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UTTERFIELD MAY TALK AT

STATE GRANGE MEET .

PPOSITION to a state income
0 tax may be challenged to debate

the issue at the convention of
the Michigan State Grange to be held
at Petosk'ey, Oct. 28 to 31, according
to information received from officers
df the Michigan State Grange. The
Grange is active in’ supporting the
income tax amendment to be voted
on at the November election.

Dr. Kenyon L. Butterfield, presi-
dent-elect of the Michigan Agricul-
tural College probably will be one of
the speakers at the convention. Dr.
Butterfield formerly was editor of

' the State Grange paper and has been

closely identified with this farm or-
ganization.

BIhL FAIIS TO PASS
SENATE

Ketcham Bill, providing for
extensions of agricultural for-
eign service and a codification

of existing law relating to this
work, failed to pass the Senate, al-
though it was reached twice on the
Senate Calendar. In both cases one

. or more Senators objected, and both

cases occurred when the Senate was
working under “Unanimous Con-
sent” rules. The short to secure

E this law was based on what appear-

ed to be a self—evident effort of the

' Dept. of Commerce to secure in the

Winslow Bill, a. law which would
give it sole jurisdiction over all arg-
ricultural agents in foreign coun-
tries, and Wipe out the agricultural
service abroad, except under the
jurisdiction and control of the Sec-
retary of Commerce. The Winslow
Bill was fought to a standstill in the
House and an effort to pass it under
suspension of the rules was defeat-
ed. Senator Jones of Washington
introduced the same measure in the
Senate, but could not get it reported
by the Senate Committee on Inter-
' state and Foreign Commerce. How-
ever, the same influences which
were back of this measure were able
. to defeat the Ketcham BilL The
‘Ketcham Bill was passed by the
. House, and will be on the Senate
Calendar for passage in December,
but in the meantime six months to
a year of time is lost in reorganiz—
ing this service. There is no doubt
of a determined eflort in December
to defeat the Ketcham Bill and pass
the Winslow Bill in its place.

FOOT-AND -MOU'I'H DISEASE
WANIN G

ECENT reports received by the
Chief of the Bureau of Animal
Industry in Washington show

that the outbreak of foot-and-mouth
disease in California is definitely on
the wane. Accounts received from
field headquarters up to June 10
showed no new cases of infection
for four days, the longest period
Without new herds being reported
' since the beginning of the outbreak
in February. Not only were there
. no new cases, but there were no con-
demned animals to be slaughtered.
All infected premises have been
cleaned and disinfected. So effici-
' ently was the cleanup work carried
on that no sooner was the disease
‘ discovered than crews were busy
’ getting it under lime and earth. The
situation now, says Dr. John B.
Chief of the Bureau of
Animal Industry, is the most favor—
‘ able yet reported. There will be no
1 slowing up in the work of suppres-
‘ sion and no relaxation in watchful-
ness until the plague is thoroughly
eliminated and the country’s live-
‘ stock industry freed of all danger
from this source.

237 GRADUATE FROM M. A. C.
7 HE 1924 graduating class at
Michigan Agricultural College,
number 237 students, is slightly
smaller than the average number of
graduates for the past few years but,
1 satisfaction as to the condition of
the school in this respect as com—
. pared with other land grant colleges
is expressed by Miss Elida Yakeley.
registrar of M. A. C.

The nation-wide depression in ag-
riculture, while Michigan is one of
the states suffering the least ef-
fects, according to state agricultural

j leaders, is reflected in the fact that
the number of engineering graduates
‘: this year is greater than the number
} of agricultural graduates.
, The engineering division leads in
i the number of graduates, with 71
' students, while the home economics

  

division with 64 and the agricultural
division with 62 follow closely.
Twenty forestry students, 14 in the
applied science division, and six in
the division of veterinary medicine
complete the roster of graduates.

The success of the Applied
Science division, which was estab-
lished as the first non—technical
branch of the college in 1921, is an
indication of the effect which this
division and the new Liberal Arts
Course, which will be instituted at
the beginning of the next school year,
will have on the enrollment of the
institute, in the belief of the college
officials.

The class of 19 24 is the first class
to graduate from M. A. C. which
has been practically free from the
effect of war conditions. Last year’s
class included a number of students

who had entered with earlier classes
and dropped out of school to enroll
in the army, returning to graduate
with the class of 1923.

CROP CONDITIONS POOREST IN
ITWELVE YEARS

THE composite condition of all
growing crops on June 1 was
lower than on any correspond—
ing data in more than twelve years,
says the United States Department
of Agriculture.

With the exception of some fruits
and vegetables, no crops are up to
the usual average for this time of
year and the season thus far has
been unusually unfavorable for corn,
spring wheat, oats, barley and cotton.
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Relative prices tell the story of optimism or depression.

With urban prices and.

wages from 60 to 100 per cent ab we pro-war level, producers of beef cattle, wheat,
hours, or other products selling at or below pro-war prices, are at serious economic
disadvantage. This chart shows at a glance why the Far West is favoring show
over beef cattle: why the Wheat Belt favors less wheat and more “tying; why the

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3 corn and reducing hogs; Why the South has increased cotton.

acreage.

The Big Summer Holstein Round-up

“ VERY summer, one big gather-
ing of lovers of Holstein cat-
tle,” such is the plan of officials

of the State Holstein Ass’n. Last

year the large occasion was the

“Round-up” at the farm of D. D.

Aitken, of Flint.

This year the summer classic will
be held at the farm of the Detroit
Creamery Company at Mt. Clemens,
on July First. This meeting will be
under the joint auspices of the Ma-
comb County Holstein Ass’n——the
largest in the State—the State Hol—
stein Ass’n, and the Detroit Creamery
Company Farms. The program as
arranged by these co-operating spon-
sors is as follows:

FORENOON——Meet at the Detroit
Creamery Farms. This establishment
is located one and one-half miles
south of Mt. Clemens on Gratiot Ave—
nue, or eighteen miles out of Detroit
on Gratiot. Visitors will “get an eye
full" as the Farms include 1800
acres, there are 24 silos, the milking
herd numbers over 500, etc.

NOON——Picnic dinner at the De-
troit Creamery Company Picnic
Grove. Bring your “makings” The
grove is well equipped with modern
conveniences, water supply, tables,
etc. Free ice cream will be furn-
ished by the Macomb County Hol-
stein Ass'n. .

The feed will be followed by sho
snappy talks by representatives of
the National and local Holstein As—
sociations. Prof O. E. Reed, Head
of Dairy Dept, M. A. C. has been
specially invited to talk.

AFTERNOON—Jinge J u d g l n g
Demonstration at the farm of the
Detroit Creamery Company by Bob
Haeger, National Holstein Judge.

“Home in Time to Milk."

Are you acquainted with Mr. Bob
Heager'! Just scan his pedigree. In
the first place he is a breeder of
Black and White cattle, having a
herd of his own, numbering sixty
head, at Algonquin, Illinois. Them
he is a veteran showman, having fol-
lowed the fairs for years. His fam-
ous show cow Minerva Beets was
five times Grand Champion Female
at the National Dairy Show. Haeger

 

also showed a bull Paul Calamo
Korndyke who won Grand Champion
Bull three times. These champions
represent the last word, the top
notch in showing of dairy cattle. No
other Holstein ever won distinction
more than once. To sum up Haeger’s
rating as a show man, it can be said
that he has won more prizes, includ-
ing nine Grand Championships, than
any five other breeders combined.
And, in addition, Bob is a nationally
known judge of Holsteins, having
officiated during the last four years
at leading fairs thruout the U. S. He
is booked now to handle Holstein
juggling at Michigan State Fair in
19 .

Judge Haeger will not be crippled
in giving his demonstrations for lack
of material as the large herd of the
Detroit Creamery Company will yield
specimen from every class of fe-
males, at least. There are approxi-
mately 125 head of purebred Hol-
stein females on the Farms, as well
as four mature service sires.

Everyone is invited to this big
meeting. You don’t have to own
pure-bred Holsteins to be eligible;
if. you are interested in the dairy bus—
iness you are welcome. Young
breeders and boys and girls interest-
ed in Cali Club Work are especially
urged to accept this opportunity to
learn from an expert the fine points
of judging Holsteina—J. G. Hays,
Sec. State Holstein .Ass’n.

(Editor's Note: The Holstein as-
sociation of Macomb county was or-
ganized through the efforts of County
Agent Murphy, a real “live wire”,
and at a meeting held this spring it
was decided to have a dairy meeting
and picnic. and the day and place
was decided at that time. A com-
mittee got in touch with the state
Holstein association and the M. A 0.
dairy departmeifi and‘ it was then
decided to make the annual “Round:-
up“ a part of this meet. Mr. Mur-
Dhy urges all who are interested in
dairying, especially those in Macomb
county to attend. And he has made
a special appeal for the boys and

girls interested in club work to be ,

animal. Let's make a day 0111:.)

 
   

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May was better
than any previous lay in thirty-
seven years. Crops in that part of
the country are much poorer than
usual, particularly in Washington
where crops, including fruits, are ex-
pected to produce only two-thirds as
much per we as usual with the re-
suit that the purchasing power of
local farmers seems certain to he
seriously reduced

Wheat growers in Kansas are $0
facing an unprofitable season. the de-
partment says. In other parts of
the country the final showing depends
too much on late planted crops and
on summer weather to permit any
degree of accurate estimate of the
final outcome, but the department
says that present prospects are do:
somewhat lower crop yields than us-
ual in nearly all parts of the country
except in some of the fruit sections
of the Eastern States.

An new not. is sounded.
however. in as W m in
some years when spring has been
late, yields have been unexpecbdly
good. Corn and cotton are still be-

. ing planted or replanted and many

fields of cats have only just come up.
With good weather the usual acreage
of crops may still be grown and in
the country as a. whole the usual
number of bushels and bales may
be harvested, the department says.

26 CO-OP'ERATIVE MARKETING
BILIS PENDING
. NTY-SIX co-operative mar-
keting bills, or bills 'dealing
with some phase of the co-
operative marketing problem are
pending, none of them being given
a hearing in either House or Senate.
Without a hearing the Senate Com-
mittee on Agriculture reported both
the Smith Bill and the Curtis Bilk
Late in the session Congressman
Tincher introduced a bill which pro-
vides for voluntary government reg-
istration of co-operatives, examinar
tion of their financial accounts, in,-
creased work by the Department of
Agriculture in establishing grades,
standards, and inspection service. It
is understood that co—operative or-
ganizations generally have made
representations against
any of the pending bills, until they
can have time to examine them in

’ ‘ Dry weather has mvafled oaths

Pacific coast and

   
  
  

action on'

detail, and to be heard for or agai‘nr ‘

st them. It is altogether likely that
the first big task the House and
Senate Agricultural Committees will
take up in December, will be this

problem and the pending measures

relating to it.
STRAWBERRY PRODUCTION

DECLINES ,
W0 million and a half fewer
quarts of strawberries were

eaten by Americans last year, 1

than were consumed a quarter of a .

century ago, due to a decreased
acreage rather than a decrease in
the public appetite. The strawberry
remains the. most popular of all
small fruits, but a scarcity of berry
pickers has made profits uncertain,
according to Samuel R. Guard, Dir-
ector of the Sears- Roebuck Agricul-
tural Foundation.

It is found that in the twenty-four
years between 1899 and 1924, the
strawberry acreage in the United
States has been reduced 21 per cent.
For the last two years, acreage fig—
ures have been considerably higher
than during the previous five year
period. This year the estimated
acreage is again low, totaling only
113,250 acres, as compared with
113,395 acres in 1919; 143,045
acres in 1909, and 161,363 acres in
1890. Twenty—five years ago there
was 257,427,000 quarts of straw—
berries produced. In 1909, the pro—
duction had decreased to 255,702;
000, and in 1919 to 176,932,000
quarts. a 30.3 per cent reduction in
the twenty year period. Last year
than were 254,691,000 quarts re—
ported. which is a considerable in-
crease over the 1913 ('10P figure,
butmmthamtwoandahalfmll-
lion quests under the crop of 1899.
The crop forecast this year in the

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The Growing Menace of Tax Exempt Securities

By Purchasing Bonds Exempt From Taxation Idle Rich Eludes Tax Collector

conducting our recent article on

fair assessment of property for

tax purposes, we advocated the
adoption of such taxation reform
measures as would insure not only
the more just appraisal of property,
but would result in pIacing addi—
tional property, especially personal
property, on the tax rolls. This
method is beyond all doubt one of
the easiest ways to reduce the tax
rate and secure a more equitable dis-
tribution of the tax burden._ When
the tax rate goes down it has been
the universal experience that person-
al property quite generally comes out
of its hiding places and begins to
turn in revenue to the government
thus relieving the burden on real
estate-

But in the consideration of this
situation, we are immediately con-
fronted with the fact that a large
amount of tangible property is in the
form of bonds and securities, which
have been made in whole or in part
tax-exempt.

IThe Vicious Circle

Now that the income tax idea is
firmly established as a means of rais-
ing revenue for our national govern-
ment and since the rate has been
made progressive, that is higher for
the larger incomes, it is proving true
that these so-called tax-exempt se-
curities are becoming more and more
popular with the wealthy classes.
This popularity increases the demand
for this ”type of investment, which in
turn stimulates the issuance of tax-
exempt bonds and encourages muni-
cipal and governmental extravagance,
and thus the vicious circle rolls on
and on, while the man with the
small income, the general property
owner, carries the heavy burden of
governmental support and the idle
rich smugly and complacently elude
the tax collector—with ofiicial sanc-
tion.

The enormous unfairness of this
situation is rapidly becoming so ap-
parent that popular opinion, backed
up by the best thought of America’s
leading economists and statesmen, is
clamoring insistently for reform to
wipe out this flagrant injustice.

What Is the Remedy?

As the first step toward remedying
this deplorable condition, Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon recommended
an amendment to the Constitution to
prevent any further issuance of tax-
exempt bonds by municipalities, but
that was voted down by Congress.
H it is a sound principle of taxation
that‘ “subjects of every state ought
to contribute toward the support of
the government as nearly as possible
in proportion to their respective
abilities, " where is the justice in a
situation which allows people of large
means to actually escape taxation
through the purchase of bonds bring-
ing in a net yield of 4% per cent
to. 4% per cent?

Can anything be more fantastic
than the Government of the United
States solemnly declaring its purpose
to take fifty-eight per cent of a man’s
income and then provide the means
whereby he will pay no tax at all?
What is the sense of talking about
the rich tax dodgers when the United
States Government considerately pro-
vides isles of safety on which men
of wealth can find complete security
from state and federal taxes?

Former President Harding clearly
saw the menace of tax exemption
back in 1921 when he said in his
message to Congress:

“Many of us belong to that school
of thought which is hesitant about
altering the fundamental law. I
think our tax problems, the tendency
of, wealth to seek non-taxable in-
vestmen-t, and the menacing increase

'. a! public _debt—-Federal, State and “
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By STANLEY M. POWELL

(Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

change the Constitution so as to end
the issue of non-taxable bonds. No
action can guard against future en-
couragement of capital’s paralysis,
while a halt in the growth of public
indebtedness would be beneficial
throughout our whole land.”
A Many-Headed Mons’er

Lemuel S. Hillman, writing in the
February 15, 1924, issue of the Old
National Bank Bulletin, published
bi—weekly by the Old National Bank
of Grand Rapids, says:— “Tax-exempt
municipal bonds are unsound and
vicious because their effect on the
present condition tends to produce
the following four bad results:

“It deprives the treasury of rev-
enue which it has a right to expect
from men of large means.

“It shifts the burden of taxation
to men of smaller financial circum-
stances.

“It hampers industry by diverting
capital which under other circum-
stances would be invested in public
utility, railroad and industrial enter-
prises.

“It encourages extravagant muni-
cipal financing.”

In order to realize the tremendous
importance of this matter of tax—ex—
empt securities and the very real
menace which confronts our tax pay-
ers if this situation is not speedily
remedied, let us examine a few fig-
ures which trace the development
and present status of the tax-exemp-
tion evil.

No less an authority than Hon.
Ogden L- Mills, Congressman from
New York and member of the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means, address-

ing the recent meeting of the Na-
tional Tax Association, declared:

“For every dollar expended in
1914 for household budgets, labor
department figures show the expendi-
ture in 1922 was $1.60, but for every
dollar expended in governmental cost
in 1914, the preliminary census fig-
ures indicate that $2.50 was spent in
1922. But this is not all. States
and municipalities have been and are
increasing their bonded indebtedness
at an even greater rate, in many in-
stances to cover current expenditures,
and in more numerous cases for the
purpose of financing improvements,
whose life is only too frequently ex-
ceeded by that of the securities is-
sued. State and municipal issues in
1913 amounted to 591 million dol-
lars; in 1922 to 1 billion, 675 mil-
lions. In 1913, the securities out-
standing amounted to 3 billions, 822
millions. Today they exceed 11 bil-
lions.‘ ‘ "

Government’s Loss Huge

“Tax—exempt securities constitute,
in my judgement, the greatest evil
in the whole field of taxation—an
evil so farreaching in its consequen-
ces, both social and economic, as to
be deserving of the most serious and
immediate attention on the part of
the people of the country. Of one
thing I am perfectly sure: a progres-
sive income tax at high rates and
tax—exempt securities cannot exist
side by side. Tax-exempt securities
must inevitably destroy the progres-
sive income tax, and I am by no
means certain that the evil has not
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to save our present federal income
tax. Tax-exempt securities, gentle-
men, are absolutely indefensible,
whether you study them from the
standpoint of the fiscal needs of gov-
ernment, from the economic or from
the social standpoint. Let us con-
sider the fiscal problem first.

"The Treasury estimates that there
are $11,000,000,000 of wholly tax-
exempt securities outstanding, and
that they are being issued at the
rate of $1,000,000,000 a year.
There are, in addition, some $20,-
000,000,000 of partially exempt
United States securities. If we as-
sume that this $10,000,000,000, more
or less, of wholly exempt securities
and the $20,000,000,000, more or
less, of partially exempt securities
are held in the following percentages
by the following classes, I can giva
you an estimate of what it is costing
the Government.

“Assuming that 37 per cent of
these securities are held by corpor-
ations, that 23 per cent are held by
people who pay no income tax, and
the balance by people whose average
rate of income tax is 35 per cent,
tax-exempt securities are today cost-
ing the United States Government
$242,000,000 a year. ‘ ‘ '

“Theoretically, this loss should be
offset by the lower rate of interest
which the Government has to pay by
reason of the tax—exempt privilege
granted the investor, but this, under
our system of government and tax-
ation, is only true to a very limited
extent. Thus the Federal Govern—
ment derives no benefit whatsoever
in so far as state and municipal se-
curities are concerned. In the sec-
ond place, even with respect to its
own securities, it is unable to capital-
ize the reduced taxes, first; because
the rate is uncertain; second; be—
cause it is progressive.

Here's How It Works

“There is no question but that if
we had a flat, uniform and reason-
ably permanent tax, tax-exempt se-
curities would command a price in
the open market which, as compared
with the price of taxable securities,
would be higher in proportion to the
exact extreme represented by the tax—
exempt privilege; that is to say, they
would sell at a price high enough so
that the net yield of the bonds would
be equal“ to the net yield of the tax-
able bond, after the payment of the
tax. The Government would, 01'
course, get the benefit of the in-
creased value. But with the progres-
sive rate we have a very different
situation.

“Let us assume that a man with
an income of $10,000 bought in 1920
a 5 per cent taxable bond which
yielded him a net return of 4.58.
Had he bought a tax-exempt bond
and paid 105.17, it would have yield-
ed him 4.58 net. In other words, he
was equally well off whether he
bought a taxable or a non-taxable se—
curity at that price. But assuming
that the non-taxable security was
selling at 106, then he was obviously
better off if he bought a taxable se-
curity. This meant that under the
1918 Revenue Act the $10,000 man
dropped out of the tax-exempt secur—
ity market at 106.

“Apply the same line of. reasoning
to the other income classes, you will
find the $20,000 man dropping out
at the somewhat higher figure, and
so on down the line. The million-
dollar man could have afforded to
pay 143.80 for the non-taxable as
compared with the taxable 5 per cent
bond. As a matter of fact, he ob-
tained the non—taxable bond at a
much lower figure, by reason of the
fact that the other income classes
dropped out long before the bond had
reached a price where it would be

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Matter, and Calf, Says Expert
By JIMMIE HAYES

Dairy Extension Specialist, M. A. C.

' BOUT one year ago I struggled
to my feet at a banquet telling
my fellow Holstein breeders

numerous valuable points about our
noble calling. Among the regular
gems trickling through my some-
what irregular teeth were a few rtL
marks concerning the technique of
dehorning a calf.

Some of my auditors (Is that the
word I want, “auditors,” or should
it be "Creditors?" I am more fam—
iliar with the latter; anyway I mean
them there folks what had to be po-
lite and listen), said I should write
your paper the formula or perform-
ance or whatever it was. So I re-
solved to do so and here, 10 months
later, I get to the point just about
the way we farmers do our writing,
eh? Or transfer our Holsteins?

Today i had a special reminder
to enlighten you as per aged re-
solve, when at a little gathering I
was telling the dairy farmers how to
lose money gracefully in the cow
business, and during my harangue
one certain person in the bunch
would smile every time I caught his

eye. I concluded I surely had a
dairy convert in him. And when I
momentarily subsided this person
asked me a question. “What makes

a cow's horns drop off?” Now I
wonder was he a convert or was he
like the cow’s horns? Anyway his
question reminded that I really
should be writing you about how to
dehorn a calf.

It is a very simple procedure.
Each and every farm press article
on the subject admits that it is
simple. One should be that way
when he approaches the matter, and
the calf.

First you enter the pen where the
3— to 5—day—old calf is circulating,
boot him OK to one side and deposit
in the lightest corner of the pen a
nice bunch of straw which I forgot
to say you were carrying.

Then you go to the medicine cup—
board and dig out the glass bottle in
which you interned your stick of
caustic potash last year when you
used it last. And you find that your
stick isn't a stick at all but a bunch
of powder. So all is off until you
happen to be in town and after be-
ing there a couple of times you hap-
pen to remember to buy a stick of
caustic.

Ready now for a new start, a few
days later. It is true, you find the
procedure still very simple. You
carry into the calf pen a big armful
of dry straw, dump it in the lightest
corner, flop the sniffling calf there-
on and camp astraddle of his writh—
ing frame. And remember that you
should have brought along the clip-
pers to cut his forelock away from
the horn buttons. So up you rise,
go back to the medicine cupboard,
tetar things out right and left and

Michigan Beans May Go Above $5 Per Hundred Pounds

0 one ventures any very logical
reason why Michigan beans
should be selling below the

cost of production at a time when
there is virtually no competition.
The old bug bear of foreign beans
has been effectually eliminated by a
dollar seventy-five cent tariff. Cali-
fornia has steadfastly and success-
fully held large and small whites at
a level far above the market on
Michigan pea beans until now their
crop is about exhausted.

Unofficial but trustworthy figures
place the marketable yield of Michi-
gan beans in 1923-4 at 8,200 cars
of 40,000 pounds each. The estimate
of cars shipped from Michigan up to
May lst is conservatively 6,500 cars,
leaving on May lst only 1,700 cars.
During May there have been ship-
ped I believe very close to 700 cars
and June lst will not see more than
1,000 cars in the state.

1,000 cars to care for trade de-
mands during June, July and Aug-
ust is a startling modest supply.
Weather conditions to date indicate
a grave possibility that there will be
no new crop of beans available until
lake'Sep'tember as rain has so far

'«pré‘rented any attempt at planting

the new crop. This means that on

 

 

F COURSE you know Jimmie Hayes, or have heard him talk at some

meeting.
something.

If you have never heard or met him you have missed
He knows live stock from A to Z and, in addition to

being in the Dairy Extension department at the M. A. 0., owns a farm

known as “Komboss Farm".

_ In this article, which appeared in the
Holstein World, he tells how to dehorn a calf.

If you do not know

how to perform this “simple" operation we advise you to read this

article carefully.

"simple art” don’t miss this article; you’ll get some new ideas.

And even if you have had experience with this

The

article is just as witty as his talks and if your sides do not ache before
you get through it you better call a. doctor.

 

 

finally find your clippers, not there
at all but over at the house where
you used them Sunday for cutting
the boys hair.

When you reenter the calf pen
you find the calf a trifle wary after
having been flopped once, but you
finally get him cast again on the
dry bedding and you gnaw off the
hair around the horn buttons, with
the clippers—not your teeth. You
have no trouble locating the horn
buttons because the calf is maybe
10 days old by this time and his
horns are more stubs than buttons.

And you find the clipping simple, al-
though there do appear to be a
couple of teeth gone out of the clip-
pers, and the calf seems to dislike
playing Samson and blats frequent-
y.

Now tuck your clippers in your
wampus pocket along with your
handkerchief and bagstrings, nails,
baling wire, burrs, etc., with which
all good farmers are ballasted. Take
out your bottle containing the caus-
tic, removing the cork with your
teeth. This is good practice be-
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Take out your bottle containing the caustic, removing the cork with your teeth.

This

is good practice because it permits of your using one hand to thrust the calf’s head
into the bedding. also any trace of caustic on the bottle top getting on your lips will
indicate whether or not the caustic in active, fresh and worth the dime it cost you.

By GERALD HULETT

 

 

June lst. Mr.

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II‘HIS is a letter written to us by Mr. Gerald llulett just prior to
Hulett is assmtinwd with a firm

that deals in

beans and this fact should be taken into consideration when you
read the letter, but he has taken conditions as they are, added them

up and given the ultimate results.

To us it looks as though he had

given the correct answer to the future of the market. He fully be-
lieves in higher prices for Michigan beans and recently told us that
the farmer cannot long continue to raise beans for less than (tom. of

production.

Even the selfish dealer realizes that he will soon be out

of business if the farmer cannot make a profit on his crop.

 

 

June lst Michigan will have to
market only a possible 250 cars of
old crop per month.

Consider that one large dealer
alone claims to have handled in one
month on this crop more than 500
cars and you can visualize quite
something of a scramble for beans
during the next ninety days.

The scarcity is already being felt
in the state and with a growing de-
mand quite customary at this time
of year the market is looking infln-
itel-y better.

Rumors are abroad that elevators

have sold short the beans stored
with them by farmers. If this be
true, and the stories are from such
sources that there must be a meas-
ure of foundation for them, there
is right now a tremendous short
interest in this been market. We
are of the opinion that beans held
in Michigan today are in strong
hands and cannot be dislodged by
any absence of demand created by
bear dope broadcasted to the trade.

The canners cannot have supplied

their requirements up to the new

- crop deliveries. Business in general

hand to thrust the calf’s head into
the bedding also any trace of caustic
on the bottle top getting on your
lips will indicate Whether or not the
caustic is active, fresh and worth
the dime it cost you. Lay the cork
carefully down on the straw.

About now you recall that you
should have brought along a can of
water to use in moistening the horn
buttons. But you hate to go after
it, as you are “sitting pretty" on
the throbbing calf, and so you spit
on your right forefinger and daub
one horn button good and proper.
After shaking the bottle the caustic
finally flies out into the straw. You
recover the biggest piece you can,
grasp it securely in your right hand
and start rubbing it firmly but gent-
ly on the moistened horn button.

And directly, Kotyledenous Korn-
dike and Merciful Mercedes! The
caustic starts after the wet forefing-
er you used as a brush; you drop
everything you used and rush to
swish your burning finger in the
cool water of the barnyard tank. It
occurs to you at once that you
should have donned a. glove or else
wrapped the caustic stick with a.
piece of paper.

Among the miscellaneous gloves
in the woodshed you eventually dis-
cover one meeting the require-
ments, that is, for the right hand
and with no hole in the finger and
you go blithely back to the calf pen.

Meanwhile the calf, freed of his
incumbus, has been going blithely.
too. Pleased at your precipitate re-
moval from his neck he has been
tripping gaily with wild abandon
about his quarters. The dry pile of
bedding, caustic, bottle, cork and all
are scattered in every direction. You
finally locate a small length of caus-
tic, the calf does not impede your
search by sucking your ear as you
crawl about searching, nor does he
playfully bunt any exposed area.
No, he holds apace, his confidence in
you severely strained he retreats
from your advance with suspicion,
so that you must run him down and
sprawl him out any old place in the

pen, dry or otherwise. You con-
tiuue where you left off.
From now on the procedure is

fairly simple. About the only diffi-
cult part is to locate enough saliva.
for by this time you are prone to be
overheated and dry-mouthed by the
excitement.

In the fast waning light you do,
however, at last get each horn-stub
lubricated, rubbed firmly and un-
mistakeably with the pea—sized stick
of caustic, turning a deaf or deafen-
ing ear to the calf’s outcries and
striving always to keep his thrash—
ing feet out of your pants legs, until
the skin over the horn just starts to
peel. That’s the time to call it a.
job, a. simple job at that.

Before New Crop

is at low ebb and the number of
unemployed is great. At such times
bean consumption always increases
as the housewife is looking for a
cheap nutritious food.

Every feature in the bean situa-
tion today points toward higher
prices for Michigan beans and it
would not be surprising to see a.
dollar advance in the market before
new crop.

Sent In the Coupon Yet?

Have you clipped, filled out and
mailed the coupon that appeared on
this page in our last issue or have
you been too busy to get to it yet?
Please send it in at your earliest
convenience so that we can get the
information all together and then
we will be able to give you some
valuable facts.

Our readers are giving our re:
quest their prompt attention, as
they always do, and the number re-
celved each day shows an increase.
It does not matter whether you
have any, beans stored or not, fill
out part of the coupon reg

._ ”din:
your acreage both 1923 and 1934...
because we want that information;

just as much as the other-

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1 THE LATEST IN BARBECUES.——R. W. Wiggins COOLIDGE BIADE MEMBER OF AN— ELECTIONEERING DE LUXE.—A candidate in a rc-
l‘ of Cincinnati. Ohio. hit upon the novel idea of putting CIEN‘I‘ MILITARY CODII’ANY.—I’resident cent French election had a new way of talking to his ‘

up this grate along the main highway, and supplying Coolidge was unanimously elected an Honor— constituents. He spoke, into the transmitter in his auto, 4
passing motorists with hot roast beef and ham sand- ary Member of the Ancient Artillery (30m— and his words were thrown out of a big horn on top. in :
wiches. The spit is operated by an electric motor. pany of Mass. Photo shows Col. “'illis \\'. great volume, reaching all his hearers and not giving ,
This might be worth trying here in Michigan. Stover pinning on the Honorary Medal. , himself a sore throat; from loud talking. ,

 

 

 

 

 

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land, has a real job. She has to supply, at 3 gallons of gasoline destroyed, ending in a loss of about a has been chosen as the juvenile resident of the , 3,“
moments notice, any information asked by the half million dollars. Flame and smoke rose in a column National (‘apitol as best typit’yiug the “Spirit f‘
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last time the Detroit Tigers played at Boston, Mass. CANCER.—I’rot‘. (iaetano Fichera. Direc- (‘ONTINENT.——Here is the latest thing in advertising in "g
And the list of leading league batters shows that 5 of tor of the Institute of Pathological Sur— Europe; sandwich-men mounted on their curious wheels.
the leading eight were in the city that day. Left to right: gery, of the University of Pavia, Italy, One is on a. diminutive bicycle while the other is riding
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CHAPTER VIII
URING the winter of—my second
\year in the town ”looking after
my aunt’s affairs" I made the
acquaintance of a fellow who was
supposed to be a lawyer. He had
a little old office down next to the
post office and the boys used to
gather in Blake’s omce and talk ov-
er the war and politics and other
weighty questions. Blake, that
the attorney's name, never .

to be extra busy and iinally one mi

when he and me was in the place
up and asked him what his business
amounted to.

"Well, sir, I’m a patent attor-
ney," says he.

"And what’s a patent attorney?”
I asks, “anything like a patent med-
icine?”

Blake laughed in his usual man-
ner, and proceeded to tell me just
what he did. It appeared that a
lot of people that had ideas were al-
ways wanting to get a patent so
Blake took advantage of the oppor-
tunity and would get the records
straight for them and see that a
firm of attorneys for whom he work-
ed in Washington got the red tape
unwound and a patent issued. Blake
got a good commission for all busi-
ness he sent in and he always col-
lected $10 or $15 for‘his own part
of the job. Blake had the way of
making every one feel that whatev-
er he did for the was worth about
twice what he c arged for it and
after a lot of talk on the {subject I
had another of my bright ideas.

As long as I had to stay in the
town to take care of my aunt’s busi-
ness, why not be making a little
cash on the side? The more I
thought of it the better the plan
looked so one day I drops in on
Blake with the following plan.

My scheme was to organize the
American Patent Corporation. Blake
was to be the attorney and I was to
be the company. With my capital
we opened a Washington office and
I took charge. Didn’t have to be
their all the time as we found a
place where their was a nice clerk
who would forward us any mail ad-
dressed to our Washington office for
a few dollars a month.

We started a lot of advertising
literature in the various papers tell-
ing of the fortunes that had been
made in simple patents and advised
anyone with a contraption to send
it to us. We were to examine it and
tell them if it was worth patenting
or not. After we had advised that
it was (for we always did) we asked
them to send us $25 which would
cover all charges of investigating
and other details and in return we
sent them a swell engraved certifi-
cate which was nothing but a bluff
as all it said was that the person
named on the certificate was a cus-
tomer of the American Patent Cor-
poration.

When we had a bundle of applica-
tions on hand Blake would hop a
train for Washington and spend a
day looking up prospects of pat-
ents and talk things over with the
Washington attorneys and he gen-
erally came back with a bundle of
patents covering all kinds of devices
from flea catchers to anti—cow kick-
ing attachments.

Our next step was to notify the
owner of the patent we had secured
that he had an unusual device and
there was a fine chance of his mak-
ing a, lot of money outof it, if he
could only get the right firm to start
making them. Here’s where the
American Patent Corporation came
in. For an additional $20 we would
place the patent in the hands of our
sales department and he would per-
sonally visit manufacturers and try
and sell the device. We got most of
the gang in on this scheme and after
a while we announced that we had
been appointed representatives of
the Grand Patent Exposition to be
held in Boston or New York and
that the chairman of the exposition
was very much impressed with a
number of our patents among which
was the one of the fellow we were
addressing. It would be a great
pleasure on our part to exhibit this
patent and we wanted to and desired
the permission of the fellow to do
so. Of course it would cost $10 for
space to fix up a proper demonstra-
tion. The owner of the patent gen-
erally felt the high honor we had
imposed on him and the ten bucks
was soon in our possssion. Of
course we never exhibited the lay-
out. There is a patent show each

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year in the cities but we didn't
worry about it. Most of our gang
were located far enohgh away so
they never turned up and besides,
we always made sure whether they
expected to attend or not in ad-
vance. Blake kept track of these
fellows pretty well and he managed
to satisfy the few that came, enter-
taining them so royally in the city
they generally forgot what they
came for.

Next step was to notify the gang
that their device had been awarded
a prize for excellence and we would
forward a letter telling about the
committee’s decision and this per-
mitted the owner of the patent to
send $5.00 for a handsome diploma
and if he cared to secure a hand-
some bronze medal which the Patent
Exposition was awarding that could
be arranged for $5.00 more.

Being a pretty good writer and
knowing what got the eye, I handl-
ed the mail business. With the aid
of a local printer we prepared some
swell letters, diplomas and the like
and a local stamping company made
us some medals for a small price.

With Blake and me working most
of the time sending out answers to
the inquiries to our ads in a lot of
country papers, we hardly had time
to get our checks in the banks. A
lot of fellows heard about our ex»
hibiting patents at the big shows

 

and they asked permission to send
us money so they could get in on

“the deal. At the end of our first six

months we ‘had to move to a larger
ofiice and hired several clerks to
keep our business from swamping.
I didn’t realize how easy money was
to get. It just rolled in. This was
right after the war when everyone
was flush and fellows who had ideas
that they had been around
for years began to draw p ans and
send the stuff to us. The money
cameintofastthatlwasiustabit
suspicious. I was afraid we might
get snagged by the post omce de-
partment but Blake was a pretty
shrewd lawyer and he was sure we
were safe.

At the end of two seasons I had a
case of nerves and one day when
Blake and I had a little argu .ent
I altered to sell out. It seemed

that he had a friend who was anxi--

ous to get in the business and so
Blake took me up. I turned over
my interest to him for a good price
and placed my money on ice. My
luck had come back and I felt that
for a fellow of my age I was going
good. Besides I had run onto an-
other plan that looked better to me
and the chances for better profits
appealed to your truly.

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is tail for my circulars. The

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3:3 never worried about quality-—
is. not just then. Things

fine. I sold thousands of chicks

all Weds that spring, and both ' ‘
fellow running the incubators 1
myself made mono .—(Conclu ,
chapter in July 5th , no.)

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PROGRAM snows assume

TANDARDIZATION of fruits a“
vegetables has been me
115914 progress in Michigan 4
the past year. Growers
pers, recognizing the i

ance of standardization and the ,
solute necessity of shipping so“
and graded products, have been cash
er to cooperate with the Michigan;
State Bureau of Foods and Stand-
ards, Lansing, in the enforcement d
the apple, grape, peach and petal!
grades. The potato and

grades are mandatorL according a
State statute. .

The potato grades, which are H
same as the U. B. grades, were ' l
promulgated until September of -
year. Every important shipper ‘ .
the State was sympathetic to the
grades and the making of then;
mandatory, and throughout the set-
son the finest kind of cooperation;
was evident, with the exception of _
about five smaller shippers. The
majority of potato shipments wen
moved according to grade and prop-
erly tagged. W. P. Hartman, nt-
rector of the State Bureau of Food.
and Standards, estimates that at
least one and a quarter million (101- '
lars will have been returned to U.
Michigan growers and shippers thfl
season as the result of the gradin‘
program. He bases his estimate .
the discriminatory prices again:
Michigan potatoes that have bad
evident during the past few y
In addition to obtaining incre
returns during the shipping seam
just closed, desired markets he“,
been established for future years.

Pear growers are petitioning th
State Bureau for mandatory grad.
for pears. Celery and onion grow-
ers are showing an interest in tin.
same form of standardization.

A substantial improvement in the
quality of all produce shipped from
Michigan has resulted from the
grading program, Mr. Hartman
states. Within the past year, there
has been a greater demand for .
Michigan products, a greater cow,
fldence in the shipments, and a con; .
siderable reduction in the nume'
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HELP TO GET BONUS

F any of our paid-up subscribers
who served in the World War
have any trouble in getting the
bonus we will be pleased to help
them. The service is yours for the
asking, there being no charge for
service to our subscribers who have
their subscription paid in advance.
Kindly give us all details in your first
letter and sign your complete name

and address. '

CANNOT MZEET NOTE

I bought $300.50 worth of stock
and farm tools at auction in March
1922. In March, 1923, I could not
make the payment, so I went to the
owner and told him that I could not
meet the payment and he would
either have to take the interest or
take the stock and tools back. He
said he did not want the stock but
he 'would take the interest. This
note was for one year only. Now
the second year is up and I have not
the money to pay for the stock. I
cannot make any payment or inter-
est. Can he force me to pay either
if I give the stock back? ‘For the
second time I told him to come and
get the stock and tools, but he al-
ways says he doesn’t want it, and he
did not have any use for it. One
of the horses died after -I asked him
the second time to come and get
them because I could not pay for
them, and he refused. Am I corn-
pelled to pay him for the horse or
not? I bought the farm off the
same man on contract. If I should
leave the place this spring, can he
make me pay the taxes for the com—
ing year or not?-——-J. M., Boyne
City, Mich.

0U would be liable for the pay—
‘1 ment of the amount of the note

and interest when it comes due.
The man who sold to you would not
have to accept the return of the
stock. Under your contract of pur-
chase, you would be liable for the
entire amount of the price you ag-
reed to pay. If you forfeited your
land contract and returned the farm
to the owner, you would not have
to pay future taxes—Asst. Legal
Editor.

WOULD BE CONSIDERED AN

ALIEN
I am sending in a question I
would like to have answered
through your excellent paper at

your convenience. I am a subject
,of Great Britain and wish to make
a short visit to Canada. Under the
present immigration laws would I
be prevented from entering the
United States when I wish to return
rwithout trouble? I will make a
statement that I was born in Eng-
land. My parents came to Canada.
"and brought me when I was six
months old. I lived there until I
was twenty-one years old, came to
Michigan and made my home here
ever since. Have never taken out
full citizenship papers. In 1889 I
took out first papers but neglected
to do any more until they were out—
lawed. Have now recently made
application and taken out papers
but have to wait two years to be-
come a citizen. I am a farmer and
own my own land (124 acres). If
you have any way to find out for me
I will greatly appreciate your kind—
ness—J. K., Parma, Mich.

AS‘MUCH as you have not been

naturalized you would be consid-

ered an alien upon leaving the
United States, and would be subject
to the same requirements as other
aliens who desire to enter the coun—
try, except that if you did not re‘
main away for as long as six
months, you would not be subject to
the quota. The immigration officer
at the port where you embark can
give you the information you desire.
You would likely have to see him
personally and give him all the cir-
cumstances of your case—Asst.
Legal Editor.

ERADICATING QUACK GRASS
Please tell me how to get rid of
quack grass. Also would you rec-
ommend the use of oats as a nurse
crop for a late July seeding of alfal-
fa?—-O. I-I., ’Muskegon, Mich.
‘, NE of the most successful meth-
ods of eradicating quack grass
is to allow the plants to come into
bloom and then out very close to
the ground the same as for hay. At
'thisw_,,,stage the roots contain less
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A Clearing Department for farmers' ever

and by cutting ofi the leaves, the
roots are still further weakened due
to the fact that the leaves do not
have an opportunity to assimilate
plant food. The quack should be
kept out or grazed until fall and
then plowed. Frequently some
clean cultivated crop may be put on
the land the following season. It
will be necessary, however, to go
over the land a number of times in
order that the growth may be sub—
dued. Persistant clean cultivation
is the most successful method of
eradication.

I would not recommend the use
of oats as a nurse crop for a late
July seeding of alfalfa. The oats
will make use of the moisture and
plant food that should be secured by
the young alfalfa plants. In this
way the alfalfa plants frequently do
not make a sufiicient growth to pre-
vent winterkilling. When alfalfa is
seeded during July the plants
should make sufi‘icient growth that
winter killing will not be a factor.
A nurse crop is of some value when
alfalfa is seeded in the spring due to
the fact that the nurse crop will
tend to prevent the growth of
weeds—C. R. Megee, Assoc. Prof.
of Farm Crops, M. A. C

 

ENTITLED TO YEAR’S NOTICE

Enclosed find $1.00 for your val-
uable paper, which we cannot offord
to miss, as we enjoy it very much.
Would like your answer as soon as
convenient. Three years ago we
moved on a share farm, no contract
was made as to time, as owner said
the farm, would never be sold, and
hoped we would stay at least five
years. Now he has a buyer for the
farm and wants to sell. I wish to
know if in case he sells same, if we
must move now or if we can remain
here till March 1925? Must not we
be informed the first of the year to
leave? When we moved on, there
was 40 acres of fall crops out, what
rights have I to put fall crops out?
We have three small children and
would appreciate your answer very
much—A Faithful Reader, Vicks-
burg, Mich.

F it was understood between the
I parties at the time the oral
agreement was made that rent
was to be paid yearly, I am of the
opinion that you are holding under
a tenancy from year to year, and
accordingly are entitled to a year’s
notice to quit.—Asst. Legal Editor.

WHO GETS INSURANCE ?

I am a subscriber to your paper'

and would like a little advise. It a
man has his life insured, benefit of
wife and she dies three years before
he, who does insurance go to? They
owned all jointly. Also can an ad—
ministrator be appointed without
consent of heirs, and can he sell all
property against wishes of heirs

“ T HE" B Us'ITNEss ' FARM E a

( day troubles.
all complaints or requests for Information a dressed to this department. We are
you. All Inquiries must be accompanied by full name and address.

 

careful attention lven to V
here 0 serve
Name not used If so requested.)

Prompt,

who wish to, keep some or all of
household and furnishing goods?—
F. C. 8., Bellaire, Mich.

PON the death of the wife as

beneficiary under the policy,
her benefit would go to her heirs.
An administrator is not entitled to
be appointed without the consent of
the heirs of the deceased. The ques-
tion of selling the property is de—
termined by the wishes of the ma-
jority of those interested, including
the heirs and creditors—Asst. Leg—
al Editor.

BANK CAN COLLECT

I have a question I would like to
ask, it is the following: If A bor-
rows $2,000 at a bank and B goes
security and A fails to pay the
notes, can bank collect same from
B? B owns farm jointly with his
wife. Can they get judgement
against the farm? Can they take
personal property? Thanking you in

advance, I remain—A Subscriber,
Hesperia, Mich.
HE bank could collect the

amount of the note from B out

of his personal property. How-
ever, the farm which B owns joint—
ly with his wife could not be taken
for the payment of this obligation.
——Asst. Legal Editor.

WIDOW GETS ONE HALF

Will you please answer through
the Farmers’ Service Bureau this
question? If a man dies, leaving
no will, what does the widow re—
ceive, there being one child, of the
real estate and personal property?
What is her share if there are no
children?—-Mrs. L. H., Charlotte,
Mich.

F there is one child the widow
would receive one half and the
child one half of the real and pers—
onal property of the deceased. If
there are no children and no issue
of a deceased child, the widow
would receive all the personal prop—
erty up to $3,000. All the personal
property over this amount would be
divided between the widow and the
deceased’s parent’s, she receiving
one—half and they receiving one-half.
And she would receive one half the
real property, the deceased’s parents
receiving one—half—Asst. Legal
Editor.

L‘AVVFUL FOR \VOMAN TO VOTE

Is it lawful for a woman to vote
on general or any election if she is
not a land owner or if she has not
a joint deed with her husband?——J.
E. 0., Au Gres, Mich.

T is lawful for Woman to vote at
general and special elections
even tho she is not the owner

of real property.———Asst. Legal Edit—
or.

OUR READERS’ NEW BUILDINGS

Have you built any tin-to-date farm buildings lately?
building and we \Vill print it in this new department.
distant neighbors are donig to change the Scenery.
farmer decide the type. of house, _
appearance of your building and W111 want the plan of it.
show up well.

or burn, or other buildings he desires to put up.

 

Itfiyou have send us a picture of the new
It W111. Show the M. B. F. readers what their
And, iiicidently, you may be able to help some
. He may like the
Kodak pictures are all right if the details

Do not send the negative, just a good print.

 

 

HOME 011‘ MR. AND MRS. EMIL RIIODE MT PLEAS \NT MICHIGAN
Mr. and Mrs. Rhode write that their home is a modern eight ro'om bungalow, 26"

feet by 32 feet, with an addition, nine feet by eighteen feet on the west end
porch is eight feet deep and runs across the entire front of, the house. .
furnace, bath, hot and cold running water,
hemlock and doors are fix- with floors of oak and pine.

Theq
They have:
and gasoline lights. Woodwork is of
There is- a. basement nnderi

the entire house, eight and one halt feet deep.

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WAS STOCK INCLUDED IN
CONTRACT?
Would like your advice on a con?
tract. A bought a farm from B.
With 2 horses, 2 cows, 2 hogs and

paid $1,000, has paid all taxes and ,

interest but cannot make 1924 in-i
terest. If B foreclosed would A‘
have to leave said stock on place?—
W. H. 8., Leslie, Mich.

F stock was included in the con-t
I am of the opinionlAll

tract,

would not have a right to re-
move them from the place in the
event B
Editor.

 

USE POISONOUS SPRAY ON WILD
MORNING GLORIES
Could you please tell me how to
kill Wild Morning glory. I have a
field that has quite a lot in.——A. J..
Breckenridge.

HE Wild Morning glory is a pest
that is very difficult to handle
for the reason that its under

ground stems are very pertinacious.

Ordinary methods of cultivation are i
not successful because they do not;

destroy the plant completely and us-
ually merely serve to drag various
portions to uninfested parts of the
field. If cultivation is attempted it
must be so thorough that at no time
do any green leaves remain above
the ground more than a few hours
before they are destroyed by culti-
vation.

If the infested portion of the
field is not too large that portion
may be broken with a plow and]

then fenced in and hogs turned in. 5
They willclean out the underground! '

parts, particularly if they are not
too thoroughly fed before hand.
Certain poisonous sprays are ef-
fective. These are sold under the
name of Weed Killer and are put
out by various firms. These are al-
most all solutions of

ually Sodium arsenite, and must be
diluted and sprayed on the plants in
accordance with directions on the
cans. It should be remembered,
however, that the Wild Morning
glories require stronger solutions
than some other weeds. In Cali-
fornia these arsenic compounds
have been very successful with Wild
Morning glories in some types of
soil and not so successful in other
types. It must be remembered that
this is a deadly poison and that any
form of ilvestock eating plants that
have been sprayed, even a number
of days later, will be killed. It will
be necessary, therefore, to fence
out all stock from the sprayed area
until there have been several heavy
rains. This poison will kill other
plants as well.——E. A. Bessey, Pro-
fessor of Botany, M. A. C.

 

WIFE GETS ONE HALF

If a man owns land before he is 1
married, also personal property, after 3

death would wife get all or could
his relatives step in for a share,

where there is no joint deed or will _

or children. Thanking you in ad-
vance.—-L. H. A., Benzonia, Mich.

PON the death of the husband

the wife would be entitled to

one half of the property and his
father and mother one half, or
brothers and sisters, in case both the
mother and father were dead—Asst.
Legal Editor.

 

HOLDER OF SECOND MORTGAGE
CANNOT FORCLOSE
Can the holder of a second mort—
gage foreclose if the one that holds
the first would not agree to sell his
share? First mortgage will not be
due for nearly a year, second one
will now be due soon. Will second.
party be obliged to wait until first?
mortgage is paid?-—A. C., Cooks.
Michigan.
HE holder of: a second mortgage
T cannot foreclose until the first:
mortgage is discharged—Asst.
Legal Editor.

 

HUSBAND \VOULD GET FARM
If my sister and her husband owns
ed a farm and had a joint deed and
no children and if she died, would
or could her mother claim my sister’s
share of the farm, or would the hus-
band have full claim on the farm?,
Please oblige, Mrs. G. W. G., Evart,
Michigan.
PON the death of the wife, the
. husband would be entitled to all
the real estate which they held,
jointly.—-Asst. Legal Editor. ’

forecloses.——Asst. Legal

various ,
strengths of arsenic compounds, us— :

  

  

 

 

 

     

    


  

    

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’ LIES TAX ARTICLE _.

EAR Editorz—I havebeen a

reader of Tim BUSINEss FABMEB

for three years and like it very
much. I have read all of Mr. Pow-
ell’s articles on Taxation and agree
with him to the letter.
I read Mr. Eaton’s letter, I cannot
help but write so Mr. Powell will
know he has my support. Mr. Eat-
on may pull the veil over some
peoples eyes but not mine, as a
farmer who pays taxes, and taxes
are increasing every year. He can-
not make me believe the Governor
and his administrative board have
cut down expenses yearly.

The first thing the Governor did
was to increase the number of state
employee by a great many and raise
the salaries of some. When Mr.
Eaton says there is no money used
——only as appropriated by the legis-
lature I would ask him if the money
to build the Island Lake road and
Pavillion and to buy a $6,000 car
for the Governor and cars for the
other state officials was authorized
by the legislature.

I wish to thank Mr. Powell and
the M. B. F. for putting the facts
and figures before the voters of the
people of our state—W. D. Cheese-
man, Barry County, Mich.

   
   

WHY THE FARM BOY LEAVES
SCHOOL

0 the Editorz—I wish to explain

the great mystery to Dorothy

' Dill. First the life of a small

boy on a farm is so unpleasant, his

pleasures so few, and work so hard

that he as a rule is not a bright
pupil in the school.

As he grows older his work be-
comes harder, his hours longer, and
his desire for something else strong-
er. It is at the age when he is dis—
gusted with the farm, with all of its
slavery and no money for himself,
that he finishes his education in the
eighth grade. About at this time
he is doing far more work on the
farm than one would dare ask the
hired man to do, and receives his
board and room, with a few cheap
clothes for his reward.

Of course he wants to escape from
this dull life; any red blooded young
man would. He does not. under the
conditions that he has lived, long
for a life on the farm. His longing
is for less work, better living con—
ditions, more pleasures, and his eyes
naturally turn toward the city. Here
he knows they all can be found.

Also it would be impossible for
the old parents of the boy to send
him to high school or college. They
need his cheap labor. It is then that
he makes the step up the ladder by
leaving the worn out farm, and the
life of toil and enters the city. Yes,
he may enter a factory, store, rail-
road shop, or a great many other
openings spring up before him. Now
with short hours he has a chance to
study in Y. M. C. A., night school,
business college, or even with the
help of good books he can improve
his education, and in a few years
work himself up in the place where
he started.

It is seldom now days that a fac-
tory or other place doing big bus-
iness closes down, and throws one
who is willing to work, out of a job.
Of course, there are times when one
is laid off for a brief spell, but as a
rule does not mean a hardship for
the worker. His mind is on his
Work, he thinks of improvements
that could be made on the machinery,
etc. He expresses them, and is re-
warded by promotion and increased
wages or salary. He is living now
as he could never have expected to
live on the old worn out farm of
Dad’s. This partly explains the
mystery, Dorothy Dill.—Ralph Jor-
dan, Petoskey, Michigan.

TAXATION AND THE FARMER

N an 'upper stretch of the much
0 toured Dixie “trail" in Michigan

there is a lately abandoned farm-
Its occupancy was indicated last fall
by hay still remaining ’in the barn,
there being then no market for hay.
Its abandonment, which did not at
first appear from the road was at-
tested by the dismantled pump at
the well and by broken branches of
apple trees, indicating another spec—
ies of highway invasion. The main
highway robbery had occurred when
the owner was taxed off the farm
This place-and its number on this
find all roads in Michigan is legion-
bore mute testimony to the policy
of a state which has been building

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concrete boulevards and taxing farm
lands six per cent on valuations al-
ready increased out of all relation
to possibilities of selling.

In fact the caption at the head
might by a slight verbal change ap-
propriately read “Taxation or The
Farmer”. For the hour has struck,
and in this state at least we must
immediately decide, if agriculture is
to have a chance of survival. It
cannot continue with low selling
prices coupled with hay buying
prices, on top of that, inflated wages
due to’ the automobile and the war,
and at the top peak of all taxes that
have reached the point of confisca-
tion.

The cost of hard surface highways
must be taken off land, at least 011'
lands being used for food production.
The motor traffic which demands
these should pay for their construc—
tion and maintenance. This is in no
wise affected by the accidental fact
that the farmer may occasionally
run an auto. The principle is that
the land should be relieved and the
traffic, but for which they would
not be ought to pay the cost. ‘Neither
on the ground of assessment for
benefits nor that of contribution for
general public purposes is road tax-
ation of land justifiable. Without
these luxurious highways automobile
manufacturing would not have flour-
ished like a green bay tree. Apace
with its advance agriculture has de-
clined. The latter is entirely unable
to bear the burden. The former is
apparently able. If unable the rem—
edy is at hand- Let the Detroit
Automobile Club, which is fostered
by the motor manufacturing inter-
ests, demand a road holiday, and
the state administrative board will
not hesitate to suspend the issue of
bonds for the construction of trunk
lines. Nor as to county ways will
petitions
Covert act if the out worn theory of
special benefits is once put in the dis—
card. This remedy looks drastic.
It is more radical than gasoline or
state income taxes. But is it not
needful that the cure go to the roots
of the disease? If food production
can no longer make a six per cent
margin, it certainly cannot stand six
per cent taxes. For the raising of
food is not done solely for pleasure.
The taking off the farmer’s back of

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be circulated under the.

‘ vanes. " I wish us ' paint“ out: " tutti:-

that portion of the tax load which
is raised for road purposes may not
be radical enough. The fact is our
basic industry is swamped. Its future
is menaced by a great and growing
crop of weeds. Noxious weeds made
great headway during the war. The
fight against them has been a losing
one and is utterly hopeless with no
help in the country. No longer is a
pretense made of enforcing the weed
cutting statute. What this extension
of foul growth means to any success-
ful' cultivation of the soil need only
be suggested. Now if motor manu-
facturing can afford to pay the price
that draws“ into its meshes all rural
labor, why cannot and should not
it pay for fundamentally essential
work this labor would otherwise have
performed. That question may very
shortly have to be asked. But this
can at any rate be said well within
the bounds of moderation, that,
rather than have farming taxed out
of existence, the automobile industry
might sooner for its own welfare
step under the extra tax load it has
brought into being-

If, however, it protests that its
taxes are high enough, no fear of
factory removal should stop this fair
correction of an unjust situation. Let
it be remembered that no state has
been more liberal than Michigan in
its treatment of this industry. It
will not fly elsewhere. Nor is there
apparent danger of the factory being
killed. Unlike the farm tiller, whose
prices are set for him, the motor
manufacturer can pass added cost
on to the purchaser. If this curtails
the sale that would not be the worst
thing for society.——F. W. Newton,
Saginaw County, Michigan.

REINFIJATION

EAR Editorz—I wish to com-

mend Mr. Bennet on his article

in your paper of April 26th en-
titled “An Over-production of Crops
and Advice.” He pointed out, as
others have, that the deflation of
currency in the latter part of 1920
was the beginning and logically the
cause of the present financial de-
pression of farmers; that our huge
public and private debts were con—
tracted during inflated values and
and now we are unjustly required
to meet our inflated obligations
with deflated prices for our pro-

 

J UDG‘AIENT

0U know I’ve got young nieces,

cousins an’ things like that,

an’ a daughter an’ everything
an’ one of the dear young things sez
to me a few days ago, she sez:
“Grandpa what do you think of the
new styes of dress for women," she
sez. “Oh!” sez l cas’ly, “have they
got new styles?” I sez. “Why," she
sez, haven’t you noticed that they
Were Wearin’ ’em longer than a year
ago an’ more clingin’,” she sez.
“Why Irenie,” I answered, “I had-
n’t hardly noticed they wuz wearin'
’em at all” I sez-—You know since
my eyes kinda failed me out at the
bathing beach I ain’t paid much
’tention to the styles. “Are they
wearin’ ’em longer now?" 1 sez. “Do
you mean a longer time or length
or vice versa?”

“Oh Dad,” she sed, “you are so
dumb. I guess you are gettin' old
all right,—-—don’t you notice the girls
any more?” An' I sed, “Not to speak
of particularly—guess I’ve seen
’bout all there’s to see ain’t I. An'
you know, Bernice," I sez, “when
you’ve seen all, there ain’t any more
is there?"

Well Luella, one of my nieces,
seemed surprised that I should show
how little I know an’ fin’ly she sed.
“I want to ask you if you don’t see
a diff’rence in the way we dress to-
day an' when you were younger 'an
you will ever be again.” “Oh yes,"
I sez, “I git you now! Iguess I
know What you're gettn’ at. When
I wuz young and your great grand
parents wuz 'bout 60 years young-
er," I sez, “girls undressed an'
dressed in the dark an’ when they
came out where folks could see ’em
they had their clothes all on.
They had hoop skirts 7 feet wide,

hole RubecSDinfiCh

  

‘rlids—yes, I do see a

 

you couldn’t get near one if you
wanted to an’ their waist line was
always fixed, the corset an’ the
hoops fixed it. Yes, yes, I remem-
ber the old styles well,” I sez.
“Have they changed 'em lately?” I
asked her.

“Now Dad,” sez she, “you jest
wake up. Look at me,” she sez an’
—well—I can’t tell jest how it is,
but somehow our girls seem jest as
nice today as they were 50 years
ago. Yes bobbed hair an’ mebbe
bobbed skirts——mebbe a cigarette
now and then. I don’t like cigar—
etts myself but equal rights permits
a lot of things. I don’t like to see
a young man smokin’ ’em when
with a lady, the same objection on
the other side. But anyway the
world's goin' on most every day—
we see what’s called a flapper today,
next thing we know she'll be a
mother an' jest as good an' as

nice as any mother we’ve ever
known. —
An’ in spite of any think we

thinkor say or do our girls—bob-
bed though they may be—will come
through all right, will make good
wives to good husbands—if there is
such animals—good mothers in
spite of the husbands, and thats the
end of the story of what my rela-
tions sed to me. Cordially yours,
UNCLE RUBE.

P. S.-——When I was at the age the
girls spoke of I don’t rec’lect of so
many female painters as what we
have today, an’ ’nother thing—4f you
seen her with brown hair today
she’d most always have the same
colored hair when you met her
again, an' her eye brows were, real
hair an’ no silk stuck in her eye-

some things—U. B. ~

    

diff’rence in .

or that since deflationwas the cause,
of our troubles that the most logic-V
al and only complete remedy is re‘~‘

inflation. ~
According to the official report of
the secretary (a copy of which I
have at hand) there was $50.11 per
capita in circulation in 1920. Then:
we were prospering and business in
general was booming. By 1922 the
currency was reduced to less than
$40. We all know the disasterous
result. While . farmers suffered
most, all industries felt the sting ,of
reaction. In 1923 the amount was
increased to $42.50—-hence the much
heralded improvement in the agri-
cultural situation. Now if an in-
crease from $39.86 (the amount in
1922) to $£2.60 gives us marked
improvement, what would a return
to over $60.00 do? Plainly this: It
would give us a return to the pros-

perity we were enjoying in the fore .

part of 1920.

Plainly our economic salvation is
in the hands of the administration
through the treasury department
and reserve board. If the express-
ed sympathy of our friends (7) in
Washington isn't empty prattle it
seems to me they will consider the
matter more seriously and meet the
issue from the true standpoint. Per—
sonally I have but little faith in any
measure which does not include re-
inflation, for to have property we
must have sufficient money in circu-
lation. Most of the proposed mea-
sure to help farmers, would only
serve to postpone or side track the
real issue.

I should like to hear from others
on the subject.——Wm. G. Conklin,
Van Buren County, Mich.

 

TOO SMALL PROFIT
O the Editorz—As I am a read-
er of your paper I saw an art-
icle on the editorial page of
March 15th, of which I could not
approve, along the lines of cooper~
ative marketing. Now if this busi-
ness was handled along the same
lines as our maple syrup was in
1918, by a clearing house in De-
troit, it sure would be some busi-
ness, or the wool pooling along
about the same time, Mr. Farmer
would soon have to give up his Tin
Lizzy, and resort to old Dobbin and
the shay. Radios would sure be out
of the question, and I think you
know something about how those
things were handled at that time.
and still you seem to wonder why
so many farmers are leaving the
farms. "

Well, you have the wrong idea. It
is not because they are weak kneed,
jelly—spined, yellow backed, as the
dope you handed to them in the
same issue. It you really think so,
why not get out of your easy chair
and give it a trial yourself, you will
know then the difference between
talking with the pen and following
the plow. As for myself, I really
like the farm work the best of all,
but when it comes toworking six-
teen hours a day for at least nine
months, out of twelve, then fourteen
hours a day for the balance of the
year, and then when you balance
your books you find you have the
large sum of about two and a half
dollars per day left for your labor.
you ought to be pretty well satis-
fied, don’t you think so?

Well, as to the politicians he. is
all right, and it seems that he sel-
dom, if ever, thinks of the folks at
home, and it is so plain to be seen
that a blind man could feel it with
his cane. You speak of the farmer
helping himself, but to the man be-
hind the plow under the past and
present situation, it would be a hard
task when the prices are set by the
gamblers before he can get the seed
in the "ground. Now if the farmer
had anything to say about the prices
of the implements he works with, it
is out opinion the doors of such fac-
tories would be closed in a very
short time, and a good many of us
look at it in the same light.

We can close up our part of farm-
ing if we see fit to do so, and we are
not yellow under any ray of light
that you can turn on us.

Now I have figures that I will
give you that are absolute facts, and
the real thinking, working farmer
you speak of, is slowly but surely to
some extent, closing up .his busin‘ ess

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. EARLY every owner of a radio
N set becomes worried as soon as
we begin the summer, fearing
that their aerial will cause lightning
to hit the house. There is absolute-
ly no danger of lightning hitting
your house even during the most
severe thunder storm it you have
properly. installed your radio set and
aerial. '
5 Actually, a well put up aerial is a
‘ protection and not a hazzard as far
as danger of fire and lightning dam-
age is concerned. The aerial acts
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! placed lightning rods on their
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. against lightning.

Not only can lightning damage
your house, but very small electric
discharges may ruin your radio set
for you, therefore it‘is necessary to
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summer and winter, an approved
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by a short space and with most of
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is made with two pieces of. carbon
separated by a very thin piece oi.’
mica. Both of these arresters are‘
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Have read your articles in THE
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(Continued from June 7th Issue.)

next day Mr. Smith left the house

soon after brea'ldast, and, contrary

to his usual custom, did not mention

where he was going. Miss Maggie was

surprised and displeased More especially

was she displeased because she was dis-

pleased. As if it mattered to her where
he went. she told herself scornfully.

The next day and the next it was
much the same. On the third day she
saw Jane.

“Where's Mr. Smith?” demanded Jane,
without preamble, glancing at the vacant
chair by the table in the corner.

Miss Maggie, to her disgust, could feel
the color burning in her cheeks; but she
managed to smile as if amused.

"I don' know “I don’t know, I'm sure.
I’m not Mr. Sr‘nith’s keeper. Jane."

“Well, if you were I should ask you to
keep him away from Mellicent.” retorted
Mrs. Jane tartlv.

"What do you mean?"

“I mean he’s been hanging around Mel~
liccnt almost every day for a week."

Mile Maggie flushed painfully.

“Nonsense, Jane! He’s more than twice
her age. Mr. Smith is fifty if he's a day.”

“Pm not saying he isn’t," snifled Jane,
her nose uplifted. "But I do say, 'No fool
like an old fool' !"

"Nonsense !” scorned Miss Maggie again.
”Mr. Smith has always been fond of Mel-
licent, and—wand interested in her. But I
don't believe he cares for her—that way."

“Then why does he come to see her
and take her auto-riding. and hang around
her every minute he gets a. chance?”
snapped Jane. "I know how he acts at
the house, and I hear he scarcely left
her side at the tennis match the other
day.”

"Yes, 1—" Miss Maggie did not finish
her sentence. A slow change came to her
countenance. The fluzsh receded, leaving
her face a bit white.

“I wonder if the man really thinks he
stands any chance,” spluttered Jane, lg-
norlng Miss Maggie‘s unfinished sentence.
”VVhy, he's worse than that Donald Gray.
He not only hasn’t got the money, but
he's old, as well."

“Yes, we're all—getting old, Jane."
Miss Maggie tossed the words off lightly,
and smiled as she uttered them. But
after Mrs. Jane had gone, she went to the
little mirror above and mantled and gazed
at herself long and fixedly.

“Well, what if he does? It’s nothing
to you, Maggie Duff 1" she muttered under
her breath. Then resolutely she turned
away, picked up her work, and fell to
sewing very fast.

Two days later Mellicent went back to
schooL Bessie went too. Fred and Benny
had already gone. To Miss Maggie things
seemed to settle back into their old ways
again then. With Mr. Smith she took
drives and motor-rides. enjoying the crisp
October air and the dancing sunlight on
the reds and browns and yellows of the
autumnal foliage True, she used to
wonder sometimes if the end always justi-
fied the means—4t seemed an expensive
business to hire an automobile to take
them fifty miles and back. and all to
verify a single date. And she could not
help noticing that Mr. Smith appeared to
have many dates that needed verifying—
dates that were located in very diverse
parts of the surrounding country. Miss
Maggie also could not help noticing that
Mr, Smith was getting very little new
material for his Blaisdell book these
days, though he still worked simultaneous-
ly over the old, retabulating, and re-
copying. She knew this, because she
helped him do it—though she was careful
never to let him know that she recog-
nized the names and dates as old ac-
quaintances.

To tell the truth. Miss Maggie did not
like to admit, even to herself, that Mr.
Smith must be nearing the end of his
task. She did not like to think of the
house—after Mr. Smith should have gone.
She told herself that he was just the
sort of homey boarder that she liked,
and she wished she might keep him in-
definitely.

She thought so all the more when the
long evenings of November brought a
new pleasure; Mr. Smith fell into the
way of bringing home books to read
aloud: and she enjoyed that very much.
They had long talks, too, over the books
they read. In one there was an old man
who fell in love with a young girl. and
married her. Miss Mastic. as certain
parts of this story were read, held her
breath, and stole furtive glances into
Mr. Smith's face. When it was finished
she contrived to question with careful
casualness, as to his opinion of such a.
marriage.

Mr. Smith’s answer was prompt and
unequivocal. He said he did not believe
that such a marriage should take place.
nor did he believe that in real life it
would result in happiness. .
should be between persons of similar, age,
tastes, and habits. he said very decidedly.
And Miss Maggie blushed and said yes.
yes,‘ indeed! And that night. when Miss
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CHAPTER XVII
An Ambassador of Cupid’s

Christmas again brought all the young
people home for the holidays. It brought.
also, a. Christmas party at James Blais-
dell’s home. It was a very different
party, however, from the housewarming
of a year before.

To begin with, the attendance was
much smaller; Mrs. Hattie had been very
exclusive in her invitations this time.
She had not invited "everybody who ever
went anywhere." There were champagne,
and cigarettes for the ladies, too.

As before, Mr. Smith and Miss Maggie
went together. Miss Maggie, who had
not attended any social gathering since
Father Duif died, yielded to Mr. Smith’s
urgings and said that she would go to
this. But Miss Maggie wished afterward
that she had not gone—~there were so
many, many features about that party
that Miss Maggie did not like.

She did not like champagne nor the
cigarettes. She did not like Bessie’s
showy, low-cut dress, nor her superscll-
ions air. She did not like the look in
Fred's eyes. nor the way he drank the
champagne. She did not like Jane’s
maneuvers to bring Mellicent and Hib-
bard Gaylord into each other's company
-—nor the way Mr. Smith maneuvered to
get Mellicent for himself.

Of all these, except the very last. Miss
Maggie talked with Mr. Smith on the way
home—yet it was the very last that was
uppermost in her mind, except perhaps,
Fred. She did speak of Fred; but be-
cause that, too. was so much to her.
she waited until the last before she spoke
of it.

“You saw Fred. of course,” she began
then.

“Yes." Short as the word was, it car-
ried volume of meaning to Miss Maggie's
fearful ears. She turned to him quickly.

“Mr. Smith, it—it isn’t true, is it?”

“I'm afraid it is."

"You saw hum—drinking, then?"

"Yes. I saw some, and I heard—more.
It's just as I feared He’s got in with
Gaylord and the rest of his set at college.
and they’re a bad lot—drinking, gambling
—no good."

“But Fred wouldn’t—gamble, Mr.
Smith! Oh, Fred wouldn’t do that. And
he’s so ambitious to get ahead! Surely
he’d know he couldn’t get anywhere in
his studies, if—if he drank and gambled !”

"It would seem so."

“Did you see his father? I saw him
only a. minute at the first, and he didn't
look well a bit, to me."

“Yes, I saw him. I found him in his
den just as I did last year. He didn’t
look well to me either.”

”Did he say anything about—Fred?"

“Not a word—and that's what worries
me the most. Last year he talked a lot
about him, and was so proud and happy
in his coming success. This time he
never mentioned him; but he looked—
bad."

“What did he talk about?"

“Oh, books, business——nothlng in par-
ticular. And he wasn’t interested in
what he did say. He was very different
from last year.”

“Yes, I know. He is different,’ sighed
Maggie. “He's talked with me quite a
lot about—«about the way they’re living.
He does n't like—«so much fuss and show
and society."

Mr. Smith frowned.

"But I thoughts—Mrs. Hattie would get
all over that by this time. after the new-
ness of the money was worn off.”

“I hoped she would. But—she doesn't.
It’s worse. if anything,” sighed Miss Mag-
gie, as they ascended the steps at her
own door.

Mr. Smith frowned again.

“And Miss Bessie—-” he began disap-
provingly, then stopped. "Now, Miss Mel-
licent—" he resumed, in a very diiTercnt
voice.

But Miss Maggie was not apparently
listening. With a rather loud rattling of
the doorknob she was pushing open the
door.

“Why, how hot it is! Did I leave that
damper open?” she cried, hurrying into
the living—room.

And Mr. Smith, hurrying after, evident-
ly forgot to finish his sentence.

Miss Maggie did not attend any more
of the merry-makings of that holiday
week. But Mr. Smith did. It seemed to
Miss Maggie. indeed, that Mr. Smith was
away nearly every minute of that long
week—and it was a long week to Miss
Maggie. Even the Martin girls were away
many of the evenings. Miss Maggie told
herself that that was why the house seem-
ed so lonesome.

But Miss Maggie did not participate in
the gay doings, she heard of them. She
heard of them on all sides, except from
Mr. Smith—and on all sides she heard
of the devotion of Mr. Smith to Miss Mel-
lioent. She concluded that this was the
reason why Mr. Smith himself was so
silent.

mg. Maggie was shocked and distress-
ed, She was also very much puzzled; She
had supposed that Mr. Smith understood
that Mellicent and younvaraycaredfor
each other, and she had thoughtthat- Mr.
Smith even approved of the affair. be-
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seeneinthisabsurdfaahlon, andtry"to
out everybody out,” as it was vulgarly
termed—she never would have believed
it of Mr. Smith in the world. And she
was disappointed, too. She liked Mr.
Smith very much. She had considered
him to be a man at good sense and good
judgment. And had he not himself said,
not so long ago, that he believed lovers
should be of the same age, tastes, and
habits? And yet, here now he was—

And there could be no mistake about it.
y was saying the same thing.

e Martin girls brought it home as cur-
rent gossip. Jane was highly exercised
over it, and even Harriet had exclaimed
over the "shameful flirtation Mellicent was
carrying on with that man old enough to
be her father !" No. there was no mis-
take. Besides, did she not see with her
own eyes that Mr. Smith was gone every
day and evening, and that, when he was
at home at meal- he was silent and
preoccupied. and not ike himself at all?

And it was such a pity—she had
thought so much of Mr. Smith! It really
made her feel quite ill.

And Miss Maggie looked ill on the last
evening of that holiday week when, at
nine o'clock, Mr. Smith found her sitting
idle—handed before the stove in the liv-

-room.

“Why. Miss Maggie, what’s the matter
with you?” cried the man, in evident con-
cern. “You don't look like yourself to-
light I"

Miss Maggie pulled herself up hastily.

“Nonsense! I—-I‘m perfectly well. I’m
just—tired, I guess. You're home early,
Mr. Smith.” In spite of herself Miss Magb ,
gie’s voice carried a tinge of something
not quite pleasant.

“Yes, I’m home early for once, thank
Heaven l" he half groaned, as he dropped
himself into a. chair' .

“It has been a strenuous week for you.
hasn’t it?" Again the tinge of something
not quite pleasant in Miss Maggie's voice.

"Yes, but it’s been worth it.”

“Of course!"

Mr. Smith turned diliberately and look-
ed at Miss Maggie. There was a vague
questioning in his eyes. Obtaining. ap-
parently, however, no satisfactory answ-
er from Miss Maggie’s placid countenance.
he turned away and began speaking again.

"Well, anyway. I've accomplished what
I set out to do."

“You—you've already accomplished it?”
faltered Miss Maggie. She was gazing at
him now with startled, half-frightened
eyes.

"Yes. Why. Miss Maggie, What‘s the
matter? What makes you look so—-so
queer?"

“Queer? Nonsense! Why. nothing——
nothing at all," laughed Miss Maggie
nervously, but very gayly. “I may have
been a little—surprised, for a moment:
but I’m very glad—very."

“Glad?”

“Why, yes, for—for you. 'Isn‘t one al-
ways glad when—When a love afiair is—
is all settled?"

“Oh, then you suspected it." Mr. Smith
smiled pleasantly. but without embarrass-
ment. “It doesn’t matter, of course, only
——:well, I had hoped it wasn't too conspic—
uous."

“Oh, but you couldn't expect to hide a
thing like that, Mr. Smith," retorted Miss
Maggie, with what was very evidently in-
tended for an arch smile. "I hear it
everywhercL—everywhere."

“The mischief you did !" frowned Mr.
Smith, looking slightly annoyed. “Well,
I suppose I couldn't expect to keep a thing
like that entirely in the dark. Still, I
don't believe the parties themselves—puke
understood Of course, Pennock and Gay-
lord knew thsut they were kept effectually
away, but I don't belive they realized just
how systematically it was done. Of
course, Gray understood from the firs ”

“Poor Mr. Gray! I—I can't help being
sorry for him."

“Sorry for him!"

“Certainly; and I should think you
might give him a little sympathy," re-
joined Miss Maggie splritedly. “You Know
how much he cared for Mellicent.”

Mr. Smith sat suddenly erect in his
chair.

“Cared for her! Sympathy! Why, what
in the world are you (talking about? Was-
n't I doing the best I could for them all
the time? Of course, it kept him away
from her, too, just as it did Pennock and
Gaylord; but he understood. Besides, he
had her part of the time. I let him in
whenever it was‘possi’ble."

“Let him in !" Miss Maggie was sitting
erect now. "Whatever in the world are
you talking about? Do you mean to say
you were doing this for Mr. Gray, all the
time?"

“Why. of course! Whom else should I
do it for? You didn't suppose it was for
Pennock or Gaylord, did you? Nor for—"
He stopped short and stared at Miss Mag-
gie 111 STOWUIS amazement and dismay.
'You didn’t—you didn't think—I was do—
ing that—for myself?”

“Well, of course. I—I—" Miss Maggie
was laughing and blushing painfully, but
there was a new light in her eyes. "Well,
anyway, everybody said you were !” she
defended herself stoutly.

“Oh, good Heavens !" Mr. Smith leaped
tohisfeetandthrusthishandsintohis
pockets. as he took a nervous turn about
the room. "For myself, indeed! as if, in
my position, I'd— How perfectly absurd !"
He wheeled and faced her irritably. “And
you believed that?‘ Why. I’m not a marry-
ing man. I don’t like—I never saw the
woman yet that I—f’ With his eyes,“
Miss Mum's. flushed; half, averted face. _ -.
he stopped again abruptly. - “Well, I'll be

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TEXT: “All authority hath been
given unto me in heaven and in
earth- Go ye therefore, and
make disciples of all nations,
baptising them into the name of
the Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit: teaching
them to observe all things what-
soeve’r I have commanded you:
and lo, I am with you always.
even unto the end of the world."
Mt. 28:18-20.

was in Detroit. The State Sun-
day school convention was on.

- There is a great banner over the
street on which are these challeng—
ing words: “The Sunday School is
out for business, or else it has no

‘ business to be out.” That’s solemnly

,_ inviting and demanding.

But why

1 don’t the church forces all along the
' line catch up such a slogan?

Well, our text will help us to un-

‘ derstand something of the urgent
: and solemn challenge of Jesus’ last

command. And here is the setting:
The eleven disciples had gone into
Galilee. Why? By previous ap—
pointment of the Master. It was not
accidental or incidental. Now how

' fitting that “Galilee of the Gentiles",

. nations!

lowly and despised by the hide-bound
Jews, should become the place that
Jesus is to proclaim himself as not
only King of the Jews, but of all
And they were to go unto

' the mountain where Jesus had ap-

' great “Sermon on the Mount.”

pointed them. Probably the moun-
tain from which He had spoken his
We
like to think of it in that way, for

I around this mountain had gathered

many holy and tender associations.

And the circumstances must have
been dramatic. The disciples are
waiting and wondering. And when
He whom they had known as so
kindly and lowly; He, who had been

. killed and buried, now walks slowly

" go!

down the mountain, and presents
Himself in His royally glorified
state, “they saw Him, they wor-
shipped him; but some doubted."
There is hesitancy and misgiving.
Then he speaks in majestic strain,
“All authority hath been given unto
me in Heaven and in earth. Go ye
therefore.” And they understood.
With what joy and surrender they
And all the early church must
have understood and believed. Jus~
tin Martyr, in 150 A. D., says, “There
is not one single race of men,
whether barbarians or Greeks, or
whether they may be called nomads
or vagrants, or herdsmen dwelling
in tents, among whom prayers and
giving of thanks are not offered thru
the Crucified Jesus.” The business
of the apostolic church was the busi—
ness of the King. Every individual
was an evangelist. ‘

“Go ye, therefore, and make dis-
ciples of all nations." This is the
business of the church until all men
are brought under the kingship of
Jesus. “For He (Christ) must reign
till He hath put all enemies under
his feet.” 1 Cor. 15:25. Reign
where? Reign in the hearts of men-

. The authority given to Jesus Christ
. is no empty rule, but the supremest

and profoundest surrender of life to
Him. But it seems it needs Gab-
riel’s trumpet to bring us to our
feet in recognition. Jesus regarded

‘ his authority over men as a condition

  
       
      

in which they would receive his
spirit into their hearts, and make
them the seat of his rule. The sal-
vage of the nations depends upon a
surrendered and willing church.

“Baptising them into the name of
the Father, etc." There, now, says
some one, “Just what does that
mean? Well, this preacher is sure
that it means some baptismal sym-
bol that easily signifies that men
are to be immersed into communion
with the Heavenly Father. Of course
we all live and move and have our
being in him. We are floating in the
measureless ocean of God’s love.
But many are so water—proofed, to
speak figuratively, with the spirit of
a God-defying, Christ—denying, and
materialistic age, that the “water of
life” can not get into the waters of
God’s bettomless love for every man.
And it is the business of the church
to bring nations to bathe in this
Jordan. ‘

,But it is going so slowly. And
why? Now, here it is in place to
make‘some overtures that are mere
than guesses. First, the pulpit is

S'HE BUSINESS OF THE

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CHURCH

A SERMON BY REV. DAVID F. WARNER

yet reading sermons and devoting
itself to adults. The demand of the
day is not so much for measured
sentences and symphonic style; but
for plain, elemental convictions that

' come burning-hot out of heart-furn-

aces superheated by the fires of faith.
But more than this, step into the
average church today and you will
find a preacher speaking to a hand-
ful of adults. Adults, who already
know much more than they are will-
ing to practice- Why should a min-
ister go on in repeatedly unsuccessful
attempts to get thru the worldly-
thickened hides of these church
grown-ups? Yes, the congregation
is small. Where are the rest? You
say. But why not turn to the chil-
dren? The writer has a few minutes
separate worship for his children
every Sunday morning. Two weeks
ago, twenty—one children surprised
him by saying, “Pastor, we are all
reading our Bibles every day.” And
you should hear them quote Scrip-
ture. Well, I put them on the honor-
roll. Wouldn’t you? Before me is
a sunday-school convention program.
One subject reads like this, “How to
interest children in the church.”
And the speaker for the subject is a
preacher who confessed to me the
other day that his church is not do-
ing it. How funny! Wouldn’t you
like to hear him tell how to do it?
Let us cast our votes for deeds that
will match our creeds. “A pound
of deeds is worth a ton of creeds.”
Talk less; do more. Doesn’t our
text say, “Teaching them to observe
all things”? “To observe"; that is,
to do. But the old folks wont do it.
It will cost too much. It means
every little while a fat steer out of
the stall, a hog out of the pen, and
often your children leaving home to
carry out their Lord’s solemn com—
mission- Let us reclaim the young
life. Let us turn to the children.
They are the hope of the world. But
what will our Lord do with the
preachers who are using up their
time attending committee meetings,
shining at banquets and social func-
tions, patting church officials on the
back, and on Sunday morning pull
a stale sermon out of their “barrel”
and read it to a small congregation
of Gospel-hardened adults? What a
shameful attempt to glorify the
church’s only business!

“Teaching them to observe all
things.” You see, the church is to
Christianize the nations. But some
one says that is impossible. It
can’t be done. But that end of it
is not our business. Jesus said it
could be done, and the church’s bus—
iness is to believe it and go at it in
earnest. We are to mobilize for the
attack and then advance. “Christ-
ianize the Bolsheviks and the
Turks?” says someone. “It can’t be
done. Rather, we ought to- wipe
them off the face of the earth.” But
if it can't be done, we must cut the
heart out of the last and greatest
command of our Savior, and out of
his statement, that “If I be lifted up
I will draw all men unto me.”

This is true; it can’t be done until
Christian nations give more atten-
tion to the Christianizing program.
While the nations of Europe are
jockeying for the balance of political
and industrial power, Mohammedan
Turkey is getting to her feet in de-
fiance. Christianity is in the dust:
Diplomacy rules. While the Turk’s
Koran prohibits the use of liquor,
the one hundred per cent American,
with his Bible, keeps booze in his
golf locker and cellar. And so our
Western Christianity with its liquor,
cigaretts, and immoral films. And
again, While the heathen is seeking
for the true Jehovah, churches at
home are quarreling over definitions
of religion and tweedling with the
real program of Christ. Of course
it can’t be done. May God have
mercy on us!

But, it can be done. The church
may have unlimited power when any—
thing like unity, cooperation, and
concentration, comes about. “I am
with you always even unto the end
of the world.” »This last promise
and surety is a. marvelous one. Not
the taking of an abstract teaching to
the world, but a gospel impregnated
with a Life; a Life that has the
power toraise humanity to Heaven’s
ideal of love. and service. It can be
done. .Now, let us go. This is the
church's business. ' '-

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SATURIQAY, JUNE 21, 1924

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WHO STARTED IT?

" CCORDING to current press reports there is
a movement on foot at East Lansing to
change the name of the Michigan Agricul-

tural College and even acting-president Shaw is

given credit for bringing it to public attention.

We take it that this means that some of those
who are attending the agricultural college would
rather have a more flossy name, a title which did
not suggest so much Mother Earth and the
wholesome problems of crop production and bus-
bandry.

We take it that the title “Michigan Agricultur-
al College" does not fit so well with some of the
“sheiks” and “flappers,” and that they would
prefer to have a name for the old college, with
so worthy a background, which would rhyme bet-
ter in a song or college “yell."

“On what meat doth Ceasar eat—?” that this
name, so long honored and by so many thousands
now doing their work in the world, so highly
cherished, should be the subject of discussion as
to its fitness.

Even the great University at Ann Arbor can
hardly point to a more distinguished alumni,
than have come from the gates of M. A. C.

Then looking at it from the standpoint of the
great agricultural industry in Michigan; is it
not well that one institution should be dedicated
both in name and in purpose to the pursuit in
which more than one-half of the citizens of this
commonwealth are daily engaged?

Frankly, it is our opinion that the Agricultur—
al College in Michigan has been leaning too far
towards the courses of study which are not di-
rectly leading towards an improved agriculture.
That the courses are already treading on the toes
S of other institutions in this state which are de-
voted primarily to non—agricultural subjects.

The college at East Lansing ought to be just
what it was founded to be, a “school for the up-
building of agriculture." As such, it ought to at-
tract to its gates the flower of our young men
and women in this state. It ought to hold its
head aloft from the antics of the modern schools,
which are more proficient in teaching “Jazz
dancing,” than the subjects listed in their cat-
clogs.

A movement to change the honored name of
the Michigan Agricultural College, tho innocent
appearing in itself, indicates, in our opinion, that
there is something very fundamentally wrong
at East Lansing. That it is deeper than the
board, deeper than the acting head or his able
staff of teachers—4t rests down in the soul of the
school which is the student body itself.

If the wrong type of students are being at—
tracted in increasing numbers to the college, it
is time to find it out. If the wrong studies are
being given emphasis, it is high time to change
the appeal. If the esprit de corps of the college
has been mutilated by the changes and dissen-
tions of the recent hectic years, before another
semester opens is the time to eliminate the ob-
structlonists, the sour—notes or the bolshevists.

Luckily for Michigan, the new president of the
Michigan Agricultural College who takes over
the pilot—house on September first, or there-
abouts, is a man born with the love of the old

college and all that its name implies in his very .

veins, with the fighting stamina of generations
of pioneers back of him and his years at Am-
herst should have given him the rugged determ-

- . meson‘iortne rocks

      

chusetts. ‘” ,
Once again
the business farmers of Michigan to a man, are
back of you and place in your hands the college
which you know, and they feel, by every right
belongs, campus, "hall and dome to Agriculture!

 

 

THEISLANDOFSAFTY

IN the current installation of Mr. Stanley Pow-

ell's series of articles on taxation in Michigan
he aptly calls the tax exempt bond the "rich

tax dodger’s island of safety." .

You have been hearing a lot recently about the
danger of tax exempt securities and what they
were doing to not only capital, which has here-
tofore been employed in the upbuilding of indus-
tries, but,.providing the funds for producer and
laborer alike. If you will read the article in this
issue you will have a. clear conception of what is
meant by the tax exempt bond and what effect
it is having on economic conditions in the Unit-
ed States at the present time.

The danger of tax exempt bonds lies not only
in the fact that it is an “island of safety for the
rich tax dodger," but there is akpregnant danger
in the ease with which cities, counties, and states
officials spend thismoney for the\improvements.,
some of which are not pressing. There is as
much danger in “easy money" for the public
official as there is for the individual. “Come
easy, go easy,” applies to official corporation or
individual and limitless funds seem to be avail-
able for any and all purposes.

Tax exempt securities are so popular at the
present time that they are actually in demand
and as we have seen in the light of our recent
experience with prohibition, where there is a
human demand there is bound to be a supply
forthcoming. So far our officials seem to have
found enough absolutely necessary (Y) improve-
ments to keep the bond market well supplied and
and the bond broker happy.

It might be wise to look over the platforms
which will be spread before you by the two prin-
cipal parties and see what they have to say about
this live issue. There is probably no other one
that comes any nearer to your pocketbook.

Read Mr. Powell’s article in this issue if you
want to know the facts regarding tax exempt
securities; it is worth the while of every man or
woman who votes.

 

PICTURES BY WIRE

0W long ago was it that you marveled at

radio and’said “What will it be next?” Not

so long, and yet the answer to your question
is already forthcoming, for photographs are now
being sent by Wire and New York newspapers are
printing pictures taken at the Cleveland conven-
tion five minutes before!

It pictures can be sent by wire, they can be
sent by wireless! Pictures flying through space,
invisible likenesses being transfered as silently
as thought itself, what do you make of it? Had
one predicted this a hundred years ago they
would have been counted raving fools fit only for
an insane asylum and more probably been public-
ly burned at the stake for their heresy.

Perhaps the day will come when one may trav-
el as fast as light—buy a ticket, press a button
and be in London or Calcutta or Hong Kong!
“Crazy!” you say, “Impossible!” ”Mere rav-
lugs!”

Don’t say it for men are still living who said
that man could never fly! .

 

FLATTEREHS I

_ EFOILE another issue of This BUSINESS FARM-
B m: goes to press you are going to have an

opportunity of reading in the daily press the
complete platforms, as carefully erected for your
approval, by the two conventions of the great
political parties being held this month.

From indications to date, it is quite apparent
that party leaders recognize the impending “dis-
gruntled” farmer vote, which en mass, is some-
thing to be considered.

We predict that in each of the party platforms
there will be a plank highly polished and cover-
ed with a veneer of varnish which will make it
appear very new and real in its promises of re—
lief to the present agricultural situation. We
predict also that each of these planks will be
about as solid as the paper on which they are
written, and that irrespective of which great
party landslides into victory this fall the great
business of. agriculture in America will be little
affected by the people’s choice.

One thing is quite apparent; the present con-
dition cannot continue without a genuine up~
heaval, if that has not already happened, as we
are sometimes prone to admit.

The politicians who have been in, and those

  

, welcome home, Dr. Butter-field. _

‘ 3- continuum-£01318. to In ea
tall lot of explaining at home to the turmoil!
theUnited States Whether they hail from Maine,
California, Florida or Oregon.
to venture a further prediction

 

that the result-s"?

of this year’s election are going to prove it“

mighty big surprise to Wall Street and some or
the high financier’s “dopesters.”
wise political astronomers who think they can»
read all of the signs in the sky and prophesy the .

‘outcome of this November election are going to

be guilty of just one big blunder, and that is, that,
they guessed wrong.

If we knew how the political wiseacres were
going 'to vote this fall we would take the other
side with a fair chance of winning!

 

SERVING TWO ELASTERS

N the opinion of A. B. Cook, state master of
the Michigan State Grange, the four members
of the state board of agriculture who are also '

members of the board of directors of the state
farm bureau, should resign from one office or the
other.

This assertion is not made from a personal I

standpoint and has no reference to the present
incumbents of the office, but is, according to
Mr. Cook, directed at the continuation of such
a policy.

There are severe? great farm organizations in
Michigan and,‘fortunate1y, during the past few
years they have buried the hatchets which were
wielded with such vigor and so little effect in
the bygone days, and today they are working
shoulder to shoulder, to the everlasting good of
the farming business in Michigan.

There is no question but what the members of
the state board of agriculture should be members
of one or all of the leading farm organizations in
the state, but that they should hold executive
positions in these organizations while serving
the state is, in our opinion, a dangerous policy to
say the least, and one which is bound to lead to
complications and perhaps even jeopardize the,
harmonious understanding among the various
farm organizations as exists today.

Goodness knows that farmers have enough
enemies on the outside without fighting among
themselves, and an ounce of prevention at this
time may save a ton or so of trouble in the
future!

We agree with Mr. Cook that this is a subject
well worth bringing to the surface and settling
before more serious complications arise.

 

PRISON LABOR PAYS STATE

I‘NMATES of Michigan prisons earned $3,588,-
013 for the state during the last fiscal year,

according to a report made by the Depart-
ment of Labor. The earnings are for only the
prison industries, as the returns from the road
work being carried on under direction of Gov.
Alex J. Groesbeck have not yet begun to Show
up in figures.

Michigan is seventh in the number of men
employed, sixth in the value of products manu-
factured for its own consumption, first in the
value of goods sold, and third in the total value
of products.

The state institutions worked 3,381 men as an
average last year, producing $619,215 work of
products for their own use and $2,778,433 for
the market. The total was further augmented
by $190,365 worth of labor on public works. It
is worth noting that none of Michigan’s earnings
came from contract labor, in which the inmates
are hired out to private contractors, and to
which the abuses are charged which bring con-
demnation of prison labor. All of the work was
done by the State itself. Kentucky and Alabama,
the two commonwealths whose total value of
products exceed Michigan’s, hired out their pris-
ononors in factories and coal mines.

Add to this showing the road—building program
carried out in the last half of 1923 and the am—
bitious program for the current year and it
Would appear that Michigan has something to be
proud of in the conduct of other-wise waste labor
of its confined unfortunates. Lets keep up the
good record!

 

Now is the time to ask the politician for any-
thing you want. You may not get it, but he’ll
give you his promise to get it, if you’ll only vote
for him!

 

They can vote-down, veto or ignore, but there
will never be permanent, lasting normal prosper-
ity in these United States until agriculture pros-~

pers! ,

 

Time was when only part of the country quit
Work and went to the national conventions; now,
the whole darned country sits around the livinf
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PUBLISHED
E wish that space in our edit-
orial columns was not so lim-
ited so that we could give
more space to the Publisher’s Desk.
The few letters or inquiries discuss-
ed in this department each issue are
only “a drop in the bucket.” Each
and every letter received is answer-
ed by mail as soon as possible. As
a rule we have the information
wanted right here but many times
we must conduct- an investigation
-not the kind that Congress starts
but a real investigation 'to find out
the facts—and as soon as we get
the information needed we write our
subscriber. At least 90 per cent of
the letters answered by this depart-
ment never appear in print, because
we haven’t the space. So we try to
pick out the ones that we feel are
of the most general interest and use
them, but even at that there are
many we should use that are never
printed. If we could print more it
would save us both work because
many of our subscribers would find
in the Publisher’s Desk an answer
to some question they had in mind
and would not have to write to us
and we in turn would not have to
write the subscriber. But we are
here to serve and if we are giving
you what you want then we are ful-
filling our purpose. We like to
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DETROIT AERO METALS COR-
PORATION

HE inquirer requests to know if

i this stock is safe “investment."

The character of this stock is

not sufficiently fixed to regard as be-

ing in the investment class. In other

words, it is rather to be regarded as
a speculation.

The present idea behind this Com-
pany is the manufacture of aluminum
and aluminum alloy metals by new
processes, which would greatly re-
duce the cost. The company is or-
ganized around the personality of Dr.
G. Lenardo Williams, a chemist of
German ancestry, who claims to have
invented several new methods. Dr.
Williams may be said to be unques-
tionably a man of much information
and knowledge along chemical and
metallurgical lines but there is a
very great difference of opinion be-
tween scientific men as to ’the value
of his methods theoretically, and his
history would not justify a finding
that his alleged methods have as yet
been established in a commercial
way.

In other words, it has been charg-
ed by men of reputation in the chem-
ical and metallurgical field that Mr.
Williams’ theories lose practicability
after they leave the, laboratory.
Many things are possible in a chem—
ical laboratory, which, when trans-
formed to commercial production,
lose their validity, and this is prin-
cipally the argument against Dr.
Williams’ processes, 1. e., that he has
never been able to reduce them to
a practical commercial basis.

The Detroit Aero Metals Company
is the last of a string of corporate
adventures of Dr. Williams, which
have been formed about him by en-
thusiasts to test his processes. The
International Aluminum Company,
which was organized and financed
principally by Detroit capital a few
years ago, dropped several thousand
dollars and proved to be quite a
fiasco. The company proposed to
make aluminum and market it for
a few cents a pound and it was also
proposed to buy the Government
Nitrate plant at Nitro, W. Va. The
management of that company was

' such that the ultimate outcome can- '
. :not be said to have been decisive as

‘ Thanking you for the courtesy, I am, very

 
   
    
 
  

     

 

to the practicability of Dr. Williams"
processes, inasmuch as the manage-
ment was under questionable origin
and Dr. Williams can give a plaus-
ible explanation for the failure of
that enterprise, which does not nec-
essarily reflect upon the worth of his
new processes.

The Detroit Board of Commerce‘

is at present engaged in some con-
troversy with Dr. Williams and with
the Detroit Aero Metals Corporation,
growing out of its publication, the
Detroiter, of an article appearing in
a scientific paper which berated Dr.
Williams’ ability, and charges and
countercharges are being made by
both sides and a suit for libel has
been instituted in the Wayne Circuit
Court.

Under all the circumstances, the
stock is by no means an investment
and a sufiicient amount of the stock
has been sold to enable the company
to establish thexpracflticability of Dr.
Williams’ processes beyond further
delay.

 

INSURANCE AGENT MISREP-
RESENTS

I am going to tell you of a
swindle by the Mutual Fire
Insurance Co. Three years ago their
agent came to my house and sold me
insurance for three years and I paid
him the cash with the understanding
that there would be no extra assess-
ments on the policy. They have been
after me for assessments they say I
owe them. They claimed eleven dol-
lars and some cents and I sent it to
them last fall. At that time I re-
turned the policy to them for can-
celation. Last week they sent me a
bill for $1.39 threatening to sue me
if I didn’t pay up. They have done
this same thing all over this section.
If it isn’t swindling I'd like to know
what it is. They say “Why didn’t
you look at your policy?” We didn’t
have any policy when we paid the
agent and did not receive it until
nearly a month later.”-—E- W., Iosco
County, Michigan.

HIS is not an uncommon occur—
ence as similar instances have
been reported to us for some

time past. The company referred to
had agents canvassing the farmers
offering them them a three year pol—
icy for a certain amount, leading the
farmers to believe that the amount
he was collecting would be all that
would be required for the entire per-
iod of three years. Being a mutual
company it was impossible to make
any promises as to the costs for any
specified period. A mutual fire in-
surance company comprises a num—
ber of people banded together to pay
the losses of each other, also the ex-
pense of operation, and there is no
telling in advance what such rate
will be, and the agent representing
that the amount paid was all that
would be required was very ignorant
of conditions or knowingly misrep-
resented the matter. Certainly the
company should have prevented the
agent from misrepresenting should it
come to their knowledge.

The three year policy costs the
members about twice the amount the
agent said it would and caused great
dissatisfaction, but the experiences
of our subscriber seems to be only
one of the many instances which has
awaken the farmers to the fact that
to promise a stated rate in the oper-
ation of a mutual insurance is im—
possible, and is bordering on obtain—
ing money under false pretenses
which in Michigan is a crime pun-
ishable by fine or imprisonment or
both.

 

THANKS!

Dear Sirz—In yesterdays mail I receiv-
ed a letter from containing a
check for $29.06, this being the amount
which they owed me. I want to thank
you for helping me collect this, and also
for your promptness. Yours .truly, Mrs.
A. F. L., Curran, Mich.

 

Dear Sir:-—I am writing you in regard
to claim No. 1450. He has settled with
me so every thing is satisfactory. Thank-
ing you for your kindness in looking it
up for me, Respectfully yours, E. L.,
Birmingham, Mich.

 

We have not received our copy of the
last issue of the BUSINESS FARMER, and
would appreciate it very much if you
would forward copy of that issue to us.
We dislike to miss even the one copy.

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ours needs,
With it's various customs, habits.
, and creeds. » .
_Wim it’s well-trodden paths and walks
of life
,Beset with temptation,
strife?
.A little more sweetness to brighten the

hardship and

way

Ofdfihe dear ones who live with us each
y. _

” Add a mixture of patience and charity

' To life all around us and we shall see,

, That our lives will accord in sweet har-

mony,

“ Use a little more love and sympathy,

;:_ A little more kindness to banish the ser-

rows,
‘ It will gladden and strengthen the many
“ -- to-morrows.

—Inez G. Corbin.

GROW YOUR OWN HEAIII'H
TONICS

HE use of fresh vegetables and
fruits is an insurance against
sickness. Here is another idea
', which should stimulate interest and
, encourage more people to raise
more vegetables and fruits.

Dr. J. G. Richardson, professor of
hygiene at the University of Penn-
sylvania, assisted by a number of
physicians in this and other count-
ries, has published a book entitled
“Health and Longevity." It is in-
teresting to note that the following
vegetables and fruits were included
in the list of medicinal plants:

Asparagus—«Gently stimulates the
kidneys.

Beets—Relieves gravel and read-
justs certain internal disorder of
women.

Carrots—For kidney complaint;
used for poultices; powdered seed
relieves colic promotes secretions of
the kidneys; laxative.

Celery—Good for rheumatism
and neuralgia.
Cucumbers——For clear complex-

ion.

Cranberries—Taken as relief from
piles; also relieves nervous break-
down called hysteria.

Garlic—For worms, whooping-
cough, stomach and intestional
trouble.

Horse radish~——Tonic for diges-
tion; produces secretions of the
kidneys; syrup cures hoarseness;

tea said to benefit neuralgia and
. rheumatism.

Leek—Poultice for bronchitis and
chronic coughs; taken for worms
and whooping-cough, also stomach
and intestional trouble.

Navy beans—Relieves erysipelas
when poultice is applied to the af-
fected parts.

Onion—Promotes digestion; acts
on the liver by increasing the secre-
tion of bile; cure for constipation;
poultice for bronchitis and chronic
cough; taken for worms and for
whooping—cough, intestional trouble.

Pepper—Cayenne tea used for
grippe and scarlet fever.

Parsley—Hot infusion made from
one ounce of fresh root drunk freely
increases secretion of urine in case

of dropsy and relieves women's
complaints. Lotion is good skin
beautifier.

Pumpkin—Good for tape worms,
retention of urine, and inflamation
of bladder and bowels.

Rhubarb—Purgative and laxative.

Spinach—A skin beautifier.

Strawberries—Lotion used as a
skin beautifier.

Tomato—Cure for cholera infan-
tum; now used instead of orange
juice by some physicians for in-
fants; sliced tomato rubbed on skin
is good for freckles and sunburn.

Watermelon#Clears skin.

We do not guarantee any of these
to be sure cures, but we do know
that nature manufactures health
producing substances and presents
them to us in numerous fresh veg-
etables and raw fruits. It is also
much cheaper and more pleasant to
prevent disease than it is to cure it.

Remember that “an apple a day
keeps the doctor away." Note—The
apple must be eaten.

PRESERVATION OF OUR NATIVE
W'ILD FLOlVERS

HE bright warm days of spring
call us to the woods, to hear

the birds singing as they build
their nests, and to gather the wild
flowers as they peep out through the
‘ dried leaves. But each year the
: woods are a little farther away, for
growing towns are rapidly

"claiming the wooded districts for
building sites;
flowers are fewer,

and' each year the
because they

 

    

 

 

solute necessity; at least 8
glasses a day. Why not
check up on this matter?
You may be able to iinprove
the health of your family.

Address letters:

 

 

Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

EAR FOLKS:—-Are the members of your family getting the various
foods they ought to have to provide the necessary heat and" energy.
to make for growth, provide strength and care for the regulatory

needs. etc? For growth, strength, regulatory needs and health milk
isthe leadingfoodandanormalchfldshoulddrinkaquartaday
while an adult needs a pint or more.
eggs at least three times a week... Fruit should be eaten twice a day
or oftener and two or more vegetables besides potatoes, and including
leafy vegetables once day. Starches, fats and sugar should be taken ac-
cording to the individual’s activities and needs. And water is an ab-

/”
. )f/V‘Mr“ I
K321” WI" (4?“

Mrs. Annie Taylor. em The Buslneu Farmer, Mt. clemem, Michigan.

 

 

'A normal person should eat

 

 

 

 

have been picked and uprooted in
such large quantities, the proceed-
ing spring.

The automobile makes it possible
for more people to go to the woods
but it also presents a privilege
which is greatly abused. It is a de-
plorable sight to see car loads of
people rushing home after a Sunday
jaunt, with hands full of wilted wild
flowers, most of which will never
be revived.

At the present rate of annual de-
crease, one might safely prophesy
that the next generation will have
practically no wild flowers to enjoy.
Many species that formerly abound-
ed in the woods of Michigan, are al-
most extinct; the trailing arbutus is
found only in the extreme northern
part of the state and the moccasin
flower is very scarce, for it will not
thrive when its environment has
been disturbed.

What can be done to preserve the
few hardier species that still re-
main; the violets, trilliums, butter-
cups, blood—roots and hypaticas?
There are two ways in which wild
flowers can be protected; one is
through legislation; to forbid the
picking of all wild flowers, similar
to the protection that is given to
wild game, fish and birds; another
would be through nature study in
the schools, and by creating public
sentiment, to stimulate an apprecia-
tion for wild flowers in their native
haunts, where, undoubtedly, they
are at their best.

The second plan would be the
happier, more democratic way to
handle the problem. Can we, of a
supposedly highly cultured nation,

not acquire the finer appreciation of
nature, that the Japanese possess?
Can we not go to the woods and
enjoy seeing the wild flowers grow
and be content to pick just the few
which we can take home and care
for? Or must we go on ruthlessly
plundering, the woods of their
treasures, until the time will come
when, in the woods, we will be con—
fronted with signs of “Do not pick
the flowers” as we are today in the
public parks, by “Keep off the
grass."—-—Winifred S. Gettemy, As-
soc. Prof. of Related Arts, M. A. O.

DISH WASIHNG MADE EASY
LSH washing, the bane of many
a housewife, is really a delight
if properly managed. Begin
While preparing vegetables by em-
ptying, rinsing and drying the par-
ing pan and knife. After food‘s
cooked, wipe any lids which are
simply dripping with steam and
place in the rack. Put cold water
in all cooking utensils. If any are
scorched or burned, add a teaspoon-
ful of sal soda, or a tablespoonful of
baking soda to the water and set
them on the back of the range, or
on the burner turned low.
When clearing the table, use the
crust from a slice of bread to wipe
all food which may be left on plates

(a knife scratches nice china).
Rinse out cups, sauce dishes and
vegetable dishes by pouring hot

water in one and emptying it into
the next until all are treated. If
this practice is followed there will
be no “thick" dish water and no
rim of grease around the pan.
Always have tWo dish clothes and

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A small kitchen table may be converted into a serving table for the din-
ing room by enameling' all surfaces and attaching to one side a strip of
wood that has been carved and stencilled with a: conventional fruit design.
To secure the best results, a coat of paint is applied first, and allowed to
dry. Then a coat of enamel is applied and, when dry, is followed by an-

other coat.

A blue enamelled table, stencilled in goldenorangesorpurple
grapes would be very effective against buff or lightsyellow painted walls.

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‘7‘.

tWo dish towels—one for glass.
china and silver, the other for pane
and kettles. Use” hot rain
and naptha soap for washing and;
rinse Well with hot water. .

Wash glass were first, rinse in
soft water if possible and polish at
once. Next wash silverware and
polish without rinsing. It will shine
better.

Wash and rinse china and while
drying it, let dish pan set over heat.

Empty and scrape cooking utens-
ils—now an easy task—change dish
clothes and wash last. Also change
towels, scald and dry.

I hope this will prove helpful to-
some house wives, young and old.
for I am personally acquainted with
some who have grown old in the-
service who have never learned sys-
tem in any‘line of their work, es-
pecially dish washing. I wish that.
girls might learn such lessons be-
fore becoming housewives.—B. O. R.

 

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

If you use an oil-stove and
should turn a burner too high that,
you cannot turn down again, throw
a handful of salt on the flame. It
will go out at once.

To prevent a rocker from may.
ing along on a carpet when rocking.
paste a narrow strip of old velvet on
each rocker.

When patches of grime appear
on a light—colored wallpaper, you
can often get the marks right out
by rubbing—lightly at first—with a
small ball of dough to which a few
drops of strong amonia have been
added. -

Scorched flannel can be restored
to its original state by rubbing the
stain with lemon and leaving the
pulp on it; place in the sun for a
couple of hours and Wash in the us-
ual way.

Save your ham, rice, macaroni
and vegetable water for soups.

 

Personal Column

 

4.:

Who Can Answer This?—I would 11k:
to have this letter in print. In M. B. F.
in August, 1921, I read a recipe for sliced
cucumbers for Winter use. It was signed
“L. A. W., Osceola Co.” and was as fob-
lorws: "Peel and slice large cucumbers.
Place in a weak brine of cold water and
salt for 4 or 5 hours. Drain and fill
glass cans with the slices nearly to the
top; cover with cold cider vinegar and
seal. If vinegar is very strong weaken
with a little water.” We tried this reels»
one year and had good results. We put
up seine last fall and we found on open;-
ing them last winter and this spring that
they were all soft. We would like to
know what the trouble was—Mrs. J. A.

 

J

—if you are well bred!

 

 

The Knife as a Table Implementr—The
knife is not used: to mash or mix food
on the plate; to scrape up food or gravy;
to dip up salt from a salt cellar. Nor is it
wiped, during a meal on an improvesed
bread towel, nor employed to raise drops
of gravy or bits of food which may have
fallen on the table cloth or clothes. Par-
snips and potatoes should never be but-
tered with the knife. The knife never
carries food to the mouth. It is used
only to out food. It is always held in
the right hand, with the index finger ex-
tending down the upper side of the blade.
One mouthful cut and eaten at a time is
an elementary knife rule. To avoid ac-
cident the knife should always be held
in a firm grasp, and it must be as noise-
less in its operation as fork and spoon.
When not in use it rests on, not against
the plate, like the fork. Since the knife
is never used to place food in the mouth.
there are no “knife foods” properly speak-
mg.

 

3

Menu for June let

{—7 fi‘

Fried Spring Chicken, Milk Gravy
Mashed Potatoes Asparagus
Tomatoes Mayonnaise
'Rhubarb Fanchonettes
Coffee

 

I'Rhubarb Fanchonettes 2 pounds
hrubanb, 1 cup sugar, lg cup strained
orange juice, 1 tablespoon powdered gela-
tine, 1 piece orange peel, 1 cup cream.
Whipped, flavored and sweetened, number
of individual pastry shells.

Cut rhubarb into inch pieces. Hot house
variety needs no peeling. Place in baking
dish in layers, sprinkling sugar between
layers. Add 2 tablespoons water, 1 table~
spoon fat, and a few thin strips orange
peel, place in moderate oven, cover and
bake 1 hour. Dissolve gelatine in orange
juice and when rhubarb is cooked remove
it from oven and add this mixture to it.
Let it get cold; When ready to serve

. flll shells with rhubarb mixture. been

with whipped cream“ and deco" rate; with
Wind orange-reel. : g“. _ .;

 

 


 

 

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June 21, 1924

 

c:

RECIPES

 

p

Raisin Nut Bream—1M cups entire
wheat flour, 2 cups bread flour, 3 tea-
spoons baking powder, 1% teaspoons salt,
K cup sugar, 1% cups milk, 1 egg. 1 cup
needless raisins, no shortening.

 

Date Nut Bream—2% cups entire wheat
flair, 3 teaspoons baking powder. 1 tea-
lpoon salt, 2 tablespoons fat, melted. 1,6
cup chopped nuts, $4 cup sugar, 1 cup
milk. 1 egg. 55 cup dates, flne cut and
noured.

_—‘—

Nut Bread No. 1.—2%eu.ps flour, 3
teaspoons rbaking powder, 1 teaspoon salt.
is, cup brown sugar. 1 cup milk, 1 egg,
5‘ cup seedless raisins,
mm, 1 tablespoon fat, melted.

 

Nut Bread No. 2.—-4 cups flour, 1 cup
milk. 6 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup
chopped nuts, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup sugar,
1 egg.

For the four loaf breads listed, mix dry
ingredients. Add milk, well beaten egg,
melted fat, the nuts or fruit. Put in

ed pan. Allow 15 minutes for bread
raise. Bake in hot oven 45 minutes to
one hour.

 

Drop Blscuit.—-2 cups flour, 3% cup milk
or water, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 2
tablespoons fat, 1,4. teaspoon salt. Mix
dry ingredients. Cut in fat. Add liquid.
mp0 into oiled pan. Bake 10 to 15 min-
utes in hot oven.

 

Drop Cookies.——-1 cup sugar, 1,4, cup
melted butter, 2 eggs, 17$ cup milk, 2 cups
flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup
chopped raisins and nuts, 1 teaspoon va-
nilla. ix same as for plain muffins and
drop from spoon on greased pans. For
good cookies, omit vanilla. and sift with

flour, one teaspoon cinamon, 1A tea-
ooon auspice, M teaspoon cloves, or 1A.
teaspoon ginger and 1% teaspoons cinna-
mon. For chocolate cookies, add 3 squares
of melted chocolate. Chopped peanuts
my be used in place of raisins and nuts.

AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING

BE SURE AND SEND IN YOUR SIZE

‘A Dress with Slenderlzlng Linea—This model is very attractive for stout figures. .

l e omitted. One could use cre e for this style in any of its pretty
The new alpacas are also good for this dress.
46 and 48 inches bust measure. .
ed material, and 2% yards of plain material 40

4778.

b It the side. The s eeve pull my b

ves or linen.

:81 46[ 4211414% d f fl
an yar o

filth of the skirt at the foot girl is yard.

and 46 inches bust measure.

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at the foot is 2 yards.
4110. A Prett
mdvzflthout the assent portion.

e requires
W 1% yard 40 inches wide
enquired.

is here shown.

  
  
   
 
  
 
  
  
 

3““ flannel. pongee and refine. The closing is under
I. the box_ plsit on the vestee. The Pattern is cut
in 4 Sizes: year

‘ 4 7734 size requires

is required.
4784. A

     

     
   
 

Pattern is cut in 6.

 
 
   
  
    

  
   
  
 

knicker sty e.
4786.

is also pl

0011880. The
and _5 ears.
27 inc material.

   
 
   
   
  
   

27 inches or 56

.4188. A
drill. flannel
sign. The
T e Pstzern is cut in 4

years. y
material.

inch The Cap
4759.

A Pretty Skirt
mile or chiffon.
eccom
43 and
s t at the

style for a 31
inch material.

Farmer,

 

 

% cup chopped

4167. A Seasonable Style—Here is a pretty model for bordered materials, grinted voile .or georgette.
{I is also attractive for linen, wash silks and pongee. The bln
and Wltll_ the sleeve short or in wrist length.
, 44’ . _ . 3 inch size requires .

Blouse With short sleeves and in short length 1% yard less Will be required.
I

Sports' Frock.—_Figured crepe in red and black is here combined with black satin.
is a good sty e for alpaca. moire, retina and linen.
_'l‘he Pattern is cut in. 3 S _ _
% yards of 32 inch material. For timing on yoke. almt and smile of contrasting
is reqmred. Without long sleeve portions 1:5

4779. .An Up-To-Date st Ie for the Growing
Glrl.—Plaid alfiaca combine ‘4» with plain alpaca
his model is also good for linen.

6, 8, 10 and 12 years. _
34 yards of 32 inch material. For
yestee and cufls of contrasting‘ material %

. Comfortable Slumber GarmenL—At-
tractive and convenient is the model here
treyed. Crepe, namsook, batiste, flannel or
nelette are good materials '

strai ht lower edges or.

' A .Dalnty Frock for a Little Girl.—
Batiste or voile 'would be nice for this style.

in crepe and tub silk,
attern is cut in 4. S' 2 3
egrtsixm requiiires tlyztiyard of
_ ani conrasn m-
tenal as illustrated requires a a

yard 36 inc es wide.

Popular “Base Ball" Sult.—Linen.

or khaki could be used for this do-

ousers are separate from the waist.
. Sizes: 8 1

ear size re

“it ‘8 my “will: ii’f.p°.§.°§’°in§§epi?. d3..3?“§t
contrasting material. The '
S _ 7. 29, 81. 8;} and 35 inches waist
foot 45 ifgfihe’yard.
inch also requires 3% yards of 4

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

order from thls or former Issues of The Bu
glvlna num
name and address plainly.

ADD 10o FOR S‘PRING AND sum};
1924 FASHION BOOK

Address all orders for pattern. to
Pattern Department

THE BUSINESS FARMER
Mt. Clemens. Mich.

 

Plain Cookies‘ with Ammonia—Sugar 2
cups. butter or shortening 1 cup, milk 1
cup, carbonate of ammonia 1A oz. flour
1 qt. (31,5 cups). Pulverlze the ammonia
and mix with it the flour, and in the but—
ter well, then the other ingredients; use
only flour enough to handle (not stifl)
roll thin and bake in a suitable oven—
in fact all cookies require quick handling
and a quick oven—Mrs. C. D. C.

 

cup cooked oatmeal, % cup sugar, % cup
cup cooked oatmeal. 1,4 cup sugar 3%, cup
raisins, 1,4 teaspoon soda (scant measure),
2 teaspoons baking powder, ’75 teaspoon
cinnamon, 3 tablespoon fat, M cup mo-
lasses. Heat the molasses and fat. Mix
with all the other materials. Bake in
muffin pans thirty minutes. This makes
tWelve cakes.

 

 

The Runner’s Bible

(Copyright by Houshton Milliin Co.)

 

 

He that goeth about as a. talebearer ro-
vealeth secrets; but he that is of a faith-
ful spirit concealeth the mutton—Prov.
11-18.

The malicious talebearer is an anomaly
in nature. All other animals which thrive
upon corruption because they devour it,
are benefactors. But through the scandal-
monger, corruption is nourished and iii-
creased a thousand fold. The one who
has the love of God in his heart never
discusses the errors and sins of another;
on the contrary. he does his best to con-
ceal and to destroy them.—-(Luke 6:31;
Ps. 32:1.)

 

In Hldln 3

Woman Customer (after the tired as-
sistant had pulled down blanket after
blanket until there was only one left on
the shelf): I don't really want to buy a
blanket to-day. I was only looking for
a. friend.

Clerk: If you think he's in the other
one, madam. I'll gladly take it down for
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And the fellows that I’m scared of
Have tried to get my goat;

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And I’m losing all my sand,

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Come up and lick my hand.

For Rover is my buddie,
And I‘m happy as can be

For I know there’s simply nothing
That he wouldn't do for me;

For he loves me, and I know it,
And though other friends may fail

This world looks good, I tell you,
When Rover wags his tail.

You couldn’t keep discouraged;
You couldn't long be blue
If you have a friend like Rover,
And know he’s loving you;
For he rushes out to meet me
When I'm coming through the yard;
He just wags himself all over
'Cause he's loving me so hard.

 

EAR girls and boysz—Not long

ago a scientist had a large
glass tank built with a glass parti-
tion through the center. He filled
the tank with water and on one side
of this partition he placed a large
fish while on the other side he plac-
ed some gold fish. The large fish
saw the gold fish and started for
them, intent on devouring them,
but he was stopped when he came
to the partition. He struck his nose
quite hard and hurt it but he was
not to be disappointed so easily and
he tried again and again to get at
the little fish but each time he was
stopped the glass partition which
he could not see. After a few days
he stopped trying to get the other
fish and swam about in his half of
the tank. About a week later the
scientist removed the glass partition
and all of the fish mingled togeth—
er but no matter how close the gold
fish came to the large fish he Would
not pay any attention to them.

Many of us are no better than
this large fish. We try to do some—
thing and we fail; maybe we try
again or maybe we are discouraged
and say “Oh, my no! I couldn’t do
that. I tried it once and I know I
couldn’t." Don’t be a “poor fish.”
Just make up your mind it can be
done and you are going to do it
AND THEN DO IT. Success comes
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OUR GIRLS AND BOYS

Dear Uncle Nedt—I thought I would
try to join your merry circle. I am stay-
ing in Michigan but my home is in Can-
ada and we live about 300 feet from the
Welland Canal, and about 9 miles from
Niagara Falls which is a very pretty
light to see; the whirl pool and the water
rolling down looks fine. Have you ever
been there. Uncle Ned? It is sure worth
seeing. Well I must describe myself. I

6 feet 9 inches tall weigh 174 pounds,

e eyes, fair hair and light complexion,

Hyageis 17 andwillbelSontheZG
day of June. Have I a twin. I wish
some of the boys of my age would write
to me. I will answer all letters I re-
ceive. I will take a guess at Mary Zeets
age, she is 15 years old. Well I will
close now. Your friend,——-Earl Running,
Filion, Michigan.
-—Even though your home is in Canada,
Earl, you are welcome to our circle. It
must be very beautiful around your home
and I know the girls and boys would
like to hear more about it.

Dear Uncle Ned:-—<May I join your
men's Hour? I have been reading the
._ and thought I would write. I en-
”! reading letters. Maybe I will see
one of mine in print. I will describe my-
self as the others do. I have light brown,
fished hair and gray eyes. I am four
1’. two inches tall, and weigh 71 pounds
and am 11 years old. Now I guess you
can tell how large I am. As my letter is
tting long will close. From a would-
e-to-be niece—Marian Wines, Adrian,
Mich.
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merry circle? My step-father takes the

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M. B. F. and I read the Children's Hour.
I live on an 8'0-acre farm. We have 2
cows, 2 calves, 3 dogs, 1 cat, 19 pics and
23 little chicks. I have one sister, two
brothers and my sister is in the first
grade at school, and I and my biggest
brother is in the seventh; he is 14 and I
am 12. Now I hope this letter does not
reach the waste basket. Well I guess I
will have to close hoping to get a letter
from some of the boys and girls. I will
answer all letters received. Your want-
to—be niece—Margaret Marford. Gould
City, Mich, Box 75.

Dear Uncle Ned :-—-Well_I think I will
try to write again, I wrote once before
and I guess my letter must have found
its way to the waste basket. I wish you
would move it a little farther way so
this one won’t get into ft. I live on a
farm and I think I would like to live in
the city too. But I like the cows, chickens,
and horses. I have a. dog and some kit-
tens too. We have two of the cutest
little calves: ones name is Betty and the
other one is Michigan. I like the names.
Do you? Your want—to-be Meow—Dorothy
Marion Hartsell. Gagetown, Mich” RS.
—Oh Dorothy, how could you live on the
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Dear Uncle Nedz—I have never written
to you before. We take your paper and
like it very much. The first thing I turn
to is the boys’ and girls’ page. Well I
guess I will describe myself. I have
medium brown hair (of course it is bob-
bed. Ha! Ha!) I am five feet two inches
in height. Do any of you boys and girls
like to go to school? I do. I think it is
lots of fun to go in the summer. In the
winter time we have hot dinners. I live
on a 160 acre farm. We have 4 horses,
20 head of cattle and a shepherd dog.
For pets I have 2 little kittens. One is
Trixie and the other is Bosebeli; they are
very cute. We have about 200 chickens,
17 turkeys and 18 pigeons, we also have
three pigs. I live with my parents. I
have two brothers and two sisters. I
hope some of you boys and girls come
to Summit City this summer. I think we
would have a pleasant time, don‘t you?
I will give you a riddle to answer. The
one that answers it will receive a letter
from me. Here it is: On the hill there
is a green house, in the green house

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there is a white house, in the white house
there is a red house, in the red house
there are many little black niggers.
Guess it. My letter is getting quite long
so I will ring off. Your affectionate niece,
—--Anna Bretanus, R. 1, Box 41, Summit
City, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned:——I am 12 years old,
6 feet 1 inch tall and am in the 8th
grade. I have light hair, of course it is
bobbed, and blue eyes. Say Uncle Ned.
don't you think it would be nice to have
each boy and girl write a description of
how they picture you and see which
could come the closest to what you really
look like? Of course, my ideas aren't
very bright and you will probably not
even think it over. Say, in your last is-
sue I see you ask if we are all going to
follow in our mothers footsteps. Uncle
Ned, although I love the farm, I am not

' going to live on a farm if I can help it.

I may live on a. farm but my business will

not be farming. I am going to be a. danc-

ing instructor if I can. My mother does

not like my future idea. very well. Here

is my idea. of Sprng.

Spring is the time to be lively and gay,

The time to have good seed to sow.

If you will sow them, you'll surely got
pay.

Before another winter brings cold wind
and snow.

Your want-to-be niece,———Ilene Wingard,

Cedar Springs, Mich, R. L.

——If you love the farm you certainly

should live there all your life, but if you

are going to be a dancing teacher I ex—

pect you will have to live in the city.

I'll just bet you soon get tired of living

in a dirty city, with no door yard or a.

chance to get the fresh air.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I surely hope I am
not too late to enter the “scramble" as I
dearly love to corrrespond with other
young folks. I have a plan, here it is.
Why not let all the cousins when they
write to you enclose a few cents in stamps
and let you (Uncle Ned) exchange it for
money and call it the Children’s Fund,
then you could send the money to some
crippled child. What do you think of the
idea, cousins? Let's hear your opinion
of it. I think it would be great fun.
Uncle Ned, have you ever had diphtheria?
I have just got over having it. Two Of

The Dear Little, Merry Little Sailor

ed into the harbor of the Blue
Sea.

And every day the dear little,
merry little sailor waited for passen-
gers. He waited and waited and
waited!

But the passengers never came.

Oh, yes, there were plenty of pass-
engers. Hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of them!

But they never blinked an eye at
the Little Boat. Bless you, no!

They all hurried towards the Great
Big Boats, as fast as they could!

And, after the Great Big Boats
sailed away, the dear little, merry
little sailor lifted his anchor and off
he and the Little Boat would glide.
Just as if the Little Boat were full
of passengers.

“1 will play at being prosperous
and happy,” he laughed, waving to
the sea gulls. “And perhaps to-
morrow I shall have passengers.”

So the next day, the dear little,
merry little sailor took the Little
Boat to a most conspicuous spot,
and whistled as loud as he could,
hoping to attract the crowd.

But they never even glanced to-
ward the Little Boat. They just fell
pell—mell over each other to get to
the Big Boats.

After the Big Boats floated away,
the dear little, merry little sailor
squeezed back the tears, and lifted
the tiny anchor and sailed off. And,
whistled, whistled, whistled!

“Well, tomorrow I shall have a
passenger. I feel it in my bones,”
he sang to the blue skies.

And sure enough, he did feel it
in his bones. Bless you, yes!

For when he and the Little Boat
were waiting, waiting, waiting, he
heard a shrill little laugh behind him.

Looking around he saw a little,
funny old woman. _

“May I take passage on you
beat?" she creaked.

“Indeed, you may," answered the
dear little, merry little sailor, trying
to hide the great joy singing in his
heart. At last he had a passenger.

“But,” whimpered the little, funny
old woman. “I have no money!”

His dear little, merry little heart
sank. Oh, no money!

EVERY day the Little Boat danc-

mmm

But he shrugged,

“Oh, that doesn’t matter. I’d
love to have you on my boat!” and
he began whistling, whistling, whist-
ling.

So the little Old, old, old woman
hobbled onto the boat, leaning on
a creaky old cane.

The dear little, merry little sailor
whistled louder than ever to keep up
his courage. And he offered the little
old passenger a loaf of bread-

He did not tell her it was his last
loaf. Bless you, no! He just
whistled a little louder!

But, when the Little boat was
’way, ’way out to sea,’a queer thing
happened. Oh, indeed it was very,
very queer! The Little Boat started
getting bigger, bigger, and bigger.

“Oh, oh, oh,” wondered the little

sailor. ”Look at my boat. It's
swelling! ”
“Oh, no, it’s simply growing,”

sniffed the little old woman.
isn't it beautiful!”

And sure enough, it was beautiful.
Oh, so beautiful and big! As beautiv-
ful and big as the boats that got all
the passengers.

“Oo’oo!” laughed the dear little,
merry little sailor. “How strange!"
And his little eyes were wide with
delight. Some way he knew it was
the kindness of this queer little old
passenger.

But when he turned to thank her,
she was, ob, could it be true, a
lovely young girl—fairy!

The dear little, merry little sailor
teased for a reason for all the glad
things about him.

“You see,” the girl-fairy, with a.
sweet smile explained, “the Big
Boat and I are yours, because you
were so brave and kind.”

“But the little old woman?" ques-
tioned the dear little, merry little
sailor-

“Oh, it’s such a long story," smiled
the girl—fairy. “You ask the Magic
Fairies, and come here and sit by
my side and whistle your dear little,
merry little tune!"

And so the next day the deer little,
merry little sailor and the lovely
little fairy—girl were married, and——
lived happily ever after, of

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poem you may print like. Well
as my letter is getting long will leave
room, for other cousini‘ Hoping thb es-
comes the waste paper basket. 1am your
loving man—Helen Goodrow, Hale, m

The Violet

What a pretty wild flower,
Is the violet blue.

And when there is a rain shower
It will. bloom so true.

It grows out in the woods,
Where many people go.
Children like to gather them in their
hoods,
As long the path they go.

It blossoms in the spring
When. the sun is shining bright.
Then the birds will sing,
As they see the violet in the morning
light. . '
-By Helen Goodrow, Hale Mich.
—-You are quite a- poetess, Helen, and I
can see you love flowers.

ETHEL, THE BELLE AT THE BALL

It is getting dusk, the lights are shin—
ing brightly at the Gilbert Castle.

The automobiles“ are beginning to drive
into the yard, for there is to be a. large
ball at the Gilbert’s.

Ethel, s: beautifhl girl of 17', is in her
room, she is standing by the window
watching the cars as they drive up the
beautiful avenue. If once you looked at
her handsome face and form, you would
never forget it.

She has brown hair, beautiful brown
eyes which are snappy, but at times are
sad and affectionate.

As the last car drove up the avenue
she slowly walked to the dresser arranged
her hair more beautiful, descended the
stairs and entered the ball room. A large
company of young men and women were
standing by the piano.

As Ethel entered the room, Maggie, her
affectionate friend, came forward toward
her and said, "Oh! Ethel I am so glad
you have come.” Ethel smiled sadly and
slowly put her arm around her and Mag-
gie said, “Come Ethel, we were all wait-
ing for you, will you not play a piece for
us?!

They walked to the piano together, her
friends greeted her kindly, and as she
set on the piano stool she said, “What
song do you prefer girls?”

Gay Gilbert, a handsome young man.
who was deeply in love with Ethel said’:
"Play ‘there is only one Pal after all." “

As Ethel placed her beautiful fingers on
the keys, the notes came loud and clear,
and all sang but Ethel who was too sad
to sing. ’

Soon the dancing began and all danced
and had a fine time. At midnight there
was to be a large supper and after supper
the prettiest girl there was to become the
wife of Gay Gilbert.

Midnight drew near, all ate the feast
and then the people were to decide who
was to be the Belle of the Ball.

Ethel was setting on a large davenport
with a company of boys and girls. They
all decided that Ethel was the Belle of
the Ball.

She was slightly blushing for Gay was
coming toward her.

The inner light from her soul was shin-
ning in her eyes, she loved Gay very
much, but did not want him to know it.
She had known him for several years and
loved him ever since the first time she
met him. Now he was to be her husband.
Oh! how her heart ached for him.

As he stood before her their eyes met,

her ewe-lids dropped for she could not

hear his searching gaze. .

‘Ethel !” and he clasped her to his hose
om, “You are mine, all mine dear, body
and soul,” and also “The Belle of the
Balm—Mist Margarch Jackowish, Shara
wood. Mich.

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still profiinifle for “the million-dollar
man “to buy it. The result is, that
the men with the large incomes ob-
tain a much greater reduction in
their taxes than the Government can
hope to make up by a lower interest
rate on the securities which it is-
sues.”
Tax-Free Bonds “and '

The direct public loss which is
brought about through inabality of
the government :to collect taxes on
these bonds, is only one of the argu-
ments which may be brought against
time. As stated above, the effect of
the issuance of “tax-exempt municipal
bonds is also to encourage muni-
cival extravagance and to hamper in-
dustry by diverting capital which ‘un-
der other circumstances would be in-
vested in public utility, railroad and
industrial enterprises.

Is there any need to point out
that present conditions are driving
liquid capital needed for production
into unproductive channels? Men of
large financial means now invest
largely in municipal bonds, the in-
come from which is totally tax-ex-
empt. Mr. William Rockefeller, who
died recently in New York, left $7,-
000,000 in Standard Oil securities
which were taxable, but he also left
to his estate $44,000,000 in muni-
cipal bonds, from which he had re-
ceived an annual income of over $1,-
750,000, which was totally exempt.

Time was when farm mortgages
were considered as gilt edge security,
yet today they are almost a drug on
the market. Both agriculture and
industry sufi‘er from the loss of the
capital which has been withdrawn
from constructive, productive bus-
iness and hidden away in tax-exempt
securities. .

This thought was emphasized
specifically by Richard T. Ely, Direc-
tor of the Institute for Research in
Land Economics and Public Utilities,
when speaking this spring to the
American Electric Railway Associa-
tion he declared that electric railway
securities must be relieved from the
ruinous competition of tax—exempt
capital so that they could be financed
at more reasOnable rates before they
could get out of their present dis—
tressed condition.

The Situation in Michigan
Speaking of Michigan’s taxation
conditions, Mr- George Lord, member
of the state board of tax commission—
ers, said recently:

“Personally, I believe we are al—
most at the breaking point now.
There has never been a more univer-
sal cry against high taxes. It has
never before been possible to inter—
est people generally in.ta.xation to
the extent they are now interested.
Farmers are deserting their farms in
part because of high taxes.

“The fundamental evil is over—ex—
pansion of the public debt. Last
year the state and national govern-
ments appropriated seven and a half
billion dollars, the national share
being approximately two fifths. Of
that, 79 per cent was on general
property.

“Much of that was spent in caring
for interest and sinking fund pay-
ments on the public debt which has
reached the enormous total of at
least $33,000,000,000. Michigan’s
share alone is $400,000,000. That
means interest charges of $20,000,—
000 to say nothing of payments to
amortize the bonds. Authorities are
too willing to borrow without heed
to the consequences.

“Tax exemption speaks for itself.
It is an evil too easily extended and
results in completely unfair distri-
bution of the burden of taxation."

Congress Shies at Shadow

Despite these manifold arguments
against the tax-exempt feature of
“bonds issued by various governmental
units, Congress has at its present
session once more refused to put a
ban on them. When this issue was
being debated in Congress the oppo-
sition raised the objection that such
action on the part of the federal
government would impair the credit
of the states or that if the credit
were not actually impaired, the tax—
ation of state and municipal secur-
ities would make it difficult to mar-
ket them and so retard public im-
provements-

These objections should not worry
us. Long before the day when high
‘ taxation gave tumempt securities

the V ‘ ‘ ~eithey now engoy, state

     

[department of agriculture.

ium over the best public utility, rail-
road and industrial securities, and
.even if the effect of such legislation

were to slow dow the rate at which.

our governmental units are rushing
into debt, should that be regarded
as an objection?
Legislature Must Act

In view of the present situation,
the executive committee of the Mich-
igan Real Estate Association recently
adopted the following resolution:

“Failure of the House of Rep-‘

resentatives of our Federal Congress
to adopt a joint resolution propos-
ing a constitutional amendment pro-
hibiting the issuance of tax~exempt
securities, is looked upon with pro-
found regret by the Michigan Real
Estate Association. Defeat of the
resolution is a serious blow to real
estate.

“So long as it is possible through
investment of any kind, for vast sums
of wealth to enjoy immunity from
taxation, real estate as represented
in farm, town home, business and
industrial properties, must expect to
bear a disproportionate burden of the
cost of government.

“Sentiment in Michigan is pre-
ponderantly opposed to further is-
suance of tax—exempt ‘securities.
Some have believed, however, that
Michigan should not tax her secur—
ities until similar action is taken by
all states. Now Congress has failed
to act. In the House debate it was
declared that the question clearly
was one for determination by the
several states. Michigan’s course is
clear. The legislature of 1925 must
act. By its action and by the action
of other legislatures, Congressional
disapproval of tax exemption will be
hurried.

“The Michigan Real Estate Asso—
ciation, representative of property
owners of Michigan, commends the
action of those members of the Mich-
igan delegation in Congress who vot-
ed for the passage of the joint resolu-
tion."

Laws removing the tax-exempt
feature of both foreign and domestic
bonds and making them subject to
small annual specific taxes were
passed at the recent session of the
Legislature, but were vetoed by the
Governor.

A Challenging Crisis

No doubt the general public agrees
pretty thoroughly with the editorial
comment of the Detroit Free Press
that “when the House Representa—
tives turned down the tax—exempt
securities constitutional amendment,
it went on record in favor of class
privilege”.

It was Abraham Lincoln, as we
all remember, who made the epochal
statement that this country could
not exist half slave and half free-
Were he living today he would no
doubt say “This country cannot con—
tinue to exist half taxed and half
tax—free”.

It is evident that the time has
come when we should have more
people freed from the burden of op-
pressive and inequitable taxation and
less tax-exempt securities——more tax-
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SHOW BIG SAVING IN DITCH-
BLASTING
DITCH blasting demonstration
was recently staged by L. F.
Livingston, head of the Michigan
Agricultural College land clearing
service, near Durand, Michigan,
which developed some interesting
data in the use of explosives for
this kind of work. ;

“The ditch we worked on was an
old one, filled in about two feet at
the bottom," says Mr. Livingston.
“Estimates secured by local author-
ities had placed the cost of clearing
it at ten dollars a rod, while the
best bid obtained was at twelve dol-
lars a rod. Figures on the demon-
stration, which was entirely success-
ful, showed that materials cost $2.-
36 a rod and labor fifty cents; a
total of only $2.86 a rod for the
work.

“We used three rows of holes, 18
inches apart with the rows 40 inches
apart. One stick of 50 per cent
straight nitro-glycerin dynamite, the
only kind possible for this type of
work, was placed in each hole. The
blast cleared a good 12 foot strip in
the bottom of the ditch.”

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DAIRY and LIVESTOCK

1925 HOLSTEIN CONVENTION AT
GRAND RAPIDS

inois, was re—elected president

of The Holstein-Friesian As—
sociation of America for the third
time at the 39th annual convention
of that organization’s delegates at
Richmond, Virginia, June 4th. Dr.
L. M. Thompson, Montrose, Pennsyl-
vania, was elected vice—president,
and the following directors, whose
term expired, to succeed them-
selves: E. A. Stuart, Seattle, Wash-
ington; H. V. Noyes, Kenwood,
New York; W. H. Mott, Harrington,
Kansas; and R. E. Chapin, Batavia,
New York. Next year’s convention
will be held at Grand Rapids, Mich-
igan.

A three times-a-day milking test
for the 305- and 366-day divisions
of the advanced registry was adopt-
ed. To be eligible for this class, to
be known as Class B, cows on long-
time semi—official test are not to be
milked more than four times daily
the first 46 days and not to exceed
three milkings a day the balance of
the period.

The sentiment of the convention
was in favor of adopting a plan for
increasing consumption of Holstein
milk and encouraging local breeders
to market a higher class product.

To insure the attendance of the
delegates at annual conventions, es-
pecially those from distant points a
provision was made for reimburse-
ment of railroad fare and traveling
expenses to all delegates.

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“SPEND A WEEK IN DAIRY
LAND”

E Publicity Committee of the

National Dairy Exposition, aft-

er consulting with various Mil-
waukee and Wisconsin people inter-
ested in the success of the Exposi-
tion, has just announced the new
slogan for the year—“Spend a
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in the Exposition will feature this
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:literature.

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iposition but also a visit to Wiscon-

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the Exposition and at the same time
see some of the famous farms and
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The slogan holds
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profitable sight-seeing trip combin-
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the American dairy industry in all
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ADVANTAGES OF SILAGE ‘ARE
SEVERAL

HE silo is not a new thing to
Michigan dairy'men because
there are nearly 50,000 silos in

use in the state at the present time.
The very fact that there are this
number in use proves their value in
economic dairying and livestock
farming. There are many dairymen
and cow owners in the state who do
not haw silos at the present time.
These men could produce meat or
milk more economically if they had
silage to feed.

Briefly the advantages of silage
are as follows:

1. The silo saves feed. A large
per cent of the food value of the
crops ordinarily used for silage goes
to waste on the farm. If this food
is saved, production costs of 1ive~
stock and livestock products can be
reduced.

2. More cattle can be kept per
acre where silage is utilized eflic-
iently.

3. Silage furnishes a green juicy

kind of food aids digestion and
keeps the digestive tract in good
condition.

' 4. Less labor is required and it
is by far a more pleasant job to
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when the same crop is fed in cured
form.

5. Silages saves on the hay bill.
A ten of good silage is worth about
one-third as much as a ton of mixed
hay.——0. E. Reed, Professor of
Dairy Husbandry, M. A. C.

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STALLION OUT OF CONDITION

I have a stallion that has been out
of condition for four years. He has
a pot-belly, rough coat, and if driven
hard has colic spells, lays down and
rolls. With these spells his manure
gets very thin and watery. He is
nine years old and very speedy. Two
doctors have examined him, and they
call it chronic indigestion. The last
doctor gave him glaubers salts, 2
lbs. common salt, 1 lb. bicarbonate
of soda 17$ mixed together tablespoon
full in food twice a day. This treat-
ment does not seem to do much good.
Last two springs he seemed to look
good for a couple of months, then
goes down in hard shape and gets
lazy. If this horse was well I could
sell him for at least $225. When
he has the colic spells he bloats.
Quite often he yawns, just like a
person when they are sleepy.—-R. G.,
White Cloud, Michigan.

WOULD suggest that you try the
following prescription: Fluid ex-
tract of nux vomica, two ounces;

fluid extract of quassia, four ounces;
fluid extract of gentian, two ounces;
Fowler’s solution of arsenite, twenty—
four ounces; mix and give the horse
two tablespoonfuls in a half cup of
water mixed in his feed night and
morning. If necessary this prescrip-
tion can be refilled and given a sec—
ond time.

The horse should in addition have
good feed and care and a ration
composed of one part bran, three
parts oats with a little corn for vari-
ety, and good mixed clover and tim-
othy hay would do very well.—-John
P. Hutton, Assoc. Prof. of Surgery
and Medicine, M. A. C.

CALL A GOOD VETERINARIAN

I would like to ask through the
columns of your paper a few ques-
tions regarding some cattle that
have died recently belonging to a
near neighbor of mine. He has lost
six out of ten and one more is sick.
They were all one year old this
spring and in good condition, have
been well fed and cared for. They
do not live long after taken, from
ten to twenty-four hours. When
they are skinned there is red and
dark spots on the flesh. We have
searched every place where they
have been, for poison but none has
been found. Would the red and
black and blue spots indicate poison
or some disease? What would the
cost be to have their stomachs anal-
yzed by state authorities?—-W. J.
S,. Grawn, Mich.

would be practically impossible,

to make a diagnosis of the condi-

tion affecting the cattle in ques-
tion basing judgement on the descrip-
tion given. The trouble might be due
either to some intoxication or a con-
tagious and infectious disease. A
qualified veterinarian should be call-
ed in to make a thorough examina-
tion and if he is unable to arrive at
a solution, specimens should be sent
in to the laboratory of the State
Department of Agriculture for ex-
amination. Such examination would
be made without cost to the owner
of the cattle.

It would be an enormous and ex-
pensive task to attempt the analysis
of the stomach contents of any ani—
mal if no clue were available rela-
tive to the possible cause of the
trouble—B. J. Killham, State Vet-
erinarian.

FREE BOOK ABOUT CAN OER

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Indianapolis, Indiana, has published
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Ads under this heading 300 per
agate line for A lines or more.
131.00 per insertion for 8 lines or
one.

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HEREFORDS

WE HAVE BRED HEREFORDS SINCE 1800
Our herd bulls are International ' W
Stock of all ages for sale, at Farmers prices.

 

us for further information.

Feed Herefords that fatten quickly.
CRAPO FARM. swam Greek. Mlohlgan.

HEREFORD STEERS

64 Wt. Around 800 lbs. 70 Wt. Around 750 ll:
88 Wt. Around 650 lbs. 44 Wt. Around 600 Ill.
46 Wt. Around 600 lbs. 50 Wt. Around 600 Ill.
Well marked and show splendid breeding. d
reds good stocks: order. Herefords are
market toppers when finished. Anxious to
your choice one car load or all. Give n
and weight preferred.

V. V. BALDWIN, Eldon. Wonello Co. Iowa.

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GUERNSEYS
MAY —— GUERNSEYS — ROSE

STATE AND FEDERAL ACCREDITED
Bull calves out of Dams up to 877 pounds 6a}
Sired b Bulls whose Dams have u to 1 1
ounds at. The homes f bulls; Shut lemcm
Rose Bagel, Jumbo oi riarbank and Ho
Golden night of Nordland. From Dams pro-
ducing 1011.18 fat, 772 fat and 610 fat.
GEORGE L. BURROWS or GEORGE J. HIOKL

Saginaw. W. 8.. Michigan.

PURE BBED GUERNSEY . use: L;

c. R. TALBOT, Farmlngton. Mlohlgan.

SHORTHORNS

FOR 8ALE--ONE RED SHORTHORN REGIO-
tered bull. age ten months. One roan short
regifstered bull. also enzhlta mlonths. Also four

h res, coming we as. o .

elicnry J. Lynch, lid/ammo. Tuscole 00.. Mloh.

RED POLLED

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From good milking strains. Prices righ
JACOB BERNER a SONS. Grand Ledae. Midi.

ANGUS

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from International Grand Champion Stock

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REG. JERSEYS. POGIS 99th OF H. F. AND
Ma esty breeding. Younz stock for sale. Bard
in! accredited b State and Federal Government.
W to or visit {or prices and description.
GUY O. WILBUR. BELDING. Mich.

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SWISS

For Sale list of BROWN SWISS cattle and
formation concerning the "BIG BROWN CO ,
write SEO. MICHIGAN BROWN SWISS BREED-
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lie ppiu. a Vera nice bunch. all

nearly snow white. emales $5.0 ' males. $10.00.
RANSOM PETERS. Ithaca. 'Mloh" n2.

“Very Satisfactory Results!”

Gentlemen 1—Kindiy discontinue my
advertisement after your next issue,
both the chick and egg ad. I re—-
ceived very satisfactory results
frOm your papers—Yours truly
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importance of proper and
thorough ventilation for poul-

try houses of all kinds during

the summer months cannot well be
overestimated. In the case of adult
fowls it determines, to a large de-
gree, their efficiency and productiv-
ity, because comfort is everything in

hot weather and the hens that are

kept comfortable are most likely to
continue producing. Hens that are
overheated at night, that are thrown
into early malts, are certain to stop
producing and their value ends
there for the season—at least until
they have recovered from the molt.

A similar condition obtains in the
case of growing stock. Unless they
are kept comfortable and have
plenty ‘of ventilation at night, they
are certain to be continually go—
ing through partial molts, which
constitute a severe, drain on" their
constitutional vigor. It is natural
for chicks to go through more or
less of a continual partial molt dur-
ing the growing period. These are
called “partial chick melts” and
several of them occur during the
first five or six months of the chick’s
life. They are a severe enough
drain upon the vitality of the chick,
without more of a melting burden
being imposed upon the ‘chicks
through overcrowding, piling up
and poor ventilation.

Be sure that there is plenty of air
for the poultry of all ages. A hen
is better off roosting in a tree or
on a fence during the hot weather
than she is in a hot, poorly—ventil-
ated" and arranged poultry house.
But, at the same time, the best re-
sults are obtained where the shelt-
er is right and available. Give the
chicks colony roosting sheds, but
be sure that they have protection
from natural enemies and from the
elements.

NEST CONSTRUCTION

HE would be poultryman has
either one of two popular types
of nests to choose from—wall

nests and nests beneath the dropp-
ing-boards. Although the writer
favors the type that are installed be-
neath the dropping—boards, wall nests
may be made that reduce the bother
by the fowls to a minimum, such as
taking the litter from the nests.
roosting on the edges, etc.

Wall Nests

In order to be satisfactory, these
nests will have to extend about 20
inches from the wall cf your poultry
house, the wall serving as the back
part of your nests. A shingle hinder
or some such support is nailed to
the posts, about 18 or 20 inches
from the floor and supported to the
floor making a steady frame.

The floor boards for the nests are
fitted on, and cleated; if you wish
your nests to be removable to facili-
tate cleaning, don’t nail these floor
boards to the -supports. Now nail
a seven or eight-inch board to the
front of your nest floor; fit the end
pieces on, allowing plenty of slant
so that the cover may be fitted on
so as to keep the fowls from roosting
thereon. When making these end
pieces, allow space for a small door
at the lOWer corner near the wall,
of sufficient width and height to en-
able a fowl to pass through.

A Hinged Cover

The partitions between the nests
are put in next, allowing 12 to 15
inches width to a nest. These par-
titions may be as high as your front
piece, and nailed to it. They should
be long enough to allow the fowls a
passage between their rear ends and
the wall. A four-inch board is
nailed to the rear ends of the parti-
tions, to keep the nesting material
where it belongs.

The cover should be put on now,
covered with tarred paper, and a part
of it fitted and hinged so that it may
be lifted up, and the eggs gathered.

A walk-way or a small shelf, may
be placed at the entrance of the
small doors, so the fowls may find
ready access to the nests. These
nests are thus quite dark, helping
to prevent egg-eating, and are used

‘ by people who do not care to have

nests beneath the dropping-boards on
account of the necessity of having
these drop—boards 30 inches or more

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placed under them. * -
Drop-Board Nests

These should beifourteen or fifteen
inches from top, (or under-side of
the. drop—boards) the floor of the
nests, and your end supports want to
be nailed to your end posts accord-
ingly. In case a middle support is
needed, you can put one underneath
the nest-floor after latter is in place.
Don't nail it from a post, as this
would give the fowls a chance to
roost on this exposed edge of the
support. (From the rear of the

, nests back to the wall.)

The nest-floor is 15 to 18 inches
wide; saw your boards to sufficient
length, allowing for any end posts.
To the outer edge of what is your
rear board nail a three or four-inch
board, to keep the nesting material
in. No pole or shelf is necessary
for the fowls- to hop up on to see
their way into the nests. Such is a
nuisance. Lay the nest iloor care-
and cleat together. On the
front edge of the front board, nail a
four or five—inch piece, same asbn
rear edge.

Easily Kept Clean

Allow the front part of your nests,
which are to be hinged doors, to go
about one, one-half or two inches
back from the front edge of your
dropping-boards, thus saving this
front from a possible defacing by
fowls standing on the drop-boards.
You should allow for this when build-
ing your drop-board frame, by let-
ting the front edges of your drop-
boards project two inches or so over
the front support.

The doors are made and hinged
with metal hinges to the four or
five—inch piece you put on the front
board. Fasten by means of buttons
so fixed that each door will be held
firmly- One button to a door is suf-
ficient. Doors should be from four
to six feet long, or shorter or longer,
if you can handle them properly.
A small spool or gate hook eye fast-
ened near the top and central part
of each door, enables one to lower
and raise the doors conveniently.

This type of nest gives L‘B good
service. Use bay for nesting ma-
terial, sprinkle frequently with louse
powder, and renew once in a while.
Paint or whitewash will also help
your nests to make a good appear-
ance to yourself and others—Maine
Farmer.

PICIHNG GEESE

At what time of the year do we
pick live ducks? Are we allowed
by ‘iaw to pick live ducks?—Mrs. A.
C. W.,-Beulah, Mich.

HIS practice is limited almost
entirely to goose raising be-
cause the goose feathers are
much softer than either the duck or
poultry feathers. Many geese rais-
ers make a practice of picking their
stock twice a year. The young geese
can be plucked soon after they be—
come fully feathered. At this time
the feathers are ripe and pull very
easily. There is, however, a great—
er danger of tearing the skin of the
young stock, than there is in pick-
ing the old birds.

Geese should not be plucked dur?

ing the laying and breeding season,
nor during extremely warm weath-
er, unless they have an excellent
pasture, with plenty of water and
shade. Ordinarily, a new crop of
feathers will be completely grown
in by six weeks.———E. C. Foreman,
Professor of Poultry Husbandry,
M. A. C.

 

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Makes Him Homesick

‘Shut the door,” yelled the rough man.
‘Where were you raised—in a barn?"

The man addressed complied, but the
speaker, looking at him a moment later
observed that he was in tears. Going over
to the victim he apologized.

‘Oh, come.” he said soothingly, “you
shouldn't take it to heart because I asked
if you were raised in a barn.”

‘That’s it, that's it,’ ’sobbed the other
man. "I was raised in a barn and it
makes me homesick every time I hear an
ass ,bray.”-—-Los Angeles Times.

from the floor when nests are to be

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S. C. Anconas

Variety

From World’s Greatest Layers

If you want pure 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: Park’s Barred Rocks
R. C. & S. C. Rhode Island, Reds

VARIETY STOCK AFTER JUNE 2

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Flocks are carefully culled and developed on free range. All chicks
are hand picked and inspected, no cripples or weaklings. Every one
Strong and healthy. Satisfaction and 100% live delivery guaranteed
Postage paid. Write now for our low prices and free catalog. Good

10 and 12 weeks

t‘ference Holland City Bank
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flocks. Postpaid to your door.
Flocks on free range. Culled by an expert.
Varieties Prices on: 25 50 100
English White Leghorns,......_............._......_.......$2.50 $4.75 $9.00
Brown Leghorns. Heavy Type, ................ 3.25 '6.00 11.00
Barred Rocks, R. G. a s. C. Reds... .. 3.00 5.75 11.00
Mixed Chicks. 2.00 4.00 7.00

   

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Reference: Zecland State Bank. You take no chance.

500 1 000
$42.50 $85.00
60.00 95.00
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For JUNE—dULY—AUGUST—Pure bred chit-ks. hatched right, large and)

strong, postpsid live delivery to your door. free.

Breeds 25 Chicks 50 Chicks 100 Chicks 500 Chicks 1000 Chick]
White Leghorns ..... $2.5 .......... 5-00 .......... 5 9.00 .......... 42.50 .......... 5 35.0.
Barred Rocks ........ 3.00 .......... 6.00 .......... 11.00 .......... 52.50 .......... 105.0.
5.C.R.l. Reds ........ 3. 0 .......... 6.00 .......... 11.00 .......... 52.50 .......... 105.00

Strong broiler chicks, no breed guaranteed, $7.00 per 100, after June. 1st. Order early,
right nnwi Late customers were disappointed last year. Quality and price talk. Act now.

BRUMMER-FREDRICKSON Poultry Farm, Box 26, Holland, Mich.

 

 

 

Big, strong,
from selected, heavy
pure bred flocks. Postpaid to
your door. 100% live arrival
guaranteed. Low prices.

Prices On: 25 50
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Pure Bred Tom B rron English and American White Leghorns,

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c. Mottled Anconas ' 4.15 9.00 40.00
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Write for valuable illustrated free catalog and price list. Get low-
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and L.July Delivered anywhere. White Leghorns $10 per 100. Barred Rocks and

Reds $12 per 100. All flocks culled and inspected. Our own breeding flock
of large type American White Leghorns. Laying and standard qualities combined.
13 years breeding, hatching and marketing experience. Modern Iant Live delivery
guaranteed. Order from this advertisement to insure prompt shp merit.

DEA EGG FARM AND HATCHERY, BIG BEAVER

MAIL ADDRESS, BIRMINGHAM, MICH., R. 4.
BUY YOUR CHICKS NOW

English strain s. c. SWhitea thghorns at ........ ..s 9.00 per 100
Rhode Island Reds. S. ............................. 11.00 per 100
Rhode Island Reds, R. 0. at ............................ 11.00 per 100
Anconas at... 10. 00 per 100
Broiler Chicks, mixed, at ................................... .1 7.00 per 100
Barred Rocks at. ............................................... 11. 0091- 00
Order from Ad._ Satisfaction guaranteed. PULLE’I‘S and NI
from above varieties for sale.

PROGRESSIVE POULTRY FARMS, Zeeiand, Mich.

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Brown Leghorns ............................ $9.00 per 100. R- 1. Reds ............................... $10.50 per 100.
Anconas _. .................................... $10.00 per 100. Light Breed Broilers ...................... $6.00 per 100,

CITY LIMITS HATCHERV and POULTRY YARD, Route 5, Box 11, Holland' Michigan.

MAY and JUNE CHICKS ‘

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Our Baby Chicks

Can’t be beat be< 111:0 they are hat<hed from
Michigan’ s leading pedigreed flocks, culled by genu-
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because we hatch only in tested mammoth mach-
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Buif rpingtons. Large instructive catalog tell
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MICHIGAN HATCHERY and POULTRY FARM
Box 2, Holland, Michigan.

D A I Y 0 H I c K s--REMARKABLE FOR SIZE
and strength Reasonable prices. Leghorns. An-
oonas, Rocks. Reds, Wayandottes, Orpingtons,
Minor rm Spanish Brahm

TYRONE POULTRY FARM. Fenton, Michigan.

BABY CHICKS FROM BRED-TO-LAY FARM
Flock; Barred Rocks, Reds. English White Lez-
liiorns. Now booking orders for May delivery.

00% live delivery. Chicks 10¢ each and up.
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English White Leghorns

Brown Leghorns, Anconas

Order direct from this ad.
for prompt shipment.

SELECTED MATINGS
$ 8 per 100
$35 per 500

EXTRA SELECTED MATINGS
$10 per 100
$45 per 500

ODDS AND ENDS (broilers)
$6.50 per 100; $30 per 500
100% Live Delivery Guaranteed

For specifications of our different breeds. and
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better chinks availabe at same price. Extremely
low ricer! after May 29th.
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for hatchingE Both Combs. Michigan’s Greatest

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Mt. Clemens, Michigan

Have You LIVE POULTRY For Sale?
An Ad in. THE MICHIGAN
BUSINESS remnant Will Sell It!

 

 

 

 

 

SUMMER POUIJI‘RY TROUBIIES

S warm weather approaches, new

troubles come to the poultry-

man, whether it be on the farm
or in a regularly established poultry
plant. Mites, lice and other insects
will breed more rapidly in summer
than in winteruand infested pullets
are poor layers. During the winter
and spring months, many poultry
keepers, with poor equipment, have
been troubled more or less with dis-
ease, the result of colds contracted
through poor ventilation, drafty
houses, and unclean and unsanitary
conditions. These same poultrymen
will have trouble with insects, for
an unclean house, unclean nests and
dirty runs will breed more insects
that prey on chickens than can be
killed with all the dip that can be
used.

Poultry houses should be thor-
oughly cleaned at least twice a
week. Oftener would be better.
Every crevice and every roost
should be sprayed with some insect-
icide, and if the birds are'conflned
to small yards, the posts should be
sprayed, because all of these places
harbor insects which prey upon the
chickens.

Nest boxes should be emptied and
cleaned and new straw put in as oft-
en as once a week. No opportunity
should be given mites to multiply, or
lice to find refuge on the chickens.
A pullet which spends most of its
time picking itself has little oppor-
tunity to scratch in the soil for bugs
and worms, or to feed from the
mash hopper. An improperly fed
chicken is a poor layer. There is no
profit in poultry, no matter how
well bred, unless they are given the
proper care.

MARKETING SUMIIIER EGGS

ID—SUMMER egg prices com-
pare favorably with prices in
mid-winter. There is only one

period in each year when fresh
eggs are almost a drug on the mar-
ket, and that is during the months
of March and April. By the first of
May, poultry in the Southwest be-
gins to decrease in production, and
during June, July, August, and Sep-
tember, consumers are always Will-

' ing to pay a premium for eggs that

they know are strictly fresh and but
a day or two old. .

Eggs, in hot weather," must be
marketed more often than in win-
ter. During the cold months, it is
possible to keep them over a period
of a week or two and to market in
larger quantities, but not so in July
and August. Even infertile eggs
will become tainted and strong if
kept more than a few days.

The consumption of eggs in the
summer months would be greatly in-
creased if consumers could be assur-
ed of their freshness. One strong
or tainted egg served at breakfast
often decreases the consumption of
eggs many dozen during the weeks
that follow. Swearing off on eggs
in summer time results from’ the
serving of eggs not strictly fresh. It
destroys the appetite for the prod-
uct of the poultry farm. Therefore,
the poultryman, or the farmer who
markets his eggs as soon as collect-
ed, soon earns a reputation for
quality goods and he will find that
the demand at fancy prices will ex-
ceed his supply.

Eggs should be infertile, gather—
ed daily and marketed at once. It is
the only way to make money on
poultry in summer time.

FUR FARIIIS

N some places, foxes may be pests,
but Canada tells a different
story. There the fox is a source

of large profit; and he is not the
only fur-bearing animal which if
not actually domesticated, is at
least kept Within range so his fur
may be available when wanted.

With most of the fur-bearing ani-
mals of the colder climates, we are
little concerned. They will not
thrive in our latitude. But with
foxes it is different. Even the most
valuable of these, the silver fox, can
be acclimated, and in fact has been
acclimated.

There are fur-farms scattered
along the slopes of the Applachians;
and pelts from those farms supply a
constantly increasing, though yet
small, proportion of the annual
market. A good pair of silver foxes
cost more than blooded cattle ex-

.cept the very highest prize winners.
[but the progeny of these In!“

prices unapproachable by undernou-
strated calves._

For breeding purposes, pairs Of
silver foxes are reckoned in terms of
thousands of dollars; for pelts mul-
tiples of hundreds make the stand-
ard of value; but good pelts bring
several hundreds. The business is
rather expensive to start but is not
costly to maintain, and the yields,
with proper management, are as-
toundingly' satisfactory.

Fur farms have passed beyond
the experimental stage. They are no
longer a simple gamble. The ex-
perience of hundreds is to had for
the asking; and with few exceptions
this experience is encouraging. All
fur farms have net been successful,
but the history of other farm enter-
prises is no more satisfying. Luck
plays its part in agriculture, despite
all reasonable precautions; but in-
telligence counts for far more; and
the intelligent fur farmer has been
making good.——Southern Planter.

 

Oh, Meneyi Money!
(Continued from page 10.)

—" Even under his breath he did not
finish his sentence; but, with a now, quite
different expression on his face, he re-
sumed his nervous pacing of the room,
throwing now and then a quick glance at
Miss Maggie’s still averted face.

"It was absurd, of course, wasn’t it?"
Miss Maggie stirred and spoke lightly,
with the obvious intention of putting mat—
ters back into usual conditions again.
“But, come, tell me, Just what did you do,
and' how? I'm so interested—indeed, I’
am.”

"Eh? What?” Mr. Smith spoke as if
he was thinking of something else entire-
ly. “Oh—that.” Mr. Smith sat down, but
he did not go on speaking at once. His
eyes frowningly regarded the stove.

"You said1—-~you kept Pennock and Gay-
lord away," Miss Maggie hopefully re-
minded him.

"Er—yes. Oh, I—lt was really very
simple—I just monopolized Melllcent my<
self, when I couldn’t let Donald have her.
That's all. I saw very soon that she
couldn’t cope with her mother alone. And
Gaylord—well, I’ve no use for that young
gentleman."

“But you like—Donald?”

"Very much. I’ve been looking him up
for some time. He’s all right.”

“I’m glad.”

'Yes." Mr. Smith spoke albetraot'edly,
Without enthusiasm. Plainly Mr. Smith
was still thinking of something else.

Miss Maggie asked other questions—
Miss Magic was manifestly interested—-
and Mr. Smith answered them, but still
without enthusiasm. Very soon he said
good-night and went to his own room.

For some days after this, Mr. Smith did
not appear at all like himself. He seemed
abstracted and puzzled. Miss Maggie,
who still felt self-conscious and embar-
rassed over hea- misconcepM of his at-
tentions to Mellicen-t, was more talkative
than usual in her nervous attempt to ap—
pear perfectly natural. The fact that she
often found his eyes fixed thoughtfully
upon her, and felt them following her as
she moved about the room, did not tend
to make her more at ease. At such times
she talked faster than ever—usually, if
possible, about some member of the Blais-
dell family; Miss Maggie had learned
that Mr. Smith was always interested in
any bit of news about the Blaisdells.

It was on such an occasion that she
told him about Miss Flora and the new
house.

“I don't know, really, what I am going
to do with her,” she said. ‘I wonder if
perhaps you could help me."

“Help you?—about Miss Flora?”

"Yes. Can you think of any way to
make her contented?”

“Contented! Why, I thought—Don't
tell me she isn’t happy i" There was a
curious note of almost despair in Mr.
Smith’s voice. "Hasn’ t she a. new house,
and everything nice to go with it?”

Miss Maggie laughed. Then she sighed.

"Oh, yes—and that’s what’s the trouble.
They’re too nice. She feels smothered and
oppressed—as if she was visiting some-
where, and not at home. She’s actually
afraid of her maid. You see, Miss Flora
has always lived simply. She isn’t used
to maids—and the maid knows it, which,
if you ever employed maids, you would
know is a terribly state of affairs.

"Oh, but she—she’ll get used to that,
in time."

”Perhaps,” conceded Miss Maggie, "but
I doubt it. Some women would, but not
Miss Flora. She is too inherently simple
in her tastes. 'Why it’s as bad as always
living in a hotel I” she wailed to me last
night. 'You know on my trip I was so
afraid always I’d do something that was-
n’t quite right, before those awful waiters
in the dining—rooms, and I was anticipat-
ing so much getting home where I could
act natural—and here I’ve got one in my
own house l’ ”

Mr. Smith frowned, but he laughed. too.

“Poor Miss Flora! But why doesn’t
she dismiss the lady?"

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Starting Into the Poultry Business

HE writer has a funny question
before him. A party writes
that he is going to the wall in

the chicken business. He further
states that he always had a desire
to go into the chicken business and
attempted it three years ago, but
finds no profit in the business, altho,
he knows .of several people who have
made lots of money in the business.
He says among other things; he put
in $1,000 for equipment and paid out
another thousand or more for ex—
penses. Out of 26,500 eggs he
hatched 10,000 chicks and raised
only a little over 1,000 of them. He
says he calls this a failure and I be-
lieve I will call it the same. This
is not the only one that has done
practically the same thing. These
same people would just as surely
fail in the banking business or mer-
chandising as in the chicken business.
How many like this man, ‘start at
the top round "and invariably come
down to the bottom round and make
a “howl that it’s a failure.”

Remember the chicken business re-
quires but little capital. While the
chicken business requires but little
capital, it does require some good
common sense. The writer had but
little of either, but just enough of
the latter to tide him over for a few
years until he got a little experience
and that experience is worth more
than all the money you could put in—
to the business in the start. There
seems to be a general idea that just
any “old sket” can buy an incubator
and raise chickens. This is a mis-
taken idea, indeed. It takes skillful
knowledge to make a success with
fowls. You must not get the idea.
that you can make a fortune out of
the business in one year, as that is
one erroneous idea that is greatly
magnified. The facts are just this,
you have got to start in poultry in a
small way. There is nothing that
goes to the bad as quickly as a flock
of fowls. You have got to grow in
the business as your experience
grows, every other business is that
way and so is this.

A friend of mine, started in the
busmess about the same time we did.
He used large half—page space in all
the leading journals to-advertise his
products, when he really had nothing
to sell. He built magnificent build—
ings and bought equipment of every
kind, in fact he was the talk of the
entire community. He would come

to our place and wonder how I got
along with so few equipments. He
had the nerve to throw fun right in
my face. People told me that it was
only a question of time, when I
would be down and out. But, sorry
to say, it was but a short time, until
he was compelled to make an assign—
ment to pay his advertising and
building bills. While I have never
made any great success, yet I have
kept right on “sawing wood” and
today I find our friend in the city
working by the day. It’s all right
to advertise, \but it must be done in
a rather judicious way.

In the first place you must have
good stuff. If you are in the fancy
breeds, you have simply got to have
the goods that stands out as the very
best of it’s kind. If you are in the
market egg business, you must offer
only the very choicest fresh eggs you
can produce and don’t offer any
other. It’s useless to breed a fine
lot of good thorough-bred fowls and
never let the public know what you
have. Use good farm papers to ad-
vertise your products, be honest, give
your customers a square deal in
every instance. Pay your advertis-
ing bills when they become due, don't
reach out further than your ability
to master. Keep close to the shore,
as the saying goes and handle the
poultry business along conservative
business lines and you are sure to
make a success.

The farmer he is more fitted to
make a success than any other class
of people living to my knowledge.
He grows his own feed, he has plenty
of range, he knows how to begin in

a small way and able to increase his ._

fiock as his business grows. There
is only one excuse for any one mak-
ing a failure in the poultry business
and that is bad management. There
will be plenty of people that will buy
your fowls if you have the quality
and they the convinced that you
have. Just today, a party drove to
our farm for several miles to buy
some fowls, that he saw we had ad—
vertised, but we could not supply
him because we were sold out of the
particular kind he wanted, so he en-
gaged eggs to be delivered next
spring. You cannot keep pace with
the demand if you have the quality
and principle to deal honorable with
your customers. Life is too short
to sell your soul for a dollar any-
way.—-J. C.

Dairymen’s League Has Milk Plant on Wheels

~ ARRY A. SIECK, chief engineer
of the Dairymen’s League Co—
operative Association, Inc., of
New York, has put the finishing
touches to a brand new kind of a
milk plant that is unique in the
history of the milk industry. Mr.
Sieck’s latest contribution to scien-
tific milk handling is an emergency
milk receiving station on wheels
that can be taken by rail at a
moment’s notice to any part of
League territory.
The plant is contained in two
standard refrigeration cars, each
40 feet long. ‘One is a power house;

" the other the milk handling station.

When the call for service comes the
plant can be transported to the
point where it is needed. The em-
ergency plant can be delivered to
the most distant place in League
territory in a very short time.

In case a League plant is destroy—
ed by 'fire, or a break down unex—
pectedly occurs that puts an opera-
tion out of commission, or the neces-
sity arises for a sudden diversion of
milk in some particular locality, the
portable receiving station will be
drawn by a railroad locomotive to
the place where the emergency ex-
ists and the handling of milk will
go on as if nothing happened.

The plant is in itself a complete
receiving station with a capacity of
250 cans, or 10,000 quarts a day.

-The power car has facilities for
producing its own refrigeration by
means of a 12 ton ammonia plant.
It has a 10-Hp. high pressure boil—
er for heating water and generating

steam required for washing and
sterilizing cans. It contains a 3%;
kilowatt, 110 volt, direct current,

light and power system. The plant
has an electric driven compressed
air unit for the 'agitat on of milk
and for supplying gWat'er taping with
pressure. .

 

The power car carries a reason-
able amount of fuel oil for the op-
eration of the various power units.
Besides it has a full complement of
supplies, tools, piping, etc., togeth-
er with a conveyor system for adopt-
ing each operation in its particular
location.
storing about 75 cans.

One of the most vital features of
any milk operation is its water sup-
ply and sewerage system. The
Sieck plant is so designed that it
can hook up with a water or sew—
erage system, or both, within 500
feet of its location. Thus, it a plant
burns down or one suddenly goes
out of commission, the portable re—
ceiving station can be transported
to the site and connections made
with the existing water or sewage
system.

A farmer delivers his milk at the
door in the middle of the second
car. The milk is dumped into the
weighing can and weighed. Then
the farmer's cans are passed to the
washer at the back end of the car
where they are washed, sterilized
and dried almost before he can
drive his rig away from the door.
The milk passes from the weighing
can to the receiving vat which has a
capacity of 200 gallons. It is then
pumped through an internal tube
cooler where it is cooled while en—
route to glass lined tank with a
GOO-gallon capacity. From the tank
the milk is run off into 40-quart
cans in Which it is transported to
the city markets.

 

Good Qualifications
“What profession is your boy Josh go-
ing to select?"
“I’m going to educate him to be a
lawyer," replied Farmer Corntossel. “He’s

naturally argumentative anjbent on mix-. ,
‘in' into other people's troubles an' he'

might just as well get paid fur his time."

It also contains space for ..

 

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pay. We have sacrlfic
toined regardless of price

Shep 11rd Ancona I’ullets
for I00 or more.

After July 15th we 11:1
for disposal at $1.25

sent C. 0. D. if deemed.
delivery guaranteed.

 

to lay in October and July chicks in November.
an opportunity that you cannot afford to let pass by. . 1
Chicks that are strong, peppy, from high production, egg bred stock are the chicks tint

capacity and this enables us to give these high grade chicks at such extremely low prices.

EXTRA SPECIAL FOR JUNE AND JULY

Varieties 2.“: 50 100 500 1000
Extra Selected Barron or Hollywood S. I“. \Vhitc
Leghorns sired by 250 to 280 egg males........ 2.75 $5.25 $10.00 $40.00 3 00.00
Selected Barron \Vhitc Legliorns ........................ 2.50 4.;5 0.00 42.50 80.00
Extra Selected Sheppiire Mottled Anconas ........ 3.00 6.15) 11.00 53.?0 100.00
Selected Mottled Ant-onus ................................. 2.§0 $.10 9.00 4.3.00 §0.00
Selected Park's lired-tri-Lay Barred Rocks ........ 3.17 1.00 .13.00 6-.50 14-40-00
Broiler, Mixed Chicks ....................................... Seven cents straight.

PULLETS AND BREEDING STOCK FOR SALE
After June 151. we offer Selected \Vhite Leghorn Pulls-ts, 8 to 10 Weeks old at $1.10 each;

each.
must be sold to make room for our growing stock.
ORDER AT ONCE from this ad.

Pullets and stock shipped by express, charges collect.

SILVER WARD HATCHERY, Box 30, Zeeland, Mich.

  

   

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BIG BARGAINS
for June and July

Prices now within the reach of everybody. Get
chicks in June and July and gather your harvest
next winter. This is the most. economical time to
buy and the most favorable time to raise chicks.
You can get them in the big outdoors at once which
saves labor, cuts down your feed bill and makes the
chicks grow twlce as fast. Bright, balmy days bring
splendid development. Our June _chick_s Will begin
The BIG SAVING in price gives you

      
       
    
  

 
 
   
      

ed on prlce but the same standard of supreme quallty is always insin-
()ur breeders are producing heziVily. our incubators working 'to full

     

        
      
   

at $1.30 each and Barred Rock pullets at $1.50. Prices reduced
ve 100 choice Tom Barron and 400 Sheppard Ancona breeding hens
Also, selected cocks of same breeds for $1.25 each. These
Our space is limited. _

We can make immediate shipment. Cash With orderfir
All chicks sent to your door by parcel post prepaid. 100 % alive
Catalog free.

 

 

For persistent layers raise

JWolverine Baby Chicks

Bred for heavy egg production since 1910
Specially priced for June delivery. June 2—10—17 and later.
Shipped by parcel post prepaid to your door. 1.00% safe de-
livery guaranteed.

8. C. English type VVhitc Leghorns

Selected Mating 50 100 500 1000
chicks chicks chicks chicks
$4.50 $9.00 $45.00 $90.01)

Our Best Mating 50 100 500 1000
$5.50 $11.00 $52.50 $105.00

25% with order and will ship C. O. D. for the balance.
Order direct from this advertisement to save time and get your chicks at once,
or write for our free 32-paze caialog.

WOLVERINE HATCHERY
H. WIERSMA, Prop. Zeeland, Mich., R. No. 2

 

 

  

disappointed last year.
Ist, no breed guaranteed.

LAKEVIEW

 

’ REDUCED PRICES— CERTIFIED CHICKS

Breed 25 60 100 600 1000
‘l'ancred Wh. Leghorn. $2.50 $4.50 $9.00 $40.00 5 80.00
Parks' Barred Rocks 3.00 6.00 11.00 52.50 102.50
R. c. a S. c. Reds 3.00 6.00 11.00 52.50 102.50

Order now for prompt delivery. Satisfaction guaranteed. All flocks inspected and certified
by Mich. Agr. College.
Order from tbll ad now. Catalog free.

From World’s Best Laying Strains
For JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST DELIVERY

Strong healthy chicks, real money-makers. Don't delay. Many
Real broiler chicks at $7.00 per 100 after June

POULTRY FARM, n.3, Box 6, Holland, Michigan

 

 

 

 
  

Varletles

  
   

 

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Mixe
$2.00 per 100 11
Reference: State Commercial
no risk. GREA

 

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Strong, Sturdy, North
on free range insure strength in every

h. 8: Brown Leghorns,

d Chicks, Light Breeds $8.00; Heavy Breeds, $10.00 per 100 straight.
iglier than above.

LOW JUNE PRICES

Wig—1. POSTPAID. 100% LIVE DELIVERY
erii—grown Chicks. Selected, pure-bred stock. Healthy Flock:

Chic. .

Prices on: 50 100 600 1000

A ...................... $6.00 $10.00 $41.00 $92.00
12.00 51.50 112.00

Double A grade (‘hicki

Every chick carefully inspected.

There is

 
 
 

Grade
ocks (Aristocrat) Grade A, .................. 7.00
Hatched under best conditions.

Savnigs Bank. Order right from this ad with full remittance.

T NORTHERN HATCHERY, Box 50, Zeeland, Mlchlgan

BIG JUNE-JULY-AUGUST CHICK SALE, $8 per 100 3;,"

Our BIG, FLUFFY, \V'ELL IIATCIIEI) chiglas will ple‘isse you.

  

 

Varieties Prlces on 00 500
Wh. s. C. & R. 0. Br. 0. Buff Leghorns .................. $5.50 $10.00 $41.00
Eng. Wh. Leghorns, Barred Rocks, Anconas 6.60 12.00 51.00
Blk. Mlnorcas, s. c. R. . eds, .................... 6.50 12.00 51.00
Wh. Wyandots & Rocks, Buff 0rpingtons,.... 1.00 13.00 62.00
S. L. Wyandots. Bl. Andalusians, R. I. Whltes,.. 9.50 18.00 .._ ......
Assorted, from purebred fiocks,..............; ......... .. $8.00 per 100 straight.
Postpaid. 100% LIVE ARRIVAL (lLARAATlCI‘II). flank references. Hatched
from Purebred, Healthy, Free Range flocks. ()rder right from this 1111. Save
Time and get our BIG. ‘RONG, STURI)Y chicks when you want them. (lat,-
iilog free. Member I. II. C. A. The Geneva Hatchery, Box 23, Geneva. Indiana.

 

SUNBEAM HATCHERY

  
    

m3. Catalog.

RHODE .
Stock l‘lggs for hatching and

chicks $20.00 per hundred. Hatching eggs $8.00

or hundred. June (‘liicks $
21:38 $7.00 per

hundred. l
on request.
W . H. FROHM. R1, New

Member I.

ISLAND RE DS—TOMPKINS STRAIN

Chicks are produced under my personal supervision. {latched from select, pure«
bred, heavy laying hens, well kept to insure Vigorous Chicks.
Varletles Prlces on 25 50 100 500

,Whlte, Brown & Buff Leghorns, ............................ $2.15 $5.00 $10.00 $41.00
,Barred a. Wh Rocks. RedS. AnconaS. .................... 3.25 6.00 12.00 51.50

wn. & SII. Wyandots, Blk. Mmorcas, .................... 3.15 1.00 14.00 31.50
'Whlte & Buff OrpingtonS. Buff RockS. .................. 3.15 . 1.00 14.00 61.50

Mixed, all varieties, $9.00 per 100 straight. Postpaid. 100% live delivery

guaranteed. Order Bank reference. There is no risk. Free

from this ad.
I. C. A.

H. B. TIPPIN, Box E, Findlay, Ohio.

LOW PRICE MAY—«JUNE .
Our Barron strong English “'hite Leg‘
horn chicks. All well culled and on free
Get our AA best stock and best

Baby (‘hicks. May

I 6. 00 per hundred.

 

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[611 llfitt‘hed Cthks winger layers. Low price. only $12.00

, per 100; $57.00 per 500; $110.00 per

Baltimore, M|°h- 1000. Our A .(‘lllckll are good stock,
good layers, price $10.00 per

 

 

 

 

— ED-TO-LAV AND .. «, .
STUBDY CHICKS Exll‘iibition flocks, culled sigm‘°iill'18iit“i§i,cso‘2' aria-A, Zeeland, Mich.

Iriy experts. Reasonable prices.
rOIllb \Vliite Leghorns, Rocks,
dottes. Sunnyhrook Poultry Fa

“It Fi

Holds
clog.

"SELF-SERVE’Tliick Feeder

Chicks
on specuil cover nor touch

$47.00 per 500; $95.00 per 10003

Catalog free. Single -

Bearer ira-
rm. 3 a e. G -
U A I. l 1' Y N p 0
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‘ Prompt Free Live Delivery. For 100 Le b I -
[Is the 8‘“ Reds, Orpingtons,Wynndottes, Anconnsg, 85:11:? 313333
:15: Assorted, $7.00. Free Catalog gives quantity prices:
muons-I. Poultry Fame. Columbia. Ito.
Can't

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QUALITY BABY CHICKS: SINGLE AND ROSE

 

 

feed With feet. G r 0 W“ Comb Rhode Island Whites. Write for Catalo .
{Owls cannot steal feed- FISCHERS‘POULTRY FARM. Holland. mgr?
Price $1.50 plus postage.
end for free booklet. , .
IR . YES,‘ .' s. _ c.- JBUFF- notional. BABY .cmoxe. ,.
Dept. B 12 Write for June and Jul 'Prices. . ‘
Eckford. Michigan .1. w. WEBSTE , Bath. Mlehluan.

     

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FOOTE’S MARKET LETTER

 

BY W. \V. FOOTE

Brightening Farmer’s Outlook

is cheering to observe the better
outlook for farmers and to note
the expectation, based upon re-
duced world wheat crops, of higher
prices, the rise having started.
Farmers as a class are getting out

. of debt, and they are borrowing less

money, although rates of interest in
farming districts generally are not
unreasonably high. Probably the
most unsatisfactory thing just now
is the late season for corn planting,
and unless conditions change for
the better at once, higher prices
may be expected. Kansas tempera—
tures have been reported as the
lowest in twenty years, and Iowa,

‘ the largest corn raising section in

I high—bred sheep,

the world, has had the lowest tem-
perature in twenty—four years.
Michigan farmers are greatly en-
couraged over the good prices paid
for their lambs, and in various dis-
tricts there is a marked increase in
the sheep breeding industry. Cut—
over lands in central Wisconsin are
being devoted to raising flocks of
and in the north

\ central part of that state, about 75

miles south of Lake Superior, a
farm of 480 acres is being develop-
,ed by reclaiming the land from
stumps and bribush by using 400
Montana ewes.

Smaller \that Crop

The June crop report sent out by
the United States Department of
Agriculture indicates a winter
wheat crop of 509,000,000 bushels,
or 63,000,000 bushels less than was
harvested last year and 116,000,000
bushels below the last five year’s
average. The spring wheat crop is
estimated at 184,000,000 bushels, or
29,000,000 bushels less than was
raised in 1923, showing a reduction
of 92,000,000 bushels from the last
five year’s average. The total
wheat crop is placed at 693,000,000
bushels, or 93,000,000 bushels less
than that of 1923, comparing with
a five—year’s average of 881,000,000
bushels; and it is the smallest crop,
both in acreage and yield, since
1917. The oats crop is estimated at
1,232,000,000 bushels, or 68,000,—
000 bushels less than that of 1923.
The rye crop is estimated at 62,—
500,000 bushels, or 1,000,000 below
that of last year; while the barley
crop is estimated at 160,000,000

rbushels, or 38,000,000 bushels less

1

than last year’s.
l

The Advance in Wheat

Michigan wheat farmers were

.taken by surprise when prices for

wheat shot up several cents a bushel

(on the bullish sentiment caused by

,the crop report for June.

After
selling around $1.04 for some time

tin the Chicago market, prices rose

,to $1.12%, and this was a fraction

(higher than was paid a year ago,

but looking back two years, it is
seen that at that time as high as
$1.25 was paid. However, it is en-

, couraging to see that a change has

j a fair

come, and it is hoped that the crop
will be marketed at prices yielding
profit for farmers. It is

\ estimated that the countries, exclus-

‘ year.

ive of the United States, which have
reported their wheat acreage so 'far
will raise 115,000,000 less than last
New hard winter wheat has

'been purchased to export, but this

 
  

business is small in volume, the sea—
son being nearly two weeks later
than usual. New wheat is about
ready to cut in Oklahoma, but har—
vesting is not expected to begin in
Kansas before July. The railroads
are going to do their part in moving
the crop, and 20,000 cars are being
stored for this purpose west of the
Missouri River. The flour trade has
started up at last, and millers’ pur-
chases have been the largest seen
for months.
Higher Wheat Coming

“The wheat situation is different
from anything that has ever exist-
ed,” says George E. Marcy, presi—
dent of the Armour Grain company,
who has been a strong believer in
better prices for wheat and rye for

 

 

MARKET SUMMARY

All grains steady after recent advances.
Receipts of poultry have been large and demand not

mostly steady.

Beans firm. Potatoes

enough to handle receipts. Butter and eggs find ready market at firm
prices. Dressed calves steady. Cattle and sheep from steady to lower.

 

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(Note: The above summarized Information was rocolved AFTER the I
to: page was set in type. It contains last minute Informauon' up to withlnm:nn:-°ha‘l,: War;

uoing to prose—Editor.)

 

 

several weeks. “The government re-

port indicates not to exceed 100,-_

000,000 bu. available for export the
coming year."

The Pacific coast is bound to sell
more or less flour to the orient, and
mills there will. not only cause a
shortage on the Pacific coast, but
will also reach far into Montana,
Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska
for wheat. Texas and southern Ok-
lahoma wheat will move to the gulf
and be sold for export, probably
30,000,000 to 40,000,000 bu. going.
Then Virginia, Maryland, Pennsyl-
vania, and other eastern states will
move more or less wheat to the At-
lantic seaboard for export. ~

“Then comes the durum wheat
which Europe must have, besides
the low grade flours which are al-
ways sold abroad. Just the ordin-
ary situation, which even low prices
in other countries will not affect,
will clean the United States of all
its surplus wheat promptly. On top
of this, probably the American co—
operative wheat pools were never so
strong as they are today, and all of
their influence will be exerted to
hold their wheat for good prices,
which can easily be obtained, pro-
vided those farm outfits work to—
gather. ‘ ~

“The 42c duty protecting it
means the farmer will be able to put
Wheat and rye prices very high.

“This whole bread food situation
will be reflected no doubt the world
over, as shortages in the wheat crop
in pretty near all the northern hem—
isphere are now apparent. Wheat
and rye are the cheapest foods ob-
tainable. Apparently the world for
the year ending July 1 will not have
a carry—over out of the 3,300,000,-
000 bu. crop of over 250,000,000 bu.
With the cut in the United States
Wheat crop of 100,000,000, the
probability of a cut of over that
amount in Canada, to say nothing
of decreases in other parts of the
world, it makes a. wheat and rye sit-
uation such as we have not seen in
many years. Apparently the United
States wheat farmer will come into
his own, provided he is fortunate
enough to secure the present crop
prospects.”

late Season For Corn

The season is unusually late for
corn, cold and wet weather having
delayed planting, while much grain
has rotted in the ground, rendering
replanting necessary. Late corn
sales were made at nearly the same
prices as a year ago. July delivery
selling on the Chicago Board of
Trade around 81 cents, but a little
more than two years ago sales were
made below 61 cents. If a fair
crop is raised this year, plenty of
hot forcing weather, as well as plen—
ty of rain, will be necessary. July
oats have sold recently around 47
cents, comparing with 41% cents a
year ago, while two years ago it
sold dOWn to 37 cents. Low rye
prices have started up an export de-
mand for rye, recent sales having
been made around 75 cents, com-
paring with 70% cents a year ago.

Chicago’s Cattle Market

It is a great relief to the market
when country shippers fail to over
supply the wants of buyers at the
opening of the week, and with a
run of 18,432 head on Monday last
week, prices shot up promptly from
15 to 25 cents, the general local and
eastern shipping demand being ani-
mated. On the following day the ad-
vance largely disappeared on med-
ium to good lots, but the few prime
heavy steers sold a little higher,
while a sale was made of a string of
56 Nebraska fed yearlings averag-

ing 940 pounds at $11, or 50 c

below the price paid for the (1:23
heavies. Later excessive supplies
put prices for most kinds lower,
with the bulk of the recent sales of
beef steers at $8.25 to $11. The
best heavy steers sold at $10.50 to
$11.50, with fairly good light
weight steers selling as low as $9
and sales all the way down to $6.75
to $7.75 for the commoner lots,
while inferior little steers went at
$4.50 to $6.65. The best yearlings
sold at $10 to $11. Butcher stock
was mostly 50 cents lower, along
with steers, sales of cows and heif-
ers being made at $3.85 to $9.85,
while canner and cutter cows sold at
$2 to $3.75, bulls at $3.50 to $7.75
and calves at $5 to $11. After a.
period of slow and declining mar-
kets, the reduced offerings of stock-
ers and feeders have resulted in an
average advance of 25 cents, most

sales being made at $6 to $8.50, in-

ferior lots going as low as $4.75 and
the better lots at $8.60 to $9.10. A
year ago beef steers of common to
prime grades sold at $6.75 to
$11.20 and two years ago at $7.75
to $9.75. Combined receipts in
twenty markets for the year to late
date amount to 5,563,000 cattle,
comparing with 5,572,000 a year
ago.

Chicago’s Hog Market
Excessive receipts have been the

cause of the many declines in prices \

of late, and had supplies been norm-
al, much higher markets would have
been witnessed, for the local and
shipping demands have averaged ex-
tremely well, with particularly large
purchases of prime finished swine
weighing from 130 to 300 pounds.
Recent receipts averaged 2 3 7
pounds, being four pounds less than
a year ago, but four pounds above
the ten year average for correspond-
ing weeks. Of late the bulk of the
hog sales have taken place within
a range of about 45 cents, with
prime heavy butchers at the top,
these selling 25 cents higher than
the best light bacon weights. Un-
derweights are much too numerous
and sell at a large discount. There
is a large domestic consumption of
fresh and cured hog products, but
the exports of lard and cured hog
meats are still running far below a
year ago. Recent hog sales were
made at sharp declines in prices,
with excessive receipts. Combined
receipts in twenty markets for the
year to late date amounted to 20,-
690,000 hogs, comparing with 20,-
058,000 a year ago and 15,440,000
two years ago. A year ago hogs
were selling at $5.80 to $7.05. Late
sales were made in Chicago at $6.15
to $7.40, showing a moderate de-
cline for the week.

Marketing Spring Lambs

Native spring lambs, as well as
springers from Idaho and other
states, are being marketed steadily,
and many have arrived in the Chi-
cago market. Not many feeder
lambs are offered, but a few days
ago a sale was made of 587 head

of Idaho 57-pounds feeders at
$13.50 per 100 pounds. Late sales
were made of spring lambs at

$10.50 to $16.25 for natives and
$16.50 to $17.10 for Idahoes. Breed-
ing ewes are in demand at $6 to
$11.50. Feeder lambs sell at $11
to $13.25. The Department of Ag-
riculture reports the number of
lambs in the areas that furnish the
bulk of the market supplies during
July and August is larger than last
year, but the movement from Ken-
tucky and Tennessee is nearly
month late. .

    

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WHEAT
Trading was quite active in the

,wheat market last week and prices

advanced several times. There is a
feeling that wheat is going to be
scarce this year and the bulls are
running the market at present. Mill-
ers are buying right along these
days and selling'their flour at in-
creased prices, Foreigners bought
considerable grain the forepart of
last week and then retired from the
market. .However, they are ex-
pected to come back this week.

CORN

Corn prices are higher than they
were two weeks ago while receipts
show no increase. Believers in a
hot summer this year are expecting
prices to seek much higher levels
before another crop is harvested.
There are plenty of buyers in the
market at present but it is hard to
find anyone who wants to sell a very

large quantity. The market is
firm at this time.

OATS
Following the trend of other

grains oats advanced in price dur-
ing the two weeks ending Saturday.
Demand is good with receipts of fair
volume. Country offerings to arrive
were light and the market is firm.

RYE
Rye is wanted at higher prices,
the market advancing at Detroit 4
cents in the fortnight ending last
Saturday; and 3 cents of the 4 cents
advance was made during the latter
half of the fortnight.

BEANS

Dealers who have sold themselves
short of beans are not feeling very
well these days while the bulls are
having things pretty well their own
way. Prices at Detroit advanced 20
cents during the two weeks ending
June 14 and the market is firm. The
increase in price fail to bring out
many beans as there is a feeling that
the price should be up around $5
per hundred pounds. Another art-
icle on beans appears in this issue
on page 4. Do not fail to read it.

POTATOES
Trading in potatoes is rather light
and prices somewhat lower. In spite
of these facts the market is about
steady at most points. Old potatoes
at Detroit are considerably lower in
price.

 

MARKET QUOTATIONS

 

 

Wheat

Detroit—Cash No. 2 red, $1.17:
No. 3:- $1.14; No. 2 white, $1.19;
No. 2 mixed, $1.18.

Chicago—Cash No. 2 hard, $1.14.

Prices one year ago-—-Detroit,
Cash No. 2 red and No. 2 white and
No. 2 mixed, $1.23.

Corn
Detroit—Cash No. 3 yellow, 866:"
No. 4, 82c.
Chicago—Cash No. 2 yellow, 83%
@83 1,éc; No. 2 mixed, 82%c.

Prices one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No. 3 yellow, 89c; No. 4, 87¢.
Oats

Detroit—Cash No. 2 white, 56c;
No. 3, 54c. -

Chicago—-—-Cash No. 2 white, 51c:
No. 3, 49@50%c.

Prices one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No 2 white, 480; No. 3, 47c.

Rye
Detroit—Cash No. 2, 76c.
Chicago—Cash No. 2, 7636c.

Prices one year ago—Detroit.
Cash No. 2, 72c.
Beans
Detroit—C. H. P., $4.55@4.60
per cwt.
Chicago—C. H. P., $4.90 per cwt.
Prices one year ago—Detroit.
C. H. P., $7.00 per cwt.
Potatoes

Detroit—$1.93@2 per cwt.

Chieago—$2.25@2.50 per cwt.

Prices one year ago—Detroit.
$1.08@1.30 per cwt.

Hay , '
Detroit—No. ~1 timothy; 324.500”
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:28. 50@24 per ton.

Chicago—No. 1 timothy, $24@
26; No. 2, $-;21@23 No. 1 clover,
$20@22; standard and light mixed,
$23@25 per ton.

Prices one year ago—Detroit,
No.1 timothy, $17@18 No. 2, $15
@16; No. 1 clover, $13@14; stand-
:rd and light mixed, $16. 50@17 per
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Week of June 22
SETTLED and showery weath-
er conditions are expected in
Michigan during the opening
days of this week during which time
temperatures (will be cool but not
uncomfortably so for the season of
the year.

During Monday or Tuesday the
sky will clear and‘ there will be a
brief period of warm sunshiny days
and clear nights. Before the end of
the week temperatures will be up
around the 80 degree mark.

During the latter part ,of the
week there will be electrical and
hail storms and tornadoes in local
centers. The general characteristics
will be heavy local rains and show-
ers and some very high winds.

Immediately following this storm
activity will come a cool spell dur-
ing which time temperatures will
fall to a point between 55 and 60
degrees.

Week of June 29

Fair to threatening weather will
effect most parts of Michigan dur-
ing first few days of this week. Dur—
ing Monday and Tuesday showers
and high winds will visit many sec-
tions of the state.

Cool and generally fair weather
will effect Michigan during the mid—
dle part of the week. About Thurs—
day or Fran temperatures will be
on a rapid increase in this State and
will continue into next week.

We are not expecting any general
severe storms in the state during
the last part of this week but locally
there may be some heavy showers.

Farm Prices Slugglsh

Farm conditions over eastern half
of Uniter States will be far from
good although there is no question
but that they could be much worse.
The farmer during the summer

months will not realize his hopes of
a full crop or high prices.

FARM MECHANICS

TRAUI‘OR VALVE IN AUTO-
MOBILE ENGINE

Will you please send me full in-
structions for installing Fordson.
tractor valves in a Ford automobile
engine? Is it true that with Ford-
son valves you can get more power
: out of a Ford automobile engine?—
' D. P., Michigan.

E we do not have test fig-
ures showing the effect of in-
stalling Fordson valves in the

Ford model T engine it seems rea-
sonably certain that larger valves
will permit more power to be devel-
oped under certain conditions.

So far as pulling capacity, such as
the ability to get out of a mud hole
or climb a hill, is concerned there
will be no difference. If a Ford en-
gine will make a certain pull at all
it will do so as well with the regular
valves as with any other, the only
dii'ference being that larger valves
may permit the pull to be made at
a faster speed. In other words,
valve capacity is not a limiting fac-
tor at low or medium speed, but be-
comes a limiting factor at high en-
gine speed.

It should be understood also that
the valve size is important only as
it influences friction or resistance of
the mixture going into the cylinders,
and that friction in the carburetor,
intake manifold, and ports, and also
.the exhaust manifold, pipe and muf-
fler is just as important as in the
valves themselves. Nevertheless we

are inclined to think that a small ,4

increase of power at high speed and
a treat maximum speed could be
d y the use of Fordson

 

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' Fordson valves have the same dia—
meter 'of stem as the Ford valves,
but the stem, is longer and the head
is larger in diameter. So far as the

stem is concerned it is only a matter :

of cutting it to the right length and
drilling a hole for the pin which
holds the valve spring washer. The
head of the Fordson valve is about
3/16 inch larger in diameter than
the regular Ford valve. This means
that the valve seat should be reamed
out about that much larger. Also,

. the hole beneath the seat should be

reamed or bored out about 8/16
inch larger in diameter so as to give
the same width of seating contract
as before. Usually there is plenty of
iron to make this much enlargement
without getting into trouble. ,If it
is attempted to enlarge the, side of
the opening of the port by the same
amount there may or may not be
trouble, depending on whether the
cores may have shifted in making
the casting and left the iron too
thin at some points. If the boring

tool breaks through the water jack- ,

et it means that the hole must be
welded, and in doing so the block is
likely to be warped suificiently to
require regrinding of the cylinders
and fitting of new pistons and rings.
Consequently we would not advise
reaming out the side openings of the
ports unless you are going to put on
a larger carburetor and intake man-
ifold and in general spend consider-
able money on the job.

In boring out the top of the port
the boring tool should have a pilot
or stem fitting accurately in the
valve stem guide so as to center
the cut accurately, as it is import-
ant to have the width of contact be-
tween valve and seat uniform all
the way round.

SAY HYDRATED LIRIE CLADIS
OVERS’I‘ATED

LAIMS being made in the state
at present that a few hundred
pounds of hydrated lime are as

good as a ton or more of limestone
for agricultural purposes are not
born out by experimental work at
various Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege test stations.

“Such statements are erroneous,”
says Dr. M. M. McCool, head of the
college soils department, “and
doubtless lead to a high per acre
lime cost in certain sections of the
state.”

Results of experiments on the rel—
ative efficiency of hydrated lime,
finely ground limestone, carried on
by the college at the Cass County
farm and other experimental plots,

have thrown interesting light on
this important question. The con—
clusions are supported, also, by

work in other states.

“As a result of these and many
other experiments," says Dr. Mc-
Cool, “we have steadfastly main-
tained that under most conditions it
is doubtless more practical for a
farmer to use limestone, preferably
the finer material, such as the finely
pulverized stone or the medium fine-
ly ground limestone, than it is for
him to use the hydrated lime.

“We have adopted the following

figures for a working basis: 500
pounds of hydrated lime, 800
pounds of finely pulverized lime,

or 1000 pounds of medium finely

ground material should be con-
sidered to the same results the
first year of application, provid—

ed they are well incorporated with

 

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POULTRY BREEDERS’
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regular weekly feature furnished by
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DETROIT SILVER FOX FARMS,
12-243 General Motors Bldg.,
Detroit, Mich., B. 3.

I would like to know more of the
' Silver Black Fox Industry and the Pontiac Plan.

Gentlemen:

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which will be distributed among the fortunate own—
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Many litters of five—six and seven—were born—
giving to the owners of these Foxes—as high as
three thousand dollars cash profit from just one Pair!

The Demand for Pontiac Strain Foxes—Created
under the Pontiac Plan—has made it imperative to
increase our producing facilities to the extent that
under present plans for expansion approximately 500
pens will be added—this year———f0r Pontiac Strain
production. g

The Pontiac Plan—provides for an extensive ad-
vertising campaign to put—Pontiac IStrain Silver Fox
Furs—on a direct from Ranch to Wearer—Basis.

This campaigné—in High Class Women’s Magazines
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from which every owuer of Pontiac Strain Foxes—'

will collect large profits.

To the end that the very choicest of Pelts may be
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