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General Property Tax for State Purposes Is Not Only or Even Principal Source of State Revenue

SAT in a farmers’ organization

meeting a few days ago and

heard a certain program of ac-
tion carefully explained and its
many merits lauded by variouspeo—
ple. Then one rural sage arose and
said, “I am glad to hear that you
are all favorable to the plan, but let
us have a little criticism. Let us
not merely be ‘yes men’ When ev-
erybody agrees things look Weak
and sick. An organization can only
grow strong by overcoming opposi-
tion and by receiving vigorous criti-
cism.”

And so it is with no little pleasure
that we receive the accompanying
letter from Mr. David H. Brake of
Fremont asking some searching
questions about the amount of rev-
enue raised to run the state govern—
ment of Michigan and who bears the
burden directly and indirectly. It
is flattering to receive this notice
from Mr. Brake, for although he
does not say so in his letter, he is
none other than the Honorable
David H. Brake, representative in
the State Legislature from Newayg’o
county. We are convinced that Rep.
Brake asks these questions in the
spirit of fairness a l friendliness
for he is himself a staunch friend of
tax reform in Michigan. He voted
for the Byrum Income tax bill in
the 1923 Legislature and even went
so far as to vote. to pass the Warner
gas tax bill over the Governor’s
veto. ,

Taxation is Live Issue

The comments and compliments
which we are receiving on this ser-
ies of taxation articles is most en-
couraging and prompts us to go still
deeper into the subject. It shows
that Michigan farmers are awake as
never before to the importance of
this great subject of taxation and to
the absolute necessity of prompt
measures to bring relief. Such in-
terest is not surprising. Just as in
Detroit traffic there are just two
classes of people, the quick and the
dead, so in rural Michigan today we
must be alert on these great public
questions or we shall soon find our-
selves sold off from our farms and
homesteads through the operation
of the general property tax which is
fast becoming confiscatory.

Pardon this degression. From
here on I shall stick to my subject
and attempt to answer briefly, fully

. and convincingly the very pertinent

and timely questions asked by Mr.
Brake. I shall seek to avoid ender-
1113 any tirade or wordy discussion
as to the evils\ of high taxation,
great as they certainly are, nor on
the and waste of public money, fre-
quent as that is; nor on the growth
of the bureaucratic class which will
finally, it seems, equal the taxpayers
in number.

Seen and Unseen Taxes

Yes, Mr. Brake, I did say and it
is true that out of every dollar of
general property tax which an indi-
vidual pays, only about eleven cents
goes to the state government and
the remainder is spent by the var—
ious local units up to and including
But you are also
quite right, Mr. Brake, in your sur-
mise that the general property tax
for state purposes is not the only or
even the principal source of state
revenue. It is true beyond a doubt
that we do pay an indirect tax and
that the corporation tax, for in-
stance, is no doubt passed on to the
ultimate consumer.

-The facts are that in Michigan.
the general property tax-is only one

, of the many “taxes" which have “
, been devised to raise an ever 111-.
creasing amount of revenue.

How-
“should be noted in passing"
, local government units. .

- By STANLEY M.~ POWELL

(Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

 

 

IN your article, “The Time is Ripe for Tax Reform in
Michigan,” on page 3 ofthe March lst issue, you say;
only about 11 per cent of the taxes are levied for state pur-

poses.

- pay the cost of state government?

I am asking for information. Does that 11 per cent

We are told that the

cost of state government has more than doubled since 1909.

Do we not pay an indirect tax?

Don’t we pay a corpora—

tion tax, which goes into the general fund of the state,
when we buy the manufactured product of these corpora-

tions. ‘7

And in other ways don’t we pay an indirect state

tax 9—Dav1d Brake, Newaygo County.

 

where the big proportion of tax
money is spent, the general proper-
ty tax is still the principal source of
revenue.

Money Spent Must Be Raised

In figuring the total tax load of
maintaining our state government
we must therefore add together all
of the revenue raised from all the
various sources, or perhaps a better
way would be to take the total of all
our state expenditures, for it is ap—
parent that whatever is spent must
first be raised or else it must be bor-
rowed to be repaid latter. And so
we may well approach this problem
with the understanding that if Mich-
igan spends a dollar she must have
a dollar in revenue to meet that ex—
penditure and also if Michigan has
that dollar in revenue, we the peo-
ple of Michigan must contribute our
share toward the raising of that
revenue.

We must also recognize that there
is always a tendency that the tax
will be “passed on” to the ultimate
consumer. Of course the unorgan—
ized farmer can hardly hope to pass
on his general property tax, for as a
rule he sells on a buyers' market
and has no voice or control in de—
termining the price to be paid for
his products.

Likewise it is extremely diflicult
to pass on a personal income tax
such as is now being propOSed in
Michigan. This levy is made after
the year’s business is over and the
profits determined and it is hard to
see how the burden can be dodged
or shifted.

Of course the gas tax would be
passed on to the ultimate consumer
but in that case that is the way it
should be, for then the person who
derives the benefits from improved
highways will pay in proportion to
the benefit derived, which is certain-
ly no more than right.

Four Sources of Revenue

For the purpose of this discussion
we may note that exclusive of bond
issues, there are in Michigan today
four principal sources of revenue, as
follows:

The general property tax.

The specific taxes levied against
the railroads and other utilities.

The corporation tax.

The various automobile taxes.

The first of these, the general
property tax, has been kept down
surprising and this fact has been
used by the administration in an ef-
fort to bolster up claims of economy
and efficiency in state government.
For the year ending June 30,1924,
this item amounted to an even $16, -

3000, 000, which was less than that

for any of the preceding three years.
This fact is widely advertised. Little
is said about the growth of other

forms of taxation.

For instance, let us examine a few
figures relative to increase of the
specific taxes upon railroads, express

companies, telegraph and telephone
companies, etc. We may be sure
that the utilities which pay this tax
will demand it back from us, the
people, in increased tolls and freight
and passenger rates. For the year
ending June 30, 1920, this tax
amounted to $9,457,349.50. Three
years later it had increased to
$11,870,079.16.
Corporations Pass It On

The corporation tax, the third
source of revenue, is one of the new-
er forms of raising state revenue.
This was determined upon by Gov—
ernor Groesbeck when he first came
into oflice in 1921. It was supposed
to be an emergency tax and it was
stated that if the corporations
Would submit to this tax for two
years the law would be repealed.
But such was not the case. The
1923 Legislature amended the law
so that it will probably raise more
revenue than in the past. While dur—
ing the year ending June 30, 1921,
there was no corporation tax, during
the next two years a total of more
than $11,000,000 was raised by this
means. During the first four
months of the present fiscal year
$5,385,838.57 was received from
this source.

There appears to be little doubt
but what in the long run this cor-
poration can be quite successfully
passed on. Previous to the 1923
legislature, George Lord, then a
member of the house of representa—
tives and by reason his acknowledg—
ed experience and ability along tax—
ation lines chairman of the special
legislative committee on taxation
inquiry, asked Rep. Franklin Moore
at one of the hearings of this com—
mittee what he thought about the
rates for the state corporations tax,
and Mr. Moore said: “I am not con-
cerned about that. ~Every corpora—
tion, including the one I am inter-
ested in, always passes on to the
consumer every class and kind of
taxation heaped upon it. The terms
of your corporation tax do not in-
terest me at all.”

Autos Are Revenue Getters

The fourth general class of state,
property receipts is an interesting
one to study. In it we find a grow-
ing multiplicity of taxes upon the
automobile. Almost every year has
found some new tax of this nature
and the rapidly increasing number
of automobiles has made this one of
the principal sources of state rev—
enue. There is the automobile lic-
ense fee, the’.driver’s license, the
certificate of title, the chauffeur’s
license, the transfer fee, etc. From
these sources the revenue in ‘the
past two years has been as follows:
Year ending June 30, 71922, $7,817,-
205.97; year ending June 30, 1923,
$10,389,440.09.

we note that the automobile is
paying a considerable sum toward
State expense, but we cannot help

but wonder whether or not the bur—
den is as fairly distributed as it
would be under a gas tax system.
We fear not.

Michigan during recent years has
found another important source of
revenue and that is from the sale of
bonds. During 1922 we sold $30,—
000,000 worth of soldier bonus
bonds. A total of $50,000,000 of
these road bonds have been author—
ized by the voters and about $38,—
000,000 of them have been issued to
date.

Space, time nor patience does not
permit a detailed statement of all
the various minor sources of rev-
enue. Suffice it to say that practic—
ally everything from hunters and
bai'bers on down is licensed for fees
that are more than nominal.

Total Receipts and Expenditures

To get a clear conception of this
whole rather complicated situation,
let us examine the total revenues of
the state for the past few years in
order to ascertain a view of the ac-
tual development of taxation condi-
tions. Excluding from our calcula-
tions the revenue derived from the
sale of soldier bonus bonds we find
that recepits have been as follows:
Year ending June 30, 1920, $48,-
926,554.30; year ending June 30,
1922, $73,072.192.49; year ending
June 30, 1923, $88,499,301.15.

Let us also examine the matter of
disbursements.
vagaries of bookkeeping and disre-
guarding as before the item of sold-
ier bonus, we find the following to
be the corrected totals for disburse-
ments: Year ending ‘June 30, 1920,
$39,981,589.59; year ending June
30, 1922, $64,999,814.30; year end-
ing June 30, 1923, $71,449,831.16.

Centralization and Efficiency

Such then is the situation in Mich-
igan today. The people have de—
manded more and more things of
the state government. A big bur—
eaucratic system has developed. Un-
der our present administration it
has been centralized and supposedly
made wonderfully efficient. We do
not dispute the fact that it is in-
deed centralized. We are a. little
more in doubt as to the claim for ef—
ficiency.

Let us see how this centralized
and so—called efficient state govern-
ment works. Alleged “reform"
comes high sometimes if we can be-
lieve the figures published in the
“Michigan Tradesman” relative to
the cost of running our prisons. The
following comparative tables of the
cost of the prisons in 1916 and 1923
are startling:

 

Ionia $52,225 3 807,700
Marquette 39,175 531,672
Jackson Nothing 1,168,581

$91,400 $2,507,853

Woodbridge N. Ferris was gov-
ernor in 1916, followed by Albert E.
Sleeper on January 1, 1917, and the
good record of the prisons was con—
tinued during his adminiStration.
Otis Fuller was warden of the Mich-
igan Reformatory at Ionia then and
until the present state administra-
tion took hold.

The Tradesman continues: “There
are two stock explanations of these
figures by the governor and his de—
fenders. In the first place they
claim big building programs cost a
lot of money and secondly that the
population of the State prisons have
all increased enormously. Now as

a matter of fact, building programs I

are not the larger part of any of
these increases in expenses. That
can be verified by the records of the
auditor general. In the second
place it is a fair proposition to main-
tain that if 100 prisoners back in‘
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HE bean crop is very sensitive to
its surroundings and yet resoon-
sive to proper conditions. A-

rop of beans can be made or de-
royed quicker than almost any
top that I know. Because of these
acts care must be taken to put them
11 the proper place in the rotation.
'hey are not gross feeders. Alfalfa
or example can be depended upon
nder most conditions to leave the
oil richer than it found it. The
ame is true of clover in a less de—
ree. Beans. however, although a
egume,ne.<1,d to have not only a
1 00d supply of fix<dnitgro on at hand
:but to have it in an immediately
,.available form. To insure a good
“ crop, beans should follow alfalfa or
c910ver plowed not latei than May 1.
if possible. The month of May
i-should be devoted to f1 cquent drag—
ging not only to p1ecultiyate the
crop and kill weeds befme the beans
are planted but to get the soil bac-
gteria at “01k manufactming avail-
able food, and getting the soil warm
,and in good tilth to give the bean
crop a “send off.” If this is done,
the beans which should be planted
about June 1 will get a good start
and be able to outrun their troubles.
Plant diseases like blight, for ex—
ample, take time to develop. The
growing of the (ommon vaiieties of
beans is a iate for time between the
bean crop and its diseases. If the
diseases win the race and get the
upper hand the crop is a failure,
but if the conditions are such that,
the bean crop wins the race the crop
is a sutxess. Thus, 111010 depends
upon the farm and the1 .11 11101 in the
case of growing beans than in the

" production of oats or barley. Let us

now turn Olll attention to varieties
of beans.
Varieties of Beans

All that an improved bean can do
is to produce more or better quality
than the common sorts under the
same expense. Theie are special
problems in giouing (ertain varieties
that need to be known to get the
The Early Wonder and

other navy beans of its class are very

, conditions for growth.

susceptible to bacterial blight and
therefore need exceptionally good
The Early
Wonder is an early 'ariety and farm—
ers have found that by planting it

about the last week of June they still

can have a long enough growing

‘ season to mature a crop before frost.

Farmers have also found that these
beans get a quicker start in late
June than in early June, and by that

’1, means are able to make a fair growth

‘4' before the
.. blight Will
I but may only hinder it from giving

. be good.

blight develops. The
catch up with the Early

a fair yield. Its quality may still

Blight usually takes more
701‘ less leaves from the Early
" Wonder all summer, compelling
g'it to develop new leaves. The

L leaves are the factory that. the plant

has to produce starch. If the leaves
are killed by disease, the plant must
use up much starch in the production
of new leaves. The plant may be
working hard all summer and yet
have a very poor crop, because it has
been forced to devite so much en-
ergy in repair work. The Early
Wonder may be likened to a weak
harvester or other machine that is
not able to withstandthe conditions
and must be continually repaired to
continue its work. We make state—

ments like this only by comparison.

If we use the best machines that is
available, that is all that can be
done; but let us be sure.
Robust Good Yieldcr
On an avciage of four years at

E. the Michigan Expeiiment Station the

.Improved Robust has yielded (1917—

‘ 1920) an average a half m01e beans

:sj per acre than did the Early Wonder,

under the same conditions. In other

words the Early Wonder produced

 

:less than 16 bushels per acre while
{side by side with it for an average
cot four years the Improved Robust
ielded 24 bushels per acre. It cost
0 more to plow or fit the land, nor
0 plant and tend the Robust than
did in the case of the Early Won—
er. These low yields were due to
1the fact that the crop was poor in
'918 although the old line Robusts

sided 31.6 bushels to the acre at,

. A. C. in 1920. In that year Im-

 

Per Acre Than Other Michigan Variety
By FRANKA. SPRAGG

Associate Professor of Farm Crops, Michigan Agricultural College

 

 

This is a view of the bean varietal series of 1914 at the M. A. G.

into one, thus each pullei- row represents a separate variety.

 

Two rows were
planter] to one variety and two rows to another variety, throughout the series. This
is a view at harvest time and the puller has shoved the two rows of one variety

The Robust was

planted in each fifth plat ihloughout the series. The Robust plats have lost their

leaves and are ready for lmnest.

The other \urieties hau- their leaves.

This is

partly because they never drop all their leaves, largely because blight had been

taking ofl their leaves all summei.

proved Robust yielded 34.6 bushels
per acre at M. A. C. Farmers get
similar results.

We quote from the Bean and Pea
Journal, “Wm. Myers, a farmer liv-
ing near Carsonville, Michigan, grew
52 acres of beans during the season
just passed. Forty acres were of the
Robust variety from seed certified by
the Michigan Crop Improvement As—
sociation, while the other twelve
were of the common type. Early
conditions seemed unfavorable to the
later maturing Robust beans, but
they made a rapid growth in late
summer and threshed out seven
bushels per acre more than did the
commons. The quality and pick were
equal, so the extra yield of 280
bushels at $4.50 per cwt. gives Mr.
Meyers an added income of over

$700.00 because of using Robust
seed.”

A farmer “near Bay Port who
grew both Robusts and common

beans reports much more uniform
ripening of his Robust beans with an
increased yield of five bushels per
acre. ”

“An Ithata grow er got 25 bushels
pei acre on nine acres; one from Mc—
(lregor 30.7 on 10 acres; one from
Mildand 31.5 011 seven acres, and one
from Charlotte 33 bushels per acre
on four acres.” And Mr. Howard C.
Rather, Secretary of the Michigan
Crop Improvement Association states
that 011 the average the 41 producers
of pedigreed Robust. obtained 21.6
bushels per acre. This is really a
good showing when he observes that
“Michigan’s average bean yield the
past two years has been 10.5 and
11.5 bushels per acre respectively.”

Must Plant Earlier

These results cannot be obtained,
however, unless the farmer knows
and gives the Robusts a chance.

Thus they are not ripe.

The first week of June is recommend-
ed and should be lived up- to as a
planting time for Robust beans.
Some say that they can’t, but they
have been able- to put in their oats
and their corn before this, and we
believe that they can plant the beans
on time too. The principal trouble
with these farmers is that they have
been growing Early Wonder or' some
other bean of that type and experi—
ence has shown them that the Early
Wonder becomes badly diseased
when planted early. Then they try
planting the Robust beans in the last
week of June. The result is that
the Robusts are caught by frost and
they condemn the variety. The habit
of the farmers in the bean districts
is the principal obstacle in the way
of the spread of Robust beans in
those sections.

The.Robust is a variety that the
market has not been able to distin—
guish from other varieties of white
navy beans. When beans get wet
and swell in the field they are
apt to dry with wrinkled coats, the
coats now being too large for the
beans. This is not a characteristic
of any variety. They all do it. and
careful observation of bean experts
both at M. A. (l. and over the state
shows that the Robust do not
wrinkle any worse than other vari—
eties do. Some few elevator men
evidently call all wrinkled beans
“Robusts” and some have no doubt
sold them as such. I quote from the
Michigan Bean and Pea Journal:
“A representative of an eastern con-
cern picked what he called Robust
beans out of a car of Michigan beans,
the quality of which was'objection-
able to him. These beans were
planted and they matured eight days
earlier than known Robusts planted
by their side the same day, and
showed none of the plant character—

They must be planted in good seasondsucs of the Robust bean, the only

 

 

This is a, view of the bean nursery at M. A. C. in 1917.
These mark the individual progenies.
The beans in the fOreground and again in the distance are Robust, which
for harvest.

at the left.
time.

have dropped their leaves and are ready

One notes a line of stakes
The view is ”taken at harvest

The progenieo between the

two blocks of Robust are also common navy beans. They are- of the Early “(under
type, but because of the hot sun at blooming time they lost their flowers, had to
set a second crop. and are not rive as yet.

/':y ' hp 112, '1'

i obust Beans Yield 25 to 30 lushels Per Acre

E In Experiments at M. A. C. Over Period of Four Years Robust Beans Produced One-third More

place where the two varieties can be
positively distinguished.

“Another elevator man who said
positively that there—was not a Ro-
bust bean in his community, claimed
as much trouble from wrinkled beans
as any dealer in the state.”

'A large elevator man, in central
Michigan, says that he intends to
discount “Robusts” a dollar next
year. On being shown a lot of R0-
bust beans grown at Eaton Rapids,
that were not good enough to pass
the inspection requirements of the
M10111? an Crop Improvement Associa-
tion, he stated that that was one of
the best lots of beans he had seen
this year, not knowing that they were
Robust beans. He can’t tell Robust
beans. lVe will be glad if elevator
men would discount wrinkled and
other injured beans in favor of those
that have been taken care of, but
we must object when they call them
“Robusts. ”

The Robust variety comes from a
healthy individual plant that was
selected from among a lot of com-
mercial beans containing mosiac in
1908 Investigation at the New York
Experiment Station showed the R0—
bust bean to be immunie to mosiac,
and as a result I am told that al-
most all of the white pea beans now
grown in the state of New York are
of the Robust Variety.

Later Than Other Varieties

The Robust is a later bean than-
other varieties. It takes more time
in developing a root system, but in
the end develops a larger root system
than ordinary varieties. The earlier
varieties are first to bloom, while

later the Robusts blooms profusely

and has a very much larger setting
of pods. The Robust cannot be said
to resist drought any more than
other varieties. In a test planted on
sandy soil, the drought killed the
beans in late s11mmer.- In such cases
as this, other varieties have yielded
more because they set their pods
earlier and had more mature beans
when the hot spell struck. How-

ever, under such condition the 110-“

bust beans could just about as Well
be planted two or three weeks earlier
than is safe for other varieties, and
produce a larger crop of beans be-
cause they too had had time to
mature their crop of beans.

When the drought does not actual-
ly kill the crop, the Robust is able
to set pods in hotter sun than can
the common varieties. In 1916 the
Robust was the only variety that had
a good setting of pods at M..A. C.
as other varieties dropped their
flowers during a hot spell at bloom-
ing time. Most of them lost the
second set of flowers and failed com-
pletely.

The leaves of the Robust are us-
ually more wrinkled and drawn in
at the edges than are those of other
varieties which may be quite flat.
The leaves of most varieties turn yel-
low and drop more or less all sum—
mer probably due to bacterial blight.
The Robust being resistant to blight,
holds its foliage and maintains it in
a profuse development until a few
days before harvest time, when the
foliage turns yellow and drops off
as a whole. The Robust actually
matures the crop, and drops the
leaves at maturity. Because of this
characteristic, it will normally with—
stand frost ’that will kill the leaves
without injuring the pods. The foli—
age then opens up, and the pods
mature rapidly. A month before
harvest the Robust is usually picked
out as the greenest variety in a
series. And yet if blight has so
hindered the development of other
varieties by dropping leaves, that
they are not able to complete the
work, the Robust may be ripe first.
Also the Robust is the only variety
that will drop all of its leaves at
maturity. All other varieties will
have some green leaves even when
the pods are shattering the seed.

In growing a crop of beans, make
sure that it is going to have an
abundance 0f food and good healthy
conditions. Otherwise you are apt

to have a “stun-ted call!" on your

hands that will never be worth rais-
ing. But, if you are going to grow
beans why not have a strong robust
variety? Among the navy beans

there are two classes. One of theSevflry

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was seized recently and on board was found $10,000 worth representing the ascent of man from the new way of hauling their calves to market. They use
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smuggling. The seizure was made on 3 counts: Violation National Academy of Design for its an— ollt of a crate. This one here seems to know his fate .
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THE government had Just given a
= lot of land ”away in Oklahoma

and what was called Indian
Territory. At that time everything
was booming in the south. All the
gang thought of at every town was
to get .land. Some of the boys were
going over to the territory and mar-
rying squaws so they could get some
of the land they had, and I was al-
most on the verge of doing the same
thing when a fellow one day told me
I was a bright fellow and gave me a
job. I was glad of it, as I hated to
to think of hooking up with a sav-
age.

The fellow I hired out to was
about as clever a fellow as I had
ever met. Tommy Conner they call-
ed him, and he had the head to put
the stufl over. It seems that he had
come to Texas for his health. He
didn't have anything on me, as I
had, too, but the climate had done
him so much good that he had a
wonderful plan worked out.

Tommy got a lot of the sage brush
land lined up and the crew I was
with worked hard to get a small
stream of water headed onto it.
After a couple of years we had
about as pretty a spot as there was
in the United States. It was only
about 40 acres big, but it was sure
some garden spot. Conner then
goes to Kansas City and interests 3
lot of fellows with money in his
game. They come dowu‘to the
place and looks it over, and I was
the fellow who showed them our
place. Conner held a meeting, and
they decided that here was a big
chance to make a killing. Land
about our place was selling pretty
cheap and now and then a fellow
was so glad to get rid of a section
that he threw it in so that he would-
n't have to pay taxes on the sage
bushes.

So I was commissioned to feel
around and buy up the land. In
order to keep up appearances, I op-
ened a real estate office in town.
Conner and his gang furnished me
with the money I had and in a few
months we owned land on each side
of us. Meanwhile the beauty spot
in our desert had been improved so
that it had a hotel on it and a fence
around it. The road from the sta-
tion had been fixed up and it was
lined with good looking plots which
had gardens that were watered and
kept up at considerable expense.
That winter several meetings were
held by our company and the boys
from Kansas City and Chicago had
some great times at the hotel. I
was part of the company now as a
reward for my work in the real es-
tate office and we decided to keep
my office going for future sales
work.

In the latter part of the winter
Conner announced that an advertis-
ing campaign was to start that
spring to sell our land. Things were
looking fine in our park and the
land along the highway from the
railroad sure looked as good as any
place I have ever been. The irriga-
tion system was working fine and
the pipes were CleVUiA) concealed.
No one would have guessed that we
hadn’t had a rain for months.

The gang planned to invite all the
editors of the farm papers to come
down to look over our new section
of the country. We named it the
"Future Heart of the Agriculture of
America” and we were going to run
special trains down from the north,
and every fellow who bought from
us was to get his fare back. Things
started fine. The first trainload of
people who arrived were met by
Conner at the station and welcom-
ed like they were Columbus finding
America. That boy had the line. I
helped show the gang about and
generally was handy with the foun-
tain pen when checks for land were
made out. Conner took the crowd
out to our hotel and entertained
them while they staid in Texas. He
saw to it that they talked to no
others than people connected with
our company, and after a few days
of talking those fellows decided that
Texas as the place for them. Money
was what we wanted, but Conner
did take a few Iowa, Illinois, Indi-
ana and Ohio farms as part pay-
ment.

The boys working for us in Kan-
sas City and‘ Chicago and other
points sure kept a good crop of pros-
pects coming to us, and the prices
we get for that land were good.

 
  

   

A TRAVELING medicine show, selling “snake oil,” was
the cause of Pete Dexter's beginning of a life of graft.
Pete has told how he happened to take up the career of
living on easy money obtained at other people’s expense,
and how he went from the medicine show to working for

himself.

A mail order deal in which he sold spoons in Florida,
and then a job of canvassing in South Dakota gave him an
idea of how easy some folks were to take in.

The canvassing graft got .him into the tea and coffee
business, and the premiums he offered sold the goods, but
Pete never delivered the premiums, altho he left each
section a little richer than when he started.

A winter in California gave him his first taste of the

stock selling game.

Dexter also found that the life of a de

luxe faker also has its ups and downs and just when he
thought he was getting away big, he came to work one
morning to find the police there first. Dexter escaped, and
about all he took along was experience.~ He hopped a"

freight train for Texas.

He was getting to be a high—class

faker, he admits, and this installment shows "us some real
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Lots of the bunch that came down
thought Conner was charging too
much for the land, and they would
come to my office before they board-
ed the train for home. I would
figure their case at once and con—
fidentially show them maps of farms
that could be had right in the same

section as Conner’s land and at a
little cheaper price. Generally I got
the stragglers, and Conner sure was
generous with me in commissions.
At the end of the year I had over
$30,000 in the bank and that was a
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YEAR TO REDEEM FARM
I have a farm in Kalkaska county
and being a subscriber to your pap—
er I am asking for advice. The
banker at Kalkaska is threatening
to foreclose at once, the mortgage is
$725. He requests me to sign and
send him a quit claim deed stating
that if he sells it for more than the
mortgage what is over the mortgage
will be mine. If I do not sign the
deed and he forcloses, has he the
right to sell farm at once, or do I
have a year in which to redeem it?
Would I have the privilege of rent—
ing the place after he forecloses or
not? Do you think it possible for
me to secure a loan from the Feder-
al Farm Loan Bank? Would I have
to live on the farm to get the loan
or not. What would be the expense
to secure a loan. The assessed
valuation of the farm is $2500.—J.
H. D., Durand, Mich. ‘
-—The mortgagor weuld have to give
you three months notice before fore—
closure sale. After the sale, you
would have a year in which to re-
deem the farm. I would not advise
you to sign a quit claim deed under
these circumstances. You would
be entitled to all the rents from the
farm until the year had expired attr
er the mortgage sale. ’
Write to the Federal Land Bank at
St. Paul, Min., and tell‘ them just»

what security you have. They will
inform you as to how much, and on
what terms, you borrow it.—Asst.
Legal Editor.

CANNOT VOTE WITH FIRST
PAPERS
Please tell me if I can vote in my
township with a first paper or not?
———J. S., Turner, Mich.
——We assume you mean that you
have taken out your first naturaliza—
tion papers and desire to know if
you can vote. In reply will advise

-- you that you cannot under the pres-

ent law.-——Clare Retan, Deputy At—
torney General.

RIGHT OF PEDESTRIAN ON
HIGHWAY
What right has a person on foot
on the trunk line? Has he a right

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time. If I hadn't changediiy name
and taken my .money«;.i‘n. my grip, I
never would have staid clear for
there was same row. But I sure
learned how easy people lite-to give
away their cash.

By this time I decided I was a
promoter, so I frowned on'the old
lines and felt ashamed that I had
mixed up in such little deals. So I
began to look for big game.

. Electric railways were than the
popular craze. In St. Louis I met a
fellow who had a plan where by an
electric line was to be built to op-

'erate on an elevated track. Storms

,had been bothering lines built on

o

to part of the gravel, for a path, or .

should he get off of it entirely, for
convenience of cars?-——O. R., Her-
sey, Michigan.

—-A pedestrian has equal rights on
a highway with other person trav-
sunsr by automobile or otherwise.
but the rights of persons using the
public highway for traveling, wheth-
er on foot or otherwise, depends up-
on facts and circumstances sur-
rounding each particular instance.
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the ground, and his scheme appealed
to me as one thatrought to sell, so
after talking with the inventor, Mr.
Henry Trainer, we formed a com-
pany.
turned over the..patent rights to me.

The first thing we did was to open
an office in St. Louis, and as I had
met a few fellows from St. Louis
while working with Conner in Tex-
as, I called on them and offered to
let them in on my new company.
Several of them were rather promi-
nent in towu and agreed to become
directors in the new company, which
we called the National Electric Serv-
ice and Transport Company. Ixhad
a lot of certificates engraved and a
young newspaper man whom I'had
met wrote up a description of the
new type of railroad for our cata-
log. He had a friend who was an
artist and for a few dollars he drew
some sketches of the proposed rail-
road. ‘

We had a small model of the new
system built for our window and it
sure worked pretty. Several of the
newspapers sent men to interview us
and that helped us 'a lot. We also
ran a lot 'of adVertisements and an-
nounced that our first line was go-
ing to be built in St. Louis. We al-
so had a bunch of fellows lined up
to sell the stock. Operations began
in a short time and that stock went
like hot cakes. We had a hard time
filling the orders, and many a night
we had to sit up “till two and three
o’clock, making out stock certifi-
cates and keeping things in good
order.
big salary. Several directors who
saw the money rolling in decided
they had better start out, so I open-
ed branch offices in various cities
for them and put up more minature
railroads. The .stock sold fine for
some time and all the boys were get-
ting on in great shape, as I allowed

them liberal commissions. Then
things slacked up. Seems that the
city fellows wanted action. So we

gave them a dose of that.

Just outside the city was an old
building with a pretty fair layout.
It had been built for a watch fac-
tory but had gone broke. I found
it could be purchased for about
$8,000. so the board of directors an-
nounced one day that the first pow-
er plant was to be started. The old
watch factory had been secured and
was to be remodeled. .We spent a
few thousand for some architects’
plans and more advertising, and that
sure speeded the stock sales. Busi-
ness was better than ever. We an--
nounced that the original capital
stock of $2,000,000 was almost sub-
scribed and as soon as we secured
the full amount the first line would
be built.

About this time, some fellow got
peeved at a salesman and started a.
lawsuit, which lasted several
months. With no sales in the mean-
time we announced that as long as
there was a legal tangle we couldn’t
do anything, closed the branch of-
fices and many of the directors left,
leaving me and Trainer, the invent-
or, alone.

One day we heard that a bunch
of stockholders were holding a
meeting to see what could be done
to save their money. Trainer told
me about the deal, but not until it
was too late. Then a fellow came
with a warrant for my arrest and I
had to put up a bond to account for
the money paid to the company. It
took about a year to get out of then:
mess, and when I did I was sadder.
I saved a few
thousand, but the railroad that was
to have been built still remains a
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As part of our service to you we select for you
and sell only goods that will give you satisfaction
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As part of our service to you we always offer
you a saving. Fifty million dollars’ worth of
goods have been manufactured and bought for
cash to make possible the low prices this book

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is part of our work for you. Most of our orders
are actually shipped within twenty-four hours,
nearly all within forty-eight hours.

Our platform is one of Service. To be of real
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your patronage. i

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As you turn the pages of this new Spring
and Summer Catalogue there is just one
thought uppermost in your mind:

“What is there of interest in this
book for me?

How much saving is there for me?

What can Montgomery Ward 8'
Co. do for me?”

In imagination I look into the homes of
over five million customers into which this
book goes, and ineach I seem to hear these
same questions asked.

And as I sit here in my office and look
around at over one hundred acres of floor
space, filled with new merchandise, I see
the answer so plainly, the many advantages,
the great saving, that I wish there might be
some way of bringing you more closely to-
getheP—you and Montgomery Ward 65 Co.
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answers to your questions.

If I could draw up a chair with you there
at your own living room table and turn with
you the pages of, this Catalogue, I would
tell you the most interesting business story
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power your patronage gives us. And of
travel—travel through every part of this
land and in Europe, searching for good
merchandise at the lowest possible prices.

Do you know how our goods are bought
-—how our bargains are found? Let me give
you an example: Here is a manufacturer
who has a reputation for making the best
goods, who lacks capital, who lacks busi-
ness, so that his plant operates on half-time
part of the year.

But he knows how to make good goods.

'We furnish the needed extra capital, we

give him orders that make the wheels turn
all day and keep his employees busy all the
year. His own earnings are increased and
his cost of manufacture cut far below any—
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vice. You want your orders filled promptly,
and your letters answered promptly—and
you want your patronage appreciated.

At Montgomery Ward 85 Co. you get all
these things. These are the advantages
that are waiting here for you.

A saving—yes, we try always to ofi'er you a saving,
but always a saving on goods of Ward Quality. I
cannot lay too much stress on “Quality.” We
do not seII “cheap" goods. It is our policy to
offer you only goods that will stand up, that will
give service, that will do exactly what you want
them to do.

It is easy to sell at seemingly low prices. All you
need do is to buy low—priced goods. Cut some-
thing out of the quality, out of the service, and you
can always make a low price. At Ward’s we never
sacrifice quaIity to make a low price. -

And, for fifty—one years this has been the policy 0
Montgomery Ward 85 Co. For fifty-one years in
every dealing with every customer we have tried to
'follow a “deal as you would be dealt by” policy.

Millions of people will buy from this Catalogue—
at a saving. The same saving, the same guarantee of
satisfaction exists for you. We solicit your patron-
age. We will deal with you as you would be dealt
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time left for books. I think. when
he first went there, he thought he

[was still going to 'Write the great poem,

the great play, the great novel that was
to bring him fame and money. But she
soon learned better. Hattie had little
patience with his scribbling, and had less
with the constant necessity of scrimping
and economizing. She was always am-
bitious to get ahead and be somebody,
and, of course, as the babies came and the
expenses increased, the demand for more
money became more and more insistent.
But Jim, poor Jim! He never was a
money~maker. He worked, and worked
hard, and then he got a job for evenings
and worked harder. But I don't believe
he ever quite caught up. That’s why I
was so glad when this money came—for
Jim. And now, don’t you see? he’s
thrown his whole lost youth into Fred.
And Fred—"

“Fred is going to make good. You see
if he doesn‘t!" .
“I hope he will. But—I Wish those -

Gaylords had been at the bottom of the
Red Sea before they ever came to Hillt-r-
ton,” she fumed with sudden Vehenicnce
as she entered her own gate.

CHAPTER XIV
From Me to You “'ith Love

It was certainly a gay one—that holi-
day week. Beginning with‘ the James
Blaisdells’ housewarming, it was one con—
tinuous round 'of dances, dinners, sleigh-
rides and skating parties for Hillerton’s
young people, particularly for the Blais—
dells, the Pennoc‘ks, and the Gaylords.

Mr. Smith, at Miss Maggie’s, saw com—
paratively little of it all, although he had
almost daily reports from Benny, Melli-
cent, or Miss Flora, who came often to
Miss Maggie’s for a little chat. It was
from Miss Flora that he learned the out—
come of Mellicent’s present to her mother.
The week was past, and Miss Flora had
come down to Miss Maggie’s for a little
visit.

Mr. Smith still worked at the table in
the corner of the living-room, though the
Duff—Blaisdell records were all long ago
copied. He was at work now sorting
and tabulating other Blaisdell records.
Mr. Smith seemed to find no end to the,
work that had to be done on his Blais—
dell book.

As Miss Flora entered the room she
greeted Mr. Smith cordially, and dropped
into a chair.

“Well, they’ve gone at last,” she panted,
handing her furs to .Miss Maggie; “so
I thought I’d come down and talk things
over. No, don‘t go, Mr. Smith,” she
begged, as he made a move toward de—
parture. “I haint come to say nothin’
private; besides, you’re just like one of
the family, anyhow. Keep right on with
your work, please."

Thus entreated. Mr. Smith went back
to his table, and Miss Flora settled her—
self more comfortably in Miss Maggie‘s
easiest chair.

“Sure they're all gone,” said Miss
Maggie cheerily_
“Yes; ain’t it time they did, to my

way of thinkin‘. Mercy me, what a. week
it has been! They hain’t been still a
minute, not one of ’om, except for a few
hours’ sloop—toward inornin’.”

“But what a good time they‘ve had
exulted Miss Maggie.

“Yes. .And didn’t it do your soul good
to see Mellicent? But Jane Jane nearly
had a fit. She told Mellicent that all
this gayety was nothing but froth and
flimsiness and vexation of spirit. That
she knew it because she’d ”been all
through it when she was young, and she
knew the vanity of it. And Mellicent—
What do you suppose that child said?”

“I can’t irna.gim-," smiled Miss Maggie.

“She said she wanted to see the vanity
of it, too. Pretty cute of her, too, wasn‘t
it? Still it‘s just as well she’s gone back
to school, I think myself. She's been
repressed and held back so long, that
when she did let loose, it was just like
cutting a puckering string of a bunched-
up ruffle—she. flew in all directions, and
there was no holding her back anywhere;
and I suppose she has been a bit foolish
and extravagant in the things she's asked
for. Poor dear, though, she did get one
setback.”

"What do you mean ?"

“Did she tell you about the present for
her mother?”

“That she was going to get it—yes."

Across the room Mr. Smith looked up
suddenly. .

“Well, she got it.” Miss Flora's thin
lips snapped grimly over the terse words.
“But she had to take it back."

“Take it back!” cried Miss Maggie.

“Yes. And "twas a beauty—one of

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. them light purple stones with two pearls.

Mellicent showed it to me——on the way
home from the store, you know. And
she was so pleased over it! ‘Oh, I don’t
mind the saving all those years now,’
she cried ‘when I see what a beautiful
thing they’ve let me get for mother.’
.And she went off so happy she just
couldn’t keep her feet from dancing.”

“I can imagine it,” nodded Miss Maggie.

"Well, in an hour she was back. But
what a. difference! All the light and
happiness and springiness were gone.

She was almost crying. She still carried
the little box in her hand. "I’m takm

'it back,’ she choked. ‘Mothe'r doesn’t
» like it.’ 'Don’t like that, beautiful pin!
says I. .‘What does she want?’

" 'Oh, yes, she liked the pin,’ said Mel-
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all that money for a silly, useless pin.
I—-I told her ’twas a present from me.
but she made me take it back. I’m on
my way now back to the store. I‘m to
get the money, if I can. If I can’t, I’m
to get a credit slip. Mother says we can
take it up in forks and spoons and things
we need. I—I told her ’twas a present,
but—’ She couldn’t say another word,
poor child. She just turned and almost
ran from the room. That was last night.
She went away this morning, I suppose.
I didn’t see her again, so I don’t know
how she did come out with the store-
man.”

“Too bad—too bad !” sympathized Miss
Maggie. (Ow-r at the table Mr. Smith
had fallen to writing furiously, with vic—
ious little jabs of his pencil.) “But Jane
never did believe in present~giving. They
never gave presents to each other even
at Christmas. She
foolish, wasteful practice, and Mellicent
was always so unhappy Christmas morn--
ing!" '

“I know it. And that’s just what the
trouble is. Don't you see? Jane never
let ‘em take even comfort and now that
they can take some comfort, Jane’s so

out of the habit, she don’t know how to

begin.“

“Careful, careful, Flora !" laughed Miss
Maggie. “I don‘t think you can say much
on that score.“

“Why Maggie Duff, I'm taking com-
fort,” bridled Miss Flora. “Didn’t I have
chicken last week and turkey three weeks
ago? And do I ever skimp the butter or
hunt for cake-rules with one egg now?
And ain‘t I going to Niagara and have a
phonograph and move into a fine place
just as soon as my mourning is up? You
wait and see!”

“All right. I'll wait,” laughed Miss
Maggie. Then, a bit anxiously, she asked:
Did Fred g0 to—day?”

“Yes, looking as fine as a fiddle, too.
I was sweeping off the steps when he
went by the house. He stopped and spoke.
Said he was going in now for real work——
that he’d played long enough. He said
he wouldn’t be good for a row of pins
if he had many such weeks as this had
been."

“I‘m glad he realized it.” observed Miss

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Maggie grimly. “I suppose the Gaylord
young people went, too.”

“Hibbard did, but Pearl doesn’t go till
next week. She isn’t in the same. school
with Bess, you know. It’s even grander
than Bess’s they say. Hattie wants to
get Bess into it next year. Oh, I forgot;
we’ve got to call her ‘Elizabeth’ now.
Did you know that?”

Miss Maggie shook her head.

“Well, we have. Hlattie says nick-
names are all out now, and that ‘Eliza-
beth’ is very stylish and good form, and

the only thing to call her. She says we
must call her ‘Harriet,’ too. I forgot
that.”

“And Benny ‘Benj'amin’?” smiled Miss

' Maggie.

“Yes. And Jim ‘Jamés.’ But I’m afraid
I shall forget—sometimes.”

“I’m afraid—a good many of us will,"
laughed Miss Maggie.

“It all came from them Gaylords, I
believe,” sniffed Flora. “I don’t think
much of ’cm ; but Hattie seems to. I

notice she don’t put nothin’ discouragin’
in the way of young Gaylord and Bess.
But he pays ’mos-t as much attention to
Mellicent, so far as I can see, whenever
Carl Pennock will give him a chance.
Did you ever see the beat of that boy?
It’s the money, of course. I hope Melli-
cent ’11 give him a good lesson, before
she gets through with it. He deserves
it," she ejuculated, as she picked up .her
neck-piece, and fastened it with a jerk.
In the doorway she paused and glanced
cautiously toward Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith,
percieved the glance, tried very hard to
absorb himself in the rows of names and
dates before him; but he could not help
hearing Miss Flora's next words.
“Maggie, hain’t you changed your mind
a mite yet? Won‘t you let me give you
some of my money? I’d so love to, dear!”
But Mi Maggie, with ‘a violent shake
of her h , almost pushed Miss Flora
into the hall and shut the door firmly.
Mr. Smith, left alone at his table, wrote
again furiously, and with vicious little
jabs of his pencil.
One by one the winter days passed.
At the Duffs‘ Mr. Smith was finding
a most convenient home. He liked Miss

' What Cali Club Work Did For Me

By ARTHUR NYLAND, Gobetic Co. 0an Club Champion

HAVE been asked to tell of my
I experience as a calf club mem—

ber. I first became interested in

.calf club work during the summer

of 1921. My brother Walfred and
I became members of the calf club
in Erwin township at the same
time. As the requirements to be—
come a calf club member are that
one must owu a highgrade or pure—
bred calf of one of the dairy breeds.
my brother and I each became an
owner of a pure—bred and registered
Holstein Heifer. Mine was given me
by my father, and Walfred bought
his. My calf was 6 months old and
\Valfred’s was about 5 months old.
We were both eager to become
members of the livestock judging
team that our county agricultural
agent, Mr. Gunderson was organiz—
ing about this time, so we took part
in the livestock judging classes that
were being held on the farms of the
county at that time. ‘The boys from
Erwin township who were members
of my calf wclub were Nicholas
Puumala, Tom Hendrickson, John
Koivisto, my brother Walfred, and
myself. Several Ironwood township
boys, Axel Kil‘ponen, Carl Johnson,
Onnie Kangas, Luther Olson, Leon-
ard Nyland, Wm. Erickson and Con:
rad Walquist also were members oi
our judging class. We judged
classes of dairy cattle, hogs. and
sheep at the farms of C. E. Johnson,
Raymond Dick, and K. Gunderson.
We had good times riding around

  

   

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above. thé cross marked on the picture, is

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together and learned many valuable
things in judging livestock.

We were all anxious to be mem-
bers of the livestock judging team
that went to the U. P. Farmers'

Round—up at Chatham, August 12
and 13th. J. K. Jackson took all
the Erwin township club boys to
Chatham in his big 7 passenger

studebaker car. It was the first and
longest automobile trip we had ever
taken, and believe me we had a good
time. 'The weather 'was beautiful
and the roads were fine and we had
a big, comfortable car. We made
short stops at Iron River, Ishpem-
ing, Negaunee and Marquette and
saw many beautiful lakes along the
way. We started from Ironwood at
10 o’clock in the morning and had
lunch at a little spring just outside
of Watersmeet, and had supper on
the beautiful Presque Isle at Mar-
quette, where 'we saw deer running
at large and other wild animals in
cages.

We got into Chatham about 10
o’clock. We slept in tents while at

Chatham, and took part in the set--

ting—up exercises, games and the
livestock judging events. There
were about 5,000 people there. We
saw and learned many new things.
I had such a fine time on this trip
that I decided that if there was ever
a chance to go again, I wanted to
go so last summer I again took 'part
in the calf club work and judging
classes and was again lucky enough
to made the trip.

Gogebip County OMIQOJubgwork. Din-egg}! ,‘

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Maggie better than ever, on closer ac-
quaintance. " The Martin f'girls fitted pleas-
antly into the household, and plainly did
much to‘help the mistress of the house.
Father Duff was still as rritable‘ as ever,
b.1112 he—‘ waS"‘n‘_ot ‘So h in evidence,
for his, increasmg lameness was confin-
ing -a.lm'ost entirely to his ,own room.
This meant added care for Miss Maggie,
but, with the help of the Martins’ she
still had some rest and leisure, some time
to devote to the walks and talks with Mr.‘
Smith. Mr. Smith said it was absolutely
imperative, for the sake of her health,
that she should 3have some recreation,
and that it was an act of charity, any-
way, that she shou/ld lighten his lonli-
ness'by letting him walk and talk with her.

Mr. Smith could not help wondering a
good deal these days about Miss Maggie's
financial resources. He knew from vari-
ous indications that they must be slender.
Yet he never heard her plead poverty. or
preach economy. In spite of the absence
of protecting rugs and tidies, however,
and in spite of the fact that she plainly
conducted her life and household along
the lines of the greatest possible comfort,
he saw many evidences that she counted
the pennies—and that she made every
penny count.

He knew, for a fact, that she had re-
fused to accept any of the Blaisdell’s
legacy. Jane, to be sure, had not offered
any money yet (though she had offered
the parlor carpet, which had been
promptly refused), but Frank and James
and Flora had offered money, and had
urged her to take it.- Miss Maggie, how-
ever, would thave none of it.

Mr. Smith suspected that Miss Maggie
was proud, and that she regarded such a
gift as savoring too much of charity.
Mr. Smith wished he could say something
to Miss Maggie. Mr. Smith was, in eed,
not a little disturbed over the matter.
He did try once to say something; but
Miss Maggie tossed it off with a merry:
“Take their money? Never! I should feel
as I were eating up some of Jane’s in-
terest, or one of Hiattie's gold chairs !”
After that she would not let him get near
the subject. There seemed then really
nothing that he could do. .

It was about this time, however, that
Mr. Smith began to demand certain extra
luxuries—honey, olives, sardines, candied

fruits, and imported jellies. They were
always luxuries that must be bought,
not prepared in the home; and he

promptly increased the price of his board
——-but to a sum far beyond the extra
cost of the delicacies he ordered. When
Miss Maggie remonstrated at the size of
the increase, he pooh-poohed her objec-
tions, and declared that even that did
not pay for having such a nuisance of a _
boarder around, with all his fussy notions.
He insisted, moreover, that the family
should all partake freely of the various
delicacies, declaring that it seemed to
take away the sting of hisfussiness if
they ate as he ate, and so did not make
111m appear singular in his tastes.

Of the Blaisdells Mr. Smith saw a good
deal that winter. They often, came to
Miss Maggie’s, and occasionally he called
at their homes. Mr. Smith was on ex-
cellent terms with them all. They seemed
to regard him, indeed, as quite one of
the family, and they asked his advice,
and discussed their affairs before him
with as much freedom as if he were, in
truth, a member of the family.

He knew that Mrs. Hattie Blaisdell
was having a very gay winter, and that
she had been invited twice to the Gay-
lords’. He knew that James Blaisdcll
was happy in long evenings with his
books before the fire. A From Fred’s
mother he learned that Fred had made
the most exclusive club in college, and
from Fred’s father he learned that the
boy was already leading his class in his
studies. He heard of Bessie’s visits to
the homes of wealthy New Yorkers, and
of the trials Benny’s teachers were hav-
ing with Benny.

He knew something of Miss Flora’s
placid life in her “house of mourning”
(as Bessie had dubbed the little cottage),
and he heard of the ”perfectly lovely
times” Mellicent was having at her fin-
ishing school. He dropped in occasions
ally to talk over the price of beans and
potatoes with Mr. Frank Blaisdell in his
bustling grocery store, and he often saw
Mrs. Jane at Miss Maggie’s. It was at
Miss Maggie’s, indeed, one day, that he
heard Mrs. Jane say, as she sank wearily
into a chair:—- -

“Well, I declare! Sometimes I think I’ll
never give any‘body anything again !"

Mr. Smith, at his table, was conscious
of a sudden lively interest. So often, in
his earlier acquaintance with Mrs. Jane,
while he boarded there, had he heard her
say to mission-workers, church-solicitors,
and door-way beggars, alike, something
similar to this: “No, I can give you nothn
ing. I have nothing to give. I’d love to,
if I could—«really I would. It makes me
quite unhappy to hear of all this need
and suffering. I’d so love to do some-
thing! And if I were rich I would; but
as it 'is, I can only give you my sym-
pathy and my prayers.”

Mr. Smith was thinking of this now.
He had wondered several times, since the
money came, as to Mrs. Jane’s giving.
Hence his interest now in what she was
about to say. .

"Why, Jane, what’s the matter?” Miss
Maggie was quering.

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EAR EDITOR: Your editorials
don’t suit me as well as they
used to, but the one on taxation

(March 1) is good, and the more I
study the problem, the clearer I see
a progressive income and inheritance
taxes the ultimate solution.

To tax real estate for public im-
provements that increase its value-
seems tair mough. _ So does a. solos
tax on gasoline for highway repairs.
Import duties to protect the home
market, and small taxes or license
tees-to cover expenses of administer-
ing certain laws may be expedient.
But for general revenue purposes let

local, state and national governments ,

cooperate in building a simple, eluc-
ient tax collecting machine and let
every citizen pay according to ability.

Maire no exemptions and no unfair
discrimination against the rich.
Let every citizen declare his or her
net income annually, under pledge
of secrecy as now. Let each, whether
poor or rich, pay on the firSt one
thousand dollars a light tax, say one-
half of one per cent. Make it one
per cent on the second thousand.
add one—half of one per cent for each
succeeding thousand, until the rate
reaches fifty per cent, and let all
above that point pay that rate. Ap-
ply the same taxes except such as
noted above. Allow corporations to
keep a reasonable undivided surplus,
but treat stock dividends as part of
the incomes of those to whom they
are issued, which they certainly are.

To object that the high rate on
big incomes “withdraws capital

needed for business expansion" is,

nonsense. Does the government de-
stroy the money it collects? No, it
does just as any private citizen or
corporation would—pays its running
expenses and debts When it pays
running expenses its employees put
the money back into circulation just
as quickly as it they were working
for the steel trust or Standard Oil.
When it pays its debts its creditors,
mostly American citizens, have so
much capital free for re—investment.
If the general etfect of the system
is to somewhat reduce the fortunes
of the very rich, the light tax on
small incomes will tend to increase
the number and the resources of
small capitalists, whose capital is
just as available for business expan—
sion as if they were rich. And as
the rich pay high rates only on their
superfluous thousands, they are safe
from absolute ruin.

I hays not tried to figure out just
what the minimum rate should be;
one—half of one per cent may be too
low for present needs. I do know
that the average small farmer could
pay ten times that rate and still
save money on that _deal, and believe
that to attempt to exempt small in-
comes eutirely, would be a serious
mistake—Stacy Brown, Lake Odessa,
Michigan.

No MOR‘E TAX EXEMPT 130an

EAR Editor;-—Your editorial on

taxes and write up by Mr.
Powell should draw forth consider—
able comment. The old saying “Two
things are sure, death and taxes” is
right, only it ought to be worded
like this: “Taxes will be sure death
to the Farmer if they are not reduc-
ed."

It is impossible for the farmer to
keep the wolf of taxes from camping
on his doorstep and at times he gets
right into the house. We have been
told repeatedly that this law and
that scheme would reduce our taxes
but instead they have been going up
and up until we are obliged to sell
crops at a disadvantage to meet
them.

I have been paying taxes in our
county (Isabella) for twenty-five
years and they have almost been as
high as rent for my [arm the last
four years. It has been impossible
for me to make the repairs that are
needed let alone build new build—
in . . .

glull-ave seen and read more print-
ed matter about how to reduce taxes
in the last year or two than I could
carry and none of. it has lowered
my taxes one cent. Every office
holder has premisbd to lower taxes.
More he was. elected he always? had

some sure lire schemthat would,

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do the trick. “M slsstme and

.you will soon see Is! your taxes

.—

' a s. ,
will to down "' he would tell us. I

  

think M high-tunes has been-the
best campaign material for s. lot of
office seekers that ever was inventu
ed. —

Now to my mind we as property
owners and farmers should demand
that instead of wasting so much
good printer’s ink, we get some ac-

tion. Let’s dig up the hidden
treasure in the state, the tax ex-
empt bonds, and put a tax upon

them‘ will help to bear the burden-
of taxes along with the farmers and
property owners.

These bonds and stocks should be
classed as personal property and
taxed as such just as the farmers
stock andiools are taxed. It the
tax exempt bonds were made to go
on record in the county or state
where they were issued and a. tax
put upon them at that time, they
would be paying in proportion to
the farmer's mortgage or contract.

The farmer’s business is too large
for him to hide it. He is too
broad minded to do it if he could.
so let us get dowu to business and
do something that will take the
mill-stone of taxes from his neck
and give him a square deal.——-W.
H., Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

WHY HAVE COUNTY AGENT?

EAR EDITOR: I have read your
D valuable paper from the first

issue, and think it is the best
farm paper. I read so much about
reducing taxes, that I cannot keep
quite any longer. Why not com-
mence at home to cut taxes? Now
what good is a county agent, when
75 per cent of the farmers are op-
posed to him? I claim we can get
along just as well without"him. I
have attended the county agents'
meeting at the Farmers' Institute
meeting and Farm Bureau meeting,
and have heard their tall: for the
past four or five years, and all they
could talk about Was potatoes, pota-
toes, potatoes,'and that was all they
could talk about, until now you can
hardly give potatoes away. Now all
you can hear is dairying, dairying,
dslrying, and in four or five years
they will run that in the ground.

Why don’t they let the people
vote on whether we want a county
agent or not? I will wager that it
will be voted down by 75 per cent.
The board of supervisors say the
state pays a certain per cent for the
county agent’s salary, but who is
the state? It. all has to come out of
our taxes just the same. We are
paying too many white collar tel-
lows, running around at our ex-
peuse.

Now let us vote on the question,
and if they get one vote in favor of
the county agent, then I will be in
favor of him also. As for me I can't
see where he has done us one cent
worth of good. In the last 3 months
I have received about a. half dozen
circulars asking if I wanted any
dynamite. I don’t know of any
farmers. around that want to buy a
half car of dynamite—H. E. Cob-
lentz, Charlevoix County.

TRADE WHEAT AT $2
EAR EDITORc—Foreign made
farm machinery, builders’
hardware, cloth and clothing.
shoes and thousands of farm neces-
sities can be laid at our shores so
cheap that in trade the farmer
would get twice what he does now.
The high tariff party, G. O. P. (or
Gasoline, Oil and Petroleum) says
by their actions, “Mr. Farmer, we’re
behind a great big tariff wall and
you’ll pay war prices for our stuff,
regardless of what your stuff brings,
or go without tools, building mater-
ial, clothes and shoes till you learn
who’s boss,” and because the major-
ity of north center and eastern
states great grand fathers were Lin-
coln Republicans, then these great-
grandsons think they must give 2
bushels of wheat for goods worth

only 1 bushel and say nothing be-

cause the tariff men want cheap
food for their' factory help and
double prices for factory goods.
Thu-leaves plenty of profit to pay
ten tines as much for a new car” as
the average farmer can pay to have
s ear for each one ot‘the richman’s
unity and one for s hired man to
sir the dog with—"ac. H. Handheld.

    

 

 

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EDITED BY J. HERBERT FERRIS, R. E.

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BATTERIES—THEIR USES AND
CARE IN RADIO

.N radio work there are two types
I of batteries used and these two
types are again divided into
three classes according to the use to
whid'h they are put.

The two types are—lst. Dry bat—
teries, and 2nd. Storage batteries.
The three classes are “A” batteries.
“B” batteries and “C” batteries. Be
sure and remember these classes as
we will constantly refer to A-B—C
batteries all thru our work with
radio. As far as we now know there
will only be these three classes but
as radio invention and experimenta-
tion progresses we are likely to find
use for batteries in another place
in our set and then we will have
“D” and “E” batteries.

We will first describe the two dif-
ferent types of batteries, as some
of you will be using one type and
others will use the other type. Re—
member, that both are good and that

l each type is used for a particular

purpose for it’s, convenience as well
as economy.

A dry battery has a voltage of 1.5
when new and this gradually drops
as the battery rages or is used. The
effective amperage is around 30 on
a N0. 6 battery and very much low-
er on the small light type of batter—
ies. All dry batteries are figured as
delivering 1.5 volts per cell.

All dry batteries are made for in-
termittant service, and if used stead-
ily will loose their life very quick-
ly; therefore remember that when—
ever you are not using your batter-
ies on your radio set they should be
disconnected.

A storage battery, one cell, has an
effective voltage of 2 and even when
discharged will show a voltage of
almost 1.5 tho it cannot deliver any
amperage when discharged.

The common example of a storage
battery is the lighting or starting
battery in an automobile, which for
the Ford is composed of 3 cells plac—
ed in one case and delivering 6
volts. The Dodge using 6 cells and
giving 12 volts. House lighting
plants have aggroup of 16 cells giv-
ing 32 volts.

The advantage of each type for
radio as we see it from the stand
point of the farmer or rural com—
munity is all in favor of the dry bat—
tery except in a few favored i11-
stances. These advantages are as
follows:

The dry battery is,——Cheap, con—
sidering it’s convenience. It is con—
venient. Easy to secure at most
hardware stores, no matter how
small the town. Light in weight and
easy to carry about. No dangerous
acids to spoil rugs, floors or clothes.
No expensive charging equipment
required. Long life, if given care.
In this connection with long life re—

 

member that the life of the battery
depends upon three things—let,
the manufacturer, if he is reliable
he will make a good battery. 2nd,
Using the correct battery for it’s
particular purpose. 3rd, Care in
not abusing the battery, that is only
asking thewbattery to do only as
much as it is able to do and not ov—
erloading it. Giving it a rest per-
iod frequently.

The advantages of the storage
battery are ——Long life, with care
they will last 5 to 7 years and even
longer. Noiseless. operation over
long periods of operation. Recharg—
ability, they can be charged as fre-
quently as necessary to keep them
up to working strength. They can
handle large .volumes of current
under a steady load for longer per-
iods than a dry battery. They do
not need rests to recouperate. For
radio sets using several tubes and
where large volume is desired
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Dry cells for “A" battery.

turers are now working more and
more to improve radio equipment
especially for dry battery use.)

Classes of Batteries

The three classes, A-B-C, of bat-
teries are made both in the dry bat-
tery form or the storage battery.

The A battery is the battery that
is used for the purpose of heating
the filament of a vacuum tube. Re-
member that the purpose is not to
produce light but heat of a certain
temperature. Some tubes do not
show any light when the filament is
heated and others are very bright,
just like an ordinary electric light
such as the UV—201 or 0-301 tube.

The B battery is the battery that
supplies the energy for making the
sounds in your telephone receivers.
It also supplies the energy for am—
plifiers that give great volume.

The C battery is only used with
certain types of sets, and quite gen—
erally in amplifier circuits to give
what is called “bais” to the grid ele-
ment of a vacuum tube a negative
value greater than it would have if
a 0 battery were not used. This
more effectively controlls the action

OUR READERS’ NEW BUILDINGS

 

 

ll2Iv.I \ou built any IIII-to Iglltt farm buildings lately/

If you have send us a picture of the new

building and “e \Iill print it in this new depart tment. It \llll show the M. B. 1“. readers what their
distant neighbors are doing to change the scenery. And, incidently, you may be able to help some
farmer decide the type oi house 01 1).,Irn or other buildings he desires to put 11p. He may l1ke the

n1)pez':11a1ne of your building and “ill Hunt the plan of it.
Do not send the negative. just a good mint

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MRS. CECELIA \VIR’I‘H, EAGLE, MICHIGAN, 0‘VNS TIRE NEW BARN _
at up dnrin June and July}
‘It is"28 feet wid 13*.
on while it ‘was being no ted
shortly after It was pbuilt, as you will obeerve.’f

“Hero is a picture of my ‘Honor Bllt' born that was
writes Mrs. Cecelia. Wirtn'. of Eagle, Mich an.
new we. tine

last your,’_
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teries that are used in amplifier cir-

«its; , It also helps .to clear’ up-the

' quality of the sounds- received so

that they are more lite-like. (Pre-
vents what is called distortion).

A batteries may be of the single
cell type such as one No. 6 dry bat-
tery or a group of cells so arranged
that they will give the desired volt-
age for the tube being used and also
give longer life. It batteries are
connected in “series” the voltage ins
creases with the addition of each‘ad-
ditiOnal cell. If batteries are con-
nected in “mutiple” or “parallel"
the effective liie is increased, the
amperage or volume of current that
can be delivered is greater and the
voltage remains the same as in a
single cell. Batteries may be also

connected 'in “series-parallel” to‘

both increase amperage and voltage.

See the diagram showing differ-
ent methods of connecting batteries
tor use as A batteries.

Remember that if you are using

- a WD—12 tube that requires 1’75

volts to heat the filament that if you
use 2 cells connected in mutiple that
you will get nearly three times the
life from 2 cells that 1 cell would
give you and in many instances a
much longer lite than above stated.
It is economy to use 2 cells instead
01 1 cell every time. If you are al-
so using amplifiers never use less
than 3 cells in mutiple.

B batteries are a group of small
cells connected in series and mount-
ed all within on case and sealed

'over with sealing wax. Sometimes

called a “block’ battery, meaning
that the small cells are assembled
into a block or one large battery.
Quite generally people believe that
the B battery is one battery that
gives a high voltage, that is correct,
as we call a group of cells a battery,
also we call a single cell a battery.
The 22% volt B battery is a group
of 15 cells each with a voltage of
1% making a total of 22% volts.
8 batteries are also made with volt-
ages of 45 or 90.

Ff:RM MECHANICS

MAKE THIS AND PICK YOUR
OWN BEANS AT HOME

is our . home-made bean

picker. I will describe it and

" how it operates as best I can.
There is a hook on the left arm
above the chute to hang a bag on
for the clean beans. It hangs over
the end of the chute. It does away
with a pail or any container that
might spill or be a tempetation for
little hands. The canvas table re—
volves. The end of the arm on
dle does not fasten to anything.
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peddle rests on a rod (groved to fit)
in bottom frame. The piece on end
of arm acts as a clutch on the can-
vas. It has a little rod through it
so that the piece can turn. When
the peddle is up it releases the
canvas and when pressed down
takes a hold and carries it along.
The chute for the clean beans is
right in front and under the left
arm. The chute is 14%.” by 6" by
16" and is 3%” wide. The opening is
only 2” sun re. I will answer any
questions.-——Mrs. R. 0. Reese, Wil-
liamston, Mich.

“I hearthey have established a home

tor telephOne operators."

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Owners continue to comment on
x the marked riding comfort of Dodge
Brothers Motor Car.

Primarily, however, it must be
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and underslung.

The price [of the Touring Car is $895 I. o. b. Detroit

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leads after more than =f
sixty yars' dependable
eennce. Thousands of them 3,
have run thirty years without

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The Mauve! Fits Any Tower ._\0

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describing our wood and steel mills. towers. tanks. etc.

Kale-ase- ‘l'ul l Silo Ce.; Dept". Kuhn-see. Mich.

WANTED!

Men and women agents write Fire Insur-
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farm for an old establiflmd substan
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SATURDAY. APRIL 12, 1924

Edited and Published by
THE RURAL PUILlfl-flm GOMPINY. Inc.
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TAXATION IS THE LIVE ISSUE

E questioned a little whether we would in-

U‘ sert the figures given in Mr. Powell’s

article in this issue taken. by him from

“The Michigan Tradesman," which show that the

cost of operation of three state prisons has in-

creased from $91,000 in 1916 to over $2,500,000
in 1923.

Rather, however, than to dull the point of this
particular article in the important series which
Mr. Powell has been contributing to our columns,
we are inserting them with the promise that in
the next issue We will have a statement frOm the
governor or someone close to the administration
which will clear up this point.

We want our readers to know that we believe
in giving both sides of every question as accur—
ately as it is humanly possible. This is in keep-
ing with a fixed policy of THE Busmass anm
that we do not try to do the thinking for our
readers, largely because we have no political or
other affiliations which force us to draw conclus-
ions which may not be our own. We believe the
real mission of a farm paper, or other publica-
tion which stands for anything, is to bring to the
searchlight of public opinion, the facts which
otherwise might be hidden and therefore discov-
ered only after it was too late.

Whether you agree with everything Mr. Powell
says or not, you will be as interested in this
present article as any which has appeared in the

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“The real trouble with the farmer, beyond
all others combined, is his inability to re-
duce his output with the fall in demand. No
matter in what terms it is put, the sum and
substance of the farmers’ lack of prosperity
during the past three or four years is over-
production.”

HE above recent statement by Mr. B. H. Hib—
bard, a noted economist, puts into the few-
est possible words the exact status of agri—

culture in America, but, of course, it does not
answer anything, excepting to point the direc-
tion in which the farming business must be
kept moving.

If there were as many individual producers in
any other line of business as there are in farm-
ing they would have identically the same prob-
lem which the farmer today faces.

If there were, instead of a half dozen shoe
manufacturers in Michigan, ten thousand manu—
facturers of shoes, it is obvious that the price of
shoes would be very hard to control, and that if
an overproduction were reached those manufac—
turers who found their warehouses overloaded
and their banks pressing, would sell at prices
which would eventually ruin them.

And it is just as obvious that when enough of
the ten thousand were forced into other lines
a! business a slump in the production of shoes
would cause a shortage: prices would rise, and
those in the shoe manutactnring business would
again make a profit.

The only way out of the dilemma to keep the
shoe manufacturing business on a nos-rad heels
would be for the ten thousand to get together
and decide how my shoes they wore going to
unifoctnre to take care of the demand.
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the farming business is organized, this condition
must continue to exist.

to] growers exchanges have pointed the way. ",It
means: Michigan bean men, potato men, fruit-
growers, beet growers—set togather, stick to-'
gather and just as sure as the coming of a boun-
tiful harvest to this state in the season just
ahead, will success crown your endeavors.

A man who criticizes the organization of farm-
ers to which he belongs without offering to help
right any wrong that may be going onis a trait-
or to his calling and to his neighbors, and un-
fortunately the things you can do to him in
Michigan without being guilty of “attempt to do
great bodily harm" are all too good for him!

SPRING IS HERE
SPRING is here and if you have not felt the

tingle of it in your bloOd you had better-

start in on a course of sulphur and mo-
lasses! But speaking of that well known old
despot of childhood, we noticed recently that a
very able physician declared such spring reme-
dies were entirely unnecessary and that if peo-
ple would follow simply the dictates of their ap-
petites and the products of the field and garden
as they come with the changing seasons there
would be no need for dopes or medicines of any
kind. '

What can be finer these nice mornings than a
dish of rhubarb at breakfast, and even as a des-
sert for supper, too? The way I like to eat it is
with ginger cake made rich with molasses. My,
what a combination they make! I presume, how—
ever, the cake does away with most of the good
effects that otherwise would come from therhu-
barb. '

Make up your mind you will not take any
medicine this spring. If you have the hangover
of a cold, eat plenty of onions prepared in any
manner but fried, and see if it does not give
you relief.

There is a drug store in the backyard of ev-
ery farm house and a doctor sits with you at ev-
ery meal—none other than Ole Doc Moderation!

ROBUST BEANS WIN FAVOR

N Prof. Frank A. Spragg’s article in this issue
I continuing his series on seed development in
Michigan, this authority points out that Ro-
bust beans which have been largely deve10ped by
the Michigan Agricultural College are yielding an
average of one-third more than.any other Mich-
igan variety.

That the bean growers of Michigan have not
been more eager to take up the Robust bean as a
staple is largely due to lack of information on
the subject and we are pleased to present this
article for the benefit of our readers and in con-
tinuation of our policy to secure the best known
authority on agricultural subjects which.we at—
tempt to treat in these columns.

We sincerely believe that it would pay every
readerof THE BUSINESS FARMEB to carefully read
this series by Prof. Spragg and file them away
for future reference as this really represents the
result of many years of study and application to
a subject to which most of us give too little at-
tention in the ordinary conduct of our farming
business.

It will behoove you to watch for the continua-
tion of these articles each complete in the issue
in which it appears, but all contributing to a.
general summary of the development of seed in
this state.

CENTRAL ELECTRIC POWER

CCORDING to figures supplied by the Michi-
J_ gan Public Utilities Commission, there are

now 9,022 farms receiving central station
electric light and power in this state.

The rapid spread of power wires over the rural
districts of Michigan means an important step
in their development and their improvement.

When you consider that electricity means not
only light instantly available, heat for cooking
and power for running water in the home but
ample power for the heavier farm duties, its im-
portance becomes apparent.

It may not be long before the threshing ma-
chine which comes to your term will have mount-
ed on it an electric motor, the wires from which
they will connect to your own circuit and there
have from danger of sparks the work of thresh-
ing or silo filling will be done in short order. -

The Public Utilities Counmimion has interested
itself in the development of rural power lines
and is doing everyninx possible to m
the companies alre‘v in operation in the state
to extend these win- and thus make may
minus to the largot possible snubs e!
farm. This is in” an encouraging dun lee
“ t ‘ . .l H.-. / .

There is a way out.’ California and its success— -

    

    

_- sufficiently-gr m,
commissioner for the year 1933 is, iota-ell-
ing to farmers in Michigan mmcnlln‘h' be-
cause it gives an insight into” the success of using
prison labor to build good roads and maintain
them. Those who originally promised nothing
but dire results from such an lnovation are being
won over to the plan as its practicability be-
comes more and more apparent. After pointing
out that during 1923, only 125 prisoners were
added to the burden of the state becausewhile
1,971 entered prison gates, midwere paroled.
The report has this to say about prison road
work: .

“Between J uly 12 and December 31 of last
year, 660 prisoners from two of the three
penal and reformatory institutions of Michi-
gan, Jackson and Ionia, working upon con- .
'struction of highways in this state built 25
miles of concrete surfaced roadway and
earned an aggregate pay of $58,000.

“The figures 660 enumerating the prison—
ers from Jackson and Ionia. who were sent
out to the road camps constitutes the total
number of prison inmates who were given *
temporary paroles and made 'highway
trusties.’ They were coming and going all
during the period of the work, large numbers
of them, more than half of the total being‘re-
turned to their prison for release on regular
parole, to go to their homes, their minimum
sentences having expired while they labored.
As these were released others were sent to
take their places. At no time did the aggre-
gate prison population in all the camps——
seven‘attain a number in excess of 450.
Governor Groesbeck has stated that it is the
plan of the administrative board and high-
way department to employ as a fixed, number
800 or more such prisoners in 1924,, and to
start early and build 100 miles of concrete
highway.

“Teach prisoners to work and teach them
to like it, and you’ve started the reformation
which all good people hope to see accomp-
lished by prison discipline.”

FIGHTING FARM FIRES

“ F farmers only knew it” the secretary of I.
leading Michigan mutual fire insurance
company'told us the other day, “they could

save themselves millions of dollars in decreased
assessments to say nothing of the individual loss
and discomfort through fire on the farm. Every
farm building ought. to be equipped with some
sort of a fire extinguishing apparatus so that the
fire can be caught at the outset when it is not
hard to control, and yet there are hundreds of
kitchens and barns in Michigan that have no pos-
sible means of fire protection, so if a fire started
it would be necessary to run and hunt up a pail
of water and then try to extinguish it.”

This matter of fire protection is a mighty im-
portant one, and if the fire losses in Michigan
could be cut down several millions of dollars it
would be immediately reflected in the assess—
ments by the mutual companies which largely
cover the riskson our farms.

Over at Owosso we understand a fire-truck
was purchased recently, the funds for which
were provided by, the farmers in the vicinity who
each contributed a small amount. Enthusiasm
for buying this truck was largely aroused by the
action of Roy L. Colby, supervisor of Shiawassee
township, whose $12,000 farm home was dam-
aged only to the extent of $2,000 because of the
prompt and effective work of a chemical fire
truck from Owosso which responded to his call
and made the seven-mile trip to his farm in four-
teen minutes.

This fire truck is kept in the central station
in Owosso, and is manned by regular city firemen
because it contributes to the city’s equipment
and yet is for the primary use of the farms in
the vicinity. "

The modern motor-driven fire wagon makes
it possible for the isolated farm to have protec—
tion and in a radius of five to ten miles from“
the farm we would say that no better scheme
could be worked out than to ask each farmer
to contribute the small sum necessary to pur-
chase such a truck. The amount invested would
probably be returned many times over in de-
creased insurance cost.

But you do not need to wait until a motor
driven truck is purchased in your vicinity.
There are any number of small fire extinguishers
on the market. some costing only a dollar or so
each. There should he one conspicuously located
in every farm kitchen and in every hem build-
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HOW THEY WILL LIE!

has come to‘ my attention that

certain agents of a farm paper

have made the statement that
the service rendered by every de-
partment of THE Business Emma.
including the Publisher’ s Desk, was
entirely through the columns of the
publication.

How they will lie when cornered.

Our readers know, but I want
them to tell their friends, that every
Single request for help or advise add
dressed to any departuient of THE
annmss Farms-a is answered per-
sonally by mail, as promptly as pos-
sible.

Only those questions which are of
general interest are given space in
the paper and they do not represent
one out of twenty of those answered
direct by mail to the subscriber.

Solarge has the mail become ad-
dressed to Farmers’ Service, Collec-
tion Box, Legal, Woman’s and this
department,“ that we have to insist
now that the address label from
any recent issue, be attached to
every request for free service.

Your address label shows the date
when your subscription expires and
we can only render service without
cost to paid-up subscribers. When
you do attach this label to your re-
quest, no charge of any name or
nature will ever be made unless
specifically understood by you.——The
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CHASING BUTTERFLIFB
"WHY NOT spend spring, sum-
not and fall gathering butter-
flies, insects? I buy hundreds
of kinds for collections. Some
worth $1 to $7 each. Simple
outdoor work with my instruc-
tions, pictures, price-list. Send
10 cents (not stamps) for my
illustrated prospectus before
sending butterflies."

Can you tell me of any firm that
buys butterfly cocoons. We have
hm large ones, and some say you
can sell them and they are worth
from two to five dollars, but I have
never saw anything about butterflies
only this ad. I am enclosing. Can
you tell me if they are reliable or
only a fraud. You notice they want
10 cents and it seems to be butter-
flies not cocoons they “She—wF. S.

E are sorry to advise you that
we do not know of any firm
that buys butterflies, or co-
coons. Perhaps there are such
firms, but we have been unable to
secure the addresses of them.
Along with the butterfly business,
one might add the side line of
catching will-o-the-wisps, fairies and
goblins, which should surely lead
once in awhile to the pot-at-the—end-
of—the—rainbowl

THE ROUGH FUR CORP. AGAIN

I understand thru your paper—-
Publisher's Desk—you will inter-
cede in cases of outside swindling.
Such is my case. I will state the
facts as condensed as possible and
then if you are able to help me I
will be very grateful to you.

I received a fur list from two fur
houses, Abraham Fur Co. and the
J. R. Bough Fur Corp., of Miredan,
I had several dollars worth
of furs that I trapped in November,,
and as the J. R. Hough Fur Corp.
quoted prices a little higher than

' the Abraham, I decided to ship to

them. I shipped by express the
first of December to the J. R. Bough
Com; shipment consisted of 33
muskrats—eleven of these were ex-
tra large, 22 medium—4 skunks, 1
cat,v1 white weasel. Express cost
me $1 and I insured same for $70.
On their lists they said they would
pay all express charges and checks
were sent our the day furs were re-
ceived—also agreed to hold all furs
separate if so specified (which I
did) until customer received check
and accepted same; if not satisfied
they would return furs. I waited
two weeks and got no word of my
furs. Asked agent to look them up.
I wrote them and immediately ro-
ooivod a check for $10. 76, saying
any furs were damaged. I returned
the check by return mail and asked
my furs. They sent the check

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furs were all spoiled and they had
to dispose of them immediately to
avoid complete loss. I sent the
check back again, as I knew they
Were lieing and demanded my furs.
Again received the check back and
a duplicate (the exact words) of the
letter before. I know my furs were
in A—No.-1 shape, thoroughly cured
and could not spoil in six months.

I was offered $38.75 by a
buyer at the door here just a few
days before I shipped. The Grand
Rapids market would have brought
me about $66.00. Hough's‘ list
would bring me close to $70. They
sent me $10.45, did not even allow
me my express or will not write a
word regarding same. I am sure
they have my furs. Can you help
me to recover my furs or get full
value for them. I did not have a
damaged fur, have all my furs
marked so I can tell if I get my own
furs. My neighbor shipped to the
Abraham Fur Co., and he got prices
as listed, $1.90 a piece for medium
rats and Hough’s allowed me 25c
for my mediums and 35c for my
large. There were no prices quoted
on their lists. This was too low
even for even damaged unprime
furs. They gave So for weasel and
25c apiece for my skunks.

Think I have given you all the
facts but if there is anything more
you wish to know will be glad to
write.

I have taken the M. B. F. for just
one year. We all enjoy it, could
not get along without it now. —-W.
0., Kent City, Mich.

IS is not the first complaint by

any means that we have had

against this company and we
can do nothing as they are very
careful not to get themselves caught
in any way. Be sure that you are
dealing with an honest company be-
fore shipping such a valuable quan-
tity of furs again. There are many
reliable ones.

SORRY, BUT TOO LATE!

“I read in THE annvnss Fm
not long a go about a lady who
wrote you for advice about the
Underwood Art Goods Company,
Portsmouth, Ohio. You stated you
would be pleased to hear from any
of your readers who had had exper-
ience with the above company. Your
paper cam just a. few days too late
for my daughter had just sent in a
dollar to this company and when
she came home she read the article
in THE Busmnss Fumes. But she
has not done any work for them yet
as she read the article just in time.
They wanted her to do $2 worth of
work and send it in, and of course
she would never have heard from
them again.”—Mrs. R. K.

THE MARY JANE APRON

LTHO early in March we asked

the Mary Jane Apron Company

of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, to
send us the names of several satis-
fied workers who were making the
big money by sewing aprons at
home, they evaded our request and
sent instead only the printed mat-
ter with which they bait the book.
Our readers can draw their own
conclusions, as we have already
drawn ours.

“NESTLE HOME OUTFIT”

Dear Publisher: Altho I am not
a farmer’s wife, I am a farmer's
daughter, and so enjoy your paper
very much.

I wonder if any of your readers
have had experience with the
“Nestle Home Outfit” for pennant
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ANOTHER SETI‘LED
Just a line to let you know that
we received the amount, $12. 98. I
received the money right away when
you get after them. Thank you
Mail-ll much—Mrs. T. M., Midland,
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goods increase, they are increased
that eat them; and what good is
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A SERMON BY REV.

TEXT: “His power to us-ward
*‘* which he wrought in
Christ, when he raised him
from the“ dead, and made him
to sit at his right hand in the
heavenly places." —- Ephesians
1:19, 20.

‘ HAT hath God wrought!"
This, we are told, is the first
message to be send by wire.
And the whole world listened. Why?
The discovery of a new and wonder-
ful power was being announced.
And then other men aside from
Franklin and Morse caught widened
visions, and the power of electricity
has been entering, day by day into
the realm of human life and exper-
ience in ever increasing measure.

But God is the great broadcaster.
And eighteen centuries before men
had any organized knowledge of
electricity, he announced to the
world that a stran #9 and mystical
power had been wrought. But few
men heard. Yet heaven’s radio sta-
tion is still working. Have you
heard the message? How is your
adjustment? Have you tried to tune
in? But you must have the right
wave length to get communicative
results.

Well, the message of our text
says, this power was wrought in
Christ when God raised him from
the dead. The resurrected Christ
had made men to know that a new
life had come into their midst, the
power of which they did not under—
stand. But do we yet understand?
Ah, that does not matter. Do men
understand electricity? But what
does it matter? We know it, and,
feel it, and are using it to give us
power and blessing. And tho a
strange mystery and one that passes
human understanding, we hail the
resurrection of Jesus .as a triumph
for God and the demonstration of a
new hope for man.

What strange mystery! 0, yes, his
disciples had seen their Master still
the tempest with a word, had seen
him feed the multitude with a hand-
ful of bread, ani speak life into
mortal flesh again; but then, this
new resurrection power, this they
had not dreamed of. Yes, he said
he would rise again; but then, the
scene of Calvary, such cruel suffer-
ings, such ignominy, such a decided
triumph for his enemies. Now, said
Peter, “I go a—fishing." But soon we
find this same disciple eclipsing all
others in an awestricken zeal for his
Christ. Forsooth, “He is risen."
And Calvary only makes his reap-
pearance more profound, deepens
the disciples’ impressions of Christ,
and stimulates them to hither-to un—
known boldness.

“Who art thou, Lord?” “I am
Jesus whom thou persecutest." That
was enuf. Paul has his face on the
ground. We hear him lamenting,
Why did I do it? Why have I gone
on in this mad persecution of the
Christians? Have I not seen their
boundless hope and their undaunted
courage? Surely, this Jesus of Naz-
ereth is the risen Messiah. Why did
I do it? Lo, he cries out of a dis—
turbed conscience and is given a
glorious vision of his Risen Lord.
whom he accepts, and whom he, in
turn, dies for.

Our text has St. Paul testifying of
this power God wrought in raising
Christ, and has him praying that we
may know of the hope that it brings
to us. The apostle taught the su-
premacy of love and the out work-
ings of this grace so that social just-
ice might prevail. But every Christ-
ian knows, too, his other words,
“Delivered up for our transgres-
sions~and raised for our justifica-
tion." The materialist has an un—
hallowed disregard for this teaching
but St. Paul makes it the corner-
stone of Christianity. Belief in the
resurrection power makes that pow-
er inhere in us and expresses itself
in a new life of love and works. We
are spiritual idealists and believe
and know that this power is Christ’s
spirit and influence passing over into
the life of man But faith says, too,
that it 4s the pledge of a ceasless

heaven in the world to come.

But, are we to be but‘ spiritual

emanations or. disembodied spirits
sitting on ethereal ‘clouds and sing-

lug celestial. haileluiahs? “Dust
then are, and to dust thou shalt re-

TWRREm-ON

DAVID F. WARNER

turn.” What stark reality! And.
what apparent hopelessness! And
so the disciples wére unpreparedfor
the bodily reappearances of Jesus
and “were slow of heart to believe."
But did he not walk with them by
the way, eat with them by the Gali-
lean sea, and say, “Handle me and
see?” Ah, “My Lord and my God,"
says Thomas. We see the disciples
associating with Christ’s real body,
gut raised in incorruption and glori-
ed.

We ascended the Transfiguration
Mount to behold our Savior in full
and glorified blaze. But why was
he not then translated even as
Moses and Elijah? Why must we
follow him from that far celestial
height down to the Cross and to the
grave? Listen! “They (Moses and
Elijah) spake of his decease which
he should accomplish at Jerusalem."
Not that he must die~for his sins,
but that he will die for our sins.
Here is the mystery of the Cross.
But having finished the work that
mortal flesh could do, death and the
tomb could not hold the body in
which was the power of an endless
life. Our Lord came forth with his
identity unchanged, his voice and
his movements the same, but in, the
body of his ascension; the body that
is today and forevermore, So here
is where the apostle gets his ,con-
ception of a spiritual body, “a house
not made with hands," with which
all believers will be clothed. We
are laid away as wasted and corrupt
bodies, but Christ shall fashion
anew the body of our humiliation
that it may be conformed to the
body of his glory.

“And made him to sit at his right
hand in the heavenly places." This
is the ultimate of the resurrection
power. The forty days was but a
halt in the way that our Lord might
show himself alive by many inial-
lible proofs. And how this re-show—
ing did knit the disciples together
in faith and heart and thus prepared
them to hear his life and Gospel to
the world! After this, said he, ”I
ascend unto my Father and your
Father.” And now, after sixty gen-
erations, we stand looking into the
tomb of Christ and say, “He is ris-
en.” We look wistfully to the be-
yond and say, “He is there.” There
is infinite satisfaction when we shall
have come into the majesty and
power, the sweetness and comfort of
an endless life with our Risen Sav-
ior.

Here, we remember, that friends
and kinsfolk of both our Lord and
the heralds of the Cross, reckoned
them to be beside themselves be—
cause of the peculiarity of their life
and teaching. What are they saying
about you? Well, said St. Paul,
“We are fools for Christ’s sake."

_And, friends, when we believe that

the spirit of the world to come is
our very life blood, why need we
care about being called fools. “Fool-
ishness with men,” says the convert-
ed Saul, “is the wisdom of God.”
Let us have more of this kind of
folly.

A minister went home for the
night with a rich farmer, husband
of one of his members. This man
had a good name and was counted
one of the best members in the
church. As they entered the house
thru a rear shed, the minister notic-
ed several bushels of corn hanging
t0 the rafters. He remarked to the
farmer about this corn. “Yes,” said
the farmer, “that is the finest seed
corn I ever raised.”

“If I were you I would just keep
it there. You will never raise such
corn again.”

“You must think I am a fool,”
said the old farmer. “I must plant
that corn in the ground or I will
have no crop." .

“The corn is like yourself," said
the minister. “I never knew a" man
who had so many virtues hanging in
his head as you. If only something
would rattle down that seed corn
out of your head into your heart,
you would be a wonderfulman."

A few weeks later the minister
was sent' for hurriedly. As he ent-
ered the house, the old farmer
shouted, “Glory to God, the seed
cern has rattled down.” -

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while ago, and he crowded me over
against the stall. I struck him with
the curry comb and yelled, ‘get
over.’ Then he let drive, and do you
see that scratch on my face? That
is where his sharp-shod foot grazed
me. Then I '-was horrified at being
so near death, and I fell to my knees
to thank God for my deliverance,
and in all the fracas, the seed corn
was rattled down, and now' I want
my life planted for God."

It pays to be a fool for Christ’s
sake when death is sure to come and
the power of an endless life is at
stake.

FERTILIZING POTATOES IN A
DRY SEASON

is comparatively easy to produce

big yields of potatoes in a favor-

able season, but in such a season
everybody gets good yields, and the
big crop means low prices. The
trick, of course, is to produce a large
crop in unfavorable seasons when
small crops are the rule. Heavy ap-
plications of fertilizer give profit-
able increases in most seasons, but
occasionally an extended drought in
July and August nullifles whatever
beneficial effect the fertilizer might
have had, and the farmer feels he
has wasted his money, although the
chances are that he will cash in on
the added fertility. in succeeding
crops. The problem of the fertiliz-
er user is how to get a profitable re-
turn in an unfavorable season.

Mr. Daniel Dean, a progressive po-
tato grower of Nichols, New York,
has a method of fertilizer applica-
tion that apparently successfully
combats the summer droughts that
are rather frequent in his section.
_An evidence of his success is that
there has been only one year since
1911 when his yield has been less
than 230 bushels per acre. Mr.
'Dean’s soil and climatic conditions
are similar to those in many potato
producing sections in Michigan. His
methods, therefore, are at least
worthy of consideration and per—
haps a tryout under Michigan con-
ditions.

Mr. Dean’s theory is that the
deeper you can induce the potato
roots to go, the more moisture they
will be able to obtain, and the bet-
ter they will stand hot, dry weather
in July and August. His method
therefore, is first of all to have
plenty of organic matter in the soil
to hold moisture, and secondly, to
apply the fertilizer in such a way
as to encourage deep root develop-
ment in the soil. He ploughs und-
er a clover sod in the fall. Often in.
addition to the clover sod he
ploughs under a top dressing of
straw. In the spring he broadcasts
2,000 pounds of fertilizer to the
acre, (eastern growers use larger
amounts of fertilizers than do Mich-
igan growers), and discs it into the
soil. The fertilizer is usually main-
ly phosphate and potash. Then he
immediately plows deeply and pre-
pares the seedbed. The fertilizer is
now well below the surface, induc-
ing a greater root development in
this lower layer than in the top lay-
er which drys out in dry weather.
The result is that the roots have a
more widely developed feeding area
from which they can obtain water
and plant food even in times of
drought.

Fertilizer, of course, is not to be
wholly credited with Mr. Dean’s suc-
cess. You can’t make U. S. No. 1
potatoes with only a grading ma-
chine or the use of fertilizer alone.
As I have already pointed out, Mr.
Dean takes care to maintain the or-
ganic matter supply in the soil. His
rotation is potatoes, oats, and clover
hay. With the plowing under of a
clover sod once in three years, and
top dressing with straw, he believes
he can take care of the. nitrogen
problem without purchasing this ex-
pensive element. Farmers who are
unable to grow clover would not be
so fortunate.

Mr. Dean plants in drills 12 to
18 inches apart, which he believes
is a factor in eliminating hollow
heart. He uses certified seed, disin-
tects seed with corrosive sublim—
ate, and sprays with a High pressure
sprayer for fungous diseases as well
as for insects. .He believes in shal—
low cultivation and stirring of the
soil after each rain to conserve
moisture. He knows that high yields
mean low costs per bushel and
shapes his cultural methods to this
Ruth—Overt Jensen.

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EAR girls and boys: Are you
going to be just like your moth-
ers and fathers when you grow

up; are you boys going to farm just
like your fathers do, and are you
going to try to do better? I do not
mean that your father is not a good
farmer or that your mother is not a
good housekeeper—not by any
means—but I hope that you will
learn how to do the work in a still
better ,way. For example, maybe
your father could not attend the ag-
ricultural college when he was
young and, as a result, he learned
what he could from his father and

, from the neighbors. Now you can

go to the M. A. C. and learn many

things about the business of farm- ’

ing that your father never knew,
and thus you will have the informa-
tion to help you become a better
farmer than your father. The same
may be true in the house. Mother
may have never attended college or
had the good books about the work
she has to do-‘ No doubt mother is
a better housekeeper, does things in
a more modern way, than grand-
mother did but you have wonderful
opportunities to do still better. And
you all owe it to the world to do
your best, no matter what your job
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est and upright and put your best
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SPRING

Willow banks a shining, :
Gladenlng the year. W»

Pussy willow oatkin, ‘ ‘
Tells us spring is here.

Bluebird songs a chiming.
Happiness and cheer,

Hear the rippling music,
Telling spring is here.

Marshland frogs a. creaking,
Everywhere, you hear.
We should all be happy,
In the spring time of the year.
——By Norman 0. Sibley, (Age 13),
Hale, R. 2, Michigan.

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Ned:v.—Well here I am
again, this is the second time I have
written to the M. F. B. As I was look-
ing over the March 15th issue, I noticed
in The Children’s Hour section that your
readers could write a. story, so I am en-
closing a. story which I have just finished
writing. If you think it fit to publish,
you may do so, that is if Mr. Waste
Basket don’t get it. I read many books
and find them very interesting, so I am
trying to begin story writing. Do you
think I will make a very ‘good story
writer, Uncle Ned? This is a. short story
that I am enclosing.’ It is «:alled
“Mother’s Day on a New England Farm."
I guess this is all for this time. Wish-
ing you good luck, I am. your niece.—
Marle Wagner, Memphis, Michigan.
“Mother’e Day on Is New England For-n"

Once there lived a little girl whose
name was Mary, her mother was very
poor. At the beginning of this story
Marywnsnineyearsofaga. Mary’s
father died when she was two years old.
The farm on which Mary and her mother
livedwasonlya-nallfammdher
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ones than hers. but to Mary’s surprise
theflorlsthonghtallofherfiowen,nnd
gave her money also for picking- them.
When Mary arrived home. her mom
was looking for her. so she gave her
mother the pay which was ten dollars.
which seemed very much to her mother.
This made Mary‘s mother have a happy
Mother‘s Day all from little Mary.

Dear Uncle Ned:-—Here I am six
months in bed, and not able to get up
yet. IhopeIamthem'stonetoeuter
that “scramble", and I wish you would
mail my letter to some girl that I would
be able to correspond with. I have writ-
ten severed letters to girls, but I hm
received no answers yet, but I wish all
the cousins who see this letter would
write to me, and I sxirely -will answer
every letter, regardless whether it is one
or one hundred, so come on cousins, let
me hear trom you. I am a farmer's
girl, 13 years old. Have brown- bobbed
lair.haseleyes,am5fishort,andwul¢h
90 pounds. I have two brothers, and
onasister. Myslsterandonebrother
gotohighschool. Aayouwlllseeby
this letter, I live in the wbndertul bk
(1’) town of Emmett, and all of its in-
habitants think it the best town on the
map. Ihavesommhofthefrlshthat
I feel like an Irishman melt. Well,
UncleIhopotoaeethislettt-nmprlnt.
and that some of the cousins will write
to me. Your niece—Beryl McKenzie,
Ermnett, R. 2, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—Well, hero I on
again! I suppose you think I have the
nerve of a. ‘Government Mule", as 'my
last letter was only printed a. few m
ago. Wellahout two days alter the M.
B. F. came, the leuershegan to pom-1n.
and are still earning. I have received
clatteen so tar. I am answering than
as hast as possible, but on! .what a. his.

‘But then I sort enjoy it. Our mailman

b a'jolly, middle—aged man, and when
the letters were coming in such a shower,
he said “What's up, smueone proposing
to you?" But Uncle Ned knows it isn‘t
proposals, don’t you Uncle? Well I wu-
der how the weather suits the W
Pretty cold here tonight, but we have
been having nice weather considering it
is February. Oh Uncle, since I wrote
last, I have a little new nephew. Born
on January 8rd. His name is Robert
Lee. but they call him Bobby. I ah
have 2 nice little nieces; Betty and m
I have lots of fun sliding down hill, .36
though I run getting rather large n:
that kind of sport, don't you think I)
Uncle? But I sure enjoy it. and you
know "We’re young only once.” I not»
icedj. letterintholaattssnefromnary
Zietz. Igote.letterfmraher,andfie
isatwinofmlne. Ialsogotalethr
fromaglrl 16yearsold,whoha.snlde
a. complete radio. Now boys, what ha.“
you to say to that? You see there are
some girls who are as clever as boys.
Well Uncle, I guess its time for me to
stop my chatter, and go to bed. m
love to all—Ruby E. Fletcher, Pcllston.
R. 1, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I was just readhu
the Children's Hour. and thought I wand
trymyhnckaxltaslhavebeenmbod
for three days with the measles. Do
youlikamaplesugar? Myfatherhnse
woodmanditlsjusthackofourhrm.
Hehaarentedtttorthreeyearslow.
and he has got it for another year. He
says he would not mix! making his gym
for anything. Last year my mother can-
nod over one hundred quarta The woods
belong to Mr. Allen, of Alma, Mich.
youco‘zldbeheretoenJoyitwlth
Iamnotdasoriblngmyseltasldo
think it nmsary if you do not see
What is your chief record than; you
I think “Swinging Down the Ian.”
very pretty. My sirser has a Sonora,
lots of records. Most every night
bringshomsanewcno. Iwill
with some riddles: What binds two
gather yet touches only one? Win:
the bigger? Mr. Bigger. or Mr.
baby? 'Ihe baby is a little Big“.
wish the nephews and nieces would urn:
to me. Your want-to-be niecer—‘Ab
Stone, Ithaca. R. 4, Michigan.

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.-OLK8’E8 do You like seekers?
‘ D! that I mean, tellers 'st sob,
. whine, complain 'bo‘nt their
work, ’bout’ their job, friends, 311’
almost everythin' else. on I’ve seen
’em, lots of ’em. Fellers '11 run a
month to git a job, beg for it, pray
for it, demand it, an’ everythin’ else,
to git it, an' then, after they land it,
they begin to sob 'cause it ain’t a
sleepin’ job, or a job that has no
work ’tached to it. As a teller sed,
“more work and less ot it" an’ to
most of our young tellers. the less,
the better. Of course I knowl was
young once, ah, so many years ago
it woo—young as anybody then an’
I guess I knew more‘n most any
young teller in our community——
Well I didn’t know how little I know,
little as I won, ’bout 36 years old——

after that I knew less an' learned.

more’n I ever 'spected to know. But
good friends, no matter how much or
how little I know, I’ve never been a
sobber—the sun always shines for
me. I don’t always see it,-——a cloud
may come between the sun and nae—-
but I know it’s there, shining bright,
an’ the cloud is just like a woman’s
veil hiding the beauty that lies be—
hind.

Why sob ’bout our job? We don’t
have to work! You an’ I can starve
as well as anybody. My dear young
tellers, the boys, like the boys that
come to work with me, or boys 'at
work on the farm—in fact, boys 'at
work anywhere, in any place, under
any conditions,—don’t ever sob 'bout
your job. If you don’t like it, quit
it, let someone come in that might
like it. Don’t slight your work.
Even on the farm its possible to
slight your job; you know what I
mean, don’t you boys? Weeding
onions, parsnips, anything ’at re-
quires skill, yes’n eatin’ of the things
you raise! It sure requires a strong
will to keep from eatin’ too much,
an’ yet boys sob ’bout farm life—
its too hard, too many hours, too
many cows to milk, hogs to feed——
Gee Whitaker! Sob? I’ll say they
sob. If they realized that age would
sometime git ’em, I jest kinda think
mebbe they’d be less sobbin’.

Dear young tellers, I am thinkin’
there’s quite a -lot of you takin’ it
here an’ there—jest take the advice
of a old feller ’ats yet to pass his
next birthday, an’ don’t ever sob,
don’t be a Whiner, don’t be anything
'ceptin' what the Lord intended you
to be, an’ with these few remarks.
guess I’ll close for now. Now you’ve
got it same as I, an’ its enough. an’
most too much. Cordially yours.—
UNCLE RUBE.

WHAT FUNDS ARE SPENT MUST
‘ FIRST BE RAISED
(Continued from Page 3.)

1916, 1917 and 1918 could main-

tain themselves and their institution »

under eflicient management through
the prison industries, 300 prisoners
in their places now could also do
the same thing. It would simply
mean an enlargement of the indus-
tries, and facilities and labor for
larger industrial activities means
better advantages in such business,
according to the logic of the indus-

’ try.”
What Can We Do?

With taxes unbearably high and
public .debt increasing at an alarm-
ing rate it is high time that we
studied these facts. The light of
relentless publicity and the purity—
ing effects of informed rpublic opin-
ion upon them cannot help but have
a beneficial effect. Let us stand for
economy and also for a just and
carefully devised system of distrib-
uting the burden of the necessary
taxes which will remain even after
the utmost economy has been ap—
plied.

Mr. Brake, we thank you for the

excuse given by your inquiry for us ,

to discuss in this detail some of the
~ present financial problems of the
state. But problems of local taxa-
tion are even great-er, and we plan
to take them up in our next article.

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EASTER WEEK
E the land, her Easter keeping,’
Rises as her Maker r'ose.
. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,
Burst at last from winter snows. ‘
Earth with heaven above rejoices,
Fields and gardens' hail the spring.
Sloughs and woodlands ring with voices,
While the wild birds build and sing.

You to whom your Maker granted
vPowers to those sweet birds unknown,
Use the craft by God implanted;
Use the reason not your own.
Here, while heaven and earth rejoices,
his Easter tribute bring——
Work of fingers, chant of voices,
Like the birds, who build and sing.
—Chas. Kingsley.

DAY DAWN—A QUIET TALK ON
EASTER

UT of the east comes, new light

after the darknes of night——

and we call it morning. Out of
the Easter morning comes a wog-
derous new light—the light of lie
—-after ‘the darkness of sin’s night
——and it has been the first gleam of
a morning, the morning of a new
day, for all men.

Contrasts make things stand out.
Black touching white seems blacker,
and the white looks whiter. Sorrow
makes joy seem gladder. Joy makes
sorrow seem sadder. The deeper
the sorry, the greater is the uplift of
joy following after the first doze is
over.

WORTH-WHILE TIHNGS '

LL adults who lived the year
around on farms, in their youth,
but who are at the present time

incarcerated in cities, find that much
of the conversation of their present
contemporaries relating to the stage,
popular plays, actors and actresses
of a decade or two age, has few as-
sociations for them. Sometimes they
feel keenly the fact that they were
deprived of the glamour and fasci-
nation of the theatre. "

There were, however, two substi—
tutes for the magical amusement
they missed. One of the most worth
while things of life is the family
reading circle. On many a winter
evening the writer remembers listen-
ing to the father of the family read
aloud to the mother who was busily
sewing or knitting, and to the child-
ren who sat enthralled in the simple
farm living room, while Howard
Pyle’s stories of Robin Hood or Mary
Mapes Dodge’s Donald and Dorothy
kindled imaginations and made the
coming of bed time a dreaded event.

The library was a meagre one. but
Christmas and birthdays added to
its size and the books were so per-
sistently and devotedly read that
they were “reduced and worn to the
very threads and glues of their bind-

ing"; the best of it was that the
whole family read and loved the
same book.

Then there was the ride in the

straw-lfilled sleigh, generously sup-
plied with old blankets, to the school
entertainment in which the older
children took part, and the babies
who were just learning to walk,
ambled around at their own sweet
will. The pantomine of Maud Muller
read aloud, thrilled the audience.
How lustily the children applauded
the silent performers! '

But it was a family reading
cirlcle! A family sleigh ride! And
the memory of these events is so v1v—
id that the writer believes this little
noted or greatly valued service rend-
ered by farm homes in making it
possible for the family to enjoy rec-
reation in common, should be mang-
nified until its practice become more
nearly universal.

DIAKING DISHWASHING EASY

S dishwashing really such a disa-
I greeable task? 01‘ do we think
it is so because we work with
poor equipment and according to
methods that are not really satis-
factory?

Before we discuss equipment, let
us say a few words about some of
the general factors that enter into
the dishwashing problem.

Putting pots and pans to soak as
soon as they are emptied makes it
easier to wash them later on. Also,
the scraping and correct stacking of
dishes means a much neater job all
the way through, aswell as a real
saving of time and labor. Too often
does a woman pick up a random cup
”from a 'helterskelter conglomeration
ofdishes, wash that, then reach for
a saucer, then perhaps a plate, and
so through the list, until eventually
all m'mhed. “Meanwhile she has

 

this a. happy and glorious
season for our families by
doing intelligently those
things that will help make
our home a place where life
will be worth living. '

Address letters:

 

 

Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

EAR FOLKS—Easter! Spring! .And all things beautiful seems

to be the message that the word Easter usually brings to us. A
wonderful old world, after all. Our good Lord has so manged

this earth that we may enjoy four beautiful seasons—each one holding
a certain charm. Easter and Spring spells new life and new visions
for a wonderful prosperous summer and fall. Let us all try and make

' m ..

Mrs. Annie Taylor, can The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mlchlgenr

 

 

 

 

had to reach for and pick up so
many dishes that she has changed
her motion a number of times, with
the consequent loss of energy and
time. Had she stacked her dishes
neatly and conveniently near to her
dish—pan, she would have greatly ex-
pedited her work. .

The right-handed worker will fin
it easftr, as a rule, to have her piles
of scraped dishes at the right of the
dish-pan and her drainer at the left.

While water may not truly be call-'
ed a part of the equipment, its im-
portance in this connection is easily
recognized. No one can exepect to
have clean dishes if she attempts
dishwashing in the proverbial tea-
spoon of water. Hot water, and
plenty of it, is needed.

If the water is hard, some kind of
water—softener is necessary. Borax
is one of the milder softeners and is
less injurious to the worker’s hands
than are some others. In the case
of very hard water, resort is usually
made to some such softener as wash-
ing—soda. No more should be used
than is needed to “break" the water
so that the soap lathers freely.

CAREFUL THOUGHT NEEDED 1N
CURTAININ G WINDOWS

OTHING impresses a visitor, be
it man or women,’ more on ap-
proaching a house than the ap-

pearance presented by its windows.
There is nothing else in the furn-
ishing of a house which is so appar-
ent on the exterior as the treatment
the windows have received, therefore
is behooves us to give them careful
thought
Great expense is not necessary in
curtaining windows. Charming ef-
fects may be obtained with cheese
cloth, with flour sack material join-
ed in decorative ways, or with the
lower cost drapery materials. Scrim,
marquisette, net and muslin are
some of the drapery materials which
may be had in inexpensive qualities.
To some people certain grades of
scrim look not unlike a good quality
of cheese cloth. The test of a really
good scrim, however, is the slightly
hard or scratchy feel of the material
as it is rubbed between the fingers,
due to the thread or “yarn" of which
the material is woven being tightly
twisted. The cheaper grades of
scrim do not respond to this test.
Many of these inexpensive curtain
materials some with a wide selvedge
to be used as a finish instead of a
hem. There is no objection to this
if great care is taken in laundering,
but if ironed carelessly the body of
the curtain is apt to stretch, leaving
the selvedge tight, thus preventing
the curtain from hanging well. It is
therefore a good plan to purchase
the material with a selvedge or ord-
inary width, trimming off one sel-
vedge on each curtain and making
even hems along these edges. The
hems should be placed towards the
center of the window. There is no
objection to the selvedge being left
on the sides of the curtain next to
the window frame—Blanche E.
Hyde, Clothing Specialist, Colorado
Agricultural College.

 

FOR THOSE UNEXPE CTED
GUESTS

CLEVER woman with a large
rambling farmhouse in ‘ the
country, discovered a conven-
ient way of caring for her guests. It
was not unusual to have five or six
extra, many of them arriving unex-
pectedly and being persuaded to
stay. There were always plenty of
beds, couches and swings which

could be pressed into service, but
there was only one bath.

So a large shelf was fitted into
the bathroom, and on this were six-
small baskets—little round market
or fruit baskets were used—and
around the rim of each was painted
a band of a different color. In each
basket was placed a tiny cake of
soap, a small tooth—brush with a
little glass, a tiny tube of tooth-
paste, and a wash-cloth with a bord-
er corresponding to the color of the
basket. On a hook under the shelf
—one for each basket—hung a towl,

’ similarly colored, sewed to one side

of which was a tape by which to
hang it.

,These were always ready, and
there was never any confusing of
toilet articles, for each guest was
given a basket in which to keep his
things, and kept it as long as he re-
mained. -

Since the house was built before
days of electricity and had still the
old—fashioned coal-oil lamps,
emergency method of lighting the
guests to bed also seemed necessary,
as the living-room lamps were too
large to carry about conveniently.
So six old-fashioned sconces, each
holding a hand-dipped candle to
match the color of the basket, were
arrayed conveniently on the shelf so
that each guest could find his light
at hand. Several small lamps were
of course provided for those who
chose an hour of reading before re—
tiring for the night.

DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU—-

HAT an umbrella-stand with a
T pannel door opening outward
may replace the newal—post at

the front of the staircase?

That the wood-box for an open
fire-place may be replenished by us-
ing a premitive elevator or hoisting
tackle secured beneath the floor,
through which has been cut a trap
so that the wood—box may be pulled
into place from below?

That a settee can be made from a
bedstead by using the headboard as
the back and cutting down the side-
pieces to sixteen inches in length and
attaching the foot posts to them?
The space between the frame may
be laced with closeline in lieu of a
spring upon which a cushion is plac—
ed.
To utilize a small cider—keg as a
base for a lamp? The frame of the
shade may be made of split bamboo
or wire and covered with oiled silk
or a printed fabric shellacked and
varnished.

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

Easter Suggestions—«Will you please
accept this little Easter idea and pass it
along as fast and as far as ever you feel
it worthy. I have just as late as last
Easter used for my children the idea of
an eatalble nest for the table on Easter
noon day meal. Take the long fine
strands of macaroni and while dry, have
water in a large kettle or boiler, boiling
hard, in which has been dissolved a good
plenty of butter coloring, or yellow color,
known as vegetable non poisonous color-
ing. Let macaroni boll real hard for 5
minutes, then add salt, and any goocl
seasoning, and when this is put in do
not stir any but let all continue to boil
for 15 minutes more, then form into a.
nest on oval or meat platter. Then have
salad made from~ ground hard boiled
eggs, and salad dressing, and stuff colored
egg shells, and fill..,in nest with me.
This resembles real straw and is a de-
light to every one viewing the table. It
maybe found best to build a portion of
neetsatatime. Imeengoellthew‘ay
around. but build, upwards a little by
little, as each "cools, then a rough out-

‘ueo new». man to elite , 7
.makeglilse a real stravrn'est.” This is,

some >

an and

my own“ idea and": have tried it out with

my own ability, "and find‘lt a. best 11

way. . , _ -
Also there was a demand for a name

for an' Easter program or performance ,'

of school children, and I gave the name
“Come to Our Easter Glow," and we had
everything bright, and glowing, even to
tinsel and gilt in the costumes. Let me
say the title was just what they wanted.
Please thank the legal department of M.
B. F. for what they are doing for me.—
Louis Lindley.

Too Much Smoke.—If Mrs. J. A. T. of
Allegan, Michigan will place slices of the
bacon in cold water for a. while before
frying, I think she will find that some
of the smoke has been removed. If the
bacon is freshened too much, it can be
resalted when put to cook. When we buy
bacon at the store it is usually too salty
for us, and I treat it as above, to remove
excess salt, and find that the smoke is
also removed. Hoping this reaches Mn.
T. in time to be of help to her, I am,—
Mrs. R. F., Elsie, Michigan.

Making Horse Radish—Having found
so many good things in The Farm Home
Department of our paper, I wondered if
I might ask if anyone of our department

know how to fix horse radish so that it '

could be kept for winter use.
tried and '.failed. Mine turns
colored—Subscriber’s Wife.

I have
dark

 

Has Any Reader This Sonx?——I would
like to know if any reader of M. B. F.
has the words of the song “There’s Al-
ways Room at the Top.” I don't know
if that is the right title of the song or
not. We sang it in our school years ago.
and it comes to my memory quite often.
but I don’t remember all the words, and
I would like the music with it, if it were
possible. I would pay for it.——\A Reader.

 

“The Face Upon the ‘Bar Room Floor"
—Will someone send in this poem for one
of our readers. I have looked in our local
library and cannot find it.-—Annie Taylor.

 

“Borax and Flour Cleaner"—In a. shal-
low two quart vessel put one pint of
water and one-half ounce powdered borax.
Bring the water to a. boil quickly, then
while boiling, stir in one pound of flour,
the vessel still on the stove. When the
paste is done, pour onto a clean board
and knead the mass for some minutes,
as you would bread. When it is ready
for use, try it and lfit crumbles too much,
it is either lacking in water, or has too
much borax. If it is sticky there is too
much water in it or not enough flour.
Take a piece the size of your two fists
and rub on the shade with sufficient pres-
sure to cause the cleanser to crumble

away a. little rubbing with: even strokes ‘

downward. Work it in your hands so
there will be a fresh part always scrap—
ing off the dirt. Be sure and dust gently
the worst of the dust off the shades be—
fore beginning. Cleaning with old stale
bread is another very old method—R. G.

 

Rupture Cure—2 ounces Iodine, and 1
ounce of Camrphor, mixed. Rub twice a
day on rupture. If it\blisters, omit one
day. Use 3 weeks, then once a day until
cured A truss may be worn during this
time. When cured, leave truss off oc—
casionally. In case of a bad cough or
cold should it return, apply the remedy.
This remedy has cured some very bad
cases—A Subscriber.

 

 

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Street Courtesies.——The place next ‘to
the curb for the man walking with a

lady on the street is the traditional rule

still generally observed. In cities nowa-
days, it is usually not insisted upon.
The inner was the “protected side", and
modern urban conditions have done away,
more or less, with the need for special
protection. The rule of precedence when
a man and woman are together in public
is simple. The man precedes the woman
wherever inconvenience, difficulty or dan-
ger may be supposed to exist: in passing
along a thorny or marshy path or a
broken stretch of road in the country, in
forcing a way thru a crowd; A man
allows a woman to precede him when
entering a doorway, an elevator or a con-
veyance. He precedes her to aid her
when they leave any vehicle.

 

Menu for April 12

 

 

Pea Soup Rice
Mock Goose, Apple Sauce
Stewed Celery
Pineapple Salad
Rhubarb Pie
Coffee

Mock Goose—Two cup bread crumbs,
two cups dropped black walnuts, two cups
boiled rice, six hard boiled eggs, three
raw eggs, one tablespoon grated onion,
salt, pepper and grated nutmeg to taste.
Put broad crumbs in saucepan with two
cups water; cook for a. few minutes ; add
hard cooked eggs. chopped; take sauce-
from fire and add black walnut
meats and rice. When this is well mixed,
add raw eggs slightly beaten, and season-
ings. Mold as near like a goose, making

the legs and wings of material _
over apiece ofjdry macaroni autism
in sides where they belong. Brush W

with melted fat and bake in, m one
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‘teaspoon vanilla, one cup raisins.

Broad Pudding—Two cups’ of bread
crumbs, one quart scalded milk, one-
fourth cup sugar, three tablespoons but-
ter, tum‘eggs, one:half teaspoon salt, one
Soak
bread in the milk, cool. Add sugar, but—
ter, beaten egg yolks, salt, vanilla, and
raisins. Bake 40 minutes, COVer with a
meringue made of two stifly beaten egg
whites, and two tablespoons sugar.
Brown—Mrs. F. S.

 

Lemon Cookies.—One ounce carbonate
of ammonia, one and one-half drams of
lemon oil, one pint of sweet milk, one
cup of lard, three cups of granulated
sugar, three eggs beaten separatelY-
Soak ammonia over night in the sweet
milk, and mix the flour and lard like
pie douigh, then add other ingredients.
Buy the ammonia and lemon oil the day
before you‘plan to bake-cookies, as it
should be fresh.

 

Graham Gems.—One egg, one-half cup
of sugar, one heaping teaspoon melted
butter, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon
soda, add enough graham flour to thicken,
and drop into gem tins—G. R.

Eggless Cake—«One cup of brown sugar,
one-half cup lard, one cup of sour milk,
one teaspoon soda, two tablespoons of
molasses, one teaspoon salt, one teaspoo
cinnamon, two cups of flout—4G. R. '

 

Banana Pie.——40ne-half cup milk, one-
third cup sugar, two heaping (not too
large) tablespoons flour, two yolks of
eggs, bring milk to boil, thicken with
flour and egg yolks, add sugar, remove
from fire and out two bananas fine, stir
in the hot filling, pour in a pie shell,

TH E B e. s I .

make a meringue of ‘whites of the two
eggs, add two tablespoons sugar, and put
in oven until nice and brown. . Heating
in oven makes- flavor of bananas go
through the whole pie. More sugar may
be used if desired—A Subscribers Wife.
———-—4_—___——

Date Pia—Line a pie plate with crust,
put enough stoned dates to cover bottom,
add one cup brown sugar, and one cup
water. Bake with upper crust in a mod-
erate oven. Whipped cream to cover
when cool enougha—«Mrs. H., Bayshore,
Michigan.

 

 

The Runner’s Bible

(Copyright by Houghton Mifl‘iin Co.)

 

 

Thou shalt increase my greatness, and
comfort me on every side—Pg. 71:21.

Behold, now is the accepted time; be-
hold, now is the day of salvation—2 Cor.
6:2.

Never speak of an opportunity as be-
ing lost. There is no such thing. All
possibility awaits you now. The law of
good, like the law of gravity, operates
constantly for everyone, and nothing one
can do can change its activity in our
behalf with such obstacles as self right-
eousness, false ride, hatred, and other
evils.

WOMEN’S EXCHANGE

 

 

F you have something to exchange, we will
rint It FREE under this headln providing:
irst—lt appeals to women and s a bonifido

exchanges, no cash Involved. Second—It will
go In three lines. Third—You are a pald-ug
subscriber to The Business Farmer and attac
our address label from a recent issue to prove
t. Exchan e offers will be numbered and in-
serted In t a order received as we have room.

-—MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR. Editor.

 

 

Peony,

114.————Exchange Red Amarylls for (‘l
ms.

Phlox, Iris, or :my hardy fiower.—Mrs.
Sass, Clayton, R1, Michigan.

AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING

BE SURE

AND SEND IN YOUR SIZE

FASHION BOOK NOTICE

Send
FASHIONS. sho n
Patterns 9. CONGIS
FOR TEE NEEDLE
dressmaker.

4688-4418. .
rtrayed will be ideal.

color )lzites,

(Illustrating 30 of

a neat business suit in this style. _
The Skirt IS cut in 7

inches bust measure.
and 31,

29 inches Waist measure)
the foot.

4610. _
would all be attractive
form rovers.
the short sleeve cup,

33, 35 and

or this model.

or entirely sleeveless.

An 18 your size requires 4% yards of 36 inch material.

yard.
4679.

in elbow length, or in wrist length.

16 year size requires 4 yards of 40 inch

The Season’_s Popular Style—For Siorts
0 ~ .White flannel with binding 0
gorge with a Simple finish of machine stitching and with collar and cuffs of

The Blouse Pattern is cut in 6 Sizes: 34, 36, 38,
i‘izes:

To make this costume for ii medium Size requires 4%

A Charming Frock for Juniors and Misses.
in this model which is also nice for linen, figured crepe or printed voile.
‘ 'l‘lie Pattern is cut in
material.

100 in silver or stamps for our UP-TO—DA’I‘E SPRING AND SUMMER 1924 BOOK OF
wi and containin (1 'es ‘

and C MPREHENSIVE AR ICLE 0.’ DRESSMAKING,
the various, simple stitches) all valuable hints to the home

500 esigns of Ladi ’ Lgisses’ and (‘hiidren’s

LSO SOME POISTS

for business or street costume hero
black suede would be very‘striking and “sporty."
linen or orgaiidy make

42 and 44
(25, 27 and
. 21/8 yards at
yards of 40 inch material.

wear.

.0, 18 an '20 years for Misses,
inches waist measure for Ladies.

A Popular St is for Slender Figures.——Bordcred goods, embroidered crepe, kasha and linen
. The dress is in wrap style.
The closing may be from left to right or the reverse.
The Pattern is cut '

turned back to
One ma have this style with
.111 3 Sizes: '6, 18 and 20 years.
The Width of the skirt at the foot is 1%

The fronts are

Silk and conihiin-d
. One may have the Sleeves
4 Sizes: 14, ', 18 and_20 years. A
illustrated Will require 3% yiirds

could be pleasingly

 

CI‘CDC

To make as

of plain and 1%. yard of figured material 40 inches wide.

4681.
well as for pongee kasha, twill uiid velours.
is cut in 5 sizes: is, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years.

4692. “Peter
Here is it well known

The

A Comfortable Coat Style—This is a good mode-l for covvrt cloth, for heather mixtures us
Slccvc is new and very comfortable. '
A 1;! your Size requires 31/4.

Rabbit' and His Spring Suit.—
iiursery friend.

. his Pattern
yards of 40 inch material.

ready for

rise

20 inchcs in lcngtli. A 12 inch size requires
.1/2 yard for the “doll” and .333 yard for the
—\ Jilltkt‘t and overalls. To make as llustratcd will

the Easter Parade, with ii new Jacket and Over—
alls. One could inzikc the Jiicket of satin or vel-
vet, and the ()vemlLS of ilannvl, jersey or linen.
The I'iittcrn includes the “doll" and the garments.
It is cut in 3 Sizes: Sinull 12, Medium 16, Large

lll(‘li material for the

require 1,13 yard of 27
the Overalls.

Jacket, and in yard for

691. A Smart “Early Season" Jacket.—
Short "coats" are very popular, and lend them-
selves to attractive developments in Silk. satin,
klISllél, twill. and other wool fabrics. Linen and
Sllk zilpzim would be fine for the style here pore
ti‘ayed. The Pattern is cut in 6 Sizes: 34, 36,
38,.40, 3m, and 4-1 inches bust measure. A
gB'Ificli Size requires 2% yards of 40 inch nni-
crui .

4689. A Comfortable Corset Substitute:—
Satin, sateen or drill are good materials for this
modeL It is ii style that is suitable for slender
and stout figures. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes:
Small, 34—30; Medium. 38-40; Large, 42—44; Ex-
tra Large, 4648 inches bust measure. A Medium
Size rcquires 1 yard of 30 inch material.

4685. AVVery Attractive Frock for the Grow-
Ing OWL—Wool crepc, poiigcc, linen or gingham,

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could be used for this IllOlli‘l. The coming 15
under the plums in front. 'I‘lii‘, trimming folds
1PM.) he _ omitted on sleeves and “unit. This
yéigrtgrn Ais 1‘((:)ut in 4_ Sizes: 8, 10, 1:3 and 14

. . year Size reiuir 2 14 'v .‘ l
inch niiitcrizi l. l t s a 3 “(1% 0f 4(

ALL PATTERNS ‘12c EACH—
3 FOR 30c POSTPAID

Order from this or former issues of The B
Farmer, giving number and Sign youl'islness
name and address plainly.

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ADD 100 FOR SPRING

1924 FASHION

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flmencaé most. famous dessert
-——for a treat

The plainest meal becomes festive when there is Jell’O
for dessert. The family, particularly the children, will love
it. Jell—O looks so pretty—Sparkling and door. And
tastes so good—sweet and fruity. All you need to do to
prepare JellvO is “pour water.” And it is economical; we
don’t know what good dessert could be cheaper. Ask for
a Jell’O Recipe Book and give the family some treats.
THE CENESEE PURE FOOD COhiPANY. Le Roy, New York
NEAPOLITAN JELL-O

Dissolve a package of Lemon Jell—O in a pint watt-r. \X’licn it is cold put two—thirds of it, ll
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Reliable Transport

During almost every winterthere comes to Michigan at least one
period in which all inter—city transportation fails, except that fure.
nished by the State’s 24 steam Railroads. Such a period followed
the snowfall of February 19, 1934.

During that period, traffic was suspended on even the most ex-
tensively traveled trunk highways. Automobiles, trucks and buses
either remained indoors or were deserted and left in the drifts,
awaiting aid from the highway authorities.

Yet, throughout this entire period, no community in mchigan
suffered for food or fuel. For the railroad trains moved, carrying
the freight and passengers entrusted to their care. Railroad men
fought day and night against the storms, that this service might
be provided.

The railroads consider it a compliment that Michigan always ex‘
pects good railroad service, even complaining occasionally,it
mid winter trains vary from fair—weather schedules.

The expenses of this service under storm conditions are always
excessive—and the state pays no part of the bill as it does for
highway snow clearing. Railroad men incur the hardships and

railroad Capital pays the bill.

Will you recall, next July, that the Railroads hauled in your winter
food and fuel despite 6 foot snowdrifts which shut off other
means of transportation? Courage and railroad earnings did this
--not your tax money.

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‘edadefln‘ltestatementortscts.

I suggest that you consult some.
local counsel, or it yodr “west is
merely academic, you should secure
some text book on highways—H.
Victor Spike, Assistant Attorney
General. '

INDEPENDENT SUGAR COMPANY
I am writing you in regard to the
Independent Sugar Co. of Marine
City. Have they reorgnainzed and
who is the head of it? Are they re-
liable? Do yOu think I would be
safe in putting in beets for them? I
lost nearly $500.00 in the old comp-
any when Handy Bros. were manag-
ing it and I feel a little suspicious.‘
-——C. L., Marlette, Mich.
—We do not know of any stock of
this company being oflered for sale.
and we are in no way interested in

‘ selling any stock. It may he possi—

Ible that someone is endocvorlng to

organize a company forxthe purpose
‘ of purchasing the plant. If that is
true, we know nothing about It.

The plant of the company is tor
sale.. The Bond Holders would be
very glad to sell the property at a
price which will reimburse them for
their investment and the expense
they have been put to in the way of
taxes, etc.

The Marine City Sugar Ce. under
the auspices of the Bend Holders
Protective Committee is now writ-
ing contracts for acreage in the vi-
cinity of the plant, which will be
sold with the plant so that the pur-
chaser may have beets to run the
factory during the coming campaign.
These are bona fida contracts, and
the farmers can be assured that
they will be carried out in every
particular, and that they will re-
ceive cash for their beets in the m-
ual course of business—Geo. E.
Wedthofi, Sec’ y-Treas., Bond Hold-
ers Protective Committee, present
owners.

AVOID EXPENSE 0F FORE-
CLOSURE .

In case of foreclosure under the

Federal Farm Loan Act, who should
start action, the Federal Land Bank
or the local association? We have
a case in our association of a farm,
on which there was a ban made, be-
ing sold to a party who has allowed
lt/to be returned for taxes. Should
the local association take up the tax
title by paying the delinquent tax
out of its own funds, thus buying
the farm in time, or let the federal
bank attend to the matter? It would
seem that in case of foreclosure the
federal Bank is the proper party to
start action since they have all nec-
essary papers to do this—H. C. B.,
Bellaire, Mich.
-—If the owner’s equity in the term
is worth enough to justify it, I
would suggest that you purchase
the farm and pay the taxes and pay
of! the mortgage, and thereby awlod
the expense of foreclosure proceed-
ings, which expense would eventual-
1y come out of the owner’s equity,
in case the bank took this action:—
Asst. Legal Editor.

WOULD COMPENSATION GO TO
CHILD?

A widow receives compensation
for the accidental death of her ill-
band. She has a little girl. It the
widow dies without a will, would
the compensation go' to the child
without going through court? Your
answer will be greatly appreciated.
We could not get along without the
M. B. F. any more. Thanking you.
—-Mrs. L. J. L., Wolverine, Mich.
—Compensation would be payable
to the child as a dependent, and
without the necessity of any court
action, if it were under 16,_years of
age at the death of. the mother. I!
over 16 years and not physically or
mentally-incompetent, it would not
be entitled to compensation—Asst.
Legal Editor.

New You Tell One

An Irishman, an Englishman and a.
Scotsman were all out of work. The!
traveled together in Search at employ-
ment. and came to a. farmer’s homeland
applied. The farmer said whoever amid
'tell the biggest lie could have I. job.
The Englishman said he went to the
North Pole in a tub. The Scotsman u
be swam to the South Pole. The term
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locality and is it good tor all kinds ;

of stock? It so, where can I get
good seed? Will sweet clover do
well on ground that has never had
sweet clover or aliens. on it! Would

you recommend sowing sweet clover ;

in corn after the last cows-nation?

Does. spring wheat do in this
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-——Seyeral thousand acres “8136112"

or white Emmer are grown annually
in Michigan. The true Speltz is
grown to a very little extent. The
White Eisner. commonly
“Spam” gives comparatively good
results on light lands or on soils
too poorly drained for good oats,
barley or wheat growing. Oh well
drained soil of average fertility,
Spelt: is outyielded "by wheat, rye,
cats, or barley.

White Emmer is planted in the
spring as early as possible. Two
bushels of seed per acre is needed.
When thrashed the chaff adheres to
the kernels. It is fed in a similar
manner to the feeding of oats or bar-
ley. It furnishes good stock feed
and is highly appreciated by poul-
try men. Dependable seed can be
secured from the Farm Bureau Seed
Department, 221 N. Cedar St, Lan-
sing, Michigan, or the S. M. Isbell
Company of Jackson, Michigan.

~ In planting sweet clover on ground
where it has not been grown prev~
iously, the seed should be inoculated
with the proper culture, which can
be secured from the Department of
Bacteriology oi! the Michigan \Agri-
cultural College, East Lansing. The
price is 250 per bottle and one bot-
tle contains sufficient material to in-
oculate a bushel of seed. Directions
for application accompany the ma-
torial.

Best results come from sweet
clover seedings made in early spring,

using fifteen pounds or scariiicd seed .

and not more than a bushel of oat:
or barley as a companion crop.

casionally good results come from ,

seeding: made in corn after thelast
cultivation. Such seedings are much
more likely, than spring plantings,

to be seriously injured by drought. .

Spring wheat will give good re-
sults on the heavier soils in your
locality. 0n the ordinary lame and
lighter soils, spring wheat sut-
ters greatly from summer droughts
and will not yield as well as oats
or barley. The Marquis variety is
the highest yielder.-—J. F. Cox, Pro-
fessor of Farm Crops, M. A. C.

COLORADO'S CHAMPION JERSEY

18 FROM MICHIGAN HERD
I . H. DONALDSON oi! Tyrone

township, Livingston county.

hasbeenamemberincowtest-
ing association work for the past
two years. Mr. Donaldson's life
work has been to breed and keep
high class Jersey cows. He is a
firm believer in desiring to know
first each animal pays for its feed
and returns a profit ever the year's
time. His good purebred Jersey
hard is known beyond the confines
of his township and county and ev-
en bsyund the boundaries of Mich-
igan. ‘ Colorado has a champion but-
tertat producer that originated in
Mr. Danaldson‘s herd. be living
grand amnion cow of Colorado, a
purebred Jersey six years old, Cris-
tine oi Elm mace, 395203, has just
cmnpleted a 365 day record on twice
a day milking, making 14722
pounds milk, and 778.6 pounds but-
terfat.

Mr. Donaldson is not leaving all
01 the good ones go out 01' his
hands. Behasatullsistertothis
cow in his hard that is making a
very good record in the, cow testing
association work. To know the
truevaluedtdstflemdtobea
true breeder of good livestock is a
strong asset for any tanner. Mr.
Donaldson with his Jersey hard is
making a strong record in practic-
ing the best methods to improve“ his

herdin . manner. Homesthe
best 01% sires and grows

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._ VERY Spring, more
farmers are turning to
the tractor as the real key to
farmprofit. The need for more
yield, the need for saving
, precious time, the need for
cutting out all surplus expen-
sive labor—for these the logical
remedy is tractor power.

Tractor owners have in-
creased ovcr 7500 per cent in
the United States in the past
ten years. The trend of farm
power goes onward, never
backward. The man who re-
turns to old methods, after
tasting the flexibility, the free-
dom, and the profit in tractor

farming, is so rare that he may
be looked upon with curiosity.

McConnick-Decring 10-20

and 15-30 Tractors are built

for all-around practical farm
use. They are designed and
equipped to work with many
machines—to handle both field
and belt work to best advan-
tage. They are simple, easy
to handle, and they will serve
their owners many years.

Remember that the crank-
shaft and the main ball
bearings in McCormick-
Deering 10-20 and 15-30
are guaranteed for the life
of the tractor.

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HE standardizing process, through which
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To say, for instance, that Larro bran is standard-
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The "standardizing process does what Nature and
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BREEDS 0F BEEF CATTLE ‘ *
2—-Hereford "

Shorthorn in numbers in the

United States. The first known
importations were made in 1817 by
Henry Clay and Lewis Sanders. The
earfii development of the Herefords
in America. was brought about
largely through the efforts of Will—
iam T. Sotham and T. L. Miller. In
1881 the American Hereford Cattle
iBreeders’ Association was formed
by Herefordbreeders, among whom
Were ‘T.-’F."» So‘tham, T..L. Miller, W.
S. Van Natta, J. M. Studebaker, and
R. W. Sample. What is now Vol—
ume 1 of the American Hereford
Record appeared in 1880 as the
American Hereford Herd Book, be—
ing published by the Breeders’ Live-
stock Association.

From the first Hereford cattle, be-
cause of their “rustling” ability,
found favor with the western range
men. On’ scant pastures and on the
range where waterholes are far
apart, the Hereford has shOWn its
merit. Not only do the individuals
of this breed thrive under adverse
conditions, but they also respond
lreadily to a favorable environment.
The bulls are active, vigorous, pre—
potent, and very surebreeders. _ .

The criticism formerly made of
the breed because of a. light hind
quarter can scarcely be considered
just today.- The animals are some-
what less rangy, more compact, and
more heavily fleshed than formerly.
The tendency to patchiness about
the root of the tail and “rolls” on
the sides is also a criticism fre—
quently heard. While the Hereford
cows have been criticised because of
scanty milk flow, there are few if
any that do not produce enough to
raise a good calf. As a breed they
have a better heart girth and ‘seem
to withstand adverse conditions bet—
ter than the Shorthorns. They ma-
ture early and fatten readily in the
feed lot.

The weight of the Hereford cattle
is only slightly less than that of the
Shorthorn, but the conformation is
such that a Hereford looks smaller
than a Shorthorn of equal weight.
Mature bulls weigh from 1,900 to
2,200 pounds, while the cows weigh
from 1,200 to 1,600 pounds. It is
not unusual for mature animals of
either sex to weigh more.

The Hereford color is distinctive.
It may be described as a medium, to
deep rich red, with white head,
breast, belly, crest, switch, and legs
below the knee and hock. White
occuring back of the crops, high on

7the flank, or too high on the legs, is
‘ objectionable.

A pure—white face is
preferred, although many purebred
animals show spots about the face
and especially some red around the
eyes. The hair is usually medium
to long, soft and silky, with a curly
tendency, but short-haired animals
may be found. A characteristic of
Hereford color is the dominance of
the white face over the color mark-
ings of other breeds. Calves sired
by a. purebred Hereford bull, as a
rule, show the «characteristic white
face.
The
formation

Hereford possesses a con-
which represents good
beef type. The body is low, com-
pact, and blocky, with well-sprung
ribs, broad loin, and wide hips with-
out prominent hip bones. The quar—
ter is more rounded and bulging
than that of the Shorthorn, al—
though developed to a lesser degree
in this respect than the Aberdeen
Angus. The forehead is broad and
prominent and the face is short,
tapering slightly toward the nose.
The muzzle is full, with large, open
nostrils. The horns are of medium
size, even color, and extend from
the head at right rangles, level with
the crops, curving forward and
downward.

The horns of the bull are some-
what coarser, straighter, and heavi-
er. The neck is short, thick, and
blends well with the shoulders.
Great width, depth, length of chest,
and a fullness of'the crops give the
Herefords the constitution and en—
durance which breeders have been
careful to preserve. The loin is
broad and deep and the rump and
hind quarters are usually well de—
veloped, carrying a large quantity
of flesh. This portion of the body
has been greatly improved within

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Hereford bulls for this purpose have
been very satisfactory to the cattle-
men in the West and Southwest.
The'marked increase in'the num-
ber of Hereford breeders in the
Northwest would indicate that the
breed is well adapted to a very cold
climate as well as to that of the
South. Neither the heat in the
Corn Belt nor that in the South
seems to bother them. They ap-
pear to be especially well adapted
for use on the larger plantations,
where animals are not‘ given ex-
tremely good care and where the
production of beef alone is desired.
Two or three crosses on the native
stock of the South produce a good
beef animal that matures early and
fattens well. On unimproved plan-
tations or on farms with only fairly
good pastures the Hereford gives
better results than the Shorthorn.
The rapid increase in the popularity
of Herefords in this country is
shown by the number of registra-
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years as reported by the American
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lowing as some of the bulls which
have been most influential in im-
proving the Hereford breed during
recent years: Perfection Fairfax
179767, Beau Donald 58996, Beau
Brummel 61817, Bonnie ‘Brae 8th
239653, Perfection 92891, Bonnie
Lad 20th 555369, Beau Blanchard
362904, Woodford 500000, Beau
Mischief 268371, Repeater 289598,
Gay Lad 6th 316936, Cuba’s Pan-
ama 372431, Bocaldo 362186, Gay
Lad. 9th 386873, Gay Lad 16th
and Point'Comfort 14th

HOW TO PREVENT 00W FROM
SUCKIN G SELF

I have a fine Holstein and Jersey
three—year-old cow, had her first
calf last May and soon after she
took to sucking herself. She gives
a good mess of milk when kept tied
but as soon as lose she sucks her-
self dry. What would you suggest
to break her of the habit?—O. F.
H., Bay City, Mich.

——There are several remedies that
have been tried, some with more
success than others, to prevent a
cow from sucking herself. One is to
pierce her nose and put a bull ring
in the nose and have tWo or three
links of common chain hang from
this chain gets in the way and she
gets discouraged. A good many
people have never failed to stop
their cows in this way. Once in a
while there are cows that have this
habit so fixed that they in some way
or other persist in the habit even
with the chain in their nose.
Another method that has been us—
ed by some is to split the cows’
tongue for about two inches. This
plan has also stopped this habit in
many instances, but we know defin-
tiely of instances where the cow
continued the habit.

Others have tried putting heavy
bands around the cow’s body and
then fastening straps from each side
of the halter to this girth and thus
preventing the cow’s reaching back
to the udder.

Another scheme is to equip a
halter with nails or tacks so that
these nails or tacks will pierce the
cow’s flesh when she attempts to
get to the udder.

The one that I particularly rec—
ommend is the bull ring method and
if this fails I think I would try to
substitute another cow for this one.
-——0. E. Reed, Professor of Dairy
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I have a horse 11 years of age, hé’
used to weigh around 1500. right
along and a pretty animal, never
sick but now he has began to lose
flesh. Now he is mighty thin in spite
of good feed. ' Restless, looks
around, at times he gets down and
up again and so on. He eats good
but does not seem to get any bene-
tlt from it. His teeth are good. The
local veterinary gave him something
but with no help.——-E. R. 8., Big
Rapids, Mich.

—The history of this case would in-
dicate that the horse in all proba-
bility is suflering from some chronic
organic intestinal troubl . There is
no way of telling just what this
trouble might be. I am very much
afraid that the treatment will be un-
satisfactory. If you have a veter-
inarian in your locality, I would
suggest that you have him make a.
very careful examination of your
mare, he may be able to make a ‘di-
agnosis.

You might try the following pre—
scription as an experiment: Fowl-
er’s solution of arsenite, 26 ounces;
fluid extract of nux vomica, 2
ounces; fluid extract of quassia, 2
ounces; fluid extract of gentian, 2
ounces; mix and give two table-
spoonfuls -on the feed night and
morning. This premription can be
refilled and repeated 9. second time
if necessary.——John P. Hutton, As.
soc.’ Prof. of Surgery and Medicine,
M. A. C.

BEIFER DRINKS ONLY SMAIAL'
QUANTITY OF WATER

Would you be so kind as to give
me a little advice on my cow? She
is a Jersey, young and fat and gives
little or no milk at all, drink one-
half pail water in about two or three
days. I give her salt but it does not
seem to cause her to drink more.
But worst of all she milks so hard.
When I was a boy I remember of
hearing of an operation on the
teats. Is there any such remedy?
If so what would be the result?———~J.
O. C., Jackson, Mich.

—As long as the heifer is fat and
seems to be healthy, you need not
be alarmed about her drinking a
small amount of water. If she were
allowed access to fresh water con-
tinually, the probabilities are that
she might drink more.

I The hard milking you speak of
can be remedied if it is due to a
contraction of the sphincter muscles
at the end of the tests. The opera-
tion consists in cutting these mus-
cles with a teat slitter. The opera-
tion should be performed by a vet-
eflnarianv—John P. Hutton, Assoc.
Prof. of Surgery & Medicine, Mich-
igan Agricultural College.

 

CALIBER IN FOOT INCURABIJQ
Please let me know what to do
for a horse that had the thrush and
now has the canker in his feet‘t—J.
V., Bay City, Mich.
———'1‘rue canker affecting the frog,
sole, wall, and foot skin is incur-
able. Better have your veterinarian
make an examination of the horse’s
foot and determine whether it is
canker or thrush. If thrush, it can
be cured—John P. Hutton, Assoc.
Prof. of Surgery and Medicine, Mich.
Agricultural College.

ROBUST BEANS YIELD 25 TO 30
BUBHEIB PER ACRE

(Continued from Page 4)

is very well represented by Early
Wonder and the other by Robust.
The former are earlier but are sus-
ceptible to both maniac and blight
which often destroy the leaf system
and causes a mum of the crop.
Robust on the other hand is immune
to mosiac and resistant to blight.
holding its leaf system in workable
condition until maturity when the
leaves drop off as a whole. 0n
point of yield the Robust has aver-
agedahalfmorebeansatiLWAC
All correspondence regarding seed
should be sent directLv to the Sec.
rotary of the Michigan Crop nu»
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Easily stopped; it: 48 hours

White diarrhea kills half of nearly
every hatch of chicks. It’s strange
how many people do nothing either to
prevent the trouble or end it thinking
this loss can’t be stopped. fiat it can
be stopped, without extra work, without
troublesome dosing, and at almost no cost.
For years, thousands have saved sick
chicks and raised nearly every chick in
every hatch, by merely dropping an Aviool
taobletin the drinking water. Successful

ultry raisero say there is nothing also

00 Avicol for this purpose.

Trouble gone in 2 days
Chas. N. Kittinger, Willows, Calif.
wrfies: “Tumhm of n: chum: had
diarrhea by the time received my
Avicol. I immediately gave theInsome.
by the second d337,.“ the” trouble disap moored
andI now we:
Iliad y known of11v Avicol sooner, I
would have saved lots of chicks.”
It is wonderful how sick, droozy chicks.
W1 48 hugely“!- it?” Kittinm" any“:
as (91’
mnpidly the trouble is
dying shoot the very
day Avicol is put their drinking water.

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The following letter will no doubt

- be of utmost interest to poultry rais-

ers who have had serious losses
from White Diarrhea. We will let
Mrs. Bradshaw tell of her exper-
ience in her ownI words: t of 6°
“ tlemen: see repor s
maigglllosing their little chicks with
White Diarrhea, so thought I would

tell my experience. I used to lose a
from this cause, tried

‘many remedies and was about dis-

couraged. As a last resort I sent to
the Walker Remedy Co., Dept. 680,
Waterloo, Iowa, for their Walko
White Diarrhea Remedy. I used two-
50c packages, raised 300 White Wy-
andottes and never lost one or had
one sick after giving the medicine
and my chickens are larger and
healthier than ever before. I have
foundthis company thoroughly re-
liable and always get the remedy by
return maiL—Mrs. C. M. Bradshaw,
Beaconsfield, Iowa."

Cause of White Diarrhea

White Diarrhea is caused by the
Bacillus Bacterium Pullorum. This
is transmitted to the baby
chick through the yolk of the newly
hatChed egg. Readers are warned
to beware of White Diarrhea. Don't
wait until it kills half your chicks.
Take the "stitch in time that saves
nine." Remember, there is scarcely
a hatch without some infected
chicks. Don’t let these few infect
your entire flock. Prevent it. Give
Walko in all drinking water for the
first two weeks and you won't lose
one chick where you lost hundreds
before. These letters prove it:

Never Lost a Single Chick'

Mrs. L. L. Tam, Burnetts Creek,
Ind., writes: “I have lost my share
of chicks from White Diarrhea. Fin—
ally I sent for two packages of Wal-
ko. I raised over 500 chicks and I

lost a single chick from White Diarrhea.

never
alko revents White Diarrhea, but it
3'6 thlémch‘iglk; Strength and vigor; they develop

quicker and feather earlier.

Never Lost One After First Dose

Mrs. Ethel Rhoades, Shennandoah,
Iowa, writes: “My first incubator
chicks, when but a few days old, be—
gan to die by the dozens with White
Diarrhea. I tried diflerent remedies

' 'th t} h' bus-
Mmmmmu‘: sarcasm“: ass”. 09.,
Waterloo, Iowa, for a box of their Walko to
Diarrhea Remedy. It’s just the only thing for
this terrible disease. We raised 7 th
chick: and never lost a single \chick after the
first dose."

You Run No Risk

We will send Walko White Diar-
rhea Remedy entirely at our risk—
postage prepaid—4o you can see for
youvmelf what a wonder-working..-
ren. v if is for White Diarrhea in.
baby i' .s. So you can prove—as
thousands have proven—that it will
stop your losses and double, treble,

even quadruple your profits. Send

f Ike or $1.00 for extra
50° for a box '0 ‘Wa drinking water for the

all
two weeks and Watch results. You'll find
ou lost hundreds
are. It's a positive fact. e guarantee. it.
6; Johnson National Bank. the oldest
_ bank in Waterloo, Iowa._ stands
of guarantee. You run no risk. If
you don’t find it the greatest httle diick saver
m ever used. your money will be instantly ro-

WALKER REMEDY CO.,
Dept. 680 Waterloo, Iowa

READ AND ORDER'
iio culled A. 0. expert.
$18.00 per

c I
and May White Wyandottesn
; Barred hooks, $16.00- White Leghorns,
14.00. c. w. Helmbach, ns’. Bla Raplds. Mich.

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You can run our ad same as ’
last year, starting now and run °
until we give you a stop order. '
I have not copy at hand but '
you have it in any last season '
issue. We have credit of $4.50 '
with you. We had splendid re- '
suit: from it. B. F. since the °
first season we used it. Thanks. :
O
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mane Poultry Farm, Fenton,

. the poultry house.

 

I wish to ask what makes hens
pick feathers from about other hens
necks—Mrs. . B. G.», Clifford.
Mich.
—I would say that this7 is a form of
canabalism which frequently occurs
in CIOsely confined flocks that are
fed an insufficient supply of animal
protein. It is especially among the
lighter and more nervous type of
breeds.

Feather pulling from' the neck
may be caused by irregular feeding
of buttermilk or skim milk. Hens
frequently splash the feathers espec—
ially around the neck, and breast,
in the drinking process. When the
feathers become pasted with this
milk, it is very palatable, and the
habit may start.

Dry mash should be available at
all times, containing from ten to
twenty per cent meat scrap or ani-
mal protein substitute. The birds
should be fed a scratch feed in deep
litter to permit exercise. The day—
ing houses should not be over
crowded during the winter months.

Once the practice has been culti-
vated, the hens’ attention should be
diverted by suspending a piece of
beef liver at a convenient height in
This will also

 

 

BE poultry raising season

is nicely under way now

‘ and we suppose you are all

having your troubles. We are

always at the service of our sub-

scribers and will be pleased to

answer your questions. Be sure

to sign your complete name and

address so that we can send you
a personal reply.

 

 

supply the necesary protein, and the
hens will also forget the habit of
feather pulling. At the earliest pos-
sible date the hens should be permit-
ted free range as the habit of feath-
er pulling is checked once the birds
are out on free range—E. C. Fore-
man, Prof. of Poultry Husbandry,
M. A. C.

RAISE POULTRY

I wish you would kindly tell me
which is the easiest to raise; chick-
ens, geese, ducks, turkeys, guinea
pigs, rabbits or fur bearing animals.
I have had no experience and I do
not know how to raise any of these
and I have only a little time—E.
L. P., Owosso, Michigan.

—-In studying the economic condi—
tions We are under the impression
that chickens are possibly a little
more profitable than water fowl or
pet stock, because the latter are be-
ing raised primarily for meat pro-
duction.

In poultry raising, the broiler,
roaster, and market fowl are usual—
1y considered as incidental to pro-
duction and the main source of rev-
enue comes from market eggs. From
the standpoint of raising stock with
the least difilculty, possibly geese,
guinea pigs, ducks, and guinea hens
require less attention. From an
economical standpoint, however, the
rearing of chickens and turkeys is
possibly more profitable, even tho
they do require closer attention,
and a greater amount of care. A
careful study should be made on all
these subjects before undertaking
the raising of stock on a commercial
scale—E. C. Foreman, Professor of
Poultry Husbandry, M. A. C.

 

THE PROBLEM OF DIRTY EGGS
IN seeking to improve the market

quality of eggs, next to the prob-

lem of the underweight egg is
that of the dirty egg. No matter
how fresh and attractive it may be
in other respects the dirty egg can
never get on a plane with the clean
egg. It is in bad repute with the
local buyer and the stigma holds
fast all along the line. In other
words the soiled egg is more or less
of an outcast with no hope of ever
improving its status. The producer
often resorts to washing to save the
day and this helps some but the
washed egg is easily detected and
straightway discdunted. It is dif-

ficult to estimate the economic waste
from this cause but there is no
doubt that dirty 6389 cut the in-
coufe of producers several hundred
_thousand dollar every year. ~
This considerable loss -is.» regret-
(Continued on page 28) ‘

 

  

broilers—two—pounders.
Do it this way:
Keep them healthy.

Keep them hungry.
Feed the old reliable

Dr. Hess Poultry

       
        
    
  
   
    
     
        
     
   
  
    
   
   
     
      
         

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November Layers

Make it ten weeks from peeps to

PAN-A-GE-A

Never mind about indigestion, diarrhea, leg

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all that. There will be wellness, cheer and W PM-a—u-a‘
8°°d gmwth- “setter

PAN-A-CE-A your chicks—~then put them
on the scales at ten weeks, set her at two
poundsy and watch that beam come up!

You will see a mighty difl’erence in the
feather growth, too, between your flock and

Pan-a-ce—a will develop your pullets into
early henhood—fall and winter layers.

Tell your dealer how many hens you have.
There’s a right-size package for every flock.

200 hens, the 25-Ib. pail
500 hens, the loo-lb. drum

For fewer hens, there is a smaller package.

DR. HESS & CLARK Ashland, 0.

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8. c. Whlte and Brown Leghorns $3.50 $6.75 $13.00 $62.50 $120.00
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Barred Rocks, R. I. Reds ................ 4.50 8.50 18.00 77.50 150.00
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Kindly discontinue the 6 line ad
you are carrying for us after this
month, as we do not find April
Results, so far,

Bridgman, Michigan.

LIVE STOCK

lee discontinue our ad in your
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Hatching e as Add 30c extra if less than 100
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cHIcKs WHITE LEGHORNS $12 PER 100,
$6.25 for 50 and $8.25 for 25.
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14.00- 609 $87.50: 100 .
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asheppard’s Anconas 150 Black Mlnorcas ...... 16c
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to lst prize best W. Leghorn pen in the show)
production class. in the largest utility show in
the country held at Zceland, Michigan, Dec.

Pr Foreman of . . Judging. 12 years
of careful breeding for high egg-production, com-
bined With 8 years of highly successful hatchery
methods gives you chicks that grow into money
makers. 10067,, live delivery guaranteed. Write
for free catalog and prices.

ROYAL HATCHERY a. FARM
s. P. Wlersma. Zeeiand, Michigan. R.sR. 2

Chicks With Pep

Try our lively and vigorous chicks
from bred~to—l_ay and exhibition
hens. They Will make you money
for. they have the quality and egg
laying habit bred into them. A
trial will .convince you. All lead-
ing varieties. Safe delivery. Pre—
I'rices right. Bank refer-
elll‘I‘. Big illustrated catalog free.
Holgate Chick Hatchery, Dept. B, Holgate, Ohio.

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In Contest -
Many Breeds
’ Every One a Winner
Pure Breed Practical Poultry
D. W. Youii American type Leghorns, also Eng-
lish type. ou Will be interested in the egg re-

cords our custonierslre’port.
Send for our descriptive matter and price list.

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION

Masonic Temple, Kalamazoo, Mich.
(Member International Baby Chick Association)

Strong, Healthy Chicks

Hatched in the latest improved
Mammoth Incubator. English S.
C. W. Leghorns. S. (1 Anconas.
Barred Rocks, B. I. Reds from
heavy laying free range organized
‘ flocks. 100% alive. Parcel Post
.,X\\ paid. Send for catalog. Reference.

de‘ilcl's Hatchery. R8. Box M. Holland, Mich.
BARRON . . . -
BABY GHIGK horns. Spgcin? lo“;I ptiEcgs.

100% alive delivery guaranteed. \Vrite for price
list. HENRY WATERWAY, R4. Holland, Mich.

LEE’S LICE KILLER“

inc Old Reliable gfogmnimllnu after your

e “If. way to rid poultry
oflies, mites. bedbuu. bodyllce and such vermin. Painter s ray
onroosts, etc. No dusting. dipping. greasing. handling. Get t d
mam orseed store. or write us for colors and valuable

book. 0 CO

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able in that" a large. part of it can
be prevented. ,Much of the soiling
comes from dirty nests and laying
quarters. A little fresh clean straw-
ln the nests now and then will do
much toward keeping eggs clean
and mites and lice down. The
’roosts and dropping platforms and
floors should be cleaned regularly
and new litter added frequently.

Often eggs are soiled because too
few nests are provided and there is
keen compitition for the same nests.
In some cases eggs are left in nests
all day or several days and each hen
in laying does her bit to muss up
all eggs previously laid. This sug-
gests the need for regular and fre-
quent gathering.

During the spring months if
drainage or soil conditions are poor
one often notices mudholes and
dirty puddles about the houses and
runways of the hens. Such places
harbor disease organisms and be-
mire the feet and feathers of the
hens and they in turn smear the
nests and eggs. Such wet places
should be filled or drained in some
way.

Occasionally hens develop bowel
trouble and the resulting scours
mean dirty eggs. A little medical
treatment will correct this condi—
tion as a rule. Other heavily
feathered birds have feathers about
the vent soiled and balled up with
droppings and offer another oppor-
tunity for soiling of eggs and nests.
If these feathers about the vent are
clipped away the trouble ceases.

Lastly eggs are often stained by
dirty hands of the person gathering
them or by dirty receptacles . in
which they are gathered or stored.
Grease and oils are very often re-
sponsible for smears which can nev-
er be removed. If eggs are held in
places where soot or dust collects
many of them will lose their fresh
attractive appearance. Too much
handling, too, will rub off the deli-
cate layers of bloom and cause the
egg to take on the shiny appearance
of the stale egg.

If all poultry raisers would ob—
serve these simple precautions 90
per cent of the cases of soiling of
eggs could be prevented and a very
substantial saving made for the
poultrymen everywhere.

EGG INDUSTRY WIDELY

SCATTERED
ORE than 5,000,000 farms in
1‘1 the United States produce

eggs annually valued at more
than half a billion dollars, says the
United States Department of Agri-
culture. There are many specializ-
ed egg farms along the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts and scattered to
a less extent throughout the coun-
try, but the great bulk of market:
eggs used on the large eastern mar-
kets comes from the middle-western
states where eggs are produced
mainly as a side line on general
farms.

In the ordinary course of market-
ing the eggs pass through a number
of hands and must undergo a jour—
ney of a thousand miles or so be-
fore they pass across the counter
from the retailer to the consumer,
the department says. More than
47,000 cars of eggs alone are an—
nually transported by rail. New
York City is the largest consuming
market, followed by Chicago, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, aud San Francis—
co.

Egg production is uneven through—
out the year,‘ being heavy in the
spring and summer and light in the
fall and Winter. To fit the supply of
eggs to the demand which is much
more evenly spread over the year, it
is necessary to hold about 12 per
cent of the eggs in storage against
the months of low production in the
fall and Winter, the department
says. *

To serve as a practical guide to
producers, shippers and the egg in-
dustry generally the Department of
Agriculture has recently published a
printed bulletin dealing with every
phase of the marketing of eggs. The
bulletin deals with problems of
transportation, the function of cold
storage, marketing methods and
channels, egg structure and compo—
sition, candllng. grading, and con-
tainers. Copies of Farmers’ Bulle-
tin 1378, Marketing Eggs, may be
obtained, as long as the supply
lasts, upon request to the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Washington, ‘

  

 

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H o m e Treatment

Given by One. Who
Had It. V

In the year of 1893 I
was attacked by Mus-
cular and Sub-acute
Rheumatism. I suffered
as only those who are
thus afflicted know, for
over three years. I tried
remedy after remedy,
but such relief as I ob-
tainedwas only tempor-
ary. Finally, I found a
treatment that cured
me completely, and
such a pitiful condition
has never returned. I
have g1ven it to a num-
ber_who were terribl
affhcted, even bedrid):
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
( swelhng. at the joints)
rheumatSIm, to try the
great value of my im-
proved “Home Treat-
ment” for its remarka-
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notsend 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 1tself to be that
long—lookcd-‘for means
of gettmg rid of such
forms of rheumatism,
you may send the price
of it, one dollar, but un-
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to. send 1t. Isn’t that
fair? Why suffer any
longer when relief is
thus offered you free?
Don’t delay. Write to-
daY.

MARK H. JACKSON

No. 265-K Durston Bldg.

Mr. Jackson is responsible.

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at commercial girices so why take others. We have bred the Barron 'straln S
Leghorns for years and kept improving all the time. Our
M. A. 0. from pedigreed stock With egg records --u to 279. We
from the northern part of the state that are getting mm 60 to 70%

for the winter months. We also hatch the famous She
Rocks. Write for our catalogue and order early so you can go

foundation stock
have customers
egg production
pard Anconas and Barred
them when you want them. ~

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from

Byron Center Poultry Farm and Hatchery

G. c. KEISER, Byron Center. Michigan.

DERMAN’S

N $10 and UP
We are heavy rodueers of pure-bred chicks. Flocks on free range. (lulled. by an
100% live do ivery guaranteed. Order~today from the Ad. and gel; chlckg wh
want them. Varieties Prices on

Leghorns ......

Reds ...........

100 500
En Ilsh s_ c, White ....$3.50 $6.50 $12.00 $51.50
3.13.9.1 Rocks. 3. c. .. 4.25 8.00 15.00 12.50 $
Odds and Ends .. 3.00 5.50 10.00
Bank.

Blue Hen Incubators. . .
9rders booked for 10% before chicks are to be shipped.
ree.

HUNDERMAN BROS. POULTRY FARM, Box 80, Iceland, Michigan.

Reference: Zeeiand State
down; balance ten days

We can save you money on

F IRST-CLASS CHICKS

expert.
en 11
10

115.00
140.00

Order today; you take no chances.
Catalog

Ancona and White Leghorn Chicks

Send at once for catalog and prices.
your chicks for one week.

M. D. WYNGARDEN
Route 4, Box 81

We insure

Zeeland, Mich

a A?" Pure Bred Selected Flocks

_., _ , 100 Per Cent Live Delivery
grown Chicks. Selected, ure bred stock. Healthy

'Strong sturdy northern

flocks

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Our ’l‘om Barron Strain White Leghorns pay bi divi

We breed and hatch only one kind—the. best. Ogr purSFggfii
chicks are stron husky and easy to raise. Get our circular
and .FREE OH OK ,OFFER be ore buying eggs, chicks or
breeding stock. It Will surely pay you.

Progressive Poultry Farm,
P. VER HAGE, Mgr. Zeeland, Mich

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T QUALITY CERTIFIED BABY CHICKS

Michigan’s Old Reli b1 II t 1 ti F
. a e a cier . '
in the State. y, 10 best equipped and most modern Hatchery
l‘iire Bred 'I‘om Barron English and American \Vhite Leghorns Anconas Barred
Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island eds. trong, Well-hatdhed Chicks from
tested lloganized lime-range stock that make wonderful winter layers.
‘ Chicks scnt by Insured Parcel Post prepaid to your door. 100% live 68-
livery guaranteed. Sixteen years of experience in producing and shipping Chicks
giving absolute satisfaction to thousands. \Vi‘ite for Valuable illustrated free
mi’l‘i‘logr 1:11:11 price list. (xct lowest price on best quality Chicks before placing
yo ‘ o 1 c . ,

HOLLAND HATGHERY 8. POULTRY FARM. R. 7, Holland. Mlch.

ClélCKS $10.00 UP
8:

10‘ j. SAFE ARRIVAL GUARANT
Varieties
White,S.O.

R G Brown a e if LPrllices 0” 15°
. . u

Barred Rocks. Reds. Black Minorcas......f?..saving; 2003
White Rocks, White Wyandottes. Anconas ........ 8.50
Buff Orpingtons, Silver Laced Wyandottes,

,Blue Andalusians 0
Assorted, from Pure Bred Stock .......................... 6.00 11'.oo 50.00
Ilatched from healthy, heavy laying flocks, well kept, insuring strong chicks that
Will grow into Profits. Postpaid. Order from this Ad. a time. Reference
The Geneva Rank. Member International Baby (,‘liii-k Ass'n. Free Catalog:
THE GENEVA HATCHERY, Box 23, Geneva. Indiana.

400,000CHICKS

BIG, STRONG. Flflfli‘FY CHICKS hatched from well-bred and well kept.
heavy laying hens insuring good growth and PROFITS.

Prices on 50 100 500 1000
White. $62.00 $120.00

Brown and Bufi‘ Leghorns__d_ ......... $1.00 $13.00

.an

on free range insure strength in every Chick. rd‘er from

Varieties Prices on 50

this

Barred and White Rocks. 3.
. . eds. Anconas
White Wyandottes. Buff Orplngtons .....

15.00 72.50 140.00
16.00 77 50

1 0 800
L h . . hi and Brown 1.00 13.00 38.00
09 orns (s G W to ). .38 00 $15.00 $43.00

Silver Wyandottes

00 81250

X“ I' '- Barred Rocks ........................... . .

. 9.50 18.00 53.00 8 .00 . 18. . '

"Mill's Bil-gigméhlrks . .............. . .................... 1 0 per 100 straight 1009;, Live Ammi ”mm

‘ tclied under best‘ conditions in Newton incubators. Every Chick carefully ins ected. 100% live
‘ Bank, this city. rite for prices on

. of en- St to (‘ominercml Savings ‘
eggicvigymi‘lidggteed B gREAT NORTHERN HATGHERY. Box 50. Iceland, Michigan.

Migred $102.90 perI giurfidred.t%traigi(ilt. 1P0

an eet. .r er rigi rmn IS a . lest B k t- ~. '

chance. Free Catalog. Member I. B. C. A. fill}:l(l (Illtilt‘izlilldgeih 10“ take no
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BABY GI'IIGKS

Hollywood and Barron English Single Comb White Leghorns STRAIN MATINGS
250-300 EGG-BRED LINE

Careful breeding, typetcsting and trapnesli'ng has produced our world'famous
Karsten’s Quality Laying Hen—A Utility Bird With Standard Requirements
Our Leghorns are long, deep-bodied, Wedge— . _SEND FOR FREE CATALOG .
shaped birds, with wide backs and low spread it describes our" wonderful I)l‘(‘etllllg establish—
tails, big lopped combs .and alert eyes” iirds nicnt, it tells what and how to feed your
that lay those large white eggs that bring the chickens for profit, it will show you how you.
high piices on the New York Markc too. can double your poultry profits

KAHSTEII’S FARM BOX X ZEELAIID. MICHIGAN
From world’s

c H I c K Greatest Layers

If you want purB bred chicks that are bred right. hatched right.
and shipped right. that grow and will make you a profit. get our new
low prices and free catalog before you buy.
Tom Barron White Leghorns Heavy Type Brown Leghorn;
R. C. 81 S. C. Rhode Island Reds Park's Barred Rocks

Flocks are carefully culled and developed on free range. All chicks are
hand picked and inspected. nocripples or weaklings. Every one strong
and health . Satisfaction and 100% live delivery guaranteed. Post-
age paid. rite now for our Io’w prices and free catalog. White
Leghorn and Barred Rock pullets after May 1. at low prices.

KNOLL’S HATCHERY. R. R. 12. Box B HOLLAND. MICH.

Customers say—

Elmet Arnold — 00 1
page in lo doyo in
DecemberlroiiiSEJune
hatched White Leg-
horns; Herman Broc-
geler -— Bought I 0 0
Alicea. ohlclis. raised 69 .11!-
I010. 30 cockerals. F. R. Wnl is—
Orderele chicks, received 103,
nlud every one. Thin wonder-
h In: vitalityteand legixégv’abihty
"the own n,our . . . g-
113533.133}... Michigan. Iniommlonol onln
content. Our strainer-e Tom Barron Imported on
Boll wood 8. C.WliiteLe horn! She pudanmous
8. C. ttled Anconas an Parks r topay Barred
Rocks. Chicks sbl edpoet id. 100‘ live delivery
guaranteed. Big 5 umte catalog sent Free.

SIIvoerordI-Iahhory.lox30 IcelandJflloh.

FROM STOCK—THAT IS BRED
WITH THE LAYING HABIT

CHICKS

HOLLYWOOD MATEO
$15 per 100 '

Sired by Hollywood males
whose dams had egg re-
cords of 200 to 290.
Stock certificd by Michi-
gan Baby Chick Ass’n.
Rural strain $13
Brown Leghorns $14-$13
Anconas. Barred Rocks.
Large. illustrated
catalog I" R I} 1.; .
RURAL POULTRY FARM
Box 110 Zeeland,

.k

B&R CHICKS

ARE THE GOOD KIND

We hatch chicks from flocks
which have had our own por-
siiiiiil attention. Every bird
is carefully selected by us for
best production. A pure-bred
chick from us has the iii-coil-
mg to grow into a line money
making foul. Solid for full
information. 100%
livery guaranteed. All pop—
, ‘ ‘ . ular breeds. “'0 hope you
Will give us a trial order for that “Ill nicuii ii
permanent customer, we are sure. \l'ritc today.

Borst & Rock, Box 10, Zeeland, Mich.
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HENRY DOPREE & SONS.
One of tho Founders of the Chick Indusrty

21 Years in Business
P - ed stock carefully developed for years.
‘ Oildgrlffrom tl'i’is adldandI get dig-gs JllSl’. when5 you
W at hein. repa r cos on
Mlhlte and Brown'Lle-g torns $3.88 $12.88 $23.33
Rocks, Reds, Bu cg orns .0 20:00 95.00

White W andottes 1.
Mixed 0h cks (all varieties) ...... $10.00 per 100

You take no chanci's. Ref: First State
Bank, Holland. 97% live delivery guar-
anteed. White chliorns headed ' -
by male birds of 285-303 egg
record strains. Other breeds
highly bred. Circular free.

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Our chicks are the kind
that make good. it} V c ry
flock is carefully culled and
mated. “'9. have lil‘t‘ll in
busmcss seven years and
have been building,r cam—
fully and consistently to a
. place whore we can ol'l‘i-i'
chicks more than worth the moniy wv
risk. SINGLE (‘0)“5, ENGLISH S’I‘It\l\'.
“'IIITE LEUIIORNS. BARREI) RIM KS,
ANCONAS. 100% lch delivery guaran-
teed. Investigate oui' proposition before
buying. A postal will bring full infor-
mation.

STAB. HATCIIERY, Box 23, Holland, Mich.

gpl S. C. English White Leghorns
RX:

from Best Blood Line Free Range Flocks.

Developed and Cuilcd by Experts-"Barron Strain English \Vhitc Leghorns.
Brown Leghorns and Sheppard’s Anconas. Sturdy, Healthy Chicks. Just
a little more for your money. Safe delivery guaranteed. Write for Catalog.

QUEEN HATCHERY & POULTRY FARM ::

UNBEAM HATCHERY-

Chicks are produced under my personal supervision. Hatched from select, pure
bred, heavy laying hens, well kept to insure vigorous Chicks.
Varieties Prices on 60

Brown and Buff Leghorns .................................... 1.00
Barred Rocks, R. and s. C. Reds, Anconas .................... 8.00 .
White and Buff Rocks, White Wyandottes, Black Minorcas 8.50 . 7.50
White and Buff Orpingtons. silver Wyandottes ................ 9.00 . 0 87.50
Mixed. all varieties. $12 per 100 straight. 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed.
Postpaid. Order from this Ad. Bank references. There IS no risk. Free Catalog.
Member I. B C. A. H. B. TIPPIN. Box E. Findlay. Ohio.

S P E C I A L Improved S. C.White Leghorns

QUALITY CHICKS BRED ron EGG PRODUCTION smc: 1910

CHIICKS1 from tthis Iiiglli
‘ - - graie egg ayiiig 5mm “1
Our chicks are special quality. Our give you a metpmm’ and
heavy home trade “'hiCh takes most absolute satisfaction. 'l‘hcy
if our chicks indicates the worth of halver 13 yleiins (ill caligi‘iiitl;
ur . - sccc mg am irceiing iii'cg-
3. stock T1108? “ho know us host behind them, and mature lil
me our best Customers. Pure bred the SIlUl‘ii‘rll’. possible time.
“Wk carefully developed, 100% live You benefit by our 13_}'9iil'l~i
BOX 35" delivery guaranteed. Order today. Catalog 011 ..r V H in hatching and Sllllilnlig
' Elflliwtb ('elt Scillwpmtedd I T chicks. ’l‘hcse chicks possess
es arce 05 room on 50 00 500 fruit vitzilit uni grow up
{033011;}? Bigeg'é‘g the’hoBrgwm and B“ 1 iiniioi‘in in size. 100% Safe
. l‘n ncona ________ _ . ‘1 . _. _
type American R. IIQRedSIBarred Rocks. $7 00 $13.00 $62.50 Let us lll'lll you our cats

, 15.00 72.50

OARVIEW POULTRY FARM. Morenci. Mich.

 

ZEELAND. MICH.

‘ Pure Bred Baby Chicks

i

We have been carefully develop-
ing our flocks for eight years.
, Every chick pure bred and
from stock carefully'culled, for
t no and production. Our
' tucks give satisfaction. Order
today for May Delivery.

Prices on 60 '100 500
7.00 $13.00 $82.00
8.00 15.00 72.00

 

N. Leghorns
: B. Rocks. R. I.
Postpaid. 100 live delivery. Y ‘ mi;
chances. Ref. oélarniers d: MechaniciimBank,e tlilig
city. No Catalog. Order from this ad. .t'é- .
. WASHTENAW HATGHERY AroMoncy/‘iakp;.|
Geddes Rd. Ann Arbor. Mich.

and Barred Rocks. Every chick
, carefully mated, culled,
pure-bred finpks owned and developed by us for
15 years. Leghorn males from trapnested 280 egg
liens. Free catalog. Write for prices.

Reliable Hatchery and Farms
Route 3 Holland. Mich.

BEST CHICKS

at Low Prices

Sand for free catalog describ-
ing best bred chicks in the
country. Tom Barron and Tan-
cred White Leghorns, Michigan's
Champion Winter La ing Barred
Plymouth Rocks lmd S. .RJ. Re 5.

. ~ ‘ .55 from

 

A Breckenrige Chicks Are Winners

Day old .chicks from stron . vigorous
flocks which have been care ully culled
and extra selected standard male birds
—-Barred Rocks, . I. Reds and
White Leghorns. \Vc guarantee 100%
safe arrival. Write us for price list
and circular.
BRECKENRIDGE HATCHERY.
J. O. Barnse. Prop.

Breckenridge. Michigan.

arrival guaranteed.

logue with prices.
Satisfaction and 100 per

WOLVERINE HA-TCHERY, Zeeland, Mich, R.2 w; '1... Mm mm“...

. Bummer-Frederick” Poultry farm. Box 29 fllluidJIich.
Our Baby Chicks

won’t be beat because they are hatched from
Michigan s leading pedigreed flocks. culled by genu-
ine poultry experts, for higher egg production and
because we hatch only In. tested mammoth mach-
iiics. ocks. eds \Vhite Leghorns, Anconas.
liufl‘ Orpingtons. .arge instructive catalog tell
all about them. Prices 90 up.

MICHIGAN HATCHERY and POULTRY FARM
Box 2, Holland, Michigan.
Strong.

anv CHICKS mo Harcume secs 3. 0. CH K .

White Leghorns, 'Barron Strain, America’s 'gr test ' S 0 5091311311 Fnh menilhlilfaa

layers from our own breeding . chicks 15 12 00 e 100 13 8'

$533 $5.50 er blindred- Barr Ia . . 8.11. .Eteds 315.130. ‘ W

00 , c 8 ~ huniiaed. ~ . . Assorted chicks $10.00.
% th ed. Reference

BABY CHICKS White Leghorns. White Wyandottes

Laying and standardqualities combined. years
experience in breeding, hatching and marketing.
'Also high quality Barred Rocks and R I. Reds.
All flocks culled and inspected. Modern hatching
plant. 2 hatches weekly. Quality chicks at com«
mercial prices. Write for prices and circular.

. DEAN Egg Farm & Hatchery, Big Beaver

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Our Chicks are_ from flocks on free
make a iiiilitwmnii‘iei‘izh ng(\”\l’ilalnd
' . ‘. . .‘ "ii
LEGHORNS and BROWN LEU—
HORNS. Ileavlyé laying Extra (looil
BARRED R00 .3. ostpaid to your
door and full live delivery guaran-
teed. Our flocks are carefully an or-
_ 32:31:eanfdlrfilioglagtei-‘t‘red.ta Bank Bef-
- > ‘ s e . ' ' '
‘1-4‘ ' and descriptive matter.n for ”Ices
HI LVIEW HATOHERY 0. Dave
. Box H. R. R.‘12, oiland, Ml‘dh.

Quality Chicks at Reasonable Prices

E ng .‘ls h White Leghorns. Parks'
strain Barred Rocks, 3. 0. Black
Minorcas. Reds and Anconas. My
pcii (16) at the 1923 Mich. Con-
tcst finished third among all heavy
breeds, four hens making records
over 200 eggs each, and one with a
record of. 254 eggs was seventh high-
est indiv1dual for .the entire contest,
0 birds competing. Catalog free.
PINE BAY POULTRY FARM.

Holland. Michigan.

QUALITYChidis

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t na B’an . Invent-10:1. mafia slim: I
us‘rouenv. Bliufloid. mohiun. Inflow Poultry Farm. Columbia. no.

range. .

Mail address Birmingham Mich. , R-4

‘It Fills the Bill’

"SELF-SERVE”CIiick Feeder

Holds 12 quarts, Can’t
clog. Chicks can t roost
on special cover nor touch
feed " Wit-h feet. G r o w n

Prop.

Healthy.
Layers.
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BY W. W. FOOTE

Farm Wages Higher

ARM wages in the United States
last year, according to the re-
cent report sent out by the De-

partment of Agriculture, averaged
$33.18 per month with board, com-
paring with $29.17 in 1922. Pres—
ent indications point to still higher
wages this year in the more prosper-
ous farming districts, and it is a cer—
tainty that a great many farmers
will stop employment of outside help,
as they cannot see their way clear
to obtain fair profits after paying
the wages demanded. As farmers
who have been employers of workers
know from actual experience, hired
workers are apt to be far more ex-
acting than in past years, not only
insisting on much higher pay, but
working fewer hours and demanding
many privileges not thought of ten
years or more ago. This is one of
reasons why so many farmers are
reducing the acreage of various
grains and other things, many of
them planning on making their acres
produce more than in the past by
securing only the very best of seeds
and manuring and working the
ground more. In many parts of the
middle west farmer boys have been
doing this for several years and win-
ning prizes; and now their dads are
going to demonstrate, if possible,
that they are not to be outdone.
Farmers are already preparing for
their usual spring activities, which
are belated this year, oats sowing
being very late in the southwest. it
is hoped that the spring wheat acre-
age will be substantially lowered,
but the prevailing belief in that the
area of other farm products will not
show very marked changes: and it
may be set down at the start that
farmers will have no cause for re-
gret for getting prime seed corn and
certified potato seed. Live stock
feeders are prosperous so far as cat-
tle are concerned, and sheep are un-
usually profitable, but hog prices
have been depressed by the huge
supply fattened in the corn belt
states. Obviously, less breeding of
sows is necessary to bring about
higher prices.

What About Wheat?

Prices for wheat have undergone
marked changes this year, and at
times very fair upturns have en-
couraged holders, but it was found
impossible to maintain values long,
with the lack of former speculative

.support, and within a short time

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sales have been of May wheat at $1
per bushel. The fact is that traders
in wheat have lacked confidence in
prices, looking at the matter from
supply and demand standpoint, and
when the haped for federal support
faded away, the advanced values
were lost. Large owners have not
given up, however, and in some dis-
tricts they have signed agreements
to act unitedly in marketing their
Wheat. There is no marked im-
provement in the demand for bread-
stuifs to export, as other exporting
countries continue to undersell us,
and supplies of wheat in sight in the
United States are considerably larger
than a year ago, the Chicago eleva-
tors alone containing a short time
ago 15,600,000 bushels, while the
visible supply totaled over 59,000,-
000 bushels, comparing with 45,-
785,000 bushels a year ago. Spring
wheat seeding reports will be read
with usual interest, and the one hope
for the future lies in much smaller
wheat crops. At present prices it
does not pay to raise wheat, and it
is startling to look back and remem—
ber that a little more than two years
ago wheat for May delivery sold up
to $1.36 while cash wheat sold at
this time in 1917 for $3.04. Late
sales were made of May wheat on
the Chicago Board of Trade at $1.02,
comparing with $1.21% a year ago.

A sudden revival in the milling de-,/

mand for wheat helped to strengthen
the market, and cash lots sold a
little higher a short time ago. Corn
for May delivery sells in the Chicago
market for 79 cents, comparing with
75 1,4, cents a year ago; oats for May
delivm at 46% cents, comparing
with 45 cents last year; and May

FOOTE'S MARKET LETTER '

  
 

 

 

 

MARKET SUMMARY

Wheat unchanged to weaker.
changed. Rye quiet.
steady after recent decline.
in fair supply and quiet.
quality.
higher.

Beans easy after decline.
Prices on potatoes higher.
Good demand for dressed calves of good
Cattle active and higher.

Oats firm and un-
Butter and eggs
Poultry

Corn quiet.

Hogs steady to lower. Sheep

 

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lot page was set in type. It contains last minute
going to press—Editor.) ~

was received AFTER the balance of the mar.
Information up to within one-half hour of

 

 

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rye at 66% cents, comparing with
83%. cents a year ago.
Important Wheat Move.

A special to the Drovers Journal
from Evansville, Indiana, says:

“More than 50 per cent of the
wheat acreage of the “Pocket,”
which includes southwestern Indi—
ana, one of the largest wheat grow-
ing areas of the state, has been sign-
ed for the Indiana Wheat Growers’
association, according to announce-
ment made here at district campaign
headquarters, nearly 80 per cent of
the acreage has been signed up in
Gibson county, the officers said, and
in Posey, Vanderburg and Knox
counties the drive has been success—
ful. The other counties are show—
ing similar interest, as 10,000 acres
are reported from Dubois county.

Other counties have a large per—
centage of the'acreage signed up of
those men solicited, but the impass-
able roads in most localities outside
the counties named have delayed the
work considerably."

High Prices for Cattle

Beef consumption throughout the
country is on a considerably larger
scale than usual, and choice to fancy
offerings of heavy long—fed steers as
well as prime yearling steers and
heifers have sold on the Chicago
market recently at substantial ad—~
vances in prices, with not enough
offered to go around and an especial—
ly small supply of yearling steers.
Most of the time plenty of common
to fairly good cattle are offered on
the market, but the prevailing prac-
tice is to ship cattle to market after
a short feed. Prime heavy steers
have sold up to $12.35 per 100
pounds the highest price of the year,
while on a recent day there were-
sales of 40 heifers averaging 667
pounds at $10 and 13 heifers aver-
aging 899 pounds at $10.15. Other
sales have been made of choice
heifers at $8.50 to $9.25. An im-
portant late sale was that of 58 head
of 1548-pound choice Hereford steers
at $12.35 for shipment to Boston.
These cattle were fat when they went
into the feed lots and received a
five months feed thereafter. The
bulk of the beef steers sold recently
at $8.25 to $11.50, with sales down
to $7 to $8 for common kinds and
inferior little steers purchased at $5
to $6.90, and no good steers taken
below $10. The best yearlings were
wanted at $11 to $12, but very few
were offered good enough to bring
$11.50. Most heifers sold at $5.40
and over, and stockers and feeders
had a moderate sale at $5 to $8.75,
selling largely at $6 to $7.75, and
plenty of bargains were picked up.
Calves sold at $5 to $12 and bulls
at $3.50 to $7.50, with canner and
cutter cows at $2 to $3.75 and bet-
ter cows at $4 to $8.50. A year ago
common to prime beef steers were
selling at $7.60 to $10.40, four years
ago at $10 to $14.50 and eight years
ago at $7.60 to $10. Combined cat-
tle receipts in twenty markets for
the year to late date amount to 3,-
128,000 head, comparing with 3.-
182,000 a year ago.

Rigid Cattle Quarantine

Announcement of rigid quarantine
regulations against live stock and
farm product shipments from Cali-
fornia by the state of Nevada was
the outstanding development in the
foot-and-mouth disease epidemic in
California.

Nevada has taken steps to make
available a quarter of a million dol-
lars to enforce the quarantine regu-
lations.

The San Francisco stock yards re-
mained under quarantine while work

of destroying 5,000 head of cattle in -

the Los Angeles stock yards was pro-

 
 

gressing. A large dairy herd of 600
head was found infected in Los An-
geles county. The epidenic in that
section was still not under control.
Hogs and Provisions
Prevailing prices of hogs, which
are_the lowest in many years, work
against the consumption of pork
chops, and this has weakened prices
for fresh and cured hog products and
affected prices for hogs as well
although decidedly fewer swine

.reached the Chicago market than a

short time ago. Large marketing of
hogs has resulted in acccumulatiOns
of provisions, and stocks of lard in
western packing points on April 1
aggregated 48,446,000 pounds, com-
paring with 34,029,000 pounds a
month earlier and 27,201,000 pounds
a year ago. Stocks of pork amount-
ed to 46,649 barrels, comparing with
46,227 barrels a month earlier and
44,081 barrels a year ago. Stocks of
cured meats aggregated 355,665,000
pounds, comparing with 336,221,000
pounds a month earlier and 324,-
619,000 pounds a year ago. While
hog receipts have fallen off material-
ly, there has been a corresponding
reduction in the purchases of eastern
shippers in the Chicago market.
Combined receipts in twenty markets
for the year to date amount to 13,—
038,000 hogs, comparing with 12,-
056,000 for the same period last year
and 9,0811,000 two years ago. Hogs
average well in quality and there is
a narrow range of prices. Chicago’s
receipts of hogs last week fell off to
164,500 head, comparing with 204,-
490 a week earlier and 176,133 a
year ago, and only a small decline
took place in prices, sales being
made at $6.70 to $7.60. A year ago
hogs sold at $7.15 to $8.65 and nine
years ago, at $6.85 to $7.60. If the
receipts do not increase, better
prices may be looked for. '

High Prices for Lambs

Not enough lambs are offered t0‘
satisfy the demand, and extremely
high prices are paid for all fattened
flocks, even heavy weights selling
high and much wanted, although
handy weights sell highest. Lambs
with the wool on have been selling
in the Chicago market for $13.50 to
$16.85, mostly at $16.35 and over
for Colorado fed lots, while shearing
and feeding lambs are taken at $14.-
50 to $15.90. A year ago prime
lambs-brought $14.90, four years ago
$21.50 and eight years ago $12.
Ewes sell at $9 to $12, wethers at
$10.25 to $13.25, yearlings at $13
to $15 and bucks at $7 to $8.75.
These are great times for the farm-
ers owning sheep. Lamps are at the
highest prices of the year.

WHEAT

The wheat market at Detroit

. showed a little more strength last

week, although there was a tone of
easiness most of the time. Demand
from the millers, while not pressing,
was enough to take care of all re-
ceipts, and prices advanced 3 cents
during the week.

CORN
Small receipts caused corn prices
to advance at Detroit last week. De-
mand was only fair. Receipts are
showing a steady decline while de-
mand remains about the same.

OATS
The Detroit oat market is firm
with receipts small. Prices are
somewhat higher than they were
two weeks ago.

BYE
Millers have been in the Detroit

market tryinc to purcha- 179,1:th

  

higher prices are noted.

 

BEANS

Trade in general was dull in the
bean market during the fortnight
ending ,April 5th. Some dealers
claim that the price at Detroit will
decline to $4.50 and then remain
around that figure, while ‘others are
fighting to keep the price up to
around $5. A few farmers in Mich-
igan are holding their beans for high-
er prices but the greater portion of
them have sold. Reports show about
the same condition in nearly every
bean growing state in the Union.

 

POTATOES

A steady tone prevails in the po-
tato market at Detroit, with the sup-
ply suflicient to take care of the de—
mand. A fair demand for new pota-
toes and old potatoes quiet, is the
condition of the New York market
at present. " Chicago has a liberal
supply with demand and tr
slow. Receipts would no doubt be
greater if it were not for the bad
condition of the country roads as
farmers are reported anxious to sell.
Michigan shippers state they have
good wire inquiry.

 

HAY

Markets have shown more strength
this week particularly in the west,
due to light receipts and a good de-
mand. Bad roads are restricting
country loadings and the movement
is light. Best grades alfalfa and
prairie are in good *demand. In the
east the receipts are moderate and
markets are steady for the top
grades. ‘

 

M'ARKET QUOTATIONS

Wheat

Detroit—Cash No. 2 white, $1.-
09%; No. 2 mixed, $1.09.

Chicago—Cash No. 2 hard, $1.-
03%@1.12.

Prices one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No. 2 red, $1.36%; No. 2

white,
, 3 6 1/2.
Corn

Detroit—Cash No. 3 allow 4c'
No. 4, 81c. y ' 8 '

$1.361/2; No. 2 mixed,.$1.-

Chicago—Cash No. 3 yellow,
79940.

Prices one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No. 3 yellow, 83%0; No. 4,
811/2c.

' Oats
Detroit—Cash No. 2 white, 54c;
No. 3, 52c.
Chicago—Cash No. 2 white, 48%
@50c; No. 3, 47%@48%c.

Prices one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No. 2 White, 51%c; No. 3, 50¢.
Rye

Detroit—Cash No. 2, 71c.

Chicago—Cash No. 2, 6536c.
Prices one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No. 2, 8136c. .
Beans
Detroit—C. H. P., $4.60@4.65
per cwt.
Prices one year ago—Detroit,

C. H. P., $7.15 per cwt.

Potatoes
Detroit—$1.60@1.70 per cwt.
Chicago—$1.20@ 1.40 per cwt.
Prices one year ago—Detroit.

$1.41@1.50 per cwt.

Hay

Detroit—No. 2 timothy, $21@22;
No. 1 clover, $21@22; standard &
light mixed, $22.50@23 per ton.

Chicago—~No. 2 timothy, $23.50
@25; No. 1 clover, $21@23; stand-
ard & light mixed, $24@26 per ton.

Prices one year ago—Detroit,
No. 1 timothy, $20@21; No. 2 tim-
othy, $17@19; No. 1 clover, $196
20; standard & light mixed, $190
20 per ton.

_ POTATOES STILL 0N FARMS _

The recent inquiry relative to
merchantable stocks of potatoes held
on March lst resulted in showing
that there were 35 per cent less po-
tatoes in the country on that data
available for shipment out of the
countries where grown than one year
ago..
ity than last year in Maine,
York and Pennsylvania,».-the western

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Week of April 13
~EMPERATURES during most of
this week will average close to
or slightly below normal in
Michigan. Temperatures in this
state will not show any radical
changes for the next week or ten
days but from that time until mid-
dle of May weather and tempera—
ture changes will be more decided.

During early part of this week
east winds and cold rains are to be
expected. Generally fair weather
is to be expected over the middle
part of the week but conditions will
again become unsettled and threat-
ening about Saturday.

At the end of this week tempera—
tures will rise considerably above
normal for the season, wind forces
will increase decidedly and general
precipitation with some local heavy
falls will be making themselves con—
spicious.. These conditions will run
over into next week.

Week of April 20

The stormy periods of this week
in Michigan will occur at very be-
ginning, again about Wednesday
and Thursday and then about Satur—
day. Of these three periods, the last
is expected to be the most pronounc-
ed. There will be more than the
average amount of Windy weather
during most all the week .but these
conditions will come to more of a
head at the close.

Gales on the Great Lakes, high
winds inland, heavy rains and elec-
trical storms are characteristics to
expect at end of this or beginning of
next week. These conditions may
be followed by dashes of late spring
snow in parts of the state.

Summer Warmer Than Usual

Duringsummer months of July,
August and September we are ex—
pecting the weather in Michigan to
be warmer than usual. Rainfall,
however will be more plentiful over
the northern half than southern
half of lower peninsula

RADIO PROGRAMS

Station KYW, Chicago—Central
time 8:20 P. M., Wave length 536
meters.

April 8—“What Crop Reports
Really Mean to the Farmer,” by B.
H. Critchfield, executive secretary,
Midwest Agricultural Economics,
Research Council. “The Function
of the Union Stock Yards," by R. H.
Heide, secretary, International Live
Stock Exposition.

April 15—“The Farmer’s Taxes,"
by H. W. Moorehouse, director of re—
search, American Farm Bureau
Federation. “A Home You Love to
Live in,” by K. J. T. Ekb'law, Port-
land Cement Association.

April 22—“The Farm Horse Sit-
uation,” by Ellis McFarland, secre-
tary, Percheron Society of America.
Also an address by L. A. Rumsey,
American Institute of Baking.

 

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Whileegiis is primarily the result of the greater productivi of the wonderfully fertile,

drained and irrigated, river-bottom land in Sutter Basin, it is 0 due, in a large measure,
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