Independent Farm Magazine Owned and Edited in Michigan VOL. gm, No. 14 SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1925 TERMS: TW’O YEARS $1 ($00 PER YEAR—5 YRS. $21 Eli”IIIlillllllll||lllllllllIIIllIll!llllllllllllllllllllllllll|lllllllIlIll!lIIHHIHIIIHll"lllllllIllHHIIHIHHHIHHHIIIll!lilllllllI!IHHIM“lIilliimHIllIIIHHIIHIHIIHIHHIHIlHill"Hill"!!!HHIHHIHHIIHIHHHIIHHHHIHIHIiiilliIlli!NIHllllllflllliliilllllii MICHIGAN’S BEST _ OUT of the 134 entries in the State Potato Show held at the Michigan Agricultural College during Farm- v - . ers’ Week, February 2-6, 1925, the! above entry won first prize and sweepstakes. 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Legislature Delays Vote (lo M. A. C. Name Both Senate and House Pass Bill Turning Over Construcion and Maintenance of State Trunk Line Roads to State Authorities By STANLEY M. POWELL (Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.) former members compris— ing the. most numerous occu- pational group among the 1925 legislators, it is no wonder that they are getting down to business now that there are signs that an early spring will soon be upon us. Com- mittees'have been increasingly active and the session has now reached the stage where important bills are meet- ing their fate on the floor of the House and Senate each day. Prospects are bright that this ses- sion Will see the enactment of some real worth while tax reform mea- sures which will lessen the burden upon the general property of the state. Realizing the menace of tax exempt securities and the unjust bur— den which their issuance imposes up— on real estate, the Senate is consider— ing favorably the companion bills placing the annual specific taxes up- on foreign and domestic securities. Attacking the problem of the growing tendency of Michigan muni— cipalities to plunge headlong into bonded indebtedness, Senator How- ard F. Baxter of Grand Rapids has introduced a bill providing that only serial bonds be issued, except in cases where a sinking fund is established into which annual payments are made amounting to as much as would have been paid if serial bonds had been issued. The bill provides for limiting to six mills the amount to be raised to retire bonds and setting 30 years as the limit they may run. Income Tax Proposed 0 An amendment to the state consti— tution to provide for a personal in- come tax has been proposed by Rep. Wilbur B. Snow of Comstock. The resolution further provides for the abolishing of the primary school in- terest fund and the placing of the property of public utilities on the general tax roll. The blll sponsored by Rep. Charles Evans of Tipton, which would give the State Tax Commission authority to pass upon the tax exemptions re- quested by the charitable homes of fraternal societies passed the House 86 to 2. Rep. Evans believes that this bill will add about $50,000,000 _to the. tax rolls of the state. 7 Early in the session it was rumor- ed that a bill would be introduced abolishing the present three-man State Tax Commission and substitut- ing a one-man commission. How- ever, this proposal aroused very strong opposition among the rural members. They pointed out that it was probable we would have a De- troit governor most of the time and with a one-man tax commission also from Detroit it would be too much centralization of authority regarding tax matters in the hands of the‘ Wayne County interests. In view of this sentiment among the members, the‘ plan for a. one—man tax commis- sion has been abandoned and now Rep. Charles Evans of Tipton has in- troduced a bill providing for a State Department of Taxation with a board of three members,-one to be a full time man and the other two members to devote part time to the work. Such an arrangement will give some measure of protection to the rural ~districts of Michigan. Pass Highway Bills Real progress is being made with the program of highway legislation agreed upon by Senate and House leaders. The Atwood bill authoriz- ing the State Highway Department and the State Administrative Board to lay out and construct 500 miles of new trunk line mileage was passed unanimously by the Senate, while the House approved by a vote of 71 to 14 Rep. Ming’s bill which turns over the construction and mainten- ance of the state trunk line system to the statevauthorities and will by January 1, 1926 entirely relieve the various counties of any responsibil— ity, financial or otherwise, in con« nection with the state’s trunk line highway system. Senator George C. Hunter of St. Johns has introduced a bill which would give the State Public Utilities Commision authority to order rail- roads to install wig—wags, at any crossings designated by the Commision. The Commission is ex- ercising such authority at present but does not have full legal author- ity to. do so. The alarming increase in crime in Michigan is stirring the solons to the point where they appear to be ready to take extreme action. The House of Representatives, which during past sessions has repeatedly killed. capital punishment bills, now seems electric. 'blinkers and other warning signals in a mood to pass the McEachron bill, which is the death penalty proposi- tion before the 1925 legislature. This bill slid through general orders with apparently strong support and has been made a special order of business for Thursday afternoon, March 12. Would Revive Whipping Post Another severe measure intended as a crime deterant has been pro— posed by Rep. Charles Culver of De- troit. His bill provides that for any crime punishable by life imprison- ment the trial judge might impose the further sentence of “ten to twen- ty strokes of the lash on the bare back, well laid on at the end of each six months of imprisonment.” The bill provides that the flogging would be done by the warden of the prison or his aid under his direction. The total number of lashes could not ex— ceed 300 strokes. Despite the frantic efforts of some of the Wayne county delegation, the measures to increase the Wayne county representation in the Senate and the House are still retained in the committees to which they were referred. It is not certain whether they will be reported out or not. Some significance is attached to the fact that the House has passed un- animously the Dykstra resolution providing for submitting to the peo- ple the question of whether there shall be a general revision of the state constitution in 1927. Some peo— ple feel that with this constitutional convention looming up in the near future the whole matter of re—appor- tionment should be left for settle- ment at that time. Members of the legislature who take seriously their duty in connec- tion with appropriation bills are con- siderably concerned over the fact that, after all, no matter how care- fully they may do their work it does not matter much anyway, as the State Administrative Board spends money as it sees fit, with or without legislative authorization. Senator Harry H. Waitley brought these facts to light when he submitted a state— ment of information which he had secured from the State Administra- tive Board showing that since the Agricultural Products Now On Level With Other . By DAVID FRIDAY Former President of the Michigan Agricultural College 0 many people have been busy of late telling us of the need for a balanced agriculture that no one has had time to call our attentmn to the fact that the most serious 18-ch of balance has disappeared. When the Bureau of Labor Statistics brought out its index number of wholesale prices for December, 1924, 'all commodities stood at 157 as against 100 in 1913. This was a sur- prising advance from the previous month and from the low prices of last June. But the biggest surprise of all was that farm products also stood at 157, or exactly on a level with an other commodities. Thus the bal- ance between the prices of agricul- tural and other commodities has been restored. Now the same index number for January stands at 160 for all commodities, while farm pro- ducts are at 163, which is well above the general level. The lack of balance between these prices, eras it was commonlycalled. tradition the purchasing «power of the , . "’ t and 1- other ‘_ tut-131 commodities at 155. serious grievance. In January, 1922, the Bureau of Labor Statistics index number touched the lowest point to which it fell in the post-war depres sion. At that time all commodities stood at 138, farm products at 122, and non-agricultural commodities at 150. Surely this spelled hardship for the farmer. I It was in that month that Presi- dent Harding assembled the agri- cultural conference in Washington. By April, 1923, 15 months after this conference, the index number of all commodities had been carried up to 159 by the business revival. This was the highest point it reached. But farm products stood at only 141 while non-agricultural commodities brought 176,. -' . Prices Decline Prices began to fall that spring, and’by»..lnne, 1924.81! commodities had got down to 146. ‘ Farm ro- duets stoodat 134 and It out this depression of the prices of farm products as against the things which the farmer bought which gave rise to his discontent. If it could be rem- edied, the farmer’s worst troubles would be solved. The late Secretary Wallace, in dis- cussing the situation in the spring of 1922, said: “If it were possible to bring up‘ prices of everything to about 60 per cent above the pre-war level, that would benefit most of our people and the nation at large.“ The Bureau of Labor Statistics index number of wholesale prices for January reached the mark set; and farm products were actually above other prices. The indications now are that the index number for farm products will stand above the non‘ agricultural groupior some months to come. In short, the balance bo- tween farm products and other com- modities his been W mt which has been overlooked in the legislature last adjourned the State Administrative Board had expended 2 $1,600,000, without any authoriza- tion from the legislature. A realization on the part of the ~ House members that when the 803- , sion was over they would have a rather vague idea as to how much money they had appropriated and for ‘ what purposes, led them to adopt, with a roar of approval, Rep. Miles S. Curtis’ resolution providing that ' within 30 days after the adjourn- ment of the legislature each member should be furnished with a statement ; from the Auditor General as to all ., of the appropriation bills which had ' been passed. Delay M. A. (‘. Name Change Since the last issue of THE BUS- , muss FARMER, the proposition to, change the name of: the Michigan ; Agricultural College has received - little favor. When it became evi- : dent that the proposal to change the : name of the East Lansing Institution v to the Michigan State College would be defeated if it came to a vote in the House, the bill was re-referred ‘ to the House Committee on the Mich» igan Agricultural College. Chair— man Strauch of that committee has advised your Lansing correspondent that he sees little usc of reporting out such a bill as long as the House members continue in their present mood. lle declares that the propos- ition might make progress if it were introduced in the Senate and such action may be taken. . Rep. Chester Howell’s bill permit- ting Boards of Supervisors to issue bonds not to exceed $75,000 for erecting or purchasing buildings for agricultural fairs passed the House 89 to 3. From a strictly agricultural point. of view, perhaps the most important bills now pending are those relating to the eradication of bovine tuber- culosis and for making the Federal potato grades compulsory in Michi— gan. This latter bill has been the subject of several conferences and hearings and will probably be re- ported favorably by the Senate Com- mittee on Agriculture in the near future. This committee has reported out the appropriation for paying the indemnity on tubercular cattle, but has cut the appropriation from $500,- 000 for each of the next two years down to $250,000. The bill is being considered by the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations. Commodities current discussion of the agricultural situation. Error in Analysis Those who insist that the balance, is not yet restored, and who base their objections on the fact that some farm products are not yet 60 per cent above the level of 1913, make two errors in their analysis. In the first place they fail to distinguish be- tween the prices 01’ all farm products alnd of certain specific ones like cat— t e. The other factor which is over- looked is that some of these farm prices do not stand very much above 1913 because that happened to be a a year of high prices for the pro— duct in question. Live stock. for example is not much above 1913 in price at this time. But good to choice steers were bringing a far higher price in 1912 and 1913 than they had ever brought before. In 1910 they had averaged $7.02 per hundred, which was the best figure up to that time. The average tor this grade of steers for the 12 years. 1900 to 1911, inclusive, was $5.87. 3 would seem that so many articles have been written and so much has been said that every farmer _aising beans would have Robusts. But they don’t. In‘ Tuscola county Where some men have been growing ,obust beans for years. there are {still many men who think that the Robusts won’t give the yield they get rom their early wonders or 1200-1 flr'some other variety. ,. Mr. Sims. County Agricultural ,Agent in Tuscola County,, thought that it would be an excellent plan to have some bean variety tests in the oeunty. He would have some of his farmers plant a row of several vari— eties side—by—side in their bean fields. These could later be harvested, «threshed and then compare the yields. That ought to indicate which group of his farmers were on the right track, the ones growing the R0— busts or those sticking to the old ‘faithfuls. . What he planned, Mr. Sims car- ried through. He arranged with the Farm Crops Department, M. A. C. to supervise and lay out the work, fur— nish some of the seed, thresh the beans, and compute the yields. He got three farmers, Henry Lane and Charles Van Allen, of Fairgrove and Peter Romain, of Caro, to each plant a bean variety test. The results of eleventh of his series on i'lurmwan travels. Mr. Flood ‘tells us more about farming in Holland as well as his cxpvriem-c in riding; on the ,trains in that country. HEN Jim Wilson and I were in Alaska. two years before this European trip. we met. :1 won— »‘derful girl whom We called Skookum 'Kate, and with whom both of us fell desperately in love during the two arthree weeks that our journeyings :threw us together. I described in a latter to one of my more particular riends in the States how the charms 101' this delightful maiden had com— pletely captivated hie—but the page which mentioned that Skook was only ten “years old was misplaced. somehow and didn’t get included in the letter. It was most unfortunate -—-but that was two years ago. “Emma” was a champion Holstein cow that was proudly exhibited for our approval in the Zuider Zee country in Holland. She had :1 rec- ord of 53,000 pounds of milk in three successive years and was an excep- . . ional cow in every respect. Every : 'gmember of the editorial party took at least two pictures of this great, cow, as she was pointed out to rep— resent almost the exact type for which the Dutch breeders were work- wring. . Mr. Shoup. of the American con— : s-uluate in Berlin, had joined our par- “ty‘ in Holland and had travelled »With 'us to Denmark. Then he hur— _ried‘ back to his office in Berlin to flmap out our route through Germany 43nd Switzerland. When we reached .Berlin a few days later he and his young 'wife invited us out to their home for a real American-made din— iner, and during the evening some . one mentioned “Emma". _ “Say, Emma certainly was 3. won- ‘der, wasn't she?" exclaimed the young. Mr. Shoup enthusiastically, a1~ ~ though in subdued tones, so that he ’ would not detract from the effect of his wife‘s piano concert. I thought I noticed that Mrs. Shoup missed a. few notes at that. “‘nShe surely was!” agreed Colonel Cobb heartily. . “Did you get a good picture of her?" Shoup pursued eagerly. “I took two myself, but they didn’t turn out very well. I sure want to have good picture of Emma. She was a “under!” In this article, the on, were holding her.” From the "(hide in the colonel’s eye, I, still lieve that he had noticed that low. Gently, Sweet Afton”. ' hing along over rapids and cata- .;“,You want one that will show a be. .don’tumue semi 199. the ,u wflent‘flon until finally Sweet ' " " his high demand- " rue; ’ noon on. - Planting Side By Side Farmers F indRobust Beans Ouipieldedbther it Well Known Varieties Grown in Michigan By D. F. RAINEY . Extension Specialist in Farm Crops, M. A. C. RESULTS OF ROBUST BEAN TEST IN TUSCOLA COUNTY Lane Van Allen Romain Average Robust .................... 43.09 bu. 3'8.24 bu. 44.07 :bu. 41.80 bu. Early Wonder ........ 35.14 bu. 34.27 bu. 34.91 bu. 34.77Jbu. 1000—1 ...................... 37.24 bu. 34.83 bu. 33.06 bu. 35.04 bu. Great Northern ...38.53 bu. 31.70 bu. , ' 1200-1 .............. ‘ ...... 41.91 bu. 39.10 bu. 31.61 bu. 37.54 bu. Romain .................. 41.69 bu. . Early Tefiface ........ 39.74 bu. 36.76 XL” 32.48 bu. 36.33 bu. I - r ‘ “Well, yes, I took that one when was . the three tests are given in the ac- companying table. Doesn’t this show plainly enough why the men who grow Robusts con— tinue to do so year after year? Those few extra bushels do help out and especially so in a season such as this when beans are bringing such a good price on the market. - If you like to figure out possibili- ties, just take a pencil and paper and see what ten acres of Robusts would have returned over ten acres of Early Wonders. or 1200—1. An extra $12 to $15 per acre would take care of most of the cost of growing the beans on many farms. It isXsome of the seemingly small things which make for success. If we f 1, it is usually a long drawn out pro ess—not suddenly do we find t t everything is gone. t ose who are succeeding are not a variety which isgoing to double your yield, but rather when you find one which Will yield a couple bushels more per acre, grow that until a better variety appears. In each of the three tests shown, the Robusts yielded better than .any of the others with one exception. I By FRANCIS A. FLOOD piano bunch, without saying a word, howevm‘. It was a bit awkward for a mo— ment. but the good old doctor rose nobly to the occasion. “Emma was a cow, you see, Mrs. Shoup, a cham— pion Holstein down in Holland. She was a record holder and a really good cow.” The doctor raved on. The mischievous colonel then sly— ly complimented the doctor on his presence of mind in saying that Em- ma was a cow——-slyly,lbut loudly enough for Mrs. Shoup to hear. This only operated to confirm any sus- picions that. the lady might already have had concerning the nature of “Emma" and it horrified the doctor to think that he was being made to appear as an ally in double dealing, to protect an erring husband. The truth was that Mrs. Shoup cared nothing about Dutch “Emmas” and much less about Holstein cows. She had heard all about Emma be— fore anywaymbut she didn’t see any use in furnishing good music when her farmer guests insisted on talking about old rows. Most of the cows in Holland are the Holstein and Dutch Belted. We visited the farm of (J. Neefje near the Haarlem Lake Area which was supposed to be typical of 3 Holland dairy farm. The cows are kept on pasture during the summer months and never go inside the stable. There were rugs on the barn floor. lace cur— tains at the windows, and valuable old Delft plates placed around the stalls for ornament. The servants sleep in the stalls. fully clean. Everything was pain— little alcoves opening onto. In the Holland cities we had ob— served that everything is scrubbed, except the people, but it seemed that in the country even the people were scrubbed. The house and cheese factory and barn were all together and each part was as clean as the rest. ‘ At the time of our visit Mr. Neefje was milking 17 Holstein cows on his farm. These cows averaged about 7,000 pounds of milk each and it was practically all made into Gouda cheese, for this 'was in the Gouda district. In this district about 90 per cent of all the milk is made into this particular variety of cheese under government supervision and regular inspection, although each maker also stamps on the cheeses his owu individual label and number. During the summer Mr. Neefje was making four of these huge Gouda cheeses per day, each one weighing about 80 pounds. They are cured in the stable for four weeks, the curing process including frequent rinsing in salt water. A good Gouda cheese must cure for at least six more Weeks in cool storage before it is consider- ed fit for consumption. Before leaving Gouda and Haar- lem Lake Area, we visited the fam— ous bulb districts of Holland, espec— ially those at Lisse where the state maintains phytopathological labora- tories \for the purpose of preventing spread of disease among bulbs for export from Holland. Our guides Were particularly desirous that we visit these great laboratories and they left nothing undone to impress us with the fact that the bulb grow— ers of Holland use every caution that ' And if . Hollanders to ,is done through an exporters’ change which takes care of the grad— 3 -, W611 . the : believe that if you will recollect you will agree that the. best variety of wheat you ever had was occasionally beaten, the same could be said of any other grain. When the boys start a rasslin’ match round the threshing machine, which-one doyou bet on? The best of them gets thrown once in a while but-if he usually lands on top he is the best. And anyway it takes two falls out of three to win. Well,,the same thing can be said of the Robust, it usually landsson top too. That’s what counts. You noticed that the 1200—1 beat it on Mr. Van Allen’s farm,.but the Robust was high on the other two farms and the average was over four bushels per acre in its favor. These tests apply all right not only to .Tuscola county but. to others as well. The Farm Crops Department; M. A. C. has been conducting such 'tests as these for several years in dif— ferent parts of the state as well as at East Lansing. If you want to know what Robust beans have done in your part of the state, write the Farm Crops Department. Buy some certified Robust beans this spring and give them a trial. Your county agent can give you the names of growers who have some seed inspected by the Michigan Crop Improvement Association. “Railroad Ticket ‘ior $2.75 Entitles Holder to Ride Anywhere in Holland can be taken to be sure that no plant disease shall invade the bulb dis— tricts. ‘ Ten million dollars worth of bulbs are exported from Holland every year and half of these come to the United States. Our own country, then, is the best customer of the bulb districts of Holland which support these thousands of thrifty Dutch peo— ple. But on January 1, 1926, daffo— dils are to be cut. off the list of im- portations into the United States, and there are other restrictions and limitations placed by our government upon the shipment of bulbs from Holland into the United States. The people of Holland resent every one of the measures. Some of them may be unjust, and may be prompted more by the danger of business com~ petition than by any plant disease the bulbs may carry into the United States, and it is the purpose of the remove as many of these restrictions as they can. Here was an opportunity. Except on Long Island and in parts of Florida. Michigan and Cali— fornia and only in small areas of these places, ~can good bulbs be grown in our own country, and on account of the great difference in the cost of labor and the natural efficiency of the extreme intensified farming methods of the trifty Dutch, it is difficult for us to compete with the Holland bulb growers. The climate in this narrow strip of land that is called the bulb dis— trict of Holland, is nearly ideal for bulb culture. The land is level, with the same depth of water table so that all the bulbs get the same amount of water. The winters in this small bulb district of. Holland are not too long, nor too cold; they do not have a hot spring to push the bulbs too fast and too early. They get cheap, but highly skilled.labor, the people who have worked in bulbs for generation after generation. One enterprising bulb salesman was on the same boat with me when I re- turned. He was coming to the Uni- ted States to sell bulbs and he said he had always worked with bulbs on ‘the same farm where, his father, his grandfather, and his “lover-grand father” had always worked in bulbs. This land in the bulb districts of Holland is worth $3,000 per acre. fertiliZed. about one—third commer- cial fertilizer and two-thirds care— from $1,000 to, It is kept heavily .- fully preserved farm manure. Small, independent holdings of five or ten acres employ several ‘ families to ” carry on the work, but the marketing 1‘ ins. inspecting. and '..atlvertisin ex— ,‘ a; w. A FAITHFUL TI‘IA)[.—“’ha.t boy wouldn’t like to drive , un unto— Smith of Ithaca, talking? It is? “’ell, .l. of going. this is your daughter speaking. Come this team? They might not look as fancy m4 mobile but. I’ll bet you would be more certain l’elrr Linek. Brown City. sent the picture. I)RESSI\ G MR. l’ORKER.—This pic- ture was tkaen on butchering day not so long ago on the farm of (3. A. Butcher at l‘) sie. Michigan. ' “\VHEV YOI' AND I \VERE YOUNG. MAGGIE.” Did you ever see anything like this before—u, modern shepherd puppy,_owned by Thad Clements, dale, sends us this print of his wife, two daughters eutter drawn by an ex? The picture “us sent to us by of “'ebberville, Mich. Smart looking, isn’t and the family pet. This hog was an orplmu and Hrs. Earl Davis, of \essen City. he? was ruised on a. bottle. PROTECTION FROM THE COLD WINDS.— This plan to protect the children from'the win-' ter winds while ridink' back and forth to school is used on Brookskle Farm, Ev’art, Dan Beoher, . proprietor. ;‘('We pay $5 for each kodak picture used r “IlELLO!”——“I{ello! Is this .‘lrs. Bert see me sometime. ’Bye.” barrel. Friend l-‘zlulk needs fiOlllO specks. T\V0 BRAVE AVIATORS ABOIT’I‘ TO “TAKE 0FF”.——Look out, folks, for Joseph and Arnold Manke, of Ionia, in their “NC 4, U. S. A.” They are, just about ready to take a, long trip in their powerful llut they will return home in time for supper, I think. “)iI(‘Kll‘I.”-——This is Mickie, 2 nlonihs old BOILING DOIVN THE SAP.-——-It is maple syrup time on. the Kruger farm, at Grand Ledge. "Last year I tap- ppm! 100 trees,” writ-es “fin. R. Kruger “and made 45 gal- 'lons of syrup and also some sugar.” “’e’ll come over when you have a “ensuring—o it” party." on our cover and give a ’one year renewal for earh picture used on this “"HY IS IlE‘.’—This shows you how good u. hunter find the owl and there he is sitting right on his gun- L. Faullk, of Byron, is. He is looking all over to INDIAN CHIEF AND HIS S‘VEET- airplane! llrMR'IX—The chief’s sweetheart in a, machine. modern flapper, isn’t she? The picture is l'rorn “'m. Hooks. Breckenridge. THE FABIILY PET.—-——-II. I). Shryoek, of Blooming- “\VHEN CITY DOG VISITS COUNTRY DOG”. —’I‘his is the title given to this picture by Edna Butcher of Elsie. Ednu.’ 3 dog is at her right and the dog belonging to an aunt; living in the city ~ its at her left. 1;) age. Pictures must be sharp and clean), '1 ‘1 v ---v—.—.. .~ as. . . _...__.._... ‘u‘w-O‘ ~ /... WWII-Um.“ m r i‘!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! rows of notches dose together. running up both sides of post. make it easy to attach and hold wires. --.—- \\ Railroad Unlike ..____..__ .. _ M —-—-———-—-——-——-—~ . -_---------—--—__--..-—-'-—..— .-- qyuuuuuusushrrruflfluu!"!i W “ rail design —-strongest construction. Ordinary ‘ T-stee 1 posts. BANNER FORMERLY ARROW Ming/aer The, dollar’s worth of fence that lasts 20 years costs 5 cents per year. The dollar’s worth offence that lasts 10 years costs 10 cents per year. Time is the only real test of fence value. You will find Zinc Insulated Anthony Fence and Banner (formerly Arrow) Steel Posts, both sold at No Extra Charge, give you many more years of service at no extra cost. In Zinc Insulated Anthony Fence each wire is uniformly coated with a heavy covering of zinc, completely protecting it from the effects of the weather. The Red Sign on each roll is a guarantee of its superior quality. Banner Steel Posts, with their railroad rail design and slit wing an- chor plates, grip the ground firmly, hold the fence securely in line and give many years of hard service. Ask your dealer. R. R. RAIL SECTION STEEL Steel & Wire Eompany W M filovaos-k Boston Dalia-Dem xx mos GARDEN TRACTOR -. , and Power ~ Pnetiul. Proves Power Cultivator to: cm . - . A Gardeners. autumnal . - m ‘ "‘~ 4 for 25¢; 25 for 81.00. Dewberry Pianist ; 3 Peach ,.Trees.:‘01&04 Holbhesk- W, ~ » ‘ .5, ; r, . 'A Farmer’s Experience j flit; Shpsters ' Crooks j 5 By WILLIAM EDWARDS ‘ * ' ' ‘ p. 12 Grape Vines for . FIRST Aid to the local community whenever trouble arises is the Job some one has in every section of the country. That was Bill Edward’s position after he retired from the farm and because he was successful in settling a few scrapes for himself and wife, the neighbors Just naturally brought their So interesting was Bill’s experiences that he was induced to write them. Two installments have already been run. In the first, Bill told how he thot he was wise to investments because he had purchased a few Liberty Bonds and how one wild cat stock salesman had trimmed him. The experience Bill received, he claims. was worth a [fort of the cost and in'order to make up the other part Bill took to passing his information about the community. Thru his clever Workas an investigator he saved his wife from a trimming and then by careful work managed to stop the exploitation of others in the community on a silver mine deal. \ He tried to help out some ladies who sold their poultry to a fellow who oflered them a better price in the form of checks but found out that the checks were as worthless as the fellow signing them. _ Then he bought a new automobile and his experiences with it made an interesting chapter in Bill’s life. him tire price of addre. He learned something even if it did cost Then another outbreak of stock buying broke out in the community. The boys learned a lot before they got their money's worth, for the stock they bought proved to be a lemon. liit also, and his wife took a lot of satisfaction telling him about it. Bill, in spite of his caution, But he I has a chance to get even, for Maria stepped over the edge. as you will see. (Continued from Feb. 28 Issue)" SPECIAL meeting next Thursday night,” phoned Tim Holly, Sec- rotary of the Society. “How’s that,” says I, “don’t the president generally call such meet- ings. Who authorized you to talk for me?", and I was kind of warm under the collar. Tim was a good boy, and didn’t mean anything, he says, and told me he didn’t say that. A bunch of the boys wants a special, he explained. “Oh, that’s different. Well, if they want it I guess we can have 'it, only we ain’t got no speaker, Tim. Maybe we can get the County Agent to talk on something. He’s pretty good at that, oh?" “Don’t need a. speaker if what I hear is true,” shoots back Tim. “There seems to be something in the wind that needs looking after.” So we arranged the meeting and Maria‘was as curious as a. high school girl. All day Thursday she kept put— ting questions to me and when I couldn’t answer she got kinda huffy. “Well, I hope it’s that Ladies' Night you fellows have been planning for the past six months. I’m getting tired of waiting. All you fellows do is talk and no action.” Eight o’clock found us, the Smith boys and me, at the Odd Fellows Hall where we met. Because it was a special meeting most of the boys was there, and already Tim was spending most of his time in the kitchen fixing up the refreshments. We always had something to eat as our meetings ran till late. Once when we was organizing the elevator association it was one thirty before we quit and Maria was sure mad when I got home. Just then Fred Kelley came‘in with a stranger and brought the fel— low over to see me. Kelley runs the oil station on the court house square. He is the son of Michael Kelley who was one of the pioneers that settled Jackson City. Mike had been dead for several years but I remember his telling how he drove oxen out from Cleveland back in ’52. lot of money, too. Fred’s friend, Henry Dike, was a middle aged fellow who looked like a preacher. He was, we found out later. but was not working at it now. I along, Left a. Dike carried a little case and was a pretty good sort of chap. Fred said Dike had something he wanted to talk on and explained to me and while I was" suspicious, I agreed. You see Dike had been'in town for several days and had been talking to the boys. We had been sawing wood and that was the reason I missed out. ' Well, the meeting was called to or- der in regular form, me presiding. and Kelley was introduced. "Friends," says Kelley, “I come before yen tonight as I believe we have something unusual for your eyes. vOur good friend, Dike. who by the way was a friend of my father’s and who has been known to Ma and us youngsters for a long time, has been out west. While I am no pro- phet. yet I have been talking to Mr. Dike. for several days and am sure that he has a real message for us." With that Dike got up, carefully adjusted his coat. wiped off his head, and opened up his case and set a contraption on the table before him. It looked like a. little engine. Out of the bottom of the case he took a bunch of photographs and set one. a picture of an elderly man, up in front of the engine. Again be clear- ed his throat and began to talk. Most of his first ten minute talk was devoted to praising Mike Kel- ley, telling what a fine man he was, which was true, and then he began talking about a‘fellow by the name of Rowell. It seems that he and Roweii had been to preachers’ college together, but Rowell, that was the fellow who’s picture he had. was of a mechanical turn of mind. For years he worked on engines and starved sometimes having not more than a-few dollars to live on for weeks at a time. But he always kept working on his one idea, and told about an engine that would revoluo tionize the ordinary gasoline type. “And”. says Dike, picking up the model in his right hand and the pic- ture of Rowell in the other, “let me introduce to you the man who has made the discovery of the century. Folks, meet. Mr Roweil, and meet his engine.” ' It sure was a great talk. Dike showed how the engine worked. He (Continued on Page 17) O\\—~ MW— / 4 '-’-1m A : KG. .. . __ t 3 The Lesson of Lean Years Lean years—such as those passing—often lead to long profits because of the lessons learned in cutting the cost corners. Progressive farmers have found that good farm machinery, particularly the tractor, does more to reduce costs and increase yield than any other one thing. With the Fordson they have found that they can not only do general tillage operations faster and better, but can use it for belt jobs and routine work of all kinds at a big saving in both time and effort. So it is no wonder that farmers generally are facing an era of better prices With every confidence that the things they have learned in the lean years are going to lead to better profits in the better ones ahead of them. WW‘G \ Detroit, Michigan See the Nearest Authorized Ford Dealer -——-—- ———_—-——h w -__ - '2). *— __———_'.‘: ~____ '. A ‘ r i x ' ' u - .4, H. m ~- - ‘ ~ \ q 4 . «. ‘ I m V 95 \w‘\§‘;\‘§v\~'§qj§ ‘ ‘ . k .\\ a V \ _ i k \_\ ‘ \‘\ \ \_ . \ \ \ \L ‘ . .\ ‘ V _ J A CAN SUE FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT I Started: to take acorrespondence course with an engineering school an electrical, course, and was to pay E i E L five dollars a month until completed ' 0 0 but in the meantime I decided it was W115}! {he Ferttltozet too hard and so much work so I Leaders of Amef‘ca thOught I would discontinue it. They are now trying to make me pay for the whole course Whether I go any further or not.—B. M., Capac, Mich. PON your refusal togo on with U the contract, the company could sue you for breach of contract and recover damages. This would cover such items as the value of the books furnished you and possibly the commission of the agent who sold you, eth‘but they could not recover for the full value of the course if you did not take it.—Legal Editor. Some Folks just naturally seem to step out ahead with their ' crops, They get the extra bushels of grain per acre. Their corn grows greener during the sum- mer and hardens early with a big yield. They get their truck crops to , market a little earlier than the other fellow. These folks are the leaders in their community. They are people who know how to make money farmingr They know good fertilizer and where to buy it. Thousands of them have tied-up with the uFertilizers Leaders of America" to get results. Through experience they know that the "Fertilizer Leadersn put into thelbag the largest amount of actual available plant food in the best mechanical condition, for the least amount of money. Here you buy-— PEDDLING ARTICLES Does a person have to have a li— cense to go through the country sell- ing articles that he has manufac- tured himself, such as brooms or things like that? Does he have a right to go out and sell books and make immediate delivery, or must he take orders and deliver at some fu- ture time?—~S. L. K., Carson City, 0U would be required to apply to the State Treasurer for a license to sell your goods. The cost would depend upon the manner in which you intend to travel, whether by foot or by vehicle. You could make immediate delivery of the books you sell if you so desire.— Legal Editor. A generous supply of Richly Available Phosphorous easily taken up by the growing plant. Nitrogen (or Ammonia) so supplied as to feed the plant from seed-time to harvest. Potash to make healthy growth and increase yields. Farm withthe "Fertilizer Leaders of America". They will help you build up your soil, grow you bigger crops and make you better profits. Get your fertilizer from their dealer, or write for booklet. ‘ THE FERTILIZER LEADERS OF AMERICA g TAKE ACTION AGAINST SELLER I bought a cow and he said she would be due in March and I do not think she \will be fresh at all. Can I do anything about it? I bought a farm on contract and was to pay a payment of a certain amount and the interest and taxes each year, if I paid the taxes and interest could he put me off? I have paid it all before and do they have to foreclose on a contract the same as on a mortgage? ——E. L. C. EKENTUCKi. .HQHIHHHHHIHII FERTILIZERC ' (fiEMlCAL WHZERCQ OUR remedy in this case would V be an action against the seller . L—BRANCK _:BRANCH . for damages for fraudulent mis— representation or for breach of war— ranty. Upon default in making any pay- Federal Chemical Cor/”c, LOUISVILLE KM NASHVILLE TEA/M COLUMBUS O. Mvgfis 4 . PUT THIS "law , » mu. ON YOUR PlG CHANGE THE DATE .566 . l I l EAR Editor—Referring to the ._.d powerful. One-(hirdtheworlz- heading “What the Neighbors my part! of any other null. @ . - , only mil?“ eminent” an.“ m 0 Say” 1n regard to Mr. P. G. C. s wear III or one, and easily re- @ | I letter Of January 17th, it nlay be all Albion steel and weed mills are quiet placeable. Govern! by dependable :3?:wvfiwivmfiimfi'fi‘lflfipfi (29) 0 right in Gladwin «county to leave the ““"Y‘ ("“0 “ha 8°°d indmm- yon aHALLowngLe date as it is but up here in Antrim Kiliof’gzdif'fgffififfi; °" C'STEQ’” , county where the snow is from two dedu,ovwritedileclto IFyom‘fal‘ml’equlresawalel system tha‘ WI" to Six feet deep in Sonle Cut dowxl umnsmwphct‘CQI-M- delivernlarge volumeotwater—ifyouneed hills, it is almost impossible, when aheavy duty pump that Will operate at high you have to go about eight miles, to SPOCd 0" ‘Zaim' heavy Pressuremget “M3" get to the 'polls. I think it would be en Self-Oiling BulldozerPowerPump. a good idea to have the date changed We can lupply exactly the pump you need to the first Monday in May. As for I foryour purpose— the time, any man ought to be able at a price that’! MYERS to take a day off for a real business De t. 84 Albion. film. 13.5.5» thf fewmonths u . DEEPWELL _ H :mytogsv‘hthefamous 13' C, ’g‘ftu"a£;g.::;: WORKING meet. We all llke to go. Love tlly standard WgTE En— I— :ouanwyouarebuy- _ HEAD neighbor as thyself.’ ——E. B., Antrim “°'ung?efiist?fi§2§“§; ' 2/ ing the but the world HG 1“ County. Gas. Equipped with celebrated Troubleproof produceS‘T pcrfectedm WICO Magneto. Simplest and cheapest toop- every detaIthorouablY crate. New device motionscitzzztlzntgggs .Pm133318? node; an“! 35:10. _ CHANGE NAME OF l‘IICHIGAN ' owe ' - ' late open a e. "'55 me "E" is:restate-“assesses My... man. “a... AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE HGIIE BOOK Write today for my new illustrated tion the world "or, EAR EDITOR' From time to Mnebook—centabsolutelylv‘ree. Noobligationtoyou. Seeyont Myers “1“. ' ‘ ‘ . t' 1 b mantisrers mass.” M... .. w... A - ,. tune. there app... 3; mes o g 2158 Emplro Bulldlng. - - - PITTSBURGH,PA. m. Jectlng to changing 4 e name 0. #“ CO M the Michigan Agricultural College You'veheardyou THEEliéqu-IRS anghltgiofla and it seems desirable to bring out 312323.?"323‘1‘: 23:12: 33...... in, rush-cm «m 4-m- certain facts that are not apparent to the casual observer. The writer be- EEKS F°rf lite“; lieves that he appreciates to a large ml‘xgiif’naI-M ‘ WTgJM ;, degree 'the fine spirit that prompts , "hi“ gala. has“? ,_ ,, .. . .. - 7 1 Price-5 some folks to revere the name of M. - ' ‘ to M n . once. . . m 4 .- 4.. u ; A. 0., her traditions and her splen- dlufifikmofluiiwihxf'ndm' ----c_§ N 9 ' , did'"achievement and he hopes that ' ' hon! . “notion for all. 80nd 15c (coin or stump.) today for this big . . ' ron am is was out to: 1 you (52 loan»). a - nothing sald here may mar that i ' IO. , M THFINDIRNI‘I MnStnfiomWIfltlnmn.D.c. . . spirit 0f loyalty. May that Spirit be _ . . . a - h“ _. “V ’ .. , .. broadened and extended until it in- j; (A ovarian Department for r rmors' over day troubles. all bomn nints or requests for In ormatlon. a dressed to this department. We you. at! Inqulrlosl'must be accompanlod by full name and hadrons. Name not use ‘ meaning that will. be helpful to all. ' ”cl desthe'weltareupt every student . , a" , . Prompt. careful attention Inn to‘ arc here a servo d I so rouugstod.) ment on ‘yOur land contract, the sell- e’r coul‘d declare it forfeited and evict -you from possession. ~ You would have thirty days in which to redeem. —Lega1 Editor. ' MEASURING I'IHAY I would like to ask if there is a rule for measuring alfalfa hay in the barn, in as much as it is heavier than other hay? It seems there ought to be a rule to work it out so that both parties Would be satisfied—F. F., Perry, Mich. OUR hundred cubic feet of alfalfa hay is a conservative estimate for a ton. If the hay was allow- ed to become over-ripe before being cut, or if it was coarse it might re- quire 450 or 500 cubic feet to make a ton—F. E. Fogle,-Assistant Profes- sor Agricultural'Engineering, Michi- gan Agricultural College. CREOSOTE RUNS DOWN CHIMNEY What can I do to prevent creosote from running down my chimney? Am burning partly dry, some partly green wood.——V. P. S., Alamo, Mich. REOSOTE is formed when wood is burned without having suffic- ient oxygen to burn freely. More creosote is formed from green wood than from dry wood, and more is formed from some kinds of wood than others. Beech, I believe, is one of the woods giving off most creo— sote. It is sometimes impossible to prevent creosote from forming in pipes and chimneys. There are, how— ever, some precautions which may be taken to lessen the trouble. If some dry Wood can be burned with the green wood the difficulty will be lessened. If small quantities of wood can be put on the fire so that it is not necessary to completely close the draft less creosote will be formed. So far as I know, there is nothing that can be added to the fire that will stop the formation of creo- sote. Since creosote is formed from condensation, the better draft that can be had through the stove pipe or chimney, the less will be the con— densation, also one would expect to have less creosote forming in a brick chimney than in a stove pipe of a metal chimney.——F. E. Fogle, Assist- ant Professor of Agricultural Engi- neering, M. A. C. Contributions Invited For some years it has been aparent that graduates of certain courses have been handicapped by the word “Agricultural”. Engineering gradu— ates of M. A. C. go to every part of the United States and employers of technical men frequently do not re~ alize that a good Agricultural Col- lege presents good work in engineer— ing and react unfavorably to the word “Agricultural”. A number of engineering alumni have suffered un— justly on account of this unfavorable reaction and in the spirt of fairness this handicap should be removed. The College catalog for the year ’23—’24, page 293, shows a Winter en- rolment as follows: Agriculture .................... 466 27.56% Engineering .................. 469 27.74% Forestry ........................ 64 3.78% Home Economics .........,398 23.54% Applied Science ............ 258 15.25% Veterinary .................... 36 2.13% 1691 100% Please note that Home Economics and Engineering rival in numbers the Agricultural Division and that on the basis of attendance the name “Agricultural” is not justified. The Institution is really a University in that it gives instruction, conducts research, and confers degrees, and it should be given a name which more truly‘indicates its nature, ,‘fl‘he name “Michigan State College” will do this and it carries with it a dignity and a their community. They know good fertilizer and where to buy it. tied-up with the uFertilizers Leaders of America" to get results. Through experience they know that the "Fertilizer Leadersn put into thelbag the largest amount of actual available plant food in the best mechanical condition, for the least amount of money. Here you buy-— Farm with the "Fertilizer Leaders of America". up your sorl, grow you bigger crops and make you better profits. your fertilizer from their dealer, or write for booklet. 'Wa crops. A generous supply of Richly Available Phosphorous easily taken up by the growing plant. Nitrogen (or Ammonia) so supplied as to feed the plant from seed-time to harvest. Potash to make healthy growth and increase yields. They will help you build With the fertilizer Leaders of America Some Folks just naturally seem ' to step out ahead with their They get the extra bushels of grain per acre. Their com grows greener during the sum- mer and hardens early with a big yield. They get their truck crops to . market a little earlier than the other fellow. These folks are the leaders in They are people who know how to make money farmingr Thousands of them have Get , sl—BRANCH' FERTILIZER C .quulllllululuu \' ’ MIL‘L ON YOUR Albion steel and wood mills are quiet hours now with a good This in your chance—F. O. B. Albion. denier, or write direct to Union Steel Products Co. Ltd. 34 Albion. ch.. U. B- 5» ' "- EREMICAL BRANCH Federal Chemical cry/m, LOUISVILLE KM NASHVILLE TEA/M ILIZER LEADERS OF AM ERICA ‘ THE FERT V g COLUMBUS O. —— __ h——-—- EKENTUCKi. FEETIUZER CO. 4 PUT ms "few glad powerful One-third”): work- . my part! of any other mill. @ Only mam Pill-nan bearing subuu to 0 Wear ilhu u oillcno, and easily le- placeable. Govern! by dependable weight Without springs. Flu any 4pm! D urellower \Vhy nolihorien ourchore ( ‘"d’“‘u" FOR SHALLOW WELLS on CISTERNS Elect il yourbcll. Ask your Mvgms IF your farm requires a water system that will deliver a large volume of water—it you need a heavy duty pump that will operate at high speed or Igains! heavy pressuremget a My- ers Self- Oiling Bulldozer PowerPump. We can supply exactly the pump you need I for your purpose-— 53%|]: @ll EEKS F°rf lEVZENTS r much for all. ’ r ' r on trial 13 was V Mu THFINDIR. 7§| - " ‘ utdln‘ you want. Science. voila " tlos. naval. fun. question box. books. lie-11h. hone. radio—entertainment and in- Bond 15c (coin or stamps) today {or this big or 81 for 1 your (62 issues). on: don Station. Washington. D. c. at a price that’s MYERS 1m°m1§f°§fff£fifi$§ right. And when gmoWl‘TTE En- = f" you buy a Myers pump H EA 0 a no Uses Kerosene, ii. you know you are buy- '. oline. Distillate or / mg the but the wsrl HG - Gas. Equipped with celebrated Troubleproof producesrf pcrlecte m 19 WICO Magneto. Simplest and cheapest toop- every detsithorousle .arate. 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Name not use CAN SUE FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT I started: to take acorrespondence course with an engineering school an electrical, course, and was to pay five dollars a month until completed but in the meantime I decided it was too hard and so much work so I thOught I would discontinue it. They are now trying to make me pay for the whole course Whether I go any further or not.—B. M., Capac, Mich. PON your refusal logo on with U the contract, the company could sue you for breach of contract and recover damages. This would cover such items as the value of the books furnished you and possibly the commission of the agent who sold you, etc.7‘but they could not recover for the full value of the course if you did not take it.—Legal Editor. PEDDLING ARTICLES Does a person have to have a li— cense to go through the country sell- ing articles that he has manufac- tured himself, such as brooms or things like that? Does he have a right to go out and sell books and make immediate delivery, or must he _take orders and deliver at some fu- ture time?—~S. L. K., Carson City, 0U would be required to apply to the State Treasurer for a license to sell your goods. The cost would depend upon the manner in which you intend to travel, whether by foot or by vehicle. You could make immediate delivery of the books you sell if you so desire.— Legal Editor. TAKE ACTION AGAINST SELLER I bought a cow and he said she would be due in March and I do not think she will be fresh at all. Can I do anything about it? I bought a farm on contract and was to pay a. payment of a certain amount and the interest and taxes each year, if I paid the taxes and interest could he put me off? I have paid it all before and do they have to foreclose on a contract the same as on a mortgage? ——E. L. C. OUR remedy in this case would be an action against the seller for damages for fraudulent mis— representation or for breach of war— rarity. Upon default in making any pay- day troubles. ' you from possession. Prompt. careful attention lvsn to‘ is department. We ar$ here a servo d I so corrugated.) ment on ‘yOur land contract, the sell- e’r could declare it forfeited and evict ~ You would have thirty days in which to redeem. —Legal Editor. ' MEASURING THAY I would like to ask if there is a rule for measuring alfalfa hay in the barn, in as much as it is heavier than other hay? It seems there' ought to be a rule to work it out so that both parties Would be satisfied—F. F., Perry, Mich. OUR hundred cubic feet of alfalfa hay is a conservative estimate for a ton. If the hay was allow- ed to become over-ripe before being cut, or if it was coarse it might re- quire 450 or 500 cubic feet to make a ton—F. E. Fogle,-Assistant Profes- sor AgriculturalEngineering, Michi- gan Agricultural College. CREOSOTE RUNS DOWN CHIMNEY What can I do to prevent creosote from running down my chimney? Am burning partly dry, some partly green wood.——V. P. S., Alamo, Mich. REOSOTE is formed when wood is burned without having suffic- ient oxygen to burn freely. More creosote is formed from green wood than from dry wood, and more is formed from some kinds of wood than others. Beech, I believe, is one of the woods giving off most creo— sote. It is sometimes impossible to prevent creosote from forming in pipes and chimneys. There are, how— ever, some precautions which may be taken to lessen the trouble. If some dry Wood can be burned with the green wood the difficulty will be lessened. If small quantities of wood can be put on the fire so that it is not necessary to completely close the draft less creosote will be formed. So far as I know, there is nothing that can be added to the fire that will stop the formation of creo- sote. Since creosote is formed from condensation, the better draft that can be had through the stove pipe or chimney, the less will be the con— densation, also one would expect to have less creosote forming in a. brick chimney than in a stove pipe of a. metal chimney.——F. E. Fogle, Assist- ant Professor of Agricultural Engi- neering, M. A. C. Contributions Invited CHANGE THE DATE EAR Editorz—Referring to the heading “What the Neighbors Say” in regard to Mr. P. G. C.’s letter of January 17th, it may be all right in Gladwin «county to leave the date as it is but up here in Antrim county where the snow is from two to six feet deep in some cut down hills, it is almost impossible, when you have to go about eight miles, to get to the polls. I think it would be a good idea to have the date changed to the first Monday in May. As for the time, any man ought to be able to take a day off for a real business meet. We all like to go. “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”——E. B., Antrim County. CHANGE NAME OF DHCHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE EAR EDITOR: From time to time there appear articles ob- jecting to changing the name of, the Michigan Agricultural College and it seems desirable to bring out certain facts that are not apparent to the casual observer. The writer be- lieves that he appreciates to a large degree 'the fine spirit that prompts some folks to revere the name of M. A. 0., her traditions and her splen- did'"achi‘evemen‘t and he nopes that nothing Said here may mar that spirit of loyalty. May that spirit be broadened and extended until it in- " Ill des‘she welfarept every student 1.: For some years it has been aparent that graduates of certain courses have been handicapped by the word “Agricultural”. Engineering gradu— ates of M. A. C. go to every part of the United States and employers of technical men frequently do not rc~ alize that a good Agricultural Col- lege presents good work in engineer— ing and react unfavorany to the word “Agricultural”. A number of engineering alumni have suffered un— justly on account of this unfavorable reaction and in the spirt of fairness this handicap should be removed. The College catalog for the year ’23—’24, page 293, shows a Winter en- rolment as follows: Agriculture .................. ..466 27.56% Engineering ................ ..469 27.74% Forestry ...................... .. 64 3.78% Home Economics ....... ...398 23.54% Applied Science .......... ..258 15.25% Veterinary .................. .. 36 2.13% 1691 100% Please note that Home Economics and Engineering rival in numbers the Agricultural Division and that on the basis of attendance the name “Agricultural” is not justified. The Institution is really a. 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Yes, I know we all have, that hunk of. balms Wire handy. and that makes very * good, repairs in some, cases of smear: saucy but don't make the mistake of considering a wire repair as any: thing but temporary. and at your first opportunity get proper repairs. Many farmers would be far better off if they had never used wire on their machinery. For instance a bolt breaks and a piece of wire is used in its place. The wire does not hold the parts tight and to their proper place as did the bolt. There is a strain, there for that is what broke the bolt. pieces together, and the implement may work more or less satisfactorily for a time. However, that Wirecone nection being loose, too much strain is often placed on some other part, more than it Was intended to car-17y with the result something is bent or sometimes proves quite costly. ‘Many times some implement part becomes bent from too severe a strain, and the trouble it causes is 9ft§p héll'd to locate. Loose bolts and wire are too often the cause of these undue strains. Don’t think frdm the above, however, that the Broadscopg man never uses wire—— for he certainly does. In fact there in use, and many are the times one is a piece of Wine and a pair of pliers carried on all our; implements when can fix harness, whiffletrees, etc., as well as the implement itself With the pliers and wire. But such repairs are only emergency ones. We have a bolt and rivet cabinet in the shop, and in this are a score of drawer boxes. Each box contains some certain things. Among these boxes is one for carriage bolts, ma— chine bolts, plow bolts, screWS, har- ness rivets, wrought rivets, washers, burrs, coil springs, buckles, cotter pins and several other necessities. in this cabinet we can nearly always find just the bolt we needband it will ' B‘roadSczope arm News Edited by L. W. Masks. Kingdom (loamy The wire may hold the. and Views" be. a new bolt too. as. practically nothing but new stuff over oes into any or the cablth boxes. life have a sort of same can on the bench. and all fairly good bolts, etc” are put in it. and for some things these old belts eta... are all right. but no 01d bolt is of any importation to speak of. Nearly. if not all implements. have same weak spot in their make up. For instance our hinder has a place where the angle steel frame sarts are belted together with three belts- It has been impossible to keep these bolts train treatise 9r heartening losse- Heve tried every way to overcome this, and long ago save up and is the tool box” on the binder you will find several bolts intended for this vary 1 lane. (3111’ fill .3! law has a place of Erect strain w. are it often breaks a ball by shearing it in two. This bolt ls. an odd also, and not easily obtain- able, When We discovered this weak place and the size of the bolt, we secured some bolts of this size, and there is no more worry about that belt, for isn’t there another handy? Our disc barrow is the same way. Our manure spreader has a fondness for breaking chain links, and again here is trouble, for the links are an odd size. We order them in quan— titleS and isn’t it queer chains and bolts do not seem to break so often if you have pew ones in the tobl box! T99 many fanmers buiy in too small quantities, ,So many buy only one plow point, jpipter point, mower guard, bolt, etc.,at a time. Why not get an extra one or twp? They will be hedged We take an extra jointer point, several extra guards, section knives, chain links, etc., with the im- plement. No, our tool 'boxes are not as crowded as you {night think they are. because these points, guards, chains, etc., are often fastened to the implement by wire, being put on the frame in some out pf the way place and yet fly?” at hand. .. # Too Muph of a GM Thing I am reminded I promised in my last article to tell in this one about some garden failures as I have known them. «Several years ago we had a neighbor farmer who took great interest in his garden. He had help on the farm so he could take care of his garden in nice shape and he did have a line garden for three or four years after he bought the farm, but year by year his garden seemed to‘ fall in "production and quality of product (if much 9f its contents. This despite his increased effort to make it a success. ' One day in early spring, while visiting him, he said it was nearly time to plo'w his garden, but he had WHERE OUR READERS LIVE Mali!“ vwxxm'xm ~ lluven't )ou :\ picture of your home or farm buildings that we can print .undethhis ll Signs? 8‘ 0 .. Show the. other members of The Business Furnmr‘s large family Where you ll are all right if the details show up well. Do not send us the V to, .ollo. Is 930 loot. u. ,LQNE, OF HOWELL, Lines on mailman ' in 1918, is so foot wide and 90 foot long, .m.tnm lo mm sumac: loo _, g _ j In“ dak’ v . “Wm- ' in” .9” no rast- -"u—o‘a ‘ “I? i l sea 'hisgarden was retail or” usual; manure he would can under, need lent teed and excessive has gins inhuman garden stud did not grow normally. He had a wonderful ‘gréWth of tomato vines,-but not very ‘many tomames. Same with potatoes, corn, peas, etc. So when he said he was geing to. cover it again with ma- nuts, I told him he already had al- together too much manure on it. and that his garden failure was due to that very thing . He seemed at a loss to understand how one cauld use too much manure on a garden! However he said he wouldn’t use any, and would fliid out if he had overdone a good thing. The result more than surpriSed him, and at my suggestion he used no manure again the next spring, with increased bet- terment of crops.“ It It It. _.,- How One Garden Came Back Have in mind 'a city friend’s gar- den. This friend, like the farmer mentioned above, always took the - best care of his garden, and for years had one to be proud of. The soil was quite black, low ground loam. Rath- ' or hard to plow if at all wet. This man kept a\ horse, and his garden like the farmer’s, received too liberal quantities of stable manure every spring. His potatoes, etc., began to fail “year by year, and when at his request, I suggested a cause, and told him too much manure, he, like the farmer, did not think that could pos- sibly be it, and insisted on keeping up with the annual application. I told him well and good—if he was determined to continue the stable manure on that low black soil, he should buy some potash and sew it liberally. This did not interest him, -and he said he thought maybe the seasons were changing! 'A year or two after this, the horse was sold. There was no manure to put on his garden, but three or four loads of good ashes were procurable that spring and these he hired haul- ed and spread on his garden. The result was far beybnd the owner’s ex- peetation. And each year since, this garden has given a good account of itself. I! #2 Ill Another City Garden Fails This friend had quite a large gar- den, and took great delight in mak- ing weeds scarce and the ground mel- low. He had little, if any, manure to use on it and gradually his crops be- came poorer. The soil was firm and solid. In sort of desperation he bought some manure and had the garden cayered during the early win- ter. The next spring he had it plow- ed a‘nd seeded to oats and alfalfa. The oats were cut by. a neighbor for hay and the. alfalfa, which seemed rather small at the time, came on and grew fine. It was cut twice the next year for hay and the following spring the garden was plowed again and a real old time garden bloomed forth, such as the owner had never dreamed of nor expected. CONFERENCE ON RURAL ELEC- TRIC SERVICE AT M. A. C. , N Friday, March 20, 1925, there will be held at the Michigan Ag- ricultural College, a conference for the purpose of discussing the problem of electric light and power service for the farmers of Michigan. 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And allflus may be to 3 timeslonger. (5) Sufi at no extra pure. ' smut.- a co. , clothing and. ,1 ‘- swi V or; TEXT: “God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophc'ts * * * *' hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his son.” Hebrews 1:1, 21).» “ HE Essential Gospel.” , This is the title of a book or pam— phlet now current. I have nev- er seen it or read any review of, it. But there is something thought-pro- voking about those words. “Essen- tial.” What does that mean? “In- dispensany necessary”, says Web- ster. And again, “The essence of.” What is the essence of God’s revela— tion to man? Is the “Sermon on the Mount?” But see also Psalms 40: 1—10, Micah 6: 6-8, Jno. 14: 6, and. Matt. 22: 34-40. But theclue to God’s word for men lies in the small compass in the words of our text. “God having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets.” “In the prophets.” There is some- thing ,very personal and rewarding about that conception of the pre- sence of God. God is not sitting on some faraway, imaginary throne and has not left his created world to run itself. But he is in men seeking and working dominion over the earth. When God is in the prophets we are glad to listen to their essential mes- sage. And that message is that the Jehovah 'God is a God of character and that men 'who are made to image him must strive to become like him. God is just and humble and loving, and so must men become. This is the gospel of righteousness that 'was ringineg demanded by the prophets. Of course, we have such a belief hinted at outside the religion of Is- rael; but for the most part, God was recognized there as .being a power and awe quite apart from personal character. And because Israel fell into this false notion and the pagan belief that God is to be pacified through the observance of rites and ceremonies, the prophets set them- selves against it. Their insistent word is, that God is moral in charac- ter and v-tlierefore can be pleased alone by moral responses in his chili dren. ' But you say, “Why tell us this? We know that true religion can not be divorced from morality. “But what is essential? What is religion in highest terms? The idea is yet too common and persistentthat re- ligion consists in stated periods of worship and ordinance keeping. As I am writing these words, in a coun— try church not many miles away, a woman healer (‘?) has set up tem« porary headquarters. People are seeking her by the hundreds, I am told. What idea of healing have these folks? It is enough to say that pagan tricks and quackery have no- thing to do with the true and sound healing art. It is colossal humbug- gery. This is superstition in heal~ ing. And there is yet ,not a little superstition in religion. Not a few people believe that their salvation lies in the observance of rites and ceremonies some of which have nothing to do with morality. And in the prophets, God is condemning ceremonies that are not moral and social in purpose. Micah has it this way, “What does Jehovah re- quire of thee but to do justly, and to love 'kindness, and to walk' humbly with thy God?” And yet rites are necessary to a functioning religion when of such a nature as to stimu- late mbral and social likeness to God. Certainly, the essential gospel of the prophets is that God is righteous and delights in personal and social right- eousness in his children. This ,is emphasized in the Phalms which are models of personal devotion, and in the Wisdom literature which is so highly ethical. , ' Then, after a long period of pro- phetic silence, God in John the Bap- tist speaks in anticipation of the coming of Christ. The essential .mesSage again centers around re- pentance and the fruits of holiness. It had to do, preeminently,”. with character rather than ceremony. But ’ '-:_ the multitude, bound up in'traditiom W ens? jal ideas of religion, saith-“ e understand?” * ' 9.1 ‘such social test. Mt. 25: \ their fellows. . fellowship; h ‘ t‘ t is well to remember that our final. and solemn transaction with God is to be negotiated on the" basis 'of some 31-46. Verily, religion is life outside the church—house. Now, our text says, “God hath at the end of these days (days of the prophets) spoken unto us in His Son." And we hear the Son say, “I am the life.” Jesus put reality‘into the prophet’s message. Paul fol- lows, “If any man be inputhis life he is a new creature.” That is he is renewed into the likeness of God. To this end was the church founded and Christian rites instituted. The es- sential Gospel, then, is the good news that mankind is to be redeemed. personfily and socially, so that when “He (God) shall be manifested we shall be like him.” We can be sure there is no magic pewer (however' ' ' mystical it is) that can win for us our heaven. moral likeness to God. Again, God’s uSon says, “I am the way.” And “The Way” must have been the. identical words by which the apostles referred to the early church, because the enemies of first century Christianity designated the movement-as “The Way.” There arose no small stir concerening the way.” And out of persecution and: even violent deaths, early Christian- ity was kept at high moral levels. Compromsing was not in vogue. An~ anias and Saphira tried it but met with disaster. The Narrow Way kept to the highlands of moral purpose to be separate from the world and to be like Christ until the fourth century when Christianity became the reli- gion of the state: Then there was swift descent to the lower levels of compromise with the world. Pagan elements entered the church, and- soon the notion developed among the masses that' rites and ceremonies constitute orthodox religion. Folks yet expect to get to heaven this way and are not prayerfully in earnest about following “The Way.” .But you say, “I am faithful in church attendance, and at prayers, and have a good name in the com- munity.” Well, this is at least re< spectable, though it should amount to more. fharisees were models of such re- spectability. And Jesus said to them, “The publicans and harlots go into heaven before you.” You see, there is a pride and hypocrisy that The essential thing is _. But you will recall the- will shut us out of heaven as surely ‘ as uncleanness and adultery. It is time to know that the only possible. way to redemption is to desire seri- ously to be like God who made us to be like him, and who showed us how, in Jesus Christ, we might and could be like him. This is the es- sential Gospel. And now, I believe that the thing j about Christianity which is so dis- pleasing to the masses today, is not so much the church ritual, but the exacting moral standard of Christ. Prohibition and laws in favor of a clean Sabbath are too exacting. And many of these complaints are church members in good standing. Others oppose sexual standards which are uncompromisingly Christian. Others are engaged in selfish oppression of ter? Ah, a rejection, not of rites. but of moralities. The life principles of the Christ are being repudiated by his,own professed followers. Yet. there are notable examples in the church that are honestly pleading and practicing the way of Christ in the various areas of living. Dr. Ken- Now, what is the mat— ' yon L. Butterfield, in a recent ad— ‘ dress, is reported as saying, “It is in- conceivable that we can have a social program satisfying from a Christian. point of View, without having Christ- ians whose lives are essentially re-v - We need both the inner life " ’ of religion and the outer life ’of re— ‘ ligious. ligion. . The most important. requirements. of modern life are“ ‘twowprayer and. “By. prayer, I am think- ing of s.” . form of prayer that con‘ . _' . shine—Lin ‘ pel practices. love and brotherhood: 1» this is but another way-bf» stating the an- cient laws of love/ toward God and love towardfellow man.” How finely Christian! Aftermall, this is the es- sential meaning of the gospel of Christ, to teach us how to commune with God, the Father, and how to get along with men as brothers. So, then, we are not to get rid of Gospel rites, but to emphasize Gos- To do this we must shift the emphasis of "our teaching, zand change some of our denomina- tionab promotion machinery. Rites ,are but a means to an end which is Christian character. God in the pro- phets, and God in his Son, has taught .us that this moral grandeur of char- acter belongs to all who will permit God to freely live in them. This is the essential Gospel. BLEISS THE LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits; who for— giveth all thine iniquities; who heal- eth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction.—Psalm 103:2-4. ‘ BE SURE YOUR SIN WILL FIND YOU OUT.-—Numbers 32:23. RADIO DEPARTMENT 'By J. Herbert Ferris. B. E. ' TROUBLE WITH THE SHORT \VAVE STATIONS ITH the present arrangement of broadcasting stations there are a great many working on the waves between 200 and 300 meters, and you no doubt have noticed the difficulty that you have in tuning in these stations sharply. There are several reasons for this. amongst which are that your tuner may not be selective enough and that it’s tuning arrangement is such that the tuning is very broad. The cause of the trouble is likely to be that the variocoupler or variometer has too- many turns of. wire on it so than it can not tune down low enough or that the condenser (variable) is of too great Q. value and a very little change in it changes your receiver from one wave to another. One of the easiest ways of separa- ting these low wave stations is to use a condenser of lower value so that you have to make quite a change in dial setting to go from one station to another. If you are now using a condenser of .001 mi. capacity (43 plate) change to one of .0005 mi. capacity (23 plate) this will mean that you Will have to turn your dial nearly twice as far to make the same change in wave length that you did with the 01d condenser. In some instances you will need to go down to even an 11 plate condenser to separate the stations far enough to tune them in sharply. At this season of the year we are apt to hear many of the very low power stations that you cannot hear in the very warm weather. A wave trap will also help you to get rid of some of the interference when listen- ing to these stations that come in so close together. RADIO PROGRAMS WESTINGHOUSE RADIO STATION KYW, CHICAGO, 7:30 P. M. March 17—“Distribution to the Farm Factory”, by H. M. Railsback, Deere & Co., Moline, Illinois. “Some Lessons From European Farmers”, by the editorial staff of Orange Judd Illinois Farmer. March 19—-—“What Dairy Calf Club Work Means to Dairyland", by Wm. E. Skinner, general manager, National Dairy Exposition. “What Farm Community Life Means to Illinois", by Paul A. Potter, Assistant Editor of Orange Judd Illinois Farmer. March 24—"New Tractors from Old Ones”, by J. E. Hill, State Superintendent of Agricultural Education, Springfield, Illinois . “Monthly Analysis of Farm Markets”, by H. W. MoorhouSe, Director of the Agricultural Research Division, Brookmire Economic Service; March 26—“Among the Baby Beef » Clubs”, by Frank W. Harding, Chief Ex- ecutiye, American Shorthorn Breeders’ Association. “Something We Are Going to Do This Season”. by 13.30. Waterman” Director of the Service ‘Bureau, Orange Judd Illinois Farmer. ‘ ‘ l ~ ' " .' March : ill—“Grain Inset, Review", J. W. Gov ' " " ‘ . etuiffrreasurer of' the A ? Vixen better- automobile: are built, Buick will build them When‘ "b ‘ jTank holds a i :m- fen; stack 1 ; resses ar entire di contents in-ufine mistyorsccoarsehéwe. SP . . won ' .mgig. MIN-.108 For WHITEWASHIN and disinfec ting oultry houses,_bams, cellars— or s 1’8 - mg- fruit; trees, vines, vegetzilbless, gardens, shmbbery, etc.~there is nothing that Will do the work so effectively as SMITH ANNE“ commaseo Am“ snnAYm bout four gal- es of pump com- Trees From Kalamazoo Direct to YOu at Reduced Prices Also shrubs, berries and roses. upon request. Full of big bargains and tells about stock to be given away. byerybody ,shoultl plant this spring. It is a patriotic as Well as a profit— able duty. Therefore you cannot afford to lw without this catalog. It will Ask for it to-duy—NO‘V—rlght away. CELERY CITY N URSERIES Growers of Good Trees for Man Years. cut your tree bill in two. Beautiful 1925 catalog sent free Box 210 Kalamazoo Mich. Lime and Fertilizer I S 0 reader Sour soil means poor 0mm E The "Holden" Spreader makes ' SoilTested-fiee Blion be? rid out today with our free Litmus Test Papers— .‘tivo sale: _ 2111i :1“, _ ' ts agree fertiliser is useless on son;- soil-it must have lime. or crops. Guaranteed to handle lune in any form,fertilizer. phosphate, gypsum, wood ashes or crushed shells. Cannot Clog. ‘ . The Holden Lime and Fertilizer Spreader will make your ._ I to u taxour soilf-yourcro 2 Ball health and productive. Spreads twice safar- aa any . Are they big and. sturdy as t ey cilia-:16 ft. 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A. C. WILL STICK I HE. proposition which certain interests at- tempted to crowd through the legislature to change the name of the Michigan Agricul- tural College to “Michigan State College” has been referred to the House Committee and will be given serious consideration and ample time for discussion and investigation before it again appears on the surface, which is improbable at this session. Our Lansing correspondent tells us that it was quite interesting to stand “on the hill” the morn— ing the last issue appeared and note the little groups of representatives reading over their copies of Tm: Busmnss FARMER and our editorial comments therein. We cannot believe that it was much of a sur— prise to those representatives who come from farming districts to understand why their con- stituents would oppose giving up a name which is so highly cherished by them. Let us keep the Michigan Agricultural College an institution for the promotion of those interests for which it was founded in the State of Michigan, even though it may not grow so large as to rival our other institutions of learning, which must be paid for out of the same tax—payer’s pockets. The farm organizations, the farm leaders and the farm press of the State of Michigan ought to stand absolutely united and for all time, against the possibility of another attempt under the cover ‘ of secrecy to oil‘ through the legislature any such blunder. We sincerely thank those readers who acted so promptly in advising their representatives what they thought of such a change. We feel that they were the “Minute Men" who jumped to their arms when we took the role of Paul Revere and cried for their help. With this kind of a solid front the farmers of Michigan can maintain a profitable and happy agriculture in what we believe to be the greatest state in America, for all time. Thank you! \J-J PROSPERITY SEEN BY MELLON TEARS of “prosperous and healthy conditions 1 such as succeeded the election of 1896" ‘ were forecast for the United States by An- drew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, in the annual report of the Treasury sent to Congress. The Secretary's views are based, he said, on the repudiation of “various theories inconsistent with economic laws" and the endorsement of a program of constructive handling of Government affairs given in the last election. He counseled the Nation, however, to approach its problems with intelligence that the progress made and the groundwork laid in the last four years may not come to naught. 4 I The United States, he asserted, was the first world power to come through the post—war trans- ition stage successfully and the first to be able to present “reasonable assurance" that “true progress” will continue within its borders. Mr. Mellon urged perpetuation of the program adopted by “the great majority of our peeple in the, last election" which be interpreted as one of “hard work, and economy and sound policies." In general economic conditions as well as in the domainof federal fiscal operations, Mr. Mellon recounted how complete the transition had been. that in the last-tour years the pores. 3'1 as : .000, me only‘53,fi.00:000, whichended last July 1, and the"“c6mplete dis-'6‘ ” I ‘ V '1 ._ . , _ g V For mountains..th or trimming not. ). modulates which 5 Organization? of the economic ‘structure 'by the collapse of‘prices in 1920 and 1921 has been rectified. “While recovery of agriculture has been slow. it has been substantial, and today, due largely to changing conditions in world crops and world markets, faces a new era. The maladjustment between agriculture and other industries has been removed, and the farmer is nearly restored to his proper status in the economic system," he said. s V. GOLDEN MINAR’ETS IKE the "Golden Minarets that crown the hills L about Bagdad and proclaim to the world the wealth of its citizens do the sturdy red silos of Michigan mark the homes of our greatest wealth producers—the dairy cows. If there are those Who question whether Mich- igan is the state of prosperous farming, let them take some cognizance of the statement just issued as of January first which‘shows that only Wis- consin and New York lead Michigan with her 49,340 silos. Nearly 10% of all the silos in the United States are within the State of Michi an. There is a spot 11 Michigan from which you can, by simply turning round the horizon, count eigh— term of these minarets’of prOsperity and no local- - ity which can boast of these heed fear for the future of its farmers nor the welfare of their children. I . More power to the silo, but let’s have still more of them! NEGLECTED HORSES NqEN who are in position to observe have re- J_ cently stated that farm horses are being neglected and are consequently neither so good nor so efficient as they used to be. The carless hired man is blamed for a part of this and the owner for tire rest. Since first hearing this statement we have made inquiries which seem to confirm it in th‘ee states at less . W'e appear to need a rekindling of the old—time pride in farm work horses. This is not sentiment, it is bus- iness, for the horses which the owner is proud are" the most efficient in doing his worlg, How can this interest be revived and maintained? One thing that might help is a class forfarm teams at local shows and fairs. Another is a parade of farm work horses in connection with picnics or local farm products shows or other events in which both country and town partici- pate. Thc horse is going to remain useful as farm powm: The better the horse the more ef- fective the ])OW(‘1‘, and we are all concerned in effective power regardless of its nature. EACH. TO HIS OW'N HE other day on the train we met a mechanic T who was going out to install seats in a school house. He said he owned a good farm in central Illinois a few years ago but it had lost him $27,000 beSides in speculating in wheat. “That deal put me into overalls” was the way be summed it up. He wishes that he had stayed in overalls on his own farm, attended to his business of production and left speculation to speculators. And he is not the only man who feels that way. acquired at great cost—but too late. .- THE MISBRANDING BILL N reporting the misbranding bill to the House I of Representatives the Committee on Inter— state and Foreign Commerce submitted a rather lengthy document giving reasons for re- porting it rather than any of the many bills for truth in fabrics or other commodities. We need not discuss these reasons; rather let us look at the misbranding bill itself. It prohibits the ship- ment in interstate and foreign commerce of any misbranded article. An article is misbranded if ‘ it or its container bears or is shipped, delivered for shipment, sold or offered for sale under any name, description or statement which misleads or deceives or is likely to mislead or deceive. The deception is made illegal if it relates'to the identity of the producer or the nature of his bus- iness; to the identity of the purchaser; to the endorsements of any person or any-employee of any government; to quantity or quality: to com— ponent materials; to rights of privileges under , patent or copyright; to advertise in any‘form. Deception in any of these things is mlsbranding and is illegal. Any ya , fabric or wearing ap- parel is, misbranded i it ( 1) bears the term “virgin wool”- ,and it contains any wool of the sheep or lambor hair of the Angora or Cach- mfi coat. “Eli. . 0200 ‘fin 3 the fiscal. year ' Some of our wisdom iS' as aw . u .. . condemns-editor dress it theprincipdf'cloth were as described. The careful reader" will din: ' cern .that this bill merely forbids a false brand on any commodity intsead of requiring a correct 1 I"? - ., l l brand as the several truth-in—tabrlcs mounts-1' do. I It goes about as far’ as we can expect now in I} such legislation, and perhaps we will not want— to go much farther later. A RENTER’S PBOBLEDI 0 RENTER. who has his own livestock and tools, has three “very steady, good boys" and two girls, the oldest boy nineteen. This rentermnts to own a small farm and his boys want to help himfihut they think they can help most by working at something else. ily council has decided to seek a farm near a town or city, so that the boys may drive to work and live at home while they are helping to pay for it. and where a truck or dairy farm near a town or city can be found. The plan is good. if it will work, and that can be determined in only one way, by experience. We do not know any town or city where there is always “plenty of war " , as the enquirer expresses it. Sometimes there is plenty of work and sometimes there isn‘t, but - with a farm in reserve the worker need not be idle even if"his pay check fails. Maybe some-7 body knows a. farm that would appeal to this family, which wants to stick together and pay for it. -_ A CHANCE TO LEARN IAST week William Goldman, a New York J manufacturer of clothing, repeated his state- ment that wool shortage is a myth, that the world has a two years supply, etc. Probably Mr. Goldman believes his statement and his sta- " tistics too, but apparently nobody else does. If he wants a demonstration let him offer a large The tam-r? We are asking whether the plan is sound‘ ‘ amount of wool for delivery next January at a l substantial reduction from the present price level. He will find plenty of takers, and later he will learn something more. HIGHER HCGS AST week’s hog markets indicated that the bulk of the crop has been cashed, this turn coming about a month later than was gen- erally expected. Hogs advanced touching $13 at Eastern points, but the advances did not bring out big supplies as heretofore. Predictions of $15 hogs for April are made, but that may depend on a factor that has retarded the progress of other things 1ately~—the attitude of consumers. They may “back up” on has pleats just as they have done on other meats when they considered prices too high. There is no other source of cheap meats, however, and the consumers must turn to something else rather than to some other meat. With dearer hog meats we should see a better demand for beef than in the recent past. MERE QU ESTIONS IF farming does not pay now and never has paid, as a. great manufacturer asserts, how did farmers ever accumulate the vast amount of wealth they now hold. Were these millions of good farms, with their stock and equipment, created out of losses? Were the millions in good and bad securities held by farmers paid for with deficits? If farmers can pile up such wealth. out of losses what could they do if agriculture could be made to pay? ’ \ A CORN-BELT QUESTION READER asks what we would do if we had to plan for years to come the operation of a corn-belt farm. Thefirst thing would be to determine the kinds of livestock to be kept or finished, for We assume that a corn-belt farm should be a livestock farm. Next would be to study the crops best adapted to the livestock to be kept or fed. In a crop program we would scheme to reduce the area of wheat and to in- crease the production of corn. For wheat may be produced economically in many lands and through many parallels of latitude while corn can be produced best and cheapest in the corn belt. How to raise more com on the same farm and maintain or improve the fertility of it is quite, a problem, but its solution-131mm while, mt’s, j . _ as for as we’ve got-~inlthlsfltnrm planning but, ‘ many corn-belt benefit. thattar', for they gm raisins unearth communal: wt the ‘ _ - Mayhe- everywhere. ' L r' -. '3‘ ‘V r" .- Learn ‘?I saw your with reference to ~ cattle swindler. I read it Friday, February 14, and Saturday morning ’ a: car stepped at my place at 8 o’clock and'a man» came in. As soon as I saw him the thought came to me ' that he answered a complete descrip- tion of the cattle buyer, even to the "gold tooth. size, etc. Then the ques- tion came, “Have yc. any cattle to sell?” I told him “no”, I then ask— ed him what kind (if-cattle he was buying. He told me anything and everything and made for his car. I Salted again to him, thinking i could detain him, and get some more information but as his car was run- ning he could not hear me and got in and drove north toward Alpena. I five 29 miles south of Alpena and 5 miles north at Lincoln on ll. 10.”— E. R. Barker, Lincoln, nich. N receipt of Mr. Barker’s let- ter we got in touch with James ‘ G.HayesoftheM.A.C.andhe is trying to locate this man. Every- one keep an “eye peeled" for a cattle buyer answering this description: six feet tall, medium build, weight about 17 $190, hair light brown, eyes blue. Gold teeth, believed to be eye teeth. Wears a watch charm of pearl fashioned as a cow’s head. Has or afiects a decided southern accent Has used the name 11. C. Helms, or L. E. Cox. Have him arrested and wire collect to the short! at Corunna or Grand Rapids, Mich, to the sherii! at Ha- ‘gerstown, Maryland, to the sheriff at Springfield, 111., to the chief of police at Waterloo, Iowa, or to J. G. Hays, Bast Musing, Mich. WANTS TO M “I have a sum of money I wish to put out to interest. somewhere I am sure of the interest and can redeem the principal if I want to. Will you recommend some good place?” HER!!an to your inquiry of February 24, my suggestion is that you get in touch with one of the good real estate bond houses in Detroit because this is about as safe a place as you can find for an investment of a small sum of money. I believe that most of them make a practice of making the principal available on short notice although this is not an obligation on their part and I do not know of anything. ex- cept a certificate of deposit which would exactly meet the terms of your request. FOX FABMIN G “I take your paper and have much confidence in you as the farmers’ friend so take the liberty to ask you what you think of fox farming. I am thinking of going into the business and would appreciate your advice.” United States Department of Agriculture and the various state colleges are divided in their opinion as to the practicability oi fur farming and its future. We know that there are hundreds ed! profitable ranches in Canada and a great number in the United States. The particular locality where you are situated is undoubtedly good for for ' raising and if the market maintains as it has started this may prove a profitable industry. As we under- stand it. up to’ the present time it is largely a matter 01' disposing of breedhig stock from one breeder to . another. In other words. the ani- fhomdthtc at. m Wt fi ummumermd .l wtil‘o “to” nurse.— our ammunition.“th Mae“ cum-lunch 3 i tarbachhumubbrapald-upul- mnmnmyzm m. 2.,—The lsuot mutation...“ wmdnbncbcdorh-weanuo- ghvwlflun our d done another. ,rtnetlheuttled Minnow-at will” We. Mil-Umbra. 7» them ,dmm male are worth‘a great deal more for breeding purposes than for pelts. 'We are certainly not in a position to advise you on going further into this business. Your own experiences and the experience of other breeders in Michigan must be your guide. VIGILANCE COMZM‘T’I‘EE SCORES 'FRAUDULENT CHICK REMEDIES OR the first time, the United States Post Office Department has issued a fraud order cover- L ing alleged cures for poultry dis- eases according to announcement by the National Vigilance Committee oi the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. The order was issued against the H. M. Spahr Breeding Estate 01? Thurmont and Spahr, Maryland, for representing its products as the most scientific drugless cure that has ever been discovered for the deadly roup, colds. canker, diptheria and chicken pox. GREAT LAKE’ FINANCE CORPORATION “Will you be kind enough to ad- vise us as to the stock of the Great Lakes Financial Corporation, Chica- go, Illinois?" ‘ WE understand there is a nominal q notation of Great Lakes Fi- nance Corporation stock of around 3 to 4. The market is weak and there is far more stock for sale than there are purchasers to buy it. Last year we understand that the stock sold up around 7 to 8 when they were helping to finance a sub- sidiary. This probably was a good deal manipulation and not a real market. The history of this concern is com- parable with most of the numerous finance companies that have sprung up around the country in the period just following the war when exhorbi- tant rates could be obtained for loan- ing money for yeculative purposes. Since this fever has subsided, and they must accept ordinary rates or jeopardize their investment, the im— aginary large profits have not been forthcoming. MAKING GLOVES . “What do you think of the com- pany sending the enclosed circulars? They advertise for people to sew gloves for them in their own home and say that they will purchase all a person can make." do not think well of such work-at-home schemes. There are several throughout the country who have a “Home Sewn” glove scheme and in all of the cases we have heard of the worker is oblig— ed to make an initial deposit of $5.00 to $10.00 with the understanding that she is to make gloves for the company, receiving a certain sum per dozen pairs for the sewing. Reports are that most of there companies do not buy the finished product back, claiming that they are not sewed pro- perly or using some other excuse. So the indications are that these fellows are out for the initial payment only. not expecting the worker to continue with them. The Post Oince Department has ar- rested the ofllcials of several of these companies charging them with using the mails to defraud. One of these companies is Kenneth Hackiey of Earl Park, Indiana, whose scheme seems to be identical with the one you sent in. , If you receive any more circulars from such companies. Just remember that the paper can be used for start- ing the tire. SILVERLEAFMININGCOMPANYV “What is there to the Silver Leaf Mining Company, Fort Steel, B. 0.? I would appreciate your advice." ' UR representative finds that the Silver Leaf Mining Company, ‘ Ltd" of Ontario which owns ’ some property he Cobalt and which was leased to the Grown—Reserve Mining Company is .inac, tive. The [case expired to 1.0.19 ,.aad. has not We The. is new reported inactive and the (“‘89 stock: f .mc . A ‘ ‘ r, ;- .i—i Firs-t'Mortgog-c Real Estate Gold Bonds“, ’ - Arnong farmers of stand- ing in their communities there is a very evident preference for the first mortgage real estate bonds recommended by this institution. Write for. Booklet A6137! Tax Free in Michigan Normal Income Tax Up to 4% Paid by Borrower 616% Federal Bond 89’ Mortgage Campaign FEDERAL BOND dc MORTGAGE BUILDING, DETROIT Better Cultivation in A Field and Orchard Try Its High Easy Lift Know for yourself how easy it is to raise the cutter bar on tthohn A Real Double Purpose Harrow. 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A TRUSS BE COMFOfiEAfiE— a th B pp nob. - mgr-n :g‘iflnltoifi‘gflznzgition Whig: have one this. The 1925 Isbell's Seed select seedshpvvto pre- pare eoil. gives c - rural directions. on We ten-gas- WOI‘ . ' m m If”; ' ’1 s IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII iii .8“ .leehlnlc It. item-grower prices on Quality 88! ex 5. M.- ISBELL a COMPANY them also. SSeed Annual ’ Send your 19: cum m ‘ Ettore Money from You can do .it with seeds that have Vitality and life—that are of high ger- mination and adapted to the soil. The work of preparing the land and plantin the same whether you use ordinary see pedi reed seed. But the crop tells the story: profitfoften double or triple—comes from using hardy, big-yielding, Michigan-grown, lsbell's seeds. 46 Years of Better Seeds For nearly a half century, Isbell’s gave been deivlelo - inc yiel vitality en or i- ness inpeeds. Cease! imentmg. careful select on, better wing.eortingendcleaningmetho 200.000 customers have ved this profit - building quality— they plant ell'e seeds year after year and net bumper crops. We grow our own seed— you buy direct from In. loving money end eliminating all risk of substitution. This Valuable Book- is or r. ’7? . é, i (Continued from February 28 Issue) . HERRILL opened the long envelope from which several thin, folded papers fell. He picked up the larg- est of these which consisted of several sheets fastened together with a. clip, and handed it to Alan without comment. Alan, as he looked at it turned the pages, saw that it contained two columns of type- writing carried from page to page after the manner of an account. The column to the left was an inventory of property and profits and income by months and years, and the one to the right was a list of losses and expenditures. Be- ginning at an indefinite day or month in the year 1895, there was set down in a ’lump sum what was indicated as the total of Benjamin Corvet’s holdings at the time. To this, in sometimes undated items, the increase had been _ added. In the opposite column, beginning ap- in 1895 were the missing. man’s expenditures. The painstaking exactness of these left no doubt of their correctness, they in- cluded items for natural depreciation of perishable properties and, evident- ly, had been worked over very recently. Upon the last sheet, the second column had been deducted from the first, and an apparently purely arbitrary sum of two hundred thousand dollars had been taken away. From the remainder there had been taken away approximately one hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars more. Alan having ascertained that the papers contained only this account, looked up questioningly to Sherrill; but Sherrill, without speaking, merely handed him the second of the papers. . . . Thisn Alan saw, had evidently been folded to fit a smaller envelope. Alan unfolded it and saw that it was a letter written in the same hand which had written the sum- mons he had received in Blue Rapids and had made the entries in the little memo- randum book of the remittances that had 'been sent to John Welton. It began simply: Lawrence— This will come to you in the event that I am not able to carry out the plan upon which I am now, at last determined. You will find with this a list of my posses- sions which, except for two hundred thou- sand dollars settled upon my wife which was hers absolutely to dispose of as she desired and a further sum of approxi— mately one hundred and fifty thousand dollars presented in memory of her to the Hospital Service in France, have been transferred to you without legal reserva- tion. You will find deeds for all real estate executed and complete except for record- ing of the transfer at the county office; bonds, certificates, and other documents representing my ownership of properties, together with signed forms for their legal transfer to you, are in this box. These properties, in their entirety, I give to you in trust to hold for the young man now known as Alan Conrad of Blue Rapids, Kansas, to deliver any part or all over to him or to continue to hold it all in trust for him as you' shall consider to be to his greatest advantage. This for the reasons which I shall have told to you or him—I cannot know which one of you now, nor do I know how I shall tell it. But when you learn, Law- rence, think as well of me as you can and help him to be charitable to me. With the greatest affection, Benjamin Corvet. Alan, as he finished reading, looked up to Mr. Sherrill, bewildered and dazed. “What does it mean, Mr. Sherrill?— Does it mean that he has gone away and left everything he had—everything to me?” “The properties listed here,” Sherrill touched the pages Alan had looked at, “are in the box at the vault with the executed forms of their transfer to me. If Mr. Corvet does not return, and I do not receive any other instructions, I shall take over his estate as he has instructed for your advantage.” “And, Mr. Sherrill, he didn’t tell you why?" This is all you know?” “Yes; you have everything now. The fact that he did not give his reasons for this, either to you or me, made me think at first that he might have made his plan known to ‘some one else, and that he had been opposed—to the extent even of violence done upon him—to prevent his carrying it out. But the more I have considered this, the less likely it has seemed to me. Whatever had happened to Corvet that had so much disturbed and excited him lately, seems rather to have precipitated his plan than deterred him in it. ’He may have determined after he had written this that his actions and the plain indication of his relation- ship to,you, gave all the explanation. he wanted to make. All we, can. do, Alan, ,is to search for him in every way we Cart. There will be others searching for him too now; for information oil—his dis»- appearance has got out. There have'been reporters at the office this In Ting molt. I murders-ment < v .t. v ~7n *1 nexpre 1‘» of thatman es bei I . V MscHarg andinwin Belmcr by Edwin Brine! unvelope. and ,the envelope back into the drawer, which he relocked. ‘ “I went over all this with Mr. Spearv man this morning," he said. “He is as much at a loss to explain it as I'am." He was silent for a. few moments. “The transfer of Mr. Corvet's properties to me for you," he said suddenly, “in- cludes, as you have seen, Corvet’s interest in the firm of ‘Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman.’ I went carefully through the deeds and transfers in the deposit box. and it was plain that, while he had taken great care vwith the forms of transfer for all properties, he had taken particular pains with whatever related to his hold- ings in this company and to his shipping interests. If I make over the properties to you, Alan, I shall begin with those; for it seems to me that your father was particularly anxious that you should take a personal as well as a financial place among the men who control the traffic of the lakes. I have told Spearman that this is my intention. He has not been able to see it my way as yet; but he may change his views, I think, after meeting you." Sherrill got up. Alan arose a. little un- steadily. The list of properties he had read and the letter and Sherrill's state- ment .portended so much that its mean- ing could not all come to him at once. He followed Sherrill through a short priv- ate corridor, flanked with files lettered “Corvet, Sherrill, and Spearman," into the large room he had seen when he came in with Constance. They crossed this, and Sherrill, without knocking, opened the door of the office market, Mr. Spear- man.” Alan, looking on past Sherrill as the door opened, saw that there were some half dozen men in the room, smok- ing and talking. They were big men mostly, ruddy-skinned and weather-beaten in look, and he judged from appearance, and from the pile of their hats and coats upon 'a. chair, that they were officers of the company's ships, i'dle while the ships were laid up, but reporting now at the offices and receiving instructions as the time for fitting out approached. His gaze went swiftly on past these men to the one who, half seated on the top of the flat desk, had been talking to them; heart with a shock; he started, choked with astonishment, then swiftly forced himself nder control. For this was the man wit whom he had fought in Ben— jamin Corvet's house the night before— the big man surprised in his blasphemy 0f Corvet and of souls “in Hell" who, at sight of an apparition with a bullet hole above its eye, had cried out in his fright. “You got Ben! But you won’t get me— damn you! Damn you!” Alan’s shoulders drew up slightly, and the muscles of his hands tightened, as Sherrill led him to this man. Sherrill put his hand on the man‘s shoulder; his other hand was still on Alan’s arm. “Henry,” he said to the man, “this is Alan Conrad. Alan,I want you to know my partner, Mr. Spearman.” Spearman nodded an acknowledgment, but did not put out his hand; his eyes—- steady, bold, watchful eyes—seemed mea5< uring Alan attentively; and in return Alan, with his gaze, was measuring him. CHAPTER VIII Dir. Corvet's Partner The instant of meeting, when Alan recognized in Sherrill’s partner the _man with whom he had fought in Corvet’s house, was one of swift readjustment of all his thought—adjustment to a situa- tion of which he could not even- have dreamed, and which left him breathless. But for Spearman, obviously, it was not that. Following his noncommital nod of acknowledgment of Sherrill’s introduction and his first steady scrutiny of Alan, the big, handsome man swung himself off from the desk on which he sat and leaned against it, facing them more directly. .“Oh, yes—Conrad,” he said. His tone was hearty; in it Alan could recognize only so much of reserve as might be ex- pected from Sherrill’s partner who had taken an attitude of opposition. The ship- masters, looking on, could see, no doubt. not even that; except from the excite- ment which Alan himself could not con- ceal, it must appear to them only an or- dinary introduction. Alan fought sharply down the swift rush of his blood and the tightening of his muscles. “1 can say truly that I’m glad to meet you, Mr. Spearman," he managed. There was no recognition of anything beyond the mere surface meaning of the words in Speanman’s slow smile of ac- knowledgment, as he turned from Alan to Sherrill. . "I’m afraid you've taken rather a bad time, Lawrence." " “You’re busy. you mean. This can wait. Henry, if what you’re doing is immediate." "I want some of these men to be back in .Mtchigan' tp-night. Can’t we get to- gether later—this afternoon? You’ll be here this afternoon?" His, manner- was not casualrzAlan could not think of any, and his pulse closed upon his mm). * mg l Hill Jwayaluable Bob/rs l,” ' Farm _ ' Account Beck/v. and . catalog of l l TRADE z": ‘, WIRE FENCES . BE sure to build the fences you need this spring. . Prices are the lowest in years, and will probably be higher later on. Good fences improve the appearance of your farm and increase your profits more than any other similar investment you can make. COLUMBIA FENCES are made from a special formula of steel which we have , developed. especially for fence manufacture. The wire is Super-ched with an extra heavy and well bonded armor of zinc which gives it the best rust protection of any fence on the market. The Super-Zinced covering Will not crack or peel, thus keeping rust away from all parts of the fence. All of our fences are Super-Zinced, and include both hinge-joint and stiff-stay fences for farm, poultry, garden and lawn. Fully guaranteed. Send for farmers’ account book and Super-Zinced fence catalogue, both mailed FREE. Use coupon or postal card. Pittsburgh Steel Co. 709 Union Trust Building Pittsburgh, Pa. ' ~< _..-A_.. ' COLUMBIA &'PlTTSBURGHPERFECTFE Sam I. s—l’alls 'l‘recee ' ' ' “,7; Buzzes ran cs , » °' D 33"me Mllllon Strawberr Plants - fax-r” — oes c or - . ' ""\ 2. 5 1000. R b . G . Bilbs. ", §‘} :23::%':: Floater l“Seeieds, Chicksnsplligdgiiizted 1.23::le 1free. i ' ' “:23 "E“th Mayer; Plant Nursery, Box 51, Men-Ill. Mich. One Man . j saws15CordsaDay! —Easy with the 0TT_AWA Log Saw! Wood selling for $3 a cord brings owner $46 a day. Use 4 H. P. Engi no for other work. Wheel mounted- easy to move. Saws faster than 10 men. Shwped from factory or nearest of 10 Branch houses. rite for FREE Book—‘ ‘Wood Encyclopediu"—today. OTTAWA MANUFACTURING co. "in. Wood Street Ottawa. Kenna. n ““4 Mason 8162.. Pittsburgh. Pa. o’ . You can do it with seeds Y shelter your e In win ' -- i with e- ifiifiue m 3 "iii1 Siaii‘é'fi-Emmim of evergreens In In, nurse-ruy y‘aggggsfgfi . you “ I012]? pdeenént-Th. trade I 8‘ p add have ever produced. Bi; Gluing FREE . Printed lnoolore tells all about wmd- / \ ‘hreatksl. Meg: bfiargaiwne in ey mi in: e . rite . “51.1mm: NURSERY Zions-«as Hemin- low. profit—often double or triple—co 46 Years ness in seeds. New Cut Price exam-ins than ever e- encinz. Gates Steel d Paint. Send today for “isms; ll: i’Jts’, Barb Wire, Booting an I PAY THE EREIGHT and guangtlee eaftiefectignicggmgagg {:1 actor-y - gala-Inglis; N2: Omit-$3.32? you. ’ rown once . mtfiasoz'menland, Ohio floor” WEAR 1 . A TRUSS BE COMFORTAfiE— e . mgrlfhdhéilltoiagshgggfiogmwhlgh have one this. ell'e seeds year after year and net The 1925 Isbell's Seed eelecteeedshpwtovre- pare eoil. gives c - tural directions. on We tan-.m- groworpri it. . , . 1“ .... .8“ .leehlnlc It. Rom-grower prices on Quality hardy, big-yielding, Michigan-grown, lebell'a seeds. Better Seeds For nearly a half century, Isbell’s have been develo - ing yield. vitality and her i- Ceeeeless ex r- imenting. careful select on. better wing.eortingandcleaningmetho 200.000 customers have ved this profit - building quality— they plant We w our own eeed— you buy direct from In. “Virgo money and eliminating all risk of substitution. This Valuable Book- s. M.- ISBELL a company 'l'eelteen.’ mes. Send your 1985M Annual on figure Money from . _ . that have Vitality and life—that are of high ger- mination and adapted to the coil. The work of preparing the land and plantin is the same whether you use ordinary see or pedi reed seed. But the crop tells the story: mes from using of bumper crops. ,parently from the same date new A . it... ; . N‘ , '- ; . ., 4 I g A -'-- i ., ’1) ii 7' l”. i (Continued from February 28 Issue) . HERRILL opened the long envelope from which several thin, folded papers fell. He picked up the larg- est of these which consisted of several sheets fastened together with a clip, and handed it to Alan without comment. Alan, as he looked at it turned the pages, saw that it contained two columns of type- writing carried from page to page after the manner of an account. The column to the left was an inventory of property and profits and income by months and years, and the one to the right was a list of losses and expenditures. Be- ginning at an indefinite day or month in the year 1895, there was set down in a ’lump sum what was indicated as the total of Benjamin Corvet’s holdings at the time. To this, in sometimes undated items, the increase had been _ added. In the opposite column, beginning ap- in 1895 were the missing. man’s expenditures. The painstaking exactness of these left no doubt of their correctness, they in- cluded items for natural depreciation of perishable properties and, evident- ly, had been worked over very recently. Upon the last sheet, the second column had been deducted from the first, and an apparently purely arbitrary sum of two hundred thousand dollars had been taken away. From the remainder there had been taken away approximately one hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars more. Alan having ascertained that the papers contained only this account, looked up questioningly to Sherrill; but Sherrill, without speaking, merely handed him the second of the papers. . . . This: Alan saw, had evidently been folded to fit a smaller envelope. Alan unfolded it and saw that it was a letter written in the same hand which had written the sum- mons he had received in Blue Rapids and had made the entries in the little memo- randum book of the remittances that had 'been sent to John Welton. It began simply: Lawrence— This will come to you in the event that I am not able to carry out the plan upon which I am now, at last determined. You will find with this a list of my posses- sions which, except for two hundred thou- sand dollars settled upon my wife which was hers absolutely to dispose of as she desired and a further sum of approxi— mately one hundred and fifty thousand dollars presented in memory of her to the Hospital Service in France, have been transferred to you without legal reserva- tion. You will find deeds for all real estate executed and complete except for record- ing of the transfer at the county office; bonds, certificates, and other documents representing my ownership of properties, together with signed forms for their legal transfer to you, are in this box. These properties, in their entirety, I give to you in trust to hold for the young man now known as Alan Conrad of Blue Rapids, Kansas, to deliver any part or all over to him or to continue to hold it all in trust for him as you' shall consider to be to his greatest advantage. This for the reasons which I shall have told to you or him—I cannot know which one of you now, nor do I know how I shall tell it. But when you learn, Law- rence, think as well of me as you can and help him to be charitable to me. With the greatest affection, Benjamin Corvet. Alan, as he finished reading, looked up to Mr. Sherrill, bewildered and dazed. “What does it mean, Mr. Sherrill?— Does it mean that he has gone away and left everything he had—everything to me?” “The properties listed here,” Sherrill touched the pages Alan had looked at, “are in the box at the vault with the executed forms of their transfer to me. If Mr. Corvet does not return, and I do not receive any other instructions, I shall take over his estate as he has instructed for your advantage.” “And, Mr. Sherrill, he didn’t tell you why?" This is all you know?” “Yes; you have everything now. The fact that he did not give his reasons for this, either to you or me, made me think at first that he might have made his plan known to ‘some one else, and that he had been opposed—to the extent even of violence done upon him—to prevent his carrying it out. But the more I have considered this, the less likely it has seemed to me. Whatever had happened to Corvet that had so much disturbed and excited him lately, seems rather to have precipitated his plan than deterred him in it. ’He may have determined after he had written this that his actions and the plain indication of his relation- ship to,you, gave all the explanation. he wanted to make. All we, can. do, Alan, ,is to search for him in every way we Cart. There will be others searching for him too now; for information oil—hie dis»- appearance has got out. There have'been reporters at. the office this In Ting melts I minimum-mm < .. gt. . '7‘ *1 I . . By'Wiiiliam Mad-lug arrdBdwin Balmcr Cumin“; by Edwin Rainer unvelope. and ,the‘ envelope back into the fdrawer, which he relocked. ‘ “I went over all this with Mr. Spearv man this morning," he said. “He is as much at a loss to explain it as I'am." He was silent for a. few moments. “The transfer of Mr. Corvet's properties to me for you," he said suddenly, “in- cludes, as you have seen, Corvet’s interest in the firm of ‘Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman.’ I went carefully through the deeds and transfers in the deposit box. and it was plain that, while he had taken great care vwith the forms of transfer for all properties, he had taken particular pains with whatever related to his hold- ings in this company and to his shipping interests. If I make over the properties to you, Alan, I shall begin with those; for it seems to me that your father was particularly anxious that you should take a personal as well as a financial place among the men who control the traffic of the lakes. I have told Spearman that this is my intention. He has not been able to see it my way as yet; but he may change his views, I think, after meeting you." Sherrill got up. Alan arose a. little un- steadily. The list of properties he had read and the letter and Sherrill's state- ment .portended so much that its mean- ing could not all come to him at once. He followed Sherrill through a short priv- ate corridor, flanked with files lettered “Corvet, Sherrill, and Spearman," into the large room he had seen when he came in with Constance. They crossed this, and Sherrill, without knocking, opened the door of the office market, Mr. Spear- man.” Alan, looking on past Sherrill as the door opened, saw that there were some half dozen men in the room, smok- ing and talking. They were big men mostly, ruddy-skinned and weather-beaten in look, and he judged from appearance, and from the pile of their hats and coats upon 'a. chair, that they were officers of the company's ships, i'dle while the ships were laid up, but reporting now at the offices and receiving instructions as the time for fitting out approached. His gaze went swiftly on past these men to the one who, half seated on the top of the flat desk, had been talking to them; heart with a shock; with astonishment, he started, choked then swiftly forced himself nder control. For this was the man wit whom he had fought in Ben— jamin Corvet's house the night before— the big man surprised in his blasphemy 0f Corvet and of souls “in Hell" who, at sight of an apparition with a bullet hole above its eye, had cried out in his fright. “You got Ben! But you won’t get me— damn you! Damn you!” Alan’s shoulders drew up slightly, and the muscles of his hands tightened, as Sherrill led him to this man. Sherrill put his hand on the man‘s shoulder; his other hand was still on Alan’s arm. “Henry,” he said to the man, “this is Alan Conrad. Alan,I want you to know my partner, Mr. Spearman.” Spearman nodded an acknowledgment, but did not put out his hand; his eyes—- steady, bold, watchful eyes—seemed meaS< uring Alan attentively; and in return Alan, with his gaze, was measuring him. CHAPTER VIII Dir. Corvet's Partner The instant of meeting, when Alan recognized in Sherrill’s partner the _man with whom he had fought in Corvet’s house, was one of swift readjustment of all his thought—adjustment to a situa- tion of which he could not even- have dreamed, and which left him breathless. But for Spearman, obviously, it was not that. Following his noncommital nod of acknowledgment of Sherrill’s introduction and his first steady scrutiny of Alan, the big, handsome man swung himself off from the desk on which he sat and leaned against it, facing them more directly. .“Oh, yes—Conrad,” he said. His tone was hearty; in it Alan could recognize only so much of reserve as might be ex- pected from Sherrill’s partner who had taken an attitude of opposition. The ship- masters, looking on, could see, no doubt. not even that; except from the excite- ment which Alan himself could not con- ceal, it must appear to them only an or- dinary introduction. Alan fought sharply down the swift rush of his blood and the tightening of his muscles. “1 can say truly that I’m glad to meet you, Mr. Spearman," he managed. There was no recognition of anything beyond the mere surface meaning of the words in Spearman’s slow smile of ac- knowledgment, as he turned from Alan to Sherrill. . "I’m afraid you've taken rather a bad time, Lawrence." " “You’re busy. you mean. This can wait. Henry, if what you’re doing is immediate." "I want some of these men to be back in .Michigan' tp-night. Can’t we get to- gether later—this afternoon? You’ll be here this afternoon?" His, manner- was not casualmAlan could not think of any, ~54 ‘of that men es be! casual: and his pulse closed upon his Indlan rum ‘1. ‘1‘ «now keen-tinged Page 6) explained how it was diflerent. \ghowed ufs pictures and read about the patent Mr. Rowell had. "Now, friends, I am not a sales- man, but I believe I have shown you something of real value. Mr. Rowell has organized a cempany' to make these engines and tests are being made at two big engineering colleges. Here are letters showing these tests are being run,”*and he passed them over to me. , “I am not a salesman”, continued Dike, f‘wha-t I want to do is to give you an opportunity to get in on some- thing that is bound to be worth while in a short time. I do not know what Mr. Rowell- has left in the line of in— terests, but through your own boy. .Mr. Kelley, you will be given a chance ' to invest if you care to. Now all I want is the names of those inter— ested.” 1 Well, every one signed up. We all leoked at the'letters, the pictures, and the model engine, ate some good sandwiches, which I found out Dike had paid for, and went home en— thused. Here was a fellow who did- n’t want :money on the spot. He was willing to give us a chance to inves— tigate, so we didn’t. Then I heard one day that Kelley had bought two shares. They were $300 each. Kelley wouldn’t sell any, but he told us Where we could send for them. So I just decided here was a real thing, ands-o long as Maria had been so sure the last investment was a good one, I decided it was a good chance to get even and she would be proud when she learned how lucky I had been. I made my check to Kelley, who sent it on. Hank Peters, after asking me a lot of questions, did the same. In fact. fourteen of us, we found out after- wards, took interests. Of course 'we received shares and a personal letter from' Mr. Rowell thanking us. Maria got the mail the day it came, but to my surprise, didn’t have much to say. “That much is worth experiment— ing with,” she grunts. “You get that much fun dreaming over the fortune you are going to get." “I didn’t quite understand that part but didn’t talk about it as she was liable to change her tack most anytime. From then on Kelley’s oil station replaced the post office as a loafing place. Kelley had secured a set of pictures like those Dike had and he got letters from Dike which he let us read. They sure was optimistic. One day Kelley got a letter from the Secretary of the company. A test had been made in the east and a newspaper had written it up. The clippings were enclosed. Say, we pretty near wore out those papers reading about it. At the end of the letter it was reported that most of the shares were gone and it was ex— pected that a raise was due any time. The most of us who could had Kel— ley send for more shares. I took two more. Then the storm broke. Our local paper ran an article saying Rowell was a faker and that the company was in trouble for not complying with a Blue «Sky Law in Wisconsin. Considerable stock, the reports said, just had been sold locally and it was rumored an investigation was on. . Instead of the Agricultural Society meeting which was scheduled that night, most of us met at Kelley’s. Kelley was game though. He came out and offered to buy back any shares any one wanted to sell at the price they paid. No one sold either. gut we did go and bawl out the ed- 1 or. Well, the town was pretty hot for a couple of weeks. Kelley was mad, so was the editor, and then one day when the Sun, our paper, come out, here was the worst blow. “Local Folks Trimmed” was the heading. Maria was reading the pa- per. “Well, William, I see you have been stung again. Your $10 has given you a lot of fun, but this paper says there is nothing to it and that the company is “,merely a paper can- _ cernf'an‘d has been for seven years. If they have ,built‘ an engine, no one knows abo‘ut‘l ” W , I’V'Was: tient-as a grave. I Fa ales YEARS -I] EP EN DAB LE Exceptional dependability has been a char— acteristic of Dodge Brothers Motor Car- since the day the first of these sturdy cars was marketed. ’ Not once in a decade has it failed to uphold and enhance its reputation for faithful per- formance. The reason for its consistent goodness and continued betterment points directly back to the ideals of the founders. Instead of fluctuating between an endless series of annual models, they determined to concentrate on the perfection of a single chassis. Dodge Brothers Motor Car today is the embodiment of that ideal—an ideal that will endure as long as the institution itself. DODEE— BROTHERS DETROIT DODGE BROTHERS (CANADA) LIMITED WALKERVILLE-y ONTARIO e // .\\ ; BOLEH and effort. Attachments for dif- ferent jobs are instantly inter- changeable. Many indispensable, exclusive features such as the patented arched axle, tool con- trol. instant hitChes. etc. A boy or girl will run it with delight. Garden Tractor Does Seeding. Cultivatingand Lawn Mow— -‘ ing with greater saving of time ‘ also» ms nu _ 418mm Si. PORT wnsnmswfl.‘ ms. . DAHLIAS, 15 FOR $1; 10 IRIS, MIXED $1; 7'3- Gladioli, blooming size, $1; Hardy plants equally low prices, prepaid. Circular free. L. L. MILARcH, Copemlsh, Michigan. Time Tested Windmill The Auto-Oiled Aermotor has behind it a record of 10 years“ of successful Operation. In all climates-and under the severest con ‘ ditions it has proven itself to be a real self-oiling windmill and a most reliable pumping machine An Auto-Oiled Aermotor, when once properly erected, needs no further attention except the annual oiling There are no bolts or nuts to work loose and no delicate Choice Strawberry Plants 33-13%.) All standard v:r‘etie.'. Gus t MRS. FlLENAlevoaLF, Dem? Sidniiginfhfii parts to get out of order. --. 00D nous ” \PERANENCE HOOSIER GLAZED TILE SILOS are best thog last. A am e of glazed tll forced every course of blocks with galvanized steel cable. doors set flush There are no untried features in the Auto-0n ’ Aermotor. The gears run in oil in the oil-tight, : o » - proof gear case just astheydid 10 years ago. Samar u = a " “ . mentshavebeenmade,asexperiencehasshownthe - o- 1: ity of .improvemeng‘but the original simplicity of design ' . been retained whilegreater perfection of operationhal achieved. fl‘he Aermotor is Wonderfully eflicient in winds, which are the prevailing ones. The self-oiled motor 3 k with practically no friction, and the wind-wheel of the ' i ‘ g is made to run in the lightest breeze. It is also amply run safely in the stron est mode. In. any condition of wind or Weather you ‘ sure that the A , nod will give you the best of service. ..hy-the company Whit-3h Gstablished the business " v first. because " hollow wa‘ll’ e reen- een .‘a Sugar Farming on New'York Central Lines HE American people are the greatest consumers of “Sweets” in the world. Our sugar consumption in 1923 exceeded 5,000,000 tons, of which American farmers pro- duced 1,250,000 tons. A great sugar beet industry was started in 1897 in . Michigan and Ohio, along the New York Central Lines. To- - day seventeen factories employing more than five thou- sand men are refining the 1,400,000 tons of beets produced annually by 20,000 farmers in these states. There is large opportunity for greater and more profit- able development of this industry. Beet sugar production fits so well into any farm program that both the fertility of the farm and the prosperity of the farmer are benefited. More farmers, each year, are realizing the many advan- .. tages accruing from the cultivation of a portion of their acre- ‘75' . age in sugar beets, as part of their crop rotation program. New York Central Lines not only provide large numbers of gondola and box cars, and special switching and freight movements for both beets and sugar, but also have a corps of trained agricultural men assisting farm- ers with production problems. «cw mm. CENTRAL LINES .__. 7L ,4 La Salle St. Station, Chicago, Ill. 466 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. "NEW YORK CENTRAL '11an g. LBOSTON GALBANY-MICHIGAN CENTRAL-BIG roun~rlrrsnuuou emulation . ‘ AND THE NEW YORK CENTRAL AND sussmmnr LINES. Agricultural Relations Department Ofl‘ices New York Central Station, Rochester, N. Y. Michigan Central Station, Detroit, Mich. 68 East Gay St., Columbus, Ohio. M. I l. 3 w. “'0 .y. . . nu you to pay. 0 DAY. TRIAL , ltlenotdteclosestakimmer,uriut ‘ ,. "turn and clean. Ind but guaranteed ' » .. cater for the least money. re- gion! expense and every cent re- ed y refunded. Allowance , .. mower-standout mobs. e . mu ORA-Alon co. let an lama-Mn. u. r. \ 3;? .' .’177//////‘///.////////////////////////////////I ' 1 -,g’.,//,7//,V,i//r’//X/. VIAr'7//7////////7.r’/7//7/7////// Hotel Tuller DETROIT IBOOHRoome - 800 Bathe $2.50 per Day and up ‘_I . a... btfiicGrill Gum hi This Absolutely Guaranteed {new Haruess 1‘22:- $ 5 9%: .‘f zg 77”” a: “%’q‘!\3\‘u€ collar ’3 A f 5“ '. l K , J $ down _ f > . > w , a . ». . east/payment; 971 e ofbest‘ 00k annedLeafheanss Rimmed At your dealer’s todaymvou can carefully examine it be- ‘A tore buving~also other styles-no height or express to pay.) Ask the thousands of farmers who have been using fiver-wear harness for years. They know because of its 'high quality that it pays to buy the Everwear brand,“ REMEMBER. you are trading with your local reopen-3 “bk borne. dealer who as our agent guarantees and atomic back of Everwur harness. MciernesunnALL co. Green Bay. we. mm (Jr's (W) anthem m Tomrg . . m unit“. , _ Its one r to I am mama Mend am new “The .. .3» h .m __ ’ m cnoss-woru) PUZZLES Cross-word puzzles came in style Only a short while ago But everybody’s working them Any place we go. ~V Some folks sit up till three o’clock Lost in the cross-words gnarls, It‘s nearly dawn, before you’ll hear Their steps upon the stairs. What’s another word for mother And another word for go I’ve racked my brain with this one. And yet I do not know. Cross-word puzzles we are told Help to elevate the mind They haven’t helped ours any As far as we can find. » But of one thing we're quite certain We’ll tell it here to you Everyone it’s safe to say Has got the cross-word puzzle blues. -—By Lillian Kent, Omer, Mich. EAR girls and boys: The motto colors and pin contest closed so many good letters that I have been unable to complete the judging at this time. It looks like I am g0- ing to have to ask your help. If 1 do find I need your help‘I Will tell you about it in our next issue, but in the meantime—let’s have another contest and earn some money. As our “read the advertisements” contests were so popular last fall I think We will have another one. I will ask you an even dozen ques- tions and you must read the adver- tisements in this issue to learn the answers, and to the one sending in ,the correct answers to the first eleven questions and giving the best an- swer to question number 12 I will give $3; to the one winning second prize I will pay $1, and the same amount to the one winning third award. Here are the questions: l—What company makes fence and puts a red sign on each roll? 2 -—What firm was established in 1872? 3 -—What is it that contains 35,- 000 bargains? 4—What company uses the BIO- gan “Fertilizer Leaders of Amer- ica”? 5—Who will send you free the book “7 Lessons in Judging Seed"? 6—What company is celebrating its 30th anniversary? 7 —— How long has Dodge Brothers built motor cars? 8——-What company is “Spreader Specialists for Twenty-Five Years”? 9—Who will send you a booklet “Better Potatoes" if you write to them? Ill—What is it that a certain companywill send to you for 25c? What is the name of the company? 11 ——-What company is it that manufactures a product of which the sales are 21/2 times those of any other brand? 12—What advertisement in this issue do you like best and why? (Do not use over 50 words to answer this question. More than that number will count against you so be care- ful.) In answering these questions write on only one side of the paper and be sure to sign your name and‘address at the top of each page. Also some place in your letter state your age. The contest closes March 24th so you will have to mail your letter not later than Monday morning, March 23rd, but it would be better to send it in earlier if you can, and I am sure You cam—UNCLE NED. OUR BOYS AND GIRIE Dear Uncle Ned:~—I have never writ~ ten to you before but I have decided to do so now. My father takes the M. 1". F. and I like it best of all the magazines we take. I always read the Children's Hour but have never written before. I guess I am too bashful. I wish some of the boys and girls would write to me and if they do I shall be pleased to answer them back. Well, you will be wanting to know ’what I look like. I have long brown curly hair. brown eyes and freckles as countless as the stars. Sometimes (when my hair pulls) I say I will have it bob-r bed and then when I get in good humor I can’t part with it. I am five test tall and‘my'birthdw la the third day aim February 28th and there were . Mum‘wmmsnw ’ least and now we are living on a little farm out at Nortlr Street. I have a cat and a cow. My cat’s name is Snowball. because she is as white as snow. My cow’s name is Marie. . ’ ‘ I think it is a. splendid idea to have a. club. I would like our pins to have on '- them “Bound to Win" and our colors Blue and Gold. 'I think the j‘Ch-ildren‘s Hour is a. good name for our club when , it is for the children. I think a. good motto is “Be Just to All”. I will be glodwhen summer comes for ; I have a friend who lives up to the benign . y , and I go to visit her every gunmen letter is getting rather long. so I Will close with love to all the boys and girls of the Children’s Hour. Your want-to- be nieee.——Jooephine M. Cowles.’ North Street, Michigan. Dear Uncle Nedz—We have taken the M. B. F. only a. short time-but I am very interested in it. and look forward until the next» issue comes. I think the Chit. dren's Hour is a. very interesting page. V This is the first time I have written and I would be glad to hear. from some of my cousins. I will be glad to answer them promptly. " I suppose I should describe myself a little. I am fourteen years old and in the eighth grade. I have dark hair and eyes and a dork complexionw —-Joe W. W'ilson, Mason Michigan. Dear Uncle Ned:——As I have never written to you since I became a. reader of your page over three years ago. but .' have became a reader again about three months ago. I am sixteen years of age. My name is Wm. M. Maine. I think the following words would be good for our motto. “'Work More Wish Less: I think the name—Willing Workers, or Helping Hand. .Wm. M. Maine, (age 1!). Vernon, Michigan. Dear Uncle Ned:-—~So many of the cousins are entering the contest. on I thought I wouldn’t be one of those not. to enter. I think it is loads of fun to boin contests. I have entered a. few contests before but I never won. But the motto is "if you don’t succeed the first time, try, try again," isn’t it Uncle? You ask if we want motto and colors. I am sure I do anyway. I agree with you Uncle Ned to have our club called the Children’s Hour. 1 am sure it ,would be a. good name. Well for the motto which I think is satisfactory is “Be merry and gay and your work will grow lighter every day." Colors——brown and white. A picture of Uncle Ned is what I sug- gest to be on the pin. I agree with Best nald Hodges to scramble. I think it would be so much fun. I like to work on the cross-word puzzles, they make you thing so hard. Well I have no more to write. Hoping I will not’bo disappointed, I arm—Anna. Stimac, Box 101, Engadine, Mich. Dear Uncle Ned:—-I would like to join your Merry Circle but I just can’t seem to get the answers to the puzzles in time. , I thought I would write any way but suppose the waste basket is waiting for this letter. Well, I never described my- self. I am seventeen years old, have an- burn hair and hazel eyes. I am five feet eight inches; some height you’ll say but it comes in handy sometimes. I weigh 128 pounds. I am sending some verses. suppose the waste basket will see them too. Your would-be-niece,———Violet Heilig. Curtisville, Mich, Box 5 TWIN TQIANG MYSTYEQ' Tm FIVE \. , MATCHES ,. AND FORM TWO ,. gamma or EQUAL sczr. DO nor oven» non seem THE {E MATCHES l have a. correspondence. meow”. “wa M-»-W\~_fi» all low hen wor glor saw can‘ Cou era] mos thaw wht size it’s rem Smi sun awe age wet ord4 ask ting ] to wait, stul me she pan 019.1 ms wot did] and age than wro ing use .at par one stayed for lunch. No one want- . .--..r N"“‘-‘ifléfl’x:fi" “ ' . n . Jam-rm. “~14... ur. w-.._, W. W,» - ~ . 70th since the founding of the school . , £1141. , hill; a here an. rightist-grim [was what the share was Worth. $10 each, but I' had paid ' $800» and was. out about ”30 even it the shares were salable TheOAgricultural Society met next night. It was a wild session. No at it. But I got even, you bet. A few days later a fellow camealong when I was away from home and told. Maria he was a government inspec- tor and that he was checking up on all poultry to see it they were dis- ease free. So Maria and Mrs. Smith let him look at the flock and he said it would be necessary to treat them. He had the remedy and it was $6 a box. He claimed’ he had to white- wash poultry houses, too, and as he started to work right. away the we- men let him go ahead, and Maria paid him the $3 when he finished. But she didn’t buy any remedy. .He was to come back the next day, as Maria explained she didn’t have the money. When I got home and she told me'about it, I was all suspicion. I called up the iCounty Agent and he told me right away it was a take. Next morning he called up again and said he had a telegram from Wash- ington to arrest the fellow. So I got Hank Peters to issue the proper papers and as the County Agent was a deputy sheriff he came out and when our man arrived, we pinched him in a hurry. Claimed he was an Omaha man, but before we let him out of the county jail he paid back all the folks their money and I al- loWed him 500 for whitewashing the hen house. For once Maria and me worked together and took a lot of glory in hearing people tell how we saved the folks their money. One thing about Maria, she just can't let an agent pass without biting. Course I get hooked a lot but I gen— erally know it in time and besides, most of my investments are the kind that pay out, that is ’cept the one where I bought the nitrates. I can size up a situation and tell at once if it’s wrong. Take the time the hog remedy agent was trying to sell the Smith boys 9. lot of stuff that was a sure cure for cholera. I knew right away it was a fake and when the agent says, “Boys, try this on me and it it don't work, no pay",_ I was watching and when he hauls out an order blank and wants them to sign. I asks .0 read it and finds he was get- ting them to sign a Check. Say, what i told that fellow was a plenty. Why way back in 1906 I bought me some stuff and it never worked and it cost me $39.50, besides three "of my best shotes. Took it up with the com- pany but they wouldn’t do a thing. Claimed the best agent they had sold me that and he never told a lie. I wouldn't pay and blamed if they didn’t go and get a judgment on me and’l had to pay. I have yet to see a hog remedy agent that’s square or a company that backs up and says the agent’s wrong. They just want the cash; I know. (Continued in March 28 Issue) M. A. C. To CELEBRATE 70TH BIRTHDAY ' LANS for a series of anniversary conferences, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the found- ing of the Michigan Agricultural Col- lege, the oldest land grant school in the country, have been approved by the state board of agriculture. The conferences are to be held starting May 13. They will deal with engineering education, includ- ing the relation of the school to the state’s industries, the education of farm women with special reference to the problems of farm women, and rural community organizations. A series of alumni conferences are also planned for the same dates. In addition to this year being the it marks the 40th anniversary of the engineering department, the 30th on the home economics department and the system of .Farmers’ institutes and the tenth of the present scheme" » of agricultural extension“ work.—+ . vl. .‘o ,_..,._.._ ___.._ WNWW~_. Fig“. . . , \\ ’ * all“: .li‘x'} _. . LL men who have made good money at farming have been very careful to keep their soil fertile and rich. There are poor years. and good years in farming but the man who puts manure on‘his fields in the right way will reap real profits. The McCormick-Deering Manure Spreader is one of the most valuable machines on the farm. It increases yields, pays for itself in a hurry and goes on building bank accounts. It spreads smoothly and evenly, putting on just as light or as heavy a coat as you want. The pitchfork method of spreading cannot equal the yields that follow the McCormick-Deering. That has been proved many times. Besides hand spreading is hard work; the McCormick-Deering saves many hours of time and much hard labor. Its good strong beaters tear the manure rapidly and spread it. well beyond the Wheels. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY E, 606 So. Michigan Ave. ((333335; Chicago, Ill. “”EQUIPMENTMAKEH cogs FAME. Ems Put Richnes's Back in the Soil! McCormick-Deering Spreaders Note These McCorm ickv Deering -a i.m-e. ‘ . . .. +fiag.mi. W p—l . Auto Steer. 2. Front Wheels Track with Rear. . Two All-Steel Beaters. . Wide-Spread Spiral. . Narrow Tread. . Self-Aligning Bearings. .- ‘u:.:¢.u.::r~1ee~e~s "=!'.‘.‘r"l‘ «answer .. . Steel Main Frame. . Six Feed Speeds. . Positive Apron Drive. O as \l 0‘ U! 45 OJ newcomer *‘ . .1111; ~‘ _ Built in two sizes to {it small or large farms. See the spreader and its practical features at the store ‘of your McCor- mick-Deering dealer. ”—1“: I _;‘;'u'.'a 1,. ’ wwmfiw 5.1, I" ’- SAVE‘L at . 4; SALE “ulna” 'fl Elam w ‘ oaks X mumYIntho - y ‘8 . __. . '— .."*9. and Tractor Busmess .,_ m..- me e great shops of Mes-wee ,. . m1 . \ 8:33!th too‘l'qf dfllars. have been 31993:, Izhtcl'li: “ ‘ e7lwnocheflerAvm ;.- week th .an Equ1pment_ Stay only eight . -- “ Kalamazoo. Mich. ‘ ’" s, on stepou 133 an expert_ My train. . ,_ .fl ., . 008th]. I.“ 300k. "a '". in mode Louis Beimer a F 0524. 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Girl." dress of striped cotton suit- ; ing‘ combined with plain suiting and percaie Bias Tape. summer dresses, sports clothes, lin— .gerie and utility articles made with warms up plums Percale and lawn tapes in white, black and colors for tub dresses, fine . ' taffeta silks to use on silk and wool materials and for millinery. Prettier clothes in less time and with less expense. Send 10 cents in stamps to cover cost of mailing. for new book'and 3—yard sample of tape in fast color percale in any one of the following colors: Lavender. Pink. Light Blue. Alice Blue. Red. Brown, ‘ Na . Reseda Green. Gray. Old Rose. Bla‘élt. Yellow. Linen Color, Orange. , Wm. E. WRIGHT 81. SONS Manufacturers m _ Dept. 455 Orange, N. J Quickly clean! Safely clean! Thoroughly clean! That’s the short story of washday when you have the extra help of FelsaNaptha Soap! Not only soap-but soap and naptha ' For Ills of All the Family VICKS is good for all cold troubles --cornm0n eolds, sore throat, bronchitis, catari‘h, croup, tonsrhtis and grip. These are all inflammanons of the nose, throat or lungs. The ingredients— clamphor, menthol, eucalyptus, turpentine, jumper tar, cedar leaf, etc.-—make Vicks equally efl'ective for inflammation of the skin such as cuts, burns, sores, bruises and skin itchings. An ideal household remedy —- useful alm'ost every day. Write to Vick Chemical Co., Box 274 Greensboro, N. 0., (one test sample. a ‘ ICKS VAPORUB ‘ [ an: I’MILUOMJW Viagsg—ouuuv ' unwise-m .- «so 000 :’ Gibson strawberry . . Blah Baa 'ber y 12.00. 1' 'etflezlaflfiiwberry £15.,qo,pper ’10 o. 'A ‘ a ' glint-.0 for prices. - 4 ‘ ‘ fill-FY37 lnmr: ,« ‘. 4 $4.00 'per 1000:? EAR FOLKS: be popular. such as henna, royal blue, sea blue, etc., Brown is smart with honey color, rus- set, apricot and tem-cotta. . comment for the Women Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR It'has been a long time since I have said anything about styles in my letter but as spring will soon be here and many of us are thinking about some new clothes this year I think now 'is a good time to tell you about the materials and colors that are to The most popular costume for the coming spring is the ensemble. The smartest wool materials for this. Costume are kasha, corded wools, wool cashmere, l broa’dclrith, wool rep, soft tfwills, bordered materials; and the new silks of the ribbed varieties, satin, heavy silk crepe and crepe satin, novelty satin crepe and novelty faile. ‘ A The smartest colors are the various shades of beige from the pale shade of natural kasha. to the creamy tans, the lighter browns, black, dark blue, gray-blue, :a-lntond-green and gray. green, shades of brick, henna‘and cranberry are also used. bining colors it is smart to use two shades of the same color — dark blue and a lighter blue, beige and brown, etc., or to use the two sides of crepe satin. Almond-green is combined with gray or cream or beige, while blue and black can be used with almost any of the new shades, Address letters: Mrs. Annie Taylor. can The Business Farmer, Mt. clement. Michigan. all ' 1 The darker shutter In com- VVHEN'GRANDMA SETS THE PANCAKES By Anne Campbell When supper was all over, ‘ And we’d swept the crumbs away. We had a. game of Pedro, Or the organ we would play. \Ve knew when it was bedtime, Though the word was ,never said! V‘an Grandma set the pancakes, It was time to go to bed! \Ve laid, if we were sewing, All our goods and thread aside. it was no use to argue. \Ve both knew it 'cause we‘d tried. The day was nearly over, - And the happy evening fled. \Vhen Grandma set the pancakes, It was time to go to bed! \Ve heard her as we whispered While undreSSing in the gloom. The sound of stirring batter Drifted upward to our room. \Ve visualized the picture As we (lofted our flannels red. When Grandma set the pancakes, It was time to go to bed! We saw her worn hands busy In the humble room downstairs, And scarcely paid attention When our mother heard our prayers. That breakfast in the morning On the crimson cover spread! \Vhen Grandma set the pancakes, It was time to go to bed! (Copyright, 1925.) “ , TRAINING CHILDREN FOR .HOME LIFE ' F boys as well as girls are to be I good homemakers they should see home life at its best. Added to their environment, the mother’s training should give them an under— standing of the conditions and prin- ciples which govern the life of the family. In school and home there should be taught, both by precept and practice, the best in the choice, preparation, and use of foods and textiles, the selection and care of shelter, and details of the processes involved in practical housewifery. These four subjects make for the full development of the physical life of the family, and boys as well as girls should have some {understanding of most of the principles involved. The ethics of personal, and family rela- tionships, the details of public ques- tions and their discussion, personal ideals, and spiritual values, should all be given sympathetic attention at home. Application should be made of the knowledge of these sub- jects gained in School to the prob- lems of home life, as far as possible. Incidentally, the training of the chil- dren may help broaden the intellec— tual interests of the parents and the whole home. DRY CLEANING CURTAINS IS BETTER THAN \VASHING “ HERE are very few curtains that . will not lock,- better dry..cleaned ' than vwashe'd,“ says Susan Z. Wilder, home economics. extension specialist at Southri'ak'o’ta. State ’00]- . loge. . ,1! . youai‘e, ing'do'ubt as to the outcome in washing curtains,=aiways dry clean them. » ’ ’ ~last method " “Washing curtains in.‘wate‘r‘.is,th'e_ ,E '1’. hair} 6' " “ta?! which can never be brought back, and pull the curtains out of shape so that they will not hang well. Any housewife can dry clean her own cur— tains but to getrtne best results it is necessary to observe the following simple rules: Buy a high test gasoline. Always use gasoline outdoors. Work in the shade. Do not rub the material too vigor- ously in the hands. Never use a board. Never heat gasoline on the stove. It may explode. Heat water hot, not b0111ng‘, and carry it outside the house. Remove the top from the gasoline can and set the can into the water to heat. Do not press the curtains after they are cleaned in gasoline until thoroughly dry. ' Following is the procedure recom- mended in dry cleaning curtains, brush them well or hang them in the wind so that all loose dirt is remov— ed. Soak them in the gasoline a. half hour. Stir them about and squeeze the gasoline through them but do not rub. Wring the curtains dry and hang them in the sun. Leave them outdoors from three to twelve hours so that they will dry thoroughly and lose most of the gas- oline odor. If possible, leave the curtains out over night then bring them in, dampen and press with a hot iron. There are special soaps on the market to use with gasoline for cleaning purposes, according to Miss Wilder. It is not necessary to buy the soap unless the curtains are very badly soiled. Even then it is not necessary because the curtains may be washed in one pan of gasoline and rinsed in a second. The gas removes all grease and the dirt will drop out. Any spot that remains after clean— ‘mg with gasoline is probably some substance that will not dissolve in gasoline. A careful sponging in clear soft water with a cloth of similar color will clean up everything. ma JOY OF CANNED FRUIT» THE pantry shelf and itssu-pply; '- of home canned fruits and veg— etables help wonderfully in pro- viding three. well planned meals a day. Winter’s high costs make the cherished delicacies seem extrava- gant, but here is where the provident housewife has the advantage. -A. great many deserts may be made from the supplies of fruit on the pan- try shelVes. Common dessert that have been served year in and year out may become more attractive and appealing when made with canned fruit than with fresh. Canned 'pea‘ch— | es are splendid for Shortcake and a pie made from this kind of fruit is - delectable. to tapiocasvpudding or gelatine des- ;serts lend (finish to dwell-balanced ‘me'al; .,,Can‘ne‘d‘truit may .be used suc-‘ icessfu‘lly asla‘lfl'avor for winter ices! or as a fruit in the favorite ice, ’ Canned; ' vegetables inlay . be :1 39.913119; ’_ ‘i‘ '32 ’ cream. ' _ combined or, used in many ca pry Raspberries made in-2 ested in our page. I have never written before and would like to ask a few ques- tions and give a. few hints all of which I hope may be helpful to all readers. I Does anyone know what to do with “paper white narcisus bulbs after they are through blooming the first time ,so as to get more flowers from them? .I have tried different ways and have had .no suc- ' cess. . . , . . . _ , . Does anyone know if potatoes are a. good green food for hens and‘if so which way is the better to feedr’them, rawjor cooked? How many should 'one feed a ‘ flock of 100 hens per day? Are they in-. jurious to the hen’s health? Now for my helpful hints. Use a. square or oblong square-cornered cookie cutter to cut out cookies. Time is saved in the cutting and the baking as the corners fit in {cgether and more can be cut and baked at one time. I also have a. large tin that nearly fits 'the oven. Here is a ‘new way to use up old shirt bodies. When the sleeves wear out I use the old shirt bodies to make new sleeves. Stitch a straight piece in' the underarm seam to prevent stretching and breaking the threads. Hem back placket hole on seam and sew on cuff. _,'e.V wear a long time. This worka well With I underwear too. Sometimes families like gravies better than meats and cannot make much from a, small chicken or piece of meat and have it taste rich enough. Try beating an egg into your thickening for making more chicken gravy. You will not need quite so much thickening as the egg thickens. This is also good to increase bulk and flavor in beef gravy, but not as good as in ohidken gravy. I hope these hintswill help someone and think perhaps if the questions could be answered in the paper they too would be helpful to others—F. D., Portland, Michigan. ' —if you are well bred! —w The Ethics of the Introduction.-—When introductions should be made and when not; which are justified and which are needless; to what degree they imply-ob- ligation, and a number of other points are not subject to hard ‘and fast rules. Common sense, socialtact and presence of mind must be relied upon to decide what is best in many instances. In larger urban centres introductions are usually "taken lightly; in [smaller communities more seriously. Convenience sanctions the less ethical procedure in the first instance and custom rejects it in the second. In the end the obligation—implied or actual —of an introduction are either met or denied in accordwith personal preference. In.the caseof a lady the option rests with her—a gentleman who has been in- troduced must wait, when next he meets her, for her to bow or offer her hand. She may continue or end the acquaint- ance as she sees fit. In general: 1. BOW to all whom you may have met at a meal. 2. Bow to all whom you have met at a reception or with whom you have played cards, golf or tennis. 3. The acknowledgement of incom- plete introductions is optional. ' The Runner’s Bible Then shalt thou call and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry and He shall say: Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger and speaking vanity—Isa. 58:9. -. Nothing can yoke or burden one but onc’s thoughts—thoughts of hate, of fear, of lust, of greed, of evil intany form. It is better, however, to liken evil thoughts to veils which hide from one’s eyes the Truth, the beauty of things which grow in the sunshine of Love. These veils are thick and of ugly color. They distort. Many there are who‘grope about all 'their lives because they wear such 'a'5n4umber; ’they run into danger, injure. themselves and others and finally in seeming‘dar‘k- ness they lose their way. The truth is that they were all the time in the light, but they knew it not, for they would wear veils. God acts upon the assumption that every‘One’Sees clearly, and who would sus- pect His eyer present help when behind sqmany thicknesses of evil? RECIPES" . , Baked iiincn-roni with Cheetah—One! cup macaroni, 1 tablespoon butter, 1' table- spoon fiour, 1 cup milk, 1/2 cup grated cheese, 1 teaspoon salt, 1Ayteaspoon pep- per, 1/3 teaspoon. paprika. Boil. macaroni in salted water until soft; drain and rinse with cold water. Put iinto‘butte‘re‘d baking, dish and cover with sauce. :Cover ute's in .hot oven:- :1' v V _ x. - r r l‘:. ’ stop with grated‘ cheese and :bakezzp fmin- . who; m . _ _ who ‘9 -, at »:1logr,«v4 whenspo pow . It. 1% r5~. , 'r , saute Questions sesame—1 have been ' reading THE BusaNEss ‘FARMER, every. 1 since we have taken it and quite, inter-v5 .v . 51:5: edited—em.) 7&1}! M I, ..._M' mm" .4 he... on hot, only once. ' the“ a? when. 3 a ry ingreglgnfg mix, well. Bake ‘sllghtlyr greased griddle turning . / Crumb ' Multina—Twocups stale bread crumbs, 1%, cups milk, 1 cup flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1A; teaspoon salt, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon shortening. Soak bread crumbs in cold milk 10 min- utes; ad flour, baking powder and salt which have‘ibeen sifted together; add Well-beaten eggs and melted shortening; mix well. Heat muffin tins, grease and drop one tablespoon of batter into each. Bake 20 to 25 minutes in hot oven. Waffles.——Two cups flour, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 5%, teaspoon salt, 1% cups milk. 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon melted shorten- ing. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together; add milk and shortening to egg yolks and add to dry ingredients; mix in beaten egg whites. Bake well in greased hot waffle iron until brown; turn once. Serve hot with butter and maple syrup. HOMESPUN YARN ' i Avoid colds by eating fruits and vege- tables and drinking plenty of water. i I ill An egg beater is useful for removing scum from 'cocoa, lumps from gravy, and for preparing popovers that melt in the mouth. . ‘l * The best part of potatoes lies next to the skin. Rub the well cleaned skins with fat before baking, and they will be delicious. ' it it Iii Plain linen toweling with colored bor— ders makes excellent and serviceable luncheon doilies, much more easily laun- dered than talblecloths. ‘ gr iii ill Aunt Ada’s Axioms: One of the main differences between a cross word and a cross-word puzzle is that one of ’em tends to keep a man at home and the other doesn't. ill it a: A good resolution is to treat the porce— lain sinks and tubs right this year; harsh abrasives and scouring: powders take off both stains and finish. r it, and .ke'ep‘yit injja coveredwjar,_,,for use in seasoning sauces, soups, and scalloped ‘ dishes. Try a little in a potato and onion Soup to convince yourself. t‘ .1. # Watch the sneezers; they spread colds easily. 5 l I! Aunt Ada’s Axioms: There'd be no fun in keeping house if there wasn’t someone to clutter it up once in a while. it 1" It. A hot soup 'or a creamed vegetable at noon would help the school child’s lunch. Does your school serve a hot dish? * i ll! wash- Cold fingers may be saved on day by putting handkerchiefs and small pieces in a cheese cloth bag and then hanging the bag on the line. i- s at It never snows so much that a man can‘t saw wood. WOMEN’S EXCHANGE we will F you nave something to exchange. rint it FREE under this heading providing: Irst-—lt appeals to women and is a bonlfi o exchanges, no cash involved. Second—It will no In three linog. Third——Vou are a paid-up subscriber to The Business Farmer and attach our address label from a recent Issue to t. Exchan o offers will be numbered an in- serted in t 0 order received as we have room. —MR8. ANNIE TAYLOR. Editor. No. 124.-—.Mamnioth p0 )py seed and Dahlia bulbs for Glij.(lli)lll bulbs or mveet Pea seed—Mrs. RK'Ilill‘iI I’ilkins, Harrisville, Michigan. ’OUR BOOK REVIEW’ (Books reviewed under this heading may be secured through The Michigan Business Farmer, and will be promptly shipped by ptartmal post on receipt of publisher's DI‘ICN 5 ll 0 . 'l‘ublo Serrico.———By Lucy i'}. Allen. A new and revised edition, with several new illustrations, of a Work thnt has steadily grown in popularity since its publication in 1915. It is a clear Concise and yet comprehensive exposition oi? the wait— ross’s duties including not only the lay of the table and serving, but tray survive, curving. the care of the dining room, etc, The book is invaluable. to housekoepm‘s, Price, $1.75. Little, Brown and Company are the publishers. u ‘ AIDS TQ GOOD DRESSING BE SURE AND SE 5019 A Neal. and Dainty House or Morning Frock. , e in Ist'le here portrayed. ’I‘liis gloating is ycut 1n 6 SNIPS: 3-i,_.3i). 38. . . it will require 5% yards oi 2i lll(‘ll Illillil gmglm and cufi faunas- 0. baggise in lawn, sateen and other md large. A model is also 4 ZIPI‘OII 5013‘f ti is dtb’lLll ' or i.‘ A, Y . ' gICtilhg vest. The Pattern is out in _ ‘r ' rresponding'wuist measure. 33, 3.), h ' lu‘d. . / lleoilémmlftelm 10 inches “10.8, With 1,2 and. ‘3’; yard of Chantilly or other lure all-over ,0 1m- - .' his tiesusn. It is gillllllly.iil “Md “us “Bad for t’I‘he I'utteru is lr-ui ill 4 ' 42 and 44 inches bust measure. A Pleasing Apron .Modei.—-—(‘retonne or (‘Illlltz may he used for~this design. materials. ' Medium size wi‘l require 2% yards of 36 Inch material. ' ock for the Women of Mature Fi.gure.~.-Tuifeta or A scy'mh' Fr As here portrayed fiH'Illl-{S of white satin are shown, ' 8 Sizes: Bust measure 40, 4-, 44. ), ‘ like the dress as illustrated, foi . 10 u" of contrasting material for the collar A Jaunty Style (or the Growing GlrI.——~Ii‘lnnnel Sires ND IN YOUR SIZE Checked gingham was employed to make the attractive in linen, per-cull), rntine or crepe. The ’ If made as illustrated. ('rillzir iii. and ‘3; yard linen of percale for pockets, The width at the foot 13 1 1/2 yards with plliits extended. It is also ill' The I‘zitteru 18‘ cut in 3 Sizes: Small, Medium failir; would be very at; \lltll lllL'e over chiffon 50. 52 and Si 41, 43, 4'5 nud 47 inches. The width all a 44 inch bust will require 4% yards and cuffs, and H I." .. hrs wide. hi‘uid to I'lll develop 12 your filZl' Tellllll‘t'S simulate bias well. ill blocked with_ line plain ti‘notivn in material. 3 5'. I“ 12 :lll(l 1-! years. A “Seal 01 “(i-ogéeluch nnltcrizll \i‘ith fig yard ot ('Ulltl‘uh‘llllg material for (-ollul', i‘ul’cl'ri, lilt'liig and vestue. 2% yards 0 5028. A Comfortable “Little Miss".—-'l‘\\'cod. kuslm or broadcloth would this model. It IS nISo be suitable for .- 5005. and with or edge. The I‘utteru is inch side if imide with ings “’1” require '3 \l'ithout the \Vith short sleeves 23% 5030. IlilUlllt‘l‘ figures. The lines are luun or lintistc for the the Ilress will require 1 or uuinsook, and 2% ulde for the ruffle. .p—v }’ui'il ol .1 material. 3 FOR 30c name and a Mt. Clem 'r ’i‘eddy llear (doth, chinchilla. velvet and other ‘pilc ) _ fabrics- viini Pattern is out, in 4 Sizesir}, o, 18 ‘ " and ii) years. A ii year size requires f. mourns £012 of ill inrh materiel. ('olluruzunl Hills oi con- trusting material will require A New and Stylish Blouse—"This pretty model may Ilt‘ finished with short or long sluchs without the 38, Ill, 4;: and all inc yards of 32 llli‘ll innings 233,1, yards are (‘llflw’ on the short Sleeves are made {0 routrusting imlteriul, this ii‘lll require ‘4 ,A Comfortable _Underg_arment.~—'l‘hi~su I‘Iraiwers are cspeclully suitable for stout. provides extra fillllcss. 'i‘he Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: Small“ Medium, Large and Extra Large. A Medium 5120: requires 21.; yards of 30' inch material. 5031. A Practical Set of infants' Garments. 'l‘hls outfit (ionmsts of n Yoko Dress, ll Night (iown, :i Suck and a Guy). One could use, voile. res int: flannel. crepe or silk for the Suck, and lawn. silk, crepe dc chine or poplin fun the Cup. The l'utturu is cut in One Size. 'urds of edging 3%, .inches _hc (‘rown will require 1 "7;; . ing-h material. The Sack 7;; ‘ 27 inch material. and the Cal) % yard of 18 inch ALL PATTERNS 12c EACH—~— Ordor from this or former issues or The Business Farmer, giving number and sign your ADD 100 FOR SPRING ANDISUM 1925 FASHION BOOK MER Address all orders (or patterns to Pattern Department THE BUSINESS FARMER Stylish Coat for a good for "3 ya rd. innings at the lower out in ii Sizes: :i-l, :iii, hes liust measure. .\ 38 long fill‘i'l'Cb' and the fur- ‘ ' lunteriul. required. required. If yu rds u re ya rd. comfortable; the slurping 5, long cloth or out— / It made as illustrated. 7/3 yurd of 36 inch_ law“ vnrd oi POSTPAID ddross plainly. ens, Mich. V When,.cheé§e"5gets.istale, grateor grind , ' Every ingredient” used officially I approved by US. food authorities THE WORLD'S GREATEST BAKING POWDER --the next time you bake give it just one honest and fair trial. One test in your own kitchen will prove to you that there is a big difference between Calumet and any other brand, that for uniform and whole- some bakings it has no equal. If there were a more dependable Ieavener obtainable, millions of hOuse- wives, leading domestic science teach- ers, cooking experts, great railroads, big hotels and good bakers would not use Calumet in preference to the hundreds of other makes that are on the market. Avoid the disappointments~the un— necessary expenses that come from using unknown brands of baking powder. Use Calumet and your pics, cakes, biscuits, muffins, everything you bake will be perv fectly raised, easily digested and appetizing. §ALES 2 1/3 TIMES THOSE OF ANY OTHER BRAND” WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS, PLEASE MENTION THE BUSINESS FARMER Take Your Spring Tonic ‘ Asleep Throw away the teaspoon and bottle. Trike Nature's tonic sleep. Get an Ideal Spring and enjoy the best night's rest you ever had. Try the comfort of the [deals super/tempered spirals. Try its snug and perfect spine support. Learn the added run and vigor that perfect relaxation for tired nerves and muscles gives. The moment you lie upon the Ideals one hundred and twenty superrtempered upright spirals, you just know you are going to sleep right. And there‘s no time like the present to start. Phone your dealer today for a OsferIDEALSPriné 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 Crib- and Quality Spring Constructions. Send for booklet; ' v- ‘5 - ~ _ “ >2 3 .. a _: - ‘ - 4 Q ‘9 At your service The courteous girl at the switchboard speaks the first word in more than two million conversations an hour. Presid- ing day and night at the busy intersections of speech, she is always at the call of the nation’s homes, farms and offices. Out of sight, and most of the time out of hearing of the Subscribers, little is known of the switchboard girl—of her training and supervision under careful teachers, and of her swift and skilful work. Likewise, little is known of the engineering problems necessary to bring the terminals of sixteen million telephones within the reach of a girl’s arm, or of the ceaseless work of maintenance which in both fair weather and storm keeps the mechanism fit and the wires open. America’s millions of people must have at their com~ mand means of direct and instant communication, and the Bell System must ever be in tune with the demands of national service. These are the components of America's system of teleph- ony : The best of engineering, of manufacture, of facil- ities—and a personnel trained and eager to serve. 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Mm THE BUSINESS FABMER “The Farm Paper. ‘of Service” TELL YOUR- Flt BS ABOUT IT FEE Bloc—Saves Horses and Veterinary Bills I locate and treat. every kind of lame- nestsfi ‘llx6.::¢yel:°;§:i fulldot ginnite. vsgralblghlg't': bow; bed 0 or . om a nil: ow being manemandkeeothehom '3'AVE-TheIHORSbES‘f‘mbEaumm i7: 53'”. m lager-adorn ' aro- ' » nut-3 nor-mud by a It 3mmmwfiWMw’dW$ TROY CHEMICAL GOMPANY ,. .339 State Street w ' M. _ . l \‘ .n..m ‘4 i run ".031 PF? ii in. n. I) - An .3 u j 9 2r 1 29 32 m % .38 , in each White or vertically or both. ACROSS 1—What every housewife dreads B—Mlstake . 9—Cow wlt‘h T. 8. ~11—--Revlsed Version (aber 13—A tender pig for eatlng 14-—Postscrlpt 15—Dlvlslcm of tennis names 11—Anlmal parent 19-—A unlt 20—0pen (poet) :Z—Boy's nickname 1 3—Tool ill—Small viper :ll.—Phys|clans (abbr.) ilk—One (German) -eeklng u l ‘ '. An Italian rlver H—Definite article .lZ—Consumed N I. ‘1‘!th \~ I A H- 4 m it ’ ' H21 ' 22 as, at 30 3‘! c '35" ~. . 37 ’ 37 Start out by filling in the. words of which you feel reasonably sure. a clue to other words croselng.them, and they in turn to still others. A lettenbelongs . space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally l SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-W’ORD PUZZLES These will giVe you DOWN of the body Revolut on (Ibbl‘J word for food of disgust / (alibi-J 0 new setting for gm 0 work together of the Into wrongdolng ,‘ to outer mores Places lants grow from p reshly; aga n thoroughfare (abbr.) ‘ this; Academ (chin-J : aslr‘. of t e compass The answer to this puzzle will appear in the next issue. Also, we will have another puzzle. M. A. C. “AIR” SCHOOL CONTIN- UES THROUGH MARCH ITHOUT stirring from their fire- sides farmers in Michigan and ‘the middle west are being given the benefits of instruction in farm problems by the experts on the fac- ulty of the Michigan Agricultural College through courses being broad— cast from the college radio station WKAR. The “air” school was started Mar. 2, when for two weeks lectures on farm machinery and home conveni- ences were broadcast. The courses are to be continued until May 8, dit- terent subjects being ofiered each two weeks. Farmers who listen in on the lee- tures are asked to enroll with the director of short courses at the col- lege" at East Lansing. Those who enroll are sent briefs of the lectures given the day after they are broad- cast. In this way those who are.un- able to tune in the college station because 0! air conditions or other reasons are able to keep up with the classes. Those who enroll are sent examinatibns at the end of the course. After answering the ques- tions asked they are mailed certifi-r cates to show that they have taken and passed examination on the course. The courses yet to be offered and the dates on which they will be given follow: Farm crops and soils, March 16 to 27; Poultry and live- stock, March 30 to April 10; Home gardens, April 13 to 24; home mak— ers course, April 27 to May 8. The lectures are broadcast from Monday to Friday night inclusive each week from I7:15 to 8 o’clock in the even— ing, eastern standard time.“ The giving of the farm courses has necessitated changes in the broad- casting hours of the other programs at the college. Now the regular" educational program will be given Monday evenings from 8 to‘ 9-o’elock; CLOVER ARLEY AM MOLES ODE Y IX T E AC 5 ‘ STIR A ATO ST VlLLAGE‘ LA TAB N F E WEB RYE GRAlN HAY_ ASSES RESS w ED AFT DA 5, PT FLARE TR j AL 5 EG FM’ Dog. A Wednesday eveningfmlslewill bsjutr ‘ ‘~ 11' -.., «Hug. , 0’ ‘~‘- and Friday evenings from 8 to 9 ' o’clock the state departments provide programs. Each day at 12 noon the weather forecast is given and Satur» day mornings from 12:30 to 1:30 o’clock a musical program for the Pacific coast is broadcast.——L. McC. DATES FOR SgllgMER COURSU ’ T . ATES during which the summer courses at the Michigan Agricul- tural College will be given this summer have been announced as from June '23 to July 31. Students taking the summer courses can credit equal to that given for the regular twelve weeks course in the winter but take only one half the number of subjects that are studlal in the winter as double class time is required to complete the summer courses in the limited time. ' Courses in all divisiOns which in~ elude agriculture, home economics, applied science, liberal arts, engineer- ing, and physical education are given. —-L. McC. 5" ANSWER TO CROSS-WORD PUZZLE NO. 9 Wonder tint-ii is difieuit to s to "- coinpetewith the Flying Dutchmen iii-:zthe‘bulb business. , . . In these post—helium days, pass- . ”ports are one.,of the nuisances of travel-in Europe, especially when they have to be 'visaed at every little national boundary—at $10.00 per ‘ivisa. ' Three days before we were to leave ~ for Denmark, via Germany, I hap— pened to think that I had not secured a German nor a Danish visa for my passport, and I knew that without it I would be put off the train at the boundary and sent back after one. Every other member of our party “ ' had attended to this detail except me. When I made this discovery we had just left Amsterdam for a two-day trip to the other side of the Zuider Zee and we were on a train headed north. We would be back in Amster- dam the following attention—but there is no German consulate in Am- sterdam; I would have to go to Rotterdam which was in exactly the opposite direction from the way our train was going. Mr. Bertholt, our guide, advised me to get ofl the train at Zwolle, the next big town, catch the first train back to Rotterdam, get my visas, and then go to Amsterdam and wait for my friends to come on the following day. He taught me one word of the Dutch language, which sounded like “Doorhandt” and which means “di- rect” or “without change”, and then explained the kind of a railroad tick- et that I held. ' We had bought “Vacantiekaart” tickets, he explained to me, which had cost us seven and a. half guilders each, or about $2.75, which entitled the holder to ride anywhere in Hol- land just as long as he holds the ticket and cares to ride. The tickets are not taken up until one leaves the depot and until it is taken up it is good on any train, in any direction, ‘ anywhere in Holland. 1 could get of! the train at Zwolle and if I did not leave the depot in the meantime I could ride right back to Amsterdam * - from where I had just come or could go to Rotterdam or any other place. Holland is so small that one can’t ride very far anyway. Very well, I had my Vacantiekaart and I knew my Dutch perfectly—my one word of it—and armed with this equipment I bade [my friends good- bye at Zwolle to spend two days run- ning all over Holland and hunting up Danish and German consuls, With— _out even the friendly doctor to lend me moral support. I stood around the station plat— " » form and inquired “Rotterdam door— handt?” as nonchalantly, but as in— telligently as I could of every uni- formed man, whenever a train pulled into the depot—and there were many. They invariably said some- thing to inc—which I appreciated even though I didn’t know what it was. - - Finally I boarded a. train and rode grandly out of town until the con- ductor came along and refused .to honor my ticket. I couldn’t explain it to him. A friendly 'Dutch sea ‘ captain who knew a few words of English interceded in my behalf and induced the conductor to compromise and let me ride as far as Utrecht. He put me off at Utrecht and the station master there put me on an— other tram- This was a real “door— handter” and took me clear to Rot- terdam. With the aid of a few policemen and a specially chartered messenger boy I located the Danish consul and paid him ten dollars to vise my pass- port. Then I located the German consulate and none of them could speak English. Finally the tallest one took my money and made a few notations on my passport, and the transaction seemed to satisfy us both. 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JACKSON I ‘ beforeif‘fl my eye. It was , _ , pictures of Harold Lloyd were also I coiiéluded that the ji‘ea.~ ture of the evening at that show was ' apparently Harold Lloyd's picture “Safety Last”. Thus was another word added to my vocabulary. “Va— cantiekaart” meant a “vacation tick- et” .and “Verboten” meant f‘forbid— den” and "‘ausgang” meant “out you go’.’ and during the few days in Hol- land we found that each of us kn'ew quite a few words.- * " But when we crossed theline into Germany and later into Denmark and ‘ saw entirely different shaped words on the sign boards, "none of which looked as familiar as even the pic- turesque Dutch words, the Colonel sighed and said, “Well, boys, just as soon as I learned ‘ausgang’ and ‘oin- gang’~ and a few important words like that we leave Holland. I’m sorry I learned the language!” The complications of crossing the German border and our triumphal entry into Copenhagen, Denmark, will be presented in the next install- ment. flung Vetch Sagsfi DOES THE TAIL \VAG THE DOG AT M. A. C? EAR EDITOR: Seeing as most D everbody is writting you'about changing the name of MAC to somthing else I may as well horn in to, specially as the prose and cons wouldn’t be compleat unless I did. I am again the purposed change for a lot of good reasons. . If it was to be called Mich: State Colleg you couldnt call the foot bawl teams Mich Aggies any more and then maybe the other foot l)an teams woudn’t be scared of them and they might axidently get licked some time. Besides that the fellows who make the headlines for the sport pages in the newspapers would have a hard time to think of any thing short and snappy like Mich Aggics and so they wouldnt put the team in the headlines and then nobody wouldnt go to MAC never no more. The way it is now when some ig- norunt stranger says What is Mich Ag. and what does MAC stand for any how we can ex plain that Mich Ag is short for Michigan Aggregation of Cloverkickers and MAC is its first letters. And if he is a smart strain- ger he will catch on that the Clover- kickers is pretty good goal kickers too. While if it was changed to MSC it would be Michigan Shame Colleg be- cause the- folks there is ashamed of the name the way it is now. But I reckon it would be a better colleg if the folks Wich is ashamed of it would go some place else and leave more room for real clover kickers and hog callers and tit pullers, wich folks are just as respectable, usually more decent and certainly more necary than them wich is ashamed of MAC. I see in your paper some body call- ed it a cow college, Wich I would say is an undeserved complement wich might apply to the Wis Colleg of Ag. but MAC seems to be more of a bean and grape colleg. Wich reminds me of one Winter I lived in Urbanana Ill. and they had a lot of College cows at the Ill Colleg of Ag. and the Uni- versity milk was so good that no body could get it unless their name was on the waiting list for a couple of years and could give satis factry reterences. We didnt never suck- ceed in getting any of the milk but I would go to" the dairy dept on the camp us and get their butter wich was called Corn Belt and it was just about the best butter you .ever at. This here business of wanting to change the name because the other depts has outgrowed the Ag makes it look like the tail had out growed the dog and now they want to call it a tail insteamoi a dog. But it that is it I would say call it allamb and dock it. And probly it would be a. bigger and better lamb for being docked. And anyway when the leglesslature makes a propriation for the lamb it wouldnt mostly go to grow more tail, wich seems to be the case now. Over at Aims Iowa the colleg is called the Iowa State Colleg of Agar- ' culture and Michanic Arts by the 0111ch title but it is called Aims by everbody else, and it we quit calling " ‘om. use it; ,pmbly- wur conic to be . just East Lansing. )1ng Mr. pansy: or! M .411, r ‘v‘TBreeksynnew': and ~ -— a «‘5‘ .. . a , . A rider-,tMIU-lheddini: c°r«.«:.-~- ' .VL-asato'line tor 4 Limes. ‘or' as». » . u .00 per. insertion tor-'8 lines or ;' less, v " ’ » _ "_ ‘ 42.3.5} .. 1°. 008 ' In the Michigan. \ior you. F.. Mt. Clemens Mar. 25th.—Guernseyl, Saginaw 0 an m Grounds. Saginaw. Geo. oJ. “Hicks, ' ‘ 5.. Sales Manager. CATTLE W):- V ' mass:st ' I ‘ REG. JERSEYS. POGIS 99th OF H. F. A" MaJesty breeding. Young stock for sale. Ho ». evilly accredited by State and Federal Government. nte or vxsit for prices and description. GUY O. WILBUR. BELDINQ. Mich. t Saginaw. 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Jumbo of Brinrbank and Holbech; .Golden Knight of Nordland. me Dams pro- ducing 1011.18 fat, 772 fat and 610 fat. GEORGE L. BURROWS or GEORGE J. HICKS. Saglnaw. W. 8.. Mlchluan. BEST GUERNSEY HETIFER CALVES $20.00 eac . EDGEWOOD FARMS, Whitewater. Wls. ~ HOISTEINS FOR SALE: ALL OR ANY PART, OF OUR Federally Accredited Herd of Registered Holstein. of all ages at less than current prices on same quality. Quick sale desired. , F. H. Hemstreet and Company, Bellalre. Mlchloan. A! RSIHRES FOR SALE—REGISTERED svnsmns suns. fit for servrce. T. B. Tested. From heavy pro- ducing dams. Flndlay Bros.. Vassar. Mlchlnen. SHORTHORN S POLLED SHOBTHOBII the most r r YOUNG BULLS th t will 1 buyers. Write I p”' critical or rticnhp. mum & sous. 'I'ekonsha. fihlgm. ' SWISS Wanted To Buy At The RI ht Price Pedl reed Brown Swiss yearling male andI a bred heii’er.‘I ‘ J. Mlchlaan. WEBBES HAMPSHIRES. N-IcE spnmo AND nu. boars.- Chmce bred 'lts for sale 12th 1.x. 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I'm ufiwnéflwfi. m. on ‘ In, .111 - “'4‘ I dont want yous‘to “get-9 the;\ notion ‘ I have any thing‘again michanics and enginearin‘g' at an ‘ag celleg because one of the biggest things a business farmer needs is michanical gumption so he can farm more with machinery and'turn out sheaves and shotes like Henry 'Ford spills out flivers and there should be agercultural engin? ears toflfigur out how tile should be layed so as to drain off the water quickest and with least tile and to calculate how the barn and silos and grainery should be set and built and eqi-pped so a felloe can do his chores without wearing out so much sh-oe leather and wasting a lot of time he might be in the field or listening to the radeo. I just bet you that if all the mi- chanics -and enginearing and chemys- tery at MAC was made to toe the they would have plenty to do and it would be a hole lot better for, the farmers in Mich. Anyway if MAC dont figur these things out for the farmers there aint‘nobody else going to bother with it and then how are we going to keep up with the times and how can we make any money in our business unless we learn to do it with modern inventions like they do in other business. And even if they change it to MSC it had ought to mean Mich Sodbus- ters ‘Colleg and the S stand for Sows, Silage, Soils and Sharp Shares. And yet I dont mean, Mr. Editor, that it should be only a kind of farmers trade school. It had ought to be also a colleg in the" best and truest mean- ing of the word, a place where farm boys and girls can go and at the same time they learn how to be ex- pert farmers and farmwives they would also be educated, Wich aint the same thing at all. Education as I see it is getting to be a bigger, broader person, a better citizen, an original thinker, and a more likeable neighbor. We need all in one in- stitution a place to teach farming and to also educate farm folks, with as I say is two different things. Any way this is my idea of ager- cultural education, wich may be all wrong because I aint never had much of it. Hoping this finds you the same I am, Yours truely, HARRY VETCH. SWEET CORN FOR LIVE STQCK What is your opinion of planting sweet corn to hog down in the early fall? Do you think it is better than field corn? Also Canadian peas for the same purpose. Do you think it would be advisable to plant soy beans in sweet corn for hogging down? My object is to get my hogs off in August if possible—H. M. M., Shepherd, Michigan. WEET corn lacks the factors for converting sugar into starch, but fairly good results have been obtained by feeding sweet corn, especially to cattle which would con~ sume the whole stalk. I think you ought to get better re- sults feeding hogs, to plant a medi- um early variety of flint corn since the flint would produce more pounds of grain per acre than sweet corn. Canadian peas Would make a good supplementary pasture. You under- stand the peas would have to be sewn as early as you could get on the ground in the spring, hence in a separate field or part of the field containing the corn. Canadian peas if sown late will not do any good, nor mature early enough to be of much value. Soy beans planted in with the corn willalso make a good supplementary feed. -To insure the success of your pro- ject to put hogs on the market before the end of August at least two things will be necessary, an early maturing variety of field corn and also an early maturing variety of soy beans. Sow both as early in May as you can. A medium early maturing variety of sweet corn would probably be about right. 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Strong. well hatched Chick: from fr range stock. “out Prepaid to your door. 100 Live ~ De very Guaranteed. yll7 years c indie business and giving absoluo Batis- actlon to thousands. Get valuab Illustrated C‘moiVB free and lowest prices bo- fore placing your order elsewhere. VAN APPLEDOR RSO . HOLLAND HATCHERY AND POULTRY FARM, R-1-B Holland, Michigan TYRON E POULTRY FARM Let us sell you mfiufl 1925 Chicks from are bred, l t \Vh't d B h me, Barred. White 11111111 Rock). 3. I Red}: Ancona E15132111111111 e :i‘teMin mm inc; 1111. Golden and Silver \Vyaiidottee White and But! 01111113111111, Black 881m ' 111E Light Brahmas, etc. Of leading strains such as uron, Parks, etc. , 300'0 CHICKS GIVEN AWAY TO OUR CUSTOMERS DURING 1025. We guarantee 100% Live Delivery, Postpaid. Reference: Commercial State Savings Bank. Before ordering Chicks elsewhere 318% et our especial circular containing our low Arrival Guaranteed—Postpaid prices on O 100 500 foreman Strain Barred Rock s .......................... $10 50 $20. 00 $95.00 $190.00 “la-"ad Barred 00 8s .......................... . .75 17.0 80.00 155.00 nt. Lglngted Constsst 8. R 20. 00 95.0 00 190.00 -xtra S. and R? c R 18.00 85. 00 110.00 White Rocks and Wyandottes 18. 16. 18. Prices and particulars about the 8000 E CH] TVROIE POULTRY FARM. Dept. 21. Fenton, Michigan. Sturdy, stron. free range. Live Delivery Qiaranteed ' 1 id I so . ‘ Bull and Brown Leuhorna, lama Prim pr 0. on mg: 11 White. aumg ' .......... .- ~visable to shear before lambing or 0111 orous Chicks trom'good, pure bred 111-1111le finch .00- . arian. -—Jchn Pro and keep them in the basement of the barn which is warm and has plen- ty of ventilation. Would it “be ad- wait until they were through lamb— ing.—-—R. B. N., Sheridan, Mich. HE pulling of wool by breeding ewes may be due to the fact that they have been confined too closely and heavily fed, resulting in irritating conditions of the skin, or it may be due to ticks or lice. In either case it would be advisable to shear them before lambing. If it was due to ticks or lice and theflsheep were sheared real close by the shear- ing machine the ticks would leave before the lambs came, whereas if they were sheared after lambing the ticks would all go on to the lambs and greatly retard their growth. It would be best to shear these sheep sometime between the first and tenth of 'March and as soon as the weather is warm enough in the spring to thoroughly dip both the ewes and the lambs—Geo. A. Brown, Professor of Animal Husbandry, Michigan Agri- cutural College. , VETERINARY I DEPARTMENT GARGE'I‘ We have a. cow whose age is nine years this spring, that has never been sick till about a week ago, when one teat started to give garget but not bloody milk. . The udder started to swell and cake and was very feverish and sore near the teat that gave gar— get milk. In a few days the teat went dry, also fever and cake left that part of udder and the teat cor- nerwise to it is just like it was and now is nearly dry. This cow was al- ways a heavy milker and was giving a nice mess when she started to have udder trouble, but is nearly dry now. Never was known to go dry over a month. She will not freshen till May. \She doesn’t seem to be sick and eats good. Have been feeding her oats, hay and cornstalks. Any information you can give me regard- ing what to do for this udder trouble and what was the cause of it will be gratefully appreciated—H. M., Mid- land, Mich. HE cause of garget is usually in- fection which gains entrance through the teat openang or through the blood, more often, I think, the former. If the function of the gland tissue in the affected quarter has not been destroyed, the cow may come to her milk again at the next calving time. Such cases are mm’e successfully treated when taken early by bath— ing the bag well with hot water and stripping out the affected quarters once every two hours if not too sore and badly swollen and then apply camphorated oil two or three times daily, and rub well in. A good ca- thartic is often indicated in the early stages of the disease. The internal administration of an internal anti- septic often proves valuable. Milk— ing of the affected quarters should always be done into a pail of anti- septic solution and the hands wash— ed very thoroughly in the antiseptic solution before milking another cow. The cow should be kept in a. warm place free from drafts and given a laxative diet.——John P. Hutton, As- sociate Professor of Surgery and Medicine, Michigan Agrcultural Col- lege. WAR-TS I have two cows that have little spots on their teats, one is like a. wart and the other one is nearly as, big as a little marble. At times they will bleed _ if you press on them. which will happen once in a. while by milking. It is not growing and does not go away.——L. K.. Alma, Mich. THINK the spots are warts. ‘They I should be cut out when the cow is dry. The skin should be thor- oughly disinfected around the swell- ing, and, then the wart removed with a sharp knife or scissors after the cow has been properly restrained. The wounds should then be properly covered with sterile surgical cotton ,or gauze and retained in place by ad- hccive tape. The operation had best be performed y a qualified veterin- Hutton, AssocIMQ ' y‘ are due to lamb t’tllo 15th or Hatch Amazing Resmmm In One Day By Use of Virex Formerly Known .As Rattle Snake Oil Deafness and Head Noises need not be dreaded any longer since the discovery of a widely known physician. Now it' is pos- slble for some of the most obstinate cases of deafness to be relieved in a day's time by the application of a. prescription for— merly known as Rattle Snake 011. This treatment is meeting with wide success all over the country. Mr. D. M. Lopes, a. Pennsylvania. man, says: “I used the treatment at night be- fore retiring. The following morning I could hear the ticklngs of the alarm clock that I was unable to hear before. Now my hearing is restored perfectly after many years of deafness " Mr. Ben Jackson, who lives in Indiana says, “Before I used Virex I could hear nothing. Aftcr‘ten days I could hear my watch tick. ” Angeline Johnson. a Missisisippl resident had been stone deaf for eighteen years She says, "Virex has stopped. my head noises and I can hear the train whistle 31/5 miles away." Roy Fisher, Iowa. man, says. “I hadn’t heard a. watch tick for eleven years—now I can lay my watch on the table and hear it plainly " Mr. W. A. Lumpkin, of Oklahoma, says, "After being deaf 38 years, I used your treatment only a. few days and hear fairly well.” Mr. Anthony Chapman, of. Michigan, says, “The terrible head noises have stop- ped entirely and my hearing is practically back to nOrmal.” Deaf Baby Now Hears Mrs. Ola Valentine, of Arkansas, says, "My little boy, now 5 years old, had been deaf since about 4 months of age. Now he hears very well and is learning to talk." Mr. Mather Pelleys says, “My young son, deaf for years, has used Viz-ex for only three days and he hears almost as well as ever before." Such amazing reports come from all over this octmtry and Canada The pre- scription which is known as Virex. is easily used at home and seems to work like magic in its rapidity on people of all ages. . ’ So confident are we that Vlrex W111 re- store your hearing quickly, and to intro- duce this remarkable treatment to 3 mil- lion more sufferers. we will send a. large $2. 00 treatment for only $1. 00 on ten days’ free trial. If the results are not satis- factory the treatment oosts nothing. Send no money—just your name and address to the Dale Laboratories, 1011 Gateway Station, Kansas City, Mo.. and the treatment will be mailed at once. Use it according to the simple directions. If at the end of 10 days your hearing is not relieved, your head noises gone entirely. just send it back and your money will be refunded without question. This offer is fully guaranteed, so write today and give this wonderful compound a. trial. ——(Adv. ) D tr 't- 140-15111: “Mimi INCUBATOR ensue." 311331“ theufeature:t that Insure big hatchet— u e we 3 copper com nut-31y. lea: heat'control throa'agh “math: 9 hermometor . when hatching. Dot-volt Brood- ero. too. Write for low embl- natlon price today! Detroit-Alumna Incubator Co. FREIGHT Dopt.10 IAN-name. Ohio no». CHICKS FOR 1925 Rain we are ready to book orders for Baby Barred and White Rocks“ White and Laced Wyandottea, Wh ite and Bull Orpinstoul: Black Minorcas. Anconas, White, Brown and Bu! Leghorns. Send for Poultry Circular with price list. 100 per cent delivery. STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION, Kalamazoo. Michigan. bu- Intcrnatiooal B Chick Amaiahbn Active ml)" Mulligan State arm Bureau. I WANT A JOB on your place this moon. I am a pure bred chick of known ancestry, and bredto lay. Catalog. Boc Leghoms. MAOOMB POULTRY FARM D HATCHEIY. Haney. Michlnon. B A B Y C H l C K S 10 FREE eggs 09C and UP ggidiirgisdhud wfi‘fi neat 200 8888 up. Write forT free circular before buying elsewhere. DECKMAII HITCHERY 28 Lyon St. Grand Rapids. Mich. CHIX OF QUALITY ; Hatched in Wishbone Incubator-I." " S C W- Leghorn. {mum‘g o a . our. last article we discussed natural incubation. With the ad- vance of the science of poultry keeping, the demands have grown until the old hen has been superced- ed by her artificial competitor the incubator. The hen of today, how— ever, was not the first to feel the competition 'of man made machines. In ancient Egypt and in China, eggs were incubated in incubators in pre- historic times. This method was crude. Large ovens or huts were made of clay and heated by fires. The eggs were placed on straw on the floors, and the temperature con— trolled by the operator with no mod- ern devices to assist him. Hodern incubation depends on more accurate apparatus. Much cred- «it for our modern incubation must be given to Charles Cyphers, who did a great deal of experimental work. and whose name is commonly connected with our modern incuba— tors. Commercial Hatcheries Owing to the fact that baby chicks stand shipment well, we have in op- eration many commercial hatcheries. These poultrymen make a specialty of producing baby chicks in quant1~ 'ty. They have come to be a very im- portant part of our poultry organi—‘ nation. It is estimated that they hatch over ten. millions of youngsters each year in Michigan. Some of the concerns own all their breeding stock, while others buy ‘eggs in the community." The quality of commer- cial hatched chicks depends on two factors, lst, the quality of the parent stock, and 2nd, the proper operation of the hatching plant. " The prospective buyer of chicks must determine the quality of the pa‘rent stock and if possible should visit the hatchery and see the source of the stock. Too often the buying public are lured into the purchasing of chicks by far fetched ads with big headlines, written for the express purpose of catching the uninitiated. Fabulous. claims of three hundred egg strains and sex guarantee should be closely investigated. An occasion- al three hundred egg hen may appear in the remote ancestry of some few individuals who are producing eggs for commercial hatcheries, but a strain of birds that consistently pro— duces a predominance of such per- formers has yet to be produced. Many of our hatcherymen are do- ing very constructive breeding, using good common sense in the selection of breeding stock, carefully culling the flocks and selecting the males. These are the breeders-who can be relied upon year in and year out to supply you with quality chicks. Blood Testing Every year thousands of baby chicks die from Bacillary White Di- arrhea, a disease carried over in the egg from the «parent stock. This disease is being combatted by blood testing the parents. Where possible buy stock from blood tested hens. While one test may not eliminate the disease it at least indicates that the hatchery is attemping to put clean stock on the market. The agglutin- ation test is one requiring consider- able bacteriological technique, and should be done by one who has been trained along this line. Private Hatching Many farmers, poultrymen and fanciers prefer to do their own hatching. This means they require a suitable basement or incubator root- and suitable machines. We have on the market several reliable well built incubators and many others built cheaply to sell. In (3an a machine do not let your better JIUdgment be overcome by an attractive price. Buy only machines that are standard and known to be of good quality. Incubation Houses or Cellars To successfully operate the aver- age incubator, it isnecessary that a suitable room or cellar-be used. The ‘ basement of the house is usually quite all right for the ordinary small plant incubation. The requirements for an incubation cellar are few and simple, namely: 1, an even temper-_-. store; 25 Good ventilation: 3, Plenty of moisture. Busement!‘ usually have a fairly .. - star-aunt! .. ot them- h 5' I Vt .q- _ I” "I Montgoii'idfi’ward ace. 3 The Oldest Mail Order House is Today the Most Progressive Chicago Kansas City St. Paul Portland, Ore. Oakland, Calif. Fort Worth ? rsid ' ”as Tire s as (, ‘ Read what the users say Does a Riverside Cord last as long as any tire? Is it as good a ge 5218513,} tire made? Is it as well made as a Kgrgfigggivmidc C°rd3 e can - ma 6 ens of thousands of users of Riverside ' ‘ pm me one tires answer enthusiastically—“ Yes!” I yuifitaiflofisfgndntgg I Just forget that: our prices are low. Compare quality, I?“ “"5” may“ 9“" sex-Vice, mileage—tire for tire, and Riverside Cords stand fogugggg Eog‘éa'éefifiiid” equal-to the best. There is a big saving in price—and - J8me! A-IKive. the quality, mileage, service is all that you get in any tire. Cascade, Maryland How our low prices are made Riverside tires cost as much as other tires to m _ ake. U Th R' 'd ‘ You pay as much for fabric, rubber and labor. But you bcusIlIIt lgfrssilrflmcégrxov: pay less profit. That 18 why Rivcrmde prices are so much “FY “We wee" High’ less. We are the largest retailers of tires in the world. We :{Ictchdc 2:16:31: “Eng: I23.- c3; §¢11 5,000 t0 5,000 tires per day. Riverside Tires are made sone. E tell. my friends to in the best factories—on our specifications, under our ff R‘Vers‘des ”ad a“ . . , . . \ cit money's wort ." supervxsxon. We know their quality. Chas. F.-Poor, ‘ Greater Protection against Skidding Danvers’ Ma’" . Big heavy blocks of live rubber and extra thick Side studs and the husky ribs of Riverside Cords grab the slippery roads and are your greatest pro- “A Rivm‘idc cmd °“ my tecti . . . Buick with your heavy on agamSt shddmg~ dutyItube, has run 15 , Riverside Cords are thus the safest tire, the most months, in Use every day. satisfactogy tbu'e an‘;."i’h the most economical tire you fggeigiftgfitgf‘sfisnngnm: can PO“l Y “37- 3' pay more? i . - , .. For 53-years Ward’s have sold “Quality” goods agob-gfigoigggg some I only—with a definite “Money Back ” guarantee. La“ cruccs' N‘ Me“ The reliability of Montgomery Ward 85 Co. is \\ . beyond question. You can not buy )’ \ a tire with a better guarantee. / 1 ‘ l SUPERIOR CHICKS IN ALL BRECDS Two Years Coleman, Mich., Jan. Lakeriew Poultry Farm, Holland M “I vs a flock 0 nice Rhoda I year. Mrs. Mabel Nelson Long.” oc are doing. Wh. Leghorns—B'd Rocky—R. duction. Our Leghorn stock is If’j/Tancred Strain kg? 0 you 0w IWHITE LEGHORNS ‘. Peru BARRED ROCKS how much your new Single CombéRoseComb . IOOf ShO'llld COSt ? RHODE ISLAND REDS which hgame from ygur poultry feigning e(1:181 how to measure a IOOf ? two years they have missed but one day in laying. Please send me a catalog for this That's only a slasmple of what Lakeview how to apply asphalt _ I. Reds ’ e trusses?uses assesses _ shingles and roll to ofing ? cred. Barred Rocks pure Parks strain. 0 catalog not only tells what chicks to buy b3: how to grow them int t 11 ts. . mm... .°.:.:°.“:."“.:.M how to Judge R. R. 8, ,Box 3 Holland, Mlch. “NOT A KICK IN A MILLION FEET”. 123:. U. 8. Pat. Of. l how long each e of roofing should 35a: ? 10, 1925. ich. Pure an- Egg pedl eed lint rl I close :t {lb-llagd.::d . he Rockies. Prlcee low. Or at chicks when you want them. Our 250 to zap -our anions flocks of Tailored American nnd'l'om Barron Eng- lish White Leghorne. ' ihoppard's Famous “eulodlneom Park'- Brod- Io-L-y Rocks. 61:: birds won [can State Fol through generations for mJ-‘éfiffimiifi‘i Prgmftt. loci I‘lvo delivery. prop-Id nnyw one o Illustrated instructive I'm chick book! i: you muchI valuable information. Writ: air“ :33: good roofing .7 The above questions and hundreds of others are answered in the au- thoritative information book illus— trated to the left. Secure this book from the Mule-Hide lumber dealer in your town or mail coupon below to us. MOLE-RIDE Asphalt Shingles and Roll Roofing Strain melee heed woductlen est Mich- er ear to beautifilly .--—--—-—-----------uu—-~-------’ copy DOW. snmwud Hetehery.Box30.Zeoland.Mloh. E INFORMATION REQUEST um. I I _ ' .,v..‘-...__i . _ ‘ :THE LEHON COMPANY :g'gsgaag P553521!" g IijszF SIPE : 44th Street and Oakley Avenue,‘Chicago, III. I .. ~- w ' Roomow ' Se d ft I I I. ’ v 9 V.‘ . ‘l . w o n me your ee 16-page roofing information «Iaggdssaby (1111016: We} : book. i » I‘vo‘39— A m I Nam I Tailored find Barron VW. Leghorns. S. I I -—------:--- ------------------------------- I C. R. I. Reds—Parks' Barred Rocks. mmlfigm" “I'm“ I Adah-es I I High quality. low in cost. Satisfac- mmomAn. ‘ s “““ "‘ """""""""""""""" ' ' I tion and,100% live delivery guaran- M0 I II » teed- BIC Illlmed catalog tree. I I J --------------------------------------- --------t "I FREE The new booklet: Better Potatoes.’ which contains ac- tual photographs and facts, is now being sent to ram taro growers. To get yourcopy,write to the address below. Graft m 1.2“ ‘1 O piggy, ~ i t V use of sulfate of potash produces tubers of cleaner appearance and of more uniform size ~many soil and crop authorities report. - ' The above illustrations, taken "from ac- tual photographs of potatoes groWn by L. E. Davis of Van Buren County, Mich., show the value of sulfate of potash. Improve the quality of your potato crop this season. Ask your dealer to supply you with a mixture containing plenty of sulfate of potash. Potash Pays! POTASH IMPORTING CORPORATION OF AMERICA 81 FULTON ST., Dept. E3 NEW YORK. Baltimore San Francisco Ge risers Sales Agents H. J. Baker & Bro., 81 Fulton St.. N. Y. ' Special i—bu‘il’din’g‘.:,sh 5red for 820, y Eggs since 1910. be Engisli Type White Leghorns The Deep Bodied Hens With the Large Combs That Produce the Large White Eggs. 'l‘he chicks we offer you this year are from extra selected hens, sired by males out of hens that laid 270 eggs in 365 days, these males being sired by a male from a 300—egg hen. The price asked for them is very reasonable. They will bring you bigger profits and absolute satisfactlon. and shipping chicks. Our stock groiis up uniform in size, has great Cvitality and brings big returns in our customers hands. Let us mail you our catalogwith prices. 100 92; live arrival guaranteed. Nine Weeks Old Pullets in May WOLVERINE HATCHERY H. P. WIERSMA, Prop., R. R. 2, Box 98, Zeeland, Mich. i-r-iii-i i-r—E 000"! til" and You will be benefitted by our 15 years experience hatching YEAR: OF EXPERIENCE) 20 acres. this Far] 8. G. Wh Ref. Royal DEAN MORENO! 0 x“, DEAN in the Poultry Industry College. B Rocks. Reds, Anconas. ............................ .. _ , “armada: Buff Rocks, White Wyandottes, .......... .. 500 9.00 17.00 80.00 155.00 FIRST CLASS GHIGKS ‘9 rred» R mixed assorted. 25. $3.00: 50, in; Quarry e and ‘ our-- Our 15 years of work and experience in breeding and hatching Chicks qualifies us as \Ve own and operate a real Poultry Farm of not merely a Hatchery. Our Free. Catalog Will give you an excellent idea of n—Get it now. \Vc liaii'esiiecialized in White, Legliorns for many years. Chicks at following prices. 100% Live Dehvery Guaranteed ' Postpaid prices on 25 50 100 500 1000 Its Leghorns, Extra Quality, .............. .._...$4.00 $1.50 $14.00 $67.50 $180.00 4.25 8 00 15 00 12.00 140.00 Oak Savings Bank. Order direct from this ad in full confidence. FARM AND HATCHERY, Box 22, Birmingham, Michigan STOP. LOOK, BABY CHICKS—100% live delivery (‘hicks from healthy pure—bred flocks especially culled for egg production. have been in busniess .for 13 years. line to increased demand we have en— larged our plant. 25% down books order. Varieties Prices On: Anconas, Wh. & Br. Br. Jr Wh. Rocks, 5. c. a Black Minorcas,.. .............................. .. w . Wyandottes, Buff Rocks, ......... .. 10300 75.00 Buff Miiioi‘cus 20 cents straight. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Ref: First National Bunk. liloreiici. HATOHERY. s. E. Rupp, Prop., Box H, Morenci, Michigan. 10 per 100 and up. culled by an expert. 100 % 0 old rises .25 50 100 500 1000 English 8. e. White ' ." P “p p $8.50 $6.50 $12. 0 $57.50 $115.00 - . ' Brown. I L ‘ns' ‘ ' o, 0: oclrs....s.'and In. 0.1m . ‘. 9-25, 8-00 1 - 12-50 140.0 ‘ces. Free Ca 05; lseiimdr Michigan ‘ $13M ' be beat. Speck i h hitieyggididrn flgcskg. ' I ted to B u 0 z. ‘ ‘ xi‘gglce‘ jdiir‘ciiielnr chance, i: a 37'. ‘ 8 ............ .. ciao: 100. or try-dag. Yourtake‘no : unpen Ann Enos" Box \.»I ~» 15'00 12200 140200 From pure bred flocks on free range, Live Delivery Guaranteed. Ref. State Commercial Savings Bank. '3 turn iea‘chiegg ,, '3-AEOiiTBmO-VO wile provide the best conditions. Ventilation can be most easily sup- plied by dropping the windows in from-the top and allowing circula- tion of air. The cellar should be supplied with an egg room which can be darkened and used for candling and handling the eggs. ‘ Incubator Operation We have among the I. small ma- chines, two common, types, namelyz. hot air and hot water. The hot air machines are more simple and have less apparatus to'get out of order. The hot water machines heat‘the egg chamber by radiation from a coil in which water is heated and circulated by the heat of the lamp. This prin- ciple is preferredlby some since it gives a. slightly more uniform tem: perature and is not as readily affect- ed by outside changes as the hot air type. . Among our mammoth machine‘s we have two common types in use. The cabinet type in which the eggs are placed in galleys or trays and the air circulated by electric fans. These machines occupy a small floor space and are preferred by many commercial hatcherymen where a. steady electric current is available to operate the fans. The sectional type machine is built on the same principle as the small machine, the heat being supplied by radiation from hot water pipes pass- ing through the sections to a heat- ing plant, usually a hard coal heater. Care of Incubator Before starting to hatch, thorough- ly~overhaul the machine and make sure the lamp, heating device, and control are all in good working con- dition. , Level the machine up carefully and operate for a few days before setting. Read carefully the manufacturer’s instructions until your are familiar with the operation. Trim and fill the lamp regularly every day. Do it after handling the eggs. Oily fingers may kill the de- veloping chicks. Keep the Wick turned to give an even flame. Keep the burner clean to avoid smoking and danger from fire. Note carefully the amount of flame required to maintain an even tem- perature. Set the thermostat to check the heat and be sure it is working before the eggs are put in. Temperatures The average temperature of eggs under a hen is 103 degrees, but it may vary from 101 to 104 degrees. in cabinet machines, when the air is forced to all parts of the egg the tem— perature is kept somewhat lower. ' In v sectional machines where the eggs are on single trays, a difference of two to three degrees may exist be- tween the bottom and the top of the egg. Position of Thermometer The common practice is to set the thermometer on the eggs with the bulb in contact with the eggs. Some prefer to hang the bulb over the eggs v about an inch above them. This system has the advantage of not having to remove the thermom- eter when the eggs are taken out, but it must be remembered that a tem- pei‘ature of about 1 degree higher should be recorded with the bulb in this position. ' ' 3 During the first week a tempera- ture of 101 degrees and 103 degrees should be maintained, allOwing it to go to 103 degrees, but not over 104 degrees for the latter part of the period. A temperature over 104 de; grees is dangerous and thecheck— iiig device should be Set to open. to prevent the heat reaching this de— gree. . Turning and Cooling The process of turning eggs during incubation is necessary. If the eggs are allowed to remain in one position the yolk floats to the top of the egg. The developing embryo then sticks to the shell and. would develop abnor- mally and in this abnormal position, would not hatch. The embryo must be supplied with oxygen which is sup-plied through the albumen. More air must be absorbed from the air, cell and distributed‘throu‘gh the 3.1; bumen. " . i. H. €13 Itis'inot Recess iy" ‘ 'ni‘ii‘t y. ' 1 r, ,LFARM , .-//A g0” VICE / FEF§E%HIIV - Tancrod, Barron, Hollywood Three in one—this tells. "ina nut; shell the unusual merits of Town Line White Leghorns.. 2 We‘have have blended the three: most famous egg typesin the world. The result is a triumph. Our pen at the International egg ‘layin con- test of 1924 outlaid the pen from one 0 their renowned ancestral farms by 95 eggs; laid 201 more than the average of two pens from am other famous farm and _more than 84 of ' the 100 pens entered. 1 rec on reguest.) Also made best dis lazy in production class at Zeeland show of 1 2 . ~ . . Anoonw—Barrod Rocky—Brown Leohorns‘~- Our Special Star W. L. Matinee are headed by Tancred, Hollywood and Barron males of 250-29 egg ancestrfi. Anconas by Sheppard males. Price only 1 c 88.0111170 m .500 of». Other matings at 14c and 130 each. 5% Discount on all prepaid orders placed 30 days before shipment. Live delivery guaranteed. TOWN LINE POULTRY FARM . R. R. 1. Box 19 p Iceland. Mich. POULTRY " ATCHERYsFARM _ ZEELAND, MiCH. OUT lN FRONT AT CONTEST The Royal, White Leghorn pen at the International Egg Laying contest of 1925 led the entire field for the first two weeks. For the succeeding two months they were a close second in the Leghorn division, then on Jan. 30 went ahead and on‘ March 1 ‘still' led all the Leghorns. ’ , Such birds speak for themselves. We have thousands like them, mated to pure Tancred cockerels whose dams laid 225 to 299 eggs in a year. > 7 15% of Our sales Are To Old Customers anteed. Write for catalog and prices at once Rom. sarcasm! a. FARMS s. P. Wlersma, R. R. 2, Iceland, Mich. 100% live arrival and good condition guar-- " Good Chicks FREE CATALOG In Business For 22 Years White and Buff Leghorns and Hatching Eggs Barred Rocks, R. I. Reds MEADOWBROOK ' FARM _ HENRY DE FREE SONS R. R. l, HOLLAND, MICH. JWASHEENAF 39.12? Ed 0‘ Pure-bred carefully cull-' (i . . ed and selected. Hun- .- ‘ ‘ dreds ofgsatisfied customers. Our chicks will improve your stock an increase your profits; ‘ Prices (prepaid) on 25 50 Bd. Rocks ..$4.25 $3.00 3 R. . Reds,.. .. 4.25 8.00 Wh. Rocks,.... .. 4.50 8.50 Wh W andottes, “ _ 4.50 8.50 . 0 1 .00 = Wh. & r. Leghorns, 3.75 7.00 13.00 62.00 Order early. Ref: Farmers it: Mechanics Bank, Ann Arbor. One fifth down. 100% live de- livery guara nteed. WASHTENAW HATCHERY. as. Ann Arobr, Mich. ‘ HT LN: ‘ ' star-y, an I tee-range dice s.‘ lively youngsters that should grow loci, and_get on an oll-yoor-round egg laying basis. Frch carefully mated high- egg-plodueintg ctr-Isms, testgdland enigeiimgi nspreexeep ions v r up ayingss i' - his Itockand our semantic hatchery duceiIehicks that live, grow fast. lsly carry; smeared??? " ' lo I grow uniform size and 00 r so the vi _ . into beautiful flocks of which: on!!! be . Place your enumerate our output is. _ on by. en. or-noivfor presenter tutor-e delivery. Louie“ vol-lotion. gang-y gonna“. ruo'jor -n¢w.. I L! L . . _ “Is-th i..." a I 500 00 $12.00 00 00 " a}: BHHdd nmo High Grade Stock, At Prices You Can Afford to Pay Bred for eggs, not show feathers. Eyery chick from our farm is of a proven egg laying strain. But they wm beauty prizes also. English Barron Leghorns The (strain that has been making e g Jayme history ever since Tom Barron entere his first Den America. We breed them upward—— watch our flocks the year around . to make sure only good birds remain. tocrat Barred Rocks '1‘ cool: y the same preeminent position aliasing 30ng that Barron birds do among Leghorns. _ Brown Leghorn: All our flocks have free range—thus grofi 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 Zoelnnd. Michigan. R. R. 4. Box 57 We?” Insercnon ‘ 'j ' Barron White Leghorns Sheppard Anconas White Wyandottes The foundation ‘of our English White Legh-orns is from the Pennsyl— vania Poultry Farm, with trapnest records of 270-300 eggs behind it. Its quality has been kept up by the most careful culling. ‘ 300 Egg Anconas Sheppard Strain Anconas have rec- ords in the 300 class and lay 30 con- sistently that they are known as 20th Century'Egg Machines. Evergreen , wyandottes Our White Wyandottes are of the Evergreen strain, steadily among the leaders in egg laying contests. Semi for Catalog‘ and Price List and get your order in early to avoid disappointment. Chicks will be shipped when~ specified. RELIABLE POULTRY FARM R. F. n. 1, Box 43 v ZEEIJAND, MICHIGAN POULTRY ‘rAnM CHICKS, EGGS PULLETS Guaranteed to he from high produc- ing stock. EGGS $5 per 15 F r 0 1n Aristocrat s t r n i 11 exhibition xhibition B a r r e (l ocks o. n d Fair- view Reds. CHICKS $15 per 100. Special Star Mating Barron White Leghorns and Mottled Anconus. Selected Utility Rocks an . ‘0. Beds. $_13 per loo—Selected Grade A Barron “’hlte chhorns and Mot- tied Anconae. Catalog free. FAIRVIEW POULTRY FARM 'Box 204 leeland, Michigan. yggnmsln calculus know that worms in chickens cause much sickneeeand losses? Do you know how to fill when worm 'I Do you know how to rernedy worm troub ea? How to avond them? Read the new, tree 64- go boo y Geo. . Lee, in- more "calculi, the ttumours oultlry 1‘ map, 811‘ 88, e C. 8 B 8 30 about the?m rtant troubles and diseases. not only of poo try but also of gs—lnformation :00 would have to on many dollars for. A million co ies trend requested. 1: one now free at the leading rug I: store in your town, or land stamp ‘ ID “on u, 60., Dept. l Omaha, Nab. Pure Bred Baby Chicks Our flocks have beon thoroughly culled for heavy egg production. 100%. live £32137??? 8. 0. W. LOQIIOI'HS 5 - t - Rocks 8.00 15.00 72.00 140.00 Catalog on request. Bank reference. Baby chicks with a future. THE A. D. RICHARDSON HATOHERV 8. Dundee. Michigan. We hit?! 'ifist‘the chicks you have been looking for. the e, strong, vigorous kind vfrom free range Rocks 1; ve been culled for heavy egg produc- . Es Bah fighigeidlreghorfs, A ti i Bede; re a puree -~ . - about? wk. n Box out“ 1511567 film W rjlcuéhvof Iceland,‘ntiohican. A 'the h tulog free. ‘ about in. the, tray. moving these in the center to the outside.‘ This‘aids in maintaining ,an' even temperature. particularly if there is an uneveness in temperature. a Cooling naturally takes place dur- ing turning unless the eggs are turn- ed by a mechanical device. They , should be turned and c'ooled twice a day frOm the third day until the eighteenth day when the chicks will begin to chip the eggs. The cooling operation gives the eggs a chance to absorb more oxygen from the fresh air. The time of cooling will vary with room temperatures and other such factors. It is safe to say that during the first week the eggs should not be cooled longer than five min- utes in a room at 60 degrees, but to- ward the latter part of the hatch 15 or 20 minutes should be all right. Ventilation and Moisture _ The careful observation or the evaporation of the egg will be the best guide to ventilation and humid- ity. An excess of moisture and lack of ventilation will reduce evapora- tion, consequently the air cell will re- main smaller than it normally should. When the egg is put in the machine the air cell is small, not over IA; of an inch deep. Under nor- mal conditions the air cell will be about 14 inch deep to 374 inch deep on the eighth and % inch by the fifteenth day. By the nineteenth day it will have grown to about 3% inch. The eggs should be candied frequently and the size of air cell ex- amined. This inspection should cover a number of eggs since a slight variation will exist in individual eggs due to shell texture. If insufficient moisture is being supplied it may be added by wetting down the floor and walls of the cel~ lar. It may be even necessary to moisten the eggs. This is frequent- ly done in case of duck eggs which require greater humidity than hen eggs. Candllng The eggs should be candied at least once and better twice during the hatch. The usual practice is to candle on the seventh and fourteenth days. The infertiles can all be taken out on the seventh day, leaving more room on the trais. 0n the four- teenth day any germs which have died can be taken out. This also gives one an opportunity to study the size of air cell. Infertile eggs re- moved at the end of the first Week are quite all right for food or for chick feeding purposes. 'During the hatching period leave the eggs quite undisturbed and main- tain an even temperature. When the hatclris complete remove the shells and eggs and allow the chicks to dry off. The incubator door may be opened to allow extra ventilation and lower the temperature. isscntials of Successful Hatches 1. Good eggs from good stock. 2. Fresh eggs hatch better than those that have been held. 3. The best machines are cheaper eventually. 4. Test the thermometer. 5. Be regular. Our next article will deal with pedigree hatching. ____7___._ FRUIT GRJOVVERS TO MEET AT BENTON HARBOR EVE-RAL hundred fruit growers and farmers will attend the meetings of the Berrien Cellnty- State Horticultural Society which will be held at Benton Harbor, Mich- igan, March 18th and 19th in the new R. B. Collis building on Elm Street. . . Exhibits of horticultural supplies and machinery will be a feature of the meetings. Space for these ex- hibits is in charge of James Hickey, Jr., Benton Harbor, Michigan. An interesting twoéday program has been arranged. To work more horses to the man helps get the most out of man labor. * * Ii! _ The farmer should be careful about buy— ing things which are above their pre- war prices unless they are expected to pay for themselves quickly. 3 i ill , The farmer who repairs machinery in winter, and uses rainy days effectively. puts himself ahead: of the driving duties .of spring.‘ ‘* “ ' " " """‘\‘-*'.’_L. J. O ‘ to help with that community ente rise ' y like to be useml.‘ i m: . ' ., , , ' * an - . ram »- / INDIGESTION -— Diarrhea —Leg Weakness—Grapes. It will pay you to 1601i Well to the digestion of your flock right. from the start. A Indigestion is responsible fol} most of the bowel troubles. Add Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-cje-E to the ration daily. Pan-a-ce-a contains Nil: Voms ica; that promotes digestion— calls into healthy action every little chick organ. Pan-a-ce-a contains Quassia‘, .which creates a healthy appetite. Pan-a-ce-a contains Iron to em rich the blood, essential to little chick growth. Pan-a-ce-a regulates the bowels -—keeps the Chick's system free from poisonous waste materials. No indigestion, no diarrhea, no leg weakness, no gapes, where Pan-a-ce-a is used. REMEMBER-afloat you My 6m? Dr. Hess product, 0129?. responsibility 8593 not end until you. are satisfied than ‘ Otherwise, return tha empty container to your dealer and get your money back} DR. HESS & CLARK, Inc., A‘shland, elite your investment is a profitable one. takes care at the little-chick ailments l k Elm: "l. V “MI—luau W], ,' “eggs 3 5/ was?» . Dn. POU ,Pufilluv lliii'l‘ . E‘HENbllAV A‘ \ VQ Barron fir Barredjloclrsm from 2 6 0 -2 8 9 strong and healthy, average guaranteed. do you wunt? Read our wood Brown Leghorns Anconas Males from 298-?04 ancestry. brnmis making uniform flocks the! high in egg production. 100 "a In short, we sell you pro ts—llow muci cabin! for "W n arr? ZEELAND, MICH., BOX B cm: ancestry; hens Every chick safe arrivn full information. BABY GHIGKS Echhdrd and Tom Barron W. Leghornr—Heavy Type Br horns—R. C. and S. C. Rhode Island Reds—Rhoda [clan Whites—Sheppard's Avicenna—Park 's Barred Rocks If yo‘n want pure bred chicks that shipped right, that grow and will ma prices and free catalog before you buy. Flocks are c'arefull icked on healthy. 100% Live Delivery—Postage Paid Satisfaction Guaranteed. Write Now. White Leghorn and Barred are hand strong an Rock bullets after May 1, at low prices. Knoil’s Hatchery, R. R. 12, Box 3., Holland, Mich. From World’s Greatest Lagers LOW PRICES—Catalog own Lee- are bred right, hatched right, and ke you a profit, get our new low culled and developed on free range. All chicks inspected, no cripples or weaklmgs. Every one ree Uncle Alb says it is well to ask people W l d K '8‘,“ accnzmreo ’BY inure. LEG- horns, v5,2301)“ .,$13.00 ;. Rocks and Beds Improved English Wh‘lte Leghorns. , year ' Box 0. $15.00; a live do very guaranteed. ir~ t. Joseph Amrter. Paw Paw, leh. PIONEER BABY CHICKS have stood the test and assure you of , } STRENGTH. VIGOR. and RAPID DEVELOPMENT. x' By our rigid system of culling and pedigreed matings our flocks are ' , being improved each year. Once a customer always a “Last year I was more than satisfied With your stock, but this am Just surpnsed."-—J. . \Yrite for full particulars on pedigree, etc: PIONEER POULTRV FARM R. R. 10 s. e. um ransom! omens mercena- tons, Minorcae $16.00 fully chillet‘iflst customer. a T., ' SteVensvdle. Michigan. “mu. m, an ock on free WEBSTER. range. Beth, niobium. :‘ 'Q'rsae. a; ‘ é’LL‘Avéu - long. a . L .. Farmer’s Buying Power Is Increasing The Farmer Who Held His Hogs Makes Nice Profit By W. W. FOOTE. Market Editor. ' ARMERS are getting nearer a F square deal in what they buy and sell than heretofore, and they are spending more money.for form equipment and other things than in recent years. Chicago mail order houses are making greatlynn— creased sales, and one such big nrm reports sales for the first two months this year aggregating $43,114,682, showing an increase of nearly 16 per cent over sales made in the same time last year. Wonderful things have taken place recently in the hog market, and a boom of extraordinary proportions has occurred, far ex- ceeding anything anticipated by most owners. Cattle, too have been sell- ing extremely well at lately advanced prices, while prime lambs sold a short time ago for $18.25 per 100 pounds. making handsome returns to OWners. The grain markets too are in strong position. with wheat reacting after temporary breaks in prices, and sell~ ing for May delivery within a short: time above $2 a bushel. That. ap— pears to many people a fair price, and thus far it has broken sharply every time it has touched that figure. Of course. it is impOssible to tell how high it will go, and there is al- ways the possibility of holding on too According to most accounts, there is the promise of a normal acreage of the several grains, with some pointers of an increased wheat and corn acreage. ln parts of lowa loan companies are lending $100 an acre on good farm land and $125 an acre on the best farms. As a general rule, these companies do not. loan more. than 40 per cent. on land valu- ations; so it is inferred that the best. farms are appraised at from $250 to $300 an acre. The number of farm foreclosures is fast decreasing, and fewer farmers are borrowing money to buy additional acres. In short, farmers are becoming more conserva— tive. and the “little farm well tilled” is more popular than it was a~fcw years ago. Silos. tractors and im— proved farm machinery are the win— ners these days. and every acre is Worked by advanced farmers so as to produce as much as possible. Largo Trading in Grain Much of the time there is lively trading in grain on the (‘hicago Board of Trade. mainly in wheat, as has been the rule for many weeks, and wheat prices are far higher than a year ago, Whether the market is advancing or declining. After wheat approaches the $2 a bushel figure it collapses on liquidation and short selling, and late sales of May wheat Were made around $1.80, that price comparing with $1.11 a year ago. Trade has gone over to the July fu- ture largely, with late sales at $1.62. Unquostionably the remarkable boom in the different grains has checked purchases. and a few days agoa break in rye to $1.57 for May de— livery brought in the first export de— mand of consequence in several, days, sales at the seaboard being estimated at 300,000 bushels. including a cargo to Norway for May shipment. A year ago May rye was selling at 71%; cents. Oats for May delivery sell around 54% cents, comparing With 47 cents a year ago; while May corn cells at $1.31, comparing with 81 cents a year ago. Flour follows the same course as wheat, and it dropped 30 cents the other day with the de- cline in wheat. ‘ Crop expert Michaels says: “The wheat trade has reached a, stage where theories of scarcity are not working out fast enough to suit the average operator. Larger export clearances, smaller receipts, and heavy foreign buying are said to be necesary to revive general interest on there is a mixed situation in, corn and the bullside. In the coarse grains a very bearish feeling in oats. The large supplies are a big factor in ln—‘v fluencing trade sentiment." Wonderful Advance, in Hogs .. Many times the Writer has advtsed farmers to hold on to their boss and mature them well. this 1' based on the well authenticated fact that the great bulk of the swine in the corn belt states had been mostly marketed much earlier than usual with a view of saving the feeding of high—priced corn. Many farmers were afraid that hogs would not advance much in prices, and so many were of this belief that by shitting the mar- ket with light weight hogs they brought about the recent abnormal conditions, prices on some days ad- vancing as much as 50 cents per 100 pounds. It now looks like a hog scarcity which will put prices for fresh and cured hogs products to such‘higlr levels as to curtail their consumption. Already they have had big advances, and more may be expected to follow. The exports of provisions have been for weeks run— ning much smaller than a year ago. Hogs marketed in Chicago recently have averaged 225 pounds. being four pounds lighter than a year ago and seven pounds lighter than the five year average for corresponding weeks. The spread in prices has nar- rowed materially. and the bulk of the hogs sell Within a range of 45 cents, ‘with heavy butchers bringing only 20 cents above the best light bacon weights. It is startling to look back and recall that a year ago hogs were selling" at $6.25 to $7.55. Com— bined receipts in twenty markets for the year to late date amount to 8,— 777,000 hogs, comparing with 9,641,— 000 a year ago and 6,874,000 for the corresponding time'in 1922. A short time ago hogs sold at $12.90 to $14.25, comparing with $10.90 to $12.40 a week earlier. Only 132,466 hogs were received in Chicago last week, comparing with 197.297 a week earlier and 193,694 a year ago. Eastern shippers took half of the week’s receipts. Fat (‘attlc Good Sellers With smaller receipts of cattle in Chicago recently, prices—\have had a rise, so far as the medium to good grades were concerned, the best lots selling at no more than steady prices. The production of beef is profitable where carried on properly, and exper— ienced stock feedcrs are making it Average cattle prices advanced 25 pay well to market choice yearlings. cents during the first week of March, with the bulk of the steers going at $8.75 to $11.25, common steers at $7.65 to $8 and the best yearlings at $11.25 to $12.25, while the best -’ heavy steers sold at $11.50. Stock-. ers and feeders sold mostly at 36.7 5 to $8, a. few going as high as $8.80 to $8.76. Owners of fat steers are mak—' ing good profits. . - ‘ Poor Alfalfa Seed Several states have met. with such- serious losses from the use of poor alfalfa seed that steps have been tak- en to remedy thematter, and it has been demonstrated beyond a doubt. that the farmerwho considers price alone in buying seed and gets the cheapest seed offered gets a Small chance of obtaining. good seed. Al— falfa 'Seed can be had this year high in quality at reasonable prices, but it must be bought from ~dependable‘ sources, and farmers are cautioned to. beware of price bargains and £111ch advertising. To protect the grower and to place the alfalfa crop on a safe basis, farmers have formed a cooperative organization, the Federr ated Seed Service, and arrangements have been made for the distribution of alfalfa seeds of known origin, in-‘ cluding hardy varieties, that are cer- tified as to source and quality. Ac- cording to J. F. Cox, executive secre— tary of the Federated Seed Service, alfalfa growers have had nearly 1,000,000 acres of this crop die from winter kill, causing a loss of more than $10,000,000, all because they unwisely bought 15,000,000 pounds of unadapted Argentine seed. Mr. Cox says the failures of alfalfa where severe winters occur are largely due to the use of seed produced in mild regions. He advises farmers to get adapted seed of known origin as well as high purity. Failures have been so common that in the alfalfa grow- ing regions there is onesfourth less alfalfa grown in this country than there was ten years ago, according to Mr. Cox’s information. Failures from unadapted seed became so com— mon in Michigan that a law was pass— ed establishing the right to’ have the source of the seed known. As a re— sult the acreage has been greatly in— creased in that state. This informa- tion has been obtained from an in-r terview published in the Chicago Tri— bune. “'HEAT In spite of the recent slumps the wheat market is full of believers that prices will again advance as high as they have been at~any time during the last few months, and there are many who see prices at. new high levels. During the fortnight ending Saturday, March 7, prices advanced to $2 a bushel but before the close were down 18 cents. - THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMARY and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks @180 and One Year ago I Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit March 9 March 9 Feb. 24 1 yr. ago WHEAT— ‘ No. 2 Red $1.81 $1.80@1.83 $1.90 $1.12 No. 2 White 1.81 1.80@ 1.83 1.90 1.13 5 No. 2 Mixed 1.81 ‘ 1.90 1.12% CORN-- No. 8 Yellow 1.26 1.17 @ 1.20 1.25 .83 N0. 4 Yellow 1.21 1.11 @ 1.15 1.20 .80 uA’lb-—- No, .2 white , .58 .53@ .54 .55 .51 n o. 3 White .57 .48@ .52 .54 RYE-w Cash No. 2 1.45 1.55 , .71 BEAN o—-—-‘ C. H. P. th. 6.00@6.10 6.65@6.75 6.10@6.15 4.75 'PO'I‘ATOES— Per th. 1.14@1.17 1.15@1.25 1.06 1.48@1.50 HA 1—- No.1 Tim. 16@17 20@22~ 16@.l7 23.50am No. 2 Tim. 14@15 16@ 18 l4@15_. 21.00'@22 No. 1 Clover 14 15 18@17 14 15 20.5_O@21 Light Mixed 15 16 .1’8@2AO '- 4 15 18 22.50@28 V Tuesday,-March» 10.—-Wheat and oats steady. Corn unchanged. Bean mu, ket firmtarotntma incomme- cattle .".~ . V ‘ _ mm»flm~m slow- ‘to steady. Hogs undamaged. The receipts of corn exceed the den ' mum! and the. market is lower and ' easy. OATS Oats are not in good demand at- present and the market is ea”. BYE Following the trend of other grains rye is easy at lower prices. EANS B . Prices in the Detroit bean market advanced during the fore part of the fortnight ending March ‘7 but last week an easy feeling came into the market and prices declined. The present low leyel' of prices at Detroit . plainly indicate that the law of sup- ply and demand has little to do with determining what they shall be. POTATOES , Bad roads are responsible for a dc— rcllne 1n the receipts of potatoes and at the same time there is a fair (19- ' mand. The market is firm and un- changed. ‘ mt—m ‘ THE LIVE STOCK MARKED MICHIGAN CENTRAL STOCK YARDS ~Detroit,-Mar. lO,-—Ma.rket strong, full .and steady. Good to choice yearllnss. dry fed, $9.50@10.50; best heavy steers, dry ted, $8.75@9.50; best handy Weight butcher steers, $7.75@9; mixed steers and, . heifers, >$6.50@7.75; handy light butchers, $s@6.75; light butchers, “@5115; boat cows, $5.25@6.25; butcher cows, 54.250 5.25; common cows, $3@3.50; canners. $2.25@3; choice light bulls, “($8.50; heavy bulls, $4.50@5.50; stock bulls, $46175; feeders, $6697.25; feeders, $3© 7.25; stockers, $5.25@6.50; mllkers and springers,‘ $45 @70, I Veal Calves~—-Market, one dollar lower. Best, $14@14.50; others, “@1350. ‘ Sheep and Lambs—Market. twenty-dye cents lower and slow. Best lambs, $17.50; fair lambs, $16@16.75; light to common lambs, $9@13.75; yearlings, 13.75; fair to good sheep, $8@8.75; culls and common, “@625. Hogs—Market prospects, 10 cents lower. Mixed hogs, $14.15@14.25. CHlCAGO.——(U. S. Department of Ag— riculture) Hogs—Light ‘and light butchers strong; best 220-lb average, $24.25; bulk 175 to 225—lb average, $14@14.10;‘150- 160—lb avorag‘e, mostly $13.75@13.90; heavy butchers, 5 to 10c lower; bulk 314 @14.15; estimated holdings, 4,000; heavy— weights, $13.80@14.20; medium weight. $13.75@14.25; slaughter pigs, 6121? $13.15. Cattle—Compared with two weeks ago, better grade heavy steers, slow, weak, heifers, yearlings, stockers and feeders, 25 to 40¢ higher; fat she stock 25 to 356 up; spots more; calves steady to 50¢ higher; mostly 500 up; heavy steers, $11.60; average weight 1,406 pounds; best long yearlings. $12.35: handy weights, $12; bulk prices follow: 30d steers, $8.75@10.75; fat COWC, ".750 6,75; heifers, §7@8.50; manners and cut- ters, $3.26@4, Veal calves.~—$11.50012; feeders, $7@7.75. Sheep.~—Compared with week ago follows: Lambs—«Strong to 250 higher; fat sheep, title to $1 higher; feeding lambs, 25c higher; week bulk prices follow: Desirable weight wool“ lambs, $17.50@18; top, $18.25, extremely heavy kind, $15,50@16; recently sham lambs, 313.50@14.50; fail sham, 816; m ewes, $9610.50; lmbs, $16.76@17.76. EAST BUFFALO." C a t t. 1 e wActlve. strong, shipping steers, $8@10.50; bump- ers. $9.50@9.75; readings 88.50@lz.50; heifers, $4.50@8.60; fair to choice can, $3@8.60;¥ cannm and cutters. $293; bulls, 33.2666; smokers and feeds“. 8‘ @7; fresh cows and swingers, active and strong, .330@110 per head. Galvan—w slow; choice, 31 lower; 114506315; fair to good, 412.5016)“; culls, 38@12; heavy. $6@8; grassers, “@5. .............---_.. N- i r..- \Veek of March 15 HE week of March 15 begins in Michigan with clearing weather and colder temperaturesp Tem: peratures during the greater share of 7 the week will average from mum! to considerablybolow, - r r» - I .. . About. Tuesday there. will he a ‘ chisel”: that w tux-es in be tit 1.01? ' $13.25@- feeding and shcamg’ $1 lOWer; I slight mo crating 01-:‘thsflfempgi’y .’ a V e “a.-- week f enema “jet snow Will visit- the, atron‘g’wmds. ' ‘ Week of March 22 ' If the cold weather of the past storm period passes off normally and does not hover over the Lake region, temperatures will moderate rapidly in Michian during the early part of this week. Closely . following this warm-wave will come generous ruins changing later to sleet and finally to snow as the center passes this state and the temperatures fall. With this storm will also come severe gales and local wind storms that 'will have its trail long after it passes. Follow- fng the'middle part of this week the skies will clear and temperatures generally will drop to lower read- ings. The barometer will remain moderately high for the next few days and little or no precipitation may be..expected during last days of this week and during early part of next week. ' Spring Weathei' The average weather conditions for the months oi! April, May and June will be very active in stormi- ness, including rain, sleet, snow and high winds. For the farm country as a. whole there will be some occa- sion for dissatisfaction and it is quite probable that Congress will take an unfavorable view towards a farmers’ bill. tion of trade activities and in some sections this will amount to depres- sion or disorganization. The finan- cial circumstances will generally ben- efit and taxation may be reduced. Filled 40 Silos— {33? Never Plugged ‘ °” Man " “like f1leme / U. S. Gov't it'qu u... “'" II I! n i (S "— . 35.2. messiah "h’ PAH-'1: MACHINE COMPANY mhhthmm. I. Y. _ .7 _ I'Mru‘ a :4-n\/.\“-"‘\‘. rm VII 78' Select Chicks It you want REAL chicks from KNOWN breeders of superior merit, we have them. W. and, B. Rocks, W. and Br. Leghorns, R. I. Reds, W. Wyandottes, An- conas'. SPECIAL OFFERS. A square deal guaranteed. HAIGHT HATCHERY Cedar Springs, Mich. IKING‘ HICKS Minot!- , c a. Sturdy nth-Viking. . to] dock: artfully selected and -“w‘--\" k . . bred for router g noodles. : 33M { Proporly tolled n lite“ glint M9” "‘ summertime! rail... ' Ivy nu“... \ BI vn ' -’ chicks gu- Prlou 0-0»- tlonol. Write for catalog now. Rochester Chick Hatchery. Box 0. Rochester, Minn. WHY-NOT-TR mum's unwanted White Lec- chkhhrmrnnfieunedandwted Prion low for Quality chinks. Cat- horn hens. aloe free. KABBTEN'S FARM Iceland Miohl on. Box x .ARichardson’s... Rocky Ridge Pure Parks Strain Barred Rock Baby Chicks $ 1 6.00 per 1 00 HANOVER. - - woman" @FAISAQELEE‘ 1X i from Molten-er L'an There will be a marked reten- T i 9' if; v.. '- I '. '410‘ 'l‘W’ o Arsenate of Lead k , GRADE Standard CHeld . ‘3. CHigh [Dr j ,1 Amaze" ' certagh% ‘ ~ 39 a»? 10175 1111'“ Q1151”? 13 Bordeaux Mixture THE GRASSELLI CHEMICAL COMPANY._ CLEVELAND GRAS SELLI v - A' “:6. ‘ ~', /. ‘ I . .35 Q \ \ dgé‘ For 86 years, GRASSELLI GRADE has been a standard by which ' to measure chemical products. Therefore. when this Company took up the manufacture of In- secticides and Fungicides 15 years ago, it had more than 71 years manufacturing experience to build on. GRASSELLI Spray Products are made with one, and only one. consideration in mindz—to eliminate experiment and give the best return to the user. . in every fruit-growing and farming section, you will find a dis— tributor for GRASSELLI GRADE--— Calcium Arsenate Lime Sulphur Casein Spreader Fou nded in 1839 RADE InSBCticidcs and“Fu719iCidC§ ‘ ' 0d .ed from lendid flocks of the hest strains. Grade Chimgiedfiirlay ondspcuremlly i'nsgected5 851d selected. ‘ PBDODYNI "Solvent." New way. Pain im- , ateiy vanishes. Acts like magic on worst Bunions. Imp Madly disappear. SENT on TRI To have: we’ll gl arrange to send you a box of “Solvent” to try for your own humon. omnds are sending; Simply m “I want to try PEDODYN . MY WMINN.WmStom. rm shim nu llllillliflg nunuass FARMERS Excflllfiig RATE PER WORD—One Issue or. Two Issues 150, Four Issues 250. No advertisement less than ten words. Groups of on. initial or abbrevia— tion count as one war _ Cash in advance from...“ advertiser-I in this department, no exceptions and no 3 llllfl discounts. . ._. Forum close Monday noon proceeding date of issue. Address: MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. Mt. elections. Michigan. mmmuuumnunuunuulmmnmm HELP WANTED ADDITIONAL SALESMEN WANTED FOR UN- occupied territories. Our proposition is an un- .. - ' ‘°’ “’5 “E”: with: r can]; war 11 5 as y wor 1.13 gm r131 M5110 go nut. Minne— n on 1' . Inc, 61 First Ave. g E l l g E E WANTED: A BLACKSMITH FOR STOCK Farm. Must be expert horse ahoer and capable and experienced in every respect. Must also be 0‘ to ware: par:l line at general finrm work. we re gen . an ry 81M exper ence. and . in first le er. ddrms Box 239. Care of Business Farmer. - .--P l es on 50 0 1000 wig“ (int-Ira, Ros prf...... "$1.00 $13.00 $82.00 $120.00 W W. - '- -- 12-33 as: sass White Rock: a W ndocm Meek areas . . . . Will“ ‘ ‘11" “3‘06”. Sufi “nonunion. ... .. . 9.00 11.00 82.00 180.00 Mixed 100. A 12. 25 deposit books your order for future delivery. Refer- ence: to Savings ank. THE HOWELL MTGHERY. Dept. 58, Howell. Michigan 70 ACRE FARM FOR SALE NEAR FRANK- fort. Michigan. Goon house, ham and garage; a pie and cherr orchard. For terms write Robert my. Elberta. ichigan. FOR SALE—MY 80 ACRE FARM. GOOD buildin dark loam sell. Also 400 acres ms- ture lan watered and fenced. For .pnrticu rs write John Campbell, Harris-wile. Michigan. FOR SAW—IMPROVED FARMS. RANCHES. Any state. List free. I. . Thompson & Company, 3621 S. State Street, Chicago, Illinois. FOR BAKE—4.20 ACRE FARM. GOOD SOIL, timber, lighting system. Will sell machinery farm. Four miles from Richmond, ‘ Mrs. Alvah Seaman. Richmond, Michigan. SEED SEED CORN AND. SEED OATS. MY DRYING house is filled mth Clement's Improved White . t a. Ducan's yellow (lent seed _¥ on nah ear tasted, iarnnteed genumlfion from high eldm tock _ egisteijed and Worthy t8. , vy yielders With a s mow. For prices write Paul C. Clement. Button. Estonian. CHOICE snap conN—iooo an. loo-DAY C New Y ffiti Euro lim'Wh't Ca un o : u. , agariy’w 1923 (gov. ell germination." well. for rice. mm lo and . Order earl to save pm. Skull Farm. Box 20. Tullytiiwn. Buck: 00.. Pa. HARDY .SOUTH DAKOTA No. . aged direct to consumer from coun in which it ‘18 grow-n. Send for sum les an circular. Faith Warehouse Company, Faitlh. So. Duk. DAHLIAS—lli FOR 81; 10 IRIS MIXED ladioli blooming size 81. Her 1 2 A LFA L FA 31: 75 G . . d3 lent: equally low prices, Prepaid. Circular free. 32.. L. Milarch. Copenush, Michigan. MANCHU SOY BEANS—CHOICE RECLEANED from certtfled need. 98 germination. $2.56 fier bushel; ban free. V scanner Seed once, Ghampeig'n. MODERN YOUNG MAN FOB FARM WORK. machinery}??? ected. Schiller Aura. wages exp * Remus. FARMLANDS ATTENTION FARMERS IF YOU ARE LOGATED within 60 miles from the city of Detroit and you want to trade Your firm for Detroit property _ business elm farms with us. with a re- in selling farm nery. Write to the Home pony. 8580 Joe. Gamma. . WEALTHY WESTERN NEW IORK FFEBS the tanner cheap famfifiood markets omd low taxes (‘ood schools, es mi wa’. u . also. ro roads];I Fine gone: hair ad [(23 - esorts. ome wi gas tax Womm ' meal. ' w“ “d . _ is growin leo- gong. p tr run and sunshine. 8 ort mil: ' - our prices! N. Y. Farm Agency. WEI;- EARLIEST DENT SEED CORN, 94 % GERMIN- alien. Also hardy elfalh seed. Sam Bober, Nowell, South Dakota. CE TIFIED WOLVERINE OATS. CERTIFIED A B t Beans. I’ostaihcnrd brings particulate. Cook, Owomo. IMPROVED ROBUST BEANS, GENUINE WOL- verine Outs. Brookside Farms. Wheeler. Mich. MANGHU Y BEANS—1024 CROP. ENOS Stewart, .exmzto' n. Ill. REGISTERED WOLVEBINE O A T S—MICH- iun'l bait. O. D. Finkbeiner, Clinton. Zach. FRUIT FLORIDA CHANGES DIRECT TO YOU FROM Our grove, assorted box. containing 48 oranges, gonna fruit, .20 um ennes 48 knmquats, 33: mt 1e , es pal $3.90. Florida Oranze Packing 0., mpa. Fla LIVE STOCK of L 36- ‘ They". Three Rivers, Mich. RED RksrnERRmS. CUTIEEM’SIZ.60 PER thousand plants. any mount nder five hun- dred “Mi. per hundred, .0003: is for S at the farm Tony Mots, St. 0 , Mich. Rt. ELDORADO BLACKBERRY PLANTS—THE only real commercial variety. A Money Maker. 100 post id 1‘300. Wholesale prices on qnan» i. L. eeler, Elbetta, Michigan. titles. ALFRED BLACKBERRIES ARE 1% INCH-ES long. Hardy, sweet. Catalogue Free. George Simmer, New iufl'alo, Michigan, Box 16. BUY NURSERY STOCK DIRECT FROM grower. Save agent‘s commission. Send for catalog. Kankukee Nursery, Kankakee, Illinois. POUI/I‘RY SIEB'S QUALITY GUARANTEED TO LIVE liulw Chicks. Guarantee sent with each order. in leading varieties. Write for catalogue. Sieb'l Hatchery. Box 634. Lincoln. Ill. PURE OWEN FARM STRAIN SINGLE COMB Reds. Eggs $3.50 and 5.00 per 15 and 810 per 100. Chicks $20 per 100. F‘ine 5131 color. Mrs. Lloyd Algoe. Ortonville, Mic . . BABY (‘lll(lKS—~-TANCRED BARRON lmghornn and Sheppard Anconas. High stock. (‘hioks insured for one week. OI. no free. M. D. Wyngardcn. R. B4, Zeeland, Mich. TANCRED WHITE LEGHORNS, ORPING N's. .Barr Rocks. State Fair Winners. filo. right. Write. F. Bailey. Montgomay, Michigan. WHITE WYANDO'I‘TES~~BOOKING ADVANCE egg orders from 8 quality matings and utility flock. Stock all sold. Fred Ilerlin. Allen. Mich. ‘VHITE VVYANDO’I‘TE COCKERELS, $3.00 AND 0'. 00 each. Eggs $1.50 for 15. Seven dol— 100. l". V. Roberts. Salem, Michigan. CHICKS GUARANTEED:——WHY NOT TBY some? 100% safe arrival. 'l‘oluca Hatchery. Toluca. Ill. JERSEY BLACK GIANTS EGGS. nin stock. $2.00 per .15. Minnn , Illinois. hire for PRIZE WIN‘ Gus Grassman. lil'Fl“ ORI‘ING’I‘ON COCKERELS. (TOOK AND l‘nnway's strain. A. J. lircwhaker, Elsie. Mich. PURE liREl) MAMMOTH WHITE HOLLAND Turkey hens for sale, $6 apiece. Frank Von- (lrasek. R. 19., Mesick, Michigan. PURE VVIll'I‘E HOLLAND TUBKEYS AND “Toulouse Geese. Alden Whitcomb, Byron Center. . 1r ngan. GIANT [KRONZE TURKEYS. GOLD BANK strain. (‘howc_heavy birds. large hone. well null‘kl‘d. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mrs. l’erry Stehhins. Saranac. Mich. A FEW EXCELLENT THOROUGHBRED GIANT Bronze turkeys left for sale yet. Healthy. highly bronzpd blrds. . Write for Roht. Emcrlck, llarnsville. Mic rticulars. Mrs. 11. FOR SALE—«MAMMOTH BRONZE TUBKEY& M_\;Vrito for prices. Mrs. H. D. Horton. Filion. it-nglm. PURE—BRED AFRICAN GEESFr—Mra. Juli“! Schuetx. RB. Madison, Wis. '1 PET STOCK li‘lll‘lMlSll GIANT RABBITS, Osvar Richer, Elkton, Michigan, A FINE YOUNG llOUND WELL STARTED ON FOX. B. G. Hardy, Boon, Michigan. $2.00 EACH. RAW FURS RAW F‘URS——MUSKRAT._ BADGER, WEASE \Vhite or. Brown. Farr assortment. Prom returns. Shipments held separate on re nest. Hold separate notice must accompany furs. ost- egc and Express mild. We solicit your shipments. Davis L. Dutcher. Bennington, Mich. TOBACCO IIOM‘ESI’UN TOBACCO—C H E W I N G pounds 31.50, ten $2.50. S ’ $1.25, ten _ 2. ‘0. Pipe Free. Ps ceived. Satisfaction Gnaran e n t n c k , Farmer's Assomation, Paducah. Kentucky. TOBACCO—fiKENTUCKY’S PRIDE; E X T B flne chewmg 10 )oundx, :3,- gmoln‘ng, 1 ounds, $2; 20 noun 3. $3.50. Farmers Club. mytleld, Ky. IIOMESPUN TO] 1.50; 10432. Mild lO-Sl.50. Bardwell, y. w CHEWING 5 LB , lbs. 81.2 : Gupton. ACCO. _ 5. Smoking, 5 ’ay when received. F. "‘4 HAY AND STRAW HAY, STRAW. & .AI.FALFfAz——WRITE US FOR prices. Consignments sohcxted. Prompt returns. eadquarters for ' answered. H Digests: Benson 00., 33.. So. e. Meat scraps. J. A. LaSalle. Chicago, Ill. Inquiriw MISCELLANEOUS LD MONEY W'AN'I‘ED—WE PAID $2,500.00 0 for one silver dollar Mr. _Manmng, of Albany N, Y. We buy all rare cams and pay highqg‘ ash premiums. Send 4c for large Coin (fireman May mean much profit to on. Numismatic Bank, Dept 613, Fort Worth, one. 100 ASPIRIN TABLETS. 45c PREPAID. GUAR- anteed Sample Free. Other Guaranteed Tab— lets and pills directio you at wholesale prices. Agents wanted Write for list. Gosney. New Dorp. New York. BARREL LOTS SLIGHTLX DAMAGED CROOK- cry, hotel (:mnaware cookmgwnre. glassware, etc. Shipped direct from f'acto to consumer. Write for particulars. E. Swasey v 00.. Portland. Maine. ASH PAID FOR FALSE TEETH. PLATIN C old marinate points, disca' rded jaws and 0 old. Mai to. Hoke Smeltma & Re '3 Co. tsego, Mich—im- NEW TRIPLEX AUTO- Also fire dried seed com. SAiléE. OR TRADE. Prices free. Har- nitter, extra parts. usrter brings sample ears 0 Haws, Popular Grove, Ill. DRED DOLLARS YEARLY PROFIT F1223: make hens. Book by Prof. A. Gorbeu. Price $1.00. James Anthony. Moorestown. Mich. ‘ I ' . NOTES. CLAIMS COLLECTED m YOU WANT GUERNSEY—11mm}; CALVES “swig? In world. No cherggn um... 00;. write L Torwilhzet. In. Wauwutosu. Wis. lama“ May’s Collection Agency. erect. Ky. ‘ ' m was. MAKE moan mom. SWINE TfiE’iule Salem, IlL A . I. C. AND CHESTER WHITE PEDIGREED 8134 INDIANA SILO .50. N . 10 lg. £16 per pair no kin. W for oir- F0 02 Senator 830. mm. gate; 1 Baobab. . mall Bgnzo . me an. THE IVO-SAN LABORATORY, 218 Prospect Ave., Dept. 27, Cleveland, Ohioe Express Station ........ ..... State. ‘ - a t to order larger quantity, . If you W wreckage wanteqpeip, . ‘ ’ mango-1b. Pg? ..... ..$18'.00 ‘A' d -6c‘ ’«mora west (if Rockieé or Canada Four, 15-11). Pm....”1 . Worm Destroyer Livestock Conditioner Save One-Half the Cost WANT you to see for yourself how you can MAKE YOUR OWN worm destroyer and conditioner—how you can make a BETTER preparation than you can buy ready-mixed, and how you can SAVE HALF the usual cost. All I.am going to ask you to do is to put 25c (stamps or coin) in an envelope, fill out the coupon below—mail it to me and I will send you enough WORMIX——my new, concentrated rem- edy, to make 5 lbs. of the best worm destroyer, tonic and conditioner ever offered to live stock owners. This will last 10 hogs or 10 sheep, No More “buns—Lamb Losm‘s Stopped "I lost fron. one to fiw- head of lambs and some sheep i-very full. Tried everything; nothing helped. Then I star-fwd them on “’ormiy and haven't lost a 1.1me or sheep slut-u. nor have i had one that was even Slt‘k. .Uréo ft-(l it to my homes. cattle and to ' hogs: they will leave plain salt for \Vormix any time. All my stock are now free from worms. have good appetites and 1111 look fine. And they just doctoer themselves with \Vormix." DANlEL E. \VALLACE, Oak Hill, 0. Cleans \Vot'ms from Hogs "After feeding erery remedy I ever heard of. I gave my hogs “'ormix to clean out the worms. Have fed it 3 years. As long us l mu» get \Vormix, I will use nothing else. \Vormix destroys norms, helps to foster gains and costs only half.” ‘ FRANK If. JONES, Wabash, Ind. Keep Sheep Thrifty “From what I know of Wormix now, I shall nt-ycr be without it. It is just tine for sheep.” E. J. STEVENS, Hillsdnle, Mich. \Vorms Gone—Condition Back “1 have been feeding \Vormix to eight head of cattle and forty hogs, some of which were in poor condition—probath wormy. As a result, I can re- port decided improvements in appetite and digestion; —the animals gained in rigor and showed better con— - - - l . . Mm” “enemy r. w. ALEXANDER, Vassar, Mich. A Better Hog Remedy at Half Usual Cost "I have fed quite a number of difl‘erent kinds of worm destroyers, but for the lost two years I have been feeding Wormix. It IS the best I ever used— l o the cheapest. asRecently a number of men who. have seen my herd of hogs and noted their fine condition have asked me , what I did to keep them so. When I told them '.', the ordered some immediately. waggi-inix (lyoefs tllie busingss and saves the feeder st . tier remc res.” _ ‘ M" the CO 3 0 c. c. WINKLER. Potosr. ‘Vls. 3-14-25 1 sed find 25c. for which please send 0333931 by parcel post your Trial Package of ORMIX—enough to make five pounds of New Improved Medicated Salt. indicate - I use; 15 b. Pkg I 00 ,Jy h. ' Eafih 15 lbs. of Wormix makes enough to last 100 sheep, or 2 horses or cows—for 30 days so you can PROVE for yourself that WORMIX is all I say it is and that it SAVES HALF the usual cost. Only after 30 years’ experience as a veterinary chemist was I able to perfect this new WORM REMEDY, and I can say to you, positively, it is the best, most effective ,and succesful worm destroyer, tonic. and conditioner ever offered to livestock owners-— I’ll-Prove It, or No Pay ‘ g . I have compounded a great many different worm remedies—mar» keted millions of pounds, but never in my 30 years of laboratory work have I produced one so thoroughly effective, so economical in cost and so satisfactory as WORMIX. First, it gives prompt results. Second, it givespermanent results. Third, it savesHALF the cost of other worm remedies. You do not have to dose each animal individually. YOur stock “doctor themselves”. J WORMIX not only rids your stock of stomach and intestinal worms, but it KEEPS THEM FREE fromthese dangerous destructive parasites—it PREVENTS reinfestation, and that is the only way you can permanently rid your animals of these costly pests. Good alike for Sheep, Hogs, Horses, Cattle and Goats. You cannot afford to let this opportunity go by to PROVE to your—7 self that there is a POSITIVE, sure way to conquer worms in your live stock, when all it costs is 25c. Read what those who have tried it say. 50 Years Breeder of Pure-Bred Sheep , No More Worms in His Lambs "I have had a lot of worm trou- "I have had 35 years’ experi- ble and lamb losses in my 50 ence with sheep and am raising years of purebred sheep breeding. purebred Shropshires. My great— so when Mr. Feil wrote me about est drawback has been stomach his new WORMIX I ordered -worms. I have used the usual some. At that time I had 300 remedies, even gasoline, nicotine sheep, including 120 lambs, most and blue stone, with only tempo- of them registered, and I was rary results. A year ago I tried having lots of worm trouble. Soon WORMIX—added salt to it as di- there was a marked improvement. rected and gave my flock free ac- There isn’t a sign of worms in cesslto it. In four. days worms the flock now. Wormix has showed in the droppings. Shortly proved the best remedy I have all lambs seemed rid_ of the pests. ever tested. I was impressed I have not seen a Sign of worms with the ease of feeding it—stock since. My sheep are healthy and doctor themselves, and its cost is thrifty. I consider Wormix the only about half that of other one best means of conquering our preparations.”—ll. P. Sherman, worst enemy. Every Sheepman Alfred Station, N. Y. ought to feed it."—E. W. Wilcox. Crosby, Pa. L; .P.SHERMAN Alfred Station, N. Y. Your Animals Doctor Themselves One of the big advantages of \VORMIX is in the fact that you do not have to starve, drench or dose each animal. You simply put it where your animals can have free access to it and they doctor themselves. 'Ihis not only SAVES you a, dirty, disagreeable job, but it also INSURES permanent results, because the only way you can permanently get rid of worms in live stock is by using a remedy to which they can have constant free access, and thus prevent the re-infestation which goes on daily until pastures, feed-lots, etc., are free from worm infection. Wormix PREVENI‘S rein- - testation. without starving, dosing or drenching. SEND ONLY 25 CENTS I have made it so easy for you to find. out-how you canstop your losses from worms in your live stock and also how you can save about HALF the usual cost, that I don’t see how any farmer can possibly fail to fill out the coupOn and mail it at once. The 250 merely covers packing and postage. Sendit today and you will say later it saved you a_good many dollars. If you prefer to send for a full sized package, do so. Your money wlll be re- funded If It does not prove entlrely satlsfactory. See prepaid prices below. E. w. WILCOX Breeder of Registered Shropshires. Formerly- practiclng veterinarian. One 15 lbs pkge.——enough to make 100 lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Four 15 lbs. pkges.-enough to make 400 lbs. . . . . . . . . . .......‘ On 90 lbs. pkge.—enough to maize 600 lbs. (Add (to lb. more west of Rockies.) age or goatseor 25. homes or cattle, two months. rue. wow-LABORATORY ‘ ‘ ' R. 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