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of Michigap State College for Farm-
ers’ DaY. an annual event at the col-

lege, which this year has been set

for ‘July 31. .

Several events being planned will
have unusual interest. One of these
is the address of President Kenyon
L. Butterfleld in the afternoon,
which ‘will be the first time he has
addressed a summer crowd. Of farm-
ers since taking oflice last fall. The
subject of his address has not been
announced. *

In addition to President But-ter-
field another speaker. probably from
outside the state will be on the pro-;
gram. The talks of these two are
the only addresses "being planned
for the day as the planners of the

‘ program believe that a series of ad-

dressee which occupy a good part of

‘ the afternoon are tiresome to the

visitors. Dean of Agriculture R.‘ S.
Shaw of theicollege is to preside and
a band is to give a concert. In past
years the Rec band of Lansing,
which is known to thousands in the
state as the result of its programs

‘ being broadcast from the Bee Motor

Car company broadcasting station,
WREO has played at Farmers’ Day
but no definite announcement has
yet been made as to what organiza-
tion will provide - the music this
year.

Another event planned which
will be unique in Farmers’ Day cele-
bration in this state will be a con-
test to determine the championship
in the pulling ability of teams of
horses. Because oi! the great
strength of horses used for drawing
drays and such work as compared
with horses which walk up and
down a field all day the competi-
tion will be divided into two class—
es, one class for farmers’ horses and
the other for horses used in com-
mercial pursuits.

A complicated instrument called a
dynamometer, which a c c u r a t e i y
judges'the pulling power, will regis-
ter the strength of the teams en-
tered. In the morning the dyna-
mometer will be set at a certain

‘point and all teams which tail to
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of transportation,;mt>st of the on;
tries will .be' 1er places within a
reasonable distance of, the college.
Substantial casual-tees are to': be
given the winners.» . -‘ ’_‘ ‘

Another Competition which al-
ways excites much interest is the
singing contest between " rural

church choirs. Prizes fertilisers. .‘ ‘

provided by a fund 0! $1,000 set
aside by R. E. Olds, Lansing auto-
mobile manufacturer, the interest
from which is to be used as prizes
to encourage singing. .

The preliminary tests will he held»-
in the morning and the winners
will ring as a part of the general
program for- the afternoon. The
competition is open to all and it is
expected that the entries from rural
churches will be large. .

Plans are being made to accomo-
dates crowd of unlimited numbers
although the weather plays such an
important part in determining at-.
tendsnce that the college authori-
ties do not know whether to expect
2,500 or 10,000. .

MLast year weather conditions
which were ideally suited to bring-
ing out a crowd resulted in a new
attendance mark being. set, esti-

'mates of the size of crowd ranging

from 7500 to 10,000. The day before
the meeting a. hard rain soaked the
ground so that farmers were unable
to get on the land next day while
on the morning of Farmers' Day a
warm sun dried out the road mak-
ing travel conditions excellent.

If it happens -again that the
weather man cooperates to the ex-
tent he did last year and another
record breaking crowd turns out
the college is amply prepared to
handle it. Amplifying devices are
to be set up on the platform so that
the speakers may be heard at the
farthermost edge of, the crowd. In
a recent test a speaker talking
through the amplifying" device in
an ordinary tone of voice was dis-
tinctly heard halt a mile. '

As input years the morning will
be devoted mostly to inspection of
the college farms.-. livestock and
visits to the dairy plant and other
points of interest on the campus.

Farmers Attend Farm V Bureau School

'URING the last week represent-
ative farmers from twelve pro-
gressive Michigan counties have

been attending a school at the Mich-

' igan State College at East Lansing

at which they have been taught the
science and art of organization as
the basis of permanent and profit;
able agriculture. This training com-
prises the second weeks’ portion of
an eight weeks’. campaign which is
carried on systematically to renew
the [arm Bureau membership in
twelve southern Michigan counties.
The Thursday noon banquet marked
a high-water mark in the school
week events.

Inspired by a new vision of the
righteousness and the necessity of
a. powerful, conservatively progres-
sive farmers' organization, ' this
group of ipfluential, tar-sighted and
public-spirited farmers will return
to their respective counties to com-
plete the‘local oganization which is
essential to the success of this cam-
paign which they are launching.

The machinery will be set up as
tollowa: There will be a Campaign
Manager in each county and a m

:poign. chairman and twelve, team-3

worken in each township. In other
words, 2,448 farmers will mobilize
into a great volunteer army which
during the second? week in August
will go out for two days and with»
out any, pay for their time or the
use . at their cars, present to their

‘neschhon the merits of

' While this plan of solicitation ed.
membership by local. volunteer, un—V

;poid workers. is . almost an unpreo

.cedented venture in the field of ~ age.

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same plan which has been employed
for many years as the method of
securing members for Chambers of
Commerce, Labor Unions and. other
business and industrial groups. To
say that it will not work in rural
communities is an insult to the in-
telligence and the public spirit of
the farmers of Michigan.

In the arrangement and conduct
of this campaign, the Michigan State
Farm Bureau and the co-operating
county units are fortunate in having
the supervisory assistance of the
General Organization Company oi
Chicago, a firm which has for many
years successfully conducted hun—
dreds of membership campaigns for
Chambers of Commerce and has as-
sisted in raising the finances for a
very large number of." commendable
community enterprises.

The school of instruction held at
the College was conducted by Pres-
ident Lucius E. Wilson. Dr. Claude
S». Earthy and other representatives
oi! the General Organization Com-
pany and the Michigan State Farm
Bureau. Fundamental problems of
economies. sociology. psycho-logy.
salesmanship and community team—
work were major themes at the lec-
ture. conference. discusionai and

sessions which occupied the
time of the farmer students from
9:8! a. m. to 5:00 pgn. each day
during the six—day school.

The spirit of the crusading army
of community builders which is be-
ing brought together and. the spirit
of the campaign which they will
launch/in slew weeks mne- a
new and '  note. It is

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Magazine 0an r and Edited in Michigan.

SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1925

      

Enterod~ae 2nd. class matter, Aug. 22. 19
at Mt. Clemens, Mich, under act Mar. 3. 18

rowers Discuss Bean Pool-l to Stabilize Market

Tentative Plans to Pool Michigan Beans and Market in Orderly Way Wins Approval of Farmers
' ,At Saginaw Meeting

boon growers of Michigan
' are planning on going into the

marketing and of their bean .

business, according to a meeting
hold in Saginaw on July 1, which
was attendgd by growers from the

loading been growing counties. of

the state and representatives of el-
evators. This meeting was called
by A. B. Cook at the request of the
growers to consider a plan of pool-
in; beans to get the best prices for
the farmers with the elevator men
and brokers acting as agents for
them. After a full discussion of the
tentatiVe plan a vote was taken and
everyone was in favor of it. Then
a tentative organization was formed
and A. B. Cook elected president

and J .H. McFarland, elevator many

agar at ,Merrill was made secretary.
It was then decided to choose a com-
mittee to present the plan of the
Michigan Bean Growers’ Pool before
the meeting of growers at the Mich—
igan State College of Agriculture
and Applied Science on July 13.
The main purpose of the pool is
to return to the farmer a fair price
for his beans. ' The elevator men
and jobbers must be taken into con-
sideration because the majority of
the farmers are not in a position to
it their beans for market and the
selling of them to the trade would
require a large organization to re-
place the one the jobbers now have.
Under the pool plan the farmers
would hire the elevator men to fit
their beans for. the pool, paying
them a fixed price and the job'bers
would receive a commission from
the growers for their work in sell-
Or the farmer could
sell for cash to the elevator man
any or all of his crop if he so desir-
ed, the elevator man to dispose of
the beans throng the regular chan-
nels of trade, as the pool would
have nothing to do with the beans
he purchased with his own money.
It is believed that the pool would
prevent such wide fluctuation of
prices because it would hold many
of the beans that would otherwise
be glutting the market. Growers
who needed money at threshing
time could sell part of their crop
and place the balance of it in the
pool, getting an advance on the
pooled beans. Under the present
system if the farmers need money
they sell their crop, sometimes at a
loss, in order to get the needed
funds, thus overloading the market.
This is especially true in the late
fall and early winter months. The
tentative plans for the Michigan
Bean Growers Pool are as follows:
"The grower in the fall of the
year would sell to the elevator man
as he does at the present time and
receive cash for such portion of his
crop as he needed to. The balance
would be delivered to the elevator
man for pooling purposes. The
beans ,‘so pooled after being hand
picked to choice grades, would be

' officially inspected and graded and

thereafter moved as fast as the in-
dividual elevator secured a full car-
load to a bonded terminal ware-
house. ”Phere would be but one
grade of beans in the pool, that be-
ing Choice Hand Picked. At the
time the farmer delivered the beans

s to the pool, he would receive spool

receipt, reduced to choice basis,
from the elevator man. For ex.

ample, if. the grower delivered 10,-; ‘

‘000 pounds/of 10 per cent fitted
beans, the elevator ~man wo , is.
game

the local elevator, the local elevator

being under bond to the Michigan

Bean Growers Pool, Inc. It would
be incumbent upon the local eleva-
tor to forward all pool beans to the
bonded warehouse within three
weeks after delivery to him by the
grower, the only exception being
such a case as where the elevator
man had not accumulated a full car-
load of pool beans- If the elevator
was unable to hand pick pool beans
_within the three weeks period. then
they must be forwarded to some ter-
minal elevator designated by the
Michigan Bean Growers Pool, ~Inc.
which terminal will act as agent for
the Pool in hand picking and pre-
paring beans for market. The Mich-
igan Bean Growers’ Pool, Inc. will
appoint the jobbershaving terminal
facilities for hand-picking the sur-
plus stock.
rendered by the elevator man he
will be allowed as follows:

“( 1) For taking in from the
grower, cleaning, hand-picking, bag-

ging, loading into cars, and furnish- -

ing bags, 60c per cwt., and cost of
hand picking based on schedule.
“(2) For taking in, cleaning,
bagging, furnishing bags, loading,
but not hand picking, 35c per cwt.
"The terminal elevator hand—pick-
ing the overflow from the local ele-
vators will be paid 15c per cwt. for
taking in from the elevator, hand-
picking and reloading and cost of
hand-picking" based on schedule.

Market on Monthly Basis

“It would be the intent to market
the pooled beaLns throughout the bal—
ance of the crop year on a. monthly
basis with the pool to be cleaned up
each year if” consumptive demand
would permit.

“If the farmer required an ad-
vance on beans placed in the Pool
such advance would be made
through the local elevator by the
Michigan Bean Growers Pool, Inc.,
up to 50 per cent of the value of
the beans pooled by him but not to
exceed $2.00 per cwt. hand picked

In return for service»

basis. For this advance, the grow-
er would be charged the current
rate of interest.

"All advances made to the farmer
would be made direct from the Pool
so that the elevator man’s respon-
sibility would cease after shipment
of car and thereafter the farmer
would deal directly with the Pool
office.

“The elevator man and the ter-
minal elevator would be paid their
handling charges of 50c or 350 and
150 as above outlined, by the Mich-
igan Bean Growers Pool, Inc. at the
time the beans were unloaded and
placed in the terminal warehouse.

“Beans placed in the Pool would
be prorated monthly on a basis as
outlined below to various jobbers
for sale to the consuming trade and
based on the percentage each job-
ber had contributed through his el-
evators to the Pool, the jobber to
be paid for his services in marketing
from the Pool a net of 150 per cwt.

"As sales were made from the
Pool entirely, the Pool account
would be credited accordingly and
the distribution of funds be made
to the growers each sixty days on
business ending the last day of the
previous month.

Controlled by Board of Directors

“The affairs or the Michigan Bean
Growers Pool, Inc. would be under
a d‘rect control of Board of Direct-
ors, consisting of twenty to twenty-
five (20 to 25) members, on which
board the growers would have a ma—
jority representation; the suggestion
being that the Board be composed
of one farmer from each of the fol—
lowing counties;——Gratiot, Isabella,
Clinton, Saginaw, Shiawassee, Tus—
cola, Huron, Bay, Ingham, Genesee,
Ionia, St. Clair and Eaton, a rep—
resentative from each of the follow-
ing jobbing companies; Michigan
Elevator Exchange, Chatterton and
Son, representing their own eleva—
tors and the elevator owners associ-
ation, and a representative from
each of the following companies:
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farmers of Michigan.

make use or the pool.

hppreciatod .

Remarks ......... ..

DO YOU APPROVE OF GROWERS BEAN POOL?
The success of the Michigan Bean Growers Pool depends largely upon the
If they use the pool it should be a success but if they do
I“ it Wm 28". so it is in the hands of the bean growers to decide.
want to see the matter go any further, or Mr. Cook and the others spend more
of their valuable time on organizing the pool—unless the growers are going to
wm 70H plea-so help answer this question by filling in
a“! million. “firm and mailing it to us? You are under no obligations but
' we d9 want to how what you think of the matter.

Do 70le il-Dprovo of the plan of a Michigan Bean Growers Pool? .............................. ..
Would you use the pool thio 
Whit Percentnce'of your crop would you care to pool? ............................................ ..
How many agree of beans have you this year? ............................................................ ..

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and Morley Co., Chas. Wolohan Inc,
J. P. Burroughs and Son, Michigan
Bean Co., andthree men to be chos-
en from the elevator men in diter-
ent sections of the state.

“Monthly meetings of the Board
of Directors would be held; the first
meeting in each year to determine
approximately the quantity of beans
harvested, and to establish the open-
ing basis of Pool advances.

“The Board of Directors would
appoint a managing director and
financial agent who would be in
charge of the activities of the Pool,
working under direction of the
Board of Directors or an executive
committee.

“An executive committee be ap-
pointed, consisting of seven mem-
bers; four farmers, two jobbers, and
one elevator operator. This com-
mittee to be elected from the Direct-
ors and by them. It would be the
duty of the executive committee,
after conference with the Board of
Directors each month, to decide on
the amount of beans to be market-
ed. The executive committee to
meet at least once a month and
oftener as required.

“The financial agent of the Pool
should be authorized to borrow on
beans placed in the pool in order
that he might have funds at his dis-
posal for paying for services ren-
dered by the elevator man, the ‘ter-
minal operator, the jobber, the
storage charges, administrative fees,
freight to terminal elevator or
warehouse, etc. And it shall be ob-
ligatory upon the terminal operator
to arrange a line of credit large
enough to cover loans necessary on
all beans handled by him as a ter-
minal elevator and bonded ware-
house.

“lu all transactions, Grade and
Bags shall be in accordance with the
official sales contract of the Michi-
gan Bean .lohbcrs Assn.

“As outlined above, the farmer
would receive the full sum for which
his beans were sold to the wholesale
grocer or consumer less the follow-
ing items;

“(1) 150 per cwt. to the job-
ber.

“(2) 500 per cwt. to the ele-
vator man and cost of hand-
picking per schedule, or

"(3) 35c per cwt. to the ele-
vator man, 15c per cwt. to the
terminal picking elevator and
cost of hand-picking per sched-
ule.

“(4) Actual administrative ex-

pense for handling the Pool

storage, insurance, shrinkage,
etc.

“Careful analysis, based on the
present crop, would make it seem
that at least $1.00 per cwt. addi—
tional could be paid to the grower
for his crop if marketed in accord-
ance with above plan.

“Further, with reference to dis-
tribution of beans from the Pool.
At the out—set, it would be the in—
tention that each jobber would ban-
dle the same per cent of beans from
the Pool that he was instrumental
in securing for the Pool. Allot—
ments would be made on a monthly
basis. At the last of each month
any beans which Were not taken up
by the jobber during that month
would then become free property to
be offered by the managing Direct— -.
or of the P001 to any other jobber
who might have an outlet for them
at the same price. 

And it is further understood
that if any grower be able to render
the same service as a local eleva-
tor in cleaning. hand picking and.
preparing for market, beans incar.
lots that he be entitled to the same 5’
pay for this service.” ‘ ~ ' 

  

  
 
  
 
 

 

        
 
     

  
    
  
      
   
   
   


     
  
   
  
   
  
   
    
   
   
   
  
   
   
  
  
    
    
  
  
  
   
  
  
    
   
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
   
   
  
   
  
   
   
  
   
    
    
     
     
  
     
  
   
 
 
 

OR several years the farmers of
Michigan have bought and used
so-called “Prison Twine" in in-

creasing: amounts. It seems to have

,given' general satisfaction. The

:price has been reasonable. Then,

.too, it has no doubt stabilized and

;-=kept down the price of the twine

<manufactured and distributed by

Hlthe privately owned, independent

companies. V ,
In view of the above situation, it

'was but natural that the farmers

.p'Were tremendously concerned and
disturbed when the report was cir-.

culated some months ago that the

State Prison at Jackson was to be
discontinued. The reason given for
the proposed action was that the
twine manufacture was proving a
 losing venture for the state.

l As a farmer, I regretted very
much to think of the state’s discon-
tinuing the twine business, but of
course, as a lawmaker and chair—
fman of the Michigan State Prison
committee of the 1925 House of
Representatives, I did not relish the
.idea of any of the prison industries
losing the state money which would
.;have to be made up through taxes.

Got Oflicial Figures

Because of the reasons above ex—
pressed and also because of my of—
ficial responsibility for Wise policies
and proper administration of the
:afiairs of the prison, I went to Jack—
son, made somewhat of an investi—
gation of the affairs of the institu—
tion and obtained from the prison
hookkeeper some very interesting
and revealing fgures regarding the
operation of the various state indus—
tries which are run with prison 1a—
bar.

A study of these shows that the
prison‘binder twine plant, far from
»being Operated at a loss, has always

’ *made a profit and would today have
"a suflicient balance so that it could
.do business today without the ne-
"gcessityfor borrowing capital if the
twine profits were not diverted and
'used to build up other industries in
:.\the institution. In round numbers,
instead of making a loss of $35,230

'Writer Completes

(This is the sixteenth article of a series
on travels in Europe written by Francis
‘A. Flood.)

ERMAN is all Greek to me. All
I know about the whole lan-
guage is “Nicht Verstehen,”

v, and when one is as ignorant as that

fit isn’t necessary to use those other

[two words, and so I couldn’t do any
'more talking in Germany than any
[of the other dumb animals. I did

{congratulate myself at one time into

‘thhe private belief that I could speak

,a. little French—but that was before
I tried it out in France. I still inr

~sist that I can speak French, and
speak it rather well too, but what
good did it do me in France since

.no one could understand me?

My experiences in languages were
adisheartening. I found in England
that the English people didn’t speak
my kind of English and then I found
in Paris that the French people
didn’t speak my kind of French.
'But the Berlinese understood my
German easily. I had only to say
-“Nicht Verstehen” in my perfect
accent and they got the idea at once
.that I did not understand, or speak,
German.

As a linguist I have finally been
forced to admit that—well, I do
‘speak a few words of English even
‘if it is tainted with the American
brogue.

Doctor Bereman did not give up
so easily; he always insisted thathe
knew his German, .if they would
only listen. He would do his best,
and if the words failed to come in
German he wouldgraciously supply
them in pigeon English. I usually
had him do my talking for me.
Herr Linka, a strapping Prussian
ho had served all through the war
the German army, and was then
he ‘ employ of . the. AU:. 6-. 1.39.1.1?!“-
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/,

 BookkeepingMethods Indicate (Michiganvls LosingMone'y on Ttuine 

By HONORABLE ARTHUR ,ODELL

in the last four and a half yearsf

the prison twine industry has made
an actual profit of $127,800.

Now his explanation 9f the sur—
prising discrepancy referred to
above. The prison twine, as fast as
it is manufactured, is stored in
bonded warehouses and serves as
collateral for loans, the proceeds of
which are used to finance the several
industries connected with the pris—
on. Other prison industries besides
the binder twine plant are as fol-
lows: brick and tile, textile plant,
cannery, chair factory, granite shop,
print shop, stamp plant, machine
shop, brush factory, aluminum
plant, wagon shop, lumber yard and
broom shop.

Now anyone can see that the in-
terest paid on funds secured on the
stored twine should be charged on a
proportionate basis to the various
industries using this revenue, rath-
er than all being set down on the

> reserves

Representative in the Legislature and Chairman of the Committee ‘
, on the Michigan State Prison

books against the binder twine ac-
count. “ '

The statement which I have from
the prison bookkeeper shows that
for the four and a half years end—
ing June 30, 1924, interest paid on
loans secured by stored twine to-
talled $163,031.61. During the
same period the binder twine indus-
try showed a profit of $127,800.73.
However, after the entire interest
referred to above had been charged
to the twine account there was an
apparent loss of $35,230.88 held
against the twine.

The State of Michigan has various
and surplus accounts on
which it realizes low rates of inter-
est. It seems to me that if any of
the state industries need operating
capital the state should loan the ne—
cessary funds to them at the same
rate as they would otherwise re-
ceive, 'instead of compelling these

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A FINE CROP OI" BARLEY

This

is a birdseye view of part of DeWitt’s Brookside Farm. at

“'heeler. One

corner of 11 field of beans is showu in the, immediate foreground and in the center of

the picture you See a fine crop of barley.

Notice how high the barley stands.

I within the prison.

  

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local banks at a much higher rate
of interest. ,

The system of bookkeeping above
disclosed leads me to believe that
there is 'a concerted action of some
-kind to discredit the manufacture
of binder twine at the Jackson pris-
on.’ Perhaps I do not know and cer—
talnly .I do not care to state just
what is at the bottom of the matter.

The prison binder twine plant'is ~
an old and well established busi-
ness and is making a‘proflt every
year. This profit has been used to
start seven or eight other industries
I feel certain
that if the twine funds had not been
diverted in this manner, the twine
industry would have enough capital.
to run its business from year to year
Without borrowing any money, andr
hence, I can not see why there
should be any interest charged up
against the twine plant.

Farmers Directly Affected ~

I believe that the twine industry
at the prison saves the farmers
many thousands of dollars every
year in the reduced price of twine
and I am writing this article in the
hope of correcting the unfortunate
impressions that have gone but
concerning the various prison indus—
tries at Jackson. I have no reason
to believe that the prison officials
had anything to do with trying to
make it appear that the twine in-
dustry has run at a loss, but since
such reports were circulated and
knowing as I did that they were con-
trary to the facts, I felt that I owed
it to my fellow farmers to make the
above explanation.

Perhaps the keenest competition
which the prison twine has today is
from Canadian twine, and so it
would appear that to discontinue
the manufacture of twine at Jack—
son would not be so much of a ben-
efit to domestic, privately owned
companies as it would be a boon to
the Canadian twine industry. In
view of these facts it would hardly
seem wise to me that we should dis—
continue a project which is making
a great saving to Michigan farmers
and turning a substantial profit into,
the state’s treasury each year.

Journey Through Germany and Enters Switzerland

By FRANCIS A. FLOOD

chaperon through Germany. With-
out him it was difficult sometimes to
get service in restaurants or in rail—
way stations or in shops in the
cities. In Denmark, Holland or
France, we always noticed that they
were always willing to hunt up
someone in the store who could
speak English for the American vis-
itors, but in Germany it often hap-
pened that when we would step into

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a store and inquire for someone to
“speak English" they would firmly
inform us that in Germany they
speak German. We would remind
ourselves, by way of consolation,
that we had been equally insistent
about everyone speaking our lan—
guage in the United States during
the war, but could think of no sa—
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gon the liquid 'manure" accumulation

we have to ours, certainly.

Our agricultural friends took us
to visit the great air nitrate plant
of Germany, the Leuna Ammonium
works, the largest nitrate plant in
the world, built during the war to
stimulate agricultural production
and now operating as a producer of
fertilizer, and equally valuable in
peace time. The product of this
plant was being sold for about 13
cents a pound while in the United
States it was being sold for 20 cents,
and this one great plant was turn-
ing out, when we were there, as
high as 700 tons of pure nitrogen in
a day. The source of power for this
staggering production is a low grade
of brown coal of which 9,000 tons
is required per day. This plant has
its own coal supply, which they told
us is sufficient to last them a hun—
dred years, and they operate their
own railroads to haul it to the
huge boiler houses. ~

\Vaste No Fertilizer

The Germans waste none of their
natural or manure fertilizer either.
As in Switzerland and France, all of
the manure accumulation is care-
fully and" even neatly piled, often
on a concrete base which drains in-
to a pit where the liquid is saved.
One small farm that we visited was
so arranged that all the liquid ma,—
nure drained into one pit which was
provided with an “agitator” or a
stirring device to keep it of an even
consistency, and a pump to draw it
out into. a tank wagon which was
simply a liquid manure spreader.
On this small farm a man was kept
busy at this ‘one steady job of agi—
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farm dog according to Ther‘esa. La Mrs. Fannie Jameson and Mrs. Wm. Every. County Agent. Osler states that November and the grain was in perfect . 7 " ‘

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lloyer, of Erie, says. He has four fine ones too. Bertha Meyer English setter owned by John says on the John G. Selmell farm. near Vassar. “It makes "
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’ and  so, in how long a time?

I .,  alive on, flit-‘11 outside of,

(corporation,  almost icining us

 is? e tourists camp: Would I

  a: license in soil jelly or

etc., to :tourists?-—A. I...
Mich.

know of' no statute which

_ would prohibit you from sell-

ing jelly or preserves to tour—

ists without a} license—Clare Retan,

'Deputy Attorney General.

W OUTLAW IN
m YEARS 7

Does a first mortgage outlaw,

How

should it be renewed? What is

unit by the “life of‘ a mortgage"?

——A. 13., Devices, Mich. '

i : MORTGAGE outlaws in fifteen
A“ years. The best thing to do

is to have it released and a
new one made out, to renew it.—
Legal Editor. '

CHILDREN SUPPORT PARENTS

If a father or mother has proper-
ty and dhposee of it foolishly, are
their children or nearest relatives

: outed to pay all of their debts and

bury them and keep them through-
out their old mini—Subscriber.

THE law requiring relatives to
support poor persons applies

only to children or parents.
The children could be compelled to
support the parents under these cir-
cumstances' if they were able to do
so, even if the father or mother
disposed of their property foolishly.
Many a father and mother have lost
their money, and also sleep, over
the foolish things their chidren do.
And in most cases the money chil-
dren spend in supporting their aged
parents is meagre compensation for
the care the parents have given
them when they were growing up.—
Legal Editor.

RAISING BEETS ON SHARES

My tenant furnishes all labor for
raising beets except weeding, block-
ing, topping, of which he pays one-
third. I furnish all tools, teams,
seed, and what proportion should
tenant receive from the revenue?

VIIHIE proportion that would be fair
for either party in raising sug-
ar beets under above condi-
tions depends on various factors
such as condition and character of
soil, the adaptability of the soil for
raising beets and the capacity of
equipment available to work with.
Under ordinary conditions where
the tenant furnishes the labor'out-
side of contract labor he should re-
ceive one-third of the crop for his
revenue—F. T. Riddell. Research
Ass't in Farm Management, Michi—
gan State College.

OWNS LAKE SHORE

A certain man owns a farm front-
ing on Lake Huron, another party
has rented this farm for a certain
length of time with owner's per-
mission to use all driftwood, etc.
There are some people who come
down and get sand, gravel and even
logs. Renter says they cannot do
this without permission, and they
claim that sand, gravel, etc., is gov—
ernment property and that everyone
has the same right to it up to the
high water mark. Other par-ties
living here with farms touching

. lake, sell the gravel and sand to the

   

1. "terms and conditions of sale. or may

people building the state read here.
Can renter ask pay? This party
(renter) is poor, while the others
are very well-to-do, so would like
your advice about the matter.

We certainly enjoy your paper
and receive much help andenter-

tainment from it.——K. 0.,. Palms,~

Mich.

 owner of property adjoining

the Great Lakes owns to the

meander line, which is practi-

the water‘s edge, and is en-
titled to the exclusive use of the
land up to the water’s edge. No
one else would have the right to
remove gravel, and, etc., . without
his permission within these bounds.
—-——Legal Editor. '

 

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To what extent is an option bind—
ing? Should an option include all

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buyer? Should one be as careful'

when drawing up an option as one
would be in drawing up a contract
for sale of land? Does good busi-
ness practice require that one con-
sult a skillful lawyer before signing
an option, or would that be confide
cred a superfluous precaution?—
B. G., Farmington, Mich. . v

N option is as binding as any‘

other contract.

, terms should be included in the
option for solely, although all the
terms are not necessary. I would be
just as careful in drawing up an op-
tion as in drawing up a contract,
and it would probably be best to
see a lawyer.—-Legal Editor.

WIFE MUST SIGN
Can a husband put a mortgage
on real estate without his wife’s

consent, if the deed is in his own
namel—W. E., Eaton County.

HE husband could not put a
mortgage on his farm without
the signature of his wife, even

if the farm is in his name—Legal.
Editor. -

MUST PERFORM CONTRACT

We put our farm in real estate
agent's hands to sell, he brought out
a party to see the place who said
he had cash to pay for the place.
When they left they said they would
see us again. The real estate .man
came out and said this man had a
house he would trade in on the
farm and wanted us to go and look
it over, so we did, and they put in
the articles We had on the place,
such as cattle, tools, stock. and
signed to that onset. They said
they would see us in ten days. We
did not hear from them, we let it

'go a week ,then I wrote and told

them I would not accept it; they
came out today, said the other party
would sue us for $1,000 for damage
to them. Now there was no money
paid to us to hold the bargain only
as we had signed the paper as I
stated above. span they do this?—
R. S. Deerfield, Mich.

F you sign an agreement with an-
1 other person to sell or trade
your house, and refuse to per-
form your contract, he could sue
you for damages or compel you to
perform yOur part of the agreement.
——Legal Editor.

GET CONSENT OF STATE

I would like to know if there is
a law to keep anyone from pastur—
ing land that has gone back to the
state for taxeBY—O. S., Thompson-
ville, Mich.

0 one has any right to pasture

or use state lands without ob-

taining a lease or the consent
of the state therefor.——Clare Retan,
Deputy Attorney General.

RMIDENCE OF CHILD IS WITH
FATHER

A man who is a resident of Sagi-
naw, Michigan, has a son who has
had two years of high school in
that city. This son has now come
to stay with a brother in another

 

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school district. This brother has
made application in his district for

the tuition fees for the coming

term. ‘Now,what I want to know is
he entifl‘ed to tuition in this district
or

THE residence of the father de-
termines the residence of the

minor child. If there is no high
school where theisther lives, appli-
cation could’ be made in that dis-
trict for high school tuition and it
would have to be, paid. The child
cannot demand tuition from the dis-
trict where the brother lived—C. A.
Rinehart, Ass't. Superintendent, Di-
vision of Rnral Education, Dept. of
Public Instruction. .

mums WON
PRICE-

1 am enclosing a letter we reci
ceived today from a collection
agency at Chicago in regard to a
year’s subscription to a paper. This
paper has been coming to us regu-
larly for the past two years al-
though we nev‘er signed up for it,
or have the least idea as to who
signed for us, but some one surely
signed us a year as they are only
putting in a claim for the subscrip-
tion ' price for one year. Are we
obliged to pay? They say they have
written before asking us to settle
their claim, but we have received no
previous letters in regard to it.-———C.
E., Ashley, Mich. .

F you never ordered the paper
I sent to you, I doubt if they

could force you to pay for it.
However, if you did not notify the
company that you did not want the
paper, but kept it and received the

. benefit from it, you would be under

obligation to pay—Legal Editor.

" STRAW BELONGS ’I‘O TENAN'I‘

When a man rents a. farm for
money rent to whom does the straw
belong that the tenant raises? If
the straw does not belong to the
tenant can the owner of the farm
give the straw to the "tenant after
the farm has been sold for subdi-
viding?

If the tenant puts in a field of
Wheat and the farm is sold before
the wheat is harvested, to whom
does the wheat belong—the original
owner of the farm, the tenant, or
the real estate company that is sub-
dividing the farm?

Who owns the straw stack—the
original owner. the tenant or the
real estate company that bought
the farm?-—B., Birmingham, Mich.

straw is a product of the
farm the same as the grain and
if the farm is rented for cash

the straw belongs to the tenant.
The tenant has a claim on the
wheat to the extent of all expenses
involved in the crop by him. The
landlord should make some adjust-
ment that would compensate the
tenant and still be fair to the pur-
chaser.——F. 'T. Riddell, Research
Ass't in Farm Management, M. S. C.

R ADIO DEPARTMENT

EDITED BY JAMES W. H. WEIR, R. E. '3:

Contributions Invited—Que: "one Answerci '

HARMONICS OF WAVE

What is meant by the harmonics
of a broadcasting wave? I have
heard that some stations are hard
to receive on account of their ‘lr'ar-
monies and do not understand what
is meant.

N answering this question it may
be a little hard for the average
radio fan to interpret without a

little smdy. Harmonics are the
higher frequencies. which represent
the exact multiples of the funda-
mental frequency. For instance let
us consider a station transmittal:
on a wavelength "of 600 meters.
The “frequency here is 600 . k110-
cycles.
then

  

Five hundred kilocycles is‘.
consideration the'flundamefintnl: :

frequency or wave. Now oftentimes
due to antenna conditions being
poor, or for other various reasons
the wave sent out contains a fre-
quency of twice 500 kilocycles which
corresponds to 300 meters. This
may be considered as the “first har-
monic". It is also possible that a
frequency of three times-500 kilocy-
else is also sent out with the corres~
pending wave 1‘ h of 200 meters.
This would be the second harmonic.
In a like manner there might be a
third harmonic at 2000 kilocyeles or
150 meters "and at 2600 kilocycles
or 120 meters we would have the
fourth harmonic, ,and so on. It

     

tigps to “keep. their tra
harmonise as.

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cronst+~wva

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let the “owner’s star
L.». Weidman, Mich; I
N the majority of' cases the tenant
markets, the 4 landlord's share of-..
the farmproduce.~ Generally the
landlord is “not in a position to mar-
ket his produce.'thus 1th only logi-
cal that. the tenant  this
operation, .chh is  as‘ h—
.bor. In making. out encasement,
however, there should be a definite
Wanting in writhg as to who
markets the redeem—er. Rid-.
dell. Ruearch Ant. in Farm Msnt.
Michigan State College. v

CAN BE W RYE? . "
l/wnnt to ask you a question in'
regard to a piece of rye that I put
in last fall. I rented the place I
was on last year for $156.00 a year
and my time won't up until the
first of larch, 1935 and I put in 10
acres of rye there last fall and~now

   

'the man that owns the place wants

toihold all the rye. Can he do
that? ‘ Haven’t I got a perfect right ,
togobeckandharnetmyry'eas
long as I was paying money rent .to 
him?—-—W. M., Oak Grove, Mich. ’ ’

HEN the lease is for a definite
time, the tenant is supposed to
plant his crops so they will be

harvested before the expiration of
the lease, and I am doubtful if you
could go on the place to harvest the
crops after the termination of the
lease without the landlord's permis-
sion—Legal Editor. '

VALUE OF TREE

M—ll is expected to gothrough
our orchard. The trees are nearly
all forty years old, largely Spies and
Baldwins. They have netted Is
$49.00 apiece.” What would be a
fair price for such trees?—-A. I...
Benzonia, Mich.

COMMONLY used method ofap- I

praising trees for determining

their value .is to assign them
a value of $1.00 per tree per year
in addition to the value of the land
for general farming purposes. This
however, assumes trees to be in a.
good vigorous condition and heal-
thy. If the 40—year~old Spies and
Baldwins have sound and healthy
trunks and if they are spaced not
closer than 40 "feet, they certainly
should have a value of $40 apiece.
-—-—R. E. Marshall, Assoc. Prof. of
Horticulture, M. S. C.

 

YEAR ’10 BEBE“

A has a mortgage on B's farm
which is past due, interest having
always been paid promptly. , A was
willing and anxious to let the mort-‘-'
gage continue on indefinitely as she
only wanted the use of the interest.
Now A died leaving mortgage to
distant relatives and they demand
the payment of the mortgage at
once. B could pay it in six months.
Is this a legal length of time B

- could have for payment of same?—

F. M., St. Charles, Mich.

—-—B would have one year after fore-
closure, in which to redeem the
farm.——Legal Editor.

COLLECTING DAMAGES
Can a man collect damages if his
car is parked on the right side of the
street without light on a trunk line
near a bad corner?———H. S., Nash-
ville, Mich.

. S to whether or not a man could;

collect damages if his car is'

parked on the right side of the
street, would depend upon what he
wants to collect damages for. There
is a Jaw against parking on state
trunk lines, and when a man parks
without lights under these Circum-
stances. I am of the opinion he would
be guilty of negligence. A man can-
not collect damages from another
when he is. negligent himselfsr—Legal
Editor.

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. engineering and the mechanical sciences

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MAKE A. JOKE OF THE LAW
EAR EditOrz—I see by the paper

that th? folks that make bows

for fiddles are getting worried.
‘It seems that white horses are get-
ting‘scarcer and scarcer, and after a
spell there won’t be enough to fur-
nish horse hair for the bows. Of
course one old skate has enough of
a tail to fit out a hole orchestra, but
what with all the tractors and trucks
farmers are buying it won’t be long
till there are more orchestras than
horses, let alone white ones.

Now Mr. Editor I spose I’m old
fashioned in. being partial to fiddle
music, and I wouldn’t want the sup-
ply to get shut off for shortage of
white horses. The thing t at gives
me the creeps is not the way ractors
is crowding out the horse, but the
way the sexy phone is crowding out
the fiddle. I see Wayne Dinsmore is
boosting mules as well as horses, but
the only kind of music you can get
out of a mule is vocal, and not much
better than a sexy phone. ‘

But as this saying is, every dog
has his day, and I spose the time will
come when the old rubber bulb auto
horns will be as scarce as white
horses are now, and then they won’t
have anything to fiix up with squee-
ky reeds and sell for sexy phones.
But then you can’t tell, maybe they
will keep on making them just for
sexy phones, like now they keep on
making slay bells for the jazz orches-
tras after there ain’t no sleds to wear
them with except in the up—north
movies.

And then the papers tell how they
is a big fleet of rum chasers down
around New York trying to prove
that the law ain’t no joke, and at the
same time down in Tenn. they are
trying to put a H. S. teacher in jail
because he let the pupils study in a
book wich told about Evulotion. It
seems the leglesslature made a law
against Evulotion wich certainly is
doing about all they can to prove
that the law is a joke. Anyway
Clarence Darrow is one of the law—
yers, and that always means that the
law will be a joke. And on the
other side is Mr. Wm. Jennings
Bryan wich means that it ain’t going
to be a case of law but a case of Flor-
ida grape—fruit.

Of course everybody knows a state
leglesslature is just a lot of 2nd rate
politicians and more or less a joke,
so they don’t need to pass any such
laws to prove it. But when they
drag the courts into it and spend a
lot of money trying to put a harmless
young birch—wielder into jail it looks
to me like they are carrying the joke
too far.

If they keep on they will pass a
law against catching a polly wog for
fear some bright boy might notice
it had a tail wich it don’t have when
it gets to be a frog, and then he

in the sea and gradually developed

Wich reminds me of the time some
spell back when a felloe in the state

 

was Neb. where Bryan was before
he went to Florida and Fundamed—
dlesome, anyway this felloe wanted to
pass a law so the length around a
circle would be three times the dia-
meter, instead of 3.1416 wich he said

learn and made a lot of hard figur-
ing for everybody. So you see even
that long ago a fellow couldn’t get
into the leglesslature unless he was
a sort Of darn fool. Hoping this
finds you, the same I am, Yours
truley,——-HARRY VETCH. l

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J une first 11am! not a leaf formed un-
\ til une th. Th ‘
A Timely ,Rain J on ey are growmg
‘ERY soon after the last article
"Was written, telling of our hay

and oat prospects, a fine rain

came—4n fact the best rain we have
had this season.

The first crop of
hay was too far
advanced to re—
celve any bene-
fit from it, but
oats and barley
seemed to take
on a new lease
of life. This rain
has been a bless-
ing to the late
planted potatoes.
It is always an
advantage to pc-
tatoes to have a
rain soon after
- planting, just be-
fore they make their appearance
above ground. Our potato ground
was quite moist before the rain.
The early plowing and working of
the soil surely conserves the mois-
ture and while beans and potatoes
are a June planted crop, the exper—
ience of twentydfive years shows
that the early plowed fields always
produce the best crop. The same
is true with buckwheat. Early
'plowing is a greater succcss some
years than others, according to
weather conditions during the last
of May and throughout June. But
as these weather conditions can not
be foretold with any sure degree of
.accuracy, it behooves us to get thesc
l‘fields plowed as early as possible.
ESpeaking of early plowing reminds
‘me of a friend a few miles from
here, 'andhis experience with a crop
,of buckwheat.

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of Buckwheat

Buckwheat is a crop seldom
grown in HiIISdale county and, when
groWn seems to produce a very in-
different crop. But this friend was
alone on his farm, and could get no
help. There was a good ten acre
field on his farm. on which he de-
cided to grow buckwheat, thinking
this could be plowed late after the
rush of spring work.

As I remember it, he plowed his
oat ground and sowed them quite
early, thereby getting his corn
ground plowed and fitted a few days
earlier than he wished to plant it,
so he wisely concluded he would
plow the field for buckwheat, al—
though'it was still early in May.

This being the year when the soil
should be turned away from the
fence, he began plowing in the cen—
ter of the field, and the first days
work showed about two and one half
acres of nice fresh soil in the mid-
dle of that ten acres. But here
Mother Nature stepped in and
changed his plans by sending rain in
sufficient quantities to keep him
from plowing or corn planting—so
when the ground became dry
enough to work, it was time to re-
fit and plant his corn field. This,
combined with helping some fence
builders, and “working out his time
«on the road’,’ (as was the law then)
and corn cultivating, prevented him
from further plowing in the buck—
wheat field until the last day of
June, when it was finished and very
dry plowing it was, no rain havmg
fallen since corn planting. When
fitting the field he maid see very
little moisture on the latepbowed
portion, but that part plowed to
May had plenty of moisture.

The buckwheat was sown about
July first, and came up on the
early plowed portion about a week
before it did on the late plowed
part, and was a much better stand.
The difference in the plowing was
very noticeable throughout the sea—
son in the vine growth, but the fill-
ing of the heads was where the
plowing proved its greater worth——
as it not only required more twine
on, the two and one half acres at
harvest time, but the yield on this
- portion Was greater- than on the
tether seven} and one-*half acres!

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for.June crops. That surely is our
aim, but like the above mentioned
ill-lend, our plans are often frustrat-
‘ed by unforseen and unavoidable
conditions. There would be little
left to hope for if farm operations
could be planned and executed just
as we desire, But it is these frus-
trated plans/that call for our “best
thinking, and are the cause of too
many marks going on the wrong
side of the balance sheet. The abil-
ity to change one’s plans and keep
things going successfully seem, to
be the greatest asset a farmer can
possess. Most farmers would not
ask to know more about taming if
they could farm the best they al-
ready know.

Quite possibly the unforseen ele-
ments are the chief reason why
farming can not be done on paper.
Are there more of these unforseen
elements in the business of farming
than in any other business? We
believe there are—and that is why
farming is the greatest business in
the world, and why we need the
best of men, on the farms. "This is
also why a farmer can never study
too much. We must ever be on the
alert for the latest and best meth-
ods.

II: * *
Grape Vines

We have about fifteen grape vines
seven years old. They are properly
pruned and have fine posts and

fast .now, but there are no blossoms
whatever. Did the heavy mulch
cause them to behave this way? I
wish some of the B. F. readers
could answer that question. In the
spring of 1924 we set cut one hun-
dred Concord vines. They ,were‘cul-
tivated last spring and so far this
year. ast fall we put’a fork full
of monarchy the side of each vine.
These wines were rather slow to
start this spring, and, eight of them
are apparently dead. The others
are making wonderful growth. We
would like to know why eight of
them died. We sometimes think of
planting an acre of grapes and
would like to learn more of their
culture. ‘ ‘
3 * t
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Never has quack grass made such
poor growth in oats, meadows, etc.,
as this year. It seems the dry
weather is almost is detrimental to
it, as it is to other crops. Butithe
quack grass in corn seems as robust
as ever. A few years ago.‘quack
grass and Canada thistles caused.me
muchrworry as I had been told they
could not be killed out, once having
started in a field. But I have prov-
en they. can be eradicated from a
field-—so “I should worry." If any
one has an infected field to clean
up, it may be my experience will
help him, so the next article will
have something to say about it.

 

BIG MEN FROM FARMS

the Editor: Noting B. W. writ-
ing the subject, “Has the Farm
Boy a Chance in Business or

Other Occupations?” Let us look
at the thing as it stands today. In
business some of our largest men
were farm grown. I could name
seVeral, like President Conlidge,
Jardine and others prominent in na-
tional afiairs, but what I want to
point out most promising for the
farm boy to notice is to learn to do
what is before him well.

Work for your father conscien-
tiously as if you recognize the au-
thority of father and mother in
childhood, you build character, that
the public wants and will trust. You
get that character no other way, you
amount to nothing.

He spoke of the physical man and
the mentality neglected. One of the
sad things of our school system is
mistaking, the fact of stuffing the
head full of a little of everything,
not thorough in anything. The
youths go out in the world thinking

themselves equipped for business
and make failures of themselves.
Quite often a few years with dad

on the farm to get home training
or character would have made a suc-
cess. The youths of today, at least
90 per cent have educated them-
selves for white—collar jobs, only
about 10 per cent make. good. As I
see it they missed the proper home
training to establish character
which would have built for success.
“J. C. H., Byron, Michigan.

 

CORN INSTEAD OF WWW
FOR NORMRN MICHIGAN
EAR EDITOR: I wish to thank

D you for the certificate, which I
" call my diploma, and which

shows I have graduated from the
mossbacks to a Business Farmer.

As for protection from crooks,
I have :a good local protection in a
number nine boot and if that‘won’t
do, I have a good shotgun. We do
not keep a dog, as we think a“ hog
more profitable. \~._

I see the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture urges the farm-
er not to cut down the acmam ot-
pomrtocs, because the M36 m

but supposing the good Lord lav
~ balling 4101'”

was caused by a favorable season, '
ore
’,

which the northern farmers never
have too much? It is easier to
now one bushel for one dollar than
two bushels for 50 cents—Chas. E.
Bowman.

WWW BACK!

1 EAR‘EBH‘OR: As .I am now a
paid-up subscriber until Janu-
ary, 1.930, I take great pleasure

in writing and letting you know

that I can hardly wait frdm one
copy to the other. Wish it would
come every week. I can see since

I was a. subscriber a few years ago,

and not taking THE BUSINESS FARM-

lift up until now, a great improve—
ment inn-your paper for the better—
ment of the farmer. I like to read

Mr. L. W. Meek’s writings as he is

located on a farm in my own county

over near where We lived in 1923,

owned an 18—acre fruit, poultry and

alfalfa tarm.——-Victor V. Hahn,

Hillsdale County.

GERMANY
EAR EDITOR: I am a reader of
the M. B. F. and like the mag—
azine 0. K. I have also read
all of Mr. F. A. Flood’s articles re-
garding his trips through Europe.
'Mr. Flood is giving good and bad
reports about the people across the
“Big Pond” and also has shown his

likes and dislikes for certain kind. ‘

In his article in the June 6th issue
he does not live up to his reputa-'
tion as an American (being fair

WHERE OUR READERS LIVE~ 

povertyj’and rags: than I have been . 
since in the lamest Sectionsof Bis? '
ion or New York. ' A
Mr. Flood will visit Germany 
he may bring back a better feeling.
I so: sorry that Mr. Flood did not
receive a better welcome, Better
luck next time, Mr. Flood—John‘
Hillman, Iosco County. ' ,

 

KEEPING CHILDREN Am.
“ SCHOOL HOURS

EAR EDITOR: Since this am"
tian keeps coming up and has
never been fairly answered I
would like space in your valued pa-
per to tell your readers some facts
that they want to know. 7 » ‘

First, that teachers and omclals.
having to depend on the law only
for the right to keep our childrean
1n school, that right ends with the
law that gave it. Since the law spec-
mes thatuslx hours is a school day.
no one has the legal right to make
the day longer, and this fact stands .
out clearer and stronger when we V
consider that the law was passed to
keep the children from being .kept
1n school more than- six hours a day
and more than five days in a week.

Before the law was passed, chil-
dren had been kept in school some-
times as long as six days in a week
and the days were long too. Then
it was found that so much confine-
ment in the school room was not
good for the children and that they
learned more when they were not
kept at study too much of the time,
and so the law was passed and I
remember the county school officers
coming to our school and telling us
about the law and why it was pass-
ed, as I have told it above.-

,As the law was passed many
years before there was‘a compulsory
law to require school attendance, it
could not be understood to mean
compulsory attendance at school and
it must therefore mean to forbid-
the teachers to hold the children
more than the specified time.

Before the compulsory law was
passed the parents could, and often
did, call their children home before
the day .ended, and their right to
do so was I'respected. Since then
some teachers think they have a‘
right to keep the children after}
hours in spite of the express wish
of their parents,-whlch is all wrong,
for besides the law that limits the
school day to six hours there is ans
other law that provides penalties for
robbing any one of their liberty un-
lawfully. While these‘penalties are
not likely to be. applied to the
teacher "under ordinary circumstanc-
es, the teacher would be in a bad
position if anything serious should
happen to a chfld that they had de-
tained at the schoolhouse in defi-
ance of the parents’ wishes. , So it
would be better if the teachers un-
derstood the facts and would stop
usurping authority without any 1e-
gal excuse—Francis G. Smith. Blan- s
chard, Mich.

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I will send you one dollar for the limn
paper for two years. I read your paper
for one year and I think it a dandy paper.
I am an old man, most ‘87 years old,
served in the Civil War. I like to read
your pawn—Joth L. Dem-ridge, Shia-
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In a very early day when man be-

 " came responsible for the welfare of

{7‘ ‘ his kind he Was over looking for.

 someway to do his work easy and

f 7 yet increase the, fruits of his labor.

, The very earliest implement was

the crooked stick, after that came

the stone implements and then the

f" iron- age which was the real mater-

 ial that did the work and was not

 easily broken or worn. out: But it

i‘ \ f A was Bessemer that showed the

11 world how to make steel out of iron.

on with little expense and opened

f) the real field for the advancement
‘. of the farm tool business.

. The earliest farmer knew that he

raised better crops where he tilled

the ground good and that the soil

I should be turned upside» down to

: kill the plant growth thereon in or—

der that the plant he wanted could

thrive. 1

Some of the earliest plows had a

, wooden mold board and later this

 mold board was shod with iron but

I it answered the'pu'rpose for which it

" was intended, that is to turn the

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' easily. ,

The next tool that served a good
purpose was the old wooden planker
make of poles fastened together or
later of plan]: overlapping I) each
other. This tool was very essential
as it was a good tool to fellow the
plow with to pulverize the lar
clods and prevent a rapid evapora—
tion of water. Another crude tool
was a bushy tree that served as a

drag or harrow, and in some sec—_

tions of the country today is in de-
mand to sow clover seed with.

' Then after iron became a number
of the farmer’s needs, the old spike—
tooth harrow 'became a tool of
great demand and after that the 01d
butterfly spring/tooth drag was a
real and necessary article for the

V farmer. The two digger wasla fa-
vorite tool to cultivate corn‘ with

and it has not been more than. 50

years ago that corn was cultivated

with two horses. The cultivator

passed through many stages of im-
provement until today the machines

are pretty near human in their oper-

ation. But with each advance in

tillage tools there has been a de—

crease in fertility. This is because

of the fact that the more ground is

‘ _ v stirred, the more heat and moisture

' Wis held therein and the process of
nitrification is very much more ra-
pid. (Drops thrive better and more
soil elements are deposited in their

systems and hence more fertility is- -

sold from the soil than there is
when the crops are not so good.

w But in order to raise good crops
good tillage is a very essential fac—
tor. The cultipacker is one of the
latest advancements is tillage tools

1 and serves the purpose of. a. pulver—

- iaer and packer, thus leaving the

‘ surface ill/81165 a. shape that the

moisture does not evaporate easily.

One must understand that ground
must be turned over with a. plow to
put down the vegetation he does not
want and to loosen up the seed bed.

Then the harrow and roller or cul-

tipacker to firm the seed bed and

finally pulverize the soil so as to
eliminate the large air pockets and
to bring the soil particles in conta'ct
with each other,-to take advantage
of capillary attraction that brings
soil moisture from the subsoil- and
retains that/which is already in the
ground.

InCanada and the western part

i. 1 of, Efi U. S. this method is used in

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use to prevent corn from lodging or
being weak in the joint, joints ap—
pear to be decaying? This comes
about time corn begins to den-t.
Have used 2-8-16.and 2-8-8 300
pOunds’per acre. Also for oats, this
comes when in mills stage. These
crops are grown on muck soil. My
rotation is thus: Corn following
grass sod, ploWed in spring, oats
after corn Flaked in spring, and well
packed or rolled—D. V., Decatur,
Mich.

DO\ not know of anything you

can grow with corn that will

sweeten it when put in thnilo.
The stage of maturity of the corn
at time of cutting largely deter—
mines its degree of acidity. C‘orn
cut and put in the silo when too
green is too strongly acid to be as
palatable as though it were cut at
the proper time. Corn has reached
the nearest all aroundideal stage
for putting in the silo when the ears
are well dented. Corn must reach
this stage while still standing be—
cause growth or filling out of the
seed is still "taking place.

Immature corn that is cut and
shocked would become sweeter if
allowed to cure two or three weeks,
providing the weather was favor—

 ]  s ”  a
 the cam of yourrmin
crops being Weak-Datum“, rotting

' and breaking before harvest, is due

to. the excess nitrogen in your muck

- soil and .the great‘deficiency of min-

eral matter. Your application of
only three hundred pounds per acre
of mixed fertilizers is
light under he conditions as 'to be
barely noti 1e. Three hundred
pounds of a 2-8—8 fertilizer isn at

nearly the equivalent of three hun- “

dred pounds of eighteen per cent
acid phosphate or one hundred and
fifty pounds of muriate of potash or
preferably sulphate and potash.

Experiments in your case might
show that your muck would require
much heavier applications of either.
and I would apply them separately
to find out.—J. R. Duncan, Instruc-
tor in Farm Crops, M. S. C.

HUBAM CLOVER

Can you give me any information
regarding Hubam clover? Is it
profitable to sow with wheat on clay
loam? When is the proper time to
sow i-t?——F. W., Carson City, w Mich.

UBAM clover should be sown as
early in the spring as possible
and on a well prepared seed

bed. When sown on wheat, condi—
tions must be very favorable if a
seed crop is to be secured. There

probably so .

  
     

 
     
   
   

amount of top" 
‘nial sweet clover produe'efi‘rt \' _ r, a,
,yea'r. The biennial on, the, 6&6}? .
‘ hand, will produce '. 
more. root growth the first year: than,
Hubam.———C. R. Megee, Associate
Professor of Farm Crops, M .S. O;

   
   

  

CORN FOR PASTURE

I have, for the last seven years, 
planted a patch of sweet corn to_
feed green in the fall when pasture '
got short, so would like to ask you'
which of the three kinds of corn
would you advise for this: Sweet
corn, common field corn, or ensilage »
"acorn. One of my neighbors told me
that sweet corn fodder was bitter
and that cows would do bettercn
common field or ensilagecorm—‘L.
G., Pittsford, Michigan.

R pasture purposes I would;
suggest that you plant either
sweet corn or common field
corn.- If you wish something early,
I would suggest that you plant Flint
corn or sweet corn. If you wish
something to make a larger growth
and take a little longer time to ma- ‘
ture, then your common field corn 
would be all right. fit
I see no advantage in planting
ensilage corn for this purpose—J.
R. Duncan, Instructor of Farm
Crops, Michigan State College.

 

 

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"'  has: not... chair; ‘urm' «

 to.-‘s‘tay With you," she' said
. , Simply. “It wasnotfishe knew, to,
‘ share the Waiting for the man in the next
'A room to‘ die : in that, of itself. there could
be nothing 'for him‘to feel. It was to be
with him while realization which had come
to her was Settling upon him too-——rea1i-
zation of what this meant to him. He
was malizing that, she thought; he had
realized it; it made him, at moments, for-
get her while, listening for sounds from
the. other room, he paced back and forth
beside the table or stood staring away,
flinging to the portiers. He left her pres-
ently, and went across ‘the hall to the
doctor. The man on the couch had stirred
as though to start up again; the voice
began once more, but now its words were
wholly indistinguishable, meaningless, in-
coherent. They stopped, and Luke lay
still; the doctor—Alan was helping him
now——arranged a quite inert form upon
the couch. The doctor bent over him.
"Is he dead?” Constance heard Alan
ask.
“Not yet,” the doctor answered;
»it won’t be long, now."
“There's nothing you can do for him?"
The doctor shook his head.
“There's nothing you can do to make

"but

him talk—bring him to himself enough so.

that he will tell what he keeps threatening
to tell?"

The doctor shrugged. “How many times.
do you suppose, he's been drunk and still
not told? Concealment is his established
habit now. It' an inhibition; even in
wandering, he stops short of actually tell-
ing anything."

“He came here——" Alan told briefly to
the doctor the circumstances of the man’s
coming. The doctor moved back from the
couch to a chair and sat down.

"I’ll wait, of course," he said “until it’s
over.” He seemed to want to say some-
thing else; and after a moment he came
out with it. “You' needn't be afraid of
my talking outside . . . professional sec-
recy, of course."

Alan came back to Constance. Out-
side, the' gray of dusk was spreading,
and within the house it had grown dark;
Constance heard the doctor turn on a
light, and the shadowy glow of a desk
lamp came from the library. Alan walked

to and fro with uneven steps; he did not ,

speak to her, nor she to him. It was
very quiet in the library; she could not
even hear Luke's breathing now. Then
she heard the doctor moving; Alan went
to the light and switched it on, as the
doctor came out to them.

“It’s over," he said to Alan. “There’s
a law covering these cases; you may not
be familiar with it. I’ll make out the
death certificate—«pneumonia and a weak
heart with alcoholism. But the police have
to be notified at once; you have no choice
as to that. I’ll look after those things
for you, if you want."

“Thank you; if you will.” Alan went
with the doctor to the door and saw him
drive away. Returning, he drew the li-
brary portieres; then coming back to Con-
stance, he picked up her muff and collar
from the chair where she had thrown
them, and held them out to her,

"You’ll go now, Miss Sherrill," he said.
“Indeed, you mustn’t stay here—your
car’s still waiting, and—you mustn't stay
here . . . in this house !”

He was standing, waiting to open the
door for her, almost where he had halted
on that morning, a few weeks ago, when
he had first come to the house in answer
to Benjamin Corvet's summons; and she
was where she had stood to receive him.
Memory of how he had looked then-—
eager, trembling a little with excitement,
expecting only to find his father and
happiness—came to her; and as it con-
trasted with the way she saw him now,
she choked queerly as she tried to speak.
He was very white, but quite controlled;
lines not upon his face before had come
there.

"Won't you come over home with me,"
she said, “and wait for father there till
we can think this thing out together?"

Her sweetness almost broke him down.
‘This . . . together! Think this out! Oh,
it’s plain enough, isn’t it? For years—-
for as long as Wassaquam has been here,
my father has been seeing that man and

{paying blackmail to him twice a year,
at least! He lived in that man’s power.
-He kept money in the house for him al-
ways! It wasn't anything imaginary
that hung over my father—or anything
created in his own mind. It was some-

) thing real—real; it was disgrace—dis—

, ‘grace and worse—something he deserved;

' and that he fought with blackmail money,

I like a coward! Dishonor-mowardice—
blackmail!"
She drew a little nearer to him. “You
didn’t want me to know," she said.

"You tried to put me off when I called
you on the telephone; and—when I came
here, you wanted me to go away before
I heard. Why didn’t you want me to
know? If he was your father, wasn‘t
he curd—friend? Mine and my father’s?
You must let us help you."

As she approached, he had drawn back
from her. “No; this is mine i" he de-
. ‘nled her. “Not yours or your father's.

You have nothing to do with this. Didn’t

he try in little cowardly ways to keep

you out of it? But he couldn’t do that;
your friendship meant too much to him:

he couldn’t keep away from you. But I
' can—I can do that! You must go out
i of this house; you must nveer come in

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“I thought." he said almost wistfuliy,
"it seemed tome that, whateverhe had
done, it must have been mostly against,
me. His leaving everything to me seemed
to mean that I was the one that he had
wronged, and that he was trying to make
it up to me. But it isn’t that; it can’t
be that! It is something much worse
than that! . . . Oh, I’m glad I haven’t/
used much or his money! Hardly any—
not more than I can pay back! It was-
n’t the money and the house he left me
that mattered; what he really left me
was just this . . . dishonor, shame . . .”

The, doorbell rang, and Alan turned
to the door and threw it open. In the
dusk the figure of the man outside Was
not at all recognizable; but as he entered
with heavy and deliberate steps, passing
Alan without greeting and going straight
to Constance, Alan saw by the light in
the hall that it was Spearman.

“What’s up?" Spearman asked. “They
tried to get your father at the office
and then me, but neither of us were there.
They got me afterwards at the club.
They said you’d come over here; but that
must have been more than two hours
ago."’

His gaze went on past her to the drawn
hangings of the room to the right; and
he seemed to appreciate their significance;
for his face whitened under its tan, and
an odd hush came suddenly upon him.

“Is it Ben, Connie?” he whispered.
“Ben .  come back?"

He drew the curtains partly open.
The light in the library had been extin-
guished, and the light that came from
the hall swayed about the room with the
movement of the curtains and gave a
momentary semblance of life to the face
of the man upon the couch. Spearman
drew the curtains quickly together again,
still holding to them and seeming for an
instant to cling to them; then he shook
himself together, threw the curtains wide
apart, and strode into the room. He
switched on the light and went directly
to the couch; Alan followed him,

“He’s—dead ?”

“Who is he ?” Alan demanded.

Spearman seemed to satisfy himself
first as to the answer to his question.
"How should I know who he is? he
asked. "There used to be a Wheelman on
the Martha Corvet years ago who looked
like him; or looked like what this fellow
may have looked like once. I can’t be
sure."

He turned to Constance. “You’re go-
ing home Connie? I’ll see you over there.
I’lli come back about this afterward, Con-
ra ."

Alan followod them to the door and
closed it after them. He spread the blan-
kets over Luke. Luke’s coats, which Alan
had removed, lay upon a chair, and he
looked them over for marks of identifica-
tion; the mackinaw bore the label of a
dealer in Manitowoc—wherever that
might be; Alan did not know. A side
pocket produced an old briar: there was
nothing else. Then Alan walked restlessly
about, awaiting Spearman. Spearman, he
believed, knew this man; Spearman had
not even ventured upon modified denial

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until he was certain that the man was
dead; and then he had answered so as
not to commit himself, pending learning
from Constance what Luke had told.

But Luke had said nothing about Spear-
man. It had b n Corvet, and Corvet'
alone, of whom uke had spoken; it was
Corvet whom he had accused; it- was
Corvet who had given him money. Was
it conceivable, then, that there had been
two such events in Corvet's life? That
one of these events concerned the Miwaka
and Spearman and some one—-some one

“with a bullethole above his eye”—who '

had "got" corvet; and that the other
event had concerned Luke and something
else? It was not conceivable, Alan was
sure; it was all one thing. If Corvet had
had to do with the Miwaka, then Luke
had to do with it too. And Spearman?
But if Spearman had been involved in
that guilty thing, had not Luke known
it? Then why had not Luke mentioned
Spearman? . Or had Spearman not been
really involved”? Had it been, perhaps,
only evidence of knowledge of what Cor-
vet had done that Spearman had tried to
discover and destroy?

Alan went to the door and opened it,
as he heard Spearman upon the steps
again. Spearman waited only until the
door had been reclosed behind him.

“Well, Conrad, what was the idea of
bringing Miss Sherrill into this?”

“I didn’t bring her in; I tried the best
I could to keep her out.”

“Out of what—exactly?”

“You know better than I do. You know
exactly what it is. You know that man,
Spearman; you know What he came here
for. I don't mean money; I mean you
know Why he came here for money, and
why he got it. I tried, as well as I could,
to make him tell me; but he wouldn't
do it. There's disgrace of some §0rt
here, of course—disgrace that involves
my father and, I think, you too. If you’re
not guilty with my father, you’ll help
me now; if you are guilty, then, at least,
your refusal to help will let me know
that.”

“I don’t know what you’re
about." ‘

“Then why did you come back here?
You came back here to protect yourself
in some way.”

“I came back, you young fool, to say
something to which I didn’t want Miss
Sherrill to hear. I didn’t know, when I
took her away, how completely you’d
taken her into—your father’s affairs. I
told you this man may have been a
wheelsman on the Corvet; I don’t know
more about him than that; I don’t even
know that certainly. Of course, I knew
Ben Corvet was paying blackmail; I’ve
known for years that he was giving up
money to some one.
he paid it to; or for what.”

The strain of the last few hours Was
telling upon Alan; his skin flushed hot
and cold by turns. He paced up and
down while he controlled himself.

talking

“That’s not enough, Spearman,” he said-

finally. “I—I’ve felt you, somehow, un-
derneath all these things. The first time
I saw you, you were in this house doing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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There came‘a sound from the hall, a
sound unmistakably denoting some presm
once. Spearman jerked suddenly up ;, ~
Alan. going to‘ the door and looking into
the hall, saw Wassaquam". The Indian
evi ently had returned to the house some
tim before; he had been bringing to Alan
now the accounts which he had settled.
He seemed to have been standing in the
hall for some time, listening; but he
came in now looking inquirineg from one
to the other of them.

“Not friends?” he inquired. "You and
Henry?" ‘ '

Alan's passion broke out suddenly.
“We’re anything but that, Judah. . I found
him, the first night I got here and while
you were away, going through my father's
things. I fought with him, and he ran
away. He was the one that broke into
my father’s desks; maybe you’ll believe
that, even if no one else will."

“Yes?” the Indian questioned. "Yes?"
It was plain that he not only believed
but that believing gave him immense sat-
isfaction. He took Alan’s arm and led
him into the smaller library. He knelt
before one of the drawers under the book-
shelves—the drawer, Alan recalled, which
he himself had been examining when he
had found Wassaquam watching him.
He drew out the drawer and dumped its
contents ‘out upon the floor; he turned
the drawer about then, and pulled the
bottom out of it. Beneath the bottom
which he had remOVed appeared now an-
other bottom and a few sheets of paper
scrawled in an uneven hand and with
different colored inks.

At sight of them, Spearman, who had
followed them into the room, uttered an
oath and sprang forward. The Indian’s
small dark hand grasped Spearman's
wrist, and his face twitched itself into a
fierce grin which showed how little civili-
zation had modified in him the aboriginal
passions. But Spearman did not try to
force his way; instead, he drew back sud-
denly.

Alan stooped and picked up the papers
and put them in his pocket. If the In—
dian had not been there, it would not
have been so easy for him to do that, he
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CHAPTER XII
‘ The Land of the Drum

Alan went with Wassaquam into the
front library, after the Indian had shown
Spearman out.

“This was the man, Judah, who came
for Mr. Corvet that night I was hurt?”

"Yes, Alan,” Wassaquam said.

“He was the man, then, who came here
twice a year, at least, to see Mr. Corvet.”

((Y )7

“I was sure of it," Alan said. Wassa-
quam had made no demonstration of any
sort since he had snatched at Spearman’s
wrist to hold him back when Alan had
bent the drawer. Alan could define
no rea change now in the Indian’s man-
ner; but he knew that, since Wassaquam
had found him quarreling with Spearman,
the Indian somehow had "placed" him
more satisfactorily. The reserve, border-
ing upon distrust, with which Wassaquam
had observed Alan, certainly was lessened.
It was in recognition of this that Alan
now asked, “Can you tell me now why he
came here, Judah?”

“I have told you I do not know,” Was-
saquam replied. "Ben always saw him:
Ben gave him money. I do not know
why."

Alan had been holding his hand over
the papers which he had thrust into his
pocket; he went back into‘ the smaller
library-.and spread them under the read-
ing lamp to examine them. Sherrill had
assumed that Corvet had left in the house
a record which would fully explain what
had thwarthed his life, and would shed
light upon what had happened to Corvet,
and why he had disappeared: Alan had
accepted this assumption. The careful
and secret manner in which these pages
had been kept, and the importance which _
Wassaquam plainly had attached to them
——-and which must have been a result of
his knowing that Corvet regarded them
of the utmost importance—made
certain that he had found the record
which Sherrill had believed must be there.
Spearman's manner, at the moment of
discovery, showed’ too that this had been
what he had been searching for in his
secret visit to the house.

But, .as Alan looked the pages over
now, he felt a chill of disappointment and
chagrin. They did not coptainlany nar-
rative concerning Benjamin Corvet’s life;
they did not even relate to a single event.
They were no narrative at all. They

' were——in his first examination of them, he

he could not tell what they were.

They consisted in all of some dozen
sheets of irregular size, some of which
had been kept much longer than others,
a few of which even appeared fresh and
new. The three pages which Alan thought.
from their yellowed and worn look, must
be the oldest, and which must have been
kept for many years, contained only a.
list of names and addresses. Having as-
sured himself that there was nothingelse
on them, he laid them .aside. The, re-
maining pages,_ which be counted 'as'ften"
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the disciples

  

IEXTI "And he called to him allttle
'ehild  set him _in the midst of them.
and said, Verily I say unto you, Except
ye turn and become as little children, ye
shall in no wise'enter, into the kingdom
of heaven. Matthew 18:1, 2'."

EAR-BY the parsonage is our

church community playground

where the children spend many
happy hours in play., Their rules
of play, made by themselves, are
such as these: There shall be no
cheating, no swearing, no fighting,
no tobacco. And, we must be cour-
teous to all and go home at the
proper time. Are you like them?
Would your like to be?

In our lesson, the Master is ask-
ing the adult to become like the
child. Have we reversed the pro-
gram of Jesus in asking the child
to become like the adult? Don’t
we expect John and Mary to bow
down to adult intelligence, adult
ways, and adult tyranny? It might
be a close guess to say that this is

a big factor in producing this so-‘

called .“jazz” generation.

Anyway, let us look at the pic-
ture in our text. Jesus sets a child
in the midst as an objective and sol-
emn bid to the adult disciples that
they become like it. The Great
'Teacher here broke all precedents.
It was in a day when the adult was
lord and pattern. Everything must
come up to adulthood. But how
full of error was this! Jesus said
that adulthood must come up to
childhood. When is this teaching
to take hold? Here we have the
‘clue to redemption. The child is
in our midst as a telling objective
lesson in moral discipline. We are
to like him and be like him. The
character and interests of childhood
make up the quality test of our civ-
ilization. I am writing these words
with my suitcase as a desk, while
passing through Dayton. A morn-
ing paper states that a “police
probe” is on. A witness testifies
that he is more interested in en-
forcing laws relative to “crimes

against persons" than laws on
"crimes against property". That
attitude is just about“ right. We are

looking in the right direction when
we begin to hold the interests of
the person above the interests of
property. Jesus would have noth-
ing to do .with property ligitation
or settlements. All these things
would be rightly adjusted in the at-
mosphere of moral understandings
of life. So, he asks us to emphasize
personality and build our civiliza-
tion around the interests and char—
acter of the child.

The church has done well to put
into her calendar a “Children’s
Day”. But why do we observe .a
children’s day. Do we appreciate

-the moral significance of such a

day? Certainly, it is a day when
the child is set in the Vmidst of
adults. But why? Now, there comes
John Smith. He never comes to wor-
ship. Why is he here this morn-
ing? Well, he has come to see how
“pretty” his little Mary will look on
the platform and how “cute” she
can say her piece. And we are not
to be too hard on John for this.
But this is incidental. Yet not al-
ways. Have you not seen children

, put through a program of cheap

ditties and recitations just to “show-
ofl”? This is plain vanity. Did the
program help or hinder the teach-
ers in the spiritual purposes they
have in view for the children? Was
the audience attracted to the spirit-

’ual qualities of childhood or was its

adultwanity only patronized thru
the exploitation of the children?
But Why does the Christ exalt the
,Why does
He ask us to look up to it? Be-
cause the disciple has such great
need of the simple qualities of
childhood. The uncoverted condi:
tion of the early disciple is-apparent
when we read, "In that hour came
unto Jesus, ‘saying,
Who is greatest in the kingdom of
heaven? And He called to Him a

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Whosoever therefore shall humble
himself as this little child, the same
is the greatest in the kingdom of
heaven."

It is plain. that the disciples were
preparing in their own way for a
place of precedence in the coming
reign of the King. Our Lord had
foretold His death but the disciples
did not understand His predictions.
Perhaps their Master’s death was
but the last struggle in the complete
establishment of an earthly king-
dom, and so they must get ready to
occupy their places. The collectors
had come to Peter for the tribute
money. But why Peter? Jealousy
is provoked and they come to Jesus
with the question, “Who is greatest
in the Kingdom?” “Peter?” This
provoked Jesus to say, “Except ye
turn andbecome as little children
ye cannot enter the kingdom of
heaven.”

Now, all of this must have been

shocking to those pretentious and
conventional followers of Jesus.
They thought they had worked out
the question of entrance into the
Kingdom, and now they were con-
cerned, most of all, as to which
of them would be the most promin-
ent. We see that their question re-
veals a disqualification for member-
ship in the family of Christ. My
friend, you can get into the church
visible on your word that you Will
be good. But only by doing good
can you become a citizen of the
Kingdom. You can belong to church
here on a1 correct belief, but only
through a deep—seated heart purpose
can you retain membership in the
universal family of God. What is
your purpose in “joining the
church”? Have you prayerfully
tried to value the Christian theory?
Are you itching for place and re-
cognition? How unlike the spirit
of Jesus Who said, “Not every one
that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall I enter the kingdom of heaven;
but he that doeth the will of my
'Father who is in heaven.” And
again, “Inasmuch as ye did it unto
one of the least of these my breth-
ren ye did it unto Me.” The hu-
mility of doing, of loving, of serv-
ing, or the lack of it, reveals our
purpose.

Conversion centers in humility.
And Jesus makes humility center in
the child. We all need to look up
to the little child. That is, we
need the lowliness, the modesty, the
sincerety, the genuineness, charac-
teristic of childhood. The child of
the boulevard will play unselfishly
with the child of the slum or the
alley, while the father of the latter
is outcasted by the father of the
former. Our lesson says that to be
great is to be small and humble.
Esop’s frog would be great by
swelling up like the ox. Do you
have any such abnormal swelling?
The only remedy is the humble,
serving spirit of the Nazarene.

“I know not how that Bethlehem's Babe
Could in the Godhead be:

I only know the Manger Child
Has brought God’s life to me.”

And in an important sense, every
child is central in the things of life.

The proper sense of the spirit and
character of the child is a great
need of adult life today. The adult
must .serve the child instead of pa-
tronizing and exploiting. Christ's
ideas of the moral qualities of child-
hood must prevail to bring us to a
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to provide money for farmers at reasonable rates on
favorable terms. We are allowed to loan you 50% of
the value of your land plus 20% of the insurable value
of the buildings. No bonuses or commissions to pay.

You Save Under Our Plan

We provide money for new loans or to refinance old loans. Your local
banker knows about us. Ask him or write to us for detailed information.

Loans $1,000 and up
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(under Government Supervision)

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MAKE PROFIT ON PRISON TWINE

' HERE has been a wide-spread rumor that
Michigan .would discontinue the manufac-
ture of prison binder twine, and the reason

given was that its manufacture resulted in a con—
siderable loss to the state. Farmers have been
alarmed over this report, and they well might be,
because for several years they have used large
quantities of this twine. The price has been
reasonable and at the same time the quality
seems to have been satisfactory.

On page four of this issue we have an article
written by Hon. Arthur Odell, representative from
Allegan county in the 1925 legislature and
chairman of the committee on the Michigan State
Prison. He is in a position to secure all the
figures and he declares that the prison twine in-
dustry is not a losing proposition, but has actually
turned in a profit. According to his conclusions
the twine is stored as fast as manufactured and
loans are secured on it to finance the other in—
dustries connected with the prison. The interest
paid on these funds is all set down on the books
against the binder twine instead of being charged
to the various industries using the money. Ac-
cording to Mr. Odell's figures the prison twine
industry, instead of making a loss of over $35,000
the last four and one-half years has actually made
a profit of over $125,009,00. ‘

Why such bookkeeping methods have been al—
lowed to continue for over four years we cannot
understand and we hope that they will be changed
at once.

POOIJNG BEANS

N another page we are publishing an article
about the proposed plan of the bean grow-
ers of lichigan to pool their crop in an

etfort to stabilize prices and bring to the
grower a better price than he has been receiving.
This is a movement in the right direction and
the plan sounds feasible.

By pooling the beans and marketing them in
an orderly way it would keep off the market
the great surplus that canes prices to break
and weaken the market in general during the
fall and early winter months every year as under
the present system. Of course the farmer can-
not be blamed for this, as he needs money to
meet obligations, pay his taxes, etc, and he
sells to the elevator man, who in turn, must dis-
pose of the beans at once, because of his limited
capital. Neither the farmer nor the "elevator
man can be blamed, it is our system of market-
ing. With a pool the beans could.be marketed
according to the demand and by advancing to
the farmer a certain percentage of the value of
his beans as soon as they are stored he would
have funds to tide him over until the beans were
finally said and a settlement of the pool was
mode.

Some have suggested that the farmer do all
the marketing of his own beans. This is hardly
practical at this time.

as  is the jobber, and each has his own or-
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gag?” .‘ ‘ ia‘edectnlt, would hamlet
a  to determinate slat-go Mt the,
price the beans should?» sold at and Martial
could be maintained as long as the conditions
warranted because of the orderly marketing.
Regardless of the merits of the proposition
the success depends almost“ entirely . upon the
growers themselves. If they patronize the pool
it should prove a profitable movement, but if

   
 

 

they are. going to leave it up to their neighbor

to do the pooling and sell all of their own beans
on the open market it is doomed to fail. Several
well-known farmers and tan- leaders, lead by
A. B. Cook, have devoted considerable time to
the study oi: the pooling proposition, and they
will give generously of their time to put it across,
but if it is going to be a fizsle and the majority of
the growers are not going to give it their sup-
port it is foolish for these men to give any more
of their valuable time along this line, and we
would like to have“ you read this article care—
fully and then vote on the proposition, using
the coupon publish-ad within the article.

If we have good weather "from now until har—
vest time we will have more beans than in some
time and a largo quantity of them will go to the
elevator right from the threshing machine. The

elevator man will have to sell to get his money"

out to pay for the beans he must buy from
the line of growers waiting at the door every
day. The result will be a demoralized market
and prices declining rapidly. If we are going
to have a pool this looks like the year to try it
out. Let’s not and act quick. Fill out the cou-
pon appearing with the article on page 3 and
mail it to the Editor at once.

OBSCU MEAT PROBLFJIS

. HE other day a slaughter-er paid the top of
the market for a carload of cattle which
looked like high yielders of prime beef. To his
disgust when they were slaughtered their beef
was “black”. Not actually block of course, but
dark, what is known as “black beef” on the
market. There was a good deal of such beef
last year and some with yellow fat instead of
white. Since the cause is unknown the National
Livestock and Meat Board has been created to
study the color, palatability, texture and other
things which affect the market value of meats.
Whether the results of such study will have
great commercial value remains to be seen. It
will be interesting at any rate, and incidentally
other valuable discoveries may be made. Until
there is some good reason to change producers
will continue to make meat as now. at the lowest
possible cost, and allow the eye of the buyer to
determine its value on the open market.

TO ELIDIINATE WAR

ERNARD BARUCH has given $250,000 to the
Walter Page School of International Rela-
tions at John Hopkins University, to study

the possibility of eliminating war by taking the
profit out of it. Can it be possible that these
prosperous people who, previous to the world
War were no better ct financially than the aver—
age of us, have been suspected of profiteering?
We are surprised at Mr. Baruch—yes, we are
surprised that he didn't think of this before.
Frankly, we are surprised that it would take
$250,000 to find the answer to this question when
it is already known.

There were a lot of individuals very "patriotic"
during the world war who would have changed
their ideas if they had been obliged to sacrifice
like the boys who went ‘to the front. No profit,
no war!

THE NATIONAL FARM PASTIIME

E hear a lot about this pastime and that

, pastime but to me there is no game that
gives a fellow more real fun than a good,

close game of horseshoes. And to pitch one of
’em over the peg requires as much skill as need-
ed in any other game. A few years ago a dyed-

‘in—the-wool “slipper slammer” didn't dare speak

of his favorite game in front of' company from
the city, but times have changed. ' Folks in the
towns and cities are taking to the game like
ducks to‘weter. The number of public owned
pitching ~courts is increasing rapidly, there is
hardly a city or town in the country that does
not boast of at least one horseshoe pitching club,
and a national magnolne devoted to the game
hale. growing list of readers. Horseshoe pitch-

 

ing has always been the national taro! pastime

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 east is ‘  runner
projects where firstfh-ajnd "knowledge of settlers
Incomes was obtained  mane found set-
tlers leaving-ad  to‘ take their

place. He says; “Unless inflicts» are attracted ’

to projects and are able to remain there will-be

no one benefited by building them. . .‘..‘ .,The .
reclamation service can build irrigation. works, '

but it cannot draft settlers!“ liters land is not
needed to produce food at thls'time and reclama-
tion to provide homes is useless if the {people
cannot make a living on the projects. The best
thing to do with reclamation is to stop it until it
is needed. ' ,

WHO CAN BEAT Tums manor

ECENTLY we published some pictures uh a
R news item about Harry Hansen, of Eds-ore,
and the 1,830 bushels of potatoes he "pso-
duced on six acres. Now we have a letter from

 

Lewis B. Gullck, of Bancroft, in which he says ’

"I can go that record'one better. I raised 1,858
bushels on five and one-half acres. I planted
than June ,’5th, cultivated them three times aid
dug aboutthe 15th of October." '

That’s over 300 bushels to the acre!
beat Neighbor Gulick’s record!

Whom

ma RIGHT misnomer?

, ROM the standpoint of a dairyman the two
essentials of a dairy cow are ability to pro-
duce economically and the ability to produce

other cows that will do the same thing. He

is more concerned about these essentials than
he in about the cow's ability to make a high

record under artificial or abnormal conditions, f

or any conditions which may interfere with the
second essential. For he must have eminent
cows in more than one generation of mule it
his business is to be a permanent success. The
breed organizations are recognizing this and are
proposing to abandon ZGS—day tests and to sub-
stitute therefor 305-day tests with calving re-
quirement. They are going in the "fight direc-
tion, and the only question is whether they pro-
pose to go far enough. Reproduction has been
neglected for production by our breed associa-
tions. . -,

BUSINESS FARMI‘N G

‘ GROUP of farmers living near Owatonna,“
Minnesota, operating under a cost-keeping

system for the last five years, have pr-oven '

the traditions about farming not paying are the
bunk. They hays paid themselves $60 a month
wages and five per cent on their investment.
They have increased butter production 29 per
cent per c0w and lowered production costs; they
have found shorter cuts to profits in almost
every branch of farming. Their farm income
averaged, $2,471, or better than $200 a sheath.
which is far above the average tradesmen or me-
chanic income. They cut out the waste and

"stuck to the things that paid.

That is not just farming, it is business farm-
ing! _

INTEMED [N MICHIGAN

HERE has just come to our desk a letter
from a twenty-year-old Kansas boy who
Wants to open correspondence with”. Mic.“-
gan boy of his age who is interested in agricul-
ture and who would be able to Write to a Kan-
sas farm boy. He declares his object is to broad-
en his knowledge of agricultural ideas and learn
the methods of agriculture as applied in Mich-
igan, also to establish personal friendship and

acquaintance. "

A very sensible idea. And we are sure that
there are several farm boys of this age in lich-
igan who will be glad to write to our Kansas
friend and tell him what a wonderful [stabs
Michigan is» -

We Vii} gladly fire this young man's complete
name and address to any one ,who in 1”“
if they will drop us a letter or post card.

 

THAT OLD PROBLEM " ..
FARMER wants to know how he can get
} his boys to stick to the job outta farm.
' Not knowing him or them orthe farm we
can’t answer his question. But there's” a 
of good in the right kind-of an" 
work and in play. fissile-om. ' 
with them and naval-cl upw ‘ >
too  they‘ll“. ,

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{leaselet me have your opinion
the fencio'sed investment proposi-
on. It the Ford Motor Company
a! Canada is as good" as Ford in
lichigan I would buy the stock.”

 " investment/proposition " re~
terred to by our reader was
“bankera' shares” in the Ford

Inter Company d— Canada, ‘Iltdu

1nd the subscriber receives. a spe-

  
   

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do} subscription privilege” to buy,

m '0! these shares; However.
these shares are not what f they
mean our investigation reveals
that the smealled "benkers’ shafi'es
represent in reality just "one up-
dredth o! a share of capital stock in
that company and when compared
to the present market value one
finds that they are ’paying a very.
high price for the stock. . .
The one! was made to our sub-
scriber by the magenta! Company
of Jersey Citr,New Jersey, who are
\not permitted 'to sell their stock 1n
the state of New York according to
a recent decision made by the Su-
preme Court Justice of Brooklyn.
This decision was» also rendered
against another company by the
name of Marshall and Company.
This decision was the result at pro—
ceedings instituted by- the Attorney
' ral of New York state and in
his njunction the Justice said:
“The whole scheme indicates a
desire to trap the unwary or those
who have not had an opportunity to
tally analyse the meaning and'eflfect
of the misleading literature issued
‘ by these defendants."

 

WARREN "McRAE

NE of our Benzie subscribers re—

0 ceived a letter from warren

McRae of Logansport, _Ind1ana,
finding this state with literature
regarding his proposition to sell
farms, which was just before a
write—up on him appeared in this de—
partment. The letter is very inter—
esting, the more important para-
graphs reading as follows:

f"l’he writer had the pleasure. of
visiting your section a short t1me
ago and was very much impressed
with your farming community also
the low price that farms were sell-
Upon his return home he
several of our good Indiana
miners interested in your neighbor-
hood. These men are all good tarm-
ers and hard workers and most of
them have several thousand dollars
to invest. r _

“If you are looking for a good
quick cash sale, kindly fill out the
enclosed listing form and.return it
to me with the regular listing tee
of $10.00 and I wit! guarantee to
furnish you .with a buyer for yo“:-
p-eperty at your price and terms
wuhinwdaysorlwillreturnyour
$10.00 in full. When the deal is
ahead you pay me a 2 per cent
commission of the selling price. In
case the first buyer does not buy,
notify me and I will keepcn send-
hg you buyers until you make a
deal. / , _ _
“I do not care to charge this list-
ing fee as I make my profits on the
commission, and would not have to

do so if everyone. were on the
square and meant business, but as
‘ we do not have a representative in
your section we simply have to pro:
tect ourselves against triflers, curi—
osity seekers and men who try to
get twice what their property is
worth. This listing fee is slmply a

Collection

The purpose at this department 11 a In-
subscribers

 

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L alien are being watched closely at
 [present time.

 Vet gm” taith’andwill be
 to you when your proper- .

ty is sold or when our (time ex-
pires." .

Wouldn’t that sound good to any
farmer who , wanted to sell his
farm? Well, it did to this subscrib-
er but be neglected to send the 310
“right away so Mr. McRae kindly cut
the listing price, and he cut it again
until finally he altered to list the
farm for only $2.50. It was too
much of a bargain for our subscrib-
er. to resist so he sent the $2.50.
He hardly expected anyone to show'
up within the first week butby the
end of the first month he began to
At the end of 90 days and
no buyer, he became suspicious. And
now after two years, and no buyer
or refund of his money, he is fully
decided—that he was an “easy vic-
tim".

We have‘had something on this
page several times about, Mr. McRae
and at first he threatened to make
us take back our statements and
we promised him that we would it
he would prove that he was selling
farms for farmers in Michigan. It
Was over a year ago that we made
him this proposition and to date he
has ignored it. Why? We will let
you draw your own conclusions, and
wager that you guess right the first
time.

NATIONAL BOND AND SURETY I

COMPANY

“'I have received benefits from
the Collection Box and Legal Editor
several times and I consider such
advice very beneficial and only two
of the great advantages of the pa—
per. I am again asking your as—
sistance and advice.

   

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 Conversion of your pres-
ent securities to the bonds
we Offer may help your
money grow faster. Many
high-grade farmers have
swung to us. Write us.

Write for Booklet, “How to Analyze a
First Mortgage Real Estate Bond Issue."

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Normal Income Tax Up to 2% Paid by Borrower

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“On September 2nd of last year
I filed an application for a rural
carrier bond with the National Bond
and Surety Company of Washington,
D. C., at the same time forwarding
a remittance of $3.7 5 by post—ofiice
money-order which amount the
postmaster here instructed me was

bond. When the bond was returned a

to me for my signature I found the
proper fee for a five hundred dollar -
rating of fees to be only fifty cents
per year per five hundred dollars.
On returning the bond to the com-
pany properly signed I asked them
to kindly return the $3.25 which I
had overpaid them. I never re—
ceived any reply to my request.
The bond went into effect about No-
vember lst. Can you advise me if
I can collect this over—paid amount
without too much expense?”

ERHAPS you could collect the
$3.25 if you could find the
company, but a registered let-

ter from us was returned unclaim-
ed. We then wrote to the postmas-
ter of Washington, -D. 0., who in-
formed us that the name was not in
the city directory and the company
could not be found. '

DOESN'T LOOK GOOD

“Is the Mobilade Corporation of
Detroit a sound and responsible sor-
poration? They advertise for oil
station managers and agree to pay
one hundred seventy—five dollars a
month and a commission. They
want the "‘managers to deposit fif-
teen hundred dollars with them for
one year and agree to pay seven per
cent on same and pay back the fit-
teen hundred at the end of one
year.”

HE Mobilade Corporation is now

operating in Detroit and has
combined with the National ,
Automobile Service Company, a

similar organization. The officers
in this corporation have been for-
merly connected with high-speed
promotions from time to time, and
do not bear the best of reputations.

now under the“ surveilance ,of the
Michigan Securities Commission,
who are somewhat familiar with the
{armor operations at these gentle-
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. —' .."¥"”Byg;A.‘nne' gnmpbefl .
j think that} mother .always

lies a needle inherzhandsn
he’s fastening our buttons

1' she’s busy hemming bands.
,e's mending broken places

, 0r she’s patching up the tears,

.wAnd she’s forever darning
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I guess that mothers always
Have something left to do.
If. baby hurts his finger
. “Well, her kiss will .mend that, too.
And if a doll is broken
Or a blow has hurt the cat,
'Or'if we’re disappointed,
Mother even can mend that!

My daddy says to mother,
Since she’s turned her eyes upon
- Life’s bigger hurts and troubles,
Some fine day they’ll all be gone!
She can even 'take her mending
To the very highest place;
And the world will be made over
By the mothers of the race!
(Copyright, 1925)

WRONG IDEAS .\ ON MARRIED
LIFE

EAR EDITOR: One might infer
from the genbral trend of news-
paper writers and general opin—

ion as talked, that a. married man
was ever looking for a chance to
get out alone and away from his
home and family, and wife is pic—
tured as something of a jailer.
Also that husbands are always slam-
ming their wives’ clothes and looks
and admiring other ladies. We are
all familiar with the cheap jokes
and slurs that are directed at the
home life of husbands and wives,
and we have often wondered why
this should be allowed, as it has a
tendency to lower the standard of
married life and the home in gener—
al. Men of this type are very few
and far between and should have
stayed single.

A man who truly woos and mar-
ries the one girl of his choice will
be content with his home, as she is
there. She is the one girl to him
as she is his wife and to him she
never grows old or undesirable, be
.she fat or lean—growing dearer as

 the years roll on, until instead of
trying to steal away from her he
has no life without her.

The “Bringing Up Father” car-
toons are a specimen of these so—
called jokes and are of course fun-
ny, but why not choose for an ob-
ject something less sacred than
home life?

The world today is being flooded

with old bachelors and maids,
many a nice girl would be glad to
settle down in a home of her own.
But taking married life as pictured
today our young men fight shy, as
who would willingly enter prison,
as pictured in the home life of the
'poor married man, putting one’s
head in the “noose” so to speak.
However, from our own experience
and observation it would appear to
be the ideal existence as compared
’ to a life of single blessedness, judg—
ing by the general look and appear-
ance of the two classes.
 Ever notice the tired. worn—out
gexpression in the face of the old
{bachelor who is aged and bald long
before his time? Life has appar—
ently lost all interest for him. And
[the single girls age more rapidly
ltoo, than their married sisters,
.which proves that the so-called poor
émarried people are not so discon-
tented after all—Mrs. N. G., Shiloh,
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THE CAREFUL CANNER
SUCCEEDS

HAT, such complaints as, “I lost
T all. my tomatoes last year,”

“Fourteen jars of my beans
’spoiled,” “We had lovely asparagus
;but all I canned spoiled in a day or
1two,’? tell of unnecessary losses has
.lbeen demonstrated by hundreds of
{women who can dozens of jars of
lfruits and vegetables year after year
without losing a single jar. The
fine quality and attractive appear-
anceof their products as exhibited
tat county' and community fairs
ibears testimony that they have
'Efound that it pays to follow the
rules in canning. This means that
they have followed all of the rules
"all of the time. There may 'be

sidestep the conventions and ,take
wan occasional chance but canning 1s
' not, one of them.

5  simple. Either the lopen’ kettle

, 2

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household processes where one may I

' The-canning of fruit .is compal‘ar

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world look a lot brighter.

of your lungs.
out that if I step out doors
into the fresh air and take
several deep breaths I feel
:rcsted and refreshed. Just
try it, the sooner the better.

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EAR FOLKS: Have you a cure for those blues, the kind that
you do not know why you have them or what caused them, but
you just have them? Plenty of sunshine will go a long ' way

toward ironing out your troubles.
even during the coldest days of ‘winter and when you arise is the
morning take fifteen or twenty deep breaths of fresh air. ’ Even
though you may “get up out of the wrong side, of the bed” you
will find several good deep breaths of fresh air will make the
Deep breathing gets your blood to cir-
culating in good shape and gets rid of that dead air at the bottom
I find no the end of the day when I feel all tired

ifw,
%7V;2w am (We

Mrs. Annle Taylor, care The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mlehlaen.

 

 

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with success if one uses care. The
cold pack method is particularly de—
sirable for most small fruits which
are easily crushed in handling. It
is largely a personal matter whether
the cold pack or open kettle method
is" used with the larger fruits such
as peaches, pears and plums.

'Many persons prefer to can all
fruits by the cold pack method be-
cause it is simpler, quicker and a
larger quantity can be handled at
once. Some person prefer the flav-
or of certain fruits cooked in the
syrup .by the open kettle method.
This process of course requires care
during cooking to prevent boiling
over or scorching. One must be very
sure in this method that jars, rub—
bers and lids have been thoroughly
cleansed and scalded and are not
contaminated by handling.

The difference in these two meth-
ods is now well understood by ev-
eryone. In the open kettle method
the fruit is cooked in the syrup and
packed at once in clean, hot jars
and sealed. In the cold pack meth—
od the cold or uncooked fruit is
packed in clean but not necessarily
scalded jars and the fruit is cooked
in the jar in either steam or hot
water.

In following the rules for can-
ning fruit it is well to use fine well-
grown, firm, but not overripe, fruit.
If possible, can fruit on the day
that it is picked. Wash, pare, or
otherwise prepare the fruit, remov-
ing all bruised or decayed parts. If
there is much variation in size, sort

the fruit so that the contents of.

each jar will be as nearly uniform
as possible.

For cold pack canning of fruit
much of the attractiveness of the
appearance of the jars will depend
upon the way it is packed in the
jars. The packing of the jars is
more or less of an individual job
for each fruit. Berries and cher-
ries must be carefully handled to

avoid crushing, but should be pack-
ed as closely as possible. For cold
pack canning, use the round side of
a wooden spoon and press the fruit
down lightly. When the jar is full,
let it stand a few minutes so that
the fruit can settle; then more may
be added. Peaches and pears should
be packed in layers with the halves
overlapping and the rounded side
of each half uppermost.

This gives a close pack and an
even, uniform appearance to the jar.
Pears are best if the halves are
packed in layers with the stem end
of the half upward.

Cherries, huckleberries and black-
berries will be sufliciently cooked
in five minutes boiling in syrup in
the open kettle. Apples peaches and
pears should be cooked until, clear.
Plums usually require ten minutes
cooking in the syrup. When canned
by the cold pack method and cook-
ed in the can in a hot water or
steam bath, sixteen minutes is the
right time for cherries, raspberries,
blackberries, fruit juices, huckle—
berries and plums. Peaches will
need twenty minutes, pears twenty
to thirty minutes and pineapple
thirty minutes.

Much of the fresh flavor of fruit
is lost if too much sugar is used in
canning. Although fruit may be
canned without sugar the color,
flavor and texture are better if even
a small amount of sugar is used.
Since most fruit must be sweetened
before it is used, it saves time to
add it when canning. Syrups made
by measure rather than by guess
give better results.

A thin syrup is best for raspber-
ries and other sweet berries, apples
and pears unless a very rich pro—
duct is desired. A thin syrup is
made by‘ boiling 2 cups of sugar and
4 cups of water for 5 minutes.

A medium syrup may be used for
sweet cherries, sweet plums and
blackberries. it is made by boiling

An Improvised Tea Cart

and the wheels from a discard-

ed baby carriage were the most
important parts of a homemade tea
wagon evolved by a woman living
in ' Chesterfield County, Virginia.
Possessed of more imagination and
ingenuity than spare money, this
woman made a very convenient,
time and step saving piece of fur—
niture which also looks well when-
ever she uses it. In fine weather,
when she Wishes to enjoy breakfast,

THE top of an old drop—leaf table

   
 

lunch or tea on the porch, she has
only to wheel her tea cart a short
distance from the kitchen and she
can turn her back on the scene of
her daily tasks. ,

The work was done as a part of
the county kitchen improvement
contest in which she took part, un-
(ler the direction of extension WOI’K—
ers cooperatively directed by the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute 'and
the United States Department of
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or.  use
cherries, ‘
fruits where a rich product is'desir— ’ *

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with rich peaches, germ
-:pinewpplee- - "and ‘ other

    
    

ed is made from‘5 cups ofsu‘giargto

each 4-wcups of water vbeiled'wfor 5

minutes—L. B. .

IMILK IMPORTANT IN CHILD’S

DIET

“ QUART of‘milk a day for ev~ »

ery child” has been the slogan

of mhny nutrition workers for
several years. Still others, advocate
a pint of milk a day supplemented
by other foods. The public health
nurse, the public school teacher, the
social worker, and the club women
have sponsored the cause of milk in
‘turn and en masse. Children themw

‘selves have had an important part.

in furthering the drink-more-ymilk
campaign by making milk-for-health
posters in school, and by carrying
home the facts to. prove that milk is
good for grown ups as well as for
children.

Luckily, the value of milk as a
food for growing children justifies-
the prominent place is has been giv-
en in better nutrition campaigns,
says the home economics depart—
ment at South Dakota State College.
Milk is not a beverage in the uSual
sense of the word. 'It is a food in
liquid form. The young of the hu-

man race continue to need milk af-

ter they are weaned because their
growth is slower than that of most
other mammals. During the early
years when the permanent teeth. are
developing inside of the gums, and
for the still longer period during
which the bone structure of the
body is maturing, milk is valuable
as a source of calcium, or lime salts.
There is no better source of protein
in the child’s diet than milk. It
qualifies also because it contains
those much-talked-of, never—seen,
but very necessary somethings call-
ed vitamins.

:Suitable as milk is for children.
why do some of them consistently
refuse to take it? The refusal may
have begun because of the child’s
desire to be like some adult whox
expressed a dislike for milk or who
quietly avoided taking it. Some-
times the refusal came as a tem-
porary disinclination towards .all
foods because the child was tired

and ill. In such cases the mother
who is over-solicitous for her
child’s nutrition and under-solici-

tous for his temperamental reac-
tions may set up a lasting prejudice
by emphasizing with much talk the
necessity of drinking milk.

A, liking for milk may often be
built up by preparing ani serving
it in various forms, the college home
economics specialists point out. A
surprise in the form of a raisin-milk
pudding, chi.ikened with cornstarch
might be a good start, especially if
it Were oflered without comment
After providing milk more or loss
disguised in puddings, cus.ards, di—
lute cocoa, or by cooking it with
the cereal, vegetable milk soups and
“creamed” dishes may be gradu-
ally introduced.’ Even plain milk
sipped through a drug store “straw”
may ’prove a treat. Some children
object to the rdor of miik and the
straw prevents thetir getting this
odor. The lehOd of encouraging
a little of this not-very~welcome
food along with a little of that very
welcome one sometimes helps. A
special favorite may be withheld
until the milk has disappeared.

TREAT YOUR REFRIGERATOR
WHITE -

HE hot summer days are almost
T as hard on your refrigerator as
they are on you but like your-

self a little care and an occasional
cool bath will do wonders toward
keeping off the effects of hot weath—
er. Keep the ice compartment fill-
ed with ice, but nothing else in this
compartment. Keep the doors
tightly closed except when it is ne-
cessary to open them, and wipe up

‘ all spilled foods or liquids immedi-

ately. A weekly all—over cleaning
will take care 'of practically all the
rest. For this remove all food and
containers, the shelves, drain pipe,
and ice. As quickly as possible
wash the whole ice box with luke-
warm water in ,Which a little" soda
has been dissolved, _F1ush out, the
drain and wash the t-drain. pipe and
shelves in a strongersolution tofnthet
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it .willrpay youaby keeping your
food sweet and cool all summer

  

nnnn ARE SOME WAYS 'ro
. USE KERQSENE

To Clean Clocks.—-Take a small piece-

of cotton and soak with kerosene place

, on the floor of the clock and after a few

days look inside of the clock and you
will be surprised to find’the cotton black
with dust. To remove printing from flour
sacks—Put a' tablespoonful of kerosene
into two quarts-of soap suds and boil the
sacks in this mixture. To take rust from
steel implements or knives—Rub them
‘well with kerosene oil leaving them a. day
or so then_ rub them with brick dust or
unslaked lime.

To Clean a Sewing Machine.—Just go

over it with an oil can filled with kero-
sene. When the machine has been gone
over, raise the pressure foot then rub the
machine briskly for a few minutes, wipe
off the kerosene, 'then oil with a. good
lubricating oil and the gumness is all
gone.
‘ For Greasy Paint.——To remove. grease
from the painted wall above the gas stove
or any other place wipe with a cloth
saturated in kerosene then wipe with dry
cloth.

To Put Gloss on Kitchen Utensils and to

‘ clean quickly the bottom of aluminum or

granite pots that have become blackened
from smoke of an oil or gas range, make
a paste of scouring powder and kerosene
then dip the cloth in the paste and rub
until the black-is all removed. Wash in
hot water and dry ‘with clean towel. The

I,utensils will shine like new.‘

For Steel Line.—-—If you have a steel
clothesliiie, wipe it with a little kerosene
in cold weather and the clothes will not
stick to the line.

To Make a Dust Mop.—Cut old socks
in strips and put into a small mop stick,
moisten with kerosene ‘and let dry—this

' makes a swell dust mop for finished hard-

wood floors.

To Remove Finger Marks from Oiled
'Fnrniture.-—Rub with a cloth wet with
kerosene.

To 'Take Out Grass Stains.—Saturate

the spot thoroughly with kerosene, then
put in wash tubs. _
_ To Soften Boots and Shoes—«Kerosene
will. soften boots and shoes which have
been hardened by water and render them
pliable as new.

To Make Tin Kettles Bright.—-—Saturate
a. woolen rag with kerosene and rub

'with it.

‘ To Exterminate Bed Bugs.—Dip a paint
brush in kerosene oil and go over cracks
or wherever they may be.

In Making Starch.—-—To keep starch from
sticking to the iron, add a few drops of
kerosene to it. It also lightens the gloss.
I wish you success, I get so many help-
ful things from M. B. F.—Mrs Ervin
Beardsley, Lapeer County. ‘

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

Attention, Mr. F.—In your May 23rd

issue I read the recipe for sweet pickles
sent in by "Mr. F., Muskegon County” and
wish he would write and tell us if there
shouldn't be any salt added or perhaps the
cucumbers put in a brine before using
the vinegar, etc. I have often wanted a
good recipe for sweet pickles and feel as
though this is a good one. Does he mean
that the allspice is to be ground and
pickles should be put in the cans and the
liquid put over them after being cooled ?—
Mrs. K., Albion, Michigan.
——I have lost the complete address of Mr.
F. so I cannot write to him but hope he
will see your letter and write in the in-
formation wanted—Annie Taylor.

 

 

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The Engagement Bing.—The engage-
ment ring is the outward sign of the
flancee’s new estate. It marks that newer
intimacy which justifies the use of jewels
as gifts. The ring may be as costly or
as. modest as the suitor's means permit.
It’you buy a diamond solitaire see that,
even if small, it is of purest water and
attractively set. The best taste some-
times prefers a platinum to a gold set-

. ting. You or she may select the ring.

The ideal solution, perhaps, is for a man
to go with his fiancee to the jewellers
and allow her to cho e her engagement
ring. This, however, is not recommended
for the man of moderate means, since it
may lead to embarrassment. Always al-
low your fiancee to determine the kind of
stone she prefers. Her harmless shper-
stitions should be indulged, not reprcived.
Every girl will avoid the unlucky opal.
The pearl, to her. mind, may be associated
with tears: in spite of the fact that in
the sacred books of the Hindoos “it
drives away illness and grief and brings

pits “owner all he may wish for". The

sapphire, of course. is "the blue bird ‘for

happiness" among the gems. and

" for fidelity; those 'who think of the em-
{ex-aid as emblematic of envy and Jealousy,
-- uhould Knot. forget that it is the color of

  

Aneplgeonfs bloodiruby is prob-
rf It» ~ procurable
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The only .afbfihlen" a, men need follow
in the choice ’of an engagement ring is
‘that, set by his own fiancee. If he does
this he is" sure to be in the right.

There is no such thing as a return “en-
gagement gift” on the part of a girl. A
gold watch-fob, belt-buckle or cuff-links,
or a silver cigarette holder, cigar-clip or
cigarette case are sometimes given a man
by his fiancee. But if so, it is an un-
solicited sign of affection, and has no
relation to his gift of an engagement ring.

The girl who lays aside her engagement
ring and does not wear it when visiting
in another city, in order to gain, attention
from other men, does not deserve to have
one. If you have once worn your ring
openly on the day your engagement was
announced, as custom decrees. there is no
valid reason for hiding it or laying it
aside.

 

 

The Runner’s Bible. 49

(Copyright by Houghton Miflin Co.)

 

 

Forgive and ye shall be forgiven—Luke
6:37.

In order to obtain forgiveness one must
unite oneself wholly with God, and there-

\ fore must one put away—which is to for—

give—all thoughts of evil and discord in
connection with one’s neighbor as well
as that which is connected with oneself.

 

 

Recipes

 

 

Tomato Ketchup.——Select red-ripe toma-
toes. The extra juice, small and'broken
fruit which will do for canning, may be
used. if they are sound and red. Any
green or yellow parts of fruit will make a
ketchup inferior in flavor and color, and
not good for market. Use whole spices
tied loosely in a bag while cooking and
remove before bottling to prevent darken—
ing the product, caused by ground spices.
this does not apply to red pepper, which
helps to give a bright red color. The pulp
of sweet Spanish pepper or the ground
Hungarian paprika may be used to give

'color and flavor. Remove seeds from

sweet red pepper, chop, and add 1 cupful
of this pepper and 2 medium-sized onions
to 1 gallon of tomatoes before cooking.

Cook the tomatoes thoroughly, put
through colander” or sieve, saving all
pulp, and measure. For every gallon of
pulp use the following: 1 T. salt, 4 T.
sugar, 1 T. mustard (powdered), 1 pt.
cider vinegar, 1 level T. each of whole
allspice, cloves, cinnamon and pepper. 2
small red peppers, sliced and seeds re-
moved. After putting tomatoes through
colander, add ground spices and spice bag,
and cook for 11%,», hours, or nearly thick
enough, then add vinegar and cook until
thick. Rapid cooking (being careful not
to scorch the ketchup) will give a better
color than slow cooking. The finished
product should have a fine, bright red
color,

Pour the ketchup at once into hot, steri-
lized bottles. If any quantity is made for
sale, set the hot bottles at once into a
vessel of hot water, having a rack or
false bottom in it to prevent breakage,
put the cork stoppers in loosely, and pr0~
cess at boiling point for 30 minutes.
Drive the corks in tightly, and when cool
dip mouth of bottle into melted parafiin,
or cover stopper with sealing wax.

Chili Sauce.—1 gal. chopped ripe toma—
toes, % c. chopped white onion, % c. chopped
sweet green peppers, 343 c. chopped sweet
red peppers, 1/2 c. brown sugar, 2 T. gin-
ger, 1 T. cinnamon. 1 T. mustard, 1 nut-
meg (grated), 1 pt, vinegar, 6 T. salt, 115
t. cayenne pepper. Peel the tomatoes and
onions. Chop the onions and peppers fine.
Boil all ingredients except the vinegar
together for two hours, or until soft and
broken. Add vinegar and simmer for 1
hour. Stir frequently. Bottle and seal
while hot.

Pepper Relish.—Twelve each, sweet, red
and green peppers and tiny onions, 3
tablespoons salt, 1 pint vinegar, 2 cups
brown sugar. Remove seeds from peppers
and chop very fine, chop onions, add salt
and allow mixture to simmer for 10 min«
utes. Drain and add vinegar and sugar.
Let come to boiling, pour into pint jars
and seal. As soon as sealed place in hot
water and process 5 minutes.

 

 

HOMESPUN YARN

 

 

Don’t be afraid to try something new
this year, but don’t try it toohard.
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Uncle Ab says a really wise man not
only knows what is worth knowing, but
does what is worth doing.

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Flowers bring more real joy in relation
to the work spent on them than any other
thing you plant. - -

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Nicotine dust made with five parts of
nicotine sulphate and 95 parts of hy-
drated lime will get the plant aphids.

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Carrots are just a good for horses as
for humans. ‘
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Arsenate of lead and lime, dust or
813117. Eats cabbage worms.

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5143. A very Attractive Manges—Comfortable and with new features, this n ular m t
givgegm filleté‘illi‘tlvclggl‘lilo sillIr, orepc‘iofl‘iignelF otr bhligket ci‘oéhi8 'l‘he1 Pattern is cutHiIri 4 giazreszens Win
.— ; _ l m, — ; large, ...~ ; .x ra rge, A inc ies lust measu e. i ll ‘ '
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5142.—A stylish Frock for Mature Figures with Slender Hips.—l“im1red and plain crepe are com-

i bined in this attractive model. it is also good for the new prints now in vogue as well as for linen,

and knsha. _’l'he Pattern is cut in 8 Sizes: 40, 42 44. 40, 48, 50. 52 and 54 inches bust mea
To make as illustrated will require 1%, yard of plain material 40 inches wide and 2V2 Yards of fig;
material for a. 44 inch Size. The Width at the foot is 2 yards with piaits extended.

I 5129. .A Simple Frock for a Tiny Tot.——Very little material and very little time go into th -
mg of a little. dress of this kind. Voile or batiste are favorite materials, but one could use chgmlgrg
or the. new.pr1nted. tissues—or tuh Silk. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 1, 2. 3 and 4 years.

year Size Will require 1 974, yard of :27 inch material.

5131. A. Popular Play Dresa—Printcd crepe or clmllie would be good for this design. The Bloom-
ers may be Joined to‘an underbody. The Smock may be finished With sieeves_iu short or Wrist length.
The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 2,.3, 4 and 5 years. 'year Size requires 3 yards of 27 inch
material With yard of contrasting material for collar facing and leg hands, if made with long
sleeves. With short sleeves 1/3 yard less is required.

5123. A New smart Skirt Modei.—Sports satin, or silk, kasha, flannel or crepe are excellent
material for. this design. .The Pattern is cut in 7 Sizes: 25. 27 2 , 31, 33. 35 and 37 inches waist
measure, With corresponding hip measure, 35, 37. .. . 4 . 45 and 47 Inches. To make the
Skirt for a 29 inch size Will require 2 56 yards of 40 inch material. The Width at the foot is 2 1,5 yards,

5134. A Practical Slip Model.—As here shown
the model may be made With shaped shoulder or
with camisole top. It is a style good for calm
hric, sateen, me e and crepe de chine. The Pat-
tern is out in 0 Sizes: 4. 6. , 10. 12 and 14
years. If made With shaped shoulders it will re—
quire 1% yard of 32 or 36 inch. material for
:in Sycar size. If made With camisole top 11/;
yard is required.

ALL PATTERNS 13c EACH——
2 FOR 25c POSTPAID
ADD 10c FOR SPRING AND SUMMER
Order from this or former issues of The Busineu
Farmer, giving number and sign your
name and address plainly.

1925 FASHION BOOK
Address all orders for patterns to

Pattern Department
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,and what did you do?

I' would all‘l‘lke to read about.

size somethinsne . ,.  ' ‘
 has-,pthturedfflfza 3‘?

taxes of f"Pesky Peanut” and his

playmates and we are going to "print
someof these pictures from time to

.ime, the first appearing in this is-

sue. I hope you will like them.

Did you have a good time on the
Fourth of July? Where did you go
Who can
write the best letter about their trip
or picnic on the Fourth of July?
Many of you took trips that we
Write
to me about how you spent the
Fourth of July. To every writer of
a letter about July 4th that appears
on this page I will send one of our
new buttons, providing, of course,
they have not already received one.
Send in your letter before August
lst, and be sure to give your name,
address and age.

The contest on the best advertise—
ment and the best department an-
nounced in the June 6th issue was
very close, but it was finally decided
that Esther Duncan, of Burr Oak,
had written the first prize letter
on the best advertisement while
Winnie L. Clark, of Lakeview, car—
ried off first prize with her letter
on the best department. Second
prize on advertisement was awarded
to Margaret Kish, of Manchester
and second prize on department to

Marion Snow of Nashville. The
next 6 to win buttons were: Clara
Hoover of Chesaning; Elida Lilley,
Williamston; Marie Slemin, Owos-—

so; Frances Martin, St. Louis; Alice
Laycock, Ashley; and Louise Slem-
in, Owosso.

I suppose you are all enjoying
your vacation. I too am going to
have a vacation one of these days
but mine will be a short one. I
wish that I could take a real long
one and call at the home of each
one of you long enough to say “hel—
lo”. My, wouldn’t that take a long
time, but it would be great fun.—
,UgNCLE NED.

OUR GIRLS AND BOYS
Dear Uncle Ned :——-«My, what a long time
it has been since I received my lOVely
pin, and I have never thanked you for it

yet. However, that is what I am writing
for now. Say Uncle, you sure never dis—
:zppoint “us _ Kids" when you give us
presents. They are, always more than We

are, looking for.

Well, the chief occupation lit-re is malw
ing silk.
City”. Quite a large namc for such a
small town. ch? I'll say so! My hobby
is music. It‘s one of the grandest things
in the world, to my notion. It fairly
raises me right up over the tree tops, (if
I happen to be out of doors). It’s just
like the magic carpet in “The Thief of
Bagdad”. Well, must stop this chatter or
Mr. W. B. will sure get it. Am sending
a poem I have read somewhere or else
I dreamed it:

Aint it funny that some folks ,you can’t
miss,

An’ some folks you jus’ miss a pile,

An' the folks that you can’t miss you
see lots,

An’ the other folks—once in a while?

Your loving niece and cousin—Fern
Dennis, 410 S. Bridge Street, Belding,
Michigan.

P. S. I can shut my cycs and just see

Uncle Ned reaching around behind him
throwing this in the \V, B. just like he
is in the picture in the M. B. F; and the
little mouse eating it up, Ha! Ha!

Dear Uncle Ned:———Seeing this is the
first time I have written to you -I will

‘ describe myself, so that my cousins will

know what I look like. I am twelve years
old, and am five feet three inches tall,
I have light brown hair, hazel eyes, and
I wear glasses; I weigh 95 pounds. I
think it would be fun to send in original

. riddles, when you receive them, you are
; to pick out the best ones and print them
I in the M. B. F. and publish the answers

lair-r. After the cousins have had time

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to guess them. My sister and I certainly
have been busy since school let out. We
mowed a lawn, cut down the weeds, pulled
out corn where it was too thick, We have
picked strawberries and cherries, and we
helped Mother paper, and we tended the
baby. I hope this letter will :10th to
the waste basket. Your loving niece.—
Alice Lewis, Bell-evue, Michigan.

Dear Uncle NedT—I thought I would
write you a few lines. I feel well. We
have lots of roses, we have red ones and
yellow ones, and white ones. I have four
big ducks and three little ones. I like
the Children’s Hour very much. I milk
one cow every day and turn her out into
the pasture, ,and get her at night and
feed my ducks, and water them. Our
school has been out since the 22nd of
May. We had a. good time the last day.
The 23rd had a picnic. I have more
ducks setting. You will get tired of
reading this letter. I will close, hoping
to hear from you soon, with love and
best wishes, from your friend.———Susie May
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lu-ar l‘nl-le N(‘(i:—'I have never written
to you before, but after reading so many
interesting lcttcrs, I must write. I will
describe myself, I have red hair and blue
t-yes, am four feet nine inches tall and
weigh 71 pounds, I am ten years old. I
live on an 80—acre farm, I am in the
sixth grade in school. I walk about 30
rods. We have 9 cows, 2 horses, 3 pigs,
1 dog, 2 old cats, and 2 little Angora
kittens, whose names are Monkey Face,
and Tinker. 'I have two brothers, their
names are Raymond and Leo. We have
8 calves. I hope Mr. Waste Basket does
not see this letter. \Vhen I get home from
school I jump rope. Well my letter is
getting long, so I will close with a riddle.
Over the water, under the water, and
never touch the water. \Vhat is it?
want-to-be niece—Opal Brown, Paris, R2,
Michigan. -

Dear Uncle Ned:-——I have never written
to the Children’s Hour before, but I love
to read the cousins letters. I wrote a
letter to another cousin, but did‘ not re-
ceive any answer so far. I am five feet
and six inches in height, have light hair,
but not bobbed, am 14 years old and in
the eighth grade. Will try examination

. no freon or? V
,. ~ ~ Colors: BLUE‘AND GOLD”

Your ‘

  

birthday is in December, between the 9th
and 13th, see who can guess the right day.
I would be very much pleased it I would
hear from some of the cousins. I will
answer..all letters that I receive—Your
niece, Ella  L.‘Pfarmes, Auburn, R. 1,
Michigan. .. '

Dear Uncle Ned:-—-—I have decided to
tease the waste basket too. We have
taken the Business Farmer quite a few
years but I'have never written before.
Am I welcome? I have always enjoyed
the olier cousins letters and I hope some
of them will write to me. Murel Frey
certainly is right in calling those puzzles
brain—teasers.

Uncle Ned, would I be bold to ask you
to have a painting contest? I have been
hoping some of the other cousins would
ask for one but I believe our artists are
rather scarce. I love to paint.

I agree with Florence Zesarook about
riding horses. I could ride ,all day if I
had time. I live on a forty-acre farm.
We have two horses, sixteen head of
cattle and of course cats and dogs. For
a pet I have a little pup. _ I

Seeing all the rest of the cousins have
described themselves,' I will too. I am
five feet, five inches tall, have dark brown
hair and eyes and a. light complxeion and
my age is between fourteen and seven—
teen. Any one guessing my correct ago
will receive a. letter from me and maybe
a picture. I think -I will close now.
From a. would-be niece—Helen Mai-win-
ske, TaWas City, Michigan, Route 1.

THE ARTIST

Once there was a little boy named John.
One day when John and his little sister
were coming home from school he was
telling her about having drawing in his
room and that the teacher told him to
have a picture drawn of something by to—
morrow. The one that had the best would
get a prize. His sister said, "Why not
draw a. picture of grandma ?” He said he
would try when he got home, so he
thought he would surprise her. He had
her face all drawn when grandmother

,came in, she said, she guessed he would

get the prize, and he did. He became a
great artist afterwards—Miss Helen
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Elizabeth Yoder, of Maple City, Michigan,

sent in this picture stating it was “me,
myself and I looking like the sour grapes
I am eating.”‘ Next time she has her
picture taken we hope she will be eating
a sweet apple, so we can see her smile.

Dear Uncle Ned:—I like to read the
letters in the M. B. F. because I used to
live in Michigan. Our family moved to
'Wyoming four years ago. I am ten years
of age. I have a brother eleven years
and a younger brother eight. There are
no shade trees here like you have in Mich-
igan. There are cottonwoods along the
creek and big pines in the timber. We

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this one. I . _ I
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In Michigan we had"  fruit, apples.

peaches and ck err-y,

Whenl lived thrills and ate my fill I al-
wvays felt quite merry;

And lakes where we could go and bathe
and catch .the shining fish, ' -

We sat upon the shore and ate'asr'mueh
as we could wish. '-’ ‘

But joys like these cannot be found in
wild untamed Wyoming, .

The children~go o’er the wild plains upon

~ their ponies roaming. y

, mountains high,

And breathe "the fine fresh air and smile
beneath the bright clear sky.
—-Evelyn Newland, Lawver, Wyoming.

Dear Uncle Ned :'—-I saw my other let-
ter in print so will write again. I’m very
sorry Albert Smith has broken his leg
and have written him a letter. He must
be eighteen, am I right?, It sure is‘ be—
ginning to snow here. Have you' any
snow there in Mount Clemens, now Uncle
Ned? I'll write a poem I made up one
Sunday and see if you like it. I got my
idea of writing it from a story I read.
Hoping to hear from some of the cousins
soon, I’ll remain your friend.—-——Miss Mary
E. Kruley, 304 Stimson, Cadillac, 'Mich.

A Soldier's Letter

As I sit alone a. dreaming in my tent at
close of day,

My mind seems to wave and wander back
to love’s yesterday. ‘

As I see you again, my darling, as you
bade a last good-bye,

When I took my place with others, for
my country to do or die. '

Weary days have passed since we parted;
long days of toil and pain . -

But thoughts of you cheer and I long to

see you again.

I have longed for your smiles of glad-
ness, that haunts my memory still;
And your bright eyes, silent message, I

love you and always will.

I long to hold your loving hands close to
my beating heart,

And to hold you near in a fond embrace,
that nought but death can part.
The caressing'toueh of your golden hair,
pm my cheek I pain ~would feel. ‘

As I tried so oft a little kiss from your

red lips to steal.

(>111 Sweetheart I wish -you did but know
Hf the love that will never die.

"l‘is a love, that will ever haunt me
Till I answer Retreat on High.

RIDDLES

When can a horse be sea-green in color?
v—\\'l’len it’s a bay.

\\‘hy were gloves never meant to sell?
l'lccause they were made to be kept "6n
hand. .

\thn are we all artists?—When (we
draw a long face.

Why are watch—dogs bigger by night
than by day?—Because they are let out
at night and taken in in the morning

\Vhen is a tradesman always above his
lmsiness?——When he lives over his shop.

Which is the liveliest city in the world?
—Berlin; because it’s always on the Spree.

Why is a water-lily like a whale?—Be-
cause. they both come to the surface to
blow.

Why is a shoemaker the most industri-
ous of men?——Because he works to the“
last. “

What is book-keeping?————Forgetting to
return borrowed volumes.

Why is scooping out a turnip a noisy
process?—Because it makes it hollow.

. \Vhy are teeth like verbs?—-—Because
they are regular, irregular, and defective.

\Vhat ships hardly ever sail ,out of
sight?——~Hardships. -

When is an artist a dangerous person?
—W’hen his designs are bad.

Why are tortoise—shell-combs like. cita-
dels?——'-They are for—tresses.

Why'is the Isthmus of Suez like the
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another hundred years. ‘
six weeks or two months in'the fall
the cows are keptfitied up in the

barn day and night, being let out

only to water—end on some farms
we found that even the water is
piped into the barns for the cows

and they get practically no exercise"

at all. Green food is hauled in and
fed to them in—the barn. practically
as fresh as though it had been eat-
en 08‘ the pasture. This takes more
work, it is -true, but these careful
farmers have found that they can
do the" grazing for the cattle and
get just a few more pounds of feed,
with a little less waste and damage
to the crop, than if the cattle are
allowed to graze it of! themselves.
Labor is cheap and feed and land
area is limited. Then, another im-
portant geatnre is the saying of the
valuable manure which can be ac-
complished so much more efficiently
if the cowsare kept tied up in the
barn.

Wonderful cattle are these huge
Simmenthalers, averaging 1,600
pounds, and often weighing 1,700
to 1,800 with no beefy fat on them
at all. The breed has been develop-
ed from the old Roman cattle, with
an eye for work, beef, and dairy.
Their sheer size and docile temper-
ament fit them for work, a lot of
beef can be fed onto those huge
frames, and milking strains have
been developed through selective
breeding. They are white and brown
or almost Jersey colored in spots
and usually have rather large horns.
They pull the wagons or farming
implements by means of a wooden
bar lashed to their heads just below
the horns; they have no yoke such
as our grandfathers used on their
oxen in this country, and, instead,
they simply push with their head
against this padded wooden bar.

We left Germany feeling that it
is certainly a great country, that
it must at one time have been a
really marvelous country, and if
some miracle can transpire through
which the threat of ,war can. be re—
moved so that its people can build
and cultivate in peace with the fires
of international hatred killed for-
ever, its future is unlimited.

Switzerland Is Next

The next country on our program
was the tiny republic of Switzer-
land, that little ~-mixture of nations
which has remained free of war so
long that it is doubtful that they
will ever care to indulge again.
They have no battleships, no great
fleet of airplanes, and practically
no standing army.
like Denmark, is in a very marked
condition of “unpreparedness” and
incidentally have kept themselves
from war and have prospered might-
ily, whilst. 'The wise doctrine of
“preparedness” apparently finds lit-

tle favor in either of these two -'

countries, with the result that their
taxes are spent upon other things,
such as schools, where their young
men are “prepared” for.peaceful
pursuits and the advancement of
their own country rather than the
destruction of their neighbors.

“While Switzerland is the hotel of
Europe and the park and play-
ground of the world, it is also a
great agricultural country in spite
of the fact that most of its few
miles of territory seem to stand on
end. This little country with its
15,000 square miles of territory,
scarcely a county in the United
States. and only four million people

has a strictly republican form of

government.  'It consists of 22
states, each 38‘_ independent as our
own states, with their individual
parliaments “dealt-governing priv«
ilegesx In some of the smaller can-
tons, ,or states, most of the law-
making is done in public mass meet-
ings without the aid of politicians
at all. ‘The people themselves are
their own governors and statesmen.

’ Perhaps that is one reason why they.
out of war. \
.There are no natio ' taxes at all.

have , been able . to has

The railroads are nationalized. and

' “Emaienfly- operated.‘ ‘ , . ‘
’ ripAbo‘ttt  of the area of.
 is 91 ' ‘

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\of all the agricultural area is in
forest. 1 - ~

Like Denmark, Switzerland for-
merly raised all the wheat they
needed for themselves and even ex-
ported a little, but now they import
three-fourths of their consumption
and do all their exporting in cheese
and condensed vmilk, at a higher
profit. Nearly all of these tiny
farms, many of them that seem al-
most to be pegged” onto the sides of
the mountains to stay. in place, are
operated by the owners, who want
for nothing in the world. They are
a happy, contented lot, as peasantry
goes, and are proud of their brave
little republic.

Our experiences in Switzerland
will be described in the next install<
ment. -~

THE INDIAN DRUM
(Continued from page 10.)

across its face—dates made with many

different pens and with many different

inks, but all in the same irregular hand-
writing as the letter which Alan had re-
ceived from Benjamin Corvet.

Alan, his fingers numb in his disap-
pointment, turned and examined all these
pages; but they contained nothing else.
He read one of the clippings, which was
dated “Feb. 1912.”

The passing away of one of the oldest
residents of Emmet county occurred at
the poor farm on Thursday of: last week.
Mr. Fred Westbouse was one of four
brothers brought by their parents into
Emmet county in 1846. He established
himself here as a farmer and was well
known among our people for many years.
He was nearly the last of his family,
which was quite well off at one time,
Mr. Westhouse’s three brothers and his
father having perished in various disasters

’ upon the lake. His wife died two years
ago. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs.
Arthur Pearl, of Flint.

He read another: ‘

Hallford—Spens. On Tuesday last Miss
Audrey Hallford, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Hallford, of this place, was
united in the bonds of holy matrimony
to Mr. Robert Spens, of Escanaba. Miss
Audrey is one of our most popular young
ladies and was valedictorian of her class
at the high school graduation last year.
All wish the young couple well.

He read another:

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Hal French, a
daughter, Saturday afternoon last. Miss
Vera Arabella French, at her arrival
weighed seven and one-half pounds.

This clipping was dated, in Benjamin
Corvet’s hand, “Sturgeon Bay, Wis, Aug.
1914." Alan put it aside in bewilder-
met and amaze and took up again the
sheets he first had looked at. The names
and addresses on these oldest, yellowed
pages had been first written, it was plain.
all at the same time and with the same
pen and ink, and each sheet in the be—
ginning had contained seven or eight
names. Some of these original names
and even addresses had been left unchang—
ed, but most of them had been scratched
out and altered many times—other and
quite different names had been substitut-
ed; the pages had become finally almost
illegible, crowded scrawls. rewritten again
and again in Corvet’s cramped hand. Alan
strained forward, holding the first. sheet
to the light.

Alan seized the clippings he had looked
at before and compared them swiftly with
the page he had just read; two of the
names—Westbouse and French—were the
same as those upon this list. Suddenly
be grasped the other pages of the list and
looked them through for his own name;
but it was not there. He dropped the
sheets upon the table and got up and
began to stride about the room.

He felt that in this list and in these
clippings there must be, somehow, some
one general meaning—they must relate
in some way to one thing; they must
‘ha‘Ve deeply, intensely concerned Benjamin
Corvet's disappearance and his present
fate, whatever that might be, and they
must concern Alan's fate as well. But in
their disconnection, their incoherence, he
could discern no common thread. What
conceivable bond could there have been
uniting Benjamin Corvet at once with
an old man dying upon a poor farm in
Emet County. .wherever that might be,
and with a baby girl, now some two years
old, in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin? He bent
suddenly and swept the pages into the
drawer of the tabIe and reclosed the
drawer, as he heard the doorbell ring
and Wassaquam went to answer it. It
was the police, Wassaquam came to tell
him, who had come for Luke’s body.

(Continued in August lst issue.)

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OCEANA COUNTY STAGES NOVEL
DAIRY TOUR

N June 24-25—26 a new idea in

dairy extension work was tried

out by County Agricultural

Agent Carl Hemstreet in coopera-

tion with the State College and the
.Oceana County Jersey Cattle Club. ‘

The nine farm meetings heldvdur-
ing the three day tour brought out
430 farmers, which is 20 per cent
ofall the farmers in the county.
Judging from the interest shown at
the meetings and the rush season of
the year, everyone present was vital-
l};1 interestedin the material present:
e .

Three purebred and grade ani-
mals, were used by College Dairy
Specialist R. H. Addy for his dairy
type demonstrations and pedigree
talks.

Dream, a high grade' Jersey,
showed the results to be attained
by the use of a purebred dairy sire
of the right kind. She has a cow
testing association record of 376
pounds fat at three years of age,
while her two daughters by pure-
bred sires have 339 and 419 pound
fat records as two and three year
olds. Dream is the property of Carl
Rabe, Montague. Mr. Rabe is a
young man who is developing a very
nice pure bred herd to replace his
few remaining grade cows.

Pathfinders’ Golden Elf, a nice
type pure bred Jersey cow, is the
property of Mr. Ray Burke, New
Era. She shows the result of breed-
ing for type as well as production.
Her cow testing association record
is 501 pounds fat as a five year old
with ordinary farm care.

The hull used in the demonstra-
tions was Fauvic’s Golden Prince,
the double grandson of Fauvic’s
Prince owned by Hart Stock and
Fruit Farm, Hart.

The value of the Dairy Special to
Oceana county farmers was express-
ed by one purebred breeder some-
thing like this. “If I had been able
to attend one of these meetings and
got Mr. Addy’s pedigree talk and
dairy type demonstration before
getting into the purebred game, I
would have been a thousand dollars
ahead of Where I am today.”

The County Jersey Club was rep-
resented on the tour by Alfred Hen-
rickson, Hart; Hall Taylor, New
Era; Henry Henrickson, Shelby, and
H. K. Bush, Hesperia. Twenty—
five more Jersey enthusiasts joined
the Club during the tour.

FROM GENESEE COW TESTING
ASSOCIATION
EAR EDITOR: Relative to’a re-
port of Genesee No. 7 C. T. A.
on Page 18 of July 4th issue. I,
as tester of Genesee No. 7 C. T. A.
and continuing the 2nd year, dis-
covered a mistake on high herd. In-
stead of 476 pounds of butter fat
it is 496 pounds, and am much
pleased to see the report in the pa-
per and get lots of comment on it,
but 20 pounds on a herd average is,
or amounts to, quite‘ a lot and wish
it could be corrected in your next
issue—Lafayette Phillips.

OVER 100 COW TESTING ASS’NS
IN STATE

EVENTY-SEVEN Michigan Cow
Testing Associations reported
their Work for the month of
May. There are one hundred and
six Cow Testing Associations oper-
ating in the State of Michigan under
this date. A total of 20,542 cows
were tested in the Associations that
were ‘i'eporte‘d. From this total
more than 2,000 cows were pro-

ducing at a clip above 1,250 pounds .

of milk menthly. 2,814 produced
above .40 pounds of butterfat each
during this month. The retest
rule. is being carried out in Michi-
gan on all cows that produce above
two and one-half pounds of butter-
fat on a two time a day milking
and above three pounds of butter-
fat on a. three and four time a day
milking. The Calcity Farms, mem-
bers in the Presque-Isle—Cheboygan
Cow Testing Association had the
high cows. in the state in both the
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cows an! purebred-‘Holsteins, one
being credited with 118.02 pounds

of butterfat as a four year old and.

the'other with 107.14 pounds of but-
terfat as a mature cow for the
month of May. These cows were
retested and are also under semi—
oificial test. Many other excellent
cows_ are listed in these age classes.
The highest cow under three years
of age was owned by Mr. W. L.‘.
Rundel in the Washtenaw-Saline
Cow Testing Association. This ex-
cellent Holstein was credited with

63.45 pounds’ of butterfat and
1624.4 pounds of milk. Reports
from these . Associations indicate

that considerable grain is being fed
with. pasture; pastures have been
very short in many sections/and
those dairymen who have sweet clo-
ver or alfalfa'are extremely fortun-
ate this season—Dairy Extension,
Michigan State College.

RAISING PET LAMBS

EAR EDITOR: Here is some~

thing that may help someone

who reads the M. B. F. In
raising pet lambs do not put water
in the milk. Give them two table-
spoonfuls every two hours the first
day and increase the feed a little
each day until at one week old they
can be fed a small cupful every
four hours.

I give them a tablespoonful of
fresh lard every other day to regu-
late the bowels, and after they are
four weeks old I commence feeding
them rolled oats. I have never lost
a lamb fed this way, and have rais-
ed several of them.—Mrs. A. A.

PIGS DO NOT GAIN WEIGHT

I bought some pigs in January
which were claimed to be eight
weeks old and which were not in
very good shape. They have a

cough, do not gain in weight and,
the hair is long and looks dull, out'

they eat good and are hungry all
the time. They grow long and tall
but do not gain enough for the feed
they eat. I give them all the milk
they can drink, twice a day, ground
oats and corn and corn on the ear.
What is the trouble? They were
weaned before I bought them.—J.
F., Colon, Michigan.

OUR pigs areapparently being

fed a very good ration. The

only suggestions I could make
in this respect would be that you
give these pigs access to alfalfa or
clover hay in a. rack and also ac—
cess to some mineral preparation.
The following would be satisfac-
tory: 30 pounds of limestone, 30
pounds of bone meal, 40 pounds of
salt, 10 pounds of sulphur.

It would also be well to observe
the droppings of these pigs to see
if they pass any worms. In fact,
from your description it is quite
possible that these pigs are wormy,
in which case I would advise giv-
ing oil of chenopodium and caster
oil. The pigs should be kept of!
feed for at least twenty-four hours
and then given one—sixteenth of an
ounce of oil of chenopodinm in two
ounces\ of castor oil.-——-Geo. A.
Brown, Professor of Animal Hus-
bandry, M. S. C.

TOO MUCH BUTTERMILK IN
BUTTER

I have one Jersey cow and I sit
the milk in the pans and skim it for
butter but the last two weeks cream
seems so bitter, it gives the butter a
strong taste and it will not keep
very long. Could you tell me the
cause of it and how to remedy it?
I skim my milk just as soon as the
cream raises and churn every four
days. Any advice you can give me
will certainly be appreciated—Mrs.
I. H., Clio, Michigan.

E are inclined to think that
,you are incorporating consid-
erable buttermilk with the
butter. The buttermilk under-goes
fermentation when the butter is
held and thus affects the butter. It
is a mistaken economy to try to
store farm made butter because but-
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I have been having some trouble
with my pigs having piles. Can
you tell me the cause and'fgive me
score for them it any?-——J. P.,
Indianltiver, Mich. ' ,:;.

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 piles in pigs is usually due to

a. partial prolapse at the rec-
tum. I'I several-of the animals are
afleoted, it is very probable that
the cause can be round— in the (sod.
It is suggested that "a' correction in
the one be made and that, it possi-

ble, ,a slop teed'wtich contains sub-

stances with laxative tendencies be
'von..—~B. J. Killham, State Veter-
rinn. .

SPIDER ' J
I have a cow with a spider in her
teat. Is there anything to be done
for it?——-C. W., Caro, Michigan.

F‘ the spideris low down close to
the end of the test, it can be
removed with a special teat cur—

ett or scissors. I think it would be
best to have your veterinarian first
males on examination of this cow’s
teat and remove the spider it he
thinks it advisable—Jinan P. Hut-
ton,  Prof. of Surgery and
Medicine, M. S. C.

1925 WORD HIKE BEST YET
l LARGER number of hikers en—
' joyed the" Annual Hereford

Hike this year than ever before
and many expressions of satisfaction
were heard from those who attend—
ed. The tour extended through
Genesee, Lapeer, Sanilac and Hu-
ron counties over .some of the best
natural beef producing area of the
state and visited flne breeding herds
of white faces as well as several
farms producing market beet. About
two hundred breeders and feeders
attended part or all of the tour and
state, one car even coming from the
Upper Peninsula, many ideas were
exchanged and valuable information
was gained at most of the twenty
stops in the two days.

On account of the dry wedther we
were surprised to find the cattle in
general in such good condition. As
President James Campbell said,
“Everyone visited seemed to think
his place was the driest spot in
Michigan,” yet all of the calves
looked fine and many of the cow
herds were in excellent flesh. .

One thing that must have been
driven home to every “hiker” was
the importance of heading the herd
improvement in the younger ani-
with the right kind. of sire. The
improvement in the younger ani-
mals was very noticeable in most
of the herds and a good hull was
either with the herd or shown to
us before leaving. However a few
herds were visited where it was ev—
ident that the hull was not improv-

, ing'the herd and the oWners of such

bills must have gone home with
an ambition to own a better one. It
might be added though that some or
the poorest bulls were owned by
man. who did not think they had
time to attend the rest of the hike.

Earl~ Bic-party’s sale at the close
of the tour proved to be the banner
attraction and brought out the larg-
at attendance. ‘

Considering that the sale was of
surplus stock he had produced and
many or the animals less than a
year old, the sale went very satis—
factorily, with the top heifer at
$100.00 and the top bull at $116.00
for a seven months old calf. with

. the average price not far below.-

_ The difference In quality and con—
formation between the grade Here—
ford cows the. that! been shipped in
to raise beef calves for marital: and
 pure breedszwas very "apparent

,v -v at... the :Ssnilsc Stock. ram...” How—

,o‘litionafls
 Whilkhwfilie'
I.  Lucas, Associate ..

  
  

4'- ‘o s» ._

  were the m'blockv.
' * i‘ "f cum shown by Wm. Leh-
ring and Son; the finished baby boot
and show steers seen at the Grape
tam which are as such a hearty
reception an boasts ..not only one
of the leading herds of today but
the oldest herd ot Hereford cattle
in the United states kept continu-
ously by one tamlly on one form:
the banquet at the Dow Hotel. flar-
bor Beach, Friday evening Where ex-
cellent service was given to the 93
present and real Heretord baby beef
was served; the breeding herd and
Boys and Girls Club cal! seen at
Warner Ramsey's and the breeding
herd seen at W. H. McCarty’S. The
McCarty herd was running in an
excellent sweet clover pasture and
the results seen were sufficient to
convince anyone 01 the great. value
of sweet clover pasture in a dry
season. Neither could the dinner
at the McCarty church he passed up
without mentioning how well they
served the baby beef and pie and
everything that goes with a dollar
dinner put up by a country church
ladies aid for fifty cents.

Among the very interesting hik-

ers was I. H. Butter-field, father 013..

Kenyon L. Butterfleld, President
of M. S. C. Mr. Butterfield still has
a keen eye for good cattle and re-
lated many interesting experiences,
among them' his experience showing
Devon cattle in competition with the
Grape farm at the Michigan State
Fair at Jackson in 1878. He was

obliged to drive his cattle from his A
farm in Lapeer county at that time '

to Owosso to ship to Jackson—V.
A. Freeman.

MCHIGAN ~FAIR. DATES, 1925

NAME PLACE DATE
Alcona. ................ ..‘Elarrisville ....................... ..
Alger .................. ..Chatham .......... ..Sept. 1-4
Allegnn .............. ..Allegan  25-28
,Alrpena ............... ..Al-pena ................................ ..
Arenas ............... ..Standish ........ ..Sept. 22—25
Armada ............. ..Armada .......... ..Sept. 22—25
Baraga .............. ..Bara-ga. .............................. ..
Benton Harbor..Benton Harbor Sept. 7-11
Calhoun ............ ..Marshall ........ ..Sept. 21-26 -
Caro ................... "Caro" ................ ..Aug. 24-27
Charlevoix ........ ..East Jordan ....Sept. 8—11
Cheboygan ...... ..nWolverine 
Chippewa .......... ..Sault Ste. Marie Sept. 1—4
Chip. ‘8: Mac ..... ..Pickford ........ ..Sept. 16-18
Clare .................. ..Harrison ............................ ..
Clinton ............... ..St. Johns .......... ..Sept. 1-4
Cloverland ......... ..Stephenson ......Sept. 22-25
Copper ............... ..Houghton ..Sept. 29-Oct. 3
Croswell ............. ..Croswell ........ ..Aug. 25-28
Delta ....... ... ........ ..Escanaba ...... ..Sept. 15-18
Dickinson ......... ....Norwe.y .......... ..Sept. 4-7
Eaton ................. ..Charlott-e Sept. 29-Oct. 2
Emmet ............... ..Petoskey ............ ..Sept. 1—5
FlintRlver ........ ..Montrose ........ ..Sept. 7-10
Fowlerville ....... ..Fowlerville .......... ..Oct. 6-9
Genessee ............ ..Davison ..Aug. 31-Sept. 4
Gladwin ............. ..Gladwin ............................ ..
Gogebic .............. ..Ironwood .......... ..Sept. 1-4
Grange Fair........Centervllle .... ..Sept. 21—26
Grangers',

Gleaners' and

Farmers' ........ ..Big Rapids Sept. 29—Oct. 1

  
 
 

 

   
   
  

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Iron..... ....Iron River ...... ..Sept. 8—11
Isabella...  Pleasant ....Aug. 18-22
Jackson..... ....Jackson ........ ..Sept. 14-19
Kalamazoo ...Kalamszoo ....Sept. 15—19
Lennwee.... ....Adria.n .......... ..Sept. 21—25
Livingston. .... ..Howell .............. ..Sept. 1-4
Luce .............. ....Newberry ...................... ....
Mackinac .......... ..Allenville ...... ..Sept. 14-16
Mametee ............ ..Bear Lake .... ..Sept. 22-25
Marquette ......... ..Palestra .......... ..Sept. 8-12
flick ............ ..Scottville .......................... ..
e ir .......... ..Detro-it ............ ..Se . - '
Midland ............. ..Midland .............. 
Missaukee .......... ..Lake'City .... ..Sept. 23—24

North Branch......North Branch Sept. 22-24
N. W. Mich ....... "(h-averse City Sept. 21—25

Northern Dist.....Cadlllac .......... ..Sept. 14-18
N. E. Mich ......... ..Bay City Aug. 31-Sept. 6
Oakland...............Milford .......... ..Aug. 12—15
00eana.................Hnrt .............. ..Sept. 22-27
Ogemaw ............. ..West Branch ....Sept. 9—11
Osceola .............. .. Evart ................................. ..
Otis. ....... ..:. ......... ..Brahman ...... ..Sept. 12-16
Otsego ................ ..Gaylord .......... ..Sept. 15—18
Ottawa, Kent .... ..Mame ............ ..Sept. 15-19
Presque Isle ...... ..Millersburg ...................... ..
St. Clair ............. ..Yale .............. ..Sept. 22—25
Saginaw ............ ..Saginaw ..........Sept. li—IS
Sanilsc ............... ..Sandusky .......... ..Sept. 1-4
Schoolcraft ....... ..Manistique ....Sept. 22-24 '
ShiavVassee ........ ..Owosso ......... ...Aug. 18-21
S. gt-tawa &
.Allqan .... ..Holland ........ "Aug. 18-21
malt“... ...... ..Staiwart ............ ..0ct. 1—2
' Oaks ....... ..Three Oaks ...... .. t. 2-5
m-Oomtyn........fluckley ..............  ........ ..
Tusoola.
liar-land -
— i ....... ..«Qalr ...... ..Aug. 18—21
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i There’s the outfit that will plow more
acres a day. You ride, and the mules re-
quire fewer stops for rest, because the John
Deere-Syracuse No. 210 Sulky is the light-
est-draft plow of its type.
-—all weight carried on wheels. Rolling
landside supports rear part.
--bottom runs level; plows at even depth
even when turning square comers.
—sharcs stay sharp and last longer; they
cannot nose in.

F—front furrow wheel casters on turn, and
automaticallygovems plow. Allthe driver
does is release the latch at the turns.

The No. 210  can be used with either the
Syracuse or John Deere clean-shedding bottoms,
making it suitable for plowing in any soil.

 

Sold by John Deere dealers. Write to John Deere,
Molina, 111., and ask for Folder MA-433.

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THE TRADE MARK OF QUALITY MADE FAMOUS BY GOOD IMPLEMENTS

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"Experiments show than-startle from grain feeding do
not all come at the time grain is fed. Cows receiving
grain in ammo: will milk better the following winter. "

   
 
 
 
 
   
  

This statement, from a recent University of Minnesota bulletin,
bears out the experience of successful dairy operators every-
where. Fwd Larm through the summer with pasture. It will
pay you a profit now; but, more important, it will increase
milk production next fall and winter when prices are highest
—an added profit with no added investment.

Ask the nearest dealer

THE LARROVVE MXLLING COMPANY, DETROIT. MICHIGAN

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The SAFE Ration for Dairy Cows
Time Tested Windmill
The Auto-OiledAei-motor has behind it a record of 10 years
of successful operation. In all climatesand under the severestcon-
ditlpns it has proven itself to be a real selfolling

W1ndmlll 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
parts to get out of order.

There are no untried features in the Auto-Oiled
Aermotor. The gears run in oil in the oil-tight, storm-
‘ proof gear case just astheydld 10 years ago. Somerefine—

mentshave been made, asexperiencehasshown the possibil—

  
  
  
 
 

. been retained while greater perfection of operation has been
achieved. The Act-motor is wonderfully efficient in the light
winds, which are the prevailing ones. The self-oiled motor works
with practically no friction, and the wind-wheel of the Aermotor
, o is made boron in the lightest breeze. It is also amply strong to
run safelym the strongest winds. In any condition of winder weetheryoumybo
mthattheAlh-oned . wfllginyouthebestofserfimltismade
by theoompany which established the steel windmill binniness 38 years ago.

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Milkmaker
Now Being Distributed at 260 Points in Michigan
Are you feeding

HIS tremendous distribution deserves attention.
to the best advantage?

Cows fed Milkmaker produce more milk and butter fat.
healthier and stronger animals. Your feed cost is lower.

Every one of the ten milkmaking ingredients is listed on every bag.
pound for pound. Not an ounce of filler. You know exactly what
you are feeding. Milkmaker is always the same.

If there is no co-operative association or agent near, write for infor-
mation how to co-operate with your neighbors for car lots of Milkmaker
for car door delivery.

Also write‘for booklet on Milkmaker and feeding suggestions.

See your co-operative Ass’n Manager or our local Farm Bureau
agent at once and arrange for your supply.

The Michigan Farm Bureau Supply Service

219 N. Cedar Street, Lansing, Michigan

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all [TY
7c and Up
Special Closing Sale

Order at once to get chicks at these SPE-
CIAL LOW PRICES. We have a hatch every
Monday and Tuesday up to the 29th of July.

2 50 100 500
En ii h White
 .....  ........... ..$2.60 $4.75 $9.00 $42.50
'Extra Selected Sheppard Mottled Anconas 2.50 4.75 9.00 42.50
{Selected Parks Barred Rocks .................. .. 3.50 8.50 12.00 55.00
Assorted Chicks, all breeds ...................... .. 2.00 3.50 7.00 35.00

After season sale of Selected English White Leghorn and Sheppard
Ancona yearling hens; 12, $18.00; 25, $34.00; 50, $65.00; 100, $125.00.

Order at once from this ad. Cash with order or sent C. O. D. if de- .
sired. 100 per cent live delivery guaranteed prepaid to your door.

SILVER WARD HATCHERY 7 BOX 30, ZEELAND, MICH.

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Yearling Hens

Barron Strain S. C. White Leghorns.

2500 yearling liens must go at our annual sum-
mer sale to nmke room for the new crop of
)ullets. Acknowledged greatest egg producers.
large type birds with broad, deep bodies and
big, 10iped combs. Positively no'culls. and all
birds siip ed on approval and satisfaction guar—
anteed. Brice $1.15 each in lots of 100 and
$1.25 each in lots of less 100 birds.

 

 

Hillview Puiiet Farm, Box D, Zeeiand. Michigan.
Tested Chicks. Can ship at once.
Rush your order at reduced prices.
Barred and White Rox,.Reds, Black
Miiiorcas, 14c each. \Vhite and Silver
Wyandottes, Orpingtons, 15c. White
\‘ and Black Lnngshaiis. Light Brahmas, 18c. . White, Brown, Buff Leghorns, Heavy broilers,
v llc. Sheppard’s Anconas. 12c. _Light bmilers, 8c. May chicks $1 per 100 less. June
chicks $22 less. d 350 extra if less than 100 wanted. Bank refer-
ence. Free catalog of 20 varieties.
Grand Rapids,

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Midsummer Sale on Pure Bred Stock
Chicks 8c up; pullets 60c up; year—
ling liens $1 up. Best paying, leading
Varieties. Information free.

 
   

 

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OUiLIJNG TEE NON-(LAYERS
ULLING for egg production
should start about the middle
of June and continue periodic—
ally .abo‘ut once a month until the
middle. of September. Due to the.
fact that all systems of culling are
based on the length of the laying
period it is impossible, to cull hens
for production at all seasons during
the year. Before culling can be
successfully practiced a few things
should be taken into consideration.
First, the flock should be normal in
every respect, free from lice and
mites and should show no signs of
disease. Good care should be prac—
ticed
some time before one undertakes to
successfully cull out the non—pro-
ducers. When all hens are out of
production or when all hens are in
production it is very hard to suc-
cessfully cull the flock.

Good constitutional vigor and
health are absolutely necessary for
high egg production. Eliminate
diseased, weak, inactive, slow ma-
turing, undeveloped hens regardless
of breeding or past production.
Laying hens will be active, alert,
busy. A good layer is more active
and nervous and yet more easily
handled than a poor layer. A low
producer is shy, and does the most
squawking when, caught. A hen
must first have good vitality and
constitution to enable her to pro-
duce eggs in large number. If she
does not have vitality and constitu—
tion she will not be able to stand
heavy production, be susceptible to
diseases and unprofitable to keep.

During August and September a
great many hens finish their pro-
duction period for the year. At this
time usually good results can be
secured in culling by taking into
consideration the following points:
type, vent, abdomen, pelvic bones,
comb wattles, ear-lobes, pigmenta-
tion and molt. They will be dis-
cussed in the order mentioned.

The type or shape of a bird in—
dicates her ability to produce eggs.
In order to lay heavily, a hen must
have sufficient body capacity to di-
gest large amounts of feed. Large
capacity in a laying hen is shown
by a body that is relatively deep.
The back should be flat and broad
and its width should be carried well
back to the tail. The back that ta-
pers decidedly or slopes down indi—
cates poor capacity. The breast
should be full and deep and prom—
inent. The long legged, round
shanked, crow headed individual is
not a good layer. The head should
be moderately fine with large prom-
inent eye.

The Vent: The color of the vent
usually conforms to the shank and
beak indications. The laying hen
will usually have pale or blue vent,
large, moist and expanded. The
non-producer will usually have a
dry, puckered vent; rich in color.
The ,vent changes very quickly with
egg production, so that a white or
pink vent on a yellow skinned bird
generally means that the bird is
laying. White or yellow vent means
that the bird is not laying. The
eye ring, that is the inner edge of
the eyelid, bleaches out a trifle
more slowly than the eye ring. The
bleaching out of the earlobe means
a longer production than a bleached
out vent or eye ring.

Abdomen: The abdomen should
be soft, pliable and dilated. Heavy
production is indicated by the qual-
ity of the skin. A soft pliable skin
indicates heavy production. A
comm: heavy skin undoriaid with fat
indicates low production.

Pelvic Bones: The pelvic bones
of a laying hen are wide apart, us-
ually distance enough to allow an
em; to pass through. In the non-
iaying hon, you will find the close
fitting bones whic are no farther
apart than the wid h of one or two
fingers. The pelvic bones in the
high producer will extend straight
back, while you will find them
booked in the poor producer. Heavy
preduction is shown p by thequality
and the thickness and stiffness of
the pelvic bones. In high produc-é
ers,,the pelvic. bones will show high

qualities-Pin that‘lrthey wills-be thin,
and, pliable rather]. than fistift find

 

in housing and feeding for}

thick.
amount of fat or meat covering the
pelvic bones the less the production.
In old hens if they have been out
of production very long the pelvic
bones will have an accumulation of
meat or fat. ' 

The comb, wattlesand ear lobes,

enlarge or contract, depending on
the activity of the ovary. ‘\-If the
bird is laying heavily the comb,
wattles and ear lobes are large, full
and smooth. 'If the ‘comb is limp,
the bird is only laying slightly.

Pigmentation refers to the yellow
pigment that is seen in yellow skin-
ned varieties of fowls. The pig-
ment test can be applied to the
color of vent, legs, and beak. This
pigment is stored up'in the body of
the bird during the period when she
is not laying. As a general rule,
when a hen begins to lay she will
begin to draw upon the fat stored
in the body. This causes the yel-
low color to fade out as the length
of the laying period advances.

The color fades in the following
order: vent, beak and shank. The
vent begins to lose its color very
quickly after the bird begins to lay.
A large white or bluish white vent
on a. yellow shank bird indicates
that the bird is laying or has laid
recently. The beak’ fades more
slowly than the vent. The beak he‘-
gins to fade at the base of beak,
and fades to the point of the upper
beak. The center of the upper man-
dible will be the last place to fade.
When a beak is completely faded
it indicates heavy production for the
past five or six weeks.

The shanks are slowest to fade
out and usually indicate a much
longer period of production. The
shanks (fade first in the front and
retain the color longer just below
the feather line at the rear of the
hock joint. It usually takes from
four to five months of production to
completely bleach the shanks.

When a hen stops laying the yel-
low color reappears in each of the
above regions in the same order in
which they disappeared. The color
returns, however, much faster than
it disappeared.

Molt: Length of‘production can
be measured by the condition of the
plumage during the summer and
fall. Natural, molts usually starts
in the following order: neck, back,
wings and body, The neck molt ‘is
rather common at any time of the
yearrbut the body molt is usually
not reached unless the hens have
ceased laying. The ideal time for
molt is between September and No-
vember '15. December is too late for
two reasons; first, the weather is
too severe fer molting hens; second,
the price of eggs in December is
too high to have the hens idle at
this time of the year. Hens that
molt any time in September will us—
ually make the best layers. They
will take less time to molt and will
be laying again before cold weather
sets in. ‘It must be understood,
however, that a flock may be thrown
into a molt any season of the year
if they are not receiving good feed-
ing and care. Overfeedi-ng, under—
feeding, lack of protein in ration or
suddenly changing the feed may be
the cause of this unseasonal molt.

The following summary was ar-
ranged by the Connecticut Agricul-
tural College Extension Service:

High Producer

Comb: red, large, silky, full.

Vent: white or bluish white,
broad, moist.
Eyes: Prominent, set well apart.

Eyering, earlobes and beak white.

Shanks: white, thin and flat.

Pelvic Bone to Breast Bone:
and full across abdomen.

Back: broad, carrying well to the
tail.

Body: deep, both front and rear.

Plumage: Ragged, worn, late
molt.

deep

Low Producer
Comb: pale, small, shriveled.
Vent: yellow, shrunken, dry. - -
Eye 5: shrunken, turning in
toWard beak. ' ‘  

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_ Shanks: yellow,"‘round and full“

    
  

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1 Skin: thick and underlald
at. '

.Back: narrow and sloping.

Body: shallow and round.

Plumage: usually melting or a
completed molt early in summer.—
Clyde Ingram. \

SMALL EGGS

Why do we get so many small
eggs in the summer? We usually
get one or two during the summer
but this summer we have gotten
one or two a day. What is the
cause of it, if any? We have heard
it was a sign of bad luck so wonder
what would cause so many. We
supposed the small egg was the last
one laid before the hen became
broody.—-—C. L., Allegan, Mich.

HERE are two types of small

eggs. Small eggs containing
normal yolks may be caused by
faulty feeding, either insufiicient

Attached find plans of my farm
showing the arrangement and areas
of the fields. I would like to know
of a cropping system that will pro-
vide feed for five cows, three horses,
five brood sows, one“ hundred hens
and five head of young stock. My
farm is adapted to the growing of
both grain and hay.—A. W. Stock-
bridge, Mich.

ASSUME that you utilize ensilage

for your live stock. Also that

the soil and its contour is suit-
able for the production of legumes,
quite uniform and pretty well drain-
ed.

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two-acre field of the original plan
in close proximity to the farmstead
which could well be utilized for pas-
ture for the hogs.

There are two types of rotation I
will present. The first will be a
short rotation bringing into the ro-
tation clover once every four years.
Under many circumstances this is
a very desirous rotation as it builds
up the organic matter in the soil
very rapidly under a live stock sys-
tem of farming. The rotation is
given in the table.

 
  

 

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‘ times causes-small eggs, particularly
a lack of lime. It has been found

that the addition of oyster shell or.

better yet, of two per «cent of calci-
um carbonate or dry marl of a high
calcium content, to the mash will
materially increase the size of eggs
where the mineral has been insufli-
cient. Small eggs are sometimes
caused by faulty breeding, brought
about by failure to‘ select eggs of
fair size for incubation. However,
yolkless small eggs, such as I pre-
sume these are, are caused by small
pieces of tissue freeing themselves
from the ovary and passing dovVn
the oviduct. The irritation causes
a. secretion of egg white and shell
as in the case of a normal egg. Any
foreign particle passing through the
oviduct will set up an irritation
causing the secretion of egg white,
membrane and shell.—J. A. Han-
nah, Extension Specialist in Poultry
Husbandry, Michigan State College.

Cropping System For Farm

tilizer to the corn following corn.
This will help mature the corn crop,
help the cats, and make for a good
clover seeding. Lime should be ap-
plied to the fields previous to the
seeding of clover in the oats to make
for a better stand of rank, vigorous
clover. ,

Should there be plenty of manure
for the crops there is a possibillity
of obtaining a. good clover seed
crop, instead of turning under the
second growth, or else use the field
for fall pasture.

This rotation ought to give plenty
of grain and probably enough hay
for live stock.

The other rotation is a much
longer one, furnishing enough grain,
plenty of hay, and is one which
should be easy to practice. This
latter rotation utilizes alfalfa for
four years, so will furnish more hay
than needed, thus a small portion of
the field could be fenced and this
used for pasture if necessary.

I would favor the longer rotation
with the alfalfa and I believe the
farm and farmer will show greater
satisfaction over a long period of
time. Some men would object be-
cause of its length as you will note
it does not repeat itself until be-
ginning with the year 1941.

Rye and vetch will be seeded in
the corn at the last cultivation and
utilized for fall pasture if necessary
and as green manure turned under
in the spring. In a. rotation of this
length it possibly will be necessary
to use a legume in the oats which
is followed by corn. Here sweet
clover (biennial) could be used very
well and gives a fall pasture, green
manure and prepares the field for
the coming seeding of alfalfa thru
proper inoculation and tilth.

It is usually necessary to lime for
the alfalfa and probably necessary

 

ROTATION OF

CROPS (N0. 1.)

Year 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932
Field No. 1 ......... ..com com oats clover com com oats clover
Field No. 2 .......... ..oorn oats clover com com oats clover' corn
Field No. 3 .......... ..oats clover com com oats clover com com
Field No. 4 .......... ..s-b hay com com oats clover corn corn oats
(Note: It was necessary to use semething in Field No. 4 for hay so soy-

established.

beans were suggested and not repeated afterwards as the rotation became

 

You will note that the last four
years is the first four years repeat-
ed, and the third four years the
same as the second four years, and
so on.

In this rotation the best plan
would be tones the manure on the
field of corn following the clover.
Should there be too much, put the
remainder on this stubble in the
late fall or early spring and turn
under. At the last cultivation of the
corn, following clover, seed to rye
and vetch for fall pasture, also to
turn under in the spring for green
manure.

I would also add from 250 to
300 pounds of acid phosphate fer-

for the sweet clover, thus getting
the field in the best of condition
and making necessary the liming of
only 10 acres every year. After the
fields have had one application of
lime follow with another when ne—
cessary.

In this rotation the manure will
be applied to the first corn crop and
the commercial fertilizer to the se—
cond.

The above rotations will not fur-
nish any wheat for the hens but un-
der the circumstances this grain
can better be purchased than to try
and grow it in the rotation—H. R.
Pettigrove, Assistant Professor of
Farm Crops, M. S. C.

 

ROTATION OF

(o—com o—oats‘
'25 '26 '27 '28 ’29 '30

Field No. 1....c c o c c 0
Field No. 2....c o c c o c
Field No. .3....s-b c c o "a. a
Field No. 4....0 » a a a c c
' (Note:

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tar—alfalfa

CROPS (No. 2.)

s-b——soybean hay)
'31 ’32 ’33 '34 '35 '36 '37 '38 '39 '40
c c o c c o a a a a
c o a a a. a c c o c
a a c c o c c o c e
V o c c o c c o c c o

It was necessary to place soy beans in Field No. 8 the first year for
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All Grains in Fair Demand
By w. w. Foam. Market Editor.

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crops grow, and throughout the

corn states the corn has been
shooting ahead splendidly, thanks
’to the hot weather and frequent
’rains in the more favored farming
“districts, but much credit must be
awarded the farmers who have been
Icultivating the enormous fields for
long days. In the end they expect
‘to gather good profits, and if the
lestimate of the government is ful—
liilled, the corn crop will be the third
;largest ever harvested. The short
\hay crop will cause larger consump-
tion of corn, and furthermore the
'oats crop is a short one. In addi-
tion to the widely extended work of
cultivating corn, haying has been
carried on actively, and it has been
° a busy time on the farms of the
great middle west. Farm products
:are selling at good prices generally,
’and it is to be hoped that farmers
{are getting a fair proportion of the
'prices which city people are forced
to pay, butter, for instance, retail-
ing in the Chicago grocery stores as
high as 57 cents for a pound pack—
age. Farmers who are actively en-
gaged in the live stock industry ex—
press themselves as more than pleas—
ed with the way their cattle, hogs
and sheep have been selling for a
)long period, and they are ready to
admit the boom in recent weeks has
ifar exceeded their fondest expecta-
itions. Even wool, after its long pe-
{riod of extreme depression, has at
last started into life, and better
times are promised by those in po-
sition to know. The United States
Department of Agriculture a short
time ago reported an active wool
trade, with a considerable volume
of wool moved to the mills, and it
stated that some firms have advanc—
ed their asking prices from two to
five cents a pound. Hogs have un—
dergone one of the most wonderful
booms on record, and speculation
had nothing to do with it, the sole
cause being an insufficient supply
of swine in the country to meet
the large requirements of western
and eastern packers. Cattle have
sold extremely high recently, and so
have lambs of superior quality.

Jardine Demands Reforms

The following message is from St.
Paul, Minnesota: “Boards of trade
and chambers of commerce in the
}United States must stop unfair gam-
v‘bling practices and price manipula-
tions or they will be put out of ‘bus—
,iness, William M. Jardine, secretary
"of agriculture, told northwest farm—
ers today. Secretary Jardine held
(a three-hour conference with lead—
}ers of various organizations and ag—
(ricultural experts. He assured J.
,H. Hay, deputy state commissioner
(of agriculture, that steps have been
{taken to correct some of the ‘abuses’
.‘ on boards of trade.

i “We are now trying to clean up
the Chicago Board of Trade,” said
,the secretary; “we have given those
gconducting the board fair warning
Sta put their house in order. If they
idon’t, we’ll put them out of bus;-
,’ Scalpers must be run out, sourc-
‘es of misinformation stopped, and
tcrooks gotten rid of, he said.
’ Government Crop Reports

Grain crops of the United States
aggregate 5,329,000,000 bushels of
.wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley,
an increase of 483,000,000 bushels
over the July returns of last year
and 227,000,000 bushels over the
r-iinal figures of 1924, but a decrease
of 23,000,000 bushels on the five
year average, as shown by the July
‘govm'nment report issued late yes-
terday. »

l The wheat crop of 680,000,000
{bushels increased 19,000,000 bush-
els over the June returns, but it is
{103,000,000 bushels hort of last
(year's final estimates and compares
With 740,000,000 bushels in July
hit your. The winter wheat crop of
404,000,000 bushels decreased-7 3,-

EVERY farmer is watching his

 400.1090 "during, July and is 186;-

000,000 bushels short of last year’s
final yield. ‘
Spring Wheat Crop Larger

The spring wheat returns of 276,-
000,000 bushels compare with 254,-
000,000 bushels last month and a
harvest of 283,000,000 bushels last
year. There were 29,705,000 bush-
els on the farm on July 1 of the
crop of 1924, compared with 30,-
980,000 bushels last year. The
wheat crop this year does not per-
mit of an exportable surplus of
100,000,000 bushels on the basis of
a domestic consumption of 650,000,-
000 bushels.

“Corn Crop Is Larger

A corn crop of 3,095,000,000
is the third largest on record. It
compares with 2,437000,000’ bushels

harvested last year and a five year

average of 2,935,000,000, bushels.
The nine leading states have 2,080,-
000,000 bushels against 1,508,-
000,000 bushels last year.

The condition of corn July 1 was
86.4 against 72 last year, and a
,ten year average of 83.6. Acreage
was less than expected, or 106,621,-
000, or 101.5 per cent, as compared
with last year.

The oats crop of 1,292,000,000
bushels was only 3,000,000 less
than last month and compared with
1,542,000,000 bushels harvested a
year ago. The rye crop is 9,000,-
000 bushels short of last year. The
barley crop is 63,000,000 bushels
more than a year ago. A crop of
350,000,000 bushels of potatoes is
95,000,000 short of last year.

Speculation in Grain

The market receiver has a far
easier task in ascertaining the prob-
able future course of prices for
hogs, cattle and sheep than the fu—
ture market prices for wheat and
the other grains, as live stock is not
speculated in as are the several’
cereals. When it comes to wheat,
which is the leader of the grains on
the Chicago Board of Trade, it is
very largely a question of what the
speculators are going to do in buy-
ing and selling, and their activities
this year have rendered the market
a good deal of a puzzle to the mar-
ket reviewer. On its merits alone,
many people believe that wheat
should be selling higher than it is,
it being far lower than early in the
year when it brought nearly $2.10,
but is is still much higher than a
year ago. The spring wheat crop is

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expected to be a good one, but the
-total wheat crop promises who a
short one. ' Late legitimate influ-
ences governing the grains were the
weather, the export demand and vis—
ible stocks and the volume ‘of new
wheat offered, the marketing of
winter wheat so far having been be-
low .most expectations. All the
grains are selling far below the
highest time this year, and corn
and cats have been selling below
the prices paid a year ago, but
wheat and rye are much higher.
Wheat supplies in foregin countries
are the smallest in years, and be-
fore long it is expected that the
export demand will improve. A
short time ago the visible wheat

supply in the United States was re-,.

ported as only 26,670,000 bushels,
comparing with 34,619,000 bushels
a year ago; and that of rye as down
to 7,160,000 bushels, comparing
with 17,309,000 bushels a year ago.
Late sales for July delivery were
made of wheat at $1.46, comparing
with $1.16 a. year ago; corn at $1,
comparing with $1.04 a year ago,
oats at 45 cents, comparing with 53
cents a year ago; and rye at 59%
cents, comparing with 80 cents a
year “ago.

Great Prices 101' Hogs

Some of the prophets several
months ago made predictions that
hogs would sell as high as they did
recently, but stockmen lacked faith
and many farmers marketed their
hogs early, before getting much size,
believing that the market was not
likely to go much, higher. 80 large
was this tendency that the markets
were crowded with .hogs early .in
the packing year, and this has
brought about the great scarcity
during recent months and the high-
ly spectacular boom in prices, prime
hogs having sold a short time ago
on the Chicago market as high as
$14.75, followed by sharp reduc—
tions in values, as the packers and
eastern shippers refused to pay the
advance. For months it has been a
wild time in the Chicago market,
with active competition for hogs ’be—
tween the local packers and eastern
shippers to points in districts where
most of the hogs had been slaugh-
tered. Recent receipts in Chicago
ran very far below those for one
and two years ago, and combined
receipts in seven western packing
points for the year to late date ag-
gregated only 14,963,000 hogs, com—
paring with 17,834,000 one year
ago, 17,011,000 tWo yearsago and
12,803,000 for the corresponding
time three years ago. One year ago
hogs were selling at $6.25 to $7.55,
two years ago at $5.90 to $7.80, and

 

THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMARY
and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks 880 and one Ye“ 380

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Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit
July 13 July 13 June 29 1 yr. ago

\VHEAT— >

No. 2 Red $1.66 $1.73 $1.21

No. 2 White 1.65 1.73 1.23

No. 2 Mixed 1.65 1.73 1.22
CORN— ; t

No. 8 Yellow 1.44 1.07@ 1.10 1.08 1.12

N o. 4 Yellow 1.40 1.07 @ 1.08 1.04 1.07
DAT»—

No. 2 White .55 .50 X .54 ' .00

No. 3 White .5235 ' .47 $5 @ .48‘ .51 .58
RYE-~ »

Cash No. 2 1.05 1.05 ~ .83 ”
BEANS— .

C. H. I’. th. 5.10 5.30@5.35 4.55@4.60
POTATOES——

Per th. 1.83@2.00 2.16@2.30 1.16@1.33 l.66@1.83

> HAY— .

No. 1 Tim. , 22.50@23 25@27 ll).50@20 23.50@24

N0. 2 Tim. %@21v 21623 . 17@18 21@22

h... I Clover 15@16 18@19 14@15.50 19@20 I >

Light Mixed 22@ 22.50  @23' ~ 18.50@ 19 } W628

   

 

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Monday, July l..-—Afl grains are in
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an. positionand'higher price-sew.

three years

  

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The demand “for fresh and cured
hog products, lard included, con-
tinues very large, despite the’large

_ at is to $11.05.

advances which have'taken place Vin-

prices. Stockmen in
business with
recall that many months ago when
bogs were selling '
es and sellers were dissatisfied with
the returns, I advised taking good
care of the pigs and mature them
properly. Charles A. Mallory says:
“The first six months of 192.5 cler-
ed some interesting andexeiting ac‘
tions in the hog branch of the busi-
ness, with prices fluctuating within
a range of $2.00 to $3.00 per hun-
dred, reaching $14.00 in March,
breaking to $11.45 in May and
winding up with a top of $14.50."

On the close of the week hogs
sold at $11.85 to $14.25, comparhg

the hog raising

_ with $11.50 to $14.50, a week earli-

er.
Prime Cattle. Sell High,

Within a short time there has
been a widening tendency in the
market prices for cattle in Chicago,
due to the increasing receipts of
grassy offerings and a limited num-
ber of choice long fed heavy steers
and prime light weight yearlings.
Recently prime heavy steers sold
up to $13.85, the years' highest
price, while prime yearlings sold at
$13.75. On the other hand, the
common to middling grades of cattle
sold decidedly lower. Late sales of
beef steers were made largely at
$9.50 to $13, with no good steers
going below $10.50, and sales dowu
to $7 to $8.75 for common to fair
light steers and inferior little steers
going at $5 to $6.90. The lower
grades of butcher stock sold much
lower, cows and heifers going at
$3.75 to $12, according to quality,
while canner and cutter cows sold
at $2.50 to $3.65, bulls at $3.50 to
$7 and calves at $6 to $13. The
stacker and feeder trade was very
slow, with limited offerings, sales
being made at $4.50 to $8, mostly
atv$6 to $7, while stock and feeder
cows and heifers bruught $3.50 to
$6. Shipments of feeder cattle from
western markets for the first six
months of the year amount to only
761,520 head" comparing with 924-,—
000 a year ago. One. year ago beef
steers sold at $6.75 to $11 for com—
mon to prime lots. Aside from the
better class of cattle, prices were
largely 50 cents to $1 lower last
week.

WHEAT

In spite of the fact that the wheat
crop is way under last year prices
declined last week, but the future
market is nervous 'and strong.
Looking the market over carefully
we are of the opinion that wheat is
going to be a good article to own»
before another crop.

Reports from Kansas indicate
that that state will not have enough
wheat to supply its own needs this
year but will have to import. The
wheat seems to be of good quality.

CORN

There has been a good substan-
tial gain in the price of corn-since
our last issue and the market is
firm. Whether this will hold or not
is difficult to tell. There being a
Shortage of hay this year more corn
will go into the silos for feed. This
may oflset any increase in acreage
or production there may be.

OATS
The price of oats also advanced

following the trend of corn and de-
mand is fair.

RYE V
A good tone is evident in the rye
market and prices are again headed
upward. We do, not look for them

long. memories will .

> {or lower pric— '

l

to go much higher unless wheat ,

prices begin to gain.

The harnesses-ethic  r.

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f seed at’Sag naw recently. This
slacks like something- that _
save “the market if handled proper-‘

Ly. Read this article and tell «its

)wh'at you :think of the plan.

. POTATOES .
w‘ The potato crop in Michigan will

. be considerable smaller this year.
. Estimates are that the yield will be

about 23,000,000 bushels, compared
with over 38,000,000 bushels last
Year. This would be the smallest
field since 1916. Prices for old po-
tatoes are higher: than two weeks
ago and there is a" fair demand.

' Receipts are light.

 

HAY
A very good demand exists for
hay and prices continued upward.
The production
year will be about one—half whatgit
was in 1924. Hang on to your hay
if you have any surplus.

 

BUTTER AND EGGS

There is a good demand for but-
ter and eggs at Detroit. Best cream-
ery butter, in tubs, is quoted at 39
@420 per pound. Eggs, fresh cur—
rent receipts, are 31@33c per dozen.

_ WOOL

The situation on the wool market
is unchanged. The tone is quite op—
timistic locally regarding the Lon—
don sales thus far, although the
trade feels that the real basis for
fine wools will not be established
until the colonial sales open next
week.

Average quotations on the better
class of fleece wools similar to Ohio
and Pennsylvania (grease basis)
are: Fine, strictly combing, 56@
570 lb; fine, clothing, 46@47c; one—
half blood, strictly combing, 54@

 

 

 

 

Week of July 19

HERE may be some storminess
the first day of this week but
by Monday the sky will clear
and then will follow several days of
fair, dry'weather. The greater part
of the first half of this week will

be generally free from storminess.

Temperatures during the first
half of this week in Michigan are
not expected to rise much above the
seasonal average but by the middle
part of the week the conditions will
have changed.

By Thursday of this week tem-
peratures in this state will have
reached a high point with the con-
sequent scattered thunder storms
and showers although ‘the latter
characteristic will not be prominent
The warm
weather will remain over most parts
of Michigan during the balance of
the week.

Week of July 26

General warmth with local thun-
der storms and light, scattered
showers may be expected in many
counties throughout Michigan at
beginning of this week.

A marked change will immediate-
ly follow this storm area across the
state so that the first few days of
the week may witness. more com—
fortable temperatures.

A more general and definite storm
period may be expected in this state
about middle of week. At this time
fie barometric pressure will show
a marked depression around and
over Michigan with attendant heavy
rains and strong winds. We believe
that this storm will be one to be
reckoned With —on many open spaces
in the country districts.

There maane a temporary drop
in. temperature about Friday but
this will only make the hot. sultry
period that we are expecting at end
ct‘week to appear all the more so-

  

nor  The week goes out with very
i conditions . in many
 this. state ranging from in-

 " t 'oal ind-"high,

would-..

in Michigan this.

   
    
 

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 low: oneequa'rter blood, 
~..combin,g, 48@t4c-.' ' The better class

 

a! Michigan Wool is i toac less.

SEEDS
Detroit, July 1'1—-Clover seed,
$16; alSike, $13.75; timothy, $3.70.
Toledo; July‘ 11—Clover seed,
$16; alsike, $13.75; timothy, $3.70.
Chicago, July 11.——- Timothy seed.
$6.85@8; clover seed, $19@26.85.

LIVETOCK MARKETS

CHICAGO—Hogs went a trifle higher
Saturday on a steady market which fea—
tuned a. good demand. The top for hogs
wont to $14.25, a nickel above Friday.
Good butchers were a dime higher. Most
good packing hogs sold at $12.25@12.50:
with choice lots at $12.75 and plain‘kinds
down to $1L75@11.90. A week ago best
hogs sold at $14.50. The fresh supply was
4,900 with 8,000 held over.

There was little doing in the cattle
market. Some choice heifers were on
hand, but a bid of $12.50 was not enough
to satisfy sellers. The fresh supply was
only 500. For the week cattle were high—
er with choice steers going to $13.90 and
yearlings to $13.75 for the best price of
the year. r

The supply of 3,000 sheep and lambs
went at steady prices. Some Washing—
ton lambs sold steady at $15.75, with
good natives at $15.25.

EAST BUFFALO—Cattle—Slow.
steady; dry fed shipping cattle, 50c higher,
other dry fed, 25@50¢ higher grass
grades slow, mostly 25@500 higher ship—
ping steers, $8.50@13.50; butchers, $8.61)
9.50; yearlings, $9.50@12.50; heifers, $5
@9; fair to choice, cows, $3@6.50; can—
ners and cutters, $2@3; bulls, $3@G.50;
stockers and feeders, $4@7.50; fresh sows
and springers, active and steady. $40@
115 per head. Calves—Active and steady;
choice, $12.50@13; fair to good, $11@12;
culls, $6@10.50; heavy, $6@8; grassers,
$3@5. Hogs—Active, strong to 100 high—
er; heavy, $14.65; mixed and yorkers,
$14.65@14.75; light yorkers and pigs,
$14.65; roughs, $12.25@12.50; stags, $7@
10. Sheep and Lambs—Active and steady;
lambs, $106015; yearlings, $86012; weth~
ers, $8.50@9; ewes, $2@7.50; mixed sheep,
586378.50.

 

 

OFFICIAL CROP REPORT

ICHIGAN crop prospects have con—
M tinued to decline during June, with

the exception of grapes which main-
tained the June 1 condition figure. Every
crop is below ten-year average and all
except com were below the July 1 con—
dition of last year, according to the
monthly, statement issued July 10th by
L. Whitney Watkins, Commissioner of Ag-
riculture and Verne H. Church. U. S. ‘Ag—
ricultural Statistician. General rains in
northern Michigan and local showers in
other sections were beneficial, but they

"came too late to materially help grain,

hay and pastures except in a few north-
ern counties. The drought over much of
lower Michigan on July 1 was the sever-
est in more than thirty years.

’Corn: The acreage remains the same
as that of last year, 1,686,000. While a
slightly larger acreage was intended, ad-
verse weather conditions and poor germ—
ination in late planted fields offset the
increase. Early planted fields on good
soils are showing good stands, excellent
color, and a normal growth. The con-
dition of 81 per cent is four per cent be-
low and ten per cent better than one year
ago. This outlook, it followed by aver—
age weather to the end of the season,
would result in a production of 53,261,000
bushels, nearly ten millions more than the
1924 crop.

Wheat: Winter wheat lost ten points
in condition during the month. the per—
centage being 65 equivalent to a produc—
tion of 12,579,000 bushels as compared
with 19,888,000 last year. Harvest began
during the closing days of June, a little
earlier than usual. The straw is short,
many fields have quite thin stands and a
considerable proportion of small heads.
Indications point to the lowest yield per
acre since 1912. The condition of spring
wheat is 80 per cent, or a forecasted pro—
duction of 112,000 bushels against 126,—
000 in 1924. It is estimated that six
per cent or.” all wheat produced in 1024
is still on farms. ,

Cats: The straw is extremely short
and many fields will be di‘ficult to.harvest
with/"the usual Vmaéhinery. The outlook
is for 59 per cent of a ‘crop as compared
with a condition of 78 per cent one month
ago, 84 per cent one year ago. and 84
per cent the ten—year average. This in-
dicates a crop of 88,997,900 bushels, more
than 28 millions less than last year, and
the smallest production since 1921.

Barley: The straw is Short and the
condition of 60 per cent is 17 per cent
lower than on June 1 and 26 per cent
below the ten—year average. The fore-
casted production is 3,078,000 bushels as
compared with 4,743,000 last year, al-
though the present acreage is 12 per
cent grater. /

Rye is showing the best of any

Rye:
of the small rains although the-straw
in somewhat ‘ rte:- tlua usual and the

condition percentage of 7,2 is 1 per cent“
under the ten-year avenge. - e crop is
estimated at 4,014,000 bushels which is
approximately only two-thirds- as ‘_m’uch

   

   

 
   

"early, planted fields have good at
dry weather has enacted the germination .

uneven.

' cuts.

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ands but

of the later plantings and the fields are
The preliminary estimate is 263,-
000 acres, and :the present condition figure
of £3 per cent is equivalent to a crop of
22,920,000 bushels, the smallest produc—
tion since 1916. Last year’s crop was
38,252,000 bushels. \

Beans: An increase of 12 per cent over
last year in the acreage planted is in-
dicated by the reports from correspond-
A greater increase would have re-
sulted if drought had not prevented some
planting and germination of some that
were planted. The early fields have good
stands but the later planted ones are more
or less uneven. High winds did some
local damage in certain sections. The
condition of 82 per cent is five per cent
below the average and is equivalent to a
production of 6,396,000 bushels from the
624,000 acres devoted to the crop.

Hay: The condition of tame hay drop—
ped from 71 per cent on June 1 to 45 per-
cent at the end of the month. On this
basis, the production indicated is 2,328,000
tons as compared with 5,010,000 last year.
Many old meadows were a failure and
some of last year’s seedings *were but
little better. Alfalfa is demonstrating its

. high» value to Michigan farmers through

its greater ability to withstand drought.
Its condition is 73 per cent against 41
per cent for clover and timothy.

Sugar Beets: Some stands are good
and others poor. Considerable replanting
was necessary but thinning operations
were well advanced.
withstanding the drough: very well. The
condition is 75 per cent as compared with
84 one year ago and 88 the ten—year aver-

age.
Pastures: Pastures are very dry,
especially on rolling lands, and some

farmers have been forced to either feed
their stock or turn them into meadows
and grain crops. The condition is 53 per
cent as compared with an average of 87.

FARMERS ATTEND FARM"
BI'REAI' SCHOOL

(Continued from Page 2)

the members through their farm
bureau, that is not all which impels
them to resolve to make their 01'—
ganization still bigger and stronger.

The whole idea of the campaign
seems to be one of self~help and of
community teamwork. Michigan
farmers are realizing as never be-
fore that agriculture and rural life
stand face to face with many per-
plexing problems which are too big
for the individual to solve and which
therefore require for their solution
the strongest and most active farm
organizations.

The future of the rural school,
the county church, the farm home
and the boys and girls were a few
of the outstanding questions com—
manding the attention of the men
and women who, after giving care
ful study to these various matters,
have decided to go out and urge
their neighbors to join them in the
Farm Bureau for the production of
a broad program of community bet-
terment.

Counties in which the member-
ship campaigns are now starting in-
clude Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Ea—
ton, Genesee, Ionia, Kalamazoo, La—
peer, Macomb, Muskegon, Shiawas-
see and Van Buren.~—Stanley M.
Powell.

SANILAC COUNTY FA R1116 l."
PICNIC

N accordance with the plan 01? the

American Farm Bureau Federa—

tion to call the Fourth of July,
Farm Bureau “Muster Day” the
Sanilac County Farm Bureau held
a huge picnic, getting together the
largest group of farmers cvsr as—
sembled in Sanilac county. There
were over 3,000 automobiles and an
estimated attendance of 12,000 peo—
ple. One thousand automobiles
were turned away due to the lack
of parking space. The picnic was
held at Sanilac County Park at For-
ester on the shores of Lake Huron
and took place through the coop-
eration of the Chambers of Com—
merce, community clubs and farm-
ers’ clubs.

Three different speakers were on
the program for the day. Rev. A.
H. Manahan of Petoskey talked on
citizenship” He was followed by
Mrs. Frank ’Kinch of Grindstone
City, who talked on “Woman’s Re-
sponsibility in the Home, on the
Farm and the Community.” The
third speaker of the afternoon was
Dr. W. W. Field of Albion Who dis-
cussed the opportunity of the rural
youth.

Those in charge of the picnic re-
port that everything was in perfect
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FOR ‘
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., implement manufacturers and hundreds of
' thousands of progressive farmers.

Sold in Handy Packages or two 6-inch ioints or
larger standard boxes. _

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Albion steal and wood salt are can
and powerful. One-third (In work-
ln‘ parts of any other mill.

n main Film-n bnm‘ a mined to
wear._ The n oillm, and easily re:
placeable. Coyrrns by dependable '
wright wit l springs Fri: any 4pc“
sum-l lower Why not rhoncn your chore
hours now will! a good WmdnsiDv
This is your chance—F. O. B—
Albr'on. Erect it yourself. All you1
deal”. 0: wrue duct! to

Union Steel Products Co. Ltd.
3 4

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FOR SALE—PURE BRED JERSEY BULLS. ONE

 

'I'l-g‘lslvl'l-«l. ll H-mltlls Mil. Weight. about 000 lbs.
5.

J. PRITCHARD, R02, Tckonsha, Michigan.

 

 

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FOR SALE—TO SETTLE ESTATE-~ACCREDIT-

ed herd of thirty registered Holstems. from calm
to mature cows. Sired by 331 and 42 .
sires. months bull calf from. 42 pound sure.
0. l“. Ruxnsey, Admr., Hudson, Michigan.

 

FOR SALE—200 ACRE. LEVEL FARM. NEAR
Olfio Wesleyan University, laware, part blacl
ood buildings, pike road.

soil, well tiled, extra
A iome. Chas. S. Mason,

beautiful cmmtry
Owner, Delaware, Ohio.

 

IOWA FARMS FOR SALFr—AS LOW A8560.”
per acre. Hood terms, N. liartlxolmneW, 210
Crocker Boulevard, Des Moines, Iowa.

 

MUST SELL G001) 100 ACRE SOUTHERN
Wisconsin Dairy Farm, $12,500, Without stock.
$1,600 down. 0. Coburn, Whitewater, Wis.

 

FARMS—R E S O R T PROPERTY IN 1510sz
County, For Sale and Rent. Saunders, Beulah.
Michigan.

 

 

 

DAIRY CATTLE

 

GUERNSEY OR IIOLSTEIN DAIRY CALVES,

 

 

 

$20.00 each, shipped anywhere. Edgewood
Farms, Whitewater, Wisconsm.
POULTRY
WANTED—EGGS FOR HATCHING, FROM
pure bred iarred Rock flocks. Now contract-
iyng for next season. Eggs used February until
.une,

highest price. Will call. with particulars.
Write, llowe’s Iatchery, Essexvdle, Michigan.

 

DOGS

l’l'PS FOR SALIE—THREEFOURTHS, POLICE.

mu-Al'mn-tll l'Olli‘E‘. Splymlid cattle and watc
(log. Female $0; Spade bitches SR: Alvah Buerge,
Middleton, \livlngan.

 

 

 

 

FOR S.-\l.l-Iill.\.\‘l)\' l“().\" llOllNl), SIX
months old. l~‘_rmn real lnimmg stock. \V. A.
Sharp, ()anl'll. Michigan.
FOR SALE—~PEDIGREED HERMAN POLICE
ups. Thus. ‘2. l‘ullnghan, Howell, Michigan.
FEMALE, 18 MONTHS OLD, $15.00.

11111.1.
It. .\ Beck, Ram-con island. Ohio.

 

 

SEED
ROBUST BEANS. GROWN FROM RPXUSTERED

 

 

 

 

seed. Carl DeVVitt. Wheeler. Michigan.
TOBACCO
I'IOMESI‘I‘N TOBACCO—C ll EWING FIVE
pounds $1.50. ten $2.50. Smokmg five pounds
$1.25, ton $2.00. Pipe Free. Pay when re-

ceived. Satisfactirm Guaranteed. K e n t u c k y
Farmer‘s Association, Paducuh, kentucky.

LOOK HERE! GUARANTEED, FRAGRANT,

mellow, rich. hoiiiospun tobacco. Five pounds
chewing. $1.50; smoking, $1.25. Samples, 10c.
Clark's River Plantation, 192, Hazel, Ky.

CORN HARVESTER

RICH MAN‘S CORN HARVESTER, P003

man's price—f only $25.00 With bundle tyin
attachment. Bree catalog SllOWlllg pictures is“
lmrvester. Box 528. Salina. Kansas.

MISCELLANEOUS

CASH PAID FOR. FALSE TEETiI, PLATINU ,
old magneto points, discarded Iowan-g .nd 0,]
old. Mail to, Hoke Smelting -& Re 3
tsego, Michigan.

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The Michigan Business Farmer maintains a staff of expert editorial

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writers who cover the entire field of the farming induStry written

eSpecially with ' the VieWpoint of

FARMING AVBUSINESS

The Business Farmer for years has been preaching
the gospel that farming is first, last and all the time a
business and so it employs writers who not only thorough-
ly cover the problem of production of crops but what is
equally important, the marketing of these crops.

Our market editor has assisted and advised thou-
sands of farmers in regard to marketing of their crops
and has been instrumental in making and saving thou-
sands of dollars for our readers. ,

Stanley M. Powell’s articles on taxation are but
another example of the vital business problems of farm-
ing discussed through the columns of The Business Farm-
er.

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Our Editor: W/Jo
STANLEY NI. POWELTF

An issue of THE BusiNEss FARMER that did not contain a feature article by
Stanley M. Powell would be incomplete. He is our Lansing correspondent and
legislative matters are a hobby with him. Being a farmer himself he under-
stands what farmers are interested in along legislative lines and he has an

interesting style of writing. He Is going to give us some articles along other
lines also.

L. W. MEEKS—

The editor of Broadscope Farm News and Views, L. W. Meeks is a successful
business farmer in Hillsdale county. His outstanding sumess is the production
of certified seed potatoes, but he is interested in most crops suitable for Michi-
gan soil, good cattle, hogs and poultry; in fact he has had experience in about
all lines of farming. What happens on Broadscope Farm and what goes on in
the mind of the owner makes mighty interesting reading.

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Our legal editor has saved our readers thousands of dollars through advice
he has given them. He answers all inquiries With personal letters and we pub-
lish inquiries and answers of general interest in every issue. You may. have a
question in your mind right now that you would like to have a.legal opinion on
without the expense and bother of going to a lawyer. There is no expenSe to
paid—up subscribers.

REV. DAVID F. \VARNER— ‘ . .

As one of our readers recently said “No farm paper 15 complete until It
ministers to the spiritual side of farm life." In each issue appears a non-
sectarian sermon by Rev. David F. Warner. Rev. Warner is a product qt a
Michigan farm, and, although his duties as a community pastor and religious
eitor of our paper take all of his time, he still owns a. farm. We receive letters
every day commenting on his sermons in our columns,

the farmers of Michigan in mind.

off their own farms during these strenuous times right
here in the State of Michigan. . .’

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WOMEN AND CHILDREN

The Business Farmer thoroughly believes in the
home life on the farm and as a result has employed Mrs.
EAnnIe Taylor to cover the problems of the women on the
arm.

‘ For the Boys and Girls—the future farmers of Michi-
gan— we have Uncle Ned, who offers advice and counsel
for the children of all ages. . '

Right in line with the home life of our readers we
have Rev. David F. Warner, who in each issue gives an
undenominational sermon for our folks thus covering—as
one reader has expressed it—the spiritual side of
life. Not a thing has been overlooked in preparing a
better Business Farmer for our readers. Read the brief
description of our editorial staif and see what we are
offering you.

Are fl! War Service

 WRlGli‘T—f .

ere are ew armers in the territory surrounding Cass count that do not
know C. J. Wright, the editor of our Soils and Crops department.y Mr. Wright
is an expert soxl doctor” and he knows Michigan soils and their ailments. He
has put into.pract1ce on hls own farm what he preaches in his articles. He
works hand In hand with the M. S. C.

MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR—

The Farm Home department is edited by Mrs. Annie Taylor, a woman and
mother who understands the problems of the farm gwife, mother and sister and
lends a sympathetic ear to every woman in trouble. She answers hundreds of
letters, which none but her eyes ever see, in a friendly, frank and sincere way
which has endeared her to thousands of farm women.

L. N. PRITCHABD—

Our weather forecaster, L N. Pritchard, is a Michigan man who has a repu-
tation as a weather prophet that is nation-wide. He predicts the weather two
weeks and more in advance with an accuracy that is startling. Hundreds of
our subscribers have advised us that they plan their work by his forecast.

W. W. FOOTE— - ’

As a market editor for a farm paper W. W. Foote cannot be beat. He has
tudied the markets for several ’years and his market review letter that appears
in each issue is worth many times the price of the paper for a year. .

J. W. H. WEIlb—

THE BUSINESS FARMER was one of the first farm papers in the country to
make a radio department a regular feature and we have always had men edit-
ing the department that were up to the last minute on the subject. . .
Weir is a young man with several years of experience with radio behind him,
and he is in the "game" every day learning more.

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WHAT OUR READERS SAY

We might go on indefinitely telling you about The
'Business Farmer but the real proof of the kind of job
we are doing for the farmers of the State is best told
by the readers, themselves. The following letters are
but a few of the hundreds we receive each week from

our readers.

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enjoy getting the facts, also your ser- scribers to BUSINESS Fauna
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pleased in the way it has improved.

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SERVICE AND, PROTECTIVE BUREAU

The Service and Protective Bureau is our Service Plus
to our readers. Through this Bureau we answer by per-
sonal letter any problem which may be bothering our
readers which they would not care to have discussed
through the columns of the paper.

Expert Legal and Veterinary advice together with
counsel on investments and the exposing of fakes and
crooks are some of the valuable features of this service.

THE COLLECTION BOX DEPARTMENT of THE
BUSINESS FARMER has received 2,678 claims to date,
the amount involved is $26,744.25. It has settled 2,195
claims and secured for our subscribers $24,449.48. There
13 never any charge made for our service to a paid-up
subscriber. _ ’

.' THE ONLY FARM PAPER OWNED AND EDITED
IN MICHIGAN

The Business Farmer is owned and edited for the
sole interest of the farmers of Michigan. It’s a Michigan
farm paper discussing Michigan farm problems. You
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cents for one year; one (1) dollar for two years of five
years for two (2) dollars. .

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