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State 'r NOTE: By adding only fifty cents to any second column price you can get The Business Farmer for two years: By adding only $1.50 The Business Farmer will be sent five years. publication you desire listed above, If you do not find the we can, quote you a special price on any club you may wish to select ———- write us about it. fiosinuss his . I .Famem’ Clubs Hold Big Meet at Lansing- Oney ! .ur' By Me. I. n. JOHNSON HE‘ 32nd annual meeting of Mich- igan State Association of Farm- ers’ Clubs was held; in the Sen- ate Chamber, Capitol Building, Elan- sing, on December 2nd and 3rd and was attended by the usual number of delegates. The forenoon of the 2nd was spent in presenting credentials, paying dues and registering. The afternoon session was called to. order by the acting president, S. J». Skinner, of Belding and the first number on the program was a solo by Mrs. Clarence Bolander of Howell. A reading was then given by Mrs. Florence Trum- ble of Pottervil'le who gave some very pleasing readings during the meetings. The report of the association was given and in this Mrs. Johnson ap- pealed to the members to set a goal and work to make it, this being the only way that success would come to anything, that during the war every- thing had been done to further the work of the Association and it. was the hope.that in the coming year much more would; be done. The subject for the afternoon was under the leadership of M. S. Pitt— man, director of rural education of the Michigan State Normal College and E. J. Lederle, Commissioner of Schools of Oakland County. Mr. Pittman told of the two kinds of education, the first a source of which the society of our land has lit- tle control as the child may be the son of a farmer, a blacksmith, or whatever occupation the parents may have; the second the training of the child in our schools by trained tench— ers, to advance the better education of our children. Mr. Lederle spoke of the time when the county school commission— er would not be a political factor but would be chosen according to ability and considered this a most import— ant item in solving some of the prob- lems. Miss Sara Brodebeck, Executive secretary of Grzitiot county, of the Michigan Tuberculosis Association, was unable to be present and the session adjourned to meet at the first Baptist Church for the, ban- quet at 6:00 o’clock. Sixty at Banquet The banquet for the evening was served to about 60 persons and was a. most delightful affair. Music was furnished by Walter Tobias and Mrs. Clarence Bolander of Howell, who sang in a most pleasing manner for the delegates. This with readings by Mrs. Trumble gave spice to the ocassion. The acting president Mr. S. J. Skinner of Belding gave an address and in his remarks urged the farmer to not begrudge the little fee that he was paying for membership in the organization but sighted that the organization of teachers of our state were paying man" times the amount that the association members were paying and would willingly pay more if necessary to carry on the work of their organization. Mr. Skinner thought this the trouble with the farmer. he expected a great deal and wished to pay very little. The main address of the evening was given by President Voclker, if ()livet College and he spoke on the subject of “Education of the Heart Rather than Education of the Brain.” He appealed to the parents to edu- cate the heart in childhood not to ex— pect the education to be all given by the teacher when the child entered school. He spoke of the case of Leopold and Loch, that theirs was education of the brain and not of the heart. The session of the 3rd was opened with several selections by the In- dustrial School band and showed the work done in this school for the boys sent there for our different localities, and showed~that training was all that was needed to bring there boys to a high point of efficiency. Dr. Kenyon Butterfleld, President of M. A. 0., gave an address on the subject “The Relation of the Farmer and M. A. 0.” “Problems of farming have chang- ed in recent years from those of production to those of marketing," Dr. Butterfield declared. “We ask today, what is the market, What do the people want that do not produce, how to get it to them the cheapest way. There is a new economic standpoint that must: be considered. You must cater to the market, rec- ognize competition with other parts of the country and with the world. Previously the attention was given to what could be done with: the land —production. Now the scouts of ag- riculture are in the market, and think in terms of the consumer. This is resulting in an increasing growth of cooperative facilities.” Mr. Butterfield in closing asked for. the farmer to get in better touch with the college as it was here that their problems would be worked out to the best of the ability of the: col- legs. The afternoon session of the 3rd was opened with music from M. A. C. and the topic of the afternoon, “Farm Organization and the Country Boy and Girl” was taken up by Mrs. Dora Stockman, Lecturer of Michi- gan State Grange. Mrs. Stockman in her discourse said. there must be community center idea and. there must be the county church. That the young people to- day were no worse that the young people of the past only that their op- portunities were greater and it was~ less tempting for them to do wrong than it was for those of today. There are 2 million between the ages of 14 and 18 that are not in high school and the children brought up on the farm are not taught that it is a worth-while job. Interest must go up not; down and these children must be taught that the making of money is not all of life. We must have orderly production and orderly mark- eting if we make the most of agri- culture. We must make the market but not to so high that we must make our standard of living higher. We must all prosper together—no group must prosper alone. Noon Talks Mr. Noon, President of Michigan State Farm Bureau, then gave a fine address on “Farm Organization prob~ lems and Some Solutions”. Mr. Noon stated that the solutions of all farm problems must be fought out in groups. No group must be servant to the other. He also stated that every great orgar“ ation existing put forth every effor that was in their power to have Legislation passed that would help them and; plead with the farmers to look out for themselves. To be organized in groups and de- mand all possible in every way of our representative. We must stick to our cooperative organizations. The meeting closed with readings by Mr. Trumble. The oflicers elected for the coming year were as follows: President, S. J. Skinner, Belding; Vice-President, Wm. S. Kellogg, Lansing; Sec-Tress, Mrs- I. R. Johnson, Rushton; Direc— tors, Mrs. C. B. Cook, Owosso, Law- rence Ward, St. Johns. The following committees were ap- pointed: National Affairs—J. N. Mc- Bride, Mrs. S. R. Holmes, F. G. Beardsley. State Affairs—Edgar Burk, Lawrence Ward, G. A. Mills— paugh. Legislative Federated—.1. N. McBride, Edgar Burk, Lee Noble. Auditing Mrs. Clarence Bolander, Mrs. M. T. Wilkinson, Bryon Bliz- zard. Credentials—Mrs. I. R. John- son, Frank Geiger, Mrs. L. R. Hyde. Beardsley, Edgar Burk, Mrs. I. R. Johnson, J. N. McBride and Law- rence Ward. Mr. Edgar Burk was elected to act on the Board of the Anti4Saloon‘ League for the Association. The names of C. B. Cook of Owosso and W. A. Cutler of Grass Lake were added to the list of honorary mem- bars. 0. E. BRADFUTE REnELECTED PRESIDENT OF A.‘F. B. F. ORTY-NINE voting directors re— presentiing 35 state Farm Bur- eau Federations assembled in convention in Chicago, Illinois, De- cember 10, 1924, and re-elected O. E. Bradfute, of Xenia, Ohio, as presi- dent of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Edw. A. O’Neal, of Montgomery. Alabama, president of the Alabama Farm Bureau Federation and for the past three years executive committee- man in the American Farm Bureau Federation, was elected vice-presi- dent of the Federation; ' ' A ;. . . . , II. sew—is..ka ,u‘u . - r-. We.“an .,, < \ r 1,25,“ .."'C,'s‘. ‘...L. .. ..... ~_.5,.,-f.,- SATURDAY December mth 1.4 VOL. XII. NO. 8 Being absolutely independent our columns are open for tho discussion of any subject per uining to the farming business. J -.. ... . - - f. > 5:39.! ' " _ > if: “HUI ‘0 W "M. M m‘hfl W!" rickz'gan Entered u second-class mat-3 ter, August 22, 1917 at tin : , ‘ oat-office at Mt. Clemem, 2 E iich. under act of March 3rd. 1879. - The Only Farm Magazine Owned and Edited in Michigan Published iii-weekly Mt. Clemens, TWO YEARS an MiChigan Mall is “Hay King” at Internationa In Hay, Soft Red Winter Wheat, Oats, Field Beans, Soy Beans and Rye Classes Farmers the International Grain and Hay Show at Chicago on Dec- ember fourth, he paused as he was being showu around by Superinten- dent G. 1. Christie of Perdue, Indiana to see the best peck of oats and wheat and the best ten ears of corn in the show. He saw here the very best quality of grain produced this past year and many other samples which, although not sweepstakes winners, were indeed a credit to their growers. The exhibits by the various agri— cultural colleges were by far the best of any year. Usually each exhibit developed but one idea and in many instances experiments by the colleges were used to show the why of the recommendations, Michigan, Iowa and Indiana each had a corn exhibit. Michigan showed how corn was being used in rations for livestock and different adapted var“- L' <. lifil‘tliy the result of the breeding Work at the experiment station. Iowa showed how soft corn put in a properly ventilated crib kept all right while with poor ventilation it moulded and decayed. The Indiana exhibit showed on one side, the result of breeding corn to get a pure line and the rest of their exhibit was feeding corn to hogs. After four years of selfing and the elimination of diseased and, unpro- ductive seed, the “pure lines” were crossed. The result was that ten consecutive hills of a cross yielded ten ears almost identical. Their uni— formity in cob, kernel and ear type was almost unbelievable. There was a great variation between the different crosses, but each one it- self contained corn ears about as "like as two peas". As a result of four years tests, they found in Indiana that hogs on corn alone required 638 pounds of feed to produce 100 pounds of pork while if soy beans, minerals and a1- falfa or clover pasture were added, it required but 351 pounds of feed and the pasture. With hogs selling for $9 and corn, $1 per bushel, the first lot lost $2.30 per hundred pounds while the soy bean—mineral fed hogs showed a profit of $2.42 per hundred pounds gain. Wisconsin had an exhibit showing the need and value of more alfalfa hay in the eastern half of the United States. Illinois had an exhibit on soy beans. They illustrated the in- creased acreage of soy beans and showed the yields of seed of several different varieties. These wall displays by the various colleges each taught a lesson of general interest to all farmers and of particular interest to those farm- ers living in that region. The competitive exhibits of grains and hay were of that excellent qual- ity which characterizes the Inter- national. Samples were received in greater number than in any previous year and in many instances the judges paused for a considerable time to determine which was the better of two samples. Michigan farmers have reason to feel proud of their achievements this year. In the Hay, Soft Red Winter Wheat, Oats, Field Beans, Soy Beans and Rye classes an en- viable record was made. Our showing» in the corn classes was far from being all that could be desired. The past season ap- parently placed Michigan farmers under too much of a handicap. Soft Red Winter Wheat There was a. lot of competition in the Soft Red Winter Wheat class which in open to all United States and Canada. ' I WHEN President Coolidge visited .3 , from Michigan Make Fine Record By D. F. RAINEY Extension Specialist in Farm Crops, M. A. C. Practically all of the wheat grown in Michigan except our white vari- eties are of this class. It includes such old standard varieties as Shcp- erd's Prefection, Nigger, Poole. and the Red Rock which was developed and given to Michigan farmers by the late Professor Spragg. There were 78 exhibits made in this class of which 30 were from this state. There were 30 premiums to be awarded and Michigan farmers took the first eight. In fact they took all except the ninth of the first 16 premiums. The first place award went to C. D. Finkbciner of Saline, Washtcnaw county, Whose Red Rock wheat has always won prizes for him where- evcr exhibited. Mr. Finkbeincr is a veteran Wheat grower and has been growing Red Rock wheat under in- spection by the l\'lichi::an Crop Im- provement Association for many years. It was not a walkaway, however, for there was but little difference betWeen the first three samplcs. Mr. Finkbeiner’s wheat wcighcd 62.1 pounds per l)u.; Mr. John Wilk of St. Louis took second place with an exhibit of Red Rock weighing (il.5 pounds per bushel; while A. W. Jewett, Jr., of Mason rcccivcd third award on a sample weighing 62 pounds per bushel. a. These first three samples were outstanding as compared to the rest of the exhibits in this class. Color, plumpness, hardness, were excellent, and the average man would be un- able to detect the difference between them. Of the first 16 awards made, all were Red Rock except Mr. Jewett's sample which was a Mediterranean wheat. The ninth winning sample was from New York state but Red Rock wheat just the same. . This class offered $240 in pre- miums; $185 will be received by the farmers of Michigan. Rye This class open to all United States and Canada had 61 entries—- Michigan growers submitting 19. In general, the quality of the rye ex- hibits was not all that one would expect. While the top of the class had excellent quality, it rapidly di- Many International HE Twenty—Fifth International Live Stock Exposition at Chica- go this year was better than ever before, those,who attended declared. Last year it was thought the entries were as near perfect as it was poss- ible to breed, but the stock this year passed that of a year ago, both in number and quality. As usual, our Michigan Agricul- tural College was there with some of the finest animals ever exhibited at Chicago and they “brought home the bacon”. The various breeds exhibit- ed by the College included: Aber- deen-Angus cattle; Hampshire, Ox- ford, Cotswold, Rambouilette sheep; Poland China, Duroc-Jersey, Hamp- shire, Berkshire, Tamworth, York- shire swine; Perchéron and Belgian horses. And the college won awards on each breed. “Wm. E. Scripps of Orion was an- other successful Michigan contest- ant, winning prizes With his entries of Angus cattle and Belgian horses. Woodcote Farm, Ionia, won several prizes on their Angus cattle, and fin- ished ahead of Mr. Scripps’| entries on minished as one looked down the .placings. George and Louis Hutzler, living on the South Manitou Island about six miles off the coast of Lelanaw county, Michigan, again receiVed first award on their Rosen rye. This makes the third year that they have accomplished this feat. Possibly they have it a little easier in main— taining the purity of their rye be- cause of its isolation and, of greater importance, no other variety of rye is grown on the island. Their sample weighed 57.4 pounds per bushel, plump, free from dis- ease or cracked kernels but its out— standing quality was uniformity. l<‘icld Bcans The field bean class was an open class and contained samples from many western states and Canada. There were but five awards to be be made, yet there were 49 samples of beans sent in. None of the large bcans had a chance against the high quality whitc pea beans in this class. The class contained red and white kidneys, largo whites, and navies. The winning samples were all navy poa beans. J. A. Wilk, of Alma, rccoivcd first prize. Michigan farmers took the first four of the five awards in this class. Soy lit-ans Although the acreage of soy beans in Michigan is not large, yet we have the quality as is attested by the fact that farmers of this state took the first thrcc and all but three of the tcn premiums, on ycllow or greenish yellow soys in chion 2. The principal vnrietics in this class were Manchu and Ito San. J. A. Wilk, of Alma, who won first in field beans also won first in soy beans with his sample of Manchu soys. Mr. Wilk, by selection, seems to have gotten away from the brown hilum. Most samples of Manchus have both brown and black hilums. Corn As a state, Michigan corn samples were of comparatively poor quality and but few premiums Were won. Mr. W. A., Wortley , of Rushton Washtenaw county, took second with a large smooth sample of Pick- ett. We made 27 entries in the Ten Ears Yellow Dent, Region 2, class Prizes to Michigan two or three occasions. In the P01- led Shorthorn class L. C. Kelly and Son, of Plymouth, proved that Mich- igan could produce some champion Shorthorns. Another breeder from Michigan to win on Shorthorns was the Gotfredson Land Company, Ypsi- lanti. Honors in the Chester W'hite swine class coming to Michigan were divid- ed between Crandall’s Prize Stock, Cass City, and Andy Adams, Litch- field, and Adams proved he could produce more than one breed of prize winners by winning heavily in Tan- worth barrows. In the Belgian horse class the Owosso Sugar Company, of Owosso, was a heavy bidder for honors and won several prizes. Competition this year was very strong, and the choice of the land was there, but Michigan breeders did not have to take a back seat for any of them. The live stock breeders and grain farmers, working together, proved to the world that Michigan is about the best, if not the best, state in the Union. and eleven of these got in the money. In the Single Ear Class, Region 2, Michigan placed but two samples —Ted Wilk, Forest Hill, taking sec- ond and L. H. Laylin, Mason, taking thirteenth place out of the fifteen awards. Our most dependable exhibitors had too poor a crop from which to select their corn. We hope for I. better season and a more successful showing with corn next year. Hay Michigan farmers made an ex- cellent showing in this class, which was an open class, by taking all the first and seconds offered on Alfalfa hay, Clover hay, Mixcd hay, Timo- thy hay, Prairie or any other hay. Not only this, but they took all the other places too, except one third, one fourth and two fifth pre- miums. A. W. Jewett, Jr., of Mason, Mich— igan took Sweepstakes over all bales of hay with his alfalfa. This is the third consocutive year that Mr. Jew- ett, has won Sweepstakes honors in the hay classes. This halo of alfalfa was made from second cutting. It had retain- cd its green color excellently. was leafy, finc stemmed, free from grass and stubble. It was out after be- ginning to bloom. . It is nm-cssziry to speak about Mr. .Icwctt’s halo of red clover hay bea- cziusc of its wondcri‘ul green color instcad of the brownish green so commonly secn. Because of its col- or. it was many times mistaken for a halo of alfalfa. so you know it must have had a mighty good color. The first prize mixed hay bale was not far from an equal mixture of clchr and timothy. In this class called “Prairie or Any Other Hay”, all prizes were awarded to bales of soy bean bay. The Prairie hay did not have a chance against this high protein f(\t>tl. Below is given a list of Michigan prize winners in the classes of great— est interest to readers. 10 Ears Ycllow Dent, Corn, Region 2. 2nd, \V. A. “'ortlcy, Rushton; 7th. A. chctt, Jr., Mason; 8th, ()rii Iloopingar- ncr, Bronson; 9th, Milo Robinson, Union City; 10th, L. ll. inylin. Mason; 11th, John (T. \Vilk, St. Louis; 13th. Fred Schilling, Coldwatcr; lSih, L. T. Lasenby, Mason; 19th. I. C. Moody, Forest Hill; let, J. A. Wilk, Alma; 23rd, D. V. Bow, Saginaw, IV. S. 10 Ears “'liite Dent, Region 2. 10th. A. Id. Hilliard; 20th, R. F. Jewett; Elst, L. II. Laylin; 22nd, A. W. Jewett, Jr.; all of Mason. Single Ear Corn, Region 2. 2nd, Tod J. Wilk, Forest Hill; 13th.. L. H. Laylin, Mason. IO Ears Junior Corn, Region 2. 1st, Lynn Wortley, Rushton; 2nd. Clair Wortley, Rushton; 3rd, Harold Goetg Blissfield. Flint Corn, Region 2. lst, R. F. Jewett, Mason; 2nd, A. W. Jewett, Jr., Mason; 3rd, L. H. Laylin. Mason; 5th, A. E. Hilliard, Mason; 6111:. L. ’l‘. Lascnby, Mason; 9th, Lynn Jewell, Leslie; 13th, John C. Wilk, St. Louis; 14th, L C. Moody, Forest Hill; 15th, J. A. Wilk, Alma. Soft Red “'intcr Wheat 1st, C. I). Finkbeincr, Clinton; 2nd. John C. Wilk, St. Louis; 3rd, A. W. Jewett, Jr., Mason; 4111, Lynn Jewell, Leslie; 5th, L. T. Lascnby, Mason; 6th. A. J. Lutz, Saline; 7th, Warren Fink- bciner, Clinton; 8th, R. F. Jewett, Mason; 10th, L. H. Laylin, Mason; 11th, Harry M. Martin, Clinton; 12th. J. A. Wilk. Alma; 13th, Ted J. Wilk, Forest Hill: 14th, A. E. Hilliard, Mason; 15th, Ralph Arbogast, Union City; 16th, Sebastian Finkbeiner, Saline; 19h. Everett Lindsley. Saline; 20th, Fred Mohrhardt, Saline: let, Charles Konnot, Ewen; 22nd, Frank L. Houghton, Alto; 23rd, David E. Han- son, Berlin. Hurd Red Winter Wheat 25th, John C. Wilk, St. Louisv (Continued on Page 23) Dr. Kenyon L. Butterfield, president of the M. A. C. SHALL never forget the first time I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting Dr. Kenyon L. Butter— field, the new president of our Mich— igan Agricultural College. I had been an admirer of his writings for years and had even heard him speak, but had never had any more intimate contact with this great leader of agricultural thought, but to meet Dr. Butterfield personally is to deep- en and enhance any hero worship which one might previously have en- joyed. I remember thinking, as he ad- vanced towards me, that there was no evidence of the ,pompous attitude which is sometimes associated with college professors. 011 the contrary, his manner was most simple and (lir- ect. As he grasped my hand with a real maseuline handclasp his search— ing eyes seemed to be looking scrutiny of a man looking for hidden faults or weaknesses. He seemed rather to be looking for the best and his glance did not fill me with fear but rather with a vague aspir— ation that I might be worthy of the man who was offering me his hand in greeting and friendship. Had I- been skilled in character analysis I suppose I could have read much in his expressive countenance and vigorous manner, but as it was I was only conscious that he gave every evidence of being unusually in— telligent and forceful and a man who would inspire confidence because of his qualities of sincerity and genuine ability of leadership. From Pioneer Stock It is not by mere accident or chance that President Kenyon L. Butterfield possesses this rare com— bination of qualities. His was a very fortunate parentage. Dr. But- terfield came from a line of pioneer agricultural leaders. His grand— father was a member of the legisla— ture and of the committee that pro- vide for the establishing of the Michigan Agricultural College. Then later, his father was a farmer and Kenyon L. Butterfleld was raised in an environment of both the best and hardest of Michigan agricultural life as could well be found, and the rugged simplicity which Dr. Butter— fleld inherited from this ancestry is characteristic of him even today des- pite the multiplicity of duties which crowd upon his time and attention as an educator, author, editor, public speaker and leader in all movements for the betterment of rural life. In talking to Dr. Butterfield one day this summer he told me that he found it difficult to get as much time for exercise as he would like, but confessed that few days before when he had been dOWn to Lansing addres- sing some meeting, that he had stol— en an hour or two to travel on foot the distance of some three or four miles from Lansing back to his work at the College. Other men might have preferred playing golf but to a person of Dr. Butterfield’s type . a..g,_.»fl.r..~.~.~ 3.... 1, .vr. .. ,.__ ,7, V . ‘ , err.“ w'msz- 5M» . =— u «I 1'; 4‘; V .5 ..L offer superior attractions. By his vigorous efforts Dr. Butter- field laid Well/the foundations for the life ofpgreejtusefulness and leader- ship which has been his. As a per- son who has held a lifelong interest in rural problems, it was but natural that young Butterfield should have “determined upon his graduation from high school to attend the Michigan ~Ag’riculfitural College. We are told I Meet Pres. 'Butterfiel” '9 _ A Word Picture of Michigan Agricultural College Head that there was a great deal of rug- gedness about his college experience. Anyway he had to drop out one year and work because his funds were low but of course, he went back and fin— ished. None of his friends could think that he would not. , In the early days of his student life he began to display the qualities of leadership which have marked his varied career. Professor W. J. Beale, the “grand old man of M. A. C.” related shortly before his death that he picked Kenyon L. Butterfield for a future college president when Ken— yon was a sophomore at M. A. C._ As a student, he was editor of his college paper, president of the Y. M. C. A., winner of two oratical contests, Commencement orator and head of his class, and yet, his early friends declare that he never once seemed to have thought that some brilliant By STANLEY M. POWELL (Lansing Correspondent of THE BUSINESS FARMER.) of the Michigan Agricultural College from Which he had graduated thirty- three years before. ‘ His welcome upon returning to his native state was most happy and unanimous. As the months passrhe seems to be carving an ever larger place in the hearts of all those with whom .he comes in contact. He is more popular With the. students of M. A. C. than any man who has held a similar position for many years. The alumni have confidence in him. He has established a friendly con- tact with them. Upon aSSuming his new duties he responded to a request from the alumni for a statement with ' an open letter to them which con- EVERY farmer in Michgan is interested, or should be, in the Michi- gan Agricultural College, at East Lansing, and what it'is doing to help the farming business. It is in the hands of the president of such an institution to direct its activities and determine its policies to a large extent so it behooves the officials of the, board of agricult- ure to choose a man to head the institution that will work along the right lines. Michigan is very fortunate in having Dr. Kenyon L. But- terfleld, a native born son, at the head of the 1‘1. A. C. and we believe that under his direction the college will be of more value than. ever to the farmers of our fair state. career in the city called him away from the pursuits of agriculture to which he has remained true all his life. Rapid Rise Traced Graduating from M. A. C. in 1891. Mr. Butterfield spent four years edit— ing the Grange Visitor, and then be- camelthe first superintendent of Far— mers‘ Institutes at M. A. 0., develop- ing them into a state—wide system. He started the first publicity and advertising work for the College, a service which has grown into a most important contact with the people of the state. Following a year’s study at the University of Michigan, he taught there one year, leaving to accept the presidency of the Rhode Island Agricultural College in 1902 which he held until 1906 when he was called to a similar position in the Massachusetts Agricultural Col— lege. Here he remained nearly eigh— teen years until the call came for him to return and become president tained the following Significant para— graphs: ' “It is a thrilling experience thus to return to one’s Alma Mater, con— scious of the opportunity and the obligations that rest upon one to do his best not only to preserve the old traditions, but to help bring the «col- lege into new conquests. “I have no ready made scheme for changes. I have no set of policies to ‘spring’, no revolutionary ideas to promulgate, nobody to reward, and nobody to fpunish’. My first task is to get acquainted with the institution, the men who are making it,-——teach— ers, investigators, extension men and women. I want to know how things are done, the existing traditions and methods. I want to get the student point of view. I want to find out what the alumni are thinking and» hoping. I want to learn what the friends of the college, as represented in the great farmer’s organizations and other civic organizations believe of mind the quiet walk seemed to _ EXCERPTS FRODI‘ DR. BUTTERFIELD’S RECENT BOOK, “A CHRISTIAN PROGRAM FOR THE RURAL COIVIDIUNITY” “ HE Christian must believe that no matter how profitable the business, it is not a success unless in all its ramifications it. makes for development of personality, for enrichment of character." :1: :5: :{c “The farmer must. have access to the land on terms that give him the largest possible personal freedom and encouragement, and that likewise most fully assure society that. the land will be used to the best advantage to society." . 3!: :{z :4: “With us the main issue, lies not only in the increase in tenancy during the past generation, but in the fact that so large a proportion . of this is of a highly transient nature." ‘4: * zi: “But a system of transient tenancy makes inevitably for poor farm- ing, for meager community life, and as a rule gives the individual tenant small chance for economic success. Access to farming land is becoming year by year more difficult and will continue to be so ex- ept as vigorous steps are taken to remedy the difficutly.” ' * * * “There is terrible waste in our ‘hodgepodgc' method of relating production to consumer‘s need." :1; * 75‘- 3 “Many farmers believe sincerely that the reason why they do not get a larger share of the consmner‘s dollar is that they are being delibcaricly robbed by the middlcunen. There is no proof that this is the truth. There is ample proof, however, that tho_cost of' distribur tion of soil-grown products under the present. plan is in general too high. In some 'cases there are too many intermediaries between the farm and the consumer’s table. Often there are many tolls taken and sometimes these tolls are extravagantly large. There is. too much quantitative waste in the products themselves, especially with the perishables and the Semi-perishables. The greater staples are often handled in a way to deprive the‘grower of the full value of the market". and desire for this great institution." The faculty admire Dr. Butterfield leadership. As a real schplar it is but natural that he should command their respect. Farm People Pleased The farm leaders of Michigan greeted the selection of Dr. Butter- field as indicative of better prospects for the farmers of Michigan. One rural leader recently remarked when discussing the problems of the far- mers of Michigan, “ The two bright spots in the picture are the selection of Dr. Butterfleld as president of our Agricultural College, and the fact that‘we have a State Board of Agri- culture in"which we can place com- plete confidence." 1 It is but natural that the selection of Dr. ,Butterfield as president of the Agricultural College should meet with unanimous favor among the Grange people of Michigan, for it will be remembered that Dr. Butterfield spent his first four years out of col- lege in publicity work for the Grange, and ' has always retained a very friendly, and sympathetic attitude toward this organization. Nor has Dr. Butterfield been partial to any one farmers’ organization. Again and again he has endorsed the Farm Bureau program and has even gone so far in commenting on the remark- able development of the American Farm Bureau Federation as to say that “it is at present the most pow- erful farmers’ organization which we have had in the United States in recent times if not in all history”. To those who have watched Dr. Butterfield take charge of his new duties at the East Lansing institu— tion, it is evident that he approaches his task with appreciation of its pos- sibilties and importance. His con- ception of M. A. C. is something greater than that of a mere institu— tion for the academic training of young people in the science of agri- culture, or engineering, or home economics or any of the other courses taught at that college. 'He seems to regard M. A. C. not so much as a in— stitution but as a center of influence which must be at least state-wide if at least not greater in its scope. Favors Service to Farmers The keenly analytical mind of Dr. Butterfield has the widest and most comprehensive conception of the fun- damental problems of agriculture. He realizes that our agriculture must be efficient, "but he sees the funda« mental importance of research work for the solution of the multiplicity of problems presenting themselves to the farmer today. Moreover, he has. a firm conviction that the College- should not only serve the students who are able to come and study with-v in. its class rooms, but it should be a source of information and assistance to all the people of the state. It is but natural, therefore, that he should return with a friendly atti- tude toward the extension work of the college. We may be assured that under his guidance the county agria cultural agent work, the home dem— onstration agent program, boys’ and. girls’ club work, farm meetings and demonstrations, etc., will be pro- moted and their sphere of service ex— tended. Dr. Butterfield realizes that there is more to agriculture than merely eflicient production. He believes in. cooperative marketing. To him it is not merely a means to an end but almost an end in itself, in that he regards it as one of the highest forms of real practical Christianity. This point of view is well brought‘out in the following forceful summary of President Butterfield’s ideas, taken from one of his recent articles. “I wonder if the ministers of relig— ion in the countryside and the good deacons and elders in these churches, realize how Christian a thing it is for farmers to cooperate in produc-- tion and distribution, to work to- gether in order to improve varieties of corn and cotton, to buy together, to sell together, to plan together, to think together, to carry on all‘their common operations together wherev- er this coop'erati'on can result in sav- ing, labor; time and money? , . “We are likely to think of econof ‘(Ggmnued use mic enterprise-and businessigopperg _ .\ . ,w, . r’ u: mp WHERE THREE IS NOT A IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS.——-Do you remember how the egg-man used to come to TA KING A REST.—Burl CROWD.—“This is Vera. with her your home and trade you groceries and dry goods for your eggs? Then along cwme' Broomhead, W'illiamsburg, says doll and pet dog, Kernel”, writes telephones. automobiles, and parcel post and the egg-man became a. memory. The this is Percy Lewis and himself Subscriber J. R. Stinser, of Bellaire, picture was sent to us by Mrs. S. B. Curtiss, Shepherd, Mich. cutting weeds. "3?“ ' ...-ti ' . A . . . ‘ " “JUS’ ME AN’ MY LAWN MOWING TIME AT WATER EDGE FARM.—We and Mrs. Geo. A. McClure, Chelsea, seem to be going for a boat DOG”.—Mrs. Fred 0. Mil- suppose if Dandy. the pony, could speak he would tell his ride on Mill Lake. We doubt if they go very far because it looks ler, Willis, declares her young master “I don't mind having my picture taken but I’d as though someone had anchored the boat at the front end. The small son would not trade much rather play out in the pasture than pull this mower." lake is on the McClure farm. his dog for a. farm. The picture is from H. “2 Garmau, Mendon. OUT FOR A BOW.—The daughter and grand—daughter of Mr. HIS SECOND BIRTHDAY. A BUNCH OF CHERRY BIRDS—Here is the crew that har- —Carrol. son of Edw. J. Mol- vested the Montmorcncy cherry crop this year at Shoreacres ' stands at the PARTNERS—“This is a good start for the boy on the farm and something to keep him interested," writes Louise Baker, Owosso, Mich. We heartily agree. When father makes son inn, Byron Center, is proud farm, 01d Mission. Louis Swaney, proprietor a partner it keeps the boy interested in his work. of his birthday cake. right. - I we; “we . MICHIGAN GBOWNPFranees Willard Lamb had great fun REAL SNOW DRIFTS. GETTING READY TO FILL SILO.—It was silo filling With 1101' 0015 “Hubs 139$ “Immer- . They appear to like their'littl'e —-“How would you like to time on the F. A. Dodds’ Farm at Oak Grove, Mieh., when mistress very much. This picture was sent to usvby Mrs. H. M. live up here?” writes Earl this picture was taken. They are about ready to start fill- Lflmbc 0‘ Pittsford: Mich. Farrel, of Central Lake. ing and need a tank of water for the engine. lib. " ’3 ~ « ~ .. ,w‘- v- r, L‘ " ’., V ‘1‘ task I "n .‘ r r» ' " i (w: for each km: picture used on our gore]: and give a one year renewal for each picture used on this page. Pictures must be sharp and clear.) 1 \i. I I" "w ' ‘5 «y. ,. V“. r.»- y. yo v (174)- an "Business Fals'nfinn: w. ‘About 100 Michigan Fruit GrowersDisplay Choice Apples at Grand Rapids By CARL H. KNOPF OR years Michigan apples have sufiered by comparison with those grown in other states. “Nearly every corner grocery has, 'cured 6 iwhole winnings i right at this moment, a bushel bas- ket of small, gnarled, scabby, wormy fruit which is designated as “Michi- gan Apples" and which afford a startling contrast to the large, Inni- form, well packed box of apples from the Northwest. To those who had gotten this impression of fruit from the Wolverine state, the Third An- nual Apple Show, held in connection with the 54th Annual Meeting of the Michigan State Horticultural Society, was a distinct revelation. ‘ The whole of the main floor of the Grand Rapids Coliseum was filled with the finest apples which can be produced in any state, bar none. The exhibits even overflowed into an ad- jacent hall where well-packed bush- els competed for special premiums. Apples were shown on plates, with five specimens per plate, in trays, in groups of trays. and in bushel baskets. All varieties were there —too many in fact, for it is begin- ning to dawn on the Michigan apple grower that, unless he has a special home trade, he is much bet- ter ed with only four or five varie— ties, and certainly not to exceed 811 varieties, of apples. Unique Sales Package Contest II-‘he center of the apple exhibit, all also the center in point of inter- est was the sales package display. Here apples of various varieties were shown packed in every conceivable kind of sales package and all ar- ranged and garnlsned to attract the eye of the prospective purchaser. Over forty packages were in camped- ti‘on for the prizes of $25. $16, and $10 offered by the Grand Rapids Press. The packages ranged from small baskets containing 10 or 12 large red Spies and priced at 35¢ per package up to full bushels costing‘ about $3.50 each. In each case the fruit contained in the package had been weighed and computed at a uni- form price per pound. The cost of the fruit plus the cost of the package determined the price at which the package was offered. While there were many entries of baskets in the form of half-pecks, peeks. half—bushels and bushels. the largest part of the exhibit was made up of containers suitable for mailing.- These held various quantities of fruit and were made of wood, of fib- er, and some of cardboard. One very unique container was in this form of a wire waste—basket with a handle added for convenience in carrying. This container gave unlim- ited opportunity to inspect the fruit from all sides and 'had the further advantage of supplying a useful waste—basket when emptied. The Public Chooses The sales package exhibits were judged by the public itself. Each visitor at the show was furnished a card on which he, or she, indicated the packages considered the “best buys", beginning with first choice and continuing to eighth choice. In order to induce careful consideration and thoughtful judging, there were prizes offered to the judges them- selves. For the three- persons whose judgment came nearest the average as expressed by all the people, prizes of $25, $15, and $10 were offered. As a thousand or more persons “jud- ged” these exhibits, the task of de- termining the winners, both as to exhibits and judges, required a long time. The results, when finally available will be received with much interest. Twenty-Year-Old Exhibitor Wins To report the winners in the regu- lar classes of the apple show requires that one write the name “Braman” and then use a lot of ditto marks. J. Russell Braman, a 20-year old fruit grower of Kent county won the lion’s share of the honors. As this is the third- show in which young Braman has been a prominent exhibitor, his ability is firmly established. This year J. Russell won 27 first prizes, 8 second prizes, 2 third prizes and 1 fourth prize. In addition, he se- sweepstakes awards, the giving him over $200 in cash besides several valuable special prizes. . The remarkable list of Braman winnings includes firsts on plates of Wealthy, Snow, Rhode Island Green- ing, Canada Red, Northern Spy, Bald- win, King, Ben Davis, and Wagner, all these being in the section for south-western Michigan. His plates of Wealthy, Snow, Canada Red, R. I. Greening, and Northern Spy later won sweepstakes ribbons with all parts of the state competing. Fur- ther sweepstakes honors were won for J. Russell Braman by his plate of Baldwins which was judged the best plate of apples in the entire show. Other winners of sweepstakes honors in the plate classes were: .Jonathans and McIntosh, S. J. Cowan of Rockford; Grimes Golden, L. A. Spencer of Kibbie; Wagner, R. C. Newton of Hart; Hyslop Crab, Jesse W. Pickett of Caledonia. With the Bushel Exhibits Winners of first place in the class for varieties shown in bushels were as follows: Snow, Johnathan, Weal- thy, Northern Spy, and Wagner, J. Russell Braman of Grand Rapids; Grimes Golden. W. R. Roach of Hart; Canada Red, Farley Bros. o-f Albion; Hyslop Crab, Henry McCarty of Grand Rapids; Any other variety, Thorns and Brechting of Grand Rap- ids. Tray Exhibits Also Attractive The tray exhibits always attract the attention of visitors to the Apple Show as the trays give full opportun— ity for displaying the skill of the ex- ,: s. essed to this department. hibitor in selecting for color, size, shape, and uniformity. Another recent development of in- terest to fruit growers is the produc- tion of a red Northern Spy and a red Rome Beauty. While both of these varieties have always been . listed as red apples there has always been a certain percentage of the fruit which was greenish streaked. As a result of years of selection there has been developed strains of these two varieties which produce fruit which is practically solid red in color. Putting an attractive red coat on Michigan's Northern Spies, which have had a reputation for years for size, flavor. and quality, is bound to be of considerable commercial im- portauce. Those winning first place in the various variety classes for tray ex- hibits were: Snow, Wealthy, Jona- than, and Northern Spy, J. Russel Braman; Grimes Golden, W. R. Roach; Greening and Wagner, H. S. Newton; McIntosh, S. J. Cowan; Steele Red, Farley Bros. Lest the reader get the impression by this time that J. Russell Braman was practically the only exhibitor at the show, be it said that there were about 100 exhibitors representing every part of the state, the Upper Penniusula included. All of the ex- hibits from the latter section Were sent by W. A. Clark, Agricultural Agent of Ontonago-n county. Too Many Varieties Niels L. Harass of Fennvi'lle had the largest and best display of apples. It was said that nearly 80 varieties of apples were included in this ex- Ffirmerejserviceliure :4 " 4 (A Cinrlng Department for farmers' ever day troubles. Prompt. careful attention given to all complaints or requests for Information a or We are here to serve you. All Inquiries must be accompanied by full name and address. Name not used If so requested.) HAS SCHOOL BOARD RIGHT TO PAY TUITION? Has the school board a legal right to pay the tuition of a pupil of said district to a high school when the pupil is twenty years of age?——C. M. P., Charlevoix, Michigan. SCHOOL board does not have the legal right to pay the tuition of a pupil who was twenty years of age at the time of filing written application for the payment of tui- tion. If the pupil were nineteen at the time of filing application and became twenty after that time, the board must pay the tuition for the school year following the time of filing application.——-W. L. Coffey, Deputy Superintendent of Public In- struction. HOW CAN HE GET CLEAR TITLE? I have a state tax land deed for a certain piece of property. Kindly advise me as to the necessary pro- cedure in order to give me a clear title of this property. Please pub— lish in your legal column—G. R. B., Harrisville, Mich. ' OU are required to give notice Y to former owner, of your deed. The county clerk will instruct you how to proceed—Legal Editor. NOTES D0 OUTLAW Is there a law passed that notes do not outlaw? If so when was it passed and would notes given less than six years before it was passed be collectable?——M. H., Snover, Mich. 0 far as I am aware there is no statute in this State providing that promissory notes do not outlaw.—-—Clare Retan, Deputy Attor- ney General. CHARGED OVER SEVEN PER CENT I have a note for $150.00 in a certain bank. I borrowed this mon- ey four years ago this fall. The first time for one year they charged me $7.50 bonus beside the seven per cent interest and after the first year I have renewed it every three months and now I have got so .I can egin to pay it up a little at a time and” want to know if it is lawful for them to charge this bonus? Could I make them turn this bonus onto the prin- cipal?—H. E. C., Secord, Mich. is unlawful to charge more than 7% interest on borrowed money, and a bonus of this kind would be uncollectable.——Legal Editor. APPLY TO PROBATE JUDGE FOR MOTHER'S PENSION Would you please inform me where and how a widow can apply for the widow’s pension? Husband was killed three years ago and two small children. Could the back years he collected?——Mrs. G. D., Gladwin. Michigan. WOMAN must apply to a Pro- bate Judge for aI‘so-called mother’s pension. The Probate Judge-will give her necessary blanks to make the application and will ad- vise her as to her rights.———Clare Retan, Deputy Attorney General. NO RIGHT TO DESTROY PROPERTY I have a question I want to ask in regards to a cemetery. Has the sexton or any other party any right to set fire in the cemetery and burn over the whole cemetery destroying shrubs and flowers? This is an old cemetery and there is no vacant lots in it. Do not the lots become in- dividual property when the people hold a receipt for the lots? -—A Subscriber, Selkirk, Mich. HE sexton or any other person would have no right to injure or destroy any property on your lot in the cemetery, as it is your in- dividual property—Legal Editor. AGAINST T0 mm PEWTE- Can a farmer shoot pheasants if. they are destroying his corn or oth- er crops?-—H. Ju, Algonac, Mich. HE law makes an absolute clos- ed seasou on pheasants mntfil 1926‘. There: is no provision in— the law for the killing of pheasants if they are found to be destroying property—John, Baird. Director, Dept. of Conservation. ' u ‘ fruit growing world. hibit. Comment around the show room was to the effect that such dis- plays bring out the weakness of Michigan as an apple section, that is, too many varieties. Some sentiment was in evidence to discontinue- such classes in future shows. \ The best and largest collection of pears was exhibited by J. P. Munson of Grand Rapids. Among the special classes at the show were several for bushel ex— hibits of apples. Premiums for these classes were provided by sev- eral business houses of Grand Rapids with the understanding that the prize winning bushels became the property of the firms furnishing the premiums. In this division J. Russell Braman was again the heavy winner securing first on bushels of Jonathan, Bald- win, Northeru Spy, and Winter Ban- ana. Other owners of first prize bushels in this section Were: Grimes Golden, W. R. Roach; Wages-er, H. Schaefer & Son of Sparta; Rhoda Is— land Greenings, Yaylor & Jager of Douglas; Delicious, Thorne & Brech- ting; McIntosh, H. S. Newton; Duchess, Roy Dodge of Byron Cen- ter; Sweet apple, Rex Roberts of Grand Rapids. Continuing his Winning stride, the same J. Russell also took first in the class for a five—bushel exhibit of any standard variety. Some of the other prominent ex:— hi‘bitors who did not break into the first prize column unite so often, but who nevertheless had spiendid fruit on display were: Gordon Frost of Lowell; Pickford Bros. of Doster; Ballard Bros. of Niles; A. L. Coons of Lowell; Chas. McCarty, of Grand Rapids; Chas. Braun*& Son of Ann Arbor; Stuart Acres of Marshall; J. D. Smith of Jonesville; W. S. Smith of Muir; A. G. Spencer of South Haven; J. H. Crane of Fenm— ville; N. W. Laird of Chelsea; Homer Waring of Kewadin; Arl‘ie Hopkins of Bear Lake; H. E. Huey of Shelby; J. Robothan of Beulah; F. C. Sher- man of Hart; A. Dickinson of Benton Harbor; L. H. Greene of Balding. This latter exhibitor won first on a plate of Golden Delicious, a variety which is quite new to this state and whose value has not yet been de- termined. J. H. Gourley of the Ohio Experi- ment Station and J. H. Waring of Penn State College were the judges for the show. M. A. 0. Student Contest Each year the students in the Horticultural department at the Michigan Agricultural College look forward to two contests which are held in connection with the State Horticultural meeting. One of these is the speaking contest which occu- pies a prominent place on the pro- gram and in which the students dis- cuss different phases of horticulture for the benefit of the audience. Winners in the speaking contest this year were: First, L. H. Kelly of Conklin. Second, E. M. Berry of Hopkins. Third, R. K. Rosa of Pontiac. The second contest involves the identification and judging of apples and thus requires no little skill. Forty varieties of apples are pre- sented for identification, following which 5 classes of apples must be judged for excellence. Winners in this contest were announced as fol- lows: First, Don Stark of Midland. Second, A. H. Teske of South Haven. Third, George Compton of South Haven. The State Department of Agricul- ture had a large and interesting dis— play illustrating packing, grading, containers, inspection service, dis- eases, pests, tflc. Incidentally, tth potato which last year was half this Apple and Potato Show, could be found- this year only in thh State De» partment’s exhibit. Michigan’s Third Apple Show was a convincing demonstration that Michigan fruit is second to: none and that some Michigan growers know how to produce, grade. select, and pack. When this knowledge and ability is put into more, general preo- tice we may then expect to see Mich»- igan. take her rightful place in the x 7 ' . Member 20.51926. j g 1 Show Proves Michigan Apples Second to None ‘1‘: ’A-Mgs: A .Itx fin: \ up. _- are? ’ ~\ * ” : Tour-in ,, ,- ' s “1" TE \ y s“ 'B‘fié r as. s ‘ n 'R s . Rural Englandina Second-hand‘Flivver z]. English Farm Hand Works 52 Hours a Week and Receives About $6.50 Per Week By FRANCIS A. FLOOD This. is the sixth article ‘of the series on European travels by Mr. Flood. ' In this article he tells us Something about the journey of the four farm paper editors in the Gray Goose. HE four Yankee editors were up with the first loud crack of 7 dawn, and, after our standard English breakfast, t he old. Gray Goose was honking out of the City of Ten Million Chimneys just as the dawn, vegetable peddlers and milk- men were creeping into town. Doctor Bereman of South Dakota, “Dean” Hopkins of Wisconsin, Tom Wheeler of Indianalfind I were the four Americans; the legal breakfast in England is cold toast, marmalade and tea; the Old Gray Goose was our English-tailored flivver; and the be- chimneyed city was London town. The morning was a rainy June Day, not pleasant at all, and it made me understand why Browning wrote, “Oh, to be in England now that April’s there—” instead of selecting June to rhapsodize about. The Gray Goose was “honking” because the British variety of the Ninety Dollar [Wonder are always equipped with the big bulb honkers instead of the electric office buzzers that are sol- dered into the American edition of the famous tin car. After nearly a week in London, we had let the rest of the editorial party go their several ways, visiting around among the museums and his- torical places of the grand old city, making short daily sallies out to nearby farms and cities and back again at night, seeing rural England from the windows of the little toy trains, invading Scotland or leaving Merrie England entirely for contin- ental Europe and whatever they could find elsewhere. Four of us had tired of the high- ways of English travel and decided to follow the inviting byways for a week in our fog—colored jitney which had promptly been named The Gray Goose. We paid 62 pounds for the car and hoped the price would not lose much weight before we should return a Week later. The complica— tions of the left—handed traffic are so terrifying that we insured the old uncovered wagon against accident and felt certain that we would get our money back soon enough—eith- er in accident insurance on the Gray Goose, or in life insurance on each other. The fact that I was appointed the driver, without even my own dis- senting voice, forestalled that possi- bility, however, for we kept safely on the left side of the road and our only accident was the fact that we made it at all. We headed for the southern shires .i of England, the home of the South- down sheep. We had always under- stood from the time When we first knew a sheep, from a goat that the shires of Sussex and Hampshire were covered with Southdown sheep. To imagine the hills of the southern shires was to imagine flocks of mut- ton on every hill. But, whatever they may once have been, those chal- ky hills are now as full of sheep as Wyoming and New Mexico are full of Indians—they used to be there, but, except in a few isolated cases, they are there now only in tradition. ‘ This may sound like telling the small boy that there is no Santa 'Claus, but we drove for eighty miles in a south- erly direction from London before we ' sighted our first flock of sheep. There is not the mutton consumed in England today that there was in former years. Many a lament we heard from the real Britisher who deplored the passing 0f the mutton sheep, and longed for the chop of the good old days. Why this change has come about no one is totally sure; it seems to be for the same reason that brown eggs are eaten in Boston and white ones in Chicago. .It was the haying season. field there were fourteen men build- ing one stack of hay. Three buck rakes, or hay sweeps, .much as we have here in America were bringing the . hair up; to ' a. stacker, , an endless he; " or aims, 0,11 the 1 " asst. In one . ‘te'é‘d .‘ ‘j ' A band of Sufl‘olks in the portable wattles. fashioned straw carrier from a threshing machine before the blower came into use. Four men were pitching the hay into a hopper which led to this carrier and there were five men on the stack. A one—horse “horse-power” propelled this hay carrier through a connection of tum- ble rods. The one man on a rake, and the foreman, completed the hay making complement of fourteen men and six horses building one stack of hay. It was an excellent field of alsike clover, votch and rye grass, making about two tons to the acre. In hay of this kind the foreman said that his crew of fourteen men would put up about 25 or 30 tons per day. When they finished a stack, however, they left a perfect job. I think the finest finished tacks of hay that I have ever seen stood on those English hill sides. These men were paid 28 srillings, about $6.50, for a week of 52 hours, and they were required to board themselves. Overtime was paid for at the rate of about 17 cents per hour. Most of these hands were the young unmarried men of the nearby villages who constitute almost all the farm labor. The prevailing rotations used on some of the farms around there which appeared to be representative of the southern shires in general in- cluded hay crops, wheat and rye or barley, and roots, Swedish turnips. Winter vetch will be seeded down af- ter an. oats crop is removed. It will be pasteurized by sheep during the summer, and, incidentally, fertilized. Then it will be put in roots and then in grass, followed by wheat or barley. The problem of the English farmer is to keep putting something back into his soil and not to content him- self with merely seeing how much he can take away as does the Ameri— can farmer. The main difficulty with English farming as a profitable business un- dertaking at present seems to be the taxes. Unbelievable tales of excessive taxes were told by the owners and renters of prosperous looking farms who explained that the high rates Were forcing many of the ancient landed citizenry to sell their farms ———and that at a sacrifice—because of their inability to pay the tax from the rent or direct proceeds of the land it- self. The country, almost strictly agri- cultural as it is, appears prosperous, and everything is neat and tidy and as picturesque as a painting. The doctor remarked that if one wanted to take a beautiful picture of rural England he could blindfold himself, walk out into any field and point his camera in any direction and snap it. We stopped at Brighton Beach, the Atlantic City of England—or rather it would be more to the point to say that Atlantic City is the Brighton of America—and did a few minutes on the board walk feeling quite at home among the many American residents of that famous beach. We made the trip to Winchester our first day out; Winchester, where so many of our own soldiers were quartered with soldiers of nearly every allied army during the great war. A great event was on at Winches- ter, a cricket match between Eton and Winchester. These cricket games are long—drawn-out, two-day affairs and the score was two or three hun- dred to a half—dozen in favor of some side at the end of the first day. We heard no cheering and saw less ex- citement than there is in the morning batting practice of a boy scout team. The only thing the cricket game meant to us was that every hotel in town was filled by the time we reached Winchester, even the famous old House of God Begot. We stopped at the sign of the Ball and Ring, a typical old tavern of the Tales of a Wayside Inn type. Mine host and his wife and daughter with their huge angora cats and their mugs of ale and their quaint old tales of English lore entertained us until finally the doctor and I crept up the stairs to our little bedroom under the eaves, with the candles in our hands. We put our “boots” outside the door for the maid to “clean” and slept that night on big featherdown bolsters dreaming of English puddings and Canterbury Tales. In 164 A. D. a Wessex church had been built upon the sight of the ca- thedral at Winchester and the next morning we visited that grand old building and sat on a bench that had been supporting the monks, and tour- ists, for over 900 years. The old ca— thedral had been shelled by Crom— .VAL «shake-pow neighbors "in Stretford-on-Avon. well, but he is quite forgiven for it ‘7, The i remains of local celebrities of the' now by the town residents. days of Columbus and Queen Elizan beth are buried around the church- yard. On one weatherbeaten lime- stone slab we read the following in- scription: “In Memory of Thomas Thatcher, a Grenadier in the North Reg’t. of Hants Militia, who died of a violent fever contracted by drink- ing Small Beer when hot the 12th of May, 1764, Aged 26 years.” AndI beneath it this bit of verse: “Here lies in peace a Hamp» shire Grenadier Who caught his death by drink- ing cold small beer. Soldiers, be wise from his un- timely fall, And when yere hot drink Strong or none at all." And then the officers of the garrison added the following bit of sentiment upon the restored slab in 1780: “An honest soldier never is for- got Whether he died by Mufket or by Pot." Another inscription that attracted| our attention in spite of its evident » intent was ascribed on a marble slab in the churchyard in Arundel: “All you that pass this way along, Think how sudden I was gone. God doth not always warning give; Therefore, be careful how you live.” As one who has gained many a. thrill in battling a black bass from one of Minnesota’s lakes or in snar- ing a canny trout from his rocky lair in a dashing moutain stream, I reg- istered a thrill in resting for a mo- ment upon the old wooden bench where Izaac Walton had sat when writing his Compleat Angler, 300‘ years ago. We did not ghoulishly and fool- ishly spend our time searching around graveyards for tombstone in- scriptions, however, for these hap- pened to be a few that were particu- larly pointed out. But it does give the most unromantic soul a certain kind of feeling to stand over the graves of Tennyson, Browning, Shakespeare, fallen kings, and mon- archs undefeated save in death, to browse on the glories of those olden l into the f days, and then step out sunlight shine of 1924 with the past as quickly brushed aside. I get my kick out of the glorious . present and appreciate the period of time in which it came my lot to live, but I also enjoy tuning in for a. moment with the mysterious and en- chanting ages of the past. This can be done so easily when standing in W'estminister Abbey before the old Coronation Chair, with the Stone of Destiny beneath it, where so many of England’s kings were crowned, or resting in the medieval atmospherel of the grand cathedral at Salisbury or at Winchester, with its 600 feet of length crammed full of history and legend, and where the only thing that has remained in the shadow of the spire which slowly, but exactly, meas- ures up to the same niche in the grey stone wall, fifty yards away, that it reached at high noon 400 years ago when the niche was first carved there by some long-headed monk who had his three meals and petty troubles and worried about the day by day destinies of those forgot- ten times as we do here today.- It was in these country places, removed from the beaten paths of tourists that we attracted the most attention as foreigners, “damned Yanks”. as we were affectionately l In fact, one Englishman told! called. us he had visited America a few years ago and learned for the first time that “damned Yank” were two words. With our big shell-rim glasses Tom Wheeler and I attracted even more attention than would other- wise have been occasioned. The doctor had a playful habit of refer- ing to -me as ‘,‘Harold", or,,.?fllr. Lloyd’3, in a. tone loud, enough to be (Continued on Page 17) l n l; a, l l l T, 18 live) .. YOUR BABE) BEPARI’HWENT. HE Radio Editor wishes to make this department of in- terest to the readers of THE BUSINESS FARMER and instructive when ever and however possible. Will you help us? Please write and tell us just what you would like to see in this de- partment each issue, what you want to read about or Want to build. Send us pictures of sets that you have built and tell us What radio has done for you, for your children or for the old folks. We will use pict— ures whenever possible as we all like to see what the other fellow has done. MORE ABOUT VACUUM TUBES Thc different types of vacuum tubes. HERE are 4 types of vacuum T tubes now on the market which are used for receiving purposes as well as for amplifying in both audio and radio frequency circuits. These types might be divided into two classes, the dry battcry tubes, and the storage battery tubes. Dry battery tubes may be operated upon storage batteries but storage battery tubes can not, be operated on dry batteries with satisfaction as they use up too much current and thus are expensive. On the left of the picture We have the [JV—200 or 0—300 type of bulb, which is a gas content, bulb and is a splendid detector. The same shaped bulb is the UV—L’Ol—A or the C—IBOLA bulb, which is both a detector and amplifier. The [TV—200 bulb uses 1 ampere of (current, while the 201—A bulb uses only 14 of an ampere. Both should be used on storage bat- teries of not over 6 volts. The “A” as much to run as the other one and type of bulb will cost but a quarter in most instances will give just as sa- tisfactory results. In the center of the picture is the VVD—l 1, W’D-12 or 0-11, 0-12 type of bulb. these tubes are worked on dry batteries, only one cell of 1% volts being required for the A battery. They use 14 ampere of current and one tube can be run on one cell for from 30 to 100 hours of intermittent service. These same tubes can be used on one cell of storage battery which is of two volts. In this case a rheostat of plenty of resistance must be used so that the tube will not be burned out. The righthand picture is the “pea— nut” tube or the {TV—13)!) or (3—299 tubc. which requires 41/2 volts for A battery and uscs only six one—hun— dredths of an ainporc (0.06 amp.) and is thc idcal dry battery tubc, tho on account of it‘s (mistruclion it will not :4in quite the volunw that the other tulws will zglw, ’i'hcsc “peanut” tubes and the l“v' '11 (1‘ 1‘3 tubes Zil't‘ \wrv ::uit;ll)lc, for small, and the batlcrics can in: small and the whole set includng the bat,— terics can all be enclole in one cab~ inct. "l‘hcse then arc the tubes for portable sets. For volume of sound the 201—A tubes are the best as they have large plates and grids and a good internal’ capacity for this purpose. Other Makes of Tubes There are several manufacturers making vacuum tubes, and some of them are quite good while others are defective and do not have a long life. Some of the basic patents hav- ing expired has led many people into this field and soon We may havo vac— uum tubes almost, as clmap as elec— tric light bulbs are now. In the meanwhile if you try any of these tubes do not be surprised if you are disappointed at times. I have used some good ones and also some poor ones. The Life of :1 Vacuum Tube The longest life of a vacuum tube is obtained when all conditions of the maker are observed, that is use the right voltage of A battery, do not burn too brightly, (that is turn on ’1' His. . .B’ Iii/s I ADIo DEPARTMENT EDITED BY J. HERBERT FERRIS, R. E. Contributions Invited—Questions Answered your A battery current only high enough so that you get the desired results) and do not force it in order to bring in signals on a poor night. The vacuum tubes that are made for detectors and amplifiers should not be used for transmitters. {Sudden jolts and jars will some— times disarrange the internal ele— ments and then the tube will not work. Handle it carefully. From a year to five years a tube w1il last depending upon the amount of use and abuse you have given it. Properly handled tubes seldom burn out, but after long use just die down and do not give results. For this reason it is well to change tubes once in a. while and test out those that you are using as your set may be failing to function all on account of a dead or dying tube. RESULTS IN RECEIVING BROADCAST’S 0 often we hear or read of some- one who has heard a very dis- tant broadcasting station, a station that we have not heard. Our set is the same and we wonder just why he could hear it. Or on some particular evening we wish to hear some broadcast that will be of spec- lal interest to us, and no matter how carefully we tune in, we do not get it. And then again, we invite in some friends to hear our radio, and we only get poor results or maybe we do not hear anything at all. Why? There are a. great many things that may. cause such results; some that are of our making and others that we cannot be held accountable for. for they are due to Nature. The faults of our own set we can cor- rect, and so a few suggestions may help many of you readers to get bet- ter results. First, know your set; that is, re. alize by observing results just what you do in tuning that gives you clear and distinct voice reception, also just how you tune when you get a distant station. A common fault is "mushy" or indistinct voices. This at times is due to weather condi- tions, but a great deal of it is caused by poor tuning, that is, in trying to get the greatest volume from your set. Turning your A battery cur— Beut of heart heard through radio loudspeaker. This picture shows Dr. Leo Jacob- sohn, of (lhurlottenburg, Germany, proving at a recent lecture before the Institute for Medical Advancement that it was possible to increase the tones of the heart so that it could be heard throughout an auditorium in Germany. (Photo from World Wide Photo.) I_IANDY HIRAM’S DEPARTMENT Pass along your ideas, folks. a_ rough sketch on paper so that our artist will have an idea of what it looks like. Just write a description of each one and send a photograph or We Will give a twtryear renewal to each subscriber who sends in an idea we can use on this page. U N ERICA RAB]; E HAM MICK. HANDLES HERE hammers are to be used v‘ for rough work, or when used in the hands of unskilled work— men, it. is difficult to keep the com— mon wood handles from breaking. And as the handle eye of most ham— ‘UNBREAKABLE HAMMER HANDLES mers is smaller than the hand hold part of the handle, it is not possible to use a piece of straight tubing. For a Well—proportioncd tube handle the front forks of an old bicycle are very good. Straighten the fork mem— bers then place the small end in the hammer driving the latter on as far as it will go. With a hacksaw then cut, the fork off at the proper length for the handle. Allow the small end to protrude a half inch through the hammer then drive in a hard wood Wedge from the large end of the tubing, using a long,r bolt or punch to set the wedge to the tonal] wad of the handle. Rivet over the 1/; -inch cud left p"otrud‘in_g and the job is completed. ith a handle which will give long service and yet not be any heavier than a wood han— dle—M. George. A HANDY ENGINE TRUCK HEIN a small farm engine of v; the so—called stationary type has to be moved occasionally the expedient shown in the sketch will prove helpful. Usually these engines are mounted on a pair of skids about 2 by 4 inches in size. A set of small iron wheels (all four alike) should be used. lron rod or pipe of a size suitable to serve A handy engine truck. as an axle also is picked out. Then holes are bored through the engine skids at front and back ends, the axle slipped through, the wheels put on and held in place with washers and cotter pins. Obviously the steering facilities are deficient, but it is easier to lift over one end of the engine to steer it than to lift the whole engine to haul it in some other way. The drawbar pull required will be less if the wheels are of fairly good size, but for convenience in prying up the engine to get the wheels on a rather low wheel is preferably.———Frank J3 Renner. ' .\ December :0, 192 " rent on too much so that the’ fila- ' merits of your bulbs burn too bright will distort or change the natural tone of voice; try it With a. little less brightness, and though not as loud the tones will come in clearer. Too much regeneration, in a regen- erative set, will give loudness but always at a loss of clearness. Un- tune a little; you will lose a little volume but again gain in clarity of tone. Both the above faults are en— countered usually at the time when the broadcasts are not coming in as loud as we Wish or expect and so we try to “force” our tubes to do more than they are made to do, and na- turally they being overworked do] not give the best of results. Vacuum tubes have one point at which they work best, and though all vacuum tubes modify or distort voices and music somewhat a. great deal of it can be done away with by watching your results and then sticking to the adjustment that gives fair volume with clearness. Always bear in mind, in cool weather, fall and winter, that your results will be better, that is signals come in much louder and usually clearer. That at night, and the lat— er you sit up, the results are much better than in day time. Some sta- tions that can not be heard at all during the day time will come in splendidly at night. When weather about the same where you are and at the broadcasting station, your re— sults will be better; but should there be a storm area. between you and the broadcasting station you may only get poor results, or a “swinging” or “fading” result. Just because the night is clear where you are is not a sign that reception will be good as there may be a storm right where the broadcasting sta- tion is or between you and it. Partly cloudy nights, where the clouds hang low and drift slowly past your house, may cause a great deal of fading and spoil your pleas- ure by causing you to lose just that part of a speech or music that you most wish to hear. Do not keep ad- justing your set; if it is a fading sig- nal it will come back in time, or tune into another station that you know that you can hear. Fogs, rains, clouds, changes in temperature, electrical disturbances all may cause you trouble; these you cannot avoid, and to try and force your set to receive through them is not only very dis- appointing, but by burning your tubes too bright you shorten their lives and cause them to distort the received signal and spoil them in- ternally. (They are made to burn at a certain temperature and too great heat causes a. physical change in the metal and its coating, spoil- ing it for the purpose designed.) Last to be considered is the per“ sonal element. Some people have a natural “knack” for tuning, and others require long hours of pract- ice before they can tune. Some never get satisfactory results. Most of the (lifllculity on a good set is due to this personal element. Each person has a slightly different meth- od of tuning, and if you are not get— t1ng satisfactory results but some one else can, from your set, then by all means learn their method and stick to it. sudden M. A. (‘. STATION \VILL SOON Hit} ON AIR HE Michigan Agricultural College has announced that the new college radio broadcasting sta— tion, WKAR, will go on the air the first week in January. The station is a new class B station, with 500- watt power sending outfit, and re— places the old 100— watt outfit hero,— tofore used at the college. New areials, huge steel towers on top of the engineering building, were com— pleted week before last. XVKAR will operate on a wave length of 286 meters, according to present plans. VVREO, Reo motor Car Company station, operates on about the same wave length and a division of time between those in charge of the two stations will be made. The program from the college will be both educational and entcrtain— ing. Department heads will give lectures, college " events will be broadcast and the various musical organizations. dramatic clubs, etc., will be given turns “on the air.” . l l conditions are ‘ Kr SEEMONS ‘mmiwnmum THE ADIERICAN AND HIS MONEY { WISE man wrote down this. “A A fool and his money are soon parted.” Most of us have had experiences that have made us feel that this sentence was written to describe our rsonal actions. What one of us as not some time exchanged gold for glitter, and come home poorer in pocket, but richer in experience? The Spending of money is an index of character. What we spend for, shows our deepest likes and dislikes. The woman whose, check—book tub was being examined by her hus- band, had written down the letters G. O. K. after many of her figures. He said, “What does that mean?” She replied “God Only Knows.” The American Education Digest gives the following table to show how we Americans as a whole are disposing of our earnings. Of each one dollar which we spend, the following items are the average proportion. Living costs ........................ ..24 1/2 Luxuries ............................ ..22 Waste ................................ ..14 Miscellaneous .................... ..13 be Investments ...................... ..11 Crime, court costs, etc ....... .. 8% Government ...................... .. 4 1/2 Schools .............................. .. 11/2 Church .............................. .. 5&4 The list does not describe every one of us, but the average of all of us. Our fathers spent more of their income living, and little for luxuries. They spent less for crime and its punishment. They spent more for the causes of religion, that is a higher per cent of their earnings. Really as you look at this list of figures, one has to admit we show too little sense in the spending of our cents. You and I are spending three times as much for luxuries as we are for government, schools, and church. How long will the moral life of America be preserved, sweet, clean, and wholesome, if that proportion of things continue? We are spending two and a half per cent more for crime than we are for Government, Schools and Church! If that is true, then we must be— gin to teach ourselves, and teach to our children the sacredness of Obedi-' ence of Good Laws. The next twenty—five years of American History will determine the trend of the next- 500 years. Science is bringing to our hands and homes convenience after con— venience. Luxuries that were only tasted by our richer people of a gen- eration ago, now crowd the lives of the children of the poor. The lab— orer of America eats better food with knife and fork of silver, than Queen Elizabeth, in her palace, ate with her fingers. I plead for a sanity that will save us from folly, I plead for purposes that will reverse the proportions of America’s spending list, and lift those figures at the bottom of the column nearer to the top where they right- fully belong. Unless we put more money into these things that preserve and save us, we shall soon begin to write the lurid tragedy of another people who forgot God and perished. I believe that we shall change these figures, and personally, I am gomg to begin with myself. CANADA BIG \VINN'ER AT INTERNATIONAL CANADIANS won some of the most coveted honors at the Interna- tional Live Stock Exposition and Hay and Grain Show held recently in Chicago. Farmers from the Domin— ion, competing with the best that ex- hibitors from the United States could produce won a gqu share of the championships and blue ribbons. The outstanding honor of the show from a Canadian viewpoint was the winning of the world’s wheat cham- pionship by J. C. Mitchell, of Dahin- da, Sask., a victory he had scored in 1919 and 1920. He won this cham- pionship in 600 entries with a bushel of Marquis Sprint wheat. The prize " _ ‘2 1; nets him $675, of which $600is giv< en by the International show. Can- ada has won the world's wheat cham- pionship thirteen times out of four- teen. The international competition began 14 years ago. ' The Prince of Wales was a Winner with shorthorn cattle from his ranch near High River, Alberta. His year— ling heifer “Princeton Rosewood" carried off a first in a field of 20 en- tries and he also got fourth for “King of the Fairies”, a shorthorn bull. More than three-fourths of the prizes for sheep'went to Canadian ex- hibitors, who were principally from Ontario. The Dominion Experimen- tal farm at Lacombe, Alberta, was a big winner with shire horses. FARM COURSES START AT M. A. 0. JANUARY 5 ‘1- SIX different “short courses” rang- ing all the way from a course in general agriculture to special schools in definite branches of farm- ing, will open at the Michigan Agri- cultural College on January 5, ac— cording to announcement made by Tangsmsinnss*rnnnnm q E. B. Hill. director of the school at M. A. C. The short winter courses are open to any citizen of the state ovwr ‘" years of age, no scholastic requ.- ments for admission being held. They are said to be designed for those who cannot or do not care to take a longer four-year agricultural course at the college, and yet still want to gain scientific training in their agricultural field. Two dairy courses, a ten weeks course in dairy production, and an eight-weeks course in dairy manu- factures; an eight-weeks course in general agriculture; an eight weeks horticultural course, a four weeks poultry course and an eight weeks agricultural engineering course are those which start January 5. winter \ LIQUIFYING HONEY T is true that many people do not know how to use honey in its solid form, and although t e danger of loss in shipping is less hen honey is granulated, the customer, with few exceptions, expects to buy extraced honey in liquid form. Since most of the Michigan honeys have a tendency . --, ..__.~..m _. . 4‘... ‘3- to granulate at the end of six weeks after extracting, it is only fair to the cuszi mer to heat—treat extracted hon- ey sofa! in retail containers before it placed o: the market. For the benefit of beginners, this heat-treating process consists in heating the honey to 150° in a water- bath which provides an inch of water space on the bottom and four sides of the sixty pound cans in which honey is commonly stored. This water temperature of 150° should be main- tained for one hour after the honey has melted. If the honey is not yet granulated, the maintenance of this water temperature for one hour should be sufficient to prevent the honey from granulating for quite a period of time, say six months or 80. Of ecurse, all honey that is sold in glass packages should be heated any— way, unless the customer demands granulated honey. I have been a reader of M. B. F. e‘v‘er since it has been printed.——-J. L, S., Moore- park, Michigan. We like the paper very much.-——B. 8.. Clayton, Michigan. w M ._ ..._. .-A _. ..«um farmer. The quality of Larro will ncaer be lowered so long as Larro is made. Regardless of what changes take place in the price of ingredients, Larro will always remain the same. ONG ago we decided upon this policy, and wrote this pledge into our manufacturing creed. There were two reasons for this decision—we knew it to be correct, both in theory and practice, and we knew we could keep the promise. Years of experiment and practical feeding have proved that a dairy feed must be more than just “a good feed.” be absolutely uniform and its formula must not be changed. Sudden changes in feed—putting in more of this, or less of that, the substitution of poorer ingredients, imperfect blending or mixing—result in lower milk yield and smaller profits for the Your cows do not eat a printed formula. They are not conCerned with price changes. Whether the market is high or low, they need a feed that will build condition and keep milk flow at its peak. The Larrowe Milling, Company is able to keep ifs promise of uniformity and unchanging formula because it has the experience and equipment to manufa :ture a feed that never varies. It has a formula that can be depended upon to produce milk profitably. This formula will never be changed unless the Larro Research Farm proves that a better one has been found. LARRO is more than a good feed; it is always the same feed. We repeat that we shall continue to manufacture LARRO on this basis—the basis of more profit to those who buy it. THE LARROWE MILLING COMPANY DETROIT, MICHIGAN arre‘ _ THE SAFE RATION FOR DAIRY COWS 2:.qu In It must also a: l ', i i. ii ; . i. t t . .iunnuv .- . ‘ «may ‘ (Continued from December 0th may hall clock in the hall struck nine. He got up and went out into the hall and asked for his hat and coat. When they had been brought to him. he put them on and went out. The snow had stopped some time be- fore; a strong and increasing wind had sprung up, which Alan, with knowledge of the wind across his prairies, recog- nized as an aftermath of the greater storm that had produced it; for now the wind was from the opposite direction— from; the west. ‘He could see from the Sherrill’s door-step, when he looked to- ward the lighthouse at the harbor mouth winking red, white, red, white, at him, that this offshore wind was causing some new commotion and upheaval among the ice-flees; they groaned and labored and fought against the opposing pressure of the waves, under its urging. He " went down the steps and to the corner and turned west to Astor Street. When he reached the house of his father, he stopped under a street-lamp. looking up at the big, stern old mansion question- ingly. It had taken on a different look for him since he had heard Sherrill’s ac- count of his father; there was an appeal to him that made his throat grow tight, in its look of being unoccupied. in the blank stare of its unlighted windows in the houses on both sides, and in the slight evidences of despair about it. He waited many minutes, his hand upon the key in his pocket; yet he could not go in, but instead walked on down the street, his thoughts and feelings in a turmoil. He could not call up any sense that the house was his, any more than he had been able to when Sherrill had told him of it. He own a house on that street! Yet was that in itself any more remark- able than that he should be the guest, the friend of such people as the Sherrill's? No one as yet. since Sherrill had told him he was Corvet's son, had called him by name; when they did, What would they call him? Alan Conrad still? Or Alan Corvet? He noticed. up a street to the west, the lighted sign of a drug store and turned up that way; he had promised, he had recollected now, to write to . . . those in Kansas—he could not call them “father” and "mother" any more—and tell them what he had discovered as soon as he arrived. He could not tell them that, but he could write them at least that he had arrived safely and was well. He bought a postcard in the drug store, and wrote just, “Arrived safely; am well" to John VVelton in Kansas. There was a little vending machine upon the counter, and he dropped in a penny and got a box of matches and put them in his pocket. He mailed the card and turned back to Astor Street and he walked more swiftly now. having come to his decision, and only shot one quick look up at the house as he approached it. With what had his father shut himself up within that house for twenty years? And was it still there? And was it from that that Benja- min Corvet had fled? He saw no one in the street, and was certain no one was observing him as, taking the key from his pocket, he ran up the steps and un— locked the outer door, Holding this door open to get the light form the street lamp, be fitted the key into the inner door; then he closed the outer door. For fully a minute, with fast beating heart and a sense of expectation of he knew not what, he kept his hand upon the key before he turned it; then he opened the door and stepped into the dark silent house. CHAPTER V An Encounter Alan. standing in the darkness of the hall. felt in his pocket for his matches and struck one on the box. The light showed the hall in front of him, reaching back into some vague, distant darkness, and great rooms with wide portiered doorways gaping on both sides. He turned into the room upon his right, glanced to see. that the shades were drawn on the ~windows toward the street, then found the switch and turned on the electric light. As he looked around. he fought against his excitement and feeling of expectancy; it was—he told himself——after all. merely a. vacant house, though bigger and more expensively furnished than ever he had been in except the Sherrills; and Sher- rill's statement to him had implied that anything there might be in it which could give the reason for his father's disappear— ance would probably only be a paper, a record of some kind. It was unlikely that a thing so easily concealed as that could be found by him on his first ex- amination of the place; what he had come here for now—he tried to make himself believe—was merely to obtain whatever other information it could give him about his father and the way his father had lived, before Sherrill and he had any other conversation. Alan had not noticed. when he stepped into the hall in the morning, whether the house had been heated; now he appreci- ated that it was quite cold and, probably, had been cold for the three days since his father had gone. and his servant had left to look for him. Coming from the street. it was not the chilliness of the house he felt but the stillness of the dead air: when a house is heated. there is al- ways some motion of the air, but this air was'stagnant. Alan had dropped his hat on a chair in the hall; he unbuttoned his overcoat but kept it on. and stuffed his gloves into his pocket. ‘ 4 tain there was no one. So he went back . n A light in a single room, he thought, would not excite curiosoty or attract at- tention from the neighbors or any one passing in the street; but lights in more than one room might do that. He re— solved to turn off the light in each room as he left it. before lighting the next one. It had been a pleasant as well as a handsome house, if he could judge by the little of it he could see, before the change had come over his father. The rooms were large with high ceilings. The one where he stood, obviously was a library; bookshelves reached three quarters of the way to the ceiling on three of its walls except where they were broken in two places by doorways. and in one place on the south wall by an open fireplace. There was a big library table—desk in the center of the room, and a stand with a shaded lamp upon it nearer the fireplace. A leather—cushioned Morris chair—a lone- ly. meditativedooking chair—was by the stand and at an angle toward the hearth; the rug in front of it was quite worn through and showed the floor underneath. A sympath toward his father, which Sher- rill had not been able to make him feel, came to Alan as he refiected how many days and nights Benjamin Corvet must have passed reading or thinking in that chair before his restless feet could have worn away the tough, Oriental fabric of the rug. There were several magazines on the top of the large desk. some unwrapped, some still in their wrappers; Alan glanced at them and saw that they all related to 1h Indian. Dmm t By William Mad-lav: and Edwin Balmer Copyright h! Edwin Balms: next to‘it. was occupied by a library table-desk. He pulled open some of the drawers in it; one or two had blue prints and technical drawings in them; the others had only the miscellany which so- cumulates in a room much used. There were drawers also under the bookcases all around the room; they appeared. when Alan opened some of them, to con- tain pamphlets of various societies, and the scientific correspondence of which Sherrill had told him. He looked over the titles of some of the books on the shelves—a multitude of subjects, anthrop-I ology, explortation, deep—sea fishing, ship- building, astronomy. The books in each Section of the shelves seemed to corre- sp nd in subject with the pamphlets and co espondence in the drawer beneath, and these, by their dates, to divide them- selves lnto different, periods during the twenty years that Benjamin Corvet had lived alone here. Alan felt that seeing these things was bringing his father closer to him; they gave him a little of the feeling he had been unable to get when he looked at his father's picture. He could realize better now the lonely, restless man, pur- sued by some ghost he could not kill, taking up for distraction one subject of study after another, exhausting each in turn until he could no longer make it engross him, and then absorbing himself in the next. _ These two rooms evidently had been the ones most used by his father; the other rooms on this floor, as Alan went SUMMARY OF OUR STORY (TO DATE back from the beach and from this copsc there comes at time of EAR the northern end of Lake Michigan there is a copse of pine and hem— lq lock storm '9. sound like the beating of an Indian drum. tradition says, whenever the lake took a life. This drum heat, so During December, 1895, Mikawa, a new steel freighter, sank with 25 people. on board but the drum bent only 24. and the one remaining person was not accounted for. Benjamin Corvet sailed ilw lakes for years and then retired to direct the fleet of ships he had purchased, and at the time- the story opens he has two partners, Sherrill and young Spear- man. Sherrill has a daughter, Constance who is to marry Spearman but Corvcf, 1 who is called Uncle Benny by the girl. does not want her to marry him but wi not give her a reason asking her to wait until she secs him again. A young man, known as Alan Conrad, appears at the Sherrill home A‘an, sincc a small child, has lived with a family disappears. asking for Benjamin (‘orvvt. Then Corvet in Blue Rapids, Kansas, and neither he or the family know who his father or mother is. would receive pay for taking care of the boy. the mails but never knew who sent it. Corvet to come to Chicago and Alan rushes tht-r- lie was left with this family by a man who told the people they They received money through Thcn A'nr 'ivr-s a letter from Ben inking that Corvet could tell him something about his parents. but arrives after Qorvet disappeared. He goes to the Sherrill homo and talks with Constance and Mr. Sherrill. He de- cides Corvet is his father and upon being given a. key goes to Corvet's house. technical and scientific subjects. The desk Evidently had been much used and had many drawers; Alan pulled one open and saw that it was full of papers; but his sensation as he touched the top one made him shut the drawer again and postpone prying of that sort until he looked more thoroughly about the house. He went to the door of the connecting room and looked into it. This room, dusky in spite of the light which shone past him through the Wide doorway, was evidently another library; or rather it appeared to have been the original library, and the front room had been converted into a library to supplement it The book- cases here were built so high that a little ladder on wheels was required for access to the top shelves. Alan located the light switch in the room; then he re- turned, switched off the light in the front room, crossed in the darkness into the second room, and pressed the switch. A wierd, uncanny, half wail, half moan, coming from the upper hall, suddenly filled the house. Its unexpectedness and the nature of the sound stirred the hair upon his head. and he started back; then he pressed the switch again, and the noise stopped. He lighted another match, found the right switch. and turned on the light. Only after discovering two long tiers of white and black keys against the north wall did Alan understand that the switch must control the motor work- ing the bellows of an organ which had pipes in the upper hail; it was the sort of organ that can be played either with fingers or by means of a paper roll; a book of music had fallen upon the keys, so that one was pressed down, causing the note to sound when the bellows pumped. But having accounted for the sound did not immediately end the start that it had given Alan. He had the feeling which so often comes to one in an un- familiar and vacant house that there was some one in the house with him. He listened and seemed to hear another sound in the upper hall, a footstep. He went out quickly to the foot of the stairs and looked up them. “Is any one here?” he called. one here?" His voice brought no response. He went half way up the curve of the, wide stairway. and called again. and listened; then he fought down the feeling he had had; Sherrill had said there would be no one in the house, and Alan was'cer- "Is any to the room where he had left the light. ,‘ The center of this into them one by one, he found spoke far less intimately of Benjamin Corvet. A dining-room was in the front of the house to the north side of the hall; a service room opened from it, and on the other side of the service room was what appeared to be a smzrlier diningnroom. The service room communicated both by dumb waiter and stairway with rooms below; Alan went down the stairway only ‘ far enough to see that the rooms below were servants' quarters; then he came back, turned out the light on the first floor, struck another match, and went up the stairs to the second story. The rooms opening on to the upper hall. it was plain to him, though their doors were closed, were mostly bedrooms. He put his hand at hazard on the nearest door and opened it. As he caught the taste and smell of the air in the room— heavy, colder, and deader even than the air in the rest of the house—he hesitated; then with his match he found the light switch. The room and the next one which communicated with it were——or had been—41 woman’s bedroom and boudoir. The hangings, which were still swaying from the opening of the door, had been permanently the folds in which they had hung for many years; there were the scores of long-time idleness, not of use, in the rugs and upholstery of the chairs. The bed, however, was freshly made up, as though the bed clothing had been changed occasionally. Alan went through the bedroom to the door of the boudoir. and saw that that too had the same look of unoccupancy and disuse. On the low dressing table were scattered such articles as a woman starting on a journey might not thing it worth while to take with her. There was no doubt that these were the rooms of his father's wife. Had his father preserved them thus as she had left them, in the hope that she might come back, permitting himself- to fix no time when he abandoned that hope, or even to change them after he had learned that she was dead? Alan thought not; Sherrill had said that Cor~ vet had known from the first that his separation from, his wife was permanent. The bed made up. the other things neg- lected, and evidently looked after or dusted only at long separated periods, looked more as though Corvet had shrunk from ‘ seeing them or even thinking of them, and had left them to be looked after wholly by the servant, .without be- ing able to bring himself to give instruc- tions that they should be changed. Alan, felt that he would not be surprisedsto ,, ;- -,:\‘;A~» - ,_, ‘|_ n» A I learnfithat marathon. never kinda—entered: in: _, '. 4 '3‘ I' i' -'" nun“; ‘ 2C3 ‘ "- ‘ Hy," On the top of a chest of high drawers in a corner near the dressing table were some papers; Alan went over to look at them; they were invitations, notices of concerts and of plays twenty years old —-the mail. pfbbably, of the morning she had gone away, left where her maid or she herself had laid them, and only picked up and. put back there at the time since when the room was dusted. As Alan touched them, he saw that his fingers left marks in the dust on the smooth top" of the chest; he noticed thatsome one .else had touched the things and made marks of the same sort as he had made. The freshness of these other marks- startled him; they had been made within a day or‘so. They could not have been made by Sherrill, for Alan had noticed that Sherrill’s hands were slender and delicatelyformed; Corvet too, was not a large man; Alan’s own hand was of good size and powerful, but when he put his fingers over the marks the other man had made, he found that the other hand must have been larger and more power- ful than his own. Had it been Corvet's servant? It might have been, though the marks seemed too fresh for that; for the servant, Sherrill had said, had left the day Corvet’s disappearance was discov- ered. Alan pulled open the drawers to see what the other man might have been after. It had not been the servant; for the contents of the drawers—old brittle lace and woman’s clothing—were tlmbled as though they had been pulled out and roughly and inexpertly pushed back; they still showed the folds in which they had lain for years and which recently had been disarranged. This proof that someone had been pry- ing about in the house before him and since Corvet had gone, startled Alan and angered him. It brought him suddenly a sense of possession which he had not been able to feel when Sherrill had told him the house was his; it brought an impulse of protection of these things about him. Who had been, searching in Benjamin Corvet’s—«ln Alan’s house? He pushed the drawers shut hastily and hur- ried across the hall to the room opposite. In this room~plainly Benjamin Corvet's bedroom——were no signs of intrusion. He went to the door of the room connecting with it, turned on the light, and looked in. It was a smaller room than the others and contained a roll-top desk and a cabinet. The cover of the desk was closed, and the drawers of the cabinet were shut and apparently undisturbed. Alan recognized that probably in this room he would find the most intimate and personal things relating to his father; but before examining it, he turned back to inspect the bedroom. It was a carefully arranged and well- cared-for room, plainly in constant use. A reading stand, with a lamp. was beside the bed with, a book marked about the middle. On the dresser were hair-brusnes and a comb, and a box of razors, none of which were missing. When Benjamin Corvet had gone away he had not taken anything with him. even toilet articles. With the other things on the dresser, was a.silver frame for a photograph with a cover closed and fastened over the por- trait; as Alan took it up and opened it, the stiffness of the hinges and the edges )f the lid gummed to the frame by dis- use, showed that it waslong since it had been opened. The picture was of a wo- man of perhaps thirty—a. beautiful wo-/ man, dark-haired. dark—eyed, with a re-. fined, sensitive, spiritual-looking face. The dress she wore was the same. Alan suddenly recognized, which he had seen and touched among the things in the chest of drawers; it gave him a queer feeling now to have touched her things. He felt instinctively, as he held the pic- ture and studied it, that it could have been no vulgar bickering between wife and husband, nor any caprice of a dis- satisfied woman, that had made her sep- arate herself from her husband. The photographer’s name was stamped in one corner, and the date—4894, the year after Alan had been born. But Alan felt that the picture and the condition of her rooms across the hall did not shed any light on the relations between her and Benjamin Corvet; rather they obscured them; for his father neither had put the picture away from him and devoted her rooms to other uses, nor had he kept the rooms arranged and ready for her return and her picture so that he would see it. He would have done one or the other of these things. Alan thought. if it were she his father had wronged—or, at least, if it were only she. Alan reclosed the case, and put the picture down; then he went into the room with the desk.~ He tried the cover of the desk, but it appeared to be locked: after looking around vainly for a. key, he tried _again. exerting 'a little more force, and this time the top went up easily, tearing sway the metal plate into which the claws of the lock clasped and the two long screws which had held _it. He examined the lock. surprised, and saw that the screws must. have lien merely set into the holes; scars showed where a chisel or some metal implement had been thrust in under the top to force it ,up. The pigeonholesqand little drawers in the up per part of the desk. as he swiftly opened them, he found entirely empty. Ho bur-- ’ ried‘ to'the cabinet; the draWers of the .cahinetfitoo .had .been forced; and very recently; for the and the ;s of wood-were ~. ‘“ $.43 \. %. wife had left him- ' ' ..~ .- . 20 part" of the desk either were“ empty-,' or the papers in them had "been disarranged . and tumbled in confusion, as though some one had examined them hastily and tossed them back. Sherrill had not done that, nor any one who had' a business to be there. If Benjamin Corvet had emptied some of the drawers before he went away, he would not have relooked empty drawers. To Alan, the marks of violence and rough- ness were unmistakably the work of the man with the big hands who had left 1marks upon the top of the chest of 'had told him . found drawers; and the feeling that he had been in the house very recently was stronger than ever. Alan ran out into the hall and listened; he heard no sound; but he went back to the little room more excited than before. For what had the other man been search» ing? For the same things which Alan was looking for? And had the other man got them? Who might the other be, and what might be his connection with Ben- jamin Corvet? Alan had no doubt that everything of importance must have been taken away, but he would make sure of that. He took some of the papers from the drawers and began to examine them; after nearly an hour of this, he had found only one article which appeared con- nected in any way with what Sherrill or with Alan himself. In one of the little drawers of the desk he several books, much worn as though from being carried in a pocket. and one of these contained a series of entries stretching over several years. These listed an amount—$150.——opposite , a series of dates with only the year and the month given, and there was an entry ’for every second month. Alan felt his fingers trembling as he turned the pages of the little book and found at the end of the list a blank, and below, in the same hand but in writing which had changed slightly with the pass- age of years, another date and the con- firming entry of $1,500. The other papers ' and books were only such things as might accumulate during a lifetime on the water ,and in business—government certificates, ,manifests, boat schedules of times long gone by, and similar papers. Alan looked through the little book again and put it I in his pocket. It was, beyond doubt, his father’s memorandum of the sums sent to Blue Rapids for Alan; it told him that here he had been in his father’s thoughts; 3in this little room, within a. few steps ‘ from the deserted apartments of his wife, Benjamin Corvet had sent “Alan’s dollar" —-—that dollar which had been such a sub— ject of speculation in his childhood for .himself and for all the other children. ,He grew warm at the thought as he be- ’ door had slammed. gan putting the other things back into the drawers. He started and straightened suddenly; then he listened attentively, and his skin, warm an instant before, turned cold and prickled. Somewhere within the house, unmistakably on the floor below him, a The wind, which had grown much stronger in the last hour, was battering the windows and whinning round the corners of the building; but the ihouse was tightly closed; it could not be ,the wind that had blown the door shut. ’Some one—it was beyond question now, for the realization was quite different from the feeling he had had about that before—was in the house with him. Had his father’s servant come back? That was impossible; Sherrill had received a wire from the man that day, and he could not get back to Chicago before the following morning at the earliest. But the servant, Sherrill had said, was the only one besides his father who had a key. Was it . . . his father who had come back? That, though not impossible, , seemed improbable. Alan stooped quickly, unlaced and strip— ped off his shoes, and ran out into the 'hall to the head of the stairs where he looked down and listened. From here the sound of some one moving about came to him distinctly; he could see no light below, but when he ran down to the turn of the stairs, it became plain that there was a dim and flickering light in the library. He crept on farther down the staircase. His hands were cold and 1 ._ moist from his excitement, and his body was hot and trembling. Whoever it was that was moving about down-stairs, even if he was not one who had a right to be there, at least felt se— cure from interruption. He ,was going with heavy step from window to window: where he found a shade up, and pulled it down brusquely and with a violence which suggested great strength under a nervous strain; a shade, which had been pulled down, flew up, and the man domned it as though it had startled him; then, after an instant, he pulled it down again. Alan crept still farther down and at last caught sight of him. The man was not his father, he was not a. servant; it was equally sure at the time that he was not any one who had any business to be in the house and that he was not any common house-breaker. He was a big, young-looking man, with broad shoulders and very evident vigor; Alan guessed his age at thirty-five; he' was handsome—he had a straight fore- head over daring, deep-set eyes; his nose, lips, and chin were powerfully formed; and he was expensively and very care- fully dressed. The light by which Alan saw these things came from a flat little pocket searchlight that the man carried in one hand, which threw a little bril- liant circle of light as he directed it; and now, as the light chanced to fall on his other hand—powerful and heavily muscled—Alan recollected the look and the size of the finger prints on the chest of drawers upstairs. He did not doubt that this was the same man who had gone through the desk; but since he had al- ready rifled the desks, what did he want here now? As the man moved out of sight, Alan crept on down as far as the door to the library; the man had gone into the rear room, and Alan went far enough into the library so he could see him. He had pulled open one of the drawers in the big table in the rear room—the room where the organ was and where the bookshelves reached the ceiling—and with his light held so as to show what was in it, he was tumbling over its contents and examining them. He went through one after another of the drawers of the table like this; after examining them, he rose and kicked the last one shut dis- gustedly; he stood looking about the room questioningly, then he started toward the front room. He cast the light of his torch ahead of him; but Alan had time to anticipate his action and to retreat to the hall. He held the hangings a'little way from the door jamb so he could see into the room. If this man were the same who had looted the desk up-stairs, it was plain that he had not procured there what he wanted or all of what he wanted; and now he did not know where next to look. He had, as yet, neither seen nor heard anything to alarm him, and as he went to the desk in the front room and peered impatiently into the drawers, he slammed them shut, one after another. He straightened and stared about. “Damn Ben! Damn Ben !” he ejaculated violently and returned to the rear room. Alan, again following him, found him on his knees in front of one of the drawers under the bookcases. As he continued searching through the drawers, his ir— ritation became greater and greater. He jerked one drawer entirely out of its case, and the contents flew in every direc— tion; swearing at it, and damning “Ben” again, he gathered up the letters. One suddenly caught his attention; he began reading it closely, then snapped it back into the drawer, crammed the rest on top of it, and went on to the next of the files. He searched in this manner through half a dozen drawers, plainly finding nothing at all he wanted; he dragged some of the books from their cases, felt behind them and shoved back some of the books but dropped others on the floor and blasphemy burst from him. (Continued in January 3rd issue.) The scrub ram is a luxury that few farmers can afford; his first cost is only a small part of the entire cost, for each one of his offspring is worth at least a dollar less than that of a purebred. 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No old-fashioned buckles. an The material is of the finest all-wool 20 oz, serge, and melton. Ideal for farmers, drivers, and all outdoor workers. Price $1.99 plus Postage. Sizes 36 to 42. 9g suzzs 86 to 42 $1 RAND NEW .0. WOOL . First Olde-Tan leather produced 70 years ago. Now known throughout America for its pronounced superiority. Oldc-Tan harness is made by a tanner- mnnufacturer who follows every step from raw-hide to the completed harness. aim b yrour ssfiagéngs - w 8 rom . o ' free $6.00 on this un- write for Free Bo“ filigrtliegg'book. rlvalled Lea her Learn all about our 87.50 down and easy payment offer and the Olde—Tun metal-to—metal harness. BABSON BROS., Deph32-89 Vest bargain. All leather outer shell sleeves. collar and on 3 Made of Iln- 19th Street and Manhall Blvd.. Chicago, Ill. est quality Jcrkln Distributors ol Melotto Cream Separator: and leather. A l l-w ool Edison Phonon-pm. blanket. lining. Two large, 00 o cts. DON’T WEAR A TRUSS BE COMFORTABLE—— Wear the_Brooks Appliance, the modern scxentiflc invention which gives rupture suflerers immediate relief. It has no obnoxious grings or ‘pads. Automatic Air ushions blnd and draw together the broken parts. No selves or plasters. Durable. Cheap. SentBon e1 unexcelled bargain. Sizes 38 to 46. Price $855 Plus Postage. We guarantee satisfac~ tion on these bargains. If you are not entirely satisfied return goods, and money will be cheer- Au. LEATHER$ 55 iully refunded. .- DEPT. 4 M. B. ‘ , p n\ [1 11m LEWIS Co.» m2” MINNEAPOLIS MINNESO ‘ ,\ i_* nous APPLIANCE 60.. 29“ but! 512. MARSHALL. until. I; $21123 , . ship”) [3, ll||IIllI|lll|IIIllllIIll|llllllllIllllllllllllllllll wiggling ll“ Send Your Friends “”"* lg. THE BUSINESS FARMER for a Year as a CHRISTMAS PRESENT lllllllllllllilllllIllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllli ' l _, . MR. 6. 5.5300” Look for trade-mark bearinfl Brooks which up- trial to rove its worth. were of imitations. portrait and Signature of C. . ears_on every Appliance. None, lotherlgenuine. ll information and booklet free in plain sealed envelope. BARGAIN BOOK Write for my new cut Bfiimtm‘aia'.’ $25133." nub wm’. and or . "SAVE A [1101' OF MONEY r - Form Plan ‘ an. :33 gill—yri-a. fining“;qu .mfil‘fa, 0" *-’ o3. some: " “We mammal. ngpfi‘; Hom- w. aux : 3i t l, "l .i ! ii .‘i‘ 9 j. . ti . ‘52 (180) Tagm'czzzgm ’ ~ v ‘ BUSINESS FARMER SATURDAY DECEMBER 20, 1924 Edited and Published by THE RURAL PUBLIBHINO COMPANY. Ina GEORGE M. SLOOUM, President Mt. Clemens. Michigan Detroit Office—818 Wasth Boulevard Bldg” Cadillac 9440 ted in New York Change, 8t. [coin and Minneapolis 1!? the mud Farm Papers. Incorporated Member of Asricnltnnl Publlnhere Association Member of Audit Bureau of Circulaqu Rh GrinnelL Maurine Editor rs Annie Taylor Farm Home Editor ilk D. Wells ,P‘ruit Editor a,- news M has? so rel! Swinnlm , l r W W Foo .Market Editor .......Reli¢'ious Editor Enoch] Correspondent . . te.____ Rev. John W. Hall-ml Os X rl H. ncp A, 3013011 I. McColnn Circulation Manager Em}, Griffith, _,.,._._____....-__.And1tor F. Hmkin- Plant Superintendent Published Il-Weekly ONE YEAR 800. TWO YEARS $1. FIVE YEARS 82, The date following your name on the addres label shows when your subscription expires. In renewing kindly send this label to void mistaken Remit by check. draft, moneg-ordcr or registered ; stamps and curren m at your ris. We acknowledge by first-class mail every uglier received. Advertlslng Rates: 45c per a to line. 14 lines to the column . 72 line; to the page. Fm rates. Live Staci and Auction Sale Advertising: We ofler special low VJ ramble breeders of live stock and poultry; write us. RELIABLE ADVERTISERS We will not knowingly accept the advertising of any men or firm who we do not belie"I to be thoroughly onset an reliable. Should any reader have an ans. for complaint against an! ad- V . in these columns. Misha would appreciate an im- mediate letter bringing all lug“!!! 11‘ writing my: ' Farmer!" It will guarantee honest dealing. "The Farm Paper of Service " KENYON L. BUTTERFIELD thought we owed it to the business farmers of Michigan to give them a more intimate picture of the present head of the Michigan Agricultural College, because it would give a better insight into this man’s character and what ‘ he proposes to do. Kenyon L. Butterfield has the reputation of ‘ fighting with his cards on the table, face-up and ‘ where all can see exactly what he is trying to ; accomplish. He is not afraid of saying or doing what he believes to be best at the moment, and those who have in the past been accused of ‘ pussy-footing around the college campus might as well understand now as later that the present head of this institution is not a politician in any sense of the word, and the methods attributed ’ to political practices will find no comfort in his 3 hands. Mr. Stanley M. Powell, our Lansing correspon- dent, has prepared a very intimate picture of Dr. Butter-field. which you will find on page four of the current issue, and we especially recommend ‘ it to your reading. PRACTICING AND PREACHING ‘ HEN the President of the United States of America came from the capital to Chicago last week to address the International I Livestock Show he traveled with Mrs. Coolidge i in an ordinary drawing room of a Pullman car : and went into the public dining car and ate a ‘ $1.25 dinner, so the newspapers report. Had this occurred a month earlier his critics : might have easily counted this as a. gesture of ;pre-election expediency. As it is, the public at . large are rather inclined to believe that the frugal 'training on a New England farm had left its ' mark, so that Calvin Coolidge in his declaration ‘for greater economy in government affairs is preaching what he actually practices in his own ‘ life. The greater part of his recent message to Con- gress was devoted to this subject alone, and his record since he took over the reins of office have shown him to be almost obsessed with the idea that the government spends altogether too much of the tax—payers’ money on needless operations and for unnecessary red tape. No sentiment could be more popular with the American farmer, who has had to practice ex- treme economy during the past three orgfour years of low prices and this public demonstration of real economy on the part of the President cer- tainly did him no harm with public opinion, even though it could not change his political status. Many talk, but few practice what they talk! KEEP ROGERS IN RANK F. ROGERS who is now concluding his third consecutive term as state highway commissioner has announced his candidacy for nomination for a fourth term at the Repub- lican state convention to be held next February. We think a word ought to be said in his support and although our columns are not usually open to political personalities, we are not adverse to giving a man who has served well in public life proper credit for what has been accomplished. We do not doubt but what Frank Rogers has made some mistakes during the three consecutive terms in which he has been commhsioner, but‘we ,i, rm BU‘SI'N'Ess FAR-MEI: 4 would seriously question any intimation that he was not thoroughly capable of handling the job ‘or had ever used it to his own personal ad- vantage. - Mr. Rogers was born in Lenawee county, in 1858. He is a graduate of Michigan Agricultural College, from which he holds two degrees, one as a civil engineer. He has followed that profession since his graduation and served as deputy high- way commissioner under Horatio S. Earle and Townsend S. Ely, whom he succeeded in 1913. Hence Mr. Rogers has been directly connected as chief executive with the state highway depart- ment ever since its establishment and the begin- ning of the present state line construction and maintenance systems. Although 14,000 miles of road have been con- structed in Michigan at a cost of $150,000,000, it is obvious that there is a great deal more to be done and to drop a man who is thoroughly equipped by experience to carry forward the work to completion, would seem to us the height of folly, and the opposite of sound business judg- ment. IS SAPIRO RIGHT? HEN Aaron Sapiro talked in Michigan a few days ago he took the fruit growers of our state, particularly the apple growers, to task in an not altogether gentle manner. If Mr. Sapiro is right, the apple—growers of this state have fallen far below the possibilities of their product, in preparing it for the market and grading, inasmuch as even he admitted that the quality and flavor of Michigan apples was far superior to those reaching the market from the far western states, which command a much better price. It is our own opinion that strides had been made through the co-operation of the state soci- eties and the agricultural college, which are bring— ing about a gradual improvement in the grading and marketing methods of our fruit growers, and if we were unjustly attacked by this nationally known cooperative marketing organizer, then Michigan ought to to be defended and promptly. We do not think that the fruit growers of any state are any more intelligent, any more energetic, or any more anxious to make a greater profit from their efforts. So if there are reasons entering into this condition, if it exists as charged, then something must be done about it and soon, or we will sufier an irreparable loss in the buyers eyes. A, the large cities by the social workers to " whom the problem of the homeless girl is most apparent. They find that the larger majority of these girls come from the rural district and they claim that the cost of living in the cities has become so high, without a corresponding increase in the earning capacity of the average girl, that it is almost an economic impossibility to provide from the wages received a suitable room and necessary food. It is the old story told again in all its disagreeable and terrible details. The statement is made that a girl going to New York cannot obtain a decent lodging place for less than '310 a week, and this she cannot pay from earnings averaging from $10 to $18. Thousands of these Working girls, according to the survey, are unable to pay more than $5 or $6 a week for a place in which to live. Miss Cornalia Marshall, presi- dent of the association, asks what becomes of the homeless, hungry girl. She answers her own question thus: “She begins to frequent the STAY HOME, GIRLS! FRIENDLY warning is being sent out from THE TEAM By Anne Campbell Best 01’ team I ever had! Hitched With jes’ one tether, Actin‘ allus kinda glad They wuz hooked together. Through the mud an’ through the snow, They wuz not complainin', Didn't kick on storms, you know! Didn’t stop for rainin'! Shared their oats an' shared their hay! Shared the field an' stable. Bedded 'e.m with straw, an’ they Bothrwere confertable! One a bay, an’ one a. roan, . Each a good 0’ plodder. Never Win a. day they'd know: Want 0' grain an' fodder. Even to the water trough, 5 Driv one with the other. Whlnnered if we led one o! Leavin’ home his brother! Best 01' team' An' fond, them two! Allus in high feather! Feelin' glad, like me an' you—- They won hitched together! L. _ 1 _ / ’ December 20,1924 dance halls, and we finally become aware of her only when she is arraigned in the police court. Estimates made show that of the 126,000 work- ing girls in New York between the ages of 15 and 25, 25,000 are economically adrift, victims of the room shortage and the temptations that beset the unhappin housed. That is a terrible to“ to take from the homes of thousands of American families where gripping want has never been known. It is no idle assumption that the great majority of these young women have not gone out into the world because of the necessity to earn their own food and shelter, but that they have foolishly determined to seek their fortunes among strangers, the while hoping to enjoy the bright lights, gay apparel, and lively companion— ship. How sad, indeed, has been the awakening from many such dreams! ' All is not gold that glitters, and the cheerful fireside in the old home would look a lot better to our girls if they could see the grimy little rooms and the awful homesickness which awaits them in the big cities. Stay home, girls, unless you are trained as a teacher, nurse, stenographer, or for some position which will pay enough to let you live cleanly and comfortably, stay home! THE INTERNA TIONAL ICHIGAN did not take a back seat at the M International Livestock Show at Chicago this year, where particularly in the crop and seed devisions she shone as in previous years. The surprising thing is that more farmers in Michigan do not avail themselves of the nearness of this exposition because at no other spot we know of can more" be learned in a shorter space of time. We actually believe it would be a good investment for any farmer to spend at least one day at the International Livestock Show each year and that his banker ought to be willing to loan him the money to do it! You can have the pleasure of going through the exhibits by turning to Mr. Raney’s article which appears in this issue. read it and see for yourself. LESS CROSSINGS KILLINGS . A. ROWE, chairman of the committee on the prevention of hughway crossing accidents of the American Railway Association, claims that there were 59 less deaths reported during June and July than during the same period a year ago“ What the later months prove, his report does not show. We have been pointing each issue on this page to the necessity for better protection of railroad crossings, and have asked the cooperation of the State Highway Department, railway executives, automobile clubs and farm organizations, because the toll has been mounting to an alarming figure. This report looks encouraging. Most of us are interested in it, because few of us are not con- tinually menaced by it. ANNE CAMPBELL was you. the readers of Tm: BUSINESS FABMIEB, who “discovered” how really sincere and true— to-life were the poems of Anne Campbell, at that time editor of the Womans department of this publication. Some of her best poems appeared first in THE BUSINESS FARMER. Now, Anne Campbell, has climbed the ladder of her dreams towards the award of success. Critics freely admit that no one else in America today has so close a grasp on the homely, senti— mental side of farm life. Her poems bring the smell of drying hay, the joy of the first bluster- ing snow—storm or the sweet memories of child- hood on the farm, as no contemporary poet of our time seems able to do. We know our old friends of THE BusINEss FARMEB are proud of “our Anne" and what she has accomplished since she left. our fire—side. Her poems appear daily in a syndicate of news- papers reaching from coast to coast and with millions of readers. Each Friday evening she reads several original poems over the radio from Detroit News, station WWJ. And now, her first book, which is a collection of her best poems, entitled “Companionship” has just come from the presses of a leading eastern publisher who has earned reputation for selecting coming authors. We ink it would be a fine idea to show Anne Campbell this Christmas that a lot of her friends in the old “Bonuses ansn" days have not for— gotten her. no we are printing on sdxertisement anthemmtotothis,offeringtoekiptho new books. prepaid to your m, for the regular retail price. No finer Christmas gift to a friend or relative who enjoys poems could be imagined and that you will want. to keep one for your own library goes without saying. Use the coupon on the opposite page and help us give “Ana-8” a. real Christmas surprise. Books will. .beshimd “everyday you're-per few. . - some - C’s 20, 1924 PUBLISHER’S DESK ,' g. . , r_ T'IIIE IEIIESI NFEls S IF Arftlfi EIR 2“ CORRESPONDENCE COURSE FOR ' FOREBT RANGER A "Is the Mokane Institute of Den- ;- v'er, Colorado. a reliable school? I want to become a forest ranger and would like to know if I could prepare myself for the Work by taking a cor- respondence course with this school." I have been investigating this ‘ School and find that they ad- vertise a correspondence course that is supposed to prepare men to pass the forest ranger’s examination. The United States government does not recommend or indorse any eocalled civil service schools. The l forest ranger examination is given annually by the United States Civil Service Commission, usually the lat- ter part of October, and is conducted by the Forest Supervisors at their local headquarters. Practical exper- ience is the main point in passing one of these examinations, so we can- not see how it will benefit you to study with this school. . NILE ART MAN RUNS FASHION MIRROIDERIES OF LINIA, OHIO our last issue we published an INarticle about the Nile Art Com- pany, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and told of the president of the company, Glenn D. Fryer, being arrested by the United States Post Office Depart- ment and charged with using the mails to defraud. Since then we have learned that he is also presi— dent of the Fashion Embroideries, Lima, Ohio, and has been operating ‘ that company in the same manner. [I Fryer will be charged with. intent to defraud through the mails in both ’ cases. Charges have been made against Marguerite C. Jordan, gen- eral manager of Fashion Embroider— loll RAILWAY MEN WANTED I _ARLY in November we received E an order to run the following advertisement “3 times” and a check in payment for the space was enclosed with the order. "FIREMEN, BRAKEMEN, for railroads nearest their homes, everywhere; beginners $150- 8260 monthly (which posi- tion?) Railway Association, Desk W21, ——-——-, ——-—- Following our usual custom before ~ inserting in the Business Farmer the advertisement of any company with which we are not thoroughly fami- liar, no wrote this company asking them to give us references, both from men they had placed, and from railroads who employed their grad- uates, preferably in Michigan. This brought forth a prompt reply which we publish here so all the world may see and heed: “Please cancel our order and return our check!" The Rail- way Educational Assqciation, per G. H. B.” We do not imagine our readers will require any further statement from us. DID OOllIPANY LII‘SREPRESENT ? In 1919 a company was organized in Brighton under the name of the Grand River Sand and Gravel Com- pany. They bought 100 acres of land on the Pere Marquette R. R. They sold me $2,000 Worth of stock after saying they had tested all over the land and the be supply of gravel was unlimited. They said if I , Th. Purpose of thl: department In to P"- teot our subscriber. from fraudulent dullnal Per unfelr treatment by person: or concern: It to dlntenoe. ‘e satisfactory settlement or force eotlon. f0? Mulch no charge for our servloee wlll ever be Emede. provldlngv: 1.—The olelm I! made by e bald-up sub- 'ta-lber to The Iutlneee Farmer. fl 2.-——The ololm le not. more than a mot. old. 8.—-The claim It not local or between Peo- ple wlthln easy dlmnm of one another. Then should be settled at first hand and not Rettempted by mall. , Address all letters, giving full particulare. ». lemounte. datee. “0L. encloslnq line your ads ' ,drue label" from the fnont cover of any lune .to prove that you are e pald-up tubeorlber. {I'D-IE BUSINESS FARMER. Collection Box ‘ Mt. Clemens. Mloh. 1 Report Endlnu December 12, 1’92! hm: number claims filed........................2892 shoem- Insolveet.....-..-...-......--.-....$ae.0'15.25 \ mu number clum- settled...“ .......... .1189 . ; E cum secured‘ ‘ 829,739.88 In everyone we wlll do our but to make . would furnish some money to get it started they would pay me interest, and in three years they would pay me three dollars for every one that I put in. This was one of their prom- ises and only one out of many. They have never paid me anything yet. The solicitors worked the plant till Octcber, 1922, and then leased it to the Greenville Gravel Company of Ohio who are operating a large plant six miles east of this one. The Green- ville Co. tested the gravel and chang- ed the machinery and then stopped working it and moved most of the best hauling parts to the other plant. The Greenvill'e Co. is a million dollar corporation. The Grand River Co. sold over $200,000 in stock—F. L. H., Howell, Mich. F the company who sold you the I stock, made false representations to you regarding the company, you could bring an action against it for the return of your $2000.00 on the ground of fraud. However, if there was no misrepresentation, you would have to stand your loss along with the other stockholders. When a man buys seek in a com— pany, he is trusting his money to the integrity and ability of the oflicers of the company, and taking the risk that the nnterprise in which the com- pany is engaged Will be profitable. EIJIGIBLE-TO-REGIS’I‘ER STOCK E have had many complaints from persons who had bought eligible to register stock and failed to receive their papers. Care should be exercised by both buyer and seller in such cases. If you buy “pure-bred” stock, you merely accept the word of the seller that the stock is “pure bred,” and receive no pa— pers. If you buy "eligible-to-regis- ter" stock. you receive the stock and the pedigree which will enable you to have the stock registered it you pay the fee. If you buy “registered” stock, you buy the stock and the sel- ler gives you the papers of registry. Very often the seller does not turn over the pedigree or registration pa- pers with the animals sold, and some delay is occasioned very often in get— ting the papers through and forward— ing them to the buyer. Sometimes this leads to suspicions on the part of the purchaser. Persons making pur- chases should not grow impatient or suspicious without just cause, and persons making sales should be very careful not to give cause for sus- picions. Above all else, the seller should answer correspondence from purchasers who are growing anxious about receiving pedigrees or regis— tration papers. WOLVERINE INSURANCE COlllPAN Y “I have a question I would like to ask you? Is the Wolverine Insur-‘ ance Company of Lansing a reliable concern?” HE Wolverine Insurance Com- pany is a stock company, regu- larly authorized to transact within the state of Michigan the bus— iness of fire, inland marine, and au— tomobile insurance, and the latest statement in the hands of the depart- ment of Insurance of Lansing as to their financial condition is that as shown by their annual report filed with that Department as of Decem- ber 31, 1923. It shows: Total ad— mitted assets, $405.252.06; total li- abilities except capital, $22,823.74; capital paid up, $323,175.00; sur- plus, $59,253.32. OLSON RUG OODIPANY “I have some cloth that I want made into rugs and have been thinking about having the Olson Rug Company, Chicago, Illinois, make them. Do you know it the company is reliable? Have you ev- er seen any of their work? Thank- ing you for any information you may be able to give me and with best wishes tor The Business Farm- er's success.” HAVE talked, with three or four diflerent ladies: who. have had. , the Olson Rug Company make rugs for them and all of these ladies spoke very highly of the work don by this (tummy. ‘ (181) 13‘ I First Mortgage Real Estate Gold Bonds. This Christmas give ’ Federal Bond 8: Mortgage Company Bonds. They are a most sensible re- membrance and are valued long after other ' ’ gifts are forgotten. Write for Booklet AG1376 Tax Free in Michigan Normal Income Tax Up to 4% Paid by Borrower ' 61/2% Federal Bond 63’ Mortgage Company (137. FEDERAL BOND Gt MORTGAGE BUILDING. DETROIT EE§QE§£§£§£§E§£§§£§E§§§E§§Q§§E Anne’s Christmas lfiarig S mentioned on the editorial page opposite we are planning to A give Anne Campbell, at one time Woman’s Editor of The Busi— ness Farmer, a real Christmas surprise. We want to prove to her that a good many readers have not forgotten her, just because she is getting famous. Her first book of poems is just off the press. We have secured a quantity and will ship them at the regular retail price, doing the wrapping and paying the postage as our contribution to the sur- prise party! “COM 5y Almze Campfie/I You can solve some of your Christmas problems right here, by ordering two or three extra copies. Don’t order just one to give away, because if you ever start reading it you’ll never part with it! -—————AND MAYBE! We won't promise it, because this is to be a surprise on Anne! But we'll wager that if you send a little note with your order coupon below, telling Anne Campbell that you would like to have an autographed copy, she’ll be glad to write her name in your copy. Try it and see! We know she has a mighty soft spot in her heart for “our folks”. Well, here is the coupon —we’ll ship the books the same day your order is received unless you write a note asking Anne to auto- graph your copy— or we’ll ship the copies you want to give away immediately and hold your own copy until we ask that it be autographed. In any event, no time to spare— help us give Anne Campbell a real Christmas surprise from her Business Farmer friends! Bound in Cloth—~8x5——-$I.25 per copy, Postpaid The Michigan Business Farmer, ' Mt. Clemens, Michigan. e Ship me by parcel post .......... .. copies of Anne Campbell’s “Companionship”, " a collection of her best poems, for which I enclose S .......... ..... .. To ...... ..... R. F. D. No. ..... ........... ' P. O. ............ ............................................... .. State .............. gaeeeeeneesgngggaggagg, 3 15:94“: ~....,,,x : ‘- a. new. * '14 (182) , EE . A CHRISTMAS CAROL God bless you all this Christmas Day And drive the cares and griefs away. Oh, may the shining Bethlehem star Which led the wise men from afar Upon your heads, good sirs. still glow To light the path that ye should go. As God once blessed the stable grim And made it radiant for Him; As it was fit to shield His Son, May thy roof be a holy one; May all who come this house to share Rest sweetly in His gracious care. Within they walls may peace abide, The peace for which the Savior died. Though humble be the rafters here, Above them may the stars shine clear, And in this home thou lovest well May excellence of spirit dwell. God bless you all this Christmas Day; May Bethlehem’s star still light thy way And guide thee to the perfect peace When every fear and doubt shall cease. And may thy home such glory know As did the stable long ago. (COpyright, Edgar A. Guest.) EEEQ IF YOU DON’T HAVE TURKEY TRY ONE OF THESE HE flesh of the goose is rich, soft and of wonderful flavor. It should be stuffed with a plain bread dressing, roasted in a moder- ate oven and elevated during cooking on a rack or grid in the pan so that the excess grease sweated out may not cook back into the bird. Always serve some acid accompaniment such as skinned baked apples, tart jellied apples, prunes, sharp currant or gooseberry jelly, or a water—ice of cranberry, cider, orange or lemon. Such side dishes are necessary to counteract any rich and oily meat, both for pleasing contrast in eating and for better digestion. Duck, guinea—hen and partridge have dark flesh and are more dry than either goose or turkey. They therefore need must basting if roast- ed, and are particularly delicious if prepared by a braising process, thus adding moisture and softness to the meat. Thin slices of either bacon or salt pork larded on the top or skew— ered on with toothpicks will act as a self-basting device to keep the flesh, especially the breast, tender. However, it is well to remmeber that the breast of any fowl should always be set downward during the early cooking, and turned uppermost only during the last period of the roast- ing. Bread or giblet stuffing, or more fancy kinds such as potato, chestnut or oyster, may be used, and these birds also require acid accompani- ments as with the goose, or such side dish may be in the form of a tart salad with a sharp dressing, such as orange and cress, grapefruit and en~ dive, etc. The gravy may also be given a. tang by dissolving cranberry- pulp in it, or using part of a glass of any acid jelly. Capon, chicken and partridge re- quire about the same treatment, es- timating the length of the cooking according to the si..e. An attractive variation from the conventional stuffed and roast fowl is that known as “smothered” chicken, capon or other bird.. This is really the result of a braising process where the bird is split straight through the back, the body extended breast down, and the cooking done slowly under moderate heat and with considerable moisture. A cream or giblet gravy makes this into a very “company dinner”, espec- ially when served with the “trim— mings” of other courses and with such suitable vegetables as green peas, asparagus, artichokes, cauli- flower or Brussels sprouts. Rabbit and hare deserve mention all their own, for in olden times a rabbit pie or “jugged” hare held the spotlight on the festal board. And even now either may be the chief holiday plat if cooked correctly. In some localities can be bought cheaply and the choice parts (legs) of several can be developed into the most tooth- some and delicious stew or casserole dish. Reserve the backs, etc., for broth and use only the legs, first sauteing in butter or other fat to give color and richness. Dredge with flour, pour over them boiling stock and simmer as usual in casserole fashion, covered, using bay-leaf, pep- per, plenty of onions, a few carrots and celery. diced. A dash of Worces- tershire sauce, stoned olives or ca- pers seem to go particularly well with this flavor of meat. Hare and squirrels are prepared the same way. - - 3 . f l'fi' 3!th * ~ From the bottom of my heart I wish each and every one of you a merry, merry Christmas and a most pros- perous New Year. Address letters: and in any case a rich crust and fan- cy “rose” of rolled pastry may be added to the top in the old—fashioned manner of a typical rabbit pie, equal- ly relished no less by modern men. Squabs and quail are always band- led by a quick broiling method, and well brushed with melted fat during the cooking, or else larded with ba- con. They are preferably served on toast moistened with drippings and as usual with game or high—seasoned fowl, currant or other tart jelly or fruit sherbet is passed and eaten with them. fiffifi M. A. C. FINDS WAY TO CARRY ON EXTENSION WORK “ HERE there is a will there is a way” is an old saying and friend husband declares this applies more to a woman than to a. man. Apparently the Home Econ- omics Extension Service Department of the M. A. C. remembered this old saw when the State Legislature and boards of supervisors of the counties failed to provide funds for home economic extension work in the state, because they immediately started out to find a way around the difficulty. At the present time there are only 12 women, under the direction of Mrs. Louise H. Campbell, state leader of home demonstration agents, spending full time in the work in Michigan. Six are home demonstra- tion agents in Ottawa, Kent, Kala— mazoo, Oakland, Marquette and Wayne counties, another is in charge of all home economic extension work in the upper peninsula, and three are specialists and work-directly un— der Mrs. Campbell and her assistant, Mrs. Julia Reeky, at the College. It was an impossibility for these 12 Women to do all the work being plan- ned—but what was to be done? After much thought it was finally decided to train women in each county to pass the knowledge along to their neighbors. These women who are trained in some particular division of Home Economics by one of the spe- cialists actually go to school two days a month for four months. If the subject is clothing they learn how line and color may be utilized in making women’s clothes look attrac- tive and how to select and wear clothes. If the subject is nutrition . . " Mafia-{fl ‘ l 9 Farm Hem . . . ‘ .epartment for the Women ggggg Edited by Mns. ANNIE TAYLOR ggggg EAR FOLKS: Christmas is the one day of the year when time rolls backward and we all become children once more. seen men who were most dignified and business-er 364 days of the year get. down on the floor on their hands and knees Christmas Day and play with the children’s toys until they begged mother to make Daddy let them play with their toys too. These men were boys again for a day—yes many women are Just as bad, I know. should be more days like that during the year because we take life too serious and grow old too soon. play a little every now and then, it will save many a doctor bill. Mrs. Annie Teyler, care The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Illlchlasn. 5QEE§§§E£QE§§EEEQ§QEQ “our l.- ( wris- -Ame ~' “11;”: ‘1’,:‘,” “it Mir, ', X * F ill-W. ‘l'll I .13" ' {its \ I have There Don’t forget how to laugh and 7224A? : A lettcr'helnn in each white lpnce. words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizonts DOWN 1—Satisfies, fills up Z—A little hill 3—A pononous plant 4—To scramble iypw—printcr’s word B—To hit with the palm of the hand 6——-Noise made by an automobile 7—Upon 8—Edge of tire 9—To soak pickles In brine 10—To deed money to 16—Marsh 17—Beionging to 18—An attempt 26—Upon 28—Baseball unit (2 words) 29—lnvestments 32—Direction of the compass 33—A bird’s home 86—A springmontii 37—Owing 89—Postscript 41—Alternative preposition Also, we mil have another puzzle. ._..___ ‘—_—__.: = = :2 : —_._. —— Hill“liiiiiiil n lllllllilllilillllllllillllllllllllllllill Two tons of Solvay per acre brings results the first season and for three or four years there- after. Quick profits and lasting profits follow the use of Solvay. ‘ After liming with SOLVAY, one farmer ree- lized 84.3% average crop increase; another 300% on his investment. Write for FREE llillllllllli ll “illiiiimiill Willi lillii booklet and learn what SOLVAY can do for you. ill-Pin» lEb “will” Guaranteed 95% Carbonnies SOLVAY brings quick, lasting results because it is ground to powdery fineness. Furnace ' ' Booklet tells all about lime and its uses --scnt FREE on request. THE soiVAY PROCESS co. DETROIT, MICK. a Z O D n m I: w E . CHOICE Frozen Fish direct to you at WHOLESALE PRICES. Herring. large round, 100 lb. lot! $3.50; Herring, largo. dressed, 100 lb. $4.50; Herring, large. skinned, dressed, hdll. 100 lb. $7.50. Less than 100 II). and!“ $0, per more. Perch, fine Ill- rnnnd, 6n Ib' Perch large. , skinned dressed, hdls. 13c lh.‘ — ercl dressed. hdis. 10¢ lh' I’ickerel, skinned. dressed hdls. 15c Ib. Yel ow Pike. 15¢ 1h; thnon, dressed, hdls. 140 1b.' Halibut dressed lidis. 22c 1b.' ’I‘nllihees (similar to small “’hiteflsh) 110 lb.; Smoked fish (puk- ed lb. boxes) Blueflns. $1; 'I‘ullibees 82; [aka clmbs, $1.50; (loldeyes. $1.60; Jumbo llhiefins, $1.70; Salmon chunks, $2.20; Salted Iloliand Herring, kegs, mixed, 1.06' kegs Milkers. $1.15; 100 1b. kegs mixed $9.25' 100 lb. kegs rnilkers $10.50; Nor- Way erring 100 lb. kegs $7.75. Many other varieties. Small customary (giantess charge on frozen fish orders only. ur line mver more complete. and 26 years‘ honut 1 Nearly 0“ ' cowg comm pound your cow: Age Infected or not. BF. 38E LABORATORIES. Ina. Dept. A-' 12 St. For Best Results Ship Direct TOURING RURAL ENGLAND (Continued from Page 7) heard by anyone who happened to be rude enough to laugh at me in my tace, and whenever it was under- stood it always had a. remarkable eflect. We Were always picked out as Americans the minute we entered an inn or restaurant, and the suspicion was confirmed as soon as we opened our mouths to speak or laugh— and since we did our share of both of these great American pastimes our identity was never concealed for very long. One evening we seemed to be the object of some special good- natured stares and grins from three men who were eating at a table on the other side of the room. “I wonder if those men are Amcri~ cans and smiling at us, or English— men and laughing at us,” the doctor remarked. We decided that they were Americans and when they were through eating and came up to speak to us we felt even more sure. An Englishman will never take up con- ANS‘VER ’I‘O CROSS-\VORD PUZZLE N0. 3 NEG A p < i S E. T w E M “'OUT‘IUJ m versation with a stranger on a train or in a restaurant or any public place as these men did. “We were just wondering whether you Were not from God’s Country too,” I greeted them as they ap- proached. ~ “Well, not exactly,” one of them replied. “Just one of us. This man is from the States, but my friend and I, here, are from Canada.” I shall always remember that un- conscious tribute to the United States of America, paid by a Canadian, as one of. the best l have ever hmrd. He did it without thinking, and it was not until we laughed at, llllll,’ jumped up and hcqun to sluilw his hand 'ihut ho l‘i‘lilIZi.‘LI the (’Ullljilil'l- son he had made hutwuon the United States and Canada. The rest of our journey with the Grey Goose and the iinal disposition of it before we 18th for quland will be described in the next installment. DON'T LET THE RADIATOR Flu" )7 J F the radiator of the car or truck I should become frozen, do not run the motor until full circulation has been started. It is impossible to thaw a frozen radiator by running the motor. On the contrary, by so doing the current of air drawn through by the fan may cause it to freeze up more solidly. The following anti-freezing solu- tion is safe to use in your car: 3% pints of alchohol per gallon of water, which freezes at 10 degrees Fahren— heit. For a lower temperature, 5 pints of alcohol per gallon of water can be used as this solution freezes at dealing our best misrnntes of satisfaction. Order dreot from this ad. including remit- tance with order, or send for complete p110. list. WISCONSIN FISHING 00.. Dept. E, Green Bay, Wisconsin Reference, McCrzrhmu Nitivmvri B Ink. Detroit Beef Co., Detroit, Mich. 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" §§é117t ElflflELH [IMESTONE . O“w feeds two calves a) for six weeks! This Is the cost of a 100 pound bag. Compare this cost with feeding cow’s milk for the same period-— figure what you save with No-Milk Calf Food. Produces fine, healthy calves without using any whole milk. Begin using when calves are three days old, and simply mix it with water. It is not a calf meal -—Has been used successfully since 1885. At our dealer’s today you can get No— lk Calf Food. one bag. You'll be surprised wit it. Look for the Red and Green bags. Put up in 26 1b., 50 1b. and 100 lb. bags. Cull on your dealer today and get 3 bag! National Food Co. Fond du Lac, Wisconsin — BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY Ads under this heading 300 per agate line for 4 lines or more. $1.00 per Insertion for 3 lines or less. 53%. 29$, can?) SALE vi. , To avoid conflicting dates we will without list the date of any live stock sale in Ii lgen. If you are considering a sale ed. Iiu us at once and we will claim the date ior you. Address. Live Stock Editor. M. B. F. Mt. Clemens CATTLE Hons'rnnvs @ $50 Down Buys fill-ill. HUiSiHN BUW As s Junior 4 yr. old won 2nd State Prize in both 7 day and 30 day divisions odudng in 7 days 653 lbs. of milk and 9.79 lbs. butter; in 30 days, 2779.9 lbs. milk and 124% lbs. butter. 30-32 YEARLING SON Have yearlin son of this cow sired by s effing). bull t can be bought on similar . Also several young heifers and cows coming fresh for sale. Come and see or wnte quick Herd fully accredited. Wah—Be—Me-Me Farms White Pigeon, Mich. GUERNSEYS MAY __ GUERNSEYS ~— ROSE STATR AND FEDERAL ACCREDITED Bull cairn out of Dunn up to 877 pounds fut. Bired Bulls lOllfils fat. 772 fat and 610 at. EEO CE I. BURROWS or GEORGE J. HICKS. , Saginaw. W. 8.. Michigan. L HEBEFORDS WE HAVE BRED HEREFORDS SINCE 1830 In hard buJis are International Prize Winners. of all ages for sale, at Farmers prices. Write In for further Feed Herefords that fatten quickly. CRAPO FARM. Swartz Creek, Michigan. 7' ormatloll. JERSEYS REG. JERSEYS. POGIS 89th OF H. F. AND Ms breeding. Young stock for sale. Herd accredited Stats and Federal Government. nbe or visit or pricu and description. GUY O. WILBUR. BELDING. Mich. SHORTHO R-N S ROAN YEARLING SHORT. horn bulls, good ones at $75. $100 each. Come and see them. H. B. PETERS & SON. Elsie, Michigan. SWINE We HAMPSHIRE3—8PRING BOARS FOR SALE. Place your order for Gilts bred to order. 11th year. John W. Snyder. St. Johns, Mlch., R4 O. I. C. O. I. OJ: LAST SPRING PIGS, EITHER SEX. not skin from b strong stock. recorded free. OTTO i. SOHUL E a SONS. Nashville. Mich. SHEEP E i smwrsmnn Run-E3: Run kahuna-Dd I , i mule. Inn. inn. u. AIRY 31nd LIyEsTOC g;lne3.asrutss. (We invite you to contribute your experience in raising live- stock to this department. BILAGE NOT INJURIOUS Have there ever any experiments been made, that the feeding of email- age to cattle would affect their teeth or in any way cause'them to decay? Or would manure, produced from sil- age fed cattle, cause soil to become acidy, quicker than manure produced from any other dry ieed?—R. E. S., Tawas City, Michigan. E have fed silage here for near- ly forty years and have had cattle fifteen to sixteen years of age that have eaten silage from the time they were old enough to eat any solid food and have never had any trouble with the silage injuring the teeth in any way, whatever. The excrement from cattle fed on silage would not cause the soil to be- come any more acid than would the excrement from cattle fed on any other feed—Geo. A. Brown, Profes- sor in Animal Husbandry, M. A. C. GOING TO RAISE CALVES We now have five fresh cows and would like to buy some calves to keep for cows. Would like to know What to feed a calf. Some say it is not good to feed much skim milk. We raised two calves last year and they were nice. We gave them about a gallon of skim milk and some kind of calf meal. We would like to get about 25 calvefl'to keep as cows. I believe it is the cheapest and safest way to get cows, as we can buy calves from the farmers that sell milk, for $2.00 each. Would like to know what is the cheapest and best to feed calves. We have silage, clover hay, bean pods, corn fodder, oats, rye, barley and wheat—H. B., Saginaw, Mich. ERE you can buy well bred H calves at the prices you mention, it would certainly be a paying proposition to grow them out. ‘ One precaution that should be taken is to get calves only from high produc— tion dams and from pure bred sires. It is too much trouble to put your time and feed into any other kind of calf. You should also keep in mind to see that the calves come from healthy cows, particularly cows free from tuberculosis. Calves should have new milk at least for the first two or three weeks of their lives. The exact amount will depend upon the size of the calf. Us— ually feed about one pound of milk per day for each ten pounds of live weight of the calf. When the calf becomes three weeks old it can grad— ually be changed over to skimmilk, keeping the feed in the same propor- tion as stated above. Some ground grain, such as corn and oats, should be placed before the calves after they are three weeks old. Grain, such as this should never be mixed with milk. If you have skimmilk available it is best to keep the calves on milk until they are six months of age. Clover hay should be kept before the calves at all times and during the cold weather the calves that are on milk should not be turned outside of the barn but should be kept in a clean, light, well ventilated barn where they have plenty of room for exercise. As the calves get a little older they can be fed silage, but it hardly pays to feed calves silage while they are on milk. They don’t eat very much of it in the first place and it may cause digestive disorders with the very young calf on milk—O. E. Reed Professor of Dairy Husbandry, M. A. C. lifUST ALLOW AUTHORJTIES TO TEST OO\VS When a. county is testing the cows (tuberculosis test) and if you did not want them to test your COWS, just using them for your family’s milk and butter, could you order them to leave your cows alone? Could they proceed with it or What would be the consequences if you did not al- low them to test them?—Mrs. E'.W., Eldorado, Mich. ECTION 15-8., which was added to Act 181 of the Public Acts of 1919, by Act 89 of the Public Acts of 1923, specifies. that when bovine tuberculosis eradication worx under the area plan, is being con- ducted in any county that “shall be Questions cheerfully answered.) unlawful for any person who owns or is in possession of, or controls any cattle, to prevent, hinder. ob— struct or refuse to allow the com- missioner, or authorized veterinar- ian, to conduct tests for tuberculosis on such cattle;‘the only exception being in the case of steers p‘roperly isolated from other cattle. In the event of a person owning or in control of, cattle refusing to permit a test to be conducted after having been given a reasonable op- portunity, the matter would be pre- sented to the prosecuting attorney for action—B. J. Killham, State Veterinarian. HILISDALE CATTLE GO TO BRANCH COUNTY . A. HIMBAUGH of Noble Town— ship, Branch county purchased Blackbird E. III of Glenwood of Walter Moore Sunnyside farm at Hillsdale, December 2 among other purchases. Marshall Lilly of the same place purchased a cow and a bull. These gentlemen were directed to Hillsdale county to buy pure bred stock, by K. R. Smith of Chicago, who is a stockholder in the Southern Michigan Breeding Association with its headquarters at Hillsdaie, organ- ized for financing and marketing pure bred live stock, since this coun- ty has become a modified accredited area of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture as a reward for the enterprise shown by its farmers in the eradication of bovine tuberculosis. Blackbird E. III of Glenwood is the daughter of the show cow Blackbird E. of Glen- wood and Bonami III also a first prize bull. WISCONSIN LEADS IN COOPERA- TIVE CHEESE MARKETING RECENT survey by the United States Department of Agricul- ture shows that 70 per cent of all cooperative cheese factories in the United States are in Wisconsin, that 60 per cent of the farmers be- longing to such enterprizes are lo- cated in Wisconsin and that 70 per cent of the business handled in _1923 by cooperative associations for mar- keting cheese was transacted by Wis— consin organizations. The oldest living organization from which the department is re- ceiving reports is the Cayadutta Cheese Factory at Fonda, N. Y. This association was formed about 1863 and in 1865 was making cheese from the milk of 845 cows. Oregon is second to Wisconsin as regards the cooperative making of cheese, al- though Oregon has but one—eigth as many OTKDan'VfinHQ rm Wisconsin. n VETERINA RY "D EPA RTM ENT S\VELLI NG (:1 EN E RALLY INCURABLE . I have a cow, that had a swelling on her leg below the gambrel joint and foot. It was swollen for a year, but this summer the swelling broke. I have been rubbing it with a lina- ment recommended by many. But as it heals in one place it swells in another spot and breaks. She has just freshened, is a good cow and otherwise seems to be in good con-. dition. Would her milk be fit tor“. human consumption, or if fattenedl Would she be all right for beef? Would like to keep her as she is a young cow and a good milker, if she could be cured. Would be glad to know what I could do for her. There is no veterinarian near here. ——J. B. K., Lupton, Mich. 0U have a condition that I am afraid will be very difficult to remedy. Swellings' “of the char- acter you describe of lbng standing are generally incurable. The cow’s milk would be all right for human consumption providing the swelling is entirely a local con- dition. This I would not be able to say, how-yer, without having an op- portunity to make a. physical exam— ination of the patient. The same would apply relative to the carcass - being fit for human consumption.— John P. Hutton, Mme. Prot. of 803:. & lied" ll. O. " Poultry = ABSORBiNE » TRADE MARK moment on, Reduces Strained, Puffy Anklet, Lymphangitia, Poll Evil. Fistula, Bails. Swellings: Stops lameness and allay: ain. Heals Sores, Cuts. Bruises. goot Choice. It is a SIFE "MEN": “0 GERMIGIDE Does not blister or. remove the hair and horse can be worked. Pleasant to use. $2.50 a bottle, delivered Describe your case for special instructions and Book 5 R free. ABSORBINE, J R... antiseptic unlmcm for mankind. I» has Strains. Painful. Knotted. Swollen Veins. Concen- rucd—only s few drops required a an appllndcn. Price 31.25 per bottle a! dealer! or delivered. N. F. YOUNG, inc., 369 Lyman St..$prlngfield. lass. POULTRY BREEDER’S fDlRECTORY‘ Advertisements Inserted under this heading at 80o per agate line, per Issue. Commercial Baby Chick advertisements 45c per agate line. Write out what you have to ofler and send It In. We will put it in . type. send proof and quote rates by return mail. Address The Michigan Business Farmer. Advertising Do- i partment, Mt. Clemens. Michigan. Yearling Hens and Cockerels vsnnuucs LEGHORNS ana‘ unconso— ctreruny culled high production stock. OOCKERELS—Barred and White Roch; Beds: Wyandottes; Minerals; Anconss; Leghoms. TURKEVS. GEESE, DUOKS———Exce.llent breed type. Send for complete Circular. STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION. Kalamazoo. Mich; For Sale—Pure Bred Large Black Len shuns. May hatched, Pullets laying since November 17m Frank B. Crane. R1, Adrian, Michigan. BARRED ROCKS For SALE—SI)!m SdEIaEcTEhD WHITE HOOK coo eres mm s n r uti'ty win Beauties. $2.25 eac , six for 812.00..“11. M MRS. L0 E ROUNDS, Cedar Springs. Michigan. anld e Reap—Coost and Puliou at v reduced9 prices. Also 1 en, 1 cock and 4 hen? must make room for reedin Penn Paradise Poultry Yards, Box 1285, R1, filalfwu, Michigan. BARRED ROCKS—BIG HUSKY OOCKERE standard color. bred from great layers. WrLigc' y. W. O. Coflman, Benton Harbor. Mich“ R8. grlTEd yvvfnuoog‘rs‘sE—Booxmc ADVANOI or on I'OIIJ qua 'ty matin s and ut'h' flock. Stock all sold. Fred Berlinz, Allen, Mlioti: PURE-SHED WHITE WVANDOTTE 000K- ereis, P‘lshei strain. at $2.50 each if ordered soon. Tracy Rush, 104 Grover Ave" Alma, Mich. RHODE ISLAND REDS Rhode Island Reds that are Red 100 Bed cockerels to take_ your choice of, 81.6 and up each, as to quailty. Also a few 2 hens. Quality Breeder of Rhode Inland Red]. Wm. H. Frohm, New Baltimore, Mich., R.F.D. 1. TURKEYS REGISTERED BOURBON RED T U R K E y 8 . Large rigorous Axteli Strain one and two year old stock. MARY’ BEACOM. Mariette. Michigan. FOR cM-E—puns saso usnnncnnsm mn‘s'. c. w. "EEBE, A'IdI‘YaIi‘nltEYEh" n1. Glam Bronze Turkeys. Gold Bank Strain. Chain. heavy birds, large bone. well marked. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mrs. Perry Stobblns, Sal-snag, Mic}; VIGOROUS BOURBON RED T0518, y Milli) each. While thvy last. R. W. ROBOTHAM, Hosperln. Michlgan. Puro~8red Mammoth White Holland Turkeys, un- related young hen, 12 pounds, $6; young tom 18 pounds 38. Frank Vondraseil. R3, Mulch, Mich. GE ES E For Sale Thoroughbred Geese-Gander: BALDWIN A NOWLIN, R4, hingxburg, Mich. Cured His Rupture I was badly ruptured while lifting a trunk several years ago. Doctors said my only hope of cure was an operation. Trusses did me no good. Finally I got hold of something that quickly and com- pletely cured me. Years have passed and the rupture has never returned, although I am doing hard work as a carpenter. There was no operation, no lost time, no trouble. I have nothing to sell, but will , lve full information about how you may and a complete cure without operation, if you write to me, Eugene M. Pullen, Carpenter, 44L Marcellus Avenue, Manas- quan, N. J. Better cut out this notice and show it to any others who are rup- tured———you may save a life or at least stop the misery of rupture and the worry and danger of an operation—(Adv) Have You % An Ad in The Michigan Business . Funnel- will sen u. For. I ‘v “*3 “kn-W. ‘sv."""" :3." ' WVMI’r—WfVA >. 3-H", a Demb'ergiae,» 1924 :2- We are Willing to bet that every one of these cows is entered in a, cow testing Muciation. A business farmer plus business methods make dairying' profitable. Superior Cows Entitled to Certificate By A. C. BALTZER Dairy Extension Specialist, M. .\. (I. HE MichiganCow Testing Associ- i ation Record of Performance is. receiving much attention this month by cow testing association members, cow testers and .county agricultural agents. On December 3rd four hundred and twenty—two en- tries had been received by the Dairy Department, Michigan Agricultural College. Many cow testers are cal- ling. for further entry blanks and many more applications for entry into the Record of Performance are expected. January 1st, 1925, is the final date for entry in the first year book that will be issued by the Dairy Department. Certificates of. the rec— ord of Performance will be drawn up after that date and mailed to the . Michigan Cow Testing Association members whose cows have been ac- cepted- for entry. The Mac’omb No. 1 Cow Testing Association, Eldon Barclay, tester, has sent fifty—four Record of Perfor- mance entries to the Dairy Depart- ment. This is the largest number of entries received from one Cow Testing Association. Only sixty—one cows were elegible for this honor in this. association. Every cow that qualified for the Record of Perfor— mance certificate in the Calhoun- Ba-ttle Greek Cow Testing Associa- tion, Floyd Wonser, Tester, has been entered. Thirty-six entries were made by this Association. The Battle 'Creek Sanitarium herd leads with» fifteen cows that qualify. Forty—four entries have been re- ceived from the Oceana Cow Testing Association, L. D. Leisenring, tester, These entries were made by E. M. Near, Henry Meyers, R. E. Deymon, Henry Henrickson, E. 0. Anderson, Leslie Brady, Carl H. Rabe, Mrs. E. B. Rabe, Ray Burke, Sam 0"Dell and F. C. Sherman. Four herds owned by Henry Mey— ers, E. 0. Anderson, Leslie Brady and ?‘l"l%"3l .. a g - 3.1L oulr De n ertmenf Sam O’Dell will receive special recog- nition in the Year Book because more than 50 per cent of the cows in the herds have qualified and been entered. These are purebred Jersey herds. The first bulls to be listed as proven sires in the Michigan R. O. P. are Jerseys. These bulls are Mc- Kay’s Lad and Noble Sensational Lad owned by the Oceans. County Jerseymen. Each of these bulls has five daughters or more listed in the Record of Performance. Many other cow testing members scattered thruout Michigan have sent in entry blanks to the Dairy Depart- ment. Michigan dairymen are res— ponding whole heartedly to this new department in the cow testing asso- ciation work. The requirements for entry of cows in the Michigan Record of Performance are as follows: a. Heifers starting record under three years old must produce 280 lbs. or more of butterfat. b. Cows starting record under four years old must produce 310 lbs. or more of butterfat. c. Cows starting record under five years old must produce 350 lbs. or more of butterfat. d. Cows starting record when five years old or over must produce 400 lbs. or more of butterfat. e.. When age is not known cow is to be classed as mature, and must produce 400 lbs. or more of butterfat “The entry fee of $1.00 is to accom- pany each entry blank. This fee is to be used to cover cost of certificates and R. of P. Year Book. The aim of the Record of Perfor— mance is to encourage more efficient dairying. Certificates issued under this plan will establish a system of recording superior cow s— either grades or pure—bred—with the Dairy Department, Michigan Agricultural Collee. ' (We invite you to contribute your experience in raising poultry to this department. Questions relative to poultry will be cheerfully answered.) CHICKENS ON THE FARM farm seems to be the only 1 ‘ logical place for raising chick— ens. Everybody seems to have a fuller appreciation of this fact than the farmers themselves. The poultry specialist delights in inserting the words “Farmed Raised” in his ad- vertisments. 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But he does perform a service. Leaving out well supported stores, the retail merchant is worth actual dollars and cents to any community. In my home county in Western New York State a man whom I will call Mr. Edgar Tomlinson owned a hundred-acre farm on a cross-road six miles or so from the county seat. Although it was a cross road farm it was a most attractiveplace with a long, Well built story-and-a—half house that dated back nearly a hun- dred years, and a big modern barn with a cupola surmounted by a gilt horse that year after year reso- lutely faced the shifting winds in the attitude of a brisk trot. In one of the back fields there was a spring that never failed even in the dryest seasons on record; and there was also a grove of hard maples an acre or two in extent, which Mr. Tomlin— son tapped every March. It was, in short, about as ideal a place as one could find anywhere. They Decide to Sell Mr. and Mrs. Tomlinson had but one child, a daughter, who married a lawyer who practiced his profes— sion at the county seat, and a few years later the older people conceiv- ed the idea of selling the farm and moving into town to take things easy. To do this required some rather close figuring. They had ac- cummulated some money which Mr. Tomlinson had out at interest, but it was not enough to live on. He knew about what he could get at auction for his stock and imple- ments; and this, added to his other investments, would bring in enough to live on nicely if he could get a fair price for the farm. He believ- ed he could easily get $150 an acre for the place which seemed reason- able enough considering its money- making possibilities Half a mile from the Tomlinson place Where the cross—roads joined the main thoroughfare, there was a good sized general store run by a man named Meyers, which was sort of a meeting place for the people of the country roundabout. Meyers was an easy going man who it must be confessed, ran his store in some— what slipshod fashion, but he sold his goods at reasonable enough prices and was personally quite popular. It was natural therefore that Mr. Tomlinson while in the store one day making some pur- chases should have told the mer- chant that he Was thinking of sell— ing his farm if he could find a pur- chaser. “I believe I know just the man," said Meyers unexpectedly. “There’s a traveling man who calls on me ev— ery three months for a‘ wholesale house in Pittsburgh and he told me the last time he was here that he was sick of the road and wants to settle down. He’s due herejna few days and I’ll tell him about\your place if you want me to.” ’ Sure enough the traveling man did arrive the following week and on Meyer’s suggestion went to look at the Tomlinson place. He was a. businesslike appearing man of per- haps thirty—five years, Henry Doyle by name, who had been raised on a farm in our part of the country but had drifted to Pittsburg a dozen years previously, finding employ— ment in the wholesale house and eventually becoming a traveling salesman. He told Mr. Tomlinson that he had enjoyed the traveling life for the first few years but it had got to be an old story, and especial- ly since he had been married his ambition was to settle on a good farm somewhere, which ambition was heartily seconded by his wife, who was tired of seeing her husband only once every two or three weeks. He spent a full day at the Tomlin— son place, examining the. buildings > ""- s and conveniences and walking through the fields, at the end. of which time he expressed himself as very much pleased with the plant. When Mr. Tomlinson named a price of $15,000 he said he thought the figure reasonable enough and promis- ed to bring his wife to see the place on the occasion of his next trip. This was in April, and alongthe lat- ter part of June, Henry Doyle brought his wife. They drove out from the county seat to- Meyer’s store where he stopped to sell Mey- er a bill of goods, and then to the Tomlinson place. Mrs. Doyle was even more enthusiastic over the place than her husband had been. She too was country bred and never had been satified with her life in acramped city apartment. She was especially taken with the spring in the back lot and the grove of Hard maples. The upshot of the visit was a verbal agreement that the Doyles were to buy the place for $15,000 as soon as they could real- ize on certain investments. They Would not be able to pay more than half down. It was understood that if nothing turned up to prevent, Henry Doyle would close the deal the next time he came to sell goods to Meyers, which would be about the first of September; the plan was that Mr. and Mrs. Tomlinson should stay on the place until the following spring. On Henry Doyle’s September trip he drove out, as usual from the county seat‘ to Meyer’s store and in his inside pocket was a certified check for $7,500 to be given Mr. Tomlinson as soon as the necessary documents could be executed. He himself intended to continue trav— eling until the following spring when he should take possession of the farm. But when he reached Meyer’s store he found everything in confusion. A couple of big trucks were backed up infront of the place and inside Meyer was in his shirt sleeves pulling goods off the shelves and packing them in boxes to be loaded on the trucks. Henry Doyle, astonished at the sight, inquired the meaning of the operations, Meyers did not seem in a talkative humor but he paused long enough to answer. Meyers Moves Away “It means,” said Meyers aggres— sively, “that I’m quitting. The peo— ple around here don't seem to feel the need of a store and so I‘m going to let them get along without one.” The rest of the conversation was carried on in snatches between Mey- er’s efforts at pulling goods off the shelves and nailing up boxes, but Henry Doyle got the whole story eventually. It seems that Meyers had been in business nearly fifteen years and at first had done quite well, enjoying a good trade with the farmers within a radius of several miles about. He maintained a rig and during the busy seamns when their horses were working they could telephone in at any time and get purchases.sent out. But grad— ually people got more and more into the habit of going to the county seat for their goods or even sending to Buffalo or Pittsburgh. Meyers, it seems, was moving his stock to Buffalo, where he thought it would be easier to get along, al- though he would have preferred to stay where he was. Henry Doyle asked him if there was a likelihood of any one else opening up a store at the corners, to which Meyers answered forcibly that there might bf fools in the world, but he didn’t know any fool big enough L1 try to make a living in such a poor place. The traveling man, of course, understood that Meyers spoke more bitterly than he realized; but the fact remained that the Tomlinson farm which he was about to pur- chase would be more than six miles from any place where he could buy anything, instead of a convenient half mile as formerly. However, around the, neighborhood to ~talk with the farmers. Some, of. them, he found had been clubbing together, and buying supplies in bulk from a firm in Pittsburg, thinking to get their goods cheaper that way. Henry; Doyle asked one of these mustang man named Abernathy, if they had . v , . ‘ .94. ‘ g3... , _ l. given Meyers» a chance-to quote prices 'on their bulk purchases. “Why no," answered Abernathy: “Meyers is only a country merchant. He couldn’t sell us stuff as cheap as a big city concern.” “That may be,” said Doyle, “but if you’d give Meyers or any other local merchant an even chanced be— lieve you would find they could sup- ply your stuff just as cheap as you can get it anywhere. When I say ‘even chance' I mean this: That you take your cash money and hand it over to the merchant before you get the goods; that you wait an indefin- ite time for the goods to arrive from the mill or factory; that you risk that the goods will be up to standard when they do arrive. Do these things and, I’ll bet you a new hat that the home merchant will quote prices cheaper than the mail order house, or even than your coopera- five!" Henry- Doyle spent some hours calling on other people in the neigh- borhdod, and it was toward eyening when he drove up to the Tomlinson farm. Both Edgar Tomlinson and his wife were at home and the trav- eling man came directly to the sub- ject that was on his mind. “I find things have changed in this neighborhood since I was here a few weeks ago,” he said, “Meyers is closing up his store and moving away." ‘ “Yes, I know about that,” he said. “Meyers is an old kicker any- way. He seems to think the people in this section ought to trade with him just because he is a local man. I can’t see it that way. We farm- ers work for our money and we’ve got a right to spend it wherever we see fit. Meyers doesn’t do anything for the community. He’s only a trader.” Storekeeper Extends Credit “Of course you’ve got a right to spend your money where you want to," Doyle answered. “but I think you’re wrong in saying Meyers does not do anything for the community. In the first place he’s always been willing to extend credit, and any man is liable to need a little accom- modation occasionally. Then Meyers carried a fine stock of implement parts; if any of you farmers hap- pened to break a plow point or a nut or a bolt, all you had to do was to drive to his place and get it. Just think what a fix you would be in if there were no local stores, but you had to depend on a mail order house or organization in some dis- tant city.” Mr. Tomlison made no reply to this except to say he guessed the farmers could get along perfectly all right without Meyers and his store.’ “I came out here today, Mr. Tom- linson,” he said, “fully intending to close the deal for the purchase of your farm at the price you asked. But as a business proposition your farm isn’t worth as much as it was three months ago. . I like the place and my wife likes it; but I can’t make as much money from it now - that I must face the problem of driving in to the county seat every time I have to buy anything, or to dependron sending away to mail order houses. If you want 'to close the deal at $13,000 instead of $15,- 000, here is my check for the first payment. If you feel the price too little, I'll have to look elsewhere for a place." Mr. Tomlinson indignantly declin- ed the offer and the traveling man ‘ went away. During that fall and winter Mr. Tomlinson made further efforts to sell out, putting the mat- ter in the hands of a couple of real estate agencies, but with no success. Several partiés came to look at the ...place but some of them did not have enough cash to make sufficient first payment, and those with more mon- ey would not come up to the price he demanded. In the end he wrote L to Henry Doyle acceding to the lat— ter’s offer of $13,000, and the deal '_ was closed at that price. That is about all there is to the story, which I have told without frills and precisely as it. happened. ' FREE-BOOK ABOUT CANCER The Indianapolis Cancer Hospital, - Indianapolis. Indiana, has published a booklet which gives interesting i ’ facts aboutthe cause of Cancer, also .5 tells what to do forpain, bleeding“, ~ °»f9¥.:.;ét9; ~ A unsure guide. in. up : e 4 me; _ .;. 1‘. R3 was». new?“ Wm" ‘ NHJHAMA‘AHAahs oven HIE'ESGOHHHHJ HI his ‘ ll I I‘ Med:"rises'hiiiterfield; Folks (Chntinued from Page 4) ation as something sordid. This is not the'view of the leaders of the great agricultural cooperative move- nent in Europe—~quite the contrary. Cooperation in Europe" before the war _was almost a religion. And why shouldn’t it be? Isn’t coopera- tion in the real life work the best posaible test of the spirit of brother- hood, of loving ones neighbor? “Is loving something that merely exhibits itself in times of distress, merely in a pleasant smile, merely in a sort of general glow and good fellowship? No, the real test of neighborly love comes in this very field of economic competition. “One of the asks of the country preacher is to preach cooperation in production and distribution of farm goods, not only because of the neces— sity that the farmers shall have a reasonable reward, which is their just due, but because cooperation itself is one of the best .expressions of the Christian spirit. “In the large and true Sense the country church should be the cham- pion of the farmers. It should en- courage the farmer to play his part in the legislation and organization in the economic and social and politi- cal life of the nation under righteous terms. It should encourage him to seek his rights; it should equally en- courage him to recognize his obliga- tions.” - Well Balanced Leader In 'Dr. Butterfield’s make—up we have a fine blending of the practical and the sentimental. He realizes the necessity of real work and efficient work, but to him everything else is only incidental to the development of Christian character and high stand— ards of community life. This con- viction is well brought out in the fol- lowing paragraph from an address which he delivered at Amherst, Mass, just before leaving to accept his new duties at M. A. C. “Men can not farm on sentiment. They have to procure a reasonable profit. But the great goal of life is not a success irrxmaking money, but the sort of life one lives. A satis- fying country life, is, after all, the great goal with money merely a means. The finest type of home life in the country means ample provision for health, adequate recreation, a. chance to read and the habit of reading established maintaining on our land people who believe in relig- ion, and then, not the least, a life in which the farm people themselves see‘ the beauty of the countryside. If we can’t have a satisfying country life, by and by 'We’ll have an inferior lot of people here. This satisfying country life is found in the develop- ment of a strong rural community.” Dr. Butterfleld has the happy fac- ulty of being perfectly adaptable to every occasion. His remarks always seem appropriate and he can go from addressing a church gathering on some deep and fundamental phase of education or religion, direct to an athletic mass meeting, and be equally at home before either audi- ence. Probably the key to this unus— ual ability is found in the combina— tion of sincerity and enthusiasm which is one of his most outstanding characteristics. One of the most remarkable things about Dr. Butterfield’s character and personality is that despite the many honors which have come to him he has remained thorougly human and democratic. There is nothing ex- clusive about the new president of our farm college. As the college photographer remarked after having persuaded Dr. Butterfield to pose for a few snapshots, “the President is very friendly and cordial. There is nothing about his attitude that seems to say, ‘I am the president of this college, what do you want.’ He did not seem to feel that I was putting him under any obligation when he gave me the time that I requested.” Bigger Than His Job Dr. Butterfield is a man among men. There is nothing of the hermit soul about him, despite the fact that he is a deep thinker and a real phil- osopher. Since taking up his duties at M. A. C. he has established the pol— icy of regular “open houses” at his home, for faculty members and other friends who might desire to call and get better acquainted. He gives 1i— berally of his time to innumerable organizations. He is not a small man tackling a big job, on the con- trary, although he has had many heavy responsibilities he has always proved to be a little bigger than his job. He has done his main task well and has had time and sympathy for outside interests. Perhaps the key to this unusually ability is found in the following two sentences hidden away in one of his books: “Neither a high—school nor a col- lege diploma should ever be a ticket into the palace of pleasure and ease, but rather a commission to toil for the good of mankind. It is a pathetic reversal of all the fundamental ideas of Christian civilization to regard education as a means of escaping work." Dr. Butterfield practices What he preaches and his life has carried out the sentiments of the above quota- tion. He has devoted a life time to agricultural education in school work and has been a builder. He is a strong believer in farm organizations and aggressive for their development, not only because he feels that they are necessary in order to secure a square deal for the farmer but be- cause he hopes that through them more satisfactory rural life may de- velop. In carrying out this policy, Dr. Butterfield has become a national figure. President Roosevelt ap- pointed him to membership in the Country Life Commission which was one of the outstanding accomplish- ments of Mr. Roosévelt’s adminis— tration. Later iDr. Butterfield was called by Woodrow Wilson, while President to the Commission on Ru- ral Credits. He is today president of the American Country Life Asso— ciation and interests himself greatly in the problem of the rural church, and all other rural religious agencies. He is an educator, a philosopher, an author of many worth while books and an orator of high rank. He is a. diplomat, finding satisfactory ways of advancement through just counsel rather than through strife. And, most of all, he is indefatigable in his efforts to secure that which he would accomplish. At a time when the farmers of Michigan are confronted with so many perplexing economic and social problems, it is indeed for- tunate that a man of the ability and the outlook and the character of Dr. Butterfield has returned to guide the destinies of our Agricul— tural College and its extension pro— gram. We all enjoy THE BusiNEss FARMER very much and would not be without it. I am respectfully, Your faithful reader. ——W. N., Cadillac; Michigan. FA'ZRMER" (189) 21 Who Will Adopt Dolly? SHE \VAN’IS A MAllflWA! She was born in a far-away city, Mid the smoke and noise of a factory, .And for Just a short fleeting moment, She had a mother who loved her. But scarce had the wee helpless baby, Uttered her first cry of “Mamma” When iron machines and swift moving ‘ wheels 1 I Snatched Dolly away from her mother. W'HO WANTS TO ADOPT HER? Biét the Christmas Fairies soon found . I. e And sheltered the lovely lost Dolly. And now those same Christmas Fairies, Are flitting about o'er the country, To find her a home and a mother. In a way known only to fairies, They found Baby Dolly a guardian, Who will carefully love and protect her, Till some little girl mother adopts her. 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Wheat Prices Continue to Climb Higher Good Demand for Hogs and Sheep. By “L w. FOOTE, Market Editor. Good Ti mes Returning AKING a broad survey of general farming conditions, and making allowances for poor corn crops nd low grade corn in various‘sec- ions, it may be said that on the whole farmers are in much better Where Sl— los are in usc they help out mater— ially, and in the fortunate districts where wheat is the principal crop, as is the case in much of Michigan, farmers have much to be thankful for; for wheat is almost steadily ris- ing in price, and it is expected to go much higher. While the farmer’s dollar will not buy as much as be— fore the war, it goes much farther than last year and farmers generally have more money to spend than a year ago. As indicated by the large gains in sales for the year reported by the big mail order houses, farmers have purchased miscellaneous com- modities much more extensively than in recent years, and the reduction in prices for farm machinery of var- ious kinds just announced by manu— facturers is sure to cause increased sales. Many of these cuts in prices are from 5 to 6 per cent, and numer— ous reductions are from $2 to $20. The many Michigan farmers who are interested in the sheep industry have been pleasantly surprised by the worn dcri‘ul boom in prices for lambs, the recent extreme top for prime fat lambs being $16 per 100 pounds, the highest in a long period. The great advance in wool is a big factor in the sheep industry, and the large Wool houses have contracted for a very large part of the next year's clip in the west. A year ago the best lambs sold for $111.40‘ while. near the close of 1015 the top price stood at $9 60. The cattle industry shows profits for the fortunate farmers who bought a good class of feeders at the right time and had plenty of feed, but in districts where the corn crop turned out badly many farmers were forced to market their cattle and hogs prematurely thereby suf— fering more or less losses. The de— cline in hog prices in recent, months has been enormous, resulting from the glutted markets, but prices still remained much above those paid in recent years, and within a short time prices have had a good rise because of lessened receipts in Chicago and other leading markets. Leading au— thorities on the hog situation are pre— dicting much higher prices in the future, and one of the veter ns in the Chicago markets has pre icted that the properly matured pig will bring in handsome profits in c ming Weeks, particularly the lots averag— ing around 100 to 140 pounds which have been bringing from $5.25 to $6.50 per 100 pounds. He adds that these shipments will stand a good chance of bringing $12 or more if their owners are able to get suffic— ient feed for them. New Liberty Dollars New Liberty Dollars are making their appearance, being a handsome coin fresh from the mint. Uncle Sam desires to have these silver coins increase in circulation in place of the paper dollars, and it; is expected to save nearly $1,700,000 in cost of printing paper money‘ Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has requested banks throughout the country to co— operate in putting forty million of the new dollars into circulation. It is now necessary for the government to print forty—eight million dollar bills every month to meet the de- mand and redeem unfit and mutilat- ed bills. The Advance in “’hcnt The early predictions of much higher prices for wheat are being fulfilled. the upward movement being legitimate and based upon the mark— ed requirements of European import— ing countries at a time when avail- able supplies in exporting countries are much smaller than usual. A highly significant fact is the begin— ning of a shrinking in the visible supply of Wheat in the United States after the many weeks of rapid gains During the first week of December the visible supply showed a reduction of 902,000 bushels, leaving the sup— ply at 99,461,000 bushels, comparing with 72,547,000 bushels a years ago. Marketing of spring wheat in the northwest shows quite a falling off, and receipts in Winnipeg are far smaller than a short time back. Ar— gentina reports are very bullish, and word comes from there that there is going to be no large exportable sur— plus. Exports of rye, wheat and flour from this country continue on a much larger scale than a year ago, and the rye market is in a particularly strong position_ Oats have advanced with the other grains, althou'l‘h'lcss than wheat and corn, for oats have been marketed much too freely, and the. visible stocks have mounted up to 67,250.000 bushels, con'iparing with only 18,058,000 bushels a year ago. Rye is moving actively at rul- ing prices, and the visible supply stands at 20.871000 bushels, com- paring with 18,266,000 bushels a year ago. Stocks of corn in sight. ag— gregate 9,065.000 bushels, comparing with 4,340,000 bushels a, year ago. Late sales for December delivery were made of wheat at $16115 per bushel, comparing with $1.001/2 a year ago; corn at $1.24 3/4, comparing with 71% cents last. year; oats at 58 cents, comparing with 421/2 cents last year; and rye at $18,514, com- paring with 68 cents a year ago. Cattle on Feed There were only about 86 per cent as many cattle on feed in the. eleven corn belt states on December 1, this year as on the same date in 1923. according to a preliminary estimate of the Department of Agriculture. The number on feed in the western and Pacific states was around 92 per cent, of last year. This estimate is based upon the movement of stocker and feeder cattle into the corn belt and into the different states in the two years and upon state estimates made from reports of individual feeders as to their own operations and from estimates of livestock re— porters. In the corn belt the reduc— tion in feeding is about the same both east and west of the Mississippi River. All of the important feeding states show reductions of 15 per . cent or more, except Kansas. The state percentages are as follows: Ohio .......... .. 80 Minnesota 90 Indiana ...... .. 80 Iowa .......... .. 80 Illinois ...... .. 85 Missouri .... .. 85 Michigan 95 So. Dakota .. 90 Wisconsin ....100 Nebraska .... .. 85 Kansas ........................................ .. 95 The shipments of stocker and feed~ er cattle into the corn belt states from August 1 to December 1, this year Were 1,547,000 head, compared to 1,858,000 head for the same per- iod in 1923, 1,962,000 in 1922, and 1,260,000 in 1921. The greatest falling off this year was into the states west of the river, especially into Iowa and Missouri. The reports of feeders as to the character of cat— tle on feed indicate a larger percent— age than last year of cattle weigh- ing over 1,000 pounds when put on feed and a considerable reduction in the percentage of feeder calves. Re— ports as to the probable time of marketing show larger percentages for December and January than last year and smaller for the following months, especially for April and later. These reports bear out mar- ket opinion that. a considerable part of the cattle on feed this winter are being used to salvage soft corn and will be given only a short feed. They would seem to forecast marketian of corn finished cattle in December and January almost as large as a year ago, but a considerable falling off late in the winter and durng the spring months. Since the proportion of fed cattle in the total market sup— ply of cattle is not known, the effect 01’ the decreased feeding upon the total marketings during the next five months cannot be determined. Nearly all evidence points to a cons Siderable decrease after January. (‘aitlc Market (:‘luttcd The Chicago cattle receipts last week attained snch enormous propor— tions that, prices for the greater part of the. ot‘t‘crings were on the down- grade mosi ol' the, time, and late sales \Vcre from $1 to $1.50 per 100 pounds lower than a week earlier. butcher stock going.r off 50 cents mostly. The choicest yearling steers sold higher, bringing at the best time in the week $12.50 to $14.75, with the late top $14.50. The bulk of the beef steers brought $7.50 to $10.25 late in the week, with the best heavy steers selling at $10 to $11.50, and pretty good heavy steers as low as $8.25. (‘onimon steers brought $5.75 to $6.75, and inter— ior little steers sold at $3.50 to $5.50. Butcher lots of coWs and heifers brought $3.25 to $11.80, canner and THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMAF-(YM and Comparison with Markets Two “'ecks ago and One Year ago Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit Dec. 16 Dec. 16 Dec. 3 1 yr, ago WHEAT— No. 2 Red $1.74 $1.74 $1.61 551.10% No. 2 \Vhite 1.75 1.65 1.62 No. 2 Mixed 1.75 1.74 1.61 1,10% CORN— No. 3 Yellow 1.31 1.22 1.21 .78 No. 4 Yellow 1 .26 l .21 @ 1 .96 .74 I)A'l‘h~—— No. 2 \Vhite .64 .61 @ 62 .55 $6 .50 15 ho. 3 White .6: .58@ .59 .5-1 % 4.8 RYE- Cash No. 2 1 .37 1.38 1 .09 .73 1,4 BEANS-— (7. H. l’. th. 5.25@5.30 5.10@5.15 4.85@4.96 POTATOES—- Per th. .93 35 @ .95 ‘ .93 1 .61 @ 1.33 HA 1— N0. 1 Tim. 17.50 @ 18 22@24 18 @ 19 23.50 @24 No.2Tim. 15@16 18@21 16@l7 21@22 No. 1 Clover 15@16 17@20 15@18 ’21@22 Light Mixed 16.50@ 17 20@23 17@18 21 @22 Tuesday, December 16.——Wheat strong after recent advances. Potato market shows some improvement. quiet. Other grains Cattle slow. Hogs steady. .7 Detroit and Chicago Tuesday Live Store Marketa Next Page. cutter cows $2 to $3.45, bulls $3 to $6 and calves at $3.75 to $10.50. The stocker and feeder trade was fairly large at $3.85 to $7.15, largely at $5.25 to $6.50. Milch cows sold at $45 to 75 per head mostly. Com- bined receipts of cattle in twenty markets for the year to late date amount to 13,997,000 head, compar— ing with 14,121,000 a year ago and 13,663,000 two years ago. Higher Hog Prices Hogs Were marketed in large num- bers last week, although less freely than a week earlier. Fortunately. for sellers, local packers and eastern shippers took hold better than usual,‘ and prices had a number of ,shary advances all along the line. With the large representation of under- weights, they were slower to advance than the well matured heavy butch— ers, but p'gs had some b'g advances at. times, in fact, the market. has been showing signs of getting back to normal conditions once more. Still, the market, requirements have limits, and the only way to establish a higher price schedule is to hold down supplies of hogs to reasonable pro- portions. Late sales were made of hogs in the Chicago market at $7.40 to $10.05, comparing with $6.40 to $0.60 a week earlier and $6.40 to $7.25 a year ago. December market— ings exceed all records. Fancy ’riccs for Lambs While good advances in prices for well finished lambs were predicted months ago, the boom has far ex— ceeded expectations, prime lambs sel— lingr on the Chicago market recently for $16.25 per 100 pounds, while i‘ncdingr lambs went, at. $15.25 to $15.60. A year ago prime killing lambs sold at $13.40, three years ago at $11.40, and nine years ago at $0.60. The Department of Agricul- ture reports that there were 40,000 less lambs and sheep on feed on De- cember 1 than a year ago. W] l [9.1T Prices in the. wheat market at Detroit made several advances dur— ing the fortnight ending Saturday. December 13, and the market. was steady and most of" the advances held. Foreign buyers were active last week and it is said that on sev— eral occasions nearly every country in Europe was reprcscnted in the buying. Domestic dcmand was also good. The visible supply is expected to decrease again and bulls are look— ing for still higher prices. CORN There is not a very active demand for corn at Detroit at present, ac- cording to reports, but. the market is firm in tone and prices made several dvances within the last two weeks. OATS Oats also made several gains in price during the two weeks ending last Saturday and .the market was firm at the close. RYE There is not as active demand for rye as other grains. Prices advanced some at Detroit during the fortnight ending December 13, but not as much as in other grains. Bulls are looking for foreigners to come into the market as it is reported that some of the European countries are using rye instead of wheat for bread. BEANS . During last week the Detroit bean market gained 10 cents in price al- though most dealers report a dull tone prevailant in the market. Dur— ing the first week of this month bean brokers of Colorado quoted recleaned western beans at $5.75 per cwt. f. o. b. During the same period Michigan jobbers were offering to sell Michigan choice hand picked pea beans at $5.25 1'. o. b. Their cleaned western bean compares with our. fancy screen bean that represents a value of 25c per cwt. under our C. H. P. How do yOu account for this? Something is wrong, radically so, and the elevator men and bean growers must get to- . gether and save the Michigan bean industry. Is your local elevatér man in on the advertising campaign? 1 \ v4 . 4 i. Amtkw December 20., 1924 f POTATOES Potatoes continue easy. and dull with small indication of an early change. Receipts remain large. HAY The general tone of the hay mar— kets of the country is steady with demand better for all grades. Re- ceipts have declined and most of the hay coming to market at present is of fair quality. \VOOL The wool market at Boston was a little weak last Saturday but prices held steady and dealers declare they do not expect to see any declines in the near future. THE LIVESTOCK MARKETS DETROIT, Dec. 16.——Cattle: Market dull and 25 lower on all grades. Good to choice yearings, dry fed, $9.50@10.25; best heavy steers. dry fed, $7.50@8.75; best handy weight butcher steer, $6@6.75 ; mixed steers and heifers, $5@5.70; handy light butchers, $4@4.75; light butchers, $3.70@3.75; best cows, $4.25@4.75; butcher cows, $3.25@3.75; common cows, $2.50@2.75; canners, $2632.25; choice light bulls, $3.50@3.75; heavy bulls, $4.25 @450; stock bulls, $3@3.75; feeders, $4.50@6; stockers, $4@5.75; milkers and springers, $45@75. Veal Caves-«Market. steady and 500 higher; best, $12Gii12.50; others. $5M? 11.50. Sheep and Lambs Market, 25c lower. Best lambs, $16@ 16.2»; l'air lambs. $13717 14.75; light to common lambs, $7.500!) 11.25; fair to good slump, $727508; nulls and common. $3.5ti0/~l.35; buck lambs, 37500171523. Hogs~—Markot 154! 25v lower. Mixed hogs, $0.25; rouglls, $8.25; pigs. $63.50. (liliUAtltlklions~—-l{v(‘t‘ipls. 122,000; market steady. llnlk, 338.5001 SHE”; top, $9.85; 250 to 3125 pounds, $9; medium Weight, 358(11‘850; light \\'t*lf.1'lll, $7.50@ 9.40; light lights, $tl.5001>8.-13; heavy pack— ing sows, smooth, Silfivtljfi; packing sows, rough, $8.80@9; pigs. $6@7.25. .L__:_.:" .'_. " iii"; . \Vecr of December 21 T the very beginning of the week A of December 21 in Michigan the temperatures are expected to be very low for the season. These con- ditions, however, will soon be dis- placed with cloudy and threatening weather, brisk to high winds and ris- ing temperatures. It is this coming spell of mild weather that has left us in doubt as to how much of the state will have a white Christmas. That it will be warm enough to melt snow in some parts of the state seems almost cer— tain but the two conditions making a green Christmas at this time are quantity of snow on the ground at beginning -of this week and the de— gree of warmth to which this storm period will raise the temperature of the Michigan air. These are condi— tions that will have to be definitely decided by the residents of each 10- cality. Warm weather will pass slowly eastward so that by the 24th or- Christmas Day tmnpcraturcs will again be ('old and the sky clear. The week ends with temperatures again moderating. “'(‘ck of December 28 There will be many temperature changes during this week. Warm weather at beginning of week will again become chilled about Monday or Tuesday but about New Year’s day another mild wave will hit the state. ' Clear to threatening weather is ex— pected on New Year’s day in most parts of Michigan. Duringr the closing days of this week there will be a rain, sleet, ice or snow storm in Michigan that 10-_ cally may do censiderable damage. Closely following this disturbance there will be a change to colder but probably not as cold as is expected during early part of next week. January Dry and Gold The average weather conditions expected over most parts of Michigan duri g January will show tempera- tures and precipitation both below normal. In mest cases-we believe that conditions all around will be in favor. of the farmer. ‘\ .“ .1KII;S.. I513 S 11S E S 3 IF Apiz’mris R Cattle—Receipts, 25,600: market weak. Beef steers: Choice and prime, $10@11; medium and good, $8@9.50; good and choice, $12@14.50; common and medium, $6. Butcher cattle: Heifers, $5@10.50; cows, $3.50@7; bulls, $3@6.50. Canners and cutterS' Cows and heifers, $2@4.50; canner steers, $3.50@4. Veal calves, light and handy weight, $8@]0;' feeder steers, $5.50@8; stocker steers, $5@7.50; stocker cows and heifers, $3636; stacker calves, $5@7.50. Calves Receipts, 1,500. Sheep and lambs—Receipts, 26,000; market steady. Lambs, fat, $15.75@16; culls and common, $11@12.50; yearlings, $11.50@13; wethers, $10; ewes, $6.50@ 8; culls and common, $2@4; breeding, $6.50@12; feeder lambs, $14.50@15.60. MISCELLANEOI'S MARKET QUOTATIONS Detroit, Tuesday, December 16 BUTTER—N0. 1 creamery. in tubs, 38 @400 per lb. EGGS—Fresh receipts, 50@54c; cold storage, 361/2(g)38c; coast whites, 52@60c per doz. APPLES—Wolf River, $1.50@1.75; Greenings, $2; Snow, $1.75@2.25; Joha— than, $2.25@2.50 per bu; western boxes. $2.25@3. ' LIVE POULTRY Sprint: chickens. fancy, 41,5 lbs, 2369240; medium chickens. 21@220; leghorns, 190; best hens, 5 lbs up, 23617240; medimn hens, 20®220; leg~ horns and small, 150; old roosters, 16v; geese, ltlfiDl'Io; ducks. large white, 21m 220.; small dark, 1900200; best turkeys. 320iiilflc por lb; No. 2 turkeys, 230: obl toms. 25/:i‘2tlo IH'I‘ lb. lllllCSSlCll t.‘..\[.‘.'l'ISr~'%ost country drpssml. llro 15o pt-r lb; ordinary grader: 10o llo; small poor, flu! ltlt‘: llf‘HVY l‘tlll‘rl‘ll (Illth‘S, Stu ilt‘; t'ily tlI‘l'SSt‘ll, Iii/1117C per Ill. H.\'lt INS r l.:Il‘L’l‘. 3.5a; small, $2.35 per lOO—lb sot-k; Spanish, $2.:5T.’«12.50 pt-r crate. MICHIGAN MAN I14 “HAY lithl“ (Continued from l’ag‘o $1) No“ \Vliiic “'inlvr “'lli‘zli lst, A. \V. .lt‘\\'t‘ll, .lt‘., Mason; 21rd. l.. Il. Laylin. Mason: lth, L. ’l'. I‘llfit‘llllfi. MaSon. Oats, Region 33. 5th, L. ll. l.a.\'lin, Mason; tlth, A. \\’. .IcWett, Jr., Mason: 7th, Lynn .Iewvll. Leslie; 9th. A. l‘]. llilliard, Mason; loll] Henry McCarty. tlrand tnpids; lIth, ll. F. JcWett, .\lason;121h. L. 'l‘. Last-nlly, Mason; 'l7th. ltoy L. I'low. Sauinaw; lRtlr. Harry M. Martin, (‘linlon: 19th, l’aul Clement. llritton; 20th, \Varrvn Fink» beiner, Clinton; 21st. I). V. How, Sani naw; 2nd. (7. I). Finkbviner, Clinton; 2231:]. G. P. Phillips, Rollevno: thh. l“al‘|wy Bros, Albion; 26th.' Fred Mohrhardt. Saline; 28th, Richard \\'ood(\n, llanovt-r; 29th, L. E. “'ooden, Hanover; 30th, tho. W. Ernest, Clinton. Flax, Region 12 lst, A. IV. .lewvtt, .Ir., Mason; 2nd, l. H. Laylin, Mason; 4th, Lynn .lewt-ll, Leslie; 6th. II. I”. Jewctt. Mason; 71h, .\. E. Hilliard, Mason. Rye lst. (too. and L. (l llutzlvr, So Mani Lou; 2nd. L. ll. Laylin. Mason: 1111, .»\. \V. .Iowr-tt, .lr.. Mason; tith, L. ’1‘. Last pby. Mason; 7th, R. F. .tmvettz. Mason; Nth A. [6. Hilliard, Mason; 12th, Melvin J. Smith. Springport; 13th, Lynn .It‘\\'1‘ll, Leslie; 16th, John C. \Vilk. St. Louis; 19th, .I. A. Wilk, Alma; 20th, Ted J. VViIk, Forest Hill; illst, Vorold Clormley. Newberry. Six Iiowed Barley lL’th, II. F. Jowvtt, Mason; 121th. L. ll. Laylin, Mason; 'ltlth, A. lG. Hilliard, Mason; 20th. Fritz Mantey, Fairgrove: 2lst. Lynn .l“\V1'll, l4":‘:llt'; ‘_":.’nd. .\_ \\' vaett, .111. Mason. Alfalfa IIay lst, .r\. \\'. .lowvtt, .lr., Mason. (Ian'nl Champion; 2nd. Lynn Jewell. lu‘Silt'. stl. L, ’l‘. l'msvnby, I‘llason; Alth, L. ll lxt) Mn. Mason. Hod (‘lovt-r Ila:v 'lst, A. \V. .lmw‘tt, Jr., blltrvlli; 1nd l T. Lasenby, Mason; 21rd, l.\nn .I wil. Leslie; 4th, L, H Laylin, Mason. ’I‘imoihy Illa) lst, A. W. .lmw‘tt, .lr., Mitfi‘oll: L‘nd. l.. H. Laylin, Mason; :lrd, L. ’l‘. Laswnl». Mason; ‘lth, Lynn .lw\\'«ll, Leslie; 5th, .\. lC. llilliard, Mason. Mixed Hay lst, L. II. Laylin, Mason, lb-s-i'Vw Champion; 2nd, A. \V. .anctt, Jr., Mason; 3rd, (Thas. Laughlin. llansville; 41h, A. ll}. Hilliard, Mason; 5th, L. ’l‘. Laswnby, Mason. Any OtIu-r Ilay lst, L. ll. Laylin, Mason; 2nd. A. \V. Jewett, Jr., Mason. Red (‘lovcr Seed 12th, Albert letgelshaw. Union (‘ity. Alsike (flora-r Seed 5th, A. J. Lutz, Saline. Yellow Soy Beans. Region I and :5 1st, J. A. VVilk, Alma, Ill-svrw- (..‘ham- pion; 2nd, Ted J. \Vilk, Forest Hill; Ilrd, John (7. VVilk, St. Louis; 5th. Melvin Smith, Springport; 6th, A. W'. vaett, .lr., Mason; 8th, D. V. Bow, Saginaw; 9th, L. H. Laylin, Mason. Soy Beans, Any Other Color 3rd, L. T. Lasenby, Mason; 4th, A. \V. .Jewett, Jr., Mason; 62h, Lynn Jewell, Leslie; 7th, L. H. Laylin, Mason, Field Peas lst, Charles Konnot. Ewen; 4th, L II. Laylin, Mason: 5th. Connors Bros, Topaz. Field Beans ist, J. A. \Vilk, Alma; 2nd, Lynn Jewell, Leslie: 3rd, Melvin Smith. Springport; 4th, A. W. Jewett, .lr.. Mason. (iéi) 23 ____——v BUSINESS FARMERS’ EXCHAjQ A DEPARTMENT OF CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING RATE PER “'ORD—One Issue 80,, Two Issues 151'. Four Issues 250. No advertisement less than ten words. Groups of figures, initial or abbreviation count as one word. Cash in advance from all advertisers in this department. no vxwpiions and no discounts. . Forms close Monday noon proceeding date of issue. Address: MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, .m. memo... m...,,g.,n_ lltHllCSl’l'N TOBAFVU 71‘ H E W I N t: FIVE pounds $1.50 ten $2.50. Smoking five pounds 1...». ton _ 3.00. I'll-v true. I’uy when w» d. Satisr'; «Ition l‘nnr--ntne(l. I: N I ’I‘ I} l) M't‘u (JIIUWICRS, l'aduvah. Ky. FARM LANDS F iALE—ONE OF THE BEST FARMS IN vulva OlllIiclciigun. 88 ncres all cleared, fenced in ten TOB‘ acre fields, all tilled, good buildings, _electr1c lighted, pum water for house and barn With elec- tric motor, house has hot andd coldmwategfidto‘llie: and bath. If on are a 300 or er " furnish referencgs. and have the stock. tools and hel to run a. farm of this kind you can buy it wit out one cent down, on the atmOYtIZStlggln pilgrné . dllhgoggyliggniindf 1331233311“ smiling, ygn this plan Winners. vStovk of all ages for sale. at Farmers you can own a good farm in fifteen to mitt, 1108?. dWrite Us for furtlwr information. V Fevd years, depends upon our ability. Come and see Bazaar 8r tgatufflqttfim quickly. (JRAI’O IARM, meor write for partic are. JAMES S. BICKNELL. 99 - A H llgan. (k, t‘larc, Michigan. LIVE moor; IVE HAVE BREI) ."I‘Ot‘li III'IREF‘ORDS SIVT‘IG 1860 Our herd bulls are International Ir'rizo REC._JICRSICYS, l’()(llS 99th OF II. F. ANI) FARM FOR SALE: 180 ACRES. SITUATED IN Majesty brooding. Young stock for sale. llerll section 29 Clayton Township. Genesee.Co. fully accredited by _State and Federal Govvrn~ \Ilt'll. Splendid natural drainage and well tilled. 1138," Wth or Visit for [ll‘lt‘f‘s'and descrijyfiw .‘ 'l‘wenty acre wood lot with about 15 acres of ('IY C. WILBUR, Beldmg, Michigan. (Xi standing timber. This is one of the best farms in what is considered by many to be the'best township for farm land in the state of Michigan. ILtRl‘LI’SIIIRICS—iSI’IIING IIOARS FOR SALE. l - - . . ‘ .' l'lts bred to order. llth tr d builim s. Located on state reward road (0 “’1‘” fl.” 9’, .“f t,‘ , . . tutti) iniles(fr§m the village of Lennon, and tm gall-i5)?!” “‘ bxlln‘n' M‘ Johm' Mlcmgaxn' miles West of the city of Flint. Inu'life PETER ' t ) l1. LENNON, Lennon, Michigin. FARM SERVICE: IF YOU \VAN’l" 'l‘O BUY t-l‘ exohange for farm or business, svnd details. llnn-lrtvds of owners will write you direct. No on mission ('lltll'tft’ll. FARM SERVICE lil'RI‘lAU, \‘t. Louis, Mo. POi'firitv HARRIS“ Iltlt/‘KSVWIIIH lll'SKY COCKEREI.S. Standard (-olor, brml from lfl‘t‘ilt layers. \\'rite. SGdll‘I)‘. W. t‘. ('()l“l“l\IAN, licnton llarbor, RR. :on SALE—~30 .\(‘nits in .\(‘incs t'Ll‘IAIII‘II), ‘ “ “5””- (X) w‘ :n‘rt-s Woods. .0 miles from .\llt-gan, Mir-b. ' ' ltlllX ‘vl. SIMMONS, Iiotnuo, Michigan. “lll'l‘l‘l \\'l.\.\'l)()'l”l‘l§.\‘ llthKINC ADVANI‘IQ -... L-_.._.,-....,_ .,____. .-.n.-_ - . .~__._‘ 01;: orders from R tnia'it‘. Nations and utility x "31.51.13"mu . r" "w .»\ N 'r n n“ lth'li.‘ .\‘towk all sold. l‘lll-ll) BERLIN, Allen, Mulligan. (X) «.\\\'l‘i-Il> t;li.\lilt.\l, ,\t.‘l-‘..\"l‘ 'l't) ll.\.\'lil.l§v mum“; If you are earning less than $50 a Week, -read every word. Why stair in the old job, with no future—no chance of ever earning much more than you are now? The Auto, Tractor and Electrical Business offers thousands of BIG PAY JOBS—jobs where you are the BOSS. Get out of the rut—be independent—be an Auto Expert. J. A. McSweeny --- the Largest Operator of" Automobile Schools in the U. S. Will Train You! I am the largest operator in the United States. I have completely equipped schools in Cincinnati, Chicago and Cleveland. Think a moment what it means to be trained by u McSWeeny—think of the prestige—the ease of getting a big pay job when you can say “McSweeny Trained Me”. That’s the magic phrase that has opened the doors of thou- sands of big pay jobs to my students. You can go to any of my schools—the school nearest you or the school nearest where you want to locate. EIGHT suo RT WEEKS No Previous Experience and Then SUCCESS . Necessary Think of it—eight short weeks in any of Age or lack of experience is no handi- my schools—then a big pay job—Success! cap. I have trained hundreds of men With You don’t have to know a thing about cars— no previous knowledge of automobiles. I you don’t have to have any education—all you have successful graduates—men who are need is the determination to get ahead. In making big money—from 16 to 65 years. Age eight weeks you’ll be, not merely a garage makes no difference to an employer 1f the mechanic, but an Auto, Tractor and Electri- man knows his stuff—and he does When he cal Expert—a Big Pay Man. completes my training. cSweeny Trained Men Be Allto MAKE GOOD ‘ Ordinary garage mechanics make A. J. Beall, Jr., l‘v’lorgantown, W. Va., made $85,- " ' ‘ 000.00 last year clear with his garage and Chevrolet gOOd “1011637. Arte’fl' elgllt weeks ‘11} any Agency. - . . . of my schools you ll be in a pOSIti George Smith, W. Alexandria, Ohio makes over . v . d $800.00 a month clear witlh his garage. I. f _ t0 bOSS ordlnary mechanlcs, an Thousands of ot icr stm cuts are now manng 'rom $50 to $150 a week. Before thloy came u; school, they to make more money Ehan knew nothing about nutomollyi os—now ticy are Suc— cessful men. You, too can have the same SUCCOSS— you ever dreamed 0f be ore all you need is the Trainingchchcny Training. You read thls announcement, ' ' c t Th’ FREE WRITE AT ONCE 52-1%,; Book For the Best Offer Ever Made , My big 64 page, beautifully illustrated catalog tells the Whole The leader sets the pace. I am the ac- story—I send it free if you act at once. knowledged leader in the automobile bus1— ness. Because I have three completely equipped schools, I can give more for less a. n. MoSweeny,Pres., Dept. 526, money than any one else. Right now, I am making the lowest tuition offer ever 23:$3??an‘ggsfré‘ffifinfafifefifiiffhwls' ‘ ' ' __ ’ ‘ ' :‘l” s. L‘ fl' St., Ch' ag , Ill’ . made in the history of automobile schools you 11 have to act quickly in order to M5 Egg}; St" Cfgvelgnd, him get 111 on thlS. (Send to the School nearest you.) Dear Mac: Send me your 'big‘ catalog and full information about your limited Special Offer. T . Now is the time to train yourself—now Name .................................................................................. .. . . will be able to take your place with the Address .............................................................................. .. other McSweeny Trained Big Pay Experts. Send the coupon—NOW—TODAY— City sue THIS MINUTE. ‘ """ "are"rge'r'rzeg"'r;;;'game restate; """"""" " McSWEEN QSTEEEEESERE SCHOOLS THE LARGEST OPERATOR OF AUTOMOTIVE SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES. ' Dept. 526 CINCINNATI, OHIO ' CHICAGO, iLL. CLEVELAND, OHIO 9th and Walnut Sts. 519-21 South Laflin St. , 1815 East 24th St.‘