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" THE SQUARE DANCE-‘83; 147mg Campée/l

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Talk about the modern dance,
Fox trot an’ the rest, ii

Did you ever have a. chance
Dancln’ when ’twas best?

Lanterns hangin‘ on a string
High above your head, ‘

Grand march was a bang-up thin
It 'twas you who led!

Violin a. screechin’ high
“Turkey in the Straw";

All the gals a-steppin’ by,
Best you ever saw!

Ol‘ man Perkins shoutin’ out
“Choose your partners now!

Allemand, an’ turn about,

» Make a little bow!"

Circle to the right! Never had to speak

Dance with all the gals you know! ’Bout the young folks dancin’ so
(Watch out for that light!) Spoony cheek to cheek!

Ladies in the center! Quick! Had no dancin’ censor gent
Shake your feet a while! Eylng‘ couples there,

Gents. go on an’ take your pick! For I guess square dancin’ ment

“All hands join an’ don’t be slow! In the days of long ago, 1
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E’ 0! prison labor on highway
work during 1924 was the most
marked digression from the old
order of things and the most inter-

- esting feature of‘the state’s pardon

policy for 1924. Fred E. Janette,
commissioner of pardons, says that
the system has proved even more suc-
cessful from the standpoint of both
state financial affairs and the welfare
of the prisoner than had been antl—

' cipated.

The system of prison labor on the
instituted with the
support and advocacy of Governor
Groesbeck back in 1923. That was
the first year when this labor was at-
tempted on the roads. During 1923
there were 660 prisoners from Jack-
son prison and the Ionia. state re-
formatory who worked on the high-
ways. During 1924 the number was
1,421. For 192; the number taken
from Jackson prison was 739, and
from Ionia 682.

The largest number of prisoners on
highway work at any one time during

1924 was approximately 800. They
were quartered in prison camps,
where every sanitary facility, from

water and drainage to barber service,
and the best of Wholesome food and
comfortable quarters were provided.
And with all this the men received a
small daily wage for their depend-
ents. When the final balances were
struck. the state maintains that a big
sum of money on highway construc-
tion and maintenance work has been
saved for the taxpayers of Michigan.

Short Tcrmers on Roads

State prisoners who are assigned
to highway work are those of short
terms or whose terms will soon ex-
pire, that is at least the minimum
sentences. They are men whose. rec-
ords are good. They are given pa-
roles to leave the prisons, being as—
signed to highway camps and work,
under guard at those places. When
their minimum terms expire they are
taken back to the prisons where they
are formally released on their own
paroles, and sent out into society un-
der the usual system. Singularly
many 0! the men have asked to re—
main on the road jobs but for several
good reasons that could not be done
in order to maintain the morale of
the men still retained under the prise
on labor plan.

For the first 11 months of 1924,
the total number of paroles from the
state prisons numbered 1,288; for
1923 it was 1,846. For 1923 the
total number of prisoners received
was 1,871; for the first 11 months of
1924 it was 1,270. The increase was
due to short termers, many of whom
were liquor law violators.

In 1923 the parole violators num-
bered 209, while for 1924 the total
was only 110. This decrease in the
number of parole violators is as-
cribed to the prison labor system on
the highways established in the past
two years.

SHORT COURSE FOR U. l’.
FARMER

PER Peninsula farmers will
have the Michigan Agricultural
College brought to their door
during the last two weeks in January
when a short course in agricultural
engineering is given at Northern
State Normal School at Marquette.
Prof. H. H. Musselman, head of
the department, and George A. Get-
man, will come from East Lansing to
give the instruction. They will be
assisted by Larry F. Livingston and
George Amudsen, extension special—
ists in land clearing, who spend most
of their time in the Upper Peninsula.
The course will be divided into
four parts. The first studies will in—
clude all phases of farm mechanics,
such as rope making, rope splicing,
knots, belt lacing, soldering, pipe cut-

.ting and fitting, riveting andzpump

repairs.

The second group of studies will be
on farm equipment and will cover
farm building layouts, fencing, drains '
and drainage, equipment mainten-
ance and repair, household equip—
ment, home conveniences and cou-
crete.

The study of farm buildings, in—
cluding farm houses, barns, poultry
house, silos and small buildings, will
be undertaken in the third group,

The final group of subjects will in—
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The Only Farm Magazine Owned and Edited in Michigan

Published Bi-Weekl at
Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1925

“ Pass Gas Tax First”

S prophesied in the last issue of
THE BUSINESS FARMER, the mat-
ter of highway finance was the

chief subject of interest during the
first few days of the fifty—third ses-
sion of— the Michigan Legislature
which convened at Lansing January
7th.

Gas tax supporters rejoiced over
the outcome of the first skirmish of
the session, which came in connec—
tion with the choice of a Speaker for
the House of Representatives. The
speakership race finally settled down
to a struggle between Representative
Fred B. Wells of Cassopolls and Rep-
resentative George 0. Watson of Ca-
pac. Both had voted for the gas tax
in 1923, but Wells was regarded as
a somewhat more outstanding cham—
pion of the farmers’ cause. Repres—
entative Watson polled the solid vote
of the Wayne County delegation and
was said to be the favorite of the
Administration. However, Repres—
entative Wells was an easy winner on
the first ballot, the vote being 62 to
33.

The first day of the session was '

largely given over to such formali—
ties as giving the Senators and Rep~
resentatives the constitutional oath
of ofiice, electing officials, and pas—
sing routine motions and resolutions.
By the second day of the session both
branches were organized and were
ready to receive the third biennial
message of the Governor. A joint
convention of the Senate and House
was held in the Representative Cham—
ber and in the presence of the assem~
bled law makers. state officers, Jus-
tices of the Supreme Court. and as

'many legislative observers and Lan—

sing citizens as the hepacity of the
hall would permit, Governor Croes—
beck appeared and read his message.
For the first time in history the (lov-
ernor gave his message before a mi—
crophone and his speech was broad—
casted by W'KAR, the radio station at
Michigan Agricultural College.

Governor Stresses \Veig‘ht‘ ’l‘ax

As expected, the Governor placed
chief emphasis on the importance of
enacting highway financing legisla-
tion. He advocated a weiuht tax as
the best basis. With the skill of an
experienced politician and agility
which would have done credit to a
tight-wire artist, the Governor glid-
ed over the mooted subject of a gas—
oline tax without leaving any very
definite impression as to just what he
thought regarding the many argu-
ments which are being strongly ad—
vanced in support of such a measure.
Regarding this proposition, he said:

“As you know, there has been a
general discussion as to whether a
dual system/of taxation applying to
motor vehicles should be adopted.
That is, whether in addition to a
Weight tax there should be a levy
based upon gasoline consumption.
\Vhatever your ultimate decision in
this regard may be, it necessarily fol--
lows that if a gas tax is passed no
higher rates should be imposed by
either law than the state’s needs dic—
tate, and that prope‘ adjustments as
between them should be provided to
prevent unnecessary collections.”

The lovcrnor’s message so uned to
leave the impression that a weight
tax should first be passed and then
attention might possibly be given the
matter of a gasoline tax. This is just
what the leading senators and mem-
bers of the. gas tax bloc in the house
do not intend to do. Their motto
seems to be, “Let’s get a gas tax first
and then perhaps pass a moderate
weight tax bill to make up the bal-
ance of the required revenue.”

Gas Tax Bloc Smiles

It was with no little glee that ar-

dent gas tax enthusiasts heard the

Entered as 2nd. class matter, Aug. 22, 1917,
at Mt. Clemens, Mich.. under act Mar. 3. 187..

is War Cry At Lansing

Supporters of Bill to Tax Gasoline to Finance Highways Increasing and Favorable Vote Expected

By STANLEY M. POWELL

(Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

Governor declare, “Experieme h :
amply demonstrated that horse—pow—
er does not, even in a remote degree,
correctly measure the use of the
road.” It was pointed out that the
same objection might be raised
against any weight tax and that the
only way to tax a car on the basis of
benefits derived would be through a
gas tax.

Immediately after the Governor’s
message had been received, Senator
Howard F. Baxter of Grand Rapids
introduced both a weight tax bill and
a gas tax bill in the Senate. The
weight tax bill would take immedi—
ate effect and fixes the rate at, 70c
per hundred pounds~ for passenger
cars and from 80c to $1.00 per hun-
dred pounds for commercial vehicles.
Senator Baxter’s gas bill would, if
passed as originally introduced, take
effect January 1, 1926. The two bills
are so drafted that as soon as the gas
tax measure should take effect the
weight tax rate would be reduced 20c
per hundred pounds.

The two bills introduced by Sena-
tor Baxter are regarded as having the
support of the Administration, but
they are not being favorably received
by gas tax bloc leaders in the House.

Representative Joseph \Varncr of
Ypsilanti, who fathered the vetoed
gas tax two years ago, has informed
your Lansing correspondent that he
has a very carefully prepared gas tax
bill which he will introduce, probably
January 13. Representative Warner
says he is a member of the Detroit
Automobile Club and that no one
need fear that the Detroit Auto (‘lub
will initiate a referendum if the gas
tax is enacted. He declares that, in
his judgment ninety per cent of the
members of the Detroit Automobile
Club are personally favorable to a
gas tax. It is generally acknmvlcdgcd
that support for a gasoline tax has
considerably strengthened since the
law makers assembled a Week ago
and that; it is probable thcre will be
some very interesting developments
in the near future.

Another important, issue to make
its appearance early in the session
was the much discussed subject of
legislative reapportionmcnt. 0n the
first day of the session Senator A. lC.
Wood of Detroit introduwd a reap—
portionment measure which would in~
crease the number of \Vaynv (‘ounty
senators from live to ten and would
redistrict the remainder ot‘ the stale

Many Noted Speakers For Farmers’ Week

"[3 MANY men prominent in the
 economic life of the United

States have been secured for
l“armers’ Week at the Michigan
Agricultural (3 o l l e go, beginning
Feb. 2, to discuss problems at pres-
ent before the farmers. 11. M. (lore,
United States secretary of agricul—
ture was asked before the death of
former Secretary VVallaco, to be pres-
ent. lle has announced that he will
attend unless unusual conditions de-
mand his presence in Washington.
Dr. H. Parks Cadman, New York
city, president of the Federal Council
of Churches in America, and Dr. J.
M. Evans, Chicago, well known
health lecturer, also will be in at—
tendance.

Dr. Evans is scheduled to appear
on the first day of the session, Feb.
2; Dr. Cadman on Wednesday, Feb.
4, and Secretary Gore, Thursday,
Feb. 5.

In addition to these three, a num—
ber of other well known men will be
heard, according to Elton Hill, chair-
man of the committee in charge of
speakers. Most of the speakers have
been secured because of their knowl-

edge of some particular phase or
farm economics. F. R. Pirtlc ol‘ the
United States doparlnn nt ot' ng‘rlcuk
ture, bureau of agricullm'al H'onotn

ics. will be present on tho s<-<-ond dmx
llis talk will be on “Selling the l’ul

llt'.” .\ similar subject will in
handled by .lohn .‘d. licllvy, Ulla‘ ot
the bust known t!(l\'ttl‘llb¥lll;_’j men in
the l'nilcd States.

l’rcsidcnl’. Kenyon !.. Itnttcrtiwld of
tho M. A. C. will spook on (mo of tilt
days. Another sprakwr \xlli be John
Kelch. a widely known eastern au
thority on farm conditions.

Professor ll. ll. llibbard ol' the
agricultural economics department
of the University of W'isconsin, will
present the, facts of farm life in VVis—
consin where conditions are very
similar to those in Michigan. llo
will appear Feb. 4, as will H. it).
Babcock of New York.

One additional speaker from out—
side tho state will be added to the.
program, while from the ranks of
the farmers of Michigan will be Fer
Arbogast of Union City, who will
speak on the subject “How to Pop
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\VATCH FOR “H()\\' BILL Bl't‘lilill) 'l‘lll‘l ’l‘lGl'IB"

3.70U all recall the story of Pete. Dexter, the mastor taker who wrote

of his Forty Years of Faking; last winter.

l’t‘U‘ was no angel when

it came to getting other folks money and altho he liu-d a long time

d

on his crooked work, he eventually wound up in jail.

Que day several farmers were discussing; the career of Pete with
us. A farmer thought it was a bit ovcrilrawn and that. no community
could have been afflicted with all the things l‘ctc claimed to have put

3(‘l‘058.

There was one fellow who thought dill'crcnt. Bill Edwards

was his name and to prove his point Bill said he could tell oll‘ hand a
lot of things that happened right in his neighborhood.
So we got Bill to write down his experiences of how one com-

munity combatth promoters of a questionable type.
The tiger, accordng to Bill was the beast

Tiger” is the way Bill put, it.

“Bucking tin-

that wasn’t satisfied unless he was eating up good money and “mu you
bucked up against this animal, Bill says you just; couldn‘t. help losing.
Bill’s yarn is a “corker” and we have called it “How Bill Buckcd

the Tiger.’ ’

The first installment, Will appear in our January 31st

issue so be on the lookout for it—it’s even better than “Forty Years of

Faking."

 

giving the rural districts :1 corres-
pondinar decrease in representation.

Most of the other bills to be intro—
duced thus far have not been of par-
ticular intercstto the farmers. Keen
disappointment was expressed that
the Governor’s mesage did not con—
tain any reference to the problems of
the farmers or any suggestions as to
legislation relative to agriculture. It
had been predicted that highway fin-
ance, conservation, and agriculture
would be the main points stressed in
his address. While nothing was said
about agriculture, considerable atten—
tion was devoted to conservation.
The Governor said:

“The subject of conservation pre—
sents many perplexing problems that
require both time and money for
their solution. The awakened inter—
est ot‘ the public in the recreational
advantage of the out—of—doors, coup—
led with the sane and judicious use
01‘ the state’s splendid resources, call
for a. prog'am ol~ conservation that
will make possiblo their enjoyment
without unwarranted restriction. To
perpetuate and incrcarw these re-
sources is no easy task. Improved
transportation facilities have opened
lllllt‘ll of our isolated country and
made it easily accessible. As a result

l'tll‘I‘sE llt't‘s, causnd by negligence,
linuw incrmwctl: lishing waters and

hurting amunlls have been used be—
_\onil thoir capacity, 2111 indicating
that our conservation department
must. it \\':> are to keep apart) of this
land :xnd wer utilization, establish

unn- l‘t‘~l‘2".“.\‘. increase tlsh hatchery
tvl'»vtlllt.‘ii'tll. maintain and equip more
slut;- part4 intend our tort-st lire 0r—
r.:i:|ix:'i1on. complon llit‘ land econo~
llllt‘ :1; at \\'.’lle*l‘ pchr surveys, and de—

‘.tvlt‘ nimh How and more funds to
’ "H naiuvul and artilicial restora—
'l‘ho ques—
'~:'csi;tzion should receive
 p. ‘ I.va geitvntion and facilities
In.» 1. mi in. 111 toast treble our plan»
ammo \',::t‘l\' in order that a conside!“
.a'» : portion ot~ state acrcagc may be
1“»...ur'tl [H its former trco fertility
during th~ next two years and an in—
creasing amount each year there-
zll'tcl‘.

“Little, headway has been or is now
being made. to stop the unnecessary
pollution of our water supply—riv—
ers, streams and lakes. Your com—
mittees having charge of this subject
should, it' possible, formulate II
scheme of procedure that will mark
the beginning of a bona tide endeav~
or to properly and saner handle the
issues involved and so centralize the
resposibility for carrying out legisla—
tivo enactments and policies that
there will be no further doubt as to
their execution.”

ll , (.1 t-l.t'l.l1'i~.t mumps,

Atmosphere Intense

The opening days 01' the present
session of the Legislature were con—
Sltlt'l'nltl) lilcc thosc ol‘ l'ormor ses-
sions wxw-pt that tho atmosphere was
a little nlm‘o inlt'llw‘. The old mem—
bers \xwrc carrcr to return and greet.
tln ir l'ormm :wrtociatov. 'l‘hcro was

 
  

tll~ tonal rumor that lobbyists were
to lw ~\.c:udod. ‘wt Iln-\' \\‘«‘t‘o present
in tat?! tort» (lll" uw'w' feature of
lilo Mission not: thw :2; ivt';li':tllt‘u of a.
lath rucm‘utj \xho l: il‘ tint woman
on 2‘ to sit :1»: a lllt‘lilvH-l' or the Michi—
gan llouso ol~ licgiisluturw. :rihw is Mrs.
(‘ora ltcynolds Anderson oz' l.’.-\nse

and rcpt" sonts the t'llllllllw:~ of Iron.
llaraga, licwccnaw, and Hntonogon.

lly the Next. issue ol‘ 'l‘nt; til smuss
l“.\lt.\llllt there will no doubt be much
of interest to t't-pol'l. tn the mean-
time, we sugugnt that your senator-
and representativos would appreciate
hearing from you as to your attitude
on the legislative matters which are
coming up for immediate considera~
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HE market for choice, hand-pick-
ed Michigan beans has improved
considerably during the past

month, with the price gradually
working higher, and, with everyone
doing their share, both grower and
elevator man, it will not be long be-
fore the price reaches a level that
will compare favorably with the price
of beans in other sections. Michigan
produces the best beans grown, and
many canners will use no others, but
through unorderly marketing and
meculation the market has been
about ruined.

Realizing that the market had
reached a level that discouraged the
growing of the crop A. B. Cook. pres-
ident of the bean growers association
suggested an advertising campaign
to educate the consumer as to what
Michigan beans were. The idea was
(popular and during the latter part of
last summer representatives of the
growers and some of the elevator
men got together, worked out the
plan of securing funds that has been
discussed in our columns, and on Oc-
tober let the collecting of the money
began. It is believed that at this
writing the total amount taken in is
over $2,000. No advertising has
been done to date but the informa—
tion that Michigan is going to adver—
tise her choice beans has been broad—
cast from coast to coast and Mr.
Cook, chairman of the advertising
committee. says he has a letter he
received from a large, well-known
firm, stating that firm bought heavily
of Michigan beans, in anticipation of
the advertising. Mr. Cook is of the
opinion that there are other firms
that are buying with the thought of
this advertising in mind, which is no
doubt true.

Farmer Holds Third of Crop

Students of the market declare
that at least 50 per cent of the Michi-
gan crop of 1924 is already out of
the state, and the growers had only
about a third of the crop.

On December 30th, 1924, Chatter—
ton and Son, of Lansing, issued a
letter to brokers in which they stat—
ed:
“As a result of survey carried on
by our elevator managers located in
various sections of Michigan, and
combining this information with the

opinions of various elevators over
the State with whom we have talked
regarding the bean situation, we
have reached thee-conclusion, and we
are trying to keep our figures con-
servative, that slightly better than
50% of the Michigan 1924 crop of
white beans has moved out of "Mich-
igan. That virtually 15% of the
crop is owned and held by the three
hundred odd elevators in Michigan
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time. In other words, we have left
to market only half of the Michigan
bean crop over a period of seven and
one-half to eight and one—half
months. -

“As far as we can learn stocks out-
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A. “'. JEW'ETT, JR" “'OKLD’S HAY KING
Judges at tho International Hay and Grain Show at Chicago pronounced this bale
of alfalfa [my the best in the world. It was raised by A. “K Jewett, Jr., of Dilution,
awarded grand sweepstakes at the 1924 International, and sold to the Blue Valley
Creamery Institute of Chicago for demonstration purposes. Mr. Jewett is shown»
here with the bale.

Outlook for Pea Beans Bright and One Company'Predict's Price Will Reach $6 Per th. By April .

35% of our crop is left in the grow-
ers’ hands.

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though stocks of beans left in Mich-
igan were not going to be suflicient
to take care of the demand until an-
other crop is harvested."

Storks Low

It is declared by Chatterton and
Son that the stocks of white beans
in California are the lowest they
have been in the history of that state
for this time of the year since that
company has been keeping record.
The market in California has been
strong .

Figures on the New York market
show that farmers of that state rais-
ed a much smaller acreage of pea
beans-in 1924 than they did the year
before, and of the crop produced this
past year it was estimated on Janu—
ary 1st that 85 per cent had passed
out of the‘farmers’ hands. Some of
the large dealers of that state esti-
mate that at least two-thirds of the
crops have moved to the consuming
centers.

Out in Colorado Pinto beans have
been selling at $6 and above and
there is only about one-third of the
crop yet unsold. Dealers state there
are fewer Pinto beans left unsold this
year than there were a year ago, and
higher prices are expected. In Idaho
farmers were forced to sell early as
they needed their money and as a
result only about 40 per cent of the
crop remains in their hands.

Sees Higher Prices

After taking into consideration the
bean situation in the various states
and the low price of Michigan beans
Chatterton and Son declare them—
selves, “firm in our belief that higher
prices will prevail on Michigan
beans.”

In a letter that appeared in our
January 3rd issue Chatterton and
Son stated that they believed that we
could promise the farmers $5.50 for
their beans if they would hold up
deliveries ’entirely for forty to sixty
days. On December 30th J. E. Ma—
loney, of Christian Breisch and Com-
pany, Lansing, wrote us that they
were able to advance their farmer’s
paying price to $5.25 on pea beans.
And he concludes his letter with “We
think the market will be $1 per cwt.
higher within the next ninety days."
That would mean over $6 per cwt.
for your beans.

American Farm Boy Visits Hairdresser in Merrie England
By FRANCIS A. FLOOD

In this article. the eighth of his series
- travels in Europe, Mr. Flood tells us
1 his troubles in finding a barber shop
h England, crossing the English channel
and arrival in Holland,

HE bulk of America’s bathing
I and barbering is done on Satur~

day night, just as salad forks
are used when company comes and
fills are paid on the first of the
month. Some indulge these weak—
nesses on other occasions, but they
are extravagant; properly these are
the traditional times.

My friends and I had decided, sev—
eral days before, that I needed a
haircut, but it was not until my first
Saturday in London that I decided I
wanted one. There were no striped
barber poles in sight. I walked
blocks; perhaps the big candy stick
is not used for barber shop Signs
East of the Statue of Liberty I
thought, any more than the cigar
store Indian is used nowadays.

I walked more blocks looking for
the barber shops themselves instead
of for the conventional sign. I found
lune. Could it be that in England
shaving, manicuring and similar du-
ties of the toilet are performed in
private and considered a personal
matter rather than a public exhibi—
tion? The European does not seem
tl fancy our delightful idea of mak-
ing the toilet in public as we do in
our barber shops here. I missed the
friendly, sociable exhibitions of
whole families being shaved, shorn,
manicured and massaged in public,
which brighten all our busy streets.
We do, .not have our bathtub on the
front porch, but when we Wish to

' shave weftake off our collar and sit

lathered and bibbed, in the show
window of a barber shop before the
passing multitudes. But these cheery,

home-like, and intimate scenes of
domestic and private life are
thoughtlessly barred from the gaze
of the European public. I could see
no barber shops.

I asked the infallible nicely uni—
formed and well informed, London
“Bobby”, the finest policemen in the
world, where I could find a barber
shop. Of all the many questions I
had asked these courteous gentle-
men, this was the first one the Lon—
don Bobby could not answer.

“A barber shop, sir?” He had the
mystified look I should probably have
received if I’d inquired for a boot—
legger’s shop. He didn’t seem to
know what I meant. And yet he was
neatly sliaVen himself. He must
know.

“Yes,” I insisted. “I want to get
my hair cut," and took off my hat to

impress him with the necessity. He
got the idea instantly.

“Oh, I say, sir. You want to find
a hairdresser’s don’t you?” And he
began to point down the street.

A' hairdresser! I was puzzled.
Was my hair so long that he thought
I wanted it braided or marcelled or
roached? Did he think I was a pian—
ist, or a soviet statesman? It could-
n’t be that his English sense of hu—
mor had been moved to expression,
because his answer had come too
soon. I protested that I simply want—
ed my hair cut, the same as .his or
any of the men who were passing on
the street. We must have provided

one of the sights of London that
afternoon as we stood there, I with
my hat off demonstrating to an ear—
nest but puzzled policeman just how
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turn reassuring me that if I would
but follow his directions it would
come out right after all. \

“Hairdressing for Ladies and Gen— ,

tlemen” seemed to be the most com-
mon of all the many signs about the
places of business to which the cour-
teous Bobby directed me. All were
on the second or third floor, with a
dental chamber entrance that would
have frightened almost anyone away
unless he would be one whose wife
insisted that he shave at all costs.
Still skeptical, I finally poked up the
stairs to one of these modest barber
shops, and found a Sign that told me
the show was closed, as usual on Sat‘
urday afternoon.

A barber shop closed on Saturday
afternoon! It 'would be like a church
closed on Sunday, or a cafe closed on
New Year’s Eve, but inquiry dis~
closed that it was customary. Satur-
day evening is the British closed sea-
son on barbering.

I finally found a place that was
open, however, and took up the mat-
ter with the proprietor. He seated
me on an Ordinary straight chair of
the variety that graces the usual din—
ing room. He selected a towel that
had been very popular through the
week Just passed, and oozed it down
ins1de my collar. He was different
from our American barber; he did
not talk to me of his personal affairs,
nor even mine, nor batting averages
nor politics. He had no electric
clippers, no battery of huge mirrors.
no magnificent showing of plumbing
——just a little, cluttered up room
with a short row of straight chairs
before a row of little vest—pocket mir-
rors. When he was through, [he dip-
ped the same sand-colored towel that

had just been around my neck into»
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ALL TUCKERED 0UT.—"‘This dog would lay by the hour rather than dis- ISN’T SHE HANDSOME, BOYS?
This “wild and wooly west" picture was turb his little master,” writes ll. Stanley Manning. of North Street, Mich. lie .—But this isn’t, a girl, it's Victor
taken near Remus, Mich.. and sent in would give his life protecting the child. A good dog can truthfully be called Haas, of Nashville, wearing girl’s
by Wm. \Vernette, R4, Remus. man’s greatest friend and defender. clothes.

  
    
 

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Van \Vagoner, of Alpena, who sent it in. “A snapshot of my This beautiful scene was a view of (Yornalr, of (flit-mining. and his grandchildren have their
boys,” he writes. It makes us think of many years ago when the pasture on the “'. H. Dorrence picture taken around the Christmas tree. Ho write-s
we lived on the farm. \Ve too enjoyed making a raid on the farm, at Scotts- Donald D. Dorr- “Those are my only grandchildren and I am proud of

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rabbits were plentiful the day this picture was taken, or off for school. The picture on the farm of Frank Thuyer, Ceder 'Vullcy, last, full. Mr. and
0180 the hunters knfnv Just where to find them. It was sent is from Mrs. E. “’alter, Mrs. Thnyei were caught while looking over their winter supply
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TAKING TEDDY FOR A Rme—The SNOW WHITE COLL—“This is a picture of our colt, born pure white.

“IN THE CLOVER”.-—Here we
you“? 90“ 0' MP- and Mrs- Chafi- L. Sco- It was quite a. .curiosity_ around here and attracted considerable attention,” have Edna. Hughes and her small
field, of Woodland. Stems t0 be giving his writes Herbert Young, or Big Rapids. It it Mrs. Young holding the colt, sister in a patch of white blossom

teddy bear a sleigh ride. . Herbert? sweet clover. They live at Rose City.
(We pay 3,5 for each kodak picture used on our cover and givo .1 one year renewal for each picture used on this page. Pictures mwt be sharp and clear.)

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Listen to Dave Greb
“Three Years is Too Much”

“THE tag on the bag is all right so far as it goes, but it
sure doesn’t tell the! whole story of what’s inside.
For three years hand running, I have had poor luck with
my timothy, and I bought what appeared to be good
seed— high test purity and germination, etc. If the rest
of my crops had been poor, I might have blamed myself
(fir; the :lve’ather. As it is, I know it can’t be anything but
e see .

Dave Wants to Know

Of course, Dave will try a different brand of seed next,
and he’s hoping he will be luckier. But he would feel easier
If he knew just what has been wrong in the past, so he
could be on his guard against that sort of thing in the
future, not only in buying timothy but. other field seeds.

Believing there are a good many farmers who feel just like Dave. the.
Albert Dickinson Company has published a little book entitled
“7 Lessons in Judging Seed,” which explains the important points
to consxder in buying seeds, and contains practical information of
value to every farmer. This booklet is sent free on request: a. post—
card will bring it. Write today.

THE ALBERT DICKINSON co.

CHICAGO, ILL. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

BUFFALO BOSTON

PITTSBURGH NEW YORK BINGHAM'I‘ON

“PI N E TREE.”

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wires drawn by the most skilled wire drawers
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TIME TO READ \VILL

Am writing you for a little advice.
First, when is the proper time for a
will to be read? Should the heirs be
notified when the will is to” be
read? Who shall I Write to get date
set by court for creditors to present
bill'S'? If the party deceased has al~
ways paid his way and party he
stayed with accepted what. he gave
them, can they come on for his care
again? I am as ever, G. 19., North
lranch, Michigan.

EFORE a will is proved in court.
B a notice must be given to the

persons interested. The usual
method of giving notice is by public—
ation in the local paper three consec—
utive weeks.

After the will is proved a time is
set for hearing the claims, which also
requires a similar notice. Creditors
have at least four months in which to
present their claims.

Write to the judge of the Probate
Court to ’find out when the hearing
on claims is to be held.

If the deceased has always paid his
way, the party he stayed with could
not collect for his care in the ab~
sence of an agreement. Legal Edi—
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TO PUT IN PRESSURE “'ATER
SYSTEM
I have a deep well about thirty
feet from house and would like to
put in a pressure water system.
Would it be better to drive a new
well in the basement; run the pipe in
from the old pump; or build a sep—
arate well house?‘ Do not have elec—
tricity—N. D., Battle Creek, Mich.
E usually distinguish between a
V? shallow and a deep well by

classifying all wells as deep
on which a suction pump can be
used. According to this classifica—
tion it is necessary to place a pump
directly over the deep well. If your
present well is satisfactory, it would
probably be advisable to build a well
house over it, install the pump and
pumping unit in the house and pipe
the water under ground into the
basement. I’m assuming that the
tank for the pressure water system
is to be installed in the basement.

If a line of 4—inch tile is laid from
the well pit to the basement and the
pipe line placed in this tile, it will
not only facilitate the making of re—
pairs but will aid greatly in prevent—
ing the pipe from t”rcezing.-—~l”. lil.
Fogle, Assistant Professor, Agrian
tural Engineering Dept, M. A. (7.

CAN (77011141001‘ ASSESSMENT

My brother and l bought, a team
of horses at a neighbor's auction sale
held a year ago. We. had the. horses
jointly'insured in a lire insurance
company but since that time. I lost
my horse through sickness. \Vould
I be. compelled to pay my insurance
dues the, some as though I had not
lost my horse. by death? Subscriber,
Vassar. Mich.

THEN a person insures property.
if they desire, durng the. life. of:
the policy, to make, any changes

in their insurance it is their duly to
so inform the company-w if they have
paid in advance then the company
will rebate for the unused portion of
the money so paid. if the assess—
MUSINGS OF A
ERE I am again! W'e, are not
H mining the land just now and

it’s time for the muse. All I
.do now is chores during the day.
and the long winter evenings I spend
at the hearth pulling my eyebrow,
in shallow thought.

All this year’s crops are safely
stored and we are now planning
next year’s work.

My wife and I have spent some
time in arranging our crops and have
settled it and only await the seasonal
turn. In other words, we are ready
for the gong.

Farmers have faith. When the
fields are covered with snow and ice
they make their plans for harvest.

During the cold days when the
car starts hard I stay at home and
try to think out my problems. And
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ments are not paid in advance then
they will be charged only for the time
the property was insured. There is
no way for the insurance company to
know of any reduction or change in
ownership on property insured ex—
cepting by being advised by the in—
sured or an agent of the company.
and in our opinion the company is
clearly within their rights in asking
for assessment in full to the time
the assessment was called and policy
reduced.

NO’DE GOOD FOR SIX
‘ YEARS .

I hold a note for $30.00 on which
$6.00 has been paid. Note was given
for life insurance in February, 1923,
by a young man, now married. Note
was payable in 4 months. Can I
sue and get judgment on this note?
It I do, how long will the judgment
stand? How long a period before
the note is void by statute of limita—
tions? Thanking you for any in-
formation, I am—E. G. C.. S. Lyons,
Mich.

HE note is good for a period of 8
years. If you sue and get judg-
ment, the judgment would be

good for 6 years in this case. If the
man was under 21 years of age when
he made the note, I doubt if you
could collect the amount, if he chose
to contest it.-——Legal Editor.

\VEEVIL IN BEANS‘

For the last 20 years I have not
iced bugs or weevils in the beans.
They seem to form in the blossom.
and under the skin and are white.
Later they form wings and fly. Now
what I want to know is how to ex—
terminate them? May some kind of
a solution be used on the beans when
in the blOSSOIll?——J. O. C., Jackson,
Michigan.

HE insect is undoubtedly the bean
weevil, an insect that is to be
found on the flowers, to be sure,

because it feeds on the bean plants
until the beans are set. After the
pods are formed and little beans are
nicely started, the eggs are laid in-
side the pod, through a slit cut by
the mother beetle.

The larvea are inside the beans
themselves at harvest time and from
them come the, beetles which con—
tinue to work on the dry beans un-—
til they are reduced to evil smelling
powder. The. only remedy is to
fumigatc with carbon disulphide and
thus kill the. insects in the dried
beans—~11. ll. Pettit, Professor of
Entomology, M. A. C.

MUST HE PAY NOTE?

About six years ago I signed a note.
for $300 for a man and now they
want me to pay $327. I was never
notified how things were going and I
thought it was paid long ago. Please,
let me. know and oblige H. J. V..
Fife Lake, Mich.
IF you are an indorser, you would

 

be entitled to notice before. be-

coming liable, provided notice
was not waived. If you are a co-
i'naker ol' the note with the other
12111132 you Would be liable even with—
out nolice. However, if the note he-
came due, more than 6 years ago, it
Would likely now be outlawed by the.
stat die of limitations—Legal Editor.

PLAIN FARMER

Strange isn’t it, 110w one gets at—
tached to the animals around a farm
borne? Something human about
their companionship.

Our horses and dog have first call
around here, but everything seems
to have a place in our affections.
We are getting so sentimental we.
dislike to sell a veal calf. And I
had an awful time killing a turkey
to send away to a brother Who lives
in town.

But things have been going smooth
in the stables today, and I am wrlt~
ing accordingly. Some times the
yearlings.don’t go to their places,
and a. modest cow today will place

-her foot in the pail tomorrow.

When things go wrong I make a
dairy of it, and perhaps you will
hear of it from now on.——A. P. Bal~
lard, Huron County. :

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vz’ on Broadscope Farm that we

secured so much wood last
winter, for this icy time would be
anything but pleasant for work in
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so we have been making potato,

crates etc. Yesterday we recleaned
some clover seed. It is of the mam-
moth variety and contained consid-
erable sorrel seed. Dealers seem to
have their own ideas about cleaning
clover seed, and we have ours.

We have a very good recleaner
which we bought of a seed merchant
when he purchased a larger machine.
It is of ample size, and the outfit con-

'tains twenty—six screens and sieves,
‘ so we are able to find a screen for
every need. Here, perhaps, is where
many make a mistake in cleaning
seeds. They expect the screens to do
too much, when really the air blast
is of as much, or even more impor—
tance. By using proper screens and
a. very heavy blast we were able to do
quite satisfactory work. The cleaner
is equipped with a pulley fer belt
power and we run it from a line

shaft.
It * it

Engine and Line Shaft

Our engine is a three horse power
portable one using kerosene for fuel.
We park it in the shop where it
drives the line shaft which crosses
the shop and extends about forty feet
outside to the pump and washing
machine.

The line shaft is made of one and
one-fourth inch gas pipe, and the
hangers in the shop are made of Sec-
ond growth white oak plank. The
shaft supports outside are made of
cedar posts three and one—half feet
long, set two feet in the ground with
a piece of two—by-four seven feet
long bolted to them, and they are
about ten feet apart. A hole the size
of the shaft was bored four inches
from the t0p end of these two-by-
fours, and the piece from the hole to
the top was sawed out and removed.
The shaft simply revolves in the slots
and after eight years of service there
iS'very little wear. These supports
are braced with half inch rods.

It has proven a very efficient means
of'power transmission and enables
us to keep the engine housed. We
had some trouble at first with the
belt from shaft to pump jack. Being
exposed to the weather caused it to
shrink with dampness and stretch
with’ use. It was always too tight or
too loose, and on rainy or windy days
we could not run the pump. This was
overcome by constructing a box-like

cover which encloses the belt and pul—
' leys, and we never think of weather
conditions any more when we want
to use the pump.

Our engine being mounted, We use
it to buzz wood and run the cement
mixer. Sometime we will have a pic-
ture for you showing a cement mixer
which we made at a cost of two dol-
lars, using the gearing etc., of an Old
Deering mower. No factory built
mixer would do better work, and it is
very nice to have a mixer of one’s
own, for unless you do, the work no
doubt would have to be done by
hand.

* it *
Planning Spring Seeding

We are planning our spring clover
seeding and it takes some thought to
know just what see‘d'to sow. We
have two fields which grew potatoes
last year, and have decided to sow
one to Grimm alfalfa, and the other
to June clover. Another field that
produced corn- last season will be
sown to cats and seeded to sweet

clover.
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Sweet Clover

We are more and more convinced
that sweet clover will be the salva—
tion of our soils in the near future.
We grow certified opotatoes, the
greater part of which are shipped;
yet we sell many to farmers who
drive from one to twenty-five miles
for them. In talking of farm crops
with these men. our vision has been

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surprising how many raise sweet
clover. '

One man told of pasturing thirty
hogs on only one acre all summer,
and every week or so to turn his
cows in to help the hogs keep the
clover from getting too large. This
we believe, is the secret of pasturing
sweet clover,-—not to let it get too
large. ’

Some farmers seem to, have suc-
successful experience in getting sweet
clover to grow. It may be their soil
needs lime, the seed needs innoculat-
ing, and their seed bed should be
firmer. These are the three essen—
tials. We have tried out lime here,
but it seems to have very little effect
on sweet clover, perhaps because

there are many limestones in our
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The field we shall sow to Grimm is
level, and while not low, is one of our
lowest fields. We had intended to
fit this piece without plowing, and
sow about one bushel of barley and
seed the alfalfa in it,_but a visit with
a friend about three miles from here,
changed our mind. He has followed
several systems of seeding alfalfa,
using only one method each year, but
last year he tried three methods side
by side so he could test them by each
other. I only wish all our readers
could visit his alfalfa fields and see
for themselves what he has proven.
These methods will be explained in
the next issue of Broadscope News,
for .just now we 'want to call your at—
tention to Farmers’ Week at the
Michigan Agricultural College.

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Farmers’ Week, Feb. 2-6
We are making plans for Farmers'
Week at the M. A. C. These mid—
winter get—together meetings are al-
ways largely attended, but when one
considers how large Michigan is, one
wonders why more farmers do not

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branch of farming you are interested
in, whether it is farm crops, stock or
housework, you will get some new
ideas and inspiration. »

The writer gets only one half the‘
benefit of such meetings, for his
hearing is so defective he can not
hear the lectures, but there is enough
to see to repay him for going when-
ever possible. This year there will
be some new departments added.
The poultry department wil be larg-
er ‘and better; the potato exhibit
Will be larger than ever, as it will be
the Annual State :Show of the Mich—
1gan Potato Producers Association.
Some worth while prizes are being
given, but the honor of being a win-
ner is the best prize.

Yes, if this cold weather continues
some of us Older ones may have to
stay at home this year, but let’s send
the boy or girl anyway. There is just
as much of interest for the girl and
her mother as for the boys and their
dads
H Take a note book and pencil, and
it you don’t return home feeling you
have received full value for the time
and effort expended, Yours Truly
will miss his guess.

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THE BEST RADIO SET FOR YOU
IME after time the question is
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of a radio set to buy or build?"
That is the question I will answer
in this and succeeding articles from
time to time. It is a question that

_ cannot be answered now for a fu-

ture day as radio is changing grad-
ually and at any time we may look
for an invention that will change
our present sets Into "junk," that
day we believe is at some distant
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some time in the future. It; is the
present We are interested in. and
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and then thinking that possibly next
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let me put in a few words of can-
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serial or loop. Many sets are priced
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Contributions Invited

DO NOT CHANGE DATE OF
TOIVNISHH’ MEETING

N regard to Mr. Whitney’s letter in
I your January 3rd issue regard-
ing changing the date of the
township meeting, I think it rwould
be better to leave it as it is. It is
true there is no sleighing or wheeling
but the people as a rule are not as
busy in April as they are in May. And
on the other hand we usually have
some road repair to do before May
and need some money raised to do
it with—P. G. C., Gladwin County.

STANDARD \VIDTH OI“ SLEIGHS
, EAR Editorz—When up at my

farm last week, my attention
was called to letters sent out by

' the Ogemaw County Road Commis-

sioner quoting a recent enactment of
the Michigan Legislature, and pre—
scribing the “standard” width of
sleighs, and offering sleigh owners
the munificent sum of $3.50 if they
would widen their sleighs. It would
cost about four times this figure be-

sides making the sleighs less service-
able. Also farmers truly say that it
would do no good so far as breaking
any track for automobiles, as their
wheels would jump this narrow track
and mix things all up.

My advice is to have all sleigh
owners stand fast and pay no atten-
tion to this unreasonable require-
ment which does not even by its
terms apply to existing sleighsand
cutters. I stand ready to defend on
the ground of unconstitutionality

any action that might be attempted

against owners of sleighs who wish
to maintain that they can not thus
be deprived of the use of their prop-
erty without due process of law.

I run an automobile as much as
almost anyone else, yet I must re-
mark that the motorists have very
little regard for the rights or well-
fare of any other class of traffic.
What do they do to make going more
tolerable for teams, light rigs, bi-
cycles or pedestrians? To ask is to
answer the question—F. W. Newton,
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good.

There are ideas we get from those
who never tried the. beautiful experi-
ment of home life- These ideas are
generally too. lofty for ordinary mor-
tals to follow.

There are tried‘ ideas that come
from those who both have homes,
and have observed life in all its
phases. Such ideas ought to have a
hearing.

Recently, a- Chicago Jurist, Judge
Joseph Sabath, presided over his ten
thousandth divorce case in a period
of four years. The Judge has spent
thousands of hours listening to the.
weary recital of those, who either
never loved at all, or through some.
mistake or failure, has ceased Longer
to care The Judge is not proud of
the civilization that displays such a;
social condition as this reveals in
one American city. .

While the rural home has been
more secure from the separation
disease than the city home, it is well
for us all to ponder the sage and
practical advice of this Judge.

TO HUSB‘ANDS, these words are
addressed:

“Make your wife a real partner.”

“Discuss your business problems
with her.” ’

“If no children are born to you,
adopt some.”

“Supply your wife with sufficient
to maintain the household.”

“Work together, play together,
grow up together, and share the
pleasures and responsibilities to-
gether.”

T0 WIVES, the Judge says as
follows:

“Do not allow yourself to be»
treated as a Weak, dependent little
thing.”

“Do not be afraid to soil your
hands.”

“Do not be afraid of the one really
big thing in your life motherhood.”

“Make your husband feel that he
is the one man in your life. Do not
flirt.”

“Make your husband share in the
responsibilities of home life.”

To BOTH MAN and VVlli‘E, the
Judge gives this parting advicoz—-—-

“Avoid heated quarrels. Speak
out frankly, but do not develop argu—
moms.”

“Differences should be settled on
tho very day that they develop.”

“Sympathy, good humor, and a de~
sire for mutual understanding are
the supporting pillars of the home.”

“One of the fixed rules of every
household should be:-——good humor
in parting in the morning, and a
cheerful meeting in the evening.”

So much for the ideas of the Law.
May I add this other word. We
need a new conviction of the sacred-
ness of marriage. Whether one calls
it a sacrament, or sacred, is largely
a matter of theological distinction.
but every honest man and woman
must feel the increasing peril to
American life through the lax views
popularly held on the marriage vows.

We have yet to .work out a satis-
factory solution of this mating bus—
iness. Definite rules are easy to lay
down. Laws have always been easy
to pass, but until human love can
listen to intelligence and experience
before making life’s supreme adven—
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(Continued from Jan. 3rd issue.)
CHAPTER VI
Constance Sherrlll
N the morning a. great change had come

over the lake. The wind still blew

freshly, but no longer fiercely, from the
west; and now, from before the beach
beyond the drive, and from the piers and
breakwaters at the harbor mouth, and
from all the western shore, the ice had
departed. Far out, a nearly indiscernible
white line marked the ice-floe where it
was traveling eastward before the wind;
nearer, and with only a gleaming crystal
fringe of frozen snow clinging to the
shore edge, the water sparkled, blue and
dimpling. under the morning sun; multi-
tudes of gulls, hungry after the storm,
called to one another and circled over
the breakwaters, the piers, and out over
the water as far as the eye could see;
and a half mile off shore, a little work
boat——a shallop twenty feet long—was
put-put—ing on some errand along a path
where twelve hours before no horsepower
creatable by man could have driven the
hugest steamer.

Constance Sherrill, awakened by the
sunlight reflected from the water upon
her ceiling, found nothing odd or startling
in this change; it roused her but did not
surprise her. Except for the shortiper—
iods of her visits away from Chicago,
she lived all her life on the shore of the
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and mates and wheehnen and learned all
the pilot signals and the way the dif-
ferent lighthouses winked.

Mr. Spearman, who recently had become
a partner of her father’s, ,was also on
the boat upon that trip. He had no par—
ticular duty; he was just “an owner"
like her father; but Constance observed
that, while the captain and the mates
and the engineers were always polite and
respectful to her father, they asked Mr.
Spearman’s opinion about things in a very
different way and paid real attention—-
not merely polite attention—when he
talked. He was a. most desirable sort of
acquisition; for he was a. friend who
could come to the house at any time,
and yet he, himself, had done all sorts
of exciting things. He had not just gone
to Harvard and then become an owner,
as Constance’s father had; at fifteen, he
had run away from his father’s farm back
from the east shore of little Traverse
Bay near the northern end of Lake Mich-
igan. At eighteen, after all sorts of ad-
ventures, he had become mate of a lum-
ber schooner; he had “taken to steam"
shortly after that and had been an ofilcer
upon many kinds of ships. Then Uncle
Benny had taken him into partnership.
Constance had a most exciting example
of what he could do when the ship ran
into a. big storm on Lake Superior.

Coming into Whitefish Bay, a barge
had blundered against the vessel; a seam
started, and water came in so fast that

 

 

 

SU‘NIDIARY OF OUR STORY TO DATE

and from this copse there comes at time of

EAR the northern end of Lake Michigan there is a copso of pine and hem-
lock back from the beach

storm 9: sound like the beating of an Indian drum. This drum heat, so
tradition says, whenever the lake took a life. During December, 1895, Mikawa,
a new steel freighter, sank with 25 people on board but the drum beat only 24.
and the one remaining person was not accounted for. Benjamin Corvet sailed
the 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 Corvet,
who is called Uncle Benny by the girl, does not want her to marry him but will
not give her a reason asking her to wait until she sees him again. Then Corvet
disappears. A young man, known as Alan Conrad, appears at the Sherrill home
asking for Benjamin Corvct. Alan, since a. small child, has lived with a family
in Blue Rapids, Kansas, and neither he or the family know who his father or
mother is. He was left with this family by a man who told the people they
would receive pay for taking care “of the boy. They received money through

the mails but never knew who sent it.

Then Alan receives a letter from Ben

Corvet to come to Chicago and Alan rushes there thinking that Corvet could
tell him something about his parents, but arrives after Corvet disappeared. He
goes to the Sheri-ill home 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.
Alan discovers a man ransacking the house and grapples with him but he

escapes.

 

 

—was the first sight each morning. As
it made wilder and more grim the desol-
ation of a stormy day, so it made brighter
and more smiling splendor of the sunshine
and, by that much more, influenced one’s
feelings.

Constance held by preference to the
seagoing traditions of her family. Since
she was a. child, the lake and the life of
the ships had delighted and fascinated
her; very early she had discovered that.
upon the lake, she was permitted privi-
leges sternly denied upon land—an ar~
bitrary distinction which led her to desig-
nate water, when she was a little girl, as
her family’s “respectable element.” For
while her father’s investments were, in
part, on the water, her mother’s property
all was on the land. Her mother, who
was a Seaton, owned property somewhere
in the city, in common with Constance’s
uncles; this property consisted, as Con-
stance succeeded in ascertaining about the
time she was nine, of large, wholesale
grocery buildings. They and the “brand”
had been in the possession of the Seaton
family for many years; both Constance’s
uncles worked in the big buildings where
the canning was done; and, when Con-
stance was taken to visit them, she found
the place most interesting—the berries
and fruit coming up in great steaming
cauldrons; the machines pushing the cans
under the enormous faucets where the
preserves run out and then sealing the
cans and pasting the bright Seaton
“brand” about them. The people there
were interesting—the girls with flying
fingers sorting fruit, and the men pound—
ing the big boxes together; and the great
shaggy-hoofed horses which pulled the
huge, groaning wagons were most fasci-
nating. .She wanted to ride on one of
the wagons; but her request was promptly
and completely squashed.

It was not “done”; nor was anything
about the groceries and the canning to
be mentioned before visitors; Constance
brought up the subject once and found
out. It was different about her father's
ships. She could talk about them when
she wanted to; and her father often
spoke of them; and any one“who came
to the house could speak about them.
Ships, apparently, Were respectable.

When she went down to the docks with
her father, she could climb all over them,
if she was only careful of her clothes;
she could spend a. day watching one of
her father’s Iboats discharging grain' or

lanother unloading ore; and, when she

was twelve, for a. great treat, her father
took her on one of the freighters to
Duluth; andrfor one delightful, wonder-‘
ful week she chummed with the captain

it gained on the pumps. Instantly, Mr.
Spearman, not the captain, was in com-
mand and, from the way he steered the
ship to protect the seam and from the
scheme he devised to stay the Enrush of
water, the pumps began to gain at once,
and the ship went into Duluth safe and
dry. Constance liked that in a. man of
the sort whom people knew. For, as the
most active partner—though not the chief
stockholder—of Corvet, Sherrill and
Spear-man, almost everyone in the city
knew him. He had his bachelor “rooms”
in one of the newest and most fashion-
able of the apartment buildings facing
the Jake just north of the downtown city;
he had become a member of the best
city and country clubs; and he was wel-
comed quickly along the Drive, where the
Sherrill’s mansion was coming to he a.
characteristic “old” Chicago home.

But little over forty, and appearing
even younger, Spearman was distinctly
of the new generation; and Constance
Sherrill was only one of many of the
younger girls who found in Henry Spear-
man refreshing relief from the youths
who were the sons of men but who could
never become men themselves. They were
nice, earnest boys with all sorts of serious
Marxian ideas of establishing social jus-
tice in the plants which their fathers had
built; and carrying the highest motives
into the city or national politics. But
the industrial reformers, Constance was
quite, certain, never could have built up
the industries with which they now, so
superiorly, were finding fault; the political
purifiers either failed of election or, if
elected, seemed to leave politics pretty
much as they had been before. The pic-
ture of Spearman. instantly appealed to
and instantly in charge in the emergency,
remained and became more vivid within
Constance, because she never saw him
except when he dominated.

And a. decade most amazingly had
bridged the anyss which had separated
twelve years and thirty-two. At twenty-
two, Constance Sherrill was finding Henry
Spearman—age forty—two—the most vital—
izing and interesting of the men who
moved, socially, about the restricted ellipse
which curved down the lake short south
of the park and up Astor Street. He had,
very early, recognized that he possessed
the vibor and courage to carry him far,
and he had disciplined himself until the

coarseness and roughness, which had

sometimes offended the little girl of ten
years before, had almost vanished. What
crudities still came out, romantically re<
minded of his hard. early life on the

lakes. Had there been anything 1121' that
life of-his of-‘Whlch he had not-.told 

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Bonny’s last," drainatic appeal ,to "her had
suggested that I but even at the :moment
when he was talking to her, ,fright for
Uncle Benny—not dread that there had
been anything wrong in Henry’s life—-
had most moved her. Uncle Benny very
evidently was not himself. As long as
Constance could remember, he had quar-
reled violently with Henry; his antagon-
ism to Henry had become almost an ob-
session; and Constance had her father’s
word for it that, a greater part of the
time, Uncle Benny had no just ground
for his quarrel with Henry. A most vio-
lent quarrel had occurred upon that last
day, and undoubtedly its fury had carried
Uncle Benny to the length of going to
Constance as he did.

Constance had come to this conclusion
during the last gloomy and stormy 'days;
this morning, gazing out upon the shining
lake, clear blue under the wintry sun,
she was more satisfied than before. Sum-
moning her maid, she inquired first
whether anything had been heard since
last night of Mr. Corvet.
sure, if her father had had word, he
would have awakened her; and there was
no news. But Uncle Benny’s son, she
remembered, was coming to breakfast.

Uncle Benny’s son! That suggested to
Constance's mother only something un-
pleasant, something to be avoided and
considered as little as possible. But
Alan—Uncle Benny’s son—awas not un-
pleasant at all; he was, in fact, quite the
reverse. Constance had liked him from
the moment that, confused a little by
Benjamin Corvet’s absence and Simons’s
manner in greeting him, he had turned
to her for explanation; she had liked the
way he had openly studied her and ap-
proved her, as she was approving him;
she had liked the way he told her of him-
self, and the fact that he knew nothing
of the man who proved to be his father;
she had liked very much the complete
absence of impulse to force or to pretend
feeling when she had brought him the
picture of his father—when he, amazed
at himself for not feeling, had looked at
her; and she had liked most of all his
refusal, for‘himself and for his father,
to accept positive stigma until it. should
be proved.

(Continued

PETER PLOW SAYS

THE CHILD LABOR
g COMMANDMENT

EAR Editorz—A short spell back
D one of the neighboars says to me

what do you think of this here
child labor Commandment. Well I
told him I never figured it was any
of my business to criticize Holy Writ
and I supposed “honor thy father
and thy mother that thy days be
long in the land which the Lord thy
God giveth thee” included such labor
as they set for me or any other child
to do.

No he says that ain’t it, don’t you
know that congress has proposed a
20th commandment to the constu-
tion of the U. S. and is asking all of
the State leglesslatures to say ok to
it and if 5% of them do, it will be
into the constution along With the
stuff Thos. Jefferson put in. Well
what of it I says, what does it mean
anyhow.

It means he says that congress is
wanting a license to say “Until thou
art 18 years old thou shalt do no
manner of work, thou nor thy sisters
nor thy brethern nor the orphan
that is within thy gates, neither in
the field nor the factory nor the barn
nor the kitchen.” Now I says you are
using sack religious language to poke
fun at something that ain’t so, for
even politicians ain’t such fools as
to want to keep kids from doing
chores and helping round on eater—
days and vacation.

You wouldn’t think so, he answers
back, but three times they tried to
change it to leave out work on the
farms and in the homes of the par—
ents and every time the change was
voted dowu, so it looks as if they
don’t want no youngsters of 15 or
17 to throw corn to the shotes.

I’ve noticed this, I told him, that
politicians don’t bother to ask for

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version which says “Honor the old
maids which the burrocrats have ap-
pointed that thy days may be long in
the penny tenturies for which thy
siothful habits in thy youth hath pre-
pared thee.” .

And I bet you Mr. Editor that if
this commandment comes to pass and
children are perhibited by law from
learning to have regular work and
look after it responsible like until
after they are 18 yrs. old we will
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BUSINESS FARMER

SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1925

Edited rind Published by
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GEORGE M. SLOCUM. President
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SIX DOLLAR BEA NS

NCE upon a time, if our memory serves us
0 correctly, Tm: BuerEss FARMER was accused

of predicting higher prices on beans and then,
just to prove how human and not infallible even
we are, bean prices went lower!

Some thoughtless ones accused us because they
did not make the (expected profit. We pointed
out to them that, in our articles we reiterated
time Without number that our statements were
based only on the facts as we saw them. That
we were risking only a guess. That we were
speculating on an assumption that might as
easily be in error as their own. Still so'mc said
we “had advised them to hold their beans!“

Now, on page four of this issue we are again
giving some facts which seem to point to higher
prices for beans, even a $6 price by April. XVe
believe it is the plain duty of a farm paper which
attempts to be of actual service to its readers
to collect and present such facts as determine
the market. Our market pages have been built
on this basis and to try to estimate the hundreds
of thousands of extra dollars we have put in the
pockets of farmers in Michigan who have followed
it, would produce some rather staggering figures.

That we are always “bulls” on the market for
Michigan farm products goes without saying.
We want bean prices to go to $6 or more if they
will. Not that we own a single bushel of beans,
nor have we over yet speculated in the markets,
but every dollar more we can get for the fzirmcrs
who read this magazine is an indirect profit to us.

We are on your side of the fence. The Ill‘c—
dictions we collect on the future of any market
are passed on only for your information and what
you decide to do about holdingr or selling is
clearly your own business.

Here’s hoping anyway!

A

\VilA’i‘ ’I‘HIJ JCUUNUMIH'I‘S TELL US

WEEK or so ago thc so—cullcd “farm—ccono—

mists” inct in (‘hicugo and hold 21 guh—fcst
which unswci‘cd all of thc pi'olilcnis which
have been ll]l]W‘l‘—llll)fil in our minds for the past

several yczirs, \Vill‘iilPl‘ or not me i'i-u-ognlzwd flicni
:is economics

Seycrzil things said
whether or iioi you :icccpt tliwisi at full
for instant-c, ill‘. l4). (i. NOill‘Ff‘, pi'csidcnt of
:issociation said; “’l‘i'nio \\'21f~', and that not so long

lili'l‘l' :ii‘c iiitciwwt inc.
Wilma

ilic

‘ago, whcn conditions of thc industrial \i’()l'i{"l‘
were as bad as any the l'ai‘incr has sufl‘ci'cd, if
not worsc, and similar complaints wci‘c licard

from shop and factory workers. Today the situ—
ation has been csscntially altcred through build—
ing up a class-consmous group, dctcrmiucd to rc—
fuse conditions of employment which fell below
a progressively rising level, not to say worshiped,
as‘the American trade union standard of living.
The general public did not raisc the, laborer's
standard for him. Only because he was willing
to save and fight and pay dues and stick by his
union are labor conditions as good as they are
today.”

It is not; always easy to pay the assessments
for the grange, farm bureau or local cooperative,
but as Dr. Nourse says, it is the only way out for
the farmers of America, just as it was the only

way out for the skilled laborer.

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Dr. David Friday, ex-president of the M. A. C.
struck another chord in the farm economics sym-
phony when he stated that “in the last 25 years

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creased output 40 per cent. This process will
continue for the future. We need not get unduly
excited about the number of people engaged in
agriculture.

“Business prosperity and depression have prac-

tically no effect on farm activity or output. Cli—
mate means more than the business cycle. In

this respect farming is very different from other
businesses. The farmer has a larger proportion
of fixed capital than any other business man.
The other chief capital factor is land. And, un«

* fortunately, “the farmer usually buys land at the

wrong time. He can’t diversify his holdings, as
can the owner of securities. And he can’t put
in stop—loss orders. Some way of minimizing this
risk should be. found." ,

Dr. Friday stated that “increased taxes are sure
to cause trouble for the next decade. For a long
time taxes on farmswere light compared to those
on city property. But the desire for better roads
and schools has changed all this”.

Thus having settled most of the problems that
have been giving you and me come concern, the
meeting was adjourned until next year when, we
predict, the identical same problems will be cussed
and discussed and the same conclusions arrived
at. In the meantime we are reminded of the
negro who meets a “brudder” on the street who
asks him “why all the smiles?" “Cuse ah got a
white man workin' fo’ me!” “You got a white
man workin’ fo' yo’, what doin’?” “Just doin’
all mah worryin’!” “Doin’ yo’ worryin’, why
nigger where yo’ gwain’ get money to pay him
wid?” “I dunno, ’ats do fust job 0’ worryin’
I gib him!”

So it appears the American farmer has some—
body worryin’ for him and as long as the econ-
omists know where their daily sustenance is com—
ing from, we should worry!

HANDS OFF!

HE signs of an encroachment by the depart—
ment of Commerce on the department of
Agriculture have been manifest from the be—

ginning of the Harding administration. Herbert
Hoover may have simply gravitated naturally to
wanting a hand in the agricultural pic, but his
suggestions have been anything but well received
by the men in the latter department.

The department of Agriculture belongs to that
group of American citizens who farm the fertile
acres of this country. It has a clean-cut job for
itself, so important and far-reaching that there
is not, in our opinion, any necessity of its over—
laping into other departments and by the same
token it needs none of their meddling.

All of which naturally leads us into the sub—
jcct of who is to be the next Secretary of Agri-
culture? Frankly we do not know! We havo
had a suspicion or two but that is as far as it
has ever gottenhonce or twice we profess to even
having held our breath, but perhaps that was
cnti‘rely unnecessary because things will go along
mostly the same lines irrespective of who accepts
the portfolio. And there are several who would
“accept” it, We understand.

“’0 hope the next Secretary of Agriculture will
be at man who has made what he has from furm~
ing or live—stock raising. Wc hope he has no
proscnt interests in the packing business, the
fertilizer business, thc railways or even the farm
paper publishing business! W'hat a genuine and
unique thing President Coolidge could do by ap-
pointing a former as Secretary of Agriculture.

AWAKIGNIGI)!
\XTE zippi'cciuto the support giycn by more than

onc furin paper to tho campaign we have
liccn waging since lust summer for bottcr
pi'olcction at. railway crossings to tho \chiclc

oi'ix'cr.

it is obvious that something must he done and
ihut lwcziusc in (l largc incusui‘o it is thc dwcllcrs
on farms and in rural communitics who are in
thc groutcr pci'contugc of cows the victims.

Crossings in inctropolitan citios in Ariici'iczi zii‘c
universally pi'otcctcd, cithcr by gi‘mlwscpai'ulions
or gates, but in England and on tho contiiicnt.
it. is quite as unheard of to hch on unprotectml
crossing in the country :is in the city. This is
as it should be.

There are a. hunder crossings in Michigan of
railway tracks and main traveled statc trunk~
lines, where the only possible warning to an ap—
proaching driver who in strange to the road, is
a small sign, which he may or may-not see. All
too often. our first. warning of an approaching
crossing in the rumble of our wheels as we cross
over it.

'I'hoso’ who say, "lot the motorist take care of
himself”, are not aware apparently that the gov—
r-rnmcnt requires that the public shall be pro-
tcctcd against itself. We require that every mov-
ing belt in a factory shall be protected by a cover—
ing. That every stairway shall have a railing.
That every elevator shall have double gates.

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museum we
guarded? -. _

We do not claim that the railway should be
required to protect its crissings without any state
or government aid. The cost would undoubtedly
be staggering. But we do claim that state high-
way and railway executives must give this sub-
ject the consideration it deserves. The auto-
mobile brought with it a problem which must
be met and now is the time to meet it.

allow railway»  to r go uh- I

THE “'IMMIN HAVE A W’INNIN‘!

Y the narrow margin of one vote, Mrs. Myra
Wood Cheney was elected as president of
the Ingham County Farmers’ Club and in—

cidently established the record of being the first

' woman president of that organization in 53 years.

We seem to feel some unnecessary apprehension
in the air around Mason and perhaps even, in
some localities where the news is first learned
from its reading here. Shades of Lydia Pank—
hurst that we have come to this!

For our part we cannot look at the elevation
of a capable woman to the highest office in a
farmers’ organization as anything but an omen
of better living conditions on the farms. That is
one of the penalties or privileges, as you choose
to make it of farm life, that the man and woman
are in fact, partners in not only the home' life,
but the business activities of the farm.

Not a few of the most notable farming suc-
cesses in Michigan are directly attributed to the
head-work of an ambitious Wife, and that man
faces his daily problems only half armed who has
not taken into his confidence and counseled with
the one who, of all is most interested in his suc:
cess; his Wife.

So the selection of Mrs. Cheney is in reality
an acknowledgment, in one of the best farming
counties in Michigan of the part the women play
in the farming business in this state and we are
proud of every man and woman too, who voted
her this signal honor. ‘

Michigan will never fall backward as an agri-
cultural state so long as good wives and mothers
hold an interest in her future!

TAX EQUALITY FOR 'ALL BONDS

OGER W. BABSON, international statistican.
B says: “Unless the state, county, city and

towu tax—exempt bond issue is curtailed.
taxes necessary to pay interest and retire them
will bankrupt the farmers of this country. The
present increase in taxes which results from the
demand for these nontaxable bonds is raising
havoc with land values, the cost of farm pro-
ducts and rural conditions in general."

Every dollar added to annual farm taxes re-
duces the farm values more than $30 an acre;.
for the average net income on farm lands for 50
years is only about three per cent, and a dollar
is three per cent on a $30 investment. Just now,
farm produce prices are higher, owing to the set-
tlement of German reparations, and the opening
of a better foreign market. Farmers are paying
off bills, repairing farms, and some laying up a.
small surplus. Jut more tax—free state and
municipal bonds were issued during the first six
months of 1924 than ever before during a like
period. The tax—free bond issue is catching up
with the farm prosperity. When it does, good
prices will not help the farmer or any other in—
dustrial investor; he merely pays more' taxes to
pay interest on more tax—free bonds, and they
will run for 20 to 30 years!

The Dickinson bill is before congress again
this winter, with a graduated tax on non—taxable
securities, to cquulize their values and burdens
with other property and individual investments
that, have hocn paying all the tax. The Farm
Mortgage llziiikci's’ Association of America re—
ccntly dcclurod for a constitutional amendment
rcvoking thc cxcmption privileges of tax—free se—
ciii‘ilics. ’l‘hc amendment had almost enouzrh
votes to pass it last spring; and some of its
ciicniics fullcd in the primaries, so it may have
it good majority this winter.

’l‘ux equality is the one sure road to business
(lcvclopiiiont on :i sound basis.

 

I N i I] V I1)llAi i l NDIF'FERENCE

N Europe it is not uncommon to find buildings
1 several hundreds of years old, that have nev—
er seen a fire other than in a fireplace; there
are whole villages that have not seen a runaway
fire in centuries. The more extensive use of
brick and stone, as compared with the almost
universal use of wood for American homes, re-
duces the fire hazard somewhat. But the great
difference is in the care taken to prevent fire.
America has ten times as much fire loss as the
most incendiary part of Europe.

To eliminate that nine-to-one' diflerental in
America, would not invalidate the principle or
change the practice of fire insurance; it Would
only make fire insurance more universal, at far
lower cost. '

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BMCK’S REAL ESTATE AGENCY

“The writer has just been reading
with considerable interest the Janu-
ary 3rd issue of THE Busmr‘ss FARM-
»: and have noted your comment, on
page 13, regarding the Warren Mc—
Rae Farm Agency of Logansport, In—
diana.

“We recently obtained the circular,
pm. of Black’s Real Estate Agency,
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and as
the methods of the tw0 concerns ap—
pear to be somewhat similar, we are
wondering if you have had any ex—
perience with, or occasion to inves—
tigate the last mentioned concern."

3-7ES, we investigated, or rather We
tried to investigate, Black’s ln—
ternational Selling Service, of
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, but we
could not conclude our inVestigation
because they would not reply to any
of our letters. Ah we ask for in our
letters to them was the names and
addresses of people who had bought
or sold farm property through them,
and surely an honest company would
be pleased to give any information
desired. ~

There are some firms in business
who send out very attractive folders
and booklets and their letters con—
tain wonderful promises but when a
“victim” begins to get inquisitive
and insist that they reply to all the
questions asked they soon lose in—
terest in him.

We have no faith in any scheme
where one advances money to some—
one in another state, a stranger, with
the understanding that he is to sell
his property for him. Nor will we
ever have, until one of these con—
cerns proves to our satisfaction that
they did make one satisfactory sale,
supplying us with the names and ad—
dresses of the people involved. If
they want to make the sale they
should be glad to handle it on a com—
mission basis and receive their com-
mission when the sale is completed.

NAILS CLOSED TO VENDORS OF
TUBERCULOSIS NOSTRUM
N the issuance of two fraud orders
1 against substantially the same
personnel, advertising an alleged
treament for tuberculosis under the
name of the General Remedies Com-
pany and an alleged “gland” treat—
ment and an obscene device under
the name of the Vital—O Gland Com—
pany, the Post Office Department has
rendered signal service to thousands
of invalids by protecting their health
and savings, and also to every adver—
tiser who desires to have public con—
fidence in advertising increased rath—
cr than diminished. .
For some time a group composed
of J. A. Gurley, H. N. (lurley. E. l’.
Gurley and It. T. Nash have operated
the Vital—O Gland Company, whose
advertising has not only played upon
the current “gland treatment” super-
stition. but has offered. a device the
mere description ol’ which is too ob—
scene for further rcpililion. Not con—
tent with exploiting tho uncduczttod
and possibly porvcrting thousands of
credulous persons, this same group
began, curly in 1924, to exploit those
:ifi‘lictod Willi tuberculosis.
“llAltlliAN” was tho name first
selected for tho preparation ol’l'crcd
to sufl'crcrs from rcspirntory discus-pg
through ncwspzlpcr ndwrlising and
follow—up litornturc. ’l‘hc lcttorhead
of the company also cxploizcd “lth—
’I‘Elttll<ll\i" for stomach. bowcl, kid—
ney and liver disordcrs, and “AAllu‘X”
for rheumatism and all (lisoascs of
the blood. lloth the newspaper ad~

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The purpose of this department'ls to P”-
tocr. our subsorlbers {rom fraudulent dealing!
or unfair treatment by persons or concerns at
a distance.

In every case we will do our best to make
I satisfactory settlement or force action. for
which no charge for our services wlll ever in
made, providing:

1.—The claim ls made by a paid-up sub<
mlber to The Business Farmer.

.—The claim is not more than 6 mos. old.
3.——-Tho claim is not local or between poo—
ple within easy distance of one another.
These should he settled at first hand and not

attempted by mail.
Address all letters, glvlng full particulars.
amounts, dates, etc., enclosing also your ad.

dress label from the from. cover of any Issue
to prove that you are a paid-up subscriber.
THE BUSINESS FARMER. Collectlon Box
In. Clemens. Mich. I
Report Ending January 8. 1925
Total number claims filed
l—munt lnvolv d
Total number
Amount Scour

$26,238.49
.._........ 0
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vertising and the literature conveyed
the inference that at last a specific
had been discovered for tuberculosis.
The endorsement (if a Dr. E. M. Da—
vis, described in the newspaper copy
as_“a prominent -l)enver physician”
was featured for the purpose of per—
suading readers that the advertiser
offered a product of real therapeutic
value. Investigation by the National
Vigilance Committee disclosed that
Dr. Davis is a graduate
College of Osteopathy. Dr. Davis is
not connected with any hospital, san—
itarium or clinic. There is little
doubt; that. Dr. Davis prolited by per—
mitting the use of his name.

The follow—up literature contained
quantities of testimonials, some of
which were signed with the names of
patients at the Craig Colony near
Denver. Inquiry made by the Colo—
rado Tuberculosis Association, in co-
operation with the National Vigilance
Committee, disclosed that “Haelan”
was donated to some of the patients
by some man connected with the con—
cern manufacturing the product.
These patients Were given a free
sample, and in order to receive the
second bottle, had to sign a testi-
monial. One individual who signed
a testimonial in September, 1923,
was in December of the same year a
bed patient in the Colony.

Plausibility was further added to
the Haelan advertising by the state—
ment that the advertiser’s guarantee
was “backed by a one thousand d01—
lar deposit in the American Bank and
Trust Company, Denver, which is for
the sole purpose of paying any just
claims for refunds.” Inquiry of the
bank disclosed that it had no con-
trol of this account. Nevertheless.
the bank issued a letter to this de—
positor, which was reproduced in fac—
simile by the advertiser as evidence
of its alleged integrity and responsi—
bility.

Persons who will mislead people
in the matter of their health are no
better than murderers in our opinion
because they raise false hopes in
the brasts of many sufferers who do
not discover that the medicine is of
no value until it is too late. If you
are ill go to a good physician, take no
chances.

FORD MOTOR. OF CANADA
IF you are the owner of a Ford car
I it is more than likely that you
have received a nicely engrossed
“special subscription privilege” to
buy fifty “bankers shares” of stock
in the Ford Motor Company of Cana—
da, Limited, at $6.50 per share.

The ’irculars enclosed with the
certificate point out, naturally
cnough. that had you bought with

Henry Ford even a few hundred dol~
lars worth of stock in his original
company you would now be dwelling
in marble halls, with private yachts
and other plnythings ot’ the idle rich,
while you yearly earnings, had you
hold this stock "would be in seven fig-
urts!

’l‘ho circulars ore signed by the
Empire. Stale (‘onipunv of New York,
who wo assume are nrcparcd and do
furnish lcgitinlzito slinrcs of stock in
the Ford Motor Company of Canada.

Our im'csiigution Iliscloscs how—
cvcr that tho so~cnllcd “bankers
:‘l1:1rcs”~~~What on alluring unmet-~-

rcprcsnnt in rculity ,iust l/ltltlth of
a share of capital stock in that coni~
puny. Now on January third, the
price of Ford Motor Company of (lillh
uda on the curb market was $505 per
share, so in ot‘t'criug it to you at, 55650
the Empire State Company are not
exactly giving you a “special privi—

loge”, are they?
Mel-{Ali} lltl’l‘S ANOTHER
“’l‘lGN-SPO’l‘”
“I listed my farm with Warren

McRac, Logansport, 'lnd. I sent him
$10 for listing fee the 11th day of
October, 1924. I never heard from
him.”

 

THANKS! «
an old man and have read and
for many farm papers but
never for a business farm paper like
yours. I wish I could have had it 40
years ago—A, Claggett, Macomb County,
Michigan. '

I am
subscribed

 

Have paid scarce attention to your
paper until the last few issues and am
beginning to realize it is the real thing.
Send it on for two years—Austin Mason.
Lenawpc County, Michigan.

 

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stop sagging; the Square Deal Knot that
cannot slip; firm tension, etc; including
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'WE oan'r SPELL ANY MORE
. ' By Anne Cam'pb’ell
He’s growing'older every way,
The baby we adore!
We noticed it the other day.
We can’t spell any more!

I said at dinner, “Well, I guess
We’ll see a s li—o"

Before I’d finished, he cried. “Yes
That’s where I want to go!"

It used to be if we should talk
0f c—a-n—d-y,

He'd just as likely take a walk,
But now he stays near by.

And if we say, “To b-e-d
Somebody must run."

He sighs and cuddles close to me!
No secrets from our son!

He’s growing up! He goes to school,
The baby we adore!

He‘s just a bit too old to fool.
We can’t spell any more!

A BUDGET FOR. TIME
'1‘ ANY liOiiScwives have found it
 economicle Io budgct/not only

their household expenses. lllll
also their time (if course it is im-
possible to determine beforehand
just how many minutes must be
spent on this or that task, but after
some experience it can be estimated
with a fair degree of accuracy. Lay—
ing out the morning or afternoon, or
both, .with a certain schedule of
things to do has helped more than
one housewife to accomplish her
round of duties with a minimum of
lost effort and worry about What
ought to “come next”. On the other
hand, no one should become a slave
to a system just becausc there is a
system. The system should be made
to serve its creator, and not vice
versa, as is sometimes the case.

BAKED l’OTA 'I‘OES

00D specialists agree that the po—
F tato baked with its skin on is
much more valuable than the
pared and boiled potato. Since this
plentiful home grown vegetable has
a valuable amount of the minerals
most important to the body——iron,
lime, phosphorous, as well as of the
third vitamin. why pour these desir—
able materials (lOVVIl the kitchen sink
when they may be saved by baking?
At the college of agriculture in
New York State the foods instructors
wash and scrub the potatoes thor-
oughly and bake them forty-five min—
utes to an hour in a hot oven (400°
to 450° F.) Be sure to have the
oven hot before the potatoes are
put in. To test the potatoes do not
pierce them with a fork, but squeese
them with the hand wrapped in a
towel. When soft, break the skin to
keep them from being soggy and
serve. If desired, a bit of butter and
a dash of paprika may be placed in
the opening made in the potato.

 

FUMIGATING WITH SULPHUR
O rid a house of bed bugs and
other insects proceed as follows:

First open up all clothes
drawers and hiding places. Then
close up all the rooms, plugging

with cloth all cracks about the win—
dows and doors so the fumes of burn—
ing sulphur cannot. escape. The
amount of sulphur required depends
on the Size of the room. Find the
number of cubic feet in the room by
multiplying the length by the width
by the height. For each one thou-
sand cubic feet use three pounds of
sulphur.

Sulphur may be safely burned in
this manner; place the sulphur in an
old iron kettle or any metal kettle
that will not be required again, since
the sulphur will spoil the kettle for
use as a. cooking utensil. The kettle
must not leak. Set the kettle on
bricks in a tub in the bottom of
which is two inches or so of water.
Make a hole or crater in the top of
the sulphur in the kettle. Pour into
the crater about half a cupful of
wood alcohol (methylated spirits);
touch a match to the alcohol and
leave the room. Keep the room
tightly closed up for three or four
hours. The bugs will be finished
within that time also any eggs.

It is advisable to do the whole
house at once, since this is the only
way one can be sure of getting rid
of all of the bugs. It is advisable,
tOo, before fumigating with sulphur
to remove from the house all articles
of silver or other metal liable to be
tarnished by the sulphur. The action
of. the sulphur fumes is strengthened
if‘rthe house is moderately warm, at
least not cold, when fumigated. Bed

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pattern.

with one.
this for these readers.

and look nice, I think.

over was before and I need
your help, so let us work
together —- we will help
each other.

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LAD‘eDéuztment for the “’an

Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

on home-made slippers and included a small illustration of the
Several have written me that they were afraid they
could not cut a satisfactory pattern and asked if I would furnish them
I have a pattern, about a size 5, and will cut duplicates of
If there are any others who would like to make
a pair of these slippers but are unable to cut a satisfactory pattern I
will be. pleased to serve them. The slippers are rally wiry easy to make

DEAR FOLKS: In our December 6th issue I published an article

1 have resolved to make our page better during 1925 than it

W  ,

Annle Taylor. care The Buslness Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Mlchlaan.

  

  
 

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bugs are dormant in cold weather
and harder to kill in that state than
when active, as they are when the
temperature is reasonably high, say
from 70 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
Simpler remedies against bed bugs
may be tried if the method described
cannot be used. A feather dipped in
coal oil and drawn through cracks in
the bedstead or wall will kill every
bug it touches and eggs as well. Or
the following mixture may be applied
in the same way: Corrosive sublim-

ate, one ounce; alcohol, one pint;
spirits of turpentine, one quarter of
a pint. . Coal oil and the mixture des-
cribed will kill every bug they come
in contact with, but the bugs cannot
be completely eradicated by these
means since it is impossible to reach
all hiding places, and a few bugs left,
will in a short time produce an infes-
tation as serious as before the treat-
ment was applied. The only effective
way to rid a house of bed bugs is to
fumigate it thoroughly.

The Baby’s Health Food

OME people still disapprove of the
amount of attention that we lav—
ish these days on babies. “In

the good old days,” they lament,
“children grew into healthy men and
women and lived to a good old age,
without regulated sleep and prescrib-
ed feeding.” What they forget is,
that a few generations ago only the
hardy baby survived at all. Babies
that could not be nursed by their
mothers had a small chance to live,
because medical science knew little
or nothing about satisfactory sub-
stitutes for breast feeding except the
use of cow’s milk.

The most important thing to a
baby is his food. True enough, its
proper preparation requires time and
infinite care, but the mother’s re-
ward is more than enough to pay for
the time spent.

One of the first things to learn
about a baby’s stomach is that it can-
not digest foods suitable for adults
any more than his muscles are able
to lift a chair. Only suitable food can
build up the necessary strength and
resistance he will need in later life
to meet physical and mental strains.
First in the diet comes milk, moth-
er’s milk preferably. If the mother
cannot nurse her baby, then his food
should be prepared and adjusted un—
der the careful supervision of a phy-
sician. But even quite young babies
can have more than milk for their
meals. Not many years ago, the
mother who fed a child under six
months anything else was popularly
supposed to be jeopardizing his life.
Nowadays medical authorities agree
that children grow faster and are
stronger if orange or tomato juice
is given them by the second month,
and carefully strained vegetable juice
by the fifth or sixth month. Even
egg—yolk may be beneficial at that
age, but it should only be fed under
definite directions from the doctor.

Thoroughly cooked cereals, in
small quantities, may be added to
the diet of the healthy baby by the
seventh or eighth month, and the
amount of fruit—juice and vegetable
juice may then be increased. During
the first part of the second year,
mashed vegetables, a. small amount
at a time, may also be included.

Lucy H. Gillett in her recent book,
“Food for Health’s Sake”, gives her
readers an average menu for the tod-
dler, that is, the baby between two
and three years old, which we give
below:

Breakfast—4:30 to 7:30 A. M.

Cereal—2 to 4 tablespoonfuls of any well-
cooked cereal.

Milk—«l cu .

{read—1 sice (day old).

Butter on bread after 14th month.

‘ Luncheon—10 to 11 A
' .Fruit juice—~l to
pnce, prune pulp, apple sauce,
or pear.

tablespoon'fuls' of orange
very ripe peach

Dlnneo—‘lz M. to 1 P. M.

Cereal, or potato soup, $5 cup, or broth with
cereal cooked to it.

Egg—3 or 4 times a week after 14th month.

Milk—1 cup (me be given in the coup).

Bread—1 sice ( ay old).

Butter on bread after 14th month.

Vegetable strained or_ chopped flno——1 to 8
tenspoonfuls .(niay be given in the soup or as
a separate dlSh)-—Splnilch, Lettuce, Green Peas,
(jarrots, Young Beets.‘ Potatoes, String-beans.
(.elery, Peas, Young Onions. -

Dessert—mustard, Junket,

pudding.
Luncheon—8:30 P. M.
Bread—1 slice.

Milk—1 cup.
Supper—5 to 8 P. M.
germl—2 tablespoonfuln.

iilk—l cup.
2 mltablespoonfule may be given

cornstarch or rice

Fruit—«l to
after the 18th mon

Bad habits of eating can often be
avoided by not allowing the baby
even to taste the food that his elders
eat. If the highly seasoned dishes
appeal to his palate he will cry for
more. Then, if the indulgent moth—
er yields to his demand, she lays the
foundation for future digestive trou-
bles and other illnesses.

“It is so hard to teach my children
to like the foods that are good for
them,” we often hear mothers com-
plain. This is a sad truth which has
taxed the patience and good judg-
ment of thousands of mothers. There
is only one method that will simplify
this problem, and that is, not to al-
low the baby to have his own way in
this matter from the very start. Do
not permit him to develop a finicky
appetite if you would have him heal-
thy and sweet—tempered.

Healthful eating habits begun in
childhood are one of the greatest
preventives of tuberculosis. Malnu-
trition, one of the causes of this dis-
ease, often results from a pampered
appetite. For this reason the Na-
tional Tuberculosis Association and
its affiliated organizations spend
large sumes of money every year to
help teach the American public how
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can lay some claim to recogni-
tion as a health food as well as

the much heralded orange. Apple en-
thusiasts among the home economics
teachers at the state college of agri-
culture of New ‘York recently made
this claim for the apple, as it co
tains all three vitamins in sma.
amounts. Though oranges have I
much larger amount of vitamins
and C, it is probable that New York
state people eat three times as ma
apples as oranges. If this happe
the scales balance and one gets t
same amount of the vitamins. Appla}
have one important advantage ova
oranges. They contain more irdl
and this important mineral is mu,
needed in the diet for making 1'
blood corpuscles and keeping that.
in good working condition. Wh “
there is more food value in fre ,'
than in cooked apples, newly cooked
apple sauce is good, although vita-
min C disappears in cooking. Enough
good fruit value is left, however, so
that food experts say, “the more ap-
ple sauce the better."

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

Home-Made Tam.——Isn’t the tam shown
here cute? Would you like to make one
for yourself or daughter, or both? I have
a model of this tam, about large enough
to fit a medium-sized doll, but correct in

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every way, and I will gladly loan it to
any reader who would like to see how
it is made and cut a pattern. You coul‘i‘
cut the pattern according to the size
wanted. The tam was sent to me by
Mrs. Morgan of Vicksburg.

 

 

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Quasi-lntroduction.——A quasi—introduc-
tion is a polite evasion for a real intro-
duction, made in order not to present to
each other persons accidentally brought
together, when it is not certain that one
or both would care to become acquainted.
When talking with an upholsterer, for in-
stance, and a friend enters the room, ack-
wardness may be avoided by informally
including her in the conversation without
actually introducing her: Mr. Bro.
thinks the couch should be covered wi.h
a puce brocade.” This permits the friend
to give an opinion without meeting Mr.
Brown. Or, a hostess talking to one guest
may turn to a second and say: "Mrs.
Coutant, Mrs. Gray just mentioned meet-

. 1 " con-hid fashioned'apple are. "

ing General Gaillard when she was inf

Paris. You know him too, don’t you?“
This indirect quasi-introduction leaves it.
open to either lady to discontinue ac—
quaintanceship after conversation. In a
quasi—introduction, when a man has been
presented to a woman, the woman nods.
first in taking leave. To offer her hand
is as much as to say she is willing to
accept a more formal presentation.

 

 

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The Runner’s Bible

(Copyright by Houghto—r-i‘Mifliin Co.)

 

 

And in whatsoevrr house ye enter, first
gay, Peace be to this house. Luke 10:5.

Let this benediction be in your heart
whenever you come into the presence of
another, it will help greatly to bring
and you into empathetic accord (P l.
2:2.) Shun every one while you “feel
irritable." Not only that, but the moment
you feel irritability coming upon you go
into seciet chamber of your being and

be perfectly quiet (Mark 4:39) until the I

assurance takes possession of you that in
heaven where you truly abide, everything
moves in perfect harmony. Divine Truth
.will banish the lulu-nth of material hot.
The man who allows himself to be chronic—
oly irritable is never a Christian; he in
the maternal of murderers, killfii _.
victims through the multiplicity 0,,

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Cream. of Cheese'SouCp1 i
Cele ves

W ‘Oodfish Balls
Baked Potatoes

Baked Macaroni and Peas
Spinach Salad

Cheese Salad Fig Pudding
Coffee ‘

*Oodflsh Bella—2 cupfuls mashed pota-
toes. 11/3 cupfuls shredded codfish, 1 egg,
1 tablespoonful fat, melted, 1,1; teaspoon-
ful pepper. Put codflsh in wire strainer,
let cold water run through and squeeze
dry. Mix the hot, unseasoned potatoes
with codflsh. To this add the melted fat,
beaten egg and pepper. Beat well. Shape
in balls and fry in deep fat until a golden
brown color.

 

 

RECIPES

 

 

Ooflee Bread.——% cupful milk, 1/; cup—
ful melted fat, 17$ cake compressed yeast,
1 teaspoonful salt, 2 eggs, 1 cupful sugar,
1 teaspoonful lemon extract, 1/, cup-ful
chopped English walnut meats, flour.
Heat milk slightly, then add flour to
make batter and yeast dissolved in little
lukewarm water. Allow to rise until light.
the. add fat, eggs well beaten, sugar,
lemon, salt, and enough flour to make
stir dough. Knead ten minutes and let
rise until light. Place in greased pan
and let rise again. Spread with melted
fat and sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon
and nuts. Bake in hot even an hour.
Suicient for one large loaf.

 

lot-fold Purses—1A? cup barley, pearl
1 quart water, 3 pints white stock, 1%
cupful cream, 1 yolk of egg, 2 tablespoon-
fuls fat, 4 tablespoonfuls cooked carrot
balls, 4 tablespoonfuls cooked peas, salt,
pepper, and paprika to taste, diced toast
or tried bread. Put barley into sauce—
pan of cold water, bring to boil, let boil

AIDS TO Goon DRESSING

BE SURE AND SEND IN YOUR SIZE
4088. A Pretty Afternoon Frock—Metal brocade and satin are here combined.

alsobe
veto

To make 'as illustrated. in the large View for a
and 8% yards of plain material 36 inches wide.
is required.

1955. A Simple Morning Frock for Stout or
underarm darts.

chain? The Pattern is cut in 8 Sizes: 34
A 3 me

is 1% yard.

“/
A Smart Blouse Dress for Youthful Fianna—Jersey or flannel could be used for this model.
The Pattern .is cut in 4 Sizes: 14, 18, 18 and 20
inch material. If bodice is made of lining it will

4904.
It is also good for wool crepe, kssha or satin.
yarn. A 16 gear sine requires 4%» yards of 36
require % yar . .

£964.- A Stylish Frock for the Woman of Matur
model will at once appeal to the woman of generous

silh. for charmeen, broadcloth or velvet.
48 and 50 inches bust measure. .
at the foot is 2%. ards, with laits extended.
material 95 yard W1 be l‘eqllil‘fi.

4986. A Stylish Model'fior the Growing Glrl.——Here we have a fashion’s latest expression. the
mic Blousc, developed for the school girl in

most popular lines.
bod;Y portions which
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trimming.
and 6 years.

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attractive in crepe or crepe _de chine combined with figured silk or embroidery. It may be de-
ped in simpler style as shown in the small views; without the tunic.
fiber 3 38, 40, and 42 inches bust measure.
38 inch size will require 3%. yards of figured material,
If made with long sleeves % yard more material

_ . , . Slender. Figures.—-This becoming model is fitted by
This style is plain but attractive, and is convenient and comfortable with its front

. . 3 . . 4 . . .
h 3158 Will require 3% yards of \Qfi‘ inch material. The width of the dress at lower edge

o~ Figure—The slenderizing lines of this attractive

. The Pattern is out in 8 Sizes: 36 . . , .
38 inch also requires 4% yards of 40 inch material. The width
If the collar is made as illustrated 0f contrasting

The skirt is joined to long

.iiiay be of lining. This ,
will be good in velveteen and homespun

combined, using the velveteen for the Blouse; or,

one could use homespun or wool repp. The Pat-

To make as illustrated for a 12
require 3%, yards _of 40
yard of lining 40 inches wide for the iinderbody,
and V4. yard of contrasting material for trimming.

4949. A Jaunty Coat Style for a Small Girl. U
—Chifl.’on broadcloth, Velour, or velvet Would be J
pleasing for this model.
very comfortable. Tiny
Braid or fur would be attractive for “
The Pattern is cut in 4 S‘ ,
. . _If made of one material 2 yards
40 inches Wide Wlll be requ1red for a 4 year size.
If collar and cuffs and a facmg at lower edge of . "'
cost are of contrasting material % yard 54 inches
' . I To trim with bands of
ur 3% inches Wide Will require 2% yards.

4947. I A Practical Popular Suit for the Small
Boys—This style expresses comfort and case. It
is an ideal play or school suit for a little boy.
‘elveteenh serge, Jersey cloth or flannel may be
used for its development.

I ears. A 4 ear size re—
quires 2% yards of 27 inch inateriaLy

) 9967. ‘A Pretty Frock for Mother's Girl.—
Irinted veile, or crepe, crepe de chine or pongee

for this design.
may be finished short as in the small view or with
the long and coxiiiortable bishop portions. The
Pattern is out in 4.Sizes: 4, 6. 8 and 10 years.
A _6 year 5116 requires 2 yards of 32 inch ma«
terial if made With long sleeve portions.
the long sleeves 1% yard
band cuffs of contrasting material 96 yard is re-

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Order from this or former issues of The Busineu
Farmer. giving number and slap your
name and address plainly.

App 100 FOR FALL AND WINTER
1924-1925 FASHION BOOK

Address all orders for patterns to
Pattern Department

THE BUSINESS FARMER
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

 

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dive minutes, then drain oi! water;~ this“ ,

removes the slightly bitter“ taste. Now
put barley into saucepan with fat and
water, let' these boil gently until barley
is tender, drain and rub through sieve.
Add stock to this puree and let simmer
ten minutes. Beat yolk of egg with cream
and when soup has cooled slightly, strain
them in. Stir soup over fire a few min-
utes to reheat; but be careful that it
does not boil, or it will curdle. Season
carefully, add carrot balls and peas, which
should first be heated in a little stock or
water. Serve with dice of toast or fried
bread. If you do not possess a round
vegetable cutter, cut the carrot intosmall
dice. This is a particularly nourishing
soup. If you prefer a slightly cheaper
variety, use milk instead of cream, and if
you have no white stock the milk and
water in equal proportions instead, and
cook a carrot, turnip and onion in milk
and water for twenty or thirty minutes.

HOMIESPUN YARN

Chocolate Cookies.——6 teaspoons crisco
or lard, 1 cup sugar, lyé teaspoon baking
powder, 1,4 cup cocoa, 1 egg, 4-6 teaspoons
water 2 cups flour. Mix as cake making
a batter stiff enough to be pushed from
spoon. Use 1 heaping teaspoonful for
each cookie. Drop about two inches apart.
Bake in a moderate oven, 12 to 18 min-
utes.

 

Home made sweets are sure to be
wholesome. Many may be made of fruit.
t 1 II

A cream of onion and potato soup
makes a mighty satisfying supper dish
for these cold days. It’s filling and nour-
ishing, too.

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Aunt Ada’s Axioms: Like the pies and
cakes that mother used to make, there
are no bedtirne stories in these days of
radio like the ones that mother used to
tell.

* it III

Boston brown bread sandwiches are
good for the school lunch box. They go
very well with the hot dish which your
school should be serving at noon.

This model would

The Pattern is cut in 5
The width of the dress at the foot is 1% yard.

46 and 48 inches bust measure.

hnes. This model is excellent for the new figured
40, 42 44 48

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10. 12 and 14 years. #955. ' ‘

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"The difference between a good brand of
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(Eured His Rupture

was badly ruptuer while lifting a,
trunk Sl‘Yl'l‘lll ytai's ago. Doctors said
my only hope of cure was an opvration.

'l‘russcs (lid me no good. Finally 1 got
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tured—you may save a life or at least
sto the misery of rupture and the Worry
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Quality in exam WEEKS f
To Earn Real Marley indict? 

' Auto fiTractor Business

Come to any of my Great Shops.

There's one near your home. I will

train you to accomplish what these
i men have: George Smith is making
l $800 a month with his garage. D. M. .
' Collins is making $300 a month as
garage manager. Albert Boyer is only
19 years old, but he owns his own
garage. You can do the same.

' «I bet calls every day from
Big Jabs Open Garages, Buttery Stations.

etc. for McSweeny Trained men. Big firms need
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. Idon't care if you
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SHALL WE HAVE A MOTTO,
COLORS AND A PIN?

EAR boys and girls: In an in-

teresting letter appearing else—

where on this page Muriel Frey,
of Caledonia, makes a suggestion
that appeals to me. She writes:

“Say, Uncle Ned, Why can’t the
children in the Children’s Hour or—
ganize and have a motto, colors and
pin and then when you write in for a
contest if you do fairly good but
don’t Win a prize, then you could get
a pin? I think that would be bushels
of fun, don’t you? Can We do that?
We could decide on the motto, club
name, colors and design of our pins
by putting it to a vote by letters.
I’m just proud of our page in the M.
B. F. and want it to be the best
ever.”

What do all of you think of the
idea? I think it is fine and we will
have a motto, colors and pin—IF
YOU WANT IT. And the only way I
can be sure that you want our
club, the Children’s Hour, to have
these is for you to write me, write
me a letter telling me that you would
like to have our club have a. motto,
colors and a pin. If you want these,
and tell me you do, then I will have
a contest, offering prizes for the best
motto, choice of colors, etc., but this
will come after I hear from you.

Send your letter in any time be—
tween now and Saturday, January
31st,, so it will arrive at my office not;
later than Monday, February 2nd,
but the sooner the better so that it
everything is all right we can start
the contest in the near future and
get our plans under way. Remem-
ber, it is up to you, so write soon if
you are intercsted.-——UNCLE NED.

 

()UR BOYS AND GIRLS

llcar [’ntalc Nod :»~.-\r<- tho column gains
opt-n to a «~ity nliss‘? I am sixtt-on years
old, 5 foot 7 ll'lt‘lli‘S tall and of light (‘(llll-
ploxion. My l‘lllllt‘l‘ just. startwl to tuko
tho M. R. I“. in September so i don‘t feel

exactly “acquaintle I enjoy rvadiuu‘
tho letters from the country boys and
girls you nun-ll. I think llHZl'l Harlow
is sixtlwu years old. I ('J'l' just llll'llll'l‘

her in a molly gingham apron with a sun»

bonnet on lulr arm. among: llli‘ twwuly
(lit'l'vi‘vut llinds ot llo‘wwi's. shw lwlllg: tho
“llowlr ol~ youth". l‘lwtiy llll‘llll't‘ don't

you think? l Sll]lll():<n you all road l'ul-ll-

,\'t»(l's plop to \\'l‘l[1‘ to :\llll‘l‘1 Sillitll. tllé‘
boy with tho lll'tlkt‘ll l4~:', loll l woudl-r how
many Ill't‘ going to rll-nt :.i"l4lll iillll try
to (‘lli'l'l‘ Allu‘t't‘.’ l’id l lllftl' :1 :Jhoul'.’
“All (it 118:" l :llll Mun l (lid. l tlllllh
Allu l‘l lbl (-iglltm-tl .\l: l': liltl. rl‘llid l5
whnl I told llllll ill lo). l~itar to him. 1.
would just lo\-- to lw in Ho :w-outi'y.
l'll lu'l tlu- turf»: and yiilri :llw l:;:\.iui.:'
\\'olulurrl‘ul thin»: roasting and slullln;:'.
\\':tll l uuwss l “will li'l\'l' to t-lor-w or l'ut‘lw
.\'wd will not lol llll' I’llllll‘ .‘lL'Uill.*'~l“l':lllt'i}:
lial'wiu, llL’l .\i<'.\.‘lllill‘l'll!;l \‘x', llvtroil,
Michigan. .

lloar l'nttlo Nt‘tlIVAA'llt‘l'l“ is anollnr our
who wants to join your merry circle. I

am a, country girl, am 1:: yours old and
in the eighth grade at school. I go to
a consolidated school which is two miles
from my home. Last summer. the day
before vacation started we had a largo
picnic, which all tho children attended.
in the morning “'1‘ made at lunch and
startt-(l for the lake. I going in a bus
with lllt‘ rt-st, ot' the: ('llillll‘vn and my par—
ents coming in tho (-ar. ’l‘hv bus took us
to school where all the children were.
waiting. After \W' \\'t~l‘t‘ all ready We
startvd out. 'Whvn um not there we found
that tin-re was a large crowd thcrl: a1—
rvady. The watt-r was smooth and the
day was warm and clear. We played all

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sorts of games and when noon came they
built bonfires and made coffee. In the
afternoon some of the children went back
to their play, while others went boating
When the boats came back they all Went.
to the beach and there they served lemon.—
ade and ice cream. We stayed till five.
o’clock and were growing: tired so we
decided to return home. We were all
happy but tired with our days outing
I think I will close as it is growing late
Hoping to hear from some of the boys
and girls of the circle. Yours sincerely.
“Margaret Lucille Hardy, Cooks, Mich.

lwar {Tm-lt- Neda—Well Uncle, you.
must think I am a Very quiet member but
my school work has been rather hard
and so hayc to catch up, you know. How
are you and all the “Kids” getting along?
I hayo been so busy I have not had time
to own read their letters. I surely enjoy
wading the nice letters and wish some
would correspond with me- If any boy
or girl would write a. letter to me guest»
ing my ago, I will send them a present.
My age is lwtwwn l2 and 15. Now I’ll
write a big “fat” letter to the one who
does not guess my age but will write just.
the same. \Voll I must close and get.
busy as I have some extra studios. So-
long. From a busy irimnbcr.-——Miss Mary
Young, {3. Scotts, Michigan.

My Doar llnclc Nedz—I couldn’t let
my (‘hristmas vacation pass without
thanking you for the lovely prize that
you Sl‘lli, ulo for my letter in the Decem-

ln-r 30th issue. It certainly comes in
handy at school and I was proud be—
t-auso I won. Another reason that I was

:zlad that my letter was printed was be—
t‘illth‘ when daddic road it he jumped
right, in tho "("hcyis" and went to Grand
llapids and bought me a 4' C. Flexible
Myer sled. My! it certainly is a dandy
sled and [’11 how» the speed rocord when
school starts and We go down to “Yo-
Scmitc Valley” to slide.

Say, Uncle Nod, why can‘t the children
in the Children's Hour organize and have
.‘1. motto, colors and pin and then when
you writo in for a contest, if you do
fairly good but don't. win a prize, then
you could got a pin? I think that would
be busln-ls of fun. don't you? (Tan we
do that? “'0 could docith on tho motto
r'lub namw, colors and design of our pins
by putting it to a \‘oto by lt-ttm‘s. I’m
just. proud of our page in tln- M. B. 1‘.
and want it to ho tho best cvor.

J wrulw to Alle Smith as you re—
iluosll-d. I thought your svntimt-nt i‘vlrard-

lug “l’ollyauua” was vory (-lcyvr. I read
"Pollyanna" about tlii‘t-o yours ago and
thou m). t'hulu and l organind a “Glad
(‘lub” :zrlll \\t' do many kind dc-wds. [all
still pi'm-‘idwllt.

\\islltu:;’ you a happy and lll‘oslwr‘llus
Now liar, I. out, your lining lllt'tft}.-"“
l\|urivl l“l'<*_\', ('ulmlonia, Michigan.

,

lllu‘.‘ l'ut-ll- .\'wl:~ I will toll about out
tom- :olo our—halt yl-ars on a homestead
lu \\'_~.<oulu:1‘. It was so dit't'wi'l-nt from
\Xllil'n- no did liw- that wo vuloyl-d it, so
paw-h. 'l’lll- tll'Ht yvzli‘ wo moywl llli‘l't‘, in
llu .zliog' and on tho fourth of July
cowboys hurl a round—up nvar a lake. 2.
llltli' way from our house. ’l‘horu were
::_IIH-l vows and valves, several cowboy}:
and about, 20 saddle ponies. That day
they brandth all tho valvosi. \Vo thought,
that was quite. a sight. We use to so.
tho rant-lions hauling wool to town and

they would (lrlyc from four to ten horses
on two wagons of wool and there would
be from 4 to 5 of tin-so, freighters in a.
bunch. They all carried water-bags and
would stop at, our place and fill them.
There were lots of coyotes there. Also
have Sl't'll droves of 30 to 40 antelopes.‘
We have gone to our hay stacks at night;
and SOL'H as high as three dozen jack
rabbits run from it at one time. There
was also lots of sage hens tln-rc which
are yt-ry much like prairie chicken. They
taste like sage as that is what they live
on. I will close hoping this letter Will
lntorvst some one who has DOVE? lltftin 
mo, \Vtgst.—Roy May, lockl‘ord, Nit-111g”.
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1—A cabbage with open curled leaves
4—A beast of burden
6—A red vegetable
9—Every shcool has one
1—A growth on one’s head
a—A garden green used. for salad:

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S—A prefix meaning ‘to
1—More fleshy
8—-—Senior

9—-cerry

1———-Monkey

2—Small rug

3—lelt
vS—A kind of snowshoe

6—Appropriate

l1—Before

S—Fluid used in writing

I1-——To extend or lengthen

lz—An Indian tent

.3—A girl's name

4——Abb. for name of a New England State
1—Abb. for Civil Engineer

lF—Upon

~9—A vegetable which forms heads

u4—A ronoun-mascullne
5—“? do of an apple

6—— oh

l8—Loud sound from a trumpet
i1—What the voter in the kettle does
-i5—A farm animal

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Farmer, and will be promptly shipped .by
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sizitvl . )

Crop Production and Soil Management.
—By Joseph F. Cox, B. S. A., Professor of
Farm Crops, Michigan Agricultural Col—
lege, and head of Farm Crops Suction,
Michigan Experiment Station. This book.
prepared by one of “Michigan‘s Own", is
the second volume in the VVili-y Farm
series. It contains 32 chapters and the
appendix, and takes up: major operations
of prolitaiblc crop production; choosing
crops adapted to prevailing conditions;
growing high—yielding varieties; Selecting
and testing aged; plowing and preparing
the spil; rotation of crops; maintaining
fertility of soil; planting"; controlling
weeds; controlling crop posts; harvcsting
and threshing small grains; harvesting,
storing and marketing hay; makim: en—
silagc. The first thirteen chapters are..-
known as part one and thi- chapters in
the second part take up the growing 0f
the different crops, as follows: Corn.

 

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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS—WORD PUZZLES

Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure.
. ' and they in turn to still others. A
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1
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16—A I

18—-A vegetable green

20—Entrance through a fence
dad to

24.—

atl—Before

zap—Female deer

2(i—Relating to aircraft

27—Abb. for liquid unit of measure
28—Note of the scale

BO—Part of the lee

BIS—Fruit of the oak
B6—Underneath

to—Part of the verb ‘to be'

I1—Exlsts
42—Near or by
Ila—Idle chatter

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1—A sheepfold
2——-Abb. for pound
B—Elongated fish (pl)

4———Low female voice
6—Ciose
6—11 to

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wheat, oats, rye, barl y, buckwheat, flax,
sorghums, potato, sug r beets, cabbage,
field beans, soybeans, clover, alfalfa
sweet clover, grasses for h; and pasture:
emergency and special pur so hay and
forage crops; and chapter 32 takes up
“Conducting school and community crop
exhibits and judging contests.” Knowing
l’rof. Cox as you all do it is quite un—
lll't‘QSS‘fll‘y for us to go into detail about
i‘élt'll chapter, liccuuso you are all aware
that when he starts anything he finishes
1t~cach chapter is quite complete, The
book is a profitable investment for any
farmer and should have a ‘place in every
form library. It contains 516 pages,
51,.1x8 in., is printed on high grade paper
in large type and well illustrated, bound
handsomely in cloth, and sells for $2.75.
The publishers are John Wiley & Son,
Inc. The Book Revicw will be pleased
to mail a. copy, post paid, to any address
upon receipt of the price.

  
 

 

Thanks for all the good things in your
paper. Very sincerely—L. A. Williams,
Montmorency County, Michigan.

 

 

Please send THE BUISNESS FARMER for
two years. Enclosed find one dollar. We
like your paper very much.———Mary A.
Phelps, Oakland County, Michigan.

 

That story in the paper I read a good
many years ago but it is good and will
be just as interesting as before. I have
taken THE BUSINESS FARMER a good
many years and would hate to miss a.
copy. If we had more of such papers it
would be better for the farmer.———E. L. N.,
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Before putting up any fence investigate
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The Walsh is a proven
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Buckles weaken and rear straps. Walsh lyfi-inch breeching strap,
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Ihe‘ibufie‘fi‘at'you leave in the skim-
milk wont buy the baby any shoes

The loss of only 25 cents’ worth of
butter-fat a day costs you $91.25 a
year—enough to keep the whole family
well shod, and then some. Thousands of
farmers have stopped the waste of much
more butter-fat than that by replacing
their cream-wasting separators with new,
clean-skimming Dc Levels.

Trade

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Did you ever think how little added milk
it would take to actually double your net

milk profit?

Competent authorities agree that on the
average, only 10% added yield would double

the net return from dairying.

See what a chance you have, then, to
realize real profits by giving more thought
to safe ways of increasing the milk flow.

Make Cows Thrive on Winter Feeds

The Kow -Kare way is safe, reliable and sure.
Row-Kare is not a stock food. It is a medicine-
tonic that invigorates the milk-making organs. It
enables the cow to assimilate the rough, dry winter
feeds with the same ease and milk-making effect as
these same organs, unassisted can handle green

pasturage in summer.

Kow -Kare is scientifically designed to act di-
rectly on the digestive and genital organs.
only stimulates, but builds natural, permanent vigor
into the organs that control the milk yield. A table-
spoonful twice a day, one week out of each month is
the usual feeding of Kow -Kare. Once tried, you are
sure to become a regular user of this great invigorator.

,Feed dealers, general stores and druggists
sell Kovaare — in $1.25 and 65c sizes.
Order direct if your dealer is not supplied.

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Losing Their Calves

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 ' ' ' questions asked during the past thirty years
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GUERNSEYS
MAY #4 GUERNSEYS — ROSE

STATE AND FEDERAL ACCREDITED

Bull calves out of Dams up to 877 pounds fat.
Bired by Bulls whose Dams have up to

nude fut. The homes of bulls; Shuttlewwk May

038 Sequel, Jumbo of lirnirbiink unilrliolbecks
Golden Knight of Nordluml. From Dams pro-
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50 L B RROWS or G ORGE J. HICKS,

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H E RE F0 RDS

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. d 880 lbs. 68 Wt. around 750 lbs.

» 9(2)   640 lbs. 88 Wt. around 550 lbs.

4 Angus 500 lbs. 56 Wt. around 475 lbs.

Dee reds, dehorned, good stocker order. Real

finality hei'efords are usually market to. ion! when

nished. Also heifers same quality. “’1 sell your
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fully accrediimi by State and lfl-rlerni Government.

for prices ami desoription.
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SHORTHORNS

——6 ROAN YEARLING SHORT-
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(‘omo and see them.
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stock to this department. Queétibns cheerfully answered.)

WINTER CARE OF FLOCK
VERY IMPORTANT

GREAT deal of the success with

lambs in the spring depends on

the feed and care given the ewes
during the winter, is the observation
of Turner. Wright, extension live—
stock specialist at South Dakota
State College.

“If ewes are to develop good lambs
they must have good feed and plenty
of exercise,” he says. “This does
not mean that they should be fat.
The aim should be' to keep them in
good thrifty condition. prlenty of
roughage is available the ewes, as a.
rule will not need grain until about
six weeks before lambing. Alfalfa
hay is one of the best feeds for breed-
ing ewes. The clover hays are also
good and should be used when alfalfa
is not available or they can be mixed
with the alfalfa to very good ad-
vantage. The run of a stalk field in
the fall and early winter and_the
use of corn stover or sorghum and
similar fodders will help to lower
the cost of the winter keep, but as
these feeds supply only a small
amount of growth materials, the
ewes should not be forced to sub-
sist on them alone as weak lambs
will likely be the result. Used in
connection with alfalfa or one of the
clover hays, however, they make a
very good winter ration.

“Watch the flock closely”, he
warns, “and if any of the ewes begin
to get thin in flesh, start feeding
those ewes a small amount of grain
each day. All the ewes in the flock
ought to be put on light grain feed
about six weeks before lambing.
about a half pound a day of a mix-
ture of about two—thirds oats and one-
third corn or barley for each ewe is
very good for the grain ration. If
one is fortunate enough to have a
good wheat or rye pasture available,
the ewes should have access to it at
all times when weather conditions
will permit. No other winter feed
gives quite such good results.

“A supply of. good water at all
times is an important consideration.
If the water can be heated in very
cold weather just enough to remove
the chill, it will be better for the
ewes.”

“Many sheepmen make the mis-
take of housing their flock too closely
in tight barns during the winter. A
good, dry place is all that is needed”,
W'I'ight declares. It is very import-
ant to keep sheep from getting wet
in the winter. A mature sheep does
not need much protection from the
cold as its fleece will keep it warm
enough. If this shed, or the yard
surrounding it, opens into a large
pasture, the run on the pasture every
day will add to the health and thrift
of the flock.

TREATING MILK FEVER
LLK fever occurs usually short—
ly after calving. High-produc-
ing cows, especially those in
good flesh, are most frequently af—

fected. The symptoms are an un—
easiness and restlessness, which
may develop into excitement. The
cow may move wildly about; her
limbs become weak, resulting in a
staggering gait. She soon falls

down with her head turned toward
the flank, and becomes unconscious.

The method of treatment is very
simple, and if employed in time is
usually successful. Air is pumped
through the milk ducts of the teats
until the udder is distended. A tape
is then tied about the teat to pre-
vent the escape of air. A single in-
flation is often sufficient, but if the
air escapes before the animal recov-
ers, the udder should be reinfiated.
Recovery usually takes place with—-
in a few hours after the treatment
is applied.

Inflation can best be accomplish-
ed by using a milk—fever outfit,
which can be purchased from any
dealer in veterinary supplies. It
consists of a metal milk tube, which
is connected to an air pump by
means of rubber tubing. Between
the air pump and the milk tube is a.
chamber containing absorbent cot-
ton for filtering the air before- it
enters the udder. Before using the
apparatus, the milk tube and rub-’
ber tube should be disinfected by

being boiled or by being dipped into
a strong solhtion of carbolic acid or
coal-tar disinfectant, and the udder
washed with soap and water. ,A
towel may be "laid below the udder
to aid in preventing infection dur—
ing the process of inflation.

As a precaution against occurenee
of the disease, part of the milk may

i be allowed to remain in the udder

during the first two or three- days
after freshening. The cow may be
milked as often as usual, but only
enough of the milk should be re-
moved to prevent congestion.

RATION FOR DAIRY ODWS

How should I feed milch cows?
I have alfalfa hay. corn shocks or
fodder, beans, potatoes, ruta-bagas
and corn on ear. Will that make a
good ration or do I have to buy Some
extra? Please state how much to
feed of each kind.—A. F., Scottville
Michigan. '

I WOULD suggest the following
rations for your dairy cows.
First, feed 1 pound alfalfa bay

to about 100 pounds of live weight
for his cows and what corn stover
they will clean up, and up to 40
pounds of ruta-bagas daily or up to
4Q pounds of ruta-bagas and potatoes
mixed. The roots and potatoes
should be cut, either with a. knife or
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a community bowl .of powder and
mopped my face with it as one would
shine a shoe. Then with the other
end of the fishy-feeling towel he
wiped the clippings, powder and dust
off my clothes and the job was done.
He charged me Sixpence, which is
about eleven cents—but I would ra-
ther sit in a comfortable chair and be
wrapped‘up in a clean white apro,
even if it would cost me twelve cents.

But we had other worlds than Eng-
land yet to conquer and two weeks of
our short summer abroad were al-
ready gone. We had the former
kaiser’s ambition to be in Paris be—
fore September, but it seemed Eng‘
land was causing a delay of our iii—
vasion of France quite as effectively
as she (lid that of the Germans in
1914.

Merrie England was too interest—
ing to leave—too good to be through
with it so soon. All four of my
grandparents had been “born in the
British Isles, three of them right, in
England and the fourth—or first as
he would insist on being called—in
Erin's island just west. I had been
brought up on the glories and great-
ness of England, and here they were
spread out before me. Why go to
some other country and leave all this
unseen. '-

It was with genuine regret then.
that we turned our oyster—colored jit—
ney toward London. We would sell
the faithful old Grey Goose that had
carried us over most of the southern
shires of England, and then we would
take passage across the channel to
Holland, the. land of tulips, wooden
shoes, and windmills.

All of rural England had been a
continuous panorama of artistic love-
liness, and the last two days from
Leicester, where we visited the Royal
Livestock show, were as attractive
as any.

We arrived in London on the
Fourth of July, 148 years after the
Declaration of Independence had ex-
plained that it had become necessary
to dissolve the political bands which
united us with this same mother
country. All of my ancestors were
good British subjects in 1776 and no
doubt would have disowncd any re—
renegade rebel offspring of theirs
who might in future years come over
as‘u “damnyank” to visit.

On this particular Fourth of July,
English peddlei‘s were selling, at ex—
travagant prices, little United Suites
flags for American tourists to wear
in their button-holes. It was luxu—
tion, but with u very noticeable rop—
i'esontntion of Americans. Two years
before, in Edmonton, Alberta, I had
had to shop nronnd town for u Ion}.r
time before I would find a United
States flag for tho bowspi'it of the
car. They seemed to know more
about our Glorious Fourth in Eng-
land than in Canada.

“'0. herded our Nomi-colored jit—
ney, the old Grey Goose back through
the streets of London to the some
(lonlvl‘ from whom we had purchased
it; (no \V'l_‘l‘l{H before, nnd :il‘tei' con—
siilei'nblo haggling we sold it, at a
loss 01’ $18 each. .lilyoi‘y member of
the jolly ('i‘ow agreed that it Will; the
best: $18 [but any of us 11nd spent
(llll‘illfi‘ the (*lllll‘él summer, not oyvn
(«reprint-1' lho money we paid for tho
bolllwl water We had to buy in
li‘rzinvo inwlond ol' llll‘ll' inm'iinblo

l‘lnglzind or continonlnl l‘lurop-‘x again
I Will certainly drive my own cur, for
it .15 the most. satisfactory us Well as

necessary to cross the English chun—
nel or the straits of Dover or the
North (Sea. to get to the continent,
and, after crossing any one of them,
one readily understands why it is
that England remained unconquered
for so long. My theory is that the
would—be invaders became so sick in
crossing the channel that they were
not able to fight. It took the hardy,
strong-stomached Vikings finally to
turn the trick, those intrepid sailors
from the Northland.

Airplane travel is a popular meth-
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are regular lines of travel definitely
established between all of the prin—
ciple cities in Europe, and the fare
is just about the same as first class
on the railroads. But our informa-

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Ashland, Ohio.
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Letter from Ohio’s Boy Champion
Baby Beef Feeder for 1924

DR. HESS & CLARK, Inc.

In the fall of 1922 I decided to enter the boys’
and girls’ Baby Beef Club.

These beeves were put out by the Montgomery
County Fair board, among boys and girls of

These beeves were fed by boys and girls and
exhibited at Montgomery County Fair.
with defeat, as I obtained ninth prize.

Last fall I decided to raise another one.
November 17th I received my Aberdeen Angus
beef to be raised for the Fair of 1924.

The first month he gained only five pounds and
At the beginning of second
month I began to feed Dr. Hess Stock Tonic, along
with his daily rations.
month he gained sixty-five pounds.

As I saw it was a great help in making him
gain more, I continued feeding the Stock Tonic.

On 181; of September I exhibited my Baby Beef
at Montgomery County Fair.
the thirty—one beeves were judged—I obtained
first prize in county and first in State of Ohio.

It made a gain of 525 lbs. in 290 days.

The prizes I received were trip to Columbus,
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Yours very truly,
LORNE B. GILBERT,

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At the end of second

Dec. 9, 1924.

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airplane crossing the choppy channel
as on a boat. We had our tickets
routed on the low plane that all“our
ancestors have followed and left the
air alone. ,,

Next to getting shaved, buying
hailroad tickets is the next most dif-
ficult task connected with foreign tra—
vel. We overcame that to a certain
extent by having a representative
from the American consulate buy our
tickets clear through Holland, a. cor—
ner of Germany, and into Copen-
hagen, Denmark. We made one ser-
ious mistake in neglecting to specify
second class. 'I appeared at the con-
sulate for my ticket and was handed
a multicolored booklet of perforated
Sheets of foreign language, each one
entitling me to a passage on atrain
or a boat in somebody’s country, and
the complete volume cost me about
$45.00. I could read only the first
few pages of it myself, for except the
English part the ticket was written
in Dutch, German and Danish. Be-
fore I,finally surrendered the back
cover page I had traveled on innum-
erable trains in four different coun-
tries, besides four ships on various
bodies of water.

Our route from Folkestone, Eng-
land, to Flushing, Holland, lay across
the north end of the English Channel
and a corner of the North Sea. Fore-
most among the many things that I
am not is a sailor; I am not a sailor
in spite of my service in the navy
during the war. I had found out
long before that wearing the uniform
of a gob does not make one safe from
the terrors of mal-de-mer.

We were on a Dutch ship and here
We experienced our first sensation of
being really in a foreign speaking
territory. Most of the officers with
whom we had to deal in connection
with our tickets, baggage, passports,
checks, dinner, and the innumerable
details which one can think of to
bother about could speak English,
and quite well too, but all the signs
Dutch, principally “Verboten”, and
all of the bits of conversation that

 

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peered; and we were cut in the'lmidst

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the edge of the North‘Sea, ina pee—
wee ship that was only a canoe com-
pared to the Leviathan on which we
crossed the Atlantic two weeks be-
fore. 'Be1gium appeared before us
and the scene of the famous naval
battle in the recent war which re—
sulted in the bottling up of the Ger—
man navy lay before us. It was like
sitting in a movie and seeing areal
of foreign scenes playing on the sil-
ver screen. The silent beauty of the

picturesque foreign shores, a. snateh'

of conversation now and then which
served as a title,for the picture which
lay before us, the imagination of it
all—it made a delightful day.

One of the proudest moments of
my life registered when I stepped of
the boat in Flushing, or Vlissing as
it is called in Holland, and realized
that I had crossed “the English Chan-
nel, and had even sailed on the North
'Sea; and had not once felt the slight-
est touch of sea sickness! I took all
the credit to myself in spite of the
fact that everyone was remarking
that we had had a. remarkably
smooth trip.

So this was Holland! Some women
and children in quaint native cos-
tumes were loitering about the pier,
a temptation to ask them if they ob~
jected to being photographed. As a.
matter fo fact, they were quite as
much of an oddity to the Hollanders
themselves as they were to us, for
they had dressed as they did for the
sole purpose of allowing themselves
to be photographed for a small fee.
The knowledge of this fact saved
many rolls of film for the members
of our party.

The pictures that I did take of the
Hollanders were taken in real action:
their curious children with their
wooden shoes, their innumerable dog
drawn vehicles and their countless
windmills.

Our journey through Holland will
be described in a later issue. '

M. A. C. Poultry Judges Take First at Chicago

By C. G. CARD
Coach of the Michigan Team

HE Poultry Judging Team from
M. A. C. carried off first honors
at the mid—west Poultry Show,

held December 9th—14th, at the Col-
iseum, Chicago, in competition with
teams from nine mid-west states. The
Team, composed of Clyde Norton of
East Lansing, Frank Williamson,
Pontiac, Ralph Meek of Montrose,
and Richard Weine of Alpena, as al—
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Assistant Professor of Poultry Hus-
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Team standings were as follows,
with a. possible 4,000 points. Mich—
igan Ag. College, 3,336.7; Ames,
Iowa, 3,276.7; Purdue, 3,260; Illi-
nois, 3,205; Missouri, 3,199; Okla—
homa, 3,040; Kansas, 3,022.5; Ne-
braska, 2,887; Ohio, 2,871.

The contest consisted of three
parts: production and exhibition
classes for judging, and a written ex-
amination of 25 questions. The Pro—
Island Red, White Leghorn, White
Wyandotte, White Rock, and Barred
Rock hens, with trap nest records.
These birds were furnished by sev-
eral of the colleges. In this part of
the contest, with a 1,500 point score
possible, M. A. C. placed first with a

score of 1,410; Purdue second,
1,320; Missouri third, 1,290; Illinois
fourth, 1,230; Iowa fifth, 1,230.

The exhibition class was made up
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Red pullets, White Wyandotte pul—
lets, Barred Rock pullets, and White
Leghorn cock birds. These birds
Were picked from the ShOW room
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warm competition, as was indicated
by score. A 1,500 score was possible,
and Ames, Iowa placed first with
1,060, M. A. C. second with 1,045,
Oklahoma third, with 1,030, and Illi-
nois fourth, with 1,020.

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won by the Ames team, with a 986
score out of a possible 1,000. High
honors in this section of the contest
went to Rosenbaum of the Purdue
Team, who wrote a perfect paper.

Individual honors went to J. D.
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second place to L. Stark of Missouri,
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T is not too early to begin to think
I of the coming hatching season

and with this in mind we must
pay particular attention to the flock
in connection with the birds that are
to be used for breeders during the
latewinter and spring. Those who
have been practicing systematic cull-
ing during the past summer and fall
should by this time be pretty Well
acquainted with the birds that can
be best adapted to this purpose.
Where hens are to be used for breed-
ing it is very desirable to separate
them from the pullet laying flock
and handle them a little differently.
as to feed, particularly where an at—
tempt is being made to stimulate and
force egg production. It is 3. dan-
gerous thing from the hatching egg
standpoint to crowd egg production
too strongly, as there is danger of
sacrificing fertility and hatchability.

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essential factors in getting replace—
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and, if in addition we have any mar—
ket for hatching eggs, success is
largely dependent on selling eggs
that will hatch and carry the largest
amount of virility that can be crowd-
ed into the shell. Eggs that will
hatch and chicks that are disease
free and will grow strong and rapid—
ly are the main thing and we can not
afford to overlook any details in the
way of selection now that will make
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type, good producers and late moult-
ers, are the kind to look for. Vigor
and strength is indicated by a broad
head and chest, prominent bright
eyes, short and curved beak and
bright comb, these will be the most
active birds in the flock. The good
layers will show a soft, moist vent,
soft, pliable skin, thin, flexible lay
bones separated at least three fingers
and.with four fingers between lay
bones and keel. If pullets are to be
used at all only those that are well
matured and that have been laying
heavily during the winter should be
used.

On those farms where colony or
brooder houses are available they can
be used very advantageously for
breeding pens. One male should be
used for from ten to thirty females,
depending on the breed used, the
lighter breeds requiring less males
than the Asiatics. Better fertility
will be obtained by using two males
with a small flock and using them
on alternate days. Where possible
only males from known high pro-
ducers should be used, but where
actual record males can not be ob-
tained, choose one from a good pro-
ducing flock that shows lots of snap-
piness and vitality. Well matured
cockerels are preferable to use with
hens.

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range, which is another reason they
should be separated from the birds
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Wheat Prices Continue to Climb Skyward

Heavy Receipts of Live Stock Weakens Market
By W. W. FOOTE. Market Editor.

ARMERS as a rule are using their
F spare money for improving their
farms instead of buying addi—
tional acres, as they have acquired
the habit of depending on their own
labor, as farm hands ask higher
wages than they feel they can afford
to pay. One such farmer remarked
the other day that he had tried this
plan for quite a number of years, and
the scheme worked out all right. The
great improvements in farm machin—
ery have materially helped to lower
the cost of production by decreasmg
the work, and manure piles judici—
ously used have greatly helped to
make each acre produce more than
formerly. Many Michigan farmers
are more or less identified with the
sheep industry, and the highly for-
tunate owners of fair sized flocks of
ewes are making tine. profits. the
returns being much larger than for
either cattle or hogs. Only a short
time ago prime fat handy-weight
lambs were bringing $19.25 per 100
pounds in the Chicago market, an ex—
ceptional price, it, is true, but .the
top now is still extremely high.
Wool is once more a. big item in the
profits derived from sheep, and it is
good demand at high prices. The
hog industry is carried on too exten—
sively to work out as well as sheep,
and the government statistics relat—
ing to the numbers bred are very apt
to be inconflict with the numbers
marketed, resulting in many slumps
in market, values. At the same time
present market values for swine are
far above those paid at correspond—
lll'; dates in the last four years. and
there seems to be no exccssiyc pro—
(lttction of lard or meats. (‘attlcmcn
are preparing plenty of stock for tho
markct. and a beef famine looks a
lone way off. The Worst feat tire of
the cattle feeding industry is the ex—
cessiyc marketing of ordinary short—
t'cd cattle.- to avoid feeding high~
priced corn. Long t't-cdiug has ceased
to be generally profitable. however,
the popular taste haying turned to
light cuts of bet-1‘. and tat ycwrliuus
are returning much the best profits.
lA‘inc profits are paying whcat farm—
crs well, the large crop being in good
demand, but in many parts of the
corn belt states there is a scarcity of
corn. with a large percentage of
damaged grain.
I“(‘(l(‘l'zll Farm Loans

It is announced by the Federal
Farm Loan Board that an offering of
$30,000,000 in farm loan bonds has
been made. the smallest issue made
by the twelve land banks in five
years, and because of this, in the
opinion of officials, reflecting the gen—
erally improved condition of the
great agricultural industries. These
bonds are dated January 1, and will
bear interest at the rate of 41/2 per
cent. They will mature in thirty
years, but are callable in 1935.

High Prices for \that

Customary reactions in prices for
wheat, are to be expected, but there
is no apparent probability of values
going permanently to a lower level,
as the shortage of wheat and rye in
European countries points to a con—
tinued good export movement of both
grains from the United States. It is
certainly highly fortunate for the
farmers who are in the habit of
l‘ftiSlD-E-fl' wheat. that the large outlet is
afforded at. this time, and in its late
full report, of wheat. investigations,
the deparmcnt of agriculture says
wheat prices are not too high and
have merely been maintaining a par—
ity with all commodity prices and
the index number of wheat prices is
still far below that of wages. The
department says exports from July
to January were 170,000,000 bushels
against 81,000,000 bushels last year.
This suggests larger exports than
have been reported heretofore.

An improved milling demand for
wheat in nearly all centers is creat—
ing a better feeling, and there is a
disposition to buy on all breaks. Ac—
cording to reliable reports, thefarm
reserves of wheat in this country on

thc first of January were only 17 per
cent as compared with 24 per cent
in a normal year Total wheat
stocks in all positions in the United
States are estimated at 397,000,000
bushels comparing with 420,000,000
bushels a year ago. Corn reserves in
all positions are estimated at 1,396,-
000.000 bushels, comparing with
1,820,000,000 bushels a year ago.
Corn reserves are. estimated at 55
per cent, against a normal of 60 per
cent, while oats on farms are estim-
ated at 46 per cent, or 2 per cent
less than normal. There has been
active marketing of the several
grains, and the visible supplies are
much larger than a year ago. Recent
sales for May delivery were made on
the Chicago Board of Trade of wheat
at $1.79. comparing with $1.09 a
year ago: corn at $1.55, comparing
with 4 cents last year; oats at 63
cents, comparing with 46 cents last
year; and rye at $1.56, comparing
with 75 cents a year ago.
The “'heat Advance

Complaints against high prices of
wheat are not justified, the depart-
ment of agriculture declares in a
statement. The grower has received
benefit from high prices and the con—
sumer is not being unduly injured, it
is declared.

ln explaining why prices in the
United States are above the world
level the department states that in
this country alone of all the produc—
ing and consuming countries was
there a, good crop. while shortages
have prevailed generally in the rest
of the world.

“The grain futures administration
of this dcpartmcnt, has competent in—
Vcstigators daily on the floors of the
important grain exchanges," says the
statcmcnt. “No information gives
ground for alarm that the essential
bread grain of the United States is
being made the subject of vicious
and harmful speculation.”

Increase in “'orld's l“l:lXS(‘(‘(l (‘rop

The Department of Agriculture
says the world‘s crop of tlaxsecd for
1924 is now being estimated at 1:12:
870.000 bushels. which is an increase
of about, 7 per cent, over the 15524
production. A 70 per cent, increase
in the United States crop is the prin—
cipal factor in the increased produc-
tion of llaxseed. The latest oilicial
estimate places the, 1021 flaxseed
crop of the United States at approxi—

mately 30,122,000 bushels as com~
pared with 17,060.000 bushels last
year. This increase more than off—
sets increase in Argentine and India.
Doings in (‘at‘tlc

Enormous numbers of cattle have
been marketed in Chicago recently.
but the proportion of choice fat
bceves was smaller than usual. and
these suffered a much smaller de-
cline in prices than the many ordin—
ary to medium grades which made
up most. of the offerings. The bulk
of the beef steers sold at $8.25 to
$10.60 with sales down to $6.50 to
$7.50 for the commoner steers of
light weight. and no good steers going
lower than $9. The better class of
heavy steers found buyers at $10.75
to $11.85, and the best yearlings sold
for $11.50 to $13.50, with little
thin steers fetching $4 to $6.40.
Butcher stock had a good outlet at
$3.25 to $10.25 for cows and heifers.
while canner and cutter cows went
at $2.25 to $3.25, bulls at $3.25 to
$6 and calves $6 to $12. Stockers
and feeders had a better demand at
an average advance of " about 25
cents. with sales at $4 to $7 and a
few prime feeders at $7.10 to $7.75.
Cattle were marketed more freely
than a year ago, but prices are higher
than then, at which time beef steers
were selling at $6.75 to $12.

Gluttcd Hog Market

Instead of the long waited for
diminished receipts of hogs, supplies
offered on the Chicago market have
been showing heavy gains in num-
bers, and it was impossible to avert
declines in prices, although the big
demand for choice hogs to ship to
eastern packing points helped to
check the downward movement. At
times there were good rallies in
prices for the better class of the
heavier hogs, and on the whole the
market was in better shape than
might have been expected with such
generous offerings. As a rule, de—
clines were much the greatest in the
pigs and underweight hogs, which
were. much too numerous. There, is
a wide spread in prices, with prime
heavy butcher hogs selling highest
and about 80 cents above the best
light bacon hogs. Recent, (fhicago
receipts averaged 220 pounds being
five pounds less than a year ago,
when hogs were selling at $6.20 to
$7.25. Late sales were made. of
hogs at $9.85 to $10.85, with light
weights in shipping demand at ad—
vanced values.

High Prices for Lambs

Recent Chicago receipts of lambs
were unusually small in numbers,
and big advances took place in prices,
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Jan. 13 Jan.  ' Dec. 30 1 yr. ago

\VHEAT—

No. 2 Red $1.98 $1,93@1,94 $1.88 $1.13

No. 2 \Vhite L99 1.89 1.14 ’

No. 2 Mixed 1,98 1.93 @ 1.94 1 .88 1 .13
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to $18.75 per 100 pounds, while
feeder lambs sold at $16 to $17.
yearlings at $13 to $16.50; ewes at
$4.50 to $10.50; wethers at $9 to
$12.25 and bucks at $3.50 to $7.
\Vorld Sheep Production

According to the Department of
Agriculture, an analysis of the pro—
duction of sheep in various countries
indicates that the trend over a long
period of years is downward in most
countries. In all countries the num—
ber varies from year to year and
fluctuates with changes in prices and
other conditions that, effect the in-
dustry generally. The total sheep
population of the United States,
Australia, New Zealand, and the
United Kingdom in 1904 was 142,-
922,000 head. In 1914 it was 176,-
342,000 head, and in 1924 it. stood
at 157,355,000 head.

Large accumulations of wool, with
consequent decline in prices shortly
after the war, caused many countries
to reduce their flocks, particularly in
Australia, and Argentina. As the
war accumulations of wool were ab~
sorbed by the trade, prices gradually
rose, until to—day they are at records
heights.

A noted British authority on wool
estimates that the world consumption
of wool during 1924 would amount
to approximately 2,840,000,000 lbs
The world supply for 1924, accord
ing to estimates made by the United
States Department of Commerce and
the National Association of Wool
Manufacturers, amounted to only 2,—
660,000,000 pounds. The principal
producing countries, therefore, are
now concentrating on increased pro-
duction.

 

WHEAT
Steadily pounding the market the
bears caused it to weaken some and
prices declined during the past two
weeks but the general conditions
would not permit this for long and
the bulls soon had things their own
way again, with prices/working to-
ward the $2 mark. Millers have been
taking wheat in good large quantities
following the market when new price
levels were, made. Other demand re-
mains good. There is some bearish
news afloat but not enough to seri—
ously effect the price trend. Right
now it looks as though wheat will
reach  before another issue goes
to press.
CORN
Corn followed the trend of wheat
during the fortnight ending Satur—
day, January 10. and prices are
higher at all points. Toward the
close of last week reports came out
of the west that the price was too
high for feeders to pay, and reports
from Canada were of the same
nature. Trading has been slow.
OATS
Prices in the oat market at Detroit
show a decline compared with two

weeks ago. At present there seems
to be more sellers than buyers and
the market is easy. ,

RYE

A fair demand exists for rye and.

the price is working upward. This
grain is being used in place of wheat
to a certain extent in some of the
European countries and the prices
are expected to travel in the same
direction.
BEANS

Michigan bean growers will be in—
terested in an article on page four
of this issue. In this article, we have
presented the facts as thcy appcar at.
this time and you can draw your
own conclusions. Since we wrote
this article we. have received a letter
from one firm and they declare they
expect. to see the, price go above, $6
pcr cut, and may not stop until it
reaches $8. That seems too good to
be true. doesn’t it?

POTATOES

The taXes must be paid and the
potato market must suffer because, it
seems that everyone is selling their
surplus and the market is flooded.
Consumers are not buying so the
market is weak but prices are higher
than they were two weeks ago. In-

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Week of 'Janunry 18

IRS-T hall 01‘ this week will show

a general rise in temperature

but with a l'eVPl‘sH action during
last half. The moderation during
early part of week will In: quite de~
cided but not necessarily high for the
season.‘

Beginning about Monday or Tues—
day and running over the. middle
part of the week there will he a rain
or snow period followed by a couple
days of fair weather. There will be
a renewal of stormiuess about Friday
but the week will end with the sky
clearing upand temperatures falling
considerably.

Week of January 25

Following the severe cold period of
the beginning of this week it is not
expected that temperatures will again
go as low during this winter.

A rapid moderation of temperature
about middle of week may cause
thawing conditions, fog and more
snow flurries or probable local show-
ers. Following Friday of this week
there will be a more definite turn
towards clearing weather and colder
temperatures.

First Half of Year \Vet

We expect the spring season to be
late as a. result of the unusual
amount of wetness which will hinder
both plowing and planting. Stormi-
ness will be more pronounced, how-
ever, during April, May and June.

Sugar Beet Outlook Poor

For the year 1925 we cannot, see
such rosy prospects in Michigan “ »r
the sugar beet farmer. The e- !y
planted crop may show good progress
and high hopes during the summer
months but the failuseason will not
be favorable to most of the acreage
because we expect the sugar content
to he of a low average.

Poor Conditions for Eclipse

For the benefit of those who may
want to see the total eclipse of the
sun January 24th at sunrise, we may
state that the weather conditions at
that time are not the best in any
year and we do not think this year
will be any diiferent. A storm cen-
ter will be passing over the Great
Lakes region at the time and as a
result there will be more than the
average amount of cloudiness at the
time. .

In Michigan the sun will be cov-
ered the most a couple minutes past
eight in the morning but will only
appear totally eclipsed in the more
northern counties of the lower penin-
sulu. There will not be an eclipse in
the United States favorable for obser-
vation until 1345.

We’ve hMade
Lukeview Chicks
Equal to Any

Foundation 3 t o c k
with highest known
egg records, plus
careful breeding have
done it. Our White
Leghorns came direct
from Tapered—pedi-
greed. Our Barred Rocks direct from
Parks. Rhode Island Reds from pioneers
with this breed.

You’ll be surprised at the reasonable
prices for such high grade stock.

Write for our catalog and price list.

Lakeview Poultry Farm

R. R. X. Box 3.

CHIX OF QUALITY

llntclicd In Wishbone Incubators. I

  
  

  

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I 575 per 500
~ Dc. KOSTER’S HA'I‘CHERY,
Iceland. Blic||.. Box 300.

Baby Chicks

Are you going lip put BIAFONIII CTIICKS under

yrmr broodch this liaison. or "Just’chicks". In.

vestigate IACOMB quality. Michigan hatched,

from guaranteed pure stock. Send for catalog.

Early order discount. 100% live delivery.

MACOMB POULTRY FARM a. HATGHERV.
Box 113, Halfway, Michigan.

 

 

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MENTION THE MIDNIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

 

 

days yet. or uni'illho over—supply

is clrared away. After that we hope

higher prices- will prevail, but we can-

not predict the trend of the market.
u'om.

Prices are firm a! l’losIon although
the market is quiet and demand
light. Dealers predict higher rows
within a few weeks and growers are
rnfhor optimistic.

HAY

llr‘wcipts were somewhat heavier
last week. The demand is good for
the best grades of timothy Willi only
a moderate demand for the lower
sorts. Alfalfa is firm, with receipts
light and demand good for the dairy
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TH E LIVESTOCK MARKETS

lilG'l‘HOI'l‘, January 13.——Receipts of
cattle Monday were about the same as at
the market's opening last week, but the
trade was slower and on everything but
canuers, cutters and bulls was fully 25
cents lower. The latter held steady and
were in fairly active demand. Milkers
and springers that were good were more
active but few sound in every way here.
Good to choice light yearlings, $9.50@
10; best heavy steers, $7.50@8.50; best
handyweight butcher steers, $7@7.75;
miked steers and heifers, $5.25@6.50;
handy light butchers, $4.25@5.75; light
butchers, $3.75@4.25; best cows, $4.50@
5.50; butcher cows, $3.50@<.25; cutters,
$,3@3.50; canners, $2.25Q1‘2.75; choice
light bulls, $«i.25@6; bologna bulls, heavy,
$5035.75; stock bulls, $3.25@4.50; feeders,
4.75@6; stockers, $4.25@5.75: mllkers
and springers, $45@70.

The veal calf trade was more active, and
50 cents higher than at the close last
week, selling as follows: Best grades,
$146014.50; fair to good, $12@l3.50;
culls and common, $7@9.50; heavy, $4@
6.50.

Sheep—Receipts of lambs were more
liberal but the quality was considered only
fair and the market lowsr. Slicep were
about 25 cents lower. Prices, Best lambs,
$17.50@17.75; fair lambs, $14@17; light
to common lambs, $8.75@13.50; buck
lambs, $7.75@16; fair to good slim-p, $8
«471); culls and common, $2.50Qp4.

Hogs—Hogs were 40 cents higher on
mixed, 35 cents on good yorkers, steady
to 25 cents higher on light yorkers and
steady to 25 cents on roughs than at the
close last week. Closing prices: Mixed
hogs, $10.75; good yorkers, $10.50; light
:orkres, $8.75@9; roughs, $9.25; Stag-s,
6.

CHICAGO—C a. t t l e——Recoipts, 32,000,
beef steers and yearlings, mostly medium
to good kind, 25 to 40c lower; most all
weights showing little change: large pro-
portion of run still in first hands at late
hour: four loads choice to prime steers
averaging around 1,300 pounds, $11.75;
few loads 1,300 to 1,540—pound steers.
810.50@ll; best yearlings, $10.50; bulk
ted offerings, 87.75@10; she stock steady
to weak; spots lower; bulk butcher cows,
$3.86@6; heifers mostly $5@7; canners
and cutters, $2.50@3.15; bulls, 10 to 15c
lower; few bolognas selling above $4.50;
calves closing fully steady; packers pay-
ing $10@11 for desirable vealers; stockers
and feeders 15 to 250 lower; largely $5@
6.50.

Ilogs~—Receipts, 70,000; closing with big
packers still out of market mostly 15 to
250 higher; big interests bidding steady;
top, $11.05; desirablc 240 to BOO-pound
butchers, mostly $10.75@.ll; 160 to 230-
pound kind, $10@10.75; 140 to ISO-pound
average. mostly $9@10; bulk pigs, $7@
8.25; niosl packing sows, $10.20@10.45;
estimated holdover, 11,000.

Slu-cp~~—Receipts, 25,000; slow; fat
lambs uneven, steady to 25c lower; maxi—
mum dcclirre of lower grades bulk. $17.50
((148.25; top, $18.50; olippcd lambs, $15;
fat sheep steady to 25c higher; bulk,
$0.50@10.25; top, $10.40 for choice I40—
Dound weights; feeding lambs, 15 to 25c
higher; bulk, $16.50@l7; top. $17.25.

EAST BUFFALO—Cattlc—-—Receipts, 80
cars; market steady; shipping steers. dry—
[etL $1061)10.50;. good choicc shipping
Stvcrfi. $9®9 50; heavy, fut. medium
quality. 57.50608; light native yenrlings.

fancy quality, $11.5(Wu12; mcdium to
good. $l0frl1‘10.50; best bulcliers’ steers.

§7fil)3;; best fat heifers, $7((Il7.50; state
llcifcrs. $5016; light Michigan butchering
heifers $6.500l’6.752 bcsf fut cows, $5fi.
5.50: medium butchering cows, $4604.50;

cutters, 52.500113; reactor cows, $18561)
2253; lwsl {at bulls, Midi/0.50; light fat

bulls. $550016; heavy bologna bulls, $4.50
405: common biIlls, $3.50@4; Stock heif-
nrs. $250611"! ; fceders. good, $550666;
stock stccrs, $150605 ; milkers and spring—
ers. good, $75/dl100; milkers and spring—
ers, common and medium, $356345.

Hogs—«Receipts, I 00 cars ; market
strong: heavy. $11.15@11.25; a few extra,
$11.50; mixed and yorkers, 5103756911;
lights, $9@9.50; pigs, $7@8.

Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 50 cars;
market lower: top lambs, $18; yearlings,
$14@15.50 ; wethers, $11@11.50 ;, eWes, 310
@1050. Calves—Receipts, 1,500; top, $15.

 

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good paper and am always glad to re-
commend it.—~—H. Began-om, Kent County,-
Michigan.

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A DEPARTDIENT OF CLASSIFm ADMTISING
RATE PER \VOBD—One Issue 8c, Two Ime- 15c. Four Issues 25c.

. of ii res, initial or abbreviation count as one word.
glglfipln advglrlce from all advertisers in this departznent, no exceptions and no

Forms dose Monday noon proceeding date of issue.
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' DETROIT REAL ESTATE—_—
IxII-Fég: slag: you how to make money in Detroit
real estate if you have a few hundrqu tonngcs
My proposition will bear the closest investigation.
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l<‘l.\E PURE-BRED GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS

from excellent stock for sale. Priced right for
qulle‘Mm .. Write for particulars. Mrs. Robert
lumenrt. Horris'ville. Mich.

REGISTERED BOURBON RED T U R K E Y S .
Lowe rigorous, Axtell Strain, one and two year
Mary Beacon. Marlette, Michigan.

GIANT BRONZE TURKEY'S. GOLD BANK

strain. Chmce .beavy birds. large bone, well
marked. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mrs. Perry
Stebhius, Sunrise, Mich.

wrurn HOLLAND runners. moon NICE
birds (pure—bred. Toms $12.50 and $15.00;
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,1 m_ns, on car hue. Rqfirfinms- W“ 9 Order direct from this ad. Purchase price he-
lnw/IEEL (‘Aliniee Taylor, care .of Michigan “1159111838 turned 11' act‘satisfled Alden \Vliitcomb, By—
l‘nrmcr, Mt. (Tlemcns, Michigan. ron Center, Michigan.

FOR SALFP—THOROITGHBRED TOULOUSE
SEED geese and gander $4.00 each. Mammoth Bronze
‘ Turkeys'twp years old. I). L. McAvoy, Lainu-
BEST FOR MICHIGAN. ROBUST BEANS, burg, Michigan, R4.

Wlilverlnc Oats. Address A. B. Cook, ()wosso.

Michignu.

‘ 'E SEED CORN-—1090 lill. loo—DAY
(“I‘dilxgrovctl Yellow Dent: 000 bu. 'Luncustcr
t‘nuutv Sure Crop: 300 bu. Early White tap,
nearlynll 1023 Crop, (111)11in L'el‘llllllittlon. “rite
for price. sample and circular. Order early ,to
sure moncy. Shull Farm, Box .50, Tuliytonu,

tucks (‘o., I’ll.
-‘ ‘AIJ‘PWBI'RIIAXK lll‘liLESS OATS 190R
“Kiwis hv grower. Full particulars and sample
free. Address II. M. \Vcldcr. l“i‘llll\'lllt‘_

 

 

 

 

LIVE STOCK
F SALE: ()Nl‘l DEC-K CHOICE “ELAINE
[(l-lfves. vcnrlings and ions, Dorest brcd. ‘ Two
decks Dclninc cwcs, twos to ‘full mouths, Shrop.
bred, begin lumbing May first. l‘runk Dodge,
Peoria, Ohio.

 

 

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.‘ALE 10 WHITE ENGLISH LEGIIORN
Focgckserels. llave a cdigrcc 4 AAAA, bred for
eggs. $3.00 each. a. W. McEmbcr, I’entwatcr,

Michigan, R1.

D'S “'ONDER ANCONAS. S. '0. (‘00K—
wgfik $3.50 and $5.00. _liest laying strain.
H. Cecil Smith, R2. Rapid City, Michigan.

BARBED ROCKS—BIG HUSKY COCKERELS,
standard color. bred from great layers. Write
to—dny. W. C. Con‘man, Benton Harbor, Mich, R3,

WHITE WYANDOTTES-—_BOOKI_NG ADVANCE
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flock Sitock all sold. F) Berlin. Allen. Mich,

   

 

 

F O R S A L l‘l—TIIOROUGHBREI) ’I‘OULOUSE
gecse grinders. Baldwin & Nowliu, B4, Laina<
burg, Michigan. ;

 

 

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IIOMESI'UN TOBACCO: CHEWING FIVE

pounds, $1.50: ten. $2.50. smoking the pound;
$1.25; tcn $2.00; pipe free, pay when received,
tobacco guaranteed. 'I‘olmcco Growers Exchange
l’nducah, Kentucky.

 

'l‘olLU‘l‘lL—r 'l‘llllEE YEAR OLD LEAF. 8 LBS.
r ('hl'VJlllg $2.00; 8 smoking $2.20; 8 second
Sinnkllll: $1.40. l‘uy for tobacco and postage

when rim-cited. ()‘(l llomcspun (‘11.. Ilnu‘esville, Ky.

 

HOMIGSI'I'N ’l‘OBAl‘(‘O~~-C H E WIN G FIVE

pounds $1.50 teu $23.50. Smoking five pounds
1.113. trn_ $13.00. l'ipe free. l’u when re«
ccivcd. Satisfaction gi'inrzlntcvd. l‘nited Tobacco
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gold. Mail to, Iloke Smeltmg .5; RA ring 00..
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dollan for nickle of 1913 With Liberty head
(no Buffalo). We pay cash premiums for “I
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