Ari—‘ifi'dépendént
Farm Magazine Owned and
Edited in Michlgan

 

 

 

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1925 TERMS‘ TWO YEARS *1

600 PER YEAR—5 YRS. $2

 

 

 

 

‘54

 :1 L .

» my»  my

 

g,
i.
.9

 


 

 

 

 

POTATO SHOW DURING
FARMERS' WEEK

HE Michigan Potato Producers’
Ass’n is planning a big time at
the M. A. C. during Farmers’

Week this year. The meeting is
scheduled for Tuesday, February 3rd,
from 9 A. M. till noon in the main
Agricultural building. The tentative
program is as follows:

"Essentials in Certified Seed Produc>
don."—Prof. A. G. Tolaas, University of
Minnesota. St. Paul, Minnesota.

“Potato Fertilizers." Prof. G. M. Grant-
lu, Soils Dept, M. A. C.

“Business Methods in Potato Farming."
0. l". SWeet, Vice—President, Old National
Ink, Grand Rapids. Mich.

“Diversification for the Potato Grower.”
L. L. Drake, Mancelona. Mich.

"Modern Methods in Growing and Mar-
keting the Potato Crop,” J. D. Robinson,
Member Board of Directors Mich. Potato
Growers Exchange, Pellston, Mich.

‘Grading and Loading Certified Seed
Potatoes for Shipment," H. B. Losey, El—
nka. Mich

NOTE—This meeting is not the annual
shooting of the Michigan Potato Producers’
Association.

The potato show is to be held in

the basement of the old library
building.
Prof. A. G. Tolaas of St. Paul,

Minnesota is Ex-President of the Po-
tato Association of America and
Chief of the Seed Potato Certification

of Minnesota. Prof. Tolaas will ap-
pear on the program and will also
judge the potato exhibit at the Show.
It is believed that all those having
part on the program will have a mes-
sage of vital importance to all potato
growers.

Over $600.00 will be awarded as
premium money for potato exhibits.
There will also be awarded three
Loving cups and many ribbons. Be-
sides the regular premiums the fol-
lowing is a list of special premiums
awarded by various commercial con-
cerns.

For best 32 tuber exhibit in Sec-
tion A one 6 foot sorting table do-
nated by Boggs Manufacturing Corp.,
Atlanta, N. Y.

For best 60 lb. exhibit of certified
seed in Section C so pounds of
Grimm Alfalfa seed donated by the
Michigan State Farm Bureau, Lan-
sing, Mich.

For best Russot Rural exhibit
Class 15, Section E Boys' and Girls’
Club Exhibit one 48 pound case of
powdered lead arsenate donated by
the Dow Chemical Company, Mid-
land. Mich.

For best Exhibit of any variety
Class 16 Section E ‘Boys' and Girls’
Club exhibit one 48 pound case Pow-
dered Bordo donated by Dow Chem-
ical Company, Midland, Mich.

 

scriptions to Michigan farm papers
will be given the prize winners.
From all indications this show no

' doubt will be the largest and best po-

tato exhibit yet held at- the College
during Farmers' Week. Over 100
entries have been received and many
more no doubt will come in within
the next few days.

The Michigan State Department of
Agriculture, the New York Central
Railroad and the Michigan Potato
Growers' Exchange will ,cooperate
with the Michigan Potato Producers'
Associatidn and the Michigan Agri-
cultural College in putting on ex-
hibits of educational nature. One of
the features of the show this year
will be the 300 Bushel Club exhibit

of Michigan Potato Producers’ As-
sociation.
“INGflAM’S BEAN KING" DELIV-

ERS BIG CROP

NE of the largest consignments
O of beans delivered by any one
grower to the Breisch company
elevators in Lansing was marketed
recently by Clarence Diehl, Ingham
county's champion bean grower. Mr.
Diehl delivered to the Breisch com-
pany 47,071 pounds of white beans
grown on his farm near Dansville.
The Breisch company handed Mr.
Deihl a check for $2,098.29 it is said
Ingham county’s bean king shortly
after the bean harvest, delivered to
the Breisch company 250 bushels of
red kidney beans.

 

spas: prizes. in ‘tiis'i‘iifiy or subs .,  OE GREAT mummy.

waters no BE machines

UNIQUE feature in the building
5 plans of the new $365,000 horti-

cultural building to be erected
on the Michigan Agricultural College
campus this year calls for panels to
be set in the walls to carry the names
of the men who have done the most
for horticulture. The main floor will
carry the names of the 12 'most
prominent horticulturists in the
world; the second floor will bear the
names of the 12 men who have ac-
complished the most for horticulture
in America; and the third story will
house the names of the 12 Michigan
horticulturists who have contributed
most to the science in this state.
The world-wide list, arranged by
a special commission chosen for that
purpose, contains the names of two
Americans. one of whom,
Hyde Bailey, is from Michigan. Dr.
Bailey was born at South Haven. He

graduated from M. A. C. in 1882, re-

turning two years later to be pro-
fessor of horticulture. He held this
post for tour years. He is probably
the greatest horticulturist America
has ever produced. Dr. Bailey did
his greatest work in the field of
scientific horticulture, making many
important discoveries conmrning the
evolution of plants.

LIVESTOCK SHIPPERS HAD
BIG YEAR

Liberty

 

IVE hundred and ninety beef cat- I

 

 

 

Do Your Railroads

Win This Reward?

Modern Railroad progress in Michigan began March 1, 1920.

     

On that day, Uncle Sam quit Railroading and returned the roads
to their owners, to reorganize and restore.

That date found the 24 steam Railroads of Michigan deficient in
almost every essential. Service had fallen to its lowest point of
efficiency. In public esteem, the Railroads were on trial.

Your Railroads are not ashamed of their progress since that

eventful date.

We have re—equipped our lines with locomotives and cars.

We have restored and improved our roadbeds.

We have made large investments in terminals, and have made

every dollar count.

And we are giving you today the best railroad service Michigan

has ever had.

Your Railroads gladly acknowledge their appreciation of your
spirit of Fair Play. We are making good for you. We will con-
tinue to make good with all the means and eflbrt within our power.

There are many improvements still to be made. We will make
them as our means permit. For it is our steadfast desire to make
you as proud of Michigan’s system of steam Railroads as we are
of the prosperity of the state we serve.

Your Railroads want to be your Friends. Do we deserve such
classification? Write us, frankly and fully.

Michigan Railroad Association

:73

 

‘N—
I . ‘ :\
'é’ Jr?

} a “We Serv

2'

 

 

 

wwwummmw

 

tie, 1,959 veal calves, 11.2«19
hogs and 6.050 sheep were
shipped by the Grange Livestock ‘

at the annual meeting held recently
at St. Johns.
bers were added during the year.
Officers elected were C. W. Halsey,
president; L. D. Greenwood, vice
president: Ray D. Harper, secretary
and treasurer. Three new directors,
C. L. Shafiey, L. D. Greenwood and
Ray Hopkins, were elected.

NEW STATE CLUB LEADER
NAMED

. G. KETTUNEN, state boys and.
girls club leader in the upper
peninsula, has been named state
club leader to succeed R. A. Turner,
who resigned recently to accept a
position with the United States de-
partment of agriculture, by the state
board of agriculture.
Mr. Kettunen is a graduate of the
Michigan Agricultural College, class
of 1917.-——Lawrence McCracken.

GIVES PURE nnsn BULL TO
FARMERS

LGER farmers received a New

Central railroad in the form of
a pure bred Ayrshire bull.

These farmers have organized a
strong community breeding center
and have concentrated their efforts
upon the Ayrshire breed. As long
as they have use for the sire the
railroad has signified intentions of
leaving the bull in the community.

This animal came from the farm
[of the late A. H. Smith. former presi-
dent of the New York Central lines.
Both its dam and sire were imported
cattle with outstanding records for
production and individuality. Its
dam produced more than 600 pounds
of butter last year and the sire's
dam has a record of more than 700
pounds of butter in one year.

CANADA'S EXPORTS OF WHEAT
SHOW SLUMP

ANADA’S exports of wheat to

the United States, British Isles

and other countries during the

five months ended Dec. 31 last, to-

tailed 89.669.394 bushels. valued at

$133.22i,983, showing a decrease of

77,794,348 bushels over the same
months in 1923.

A reduction also is shown by the
dominion bureau of statistics in the
total quantity of wheat flour ex-
ported.

SHEEP KILLED BY DOGS IN
EATON VALUED ‘A'l‘ $429
HAT dogs have been doing great
damage to sheep in Eaton coun-
ty during the past year is dis-
closed by the fact that the board of
supervisors at their January session
allowed damage claims .of 21 far-
mers for this purpose. totaling $429.-

 

43. not including the Justice fees of
,from 82 to $2.80. each. ‘ v

  
 

Shipping association of Clinton Coun-
ty in 1924 according to report given '

Year's gift from the Michigan.

I
I

Seventeen new mem- i

 

 

_.....a...vrh.._‘..~ -

    

 

 

 

.,n ‘ "



l am“

I  9"“

r
Mum-4k - '>.. 4 « .gr

   
 
   
 
 

  
  
 
 

 


a «Man

a»- g”

,,,_ .,,.~u‘~n«

wry-fl l -"'
‘3’"

M

MAMA-5M“ -

1‘: .3. ‘vntww-‘h "5"" it»

met

a

was «r- e  '-

MM

 

 

 

The Only Farm Magazine Owned and‘Edited in Michigan

 

albth Bi~Weekl; at
L Clemens. Michigan.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1925

Entered as 2nd. class mutter, Aug. 22 19%.
it Mt. Clemens, Mich.. under act Mar. 3. 18 .

 

Gas and Weight Levies Speeded to Governor

Indications Are Two Cent Gas Tax and Weight Tax From F ifty-five Cents to One Dollar and
thrter Will Finance Highways

Y the time this article is read by
Tun BUSINESS FARMER family
the Legislature will no doubt

have finally settled the much discus-
sed subject of highway finance.
There is every indication that a two-
cent gasoline tax and a weight tax
of fifty—five cents per hundred pounds
for passenger cars and a higher rate,
ranging from sixty—five cents to a
dollar and a quarter per hundred
pounds, for commercial vehicles will
receive final legislative approval and
be signed by the Governor before
February first. Everything has pro-
gressed substantially as prophesied
in our article in THE BUSINESS FARM-
in: two weeks ago.

The Atwood-Baxter two—cent gaso-
line tax passed the Senate by a 30 to
1 vote, with Senator Bahorski of De—
troit polling the lone negative vote.
It was ordered to take immediate ef-
fect. As passed by the Senate it pro—
vides that one million dollars of the
revenue be turned over each year
toward paying off the back highway
rewards due to the several counties
from the State Highway Department.
The House Committee on General
Taxation will no doubt increase this
amount to two million dollars per
year. The bill sets aside three million
dollars per year for interest and
sinking fund purposes in connection
with the State’s fifty million dollar
highway bond issue. The balance of
the revenue from the gas tax would
be used for “the general construction
and improvement and betterment of
the public highways within the
State.”

When the House saw that the Sen-
ate meant business about passing the
gas tax bill, it threw its machinery
into high gear and speeded the Evans
Weight bill towards final passage.
Somewhat of a record was set in the
House on January 22nd when this
bill was reported favorable from the
Roads and Bridges Committee. refer-
red to the Ways and Means Commit-
tee which considered it during the
recess and later reported it favor-
ably. considered it on general orders
as a committee of the whole and lat-
er. under suspension of the rules. ap—
prOVed the bill on final passage by
the over—whelming majority of 95 to
3. Representatives Barlett of De-
troit and Charles H. Reed of’Clio,
Genessee County, were the only ab-
sent members. The three who voted
against the bill Were Representative
Lynn C. Gardner of Fowlerville,
Livingston County; Representative
Richard W. McLain, Quincy, Branch

County; and Representative Wm. B.

Campbell of Detroit.
Counties to Get $6,000,000

In the form in which the Evans
Weight tax bill passed the House, it
provided for a tax of fifty-five cents
per hundred pounds on passenger
cars and the following schedule for
commercial vehicles: Up to 2,500
pounds, 65c; 2.500 to 4.000 pounds,
80c; 4.000 to 6,000 pounds. $1.00;
over 6,000 pounds, $1.25. The sum
of six million dollars each year was
set aside for return to the counties

for local highway work. Other ap—
propriations from the weight tax
revenue were as follows: Interest

and sinking fund for State Highway
bonds not less than one million, two
hundred thousand dollars; Mainten-
ance of State trunk line, Federal Aid,
and non—trunk line highways, two
million dollars; building trunk high-
way bridges, including grade separa-
tions, one million dollars; non—trunk
line maintenance and non—trunk line
bridges, five hundred thousand dol—
lars; operating expenses of the State
Highway Department, three hundred
thousand dollars; and for opening,
widening and improving State trunk
line and Federal Aid highways, all

By STANLEY M. POWELL

(Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

the balance ,of the weight tax reven-
ue.
The details as to the rates to be
written into the Evans weight tax
bill and the distribution of the rev—
enue from these two highway finan-
cing measures were reached only af—
ter extended committee meetings and
conferences among the members and
state officials. For the first time
within anyone’s memory, Governor
Groesbeck left his executive offices to
come into the legislative committee
rooms and urge prompt and harmon-
ius action in accordance with the
general plans worked out between
gas tax supporters and administra—
tive leaders.

There was considerable sentiment
among many of the rural members
that the amount to be returned to
the counties should be set at a high-
er figure than six million dollars.
This amount is about half a million
more than the counties have ever re-
ceived under the present “fifty fifty”
revenues, but it is not as much as
distribution of automobile license
they would have received this year
under the old law, because the num—
ber of cars and trucks in Michigan is
so much greater than ever before.
There was some feeling that the
weight tax should be cut down to

fifty cents per hundred pounds for

passenger cars. It is barely possible

that some move in this direction

may be made in the Senate.
Victory for Farmch

Passage of the gas tax may be re-
garded as truly a victory for the or-
ganized farmers of Michigan. who
through their papers, the Grange,
the Farm Bureau and the Farmers’
Clubs have during the past few years
been earnestly advooating this re-
form in the matter of highway fin-
ance.

The combined effect of the two
bills now being passed may not re-
sult in any great reduction in the
amount which any farmer pays out
for the privilege of using his auto-
mobile or truck. The new weight
tax will bring in as much, or even
more than the present automobile
licenses which are based on a com-
bination of weight and horse power.
However, under the new schedule
the burden will be more equitably
distributed. The light cars will pay
less and the heavier cars will pay
considerably more. The revenue
from the gasoline tax will make it
possible to proceed on a “pay as you
go" policy and. too, liquidate the
present highway bonds and pay up
the back highway rewards to the

 

 

Monday, February Second
Evening Session
7:00—Motion Pictures—Small Orches—
tra. Michigan Agriculture Col-
lege. The National Dairy
Show.

7:30—"The Animal Disease Situation”
-—Dr Ward Giltncr, Dean of
Veterinary Division. M. A. C.

:45—Music—-—Varsity Male Quartette.

:00——“He:ilth of the Farmer”—T)r.
Wm, Evans. Health Editor,
Chicago Tribune.

“'4

Tuesday, February Third
Livestock Day
Afternoon Session
(Jacob DeGeuss, Chairman)

:30—Band Concert.
:05——Address—“The Michigan Agri-

cultural College and the Mich-

igan Farmer“—Kenyon L.

Butterfleld, President. M. A. C.
2:35~—Music——Varsity Male Quartette.
2:50—“The Dairy Situation from a.

Statistical Standpoint"——T. R.

Pirtle, Assistant Marketing

Specialist. Bureau of Agricul-

tural Economics. U. S. De—

partment of Agriculture.
3:30—“Selling the Public"—John M.

Kelly, Advertising Specialist,

Formerly with National Hol-

stein F‘reisian Association.

Evening Session

:30—Stunts.

:55~—-—Swartz Creek Band.

:OO—Baskctball Game, M. A. C.
versus Hope College. (All
Farmers' Week visitors may
secure tickets to this game
for 250 when purchased at the
Short Course Oflice, ltoom 17,
of the Agricultural Building,
or at the Farmers‘ VVt-el;
headquarters. A l 1 visitors
should be seated in the gym-
nasium at 7:30 1'), m. in order
to he sure of a seat. ltcg‘ular
admission tickets when pur-
chased at Athletic oliice are
500).

Wednesday. February Fourth
Crops Day

Afternoon Session

1:30—Music——F‘ull -Orchestra.

1:50—"G00d ,Seed >1'or Michigan”—

NH

m-JQ

 

 

PROGRAM FOR FARMER’S WEEK AT M. A. C.
GENERAL SESSIONS
(College Gymnasium)

J. F. Cox. Professor of Farm
Crops, M. A, (T.
2:20———“St;ibilizing Arriculture"—Ilon.
John (‘. lx’ctcham.
3:15—M11sic Group from Grange
Singing Contest.

3:30—“Thc Human Values of Country
Life"—-Bishop Francis J. Mc~
Connell.

Evening Session
6:30—Motion Pictures Small Orches—
tra

:00—-—Illustrated Lecture on Pales-

tine—Dr. M. M. hit-Cool, Pro-
fessor of Soils, M. A. C.
7:30—“Facts and Fancics in Fiduci—
tion"——-John Phelau, Professor
of Education, M, A. C.
7:50—Girls Glee Club.

8:05—“The Outlook of Democracy”—
S. Parkes Cadman.

Thursday, February Fifth
Farm Bureau Day
Afternoon Session

1 ZOO—Parade.

1:30—Band Concert.

LEO—"Factory and Farm Efficiency”
—H. H. Mueselman, Professor
of Agricultural Engineering.
M. A. C. '

2:05—“The Economic Situation in Ag«
riculture"—B. II. llibbard,
Agricultural Economics, Uni~
versity of VViSConsllL

3:00—"Some \Vays of Cutting Down
the Costs of Farm Supplies"
——II. E. Babcock, (icucrul
Manager of the Grange
League Federation Exchange.

4:00———“Ilomc Economics at M. A. C.”
ir-Miss l{l‘lll‘ffPl‘, Dean Of
Home Economics, AI. A. C.

4 :15~——l\iusic——-l\iark Cutler.

Evening Session
(President liultcriiuid, Chairman)
6:30—Motion I’it-turcs—wSmull ()rchcs—

Ira-
:00—Music——~Mark Cutler,
:15—“Thc Purpose of the Child
L a b o r Law Amendment"—
Owen It. Lovejoy.
7:45—Discussion of the Child Labor
Law Amendment—Mrs. Dora
Stockman.

8:00—Men's Glee Club—Houston
Thompson, Chairman Federal
Trade Commission.

 

 

.q

as:

 

 

 

 

counties without neglecting the con—
struction and maintenance of the
State’s system of improved highways.

With the highway finance prob—
lems definitely settled, the Legisla—
ture is confronted with many other
perplexing questions. Among the
first to receive attention will be the
financial needs of the various state
institutions. A whole batch of ap—
propriation bills prepared by the
Budget Commission were ready for
introduction early this week. It is
the present plan that the law-makers
will take a recess for a week or so
to allow the committees to visit the
various state institutions and decide
as to their needs for operating and
building purposes.

The Detroit delegation is anxious
to take up the matter of legislative
reapportionment. However, to an y
up—state members feel that under the
present conditions the wisest, policy
would be to wait and leave this
whole subject of redistricting for the
next Constitutional C o n v c n t i o n,
which will probably be held in the
fall of 1927.

Tax Rcform Possible

Prospects look bright that some-
thing will be done in the House to
take up the taxation conditions in
Michigan and to try to relieve gen—
eral property owners from a portion
of the heavy burden under which
they are now staggering. it Will be
remembered that the Speaker of the
House. Fred \Volls, and Representa»
tive Charles Evans, Chairman of the
House committee on general tax—
ation, were both members of the
Special Legislative Committee of In—
quiry into the Matter of Taxation
which made an exhaustive study of
taxation in Michigan and other states
about three years ago and reported
back their findings to the 1923 legis-
laturc.

The only tax bill of gcncral inter-
est, other than the weight and gaso.
lino tux proposals, to be introduced
to date is an amendment to the pres—
ent corporation tax. This bill is be—
ing sponsored by Senator Bernie L.
Case of Ithaca and would lower the
rate from two and a half mills on
the capital and surplus to two mills
and would increase ho maximum
tax from fifty thousand to five hun—
dred thousand dollars. In the 1928
legislature the minimum corporation
tax was reduced from fifty dollars to
ten dollars, the maximum increased
from ten thousand to fifty thousand
and the rate reduced from three and
a half mills to two and a half mills.
Now Senator Case would carry this
idea a step further by lowering the
rate and increasing the maximum
tax. He maintains that it is just as
fair for the big corporations to pay
a certain rate as it is for the smaller
corporations. The change in the
maximum tax would affect. about
twenty corporations. Under the pres—
ent law the Ford Motor Company
pays but fifty thousand dollars,
under the, terms of Senator Case‘s
bill they would pay the new maxi»
mum of five hunder thousand dol—
lars. It is probable that the amount
raised under this new bill would be
about the some as under our present
law, as the lowering of the rate a
half mill would about littlttllm‘ the
increased amount which would be
received from the larger corpora—
tions.

Law ‘Makcrs Arc Human

During the first three weeks of the
present session the lawmakers were
in session only eight days, holding
two meetings the first week and
three each for the second and thh‘d
Weeks. The rest of their time has
been taken up in extended week—end
adjournments which have been justi—

fied on the ground that committees

(Continued on Page 23)

  
  

   
 

      

    
     
    

    
  
 
 
   


 

 

r

.. was.

‘ "votes—v"

a: T'ffi“‘°‘.“..'

 

;

{r

‘i-


I f

t
6.,
t

 

 

/ .

 

This View of the racks in Paul Clement's
corn drying and storage house gives an
Idea of how the racks are constructed.

   

HE need of several farmers in
Michigan to take care of seed
corn in an approved, scientific

manner, has long been a recognich
fact. We now have a farmer who is
doing much along this line. Mr. Paul
Clement of Britten, Monroe County,
has made a bid for honors as “seed
corn king” of our state.

By using material from an old
blown—down silo, Mr. Clement has
made a corn—drying and storing
house that ranks with the best in the
corn-belt. This house, built a few
years ago, more than paid for itself
to first year it was used.

The drying house is so constructed
that a tree circulation of air is pos-
sible at all times. The windows and
door are screened to keep out birds
and mice. Provision is made for
heating during cold, damp Weather
when the corn contains a high per—
centage of moisture. The ears of
selected seed corn are placed on
rocks, made of laths nailed about five
inches apart on upright two-by—
fours. The cars are placed so that
they do not touch each other. This
type of equipment insures perfect
curing and storage of. seed corn.

The weather conditions of late
summer and autumn caused an un—
usual amount of worrying and specu-
lation about the seed corn situation
of 1925. Mr. Clement, instead of

 

' o. a...

Paul Clement, Monroe County F anner, Builds Séed Corn Drying

worrying about his crop, spent the
time constructing additional racks in
his large corn drying house.

The Clement farms are located five
miles southeast of Britten and con-
sist of one hundred and fifty acres of
level clay loam soil. The family
moved to this location from Adrian
about twelve years ago. Since then
they have tile drained all fields. The
home farm consists of twenty-three
acres. In addition to this, he has
rented the adjoining twenty acres,
also one hundred-eight acres about
half a mile away.

Mr. Clement does not produce
much live stock, depending upon
grain for his cash income. He keeps
two teams of horses and a couple
cows. Forty to fifty pure—bred Duroc
hogs are raised each year and sold as
registered stock. His sons raise a
few pure—bred sheep. Aside from
these and Mrs. Clement’s chickens,
no other live stock is to be found on
the farm. ,

This progressive farmer is a firm
believer in alfalfa and sweet clover
as soil builders. He uses acid phos-
phate quite liberally and gets good
returns from so doing. Corn, plant—
ed June 6, 1924, and fertilized at the
rate of four hundred pounds of acid
phosphate per acre, matured well de—
veloped ears in the fall. Corn plant—

ed the same date without the acid
phosphate did not mature so well.
All manure produced is returned to
The rotation practiced is

the soil.



of Mic n

and Storing House
By C. E. CORMANY

Farm Crops Dept., M. A. C.

corn, oats seeded to sweet clover and
alfalfa, alfalfa. In this way enough
alfalfa hay for his own use is pro-
duced, with a small surplus for sale.
Last fall he had thirteen acres of
new seeding which was good to be-
hold.

Corn and oats are the cash crops.
Thirty acres of Worthy oats were
raised last summer. This was good
enough to pass the inspection re—
quirements of the Michigan Crop Im-
provement Association for seed oats.

Mr. Clement’s specialty is corn.
111 1913 a small sample of white cap
corn 'was obtained in Adrian for seed.
It had probably been brought‘ to
Adrian from Northern Ohio. This
was grown for several years and no
other corn allowed to mix with it.
The soft corn year of 1917 caused
Mr. Clement to become interested in
corn as a seed proposition. He has
field selected his corn in the fall each
year since, choosing only well ma-
tured ears from upright, well devel—
oped .normal stalks in full hills.

In 1921 ear—to-row testing was be-
gun, using some of the better field
selected ears. In 1922 the remnants
of the five best ears of the 1921 test
were planted together in a merger
plot. This gave him a high yielding
corn and did not reduce Vigor. This
corn in the merger plot was field se-

 

 

 

 

Interior View of Paul Clement’s corn drying and storage house.

9

   

lected for another ear-to—row test.
The remainder of the corn in the
merger plot was used as seed for his
larger fields. In this way the best
yielding, early maturing ears have
been selected so that even in the
most adverseseasons a large percent—
age of it will mature. He calls the
white cap corn “Clement’s Improved
White Cap." The same careful at-
tention is also being given to Dun-
can’s Yellow Dent corn.

A strict inspection of all ears in
the field is made at harvest time.
Only about one-half of the ears are
selected. These well matured ears
are tossed into the wagon-box and
taken to the drying house, where
they are again carefully repicked be-
fore being placed on the drying racks.
Due to his close scrutiny,-both in the
field and at the drying house, less
than forty per cent of the corn is
savedwfor seed.

Mr. Clement prefers a sixteen row
ear, about nine inches long. No ears
are kept which show the least trace
of disease, a lack of maturity, or
poor type. Well matured ears of
good type, but with crooked rows,
are kept and constitute grade No. 2
seed.

During late Winter, each individu—
al ear is tested for germination in a
sawdust tester. Only ears that ger-
aninate ninety-nine per cent are kept
for seed. In the spring of 1924, Mr.
Clement had less than one—half of
one per cent dead ears, less than four
per cent weak and only three moldy
ears in the drying house—truly a
remarkable record.

At shelling time, each ear is “tip-
ped and butted”. The corn remain-
ing on the cob is shelled and sold as
best grade seed. The tip and butt
kernels, which are not so uniform in
size go to make up a lower grade
seed.

During 1923, ‘Mr. Clement sold his
first seed corn on a commercial basis.
He states that there is considerable
for the novice to learn the first year.

He now handles his corn on a
mail—order and cash basis. He has
had as high as thirty-nine inquiries
for seed corn in a single day. A list
of all inquiries is kept as well as a
record of all sales. '

Truly, Mr. Clement may well be
called the “seed corn king of Mich-
igan". His scientific, energetic bus-

iness—like way of handling this all»

important crop will be quite an asset
to the corn growers of Michigan who
do not produce all their seed corn.

Everything In Readiness For Best Farmers’ Week In History of MA. C.

By LAWRENCE M. McCRACKEN

created through the introduc—

tion of a number of new fea-
tures authorities at the Michigan Ag~
ricultural College are predicting the
largest attendance yet recorded at
the annual Farmers’ Week to be held
at the school from Monday, February
2, up to and including Thursday,
February 5.

In addition to the thousands who
are expected to spend one or more
days at the college during the Week
especially set aside for the discussion
and study of agricultural problems
additional thousands will hear the
programs as a broadcast from the
school’s radio broadcasting station
WKAR operating on a wave length
of 285.5 meters.

During the past few weeks a house
to house canvass of East Lansing has
been made and visitors are assured
of comfortable accomodations con-
venient to the college at extremely
reasonable rates. Practically all of
the residents have gladly joined in
an effort to house the visitors in
their homes and assure farmers of a
pleasant week while at the college.

‘Among the principal speakers to
be heard are Houston Thompson,
chairman of the federal trade com-

a- S the result of a wider appeal

mission, Dr. Kenyon L. Butterfield,

president of the college, Congress—
man John C. Ketchman of Michigan,
S.‘ Parkes Cadman, famous New York
preacher, Bishop Francis J. McCon-
Hell, '1‘. R. Pirtle, assistant market-
ing specialist of the bureau of agri-

, cultural economics of the department .

of agriculture, Dr. William Evans.

  

(Special M. .\. (l.

health editor of the Chicago Tribune.
and a number of experts on the col-
lege faculty.

Despite the unusually large num-
ber of instructive addresses planned
a number of entertainment features
have been placed on the program in
which college and other musical tal-
ent will be heard. The M. A. C. bas-
ketball team is to play Hope College
Tuesday night and tickets for visitors
are to be offered at the headquarters
of the short course department at the
reduced price of 25 cents.

Among the new features arranged
are an egg show, the first to ever be
held in the state, an exhibit of the
latest in dairy manufacturing ma-
chinery and supplies, and a singing
contest between various Grange sing-
ing groups.

Many Groups Meet;

Interspersed with the entertain—
ment and addresses will be the an—
nual group meetings of the more
than a score of farm organizations
which hold their annual conventions
simultaneously with Farmers’ Week.

A heavy list of entries is expected
for the egg show which is to be held
under the direction of George Quig-
ley, a senior in the agricultural
course at the college. Entries are to
be divided into classes—commercial
hatchers, producers, boys’ and girls'
poultry clubs, experimental stations,
and demonstration. The eggs are to

be divided into two general subdivis-w

 

(‘nrrcspnndent for THY“. lil‘SlNl-ZSH 1"ARMER)

ions, brown and white. At least one
dozen of eggs must be offered by
each entrant for exhibit and the
number which each person may enter
is unlimited.

The exhibits are to be judged for
uniform size, shell texture, small air
space, uniform color and weight.
One dozen eggs should weigh be~
tween 24 and 26 ounces. Manufac—
turers of poultry supplies and indi—
viduals have contributed freely as-
suring a liberal supply of awards for
prizes. Girl students in the home
economics department of the college
will demonstrate methods of serving
which it is expected will be of inter-
est to women visitors. Through the
influence of the show it is, hoped en—
couragement may be given to pro-
jccts to standardize eggs in the state.

The dairy exhibit will crowd the
apple show and farm crops exhibit
from the armory, where'they are us-
ually held, into the old library build-
ing. The Allied Dairy Association,
comprising organizations ’of. ice
cream manufacturers, dairy boosters,
cow testers and creamery owners and
managers, will stage the dairy ex-
hibit.

The Grange singing groups are to
compete for prizes purchased from a
permanent fund given by R. E. Olds,.
Lansing automobile manufacturer, to
encourage community singing. This
year the competition is limited to

groups from the Grange because of V

‘ tional

 

the activity\and organization of this
body in singing before but hereafter
it is planned to open the competition
to any farm groups.

Livestock Judging

The breeders’ livestock judging
contest, a popular feature of previous
years, is to be staged with practical
farmers competing in the judging of
horses, beef cattle, dairy cattle,
sheep and swine. Prizes are offered
to winners selected by recognized
judges.

All college livestock and equip«
ment will be shined and dressed up
for the advent of the farmers. The
usual parade of college stock will be
held at 1 o’clock Thursday after—
noon. The college military band is
to head the line of march with the
stock led by the students following in
single file.

A potato Show, and poultry and
rabbit show, are to be held. In the
farm crops exhibit the Winners of the
first ten prizes at the International
Hay and Grain show are barred from
entering.

_ The child labor amendment which
is to come before the state legisla—
ture at its present session will be a
topic of discussion Thursday night
starting. at 7:15 o’clock with Owen
R. LoveJoy, prominent in the attempt
to obtain ratification of the constitux
amendment, scheduled to
speak on “The Purpose of the Child
Labor Amendment”. Mrs. Dora
Stockman, member of the state board.
of agriculture and lecturer of the
state grange will-answer. him. 3‘}
(Continued.- on’ .21)‘ 

 

 

   

 
       
 
  
 
         
       
      
           
       
     
     
       
     
       
       
       
       
          
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

r.
'5'
a
».

 

 

325?:
A);

‘3. i.
.r - V
.A 
; 'th

:f')
:2"
5.»
(iii.
it}

“$15; ‘3

  

is... a.

     


 

 

    
 
    
  
    
    
   
  
    
   
   
    
      
                 
            

 

 

 

“SOME CORN.”—-G. J. Tibbe, Grant. WAITING FOR THE MAIL.—This is Esther Snell and Kathleen Peck, "REAL PUPPY LOV .."-——This is Robert
writes “some of our com was 15 feet of Greenville, and Sam D. Peck, who sent us the picture, declares they Clark, Morom-i, nephew of Mrs. Ralph In-
. high this your. Three acres averaged are waiting for the mail man to see if he brings The Business Farmer. gull, \Vuldron, with his puppy. “Love me,
‘ . 11 feet.” “’6 hope he isn’t lute. love my dog” nvpplys well to Robert.

 

   

“WHEN THE CAT IS AWAY THE MICE WILL PLAY”.—- THE PRIZE BAGA.—This RYE AND VETCII STANDS OVER SIX FEET IN

Is the title Fordney Volkmer gives this picture of himselfland is “some” rutabaga, isn’t it? HEIGIIT.——F. Cook, of Ilurhor Springs, sent us this picture

friends. Apparently the folks were away from home when this Just about all the little girl writing “This is a. pivture of sonn- of the rye and vetoh grown

was taken. Fordney, who sits on the horse’s back, lives at can handle. The picture came by Oluf Soronson, of Birchwnod Farm, IIzu-hor Springs, this

\ Chesuning. \Ve any let the mice play, as long as they do no from H. L. Barnum, of Cadil- last year. Mr. Sorensen, shown in the fort-ground. is six feet
harm. lac, Michigan. in height.”

   

READY FOR A RIDE.—-—Dobbin is A YOUNG POULTRYMAN AND HIS FLOCK.-——John William Arndi, Jr., AFTER SQUIRRELS.—“Tllis is Tige
hitlflied to the.cuuer’ and seems to be enjoyfi being With the chickens and turkeys raised on his father’s farm at and his master after squirrels in the
wmnng for his master to get rmy' Morley and 3" 0f the!“ are his frifllds 11"“ many Will take food from his hand. woods on our farm", writes Mrs. Edith
Rfiymond 000k 0f FOWIOI‘VIHG. Sent us This picture, showing him feeding [part of the flock, was given us by the father. Chihls. of Mnndou, Michigan. 'l‘ige is
“10 Print. He is very much interested in his job. quite u climber.

 

       

      

  

.u. (may a... v u A uawm .w - -

WATCHING THE HORSE ‘FOB ADDY-—-Balph Davis’ ARTHUR 1ND A LAP THESE FARMERS HAVE A SIDE LINE.——Joseph J. Martin
"tue daughter! watches the horse "me may ‘08! to the FULL OF ISOGS”.—J. E. and his sons own a couple of trucks and in addition to their
house for 9’ dr ":3 of “mun nor do" Bobrukel ‘50 ride in the Secord, Shady Nook Farm. farm work they do a very profitable business of general truck!
“Talon. Mr. DI! I lives 80 Bentley, Mich. E. Jordan, sent this picture. ing. One of the sons is shown in the picture.

 

 

      

/

. (WP 95? ,5 101‘ “0h  picture used on our cover and give a. Iona year renewal for each picture [used on this rule. Pictures must be sharp and clear.)

 

 

 

 


 

 "e p (246) 0

Cream
Separator

Now-Save Money

Make money and save money by having'a high quality,
gaunt cream separator "it"tgllo Em m-glétic. The
ti tm I ma e. 1- er how'-
"" '- "m m bloc “may PRICES.

at our dress-hm BED

Empi-

  
    
    
 
 
  
  
      

ia the famous

aliic

 "i. I ‘r;;ofuylnth-

l on

400 lb. size Dolls; Bowl"
PRICE -——the o N L

real' self ~balaue—
ing bowl -— acid
at a price that wil‘ put
thousands of theee won-
derful separators into
the hands of farmers and

rymen everywhere.

All Shipments

PREPAID

Quick delivery ovary-
._ where and no extra
charges of any kind.
You pay for the
, ‘ separator only,
1 “ii. 233:”?
com ate wt , ,
bruagsu

Over ..a. ..

1.000.000 .y  85 Down
in "i * 30 Days’

"30 Trial

lo returned if not satisfied after 00 da ' trial.
Sui-fleeting guaranteed. YOU TAKE N RISK.

Price Lis 5""’"‘°“"

surroun—

 

Prepaid
NT». Capacity Price in ij'l] Monthly Payments
M.O.‘ lbOlbe. $25.00 §6.00 $5.00 for 4 Months
No.2 350nm. $40.00 35 00 $5.00ior 7 Months

No.4 4UO“)B. $53.00 $5.00 £5.00for 10 Months

1 hr: ei Q to It“ Ihe. enmity. Aloe
mmig'm on See; «fewer Driven lap-neare-

liiiEE Service and Paris

for one year. Get catalog. 6% discount. for cash—or
88.00 down and balance monthly. Write 
meeeupon.

EMPIRE CREAM SEPARATOR
SALES CO” Inc.
Dept. 25 Loulwllle. Ky.
SHVU POSTAL 0R CUUPON!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dept. J Louievliie, Kentucky

6 I
cases [J New Empire—Baltic Catalog
WNW“ D Erwin-nude Now. I enclose as.

Hue-A
“Ii-n

I. F. D. No.0...” ..........8tato .... .... ........ ..

 

EMPIRE CREAM SEPARATOR SALES 00.. In... I

 

  

:glt‘ .;. a

M’i

  

 

ervice ureau 

(A Clearing Department for larmen' ever day troubles. Prempt. careful attentien
all "complaints or request: fer information a dressed'te this department We are here serve
you. All inquiries must be accompanied by lull name and address. Name not used ll se requested.)

iv." [0

 

MUST GET DUPLICATE OF
LICENSE
I purchased a driver’s license in
1920 and carried it until this fall
and lost it. Must I pay 60 cents to
get a duplicate of it? If so what is
the 50 cents charges for? Could I be
arrested and fined for not having it
with me while driving, being that the
State has my money for the license?
——M. P., Pellston, Mich.

VERY person is required to carry
E an operator’s license while driv-
ing a motor vehicle. If the ori—
ginal license is lost, they are re-
quired to purchase a duplicate. The
price fixed by the legislature is fifty
cents for the duplicate. That is the
reason the applicant has to pay it.—
Chas. J. DeLand, Secretary of State.

WAN'IB TO CUT AND SELL
TL‘IBER

I have a sixty-acre farm with six
acres of timber. There is a $3.340
mortgage on it and as it is hard for
me to meet my payments, interest
and taxes, I concluded to cut oil the
timber, sell it and turn the proceeds
in on the mortgage. Would I have a
right to? I have a deed to my farm
and nothing is said thereon in re—
gard to the timber.—J. Y., Centre—
ville, Mich.

AM of the opinion that you could

cut and sell the timber on your

farm if there is nothing in the
terms of the mortgage prohibiting it.
—Legal Editor.

TELEPHONE DOES NOT WORK
RIGHT

We have telephone and our bat-
teries got poor and we had a storage
battery so we put that on. Now we
have a dry cell on again and every
time we talk there is a growling and
cracking so we cannot hear. If we
hit on the side of the box it will
stop a little then begin again. Now
could you tell me what to do for it
or what is the matter with it? Do
you think the storage battery would
overcharge some part of it to cause
the trouble? Will you please let me
know what to do for it? We have

 

 

 

 

Hear Music and Talking
1,000 Miles Away

New Radio Set Has No Outside Wires
or Storage Batteries

The new Trans-continental Radiophone
which is the most simple and the clearest
toned radio set you have ever listened
to. h the invention of Mr. Coats, of Chl-
mgo. This radio outfit is entirely differ-
ent from all others. No outside wires
needed No troublesome storage batteries.
R eomes complete in a beautiful mahog-
any cabinet (console type) and a. loud
weaker built right in so the entire family
m listen to it just like a phonograph.
It is guaranteed to have a range of 1,000
lilies. Listen to the musical concerts,
singing, lectures and speeches. Get the
market reports, latest news and returns
of the big g’amee by radio. Mr. Coats
we.an to place one of his amazing new
radio outfits in each locality and is now
making a special reduction of 40 per cent
in price for the first outJit placed in each
community. Write B. A. lees, Sales
Mgr, 338 West 47th St. Chicago for his
special low price offers—(Adv)

' ‘ WV 0 ‘0
 r a a: 33W
(hudewnireeeandsawsthemup FAST—one man
dose the work of lo—sawe 10 to 25 cords aday.
lakeets'ae. Lone-man outfit. Easy boron seats-vehic-

nreol. Mamie in one. engine runs all
each-asthma. Use-MW. Ultimatum-On.

 

Em Pay only a
do w n and
flea earlarhalaneeoflow
. eke yeerewaterme.
 Jut eend name for
felldetalle
pdaea. Ne
h - wrn'a moms wanna

 

 

 

Big Savings
on Your Magazines

The Basineee Ma. 1 yr......l .00
Peeple'e Home Journal. 1 yr... 1.00
a! co .. ..... ........................1.“
Beth magazines with all re-
aewel aubeerlptle-a be The
Iaeiaeee Farmer........................
'l’l'll Infill“ Fulfil.
Ina ll. It. meme-e. lion.

 

 

  

 

looked it all over and can not find
any loose connections any where.—
N. F., Brant, Mich.

HERE are so many things that
may go wrong with a telephone
that it is a question whether we

would hit anywhere near the cause
of the trouble.

From the description of the
trouble, it looks as if you damaged
the transmitter by too much current.
The storage battery you used was
probably 6 volts or higher, and this
would force an abnormal current
through the transmitter causing the
carbon granuals to heat up. This
would be accompanied by a frying
noise in the receiver. If this were
allowed to continue, the carbon gran—
uals in the transmitter would be per-
manently injured. It would then be
necessary to install a new trans-
mitter or send the old one to the
manufacturer for repairs.

The proper battery for such a
telephone consists of‘two dry cells
connected in series, that is, positive
to negative. If the telephone con-
versations are limited to five minutes
and the receiver kept on the hook
at all times when not talking, such
a battery should last many months
and would be more cheaply main-
tained than a storage battery—Burr
K. Osborn, Instructor, Electrical En-
gineering Dept., M. A. C.

MUST HE GIVE INFORMATION?

Is it compulsory or optional for me
to state to census taker or nil in
blanks as to kind and amount of my
indebtedness, namely mortgages and
private borrowing2—W. H. Durand,
Mich.

I AM or the opinion that you could

not be compelled to give,thie in-
formation—Legal Editor.

animus) 'ro aromas

I lived in a small city. rented a
four—room apartment and paid flve

there. Then I came north and on
my return I had a wreck and have so

 

dollars rent for the two weeks I was ,

 

 

far been unable to get back. I have
paid no rent and couldn‘t. My lur-
niture is Worth six or eight hundred
dollars. They wrote me a year ago
last December they would set goods
in the street. It has been nearly two
years since I left the place and what
I want to know is whether I can
make them pay for the goods if they
have done anything with same? Can
I get the goods? Would l have to
pay lull rent or storage for them?
Would they have a right to disturb
the goods at all? I have heard noth-
ing from them.—F‘. W., Sheridan,
Mich.

HE people with whom you left
the furniture are entitled to
compensation for keeping it

these tw0 years. and if they gave you
notice last December, I am of the
opinion they had a right to sell the
furniture for storage, but would have
to reimburse you for the amount the
furniture brings at sale over and
above a reasonable storage charges——
Legal Editor. .

- What the Ne' bore 83

MORTGAGE] (BULB FORECLOSI

I want your legal advice about
mortgage./ I borrowed two hundred
dollars on my ten-acre farm about
30 years ago. but I keep paying in-
terest on mortgage every year. I

paid 350 down during war and am

owing $150 on it. It has never been
foreclosed since. The owner of the
mortgage never bothered me for
money but always accepted the inter-
est. What do you think of it?—-—H.
A. A., Shelby, Mich.
F the debt is past due, the mort-
I gages could foreclose at any time.
Payment of interest when due
would not deprive the mortgagee of
his right to foreclose—Legal Editor.

GET PASSPORT TO VISIT
THIS COUNTRY
We had a niece who came from
Switzerland last May to Saskatche-
wan, Canada, and she wants to come
to Michigan for a visit and perhaps
make it her home. The quota being
filled what will she have to do to get
here?.—E. 8., North Adams, Mich.
OUR niece could get a passport
to visit the United States for a
six months period. I would ad-
vise you to see the immigration offi-
cer at Port Huron, who .will tell you
how to proceed in this matter.-——Le—

gal Editor.
$3

 

 

 

 

Contributions invited

AGAINST GAS TAX

EAR Editor:——I am taking the

liberty to write you to tell you

that I have just read “Broad-
scope Farm News and Views" in
your January 3rd issue and I like it,
with one exception, to which I will
refer presently.

It is somewhat puzzling to under-
stand how a man like Mr. Meeke,
who has all the qualities implied by
the description given by you, can't
see more than one side to the gas tax
proposal, and I will have to admit
that when I read the question.
“How can anyone oppose a gasoline
tax?” it just got my goat and I am
going to try tell you why.

The autos owned in the state of
Michigan have a value equal to about
three per cent of the assessment of
the property of Michigan and they
are now paying more than double the
tax of any other property in the state.

Well, I made a few trips across
the state last season, and I saw the
motor busses and freight trucks,
touring cars and the almost count-
less farmers and city laborers driv-
ing flivvers, and I do not think the
motor busses and freight trucks moa—
opollze the road, at any rate they
don’t have exclusive right of way.
They don’t own and can't sell the
road as the electric and steam rail-
way companies can, and do.

The gas tax is a sales tax. It is to
shift the burden of taxation from
property. Let us see from whose
shoulders it is lifted and on whose it
is laid. In comparison with a pro-
perty tax and a gas tax the rich
would pay almost nothing. The 01'-
dinary farmer and laborer would
have a greatly increased burden of
taxation.

Now as this gas tax is to be a sales
tax. and as no state may have either
imports or exports tax, the various
gas companies dong business in this
state would have to pay no tax at all,
for road purposes. And the motor
bus companies and large trucking
concerns could import their gas and
therefore have no gas tax. Any big
business using a lot of gas would be
as favorably situated, and it is not
the history of big business. that they
pay more than the law absolutely re-
quires. It is the little follow that
can't get away from the gas tax.

There is not a public improvement,
whether schools. buildings or high
wars. in which we all receive was!
pecuniary benefit, yet in all except

road building and maintenance. prop—
erty is supposed to bear its just pro-
portion, according to its size. Why
not in road building? You will
scarcely deny that the automobile
manufacturing concerns get more
pecuniary benefit than the users of
their products do, so why should we.
the common lot, shoulder their bur-
den?

A great many thousands of worker
depend on their flivvers to get them
to their work, some of them are g0-
ing more than twenty miles daily.
Their cars enable them to live at
home, make it possible for them to
own a home, something very desir-
able to be encouraged instead of pen-
alized.

Why all this hysteria about state
taxes? The state tax is almost the
smallest item on my tax receipt.

The weight tax, while not fair, is
a far more just and workable tax
than the gas tax. A sales tax on gas
is absolutely indefensible, as all
such proposals to shift the burden of
taxation from the shoulders of the
rich to the backs of the poor arm—B.
B., Manistee County.

 

DO NOT CHANGE DATE OF
MEETING

EAR EDITOR:——In response to

Mr.Whitney’s idea to change the

time of our township meetings
from the first Monday in April to the
second Monday in May, I would say
that the people in general would
never see any gain if Mr. Whitney's
request was granted.

It is true that the condition of our
country roads are sometimes very
bad on the first Monday in April but
on the other hand the second Monday
in May we find nine farmers out of
ten fitting their ground and putting
in their crops.

Our grandfathers went to the
township meetings on the first Mon-
day in April with a yoke of oxen or
on foot. Our fathers went with a
horse and buggy or on horseback.
Today we are going with an auto-
mobile. And our sons and daughters
are planning how they will go with
airplanes. I think if the first Mon-
day in April was good enough for
our grandfathers and our fathers in
those days of poverty it is good
enough for us while we are enjoying
modern conveniences of life. Let
good enough alone—4. A.. Cheese-
ing, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

“HOW BILL BU m TIGER” BEGINS [N m mesa

meithnuchmgrotthatwelemedspaeewonldnotpermitour
publishing the first What of “Row B“! Bucket! the Tiger"

inthlslssueaswehadpromiaed. Topoblkbuiathleteeaewe
muldhavehadtoleaveoutatleeubwoofonrreguiermauso
we thought it best to beginthestery incur February l4th ism Do

notmieeit.

 v.’.‘<sir:+::s.. I;

 
        
 

    

  

.‘  . . I. A 2 a“. . "yum »—. -. w «. .9.

‘.,.’4‘1

'e‘g... _

 

'- .:«1\.'.

  

 
   


‘71» :.’ .

x 

. 3‘8

  
  

lo / ;
' r  --«-n:mmllfll m’liMi- 
— “7“ ‘  .

    

  
 
  
     
    

/

W ) ‘6-“0' w.-'.'.=,= i.“ «WV-3'4 w: "w u  433:»
,.. .. q I« «/ .'. ‘H, n. .4 fl
,. I,air/53333}?lliéimsal‘l'l. WW '4
 'a"-'4I§£Illi‘,'ulll’l'l m‘it‘ifla ::= "’ 'a will -‘ "

, I . l .

 

 

 

4.: 1‘ i W i
i ' , film 

 

  
 
 
   

Hill

/

7

11/ r"/’ M I

,I' W 
/ ’ r77 /

/// //
/  iii, P if};
, , ‘33 “.g   If: H’ {r

/- 6 ///flw I “uslitlilfil

,7/

 

\/ t
I

   
    
 
     

M“  “l:  .
’/ //  i ii iii [W

JIL

  

[u unnu_ mu ‘ III',‘\|_|_| Igg’ujmllll‘l. 'I|'II'II|‘I‘I,I1\|‘|I!!|

it

   

   
   

 
 

   
  

   

        

       
  

      
 

. M -'  ,, ’a ' 11'". ,"v‘\ i u“
‘ 39,1938, m -,«'L.‘.\‘w. M‘ZV" .‘m M‘ W W. M l‘
M“. H'- wsn‘fi‘fl'iu“, -"i’u""r':,‘u'.’. /"-L «'N ‘W'v \
. ‘ Jr"; 1- ‘1 « /.,I.y' ' \ ‘ ,i!
' {HATQQ-ul , I {Hi / [h N “If” \‘i‘\:\l‘;." ‘

fl
.1

You pay for it in extra time and labor
required to do your farm work without
a Fordson;

Pay for it in injury and strain to horses,
caused by putting them on work that
could be done more quickly and easily
with mechanical power;

Pay for it in smaller acreage tilled; in
land less thoroughly cultivated, due to
bad weather, holidays and lack of help;
Pay in extra time required for the



 

 

 ,

 

 
    

  
  
    
    
     
 
 
 
  
      
   

   

You Pay For a Fordson
‘ Whether You Own One or Not

hundred and one jobs that steal time

from money crops.

A Fordson is portable power that pays
for itself many times over. It costs
more to be without one than to
own it.

For wood cutting, manure spreading,
feed grinding, clearing land, pulling
out old fences—in brief, for mobile
power when and where needed, a
Fordson is the best investment you can
make in farm machinery.

 

s495

F.0. B. Detroit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

  

Wire Fences

When you put up Super-
Zinced Fence you make an
investment in better farm-
ing that adds to your farm
profits year after year.

Super-Zinced Fences are armored
against rust by an extra heavy
coating of zinc. We use a spec-
ial-formula steel and by our im-
proved procese the zinc is so
closely bonded to the wire that
it will not crack or peel.

Both Columbia Hinge-Joint
and Pittsburgh Perfect Stif-
Stay Fences are Super-Zinced
and we guarantee them to be un-
excelled in quality and durability.
Made in many styles for farm,
poultry, garden and lawn. Write
for Super-Zinced Fence Catalog
and farm account book, both
free.

Pittsburgh Steel Co.
709 Union Trust Bldg.
Pittsburgh, Pa.

    
   
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  

 

  

   

       
 

 

Mu WEAR-MORE Harness

0 DAYS'FREE

-thendecidei f I

5 Down if You De- ‘
cide to Keep it;
;. Balance on Easy —‘
MonthlyPayments 8”

rde-eirfimofsmdmgywrmam
—yeuupmyhgfiuboolcwhdiwdsdr
cribixm'ongmh-meumsdeSn

Use

      

 
 

 

    
    
 
  

r
i‘
is
S‘
i
i

 
  

SWygsu,
‘ Waste-nu

  
 

Sacha—rpmqu Wu l-MOIE
buckle in: cup pd] um N;
hood unfair. wll moaned like

mink

 

 

Two MILLIONS
BY 1930

This is a forecast of Detroi t’sgrowth,
based by its public utilities upon
past records.

Such progress assures Detroit real
estate values.

Carefully selected and appraised
Detroit apartment and office
buildings are the security back of
United First Mortgage Bonds.
9;; today. You can 
of an W you wish to

UNITED STATES MORTGAGE
BOND CO. LIMITED
HomrdC Wade. President

"ammonia... Dmorr.wcu

M -..,... *w” o.”

~Wm-..v M

    

'7'"'

. “I I I Resource
Q w more I an
. moon UNITED sio.ooo.ooo

F’Pbl » "E". A

BOND

  

g

   

 

 

 

 

 

ll '2 -_ »‘_‘._, _ N ..._,
 =‘-;‘ ‘1‘ i "‘ '

Broadscope Farm

 

 

 

 

N this department in our January
3rd issue mention was made of
the so-called Gas Tax. and among

other things was this question——
“How can any one oppose a gas tax?"
If one will read B. L153 article in
this issue in the “What the Neigh-
bors Say” department, he will at
least know why one man opposes it.
We are glad Neighbor B. B. comes
out and expresses his stand.

“What the Neighbors Say" depart-
ment is conducted for that very rea-
son; and, if you as a reader do not
agree with what you read in Tm;
BUSINESS FARMER don't be backward
in using this department to express
your opinions. If on the other hand,
you heartily approve of something
you read in THE BUSINESS anm,
“Say it with flowers". We like bo-
quets and will set them up in the de-
partment for all to enjoy!

0 O 0

More on Gas Tax

Perhaps a little more reasoning
of the gas tax as the writer compre-
hends it, will not be out of place at
this time. B. B.'s chief argument is
that a gas tax will shift the burden
of taxation from the rich to the poor.
I believe a gas tax will have .just the
opposite effect. Far be it from me to
be instrumental in shifting the rich
man’s tax on the poor man. That's
one reason I’m strong for a gas tax,
the poor man will pay more than his
share. However, if a poor man
wears out the road to the same ex-
tent the rich man does, he should
pay the same tax—no more and no
less.

Understand me, I do not favor a.
gas tax unless the present license fee
is greatly reduced. There are many
poor men in Michigan who cannot
get their licenses on January let
each year as our present license fee
requires. Twelve or fifteen dollars
is a big sum for them to pay all at
once. If they could get their license
for three or four, or possibly live dol-
lars, and pay the balance of their
just road tax in little installments of
ten or fifteen cents each time they
bought gas, they would find it much
easier.

The gas tax would be collected of
the wholesalers, and don't worry but
what barriers would be provided
making it impossible for the “Bus
companies and large trucking con-
cerns to import their gas, and there-
fore have no tax".

B. B. says a gas tax is a sales tax.
I don’t see it that way. A sales tax
is supposed to be paid by a manufac—
turer on his sales; and probably, in
most cases would be passed on to the
dear consumer. A highway mainten-
ance gas tax is not aimed at the man—
ufacturer of gasoline. It is aimed at
the user of the gas, and is simply a
very equitable means of revenue.
compelling those who buy gas for
transportation purposes to pay their
just portion of highway maintenance.

The fellow who drives his fiivver
twenty miles a day to his work" does
not expect to get the use of the high-
way for as little money as the fellow
who walks to work and leaves his
iiivver in the garage from Monday
morning until Saturday night. The
reason some men prefer living ten
or fifteen miles from their work is
generally because of lower rents or
taxes, as their case may be. This is
not a fact in all instances, but in
many. . .

A set license is fundamentally
wrong in more ways than one. Take
the fellow who lives in northern
Michigan where snow compels him to
lay up his motor for months at a.
time. Should he pay the same tax
we pay in southern Michigan where
our roads are always open? How-
ever, there are many here in south-
ern Michigan who drive little, if any,
during cold weather. Many do not.
buy their licenses until April or
later. Why should they pay the
same as the fellow who drives twelve”
months in the year? One buying a
new car in July has to pay just the
same license as the one who bought
his in January.

No mention was made in my for-
mer article about trucks and. basses

- grain... ~: ~  a-
N cw

Edited by L. W. Meeks, Hillsdale County

 
    

  
  
 

     

      

 

'-  ‘L' 
77d Viewsfi

S

 

 

 

 

monopolizing the road. On the con-
trary, they seem quite law abiding

. and obliging in most cases. B. B.

says the busses and trucks do not
own their roads and cannot sell them
as steam and electric roads do. No,
motor-bus and truck companies do
not own the roads, and cannot sell
them. while steam and electric com-
panies own their roads, and sell them
quite frequently of late, practically
all sales being forced sales under re-
ceivership. Have you heard of any
new railroads being built lately?

There is one thing many people do
not comprehend, viz; The state
voted a fifty million dollar bond is-
sue for roads. These bonds, as we
understand it, have all been issued
and this fifty million has practically
all been used in construction. This
money and the license fees, have un-
til recently kept the State Highway
Department going. From now on
additional means must be found to
provide for the current expenses of
the Highway Department and also
create a fund with which to retire
these bonds.

If the present license fee would
suffice, there are few who would ob-
ject so seriously to it, notwithstand-
ing all its unfairness. B. B. says the
auto values are only three per cent of
the assessed value of the state, and
are now paying double the tax of any
other property. Like Postum,
“There’s a reason". The Highway
Department is probably using more
money than all the other depart-
ments combined.

Our dog’s value is about fifty cents
but we have to pay a three dollar tax
on him just the same. There is a
damage done by dogs, and there
must be a tax on dogs high enough to
pay that damage. If the authorities
knew exactly what dogs it is do this
damage, those dog owners would
have to pay it. Surely no one would
think it right for the damage done by
dogs to be paid out of the general
tax, when two-thirds of the people
who pay general taxes do not own a
dog. No, let the dogs pay for their
damage. Likewise, let the autos pay
for their damage, and as we know
the auto which does the most dam-
age is the one which uses the road
most, it is a simple matter to make
that auto pay its reasonable share,
as they can’t run without gasoline.

B. B. is right in the statement that
his state tax is about the smallest on
the tax receipt. There is no hysteria
from this quarter about state taxes,
but there will be if the Highway De-

 

partment .is Compelled to add. ten, or.

fifteen million annually to the stator

budget in order to finance their road
program. This will quite likely-be
the case if the automobiles do not
shoulder their own burden with a
much higher license fee or a gas tax.

When a better plan is devised. we
will favor it, but just now a gas tax
seems the squarest deal for Michigan.
Thirty-six states of the Union‘ have
already imposed this levy, and some
states have had it for several years.
That a gas tax will not keep tourists
out of a state is proven by California,
where the tourist traffic is as great as
in Michigan. The California tax is
two cents. Florida is another tourist
state. Her tourists are increasing
very rapidly, and yet purchasers of
gasoline in Florida pay a tax of three
cents on each gallon bought.

Michigan is said to have as large
or larger tourist traflic as any state
in the Union, and we have, for this
traflic, constructed some of the finest
highways possible, and have provided
them with rest places, such as State
Parks, etc.

Why shouldn't we get two or three
cents from these tourists every fif-
teen or twenty miles to help pay for
the privileges they enjoy? They
won't object.

O II .
Tax Comlnissioner’s Report

Have you noticed the report given
out January 10th by State Tax Com-
missioner Lord? Here are some ex-
tracts and figures taken from it.
Fifteen years ago there was very lit-
tle public indebtedness. Today the
indebtedness of city, county and
state is $548,141,132. The annual
interest on this last year was $26,-
639,256. These interest charges
must be met annually, and the only
way this money can be raised is by
the levy of taxes on property. A
pay-as-you-go policy should be fol-
lowed as closely as possible from
blem for the farmer's wife. Now, by
now on.

Michigan has exempted real es-
tate, in the form of public institu-
ments, churches and property held
by churches to the value of $516,-
643,360. Wayne county’s exemption
alone is $180,227,293.

In 1913 the amount of taxes raised
upon the general properties of the
state was $50,569,766. In 1913 the
total tax levy was $170,094.457.
The average percentage increase in
taxes in the ten years was 236%.
The state increase was only 86%;
county increase 180%; township in-
crease 101%; school increase 329%;
highway 210%; county road 404%:
city taxes in general 287% and vii—
lage tax 161%.

There is much morelof interest in
the report but space allotted to the
Broadscope Farm department is fil-
led, and while we promised to tell
more of some alfalfa experiments in
this issue, it must of necessity wait
until the. next one.

RADIO DEPARTMENT

= Edited by J. HERBERT FERRIS, R. E. :2
Contributions invited—Questions Answered

M. A. C. BROADCASTING STATION
AGAIN ON AIR

AMES BLOOD HASSELMAN, di-

rector of publications at the Mich-

igan Agricultural College has
added to his numerous duties that of
acting as announcer for radio station
WKAR, the M. A. C. broadcasting
station which recently resumed
broadcasting. As the station has ar-
ranged a series of educational ad-
dresses to be broadcast Monday
nights between 7 and 8 o’clock by
members of the college faculty Mr.
Hasselman is likely to become the
best knOWn announcer on the air to
Michigan farmers.

Monday nights are to be devoted
mostly to educational programs but
Wednesday evenings from 8 to 9:15
college organizations will be put on
the air. Friday evenings various
entertainment provided by various
state departments are to arrange pro-
grams for broadcasting.

Athletic contests at the college are
to be broadcast play by play as was
the ‘custom with the old set. Mr.
Hasselman, who thoroughly under-
stands sport and has acted as 0th-
cial in the more important M. I. A. A.
and other games for some years, ob-
tained many compliments upon his
entertaining way of announcing.

games in the past and it is expected
that he will have a following of sport
fans tuning in for M. A. C.’s games
in the future.

The new set now being operated
by the college was donated by the
Detroit Mnwe and has a range prac-
tically as b.ea.t as any stations now
in operation. Itlis operated on a
wave length of 285.5 meters. —Law-
rence McCracken.

 

W'HY ANNOY YOUR NEIGHBOR
RE you continually tuning in
diflerent stations with your re-
generative receiver and causing
whistles in your neighbor's set so
that his evenings pleasure is spoiled?
That is what a single circuit receiver
as well as practically all regenerative
receivers will do if you tune them so
that they oscillate. When you do
that your receiver becomes a trans-
mitting set and sends out waves that
interfere with your friends reception.
Do not turn your tubes up too
high, and do not play with your tun-
ing dials. You should avoid getting
the whistle of the sending station
just as much as possible, for if your
set whistles you radiate energy out
for miles around. It's against the
law. ‘

 

Gmmmmrva-HAMMAAHAHH._.-..__.....

I—I
.4

Cmf‘fi

 


 

" so I LSA'N'D

C R OP

= Edited by C. J. WRIGHT, Cass County 

Contributions invited—Questions Answered

WHAT MAN HAS DONE WITH SOIL
GOD GAVE HIM
N my. previous article, I tried to
I acquaint the reader with God’s
way of soil building and with
the greatest law of the universe, that
matter cannot be destroyed, but ev-
ery plant and animal, after it has
1 grown dies and is eventually decom—
posed and the elements composing
them are released to enter again in
the structure of some other thing.

Man was created and given power
to use and compose various things
from this matter or‘element to suit
his needs and fancies, and in some
instances has used them wisely, yet
many times falling short of what he
might have done had he understood
this law of God better.

In the early period of man’s his-
tory he was forced to make his way
among animals, much superior to

him in brute force, but by his greater

intellectual and reasoning power he.

has succeeded in being king of the
animal kingdom,

Through the whole space of his ex-
istence he has been dependent on
both the animal and the vegetable
kingdom for his sustenance and well
being. Early in the game he found
out that some soils were better for
some plants than others, but why
this was, did not seem to be of much
concern to him, and he did not pay
very much attention to this phase of
the game, until he was asked to sup-
port his family, keep an automobile,
send his children to high school, pay
his taxes and pay for his farm that
is gradually yielding less year by
year in spite of better tools and equal
suffrage.

When he could not raise what he
wanted to, he did as his fellowman
has done up until very recently,
moved to new land. But there were
times when conditions kept him from
doing this, and he unconsciously
learned God’s way of soil building
and stayed where he was and tilled
the same soil for thousands of years
and is raising as much today, if not
more, than he raised in the begin—
ning. Thus we find places in Ger—
many, France, Belgium, China and
Japan where they raise more with
crude tools than we raise on our best
land with our up to date equipment.
You may ask what is the reason for
this and I will tell you that they are
using God’s great law and are put—
ting back in their soil as much. if not
more, element or matter than they
are taking out in their crop and that
is what we all must do if we want to
improve the soil of the farm on
which we live.

Let us go back and get man where
We left him a little while ago and
walk with him down through the
ages and see what he has been doing
all this time. First, we see him liv-
ing on plants and berries and some
meat that he is able to kill by his
advantage over the animal world.
Next, we see him cultivating a plant
of his liking with a sharp stick and
he notices it thrives better when he
lets air and water in the loose soil.
He begins to wonder that if he should
dig up the soil and plant the seeds of
his favorite plant it might grow bet—
ter, and lo and behold, it does. His
curiosity is aroused and he is con-
stantly looking for a better way to
grow his plants, finally he hitches the
cow on a large crooked stick and
plows quite a large space—whe finds
the plants grow better all the time
and he keeps on experimenting until
he has developed‘the farming tools
as we have them today and with each
advance in soil cultivation there has
accompanied it, a gradual decrease in
soil fertility. When the white man
came to America, the Indian showed
him how to girdle trees and plant
corn and potatoes in the soil around
the roots and the Red Man also
found out that year after year his
crops grew poorer on the same
ground so he would go to the lakes
and rivers or ocean and catch fish
and bury one by each or under each
hill of corn or potatoes and found
that his corn and potatoes were much
better than where he did not put the
fish. This is perhaps the first at-
tempt at soil betterment by man on
the 'American continent but then the
Indians never stopped to'reason out
why the fish raised the better corn

but unconsciously used God’s great__

   

 

law that matter cannot be destroyed
—-—but in this case it was changed
from fish to corn, a feat that Keller
or no other magician can do. The
white man has done this to some ex—
tent since with manure and commer~
cial fertilizer but not in a measure
commensurate with his soil robbery.
In the first place he only gets back on
the land if he is a good farmer a lit-
tle more than one-third of the vege-
table matter he feeds ‘and uses for
bedding on the farm, the rest is was-
ted through improper handling of
his manure and what he sells in the
shape of grain and livestock that,
unless he makes some provision to
get it back, goes to some other place
to become decomposed and return to
the soil and air from which it came.
So you can see that all he returns to
his farm is that portion of what he
feeds on the farm is returned in the
shape of barnyard manure and the
rest of his fertility he sends to some
other farm to be fed or to the
throngs of humanity in the cities and
towns of the country.

Now nature has given him a varied
supply of fertility according to the
type of his soil and by this constant
cropping he used this fertility and
unless he puts it back he is bound to
be the loser.

y,

 

8 I RE 88' "  I‘M ‘E‘R'V

_ Of the elements that nature gave
him in this soil are lime, phosphorus,
magnesium, iron, carbon, sulphur,
nitrogen, potash and many others
but the most essential to crop pro-
duction are nitrogen, potash, phos-
phorus and lime and unless you have
these elements in the proper balance
there is bound to be a curtailment in
plant growth even if the water and
tillage conditions are ideal. In my
next article I shall try and show
how these elements affect the growth
of plants.

 

VVITY I AM A CHRISTIAN

T is difi‘icult to set down the rea—
1 sons for one’s belief.

No one can perfectly describe
the inner proofs that he may feel
so surely.

First of all, I suppose I am a
Christian because my parents were.
Do not turn up a nose at that reason.
It is a good one. Family prayers
were a little dry, and I had to go to
Church a little more than/ I wanted
to, but the consistent lives of my
(tither and mother proved to me that
Lhristianity made good people. A
hundred little doubts have come to
my mind since I have grown up, but

"(249) is

the joyful and sacrificing lives at my
parents was too real to be denied.

Parents, you and I are rightly I.-
ious to give our children a good “ub-
ting out” in life. ‘I feel sure that a»
best gift we can give them is the ex-
ample of consistent lives, and the
memory of our devotion to remember
when we are gone. ‘

If our children believe in 11' they
will believe in our God. '-

A man once said this to me, “You
are a Christian because your parents
were, I am not a Christian because
my parents professed to be and were
not.”

I am a Christian because of the in-
spiring ideals that Christianity
brings to young people. Burn down
all the Churches, tear up all the New
Testaments, and in three generations
virtue will be a rare jewel.

I think We fail to see this: that the
ideals of personal purity, clean and
high thinking about life, devotion to
the heroic, all come, in the fullest
measure from Christianity.

Christianity appeals to me because
it condemns meanness and lowneu

in thought and action. Not that
Christians are perfect. I have met I.
few that said they were, but their

husbands and wives know better.
“There is about as much human
nature in one person as another, it
not a little more,” said wise old Da—
vid Harum. We are not put hereto
grow wings, but to grow up. Christ-
ianity condemns in a man the things
that are low and imperfect.
(Continued on Page 17)

 

FULL MONTHS to pay.

It runs on Ball Bearings!

coupon today.

no So. Michigan Ave.

 

 

 

Manufactured and ,
Guaranteed by

the World’s Largest
Manufacturer of Dairy
Farm Equipment!

-—and sold to you by a well-known dealer in your
own town, who provides such whole-hearted
service co-operation that your purchase is doubly
satisfactory. More than that, the local dealer
offers you the McCormick-Deerng BALL-
BEARING Primrose Cream Separator at an
ATTRACTIVE PRICE and gives you 12

Compare the McCormick-fleeting
Primrose With Any Cream Separator
You Ever Saw or Owned

Ask the McCormick-Deering dealer to bring a
machine out to your farm. Go over it with him.
Have him set it up and adjust it for you. Ask
him to demonstrate it fully. Give the bowl a
spin; you’ll find the McCormick-Deering
Primrose the Easiest-Running Cream Separator.

Liberal Terms

It ready cash is not plentiful, ask the dealer for
his easy terms. He will give you twelve full
months to pay. The World’s Easiest-Running
Cream Separator is also the Easiest to pay
for. Talk to your local dealer, or mail the

INTERNATIONAL HARvns'rnn COMPANY

0" AMERSCA
(Incorporated)

 

Chicago, Ill.

"  
~ BA LL-B-EARL G.

CREAM SEPARATO‘RS

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

   

 


 
  

    
  
 
  
  
 
 

 

   

. w b on:
Ind sell dim: to you.
mWBBOu . Abnmommpnthlv
pa u. _r 0 today tor prices
crlptive folder.
W. C. MULLER P"...
B”- sEPARK'ron co.
Dept WA us 8. Bourbon: St. .
Chime

 

 

“695 per 1000.
' we:

 
 
   

,v/

 z 5" .01
 TOWER

      
    

1: “f 
3"  , film‘s" Albion ml and wood mu
‘Iq. M “\ ._.d pome woman/.133":

 
 

 
    

in; parts of any other mill.

ly mam lemui baring subyecl lo i
wear. ~Tln's u oilllu, and easily u:-
plnceable. Govern: by dependable
weighl Without springs. Flu any 4pc“
le-cl lower. Why not shorten our (bore

now with A good 'mdmill).

This is your chance—F. O. B.
Albion. Erectilyouncil. Ask you!
dealer. or write dilecl to

Union Steel Products Co. Ltd.
_ Dept. 34
Albion, Mich.. U. 8. 54

’ \APERMAN'ENCE

HOOSIER GLAZED an...
I SILOS are best, first. because
A 6" hollow wall
node of ganed tile reen-
fqrced every coursv of blocks
mtlr galvanized steel cable.
continuous doors set flush
With inside wall allows even
settling of eusilngc. Better
ulos made possible by our in-
creasod cfi‘lciency in methods
manufacture, sale and dis~

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

0
'<
_
D
or
so

     
 
 
 

  

     
 
 
      
     

 
 
  

   

I

"O
1""
c‘

r:

_.

E

 
 
      
 

. ’l‘crritory openings
for dealers. Buy your 8110
surly 11 ml swve till”? [1an money.

    
   
 

Hooslor Bldg. Tlls & Sllo 00.
Dept. MB-17 Albany. Ind.

DON’T WEAR
A TRUSS

BE COMFORTABLE—

Weur the Brooks-Appliance, the
.Idem scientific invention which
files rupture sufferers immediate
(clef. has no obnoxious

may or .pnds. Automatic Air
ions bind and draw together
Ba broken parts. No salves or
ors. Durable. Cheap. Sent on
i to )rore its worth. Be-
ware of lmltathlls.
portrait and signature of
ra.on every Appliance. None other genuine.
4 ll information and booklet; free in plain sealed
Melons.
"MKS APPLIANCE (20.. 297A SIAIE $1.. MARSHALL. MIC".

STRAWBERRY PLANTS

$3  Per 1000, and up, Our stLong, healthy,
' tremendous bearing plants guarantee
big crops of luscrous berries. .Best varieties for all
kinds of soda. Many new varieties such as Eaton,

ier and Cooper. The world’s greatest new
Everbearmg Strawberry MASTODO

Full line of Raspberries, Blackberries.

and Asparagus, Roses. Ornamentals.

In"! La e St k of ad
Refined at £8.00 Sgrthouggnd Grape Plants

    

 

 

MICE. suonxs
Lookaor trade-mark bearing

Brooks which no-

Beautiful new color catalog free. Write Today.

KIDGMAN NURSERY C0. : Box 27, Bridgman. Mich.

 

      
 

 A

"EIGHT EPA! ‘
Good News! Peerless prices still
lower. Peerless quality higher than
mr— and we ay freight any-
mre on Fence, toe] Posts, Gates,
fin and Paints! Write now for
law F E lOé-page CATALOG to
PERLESS WIRE & FENCE 00.
N we Cleveland, Ohio

Dewberry Plants

4 for 25c; 25 for $1.00. 12 Grape Vines for
$1.00; 3 Peach Trees, $1.00; Hollyhock seed,
10c packago.

IARSHALL VINEYARD, Paw Paw. Mlchlgsn.

 

Free catalog in colors explains

how you can save
, money on arm Truck or Road
‘“ Wagons, also steel or wood wheels to fit
, any to n ning
. Send for

ttoday.

acculch no.
72 n- sunmm m.

Million Strawberry Plants

Raspberries. Grapes. Bulbs,
Seeds. Chicks. Illustrated catalog free.

hum Plant Nursery, Box 51, Men-m, Mich.

  

 

S AWBERRY PLANTS

 
  

   
 

- ‘ 'l' .
,_, . bong B kberry. Grape, etc; Orngunentsls.
1’   . Seeds. unrontoed. Price. low.
 ' .. . " ' a «lam. Brldnmsn. Mich. l

 

   
  

 

 

 

ndian'

By William Macl-larg and Edwin 3.1....

Copyright by Edwin Balms:

 

 

SUMMARY OF OUR STORY TO DATE

lock back from the beach and from this copse there comes at time of

NEAR the northern end of Lake Michigan there is a copso of pine and hem-

storm is sound like the beating of an Indian drum.
tradition says, whenever the lako took a life.

This drum heat, so
During December, 1-895, 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 Spearmnn 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.
A young man, known as Alan Conrad, appears at the Sher-rill homo
Alan, since a small child, has lived with a. family

disappears.
asking for Benjamin Corvct.

Then Corvet

in Blue Rapids, Kansas. and neither he or the family know who his father or

mother is.

would receive pay for taking care of the boy.
the mails but never knew who sent it.

He was left with this family by a man who told the people they

They received money through
Then Alan receives a, letter from Ben

,Corvet to come to Chicago and Alan rushes there thinking that Corvot could
tell him something about his parents, but arrives after Corvet disappeared. He

goes to the Shel-rill home and talks with Constance and Mr. Shel-rill.

He de-

cides Corvet is his father and upon being given a. key goes to Corvet’s house.
Alan discovers a. man ransacklng the house and grapples with him but he

escapes.

 

 

(Continued from January 17th issue.)

HE had not designated any hour for
breakfast, and she supposed that,
coming from the country, he would

believe breakfast to be early. But when
she got downstairs, though it was nearly
nine o’clock, he had not come; she went
to the front window to watch for him, and
after a few minutes she saw him ap-
proaching, looking often to the lake as
though amazed by the change in it.

She went to the door and herself let
him in.

“Father has gone down-town," she told
him, as he took off his things. “Mr.
Spearman returns from Duluth this morn-
ing, and father Wished to tell him about
you as soon as possible. I told father
you had come to see him last night; and
he said to bring you down to the office."

“I overslept, I’m afraid," Alan said.

“You slept well, then?”

“Very well after a, Whilo.

"I’ll take you down—town myself after
breakfast.”

She said no more but led him into the
breakfast room. It was a delightful,
cozy little room, Dutch furnished, with a.
single wide window to the cast, an enor-
mous hooded fireplace taking up half the
north wall, and blue Delft tiles set above
it and panele in the walls all about the
room. There were the quaint blue wind—
mills, the fishing boats, the baggy--
brceked, wooden-shod folk, the canals and
barges, the dikes and their guardians,
and the fishing ship on the Zuydcr Zoe.

Alan gazod about at these with quick,
appreciative interest. His qualitv of in—
stantly noticing and appreciating any—
thing unusual was, Constance thought,
one of the pleasantcst and best character-
istics.

“I like those too; I selected them my-
self in Holland," she observed.

She took her place beside the coffee
pot, and when he remained standing—
“Mother always has her breakfast in
bed; that’s your place,” she said.

He took the chair opposite her. There
was fruit upon the tanle; Constance took
an orange and passed the little silver
basket across.

“This is such a. little talble; we never
use it if there's more than two or three
of us; and we like to help ourselves here.”

“I like it very much.” Alan said.

“Coffee right away or later?”

"Whenever you do. You see," he ex—
plained. smiling in a way that pleased
h'er, “I haven’t the slightest idea what
else is coming or whether anything more
at all is coming.” A servant entered,
bringing cereal and cream; he removed
the fruit plates, put the cereal dish and
two bowls before Constance, and went
out. “And if any one in Blue Rapids,"
Alan went on, “bad a man waiting in tho
dining-room and at least one other in the
kitchen, they would not speak of» our
activities here as ‘helping ourselves.’
I’m not sure just how they would speak
of them; we—the people I was with in
Kansas—had a maidservant at one time
when we were on the farm, and when we
engaged her, she asked, 'Do you do your
own stretching?’ That meant serving
from the stove to the table, usually."

He was silent for a few moments; when
he looked at her across the table again,
he seemed about to speak seriously. His
gaze left her face and then came back.

“Miss Sherrill,” he said gravely, “what
is, or was, the Miwaka? A ship?"

He made no attempt to put the ques-
tion casually; rather, he had made it
more evident that it was of concern to
him by the change in his manner.

“The Mlmaka?” Constance said.

“Do you know what it was?"

"Yes; I know; and it was a ship."

"You mean it doesn’t exist any more?"

“No; it was lost a long time ago.”

“On the lakes here?”

“On Lake Michigan.”

“You mean by lost that it. was sunk?"

“It was sunk, of course; but no one
knows what happened to it—whether it
was wrecked or, burned or morely found—
ered." ’  .

The thought of the unknown fate of

'r

 

the ship and. crew—of the ship which-i.

 

had sailed and never reached port and
of which nothing ever had ‘been heard
but the beating of the Indian drum—set
her blood tingling as it had done before,
when she had been told about the ship,
or when she had told others about it and
the superstition connected with it. It was
plain Alan Conrad had not asked about it
idly; something about the Miwaka had
come to him recently and had excited
his intense concern.

“Whose ship was it?" he asked.
father’s?”

“No; it belonged to Stafford and Rams-
dell. They were two of the big men of
their time in the carrying trade on the
lakes but their line has been out of bus-
iness for years; both Mr. Stafford and
Mr. Ramsdell were lost with the Miwaka."

“W'ill you tell me about it, and them,
plcase?"

“I've told you almost all I can about
Stafford and Ramsdell, I’m afraid; I’ve
just heard father say that they were men
who could have amounted to a great
deal on the lakes, if they had lived—
cspecially Mr. Stafford, who was very
young. The Miwaka was a. great new
steel ship—~built the year after I was
born; it was the first of nearly a dozen
that Stafford and Ramsdell had planned
to build. There was some doubt among
lake men about steel boats at that time;
they had begun to be built very largely
quite a few years before, but recently
there had been some serious losses with
them. Whether it was because they were
built on models not fitted for the lakes,
no one knew; but seVeral of them had
broken in two and sunk, and a good
many men were talking about going back
to wood. But Stafford and Ramsdell be-
lieved in steel and had finished the first
one of their new boats.

“She left Duluth for Chicago, loaded
with ore, on the first day of December,
with both owners and part of their fam-
ilies on board. She passed the $00 on
the third and went through the Straits
of Mackinac on the fourth into Lake
Michigan. After that, nothing was ever
heard of her."

“So probably she broke in two like the
others?”

“Mr. Spearman and your father thought
so; but nobody ever knew—n0 wreckage
came ashore-—no message of any sort
from any one on board. A very sudden
winter storm had come up and was at its
worst on the morning of the fifth. Uncle
Benny—your father—told me once, when
I asked him about it, that it was as
severe for a time as any he had ever ex-
perienced. He very nearly lost his life
in it. He had just finished laying up
one of his boats—the Martha Corvet—at

“hay



Martha Corvet, were 
a tug with a crew of four men to Mani-
towoc, where they were going to layup
more ships. oThe captain and one of the
deck hands of the tug were washed over-
board. and the engineer was lost trying
to save them. Uncle Benny and Mr.
Spearman and the stoker brought the tug
in. The storm was worst about five in
the morning. when the Miwaka. sunk."

"How do you know that the Miwaka.
sunk at five," Alan asked, “if no one ever
heard from the ship?"

“Oh; that was told by the Drum!”

“The Drum?”

“Yes; the Indian Drum!
course you didn't know. It’s a. supersti-
tion that some of the lake men have,
particularly those who come from people
at the other endof ahe lake. The Indian
Drum is in the woods there, they say.
No one has seen it; but many people be-
lieve that they have heard it. It’s a spirit
drum which beats, they say, for every
ship lost on the lake. There’s a partic-
ular superstition about it in regard to the
Miwaka; for the drum beat wrong for the
Mikawa. You see, the people about there
swear that about five o’clock in the morn—
ing of the fifth, while the storm was blow—
ing terribly, they heard the drum beat-
ing and knew that a ship was going
down. They counted the sounds as it
beat the roll of the dead. It beat twenty-
four before it stopped and then began to
beat again and beat twenty-four; so,
later, everybody knew it had been beat-
ing for the Miwaka; for every other ship
on the lake got to port; but there were
twenty-five altogether on the Miwaka, so
either the drum beat wrong or—-” she
hesitated.

“Or what?”

“Or the drum was right, and some one
was saved. Many people believed that.
It was some years before the families of
men on board gave up hope, because of
the Drum; maybe some haven’t given up
hope yet."

Alan made no comment for a moment.
Constance had seen the blood flush to his
face and then. leave it, and her own pulse
had beat as swiftly as she rehearsed the

superstition. Ah he gazed at her and
then away, it was plain that he had
heard something additional about the

Miwaka—something which he was trying
to fit into what she told him.

“That’s all anybody knows?”
came back to her at last.

“Yes; why did you ask about it—thc
leaka? I mean, how did you hear
about it so you wanted to know?"

He considered an instant before reply-
ing. \ “I encountered a reference to the
Miwaka—I supposed it must be a ship—
in my father’s house last night."

His manner. as he looked down at his
coffee cup, toying with it, prevented her
then from, asking more; he seemed to
know that she wished to press it, and he
looked up quickly.

“I met my servant—my father’s ser-
vant—this morning.” he said.

“Yes; he got back this morning. He
came here early to report to father that

His gaze

he had no news of Uncle Benny; and

father told him you were at the house
and sent'him over.”

Alan was studying the coffee cup again,
a queer expression on his face, which she
could not read.

“He was there when I woke up this;
morning, Miss Sherrill. I hadn‘t heard
anybody in the house, but I saw a little
table on wheels standing in the ball out-
side my door and a. spirit lamp and a
little coffee pot on it, and a man bending
over it, warming the cup. His back was
toward me, and he had straight black
hair, so that at first I thought he was a.
Jap; but when he turned around, I saw
he was an American Indian.‘

“Yes; that was Wassaquam."

(Continued in February 14th issue.)

 

Please mail me the 2 last copies of
THE BUSINESS FARMER. I have not re~
ceived them and do not want to miss one
copy as yours is the best farm paper.—
James O‘Connor, Jr., Bay County, Mich.

WHERE OUR READERS leE

 

Isiti‘iven’tti yoiha pictuge of tyo'i‘llr himre or farm
ow ie‘o ier mem era 0 is insiness I“ ’ ' d k
are an "gm u the details Show up welL armors large family where you hire. Ko 21

Do not send us the negatives, just a goo

  

buildings that we can print under this heading?

lctures
print.

 

HOME or sin. AND MRS. w. G. FOX, PEOK, MICHIGAN

This fine home, on tho farm or Mi. and Mrs. W. G. Fox, 0!. Pack ' ' l ‘ : i ‘
containing furnace, bath, oleotrlc lights and rfinnin ' ' ! is “riot y n” 
.i- :the nicest ‘ homes iii _ Sanity)" housing. ~

\ .

r water. ‘It‘zlll a paid of,

      

   
 
  

 

Losing the" lake in

I forgot; of '

  
           
  
       
        
  

‘vl

 

 



   
  

  


    

'33333 3',

it w?

.u. 3
-‘ " 4:2

 

 

.worth of apetight.

THE PRESIDENT EATS A
$1.25 LUNCH
EAR EDITOR:———Ever since Pres.
Coolidge came out to the s‘ock
show at Chicago I been thinking
about how he et in the ordinary din—
ing car a dinner for $1.25. At least
the papers said he did. Now when
a man with a celary of 75 Thousand
dollars a yr. and probly an exspents
account besides, can feel satisfied
with what you can get in a dining
car for $1.25 he sure is economickle,
and if he can make it the fashion in
Wash. DC. he will be a real states-
man.

The more I think of it the more
I wonder how in tarnation he did it.
I. aint never et much in dining cars
but at the seldom times I did about
all I could get for $1.25 was a glass
of ice water and an aggrevation of
the apetight. It would cure me of a
lot of wondering and no dout be valu—
able information to the travailing
public if some smart reporter would
find out just how much there was to
that dinner and print it in the
papers.

It might be that the ethiopians
that bring in the victuals looked at
the firm, lean liniments of his face
and took him for a minister with a
considerable family and had compas-
sion for him and only charged 15
price. Or maybe he remembered the
saying about the empty wagon mak-
ing the biggest noise. Anyway there
wasn’t nothing empty about that
speech he made. '

Then again it might be some of
the folks back at Plymouth, Vt.,
heard he was going and fixed him up
a train lunch, and if they did it
aint no wonder he only had $1.25
It’s funny how
a mess of victuals only big enough
to last a school boy through morning
recess can put into a train lunch
and keep a big hungry man from

wanting anything to eat for a couple

of'days.

The train lunch deluxe, as it would
be called if it were advertised, would
make pretty good eating it it wasn‘t
packed in a shoe box. The mellow
aroma of nice new leather has a
partickler charm for me. As a smell
it cant be beat. But when it oozes
into eatables. like the devils went
into the swine, and changes itself
into a taste, the charm is all gone.

The ordinary or garden variety of
train lunch which is tied up with
paper and string and forced by main
strength and awkwardness into a suit
case which is badly bloated already
aint no better. When it comes out
the sand witches is warped like the

fenders of a 2nd hand ford and you i

can’t hardly eat them‘ without a look~
ing glass. The butter tastes more
like the banana than it does like
butter, and the banana is squashed
like the stuff the girls smear on
their faces instead of washing. The
hard—boiled eggs is suffering from
traxture of the skull, but probly
could be et if there was any salt,
which there aint. The pickles is the
only thing that aint a total loss, and
they are most always ok if you scrape
off the wet crumbs and cake frosting.
Anyway since that trip to the stock
show and the speech he made there
Pres. Cal makes a. bigger hit with me
than he ever did before the election,
which shows theres a big difference
between him and a politician.
Yours truely, HARRY VETCH.

The Uneeeommodatinz I’ll!

A doctor brought a dyspeptic a big
brown pill. “I want you to try this pill
at bedtime." he said. “It's a new treat-
ment. and if you can retain it on your
stomach it ought to cure you."

The next day the doctor called again.

“Did you manage to retain that pill on
your stomach?" he asked eagerly.

"Well. the pill was all right as long as
I kept make. but every time I fell asleep
it rolled emf—Selected.

 

Willing To Learn

The new settler was busy in m. man
with a rake and hoe when his neighbor
came along. “I am new to the country
and em not too .prOud to learn." laid the
newoomer, "and I wish you would give me
a bit of advice." "Certainly," replied
the other. “Well. I want to raisesoxne
chickens and what I ,want to know' is
(hie: do you plant the me in'rowe or

do you broadcast motor—Newest

humor.

me 3. “Can” u, roar
-  "1» means; a... a... ...
editor entrain-be  ’ um " " . v ‘

 

 
 

I: ""

  

 

 

"MIL;

llllli’.

'l‘lll
n
null

.lllltlfir'élllll

I“
:1

. .lllllll'f-Hlll

' ‘III'I
I... ‘I

H

, .
I

.3.“

i

ll

\.-.nlll

IIII"'I‘
V“

Till

"I
‘-
h:

‘ llll

“III'

ll'ln ll
w

lllll‘

I

.'l ~

"II-III
I
III'I.‘ I

IDIIII'
-—A

llll..

u-Ill
'-

_..lll

Ivl'l‘lll‘
A

Inn"

‘

I‘d-u

...l “I
V.
\e»-'I||

l

' 'IN

I. I
ill

..um.§.lll

w!

.11.

Ill

.. n-n

'.*‘.Z‘..‘.'.’.'m:o~:ii.ittftm

I

. was?"

ell-e
‘0
" ll

'lll

I
’-
9-0

1‘
-

‘Cllu.
I‘ll]!-

I II'I
I...‘.-I

'lll '

nuuu“ ,
|1I|II-.'.u

.ll

91",“

Au!"

1
-

J

"(I Inn-I“

ll;;—‘.'.+'.%Z.‘YllllllSlllllrsE-Elll

" .IIw-II

 

     

 
     
    
    
  

  

   
 

per acre.

 Grain Drills
 Lime Sowers

 Black Hawk Spreaders

-Auo--uuu.uun..nun"...-..............
...........

Mail This Coupon To
Bigger Grain Profits thisYear

LAN now for bumper crops —-:.better grain and more bushels
And start right by planting right.
even, accurate sowing in a roomy seed bed and an even covering
of 5011. Good seeding is a certainty if you- plant your grain with

FARMERS’ FAVORITE GRAIN DRILL

The Favorite of Good Farmers Since 1848

 

 

Farmer’s Favorite The American Seeding
Machine Co., Inc.,
422 Monroe Street,

Springfield, Ohio.

 Alfalfa Drills Gentlemen: Please so
Com Drills formation about thengnitucllliim-
 checked. "85
.. Beet & Bean Drills NAME
. ” Evans POtatO Planters ..................................... ..
ADDRESS ..................... ..

 

  
 

A scientifically
strong and
gearing.

the New Black

 

lllllé'rlfillllifillllfif-fifiiillll

  

Black Hawk
Manure Spreader
designed
sturdily built spreader.
positive feed. does
not choke and is free from cog

Does a perfect job on
hillsides and level ground.

Write for full details

Farmers’ Favorite Drills

a n a mail coupon.

Has a

Use
Hawk 40A.

 

422 Monroe Street,

day~ for

better seeding that runs back for three—quarters
of a century. These drills are known for quality
in every grain—growing country in the world.
They are exceptionally well built to give long
years of good seeding service.

Find out about today’ 8 Farmers’ Favorite.
If you need a Lime Sower, Corn Drill,

Beet and Bean Drill, Alfalfa Drill or Potato Planter,
please note the fact on the coupon. Farmers’ Favorite
quality and low prices will interest you.

The American Seeding Machine Co.

Springfield, Ohio

 
 

; w -- "Inn-q 1.. “Ll
' slimifillmllllmllllklhe

\l

retell

lIlllll .

lllll'é.

{ii

I. . . In!!!
.e—w
Ie-Illnel

   
 

...um_ ‘-

 

I'l'l
I

llllll 

'I
‘
In

Il'h'
‘-
lu I

That means

lull. In...“
unleil""|llll

ifiifilllll'

"illll

llllllll .
v
Ulhulll

have a reputation for

ll:ElllllJiiffll'Jlliillll

l .

"ll...
III-II

i

ll

~lll III!

Write or

ill

III I
III
III-nu

l

-- “I!
lulu-u... '

"ll". llnlul'"
.nul

'lullllule
lieu-ul- l

.llllioflil

    

 

u («w I .

.3: 5 ‘3

elf ' \\ ‘5‘:

{.41  n..- : 

- MC /':@M°-~% :EF:

M f z

\ «game v.” “wwfés: 

1‘5 WNVG- ' (6“ 1“ E

Q .1 :

- ill-«4” “9‘ “ ~~ 5 

no III-l. pul I I l"'-I-'-. I In: . I. l l nu- d‘ H- e-e nlIl lI-Il-vel lfi
:llllrmmlllfifiéfilllll...um.u.Illlllfillllfimfillfllfihlll%lllfiihkllli%mlhm lit-mllfilifiérr:

 

 

 

Whatsbout your soil?—your crops?
Are they big and sturdy as they
~ should be? Find out today with our
free Litmus Test Papers—-positive
sour 3011 test recommended by all
901] experts. Write for them'now.

THE HOLDEN CO..lnc.
Dept 230 Peorla

Sour soil means poor crops. Experts agree fertilizer is useless on sour soil—it must have lime.
The “Holden” Spreader makes bigger crops. Guaranteed to handle lime in any form,i'ertilizer.
‘_ g phosphate, gypsum, wood ashes or crushed shells.
Son  Cannot Clog. Try Spreader 10 days Free.

The Holden Lime and Fertilizer Spreader will make your
sell healthy and productive. Spreads twice as far as any
other; 16% ft. Attaches to any wagon or truck. . . A
N 0 holes to bore. Spreads evenly 100 t010.000 ‘
lbs. per acre Handle material only once, from
car to field. Get literature and low prices now
and ask about 10 Day Free Trial.

/W£-§-  Hm
sfirnesust ‘FE 

Illinois

Lime and Fertilizer

S 0 reader

 
 
 

 

   
     
 

We Myke Them From Your season's Catch at Low Prlc
We Will tan your pelts and manufacture them into anoy‘l
size of coat, robe, neck piece, cape. cap, mittens at lowelt‘i
prices. Finest workmanship, best linings and findings,
accurate .measurements, guaranteed by old reliable
house, Wlth an experience of 43 years back of every
order executed for you.

Your finest trophies are Pnfe—gnnrded when sent to us. Refer-
epges f'urms’lled. Send Us a trml crucr. Wi no for illustrated free

ur -nn .
READING HUBER-TANNING (10.. 6| r“r*"_.r’nnr‘llnz.MIC'L

 

 

 

 

Disek

 
 
  

more DOllm“ ’

Per Here by practising

 
 

You Get

befierl’illage with
C

3n

0

D

The

Jar

,RROW38. - ow
swings-idle?
‘9'! vol: co. slog.
at... cm

4.3
Cutaway
I. Id-

      
 

   

 

HIP your Fruits, Veg-

etables, Poultry, Eggs
and Veal and receive
Detroit Prices. Prompt
returns.

Henry T. Fraser
Detroit, Mich.

Rem—Board of Commerce,
V Wayne County a Mom Calm lent.

     
      

  
 

  
 

 

 

 

 

 

For Best Results Ship Direct
V TO '
Detroit Beef Co., Detroit, Mich.

Dressed Calves
Dressed Hogs
Suckling Pigs
Live Poultry
Dressed Poultry

WRITE FOR FREE SHIPPERS GUIDE

 

 

 

 

 

THE BUSINESS FARMER
“The Farm Paper of Service”
TELL YOUR FRIENDS 

   

(261) .‘ 1n-

  
      
    
     
 
     
    
    
  
  
 
   
 
  
     
 
  
  
     
    
   
   
  
   
   
 
  
 
   
   
  
   
  
 
  
    
 
  
 
  
  
   
  
 
  
  
      
  
   
      
      
  

 
    


 

 

V 12' » (252) j v _ ~
Thecflfz'cizigaéz
BUSINESS FARM ER



 

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1925

 

Edited Ind Published by
THE RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. IIO.
GEORGE M. SLOCUM. Proflm‘
Mt. Clemens. Mlshlgnn I
Malt (“Foe—818 Wushinxmu Boulevnrd 31th., Callie 944.
Rel-resented in New York Chicago. St. um. um mmenpolil Iv
the Associated F‘srm Papers. Incorporated
Member of Agriculhinl Publishers Association
Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation.

 

 

 

Won Crhmell..._ .Mans s Editor
Mn Annie Tnylor  Fsm lome Editor
Frank WQ‘HI_  Fruit Editor
J. Herbert. Ferris Radio Editor

 

 

gur'es A, .chsl Editor
. W. Foote_. __,_._,,,_______._‘__._._.__,._,__.______,,,____,_._.__._. Market Editor
In. .lnhn w, Holland ___________________________________________ .. Religious Editor
Carl R. K

Swingle...

 

 

 

m‘l  special (‘orrespondrnt
10M" J- “H'Olmn . Circulation Manages
v “1 Griffith ..  ......_,._...._..._..Auditor
0317 3‘. Hlpkina. ....................................... __Phnt Superintendent

 

Published Bl-Weekly
ONE YEAR 800. TWO YEARS $1. FIVE YEARS 52,
The date following your name on the address label shows when
your subscription expires. In renewing kindly send this label to
IVOlfl mistakes. Remit by check, draft, moneyorder or registered
inter; stamps and currency are at your risk. “’0 acknowledge
by first-class mail every dollar received.

 

Advertlslng Rates: 4550 per agate line. 14 lines to the column
hch, 772 lines to the ring“. l"l:it rates. .
leo Stock and Auctlon Salc Advertising: We offer special bl
rates to reputable breeders of live stock and po'fltry; wnto Ill.
RELIABLE ADVERTISERS
We will not knowingly accppt tllc advertising of any
firm who we do not believe tn be thoroughly honest an
Bhnnld any readPr lmve any muss for complaint against any sd-
vertiscr In those columns. the publisher would appreciate nn im-

on or
reliable.

mediate letter bringing all facts to light. In every case when
writing say: "I '31:“ your advcrtisement in The Mil-Juan Dunno”
merl” It Will guarantee honest dealing.

" The Farm Paper of  ”

 

\VHAT‘S IN ‘A NAME?

EP. A. C. McKlNNON of Bay City, has intro-
duced a bill in the State Legislature provid-
ing for a change in the name of the Michigan

Agricultural College to “Michigan State College
of Agriculture, Engineering, Art and Sciences,"
with the understanding that only the first three
words would be generally used. ‘

The statement is made that this change is
largely favored by the alumni, the State Grange
and other farmers’ organizations who have gone
on record in favor of it. We seriously question
this statement although we do not dOubt for one
minute but what many of the students at the
college would much prefer a fancy name as their
seven to one vote last spring indicated.

If it is the wish of the farmers of this State
and their organizations that the name of the
Michigan Agricultural College, which has stood
with an unblemished record behind it for so many
years, should be now changed to the “Michigan
State College", then THE BUSINESS FARMER will
bow to their wishes and encourage such a move,
but until we are convinced of this fact we shall
take such means as are at our command to cir-
cumvent any such action.

At the bottom of this page you will find I.
coupon which you can either cut out or use simi-
lar wording on a postal card addressed to the
Editor which we hope will bring a. general ex-
pression from our readers; and if at the same
time you, who are interested, will take this mat-
ter up at the next meeting of your local farmers"
organization and give us the vote of your mem-
bership as to whether it should be changed or
not we will publish all these facts in our next
Issue and be guided by the result of these returns.

We do not regard this entirely as a matter of
Sentiment. Perhaps we hold to the old-fashioned
idea. that the Michigan Agricultural College
should be a. School for teaching agriculture in its
various branches.

This state supports one of the finest universities
in the world at Ann Arbor which teaches all of
the subjects covered by M. A. C. except Agricul-
ture and how the present plan of operating two
great institutions teaching the same subjects has
grown up we do not profess to know, and that is
outside of the discussion we are now involved in.

We believe that this is a matter which should
be entirely left to an expression of the farmers
and farming interests in the State of Michigan
and that the attempt to force this thru the legis—
lature, before proper discussion, is untimely and
unwarranted.

We will greatly appreciate a prompt response
tom our readers to this request for an expression
of their views on what we consider to be a highly"
important matter.

DR FRIDAY FOR SECRETARY

R. DAVID FRIDAY, former president of M.

A. C.. has been prominent in the papers dur-

lng the past week as the most likely candl—
dnte for Secretary of Agriculture. His prom-
hen-ce comes from the fact that he more nearly
Insets the specifications set down by President
Coolidge and that he is understood to meet the
wishes of Secretary of Commerce. Hoover. who
he taken an active Interest In the appointment.
Mr. Hoover last week indicated thst he might
resign from the Cabinet unless there was" t
 h the antagonistic sttitpdo of_t_h_e onlctsts

    

    

 ;S  Si 1»

promptly offered Mr. Hoover the job of reorgan-
izing the agricultural department for himself.
Mr. Hoover declined the position, but the net
result of his effort has been to clarify the Admin-
istration's policy and to win the assurance that
no man to whom the Secretnry of Commerce ob-
jects will be named Secretary of Agriculture.
There is little information on which to base a.
guess as to who will be appointed. Mr. Coolidge
is keeping his own counsel, as he has with re-

gard to the other recent changes in the Cabinet. v

No less than 50 men have been suggested, but
the President appears still to be groping for the
man who fits his requirements.

Dr. Friday is well known to the readers of
THE anmsss Futures and that he has our un-
bounded faith and respect goes without saying.
By all means he has the training and experience
to fill the job at this particular time.

No man is better prepared to lay out and carry
forward a safe and sound policy for the better—
ment of the farmers’ economic condition and
certainly the problem of agriculture in America.
today is not, how to grow 'more crops, but how
to market at a profit those we are already grow-

.ing.

President Coolidge could make no mistake in
offering to Dr. Friday the portfolio of Secretary
of Agriculture in his cabinet and we predict that
he would make a record for himself which would
be little less than a sensation.

THE NE“? GASOLINE TAX

8 we write this every indication is that a gas-
oline tax of two cents per gallon will be in
process of operation even before this page

reaches our readers, so even at the risk of crow-
ing too soon we are going to take a. little credit
to ourselves.

There are those who do not believe that the
gasoline tax, so—called, is the best scheme for
raising money for highway construction and re-
pairs; but none of the arguments advanced by
these individuals have ever convinced us that we
were wrong in promoting a gasoline tax for that
purpose in this state.

We have not seen figures used elsewhere, but
our own tabulations would indicate that the total
amount extracted under the new plan from the
average automobile owner will not be over $12
to $16 per year, and this will be taken painlessly
at the time he “fills 'er up” so that as a matter
of fact it will be an easier tax to pay than the
old horse—power and weight license syste

It is a fact too, that all who use the highways
by consuming gasoline in motor vehicles of any
kind will pay, approximately, their just share of
the expense of maintenance. The heavy truck
will consume a much greater quantity of gasow
line than the light automobile and will thus pay
in proportion as it wears the road. We cannot
predict at this time what the weight tax will be,
but indications are that the license tax will be
much less for the average automobile owner than
in 1924.

We commend the way in which the administra-
tion has put this measure thru the present ses-
sion and we hope that nothing will develop
which will prevent its going into immediate oper—
ation and that it will be satisfactory to the
majority of automobile and truck owners. we are
not in the least’fcarful.

To a few individuals, we feel like saying “We
told you so", but we won't!

ARE YOU GOING TO EAST LANSING?

F you live within a hundred miles of East Lan-
I sing you owe it to yourself and family to
spend at least one day at the annual Farmers'
Week meetings to be held from Monday, Febru-
ary 2nd to Thursday, the fifth, at the Michigan
Agricultural College.
Every year has seen the attendance increased
and for no other reason than that the Farmers’

 

 

EDITOR, THE BUSINESS FARMER,
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

1AM ()
IAMNOT()

in favor of changing the name of the Michi-
gan Agricultural College to “The Michigan
State College-«of Agriculture, Engineering.
Arts and Sciences".

Signed
Member of. .
Address

‘- " you do not can to rum». this Issue. s

m a We would own: ro-
w on  (ii-Int or Fecal”

no.son-ea...-on..-unto.u-unnuaneoccneoo-sonun-ssCo-oolonoesos

 

o o g n s . u c a o u u a range-sag...tInan.sotooIns-nocsoeeecse-oveennoe

A “T II. H_u

‘ of the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Coolidge

  
 

   

Week programs are found to be of genuine prac-
tical benefit to those farmers who attends

‘lf farming is e business as we say it Is, then
certainly that man who makes his livelihood from
the farm can well afford to give a day or two out
of each your to meeting, in convention as do the
members of any other profession or division of
commerce, those who have kindred problems.

The fine part of it is, that the farmer and the
rest of the family can attend and have just as
much to interest them as the farmer himself will
find. There is a complete program printed in
this issue and if you can get to East Lansing by
all means do it. We will guarantee you that you
will tell us that it was worth every bit of the time
and money it cost you to get there.

Why, neighbor. if you can’t get a few of the
good things of life as you go along, what is the
use going-on? Here is one of the good things,
grab it and be glad you are alive!

'A GRIM JOKE

CCORDING to Col. Roy 0. Vandercook, Man-
A ager of the Michigan Railroad Association,

there has been some opposition to the pro—
position of a law compelling all vehicles to stop
before crossing railroad tracks on the theory
that there was equal justice in asking trains to
stop before crossing highways.

Col. Vandercook has come out in a very com-
plete and enlightening statement in which he
points out that there are 206 grade crossings
between Detroit and Grand Rapids, that we now
take three hours and forty—five minutes to run
this distance with a passenger train, but if the
train were to stop at each grade crossing it would
take at least ten hours to cover the distance of
152 miles! .

We can hardly believe that the suggestion is
made seriously because it is too readily apparent
that passenger and freight trains cannot be stop-
ped as easily and economically as the trusty
flivver.

The point is, however, that the matter of pro-
tection at grade crossings is taken too lightly by
those who should be most concerned in it.

We feel very deeply the injustice which is being
worked on the public by insufficient protection at
railroad crossings. Every days’ newspapers mn-
vince us of the absolute necessity of greater pre-
cautionary measures being taken.

We understand that in Virginia where a. stop
law was passed two years ago accidents at cross-
ings were reduced the first year 66%. If these
figures are correct and we believe they are, how
can any same man object to such a law being
put on the statute books of Michigan? If it were
to save one life it would be worth it, but if it
were to save hundreds of accidents. certainly
the sooner it can become operative the better.

This law alone, however, is only goirg part
way, it does not relieve the railroads or the state
highway commission entirely. There are, as we
have pointed out, many blind crossings where It
is impossible even though a vehicle be stopped
to see an approaching train and these cros::iugs
must be give either manunl or automatic protec-
tion even if the cost has to be born equally bo-
tween the State and the railway.

In England and on the Continent every trail-
road crossing is protected and in those countries
they do not need a stop-law, but we do until every
grade crossing in Michigan is protectwl and we
hope that It will be brought up and pasmd during
the present session.

 

TO SAVE CUT-OVER LAND

NDUCEMENTS to, owners of “cut-over" timber
I lands to retain their properties now under the
burden of heavy taxes, and to prevent their
return to the state which now holds over 1,000,-
000 acres of such lands, are contained in a bill
now being completed by Senstor William J. Pear—
son, of Boyne Falls, for early presentation in the
Senate.

The returns of “cut-over" lands to the state,
Senator Pearson points out, by companies and
individuals who have stripped the land of timber,
is working a great hardship both on the state
and owners of adjacent lands in many counties.

To lessen this burden on the p-Iperty owners,
Senator Pearson would have the state take over
cut-over lands on a. first lien basis bearing a por-
tion of the necessary taxation, eventually rocelv-
lng psyment by the sale of second growth lumber.

Much of the land now being offered “tomato
and land reverting to the state through fsdure
to pay taxes, would be retained by individuals
and in time turn into valuable property If the
tax rate could be reduced. Senator Pearson points
out. -

In some cases. he stntes. settlers who hon
followed logging companies into new loads and
establishes humans! communities are left f‘hlzh
 dffih‘fl...‘ .. fist”,

l

and my» .whsn.,'los¢in§ roads we withing-vi; with

l

I ion, my  1925.

.un

  

  

 
 
  


.
‘ l

 

g“

h

gl

  
   
  
  
  
   


 

{a
$3
15
#5
3 I
(i'

 
 

 
  

   

T‘VO SWTNDLERS GET FAR‘H’ERS’
SHARES OF CEMENT STOCK

NE of the cleverest schemes to
0 get the farmers’ money that was

ever worked in Michigan has
just been uncovered and the promot-
ers placed under arrest. Two men,
one using the name of “Mr. Lucas”
and the other “Mr. Benson” mulched
the farmers of Ingham, Clinton. Gra-
tiot. Montcalm. and Ionia counties of
hundreds of shares of Portland Ce-
ment stock.

Warrants are held for the men in
all five of the counties and there are
as many as seven separate charges
pending against them, the chief of
which are embezzlement, larceny and
larceny by trick. ‘

The system used according to of-
ficers, was to visit holders of stock
in rural districts. pose as proxies of
other stockholders and explain that
there was a plan afoot to form a.
stockholder pool and demand larger
returns from the stock. They would
require each person visited to sign
his name to a paper, ostensibly to al—
low the use of his stock in making
the demand on the company for a
larger division of profits, but which
actually. it is claimed turned over
the stock to the swindlers.

A Detroit broken informed the
State Securities Commission that he
had bought $3,000 worth of Port-
land Cement stock from “R. H. Ben-
son" and when brokers throughout
Michigan were advised not to pur-
chase stock from the men one in-
formed the commission that he had
just bought 520 shares.

MICHIGAN M ['TUAI. SAVINGS

, ASSOCIATION

“Can you give me any information
regarding the Michigan Mutual Sav-
lugs Association, with headquarters
at Detroit, and the trouble they have
recently had? Any information from
you will be appreciated."

HE Michigan Mutual Savings As—
T sociation‘ is under tne supervis-

of the Secretary of State and if
properly managed should be a good
association. ' The association has
been having some trouble over the
methods used in the sale of the se-
curities. The State Securities Com-
mission held hearings and found
that methods Were being employed
to secure memberships. so called. by
the Michigan Mutual Savings Associ-
ation, which amounted to false pre-
tenses. The Commission thereupon
issued an order prohibiting the sale
of these memberships by salesmen
and permitting such sales only over
the counter of the Company’s office
at Detroit.

MORE ON KNITFERS

“Could you please give me some
good advise in regards to the knit-
ting machines? Do you know if they
are and will do what they claim?
Would we go wrong in buying one of
these knitting machines? Have re-
eeived much mail from companies
and offers and see them advertised
very much. Some of the companies
guarantee to purchase your work for
5 years."

HILE apparently some of the
knitting machine companies

are honest and seem to be do-

ing a fair and square business we

would not advise any subscriber to
purchase one of their machines.

We have had letters from sub—

scribers. some of them entirely satis-

fied with the machine and the re-

 

 

 

Tho Purpose of this department In to W
tect our subset-then from fraudulent decline!
er unfair treehneet by Doreen: or concerns ll
e dietanoe.

In every one in will de .m- but to make
a eetlefaotory‘ settlement or force action. for
whlohnoeharoe meervlaes wuleverhe
made, providing:

1.—The claim Ia made by a pale-up lub-
em to The Busineee Farmer.

2,—Tte shim is not um than C an. eld.

8.—-Tbe claim It not heel or Ween peo-

ie within easy distance of one
ghee should be at

div-e. all m alum tel partieelare.
amounts. dates. eto.. enole no else your ad-
dreee label from the from cover ’of Mae
to m that see are e pale-w

m “emcee FAHER. collection Des
It. Clemens. MI.

- Depart Eadie. mum Be. seen.
Total number chime filed
[mount

........-...............

 

 

 

 

TH E

~ PUBLISHER’S DESK;

eulte they were getting while others
complained that they were unable to
knit socks that were satisfactory to
the company and many were unable
to operate the machine at all; in
fact the number that could not oper-
ate the machine seemed to outnum-
ber those that could.

As for a company making any
guarantee as to purchasing your
work for a five year period you can
readily recognize that this is really
impossible, because the company
might go bankrupt and be out of
business entirely within a year or of
course it might last for many years
—-—no one can say.

ANOTHER GLOVE MAKING
CONCERN

"I would like to ask if you know
anything about L. Jones of Olney.
Illinois? He sent out circular letters
wanting women to make gloves for
him. He furnishing the material
ready cut and takes back the fin—
ished work."

E do not know very much about
Mr. L. Jones of Olney. Illinois,
but we do know about several
other gentlemen who are working
what appears to be such a scheme as
Mr. Jones has and the majority of
them are finding themselves within
the clutches of the postal department
charges with using the mails to do-
fraud.
Their scheme is to require an in-
itial deposit from the one who is to
do work for them and they ship them

the material to make the gloves. If '

they would buy back the gloves the
customer makes as they promise to
everything would be fine, but in eve-
ry case we have been able to investi—
gate we find that they always re-
turn the gloves, stating that they are
not made satisfactorily. In other
words it seems they are out for the
initial payment only and they send
the workers material that is worth a
small fraction of the down payment
so that they make a pretty good
thing out of it.

Our advice to you is to keep your ;
money because if you patronize any ,
featuring a i

of these companies
“work at home scheme”, nine
chances out of ten you will lose your
money and all you will gain is ex-
perience.

 

BOLLSI'ROM MOTORS CODIPANY

“I own $200 worth of shares in
the Bollstrom Motors, Inc. St. Louis.
Mich., organized in 1920 to manufac-
ture 4 wheel drive motor trucks.
Can you give me any information
concerning the company and the set-
tlement of its business."

E have investigated the Boll-
strom Motors, Inc.. of St.
Louis, Michigan, and from the
information we have we would say
that you can charge your two hun-
dred dollars up to experience because
the company has been considered
“dust and ashes" for several years.
It has been reported that there
has been more or less talk the past
year or two of a reorganization of
a new company to take over the
Bollstrom plant, but in case that
was done, we doubt if the original
investors would recover very much.
undoubtedly less than a cent on a
dollar.

THANKS!

I received goods to—day in full. Thank
you very much. I never would have re»
ceived it unless for you. I wish I could
pay you for your service. The total
would be $9.98 I would h". lost. Very
truly—Mrs. C. A. L.. Gowr ... Mich.

I wish you good luck with Tun Bus-
INESS FARMER and a Happy New Year.
God bless you all.--—Theo. A. Agema. Mis-
saukee County, Michigan.

 

I want to thank you for your courtesy
and would not feel at home on the farm
without 'l‘Hn BUSINmS qum.-——A. M.
Rhamy. Kent County, Michigan.

I have read your paper since its organi-
nflon and like it very much—ii. Dada,
Otsego County, Michigan.

We have taken Tun Dumas rum
several years and like it fine. The whole

family reads it and are glad he see it
Me.

I. E. Mil. sacrum.
reading your paper and re-

 

1...».

oelve Myhflpm1h1a28m win-J. n.» ,H,
 ' i

L»  _-é‘“°h'8m~

BUSINESS

  

FARM‘E

  

R

(253)

13 

 

 

The safety and generous
interest yield of the first
mortgage bonds we offer
have earned them a sound
preference among the
more successful farmers.

Write for Booklet AG1372

Tax Free in Michigan

Normal Income Tax Up to 4% Paid by Borrower

6‘/2%

Federal Bond 59’

First Alortgage Real Estate Gold Bonds

Mortgage Company

(1371)

FEDERAL BOND & MORTGAGE BUILDING. DETROIT

 

 

 

 

 

FRE

There is no other farm engine
like it. Simple in construction
and easy to operate. It is only
one engine. yet it takes the
place of six engines. It will give
mm 1% to 6 H. P.. yet it iseo
light that two men can carry it
easily. Set it anywhere and
put it to work.

Change Power
as Needed

It is a 6 H. P. when you need
6. or 1% H. P. when you need
only 1%. or any power in be-
tween. Fuel consumption in
proportion to power used. and
remarkably low at all txmee.
Adjustment from one power to
another is instantaneous

Bum We
Operates with kereeeae or me—
line. Easy starting. no crash
ing. The greatest pa engine

 

 

value on the market. And you
can prove all of these statements
to your own satisfaction.

What Users Say
Ivan L. Blake. of Hannibal.
New York, says: “Only engine
economical for all jobs I run a.
28-inch cord Wood saw. a 24-
inch rip saw. a washer. a pump.
and a grinder, and it sure runs
them fine. It has perfect run-
ning balance. and it sets quiet
anywhere."

Clarence Rutledge. of Mani-
toulan Island. Ontario, says:
"Have given my Edwards four
years' steady work and like it
fine. It uses very little fuel. I
run a 28-inch cord wood saw.
also a rip saw. 8-inch grinder,
ensilage cutter. line shaft for
shop. churn, washer. eeparator
and pump. Have had ten other
enginee and the Ed
them all."

Frank Foe“, of Cologne. New
Jersey. says: ‘ lt'eagreat pleas-
ure to own an Edwards e-giue.
I ruaa weed amounting.

warde beets

    

  

"I set out to build a farm engine
that would have every feature
the farmer wanted and none he
didn't want. It has now been
on the market six years. Thou-
sands of satisfied users tell me
I ve succeeded. I'm proud to
have Limousine beat my name".

—A. Y. Eownns

threehing machine. etc. Do
work for my neighbors. Easy
to move around and easy to run.
I would not have any other."

Free Trial Oll'cr

Now—l want to prove my
claim: to you. I want to send
you an Edwards Engine fer ah-
solutely free trial. Just writ!b
your name and addrese on cou-
pon and mail. I will send at
once complete details about my
{arm engine and about my free
trial ofi'er. No cost or obliga-
tion. Mail coupon now.

 

IWARDS more; Cohdd'ohie

 

 

 

 

BOOKS ON FUR FARMING,

  ‘11:: ml is a oomplue treethe on

is well illustrated, and is paper bound.

Inn-beta in cautivtu.
epr'leefertueteeahtzilncou.w

bro-din. feds-a. hens-a
It width to peace and
mil.

—-n is one arm - ‘
granites gs. ageing? w: .., swan“: a. as.

Wynn

ceea We 7.“: "IIIOI_'MI. IL
‘ .«...."‘ :  . . ._.  ._

xi. 

cm W.

,

l

 

 

 

 
   
         
  

3:}
A.

'x
as
'Iu’
. 3
“a;
‘ ‘t’
i’i
\

      
       
   
     
     
 


 

 
 

 '  :

b _ ETUDE REALISTE‘
. 'A baby’s feet, like seashells pink,

Might tempt, should heaven see meet,
.An angel’s lips to kiss, we think—

A baby’s feet.

Like rosehued sea—flowers toward the heat
They stretch and spread and wink
Then ten soft buds that part and meet,
No flower—bells that expand and shrink

Gleam half so heavenly sweet,
As shine on life’s untrodden brink——
A baby’s feet.

A baby’s hands, like rosebuds furled
Where yet no leaf expands,

Ope if you touch, though close up—curled—
A baby’s hands.

'I‘hen, even a warriors grip their brands
When battle’s bolt is hurled,
They close, clenched hard like tightening
bands,
No rose-buds yet by dawn impearlcd
Match, even the lovliest hands,
The sweetest flowers in all the World—-
A baby‘s hands.

A baby's eyes, cre speech begin,
Ere lips learn words or sighs,

Bless all things bright enough to win
A baby’s eyes.

FOODS (‘HARTED BY STU-

DENTS OF DIET

HOSE who study the right foods
and their effects on health, re—
commend fruits, vegetables,

seeds, sweets, and animal materials
including fats.

According to a chart made by diet—
itians at the school of 'home eco—
nomics at Cornell, N. Y., the foods
particularly favored in these classes
are as follows:

AmOig the fruits, tomatoes lead
the list as supplying vitamins, espec-
ially the one known as vitamin C.
Oranges, lemons, grapefruit, and
raspberries are others in this group.
Another group, valuable for what it
supplies of mincr'ils, such as lime,
phosphorous, and iron is made up of
fruits which are generally known in
their dried state, such as dates, cur-
rants, figs, prunes and raisins.

Amongr the vegetables, high praise
is given to the leafy vegetables, or to
leaves, stems, and similar structures.
Spinach, dandelion greens, turnip
tops, and chard, as Well as string
beans, cabbage, and lettuce are the
ones that outrank the rest.

Seeds may include anything from
beans to nuts. Green peas and fresh
lima beans, dried peas, and dried
beans have their advantages; pea-
nuts, walnuts, pecans and almonds
are recommended. When the grass
seeds, or cereal grains are included,
attention is especially called by these
dieticians of the college of agricul-
ture to the fact that they should be
eaten in the rough, as it were, and
not robbed of their best elements by
being over—refined. For this reason,
persons should eat graham flour, rol-
led oats, entire—wheat flour, brown
rice, water ground cornmeal, and
whole—cereal breakfast foods.

Sweets which are advocated are
molasses, honey, and maple syrup.

When it comes to foods derived
from animals, dairy products have
first rank and whole fresh milk, un-
sweetened condensed milk, and
Whole dried milk are listed, along
with butter and cream. Among an-
imal fats cod-liver oil is given high
place, but it will probably not be
partaken of as a food in the ordinary
sense of the word, but rather as a
medicine.

BEST

MAIGJS OLD FURNITURE
NElV

N speaking of the possibilities in a

I can of paint in redecorating fur-

niture, Miss Suzan Z. Wilder,
home economics specialist at S. Da-
kota State College, says that the fur-
niture to be painted should have the
following essentials: good wood, well
built, simple lines, and plain design.
Cheap furniture, poorly built and
thinly veneered is not worth redecor-
ating.

“The furniture must be thorough-"
ly cleaned before painting,” she adds.
“Paint will not stick on greasy wood.
A thorough washing with soap and
Water followed by a good rinsing and
drying is one method of preparing the
furniture for painting. Another is
to wash with gasoline but care must
be exercised in handling the gaso-
line. It must not be used in a room
where? there is a fire.

“It is not always necessary to re-
move the old paint or enamel but
the old finish must be sufficiently
broken up so that the new finish will
penetrate the wood. Sometimes a
I and papering will be sufficient but

.. it there is mere than one coat, the

»

PAINT

_x .
.-:

  
  
  

 

 

there that you can visit with.
one plan on taking in this
big week. When you return
the housework will be twice
as interesting as it was when
you Went away.

Address letters:

 

 

Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

EAR FOLKS: Next Monday, February 2nd, is the opening day of
Farmers’ Week, tam-important event to the Farmers of Michigan.
Have you everything in readiness so that. you can spend the Week

at East Lansing at the M. A. 0. along with friends? Did I hear you say
that you wouldn’t be able to take the time? Just stop and think a
moment and soc if you really mean that.
go visiting a. day or so can you not? Well, this trip to EastLansing
will be better than the averagevisit because of the amusing, interesting
and educating features—and there are always plenty of good folks
Talk it_ over with the family and every-~

W f/M,

Mrs. Annle Taylor, care The Buslness Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Mlchlgan.

   

 

 

You can spare the time to

 

 

 

 

old finish will have to be removed en-
tirely. Sand paper, lye solution or
chemical varnish may be used for
this purpose.

“The room where the painting is
done should be clean and free from
dust and should be-heated to a tem-
perature of about 70 degrees. Paint-
ing, enameling and varnishing are
next to impossible in a cold room. If

 

the materials have been stored Where
it is cold, they should be aIIOWed to
stand in a warm room until they are
of the right temperature to flow eas-
ily.”

Directions should be followed care-
fully, Miss Wilder insists, becauSe
every manufacturer of paint has cer-
tain rules which should be followed
to get the best results. ‘If the paints

 

A popular style of house.

Dutch Colonial Most

vHE house pictured above is a very
T popular design for the family
of moderate means. This type

of small home is sure to be in the
majority to be built during the com-
ing season. From the floor plan it
is readily seen that this arrangement
will meet the requirements of the or—
dinary family and at a cost that is

, within easy reach of all.

The demand for new buildings in
large cities has largely held the at-
tention of builders during the past
three years, but 1925 is sure to see
a wave of building on the farms and
this may mean a shortage‘of carpen-
ters.

This situation has been partly
overcome with the advent of the
readi-cut house manufactured on the

l zg-__g' l

Popular Farm Home

Aladdin plan, which was originated
by Michigan men. These houses are
not portable in any sense, but be-
cause the material is all cut to fit it
is possible to effect a great saving
in the carpenter’s time and erection
cast.

Any handy man can put up a
house, especially if he will provide
himself With proper tools, plans and
books of instruction.

But it is essential to build small
houses. The large home is often
found to be a millstone around the
neck and sometimes develops into a

liability rather than an asset. Taxes,
up-keep and general maintenance,
such’as fuel, insurance, etc., for a.

large home are often found to be ex-
cessive and it is sometimes necessary
to sell the house at a. loss.

 

 

...._1 , A 'l

J):
I.
l

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KlTCHEN
'zomlcro’

 

LLILU'

7
Liens!

LIVINODOOML .— W -. .

|0 0"l 7.1.0 4

 

IZ'O'S '1'0' ’

i LN..- - .

  
 

l
DINING DOOM T

 

—" .l

 

F 10‘...- o'__m___.{_
,_ _ i *ll

DATH
“.0160-

  

th 1200M
191‘ K IO’O'

n'

, DE') DOOM
BED QOOM II'O"I\ H‘o‘
I5 ' 0' I I0‘ 0‘

 

Lg
.Lv

Floor plan.

 

OUR BUILDING SERVICE DEPARTMENT
If you are planning to build this year. either home, burn or other buildin ,

write our new Building Service Department, core

The Business Farmer, t.

Clemons" Mich. tell us what you plan on building and we will try to select
for you 'onitobl; pious and save you money on supplies and fixtures. by advis-

. in; with you.

The service is free. write us. -

 
  

   
 

1 , km. in :1 fits
periment a number
the proper effect. .

Proper drying is essential, the op.- ‘-

cialist adds. Chairs will require
four or five days in a warm room.
Other pieces of furniture may be used
somewhat sooner. - '

 

M§¥J IDEAS

IT always has been a puzzle to keep
the home grown garden seeds len-

arated and labeled until planting
time. Last year I saved a. supply 0!
advertising envelopes and Billy’s 
bacco bags. '
what I want in a sealed envelope
with the name. date and origin &
each particular seed written the 
on. The bags are for coarser seek
and are moth proof from the tobac-
co odor. Cards are attached to
these with the necessary informa-
tion written on them.

Lacking table room in my kitch-
en, I had a board sawed to fit tho
top of my oil stove (it has no
Warming oven). When using tb
wood stove this serves as a table,
The cover also protects the fine.
from dust and trash when the stow
is not in use.

Grown—ups as ’well as children
should take some fresh milk in their
that each day. Many would be vaso-
ly better to substitute a. glass 0!
milk for lunch instead of coffee: or
a bowl of bread and milk in place
of some rich indigestible dish—B. F.

 

WHOLE , WHEAT CRUMBs

IF the whole-Wheat crumbs are
toasted in the oven until they

are crisp and lightly browned,
they have a delicious nutty flavon.
llsed in mouses and ice-creams and
in some confections, they take tho
place of nuts. A macaroon may bo
made by substituting the browned
crumbs for coconut. Heated with
one teaspoonful of butter to each
cup of crumbs, they are excellent it
sprinkled over creamed meat or fish,
scalloped tomatoes or vegetables or
any dish containing cheese sauces.

 

 

Personal Column

 

r—"x

Song “'anted.—Can any of the readers
give us all or a. part of the comic song
that We heard sailors singing on a lab.
Erie excursion boat, twenty years ago,
that starts like the following:

“Murphy’s Inauguration Ball.”

He was elected to the Senate by a. Very
large majority, and at the inaugural ball
they had ice balls, snow balls, cannon
balls and cartridges, ice picks, tooth picks,
nut picks and crackers, etc. Anyone solid-
ing this to me will be well paid for tho
trouble—J, H. Osborn, Hopkins, Missouri.

Have Some Extra Pieces?—If any of
the readers of the M. B. F have any
worsted wool or silk pieces to spare would
they please send me some?—Mrs. Henri
C. Love, R1, Sandford, Mich.

 

—if you are well bred!

 

fi

Taking Leave After an Introduction.—
Correct leave—taking formulas, universally
known and accepted, after an introduction
and chatwith a stranger are: “Good—by, I
am glad (or very glad) to have met
you"; or “Good-by, I hope I shall see you
again before long (or sometime)."
“Thank you”; or ‘Thank you, I hope so
too,” is all that is called for by way of
reply. A bow is used to take leave of a
group of strangers either formally or
casually introduced.

 

'— x

The Runner’s Bible

(Copyright by Hangman—Miriam Co.)

 

 

“’ithold not good from them to who.
it is due, when it is in the power of thin.
hand to do it. Say not unto thy neigh-
bor, Go, and come again, and to-morrow
I will give; when thou hast it by “:00.
l’rov. 3:27-28.

Never withhold just praise from him
to whom it is due, nor from others eon-
ceming him. To do so is quite as dis—
honest as it is to withhold any of his
material belongings. Also any assistanc-
that you can render to him belongs to
him in the eyes of God—his Father and
yours. It is imperative to obey every h-
pulse to be kind, and you will, if you
truly desire to be in the service of the
Father. Who knows but that you may
not have been delegated to answer some
one's prayer? Never let a. debt ‘30 In-
pald if it is possible to pay it; to ‘
is to encumber oneself and,"possibi

. " thin ,zbiaird‘en‘ot‘ than. (Pm, ’ 7:.

 

   

  

It is a relief to M'

I

cant

 

 

 

. .~ Kmirfim...’ ,

._a.n-m vfiW/ ..- . A.

 

 

, 3:“ faminwt 5.2;. 

   
 
 
 

  
   
   

 
   

 

 


 

 

>' ~155ch '

“wt”.-. 

“0..” m

 

‘3
m

~<..w.mmap-vm. ...- ,

 
 
 

 

 

 
     

 
   

 

. Fish Soup—1. lb. cod, or other white
lab, .3 tablespoonfuls fat, 1 quart white
stock, or half ‘milk and half water, 1
snail carrot, 1 small onion. 1 stalk celery,
’3 parsley sprigs, 1 tablespoonful chopped
parsley sprigs, 1 blade mace, 2 egg yolks,
$5 cupful cream, 1 lemon, 2 tablespoon-
full flour, 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley,
Dry toast. Wash and dry fish and cut
Into small pieces. Put into saucepan with
stock, vegetables cut in small pieces.
parsley and mace. Let these simmer for
half hour, then strain off liquid. Melt‘
fat in pan, stir in flour, then add fish
liquor and stir till it boils. Draw it to
the side of fire and let cool slightly.
boat yolks of eggs with cream, and when
soup has cooled, strain them in. Reheat
soup Without boiling it, to cook eggs.
Season, and add few drops lemon juice
and chopped parsley. Serve with small
pieces of dry toast.

Oyster Shortcake.——2 cupfuls flour, 2
toaspoonfuls baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon-
ful salt, ‘34, cupful milk, 1 quart oysters,
£6 cupful fat, 2 tablespoonfuls cornstarch,
3A cupful cream, salt and pepper to taste.
Hix flour, baking powder and 1% teaspoon-
fll salt, then sift twice, work in fat with
In. of fingers, add milk gradually. The
dough should be just soft enough to
handle. Toss on floured baking board,
divide into two parts, pat lightly and roll
out. Place in two shallow tins greased
and bake in quick oven fifteen minutes.
Spread them with butter. Moisten com-
ltarch with cream, put into pan with
oysters and seasonings and make very
hot. Allow to cook a few minutes then
pour half over one crust, place other
trust on top and pour over rest of oysters.
Serve at once. Sufficient for one large
shortcake.

 

White Cookies.-—-—-2 cupfuls sugar, 1 cup-
ful thick sour milk, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonful
baking soda, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 tea~
spoon vanilla extract, 1%; teaspoonful
lemon extract, flour. Cream fat and
sugar together, add eggs well beaten,
soda. mixed with sour milk, salt, extracts
and about 5 cupfuls flour. Roll very thin,
out with cookie cutter, lay on greased tins,
"bake in moderately hot oven five minutes.
To keep any length of time. when' cold,

0

AIDS TO MG 00 D D R ESSING

BE SURE AND BEND IN YOUR all!

_ 4997. A.Pretty Frock for Many Occasions—Printed chiflon voile is here portrayed. The model
is also pleasing iii tuifetii, crepe de chine or genrgette. The Dress may be developed Without the
D I . The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 8 10, 12 and _
rose as in the large now. Will require 3%, yards of 32 inch material for a 12 year size. If
lado_mth long sleeves 4% yards are required. If made without flounces and with long sleeves 1%

19111063 and with long sleeves.

yard is required.

4989. A Comfortable House Dress with Reversible OIoslng.—Here is a splendid style for the woman
of mature figure. It has a comfortable closing—slips on and oif like a cost. It may be closed from
iiingliiim, pcrcnle, linen '

left to right or via verse.
ttern is cut in 8 Sizes: Bust measure, 40 42

' ,

4996. A Popular Style for a Boys' Sula—Flannel. tweed, serge or jersey cloth. may be used for
this modeLIt is also good for washuiiaterials; for velvet or corduroy. 'l‘he. Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes:
4. 8, 8 and 10 years. A 6 your siZc requires 3 14 yards of 27 inch material.

4986. A Stylish Frock—The girl who desires
file here portrayed.
is cut in 4 Sizes: 14.

4994. A Pleasing Model for a school Dress.-—-—VVool rep in a new shade of brown, and
This style is gobd for gingiam and bush, or pongee with fac-
be finished short. or With the long bishop portion

checked woolen are here combined.
_ a. contrasting color._ The sleeve ma
Pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 4. 6. 8 on
sleeves.
quired. p
material Will require iii;

or velours.

is cut in 4 Sizes: 18, “0,
measure.

inch‘ size.

Sizes

 

material.

 

  

1 place in covered, tin cans and set in cool

»a short one.

waist measure, 33, 35, 3'], 39, 41, 4.41.. 45 and 47 inches. A 46 inch bust will require 4%
ya of 36 inch. material. With '99 yard oi contrasting material to face collar, revers, cufls, vest
belt. The width at the foot of the dress is 1% yard.

It has the popular front closing and ii tierer effect in the flounces. The Pet-
. , 18 and 20 years“ ' ~ _
If made as illustrated 1,; yard of contrasting material Will be required for collar and cuffs.

‘ 10 years. _A
inches Wlde if made of one material and with long-
With short sleeves 34; yard .
Collar, cuffs and {comes _of contrasting
' yard 36 inches Wide.

4972. A Set of Jaunty Caps for Little Folks.
~—These caps may readily be fashioned from felt.
broadcloth, velvet or sutin, or from batters plush
'I‘lieygire suitable for boys and girls.
The Pattern pl‘UVldeS {POI/ll

. No. 1 will require. % 'urd of 40 inch
material and No. 2 Will reqmre 5 yard for a 22

_6001. A Practical Shirt Model.——Linen, cani—
bric, percsle as well as silk, iiiadrus and flannel
may be used for this design. ‘ ‘

in 11 : 13%, 14 14 .
16%, 17, 17 $4.», 18. 18% inches neck measure.
To inake.tlie shirt for a 15 inch size, with ion
sleeves Will require 3 yards of 36 inch nutteria.
with short sleeves 2%, yards will be required.

_ 4911. A Popular Play Frock—«This model is
in ‘cree er' style, and has a Very comfortable
sleeve._ i: may be developed in poplin, ongee,
cambric, flannel. inghsm or chainbrey. T e Pat—
tern is cut in 3_ izes: ll months, 1 and 2 years.

6 _months sure requires

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

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

ADD 10c FOR FALL AND WINTER
1924-1925 FASHION BOOK

Address all orders for patterns to
Pattern Department \

THE BUSINESS FARMER

Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

'Dl‘ece, andfthey'wm be as crisp as when
first baked. Sufficient for ninety cookies.

 

HOMESP—UN YARN

For the children’s party add a marsh-
mallow to each cup of cocoa just before
it is served.

0 t t

Don’t be a "shut-in" Try to get a

brisk walk every day even if it is only

I l t

A piece of sand paper held against the
top will help in opening stwbborn screw
top cans.

9 It t

Aunt Ada's Axioms: Some days
mother may not feel that she has accomp-
lished much, but just being “mother” is
a whole lot.

# I! #

Plants need good light. Though they
do not all require direct sunlight, most
blooming plants do, and it is almost use-
less to expect good results without it.

t t 0

Rubber tips on all chairs will save
both floors and nerves.
t t t
Aunt Ada’s Axioms: If your candle
seems to be burning at both ends, blow
out the end that gives the most smoke
and the least light.
Q t t
Is it hard to make the family like
some healthful food? Prunes or greens,
for instance? A change in methods of
cooking may do the trick.
1! t .

Now is the time’ to use the new casse—
role. Hot dishes for cold days should
come to the table steaming hot with
warm ‘brown crusts and savory with
onion, celery, and peppers.

O O O

Potted plants need mineral food. Some
of these foods good potting soils supplies
in abundance; others must be added oc—
casionally, especially in the time of great-
est plant growth and flowering.

‘ t It: :-

Butter cakes bake best in moderate

ovens, 350 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
t t t

Pastry flour does make finer cake, but
when none is at hand two tablespoons
of corn starch well sifted in a cup of
bread flour will give good results.

14 years. To make

or cotton rep are suitable for this style. The
, , 50, 52 and 54 inches. and correspond—

"something different" will be pleased with the

year size requires 4 yards of 40 inch

year size requires 2% yards of 3d

       

less is re

     
  

styles illustrated. It
22 and 24 inches head

 
  
    
    

'llie I’atterrn is cut

: Ky 0 b

  
    
     
    
 
 

2 yards of 27 inch

   
  
  

    
  

   
 

     
 

    

   

i

heir-r
1t! 9. '


@Eiifl.’

 

   

Lt“!
 guzlfifi"
."fifl

191E
43
CD
0
O\

  


fifi _
in . .

(

My“

    

  
   
  

  
 

.473



I“.

  

 

  
   
      
   
     
 
 
   
   
    
   

Is there a Sleep Thief
in Your Bed?

Don‘t let a poor bedspring rob you of your rest-get 3
Foster Ideal. Learn the comfort of sleeping upon
upright spiral springs. Learn the comfort of perfect
spine support. Enjoy the real rest that comes from
perfect relaxation—on a. bedspring that does not sag.
There are 120 spirals in the Foster Ideal and each one
does its share in giving you the best night‘s rest you
ever had. Talk to your furniture dealer today

about the

osferl DEALspringi

The Bedspring that Supports Your Spine

Foster Bros. Mfg. Co., Utica, N. Y.
Western Factory, St. Louis, Mo.

 

 
 
  
  

 

 

 

Makers of Foster Metal Beds, Foster ‘Toe ‘Trip Cribs
and Quality Spring Constructions. Sand for booklet.

 

Trees From Kalamazoo
Direct to You at Reduced Prices

Also shrubs, berries and roses. Beautiful 1925 catalog sent free
upon request. Full of big bargains and tells about stock to be given away.
Everybody should plant this spring. It is a patriotic as well as a profit-
able duty. Therefore you cannot afford to be without this catalog. It will
cut your tree bill in two. Ask for it to—day—NOW—righl away.

CELERY CITY N URSERIES
Growers of Good Trees for Many Years. Box 210, Kalamazoo, Mich.

Colds 355;:

Be Quick-Be Sure

Combat a cold at once. Every hour gained
may save many hours of danger and dis-
comfort.

Combat it in the best way science knows——
in the way that meets all requirements.

That way is Hill's. It stops colds in 24
hours, La Grippe in 3 days. It is doing that
for millions.

50 sure that your druggist guarantees it.
30 perfect that 25' years have developed no
way to improve it.

Don‘t take chances with a cold.

There's where you need the beet.

AIldruggists ‘fiL-s , Price30c

CASCAR ‘ oummr

Get Red Box OM\°V :- with portrait

 

 

 

Any woman who
has ever wished
for an extra pair
of hands will
gladly welcome
the extra help of
Fels—Naptha Soap

     

 

Not only soap—but soap and naptha

   

 

—— Buy Darect I ,

HANDICAPPED _ fro 3130*!

. it Get In of ct ‘ i c .

Those who are malnourished -_ ' _' 

are handicapped in ability ' .212 mists??- 2:23:33
to resist weakness.

Scott’s Emulsidn

“ESEZiiriia‘gf‘é’iltsfi‘é'lifi‘ -
is vitamin—rich food and tonic
that helps remove the handi—
cap. Keep your body strong
and sturdy. Insist on Scott’s!
Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield. N. J. 24-38

merits. 30 days' trial in you:
home. 530,000 customers on
dorse Kalamazoo quality.

; I  V" Mama‘beolallgich. I ‘ ’
Send to! FREE 3008
1A Kola-meme

3:33.233:- Dircct to You’.‘

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE MENTION
THE: BUSINESS FARMER ’ '

 

 
 


 

Water-Power
Plants Delivering
Over 160,000 H. P.

\

 

10 Steam Plants
Delivering Over
173,000 II. P.

 

9 Gas Popertics Delivering
3,930,000,000 Cu. Ft. a. Year

CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY

“Ask Our Employees”

JACKSON

CONSUMERS POWER
PREFERRED SHARES

 

The great growth of
Michigan, the growth of
industry, commerce and
homes in the 170 cities
and towns we serve, with
the vital needs for power,
heat and light—backs the
investor in this company.

Let t/zese ‘vz'ta/ needs 0]
M z'cbzgmz assure you
a safe investment and
a profited/e z'fleome. H

6.6% i

'1 ‘dx free in Mic/1233a”

 

MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

School Bag FREE

., A—~ Large, handsmne .ha 8 .
“I I ‘ . ~ 13%)(11 inches, Wlde ex-
' h e a v y water-
;I p r o o f fabric. leather
straps and handle, strong
buckles. outside Dockets.
given ror selling 30 pkgs.
xChewmg (luin at 5 cents

 
 
 
   
 
 

 

8. pkg. Write for it.
BLUINE MPG. 00.,
.x \ t- 961 Mill St.

Concord Jot... Mass.

 

Cured His Rupture

I was badly ruptured while lifting a
trunk several years ago. Doctors said
my only hope of cure was an operation.
Trusses did me no good. Finally I got
hold of something that quickly and com—
pletely curt-d mc. Years hare passed and
the rupture has never returned, although
I am doing hard Work as a carpenter.
There was no opt-ration, no lost time, no
trouble. I have nothing to sell, but will
give full information about how you may
find a complete cure without operation,
if you write to me, Eugene M. Pullen,
Carpenter, 44L Marcellus AVt’nUc, Manas-
quan, N. Better cut out this notice
and show it to any others who are rup—
tured—you may save a life or at least
stop the misery of rupture and the worry
and danng of an operation—(Adv)

SPECIAL flflllAB fliiifl!

Offer No. 50

 

Business Farmer A
American Needle— $1-85 Value
woman For Only

Good Stories

Woman's World  .00

Offer No. 51

Business Farmer ‘ A
Woman’s World $1.85 Value
Good Stories ’ For only

The Household
People’s Popular
Monthly

$1.00

Offer No. 52
Business Farmer I A
Illustrated Compan- $135 Value

i0“ . For Only

Home Folks
, $1.00

Modern Poultry
Offer No. 53

 

Breeder

Business Farmer l A

People’s Home $1.85 Value
Journal

American Fruit i For only
Grower

 

$1.00

Send your selection and One Dollar to
THE BUSINESS FARMEB,
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Good, Stories

 

 

Brings Any Size

  

 

        
  
  

Plan. 11 year to pay.
3 0 D LY S '1' B I A L

Try any American Separator, '
in your own way, at our risk. Ifit '—
is not the closest skimmer, easiest
to turn and clean, and best Separ-
ator {or the least money, return
at our expense and every cent
received promptly refunded.

Write now for free catalog
Low prices andLiberalEasy-pay’plan

e ship from stock nearest you

AMERZCAN SEPARATOR CO.
Box 26 D Balubridcc. N. Y.

 

 

      
 
 

  
  
 

  
 
 

'Mlchlgan-Grown 
seed—meaning Northern y '5 \
grown. Early Varieties g, g ..

—meaning sure crops. \ :
Supply leltod—ActQulck
Corn is too valuable not to get a full crop.

Isbell'o seeds—for fiel or garden
-are chance. selects? figsde And‘aub'lle.

I 'I ee n -
catalo  iving valuable information
about m l and ening, andguoting direct-
from-grower :- cea, lent FR on requelt

6. .ISBILLGCOMPANY
413 Mechanic n. (77) J.ckson.llch.

 

 

 

 

. Toll Us the Klnd of
- Hldes or Fur
You Have
for

~ 0
Tanning
and Make-up
We will gladly send

you rice styles,
sump es of lining, etc.

 

 

<—

.—

 

Wo make fine robes, coats or mittens out of beef
es ~

or horse .
From your finer furs we will make Chokers, throws,

rugs, e c. .
We also mount deer heads. Feel free to write us.

W. W. WEAVER, Custom Tanner
Readlng, Michigan.

A YOUR gigs,» Stun
., venom: 2,3,?“
, Latest Style jeweled wrist : \

watches, guaranteed time I, r.
Given for selling (’ 

 

  
      
  
 

      
   
   

 

 

e

fl 
"l
 _ J (A.

  

 a .

 

EAR boys and girls: We can feel
real “puffed-up” because one of
members of our club made up

the cross word puzzle that appears in
this issue. Muriel Frey of Caledonia
had to stay home from school for
several days on account of a. cold
and to pass away the time she made
up a cross Word puzzle for Tnn BUS-
INESS FARMER. How many of you can
solve it? Muriel writes that she
thinks it will be easy for the mem—
bers of our circle and I think she is
right. The first boy to send to me a
correct solution of the puzzle will re-
ceive a leatherette pencil case con-
taining four pencils, a pen holder
and pen point. And the first girl to
send the correct answer to me will be
awarded a leatherette needle case
containing a wonderful assortment
of needles. The names of the first
tWelve to answer the puzzle correctly
will appear on this page. The only
rules governing this contest are:
That you solve the puzzle without the
assistance of grown-ups (use the dic—
tionary), sign your name and ad-
dress and state your. age, and mail
your letter to reach me not later
than Saturday, February 7th, as the
contest closes on that date.

When I was a. small boy there was
one boy, a little older than myself,
living in my neighborhood, that I al—
ways envied. He had an uncle who
was quite a magician, being able to
do many tricks with cards, matches,
etc., and his uncle taught him some
of the tricks, and whenever we went
to a party everyone wanted this boy
to do some tricks. I used to think
“My, if I only knew tricks like those
I would have heaps of fun and keep
my friends guessing.” I believe all
boys are alike in this way, and it
would not surprise me one bit if the
girls were real interested too, so I
am going to print some clever tricks
beginning with this issue, that you
can try on your friends. The tricks
are not difficult but they will keep
your friends guessing for awhile.—
UNCLE NED. '

 

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Nedz—May I join
merry circle? I have been a silent reader
for three years. We used to live in Lan-
sing beforc we moved out here. I like
it in the country quite Well. I live eleven
miles from Mason and twelve from Lan-

your

sing. I like to read the other cousins’
letters. We all like the M, ll. I“. very
well. Well I will tell you about myself.

I am 5 feet 3 inches tall, haVe dark hair
and eyes, weight 105 pounds and am he—
tWecn 11 and 14 years old and the cousin
who guesses my right age will hear from
me soon. I will CIOSe my chatter—box
and will write again. Your want~to-be
niece—Leona Brown, Mason, Mich., R4.

Dear Uncle Nut—May I join the Chil—
dren’s Hour? I am the only girl left in
the family and would like to have the
cousins and nieces write to me. Well I
guess I better describe myself. I am
12 years old, in the 7th grade, have dark,
blond, bobbed hair and blue eyes, am 4
feet 8 inches tall and weigh 79 pounds.
I live on a. 120—acre farm. We have 4
horses, 6 cows, 5 calves and a. shepherd
dog, his name is Fido. For pets I have
one cat, named Pansy. She is very cute
and I have a canary bird named Browny.
I have 2 horses of my own and they are
called Nelly and Dan. I like horses very
Well. I am very fond of riding horses.
One day I rode Nelly 7 miles. In the
summer time I help my dad to work out
in the fields. As my letter is getting long
I must leave some space for other girls
and boys to write. From a. would—like—
to-be niece—Florence Zesarook. R2,
Rosebush, Michigan.

 

    
  
 
   

I: ' Prllllliliilx‘ 32%4"
- . ' Tam  1:

    
   

    

 
   

Dear Uncle Nedz—Here I am again.
It has been a long time since I wrote to
you. I was sure glad to see my first
letter in print. I received many nice lot-
ters from the cousins. I will describe
myself again. I have brown eyes, light
brown hair, am 5 feet 6 inches tall and
am fourteen years of age. We received
a lovely box of oranges from Florida. I
have a. sister who lives there.
cold up here now and the snow is quite
deep. I don’t like winter very well, do
you Uncle Ned? For pets I have seven
cats. I guess I have enough haven't 1?
Ha! Ha! Hoping this letter will not be

gobbled up by the waste paper basket I -

will close and leave place for some more
letters from the other cousins.
your niece—Helen Garey, R4,- Box 149,
Traverse City, Michigan.

7

 

; ON YOUR F12 IEI‘i

ARRANGE FIFTEEN MATCHES
lN THIS MANNER

J E

now REMOVE sux MATCHES
MD STILL LEAVE TEN

,

LL

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

____.__-.‘..__ .._.._.. ._- Ava ._. ... . . - .N

Dear Uncle chz—May I join your
merry circle? My brother takes the II.
B. F. and I love to read the Children's
Hour. I am a farmer boy and am 4 feet

11 inches tall, weight 83 pounds and my v

birthday is September 24th. The one who
guesses my age will receive a letter from

me. My father has a IOU-acre farm and ,,

we have 3 horses, 3 cows, 2 ycarlings and
3 calves. Say boys how would you like
to catch muskrats? I think it is great
sport as we have 15 acres of marsh which
is “'(‘11 stocked with rats but my father
wants to $011 it, so then my sport will be
over. \Vcll I must close or the waste
paper basket will find me. I hope he has
been well fed.
would write to me. Your want-to-be
nephew.—Reinhold P. Eckste’in, Kingsley.
Michigan.

A FElV RIDDLES

What is the keynote to good manners?
—-—B natural.

Why is a five pound bank-note much
more profitable than five sovereigns?—
Because when you put it in your pockot
you double it, and when you take it out
you will find it in—creases.

Why is a watch like a river?——Beca.uao
it doesn’t run long without winding.

What is that which flies high, flies low,
has no feet, and yet wears shoes?——-Dust.

\Vhat trees has fire no effect upon?———

‘ Ash trees; because when they are burned,

they are ashes still.

What is the difference between a school— ‘
master and an engine—driver?——One minds
the train and the other trains the mind.

Which is easier to spell—Fiddle-do-dee
or fiddle-de-dum?-——-Fidd1e-de-dee, because
it is spelt with more “e’s”.

 

 

CARTOON IN G

MADE EASY '

 

é? Magzc Dov/er"
9 after Feu/ 1.1qu

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is quit. .

I remain '

12v THIS STUNT o

I wish some of the cousins ‘

 

 

 

 


 
 
  

 

 

 

Us
... v..-»

 

luriel Frey, who composed our

Composed Especially for
THE BUSINESS Fuuum

By MURIEL FREY

OUND—a cross word puzzle “bug”
in TIIE BUSINESS FARMER’S large
family! It is Muriel Frey, of Cale-

donia, and the puzzle printed here is
one she composed. Muriel is only 12
years old and recently she was forced
to remain out of school on account of a
severe cold, so to pass away the time
she composed this puzzle just for THE
BUSINESS FARMER. She calls these puz—
zles “brain teasers" and declares this
one isn’t Very hard, what do you think
of it? Being a real “live-wire”, we are
unusually lucky to be able to show you
a picture taken of her during a still

1'

essay

 

 

"Which Costs More?

AY WHEELER decided to put the South meadow into Alfalfa last
year. He was feeling economical when he went to town to buy his
seed. Johnson’s store had some nice Alfalfa — purity 99%, germina—
tion 96% —- but the price was $12.75 a bushel. Over at the Hay and
Feed depot they had another brand —— purity 95%, germination
91% — for only $11.75. Ray thought that was a pretty big difference
in price when both brands tested better than 90%, so he “saved”

$8.00 on 8 bushels.

But the first cutting had a lot of weeds
in it and Ray began to wonder. He got
busy with a. pencil and made a sur-
prising discovery. He found that the
cheaper seed was actually the more ex-
pensive and instead of saving $8.00 on
the 8 bushels, he actually lost $1.36.
Moreover, Ray says now, “I don’t know
how much I lost on the crop, and there

w” “A ; .

 ‘ “7:; in

 

 

cross-word puzzle in this Issue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

moment.
something, even here.

I - 2 3
8 9
l2 i3
l6 I7

20

23
25 26 27
30 3' 32 33

But her hands are busy at

 

l-l 5 6 7

 

 

l0 II

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

35 36 37

 

 

39 40

 

 

 

HZ

 

 

 

 

or vertically or both.
ACROSS
'I.—--A fruit

4.—A tropical fruit

8.——A college officer

10.—A weed

12.—Error; to go astray

13.-——To strike with a quick smart blow

5.——A negative conjunction

8.-—— ear

11.——A bishops crown

9.——80uth American (abbr)

20.—To lick up with a quick motion of the
ongue

21.—A bright color

23.—What you write with

24.—-—Bronze or copper

26.——A limit

28.—A famous health resort in Belgium

Y

Ital-I

30.——-An expression of lnquw
ill—What most of us ride In
34.—Exlst: is

35.——-What we would die without
87.—Plnch; bite

88.—Variation of neon

39.—-To think' Judgment

o v (pl)
42.——Female rabbits: deer (pl)
43.—To pierce with a pointed weapon

The answer to this puzzle will appear in the next issue.

SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure.
0. clue to other Words crossingfihem, and they in turn to Still others. 'A letter belongs
in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally

 

I8 l9
2| 2.2.
2*: '
2‘8 29
3%
I 38
to

 

 

 

H3

 

 

 

 

 

These will give you

DOWN
1.—-Bold; s u

a cy
2.—-Part of the head; an organ of hearing
8.—lndeflnate article
6.——Near
8.—00lor
'l.—The God of Love
8.——Hard of hearing
9.—-—Domest:c animal

11.—Epochs
13.—To tear
14.—By; fo

,.

11.—What God furnished to the Israelites in
the Wilderness

18.—-'l'o out or harvest

20.—-A sheltered spot

22.—Abbr. for deacon

25.-—Ver efi In books

up

29.—-—Barnyard {owls

31 .—-Has ened

33.—To asten

84.—An explosive shell

88.——A make of auto

88.—A point of time from a series of years
is reckoned

40.—Personal pronoun

41.-——By; near

Also, we will have another puzzle.

 

 

 

 

WHY I AM A CHRISTIAN
(Continued from Page 9)

I am a Christian because I have
the experience of getting strength in
times of trouble. I have never had
any need for dying Grace, and so
know nothing about it. I have such
a time trying to get Grace to live by,

 

ANSVVER T0 CROSS-\VORD
PUZZLE NO. 6

(pr

U) mm

-i‘0 Ul-irTlr'
m 0 r’

r.
X‘UZC
"1-4309

R

n
O
70
m

 

that I do not think of dying Grace.

Christianity is the inspiring power
that is trying to build a better world.
War, Sin, and disease will be ban—
ished if God gets his way with the
world. "

The Christian life is the happiest,
purest, most unsellflish, and most
neighborly way of living I know
:iboItit, so I think I shall try to stick
0 1 .

 

I should have renewed before but doi-
lars are hard to get in this “neck of the
woods". I don’t like to be without THE
BUSINESS FARMER but thought for awhile
I would have to do without it. A press
perous New Year to you. Sincerely——L.
S. A., Decker, Michigan.

We get good food for thought from
your paper and we use items from it in
our Farmer Union meetings. Very re-
spectfully—J. O. Osborn, Hopkins, MO.

I am sending you a. money order for
Sixty cents for a. one year subscription to
THE BUSINESS FARMER. The mail man
left a. paper at our mail box and I read
it and I think it is a dandy paper for the
money—Mr. Joe. Bare, Saginaw County.

 

This is one 01! the best a are
ever had—C. E. Haskell. p D that I

was about 5% Weeds in that cheap Al-
‘ W I falfa which it will probably take me
. \‘VJ  ’ 23". .r/ several years to get rid of.”
W 2 7 I“ e
if mu“   If you want to know
y w

. y \ just how Ray Wheeler
i A ’ i

v ” fl 
 I,  l

I figured the real cost of his Alfalfa seed, write
for the booklet “7 Lessons in Judging Seed."

if... v D ‘ y} //:/-7/ It tells how to play safe in buying seeds and is
"m \ "\" "54§$;}1"’, worth dollars and cents to every farmer. Send
‘ s i u" // om» H postcard today.
\ V . t ' ,‘li‘r 

THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO.
Chicago, Ill. Minneapolis, Minn.

BUFFALO BOSTON
NEW YORK BINGHAMTUN

E TREE”

M  5EE'DS
Sold By Good Dealers Everywhere

a “mum,
\ “ k ' "run/1’,
£2.19," '
alts 
66 '

1
‘\

PITTSBURGH

l
4

 

 

 

Save CO
"mm. MAKE YOUR OWN HOPE
All sizes including hay fork ro es.
\Vonderful saving. blend for tee
Ohio, W-Vs. and Ky. Shaker Screened Lump Coal booklet. "Rope Maklnl On The
In carioud lots at attractive prices. Best quality _______dl‘nrm.” New El‘l R 0 Machine

imranteed. Farmer Agents Wanted. Buy direct COMPIDY.

tom the mines and save money.
THEO. BURT a SONS, Melroso. Ohio.

Mlnnoepol s. Minn.

 

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE
N THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

 

 

 

 

[befihmmflmnShms
cfbr American Prosperity

DO you know about your own ships? Are you aware that there are
great fleets of both freight and passenger liners carrying American
products and Americans like yourself between American ports and the
world’s markets? You should know what these ships mean to you, for they
are your ships, working for your prosperity.

You can learn best by actual experience.

A European trip, for instance, need not be expensive: $12.50 per day is
sufficient for all expenses of a six weeks’ tour, including round trip steam—
ship fare. Such a journey offers a world of pleasure, education and recre—
ation, and will provide you with first hand knowledge of the connections
between the American Merchant Marine and the farmer’s pocket book.

Uncle Sam has made it easy for you to go. If you will send the coupon
below, illustrated booklets will be sent you. One tells about the U. S.
Government ships of the United States Lines and contains eight suggested
low—price tours, the result of actual experience. The other is full of informa—
tion on how to travel: passports, visacs, baggage, duties, life at sea, etc.
Send for this interesting information. All you have to do is mail the
coupon. It puts you under no obligation.

 

 

United States

0
Lines .
45 Broadway New York City
Managing Operators for

U.S.SHIPPING BOARD

TO U. 8. SHIPPING BOARD
580

Infor. Desk E Washington. D. C.

Please send me the booklets "To Europe on United
States Lines" and “Going Abroad.”

If I go date will be about
There will be.-.......... .............. ...pcrsona in my party.
Name

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LAddress

 

     
     
  
 
    
    
   
   
  
  
    
   
  
    
       
   
  
  
  
   
  
 
   
   
 
  
  
  
    
   
   
  
  
   
 
    
     
   
  
  
    
     
   
    
  
  
    
     
      


   

 

W}; i

.' er Owner

Wouldn’t think of,
getting along wit/mm;

KOW-KARE

M. G. Welch & Son, Burke, N. Y.. own-
ers of this Champion Ayrshire write us,

We have used [Cow-Kare in our herd
for-years and would not think of get-
ting along" without it. We consider it
the best cow tonic known.”

ness of dairying for profit a close study
know that they cannot leave the health of
their milch cows to chance. The average
dairy cow is 'i'orced" to get every last
Ounce of milk year in and year out— a treo
mendous strain on the most robust
physical system.

During the winter months, especially.
the added strain of digesting quantities of
dry feeds puts a severe test on the milk-
making organs. Small wonder they be-
come sluggish. fail to keep up a profitable
yield or even become the prey of disease.

lnvigorate the Milk-Making Organs

Row-Kare is a medicine-tonic that acts
directly on the milk-making functions—the
organs where all cow diseases start. It
eliminates such common cow disorders as
Barrcnness, Abortion, Retained Afterbirth.
Scours, Bunches, Milk Fever. Lost Appetite.
etc., by causing the organs of assimilation
and reproduction to function normally and
thrive on nature‘s foods.

Kow-Kare has a definite action in in-
creasing the milk yield through this invigo
crating action on the milk-making organs.

the milk values in the feed she consumes.

Try feeding Kow-Kare this winter and
you’ll never again be without it. A table—
spoonful twice a day, one week in each
month is the feeding plan most often fol-
lowed. The return in added milk-income
and freedom from disease will Day You 8
hundred-fold.

Our free book, "The Home Cow Doctor,"
tells all about treating all cow diseases-
besides glving a wealth of valuable in-
formation on general dairy topics. Send
for your copy today.

/ Always in
this can

feed dealers
general stores
druggists—
Large size
$1 .25
Medium 656

DAIRY ASSOCIATION CO., Inc.
H Street

BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

Ads under this heading 30c per
agate line for 4 lines or more.
$1.00 per insertion for 3 lines or
less.

 

 

J EliSEYS

REG. JERSEYS, POGIS 99th OF H. F. AND
Majesty breeding. Young stock for sale. Herd
fully accredited by State and Federal Government.
Write or visit for prices and description.
GUY c. WILBUR. BELDING. Mich.

 

 

SHORTHORNS

E—s sons vsnnuuo SHORT-
  homdbulls, 1good ones at $75-
' ,‘ em.
“ohebfihpsg‘énhes “3 am. Elsie. Michigan.

fi ammnns

—-m:o| 1' asunvasmn’s suLLs'
FOR SALE 8 E'1‘ From heavy pro:

fit for sernce. T x
W

 

inc dams. Fln‘dni Bro... ‘v'mu. Michigan.

. ‘ "mousse" "or ‘ no" sex
“Eilililldmrmuwmm.

4

 

 

     
   
 
     
       

stock to this department.

MUCH FOR LIVE STOCK MEN
DURING FARMERS’ WEEK
ICHIGAN live stock producers
will find enough to keep them
interested during Farmers’

Week as most of the state associa-

tions in the various kinds and breeds

of live stock are holding their annual
meeting during that period.

The Michigan Improved Livestock
Breeders’ and Feeders’ Association
meeting will be held Tuesday after-
noon, February 3rd, at the college
gymnasium, with the following pro-
gram: 1:30, Band concert; “Michi-
gan Agricultural College and Michi-
gan Farmer,” Pres. Kenyon L. But.
terlfield; “Dairy Situation from a Sta—
tistical Standpoint,” G. R. Prittle,
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture; “Selling
the Public,” J. M. Kelly, advertising
specialist.

Following are the various associ—
ations that are to meet and their
programs:

Aberdeen Angus Ass’n.
Meeting, called to order at 10 A. M.
Tuesday, February 3, 1925
Room 213 Agrl. Bldg.

 

COW owners who have made the busio I

it enables the cow to turn into milk ALL ;

Lynda nville, Vtg

President, Sidney Smith, Orion; Secre-
tary, J. G. McNabb, Cassopolis.

President’s Address.

Sec’y—Treas. Report.

"The Detroit Fat Stock and Its Possi-
bilities,” J. A. Brown, Detroit, Michigan.

“Twenty-five years with Angus Cattle
in Michigan and what we may expect of
the Future,” Alex Minty, Ionia, Mich.

“Exhibiting Cattle at Northern and
Southern Fairs,” James Curry, Marlette,
Michigan.

Election of Office-rs.

Sheep Breeders' Ass’n.
Meeting called to order at 10:00 A. M.
Wednesday, February 4, 1925
Room 109, Agrl. Bldg.
President, C. B. Burtless, Manchester;
Secretary, Don Williams, Midland.

“Factors to be considered in Purchas—
ing Feeding Lambs,” John Miller, Swartz
Creek, Michigan.

"Forecasting the Market and Selling
Lambs,” E. C. Read, Richland, Mich.

“Producing Lambs in Michigan,” R. C.
Blank, Perrinton, Mich.

“Keeping a Farm Flock,” H. M. Pat-
rick, Pittsford, Mich.

Poland China Breeders’ Ass’n.
Meeting called to order at 9:30 A. M.
Wednesday, February 4, 1925.

Room 110 Agrl. Bldg.

“How to Raise a. Ton Litter,”
Barnard, Portland, Mich.

“The Poland China of the Past and the
Future,” Robert Martin, Hastings, Mich.

“Present Day Judging and Judging,”
A. D. Gregory, Ionia, Mich.

Business Meeting.

Spotted Poland China Breeders’ Ass’n.
Meeting called to order 10:30 A. M.
\Vednvsdny, February 4, 1925
Room 100, Agri. Bldg.
President, G. S. Coffman, Goldwater;

Secretary, C. L. Nash, Cassopolis.
President's Address.
"The Future of the

China,” Fred Obcnchain, Secretary

tional Association.
Election of Oilicers.

Brown Swiss Breeders' Ass’n.
Meeting called to order at 10:00 A. M.
Tuesday, February 3, 1925.

Room 2 Dairy Building
President, L. S. Marshall; Secretary,

E. II. Kruuss.

“Feeding for ’u-cord Production,” J. E.

Burnett, M. A. (f.
Discussion. L. S.

Krausc.

Ernest

Spotted Poland
Na-

 

Marshnll, E. H.
Freisian Ass’n.
Meeting called to order 10:00 A. M.
'\Vednesd:1y, February 4, 1925.
{oom 402, Agrl. Bldg.

Annual meeting of the Michigan State

Holstein Association.

President, M. \V. Weutworth; Secretary,
J. G. Hays.

10:00 A. M., Agriciturui Bldg, Business
Meeting.

1:00 P. M.
turai Building.

Address—Illustrated by Experimental
Animals, “Relation of lirlineralsfiVitamins
—and light to Nutrition of Dairy Ani—
mals,” Carl F. Huffman, Dairy Dept.
Michigan Agricultural College,

Business Resumed in Room.

6:30 P. M.—Tuesda.y, February 3, An-
nual Banquet, Plymouth Congregational
Church Lansing, Allegan St., West of
Capitol featuring a regular vaudeville not
from “The Strand” Theatre. Ladies
especially invited.

Horse Breeders’ Ass’n.

President, L. C. Hunt, Eaton Rapids;
Secretary, R. S. Hudson, East Lansing.

Wednesday, February 3, 1925.
~ Judging Contest—4 ‘A. M.
Mee‘ting‘calle'd to order at 10:00 A. M.
‘Room 111 Agrl. Bldg.

“Boys and Girls Club Work with Colts,"
Nevels PearsOn, Asst. State Club Leader.

“Pulling Contests for Michigan," H. H.

Holstein

Judging Pavilion, Agricul-

. Musselman, Professor of Agricultural En-

gineering, M. A. C

 

"The Horse Business," Andy Adams,

(We invite you to contribute your experience in raising live-
Questions cheerfully answered.)

 

live stock auctioneer and farmer, Litch-
field, Mich.
Association Dinner, 12:30 P. M.
Inspection College Horses, 1:30 P. M.
Business Session, 2:00 P. M. Room 111.

Hereford Breeders' Ass'n.
Meeting called to order 10:00 A. M.
Tuesday, February 3, 1925.

Room 111, Agrl. Bldg.

President’s Address, W. W. Crapo,
Swartz Creek.

“Hereford Prospects,"
Lake Geneva... Wis.

“Our County Shows,”

John Lethan,

Jay Harwood,

Ionia, Mich, and Jas. R. Campbell, St.
Johns, Mich.
“International Show Herefords,” Geo.

Wheeler, Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

“The High Spots in Michigan Hereford
Hikes,” \Varncr E. Ramsay, Port Hope,
Mich.

"Hereford Sales,” E. C. McCarty, Bad
Axe, Mich.

Business Session.

Banquet, 12:30.

Red Polled Cattle Club
Meeting called to order 10:00 A. M.
Tuesday, February 3, 1925.
Room 102, Agrl. Bldg.
President, N. C. Herbison, Birmingham;
Secretary, M. R. Westbrook, Ionia, Mich.
Address of President.
Report of Secretary.
“The Outlook for the Cattle Breeder,"
R. S. Finch, Saline, Mich.
Business Session.

Guernsey Brecders' Ass’n.
Meeting called to order at 1:30 P. M.
Monday, February 2, 1925.

Room 100, Agrl. Bldg.

President, John Endicott, Birmingham;
Secretary—Treasurer, C. Faye Myers,
Grand Blanc.

Address of President.

Report of Secretary-Treasurer.

“The Doings of the Guernsey Cow in
Michigan and in other States,” Mr. Karl
B. Musser, Secretary, American Guernsey
Cattle Club.

6:30 P.
Lansing.

M. Banquet, Hotel Downey,
Tuesday, February 3

Meeting called to order at 9:00 A. M.

General Discussion of Guernsey Inter-
ests, Mr. Musser.

Business Meeting.

Election of Officers.

Jersey Cattle Club
Meeting called to order 10:00 A. M.
TUesday, February 3, 1925.
Room 110, Agrl. Bldg.

President, Alfred Henrickson, Hart,
Mieh.; Secretary, Morris J. Roberts, Ypsi-
lanti, Mich.

Address—Mr. R. F. Lee, In charge of
the Fold work for American Jersey Cattle
Club.

“Feeding Minerals to Jerseys,”
Huffman, M. A. C.

Report of the past years work, H. E.
Dennison.

Tuesday Evening Banquet, Hon.
Fordney, Toastmaster.

Talks by Kenyon L. Butterficld, Presi—
dent M. A. C. and Joe Morris, of Ohio
Jersey Cattle. ‘Club.

Shorthorn Brcedl-rfl’ Ass’n.
Meeting called to order 9:30 A. M.
Tuesday, February 3 ,1925.

Room. 109, Agri. Bldg.

S. H. Pangborn, President, Bad Axe,
Mich; W. E. J. Edwards, Secretary, East

Lansing, Mich.

President’s Address.

Scc'y—Trens. Report.

“The Importance of Milking Shorthorns
to the Michigan Farmer,” Ira Zimmerman,
Dimondale, Mich,

"More Light on Contagious Abortion."
l)r. 1c. '1‘. 'Hzlilmnn, M. A. C.”

“The Progress of ’i‘ubercuiosis Eradi-
cation,” Ii. \V. Norton, Jr., Director of
Bureau of Animal industry.

"The Outlook for the Shorthorn
Breeder," F. W. Harding, General Execu—
tive American Shorthorn Brecdcrs’ Ass'n.,
Chicago, Illinois.

Business Meeting.

Election of Officers.

Swine Breeders’ Ass’n.

Meeting called to order 1 P. M.
\Vednesduy, February 4, 1925.
Room 109, Ag‘rl. Bldg.

President, John Miller, Swartz Creek;
Secretary, F. E. Haynes, IIilldalc.

President's Address.

I’resvnlation of Michigan Ton Litter
Club Medals and Cash Prizes, Professor
G. A. Brown, M. A. C.

“How Can We Increase the Demand
for Pure Bred Swine,” J. R. Pfander,
Secretary National Duroc Jersey Ass’n.

“The Type of Hog the Breeder Should
Produce to Meet the Demand of the
Farmer," A. J. Adams, Litchficld, Mich.

“Present and Future Outlook of the
Swine Industry,” John O’Mealy, Secretary
Producors Cooperative Commission Ass’n.,
Detroit, Mich.

“'When is the Best Time to Market the
Spring Pig Crop,” W. W. Smith, In charge
of Swine Department, Purdue, University.

Sec’vareas. Report.

Business Session.

Chester White Swine Ass’n.

Meeting called to order 10:00 A. M.;

' \Vednesday, February 4, 1925.
Room 207, Agrl. Bldg.

President, Fred L. Bodimer, Reese;

Secretary, F. W. Alexander, Vassar, 

C. F.

J. F.

~ Address . "Chester   g. 

I

 

   

 

  

   

 
   

  
 

SEND no MONEY—PAY 0N ARRIVAL

We have made this drastic

harness leader in order to gagglgnhlgmg
troducc our harness (law

business, and also to in
meat to new customers.

We know of no place in the U. S. A.
iind an equal to this bargain. This hzgggsyigu
yery sturd throughout, and will give excellent MV-
nce. Per ouble set special 30 day otter. 841.95.
BRIDLES: 1' ion cheeks with buc I new
harnesscleather blin 5, double and stimfiesls’cgglbifi-
tion 1’ front, ' single winksr brace. Front ri
ltnlggagliligwifii 0%egk%latl Adjustable Crown. 
. eeks ov ham made
three pieces with Conway Loop. at e
LINES: 1%x20' with Buckles and Snaps.
HAMES AND STRAPS: Jan Bolt. Homes wit
1%' metal 100 name ' ‘
with ring. 9 straps and 5‘ spread stroll
PADS: 5' Swell end leather lined harness lea-thu-
houslng, 15' layers with does an 
154' reverse billets with Conway $333993“ b“
BELLY BANDS: 2', 2-1 loath r ' MI
length layer and 150 bucklgssl 6 mm 1%

TRACES: 1V'x6' Concord Clip at each end 6 m
swivel heel ch ns, 1%' bell band 111 'mu
truce with ring tor pad biilg’t. b 9“ to go

BREEOHING: 2%'. 2-ply harness is th

1%' layers with 154' layer loops. Deesaonerentviflg
breaching with 154' Side Straps with Conway Loops
and Snaps, 154' 3 ring reverse hip straps sewed into
trace carrier 1}? lugs with chutes, 1 M ' gunner straps
gorill‘l’aémes all with Conway Loops. 1% Jointed is"
BREAST STRAPS:

MARTINGALES:
straps.

Just; another bargain to convince
on than our Eprices are right.
magma only 80 for this good
uality heavy I V" leather halter.

rings. Adjustable. Built to
withstand the hardest; kind of ..
wear. Regular $1.75 value. At
our low prloc. plus postage 98c.

     
  
  
   
 
   
 
   
 
  
  
    
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
    
   
   
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
  
 
 
   
    
    
 
 
 
 
 
  
       
  
    
 
   
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
     
     
   
   
   
    
    
  
   
  

136' with snaps and slides.
1%' with buckles and 1' solar

    
        
 
   
   
   

Lewis Co.
Dunne eupolis,an

 

 

feeds two Calves
for six weeks I

 

This Is the cost of a 100 pound bag. I

Compare this cost with feeding
cow’s milk for the same period—-
figure what you save with No-Milk
Calf Food. Produces fine, healthy
calves without using any whole
milk. Begin using when calves are
three days old, and simply mix it
with water. It is not a. calf meal
-——-Has been used successfully since
1885.

At your dealer’s today you can get
No—Milk Calf Food. Try one bag.
You’ll be surprised with it. Look
for the Red and Green bags. Put
up in 25 1b., 50 1b. and 100 1b. bags.
Call on your dealer today and so.
a. bag!

National Food Co.

Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

_

HEREFORDS

HEREFORD STEERS

’ 68 Wt. around 750 ll).
88 Wt. around 550 111'.

 

 

 

 

90 \Vt. around 880 lbs.
823 \Vt. around 640 lbs.
54 Angus 500 lbs. 56 Wt. around 475 lbs.
Dee reds, dehorned, good stocker order. Real
quality herefords are usually market to§1pers when
finished. Also heifers some quality. W sell you
choice from any bunch. v
VAN BALDWIN, Eldon, Wapello 00., low;

WE HAVE BRED HEREFORDS SINCE 1860
Our herd bulls are International Prize Winners.
Stock of all ages. for sale, at Farmers prices. Write
us for further information.
Feed Herefords that fatten quickly.
CRAPO FARM. Swartz Creek, Michigan.

1*

 

GUERNSEYS
MAY _ GUERNSEYS —~ ROSE

STATE AND FEDERAL ACCREDITED
Bull calves out of Dams up to 877 pounds is}
Sued b Bulls whose Dams have u to 1
)ounds at. The homes of bulls; Shut lewick Ms:

ose Se ue_l, Jumbo of Briarbank and Holbecb"
Golden night of Nordland. From ms pro-
ducma 1011.18 fat, 772 fat and 610 fat. \
GEORGE L. BURROWS or GEO GE J. HICKS.
Saginaw. w. 8.. Mich can.

 

 

 

HOLSTEINS

FOR SALE: ,ALL on ANY- PART, or oun’
Federally Accredited Herd oi’ Rammed Hohteins

 

of al ages at less on current prices (in same
finality. Quick sale esired. '
. H. Dismay-sot ahdggmpon‘y, Relish-o, Michigan,

 

THE BUSINESS  
“Th6-Farmfipe!‘ 01: 
your:   '

w. ,, v...
,  _ . m

  

  
  
  
     

  
 

  

Km unnamemfl ‘

 

    
   
   
  
  
 
  

 
      


 

“.lwé-x'evav

 

,..e- ‘

«- "mm—Am ..

y—«w 7", .y... .1“

 

  
  
 

     

Throws \
And Blows

Saves One

\

 
   
   
 
 
  
 
   
   
 
 
 
  
   
 
   

Value in
Ensilage Cutters

I USANDS of farmers agree that the

Papec is the biggest value in ensilage

_rs—31mple, rugged. long-lived. Fills

* .ehighestsdo Without plu ggingthe pipe.

laghtof draft; costs less to operate. Every
part is easy to get at.

The Papec is made in four sizes: R;10;
N-l3' L-16 and K-19. A gasoline engine,
deve oping 3 h.p. ormore,will operate the
l-lo size. Any tractorcan be used With the
medium sizes. For heavy tractors useaK-
B'Papec—capacity practically unlimited.

Write for free catalog
Ill U. S. Gov’t Bulletin “ Making and Feeding
“Silage.” Everysilo ownershould read them.
' size of your silo.

Pepec Machine Company
1 87 Main St.
Shortsville, N. Y. . fl _

 

  

rs buy
more In the Papeo

    

 

 

 

a The BOOK every Hm Owner
needs badly—it’s FREE

All unfailing guide that makes the locating and

' cure of 58 kinds of lameness simple and easy——
the most valuable Book for the Horse Owner
ever written.

SAVE-The-HORSE

has been curing lameness for 31 years—and keep-
ing the horses at work while curing. You know
what this means in money saved. 405,0003atisfied
users testify to the dependability of Save-The-
iiorse. Guaranteed by our igned MONEY-BACK
Contract to cure SPAVIN, 'l'horopin, Ringbone
(except loivv), or Shoulder, Knee, Ankle, Hoot
1 and Tendon disease. Don’t delay. Write now for
- Book, ssmnle Guarantee and veterinary adwce
F mean depend upon—all FREE.

TROY CHEMICAL co.
339 State Street Binghsmton. N.Y.

i At Druezists and Dealers with

' Signed Guarantee or sent prepaid
Theh'ew

MPROV

 

 

 

  
  

 

No Buckles'rb or
No Rina. 1b sr

  
 
 
   

 
  
 
 

Send for my his new free harness book.
Tells how I send Walsh No—Buckle
on 30 days free trial. Use it—-prove for yourself
mt it is stronger. easier to handle. Outwenrs buckle
’ . hauls because". has no buckles to tear straps, no rings
uses: them. no buckle holes tomken them. Amazing
luau—thousands in use in every state.

Costs Less—Wears Longer
Savannah-s.- Walsh specisl 900steel test leather. which
is aplsmed Ln his free book. Easily adjusted to fit
any size horse. Made in allstyles: back pad,side backer
breedinzlcss. etc. $5 site: 30 dsys trial—balance is '
psid monthly. Return to me if not satisfac- ' 
m. Write today for my big free book. prices,  “
Gnu-terms. Sold direct to you by mail only. 
' > J. M. WALSH. rm. . 

WALSH HARNESS CO.
Q We Ave" Milwaukee, Wi

Send For‘Your Copy

SELDCM SEE

a big knee like this, but your horse
may have a bunch or bruise on his
ankle, hock, stifle, knee or throat.

’ BSORBINE

A , TRACE MARK iEG.U.S.PAT. CFi.‘

will clean it off without layin up
the horse. No blister, no air
gone. Concentrated—only a few
“acquired at an application. 82. 50 pet
has , ed. Describe ’
asp-aunts“. ABSON‘V‘:r “EBMINMEI

  
 
       
   
       
      
 

    
 
   
 
 

    

 

      

If.mlnc.. use km n.mm

1 SHEEP f1]

kad Shropshire Ewe Lambs

BOOM“. Evan. llch.“ 34.

 

 

W‘Mm-ummrus
.3' - I

 

  

‘ 01'  :3

   

Work.” 'Wlllis Campbell, Director of Club
Work, Cass City, Mich.

Address "Present Day Swine Feeding
Problems," Professor C. A. Brown,
Michigan Agricultural College.

Report of Sec’y-Treas.

Round Table Dlficussion.

Election of Officers.

Hampshire Swine Breeder’s Ass'l.
Meeting called to order 10:00 A. M.
Wednesday, February 4, 1925.
Room 102, Agrl. Bldg.
President. Lloyd Aseltine, Williamston;

Secretary, C. F. Luckhard, Bach.

An interesting program is being pre-
pared.

Duroo Jersey Breeders' Ase’n.
Meeting called to order 10:00 A. M.
Wednesday, February 4, 1925.
Room 213, Agrl. Bldg.
President, 0. F. Foster, Clarkston;

Secretary, E. J. Schaffer, Detroit.

President's Address.

Sec’y-Treas. Report.

"Durocs in the Ton Litter Contest," H.
M. McIlwain, Producer of Michigan 1924
Champion Litter and 1923 second prize
litter, F. J. Housemand, Albion, Producer
of 1924 second prize litter.

“Experimental Evidence Relating to
Type Changes,” Prof. W, E. J. Edwards,
Michigan Agricultural College.

Discussionsz—“Showing Duroc Type,”
Virgil Davis, Charlevoix, Mich.; “Market
Duroc Type,” John Noon, Jackson, Mich;
“Relations of Feed to Type." J. B. Miller,
Ithaca. Mich., and Harold Shafley, St.
Johns, Mich

“The Outlook for Duroc Jerseys in
1925," J. R. Pfander, Secretary, National
Duroe Jersey Ass'n.

Business Session.

Fine \Vool Breeders’ Ass'n.
Meeting called to order 9230 A. M.
Tuesday, February 3, 1925.

Room 101, Agrl. Bldg.

President, Amos Parmenter,
Secretary, R. J. Noon, Jackson.

“The Black Top Lamb as a Feeder,”
H. H. Halladay, Secretary, M. A. C.

“The Value of Rambouillet Blood in
Feeding Lambs," A. Parmenter, Durand.

“Methods and Principles of Breeding,"
E. M. Moore, Mason, Mich.

“Advance Registry for
Sheep," V. A. Freeman,
Michigan Agricultural College.

“How Can We Secure a. Fair Classifi—
cation for Black Top Merinos," W. O.
Ilcndce.

“The Benefits derived from Exhibiting
at the Fairs," Howard Calhoun, Bronson,

Durand ;

'Wool
Dept.

Fine
Ext.

Mich. -
Election of Officers.
1:00 P. M. Demonstration Talk on the

Grading of Fine Wool,” Geo. T. Willing—-
myre, U. S. Department of Agriculture.
State 0. I. C. Ass’n.
Meeting called to order 9:30 A. M.
Wednesday, February 4, 1925.
Room 311, Agrl. Bldg.
President, Edward A. Smith,
Secretary, E. R. Morrish, Flint.
Address by President.
Report of Scc‘y-Treas.
“Ways of Advertising,” Milo H. Peter—
son, Ionia, Mich.

Saline :

“Public Auction and Purebreds," Andy _

Adams, Litchfield, Mich.

Discussion led by W. G. West, St.
Louis, Mich.

Election of Officers.

,__ VETERINARY ,
DEPARTMENT

ACUTE MASTITIS
I would like to have your advice
about a cow’s bag, and teats when
they are swollen up, after she had
the calf.—J. D., Davison, Mich.

HE cow is suffering from acute
T mastitis. Bathe the bag and

teats with hot water three times
a day until the swelling and cake dis-
appear. Strip out teats every two
hours for first two or three days,
then massage the bag well with cam—
phorated oil after each bathing-—
John P. Hutton, Assoc. Prof. of
Surg. and Med., Michigan Agricul-
tural College.

NEW LAMP BURNS

94% AIR

Beats Electric or Gas

 

 

 

A new oil lamp that gives an
amazingly brilliant, soft, white
light, even better than gss or elec-
tricity, has been tested by the U. S.
Government and 35 leading uni-
versities and found to be superior to
19 ordinary oil lamps. It burns
without odor, smoke or noise—no
pumping up, is simple, clean, sate.
Burns 94% air and 6% common
kerosene (coal oil).

The inventor, A. R. Johnson, 609
W. Lake St, Chicago, 111., is otter-
ing to send a lamp on 10 day's
FREE trial, or even to give one
FREE to the first user in each loc-
ality who will help him introduce it.
Write him today for full particu-
lm Also ask him to explain how

you can get the agency, and without

 or money make $250 ts
$500 per Dentin—stw.) : —

A   I. 'ZN‘E’ 981‘s

  

  

   

“A ‘R M  R

  

 
  
  
 
  
  
 
 

  
 
  
 

I

l

  

I

    
   
 

Don’t Miss lt—

I’ve made another cut in
rices on Fencing Gates. Steel
osts, Bzrb Wire, Footing and

Paint. The amazing bargains I am

offering this year tell better .than

I can the big savmg my Direct-

From-Factory Freight-Paid cut

priccs afford you.

Don’t buy until you get my new

catalog and see for yourself the

bi': difference in Jim Brown’s lower
prices and Guaranteed Quality.

Pays 'g to Buy from Brown

850.000 farmer customers save big money every year by or-
dering from my catalog. Here's a letter from
one of them :

“I have bought over 500 rods of fencing from you and
find it is not on] .I cheaper in cost er rod, but the best
fence at any price."—J. A. We ker, Tigrett, Tenn.
My Double Galvanizing process makes Brown fence
last years longer than others. Get my new catalog—
write today—it is full of big money sev-
ingitv-ms you need. Read my money-
back guarantee. JIM BROWN.

The Brown Fence & Wire 00.
Dept. 3909
Cleveland. 0M0

 

It Pays fits Way
by Increasing Cream Profits 
CREAM SEPARATOR

Imported duty free from Finland,
one or the world’s most famous
regions!
The vibrationless bowl skims and delivers better than 99% of butter I
fat. Lacta’s records have never been beaten in competition. We . i
challenge the world to equal Lacta’s performance ‘
in close skimming. Lacta is also the eaSIest of all
separators to clean and sterilize.

30 Days’ Free Trial

 
   
    
     
     
     
   
   
        

Send no Money

  

Just select the size you need—it will come to you at 30 days, Free
once. Try it out in your own way. Note the easy starting, Tria'
easy running, simplicity of construction and your in- __
creased cream production. If after trial you are dissatis- 00
tied, return the Separator at our expense.  00 Only  3
Made in five  UP monthifsafisfied

Write today'for Catalog and Sales Plan —

An Ironclad writ-

BALTIIC SALES COMPANY, Inc.

Us: Eted States Representatives

Dept 2110 , 105 S. La Sane Street. Chicago

melon». .. ..,.§‘.>’§;--»,.s..‘-...A-h': .«x; .

ten Guarantee.

 

 

 

(
‘.

‘ The Same
Formula

     

The Same
Feed

Each ingredient is brought to
an exact standard before being
used, then accurately weighed
into the mixture. The amount
of each ingredient per ton of )
feed never changes. The

result is always the same
feed—no matter where you

611'?

‘ The Larro formula will never
be changed, regardless of the
‘ cost of ingredients, unless a
better one is found and
proved. This because the
Larro formula, by yesrs of
‘ experiment and practical feed-

ing tests, has demonstrated
that it will economically pro— buy it» or when-

duce the most milk and keep The Lam-owe Mining Co,
cows in health and condition. Detroit. Mich. 539

 

 

  
   

Efissrmmr PUMPS ‘

No.296 FOR orchard or vineyard, citrus grove or truck patch, cotton
and tobacco, for field or garden, dairy‘bsrn or poultry house,
for fence or cellar walls—there is a special Myers outfit. They

 

FOR SPRAYING

   
 

 
 
 
 
 
  
   

 

I pA I "1" N6 are uneficelled 1tl'or the‘applicclatiolg (Jeffrinseiticidéas, disinfiiti:
. a . w itewas or pain . uic 1c1en an econom1
w” '1. Ew‘s " I NC Hgd Pumps with easy-operating cog gear han- V ._
A N D dle, anld Power Pump; ViVlth autoznatic presstililrcé 4,; {:34 '~ -
t , ive a owe u enetra m spra a I
DI s I N   figuring; evgerylesgnnd blossolxii, every noo and cyorner.  ,-

‘l‘he MYERS line includes Pumps for every )9?
hangers

  

 

 

 

 
    

.
mde-mmtmwmm in!
- - Wu trisl law-“s. or 81—10: 1 your (52 issues). Address:
PA. laud-o sum Wealth-chm

I

 

 

    
 

     
    
    
      
   
       
     
     
     
      
   
 
 
 
 
 
      
        
     
     
     
     
   
   
      
      
   
       
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  

 

 

\ purposs, H Tools and Door . 
NO.R324 Ask your er or write us. '
15.55.: “m are“.
I, R3360 ,, a“ ‘
Add  r = V
wonderhrl wed
C Inns-due» us!
million people

 

“3;. m¢m , M'Dams—SPMNG ROADS FOR SALE.
‘.\‘. ‘egtdnafionalnn‘ Place your order for Gilts bred to order. 11th
‘ world-flath year. John w. Snyder. 88.. Johns. Mich., R4.

 

 

 

full of the kind at
O. I. O.

 

-‘ ~ realm you vs c, sci ' .
~ , a! tics. trsvel. iun. qnosn tlon £2" M
)todlr O. I. 03! LA" m' "as, EITHER ,
not skin‘ from. b stron stock. res-z v" roe.

J hoslth. home. radio—entertainment and in.
m ed
OTTO .. [GNU & . lithium Mich.

"son. 74! D-Q.

     


 
   
  

 

120'”  (260‘)

0th

is a Proven

of price.

All the features of machines costing twice as much you will find
in the Detroit-Alliance. Double walls with dead air spaces between
for keeping out the cold and holding in the heat, big nursery, special
thermometer holder that keeps thermometer in plain View from out-
side yet up where chicks can’t break it while hatching, automatic
heat regulator, copper leak-proof hot water tank with rounded elbows
for even distribution of heat in hatching chamber—in short every.
thing that insures large hatches of strong, vigorous, fast growing

chicks, is built into the wonder Detroit-Alliance Hatcher.

is "m l ‘
Get M

ore 152g

The DETROIT-ALLIANCE '
BIG HATCHER

HE Detroit is not an untried incu-

bator. For years it has been turning
out bigger hatches of fine husky chicks
for poultry raisers all over the country.
That’s why I can so unconditionally
guarantee it to out-hatch and outlast
any other incubator made, regardless

Shipped
complete
3: ready to 1
'1 use except
‘ 9min:
on legs.

Freight prepaid
east of the
Rockies and
allowed 1: 0
points beyond.

Special 'Combination Offer

By buying both machines at one time you get
not only the best, most complete profit hatching
outfit on the market but you get it at tremendous
savings—so big, in fact that if you tried to get the
same value anywhere else just the incubator alone
without a brooder you’d have to pay more than
what I am asking for both machines. Write now
*get my catalogue and sensational combination
0591'. Study Detroit-Alliance features and com-

Carries 140 chicks through the
critical five weeks following atch-
ing. Double walls, hot water heat
durably constructed yet light and
easy to clean. A triumph of me-
chanical ingenuity.

CHIX OF QUALITY

Hatched in “'ishbone Incubators.

S. C. W. Leghorns. {$13 "or 100

1 $62.50 per 500
$16 per 100
Barred Rocks........ {$75 per 500

$120 per1000
Dc KOSTER’S IIATCIIEILY,
Zeelzuid, )licli., Box 300.

LOOK!

150.000 rhix 90 up. From hi liestjprodiicing
contest layers. 1FreeI circlulnr. 1 tchmg eggs.
10 ehix free witi esry oners.

Lawrence Hatchery, R1, Grand Raplds, Michigan.

F 10 chicks with advanced orders.
R I  9e and u] i. 20 purebred tested
varieties. (,‘ircuinr 1‘ rec.

Beckman Hatchery. 26 Lyon. Grand Rapids, Mich.

68 Varieties of Fine Pure-Bred Chickens, Ducks,
reese, turkeys, fowls, eggs, baby chicks. large
illusirated catalog 130. A. A. Ziemer, Austin. Minn.

Rheumatism

A Remarkable Home Treatment
Given by One Who Had It

In the ear 1893 I was attacked by Mus—
ruler and gub—Acute Rheumatism. l sutlered as
only those who are thus afflicted know for over
three years. I tried remedy after remedy, but
such relief as I obtained was only temporary.
Finally. I found a treatment that cured me
completely and such a pitiful condition has
iever returned. I have given it, his number who
were terribly afflicted, even bedridden, some of
them seventy to eighty years old, and the
results were Hm same as in my own case.

I want every sufferer from any form of mus-

cular and sub-acute (swelling of. the joints)
rheumatism to try the great value of my un-
roved “Home Treatment" for its remarkable

ieailinu power. Don’t send
your name and address, and'I will sen
to try. After you have used it. and it has prov-
en itself to be that long—looked for means of
getting rid of such forms of rheumatism. you
may send the price of it. One Dollar, but un—
derstand I do not want your inoney’ unless you
l‘re perier‘tly satisfied to semi it. Ian 1; that fair?
Why suffer any lUllLiel‘, when relief 18 thus of-
fered you free. Don’t delay. Vrite today.
MARK H. JACKSON

265K Durston Bldg, Syracuse, N. Y.
Mr. Jackson is responsible. Above statement true.

. rent; siml mall
q ( d) lt free

pare, both in quality and price, with any other
incubator or brooder ever built.

Write today!

WILLIAM CAMPBELL, President
Detroit-Alliance Incubator Company, Dept. 10 Alliance, Ohio

 

 

 

 

ECZEMA

CAN BE CURED
Free Proof To You

All I want is your name and address so I can send you ,a free _trial
treatment. I want you just to try this treatment—that s all—lust

try it. That's my only ar merit.

I've been in the Retail

the Indiana State Board of Pharmacy and five years as President 0

treatment. Over

Waynehhave, according to their own statements, been cur

made is offer public.

ment has cured the worst cases

Send me your name and address on the

to sendyou FREE.

The wonders accomplish '11 your own case Will

 

a You Can Pay More
But Cannot Get
Better Chicks

 
  

 Tancred Strainv‘fi ',
,_ WHITE LEGHORNS A
7' PL“?- BARRED ROCKS -
Single Comb 5 Rose Comb
RHODE lSLAND REDS

SUDCIIDI emcu.
, in nu. I-nu

    
   
    

S‘t'u‘iing 5 years ago with
the best foundation stock
ohminshle, We have made
Lnkcview chicks equal to
pm any.

    
  

You profit by our work

Our \Vhitn Leulmrns ceme direct from ’l‘sncred,
——pedigreed. Borred Rocks from Parks. Reds from
pioneers with this breed.

It is easier to raise good chicks than poor ones
——t.hey grow better.

Learn more about these unusual
by readmg our catalog.

Lakeview Poultry Farm

B. R. 8, Box 8. Holland, Llichlgan.

White Leghoms
Exclusively

Pure Tnncred Cockcrels
from 226-209 egg dams
head our high grade Royal
Breeders. This means
high flock average and
poultry roflts. 75% of
the chic s we sell go to

Lakeview birds

    

ATCHERY£~FARM old customersd 1% no
we arrive an goo co -
L ZEELAND'MICH' dition guaranteed. All

orders have my personal attention.
“'rite for catalog.
8. P. WIERSMA, Iceland, Mlch., R. R. 2.-

. Hatched on a real poultry
farm of 70 acres.
Our slogan is quality.
. Our watchword, economy.
Our ambition. service.
Our policy, a fair deal”
Our endowment. experience.
Brown Leghorns, Anoones,
Barred R o c k 8. Catalog
Free.
Rural Poultry Farm
Box 860, R1 , Zeeland, Mich.

  

FAVORITE BREEDS—FAMOUS STRAINS

From expert ruilul, HEALTHY flocks of utility,
Pgu contest, irize-winning blood. Leghorns, Bar-
red and W. locks, ‘ R. 1. Beds, W. Wyan—
duties and Aneonas. Extra chicks free with

l ders. Guranteed.
ifiAl’GfirT HATCHERY. Cedar Springs, Michigan.

 

J. C. HUTZELI.
DRUGGIaT

rug Business for 20 years. I served four {figsRizata a! nfiert‘l’llggs g;

Association. Nearlyéeveryone in Fort Wayne knows me and knows about my successful

hirty-Five Thousand Men. Women and Children outside of Fort

edbythxstrea sincelfirst

If you have Eczema, Itch. Salt Rheum. Toner—never mind how bad-em! treat-

I ever saw—give me a chance to prove my claim.

Egon below and get the trial treatment I want
i

be proof.

 

A 001' AND MAIL TODAY ~—

Ic. uurzsu. Drugglst,

No. 4960 West Male St, Fort Wayne, Ind.

Please send without cost or obligation to me your FreeProof Treatment

Name
Post has"

Sheet-rid Nag, V- ' 7‘

Ag:-

Star,

 
 

 

 

 

( We
department.

PROGRAM OF SPECIAL INTEREST
’1‘0 POULTRY LIEN

HE meetings of the Michigan

Poultry Producers’ Ass’n during

Farmers' Week will spread over

three days, Tuesday, Wednesday and

Thursday, February 3—5. A very in-

teresting time has been planned as

you can see by the following pro-
gram:
Tuesday, February 3, 1925.
Room 206, Agrl. Bldg.

10:00 A. M.—“Poultry Hduse Construc-
tion” by J. A. Hannah, Ext. Specialist,
Poultry Department, M. A. C.

11:00 A. M.-———“Sanitation Problem 5 of
Michigan Poultry Producers,” by Doctor
H. J. Stafseth, Bacteriology Depart-
ment, M. A. C.

“'ednesday, February 4, 1925.

9:00 A. M.——“Genera,1 Care of Rabbits,”
by Judge Dennis Mieras of Grand
Rapids.

9:30 A. M.—Discussion.

9:45 A. M. “Michigan’s Poultry Indus-
try,” by Doctor L. F. Heasley, Editor
of the Moderen Poultry Breeder, Battle
Creek.

10:30 A. M.—“Standardizatlon and Grad-
ing of Eggs,” by Judge of the egg show.

11:15 A. M.——"Poultry Diseases,” by Doc—
tor H. J. Stafseth.

Thursday, February 5, 1925, Room 109.
9:30 A. M.——“The Poultry Industry in
Ottawa County,” by C. P. Milham,
County Agent, of Ottawa County.

11:00 A. M.—“Hatching and Rearing

Chicks," by Professor C. G. Card,
Poultry Department, M. A. C.
Demonstrations
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Time—940 A. M.

Place—Poultry Plant.

Killing and dressing demonstration by
Professor C. M. Ferguson, Poultry Depart-
ment, M. A. C., assisted by members of
the Senior Class.

EUROPEAN SCOURGE FOUND IN
MICHIGAN

ICHIGAN’S poultry industry, es-

pecially the hatcherymen, are

losing thousands of dollars this

year on account of the chick ban in

many states. In a normal year chicks

MUSINGS OF A

 

invite you to contribute your experience in raising poultry to tit
Questions relative to-poultry will be cheerfully answered.)

  

from Michigan are shipped to n '
every state in the Union but, due
the discovery of the presence of
European fowl plague in the U11
States, embargos were placed by 15
states against shipment of live pell-
try of any kind into _them xii
among these 15 states are some ct
Michigan’s best customers. In spite fl
this the poultrymen of this stat
were congratulating themselves “-

cause the disease had not appeared“

in their flocks but now report con.
from the state department of agricul-
ture that this dreaded pest has been
found on the Detroit market.

Expertsof the state department
were in Detroit a few days ago to
observe specimens thought to be dis-
eased. Considerable secrecy ur-
rounded their investigation at that
time, but once assured that the dis-
ease was the European malady which
caused the embargo on live for!
shipments into several eastern cities
at the holiday time, they felt that
Michigan poultry growers should be
warned in order to take proper ple-
cautions.

According to the authorities, he
disease is believed to have come hoe
the state from Canada or the east on
infected fowls.

The symptoms, it is claimed, are
by swelling which eventually closes
the eyes completely and effects the
wattles. Internal hemorrhages are
thought to take place.

An embargo against infected dis—
tricts is usually necessary and infec—
tion of outside flocks may be pro—
crates, it is claimed. These are the
vented by sterilization of all poultry
chief carriers of the pest. Farmers
are being warned and instructions
are to be sent out urging poultw
raisers to allow no crates to come
onto the premises from outside with—
out complete disinfection with strong
germicides.

PLAIN FARM ER

 

the silage bucket.
That’s my first pick-up. Trudge
up the alley with my load.

The old black cow’s bawl sounds
like a fog horn. Imagine a fog horn
this morning.

Wish I was an animal trainer.

I’d trade these dairy cows for some
polar bears, believe they are more
adapted for this climate.

After coffee comes the raffle of
the milk pails. They don’t sound
like chimes to me any more. They’re
harsh and out of tune.

Price too low for milk to get much
music out of anything, except a Jew’s
harp, but I suppose I must keep on,
I am equipped for this business. The
only thing I need is a pair of
crutches.

Ah! Here you are!
companion, the stable shovel.

’18 cold! I dog trot to the stable
and seize

My constant
It’s

he and I that make two thistles grow
where none should and the all“
blossom three times a year.

No artist of the cue can perform
more stunts than I can with a. ambit
shovel. I know all the tricks of the
trench.

And yet, I am only a medical.
shoveler, I am not a fancy shoveler.

Strange isn’t it, how us humans
are associated with a shovel? About
the last act that man does for nun
is to shovel some dirt over his earth-
ly remains. '

There! The door prop come down
and struck me on the foot, bringing
me back to earth with a bang. '

The pain is excruciating! I must
hurry to the house and bathe my feet
with warm water and white linimont.

Now is a. good time for me to cut
my toenails in daylight.-———A. P. Bel-
lard, Huron County Farmer.

 

BANGOR HIGH SCHOOL TEAM WIN HONORS JUDGING ‘FBUIT

This is the Bangor High School Fruit Judging
1924 high school Judging contest held during the Apple Show at Grand Rapids. This
is the third time Bangor has taken first honors and it
E. French trophy .eup. ' They also
it"

possession of the W.
esp. Left to right they. are: New

-. m... M-

a:

50

entitles them to permanent

 

. .‘e

eon-flea.“ . tow. and
“Jaw” . 

  

Tom winners of first prize In,

the Kent Storage cs. v

@

fl NEW-L. fimMera-«w

. 34; v.

     
   
     
   
  
   
   
  
 
   
 
   
   
   
   
    
     
   
  
  
  
   
  

 

5.1K : .

\

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

  
  

 

   
  
    
   
  
   
  
   
  
  
  
  
 
   

 
   
  
  
 
  
  


 

“a 

aw  air»; when} r" r ’

 

 
   

    

   

 

 

   

 
 
 

High rd to

You Can Afford to Pay

Bred for eggs, not show feathers. Eyery r‘hlfik
from our farm is of a proven egg laying strain.
But they Win beauty prizes also.

English Barron Leghorns

The strain that has been making egg laying
history ever since Tom Barron entered his his;
pen in America. We breed them upward——
watch our flocks the year around to make
sure only good birds remain.

Aristocrat Barred Rocks

They occupy the some preeminent position
emolug Rocks that Barron birds do among
orns.

Brown Leghoms

All our flocks have free range—thus grow
dependable, healthy and strong.

CHICK—EGGS—PULLETS

We outfit you in any kind of stock you prefer.
Our new catalog will tell you all about it.
Send for your copy.

Great Northern Poultry Farm
Zeoland, Michigan. R.  4. Box 57

 

 

 

 

 

Superior pure-bred baby chicks pur-
chased for a few cents a piece grow
quickly into steady dollar produc.
ing birds. Before you know it the
cockerels are ready for market and
the pullets have started to lay.

They are bred to pay from such
ous prize winning and egg-lay-
ing strains as Tom Barron and
HollywoodWhiteLeghorns.Hatched
i1 largest hatchery in Michigan. ‘
Write for Catalog and special low
prices. Satisfaction guaran-
teed. Book your orders now

for early deliveries.
Write TODAY.
OR

‘ SUPERl
POULTRY FARMS
Box 201
ZEELAND. MICH.

Superior Pure Brod
Baby Chick:

  
   
 
  
  
     
   

 

 
 
 

EVERY FERTlLE EGG A HEALTHY CHICK
The most remarkable incubator offer of the age. Enables
y“ to make more money by hatching every hatchable egg
with less attention. Continual watching and
my done away with.

Nit-DEGREE INCUBATOR
hmmntced to keep even temperature
throughout the hatch regardless of outside
conditions. Has Patented Two-Circuit

0! Water Heating System and Tilting
' ey found in no other make. World's ‘

  
  
 
 
   
 
 
  
   
  
 
  

West incubator improvements. Thous-
m in use.‘ Money-Back Guaranloe.
Free trial for one hatch. Write today for
flee book and liberal offer. .
I03—DEGREE INCUBATO C .
Ham": Point, Ind. R o
2:501

 

 

 

 

' - Egglncubdtofi
4*  30 Days Trial

. Freight Paid out of the ‘
‘ Rockies, Hot water co - '
per tanks—double walls—den ‘
.air space—double glass doors

—n real bargain at $13.25.

Shlpped complete, set up ready to use. ""5’ i
140 Egg Incubator and Broodor - $17.75
180 Egg Incubator Alone - - - 15.75
180 Egg Incubator and Broodor - ‘ 22.00
250 Egg Incubator Alone - - - 22.75
250 Egg Incubator and Broodor - 31.00

Made of California Redwood—last a lifetime. Positively
the best value on the market today. Order the size you
want direct from this ad. 80 days trial—money back
it not pleased. If not ready to order now, don't buy
until you get our new 1923 catalog. ' 3

)
ISGDIISII IIGIIMTOR 00. 0.91.138 Racine. Wis.

CHICKS FOR 1925

Am (i to book orders for Baby Chicks:
Emir??? “an. “'5; 3s“ “4 

an 0 es, an . rpmg n3
Bhok Mixiorcss. Anconas, White. Brown and Bud

Moms.
l’flcnd for Poultry Circular with price list.
. ~ ‘ > ‘ cent delivery.

" . v1 0 per . .
OTATQ'VFARMS I83 OIATION.

   

  

 

 

 
   

 
 
   

 

 

 

 

     
      

 

    

'uoo', . ‘flioh gen. . 
.. , Woman association.

 
 
 



  

  _ RYTHINF‘N o IN 

  

 

    

g FARMEBS’ WEEK
(Continued from Page 4)

This year an organized effort is be-
ing made to offer a program of nter-
est and benefit to the entire family
and demonstrations which are expect-
ed to be helpful to the women are
to be given in the home economics
building by students in that depart-
ment.

Tuesday evening’s session will be
devoted entirely to funmaking with
stunts starting at 6:30 o’clock fol—
lowed by a concert at 7:55 by the
Swartz Creek band, famous M. A. 0.
comedy musical organization. The
basketball game with Hope college
will complete the evening.

The program has been designed to
offer instruction for the farmer who
recognizes his profession as one re—
quiring an unusual amount of tech-
nical knowledge together with an un-
derstanding of business principles
which will assure his receiving the
most possible compensation for his
labor. Talks having as their topics
subjects ranging from seed, soils and
marketing to education and the spir—
itual life of farmers are to be given
by experts of recognized standing.

High Spots of Program

Some of the high spots of the
program are the address to be given
by S. Parch Cadman on _“The Out-
look of Democracy" 'Wednesday
night at 8 o’clock, a talk by Presi-
dent Butterfield on “The Michigan
Agricultural College and the Michi«
gan Farmer” Tuesday afternoon at 2
o’clock, a discussion of the “Eco-
nomic Situation in Agriculture” by
Prof. B. H. Hibbard of the University
of Wisconsin Thursday afternoon at
2 o’clock, and Congressman John C.
Ketchham’s discourse on the “Stabil-
ization of Agriculture Wednesday af-
ternoon at 2:20 o’clock.

Programs to be broadcast by radio
are Dr. William Evans talk on the
health of the farmer Monday evening
at 8 o’clock. Music provided by the
Varsity Male Quartette will be put on
the air at 7:45 the same evening.
Tuesday evening the basketball game
will be broadcast play by play. Rev.
Cadman’s address will be broadcast
starting at 8:05 o’clock Wednesday.

The discussion of the child labor
amendment will go on the air at
7:15 o’clock Thursday evening and
will be followed at 8 o’clock by a
concert given by the Men's Glee
Club.

Associations Meet

The associations which are to hold
their meetings during the week are
Housewives Congress, Michigan State
Farm Bureau, Michigan Crop Im-
provement, Michigan Potato Produc-
ers, Michigan Soils, Michigan Muck
Farmers, Michigan Poultry Produc-
ers, Michigan Press, Farm Eco-
nomics, Michigan Nursorymen, 00.
Y. M. C. A. Secretaries Conference,
Michigan Crop Reporters, Short
Course Students, Rural Life Confer-
ence, county farm agents, home dem—
onstration agents, county club lead-
ers, and the Michigan Breeders and
Feeders Association with its allied
organizations including Michigan
Sheep Breeders and Feeders, Mich-
igan Shorthorn Breeders, Michigan
Hereford Breeders, Michigan Aber-
deen—Angus Breeders, Michigan Red
Polled Cattle Club, Michigan Guern-
sey Cattle Club, Michigan Jersey Cat-
tle Club, Michigan Brown Swiss
Breeders, Michigan Holstein-Frei:
sian, Michigan Swine Breeders, Mich-
igan Poland China Breeders, Michi—
gan Hampshire Swine Breeders,
Michigan Duroc Jersey Swine Breed-
ers, Spotted Poland China S'wine
Breeders, Michigan Chester White
Swine Breeders, Michigan 0. I. C.
Swine Breeders, Michigan Horse
Breeders and the Michigan Fine
Wool Sheep Breeders.

 

Pulblicity never made a cow give more

milk.[
0 O 0

A warm cow may not always be con-
tented, but a. contented cow is always

warm.
0 t 0

Uncle Alb says it’s only the good inten-
tions that die which are used to macad-
mize the lower regions.

FREE BOOK ABOUT CANCER

The; Indianapolis Cancer Hospital,
Indianapolis, Indiana, as published
a. booklet which give interesting
facts about the cause of Cancer, also
tells what to do for pain, bleeding,
odor, etc. A valuable guide in the
management of any case. 7 Write for

 

it today. mentioning this paper. (Adv. j

   

 

miss an:

 

 

 
    
  
   
 
 

  
 
 
  

You can buy all the mate-l
rials for a complete home
direct from the manufac-
turer and save four prof-
its on the lumber, millwork,

hardware and labor. 2 a“

Attractive Designs--Stury Constrution
FINE LUMBER  --

Aladdin houses are all built of beautiful clear
“A” Redwood siding, clear flooring, clear in-
terior woodwork and sound, strong framing.

Aladdin’s free catalog
8 A V E

printed in f o u r colors
gives all facts. Send for
18% Lumber
auto and

it today.
3 0 % on the
Labor C o s t.

     
  
      
    
   
  
  
   

6 Rooms ALADDIN—$648
Aladdin’s 19 Years Success , '
proves that you can do as 3'
thousands of other home-
builders do every year— _
save from $200 to $800

P R I C E S ,
by building an Aladdin '

9re a" _ home. There is an Alad-
Frelght Pald din near you wherever you live.

to your Rail- (lo and see one. SAVE money,

tililne and . alnno more by ordlerinlg
. 11 ms arm 3 rom one to iub e .2- .
road Station. .

ll ‘, ‘
1 anufmturtr. Slow-and-Ha"_$825
' all lumber out 0
Price Ineludes flt: highest grade lib
terior woodwork, siding,
flooring, windows, doors.
glass. paints. hardware,
nails, lath, roofing, with
complete instructions and
drawings. F r e l a h t
Paid to your station,
Pcrmunent homes—
Not Portable.
Many styles to chooso
from. erte nearest
mlll today for FREE
Money Savlng Catalog

  

.' y. --

Dutch Colon1a1~§1199 7 Room ALADDIN—$998

THE ALADDIN CO., BAY CITY, MICH-

Also Mills and Offices:
Wilmington, N. Carolina; Portland, Ore.; Toronto, Ontario

     

 

Fifteenth Year of Breeding to Lay

White Iicghorns Exclusively.
Foundation Stock is

TANCRED’S BEST
Backed by five generations of SOC-egg hens

THREE GREAT MATINGS

l—Bcst Tailored mules, (ancestry 270—310) to
extra selected “’olverine lions.
2—Tancrcd mules (175 to 3-13—oirg ancestry) to

extra. selected \l'olvvrino llt‘llfl.
3—W’olvcrine stock, same quality but not trap-
nested.
GUARANTY—100% livo delivery, plus 100%;

good condition.
\Volverlno stock is all of the same type and of
euro productivoness. You take no chances

Catalog Free
Wolverine Hatchery, Zeeland, Mich.

 

Box 98

 

  

ygyardenfirai '

.gwmrE LEGHORN BABY CHICKS

      

 
   
 
      

\ N i
‘ " " M What  I. Beebe, St. Charles, Mich, writes: “My 100
, . nconas laid 17,442 eggs In a. year. Average
31‘ j}. others izéhncililgovsgglre 3:33.86, over $4 per hen. Net
EG  Do You High nook average is the rule with \Vyngarden stock.
can Do acgiirefe; Cgltfilllgé- 260-280 Males from 208-304 dams.

   

01“

19YEAR

   

BROWN LEGHORNS
ANCONAS
BA RREO ROCKS

6W . arde
ZEELAND. lCH.. BOX 3

   

     

     
 

 

 

 
   

 

 

First Quality Baby Chicks

From Wlnter Laylna stock produced bv Mlchlgan’s old reliable hatchery, pioneer breed-
ers and hatchers operating the beat equmped and most modern hatchery In the state.
l‘ure bred Tom Barron and American \Vliite Loghorns, Anconos Barred Rocks
on R. I. Reds. Strong, well hatched chicks from tested liogan’ized frve rungs
stock.that make wonderful Winter layers. Chicks sent by Insured Parcel Post.
prepaid to your door. l00 per cent .llve delivery guaranteed. Seventeen years
of experience in producmg and sluppmg chicks, giving absolute satisfaction to
thousands. Write for valuable illustrated free catalog and price list. Get lowest
prices on best quality chicks before placing your order.

HOLLAND HATOHERY & POULTRY FARM, R7, Holland, Mlchlgan.

YEAR—S" OF EXPERIENCE)

Our 15 years of work and experience in breeding and hatchin Chicks qualifies us as
DEAN in the, Poultry Industry College. We own and operate an real Poultry Farm of

. acres. not merely a Hatchery. Our Free Catalog wil give you an excellent idea. of
this Farm—Get it now. We have soecislized in White Leghorns for many years.

 

Chicks at following prices. 100% Live Dehvery Guaranteed

Po'tpsld class on 25 50 100 500 1000
8. 0. Whlte Loghorns, Extra Quallty. ......  ........ ..$4.00 $1.50 $14.00 $81.50 $130.00
Barred Rooks. Reds, Anconas, ............................ .. 4.25 8.00 15.00 72.00 140.00
Whlte a Buff Rocks, White Wyandottos, .......... .. 5.00 8.00 11.00 80.00 155.00

' Raf. Royal Oak Savings Bank. Order direct from this ad in full confidence.
DEAN F/ARM AND VHATOHERY, Box 22. Blrmlnuham. Mlohlgon

/

t

   
   
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
  

     


  

  
  
 
 
  
  
   
   
  
    
    
   
    
   
    
   
   
  
   
 
  
  
  
   
   
   
     
  
  
   
    
   
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
    
 
    
  
    
   
  
 
  
    
  
     
     
    
   
  
   
    
   
  
   
   
 
 
  
    
  
   
  
  
    
    
 
 
  
  
   
 
   
  
  
 
  
  
   
    
  
   
   
  
  
   
   
   
     
  

:.:‘..'~5.m.m.4d,a.-.n.....r .; . ». . x  .

 
 
  

Wheat Prices Do Not Stop At $2 a Bushel

Demand For Cattle Easy—Hogs and Sheep Wanted

By w. w. FOOTE. Market Editor.

RIGHTER days have dawned tor
the farmers of this country, and
as a result of much higher pl'lC-

es for grain and other crops, the pre—
vious depression in farm price-s is
at last checked. Some time ago tiny
Huston, p esident of the Association
of Joint ock Land Banks, remark-
ed that “much of the writing of the
last few years carries the impression
that the American farmer has been
going from bad to WOI‘SP for a. long
time, and that the events of 1921
and 1922 were merely the last straw
that broke the camel’s back. Any
one who knows the course of farm
prices. the increase in the value of
the farmer’s product which was not
fed to his live stock. the growth of
agricultural output, and the stupend—
ous increase in the value of farm
lands, knows that such talk is ar~
rant nonsense."

Good wheat and corn lands are in—
creasing in values after the war time
depression and in numerous instan-
ces their owners are withdrawing
them from the market, although the
inflated prices asked and eVen paid
p i .. m. “'\n ‘v‘fiv‘ an, an: (‘vac.u .,1 qt
least at the present time. Prices for
1...... pitou .- art- rxiniliuh ul.»ie
adjusted to those paid by farmers for
most commodities and this cauScS a
more hopeiol feeling on their part.
In some lines noteworthy advances
have taken place which has caused
little comment. For instance, with-
in a year hides have advanced fully
50 per cent above the prices paid a
year ago. The dearness of corn is
causing some farmers to purchase
heavy feeders, with the veiw of a
short feed for the cattle. For a con—
siderable period the tendency in the
cattle feeding industry has been to

’ market light weight yearlings, as the

popular demand has turned unmis—
takably to light cuts of beef. The
heavicr becf steers are mainly want—
ed by hotels and restaurants. Many
farmers are diversifying their pro—
ducts more than in the pm: by set-
ting out orchards of applc. peach,
plum and cherry trees, and in Mich-
igan the grape industry is more pop—
ular than ever. with profitable re—
turns. l’oultry is not neglected, and
in some scctions farmers are begin-
ning to raise ducks. geese and tur—
keys with gccse especially popular as
a general rule.
\Vild Boom in Wheat

Seldom in the history of the wheat
trade has there been such excited
wheat markets on the Chicago Board
of Trade as during recent weeks, ex—
Cept at times when there was a cor—
ner and there have been charges re-
Cently that a corner existed. How—
ever it is plainly evident that existing
conditions were mainly responsible
for the excited market and the wild
upward movement of prices. De—
clines in prices were inevitable in the
natural course of events, and some
sharp breaks followed the big up-
heavals, but traders evidently felt
nervous, and speculators were apt to
be afraid to go “short” on trading.
in short, the position is based upon
the statistical showing, and the con-
clusion reached by leading authen-
tics is that there is going to be a
wry close adjustment. of the world’s
available supply and demand. Choice
lots of cash wheat meet with quick
sales at a big premium. and the other
day there was a sale of country run
Indiana No. 3 red winter wheat sold
on spot in Chicago at $2 or 11 cents
over the price of May wheat. The
advances have been going on at a
time when other exporting countries
Werc shipping heavily. and rye was
in the same position as wheat, unus-
ually large amounts of rye being
taken every week to ship from this
country to Germany and the Scandin—
avian countries . The wild scramble
for wheat a short time ago put May
wheat up to $1.96, the highest. price
yet reached, comparing with 51.09%
a year ago. May corn rose to $1.36
comparing with 81 cents a year ago;
May oats selling at 62% cents, com-

paring with 49 cents a year ago; and
May rye at $1.76, comparing with 74
cents a year ago. Further advances
in wheat are predicted, subject to
reactions, and late cash sales were
made of cash lots of No. 2 red wheat
at 32.05% a new high point. The
United farmers of Alberta have adop—
ted a pooling plan for oats, to be
effective as soon as possible.

“Russia will want over 9.000.000
bushels of seed wheat,” said a cable
to a New York exporter. The report
added that there is a great dearth of
grain observed in districts heretofore
considered amply provided for. De-
liveries of grain in the Ukraine are
exceedingly small. For several days
there has been an inquiry for 500.—
000 bushels of seed wheat from Man—
itoba for lllulgaria. These two coun—
tries, according to these reports will
need 9.500.000 bushels of seed
wheat.

\Vorld‘s “’heut Limited

Julius H. Barnes, one of the larg-
est grain exporters in the United
States, who was in Chicago the other
day, in supplementing: his statement
denying that a corner existed in
wheat, said: “My firm does not own
a bushel of wheat in Chicago. Amer—
ican standard Wheat is on an export
basis to the great markets of the
world. The fortunately large Ameri—
can crop is needed in every corner of
the world. baited States exports
have trebled during the last six
months, which means that export
houses like ourseIVes have steadily
bought in America as we sold
abroad. My own foreign connections
months ago indicated that successive
crop shrinkages in Canada, Europe,
and then in Argentina forecast a
coming scarcity of bread grains be-
fore the new crop.

Lower (lattle Prices

Evidently, the consumption of beef
has been falling off recently, and al-
though fewer cattle have been arriv—
ing in Chicago than usual, prices
generally are from $1 to $1.25 per
100 pounds lower than at the high
time of the previous week. In some
cases cash prices are off as much as
$1.50, with the bulk of the sales of
beef steers at $7.50 to $10.25, the
best yearlings selling at $11 to $12
and the best long—fed heavy steers at
$10 to $11.35. Steers sell down to
$6.35 to $7.25 for common light lots,
with inferior little steers at $4.25 to

$6.25 and good steers going at $8.50
and over. Quality is lacking in
many of the cattle marketed, and
choice lots are becoming scarce.
Butcher cows and heifers have a
good sale at $3.50 to $9.50, canner
and cutter cows going at $2.25 to
$3.45, bulls at $3 to $6.50 and calves
at $6 to $13. There is more activity
in the stocker and feeder trade at
$5.50 to $7 for desirable lots, with
sales as low as $4 to $5 for common
kinds, and choice feeders taken at
$7.10 to $7.75. Thus far the com-
bined cattle, hog and sheep receipts
in all the markets have been much
smaller than a year ago. A short
time ago the decreased cattle receipts
amounted to around 100,000 head.
A year ago beef steers sold in Chi—
cago at $6.50 to $11.75 for common
to prime lots.
Ikrcreascd Cattle Needing

There were only about 82 per cent
as many cattle on feed Jan. 1; 1925.
as on the same date last year in the
eleven corn belt states, according to
the final winter feeding estimates of
the United States department of agri—
culture. The number on feed in the
states east of the Mississippi river
was 87 per cent of last year, and in
the states west of the river it was
81 per cent. In Iowa and Nebraska,
which ordinarily fed about one—fifth
each of the total cattle fed, the esti—
mated numbers on feed as a per cent
of the numbers a year ago, were 74
and 82, respectively. The next most
important states, Kansas and Illi—
nois, show 90 and 88 per cent; Ohio
and Indiana each show 80 per cent;
South Dakota shows 65 per cent, and
the three states of minor feeding op—
erations, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Michigan, show 95 per cent each.

Good Demand for Hogs

Recently there has been a marked
improvement in the demand for hogs
in the Chicago market, both loral
packers and eastern shippers being
liberal buyers, and prices were placcd
on a stronger basis, as the receipts
showed a marked falling off. Light
hogs still form a fair share of the
receipts, and recent arrivals aver—
aged 226 pounds, being six pounds
less than a year ago. Good advances
have taken place, and prime heavy
butchers have sold up to $11 per
100 pounds, while a year ago the
top price for hogs was $7.35. Under
present conditions, it looks like very
much higher prices in the not dist-
ant l‘uturc. The combined receipts
in twenty markets for the year to
late date amount to 3,651,000 hogs,
comparing with 3,915,000 a year ago.
Late sales were made of hogs at $9

 

 

THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMARY

and Comparison with Markets Two “'ecks ago and One Year ago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit
Jan. 27 Jan. 27 Jan. 13 1 yr. ago
WHEAT——
N0. 2 Red $213 $2.10 $1.98 $1.13%
No. 2 \Vhite 2.13 1.99 1.14%
No. 2 Mixed 2.13 2.10 1.98 1.13 K
CORN——
No. 3.Yellow 1.28 1.22@ 1.25 1.29 .84
No. 4 Yellow 1.2.: l.17@l.20 1.24 .82
OA'l‘b-— ‘
N0. 2 \Vhite .63 .60@ .60 $6 .63 .52
no. 3 \Vhite .62 .56@.57 .62 .51
RYE-—

Cash No. 2 1.65 1.69 1.51 .74
BEANS—

C. H. P. th. 6.40@6.50 5.90@6.05 5.00
PO'J‘ATOES—

Per th. 1.20@ 1.23 1.05 l.()()@ 1.06 1.25@ 1.40
HA1—

No. 1 Tim. l7.50@18.50 20@22 18.50@ 19 2.4.50@25

No. 2 Tim. 15.50@10.50 17@19 16.50@17 22@23

No. 1 Clover 15@16 17@18 15@16 21.50@2i¥

Light. Mixed 10.50 @ 17.50‘ 19 @ 21 17.50 @ 18 21.50@ 22.50

 

Tuesday, January 27.——Wheat higher.
mand for beans. Potatoes advance.

Corn and oats decline. Active de—

 

.‘ Detroit and East Bufl‘nlo Tuesday Live Stock Markets Next Page.

to $11.05, comparing with $8 to
$10.70 a week earlier.

’A hog production in 1925 prob—
ably as small as in any year in the
last ten, and an acute shortage of
hog products in 1926 are indicated
in the December 1, pig survey made
by the United States Department of
Agriculture, in cooperation with the
Post Office Department, through the
rural carriers.

The survey shows a decrease of
28.2 percent in the number of sows
farrowing in the fall of 1924 in the
country as a whole from the number
farrowed in the fall of 1923. Be-
cause of a somewhat higher average
number of pigs saved per litter the
decrease in pigs is only 22.2 percent.
For the Corn Belt the decrease in

sows farrowed was 30.6 percent, and ‘

in pigs saved was 23.4 percent. De-
creases in the other regions while
large were somewhat less than in the
Corn Belt.

In the number of sows bred or to
be bred to farrow in the spring of
1925 is shown as 94.3 percent of the
number of sows that actually farrowv
ed in the spring of 1924, for the
United States, and 89.6 percent for
the Corn Belt. Based upon the re-
sults of previous surveys which have
shown about how much the number
of sows farrowed has fallen short of
breeding intentions, the present sur-
vey indicates a reduction of from 15
to 25 percent in sows that will far-
row in the Corn Belt in the spring of
1925 from the spring of 1924. For
the country as a whole a somewhat
similar reduction is indicated.

The reduction of 23.4 percent in
the fall crop in the corn belt follows
the reduction of over 17 percent in
the spring crop shown by the survey
of last June. The total number of
pigs raised in the Corn Belt in 1924
was probably fully 19 percent less
than in 1923. Quantitatitively, this
represents a reduction from 1922 of
between 11,000,000 and 12000000
head; around 7,000,000 in the spring
crop and 4,500,000 in the fall crop.
But in spite of the large reduction
in numbers born, the market move-
ment to January 1, of the 1924
Spring crop of the Corn Belt hogs
has been almost as large as the
movement to the same date of the
1923} spring crop. December mar-
ketings and slaughter in 1924 were
tho largest ever recorded.

The reduction in sows bred this
fall for spring farrow compared to
a year ago is indicated at around
2,000,000,000 in the Corn Belt.
These will go to increase the winter
mcrket supply and to decrease the
markelings next summer and fall.
thus making the decreased supplies
of the marketing year the more
marked in the second half of the
year.

Fat Lambs Come High

These are wonderful times for
sheepmen, inadequate m a r k e t i n 3
having put prices for prime lambs
much above those in normal times.
They sold a short time ago as high
as $19.50 per 100 pounds, later sales
of lambs being at $16.50 to $18.75.
while feeder lambs went at $17 to
$18.25. A year ago the best lambl
brought $14. Combined receipts in
twenty markets for the year to late
aggregate but 840,000 sheep and
lambs, comparing with 1,058,000 a
year ago.

There was a decrease of about
163,000 head or nearly four percent,
in the number of sheep and lambs on
feed January 1, 1925 from the num-
ber January 1, 1924 in the corn belt
and western states, according to the
estimate of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. The estimated
numbers were 4,081,000 this year
and 4,245,000 last.

In the corn belt states the decrease
was about 12,000,000 head. In the
states east of the Mississippi the de—
crease was about 135,000 head in-
cluding a decrease of 70,000 head in
feeding stations near Chicago. In the
states West of the Mississippi there

was an increase of about 15,000
head. The largest changes from last
year were in Iowa and Illinois which
decreased 73,000 and 60,000, respec-
tively, and Nebraska which increased
90,000.

In the 'western states, the number
on feed was about 45,000 less than

‘\

r—fi— "

  
          
      
      
    

 


 

I.'»y§‘d1/‘4u"u . ‘

  

A

While

 

on January 1, a yearago.

there were around 200,000 more on

feed in Colorado, and also some-more
In. Wyoniing and Montana, the de-
creases in the states west of the
Continental Divide, especially in
“tall, Idaho and California, more
than otfset these increases.

 

WHEAT

Not only did wheat go to $2 a
bushel as we predicted in our last
issue, but it gained several cents
over that point. The market at De—
troit advancing 8 cents last week and
there was plenty of strength shown
at other points. Foreigners have
been buying heavily and domestic de—
mand is good. ‘
CORN

There is not much activity in the
corn market at present. Demand is
slow while: nearly every one who has
any corn in stock is ready to sell.
Livestock feeders declare the present
price level is too high. for them to
feed m to their feeders with. the
idea of selling the cattle at a profit.
At the close of last week the Detroit
market was weak and the price de-
clined a cent on Saturday before the
clone of business.

OATS-

The oat market at Detroit contin-
ues unchanged with more sellers
than buyers. The market is easy
in tone.

RYE
Rye has been one of the most ac-
tive of all the grains showing a gain
of 24 cents at Detroit within the
fortnight ending Saturday, January
14. We can expect to see rye follow
wheat.

BEANS

In spite of a bad break in the De-
troit market last week prices are con—
liderably higher than they were two
weeks ago. The break was caused
by some dealers who had a large sup—
ply on hand and wanted to make a.
nice profit. They sold their supply
and than tried to break the market
so badly they could load up again at
reduced prison. They were success—
ful to a fair extent but not as suc-
cessful as they planed. When the
market again turned upward one
large desist stated that Michigan

 

    

Week of February 1
HE rising temperature expected
T at the very beginningof this
week will soon give way to a
sudden change to very much colder
and a large area of high barometric
pressure.
Temperatures at the very begin-
ning of this week will be rising con-
siderably above the seasonal normal

 

' with the advent of falling barometer,

l

‘ l
’ l

\ l
l

cloudy skies, rain or snow storms
and high winds. Storminess will be
general during Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday of this week in Michigan.
By Tuesday temperatures will make
a decided drop to very low readings
and during the middle part of the
week the skies will be generally
clear.

About Thursday cloudineSs will
again form over this state and re-
newed storms of snow, heavy in lo-
calities, will efiect most counties
within the boundaries of Michigan.
These conditions will at least par-
tially clear off, if not entirely, and
the day and night will be mostly fair.

Week of February 8

Sunday on Monday will see snow
storm in Michigan followed about
Tuesday with clearing weather b"t
with little change in temperature.
In fact, during the. middle days of
this week. it is expected that tempers
stuns will rise considerably higher.
There is even a possibility that in
some parts of the country a. record
maximum temperature will be made
at this time.

About Wednesday and Thursday
severe storms of rain, sleet snow,
glaze storms and high winds will ef-
fect most parts of this state.

By Saturday the barometer will
have risen, the sky cleared off and
the temperatures fallen to low read-
ingn‘for the moon.

beansshould be. a. dollar higher than
they were "and predicted prices will
continue to advance steadily. Late
figures, show the fund being collected
for advertising Michigan beans totals
around $5,000 and the number of
dealers looking favorably on the plan

are increasing.

POTATOIS
The market for Michigan potatoes
seems to be looking up. Dealers re-
port an increase in demand and pric-
es advanced some last week. The
market is firm at country points and
oflerings small.

 

HA!

The hay market is easy due to in-
creased receipts. However, the de-
mand for the best grades continues
good but there is not much of the
best grades oflered for sale.

THE LIVESTOCK MARKETS

DETROIT, Jan. 27.—-Cattle——Market’
M ; good u choice yearlings, dry fed.
$126010; best heavy steers, dry fed,
87.2.5 @‘9; bent handy weight butcher
steers, $6,750,173”; mixed steers and
heifers, 35.25%650: handy light butchers,
$4.50@5.25; light butchers. “25634.50;
best cows. $3.50@5.50: butcher cows $3.50
04.00; common cows. $393.25; canners,

$2.25@2.75; choice light bulls, $4.50@
6; heavy bulls, “1595.25; stock bulls,
$3.25@4.25 ; feeders, $5@6.50 ; stockcrs,

$4.50@6; milkers and springcrs, $456370.

Veal Calves—Market steady; best, $15
016; others, $6@4.50.

Sheep and Lamby—Market steady to
250 higher; best lambs, 31825631850;
fair lambs, $17.25@17.75; light to com-
mon lambs, $8.75@13.50; fair to good
sheep, $8@10; culls and common, 34¢?
5.50; buck lambs, $7.75@l7.50.

Hogs—Market steady to ICC
mixed, $10.90@11; pigs, $9.

EAST BUFFALO, N. Y.,——-Cattle——-Ile-
ceipts. 150; active and strong. Calves—
Rcceipts, 400; active; choice. 250 higher,
15.50@16; fair to good, $12@15; othch
unchangei.

Hogs—ReCeipts, 400; active and steady
to 100 higher; heavy. $11.35filll.50;
mixed, $11.25@11.35; yorkers, sllflllflfi;
light j'orkers. $10@10.50; pic's, $0.506}?
10; roughs, $9.75@10; ntags, $5@6.50.

Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 1,000;
active; lambs, 30c higher, $10©10.80:
others unchanged.

MISCELLANEOUS MARKET
QUOTATIONS

Tuesday, January 27, 1925

APPLES——Baldwin, $1.75@2; S p y ,
32.5063; Greenings, $2.25 per bu; west-
ern boxes, $3.25@4.

BUTTERfi-Best creamery,
Q38c per lb,

CABBAGE—7&6?“ per bu.

DRESSED CALVES—Best c o u n t r y
dressed, 16@17c; ordinary grades, 13:4?)
14c; small and poor, 9010c; heavy rough
calves, 8@9c; best city dressed, 19@20c
per lb.

EGGS——Fresh current receipts. 54c)
65c; storage, 480; Pacific Coast, 560 per

lownr ;

in tubs, 36

,doz.

LIVE POULTRY—Best spring chickens,
4% lbs and up, 2642270; capons, 7 lbs, 32
@350: ~medium chickens, 24@250; Leg-
horns, 200; best hens, 5 lbs, and up. 26@
27c; medium hens, 25@260; Leg-horns.
small, 19@20c; roosters, 15@16c: geese.
18@20c; ducks, large white, 29@200;
small dark, 26@270; turkeys, over 8 lbs,
350; No. 2 turkeys, 20c per lb.

ONIONS—$3.50@4 per 100-lb
Spanish, $2.50 per crate.

sack ;

GAS AND WEIGHT LEVIES SPEED-
ED TO GOVERNOR

(Continued from Page 3)

must have opportunity to consider
bills and the many bills already in—
troduced had to be printed. These
are partly reasons and partly ex-
cuses. Members living near home
like to get home and tend to their
private business.

Lawmakers from farther away
who can’t get home over the week-
end are. forced to remain in Lan-
sing and fuss and fume over the ag-
gravating delays. Perhaps for their
diversion and perhaps as an adver—
tising scheme, a progressive radio
dealer in Lansing has installed a
loud speaker in the House of Rep-
resentatives Hall. It is said that
some of the law-makers sit at their
desks and listen in until 2 A. M.
It must be that they are human like
the rest of us.

Mrs. Anderson, the lady member
from the Upper Peninsula, is proving
so popular that she has had to secure
and install on her desk a. miniature
traffic sign. bearing the inscription
“Don’t Park Here”. This is a good
hint to be brief- We take the hint
and “sign of".

I have never been without Tun Bus-
msss FAsnn from its first edition and
don't want to “then—W. R., Carson City,
Michigan. »

 

 

 

  

ma .. .335. L

‘.’*:=~<:r'1*'l'~i my 'v\\.
will!allied

   

 

    
 
  
 

   
  
   

' r
. ,l_

filling for
Money

Most farm profits are ma-
chine-made. The first-class
grain drill is a consistent: con-
tributor to the farmer’s in-
come a measured in time and
seed saved, and in the in-
creased size and improved.
 of his crop.

10h Deere-Van Bust
Grfii and Fertilizerhrifl

insures uniform planting of seed
and even distribution of fertilizer
-—without bunching, without skips
and Without firing.

The Van Brunt Adjustable Gate
Force-Feeds compel a steady flow
of seed, the same amount from
every feed.. Every seed is pro-
tected until it reaches the bottom
of the furrow; every seed is prop.
erly covered by chain coverers.
Even growth—110 bare spots—
more bushels per acre.

Write today for literature. Address

John Deere, Molina 111., and ask for
Booklet Elf-6153 ’

. mil" ctr».
' ‘1 41w. p.

L l’lfiAlJl
_

 

 

 

RATE PER WORD—Ono “mega, Two

Issues 150, Four Issues .

No advertisement less than ten words.
_ Groups of figures. initial or abbrevia-
tion count as one word.

Cash in advance from all advertisers in

 

this department, no exceptions and no
discounts.
Forms close Monday noon proceeding

date of issue. Address:

MICHIGAB avenues FARMER.
Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

R-‘ SALE—75 BU. UNHULI'EED WHL'l‘gm. I

lossovn sweet clover seed, 82.2 per bu. .

. McCleary. Mesxck, Michigan.

* "  , ' .   

 

MANCHU SOYBEANMI‘HOICE REOLEANED.
ijom certified seed, $2.50 or bushel. DP!!! h-
cl'uded. . Buy now. Guy W. gtanner Seed cone.
Cbampnign, Ill.

 

BEST FOR MICHIGAN, ROBUST BEARS;
' Wolverine Oats. Address A. B. Cook. Owosso,
Michigan.

 

 

FRUIT

 

FLORIDA ORANGES DIRECT TO YOU FROM

0111' grove, assorted box containing 48 oranges.
lOigrapefx-mt, 20 tangerines, 48 kumquats, jar
frmtuell , ex rcss paid $3.00. Florida Orange
Packing 0., amps, Fla.

KANCHU SOY BEANS~--li)24 CROP. ENOS
Stewart. Lexington, Ill.

 

 

 

NURSERY STOCK

 

ALFRED BLACKBERRIES ARE 11/. INCHES
long. Hudfi. SWeet. Ca ogue Free. George
Stromer, New ufi’nlo, Michigan. Box I

 

22 GRAPEVINES, 31 POSTPAID. RED.
White, Blue, One week. Gables. Mach, Nurseries.

 

 

 

 

L W7 “E 3160's

IF YOU WANT GUERNSEY—HERVE! CALVES
write L. Terwillignr. Bl. Wanton. Wis.

 

 

 

DOGS

AIRDALE FEMALE~THOROUGHBRED STOCK,
$6.00. A. 0. Frederick. Hatfield, Pa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PIGEONS
£00 BED CARNEAUX PIGEONS $30.00.
Mupledalc Farms, Detroit. Minnaoh.
POULTRY
TAACRED Wlll’l‘E LEGIIORNS. RUFF ORP-
ingtons Ilurred Roe State Fair Winners.
Guiners Prices right. Write. F. Bailey, Honfr

gomery, Michigan.

 

HUSKY (‘OC‘K ERELS.

BA RRED ROCKS—BIG
\Vrito

stlmizvrd color, bred from great layers.

 

 

tovday. W. C. (‘nfl'mnm Benton Harbor. Mieh., R3.
WHITE \VYANDOTTESv—IIOOKINC ADVANCE
egg orders from 8 quality nwtinza lml utility
flor'k. Stock all sold. Prod Berlin. Allen. Mich.
RUFF ORI‘INGTON COCKERELS. C O O K 8
and (‘onwny Itl‘flJfl. A. J. Brewbnker, Elsie.
Michigan.

 

MAMMOTH WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS A
Jersey B‘m-k (li'mt cockerels for sale. E H

Michign n.

llnwley. Ithaca,

 

RICI‘HS’I‘ERED BOURBON RED T U R K E Y S .
Large vigorous, Axtell Strrm, one and two year
old stock. Mary Bencom. Mariette. Michim.

 

PERI“. “REID GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS.

 

Size. tywe, color, unrelnted stock. Toms. Slfi:
Hens. 310. .r orders booked for giant bronse
eggs. $1.00 each. Delivered prep‘vid after April
10th. Mary A. Joynt, Omena, Michigan.
GIANT BRONZE TURKEY'S. GOLD BANK

strain. Choice ’heavy birds. larsfixbone, well
marked. Satisfaction guaranteed. 5. Perry

Stebbins, Saranac. Mich.

 

 

 

= lII”Illlllllllllllllllllll

FARM 'JAN [)8

 

BUY IN WESTERN \VESTERN NEW YORK

whore climate. rainfall, good soil, cheap farms
and high markets favor the farmer. Grrpes,
fruits, oultry reming and general farming pu'
big. Al about the (‘linutauqun Grape Belt and
its unusual lmml- advantages. rite! N. Y.
Farm Agency, VVrstfield- N. Y.

 

FOR‘ SALla‘r—FARM, 74 Ai'l’ES. CLAY LOAM
soil; 9 .room brick house, garnge. 2 burns, tool
sheds, grumary, hen and hog house, 2 fine wells;

mile to school and market; a real berg." in.
1’»- 'urther In formation write Mrs. H. L. Wil—
liams, Vermontville, Mich.

PURE—REED MAMMOTH BRONZE TITRKEYS.

 

tine large birds from choir-e stock. Mrs. Ralph
Sheri, Paledonio, Mich.
F O R S A L-Ill—THOROUGHBRED TOUI.0IISE
geese grinders. l-mldwiu & Nowlin, 1H, Luings-

burg, Michigan.
PURE~BRED AFRICAN
Schuetx. Ril. Madison,

FOR SALE: MAMMOTH \Vlll'l‘l". PE.le DUCKS
and drains. $2 each for '10 days only. Mrs.
C. Terpeuing, Ithaca, Rl. . l('l.

 

ill“ ES li—r— Mrs. Julius

\l'ls.

 

 

 

RAW FUR-S

 

FOR SALE ~40 ACRES. 1% MILES EAST OF

Mariette, Samlac ('o., on good gravel read. All
under cu tivation. Good nine room hon», stnen
heated and acct lens lights. Good out buildings
R. \V. Cooley, Iarlette. Michigan.

 

70 ACRE FARM FOR SALE NEAR FRANK-

fort. Michiun. Goon house, barn and garage;
apple and cherry orchard. For terms write Robert
Gray. Elbertn, Michigan.

 

RAW P'I’RflrfihIUSKRAT.‘ BADGER, WEASEI '

White or_ Brown. Fair assortment. Prom
roturns, Shipments hold separate on reuucst.
Hold separate notice must 21(:(-.u_nlp‘.1ny furs. Post-

lze and Evpress paid. l‘Ve soliv't your shipments.
Davis L. Dutcher, Bennmgton, Mich.

 

 

TOBACCO

IIOMESI’UN TOBACCO—~«C II E W I N G FIVE
pounds $1.50 ten $22.50. Smoking live pounds

 

 

F01? edSA(l‘.IE:—g2l(;nlITY {$11171}! IBARM fi‘EAlR $1,125, ten €2.00. l'lpe frml. [lJ'ry when re-

e l y, lo urn. . . cwey, nttn ‘ d. Szt' ‘ tin gu ' tnl. lt‘l ’I‘ ‘
Creek, Mich, R10, Lakewood Farm. 06:35.9”, filings: 1Ky. am“ 9“ n U 0mm.
WANT To RENT no on so ACRE FAR“ TOBA(‘§‘O—~TIIREE YEARIOID LEAF. 8 LBS.
within 40 miles of Dtroit near high school. Chgwmg 32"“); 8 “momg $233”; 8 5""““d
Cash or shares. A. J Rugenntein. Utlca. Mich. ""Okmg .‘l~40- Pay {0" tobacco ind ,DOSmZG
when received. O‘d llnmnsmm I‘m. llvwrsvxl u, l\y.

 

FOR SALE—80 ACRES. CLEARED, TILED.

 

 

 

Fair buildings. Sheridan Townslup. Clare
County. John Mills. Clare, 8:, Michigan.
SEED
SEED CORN ANDSEED OATS. MY DRYING

house is filled with Clement's Improved White
mp )elmv tent. and Ducan's yelow dent sped
corn“ Fire (in on racks ear tested. guaranteed
germination from high yieldiniI stock. Registered
nudes: ed Worthy .Ostn. . envy yields" with
a still straw. . For prices write Pnul C. Clement,
Button. Michigan.

 

CHOICE SEED CORN—1000 BU. loo-DAY
Improved Yellow Dent: 500 bu. Lancaster
County Sure Crop: 300 bu. Early White Cs ,
“lb all 1923 Crop, nil_hi.ab termination. Wr‘
for men, nun lo and circular. Order early to

 

LIES”

$1.25:

HOMESPUN TOBACCO. CHEWING 5
l50‘ 1032 75. Smoking, 5 lbd,

 

 

Mild 30:81.50. -Puy when received. F. Gupton.
Bardweli, Ky.
MISCELLANEOUS

 

HAVE RETAIL (‘OAL YARD IN PORT HURON.
Splendid business. Will seller trade for good
farm in food locctmn. Inv1te inspection. If you
have alfn fa buy to sell, quote us prices and state
ntitien. Port _Huron atomic and Bean 00.,
$3". Huron, Michigan.

 

CASH PAID FOR FALSE TEETH. PLATINU
014 mu neto points, arded Jewelry and 0
Bl. Mall to. Hoke Snielhng & Refining Co.
Mo, Michigan.

ALL \VOOL YARN—FOR SALE FROM MANU-

 

 

 

nave money. hull hm, Box 20. turn. lecturer. c o . per pound. Free
Bucks Co., Pa. supple. IL A. Bartlett. Harmony, Maine.

FOR SALE—BURBANK HULLESS OATS FOR ENGINES 255-337. 3%;34830. 6-$80.00.
fixed 1  Wentpnrrtglwelnnd snunle whan‘l'rnmefi $8.90. Dissmger Bro, Wrights-

 

 

Then send for “
her new book

$1. 25 post-paid.

 

--- You like Amie Campée/l’s poems?

Companionship
cause Mrs. Campbell's first published poems appeared in The Business Farmer she
 personally autograph each copy of this first edition.

Order from

Rural Publishing Company, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

’ ’ which is a collection of her poems of
home, family and farm life. Be.

Bound in cloth, 185 pages.

 

 

 
 
 
  

  
 

        
     
     
     
   
   
   
  
   
   
   
  
   
 
 
    
   
    
  
  
  
 
 
    
   
    
  
 
   
  
 
    
    
 
   
  
 
   
  
   
   
    
    
   
 
   
    
     
  
  
    
     
   
  
 
   
  
  
   
 
   
  
   
  
     
     
    
   
   
 
   
   
   
 
 
    
 
  
 
  
 
  
   
    
 
      
     
   
   


 
 

I

Finished i ‘
Mad

METAL TO
METAL

Mail
Coupon
for F REE
Ga talog

We show you here a big picture of the way metal-to-metal makes a harness
wear longer. See for yourself how metal wears against metal instead of against
leather. The part shown here is the breeching dee. Notice how, before there
can be any wear on the leather, a thick piece of metal must wear through first.
This construction is carried out in every part of the Olde Tan Metal-to-Metal
Harness where there is strain, wear or pull. Introduced only three years ago
by Olde Tan, it is not yet known how many extra years of wear this construc-
tion will give a harness. It is estimated that it will make a harness last many
more years. Olde‘ Tan harness even Without the metal‘to-metal feature was
capable of lasting 12 to 15 years. Harness with that many years behind it is

BABSON BROS., Dept. 92-8 1

19th Street and Marshall Blvd., Chicago, 111.
Please send me free your Olde-Tan Harness Book telling all about
your 30 day free trial and easy monthly payment offer on Olde-
Tan Harness.

Print your name and address plainb

 

My Name... ................................................  ....... ..

My Addfm..-o phone.Iloolollil3.0.1.00.I...a...oleloelooooollloeeloeo-eaone

 

'4-

—"’.

1" v):

 

 

 

 

M ETA L TO
M ETAL

 

 

COPPER R IVET
HAND RIVETED~

   

The Original Metal-to-Metal Harness

still in use. The maker of Olde Tan made harness for the Armies during
the Civil War and parts of the harness were found on the battle fields in fairly
good condition as late as 1885, or 20 years after the war.

At the tannery is a strap which was buried 10 years inabarnyard and which is
still pliable and strong. ‘ In a leather strength test held in Chicago in 1923,
Olde Tan straps and traces won over every other entrant, being more than
twice as strong as one of thecontestants and 30 per cent stronger than the second
strongest. Hundreds of letters of real enthusiasm have been received from Olde
Tan owners who declare that never have they Seen suchaharness—never such
heavy strong leather, and never such careful and precise sewing and construction.

Mail this Coupon
for FREE Catalog

If you believe that you even may buy another harness within the next year, you should ask for
the Olde Tan catalog and learn all about the real leather which goes into this harness. Also get
our unusual otter—free trial for 30 days—so you can see for yourself the quality 'of leather-the
way metal against metal wears, and the fine appearance and extraordinary strength.
days trial you keep Olde Tan or send it back as you choose. If you keep it, send Only $7.50 and
pay the balance by the month. BUT. ask forthe‘ free catalog today. . i v ' -. .

After 30

 

 

Q’IOOIIOQIIIIDoe-o..-evoaeeneee-eccuoDIG-oetoeeooueeeeooooeoeeeeeelnot. I a u o o - ~-

 

msoti 3308.,  92:81 must. ma'nmngnaivd.,om¢ogo. 111.

~ madam- a-.- .

aw ....
.fi .,

  
    
  

 

':~ tea-w  ~ * m we» . ‘