"“nn‘I’t Farm Magazine Owned and Edited in Michlgan SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1924 Eggs; $332393: :3. IT TAKES.'A' BROAD BACK F OR '_A BLUE RIBBON} 090' Form sm Dav. vat-M. A . o ‘ V _ /‘ Q—Cemplqe Crop Repert .‘for Havssoov , UTO RACES EAL INDIANS - Tumuwmucus EVERY DAY ‘ mire l ’ .‘ ZFOR GARDENERS ARKE'I‘ gardeners will gather at the M. A. C. Wednesday, Au— gust 20, to stage “Market Gar- deners' Field Day“ and a program of value to those Interested in the pro- duction of vegetables, commercially or otherwise, will be presented. Ac- cording to Prof. Geo. Starr, oi the M. A. C. horticultural department the day will be made an annual event. The forenoon is to be devoted to a tour of inspection over the gardens of the college horticultural depart- ment, together with the exhibition and explanation of various projects now under way. Included "among these projects is a comprehensive test of extra early varieties of toma- toes, showing by comparison the most profitable one for the Michigan grower: a comparative test of extra early sweet corn varieties; a number of plant breeding experiments which bear on the problems of the truck gardener; experimental work on truck crop fertilization, and new im- proved strains which are being grown for increase. Following the basket picnic at noon, at 1:30 the visitors will as- semble in the lecture room of the Horticulture Building, where short talks will be given by Profs. V. R. Gardner, R. E. Loree, G. E. Starr and J. W. Crist, on subjects per- taining to the occasion. A tour of the M. A. C. campus and the college farms will wind up the day's program. MICHIGAN’S 1924 BEET ACRE- AGE UP 43,000 ‘ N increase of 43,000 in the acre- age oi sugar beets planted in Michigan this year is shown in a United States Department of Agri- culture bulletin issued by Verne H. Church, Federal statistician for Michigan. The acreage in 1923 was 131,000 as compared with 174,000 this year. The report states that the con- dition of the crop in this state is 88 as compared with a 10-year aver- age of 86.4, and the production promises to be "1,233,000 tons as compared with 883,000 tons last year. The production for the United States is forecast at 7,344,000 tons, -with a total increase in acreage from»: 732,000 to 917,000. The amount of sugar to be made in the United States this year is estimated at 939,000 tons. The 1924 con- tracts, according to the report, pro- vide for prices from $5.50 to $7 a ton, depending upon the locality. STATE FARMERS SAVE $2,000,000 American Farm Bureau Fed- eration has taken such an ac- tive and leading part in the fight against the “Pittsburgh Plus" practice because the farmer is the greatest consumer of rolled steel in the country. James R. Howard, former presi- dent of the Farm Bureau, testified in the hearings before the commis- sion that the average tar-mar uses a total of more than a ton of steel each year. According to Mr. How- ard's testimony, which was based on figures supplied by the Research De- partment of the American Farm Bu- .reau Federation, farmers paid be- tween $26,000,000 and $30,000,000 each year for phantom freight. As findings of the commission show, this practice took an unearn- ed toll of more than $30,000,000 from the farmers of 11 States, and probably twice as much from the farmers of the entire country. It cost Michigan farmers $2,000,000 annually in extra freight bills. Itdidotherthingstothetarm- era. It cramped industrial deveb opment in the steel industry throughout the country, except in Pittsburgh and its neighborhood. As a result. hundreds oi towns which. had, many advantages for steel fabrication were unable to utilize them advantages. Farmers realize that a large can.- mming population near home helps fnthe sale and stabilization of price andmgfarm piooducts. Locum; ad- van eons r c 21 were denied theirgadvn m Plus” system, and he- «ME ocation who should ave had an assured and stable market. near at hand, were compelled to send their products a great distance and to remain dependent upon a dis- , tent and speculative market. Besides, the farmer, as a taxpay- er, was actually ailected. The form- er superintendent of highways of Illinois estimated that 16% tons oi steel are used in every mile or hard roads in that state, for concrete re- inforcing bars, bridges, culverts and purposes. These figures, it has been shown, apply pretty gener- ally to all “other road-building states. Based upon them, the statistical department of the American Farm Bureau Federation has shown that on the road program of only 10 states of average size in 1921 the "Pittsburgh Plus” excess cast item was alone $1,912,850mpractically $2,000,000. That sum could well be multipli- ed by five, for the total number of states in the country, to show what toll ”Pittsburgh Plus” takes upon the taxpayers in the construction of hard roads. - That would make $10,000,000. Thus it is plain how “Pittsburgh Plus" mulcts the farm- ers and all other taxpayers. HALLADAY HAS ONLY ONE RIV- A]. FOR HONORARY TITLE ERMAN H. HALLADAY, secre- tary oi the Michigan Agricul- tural College, and of the State Board of Agriculture, has a wide circle of friends but we doubt if many of them know that he has the right to sign “D. V. M. (Hon.)” att- er his name. Mr. Halladay is the holder of the only honorary degree of “Doctory of Veterinary Medi- cine" ever granted by a Michigan institution, and Dr. Ward Giltner, Dean of the M. A. C. Veterinary School, has discovered only one oth- er person in the United States on whom a similar degree has been conferred by any college. The oth- er honorary D. V. M. is the Dean of the Veterinary School at Cornell ‘ Universary. Mr. Halladay's honor . was bestowed upon him in recogni- tion of his services in the eradica- tion of the ioot-and-rmouth disease ‘ in Michigan. GRATIOT PLANNING BIG FAIR HE Gratiot county fair will be held at Ith‘aca, August 25 to 2 29, and plans are to make it the best ever this year. Secretary McCall says "We expect to have a big iair this year and a fine stock show. There will be races every day and for free entertainment each day we have secured 16 big acts. - Saturday, August 30, the K. K. K. ' will have a big celebration and pub— ‘ lie marriage on the grounds. Tell everyone we will be glad to have them come." TO PIOI‘URE JAPAN DISASTER IN SKY AT STATE FAIR 0 of the greatest fireworks spectacles ever produced are promised for the State Fair in Detroit, August 29 to September 7. - They are "Tokyo—Through Quake and Fire" and “The Founding of Detroit.” These productions are so big, and necessarily so costly, the program must be divided between them. The first three nights of the fair, Fri— day, Saturday and Sunday, “The Founding of Detroit” will be shown and the remaining nights “Tokyo" will have the sky. The “Founding of Detroit " made specially for the Seventy-Fifi State Fair, will tell the story in fireworks of the old Fort Ponchartrain days, the battles between the French and English and Indians for the vantage point were now stands one of the greatest cities of the world. "Tokyo" will show in lines of are against a black sky the scenes of horror that gripped Japan in 1923, the falling buildings, the lighting and the fire. WAWTOW 20-21 ' HEsixthannuaimeetingotths‘ Michigan Potato Growers’ Exr ? change will be held mm August 20 and 21," accodinx to Fred Smith, Viceels’resident and Actr- in'g M’W°¥'f: (9 ' 1 I W'. l. } ”We e». . veil. x1. NO. 25 ‘h Being absolutely independent our columns! are opegjeggr the 1181 W F tuning to the farming busing; The Only Farm Magazine Owned and Edited in Michigan Published mean. Mt. Clemens, Mich. Two mans” _ tend as second -clasl %. August 22,1917 “12th. st-omco Mt. clan 0.1).. under act of Magi-rm 8rd. 1879 Over 6,000 Farmers Spend Day At M. A. C. “Old Timers” Hay Cutting Contest is Popular Feature of Seventh Annual F drmers’ Day RMERS’ DAY at the Michigan Agricultural College has been popular with the farmers ever since the first one held in 1918 and each year the attendance has shown a gain. This year conservative est- imates placed the crowd around 6, 000 and others putting the figure at from 7, 500 to 10, 000, but even at the lower figure all previous attend- ance records were shattered. Auto- mobiles began to arrive as the sun appeared in the east and the num- ber increased hourly until noon but long before that hour it was neces- sary to call the state police to direct the traffic. The morning was given over to observation tours. the college hav- ing arranged 8 different tours for those interested in the different phases of work being carried on. The feature of the morning program was the “Old Timers" mowing con- test which started at 10 o’clock and lasted for two hours. Here 27 old— time farmers from 55 to 90 years old took part in a scythe contest and they proved to the onlookers that they could handle the scythe just as good as they could in the days when mowing machines were unknown. Each old timer was giv— en a stretch of alfalfa and allowed five minutes to do his “durndest.” H. H. Halladay, secretary of the col- lege, cut the first swath, giving the other ”boys” a mark to shoot at. Four silver trophies were award- ed to the “hay cutters” as well as several honorable mention ribbons. The judges were -I. H. Butterfleld. father of Kenyon L. Butterfield, president-elect of the M. A. 0., Jason Woodman, former member of the State Board of Agriculture, Wm. F. Johnston, agricultural agent of Wexford county, and H. F. Probert, of Jackson. The first silver trophy was awarded for the best all around work and won by P. F. Waldron, 68 years old, of Ionia. I. P. Mosley, 90 years old, of Onondage, won a silv- er cup as the oldest contestant. E. Judson, 58 years old, of Durand, cut the neatest swath and was awarded a silver cup. The fourth silver trophy went to E. S. Goodhue, 60 years old, of Bath, who did the most work of acceptable quality, cutting 737 square feet of alfalfa in his five minute period. Those who re- ceived honorable mention were: D. P. Ashley, of Dimondale; Wm. E. Root, of Swan Creek; William Lear, of Saginaw; Frank Johnson, of Pot- terville; N. Snyder, of East Lansing. and A. F. Huntoon, of St. Louis. TimetoEat By the time the last contestant in the mowing contest had cut his swath the crowd was ready for something to eat. Most families brought a basket full of lunch and it did not take them long to find a. nice shady spot on the campus where they could eat and rest. After they had eaten and rested a few minutes the crowd began working over to where the afternoon meet»- ing was to be held and, after look- ing over the special exhibits on timely farm subjects prepared by the different departments of the College and placed on display in booths on the campus, they sat down on the seats that were placed in front of the speakers’ stand. Long before 1:30 when the Rec Motor Car Company band and glee club opened the afternoon program all seats were filled and thousands were forced to stand as the attend- ance had passed all expectations. Second on the program was the par rade of College livestock, and than we were entertained again by the band and glee club. Acting Pred- dent B. 8. Shaw, who presided, then I introduced the first speaker of the afternoon, A. M. Brown, of School- craft. former secretary of the M. A. 0.. who talked on the progress in agriculture. He was followed by Prof. J. T. Horner, of the College, whose subject was “Effective Mar- keting.” We were again entertain- ed by the band and glee club after which Acting President Shaw intro- duced G. I. Christie, director of the experiment station and extension work at Purdue University, and his talk was on “Agricultural thought. ” Another number by the band con- cluded the program. Sees Marketing Main Problem In his talk on “Effective Market- ing” Prof. Horner spoke in part as follows: “Science has made it relatively easy to produce goods. Whether it be in agriculture or industry the great problem is that of selling. Everyone would be happy if all the things he produced could be sold at a profit. The merchant, the manu- facturer, the farmer—all of these ——want to know how to sell. The farmer wants someone to tell him how to sell all the things he can grow at cost of production plus a profit. “The first essential to profitable selling is a knowledge of what the consumer wants. Studies must be made of the markets to determine what the consumer wants, how he wants it, when he wants it, and how much of it he wants. The success- ful manufacturer has been making this study ever since the time ar— rived when he could not readily sell all the things he could produce. With an increase in the facility of producing goods there has been an increase in competition and men have had to struggle to get the con- sumer to buy their goods instead of those of competitors. Unless prop- or selling methods are followed one is apt to find that his competitors get all the business. "But efii'cient production alone will not bring prosperity. Efficient marketing must go hand in hand with efficient production. The pros- perity of a farmer depends upon all phases of his business being con- ducted in the best possible manner. These two things—production and marketing—go hand in hand. Suc- cess can not possibly come unless due consideration is given to both. Prosperity is never going to come to agriculture unless production is ef- ficiently conducted and is in harm— ony with market demands. No pro- duction program can be profitable unless it is conducted with regard to the market. Likewise, no mar- ket program can be effective if pro- ductive efficiency is disregarded. “Many farmers have recently dis- credited the counsel of production specialists. They have said, ‘We know how to produce. Tell us how to sell. The two blades of grass theory has been wrong. We want to know how to sell one blade. I trust the time will never come when farmers earnestly desire to discard the science of agriculture. Scien- tific production is essential to pros- Can Any Farmer Beat This? WEET clover 8 feet 7 inches high! Rye 6 feet 4 inches high! W. F. Causie, manager of the Johnson farm at Jackson, Michigan, gives up these figures for sweet clover and rye he grew and has on exhibit at the Jackson News office, Jackson. Other crops on display and their heights are as follows: Alsike clover, 6 feet 4 inches; June clover 4 feet 10 inches; timothy hay 5 feet 8% inches; wheat 4 feet 11% inches; barley 4 feet 6 inches, and oats 5 feet 4 inches. “Can anybody beat it?” he writes THE BUSINESS FARMER., What about it, friends? Can any of you beat this record? Mr. Causie writes “We do not claim any credit for the growth of the display. It only goes to show what will grow if the land is good. Nothing was used but barnyard man— ure. The wheat was top dresses early. The barley and oat ground was fall plowed and double disked in the spring.” We would like to hear from some of our readers about their crops. If you can beat this record we want to know about it. Let's go. WHO WILL BE THE. HERO? ‘H lw‘lfl; WW“ \3 names. ‘NQOME. I ‘ \l . - .' 5 , _ . ‘ ~ Q- l '5’ a " I W); , t‘ 0 .. . 20’ ~ '- ’ MW MN. I mmmmrm perous agriculture and a wealthy nation. The scientific specialists can show farmers how to reduce costs and how to secure quality. Better Thinkers “We need to become better think- ers. When the American farmer gets to thinking more clearly on social and economic problems there is going to be improvement in these fields just as there was in the field of mechanics, plant and livestock improvement, and other sciences when the torches of thought and reason lighted the way. “The American farmer has at times been led into the wilderness of fanatacism and unsound eco- nomic thinking by those who have been ignorant or basicly dishonest. He has been wrong at times not be- cause he desired to be wrong but rather because of his faulty guid- ance. In spite of the fact that he has occasionally gone wrong never from under the roof of the farm home has there come a movement or aid to a movement which has been for the moral degradation of this nation.” Farmers Appreciating Work Mr. Christie spoke on the assist- ance which agricultural institutions give to the farmers of the state, in an effort to better conditions of the agriculturists. “Farmers are appreciating more and more,” said Mr. Christie, “the value of agricultural colleges. They are receiving most valuable help from the experiment stations and the extension service, and as a re- sult are able to meet in a better way the big farm problems. “These institutions which have developed new and valuable vari- eties of grains, helpful information on soils and farm practices, unusual aid on combating disease of live- stock and insects of the orchard and other direct assistance are growing stronger each year and are meaning more and more to agriculture and country life. For every dollar spent by the agricultural colleges, the farmers of the state have received many thousands in return. A con- servative estimate shows that the Michigan Agricultural college is re- turning to the farmers of the state more than $25,000,000 annually. This institution then, should have the active support of all the people of the state.” Speaking of the increase in grain prices, Mr. Christie said: “The agricultural situation has changed by the recent rise in prices for farm products. Farmers are showing a changed attitude, while business in general has shown re— newed activity. It is encouraging to see this turn in events and I be- lieve that it means a brighter future for our agriculture. “During the past three years, farmers have had opportunity to make and have made a study of their situation. They recognize that a program must be made for the individual farm. The market, the farm and the man must be consider- ed. They also recognize that mil- lions of people in our cities must be fed from the farms and that these people must eventually pay a fair price for the producing of these products. “Farmers located in Michigan and in parts of the central west are in a fortunate position since the large manufacturing centers and a large share of the population of the country is within a short distance of these producing areas. The Mich- igan and Indiana farmers have ad— vantages which are now showingr and which will make these farms more profitable and valuable." ‘ '- ,:<. .11!“ a». by“, ' comes not from without, - affair-f. . I?! .e "at . Living a... Fun ‘ Life a. the m ural «Community ° The Farm Offers Best Conditions Not Only F or Personal Development but Also for the Founding of an Ideal Home ‘ HE peace of. an ideal mid-sum- mer Sabbath afternoon has set- tled over the old homestead. It is one of those perfect days which must have inspired the poet when he sang, “How good is man’s life, the mere’living! how fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!" How blessed and how welcome is the peaceful naturalness of this aft- ernoon hour. I am mentally com- paring it with the tumult and con- fusion of certain congested cities and so—called resorts and recreation- al regions which I have recently visited. Verily how hard do certain people struggle chasing the illusive rainbow of happiness! Frantic di— version, high powered automobiles, long, gruelling motor trips being only partial satisfaction. Real joy, peace, contentment, but from within. Yet Nature is a potent fac- tor in effecting this inner conscious- ness. And so how pleasant is the porch this afternoon! The breeze blows intermittently, now and then bringing the windmill into life— only to let it relax into idleness once more. How still it is! And yet when we listen closely we hear all the myriad voices of Nature sing- ing their separate songs, yet blend- ing them in a harmonious and sub- , dued chorus. 1 W110 can blame me for rejoicing that I am the “and Son” of one of those father and son partnerships which is carrying on an old home- stead cleared from primeval forests by my father’s father? \Vho can blame me if this afternoon I feel a little selfish regret that some of my duties and connections cause me to be away from the farm home so much? This afternoon is a gift from God, intended for happiness and medita— tion. As I look across the verdant laWn and undulating acres stretch— ing away to the horizon, my eyes half close in thought and my soul is lost in reverie and contemplation. Tall elms cast shadows near at hand upon the lawn. Shade and shadow, vaguely mysterious, symbols of life’s checkered path! Yet far away across the fields" and on the hills the sun is shining brightly—Peace reigns o’er all. Thus do I medi- tatez— And “'hat 15 Peace? Men say that the war is over, that the armistice is signed, and that lasting world peace has been established. Perhaps, politically speaking, this is true, but taken in its larger, more abiding aspects, peace does not yet rule among the affairs of 'men. Consider the world today—it is one vast battlefield. It is not a battle of bombs and bullets, of subs and aeroplanes. It is the same old battle of life, the same old struggle for existance—only anim- ated and aggravated, crazed and driven frantic by the restless spirit of the twentieth century. Here and there, it is true, we can find isolated and secluded havens where the spirit of economic and social conflict has not penetrated with its blighting influences, but these communities are scarce and far between. Even these districts, Where life seems the most free and unhampered by the pressure of the outside world, are often the very communities which are supported by the fiercest economic oppression of the laboring classes. If anyone feels that I have over- ‘ drawn the picture, let him only look . every act. around him and see. Let him re- move from his eyes the scales of custom, of indifference, and of thoughtlessness. Let him really try to discover and analyse those thoughts and emotions which all unknown and unbidden are stamped on every man’s face, reflected in his Let him walk down the busy streets with their hurrying, jostling crowds. Let him ride on the crowded trolley, and let him visit' the factory and workshop. Every— where let him Study people, their faces and what they reveal. Nor would I have you think that I am confining these observations merely to the lower classes. It Seems that the struggle is even By STANLEY M. POWELL (Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.) \ IUR readers will no doubt be surprised to read such an article by Stanley M. Powell after following his series on taxation so per- haps an explanation is due. 'Stanley is a very busy man and recently, finding himself just about worn out, he decided to take a. brief vacation. erate an up-to-date farm known as “Inglcside Farm”. At Ionia Stanley and his father, H. E. Powell, op- The “Son” of “H. E. Powell and Son” has duties that keep him in the city most of the time and his idea of a vacation was to retire to the farm to help his father and rest. He went to the farm and while there his thoughts, quite naturally, turned away from facts and theories of taxation to something more in harmony with his surroundings. And after a. few days came the desire to put these thoughts down in black and white, By Sunday afternoon he could control his desire no longer so he carried his typewriter out on the front veranda. and—well this is the result. like it. the writer or not. It contains some very good thoughts and we hope you Write and tell us what you think, Whether you agree with intense among the so—called intellectual workers. The more a man has, the more he wants, and the more society demands of him. Thus the fairly successful business or professional man often grows old prematurely and misses the real joys of life. The Advantages of Farm Life I have wandered thus far afield from the title of this article, not by way of digression or useless com- ment, but that I might restate some of the fundamental principles of human experience and conduct and thus bring to your attention by com- parison and contrast some of the reasons why I wish to advocate the farm as the ideal environment in which to live the full and complete life. I would not have anyone think that I believe that conditions of life on the farm are entirely un- like and superior to those found in the more congested city districts. In many respects the difference is only one of degree, but there are several elements of farm life which are not found in the city. Let us, there— fore, consider some of the factors which contribute toward making more life what it is on the modern farm. In the first place, the occupation of the farmer is both useful and honorable. Probably never before has society so valued and appreciat- ed the basic importance of agricul- ture and esteemed the farmer so highly as at present. The war op- ened the eyes of the general public to the importance of the farmers as the producers of the basic necess- ities of life. The new tendency of farmers to organize and act collect- ively has given them a voice which is accorded respectful attention both in the halls of legislation and before the forum of popular public opinion. A man who takes up farming may, therefore, command the full respect both of himself and of his fellowmen. One of the features of farming which has appealed to men of all times is the degree of independence which it affords. The farmer is the entrepreneur—the manager of his enterprises. While his life may not at all times be easy, there is always the satisfaction of knowing that he is his own master, that he can choose what is to be done, and that Putting Alfalfa Seed in Ground at Right Depth NE problem in sowing alfalfa 0 seed is, to get it in the moist ground just the right depth and before the innoculation had been killed by the Suns rays. Some use one method and some another, many of which are good. Mr. E. H. Black, of Cass County Michigan, has a rig that does the job in fine shape. As shown by the ac— companying cut, it consists of a force feed seeder bolted to the evener bar of a 60 tooth spike harrow. In the cut the outfit is shown being used on a corn stubble that has been disked for alfalfa. It works well in spite of the stubble. By actually digging up seed they were found to be covered to a depth of about one inch. The seeder saves seed as with any definite feed drill smaller quantities may be sewn. It sows the seed in fresh earth back of the first row of drag teeth. It covers the seed be- fore the innoculation is killed by the Suns rays. It will work on wheat and rye ground in the spring, or on ground that is too rough for seeding with a drill. It saves Once over the ground as compared to the fiddle type of seeders. It puts the seed home to moist warm earth with a shallow covering above it and this is what is desired to get good results. _ physical t he will receive the rewards of his foresight and industry. This is a factor which appeals strongly to every man. The great drudgery and intense exertion which was the bane of farm life in past genera- tions is rapidly disappearing due to the extensive use of improved ma- chinery in nearly all of the farming operations. Happily these improv- ed implements have not removed the farmer from his former close ~‘ ' contact with nature. His is still the out-of-doors life. He still lives close to nature—sees all her mys- terious secrets—from the glorious beauty of the sunrise until the many-colored sunset marks the “end of another day’s labor—from the wondrous wakening of all life in the Springtime to the quiet, mellow days of Autumn when he gathers in the last fruits of the season. No other class of men live in such close natural contact with the Creator, and no other has such an opportun- ity to see His character revealed in the world about and “think His thoughts after Him.” The 'Farm the Ideal Home It is a fact well worth consider- ing that the farm offers the best conditions not only for personal de- velopment but also for the founding of an ideal home. This is a factor not to be considered lightly when we notice that the home life of the city is rapidly degenerating and los- ing its potent and sacred influence. It does not seem possible to produce real men and women of high Chris- tian character and American ideals in the haunts of the cliff dwellers of our cities, in appartments or crowd- ed tenements. It is not a matter of mere chance that so many of our country’s greatest leaders have been :produced in farm homes. Those forces which operate to disintegrate and destroy the unity of the city home do not exist to nearly as great an extent in the rural community. On the other hand, the primeval isolation, which formerly turned the agriculturalist into an object of rid- icule, is no more. The rapid settle— 'ment of our country, the develop- ment of the telephone, automobile, rural free delivery and radio, have forever broken down this barrier. The farmer may now live as an in- telligent member of human society, knowing what other men are doing and appreciating their conditions. Good roads and the automobile bring him in close contact with the city so that he can share all its social, religious, and educational advantages, and still enjoy all the benefits of living on the farm. Or, without leaving his chair he can bridle the unseen waves of the air and make them contribute their toll of entertainment and instruction. The farm home need no longer lack those conveniences and ameni- ties which add so much to the com- fort and joy of living. A great many farm lighting systems have been perfected. Many farm homes are also now equipped with water systems which provide running water, bath and toilet facilities. The general use of such household im— povements is bound to increase rap- idly in the years just ahead. The Farm Herizon Lifts The farmer’s life is not a life of selfish social and business isolation. No longer does he think in terms of “me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more.” More and more the spirit of cooper- ation and fellowship is spreading among the. farmers. The great ex- tension movements, such as the county agent work, the boys’ and girls’ club work, the home demon- stration activities, school and public health nurses, the «county Y. M. C. A., etc., all show the increased at- tention which is being devoted to this sort of thing. During these past few years this cooperative spirit has given birth to the great farm bureau movement and today over the length and breadth of the U. S. A., there are local, county, state and national farm bureau organizations which are fostering and promoting cooper- ative marketing on a commodity (Continued on Page 21) \ .- V ”we”, WV. 1. ,5“ HAY CUTTING CONTEST.—The “Old Timers” JUDGES IN SCYTHE CONT ES'L—These men PRIZE WIN\ERS .—Michig'an’scha1npion hay cut- mowing contest held on F'armers Day at the Mich- picked the winners in the contest at the M A. G. ters. Left to right: P. 19‘. “’uldron, lonia, best all igan Agricultural College was the leading event of Left to right: Wm. F. Johnston, \Vexi‘ord county around work; [91. Judson, Durand, neutest swath; ‘ the forcnoon. Here we have a. few of the contest- agent; Jason Woodman, and l. 11. Butterlield, E. S. (ioodhuc, Bath, most work; I. P. filosley, Ollan- ' ants about ready to start. father of Kenyon L. Butterficld. dugo, oldest contestant. 1 I FARDIERS’ DAY.——This picture was taken while Acting President R. S. SHOW COLLEGE LIVESTOCK. —0ne of the features of the afternoon pro-a Shaw was making a few introductory remarks before introducing the speakers. gram of Farmers" Day was the parade of blue ribbon livestock owned by the This does not show the entire crowd but it will give you some idea of how! Michigan Agricultural College. Horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry, all had interested they all were. a. part in the parade. O t 1 APPROVES OF TAX EXEMPT SECUR- WITH THE DEMOCRATS AT RIADISON SQUARE GAR- A REAL BEAUTY.—Miss Jean Shields,tele— ITIES.—Senator Couzens is being criticised DEN .——This is a general view, showing the interior of Madison phone operator of Cincinnati, Ohio, has won 5 by many for his stand in favor of tax-exempt Square Garden, New York (‘ity, where the Democratic national beauty contests since last y".“'" They were in government securities. It is stated his fortune convention was held. The photograph was taken as the meet- Kansas (’ity, .Salina and L1nnsburg, Kansas, is invested in these securities. ing was called to order on the opening day. and Cincinnat1. 1 1 ' URGES CHL‘OROFOBM FOR SUBNORMAL WHICH WAY ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE?—Betty Brown STATUE 0F “ADAM” GOES TO CHL 3: 9 CHILDREN.—bupt. K. C. McLeod. of Edmon- on the donkey and Agnes Lee with the elephant on the sands CAGO ITNIVERSI'I‘Y.—This original Rodin ’ ‘ 190151 Canada declares all mentally Silbnorlnal of Atlantic City show their political leanings for the coming statue of Adam has been presented to the , children should be chloroformed to. death. campaigns. Art Institute Museum of Chicago. (Copyright. Keystone View 00.) school age. , before the fourth Monday in June. but since then have decided to move . out of the district. and the boys will ' not be able to attend the school which the application was made for, . but will still be in the same county \ but in another township. Would the school board of this district still be obliged to pay the tuition? Or will we have to pay it ourselves if we move from the district before school starts in Septemberf—W. 0., . Muskegon, Mich. GRAPH (621), page 22]., Revision of 1 9 2 8 General School Laws of Michigan, reads 1 in part as follows: “The district board or board of education of any sch001 district ‘ which does not maintain a high school shall have authority and is . hereby required to vote a tax sumo- ient to pay the tuition to any high i school which is approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion”“"Provided, that the par- ent or the legal guardian of such child”"“shall give written notice to the district board or board of ed- ucation on or before the fourth Monday of June, that such child do- sires to attend any high school dur- ‘ ing the ensuing year." The law does not require a partic- ular high school to be mentioned in the application for tuition. If the proper application is made the school board must pay the tuition to any approved tuition high school in the state. If proper application is not made the board may pay it. The fact that the family in question moved from the district to another district not maintaining a high school does not relieve the first dis- trict of its responsibility—C. L Goodrich. Ass’t. Supt. Public In- struction. WALL SHOULD GO BELOW FROST LINE Would you please answer through your columns some questions in re- gard to house building? I want to build a bungalow, the wall of faced stone up to the eves which would be about 10 feet. How deep should the wall go in the ground? Will have no basement, as the soil is clay not very well drained. How thick should the wall be above I ground, and how thick should the ' better. foundation wall be below the sur- face? I think your service depart- ment is grand. It ’does me good the way you expose those fur and land sharks.—L. R., Twining, Mich. HE foundation wall should go below the frost line in case there is no basement. The founda- tion wall should be at least 14 inches thick and have a footing 24 inches wide and 6 inches deep. I would suggest that the whole found- ation be made of concrete. The wall above ground should be about 8 inches thick. I understand that you are facing the stone onto the frame work or in other words. that it is what we commonly term stone veneer building.—-F. E. Fogle, Assistant Professor, Agricultural Engineering Dep’t, M. A. C. HOW MUCH EXEMPTION? Please tell me just how much one is allowed by law before he is col- lectable if his 40 acres is mortgaged and cows not all paid for besides other notes'I—A. D. E., Tustin, Mich. OU would have a homestead ex- l emption in your 40 acres of land if it is the only real estate you have and you live on it. You would be exempt in personal prop- erty to the amount of $250.00.—-— Asst. Legal Editor. WAN'IB PRIMARY, MONEY TRANSFERRED We have property'in District No. 1 also in District No. 8 where we live. Now it is nearer for children to go to No. 1 school also roads are better and conditions in general are My mother went to No. 1 and I went to No. 1 and now my on went to No. 1 one year. They 0 not want to have our ch11 unless we have our property all transferred to No. 1 so they can get all the school tax. The board voted on it and would not let us leave No. . 8. Unless we pay $1. 50 a month i tuitiOn we cannot send children 1 We made application , to the school board of our district. fig» mm who? u M'fl‘ul Mm there. We have five and it would mean a lot of money in one year. Have heard one can have head ts: transferred. Is this true? How can one go about it and to whom apply? Would the head tax apply on tui- tion? Have we the right to send children to District No.1 as we have property there too. It is over two miles of mud roads to No. 3 whiletoNo. litis 1% milesinall. part gravel and remainder will be concrete. The amount of land is about the same in both districts althe buildings are in No. 3.—aMrs. L. K. 0., Palms, Mich. i DISTRICT in which a parent ' does not reside is not compell- ed to accept children of other districts. The primary money can- not be transferred from the district where the parent or legal guardian resides to a school where he wishes his children to attend school.-—-W. L. Coffey, Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction. AGAINST A signs B‘s note. Now both A and B refused payments for over two years. After that note holder put judgement against A and B for collection. Then A and B promis- ed to pay so much monthly and then bothAandBfailed. Whatisthe law to collect these notes? Kindly advise me what to do. Your sub- scriber for many years. S. G., Knox, Ind. F you have obtained a judgement I against A and B on these notes, you could levy an execution against their property, or garnishee their bank account or wages. Go to the judge who gave you the judg- ment and tell him you want to get out an execution against their prop- erty—Asst. Legal Editor. CAN IIE KILL ANIMALS DESTROYING CROPS? Can a tamer kill any bird or animal if they are destroying his crops or animals (turkeys, chick- ens)? Is it against the law to shoot a gun on your own property without a hunting licensei—H. J., Algonac, Mich. is impossible to give a specific answer to the above inquiries. Property owners would not be justified in killing animals or fowls trespassing on or destroying their property except possibly in case an Awlfizlulrlee must be accompaniedflrnfullm WWII-be not mm so mow-ad ) animal was vicious and endanger- ing lives of people on premises or destroying sheep or cattle thereo Of course, the property owner woul have an action for damages against the owner of animals or fowls tres- passing on his premises and damagb ing them. We also have a statute which permits the owner of prem- ises to distrain and sell cattle tres- passing thereon. In reply to your second question will advise you that it is not necessary for a person to have a hunting license to shoot a gun on his own property unless he is hunting thereon.—-Clare Retan, Deputy Attorney General. CAN GET DIVORCE If a man's wife is proved mental- ly unbalanced would ‘that hinder him from getting a divorce from her? Could he get possession of the children. What would be the proper step as to me finding out her sanity? Would like to hear from you as soon as possible. Just re- ceived word that my wife has ap- plied for a widow’s pension—A {lively Dead Man, Newberry, Mich- gan. fact that your wife is men- tally unbalanced would not alone prevent you from obtain- ing a divorce. In order to deter- mine her sanity, ille a petition with the probate court to have her ad- Judged insane. The question will be determined in a hearing beta the probate judges—Asst. Le Editor. ‘- CAN OFFICER COLLECT MONEY FROM MOTORIST? I have been tithing your valuable paper and would like information through the service department on the following subject: Has a mot- orcycle cop the right to collect mon- ey on the public highway for what he calls speeding?—-—-R. J. P., Caro, Michigan. MOTORCYCLE officer has no right to collect money from motorists for speeding. He has the right, however, to arrest them and take them into custody. He usually gives them the privilege of depositing money with him to in- sure their appearance at the trial, instead of taking them into custody. The motorist should insist on a re- ceipt to protect himself.—Asst. Legal Editor. YES THEY’RE LEAVIN‘ THE FARM 0Y8 are leavin' the farm— B they're goin’ to the city an' gettin’ jobs an' gettin' mixed up with lots 0’ thing that ain’t so very good for ’em. An’ that they‘d be better off without. I have a lot of farmer boys workin' with me—I like them an' I like to be with them. I like to have ’em tell me their troubles an' why they left the farm. It‘s most always the same story—no chance out there—~just hard work an’ no money. “Oh yes," one young man said, “Dad did all he could for me— he works hard but farming don't pay much an' he couldn’t do much for me and so I quit." Now of course the boy didn’t stop to think of the 19 years that Dad had been keepin' him, feedin’ an' clothin' him, lovin’ him an' sendin' him to school an’ tryin' to make somethin' of him. No he never thought of that! It hadn't occurred to him that he owed Dad anything. He was just old enough to pay his way an' help Dad a little, but he couldn't do it—-—he had to have money whether Dad did or not—-no matter ’bout Dad, he was gettin' old way an’ didn’t need much, he woul t along some way. Well the Oung man gets good wages here an' he lives high. He isn’t saving any money, Jest spends it as fast as he gits it. He goes out with flashy girls an' they make him think he's some great guy—~he feeds 'em on pricedstuif. takes'emtoshow owe: Yes the city is a great place for farm boys—it builds 'em up or down -—mostly down. Boys I am tellin' you right now to stick to the farm, help Dad out an' build a good healthy body for yourself. There are many years before you—~years that’ll be full of pleasure an' happiness for years if But my dear young friends, you can spoil it all in just a short time in any city. City life is too fast an’ you don’t have much at the end of the year but regret, just a feeling that you have made a mistake,—a dark brown taste so to speak,——an‘ you'll wish you were back on the farm where all is clean an' nice, where your folks are an' country girls are, an' in all this whole big world there is nothing quite as sweet an' nice as our farm-raised girls. Just as sweet an pure as the apple blossoms—mebbe they ain't the best dancers. mebbe they don’t use paint an' lip sticks like our city girls but they are healthy an' good to look at —-they make good wives an' mothers an' they know how to cook an’ bake an' take care of a home. So. know- in' what I know, I'm sayin'to my boy friends all over this big state of ours, jest stick by Dad. help him out now an' pay back part of what we done for you. , You can not ever pay it all; boys if you could only know all he an’ mother has done for you you would realise that a litetime of service would only pay jest 'bont half the debt. Gordiany yours,— UNCLE BEBE, you raise yourself right. " can was top pay $5 ' I opened a grayel pit and Mrs. D. served a written notice to stop eell- ' ing gravel or pay her up in full for the place. Now must I do this? The contract reads that all build- ingsmustbekeptlnasgoodare- pair as when I took possession but does not say anything about taking gravel or timber from this place. Also Mrs. D. tried to collect pro- ceeds from gravel. Did she have I. right to do this? Must I pay her in full or have I a right to sell grav- el and use the proceeds to improve the placei—L. A. R., Lowell,_ Mich. the removal of the gravel would so depreciate the value of the land as to endanger the seller’s security, she would have the right to restrain you from selling the gravel. It all depends upon~the amount of gravel removed and its relation to the value of the farm without the gravel. I would see a lawyer. —Asst. Legal Editor. MUST. PRINT TRUTH IN ADVERTISEMENTS I have a beauty secret for the hair and I would like to advertise and charge .for it; it is absolutely true what I would advertise. I have no medicine to sell, nor would there be any used. Would it be legal for me to advertise‘t Also I would like to sign a Nome do Plume. Is that all righti—Reader, Arenac County. ER the provisions of Section 15049 as amended by Act No. 351 of the Public Acts of 1917, a person is criminally liable for any false statements contained in adver- tisements published in a newspaper or otherwise. If the statements which you wish to publish are true and are not mis- leading. you would probably not be violating any statute of this state. It you advertise under any name other than your own in connection with your advertisement you might technically be violating the statute above mentioned—Clare Retan, Deputy Attorney General. TEACHER NOT ENTITLED TO PAY DURING VACATION If the School board signs up with a teacher for a week's vacation between Christmas and New Year’s do they have to pay teacher for same? How many vacations with pay is a teacher entitled to each year?—-—J. M. W., Gladwin, Mich. a school board signs a contract with a teacher, which provides for a week’s vacation between Christmas and New Year’s, the dis- trict does not pay for such vaca’tion' period. A teacher is not entitled legally to any pay for any vacation period, that is, any period within her contract which is specified as a vacation. _ The law provides that no school shall be maintained in any public school nor shall any deduction be made in a teacher's wages for the observance of the following _:days Labor Day, Which is the first Mon- day in September, Thanksgiving Day, as set apart by the Governor, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, and the fourth day of July. Whenever any of the above days come within the period of contract the teacher is entitled to pay for sauna. When any come within the period of vacation as specified in teacher’s contract the teacher does not draw pay for same. Such days are designated as legal holidays for schoolsr—G. N. Otwell, Supt. Division of Rural Education. WIFE WOULD Gm ONE THIRD Please give me the correct law answer to the following: When I married my husband a year ago he had property which he was selling , under contract and it will be some . few years before it is paid out. Now if he dies in the meantime, will I get one-half of the amount left or would I share equal with three children by previous marriage? Thetisif-thereisnowmordeed of revision made for same.— Mrs. 8., Jasper. Mich. Oil! third of an amount due the h nsband on the contract would _ maths ‘ de‘eeendtcthewife tothe m fliirds wouldgo by former wimp—Asst. . 3). interest at 7 per cent. Last ”first 1 i 1 I money saved One Copy Is Yours—Free One copy of this new 728-page Fall and Winter catalogue is ready for you. It costs you absolutely nothing. Asking for it puts you under no obligation. You need only fill in and return the coupon. We will send the catalogue free. We want you to find out how valuable this book will be to you. 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'7 Pod! reed RED nooK when wucmdnu's ensues-r VARIETY For prices write 0. D. Flnkbelner, ("Imam-Mich. CORN EARVESTER 'harvuter or 00R" HARVEB‘I’ER OUTS AND I’ll-£8 on: " l‘ 0 'USE ECONOMY EAR EDITOR:—-I am sending $1.00 for two years subscrip- tion to your paper. I read in your paper about the proposed gas tax and for one would favor a gas tax if we would get a reduction on auto license, the same as some states five. It the state and counties would use some economy taxes would be lower. I do not think that there is need for over fifty mem- bers on the public utilities commis- sion and an auto for the department bought with the taxpayers' money. The Governor has an auto bought the same way, as well as others. The state health department has over 100 persons employed, unnecessary is it not? The gas tax and auto 1i- censo ought to retire highway bonds and state expenses without a gener- al property tax. That would abol- ish the state tax commission and may the Lord speed the time—W. B. E., Blaine, Mich. BLAMES FARMERS FOR SHORT- AGE OF HELP 0 the Editorz—I noticed in a recent issue of M. B. F. an art- icle on farm labor, and its in- efficiency and scarcity, and having worked nineteen years on different farms in Livingston county, state of Michigan, I think I discovered some of the reasons of the present day scarcity of farm labor. One, and the most important reason is that 99 out of every 100 farmers hire a man the same as they buy a piece of machinery; not to go until he is started, and then keep going until he is stopped, and after he has had fuel put in his tank and water in his radiator, he is supposed to run until stopped again, and he isn’t supposed to get sick, but should be on the job every day and must hold himself in readiness to look after thinks Sun- days, if the boss so desires. An- other reason is that he isn’t supposed to have any brains, and is never con- sulted about the work, just do what he is told to do. Still another rea- son is that from the time he starts working for a boss until he is fired or quits or his time is out, he has no time for himself, or if he ”is a married man, no time to be with his family, only nights, and often then, only from 10 o’clock at night until 4 o’clock the next morning. Still an- other reason, is the living quarters that some bosses furnish for their hired help to live in. I know a man in this county that is a very prosperous farmer and hires help each season. Has a fine large house, a large barn, an up—to- date hog house, and for the hired help he has a bunk house, just 10 feet from the hog house. This bunk house is about 10 feet by 12 feet and there are sleeping quarters for 8 men, a stove, and that is all there is in it, besides bunks are built on top of one another around the out— side. I once helped this man a few days and it didn't look as if this bunk house had been swept or clean- ed since it was built. Of course these conditions do not always exist everywhere, and all together, but it causes a man to think twice before hiring himself to a man he doesn’t know. I have done it, so I know. Now, on the other hand, if a hired man was to be considered human and allowed a little time for himself, or his family, and was to be consulted about the work on hand, and if his advice proves to be right, tell him so, and if he be furnished good clean living quarters for himself and fam- ily and paid a good living wage, there would not be the scarcity of farm labor that there is today. There are a lot of men like myself that rather than be bought as a machine and considered as such, and herded together as cattle, would rather go to the city and rent a little house of their own, and work in a factory; 8 hours a day are less than 18. Every Sunday is yours. A house you rent yourself is better than 99 - percentfurnished you on the farm. And if a man develops any brains, he has a chance to use them. One man out of [every five is advanced. Not one out of every thousand can expect it on the farm. After reading this you may think Iamacityman. Notso,1ama farmer trying to make a living the same as thousands of others. I have just tried t6 state some of the rea- sons why help is scarce on the farm, as I have seen them.——M. Cf, Ros- common, Mich. PLENTY OF CHANGES ON FARMS EAR EDITORz—In June 7th is- sue Thomas T. Ames of Toledo, Ohio, says "The farmer has caused most of the present condition by not recognizing his kinship with labor." Allow me to suggest that the far- er does not lack for a reasonable market price for his goods, but he lets the manufacturing crowd de- mand of him unreasonable prices—- regular war prices—4m their goods and force upon our country such prohibitive tarifls that we can't get foreign goods from European fact- ories enough to get even one of the manufacturers four feet out of the feed trough. ' Human nature is the same as it has been since Adam, and when the great farm organizations of Ameri- ca said, following Harding’s inaug- uration, to the G. O. P. tariff makers at Washington, that they knew they could trust that great party not to fleece their own pet lambs who had just voted them back into power: then wolf said to brother wolf, “How’ll you have your lamb chops fixed, partner?" and lo! verily! each farmer’s goods dropped to half price but what he buys is bought at the good old war—prices—C. H. Merri- field, Gobles, Mich. TOO MUCH ABOUT COOPERATIVE» MARKETING EAR EDITORz—In the past we have taken many different farm papers and magazines and we consider yours well worth the price in a good many ways. But let me advise you that there is something lacking in the Farm Press of Amer- ica in general, that for five years they have, most of them, did nothing to" boost cooperative marketing, and refused to listen to warnings of grafters. Now old business heads like Editors should he, could not help but see and know, how the farmers were being imposed upon by a cer— tain element, that controls most of farmers organizations. I have tried to expose the dangers through sev- eral farm papers for several years and only one has responded by print- ing my articles. I am not opposed to cooperative marketing, if rightly handled, if such a thing ,could be done, but as it is there are too many high-salaried, white-collared, hang- ers-on in most of our associations and exchanges and our editors of the American Press know it as well as .7 much better off/today it til y had heen left‘alone, all this ”proposed, ‘ . certificate to teach. e7 ‘ ;_ N as... m not alone, farmers would help and advise costs-~ money. ,Why, pay county agents to learn us to grd‘w more and bigger crops,. teach a lot of new beginners from city and lumber woOds to be farmers, ‘ even urge and spend more time teaching the greenhorn to farm, then they spend on the real farmers, why . do all this at taxpayers expense when we already grow too much and have too much tax to pay. so much food stuffs from foreign countries? Please find out and tell the American farmers just: how much beef and hides, are imported from South America and see if this is not the cause of’cheap beef inJJ‘aB. and also wool and pork. , a" short time ago that we hang "t‘of South America 4 billion dollars more than we exported to that country outside of coffee and tea. What farm pro- ducts do we need to buy from South America that will run up to 4 billion dollarsl—E. D. Post, Antrim County. CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS O the Editorz—The writer on consolidated schools speaks of “the little red school house” in the rural districts, must be ignor- ent of the rural school as there is no such school building. They speak Why import . and also j ' of the poor incompetent teachers in ‘ the rural schools. aware that as smart men as ever were in the halls of Congress got there education up to eighth grade in these rural schools and if the Now are they ' teachers in the rural schools were > so inefficient they could not get a ' to say against the consolidated schools when you get them. But the transportation is a problem to be seriously considered. To get the children up early and ready for school and walk one quarter to one half a mile to the corner at seven o'clock and wait there in the cold and storm, sometimes zero weather, for the carry-all to come, and then ride one hour and a half around the district gathering up the scholars and to the consolidated school is hard on the children for they often suffer with cold feet and get so cold be- ing so long on the way that they are not fit to work for half the fore- noon. Now of all articles I have ever read on consolidated schools I have never seen any thing on the transportation part. The consolidat- ed school is fine, but it is the get- ting there, that is a problem that should be well considered before go- ing into it.—M. B., Berrien County. "Tea or coffee?" "Coffee without cream.” “You'll have to take it .sir, without milk, sir; we’re out of cream.”—Puppet. Butteriield Talks At Elevator Exchange Meet SSURANCE that the co—opera- tive marketing work of the Michigan Agricultural College will be increased rather than dimin- ished under his administration was given by Dr. Kenyon L. Butterfield, new president of the college, who addressed the members of the Mich- igan Elevator Exchange at their fourth annual meeting held at Lans- ing, July 16th. After the address, the delegates adopted a resolution commending Dr. Butterfield for his stand on co- operative marketing and pledging the co—operation of the exchange. The meeting was attended by rep- resentatives of farmer’s elevator as- sociations holding membership in the exchange, representing 25,000 farmers. H. D. Horton, of Kinds, was elected president; L. C. Kam- lowske, of Washington, was reelect- ed vice—president, and Carl Martin. of Goldwater, secretary-treasurer. The exchange delegates voted to change their type of organization from a membership basis to a coop- erative stock company, issuing stock to member elevators in the amount of their membership fee. They au- thorized a patronage divident from the surplus of $10,000 to be distrib- uted in stock according to the amount of business done through the exchange. The total capital stock authorized was limited to $50,000. The delegates also authorized the, Elevator Exchange to an bscrihe OS0,000 In No.1: to Oh. m Elevator & Warehouse Co. at Port Huron where the Elevator Exchange is fostering a farmer controlled terminal elevator for bean picking and ,storage service at cooperative elevators. The delegates approved the Mich- igan State Farm Bureau’s plan for a reorganization on an endowment plan providing for the establish- ment of a trust fund for the per- manent support of the Farm Bu- reau. A comprehensive program of tax reform was adopted, including sup- port for a state income tax, a two- cent gasoline tax and a demand for a fair assessment ratio between city and farm real estate. , ' The Exchange expressed indebt- edness to the Michigan Agricultural College markets department for the marked success the Exchange had attained, and for aid in the estab- ‘ lishment of some 700 farmers' co- operative associations in Michigan. most of whom are identified with live great commodity marketing or- ganizations. The delegates re-elected four di- rectors for two-year periods; L. p. Kamlowske, of Washington; Carl Martin, of Goldwater; H. D. Rotten. of Kinds; John Nicholson, of Mar- iette. 0, L. Miner. 01 Downsize, lai- sowaseiectedtothsboardotdl— rectors. Other directors of the Ex- change are George McCain. e'l, Ypsi- gnfi; ,n. ‘R. Shisler, at H; W W . '3'“ I have nothing ’ f1 TELEPHONE receiver consists of a very small permanent mag- net around which is wrapped many turns of very fine wire and which then is mounted in a metal or composition case that fits against the ear, and mounted near the mag- net but not touching it there is a very thin piece of iron, called the vdiaphram, which vibrates with the varying intensity of the current that passes through the wire. It is this vibrating or the diaphragm that produces sound which you hear. - . Two receivers mounted on a band that fits over the head is called a . “headset." ,Owing to the delicacy with which the receivers are adjusted for the best results, it is absolutely necess- A ary that they be handled carefully. A'fall on the floor may riun them beyond repair. Receivers are made of varying re- sistances, such as 2000 or 3000 ohms. This means that the combin- ed pair of receivers, or headset, has wire wound on the magnets with the resistance as stated above. The higher the resistance the more sensitive 'the receivers are to weak signals, .though there is little if any increase in volume with normal- ly loud signals. Most radio outfits will operate two or more headsets. To obtain the best results the headsets should be alike, or at least have the same number of ohms resistance. It two or more sets are to be used together connect-them in series as shown by the accompanying figure. Some headsets are equipped with cords of two diiferent colors and with such headsets there is usually an accompanying slip telling you to be sure and connect the tip of a cer- tain color to the “positive" termin- al of the “B" battery. Where such directions are given they should be followed, for if they are connected wrong, the current, will weaken the magnets. If no such instructions . came with your headsets, then try ‘ is, reverse connecting them in both ways, that the connections and whichever connection gives the . loudest response is the way that they should remain. Do not remove the ear caps un- less absolutely necessary, as a very small dent or injury to the dia— 1' phragm will spoil the correct dis- tance that separates the diaphragm from the magnets. No dust should be permitted to get between the dia- phragm and the magnet: this will prevent the free Vibration of the draphragm and decrease the sensi- tivity. Most headsets when used on a radio set employing two or more stages of amplification will rattle and not produce as good or true tones as they do on the detector circuit alone. If you want volume, use receivers that are especially made for loud speaker use. This type of receiver has a greater separ- ation between the diaphragm and the magnet and also a different shaped interior sound chamber as well as mounting to prevent the rattle and to give great volume to the sound. LOUD SPEAKERS { '1‘ the present time there are on the market many types of loud speakers and loud speaker units. The loud speakers are equip- ped withsome kind of a horn, while the units are for use with phono- graphs or to be attached to a horn. The loud speaker consists of a special "type of receiver that will give a greater volume of sound than an ordinary radio receiver. It is generally of a sturdier construction, heavier and larger than ordinary re— ceivers and will only give good re- sults when attached to a horn of the proper shape and material. The loud speakers use the same type of unit as are sold separately for at- taching to a phonograph. Loud speaker horns should be made of a material that will not vi- brats at voice frequencies, or it will tend to rattle and distort the sound as received. Metal horns, unless made of heavy metal or non-vibrat- ‘ 13.1.8 metal. W111 tend to give a metal or “tin nanny" sound to the music assumptions aims «mimics or voice. . .Wood, fibre and the com- position horns seem to give the tru- est tones. _ The shape of the horn also affects the sound,_ as a straight tapered horn will not give the volume as one with a flaring bell on the end. The ‘fgoose neck” type of horn has been adapted by the better makers as giving the best results. Every eiiort has been made to make them of the same shape as the human throat in order to reproduce the voice in a natural manner. Nearly all of the better loud speaker units will give satisfaction on a radio set having two steps of amplification and using from 60 to 90 volts of "B” battery. Such units are made to fit the standard types of phonographs now on the market and will please as well as surprise you with the great volume that they will give you. To get the most out of your radio for yourself and friends or family, it will pay you to get a complete loud speaker unit for your phono— graph, and in this way you are re- lieved from the wearing of a head- set, which is tiresome after a short time, and all in a room can enjoy the music or talk. For great volume of sound, for use in schools, churches or halls there is made a special loud speaker that requires a. separate battery to excite it, and which will give forth such a large volume of sound that it is too loud ordinarily for use in the home. Where loud speakers are used there is a slightly greater demand placed on the “B" batteries used on the amplifier than where head sets are used. This will shorten the life of the “B” batteries 9. very little and should not be an obstable in the way of your having such a loud speaker for use with your set. .rv 1 mean“ this safer :91:st , » their radio troubles. I built first 'using' the Cockaday circuit. , Ide- ' L sired-this setfor its unusual select- amateurs with ivity, unlimited ”range of distance. ease of tuning, etc., as claimed by some, but mine has none of those fine qualities. As compared with the Haynes circuit which I have been us- ing it has no place. local stations, Detroit (loud and clear) while with the other we list- ened to Havana, Cuba, with pleas- ure. ‘ I am using Cockaday coil, Tett and Kimmel condensers in the stabilizer and secondary windings. They are not the makes called for but are good condensers of the vernier type and correct capacity (.0005). The other parts (Bradley Leak and rheostat) are correct capacity with the excep- tion of two variable condensers in the plate and grid circuits which I made myself and which I think are correct capacity. My tube is 301-A Cunningham. Aerial and ground are good. The aerial is 30 feet high, 150 feet in length, with 30 feet in- sulated lead-in. I put this set in a black painted box well shellaced in- side. Now can you offer any sug- gestions that will help me? What is your opinion of the Cockaday cir- cuit? Do you think my condensers are at fault? I would not mind the cost if I was sure the set would work right.—-—Laverne Wallace, Wayne County, Mich. IS is a difficulty that many have with this circuit. There is some- thing which we do not know that effects some circuits and not others in a certain locality. Strange that a properly made set of one kind of circuit will give good results, and a really better circuit will give poor- er results under exactly the same circumstances. This is sometimes due to inherent faults in the pieces of aparatus used; such as poor in- sulation, poor dielectric qualities and poor connections. It is possible that your grid and I get only our ‘ pie ‘ cuteness-s are of the wrong capacity, you may have a very'peor connection that holds» well but at high resistance. ‘ltfl would be well to trace each wire, resolder each connection as sometimes the flux used gets between the wires and makes a poor high-resistance joint. See that the contacts on the soket are clean and make good contact with the bulb. Try placing your rheostat in the opposite lead of the A battery from the one you now use. Change the B battery conenction so that the negative is connected to the positive of the A battery, if that way now try the negative to negative. ' (Sometimes one tube works better one way and another tube will work better the opposite.) Try each change, one at a time, and then test for results. Sometimes it is necessary to reverse the connec- tions of. the secondary winding, or the stabilizer winding. Try this first as it seems possible that his may be your whole trouble. The “Cockaday" circuit has prov- ed good for some, but like most cir- cuits the operator must get accust- omed to it in order to get the best results. Let me hear what results you have after trying some of these suggestions. RADIO PROGRAMS Station KYW, Chicago. Central standard time 8:20. Wave length 536 meters. August 19—“What’s Doing in Illinois," by H. C. Butcher, Director of Information, Illinois Agricultural Association. “Keynoters,” by H. F. Jones, Executive Secretary, No. tional Poultry, Butter and Egg As- sociation. August 22—“Club Work, Farm Prosperity and Business," by Frank B. White, Agricultural Advertisers' Service. “A View of the Live Stock Situation,” by D. C. Waterman, Ed- itorial Staff of Orange Judd Illinois Farmer. {firmer “ coon MANY cars have come into our part of the country dur- ing the past two years equipped with Fisk tires. “ Their owners tell me that they are getting un- usual service from them; dealers say they are made by one o! the largest and most reputable concerns in the business; from ex- perience I know for our roads it is the best tire I have ever used.” , ml MARK almu... Pat. 0". 4 éeiiun‘ued m ‘ 15,31,153“; her face and looked up wildly, half ‘,' defiantly. . “Mr. Smith, you know Fred. You liked him didn’t you? He isn’t bad and wicked, is be? And they Can’t shut him up if— “if we pay it back—all of it that he took? They won’t take my boy—to prison?” “To prison—Fred!" “Yes, I know, I know." Impatiently she jerked off the rich coat and tossed it into his arms; then she dropped into the chair again and fell to wringing her hands. “Oh, What shall I do, what shall I do?" “Oh, I don’t know—I don’t know,” moaned the woman, flinging herself into- a chair. “There can’t anybody do anything, I s’pose; but I’ve got to have somebody. I can’t stay there in that house—I can’t .—-«I can’t—I can’t !” Mr. Smith sprang to his feet and has- tened toward her. “Why, Mrs. Blaisdell, what is it? No, she isn’t here. I’m so sorry! Can’t I do :——anything?” “No, no, of course not. And you shan’t,” soothed the man. “And she’ll be here soon, I’m sure—Miss Maggie will. But justdet me help you off with your things," he urged, somewhat awkwardly trying to unfasten her heavy wraps. "You’ll be so {warm here.” . ’ “But what is it?” stammered Mr. Smith helplessly. “Can’t I do—something? Can’t I send for—for your husband?” At the mention of her husband, Mrs. Blaisdell fell to weeping afresh. “No, no! He's gone—to Fred. you know." “To s—Fred?” “Yes, yes, that’s what’s the matter. 0h, . Fred, Fred, my boy!” “Fred! Oh, Mrs. Blaisdell, I’m so sorry! But what—is it?” At the look of horror on Mr. Smith’s if face, she began to wring her hands again. “You don’t know, of course. I’ll have to tell you—I’ll have to,” she moaned. “But my dear woman,—not unless you Want to.” “I do want to—I do want to! I’ve got to talk—to somebody. It’s this way.” With a visible effort she calmed herself a little and forced herself to talk more coherently. “We got a letter from Fred It came this morning. money—quick. He wanted seven hundred dollars and forty-two cents. He said he’d got to have it—if he didn’t, he‘d go and kill himself. He said he’d spent all of his allowance, every cent, and that’s what made him take it—this other money, in the first place." “You mean—money that didn’t belong to him?” Mr. Smith’s voice was a little stern. “Yes; but you mustn’t blame him, you . mustn’t blame him, Mr. Smith. He said he owed it. It was a—debt of honor, Those were his very words. “Oh! A debt of honor, was it?” Mr. Smith’s lips cametogether grimly. “Yes; and—~Oh, Maggie, Maggie, what shall I do? What shall I do ?" she broke off wildly, leaping to her feet as Miss Maggie pushed open the door and hurried in He wanted some “Yes, I know. Don’t worry. We’ll find something to do.” Miss Maggie, white- faced, but with a cheery smile, was throw- ing off her heavy coat and her hat. A moment later she came over and took Mrs. Hattie’s trembling hands in both her own. “Now, first, tell me all about it, dear.” “You know, then?” “01in a little,” answered Miss Maggie, gently pushing the other back into her chair. “I met Frank. Jim telephoned him something, just before he left. But I want the whole story. Now, what is it ?” “I was just telling Mr. Smith.” She began to wring her hands again, but Miss Maggie caught and held them firmly. “You see, Fred, he was treasurer of some club, or society, or something; and and he— he needed some money to-—pay a man, and he took that—the money that be— longed to the club, you know, and he thought he could pay it back, little by little. But something happened—~I don’t know what—a new treasurer, or some: thing: anyhow, it was going to be found out-that he‘d taken it. It was going to- be found out to—morrow, and so he wrote the letter to his father. And Jim‘s gone. But he looked so—oh, I never saw him look so white and terrible. And I’m so afraid—of what he’ll do—to Fred. My boy—my boy i” ‘ “Is Jim going to give him the money?” asked Miss Maggie. “Yes, oh, yes. Jim drew it out of the bank. Fred Said he must have cash. And he’s going to give it to him. Oh, they can’t shut him up——they can’t send ‘him to prison now, can they?" "Hush, dear! No, they won’t send him to prison. If Jim has gone with the money, Fred will pay it back and no- body will know it. But, Hattie, Fred did it, just the same.” “I—I know it.” “And, Hattie, don’t you see? will have to be done. where all this is leading? gambling, hasn’t he?” “I’m—I'm afraid so.” “And you know he drinks.” “Y—yes. But he isn’t going to, more. He said he wasn't. He wrote a beautiful letter. He said if his father would help him out of this scrape, he’d never get into another one, and he’d show him how much he appreciated it.” “Good! I’m glad to hear that.” cried Something Don’t you see Fred has been any . Li; w’ginan'dmpped herh'ands from A Miss Maggie. yet." "Of course 'he will!" Mr. Smith, over at the window, blew his nose vigorously. Mr. Smith had not sat down since Miss Maggie’s entrance. He had crossed to the window,-and had stood looking out—at nothing—all through Mrs. Hattie’s story. “You do think he will, don’t you?” choked Mrs. Hattie, turning from one to the other pitteously. “He said he was ashamed of himself: that this thing had been an awful lesson to him, and he promised—oh, he promised a lot of things, if Jim would only go up and help him out of this. He'd never, never have to again. But he will, I know he will, if that Gay- lord fellow stays there. The whole thing was his fault—I know it was. I hate him! I hate the whole family!" “Why, Hattie, I thought you liked them !" “I don’t. They’re mean, stuck-up things, and they snulb me awfully. Don’t you sup- pose I know when I’m being snubbed? And that Gaylord girl—she’s just as bad, and she’s making my Bessie just like her. I got Bess into the same school with her, you know, and I was so proud and happy. But I’m not—any longer. Why, my Bess, my own daughter, actually looks down on us. She’s ashamed of her own father and mother—and she shows it. And it’s that Gaylord girl that’s done it, too, I believe. I thought 1—1 was training my daughter to be a lady; but I never meant to train her to look “He'll come out all right, down on——on her own mother!" “I’m afraid Bessie—needs something of a lesson commented Miss Maggie tersely. “But Bessie will be older, one of these days, Hattie, and then she’ll— know more." “But that’s what I’ve been trying to teach her—‘more,’ something more all the time, Maggie” sighed Mrs. Hattie, wiping her eyes. “And I’ve tried to remember and «call her Elizabeth, too—Abut I can’t. But, somehow, to-day, nothing seems of any use, any way. And even if she learns more and more, I don’t see as it’s going to do any good. I haven’t got any friends now. I’m not fine enough yet, it seems, for Mrs. Gaylord and all that crowd. They don’t want me among them and they show it. And all my old friends are so envious and jealous since the money came that they don’t want me, and they show it; so I don’t feel comfortable anywhere.” “Never mind, just stop trying to live as you think other folks want you to live, and live as you want to, for a while.” Mrs. Hattie smiled faintly, wiped her eyes again, and got to her feet. You talk just like Jim., He’s always saying that.” “Well, just try it,” smiled Miss Maggie, helping her visitor into the luxurious fur coat. “You’ve no idea how much more comfort you‘ll take.” “\Vould 1? Mrs. Hattie’s eyes were wistful, but almost instantly they showed an alert gleam of anger. “Well, anyhow, I’m not going to try to do what those Gaylords do any longer. And—and you’re sure Fred won’t have to go to prison?” “I’m very sure,” nodded Miss Maggie. “All right, then. I can go home now with some comfort. You always make me feel better, Maggie, and you, too, Mr. Smith. I’m much obliged to you. Good- b§'e.” “Good-bye,” said Mr. Smith- - county-tum Mills-cement , fortunate affair of Fred’s?" RORTER M “Good-bye,” said Miss Maggie. “Now, go home and go to bed, and don’t worry any more or you’ll have one of your headaches.” As the door closed behind her visitor, Miss Maggie turned and sank into a chair. She looked worn and white, and utterly Weary. “I hope she won’t meet Frank or Jane anywhere.” She sighed profoundly. “Why? What do you mean? Do you think they’d blame her—about this un-. Miss Maggie sighed again. ’ “I wasn’t thinking of that. I was thinking of another matter. I just came from Frank’s, and—” “Yes?” Something in her face sent a questioning frown to Mr. Smith’s own countenance. ' “Do you remember hearing Flora say that Jane had bought a lot of the Ben- son gold—mine stock?” cheS." “Well, Benson has failed; and they’ve just found out that that old gold-mine stock is worth—about two cents on a dollar." . “Two cents! And how much—” “About forty thousand dollars,” Miss Maggie wearily. Mr. .Smith sat down. “Well, I’ll be—” He did not finish his sentence. CHAPTER XX Frankenstein: Being a. letter from John Smith to Edward D. Norton, Attorney at Law My Dear Nedz—Wasn’t there a story written once about a fellow who created some sort of a machine man without any soul that raised the very dickens and all said for him? Frank—Frankenstein ?—I guess that was it. Well, I’ve created a Frank- enstein creature——and I’m dead up against it to know what to do with him. Ned, what in Heaven’s name am I going to do with Mr. John Smith? Mr. John Smith, let me tell you, is a very healthy, persistent, insistent, important person, with many kind friends, a definite position in the world, and no small de- gree of influence. \Vorse yet (now pre- pare for a stunning blow, Nedl), Mr. Smith has been so inconsiderate as to fall in love. Yes, he has. And he has fallen in love as absolutely and as idiot- ically as if he (were twenty—one instead of fifty-two. Now, will you kindly tell me how Mr. John Smith is going to fade away into nothingness? And, even if he finds a. way to do that, shall he, before fading, pop the question for Mr. Stanley G. Fulton, or shall he trust to Mr. Stanley rG. Fulton’s being able to win for himself the love Mr. John Smith fondly hopes is his? Seriously, joking aside, I’m afraid I’ve made a mess of things, not only for my- self, but for everybody else. First, any own future. I’ll spare you rhapsodies, Ned. They say, anyway, that there’s no fool like an old fool. But I will admit that that future looks very dark to me if I am not to have the com- panionship of the little woman, Maggie Duff. Oh, yes, it’s “Poor Maggie.” You’ve probably guessed as much. As for Miss .Maggie herself, perhaps it’s conceited, but I believe she’s not entirely indifferent to Mr. John Smith. How she'll like 'Mr. Stanley G. Fulton I have my doubts; but, alas! I have no doubts whatever as to what her opinion will be of Mr. Stanley G. Fulton’s masquerading as Mr. John OUR READERS’ NEW BUILDINGS Ilave you built any un-to—datc farm buildings lately? building and we will print it in th is new department. distant neighbors are (icing to change the scenery. farmer decide the type of house, or b is now up well. am, or other buildings he desires to put 11 . aipeiiraiice of your building and will want. the plan of It. Do not send the negative, just a good print. 011 have send us a picture of the new It {Ell}, show the M. B. 11)“. rgadciis \Ehat their ’ ‘ m a e o e And, meidently, you ay c He may like the some D . . Kodak pictures are all right if the details ARN ON FARM 0F LOUIS SCHERLITZ/l’l‘ SEARS, MIOHIGAN “Herlglgz‘IaBpictui-e of my barn I built last year,” writes Louis Sclierlitz of Sears, Mich. and my two boys, age 17 and 19, an hired help was only about $60. ‘ l tla 1,000, but I cut some of the timbers on my farm “This barn cost ess | n 3 d I done most of the work; This is a besement burn on an 8 foot concrete wall in fact our bill for: and we have room in the basement for 12 cows, 6 horses and three box stalls tor' CO‘VS. mom on hath Aidan. d has a. 16-foot drive in the center with a: This ham 1B gtfigitnbitfrgjfefnfsfm 'watAr \nnflnI-Jhn ,anmosuih in tin! mu-" , were: one -of it! It anfi Stan . myth .5 911‘ got "0 his hands to in t himseltwrlght with her, either.“ But thing he can be sure of. at least; if she. does care for Mr. money that was the bait. Poor Maggie! (There! you see already I have adopted the Hillerton vernacular.) But I fear Miss Maggie is indeed “poor" now. She has had several letters that I don’t like the looks of and a call from a villainous-looking man from Boston—one of your craft, I believe (begging your pardon). I think she’s lost some money, and I don’t believe she had any extra to lose. She’s as proud as Lucifer, how- ever, and she's determined no one shall find out she's lost any money, so her laugh is gayer than ever. But I know, just the same. I can hear something in her voice that isn’t laughter. Jove! Ned, what a mess I have made I feel more than ever now like the boy with his ear to the keyhole. These people are my friends—or, rather, they are Mr. John Smith’s friends. As for being mine—who am I, Smith. or Fulton? Will they be Fulton’s friends, after they find he is John Smith? Will they be Smith’s friends, even after they find he is Fulton? Pleasant position I am in! What? Oh, yes, I can hear you say that it serves me right, and that you warned me, and that I was deaf to all remon- strances. It does. You did. I was. Now, we'll waste no more time on that. I’ve admitted all you could say. I’ve acknow~ ledged my error, and my transgression is ever before me. I built the box, I walked into it, and I deliberately shut the cover down. But now I want to get out. I’ve got to get out—some way. I can't spend the rest of my natural existence as John Smith, hunting Blaisdell data—though sometimes I think I'd be willing to, if it’s the only way to stay with Miss Maggie. I tell you, that little woman can make a home out of— ' But I couldn’t stay with Miss Maggie. John Smith wouldn’t have money enough to pay his board, to say nothing of in- viting Miss Maggie to board with him, would he? The opening of Mr. Stanley G. Fulton’s last will and testament on the first day of next November will ef- fectually out off Mr. John Smith’s source of income. There is no provision in the will for Mr. John Smith. Smith would have to go to work. I don't think he’d like that. By the way, I wonder: do you suppose John Smith could earn—his salt, if he was hard put to it? Very plainly, then, something has got to be done about getting John Smith to fade away, and Stanley G. Fulton to appear before next November. - . And I had thought it would be so easy! Early this summer John Smith was to pack up his Blaisdell data, bid a pleasant adieu to Hillerton, and betake himself to South America. In due course, after a short trip to some obscure Inca city, or down some little-known river, Mr. Stanley G. Fulton would arrive at some South American hotel from the interior, and would take immediate passage for the States, reaching Chicago long before No- Vember first. There would be a slight flurry, of course, and a few annoying interviews and write—ups; but Mr. Stanley G. Fulton always was known to keep his affairs to himself pretty well, and the matter would soon be put down as merely another of the inulti-millionaire’s eccentricities. The whole thing would then be all over, and well over. But—nowhere had there been taken into consideration the possibilities of—a Maggie Duff. And now, to me, that same Maggie Duff is the only thing worth considering—«anywhere. .So there you are! And even after all this, I haven’t ac complished what I set out to do—that is, find the future possessor of the Fulton, millions (unless Miss Maggie—«bless her! ———says “yes.” And even then, some one will have to have them after us). I have found out one thing, though. As con- ditions are now, I should not want either Frank, or James, or Flora to have them -—-not unless the millions could bring them more happiness than these hundred thousand apiece have brought. Honest, Ned, that miserable money has made more—But, never mind. It’s too long a story to write. I’ll tell you when I see youi~if I ever do see you. There’s still the possibility, you know, that Mr. Stanley G. Fulton is lost in darkest South America, and of course John Smith can go to work! I believe I won’t sign my name—I haven‘t got any name—that I feel really belongs to me now. Still I might—yes, I will sign it “Frankenstein.” CHAPTER XXI Sympatliies Misplaced The first time Mr. Smith saw Frank Blaisdell, after Miss Maggie’s news of the forty—thousand-dollar loss, he tried some- what awkwardly, to express his interest and sympathy. But Frank Blaisdell cut him short. . “That’s all right, and I thank you,” he cried heartily. “And I know most folks would think losing forty thousand dollars was about as bad as it could be. Jane, now, is all worked up over it; can’t sleep nights, and has gone back to turning down the gas and eating sour cream so’s to save and help make it up. But me— I call it the best thing that ever 118.1)! pened." “Well, really,” laughed Mr. Smith; “I’m sure that's a very delightful way to look at it—lf you can.” - y (Continued in Aug. 30th issue.) Jehn ‘ Smith, it wasn’t Mn. Stanley G. Fulton's ‘ -M‘w... ll 1 i “AHA—IAA‘AQ O Hdfi'd :‘E'd d B'L'iA'r-i Navarre-1m l ,2) 1‘ . i l I ll . us out of war. A SERMON Br REV. DAVID F. WARNER .'1 ' \ ‘ TEXT: “Ye have heard it was i said, An eye for an eye, and a. l tooth for a tooth: but I say un- . to you, Resist not him that is~ l evil: but whosoever smiteth' l thee on thy right cheek, turn to ' him the other also.” Matthew 5:38, 39. ‘ HAT saith the law? Well, ye , have heard that Moses said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” As God’s legis- lator he was declaring the legal :punishment due the evil deer. Con- {stituted legal authority was to bring punishment upon law-break- ers that the community might be protected. And this will always at- tach to the power of the state. So, the law of Moses was a friend to mankind. It was stern; and aimed, also, to bring men to see wrong-do- ing and emphasize the wrong of the doing. Then its work was done. Its mission was to bring men to Jesus’ way which was creative and regen- erative. But we are not appreciating the responsibilities and “privileges of Christ’s way of life. Under the old law, social violations were settled by public judges. Under the New, Jesus makes each individual his own judge. As, “If thine hand of— fend thee, cut it off” yourself. It is a far step from the old to the New; from law to Grace; and from bond— age to Freedom, where a personal religion of new and brotherly de— sires works unchecked. “Resist not his that is evil,” for example, is a principle that Jesus worked out in life and on the Cross, in anticipa— tion of teaching men such a spirit of brotherhood that the law against retaliating Will not be broken. Some folks have been Willing to make Jesus a drudge to carry their sins and sorrows, but have refused to take delight in his ways, which are social and unselfish. Here are recent words from a prominent Christian prophet: “I fling this out as a challange to the princes and leaders of the earth, to captains and leaders of labor and industry, to the bosses of political parties, old and , new, to presidents'and governor, to the average man: Unless and until this Nation and this World of ours comes to Jesus’ about life, there will be hatred, sus— picions, jealousies, strifes, and wars.” Christian grace rises so far above Mosaic Law that retaliation and all selfish resistance is swept away en- tirely. And the great question is not, “An I right in holding to a re- ligion of non—resistance?” But, “Am I obeying the way of Christ?” To resist not evil means as indicated in the illustrations of the text and context. Turning the other cheek and going the second mile, is not only non-resistance, but it is meet- ing resistance with love. Jesus is here advancing to the greatest thing in the 'world, LOVE. “Love your en- emies,” saith he. This Love does not resist, but “beareth all things.” And bless God, many individuals to- day, both known and unknown, are living this miracle way. But the world is yet waiting for the nation that will be used of God to form its ideals and live its life around Love. The disposition that does not nurse or coddle the desire to hurt or seek revenge, is that which keeps War is entirely for— eign the ethical teaching of Christ. It is time we are checking up on some of this modern philos- ophy of life. Jesus is saying that retaliation Will not save men’s souls or vindicate social righteousness. “My kingdom is not of this world or else would my servants fight.” The kingdom of God is to brought about by the moral resistance of love and kindness. Nothing else can pro- duce character in an individual or righteousness in a nation. A daily paper says, “Marching thousands (of soldiers) show love for their native land.” We hope so. But, how be it, that the martial Spirit is not necessarily synonymous with‘ ‘patriotism. And the writer be- V to . lieves that the militaristic temper is F in obvious contradiction to the tem- per of Christ; and he here avers, that the call by our Secretary of War, for a national Mobilization Day next September, is seriously a. . . way of thinking disturbing to the present day efiorts of churches and Christain forces to bring about the outlawry of war. When will we come to admire that sovereignty bf Christain conscience that‘ does not truckle to Mars, that religion that does not yield to worldly policy, and that passion to put to work the teachings of the Nazerene, and suffer and bear, until they are realized in a large and uni— versal sense? - Jesus Christ intends that the law of non-resistance shall hold, not only between men as individuals, but between men as groups or na— tions. This is comprehended in “Make disciples of all nations,” and “he made of one every nation of men to dWell on the face of the earth.” We shall always believe that His Gospel is to ‘Christianize and unify the nations. This ideal is, even now, the heart cry of the world. The pending resolution to outlaw war, introduced in the Unit- ed States Senate by Senator Borah, 'may be timed to meet this cry. Let Christian America get back of it. Men Who are deliberately opposed to such political organization against war, are blind to the spiritual tend- ency of world events; but above all to the moral purposes of God Which are eternal and fixed. With the confusion of peoples and issues to- day, God has pleased to entangle us that We might have the responsibil— ity and high privilege of pointing the way out, of setting to work the rule of non-militarism among na— tions. Then, the writer would urge our church power to the support of the Borah resolution. This resolu— tion lies before me on my desk and I find it contains some vital princi— ples. Here is one: “Further use of war as an institution for the settle- ment of international disputes, shall be abolished.” Here is another: “Every nation should by agreement or treaty, bind itself to indict and punish its own international war breeders, or instigators and War profiteers.” The resolution is reas— onable in its demands and pacifying in spirit, and why not return men to the Senate who will support it? Again, a few more intimate words. We are to believe that resisting the evil-deer is most effectually done thru not resisting. This acts like “coals of fire upon the head." We don’t know just how it works, but it must start up a flame of fire that burns up hatred and malice. This turning the other cheek calmly takes the threat out of the other fellow‘s fist. And you will recall that Jesus in the hands of his foes, was as “a lamb led to the slaughter, yet he opened not his mouth,” only to say, “Father forgive.” We are to believe that such a reality of love and non-retaliation is to become ir- resistible in its power to cover the earth. But ought we never to resist? Well, be sure any limit is found in the principle itself, which involves doing good to others. Physical rc- sistantc which does the enemy good and protects the helpless and inno- cent, would seem to be permissible, But any resistance must not run to killing. Now, the challange is, to bring our hearts under dominion to this gentle teaching. It is the Golden Rule way of living, and workable on the part of individuals or nations as they yield to the non—violence of Christain brotherhood. It assumes a Christianity, not static or at ease with itself; but dynamic and cap- able of exalting peace and good-will toward men. BE KINDLY AFFECTIONED one to another with brotherly love; in hon~ our [preferring one another; recom— tpense to no man evil for evil. Pro« vide things honest in the sight of all :men. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil With good—Romans 12:10, 17, 21. * a: * THOU ART MY LAMP, O Lord: and the Lord Will lighten my darkness. For by Thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a. wall.-——2 Samuel 22:29, 30. an ‘ at a: ‘ TRUST IN THE LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine OWn understanding—Proverbs 3:5. J PICTURES YOU'LL PRIZE Kodak of #26 F oz'r Fair time means vacation time to you and your family, and that means Kodak pictures as a matter of course. Every— body takes a Kodak on vacation. You’ll make pictures of the picnic along the roadside, of prize stock at the fair grounds, of your own entries in county or state competitions. Then as the years go by, the prints in your Kodak album bring back the fun you had. 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FOUR weeks in France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and England do not entitle one to pass an expert opinion on European condi- tions that may be considered infallible and yet we might be quite as well qualified to pass judgment as are many of the senators who re- turn from their junkets as members of so-called . investigating committees. We arrived in France on the twentieth of J une ; and left England on the twenty-third of July and, in a nutshell, we were impressed by the , following facts which we may allude to more fully in future issues: All of the countries mentioned appear prosper- ous. England alone has a great unemployment problem, and the resulting unrest she is erron- eously trying to appease with a weekly “dole" that is building only an army of beggars. Bel- gium is practically rebuilt and is now engaged in ‘ doubling her forts along the German border to preclude an invasion, which they assume must come again. France in attempting to extract “the pound of flesh” has lost the support of . England and the sympathy of America. Belgium . is playing a minor part in this game France has so stubbornly attempted. Only the happy solu- tion which seems to have attended the meeting just held in London to consider the Dawes plan could have prevented France from plunging headlong over the abyss of another great war. in which, who knows, but what Germany would have had the resources of Russia, that great enigma ‘ nation of the north, for her own. The people of England are determined to win I: the friendship of the United States even at the ' cost of some of their self-esteem, knowing that 1 the two great English speaking nations thus united would stand like Gibralter against the rest of the world. No American in England this summer can fail to be impressed with this fact and his visit to the great British Empire exposi- tion at Wembley will convince him that such a merger of resources would not be one-sided. With the exceptions of France and Belgium, where the world’s attitude towards them is re- flected in the low rate of their exchange, the dol- lar is worth little more in Europe than it is here. Germany has turned a handspring with her do— flated currency that has placed it, almost over- night, where is stood in 1914. We paid two Renten marks, each worth 25 cents in U. S. cur- rency, for two peaches in Cologne-on—the-Rhine! We went over on the "Leviathan," the world’s largest passenger vessel, which, taken from the Germans, carried more than a million troops to France during the war. We came back on the “George Washington," which bore the same name when she was under the German flag and the ship that proudly carried out late President on his great and ill-fated crusade. Both ships are well patronized by Americans. It seemed good to see an American flag flying on the breeze and to know that the men who manned them were U. 8. naval reserve omcers ready to place these great ships in transport service in time of war. With the great markets in Germany and elsewhere for our livestock and foodstuffs open- ed again. the farmers of America will have some- thing to be thankful for, in the fleet of American . vessels now available, thanks to the farsighted . tw° Win" 1: vy°uilwh01feed this pagans his» Wis ‘ of o ested, have more to say about European condi: tions in other issues, and. for a detailed story of the trip made by our group of agricultural edit- ors and publishers, we have arranged for a ser- ies of articles by Mr. Floyd Flood, a thoroughly trained farmer and breeder, to begin in the next issue, with his observations at the Royal Stock Show in England. THE GRAIN MARKETING COMPANY WE will watch with more than passing interest t he actions of the Grain Marketing Com- pany, that, twenty-six million dollar baby, to which the American Farm Bureau Federation has just given birth. The company went into operation on August first with branches at Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, New York, Buffalo, Norfolk, Fort Worth, Galveston, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee, its of- ficers are Gray Silver, Martinsburg, West Virginia, president; Harry L. Keefe, Walthill, Nebraska, first vice-president; G. M. Dyer, Spencer, Iowa, second vice-president; and John W. Coverdale, Ames, Iowa, secretary-treasurer. The man named are not unknown to the farmers cf the United States and bear good repu- tations in every instance, so far as we know. The question is whether they have had the ex- perience which will enable them to direct the marketing operations of a company which in potential capitalization rivals some of the largest and best known corporations in the United States. The opponents of the present plan claim that there has been a large shrinkage in the valuation of the propertiies which the new com. pany proposed to take over, and that this is simply a scheme to unload some unprofitable property on the farmers of the United States who have been working so diligently the past two decades to improve their marketing facilities. The present plan is a stupendous one and we do not wish to be understood as in the least criticis- ing the methods of the present organization or the almost Eutopian aim which its founders have set as its ultimate goal. We are charitable and have supported every cooperative proposition which has been presented to the farmer, but we must admit that the present one appals us a little. We feel like the man on the sidewalk in front of the Woolworth building being asked how he likes the building. We will have to get off at a per- spective of several months before we will be able to give a true picture for the benefit of our readers, and we have an idea that most of the sound thinking business farmers in Michigan will harbor very much the same idea. FARMERS’ DAY AT M. A. C. VERY year the number of farmers who at- tend Farmers’ Day at M. A. C. see a new record set, and the Seventh Annual affair held last week was no exception. This is a good sign. It proves that farmers have come to see that there is something more in farm life than the mere gathering together of more acres and more dollars, which usually bring with them more trouble to the farmer and his family. We have no time for the loafer but we do ad- mire the man who with the help of his family works a few hours extra several days in advance and then hitches up his automobile and takes the whole crowd to the Farmers’ Day, picnic, fair or Whatever it is that will contribute to their lives and well being. The program prepared for FarmersI Day at Lansing, this year, was one of the best that the college has ever given for the benefit of its guests, and a great deal of credit is due to the active heads of the college for their good work and painstaking plans for the success of this year’s big day. It would have been worth your while to have seen the big crowd gathered around the “Old Timers’ Mowing Contest,” and the beam ,of satis- faction on the face of the Winner was worth a trip all the way to Lansing to see. That there is more occasion for smiles in the present indication of farm prices and farm crops was easily seen in the faces of men and women who came from farms in all parts of Michigan. They had something to be thankful for, espec- ially when they passed groups of factory work- ers standing before the employment windows in Lansing, looking for “a job.” MASSACHUSETIS’ LOSS OUR GAIN HAT the Massachusetts Agricultural College is genuinely sorry to lose Kenyon L. Butter- field, who comes to the Michigan Agricul- tural College, as president September first, was expressed by Director John B. Willard on the oc- casion of Dr. Butterfleld's public retiral. “It is / oftho foremost egrl \ , turaI associations, whole philosophy of country life. , He spoke of “the pennanen‘t abiding probleum farmers must always face." Of all these problems, the one he most emphasized was the lack of study and dis- cussion among rural groups. He deplored the decay of the lyceum and the old—fashioned vill- age store debating society. “There is a tendency today not to participate in the debate that draws ' out the individual. We have somebody else think for us and talk for us. The whole tend- ency of the times is to be so busy that we get only second-hand fragments of discussion.” He saw this lack of study and discussion most ap- parent among farm people. The farmers' political activity he evidently re- gards as not deeply significant, because, he ex- plained, all the farmers cannot come together in a political party; farm people in different sec- : tions have interests as diverse as industrial and mercantile groups. But he believed the farm group could and ought to unite on certain polit- ical fundamentals. The chief of these was their attitude toward the peace of the world. “I doubt if any group of people in'the world is as set in the interests of world peace as the farm- ers. Yet I doubt if in any other group peace problems are as little discussed. “If the farmers and the college people do not look out it will not be long before the labor group in this country will be the best educated group in America; because the forum idea of study and debate is taking hold in this group as in no other. It is a development that ought to be at the root of interest in a democracy.” Dr. Butterfleld’s remarks may or may not be as applicable to Michigan as they are to Massa- chusetts; this fact he will soon have an oppor- tunity to determine. Awfully sorry, Massa- chusets, but we need Kenyon at home now! A MASTER STROKE HIS week we are going to hand the palm to T our good friend A. B. Cook, master of the state grange, who in a newspaper report states that if the Wayne County automobile in- terests .initiate a referendum on the proposed two-cent gasoline tax, he will for the Grange init- iate a referendum for a three-cent tax! It is pretty well admitted that the gasoline tax in Michigan is an assured fact, and according to Mr. .Cook the opponents are initiating a referen- dum simply to stall for time, so he proposes to retaliate by getting an even larger tax than was first proposed and we have no doubt but that will be as easy to get three as two cents per gallon. » We have always admired friend Cook but we never knew he had so much sagacity. His pres- ent ruse would do credit to a Yankee lawyer and from Connecticut, too! LI V ESTOCK PRODUCERS W IN, ' CCORDING to a report just published for the first six months of the year, 1924, livestock producers at the various terminal markets have shown a saving to members of nearly ,$400,- 000.00. In the Chicago market alone more than $13,000,000 worth of livestock was handled and at St. Paul nearly $12,000,000. Where are those men who said cooperation never could succeed in the United States? Coopera- tion will always succeed When the men behind it are honest and efficient and the individual members stick to it through thick and thin. Gradually the farmers of this country are learning this fact! FAREWELL, PITTSBURGH PLUS! HE old “Pittsburgh Plus” hoax has gone down to an inglorious defeat and the farm- ers of America pray that it may never be re-established no matter what the conditions were that forced it on an unsuspecting public. Statisticians claim that the abolishment by the Federal Trade Commission of this freight" item will save the farmers in the middle west “0,000,000.00, and make Gary, Indiana, the center of the steel industry in America. Michigan alone it is estimated will save $2.- 000,000.00 each year; Illinois, $3,500,000.000; Wisconsin, $3,000,000.00: Indiana, $2,600,000.- 00; Minnesota, $2,500,000.00, and most of this is represented in the added cost of freight on all articles .nanufactured of. steel which the farm— er uses in his business. This is a step in therlght direction and one which has taken the united effort of the agricul- organisations and press to deal the final blow. It is all over new and you, should begin to feel the edectsof it when ’9“ buy machinery. . - _ 7 ,. a. ’25 , * Into his medicine" Dr. sandman packed his ' “ficticious ‘ - W‘ifn / l ‘ Whine y. PLEASE SIGN YOUR COMPLETE “NAME AND ADDRESS > _ our June'éi'lth issue -I* wrote about your signing your com- plete name and address. when writing to us or sending in your subscription-"Our circulation mana- ger just told me that he continues to receive letters with ‘ only the name signed. Some times he is able to get the post office address from the envelop and again other times it is not printed clear enough to be readable—and then the subscriber wonders why he doesn’t get his paper, while we wonder if he will write in so that we can get his full address to send him his Busrmlzss Farms. Please remember we want YOUR COMPLETE NAME AND ADDRESS and sign it plainly. LOOK OUT FOR PICTURE EN- IJARGEMZENT SHARKS HE picture enlargement sharks have been letting the farmers of Michigan alone since we ex- posed them and we heard nothing about them for quite a while but now we are getting reports from dif- ferent parts of the state that they are back again and up to their old tricks. They come to your door and ask if you have a photograph of a child or relative that you would like to preserve. They try to learn from your neighbor if you have lost through death a child or a close relative and when they call they ask you for a photograph of the child or relative and then proceed to work on your sympathy. You bring the photograph and they be- come enthusiastic over the possibil- ities of enlarging it and show you how their company enlarged one for Mr. So-and-so “and the‘photo- graph wasn’t near as good as the one you have.” The picture is in a frame and they promise to enlarge your photograph “just like this one" and deliver it to you for a fix- ed amount. usually ranging from $3 to $5. . You are asked to sign an agree- ment, which, while it does not bind you to accepta picture. in a frame, it does obligate you to pay for the enlargement. When delivery is made you find they have placed the picture in a frame and you are ask- ed to pay a fancy price for the frame. The price for the frame ranges from $15 to $3; if the pur- chaser will pay the top price all right but if he'will not they reduce the price and even at $3 they make money on it. -' If one of these agents calls at your house sic the dog on to him. If you want to have a photograph enlarged go to a reliable photo- grapher in the nearest town and have the work done properly and at an honest price. OFFICERS OF CHICAGO WHOLE- SALE SEED COMPANY INDIC'I‘ED “I woud like to know if you could help me out with a deal I had last winter and spring with a mail order seed house. It was the Chicago Wholesale Seed Company. They wanted me to represent them in my territory and take orders for grass seed. In the deal I gave them my order for clover seed amounting to $45.00 and about $35.00 worth of this seed wasn’t fit to sow. I had it retested and one lot was condemn- ed for sale in this state. I wrote them about it and they have not Th0 purpose of this department is to 970' toot our subscribers from fraudulent deellnlll er unfair treatment by persons or concerns at a lstance. In every case we will do our best to make a cutie! settlement or force action. for which no charge for our services will ever be made, providing: lip—The claim la mode by a paid-up sub- ewiber to The Business Farmer. 2.—-The claim is not more than 0 mos. old. 8.——The claim is not local or between Doo- le within our dista i should be settled at first hand and not it Address all letters, giving full particulars. amounts. dates. etc». enclosing also your ad- dress lahel fresh the front cover of any issue to prove that you are a paid-up subscriber. THE BUSINESS FARMER. Collection Box It. clement. Mich. R Endi Au ust 8 1824 Total num er claim":I Mod“.-. ' ' . ......_......... 28 Amnt Inv ed ................. «$24,108.97 Total number oielms settled ................ 2020 Amount Secured .. ................... » ...:.522,923.'as ’made me any reply about the seed. They owe me $9.00 commission and say they haven’t the money to pay up all their debts and want to give a note for 2 years at 7% interest. They sent a note to be filled out and I wrote them but have received no answer. I received a letter from the post ofiice inspector at Chicago asking if I had had. any dealing with this company and if I had to send the papers to him. This I did, and I have not heard from him. 0U are “out of luck: as the of- ficers of the Chicago Wholesale ‘ Seed Company were indicted on May 29th, 1924, for using the mails to defraud farmers and agents. The principal officer is Ed- win L. Rosenberg, who formerly operated the World Seed Company of Milwaukee, the St. Louis Seed Company of St. Louis, Mo., the Law- rence Seed Company of Kansas City, Mo., and other seed companies at Milwaukee, Wis. He has been in this business for a number of years, and the banks at Milwaukee suff- ered a tremendous loss several years ago because of his manipulations. For years he has been defrauding farmers and agents through his seed companies, the post office ofliciais declare. , FIGHT OPTICAL QUAGKS WARNING that the eyesight of thousands of persons is being jeopardized by mail order houses specializing in eye-glasses has been sent out by the National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness. Admitting that there is apparently no way of prosecuting these firms because of the legal tech- nicalities behind which they can shelter themselves, the committee holds that the only way of combat- ing the menace is a campaign of ed- ucation, and this has been started. Widespread sales campaigns are being conducted by the firms ac- cused, according to the committee, and glasses are being sold “Without the slightest sort of an examination of the eye of the prospective pur- chaser and without even an inquiry as to the condition of the eyes. “These optical quacks ask mere- ly ‘How old are you?’ " the warn- ing continues, “‘How many years have you worn glasses, if any?’ and ‘What is the shape of your face, round or slender?’ and upon this information they offer to fit any person with glasses promising ‘the most perfect vision of any lenses you can get.’ ‘These splendid glasses,’ read the circulars which are being sent out by the tons, ‘will enable anyone to read the smallest print, thread the finest needle, see far or near and will prevent eye-strain and headache.’ “The mail order houses play up- on the vanity of their prospective customers, all of their advertising emphasizing in particular the beauty of their product and the improve— ment in appearance they will bring to the wearer. The ‘handsome shell rims' give anyone a ‘younger, yet more distinguished appearance,’ say the circulars. Cheapness of price is of course another bait. Pre- minums, such as sewing shears for women and leather billfolders for men are often offered as a special inducement to buy. “Investigation has shown that the glasses which are actually sent are simply a fair grade of magnifying glasses mounted in an extremely poor grade of frame. These are ad- vertised as ‘scientifically ground and curved lenses.’ “The glasses do nothing that the ekploiters claim for them. They simply make the print look larger; as. a consequence many persons re- ce1v1ng them, particularly old peo- ple with failing eyesight, will worry along with them, occassionally feel- ing satisfied because of their own ignorance of the harm that is be- ing done their eyes and lack of knowledge of what proper fitting of glasses require.” Dear Sir: Received a. card again in regards to settlement. 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WANTED TO BUY BLACK WALNUTS: Bought bushels, rnrlmlds. AMERICAN WALNU (70,, Morgan Park, ill. T ( ) My subscription is paid to 1925, so I enclose 25c for a Metal 3 A R R E L LOTS SLIGHTLY DAMAGED Crockery. Hotel l‘liliiiHVfilI‘B, cookmgware, glassware, Mu, Shipped (lir‘l’i't from factory to consumer. \'rife for particulars. E. SWASEY & 00.. , \ Portland, Maine. milliliillllmlllmiiiilllliilllimlilflmm . ‘1.“ Jackie“ ER tss FARM BUSnglmrcm: Srmcr Bunsm 5x11-%‘ inches lied and Black on White Background Post omce... .eRFD NOIeeooeoeeeeeeoeeeoeee "" ”l' ‘H' l'lWWHWWWHHWHWHHWHiiilil Sta“ oesoe-oeooe-oeoe-oeoeeseemeee County.. ' am; norm AG'IN‘ stylish people go i’When summer days are br’ilin’ hot,» to _ spend a week or so; . Off yonder where the city runs right down into the sea, Where everything is noise an‘ fun an” . style an’ gaiety. An' tho I seed a lot of things I never seed before, .An’ tho I did a lot of things I mustn’t do no more, An’ tho I had a roll 0' cash, an’ freely blowed it in, The sweetest part of all my trip was gettin’ home ag’in. . An’ now I’m back at home ag’in an’ knockin' ’round the place, An’ every old familiar spot seems like a friendly face; The hogs, the horses, and the cows, all seem to know me, too, An’ every rooster on the farm is crowin‘ “How—de-do !” There ain't no other spot 0’ ground be- twixt the pole an’ line That seems to grip the soul 0’ me like this old farm 0’ mine, An’ if I make the Golden Gate, an' Peter lets me in, I’m 'fraid I’ll even worry then ’bout gettiin’ home ag’in. Whitney Montgomery. GROPING E are restless creatures, never at peace with ourselves, never content with out lot, ever in search of an abiding-place and find- ing no rest for the sole of the foot. The birds of the air and the beasts of the field take no though, but only man searches and questions and will not he stilled. “Who is God?” asks the grave- eyed self. I don’t know. I look into the sky on a night when it is deep blue, filled with swimming stars. Over my head arches the Milky Way: a spray of star-dust shot through with millions of gleaming stars~a gesture of the Creator. Low in the sky rides the cool, shining moon, flooding the earth with light indescribable, throwing shadows purple black under the trees, creating a fairy‘ world for lingering lovers. I look with won- der-startled eyes, but no hint of the matter comes to me. I would gath- er and hold to me a glint of this beauty. But the light wind of morn- ing watts it away with the promise of other loveliness. ' Close to the old rail fence stands a cluster of mallows that glow in the sun, each huge flower of a text- ure and sheen beyond the skill of mortal weaver, of a line and form that fills the heart of the artist with adoration and despair. Gay, taunt- ing, aloof and bewiching they grow by the old rail fence. I stand be- side them in wistful silence. They are of God. I can know no further. “True,” says the prodding soul, “the loveliness of this earth is past knowing, but why am I here? I Work and I play; I suffer agony and again rejoice greatly. I pass away as I came, a lonely, questing strang- er, groping endlessly. Why?” I don’t know. On the plains of Judea there was born in a manger a child of poverty. A star lighted his birth and sank from sight. He struggled and lived—a man of sor- rows, acquainted with grief. He was blameless; there was no fault in Him—yet He died the death of a malefactor. Died, and lives always. Countless hosts of men have come here asking the same question and answering it by their eager de- sire to live high-spiritedy, holding hard to their deep—rooted faith in the immortality of their living. “Ah, but what is life that .we cherish it so? What is it that defies time’s effort to bind it; that eludes pursuit, only to return and return eternally when we have ceased to be concerned?” Once the students of a famous laboratory pressed their master for an answer and he set them a prob- lem: “Take these barley-corns and analyze them. Now make some barley-corms complete, perfect, in their chemical elements. I shall plant some barley from my field and do you plant the barley of the laboratory and we shall see.” From the barley of the field came new barley, but from the scientists' barley came no sign save silence. “What, then, did you leave out of your barley? Certainly no material element. ’Twas the life germ, the breath of the Creator.” We believe. we trust. We have I‘ve, been away off yonder where the , J ‘ /',"_,- EAR FOLKS : our own county fair. “win first prize or bust a tug". next.” true of grains and produce. Let’s all boost the fair. And try to attend the State Fair this year, Aug. 29-Sept. 7. Plan one whole day at least and two if possible. Address letters: . -=~ _ The For H ' ; ‘ .ADepmmt for. the W- u: s Edited by MRS. Before another issue the State Fair will be under headway, and most of us will be getting our exhibits ready for The fair is a wonderful institution and We should all do our part to make our fair (we all attend a certain fair each year and feel a personal interest in it) better each year. here that we women enter our best canned fruit, some fancy work, etc., into friendly competition with our neighbors. , first prize we are determined to do better next time. special care of a calf that he intends to enter and he says he will little bit better according to the judge (but not father) and father loses out, father says to Brown “You beat me this year but you won’t The result is father improves the livestock, and the same is ijw, Mr’ Annle Taylor, care The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mlchlgan. e AN N IE TAYLOR Itis If we fail- to win Father takes ' If Neighbor Brown‘s calf is just a W 444144 *(M’Lf \ faith in this breath of life that is breathed into our souls directly from the soul of the Creator—and we know we are here for some des- tined end and good. For God would have it so, and God is good—An- gelo Patri. (Editor’s Notez—We are indebt— ed to the Delineator for the above. I think it is so true, don’t you?) BOBBING HAIR \VILL NOT MAKE IT GROW ON’T bob your hair to make it grow faster! Bobbing the hair for esthetic reasons is quite proper, providing your mother, your husband, or your grandchildren do not object, but says Dr. Herman Goodman in Hygeia: “Cutting the hair (table talk to the contrary), does not improve its growing qualities. Under general conditions, it takes a hair about six weeks to grow one inch. “However, not all the hairs of the scalp, even if uncut, would grow to the same length. On the crown and the back of the head, the hair may grow 40 to 50 inches and be not un- usually long, while at the sides 18 inches is generally the limit. In men, of course, such long hair is very uncommon and with the fash- ion, it becomes increasingly unusual among women.” Dr. Goodman makes another statement, surprising to the unin- itiated. The years when the hair grows most quickly, he says, are those between 35 and 60. If you find a hair on your coat collar, don’t get nervous, this hair specialist advises. The hair is con- tinually shedding and regrowing and in the healthiest of persons a hair grows old, is lost, and a new one takes its place. Only when the number of new hairs runs behind the number of fallen ones, should one alarmed. the scalp to a healthy condition. HANDY TO KNOW HERE warts trouble as they often do in the case of young people, the juice of the milk- Weed plant frequently applied will Or the old fashioned live-for—ever with the thick oily leaf used in the same manner is also effi— little baking soda moistened and applied each night, being left to dry on will cause their cure them. ca‘cious; or a disappearance if continued. I I I If you get a cinder in your eye take a single whole flaxseed,’and if left in the eye a short time will en- mesh the cinder which may be re- moved with the seed. become The thing to do them is not to consult the barber, the drug clerk, or the hair dresser, but to go to a physician who can find out the cause of the falling hair and can start prompt treatment to restore Personal Column Wants Clothing for Ladies’ Aid.—-I am wondering if there are any readers that have articles of clothing that they do not use any more, also that have nice pieces that they do not want and pieces that would work up into quilt blocks. If there ‘are any such ladies would they please donate them to the Bethel Ladies’ Aid? We would appreciate them very much as we would like to furnish our church and it is slow work and we live in a new country and everybody is poor. These donations are to go towards our church and please send them to my address. Thanking you many times and asking God to bless you all I remain, Mrs. Jennie Foutch, Gladwin, R4, Michigan. Help!—-—Wlll some reader of the M. B. F. send in a recipe for scalloped potatoes, to be printed in the M. B. F? Does any EDUCATION AND THE BALLOT BOX 0 doubt a good many parents living on farms are still debating whether or not they will send the boys and girls to high schools, who, last spring, completed the courses offered in the small dis- trict schools. decision. Less than one month remains in which to make this Upon it rests the future welfare, not only of the boys and So. Now. girls, but to a considerable extent; that of the nation itself, for within a few years these boys and girls will be voters. By means of the ballot they Will help decide upon the officers who shall administer the laws of our states and Nation and so upon the nature of the laws by which we shall be governed. On the Fourth of July President Coolidge said in an address before the teachers of the United States, meeting in Washington, “. . . Amer- ica has . . . placed the power of government squarely, securely, and entirely in the hands of the people. For all changes which they may desire, for all grievances which they may suffer, the ballot box furn- ishes a complete method and remedy. Into their hands has been com- mitted complete jurisdiction and control over all the functions of gov- ernment. . . . The body politic has little chance of choosing patriotic ofiicials who can administer its financial affairs with wisdom and safety, unless there is a general diffusion of knowledge and informa- tion on elementary economic subjects sufficient to create and ade- quately to guide public opinion.” Practically every President from Washington to Coolidge has warned us that the improvement of American institutions depends upon the intelligence of the voters. Think of this mothers and fathers, living on the farms. before you decide not to give your boys and girls and the nation’s future voters the advantages of a high school education. biscuits. reader more: anything that can be " burned in a soft «:‘soal~ range to prevent the soot from gathering and filling up ‘the stove pipe and chimney'I—A. K. G.. ‘ Weidman', Michigan. —Have you ever tried burning a dry cell battery in your range? I have a friend " that uses nothing else and she has little trouble with soot. She takes old dry cell batteries that are worn out, and burns one in .her range and one in her heater every week or so.—Mrs. A. T. This beautiful quilt block design is the work of Mrs. J. VanAntwerp of. Mayville, Michigan. The original block is made up in three colors, brown, green and white, and it is very pretty. I have this block \ h \ \ V . ‘ and if you wish a pattern I will be pleased to loan it to you so that you may cut a pattern. I have several other designs to publish in the near future. Watch for them. \ Canning Pickles.——Please let me know how to can pickles in wooden containers so they will be sour like those you buy and will keep indefinitely—E. B., Beaver- ton, Michigan. Here’s Pickle Recipe.—In the issue of July 19th C. K. asks for a pickle recipe. Here is one we use and we are fond of the pickles and they keep fine. 1 cup of salt (barrel), 1,4,, cup ground mustard, 1 gallon vinegar. Mix good. Add cucum— bers as picked and stir every day, and for three days after last cucumbers are added. This makes two gallons of pickles. ——I. F. —if you are well bred! More Finger Foods.—Apricots, nectar- ines and mandarins are finger foods- Bananas are stripped, laid on a plate and cut in mouthfuls. Fresh peaches, apples, pears (avocado and others), large plums and oranges should be quartered, the quarters peeled in _turn, out into portions and carried to the mouth by the fingers. At the dinner-table (where fruit lmife and fork are supplied with fruit) the orange may be speared with the fork, outer and inner skin cut away with the larife, and while the fruit is held on the fork, mouthfuls may be lopped from the heart and in the end carried to the mouth by the fingers. Cherries, served with fruit shears, as a. rule are. eaten with the fingers; but watermelon (cut in wedges) is always served with fruit-knife and spoon. Ginger in syrup, stuffed or stoned prunes, pineapples, and fresh figs call for a fork and spoon or fork and. knife. When any small fruits (including grapes, dried dates and raisins) are eaten, pits or seeds must never be spit out into a plate. The cupped hand should be un- ostentatiously raised to the mouth, the ' pits or seeds dropped into it close to the lips, and then noiselessly placed on tho fruit-plate. . The rule for pits and seeds applies as Well to terrapln and fish bones, which may be removed one. at a time from the mouth by thumb and first finger. Fruit stains are indelible, so a finger bowl should always be used before fingers wet with juice are wiped on a napkin. If the finger bowl is lacking, wait to wipe your fingers until they dry. Menu for August 16th Cream of Asparagus Soup ‘Lalmb Fricassee with Dumplings Mine Jelly Green Peas Romaine Salad Cheese Toasted Crackers Watermelon Coffee ‘Lamb Frieassee with Dumplings.—Cup and dice enough cold lamb to make 1 quart. Season with salt and white pep- per, put into greased baking dish and pour over following sauce: Blend 2 tablespoons fat with 2 tablespoons flour, and cook until brown. Now add 2 cups water and when it boils season with salt, pepper. onion‘juice to taste and pour over meat. Cover and bake in moderate oven 20 minutes. - To make dumplings. sift together 2 cups flour, 1,5 teaspoon salt, 54 teaspoon sugar, and 2 teaspoons baking powder. Add 1 tablespoon fat and rub it with tips of fingers, then add sufficient milk to make soft dough. Roll out and cut into small Place on top of lamb and bake ‘; in hot oven for 12 minutes! Serve hot. .. 1.... , A ‘1‘”. r—. . . ., , 40 inch material. ‘ f useless Cheese Soup.—-4 tablespoonfuls grated cheese, 3 quarts clear soup stock, 1% oupfuls flour, 4 twblespoonfuls fat, 2 cup-e fuls cream, 2 eggs, salt, pepper, and pap- rika, to taste, finely grated cheese. Put flour into double boiler, add gradually cream, fat, 4 tablespoonfuls of grated cheese and paprika to taste, stir over fire till a smooth paste. mix Well, cook tWO minutes longer and allow to cool. Roll into balls, when they are all formed, drop into boiling water and cook gently five minutes Drain and put into soup tureen. Pour over boiling stock and serve with dish of finely grated ‘ cheese. —(——_———— r . Green Peas a. la Maitre d'Hotel.——-4 tablespoonfuls fat, 1 quart .peas, salt and pepper to taste, 1 taiblespoonful lemon juice, 2 sprigs mint, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1 teaspoOnful sugar. Shell peas and throw into plenty boiling water con- taining teaspoonful salt, sugar, and mint, boil fast until tender, then drain. Mix lemon juice with fat, and parsley; stir this among peas, reheat them and serve at once. Lunch Rolls.—1 yeast cake, 1% cupfuls milk, 2 talbles'poonfuls sugar, 2 table- spoonfuls fat, 4 culpfuls flour, 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful salt. Scald and cool the milk, then add yeast and sugar. Now add fat and 2 oupfuls flour. Beat thoroughly, then add egg 'well beaten, remainder of flour and salt. Mix and turn out on floured board and knead lightly and thoroughly, using as little flour as pos- sible. Place in greased bowl, cover and set aside in warm place to rise. two hours. When light, form into small rounds, place one inch apart on greased pan. Allow to rise half an hour. Brush over with fat and bake in hot oven fifteen minutes. Sufficient for twenty rolls. .———4——-—-——- A Fruit Cookie Recipe that Some Farm- ers “'ife May Likc.——2 cups brown sugar, AIDS TO 119 cup or sour cream, 1 cup lard, ‘2‘cups raisins, chopped fine, 1 cup walnut meats shoppe-11,1 1‘ Break in eggs, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in a. little warm water, 3' eggs Well beaten, ,2 teaspoons lemon extract and enough flour to make a. soft sponge not too much flour as it will make cookies dry and brisk, 3% cups preferred. —Mrs. A. ,C. Columbia Muffins—3 tablespoonfuls of sugar. 3 tablespoonfuls fat, 1 egg, 11/2 cupfuls milk, 1 teaspoonful salt, 31/; tea- spoonfuls baking powder, 31/2 cupfuls of sifted flour. Sift flour, salt, and baking powder together. Cream fat and sugar, add egg well beaten, then milk and flour mixture. Divide into» greased and floured gem pans and bake twenty-five minutes 31 hot oven. Suflicient for twenty muf-s ns. The Runner’s Bible (Copyright by Houghton Mifllin Co.) But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint. Isa. 40:31. Fatigue is the result of a lack of under- standing, as ignorance .of the Truth, a punishment for not observing the law of the Spirit. If before you begin your labors you would “seek the Kingdom of God” you would find your way made plain, your work made easier and much of it done for you. WOMEN’S EXCHANGE rlnt It FREE under this heading providing: irst—lt appeals to women and Is a bonlfide exchanges, no cash Involved. Seco nd—lt will go in three lines. Third d—You are a paid- -up subscriber to The Business Farmer and attach your address label from a recent issue to prove 1.. Exchange offers will be numbered and in- serted in the order received as we have room. —MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR. Editor. IF you nave something to exchange, we will. 119.—En1l1roidered doilies for 10 in. blocks of bleached muslin 11'1111 ilo11'11's appliqued on —-v\Iis Mae Mattinson,Tu1ner, Michigan. GOOD DRESSING FASHION BOOK NOTICE . end 10c in silver or stamps for our UP— 'l‘O- DATE 1‘ AL I. AND WI N'I‘T‘R .1021 1925": I‘OOK 011 FASIIIO\S, showing color plates, 111111 czollllinng 500 designs of l.-1lis’, Blis‘s‘os’ mm 1 1.11.11911‘8 1 1tt1rns 3 (,ON ISF. and COMI’REGIII NSIVI‘. AR’ 1“](I.1E ON Illtlu. qSM. \l\11\'(‘, ALSO SOME I’l)l\'1‘S 10“ THE NEEDLE (illustrating 30 of the various, simple stitches) 1111 valuable hints to the home dross- BE SURE AND SEND IN YOUR SIZE 4814. A Stylish Youthful Frock. -—-Printed or emlnoidered voile, figured silk or linen Would be 0011 for this model. Organdie, linen 111' other 11121111 111:1t11'1111 in controls is 1111-12 for tri1111n1'11g.'I‘he maker. attern is cut in 4 Sizes: 14, . 1,18 11nd 4815. A Popular Style.———'I‘his sleeveless dress is simple, and easy to develop r1‘11e guimpe may be of contrasting material or may be overlaid silk, pirnted voile, crepe or gingham. 20 years. material. The 11idth of the dress at the foot is 1% yard. trasting material % yard 32 inches wide is required. 16 y1 or size inquires 31/1 yards of 40 1111-11 For collar, vestce and facings of con- It may he of wash with material to from a V1st as illustrated. The Inttcrn is cut in 4 Sizes: 8, lli,1§2 111111 14 years 2 your size requires 3% yards of 32 inch material The Guimpe of contrasting 111at1rial requires A 1% yard 40 inches wide. 4801. A Pretty Draped Frock—Figured _f0u111rd is here portrayed. Pipings in a plain color form a suitable finish. popular. The Pattern is cuti in 3 S1z-1vs: 16, 1.1111.th The 1’ attcrn L xtru Large. this model. (omfomahle. for this style. for Miisses. 36 inch material. yard. 4791. A Comfortable Undergarment.—'l‘ his model may be developed crepe, silk or washable satin. lower edges may be gathered in knick1-r style, or finished with a hem in straight line. is cut in 4 Silos: Sillall\ Medium Lame and To make tins style for 11 Medium size requires 1% yard of 36 inch material. 4818. A Pleasing Dress Style for the Little Miss—Cotton repp or linune would be good for The collar, pockctr 1121p could be of contrasting color 121111 atine and pongie me also nice fox (bosses of this kind The l'nttcrn is cut in 4 Sizes: , and 10 years. 2 14 yaids of 27 inch material. 4196. A Good Corset Substitute for Slender Figures. ——This lnussnrc The closing side front or under .11‘111 brocade, linen, mesh, or sateen are good 111at11'1.11:~1 '1‘11e Paltclll is cut in 4 Sims: Medium for Ladies, 11nd , year size requires % yard of 4803. A Pleasing Morning Dress good model for 11'o111en closing is effected under the panel 1'11 f1ont. I“i'— urcd pcitalc would be nice for Pattern is cut in 7 Sizes. 38 and .10 inches bust size requires 5 ‘4 yards of 36 1111-11 1111191141. The width at theo foot 1v1th pluits extended is 2% ALL PATTERNS 12c EACH—- 3 FOR 30c POSTPAID Order from this or former issues of The Business Farmer, giving number and sign your name and address plainly. ADD 10c FOR FALL AND WIN 19241925 FASHION BOOK TER Address all orders for patterns to Pattern Department THE BUSINESS FARMER Mt. Clemens, Mich. One could have this 111 crepe, pongee or in the new piintud voiles now so and 20 years. The width of the dress at the foot is 1 1/1 yard. 4802. A Pretty Bathing Suit. —\\l1ite 111111111 with bands of black s:1t1c11 1s 111111 51101111. This style is also .1ttr111tive for satin, cr1pe jersey and is out in 4 Sizes: Snuilh 34— 36, 111111111111 38- 40, Large 4.2— 44, E\tra Large 46- 48 inches bust measure quires 3% yards of 36 inch material. your size requncs 11% yards of A Medium size rc- in (‘11111111'ic, nuinsook, ’l‘hc fulness at the The l'uttorn belt, sleeve fucings and ling~ A (3 year size requires has good li111-s.lt is may be eff1 -'1 ted at the scam. Je.111,1'.1111bri1', .ind ’ 20 1 cars This is a of matuic figure. The 11113 style The _ . . , , . 111 eusui e. A), 4 0 inch 1 Safety at the Crossing ROTECTION of life at railroad crossings is a work that the New York Central .Lines, through its Safety Bureau, has been aggressively iengaged in since the coming of the automobile. :While the records show that only a small pro- portion of automobile accidents occur at railroad crossings, loss of life at crossings is a cause of deep concern to railroad managements. When it is realized that 7000 of crossing acci— dents occur in daylight, that 63% are in the open country where approaching trains can easily be seen, and that the majority are at crossings with which drivers are very familiar—it is plain that the number of crossing accidents can be greatly ‘ reduced if automobile drivers will not attempt to cross the tracks until they are sure that it is abso— lutely safe to cross. "New YORK" CENTRAL ‘LINEs BOSTON EALBANY- -‘MICHIGAN CENTRAL-BIG FOUR ~ PITTSBURGH 811.1110; 11ml AND m3 unwironkicnm‘m AND sussmmmr LINES General Offices—466 Lexington Ave, New York NEW PUT THIS NEW MILL ON YOUR MONEY SAVING 0 BOOK RANGES Buydirectfromfactoryl 75 Save % to % on your $37 stove, range orfurnace. Take advantage of the biggest SALE in our 24 years. Kalam azoo qualityisthehighest; pricesare at bedrock. This is the year to buy. 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REDUCTION OFFER No. 18 American Fruit Grower } A $1.50 Value People's Popular Monthly for only Buy direct Good Stories $1 00 1 Michigan Business Farmer . THE BUSINESS FARMER, Mt. Clemens, Mich. the sky‘s not al ' 't do What-you'd ' tedo ‘Foritisatrialofyou If you work. the sky will clear Keep working For it moves you have no fear Keep working 'Aml always when the sky looks black ngsin the test is on your track 80 be moored for the attack Keep working. . --Orville H. Trueblood. , EAR girls and boys: ——-How ‘ many of you like to perform tricks of magic? I am going to tell you how to do I. very good trick but do not attempt to repeat your performance if you do not wish them to know how it is done. This trick is knocking a. tumbler through a table. You sit on a chair .. behind a table. keeping your aud- ience in front of you. Place an or- dinary tumbler upside down on the table. Cover the tumbler with a newspaper and press the paper down around the glass so it takes the form of the tumbler. Hold the paper to the edge of the table, let the tumbler drop into your lap, quickly returning the paper to the ,center of the table. The stiffness of the paper will preserve the form pot the tumbler. Hold the paper form with one hand and with the other strike it a heavy blow. At the same instant let the tumbler roll easily from your lap onto the floor. It looks like you have positively knocked the tumbler through the table. Smooth out the paper before anyone can examine it. But remember, once is enough for this trick, that is if you wish to keep it a secret.—UNCLE NED. OUR GIRLS AND BOYS Dear Uncle Ned's—I was just reading the Children's Hour, and I thought I would try my luck at writing. I have never written to you before. I see all the cousins are describing themselves so I will too. I have dark brown bobbed hair, blue eyes, am 5 feet short, and weigh 100 pounds. I am a. store-keeper’s girl, 13 years old. I have one brother and one sister. I hope Mr. Waste Basket does not get my letter. I hope some of the cousins will write to me. Your niece, e—Evelyn E. Crosby, R4, Merrill, Mich. Dear Uncle chz—May I join your merry circle? I have been a silent reader of the Children’s Hour for a long time. I will describe myself: I am five feet one inch high, weigh 114 pounds and have dark blue eyes and brown hair and fair complexion. My birthday is the 6th day of November. I live on a farm, 83 acres, with my parents, and one brother. I am 12 years old and in the 7th grade. For pets I have 1 dog and 1 eat. We have 8 head of horses, 7 cows. 4 calves and 75 chickens. One of the riddles Agnes Posey. Marine City put in the paper was: What is the last hair on a dog’s tail called? Answer. dogs hair. Now Agnes I an looking for a letter from you. and Agnes you send me your picture too. Now for a riddle: What side of a horse has the most hair an? Answer, Outside. Will some of the boys and girls please write to me? I will ladly send a letter to them. I hope Mr. ante Basket does not get his hands on me. Your niece,— Gertrude Angel. Standish, Mich, R 1. Dear Uncle Ned :—-—May I Join your merry circle? I have written before but Mr. Waste Basket got my letter. This tune I hope Uncle Ned gets it. I am s. more girl eleven years old and am four feet and six inches tall. I m in the sixth grade at school and we have already had our picnic I have two sisters and two brothers. My sisters are fifteen and thirteen years old, my brothers are six and two years old. There were some vio- lets in our woods and in one place there were so many you could not step with- out stepping on them. I got a pretty bouquet. As my letter is getting long I will close hoping some of the boys and With ihfcc shaldhtmarks; What Word will mess ciphers H‘ change into? _to watch our twenty new, ‘ a this will, write to me. I will-answer letters received. Your aim—Louise Frederickson. Bl. ‘mberta, multicul- Dear Uncle Ned :—-I was just reading the Children's Hour and thought that I would write I. letter too. I hardly ever see any letters from Ithaca. I live on a farm (80 acres) north east of Ithau. I five feet four inches tall and I am fteen years old. We have two anary birds which I enjoy very much. I have four brothers. Their names are Wayne. Clark. Theodore. and Esrar. We have an Overland car and I drive it. We have a dog and his name is Mack. I go to town school and I will be in the eighth grade next year. I hope to get lots of letters from the girls and boys. I will close as it is into. Your niece—Margaret Deveraux. Ithaca, Michigan. Dear Uncle Ned:~—I have Just been reading the M. B. F. and the Children's Hour. Say Uncle Ned, I think that Ilene Wingard and Helen Goodrow has some good ideas, don't you? Well I believe I had better describe mySelf. I am real short for my age but I weigh 103 pounds. Can anyone guess my age? I have blue eyes, dark hair (and it is not bobbed). Well my letter is getting a little long so will close hoping that you have moved the waste paper basket 3. little way off. I will answer any letters from those who try to guess my ago. Your long-haired niece—Kathryn Seaton, R. 8, Fenton, Michigan. Oh you dear old Uncle Ned:———How glad I was today to know you were still among the living. Do you remember me? You surely do. It has only been two or three ' years (but it seems ages) since I was a friend among the cousins I made many dear chums during my stay. I think I received letters from nearly 50 boys and girls. . ‘ If you remember when I last wrote my daddy was very sick and was in the hospital several weeks during which time I was away from home. Many letters a cane to me during that tune and when I came home papa»wasvso very sick yet—well it Just seemed some way after Dana's trouble things” —--I didn't answer all of my big stack of letters, partly for lack of post and Stationery and partly because I we. too sad to sit and write I guess, then our M. B. F. ex- pired and we failed to renew and I got completely lost from you. But we have again subscribed for our good old friend. We 'got our first copy today and I was real surprised to see our page still lived, as a friend had told me the Children’s Hour had been taken out. Although it has only been two or three years since you heard from me (as I said before) I have changed quite a bit. 1am now 16 years old and have changed my long curls for "bob" but I am still the same old "farmer John" helping daddy out of doors, ride horse-back. hoe—yes "Whistle and hoe, sing as I go". I am as busy as a bee all week but I go to church every Sunday. Our minister is just the loveliest old gentleman you ever saw Uncle Ned. We had a Sunday school picnic at the beach on the 4th. We sure all had a lovely day. I won second prize in the girls' foot race. My! Did I hear you say you did not . remember me? Why don’t you remember Eathel Fay Sharp that sent you the hand- made string to wear around your neck? The “kid" that won the flashlight for the best letter written about the fair they at»- tended? I knew you Just couldn't for- get her. Ha! Ha! I will send you a picture of myself taken the day I graduated as soon as they are finished. Guess I must close now. Am glad I found you and hope we will meet again. Your want-to-be niece,— Eathel Fay Sharp, R3, Akron, Michigan. ——Well, well—and. a. couple more wells. if here isn’t Eathel back. It's about time you came back young lady and I don’t want you to neglect writing for such a long period again. If you do———-well. And you, an old friend, even thought the Chil- drens’ Hour had been taken out of M. B. F. Why the very idea. Tell your friend Why the Ostrich ‘Hides Head “ Y dear,” said Father Ostrich to the tallest and finest of his four wives, “it is your turn white eggs." And Father Ostrich, who was very tall, craned his neck and looked proudly toward the nest of eggs which were snuggled away in a pit in the warm sand. The eggs were as large as cocoa- nuts, and the shells pure white and very thick. About the thickness of 8. china cup. And, of course, Father Ostrich was very proud of them. For soon tiny, fuzzy-uzzy baby os- triches would peep through, and they would grow bigger and bigger and some day their feathers would be sold for a great deal of money. Mother Ostrich waved a. fond fare- well to Father Ostrich, declaring she would take care of the beautiful, white eggs. But no sooner had Father Ostrich left, than Mother 08- trich happened to think of a lovely little spring of water a short dist- ance away. Now in the Sahara desert where the Ostrich family lived, there are very, very few springs of water. And mother Ostrich dearly loved a cool bath, and a fresh drink. She looked at the twenty new eggs, which were pure white with very thick shells. “Surely nothing will harm them”, thought Mother Ostrich, thinking of the bath she loved so well and the cool, fresh.drink. And slowly, al- most without realizing what she was doing Mother Ostrich paddled over the ocean of sand toward the cool spring. ' The more she thought of the cool spring and the fresh drink, the faster went her long, strong legs. Soon she was goingfaster. than a horse could trot. Her little blue bonnet bounced as she ran. True, my dears, she was a little worried about those twenty white eggs, from which twenty little fuzzy- uzzy heads would soon peep. “Oh well, I am sure nothing will harm them”, she reasoned with her- self. “And perhaps one of the other ostriches will return and guard them." You see, Mr. Ostrich always has four or five wives. Well, while the neglectful Mother Ostrich was running very fast to- ward the cooling oasis which was very far away from her home, Mr. Jackall was hunting, hunting for a feast of ostrich eggs. Just think of that! Mr. Jackall was becoming very much discouraged. For you see, wild ostriches have become very, very scarce. Of course, my dears, many tame ones are raised on ostrich farms. But there, I must tell you about that horrid old Mr. Jackall. Be— cause of course you are wondering about those twenty white eggs. About the time Mr. Jackall had decided to give up the search he happened to spy those beautiful, pure white eggs, which Father Ostrich had guarded every night so proudly for such a long, long time. And which Mother Ostrich had neglected. “Oh my, oh me!” snapped Mr. Jackall, putting one lean paw over his empty stbmach. “Such a fine meal!” Um-m-m-m!” And, my dears, before you could say “Jack Robinson” that horrid old Mr. Jackall had gobbled up those twenty beautiful, white eggs which were as big as cocoanuts. Then very, very quickly and quiet- ly he stole away. At just this time the Mother Os- trich was hurrying, hurrying home. It is true she was very much worried, and why should she not be? She had shirked her duty! ' As soon as she reached the nest which was in a pit in the warm sand. she started running Wildly around in a circle, for, goodness gracious me! every one of those snowy white eggs were gone! Even the few eggs which had been laid outside the nest for food for the young fuzzy—uzzy os- triches was gone. Just think of that! Mother Ostrich’s heart sank. And there came Father Ostrich! Mother Ostrich was so ashamed. What would she do? Suddenly, in desperation, she dove her long neck, little blue bonnet and all, into the sand, thinking that Father Ostrich would not see her. And whether he did or not, my dears, you may guess. And what poor, sad Father Ostrich said to Mother Ostrich you may also guess. For, of course, Mother Ostrich could not expect‘mercy when she had neg- lected her duty. _ And ever since the Ostrich family has had the sly little trick of burying their heads in the sand, when they do not wish to be seem—Helen Gregg P'pen. x. com. in? as better describe' " nasal!" "hold on! ‘17 before. . on. am 18 years old and chin the .mth grade of school. Do you think that is very good? My hair is Quite dark and of course it is bobbed. I wouldn’t have long hair, would you Uncle Ned? Say Uncle Ned why couldn't we have a drawing can- test on some things? I think it would be fun. Well I' think Mr. Waste Basket has- got his eye on this letter. Your want-to- be niece,--Mlss Belma Hogan, Muir. Mich" ' in care of Hogan Bros. . . . . -—No I would not have long hair, in foot I believe long hair would not be very g to me. . Dear Uncle Nedz—As you see from my address I have moved since you last heard from me. I moved ten miles, on the 17th of January, 1924. Some cold day to move. too, especially a long one. We did it in a sleigh and it did not seem very long to me. Well Uncle Ned, I am sending you another poem which I hope you will see fit ,to publish. Not very long ago. I saw a poem at the head of our page and itllookod so nice I de- cided to try my luck again. Well, as I don't want to take up too much space; I guess I will close for the present. Good- bye, Uncle Ned and all the cousins. From your poetic nephew—Orville H. Trueblood, R2, Muir, Michigan. ——Your poem is very good, Orville, and I am publishing it at the head of our page. Send in more of your poems. Dear Uncle Ned :—Oh! now don’t say you don’t want me to come in because I come so often. won't come again for a long while. Cousins don’t you think that would be all right? I think Billy Frank is 17. Am I right? What did all the cousins do on the 4th? I had an awful good time. We went to a lake, it is a resort. Went in , bathing in the forenoon and danced in the afternoon and there were fireworks at night. I will close with a riddle. What is it goes all over the fields and through the woods and comes to the doorstep yet never comes in? I would like all the ‘ cousins to write to me, girls and boys, old and young. Your loving niece—Beat- rice Campbell, R No. 5, Box 89. Hesperia. Michigan. . --Sure I will let you in. There is not limit to the number of letters you may write to me: Dear Uncle Ned :«May I. join your merry circle? I have been a reader of the M. B. F. for a long time. I live on a farm of 90 acres. We have 3 horses, 13 head of cattle, 18 head of sheep and 200 chickens. For pets we have .8 cats and a collie dog named “Jiggs”. -Jig‘gs is a regular playfellow. Ifthe cows are in sight he will go after them and does many other things. He likes to play ball and if he catches the ball sometimes runs away with it and sometimes takes it to someone not playing. I think I had better describe myself or you will be wondering What kind of a "chicken” I am. Ha! Ha! I am 5 feet 3 inches tall. weigh 125 pounds, have medium brown bobbed hair and grey blue eyes. I will be a junior in Hillsdale high school next year. I wear glasses which are a lot of bother when I’d like some fun but cannot see very good without them. I am a Girl Reserve. our club is called "Honembro”, it was organized last talk—four district schools going together, we have lots of fun. Oh yes, I will let you guess my age and birthday. My age is between 15 and 20 and my birthday is between July 2nd and 10th. Those who guess my birthday and use right or nearly right will receive a letter from me. I like English, history and domestic science. I have enrolled in English XI, modern history, economics. music and cooking. I have had 2 years of sewing. I like csznping and horseback riding best of all morts. Well I must close for this time as the catchall waste paper basket will surely catch this. I wouldlilmtohearfromsomeoftheboys and girls between the ages of 15 and 80. From a want-to—be niece——Ruth Brown. R. 1, Box 71, Hillsdale, Michigan. -—I enjoyed all of my studies when I went to school and especially reading. As for sports I like to skate, swim and play ball. Add and enlists-act the names of the objects, and have an edible nut as the result. What kind is it? , Answer to last puzzle: OCE- LOT. MARMOT. huh”! I" Weld"! , If you let me in now I . crop in d 62,218,000 bushels. .011 good lands, magma... 7 _Mudi Whea ,il’10nilsmé! t Med Dace momma—Les. Oats Barley, Rye, Buchweri, Potatoes, Hay, but more Beans and Beats F creamed. Too much rain in some seeti'ons. CORN Present conditions point to another good Michigan, the present condition percent representing a production the fifth crop in succession to exceed 00,000,000 bushels. the sungsthue 31(1):le the growth is large. an e s are caring well. Dry weather has mused some firing in shell areas but no excess- ive damage is m... "”‘d. a. is well or way, mu grainb’ehg‘thresheddirectfromthe field became of We labor shortage. Be- turns to date indicate an average yield ‘ per acre or s. total winter wheat crop of 16,450,000 bushels. The average yield in Michigan is 10.7 bushels ‘ per acre. The quality 0! the grain is excellent and is rand at 90 per cent. two per cent better than last year and the tone your average. The condition of spring wheat is similar to that of other mine sown grains, the early part of the season being too dry. The present outlook is 80 per cent, repre— senting a production of 126.000 bushels. .190 OATS Oats continued to improve up to the time of cutting, and on heavy soils is a generally good crop except in localities where drought has prevailed. On the rolling and light lands the straw‘is very short but a good yield in DYOPOrtlon to the quantity of straw is expected. The probable production is estimated to be 48,043,000 bushels, or slightly less than that of last year. The protion of last year’s crop still remaining on farms is reported as 7 per cent. .BABLEY Beneficial rains occurred in some of the best counties. and the estimate is in- creased to 3,483,000 bushels which is about the same as that of last year. The condition is 82 per cent or three per cent below the ten-year average. BYE Threshing is in progress and early re- turns indicate an average yield of 14.0 bushels per we. The average for the last ten years is 14.3 bushels. The pro- duction is estimated to be 7,252,000 bushels the least since 1917. The quality of the grain is generally good, averaging 92 per cent. BUOKWHEAT The preliminary inquiry regarding the acreage sown this year has been complete ed and resultedin an estimate of 60,000 acres as compared with 62,000 last year. There was a considerable increase in some sections, but the general shortage of labor and heavy farm abandonment in many of the principal counties caused the smaller total. The crop is generally do— ing well and shows a condition of 87 per cent or three per cent above the ten—year average. This represents a production of 887,000 bushels. - POTATOES The condition of the potato crop is slightly above the average being 83 per with 87 per cent last month and last year. Some of the seed was d by extreme heat following planting causing poor stands. Dry weather has also caused a. spindling growth in some localities, but there are marry fields in excellent condition. The present outlook is for a crop of 29,297,000 bushels on the 318,000 acres planted. Last year’s final estimate was 37,842,000 bushels. The rainfall during the next four or five weeks will be the principal factor in enablishing the actual yield. HAY Clover and timothy hay was a light crop except in a few eastern and northern counties where ample rainfall produced a. good yield. Amalia yielded well in most section although not quite up to the av- erage. The total prodmtion of tame hay is estimated at 3,408,000 ions or a. little over one million tons less than last year. Considerable hay was damaged by rains in eastern and northeastern counties. FIELD BEANS The crop is exceedingly good in nearly all section. There has been a little local damage by dry weather, and there are some complaints of disease and failure to set pods. This has lowered the av- erage condition two points from last month which was less than the average decline in July, hence the estimated pro- duction is greater than that of July 1 being 6,825,000 bushels. SUGAR BEETS Fields present a varying condition, ranging from stands of 50 per cent or less Up to perfect stands. Moisture has been insufficient in some sections but on the whole the growth is satisfactory and the mndition is 85 per cent. one per cent higher than last month. TRUCK CROPS Tomatoes have maintained the same condition as one month ago. 86 per cent. Cabbageshowssdeclineofonepercent to 85 per cent. Early varieties are being harvested and marketed. Onions now show acouciiflonoffl‘lpercenthavingim— pmvengeoentasaresultotr-ainsin the main eommemial districts as with a total production last year of 11,850,000 bushels. The peach crop is. maintaining its earlier favorable prospect, the present in- dications pointing to a cr0p of 1, 172,000 bushels as compared with a production of 1, 440, 000 bushels last year. The early varieties are being harvested and marketed. CROP REPORTS BY COUNTIES CALHOUN—crops very good except cornwhichwillbeasgoodsseverif frost will hold oi! till Oct. let—B. B'. 0., County Agent. MUSKEGON—Corn about 4 weeks be- hind calendar hut improving. Poutoes are good, also oats and wheat. Small fruits, good yields. Apples fair set. JACKSON—Oat crop very good. corn way behind. abundance of hay, new seed- inge and some wheat be- ing thrashed with fair yields reported,— R. E. Decker, County Agent. . IONIAr—Wheat in shock being quite badly damaged by too much rain-yield heavy. Corn very short and poor stand. Hay fair crop-badly damaged in making. Beans very good. Oats unusually heavy cropshdown badly—R. L. Helm, County Agent. CRAWFORD—Abundant and timely rains making corn, oats and potatoes splendidly; also bringing on good second cutting of alfalfa and clover, as well as ,1. > 1— 25““ it safe to sow clover. slate start this spring. ‘Willfbe little or no hard corn in this count—R. D. Bailey, County Agent. MANIs'rEE—Cherries. cracked and brown rot developed due to excessive rain. Drop 60 per cent. Berries heavy crop- bad rain damage. Potatoes, cucumbers, beans—good prospect Grain-weather in- terfere with; heaviest prospective yield good. Corn-very late-poor prospect—H. M. Vaughn. County Agent. VAN BUEEN—Corn poor stand, back- ward. alfalfa heavy first cutting, second cutting good but poor weather to get it up. Grapes fair crop, quality promises good at present Apples light crop, lots of scab. Wheat fair crop, poor weather for harvesting. Peaches but very few nrmmd S. Haven, fair emu—W. C. Eek- ard, County Agent. orsnoo-Com very backward; oats normal crop; rye about 6 year average; potatoes showing fairly well for this date. Pasture continues good on account abun- dant rains; hay exceeding June promise and feed supply; excellent com seem as— mrcd, alfalfa again stepping out in front as a champion producer of quantity hay. Excellent year for seedingap-A. C. Lytle. NEWAYGO—Com three weeks late. Wheat 75 per cent damp from exces- sive rains during harvest, growing in shock. Beans suflerlng from too much rain. Potatoes fair but above cause damaging crop. Oats getting over ripe and storms have caused them to lodge badly. Apples fair average with light crop of winter varietiese—Clair Taylor, County Agent. OGEMAW—Crops appear the best all around that they have appeared at this time of year for several years. Hay crop has been at least normal, potatoes never looked better, cats have overcome their (091) '17,, late start, wheat is the best In N. years, rye is a. normal crop, and can has gained much with a late start.’ Comiis" perhaps the one crop that is below normed for this time of yearn-«W. C. McCarthy, County Agent. ' TUSCOLA—Wheat a. fine yield but much sprouting in shock. Oats average down very much. Barley good if wet weather does not continue. Beans—rains did great deal of damage, many fields look as if they will not be worth har- vesting. Potatoes late blight starting, potatoes set heavy. Corn very uneven much will not mature. Alfalfa good but bad curing weather. Rye good but some sprouting. Beets fair to good. Clover as with alfalfa—County Agent. 81‘. CLAIR—The incessant reins of the past two Weeks have been very detri- crops being harvested. Much hay is still uncut, also many of wheat. Wheat in the shock is ning to sprout Oats are down badly though will undoubtedly fill all!!! on account of the moisture in the Corn has picked up in the pest ‘ weeks. Corn and beans very woody on the average. New seeding ucqwtionany good, although much mildew on the clover. C. M. Kidman, County Agent. OTTAWA—Wheat was best looking crop ever, but continued reins have sprouted considerable. Early potatoes iiirgi on light soil is coming satisfactoraly. Oats ripe and being out. seedings of alfalfa and clover are lino. This is also an exceptionally good season for development of weeds. Farmers felt line about conditions of crops, but unless warm clean weather prevails they will feel pretty bluea—C. P. Milhan, County, Agent. # a o 1-0. “. 1- ’7 ‘ _4, ' u... g? remarkable savings. m 672. WOODVV ’(V Wm“; (Now UNDER. Cousrnucmom We Reach an Important Milestone in our History This Year and Will Celebrate with our 43rd Anniversary Sale Beginning Tuesday, September 2,z this great annual sale will ofler you the opportunity to supply yourFall and Winter needs in merchandise of good quality for home and family at very The Hudson 4nnioer8ary Sale Starts During State Fair Visit the fair (August 30 to September 6). Do your buying for Fall and Winter at the same time at the Anniversary Sale, (beginning September 2). You will find every convenience of this great store at your service while in the city and you are cordially invited to make full use of it. Further Details of tbeAnnira-sarySale will qppearin the Augudlm rseue' of this endintbebetrod' DailyNewspapers. LH 1. Hudson’ s—Detroit Erecting a New 15-Story Building This new 15 story building now under construc- tion, added to our other buildings, will give Detroit and Michigan one of the largest and finest retail establishments in America. Nfichigan.” It is concrete evidence ofour faith in the future of Detroit and Michigan—and of our determina- tion to keep pace with their remarkable growth. We are building ‘.‘.A Greater Store for Better Service for a Greater Detroit and a Greater US ON C0; LFnRMER ”.mfinsrnon l | . . > ‘ I ’1' Fifi/R '1 'I m . ( ‘ .$/‘ Harvest Beets the Easy Way Lift them while you ride, do the work quickly and with less damage to the roots; make it easy for the hired help to get all of them b using the . JOHN DEERE Riding Beet Lifter This machine loosens the soil and raises the beets slightly so they can be readily pulled. They are not jerked out and strewn on the ground where they will lose weight by being exposed to rain and frost and the sun’s rays. Re- member, beets are sold by weight. The blades do not injure roots. Foot dodge enables you to follow uneven rows. Light draft; only two horses needed under ordinary conditions. Write for FREE BOOKLET. Address John Deere, Molina, 111., and ask for Booklet Ell—633 A I JOHN‘T‘N-Du' ”I 4 his “Ulll‘l Ill ' .. us .0... Reduces Strained, Puffy Ankles, Lymphangitis, Poll Evil, Fistula, Boils, Swellings; Steps Lameness and allays pain. Heals Sores, Cuts, Bruises, Boot Clinics. It is a SAFE lITlSEPTIG All) GERMIGIDE Does not blister or remove the hair and horse can be worked. Pleasant to use. $2.50 a bottle, delivered. Describe your case for special instructions and Book 5 R free. ABSORBINE. JR. antiseptic linimem for mankind, re- lncel 81mins. Painful. Knotted. Swollen Veins. Concen- rased—only : few drops requir—ed at an application. Price [1.25 per bouie at dealer: or delivered. N. F. YOUNG, inc., 369 Lyman $1.,Springfieid, Mass. BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY Ads under this heading 30c per agate line for 4 lines or more. SLOO per insertion for 3 lines or less. To avoid conflicting dates we will without list the date of any live stock 0 in loan. If you are considerin a at. ed. as us at once and we will oiam the date mi. Address. Live Stock Editor. M. B. I. Clem em Oct. 16———Holsteins. O. 8. Berg and . Howell Michigan. F. . ' Sheena; Sale Manager. ‘ CATTLE HEREFORDS [RED HEREFORD8 SINCE 1880 Vining 0 International Winn ‘ Hal t Farm 1?!” W12; 'hrrtherfl’Il a‘qinfdrnnrgioili. 6 prices. Feed B that fatten quickly. ORAPO FARM. wart: Creek. Michigan. ' Hereford Steers a g m! as is 12 st .wms as it: grounds lbs. BOWLeround 5001M , good can flesh. mo ‘ Will cell 0 one car number sndymefmed. V. V. BALDWIN. Eldon. Wanna Go. love. __1 1" ANGUS VE SOME FINE YOUNG ANGUS BULL. Eflhmmtionni Gran Champion cock g Wm. prices. I. H. KERR A 00.. Addison. :— 4—: JERSEYS can as... 22...... .. .. our ofw'illt II.I 'Irtnme. anon. *LD-AIRd LIVESOTC HARNESSING FENCE JUMPERS contrivances have been MANY devised to prevent horses from jumping fences. Yokes of all descriptions have been con- structed with the central thought of punishing the animal when he ap- proached the fence, with the result that horses are often injured by such contrivances. A contrivance free from such dangers, and equal— ly, if not more efficient, is made as follows: Procure a surcingie with a ring at the bottom, a short piece of rope, and two leg—straps provided with rings. Place the surcingle on the horse and buckle the straps about the forelegs just above the knees. Tie one end of. the rope in the ring at‘ the back of the left knee, then pass the free end up through the ring at the bottom of the surcingle, then down, drawn medium tight, and tie in the ring at the back of the right knee. This will permit the horse to walk natur- ally, lie down, get up, and in fact, do almost anything except run or jump, which it most effectively pre- vents. The principal advantages are that there is no risk attached to its use and the horse’s head and neck are perfectly free.——N0r’West Farmer. STATE FAIRS WILL A‘sVABD HOLSTEIN PRIZES THE two leading fairs to be held in Michigan this year will re- ceive special prizes from The Holstein—Friesian Association of America in addition to those award— ed by the fair associations. The Michigan State Fair, Detroit, Au— gust 29 to September 7, will receive $718.50 and the West Michigan State Fair, Grand Rapids, Septem- ber 15 to 19, $107.40. To be eligible for receiving this money the following requirements prevail: 1. All animals must be register- ed before exhibition and must stand on the records of The Holstein— Friesian Association of America in the name of the exhibitor. «2. The awards must be placed by one of the official judges of the Association who will award no prize except where the animals are strictly first—class. 3. The judge or the superin— tendent of dairy cattle shall ex- amine the certificates of registry and transfer to see that the provis- ions of the first requirement have been complied with. 4. The Association’s share of the prizes will be paid direct from the Secretary’s office and not by the fair management. 5. All animals over six months old must have been tested for tu- berculosis within six months by a duly accredited Federal or State veterinarian. The certificate show- ing freedom from this disease must be exhibited to the fair authorities. Grounds and barns must be disin- fected in accordance with Federal or State requirements. Special prizes to boys and girls in calf club work will also be awarded at state fairs and national dairy shows by the national Holstein As- sociation. The‘ amount offered at each show is determined by the number of Holstein calf club mem- bers enrolled by the state college \ boys and girls club leader. DETROIT CREAMERY OWNS NEW HOLSTEIN CHARIPION ICHIGAN’S new Holstein M champion cow for ten months' production as a junior three- year—old Traverse Duchess Korn- dyke, owned by the Detroit Cream- ery Company at Mt. Clemens. Her record is 20,456.4 pounds milk con- taining 671.43 pounds butterfat, equivalent to 839.2 pounds butter, according to the advanced registry department of The Holstein—Fries- ian Association of America. As a consequence of this record she displaces the former state champion in her class, Flint Maple Crest Crown De K01, who in the herd of D. D. Aitken of Flint, made a record of 17,849.1 pounds milk and 743.5 pounds butter. GOAT TO PROTECT SHEEP FROM DOGS Could you tell if goats were used as a protection in large flocks of sheep against dogs? If so is it the buck or ewe goats that are the best? I am a reader of your paper and have a large flock of sheep and would like to protect them against dogs.— E. J. F., Lambs, Michigan. HE goat is not as timid an animal T as a sheep and consequently not as easily frightened and will in many cases turn to fight a. dog rather than fleeing from it. Sheep on the other hand are very timid and easily frightened, and once they are running it is of course sport for the dog to catch them. Billy goats are, therefore, a. slight measure of protection against dogs, as the sheep are not nearly as apt to be stampeded and it is extremely doubtful if a dog would commence a sheep killing career in a. flock Where there were several goats. On the other hand, a dog which was a. real sheep killer, or especially savage, would not be in the least deterred by goats—Geo. A. Brown, Professor of Animal Husbandry, M. A. C HIGH COWS IN TESTING WORK IN MCHIGAN DURING JUNE The following tables show the 5 high cows in the respective age classes in the Michigan Cow Testing Associations reporting for the month of June. These are the highest butterfax producers in the test work in the seventy—eight as- sociations reporting. There were eighty-nine associations in operation. Mature Cows—Five Years and Over ..Mich. Reform. ......PB.H Date Lbs. Lbs. Association Owner Breed Fresh Milk Fat Ionia~Beldin§MWW.......State Hospital ......PBH 4/25/24 2490.0 ‘89.6 Genesee No. ..... ................John P. Eddy ........Gr.H 4/10/24 2058.4 88.4 Genesee N0. 7 ............. .. ...J. E. Post ........._....PBH 3 28 4 2397.0 "86.29 Muskegon-Ravenna...........1. J. Bennett ........Gr.H 8/26/24 1725.0 86.25 Washtenaw-Cheises, ........... R0 land Waltroua -Gr.I-I 5/25/24 2135 0 85.4 Under Five Years Gratio - ortn ...................... George Davis .........Gr. J 5/16/24 1581.0 98.0 M No. 1................ ..... Frank Wilcox ........PBH 5/15 24 1680.0 89.0 t. C rNo. 1.....................L. G. Meharg ._.....PBH 5/25 24 22338 ’83.}; 3 0 7732 g.-.......... on ldin .4 \ ~:‘ , j,» ‘3» REMEMBER, it’s but a short dis- tance from your cow’s udder to the cream pitcher—the but- ter plate—the nursmg bottle. Keep her surroundings healthful, free from d1sease germs, and clean smelling, with Dr. Hess Dip and D18- infectant. _ Provide a wallow for your hogs. To each 25 gallons of water, add about one art of Dr. Hess Dip. Your .ogs will do the rest. Good mght lice and disease germs! Use the sprinkling can—in the poultry-house for lice and mites, wherever there is filth or a. foul odor. DR. HESS & CLARK, Inc. Ashland, Ohio D R? H E S S D [P WWW? T his Absolutely Guaranteed $5 1 down éaSI/qurhmts - khunedleather \ ..... . ,‘ J“ ,/ Made of best On At your dealer's today -‘you can carefully examine it before buy- ing-also other styles. REMEMBER, you are trading with your local responsible h a r n o s 3 dealer who guarantees and stands back of this harness. N0 freight or express to pay. - . Only the finest heavy leather. high”: grade workmanship and best hardware ovor goes into Everwou' neg... Thousands of farmers have been using Ever-wear harness for a long time—they know its quality and have proven it pays to buy Everwear brand. Your dealer Everwear harness and collars—or can not them for you- Mclntyre - Burrall Co. Green Bay, Wis. Loelr {or thistndennrk onthe llamas GUERNSEYS MAY _ GUERNSEYS — ROSE STATE AND FEDERAL ACCREDITED to 877 pounds (It. Bull calvm out of Sire by Bulls whose Dams to 1 finds at. The games (i; bulls, Shutdlewick o f Nordland. From Dani; pro~ fiden t 0 .ng 101 18 fat, 772 int and 61 f GEORGE L. BURROWS or GEORGEO J.ati-IIOK8. Saginaw, W. 8.. Mlchlgan. ' Puma BBED eurnnsn ' " that L "' Macomb No.1...” ................. Frank Wilcox ........Gr.H 3/2/24 164 c. n. TALBOT, Farmlngton, Michigan. Under Four Years . St. Clair No. 1 ...................... Dunning & Nolan PB H 5/18/24 2646 0 '97,0 Washtenaw~Ann Ar‘bor ..... J. G. Lewis ...........PBH 8 7124 2016.0 ”6.6 Mammb No. 1......................Frank Wiles; ......Gr. H /3/24 1816.0 72.6 Weds ........... .......... . B. Duets .._....PBG 4/5/24 1173.0 ”71.0 HAMPSHIRES Van uren-North................ . C. Tiedebohl ......PB H 3/25/24 1905.0 "(0.4 Under Three Years wgfsglfiggg—Bn‘gnt GILTs AND Bonus. Livingston No. 1.................J. n. Grouse mpnn 3/24/24 1350.0 64.8 writ vli’. suvozél sii°finlintfincfi2i€ Genesee No 1............. - E. Parsons .......Gr. J 6/2/24 828.0 63.7 ”gulpCen ..... John Tobin ............PBH 5/13/24 1584.0 61.8 E Malgmtte...muW-J. B. Duetscn ........PBG 12/17 23 1281.0 ”59.0 .DUROO Be an ............ ...................P. F. Schriner .......Gr. G 5/12 24 1180.0 57.8 The following table shows the ten high we in milk production in the seventy. eight Cow Testing Associations reporting in Michigan for the month of June. Date Lbs. Lbs. Assoc1ation Owner Breed [Fresh M111: Fat nia—Lake Odessa..............Fred Reahm ........PB 6 14 24 8069.0 79.8 gent- .Alpine....................J. N. Lamar-earn g 4 27 4 2724. 73.8 ton uth....... F. Reynolds H 4/19/24 2691. .7“) 1:. Cl No. IWIDunning a; Nolan H 558/24 2646.0 98112 oun. ....... .........................JJakevwo Dairy H [2/24 2526.0 ”s esoeNo- 3........................l E H ..... .PBH 1£8I2 2501.7 075:: $69 NO. 7am-Mon esee No. 7 "nine milking: per day. Post nmcwmu'fi nia-Beldin ........................: tate mu ...IZ.G .H 4/ 5124 24 .o . 1. m B s 23 4 . Elmira: Igor-mm? £3119 ebo BE 1I3 ‘ 4 0 0st W 2. I 8/28/24 ".3 .‘7 3 "Four makings per day. We Can omi- Real Bargains in High Class Durocs Prices delivered your station on request. LOEB FARMS The Ilene oi (Breadth-pine. Chrlevoix. Mich. FOR BALE—FINE Bunon or no oer-1:3 i kind. Price $10.00. M r. A. Lane a son, momma. . ,1 W1... “marl-a 21:. EM"? ' a. mom sous. Routes. «kW/Iii. . ..A.~thaknfih*’22m~an ?~*\'u—M"-:= 3.. .. .fl I. «\V . ...-..~..m.,\iv.,~;ar;~4.n\..y 9‘ amuse: *Hv‘Wfie} Wmmypm or connodidealugn labor-locate. and on is a question that will not be discussed here. The American dairy farmer is protected by a tarii! which in round figures is 32 cents on 100 pounds of « milk or its products. This does not prevent the importation of dairy goducts from eight or ten countriffi t consumption has taken it Md prices are still pretty good. In my opinion the time is com- in when we will have a surplus of d products and turn from an importing to an exporting country. This will mean a lower price which we must be prepared to meet. The principal expense in dairy produc- tion is the cost of feeding the cows, and we are fortunate in being able to compete with any country on this score. We who live in the land of clover. alfalfa and corn are favored and should be able to compete with any state or country. If we have to go out of the dairy business because we cannot compete, then I say we ought to quit, for it shows we are lame ducks on the essential econom- ic factors of dairying. Keep in mind there are a lot of states doing great work in the dairy business, and are increasing their output at a rapid rate, the govern- ment figures show that the state of Michigan has doubled her output of butter during the past seven years; Minnesota and Wisconsin have in- creased from 40 to 50 per cent; Cali- fornia, Ohio, and Indiana have shown a marked increase. The Dakotas and Nebraska are also increasing rapid- ly. Idaho and Montana are putting on dairy.campaigns, and Nebraska is preparing to double her dairy bus- iness in. the next five years. The southern states are encouraging dairying, and Kentucky has a Better Sires—Better Breeding campaign, which beyond question will result in a big increase. The dairy farmer has prospered and has come through this agricultural depression with fiy- ing colors. Dairy districts are not complaining of hard times. The country banker will tell you in short order that his patrons who milk cows have good credit in his bank. We can stand over—production pro- viding we are producing with econ- omy. States keeping cows that pro- duce from 100 to 150 pounds of but- terfat cannot compete with states keeping cows that produce 200 or 250 pounds per cow. Neither farm- ers compete who feed inefiiciently,. who ignore the economic value of the silo or the value and use of legume hay. . . While we are building our dairy industry let us understand the im- portance of laying the foundation on a substantial basis so we can turn from an importing to an exporting country without suffering a loss.-—_- A. L. Haecker. ‘ TESTING WORK COMING ALONG FINE OR many years Huron county has been known as the center for excellent beef cattle. A gradual change has occured and the nearness of large cities has necess- itated the using of dairy cows in place of the beef cows. In June, 1923, work was started in Huron county to put these dairy cows on a better paying basis. Twenty-six dairymen went together and organ- ized what was known as the Huron- Ubly Cow Testing Association. In June Otto Vestergaard cow tester reported that the average produc— tion for the 229 cows owned by these 26 dairymen averaged 267 pounds fat and 7788 pounds milk. One of the outstanding herds was owned by Mr. Donald Gordon. His seven cows were high in both milk and butter fat, producing 11,313 pounds milk and 420.3 pounds fat. Hr. Gordon's cow Diana, a grade Holstein nine years old, made 14,418 pounds milk and 650.1 pounds fat, highest cow in milk and butter‘fat production in the assoc- iation. ' Other herds that did well were owned by Ernest Hagen, Chris Krug, Frank Bensinger and Howard Nugent. That there is still plenty putter-tarsus 5,039 , The four highest herds averaged ’ pounds 865.9 pounds fat and 10,880.5 pounds milk. Sixteen cows made better than 865 pounds fat for the association year. The four poorest cows in the association averaged 3,948 pounds milk . and 144.9 pounds fat. Not more cows but bet- ter cows are needed.-—-A. C. B., Dairy Ext... M. A. O. ,MONBOE FARMERS CONTINUE 00W TESTING WORK YN’N DEXTER, tester in the Monroe Association, reports that George Ihrig & Son had high herd in butter fat and milk production in the Monroe C. T. A. Ihrig & Son’s nine purebred Hol- stein cows averaged 11,524 pounds milk and 357.1 pounds fat. Guy Doty had high cow in milk and butter fat production. His sev~ en year old purebred Holstein cow Flossie made 15,758 pounds milk and 532.6 pounds fat. Three hun- dred fifteen cows averaged 232 pounds butter fat and 6,590 pounds milk. The four poorest herds av- eraged 162 pounds fat and 4,940 pounds milk. Twenty-four cows made better than 366 pounds fat. All members in this Association are using purebred sires. Mr. Dex- The Monroe Association is carrying .on the work and Mr. Dexter- is con- tinuing the testing.—-A. C. 3., Dairy FLY ‘REPEIJANT Can you give us a recipe for a spray mixture as a fly repellant on stock?—-J. N., East Jordan, Mich. send you two formulae for fiy repellants which we find pretty fairly satisfactory: 12 oz. oil of tar, 12 oz. turpentine. 12 oz. crude carbolic acid, 10 or 15 cents worth of tannin. Make up to 5 gallons with kerosene. Apply lightly with atomizer. Another formula: Coal oil, lard, carbolineum. Mix equal parts.—-—B. H. Pettit, Professor of Entomology, M. A. C. ' VETERINARY DEPARTMENT ONE QUARTER OF UDDER HARDENS "I am writing to ask advice about ' one of my cows. About once a month one quarter of her udder will swell up hard and I will be unable to get but very little milk and then the next milking that quarter will soften up and I will milk out a lot of ropy milk and then that quarter will be ,. tit-she tester. raports that men- . .:11 right. sometimes it will can: 1 been without silos had a higherteel cost than members who used silos. twice in the quarter then in some other quarter. Now this is a good cow and I would like to cure‘ her. Is this a sign of T. B.?—-F. B”.« T., Midland, Michigan. \ HE symptoms would indicate that > your cow is suffering from mast— ‘ itis. The cause of mastitis is in- fection. The infection may gain en- trance into the udder through the teat opening or through the blood stream, more often the former. The only way to find out if your cow has tuberculosis is to have the tuberculin test applied. Better have your local veterinarian examine your. cow. He can prescribe the necessary treatment for mastitis, and, if he thinks it advisable, you can have him apply the tuberculin test.—-—John P. Hutton, Assoc. Prof. of Surg. & Med., M. A. C. COW IS ALL RIGHT Since my cow has been let out on grass her bowels are very loose and keeps very dirty. Can I do anything? It I salt her she is worse—I. H., Edmore, Michigan. is not at all unusual for a cows bowels to be quite loose - when she is on good pasture. I think in all probability it is a per- fectly physiological condition with the cow—John P. Hutton, Assoc. Prof. of Surg. and Med., M. A. C. M I IPA ‘CO! l I l I work of the corn harvest. They do the 5 hand work of five to seven men, and at the [I same time they do the cleanest kind of job. : They pick up tangled and down corn. They " can be adjusted for tall and short corn and l they make easily handled bundles. I Both McCormick and Deering Corn , Binders have been popular with owners for l many years but they are of difierent design. 3 The McCormick binds the bundles while they are in the upright position, and the Deering ties them as they lie flat. Both binders have roller bearings. Both a . l have channel steel frames, ’ securely bolted and rivet- i ed together. Sensible con- : structionforavoiding field . difficulties. Can be equip- ! pad to load bundles onto ; awagon. Be ready for corn ' harvest. Ask the McCor- ; mick-Deering dealer [ about these binders and .. any of the modern corn, [. machines mentionedhere, ' or write us direct “for I complete catalog. , INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY J 606 So. Michigan Ave. “WWW“ McCormick and Deering , Corn Binders McCormick -Deering Corn Pickers HIS is the day of the- corn picker. The McCormick- Deering goes through a field and picks, husks, and loads onto a wagon the crop on a half—dozen acres a day with- out anybody doing any unusual work. 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We especially want to send it to those parently hopeless cases, where all forms Oginhal halers, douches, opium preparations, fumes, "patent smokes ” etc, have failed. We want to show everyone at our expense i that our method is designed to end 211 difficult breathing, all wheezing, and all , those terrible paroxysms. This 8 offer is too important to neg- leot a 16 day. Write now and begin the me at once. Send no money. 8 mail coupon below. Do it Today p—you even do not pay postage. FREE TRIAL COUPON NTIEB ASTHMA CO., Room 946B 0 and Hudson Buffalo, N.Y. Send me trial of your method to: r——-——r—~— éilviilll'n“ g, “‘1. Engh ANDSIZEOFOOOKERELS DETERMINETIIIIE'I‘OCAPONIZE ITHJN the last few years the business of producing capons son has grown rapidly in this country, and increasing numbers of capons are being raised in the Mid- dle Western States. During 1 the winter months capon is regularly quoted in the markets of the large eastern cities. Massachusettes and New Jersey are the great centers for the growing of capons, while Boston, are the important markets. The time of year when caponizing should be performed, so far as the efiects of the operation and the rapidity and ease of healing are concerned, is of little importance. The capons seem to recover and do Well at any time. Certain other con- siderations, however, do influence the time, says the United States De- partment of Agribulture. The age and size of the cockerel are very im- portant. As soon as the cockerels weigh 1% to 2% pounds, or when 2 to 4 months old, they should be operated upon. The lower age and weight limits apply particularly to the American breeds, While the higher apply to Asiatics. If small- er than this, their bodies do not give room enough to work handily. On the other hand they should nev- er be over 6 months old, as by this time the testicles have developed to a considerable extent, the spermatic arteries carry greater amounts of blood, and the danger of pricking these arteries and causing the fowl to bleed to death is greatly increas- ed. The fact that capons are in great- est demand and bring the best prices from the Christmas season until the end of March, and that it takes about 10 months to grow and finish them properly, makes it im— portant to hatch the chicks in early spring so that they will be of the proper size for caponizing in June, July, and August. These are by far the most popular months for the operation, though in some cases it is performed still later. CHICKS NEED SUNLIGHT AND YELLOW CORN HE importance of sunlight and yellow corn in the growth and development of chickens is strikingly showu in a. series of inter- esting experiments made at the Wisconsin University Experiment Station. It has long been known that sun— light plays an important part in the development of all green plants, but the direct relation of this form of energy to animal life has but recent- ly attracted attention. Nutrition studies during the past few years in- dicate that in some cases at least light may be almost as important a. factor in the normal development of certain animals as it is in the growth of green plants. Four groups of birds, each group consisting of ten White Leghorn baby chicks, were used in the experiments. . Group 1 received a ration consist- ing of 97 parts of White corn, 2 parts of ground limestone, and 1 part of common salt, and had free access to skim milk. The birds were confined in a runway in the basement of the poultry building with the windows closed. Group 2 received exactly the same ration as the first, but the birds were placed upon a board floor out of doors and exposed to sunlight dur- ing the day. Group 3 received yellow corn in- stead of white corn and like the first group were confined in the basement of the building. Group 4 received the same ration as Group 3, but the birds were placed out of doors on board floors and in the sunlight in the same manner as Group 2. Comparative Growth Growth in all four lots for the first two weeks was apparently normal, due to the fact that the vitamins factors had been stored up in suffic- ient quantity in the egg yolks and the hatched chicks. After that time, however. the Group 1 birds practic- ally ceased to grow, and all of the chicks soon died. The birds that re— ceived yellow corn instead of white corn and were confined to the base- ment made somewhat better growth, New York, and Philadelphia_ "pastifiie of a. number of concerns but at the end of five weeks all but two of the chicks had died. The remaining two reached a live weight of 340 grams, but from then on lost weight and died at the end of twelve weeks. Both groups of chicks that were exposed to sunlight made remarkable grthh. The chicks on white corn did unusually well at first, but ceased to grow after reaching a weight of 600 grams. At this stage they de— veloped eye trouble and an unsteady gait accompanied by more or less dizziness. It became apparent that it would be impossible to raise chicks even in the sunlight with such a ration as white corn and skim milk. The birds in Group 4 which lived on yellow corn, skim milk, and sun- light were in good condition through— out the experiment and showed every prospect of continuing their growth to complete maturity. All of the necessary factors of growth were available, a good protein mixture, ample ash, and the necessary vita- mines. the age of four months. Overcoming Leg Weakness The experiments showed clearly that diseases in chickens, such as leg weakness, which is a form of rickets, may be overcome by supplementing with sunlight and otherwise satisfac- tory ration. This is due to the cura- tive er preventive power of the ra- diant energy of sunlight. Other experiments showed that cod—liver oil, eggs, milk, and green feed are active agents in preventing leg weakness in chickens when fed during the early growing period. A number of groups of chickens fed separately with a ration consisting of 80 parts of yellow corn, 20 of middlings, 5 of lime rock, 5 of bone meal, and 1 of salt together with skim milk as a drink, made satisfac- tory growth although confined on a cement floor during the first six weeks of their lives. It was found that no difference occurs in the time in which leg weak- ness develops as between chicks hatched from a ration of white corn plus pork liver, placed in the same brooder with chicks of the same age hatcher from a. ration of yellow corn plus pork liver, and both groups fed on a ration known to produce leg weakness. The chickens fed on yel- low corn made better growth than did those on the white corn ration. Most of the chicks from the white corn casein ration died within forty- eight' hours after hatching, thus in- dicating the necessity of vitamine- rich feed (as found in the yellow corn) in the poultry ration to main— tain the hatchability of the eggs. Further experiments showed that whereas white corn and similar feed produce white yolks, and that yellow corn and green feed produce yellow yolks, a slight yellowness in egg yolks can be obtained by the feeding of yellow carrots. The experiments proved conclus— ively that diseases such as rickets are the result of a deficnency of cer« tain factors in the diet of animals, and that the substitution of yellow corn for white may overcome diffi- culties which have been encountered because of the lack of the fat—soluble vitamins in the grain. Further, that the use of green feeds of cod-liver oil has a pronounced influence upon the health and growth of various animals when fed on ricket—produc- ing rations. The production of hens, as well as the hatchability of their eggs, may to a very large extent be dependent upon the supply of vitamines in their food and the same factors have been found to be of particular importance in the normal rearing of young chicks which, because of their early matur- ity and relative sensitiveness, make splendid experimental animals for such studies. Wisconsin University officials feel that the practical ap- plication of these findings will have an important bearing in the chicken industry—Farm and Ranch. N O INTERNAL INSEUEICIDE CURE FOR EXTERNAL PESTS ANUFACTURING and selling M preparations for controlling lice, mites, ticks (blue bugs) and other external parasites of ~ poultry by serving to the fowls in The birds produced eggs at- and one which the United States Department of Agriculture says should not be tolerated. A‘number of mixtures advertised for use in controlling external posts by admin- istering in the food have been test- ed by the Insecticide and Fungicide , Board of the department and all have been found to be ineffective. Among the products which were of— fered as powders to be mixed with the feed are several containing mix- tures of sulphur, charcoal, mag- nesium sulphate, ferrous sulphate, nux vomica, capsicum, sodium ‘cér- bonate, napthalene, lime salt, and sand. Some of the mixtures were lime-sulphur solutions to be added to the drinking water; some cal- cium sulphide tablets of various percentages and having quantities of other chemicals as well. All were tested and found to be inef- fective for the purpose advertised. In view of these numerous tests the board has served notice on the manufacturers who may be selling or contemplate selling the above mentioned products to be used in this manner for controlling extern- al pests of poultry that they are guilty of violating the provisions of the insecticide act of 1910, and that the products are misbranded. The board is of the opinion that these tests are suflicient to strongly indi- cate that such a method is inffective and further that it is extremely doubtful if any substance will be found which will be effective when used in the feed, or drinking water. Tests have not been made of all of the mixtures advertised against all of the pests named, but, taking into consideration the tests which have been made and the anatomy and physiology of chickens, it is believ- ed that it is unlikely that any of the substances proposed, or any combin- ation of them, when fed to chickens will control any of the external par- asites infesting them. These prep- arations are sold for the most part directly to consumers by parcel post. BUMBLEFOOT I have some hens that have a swelling in the foot. The first one I thought had hurt the point above the foot but upon looking at it found _ it was a large swelling and there was, a scab on it nearly as large as a dime. That hen I killed. Then a. few days afterward found two others had it. Can you tell me what it is and What I can do for it? I hate to lost all of my chickens and would sure be glad to get information on it.——-L. H., So. Rockwood, Michigan. HE swollen condition of the foot is undoubtedly a condition re- ferred to as Bumblefoot. The cause of Bumblefoot is usually at- tributed to a mechanical injury, such as walking on gravel floors or runs, roosting on too Wide perches or high ' roosts, combined with narrow build- ings, necessitating the birds to jump and alighting heavily on their- feet. The symptoms reveal a swollen con- dition below the foot, and between the toes. This swelling should be lanced and the pus removed, after which the foot should be treated with carbolated vaseline having been thoroughly cleansed—E. C. Fore- man, Professor of Poultry Husband- ry, M. A. C. Modern Efficiency Mistress—~" Mary, what a kitchen! Every pot, pan and dish is soiled; the table looks like the day after a cyclone! What have you been doing?” Mary—"Well,ma'a1m, blessed if it be my fault. The young ladies has Just been showing me how they bile a. per-tater at their cooking school.” GET YOUR COAL FREE Special Offer to Michigan Business Farmer Readers The largest concern of its kind in the world, exclusively delivering coal direct from car to consumer, with a long established successful record, the Popular Coal Company, 1509 Coal Exchange Building, Chi- cago, Illinois, is offering this unus- ual opportunity to one coal user in every neighborhood who has a few hours spare time. This is its meth- od of quickly introducing the finest grade, freshly mined, free-burning coal, which is being sold direct to user at remarkably low prices. Man of good standing in his community can get his coal free. Write this firm today and ask them to explain this often—Adv. basis, effecting tremendous econ-, cruise in the central purchasing of farm supplies and giving to the widly scattered farmers a united voice which is beginning to speak for them effectively in transportar tion, legislation, taxation and other great matters where the interests of the farmers are vitally at stake and where individual action is futile but collective pressure is extremely ef- fective. All this is most encouraging as it indicates better social and economic conditions for the farmer, for once the agricultural interests learn to work in harmony they will find that they are the strongest class in the world. The bane of the past has been that the farmers have not real- ized the importance of cooperation. At best they have worked independ- ently, and in many cases they have actually entered into competition with each other. This day is past, and everywhere we see evidences of rural cooperation —— cooperative creameries, live stock shipping as- sociations, fruit associations, potato exchanges, grain elevators, etc. Now that the farmers have found their power, they will not relinquish the advantages which they have gained, but will continue along the lines which have already proved so successful. Thus they will come into their own and secure those ad- vantages to which they are entitled as one of the greatest classes of producers of the basic wealth of the nation. The brief review of agricultural conditions given above is merely suggestive and no attempt has been made to be exhaustive. Undoubted- ly, anyone who is at all familiar with rural life can think of many other factors which might be in- cluded in even an elementary sur- vey of this subject. However, the purpose of this article is merely to point out some of those factors which contrast so strongly with con- ditions in- the restless, throbbing city, and which make the farm such an ideal place in which to live the full life. Heading the Farm Call May the young manhood and womanhood of this generation hear the call and feel the lure. It were indeed a catastrophe if they did not. It were little short of a tra 'c and ironical “trick of fate if t e young men who went forth and en- dured the terrible din and roar of cannons and all the hardships of wan—all for liberty and better liv- ing conditions for mankind~ hould, now that they are back and ghting the battle of peace, volun- tarily choose to live amo the un- nerving conditions of mo ern cit when all the advantages of the country are before them. Let them select that occupation whose usefulness and dignity is un- Good-Bye Mr. ICHIGAN is receiving the atten- tion of a beneflcent worm this summer, according to Prof. R. H. Pettit, head of the Michigan Ag- ricultural College entomology de- partment, who warns the farmers that they have nothing to fear from an inch and a half caterpillar with 10 forked spines in rows down its bac . Numerous specimens of this caterpillar have been sent to Prof. Pettit by alarmed farmers and he states that examination reveals it to be the larvae of the thistle-butterfly, an insect fairly common during most summers, but occuring in large numbers this year. This insect, confines its feeding habits almost entirely to thistles with the Canada thistle as first choice at all times, according to Prof. Pettit. The insects occasion- ally will feed on burdock, elm, net- tles and plantain, but never on any crop of value unless driven to it by starvation, in which case they may do some slight damage to soy beans and to peppermint. “However, the coming of this creature in Michigan is really a blessing rather than a menace," Prof. Pettit said. “I think we can rest secure and watch these butter- fly larvae destroy our bad , _ , without incurring any expense. ‘_ ‘ , lithe run me {n'ihérml (Continued from Page 4)- questioned. Let them choose that life which makes them independent -—which raises them above the posi- tion of mere cogs in the wheels of industry. Let them establish their homes where their children will grow up under their own careful guidance and training and not be away all day and use the home merely for a boarding place. Let them choose their environ- ment where the birds sing and all nature buds and blossoms, where God’s power is daily revealed as the farm animals and crops grow and bring forth their increase, where the beams of the sunrise each morn- ing light up a golden pathway of duty, where each sunset and peace- ful twilight brings a benediction upon the day’s labors, where each rainbow is a reminder of God’s con- tinuing mercy and favor. Let them live where they daily catch inspiration, and where those wondrous thoughts come to them which slip through more words and cannot be uttered but are no less deep and potent in their meaning and influence. Let them do all this and forsake the city streets where the sun beats down relentlessly and is reflected back from the pave— ments, where the dust laden wind sweeps down the canyon between the skyscrapers, where the beauty of the sunrise and sunset is ob- structed by buildings and obscured by smoke clouds, where the wonder- ful verdure (God’s covering for His creation) has been displaced by concrete and buildings, and where all the myraid voices of Nature are drowned in the road of the city’s bustle and traffic. ' ’Tis thus I meditate as I sit here. The breeze stirs. A bird sings. The shadOWs begin to lengthen, reaching out hungry hands toward the east. The sun declines. I hear a whir, a roar. A motor car goes roaring past in a. cloud of dust. Why, young man, are you in such haste? Do you seek happiness? Look about you. It is yours for the taking. The old motto comes home to me, “I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am unable to appreciate.” Let us learn to count our bless- ings, to look upon the bright side, to appreciate the distinctive joys and privileges of farm life and to take heart to fight the battle which each day may bring. Let us not be so busy attempting to earn a living that we fail to really live, to feel, to appreciate, to love. And this is the thought which I would bring to each of the thous- ands of farm homes in THE BUSI- NEss FABMEB family. Isn’t It So? Teacher—”Jimmy, what is a fortifica- tion?" Jimmh— twentiflcations make one fortification' _---School Journal. Canada Thistle any case the larvae are due to pu- pate very soon, and change into beautiful butterflies, so no one needs to worry about this very un— usual invasion." And now, apparently unheedful of the ravages already suifered this year by the Canada thistle from the thistle-butterflies, Howard C. Rath- er, M. A. C. farm crops specialist, announces that the growing of al- falfa is one of the best ways of eradicating Canada thistles. If the infested fields are not seed- ed in the spring, are then plowed, and finally Seeded to alfalfa during the first week in August or at the end of the droughty season, the thistles will be held in check until the alfalfa has made a start. In the next year the thistles will be killed out by the frequent cut- tings of alfalfa, Mr. Rather states, adding, however, that “the alfalfa will do little toward the eradication of the thistle the first season. “In securing a seeding of alfalfa, only northern grown seed should be used,” he advises. “The Grimm and other varigated strains are well adapted to Michigan conditions. The seed should be inoculated and the ’5 ed bed should be well firmed. If 9 soil is acid, an application of lime should be made.” A Personal Word of'Warning before you buy your Fertilizer In mom years «perform. conditions (n lhsferllllzerfield have near ”minornfhrcdmlndlolbccanlwbuycr. Too much talk is bein given to whet fertilizer costs and not enough tow tgoesinit. pf " canbeuexpensiveuncheep lawyer in n big lawsuit. l have 'ven the best years of my life to the development of high grads fertilizer. and these years have tnught me one foot I wont to pass on to you; and that is. that I can males 1 given Endy'tntoto o’cll pretty nearly as cheaply as I want. if that's what won 0 In the early stages of the fertilizer business I saw that the real future lay in trying to nuke the fertilizer I could. and that there were nlwn enough good farmers willing and anxious to pay a fair rice for to best. Because. after u few seasons of experiment with C en fertilizers. the sensible farmer realizes thnt fertilizer is cheap or hig only accordanf‘g the results it brings. and that therefore. any fer- tilizershort 0 very best is dearly expensive in the long run. My nmbinon. therefore. became fixed .on working out formulas and proo- oues that would every year improve the quality of my 2 . FRIENDS FOR 30 YEARS Evert year my business w. More and more farmers discovered the c cnpness of high qunYirtey fertilizer. Some of m customers have using nothing else but my "Roylter" fertilixr or 30 odd years. any season I have been unnhle to nuke enough to supply all my orders. Last season I had n record-breaking sale. yet in some states farmers who wanted "Roystzer's" high grade fertilizer had to 5: without it, even tho they were glad to pay more for it than for or ' nary fertilizer. It takes time. care and experience to make "Royster's" fertilizer. For instance. eve ton of it is "cured" or aged for at least three months. after mixing. to insure perfect chemical and physical con- dition, and no preserve of orders on hand will make a: shorten this curinngerlod just in order to sell more goods. This sort of core for the ' oyster" reputation for unsurpassed quality has won me the confidence and trade of millions of farmers, which I value and esteem zealously. THEY'LL ROT FIRST This personal word of warning is written to tell you that i am out of the com tition now going on to see who can make the cheapest fertilizer. am going to plug along making the finest quality goo I can. to sell at a few cents a. ton profit above cost of manufacture. Before I consent to change the quality standards of the F. S. Royster Guano Co.. l would shut every door of my factories, ay OE every Employee, and see the buildings rot away in idleness. or your own sake. deliberate carefully this season before you buy your fertilizer- If you decide to invest in "Royster's" quality fertilizer. you have my personal promise that you will never regret the purchase after you see the results. It isn't so much what you put into it, but what you get out of it. that counts in buying fertilizer. F. S. Royster Guano C04 Norfolk. Va... Baltimore. Columbia. Toledo. Montgomery. Atlanta. 5.188371%. 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To be frank, I will say I do not know whether it is best'to sell now; but it is an old saying that it is a good thing to accept a good price when it is offered, and ruling market prices look good to many old-timers in the leading wheat grow- ing districts. However, there has Been a quite recent reaction in prices for wheat for future delivery, and . perhaps it would be well to wait for advances of a few cents a bushel be- fore selling; and it might be a good thing to sell from time to time, and take only moderate chances of lower prices. Personally, it seems best not to look for the highest possible prices and taking chances of reduced values in the end, for there is always a limit, and “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,” you know. Now as to sowing a large acreage in the coming autumn. Every farmer knows that high prices for wheat or anything else are sure to result in an enlarged acreage, and should the crop do well, the ultimate outcome would naturally be a corresponding fall in prices. Therefore, would it not be the safer policy to devote only a fair average number of acres to Winter wheat, and thereby avoid the danger of too much less from a pos- sible fall in prices? In short,“ don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” which is just as true advice as was ever given by wise men. To a cer— tain extent every farmer is a specu- lator in raising crops, and diversify— ing his crops has always proved a good safety valve. Specialists in single lines often make large profits, but diversified crops offer to the aver- age cultivator of the soil the surest . returns, and it is a mighty good thing to look to the farm for raising most of the food used by the family. August Crop Report The crop report for August made by the Department of Agriculture was a surprise, as it made the wheat and oats crop larger than we ex- pected, and the corn crop much smaller. The wheat crop this year will total 814,000,000 bu. compared with 786,000,000 bu. last year, the department of agriculture esti- mated. This is an increase of 74,- 000,000 bu. above the department’s July 1 estimate of the crop, which ‘ was followed by sky-rocketing prices. Winter wheat, with an estimated yield of 16 bu. per acre from 36,- 898,000 acres under cultivation, will account for 589,000,000 bu. of the total. Spring wheat condition, which on Aug. 1 was 79.2 per cent of nor- mal, will, on the basis of a yield of 13.2 bu. per acre from 16,920,000 acres sown, produce 225,000,000 bu., the department estimated. The average price of all wheat on farms July 15 was $1,058, against 89.6 cents last year. The corn crop will amount to only .‘ 2,576,000,000 bu., against 3,046,000,- 000 bu. Aug. 1 was 70.7 per cent of normal, against 72 per cent on July 1. Yield per acre was estimated by ' the department at 24.4 bu. from 105,- 604,000 acres in cultivation, with a farm price of 98.3 cents per bu. An oats crop of 1, 439,000,000 bu. ‘ is promised, which will compare with 1,300,000,000 bu. last year, and is the largest yield since 1918. Stocks of oats on United States farms Aug. 1 were only 65,256,000 bu. compared 1‘ with 92,982,000 bu. on the same date last year. Farm Products Go Higher Better times have dawned for i farmers at last, and substantial ad- ‘yances in prices have taken place during recent weeks, the upward movement including fat cattle, as Well as hogs, the rise in swine being unexpectedly large. Lambs have sold satisfactorily on the whole when they ' were well fattened, but owners have been apt to glut the market and» thereby enable the packers to force prices lower. The future certainly looks much brighter for live stock, While the grain markets have been placed in the strongest position ex- perienced in a long period. There is no longer any good reason to re- sort to unusual methods for putting wheat on a higher basis, and this is also true of corn, oats, rye and barley. It is simply a matter of supply and demand, farmers having curtailed their Wheat acreage, while nature did the rest, the crop in some districts having been reduced by bad weather. Fortunately, there is a fine, large crop of cats, while the rye crop is fairly good, but it is gen- erally admitted that the corn crop is bound to turn out a short one owing to the unusually late start be— cause of cold and rainy weather and a repitition of this since then. Look- ing into the future so far as is possi— ble, it may be said that some farm- ers face a partial crop failure, while others will probably harvest a good crop. Those who have good crops of corn may be expected to have their wealth much increased, While the others will fare poorly in spite of high price. Corn looks spindly on untiled fields around Chicago, but plenty of drained fields present a good appearance. The many gardens of vegetables are turning out finely, and the wayside sellers are doing a. thriving business. Farmers have been busy as a hive of bees, making hay and plowing their corn fields, and to a much greater extent than ever before farm machinery is taking the place of expensive hired farm workers. Farmers are also using large numbers of motor trucks, and apparently the