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VI, N0. 14 Being absolutely independent our columns are open for thc discuni ion of any sub ct 1' main. to the farming jgusinpeis. “The Only Farm Magazine Owned and Edited in Michigan” Published Eli-Weekly Mt. Clemens, vMich. —— TWO YEARS $1 Entered ter. August 22.1917 at the )st- ofiica at Mt. Clemens mu, under act of March 1879. 8rd. as second- class m-at The Time is Ripe for Tax Reform 1n Michigan Reports Show Not Only Tax Totals Are Too High but Tax Burden is Not Equally Distributed OverEntire Wealth of the State By STANLEY M. POWELL (Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.) EAL ESTATE, which consti- tutes but 35' per cent of the wealth of Michigan, is today paying 80 per cent of the total taxes, while the other 65 ‘per cent of Michigan’s wealth escapes .with but 20 per cent of the tax burden,” said Representative Fred B. Wells, of Cassopolis, discussing Michigan’s taxation conditions recently. Mr. Wells ought to know what he is talking about, for he was one of five senators and representatives chosen from the 1921 Legislature to make a two-year study of taxation condi— tions in Michigan and other states. We hear a lot of talk about taxes, especially along about this time of the year. Many hair-brained ideas are advanced as to what should be done about the situation, but it seems evident that the solution of our present difficulties is suggested by the startling figures presented by Mr. Wells. If those figures are true, the difficulty is not mearly that the tax totals are too high, but _ that the tax burden is not equally distributed over the entire wealth of the state. To talk blindly of tax reduction may be to oppose good schools and other desirable projects but to advocate the placing of a larger proportion of Michigin’s wealth on the tax rolls as a method of reducing the tax rate is a propos- al to which no fair minded citizen should take exception. Taxes Sky-Rocket Taxation seems to be a chronic disease afflicting the body politic. We are annually reminded that it ’ seems tp be a necessary evil that is always with us. But during recent years it has seemed to go from bad to worse and the unfortunate indi- vidual who owns farm or town real estate in Michigan today is suffer— ing from intermittent chills and fever and a very unsteady pulse as he faces a tax burden which in many cases is already becoming con- fiscatory. The alarming increase of tax tot- als in Michigan is revealed by the following figures: In 1901 the total tax levied on the general property of the state for state, county, city, village, township, road, school and drain purposes was $23,350,000. By 1921 this figure had increased to the staggering total of $158, 389,— 000, an increase of 700 per cent in 20 years. It is interesting to note that during this 20-year period the assessed valuation of the property bearing these taxes increased only about 410 per cent. The result was inevitable. ,The rate oi‘. taxation had to go up, which it did, mount- ing from $17.49 per thousand in 1901 to $28.88 per thousand in 1921. . Tax Payers Can‘t Pay This tax burden on real estate is proving too great. Present condi- tions show that such a high general property tax is neither safe nor ad- visable. As this rate of taxation on the general property of the state has increased so rapidly, it is very significant indeed that the delinqu- ent taxes returned to the Auditor General have increased likewise. In 1919 the assessed valuation of the property returned delinquent for taxes was $187, 349, 683. In ‘1920 this total was nearly doubled to $363,350,009. 1921 revealed an- other husky jump, bringing the tot- ai'up to $449, 474, 231. This was gpractically one- -tenth of the total as- sessed valuation of Michigan real . ate for that year. The taxes re— :delinquent amounted to over last year for which ‘ YEAR after year you have found your taxes a little high— er than they were the previous year until all taxpayers are now anxiously asking Where all this money is going to, ’ what is it being used for. Mr. Powell answers the ques— tions in this article which is the first of a series on taxation in Michigan and how to solve the present dilemma. ation is one of Mr. Powell’s Tax— favorite subjects and he has made a very careful study of it so he knows thoroughly what he writes about. Let any one, or all, of the articles. us have your comments, on 257. The total unpaid taxes for this year are not yet available, as the staff of clerks in the Auditor General’s Department have not yet finished the tremendous task of tot- aling them. Not only have many tax payers allowed their property to return to the state rather than pay these high taxes, but unquestion- ably there have been three or four times as many more who have had to borrow money at 6 or 7 per cent rather than pay the heavy penalty of delinquent taxes. Still Bonded Indebtedness Increases This tax increase would have been bad enough if we. had been observ— ing a “pay—as-you—go” policy, but that was not the case. On top of this increase in the taxation on gen- eral property, the public bonded debt has been increasing by leaps and bounds. During the ten years from 1911 to 1921 the bonded in— debtedness of the cities of Michigan increased 550 per cent, while that of the counties increased 800 per cent. The State, which in 1911 had no debt at all, by 1921 had $65,- 000,000 of bonds outstanding. In other words, the bonded indebted- ness‘ of Michigan and its various subdivisions had increased in ten years 830 per cent. Bear in mind that even,these figures do not in- clude Covert road, drainage and other district bonds, which would make this increase much larger. To make the situation real plain, let’s restate in a little different way. Each man, woman and child paid in general property taxes in Michigan $10 in 1901 and $43.02 in 1921, and over and above this for each man, woman and child there was an increase in the bonded indebtedness outstanding from $13.46 in 1911, to $82.95 in 1921. Can’t Economize Greatly 011 State In this increase in the tax burden in Michigan, which is seriously dis- couraging the ownership of real estate and homes, as is known by all who have given taxation any ser- ious study, it is interesting to note that only about 11 per cent of the taxes are levied for state purposes. while the remaining 89 per cent are for local purposes, which the tax- payer has the power to vote upon himself. However, this fact does not make his burden any lighter. The two big questions in taxation ClTlES flflD VILLHGEQ IoVat comm institutions, etc.“ Note HOW THE STATE USES ITS DOLLAR This chart shows how the state spends its revenue for the unions state boards, how much is absorbed by interest on the bonded indebtendeu. ' _SCHOOLS 517/0“ 8TH TE lei/oi are economy in government and equitable distribution of the burden. As far as economy is concerned, we can never expect 100 per cent efilc- iency when our public officials are elected by popular-vote, and surely no citizen of Michigan wishes to give up the privilege of franchise. even through the average citizen neglects the privilege. Regarding state expenditures. when one considers that about 20 per cent of the expenditures must go for interest and sinking fund for bonds issued; about 30 per cent to support our state educational insti— tutions, (containing about 18,000 students, the necessity .for which is readily seen for a people who must be enlightened and educated to bet— tcr govern themselves); about 15 per cent for hospitals, housing 8,100 insane people; about 11 per for cor— rectional and charitable institutions and prisons housing about 6,000 people; and the courts, legislature, all state departments, boards and commissions involving not over 20 per cent of our state expenditures, it is plain to be seen that if any ma— terial cuts are to be made in state expenditures, they cannot be made on boards, commissions, etc. The strictest of economy should be exercised in making appropria- tions for these boards, commissions and departments. but if they were all abolished and the whole state capitol and Lansing government, blown up, it would only have reduc— ed the taxcs of the people of Michi— gan hciwecn 4 and 5 cents on the dollar during the past your or two. How ’l‘hcn licducc 'l‘uxcs State cxpenditurcs can not be: grcui‘ly rcduccd. if we arc to main— tain the standards the people of Michigan demand for their colleges and state institutions. It is very plain that there is a greater oppor- tunity to economize on the expendi- tures of $138,000,000, for local pur- poses than upon the expenditure of less than $20,000,000 for state pur- poscs. Some system of taxation must be. devised which will not only relieve real estate somewhat, but that will have a tendency to bring about more economy in local expenditures. and that will be so devised that there will be sufficient people con- tributing to the support of all branches of the government, includ‘ ing the State, so that the oificialsr‘ elected will feel responsible to the people electing them. If it would be possible to remove all state tax from the general prop- erty of the State, every taxpayer would soon realize that if he desires lower taxes on his home, his busi- ness or his farm, then he must in- terest himself, in the management of his schools, his city or township and the building of the roads in his com- munity. To bring about more economy. the people of Michigan must get rid of the tendency at “voting time" to vote large expenditures for schools. roads, cities, etc., and at “tax paying time" to point with disgust and bit- terness toward the state as the Cause-for the large figures on their tax receipt. If the entire state tax were removed from general proper~ ty (which in 1921 was 78 per cent real estate) every general property taxpayer’s mind would be forced to— ward the extravagance in local ex- penditures. ‘ Proposed Solutions To meet these requirements it is' being strongly urged that we adopt a state income tax in Michigan which would raise sufficient revenue ' to entirely remove the necessity for the general property tax for state 1., (Continued on Page 19) ' where in November, . ". —~.. . ' Ex.“ ~ ‘rm .1 r 5 ~ f"‘ < 3.11311; 2 ,-.«.~<;.4, f“. . «-.‘ ,. , \ ‘ery last one of Education and Entertainment Both Have Place on F riday Night Programs of Community ’ WOimiles west of the reCently incorporated city of Manton, in . Wexford county, Michigan, is located the Carpenter school house 1921, was or- ganized The Carpenter Community Meet. The Carpenter district is one of the oldest settled parts of this sec— tion of Michigan, the Carpenter school being district number one in Cedar Creek Township. Many of the people in the neighborhood are sons and daughters orgrandchild— ren of the early settlers. Some of them are living with their families on the same farms where they were born and in the same houses. The oldest residents still remember the days when each house stood in its own little clearing, made by cutting down, rolling into a heap, and burn- ing the big maple, heech, etc.; and the provisions were carried down from the new town of Traverse City on horse—back or often on the back of the early settler himself. A short time after the towns of Man— ton and Clam Lake (Cadillac) were started. It is a quiet country place, too near Manton to be a backwoods set- tlement and too old to be consider— ed such by its inhabitants, and too far from town to take a very active part in the social life of the village. It is comparatively easy to hold almost any sort of a meeting or to organize a society in a settlement far from town. People in such com- munities feel the need of getting to- gether and depend upon each other for their social life. But in a place like Carpenter district they are not so united, and any such undertaking to be a success must have behind it a united effort. Beginning in the fall when the crops were mostly harvested and farm work not so strenuous a few of the neighbors began to discuss plans for some kind of a country club. An opening meeting was an- ..nounced for November and a notice published in the Manton Tribune- Record. About thirty people came to this first meeting, old, young and those who were neither; and every one was given an opportunity to tell what kind of meetings he wanted. Entertainment seemed to be the leading idea though some were for organization with a view to com— munity betterment. and some wish— ed to enlist outside aid in solving the problems common to all, such as Meeting in Carpenter Schoolhouse By EVA HENDERSON DAVEY I “ COMMUNITY SONG (Composed b‘yione of the men while he milked) N Friday night it’s my de-‘ light, . And a pleasure, don’t you see? . To mingle with the boys and girls 01’ the Carpenter Connnunity. There’s an organ in the corner, There’s music when you come, And you’re welcome every Friday night ’ To the Carpenter Community Meet. On Friday night, be it dark or light, You’ll find me right on hand, My part to fill with hearty good- Will, And by the Cormnunity stand. There’ll be many neighbors pres- ent, . And real old friends to greet; So, you’re welcome every Friday night To the Carpenter Community Meet. restoring soil fertility, breeding up live stock, lowering taxes, etc. But all were agreed that they wanted meetings of some kind and all de- clared themselves willing to help. A chairman, a sec’y-treas. and an organist were elected and the name Carpenter Community Meet chosen. A vote to meet once each week on Monday nights carried. The chairman appointed two committees, one to provide a program for the following week and one to choose a topic for debate and appoint debat- ers to argue it at the third meeting. That was the beginning and each week throughout the winter a com- munity meeting was held. Some- times the roll-call numbered fifty or sixty and even on several occasions as high as seventy-five or eighty, and sometimes on a stormy night only eight or‘ ten would be present. The chairman and his Wife and the secretary never missed a meeting. The meetings were opened by community singing and prayer, fol— lowed by re-citations, readings, talks, discussions. Special features were: debates, talks on given topics, speaking by someone from outside. special music, mock trials, suppers. The notice regarding the opening meeting brought a letter from the county agricultural agent, Mr. Wm. F. Johnson of Cadillac, to the chair— man, Mr. Walter E. Davey, congrat- ulating the community on its effort and offering his help. During the winter he spoke one evening answ- ering questions and making sugges- tions for community welfare, and gave a short demonstration of poul- try culling on some hens brought in from the nearest poultry house. In the spring he made another visit and spoke on soil fertility, crop ro- tation, etc. In the summer Mr. Johnson held a poultry culling dem- onstration at one of the farms with Mr. C. M. Ferguson, poultry expert of Lansing, as demonstrator. Since then poultry raising for profit has been on the increase and more farm- ers are raising pure-bred stuck and buying setting eggs and cockerels with a view to increasing egg pro- duction. Wexford county has in former years been a great potato raising center and much of the soil will no longer produce potatoes enough per acre to yield a profit but instead give the grower a money loss while decreasing the fertility of his soil. The answer to the question as to What he shall do to bring back the fertility of the soil and at the same time turn the loss into gain lies in the raising of alfalfa, sweet clover, soybeans, etc. and letting some one else raise the potatoes until he has rebuilt his soil so that he can pro- duce them at a profit. Quite a number of debates were held during the winter after the Community Meet was organized. Men and women consulted histories, geographies, maps, not to mention dictionaries, in looking up forgotten facts. Some who had never before heard a debate took part and learn- ed to enjoy the battle of argument} followed by the matching of wits and knowledge in rebuttal, In the spring a debate was ar+ ranged with a near-by debating society and the Carpenter Commune ity debaters were the victors. - At Christmas time the community united with the school in a tree and program. The community filled one hundred sacks of candy, nuts, and pop corn and one was given to every person present at the tree and one‘ sent to absent ones who had at- tended former meetings and to peo- ple unable to come. This has been done each of the three Christmases since the Community Meet was or- ganized. - . With the coming of spring the question of keeping up the meetings was discussed. One man who had been a regular attendant always ready to do his part declared that if an attempt were made to hold meet- ' ings during the busy season, the Community Meet would be so dead by fall that it could not be resur- rected. Quite a number shared this opinion. Others felt they needed recreation in summer as well as in winter. ‘ It was finally decided to hold a meeting once a month, the programs to be voluntary. No committees were appointed except when suppers were served. The chairman was at liberty to call upon any one present to contribute something to the pro- gram. Very few failed to respond. Sometimes the response was hesi- tant. More than one person rose slowly and made his way still more slowly to the front deciding on the way he would do but ready to do something when 'he faced the audi- ence.o And the meetings were as enjoyable as those of the winter and fully as well attended, one of the usual attendants being the man whb thought summer meetings would kill the Meet. His little daughter liked to speak pieces and she brought her father and mother along to keep her company. . When work slacked down in the fall requests for more frequent meetings ended in a decision to hold one every other week. At the be- ginning of summer the night had been changed from Monday to Fri- day so the children could come with less interruption to their school and their sleep. The second winter the Superin- tendent of the Manton Consolidated (Continued on Page 22) Are Fruit Growers Willing to Pay 5 or 10 Cents More for Certified Trees? By E. A. KIRKPATRICK TN the past year and three months, I have asked 97 people whether, if they were about to plant an apple orchard, they would be will- ' ing to pay five or ten cents a tree for certified trees—that is, certified as to variety. In 83 of the 97 cases, the answer was “Yes." In the other 14 cases, the answer was not always “No,” but it amounted to that; there was a lukewarmncss that indicated little or no interest. My list included a dozen profess— ors of horticulture, fifteen profes— sional and business men, and the rest were farmers with orchards. And would you believe it, the most enthusiastic about this matter were the farmers. . “Yes, siree." said one man at the meeting of New Jersey Horticultur— al Society. ‘And here’s the reason: “Fifteen years ago I planted an or- chard of 500 trees, supposed to be Grimes Golden and Jonathan. They came into bearing a few years ago and turned out to be‘Ben Davis, ev— ’em. See what I would have gained by buying certifi- ed trees? But they didn’t have ' them then.” The 'most striking thing brought out by my nosing around was this: ,, ‘How can the inspector who certi- fies the trees tell the different vari— eties. and how does he mark them so that the mark will stick to the Stress?” The folks I tackled got '.with me and, after answering " ‘ fines on, . asked , me. the 0116331191; than belt of thy, goats, \ wanted to know those facts. I take it that the others already knew. The answer to those questions is really a short history of tree certi- fication. It is a new thing———only a few years old, to be exact. It is the brain child of Dr. J. K. Shaw, Mass- achusetts Experiment Station, who has been working on the problem since 1915. Dr. Shaw, in tests, show- ed 'that he could register a 99.99 per cent “guess” on varieties, by the system of identification he has work- ed out. Up to the present time, the identification is based on the leaves, but Dr. Shaw is now working ahead on tree form and appearance of the bark as additional “finger print” material. _ ' ~The Massachusetts Fruit Growers Association took up with the idea and now offers certification of twelve leading varieties of apple trees to any nursery in the state, or of any trees to be purchased by growers or dealers in the state. A representative of the Experiment Station examines the/ trees, and if they are found true to name, a hole is drilled in the branch of each tree and a small lead seal is attached with a press. The seal bears the letters “M. F. G. A.,” and the date of year in which inspection is made. On the other side are the words “Certified to be Baldwin,” or what- ever variety it happens to be. The cost of this work has been between 2 and 3 cents a tree. In 1921, about 3,000 trees were examined , er. They would have to pay certification whether they wantediit'. and 10 per cent were untrue to name.’ In 1922, 10,000 trees were examined and the percentagewas much lower. Massachusetts is the only state that is putting this idea to .Jvork, and since the nursery business is an , interstate business, the work in Massachusetts doesn’t begin to solve the problem, for fruit growers in the other states, Are the nurseries in favor of this plan? Well, some of them are, and some are not. I suspect they would be in favor of certification if it were required, or in use in all states, just as they are in favor (publicly) of the present quarantine. laws. I have put this matter up to a half dozen or more nurserymen, and find there are a few reasonable objections, as follows: ' 1. The expense of certification. ' which would, as a matter of course, be paid by the buyer or the trees. If 10 per cent of the trees were re- jected, that would increase the cost of the ones certified, and there would also’be the actual cost of the work of certification. , 2. Small—order'buyers (and about 85 per cent of the nurserymen’s business comes from this class) do not care so much about getting a particular variety; many of them». don’t know one ,variety'from anothr‘ Or'nOt. - 10t‘i" ‘ w' CLAIMS CURE FOR CANCER.—Dr. Naame, a Syrian, who has been reported as having perfected a sure cure for cancer. He has worked for years, watching causes of the disease, experimenting with results, and at last his efforts have been rewarded. FIRST “MUNICIPAL GOLD SALE BUREAU IN GER- }IANY.-—Scarcity of money in Germany is causing the middle class to sell its gold, Silver and precious jewels. To prevent unscrupulous dealers from cheating the people an Appraisal Bureau has been started by the government where experts give free appraisals. The experts work without salary. .4 stone figures. dug up from a tomb in the China, are now on eum. . to provide music for the departed soul as he his way to the next world.- CHINESE JAZZ BAND OF 600 A exhibition managership of all of his father’s 33 different the place of Stephen B. Members, who has been at the job for the . , :‘ past eleven years. I _ ’M/ CLAIMS 20 MILLION GERMANS MUST EMI- GRA'I'E OR STARVE.——Prof. Gustav Cassel of Stockholm University, claims twenty million Ger- mans must emigrate at once or starve in the next few ’months. ,This picture of Prof. Cassell is gate}: made- of him by his son. who is a we own artist. V . . D.—This group of interior of in the Pennsylvania )Ius— They were placed in the tomb and were supposed went on EDISON’S SON TO TAKE OVER CONTROL OF DAD’S PLANTS. K —Charles Edison, son of Thomas Alva Edison, has taken over the BIEIWORIAL STATUE 0F LINCOLN.— This statue of “The Great Emancipator” is the work of Daniel (‘hester French, well known sculptor, and has won the admiration of thousands. It is considered a wonderful likeness. been of that city. “'INNER OF BOK _ . PEACE .-\“'ARD.--I)r. world and has been industries. He took Charles Herbert Lev- York City, recently. ermore, winner of the Bok l’euce Award. ling bombing planes. LONDON BRIDGEr—Every time the Tower Bridge of London is raised for river boats to pass it costs the City $15. It isn't often that the Thames rises so high that the bridge must'be raised, yet every part of the machinery must be kept in perfect condition at all times. The bridge is almost 80 years old. The London chil- drcn~ consider it a great treat to see the "bridge go up.” ,. ‘ . I o ' fought LEADS CRUSADE AGAINST DIVORCE.— Jenn N. Penfield, noted feminist, is crusade She shows that divorces should a minimum to avoid future chaos, but it' neces— sary, grant, and make valid in every state. “GIVE ME A SHAVE, HAIRCI'T AND SORIE )IUSIC".—No when they go to this “'ushington, D. ('., tonsorizll parlor, where the new installed. doubt “'ORLD’S LARGEST BOMB.—This is the largest bomb in the The bomb weighs 2 tons. long and was developed by army experts to be carried by Bar- SEEKS ARMY DISCHARGE—James ‘V. West< cott, 90 years old, of Brooklyn, N. Y., is seeking an honorable discharge from the U. 35‘. Army. in the Civil \Var, were unable to find room for him in the hospital ‘ so he was so the governm nt forgot about him. g‘ V ‘ I ‘ ‘ _,, 59' - , w '1‘:- leading a easily obtaining divorces. be brought to against too that is what most men demand set has Richardson, Nickel-in—tlIe-slot Radio receiving It is the invention of l). J. exhibit at the Hotel Commodore, New is almost 14 feet He wounded, officials “78:8 t to his sister. When the war ended . l -. ’ (Copyright. Keystone View 00.) I MY minimalist the mums bean market depends entirely on the grocer. If they will in- sist on a fair return for their labors, which they are justly entitled to, they can get do or 7c 9. pound just as readily as they can 5c and the trade will take them just as readily as they do now. The idea that a 7c pricein Michi- gan attracts imported beans in com- , petition is disproven this year by the large imports that have come in and are still coming from both Japan and Europe. With a Pea bean mar- ket of $5.00 in Michigan. we have brought in as many beans to date and contracted for their importation as we ever have. ‘ My personal opinion of the market is that it will be a steady, firm mar- ket, and that While fluctuation might run over a range of a dollar a bag, nevertheless, Pea bean accounts will show a good profit if they trade from day to day and leave the future alone. If Michigan had entered the adver- tising campaign, I am sure that the demands for beans would have been so stimulated that never again would the thought of manipulation as a means to create demand, enter into the minds of the Michigan people and that bean prices would range today from $6.50 to $7.50 instead of $4.75 to $5.25. I have had proven to me by actual experience that the consumer will pay 20c a pound for beans and be glad to get them, if they are given a reason for buying them. The ma- terial which the advertising com- mittee gathed during the sum- mer contained every reason why peo- ple should eat beans, and it is unfor- tunate that through Michigan's fail- ure to come in this campaign that we were unable to broadcast to the American people the advantages of beans over any other food product that they might use. Think of Henry Ford trying to stimulate the demand for Ford automobiles by going around to his agents and plac- ing dummy orders. This is the policy the bean men have followed in the past. It might interest you to know that I run an add every Friday in the Christian Science Monitor on the household page, offering 5 pounds of beans for $1.00, and I am doing a very satisfactory business. I would suggest that you get one of these Monitors. This proves to me that the consumer will pay a fair price for a good product—Benjamin Gerks, New York. BEST FARMERS CONTINUE TO MOVE TO CITY EAR EDITOR:—As one of your readers I again wish to express my opinion on one of your ar— ticles appearing in the Feb. 16th issue, entitled “The Return of the Prodigal." Prosperity has not returned to the U. S. or Canadian farmer. Nor will it soon. Auctions are being held daily in all parts of the country even now. Many more will follow in the spring. Yes, the doors and windows will be boarded up for those leaving do not intend to re- turn soon, if ever. It is not the flame of city lights that is calling the farmer. Not so, but it is the light of desire for better conditions, less hours of toil and the night to enjoy some of the good things that the'average farmer is denied. Then again you are mistaken when you say its the weak ones who leave the poor conditions and absolute slav— ery of the farms. _ ' Only the strong, determined 'and better class of farmers are leaving the poor conditions behind. It is the rats or farmers who are mis~ lead by articles in their daily papers or farm journals who stay and live and hope for the prosperity that you tell them year after year is just around the corner, and never comes. Yes, the farmer who becomes a worker in one of the large modern shops does punch a clock. At the end of a day his card shows a total of from eight to ten hours work. If the poor devil had remained on the farm and had punched a clock his hours would have registered nearer 18. Yes, he does ride to work in an electric vehicle called street car. This is just one of the modern «means of conveyance at his com- mand. And he gets home from his " work sensation“ before dusk ex- H‘ \ J; in the» everage farmer is doing up his evening chores by lantern light. While the city worker has his Sun- day for pleasure, rest or education the farmer has hours of necessary labor to perform. Yes, back on the farms of Mich- igan are men and women who have stuck. Why? Well, for various reasons. Some are too young to leave for the better conditions offer- ed them in the city yet, others dare not leave the old parents worn out by years of slavery and misery, and others are only waiting. for some poor boob to come along and buy or rent their place so they can leave. Then you have the class of easily satisfied farmers who are satisfied with a living and nothing more. This class is largely responsible for the rut and slave-like conditions that the average farmer is forced to. live in. But again I say the farmers are waking up and the articles such as you like to hand out are turning many into deep thinking men and women. I might suggest to you that it would be wise to tell your readers of the paper published in Chicago called Farmer—Labor Voice. Will you do it?—Ralph Jordan, Petoskey, Mich. VOTE DOWN BEET CONTRACT OFFERED EAR EDITOR:——At a meeting- of the Durand Local of the Michigan Sugar Beet Growers Assn. it was unaminously voted that the present sugar beet contract for 1923 offered by the Mich. Sugar Factories, consisting of a 46-55 proposition with a $7 guarantee be turned down and not taken up for the reason that the 45-55 basis is unfair to the grower besides it gives the factories absolute monopoly of the contract labor or beet workers the wages of which the grower pays. It was resolved by a unanimous vote that the growers will consider a contract based on a 50—50 propos- ition and average sugar price or sales, with “field” or labor supervis— cept in a few winter months, while ' It was also unanimously voted to cause, a copy of these proceedings to be mailed to the sugar companies doing business in this section and also that copies be mailed the farm organizations and the newspapers Signed: C. E. Acker-- of the state. man, C. S. Reid, F. Mikan, officers of The Durand Beet Growers' Ass’n. P. S. The financial statement of the above organisation shows a sub- stantial balance on hand and the organization stands ready ‘to cooper- ate in any way to benefit the indus- try represented. FABM 0R FACTORY T is a great mystry to me why the majority of the farm boys would rather leave the farm and work in the factory, than go to high school and house college. The eighth grade seems to be the limit of the farm boys education. At this period they are not fitted for a special vocation, and they are too young to own or manage'farms. They become discouraged. To the boy just finishing the eighth grade the farm looks like a poor paying proposition. The boy measures wealth, at this time, by actual cash. So our boy goes to the city, procures a job in the factory and becomes a slave to command. I cannot understand why a boy would rather be a factory worker, than the monarch of his own farm. Have they no pride in being a land- owner, and managing their own af- fairs, instead of being a machine in a factory. You .will say, of course, that the boys make more money in the factory. But the factories close down or our boy is fired. Then the money he has saved must go to tide him over until the factory opens, or he succeeds in getting a. new job, and of course there is al- ways the possibility of a failure. The crops on the farm may fail—-—but one has a home and enough to eat, and there are always the cows and hens to fall back upon. In the country one has a play of MICHIGANQCROPS KNO‘V THE SOURCE OF YOUR SEED N nearly every community in the State there is an unsuccessful field of alfalfa and frequently of June clover that stands out as a warning against the disasterous ef- fect of sowing unadapted seed. It would be very difficult to find a farmer who would consider planting Southern Illinois corn in Northern Michigan for grain purposes and yet there are quite a number of farmers who do not hesitate to sow Arizona common alfalfa seed in Michigan. The results are usually more disast- erous than planting Southern Illin— ois corn in Northern Michigan be- cause alfalfa usually does not pro- duce a crop the first year and Ariz- ona common alfalfa frequently win- ter kills so badly that the crop the second year is unprofitable. It may be mentioned here that the Arizona section produced more than 2,500,- 000 pounds of alfalfa seed this sea- son andthis seed is being distribut- ed qulbe rapidly. A careful study of the adaptabil- ity of alfalfa and clover seed has been made by the Farm Crops De~ partment of the Michigan Agricul- tural College. More than 400 plats of alfalfa and clover sown from seed of many sources are available for study. The following table shows very briefly some of the results se- cured. Experiments carried on at the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station show the following yields for the various strains of seed: Strain of Tons per'A. Alfalfa State ”Air dry hay Hardigan Michigan 7.21 Grimm Idaho 7.09 Common Montana 6 89 Common 6 06 H. Perivian 1 11 Common Arizona , The above plats were seeded the - same day and given the same care in every way so that the‘“m1erence in yield is a difference in adaptabil- ity to Michigan conditions. What of the value of' Hairy Peri: vian seed in Arizona? It is excel- lent for the southwestern part of the United States. This is just the point we wish to bring out. Seed adapted to one section may not be adapted to another section. Then keep the seed in the section where it is adapted and this can best be done by the farmers demanding adapted seed. Data very similar to that secured with the adaptability of alfalfa has been secured with the adaptability of June clover seed. Seed from It- aly and Southern France produces stands that are much less produc— tive than our own Michigan grown seed. On the plats at the college those seeded with Michigan seed produced 1.7 tons more air dry hay per acre than plats seeded the same day with Italian seed. This is very important at the present time due to the fact that the clover seed crop in the United States is about 45 per cent normal and large lmportations of seed from Italy and Southern France are being made into this country.——C. R. Megee, Dept. of Farm Crops, M. A. C. ‘ SERRADELLA We wish to learn if you known! a grass seed by the name of Serra- della. We understand this is a foreign grass and is used for build-_ ing up soil, also for feeding cattle, sheep, etc. The seed is a yellowish seed, very nearly the same size as clover seed—D. M. a 00., Remus. -—Serradella is an annual legume with a much branched, slended stem. It is cultivated for forage and green manure in France, Gore 1 many, Portugal and Spain. It ha! been carefully tested here at. the college, and due to the opera. M'- ,- th produced. cannot be, recommend- ed for Michigan conditions“. Sever- 1(Gontinued o , * , '- ion basedi‘épiptfh'e acreage basis in- stead. of‘the percent of sugar basis. prefers the city. use a a {that or. take up a profession. the" essay. at college his fight- fise’: able to fit himself for 'a'husiness' lit In a factory the young ' man‘s mind is cramped. He has no outlet for his imagination or, inventive the common routine of factory work? '3 ability. Who could have ideas'about‘. -. i. H He might be able to write an ode ‘ “On Dipping a Wire Frame 'in Gasoline,” but I doubt it. Now, if the country boy goes to". ' l . high school that-would occupy the- time, at which he would be diacour- aged With the farm, His mind be- ing inquiring, he. will form many new ideas, and by the time 'he has finished high school, he will havg decided whether he wishes to re- main a farmer or take up a profess- ion. He ‘will then go to college-— take acourse in extensive farming. are. business or professional course” and become his arm boss. and: much respected citizen.-—- Dorothy Traverse City, Michigan. " LOW VALUES REDUCE CATTLE PRICES DITOR, Business Farmer—Cattle prices, with their up and downs, mu, ‘ depend on many different faet- , ors other than the price of beef. Some livestock producers watch the beef market closely, but pay little attention to the price of hides and other by-products. hide and by-product prices largely affect the price received by the pro- ducerd'af the live animal. As an example, the decline in hide prices alone, since the peak in 1919, has. reduced the value of an average native steer about $22.00. When hide prices fall, the packers. cannot make up the loss by charging more for meat, because if this were done the demand for beef would be re- stricted, and the whole supply could not be sold. ' . ' Therefore, the immediate effect of the drop in hide prices is to lower cattle prices. Over long periods of time, however, low hide prices make for higher beef prices by disCourag- ing cattle production. At the pres- ent time, hide prices are consider- ably below the pre—war level and consequently are a depressing influ- ence in cattle prices. Conditions 'in the leather market have been such as to cause very wide fluctuations in hide prices during 're- cent years. From a peak of about 53 cents per pound in 1919, heavy native steer hides fell to about 10 cents early in 1921. From this low point, hides moved gradually upward until they reached a price of 23 cents in November 1922, which was fairly comparable with the pre-war level of prices. But they did not remain there very long. In Decem- her there was a sharp decline fol- ‘lowed by a continued drop which reached a level of a little below 15 cents in July 1923, a price which has been maintained sinCe then with only slight fluctuations either way. The following table shows the effect of these fluctuations on the value of a 60-pound hide: August ............ 1919 ........ $31.80 April ................ 1921 ........ 6.00 November ........ 1922 ........ 13.00 January ............ 1924 ........ 9.00 Yet these same ' The above table shows that the, decline in price from the 1'919 peak to the 1921 low pointamounted to over $25.00 per head. The decline since November 1922 amounts to about $4.00 per .head. The drop in prices of the cheaper grades of hides has been even more pronounced than in the case of good mative steer hides. For this rea- son prices of poorer grades of cattle from which such hides are obtained. have been affected even more in pro- portion, than good’ native beef 'steers. » The extremely low prices of pract- . ically all grades of heavy hides are merely a reflection of a condition existing .in. the leather industry. iii - ' ‘improvement’in the leather businw 1.. advance will be accompanied by an in hide prices. < . Producers and paekerahave «mut- \. m’ the «fitment 'l of the p 1"Petoek‘ey, Mich. ICE—The duties of a justice of the, - peace of a township are so many and ' .varied, that it is not possible to give them in detail. In a general way, a justice of the peace is a member of ._the township board during the last ‘two years of his term of office. He may also sit on the board \during any period of the first two years of his term of office when by reason of a vacancy in any other ofice on the board, there are not three other members to act thereon. He may also try civil cases in tort‘ where ‘the amount involved is not more than $100 or actions on contracts, where the amount does not exceed $300. He also has original jurisdic- tion in cases of misdemeanor. That is, where the punishment is by fine of not exceeding $100 or imprison- mént in the county jail not to ex- ceed ninety days. He may also hold examination in criminal cases involving crimes to be tried by a court ‘of record.——-Clare Retan, De- puty Attorney General. MUST GET LICENSE FROM STATE I have a: recipe, for jam which everybody seems to call delicious. I have thought of trying to put it up in cans for sale. I did not make up the recipe myself. Could I can it in ordinary mason jars and sell it, ' or would I have to get permission from the state to do sci—F. D., Nessen City, Michigan. —You would be required to obtain a license from the Food and Drug Commissioner of the State, at Lan- sing, Mich., in order to make and sell your jam. License fee is $25.00. ' —Asst. Legal Editor. FUR RAISING Do you know where I can purchase a pair of muskrat? How large a space should muskrat have? Which is the easiest to raise coon, skunk or muskrat?-—A Reader, Lenox, Mich. —Perhaps by paying trappers about double the for value. There are also dealers who have them for sale. Might write B. F. Tarman, Quincy, Pa. A pond of an acre if well eup- plied with vegetable growth such as cattails is sufficient for six or eight females and a couple of males if .put in before breeding season. Muskrat have two or three litters a year and six females if they do well would mean well up towards one hundred muskrat by fall. If you have a place of only a few square rods they can be raised but would require food perhaps towards fall when with the young the numbers increased. Musk- rat are the easiest raised for they will practically raise themselves if conditions are right, that is, water and food. Not only muskrat rais- ing but coon, skunk and mink rais- ing is only begun. The fur catch for the season of 1923-24 is only about half of an average crop and points to the raising if the supply is going to equal the demand from this on.—-——Fur Editor. LAWFUL LINE. FENCE What should a lawful line fence between two pieces of property‘be constructed of? How high: Are sheep, goats and hogs classed as stock?—M. J. 8., Turner, Michigan. —Sec. 2206, C. L. 1915 provides that “All fences four and one—half ._ feet high and in good repair, consisting of rails, timber. boards, wire, or stone walls or any combination thereof, and am brooks, rivers, ponds, creeks, ditches and hedges, or other things which shall be considered equivalent thereto, in the judgment ‘ :. “th the , trunk line M-63. . heabeen surveyed, but not graded. " 3774315 of the fence viewers, within whose {grisdiction the same may he, shall deemed legal and fences." Sheep, goats, hogs, etc., are livestock, but a fence may be legal and still not be, sufficient to restrain such animals.——Asst. Legal Editor. . CAN OUT TREES I have some valuable timber such as black walnut, white ash, elm and hickory, along the highway, adjoin- ingmy farm. This highway is call- This road . . stake this timber stands of feet'fro‘i‘n'the‘ center of m NW #311931: Stet; ti” it?” :53; ease of a townshipf-iéN. (1., _ ‘ sufficient . when that: "come-up 7L n - tines. aim-ing be on for Lu Ion .' alitgomrlaint: or requests for Inform-t you Al H“ ‘y? \ V". in]: ' " >_ I U ' V ‘ . , mm mm. Prompt ' gal-3.?“ to this department. "inquiries must be accompanied by full name and address. Name not used If so requested.) eel-end iron to ' serve attention We are I'IC'O shade trees along my farm without the consent of the road boss?—H. W.,. Cioverdale, Mich. . ——The timber growing in the high- way adjacent to your. farm belongs to you, and you may cut it or do whatever you wish with it so long as you do not interfere with travel on the highway. You may trim the trees along your premises with- out‘consulting the road boss—Asst. , Legal Editor. GIVING TOBACCO TO oWN . CHILDREN Is there any law to prohibit a man from giving his oWn children tobac- co?—-—Reader, Saginaw County. —There seems to be no statute which prohibits a father giving to- bacco to his own children. Section 15277 of the Compiled Laws of 1915, makes it unlawful for a per- son or his clerk or agent to sell, give or furnish tobacco in any form to a child under seventeen years of age without the consent of the par- ent or guardian. It implies, there- fore, that tobacco may be furnshed to a child with the consent of the parent or of course, by the parent. —Clare Retan, General. WHO PAYS TAXES ? I have sold 40 acres of land this fall, and had an argument regarding taxes. Sold it in October. By law who should pay the taxes?—J. A., Grant, Michigan. —If you sold your land at any time prior to December 1st, the purchas- er is boundto pay the taxes for the current year. Where the land is sold after December let, the seller pays the taxes for the current year. ——Asst. Legal Editor. CULTURE OF MUSHROOM Would you please give me full in- formation concerning the cultivation of white mushrooms? What is the usual market price, also how long does their season last by raising them in a hot bed and where could I obtain the spawn or seed?—W. H., Flint, Mich. -——The common cultivated mushroom is knoWn botanically as Agaricus campestris and grows wild during the months of August and Septemb- er. Any cellar of outbuilding which will maintain a uniform temperat- ure of 45 to 65 degrees is a satisfact- ory place for growing mushrooms. Fresh horse manure is fermented for three or four weeks, turning it every three days so that the pile will not burn in the center, and placed in the beds eight or ten inches deep. The manure should be moist but not wet. Level and tramp well and leave until the temperature recedes to 70 de- grees, at which time it is ready to spawn. Good spawn may be secured in Deputy Attorney ' brick form from any reliable seeds- man. Each brick is broken into ten or twelve pieces and each piece spaced ten inches each way and cov— ered one or two inches deep in the manure. About ten days after spawn- ing the bed is cased to prevent evap- oration: .that is, covered with an inch of fine loam soil. «Success depends largely on the condition of temperature and most- ure existing in the cellar or build- ing. Excessive moisture causes growth of foreign fungi and on the other hand the atmosphere should be moist enough to prevent evapora- tion from the bed. A temperature of 55 degrees gives best results. Growth is more rapid at higher temperatures but the period of production is short- er and the crop lighter. The beds begins to produce in eight to ten weeks after spawning and will continue to produce for two to four months. The price of mushrooms varies considerable. Very often a dollar a pound is realized and sometimes they sell as low as twenty—five cents per pound. Probably forty to sixty cents a pound is an average price. A square foot of bed space should yield a pound of mushrooms—E. P. Lewis, Instr. in Vegetable Garden- ing, M. A. C. CHARGE FOR FOOD AND KEEP I would like to know how long I would have to keep and feed a stray dog which has no tag to claim own- ership. Can I claim ownership? I have watched for an advertisement claiming her. Would I have to ad- vertise her? If so, how long? If I find the owner Can I get a reward? —H. R., Holton, Mich. ——If the owner of the dog calls for it, you may charge him for keeping and feeding it, and hold the dog un- til he pays you. However, I would advertise in the local paper for three or four issues and, if nobody calls for it, keep it.—~Asst. Legal Editor. GO INTO BANKRUPTCY Two persons agree to go into part— nership in farming and draw up an agreement to that affect. The part- nership borrow money and the two partners sign as securities. The partnership does not prosper and they decide to cease operations. One of the parties is willing to, as the other has lost his all in the partner— ship, but desires to save a little out of the wreckage, at least not to be held responsible for anything, should the assets of the partnership not be equal to the liabilities. Will it be necessary for him to take the bankruptcy law to protect his earn— ings in the future? And What can he save by taking the law?—O. F. F., Pavilion, Mich. ———Each partner would be liable pers- onally for the debts of the partner- 'Farmer Putnam’s Philosphy GUI‘ home from Grange meetin' the other night mad and ready fur a fight. Josephine noticed I had a bad look in my eye and it made her bristle up and she sez: "What’s the matter Tom; didn't they elect you to oflice?" “Woman," sea I, “let me be. We didn’t have no election; we had a debate on agricultural conditions. I tell you things is in a turrible state and I believe this country is goin’ to have a revolution before long, if ,the farmer don’t git more prosper- ous soon." “Tom,” she sez, “you go on to bed and stop talkin' nonsense, or there’ll be a revolution right here at home." I was so mad I couldn’t talk back and I didn’t know a thing till next morning when it all come back to me that‘I'had been over in Euro where I took, ups five acre patch 0 rocky land. I hadgone. cow instead of a work horse and .I used her to plow with. After I gotfmy plowin' done I~ planted apotetoes by hand handlmedw‘i:l ‘em Specialist in laurel “Deviiment. have no cultivator or any other tool to work with exceptin’ the hoe. Well the next trouble was dry weather. The neighbors told me to go and pay the priest to pray fur rain. I done so and then it rained so hard that half my crop washed away. Then the neighbors blamed me fur payin’ the priest too much; they said us Americans was too liberal with our money. . Well, I finally got to harvest my potatoes and they made a big cart- load. I hauled 'em to tOWn with my cow hitched to the cart and sold ’em, gettin’ two cartloads of paper marks fur the load. ~ ' When I got back to my patch the neighbors had the laugh on me, be- -cause they said the money wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on and that the two loads of marks wouldn’t buy a'suit of clothes. After I woke up and thought this here dream over it took all the fight out of me and nowI’m goin’ ahead plan- nin’ my spring. work-and thankful that conditions is as good as they is. and that :I don't have to farm in Europa—Thea. Jeiferson Putnam, (375) 7 ship in the event the assets did not , equal the liabilities. In order to protect your future earnings from liability for the payment of the debts of the firm, it would be necessary to file a. petition to be adjudged a bank- rupt. Bankruptcy would not save your present assets from liability, however.——-—Ast. Legal Editor. mOCULATING SHOOL CHILDREN They inoculated my sister some time ago for diphtheria, injecting the virus into the abdomen without painting the abdomen with iodine. She was very ill afterwards as were all the children in the school. Now they are going to inoculate the children again, in 'the arm. Have we a right to forbid this being done? This second inoculation is also for diphtheria—D. M., Ossineke, Mich. —-It is not always necessary to ap~ ’ ply iodine before administering toxin antitoxin. In fact our physi- cians often use other cleansing agents such as alcohol. There is no law to compel school children to be inoculated against diphtheria. Any parent who does not wish his child to have the treat- ment has the right to request of the school authorities that it be not given. Of course, it is much more advis— able that this case who has been inoculated once should receive full immunization, which would re- quire three inoculations.—R. M. Olin, Commissioner of Health. LIABLE FOR BREACH OF CON- TRACT A sells B forty acres of land. B signs a contract to pay interest an- nually for five years and then pay for it. B has one hundred and twenty acres valued at twelve thous- and dollars free of incumbrance. Now after B has had possession of the forty awhile can he back out and not pay for the forty or does his property stand good for the debt?-——M. H., Snover, Mich. —If B breaks his contract and re- fuses to pay for the land, he would be liable to you for damages for breach of contract. B’s unencumb- ered land could be levied upon to collect the damages after a judgment had been obtained—Asst. Legal Ed- itor. CAN COLLECT RENT FOR HALL I rented a hall to an organization and received no rent. Can I collect same and who would one serve pap— ers on? Or how would you go about collecting it?—W. J., Gilford, Mich. ——You could collect rent. for the use of your ball. The proper person to serve would be the secretary, presi— dent, or other officer of the organi- zation.~—Asst. Legal Editor. LICENSE TO PEBBLE GLASS- WARE Do you have to pay a license to sell glass ware on the road? If you do how much is the license for a team of horses or a car?——D. N. B. ——I am of the opinion that one would have to secure a state license to ped— dle glassware and if on foot the fee is $5.00; of with one horse, $10.00; two horses, $40.00; a small car $20.00 and a large car $40.00. Ap— plication should be made to the State Treasurer.-——C. J. DeLand, Secretary of State. BEST TEIE TO PRUNE TREES When is the best time to trim black walnut and fruit trees?——C. H., Boon, Mich. —Fruit or other trees may be prun- ed at almost any time during the dormant season when the tissues are not frozen. This means any time when the temperatures do not go below twenty degrees above zero. as a‘ few degrees of frost usually does not serve to freeze up the tis— sues. This, of course, means that the bulk of the pruning is done dur- ing March and April, as it is at that time of the year that weather con- ditions are most favorable for the work.——V. R. Gardner, Professor of Horticulture, M. A. 0. MORE CONTRIBUTIONS T0 FEEDING FUND Two contributions to the German Babies Feeding Fund have been re- ceived since we published our state- ment of total received. These were for $1 each and came from William Baum and Andrew Baum, both at AuGres. - ‘ . ’ . ~ ' ’3 (.325, .,. . (Eontinued from February 16th issue.) RS. J‘ANE laughed'a‘bit ruefully. Well, I don’t see but what I shall have to, with everybody against me like this," she sighed, getting slowly tc ' her feet. “But if you knew—if either of youknew—how really valuable money is, . and how much it would earn for you, if you'd only let it, I don’t believe you’d ,be quite so fast to tell me to go. and spend it." "Perhaps not; but then, you see, we don’t know." smiled Miss Maggie, once again her cheery self. Mr. Smith said nothing. Mr. Smith had turned his back just then. When Mrs. Jane was gone, Mr. Smith faced Miss Maggie with a. quizzioal smile. “Well?” he hazarded. “You mean—" "I’m waiting boarder." “Oh! They’ll not be alarming, I assure you. Do you really want to come?" "Indeed I do! And I think it’s mighty good of you to take me. Bub—should you, do you think? Haven’t you got enough, with your father to care for? Won't it be too hard for you?” She shook her head. “I think not. Besides, I’m going to have help. Annabelle and Florence Mar- tin, a farmer's daughters, are very anx- ious to be in town to attend school this orders—as your new winter, and I have said that I would take them. They will work for their board." The man gave a disdainful sniff. "I can imagine how much work you'll let them do! It strikes me the ‘help’ is on the other foot However, we'll let that pass. I shall be glad enough to come, and I'll stay—unless I find you’re doing too much—about your father?” "Oh, he won’t mind. I’ll arrange that he proposes the idea himself. Besides," —~she twinkled merrily—“you really get along wonderfully with father, you know. And. as for the work—I shall have more time now: Hattie will have some one else to care for her headaches, and Jane won’t put down any more carpets, I fancy, for a while." "Well, I should hope!” he shrugged. "Honestly, Miss Maggie, one of the best things about this Blaisdell money, in my eyes, is that it may give you a little rest from being chief cook and bottle washer and head nurse combined, on tap for any minute. But, say. that woman will spend some of that money, won’t she?” Miss Maggie smiled significantly. "I think she will. I saw Frank last eveningathough I didn’t think it neces- sary to say so to her. He came to see me. I think that you'll find that they move very soon, and that the ladies of the family have some new clothes.” "Well, I hope so." “You seem concerened.” “Concerened? Er—ahmwell, I am," he asserted stoutly. “Such a windfall of wealth ought to bring happiness, I think; and it seemed to, to Mrs. Hattie, though, of course, she’ll learn better, as time goes on, how to spend her money. But Mrs. Jane—— And, by the way, how is Miss Flora. bearing up—under the burden?" Miss Maggie laughed. “Poor Flora!" “ ‘Poor Flma’! And do I hear “Poor Maggie‘ say ‘Poor Flora’?” “0h, she won’t be ‘poor’ long," smiled Miss Maggie. “She' ll get used to it—this stupendous sum of money—~one of these days. But just now she’s nearly fright— ened to death " “Frightened!” “Yes—both because she‘s got it, and because she’s afraid shell lose it. That doesn’t sound logical, I know, but Flora isn't being logical just now. To begin with, she hasn’t the least idea how to spend money. Under my careful guid- ance, however, she has bought her a few new dresses — though they' re dead black—” “Black!" interrupter the man. “Yes, she’s put on mourning,” smiled Kiss Maggie, as he came to a dismayed stop, “She would do it. She declared the wouldnt feel half decent unless she did, with that poor man dead, and giving her all that money.” “But he isn't dead—that is, they aren’t sure he's dead," amended Mr. Smith hastily. “But Flora thinks he is. She says he must be, or he would have appeared in time to save all that money. She’s very nmch shocked, especially at Hattie, that there is so little respect being shown his memory. So she is all the more de- mrmined to do the best she can on her “But she—she didn’t know him, so she m’Hn—rwlly mourn for him," stam— mered the man. There was a most cur- ious helplessness on Mr. Smith’s face. “No, she says she can’t really mourn," mulled Miss Maggie again, “and that’s what worries her the most of anything .-—because and he with neither wife nor dud: nor child to mourn for him, she says. But she' 8 determined to go through the outward form of it, at least. So she’s M31111 a. veil. She’s taken Mr. Fulton’s picture (she had one cut from a maga- fine. I believe). and has had it framed and hung on her wall. On the mantel beneath it she keeps fresh flowers always. Hie guys it's the nearest she can come to putting flowers on his grave, poor WW ailing timely more . mace-kt '3‘ ‘. cams!" breathed Mr. Smith, " t. no an ere.“ ought . [1.7%]:- §£LW 01k PORTER. , whmmm “That explains why I haven' t seen her. I had wondered where she was.” "Yes. She's very conscientious. she is going later to Niagara. I’ve per- suaded her to do that. She’ll go with a party, of .course,——one of those ‘person- ally conducted’ affairs, you know. Poor dear! she’s so excited! All her life she's wanted to see Niagara. Now she' 5 going, and she can hardly believe it’s true. She wants a' phonograph, too, but she’s decided not to get that until after six momths’ mourning is up—it’s too frivolous and jolly for a house of mourning.” "Oh, good Heavens!” breathed Mr. Smith again. ‘ “It is funny, isn't it, that she takes it quite so seriously? Bessie suggested (I'm afraid Bessie was a little naughty!) that she get the phonograph, but not allow it to play anything but dirges and hymn tunes." “But isn’t the woman going to take any comfort with that money?” demanded Mr. Smith. “Indeed, she is! She’s taking comfort now. You have no idea, Mr. Smith, what it means to her, to feel that she need never want again, and that she can buy whatever she pleases, without thinking of the cost. That’s why she’s frightened ——because she is so happy. She thinks it can’t be right to be so happy. It’s too pleasant—to be right. When she isn't being frightened about that, she's being frightened for fear she’ll lose it, and thus not have it any more. I don't think she quite realizes yet what a big sum of money it is, and she’d have to lose a great deal before she lost it all." “Oh, well she’ll get used to that, in time. They' ll all get used to it—in time, " declared Mr. Smith, his face clearing a little “Then they’ll begin to live sanely and sensibly, and spend the money as it should be spent. Of course, you couldn’t expect them to know what to do, at the very first, with a sum like that dropped into their laps. What would you do your- self? Yes, what would you do?" repeated Mr. Smith, his face suddenly alert and interested again“What 'would you do if you,should fall heir to a hundred thou— sand dollars—to—morrow ?” “What would I do? What wouldn’t I But do?’ laughed Miss Maggie. 'l‘hcn ab- ruptly her face changed. Her eyes be- came luminous, unfathomable. ”Phone is so much that a hundred thous 1nd dollars could do—so much! Vi'hy, I \xould——" Her face changed again abruptly. She sniffed as at an odor from somewhere. Then lightly she sprang to her feet and crossed to the stove. “What would I do with a hundred thousand dollars?” she demanded, whisking open a damper in the pipe. “I’d buy a new base-burner that didn’t leak gas! That's what l’d do with a hundred thousand dollars. Are you going to give it to me?" "Eh? Ali—~what?” Mr. Smith was vis- ibly startled. Miss Maggie laughed merrily “Don’t worry I wasn’t thinking of charging quite that for your board. But you seemed so interested, I didn’t know but what you were geing to hand over the hundred thousand, just to see what I would do with it." she challenged mis- chievously. “However, I'll stop talking nonsense, and come down to business. . If you ll walk this way, Mr. New Boarder, I’ll let you choose which of two rooms you'd like.” And Mr. Smith went. But, as had oc- curred once or twice before, Mr. Smith’s face, as he followed her. was a study, CHAPTER XIII The Dancing Begins Christmas saw many changes in Blaisdcll families. The James Blaisdells had moved into the biz,' house near the Gaylord place. Mrs. Hattie had installed two maids in the kitchen, bought a handsome touring car, and engaged an imposing-looking chauffeur. Fred had entered college, and Bessie had been sent to a fashionable school on the Hudson. Benny. to his disgust, had also been sent away to an expensive school. Christmas, however, found them all at home for the holidays, and for the big housewarming that their parents were planning to give on Christ- mas night. the The Frank Blaisdeils had also moved. They were occupying a new house not too far from the grocery store. They had not bought it yet. Mrs. Jane said that she wished to live in it awhile, so as to be sure she would really like it. Besides, it would save the interest on the money for that much time, anyway. True, when her husband reminded her that they would be paying rent meanwhile. But she said that didn’t matter; she was not going to put all that money into a house just yet, anyway,—-not till she was sure it was the best they could do for the price. They, too, were plann'ing’a house- warming. Theirs was to come the night after Christmas. Mrs. Jane told her hus- band that they should’ not want theirs the same night, as Hattie’s, and that if she had hers right away the next night, she could eat up any of the cakes or ice cream that was left from Hattie’s party, and thus save.buying so much for herself. . But her husband was so indignant over the idea of eating “Hat- tie’s leavings” that she had to give up this part of the plan, though she still arranged to have her housewarming on the day following her sister-in—laws. Mellicent, like Bessie, was home from school, though not from the same school. Mrs. Jane had found another one that was just as good as Bessie’s, she said, and which did not cost near so much money. Mr. Smith was not living with them now, of Course. He was boarding at Miss Maggie Duff’s. Miss Flora was living in the same little rented cottage she had occupied for many years. She said that she should move, of course, when she got through her mourning, but until then she thought it more suitable for her to stay where she was. She had what she wanted to eat, now. however, and she did not do dress- making any longer. She still did her own housework, in spite of Harriet Blaisdell’s insistence that she get a maid. She said that there was plenty of time for all those things when she had finished her mourning. She went out very little, though she did go to the housewarming at her brother Jame’s—“being a relative, so,” she decided that no criticism could be made. It seemed as it‘ all Hillerton went t0' that house-warming. Those who were not especially invited to attend went as far as the street gate, and looked on enviously. Mrs. Hattie had been very generous with her invitations, however. She said that she had asked everybody who ever pretended to go anywhere. She told Maggie Duff that, of course, after this, she should be more exclusive ——very exclusive, in fact; but that this time Jim wanted to ask everybody, and she didn’t mind so much—she was really rather glad to have all these people see the house, and all—they certainly never would have the chance again. Mr. Smith attended with Miss Maggie. Mrs. Hattie had very kindly included him in the invitation. She had asked Father Duff, too, especially though she said she knew, of course, that he would not g0-~he never went anywhere. Father Duff bristled up at this and declared that he guessed he would go, after all, just to show them he could, if he wanted to. Mrs. Hattie grew actually pale, but Miss Maggie exclaimed joyfully that, of course, he would go—he ought to go, to show the proper respect! Father Duff said no then, very decidedly; that noth— ing could hire him to go, and that he had no respect to show. He declared that he had no use for gossip and gabble and unwholesome eating; and he said that he should not think Maggie would care to go, either,—unless she could be in the kitchen, where it would seem natural to her ! Mrs. Hattie, how'ever, smiled kindly, and said, of course, now she could afford to hire better help than Maggie (caterers from the city and all that), so Maggie would not be in the kitchen, and that with practice she would soon learn not to mind at all being ’round among folks in the parlor. Father Duff had become so apop- lectically angry at this that Mr. Smith. who chanced to be present, and who also THE STORY TO DATE STANLEY G. FULTON, poIltlon of Halo M In favor of is oppoIed to then i cu. n. 50-year old bachelor and pOIIeIIor ‘of twenty million dollIrI, talk on h' large fortune after its owner's death. 3 the money to collegeI or charitieI while Fulton He remembers that he has some dlItnnt oonIinI lawyer and they diIcuII the «III- The lawyer and deck!“ to leave the money to one of them. but first he determinII to learn which one will uIe it to the boot advantage. worthy one be through hlI lawyer, gives, each cousin $100, 000 to on in they will. Before giving them the money To find out who II the rows a beard and, ruin; the name of Mr. John Smith, («I to the town"l w ore they llye to find out what kind of people they Ire.‘ decide they cannot to Frank Blalodéll’l. the third con-In. 3 material for I book on He calla II all of the Bit Maggie DIR, lie docide‘I to call on ythp lady. He finds her living with her father, In 016mm. II a. writer ml: erin country, he star“ out. of a relative by the name of Min on the world. He then tel I lejtelto 116 “canola-what tln‘fo 1 who mean rs “of thoi'm' ‘ 1w .111: n: to Upon arriving one of the confirm, where he trloI to hire bond and lodging. he meets MIII Flory BlIlIdoll, another cousin who rent I room to him and Iupply Imam boll-d °and refer him a!“ t. we; dlIouuln am town he viIltI James Blnlqdell, While‘ there '1‘th is a ,dreIIm'aker. sing lie netIt I hiI' e11 tall: 810‘ can? :de'l II" ”ind l'IIPtoy In, In w poo to "can rom 13: and ~"'.vIriouI 1-‘ save Wind! , . she had been a little disturbed' stand. it. I have tenet? her to. was very angry was forced to forget his Own wrath in his desire to make the situation easier for Miss Maggie. He had not supposed that Miss Maggie would go at all, after that. He had even determined not to go' himself. But Miss Maggie, after a day’s thought, had laughed and had said, with her eyes twinkling. “Oh. well, it doesn’t matter, you know.——it doesn’ t really matter, does it?” And they had gone. Itwas a wonderful party. Mr. Smith enjoyed it hugely. He saw almost every- body he knew in Hillerton, and many that he did not know. He heard the Blaisdells and their new wealth discussed from all viewpoints, and he heard some things about the missing millioraire bene- factor that were particularly interesting —to him. The general opinion seemed to be that the man was dead; though a few admitted that there was a possibility, of course, that he was merely lost some- where in darkest South America and would eventually get back to civilization, certainly long before the time came to open the second letter of instructions. Many professed to know the man well, through magazine and newspaper ac— counts (there were .times when Mr. Smith adjusted more= carefully the smoked glasses which he was still wearing), and some had much to say of the million» aire’s characteristics, habits, and eccen- tricities; all of which Mr. Smith enjoyed greatly. Then, too, there were the Blalsdells themselves. They‘were all there, even to Miss Flora, who was in dead black; and Mr. Smith talked with them all. Miss Flora told him that she was so happy she could not sleep nights, but that she was rather glad she couldn’t sleep. after all, for she spent the time mourn- ing for poor Mr Fulton, and thinking how good he had been to her. And that made it seem as if she was doing some- thing for :him. She said, Yes, oh, yes. she was going to stop black mourning in six months, and go into grays and lav- enders: and she was glad Mr. Smith thought that was long enough, quite long encugh for .the black, but she could not think for a moment of putting on colors now, as he suggested. She said, too, that she had decided not to go to Niagara. for the present. And when he demurred at this, she told him that really she would rather not. It would be wanner in the spring, and she would much rather wait till she Could enjoy every minute without feeling that—~well, that she was almost dancing over the poor man’s grave, as it were. Mr. Smith did not urge her after that. He turned away, indeed, gather percipi— tately that Miss Flora wondered if she could have said anything to offend him. Mr. Smith talked next with Mrs. Jane Blaisdell. Mrs. Jane was looking par- ticularly well that evening. Her dress was new, and in good style, yet she in some way looked odd to Mr. Smith. In a moment he knew the reason: she were no apron. Mr. Smith had never seen her without an apron before. Even on the streetshe wore a black silk one. He complimented her gallantly on her fine appearance. But Mrs. Jane did not smile. ‘She frowned. “Yes, I know. Thank you, of course," she answered worriedly. “But it cost an awful lot—this dress did; but Frank and Mellicent would have it. That child!——- have you seen her to—night?” “M1345” Mell1oent" Yes, in the distance. She, too, is looking most charming, Mrs. Blaisdell "1 The woman tapped her foot impatiently. ' "Yes, I know she is—and some other folks thing 50,- too, I notice. Was she with that Pennock boy?” "Not when I saw her.” “Well, she will be, if'she isn't now. He follows her everywhere." “But I thought—that was broken up." Mr. Smith now was frowning. “It was. You know what that woman said—«the inSult! But now, since .this' money came—” She let an expressive gesture, complete the sentence. Mr. Smith laughed. “I wouldn‘t worry, Mrs. ,Blaisdell. I don't think he’ll make much headway—— now. “Indeed, he Won’ t—«if I can help my- self!” flashed the woman indignantly. ”I reckon he won’t stand much show with Mellicent—after whats happened." “I guess he won’t," snapped the wo- man. "He isn’t worth half what she is now. As if I'd let her look at him!" “But I meant— Mr. Smith stopped abruptly. There'was an odd expression on his face. Mrs. Blaisdell filled the pause. . “But, really Mr. Smith, I don’t know what I am going to do—with Mellicent.” she sighed. 3 “Do with her?” “Yes. She's as wild as a hawk Ind as—as flighty as a humming-bird, since this money came. She's so crazy with Joy and excited." “What if she is?" challenged Mr. Smith, looking suddenly very happy him- self. “Youth .is the time for Joy and laughter; I'm sure I'm glad she is tak- . ing a little pleasure in l’ife.’ Mrs. Blaisdel frowned again. ‘ ‘ "But Mr; th, you know as well u Ido that-life isn’tallpinkdressesand, sugar-plums. ~-It is a: serious business, andIhavetriedmbringheruptounaex: BBBAKINF— TN m NBW '1‘}. FOR \ ' O doubt many of our readers are contemplating the purchase of a new tractor for spring work. To those who are I want to pass on to you a word of caution about breaking it in. - It is not advisable for you to wait to get the tractor until you want .to use it and then put it to work right away pulling a plow. It wants to be worked in gradually at not‘too heavy a load. — You are familiar with the notice pasted on the windshield of practic- ally every new car, cautioning pur- chasers not to drive the car over twenty-five miles an hour for the first five hundred"miles. You would not think of loading seven or eight ’heavy persons into a five-passenger car and .try to see how many miles you could-caver in a given length of time‘or how steep a grade it would pull on high with that kind of a load. That robably would not do as much damage to the car as putting a new tractor to work plowing ten or twelve hours a day the first thing would do to a tractor. There is just as much reason for “easing in” the tractor as there is for driving a. car carefully for the first five-hun- . dred miles, or starting in a team of horses at is soft after three or four months of idleness- The reason why “is necessary to work in a new tractor gradually is because it takes time to wear down the wearing surfaces of bearings, pistons and cylinders. All tractors are run for several hours at the fac- tory, but not long enough so that the wearing surtaces of the pistons and cylinders are worn down smooth enough so there will be no danger tom scoring when the machine is put to heavy work. If the tractor is started 011' at light work the wearing parts of pistons, cylinders, and bearings at— tain a working surface gradually and do not become overheated or scored. As they become worn in it is easier to lubricate the' various working surfaces properly so that when the machine is called upon to do heavy work it will handle it with- out serious injury. 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Without more adequate fire protection or without a better system of taxation, however, we will never realize this hope.” In this sentiment he was echoed by all prominent men present such as the deans of the three Agricultural Col— leges, Dr. R. T. Ely, an authority on agricultural economics, and Raph- eal Zon, Director of Lake States Forest Service Station. Mr. Zon said, “With only three states east of the Mississippi River showing an increase of acres of land put into farms over those abandoned, it is useless to talk of putting these acres of marginal land to better use than forestry. Rather than permit them to be idle let them produce a crop of lumber which will be valuable enough in a generation from now." Another speaker pointed out that even in Wisconsin, the foremost in colonization methods, last year 90,000 acres .of farm land was abandoned while 100,000 acres were being incorporated into farms. In most cases this better farming land was found in so-called cut-over country. He pointed out that all lands could be classified as good ag- ricultural land. as marginal, or sub- marginal. During emergencies, such as the World War, the marginal ' l lands are brought under cultivation . and are made to pay because of the high prices, but it is an economic 'waste to work them during periods like those we are in now. The sub- marginal will probably never be used for agricultural purpohes and should utilised for permanent forest while the marginal should .pro- duce a crop of early maturing timber and may. be returned for agricultural purposes .. if conditions are favorable. Dr. Ely said. “We deplore the present paternalistic government—s government that-1s more and. more doing us MW should , it. is sanctum was ~mountoi'psedtoucearomado‘ insole. We! of our; you: the things!“ ; flail moi? cease to‘ .- penalise", by severe taxes; the growing of timbers! ) fully prepared speech Mr. —Lundin '. described the plan (if taxation of‘ forest lands as incorporated in the bill which he introduced in the» Mich- igan Legislature of 1923. He “pro-3 pose that the land be taxed at So an acre but that no tax be levied against the growing timber until'it was harvested when'the tax would: be as many per 'centums as the years the forest had been exempt. In other. words, if the timber was harvested 26 years later, the tax would be 25‘ per cent of the value. To ”some pause the townships for the loss in taxes the local townships could bor- row, the money to be returned when the taxes from the lumber harvest came ' in. “Such a system of tag- ation,” said Mr. .Lundin, “is being used in the soundinavi'an countries . with great success. It brings about reforestation by private individuals; as a regular crop, it provides wealth for the townships in later years, it preserves our game and fish, it pro- vides places for recreation and rest, and it benefits agriculture by ,brin‘g- ing about a better distribution of the rain-falls.” “But”, he conclud- ed," We must have fire protection.” His plan met with the approval of those present and will probably be advocated in all three states as the _ uniform law for taxing lands devot- ' ed to forestry. , , Dean R. S. Shaw of Michigan Ag— ricultural College took a prominent part in the discussions. In a splen- did discourse at the banquet he said, “There never was a more critical period ahead of the American people as far as agriculture is concerned. The success of this great industry in the past gained through exploita- tion of the soil. The three things that will contribute to the success of the nation or any nation in the future are the fertility of the soil, adequate transportation, and busy workshops. We must see to it from now on that real farming keeps away from the undesirable system of ex- ploitation." Dean Coffey of Minnesota sees. a. great industrial development in Lake States provided the raw materials, particularly forest products, remain available. He said, “Agriculture and forestry are basic to future prosper- ity and greater development of the three states. They should supple- ment each other; the settler should grow, utilize and market timber the same as he does other crops. We foresee a great industrial develop- ment for the region, but in order to achieve this development the intelli- gent utilization of land is necessary, for industrial development is con- tingent upon a supply of raw pro- ducts, and at least half of our raw products for manufacturing in the United States comes directly from farms and forests. “We are the great playground of the Middle West. To be permanent- ly successful in attracting tourists we shall have to make intelligent utilization of land.” Dean Russell of Wisconsin pointed out the relations between industry and agriculture. He said, “Fat cities . cannot, build on a lean countryside." It seemed to be the consensus of opinion that a great” future awaits. the Lake States if (1) taxes on land can be reduced, (2) our idle lands utilized by growing timber crops,(3) continued adequate rail transporta- tion coupled with increased water route facilities.——-E_. J. LeenhoutsL OUR BOOK REVIEW , flow and this heading 3”" " °d Tiara hatching:1 31:31:59,: ‘( Earmgmendhwfiihbc promptl i ed by pmelpost on receipt of pub mic- stated. The Potatb.—By William Stuart. This book explains the culture.‘ motivation. harvestizm, shipping. storage. and mar- keting angles—cumming - conditions peotiliar to the North, South. East and . West. Various planting methods, innu- ~ once of the soil, temperature, moisture, . varieties to new, crop rotation. kind- and bio 'vlth pin-tn. every“? text. New MW tin—Nets Dome, maobin . m ‘ ed,“ in. action. mammotemum in Met mm astonishment” 1th. In scares." ‘ _~ "me8 Hours, ETC. -< ‘ «OMETIMES I git letters. trom sev’ra'l an’ var’ous‘ women askin’, ’bout Women’s rights an' vice \versa, or what ever they call ’em—— have they got all their rights, what. are they, how’d they git ’em an’ what are they for; in fact, lots of women don’t seem to know what they want nor what rights they’ve got; . " . ,You know there’s mightly few W0? men. if they’d stop an" consider the matter, that’d want to have jest the rights: that. more ‘men have got. .Fact is, if we’d pin women down to men’s rights they'd raise—-well the (lichens, blazes an’ everything. Why folks, if women was pinned down to joint the rights men has you an’ I, an’ mebby'Bill Bryan an’ Coolidge ’ud be ’bout the only ones that ; could live with ’em or nigh ’em now ’an forevermore. Jest cut ’em right down to our ’ rights—well, jest make ’em pay ali- ' many for 26 or 30 years, let ’em pay ‘ preacher? ' a. few breach of promise things, give ’em a fine of ten thOusand or more dollars for kissin’ one of us unpro— tected male men, send ’em to jail if they speak to us on the street ’thout a pleeceman’s introduction. put ’em in a padded cell ’thout pads if they cast vampy eyes onto us—well they do them things to men, yes even for less'n anything like what I’ve men- tioned. Why a man can’t even slap a woman’s face ’thout bein’ haled Tom a Justice an’ fined or sent to prison for life or longer. Now you know a woman can slap a man rag- ged ‘thout no provocation a tall hardly—jest in defense of her honor or whatever it is she slaps him for an’ he ain’t got a Word to say ’bout it—he has no honor to be mussed up or whatever they do with what a man ain’t got. A woman can git excused from jury duty on ’count of sex—a man can’t do that. Women can run away from their husbands an’ the law can’t touch ’em for it. Let a man try runnin’ away from his Wife and he lands in. jail. Wife can hold one-third interest in her hus- band’s property—a man can hold nothin’ but his temper an’ hardly that. ' Women can sue for divorce an’ man has to pay all expenses—even in the marriage game itself. Who pays for the license? Who pays the Who buys the weddin’ ring? Who keeps it if the thing its for busts up? Equal rights! Equal’ty of ,the sexes! Dear folks, there ain’t no such animal known——there couldn’t be—not in ten thousand years. An’ if women ’ould only study the matter jest a little while they'd see it wouldn’t be good for ’em to have any such thing. Fact is, they wouldn't want it at all. Sad indeed 'ould be the'day for this 01' world if men and women could be on an equal mount—Wo- men would have to come down ofl'n the high pedestal; (what ever that is) they’d have to lower themselves by a good many degrees from where amen themselves have placed ’em. A 4. . a}; noticewas entirely voluntary, Woman with all her lovliness, with the great mother love, the mother- hood that belongs to her alone, can never become man's equal. She must always remain his superior. Tr: FOR THE BABIES! ' Detroit, January 18, 1924.1l Michigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Michigan. , Attention Mr. Geo. M. Slocum. Gentlemenz—e A few days ago I had the pleasure- of receiving your check for $189.00 through Mr. Richard Koehler, which, by ‘ your noble efforts, you collect- ed” for the German babies feed- .ing fund. The same was im- mediately forwarded to Germ- any for the purpose indicated. On behalf of the committee I wish to offer sincere ’thanks for your action which we ' and coming from-a non-Germ— " ..l,puhlication, it is, doubly ap- , F: Wed- Your < smear-alma- , Beck, Sec’y., German Mind ~‘Gsmpalsn. De- \‘ In all the finer things of lite woman is at the top. She makes the home bright, she is-the joy of. life, she has mere nerve, more hope, more love than any man can ever have. Yes by gravy, she has more privi- leges than men an' she should o’rt to have ’em for she is the maker an’ the finisher of all that is good an’ noble in man’s life! An yet I'm kinda sorry to say, lots of our fine, nice women ain’t satisfied with what they’ve got—they seem to want to come down to men’s level, to be on an equality with them. Oh‘ my dear women friends, jest thank our good God that you are not man’s equal— that you are so much above him in all that1 is good an’ lovely that he can never hope to reach your level. I am not Writin’ this in any senti- mental mood—I don’t like women ’specially well myself, but I know somethin’ oi' the lovliness of ’em—- of the mother heart that’s in ’em, an’ I am ,sayin’ to you an’ every lady 'at I never want to see women on an equality with men unless.men get on a higher plane than they’ve ever been an’ I guess mebbe higher ‘an’ they ever will be. ' Womans rights mebbe is a nice thing. I’ll say its all right an’ they’ve got a lot more’n we poor cusses’ll ever have. I’m glad they got ’em—but equality! No my dear women of the she sex, I don’t never want to see no such thing as that, least—wise not into this world as she is today. Cordially yours.——UNCLE RUBE. ARE FRUIT GROWERSV WILLING TO PAY MORE FOR TREES? (Continued from Page 4) and, if he is making an honest pack, he would have to pay for service not needed. Mixing of varieties needn’t occur where experienced men do the packing. 4. What about replacement of varieties, if. under certification some should slip through that were not true to name? 5. If the inspector were the least bit in doubt, he would err on the ‘side of safety and throw out some trees of known variety. Last winter at a meeting of the Ontario fruit groWers, it Was stated that some nurseries in that province as well as some in the states, used to practice substitution of varieties; if they had not the variety asked for, they would give what they con- sidered the next best thing. That there was truth in this statement is evident from the exper- ience related by one of the Ontario men present. He said that in 1912 he bought 1,000 Morello cherries, and when they came into bearing, there were only 800 Morellos; there were 100 Early Richmond trees and 100 of other worthless varieties. In 1913, 200 Monarch plum trees were bought, and 120 turned out to be Green Gage. In 1916, he bought 500 Bartlett pears, and 75 turned out to be Bosc. Protessor Macoun, horticulturist at the Ontario agricultural college. says they have been studying identi- fication of apples for several seasons and have made application for a man to go into- growers' orchards and pick out trees not true to name. Can this work be extended to oth— er fruits than apples? Yes--and it is just as essential with other fruits. if not more so. It apples turn out to be worthless they can be top- worked, but this is not true of peachesypears, plums, cherries. 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List of Parts for One—Step Amplifier _ 11nd Approximate prices 1 Socket for \1’17-12- tube .................... $ .75 1 VVD~12 Vacuum tube ........................ 6.50 1 6—ohm rheostat .................................... .75 1 Audio frequency amplifier ................ 4.00 6 Binding posts ...................................... .50 1 221/2 volt “B” battery ...................... 1.50 1 N0. 6 dry battery .............................. .50 (three of these are better) $14.50' For a two step amplifier you will need 2 or each of the above items except the binding posts. “B” bat— tery and the No. 6 dry cells. . Remember that on- your detector you are only using a “B” battery of 221/; volts, whereas the amplifier will need at least 45 volts. The battery you use for your receivmg set is also used in the amplifier, both the “A” and “B” batteries. You will also need some short pieces of “bell wire” for making connections and a piece of Wood for the base and another for the front panel. We are showing two diagrams .with this article, so that if you have ordered the parts for your amplifier you can build either one-step or two- -step amplifier to add to your HOW TO BUILD A ONE OR TWO - SEEP AMPLIFIER receiving set. As stated before, we wish to em- phasize it, a one-step amplifier adds very ,little more volume to the re- ceived signals, whereas the second step adds a very great deal more in proportion. The one—step will'make "music and voices that ordinarily are barely hearable loud enough to und- erstand perfectly in the telephone receivers. The addition of a second step will make everything too loud for the telephone receivers, but will, enable you to use a horn attachment- to your receivers so that a roomfull can hear what is going on. It also will enable you to attach your re— ceivers to your phonograph so that you will get the benefit of the spec- ially designed horn that all talking machines have. You can buy (if you Wish to spend the money) a regular loud‘ talker (or speaker) and get volume enough to fill a hall or church or school. - In. the list of materials given for the amplifier, we have only given one “B” battery, stating that with the one you have for your detector that you will then have 45 volts in your B battery. A11 amplifier will give good results with only 45 volts, but 67 to 90 volts will give much greater amplification in volume of sound received. .80 for loud results you will need three or four B bat— teries. Do not buy 45 volt batteries or 90 volt batteries, for the reason that if any part of it proves defect- ive the whole battery is ruined. If you buy separate units of 22% each and connect them in series, you can see that if one set goes bad you have only lost one battery of. 221/3 volts instead of 45 or 90 volts. This MM 1"B'vi- 49739014/2'; - I P MaW/flmr ‘5 . Plum [—C O G P G P QF+ F—Q QF+ F-Q 27905262“ Wear/‘4)" 6m. 5m; (.9 .. ’A’ But Two—Si z'p Amplifier is much easier on-the pocket book. Now to work! Look over the diagram carefully, arrange all the parts approximately as shown, then make each connec- tion from the binding posts to the instruments in turn. Solder all jomts or if placed under nuts or screw heads be sure that the wire is clean and the screw head is clean and then tighten down good and tight. Good contacts depend upon the thoroughness with which you keep the parts clean, the care taken and soldering wherever possible. It is not necessary to tell you 110w to make each connection, but it is necessary that'you follow the. dia— gram carefully. We have used graphic representations of the )«av/3 . , - "mu-.1-“ .45... be is. The binding posts mid the {rheo- @panel and base should be treated with parrafin or shellac as previous- . 1y used on your detector set. Hard rubber or bakelite is much better. The exact position of the binding posts and other parts is not fixed but should be followed fairly close- Jy. The shorter the wire leads are the better the results. To connect this amplifier to your receiving set do as follows: Con- nect your A battery to the posts marked A, the positive to the posi- tive post and the negative to the “'ith this receiving set, which was de- scribed in our issue of February 2nd, I have heard stations 1,000 miles away. negative post. The B battery is con- nected next to it’s posts. Your tele- rphone receivers are removed from your receiving detector set and at- tached to the amplifier post marked “Phone” and two wires are run from your detector from the posts that you just took the telephones from and connected to the 2 posts marked “imput.” To tune in, turn on the current j; with the rheostat of your amplifier about one half way and then tune your detector set as you previously did before adding the amplifier. You should now hear any broadcast much louder than before, it may be a little “mushy”, but by adjusting the rheostat of the amplifier up .or down a little you will clear up the voices so that they Will sound na— tural. Always burn your bulbs as low as possible, just so that you' get the re— sults, it does not pay to force them too high as the life is shortened and the batteries are used up sooner and above all the results in tone or sound are not satisfactory. GOOD NEWS FOR YOU The price on vacuum tubes for detectors and. amplifiers have come down and instead of paying $6.50 each they can be bought for $5.00 to $5.50 each. - A VOICE FROM OUT OF THE SNO‘VBOUND NORTH We are buried under about four feet of snow up here and if it wasn’t <1 ' for the Radio we would just about $4 give up living on the farm as a bad 31' job, but since we got it we do not 9“ , care whether the snow gets to the § eaves or not so long as it does not '1 i cover our wires—Mrs. C. A. B., 5 Hiawatha, Mich. 1‘ Questions and Answers SEND IN YOUR QUESTIONS , . I recently read a report that l k farmers were not taking much inter— ‘ est in radio but from the number of { letters that pour into my oflice each ' day I am sure that the report did not refer to the farmers of Michi— gan. So far we have been able to publish only a. few questions and answers due to shortage of space, but every question that comes in re— ceives my best attention and a per- 1. sonal reply without charge to ’the .‘ei reader. We hope to have room for more of these in our department in 1 the future as many ask questions that are in the minds of many who are interested and the answers will q .prove of general interest. ’ Send along those questions as I will answ- er them by an early mail. Let’s get a radio receiving set while it is geod “radio weather " Or if your set is not working right maybe I can help you. , SENDS FOR PARTS I am enclosing my check for $25; . 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PUT THIS NEW MILL ON YOUR Albion steel and wood mills are am And powmiul.0nc-th1rdlbc work- my part: of any other mill. Only mam Pllman bcsnng subml to weal This is oillcu, and easily u:- plueablc.Cove1ns by depcnfllblo wemlu Wilboul springs. File My 4-4101! em llowel Why nonlionen ourdlore hours now with 0 good indnnlD- This is your chance—J7 0.8 . Albion. Erect ll yoursclL Ash you! draft-v. or write direct lo Union Steel Products Co. Ltd. 0 t. 3 Albion, linen} u. as The macho om BUSINESS FARMER SATURDAY, MARCH 1,1924 Edited and Published by THE RURAL PUBLISHING OOIPANV, Inc. GEORGE M. SLOOUM. President Mt. Clemens. Michigan Detroit Ofl‘. ce—818 lVashington Boulevard Bldg, Cadillac 9440 Represented in New York Chicago, St. Louis and Minneapolis by he Associated Farm Papers, Incorporated Member of Agricultural Publishers Association Member of Audit Bureau of Ciroulations Milan Grinnell nagging Editor Annie Taylor. ......Farm Home Editor Frank D. Wells. -....... ' ' J. Herbert Ferris 1: din Ecitor ainism FE. Brown ' ............ Religious Editor ..M. 0. Co rrespondent ....... Special Corres iondent ................................. Circulation anager enry F, Hinkimi ______ ONE YEAR 60c. TWO YEARS $1. .Al ldl tor "Plant Sup-crintendent FIVE VEARS $2. The date following your name on the address label shows when your subscription expires. In renewing kindly send this label to avoid mistakes. Remit by check. draft, money order or registered letter; stamps and currency are at your risk. We acknowledge by first-class mail every dollar received. 45c eper agater line. Advertlslng Rates: 14 lines to the column 7 lines to the page Flat inch Live Steel: and Auctiong Sale Advertising: We ofler speech] low rates to repntsb ll.- breeders of live stock and poultr RELIABLE ADVERTISERS We will not knowing accept the advertising of any person or firm who up do not bel are be thoroughly honest and reliable. Should r‘iiiy render have ecause for complaint suinst any ad- theoe uhlisher hwould a, reciate an im- mediate let mm in unlit pp wri any "1 df artis t hThIn Melchiveryncasfi when saw your e vs emen in a n usinesl Farmer!“ It will guarantee honest dealing. “The Farm Paper 9! Service ” KEEP COOL-IDGE! HERE is little doubt but what the Republican rallying cry for this year’s campaign will be “Keep Cool-idge!" Calvin Coolidge is fam- ed for his especial characteristic of immunity to the popular hysteria of the moment and al- though small in stature he has a David-like ca- pacity for aiming straight with a single word at the vulnerable point of his opponent. Into a calm political sea. in which the bark which bore his colors was riding peacefully to a harbor of certainty for re-election which seemed ahead only as far as November, came a veritable typhoon in the shape of the Teapot Dome oil graft exposure. The Democrats looked on while the fleet of Republican cabinet ofllcers were be- ing tossed high on the waves of public opinion and finally dashed one by one on the rocks of sacrifice, but their contentment was shortlived when the cyclone switched its tail, as cyclones will, hitting the Democratic pride of the fleet so hard a blow that it is doubtful if the most able politicians of that party will be able to resurrect the good ship “McAdoo” from the dephths where it now lies. . Michigan had something at stake in all of this because Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, is one of the national figures whom we are proud to point to as a son of this state. That he has been the “goat” in the present controversy is easily apparent to any man who knows the polit- ical game and how it is played, and that Calvin Coolidge should have defended his cabinet ofllcer against the unwarranted attacks without the op- portunity of a fair trial has only added to his standing with the sane thinking element in this state. Calvin Coolidge, himself 21 Vermont farmer boy, with a. keen knowledge of the hardships of his people on the rocky hillsides of that state, has shown an appreciation of the agricultural situation and a desire to remedy it which have been noted with growing approval by the farm- ers of this country. That he has not been led astray by radical senators who claim to represent the farming interests ofthis country is a proof that he can keep cool and areason Why the vot— ers next fall are quite apt to rally to the banner “Keep Cool-idge!" RADIO MAKES WINTER FLY LETTER just received from a lady reader at Hart, Michigan, closes with these lines: “The snow is piled high here but it doesn’t mat- ter so long as it does not cover the wires to our radio. With it the whole world is brought through storm, sleet, and snow into our living room, last night we listened to our President as plainly as if he had been on our own telephone." One by one the terrors of farmisolatlon are being eliminated by science and invention. We have continually stated in these columns that radio was destined to be one of the greatest de- velopments for improving farm life and keepinx the boys'snd girls on the farm that bu ever been divised. We considered that the radio ranks only second to the automobile and truck in its 1W to agriculture. It is any to see from the correspondence saw dressed to the radio editor of T8: Bum” I‘m tint the interest In radio hos jumped foreword by leaps and bounds this winter. We 192 the form-it becomes the brings any number of outfits int ity. ‘ ' ‘ A radio set may be purchsséd at 10w cast and assembled by the men and boys on the farm. J. Herbert Ferris, our radio editor has promised to help any reader of Tm: Busnmss Fauna who ss-V sembles such a set to make it work satisfactor- ily; in other words, if you build a. set according to his suggestions and it does not work satisfact- orily, you may send it for him to test it out and tell you where the trouble is or correct it for you. This is a very generous offer and is made simply because there is no man in our state more keenly interested in or who will have had more to do with the development of radio on the farm th. .. our own radio editor. Do not hesitate to write him on any subject regarding radio. No matter how simple your questions or how intricate, we want to continue this publication as the leader in the development of this wonderful boon to the farm home which we from the first have pioneered. THE WILLIAMS BILL EPRESENTATIVE ARTHUR B. WILLIAMS of the Third District, Michigan, has undertak- en a task which is to be commended and the plans under which he proposes to secure the results will well bear the scrutiny of every man interested in the greatest problem in American} agriculture today, namely, that of safe market- ing. * That Representative Williams has a keen con— ception of what is most needed is proven in his recent statement that: “The critical phases of the farm situation are dealt with by a number of bills now pending in congruss designed to give temporary and immed- iate relief. The bill that I have introduced is one intended to correct an underlying difficulty and to assist in affording permanent relief to the farmer. “If the farmers of the country in 1920 and during the period since then had been thorough- ly organized they would have been in a position very largely to have protected themselves. In- stead of continuing on a war basis of production they would have curtailed to the probable needs for domestic consumption and export. Instead of doing that with reference to certain products at least, they have kept right on producing re- gardless of the market available to them. “The first step in the matter of governing pro.- duction is to have a. well organized sales agency that is constantly in touch with the nature and volume of demand. A good sales organization in any business directs and has everything to say with reference to the kind and quantity of pro- duction. In this the farmers have been lacking. Their business, by and large, should be viewed from the same standpoint as that of the manu— facturer. In times of lessened demand the man- ufacturer usually cuts down his production, when a lesser volume will bring more net profits than a larger volume will at ruinous prices. . “The bill that I have introduced has two gen— eral aspects. It provides a well balanced federal board to supervise and encourage the develop- ment of cooperative marketing organizations and in addition it is authorized to study the whole WOODBOW WILSON eagle has passed on! . . into the blue . . p 1 And all the chattering. of the spa!- rows dies. They could not beer- to see the eagle rise Beyond the reaches that their small wings know. Above the housetops they could comma too—- But though they strove to blind the eagle’s eyes Withflnttoringwings . . tostsyhim With their (3116‘; He rose and passed—above. “You“ the” vi“ Ane oalwayshalouolyonew— Thimmwmhimondhemm Butlltflobtrdsmtmonm‘u’ Andwhstenoadoknowsthoyconnot m o u' ' Whenheumthomnwknw»“ hit. mmmwhefimam 1 .....3y Rescue Mereler Montgomery. conditio , 5 ‘mately among the m ' " of these produ with estimates so to the volume” and 1:11erch 0 products that should be produced by the farmersnrr in any given year. “This bill covers new ground, and I am quite aware that no doubt many valuable suggestions can be made with reference to'lt. I invite these and later may find it necessary to amend th'e " ' bill to embody some of these ideas.” Cooperative marketing by the various branches of agricultural production is to ay 9. success. The apparent need now is a closer co—relation be- tween the producers, in the various states; in other words, there is no need for the bean grow- ers in Michigan to proceed along individual lines if they can secure the cooperation, of the other bean-growing states. although it would probably be advantageous for them to maintain their ow‘n individual selling relations and the matters of production discussed and mutually agreed upon between the various state units. The Williams Bill coming trom a. Michigan representative deserves especial attention from us, and we feel that th farmers of the state and the farm organizations who represent them should go on record regarding this bill immedi- ately and either give Representative Williams their hearty support /or point out to him where- in this bill does not meet the needs as he has expressed them. ’ WEXFORD FARMERS POINT THE WAY F you have been wondering how to get the folks in your neighborhood into a. spirit of neighborllness which would make your life happier and more contented turn to page 4 of this issue and read the story of what they hove done over at Mouton. There is not a community in Michigan where there is not a school houSe, and there is not a school house which is not available for the very purpose to which this one has been put. A com- munity proposition such as this breaks down all the barriers of creed, secret fraternity or clanish organizations and leads all to a common footing through which to enjoy and profit by their social intercourse. We heartily commend these Wexford County farmers for having helped to blaze a way. THE TAX TUG 0’ WAR NE does not need to be a political diagnostic- “ *r‘ determine that the real reason why the Democrats and Republicans are enjoy- ing such a merry tug 0' war over the tax situa- tion is because 1924 is an election year. The one thing which all classes, including the farmer, capital, labor, and all other divisions of society, are solidly behind is a program which will reduce taxation in this country. It should also be 'easily apparent that the One sure way to reduce taxes is to lower the cost of government operations. It is encouraging to know that this has been carried on more or less successfully, not only in the state, but in the national government during the past two years and we should not pass in this discussion without giving some credit to the men who have been act- 'ive in making the preSent tax reduction plans even possible. The budget plan is largely re- sponsible for these economies and that the na- tional government should find itself with a sur— plus of funds with which to carry on the work 01,1924 and, therefore, the possibility of elim— inating the so—called “nuisance" taxes and to re- duce the income tax is indeed commendable. We doubt if the present war over the exact percentage of reduction in income and surtaxes will seriously affect the average farmer in Mich‘ igen. It is our opinion that there are many taxes which the farmer pays directly or indirect- ly which affect him much more seriously than that of the so-callod income tax, which is applic- able to so small a. percentage of the men who till the farms of this country. .The farmer would be quite willing to pay an income tax if his ill- come were large enough to make such a foot . possible, but during the last two or three years this perticulsr tax has been the least of his troubles. From our standpoint our chief interest in is a direct taxation of some sort Which will spread. - the load evenly. We feel that agriculture wee '.'unduly burdened under the present system of 7' taxation, and whether it MW at. «to: tax. or income tax. the” masters“ new plan must be devised which we: om pure~ of the loud Which the m CL: I ‘ 1 . . 7 . p . 2n ' . < . . . «,- . . . . , 1-.” WWW: , . ' W , R ‘ _ , r ' . I . .1 , "‘\ .:_‘.,;, P 1 ‘ _ ‘ 1‘ ‘ v V -~ 1 l ’1 v ‘ . h . . ,I ) .'_‘r ‘ wj’d-V: _‘,:‘:~:: A A " SW; " :W‘ufl -.: A t . -<_‘ : . _, , i Q ; ' M. B. n. READERS nor some! Dear Mr. Slocum:—-—I am not con- sidered a very stingy person and I am going to live up to my reputation. I have just received something that promises something. good and I want to pass it along. I know you, are after the frauds and I should think they would find out that the readers of old M. B. F. are not suckers. Enclosed you will find some good bait from Mr. Moriarity, of Chicago. I enjoy reading the M. B. F. very much. It is certainly clean in ad- vertising and everything else. Very Cordially yours, W. G. Winslow, Sel- kirk, Michigan. . HE circular enclosed by Mr. Win- slow, offered him a wonderful proposition if he would simply return a printed card to the address in Chicago. We are glad to know that he, with other readers of our page, is turning the tables and laugh- ing at the city “robes" who-think they can sell gold—bricks to readers Tan Busmnss Fauna. Sooner or later we'll have them black-listing Michigan as a poor state in which to sell patent medicines, gilt picture frames, oil stocks and canvas auto‘ mobile tiresmthen what will we have to smile over? OFFER SHUT—IN $100 A WEEK Dear Sirtw—Am certainly inter- ested in your articles of the Pub- lisher’s Desk and in fact the whole of THE Business Fannie: which my father takes. Have been on the sick list for the past two years with op- rations and other trouble, but am gaining fairly well now. So I am writing you if you would advise me to write show cards for-the Sho- Rite Sign System, which is located in Detroit. I have circulars from them and they want me to take their course, which is $35 cash or $45 on easy payments, and they guaran- tee steady work at home or get one a job as show card writer,,and they say I can earn from $15 to $50 a week spare time, and also that a person‘can in timelearn as much as $100 a week. It sounds fishy, so I am asking you about it. They have sent me a design to work out which I did, which they sent free. You will find the letter enclosed what they say about it.- If anyone in- l quires about the Nile Art Company, ' Fort Wayne, Ind., don’t recommend this company to them for they only got $7.75 out of me for their paint- ing outfit with which to paint pillow tops and lamp shades. I painted two pillow tops and three lamp shades for which I was supposed to get $6.25, but instead they returned the pillow tops and shades. The way they first explained to me was that I was to buy the paint from them and they would furnish the goods to paint, but.when they re— turned the pillow top and shades they wanted me to buy the designs from them at 60c a piece, and all -the profit that ,I would get out of it would be the :work. Well I guess a person has to be a fool first in order to get wise. Put this in your paper so others can read it. What kind of work would you recommend for me, as I am unable to do farm work and am only 20 years old, but , would like something with a future. A subscriber and always will 'be.-—- F the Publishers Desk can just once in a while save a few dol- lars for some unfortunate who without its help might have been ' victimized, we shall be mighty well pleased with our Work. This sign-writing scheme was at one time worked entirely from Can- ada, now it has been taken up in Detroit and other cities. There is no question but what someone with latent artistic ability might learn to write signs, but the trouble with those schools, like most of their kind, is that they will take anyones money,and promise them jobs at un— heard-of wages just to get their tuition fees. ’ Sometime we want to find a cor- respondence school which offers the entire course and. agrees to take their pay out of the first weeks sal- ary which they so glibly promise the would-be student! If you find one, no matter whether they promise to make you play a violin like Fritz Kreisler or Write songs like Irving Berlin, we advise you to take the course, because you have nothing to lose and much to gain. Our advice to this ambitious young unfortunate is that he take up book-keeping or typewriting at some nearby business college. MAKING APRONS AT HOME Dear Sim—I would like to have you tell me if you consider the “Rosemary Apron Company” whose address is “Ashury Park, N. J." a reliable firm. I am in need of work which I can do at home, and am a. good needlewoman of ordinary kinds of sewing. This is their offer: They agree to furnish materials, patterns, thread, pay postage and all essen— tials for bungalow aprons which I am to make at home. For this ser- vice they agree to pay $6.50 to $8 .per dozen when the aprons are sent to them finished. But first I am re- quired to send them $1.50 for which they will send me material for one apron to make up, and send back to them, so they will have a sample of my work. Do you know anything about them, and does it sound "On the square” to you? If their offer were genuine I would be able to do a great deal to help myself the re- mainder of the winter. D0 not have very much faith in I any of these “work at home schemes" and I wrote of. this par- ticular one in this column some time ago, but had no comments on it. My suggestion is that you write this company and ask them to give yen the name of a satisfied worker here in Michigan. If they were really anxious to secure your services, they would not ask you to make a. remit— tance in advance. I would not send them any money. WRITING “MOVIES" Dear Sirz—I have been a sub- scriber to your paper for two years now and am coming to you for some advice. We moved down here from our farm at Chief, Michigan, last spring, and just before coming here -I wrote to the Palmer Photoplay Corporation for their questionnaire and test to see if I was qualified to write scenarios. They sent me the questionnaire which I filled out and sent back to them, and I am enclos- ing the letter and rating they sent me, inviting me to enroll for their course of training which would en- able me to successfully write photo- plays, and they were selling agents for any plays I might write, good. enough to sell to some producing company. They want $160 for their course of training and I could pay it on the basis of $10 down; and $10 per month. What I wish to know, is the Palmer Photoplay Corporation a reliable concern and would I be the "loser if I enrolled for their course? I would like to take up this kind of work and I know of no other way to obtain the desired in- formation concerning photoplay writ- ing. 0011“ you please inform me (Continued on Page 31) “man mans on ammo” EGINNING in our March 15th issue we will publish “Foxy Years of Grafting” ., methods of Professional takers swindlers and crooks Club give color to the statemdnt that- ‘9! sun] is baggiegrydevg , Andthesearfldesmake Motel-,1, . ~ . mi guess. (38's) The Federal B0nd 65’ MOrtgage Company is an institution built on fine, old-time principles of business conduct and thatis one of thereasons for the standing of the house among farmers. 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Ifyourouisnotmentioned on I: 'é’éfi‘iifld'lfii‘" awgmmis‘” E nameandmodcl Int aunt's“!- TRIAL whombaadloawreaehoaaattaehit No 0! of I!“ ON 3 REFOR new AIR-FRI 8U“ humane slug. Dayton. Ohio. u. e. a. Lower Pri ces on .- 1but to your mind attitudes. lust. ,fit is the A‘SERMQN ,3 . TEXTz‘yf‘And the world passeth away and the lust thereof; but he- that death the will of 'God abideth forever." 1 John 2:17. ORLDLY things pass away to make room for the things that abide. Our childhood- days are no more. Father and mother are gone, or are seen to go. We have lost the friends of other times. All our yesterdays are over. Many of these things have been sweet and fragrant, but they have decayed and died. . I The whole world is being heaved and changed today, perhaps, as nev- er before. Between the 'ocean shores and the limits of the poles, everything is 'in constant flux. To- morrow, in all the civilized world, nothing will be as it is today. In the last decade, the world has known desolation onsea and land, in the air, and under the earth. Mil- lions of men, large fortunes, cities, homes, and churches, have passed away never to be again in a meter- ial world. events and judgements speak of a transitory existence here! And it seems the apostle means this lesson for all ages: fathers, children, and young men. danger of being drawn away with a perishing world. This transiency has a twofold as- pect. “The fashion of the world passeth away.” 1 Cor. 7:21. Why? Because, “The whole world lieth in the evilione." 1 John 5:19. Every- thing visible and material, of course, passeth away. But also, things im- material: tendencies, notions, and aspirations which are divorced from God. And here is a nice, fine sense, in which your possessions, when connected with the purpose of God, will retain their value for you over there. Because you have used what Jesus called the “mammon of un- righteousness” (wealth) to promote Christian fellowship and good-will on earth, you are accepted into holy habitations which are to abide. In a. tragic sense, the Eternal God has been proclaiming to all peoples and nations thru recent years, that the world is passing away. But this was divinely ordained from the be- ginning, and the only mournful thing about it is, that men and wo- men choose to perish with it. “Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world,” says Paul. Well, there is a man near you that sacrificed home and loved ones for a moment’s gratification in sensual pleasure, and you said, “What a fool!" But the man, who, not momentarily or grossly, but con— tinually and in a more respectable sense, sets his affections on this world and its fleeting gains and pleasures, is the bigger fool. The Bible says so, and I wish it might burn into our hearts. “And the lust thereof.” Here we are reminded that evil desires and propensities, even, are fleeting and ever changing. Human experience proves this. To take it in a world- ly sense, those things we once loved are no more pleasing. We are con- tent to let them lie in the past while we go to greater indulgences. The first transgression or sensual in- dulgence does not satisfy. ,It is ev- er so with sharp business deals and all the questionable practices of life. This is the/nature of “the lust of the flesh and-the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life." There is a heart longing to strike up intimacies .with the world. Our text condemns not the material world, but the love of it and the lust for it, since it (the world) is to pass away. World- liness is a lustful state of mind. It does not have reference, primarily, to what you do Or where you are, You may be in the most worldly places and yet be spiritual. The place is revolting to you and you ’long to get away. You may be in a spirit~ ual‘atmosphere, listening to Gospel music and message, and yet, in- wardly, you do not react to your in- vironment. You are hostile. As the arr-owe of truth find their mark, you rebel angrily. '. This is worldly I’fiartseeism th kt REV. How emphatically, these Cf context. All are in 4 ‘ out of it all the freshness possible? ' God!_ The war it, lav and finally killed him. not. noble-4 the sacrifice! And because of it. the lust of the world is condemned. It ought to be repeated. This lust is a state of theheart. It is setting your affections on things that perish. It is the sensual and temporal attitude of life. The iNew Testament tells us of a rich young man who left Jesus sorrowfully, be- cause he wanted to keep his riches. His affections were set upon- them. Again it tells us of a big farmer who had barns and possessions. The Lord blessed him with big-harvests. He tore down barns and built larg- er to take care of the increase. Now, as’ far as we know, this man was not vicious, had a good home life; and made his money honorably; A-But just as soon as .he said; s-“Soul thou hast~much goods laid'up \forwmany years; take thine ease, eat,‘drink, and be merry;” that soon thévoice of 'the Eternal said, “Thou ffoolish one, this night thy soul shall be re- quired of. thee." What a big fool and worldling, this farmer was, to believe that he could feed soul and mind on perishing things! His at- titude was temporal and“ selfish. And not a few today, spend'the in— creese of the Lord in taking their ease at winter resorts, the while their neighbor at home or across-the : seas is in dire need. And I‘ hear the inspired writer saying, “Whoso bath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dothrthe love of God adbide in him?” This is 1 John 3:17. Now, compare it with John 3:17. Verily, “the ser- vant is not above his Lord." How persistent and fatal is worldly lust! You may have position and power today, but not tomorrow. 'Yester- day Nicholas Romanoff was Czar of Russia, all powerful. Then came dethronement, hatred, and death. And the Kaiser! You may have wealth today, but poverty tomorrow. The money can fill the belly, how foolish to live as tho it could fill the heart! How we ought to pack every day with noble aspirations and right decisions! “He that doeth the will of God abideth forever." We have discov- ered the folly of the worldly life be- cause it is attached to perishable foundations. But the -life that is centered on DOING the will of God is to abide forever. Thruout the epistle the author plays upon the DOER of sin and the DOER of right- eousness. Here are two men. One has used his time and though, whol- ly, on the getting of worldly things. . He has a splendid home and no ma.- terial needs that he cannot supply. Life goes on like a song as he lays up for himself and his children. You would like to be like him. But listen! Quickly one day he sends for a minister, who hurries to his side. He finds him lying in a richly furn- ished room, with costliest bedding and pillows. Doctors, nurses, wife, and children are bending over him. He is going—and gone. He is dead. And now, what is he? A dead fool. What does it profit to gain the things of a perishing world, while losing your own soul? That is what the minister told him again and again, but he would not listen. But the other man? He lives in a plain humble home. He works hard thru long days. He foregoes sens- ual pleasures; is busy practicmg the gospel of othering; and is faithful to the will of God. One day the past- or-is hurriedly called. He finds this man lying on a plain bed in a plain room. He is attended by plain folks. He thanks the pastor for_his encouragement to live the non"- worldly life, and his soul slips away» from earthly ken. He is dead. But is he? No, he went away in visions of a. mansion not made with hands. and he has just begun to live in that newer; better, land that stretches out before in ever satisfying vistas. What are you going to do when you die? But what are you doing now? Are you squeezing this world as you would a great sponge to get Are you taking. the road that yield's up‘ sensual delights?— Or, will you ‘ ‘ be wise and: abide. in}. the; F1110: .. ' RACT-ICALLY all ‘ farmers in every sectiOn jof ' ,thie'ffcqifintryl should be interested in the new publication, A Handbook for Better Feeding of Livestock, just issued by, the United States Department of Ag riculture, as a part of a recently or— ganized service for better feeding methods. This. booklet contains in condensed form practical and up-to— date information on the feeding of» cattle, hogs, sheep, horses, and poul- try, compiled as a result of a. coun- try-wide study of farm feeding problems. In this handbook all the different classes of animals are considered separately. For instance, there is special information on \feeding young animals, dry cows, sires in service, weaning pigs and calves. Consider- ation is given to the feeding of farm wastes and by-products, the use of mineral feeds, the use of self-feed- ers, tonics, hogging down crops, commercial feeds, dehorning and castrating, with relation to feeding and management, mixing feeds and making up balanced rations, shelter for animals as it affects their produc- tion, water and salt. Sample rations are given for the various» kinds of animals under different conditions. The importance of good breeding in obtaining maximum-gains is empha- sized.— ' Copies of the handbook, which is known as Miscellaneous Circular 12, may be obtained free, as long as the supply lasts, by addressing the De- partment of Agriculture, Washing- ton, ,D. C. 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The latter is the more des- irable method, in that the addition of material used on a subsequent . coat tends to offer better conditions '1 of amalgamation between the coats. ~' However, there are instances where ‘: a straight priming coat has "its ad- '1 vantages, especially on an extreme- ly porous wall, or where the wall is '3 new and additional precautions are taken to prevent lime burns. For porous walls, it is advisable to *1 add a primer to the first coat so that " the liquid portion in the paint is in- .. creased, and it is possible to brush t e paint more easily and sufficient- ly without having to penetrate the wall too rapidly. If the paint pen— etrates too quickly, it cannot be ap- plied evenly and so that it will not show brush marks. The following suggestions apply to the use of elastic wall primer: 1. For the sealing of fresh walls where protection against lime burn- ing is desirable, use a coat of elastic wall primer straight. 2. 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And now this Brazilian spider is helping to make some of the finest silk in the world. How many of you knew that?——UNCLE NED. ' BUDDHA AND THE WHALE HE Buddha of Kamakura, in Ja- pan is very big, so big that a. man may sit on his thumb. In the Sea there is a Whale who is also big. The Crab told the whale of the Buddha, and the Whale ordered the Crab to measure the idol. The messenger found the idol was sev- enty thousand paces of a Crab. Then the Whale went to visit Buddha and Buddha bade the priest measure both him and the whale with a ros- ary. The whale was found to be two measures greater than Buddha. “Then,” said Buddha, “hereafter in Japan there shall be two meas- ures, one for hard things like my image, one for soft things like the Whale. And the soft things shall be two measures larger, yet equal." Greatness can recognize great- ness. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS Dear Uncle Nedz—My father takes _the M. B. F. and we find it very interesting. I am nine years old and am‘in the fourth grade. Last Sunday we had a swell time sliding down hill. We took the Sides out of large card—board boxes. Then we would sit on these at the top of the hill and then let ourselves go. We were lucky if we got to the bottom of the hill without running into snow banks a couple of times on the way down. Have any of you ever tried it? Have you, Uncle Ned? It's loads of fun. Maybe you would be interested in an experience I had once. When I was coming from school I had to pass a hotel where a. man was staying with a police dog. The dog saw me and came bounding up. Be- fore I knew it he had knocked me down on the sidewalk, and was on my beck with his claws dug into my clothing. But I can’t tell why he picked me out of the many people who pass every day. See if you can answer these riddles: VERY 000 ’ NAME! (5:7,! BECAUSE ”if IF YOU TURN IT W Hill 'mwwm ENVGBHJ. SW38 . nine in cocoons-an ‘- EAR boys ‘and girls: -- How ,' When are potatoes like gate-posts? Ans.twin? We have twelvecows, and eleven When they are put in the ground to (propogate). What chasm‘is there that separate friends? Ans. Sarcasm. Why is an average sermon like asparagus? Ans. Because the end of it is the best part. What three letters are expressive of excessive joy? Ans. X, T, C. Now, won’t you boys and girls please write to me and I will answer all your letters: and send some pictures of yourselves when you write if you can. Your friend. ——Ruth Weifenbach, Box M, Beulah, Mich. Dear Uncle Nedz—Ever since’ Daddy has subscribed for the M. B. F. I have been an interested reader of the Children’s Hour. During all this time I have not noticed any letters from Caledonia, so decided to let you know we were on the map also. I don't know whether or not it is the rule for each writer to send ' a description of themselves, but I notice the rest all do, it, so I will follow. I am eleven years old, and weigh eighty pounds. I have brown bobbed hair and brown eyes. I am in the sixth guide and like to attend school. I missed about a year and a half because of a double mastoid operation and complications. I am going to try to answer Gladys Carl— son's riddles which were in the January 19111 issue. The dime looks round. There is one P in pint. And the answer to her third riddle is an icicle. I think the answer to Imogene Hibberd's second, rid- dle in January 19th issue is a water- melon, but I can’t guess the first one. We have a Girl Scout organization here and we certainly enjoy the work. It is instructive as well as pleasant. I am first patrol leader now, and I was presi- . dent last year. With best wishes to you Uncle Ned, and to all the cousins, I am, most cordially yours—Muriel Frey, Cal- edonia, Michigan. Dear Uncle Ned :—-As I haven’t written for a long time, I thought I would try again and see if my letter would escape ‘ the waste basket. My father takes the M. B. F. and we all like it real well. I can hardly wait until it comes, and my father is always anxious to read what Uncle Rube Spinach has to say. I sup- pose you have forgotten what I said I looked like, so I will tell you again. I am about four feet eleven inches tall, weigh ninety—eight pounds, and have light hair, dark blue eyes, and fair complexion. My birthday is the nineteenth of Decem- ber, and I am 13 years old. Have I a calves, and four pig's. For pets we have two cats and a rabbit. The rabbit will eat out of our hands (all but when he's mad). Well Uncle Ned. how do you like the weather? It's pretty cold here. How many of the cousins like to slide down hill? I certainly like to. We have a good hill to slide on here, and we have quite a few sliding parties. I live about one-half "mile from school. How many like school? I like it when I like my teacher, and I like her this year. Her name is Beulah Preston. I am in the seventh grade at school. I like all of my studies but history. Did you like that Uncle? Helen Cary you are about like me. I like music, but can only play by ear, and not that very good. How many of the cousins like to sing? I do, but I mn’t very well. I sing alto. Now be- cause I sing alto don't think that I can sing good. because if you heard me you would think it- was a rooster crowing. The answer to one of Imogene Hibberd’s riddles is‘ a (watermelon), but I don’t know the carer one. Now couldn't, you write to me for answering that one? I will close with a riddle. As I was walk- ing over London bridge I met a London crawler. he took off his hat and drew . 'oif his gloves, what was the name at the Laredo 11 sdmlar? I Wish some of the boys and girls would write to me. Your want—to—be—niece,—Beatrice Campbell Dear Uncle Ned:——I thought I would write you a letter tonight. I wrote once before but I guess the waste basket got it. I hope he doesn’t get this one. 'Well ' I will describe myself. I am about five feet three and one—half inches tall, and am thirteen years of age. I was thirteen on the 11th day of February. Have I a twin? I have dark brown bobbed hair and blue eyes. I am in the seventh grade at school, and like going to school very much. I think the answers to Gladys Carlson’s riddles are: (1) Looks round. (2) One. (3) Icicle. Am I right Gladys? If I am I am waiting for your letter. I will close or Mr. W. B. will sure get this. Your niece—Mabel War- ren, R. 3, Box 81, Sault. Ste. Marie, Mich. Dear Uncle Nedz—I wrote to you be- fore but my letter did not escape the waste basket, but I hope it does this time. I read the Children's Hour every time the paper comes, and I think it is the most interesting part of the paper. I stay with my grandmother and grand- When Spring Comes Dancing Down the Hill T was Springtime, the sweetest time in all the year. The time when growing things stirred un— der the ground, as if to say, ”Let me out! Let me out! I love the Spring, too.” The baby buds were coaxing to be freed, and the bluebirds built their tiny nests and sang little wistful notes. The wind was scented with blowing wildflowers.~ One of the wildflowers, which gloried in the happy Springtime, was Li'l’ Miss Arbutus, who, her‘bronze leaves and white and pinkish blossoms all a-glow, called to every bird and. flower-friend she saw, “Aren’t you happy that Spring is here?” A month after Li’l’ Miss Arbutus had carroled, “Aren’t you happy that Spring is here?” a little gipsy camp moved its wagons and tents -a mile away from the grassy spot where Li’l’ Miss Arbutus played. They were a happy little family who loved the flowers, and the birds, and the trees, and all the wild things under the great sea of skies. The youngest member of the little gypsy family was a brown-eyed girl whom all the gypsies called little “Princess Gyp." One day Li’l' Miss Arbutus heard voices, and, lifting one eye above her bronze leaf, she spied a small boy and girl. to her. Fair little strangers; with bright yellow curls. “H’m-m! They’re not playmates of little Princess Gyp. Wonder where they came from. an i” crooned Li‘l’ Miss Arbutus. ”I s’pect they———." But suddenly she stopped speaking. Why, what was one that curly-haired little girl saying?» “Come on, Bobby! Let’s pull up a whole armful of these woodsy flowers." And she waved one chub- by white erm toward poo'r frighten- ~ ed Li'l’ Miss Arbutus. the nodding white and yellow dog-tooth violets, dainty Miss Blue Flag, Jack-in-the— Pulpit, and all the .restof the little tl‘ower"~'eolen'y. ‘ ~ ~ 7 .» ' Poor Lifl' Miss Arbutusi‘ Re: was. flat ‘ newer—bout slum with - Strangers they were stopped beating. Surely, surely that curly-haired girl wouldn’t do that! But yes! She and the boy called Bobbsy were bending low, grabbing Miss Hepatica and pulling poor Jack-in—the-Pulpit up by the roots. “Oh, dear me! I’ll come next! Oh, dear, all my poor flower-friends, and—3’ But by this time Li’l’ Miss Arbutus was crying so hard she could not speak. - And suddenly she hearda voice, “Oh, you horrid children! Go ’way! Go ”way!" And Li'l’ Miss Arbutus’ wee, fluttery flower-heart gave a merry flip-flop. Princess Gyp scolding, “Tearing up those flowers!” ,. The little boy called Bobbsy and the owner of the yenow curls turned and ran. They were afraid of.that firey-eyed little Princess Gyp who stood glaring at the little culprits. “Oh, to think that next they would have ruined you, Li’l’ Miss Arbutus—the sweetest flower that grows.” And little Princess Gyp stooped over Li’l’ Miss Arbutus as if to gather her in her protecting arms. - Now, my dears, at the time of this little story, Ll'l' Miss Arbutus was not called the Trailing Arbutus. She was only ”'1’ Miss Arbutus. Just plain Ll’l’ Miss Arbutus. But when she looked up to thank the little Princess Gyp, and found that she had gone as quickly as she had come, she started as fast as she could go, to find dear little Princess Gyp. ’ . She crawled this way and that, searching, searching, searching. But she never found the brown-eyed lit- tle gypsy who so understood the heart of little flower-persons. ' But every year when growing things are stirring under the ground, and baby buds are coaxing to be freed, bluebirds build their nests and sing little wistful notes, It was little brave little and, the wind ls._scentedtwithhloyv- ‘ lug wildflowers, and spring domes dancing down" the ”Miles. mum Arbutus is always spoken at as m on? undue them quiteoften. I, , 155‘ w” liyo. a mile somehow and I “ deem-me myself. I am tourism years old, the seventh of April. ‘Bave I .c. twin? I am five feet tall. Have it“: eyesauddsrkhuinbobbedofm AndweighSOpounds. Igototheoeun- try school and cm in the ‘8th grade. Well I think I had better stop for this time. Some of the girls and boys please write to me. Your loving niece—Lesa Wilcox, R. 5, Brown City, Michigan. Dear Uncle Nam—May I Join you merry crowd too? I have joined one and think it is more fun than anything else. Well, I will tell you of my favorite sports. I like horseback riding, do you, too? I bet. if you don’t know anythhig about it and get on a horse once you'd think there was nothing like it. Well now I will ' describe myself. I am 12 years old. and in the 7th and 8th grade. I am 5 feet and 1 inch tall, have blue eyes and light hair. We have been tak- ing the Michigan Business Partner for a year and I like the Children’s Hour very much. Well. I think my letter-is getting rather long so I’ll ring oar—Miss Dorothy Radian, Owendala. Michigan, 130: 64. Dear Uncle Ned:—-I would like to Join your merry crowd. It seems rather strange that of all the names mat have been signed to the letters that have been written in this section of the paper dur- ing the last year. there hasn’t been any from the big city (‘1) of Burma, or omen from any near-by towns. Possibly be- cause some of them are too bashful to write, and maybe it is because they just simply can’t find the time to write. I have noticed that personal desmdption has beenapcrtef most of theletterl. emac- om-dingtoousmIQIwilltrytogiveyou a faint idea of myself. I have dark brown hair and darlr brown eyes. I am 18 years of age and a senior in high school. I think I have written enough, so I will ring of! for this time. promising to write all those who write to me, pro- viding that they write soon. From your nephew,--Lynford Pulling, Par-ma, Mich. Dear Uncle Ned :—~Helre is a new cousin. I have never written before so I hope my letter doesn’t reach Mr. Waste Basket. Well I better describe myself. I am a little girl of ten years, have light brown hair (which of course is bobbed), light brown eyes. and pretty pink cheeks. We have on our farm five horses, two cows, two calves, eighteen chickens, five ducks, three cats and two dogs. I have two brothers, and one sister. The sister is fourteen years of age. My oldest brother is twenty—one years of age. my youngest is sixteen. Who ever guesses — my first name will receive a. letter. Good- night.~—B. Din-fee, Alger, Michigan, R1. Dear Unclez—As I have a little time I will write you a few lines. We inks the M. B. F and we all like it fine. I wrote once before and saw my letter in print so thought I would write again. I hope old Mr. Waste Basket doesn’t get this letter. I am a. farmer’s girl and like the farm very well. I cam 13 years old and in the 7th grade at school. I have about a half mile to go to school. My birthday is March 31. Have I a. twin? We built a new house this summer and it is sure nice. We have an 80 acre farm We have 8 calves, 5 cows, 2 mules, one horse and 4 pigs. We have one cat and one dog. I am glad when winter comes and there is snow on the ground. We have a lot of fun at school on the hills, and there is two or three hills. Well as my letter is getting a little long I will have to close. Will some of the boys and girls write tome? «Miss Ernestine Frlck, R4. Box 46, Cole- man, Michigan. A rougeN ngN'I‘wr WfllJ‘i‘R NEH \‘\\ c 5 ~. E e \\ \‘ a g; 2% .§‘\ 1...; ~‘ THE . re ‘ / / / A .... .— - I ’ l .. . 0 ~ t .. We have given you the first and lastletters of nine words of three letters 'each. You nae solace if 3’9" oonprtct anthems eooumn. com-' / Q W a ‘re. www.mmwwn w'ourvi'l'liwo wnww'roruzn-Nrorn-H rfl'flfi’fil'hHBOTDN'u'Dd’ifl 7 Fl TiV38666933P65§ 1~zwozoaoroasflern§r=Hoo Q *1 1 ‘re. ' ‘ of lead-in wi , . . for ground and wire for set. Would- ‘ 11’! it be necessary to have another www.mmmw- Isho re and also some hire porcelean tube to run the ground wires out through? Could the light- ning arrester ground ' and the ground from binding post “G” be the. same? Please send complete equipment including lead-in wire. ground wire, wire for wiring set, spaghetti, porcelean tube, etc., if I will need them. If I haven’t sent enough money and you’ll let me know how much, I am short I will send it right away. Thanking you, I an, E. J. Delamarter, Cheboygan County, Mich. —-Yesterda_y I shipped you by insur- ed parcel post a package containing all the parts for your radio set, with the exception of an A battery which you can buy in Cheboygan for 50¢ (better use 2 in multiple) and so saved a few cents postage. I am glad to be able to say that in this assortment of parts I have se- cured tor you‘more parts than given in. the article in THE BUSINESS FARMER which will help out and make your set more emcient and add to appearance as well. Additional parts included as ex- tra, ground-clamp, knobs for run- ning ground wire, wire for wiring up set, (you do not need spaghetti). ground wire and a hard rubber panel for the front of your set, and ' grounding switch. I am. retunring you herewith my personal check for $1. 00 which is the balance due you, and from out of which you will need to buy your A battery. You can use the same wire for ground of your set as you do for the ground of the lightning arrester. I would suggest that you make a. plan of your set on paper and mark each hole . carefully, then prick thru to your panel and then drill ‘ the panel. In working the panel start all holes thru the side that is to be the front and then the chipped part will be in the rear. I am enclosing a photo of a Set built from parts like yours which will give you an idea. WANTS BEST RADIO EQUIPMENT 0N MARKET PleaSe advise me where I can buy the best radio equipment on the market. I am going to buy a radio receiving set and I want the best to be got and one that will give good service and a plain and loud speak- er.——Clarence Chadwick, Tuscola1 County, Michigan. —You ask us as to where you can buy the best radio equipment on the market. This, of course, will de— pend upon whether you are near a. large city and wish to make the trip It m , ul'd have-about to test, ail. standard and reliable makes of re- ceiving sets. Both Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck handle sets under their own name and guarantee them to give satisfaction or your money back. The names of makers, who make sets that you can depend upon, are Westinghouse, Radio Corporation, Clapp—Eastham, C. D. Tuska, Col- lins-Kennedy, Grebe, Crosley, At- water-Kent, and Adams-Morgan. Telephone receivers are Brandies, Federal, Baldwin, Stromberg-Carl- son and several others. In buying receivers to go with your set ask for a standard make and do not buy the cheapest as they are seldom as good as those mentioned above. As you intend to buy the best, I would make a trip to Detroit if pos- sible and go to different stores and have them show you 'the different makes and see them work and then let your pocket book be the limit- ing factor on what you buy. Beware of sets for which remark- able periormances are promised, buy any of the sets made by the above mentioned makers and you will not be disappointed. Let us hear from you when you get your set and the results you have from it. We are interested in having you succeed. THE mm 18 RIPE FOR TAX RE- FORM IN MICHIGAN ( Continued from Page 3) purposes. If this»? might be done, general property taxation would au— tomatically become entirely a local proposition. Thus the benefits of such a tax reform would be both direct and indirect in that the tax payer would no longer have to pay a general property tax for state pur— poses and local governmental econ— omy would be promoted. Perhaps, after all, the most log— ical way to reduce the oppressive tax burden in Michigan today is by placing more of our wealth on the tax rolls. This might be done not only through an income tax, but also through the adoption of a “compulsory listing” law, such as has already been adopted in several other states and has proved effective in uncovering hitherto hidden wealth. The abolition of tax—exempt securieties is also recommended as another step in the right direction. These and other solutions of our present Michigan taxation dilemma will be discussed in future articles in this series to_appear from time to time in THE BUSINESS FARMER. Per— haps we may have a word to say about one of the most interesting aspects of the whole subject—the two cent gasoline tax. Grand Rapids that handle anerest on Ben.“ avawwuc HE“ ; governments. Averaged! can... it :1...» N ormal schools?” THE TAXPAYER?! DOLLAR , ' his chart shows how a taxpayer's dollar divided I m ltd 1! Wen m county and {531911 of Pub. Instr. 7 (Bd of Education :jb%+ timed!) yehrt. No Wicks Vapo‘ 18 to the ordinary oil stove what the electric light is to the candle. It solves every cooking problem. You can bake, roast, boil, fry or stew with a Vapo. Everywhere, people proclaim it the cleanest, most convenient, most beautiful oil range ever seen. At state fairs thousands saw it pass tests out of the question for ordinary oil stoves. Any Vapo will,duplicate these tests. Burns gas made from kerosene Each Vapo burner is a miniature gas plant. It generates hydro-carbon gas from kerosene and burns it with a hot, clean, blue flame ideal for cooking. Good baking and roasting are easy with the Vapo because the flame can be regulated from a low simmering heat to a heat in- tense enough for quickest cooking needs. Vapo has lever valves like a gas stove and these are provided with automatic safety locks preventing accidental shift- ing or moving by children. Wickless, chimneyless and troubleless Nothing on a Vapo to fuss with. No wicks to trim or adjust. No chimneys C? W . Mafia-u W e / o a o w .I \\ I . No Odor - . a Beautiful Vapo Oil Range looks and acts like a gas range 32-36 hours of smokeless, odorless heat from a gallon of kerosene The Vapo Stove Company, Lima, Ohio No Noise NoSmolze to burn out and fall into the burner. If kettle boils over, the liquid can’t get into the burner and choke the flame. The Vapo burner is guaranteed for the life of the stove. Vapo heat does not smart the eyes nor soot up utensils. Bake slow and fast at same time in 8010 oven Adjustable Bolo plate makes oven big or little as you wish. It concentrates the heat and gives you two ovens in one. Odors from one oven do not permeate the other oven. Perfect ventilation in- sures light baking and pastry. Vapo is the onIy oil range with the built-in Bolo oven. You can have right or left hand oven. Ask dealer to show you Vapo. Write for booklet. r—————— —_——fi THE VAPO STOVE CONIPANY hum LIMA, OHIO. Please send the complete informa- tion about Vapo Ranges. Name ....... . . . . . Address. ....... ................ Dealer’s Name ...... . . ........ . . Ole-OOIIDIOOID Oil Ranges Heaters Hot Water Heaters BOLENS POWER HOE Art MIN MOWER TRACTOR . It seeds, it cultivates, it mows the lawn. It sup- fillies power for Operating ht machinery. The BOLENS has a pat- _ -—-~ for accurate guidance 1n close weedin and cultivat- A di erential drive makes turning easy. All“ attachments have snap hitches and are in- stantly lnterchangeble. 1 it With delight. Son 1! for full particulars. “JP-fl St Gilt“ Mfg. Co. .. P rt We Iii-glen, Wis am- éon haunt. barns mob I?" time and omoneiifloeelor Bldg. Till. 3H. 00., on». -11. Albany. Ind.» CERTIFIED cmcxs and" “'1‘ won lst and 4th prize this ear on English strain White Leghorn on at the National Poultry Show, Chicago. Also let at Zeeland Poultry Show _ breeds have bad same care mmervismn in developing and breeding Pure- bred stock carefully culled 10 0% live arrival guaranteed. Our chicks are money makers .vi_ll improve your flock. Write for catalog and prices. Atrial \v1ll convince you. All flocks certified. American Chick Fam,Box 115-8, Zeelantl, Mich. PUREBRED BABY CHICKS. LEADING VAR- ieties. lO % arrival. Priced right. THOS. G. GALLAGHAN. Fenton, Michigan. bs-runnv cfllcxs—BRED-To LAY A N D t Rea bl i efhfléitlgl‘ film” Slum?1 X ers. sona epr 098 a 0 bored: White Leghorns Rocks, Reds, "it; W :ne dottes. Sunnybrook Poultry Farm, Hllisdale, unonnoo slackers“ PLANTO— H 1121:1131: profitable market blackberry grown. T6005 s pper, tine qualit . rodu tiv and hardy. Disease free State y egectedc {forth stock at $25. 00 mpg: 1a.; 500 some rate; {”50 per hundred, o u. 331“” EILER. Elberta, Michigan. FREE CATALOG HIGH QUALITY STRAW- h. narto Dun- berr my, A ragus plan Se u 2. -1ooo V's”? " c. .111 um. Withers. mchmn. HAVE YOU POUIII‘RY FOB mm . AN an m m M. n. n. WILL em 11'. awn-«w .1 . A, .m. ... .. .. 1...... . .. van—er - ,. .. 1mm inn MAN Ann 3.41mi . . HE called . ,"',Sl.fl” And though I never saw 'em kiss {ET-"hug, I kinda felt he thought .‘Bigjht well o’her the way he bought Her sweets and tuk her to the shows— ‘ But she’d a dozen country beaux And he was backward like and years Too. .old fer her and so my fears - Jes drapped away and I opined The thing was just as he outlined,— The only child he was, bedad, My little gal was all I had, And so they kinder fixed it out In fun, the while they worked about, That he would be her brother Kris- And she would be his little “Sis.” 80 years rolled by, but yesterday I caught ’em in a serious way. Bays she, “I don’t know who to love. Which one of them to give the glove. Taz Cook is fine and Jim’s got land— To which one, Kris; shall I give my hand?" But Kris he’d sorto lost his voice Er didn’t want to say his choice Too quick, fer there he set a while A—lookln’ down the road a mile and then he kinder turned his “Why,——neither one—fer I’m the boy That wants to fill your life with joy," "Dear Jane,” he sez, and she, “Dear Kris,” And then I saw ’em hug and kiss. FOR SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS! The Ten-Point Success Creed Work and Earn. Make a Budget. Record Expenditures. Have a Bank Account. Carry Life Insurance. Own Your Home. Make a Will. . Invest in Safe Securities. Pay Bills Promptly. Share with Others. OCDOO-JGOIW-WNH H A MOTHER T0 HER SON HE message below came to me and I think it one of the finest and sweetest stories I have read in some time. I am giving it to you to use as you see fit. I wish that every Mother reader will find time to read it to her boy: . We have been asking a few men and women who have made good in life to tell us the biggest influence that contributed to the shaping of their characters. . We believe that in such bits of obscure history there lies the con- soling proof that every honest ef- fort bears fruit in life, every sincere thought becomes an influence. Pray— er is answered. There is a young man in New York who is making good. He has a keen mind and a strong character. He is becoming an influence for good in his community. Recently his mother was cleaning out his pockets to help him change his clothes quickly. “That letter will interest you, Mother,” he said, referring to a let- ter about his work. But it was an- other paper she opened——-a yellow, rumpled sheet a note she had writ— ten him when he was eight years old, the first time he had been separ— ated from her. It breathed the same thoughts and prayers that lie in the hearts of all mothers. She had forgotten she had written it.‘ The young man yvas embarrassed for a moment when he saw what she held. Then he said: “That is the most priceless possession I have. I am going to carry it in my pocket as long as I live. I have been tempted to do some rotten things in my life, and just the consciousness that I had that message in my pocket, and that it came out of your heart, "has steered me straight most of the time.” Here is that Mother’s message which a boy carried in his pocket until he became a man: Get up when called in the morn- ing. ’ Wash before dressing. Wash your teeth. A clean mouth belongs to a clean heart. Be obedient. Remember the world Would be crushed into pieces if it did not obey the law of God. And you must suffer if you do not obey. Be truthful. Only cowards lie. You are not a coward. ,Be kind. It is the greatest gift. in the world. .Don't forget that you have promis- ed to do some kind not every day. Wash your face and hands before going to the table. ' Remember that your father is a ,‘Vgentleman. iln his absence it is up. to you to proveit. Agentleman is nun "Bud," he called her; The EAR FOLKS z—March! \ that need freshening up a bit. onal touch in every home. to have a. fim-day or evening. in these last few weeks. lots of vegetables. spinach that you canned last year. Feed the family less meat and rich foods .. and I feel that a. great deal of this evil can be eliminat- ed. .43.: Allevarhnent for'the‘ Women ’ Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR A month that means ‘a great deal of, thinking and planning for the coming spring. ‘ . - The house has been getting shabby and on our nerves. Why not plan with the spring cleaning to change the looks of those rooms Now is the time to make a few of the articles that put the pers- St. Patrick’s Day is comingland it gives us a. splendid opportunity am and have to eat on this day and will be glad to send. a copy to any of our readers who are thinking of a St. Patrick’s Party. I want to thank you all for the many splendid letters you sent I remember last year receiving so many letters asking-about exzema. 'Do not let this happen this year. Eat Some of those wonderful carrots, peas . f ’ raw Address letters: Mrs. Annie Taylor, care The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Michigan. hhh making up a list ofthings to do and I kind and truthful and clean and quiet. ‘ Be interested in everything. Have a good time. Remember that I love you with all my heart. ' Say your prayers. Ask God to keep your heart clean and brave and true and your body well for YOUR MOTHER. MY IDEAS FOR WINTER EVENINGS KNOW of no better way of pass— 1 ing these long winter evenings than in good reading, and as there is so much such material nowadays practically in reach of everyone’s pocket-book, that it is not doing justice to ourselves or family to be deprived of it. For it is new con— ceded by everyone that good read- ing is not a luxury, but a necessity, both from an educational and enter- taining point of view, and we cannot have too much of it in our homes especially where there are children. We often hear people 'say. “My children do not like to read" which no doubt is true if they have never gotten in that habit or formed a taste for it, which I think is usually the fault of the,parents who them- selves do not care for reading, or else have never taken the trouble to read to them or tried in any way to get them interested along that line. If parents will take the time each day or evening to read a story that will arouse the child’s interest and occasionally letting him read a part of it himself he will soon be looking about for something more to read and then is the time for the parents- to‘sacrifice in other ways, if need be, to provide that child with good reading and plenty of it. There are many good books and magazines now for both boys and girls which they should have. I have heard people say they could not afford to take magazines for their children when at the same time more money was being spent for fancy work material and tobacco in that home than the very best mag- azines would cost. Now I do not like to think these people are selfish but rather do not realize the value of good reading to the growing generation. I have been in homes where my heart really ached for the children there, as they had nothing to do all the long evenings and if they be- came a little ,too noisy were sent at once to bed or compelled to sit “quietly” in the corner, which we all know is torture to a healthy, act- ive child. For we know most child- ren want something doing every minute and if'no entertainment is furnished in' the home like reading or games they will be going outside to get’it and then your worries be- gin. I think it’s nice for some member of the family to read aloud evenings some good story and funny ones the children always enjoy. And there is nothing makes them quite so happy as having their parents enter into their games and it makes the parents feel that much younger as well. There are many educational games that all ages can take part in and enjoy. - , , Now parents, your children are going from the home in a few short years to take up their various call- ings and What sort of memory will they carry with them of the winter evenings spent in the old home. Will they be happy memories? We trust through your efforts they will be.——— Mrs. Manley Brown, Hillsdale Co. COLLEGE VISITORS SEE FARM HOT WATER SYSTEM OT water in the country home bath room at an installation cost of. approximately $75 is made available through a unique system devised by the agricultural engineering department of the Mich- igan Agricultural College and which was put on display for the first time in the new college library building for inspection by Farmers’ Week visitors. The outfit consists of a. pressure pump, pressure tank, a kerosene bath water heater, lavatory, bath tub and all piping and appliances necessary within a modern bath— room, with the exception of a show- er spray nozzle. To display the outfit a model bathroom has been set" up in the reading room of the library building by college students with an attend- ant on duty to demonstrate every— thing but actual taking of the bath and to answer all questions and ex- plain the proper methods of “setting up” the system. A great many_of us did not see this system and I feel sure that the college will be glad to help you if you will write them in care of the Engineering Department. Personal Column Can Any Reader Supply or Suggest a Way for this Talking Maohine.—-I am a reader of the Business Farmer, and I have an Edison Talking Machine of the old make, in good condition, all but the four minute reproducer. I was wonder- ing if you would put an article in the M. B. F. and see if any of the readers had an old reproducer for this make of machine that they would care to sell. Model C, No. 429017 Edison Standard, as the company has stopped making them, and we tried to repair it and couldn’t.— Mrs. Sarah Wright, R1, Middleton, Mich. From One in Noemi—AS there are so many helped by using the department for woimen, I thought I would use it again. I have quite a few handkerchiefs with crocheted lace on, and embroidered guest towels, bath towels, with crocheted lace on, and I can make most any kind of fancy work, and I was wondering if I' put an ad in your paper if I couldn’t get some help, as I live on a farm and can use lots of clothing or things others can’t use. Have three children, 4, 6 and 9 years old. I have now some handker- chiefs with crocheted lace on, some fancy doilies, embroidered guest towels, and bath towels, with crocheted lace on. Will exchange for quilt pieces or anything I can use. Would like to get pattern for refooting stockings for children and my- self. Will be yery thankful if you will do this, as it will help me out a lot—A Subscriber, Turner, Michigan.- Directions for Knitting Socks.—_—I have been a silent reader of M. B. F. for a number of years and enjoy it all. especial- ly the Farm Home Department. In the last paper, I noticed some reader asked for directions for knitting Bonita. and "as I have directions for makingtnem as - in all.) ‘A. an . .x ,..' >1- .‘ “a, , cast on 38 stitches? knit '8 plain, put! 3 to:- 4 inches,‘k‘:_nit main 7' inches (11 inch“ Heel—knit plain 28 stitches -',on."toono needle, turn, purl back these 28 stitches, turn, knit plain, repeating these “70 rows (always slipping the first stitch) for 28 rows. making heel about 3 inches“ 'Wlth the inside of the heel toward you, purl. 16 stitches. purl 2 together, purl 1.. Turn, knit 6 stitches, slip 1, knit 1, pull slipped stitch over, knit-1,-turn, purl 7 stitches, purl 2 together, purl 1. Turn, knit 8 stitches, slip 1, knit I, pull slipped stitch over, knit one, turn,. purl 9 stitches, purl 2 together, purl 1. Turn, knit 10 stitches, slip 1, knit 1, pull slipped stitch over. knit 1, turn, purl 11 stitches, purl 2 to- gether, purl 1. Turn, knit 12 stitches. slip 1, knit 1, pull slippedstitch over, knit 1, turn, purl 13 stitches, purl 2 to- gether, purl 1. Turn, knit 14 stitches, slip 1, knit 1,,pull slippe'd stitch over, knit ‘1, turn. purl 15 stitches, purl .2 to- gether. Turn, knit 15 stitches, slip 1, knit I, pull slipped stitch over. Now pick up and knit the 14 stitches down the side of the heel piece. Knit the 28 stitches of the front needle. Pick up and knit 14 stitches at the other side of the heel piece. Divide the heel stitches on the 2 side needles, and knit right around again to the center heel. First needle, knit to within 3 stitches of the front end of the side needle, knit 2 to- gether, knit 1. Knit front needle plain. Third needle. knit 1, slip ‘1, knit I, pull slipped stitch over, knit plain to end of needle. This reducing to be done every other row until there are 56 stitches on the needles (front needle 28, side needles 14 each). Knit plain until the foot from the back of the heel measures 8% inches, or 9 inches, if a longer sock is desired. To narrow for toe—Begin at the front needle; knit 1, slip I, knit I, pull slipped stitch over, knit plain to within 3 stitches of the end of the needle, knit 2 together. knit 1. Second needle—Knit 1, slip 1, knit 1, pull slipped stitch over, knit plain to end of needle. Third needle—Knit plain to within 3 stitches of the end, knit 2 together, knit 1. Knit two plain rounds, then narrow as before every other round until you have 20 stitches on three needles, 10 on front needle and 6 on each side needle. Then knit two plain rounds Slip stitches on side needles all onto one needle, giving you 10 stitches on each of the two remaining needles. - Intake of toe—Having 10 stitches each on front and back needles, break off wool leaving 12 inches with which to finish off sock and thread it into a darning needle. Put darning needle into first stitch of the front knitting needle as if to knit, pull wool through and take of! stitch. Put darning needle in next stitch of front needle as if to purl, pull wool through but leave the stitch on. Go‘to back needle, being particularly careful that the wool is taken under the knitting needle each time and not over. Put the darning needle in first stitch of the back needle as if to purl, pull wool through and take off stitch; put darning needle in next stitch of the back needle as if to knit, pull wool through but leave stitch on. Return to front needle, put wool in first stitch (the one previously purled) and repeat, In finishing of]! end of yarn, run yarn once down side of too. Will Send Poems.—I’m only 11 years old but I read your paper and saw where a girl wanted some songs. Among them were “When You and I Were Young Maggie” and "Just Break the News to Mother." Will you please publish this in the paper and tell her if she’d care to have those two mentioned above, I‘ll gladly send them. If she would just write me a letter (I like letters very much. My address is Miss Helen Smith. Box 51, R. F. D. No. 1, East "Lansing, Michigan. —if you are well bred! Where there is a guest of honor, like a wedding, coming out, and so on, every guest should make it a point to meet the guest of honor. It is extremely rude to have been invited to such an affair and then leave without having been intro- duced to the main attraction. '7 Menu for March 1 Toadin the Hole Creamed Potatoes Jelly Beet and Lettuce Salad, French Dressing Baked Apple Whipped Cream Coffee or Tea Toad in the Hole—Two cups flour, one—half teaspoon salt, one pound link sausage, or use fresh sausage meat and make a. circle of it. Two eggs, two table- spoons melted fat, and three cups milk. Sift the flour and salt into a-basi‘n; beat up eggs well, and after mixing them ' ith the milk and melted fat pour grad- ually on flour, beating it well with I wooden spoon. When quite smooth pour it into a. well greasel "fire-proof dish; skin the sausages and lay}, them in the batter and bake in a moderatefov‘e‘n‘gor three-feurths of an hour. , serve in snail squares arranged .n‘ea .1overlapp'inx'eaoh other one. hodgdish. ' ,f ' ' STE your food whilefiyoueat it and you won’t have to taste it after- wa. ,’l says Horace Fletcher. the philosopher and dietician. Palatability, ‘has much to do with digestibility. The food we like usually agrees with us. Moderation is. the safest rule.. It is prob- ably .true that many .shrewd farmers know how to feed steers, hogs, sheep, and‘horses, but do not know how to feed hum-ans. -- Pumpkin Osaka—One cup light-brown sugar, one-half cup granulated sugar, one- half cup fat, yolks of two eggs, three- fourths cup sifted pumpkin, one-half cup sour milk, two tablespoons caramel, one- fourth teaspoon soda, four teaspoons bak- ing-powder one—fourth teaspoon salt, two cups flour, two-thirds cup chopped, flouder ‘ walnuts. ‘ Cream the sugar and fat and add the other ingredients in the order given. Bake in loaf or layer tins. Frost with a boiled or a marshmallow icing. .Peanut Butter Fudge.~—Two ,cupfuls of sugar, one-half cupful of milk, two heap- ing teaspoonfuls of peanut butter. Mix all ingredients and let boil hard for five minutes. Test in cool water until it forms a soft ball. Beat, pour in buttered pan, and cut in squares—Margaret L. Millin. Lake Shore Road, Mt. Clemens. Egglees Rye Muffins—«Two cups of rye flour, four teaspoons baking powder, one- half teaspoon salt, four teaspoons sugar, one cup of milk, one tablespoon melted fat. Mix and sift ingredients, add milk and fat. Mix quickly, do not beat. Bake in greased muffin pans twenty minutes. This makes twelve muffins—Alma B, Augusta, Michigan, Filled Cookies.——1 cup raisins, one-half cup sugar, one teaspoon flour. Chop the raisins and mix into the other ingredients. cook these together until thick, stirring to prevent scorching. Place plain cooky .roil hilt! out out in buttered pans. ' and spre“ one teaspoon of the raisin' .tliling‘,m on top .of every cooky, cayer with mother cooky and bake in slow oven. --Miss Alma. Becker. Grandma's Gingersnaps.—-One cup of molasses, one teaspoonginger flour, one— half cup shortening to make a stiff batter, one teaspoon soda. Boil. molasses five minutes and add the shortening, soda and ginger. Cool lightly and add flour enough that the dough may be rolled very thin, out and bake in a hot oven. Don’t let it burn. WOMEN’S EXCHANGE F you have something to exchange. we will print It FREE under this heading providing: Irst—lt appeals to women and Is a onlfl e exchanges, no cash Involved. Second—It will go In three lines. Third—You are a paid-u subscriber to The Business Farmer and attac our address label from a recent Issue to rove t. Exchan e offers will be numbered an In- serted in t e order received as we have room. —MR8. ANNIE TAYLOR. Editor. 111 .—Assorted hulbs of dahlias and gladiolus in exchange for wool and cotton pieces for patch— work:—-Mrs. Arthur Palmer, Paris, Michigan. The Runner’s Bible (Copyright by Houghton Mifflin Co.) By this shall all me know that ye are my‘ diciples, if ye have love one to an- other. John 13:35. Knowledge puffeth up, but love bulld- eth up. 1 Cor. 8:1. Hatred stirreth 11p strifes; covereth all sins. Prov. 10:12. -—If a brother has in penitence cast aside sin you will speed him into happiness by veiling his past from the world, with your own loving silence. No one deserving the name of Christ- ian ever resurrects another’s sinful past to his shame. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger and clamor, and evil speaking. be put away from you, with all malice. E1111. 4:31: but love AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING BE SURE AND SEND IN YOUR SIZE FASHION BOOK NOTICE Send FASHIONS, showing coin or plate nd thermlHE. a CON OISE and COMI’llEI—IENSIVE NEEDLE (Illustrating 30 of dressmak er. 4853. ICLF the various, simple stitches) all valuable h111tsoto the home A Stylish Blouse. —Ilere is Fashion’ 3 latest ex ressian in blouses. 10c in silver or stamps for our IT- -TO- DATE SdPRING AND SUMM’FRe 1924 BOOK OF con ainin AR 500 us of s' and Children’s dPSl RESSMIAKINE, ALSeQ s OME POINTS 0\' It may. be finished with square necdk outline or with the little band collar at 111; 11 neck 11.ne The sleeve is sn11rt in wrist longéch, and pgopulnr and very comfortable in the short length of the small view. This Pattern is cut in Sizes: '38, 40. 42 and 44 inches bust measure. A medium size requires 2% yards of 20 inch material. 4687. well, as would also pongee and crepe. The P 8 year size requires 21/ A Good Dress for School —F1gured woolen and serge are here combined. or taffeta and vehet are also a good combination for this model. attern is cut. in 4 Sizes: 6, 8, yards of one material 40 inches wide. Velvet and crepe Gingham and linen would combine 10 11nd 12 years. An To make as illustrated requires % yard of plain material sand 1%. yard of figured material. 4647. A Stylish Coat Dress. ——Here 1311. ver out the flounces. It is a 31§ood0 style for broa cloth, mohair, serge cut in 6 Sizos: 34, 36 0. . an hes bust yards of 40 inch materml, if made with flounces. qun' ed. The width at the foot is 1% yard. 4681. washable satin could be used for this style. tucks or tiny plaits. attern is cut in 6 Sizes: 6, 8, 10, 12, inch materia 485 5.8 A Popular Play Sult.~—Pongee, convenient. This Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: of 27 inch material. 4660. A Practical This handy other toilet articles on boat or train. (-Iotl1.cretonne, for this model. It requires 11/2 4654. be developed in linen dergarten cloth as we blouse of wash 4 Sizes: 2, 3. 4859. A “barrio” could be of barrie coat of flannel includes both designs. the barrie coat.‘ To the "barrio” Farmer, linen, wool rep. this model. The sleeve may be finished short, or in wrist 3. 4. 5 and “Traveling Accessory."— receptacle for comb will be found very useful It may or folded up like a. pocket or bag. ticking g, or denim could be used The pattern is cut in One Size: yard of 27 inch material A Smart Suit for the Small This is a. practical play or school suit. pong-ea, seersucker or kin as in ser e. r, one may have the trousers o mateiniaL requires 2% yards of 36 mch material. Set of Two Practical Garments for Infants. ——A dainty yoke dress and a comfortahlo or petticoat is here depicted. lawn, batiste or fine nainsook. or cambric. It is cut in (me S170- and requires 2 yards for the Dress and 1% Address all orders for patterns to. Pattern Department THE BUSINESS FARMER Mt. Clemens, Mich. attractive model, than may be finished with or with— twill or kuslm The Pattern is measure. A 38i-111h size requires 61/1 It made without flounces 473 yards will be re- A Comfortble Under- Garment for ('l‘hls'fll‘lnd Juniors. —Nainsook, crepe, crepe de chine, or e Hemetitching ribbon binding or embroidery may be used 14 and 16 years. A 12 ness of the front may be dis osed of in gathers, or decoration. The your size requires 2 yards 36 jlersey and hgingham would be good for ength. The closing is comfortable and years. A14 year size requires 31/8 yards brushes. and be worn like an 11111011 Rubberized Boy.— It may or flannelw cloth and tln Ther Pattern is cut 11. you A 3 year sin The d The Putts-1 11 f01 make the waist poitions 111 of cambric will require 1/4 ALL PATTERNS 12c EACH—— . - 3 FOR 30c POSTPAID Order from this or former Issues of The Business giving number and you name— and address plainly. ADD 10c FOR SPRING AND SUMMER 1924 FASHION BOOK y.z11d sign I I)". pom: FRI!" 13 msmal’imggn COLLAVOR ”354N069 L! --R°V N.y MN (389). «1an — for neighborhood parties You can make your tea parties, lunch parties, and supper parties always a sparkling suc- cess if you top off your menu with Jell-O. There is a smartly festive look about a Jell-O dish, and it tastes just as nice. It is pre- pared in a few minutes and set away several hours before your company arrives. You Can make all sorts of fancy salads and desserts with Jell-O. Ask for a Jell-O Recipe Book. RECIPES Imperial Salad. Drain juice from half a can of pineapple, add one table- spoonful of vinegar and enough water to make I pint. Heat to boiling point and add one package of Lemon Jell—O. Just as 1111er begins to set. add three slices of canned pine- apple, cubed, one—halfcan Spanish pimcntos, shredded. and one medium size cucum- bet, salted and cut fine. Mould in individual mould. or in one large mould and slice. Serve with cream salad dressing. New Manhattan Salad Dissolve a package of ’ Lemon JcllaO in a pint of boiling water and one tea- spoonful vinegar. While it is cooling, chop one cup tart apples. one cup English walnuts, one cup of celery. Mix these ingredients, scao son with salt, and pour over them the Jell—O. Cool in individual moulds. Scm with mayonnaise 0; French dressing. "America’s most famous dessert" THE GENESEE PURE FOOD COMPANYJA Roy, New York Aspirin Beware of Imitations! Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on the package or on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer AS- Dirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians over twenty-three years for Colds Headache Toothache Lumbago Neuritis Rheumatism Neuralgia Pain, Pain Accept “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" only. Each unbroken package con- tains proven directions. Handy boxes of twelve tablets cost few cents. Druggists also sell bottles of 24 and 100. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of M011— oaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. (2 Have You Poultry For Sale? An 'Ad in The M; B. F. BRFAKS THAT COLD Hill’s Cascara Bromide Quininc will break your cold in one day. Taken promptly it prevents colds, la grippe and pneumonia. bearing Mr. Hill’s portrait. druggists. Demand red box All Price 30c. ' Q‘lls QUININE nmorr, Mica. (,B-ZOZ) A l-lealth Food Frail c°hudrén at it is the adapted to help over- come imperfect nutrition. Try Soon a Bowne. Bloomfield, N. J. SCOTTS EMULSION food-tonic well SCOTT’S! 23-54 Detroit Beef Company offers its services 10 the Farmers of Michigan as commission Dressed Calves and live poultry. Write us forinformation how to rses and ship calves to market. capital and surplus. 34 years in bus-4 inesa in the management. 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Use Calumet and your pies, cakes, biscuits, muflins, everything you bake will be per- fectly raised, easily digested and appetizing. T E;.W0RLD’S GREATEST. BAKING POWDER hold of something that quickly and coni- plctely cured 1111’. Years have passed and 1 Are You c d H' R t ? I was badly ruptured while lifting: a trunk sevoml 'cars ago. Doctors sniul my . only hope 0 cure was an operation. Trusses did me no good. Finally 1 L’Ol’, Learn How to Heal It FREE Ruptured people all over the_ country are amazed at the almost miraculous results of a simple Home System for rupture that is being sent free to all who write for it. This remarkable invention is one of the greatest blessmgs ever of- fered to ruptured persons, and is being pronounced the most successful Method ever discovered. It brings instant and moment relief and does away with fie wearing of trusses forever. 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Name Address . ............................................. the rupture has never returned, although am doing hard work as it canienter. There was no operation, no lost time, no trouble. 1 have nothing to sell. but will ive full information about how you may find a complete cure without operation, if you write to me. Eugene M. Piillen. Carpenter 59—K Marcellus Avenue, Man- asqmin. N._J. Better cut out this notice and show it to any others who are rup- tured—you_may save 9. life or at least m the misery of rupture and the worry in danger of an operation. 1 ._/ FARM LANDS Oil-Ac!!! MICHIGAN FARM WITH S cows, tools, crops; 81650 euh. Grows biz crops sugar beets, corn, oats, potatoes, rye, beans. hay: lll'l- wte milk route yields biz returussgood schools, stores. churches; 48 acres loam min 9., ily-cow pasture, woodlot. 55 fruit trees; (-oin ortable 5- room cottage, biz barn, poultry house, aura c, fraiiar . Age forces nick sale, $5000 sets a l. as i an 1—3 cash. tails page 38 Big Illns {iargain Comic; money-making rms best sections lnitr-«l States 00 y free. S BOUT FARM AGENCY, 427KJ urquette Bldg. Chicago, Ill. FOR SALE. 0. TRADE: 400 ACRES III heart of Illinom Corn belt all under cultivation. near school and town. New house, nace, electric light, bath, tenant houses, Windmill. tractor, barns Silly equinned. F. MASON. 6468 Gratiot Ave, etrcit, Michigan. FOR SALE, 40 ACRES. GOOI? .OEMENT block house. large burn, all other buildings, land all olearedand fenced, could not put the build- ings on this lace for Elfii‘e asked, $4250. terms. A dress, JA S 8. Bl JKNELL, Clare, Michigan. FOE SALE. 88 ACRES ALI. OLElRED and tiled. only. half mile to sugar beet station Will‘ sell for Just about what buildings would cost which are all in good repair price $12,000, only $4000 down. Balance 32 years. time. Address JAMES S. BICKNELL, Clare, Michigan. FOR SALE. 40 ACRES 8 MILES WEST OF Clare, on M. 20, good house small barn, 15 acres hardwood timber. rice £2,000, terms. Adar-’85 JAMES S. BIC NELL, Clare, Michigan. .FOR RENT 0R WILL SELL—200 ACRE dairy or stock farm. thood buildings fertile soil. . \. DERNBERGER, Oxford, Michigan, 40 miles north of DetrOit. FOR SALE—80 ACRES, 35 CLEARED, running water, repairable buildings, 50 fruit trees well fenced, acres sweet clover. consolidated school system. ' On rural route. $1 200.00 cash terms if desired. EARL . BUTTON, 155 Washington St" Traverse City, Michigan. ____ . SAW MILLS , wexfoidi‘ Agricultural School attended the. . \VHEN WRITING TO ADVER- « ,mRSMENTION‘THE M. B. r. I gilhmafijnsfiys 1%... G£3fi 0011‘;in FOR SALE: SECOND HAND 8 TO 10 M. oflicm 3175. ,, i . " ‘ ‘, ' (we Community Meet quite often and he and others gave talks on balanced rations for dairy cows, making a good ration by using the crops you raised and adding the lacking ones, thereby keeping expense down: adaptability of soils, fertilizers, etc. The pastor of the Mauton Method- ist Episcopal church made an ad- dress emphasizing the importance of get together meetings in the creat- ing and fostering of cooperation among farmers. The second summer started like the first with monthly meetings but people seemed unusually busy even for farmers, and farmers are the busiest people there are. In the months since the opening meeting a‘ number of the most useful helpers had left the community. The teach- er who helped start the meetings was gone and another teacher whose home was in the neighborhood had moved to the district where she taught and opened similar meetings there. Several of the young men had gone to the cities, in the general exodus from the farms 3. number of families had gone away. Some of the evenings were too hot for com- fort. The chairman tried to inter— est the farmers in a milk testing as— sociation and borrowed an outfit with which he tested the samples brought, but in August it was decid- ed to discontinue the meetings for the summer. In the fall the Community Meet was reorganized. A new chairman, Mr. G. W. Brown, was elected as well as a new sec’y—treas. It was again voted to hold weekly meet- ings. Some of the new things we have had this year are: a penny march to take care of the expense of christ- mas next winter, an auction sale of articles no longer wanted by their owner but of value to others which resulted in putting a tidy little sum into the treasury, and a resolution a... page.) . on the part Of the men "to make a a. quilt. _ . , At one of the earliest meetings it was decided that ,,the Community Meet needed a good lamp and some song books. These were paid for. by collections. But when it was decided to buy'an organ'collections would have been too slow so a Com- munity Ladles’.Aid was organized. Meetings were held on alternate Wednesdays with a pot luck dinner for which five cents was charged. Any man who took a sleigh load of women'to the aid got a free (2) dinner. There was some argument among the men as to whether the dinner was worth the trip but there was usually one man at least who though it was or was willing to sac— rifice himself for the good. of the cause. Quilts were made and sold and carpet rags sewed. If the .hostess desired the ladies’ worked for her as well as for the community. The organ was bought also a huge cof- fee pot. Now that the men are planning a quilt pei'haps they'll start an aid. Who can tell? They have already promised a dinner of their own cooking to the woman who will take a load of men to their quilting. ’ SERRADELLA ‘(Continued on Page 6) a1 other Agricultural Experiment Stations have also tried it out, but so far it has found no place in Am‘ erica. Sweet clover, hairy vetch, and soybeans may be successfully used for building up the soil. Sweet clover is quite sensitive to soil acid— ity, but has the ability to produce better than most other crops on soils that are low in organic matter and available fertility. Soybeans are not so sensative to soil acidity as sweet clover and are adapted to sandy soils—C. R. Megree, Associ- ate Pgrof. of Farm Craps, M. A. C. DAIRY and LIVESTOCK BREEDS OF BEEF CATTLE N OUR January 5th issue we con— 1 eluded a series of articles on the leading breeds of dairy cattleun the United States and starting With this issue we will publish a series of articles on the leading breeds of beef cattle. The breeds of beef cattle in the United States are the Shorthorn (both horned and polled), Hereford - (both horned and polled), Aberdeen Angus, and Galloway. Each of these breeds has been carefully selected and bred for a long period of years, with the result that individuals transmit their breed characters very readily; hence their value and im- portance for use in improving or grading up native or scrub cattle. With frequent exceptions, espec- ially the Shorthorn, the cows of the beef breeds are not heavy milkers, and in this point lies their success as desirable and economical produc- ers of beef. The heavy milking tendency, as with the dairy breeds. is associated with a conformation of body which prevents the animal from yielding the greatest quantity and the best quality of beef. 1.-—-Shorthorn Of the breeds of beef cattle in the United States, the Shorthorn is the most extensively grown. . The first importations where made in 1783 by Miller and Gough, of Virginia and Maryland. respectively. These cat- tle were brought from the Tees Riv- er Valley, in northeastern England, where they were sometimes spoken of as Teeswater, or Durham, cattle. These names are practically obso- lete, and now only the name Short- horn is used. Such men as Colonel Lewis Sanders, of Kentucky, who imported Shorthorns in 1817, Sam— uel Thorne, of New York, who in 1853 imported Duchesses and the famous Cherry, Abram Renick, who produced the famous bull Airdrie, and R. A. Alexander, of Kentucky. may be considered the founders of the Shorthorn breed in America... Later, the Ohio Importing Company iwas organized by some of these men and others to promote the, industry. ' The Shorthorn is the largest the beef breeds. As‘.a.,sruie~ when raised under favorable conditions the mature bulls weigh between 1,800 and 2,400 pounds, and the cows usually weigh between 1,300 and 1,600 pounds. These cattle- have' great adaptability and do well almost everywhere. They may vary in color from all red or 'all white to any combina’tioniof red and white, and a blending of the red and white hairs (roan) is a popular color. The Shorthorn crosses well with scrub and grade cows, the calves of such a. matings developing into desirable beef cattle. The bulls are very pre- potent and have been used freely in grading up the scrub cattle of the plains, in both this country and South America. Some of the other breeds excel the Shorthorn in grazing ability where feed and pasture conditions are fav- orable. The Shorthorn thrives best where grasses are abundant and feed plentiful. Under these condi- tions it is not equaled by any other breed. The Shorthorn is early ma‘ Hiring, “growthy,” and fattens read- y. ‘ . - Of all the beef breeds the Short- horn excels in milk production, the large milk flow insuring a good calf. For this reason the Shorthorn cow is favored on many small farms to sup- ply milk for the family in addition to raising a calf for beef. The steers sell readily as feeders and produce a very high-class beef with a thick loin and full hind quarter which furnish profitable cuts. In conformation the Shorthorn is Wide, deep, lengthy, and' thickly fleshed—a good beef type. The great width of back and the‘ straight lines of the Shorthorn, together with its depth, give a more rectangular form than that of any of the other breeds, although the wide distribu- tion of the breed has caused a slightly greater difference in this re- spect to be recognized than in oth- er beef breeds. " _ In‘the cow the following points should be noted: The horn is us~ ually small and curved kforward, with the tips pointing” in ard ' _‘ ’Aynh' "ire’ Cow- 'l'h use ffiew-knreinthouonhnentd sen dairies ~ e we‘llathnhidehMorintbehomes oftho Itaneyherdonthmiseuusliyvelued. 1!. G. Welsh been. Burke, N. .. owners its no: “En- fio . Cam-Karen. directly on the active and 8":th cream «the emilk function. By mantis-ionisativovborthemilkdow is increased and disease h guarded against. m Abortion. Retained Secure. Bunches. Milk Fever. Lost and shits: new troubles always result from lowered “-3: e! these/important organs. h m dbenoes Korn- . strikes at theheortofthotrouhisandsssists nature in the rebuilding prom rewsueesssfnldairymen nowtrytosb maths winter months without the use of Kev-Kare. Fed one week out of each month or for a month at calving time. In Karo his returns in b milk yield and 1m from disease. ettel [oxidation stun- Iell Row-Kore. line “.8: medium Iiic. Send for free w book “The Hans w Doctor.” DMRYASSOCIATION c0..~ilic. - Lyndonville. Vt. I BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY Ads under this heading 30¢ per agate line for 4 lines or more. $1.00 per insertion for 8 lines or less. 1‘ . :. 4 $135M: To avoid conflicting dates we will without .00“ list the dots of any live stock sale in Michigan. If you are oonslderln n eels eo- Vise us at on and we will oinm ths'date fat man. Add . Live Stool Editor. M. 3. IL. t. Clemons 7—Poland Ghinas and Angus. E. A Clark St. Louis. Michigan. land C ' 3. Detroit Creamery [ Clemens. Mic n. J. Eat ey. Wash- , W. gall. R lfe Farm 0 . Creek. Mich.. W. R. Harper, dlevill Sa 0 ManuscruMid e 25—-Holstems, Fred H’. Lee, Ply- mouth. Michigan. fl ' CATTLE ' " HOLSTEINS F O R S A L E My’Entire Herd of Holstein Cattle One 81 lb. herd sire, 10 females. Among them are c0 n 20 lb. 2 yr. old and a gay! cowhfigd s 1 spun sold under a. retest. if late for pedigrees. Time H. W. MOI-IR, Pigeon. March March March March March Michigan. HEREFORDS HEREFORDS Registered Breedin Betti , T. Tested at practigal prices {in}; roduo fieeves proflgbly all angles}; a b y T. F. B. BOTiIAM O SONS. (Hemords since 1888.) 'St. Clair. Mich. BREED HEREFORDS THAT T'l'E . Eleven choice two-year-old heii‘e‘rs 1mg severe year bulls ed bylntornstional P s W mBiggders 0 Here! date "I forlsuill) on. or since . anPO FARM. Swat-ts Creek. Michigan. AYBSHIRES ‘ AYRSHIRES To no room for wint ' ‘ s". -. hs-r- .. miss, wuss“ is 100 o ' w. 'r. “Widgets. mi mi.“sli3ii’ii‘sn. ron' sans—nucleus“: svnsmns I and bulhcalves. heiiers some choice cows. FINDLAY BROS» snobs natives Irina-o ' ‘ m A on v on AIWItol‘gI-li‘ mmfiuwxlfiflni iti siiIK'To'b..8ssumm and better eslua R I. Vassar. Mien. W—l , to - the muzzle,_w11ich ,_ih large, 'open nostrils. A black muzzle is objectionable to most breeders. The neck should be short. and full, blending well into head and shoulder. smooth and well covered with flesh. The crops should be full, the heart girthlarge, and the foreflank low. The chest should be wide and deep, with the brisket thick and well to the front. The ribs are usually well sprung and the barrel well develop- ed. In good individuals the back is broad and the loin is wide,rdeep, and thickly fleshed. The hips are wide and should be well covered with flesh; the rump is long, wide, and level, carrying an abundance oi flesh. The hind quarter is well ,de— veloped in the Shorthorn, and it is characteristic in that it is almost straight from the root of the tail to the books; it is wide and thick, car- rying flesh well down, time giving a maximum quantity of flesh. The flank is low; the adder is usually well developed, extending well for- ward, with prominent milk veins. Tests of medium size are perferred. The hull should possess the same desirable features as the female, without her feninine qualities. He should show masculinity by develop- ing a heavier horn, a larger and thicker neck, a heavier bone throughout, and greater depth, thickness, and scale. His horns are heavier and less curved than the cow’s, but they should not show un- due coarseness. . VETERINARY ,DEPARTMENT PARALYSIS I have a pig Weighing around 75 pounds which is unable to walk on its feet. It rolls or boundsaround in the straw to get to the teding trough to drink milk. It has good appetite and is O. K. except it can not stand on its feet and walk. The hog house floor is partly cement and part hard wood floor, is kept clean and as dry as possible with good dry straw. I have feed this pig sul- phur and condition powders but it seems to stay in the same condition. What can be done?——G. H., Sand Lake, Mich. - —-Para1ysis of the hind quarters of swine is quite common and is at- tracting considerable attention. In the majority of cases the cause is bbscure and the treatment is very unsatisfactory. Various theories of the origin of the disease are given. A lack of mineral matter in the food of growing pigs may affect the joints and bones and cause paralysis. Pa- ralysis sometimes follows partura— tion in sows that are in a run down condition and are being nursed heav- ily. In all probility some cases are due to lesions in the spinal cord, such as tuberculosis, tumors, ab- scess and diseased vertebrae. Con— fining pigs in small inclosures with— out exercise for a long time may cause paralysis. If there is consti- pation the pig should be given a dose of Epsom salts about two ounces as a drench in water. Give a light diet such as slop made of bran and milk. Make the animal as comfort— able as possible, keep them in a clean place with clean bedding and plenty of fresh water. The daily adminis- tration of about four drams of cod liver oil in the feed sometimes gives good results.———John P. Hutton, Michigan Agricultural College. Testing of seed corn can be done by any farmer. Why take a chance with untested seed when a little time will tell the story before the crop is planted? CHANGE'IN DATE OF OLABK’S SALE N our February 2nd issue we published an advertisement regarding the sale of pure bred Poland China \ hogs and Aberdeen Angus cattle to be held on Februhry 20th. Thru an error the place where the _sele wastnbe held was not, mentioned. Mr. Clark postw- poned. the sale, until Friday. March 7111,1984. and itpwill be held slam farm at St. mulch. will! attend. st: 1 ' beams and hash-colored- The shoulders should be . Let I spent so wanna-feet. the this Tonic. Guam Bass 10.. D.V.8, m “mug is Here an cubofdoors is filled with the bloat or the lamb, the bawl of the calf, the grant oi the pig, and the whinny oi the colt. Youth asserting itself everywhere! Keep their bodies healthy, and stomachs full. You can then count on good growth—quick development—4nd begin to cash in on them before the summer-end. DB. HESS STOGK TONIC against disease, insurance of good appetite, good digestion. Then, there are the mothers: Your COWS need it for its system-toning, bowel~c1eansmg, appetizing effects. Puts them in fine condition for calving. Your BROOD SOWS will be relieved of con- stipation and put in fine fettle for farrowing. Excellent for MARES in foal—and EWES at lambing time. It makes for good appetite, and more milk to nourish the ofi’spring. Tell your dealer what stock you have. has a package to smt. GUARANTEED. 25 lb. Pail, $2.25 Except in the for West, South and Canada. Honest goods—honest price—why pay more? DR. HESS &. CLARK be your insurance policy It keeps the worms away. He 100 lb. Drum, $8.00 Ashland, O. .. T’H‘PSS Dip and DiSinfCCtan't ”cit-v. ~15 a»: or... .. —N -4. ' '%i~v=l-v » - hcquicks - for Hog Lice" - for Health p 25 21 head by 30 to 34 lb. bulls. to 30,1b. bull. W. J. BAILEY, - DlSPERSALSALE HEAD REGISTERED HOLSTEINS Strongly bred in Pontiac Appollo, Pontiac Burke and King of the Pontiac; Wednesday, March 12, 1924, of a 33 lb. cow with a 1082 lb. butter record. Catalog ready March lst. 25 Sale starts at 1 o’clock One 24 lb. 4-year-old daughter 16 bred Washington, Mich. JERSEYS “ REG. JERSEYS. POGIS 99"! OF H. F. AND Ma'aty breeding. Young stock for sale.‘ Herd f accredited b State and Federal Government. GUERNSEYS GUERNSEY BULL CALVES $50. A. R. BREED- ing. 50"] to 75W breeding of Norman’s Mis- saukee Red) Rose. Bull soon ready for service 8100. A. M. SMITH Lake GItY. Michigan. v' ' or race and description. wnt‘iauoi diltWiLBIiJil. BELDING. Mich. # l ft‘iUER‘i‘StEYTPUlg‘E inREfD BIULL CALVES mm 0 ' mun is r _ p' SHORTHORNS quick sale. llcrd . Bi) teasedme need for RAISE suonriionus WFI'Hour Mann‘s“ F- NELSON: 3- 1. MCBi‘idGS- Mlohlaan. Like fixenfi‘i; dices._ P. S. dAccfedltfindteHerd No. i . escn ion an pr ce , 28?: O. KEYLLY &pSON, Plymouth. Michigan. (Cont nued on Page 31) Dispersion Sale Registered Holstein Cattle at Battle Creek, Mich, on Thursday, March 20, 1924 The entire herds of T Holstein cattle . W. Spmzue and John Rolfe comprising about 75 head f 11— will be dispersed at the John Rolfe farm near Battle CTOOk?,MYcehifitdrI§d ordained THURSDAY. MARCH 20. 1824. In‘thk sale will be: The til-lb. oow- Princess Vale Pierte ‘e The 31-11:. Kuhn; bull. Wei 0 pit... Echo The 80—lb. oIon old herd b Traverse Echo A doubts! th 80-1b. bull, Korndyke Twodsughrsotheonyuving _ Eleven daughtars o of The Pontmcs. Eli: dough ten 30 Judge ear Kink Seals. i_ 'gylvia mm eld Ormsb ntunry Sire. Maple Crest Koihdyke Hengerveld, of the - 6. tighten and six heifer calves. out of e 30-11:. hard sire. Traverse Echo Sylvia Also numerous well-bred animals that space do. not permit us to mention. If interested. write for a sale catalog to JOHN w. ROI-FE. R. F. D. No. O‘BATI'LI GREEK.'MIOHIGAII_ WILBUR SPRAGUE. R. F. D. 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A an r. “nipped-tasth 'r“ba"ckgr0u d hammers-Jun HOPE - on THE ._ '1‘ *UPP'ER PENINSULA ‘ 2!... 32;, OTHER} h'eretp'fore‘dn‘ an indus- trial way—unléss it be the, al- most rocket-like ascent of: the tourist: industry—shes caused the wave of enthusiasm and concerted effort which, is attending the pure- bred dairy sire campaign now in pro- gress throughout the Upper Penin- sula of Michigan. It is-a. movement which, born almost-over—night, and wholly as the result of a. happy in— spiration, has swept the peninsula. from stem to stern, and left it rock- ing with the impact and reeking with the spirit of pure-bred bulls, pure—bred cows, better farms, and more creameries and bigger profits. Probably the most important phase of the better-dail‘ying campaign throughout upper Michigan is the pure—bred dairy sire campaign which officially opened January 1, 1924, and will formally close on the same date, 1925. It is the plan launched under the joint direction of the ex— tension department of the Michigan Agricultural College; the railroads operating throughout 'the peninsula and the Upper Peninsula Develop- ment Bureau. It is a plan whereby the sum of $1,000 donated by the development bureau will be paid out in cash prizes, January 1, 1925, to the organizations in the various dis- tricts which have been most success— ful in the work of substituting pure- bred bulls for scrubs. The plan involves, briefly, the organization of separate committees in each county, averaging about fif- teen members for each district. These committees direct the work in their respective districtsand are, in turn, responsible to a central com- mittee composed of representatives of the three directing agencies'._ Among the co-operating organiza- tions and institutions are the State Farm Bureau, the State Grange, banks, lumber companies, mining companies, individuals, c'orporatiOns and the press, in each of the twelve counties which are entered to date. Thus, some 180 or more live-wire citizens of Cloverland are today united in the one big effort to chase out the “scrub” and to establish, in his place, the pure-bred animal which is to build and improve every dairy herd throughout the region. That is, these 180 men represent only those who have pledged their time and effort as comniittemen, to- ward the campaign in their respec- tive districts. If we were to count every individual in upper Michigan who will have had a hand in it be- fore the year is out, the total would be considerably in excess of that figure. That, briefly, is what we mean when we say“ the $1,000 bull cam- paign”. But that isn’t all. In addition, to this carefully plan- ned drive, there is apparent, all throughout the upper peninsula, a determined effort to improve and de- velop the diary industry with all possible speed, and yet, with every thought and consideration for the consistency and practicality of the plan. Live—stock associations, cow-test- ing organizations, better dairying committees and other similar bodies are seeking, conscientiously, to make dairying an established and flourish- ing branch of agriculture through— out the peninsula. Already some communities have formulated defin- ite plans, aside from the $1,000 bull campaign, for the immediate im- provement of their dairy industry. This is true of Escanaba, at Onton'a. gan, and in the Gogebic range dis- tricts, particularly, where associa- tions have been formed for the im- mediate purchase of pure—bred stock for distribution among the farmers. Such action has been made possible largely through the action co—opera- tion of the banks in each district, which, after all, is the most grati- fying feature of the whole situation. ,When the banker is “sold” the plan ——wher'ever it may be—savors of practical merit. And that is surely true of this new movement in Clover- land. , But—when all is said and done; when every phase of the ‘variphased’ campaign is considered, there looms out of it all the one big issuee- Better Dairying. And upper Mlchl-e. gun, with its-climate, soils, trans; portation .. facilities. and .- favorable. . geographical. ' location; is . 'eq'uat'ely for 1 lie N ~81: rang d 6 sizes are ideal fglFordsons. , n_ oay.orournewca o andU.S.Gov't Bulletin “Makingand Feedin of £1 ”—bo learn why a Papec soon paygfor il a e. .. thlree. 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The counties on the list are: Go- gebic, Ontonagon, Schoolcraft, Mar- quette, Chippewa and Delta. The first test of all herds in Gogebic and Ontonagon counties has been com- pleted. ' ’ Work in the other counties will begin early in the spring/with the opening up of the highways, and, according to present plans, the first test will be completed in all six coun- ties before next winter. A group of state and federal department workers will be retained in the upper peninsula during the winter to make re-tests of suspected cases and to wind up the season’s activity. It is the plan of the federal bu- reau of animal industry to accommo- date, during 1925, all other counties which make application for this work. Thus—if the nine remaining counties of upper Michigan enroll for the T-B campaign during this year and next, Cloverland will rep- resent the largest single area thruout the United States in which the work will be in progress, according to Dr. Hansen—L. D. Tucker. ALLEGAN COW TESTER. ISSUES ANNUAL REPORT ARL S. KING, cow tester for the I East Allegan Association, re— . ports in his annual summary that 302 cows were tested for the year, averaging 5623 pounds of milk and 242.1 pounds butter fat. Mr. Wm. Knobloch, one of the members of this association, of Otsego, Mich., had the high herd in butter fat pro- duction on 17 cows averaging 8997 pounds of milk and 479.9 pounds fat. .His herd is made up of pure bred and grade jerseys. The high cow in butter fat production was an eight-year old grade jersey in Mr. Knobloch’s herd. This cow made 13718 pounds milk and 715.3 pounds fat for the year. It is believed this is the highest cow testing association record made to date in Allegan county. It is further interesting to study the records of production in the off-1 spring from this cow. A three-year old grade jersey and a two-year old grade Jersey, both daughters out of this eight year—old cow, made 479.3 pounds fat and 476.4 pounds fat, respectively. The fat test on these three individuals for the entire year was 5.21, 5.23 and 5.27 per cent. This is a remarkably uniform test and uniform production for these high grade Jersey cows, all of them sired by purebred bulls. The high herd in milk production belonged to Oliver Brothers, Plain- well, Michigan. In this herd of 10 purebred and grade Holstein cows averaged 9963.4 pounds milk and 350.9 pounds fat. Among the ten high herds in this association two Jersey herds averaged higher than 400 pounds tat annually. Mr. Kno- bloch’s and Mr. David Anderson's: Mr. Martin Reed and Mr. John Smith also with purebred and grade Jersey herds, made an average above 350 pounds of fat. There were four Holstein herds that made better than 340 pounds tat average for the as- sociation year. Among the high cows listed 9 cows made over 500 pounds of fat and 24 cows made be- tween 400 and 500 pounds of fat. This is the second year that the East Allegan Association has op- erated. 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EAR Editor—Will yen please ask your readers to tell me through your paper, if they have had any experience in raising Kudzu grass, in Michigan? If so, what kind of luck did they have? We have two seed catalogues in which it is adver- tised very highly. They say if you set out the roots 5 ft. by 10 ft. apart, that the seeohd year, the vines will cover the ground. And you can out two crops of hay from it each year in the north. The land will grow richer every year. And that it is as good or better than clover for stock and chickens. I bought some Dasheens, and they did not turn out good at all. In fact, they were a complete failure for me; Have any of your readers tried them? What do you think of the Chestnut bean, that is being advertised. Do you think they are nothing but a colored bean, with a bean flavor or are they something extra nice? I think it would be nice if the readers would write to your paper and tell of the different experiences that they have, in buying some new varieties of seed, and their luck in growing them. The seed catalogues are full of so many different things, that it is hard for a farmer to know . which to buy and which not to buY. And I believe we could help each other a lot in that way, if we only would. We think your paper is fine, and do not want to miss a number. Wishing you the best of success, I remain—L. H., Cedar Springs, Mich. CURING RING BONE F Mrs. Reader, North Branch, Mich., will get a one pound bar of Seder Led and bend it around his horse's leg just so it will rest on the ring bone cut off to right size and let his horse wear it in the stable only, take off when out it will kill it in 4 months. It killed one or me and he was so lame that he could hardly step on his foot and did not have any bunch. A veter— inary in Hart, Mich., told me to do this and it would kill it.—A- Read- er, Muskegon Hgts., Mich. "l" I Doultr De 1 artment is}: 2 Lou HOW I RAISE TURKEYS ERHAPS a l m o s t everybody knows by this time how to raise turkeys successfully, but for fear there might be a few who are still having trouble, I want to tell them how easy I have found it to be. When I first began to raise tur- keys so many people,told me to feed them curd or cooked clabber, but I tried that faithfully with very poor success. I tried many ways and still kept losing little turkeys, so I finally tried feeding them just nice firm clabber, like I would eat myself, and lettuce and a few onion tops chopped fine. When the little turkeys are two and a half days old I put them out with the mother turkey in a pen, (wagon frames are good) and give them sand to pick around in. Then I put fresh clabber out in baking Slpowder can lids, or drinking foun- talus, on clean boards. They must not get themselves wet or the clab- ber dirty. I give them lettuce and ' onion tops chopped has three times a day, but I keep the clabber before them all the time. trouble. Buttermilk is just as good for them, but they can pick the clab- ber up better. They are crazy about the ,clabber and. will eat it till they look like they had the big crop, but it will not hurt them and will soon be gone and they will be calling for more and in no time they will be so fat as little butter balls. Confined First Week ' I keep the little turkeys up till they are a week old, or K ’have The clabber prevents all bowel sanitizer--1 A R e m‘a rka ble Home Treatment Given by One Who ,1 Had It. In the year of 1893 I was attacked Mus- cular and Su acute Rheumatism. I suffered nlg those who are thus a flicted know, for over three ears. I triéed remedy ter remed g, but such relief as I o tained was only tempor- ary. Finally, I found a treatment that cured me completely, a n d such a pitiful condition has never returned. ven it to a nume ber w 0 were terribl afflicted, even bedri- den, some of them sev- enty to eighty years old, and the results were the same as in my own case. I want every sufferer from any form of mus- cular and sub - acute (Swelling at the joints) rheumatsim, to try the great value of my im- proved “Home Treat- ment” for its remarka- ble healing power. not send a cent; simply mail your name and ad- dress and I will send it free to try. After you have used it and it has proven itself to be that long-looked-for means of getting rid of such forms of rheumatism, you may send the price of it, one dollar, but un- Do derstand, I do not want. your moneyl unless sssfsgou are perfectl y sati d to send it. Isn’t that fair? Why suffer an longer when relief 18 thus offered yvu free? Don’t d.e1ay day. MARK H. JACKSON No. 265-K Durston Bldg. rite to- -~WKW‘ .. _. A. 41‘- M., s / .’_'——~\v.-—"\_‘,. .AJV'v—w—m- ""T -, -W.W‘ W ........1. M.- ..~—..—-.~._ .M- .. 1 ,2 VW—a‘r .~ VEHMW... .. _.,—W~., -—~....... .11 1.». saw“... .. '1 r 1- ~ 1 a.-.“ ...-v-—-— ~_— MW... N ~_ ‘ X e........-,,.......,. g“... (A . 61w,“ __ 4__ . 1.: . r Advertisements , this heading at 30¢ per agate line. per issue. Commercial Baby Chick advertisements 4611 per agate line. thin out what you have to offer and send it in. We will put it in type, send proof and quote rates by return mail Address The Michigan Business Farmer. Advertising De- partment. Mt. Clemens. Michigan. " 111111: 1101111111 runners .ruarnn . 1mm 11111 111011111111 scum. run-:11 " 111 High Grade Utility Coot-rein For Bale—April tt . Barr Rocks and hate 'hed WERE“ cf‘i’ii? lefelmbaoh. Bio Rapids. 'te rns. R. 5. Michigan. L PROM SHEP- s. 1:. 11100111 ”15m f,“ m ,7 m, H. CECIL SMITH. ARnpid City. Ioh.,R Binflied comb Rhoda island Whites. Winners At irds 1n etin of first Show hundred bflrsts. 0%!“ p 3; per 15 other old rape“ and tAh."eflnrtuorinI1. Iceland. Michglan. rite John ' 1. roumus: eases. 9511111 21111111 111011 0 o s Q m“ .221 23:.“ cruise“. m... . em I. B. I MADIE RAY, R5. Leslie, lechigan. A L E—TI‘IOROUGHBRED TOULOILSE Feoesen S 006 'ker e.ls Blue ribbonprise and Bud winners Baldwin A Nowiin. Lsingsburg, Mich, R4. Full Blood White Ohina can» Two Years Old. Inge sine. each 81 13.00 a trio. Mr! 1. Olnlldo Milli. ostookbridoe. Mich. x—rw ' mononns HOLLYWOOD AND WVOKOFF emit;i soles breeding pens. Choice eggs 330061111 2 00 per 15. My stock e vs g. “ARTHUR“.3 MARTIN.“ Indian River. Michigan. RHODE ISLAND BEDS RHODE ISLAND REDS TOMPKINS STRAIN make room fory y011onzastock. I will sell after ovember 1. 1928.6 yo: old ohens at.$2.00 TANORED Isles head ea:ch gears ennui: $3.0 Oceaeh, cock- l_els at 32. 0 and1d unm best 8 old hens that iayed 206 one or better inear the pullet year. Qualia of Bhode Islsn d w lI-I.FROI1IM. New Baltimore. Mloh., R. 1. S. O. REDS. ONE OF LEADINI GBYDEH’S Red pens in Michigan egg contest. Bred for color. shape. and heavy production Write for rices p ORYDE‘R, Afamo,“ Michigan. E W. H. 8. R. l. REDS 3MANI'IOOD STRAIN. Fineo dEa rk birds. Price iece or two for 6. Pgeon, Mioh., R. . ALFRED DEIGKMAN , S. c. R.] 5I. RED PURE BRED EGGS FOR setibirif 5-.$1 26 or 100- IS ORRIS. Mt. Morris. Michigan. R. 1. I. C. -.R REDS. TUCKER STKAIN. Extra flue Alarge dark birds. Price 33.0 A. PAGE. Mariette. Michigan. 1.25 per 15. or e gs, meat Meiv n, Mich. O. R. I. Red Hatching Eggs Postpaid. America' 5 perfect breed and beeu.ty M. J. Spencer. R1, WYANpom-Es W HIT E WYANDIOTTES. Eggs forl'lwhltching $150pe 7.00 per 100. 05155118, Selejngj 311611191111. FOB SAL -—FINE THOROUGHBRED WHITE 19.13 MR8. ROBERT EMERIOK, Harrisvillo, Mich. REGAL STRIAN. anndotte Cooker PLYMOUTH ROCKS THOMPSON STRAIN BARRED Roars, dark matings, A ril Hatched. weight 7 lbs. ers, $3. 5 or more D KLOMP. St. Charles, OOOKE RE Ls. from good each. MRS. FR lchigan. BARRED ROCKS BARRED ROOK COOKERELS AND PULLETS from America's best rise-winning laying strains. Winners of 18 first prizes at Detroit and M. A. C. the last two seasons. Low TOLLES BROS.. R. 10. p81. eaJohns. Mich. FOR SALE—BEAUTIFUL BARRED noci Cookerels, also a few M. . mas. o. TERPENING. R1. Ithaca. Michigan. TURKEYS FOR SAéfi—PURE BRONZE TOMS 10.00 and $12.00. Hen Turkeys $6. 00 and $7.,0 some line pure old stock. nice Toulouse ome Geese. Mrs. ThomasE. Wilson. Plymouth Mich. R4. MIOHIANG’S BEST GIANT BRONZE TOMS for sale Large beautifully marked birds Price reasonable. Write MARY A JOYN T. Omens, Mich. Pure Bred Mammoth Bronze Toms One 2 Year old hardy beautiful well marked birth. Write 'for prices. Mrs. F. Griflln. Rival-dale. Michigan MRMMOTH BRONZE TURKEVB, “no: beautiful birds. Write for Krices. MRS. BEN JOHNSTON, Onnway, Mich.,1, Mammoth B r o n z e Turkeys. Goidbant Strain. Unrelated stock. Vigorous heelt by birds. Wn to for prices. Mrs. Perry Stebbins, Seranao. Mich. G'A'T BBDNZ TURKEVS FOR SALE. Toms $10 and $12 each. MRS. ALICE WATERS, R2, Whittemore. Mich. AFEW OHOIOE PURE BRED GIANT BRONZE Turkeys for see. 6. H. HOLSTED. Weidman. R1. Michigan Giant Bronze Turke s from Prize Winening Birds. Lar e, Healthy, unre ted stock furni firs. Lallerne Browne". Belmont, ahilldlchipan. BARGAIN PRICE. MR8. ELLA CLEVELAND, Mlllorsbul‘g. Mich. White Holland Turkey” ALDEN WHITOOMB. Byron center. Mich 11111st need 1500 no“ id,m from winner! at M10311.- pids tlon. tats F1 11 "'11P“. Jail. LLAOHAnN, mm BOIIR::N dR‘EIg TOM. Ill 0 “It OALLAOH‘WH' rental. ”$3.81. 3111111 1111111111111 semi-11111111 $11 breed with black 1‘ trialled old I gradually Change to Wheat and feed them wheat till they ' are grown. 01! course, almOst any kind of grain will do, but I think they grow ‘01! better when fed wheat. Wheat makes bone and muscle, and corn makes fat. I feed my laying hens a laying mesh in the morning and boiled cats at night and plenty of. oyster shell and charcoal. Also try to have plenty of green stuff. Turkeys any size need shell or ‘grit and plenty of charcoal, and clabber or sour milk is good for them at all times. Lice cause a great many deaths among little turkeys. Sometimes they are so small that they cannot be seen with the naked eye. I powder the turks and the mother with a good powder when I take them off and once a week for six weeks afterward, and when they are a little older I put sodium fluor- ide on them, using the pinch meth- od. I mention these powders, as I have had such good success with them. There may be others just as good. I have the very finest, big-boned, healthy breeding stock that I can get. It is just as easy to. raise a thoroughbred turkey as a scrub turkey and there is so much more pleasure and profit in raising the thoroughbred. At three months old my pullets are as tall as their moth- er and the toms are much taller. How to Combat Roup So many peOple have roup among their turkeys. It is a disease to be dreaded if not taken in time. The first sign 01' roup is a little foam in the eye and a wet nose. Just get the turpentine and a feather and put a drop up each nostril; wet the feather good and put it through that slit in the roof of the turkey’s mouth and then down his throat; rub a. little between his eye and nos- tril. If he is puffed under the eye, slit that with a knife or small scissors, gently press the phlegm out and put a few drops of turpentine in the wound. A few applications will cure the worst cases. Some salts or copperas in the drinking water will be good, and if they have had roup long, some good tonic in their food for a few days is needed. Don’t keep them up; doctor them and let them go. ‘ If any turkey has the big—crop, don’t operate, but use a funnel and , tube and wash the crop out with creolin,‘ a teaspoonful to a cupful of water. Wash it out twice with this solution and then twice with clear water. Of course it must be empti- ed first 'and this should be done early in the morning when there is least solid food in the crop. the turkey up a'tew days, feeding it soft food and not much water. For sorehead or chickenpox I scrape off the top of the bumps and paint them with iodine, then skip one day and paint again and then grease with axl‘e grease or any good ointment and put salts in drinking water. For cholera or black-head in tur- ‘keys, some have found that a child’s dose of liver regulator and some copperas given every other day is very good. Give them water mixed with prepared chalk and scorched flour. ‘ I have my turkeys all vaccinated against diseases. which is the easiest and best way of all, but you can’t do that till they are about eight weeks old. Turkeys are a great help on any farm in keeping down insects of all kinds, especially in the cotton. They can almost find their entire living in the fields and pastures without bothering the grain crops. We have raised turkeys for many years and they have never bothered anything but the melons. They have never hurt our fruit and we have most all kinds. ——Mrs. J. I A schoolboy at lunch time entered a grocery store and said to the clerk: “Take this“ order: 10 pounds of sugar at 6 cents; 11 pounds of coffee at 25 cents; 8 pounda of tea at 30 cents. Add that up. How much is it?" The clerk replied, "$6. 76.” “Are you sure?" asked the boy. “Of course I am sure.” The boy thanked him and said: "'I'het' s :1“qu arithmetic lesson for tomerrow.—” 11. mm o a week old and- west they are about two or three weeks New York 1’s 11,000,000 horse—power HE locomotives in service on the New York Cen- tral Lines have an aggregate capacity of 11,000,000 horse-power. This equals a third of all power used in the manufacturing industries of the country. Operating and maintaining this great power plant cost last year $169, 000, 000, or 33% of operating expenses. The men on the engines earned $34, 000, 000. In the fire- boxes was burned $54,000,000 worth of coal. Repairs, another large item, took $54,000,000. Adequate power is the first necessity of eflicient trans- portation service. The capacity of New York Central Lines to meet the test of heavy traffic —- as was so strikingly shown in the war emergency—is in no small measure due to the New York Central policy of maintain- ing a power reserve to meet abnormal traflic demands. New York Central locomotives—whether designed to haul 100-car coal trains or the Twentieth Century Limited —are all built to special New York Central specifications, and year after year represent the highest achievement in American locomotive construction. NEW YORK CENTRAL 11ng ' BOSTON fiALBANY-MICHIGAN CENTRAL~BIG FOUR ~ PITTSBURGH STAKE ERIE. AND THE NEW YORK CENTRAL AND SUBSIDIARY LINES General Offices—466 Lexington Ave., New York Keep _ GRAND CHAMPION BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA SALE At the DETROIT CREAMERY FARMS Mt. Clemens, Mich. Tuesday, March 11 We will sell a wonderful lot of yearling sows and gilts bred to THE PROFITEER Grand Champion of Ohio and Indiana ELVETRAND REVELATION Junior Champion of Michigan BLACK WATCH The Greatest Son of the Mighty PIONEER Don’t miss this Opportunity to add one of these Grand Matrons to your herd DETROIT CREAMERY’ FARMS A. A. Schultz, 'supt. Mt. Clemens, Mich. ‘t ‘- n: t‘.:"'-:.-. 1'2‘4'; ‘ ‘1’": Seaman-51.33%. _ :2: ruff , , x ' -.-............... 4a.: .\ . , ..., w . w,“ FREE cuter; ores-an Our To 111' Barron Whitem b cod and W t are mhatch only of. {file Get WWWO-W on K MR hnylneeggs. chicks or breeding stock. It Willolurelybe my you. Progressive Poultry Farm, P. van HAGE. Mgr. 53" dividends. '1 Zeelond, Mich. ‘from America’s best HUNDERMAN’S' We are hea xii-omicers of first-class Chicks. Flocks on free range. e this Ad Mixed Chicks ....... FIRST-CLASS CHICKS $10 and UP Culled by expert. 100tt% hLive very Guaranteed. Order today from and get Chicks when you Eiiélishhem‘ s c.w11ne I. I'Ior mm 1:11“ng :12 00 see 00 853050 . ns......._........as ....... . . . Barred Rocks, 8. 0. sum“... ........ 0 48.00' 17- 50 ......... $10. 00 per 100 straight Blue Hen Incubators. Reference: Zeeland State Bank. Order today. You take no chances. Catalog Free. HUNDERMAN BROS.. POULTRY FARM. Box 80, ’Zeeland, Michigan. 400, 000 CHICKS BIG. STRONG. FLUFFY CHICKS hatched from well- bred and well kept. heavy laying hens insuring good growth and PROFITS. will grow into Profits. The Geneva Bank. ad from healthy, heavy layi ug floc ks, Postpaid. Member THE GENEVA HATCHERY, Box 23, White Brown and B I! L h r Pr ices "$7F000 118030 $22210 $1120. 0030 . u 0 ns ............ . Barred and White Rocks, 082:0. an nd 5 0 Rods. .................... 8.00 15.00 72.50 140.00 White l‘l’llvyandotiies, Bui’rl1 0rpingtons.. .. 8.50 16.00 77.50 .......... Silver 11mn .................................... .50 18. 00 87.50. 170.00 Mixed, $2 .00 per hundred, straight. Postpaid. 100% Live Arrival Guar- antecd. Order right from this 111d. Best Bank Reference. You he no chance. queen Catalog. Memh bre B. C. A. :1nd Ohio A.ssn - OD ERN gHATCHERY, Box 62, Mt. Blanchard, Ohio. CHICKS $10.00 UP 1V0???) SAFE ARRIVArceIl. GU.ARANTEED aret es P ces on 50 100 500 White 8. C. a R. C. Brown a. Buff Leghorns $7. 00 $13.00 $62.00 Barred Rocks, Reds, Black Minorca ............ . 15. 00 12.00 White Rocks, White Wyandottes, sAnconas -. 8.50 16.00 77.00 Bufl‘ Orpingtons, Silver Laced Wyandcttes, Blue Andalusians .. ..... ..-.-.....--....-.. 9. 50 18. 00 ..-.. , Assorted, from Pure Bred Stock" ......................... 6. 00 11. 00 50. 00 well kept. insuring strong chicks that Order from this Ad. Save time. Reference, International Baby Chick Ass'.n Free Catalog. Geneva. Indiana. “WW?” 1%; 'OU'LTRY FARE} PRODUCERS OF HIGH GRADE CERTHI‘IED CHICKS From CERTIFIED 260~290 gEg Pedigreed Holhrwood and Barron English URAL i1. Brown Leghorns, White Leghorns. Rocks. I‘ullets reported laymg at FRI'IL, showing pictures of our birds, breeding estabhshment, etc. want the most for your money, investigate. RURAL POULTRY FARM, Dept. 101, R. No. 1 Anconas and Barred instructive catalog If you months. Fine, SUNBEAM HATCHERY Varieties White and Bufl‘ Orpingtons, Postpaid. Order Member I. B. C. EGG-BRED CHICKS 200 Egg Strain 8. C. English White Leghorn: and Brownze L horns. Our pen of White Leghorns to 1st best W. Leghorn pen in the show) oduc on zeclass, in the largest utility show in held at Zeeland, cMichigan, Dec. . ..Judging 12 years of careful breeding for highc egg production, com- bined with 8 years of highly successful hatchery methods gives you chicks that grow into money kers.100% live delivery guaranteed. Write or free catalog and vices R HATC ERY a. FARMS S. P. Wiersma. Zeeland. Michigan. R. ’ Chicks With Pep Try our lively and avigorous chicks from bred—to-la exhibition hens. The ey wil make you money for they have the quality and egg 1.11 ng habit bred Into them. A R. 2. trial will convime you. All lead- ing varieties Safe delivery. Pre- paid. I’rices right. Bank refer- ence. Big illustmtcd catalog free. Hoigete Chick Hatchery, Dept. B, Holgate, Ohio. ‘ ° (‘1 li Pure Bred Chicks huggdfigtgy Broiler Chix ........ 11 '/2 G White Rocks .......... 16c W. or B. Leghorns--180 W. W andottes.. ..16'/2c B Rox or Reds..15'/2c Buff rplngtons. .16'/2c Sheppard's Anconas 150 Black Minorcas ...... 16c 4. 00 per Extra selected standard bred chicks 100 more. dd 35c if less than 10 Good bank reference. Circular free. lawrenoe Hatchery, BF. R. 7, Grand Rapids, Mich. ordered. TESTED BABY CHICKS Feb March prices. Hes. broiler chicks 12c. or Reds 17c nconas Black Min- orcas 18%c, White or Brown Le horns 15c. White Rocks. White Waindottes, OrpI 11-? tons 17550. Emlxmtra selec built directy from con to dd 80c if less than 100 wanted. Hatching eggs. Catalog Good reference. Beckmann Hatchery, F. 26 Lyon St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Select Quality Chicks winter-laying purebreds. mated, thrifty flocks of Close culled pro erl White 1’ B Brown arre ocks, White and Leghqms, (Rose Comb Beds, Wyandottes. 14 years experience Prices right. Free catalog. References. HAIGH‘I‘ HATCHERIES. Cedar Springs, Michigan. “Wessex-$.12; carvers»! 3.1;}. 1.... . and strength. cull-so BARRED ROCK—H A T c H IN G Eggs and Baby Chicks. \Vinning ns all heavy breeds Mich. international erg (1011— t 19 23. Nucgugan’s greatest eggs 11m color strain. Write for price hst ovda Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Chilson, R1, Orandvlile, Mich. Whittaker-'8 Red Chicks and E gs for Hatching. Rose and Single Comb s. Bre from Fourteen Irrations of Wint eI Layers. Writ to for liee C‘italog of Michigan's Greatest Color and hgg Strain. lnterlakes Farm, Box 4, Lawrence, Mich. Chhks are produced under my personal supervision. Brown and Buffs. Legharéidss a Wh lto Wyandottes, Black nor Silver Wyandottes ................ 9.00 Mixed, all varieties, $12 per frgm this Ad. B A B Y C H I C K S-REMARKABLE FOR SIZE Reasonable prices. Leghorns, A11- conas. Books. is Reds, Wyandottes. Orpingtons, Minorcas. Span TYRONE POULTRY mFARM, Fenton, Michigan. BEFORE BUYING ELSEWHERE GET OUR ices our Whi and Brown Leghorns and White oaks? epaid Parcelpost. SstiBsfaction Guarante teed. De Kostor's Hatchery. chB .Zoeland. Mich. 68 VARIETIES of Fine pure-bred chickens ducks man' g.’ geese. turke catalog 5c. ’3.ng1£§€§ Auoytln. Minn. 31111.1. YOUR,PURE-BR.ED POUL- ernv THROUGH THE BUSINESS , FARMER‘ . Hatched from select, pure bred, heavy laying hens. well kept to insure vigorous Chicks. Prices on$753 100 500 Anconss 18.00 100 straight. 100%e Live Delivery Guaranteed. Bank references. Ther is no risk. Free Catalog. B. TIPPIN. Box E. Findlay, Ohio. Pure Bred Baby Chicks We have been carefully deve10p- ing our flocks for eight years. Every chick pure bred and from stock carefully culled for tine an production. 11 r c lcks e satisfaction. Order 87. 50 today an get chicks when you want them. Prices on 50100500 W. Leghsorns .................... $7 .00 13.00 $62.00 8. Rock Reds ...... 8.00 $15.00 72. 00 R. I. W. Wyandottes, W. Rock's Postpaid. 100 live delivery. You take no chances. Ref. armers & Mechanics Bank. this city. No Catalog. Order from this ad. WASHTENAW HATCHERY Geddes Rd. Ann Arbor, Mich. 8.50 16.00 77. 00 . C. English How.- nd Barred Rocks. Every chick ~ 'rom carefully muted, culled. purerhred fim-lrs owned and developed by us for 15 years. Leghorn males from trapnested 280 egg hens. Free catalog. Write for prices. Reliable Hatchery and Farms, huh... .113 Route 3 Holland. Mich In Contest Many Breeds Every One a Winner Pure Breed Practical Poultry D W. Youn American type Leghorns, also Eng- lish type. on will be interested in the egg re- cords our customers report. Se nd for our descriptive matter and price list. COCKERE LS—A few Barred Rocks STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION Masonic Temple. Kalamazoo, Mich. (Member International Baby Chick Association) BEST CHICKS at Low Prices Send for free catalog describ- ing boot bud chicks in the country. Tom Barron and Tan- 9 price. Satlslactlon and 100 per cent live delivery guaranteed. U.umr1er-Freder.-kson Poultry hm, Box 2| iiolluld. Hick. PURE BRED CHICKS PAY BEST heavy laying, personally inspected, Hogan tested flocks,most prolilabloe ading varie- “ ties produce chicks that pay you big prollh Only one grade the be". Low prices. 975 live deliver! guaranteed. Postpaid. Cut-log Free. Wri tetody SIEBS HATCHERY Box 518 Lincoln,lll. (Hut-vi. I. BL) 'producing dairy cow draws ELGIN CHICKS Barron Strain Selected English White Leghorn Chicks Produced under my personal care. They are full of Papas customers report and have re—ord They. are carefully packed fore g. 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed. rite at once for catalog and Price list. ELuiN HATCHERY. Box 817-A. Iceland. Mich. BAIY CHICKS FROMh BRED TO . . nfllgghorns. hatch March LAY s C J. W. INK-6311!. Both. Michigan. 1 BABY CHICKS NEED VITAMINS HEN a few years ago it was learned that the baby chick could live for the first three days of its life without food, the commercial hatchery had its begin- ning, and one has only to look through the pages of the farm press of today to get an idea of the mag- nitude to which this industry has al- ready grOWn. In nearly all parts of the United States the hatcheries flourish and plants of immense size are not uncommon—some of them boasting a. capacity of upwards of million eggs. Shipments of baby chicks over a radius of 1,000 miles are frequently found. Two distinct movements are ap- parent in the American poultry in- dustry: A very marked trend toward the use of centralized hatcheries, and a quite general tendency to- ward more Winter egg production. With the development of the baby chick business a number of wide- spread adjustments are coming. It makes possible a. higher degree of specialization and an increase in efficiency. It is no longer necessary for the rank and file of poultrymen to suffer losses that have always been incident to unsatisfactory hatching—the baby chick men are assuming that risk and overcoming it largely by more expert methods, thus leaving the average poultryman free to turn his efforts to greater production. But the success of the commercial hatchery, as well as that of the small poultryman is dependent largely upon the quality of eggs available for incubation. Where only eggs from vigorous, well-bred birds are used a rapid improvement in the type and production of the flocks is possible. In some states plans are already in operation whereby a sys- tem of accredited forms is establish- ed to supply high-class eggsto the hatcheries. The vitality of the eggs incubat— ed spells success or failure to the commercial hatchery. The percent- age of hatchability of the eggs used determine whether the hatchery can succeed on a large scale, and to ob- tain highly hatchable eggs has been one of the biggest problems in the business. Recent experiments have shown that the ration of the hen often de- termines whether or not an egg will hatch. It has been well establish- ed that animals ordinarily store up a. supply of vitamins in their bodies. The good laying hen like the high upon the body- supply of vitamins with the result that unless it is constant- ly replendished it may become de- pleted. Work at the Wisconsin Experi- ment Station with White Leghorn -pullets shows that when a ration 10W in the fat soluble vitamin, and consisting largely of white corn, was fed to hens the eggs produced were very low in hatchability—15.3 per cent. When yellow corn was sub- stituted for the wh to, the hatching quality at once rose 0 23.6 per cent. When vitamin-rich feeds, such as pork liver, cod liver oil, or broken eggs were added to the ration, eggs hatching from 53 to 62 per cent were laid by the same birds that on rations low in fat soluble vitamin had produced largely non- hatchable eggs. The difference in the hatch- ability of the eggs produced from various rations is more pronounced toward the end of the laying season, because at that time the body re- serves of vitamins are less of a. fact- or. Many successful poultrymen have held the belief that their hens should rest in the winter 11‘. they were to produce eggs high in vital- ity. Figures based on careful rec— ords and extending over several years have shown that with the proper ration hens can produce high priced market eggs all winter and then lay good hatching eggs in the spring. 4 November and December eggs bring the highest prices. Less stor- age eggs are now sold as fresh than formerly. People want quality and are willing to pay for it. The re— sult is that fresh eggs have a. good price in the season of low produc- _duced the winners of second out ' ulna uniform beatnigbt and day. WM beet evenly over chicks; gives glue air. 5001M MLMchlck. all you order NOW. 7.". BOWBRSACO. . 1416W. Wash. 8!. ' Rock per tanks—double walls—tig- _ air space—double glass doors ' eal bargain at 813.25 Shipped complete,e set up ready to use. 140 Egg Incubator and Breeder 180 Egg Incubator Alone - - 180 Egg Incubator and Breeder 250 Egg Incubator Alone - - - ’ - 250 Egg Incubator and Broader - 31.00 Made of California Redwood—lastnl' fetime. Pos' tively i the best value on the market today. IOrder the siie you ‘ want direct from this ad. ad00 days trial—money M ' not pleased. If not ready to order now, don't buy until you get our new 1923c: ( 0.151.138 Rachelle. WISCONSII llclIBA'l'oll co. 1...... iNCiiBATOR140 m Alllance CAPACITY Has all the features that insure big hatches— doublewalls, copper tank, complete nurse erfect heat control through automatic tr 9 urner, “Tycos” thermometer held so chicks can 't break it when hatching. Dotrolt Brood- , , _ on, too. Write for low combl- ‘ nation price today! ‘ Detroit-”Ilene. Incubator Co. Dept. 10 PREIGIII' Alliance, Ohlo PREPAID 4 —-Inspected and Approved Baby Chicks From Best Egg Layin Strains In the World 3 Tancred, pedigree‘sired and Tom Barron. S.‘ C. White Leghorns, S. C. &. R. C. R. R.eds Parks' Barred Plymouth Rocks. Our flocks are all on free treks: v I E w range, closely culled. inspected and approved by Michigan Baby Chick Association. Every bird is healthy. has size, type and color. Hatched in World’s Best Incubator Our chicks are strong sturdy and healthy. They e live and grow because t y are hatched In the best In- cubator made. 1001 live delivery to your door. Illus- trated catalog sent FREE. LAKEVIEW POULTRY FARM. R 8. Box 3 .llollnd, Hick. Early Maturing Baby Chicks These chicks are from florks headed by cockerels of high pioducing blood lines Pulled by cxprris. Em h flm k peJI' sonally supervised. Pure bred. 13. 00 [er 100 11nd 111).Spe Pure °“English OWhIte, Brown nendP eurr Leghorns "$4. 200 $7. 5000 $13. 00 362%0011200030 wIBrred oolII, Reds, Anoo ............................ 15. 00 72. 00 140.00 b. and Buff Rock 3, sWh. Wyandottes, Min ........................................ 17. 00 82.00 100.0 map 4.75 9.00 gi'licesnyntdgitus' Prpl%q‘-h '_i'1"'t'31"'d"'t'""""()'fi'i'i G%%D1g'l?I‘IITY” FLOCK 92' (hoe are orcic ace rom 1 S. €31?! 1%ng SELECTED FLOCKS will be $3. 00 per 100 higher and 1Chicks ntcedo BLUE RIBBON PENS will be $5. 00 per 100 higher. Postpaid. 100% live deliver guar- . ank references. You cannot go wrong. Order from this ad Thousands satisfle. Ten Our Slogan. the best chicks are cheapest, not the cheapest chicks best. BABION'S FRUIT AND POULTRY FARMS, Flint, Michigan. LARGE, HUSKY CHICKS Purebred, lhigh quality chicks from certified, tested 1fl$€ks on free range. years experience. ' Va I‘tle Prices 25 50 500 1000 Is‘hcghagvmte and Brown Leghorn: 058. 3.5% $8. 75 $13 00 $621.38 $120.33 Barred néé'ii's """"""""""""""""""" s. '50 16. 71. 0. Assorted ohic’ks 5.50 10.§§ 5o :53 1.5...02 Extra Select Stock 52. 00 per 100 higher. Well batched in m d machinea Each order carefulbi packed under our personal attention. PgstEIaXid.W100% live delivery. Bank reference. 1924 catalog ready. Winstrom Poultry Farm and Hatchery, Box A-S, Zeeland, Mich. We can save you money on Ancona and White Leghorn Chicks Send at once for catalog and prices. We insure your Chicks for one week. M. D. WYNGARDEN Route 4, Box 81 Zeeland, Mich HIGHEST QUALlTY CERTIFIED BABY CHICKS n l’ure Ried 'l‘om Barron En dglish and American While l.,eghorns Anconss Barrel Plymouth Rocks and Rh 0d e Island Rods. Strong, \Vell-hiitched Chicks from tested Hoganized F-ree -range stock that make wonderful winter layers. (”hicks sent by Insured Parcel Post prcpiid to your door. 100% live de- liveiy guaranteed. Sixteen years of experience in prodmiiig and shipping Chick. giiing absolute satisfaction to thousands. Write for v.iliiihle illustrated ire. :stalog (£11111 price list. Get lowest pritc on best quality Chicks before placing your or cr HOLLAND I-IATGHERY 8: POULTRY FARM, R, 7, Holland, Mich. Pure Bred Selected F locks, , “r ‘ '-'— " 100 Per Cent Live Delivery Strong sturdy nth-them” grown Chicks. Sela-,tcd pun Inul stm k. Healthy flock- on free mngc iiisui e strength in eye ry (‘ lll( k (63ch 1mm this -\< Varieties Prices on 5015001000 ,. _ Leghorns (811.36 White and Brown) $7. 00 $13. 00 $38. 00 $82. 00 $120. 00 V H V Barred ROCK ' """"""""""""""" 9. egg 11 8. 5'8?) 333'. 0?) 335'. 30 135100: White Rocks ‘‘‘‘‘ 0 Mixed Broiler chicks. , . ----------------------------------------------- $10 per 100 SWIM?“ IIiitihed iiiulcr host, conditions in .\(‘\Vi()ll incubatms. luv cry (‘ hick (zirefully iiispccted.100_% 11" Stale (‘ommcrciiil Savings Bank this (it). \\ rite for prices on delivery guar. 1 n teed. special matings NORTHERN HATCHERY, Box 50 Zeeland, Rafe-Elena GREAT Michigan. B&R CHICKS ARE THE GOOD KIND fem Bemn Imported We hatch chicks from floch and Hollywood strains which have had our own ShC White LnghorIIs Soiml attention. Every gird OPP-f ' mucus is (‘l‘lltf'lllU selected by us for S. C. Mottled Anconss and Park’s Bred to Lay Barred Rocks. All Fr ee range flocks, carefully culled and eel-tilled by experts and bred many years for high egg production. Ped. - greed males from 250 to 280 can strains and from hens that produced leading pen in Michigan’s Inter- national Laying contest, head our flocks. Eggs from these lemons strains hatched with scrupulous care in our Mod ern Mammoth Incubators produce strong, husky, peppy chicks that are easy to raise and become mansions layers. Chicks are shipped ‘ postnaid.100% live delivery guaranteed. Write for , our big tree Illustrated catalog Silver Ward Hatchery, Box 30‘Zeeland.Mleh lust production. A pure— bred (hick 11pm us has the breed- ing to grow into a fine mone mikiiig low.l. Sand for f iutoiniiilioii 100% live d0- llVOl‘y guaranteed. All pop- . . llllll‘ Imeds. “8 hope you Will give us a trial order foi that will mean a permanent customer, we are sure. Write todsaL Borst & Rock, Box 10, Zeeland, Mich. Quality Chicks at Reasonable Prices E n g l l s h White Leghorns, Parks' Strain Barred Rocks, S. c. Black Minox c215 Reds and Anconas. My po-ii in)» .it the 1923 Mich. Con- {'51 liiiishcil lllll'll among all heavy lui-uls tom Inns miiking record. , h oiei 1:00 lugs ouli, and one with a 1m roved S C Ite eg orns li'llllll of ;. ii 1.41.5 was seventh high- p e e mi imliiid iil foi the entire contest. mm liiids ioiiipilmg.i‘:ita108 free. BRED FOR EGG PRODUCTION SINCE 1910 PINE BAY POULTRY FARM 'H l (' K H fioiii this high Lil :‘ill (‘Lflh l:l\llIL',’ hil': llil \\'1 Holland Lille \ou :1 bigmi piolit. :nul M‘Ch'gan- absolute sutistuctiotii. 111ch1 have 13 years o care 11 :iilciting iind liiceding direit c & 99$ lltlllnd them, and mature in 45 I000 PURE BRED BREEDERS 15 varieties. BOII laying strains. Incubatc25 000 eggs daily. Catalog Fro; Prewer prloes. Free live delivery. Missouri Poultry Farms, Columbia. Mo (Other Chick Ads on Page 19) For Asthma During Winter A Remarkable Mcthod That Has Come to the Rescue of Asthinntics and (‘liccks the \Vorst Attacks— the shortest possible time. )ou benefit by our 13 years .- iii hatiliing and shipping (lll(1(S ’I‘liese chicks possess great vitality and grow up uniform 1n Size.100% safe Let us mail you our cats- arrival guaranteu] logue with prices. WOLVERINE HATCHERY, Zeelsnd, Mich, R.2 C H I C K S — Investigate Our chicks are the kind that make good. Every flock is carefully culled and mated. We have been in business seven years and have been building care- , fully and consistently to 8. hi I: tglace where hwe can offer 0 c s more an wort t e money we g 5 ask. SINGLE COMB ENGLISH srauN, 6"? TOM." for XV§ICIEEALEGFORNS BARRED ROCKS, 1m? Tm” N S 00% live delivery guaran- If you suffer with th _ _ teed. Investigate our proposition before Lacks Of Asthma when Gite £61331)? aiitd buying. A postal will bring full infor- damp; if you choke as if each gaSp of mation. . breath was the very last, don’t fail to STAR HATCHERY, Box 23,Holland, BIIclI. Send at 0112.. to the l‘lOiltlf‘l‘ ASthma Co DUNDEE CHICKS . method. Noe matter wheie you live or PURE BRED CULLED FLOCKS whether you have any faith in an y reim- edy under the Sun, send for the free trial. g1 yiou lfive suffered for a lifetime and e W1 on Our chicks are from pure bred flocks carefully known to chine gvliIligFlIewrfigsihf beffi Ski“ culled b experts. Anconas are direct fromS Shep tacks of Asth f erri e at- pard. e horn flocks headed by males2 from Mic « ma i YOU are dlSCOUI‘S-ged Igan Ag. cell e.ge Rocks are from a 2-30 302 egg strain. Reds are Liddicoat’s best. Write for cat- alo e and price list. save you money. beyond hope send for this free trial. It It- is the only way you can ever know Re erence, Dundee State Savings Bank. this city. Dundee Hatchery, Box B, Dundee, Mich. what progress is doing for you in s ite of all your past disappointments in ylhur search for freedom from Asthma. So send for this free trial Do it now. This OHIGKS WHITE LEGHORNS $12 PER 100, notice is cpublished that every sufferer $6.25 for 50 and $3 25 for 25. may parti te in this progressive meth— Barred Rocks and Reds $16 per 100. $3.50 for 0d and first try the treatment free that 50'kiind $4.25 for 2538 \g'hifte \y andottes§4anil is now known to thousands as the great Buc p _, . or o . an . est boon that ever cam - for 25. Buff Or ingtons 18 er 100. 9.25 8 into their lives for 50. and $4.6 for 25$ SE; n ”h 100 Send coupon today. Don’t wait chicks with order will book your order. B use two weeks before delivery. live (is very gusts rat.need Refer r:ence Bank of Morr Meadow Brook Hatchery. R1. Mt. Morris, Mloh. mum THAI. COUPON FRONTIBIR AM new rd. ...... Said tree 1:th of your method to: BABY CHICKS From Best Produoln Free Range flocks. Hi heat utiflty qualitéw beggfo (fwd purposes ent post lpaid 1 0% live sliver! guaranteed. Write . HOMER NATO“ rRY, Homer, Michigan. ‘ PURBBBB’D' BKBV CHI K: ()Ilflhfizo BOOKS nu}??? .II. Awawgu. lean. (397) ' .29." FROM ' Pficgigmé'ts tOld Reliable Hatchery the best equipped and most modern Hatchery 8. 00.. 11001115903 .. ‘states. , .ua , .... Foors's MARKET 1.st BY W. w. FOOTE Plans of Farmers RMER'S are looking into the future and laying their plans for next spring, trying to learn from the past how best to avoid such mistakes as they have made. Mich- igan farmers are as a rule less in— clined to devote too many acres to one crop than farmers of several other states, and agricultural and live stock are carried on in a con- servative way generally, but it is a fact that in growing wheat many farmers have overdone it and have suffered financially in common with farmers in other important wheat It is almost a foregone con- clusion that they Will diversify their farming from now on, and some of them are preparing to utilize tracts not well adapted for raising crops to setting out forest trees, while others are making arrangements for set- ting out young fruit trees, as well as grape vines and berries. Just now there is quite a spread in the culti- vation of orchards of apples and peaches, and the cherry tree is be- coming highly popular in parts of the state. Cherries are much util- ized in making pies and beverages, and every year the demand for them increases. Farmers are apt to be a little impatient about waiting too long for the trees to bear fruit, and nurserymen are called upon to pro— duce a quick maturing, low grow- ing cherry tree that will bear fruit within two or three years. Dairy interests are coming to the front in Michigan, as well as in other states of the middle west, and H01— stein dairy cows are in increasing demand, with sales in the Chicago stock-yards at $50 to $90 per head, and some cheaper cows around $35. It is always interesting to learn of big achievements in dairying, and the 150 high producing herd of purebred Holsteins owned by the Iowa State Hospital for the Insane boasts of a cow that made 150 pounds of butter in thirty days. High-bred dairy cows sell high, but if a farmer can pay the price, the re— turns justify what seems perhaps rank extravagence. Michigan is a famous state for the sheep industry, and lots of money is gathered these times on flocks of sheep and lambs, the wool item being a highly lucra- tive one. And yet the sheep indus- try of this country is falling serious— ly below the actual requirements, while the relatively small number of sheepmen are making all kinds of money, with recent advances of as much as $1 per 100 pounds in a week in the Chicago market. The Chicago Board of Trade is to assist the bankers in getting the ten mil- lion dollars needed for the farm credit corporation recently organiz- ed. The money market is steady, Chicago banks loaning at 5 to 5% per cent. What Will Wheat Do? There are differences of opinion, of course, on this extremely import- ant question, but there is a pretty general belief that startling changes in prices are not likely to occur in the immediate future and the ulti- mate valuation will be largely gov- erned by the course of action adopt- ed by the federal government in legislating on the tariff and other matters affecting wheat. Of late any fair advances in wheat prices have been followed by moderate re- actions, and from one week to an- other quotable alterations are usual- ly comparatively unimportant. Na— turally, increasing the duty on im- ported wheat would put a check on our exports, and for weeks past the exports of wheat and flour have been quite ,moderate in volume. The way it looks now is that we are ap- proaching the time when we must consume at home such wheat as our farmers raise. The high cost of wheat production may be expected to result in considerably curtailing the wheat acreage, and it is hoped that ultimately there will be read- justment in prices between farm products and commodities purchased by farmers.‘ Statistically, there is Vno marked change, and the visible ‘ f MARKET SUMMARY Slack demand for wheat turns prices slightly lower. Corn, oats and rye unchanged. trading inactive. and fim. Good demand for dressed Calves. Sheep afid hogs higher. Butter in demand. Eggs easy. Beans steady after small decline, Poultry scarce , Cattle trade active. I (Note: The above summarized Informatlon list page was set In type. It oontalm lest mlnute going to press -—Edltor.) was received AFTER the balance of the mar- lnformstlon up to wlthln one-ball hour of wheat supply in this country, while showing weekly reductions, is still much larger than a year ago. It is practically certain that marketing of wheat for the near future will show gains, as farmers will want to avoid paying taxes on their holdings. State taxes in North Dakota are. so high that farmers are allowed two' per— iods for payment. Many bills have been introduced in Congress for helping farmers in marketing their wheat, the most. important one being the McNary-Haugen bill for approp- riating $75,000,000 to aid in divers- ifying farming. May delivery wheat sells around $1.10. . A Minneapolis grain man figures that there is enough spring wheat to supply northwestern mills with 280,000 bushels a day until the new crop is harvested. He says mills are actually grinding 400,000 bushels per day, adding that “an increased tariff would insure the northwest taking wheat from the west and southwest, and perhaps our suppos- ed surplus will look like a deficiency later in, the season.” Corn, Oats and Rye Corn and cats have continued to sell in the Chicago market at con- siderably higher prices than a year ago, while rye has sold much below prices paid at that time. As for corn, many farmers are quite bullish in sentiment, realizing that very lit— tle old corn was carried over from the 1922 crop. At the same time many farmers will sell part of their surplus corn early to avoid paying taxes on their grain. The Visible corn supply is now increasing con— siderably, and prices in the future will be governed very largely by the volume of farm marketing. At the same time farmers are now asleep, and they have held a meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, where more than one hundred farmers of several. states perfected an organization to be knowu as .The Corn Growers’ As- sociation. The farmers were large- ly from Iowa, but also came from Illinois, Kansas and South Dakota, and those present were determined to obtain at least production cost for their corn, figuring this at over $1 a bushel. Although the corn in sight is growing in volume, it is still not much over half 'as large as a year ago, and very little is being ex- ported to foreign countries, where- as a year ago it was exported with fair freedom. A great deal of corn has gone from the northwest to Du- luth. The visible oats supply in this country is down to 17,526,000 bushels, comparing with 30,296,000 bushels a year ago, and exports are not large. The rye visible supply is up to 20,538,000 bushels, compar— ing with 12,946,000 bushels a year ago, while prices are unusually low, and yet exports are meager, compar- ing with fair exports a. year ago. May delivery corn sells around 81 cents, May oats at 49 cents and May rye at 72 cents. Bullish Factor in Corn “The most brilliant factor in the corn situation is the failure of coun— try elevators to accumulate a stock of winter shelled grain,” says Bur- ton Hungerford, the Logan & Bryan crop observer. “Central Illinois ele- vators probably have an average of 4,000 bushel on hand or about 20 per cent of normal at this season. Movement is likely to fall off sharp- ly, as farmers have already delivered 75 to 80 per cent of the grain that had been sold to country dealers.” Successful Farmers’ Creamery C. B. Moody, secretary of the lone Farmers’ Creamery association, .. of Iowa has just issued his-annual re- . port-gfor 1923. The'repo-rt was set- " heavy butchers sellin isfactory to the patrons who realized a large sum or money for their dairy products. . The creamery received 259,392.9 pounds of butter fat and paid $115,- 304.82 for it; hauling cost, $8,347.- 99; labor and salaries, $3,411.86; coal, salt and other items, $6,073.37, Ilngaskiflg the amount paid out $133,- The creamery made 320,473 pounds of butter and shipped to eastern markets 293,195 pounds, for which it received $120,519.66. But- ter sold to patrons amounted to $6,— 580.59 and that sold at retail brought $4,139.04. The average overrun for the year was 23 per cent; average price received for all butter, 42 cents. " Choice Cattle Sell Higher There has been a marked improve- -ment in the consumption of beef in the United States \recently, and de— spite the largely increased cattle re- ceipts in the Chicago market, the choicer beeves, long-fed heavy steers especially, have sold higher. Only a few weeks back the 'local packers and eastern shippers greatly favored the better class of yearlings and readily paid a handsome premium over prices for the choicest heavy steers; but of late this rule was re- versed, and yearlings sold much lower than weighty cattle of the best class.» The bulk of the beef steers sold recently at $8 to $11, with the best weighty steers pur- chased at $10.70 to $11.70 and the best yearlings at $10.50 to $11.50. Steers of good grade sold at $9.50 and upward, with sales ' down to $6.25 to $7.50 for the cheaper class of light steers, and inferior little steers selling at $4.50 to $6.20. A few light weight cattle have sold especially well, and the other day a sale was made of 29 steers and heifers averaging 724 pounds at $10- 50, while a little later the best steers and heifers mixed averaging 873 lbs. sold at $11. Fair to prime cows and heifers found buyers at $3.50 to $8 mostly and canner and cutter cows at $2 to $3.40, with bulls sell- ing at $3.50 to $6 and calves at $5 to $13.50. A small winter trade is witnessed in stockers and feeders, sales being mainly at $5 to $7.50 and a few sales of fleshy feeders for a short finish at $7.75 to $8.25. Farmers wanting cattle for feeding are able to pick up good bargains. A year ago common to prime beef steers sold in Chicago at $6.25 to $10.25 and two years ago at $6.25 to $9.20. Well finished beef cattle are bringing good profits. Last week's large receipts resulted in'-a moderate decline except in the best. Hogs Plentiful and Wanted The huge production of hogs has stood in the way of placing the mar- ket on a higher price basis. although the trade requirements beat all past records. The really surprising thing is that the shrinkage in prices has not been even greater. The large decline which has taken place in hogs is reflected in corresponding declines in prices for hog- products, especially fresh meats, and reduced values account for the enormous ex- ports of provisions. heavy purchases of hogs by Chicago packers, there has been about the largest demand in that market for hogs to ship east ever known, and this makes lively competition at times. At the present time the high price of corn is causing increased marketing of young hugs, and re- ceipts averaging 229 pounds, being five pounds less than a year ago. The bulk of. the hogs sell within a. ,_ ”with the» best :1 5*,csnis’ihave, “ m range of 20 cents, In addition to . as prime light bacon weights. Late sales were made in the Chicago mar-4 hot at $6 to $7.15,‘the top being - 25 cents lower than a week earlier. Combined receipts in twenty markets for the year to late date. aggregate 7,942,000 hogs, comparing with 7,» 003,000 a year ago. Great Boom in Lambs Months ago predictions were made that much higher prices were in store for prime lambs because of the short supply, and toda ythe prophets are surprised by the great boom which has taken place, the best flocks haying sold in the Chicago market Within a short time as high as $15.75 per 100 pounds, with sales down 'to $15 for the next best class, and feeder lambs bringing $13.50 to $14.4- 25. Looking backward, it ,is recalled that at this time in 1915 lambs said at $9.25 to $9.75. The best year- lings sell for $13.75, the ,best ewes at $10 and the best wethers at $11.- 75. Many farmers regret that they did not engage in the sheep industry months ago when urged to do so, but there is yet time and wise ones $3112ng th$eli11‘ luck. Wethers sell at . o and earlin s a to $13.75. y g t $12 WHEAT Trading was quiet in the wheat market at Detroit last week andthe general tone ”was easy until the clos- ing day when a slight firmness de- veloped. Prices declined and then advanced leaving them at the same level as quoted in last issue. De- mand and receipts remain about as they were two weeks ago, southern millers the best buyers and farmers not ready sellers. Some ex— port demand is reported but not enough to effect prices. CORN Contrary to expectations receipts of corn from farms increased during the fortnight closing Saturday of last week and the market showed some signs of weakening. ‘ Many dealers continue to believe in higher * prices and if receipts again decline there is no‘ doubt in the minds of many but that there will be an ad- vance. Buyers complain about the quality of receipts declaring that very little good corn is being sent to market. OATS The oat market at Detroit continu- ed unchanged in tone while prices declined a cent under two weeks ago. Demand is not active. RYE , Rye followed the trend of oats during the two weeks ending Feb- ruary 23rd and is quoted a cent under two weeks ago. A dull tone prevails. ~ BEANS Beans are inactive and steady with prices slightly lower at most of the larger markets. Detroit quotations show a decline of from 20 to 25 cents per hundred pounds. Demand is slow and mostly of a loc- al nature at present. Anyone in- terested in Michigan beans should read the letter, “The Future of the Bean Market” by Mr. Benjamin Gerks on page 6 of this issue. ’ POTATOES The potato market is steady at most points with trading from steady to dull. Detroit market has a fair demand and trading moderate. At‘Chicago the market is slow with demand light and eastern markets are in about the same condition as the Chicago market. ' HAY . Eastern markets are lower due principally to the large amount ‘of poor hay. arriving. Some markets are overstocked with this descrip- tion and it drags 'atfirregular and uncertain figures. The demand for approachfof-Vsprln is weaken! ' the with . the best grades continues steady but f offerings of misnomer? smith?“ 0 _ “201' this time of year. "-111. A. o. 2..1.14% No. 2 White, $1.15? ‘; N6. 2- mixed, 31.14%. . Chicago—Gash No. 3 red, $1.10; .No. 2 hard, 3.1 10@1.14. Prices one year agw—Detroit, .13th No.2 red, $1.35; No.2 White, 31. 35; No. 2 mixed, $1. 83. Corn Detroit—Cash No. 3 yellow, 82c: . No. 4, 80¢. Chicago—Cash No. '2 yellow, 8239c; No. 2 mixed, 80c. Prices one year ago—Detroit, Cash No. 2 yellow, 79c; No. 3, 770; No. 4, 75¢. Oats Detroit—~0ash No. 2 white, 58c; M6113. 5136c. - hicago—-Cash No. 2 white, 49@ '06; No.3, 47%0‘9c. Prices one year ago—Detroit, Cash No. 2 whitefiu‘fic; No. 3, (Bo. ye Detroit—Cash No. 2, 73¢. Chicago—MN o. 2, 71¢. Prices one year ago—Detroit, Cash No. 2, Bio. Beans Detroit—C. H. P., $4.75 per cwt. , Prices one year ago—Detroit, 0. H. P., $7.80 per cwt. ‘ Potatoes ’ Detroit—$1.60@1.66 per cwt. Chicago—$1.20@1.40 per cwt. Prices one year ago—Detroit, $1.07@1.‘13 per cwt. Ha y Detroit—No. 1 timothy, $23.50@ 24; No. 2, $21@22; No. 1 clover, $20.50@21; standard and light mix— ed, $22.50@23 per ton. ‘ Chicago—No. 1 timothy, $26@ 27; No. 2, $.25@26_; No. 1 clover, 322@23; light timothy & clover mixed, $24@25 per ton. Prices one year ago—-—Detroit, No. 1 timothy, _$16@16.50; No. 2, 314@15; No. 1 clover, $13@14; standard and light mixed, $15.50@ 16 per ton. Week of March 2 OLLOWING the generally fair weather which we are expect- _ .ing at beginning of. this week the weather will become unsettled and 'mild; maximum , temperatures ranging between 50 and 55 degrees. During Tuesday, Wednesday and probably Thursday there will be storms of rain er snow and gales in ‘ Michigan. We are not expecting precipitation to be as heavy as last week but the high winds may do more or as much damage as the snow or rain itself in many parts of the state. , About Friday and not later than Saturday temperatures will drop rapidly to a minimum between 18 and 23 degrees. The weather at .end of this week will average clear although there may be some local snow flurries. Week of March 9 This week opens in Michigan with a very severe storm of rain or snow and wind. Because of the high tem- peratures expected during early part of week, most of precipitation will be in form of rain during first part of storm period.- Following this storm period tem- peratures will fall and continue on the downward trend until Friday. There may be a reaction to warmer and some storminess within a day or so of the storm period of early part of week but this will not last long. Eventually temperatures will drop to readings close to the 20 de- gree mark and the skies about Thursday and Friday will be clear. Balance of March Wet, Windy 'The last half of March is expected to show precipitation above the nor- mal in Michigan and the wind move- ‘ ment will also be above the average Nevertheless, we .are expecting that the month will‘ go out like a lamb in most parts of the state. COW SETS WORLD’S PRODUCTION RECORD . “ BAYURA IV, " a two-year—old brown Swiss cow bred and by- the m: The neweSt addition to the M. A. C. family of recdrd breakers is a ' daughter of Bravura III, which pre- viously held the world’s record for atwo- year—old brown Swiss. Furth- er right to the title of queen is ad- duced from the fact that Bravura III is a double great granddaughter of College Bravura II, a cow that for many years held the brown Swiss ’ production record for all ages. The present record holder, Bravura IV, is a descendent from maternal an- cestors, which tor five generations have been bred and raised by the college. The new record was made by per- sistency of production. Her largest milk flow for a month was 1, 694. 7 pounds, with a milk production for the last full calendar month of 1, - 238. 2 pounds and for the last day. on test of 41 pounds of milk. The average butter fat test tor the year was 4.10 per cent tat. WRITING “MOVIES" (Continued from Page 15) where I might obtain reliable inform- ation on the subject, it it is not to be had from this company, and whether you would advise me to put $160 into their course. I will be very thankful for any information you can give me. I like your paper very much and am enclosing $1 for a two year renewal subscription. WE understand the Palmer school is the best of its kind, but to us that statement does not mean a thing. before they will send out their course and let the student pay for it out of his earnings, we are for them. We have seen letters from these schools which would make the recipient be— lieve that he or she had all the ear- marks of a star and yet the letter was printed and probably went out to every one who replied, old or young, white, black or yellow. Now, dear madam, you can secure from the Detroit Public Library good books on scenario writing without charge. After you have read these you can put your thoughts on paper and submit them to any of the legiti— mate producers oi’ motion pictures, who are only too anxious to get the right kind of material, but I understand that they read five thou— sand scenarios to secure one which they keep, so unless you have un—‘ usual talent I certainly could not advise you to go into this work. The best scheme is to write these people asking them if they have a satisfied student in Michigan and then go and talk with that party be— fore you invest so large an amount of money. I have given you a frank answer because I believe you desire it. Good Correspondence Schools There are several correspondence schools of real merit in the United States and we do not wish any reader to get the idea from this page that we do not believe that a mail-course can be valuable. Several universities and colleges maintain correspond- ence schools in most subjects taught by them, but schools of this type do not make extravagant claims of earn- ing power or promise Tom, Dick'and Harry that they can; by a few even- ings work at home master a profes— sion which men and women only learn after a lite-times work. Milk is the best source of protein for little children and should be the chief item in their diet. RADIO PROGRAMS 3“ 32115113 ttér fiat production for -‘~ ”breed ma age. . If as we have said , ‘5. Or write Securities Department, HaVc You Any Lazy Dollars? , Are your savings earning you all they should—~with safety? Are they earning you good interest—— tax free? LET YOUR MONEY EARN 6.6% . TAX FREE HERE (The Company pays the taxes) Invest in this Security where your money works for you 24 hours a day in serving 800,000 Michigan people. Enjoy all the benefits a good investment brings you. have 6.6% with safety—and tax-free in Michigan. Consumers Power Preferred Shares Ask our Employees— You can Jackson, Mich. Insist 0i: , Genulne Now is the time to look over your machinery and order re- pairs. hen you buy repairs for Osborne Binders, Reapers, Mowers orRakes insist on gen- uine parts made bythe manu- facturer of Osborne machines. Genuine E-B Osborne repairs cost no more than bogus re- pairs but give you better re- sults. Every E- B sbome repair is an exact duplicate of the original and will always fit. Look for theE-B trademark on every Osborne repair, then you know it is genuine. If your dealer cannot supply you, write us—do not accept any but genuine E - B Osborne repairs. 5;;“EMERSON-BRANT’INGHAM » ‘ .IMPLEMENT co..mc. ' I Bu Vince‘s Founded 1852 ROCKFORD. ILLINOIS Army Work Shoe $2.49 Pair sex free with each order. Dark brown Munson 1ast,a.ll leather strong, dependable. No better work shoe any- where. It’s a $4. 00 value. You only need to examine its quality. Send no money—pay postman. 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