after he has
knowledge of the death of the test-
ator, deliver it to the probate court
or to the executor, and that every
person who shall neglect to do this.
without reasonable cause, shall be
liable to each and every person in-
terested‘insuch will in the sum of
$10 damages for each and every
month that he shall neglect to deliv-
erthewimafterSOdaysn-omthe
death of the tostaior.

personhavingcustodyofthewillto
produce it at once so it may be

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s many schemes for making money
as there are recipes for cooking rice
, Charleston, S. C

“Best of all I like to hear him tell of
earlier days when he sold liniments
‘d cough cures on street corners, liv-
. ‘ ,‘hand to mouth, heart to heart with
the people, throwing heads or tails with
-fortune for his last coin.

"I struck Fisher Hill, Arkansaw,” said
«he “in 'a buckskin suit, mocassins, long
'-hair and a thirty-carat diamond ring
. that I got from an actor in Texarkana.
I don’t know what he ever did with the
pocket knife I swapped him for it.

"I was Dr. Waugh-hoo, the celebrated
Indian medicine man. I carried only one
best bet just then, and that was Resur-
rection Bitters. It was made of life—giv—
ing plants and herbs accidently discovered
by Ta—qua-la, the beautiful wife of the
chief of the Choctaw Nation, while gather-

ing truck to garnish a platter of boiled
dog for the annual corn dance.

“Business hadn’t been good at the
last town, so I only had five dollars. I
went to the Fisher Hill druggist and he
credited me for half a gross of eight
ounce bottles and corks. I had the
labels and ingredients in my valise left
over from the last town. Life began to
look rosy again after I got in my hotel
room with the water running from the
tap, and the Resurrection Bitters lining
up on the table by the dozen.

"Fake? No, sir. There was two dol-
lars’ worth of fluid extract of cinchona
and a dimes’ worth of aniline in that
half-gross of hitters. I've gone through
towns years afterwards and had folks
ask for ’em again.

"I hired a wagon that night and com-
menced selling the bitters on Main Street.
Fisher Hill was a low, malarial town;
and a compound hypothetical pneumo—
cardiac anti—scorbutic tonic was just what
I diagnosed the crowd as needing. The
hitters started off like sweet—breads-on
toast at a vegetarian dinner. I had sold
two dozen at fifty cents apiece when I
felt somebody pull my coat tail. I knew
what that meant; so I climbed down
and sneaked a five—dollar bill into the
hand of a man with a German silver star
on his lapel.

" ‘Constable,’ says I, ‘it’s a fine night.’

“ ‘Have you got a city license,’ he asks,
‘to sell this illegitimate essence of spooju
that you flatter by the name of medicine?”

" ‘I have not,’ say I. 'I didn't know
you had a city. If I can find it tomor-
row I’ll take one out if it’s necessary.’

“ 'I’ll have to close you up till you
do,’ says the constable. .

"I quit selling and went back to the
«- hotel. I was talking to the landlord
about it. .

" ‘Oh, you don’t stand no show in
Fisher Hill.’ says he. ‘Dr. Hoskins, the
. J‘ only doctor here, is a brother—in-law of
“' the Mayor, and he won’t allow no fake

doctor to practice in town.’

" 'I don’t practice medicine,’ says I,

I‘ve got a State peddler’s license, and
‘ I take out a city one whenever they de-
' mand lt.’ '

“I went to the Mayor’s office the next

.moming and they told me he hadn’t

showed up yet. They didn’t know when

' he’d be down. So Doc Waugh-poo hunches

3 down again in a hotel chair and lights

' a jimpson—weed regalia, and waits.

“ ‘By and by a young man in a. blue

; necktie slips into the chair next to me

and asks the time.

‘Ealt—past ten. says L ‘and you are
' 1 Andy Tucker. I’ve seen you work.

i Wasn't it you that put the Great Cupid

JW package on the Southern

‘ sum: Let's see, it was a Chilian dia-
f mud mgagement ring, a wedding ring,
‘ a potato masher, a bottle of soothing
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by the bed holding a cup of water.

“ 'Doc,’ says the Mayor, ‘I’m awful
sick. I’m about to die. Can’t you do
nothing for me?’

“ ‘Mr. Mayor,’ says 1, I’m not a regular
preordained disciple of S. Q. Lapius. I
never took a course in a medical college,’
says 1. ‘I’ve just come as a fellow man
to see if I could be of assistance.’

“ ‘I’m deeply obliged,’ says he. ‘Doc
' Waugh-boo, this is my nephew, Mr.
Biddle. He has tried to alleviate my

distress, but without success.
Ow—ow—ow! !’ he sings out.

"I'nods at Mr. Biddle and sets down
by the bed and feels the Mayor’s pulse.
‘Let me see your liver—your tongue, I
mean,‘ says I. Then I turns up the lids
of his eyes and looks close at the pupils
of ’em.

“ ‘How long have you been sick?’ I
asked.

“ ‘I was taken down—ow-ouch—last
night,’ says the mayor. ’Gimme some-
thing for it, doc, won’t you?’

“ ‘Mr. Fiddle,’ says I,-’raise the window
shade a bit, will you?’

" ‘Biddle,’ says the young man. ‘Do
you feel like you could eat some ham
and eggs, Uncle James?’

“ ‘Mr. Mayor,’ says I, after laying my
ear to his right shoulder blade and listen-
ing, ‘you've got a bad attack of super-
inflammation of the right clavicle of the
hanpischord !’

“ ‘Good Lord !' says he, with a groan.
‘Can't you rub something on it, or set
it or anything?’

“I picks up my hat and starts for the
door.

“ ‘You ain’t going, doc?’ says the Mayor
with a howl. ‘You ain’t going away and
leave me to die with this superfluity of
the clapboards, are you?’

“ ‘Common humanity, Dr, Whoa-ha,’
says Mr. Biddle, ‘ought to prevent your
deserting a fellow-human in distress.’

“ ‘Dr. VVaugh—hoo, when you get thru
plowing,’ says I. And then I walks back
to the bedvand throws back my long hair.

" ‘Mr. Mayor,’ says I, ‘there is only
one hope for you. Drugs will do you no
good. But there is another power higher
yet, although drugs are high enough,”
says I.

“ ‘And what is that?’ says he.

‘ “Scientific demonstrations,’ says I.
‘The trumph of mind over sarsaparilli.
The belief that there is no pain and sick-
ness except what is produced when we

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of, Doc?’ says the Mayor. ‘You ain’t a
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"do not drag it in thedust,’ say’sil, ’be.
cause they‘ haven’t got the dust.

" ‘Will you treat my ca’se?’ askstho
Mayor.’ "‘

“ ‘Listen,’ says I. ‘I’ve had a good
deal of trouble with medical. societies
everywhere I’ve been. I don’t practice
medicine. But, to save your life, I’ll

give you the psychic treatment if you’ll

agree as mayor not to push the license
question.’

“ ’Of courSe I will,’,'
now get to work, doc,
are coming on again.’

" ‘My fee will be $250.00, cure guaran—
teed in two treatments,’ says 1..

“ ‘Alright,’ says the Mayor. ‘I’ll pay
it. I guess my life's worth that much.’

“I sat down by the bed and looked
him straight in the eye.

" ‘Now,’ says I, 'get your mind 01! the

disease. You ain’t sick. You haven’t
got a heart or a clavicle or a funny
bone or brains or anything. You haven’t
got any pain. Declare error. Now you
feel that pain that you didn’t have leav-
ing, don’t you?’
“ ‘I do feel some little better, doc,’ says
the Mayor, ’darned if I don't. Now state
a few lies about my not having this
swelling in my left side, and I think I
could be propped up and have some
sausage and buckwheat cakes.’

“ ‘I made a few passes with my hands.
“ ‘Now,’ says I, ‘the inflammation’s gone.
The right lobe of the perihelion has sub-
sided. You’re getting sleepy. You can’t
hold your eyes open any longer. For
the present the disease is checked. Now,
you are asleep.’ -

“The Mayor shut his eyes slowly and
began to snore.

“ ‘You observe, Mr. Tiddle,’
‘the wonders of modern science.’

“ ‘Biddle,’ says he, ‘when will you give
uncle the rest of the treatment, Dr.
Pooh—pooh?’

" 'VVaugh-hoo,’ says I. I’ll come back
at eleven tomorrow. When he wakes up
give him eight drops of turpentine and
three pounds of steak. Good morning.’

“The next morning I went back on

says he. ‘And
for them pains

saysI

time. ‘Well, Mr. Riddle,’ says I, when
he opened the bedroom door, ‘and how
is uncle this morning?’

“ ‘He seems much better,’ says the

young man.

"The mayor’s color and pulse was fine.
I gave him another treatment, and he
said the last of the pain left him.

“ ‘Now,’ says I, ‘you’d better stay in

‘bed for a day or two, and you’ll be all

right. It's a good thing I happened to
,be in Fisher Hill, Mr. Mayor,’ says I,
‘for all the remedies in the cornucapia
that the regular schools of medicine use
couldn’t have saved you. And now that
error has flew and pain proved a pur-
jurer, let’s allude to a cheerfuller sub-
ject—say the fee of $250. No checks,
please, I hate to write my name on the
back of a check almost as bad as I do
on the front.’

” ‘I’ve got the cash here,’ says the
mayor, pulling a pocket book from under
his pillow.

“He counts out five fifty-dollar notes
and holds 'em in his hand.

“ ‘Bring the receipt,’ he says to Biddle.

“I signed the receipt and the mayor
handed me the money. I put it in my
inside pocket careful.

“ ‘Now do your duty, odicer,’ says the
mayor, grinning much unlike a sick man.

“Mr. Biddle lays his hand on my arm.

“ ‘You’re under arrest, Dr. Waugh-boo,
alias Peters,’ sa he, ‘for pr
medicine without u‘thority under the
State law.’

" rWho are you?‘ I asks.

" ‘I’ll tell you who he is,’ says Mr.
Mayor, sitting up in bed. ‘He’s a do.
tective employed by the State Medical
Society. He’s been following you over
five counties. He came to me yesterday
and we fixed up this scheme to catch you.
I guess you won’t do any more doctortng
around these parts, Mr. Fakir. What
was it you said I had, doc?’ the mayor

laughs, ‘compound—well it wasn't soft-
ening of the brain I guess, anyway.’

“ ’A detective,’ says I.

“ ‘Correct,’ says Biddle. I’ll have to

turn you over to the sheriff.’

“ ‘Let's see you do it,’ says I, and I
grabs Biddle by the throat and half
throws him out the window, but he pulls
a gun and sticks it under my chin, and
I stand still. Then he puts handcuffs on
me, and takes the money out of my
pocket. .

“ 'I witness,’ says he, ‘that they’re the
same bills that you and I marked. Judge
Banks. I’ll turn them over to the sher-
iff when we get to his ofl‘lce, and he‘ll
send' you a. receipt. They’ll have to be
used as evidence in the case.’

“ ‘AJI right, Mr. Biddle,’ says the mayor.
And now, Doc Waugh-hoo,’ he goes on,
why don’t you demonstrate? Can’t you
pull the cork out of your magnetism with
your teeth and hocus-pocus them hand-
cuffs off?’

" 'Come on. officer,’ says I, dignified.
'I may as well make the best of it.’
And then I turns to old Banks and
rattles my chains.

“ 'Mr. Mayor,’ says I, jthe time will
came when you’ll believe that personal
magnetism is a success. And you'll be
sure that it succeeded in this case, too.’

“And I guess it did.

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Andy. I reckon you better take ’em on,
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manity, not inhumanity; for peaCe,
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cently, a change anomaly. Nations
that supposedly, are enlightened and
Christianised, are in deadly combat,
and the Christian’ 5 God, rather than
being invoked to prevent the strife,
is being implored for victory. But
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of its life and vitality. Surely, the
imps of darkness must have gloated
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man strife and pain! Then, what is
the matter with our Christianity?
Just this,——-it lacks “peacemakers.”

Who is our beatific peacemaker?
Not, he who has only nature’s lovely
gift “to pour oil on troubled wat-
ers.” Not he who is passive and
does nothing to provoke resistance.
These “do nothings" little know
that they are giving the devil more
time to mobilize and strengthen his
forces. He, however, is the peace-
maker of our text who has climbed
the flight of the Beattitudes and has
taken his redoutable position high
on the exalted table-lands of the
Kingdom. Here, unentangled by the
things of this world, he is given a
true outlook on all its strife, and is
in a position to see the way out. His
new perspective gives him that un-
biased instinct of brotherhood which
qualifies him to bring the world a
message of peace and good-will.

Now, brother, you who have climbed '

this beatiflc ascent are Christ’s
pacific “light of the world" and
Paul’ 8 “bond-servant" to work out
this peace and fraternity. If you
are not doing this you are giving the
world a stage-play: and this is
hypocrisy
When worked out, what will this
peace do? It will help to put the
world into right relations with God.
That we are at cross-purposes with
ideals is the cause of all
our strife. God purposes in Christ
to bless the world with love and har-

 

assessors! m. mvm s w , p, . 7
know, is selfishness. Then ,“fighi:

ness is hell. But is there au‘inierno
in the. church? Have we arrogant

selfishness and hypocrisy there? This

is a clue, follow it. What, univers-
al peace? Never, as long as we
have unfriendly rivalry and‘ strife in
and among the churches;"'
your heart and mine.
Balaklava, Waterloo, Gettysburg,
and the Argonne. Study well the
battle-ground of your own heart.
There you may win your greatest
laurels.

It will neutralize the spirit of lit-
eral warfare “Do you want to
know the cause "of war ,—-the cause

Never mind

,of the murder in Europe, the cause

that will bring war to America if it
ever comes? It is capitalism, greed,
the dirty hunger for dollars. Take
array the capitalist and you will
sweep war from the earth. Take it
away today and the war in Europe
will stop to—m m.orrow Take it away
and the world will have seen the end
of barbarian." These were the

reported words of Henry Ford a few

years ago. But a recent reporter
represents Mr. Ford as having had a
change of mind. If this be true
whence comes this spirit? Out of
the essence of self-interest and un-
holly profit in the instance of war;
and out of the poisoned thought and
vicious propaganda that the Ameri-
can soldier is our “greatest pacifist."
We know better. The verdict of
history and the teaching of exper-
ience is, that carnal soldiery kills
and crumbles nations. But the
Kingdom of Heaven is yet at hand.
and some day God will show what
he can do with nations as he is
showing today what he can do with
individuals.

Mr. Bryan asks, “Why do not na-
tions as well as individuals apply
the law of love brought to us by
the Man of Nazareth?” And Mr.
Bryan knows. Because many indi-
viduals are not applying it. A na-
tion is but an aggregation of indi-
viduals politically organized. The
writer behaves that most individual
soldier combatants would fraternise
and become brothers if let alone.
But other individuals (political rul-
ers) will not let them. So, peace
and brotherhood, traced to their
deepest and lastiiig dependence, are
only found in the heart of the indi-
vidual.

The world has never been able to
work out the problems of right and
wrong nor to keep out of the wrong.
In the recent war there has been a
colossal and practical acknowledge-
ment of this. Then What an ap-
peal to Christianity! The Christian
only has had committed to him the
duty and glory of bearing to the
world the law of love, the message
of justice, fraternity, and peace.
And, methinks if Christians had
done their duty, that long are this
the night of war might have given
way to the bright, new day. Yet,
now, the peace movement is strong-
er than ever before, notwithstanding
a pose of “preparedness," a “citizen
soldiery," and other “big stick"
signs of the times.
makers keep busy that Christianity
may be vindicated for the sake of
now and eternity.

What is the reward of peace-mak-
ing? We shall be called the “sons
of God.” No, not by the world. By
it we shall be called impractical, and
even “degrading" and “silly." But
this is only the judgement'of man.
That does not matter so long as God
says we are his sons. To enter the
sonship of God. and enjoy eternal
harmony and peace, is ours thru be-
coming a peace-maker in all the
areas of life. Blessed are those
who enter into the spirit and temper
of the Great Peacemaker.

 

LIKES SERMONS

I note among the many good artic-
les in the Business Farmer the ex-
cellent sermons now being publish-
ed..-—J T. Danielle, Clinton County.
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kind 0" * eminent.

-.-kinda like quietness an' ever'-

thing ‘but jest the same—while I'

didn’t intend or expect to‘ say much
'bout the lickker bis’ness an’ would
of kept my jaw shut it preachers of
the gospel hadn’t took a notion to
shoot into the gen'ral mess. “Cut
out the Volstead Act" sez one noted
Divine. “It’s humuliatin' an' debas-
in’ men cannot have laws to correct
their brothers’ appetites”—or words
to that eifect. Give them Moral
swasion," says this angel-like min-
ister. “Moral Swasion”——course I
don't know jest what he means by it
——“is the only way to reach, men’s
souls" (soles might be better). An’
then this here teller goes on an’
tells how alcohol is a sort of a nec-
essity. Tommyrot and then some—-
Mr. Senator Couzens notwithstandin’
the preacher, retormers an’ every
other class of would-be reformers,
have had five hundred years an’
more to work the Moral Swasion
Act. Five hundred years folks, to
make people quit wantin’ drinks
with 5 per. cent alcohol into it. It

moral swasion has been worth a,

darn nobody be hollerin’ for 5 per
cent stuff. Now after five hundred
years of preachin’ an’ everything
that human mind could do to stop

'the awful curse of liquor.

Take it in any shape, watch the
affects of it, in fact, jest see what
the stuif’ll do to a home an’ send
me the man that’ll say’t 5 per cent
beer, wine, anything 'at contains
alcohol is good for the human sys-
tem.

Dear, good friends, sometime I
may go down to the depths of that
region of eternal darkness—none of
us know jest where we’re goin’ to
land when we ship from here but
this I know—it I do land down in
that awful place it will not be 'cause
I've advocated 5 per cent beer nor
any other drink containin’ alcohol.

An’ more’n that it I do take a
jump down there I ain’t goin' to be
alone. I’ll meet a whole lot of the
5 per-centers, preachers included.
An' why should’nt- they be there?

To make it a perfect place we’ve
got to have all kinds of folks. 5 per
cent preachers/ll be jest as good as
any to start things goin’ cause
there’ll always be enough of others
for the preachers to try the moral
swasion act on. Allus has been an’
allus will be.

Now good folks, jest look’it here
for a minuit. If the preachers of
this great land of ours believe in
moral swasion why don't they try it
on bandits, hold-up men, murderers
—m'ale an’ iemale—grai'ters, loan
sharks, prize fighters an’ anything
besides the lickker business.

Five hundred years of moral
swasion an’ yet folks hanker for al—
cohol! Now five hundred years is a
long time, aint it folks? An' its
been more’n five hundred years, too.

Preachers may preach, talkers’ll
talk an’ th world’ll go on. But
folks, when any 5 per cent drink is
sold out On market openly—well
then the devil’ll laugh.-——Cordially
UNCLE RUBE.

 

TO THE FARMER BOY

Father and son how grand they look.
Planning and working together,

They’re farmers too and give to the world
The best of their life’s labor.

What would we do in this grand world
of ours,

If the farmers, the ones who feed us,

Would follow the course, the trend of
the times ‘

And hie to the city and leave us.

We bow'and kow tow to the Earl and
Duke. '

‘Assumed nobility of the race,

But I’ll take ofl my hat to the farmer
and son
When I meet them face to face.

Then let us wake up to the truths of life,

And place honor where honor is due,

Or the broad shouldered boy who is fol-
loWing the plow

Will not deign to notice you.

What then would become of .the lives
that live,

When the strengthening arm is gone,

Then take 011’ your hat in reverence

And keep the tamer boys at home.

L Baker, a subscriber.

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enter into m

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,' , keep out of it 'cause I'm a peaceable-

, ,minded sort of old cuss "at don’t like
‘to squabble aroun' an’ make a fuss

 

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Michigan has a Bountiful Fruit Crop

 
 

 

 

Edited by FRANK D

WELLS

RUIT AND ORCHARD

 

THE FUTURE FOR THE GRAPE
DURING the past three years the

high prices received by grape.

growers for the fruit has re—
sulted in a large increase ingthe
area devited to vinyards. Nursery-
men have been unable to supply the
demand at times. And the end is
not yet.

A trip through what is known as
the Michigan grape belt, shows that
many acres will next spring be add—
ed to the already large number
planted to vines. In this district,
which may be rather roughly locat—
ed as extending from «Grand Rapids
to Indiana and from about Kalama—
zoo to Lake Michigan the grape is
rapidly becoming the leading pro-
duct. ‘The peach which made
these counties famous has taken a
secondary place. Raspberries are
losing in favor compared with the
vine. This does not mean that
other fruits are being neglected,
but the area given to them is not
increasing at a ratio to equal the
grape.

There are reasons for this be—
sides the unprecedented prices
for grapes. Diseases among rasp—
berries have been causing consider-
able loss, besides no little anxiety
and uncertainty regarding the fu—
ture. Will it be possible to control
these trdubles or will the growers
meet the fate of those in Ohio and
New York, where many have given
up raising this fruit? The labor
problem, too, is serious. It is
difficult to get ”pickers enough dur-
ing the hot days of June »a11d,July.
Then there is the transportation
and the marketing. ‘These have
been discouraging factors in berry
growing, till now the comment
heard everywhere is that “There’s
no money in berries!”

Grapes offer some advantages
over raspberries. More time is re-
quired to get a vineyard into hear-
ing, but it continues profitable
much longer. Work among the
vines is less disagreeable than
among the brambles. The harvest
is in the cool days of autumn. The
wages are more attractive since
skilled labor is at a premium.
Grapes are not as perishable as
strawberries and raspberries, so
can be handled and sold at smaller
loss. All of which appeals strong—
ly to the producer.

To be sure the grape has its ene-
mies. There are insects and dis-
eases. But those known to the
grape belt are kept fairly under
control. There are others that may
some day come, among them the
much dreaded phil-loxera, but they
are still in the future.

There is a revival of interest in
the peach, but the diseases and the
winters are discouraging factors.
The land suitable for this tree is
limited and much less in area than
that which can profitably be used
for the grape. So the vineyard is
encoaching upon the orchard.

East of the grape belt the num—
ber and size of vineyards have in-
creased somewhat, but have prob—
ably not kept pace with the orch-
ards. Nevertheless, a large addi-
tion to the yield of this fruit may
be expected in a year or two,
though at that it will be insignifi-
cant as compared to West Mich—
igan.

Now What about the future?

That is the question which the pros-
pective vine grower is asking. Is
there too much planting? Will
there soon be an overproduction?
An important 'point, deserving
careful attention. ‘

Unless some potent enemy arises,

some insect or disease, there will
be a larger increase in production,
and that within two or three years.
Will the demand be large enough
for the supply?

First of all let it be asserted that
Michigan grapes are as good as
any in America and better than
most. (The California man will
not agree to this, but then he will
not admit that his state ever had
an earthquake.) The market for
.Michigan grapes is extending. A
letter received this summer by a
fruit buyer in West Michigan from
a broker in Scranton, Pa., may be
taken as illustration. Formerly it
was stated the market there “wanted
California and New York grapes,
but now it was not satisfied with
anything except Michigan fruit. So
he wanted to be supplied with it.
This is only one. How many more
such markets there may be east of
the Rockies no one knows. But
the country should be full of them.

As a Wine grape Michigan fruit
is claimed to be better than that
from California. However objec—
tionable the use of wine may be,
the fact remains that thousands of
tons of grapes will every year go
to the press. Will the product
cause more harm than the poison
of pre-war days?

The use of pure, unfermented
grape juice is increasing. There
seems to be no reason why it
should s00n_decrease. Juice fact-
ories are numerous in the grape
belt, and there is also the home
product. In thousands of families
it is a part of the regular canning,
as well as the regular plums or
peaches.

As a dessert fruit the grape has
not begun to be appreciated. Where
is there a better table grape than
the Michigan grape, grown any-
where between Port Huron and
Muskegon?

There are enough who want
grapes to eat up all that Michigan
will grow for years to come If the
fruit becomes too cheap for profit
it will be because producer and con—
sumer are not brought near enough
together. Here is the real problem.
Isn’t it the real problem with all
the fruits? Not overproduCtion,
but underconsumption. 0, well,
that is the hardest nut of all to
crack

WILL SPRAY TREE NEXT TIME
N your Aug. 4th paper, page 18,
column 4, is a little article,
“Blight in Apple Trees ” Well,

I had a tree that acted that way and
I nearly cut it to nothing, then one
day I discovered some bugs and I
started to pick them off and then the
blight quit spreading. If I have
any more trees that blight or bug as
I call it I will spray instead of
prune.——E. B. S., Woodville, Mich.

The constable of Milk Corners received
by post six Rogues’ Gallery photographs,
taken in different positions, of an old of-
fender wanted ’by the police of the big
city. Two weeks later he sent this mes-
sage to the city chief of police:

“Got five of the men. Am going after
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THAT GAS TAX AGAIN

E M. B. F. for August 4th con-

tained a letter by Mr. Ralph H.

Jones under the heading “Gas
Tax Unjust,” also you had an editor-
ial on the same subject headed “17
States Have Gas Tax.” NOW‘ I do
not see how Mr. Jones as a farmer
can take the stand that he does. His
test of machines that use gasoline
indicates that he is the operator of
a good fair sized farm, provided that
he has not other business that is re-
sponsible for the machines.

The gas tax law that the Governor
vetoed may not have been a good
one in its make-up but thatrdoes not
seem to be the point with Mr. Jones
for he clearly indicates that he is
against the gas tax in principle.

Means of communication and
means of transportation have had
a very large part in the progress of
civilization. Most changes were
slow in motion and no great changes
took place in the life of one gener-
ation of men. But the automobile
has come up in fifteen years from be-
ing a rich man’s plaything to a uni—
versal means of transport.

Canals and railroads at the time
of their building received much
help from public sources. But their
operation expenses have been paid
as well as the profits from the re-
ceipts of the office. The operating
expense includes the up—keep and re-
placements on tracks, road beds,
canalways, locks and soforth.

As it stands today automobile
traific is heavily subsidized as such.
Certainly Mr. Jones will not dispute
the statement that the automobile
should pay its way and not live off
of other business. Probably there
is now not a single state in the un-
ion in which there is not now some
long distance bus'lines operating in
many cases in competition with the
railroads. An advertisement in a
late date popular weekly says in
part, “Three billion people travel-
led one billion miles last year in
fifty thousand motor busses. Though
still an infant, bus transportation al-
ready boasts an invested capital of
one hundred million dollars.” That
hundred million dollars does not in-
clude one dollar for cost of right of
way or road bed or tracks. True lic-
ense fees are a feeble attempt to~
tax according to probable wear upon
the roads.

Mr. Editor, your list 'of states hav-
ing gas tax included seventeen,
among them Florida, Idaho, Oregon
and South Carolina have a three
cent tax. A few days ago I saw in
a carefully prepared article the
statement that the estimated income
-from auto license taxes and gas
taxes for 1923 would be about half
the estimated road expenditures for
this year. Our road laws enacted
up until the last few years have
nearly all been clearly based on the
theory that the public roads were a
community necessity and mostly an
asset or liability, depending upon
their quality. Public roads were a
social institution built and kept up
by taxes levied more or less pro
rate according to property values
and nearness to the improvement.
Some roads were built and maintain—
ed at state expense wholly or in pare
as a social benefit to the state as a
state.

Present road building programs in
many cases bear but slight relation
to the primary needs of the inhabit—
ants of the section through which
the road runs. People always have,
and especially so since the war, been
more interested in trying to push the
tax off onto the other fellow, rather
than to have any just tax system de-
vised and put into working order.
The farmer has largely by his own
help had the value of farm land in-
creased out of all proportion to its
earning power. Just as truly “wat-
ered” as the stock value of the rail-
roads and many industrials. But
the difference is that the other fel-
low’s “water” helps him making
rates for service, that is increasing
the earnings while the only net re-
sult of the water in farm values is
to increase the farmers’ tax. For a
while it sort of fed his vanity and
increased the size of his air castles
and enhanced their colors, but the
cold facts of the “morning after”

taxes, While~the market situation is
entirely beyond his controll.

The farmer has sweat his old shirt
till the color is most gone but he
has to let go of some of that rare
product which we all possess more or
less of but are great misers for
sometimes called mental sweat. You
can always tell the community that
sweats very much mentally. They
have co-operative enterprises that
are supported. A little politics will
help. But when it gains too large
a place it gets worthless—H. C.
Matheson, Box 597, West Palm
Beach, Florida.

THE FARMERS ARE GETTING
_ READY

EAR EDITOR— Sometimes it
takes considerable preparation
in getting started. This prep-
aration work is now pretty well und-
er way. We have had several. years
in observing corporate greed in the
political saddle, using its wealth,
lobbies and kept press, to secure leg—
islation favorable to their interests,
but correspondingly detrimental to
the people in general and the farm—

ers in particular.

The Esch—Cummins law, the Ford-
ney-McCumber law and other meas-
ures were passed at the request of
exploiters, and for their benefit.

They tell us that our government
cannot help the farmers in a ’o‘gis-
lative way. The exploiters of the
people have got too much the upper
hand for that. The sad affair of the
Federal Reserve Board is still fresh
in our mind, and the millions that
the privileged class made through
the deflation of the farmer class will
not soon be forgotten.

The law of supply and demand is
being more and more set aside
through the constantly increasing
power of monopoly. Illustrations of
this we have in the manipulations of
the markets by the bond and oil
companies, the packers, the steel
trust and other concerns of the same
class.

Thus we have to buy in a market
that is high and sell in a market that
is low. Monopolies have been built
up by perferential tariffs, conces—
sions and other special privileges to
such an extent that they can not tell
us at what prices we must buy and
sell. No government can change
such a situation as long as it is con—
trolled by monopoly. The child can-
not dictate to the father.

We must have a government re—
sponsive to the people and not only
to a privileged few. The farmers,
the laborers and the people in gen—
eral are entitled to a hearing in the
halls of Congress just as well as the
moneyed class.

Sometimes we have been sleeping
when important public questions
were decided, but as a matter of self—
preservation we must hereafter keep
awake and go at the matter in dead
earnest. We are going to stir as a
class in a movement which is right.
We can get along without flattery,
but we cannot get along without
justice. Those who so long have
been interfering with our welfare,
better Show forth fruits, meet for re-
pentance before it is too late.

Although special interests yet
control the daily press with but a
few exceptions, it no longer holds
true that the majority of the people
are reactionaries. On the other hand
the rank and file of the voters are
now fairly well informed as to the
leading issues of the day—A. J.
Raftshol, Leelanau County, Mich.

 

ROAD WORK

EAR EDITOR—I would like to

know how the people in general

feel about the way the county
road commissioners expend the
county money. Everyone knows the
men they hire to work on the road
don’t do one day’s work in four days,
yet they draw their five and one-half
dollars or more a day and laugh at
how much time they can get in, do-
ing to little and still draw full pay.
I don’t doubt but they do as much
for this money as the commissioners,
but isn’t their some way of making
them all earn at least half what they
get? One man with a tractor and
truck would do more work in one
day than the man with a team does

 

 

 

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1923

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USING PRISON LABOR TO BUILD ROADS

behooves every thinking reader to digest the

facts and figures given in the article on the

employment of convict labor on the state
roads of Michigan in this issue.

It may be that a solution has to this dilemma
been reached of such far reaching effect that
the road problem in Michigan will eventually
be solved by it.

For countless years prisoners in our state
penal institutions have been employed on labor,
most of which, up to recent years, was in com-
petition with the labor employed on the outside
or was of such a nature that it taught the
prisoner little and was thus of little value to
anyone, except the profiteering contractor who
played politics to get it.

Good roads are of greater general benefit to
all people, than any other single expense of gov-
ernment, unless it be that of education. The
employment therefor of the thousands of pris-
oners who would be confined at less profitable
work, means the release of common labor to the
farms and other channels where it is much more
needed. It means that without taxing unmerci-
fully the property of the state, a paved road
system may be maintained which will link every
corner of Michigan.

If the plan works as successfully as it ap-
parently has started out in Michigan it will
doubtless be extended into other states and may
mean a solution to the Whole national problem
of good roads and their maintenance.

It is, in any event, an interesting experiment
and Governor Groesbeck and the state highway
commissioner, Frank Rogers, are to be congrat-
ulated on the deep interest they have taken in
the subject and the zest which they have shown
in making it a success against the usual number
of obstacles and discouragements which have
presented themselves in making the theory work
out on a practical basis.

Only a Chinaman does not believe in good
roads! Good roads mean increased property
value, better education, a means of keeping the
young folks in the rural communities, and unit-
ing all corners of the commonwealth into one.

Particularly will the farmers of the state of
Michigan watch this plan because they have been
most interested in knowing the solution of this
problem which means so much to them, and
which. ‘while beneficial from the standpoint of
bringing them nearer to market and inceasing

‘ their enjoyment of the better things of life, still

had arrived at a point where they must seriously
consider the cost.

As we recall it, the Appian Way was built
with prison labor, but that can hardly be held
against it inasmuch as it is still standing, some
5000 years later!

THEY WHO ARE THE GOVERNNIENT

E get accustomed to thinking of the Govern-
ment as something at Washington or Lan-
sing, which taxes us unmercifully, gives us

too much protection, watches too closely our
morality and sits generally as a parent or a
policeman. in our daily lives.

President Goolidge, when he was oflcially noti-
fied. at Northampton. Mass, of his nominatoin
as the mudidate of his party for the ofilce of
Vice President, used the following words in clos-
ing his speech of acceptance, July 8'1, 1920:

"We have been making“ counsel together con-
cerning the welfare of America. We have spent
menthodhcuesingthestdrsof government
yet most of the great concourse of people around
me hold no public oillce, expect to hold nopebllc

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vain in legislative halls. causative _ no. and
the chambers of the judiciary for the greatness

or the government of our country. We shall 1

behold there but a reflection, not a reality; suc-
cessful in proportion to its accuracy. In a free
republic a great government is the product of a
great people. They will look to themselves
rather than government for success. The des-
tiny, the greatness of America lies around the
hearthstone. If thrift and industry are taught
there, and the example of self sacrifice oft ap-
pears, if honor abide there, and high class ideals,
if there the" building of fortune be subordinate
to the building of character, America will live
in security, rejoicing in an abundant prosperity
and good government at home, and in peace,
confidence and respect abroad. If these virtues
be absent there is no power that can supply these
blessings. Look well then to the hearthstone.
therein all hope for America lies. "

Mr. Coolidge was visualizing humble homes,
but filled with simple faith and love and respect
and honor—homes representing the common
people of this great country; the people who are
the government.

“At night returning, every labor sped,

He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;

Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys

His children’s looks, that brighten at the blaze:

While his loved partner, boastful of her hoard,

Displays her cleanly platter on the board. "
—-Goldsmith.

OOMRION FOLKfl

INCOLN once said, “God must have loved the
common foiks,—he made so many of them.”
Sometimes we get to thinking that the rich

in worldly goods are those who receive the greater
share of the world’s blessings, and yet very often
when we visit the home of a neighbor we see
how little he has to envy the city man of wealth.

Recently we visited a farm 'which borders the
shores of Lake Huron. It is only a small farm
of forty acres, and the family who operate it are
anything but rich in the sense of gold and silver,
but in those things which go to make for con-
tentment and happiness, Henry Ford himself
might envy them their possessions!

From their front porch one can see the green
water of Lake Huron sparkling in the morning
sun, and at night they are lulled to sleep by the
wash of its waves along the graveled shore.

We sat down to their table heaped with good
things to eat and watched them enjoy it because
it was seasoned with a. sauce for which John D.
Rockefeller would gladly pay them a thousand
dollars a bottle if he could pour it over the food
that is served him on silver plates. The name
of that sauce is “Hunger sauce” and it cannot
be obtained in the most expensive food shops,
but our friends enjoy it at every meal and yet
their supply of it never seems to diminish.

Emerson once wrote an essay on “Compensa-
tion." When all is said and done, we sometimes
wonder that men will struggle and strive as they
do to surpass each other when the God of com-
pensation must sit back and smile at their fallacy.

Have you ever envied Henry Ford? You
shouldn't. Because I know he must often envy
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A FRIEND IN NEED

POSPERITY and peace may bring arrogance
and the other products of greed which lead
to embroilments and finally to war. The
sight of even an enemy in great distress will, in
contrast. bring forth the best in human nature
and those characteristics which we commonly

express as "Christian.”

Japan, which the jingoist would have us be—
lieve is our mortal enemy, waiting only for the
opportunity to jump at our throat, was within
the past two weeks visited by what will undoubt-
edly prove the greatest catastrophe in our time.
The greatest cities in Japan laid low by an earth-
quake and how many thousands of lives were
swept into the chasms or burned in the fallen
cities is yet to be_told. Navigators report that
a whole island has sunk into the sea and at an-
other point a volcanic island has risen from it.
Nature is proving what puny things men and the
things of men are after all.

The news of the catastrophe to Japan had no
more than reached our shores before the Ameri-
can Red Cross and similar agencies were sending
relief ships and contributions were being ac-
cepted in every city‘in the United States for the
entering Japanese.

Misery thus brings sympathy and sympathy is
after all the greatest pacifier in the world!

We. of this generation. witnessed a human
earthuum In Europe, the awfulnees of which
isnotyetwipedamsndrumblingsofitspos-
sible reassurance still haunt us. Better would
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have brought peace and contentment.

And after all what is there in the world for
either men or nations than peace and cement?-
ment, which means happineSs,-——'the supreme goal
of all! .

HENRY FORD IS HUMAN

AST year, at the Michigan State Fair, Mr.

Ford in his splendid exhibit had a full size

locomotive which must have recalled to him

a keendesire of his boyhood, for what boy has

not wished at some time in his life above all other

things to pull the throttle of a railway loco—
motive?

This year, in the Ford exhibit, Mr. Ford per-
sonally supervised the installation of a standard

locomotive, gay in polished Japan and nickel. It.

was mounted on roller bearings and from early
morning until the last gate was closed at night,
a never-ending stream of boys climbed the steps
of their heart’s desire and pulled the throttle
which set the wheels of the locomotive spinning.

Some even more brazen than the others whO‘

knew the inside workings of the locomotive cab,
reached up and pulled the whistle, thus scaring
the daylights out of envious sisters who were
looking on!

We do not give Mr. Ford credit for being a
super-man, but we do believe that few men in
history who arose to such power as he possesses
ever retained their touch with common people
and common emotions.

Henry Ford is a. grandfather but he remembers
the desires of a boy. Perhaps that accounts for
a good many of the broader principles of human,-
ity which he has introduced into the everyday
conduct of his business.

THE 19% STATE FAIR

LTHOUGH the figures have not yet been of-
ficially announced it is expected the tthe
1923 Fair at Detroit surpassed in attendance

any former exposition and will thus maintain its
position of having the largest attendance of any
fair held in the United States.

Naturally the bulk of the attendance at the
Michigan State Fair is from Detroit and its on-
virons, which means that three—fourths of the
people in attendance are not country folks, but
it is probably a good thing that the city people
get an idea of how their food is produced and
why it costs them at least part of what it does
when they go to the store to buy it.

The lottery wheels were conspicuous by their
absence this year and we heard no complaints of
the shows on the midway. They looked rather
hopeless and helpless to us, like a rattlesnake
without its fangs, or a polecat without its odor.
What is the midway after all without an Egyptian
dance, a wild man from Borneo, or a Scot Cardiif
giant? Barnum was right when he said that the
American public liked to be humbugged. So this
year’s State Fair must have sent a lot of folks
away disappointed.

There is a continued improvement in every
department of the Stat Fair, and this means
something when the high standard of improve-
ment year by year is contemplated. The State
Fair as a state owned property now invests its
profits entirely in its improvement and has a
fine line of permanent buildings that undoubtedly
will compose the finest group of state fair build-
ings in the world if Secretary Dickinson, the man
who is largely responsible for it, lives long
enough.

Taken all in all. you folks who didn’t come,
missed something and perhaps you had better
be making plans now for next year!

THE TAX PROBLEM

E believe the greatest problem before the

American people today is the problem of

taxation, says the Shenandoah, Iowa, Senti-
nel Post.

Two sane methods of relief are open. First
discourage new government fads and fancies
which add unnecessary laws to our statute books
with increased numbers of employee and more
government overhead. Ofiicialism spreads like
the green bay tree if left to its own course. so
trim it down to essentials.

Second, see that all property pays taxes equally,
which it does not do at present. Under our
present existing laws any person is at liberty to
convert his property into non-taxable bonds and
thus escape all forms of taxation.

The necessity (if it ever existed) for tax ex-
empt bond is past and the day is here when no
such loophole as this should remain to enable,
those most able to m to escape taxation.

Every dollar that tas-enempt bonds absorb

cats two-wa'ye—ét doubles the taxon otherpeople
and removes e dollar

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D. F. BUSH, OF MINNEAPODIS
AM writing to ask information in
regards to the honesty of the
Western Sales Agency, Phoenix
Bld., Minneapolis; Minm. managed
by D. F. Bush. They ask a $7.50 fee
with the description of your prop-
erty and‘a per cent when'the prop-
erty is sold. Will you please inform
me if they are takers or a reliable
companyi—An Old Subscriber, Lev-
ering. Mich.
-—-We will not accept the advertising
of D. F. Bush in the Business Farm-
er. altho it has been offered to us
many times and we see it appearing
in several Michigan papers. He may
be honest, but he works the old
scheme of advertising under the
caption "Wanted to buy a Farm,”
when as a matter of fact he wants to
sell you, $7.50 worth of possibilities.
He gets his cash in advance, but you
may be warining your hands by the
stove a good many winters before
you sell your farm. Ifthis type of
so—called “farm agencies" were as
succesdul in selling farms as their
advertising matter leads you to be-
lieve, they would make Henry Ford
look like a piker and they would not
need to ask for the $7.50 in advance,
their commissions would be plenty
and then some.

Lets see—ten times $7.50 is $75,
ten times $75 is $750, ten times
$750 is $7500 and yet it ought not
to be so hard to find a thousand
farms for sale in the United States,
had it?

AN INSURANCE SCHEME
, EXPOSED

EAR Mr. Slocum—We read in

the Publisher's Desk in The

Business Farmer some of the
shrewd practices of unscrupulous
men to defraud people and get their
hard—earned money away from them.
It is unnecessary to say that the
farmer has hard enough sledding
without being taken in by the many
schemes we read about in The Busi-
ness Farmer. I tor one am thankful
that The Business Farmer is good
enough, and fearless enough to ex-
pose and publish these evil practices,
for the farmers of Michigan to read.
If every farmer or person who has
been “hit” or has been the victim. of
unfair dealings, would write The
Business Farmer, telling of the
scheme worked upon him. perhaps
others would read of it and not get
taken in by the same trick.

Here is one that was worked on
myself and many other farmers of
this section. by an insurance agent.
He meets the farmer, introduces
himself as the authorized agent of
the -——-—— Insurance Company of
-———5 telling the farmer of the
great advantages and saving that
oonspany has over other compan-
ies. After a long and windy argu-

Qan The Business Farmer give its
readersany rule to go by so that
they won't get “bit?” I had some

remit the $10 listing fee.
read the Business Farmer.
find enclosed one dollar to apply on
my subscription.—-—H. E. Root, Van
Buren County.

'and I have won as a contestant

It pays to
Please

OLIVER OIL-GAS BURNER

0 you or any of your readers

know anything about the Oliver

Oil—Gas Burner, manufactured
by The Oliver Oil-Gas Burner &
Machine 00., 21st a Pine St., St.
Louis, 110.? They have a burn-
er which you .put either in a cook
stove, heating stove or furnace using
coal oil. Their advertising matter
surely recommends them but before
buying one I should like to know
what others have found out about
them.

Another thing I wonder if you
could ilnd out for me is this: In
1902 we bought of the Detroit Eng-
ineering Co. a sewing machine called
“The Matron.” With it came a re-
pair list and guarantee for five
years, but no address of maker any-
where. The machine is in line con-
dition yet but I cannot just find the
right needles to fit it and nowhere
can I find “The Matron" machine
listed.

———We have had several inquiries
lately regarding oil burners for
stoves and furnaces. Our readers
ought to form a pool and give others
the benefit of their experience. I
will gladly reprint them on this page
and will use neither name nor ad—
dress.

The Detroit Engineering Company
is not listed in the Detroit telephone
directory so we have no way of find-
ing out where you can buy parts for
“The Matron."

THE OLD CONTEST WINNER
SCHEME

“ AM enclosing a letter which I
I received trom the Radio Mes-

sage -and by the reading of it I
am at'a loss to know the meaning of

it, as I have entered no contest to ;
my knowledge that is connected with ‘

the Radio Message, so think it a
“fake” way to get subscriptions to
the Radio Message. If it is all right,

would like the benefit of the radio
set so I am asking your advice on
the matter as I have but 10 days to
send the remittance of $3.00 for the
Radio Message."

Here is the letter our reader re—
ceived, I am giving space to it, be-
cause it is a scheme with which I
would like to make the readers of
my desk familiar:

Dear Friend:

This must be your “Lucky Day"
for we have taken over the names of
Prize Contestants and you get the
offer of a radio set.

The Radio Set will be sent you
upon receipt of the enclosed memo-
randum signed by you with your
present address and your yearly sub-
scription to the Radio Message. No
further obligation on your part.

It will be necessary for you to
claimthe RadioSetwithin tendays
h'om the time you receive this final
notification or you will have no fur-
therclaimonsame. Ifyouarenot
satisfied we will return the remit-

-—Ofcourse.itisjustacatch~peimy

Our reader was in no
ntestorifshewas,theprizewas
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(Continued from August 18th)

In his eagerness Aldous was again

trying to sit up when Joanne appeared
in the doorway. With a little cry she
darted to him, forced him, gently back,
and brushed old Donald off the edge of
the bunk.
, “Go out and watch the broth, Donald,"
she commanded firmly. Then she said to
Aldous, stroking back his hair‘, ”I forbade
you to talk. John, dear, aren’t you going
to .mind me?"

“Did Quade get me with the knife?”
he asked.

“No, no.”

“Am I shot?”

“N0, dear.”

“Any bones broken?”

“Donald says not.”

“Then please give me my pipe, Joanne
—and let me get up. Why do you want

me to lie here when I’m strong like an

ox, as Donald says?"

Joanne laughed happily.

“You are getting better every minute,”
she cried joyously. “But you were ter-
ribly beaten by the rocks, John. If you
will wait until you have the broth I will
let you sit up."

A few minutes later, when he had swal-
low< (1 his broth, Joanne kept her promise.
Only then did he realize that there was
not a bone or bruise in his body that
did not have its own particular ache. He
grinned when Joanne and Donald bol—
stered him up with blankets at his back.
But he was happy. Twilight was coming
swiftly, and as Joanne gave the final
pats and turns to the blankets and pil-
lows, MacDonald was lighting half a
dozen candles placed around the room.

”Any watch to-night, Donald?” asked
Aldous.

“No, Johnny, there ain’t no watch to—
night,” replied the oldlmountaineer.

He came and seated himself on a bench
with Joanne. For half an hour after that
Aldous listened to a recital of the strange
things that had happened—how poor
marksmanship had saved MacDonald on
the mountainside, and how at last the
duel had ended with the old hunter kill—
ing those who had come to slay him.
When they came to speak to DeBar, Jo-
anne leaned nearer to Aldous.

“It is wonderful what love will some—
times do,” she spoke softly. “In the last
few hours l‘.iarie has bared her soul to
me, John. What she has been she has not
tried to hide from me, nor even from the
man she loves. She was one of Morti—
mer FitzHugh’s tools. DeBar saw her
and loved her, and she sold herself to
him ‘in exchange for the secret of the
gold. \thn they came into the North
the wonderful thing Happened. She loved
DeBar not in the way of her kind, but
as a woman in whom had bem born a
new heart and a new soul and a new
joy. She defied FitzHugh; she told De-
Bar how she had tricked him. 3

“This morning FitzHugh attempted his
old familarity with her, and DeBar struck
him down. The act gave them excuse for
what they had planned to do. Before
her eyes Marie thought they had killed
the man she loved. She flung herself on
his breast, and she said she could not
feel his heart beat, and his blood llmved
warm against her hands and face. Both
she and DeBar had determined to warn
us if. they could. Only a few minutes be-
fore DeBar was stabbed he left off his
rifle—an accident, he said. But it was
not an accident. It was the shot Donald
heard in the cavern. It saved us, John!
And Marie, waiting her opportunity, fled
to us in the plain.
He says my screams brought him back
to life. He came out—and killed Quade
with his knife. Then he fell at our feet.
A few minutes later Donald came. De-
Bar is in another cabin. He is not fatal—
ly hurt, and Marie is happy.”

She was stroking his hand when she
finished. The curious rumbling came soft-
ly in MacDonald’s beard and his eyes
were bright with a whimsical humour.

“1 pretty near bored a hole through
poor Joe when I come up,” he chuckled.
“But you bet I hugged him when I found
what he’d done, Johnny! Joe says their
camp was just over the range from us
that night FitzHugh looked us up, an’
Joanne thought she’d been dreamin’. He
didn’t have any help, but his intention was
to finish us alone—murder us asleep—
when Joanne cried out. Joe says it was
just a devil’s freak that took ’im to the
top of the mountain alone that night. He

 

DeBar was not killed. '

saw our fire an” came down to investi-
gate.” _
A low voice was calling outside the
door. It was Marie. As Joanne went to
her a quick gleam came into old Donald's
eyes. He looked behind him cautiously to

«see that she had disappeared, then he

bent over Aldous, and whispered hoarsly:

“Johnny, I had a most cur’ous word
with Rann—or FitzHugh«——afore he died!
He wasn’t dead when I went to him. But
he knew he was dyin’; an’ Johnny, he
was smilin’ an’ cool to the end. I want-
ed to ask ’im a question, Johnny. I was
dead cur’ous to know why the grave were
empty! But he asked for Joanne, an’ I
couldn’t break in on his last breath. I
brought her. The first thing he asked
her was hOIW the people took it when
they found out he’d poisoned his father!
When Joanne told him no one had ever
thought he’d killed his father, FitzHugh
sat leanin’ against the saddles for a minit
so white an' still I thought he ’ad died
with his eyes open. Then it came out
Johnny. He was smilin’ as he told it.
He killed his father with poison to get
his money. Later he came to America.
he didn’t have time to tell us how he
come to think they’d discovered his crime.
He was dyin’ as he talked. It came out.
slo-bberingly, Johnny. He thought they'd
found ’im out. He changed his name an’
sent out the report that Mortimer Fitz-
Hugh had died in the mount'ins. But
Johnny, he died afore I could ask him
about the grave!"

There was a final note of disappoint-
ment in old Donald’s voice that was al-
most pathetic.

“It was such a cur’ous grave,” he said,
“An’ the clothes were laid out so prim
an’ nice.”

Aldous laid his hand on MacDonald’s.

“It‘s easy, Mac,” he said, and he
wanted to laugh at the disappointment
that was still in the other's face. “Don’t
you see? He never expected any one to
dig into the grave. And he put the
clothes and the watch and the ring in
there to get rid of them. They might
have revealed his identity. Why,\l)onald‘!”

Joanne was coming to them again.
She laid a cool hand on his forehead and
held up a warning finger to MacDonald.

“Hush!” she said gently. “Your head
is very hot, dear, and there must be no
more talking. You must lie down and
sleep. Tell John good-night, Donald!”

Like a :boy MacDonald did as she had
told him, and disappeared through the
cabin door. Joanne levelled the pillows
and lowered John’s head.

. “I can‘t sleep, Joanne,” he protested.

“I will sit here close at your side and
stroke your face and hair,” she said
gently.

“And you will talk to me ?”

“No, I must not talk. But, John "

“Yes, dear.”

“If you will promise to be very, very
quiet, and let me be very quiet ' "

“Yes.”

“I will make you a pillow of my hair.”

"I—will ‘be quiet,” he whispered.

She unbound her hair, and leaned over
so that it fell in a flood on his pillow.
With a sigh of contentment he buried his
face in the rich, sweet masses of it.
Gently, like the cooling breeze that had
come to him in the hours of darkness,
her hand caressed him. He closed his
eyes; he drank in the intoxicating per-
fume of her tresses; and after a little he
slept.

For many hours Joanne sat at his bed-
side, sleepless, and rejoicing.

When Aldous awoke it was dawn in
the cabin. Joanne was gone. For a few
minutes he continued to lie with his face
toward the window. He knew that he had
slept a long time, and that the day was
breaking. Slowly he raised himself. The
terrible ache in his body was gone; he
was still lame, but no longer helpless.
He drew himself cautiously to the edge
of the bunk and sat there for a time,
testing himself before he got up. He was
delighted at the result of the experiments.
He rose to his feet. His clothes were
hanging against the wall, and he dressed
himself.
walked out into the morning, limping a.
little as he went. MacDonald was up.
Joanne’s tepee was close to the cabin.
The two men greeted each other quietly,
and they talked in low voices, but Jo-
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Donald's little valley of gold and sunshine
and blue skies. They were strange and
beautiful days, filled with a great peace
and a great happiness, and in them won-
derful changes were at work. On the
second day Joanne and Marie rode alone
to the cavern where Jane lay, and when
they returned in the golden sun of the
afternoon they were leading their horses,
and walking hand in hand. And when

they came down to where DeBar and‘

Aldous and Donald MacDonald were
testing the richness of the black sand
along the stream there was a light in
Marie’s eyes and a reliance in Joanne’s
face which told again that world—old
story of a Mary Magdalene and the dawn,
of another Day. And now, Aldous
thought, Marie had become beautiful;
and Joanne laughed softly and happily
that night while Marie and DeBar talked
for a long time alone out under the stars,
and came back at last hand in hand,
like two children. Before they went to
bed Marie whispered something to Joanne,
and a little later Joanne whispered it to
Aldous.

“They want to know if they can be
married with us, John," she said. “That
is, if you haven’t grown tired of trying
to marry me,‘ dear,” she added with a
happy laugh. “Have you?”

His answer satisfied her. And when
she told a small part of it to Marie, the
other woman’s dark eyes grew as soft
as the night, and “ she whispered the
words to Joe.

The third and last day was the most
beautiful of all. Joe’s knife wound was
not bad. He had suffered most from a
blow on the head. Both he and Aldous
were in condition to travel, and plans
were made to begin the homeward jour-
ney on the fourth morning. MacDonald
had unearthed another dozen sacks of the
hidden gold, and he explained to Aldous
what must be done to secure legal pos-
session of the little valley. His manner
of doing this was unnatural and strained.
His words came haltingly. There was un-
happiness in his eyes. It was in his
voice. It was in the odd droop of his
shoulders. And finally, when they were
alone, he said to Aldous, with almost a
sob in his voice:

”Johnny—Johnny, if on’y the gold were
not here!"

He turned his eyes to the mountain,
and Aldous took one of his big gnarled
hands in both his own.

“Say it, Mac," he said gently. “I guess
I know what it is."

“It ain’t fair to you, Johnny,” said old
Donald, still with his eyes on the moun-
tains. “It isn’t fair to you. But when
you take out the claims down there it’ll
start a rush. You know what it means,
Johnny. There’ll be a thousand men up
here; an’ mebby you can’t understand—
but there's the cavern an’ Jane an’ the
little cabin here; an' it seems like
desecratin' her.”

His voice choked, and as Aldous grip-
ped the big hand harder in his own he
laughed.

“It would Mac," he said.‘ “I’ve been
watching you While we made the plans.‘
These cabins and the gold have been here
for more than forty years without dis-
covery, Donald—and they won’t be dis—
covered again so long as Joe DeBar and
John Aldous and Donald MacDonald have
a word to say about it. We’ll take no
claims, Mac The valley isn’t ours. It’s
Jane’s. valley and yours !”

Joanne, coming up just then, wondered
what the two men had been saying that

Aldous told her. And then old Donald
confessed to them what was in his mind,
and What he had kept from them. At
last he had found his home, and he was
not going to leave it again. He was go-
ing to stay with Jane. He was going to
bring her from the cavern and bury her
near the cabin, and he pointed out the
spot, covered with wild hyacinths and
esters, Where she used to sit on the edge
of the stream and watch him while he
worked for gold. And they could return
each year and dig for gold, and he would
dig for gold while they were away, and
they could have it all. All that he
wanted was enough to eat, and Jane,

from him as he talked, her face stream-

a great lump, and he looked away from
MacDonald to the mountains.
So it came to pass that on the fourth

they stopped on the last knoll that shut
out the little valley from the larger valley,

ald stood alone in front of the cabin

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, UNCLE NED,
The Business Farmer,
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, ,, .Dear Uncle Ned :-—I would like to join
‘your' merry circle. I like to read the
,jChildren's Hour very much. We live on
the farm of 80 acres. We have three
,horses, thirteen pigs, thirty—eight head
of cattle, many chickens and two dogs.
”Last year we had two kittens and they
; burned by the fire. Someone set fire to
,‘the barn and outer buildings. My dad
. had just bought a new harness and sad-
dle for me to use with my pet pony which
is filled “Chief". I often ride on him.
We picked fifty quarts of huckleberries
last Sunday. Do you like them? Did
you ever go to himt for a deer? I will
gothisfallanddohopelwillhavegood
luck and get a deer. I lived in m-
erick. Maryland and go to school there.
but spend my summer in Michigan with
my parents. I have a little sister and
Iampalswithmotheranddad. Iliko
Michigan very much but have to travel
. a great deal about 42 states as my par-
ents are show folks and it means get-
ting about. I am 14 years old the 12th
of February. Have I a twin? Will some
one of my cousins write to me? I will
answer all their letters. Wish you would
have a drawing contest for I would like
to enter it. Will close for this time.
Your nwhew—John Davis, R. 1, Rose
City. Michigan.
y—erte and tell us about some of your
tavels. John. I am interested.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:—I have never written
to you before. My father has taken the
M. B. F. for a number of years and
every summer when I come home from
school I read them. We just came up
heretouppeerchiganaboutayearago
and as I have been home during my
vacation only I have became acquainted
with a few people as yet. _ home is
at a summer resort on one o the most
beautiful lakes in upper Michigan. There
are three resorts on White Fish Lake.
We live near another lake also which is
much larger. It B Manistique Lake.
This resort is the most beautiful place
in the summer time but when winter
mmestheteamsdriveoverthetopsof
the fence posts and mail boxes in the
emmtry. and in the forests it is even
worse. I have spent one winter here
and I have seen enough snow to last me
the rest of my life. Altho the winters
are terrible cold and there is so much
snow, the beautiful summer with the pic-
nics, fishing, swimming, boating and such
sports quite overbalance the unpleasant-
I am home only twice

age. Myhairisbladrandlwearit
bobbed. M‘ycomplexionisdark. lam
feettall. Iwouldlikevmmuchto

little brother and younger sister
for the home until my parents

unless someone will spare a few minutes
(1 their time now and the: and write
to I will close with love to Uncle
Ned and all the cousins—Pauline Painter,
Cattle. Michigan.

you do not like the winters where
live but think that the summers
than make up for the unpleasant-
Have you ever noticed

are so many things about them
that you dislike but after you know them
for a while you discover they have so

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letter to the one guessing
I receive the letter. I
answer to the riddle Doris
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is getting long I will close with a riddle;
The one who guesses the answer right
will receive a letter from me. What
has holes in it and yet holds Water?
My age is between ten and fifteen. The
person who guems it correctly, will also
receive a letter. Well I hope my letter
is not too long to be printed. Love to all.
—-Blanche Ward. Mesick. Michigan.

—The girls and boys living m the olw
who do not enjoy going to the country
are few and far between. Some of them
say that they would not care to live in
tthe country but we all notice they like
to visit some friend or relative who lives
onafann.andmy.whatanappetite
they get after they have been out in
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Dear Uncle Nam—Jinn. Tap. Tap!
May I come in? I won’t stay long. not
longenoughtotalnemyhatofl. Ihave
beenovertotheparktodaytoseethe
animals. There were two wild cats there.
Imagine meeting one of: those savage
beastsoutinthojlmgles. Ihavebeas
told they will run from a person rather
than fight, but it hardly ”ems possible.
ThestatehasputinaparkattheChe—
boygan lake near here. Resorters go
there during the summer to fish and
hunt, also for boat riding and bathing.
I am a sophomore in high school. I live
on the farm during the summer vacation.
That time always comes with a Welcome.
Not that I dislike school, but because I
love to be in the country. I have often
wondered who first oorganixed the Chil-
dren's Hour and who some of the first.
members were. If there are any left will
you please write to me? Your letters
will be appreciated. There "'— :-.w Uncle
Ned soowl because my letteru‘ getting
long. Will some and everyone write to:
—-Lela Mercer, Onaway, Michigan.
-—Members of the Children's Hour are
boosters, not knockers, so do not stop to
knock but just walk right in and make
yourself to home. Drop in again some
day Lela, when you can take your hat
01! and stay a little while.

 

Dear Uncle Nedt—Why hello, hello!
My but is seems good to be back with
you all again. I suppose you are rather
sumrised to hear from me again, aren’t
you? Well I was giving all others a
chance to write. Say our school starts
the fourth of September and we have
nine and one-half months of school this
year instead of only nine months. We
are going to have a. new school building
here. but I do not think there will be any
school in it this year as they only started
working on it last Tuesday or Wednesday.
We will have school in our old building
during this school term. We have been
having some quite cold weather, but it
has been some warmer today. I only
wish this weather would stay like this
all winter. Say Uncle and Cousins, what
what do you all think about girls wear-
ing knickers and having bobbed hair?
Well. I think knickers are all right in
their places, like going hiking or camp-
ing, but when it comes to wearing them
on the streets I don't like them. Bobbed

Teaching Your

RRYING is one of the most pop-
ular accomplishments of every
trained dog. It is useful too.
Canine messengers were of great
value during the war, and every
year many lives are saved in remote
places by dogs that have been taught
y their owners to carry letters. etc.
Puppies learn more readily than
mature dogs. For that reason be-
gin training early. Begin when he
isteethin‘g;hisgumsaresore.and
he gets considerable relief from
holding things in his month. At this
od of life he will often “mouth"
d objects, for no other purpose
than to help nature develop his
teeth. It is instinct. Certainly dogs
will learn carrying at any age, but it
is. far easier to teach them when
they are teething.
is the very best thing to
begin with. Drawing it through his
mouth makes his gums feel better.
and secondly, the scent of his master
one the glove makes it more inter-

an object unattractive in itself will
secureadog’snotice, if thrown a
little distance, with a gesture for
hints 'get it. Sometimes a pre-

tenseto race him for the objectwill "

awaken the desired response; and it
is very natural for him, when he
reaches the object, to grab it up in
his mouth.

Talk to the dog very kindly, and
success will be achieved much soon-
er, while he is learning. When you
"begin to use various articles, he

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hair I think is perfectly alright. Say
now speak up. one and all and give your
opinion of them. don't be afraid of hurt-
ing any ones feelings. Well, I guess I
will give a little idea of what Sidnaw
is or loolm like. '

Well, it is a small railroad jimction

where both the Duluth, South Shore and
Atlantic, also the Chicago. Milwaukee,
and St. Paul railroads cross each other.
It is about two hundred in population.
There is one hotel, one lunch roan and
ice cream parlor. (an ideal hotel and
restaurant), one pool room. two steres.
also Standard Oil station. also a handle
factory. Mr. Henry Ford has camps
about three miles south of Bidnaw. that
rim during winters, but does during the
summers, although he keeps men working
duringthesmunerbuttheydon'tstay
at the cams. Mr. Ford has had five
medal apartments made for him and his
friends to stay when they came up to
visit. Mr. Ford, Mr. Edison and Mr.
Firestone and their wives were up here
last week and stayed a day or two.
This makes about the third time Mr.
Fordwasuphere. Say, butitsurelyis
nice out there. I- guess my letter is get-
ting rather long, and as I am lonesome.
won't the girls and boys, one and all.
write to me as letters sure are a lot
of company. Hoping you do so. I remain
as I always did and always will. Your
niece—J‘Peggy” or Alma Powell. Sid-
naw, Michigan.
-Well “Peggy“, it was fine of you to
tell us about Mr. Ford’s camps. I quite
agree with you regarding knickers and
bobbed hair. Come again.

 

My Dear Uncle Ned :—-Well here I
am back again. My sister and husband
from Utica, New York, were up here a
week and then they took me had: with
them. We left here July 7th. It was
about 6:30 a. m. It certainly was a
lovely day for driving. You know how
nice it is in the morning about six. So
cool and it had rained in some places
the night before, as the roads were not
a bit dusty. We arrived in Detroit about
a quarter to nine in the evening. We
were quite tired of riding all day so just
as” soon as we could we went to bed.
The next morning we got up early and
got things ready to start for the long
trip to Utica. Louis. my brother-in-law’s
brother took us in his car to the boat,
as my brother-in-law took his car to the
boat about three o’clock. While we went
on about five p. m. We had a lovely
stateroom on the fourth deck. We walk-
ed around on the boat until seven and
then we ate our supper. We bought
some cards on the boat. I sent some to
my parents, and some to my nieces and
nephews, and I sent one to you Uncle.
Did you get it? Hope you did. There
was nice music on the boat which I am
joyed very much as there is nothing I
like better than music. We walked
around on the boat that evening for a.
long time. It was about nine when we
retired. We arrived in Buffalo about a
quarter to ten the next morning. We
certainly enjoyed the trip from Buflaio

Dog To Carry.

must understand your caution of
“Gently, boy,” etc. I read of a dog’s
bringing a freshly laundered collar
to his master without selling it. It
had fallen from a desk into the
waste basket, and this observant dog
knew that it did not belong there,
and that it was something that he
should handle with care.

The way to train a dog to go after
things alone, or to do any trick
without your supervision, is to go
through the performance with him
exactly many, many times always
usingthesamewordstostartthe
things. In this way, with patience
onthepartofthetrainer,asmart
dog may be taught to take a basket
and go alone for some article. Gen-
erally, too. he will know whether he
hasbeen given the usual thing. If
you have the merchant instructed to
put what you want into the basket,
the dog. it well taught. will do his
part and bring the baslmt back to
you. _ '

You should teach the carrier dog
not to give up his package or mes-
sage .tojany stranger. Have some
person ,with whom your pet is not
acquainted start to take the object
from the dog’s month, then change
hismind. Let this be repeateda

few tithes; then come up yourself,’

take the object (as though you valu-
ed it) and praise the dog. This
method was first recommended by
Bruette, of the greatest “dog-010g-
ists” of this country. A dog. like a
person, dislikes being fooled. and
clings to the person who seems to
appreciate his efforts. 4 ’ ~ ,

,1 . “3?" ,fi , 8

1m. We wants an
in Utioa “unanimous my 'rother-‘
in-law's parents. We started back on
Thursday the 12th. and stayed over night
in Batavia at the Richmond hotel. The

 

next morning we started for Buffalo" '

which we reached at 12 that noon. From
there we went to Falls. Have
you ever been there? We were there
about a half hour, took pictures and bad
a nice time. We then went back to
Buffalo and got on the boat. We had
a lovely trip coming back. We arrived
in Detroit the next morning glad to be
back in dear old Michigan again. I think
New York State is very nice but I think
Michigan is the best of all. Don’t you
Uncle? I spent three weeks with my
sister and her husband and came back
with my brother and his wife the second
of August. I had such a wonderful. trip
and enjoyed it real well. Now after
suchanicevacationl‘mreadytostart
toschooiandwork. Iwillbeinthe
ninth grade this year. Well its getting
pretwhtesoguesslwillclose. Love
to We and all the eousins..Your af-
fectionate niece—Eleanor D. L. Stovei.
Hubbards Lake, Michigan.

P. E—Please excuse me hr taking up

somuchspace. Iwon‘twrltesoalong
letter the’next time.
-—My. what an interesting letter._ I am
sure all of the. cousins will forgive you
fortakingsomuch,meoe. Yes, Ire-
ceived your card and was pleased to get
it. Thank you. I too. have seen the
Falls and think they are beautiful.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:—I will write to you
oncemore. Iwrotebeforebutitisquitea
while ago since I have. so I thought I
wouldwriteagain. WestilltaketheM.
B. I". and enjoy it very much. I thought
ofsomethingthathouldliketodo.”
I’m going to tell you about it, and maybe
it can be done if this letter doesn't visit
the waste paper basket. Will all of the
Arnold’s write to me? If they can. also
iftheymmsgeorolder. Iamli
years old. my birthday is the twenty-
fifth day of September. Have I a twin?
1 had a. twin before. her name is Mildred
Dommer. I passed the 8th grade country
examinations at the Mt. Clemens High
School last May. I saw the Michigan
Business Farmer building nearly straight
across from the High School. I could
have called on you Uncle Ned. if I would
have thought of it, but I suppose I had
different things on‘nnv mind when I left
school. I got out early enough to go.
Am sorry I never thought of it. I live
on the East Jefferson road and we have
a good road all the way to Mt. Clemens,
also to Detroit. We have a loud speaker
for our radio. the tube set and crystal
set both work very loud on it. I am
glad now. because every one can enjoy
it. I wish you all could hear it. We
can hear from Kentuclq'. New York, and
all diflferent places far away from here.
Thereisanawfullotofstaticintheair.
My brother says he will be able to hear,
better when. winter comes. My brother
made the radio all by himself, but of
course he bought the parts. It looks like
a chinese puzzle to me. Who can guess
this riddle? “I have a wife, her name is
Elizabeth, she has two kids. what have
I? The one who guesses it will receive
a letter from me. I hope all of the Ar-
nold's will read my request. if they do
I will be very much pleased. With love.
from your niece—Rose M. Arnold, 34,
Box 474. Mt. Clemens. Michigan.
-—-Your suggestion is very good and I
hope you let me know how many letters
you receive from the “Arnold family."
I do not wonder that you erdoy the radio.
I do, and I believe every one else does
iftheyhaveeverlistendtoone. Ihave
atubesetbutnoloudspeeker. Iuse
the phonograph for that purpose and it
works very satisfactorily.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:——I have been much
interested for sometime in your Children’s
Ila-8‘9 ind I thought my letter might in-
terestsomeotherboyorgirl. Welive
onafannof 180msontheshoreof
me Michigan. It is a bountiful place
inthesummerbutinwlnteritisvery
cold. I would like to know how many
cousins have Indian playmates? Our
school umber-a 80 pupils and two-thirds

is‘Awen'. Hereisarlddle: Whyis
anewspaperlikealexydogf 111090
you will print this. Your niece—Irene
Miller, B. 1, Box 5. Good Hart. Mich.

 

Dear Uncle Ned :--I have never written

 
  
 

 

 

 

 


 
 
 

 

 

 

 

   

‘ Me e as County rm .
. ~Gran'ge picnic held at the Rais-
inville Grange hall, August 38.
wasa real success. With games and.
spurts for the youngsters, a baseball
game and quoit pitching for the men,
‘ the day was well spent. The ball
' ame between Ida and Frenchtown
range was won by the former by a
large score. The old folks had to
take a. back seat when the quoit
pitching contest was won by two
youngsters both under. fourteen
yea-rs of age. This contest was won
by Tracy Knapp of Raisinville and
Verlin Barr of Raisinville, each re-
ceiving a pair of steel quoits as a
prize. R. Halburstead and A. Hal-
burstead, both of Monroe, won sec-
ond place in the contest. The at-
tendance was around a thousand.

By far the most important part of
the program was the address by
Hon. .J. C. Ketchem, Congressman
from the fourth Mich. District and
former Master of the Michigan State
Grange, also a member of the Farm
Bloc in Congress.

Mr. Ketchem soon warmed up to
his subject so that it was necessary
for him to remove his coat although
the weather seemed a little cold to
most of the audience. He minced
no words whatever but spoke direct
from the shoulder. He told his
hearers that he did not believe in
class legislation for the farmer or
anyone else. He does believe, how-
ever in the legislation already enact-
ed to put the farmer on the same
plane with other lines of business.
It is a deplorable fact that agricul-
ture has fallen to its present condi-
tion. The American farmer must
join hands with his neighbors in the
cooperative movement in marketing
or descend to the state of peasantry
as we now have it in the older coun-
tries of Europe. Agriculture pro-
d u c e 8 annually $77,000,000,000
worth of farm products and employs
27 per cent of our total population.
Should the agricultural industry
descend to the state of peasantry it
would be the greatest calamity that
this nation has ever been called on
to face.

Another important point brought
out by Mr. Ketchem in regard to our
farm is the subject of home owner-
ship. With home ownership goes
the stability that is necessary to
maintain a democratic government
_ such as we now have. Statistics
show that only 10 per cent of the
population of New York city own
their own homes. 40 per cent of
the total population including both
city and rural districts own their
own homes which shows that the
percentage of home ownership runs
very high in the country. The num-
ber of people in the country if
negroes and indians are included,
who came from native born parent-
age is nearly 90 per cent while the
number of native born white of
native parentage is 66 per cent.
These facts should be a source of
comfort to any red blooded Ameri—
can as it is the home owners that are
the ones upon whom any nation must
.depend in time of strife. This one
fact alone makes it well worth what
it will cost the nation to .put the
farmer back on his feet regardless of
what the cost may be.

In viewing the economic condition
in which the farmer finds himself,
pig iron and corn“ were two comedi-
ties chosen to represent industry and
agriculture. In 1914 it took 18 bu.
of corn to buy one ton of pig iron.
During the war period 27 were re-
quired, during deflation period 47
bu. and today 29 bu. are required to
buy the same amount of iron. Sum-
ming up all these facts we find that
the farmers dollar compared to oth-
er industries, is only worth 71c. The
farmers economic condition will not
improve until his dollar is as valu-
able as any other.

In summing up the whole situa-
tion it was pointed out that co-oper»
ative marketing properly managed is
the solution to the whole trouble.
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Geographical isolation makes the Railroads of
Michigan a transportation system like that of no
other state. Most of our traffic either originates or

endsin Michigan.

Bridge the Great Lakes with car—ferries and tunnel
undersuch the migh connecting rivers, though we
may,such hments merely better our service
to you; we areMichigan MichiganRailroads more than trans—
continental traffic lines. Our train schedules are for
Michigan, not for New York and San Francisco.

To a degree greater than any other state, Mchi gan’s
welfare, and the .wehare of her Railroads, are there—
fore one and arable. You cannot fall back on
trans—continentali mes for emergency help; we must
always rely on you for our chief support.

We can prosper only together.

 

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Because of this mutual dependence, the twenty—
four Railroads operating in Michigan have
formed this Association with the purpose of strength—
ening the relations of the Railroads with the People
of the State, by providing you with a clearing house
for the exchange of ideas, relative to the transpor‘
tation problems so vital to the prosperity of our :
Peninsular State.

We invite your suggestions toward bringing about
a better understanding and closer cooperation be-
tween the Public and the Railroads. Communicate
with this Association.

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The 301de is yellow.

The corn is turning brown. ‘
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down:

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Its hidden silk has spun;

The sedges flaunt their harvest

_ every meadow nook,

And asters by the brookslde
Make asters in the brook;

From dewy lanes at morning
The grapes’ sweet odor rise;

At noon the roads all flutter
With yellow butterflies.

By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer's best of weather
And autumn’s best of cheer.
—-H. H.

 

SEEN AT TIIE STATE FAIR-—

ERE shall I begin? So many
lovely and wonderful things
—. for us all. The many beautiful
helpful departments were all there.
The woman’s building, always a
great attraction to me had so
many wonderful hand made articles
. that would fit into the best 0;. the
most humble of homes. Laces made
by hand. I marveled at it all. Em-
broidery work of the most difficult
kind, they were all there; hanging
row on row, vieing for first place on
the premium list.

The baby exhibit, held wonders
for our future race and it seemed to
me the crowd never tired of looking
at the measuring of so much beauty
and health as was displayed in that
big glass room with a, competent
doctor and nurse in charge.

From there I strolled over to the
Art building and those of us who
were interested in making and paint-
ing pretty articles for our homes,
could find out a lot of new ideas and
ways to make them for the attend-
ants there were pleasant instructors,
who wanted to help and please.

The main building had a great
many display rooms showing the
wrong and right way of living and
fixing up the home to make it easier
for our work. I saw a new kitchen
Stove demonstrated for the farm
home that looked just like our city
gas stoves and had powerful heating
qualities. It was an oil burner.

The sewing machine department
had a demonstrator showing how to
hemstitch with a very simple attach-
ment; also how to darn on the sew-
ing machine. I brought one of
these. They seemed to do the work
nicely and fast.

For those of us who have electric-
itylthe building given over to display
electric appliances, contained appli-
ances too numerous to mention.
Everything tor the home was there.
' 'I am sure the school work was a
revelation to some of us. It was to

me. In the Educational building
the “Hot Lunch” idea was demon-
strated; also the cold—pack method

done by the Girls Canning Clubs.
The only thing I was disappointed
in was the poor way the “Household
'and Kitchen Food Products" were
displayed ,1 had to climb up on
the case in order to see the display
tot baked goods. Maybe next year
‘we might have at least a lower shelf.
{Next year I want to see more of
tthe names of my readers on the

fcards telling me they are interested ,

in their own State Fair.

 

NEXT YEAR GARDEN

, OW is the time to think and plan
V and order our fall garden. May.

be some of my readers will feel
I have said too much about garden-
ing, but in this new country of ours,
we need a little coaxing to realize
that the beautiful gives back to us
so much more than we put into it.
The work is well spent for the re-
sults we get, and I feel sure that
looking at a bright clump or row of

 

‘ flowers will create a certain amount

of happiness for the beauty that it

’gives out and the lesson we learn

bringing a wonderful bed of flowers

forth, even if it is only wild flowersfli

For those who wish lovely Cro—
cuses, Daffodils, Tulips and Hya—
cinths, order your fall bulbs now, if
you want to be sure of the best
Early orders are never un—
wise. You can have plenty of time
to prepare for the stock. and are
doubly sure of getting what you
want. I am ordering my bulbs to-
day and I know I receive more pleas-
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new patterns are in.
your type.

than to plan a party for this
fun loving night. Any ques-
tions upon this or any other
home subject I will gladly
answer. Do write me, I
want to help you.

Address letters:

 

 

e Farm , .
Department for. the Women '4
Edited by use. ANNIE TAYLOR

EAR FOLKS—Now is the time to plan your fall sewing and all the
- Give your dress a little tho't this fall and It
_will be money saved to have picked the right style suited to

Remember Hallowe‘en is next month and what could be nicer

Mrs. Annle Taylor, care The Buslness Farmer, Mt. Clemem, Mlchlaan.

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amount of work I put on them. Read
our personal in the last issue and
know what one woman did to make
extra money. Fall is the time for
planting these flowers.
A KIND DEED EACHiDAY

WAS talking to a neighbor the
I other day and he was telling me

how his mother taught them, a
family of twelve, to do a kind deed
each day. I am wondering how
many of us try and live up to this
golden rule. This neighbor of mine
has tried to live up to the rule until,
he says that if the kind deed has not
been done before twelve o'clock he
gets nervous and restless. It is
a wonderful thot that has a hold of
human beings to such an extent
that we become uncomfortable un-
til the deed is done. I must confess
I did not try and live up to' this
rule, but I am now, and I just feel
that I must pass this same thot
along to you my readers.

USING OLD FLOUR SACKS FOR

CLOTHING—
N interesting phase of the flour
milling industry of certain

parts of China is the manufac-
ture and various uses of the flour
sacks. The cloth for the bags is
made and cut in the correct sizes at
the mill and the pieces are then sent
out to the homes of the country peo—
ple of the district who sew them to-
gether. The finished bags are then
stamped with a dye that is easily
washed out. The bags are given as
a commission to the dealers, who
wash them out and sell them to the
town people for use as clothing. The

dealers rarely sell the bags with the
flour as only very small amounts of
flour are purchased at one time by
the Chinese.

 

 

'Mothers Problems

 

ASKING PERMISSION
" EY, Bob, come on down in the
swamp and catch frogs!”
“Sure! Just wait till I ask
Mother.”

“Hmph! Do you have to ask your
mother before you can do anything?
I never ask mine. If I'm not home
when Mom wants me she knows I’ve
gone somewhere."

“I know, but Mother says she al—
ways likes to know where I am, and
then she doesn’t worry. She always
lets me go wherever-I ask, and it
only takes me a minute to hunt her
up, so I don’t mind.”

“Probably not, but—say, I’ll beat
you to the old oak tree!"

t i #

Which boy is your son like—Bob
or his companion? Does he ask
your permission to go out of sight of
home, or do you fret and worry and
wonder when he is too long away?

Asking permission means more
,than begging mother’s consent: it
means informing her of the propos-
ed jaunt or visit. It means quieting
any needless alarms that might arise
should the time away be unusually
long. Boys are thoughtless. they
cause a great deal of unnecessary
worry merely because they don't
realize how easy it is for mothers to
worry. Perhaps you cannot cure the
thoughtlessness, but you can make it

Attractive Quilt Design for Children’s Room

 

 

 

 

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What little boy or girl would not be delighted to be tucked to bed
under a nursery quilt like this, to dream about Boy Blue, Little Bo Peep,
and the rest of the Nursery Folk so dear to the heart of every child?
The gool old nursery jingles can be told in other ways than by words, and
what better place to tell a needle-and—thread story than on a little boy’s or

girl’s very own bed set?

These quilt blocks can be furnished for outline embroidery, on good

quality linen finished white muslin in three designs.

assorted designs.
blocks are nine inches square

12

Creel-Stitch Bluebird

'2’?! a and ten stamped blocks,
‘1?- ”‘f."’ combined with ten plain blocks
' “if“? a" of pink or blue sateen, makes
' “(a ‘.s a 36x45 Baby Quilt or Crib
\ . Blanket. Ten blocks 60c; 30
34% blocks (Sufficient for both
'7 {3" ' crib blanket and full-sized
.& . quilt), $1.00. , Address: The
Business Farmer,. Pattern ,_
=1 Department M t. Clemens, -
Sunbeam Series

Michigan.

Nursery Rhyme Series,
The ‘

 

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and an or pro. needmla’. .. '
Begin when ‘_;.thechildren.,ar'e very ‘
‘little. Never allow them to run over '
to a neighbor’s without first asking
your permission. Impress them with
the fact that you only want to know
where they are in case you should
want them immediately. Make it a
habit with them to ask your permis-
sion to leave the home-yard. Then~
even though they are old enough to
look out for themselves, even
though they are not tied so tightly
to Mother’s apron—strings, they will
let you know where they are going
and often relieve you of many anx-
ious moments.

Asking Mother’s permission to go
somewhere is not babyish; it merely
shows that a boy has been taught
how to be thoughtful of his mother.

WHEN SCHOOL 18 OUT

is as natural for children to run

and play and laugh and shout as

it is for kittens to frolic. If
strong and healthy they are full of
good spirits, and good spirits de-
mand an outlet. For the little child
who has never known the restraint
of school, who has been able to
spend hours and hours in play and
exercise, the confinement of the
school—room is a severe strain. If
he is at first shy, there will be no
let-down of account, during recess
periods. From the time he leaves
home in the morning till he returns
at night, every nerve and every mus-
cle is held in check. THAT is why,
when school is out, many a little be-
ginner comes home cross and disa-
greeable and as full of noise as a.
machine-shop.

It is trying,o-n the mothers who
have to hear the noise and quiet and
soothe the apparently out-of—sorts
child, but when school is out is one
of the many times when patience
must be exercised continually. Then
must a mother strive to get the child
back into his normal state of mind.
Sometimes a glass of milk and slice
of bread and butter will “sweeten
him up” like magic, for, the chances
are, not being used to eating lunch
with other children, he will slight
the dinner he carries, and his stom-
ach will be craving food, and when
there is hunger, there is seldom
good nature.

If it is found that he will not play
nicely with his younger brothers and
sisters, separate him from them for
a time. In his heart, he thinks they
are the finest children anywhere, but
at school he has been a “beginner,"
looked down upon by the older
children, and it pleases him to treat
the “little ones” the same way. He’ll
soon be glad to play with them on
any terms, if only he can play with
them!

As for his voice, stuff your ears
with cotton! The young animal in
the civilized child must assert itself.
Let him “holler like a wild Indian"
till his pent-up energy is exhausted.

Don’t bewail that school is teach-
ing him all sorts of bad habits. It
is merely holding a wild young
thing in check, and at home he is
“letting off steam.”

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

Can Any Reader Answer Our Sub-
scriber With More Information?—I en-
joy the Home Department in M. B. F.
very much. I like the cooking recipes.
I am asking about a little information
about flowering bulbs. This spring I
planted twenty-eight healthy looking glad-
iola bulbs and five of them rotted in the
ground. The large bulbs I planted about
six inches deep and the smaller ones
about four. I prepared the soil by dig-
ging holes and putting in two pails of
good rich dirt from near the manure
pile. I have watered them as“ often as
they needed it, but some did not grow
as well as I thought they should and
some rotted in the ground. I planted
them the last week in April.

I am going to plant some crocus, tulip
and hyacinth bulbs this fall and would
like to know what kind of soil is best

suited for them, how far apart they

should be, and all about the care of
them, also how to store Canna bulbs
for winter. Will try to return the favor
Mrs. Wm. Hoflhnan. '
-—The best soil for the Gladiolus is a
medium loam. It appreciates good fer-
tility, but seems sensitive to any manure
in contact with the bulbs. Manure is
good if applied in the autumn previous
to planting. The best fertilizer for gen-
eral use is one that would be called a
potato fertilizer, rich in potash, and
phosphoric acid, moth chemicals being
useful in the proper formation of good
bulbs. ’ ‘Bonemeal is also extensively
used. Liquid manure, when the. buds are

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in, planting is advisable. The depth to

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for next year. You should get from one 3:59:33:

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order to have them flower. New bulbs Number . g -' . 4' _ lCl l
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year and the plant becomes higher and
higher in the soil. They should thus be 21/2 to 9-
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. Chopped Pickles—Four quarts chopped
green tomatoes, two-thirds cup salt, two
teaspoons pepper, three teaspoons mus.
tard, three teaspoons drmamon, three
teaspoons auspice, three teaspoons cloves.
one-half cup white mustard seed, four
green peppers, sliced and two chopped
onions, and two quarts vinegar. Sprinkle
alternate layers of tomatoes and onions
with salt, and let stand over night. In
the morning drain, and put in preserving
kettle, adding remaining ingredients, us-
ing enough vinegar to cover all. Heat
gradually to boiling point and boil on‘e-
half. hour.
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Green Tomato Relish—One peek green
tomatoes; four lemons: 6 pounds or one
and one—half pounds sugar and one-half
pound corn syrup; tour or five pieces of
ginger root, more if desired. Waflx and
cut tomatoes into pieces; slice lemons
very thin; put all into acid proof kettle
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Peach Conserve—25 nice yellow peaches
and one pound of white grapes, ten red
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fourth pound of almond meats. Cut
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one—quarter cup milk or cream, one table-

spoon butter, one tablespoon onion juice'

and one cup of walnuts out fine. Shape
in small balls. dip each in beaten egg,
roll in crumbs and fry brown in deep
fat. One tablespoon chopped parsley
may be added before shaping if Wished.—
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one-half teaspoon of cream tartar, one-
third teaspoon salt, three teaspoons of
baking powder, two-thirds cup scalded

milk, one teaspoon of vanilla, whites of ‘ f

three eggs. Mix and sift the five in-
gredients four times, add the milk slo'wly
while still hot stirring constantly. Add
vanilla and told in the whites of eggs
beaten light and stilt—Alma. B., Augusta,
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'_ ' the children and I walk ahead.
“ roads we had to travel at that season

*" _ mud. Our two- mile walk through it

Thu eight-thirty or nine- I do my
> about flV9 loading. Then there cooking on a gasoline stove and each

being no 901179319“ place for ‘13 reheatin of food uses more fuel and
‘6 ride my husband suggested $1131? adds tog our expenses. After the
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ting at quitting time—~seven o’clock
——always being at the barn at five in
the morning, though the other two
men continued to be late. When he
was there first he had all the feeding

“ of the year are mud, deep, clinging

might be taken as a symbol of the
discomforts and disappointments to

follow. of the cows to do alone before milk-
We ate our supper that night in ing, which, was very hard as all the
the kitchen around the kitchen food had to be carried to the cattle.

table, and for weeks after the kitch-
en was, for the greater part of the
time, \the only comfortable room in.
th house. We found that the room
on the kitchen which we wished to
use for a dining room had no pipe
hole, so we cauld not put our coal
heater in it. The sitting room was
dorm a sort of hall from the kitchen
and opened into the dining room at
a door clear at the farthest corner.
A fire in it would have to be very
hot indeed to make the dining room
comfortable. So we did the only.
thing left; put up the heater along
with the cookstove in the kitchen.
The agreement which the farmer
made with my husband promised
that the kitchen drain which was out
would be fixed as soon as the ground
thawed in the spring. It has never
been fixed at all. Once or twice I
have suggested to my husband that
he might tell the farmer» that if he
did not want to have it done we
Would do the work ourselves and he
could allow the time, but my bus-
band had already made suggestions
which were not followed and so at
last, in June, he put in a pipe which
runs along. on top of the ground and
empties into the pig pasture which
lies just beside our 'yard. The wind-
ows all over the house needed to be
puttied but my husband has found
time to do only one. The rain comes
in and is making spots on the walls

One morning the owner told my
husband to stay at the 'barn nights
until all the chores were done and
Jack reminded him of their agree-
ment as to hours, and declared that
he would quit at seven as a general
rule or quit for good. The owner
made excuses but, finding Jack firm,
agreed that they would usually quit
at seven. But the injustice of his
demand added to our resentment on
account of his failure to repair the
house.

It is now mid-summer. All the
horses are at work in the fields near-
ly every day. The farmer or his
wife go to town about once a week

. and Jack can go on Saturday night
after seven. If I need anything at
any other time I can walk after it.
Getting to town so infrequently as
we have and do costs money in var-
ious ways. In town I could buy
fresh meat as I used it; here I
have to get ham or bacon or can-
ned meats, all of them expensive. In
town we used gas“ for cooking and
lighting, here the gasoline for cook-
ing and kerosene for lighing comes
to considerable more.

We are finding life on this farm,
to which we came with so many
hopes and plans, nothing more than
a discouraging failure. Jack start-
ed in with enthusiasm, with desire to
earn his money and please his em-
ployer. He started with real knowl-

. m was ao'a'aim my‘
husband came is, sometimes as late .

first month my husband began quit- -

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in every room except the kitchen. It
ruined the ceiling of the dining room
and there is a large piece of paper
loose and partly hanging. Both the
farmer and his wife promised to get
new paper but haven’t. They both
asked about the screens, but our
house has only one screen door that
is not ragged, and the windows are
partly covered with old netting. I
cannot keep out the flies.

The only horse among sixteen that
I can drive is crippled so badly that
I would rather walk than drive it,
and when my husband suggests tak-
ing one of the others when he is go-
ing to drive the owner nearly always
makes some excuse for taking the
_lame one. Neither of us drive un-
less we have so much to carry that
we must. When we walk to church
and Sunday School the children
come home cross and tired.

'When we came the working hours
Were to be from five in the morning
to seven at night, and the owner
counted himself as one of three men
who did the work. Oweing chiefly
to his own tardiness and irregular-

the men were all late to all
meals ”most of the time during the
first month we were here. Instead
of getting supper for all of us at
seven I often get supper at seven,
waited until seven-thirty for my
husband to come in, and then gave

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edge and ability to do his work well.
He is an honest, upright, sober, in-
telligent man, who desires and in-
tends to make farming a life work.

There are farms all over the coun-
try needing such men, and I am sure
there are in tovms and cities many
men like Jack, who feel that they
can succeed on a farm if they can
only get a good opportunity.

It seems to _me that it is up to the
owners who are complaining about
the inability to secure or keep farm
help because of the longer hours on
the farm and the higher wages in
the cities and towns, or to the gov-
ernment, itself, to ofier such men
the sort of living conditions, the

— commission on profits they help to
make, and the appreciation, which
will enable the farm laborer who has
it in him to become a real farmer to
get a start in farming without the
money investment for land and
stock and equipment which a family
man working for wages finds it im-
possible to make.

The factory worker and the rail-
road employee and the majority of
all town and city workers are living
in conditions similar to those of
their neighbors, who are for the
most part their fellow-workers. The
Unions help them to get justice, and
they live in comfort with some, at
least, of the modern conveniences.
Most of them have some time to call
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PURITY OF WATER SUPPLY

I have a never-failing well about
18 ft. from back door. My sink is
9 ft. east and 14 ft. south from back
door. Is there any way a pump by
the sink can draw water easily from
this well; is deep, cold and delicious
water; has not been cleaned out in
years. The last cleaner said when
he got through with it there was still
6 ft. of mud in the bottom of it. An:
other cleaner said he might be able
to clean it in a dry season, when
water is correspondingly low. We
have had no illness from this water
and it is certainly good. Should
anything be put in it to make it
doubly safe? How close to a well is
it safe for an outdoor toilet?
Ground is level.—Enquirer, Michi-
gan.

—Whether or not water could be
pumped as you suggest depends en—

tirely upon the distance of the per- '

manent water level below the pump
if installed as described. Twenty-
five feet is about the practical work—
ing distance; that is, the maximum
distance that a pump cylinder can
be placed above the water and have
it work properly. If - the vertical
distance from the pump cylinder to
low-water level in the well is not
greater than this a pump could be
put in as you suggest.

It is impossible to say whether or
not the water from your well is
pure; some of the coldest, sparkling
water is contaminated. From arsan-
itary standpoint the location of the
well near the back door is bad, as
refuse is likely to be thrown out
here, especially where the house is
not provided with a sewer system,
that is likely to find its way into the
well as seepage. This of course
need not necessarily be true, as pre-
cautions can be taken in the disposal
of dishwater and other house waste
that prevent any of it finding its way
into the well.

No definite distance can be set
down as a “safety distance” for a
well from a source of pollution. The
above applies to dug wells, as they
are perhaps most susceptable to pol-
lution. The character of the soil
and the source of. pollution as well
as the general slope of the ground
and the character of the subsoil all
have a bearing on this “safety dis-
tance." As a general rule in clay or
other tight soils and where the pol-
lution is at the ground surface 100
feet is a. sufiicient distance to guar-
antee a pure water supply as far as
the particular source of pollution
under consideration is concerned. If
the contaminating matter is beneath
the ground’s surf-ace, as in the case
of a cesspool, a much greater dis—
tance may be required.

Simple precautions toward‘secur-
ing a. safe water supply from a dug
well are either to make the upper
10 to 16 feet of the casing water-
tight by the use of concrete, brick or
tiling, or by simply filling in behind
the stonework with tightly packed
puddled clay. This casing should be
carried high enough above the sur-
rounding surface to give good drain-
age and to prevent the entrance of
any surface water, and the top cov—
ered by a good concrete curb.

Pollution of well waters by seep-
age from private or similar source
of contamination is usually indicat-
ed by the presence of chlorine in the
water. The presence of chlorine
can be detected by the following
test: Thoroughly wash and rinse in
water from the well to be tested a
glass tumbler. Fill the tumbler half
full of the well water and add six
drops of a. solution of five grains of
nitrate of silver in one ounce of dis-
tilled water. This solution can be
made up at a drug store. If chlor-
ine is present in any appreciable
amount the water will appear

' cloudy when held up against a dark

surface. If there is reason to doubt
the purity of drinking water and
chlorine is found to be present it is
advisable to have it tested by a lab-
oratory examinatiom—R. H. S,

,_- BLASHNG BOULDEBS
RE are three kinds of bould-
ers from a blasting standpoint
——one which is not a boulder at
all, but a ledge of rock extending up
through the ground ; second, a

,boulder properwhich is not imbed- .

  

  

dad in the ground so deep but that
a. charge can be placed under it; and
third, a boulder which rests‘on the
surface of the ground with some de-

pression in the 'top which makes it

possible to break it 'up by firing a
charge of high explosives placed
directly on the rock with a quantity
of soft mud 'on top. to give confine-
ment. ~

Suppose for this demonstration
that the rock is of the second class,
and about four feet long, three feet
Wide and two feet high, without vis-
able seams or cracks. It would take
too long to drill a hole into it, as we
would have to do with the ledge
rock, and it is imbedded in the
ground too deeply to mudcap econ-
omically, so we will punch a hole
with a crowbar or pointed piece of
drill steel at such an angle that the
end of the hole is close up under the
rock. This, you will notice, is dif-
ferent from our proceeding with the
stump We blasted in the last article
where we got the charge dowu about
two feet below the base of the
stump. We do not want to blow
this boulder out entire; we want to
break it up. As there are no build-
ings in sight, We will put about
three 11/1,” x 8" cartridges under
this boulder the last on being the
primer. Although there no build-
ings in sight, the boulder is along-
side a fairly well traveled road, so
we will fire it electrically.

We make the primer in the same
way as with cap and fuse, placing
the electric blasting cap in a hole
punched in the side of the cartridge.
and tying a piece of string about
eight inches long first to the wire
and then around the cartridge so
that the cap cannot pull out. After
pressing this primer down against
the other two cartridges with our
sawed—off broom stick, we fill up the
hole with soil scraped up in the
neighborhood in order to confine the
explosive and prevent it from blow—
ing out the bore hole. We then
connect the two wires sticking
out of the hole to the two free ends
of our duplex leading wire, being
careful that the joints do not touch
each other and being particularly
careful to wind the cap wires around
the well scraped leading wire ends,
bending these latter over into a hook
to prevent their pulling loose. We
next uncoil the leading wire as far
as it will go—in this case 250 feet——
and connect the tw0 free ends of the
leading wire to the two binding
posts on the blasting machine. It
does not matter which wire goes to
which post. Just as we get ready
to fire, a team is seen coming up the
road. This shows the advantage of
electric firing, because if we had
lighted the fuse when we left the
boulder we should have had to go
down the road and warn all vehicles
to stop, a thing they do not particu-
larly like. With the electric blast-
ing, however, we merely wait until
the team has passed. Then we lift
the rack bar of the blasting machine
up as far as it will go and push it
down with a sudden, quick, powerful
movement as hard as we can. This
generates an electric current which
travels down through the leading
wires and fires the cap, which in
turn explodes the dynamite, and if
we have gauged the charge correctly
the boulder is broken in pieces of a.
size which can readily be loaded on
a. stone boat and taken away.—
Arthur La Motte, Mgr. Technical
Section, Explosives Dept., E. L du
Pont de Nemours & Co.

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DON’TS FOR TRUCK DRIVERS
ON"T try racing with a touring
car; your truck was built for
strength not for speed.

Street car tracks are nice on
springs, but hard on tires—and steel
costs less than rubber.

Don't neglect a loose part, even
though it seems to operate more
freely that way. \

Don’t forget to watch the other
fellow ahead; a. slow stop on your
part nearly always costs you a punct-
ured radiator.

Use your brakes when getting
“spotted;" platforms were built to
load from not for bumping posts.

Don't drive too close to the curb;

edge-trimming is a. fine institution-

for pie crusts, but to expensive for
truck tires. _ »

   

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" HISTORY OF THE IRISH POTATO

HI potato is not a root, as many
are inclined to think. It is an
underground stem which has be-

come thickened, and which is a store-
house of food for the new plant.
The eyes are auxiliary buds from
which the stems and roots come
when the potato begins to grow.

. So many authentic evidences of
the nativity of the potato in temper-
ate South America, from Chili to
Colombia, that this region is indis-
putably considered its original home.
It is said that potatoes grow wild in
Chili at present.

The Irish potato, Solanum tubyro-
sum, belongs to the Solanacae. Sol-
anum is the Latin for nightshade,
hence it is a member of the night-
shade family; to this family also be-
long our good friend the tomato, the
ground—cherry and the beautiful win-
ter flower the bittersweet.

Also some we do not like so well,
as the nightshade and the tobacco.
The genus Solanum contains a great
many species now distributed all
over the world, but most abundant

. in the south temperate zone.

From Virginia to Europe

The potato was introduced into the
colonies in the latter part of the 16th
century, but just how it was brought
there is not exactly known. It is
possible that it was obtained from
the Spanish traders as the Spanish
were using it quite commonly as
.a food at that particular time.

Undoubtedly the Spaniards had be—
come acquainted with the potato dur-
ing their conquest of Peru during
1532-1685. Our best authorities say
that there is no positive evidence to
show that the potato was utilized by
the Indians before the arrival of the
white people. From Virginia it was
taken to Europe.

First a Cattle Food

When the potato was first dis-
covered and used for food it did not
make the palatable and appetizing
dish it does today. It was much
smaller and somewhat bitter in its
taste. It was first, both in England
and in other parts of Europe,
thought that it might serve as food
for cattle. Later it was decided
’that it might be used as a food for
the‘ poorer classes of people, and
that it might be cultivated for a food
for use during emergencies, such as
famines and when grain crops would
fail. .

Now Indespensable

For a long, long time it was culti-
vated indifferently. People evident-
ly were skeptical and the result was
the potato did not improve very rap-
idly. It is only during the latter
age of scientific cultivation that the
potato really did improve, and this
was . through better cultivation.
breeding and cross-breeding. Thru
this it has reached its present state
of perfection and become an indis-
pensable dish for rich and poor.

Although the potato can now be.»

grown in almost all temperate and
sub-tropical regions, the climate sets
an irrevocable stamp upon it. The
potato raised in the warm climates
bring a high price in our markets
in the spring, but it cannot in the
least compare with the much super-
ior article grown in the North where
climatic conditions are the more
nearly like those where itwriginally
grew—South American temperate
regions. It prefers cool climates
with rich, fertile soils and reached
the climax of perfection in the north
and northwestern states and Canada.
Murphy’s Father
The potato was not generally cul-
tivated in the United States until
after 1800. The people of the United
States are greatly indebted to the
efforts of Rev. Chauncey E. Goodrich
of Utica, New York, for the present
high state of perfection the potato
bears. In 1842, in the hope of im-
proving the potato. Rev. Goodrich
sent to South America for some wild
tubers and during the following six-
teen years he conducted experiments.
The results were that he originated
about a half-dazen new varieties of
great value, among which were the
forerunners of some of the present
, leading varieties which we enoy so
v much today, one Of them being the
Early Rose. ,_
, -- Irish?
Where did the potato acquire the

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is often asked. The name is certain-
ly misleading, for Ireland is not its
native home. It is true that Ireland
opened her doors to the lowly po-
tato and had succeeded in bringing
about many improvements on the

crop before the rest of the European '

countries realized its value and good
qualities.

It is also said that colonists had
taken potatoes along back to Europe
after they had in some way been in-
troduced into the American colonies
from South America, and after they
had been cultivated for a time had
been brought to America as Irish
potatoes. It is possible that they
never will know exactly how the
name originated.

BEST KIND OF CLOVER FOR RAY
I would like to know through-
your paper which kind of clever
makes the best quality of hay. The
Red clover or the Alsike? Which
can be most successfully raised on
all kinds of soil and whether alsike
is hard on land?—N. K., Midland,
Mich.
——Alsike is a hardier, longer lived
plant and adapted to a wider range
of conditions than Red Clover. Al-
sike will grow on land that is too
wet and t00 acid for Red clover.

   
 
 

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feeding value for hay. The fol-
lowing table from Henry’s Feeds
and Feedings shoWs the digestive
nutriments in one hundred pounds
of each:

Dry matter: Alsike 87.7, Red
clover 87.1; Crude Protein: Alsike
7.9, Red clover 7.6; Carbohydrates:
Alsike 36.9, Red clover 39.3; Fat:
Alsike 1.1; Red clover 1.8; Total:
Alsike 47.3, Red clover 50.9.——C.
R. Megee, Farm Crops Dept., Mich.
Agricultural College.

HOW MUCH MARL SHOULD BE
USED?

Can you please tell me Where I can

get material toinoculate sweet clov-
er seed? Also, how much marl
should one use to the acre, using the
marl test, 95 per cent lime?—A. L.
L., Traverse City, Mich.
—Material for the inoculation of
sweet clover seed may be secured
from the Department of Bacterio-
logy, M. A. VC., East Lansing. The
price is 25c per bottle and one bottle
contains suflicient material to inoc-
ulate a bushel of’ seed. Directions
for application accompE‘ny the- ma-
terial.

The amount of marl that should
be used will depend largely upon the
acidity of the soil. In general from
four to six cubic yards should be us-
ed. There are a few soils that re-
quire a higher application—C. R
Megee, Associate Prof. of Farm
Crops, M. A. C.

    

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SHALL WE HAND PICK 01m
BEANS ON THE FARM?
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hour. Could give you statement from
several friends that I cleaned a few
for them just to show what it would
do and for one neighbor cleaned the
screenings which he brought back
from the elevator and thought
worthless, which he returned and
sold for $25.
hours.
be the best for cleaning seed beans,
except hand picking which few of us
have time to do.

After finding a way to increase the
capacity to 30 or 40 bushels per hour

and realizing that the farmer should .

have a. chance to clean his own beans

for market, applied for patent. This .

is as far as I ever got have not had

time to build a complete machine for ‘
myself as the other farm work takes .

all of my time. Have talked with

some manufacturing concerns but ‘

they seem to think that the elevators
should have the chance to pick the
beans and take it away from the
farmer or they find fault because
there would be very few repairs or
the bean grOWers are losing thous-

ands of dollars by not having proper ,

ways of cleaning seed and paying the
elevators for hand picking their
beans while they do a greater part
with mechanical pickers and keep
the profit. Here is hoping that this
will be stopped some day.—-Lee A.
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The corn crop will soon be ready—
and there is one best way to turn the
crop into money. Sell your .com on the
hoof! Low-priced grain produces cheap
,g. pork and beef, yet the livestock market

" promises fair. By harvesting your corn
1 _ with the least possible man labor, and
353 putting both ear and stalk into shape for
feeding, you can fatten livestock this
winter and sell it at a profit.

Big factors in the success of this plan
will be McCormick-Deering corn ma-
chines. Corn binders and ensilage cutters
are doing the early work on many farms.
Later you can pick the corn with a
mechanical picker that enables two men
to do the work of from five to seven men.
Pick your own crop quickly, then pay
for your 'McCormick-Deeriug Com
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. Let Livestock Put Your Corn
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age separately. McCormick-Deering
Huskers and Shredders are built in sizes
for home or custom work.

This fall hundreds of enterprising
farmers will feed the corn and sell the
crop on the hoof. And they will have
McCormick—Deering Corn Ma—
chines ready for many more years of
good work—both at home and in the
fields of their neighbors. Good machines
save man power, cutting your operating
costs and adding to your profits. Talk
it over with the McCormick-Deering

 

 

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BREEDERB DIRECTORY, MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, MT CLEMENS, MIOH.

 

Twenty-two Advanced Register Cows

 

ABSOLUTE .DISPERSAL “SALE.

of the Federal Accredited Hard of

Peaceful Vista Farm Guernseys

the property of MB. W. J. BROWN, at

Peaceful Vista Farm, Redford, Mich

(12 Miles from Detroit)

Saturday, September 22, 1 923

ATll AM.

Imported Cows of Cholee'st Island blood
red and Unbred Heifers of Superb Quality
Three Choicely Bred Bulls .

For Catalogue Address

LEANDER F. HERRICK

Sale Hunger

405 Main Street, Worcester, Mass.

 

 

  
 

  

CLAIM YOUR.
SALE DATE "I,

To avoid conflicting date: we will without
mils: the date 0! any live stock sale in
loan. Ii you are considerin a sale ed-
Iheusatoneesndvewlilolamthedate
Live Stock Editor. M. B.

 

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Cough. Wm. Glillln. Sec’y.

G. P. PHILLIPS

THE GOLDEN RULE!) AUCTIONEER

Pedigreui lachspecjfil
Write. wirsorcsilfor terms still

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HOLSTEINS

W110! nan VASSAR._ MICHIGAN.
registered fully eccredlbd 821,511,
site. Write your want.

3 Fine Holstein Bulls

light e in October from bed
wont-id Romeo King Pontlg
reasonable
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SOHAFFER 3808.. R. 4. Oxford, Mich.

 

HEREFORDS

 

Are You Considering
,What to Feed This

Before t pufichagin tin feedgers tn-

vestign e e o m erliripe
HEREFORD Beef Plan.

raven. profitable system of

f reduction of great bene-

the utmost from our

Write for information. —

castings, Two—yesr-oids. Young cows
, regulated and '1‘. B tested at
rises to: Ear ' BEBE-

W y Reeves. ”Trims gmntedurilupon proper
mtg.

T. F. B. scrum & SONS
(More: since 1839) Saint Gilir. Ila}.

 

Steers For Sale
5 $55 5% .5% §§I§m 223 E

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eifers one year Oldlusty for
ten

£500. 00. mm 10 we with
calves side for ole.
byli in want to! bulls, write us.
ALLEN BROS.

818 So. West St. Kalamazoo. lion.

We Have Bred Herefords ILSince 1860

 

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ORA O FARM, Swartz Creek. Michigan

 

 

GUERNSEYS

BULL OILF BORN IN MARCH.
Dam is dam of Belle Missaukee
3mm ion in Class. Sire b will) ID was???
as 0 same —

mg ax; “Red Rose" and Missaukee Sally Celsss
ding in G. G. Price for quick sale $160. 00.

Buy type and action.
In. ShiiTH. Lake City. Michigan.

 

FOR SALE:

 

 

FOR SALE—REGISTERED GUERNSEY HEIF-
ennatreeso she prices. also choice bull eelvesot

Hay" Rose breeéling ng.
.w. WIG MAN. Lansing. men" Box 62.

 

 

OR SALE: ROEOGISTERED GUERNSEY BULL
calvesE for 383553.11 f
.A. BLACK. Howard, c ty, Michigan.

 

SHORTHORNS

YOUR CHOICE OF MY ENTIRE HERD“ OF
Shorthorns several heifers, and young bullsi
bunch. Also cows and chives. Priced at fifteen
cgngn per ts pound. One percheron mare. Priced
s. can

R.G . PALelrlglg. R. 4. Balding. Michigan

 

 

REGISTERED MILKING SHORTHORN CATTLE,
Shropshire and Dclsine sheep. Stock and prices

Write wants. Also our land feeding cattle.
CLOVER CREST RANCH. Towns City, R3. Mich.

 

RAISE SHORTHORNS

‘Like Kelley dues. U. San

28945. For description
L0. KELLY a SON, glymouth. Michigan.

WITHOUT HORNB
dAccredited tens“! No.

 

F O R 8‘ L E: SEVERAL REGISTERED
Shortborn 8Cattle. '

Tuber-culm- . quire
PIPER & GOODALE. East Tam. Michigan.

 

Foiled snot-thorn Bu iis. Some ready for Service.
Heifersltodmos. 031d. 0. LC. andC. W.
been. Frank artiett. Dryden. lien.

 

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JERSEYS

 

EG. JERSEYS. POGIB 88!!! OF “is! F. MD
slack Herd
accredited by State and.n Federal Government.
visit. for prices description.
000' O. WILBU R. BEIJING. Mich.

 

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R0 ose Breeding.

 

FOR DALE—REGISTERED Amflrlll
and bull calm boilers and ulna

echelo- cows.
FINDLAY 3308.. R I. Vassar. Moll.

 

 

 

GRANDRIVER

 

 

 

SECOND ANNUAL SALE

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“NEWMAN

Thursday, September 27th

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STOCK FARMS

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOISTEIN TOURS WELL AT-
TENDED
the dust had settled sway
’ the Holstein Tours staged by
the county agents, Dairy De-
partment, M. A. 0., and the State

  

Holstein Association had covered

twenty-two counties, visiting 13.1
farms and the number of breeders
who toured totaled .661. In addition
to this attendance there was held a
noon meeting in Clinton county in
connection with the Looking Glass
Farmers' Club with a point gather-
ing of 200, and a night meeting in
Livingston county at the lake on the
Brouse Farm where 300 Holstein
enthusiasts took in the bathing,
boating. movies and program. So
well over 1,000 breeders were reach-
ed.

High honors for attendance and
interesting program lay between
Kent, Clinton and Livingston coun-
ties.

The Grand Round-up at the farm
of D. D. Aitken, Flint, was indeed a
success. Over 360 breeders were
in attendance, coming from practic-
ally every nearby county. The edltr
or of Hoard’s Dairyman, A. J. Gllov-
or, was the principal speaker of the
afternoon. Other imported talent
included Fred Koeing, Director of
Extension for the National Holstein
Association and W. B. Barney, the
first Holstein breeder west of the
Mississippi. The surprise of the oc-
casion came when following a. gift to
Mr. Atken of a silver loving cup
from Genesee neighbors the costly
set of True Type models of the breed
were presented to him by Holstein
cattle breeders of Michigan—J. G.
Hays, Ext. Spec. for ‘Mich. State
Holstein Ass’n. and Dairy Dept, M.
A. C.

CATTLE SALE AT WEST MICH-
IGAN FAIR

N Thursday, September 20th,

about thiry cows with cow test-

ing association records of 300

pounds of butterfat or better will be

sold at the West Michigan Fair,
Grand Rapids, Michigan.

This fair is unique In the history
of Michigan Dairy Cattle Sales. It
is the first effort that is being made
to sell, at public sale, cows an a
straight cow testing association has-
is. Very much interest in evident
thruout the cow testing association
area of Michigan.

The requirements for entry in this
sale is a year's record in a. Michigan
cow testing association. The record
must be three hundred pounds of
butterfat or better, the cow to be T.
B. tested, and definite information
will be given concerning the total
feed consumed, the value of her pro-
duct, and the returns above cost of
feed remaining to the owner. Both
purebred and grade cows will be in-
eluded in this sale. Farmers will be
able to buy, at their own prices, cowa
on a definiee basis of actual dollars
and cents returned for feed consum-
ed by each cow.

Considerable interest is evident in
a number of associations to make
entry in to this sale. The Fair man-
agement at Grand Rapids is offering
free stall space, bedding and feed,
and additionally is furnishing a
high—class auctioneer free of charge.
With sixtyme cow testing associa-
tions in Michigan totaling about
eighteen thousand dairy cows and
represenflng eighteen hundred cow
tasting association members, it can
readily be understood that a. great
mnnher of men appreciate the value
of a cow testing association record
on a. cow. Hence the sale value,
while no record prices are expected,
will no doubt hold up with some of
the best sales held in Michigan dur-
ing the past months.

Therecordsofthecowsenteredin
thlssalewillbewerifiedhyannmber
of the Dairy Extension Department,
M. A. C.——A. C, Baltser, Extension
Specialist in Dairying. ' ,

 

NEW venture in livestock im-.

provement workJs the proposed
pure bred sire sale which is be-
ing promoted by the Ionic County
Farm Bureau. The sale is to be

'the species will not take part.

. but it is more sure of reward, espec-

.312, which would about pay fora

vwill not only feed the dairy herd but
all other stock on the place includn
" besides colts, horses and mules, it in

held September 22nd in tile splendid.

   

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pass! of Ionic county farmers f

the National Bulk of Ionic. . -- " ” F .

The idea is believed to be a. new I

one, and credit for it is given to B. I “
F. Hall, of Balding. On his sugges— ..
tion the Ionia County Farm Bureau -

is featuring the sale, the first of its . ,

kind, and is expected that it will ~ -
lead the way to other sales of a sim-‘ ./ ,
liar nature that will result in great / ,'
benefit to the live stock industry. /

According to County Agent R. L./
Helm, the proposed sale is novel and
has the peculiar feature of being the
first sale of the kind ever attempted
in the state. It is to be a sire sale
exclusively. There are no “equal
rights” about it. The females (if

The plan briefly is this: Only
sires are to be sold. Two to four
good registered male animals of all .
breeds of dairy cattle, beef cattle,
hogs and sheep beingraMd in the
county are to be consigned by the
various breeders and breed associa-
tions and sold at auction at this
sale.

It is behaved that most of those ,
who come to this sale to buy will be I
farmers of lords and adjoining f
counties who are in the market for '
good pure bred males to improve I
their grade herds and flocks, and the
purpose of this sale is to oiler them |
an opportunity to get this kind of a. '
male at an auction where prices are
sure to be right. The movement will
ultimately, it is declared, result in
great improvement to, the grade ,
herds of Ionic county farmers by the -
more general use of pure bred sires.

The details of the sale are being
arranged as rapidly as possible, Mr. ,

Helm states, and nearly all of the .—
consignments it is possible to handle

have been made. The services of

Col. J. P. Hutton, of Lansing, have

been secured for the sale.

 

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THE 8110 ON THE RENTED
FARM
ENTED farms are on the in-
crease, according to the U. S.
Department of Agriculture. In
some states they represent nearly
fifty per cent of the holdings. The
land owner as well as the tenant is
interested in making the farm pay, ,
and it is well worth while to consld- !
er factors which cater to a depend— I
able revenue from the land. .-

A silo on a rented farm not only
makes it more attractive to a good .
renter but also encourages a longer
period of renting, and all land own- '
ers know it is better to keep a good I
tenant for a term of years than to
experiment by changing each year.
Farm renting naturally favors crop
farming, which is not only hasard- ‘
one but tends to deplete soil tertil—.
ity and fails to build up the land.
General or stock farming requires
more working hours of the tenant,

ially it a good herd of milking cows 1
is a part of the equipment. A'rent-
or who is willing to care for live
stock should be encouraged, and the ,
land owner will find a silo is one of
the main factors toward populariz-
ing stock farming and making it
pay.

.A Minnesota farmer, Mr. Patchen
by name. recently reported to a farm
paper an' interesting comparison be. ,
tween a farm having a silo and one ‘
without suth equipment Mr. Patch
on has a herd of Jersey cows and
keeps careful record of each animal.
He found on his rented term with a.
silo that the average annual produc-
tion was 325 lbs. of butterfat oper
cow. The next year on a. farm not I
having. a silo he was only able to '
get 260 lbs. or butterfat per cow. ‘
The third year be occupied a farm 5
with a silo and increased the annual
butterfat per cow 65 lbs.. The silo
gave this farmer an increase that
represented a good profit. and with
a. herd of twelve cows and butterfat
at 40¢: per pound it would equal

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ERS PLEASE MENTION THE
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

 

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Freight charges prepaid in
full on all orders of roofing from this
advertisemerrtatpfices showntolllinois,
Minnesota. . uri, Iowa, New ork
and Pennsylvania. Ifyoursmteisnotin-
eluded. proportionate ‘ es in
freight charges will be'ellowed.

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corn which has been grown can be
saved, even when injured by hall
or trust. .The silo. saves labor in
feeding, and furnishes a food which
stimulates growth and milk produc-
tion. It makes possible to carry
more stock on the farm and saves
much expensive grain feeding. It
will encourage and “keep the best
tenant on the farm which means
profit to both land owner and rent-
er.—A. L. Haecker.

VETERINARY
, DEPARTMENT

 

 

 

 

 

LEGS GIVE OUT

I have a yearling ewe that is
heavy with lamb and there is some-
thing wrong with her and I cannot
find out what it is. She seems in
good health, eats good and moves
spry for a few minutes then acts as
though her legs gave out and lies
down. .Bowels and kidneys seem al-
right. Can you tell me what is
wrong with her and what to do for
her?”——~S. A. M., Mancelona, Mich.

-—I think the trouble with the ewe
is due to her being heavy with lamb.
Trouble like this sometimes occurs
in ewes late in the gestation period,
the cause has nevet been definately
determined. The trouble generally
disappears when the ewe lambs.—
John P. Hutton, Assoc. Prof. of
Med. and Burg” M. A. C,

PWN LABOR MAY SOLVE
GOOD ROADS RIDDLE

(Continued from Page 4)

work on highway construction and
their labor is proving eflicient and
most satisfactory.
The Human Side

We have mentioned the value of
this plan to the individual convict.
and this must not be lost sight of in
the consideration of the use of con—
victs in highway construction. We
would be less than human if we did
.not consider the rights of the indi-
vidual who'is confined for some mis-

The purpose of a prison and the
purpose of prison confinement is to
reconstruct the individual Whose
misdeeds are all too often the result
of the degenerated physical body
which preys on his mental processes.
It is “undoubtedly true that with
fresh—air, wholesome food, the en-
vironment of the great out doors,
the sence of accomplishing some—
thing for the good of society or of
paying a penance, as it were, by
creating something which all people
may enjoy, all these things must
have their mental and physical effect
on the individual convict. To know
that he is earning $1.25 a day is be-
ing credited to him for the day when
he leaves the prison, must give him
a feeling of accomplishing some-
thing for himself and remove from
him the hopeless feeling that must
come over the prisoner who sits
alone within the confines of a prison
cell and hopelessly views the future.
Communities Praise Work

The people in the communities
where prison camps are being oper-
ated express themselves as not only
highly pleased with the type of work
being done, but with the conduct of
the men who are employed in the
camps having given them no cause
for complaint.

At Grand Blanc the motion pic-
ture theatre owner invited the pris-
oners in for an evening of entertain-
ment and the churches in that vil-
lage have entered into the spirit and
are doing all possible for the com—

. _ , on 15k.- :
~. ,suranee tor a tense, crop." Any

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Simplystir the powder in a mmwmuiitisreadytor brush «sprayer—v
no waiting or straining. Does not clog sprayer. Won’t peel orflake.

The gowerful disinfectant does not evaporate but kee its strength on the
walls. arbolawillnot spoil eveninwaterandmaybe mndinginpail
to be used as wanted. One pound covers about 100 square met.

Results Are Sure and Certain

. Carbola is neither poisonous nor caustic—harm to the smallat chick or

stock that licks a painted surface. It gives walls and ceilings a smooth, white
finish, increases the light, improves the appearance, and helps make buildings
clean, sweet-smelling and free from mites and contagious disease germs. There
1s nothing better than Carbols ior dag? poultry houses, cellars, dog kennels,

rabbit hutches, tree trunks,

Ithasbeenusedior bymorethan 100,000dairyand poultry farmers
and by agricultural and experhneni stations. We have a big file of
letters from farmers and storekeepers praising it. Give it a trial—you will
never regret it.

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For Prices Write
A. F. LONG-FRI. Curran, Mlchlqan.

 
      
       
  

 
 

 

 

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IE HAVE SOME FINE YOUNG ANGUS BULLS

from International Grand Champion Stock at

reasonable prices. E. H. KERR a 00., Addison.
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WEST MARION OXFORDS. 25 YEARS
Breeding. The best stock for sale. Both sex.
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For Sale-- Fox, Coon & Rabbit Hound 1

JOHN ATCHISOH. Harrisvflle. Mich. R. 3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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and write us for new supply. Dr. L. D. LeGnr Medicine 00.. St: Louis, Mo.

I want every poultry raiser to use
flnlefiears Peultry Prescription
for melting hens, ten days free!

Your hens are It? purifies the ens the appetite!
right in. the moIt. blood! - It keeps
You won’t get: the. bowels open!

, eggs untilifs over. It Improves the
Hurry it 1‘ gh. whole digestlve
Ge t them I g.» system! It: sharp-
You can do it— 23., 800 :ngoglfla“.'o. m:
with special care.

373:). cruises-”3:331
800mm guuudoed ormonoy
Add pne table-
spoonful of my
Prescription in
mash feed, for 20
hens, every day.
It will put your
hens in condition
to offset the strain
of the molt, and
get them laying.

It’s my own Pre-
scription from my
30 years’ poultry
experience. \

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your 112 o I tin g
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IMPORTANT! Ask at
store about my Poultry
Course without cost to
users of my Remedies.

Go to my dealer in
your town. He will
give you my sample
package free.

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the size package

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lTMIEghorns and Anconns. Reasmmhle prices.

POULTRY BREEDER’S .. ., _.
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Bufl‘ Rock Cohail'lens. Oki's and Pullets, big,
Advertisements inserted under
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mums OF WHEAT AS POULTRY
FEED

H the price of wheat in sev-
eral states lower than, or
about equal to, the price of

corn, poultry specialists in the
United States Department of Agri-
culture point out the desirability of
giving wheat an important place in
poultry rations. The influence of
war—time conservation of wheat is
still evident, according to specialists
of, the department, but there are no
longer any economic reasons for
conserving wheat or using it solely
as a. human food. On the other
hand, it is so plentiful and cheap in
many localities that it is a more
economical livestock and poultry
feed than corn.

Corn and Wheat are the best
grains for poultry and are about
equal in value for this purpose, al-
though wheat can be fed alone better
than corn, which is inclined to be
fattening. Best results are obtained
when wheat and corn are combined
about equally in egg-laying rations.
Following is a. good scratch mixture:
1 pound cracked corn, 1 pound
wheat, 1 pound oats.

While wheat is an excellent feed
for dairy cows and meat animals. it
needs to be ground for best results
with such stick, whereas poultry rel-
ish it and utilize it as whole grain.

The department points out also
that wheat at 89 cents per bushel,
which was the approximate current
price recently in seven Middle West-
ern States, is $29.66 per ton, which
is a lower price than prevails for
various other feeds having no great-
er nutritive value. The depart-
ment’s recommendations for putting
wheat back on a pre—war basis as a
stock feed are reinforced by action
already taken by some farmers. A
cooperative association of Michigan
farmers recently published a list of
feeds for which wheat could be eco—
nomically substituted. This associ—
ation contends that the local wheat
market was below the cost of pro-
duction and that local wheat would
bring more ~when fed to livestock
than when sold on the open market.

POULTRY FARMER’S BUSINESS
IN NEED OF STANDARDIZATION

HE farmer has always been a
T poultryman. The fowl is more at
home on a farm than in any
other place in the world. There isn’t
a single feature about the poultry
business that does not make it pecul-
iarly adaptable to the farm life. The
hen is native to the open country
and always has been.

There is a good reason for this.

There is no place in the world
Where the opportunities are more
abundant and inviting for poultry
culture than on the farm. The
broad open fields, the largeness of
room for houses and yards, the
limitless chances for the production
of everything that is needed for the
feeding and the care of birds—
everything in faét appears to invite
the man of the soil to engage in this
great business of raising fowls on a
large scale. These statements will
surely not be doubted nor disputed.

There is need of standardization
of the farmer’ s poultry business.

What do I mean? This is my that
——there are too many farmers who
are conducting the poultry end of
their calling in practically the same
old way as it was done on the aver-
age farm a hundred years ago. They
may keep more hens; but they are
not down to date in their methods.

Standardization means reducing
your business to a system or stand-
ard corresponding to the best science
that has been discovered for that
particular work. Its the average for-
mer doing this? Is he adopting the
most efficient means and methods
fdr getting the largest profits out of
a flock of 250 hens? I believe we
must all admit that there is still
much for the average farmer to do
in this respect.

Many are coming along in fine
form. But there is still a feeling
that the keeping of hens is rather a
trifling side line. unworthy of the
sedious attention of the men orrthe
ranch.” Accordingly, either the wo~

.Pittsford Mich.

men have to take care of. the birds
and raise the chicks and market the
eggs or that whole department of the
farm job gbes by default.

This ought not so to be. I know

apparently very inteligent farmers,

Who have been declaring for the
last five years that the poultry busi-
ness “is being overdone " and that
the bottom will all fall out of it
f‘next year.’.’ But each season these
men have seen thousands of other
people making fine little fortunes
from their hen yards While they
themselves have continued to scrape
along milking cows and raising corn
and potatoes at what they declare to
be a loss. Why not try losing along
some other line?

Many farmers are on this job; but
I insist there are too many Who are
not making the best of a good thing.
They need not only information, but.
inspiration. They need to come more
down to date in hatching and hous-
ing, in caretaking and in marketing.

WEST MICHIGAN FAIR TO BE
BEST EVER

AKING farming pay! That in

short, is the slogan of the of-

ficials who are behind the big

educational program which will be

presented at the coming West Mich-

igan State Fair, Grand Rapids, Sep-
tember 17 and 21.

A visit to the fair Will be like
taking a short course at an agricul-
tural college. It will give visitors
many new “ideas. The farmer, who
is anxious to keep in step with the
progress that is being made in agri-
cultural and five stock breeding,
will find much of interest to him. He
will have a chance to study the var-
ious exhibits, make comparisons,
and learn ways of improving his own
crops and livestock.

One of the most interesting de-
partments of the fair will be the
machinery Show. Machines of many
different types, that will perform

every conceivable task on the farm,

will be exhibited. Factory experts
will be on hand to explain their
workings and tell exactly how much
man—power each machine will re—
place.

The livestock show, with hund-
reds of head of fine cattle, sheep,
swine and horses, valued at thou-
sands of dollars, will be one of the
show places on the grounds. Prem-
iums totaling $18,000 will be award-
ed to the owners of prize winning
animals.

The West Michigan Fair this year
will be the best ever staged accord—
ing to Secretary L. A. Lily. Both
the educational and entertainment
ends of the program will be of the
very highest standard.

NEW POULTRY COURSE COMPLETED
BY NOTED EXPERT

R L. D. LE GEAR, V. S. of St. Louis.
D has just completed an extensive

Poultry Course of 12 volumes and
33 lessons, in which he has given the
practical knowledge of his 30 years of
poultry raising experience.

Dr. LeGear is known throughout the
United States as a National Poultry Ex-
pert. and it is the practical handling
of the back yard flock that Dr. LeGear
particularly covers in his Poultry Course
studies.

Volume No. 12 of Dr. LeGear-‘s Course
is of particular interest at this time be-
cause it covers every phase of the molt-
ing period and gives complete instruc-
tions on how to get hens back to egg
laying quickly

This complete Poultry Course is not
for sale but it being offered by Dr. Le-
Gear without cost to users of his rem-
edies. These volumes can be secured
through any store where Dr. LeGear
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each month, enables the farmer to seethe position of the important factors which

indicate the trend of business and prices and give a basis for judgment concerning

future agricultural operations.

PRODUCTION AND TRADE:

August forecasts indicate a yield of wheat 8 per cent less than last year.

Corn remains the same. Potatoes show a decline of 16 per cent.
Cleanse of 17 per cent. The commercial apple crop promises an output 6 per cent

greater than last season and peaches 17 per cent less.
year average for eighteen crops may be noted in the

Industrial production is continuing at a high rate.

Cotton an in-

Comparisons with the five
accompanying table.
In the first seven months

lot 1923 the output of automobiles almost equaled the output for the record year
1922. Total production for this year promises to be four million cars which is
about one-third of the automobiles in use at the beginning of the year.

Building expenditures, the first six months of 1923, have been 32 per cent

more than for the corresponding period in 1922.

Prices of building materials

during this period averaged 24 per cent higher than the same months last year.

Freight car loadings are at high levels except for grain and grain products.
Railroads have added to their equipment and are meeting the demands made upon

them without the congestion of a year ago.

Mail order sales, January to July this year, are 37 per cent above the same

months in 1922.

I. Production and Trade.

I. Agriculture: U. S. Production—000,000 omitted.

August, 1923 Average, 1923‘
' Forecast 1922 1917-1921 Per Cent
Winter wheat. bu. . . . . . . . 568 586 590 96
Spring wheat, bu. . . . . . . . . 225 276 245 92
All wheat, bu. . . . . . . . . . . . 793 862 835 95
Corn. bu. 2982 2891 2931 102
Oats. bu. ................ 1316 1201 1378 96
Barley, bu. 202 186 192 105
Rye, bu. 64.8 95.5 70.3 92
Buckwheat. bu. 13.5 15 14.9 91
White potatoes, bu. . . . . . . 380 451 388 98
Sweet potatoes, bu. . . . . . . 93. 1 110 94 .3 99
Tobacco. lbs. .. .......... 1474 1325 1361 108
I'lmeed, bu. 19.1 11.7 9 7 197
Rice, bu. 32.9 42 41 80
Hay, tame. tons 81.3 96.7 83.3 98
Hay, wild, tons 16.0 16.1 16.2 99
Cotton, bales 11.5 9.8 11.2 103
Sugar beets, tons 6.5 5.2 6.9 94
Apples, total, bu. . . . . . . . . . 188 201 160 118
Apples. ' com’l, bbl. . . . . . . . . 32. 9 31 25.7 128
Peaches, bu. 47.3 56.7 42.7 111
Peanuts. lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . 684 624 1025‘ 67
Grain sorghums, bu. . . . . . 113 90.4 103 110
‘ As per cent of average of 1917-1921.
2. Mining (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) :
Figures express production as a percent of normal. In esti-

mating normal production, due allowance ‘is made for seasonal
variation and year to year growth.

June, 1923 May, 1923 June, 1922
98 98 1
................ 109 114 43

Anthracite coal
Bituminous coal

8. Manufacturing (Federal Reserve Bank of New York):

Wheat flour ............ . ..... . 107 113 104
Most . . ............... .... 120 112
Sugar . . . ...... ............... 79 118 135
Cotton . . ............... ...... 96 108 92
Wool . . ’ ...¢ 118 no
Pig iron 122 124 79
Steel ingots . . 114 122 82‘
Copper . 97p 95 75
Gasoline . . ..... .. ..... ‘ 108 101
Cement . . ... 128 133 120
Wood pulp . . .......... ..... . ..... ‘ , 120 110
Lumber . . ... 125 91
Tobacco . . ... 93 97
Automobile . . ............. 159 150 ..."
‘Not available; 1), preliminary.
4. Building Expenditures (Bradstroets):
(000,000 omitted)
Percent
1923 1922 Increase
lsnuary to June, six months.....$1,625 $1,239 31.0
duly, 160 cities ................. 202 193 4.5
I. Transportation (000 omitted):
Week Same Same Week
Ending Week Week Ending
Aug. 4, Month Year Aug. 4,
Freight car loadings: 1923 Ago Ago 1923‘
Total . ‘. ............. ....1,033 855 843 123
Grain and grain products.. 53 81 58 91
Livestock . . ............. 31 25 26 119
Coal. . .................. 191 160 79 242
Coke . ................. '13 14 8 163
l'orest Products . . ....... 76 54 55 138
Ore .. 84 76 67 125
Merchandise . . 240 209 228 105
Miscellaneous . . .. ..... .. 345 287 320 108
‘ As percentage of week year ago.
0. Employment:
July. June. July.
1923 1923 1922
Out of 04 Industrial centers emplovmmt:
Increased over previous month ln........ 37 81 43
Decreased over previous month 111......" 87 88 81

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Total exports in dollars for the twelve months ending June, 1923, were 5

per cent over the previous year while imports jumped 45 per cent.

Pork exports,

in volume, were 18 percent greater this year; wheat exports were 20 per cent
less; cotton 22 per cent less; tobacco practically the same.

European money with the exception of England, Holland and Sweden, is
quoted lower than last year.

III.

MONEY AND CREDIT:

Interest rates on four to six months commercial paper have made a steady
advance since the low point of 4.25% in July, 1922, the rate now standing at
The rate in August, 1920, at the beginning of the depression, was

5.19%.
8.25%.

IV. PRICES:
The latest figure on farm purchasing power, as published by the United

State Department of Agriculture, is 71 compared with 72 for a year ago.

For

the first half of 1923 the figure averaged 69 compared with 72 for the same
period last year.

Prices of many products are improving.
Wool is holding even.

than a year ago.
Corn is 25 cents higher.
the same price as for the corresponding date a year previous.' Cotton is 3 cents
Potatoes have taken a big jump.

higher.

Cattle, hogs and lambs are higher
Dairy and poultry products are stronger.
Wheat, although below the average for last year, is

Out of 25 commodities 17 are above a year ago; 5 are below and 2 remain

unchanged. Compared with last month, 17 are higher and 7 lower.

 

II. Foreign Trade.

7. Bank Debits:
Units of $1,000,000,000
July, 1923 June, 1923 July, 1922
New York City .............$18.32 $21.04 $19.71
Outside bank debits . . . . . . . . . 18.18 19.53 16.34
8. Mail Order Sales: Seven Months Ending
July July

Montgomery 1923 1922

1922 1 23
Ward & Co...$ 7,491,908 $ 5,110,163 3 71,928,658 $ 46,910,634

Sears Roebuck” 14,960,939 12,244,961 121,737,196 94,748,186

Twelve Months Ending

III. Money and Credit.

l. Gold, Currency and Bank Deposits (000,000 omitted):

July 1, June 1,
1923 1923
Stocks of monetary gold in the
United States . . ..............$ 4,049 8 4,023
Total supply of currency in the
United States . . .............. 4,730 4,706
April 3, Dec. 29,
1923 192
Total deposits in National Banks..$17,036 $17,420

June, 1923 June, 1922 1923
Exports of gold ........$ 548 $1,600 8 49,021
Imports of gold ...... 19,433 12,968 284,089
3. Federal Reserve Ratio: Aug. 18, July 11,
1923 1923
Ratio of total reserves to deposits
and Federal Reserve note liabil-
W. . .A ... 77.3% 75.4% ~
4. Interest Rates: July, June,
.. ... ...... :73. .1739
paper............ . . 2 0
00-90 days commonest paper....--.. 4.94% 4.88%

June June
Commodity: 1923 1922 ' 1923 1922
Grand total, all exports. .8312,239 $327,639 $3,886,550 $3,699,909
Beef and veal, bs ........ 2,319 2,760 28,262 30,768
Pork. lbs. . 65,921 60,897 814,665 683,875
Lard. lbs. . . ........ . . . . 04,605 57,249 952,642 812,379
Neutral lard, lbs. ...... . 1,182 1,708 26,494 19,573
Butter, lbs. . ........ . . . 460 1,104 9.410 7,512
Cheese, lbs. . . .......... 372 447 8,446 7,471
Hides and skins. . . . . . . . . .3 294 410 3,496 4,573
Corn, bu. ......... . . . . . . 1,918 11,646 94,064 176,386
Meal and flour, bbls. . . . . . 51 634 776
Wheat, bu. ........ . . . . 9,252 14,006 154,951 208,321
Wheat flour, bbls ........ . 806 932 14,883 15,797
Oats, bu. ............... 100 6,727 18,574 15,987
Oatmeal, rolled oats, lbs. 10,377 11,650 123,115 94,491
Fruits and nuts. . . . . ..... 3,449 3,141 72,665 66,629
Vegetable oils, fats. . . . . 3 655 786 12,732 13,446
Sugar, lbs ....... .. .... . 70,938 367,564 749,855 2,002,038
Leaf tobacco. lbs. . . . . . . . 49,730 30,324 445,186 451,888
Cotton. bales . . .. 215 491 5,066 6,542
Wool, lbs. . . . . . ..... . . . . 1,040 717 7,320 5,118
2. Imports:
Grand total, all imports. $320,257 $ 260,461 $3,781,259 $2,608.079
Beef and veal, lbs ....... 1,058 3,143 32,481 28,001
Pork, lbs. ............. 71 27 998 930
Butter, lbs. . . . . ....... 2,933 80 15,772 9,551
Cheese, lbs. ............ 7,075 4,471 54,555 34,271
. Hides and skins . . . . . . .$ 13,434 8,220 140,392 78,899
Corn, bu. . . . . . . ........ 21 5 138 125
Wheat, bu. . 1,610 18,013 14,466
Flour, bbls. . . . . . . 64 429 619
Oats, bu. '127 293 1,733
Fruits and nuts 6,503 . 70,563 80,431
Vegetable oils, 5,176 64,479 55,028
Sugar, lbs. ......... 1,030,129 8,422,483 8,464,329
Leaf tobacco, lbs. 4,7 73,794 65,225
Cotton, bales . . . . . . . .. . 14 13 494 375
Wool, lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,129 16,940 525,473 255,087
3. Prices of Foreign Drafts: Price of Demand Drafts
Nominal Gold Value Aug. 20, July 23, Aug. 21,
Par of Exchange 1923 1923 1922
England . . . . . .3487 to 1 £ sterling ”$4.54 $4.59 $4.48
France . . . . . . . .19.30 to 1 franc . . . 5.550 5.990 7.980
Germany . . . . . .23.80 to 1 mark . . . . . .0000140 .00020 .090
Belgium .. . . . . .19.3c to 1 franc . . 4.430 4.970 7.580
Italy ........ .19.3c to 1 lire . . 4.300 4.3750 4.530
Spain .. . . . . . . .19.3c to 1 peseta . . 13.450 14.310 15.640
Austria . . . . . . 20.30 to 1 crown . .0014c .0014c
Denmark .. . . . .26.8c to 1 cmwn 17.500 21.630
Norway . . . . . .26.80 to 1 crown . 16.240 17.430
Sweden . . . .. .26.80 to 101-own . . . . . .26.590 26.650 26.510
Holland . . . . . .4020 to 1 florin . . . . .39.310 39.210 38.930
Argentine . . . .42.50 to 1 peso . . . . . .32.600 34.150 36.380
Brazil . . ... . .32.40 to 1milrels . . . .10.000 10.350 13.450
India . . ......48.70 to lrupee . . ...30.300 30.800 29.130
Japan . . . . . . .4990 to 1 yen . . . . . . .48.880 48.700 47.800
Canada . . . . . .1000 to 1 dollar . . . .97.750 97.440 99.8760
4. Discount Rate of the Bank of England:
Aug. 15, 1923 Month Ago Year Ago
4% 4% 3%

July 1,
1922

8 3,786

4,374
Mar. 10,
1

$15,390

Twelve months ending June

1922
8 23,345
468,318

Aug. 16,
1922

80.2%

July,
1922

5. Discount Rate of Federal Reserve Banks:
Aug. 1, July 1,’ Aug. 1.
Range of rates for the twelve 1923 1923 1922
banks on commercial, agricultural
and livestock paper . . . . . . . ...... 41/2-5% 4%-5% 44%
6. Stock and Bond Prices: Aug. 9, July 6,_ Aug. 11.
1923 1923 1922
20 Industrial stocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389,11 $88.65 $97.06
20 Railroad stocks . ... ......... 78.11 77.99 89.32
40 Bonds . . ................ ...... 87.31 86.47 91.14

—Week Ending
Aug. 9, 1923 July 5, 1923 Aug. 10, 1922
296 268 368

 

7. Business Failures:

Bradstreete . . ........ ......
Duns . . ... 268 241 402
IV. Prices.
I. Wholesale Prices of Farm Commodities:
Quotations at Chicago except as noted.
Aug. 21, Month Year
1923 Ago Ago

Fat hogs, cwt., average ............ 8 8.15 8 7.20 8 8.00
Beef steers, good native, cwt., av... 10.75 9.65 9.50
Fat lambs, cwt., average ............ 13.00 13.25 12.80
Fat sheep. cwt., average ............ 6.75 5.75 6.75
Wool, Ohio delaine unwashed, 1b.... .54 .56 .55
Butter, 92 score, lb. .............. .44 .395 .34
Cheese, No. 1 twins, lb ............. .2375 .2175 .19
Egg, fresh firsts, doz. ....... .2575 .23 .2275
Poultry, hens, lb. ........... . .23 .2025 .225
Wheat, No. 2 hard, bu. .. ......... . 1.04 1.00 1.035
Corn, No. 2 mixed, bu. .90 .89 .6225
Oats, No. 2 white, bu .............. .405 .4325 .33
Rye, No. 2, bu .................... .66 .655 .695
Barley, bu. ....................... .62 .66 .545
Kaflr, No. 2 white, cwt. (K. C.).... 1.565 1.505 1.64
Hay, N0. 1 timothy, ton ............ 28.00 23.50 22.50
Flax, No. 1, bu. (at Minneapolis) 2.32 2.725 2.225
Cotton, middling, lb. (New York).... .2575 .2465 .228.
Beans, white, cwt. (f. o. b. Michigan) 5.60 5.20 8.25
Potatoes, cobblers, cwt ............. 2.35 1.35 1.50
Onions, Washington yellows, cwt.... 2.35 3.05 2.35
Apples, summer varieties, bu ........ 1.35 1.25 .85
Hides, No. 1 native. heavy, lb ...... .1475 .15 .20
Sugar, flne granulated, 1b. (N. Y.).. .0755 .087 .07

2. U. S. Department of Labor Relative Wholesale Prices:

Prices in year 1913 equal 100.

' July, 1923 June, 1923 July, 1922
All commodities (weighed average

or general price level) ........... 151 153 155
Farm products ................... 135 138 135
Food products . . ................. 141 142 142
Cloths and clothing .............. 193 198 180
Fuel and lighting ................ 183 186 254
Metals and metal products ........ 145 148 121
Building materials ............... 190 194 170
Chemicals and drugs . . .......... 128 131 121
House furnishing goods............ 187 187 173
Miscellaneous . . . ..... ..... 121 123 114

3. Prices of Farm Products at the Farm Relative to ma:
(U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics)
Prices in year 1913 equal 100.

Commodity: June, 1923 May, 1923 June, 1921
2 207 l 4

Cotton. . ............. ........ 11 6
Corn . . 146 143 105
Wheat . . ..... 121 136 131
Hay . . 106 118 108
Potatoes . . .. . 129 119 160
Beef Cattle ......... ....... ...... 99 98 99
Hogs. . ....... 85 95 122
Eggs . . . .. ..... 108 113 106
Butter . . 138 143 121
Wool . . . .. ..... . ...... 248 250 196

 

4. Relative Purchasing Power of Farm Products:
(U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics)

The quantity of various commodities which a given amount of
each farm product would purchase at prices prevailing in 1913 II
put equal to 100. The figures given represent the percentage of
this quantity which the same amount of farm products would
purchase in June, 1922. Prices at the farm are used for agricul-
tural products, and wholesale prices at central markets for other
commodities.

glldCtou: Clotths. Bartel, Metals, Building House
0 l 16 e c. e 0. etc. '
Cotton . . . 138 107 .113 142 iiiii “1’6"
Corn . .. 95 74 78 99 75 78
\Vheat 79 61 65 82 62 65
Hay . . 69 54 57 72 55 57
Potato . 84 65 69 87 67 69
Beef cattle. 65 50 53 67 51 53
Hogs . . . 56 43 46 57 44 45
Eggs . . 71 55 58 73 56 58
Butter . . . 90 70 74 93 71 74
Wool . . . 162 125 133 168 128 133

Average purchasing power of all farm products in terms of all

  
  

  

 

other commodities. Same basis as above table.

1913 ..... 100 December, 1921 6
1914 ....... .112 February. 1922 7i
1915 106 Hey.. 73
1916 89 September . . ..... .. 64
1917 106 December . . .. 08
1918 112 February, 1923 . ..... . 69
1919 11 rch . . 69
1920 86 April . .................. 70
1921 67 May . . ...............,. 7
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' Foors's' MARKET Lama
me w. w. room '

‘ Business Conditions Good
3 ARKETS are in good shape com-
pared with a few months ago
and business is reported better
from all industrial circles. It seems
that the mid-summer lull has passed
and there is a growing expansion of
consuming and purchasing power
everywhere. The population of the
United States has increased around
14,000,000 during the last ten years
and our yearly national income has
increased around $16,000,000,000
compared with ten years ago. The
total of our savings deposits has
grown from $6,000,000.000 to $14,-
000,000,000. The wide spread ap-
prehension which has prevailed
throughout all industries earlier in
the year. has given way to more con-
fidence andthe outlook for the re-
mainder of the period is more or less
optomistic. Foreign trade balances
«are much in our favor, railroads re-
port the heaviest volume of business
in history, stock markets have im-
proved materially within the last two
weeks, and everything points toward
further expansion and betterment of
all businesses.

A recent act producing much good
feeling in industrial‘ world was the
recognition of Mexico by the United
States. That apparently small coun-
try is virutally an undeveloped area
and there are vast resources of
wealth yet to be found.

The purchasing power of the agri-
cultural population continues to grow
as indicated by increasing sales of
those who cater to the rural districts.
With the exception of the one crop
man, the wheat raiser, most produc-
ers are reporting favorably as to
their year’s work. The cotton plant-
er in the south has been hard hit
but he learned the lesson of diversi—
fied farming a few years ago and now
his condition is not so serious as the
specialized Wheat farmer. The cot—

ton industry as a whole however, is
of much concern to the United States
who for many years controlled the
world production of that staple pro-
duct. Reduction in this year’s crop
is so great there is possibility that
our country may lose the lead in
Eduction and Great Britian, who

long hoped to gain in that com-
modity is bending her efforts to lead
in the world production.

The coal strike has passed with-
out serious damage to business and

’peace generally exists in this coun-
:' try contrasted to the turmoil in
Europe and the great calamity which
1188 recently befallen the Japanese
people. Here, we are busily laying
Hip enormous sums of money for
[rainy days and still have immense
amounts to ‘send over to aid the J aps
{in their unfortunate predictment.
True it is, that there is a certain
class of farmers who have lost and
seldom ever gain much: According
’ to statements made by many bankers
from all over the country at a meet-
ing of the Land Banks Association
recently, the American farmer is en-
joying the best period in the history
of agriculture. It was estimated
.that the value of agricultural land
was $67,000,000,000 and the estimat-
ed value of this year’s crops was $8,-
500,00,000, which is not a bad re-
turn even when the cost of produc-
tion is deducted. More than 50 per
cent of the farms in America are
clear of debt and around 95 per cent
are in sound financial condition.
The Weather Factor
There has been much rainfall in
the corn belt states, and small grains
have been damaged considerably.
The corn crop is still growing and
there is a possibility of much of it
maturing late. Unless mild dry
weather comes soon, there will be
danger of early frosts. On the other
hand there are some localities which
’have suffered from long dry spells.
'There has been a drouth in the bean
growing areas of Michigan to such
an extent that the crop has been cut
in half. Inland potato growing sec-
tions have also been dry but along
the lake ”shore this crop has done
,well. Another pest which has caused
' Itch damage to the Michigan crops
t’ the grasshopper. Innumerable

 

MARKET

  

“*?fi"‘”
SUMMARY ’

Milling demand holds wheat firm. Moderate demand for

corn. Oats steady.

Rye quiet after decline.

Beans firm. An

oversupply of fruit on the market. and'prices are declining. Butter
and eggs steady to firm. ‘Pouitry not wanted. Cattle trade active.
Sheep higher in price. Hog trade active but prices lower.

 

(Note: The above summarized Information
tot page was set in type. It contains last minute
come to press_—Edltor.) ,

mu ‘molvod AFTER the balance of the more
Information \up to ,wlthln one-half hour of

 

 

of this foliage eating insect has in~
vaded certain regions and stripped
the trees and legumes of their foliage
leaving the country devastated and
driving many farmers from their
land. In the fruit growing sections
of the western part of the state.
crops are good but there is a short—
age of labor for harvesting the fruit.
Labor in the near by cities is so dear
that it is hard to find any one will-
ing to work on farms. The dairy
industry is rapidly growing in Michi-
gan and most dairy men are doing
business on a small scale which
eliminates the need of much help.

Wheat Situation

Eastern wheat farmers have not
experienced the great worry that
western wheat men have suffered.
Farming is more diversified in the
east and when one crop proves un-
profitable, others take its place.
Recently there has been an uncertain
trend in the wheat market and there
is no reason to believe that big ad-
vances will come nor is there reason
to think that prices will decline
sharply. The market fluctuates but
at present is still above the dollar
mark and some choice grades of cash
wheat are quoted from $1.10 to 1.16.
Reports from abroad have influenced
the market at times and there will
have to be an increase of foreign de~
mand to absorb the surplus of this
grain. The decrease in export busi-
ness is apt to more than offset the
reduction in this year's crop as com-
pared with last year. People who
have been abroad recently report
that very inch: of tillable soil is un—
der cultivation and crops are in ex-
ceptionally fine condition. Europe
will undoubtedly raise a great part
of what she will consume this year.
In this country farmers are storing
their wheat in enormous quantities
and are feeding and intend to feed
most of the low grade wheat. Mill—
ers of this country apparently are
aware of the fact that there will be
but a little over production, it any,
of choice wheat and they are now
willing to pay good big prices for
the best. An estimate of the 1923
wheat crop for countries north of the
equator, which produce around four
fifths of the world crop, was made
recently by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. As compared
with 2,566,510.000 in 1922 and 2.-
477.638.000 in 1921, this year’s crop
is estimated at 2,683,396,000 bus.
The increase is the result of wide
spread acreage in Europe and par-
ticularly France.

Corn markets at present are high
and are making up for lost profits
in wheat sections. Some of the best
corn is now quoted at 900. Oats
also show higher prices than a year
ago. An outstanding feature in the
whole grain situation is that coarse
grain values are higher than last
year while meat is about the same.

.This, 'in face of all bearish propa-

ganda, is surely surprising.
Meat Consumption

Consumption of dressed meat in
the United States has been tremend-
ous during the first half of this year
and undoubtedly will continue on the
gigantic scale for the rest of the
year and as long as people are work-
ing. According to figures published
by the research department of one
of the largest meat packers, domestic
consumption during the first six
months of this year totals 2,494,-
000,000 lbs. of beef and veal against
2,375,,000,000 lbs. during the same
period last year. The consumption
of mutton and lamb was 229,000,000
lbs. as compared with 209,000,000
lbs. the year previous and of pork,
3,330,000,000 lbs as compared with
2,633,000,000 lbs. during the corres-

m

ponding months in 1922. Pork con-
sumption increased 26 percent over
last year.. Pork prices have been
considerably lower taking the year
as a whole and like wise the price
on hogs. However, recent markets
on hogs have made money for the
farmer. This enormous consumption
of meat products indicates industrial
activity. .
- Live Stock Declines
During the last two weeks, live
stock values have suffered a-set back,
but most traders are firm in their
belief that the decline is but tem-
porary and with light receipts prices
on most stock will go higher. Most
severe turndowns were registered on
hogs and cattle. Today’s prices how-
ever are at money making levels and
still higher prices are looked for be—
fore the year is over. Choice light
weight hogs reached $9.75 early this
week, that being the highest of the
year. Strictly finished steers sold up
to $13.00 but closed with $12.85
taking the best. Fat lambs sold late
at $13.40 with choice feeding lambs
at $13.60. Producers have been
gambling on live stock recently pay-
ing very high pricesfor cattle to
take out for short feeding periods
and giving from 25 to 500 more for
lambs than killers were willing to
pay. At Chicago countrymen bought
fat steers of choice quality at $9.50
to 10.50 during the past week in-
tending to put the cattle in the feed
lots for two or three months and
bring them back in the fall and cash
them at high prices. ' This is a dan—
gerous game of chance but there -is
always someone who like the thrill.
The same condition exists at the
Missouri River markets and steers
have left that market for a short
feed in the country costing $10.00
and above. There has been a broad
country outlet for thin stock recently
and as a movement of western range
cattle comes into full swing, the
trade in stocker and feeder is ex-
pected to show further volume.

Shortfed cattle have been offered
on the market in large numbers late-
ly, While strictly finished beeves have
been comparatively scarce. Receipts
were too much for the needs of the
trade and declines were forced al—
most daily. During the last ten
days beef steers have been on a
downward trend and as compared
with the high time then, closing
values this week were from 75c to
$1.50 lower. Finished steers how-
ever, were in a class by themselves
and did not show more than 250 loss
during that time. Thousands of
cattle good enough for beef making
went for slaughhter at $8.50 to 12.00
with some thin, ill-bred steers going
as low as $6.50. Many western
rangers found killer outlet at $7.50
to $8.50 and to feeders at $7.00 to
$8.00. A few meaty western steers
found feeding outlet at $8.50 to 9.00.
Butcher stock also suffered in line
with steers although the best corn
fed offerings received the least de—
cline. Mostcows and heifers turned
within a spread of $4.25 to 6.50
with the best at $8.00 to 9.00. Can-
ners and cutter cows cleared largely
from $2.50 to 3.00 and good dairy
cows sold by the head from $60 to
90. Veal calves strengthened and
closed at $11.00 to 12.00 levels.
Bologna bulls found outlet mostly
within arspread‘of $4.25 to 4.60.

On closing sessions hogs showed a
little reaction from the low spots
when the best went at $9.00. Most
of the desirable light hogs sold late
at $3.75 to 9.10 with tops at $9.15.
Desirable medium weight hogs
cleared largely from $8.40 to 8.65
and heavy butchers went at $8.25
to 8.50. Rough, heavy packing sows
closed on a $7.00 basis for bottom,

 

  

 

and pigs also sold."
with the best around “$8.25. .

While the bulk of feeding ambit"?

.-went at $13.00 to’13.50 all week.

packers bought the best fat lambs. “

downward from $13.25 to 12.75
mostly.
fat lambs sold up to $13.40. 13qu
man lambs sold down to $11.00 with
culls as low as $9.00. Sheep values
dropped sharply. 75c to $1.50 on
heavy offerings. Even the best light
ewes were worth downward from
$7.00 and heavies cashed at $5.00
and under. These prices were the
lowest since last June. Slow de-
mand for heavy cuts of mutton were
responsible for the decided break in
sheep values.

 

WHEAT

The wheat market‘ continued
steady during the two weeks ending
Saturday, September Ist, and prices
advanced on some markets during
that period. Foreign news has been
of a bearish nature but demand at
home has been suflicient to keep the
market from weakening. The de-
mand has been mostly from the mill-
ers. Mills have been good buyers
ever since the crop started moving.
There were times that it was report-
ed that they were filled up but at no
time did it appear that they were
out of the market, and the demand
has been on the increase for some
time. The market at Detroit seems
to be in a very healthy condition.
Flour is moving freely for domestic
and foreign consumption. Good
wheat is not plentiful and farmers
are not inclined to sell readily, pre-
ferring to hold and see if prices will
not advance. The holding is being
done by both winter and spring
wheat growers. Friends of lower
prices are trying to use the large
Canadian crop to bear the market.
The American visiblesupply is very
large and the hedging of it taxes
the volume of. speculation quite se«
verely. The Canadian movement is
heavy and this Wheat is to a great
extent hedged in Chicago as fast as
it reaches the Lake Superior termin-
al elevators. Should the hedging be
as great as usual it is feared the of-
ferings may swamp Chicago and de-
moralize the whole North American
market. Some grades of. Canadian
wheat have already been marketed
in Minneapolis, duty paid. This
makes an advance in prices appear
difficult, if not impossible, while the
marketing is on. The scarcity of
corn has determined many wheat
farmers to feed Wheat largely and it
is in this feature that bulls expect a
stronger situation later on.

Prices

Detroit—wash No. 1 red, $1.07;
No. 2, $1.06; No. 3, $1.03; No. 2
white, $1.07; No. 2 mixed, $1.06.

Chicago—Cash No. 3 red, $1.04;
No. 2 h d, $1.051/2@1.13.

New ark—Cash No. 3 red, $1.-
17%; No. 2 hard, $1.15.%.

Prices one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No. 2 red, $1.08; No. 2 white
and No. 2 mixed, $1.06.

 

CORN »

Trading in corn has been slow and
the market affected by the action of
wheat. September has continued
to act independently and prices have
been higher on short covering. Ship-
ping demand has been rather slow.
Weather conditions have not been
favorable throughout the corn belt
and there is some fear of damage by
frost to the crop. Dry, hot weather
is needed over a large portion of the
corn growing territory. Any bullish
influence that weather conditions
might have on the market have been
offset by the government crop re—
port which was quite bearish. 'Re—
ceipts are only moderate. Export
trade appears to be looking to Ar-
gntine for its supply. Students of
the market state that corn and oat
prices are about as high as they can
89 with prices of other grains at
present levels. "

Prices ,
Detroit—Cash No. 2 yellow, 969; .
No. 3, 96c. ‘ . _. _ _ '~
No. 2 mixed, ’89:!

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'1- been noted and the price has fluctu-

ated some. Chicago reports receipts

" during the past few weeks have been
~ considerable larger than a year ago.

Prices
Detroit-Cash No. 2, 4295c; No.
3,403“; No. 4, 3855c.
; Chicago-Cash No. 2 white, 40%
@4059“ No. 3, 38@40c.
“New. York—Cash» No. 2 white,
c.

Pikes one year ago—Detroit,

Gash No. 2 white, 39c; No. 3, 37c;

Ron 4, 34¢.

Rye went from steady to easy at
Detroit after an advance of 1 cent
and the easy tone continues at this
time.

Prices

Detroit—Cash No. 2, 7 5c.

Chicago—Cash No. 2, 72%@73c.

Prices one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No. 2, 740.

 

B
Dealers in beans are alarmed over
the recent weather. Heavy rains in
some sections has done considerable
damage to the crop and it is now es-
timated that the crop will be much
smaller than previously estimated.
Michigan beans are expected to be
about one-half of a normal crop. Dry
weather during‘ the growing season
hurt the crop in this state. ' The
price at Detroit advanced 10 cents
last week.
Prices
Detroit—C. H. P., $5.50.
cago—C. H. P., $5.40@5.86.
Prices one year ago—Detroit,

‘ C. H. P., $4.75.

 

POTATOES '
The people are beginning to real-
ize that the potato crop in Michigan
will not be as large as was expected
owing to continued dry Weather and
as a result demand is better. Prices
at Detroit and other points have
made several advances during the
past fortnight. The market is firm
in tone.

Prices
Detroit—Michigan, $ 2.83 @ 3, cwt.

 

  

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Week of September 16
HE unsettled Weather in the

3 West the past few days will
rapidly dm into a more in-
tense storm and preach Michigan
early this Week. During Monday
and Tuesday the winds will be
strong and the rainfall plentiful.
These storm conditions will weaken
towards the middle part of the week.
clouds gradually break away and
fair weather set-in for a few days.

Temperatures will rapidly fall
about Wednesday and very low tem-
peratures for the season are expect-
ed, especially the nights when frosts
will also occur.

Near the end of the week there is
a probability of a showery period
but nothing severe is expected from
this storm.

Week of September 23

While unsettled conditions are ex-
pected during early part of this
week with some fair weather, we
believe that showery weather will
predominate over most of the state
through the 25th. General rains may
be expected about 27th and 28th
but ,will be closely followed with
higher barometer and much cooler
weather.. The weather will also re-
main unsettled in most parts of
Michigan during last part of this and
beginning of next week.

The price of butter depends a
great deal upon flavor, body, color
and salt and 50 per cent of these
conditions depend upon the weather
during previous weeks.

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d, iudging from a weather stand
int only We also figure that late
f_ ' oh ' 111 also be good.

  

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$1.42 per cwt.

 

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’ Hay markets remain firm but with
prices working a trifle lower. In-

.central western markets but stocks
have been cleaned up from day to
day and condition as a whole is
healthy. The recent rains. in the
southwest checked the demand for
alfalfa and the market is a shade

easier. '
Prices

,Detroit—No. 1 timothy, 320.506
21; standard, $19.50@20; light mix.
9d. umoozo; No. 2 timothy, :18
@19; No. 1 clover nixed, 317018;
No. 1 clover, $15@18. -

Chicago—No. 1 timothy, $26027;
No. 2 timothy, $23@25; N0. 1 light
timothy &. clover mixed, $24@2,6;
No. l clover, $22@23; No. 2 clover,
$15@17.,

Prices one year ago—Detroit,
Standard timothy and light clover
mixed, 316016.50; No. 1 clover,
$14015.

FROM HERE AND THERE 1N
MICHIGAN

Grand Rapids —- Nelson-Mather
building to have 4-story addition for
furniture exhibit building. Rail-
road shopment of the Pere Marquete
railroad given wage increase of 3
cents per hour effective September 1.
City plans new pumps and supple-
mentary conduit as further expans—
ion of water distribution service.

Saginaw—~Michigan Central builds
new spur track to provide better
shipping facilities for Saginaw Pro-
ducts Company. Local shops of Pere
Marquette turn out 4 steel frame
way cars, first of new kind ordered
by Interstate State Commerce Com—
mission. City awards contract for
Mackinaw street paving. Also plans
to buy 50 automatic voting machines
at» cost of $45,000. Local ladder
factory organization increases capi-
tal from $25,000 to $75,000. Work
on addition to Eagles temple making
rapid progress. New Central school
for east side children completed.

Bessemer —- Hercules Powder
Company building three new powder
magazines near town. Three new
contracts awarded for Gogebic coun-
ty bridge and highway work.

CROP REPOR‘IS

WEXFORD—Threshing time past, grain
a fair average. Plenty of rain. Grass
growing good, making good pasture.
Some wheat sowed and some plowing for
Wheat. Potatoes looking fine but not a
large acreage. Lots of apples. Light
frost Sunday night but no damage.-—-Jos.
H. Campbell.

CALHOUN—Not much doing in this
section. Farmers are getting ready for
their fall seeding. Late potatoes are
looking good. Soil is in good shape—C.
E. Beardsley.

0GEMAW——Getting too much rain for
new potatoes. Tri-county fair is over
and 1 must say that Tcscola, Roscommon
and' Ogemaw can boast of some of the
best cattle in the state. I have never
seen a better lot, the sheep and hogs
were the best they have shown in years.
James Anderson.

OAKLAND—Harvesting all finished
and threshing being rushed. Wheat is
a good sample. so are oats. Corn is
getting ripe and some of it cut. Pota-
toes are looking well and no signs of
blight. Pastures are gone. No rain or
any account for a long time. Some or-
chards have a good show for apples but
more have but a. few. Not much fruit
of either kind here—E Foster.

CLARE—Beans harvest on two—thirds
of a crop. Corn good crop.——W. C.
Fuller.

~SHIAWASSEE——Farmers are very busy
filling silos and pulling beans. Heavy
rains during the past week have damaged
beans to some extent. Quite a hard
frost on September 2nd but was not a
killer. Corn and potatoes promise good.
Clover seed is well filled and of good
quality. No wheat seeding is reported
as yet but many farmers have their
ground nearly fitted—15. H. Morris.

CLINTON—Plenty of rain now, bean
harvest being held w on account of rain.
Bean yield out by dry weather. Grain
threshing nearly finished. Farmers are
plowing for wheat. Low prices on wheat
will cut acreage. Some corn being cut.
Corn down bad by recent wind.——O. R.
Richard. '

M'ECOSTA—Weather was real wet and
warm up to September 7, but it is quite
cold at present. Corn is onlya half drop.
Threshing is all done. Potatoes are look-
inggoodzbut-need at least three weeks
to get their growth. Beans only a half
crop. Some are doing fall p
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Michigan as a high class, reliable
commission house for the sale of

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Prefer one llVlllg near Turner. E.
Address

GENERAL

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We Want Every Business Farmer
Reader To Be Insured!

HE 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 the insurance policy here described and
it is issued by the well-knowu North American Accident Insurance
Company of Chicago.

There are no other costs if you are a paid-in-advancc subscriber to
The Business Farmer and you can scour-e a policy for every member of
the family providing one member is a subscriber, at the same cost, 75c
for each policy.

This is YOUR opportunity to do what you have been putting oil’ so
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Just one rcquirmnont—ONE MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY MUST
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Any or all members of a family from 16 to 70 years of age may
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member of the mey is a paid-up subscriber to The Michigan Busi-
ness Farmer.

We have issued Several Hundred of these policies to date and
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after receiving and reading the Liberal Policy offered.

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The Michigan Business Farmer, I)ate.......; ........................ 1923
Insurance Department, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

I hereby apply for 3. $1,000.00 TRAVEL ACCIDENT INSURANCE
POLICY of the North American Accident Insurance Company, for
Which I enclose Seventy—five cents (75c) in check, money-order or
registered letter.

B I also enclose my address label from a recent issue of The Business
Farmer to prove that my subscription is paid—up for one year.

D I enclose SIXTY CENTS (600) in addition ($1.35 in all) and my old
address label, for which you are to mark my subscription paid in ads
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LOOK at these pictures. Twenty thousand
'Sweeney trained men own garages, tire
shops, vulcanizing and service shops, just like
these. You can be your own boss. You can be in-
dependent. It is easy to start in business for
yourself. Then you don’t have to bow down to
some employer and do work you don’t like.
Sometimes it looks like carpenters, plasterers, etc.,
get big wages, but When hard times come they are out
of work. I say work for yourself. Then you are not both—
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not drudgery. It’s the yearning of every young man
TO BE HIS OWN BOSS, and Sweeney makes it possible.
How would you like to see your name above the door
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Sweeney trains men in eight weeks in the auto and
tractor business. I have had over 60,000 graduates. I

estimate 20,000 are in business for themselves.

You don’t need previous experience. These men had no prev-
ious experience. You don’t need any capital to speak of. These
men hadn’t much. money. But they had Sweeney’s training and
made good. There are opportunities everywhere. Other fellows
with money are often looking for trained men to handle the
the mechanical end as partners.

Learn A Successful Trade In 8Weeks At

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IS the ONLY WAY to learn if you want to save time and money and be properly ,
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trained. You get this at the World’s Greatest Trade School,
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Talks anywhere in the U. S. Cost $50,000 to erect.
ious experience. I teach with tools not books.
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first step is to send for my big Free Catalog—a post card will do.

Get my big FREE 64—page catalog.
of men at work in my magnificent new school.
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esting letters from graduates telling how they made good.
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Look at Clayton Eden’s nice garage at Ainsworth, La.
Clayton says: “We operate the leading garage. Have all
the business we can do. Also handle Hudson, Essex and '
Buick cars. Owe my present success to the wonderful
tralnlng recelved at the Sweeney School.”

Look at the National Garage. Roy Atkinson sent me
this picture from_ Everett, Mo. “Worked on a farm,”
says Roy. “At nineteen had only $14.00. Got father to
send me to the Sweeney School. Three days after I came
home I fixed a neIghbor’s Ford car. That was my start.
Today this garage 1s worthl$4,785.00. My business takes
three men to handle. I never worked In any other ga-
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Look at John Boyer’s garage at Milford, Illinois. John says:
“Having a good business;- busy all the time.”

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What these boys have done you can do. If you like mechanics
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what thousands of men just in your position have done as a result
of the SWEENEY SYSTEM OF PRACTICAL TRAINING. Learn— -.
ing is a real pleasure in the SWeeney School. World’s finest equip—
ment. Fine associates. Healthful surroundings. Entertam-

ment after working hours. Instructors M 3 IL THE

who take a personal interest in you.

     
   
     
     
     
     
     
     
       
 

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EMORY J. SWEENEY, President
Dept. 1225 Sweeney Building, Kansas City, MO.

  
  

 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 

 

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Please send me free, without any obligation on
y part, your 64-page catalog and your Sweeney

chool News. Tell me of the opportunities in the
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