A72 Independent Farm Magazine Owned and Edited :72 Michigan (1th over Juli. ~11 , i’to rpfa‘vora’ble Weather finditions‘. This brings the figure mp to 88 per cent, which is equiv- Walent to a production of 7, 283, 000 bushels. The outlook has also im- “proved in Wisconsin, Minnesota and ddaho, but declined in all other -' States. T. 2 net result is a forecast, of 17 464, 000 bushels as compared ment issued by Verne H Church, U. S. Agricultural Statistician and L. Whitney Watkins, Commissioner pf Agriculture. / New York reports a condition of. [85 per cent and a prospective pro- .iduction of 2,,108 000 bushels; Col- orado, 70 per cent and 2,,230 000 bushels; Idaho, 92 per cent and 1,- {122, 000 bushels; and California, 74' per cent and 2, 914, 000 bush'els. These forecasts allow for the nor- Ina] decline that usually occurs with DUDEEERDTHERS ;"with a final estimate or 13, 619, 000 . {or last year, according to a state- . 7 below this £311 1 the change from the fiermitl ea or condition A large percentage ‘01 the stands in- New York and Michi- gan are exceptionally good, and prospects to date are for a crop or 'good quality. Blight and anthras- nose have made their appearance but at the time of report had not developed to any material extent. The Michigan sugar beet crop prospect increased during July from 812, 000 to 899, 000 tons. There was also improvement in the other east— ern sugar beet states, but the condi- tion declined in the producing states West of the Mississippi river except Colorado.‘ For the country as a whole, the estimate is for a slightly smaller crop than reported on July 1. The prospective production off 6,139,000 tone is nearly .1,-400,000« tons below last year’s crop,’ the- acreage planted this year being cor- respondingly less in amount. Con- ® , elation. .7Michigan will rank second in pro-’ 7; -..duction this .year as} against third, place last year. 7. -‘ _cnnn worn: mam oF HHATO SHOW NE of the outstanding matures of the Third T“ p a? Michigan Potato Show, which will be . 111g held" November 4, 5, .-.and ' 8,2- is the- encouragement of Boys’ and Gi’rls Club Work. Over one {dozen potato clubs have been organized by the State Club Leader, Mr. A. G. Kettu- non, through the cobperation of the directors of the Potato Show Asso- / TYPE“ B SEE-DANE. Its exceptional comfort is commented on by everyone who drives 'it. Doctors, tourists, salesmen, and all who , f find it necessary to spend eight, ten and . . - ' .. twelve hours on the road at a time, are particularly emphatic in their praise. The fact is, that with its admirable \ Spring suspension, deep seats and gener- - . ous lounging room, the Type-B Sedan i. . delights the mast exacting seeker . after restful transportation. Shine ether clubs are also included but next year they plan to : include call clubs on a large scale. that they should encourage not only “11!?! "showing of notatoes but also - , ‘ other thing's that tend to promote " 'the Welfare of northern Michigan. ’ igan. ‘less than last year’s and the - ian. is territOr, The liberal induce— “ The 9ther feature that is attract- _,_ so attention the Apple - ShOW he d in Connect on with the Potato Show. Although not looked upon as an important apple pro- ducing territory, nevertheless- the eight northern counties that form the “tip” of Michigan, produce m;- a quarter of a million bushels of ap- ples every year. These growers feel that the show will do for northern Michigan apples what it has done for the potatoeS—develop standard varieties, a higher quality, and a uniform grade and pack. ’ The Potato Show at Gaylord is becoming an annual event of much- importance to all of northern 'Mich’- It is becoming a force which will do much to place its agricul— . ture on a higher plan and to bring greater prestige to its growers and V, their pr.oducts ”By encouraging such Worthy pro~ jects as Boys’ and Girls’ Club Work, it is providing a leadership and a. unifying influence which we have al- ways lacked. In that way Mr. L. L. Drake, regional director of Coun— ty Agents, Summarizes the activity of this association. “No apple or potato grower should fail to exhibit at the Top 0’ Michigan Apple and Potato Show this tall. It is none too early now to start preparing for it by spraying, etc. The Show is open to growers from all counties which 'have appro- priated to the Show through their . _Boards of Supervisors, " says Mr. A. 'C. Lytle, Secretary of the Show.— E. J. Leenhouts. BIG INCREASE IN APPLE CROP E commercial apple crop of the United States was estimated on 'August 1 at 30,364,000 barrels,“ which is practically the same as the ‘ average of the last five years and nearly two millions more than the 1924 crop. The total agricultural crop is nearly 18 million bushels in— crease in commercial production is due to the fact that the larger por- ' tion is concentrated in the com— mercial areas of leading apple states and because of exceptionally high quality of the fruit in these areas. The prospects in Washing— ton, the leading states, are for over two million ‘barrels more than the final estimate for 1924, and all other northern states report an in- crease. Nearly all southern states indicate a decrease, the Virginia crop being only about one half of last year’ s. The condition of the Michigan crop is rated at 50 per cent and the United States average is 57 2 per cent, acrording to the report issued by L. Whitney Watkins, Commis- sioner of Agriculture and Verne~-H. Church, U. S. Agricultural Statistic- , The corresponding percentages for last year were 52 and 57. 8 per cent, respectively. The quality of the Michigan fruit this year ranks high, as scab and other fungus diseases have given much less trouble than usual. BEAN PEST HEADS TOWARD MICHIGAN HE Mexican bean beetle moved another step Michigan. It has 113$ invaded . southern Indiana and, according to , Frank W. Wallace, state entomolo~ - ,. gist at Indianapolis, headed northward. 1' ’ s the Hoosier farmers, a ‘11" intchecking the in a: the- pesfds nearer . > ~/-~'~ 1.... .m’“ smash. .. ”is. WJ-‘W—a v‘ . . . m than”. I ' 9 .vertised brands at f: Asked to make a complete review of the episode Mt. :gave out the following W factors in our war HE magnitude of the canned ! ~ white bean Industry can best be judged by the approximation of promos acres cf the cleaned pro- ‘ Inct Of Michigan goes into cans. the ordinary No. 2 or pint can, re— filing at 10 or 12 cents contains mundane-third pound of dry beads. .Added water, tomato sauce. ‘3. minute ice of pork and a little seasoning , nukes up the balance. The bea‘nsin the can were furnished by the grower atratherlessthan twecents percan. The present price quoted by factor- ice to the :10be trade is 85 cents per dozen, with the more widely 'ad- 81. 00. Out of those prices is often a brokerage allowance so that the canner is get- ting around seven or eight cents a can. farmer for the raw stock, and will probably average more. four cents a can which includes in addition to actual factory expenses all the costs of merchandising of the raw material to him and his selling costs including advertising. which is a large item. __ The popularity of canning dry beans is that plants representing me investments are able to run on green fruits and vegetables in their lessons and then turnto dry beans ual increase the total days of factory - ting. ~ thus greatly decreasing e overhead expenses. The tomato industry has surplusages‘ and, unde- sirable stocks for canning which goes into tomato pulp. Canned beans are I the major .outlets' for tomato pulp and this item adds tovthe profits of ; the canning industry as a ‘whole. The addition of tomato pulp to the , pork and beans is not only. of dietic advantage but an. acid that is a de- sirable aid to preservation in can- ning.. The legumes peas and beans have certain inherent dimculti'e’s in ? preservation that requires great care .to prevent troubles like flat sours, etc ‘ boring the world war the question ' of permission to use tin plate labor eta, tocan beans was raised. " At _ first glance it looked as though dry beans ought to be cooked and. used without canning. More complete in: vestigation pointed to the great sav- ing in small families and where fuel was expensive—Lin using the canned goduct over cooking at home. creased use of canned beans has been phenomenal and apparently eco— nomical although not conceded by those who apply the rule of thumb measurements to tlfeir own experi- ences and observations. The actual can used as a con-' "talner is enuai'to the price paid the The can-‘ ners service then represents three or- 'l‘he .. Jor beans to the grower but competi- SATURDAY AUGUST 29, 1925 lchléan Beans and the Market Many Difficulties in the \IVWayA—of Acreage Control 1. , - 1 By J. N.‘MVcB‘Rle ,_ Home baking of breadas compared "to that of the More stock furnishes similar arguments coincident with that of canned beans. However, baker" 8 bread and canned beans seem to be having the better of the argu— ment in. the‘ matter of output. Whether we approve or not more and more of beans will go into cans . and. bean growers will take them in cans on auto outing occasions as a ‘matter 'of convenience. The analysis of the major outlet for Michigans beans seeins to be nec- essary in order to understand that with this solution there has come in- to being a concentration of buying power» greater each year. Happy is the salesman of Michigan beans—if he can have one large canner as an outlet. The canners also _are very anxious that one of their competi- tors dees‘ not get beans cheaper. than he and he pegs the price a notch lower than his last order just to be sure." As “ one, bean operator ex- pressed it "he no longer quoted beans, just filled orders.” The canning trade are thoroughly conversant with acreage, crop con- ditions and base their quotations on canned goods accordingly. It is not generally lmown that the great bulk of canned goods are sold as "futures” , with the total deliveries proportioned - asto the actual pack and not a total number of cases. Last year the corn pack-was very light and pea pack heavy. Deliveries were made on contracts at agreed prices, peas to the full extent and corn at the minimum. Anticipate Large Crop As noted before canned pork and beans are being sold on futures as low as 85 cents per dozen for No. 2 cans. .In other words the anticipa- tions of a large crop now growing is .made- the basis of proportional delivery at a low price with all the uncertainties of the crop still ahead. Concentrated _quantity buying and the fact of a very short 1925 pea crop (probably not over 50 per cent normal) with cans. equipment and storage available makes bean can- ning doubly attractive when bought low; It is conceded that canners are not over anxious. about low prices tion for businem among themselves compels it. The added price of four cents per dozen cans would be equal to $1. 00 per hundred pounds to the grower. . DIODE? parison is that of industrial groups. In matters of price making—~the tin plate makers are united. The ad- vertising columns are as adamant when it. comes to prices for space and so all the way down the line of labor, transportation, interest, etc., the charges are unyielding. The modem physician’s great prescription to the ailing one is to "build up the resistance" to disease. The bean growers seem to have little resistance to price cutting, and when he has grown a large crop and the. price is low he is comforted by professional advisers to grow the next crop more efficiently. Efficiency advices to farmers is thoughtless thinking, to say the least, if it is really thinking at all. The economic or relational com- with whom exchanges of products or serviceaare made or with previous records made by the respective groups. Agriculture compared with itself in the past as a group has tripled in efficiency within the last 75 years and as compared to individ- ual output in mining, manufacturing and transportation has vastly out- distanced those in the last decade. The real efficiency notion as usually expressed by the expert is not new. Pharoah of Egypt had the same idea of getting more bricks by furnishing less straw. , Increasing Bean Acreage Natural conditions in Michigan do not permit of very great expansion of bean acreage, the actual area is rather limited and any decided in- crease is at the expense of the crop rotation. The increased acreage of 1925 is a combination of factors, viz, low potato and sugar prices together with droughty conditions which switched considerable of corn acreage to beans. During the years of the great war bean acreage reached a maximum of 543,000 acres, while in 1924 the acreage was only'14,000 more acres. The average acre re— turn from 1914 to 1924 has been $36.08. This price is based on an average yield of 10.2 bushels per acre. The average price of the 1914 crop was $2.00 per acre below the low. year average. Winter wheat and barley last year brought the grower respectively $30.36 and $24.80 per acre and corn was figured at $27.65. These figures are given to show that there is very little dan— ger of a. continued drift away from . class matter. A at but. “(iguana Mich, under set .22.: {as the standard farm crops in favor of beans ove’r a long period of time. - Could a bean acreage be decreased. to around 450, 000 acres and the bal- ance of 100, 000 acres or more be de- voted to the standard crops the pos- sibilities are in favor. of a total gain to the farmer. However figures on this point are subject to different in-- terpretations. For example the crop of 1919 of 316,000 acres brought over eighteen millions of money, while the crop of 1920 was 286,000 acres and brought about nine million dollars. . Acreage Control There are so‘ many diiiiéulties in the way of acreage control that no proposition of thiskind gets beyond the mere suggestive status. The best economists are inclined toward . a method of reservoiring non-perish-. able products and making the surplus serve as a notice to growers to reduce acreage or to be used in case of poor seasons to maintain an essential food supply. The great question is how to preserve the surplus of a good season so it will not compel losses to the grower. The English depend- encies are maintaining rubber prices by governmental action. Brazil and Honduras are in a similar way valor- ising coifee and sisol fibre. There is in a democracy like the U. 8. a well defined sentiment to leave this service to the commodity producers and legislation has opened the way to make this action within the law. Agricultural opinion has not yet been molded into constructive action on these lines. It is safe to say that cooperative bodies that are merely handlers of goods, passing them on to ' , channels of consumption or manufac- turing processes are only other roads to the same terminals and while their over turn may be great or small, these must some day and very soon be made increasingly serviceable in maintaining price levels. The turn- ing point of Denmarks success in cooperation was the passage of the famous trades act in 1909 authoriz— ing the principal organizations of in— dustry i. e., (the cooperatives) to mark the retail prices on the article or container and a fine for selling at , a. different price unless so authorized ' by the producer. The package or unit of sales must not be broken or divided however to secure this price. The power of the Denmark cooper- atives came as a growth and main- ’ tained the home market at a stable price while the surplus was exported. The home market in control of the producer prevented the exporter from bidding down prices, when the pro- duct was out of first hands. Hoover Gives Inside Story of Fixing Price of Wheat During World War 1‘ FTER eight years of silence G'l Herbert Hoover is finally tell- ing the inside story of the fix- ing of the price of wheat at $2. 20 a bushel during the world war. During this time he has been the .. subject of many bitter attacks by . agriculture for his supposed lead- ing part in set the price. ‘nFermers thought the price set was too low and most of them believed . it would have advanced much high— er: if no price level had been set. Thetlme has now some, murmmhf”; Hoover finally ist needs no reference, has madea thorough study of the records of these war time organizations, and. for the first time. a report has been prepared based on a full examina- tion of these records. “Dr. Surfaces objective review .easily demonstrates that the Amer- ican farmer was saved from what otherwise would have been a com- plete disaster due to certain condi— tions created by the war and effec- tively dissipates the myth that price guaranties were entered into for tion between themselves, the Allies' governments before we came into the war had consolidated their pur- chasing of world wheat into one buying agency. Through control of world shipping and the blockade against the enemy, this agency was the sole buyer of our wheat. 1 Price Fixed “The domestic price of wheat to the American farmer was fixed by the price which could be realized for the export surplus. As export buying was all in one hand, the operation of the law of supply and demand had been abolished and the price of wheat to the American farmer, therefore. would be deter- mined hy the price which this buying agency determined to pay. .‘i5wPrice lining for American wheat “thaws: thus already under way in- Congresshadpro- fordgn . vided a minimum price of only $2 a busholmfor the 1918 crop and it WI! for the 1911 harvested. had fixed- , their only reason they were proved prices of wheat in their own coun- tries at about $1. 80 a. bushel and in order to lay down American . wheat at this price they considered , that they should pay the American farmer about $1. 50 a bushel at cm; cage for the 1917 crop. “In support of this contention . agents contended that any , higher price to the American farmer- would require an increase in the ‘ price of bread in the Allied coun’ that the American farmer , had realized only about $1.30 a bushel for his previous year's wheat. despite the $3 corner on the Chicago” market which occurred after nearly 95 per cent of all the wheat had left. the farms. “They also pointed out that the pould purchase abundant sum of wheat in Argentina and A," " - at $1.50 a bushel or less and “ from availing themselves of sec 7" cheaper, supplies- by the longer prey ‘ (Continued on Page 23) I we had farm institutes all thru the country—the expert farm- b cultivate our com that we might et the best results of our labor. hat set a number of us thinking. , dry weather I began to cultivate allow but our cultivators were hot made for an even shallow culti- ation, so I_ dragged floats behind, on ,I tried different things like dhains, gas pipes and so on, but I found the three—inch gas pipe the est when out the right length for cultivating either riding or walking. The gas pipe seemed to have a good ffect as my neighbors’ crops seemed rsufl’er much while my crops still _eld_ out and were nice and green 'during dry spells, until a nice show- er of rain would come, again put- ting new pep into the crops, connect— ng the new moisture With the old 1111 fitting it up fo1 some more dry days. , Experiences Encouraging "Those experiences were very en- uraging, however. The floats were -.1_unny looking things and ve1y in-. onvenient especially when turning the ends of the rows, so I began plan out better tools, not finding them in the market making them out of old spring drag teeth and some angle iron.T110se I first made ad three teeth f01 small things like eets and carrots, with shields and ‘float behind it. These small things gave me a start for something larg- .er and when improving 011 the little Qnes I finally got a perfect cultiva- ’ tor as you find in the picture; a cul— inter of five teeth for 24 to 28- hch rows. These shields have a tints thru the ground as it has a his is the eighteenth a1ticle of a ser- by Francis A. Flood on his travels in rope last summer. The next article ich concludes the series will appear in -; an early issue. , ”3, S our party crossed the bordei from Switzerland into that land ~ of war and "romance that we had Waited so long to see I am sure that every- member of our party 1egister- ed this thought with a bang: “So this is France!” It is a most unoriginal idea, but one of those that suddenly hits you full in the face and rears ' on back on your haunches in a t of daze, unable to grasp it all ‘ once in spite of a lifetime of an- ipat‘ion. ' General Pershing had told us, on words when he landed in France in 917 were not “LaFayette, we have ome." as the popular fable has it. Just what he did say first know that if he didn’t actually say thought it, and what he thought was, “So this is France!" Qr that is the only thing there is left to think when you suddenly see iti- .: England had been a delight H01— land and Denmark were wonderful, Germany was most impressive, and SWitzerland was beautiful, but— well, this was France! This was to be the main act aftei all. The or- chestra had been wonde1ful, the comedy a real one, and the lobbies ”and the theatre itself magnificent, ut the curtain was just now ringing .Hi' S you Will remember years age“ s were sent out and told us how, " weight ‘on the float. harp point at the rear and that By JOHN VENHUISEN r . curve at the end .of'the point, threw- ing away the dirt with the weeds .from the rows. The float comes along behind and fills up the little furrow which the shield has made, making it a perfect bed, the spring teeth stirring up everything with the shield as a protector of the smaller plants. The float acts as a packer and leveller bolted to the handles on a 60 degree giant with the cultivator so as to put its full These shields can'be raised as the plant grows higher, allowing the teeth to throw_ the dirt around the plant, covering up single weeds. We can go shallow or deep. by the setting of a: lever. Ottawa County Farmer ., ..- ' 1 I have larger t-utivators that are somewhat different; there are sev- en teeth in them—three in the front row and four on the back row, also with levers so that we can ‘ adjust them for deep Or shallow cul- tivating. TWo more teeth can be add- ed to the larger ones, one on each side so that we can cultivate under— neath long vines. They are made of spring steel teeth bent straight with a cultivator curve at the back bring— ing them down low soas to creep underand not endanger plants-or vines." Thesefteethsaye much hoe- ingrand I use them onlyin my vine- They are alsoflne for tomatoes. ' We The special attachments you see 011 these cultivators were invented by John Ven- hnisen, of Holland By FRANCIS A. FLOOD up 011 the main act at last, and the name of the show was “France" To some it is a comedy, a society drama, a fashion show, or a great art exhibit, but to many, both Americans and the French them- selves within recent years, it is a tragedy, a powerfully dramatic tra- gedy, in which many of the princi- pal actors Were killed before the last act. As for myself, I had thbught of France as the battlefield of the re— cent war, and that is what it meant for the 'most of our party, none of whom had ever been in the coun- try before. the service during the war, I had never been sent across to the other side. We caught our first glimpse of the battlefield area just below Chau— mont, and from there to Rheims the outlook from the windows of our lit- tle “chemin-de—fer” grew steadily worse. The first signs were only an, occasional old trench almost lev- eled and apparently glad “to hideits hideous war-head under the fields of wheat and grass that covered it, and once in a while a ruined house stood as a much more appalling monument to war and what it really ‘ means than is any bronze statue of a conquering hero on a great war horse towering over a public square. These shattered houses, ruined towns, and countless little cemeter- Although I had been in . ies are the real monuments to war _ itself. New Towns Spring Up Farther north, our train passed through whole villages as new as my OWn pioneer town near where I homesteaded in Wyoming, and where every shack has been built since 1918. Without even a whistle oui train passed an old, weed— covered stone depot platform that must have once served a fair sized town judg— ing from the remains of the sta~ tion platform and train sheds. other little town, brand new, is struggling to erect itself near by, and the old town doesn’t get even a whistle from the engineer any more. We saw an occasional wheat field mottled continuously with spots of sparse, short grain exposing a top soil of limestone thrown up above the original fertile soil by a shell or trench and cutting dowu the yield by just that much. Wooded areas of 40 or 80 acres are now only a tangled mass of underbrush with a few shattered trunks still stand- ing. All this was just by way of pre- lude to the dramatic tragedy, France, and the first. act was laid in Rheims. Rheims! We found it simply a wreck of a great town as our train rolled in toward the station. were told that 15,000‘of the 18,000 houses in the town had been partly Subscnbers Makes Attachment That Enables‘HIm To Stu Up 3011 Durmg'k’DryjjTtmes have different sizes for narrow rows, ‘ such as potatbes. The. floats on theSe large cultivators are bolted tO‘ - the cultivator handles and handle yard or among the raspberry bushes. / standard with chains, holes are drilled thru the upper line of the float thru whiCh the end” of the chains are keyed. These keys we . insert in different lengths of the chain for loose floating and these floats are made of 1,6 inch thick sheet steel 12 inches wide and the full width of the Cultivator. They are corrugated at bottom edge or rather cut “V” shaped leaving the ground in a corrugated shape pre- venting the wind from drifting too much sand and it crushes the clods better. 1 For the first and second cul- tivation we seldom use them. We raise them and tie them to the han— dles out of the way but later on, we drop them doWn and use them all the time and towards the last we weigh them down by tightening the chains putting the weight of the cultivator on to the floats. I will say that we have forgotten the riding cultivator as it does more damage than good. When We begin to cultivate the little plants we add a shield and raise the teeth nearest 111's row going very shallow; in this '~ way we can almost touch the plant \or small plants. An- ' We. 'width of corn rows without covering it and you cannot do this with a riding cultivator. We go deeper later but. run the teeth against the row all the time by adjusting, the one tooth for big On potatoes we use no shield for it does no harm to cove er them going once thru a 10w fine ishing one row at a time because the cultivator covers . about the full Before culti— vation begins the weeder has been run over the field once or twice. destroyed during the four years of the war. The German army had oci- cupied that toWn for eleven days in 1914 and then after Joffre drove them out, they had occupied a cap- tured French fort just a few miles out and had kept up a continuous shellfire whenever they were so in- spired throughout the remainder of the war, often with incendiary bombs. , .. Beautiful Cathedral at Rheims To me the name Rheims had sim— ply meant the home of the great cathedral of that same name, per.- haps the most beautiful and most famous of all those ancient archi- tectural masterpieces of centuries agone which we dare not attempt to duplicate today. When Columbus discovered America, the cathedral, even then, was older than any build— ing we have in the middle west today, and by the time of 'our Revo— lutionary War it was already 500 years old, a magnificent monument to the patience and artistry of those medieval builders. Men had spent their entire lifetime hand carving single seats or those graceful stone pillars and then had passed on, leav— ing their matchless workmanship behind, and this‘workmanship had stood in their memory as one of the architectural marvels of the ”modern times. Then came the German army and now much of it is gone. An American philanthropist recently gave a round million dollars which (Continued on Page 21) WHICH IS )IOTHER?—This is “ALL WORK AND NO PLAY NIAKES Mrs. Frank Whitcratt, ot‘ Okemos, camping trip where one and her daughters. Only two guesses morrow. This is Kenneth as to which one is mother. Rosebush. camping' at Houghten Lake. r THREE HORSE PO“’ER.——Oral Randall, of Marion, who sent us this picture must be a lover of good horses. Lovers of horses have fine looking horses. “READY TO HELP OUT ‘PAS’I‘URE XIOTHERS SHEEP.—“Our Jersey heifer and two pet lambs READY TO HELP DAD.—-Ri(‘hard, son of FEED WITH CORN FOR SUPPER.”-r-— she adopted.” writes L. Z. Hist-r. of Lincoln. From Mrs. H. Aiken, Falconer, N. Y. job mothering them. ,"GIDDAP,’BILLY!”-;-Delbert and Glenn-.aoins'of Mr. and A'Mrs. E. Beard. of Harrison- hitc‘hing . up their ‘pon‘y' arid" I: J} '. . ., ., "f musing. - . _ , . , SHIRLEY DOYLE STRAT- he! with ‘the (arm Work by _TON.—-—-“My grandson," writes s.’ Miny Draper, of Ramona. LIKES PIX—Jacob Kore, of “\VIIER-E DO “TE (i0 FRO)! HERE?”—That seems to Davison, says “My goat likes M. B. F. so well he eats it!” JACK A DULL BOY!”—-—It is on a forgets their troubles and gives no thought to to- Phelps, of Stockbridge, sent us this pic— }Iarshall and family and A. J “She is doing a good Mr. and Mrs. Nealie Cook, Marion, is a. husky “'eighed 90 pounds at 12 weeks.” n-hap isn’t he? given this picture by Frank Thayer, ot Twining, and he should know because he' sent. It to us. ' - DARWIN AND TONY.-—-Mrs. Daniel . Bower and son. of ture of Darwin Hofi’meyer, of Stock- hridge, and his pony, Tony. J; 9 WV" “'30.. < » he the paramount thought in the minds of these riders. The picture was sent in by Ruth McNeil. Grand Blanc. “ALL ABOARD ,Fon CEDAR. VALLEYw—“rhat is the ”tune .‘ : _Thefullvahieofthebeet cropisn'eteinedwhenthe "JohnDeereRidingBeetLifier is used. The beets are not aposodtothoweatherwhere theydry out ondlose their g quality in sugar content and \A _inweight. . John Deere i \2 Riding“ Beet [liter- ! olsfeeldal ded‘g roots malighiiy, making it - for liredhelmto 3 them up. The beets are not . damaged—«theyoreinconditlm . to demand the highest price. ; . Foot dodge enables you to ; . follow tmeven rows. Light , ' draft; only two horses needed I undcrordhiorycondifions. dress Docs. ondukiertcldorIP-‘m JOHN DEERE [ILL .I-LIV'LAL .1 JAIL-lilo“ {SECURITIES PintMatmeetru’t dtbebmdamcfisrasafefld Wwithsuhstanfialm RaiseSilverBlackFoxes 5 WWW“. ' 3.13%.“? ? Itwinmxbmmnm . "l Incomes amuse m “The Farm Paper 9! W , ms. rose memoirs: TUITION MUST BE PAID In May last spring, a certain per- ' son hired a boy of school age whose home was in the adjoining district... He now wishes to go to school, the person who has hired him estoknowwhotherornothocsn send the child to school in his own school without tuition—A. 1., Burr Oak-”Mich. \ 3 child is non-resident and tuition would need to he paid it the board of education of the school district where he is to attend requires it.——~W. L. Cofley, Deputy guperintendent of Public Instruc— on - SWING bummer! m I would like some information on berriesand whentcplsnt. spray and prmsnd whatkindofplanistonsetorsets. Ganyouresetold gooseber’rybush— esi Wohavoiust boughtssmsll tambutitisanrundowmbut - plenty of berries here when it is reset and got into shape. Also I would like to know how to reset on” asparagus bed. We have red and black raspberries, gooseberries, cur-- rants and strawberries. Would like to plant overbearing strawberries. . Should they be planted in the fall or spring? I have a grapevine and don’t know how to care tor it eithu but know that it needs a lot of care to make it look like the ones on suc- cessful fruit farms.—C. 8., Wood- land, Mich. best time to set out small fruit and asparagus plants is early spring. The spraying and , pruning diner with the kind of plants, and with the particular posts which it is found necessary to con- trol. I would advise you to enlist the services or your county agricula- tural agent and the state experiment station for information on these subjects. Old gooseberry bushes and as— paragus plants may be reset, but it is best to secure young plants for emitting new plantations. If you attempt to reset the old plants I would suggest that you move them in the spring. One hall or more of the tops of the bushes should be cut out when they are reset. Even- bearing strawberries should be not as early 'as possible in the spring. Keep the blossom picked oil until about July 1 after which Mm be allowed to bear fruit. I an log you several experlmsm station bulletins and circulars on the sub- jects in which you are' most interw- ested——B.E.Loree,hsst.l>roi.oi Horticulune. I. 8. C. fireman}: on m nuns Would like to know the law on stop signs. Who has right-ohm where two trunk lines cross.--P. 8., Ashley, Mich. reply to the toregoing, we refer INyou to the tonowing portion of Act 98 of the Public Acts of " 5. Rightofwxy. “(a)Whex1mctorvwliieloeap- an intersection of a state linehighwayandanyother highwayatmesamemmve- ‘onthestntolngh- right s'niall iruits, such as" E. E. if; the center of the intersection of thé raw 4: two streets as up cable. “(6) The public utilities commie“ sion and the state highway commis- .. _ W sioncr. gating jointly, are hereby him tod'esighstien any ‘ siren authority state as a , , ‘ us . way department at place or places‘on the highway on each-eldest railroad rightoiwsy within arreasonable distance 0!! such crossing. "(1) 8It shall be unlawful to park ,a vehicle on the beaten track or paved surface of any highway out-. side the limits of any village or city. "(8) The provisions 0!! perv graphs (3), (b) and (c) ofthissoc- ti “intersections Aim icy General. _. murmur What is the best flowering plant gorshruh-tosetouttorbeeposture? Domicedoharminbee-hivos! Do ants (red) do harm in bee-hives? -——C. 8., Alpena, Mich. the bee pasture is the first con- sideration, either alsike. clover orswoetcloverwouldprobubly bothemostproiit’abletorheepu- ture. Thereseemsf tobespopulu- impression that buckwheat yhlds considerable honey also but this n notthetactinmanypsrtsotm igan, at least. InNew Yorke)! ledbytraflcm —eB.V.Bplke, aces-s." ‘ Assistant . , tore men . New. emour‘large enhanced saddest!” colonies and irritate the f but mm get into weekll We have never known' or , where ants censured a colony ‘ bees In fact, if the colony is weai enough to allow the guts to said entrance, there is something wrong' and it should either be: i“ SOILS AND CROPS ———-—Edited by c. .f. WRIGHT. “st. Joseph County. -. . Contributions Invited—Questions Answered '- " WHAT ARE WE GOING no no ‘ABOUT OUR CLOVER THIS season finds Michigan and surrounding territory with the smallest stand of young seed- ing in her history and the oilects will be noticed more on further crop production than perhaps it has been in past instances. The old meadows must be left for hay another year, and the wheat on our now limited supply of hue mus. Now is the time to think about getdngsstandorset (astheHoos— ier calls it) of clover to stick‘ for Thiscanbedonebutit someeflortonthepartoi man and an expenditure of money. but thechaneesorrewardaresogood thatthequi‘clner onetriesittho soonerheisonthewaytobetter cropsocnthetarm will take the / E Egg 8’ as?! 3' 3:53 e2 Plow mr_ m stubble early, and. tons you understand selling your crop higher than the food elements you aretakingoutotthesofltom does it, and then buy, or put these elements back into the land at I lower cost than you are selling ' them as a crop. Lots of people say this is too ex- pensive to get clover this way, but . it is not half as expensive as they are raising clover now. If they would keep track of the cost of the clover ’seed that they sow each year and lose and the hay that they buy to fit the land, and their limited production of their other crops, they could treat every acreottheirfarmWith-theirun— seen losses and have “money left. The corn crop stterliming and 2 setting a crop at clover to put to corn will in nearlyevsry Minna ‘ givoanincreaseoione-fourthois? former corn crop extra. V Wehaveonourowufarmhad instahcesofl'lbushelandszbush showed 66 per cent hard where lined and 75 per cent soft where I'osrsnnomommsr DETROIT-— WOODWARD & FARMER AT GRATIOT ‘ {T=HANN1VERsARY. ‘ fw . SALE “s? Begins Tuesday, September 1 Watch the Detroit Daily Newspapers for Details .‘ ’_ IS sale celebrates not only the forty-fourth anniversary of the founding of this business but the completion of our new fifteen -story building. 01 The increased facilities of this new Farmer Street building, together with the addition of two stories to our entire Woodward Avenue building, have made it possible for , ”us to - provide for this sale greater assortments, greater quantities, ‘ , I greater values and better service than ever before. ('1 Every depart- . ment in the store will be represented. Every piece of merchandise in the anniversary sale is new, for fall and winter— of Hudson 1 quality—and at a deCided saving. ¢ "‘~ Y" o h . 533333.": 357‘ :97 Pictured below are the new IS—stofl Farmer Strut building. the Hudson Music Store at 1250 Lil-nary Avenue and the 12-story Woodward Auemu building E.— « 1H .. . gnaw! State .: Fair 3 STATE FAIR is an arena for friendly competition. ’ It is an educational opportunity. ’ It is a medium of _ exchange fer ideas and property. It is a social event.‘ It is a reflection of agricultural optimism. It is an annual census of progressive agriculture. It is a pageant of progress. The crop and livestock products of a great common- wealth are on display. The best grains, the most nutri- tious grasses, and the finest farm animals on exhibition give evidence of man’s progress in soil husbandry. . Ever keeping pace with the progress of the world’s basic 6 industry—agriculture—has been the development of the ' ; Nation’s arteries of transportation. Interdependent as are ‘ agriculture and transportation, it is becoming more and more evident that the prosperity of one.depends upon the success of the other: Always in the lead to recognize the needs of the country, 3 the New York Central Lines have spent millions upon ‘ millions of dollars in providing livestock cars, box cars for grain and refrigerator cars. When visiting the State Fair, consider also the fact that the progress reflected there is, in a large measure, pos- sible through the foresight and progressiveness of the. builders of our great railroad systems. NEW YORK _’ ,- (_l:iNTRAL,.;' ‘ . [was wag' ;/ “Li. At the Michigan State Fair the New York Central Lines display will include a showing of traffic headquarters and a community eghibit. a. New ork Central Lines, Boston&Alban —Michigan Centralu—Big Four—Pittsburgh &Lake Erie , an the New York Central and Subsidiary Lines Agricultural Relations Department Oflices New York Central Station, Rochester, N. Y. La Salle‘ St. Station, Chicago, Ill. 466 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. Michigan Central Station, Detroit, Mich. 68 East Gay St.,_, Columbus, Ohio Albion steel and wood mulls are Q0“ and powerful. One-lhirdlhe work- all}, parts of any other mill. man Puman bearing 5:1me to wear. This a oilleu, and "fly lo placublc. Govern: b dependable weigh! springs. Flu my 4-90“ mellow“. Whynolm chore houn now will a good M7. This in your charter—F. O. B. Albion. Bedlam Mm dealer. or uiedireuh " UnionSteelProduefiCo.“ farm dry, sanitary. Warm permanent. HOOSIEh recommended for all. permanent con- struction. Whatever you plan to build. I get; HOOtSaIlgR prices and 1 be ore s r mg. _ , 4‘ our dealer or write direct for notations. ! ‘1 oosmn aLoa. TILE a alto c ., u l l l l r Literature free. Dept. Illa-11, Albany. Indian é‘ Dewberry’Plants “4 " 25 ;‘2 f ,1.00. 12.5.“Grape Vines for for c 5 or $ .t;.00.:,-jH°1,1¥h°°"‘-"“" UN IVE RSAL HULLER and SCARIFIER "Ten pounds 04f scarified a 1 f a l f a or sweet clover sccd will give a better stand than 18 to 20 pounds of un- s c a r i f i e d seed," is an alfalfa e x — pert's state- ment. Save ' $1.00 to $5.00 Per Acre. Alfalfa seed at 50 cents per pound is expensive. Why waste four or five dollars? Use scarifled seed. Sweet Clover at 15 cents er mom! will mean- a loss of 81.00 to 1.5 per acre if un- scarffied seed is need. .- Sweet Clover becomes a weed if un- scarlfied. Unearthed Sweet Clover will keep comm ugefor a number of years, but it wll come a weed in every field where it in sown. Scarily it and eliminate this trouble. null Your Own Sweet Clover Why pay two cents or more to have your sweetclover boiled and ”filled? Why sell it for four or tire cents per pound less than it is worth? Free Clreulnr. Get our clrwlar about the Untrersal Holler and r- ifler, that every famwr can “for to buy. Does not crush , , t it is the very best huller and our! for your own use on the I ‘ farm. Americfin Grain S _ Co. i021 nuex st. 15-39%!!! Ilka. Lg. , 1’ ,_ ' gm y...- T use New. Alfalfa. » HE galfalfa ire},- sowed the latter part of... Jane has .msde a fine tees last year, and was ‘not._,plowed . intervals f r o m alfalfa. It was very few weeds grow. However, since the alfalfa was sown there have been sever- al’ good grains, and the alfalfa ‘was -not the only , . thing on ‘ that field tomake a wonderful growth. In fact the weeds came on so fast there was danger of their making too much shade, so the field was gone over with the mower. As one fellow said, we tried to cut the alfalfa as high as possible, and the »weeds as low as possible, which was quite im- possible. We1_l,_ anyway the field was certainly improved. The hay rake was used to- gather up the weeds. " The clipping off of the al- falfa tops did not hurt‘the plants .in the least, and they are forging ahead faster now than over, now they have the field to themselves. We Missed ' It L; w. MEnks not put this field into barley; The way the season has been we could have grown twenty-five "or thirty bushels of barley to the acre on "it, and had a good alfalfa seeding too. On a neighbors field we disked up the corn stubble, and sowed barley and alfalfa. The weather was so and only yielded about thirty bushels per acre, but the alfalfa grew and is a very good stand. This is the ex- perience of several farmers around here. However, next year the same method of seeding would possibly be a. waste of seed. I have yet to hear of anyone who has a catch of cloverseeding this season. One neighbor is disking up the wheat stubble and sowing sweet clover;’ another is disking his and sowing alfalfa. ' The clover fields which were cut for hay are making a good growth and would produce a much larger amount of hay now, than they did before, Most farmers are planning on' making hay of this second crop, regardless of Whether the clover fills ' well for seed or not. We have some clover seed we are carrying over, so second crop. Really I would like to simply cut it and let it lie on the ground. It would be a. fine thing for next year’s clover, and this is what we planned, but the hay will be needed almost too much for this to be practical. We have a field on a neighboring farm where mammoth clover was Seeded in oats last year. ceedingly well with seed. _ , For the, past fifteen years we have planned to have a field of mammoth clover seed each year, and generally it is quite a successful crop. It seems to improve the soil. Some- times this mammoth clover has been cut for hay and it makes quite good buy for cattle and sheep, but we do not like it for horses. We never sowed mammoth clover with the in- tention to! making hay of it but sometimes when the corn fodder and have cut the mammoth clover for seed. 'We always sow a liberal amount of this big clover in our pas- ture seeding. . . i It 0 - Threshing Twentyvfive years ago, thrashing from the shock was quite unpopular. Most every farmer drew his grain andstuked it, or. put it in thegbarn. disengage, year by, year; the field threshing; 533 weaned, in ,PQWNfitK: ‘ any , tomato -. three lroadsecpe, 'a m _ ' _ _ j fildlted by" L.*:W.___Meelt " ( growth.” The field _ grew pota- . this springfbuflt burrowed-atfreq'uent ' . April first until. 'it was soWn to. , so dry“ all this, time there were' that started, to , We missed it this year that we did dry the ,barley did not get very large’ I think we will make hay of the‘ The .clover is fine, and is filling ex-e other roughage feeds are short, we‘ ‘more road 014nm corn _ 11a»; 3 -. .. I * thisiyear, ,llééhuse‘we have drawn our . A hundred oatsjund' 'mstsclred them- ‘mile 3114201, triplishowaonly five or pix stacks" for grain. .Wll‘fizt would a farmer have'thought" itwenty-jfive' years ago, if, when the threshing rig pulled into the yard tractor—no coal, no tank wagon:— only five men in the crew—one driv- ’.ing the tractOr and the other catalog . in an automobile! . Both going home in the car .f’or’the 'nightapd not 4- getting.back on the job until ten minutes before time for threshing 1n the morning. Twenty-five years ago, this .would have seemed absu‘r‘d, but, today it is the way .it‘ is done., As far as I know, there are only one or two steam threshing outfits in the county. The coal burning, steam engine hasbeen discarded for the in- ternal. combustion- oil motor for threshing pow’er, just as the gas driven motors have taken the place of horses on the road. ‘ no doubt, as it should be but still the writer is 'just old fashioned enough to miss the horses and the y steam engines! ’ Times change—and the world moves and methods and machinery which were very much up to date a few years ago, are» now obsolete and remain but a— memory. I am im- pressed by this thought as I think of ‘ our local feed mill. When‘ I first became a. patron of the mill, it Was the last word in equipment of that time, It consist- ed of a wondrous large steam bdiler and engine, and a feed mill that was considered of good capacity. Soon the village voted to have an electric light'plant, and the miller furnished the power for the generating equip- ment. In a few years the village built their own power and light sta- tion at quite a heavy cost. The milling, property was sold, and the new owner found steam power for grinding feed-unsatisfactory. It- took too long to get steam for starting the mill, it took a. man’s time to stoke the furnace and look after the engine, and this was, until about that time, considered an absolute necessity. 'But internalcombustion engines were fast becoming practical, and so the old boiler and engine were scrapped, and in its place was installed a wonderful oil engine weighing many tons—also a. feed mill twice the capacity of the steam driven one. ‘ Surely this was about as near per— ‘fection as one could imagine. One man ran the whole works, and needed to be there only three minutes bee-W fore ‘he could grind feed. There no fires to build and two hours of waiting for steam. The mill had a wide territory of patronage as ser- vice Was of the best.- The once up to date village elecs , tric light station was too expensive to operateand have twenty four hour current. A great electric compand 1n a far distant city could construct power lines to the ‘village, and fur— msh continuous current far more economically. Accordingly, the' vil— lage scrapped their lighting plant, and the miller, assured of continuous current, hasjustlscrapped his oil engine and equipment, and his new motors and grinder are being put into service this week. ' If the miller gets on the job just one minute before he wants to start his grinder. That is plenty long enough! He can open the oil cups and throw the switch in one min- ute.~ The. capacity of the grinder is largely increased. There will be no waiting. But the ‘question comes to me. electric motor driven feed grinder be considered up to date? from now? -e s, a - — (‘ Corn f ‘ , The corn is comingfine. It» s quite possible now we will: i 33:31 it had beenpulled by an oil burning" All this “is, , How long Will this. What ,will. ' be the equipment twenty-five years _ ~ Int 1881111 ”0 Hr, Eat6n Rapids" a'sks- how to get rid of i‘chok‘e: ,II. Several years age a -bee . n at Verona Mills, Huron cogntY. [I was _pestered with a 4 ' > ”I “choke-weed" or “bind-weed” in ,5, his garden, the rum 0! an old time _.:‘ flower garden. The soil was deep - 5188181 drift clay learn and. natural- ; 3 I fertile; the weed was' master. “ I, I . owner hired the patch plowed ' seven inches deep in the late fall. I Ime tollewing spring he cultivatéd ' ' I it with a wide tooth hand cultivator 88 soon 88 the ground 'was tillable I and went over it regularly every "week, wet or dry, for 13 consecu- tive weeks and intermittently for . the rest of the season, without any . _. crop. The following sensen it was I . ~- . plnnted to garden and but three : - sprouts were feund and it has since ' - " been rm from the pest. —Ernest Richardson, Huron County. {HIE FARMERS NEED . EAR EDITOR: Theiarmer needs to know that every tax—dodging salary raising, market closing, dishonest and mercenary piece of . legislation is a direct injury to ev- 7’ _ ery honest business in the coun - Just now while foreign markets are giving the American farmer ~ about double the price for grain - , ‘ that the home market was paying I him a short time ago, further relief amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars might be extended by the removal of the tariff on articles he has to buy. If President Coolidge is committed to a sincere and honest conviction to aid the farmer would not the remedy apply to reason, since it would cost nothing to attain I it?. But is it not a fact that he in— , 3 tends to help the farmer, if, 11, IF 4- ‘ , ' it does not interfere with or injure \ ‘a dishonest and oppressive system 'of taxation? The protective tariff 'is oppressive because it taxes 3 man 10, 20, 40, or 50 "per cent when a tax of one or five per cent on the nation’ 3 wealth would be more than sufficient to run an econ- omical government;‘ dishonest be— , cause _it taxes the poor man with only a few dollars as much as it does agrich man worth millions, and because it is for the sinister pur- pose to take from one man a per- _ I centage of his dollar and without I his consent and against his interest I I I . give it to another. We might re- .mark that this system of “extortion” or “hold-up” charity has got a bad name. In governing a nation, state, township, or community, the first ' rule for the tax man‘ to consider is ‘ that every man should have ’free and open opportunity to engage 'in or conduct any; legitimate business. . -That when it becomes necessary - to incur expense to enforce this com- ; . , : munity or public right to be secure - I- I in health, peace and property, then’ ‘ every dollar should contribute I equally to such cost because every ' _, I individual and every dollar is equal-— ” _ ‘ ly involved in the question oi rights. - What the farm wants, and what I the country needs, is law that will stop and prevent all class legisla- tion, all rates of taxation conflict- I. ing with the average rate obtained ,; by dividing the total cost of govern- : 1118111 by the total amount of prep- I erty in the nation or state, as the . case may be; then every man’s ', property would be in line for the 'I- same treatment. No injustice could occur in the method of taxation, and ' . it any existed it would be foundin t, " ~3 the excessive rate imposed by the-ir- 9; responsible misrepr‘esentative elect- I -4 ed tooiilce. Another advantage of a I direct and equal tax would be the “ Iielimination of other systems which . -.would mean less government ma- ‘sI chinery, or less eXpense and hotter ‘ '1‘ service. —Wirt McClain ' 71111311131119 “he run Moonv.‘ ' EDITOR; .We were phased note your acknowledgment his “188 \. ' year, , _ _ . , 23.5: times to not 161‘ a number of years, mu. EDITOH: In‘ the Adm finding it Very interesting and so beneficial on the farm in way of crops, trees, berries, etc... also elim- Uinating a number of hours unneces- sai‘y work .in way of eradicating weeds at the proper time and plant- ing to gfve no fruitful returns for - o'ur seeds and -.lab0r Knowing Mars, ruling planet this was to be droughty, cold, changeable, we took a strong sign, April 28, planted our corn; through , sand storms, two frosts and hail- storm it is now (July 20.) in tassel and shooting ears and five feet tall while neighbor farmers’ is ‘about two feet high. M. A. C. advised not to plant corn- or sow alfalfa' so early: where will these farmers be with a frost last of September? Our late potatoes now in blossom and vegetables of all kinds to eat {each 1- had ‘delegated pare 71* in)! our the children: while we Sow : 1111 and chariot! signs. 11. I ‘ knew more about them, what a load of unnecessary labor would be eliminated: We were interested in the peach- twig and persons finding water. My husband’s mother could locate it, and he also. We sowed alfalfa and sweet clo— _ ‘_ ver July 14th and it is up A. farmer asked how to I)get rid. of hedge in one of your spring papers -——-try August 17th and 18th or September 14th and 16th. Success —to you.—-—Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Brown, Antrim County. KEEPING CHILDREN 'AFI‘ER _ SCHOOL EAR EDITOR: As there has been some question on keeping children after school I sent what Mr. Francis G. Smith wrote in your paper to the Department of Public Instruction. So I will send you what they say about it. " are under her jurisdiction an she has authority to administer reasonable punishment. If the w is kept after school as a method“ punishment I believe the teach would be acting within her rights providing she does not keep the child an unreasonable length oi ‘ time. ‘ _ “The law does not fix the length I» of the school day. The school board has the authority to determine the; ‘ hours at which school shall open‘ and close. The school board also has authority to make rules governing the external aflairs of the school. If the school board should make a rule against keeping children after school the teacher would have to be governed by this rule ”—R T., ,. Re- mus. Mich. Many orchard trees would set no fruit - were it not for the kindly mlnistrntlonn of the bees in pollenizing them. O 0 0 Uncle, Ab says that every time you show dislike of a man you show a fear planted in fruitful ‘ signs. of him. Producing a dairy ration of unvarying high quality is more than a matter of mixing together a lot of feeding studs. Any dairyman can buy the ingredients of Larro in the open market. He may even mix them in the same proportions as in Larro. But the finished product would not be Larro. 0 To insure uniformly high quality, every carload of ingredients received at the Larro unill is analyzed and tested by trained chemists. If it doesn’t measure up to a certain standard, it is not used in Larro. These tests, made in our own laboratory, show that no two lots of the same ingred- ient are ever alike, even though they may look alike. ' In the table below is the story . told by the analysis reports of different -lots of each of the six Larro ingredients. If we were to use these ingredients just as they come from the cars, every mixing of Larro would be difierent. One lot would 8 be rich in protein and fat. Another would ' lack these essential food elements and con- tain "an over-supply of fibre and moisture. ' At the Larro mill we overcomethese varia- tions by a series of exclusive blending oper- ations, whereby hundreds of carloads of the same ingredient are thoroughly mixed and brought to a fixed standard of quality before being used in the finished product. Automatic machines, accurate to the frac- tion of an ounce, weigh these standardized ingredients into the mixture. And of course Larro passes over a powerful electric magnet which removes all danger- ous metallic substances. Only because we have such manufactur- ing facilities and such high manufacturing standards can we assure you that every sack of Larro is identical with every other sack, regardless of when or where you buy it. , _ The name Larro on a sack of dairy feed is our pledge that it contains a ration ’oi' unchanging high quality—one that can be ‘ depended upon to produce milk in profit- able quantifies, week after week, year in and year out. Table Showing Variation in Composition of Food Stuffs Protein Content Fat Content Fibre Content Moi-tun Content ’ Driodmet Pulp - » 8 to 10% %7Ito 1% 17 to 21% 5% to 18% Middlings to 180 3 to 6% 7% to 9%% 9% to 14% -Bran 8016 30105,, 8 m12% 10710150 Gluten Feed 21 o to 30%% l o to 3 % 5 to 9% to 15 o .CottonseedMeal 41%t050‘7 .4 109% 601091/2% 7otoio% O. P.1dnsoed0ilMenl 31%10400 5 010 10% 7% 109% 7%to 10% m. . . @ n , \ - Ask the nearest dealer {W’- ‘\\ "i! 1 ' ' i o - ‘ ' ‘ THE LARROWE MILLING COMPANY ‘14 . xi) 1 narnoxr,mcmonn X: » gain and go to ,. as possible; that ' his way recently, particularly. the might of the yacht stirred her . 1‘me and she watched while it ran in mlose. stepped and instantly dropped a flingey from the davits. She saw Henry 111 the stern of the little boat; it dis- peared in the shadow of a pier . . . The impetuousness, almost the ifloi'ence of his hurry to reach her, sent its thrill through her. She went down on the path to meet him. “How quickly you came. '" ' “You let yourself think you needed me, some!" "I did. , He had caught her hand in his and he held it while he brought her to the porch . and exchanged greetings with her mother. ‘ Then he led her on past and into the house. .When she saw his face in the light, there were , signs of strain in it; she could feel strain now in his fingers which held hers strongly but tensely too. . "You’re tired, Henry!" -He shook his head. "It's been rotten hot in Chicago; then I guess I was men— tally stoking all the way up here, Connie. When I got started, I wanted to see you to-night . . . but first,‘ where are the things you wanted me to see?" She ran up- -stairs and brought them (Town to him. ,Her hands were shaking now as she gav them to him; she could not exactly tremor increased as she saw his big hands fumbling as he unwrapped the muffler and shook out the things it enclosed. He took them up one by one and looked at them, as he had done. His fingers were hteady now but only by mastering of control, the effort for which amazed her. He had the watch in his hands "The inscription is inside the front." she said. She pried the cover open again and read, with him, the words engraved within. -'“ “As master of. What ship was be master of then, Henry, and how did , he rescue the Winnebago’s people?” “He never talked to me about things like that, Connie. This is all?” ClYes D “And nothing since to show who sent them?” . , . (INC )1 “Corvet, Sherrilfyl‘ and" Spearman will send some one to Manitowoc to make in- quiries." Henry’ put the things back in the box. “But of course, this is the end . of Benjamin Corvet." “Of course," Constance said. She was ' shaking again and,"without, willing it, she withdrew a little from Henry. He caught her hand again and drew her back toward him. His hand was quite steady. . “You know why I came to you as quick as I could? You know why I—why my mind was behind every thrust of the engines?" “No: I) “You don’ t? know now. '" .,“Yes Henry ” she said, "I’ve been patient Connie. Till I got your letter telling me this about Ben, I’d waited for your sake—for our sakes— though it seemed at times it was impos- ible. You haven’t known quite what's been the matter between us these last onths, little girl; but I've known. '~ We' ve been engaged; but that’s about all . there’ 3 been to it. .lttle of that; you know what I mean. ou've been mine; ‘but—but you haven't let me realize it, you see. And I’ve been patient, for I knew the reason. It was ' Ben poisoning your mind against me." .“No! No, Henry!” ‘~“You’ve denied it; I've recognized that you‘ve denied it, only to me and to your people but to yourself. I. of course, knew, as I know that I am here with your hand in mine, and as we will stand before the altar together, that he had no cause to speak against me. I've waited, Connie. to give him a chance to say to you what he had to say; I wanted you to hear it before making you wholly mine. But now theres no need to wait any longer, you and I. Ben's gone, never 'to come back. I was sure of that by what you wrote me, so this time when I started to you I brought with me—this." He felt in his pocket and brought out a ring of plain gold; he held it before her so that She could see within it her ,own initials and his and a blank left for the date. Her gaze went from it for an instant to the box where he had put back the other ring—Alan’ s mothers. Feeling for her long ago gazing thus, as she must have. at that ring, held her for a moment. Was it because: of that that Censtance found herself cold now? “You mean you want 'me to marry you—at once, Henry?” He drew her to him powerfully; she felt him warm, almost- rough with pas- sions. Since that -day- when, in Alan Conrad’s presence, he had grasped and kissed her, she had not let him “realize" their engagement, as he had put it. ‘ "Why not?" he turned her face up to his ~now. ("Your mothers here; will follow soon , or. if you wi ll an awayw-Oonstan .. , lo 13qu Oh, you know; you must 9 he had «is-1 nefsfarid why;/ but her; Don’ t you think I make ' YO“? ' “No; nol'e’f course not!” 7 " ' ” “Then we’ re going to be married. . . . We’ re going to be married, aren’t we?“ Arpn’t we, Constance?" . “Yes”; yes, of course ” “Right away, we’ll have it then, up here; now !" “No; not now, Henry. Not up here!” “Not here? Why not?” ' She could give no answer. He'held her and commanded'her again; only when he frightened her, he ceased. “Why must it be at once, Henry? I don’ t understand!” “It’s not must, dear,” he denied. "It’s just that I want you so i" ' When would it be, he demanded then; befere spring, she promised at last. But that was all he could make'her say. And so he let her go. The next evening, in the moonlight, she drove him to Petoskey. He had messages to send and preferred to trust the tele- graph oifice in the larger town. Return- ing they swung out along the country roads. The night was cool here on the hills, under the stars; the fan-shaped glare from their headlights, blurring the radiance‘of the moon, sent dancing'before them—swiftly-changing, distorted shadows, of the dusty mushes beside, the road. Topping a rise, they came suddenly upon his birthplace. She had not designed coming to that place, but she had taken a turn at his direction. and now he asked. her to Stop the car. He got out and paced about, calling to her and pointing out the desirableness of the spot as the site for their country home, She sat in the motor, watching him and calling back to him. “ The house was small, log- built thefj; chinks between the logs stopped .with clay. Across the road from it the Silver bark of the birch trees gleained white ong the black-barked timber Smells iank vegetation came to hei from these woods and from the weed-grown fields about and beyond the house; There had been a, small garden beside the": house once, now neglected strawbemy vines ran riot among the weed stems and a clump of sunfloweis stood wth hanging, full- blown heads against the August meon. She gazed proudly at Henry’s streng, . well prorfortioned figure moving about in the moonlight, and she was glad to think ' that a boy from this house had become the man that he was. But when she tried to think of him as a child '"hére, her mind somehom. showed her Alan' laying about the sunflowers; and the p 'a'ce was not here; it was the brown, Kansas prairie of which he had told her. if. ~ "Sunflower houses,” she murmured to herself, “Sunflower houses.‘ They used to cut the stalks» and build shacks" with them." “What’s that?" Henry said; he had come back near her. The warm blood rushed to her face. “Nothing,” she said,” a little ashamed. She opened the door beside her. “Come; we ’11 go back home now.’ Coming from that poor little place, and having made of himself what he had, Henry was such a man as she would ever be proud to have for a husband; there was no man whom she had known who had proved himself as much a man as he. Yet now, as she returned to the point, she was thinking of this. lake country not only as Henry’s land but as Alan Conrad’s too. In some such place he also had been born—born by the mother whose ring waited in the box in her room. ' Alan, upon the morning of the second of these days, was driving northward along the long, sandy peninsula which separates the blue waters of Grand Tra- verse from Lake Michigan; and, thinking of her, he knew that she was near. He not only had remembered that she would latter. a one the coincidence. to another. find there. 9 '27,. \ 9.1191111: by“ 1min Delmar Methodist l , \ be north at HarbOr Point this month; he had seen in one Of the Petoskey papers that she and her mo rill summer home. taking him nearer them than he had been at any time before; and, if he wished to weaken, he might convince himself that he might learn from her circumstances which would aid him in his task. But he was not going to her for help; that Was fa!- lowlng in his father’s footsteps. he knew everything, then—not till then—.- he could go to her; for then he would know exactly what was upon him and what he should do. His visits to the people named on those sheets written by his father had been con— fusing at first; he had great difficulty in tracing some of them at all; wards, he could uncover no certain con- nection between them and Benjamin Cor- vet or between themselves. he had been succeeding better in this ei‘ were to the Sher- is business now was When and, after— But recently, He had seen—lie reckoned them over again—fourteen of the twenty- one named originally on Benjamin Corv t’s list; that is, he had seen either the individual or- iginally named, or the surviving relative written in below the .na‘me crossed off. He had found that the crossing out of the name meant that the person was dead, except in the case of two 'whb had' left the country and whose whereabouts were unknown to their present relatives as they had been to Benjamin Corvet, and the case of one other, who was in an insane asylum. He had found that no one of the per- sons whom he saw had known Benjamin Corvet personally; know him at all, only as a name. Ceeded, always there was one connotation with each: of the original names; always circumstance When he had established that circum- stance as influencing the fortunes of the first two on his 11sts, he had said to him- self, as the blood pricked queerly under the skin, that the fact might be a mere When he established it also as affecting the fate of the third and of the fourth and of the fifth, such explan- ation no longer sufficed; it in common to all fourteen, sometimes as the deciding factor of their fate some— tunes as only slightly affecting them, but always it was there. In how many different ways, in what strange, diverse manifestations that single _ circumstance.,had spread to thOSe people .whom Alan had interviewed! No two of them had been affected alike, he reckoned, as he went over his notes of them. Now he was going to trace those consequences To what sort of place would it bring him to- day and what would he Hef'knew only that it would be quite distinct from the rest. The driver beside whom he sat on the front seat of the little automobile was an Indian; an Indian woman and. two round- faced silent children occupied the seat be- hind. He had met these people in the early »morning on the road, bound, he dis- covered, to the annual camp meeting of many of them did not the others knew him" But, when Alan pro- bound all together. and he foufid Indians at Northport. They were going his way, and they knew the man of whom he was in search; so he had hired a ride of them. The region through which they were traveling now was of farms, but interspersed with des- olate, waste fields where blackened stumps ‘ and rotting windfalls remained after the' work of the lumberers. many .of the hollows were wooded; there were even places where lumbering was still going on. water. the twin Manitous broke the horis zon, high and round and blue with haze. To his right, from the higher hilltops, he caught glimpses of Grand Traverse and of The hills and To his left across the WHERE OUR READERS LIVE 't on a picime Shovvevnthsy other when are all right“ “01°“!ma or “sanctity-0t lam thedctaiu chowB up well. we can print 1111ch mm“: wth“. wranfllivht £0111” ding ! cturu a (00 print. V _ the dust. father had left to him, in fawn wagons, or groups or single indiViduals,. walking beside the road. All-w were going in the same direc- tion as themselves, and nearly all were Indians, drab dresSedlIlgures atirred ob- viously in their best clothes. Somemalks ed barefoot, carrying new shoes in their hands, evidently to preserve them from They saluted gravely Alan's driver, who returned their salutes-— llBiJou '9! "Bijou [H Traveling eastward, they had lost sight of ake Michigan , and suddenly the wrin led blueness of Grand Traverse ap-. peared quite close to them. The driver turned aside from the road across a clear- ed fleld where ruts showed the passing of many previous vehicles; crossing this, they entered the woods. Little tires ,for cooking burned all about them, and nearer were parked an immense number of farm wagons and buggies, with horses unhar- nessed and munching grain. Alan’ 5 guide found a place among these for his auto- mobile, and they got out and went forward on foot. All about them, seated upon the moss, or walking about, were Indians. family groups among which children played. A platform had been built under the trees; on it some thirty Indians, all men, sat in straight- backed chairs; in front of and to the sides of the platform, an audience of several hundred occupied benches, and around the borders of the meeting others were gathered, merely ob- serving. A very old Indian, with inor- dinately wrinkled skin and dressed in a frock coat, was addressing these people from the platform in the Indian tongue. 'Alan halted beside his guide. He saw among the drab-clad figures looking on. the brighter dresses and sport coats of summer visitors who had come to watch. The figure of a girl among these caught his attention, and he started; then swiftly he told himself that it Was only his thinking of Constance Sherrill that made him believe this was she But now she had seen him; she paled; then as quickly flushed, and leaving the group she had been with, came toward him. . He had no choice .now whether he would avoid her or not; and his happiness at seeing her held him stupid, watching her. Her eyes were very bright and with some- thing more than friendly greeting; there was/ happiness in them too. His throat shut together as he recognized this, and his hand closed warmly over the small, trembling hand which she put out to h'h'ii. All his conscious thought was lost for the moment in the mere realization of her presence, he stood, holding her hand, ob- livious that there were people looking: she seemed careless of that. Then she whitened again and withdrew her hand; she seemed\ slightly confused. He was confused as well; it was not like this that he had meant to greet her; he caught himself together. Cap in hand, he stood beside her, trying to look and to feel as any ordinary ac- quaintance of hers would have looked. CHAPTER XIV The Owner of the Watch “So they got word to you!” Constance exclaimed; she seemed still confused. “Oh, no—of course they couldn't have done that! They’ ve hardly got my letter yet 91 “Your letter?" Alan asked. “I wrote to Blue Rapids,” she explained. "Some things came—they were sent to me. Some things of Uncle Benny’s which were meant for you instead of me. '-' “You mean you’ ve heard from him?" “No—not that.” , “What things, Miss Sherrill?" “A watch of his and some coins and—4a r1ng ” She did not explain the signifi- cance of those things, and he Could not. tell from her mere enumeration of them and without seeing them that they furn- ished proof that his father was dead. She could not inform him of that, she felt, just here and now. “I’ll tell you about that later. You—- you were coming to Harbor Point to see us? He colored. “I’m afraid not. I got as near as this to you because there' is a man—an Indian—I have. to see.” “An Indian? What is his name? You see, I know quite a lot of them.” “JO Papo 11 She shook her head. “No, ' I don’t know him. " She had drawn him a little away from the crowd about the meeting. His' blood ‘was beating hard with recognition of her manner toward him. Whatever he was, whatever the disgrace might be that his she was still He had known She found a spot where resolute to share in it she would be so. the moss was covered with dry needles. and sat down upon the ground. “Sit down," she 'invited; to tell me what you have been doing " "I’ve been on the boats.” He dropped down upon the moss beside her. —wonderful business. Miss Sherrill; I’ ve been working rather. hand w, profession tu ying it, .1. “I want you' "It’s a: v 1'1 ”0319 more frequently now a never .be able to go away from the. mm L , 1 again. . . 1+ GM! “Jone Jehova: and thou‘shalt l’ove- . siphon thy God with all thy heart, and- _ 7 w th thy soul, and with all thy might. . ._ .. " And._these ” .. \ “.11! day. shall be upon) thy heart; and . thou shall teach them diligently unto thy . children, and shalt talk of thennwhen thou sittest in thy house, and‘when thou walkest by the way, and when thou nest ‘ down, and when thou risest up.' And thou ye ‘shalt_hlnd them for a, sign upon thy hand, and they shalt be for frontlets ‘between thy eyes." .Deut. 6:4-8. . was at the breakfast table. The . night before son had been out “ . and had had a rather good time ' .with some gay companions, And \ ' now dad reads a homily- to son, John, on his careless ways: “John, ‘ .. you are so vain and thoughtless. * Boys did not use to be so. .Young folks in my youth were .much more staid and dependable. Why, we nev- er‘acted the way you do, John. We stayed at home, worked hard, and saved our money.” And so._ on. Well,.this is but an ordinary scene in the American home which has be- ’ come short on piety and long on ' vanity. Our text is sometimes called the “Hear" section of the Jewish’law. The Jew recited it every morning and evening (“when thou liest down and when thou risest up”), and strange as it may seem, carried out the latter part in a literal way. words which I; command thee Little leather boxes were worn ’on‘ “ the arms and foreheads by the men and boys, each containing the words of our text. This looks like a pray- erful and serious attempt at creat— ing a religious atmosphere in the life.‘ . . This generation has but one task; namely, to give to the world a next following generation better than it— self. To fail here is to ‘be found wanting in carrying out our high responsibility toward God and man.» ‘But this can be done only. as we have respect for the person as above things. A person is a, profoundly t sacred being. Things have no sig- ' - nificance only as they are associ— ated with persons. This is the sig- nificance of the Golden Rule which isxa statement of the ideal relation- ship between persons or peoples. A growing sensitiveness in this direc— tion is moral progress; it is recogni- tion ‘of’ the emphasis that Jesus placed on personality or character. In a Christian commonwealth, every thing is to be held as subserv1ent to the welfare of the folks about ‘us; especially our children. farmer Jones, I reckon you do not 'relish this kind of. a doctrine. You ’are more interested. in thorobred pigs than you are in thorobred kids. ’ You give more time and study. to the progeny of your stock than to ‘ the progeny of yourself. Really, how much time are you giv1ng to the budding aspirations of the young hearts in your home? - What suc- cess are you having in transmitting character to the folks about you? --And “Character is caught and not taught.” ‘ " _ Character is caught in’ life. Life is a school of education and discip- line. The lessons are hard and we can not escape them. Living thru our daily tests successfully, depends upon , "ness. to character. And, finally we graduate in— But what kind? Yet, any kind is caught, rather more than taught. It is caught in our. personal contacts. You find your- self responding to the quality of life and convictions in another. You catch his spirit, not thru argument or teaching chiefly, but thru at— mosphere. In another’s atmosphere there is an active principle, a living «touch that is contagious. Here is a Liresh, but not‘ an ordinary, example ' of this fact: Senator LaFollette is - 3 dead. And the politcal life of Amer: ing zeal against corrupt wealth, his science. Something in his lite -~ has passed 5°11 . that the :‘coininon 1:12'1'15“: "‘Hear, 0 Israel: Jehova‘onr" 930961;; a"heart for “the man in the street" and a passion for clean government . has been the quality of life that La- -F‘ollette has passed on to inspire the rising generation. been contagious. The -atmosphere' in '~ which the roots of the young life about us are being nourished, is the forma- tive influence. The youth is quite sponsible for the environment that is melding him. What is your com- munity life? Are you .making it hard or easyb-for your young people? They cannot resist the relentless standards of the world. Or, if the do’, they are handled roughly. For the sake of-the-boys' and girls, are you interested in right community standards? necessary for them to go elswhere His life has "Iirsem Are you making it un- ‘~ 9 formal instructions. “And this helps. Yet the old adage, .“Knovvledge is power," that your teacher used to write in your ~cop-y-book," is net psy- chologically and. experimentally true. You can shovel the coal into the en- gipe but that does not produce pow- er. You‘have to set it on fire. But that takes fire. And you cannot be- get life and character in another only as you bring to that one', life and character. no less in the religious than in the physical realm. “You. will not come unto me that you may have life,” said Jesus. You see, infleshed life is the only communicable life. It is where the home is, even more than what it teaches, that creates the atmosphere for the nurture of the children. Religion is communicated in this way. You set your' child on fire with religion’s holy flame by being on fire yourself. The Jewish home believed'this. No mere profession or lip-serviCe takes the place of de- Life produces life , ren. When.the home loses its itual atmosphere, the young *f‘» are secularized, fathers and m" : ers are saddened, and the is ready for a new epoch. 5”- Christian character is the chur 7 ' But what if the young folks do u“ go to church? Someone says, “Haifa something entertaining.” 'But nos” devices and changing innovations; agency. Entertainment cannot pro-'l duce a converting atmosphere. It it.could, theatres and play—houses would soon convert the world. These things may ' promote a growth but it is more seeming than sub-~ stantial. Usually, there is a wither- ing after-effect and the whole body - is infected with a dangerous poison. A real church atmosphere has “the effect of dispensing life and com- (Continued on page 19) home in which to nurture the young. Now,’ more than ordinary serious- ' '"ica,could’ill afford to lose his burn- hot rebuke of political shining and -. ,_ ' his power 'to arouse the public cqnv 675.; Lacs ALPHA 0mm Dealer y ‘Zmlmblcflandbook mil/givcyou | “.1 Mill Igéjlfiiiiuuny/ I . » "s“ Imm “nuuunfilfiilllllIlli'mmlmjiw/ I xw I “guild“ . .,. I u- :/ Ill- blah?“ T i r 1 ! 11m 1 l 2 pages mess-place. with age. Battle Creek, Mich. 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McBride that gives some very in- teresting information on the Michigan bean and its market. For instance. he says that the ordinary No. 2 or pint can. retailing at 10 to 12 cents contains only about one-third of a pound of beans. Then if the growers were to receive a dollar more per hundred pounds for their beans than they are getting at present it would mean only a third of a cent per can. This would indicate to us that if the farmers had an agency that controlled a large per __cent of the Michigan crop they could maintain a price much more advantageous to the growers than at present and still not have it high enough to interiors with the price of canned beans to the extent that the canners would even consider putting their own marketing agency into the field to deal direct with the individual grower. Substituting foreign beans would not be consid-_ emd. we believe. even though the prbe spread was quite large. due to past experience with than. A real growers organisation with seventy per cent of the crop signed up could do this. we believe. 8011001. DAYS nears RI! and there over Michigan the fall term of school is now in session, and within the next month practically _all of the other schools will open their doors again. ~We can close our eyes and a picture of the dearold school house where we spent many happy years sppearsbeforeus. ltwasanoldfashioneds one room school and it was not painted red like the ones in stories, it was a "sort of a white. having been painted several years before my time. The desks were pretty well "carved up" with the initials of the “big boys". you never really graduated from school unless you left your initials on your favorite desk. Then there was our favorite chum who always sat with-us. It has been years since we have seen him or had a word as to where he is. We wonder what became of him. And our first sweetheart—we must not forget her,‘or how we used .to walk a mile out of our way every night to carry her books home for her. We suppose she now has children of her own, yes perhaps gmdchildren. How the world moves alone. But those days we spent~ at the old country school. learning ”readin', ’ritin‘ and ’rithmetic" shall always remain happy memories regard- is: of where we go or what we do. EB 13‘.le AMENDMENT ' it about time the publications of this I ‘country worked together urging the obser- vance of the Volstead Act. instead of some of themr seemingly encouraging the opposite while othersslde-st‘ep the issue? The voters of this country indicated through the ballot ‘box their approval of the Eighteenth Amendment so the newspapers that favor the wets are not appealing to ‘the majority, and they are only tooling themselves it they think they are. Many oi the editors of c 18136. daily newspapers publish lengthy e . r and articlesmn crime and cite the? . 71.7 of greater observance .o‘t'onr laws. Elsewhere in the some issue no squat m will ; nus! «ware! W ~°-‘.; , W ; ' 4m Seems like" _::=‘sasam PM hi ~ . ~ 1'!!! met. Wmne-wumv. In. _, ' __ ~is break up tho, rumflutl our loom tions lea—wellit momma copy toifilin some place if they can find a place some. whereintlie page: toward the back. - This in notltruewofall our newspapers, put those that are guilty. are as ' guilty oi! breaking. the law, in, our «aeration as - the man who selh'liquorr- Bone newspapers!!!» couragetho people to break the law when'they; could do so. much to support omctals in enforc- ing the law. Prohibition is here to stay and even these newspapers would have to admit it if they told their readers the truth. “ No miss most CLUB WORK . " FINE compliment was paid the‘ club work A of farm boys and girls by Mr.8amubl Mc- - Kelvie. former governor of Nebraska who was the chief speakerlhrmers' Day at the pardon and in all my experience I never met a .member of a state boys’ club who was a mem- ber of the criminalckss. Raising, calvu. pigs and pertorming other special project work kept their minds occupied and they were too busy to get into mischief. Boys’ and girls' club work teaches our children to become better citizens." Yes.itdoesmorethanthat. Itgivesthatboy or girl a real interest in life and brings about a greater- fasclnation of lite in the country." FEWEB RURAL CHURCHES T‘HEBE are too many rural churches. That . is rather a startling statement. but never- theless true. If there were fewer churches and .the farm folks would forget their denom- ination and attend a community church much more progress toward improving the ‘ spiritual side of life on the term would be made. At the recent meeting of rural pastorsat the Mich- igan State College the following“resolution was adopted: “We ask that the superintendents or other oflicers of our churches study carefully the problems of those communities which may be over-churched, and that, subject to denomina- tional approval. by ~amalgamation, federation or elimination of churches, they make it possible for such 'nmunities to more easily support the preachinD or ‘the Gospel." This problem has been worked out in many communities and lasts“ oi twoor three church- escwith windows covered with boards they now have one church well kept; and a well-trained preacher hired at a salary suiiicient to keep his family properly and .maintain his sell- respect. The result been an increase in religion. We hope the resolution adopted by the rural ministers will get the careful attention and attention and prompt action it deserves. ' WIHMISLEADEABMJEB AND WORKMZAN? WHEN our present tariif system was framed. between’forty and fifty of the principal agricultural organizations of the country- were represented at the hearings before the Ways and Means Committee. They succeeded in- carrying all their points with the result that practically everything the farmer buys for use on his farm was placed on the free list. and everything the farmer raises for sale was put on the protected list. “ .In spite of all the political talk to the con- trary, it is safe to say that thexgeneral opinion of the informed farmer is, that our present tar- iff laws are as nearly perfect from the point of -view of the farmer as it is possible to make them. To open the flood gates of Europe and the Orient and abolish the tariif on wheat and "other cereals. wool. butter, eggs. cheese. citrus fruits, sugar, and a hundred other things that the farmer- raises which are now protected, would“ he a calamity for" the farmer just as he is begin— ning to get on “his feet. _ l A blow at the tuna! protection to American industry is a blow at the factory worker, which in turn is a blow at the farmer, because Amer- ican workmen comprise the biggest market for American farm products.' A ‘_ “ ~ The soon‘ér the public, the laboring Mind the farmer realise these homely radium soon- ”er will the, tart! Questiongbe'gtakefi outlet-poli- 45.3.68 and memoranu almanac was» nessproble'mslifoj be ohmgedflnlyas --_varying ; mm . . mm. _ , . cameraman: rm “a“ .mu. . .» , ,m¢.hé“¢¢mn§h . .. . to do mm; 1 News! , ‘ jor item in photon-asp; clams.- y'mwwk'th‘ W e- jand it is hard arcane-nth: arm or? , some" reductions have been made a: the flies oi textile lahor but not in the ”price of cloth” 4 labor. 17111131; is new" in dispute. In thousand 5th. inabllity of the nonmetal-era to radon othoroosts. and’ their inability )to market high- priced‘produfictsrthef wool market has done—very well this year~bettor than wasgeneraily an- ticipated. » .— . 4 MW owner rnsvrs HE Boyce Thompun Institute for Plant 39-. If the seed is dead there will be no foaming and if of low vitaliiw only a little. Another announcement by the Institute is that the germination of seeds ,may be hastened -by the control of heat. Slow germinating seeds maybe forced into germina- tion by the use of heat. Much more research is necessary to make such discoyeries of the great- est practical use, but the Institute is well on- dowed, has a fine equipment and a force of thirty- flve specialists in plant research, so we may ex- pect great things of it. in» the future The In- stitute has been in operation only a few months and it has accomplished something already. What may we expect after years of research devoted to plant life? MORE WITCH? Department of the Interior has just is— sued an interesting report on the engineer- ing and economic “feasibility of several irri— gation projects. From it we learn that the estimated cost of putting water on the Kittitas division. Yakima preject. Washington, is $148.: 75 per acre; on. the Baker project. Oregon, $147.35 per acre; on the Vale project. Oregon, $118.65 to $126 per acre; on the Owyhee pro— ject, Oregon. $126.50 to $l39 per acre. These are estimated costs. - Experience has usually shown that actual costs are ’higher. But as— suming that they are correct, by what process of reasoning can be justified the expenditure of public funds on these barren areas .to the amount of $118 to $148 per acre? The above estimates are merely of the cost of irrigation. The lands must also be cleared. which the re— port says will cost $1,500 to $8,000 per farm of 80 acres. Then buildings and equipment will ‘D cost $6,000”"to $12,090 per farm of 80 across Why spend $100 to $150 per acre putting water on barren land in the . Northwest when good farms in any of the older states may be had for the same money? Whenever these projects are really feasible trom an economic and 8. ul— tural standpoint suflicient capital will be found to develop them. Until then they should remain undeveloped, no matter how feasible they may appear to government engineers. .1, ~ ~ CROP CONTROL OME means of controlling the production of crops or the farm is constantly being urged by agricultural leaders but so far they seemtobestumpedastohowtobringthis about. It is true that the business men of the city regulate their production. but they have a- different proposition than the farmers. Weather ‘ and crop pests are to be considered in the pro- duction'of a crop and the best of planslaid by man mean nothing to either. Through organi- zation' acreage can be controlled ‘but yield does not depend entirely upon the farmer. Of course. crop posts can be continued, at least to some” “7 ' rext’amt.‘ but the weather is quite antherhprob- len- We wonder in: the problem will ever be ‘ 1 completely” solved? rmmwsrmnr , ,. I read in" the paper the other. night that; a; farmers eat only sit-w dollars more the the gainers-Bikeirhfrbd , hid hetero, my , wofldsee administrator’s» labor .. ,‘. ii”. ,< .' . .2; j, or .. M 119m in myanswe‘r; I receivedg‘lat‘ to advising me that I hadfbeen awarded a .beautifulmlotr..‘sise 301100 test. and it “intimated in‘ Mon- : mouth county. N. J. near the station ottnaxim. lit-was not swamp land. according to the company.10! cause I would have“ to get a wananty deed to show that I was‘iegaiowner oi the'lot, but they wrote they would 3% not a personal appear, I would do not throw your by sending it to this is possible that lot in a swamp, as they not it must be which is not much swampland. - that it these valuable they would E 3%. swampiandandoinovalue.what- ever.andthelandthat-ishighand drylssandorrockwithnoslsnoi on. A very shnilarscheme has been workedhereinhflchiganbyareal estatefirminiactthepriceswere ldenflcallythesamaandaninvest-r revealedthatthelotswere l cently been Went byriore’st tires. 'was mils away from any mapped and reached om by a sand Theiandwasunsuitabie for farming or any other‘known pur- pose. El" “WWATFAIR VERY propessive tarmer should attend his county; and. it pass- ibie, his state and district fair, bntwedowauttogiveyouthisone warning, however, in regard to the tactics used by “sharp-shooter" paper menwhowlllbeonhandtogreet you at the majority of the fairs. These paper men are a menace to the real interests of the publishers 01' hm papers, and Ere- Bums ram wants to go on record to the at-“ Went is to not our M M Modulent deem unfair m by me! com oi 7 :9 : i]. 3300.000. if, flauntwtth them will know Mlle will ‘be treated -iairly and « ,, so‘acalled “sheet—writers" know the psychology of a fair, name- ’ iy thatevery farmer-who attends the ' infra does so with the "fair spirit". Z'That is; nearly every one who attends , fairs expects to spend some ~ money whether they always get value received or not. and uponthis basis the “sheet—write ’ greets you with ’ his extended right-hand, giving you ' a hearty welcome to the iair grounds. «telling you that he is'registering all the boys and would like to get your name aims with the rest. for which he will send you any paper that he may represent, or in tact any paper thatyouwantiorthesmallsumoi fiacentaw‘eek,andatteritisall overyou findthatyouhavetopay 98 cents. one dollar ninetyeight or two dollars and ninety-eight. or just as 1116!! as the "sheet-writer" thinks he an “fist you for." They will promise you all oi the his hooks-and bulletins in addition to the paper whichwilloometoyoueveryweek. 0! course many or you who have ., for these papers are still long: tor the big books and bul- letins even though you did not re- , oelvem the publication you subscribed 7 Onrwarnlngtoyonistopassthese agents up unless'they have on dis- play copies oi the publication they are representing. In addition to this you should insist upon their showing you their credentials of authority, . that they have a right to represent such a paper, properly signed by some odflcial oi the company they are representing. In addition to this insist upon a properly filled out re- ceipt showing the amount of money you paid, the term of the subscrip- - iion,‘ and be sure that the agent's name is written out in full so that anyone can read it. It you are care— ful and insist on all these things from the representative you will get the paper you subscribe for, and even though you are talking to a “sheet- writer" he will be mighty careful in dealing with you. It is only the so- called “sucker” that the “high-pres— sure sheet writers" are looking tor. This warning does not mean that for there are' some honest agents. taking ledtimate subscriptions at the hire but unfortunately they are" in competition with a lot of crooks -who claim to be representing farm papers and torpyears have been “working" the farmers for subscriptions to farm papers. pm memos 1o sumo owmms ~ state insurance department received complaints n-om motor- 7 late who have purchased what they believed to be personal liability»,- property damage and collision insur- anoexon their carsior $34.60, but received in tact a personal accident insurance policy not worth more than $1.50. According to complaints the salesmen claimed to be representa- tives of the “Autoists Auto Owners Association". Do not take out in- fluence until you are sure of what you are buying and if the agenkis authorised to represent the company. PHIIIPSBORN’S BANKRUPT N involuntary petition of bank- . ‘ ruptey was recently filed against ' Phillpsborn's Inc. of Chicago, 111., the mail order house. Accord- ing to reports the liabilities are one million dollars and assets about » Real Estate GoldBo V "Ease ' .\\. .. Among thrifty farmers thesma’ller investor, as Well as hoof greater funds, sees in ourissues greater yearning possibilities and unquestioned soundness. Write for Booklet, “Hoytr to Analyze a First Mortgage Real Estate Bond Issuefl Tax Free in Michigan Normal Income Tax Up to 2% Paid by Borrower A 61/2% ~ Federal Bond 899 . ,Mortgage Company FEDERAL BOND & MORTGAGE BUILDING. DETROIT“ \ S OLVAY ‘ Pulverized LIMESTONE ‘ totes Your Land Economically ,, » H ., " Jodi/’2‘: _ \ V ‘D fl: $54,}: Every harvest removes from 5'0 lbs. to ”high/5Z1 Ioolbaoflimcfmmtbesoflperacre. ““1, ,flfflr/ large quantiths melee lost through it drainage. Plants rcqmre lime for growth a i ( r , ' . ’44s? |, > P if” andsoflnnmtbavclimcorturnsourand unproductive. The slight cost ofliming, \ istbe most economical and profitable in, ‘x vcstment you can make. The Solvay \ Booklet tells all aboutlime.Write today ‘ for FREE copy. l ,_ THE SOLVAY PROCESS COMPANY ' 7501 Wqucificreoo Ave. Detroit, Mich. LOCAL DEALERS MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER “The F arm Fttper of Service” , TELL YOUR msuosaeour rr \ , -.p.ou erarfhe '- ’ sets and. an! them: Thése: ; I; ,y "»-: . - _, _ ' ‘ ‘ eithe" appearance attire“ EAR FOLKS: ijoonrse the, younger children are going to at: ‘ 1” rand {Ail’ngke‘ 3:1,. exgellent' ‘ tend themed-let semis this fall, but _, are John and Mary,- who ‘ 31:9,; Feel??? 0“" ° “‘9 " graduated from eighth grade last spring. gems ,to high school . . \ , ' -.. when it'opems? “I hope that every ‘one of you who read thiscan ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ' , ', - - .3 answer \‘fyes”. The days when ‘a~fariner—did not needas goodan POEM (:1 0 13mm; ‘Wil .. . f, ‘1 education as the city business man are pastand we all must reoog- stove 0r coal range is alwa s " niz'bnthe fact. The uneducated farmer is in competition with the” getting spotted and when tile . - ‘ . : educated farmer nowadays and the one who understands his work/ spots burn on they are difficult to , the best is the one who profits the most. According to investigations remove. To keep the nickel in shin- a high school'education is worth as much to a farmer as‘ $6,000 ing condition a washing frequently ‘worth of bonds drawing five per cent interest, and- a. college educa- ‘ . in -SORP and water With a little soda, tion is worth twice that much. Give your girls or boys chances to added t0 cut theggrease (a teaspoon , , to a quart 0f water).» Spots may matmlhsfigsthgl tingselves by giving them an opportunity to b e removed by polishing with whit— go 118 . _. ing or any fine scouring powder 0011080. 1*» W111 .be an m" moistened in ammonia. Wash, dry vestment that W111 pay (11- and polish the nickel after cleaning: ‘ videuds in more ways than There is nothing better to keep the one. . top of the stove in’ good condition Clark Morehouse, of Hastings. .and his baby brother. — . MY BABY BROTHER This is my .baby brother He’s cute as he can be I’m sure there is none other That’s quite as sweet as he. He coostas softly as a dove .And almost every day I nearly smother him with love x- - l ‘ keep , _ ‘ . And when he takes his eyening nap ‘ Well, sometimes, don’t you know? ‘ trip. ,carry dishes to and from 'room kitchen and pantry. When we;go out to play. , ’ r I almost wiSh the little chap . Would never bigger grow. --C1ark Morehouse, Hastings, Mich. ’ TIME SAVERS IN ME‘AL PREPAR~ ATION - very minute saved in preparing the “three meals a day” is im- portant. Short cuts are neces- sary-if the housewife wants time to enjoy friends, books, an hour or two in the open or an occasional motor In‘ cutting down the time of preparing meals, the extension spe- cialists at 'South Dakota State Col- lege suggest the following as prac— tical: . Place food in Charge of silent ser— vants that need little or no watch- ing, by collecting implements and tools that will make kitchen work easier. 'Serve' one dish dinners that are easy to prepare, simple to serve with little dishwashing and clean— ing. away afterwards. Keep tools and fixtures used as l'close together as possible and con— ‘ venient to {the place where they are most used. A kitchen" cabinet has proved its worth by keeping matera ials and supplies together at the work table. r Where no cabinet is available shelves may be arranged over the kitchen table or alongside of it. ‘ Use meats, vegetables and‘fruits gcfanned in season which can be made ready for the table in a very few ‘minutes. . Use trays and wheel stands. They are great step and time savers to dining A high stool to sit on will many times save tired feet and back and the right height of work table and sink will ,saVe many a backache. Have all the necessary tools and them in good condition. (An egg beater that sticks in turning, a can opener that slips or that is too dull to cut the tin, a dull paring knife for peeling vegetables, a saucepan that leaks just a tiny bit, that has no handle, or is worn so thin that nearly everything burns on it, means a loss of time and tem— ~ per.) » - ,MAD DOG! . F a dog bites you: Catch him alive and keep him under observation for ten days. Go to your doctor for first aid. If the dog dies while under observation or if, you have been obliged to‘kill him, send the head to the nearest Pasteur labora— tory with a full report of the per- ~ sons bitten and the nature of the bites. Report’ for Pasteur ‘treat- ment immediately if you’are unable to capture the dog, if he is reported as mad, or if you are bitten on «the face. ' ‘ ' . . . _ The above rules are given by Drs. Roy W. Pryer and Carl E. Beck of Detroit in an article called “Mad Dog!”. in Hygiea.‘ The idea that a mad dog is afraid“ 'of water is no longer held, "rabid animal in the first and even the disease will. second stages of wade and even swim, Drs. Pryer and :Beck declare. . mad animal does not always . team at the mouth, nor does it.ru'n around‘trying to bite everybody. 0n the centr this“: gut restless. DB- .» .5 It is, not I for a.— ary it may be very aired-J.1 , ;_M, I Address letters: Mn. hunlo Taylor. our. The Buclnm farmer. It. OIOMQM, Mlohlnen. cessary to be bitten severely to get the disease,'for amad dog by mere- ly lapping a .‘portion of the body on which there is a slight break in the skin may transmit the disease. , Horses, cows, ground squirrels, coyotes; wolves and cats may also have rabies, although the disease is more common among dogs. The Pasteur method of treating the person bitten by mad animals, it started in time will prevent rabies .. from developing; once the disease deyelops, .however, there is no cure and death always results. Since it takes the disease from ten days to seven months to develop, depending upon the location and se— verity of the bite, time is allowed for the vaccination of the person in spite of. the fact that many injec— tions are required. Can Stamp Out Rabies The more extensive the bite and the closer it is to the brain, the greater the danger of the person coming down rapidly with the dis- How To Mend EVERAL methods of home mend- ing of rugs and carpets have been tested "in the United States Department of Agriculture, which gives the following suggestions: ‘ Select wools for mending to match those of the rug in color.and texture, if possible. These may be raveled from scraps of carpet, or bought from carpet dealers, or if necessary heavy knitting yarns may be dyed to match. Carpet yarns are stiffer and more durable than ordinary wools and should be used if obtainable. A stout needle with a large eye will, of course, he need— ed, and curved scissors are particu- larly convenient for clipping the ~threads when mending a- rug or carpet’ with velvety pile. Darn ingrain carpet with the over—and-under stitch used in mend— ing stockings, and work in the de— sign on this background. In pile rugs, such as Brussels, Wilton, and some kinds of oriental weaves, replace the linen jute, or cotton backing first and then work In the pile with colored yarns. Just how to make the pile stitch depends on the texture of the rug, but a good I ease, so for face bites it is necessary to begin the preventative treatment without waiting to find out Whether the dog is really mad or not. Two ways of stamping out rabies are suggested. The first is to muz- zle all dogs, prohibiting any dog from entering the country ’without undergoing a period of quarantine. However, muzzling laws are difficult to enforce. vaccinate dogs against rabies. A single hypodermic injection/of vac- cine into a dog will protect him against rabies for about a year. GRAPE RELISH FRESH grape relish is a, novel way to preserve foods and car- ries some of the pleasures of summer well into mid-winter. Select bunches of grapes of about the same size and ripeness; though they should not be overripe. Leave the grapes on the stems and pack the bunches closely into clean glass Rugs At Home ’ method can quickly be developed by experimenting. It is generally made by knotting the yarn around the warp in such a way that it holds firmly and the ends stick up to form the velvety‘su’rface of the rug. These ends can be clipped off after each stitch is taken, or they can all be sheared at once after the entire hole is filled. Ragged edges make other— wise ood rugs look shabby and are net'cifiicult to repair. Sometimes they can be bound or blanket stitch— ed or overset with stitches run into the rug at least ‘half an inch or, what is much better looking, an ex- cellent selvage similar to that on an oriental rug can ‘be made. Lay one, two, or three cords along the edge and with black or neutral—colored wool darn them to the rug with over-and—under stitches set close to— gether. Choose cords of such size that when covered with the wool a , durable, flat strip about the thick- ness’of the\rug is formed and use hard-twisted wool or" regular carpet wool if it can be obtained. If the edge is very ragged reinforce it first with braid on the underside so as to give a'firm material into which to weave. The other method is to“ ' tbanth so was whi than a daily rubbing with a cloth which has been lightly saturated with any unsalted oil. Special stove .oils may be used. A brisk rub with wax paper such as come around bread is also a help. Personal Column Preserving Flinn—Just a line to say I turn eagerly to the women’s page upon the arrival of M. B. F. and find there an answer to many household problems.‘ For the benefit of ”Reader" Otsego County,” who asks for a way to preserve fish I am enclosing my recipes, all of which I have tried. ~ To salt fish, clean and remove heads. Do notxscale, and do not cut, leave fish whole unless too large, pack in crock or kegs, put ‘plate- and stone to weigh down. Make a brine of salt and water strong enough to bear up an egg. Bring brine to boil and skim, let. it get cold then pour .over fish and cover _tightly. I tie a. clean cloth over, then a lid. These can be washed until freshened enough and fried or creamed like codflsh. To make “like salmon, clean and soak in weak salt water over night. In morn- ing take a sterilized crock, put in a, layer of fish, sprinkle lightly with flour. Then put in a. layer of fish, and sprinkle each layer with flour until crock is nearly full. Then take very weak vinegar and cover fish and cook in oven slowly for about 7 hours. ¥ou may put in spice if you wish. When done place weight on to keep fish under liquid. It is well to cover with plate while cooking. ' To can fish. clean and wash and if large fish cut in pieces, and pack in sterile cans. I use pints and quarts. To each quart can use {tablespoon of vinegar' (not weakened) and 1' teaspoon of salt. Use new rubbers, screw lid partly down and put cans in boiler with cold water and bring to boil, then boil rapidly for 2 hours. Remove cans and tighten covers. You may put spices in these also if liked. The vinegar and long cooking softens the bones in both recipes. I have canned perch and they are fine—Mrs. H. W., Bay County.__ . How to, Salt Fish.——~We like your paper very much, .I would not like to be without it, and as I have never written to you I“ . thought I could let you know how well we liked your paper. That recipe for can- ning corn sounds good. I had wondered how I could can my corn and when I saw that recipe I said, “Well, there is the way, I will can my com.” I saw in your paper some one wanted to know how to salt fish so they would keep so I will give a. recipe that us folks used in the South. I came from the South to Michigan oneyear ago. I was born and raised in Floridalso probably there might be quite a few _questions I could answer for these Michigan folks. . You take enough water to cover your fish, whatever amount that might be, and then put salt in the water until it will float a. hen’s egg, then put it 'in some- thing that you can bring it to a boil then skim that scum all of! and when it is cool cover your fish and put a weight on to keep them under. The third day take them out and boil the brine‘again and skim, then cool. put them back. It is all right then as long as you keep'them covered with the brine but you will have to soak the fish before, wash them in fresh water. They will keep for years if you fix them right, I tell you, and Will be ,as good as can be. '-'=‘- ‘ Would like to see some more recipes in the M. B. F. One for~ canning beets please—Mrs, E, M. W., Hastings, Mich. f—if you 'are/ well bred! \ Breaking Engagement. — Engagements are sometimes broken for one reason or ‘_ ~ another, and in; such case any; gifts of " value should‘h'e returned to . It is "the n ‘igh 1: ill;breeding tors girl to retains ,, +0 6.1bUt'3..(-ePQ.-it, has happened) several 81: ' ' class. ' as trophies. 1933" honoralg’le :by not . ‘ s‘sive "engagement . the giver; ' " ' 9' Airshows- "flavor all that we eat. m; thy way, g‘éapi’thy bread with Joy. l—Eool. 6:7. : , . . .. ..Joyijs both an appetizer and a. digester, ;d.iscu3s unpleasant things at the table. Recipes Pimionto Sandwiches-Finely chopped pimi'entos, mashed with potted cheest, and moistened with mayonnaise‘ or: boiled dressing, make a popular sandwich. Take crisp green peppers, chop fine and mix with grated cheese, and you have another appetizing filling. ’ Ham Sandwaches—No sandwiches are more 'popular with the men than dainty baking-powder biscuits spread with delic- ous' butter and pink, sweet ham, either plain or deViled. For the deviled ham chop one-fourth part of the fat with three- fourths of the meat. Add one pimiento chopped fine. a teaspoonful of prepared horseradish or mushroom catsup to each cupful of ham, with prepared mustard to taste, and then seasc'm with just a speck of cayanne. If you are not certain about the, tastes of all your party it is best met to add mustard to sandwich fillings, but to take along a little jar of made mustard. Sardine Sandwiches—Remove the skin and bones from the, fish; lay the 'flesh on buttered bread; then cover with a, paste made of the yelks of two hard— boiled eggs rubbed with one teaspoonful of pimiento pasteyone teaspoontul of pre- pared horse-radish, and pinch of salt. Baked Chickeii :with Corn—Two young spring. chickens, 1 pint sweet corn, 1 table— spoon chopped parsley, salt and pepper, 1 cupful tomato pulp, 1 green pepper, 1/2 teaspoonful paprika, bread crumbs. Steam the chicken for 20 or 30 minutes, or try. ’Add the tomatoes to the corn, also the chopped parsley. season to taste. Place in the‘bottom of a casserole or baking dish a layer of buttered crumbs; then place the chicken on top of this. Pour over corn and tomato mixture. Place over the top, and cover with but- tered bread crumbs. Head Cheese—Twenty pounds of pork (heads, feet, tails, neck bones. hearts, tongues, etc,), 5 lbs. beef (cheeks are preferable, shanks, tails, etc), pepper, 1/2 lb. salt, 1,4 oz. allspice, 1/4, oz. cloves, % oz. caraway, 4 lbs. soup. Boil the meat for two or three hours, or until the, meat can be easily picked from the bones. It is then‘ cut up by hand into quarter or half inch cubes. Add the sea- soning and four poundsof soup in which 'co‘u imam ,i . N Never: ' 1A, 'lb. of- HermsPUNYARN y x I. , itincle ‘Ab says the hardest obstacles he 'has had to ‘surmpurit are those 'he stacked against himself. ' . t . InexpensiVe butcher’s aprons, easy to launder, are handy to slip on while get- ting dinner. ll 1 II Most farmers think late afternoon is the best time to cut alfalfa. The hay is apt to look better for itr and more of the leaves will stay on. i t il _ A daily memorandum calendar makes a convenient telephone pad. The date is always at hand, and sheets are easily torn off. it t # Bake potatoes on a rack instead of on the floor of the oven so they will cook evenly on all sides. When they are done, the rack can be pulled out to save burn- ing your fingers. Careful washing and a little fat rubbed on the outside will make the skins as good as the inside to eat. “‘ i t III Aunt Ada’s Axioms: Little kindnesses make life too full for little meanesses. 1! 't 1' Many housewives like} the different fia- vor given to rice pudding by a little grated lemon rind. ’. . It: ill lII ( f Before you go gardening rub your finger I nails' over a moistened cake of soap. When you are through the soap will wash out easily and leave no trace of dirt under your nails. It! it I! Sugar syrup sweetens cold drinks better than granulated or powdered sugar. Make the syrup by boiling equal parts of sugar and water together, and keep it in the ice box ready for use. ’ it t * . Cherries, pineapple, peaches, pears, and strawberries, which do not make jellies when used alone, can be combined with apple juice. The pectin in the apple juice makes it stiffen well and the mild apples do not disguise the flavor of the other fruit. WOMEN’S EXCHANGE F you nove- somothlng to oxcnange, we, will firlnt it FREE under this heading provldln : Int—It oppuls to women and la a honiflgo exchanges. no cash Involved. Second—It will no In three lines. Third—You are a paid-up subscriber to The Business Farmer and ‘attaoh our address I from a recent Issue to rove kfiofxori'nr‘i: gag: lwilll 1‘13 numborohd an In- ocov as we ave room. —MR8. ANNIE TAYLOR. Editor. .127.——-New lantern, never been used. for an thing useful;—Ettie Cummings, R2, Homer, Mic . AIDS To. GOOD DRESSING II CURE AND SIND IN YOUR SIZE 201.7 A Simple Popular-st Io.-_—Flannel, tub silk, crepe and printed fabricsmay be used for this 5 model” The Pattern is cut in of 32 inch material. ' .518}. A trimming _of' white .ene is_here portrayed. The surplice closmg is especially re iiire 5 ‘74: .1 4 ,yard. 5209. or pongee may he used for t is model. is cut in 4 Sizes: 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. 6193. ‘Ipook.!) gingham or unbleached muslin. ~ size'wfll require 2 yards of 27 inch iiiateria . . 5191. plant at. the centre of the f in 4 Sizes: 4. 6, an .10 years. A , cuffs and belt of contrasting material it y 6210. this design. The Pattern is cut in 7 glass: 25. with corresponding hip measure. 35 3 39 2% ”It'll o: 54 inch motenal. r n I rent. Order ~ -'Addross all Sizes: 8. 10. 12 and 14 years A 12 If collar is made of contrasting material 1516 yard appropriate tor stout figures. , and 5 .inches bust measure. yards of checked material 36 inches wide. A Prett Frock m- a Little "Ilsa—This attractive model b ' h l y The fulness of the back is confined (iws a.t 6 now so popiiar 6 your size «requires 2 yards of $6 inch material. and 27 or 36 inches Wide is required. A Good style for a Sport Skirt.—Kasha7, giggingl and sports' silk are , , 41. 43, 45 an’d 4i 7, Width of skirt :it the foot is 2% yards. ' ALL PATTERNS 13c EACH—— 2 FOR 25c POSTPAID Aoo 10c For FALL AND WINTER 1925-1923 FASHION aoox Irom this or former Issues of The Bullnou Former. ulvlno number and sign your numb and Address plainly. orders for patterns to Pattern Department THE BUSINESS FARMER , Mt. Clemens, Mich. _i .year size requires 2% yards is required, Pleasing Morning Frock for the Stout woman with Sienter Hlps.-——Checked gingham with in The sleeve may be fl 'h ‘ nis ed in .wrist or elbow length. This Pattern is out n 9 Sizes: . If made as illustrated a 40 inch size will The width of the dress at lower edge is A Popular Suit Styllo'for a Small Boy.-_——Lineii, kindergarten cloth, chambre , jersey, flannel, The closing is at the left side under the tuck 'A 4 year 5128 Will require 2 yards of 36 inch material. A flat Apron forIMothor's "cinch—This model’will delight the little "housekeeper” or It is such a protective apron and very comfortable. It The I-‘tiimernI is cut in 4 Sizes: 6, 8, 1'0 and 12 years. A 1 This Pattern may rhintz, 0{_year e made of cretonne, “kick" belt. The Pattern is out For collar, 00d materials for inc es waist measure, 33 $5 and 37 inc es. A 29 inch size requires , e . . ., in. “Press ' tn, r with a Weighted board. 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Has short sleeves, two serviceable belt which ties at back.c0l.on81 Plaid in whine. ”min hollotropo or (an erlno grounds. inplsln navy blue. izes 881:0 46 bust. Just write us a letter and no“ tsend 1 Penane sure to give size and color. When the two dressesam may) the postman $3st for them. We have aid the ellvery eh both of the dresses. I they are not better tee you expected, foran reason whatsoever,returu them at our expense an we willc y refund your money. Couldnnythi "by No. 99. ocfl comes Tins Absolutely Guaranteed .411 leaflzei" Wade ofbesf 01111 7211111mewa 311355 Flannel At your dealer’s today-“yeti can carefully examine it be- More buying-also other styles-no freight or express to pay. ’Ask the thousands of farmers who have been using :‘Evcrwear harness for years. They know because of its high quality that it pays to buy the Everwear brand. IREMEMBER, you are trading with your local respon- Eiible harness dealer who as our agent guarantees and islands back of Ever-wear harness. MclNTYRF/BURRALL CO» Green Bay,Wis. Wk/brflzis (flaw) mike/{mess I . ‘ . ' ‘ Take Care at Bumper Crops 1 Surprise Oder Direct to t1You Proposi- Buy Now—Pay later Corn Cribs and Grain Bins l Write at ones. E. w. Ron Emil e Cutler and 8Ilo 5%. 73 anion-8t. Have you ad copy? You should have a copy of‘ ‘ Crop Production and Soil Management 111‘ you} librar Rm b! . sno’ whesd of “the " A: / : bigot o' the rubbish: Get can! Colors' BLUE EAR girls and boys: In our last issue,- August 131:, I promised I would tell you about the win- .nersflin our song oontestihis issue but I must, disappoint you because I have not been able to reach a de—‘ cision to date. I am going to ask you to help me judge these songs - and know you will because you nev- er fail me when. I ask you to do anything. In this and the next is- sue or two I will print some of the best songs and I- want you to help me by studying them all carefully and then sending me a letter telling which you think is the best and second best. Will you do that? Thank -you, I knew you would say "yes”.—UNCLE NED. . Our Boys and Girls DO YOUR BEST (Tune4—-“America") 1 Our motto, “Do Your Best" Is chosen from the rest; This is a cinch, - These three words are the rage, For just the Children’s Page I’m sure I would engage It in a. pinch. 2 Our page is now complete With motto that’s so sweet, These words I praise; I love our paper too, The colors gold and blue I’m sure we should be true Through all our days. ‘l Our motto pure and free As you can plainly see; We praise it best. Long may it stand And face our page so grand I hope it helps our land . - And all the rest. Let’s keep our motto in mind, Ne’er let it fall behind It is no pest; I won’t be afraid to bet Your’e thinking of it yet, But try and not forget To “Do Your Best." —Eathel Fay Sharp, R3, Akron, Michigan. D0 YOUR BEST '1 (Tune—“Michigan. My Michigan”) 1 Oh, do your best in everything, That‘s the most any one can do; Just keep your smile and try to sing If the things you try fail you. That it‘s not easy, We all know But just try your best as you go; “'ith hope and plenty of working, You‘ll win, if there’s no shirking. 2 And when there‘s some one on life's way VVho’s had hard times many a day, A helping hand, your turn, to lend ‘Twill be; and then again they’ll wend Their way upon life’s rocky road Encouraged; with a lighter load Then probably they’ll do their best, And pass your good on to the rest. 3 Perhaps sometimes our life seems drear. We strive for success.’ yet we fear That someone else our chance will take, Leave us behind. so we forsake our work; Then leaving it undone We fall back without having won, When, if we’d done our very best Then we'd have won out with the rest. —-—Miss Milda Barwick (Age 15) R2, Box 78, Branch, Mich. no your ans-r (rune—wit Isn't Trouble Just to suing") - (1 It isn't any trouble just to "Do Your Best" It isn’t any‘trouble just to “Do Your'Best",. If there’s any trouble It will vanish like a bubble If you Only take the trouble to “Do Your Bast.” It isn’t any trouble in your work Or in your play; It isn ’t any trouble in your Work 01' in your play. If there' 3 any trouble it will vanish , Like a. bubble - - ‘ “Do Your Best" in work or play. \ 3 ‘It isn't any trouble in our daily tasks. , To do our best; . It isn't any trouble in our daily tasks _ To do our best; If there's any trouble ' 1. It will vanish 13%;; £11 bubble , ~ ‘ 1 'Oh, some folks they can Work all day, If you only take the trouble to 1 . ANH GOLD ‘ \ 7 no 11an Base i'l'une—“It Lin’t Gonna Rain No Mo’ ’9 And never take any rest. But you 'll h’aVe to say. that it doesn't pay. If you don‘ t try to do your best. . Chorus Oh! we all try to do our best, our best. We all try to do 0111‘ best, You’ 11 have to admit, we’ ve done our bit, When we all try to do our best. ‘ 2 We may feel disappointed, Our dreams may die and fade, But if we’ve done our very best, Will feel we are repaid. 3 . The M. h. F. .has stood the test, It satisfies its readers, We too will show we do our best To try to please our leader. ——Elizabeth Yodér (Age 17 yrs.) Maple City, Michigan. no 101111. BEST (Tuneh—“Ameriealo 1 The work 'you do is love .In that sweet home above, The place for rest, We strive to make our way, Work that will always pay, To that home we’ll go some day. So do.your best. - 2 Long may the people ‘stand Within our God’s own hand. Our heavenly nest; And we must «always look. Jnto that. holy book, And neVer be a crook, ‘ - 1‘ Just do your best. To our church we-*must go And learn our lessons so. Things that are best, We must not loiter here. Nor look for any fear. But always try to cheer »\ And you’ll do your best. 4 Our home is far, Where all strange people are They’ll be our guest, They’ll show us God’s own home. .Where we will want to roam And see the waters foam They’ll do their best. -—Mildred Brassgalla (Age 15 yrs.) Mullet‘Lake, Michigan. D0 ‘YOUR BEST (Tuner—“Yankee Doodle") 1 I’ll tell you about The Business Farmer, The best paper in the world, But the best page that is in it, Is the page for boys and girls. Chorus - Our motto is”. “Do Your Best,” ' Our colors. “Blue and Gold," Every place that I do go. Our colors and motto are told. — . 2 > Saturday morning I get dressed, I do my work, do not rest, For we should always, “Do Our Best." Hurrah! for The Business Farmer. 3 I So now I’ve told you all I can. This song is not a jest, For I remember our motto, thioh is always, “Do Your Best." ——Mil_dred Darby (Age 12 yrs.) Standish, R3, Michigan. KEEP vouo rue» ms. l E. curssmc . ONE OF THEM sumac TEN MATCH/3 ”Ass 10 ,, ml: ntAcs \l/lLL BE. IN FIVE STRAIGHT sows WITh FOULHEADS IN EACH Row c iii-M" d ._ [11‘ g or crest, dear Anselm do se .to do, dear, Are What makes life wofth While; They say that song lightens labor. Then do yours with a smile — ‘ Though our lots are mixed, joys and sorrow Our life here is the test . Sharing our joys and hardships Each one must do 'our best. " 3 Do your best is a. motto Ever to keep in mind. ‘Twill help in time of trouble Also in joy, you ’ll find; " ' Though the path you are climbing _. I Is on the hillside "crest. , - You'll get strength for the task assigned you. - So always do your best. , ' —-Janet Cha8e_ (Age 10) Pellston, Mich. ‘ ’ ,1 _ > ‘ 1 D0 YOUR ‘BEST (Tank-“What a Friend “’13 Have in Issue”) _ 1 . . Do your best, new little children, In this world you have a. share or life’s burdens and its hardships Seeming very hard to bear. Ask God’s help and kindly comfort, As you struggle with your share, , Everyone must hear his burdens Do your best, whate’r your share. 2 Do your best when you’ ve grown older, '_ . All that’s good with others share; ‘ Life will yield the most to workers, ‘ - I. Do your best then everywhere. ' Be a. soldier marching onward, Bravely hear your load of care, . Earn your- crown you wear in glory, —. . a Do your'best then. everywhere. ’ ——Dorothy Chase (Age 12 yrs.) ' Pellston, Michigan. D0 YOUR BEST JUST no YOUR BEST i (Tune5—4“America.") 1 ‘My Children’s Hour, bold Colors of Blue and Gold,~ Just do your best; A club that is very good. An that has never stood .. Or in any way took a rest, Just do your best. '- Chorus Yes, always do your best And do not take a. rest , ’ ’ " Do not delay! You 11 find that it will pay. ’ Yes, do it every day. - In every sort of Way; Just do your best. ' M . ‘ 2 My Farmer magazine Everyone looks through it clean * Just read your best; ' This here is my adVice— * ' Its got a. real low price ~ - With all its advertised '- Give it a test. Let every one do their best And think~not of the rest, Sweet Children’s Hour, Write storiesppoems and all, And do not miss a. call, Just give it a test r And do your best. -—Alma Mojeske (Age 13) , . R5, Bay City, Mich. ; , 4 D0 YOUR BEST ~ (Tune—J‘Yankee Doodle") , “ 1 Do your best, your very best ' ‘ And do it every day; “ " For all the girls and all the boys " Ought to do it that way. 1 2 Do your best, your very best And do it with a heart; For all the girls and all the boys ~» ' Ought to do their part. 1 l ' 3 When you are playing round your homd Or going to your school, Just remember to begood And make it your best rule. —Howard‘Raymond Snow (Age 9 yrs.) “ ' , R5, Nashville..Micw ‘ .» D0 YOUR. BEST (Tune—"Home, Sweet Home) If you- try With all your might, - , And you never get things right, , ’ ~' «. Don’ t you leave it to the rest. " You just try and do your best. Even at your reward seems small. All you don’ t like things at all, If you leave it to the rest, You can 't say, _"I've done my best? If you see a friend in need. . e. do , are deed \ ISA-Icons. ' .. Berrlen ........_...... 600 , . ' Id}: m Altitude tan-”Ann” Allegan 0 0‘ ' p .. " A] a. "......m... ,600 - pt, -].1 ...”; 2%: ms. ..11 , { "7.1”“-.. Igégg ' 863:: Jig—jg; so .............7 800 3113121131 m noun-nuance 800 Septgls-Zs Bay ....--............ 6 0 Se .14“-24 Benzle 600 . 0 St. Clair ...... -.. 60.0 383 3:31" 213%?“ * Branch "nun-n." . . ' a... * ..., 13-1: 0 .......‘.r. s A p '- » ’m I ‘ . 1,000 ' Sept. 11—27 Cass ........ . ..... 700 Sept. 22-Oct 2 ’~ ' ‘ . ' 1,000 Sept. 19—29 Charlevoix ........ 800 Sept. 7-17 1.. 1133 33"? 1'13 eboy. an , ....... p . - g 1,000 Sept. 4-14 Clare 80 Sept. 12-22 1,200 Sept. 8-18 Clinton ..... ......... 700 . Sept. 1 4—27 800 Sept. 16-26 Crawford .......... 1,100 Sept 6—16 ‘ 1,200 Sept 5-15 Eaton ................ 800 Sept. 17-27 ' 233* g... 1112' Emmet . . ep - 1,000 Sept. 4-14 Genesee ...... . ..... 600 Sept. 17-27 .7 800 Sept. 15-2.» Gladwin ............ 700 Sept. 12-22 1,000 Sept. 9-19 Grand Traverse 600 Sept. 12-22 1,000 Sept. 8-18 Gratiot .............. 700 Sept. 15-25 / 800 Sept. 14-24 Hillsdale ............ 900 Sept. 19-29 ._ 1,200 Sept. 16-26 _Huron ................ 600 Sept. 13-23 800 Sept. 11-21 Ingham .............. ‘800 Sept. 17—27 900 Sept. 16-26 Ionia .................. 800 Sept. 16-26 900 Sept. 15—25 Iosco .................. .600 Sept. 11-21 , 1.000 Sept. 7-17 Isabella ............ 700 Sept. 14-24 1,000 Sept. 11-21 Jackson ............ 1,000 Sept. 16-26 Kalamazoo ........ » 700 Sept. 20—30 1,000 Sept. 17-27 Kalkaska .......... 600 Sept. 11—21 1,200 Sept. 5-15 Kent .................. 600 Sépt. 18—28 800 “Sept. 16—26 Lake .................. 800 Sept. 13-23 ‘ ’ 1,200~ Sept. 9-19 Lapeer .............. . 700 Sept 15-25 800 Sept. 14-24 Leelanau .......... 60 Sept. 11-21 900 Sept. 8 Lenawee ............ 700 Sept 21-31 » 1,000 Sept. 18-28 ‘ Livingston ........ 900 Sept. 16-26 1,000 Sept. 15—25 Macomb 600 Sept. 18-28 1,000 Sept. 14-24 Manistee 600 Sept 13-23 1,000 Sept. 9—19 Mason ................ 600 Sept 15-25 800 Sept. 13-23 Mecosta. ............ 900 Sept. 12-22 . 1,000 Sept. 11-21 Midland ,- ............ 600 Sept. 15—25 - ,. 700 Sept. 14—24 Mlssaukee ......... 1,000 Sept. 9-19 1,400 Sept. 5—15 Monroe .............. 600 Sept. 21-Oct 1 700 Sept. 20-30 Montcalm .......... _ 800 Sept. 15—25 900 Sept. 14-24 Montmorency 800 Sept. 7-17 1,200 Sept. 3-13 Muskegon .......... ' 600 Sept. 18—28 800 ' Sept. 16-26 Newa'ygo ....... - 700 Sept. 15-25 1,200 Sept. 10-20 *Oakland ............ . 800 Sept. 16-26 1,200 Sept. 12—22 Oceana .............. 6 0 Sept. 16-26 ’ 800 Sept. 14-24 Ogemaw ............ 800 Sept. 10-20 . 1.200 Sept. 6—16 Osceola .............. 1,000 Sept. 10-20 1,600 Sept. 4-14 Oscoda."" .............. 1,000 Sept. 7-17 . 1,200 Sept. 6-15 Otsego ................ 1,000 Sept. 6—16 1,400 Sept. 2—12 -0ttawa .............. 600 Sept. 19-29 800 Sept. 17-27 Presaue Isle~ ...... 600 Sept. 8-18 800 Sept. 6-16 A .Roscommon 1,100 Sept. 7-17 _ ‘ 1,200 Sept. 6-16 -Sag1naw ....... 600 Sept. 16~26 ‘ 700 ‘ Sept. 15—25 Sanllac ............. . , 600 Sept. 15-25 Sept. 16-26 ‘ 5136809111."... ......... . 800 Sept 14-24 St. Joseph 600 Sept, 23-Oct. 2 80.0 -, SeptuZl-Oct 1 Shiawassee 703 Sept. 16-26 Sept. Oct. 809 Sept 20-30 .800 . - Sept. 18-311 1 0,0 3 Sept. 16—26 ,. doo- - Sept. 211.30 '- 00 ~Se.pt18—38» when hould be! planted within the fantasies given for your county ami Milk Is Milk Prices used are for example only. Change prices to suit price you pay. Condensed buttermilk as a rule con- tains 72 lbs. of water and 28 lbs. milk solids per 100 lbs. It sells generally at $4 00per cwt. In other words, the farm- 4ys $4. 00 fer 28 lbs. of milk solids or 4.3 cents r pound. Collis Process uttermilk contains 92% lbs. pure milk solids 1n each cwt. and only 7% lbs. water at $9.00 per cwt. (average price f. o. b. your R. R. sta- tion). The milk solids cost only 9. 7 cents per pound. Yousave4h6¢entsperpoundor$460 when you use genuine Collis moses Pure Dried Buttermilk. Isn’t the saving worth while? To say nothing of the sanitary, wsy-to-mix, nice-to-handle product that you have when you use Collis Process Pure Dried Buttermilk—It Keeps Indefinitely. The cheapest form of BUTTERMILK SOLIDS for poultry and hog feed; COLLIS PRODUCTS COMPANY Dept. 560 Shipments made Iron either Shun], Mlnm. or Omaha. Nob. In buying buttermilk for poultry and hog feed- ing, the farmer 19. only after the valuable milk ’ solids—he has no use for the water. ‘ Collis Process Pure Dried Buttermilk is almost . 100% pure milk solids. Practically all of the (- water has been removed— naturally, this prod- . uct goes a great deal further than condensed 3' buttermilk which contains almost 70% water. ? Collis stands back of its guarantee—without 5 restraint and without “craw-fishing” We absolutely firmly warrant Collis Process Pure Dried Buttermilk to do exactly what we say in our established guarantee (as shown on this page). Write for free illustrated book, “Feed From Egg to Market”—it tells what to feed and how to care for poultry. 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MAIL THIS 001115011 MARTIN STEEL DZRODUCTS COMPAN Milizfldd’ Ohio’n 1th 1111 1 M ase sen w out 0 at on (older and full details. 3 FAIR / NAME ............................ . ............ . . t'l‘OWN ..... a s . , oundsbtyatBuThe homes of .ulls; Shuttlevnck elgay Milkniaker I V Now Being Distributed at 2’60 Points, in Michigan ! HIS tremendous distribution deserves attention. Are you feeding to the best advantage? ‘Cows fed Milkmaker produce more milk and butter fat. Your feed cost is lower. healthier and stronger animals. They are Every one of the ten Lnilkmaking ingredients is listed on} every bag. . pound for pound. Not an ounce of filler. Milkmaker is always the same. you are feeding. You know exactly what _ 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 Milkmaket 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 Servicl 219 N. Cedar Street, Lansing, Michigan "HOLD The “Holden"- Spreader makes Sour soil means poor crops. Exgierts fakiifluifiggs useless on sour soil-it must have lime. iggei- ro . Lime and Fertilizer S 0 reads; to handle lime in any form,fertilizer. hosphste, gypsum, wood ashes or crushed shells. SoilTested-tiee "cmcnos. The Holden Lime and Fertilizer Spreader willinake your What about your soil'l—your crops? Are they big and sturdy as they should be? Find out today with our free Litmus Test Papers-positive sour 301] test recommended by all sci] experts. Write for them now. .THE HOLDEN CO., Inc. Dept 280 Peoria llllnols : Try Spreader 10 days Free. soil healthy and productive. Spreads twice as far as any other; 16% ft. Attaches to any wagon or truck. ‘ N 0 holes to bore. Spreads evenly 100 to 10,000 lbs. per acre Handle material only once, from car to field. Get literature and low prices now and ask about 10 Day Free-Trial. 1 [WE?- . . ,. E _fims is. r , BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY Ads under this heading 30c ‘per agate line for 4 lines or more. $1.00 per insertion for 3 lines or CATTLE ” _ GunnNsms A MAY — GUERNSEYS —— ROSE STATE AND FEDERAL ACCBEDITED u to 8 7 pounds fat. Bull calves oumt 35113951) iiiJ have1 up to 1011 1. Jumbo of Briarbank and Holb ks Ggldensegélgight of Nordlsnd. om Dams pro- d‘mmg loll'lasufiiiio'ilili fat 32%)ng fitmcxs . or . , GEORGE Leaglnaw, W. 6.. Michigan. REGISTERED GUERNSEY BULL FOR SALE 7 months old. . Grandson of 2nd best butter bred bull. Calf s ’ ’ ‘ n l . cow. demons fife slidiiguhx. Owosso. I12. Mlchlgan. ' HEREFORDB Hereford Steers . around 1000 lbs. ' 90 Wt. around 140 lbs. :3 W1: around 850 lbs. 45 Wt. around 550 lbs. 98 Wt. around 500 lbs. ' 56 Wt. around 4haoflbs. ~ h bunches. Also Hereford ei ers. 6:35p $1.3 dgiioei‘liied and in good grass flesh. Some bunches on thin order account short pastuie. Real quality Herefords are usually market. toppers when finished. Will sell your shows how any bunch. . , t V. V. BALDWIN, Eldon. Wapello 00... Iowa. D HEREFORDS SINCE. 1860 3,115 li'ei‘dIEbuESREre International Prize Winners. Stock of all ages for sale. at harniers prices. Write . formation. . us for fElsewrlrligiefords that fatten quickly. ORAPO FARM. Swartz Creek, Michlgan. . BROWN SWI‘SS wBRéW'N swrss Biflls and Heifer Calves. Foiiosiiiihsii'viiinrmcx. Kowadln. Michigan. JERSEYS Pools com or H. r. AND RIG JERSEYS: " . x 11 stock for sale. Bord W'iiscriiiéflngv Sigismund Federal Government. to - ricer and description. ou°§ iiiitw‘ii. a. supine. mos. ron Lit—HIV ENTI'III H as or REGIS- ’ ttle a. wood roducers. is diphtheria-in... m... n. m... fit: M ro‘ sTi-iiun BRIDJI s‘sv sun. thinnest... stresses... ,— / l “Less Labor-More Profit” That’s the Lesson to be Learned at the NAllllNAl DAIRY [XPflSIlIUN The demonstrations of latest improved labor-saving filmed world s_ e s; in . hrorse show; his Government exhibit. L STEl—To the feeding, and breeding lectures I by famous authorities; convention discussions of farm and dairy prob- lems; bands and orchestras. lJoY— The pleasures of a few_days vacation E spent at this great Duiry Exposition ‘ where the bes farmers in the land gather to .view and inspect the best of everything in the dairy mdustry. "— How you, too, may make More Profit LEAR with Less Labor; how to select the best dairy cows; how to raise calves; how to breed for more _production. .You will learn to solve innumerable other roblems of Vital importance to YOIS). SEE— _ this wonderful show will pay YOU big dividends for_years to come._ As ’ roposition, you owe it to yourself and to your community. Identify and associate yourself with the progress of this billion dollar in- dustry. Make your plans now—and GO TO— PROFIT—A few dOHMS invested in a visit to 0 a busmess ——————~——-————«1 ._ fl..— _—» -——————' l ‘ ”INDIANAPOLIS 3:15;: i ' OCTOBER 10th to rm. . m... _ HAMPSHIRES HAMPSHIRES FOR BALE—BREE) all-1'8 FOR ' ‘ I" s not a . Fall utter and 5 gig. Refilohiizs. Mlohlusn. R. 4. JOHN w. suv BERKSHIRES _ Lune: TYPE senxsumss. HIGH cuss breeding. bred sows and. ts. Bong; ready for rt 1 an :1 es. afifiiiovvlvriglflafifiwgDD'7gniantgngfffilohlun. ” f Association met . «are helper-issue. of the great English live-stock breeders more than 'one hundred years ago. It summed up his life— time experience in breeding live- stock. This is still a.» fundamental breeding. - Progress in building a. better herd lies in the introduction of bet- ter blood through the sire. Half of the inheritance that each animal possesses comes from the sire. The hull whose get are an im- provement in production and type over their dams is keenly sought by all dairy men. Ten daughters of average of 119‘pounds more butter- fat per year than their dams. No ed on such bulls. Record keeping locates both the desirable andvtheg'undesirable bull. Record keeping based on ordinary farm feeding and management prac- tices is a safe standard to use in comparing and selecting bulls. The Cow Testing Association offers the best method to properly gauge the transmitting ability of a dairy bull because it takes into account all the daughters sired by a bull. i Proven bulls that have outlived their period of service on one farm should be re-located in another herd. R’ecord will tell how long a bull should be kept. The greatest ned for more pro« fitable dairying in Michigan is bet- ter herd sires—-—proven sires.’ Re- cently the Dairy, Department, Mich- igan State College ‘Record of Performance wherein pro- vision is made to recognize proven sires. Fourteen bulls in Michigan have met the requirement of five or more daughters which have made the requirements of the Record of (Performance. These dairy bulls are aged sires. They have been given The names of the bulls and the num- ber of R. O. P. daughters are as follows: Maplecrest Korndyke Hengerveld, 9; Noble Sensational Lad, 8; Alcar- ta Pontiac Vale DeKol, 8; Oxford Katherine’s Major, 8; Signal’s Gold- en Oxford Lad, 8; Ypsilanti Sir Pie— tertje De'Kol, 6; Golden Chene of Riverdale, 6; Houwtje Canary Cadil- lac Lad, 5; McKay’s Lad, 5; Alpha Pontiac DeKol King, 5; Rosaire’s Fern Lad, 5; Swigartdale Korndyke Hengerveld, 5; Sophie’s Adora's Son, 5; King Flint, 5. ~ GIVE TRIPS TO TEN STATE DAIRY TEAMS HE junior dairy calf demonstra— tion team’in Michigan, which wins the state championship this fall among the boys and girls in Four—H agricultural clubs will be awarded a prize educational trip to the National Dairy Show in Indian- apolis, October 10-17, offered by the De Laval Separator Company. In addition, the De Laval Separ— ator Company will give engraved gold watches to the members of the team winning the grand champion- ship at the National Dairy Show. ' OVER 100 COW TESTING ASSO- OIATIONS IVE years’ growth of the Cow F Testing Association work in Michigan shows that the num- ber of Cow Testing Associations has expanded from seven active on July 10, 1921 to one hundred and six active July 10, 1925. This peri- od of growth has been constant over the last four years. In July 1922 there were 18 Associations; in July 1923 there were 54 Associations, and in July 1924, 89 Associations operating in Michigan. Another in- dication of growth is shown in the number. of. herds and cows under test. ' During July 1921, 1056 dairy herds were being tested in Michigan, on‘ . the basis of 106: Associations operating in July 1925 .there are 2616.he~rds under test. ' Each year many more dairy cows under Cow. i dds"? In' , s. 1'8 “ HE sire is half the herd,” This ‘ "eiipression was uttered by one ‘ were ”177.53 ms being “tested by? the seven coW‘ testers on the -w‘ork in truth today in all fields of livestock- 'Chilmarks .May Kign produced an‘ accurate prire or value can be plac-v institu‘gted lthe , the opportunity to prove their value.“ the state. This year in July there are 27,220 cows under testby the 106 cow-tester? employed in-Michi- gen associations. the union has made such vast steps forward in doing cow testing asso- ciation work as has Michigan 'during’ the past years. Wisconsin alone has more cow testing associations in operation than has Michigan. The percentage of cows under test in Michigan, however, is greater than the percentage of-cows undér test in other states—Dairy 'Exteny sion, Michigan State College. LEADING CONTRARY COW AR EDITOR: This last spring we found a way of leading a contrary cOW‘ that I think is worth telling about. 'Sometim'e ago I_ was leading a cow to the stock- yard, 3. man .told me if I would'put a rape, around‘ her body she would lead better. A couplelof months ago it became necessary to lead a cow that never' before would lead. I thought of what the man had told me and so- we put a rope around, her body, just behind her front legs, then put the end through the halter ring and tied it to the hind end of the wagon. Then to make things doubly sure we tied the rope that was on the halter to the wagon too. She soon found that the only way she could keep from being led was to throw herself down. Just as she got ready to try that I drew her at-, tention to some angleworms that were in the back end of the wagon, and she soon forgot about resisting and followed along in good shape. I have no doubt that a person could lead her by hand easily now.—E. W. IShumaker, Eaton County. WHEAT ALL RIGHT FOR FEED Our wheat contains quite a bit of smut. Is it‘all right to grind this for hog feed?i—-J. 0., St. Charles, Mich. “ HEAT which has some smut would be absolutely all right to grind for hog feed. In fact it looks now as though wheat ground and fed to hogs would re- turn just as much as though the wheat were sold. Hogs at four- teen cents a pound give a return of better than $1.60 per bushel for wheat and unless some cheaper feed ‘ is available I would by all means ad- vise grinding this smutted Wheat for hog feed—Geo. A. Brown, Pro- fessor of Animal Husbandry, Michv , igan State College. __ VETERINARY _. DEPARTMENT—1' GARGET I have a cow that gives garget milk from one quarter. The milk veins in the back of the udder seem to be swollen. Is there anything I can do‘Z—F. C., Cathro, Mich. , HE cause of garget is usually in- fection which gains entrance through the teat. opening or through the blood, more often, I think, the former. If the function of the gland tissue in the afiected quarter has not been destroyed, the cow may come to her milk again at, the next calving time. Such cases are.more successfully treated when. taken early by bathing the bag well with hot water and stripping out the affected quarters once every two hours if not too sore and badly swollen and then apply "camphorated oil two or three time t Test 98 . daily and rub well in. A good ca- thartic is often indicated in the ear« ly stages of the disease. nal administration of an internal ap- tiseptic often proves valuable. Milk-V ing of the affected quarters should: always be done into a pail of anti-3" septic solution and the, hands wash ed very thoroughly lathe antisep kins anoth r; No other state in ’ The inter— ' . I nose on ,. shrill "whim 80 .. .. “ $9 induce every wheat growergto in: :1 “ fertilizer application.” ,- R__ me am ;J‘E . film you have had 90 i “g, me .801? of m " crease the yield and profit of the V‘irheat he seeds this tall bye proper “ “snacks, 'no,”- he replied. farmers don’t need to be‘ told—~they ' ,_ know it. They know the value of. fertiliser on wheat and use it. ,. —' I fin getthemtol‘eave'ch ertflilsr demonstration! had this i, . . ~yearwus onumrm about four mnesoutandthat.,_ anaccident- alone. The r attachment. didn‘tgoingearforoneboutacross the. field. You could see that strip alllastiall audible-year upto vest—fell it a quarter uterine away. Last fall the wheat didn’t seem to be southicxon that short, and n’t measure the yield, but I should judge that ' ‘r doubled the on that field.” " . That experience with fertiliser E typical. but it is not general. There, are many comniunities where last fall farmers cut down-on all expen- ditures, including those for fertil- iser. There *are some who wish they hadn’t, as the extra 8 to 12 bushels per acre would look pretty good in the bin now. With the low price last year almost everyone was c. Today the situa- tion is diflerent. It Seems that agri- culture has turned the corner. However, I do not believe that the present situation warrants an ex- pansion in acreage. A considerable expansion will result in. over-pro- duction, low prices and small profits. 0n the contrary, I believe that poor wheat land should be put to other uses. and that only these soils which can average 16 or more bushels of wheat over a ten year period, should be seeded to wheat. Such a policy would eliminate most of the unpro— fitable wheat production that always accompanies low yields and waste .of labor. It costs nearly as much to cultivate a thin acre as a fertile acre, while the tertile acre produces at half the cost per bushel. _ A good variety, good seed. good soil preparation, sowing late enough .ii'fllixerH-Ldmchstm-i . . this .y'ear,..andj you“ icm’I ' tly few compared, ‘with the rest of the field. We did-U , (Continued from pm 8) comes an very last and this seems to be suitable Weather. But, I do not" expect, even with a good crop—corn wiltirbe cheap. There have been m'ore'empty corn cribs this past year than there ever were before and one «good» corn, crop will not cause corn to be cheap. “ 4 . . . O I -0 s A Good Book The writer has just been reading James Oliver _Curwood’s "God’s country—The Trail to Happiness"— ! have read many of Curwood‘s books but this work is different—not a newshnota‘realstoryusatories‘hgae:i but Mr. Ourwood. fifteen hun miles from home, alone in the wilds of Canada, explains in a very inter- esting Mar his view ofvlite. He not only tells what he believes. but _ why he believes it. How this change of view came to his life, etc. One would have to. be a very superior person indeed who could not profit at least a little from its reading. One does not have to endorse every- thing he sayg, but there is foodvfor thought in every page. TRAINING sum. BEING GEN- EBATION (Continued from page 11) municating love, and thru this the young folks are led into Christian estate. So it comes back to this: Parents, preachers,~ and teachers must be genuine. Nothing impresses the young like conviction. Your person- ality is what you are and not what you profess to be. Quit your pos- ing. Put your religion into every day of the week. Go into church without knocking and leave without knocking. Human incubators of hate and jealousy should‘remain at home and stay on their knees. Be genuine. If you "are not, your life loses its authority. Young fol-ks catch religion in the atmosphere of loyalty, consistency, and love. Gen- uineness in unselfish living begets cenfldence. ,You must be so true, so simple, and so attractive in your Christian life, that those whom you touch will instinctively feel the debtor. - UncleAh saysthatarealleadernever ueetb to apologise for his followers. 0 O 0 Heavy feeding and no exercise on Sun- dafis equally bad for} horses and men. ADIO DEPARTMENT EDITED 'BY JAMES W. H. WEIR, R. E. 2 Contributions Invited—-Qiiestions Answered TESTING YOUR “B” BATTERIES HE only test of a “B" battery T which is worth anything is the voltage test. While b a tt 0 r y users and,dea1ers are in the habit of testing dry batteries with an am— meter, this test is worthless on a. "B” battery. The amperage indicates, to a certain extent, the internal resist- ance of a battery, but since, theme- ’, sistance of a 22.5-volt battery is about 5 ohms, and the resistance of a Mum tube is from 10,00'to 30,000 ‘ A; , ohms, it is apparent that an increase ofsay 5 ohms, in the battery resist- ance will have no appreciable effect on themmbined “B" battery and tube circuit. In other words, a drop in the amperageof a “B" battery, so long as the voltage is still satis- factory, meansjlittle. regarding the __uefulness of the battery. . fj'i'hei important thing to know is gym voltage which the battery will -7 ..jlelimrto the plate. and'tha‘ 70111836 : test is of real value only when,,made m a high grade; aac’curate. ' volt-9' uneter. The reastm for this isthat .2 the ordinary pocket voltmeterhasan‘. finch lower redstanoe mumvtube. Begs , gigshown' on’ V _ H-hexlower Myth“: " .9 . thnn thrice ' useof this-therein; 51*: instruxhent has approximately the same resistance as the vacuum tube and in some ‘cases even a greater resistance. Therefore, it is certain that when a “B" battery indicates a given voltage on a voltmeter of the latter type it'will deliver at least vasvmuch voltage to the— tube. The minimum working voltage of a detector tube is about 17 volts. Therefore,-a “B" battery should give results till its voltage drops to this figure. Even then it need not be discarded. It“ can be connected in ‘ series with other batteries and used on the amplifier tube. Here it should be serviceable until its voltage has dropped to‘ about one—half. In this connection, however, one thing should be watched. Some “B" bat- teries become noisy when their volt- age drops, and if this is the case the battery should not be used. 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Some refine- mentshavebeenmade,asexperiencehasshownthepossibil- ity of improvement, but the original simplicity of design has been retained while greater perfection of operation has been ' achieved. The Aermotor is wonderfully efficient in the light winds, which are the prevailing ones. The self-oiledmotor works with practically no friction, and-the wind-wheel of the Aermotor is made to run in the lightest breeze. It is also amply strong to run safely in the strongest winds. In any condition of wind or weather you may be sure that the Auto-Oiled Aermotor will give you the best of service. It is made by the company which established the steel Windmill business 38 years ago. AERMOTOR co. Ch! 0 anthem Des Home. Dallas Minneapolis Oakland Yearling Hens Barron Strain S. C. White Leghorn. mer sale to big, 10 pud combs. Positive] e d. rice $1.15 each . gillilefi each in lots of less 100 birds 2500 yearling hens must go at our annual sum- . make room for the new crop of )ullets. 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I'll Jll. the antise tic linime'nt for man-l m E‘ ’ p ., . s'SwolIfl! 9:25,.itjbdt‘tle at Mercer ‘ , fiance? ) L ' 1 ~ ily dissolved in gasoline in l3 "“3?” . me ‘T‘est‘ garagge“ Jana d1 , 80 well reCognized is this danger that most cars are now provided with a visible oil guage as a sort of mechanical pulse for the engine, by -means of which. you can assure your- self, ' from time to . time, ‘ that oil circulation is normal. Few engines fail; these days, from a lack of all. But suppose the blood stream be: comes poisoned and instead of cir- culating a life giving, wear saving flow of clean oil, it carriesa thin dirty stream laden with particles of abrasive grit. The oil guage will continue to show normal circulation and there will probably be no sud- den and spectacular'breakdown of the engine, but little by little, the working parts become infected and insidious disintegration, heralded‘by sundry knocks and rattles creeps upon it, until at the end of a few thousand miles a major operation, knowu in automobile circles as‘ a “complete overhauling” is neces- sary to make it again deliver quiet and satisfactory servite. If you would avoid such a situ- ation as I have described, you must see that your engine has not only plenty of oil but that it is clean oil that. is being circulated when your motor runs. ‘ J Two things are continually hap- pening to the oil in your engine when you use your car. It is con- stantly thinning out or losing its lubricating body, and it is constant- ly accumulating abrasive particles. or dirt. Engineers call. this “dill?- tion" and “contamination”. , Dilution is due to the presence in the lubricating oil of considerable Quantities of gasoline. It accumu- lates faster in cold weather than in warm. It is at its worst in cars driven by physicians and salesmen, who make frequent stops and starts, allowing the engine to cool down in between. It frequently becomes so pronounced that the engine appar- ently uses no oil at all and the crankcase seems" to be full even after several hundred miles, but an examination will show that the oil isthin and black and has entirely lost its slippery feeling. It has no lubricating “body”. The fact that an engine is apparently using less than a normal amount" of lubnicat- ing oil is generally an indication of severe dilution. ' How does the gasoline get into the oil to thin it out? To many people who are familiar with the re— sults of dilution, the cause is still a mystery, ‘ When you started your car this morning, particularly if it had stood all night in a cold garage, you pull- ed out the “choker” before you started to crank it, and very likely you drove several blocks before you considered the engine warm enough to run without. using the “choker” to some extent. The “choker” simply gives your engine an additional amount of gasoline, probably from three to ten times as much as is necessary to form an explosive‘ mixture. 'You use a “rich” mixture on a cold day because the air does. not contain heat enough to readily vaporize the gasoline and you must have a vapor to get started. _ - But what happens to the remain- ing gasoline that enters the engine cylinders in liquid form! It con— denses on the cold cylinder walls and dissolves the lubricating. oil off of the piston rings. On the down stroke of the piston, some of it is carried down into the crankcase to mix with the oil there. . . Now we depend on the oil around the piston' rings to form a seal and make our cylinders gas tight, as well as to lubricate the moving parts, and if this oil is dissolved by gas- oline, we no longer have a tight cylinder. More gasoline and even work their way past the piston rings and into. the crank. case, , \ crude: petroleumpand' oil.- is'vei‘y ea portion That ,is why we n-‘is' the products of combustion can then- Gasmlne and oil .are channeled led “mil”, "both being, products 011 / g . . . bdy’.’ an becomes a‘po i" , er‘an‘d‘ poorer» lubricant. This thin oil, does net‘give as good lubrication as thickerbil, and more wear takes . place between [the moving- parts, of the engine. Further, thisthin oil- does not make, as gobd a piston seal ~ as thicker oil and there-tofu allows more gasoline to work past the pis- ton rings the next time the car is started. . . Contamination works in the same way. The thiner oil. gritty particles causes g‘rea‘ter swear, ' and. greater wear 'prbduces more. grity particles to‘ be picked up by the oil. Contamination is frequent- ly aggravated by quantities of road dust and fine particles of carbon ,which also work past the piston rings and et into the oil. . Now the. we know the dangers of‘running our engines on diluted and contaminated oil, what can we do about it? This question has been the sub- .ject of extensive scientific investi- gations on the part‘of the U. S. Bu- reau of Stadards, the Society of Au- tomotive, Engineers, and the Amer- ican Petroleum Institute for the past three or four years, and they, after much experimenting, are now able to draw some, definite conclusions which can be used by the average car owner to prevent these troubles to some extent. " . Briefly; these ' engineers have found that the causes of dilution, in the order of their importance are as follows: ‘ ‘ _ 1. Operating engine at too low a temperature. 2. Excessive use of the choker. 3. Use of an over-rich. mixture. 4. Use of poor gasoline which does not vaporize readily. To make practical application of this information and avoid addi— tional repair bills as far as we can, let us resolve for the good of our engines to: ~ , First: Keep the engine war-m by covering the radiator in cold weath- er, or even by throwing a robe over the radiator until the water gets hot after starting up on a cold morning. : Use .the choker only when necessary and never drive with it on. A motor in good me- chanical condition should not re- quire excessive choking to start. . Third: Use the leanest possible mixture at all times and if possible overcome the temptation to “give her more gas” every time the motor spits on a cold morning. Fourth: Buy gasoline from a de- - pendable refining o r g a. n i z a t i on which maintains a uniform product. Finally, we must recognize the' fact that we will‘always have a cer- tain amount of dilution and con- tamination of our lubricating, oil under even the best operating condi- tions, and that eventually the oil in the crank case will be come too thin and dirty to provide proper lubrica- tion and-prevent wear. When this time arrives there is nothing to do but drain out the dirty oil, throw it away, and refill the crank case with clean fresh oil of the proper grade. In winter, this should be ‘done every five hundred miles to be 3%, and even ~more often for cars which are started and stopped a. great deal in cold weather. , Oil is cheaper- than bearings and in this-case it certainly pays to fol- low the manufacturer's instructions. ~—V. G. Parker. ' ' .~ _ , , t“ site b On an average, an agricultural worker in.this country is now able to care for about three times as many acres -of crops as an individual could handle seventy-five years ago. This is mainly because of the inoreased use of mechanical power and of labor-saving machinery. , . I- r us .Using acid phosphate does not increase the lime needs 'of the soil; on the other -. hand. liberal applications have been fbund to lessen the mount of lime needed; for clover and alfalfa. . ‘ r, . 1‘ n ,l , " Testax'show that _,scrub hogs re contracts feed than purebred; containing , ,_ .2— \ ‘ soon die. ”‘4My’ young” White Leghorn Chick- the that are about three months old regains very weak, their combs turn -' dark purple in color, and they From the time I first no- this any of them being sick ‘it is " ‘only from 24 to 36 hours before. i they die. Their combs are a bright red and when they change to such « 'a dark color, or nearly black, it is , very noticeable ameng the flock. ' / ’ be much appreciated—Mrs Do you know the cause, or what Ehe disease is, and also what is the "cure? I might state that they have ‘godd' wheat, dry mash and butter- milk, to eat, and plenty of good wa- ter. Any help you can give me will v.1 An“ gusts, Mich. 1 is impossible to make a diag- .nosis without seeing the bird. We will be glad to make an ex- ., amination if live birds are sent to 7:, the laboratory. Birds sent after they .. have died are generally too decom- - posed to make culture examination which is generally necessary in dis- tinguishing these diseases. —-J. F. pom , cheerfully answered.) Olney, Graduate Assistant, Dept. of Bacteriolbgy and Hygiene, M. S. 0. W0 My six-weeks~old chicks are both- ered with worms Is there anything I'can‘ put in the mash to rid them of worms?——J. 'M., Kendall, Mich. appears to me that sometimes ITseveral ailments are ttributed to worms when it is no definite- ly known that worms are present. If, however, you know positively that the chicks are affected with worms. the best treatment is two per cent tobacco \dust in the mash, other 'treatments are turpentine and some recommend thymol, how- ever, it would be better if you would have your local veterinarian hold a postmortem examination to deter- mine for sure whether worms are present or not.-—-E. T. Johnson, Graduate Assistant, Department of Bacteriology and Hygiene, M. S 0. “So This Is France” Says Farm Boy (Continued from Page 4) is enough only to partly repair the roof, so great was the damage done / agaihst this beautiful churCh in the recent war. ' It seems harduto believe, but we are told that the cathedral itself had apparentl'y'been made a special" target for the German guns, and as proof of thisyour hosts showed us smaller churches of more modern = and less beautiful design which were damaged but little compared to the ruin of the great cathedral. Our host in Rheims was a real * French gentleman and one .of the vcity’s most prominent business men. He had been born in Rheims and had lived there all his life, even dur- . ing the four years of bombardment. our host took us over the battle- ileid of Chateau Thierry, that old town and bridge made famous by our own reckless soldiers who would . not turn back—and then we visited * the American cemetery which is one . of the results of that battle.- seem .to be no other results, except There that the town is badly torn up; no one seems to be any better 011 on - .. account of having had that battle 4 except the souvenir sellers, the ho- tel keepers and the tOurists' guides. It has helped them and it has made - the town famous. ' . Everywhere one sees these evi- dences of the war. In the midst of a ripening vineyard we saw a great towering statue of an American ‘ doughboy “carrying on” although wounded. The French thought a great deal of our army and think as much of our people even now. There - are many little villages in rural France and even big cities that have their "Avenue de Woodrow Wilson" yet today, a tributerto the great war :leader whose greatest mistake in their minds was that he brought about the early armistice instead of the war into ’German terri-‘ tory and marching on' to Berlin. The French people see that as an enormous mistake today. " _‘ In Rural France Rural France, 'agriculturally and simply as a human spectacle, is won- derfully interesting. Riding over those old, old roads that wind about among countless little farms and ‘ through countless little villages one farming districts gth’at insets the eye. _ v ems a contrast to our own great in every detail ..-On an experiment farm near Ver- ‘ sailles. we saw a field that has been under. cultivation for, a thousand years and which last year produced _ jiitty bushels of wheat per acre. ,’.that same farm we noticed a number; - 01 the huge work cattle so common {on all the farms standing idly in a 011' oncrete pool of water, inst standing -‘e up to their knees in tar ’village ,- If you are interested in purchasing an incubate they were always made to stand’in a pool of. water for two or three hours before being allowed to enter their home stables again. The grain was being harvested at the time that we were in France. Most of the harvesting seemed to be done by hand, ,with the cradle, and then han-d‘bound into bundles by the women and hauled away in huge ox-drawn, two-wheeled carts.~ We saw several American made grain binders working in the larger fields, and very often drawn by a mixed team of horses and cattle hitched to- gether. When two or more horses were hitched to a hay cart or big wagon, they were nearly always strung out single file, one ahead of the 'other, and we were told that this may be partly due to a certain tax ruling which imposes a heavier tax upon a wagon that is drawn by two hors- es abreast than if the horses are strung out Indian file. There are no houses on the farms themselves, or certainly very few. The people are clustered together in the picturesque little villages of one or two narrow, crooked streets, and they go out to their farms to work in the morning and return to the in the evening when the day’s work is done, the cattle, hors- es, children and clumsy wagons making a really old-world picture of a system of agriculture that is continuing in that style only from the sheer momentum of its genera- tions and generations of custom and tradition. They get along that way and can raise enough grain and grapes and fruit and vegetables and meat to support themselves and have a little left to sell besides, and that was good enough for their great-grandparents, and so is good enough for them. 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The nice ,thing about the upward trend of business this" summer and fall. is that the farmer is keeping up with the procession and in fact is leading at the head of the line. There will be no backing up as long as the farmer gets a just reward for his labbrs. Wheat owners are confronting the problem of whether to sell their grain or hold it for higher markets. There has been so much said about the shortage of wheat and the prob- able high prices, that it would 1n- dicate that everybody feels like holding wheat. However, if the big traders on the large markets felt that way, the market would un— doubtedly go “skyrocketing". There is a big reduction in receipts at the primary markets for the season to date, over 26,000,000 bushels less than arrived during the correspond- ing period last year. With all of the bullish sentiment floating around, it is not surprising that there are many wheat growers who are plan- ning to wait a while before they cash their grain. - Wheat in Streng POSition A recent issue of the Price Cur- rent Grain Reporter says that it is doubtful whether a stronger domes tic situation has ever existed under normal conditions than prevails this year. From a statistical standpoint. all the wheat east of the Rockies will be needed for domestic consump- tion, even some durum, which ordin- arily is not used. The surplus in the four Pacific states, including Idaho, is around 40,000,000 bushels ever and above the actual needs and it is this grain plus the durums that ill seek foreign outlet . It‘40,000,000 bushels of durum lS deared, as many in the trade anti- cipate, it could only result in a very tight situation or one that would. have to be met by importations of Canadian, by the territory east of the Rockies or by a reduction in the domestic consumption and carry over. From a theoretical standpoint, every bushel of hard winter wheat sold for expprt must be” replaced by an equal quantity of Manitoba or other wheat, and with import duty of 42c per bushel, it is hardly probable that any great quantity could be brought in. This prospective scarcity of cash wheat is already being reflected in the ur- gent milling demand, and the high premiums obtainable for cash grain in‘ the leading markets, and while the spring wheat movement shows a tendency to advance: with mills in the winter wheat territory good buy— ers of the spring kinds for mixmg purposes. , '- -While this bullish sentiment pre- vails in the wheat trade, prices have eased" off‘around 3c a bushel dur— ing the past week. Futures are quoted aro‘und $1.59 to $1.60. The market on corn was held about crease in business over recent. trad- "ing. Oats futures are quoted at! 40c, 43c and 470 for September, Decem- ber and-May. ' . . Rahge Cattle To Be Less There will be a~’decrease in the number of western range cattle mar- keted this yearyaccording to -reports published by the United States de- steady all week with September corn , quoted at $1.04 on the Chicago mar- ket,'.with December and May corn . at .87 and 900. . growers are offering to contract th-eirvnew crop at‘07c per bushel but feeders so far “are refusing: to pay ‘1 Old. corn median: around 92 to’96c in the’fijcountm -, Around 1,000,000 “bushels of cats hominid a: , an; In the country corn ‘ partment of agriCulture. The esti- mated number to be marketed this fall at 4,077,000 head is a reduction of around 250,000 head less than .last fall and 131,000 head less than the fall of 1923. ' The’principal decrease is reported in the southwest, where the fall movement is estimated at 1,847,000 head compared with 2,117,000 in the fall of 1924 and 2,041,000 in the fall of 1923; Due to dry conditions, the movement from the southwest from January to July has been very heavy, with a considerable increase from Texas, ’while Oklahoma mar- keted 232,000 during thistime com- pared with 226;000 during the some period in 1924. In New.Mexico a record number of cattle, 254,000, head moved during the first seven months of 1925 compared with 164,- 000 in the same time last year. Feeder Demand Increases A large part of the western cattle move through the market to feeders in the corn belt and the demand for stocker and feeder cattle in the corn belt this fall will be an important factor in the marketing of western cattle. The August forecast of the corn crop indicated about 500,000.- 000 bushels more than last year and about equal to the five year average. In all of the corn belt states the crop is much larger than last year, except Nebraska Where it is lighter. The‘hay and pasture... crops in the corn belt will be lighter than last year except in eastern Iowa, Missouri and most of_Minnesota. Many of states have hay crops from 15 to 35 per cent shorter than in 1924. The supply of hogs in the corn belt is the smallest in several years, so the demand for corn for hogs will be correspondingly light The shipment of stocker and feed, er cattle from twelve markets into seven states, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Indiana and Ohio, during June 1925 was 87,000 com- pared with 144,000 in June 1924 and 153,000 in June 1923. During July. 1925 the movement into these agriculture Oh A Firm Foundation -1 -- 5"" * j. .. "chirped; were, higher; than» (dorm 1000 head had been received during, A, good share of » a 0 ply 1024: The early. iii cations... feeder de'man llir‘o;,ulo:lfll_)i.=. strong. to“0hicago has been much larger than a year'ago, around‘ 27,000 head’» being the total for the session to date. Range cattlehave been com- ing to market earlier than usual this year and at this time last year there were .hardly enough to count and two years ago only a little over 10',- the same ,‘period. the receipts have found country out~ let with the past week’s trade seeing ‘ rather numerous loads of mil bred" thin western ‘steers 'go into feeder channels. , . ' Prices on range cattle have been from $7.50 to $8.50 generally dur- ing the past week,~the market being considerably below the Week "previ- one. outlet at $9.00 to $9.75 but common grade went at $6.00 to $7.00. Most stockers and feeder steers have been selling around $6.50 to $7.50 with a few loads of extra choice feeding quality" and carrying a good cover- ing of flesh at $8250 to $9.9,0'and better. aging 1100 to‘1200 lbs. went to a corn belt .feed lot recently at 59.10. Fat Cattle Slump ‘ Fat steer prices slumped sharply during the week, good grades which have advanced so rapidly during the past month or two, sharing most of the $1.00 to $2.00 break. In ex— treme cases as much as $2.50 to 3.00 losses were evident compared with the recent high time. Prime long fed steers, on the show order, scld at $15.25 to $15.50 recently against a top of $16.10 last week. The bulk of steers sold at $8.25 to $14.50 with common lots landing around $6.50 to $7.00. While these prices are low as compared with a week or ten days previous, they are still very high compared with a year ago when top steers were selling at $11.00 to $11.25. , - . Owing to thescarcity of finished steers, it is doubtful whether top prices will suffer much further but the medium; grades will undoubtedly continueto be more or less a gamble. Butcher stock prices also slumped, largely in sympathy with the decline on fat steers. The better grades of cows and heifers closed 50 to 75c lower with spots $1.00 or more off. Bulls at $4.00 to $4.50 were steady and veal calves held firm at 312.50 THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMARY and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks ago and One Year ago P Detroit 1 ' Chicago Detroit Detroit Aug. 25 Aug. 25 July 28 1 yr. ago WHEAT— . ' N0. ’2 Red $1.71 1.00@ 1.68% $1.58 $1.25 No. 2 White 1.72 1.59 1.27 No. 2 Mixed 1.71 1.58 1.20 cons— ‘ - No. 3‘Yellow 1.11 1.13 ‘ 1.23 No. 4 Yellow 1.10 1.09 '. 1.18 Owl‘s—- . No. 2 White .49 .41 @.41 K .52 .62 iv o. 3 White J46 .4055 @Al .50 .60 RYE-— ' , _ ~ Cash No. 2 1.15 1.04 .94 ‘ BEANS— . . 1 ' _ - - ~ ‘0. H. P. th. 4.70 1 ‘ Zr , ' 4.651@4.70 5.85@5.99 , ,PO’I‘ATOES— 7'”. ' ~' ' New, Per cm. 3.25 2.oo'@2.1o . 3.50 ;._1»~.30@1-.4o ,_ HAY— L . _ ‘ _ , I _ ~ ‘ No. 2 Tim. . @‘ ' . ' x No. 1 Glover ‘ 9 ogt accountgduring, I '~ 153148"le angina - 1:an mater-ism ii ,. ‘ ~ 8; .. that she, ”in "e‘p ~ The run of western range cattle“ grower grades" :11 A few of the best— steers found ‘ -$1.00 above a year ago. Some short fed steers .aver- p 'lings from $9.50 to $13.00. ‘ butchers, $12.50@-12.70 ; _ 50@15.25: thifi season. show only, 519.6. and! the-{spirexal‘ stands? 1800- under; ck. ago.» ’1 , $12.40 to; $13.75 representing the built a month, previews. - A year ago the'bnlk cashed on a $9.00 mono basis. Top hegs selling around $13.75 new are averaging from 180 to 210 pounds» Most of the better grades are quoted from $12.45~'to $13.40 with medium grades largely at $11.85 to' $12.35 and ' .grades'at $11.30 to $11.60. I): steady... the cal j strength being evident" on feeding humps. Top'this week was $15.55 paid for feeding lambs while top fat lambs sold at $157.50. The bulk cashed on a $11.< 50 basis, same as a_week ago but Common listed at Sheep p’i‘ices are able to hold fair-1 to medium grades were .$13.50 to $14.00 with $14.00 to $14.75 taking medium to good lambs. $14.50 up. In the sheep trade, tops landed V around $7.75 'during the week with $6.00 to $7.50 representing the bulk. A week ago and a year ago the bulk of sales Were about‘ the Wethers recently were quoted at $8.00 to $10.00 on the Chicago mart with ewes at $5.00 to $8.50 and years ‘Breed- ing ewes including yearlings were quote from $8.50 to $13.00 with feedi 'g ‘wethers at $6.50 to $11.50 and feeding ewes at $3.75 to $5.25. According to forecasts made by the department of agriculture prices-Jar » lambs will be well maintained durs. ing the remainder of the year but there is a possibility of lower prices for spring 'lambs in 1926. due to” the increase in production and the probability of lower prices for wool. . LIVESTOCK MARKE'ns. I ....DE‘1‘.ROIT, Aug. 24.—Cattle——Receipts. 1,231; market opening very slow and about steady. Good to choice yearlings, dry fed, $10.25@11; best "heavy steers, dry fed, $9.50@11; best handy weight ,butcher steers, $8@9.50; mixed steers and n. at an: inset? ,_ , the top Ipripefsf ’ line" for the week?“ ve‘dr'o‘ppbd snaffi’iy, age at $12.15" . ' — 181111713331K hdgs"‘lfieéently~have l‘e'enf selling from $11.60 to $13.50 with , ‘ ' packing . .,Feeding lambs were quoted from, same. ’ This is ’ heifers, $6607.50; handy light butchers,» $5@6.25; light butchers, $4.25@5.25; best cows. $5095.50; butcher cows. $4004.75; common cows, $3003.50; canners, $2.35@ 3; choice light bulls... $5@5.75;.heavy bulls, $4.50@5.25; stock bulls, “04:26; feeders, $5@6; smokers, $4@4.25; milk- . ers and springers, $45. 00 61) 90. Veal Calves—Receipts. 4 6 6 ; market steady ; best, $14.50 @15; others, $40013. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 2.166; sheep steady". lambs 25c lower; best Tambs.’$14@16.25: fair lambs, $12@12.50; light to common lambs, $8@10.25; .buck lambs, 312.506 13.25; fair to good’ sheep. $6@7; culls ‘ and common, ”50603.50. Hogs—~119- ceipts, 689; market prospects, mixed hogs, $13.50. ~ CHICAGO.—— C a. t ‘t lo—aReceipts, Grain fed steers. $10.50@18.75 :' grass, steers, $7168.50; grain fed cows, $0.758- 8? grass cows. “@535; canners ' cutters, $2.95@3.60; veal‘ calves, $115067 ' 13; stockers and feeders. 360/8. Hogs—~Receipts. 20.000; uneven: bulk.‘ better 140 to 210-1!) weight” $13.35@ 13.60; top, $13.66; bulk.‘“225 to 325-lb packing sows, largely, $10.80@11.25; few strong weight killing pigs, $13@13.40; shippers, $10; heavyweight hogs, $12.10@12.80; medium, $12.20@13.10; light, $11.45@13.05; light lights, $11.25-@l3.65; slaughter pigs, $12.50@13.40. . » . , ~ Sheath-Receipts. 1,000; fat lambs, $141- cull natives, $ll@11.50: feed- ing lambs, $14.50@15.50;~1‘at ewes, $6@. 7.50; few upward to -$8;"range yearlifig,‘ wethers, $10.50@11.50. A GLANCE AT THE MARKETS 1‘ (U. 3. Bureau of Agricultural Economical , . Washington“ D. c. . ..~ , ~ 500. ,, . r “has 2". . -7. ' i. 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