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staff of Lubricating Engineers have worked

closely with the manufacturer, giving special
consideration to the design of the Fordson and to
the work it is expected to do.

By using Polarine “Special Heavy” you will get
the maximum of service from your Fordson; you
will be able‘ to keep it in the ‘field practically all
the time; you will have a minimum of repairs, and
greatly prolong the life of your machine—all of

IN MAKING the above recommendation, our

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(Indiana),

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which adds to the attractiveness of your invest-
ment and actually puts money in your pocket.

But, change your motor oil .very frequently.
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motor with\Polarine Flushing Oil, and refill with
freshlPolarine “Special Heavy.”

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us for chartr for the correct grade to give
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,1925

Entered is 2nd. class matter.

us. 311319.11.
at Mt. Clemens, Mich.. under 11.

Dakota Farmers Profit Through Wheat P001

Average Difference of Over Seventeen Cents Between What Member and Non- Member
of Growers’ AssociatiOn Received

largest and most profitable
.1 winter pool “in wheat which the
South Dakota Wheat, Growers
Association 'has ‘ever experienced
was recently closed by the Associa-
tion when cheeks amounting to
$180, 000 representing the final settle-
ment with the four thousand mem-
bers of the Association were placed
in the mails.
After handling more than $3,000,—
000 Jvorth of the wheat of South
Dakota. farmers, the South Dakota

”Wheat growers Association is able

to announce that the pool members

‘ of their organization have received

from ten to twenty-five cents per
bushel profit or an average of sev-
enteen and one—half cents per bush-
el profit better than the average
cash price paid by the elevators of
the state.

The“ first figures advanced to the
members of the Association in the
early part of the pool representing
their initial advancement, aggre-
gated approximately $2,250,000; the
second advancement, which was
made on March 2nd represented
$660,000. All in all these three pay-
ments aggregate more than $3,000,-
000. According to the Association's
method of orderly marketing, the
first and original payment consti-
tutes 75 per cent of the marketing
value of the wheat at the time' of
delivery to the pool. - The second
and third payments come from the
fund in the treasury that is an ac-
cumulation ' of - the market payments
made on the wheat that are made
at regular intervals during the year.

The average gain of seventeen
and one-half cents to each individ-

ual member of the pool when ap-~

plied to the pool in general indicat-
ed that the members who partici-
pated in this year ’5 pool’ 3 operations
realized a pro-fit considerably in ex—
cess of one-fourth million dollars.
Again judging by the figures given
above, had the pool handled the en-
tire volume of wheat produced in
the state of South Dakota, farmers
would 'have received $5, 000, 000

more for their 1924 crop than they

did receive.

The basic average price, Aber-

deen, the headquarters of the Asso- '

ciation, for No.1 Amber Durum is
$1. 39 which at high premium points
runs the price as high as $1. 49.
The range of prices paid by the pool
run in corresponding _ amounts

By ROBERT

equivalent to the amounts stated on
the, graduating scale.

We have tried to- make a fair
comparison of these prices with pric-
es received by farmers outside the
pool. The highest average we have
been able to find paid by an eleva-
tor outside the pool was $1.26 for
No. 1 Dark' Northern other points
ranging‘down to $1.20. No. 1 Am-
ber Durum average paid to the
farmers outside the pool range from
$1.20 to $12415; other classes
ranging proportionately;

In completing the work and re-
ports for the Association incidental
to getting the books ready for audit,
the direct or first charges in the
handling of wheat being over, but
which the Association had no con-
trol, and the operating charges of
the Association are as follows:

Terminal charges, $.0046 per bu.;
farm storage and elevator handling
and storage, $.0606; interest and in—

surance, 0.0089; or a total of
3.0741.

Operating Charges
Administration expense, 3.0087

per bu.; office upkeep, 3.0110; liqui-
dation of office set—up expense,
3.0033; and American general office
expense, $.0175; or a total of
$.0405. Reserve established by mar-
keting agreement, $.0741; direct
charges, $.13.

Comparing the statement with the
1923 statement of expenses, C. W.
Croes, manager of the Association
said: "It will be noted that the
total figure has been reduced eight
mills per bushel; the amount of in—
crease 5.4 mills per bushels, show-
ing the total of actual expense re-
duced 1.03 cents.”

Report of. the Federal trade. Com-
mission in volume four of the re-
port on their examination into these
costs shows that under the old sys-
tem it cost the farmer 16.63 cents
per bushel in the season of 1912
and again in 1917 and in 1920 this
cost had increased to 18.89 cents
per bushel or approximately six
cents per bushel .more than it had
cost them to market through the
pool and give them the benefit of
an orderly market.

During the session. of the 1923
Legislature twenty~five of the farm-

1.. MACKIN

ers present discussed the feasability
and practicability of the pooling
plan. They foresaw the opportuni-
ties offered by encouraging the till-
ing of the broad acres and'virgin
soil of South Dakota making its
fields blossom into wheat fields that
would produce crops in a measure
with its productive soil. The one
big thing that stood in their way
was an outlet for proper marketing.

These gentlemen decided to or-
ganize what is known as the South
Dakota Wheat Growers Association.
Further, after discussing the plan
a short time further, two years ago
on the 28th of June, South Dakota
Wheat Growers Association was or-
ganized as the result of many weeks
and months of careful thought and
study on the part of a number of
practical farmers who were convinc-
ed that the farm market condition
would be better if the farmer him-
self’ worked out the plan and put
it into operation.

Careful study of past experience
told them that if a market plan
would be effective it must provide
a means whereby the farmer could
control his product not 'only to his
local station but on through the ter-
minal, to the mill or foreign market.
In other words, to control as nearly
as possible the delivery of his pro-
duct to the consumer. To do this a.
study of past experience told them
again that they must have ample
finance. Further, that they must
not look to the old fashioned grain
channels for financing for they

would be vigorously opposed to any.
attempt on the part of the farmers

to take into their own hands the
marketing of their crop. Past bitter
experience in financing his own
crop had told him that he must ship
it through his loan cooperative el-
evators. Through these channels
had been proved to them beyond
doubt 'that it was not only imp1ac—
tical but extremely costly to become
entangled in the contract required
by these financial interests and to
attempt to operate on a speculative
basis

To avoid these difliculties and to
provide an avenue through which
ample finance could be had, at low—
est interest rates, the pool plan of

Is The Farmer Making The Best Investments

By R. FARMER TACKETT

sometimes wonder if the

W farmers are making the best in"-

vestments possible on the farms
and in connection withtheir ”busi-
ness. We all have, spells when we see
or hear of some wonderful story of
some enterprise that will pay 500
per cent on our investment. We see
this in the papers almost every day
and hear it talked on the streets of
the cities as well as around the
the ‘small store out in the. rural
sect1ons. We will.‘ admit that we
are always anxious to invest in
something ”that will pay a big divid-
end on our money. . We are very apt
to give the matter some considera-
tion at least and if nothing else we
will wish wedrnew the reliability of

‘ the boncern' In order that we would
_ sunsets in talr‘ bl ck

  
 

 

 

 

‘very enticing propositions.

:3 as we do not 7'
‘ When we

rubber companies who are putting
stock on,the market and they put
out some very enticing propositions.
A number of our farmers have from
time to time invested in these com-
panies and occasionally they get
somthing back on their investment
but in most cases we are inclined to
believe that We can invest our men-

-ey nearer home and feel a great

deal safer in the investment, though
it may not bring in money quite so
fast as is promised in some of these

companies in which we may take

When we in" some
A num-
ber of our farmers have from time
to time invested in these companies
and occasionally they get something
back on their investment but in most

stock. invest

cases they are sadly” disappointed.

The longer we are on the farm,

the more we are inclined to believe

   

that we canainvest our money; near-
.h‘ _ , - t

's

not bring in money quite so fast as
is promised in some of these com-
panies in which we may take stock.
When we invest in some company
by taking stock, our money as a
usual thing will be far from home
and in most cases 111 the hands of
persons unknown to us. In this way
we have no chance whatever to look
after our interests and have to trust
the honesty of the other fellow.

On“the farm we can look after
our interests and have to trust the
honesty of the other fellow.

- On the farm we can look after our
money invested all the time. Even
the renter on the farm can invest
well in things that will yield a div-
idend but we are now speaking of
the farm owner as he lathe one
who is enticed by the promising
companies.

we know of any farms that
need an investment in drainage't
Do you believe that a drainage in-
ment twill pay a dividend to the.

financing and operating was adopt—
ed. This plan provides a way where-
by each bushel of grain finances its
own way to market, this providing
unlimited money for moving the
grain.

The money coming chiefly from
the Federal Intermediate Credit
Bank, a financial agency provided
by the government for the purpose
of supplying funds for the produc-
tion and marketing of farm pro-
ducts, and to promote the welfare
of practical cooperative associations.

Thousand Members First Year

During the first year 555,000
bushels of wheat were marketed,
one thousand members delivering.
The first year was a. reasonably suc-
cessful year. Adverse marketing
conditions and small volume made
the margin of profits small, but the
majority of members were well sat-
isfied, realizing that too much could
not be expected at the start. Dur-
ing the second year the membership

'grew to 4000 and the volume han-

dled will exceed two million bushels.
011 March 2nd the second advance
was sent out, distributing to the
members a total of $660,000. With
this close the final settlement goes
out to a total of $180,000 represent-
ing only a part of the net gain that
pool members will receive from this
year’s operation. The total gain
to members. as explained in the

figures showing price range and pool

average, will exceed one quarter
million dollars.

Their growth has not been ex-
tremely rapid but considering that
they have in two years grown to a
business organization, marketing
this year three million dollars worth
of farm products and showing pro-
fits in excess of one quarter of a
million to its members cannot be
considered slow. In fact, they have
given more thought to building
well than rapidly.

They are planning a steady cam-
paign throughout the coming year.
During this year they hope, first to
develop a better and more thorough
understanding of the pooling poll—
cics among the members and farm-
ers generally. Second, to establish

a closer relation and better cooper-
ation between farmers elevators
and the Association and, third, to

increase their membership and vol-
ume to as near 100 per cent of
South Dakota wheat growers and
wheat, as possible.

Possible?

farmer? I know of several farm-
where an 'investment in drainage
would yield a. good dividend. Did
you ever know a farmer to invest
money in tiling and then say it did
not pay him well? This is an invest-
ment that he can look after all the
time. It is in his own hands. We
can call to mind any number ofV
instances where tiling when needed
has yielded a dividend from twenty
to twenty—five per cent. An invest-
ment that will yield and average of
twenty- five per cent is nothing to be
shamed of.

What about an investment in
farm building? 'We find that there
are but very few farms with all the
buildings really needed to care for
the stock and farming machinery.
It may be nothing more than prop-

er equipment and houses for the‘

chickens is needed. We will find
that there is always great loss
where this is not provided and in
many instances can be had at very
little expense. Suppose there are

one hundred hens on the farin‘

 

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N MAKING the above recommendation, our
Istafl‘ of Lubricating Engineers have worked

closely with the manufacturer, giving special
consideration to the design of the Fordson and to
the work it is expected to do. ‘

By using Polarine “Special Heavy” you will get
the maximum of service from your Fordson; you
will be able’ to keep it in the field practically all
the time; you will have a minimum of repairs, and
greatly prolong the life of your machine—all of

(Indiana)

   

standard “ Gil commit)”

“Special Heavy” ‘ A '
For Fordson Tractors

 

 

 

AT ANY

which adds to “the attractiveness of your invest-
ment and actually puts money in: your pocket.

But, change your motor oil .very frequently.
Drain your crankcase, thoroughly cleanse the
motor with\Polarine Flushing Oil, and refill with
freshPolarine “Special Heavy.” .

If you own some other make of tractor, write
us for chart for the correct grade to give
perfect lubrication. ' ’ —- "

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The Only Farm Magazine Owned and Edited' in Michigan
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12,1925

1.

Entered is 2nd. class matter, cg‘fih 2'
at Mt. Clemens, Mich.. under a r.

it. 1313:

Dakota Farmers Profit Through Wheat Pool

Average Difference of Over Seventeen Cents Between What Member and Non- Member
of Growers’ Association Received

1. MACKlN

largest and most profitable

: winter pool “in wheat which the
South Dakota Wheat, Growers
Association 'has ever experienced

,was recently closed by the Associa-

tion when checks amounting to
$180, 000 representing the final settle:
ment with the four thousand mem-
bers of the Association were placed
in the mails. .

After handling more than $3,000,-
000 Jvorth of the wheat of South
Dakota farmers, the South Dakota

' Wheat growers Association is able

to announce that the pool members

‘ of their organization (have received

from ten to tWenty—five cents per
bushel profit or an average of sev-
enteen and one-half cents per bush-
el profit. better than the average
cash price paid by the elevators of
the state.

The“ first figures advanced to the
members of the Association in the
early part of the pool representing
their initial advancement, aggre-
gated approximately $2,250,000; the
second advancement; which was
made on March 2nd represented
“60,000. All in all these three pay-
ments aggregate more than $3,000,-
000. According to the Association's
method of orderly marketing, the
first and original payment consti-
tutes 75 per cent of the marketing
value of the wheat at the time- of
delivery to the pool. 1 The second
and third' payments come from the
fund in the treasury that is an ac-
cumulation of the market payments
made on the Wheat that are made
at regular intervals during the year.

The average gain of seventeen
and one~ha1f cents to each individ-

ual member of the pool when ap-‘

plied to the pool in general indicat-
ed that the members who partici-
pated in this year’ s pool’s operations
realized a profit considerably in ex-
cess of one-fourth million dollars.
Again judging by the figures given
above, had the pool handled the en—
tire volume of wheat produced in
the state of South Dakota, farmers
would “have received $5,000,000

more for their 1924 crop than they

did receive.

The basic average price, Aber-

deen, the headquarters of the Asso— ’

ciation, for No. 1 Amber Durum is
$1. 39 which at high premium points
runs the price as high as $1. 49.
The range of prices paid by the pool
run in corresponding , amounts

By ROBERT

equivalent to the amounts stated on
the, graduating scale.

We have tried to make a fair
comparison of these prices with pric-
es received by farmers outside the
pool. The highest average we have
been able to find paid by an eleva-
tor outside the pool was $1.26 for
No. 1 Dark' Northern other points
ranging'down to $1.20. No. 1 Am-
ber Durum average paid to the
farmers outside the pool range from
$1.20 to $1.24%; other classes
ranging proportionately;

In completing the work and re-
ports for the Association incidental
to getting the books ready for audit,
the direct or first charges in the
handling of wheat being over, but
which the Association had no con-
trol, and the Operating charges of
the Association are as follows:

Terminal charges, $.0046 per bu.;
farm storage and elevator handling
and storage, $.0606; interest and in-
surance, ~$.0089; or a total of

3.0741. 7
Operating Charges

Administration expense, 3.0087
per bu.; oflice upkeep, $.0110; liqui-
dation of ofiice set-up expense,
$.0033; and American general office
expense, $.0175; or a total of
3.0405. 'Reserye established by mar-
keting agreement, $.0741; direct
charges, $.13.

Comparing the statement with the
1923 statement of expenses, C. W.
Croes, manager of the Association
said: “It Will be noted that the
total figure has been reduced eight
mills per bushel; the amount of in-
crease 5.4 mills per bushels, show—
ing the total of actual expense re-
duced 1.03 cents."

Report of the Federal trade Com-
mission in volume four of the re-
port on their examination into these
costs shows that under the old sys-
tem it cost the farmer 16.63 cents
per bushel in 'the season of 1912
and again in 1917 and in 1920 this
cost had increased to 18.89 cents
per bushel or approximately six
cents per bushel more than it had
cost them to market through the
pool and give them the benefit of
an orderly market.

During the session. of the 1923
Legislature twenty-five of the farm-

ers present discussed the feasability
and practicability. of the pooling
plan. They foresaw the opportuni-
ties ofiered by encouraging the till-
-ing of the broad acres and virgin
soil of South Dakota making its
fields blossom into wheat fields that
would produce crops in a measure
with its productive soil. The one
big thing that stood in their way
was an outlet for proper marketing.

These gentlemen decided to or-
ganize what is known as the South
Dakota Wheat Growers Association.
Further, after discussing the plan
a short time further, two years ago
on the 28th of June, South Dakota
Wheat Growers Association was or-
ganized as the result of many weeks
and months of careful thought and
study on the part of a number of
practical farmers who were convinc-
ed that the farm market condition
would be better if the farmer him-
self/ worked out the plan and put
it into operation.

Careful study of past experience
told them that if a market plan
would be effective it must provide
a means whereby the farmer could
control his product not only to his
local station but on through the ter—
minal, to the mill or foreign market.
In other words, to control as nearly
, s possible the delivery of his pro-
duct to the consumer. To do this a.
study of past experience told them
again that they must have ample
finance. Further, that they must
not look to the old fashioned grain
channels for financing for they

would be vigorously opposed to any.

attempt on the part of the farmers
to take into their own hands the
marketing of their crop. Past bitter
experience in financing his owu
crop had told him that he must ship
it through his loan cooperative el-
evators. Through these channels
had been proved to them, beyond
doubt "that it was not only imprac-
tical but extremely costly to become
entangled in the contract required
by these financial interests and to
attempt to operate on a speculative
basis

To avoid these difficulties and to
provide an avenue through which
ample finance could be had, at low-
est interest rates, the pool plan of

Is The Farmer Making The Best Investments

By R. FARMER TACKETT

. WE sometimes wonder if the
farmers are making the best in-

vestments possible on the farms
and in connection with their busi-
ness. We all have spells when we see
or hear of some Wonderful story of
some enterprise that will pay 500
per cent on our investment. We see
this in the papers almost every day
and hear it talked on the streets of
the cities at? well as around the
. in the rural
sections. We will admit that we
are always anxious to invest in
something that will pay a big divid-
end on our money. We are very apt
to give the matter some considera-

tion at least 1111 if nothing else we ,

will wish

 

View the reliability of
"War thazkwe would

‘very enticing propositions.

rubber companies who are pitting
stock on the market and they put
out some very enticing propositions.
A number of our farmers have from
time to time invested in these com-
panies and occasionally they get
somthing back on their investment
but in most cases we are inclined to
believe that we can invest our mon-

*ey nearer home and feel a great

deal safer in the investment, though
it may not bring in money quite so
fast as is promised in some of these

companies in which we may take

in' some
A num-
ber of our farmers have from .time
to time invested in these companies
and occasionally they get something

stock- When we invest

back on theirinvestment but in most
' . cases they are sadly‘ disappointed.

The longer we are on the farm,
the more we are inclined to believe
. we can invest our money near-

\

  

Do tyou believe that a drainage in-

not bring in money quite so fast as
is promised in some of these com-
panies in which we may take stock.
When we invest in some company
by taking stock, our money as a
usual thing will be far from home
and in most cases ‘ln the hands of
persons unknown to us. In this way
we have no chance whatever to look
after our interests and have to trust
the honesty of the other fellow.

On'the farm we can look after
our interests and have to trust the
honesty of the other fellow.

. On the farm we can look after our
money invested all the time. Even
the renter on the farm can invest
well in things that will yield a div-r
idend but we are now speaking of
the farm owner as he lathe one
who_ is enticed by the promising
companies.

‘ e we ‘know of any farms that
need an investment in drainage?

the;

financing and operating was adopt-
ed. This Plan provides a way where-
by each bushel of grain finances its
own way to market, this providing
unlimited money for moving the
grain.

The money coming chiefly from
the Federal Intermediate Credit
Bank, a financial agency provided
by the government for the purpose
of supplying funds for the produc-
tion and marketing of farm pro-
ducts, and to promote the welfare
of practical cooperative associations.

Thousand Members First Year

During the first year 555,000
bushels of wheat were marketed,
one thousand members delivering.

The first year was a reasonably suc-,

cessful year. Adverse marketing
conditions and small volume made
the margin of profits small, but the
majority of members were well sat-
isfied, realizing that too much could
not be expected at the start. Dur-
ing the second year the membership

'grew to 4000 and the volume han—

dled will exceed two million bushels.
On March 2nd the second advance
was sent out, distributing to the
members a total of $660,000. With
this close the final settlement goes
out to a total of $180,000 represent—
ing only a. part of the net gain that
pool members will receive from this
year’s operation. The total gain
to members, as explained in the

figures showing price range and pool-

average, will exceed one quarter
million dollars.

Their growth has not been ex-
tremely rapid but considering that
they have in two years grown to a.
business organization, marketing
this year three million dollars worth
of farm products and showing pro-
fits in excess of one quarter of a
million to its members cannot be
considered slow. In fact, they have
given more thought to building
well than rapidly. ’

They are planning a steady cam-
paign throughout the coming year.
During this year they hope, first to
develop a better and more thorough
understanding of the pooling poli-
cics among the members and farm—
ers generally. Second, to establish
a closer relation and better cooper-
ation between farmers elevators
and the Association and, third, to
increase their membership and vol-
ume to as near 100 per cent of
South Dakota wheat growers and
wheat, as possible.

Possible? ; _

farmer? I know of several farm-
where an’investment in drainage
would yield a. good dividend. Did
you ever know a farmer to invest
money in tiling and then say it did
not pay him well? This is an invest~
ment that he can look after all the
time It is in his own hands. We
can call to mind any number of.
instances where tiling when needed
has yielded a dividend from twenty
to twenty—five per cent. An invest—

' ment that will yield and average of

twenty— five per cent is nothing to be
shamed of.

What about an investment in
farm building? ‘We find that there
are but very few farms with all the
buildings really needed to care for
the stock and farming machinery.
It may be nothing more than prop-
er equipment and houses for the
chickens is needed. We will find
that there‘ is always great 1038'
where this is not provided and in
many instances can be had at very
little expense. Suppose there are
one hundred hens on the farm
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it! .AY up in the tip of the thumb
in the northern part of Huron

, ‘ county, not far from Grind-.
"6 City, the traveller along the
,ntiful .Huron shore-line drive
discover a farmstead so un—
al as to challenge his attention.
.lespenially mammoth barn and a.
“iss'tantial country mansion vie
an entrancing view over an ar-
,. eally landscaped slope and out
War the blue waters of Lake Huron.
No weaklings could have carved
[at such a ‘spot. No faint heart
io‘uld brave the fierce storms which
Weep down from the north during
e,long winter months and rage
i mind this outpost of civilization,
is citadel of culture. But it is not
I geography that I would speak.
other with this setting in mind I
ggasire to introduce to THE BUSINESS
ARMER readers. the family that es-
ablished and maintain this home
hich is so unusual, so interesting,

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kinch of»
Grindstone City are the founders of
this homestead. When they were
married and started farming their
hysical holdings consisted of a
hare in 320 acres. Their intangi-
le assets can be appraised and in-
erpreted only in terms of what they
.-h“ave, since been able to accomplish.
oday, Mr. Kinch has a farm of
['100 acres. while his wife Isabel
wns 320 acres in her own name
,which is operated by a tenant. Thus
(the ,broad fields of the Kinchs‘
.spread over 1420 acres.

V ' Do Things in a Big “'ay

,, The main barn on this homestead
118.8. mammoth affair. 200 feet long
, and 96 feet wide. With its red roof,
it is a landmark visible for many
miles across the level fields of this
Certainly this<barn is the
in Huron county. Partial
eighbors claim that it is the larg-
t in the state.

Supplementing this main barn
re numerous commodious additions
. find cattle, sheep, swine, poultry
d implement sheds. Everywhere
‘ppear unmistakable signs that this
,3 a farm where things are done on
I ' big scale by a man who is both
«active and progressive.

Purebred livestock is seen on ev—
Six breeds of sheep are
kept. Mrs. Kinch has purebred
Oxfords and Southdowns, while her
thsband has purebred Shropshires,
and Rambouillets, and

All told, the flocks of
wes and young lambs total over
Large numbers of rams
re also kept for breeding and sales
:purposes. Orders for breeding stock
are- received from widely scattered
and distant points in the United

uperior Tamworth swine are also
ised,

But it was not of barns, of plows
Or blooded stock that I started out
' The most interesting thing
11 life is always the human element
and this is especially the case in
{this instance. Nor is it possible in
one brief article to have much to
ay about each of the ten members
of this family. Let us rather focus
our attention on the inspiring figure
of the wife and mother, Mrs. Isa-
e1 Kinch, and then let the husband
‘nd eight daughters compose the

A Woman of Varied Interests

’A dynamo of energy is Mrs.
inch, passionately devoted to her
”i‘ge family, extremely and contin—
ly active in all movements for
betterment of her community
keenly aware of the responsibil-
.which come to a person who
epts positions of leadership.

.he' first afternoon that I called
he Kinch farm I was disappoint-
t to find the lady of the house
me. I learned that she was
'Qrtaining a bunch of twenty-five
*County Club women at a din-
, About two o’clock
ext" afternoon I again ap-
hed the Kin-ch home. When
a' mile or two from my des-
n I recognized the object of
neat grasping the steering
*9: ;.a shiny coupe in capable
nd driving down the road

         
     
        

 
 

   
  
   
      
     

  

 
  
  

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Helpfully Active in Multitude of Organizations

By STANLEY M. POWELL

(Lansing correspondent of The Business Farmer.)'

When the two autos met and we
exchanged greetings, Mrs. Kinch im-
mediately suggested that we go

visit. This was just wha I wanted,
so back we drove. omfortably
seated in the sun parlor of the spa—
cious Kinch residence, .I drew out
little by little most of the facts
which I shall now relate. It isn’t
easy to get Mrs. Kin-ch to refer, to
her activities, achievements and ex- and
ploits, for though -

Kinch home.

spirited woman.

 

she is a fluent
and ready.talker,
she is one of
the most modest
women that one
could find any-
where. When
during the latter
part of my stay.
she caught me
taking notes, she
remonstrated vi-
gorously, saying,
“I thought that
we were just
having a good
talk.. I didn’t
know I was be-
ing interviewed.”
From her own
confession and
from other sourc-
es I patched to-
gether the fol-
lowing composite
picture of the -
scope of Mrs.
Kinch’s influence
and of her aetiv—
ities and of the

 

which she is
making toward
community bet-
terment in an
organized way.
Among o t h e 1'
things which no

her household duties.

 

 

This is Mrs. Frank Kinch of Grind—
stone City. folks, in. farm woman who
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doubt I failed ,

to learn about, Mrs. Kinch is presi-
dent of the Huron County Federa-
tion of Women’s Clubs, president of into

the local League of Women Voters, on the
For instance, every summer, Profes—
sor Wm. Lyon Phelps of Yale Uni—
and Edgar A. Guest, the
both of whom have summer
homes on the shores of Lake Huron,
are secured as outstanding program
attractions.

But please do not get the impres—
sion that Mrs. Kinch is one of those
organization busybodies who neg-

president of the Seventh Congres-
sional District League of Women
Voters and delegate from that body
to the national convention, presi~ poet,
dent of the North Huron Community
Club, Master of the Huron County
Pomona Grange, Lecturer of the 10—
cal subordinate Grange, and active
in boys’ and girls’ club work and
Farm Bureau affairs.

Through

versity

The first boys’ and girls’ ‘club .in
Huron county was organized in the
Here the neighbor-
hood boys and girls have met many,
many times under the capable and
inspiring leadership Of this public—
To the commodi—
ous Kinch kitchen, thirty-dive feet
long, the county 'agricultural agent
has brought his moving picture ma-
chine to add to the entertainment
instruction of the meetings.

‘From this nu-

cleus, enthusiasm
for boys’ 3. n d
girls’ work has
spread, slowly at
first, but 11 o w
more rapidly, un-

til today the‘

whole county is
awake to t h e
possibilities and
desirability o f

.this type of in-

fluence for the
farm boys and
girls. Mrs. Kinch's
own personal at-
titude toward
this one of her
many activities
is well illustrat—
ed by her re—
mark, “The older
are facts and
we can’t do much
for them, but
the youngsters
are not facts but
possibilities and
we dare not shirk
our responsibili-
ties toward
them.”

The North Hu—
ron Community
Club of which
Mrs. Kinch is
president is in
fact just a big
farmers’ c 1 u b.

enterprise of Mrs.
Kinch, noted speakers are brought
.community to

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as there is on the Kinch Eurm’. ‘ Themspacioue.
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. Toum Girl Came to Country, Heiped HusbandsSucceed, Raised Eight Daughters and Was 5 1;

lle'cts her husband, children and
home to chase around the commun-

ity attending meetings and making
speeches. Far from it. In the
Kinch household eight daughters
have been brought up and. a good
job of it has been done, too. More—
over, I dare say few farm women
are as intelligently and fully in-
formed regarding evéry detail or
what is going on in every depart-

- ment of their farms as is Mrs.

Kinch. .
Mrs. Kinch says. “I try to make
up to myr-husband for not bringing
some boys to him.
some of the things which boys
would have done. I_remember one
fall when Frank had 60 acres of
beans, it was so ’wet he couldn’t
harvest them by machinery. So I
told him that the eight girls and
myself would pull and pile them by

'hand for half, and we did, singing

as we worked in the rain.”
Romance of Harm . Life

Mrs. Kinch remarked, “When I
married Frank and cattle out here
to the farm to live I had absolutely
no farm experience. Why I didn’t
know one kind of grain from an—
other and had never even boiled, a
mess of potatoes in my life. Per-
haps it was because everything was
so new to me that I found so much
adventure in farm life. You know
it is adventure that makes life in-
teresting and worth while and I see
more fun in one week on the farm
than in the city in the whole year.
Every last thing on the farm is dear
to ‘me. \

“So many farm women to go
through life hopelessly suffering
under the delusion that farm life
18 a blind alley job. I wish that I
could do something to make them
see things in a difierent light and
change their point of view. My

life’s highest ambition is to make.

farm women see and appreciate the
bright side of living on the farm.

“It’s the spirit of adventure and
of partnership that makes farm life
attractive, interesting and fascinat-
ing. In our family we like to feel
that we are all engaged in a great
enterprize together. In the summer
we all go out together to bring in
the first load of hay. It’s a red
letter, gala day. Then in the winter
we all go out together for the first
load of ice. Farm life is just full
of romance and adventure for those
who can feel and appreciate it.

“.I’ve' had so much fun trying
various other things since living on
the farm. Frank was reminding
me the other day of the time when
I went into the frog raising busi—
ness. Then I had a spell of keeping
bees. I’ve tried my hand at land-
scape gardening for our own place
and for the neighbors.

Have the Pioneer Spirit

“But anything which we may
have been able to accomplish to-
gether here has been due to Frank.
He certainly is the right kind of a
husband. We have been pioneers
together, venturing into hitherto
untrod fields. In the early days
when we were in the dairy business
extensively we had the first milking
machine in operation in this re-
gion. I remember that we read
about the new invention and sent
in our order before the company
that maufactured them had them
on sale in this country.

“Then too, I’ll never forget how
thrilled and charmed we Were with
that first cream separator. Why
people drovetwenty miles in a bug:
gy to see the wonderful machine
that could separate cream from
mllk. On Sunday nights there was
always a big“ crowd here to see it
operate. .

“But as the years passed and help
became scarce we found the dairy
so gradually swung over from cows
to sheep.” Mrs. Kinch did not go
on to say that she and two of her
daughters had personally spent
many weeks exhibitingth‘ese sheep
at; the far-rs and spreading“ far and
wrde, the fame of'the Kinch sheep
flocks and swine herd. Last fall
Mrs. Kinch accompanied the stock
to the'fairs fathad Axe; Sandusky,
Jackson, =Adrien and ”Hillsdal'e.’

  

 

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The early builders of America made their houses
of rough hewn logs or of stone or adobe lifted from
the earth. Settlements grew to towns, towns to cities.
Small stores and shops were built, and these in turn
were torn down to make room for bigger ones.
Roads, bridges and railways were constructed. Fac-
tories and skyscrapers were erected. And so, swiftly.
the America of today appeared, still growing.

 

In the midst of the development came the tele-
w phone. No one can tell how much of the marvelous
later growth is due to it—how much it has helped
the cities, farms and industries to build. We do know
that the telephone became a part of the whole of
American life and that it not only grew with the
country, but contributed to the country’s growth.

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Communication by telephone has now become so
important that every American activity not only
1 places dependence upon the telephone service of
today, but demands even greater service for the
growth of tomorrow.

 

AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH’COSA’R‘RY
AND ASSOCIATED Conwames

BELL SYSTEM

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WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE MENTION
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Milkmakier
now Being Distributed at zoo Points in Michigan

THIS tremendous distribution deserves attention. 4 Are you feeding
, to the best advantage? . _
~ Cows fed Milkmaker produce more milk and butter fat. They are
healthier and stronger animals. Your feed cost is lower.

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

. If there is no co-operative association or agent near, write for infer-
n m’ation how to co-operate with your neighbors for ear lobe of Milkmaker
“for car door delivery. ,
‘3. ~ Also write for booklet on Milkmaker and’feeding suggestions.
’ See your co-opei'ative Ass'n Manager or our local Farm Bureau
.age‘ut at once and arrange for your supply. . . . . ,

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

   

  
     
     

  

219,“ Cedar Street, lensing, Michigan ,, _ -

mm Farm Bureau Supply'seryieo

My husband and I are "living on
a farm, working it and getting one.-

third.’ The stock, tools, expenses“

for seed, etc. are furnished. I would
like to know, when we have thresh-
ers, am I to stand all expense 0;
buying meat, potatoes, .etc. for the
meals, also preparing them.-———Mrs.
Farmer, Owosso, Mich;

‘A\S to whether the party of the
' second part stands all 'of the
expense of boarding threshers
“depends on term of lease: However,
under ordinary conditions the land-
lord bears a portionlof this expense.

lord should share the same portion
as he receives income," which in this,
case would be two-thirds. In some
cases the landlord also stands a por-
tion of the labor cost in preparing
the meals.,—-—F. T. Riddell, Research
Ass’t in Farm Management, M. S. C.

ONE YEAR TO REDEEDI

If a man gets married to a wo—
man who owns a farm, he works
on the farm for 15 or 18 years, gets
some spending money but no wages,
that farm is mortgaged and they are
going to foreclose, can this man
put in a labor claim? He got but very
little clothes. Also how long have
'you before they can put youroff?
Howlmany notices must be given be-
fore they can foreclose?—-H. H.,
Graden, Mich. -

DON’T see how you could have a
I claim for labor for working your

wife’s farm in this case. The
mortgager would have one year in
which to redeem the farm after fore-
closure—Legal Editor.

LICENSE FOR HALF PRICE

I have purchased a new Ford
truck and Would like to know when
I can get car license for half price.
——V. J., Bear Lake, Mich.

——License plates are sold at half
rate beginning September lst.——
Chas. J. DeLand, Secretary of State.

CUTTING WEEDS ALONG ROAD

I live insHuron county, Michigan.
My farm is on trunk line 19 and
there is some brush on the side of
the road and the towuship commis-
sioner has notified me to cut it and
cut'all weeds on my side of road,

the work. I want to know if the
law compels me to do the work for
nothing or not. , I own the farm and
am a tax payer..—— R. M., Huron
County.

| )CT 83 of the Public Acts of

‘ 1919 provides that “It shall be

‘ the duty of overseer and com-
missioner of highways to cut or
cause to be out prior to the first
day of July, in townships south of
range 16 north, and prior to July’

   
 

  
 
 
 
 
 
  

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TEXT: “And he said unto them, How
is this that you sought me? VIE“ ye 'not
that I must be about my Fat er's busi-
ness?" Luke 2:49.

“ O, my boy cannot go to college.
I need him at home to help me
in my business.” A few years

passed and I met the father again.

son was a failure" in life. What had
the father done? He had rudely sup-
pressed the native urgethatias in
his son’s breast. . .

One day Mary found her ‘bo‘y. Je-
‘sus,.under circumstances. that creat-
ed deep. perplexity. “Mother, why
are you so anxious -about~-.xne._jD.en’-t
‘ you know I must be about my Fatha
er’s business??? ,Well, Mary did not
understand... - But , neither . did ; she

  
   
 

  

 

 

mi: .in here boy’s ~ _
She :3 st rayed, ponds d ‘

  

For provisions purchased the land--

. variety.

but he won’t allow me any pay for -

My FatHEr’s Business

He was mourning his mistake.’ The ,

use an’ imperial will to crush’the ldi-s‘
. vine impulsi he!“

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2.181511 tying tawnships northot range) I." ‘
-‘1‘6, ailr‘ybrush-and weeds within the .- .
,. limits of any highway, etc." ' ‘ -.

- It “is our opinion that this work
shouldlbe done by the overseer or
commissioner” as a part of his' or

their: duty and if he or they re»

quest you to do it you should be
paid by them.-—H. V. Spike, Assiste
ant Attorney General. ‘ '

MUIBE‘ any TREE DOES
nos? BEAR -

I thought I would take the liber-
ty, to ask you what to-‘do with a
mulberry tree that was planted 20
years ago and has not had any fruit
on it yet. It blassoms 'every year
and here are some of the blossoms.
5—0 .W., Goodells. Mich. ‘

OUR mulberry tree is .probably
self-sterile and requires cross-
polllnation with ‘some other

Crass-pollination may be

brought about by planting a tree

, of some other variety near the bar-

ren one, or you might graft clone
from another tree into the top. This
should be done in the spring. The

ordinary cleft graft may be used.—

R. E, Loree, Asst. Prof. of Horticul-
ture, M. S. C. '

NOTIFY 'ENIDORISER OF NOTE

How much time after the note is
due have they got to notify me to
hold me good?-—B. F., Mancelona,
Mich.

——The indorser of a note must be
notified Within 24 hours of the mak-
er’s failure to pay, unless notice is
waived.——‘Lega1 Editor.

DUTIES OF COUNTY AGENT

Can a county agent make any
charge if called out to cull chick-
ens? Must he come if called?—-—A
Reader, 'Burr Oak, Mich.

COUNTY agricultural agent is /

- an employee of the Federal De-

partment of Agriculture, the
State Agricultural College, and some
local cooperating agency, which is
either the county board of super-
visors or the county farm bureau
and in some cases both. His serv-

ices to the people of the county are '

paid for by these cooperating parties
and there is no other charge for his
work. ,

The business of the county agri-
cultural agent is educational rather
than service to private parties. It
is\ his responsibility to teach others
how poultry culling is done, and
this is accomplished through culling
demonstrations and two-day poul—
try schools, which give an Opportun-
ity to all poultry raisers in the coun-
ty to learn how to cull poultry them-
selves. It is much more important
{or a poultry man to know how this
is done than to have someone come
to his farm and do it for him.——R.
J. Baldwin, Extension Director,
Michigan State College.

aged, and waited, while Jesus “ads
vanced in wisdom and stature and in
favor with God and man.” ~
The altruistic spirit is native in
the budding and unspoiled heart. A
pious “must” urges on to a life of

faith and unselfish Service. What is “

to be done about it? Heed it. By
this sign conquer. It is the Father's
business. “The great secret of suc-
cess in life is for a man to be ready

when his opportunity comes,” said‘
Disraeli. What is success? Does a»

mansucceed when he. acquires a for-
tune but lets his soul shrivel up in
the process? 0r. i8'~v1fefllr3uccesta

' , matter of attitudeshnewi‘and renew— .

‘edm'and" always readyf'to heed the
high can ‘ofood’! ' Until thirty

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Important Changes

Added Beauty and Utility——
Closed Cars In Colors—
No Increase In Price ~ « « ~

All-steel bodies onTudor
Sedan, Coupe and open
cars. Bodies and chassis
both lowered. Larger,
more attractive fenders,
affording greater protec-
tion. New improved
transmission and rear axle
brakes on all types. One-
' piece “ventilating. wind-
shield on closed cars;
double Ventilating type
on open cars. Curtains

opening with all doors on
Touring car and Run-
about. 01 Closed cars in
colors,—with upholstery
of finer quality to harmon-
ize, and nickeled radiator
shells. Many other refine-
ments now add to the

beauty and quality of

these cars. See your near-
est Authorized Ford
Dealer today for com-
plete details.

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The 1000' Mile Shoe
CORDOVAN HORSE-HIDE

: mix. 1; 1'

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Just the shoe for
Harvest fields

ordinary pairs.

we know of.

gin with. Genuine
Cordovan Horsehide,
the toughest fibre
leather known. Used
for centuries in the
fine, old Cossack sad-
dles. The only mate-
rial ever found able
to stand the terrific
pounding big league
baseball covers re-
ceive.

But until recently
horsehide could nev-

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Every mail brings us letters
like the one above. Men write
that Wolverine Horsehide shoes
. , actually wear far more than the
” 1000 miles we claim for them.
They tell us they outwear three

There’s a real reason for this.
Wolverine Cordovans are differ-
ent from_any other work shoes

It’s a different leather to be-

Vandalia. Ill.
June‘9. 1924
Wolverine Shoe 8t. Tanning Corp.
Rockford, Michigan ,
Gentlemen: Mr. Bert Edwards .05
Vandalia, 111.. came into our store
last Saturday night and asked for
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that would answer the purpose.
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and left me the old ones and I am
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what the up ve done.

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times. All our customers get
the same satisfaction from
every pair we sell.

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Ned Atkinson.

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always “tanned up” too stiff.
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Developed in our own tanneries.
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way that makes this tough
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glove. It is thick. But you can
bend it in your fingers like oiled

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When to firw‘ Wheat
HE writer can remember, ‘when
practically all wheat .in this
section was sown by vSépt. 10.
Now it is not uncommon to see
wheat seeded as late as October 5.
a . Why the change?
The first ,change
to later seeding
was to escape the
Hessian fly. ‘Re-
member when
this pest first
made its appear-
ance? I do!
took field after
‘ field. in this vi‘
cinity and ab-
solutely ruined
them. That was
perhaps
six or seven
years ago. It was
discovered that the fly entered the
young wheat plant in the fall, and
deposited its eggs in the leaves just
about at ground level. In the early
spring these eggs produced adults,
which laid eggs on the leaves of the
developing wheat plant. Maggots
from these eggs worked down in—
side the leaf sheaths and some times
several of them were found in one
place. They fed on the juice of the
straw by scraping it, thereby weak-
ening the straw so it generally fell
over.~ If it did not fall, it could
not at‘least produce a normal well—
filled head, the wheat being all
shrivelled up, and very small in size.
It became evident that if wheat
should be sown late enough in the
fall the flywould not deposit its
eggs in it, and of course there
would be no trouble in the spring.
So here was the solution. «Sow wheat
later. How late? Like most all
farm questions that is a perplexing
one, because seasons,.weather con-
ditions, etc., are so changeable that
an answer fitting last season might
not be suited to this one. However
experience cowering twenty-five
years, as the years with their vary-
ing weather conditions, come and
go, is a pretty safe guide and this
to the writer would show the best
wheat seeding date for Southern
Michigan to be between (September
25th and October lst. As the fall
advances a few days earlier but no
where in the lower peninsula earlier
than September 20th.
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Late Wheat
Late sown wheat will no doubt
escape the fly, but it can not escape
the winter, and if winter comes
early the wheat plant may not be
large and strong enough to with.
stand it. For this reasdn late sown
wheat needs plenty of available
plant food just as‘soon as the plant
appears above ground. It also needs
a suitable home in the soil, 9. good
bed as well as a well-filled larder.
The good bed is easily obtainedgby
_ properly fitting the soil. The well-
filled larder is not so easily provid-
ed! Just now we are preparing the
bed and how unlike us humans the
wheat plant is.
with our views, it wants a hard,
firm bed, and I sometimes wonder
if. many farmers try to produce this
with the least amount of labor.
When a man says he has harrow-
ed his wheat land seven times, it
isn’t necessarily any better fitted
than that of the man who only went
over his land four or five times. Its
what you accomplish in soil com-
pacting that counts most. Of course,
if an old sod has been plowed un-
der, it will need» all the harrowing
it can get to subdue and break it up
properly. But for soil similar to an
out stubble plowed under, it seems,
to me a spring tooth drag is not the
all important implement to use. , It
doesn’t take very much harrowing
to pulverize the top”two or three in-
‘Below this loose sur-
face “the soil shouldbe very firm.
It is explained that, the young
wheat plant starts its roots down-
ward, and continues this downward
growth in loose, " easily. penetrated
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cease théir downward course, and

spread out “their roots laterally. This
is much as'it should befas these
shallow spreading roots rise and
fall smore or less with the soil, as
the cold orflwarmth cause the soil
to move. Deeply rooted plants can
not move with the soil without
breaking many of their roots, and

as I understand it this breaking ol.‘

of too many roots, is the chief cause
of wheat winter killing. Just as
Grimm alfalfa, with its shallow
spreading roots is not as liable to

' heave and winter kill as the common

alfalfa with its deep tap roots.

How to get the soil compacted
into a firm hard mass, with only
two or three inches of loose soil on
the surface, with theleast amount
of labor. __ is the task before the
wheat grower. _ -'

This year we have twenty-eight
acres for wheat, and none of it is
on our home farm. It seems quite
impossible to work wheat into a
suitable rotation where we special-
ize on potatoes. The owners of this
land want the oat stubble plowed
and fitted for wheat; and occasion-
ally wheat is to be SOWIl on corn
ground. We aim to plow the oat
stubble just as soon as the oats are
removed. It is plowed about seven
inches deep, which for us is deep
plowing. The field is next harrowed
With a good old fashioned ”wood
frame spring tooth drag. Some-
times a float is used instead. Either
one is more effective in levelling the
surface when used at once after
plowing. The field is then rolled,
and this, to us, is the all important
factor in the preparation of the
wheat ground.

Years ago I concluded a common
steel landroller was a very inefli-
cient sort of roller. They are two
light, _weighing. only 650 pounds,
and, if weighted "with stone, the
weight is all on the bearings, and
they do not wear long. According-

ly yours truly decided to build a '

good old time plank roller. It is in-
two sections, built with mower
wheels." The mower frames, which
contained the roller bearings, were
sawed off, and these were used as
hearings in the roller. So it is a
roller with roller bearings. It
weighs 1700 pounds and sod has to
be heavy indeed if you can count
the furrows after the roller goes
over it! No, it isn’t a horse killer,
because we generally use three hors-
es on it. The tongue is double and
easily changed from a tongue for
WW horses, into shafts for a three
horse team.

We lap half when rolling wheat
ground, sothe field is really rolled
twice over, and the firming of the
ground by this rolling is marvelous.
Horses do not sink in more than
half an inch or so, and the manure
Spreader does not cut in any deeper.

If possible, the field is top dress-
ed with the spreader after this roll-
ing, then harrowed again "to incor-
porate the manure into'the soil. It
is then rolled twice and is ready for
the drill and the drill wheels do not
sink in deeper than the thickness of
their tires.

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" Plant Food

Where manure is obtainable, it
is'to my notion the ideal plant food
for wheat—but few farmers have
manure enough -for all the places
they would use it. If one must su-p- ‘
plement the farm manure with com-
mercial fertilizer, there, is no bet-
ter place, and none as good, as on
the wheat field.

Being compelled to sow wheat
late, a farmer,must try and make it
grow fast; To do this plant food in
a very available form must be pro—
vided. If commercial fertilizer is
used, I believe it is economy to use
the- best one can gét,f.~asw‘the quan-

tity one uses is notaustvimportant as

the quality. Wher‘eegpe‘ has grown
successful ”crops ofh"clov1er or alfalfa
in the crop. rotation, ,lt-is doubtfulv‘if
too largeshiinvestment in nitrogen
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“ AT writing?” ~ -~
He took the list_ from his pocket

and showed them to her. She sep-
arated and looked through the sheets and
read the names written in the same hand
that had written the directions upon“ the
slip of paper that came to her four days

'before, with the things from Uncle Ben-

ny’s pockets.

“My father had kept these very secret-
ly,” he explained. "He had them hidden.
Wassaquam knew where they were, and
that night after Luke was dead and you
had gone home, he gave them to me."

“After I had gone home? Hem-y went
back to see you that night; he had said
he was going back. and afterwards _I
asked him. and he told me he had .seen
you again. Did you show him these?"

“He saw them—yes.”

“He was there when Wassaquam show-
ed you where they were?"

"Yes." " n

A little line deepened between her
brows, and she sat thoughtful.

“So you have been going about seeing
these people,” she said. “What have you
found out?"

"Nothing definite at all. None of them
knew my father; they were only amazed
to find that any one in Chicago had known
their. names." ,

She got up suddenly. ”You don’t mind
if I am with you when you talk with
this Indian?”

He arose and looked around for the
guide who had brought him. His guide
had been standing near, evidently waiting
until Alan’s attention was turned his
way; he gestured now toward a man, a

woman, and several children who were
lunching, seated about a basket on the
ground. The man—thin, patient and of

medium size—was of the indefinite age of
the Indian, neither young nor yet old. It
was veident that life had been hard for
the man; he looked worn and under-
nourished; his clothing was the cast-off
suit of some one much larger which had
been inexpertly altered to make it fit
him. As Alan and Constance approached
them, the group turned on them their
dark, inexpressive eyes, and the woman
got up, but the man remained seated on
the ground. ‘

"I’m lopking'for Jo Papo,” Alan ex-
plained. , ~

“What you want?” the squaw asked.
“You got work?" The words were pro-
nounced with difficulty and evidently com-
pased most of her English vocabulary.

“I want to see him. that's all.” Alan
turned to the man. "You’re Jo Papo,
aren’t you. ‘

The Indian assented by an almost im-
perceptible nod.

“You used to live near Escanaba. didn’t
you?”

Jo Papo considered before replying;
either his scrutiny of Alan reassured him,
or he recalled nothing having to do with
his residence near Escanaba which dis-
turbed him. “Yes; once," he said.

“Your father was Azen Papo?"

“He‘s dead," the Indian replied.
my father, anyway. Grandfather.
about him?”

“That’s what I want to ask you,” Alan
said. “When did he die and how?”

Jo Papo got up and stood leaning his
back against a. tree. So far from being
one who was merely curious about In-
dians, this stranger perhaps was coming
about an Indian claim—t0 give money
maybe for injustices done in the past.

"My grandfather die fifteen years ago.”
he informed them. “From cough, I think.”

“Where was that?” Alan asked.

“Escanaba~—near there.”

"What did he do?”

“Take people to shoot deerwfish—a.
guide. I think he plant a little too."

“He didn't work on the boats?"

“No; my father, he work on the boats.”

“What was his name?”

“Like me; J0 Papo too. He’s dead."

“What is your Indian name?"

"Flying Eagle."

“What boats did your father work on?"

“Many 'bOats.”

“What did he do?"

Deck hand.”

“Not
What

comm by Edwin am

“What boat did he work on last?"

“Last? How ,do I know? He went
away one year and'didn't come back? I
suppose .he was drowned. from a. boat."
“‘What year was that?"

“I was little then; I do not know."

“How old are you?"

“ aybe eight years; maybe‘ nine or
ten.” '

“How old are you now?"

“Thirty, maybe."

“Did you ever hear of Benjamin Cor-
vet?".

“W110?” 1,

“Benjamin Corvet."

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’ Alan turned to Constance; she had been
listening intently, but she made no com-
ment. “That is all. then,” he said to
Papo; “if I find out anything to your
advantage, I'll let you know.” He had
aroused, he understood, expectations}. of
benefit in these poor Indians. Something
rose in Alan's throat and choked him.
Those of whom Benjamin Corvet had so
laboriously kept trace were, very many
of them, of the sort of these Indians;
that they had never heard of Benjamin
Corvet was not more significant than that
they were people of Whose existence Ben-
jamin Corvet could not have been expected
to be aware. What conceivable bond
could there have been between Alan's
father and such poor people as these?
Had his father wronged these people?
Had he owed them something? This
thought, which had been «growing stronger
with each succeeding step in Alan’s in-
vestigations, chilled and horrified him now.
Revolt against his father more active than
ever before siezed him, revolt stirring
stronger with each recollection of his in-
terviews with the people upon his list.
As they walked away, Constance ap-
preciated that he was feeling something
deeply; She too was stirred.

"They all—all I have talked to—are
like that," he said to her. “They all
have lost some one upon the lakes.”

In her feeling,for him, she laid her hand
upon his arm; now her fingers tightened
to sudden tenseness. “What do you
mean?" she asked. _

“Oh, it is not definite yet—not clear!"
She felt the bitterness in his tone. "They
have not any of them been able to make
it wholly clear to me. It is like a. record
that has been—blurred. These original
names must have been written down by
my father many years ago—many, most
of these people, I think—are dead; some
are nearly forgotten. The only thing that
is fully plain is that in every case my
inquiries have led me to thOSe who have
lost one. and sometimes more than one
relative upon the lakes."

Constance thrilled to a vague horror;
it was not anything to which she could
give definite reason. His tone quite as
much as what he said was its cause.
His experience plainly had been forcing
him to bitterness against his father; and
he did not know with certainty yet that
his father was dead.

She had not found it possible to tell
him that yet; now consciously she de-
ferred telling him until slre could take
him to her home and show him what had
come. The threll whistling of the power
yacht in which she and her party had
come recalled to her that all were to re-
turn to the yacht for luncheon, and that
they must be waiting for her.

“You’ll lunch with us, of course," she
said to Alan, “and then go back with us
to Harbor Point. It’s a day’s journoy
around the two bays; but we’ve a boat
here.”

He assented, and they went down to the
water where the white and brown power
yacht, with long, graceful lines, lay som-
nolently in the sunlight. A little boat
took them out over the shimmering,
smooth surface to the ship; swells from a
faraway freighter swept under the beauti-v
ful, burnished craft, causing it to roll
lazily as they boarded it. A party of
nearly a dozen men and girls, with an
older woman chaperoning them, lounged
under the shade of an awning over is
after deck. They greeted her gaily a d
looked curiously at Alan as she intro—
duced him.

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x months before in Chicago. These
wgay; wealthy loungers. would have dis-
-- mayed’ him then, and he would have been
equally "dismayed by the luxury of the

carefully appointed yacht; now he was
not thinking at all about what these peo-

. ple might think of him. In eturn, they
granted him consideration.’ t was not,

she saw that they accepted him as one

of ther own, or as some ordinary ac-

quaintance of hers; if they accounted for

him toethemselves at all, they must be-

lieve him to be some officer employed

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that—his face darkened and reddened by

the summer sun and in his clothing like

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not weakened under the disgrace which

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' - . ever that might be; he had grown strong-
“ er facing it. A lump rose in her throat

' ' as she realized that the lakes had been

setting their seal upon him, as upon the

  
 

 

«i I man whose strength and resourcefulness
. 1‘ she loved.
. f} “Have you worked on any of our

boats?” she asked him, after luncheon
had been finished, and the anchor of the
ship had been raised. -

A queer expression came upon his face.
I've thought it best not to do that, Miss
‘1’ , Sherrill,” he replied.

She did not know why the next moment
she should think of Henry.

"Henry was going to bring us over in
his yacht—the Chippewa.” she said. ”But
he was called away suddenly yesterday
on business to St. Ignace and used his
boat to go over there.”

"He got there a couple of nights ago
and will be back again to-night or to-
morrow morning.”

The yacht was pushing swiftly, smooth-
ly. with hardly a hum from its motors,
I', north along the ‘shore. He watched in-‘

tently the rolling, wooded hills and the

ragged little bays and inlets. His work
and his investigatings had not brought
him into the neighborhood before, but she
found that she did not have to name the
places to him; he knew ‘them from the
.— charts. ‘
“Grand Traverse Light,” he said to her
as a white tower showed upon their left.
. Then, leaving the shore, they pushed out
across the wide mouth of the larger bay
toward Little Traverse. He grew more
silent as they approached it.

“It is up there, isn’t it," he asked,
pointing, "that they hear the Drum?”

"Yes; how did you know the place?"

”I don’t know it exactly; I want you
to show me."

She pointed out to him the copse, dark,
primeval, blue in its contrast ‘with the
lighter green of the trees about it and
the glistening white of the shingle and
of the more distant sand bluffs. He
’ leaned forward, staring at it, until the
changed course of the yacht, as it swung
about toward the entrance to the bay,
obscured it. They were meeting other
power boats new of their yacht’s own
size and many smaller; they passed white-
sailed sloops and cat-boats, almost be.-
calmed, with girls and boys diving from
" their sides and swimming about. As they

neared the Point, a panorama of play
such as she knew, he scarcely could have
seen before, was spread in front of them.
The sun gleamed back from the white
sides and varnished decks and shining
brasswork of a score or more of cruising
yachts and many smaller vessels lying
in the anchorage.

“The Chicago and Mackinac yacht race
starts this week, and the cruiser fleet is
working north to be in atlthe finish," she

A Offered. Then she saw he was not look-
ing at these things; he was Studying with
a strange expression the dark, uneven
hills which shut in the two towns and
{i the bay.

“You remember how the ship rhymes
you told me and that about Michabou
and seeing the ships made me feel that
I belonged here on the lakes," he re-
minded her. “I have felt something—not
recognition exactly, but something that
was like the beginning of recognition——

 

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H. many times this summer when I saw cer-
j’ tain places. It’s like one of those dreams,
f , you know, in which you are conscious of

,having had the same dream before. I
feel that I ought to know this place."

. - ’l They landed only a few hundred yards
away from the cottage. After bidding
good—by to her friends, they went up to—
gether through the trees. There was a
small sun room. rather‘shut off from the
rest of the house, to which she. led him.
Leaving him there, she ran upstairs to
get the things.

She halted an instant beside the door,
with the box in her hands, before she
went back to him, thinking how to pre-.
.1 pare him against the significance of these
‘ relics: of his father. ’She need not pre-
pare him against the mere fact of his
father’s death; he had been beginning to
believe that already; but these things
must have far more meaning for him
than merely that. They must frustrate
one course of inquiry, for him at the
same time they 'ope'ned another; they
would close for him forever the possibility
of ever learning anything aboutJiimself
from his father;’ they would introduce
into his problem some new, .some un-
known person—the sender of these things.

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"The Farm Paper of Service"
CHALLENGING RURAL LEADERSHIP

RE is a mysterious kinship between man-
kind and Nature. It is commonly said and
cannot be disputed that man is largely a

product of his environment. It is equally cer-
train that the reverse is often true. Certainly,
on a farm at least, the local community environ-

ment soon becomes the expression of the think?
ing and doing of the dominant men and women

living there.

Because of this fact there is a double interest
in the study of rural leaders. They are inspir—
ing as individuals and their motives and achieve-
ments are significant because of their potent efv
feet on community progress. It is with these
thoughts in mind that we wish to call especial
attention to the article on the Kinch family of
Grindstone City, which appears in this issue.

If anyone is suffering under the delusion that
the present generation is growing soft and flabby
let him study the wide-spread activities of Mr.
and Mrs. Kinch as related in this challenging
and inspiring article. “And there were giants
in those days", someone has said. As we re (1
this article we must agree that truly, the gin ts
in body, in enterprise and in vision are not all
figures of history, for from every standpoint,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kinch must be numbered
among the giants whose lives and deeds are an
inspiration and a blessing to their communities
and to their state.

In these days when so much emphasis is plac—
ed on material things and physical comforts it
is timely to turn our attention to the wholesome
philosophy of Mrs. Kinch who realizes that hap-
piness is a state of mind which comes not so
much from having as from doing and doing not
primarily for self, but rather for others.

As we read of Mrs. Kinch's‘remarkably wide-
spread fleld of unselfish service for her family
and her community, we are sure that we have

no idea as to how this remarkable woman is ’7

able to work all day indoors and out and be off
to take a. prominent part at some meeting near—
ly every night. No doubt kind Providence en—
dowed her with unusual health and physique,
but we feel—that back of it all we must seek to
understand the spirit and outlook which actu-
ates and motivates her. And then having ana-
lyzed this spirit and outlook, it would be well
for those of us who have an honest desire to
render the fullest measure of decent, respectable
service to‘our day and generation, to pattern
our lives by this insipiring example.

WHY FEWER STUDENTS
HY does the number of students in agri-
cultural courses decrease while the num~
her in other courses more than doubles?
.‘l‘he United States Chamber of'Commerce con-
; eludes that the late economic depression of agri-
, culture is responsible. Others cite the increas-
ing number of high schools which teach agri-
'.culture and the advancement of agricultural ex-
tension work. Enjoying these advantages boys
who aim to be farmers conclude that they can

  

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pp; along in th 11 a, 00 age edu- ‘ Q ' draw ‘ per cent interest with Bob McCon-

lege education by stressing too much its business“ '
advantages and too little its other advantages. ..

The same thing is true of the teaching of these
colleges.
should: but they sometimes Overlook the other
things which are equally important in the fu—
ture life of the student. It is time to show our
young men that a college education is not mere—
ly for business but infer a richer and happier life.
It is interesting to note that in none of this
discussion are the colleges of agriculture as-
sailed an incompetent to teach agriculture. Their,
reputation seems to be secure, and that is the
point on which much doubt existed a generation

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DO WE WISH TAX EQUALITY?

0UR‘theory of government isibased upon the

principle of equal taxation. There is a con-

' stltutlonal desire to treat all men alike in
the matter of their financial relationship to the
government—civic or national. But the govern-
ment and all its political subdivisions keep issu—
ing a regular flood of tax-exempt securities for
public undertakings of all kinds, thereby furnish-
ing a loophole for thousands of persons to’“escape
all taxation. This is a. wheel within a wheel that
is working backward. If there were not so
many tax-exempt securities; there would not be

. so much public extravagance.

If we are sincere in our demand for tax re-

duction and tax equality, why do we not change

our tax-exemption laws which permit such unfair
distribution of the tax burden.

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111111111va Is BUSINESS

“ MING is, indeed a business. It has be-
come a specialized business. There are
so, many factors entering into it that it

is a complicated industry. Like any other bus-

iness if it is conducted along efiicient lines it
will succeed.‘ If inefficient, wasteful methods
are practiced it will fail.”

The above is part of a speech made by L. M.
Rhodes of the Florida state market commission
before a potato growers organization, and is
practically the words that are being uttered by
all agricultural leaders.

We do not believe there is any one today who
realizes that farming is a business any more
than the farmer does himself. The day when
farming was just an occupation is over and he
knows it. All one has to do is to notice the
lack of hired help on the average farm now—a-

 

A PUBLIC SALE IN 1849
,An old subscriber sends us the following
bill of sale taken from the Anderson, Ky.,
News of 1849:

PUBLIC SALE

Having sold my farm and am leaving
for “Oregon Territory” by ox team, will
offer on March 1, 1849, all of my personal
property, to-wit: All ox teams eXcept two
teams, Buck and Ben and Tom and Jerry;
2 milk cows; 1 gray marewand colt; 1 pair
of oxen and yoke' ’1 baby yoke; 2 ox carts;
1 iron plow with wood mole board; 800
feet of poplar weather boards; 1,500 ten-
foot fence rails; 1 sixty gallon soap kettle;
85 sugar troughs made of White ash tim-
ber; 10 gallons of maple syrup; 2 spinning
wheels; 30 pounds of mutton tallow; 1
large loom made by Jerry Wilson; 300
hoop pones; 100 split hoops; 100 empty
barrels; 1 32-gallon barrel of Johnson-
Miller whisky 7 years old; 20 gallons of
apple brandy; 1- 40-gailon copper still;
oak ton leather; 1 dozen reel books; 2
handle books; 3 scythes and cradles; 1
dozen wooden pitchforks; one-half inter-
est in tan yard; 1 32-caliber rifle; bullet
mold and powder horn; rifle made by Ben
Miller; '50 gallons of soft soap; hams, be-
con and lard; 40 gallons of sorghum mo—
lasses; 6 head of fox hounds, all soft-
mouthed except one.

At the some time I will sell my six
negro Slovene—two men, iii—and 60 years
old, two boys, mulatto wenches 40 and 30
years old. Will sell all together to same
party as will not separate them. ' g

Terms of sale, cash in hand, or note to

noll as security.

My home is two miles south of Ver- ‘ .
names; Kentucky, on McGoons terry pike. .
mmmuSam. Plentyoteats;,

   

 

 

 

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it would he!»

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be can figure it on e “donut-$841109!!!” our.
.ahd is not leaving so much to guess work any
more. . .

-_ The farmer you 3% pictured in the comic po-
pers has gone and in his place we find a men
who might be taken for a city business man

 

“REALMD

OTHER, you better 1111 the oven with pies.
A nutrition expert has been carrying on
experiments for the put six months and
has just announced to the. public that pie is a.
real food and he believes that it should be plac-
ed well forward on the dinner bill, not eaten
after you have filled up on other foods. These
statements merely, prove what the average ,boy
has knownsslnce pies were first “invented" but
he‘ never could melee mother believe it——that is
to the extent of getting more than one extra
piece.

This expert conducted his experiments on rate
and he used two different groups. One group
he fed pie and the other group ate rice, pota-
toes, cabbage, spinach, and bread. The pie-fed
rats put on-weight faster than the other group.
All boys will be glad to learn that pumpkin pie
is about the best food, as is also custard. Apple
pie fans will regret that their favorite food is
not as good as. pumpkin or “custardm however,
there is some satisfactidn in knowing it is an

' excellent source of heat and energy and has

slightly more \value,
wheat bread. ,

We wish to say, in behalf of the boys of
America, that congress; should pin a medal on
the bosom of this new. here. And mothers, the
boys want more pic. ‘

And we’ll take a piece seeing that‘you are
'going to cut one.

pound for pound, than

ADVICE TO POOR RICH MAN.
N our issue August 1st we published a short
I editorial under the heading "The Poor
Rich Man” about a New York millionaire
who had asked for suggestions on how to give
away his money to benefit the world the most.
We are in receipt of a good letter containing
suggestions from one of our subscribers and
we would forward it to the gentleman if it were
nor for the fact that he has’given out the state.
ment that he is not interested in more sugges-

tions. ,
“May I tell you what I have always thought
I would prefer doing if I were financially able?
I would send whatever I could vsparé to the
different sanitariums where crippled children
are treated to pay for having their little limbs
straightened, their sight restored, and have

«them made whole spiritually, mentally, morally,

and physically, that they might grow into man

and women that the community in which they

lived might be prbud of "

So reads the main paragraph in this letter
that is signed only “One who loves his fellow-
men. " “As ye sow, so shall ye reap. " One who
sows their gold in such a. fertile field will reap
a most bountiful harvest.

 

“SETTIN' PRE’ITY"

HAT the American farmer is getting back

T on‘ his feet, slowly but surely, is the opin-
ion of Secretary of Agriculture William M.
Jardine and we agree with him.

The great surplus of products which was
handed down from the war has cleared away
and the market can now handle the new crops.
Prices are better and farms are not near as hard
to sell as they were a year ago. In fact, it
seems that there are not so many farm for sale

‘and farmers are paying up back interest on

their mortgages and some of them are liquidat-

' ing the mortgages now standing on their farms.

The farmers of MiChigan, as a 'whole, are sit-
uated much better than the farmers in nearly
any other state, because of their diversity of
creps and for that reason' they feel prosperity
quicker than the farmers in any other state and
usually are the last to feel any slump.

The real serious loss this year has been the
hay crop but pastures have been coming along

fine the past few weeks as have also can and '

the other crops. We do not look for the hey
crop to cause any great trouble in 1111411211311, in
fact we believe farmers are,
“sittin’ may. " Isn't that about”

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W day We receive letters
‘ about the courses of training
given by diteren‘t correspond-
ence schools: Some are about good

schools and others regarding schools "

that seem to be out to get the money
only.

One thing that gets people inter-
ested, it seems, in many of these
schools is their willingness to cut
prices on their courses. We feel
quite the opposite because we be-
come skeptical when “bargains". are
altered. A good school will give the
best courSe they can for the money
paid by the student, their interest
being in him because a successful
and satisfied graduate recommends
the training to others more than
amstulmi publicity matter. When
a school otters to cut the price of a
cOurse it means either they are mak-
ing a big profit at the regular price

or you are not going to get the com—_

plete course at the reduced price.

CHRISTIAN ARMY 0F AMBIGA

"We wonder if the Publisher's
Desk in your good paper has any in—
formation for us about The Christian
Army of America? .rWe have been
asked for donations twice tliis year,
for money or anything usually taken
by The Salvation Army.

On the credential paper shown is
the name of a Detroit man; Hunter
is the surname, cannot remember
the initials." 1

HERE is such an organization as

the Christian Army of America.

So far as we can learn it is not
operating on an extensive scale in
Detroit as yet, and it is not afiiliated
with our fund.

We are informed that in Chicago
the Salvation Army obtained an in-
junction against the Christian Army
restraining the latter from soliciting
in the name of the salvation Army.
Salvation Army oflicials here saythat
the methods used by this rival organ—
ization are unfair; that solicitors re-
cieve up to 50 per cent of their col-

 

lections; that many people who give

think they are giving to the Salva-
tion Army, and that no effort is made
by solicitors to correct that impres—
sion unless the question is raised.
If any of our subscribers should
ask whether, they should give to the
Christian Army we should advise
them that there is no necessity for it,
as the Salvation Army is doing good
work to which the public is already
contributing through the Community
Fund. ——~Gordon A. Damon, Publicity
Dirtctor, Detroit Community Fund.

CHICKEN MEDICINE

E have had reports from nearby
W states about the chicken graft
but apparently none of our
readers have been vicitmlzed as no
letters come to our desk. The scheme
is to convince the farmers that their
chickens are sick and then sell them

- a bottle of colored water with a

pretty label and a long name. There
is a writer at the Colorado Agricul—
tural College who uses the title of
"Farmer Putnam" and he recently
commented on the poultry graft as
follows: ‘ “Graftin’ is one of. the best
payin' lines in the farming industry
at present. This ain't? fruit tree
grafting. but the common or garden
variety of. plucking the farmers.
Grafters, frauds, swindlers, takers-——

' they don’t care what you call ’em, so

long as you part with your money in
return for their game.

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.pany of Canada stock (present price

possible for you to send me the last issue
- ceive one, I would like to have one very

. would like to have it very well.
' you lots of success and thanking you in

men talks a too strong willed and
too smart to fall fur them little
games:
oil stocks. This here poultry grafter
comes drivin' up to the house in a
sudan and after tellin' the lady that
he represents some kind of 3. Poultry
Association she lets him take a look
at the flock. Of course he gits horror
struck; talks about mites, lice, tuber-

of ocissess and dossisses. ‘Why
madam, it's a wonder you’ve got a
live chicken! Your flock is in a
dying condition! But don’t worry.
madam, I’m here to save you. Sign
here, gimme the first payment; I de-
liver thegremedies on the spot and
you get the benefit of our inspection
and expert advice service and so-
forth.’

“You pay. He leaves a. bottle or
two and he goes on to the next house,
after sellin’ you something that’s
guaranteed to cure fifty—seven vari-
eties of hen troubles and probably
will do your chickens no harm, it
they don’t take too much of it.
Chickens as a rule has get sense“
enough to abstain from them fake
remedies; it’s the chicken raiser we
got to protect.

“The best insurance policy ag‘in
them fake poultry remedy grafters
is a blooded bulldog, unchained and
encouraged with a word r two to go
and fetch the seat of e grat'ter’s
pants.”

FORD DISCLAIMS “BANKERS“
SHARES"

HOST of promoters from New

York, Minneapolis, etc, have
been cimulating owners of
Ford automobiles offering them “op-
portunities“ to invest in the Ford

Motors Company of Canada.

The circular matter is so drawn
that the casual reader would believe
the offer of these so-called “Banker‘s
Shares" of Ford Motor Company
stock was made either by or for the
Ford Motor Company of Canada.

As a matter of fact, the promoter
either purchases or promises to pur-
chase one share of Ford Motor C0m~

about $490) and divides that share
up into one hundred interests, which
interests they sell for $7.50 each.
Thus, the promoters obtain one and
one-half times the actual manket
value for the share.

The oflice of Ford Motor Company
of Canada advised us that it is not
a party to nor does it approve the
plan. No provision has been made
for giving voting power or the dis—
tribution of dividends to the holders
of so- -called “banker’s shares” by‘the
Ford Motor Company. Whether or
not the stock of the promoter is ac-
tually placed in escrow to secure the
banker’s shares, depends upon the re
liability of the promoter. The Minn—
esota Securities Commission has
ruled that the promoters have been
ruled out of New York, under the
Martin Act, as operating a fraudulent
scheme. All the inquiries to this
office state that solicitations were
made through the mails, and from
outside the State of Michigan This
unfortunately, removes the cases
from the jurisdiction of the Michigan
Securities Commission.——Better Bus—
iness Bureau.

DECLARED FRAUDS
HE postoifice department, _at
Washington, D. C., has issued
fraud orders against the lollow-
ing: The Consolidated Listing Com—
pany, H. Chambers manager, of St.
Paul, Minnesota; Character Study
and Character Study, Inc. of New
York, and Paul Adams, of New York.
The first had a “work—at-home”

scheme, and the others operating
horoscope schemes. Joseph Martin,
Paris, France, was another against

Whom a fraud order was issued. 4t.
was claimed that he was obtaining
money for improper pictures that
could not be sent through the mails.

‘Do yOu know any of these con-
cerns?

I would like to know it it would be
of Tun Business FARMER as I did not re-

much. We miss the paper very much and
Wishing

remain, Yours truly. —-August,

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By Anne' ‘Cfinpbell

. e ridden. in some es
That sure had lots of us:
We ridden in a motor car , -
That no one else could pass ‘ 1 I
e ridden in a big white boat ‘
That sailed across the bay ,

An' I've ridden on my grandad's rake,
An’ raked my grandad's hay!

 

  

I, might have felt a sort 0' pride

When in those other things. '

Their cushions were so deep an’ soft,
Such easy-ridin' springs!

But since that summer long ago
I‘ve never felt so gay

As when I rode my grandad’s rake,
An’ raked my grandad’s hay!

The balmy air was clover— sweet.

' The sun smiled overhead;

An’ grandad praised the work I did
Before I went to bed

I'd like to squeeze his kind 01’ hand
Jest like I did the day

I rode upon my grandad's rake
An’ raked my grandad’s hay!

(Copyright, 1925.)

SIMPLE DRESSES ARE BEST

HAT the elaborately decorated
dress if often in poor taste and
that a simple hand touch will

usually add the necessary distinction
and charm is the statement of home
extension specialists.

As proof of this statement they
point out that the most expensive
gowns from the exclusive shops are
extreme’ in their simplicity. An ex-
cess of decoration on ready-to-wear
garments usually indicates cheap-
ness and a desire to hide inferior

’W workmanship and quality.

The trimming used on a dress
must look as though it belongs to
the garment. Economical and‘ at-
tractive trimmings can be made ef-
fective by using the same material
as the garment itself. A list of self-
trimmings suggested by the home
economic extension specialists in-
includes the following: pipings, folds,
bindings, cordings, shearings, tuck—
ings, pleatings, pockets, bound but—
tonholes, buttons, ruffles and re-
versed hems.

Simple embromery adds distinct-
iveness to 'a garment if the right
colors and materials are used. The
following stitches may be employed
effectively: chain stitch, blanket
stitch, outline stitch, herringbone
or latch stitch, lazy daisy stitch,
couching, French knots, and smock—
ing.

Many dress accessories and hat
ornaments such as beads and pen-
dants may be made at little cost
with sealing wax. Hand-made flow-
ers in the form of berry clusters,
leaves, apple spray, sweet peas, rose,
or poppy are effective means of re-
moving a dress from the ordinary
class and placing it among the dis-
tinctive.

SAVE STEPS IN THE KITCHEN
HE modern kitchen is used for
food preparation and serving
only. It is rapidly losing its
place as a general utility and catch-
all room. The old-fashioned kitchen
was used for food preparation and
service, passage way from the back
to the front of the house, washroom,
hanging wraps, separating the milk,
laundry work, and farm repair shop.
. If the home is small, the kitchen
has to serve many purposes. In a
well planned kitchen, there are four
work centers. They are the food
preparation center, consisting of the
kitchen cabinet, refrigerator and
storage cupboard; the cooking cen-
ter with the stove, a few much used
food supplies and certain utensils;
the water center consisting of the
sink and such accessories as a gar-
bage can, strainer, knives, brushes,
pans, kettle anti cleaners.

The fourth center in the kitchen
plan is really not a work center but
is just as essential. It is the rest
center where the housewife can take

. a few minutes rest while she waits
' for the oven. The rest center should
include a comfortable rocking chair
' and some good reading matter.
‘7 Other considerations in a conven-
ient kitchen include the placing of
tears and windows, the type of
cars and the woodwork. The num—
Mr of doors should be small be-
se they use up wall space and
"ease the lines of travel in the
siren. It is probably necessary
it‘d have th0 or three doors, outside,
is ment and dining room. The
,ndow area should be one-fourth
. [ ' the floor area. If the wall space
" small, the window area can be in-
ed by pissing the windows

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tor” for her.

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6,. .
cement for the Women
Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR.

EAR FOLKS: All of you have heard your husband or the boys
mention a “pinch hitter" haven’t you? If you are not familiar
with these two words ask some of the men-folks the meaning,

" for Mrs. Annie Taylor this issue.

Even editors have to work hard enough to? get tired, especially when,

like Mrs. Taylor, niey have other duties besides their editorial work.

So Mrs. Taylor is taking a few days off, away from her household
and editorial duties, and the editor is having a. real Job as “pinch hit-

We hope you will bear with us this time and we promise

she will be back in time for the next issue .—-’I‘HE EDITOR.

Mrs. Annle Taylor. one The Buslneu Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Michigan:

 
  
 

 

 

 

 

 

three to four feet from the floor
with the ‘longest line parallel to
the floor. A glass on the outside
door will also increase the Window
area. The windows should be plac-
ed near. the corners of the roomdn-
stead of near the partitions in order
to allow for cross ventilation.

The floors should be easy to clean.
Linoleum makes an excellent kitch—
on floor. It is expensive but will
last almost indefinitely. A hard
wood floor is good if it is kept in
condition. The kitchen should have
plain woodwork, no scrolls or fancy
mouldings.

USING CHEESE

HEESE as a concentrated, eco-

nomical, meat substitute, is

finding its way gradually into
the daily menus of many homes. It
can be stored satisfactorily and
cheaply, and it served with foods
of the right kind and not eaten in
too large ‘amounts, may be thor-
oughly digested.

Because cheese is of, protein na—
ture, it should be served in the place
of meat, fish and eggs. Bread or
crackers, fruits and vegetables
should be eaten with che e.

So many kinds of cheese are On
the market that everyone’s taste
may be gratified. There are also
many ways of preparing cheese. a
few of which follow:

Cheese and Potato Pufl’: 17.4 pound
grated cheese, 1 Clip hot mashed
potato, 1 egg, 17$ teaspoon salt,
1,9 teaspoon parsley chopped fine,
and dash of paprika.

Mix cheese and potato. Add salt,
parsley, paprika and yolk of egg
beaten well. Fold in beaten white
of egg and place in a greased pan or
casserole. Bake in a moderate
oven until golden brown.

Baked Tomato and Cheese: Se—
lect good, whole tomatoes. Remove

part of contens and stuff in the pi- ‘

mento, cream or Neufchatel cheese.
Bake in a'moderate oven .

Cottage Cheese Sausage: 1 cup
cottage cheese, 1 cup dry bread
crumbs, 1/1 cup peanut butter, 1/4,
cup peanuts, 1742 teaspoon powdered

sage, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/; teaspoon
pepper, $4 teaspoon soda, 1 table-
spoon chopped onion, 1/2 teaspoon
thyme.

Mix dry ingredients 'With bread
crumbs. Blend peanut butter and

onion with cheese and mix with the
bread crumbs. Form into flat cakes,
dust with bread crumbs or corn
meal, and fry a delicate brown.

Cheese, Rice and Tomato: 1 cup
cooked rice, 1 teaspoon salt, 17% cup
grated cheese, IA medium sized
green pepper, 94, medium sized
onion, 3 medium sized tomatoes.

Cook onion, tomato, and green
pepper for 20 minutes. Add cook-
ed rice and seasoning, then the
cheese. When melted, pour over
toast.

 

USES FOR COMION TABLE SAI/l‘

'FTER several years of house-
keeping, I find that common
table salt is one of the mom
useful things I keep in my kitchen.
There was a time when, like many
other young housekeepers, I thought
salt was good only for seasoning
foods and preserving meat, but to-

day, I use it in many different ways,
and find it praticable.

For instance, when I give my re-
frigerator a thorough cleaning, aft-
er scalding and scouring I rub a’
generous handful of salt up and
down and over every. wall and re-
cess in the food chambers; after
this procedure the food keeps fresh-
er and the box smells sweeter and
cleaner.

When my rugs begin to look dull
and faded, from being spattered
over daily by many little dusty feet,
I sprinkle salt on them and leave
it over night; the next morning,
when I sweep them thoroughly, I
am delighted to see the brightness
of every ttern stand out distinct-
ly. Try t is and see for yourself
what a change there will be in your
rugs.

Hot water and salt run through
your sink once a week will remove
all grease and prevent the drain
pipe from becoming clogged and
odorous. Try soaking your green
vegetables in salt water for half
an hour before washing and clean—
ing them. 'You will find that all
insects will drop off, and your ve-
getables may be washed in a much
shorter length of time.

There is nothing that will remove
the “dark brown” taste in the
mouth quicker than a thorough rins-
ing of the mouth with a warm solu-
tion of salt and water; this wash
is also good for slightly ulcerated
mouth. It is a good idea to wash

the teeth and gargle the throat.

once a day, at least, with salt wa-
ter.—Mrs. G.

 

THE WAY TO HEALTHY, SLEND-
ERNESS

may not be true that no one’

loves a fat man, but though he

he were even more beloved than
his slenderer brother, it would be
folly for him to acquire an excess
of avoirdupois. Why? For the
simple reason that he will not live
very lodg to enjoy the world’s de-
votion. A fat man, or a fat woman
for that matter, is a bad risk from
the life insurance standpoint. Any
insurance examiner will agree to
this. For, overWeight necessitates
over-activity of the vital organs and
their consequent premature exhaus-
tion.

If one is in doubt as to what class
one belongs, in this respect, and
loves the world sufficiently to wish
to remain in it as long as possible,
the first step is to get a height and
weight chart from the doctor or a
life insurance company. Then, if
the verdict is “overweight”, cut
down on the sort of foods that put
on the extra pounds. If this meth-
od fails to produce results, then the
doctor should be consulted, for the
increasing bulk may be the result
of some physical condition requir-
ing medical attention. Glowing
magazine advertisements notwith—
standing, there is no permanent or
really healthful method of weight
reduction which does not include a
regulated diet. Bread, butter, sug-
ar, cream, oil, spaghetti, potatoes,
cheese, pastry and other fatty or
"starchy foods must be eliminated
entirely. Instead, eat extra quan-
tities of vegetables, such as spinach,

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WANTS INFORMATION ON’WAYSIDE STANDS .
WISH some of the readers having wayside stands would tell others

what they can sell to tourists.
sell well put up in pint and quart cans.
Also all kinds of jelly and jams sell

to be prepared this fall before.

I find dill pickles. and‘rothers'
These would have

well, besides fresh fruit and vegetables.——Mrs. M.

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not too violent for the condition of
the heart, should be increased.

There is only one easy way to be
thin, and that is not to allow one-
self to get fat in the first place, by
watching the ”scales and taking de-
termined action as soon as the first
undesired pound or two appear. But
if one has once begun to ignore the
inoreasing circumferenée of one’e
waistband, nothing is so necessary
as courage and perseverance in re-
ducing healthfully. These, howev-
er,’ are indispensable for success in
anything, and what is there more
vital in life than health?

The overweight person is not im-v
mune 'to such serious diseases as
tuberculosis, according to the Na—
tional Tuberculosis Association. This
organization and its affiliated asso-
ciations spend large sums yearly to
help teach the American public how
to eat healthfully. The seventeenth
annual Christmas seal sale which
furnishes funds for this work will
be held throughout the country dur-
ing December of this year.—Helen
Loreing Williams.

FLOWER ARRANGEMENT

ATURALNESS in arrangement ,
N is the basis of all Japanese

floral decorations; for beauty
and effectiveness the housewife can
The woods, fields
and small gardens furnish ample
material, and by following the sug—
gestions that Nature itself gives
flowers will addrto the most charm—
ing ro m. The Japanese choose not
only owers but leaves, buds, seed
pods, twigs, vines and even branch-
es for decorations. If the woods
and fields which form the back-
ground for the growing flewers are
dull or neutral in color, then the ar-
tificial containers and backgrounds
for the flowers should be. Violets
belong in loose dlusters in low
bowls and lilies belong singly or in .
small groups in tall vases. —Vines
or drooping branches fall gracefully
over mantle pieces or against walls,
and sweet peas call for a glass bowl
or simple basket with their own
green, each flower as nearly as pos-
sible to the way it would naturally
grow.

 

 

, Personal Column

1

Wants Recipe—I would like a recipe
for salt rising bread. ,There was one in
M. B. F. several years ago but I lost it
and would like to get another. Corn meal
and potatoes were used in the one I had
and I would like another like it. Can
anyone help me out?———Mrs. M., Antrim
county

 

 

To Kee Fish—In looking over our de-
partment see a request for salted fish.
Last spring we caught lots of suckers
and my husband’s mother told us how
to salt them so they will keep. I did a
six-gallon crock full and they'are in good
condition.

Clean as soon as possible after they
are caught; cut ofl heads, split down
back but don’t scale. They scale easier
after freshened to use. Have a wash
tub ready with clean, cold water and put
them in this to soak out the blood;
change the water until the fish leave
scarcely any color to the water. Now
dry each fish on a cloth and put in a
keg or credit, first a half inch layer of
salt then a layer of fish, putting a gen-
erous handful inside each fish; another
layer of coarse salt and more fish until
you have used all the fish; they make
their own brine. Weight and cover same
as cucumber pickles, and set away in a
cool place. Use lots of salt, there is
more danger of too little than there is
of too much—Mrs. P.

Fly Stung ,Aster Buds.—-Last year a.
little green fly stung all my aster buds
and spoiled them and this year they seem
thicker than ever I wonder if any of
our readers could tell me how to control
the posts. '

I ,think our department fine and derive
much good from it. May the good work
proceed—Mrs. P. Fairgrove, Michigan.

 

 

—if you are well bred!

 

Engagement Truths .———Never announce
an engagement before you are morally
certain it is not likely to be broken.

2. Never .“show-off" your fiance to
your girl Ifriends too pointedly.

3. While you are engaged give some
thought to establishing a sound basis of
mutual interest: and tastes as a ”founda-
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"fromss close
surprise you. ~ . _ .
5. 'The engagement period offers a

on a proper footing with your fiance’s
, family and relatives before’ you marry

him. ,
6. If your, fiance’s means are_limited,
discourage extravagance in entertainment
and gifts on his part. The very fact
that he knows his income to be modest
is apt to spur him on to overdo in this
way from a sense of pride, and the feel-
ing «that “nothing is too good” for you.
It would be better in such case to en—
courage ,him rather to devote the money
to a fund intended to cover certain needs
and demands of the new existence which
will have to be met.

There are so many broken engagements
because young men and women often do
not regard a betrothal as a serious ob-
ligation. An engagement should neither
be lightly entered upon, nor lightly broken.

 

 

The Runner’s Bible

(Copyricht by Houzhton Mimin Co.)

I will bless the Lord at all times: His
praise shall continually be in my mouth.
,—Ps. 34:1.

One way of praising God is to praise the
good whenever and wherever you find it.

 

 

 

 

Recipes

 

 

.Fruit Rolls—Use a regular baking pow-
der biscuirt recipe, but roll out only 14-inch
thick. Spread 3 tablespoons melted but-
ter, ié cup brown sugar and 1/2 teaspoon
cinnamon over dough. Roll it up after
covering surface with chopped raisins or
currants. Cut in iii-inch slices and bake
in moderate oven from 12 to 15 minutes.

Cottage Cheese and Nut Roast—One
cup cottage cheese, 1 cup chopped nuts, 1
cup bread crumbs, 2 tablespoons chopped
onions, 1 tablespoon fat, juice of half a
lemon, salt and pepper. Cook the onion
in the fat and a little water until tender.
Mix other ingredients and moisten with
the water in. which the onion was cooked.
Pour into a shallow dish and brown in
the oven. ,

Chess Pie—One cupful of sugar, 3 eggs,
2 teaspoonfuls of vanilla, 41/2 tablespoon—
fuls of corn meal (level), 3 tablespoon-
fuls of milk, butter size of egg. Make a
rich pie crust and place in oven long
enough to “set" before putting in the cus—

AIDS TO GOOD

 

 

u was AND stun m voun SIZE
A Simple Apron Style.—-A seamless Apron is here

5162.
velop. easy to adjust and neasy to launder.
could have gingham or sateen,
Medium, 38-40: .Large, 42:44;
3 ’76 yards of 36 inch material.

6152. A Practioa‘l “Slip" or “Under Dress".
Tunic Blouses or With nn"‘ensemble" coat.
Sizes: Small, 34-36; _Medium, 38—40; Large.

edium size Wlll require 3%
facing. Width of shp at the foot is 1% yard.

5179.

Extra Large,

This Pattern is cut_ in 4 Sizes: 14.
year size Wlll reqmre 2 yard of 40 inch
figured material for the front and back.

112. A Practical Group of Garments for Young Children.—’l‘his makes a splendid set of “first
' three desirable garments.

5
short clothes’ comprisin
Bloomers. The Pattern is cut in

of 36 inch material for the Dress,
5111.

Sizes: , 2

straight lower edges, and a smart toy pocket on the front of the
The Pattern is Cl1t_ll1 4 Sizes: 2, 3, .4 and 5‘years. . y.
' If pocket is made of contrasting material, it Will require

linen could be used for this model.
size requires 2 1/; yards of 36 inch material.
1/; yard 9 inches Wide.

11 5113.t A dPrett
ere or raye .
PatteIPn is cut in 4 Sizes: , 6,
for the Jumper, _and 11,4. yard
Guimpe will require 1 yard.

8 and 10 years.
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‘ As illustrated. percae
or rubberized cloth.
46-48

—This style is very serviceable for wearing under
The Facing may be omitted. T ’
. 42-44;. Extra Large,
yards of 32 inch material Without the facing, and 4% yards with the

_ . A Pretty Frock .for Youthful FIgures.-—Dotted and plain voile is here combined.
sign is also attractive in s1lk, broadcloth or tub Silk.
16, 18 and. 20 years.
. lain material for vestee and sleeves, an
. WI 11 long sleeves
With plaits extended the dress measures 1% yard at the lower edge.

11,5 yard fo'r the
A Popular. Style with New Features.—-This attractive little play dress has the bloomers with

Version of a Popular. Style—Checked gingham
T is model is also attractive in tAibbsnlk
if made with

ALL PATTERNS 13c EACH—
2 FOR 25c POSTPAID

ADD 10c For FALL AND
1925-1926 FASHION soon?

Order from this or former Issues of The Bualnm
Farmer, alvlnu number and sign your
name and address plainly.

Address all orders’ for patterns to
Pattern Department
THE BUSINESS FARMER

" Mt. Clemens, Mich.

  

ream so i, 81 yolks a d sugar,_
meal ,andbiitter (which-has been melted),
and flavoring: Then , add the milk——
enough to make batter. After baking the /
custard, put 'on the meringue. made of
the whites of eggs, stifly beaten with 3
level spoonfuls of sugar, and bake until
brown. This recipe makes a large and
most delicious pie. '

Potato Fried Cakes—ero medium-sized»-
potatoes, 2 level teaspoonfuls of fat, 2
“Well-beaten eggs, 11/2 cupfuls of sugar, 1/2
cupful of sweet milk, 3 level teaspoonfuls
of baking powder, 5 cupfuls of flour.
Boil and mash the potatoes. Stir in the
butter before they get cold. Then add
the eggs. sugar, milk, and flour, sifted
with baking powder. Knead more flour
in on board if desired. Cut. and fry in
deep hot fat. I have found this recipe
more economical than the usual way of
making them. They do not take in so
much fat, and are therefore more health-
ful. They also stay moist much longer.

 

 

HODIESPUN YARN _ 1‘

 

 

A bit of mustard gives a tang to mac-
aroni and cheese.
# I! t

Aunt Ada's Axioms: Where everyone
is thoughtful, no one can be a drudge.
1| * *

When clarifying fat, some housewives
use a pinch of soda to whiten it and to 1
help keep it sweet.

3 t 3

An old coffee pot is excellent for bold-
ing paraffin. The wax can be melted in
it, oured from it easily to seal jam and
jell jars, and the rest left in it till it's
needed.

III ‘ ill

Every woman wants her child to have
good features and a clear complexion.
These suggestions help: Feed it nourish-
ing food, watch its health habits, and
don't let it suck its thumbs or a pacifier.
If adenoids cause mouth breathing, con-
sult your physician.

 

 

wOMEN's EXCHANGE

F you nave something to exchange. we will
grin: It FREE under this heading providln :
Irst-—lt appeals to women and is a boniflde
exchanges, no cash Involved. Second—It will
no In three lines. Third—You are a paid-up
subscriber to The Business Farmer and attach
our address label from a recent issue to rave
t. Exchsn e ofiors will be numbered an In-
serted In t a order received as we have room.
—-MR8. ANNIE TAYLOR. Editor.

 

 

128.-—I_iovely percale and gingham quilt pieces
for anything. useful.—Mrs. Geo. Morgan. 3
Vicksburg, Mich.

DRESSEG

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The _model is easy to de-
wgis used_for its_ development. One
_he Pattern is cut in 4 ‘Sizes: Small, 34-36:
inches bust measure. A Medium size requires

ortrayed.

he Pattern is cut in

46-48 inches bust measure. A

The de—
Thc sleeves may be short or in wrist length.
To make the Dress as illustrated for a 16
_ d.2% yards of
{*4 yard of the plain material is required.

Dress, Petticoat, and (lombinntion—W’alst and
and 5 years. A 2 year Size requires 1%

yard
Petticoat, and 1‘4

yard for the Combination.

dress. Gingham, percale, crcpc or

A 3 car

combined with cotton crepe is
with imtiste or linen for thc glumpc. The
year size requires 1% yard of 36 inch material
long sleeves. With short sleeves tho

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The selection of these beautiful styles were made through the facilities of our New York buying
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EAR girls and boys: Hays you
attended a fair this year?
Most of you have, I will wager,

' and expect to go to one or two‘ ”more

before the fair season is over.
There is always one feature that
appeals .to you more than any of
the others, and nearly everyone has
a diner-out idea as to the best loat-
uro. It is interesting to learn the
preferences of different people and
their reasons for their choice, and
I would like to have. you write and
tell me what you liked best about
the fair you attended. To the write
or of’the best letter that reaches mo
by October 1st I will send $3

the writer of the second best will
receive $1 . Then each' one of tho
first ten will receive a button if they
have not received one as yet. Re-
member, you are to tell which teat-
ure about the fair you liked the
best and tell your reasons for mak-
ing this choice, and the contest
closes October Ist.

Are you helping me to judge the
songs our members composed? I
hope you are. More appear on our
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D0 YOUR BEST
(Tune—“Yankee Doodle”) .

1
For the M. B. F. we all will work
In the best way we know how,
Come! Let’s busy and do not shirt
But do our best right now.
Chorus
Oh, we are out for doing our best
And making our best better,
We may not do so very well
But what we may do better.
2

Let’s do our best and busy get.
The M. B. F. we’ll work for.
And it will be the largest yet
()1 any other paper.
3

The. Children’s Page, especially
Will be the very best thing,
We’ll do our best, both you and me
To make it interesting.
4

Our motto now shall always be
To do our best right now;
We’ll live by that, both you and me,
To do our best we’ll vow.
—Jessie Smith.
Petoskey Mich.

D0 YOUR BEST
(Tank—“There’s Music in the Air")

1
The Children’s Hour is growing
With many cousins so bright,
Their motto “Do Your Best”
Makes them all try to do right.
When one is in time of need
They all do kind, loving-deeds,
And are called a shining flower,
Members of the Children’s Hour.

2

They write to Uncle Ned
Who teaches them to be kind;
He teaches them tobe brave
And never to lag behind.
They are always found at work
And from this they never shirk,
They never find time to rest,
As they always do their best
—Erma Cook (Age 16 yrs.)
Elsie, Michigan.

D0 YOUR BEST
(Tune—“Tramp, Tramp, Trump”)
1
When the breezes murmur low,
A soft whisper comes to me

“Do your best" it seemed to say so
sweetly,

“When you're working all the day and
want to play,

Always do your best with happy. joyou-
smiles.”

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Chorus
"Do your best" 0, happy children!
You can always do your best,
It you try with all your might,
Working. playing, till the night,
Cheer up some one with the best that you
can do. 2

You may be so very small,

And you think the work you do

Is not very much in this great world of
ours,

But it is the boys and girls

Being happy every day,

Bring the greatest cheer

Who always do their3 best.

Though your work is not the sum.
As your truest; dearest triondu.

,- “Do your boot and be remember by an.

all"
Comes the um. sweet and low,
Falling on no car you know.
Then the breeze. murmursotf. I hear it
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Merrily, merrily, merrily. merrily.
Then goodwork you see.

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Do, do. do you best
In sunshine or rain,
Merrily, merrily, merrily. merrily
And you won't be ashamed.

Do, do. do you best,8

In 00¢:th or in school,

Eerrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Then you’re your mother’s Jewel.

Do, do. do you best,
Try to make it rhyme ,
Verily, verily, verily verily,
And uo'onyouhear itchimo.’
—Alberta Brat (Ago 11 yrs.)
Charlevolx. 121,11!le
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(Each verso'ls tuned to chorus of
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Dogmyour best, don‘t stand gazing at tho
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Dom your best with a faith that nevur
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When you’ ve climbed up to the top
Then be sure you will not drop,
Do your best and you’ re always bound
to rise.
2
Do your best and you can buy a Ford,
Do your best, kéep adding to your board, '
But don’ t be a miser, or you’ll find
That your dark clouds are not lined:
Do your best, do not tumble overboard.
3

Do your best. hitch your wagon to a star,
Do your best, it’ll keep tires on your car:
If it‘s hard and you don’t want to do it.
Forget all that and hop right to it.
Do your best for that keeps troubles afar.
» «Frances Chaney (Age 15 yrs.)
Morley, Michigan.

 

D0 YOUR BEST
(Tune—“Tho Mulberry Bush”)

1
This is the way to dust the chairs
Dust the chairs, dust the chairs;
This is the way to dust the chairs.
Doing our very best.
2

This is the way to sweep the floor,
Sweep the floor, sweep the floor:
This is the way to sweep the floor,
Doing the best we can.
3

This is the way we bake a. cake.
Bake a cake, bake a. cake;
This is the way we bake a cake,
Doing our very best.

4

This is the way to shine the pans,
Shine the pans, shine the pans;
This is the way to shine the pans
Doing our best.
—Margaret Collins (Age 10 yrs.)
'Onaway. Michigan.

 

D0 YOUR BEST
‘ (Tune—“Taps”)
1
Do your best while others rest,
Do, do, your best to win the test;
If others rest upon their duties
Do your best.
- 2
Do your best for you can,
It you rest and try to do your best
Others can, so can you
Do your :best.

3
Do your best after the test,
Before you take your final rest;
Now’s the time. follow the rhyme
And always do your best.
Anna. Maud Bliss (Age 13 yrs.)
Bancroft, Michigan.

D0 YOUR BEST

(Tour—“Yankee Doodle")
Do your best you flag clothed nation,
Do your best today,
Today, tomorrow. all the time,
.1th do it, ‘tls all I say.

Chorus

Do your best to man and.beast, .’
To trees and to the flowers;
Please do the best of everything;
Write to the Children’s Hour,

. 2
Do your best for Uncle Ned,
For nephews and for nieces,
And you’ll receive the Blue and Gold
I: you Write songs 33nd pieces.

Do your best for blue and gold.

Lift high this royal banner, "

Do your best as you’ ve been told

In every place and manner. .

—-Mis_s l-Iildeguri'l Gohlke (Age 13 yrs.)

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acterizes all real Christians. When
you took your vow to make the
Father’s business the first business
of your life, did you mean it? Are
Christians today committing every-
thing; their lives, fortunes, and re—
sources to the Christian cause for
time and eternity? It is the Fath-
er’s business that calls for such un-
faltering decision and courage.

But in the breast of all men there
is that opposing call to the lower
levels of living. The Perfect Man
was no stranger to this experience.
When the great revival in the Jor-
dan valley broke out, a secret whis-
per sagld‘, “You are foolish, Jesus, to
commit yourself to" this futile move-
ment. Get out into other circles.
Assert your leadership and powers
before men. You can be as great
as Caesar if you want to.” And so
the tempter stands by every one’s
side to lead him away from the
heights, celestial. 55There was only
one way for Jesus and that was to
follow the divine urge of his soul
to be about his Father’s business in
a daily life of lowliness, obedience,
and faith. And one day, out of this
experience, he said, “He that hum—
bleth himself shall be exalted.” And
to all men he yet says, “Follow me.”

The marvelous thing about Jesus
was that he began his life in tune
with God, he kept it at such high
and uncompromising levels, and he
died with that spell of God-con-
sciouSness in him and around him.
Dr. Cadman is reported to have said
recently, “A greater wonder than
the virgin birth is that a man like
Jesus could be born at all.” Really,
that is so. He had, always, his heart
open to the sunlight of God and ev-
‘ery power of his being was set for
the carrying on of his Father's bus-
iness. This was the overcoming
enthusiasm of his soul.

But what of our own times? Are
we shrinking from this super-heat-
ed life? We hear the Spirit of Jesus
saying to the Laodiceans, “I would
thou wert cold or hot. 60 because
thou art lhkewarm’and neither hot
nor cold, I will spew thee out of my
mouth.” One thirsts for cold water
and may at times enjoy hot water,
but everyone dislikes lukewarm
water. And the Spirit says, “These
‘ lukeWarm folks are sickening.” Of
course they are. 5What pretentious
piety all around us! A piety satur—
ated with worldliness, that lacks
. vision of God or brotherhood, and
~that shrinks from the urgent call
to faith and duty. “0, there is
plenty of time,” says'this type of
Christian, “don't get warmed-up,
let prudence dictate." And so, God
and angels are witnessing the nau—
seating spectacle oi a tun-mad, mon-
ey-corrupted and semi-pagan church
mainly interested in keeping up its
own corporate business, but forget-
ting the Father’s business in lowly

service and clean living through’

the power of Christ.

Is our denominational machine,
as now operating, hindering the
Father’s business? Richard Rob-
erts was introduced to the students
_of one of our universities as a Pres-
byterian minister. He replied that
he was but a plain Christian minis-
ter and a member of the United
Church" of Canada. \.This is the cor-
. porate name taken inthe union of
1 three great denominations of Cana-
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. REMOVING' WABEI‘S
EAR EDITOR: As I am a reader
of‘ the M. B. FHand have re-
ceived some benefits from it,
and saw in the March 14th issue
what a brother reader says in re-
gard to warts on cow’s tests and
what will remove .them,- I will say
I have removed them with castor
oil. It will take some little time
but it will do the work. Put it on
everyytime he milks. If the test is
wet wipe it dry then apply the oil
and they will disappear. It will
take some time to do it but if it is
followed up it will do the work and
no harm to the cow.

I think every farmer ought to
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my paper.--—James Clifford, Sagi-
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PROSPEOIS BRIGHT FOR
SHEEPMZEN
HEEP raising on the farm has

been yielding a good profit the

last few years and from all
present indications the future is lum—
inous and encouraging. Sheep have
been kept oumy farm almost con-
tinuously for nearly four genera-
tions and I believe from well kept
records they have been the most
profitable the last few years than
any time since the civil war. There
has been periods of discouragement
throughout the years my family
have been in the sheep raising busi-
ness, but taking one year after an-
other, I believe sheep have been the
most profitable livestock we have
ever kept on our farm.

Years ago when both wool and
mutton was abnormally low in price
I reduced the size of my flock, but
as the price came back to a higher
level I have gradually increased my
flock and shall continue to do so as

. I consider sheep raising is going to

have a few years of good times.
One of the obvious encouraging

signs of good times for sheepmen.

is the fact that there is fewer sheep
in the world today than there has
been for years back. Reports com-
ing in from foreign countries show
the flocks to have been greatly .re-
duced in the past few years. A num-
ber of foreign countries that have
been large producers of flock pro-
ducts in years past are turning their
attention to cattle raising, both
dairying .. and beef production.
American manufacturers have been
for years past heavy importers of
wool products. Figures show that
this country consumes over twice
the wool that her flocks produce.
It is self-conclusive that in the years
to come the American flock owners
could double their wool production
and quickly find an urgent home
market. Manufacturers are putting
more wool into wearing apparel
than ever before and the demand for
high Quality woolen garments is on
the increase.

Another“ encouraging indication
that sheep raising is going to be pro-
fitable for several years to come is
the settled conditions of our tar-
iff laws. Frequent altering of tar-
iff measures has in years past kept
the wool’market in a rather unset-
tled condition. Manufacturers are
conservative purchasers of raw pro-
ducts, but with the stabilized mar-
ket conditions ahead they are go-
ing to use more wool and pay a
good price for the raw materiaL
With a. well established home mar-
ket and prosperous industrial life
in this country sheepmen have a
solid rock upon which to found
their faith that sheep raising is go-
ing to be a safe and profitable en-
terprise for a number of years for,-
ward.

With our fast increasing popula-
tion in this country there cannot
help be an accompanying increased
demand for flock products, both wool
and mutton. From whence are the
flock products to come to meet
this demand is a prudent question
to ask. ’Surely- not from foreign
countries as they‘ too are suffering
from a wool shortage. Increased
production is not likely to come
from our western range as this-sec-
tionz of the country is gradually be-
ing devoted to, grain production.
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nation the only sourcevof increased”
wool and mutton production of this
country to meet our immediate, de-
mand must come frOm an increased
number of small flocks maintained
upon the farms of/America. Our
slogan should be more small well-
fed flocks on every American farm.

It’s a good time to buya few
sheep. Sheep are easy stock to care
for. They eliminate a great deal
of the hard. laborious labor involved
in other lines of livestock production.
They do particularly well on cut
over land, land that is hilly or un-
desirable for cultivation. On every
farm, or nearly so, meadows, stub-
ble land, fields that cannot be cul-
tivated on account of labor shortage
and even well cultivated land can
be profitably employed for sheep
pasture and are excellent sources
of grazing land for maintaining s
small flock. I believe in sheep. I
know they are profitable—Leo (1
Reynolds.

CURDIN BUTTER

What causes curd in butter?
Churned before cream sours. milk
is good and of good test, cow is a
Jersey, 7 years old, a fine milker.
Has good pasture, fresh water twice
a. day and plenty of salt—E. 0.,
Newago, Mich:

UBD in butter is usually caused
by the presence of very sour
cream. Thin cream is especi-

ally apt t6 cause the defect. Due
to dry pasturage this year this do-
fect has been frequently reported.
We believe in many cases it is due
to abnormal composition of the
milk. In such cases there is very
little that can be done—P. S. Lucas,
Associate Professor of Dairy Manu-
factures, M. S. C.

, VETERINARY
DEPARTMENT

ABORTION

We have three thorough—bred Jer-
sey cows that we bred last spring
to a registered Jersey sire and all
three cows lost their calves between
the sixth and seventh month. Then
we do not seem to have any success
breeding the cows as we have had
them to the sire three times. Pre-
vious to this trouble we never had
to take them only once. We had
one grade cow in the herd that
was bred to a Durham sire who car—
ried her calf and freshened all right.
——0. J.‘, Sand Lake, Mich.

HIE fact that these cows aborted
between the sixth and seventh
month indicates that they had

some infection of the reproductive
organs that caused abortion. This
may have been due to specific abor-
tion infection or to some other in-
fection. No doubt their failure to
breed at this time is due to some
disease of the reproductive organs.

Very little can be accomplished in
the treatment of the diseases of
the reproductive organs of a cow
unless the treatment is administer-
ed by a qualified veterinarian who
has had some experience in such
work. You might try douching the
vagina three or four times a 'week
with a solution made by adding
four ounces of borax tora gallon of
clean warm water. About one—half
gallon should be used for each
douche. If the cause of sterility or
mouth of the womb or ovaries, it
would probably have no effect—E.
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and. Brush should be hung or sus-
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MY FATHER’S BUSINESS
(Continued form Page 17)

the persistent strength of sectarian-
ism? If we had as many different
schools for Americanization as we
have sectarian schools for Christian-
ization, how many brands of patriot-
ism would we have?

Well, it is becoming apparent to
many that not a few communities
have inadequate religious provi-
sions, and many others have uneth-
ical and impractical rural organiz-
ations because 0T our present de-
nominational system. A prominent
committee on rural and social reli-
gious surveys has startled us with
this statement in reference to Home
Missions: “On a careful examina-
tion of all the data at hand it seems
that 149 of the 211 aided churches
in these counties might be dispens-
ed with to the general advantage of
the religious life in the communities
and to the greater glory of the
Kingdom of God." Which church
are we to get rid of? Let us face
conditions honestly. Human mo-
tives must be cast aside. " Only a
Christ—centered impulse will set us
about the Father’s business above
the perpetuation of creeds.

Said Donald Hankey, “Religon is
betting your life that there is a
God." This is close to describing
the meaning of life. But the Spirit
of Jesus interprets life for each one
in, “I must be about my Father’s
business." But to do what? To
establish a career? To lay up treas-
ures on earth? To keep alive the
creedal religion of his day? No, no.
But to live for “the poor,” “the cap-
tives”, “the blind", and “the bruis—
ed.” “The Man Nobody Knows”
started life on this high level be-
cause it was the'Father’s business.
He was sure of God and God’s calL
The church in, which he was rear-
ed was out of touch with God. (is
yours?). He had but one brave
choice. He took it, and to hear his
countrymen say, “Crucify him.”

"He sits without the gate today
Amid the shadows dim,

While haughty priests ignore his plea.
And chant their doctrines grim,—
And sometimes he must wonder why
Men turned their hearts from him."

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ing men to move up by the side of
“The Outcast” and bet their lives
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I have killed two hens, both had
white spots all over liver. Hens did
not act sick, but have two or three
in the flock that are lame and sick.
Can you tell me what is the cause
of white spots and if it is anything
that makes the hens not good to
eat?—~J. S, Blanchard, Mich.

ROM the lesions and symptoms
which you describe, we feel
sure that the hens were affected

with tuberculosis. Your local ve-
terinarian could give an accurate di-
agnosis by holding a post ‘mortem
examination, or, if you have any
more hens which show the same
symptoms and if you would send one
to this laboratory alive, we could
hold a postmortem examination and
give you an accurate diagnosis.—
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Department' of Bacteriology and Hy-
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CROP BOUND
We have several chickens that
seem to have trouble with getting
their crops too full. There is a bad
odor about them and sometimes

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greenish-like matter runs from their.

mouths. What causes this and is

, there a cure?——Subscriber.

IKE most poultry disorders that
are at all serious it will hardly
pay to try to effect a cure with

these birds which are suffering from
what poultrymen know as “crop
bound.” Hewever, this condition is
not as hard to treat as most diseases
and if the simpler of tworremedies
is effective a cure may be worth try—
ing. Administer a half teaspoon-
ful of sweet oil or castor oil. When
this is swallowed begin at the top
of the crop and work or knead it
with the fingers until part of the
crop contents have become loosened.
Then administer more oil and work
on the rest of the crop. After the
mass is well loosened hold the bird
head downward and try to work
part of the mass back through the
mouth. This may or may not be
successful. If not an operation is

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V depmmen" 9“““0'19 relative 'to poultry fwill be cheerfullf. ‘y airs

‘ necessary, but scarcely worth trying?

by an amateur. Briefly, a. 3110.“. in-
cision is made in the outer skinover:

t11‘3'91‘011 and then a. similar‘incision L

in the crop itself. ‘The contents are 7 ‘
now exposed, and- ,are removed by,,.
picking them out with a pair of
tweezers or other handy instrument".

After the crop is cleared the wounds -

are closed one at a time by sewing-
them together with white silk or,
cotton thread, making each stitch.
by itself and tying it with a' knot
that will not slip. 7 .

COVERING CAPACITY OF A GAL-
LON OF WHITEWASH/
/HE following approximate fig-
ures will be of assistance in est—
imating the amount, of white—
wash needed to cover Wood, brick or
plaster surfaces. It is, of c0urse, to
be understood that these figures «are
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the mortar joints in brick work.
roughness of the lumber, and pre-_
vious treatments which will have a
very decided influence on the cover-
ing capacity of the wash.

Whitewash will weigh, on an aver-
age, about 12 pounds to the gallon.

A gallon will (have the following
covering capacity;

On wood, about 225 sq. ft.
ft. by 22 1-2 ft.). ,

0n brick, about 180 sq. ft.
ft. by 18 ft.).

On plaster, about
(about 8 ft. by 33 ft.).
According to A. S. Jennings, a
man with a four—inch brush should
cover the following surfaces per

hour.

0n rough walls, 22 square yards.

On smooth walls, 38 square yards.

On flat surfaces, 40 square
yards. _

On ceilings, using a step-ladder,
25 square yards.

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EDITED BY JAMES W. H.‘ WEIR, R. E. :

Contributions invited—Questions Answered

LOOP AERIALS

HE accompanying diagram shows
the construction of a loop aerial.
The cross-arms and supports
were made from a strip of oak one
inch square. 'The wire supports
are made from thin wooden coat
hangers from which'the hooks have
been removed. Slots are cut in the
cross—arm ends to hold the coat
hangers. These are glued and srew—
ed in place. The cross—arms are
dovegtailed at the center as shown
and then fastened securely to the
standard by a piece of one—quarter
inch fibre or wood cut in the form
of a right triangle measuring four

inches on the legs.

The base of the standard is equip—
ped with a. dial for noting direction.
This was made from an old dial,
leaving a brass bushing projecting
from the. dial. A one—quarter inch
hole is drilled in the oak standard

and then followed with a larger drill
of sufficient‘size and to a depth to
hold the brass bushing of the dial.

A piece of one-quarter inch rod,
threaded on one end, was inserted
through the wooden base as shown.
This rod is held in place by an old
rheostat arm equipped with a small
set screw. This arm presses lightly
against the dial when in place
and holds the loop in any de—
sired position. The wire is wound
as shown in the drawing. Excellent
results were obtained using strand-
ed bare copper wire and also with
No. 14 S. C. copper wire. The arms
were notched to hold the wire in
place, the turns being spaced one
inch apart. Fifteen turns of wire
are used, requiring about 120 feet.
'This loop will cover the broadcast
wave length’s range when used with
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'- farm won more than $1,200 in
prizes.

It is futile in one short article
to attempt to give a comprehensive
picture of the character and multi-
plicity of activities of this truly re-
markable woman,——mother, wife,
partner ‘in the farm business, com-
munity leader. It seems almost im-
possible that anyone could be see):—
tremely busy doing so many neces—
,sary and worth-while things by day
and still have seemingly limitless
bouyant energy and ambition to be
01! attending some commuity meet—
ing or other gathering nearly every
evening.

It seems to me that the secret of
this natural good health and a gen-
uine enthusiasm for life’s activities
and adventure. Above all Mrs.
Kinch believes in a twenty—four hour
religion and practical Christianity.
Love toward her fellow man seems
to be her dominant motive. Believ—
ing as she does, she has little pa—
tience with those who would allow
their religious differences of opin-
ion to breed community or social
friction or ill will.

Making the Minutes Count

It was truly an inspiring visit
that we had that afternoon, but all
too soon it was brought to a close.
Mrs. Kinch said, “I am sorry that
we can’t talk longer, but when I
met you I was just starting over to
Grindstone City to help some ladies
make chop suey for a White Shrine
meeting tonight. I must go and do
that now (it was about 3:30) and
then go on over to Port Austin and
get my two youngest girls, who are
seniors in high school there, and
then hurry back and do the milking
and get supper for our four hired
men. You see that .rOw of tenant
houses? They're all empty .now.
We used to keep married men but
can’t get them any more, so have to
hire single fellows. .It makes a
little more work for me."

But, of course the daughters
would help with the supper. Every-
body in the Kinch household is
taught to be a useful member of the
family and of Society at large. The
White Shrine meeting to which Mrs.
Kinch was going that evening was
way down at Bad Axe, twenty-five
miles away. But then, what’s that
short distance to her? One night
that week she had been over to Sc—
bewaing, fifty miles away, speaking
to a mother and daughter banquet.

The last time I saw this truly re«
markable woman she had driven in
her own car to radiate and preach
the gospel of the proper relation of
the rural woman to her home and
to her community. Speaking. on this
occasion to a County—Wide Farm
Bureau rally Mrs. ~Kinch not only
held the attention of the farm wo-
men, but of the men present as well
for back of her very interesting and
forceful talk was a sample of what
she was advocating—a farm woman
who is an up-to-date, intelligent
wife, mother and business partner
and 8. active, helpful member of [the
large community in which her good
influence is so remarkably effective.

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Shall We Sell Our wt... oi» Wait?

Farmers Ponder Over Possibility of Higher Prices

. ' By W.W.F001'E.MarketEditor-. ‘ —

. general business interests of
‘ i the United States are in normal

condition, and manufacturers
are making favorable reports, al-
though there have been times when
transactions were on a considerably
larger scale. Money is easy, and the
Chicago banks are making loans at
4% per cent. Country banks are
standing by their customers who are
in good standing, and farmers are
more favored than in recent years,
especially wheat and live stock
farmers. Prices for. farm products
generally are high, this applying
.particularly to wheat and cattle,
hogs and sheep. Prices for live
stock have been remarkably specu—
lative in recent weeks and fluctua-
tions covered a very wide range,
with the best beef steers selling a
short time ago for $16.25 per 100
pounds, which was $1 higher than
a week earlier. Before the later de—
cline in prices the prices paid for
cattle were the highest recorded
since 1920. Hogs, despite the-de-
clines from the year’s highest prices,
are still returning liberal profits to

owners, and values are far higher“

than in most past years. In short,
lots of money is made in the live
stock industry, and this is emphati-
cally the case in sheep, lambs. selling
extremely high. The receipts of
sheep in the markets of the country
this year have run about the same
in volume as a year ago, but the
marketing of hogs has undergone
an enormous falling offvawhich ac—
counts for the boom prices for hogs
and all hog products, fresh and
cured. Horses are having a fair
sale in the Chicago market, pairs
of heavy drafts of the better class
selling at $450 to $490. Common
horses are bad sellers. It is inter-
esting to learn that to encourage
orcharding in Williamston county,
Illinois, the Sunny Side Land com-
pany has bought 4,000 peach trees
to be planted this fall on the surface
of an old coal mining property near
Herrin.
Farm Taxes Lowered _

Action by the Iowa executive
council in lowering farm land‘valu-
ations will save farmers of the
state nearly a million and a. half dol-
lars, according to compilations com—
pleted at the state farm bureau
headduarters here.

Farm bureau figures show a re-
duction of 11.21 per cent in the val-
uation of farm property for taxation
as compared with 1923. City lot
valuations were increased 7.30 per
cent, personal property decreased
24.67 per cent, telephone, telegraph,
express companies and transmisswn
lines increased 23.81 per cent and
railroads decreased .25 per. cent.
As a result of the decrease in per—
sonal property, which includes live
stock, farmers’ taxes are also de-
creased approximately $59,574,831,

reau estimates.
tm‘a‘Sbhlialll We Sell On “’heat?"

With the 1925 wheat crop in the
bin and sh0ck, farmers are ponder-
ing over whether to sell. in the near
future or to wait for higher prices.
Within a short time prices have
weakened materially under lessened
buying and ample offerings, and
this has caused many farmers to
wait for reactions before selling.
A short time ago wheat was sold in
the Chicago market as much-as 10
cents lower than at the best time. of
the previous week, and a reaction
was started on the expectation of
crop experts that the total Winter
and spring wheat crop of the United
States would be under 700,000,000
,‘u’she‘ls, comparing with 873,000,-
00’ .;hushels harvested last. year.
ting‘an expert, Charles Michaels,
1' allowing for the durum wheat
the northwest which must go for
port, as it is not wanted in this
country, and the .surplus on the. Pa-
cific coast, there. is a close adjust-
bent of supplies to demand east of
[e Rockies, and the (tendency is
e not for. the May delivery to be

maintained around $1.50 at a min-
imum this season. Another crop ex-
pert, Frank Ridgway, says: Wheat
growers who are now offered from
40 to 45 cents a bushel more than
they were offered this time last year
——when they sold their wheat
around $1 a bushel and then saw it
selling within four or five months
for double that amount—are won-
dering if there is danger of repeat-
ing the mistake they made in selling
the 1924 crop.f’ _
Within a shert time sales for Sep-

tember delivery were» made on the.

Chicago Board of Trade of wheat at
$1.55, comparing with $1.23 a year
ago: corn at 93 cents,'comparing
With $1.18 a year ago; oats at 38
cents, comparing with 48 cents a
year ago; and rye at 90 cents, com—
paring with 87 a year ago. The
Visible wheat supply in the United
States is decreasing rapidly, instead
of the usual increase when a new
crop is being marketed, and a short
time ago it was down to 32,556,000
bushels, comparing with 69,119,000
bushels a year ago. Corn stocks are
normal, while during a recent week
there was an increase of 66,884,000
bushels in the cats in sight, bringing
stocks up to 50,706,000 bushels.
comparing with 11,403,000 bushels
a year ago. On the other hand,
the rye supply in sight was down
to 4,542,000 bushels, comparing
with 15,289,000 bushels a year ago.
Statistics show that wheat is in a
much stronger position than oats.
Continued dry weather causes fear
that the corn crop will be injured.
Cattle Sell Wide Apart

This has been a wonderful sum-

mer for the owners of well finished

cattle, whether yearlings or longer

fed lots, and far higher prices were
paid them in most past years. On
the other hand, poorer kinds show
little rallying power, and consumers
wanted the choicer cuts of beef as
a general rule. Only a short time
ago prime steers sold as high as
$16.25, with heavy cattle outselling
the best finished yearlings, but later
sales were at great reductions in
values. The opposite end of the
market failed much of the time to
show any particular advance over
recent years, and common. steers
sold around $6.25. The marketing
of_catt-le of all kinds at western re~
ceivmg points for the year to date

  

has been of normal proportions; and
grass fed lots. form an increasing.
share of the daily offerings. These

cattle are sold greatly below. the,

prices .paid for decent corn—fed cat-
tle, and because of the largest re-
ceipts of .western range cattle of
the season in western markets,
these have sold lower. Within a
short time there has been a great
inducement for- farmers to purchase
stockers and feeders in the Chicago
market, large receipts having result—

‘ed in further reductions in prices-

and there is an especially good de-
mand for the cheaper grades costing
from $5 to $7.25 per 100 pounds
and weighing from 600 to 800
pounds. It is plainly evident that
cattle feeders are showing more
faith in the cheaper kinds of stock-
ers and feeders than in the best
fleshy kinds selling of late at $8 to
$8.50. Within a short time large
supplies of stocker and’feeder‘steers
have gone to such important eastern
states as Indiana, Michigan, Ohio
and Pennsylvania, costing from $5
to $6.50.

while stock calves suitable for fin-
ishing as baby beef sold largely at
$6.50 to $7.25 for well-bred calyes.
Stocker and feeder heifers sold
mostly at $4.50 to $5.50, stock cows
selling at $3.50'to $4.25. Milch
cows are in fair demand at $75 to
$90 for most good springers, with a
few of the best Holstein springers at
$100. Backward cows were slow of
sale and over.

Breeding Ewes Wanted

Contin’ued great prosperity in the
sheep industry is causing many
farmers of the middle west to buy
breeding ewes, as.well as feeding
lambs, but breeders are not offered
at all freely, nor are many feeder
lambs for, sale, as most of the
lambs coming from the range coun—
try are marketed in fat condition.
Naturally, feeder lambs come high,
while .many sheepmen have been
purchasing good numbers on the
ranges at proportionately higher
figures than they could” be bought
on the market. There were late
sales on the Chicago market of feed—
ing lambs at $14.50 to $15.75 per
100 pounds, while killinglambs sold
for $13.50 to $15.35 and buck lambs
at $11.75 to $14. A year ago the
best killing lambs were selling at
$13.75, four years ago at $9 and
fourteen years ago at $6.25. The
demand for breeding ewes is unpre-
cedented, with nowhere near enough
to go around, and buyers pay from
$8.50 to $13, yearlings included.

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THE‘BUSlNESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMARY
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Sept. 9 Sept. 9 Aug. 25 1 yr. ago
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No. 2 sea $1.09 $1.573; $1.71 1.23
No. 2 Whife 1.70 ‘ 1,72 $1.28
No. 2 Mixed 1.69 1.71 1,27
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No. 3 Yellow 1.04 1.11 1.25
K074 Yellow 1.10 1.20
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No. 2 White . .40 .39 1,4. 8.40 .49 .62
No. 3 White .40 .39 1,4 .40 y.‘ .40 .00
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Cash No. 2, 1.04 .93 it 1.15 .93
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C. H. P. th. ‘ 4.40 4.70 5.75@5.80
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New, Per th. 2.00@2.10 1.90@2.10v 3,25 1.50@1.60
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No. 1 Tim. 24.,50@.25 27830 . 24.50@25 , 53923
No. 2 Tim. 22 as , ‘24 20 seams. ' $06.21; ,
No. 1 Clover maize , . aogzi . 1:8an Jeane ‘~
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{age weight. of the ho‘gs igdlng to 15*;
market, stockmen have believed. £11857

Inferior, off-colored light'
stockers sold as low as $4 to $4.75, .

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swine (wereJ'ttpjt 2&de :11 .
marketed of late “in the enlarge
stock yards averaged in weight 253
pounds; being * this hes; '
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than a week earlier, eleven ifieunds
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pounds 'more than two years ago. '

and five pounds heavier than the

five year.» average. “Within a short
time the general average ofpi-ices
was the lowest since last May, but
stood $2.65 higher than a year ago,
$3.50 higher than two years ago and
$2.10.above the five year average.
CombineCL receipts in twenty mar-
kets forzthe year to
gate 2 £00,000 h0g8, com arin
{Vitth 28,503,300 for the same geriog
as year. ‘ ate sales of o ‘ ‘
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LIVESTOCK MARKETS

Detroit, Sept. ~ 9.—Cattle—Market ex-
tremely dull at Wednesday's close. 50 to
75 cents lower than Tuesday. Good to
chmce yearlings, dry fed, $10.25@11:
best heavy; steers, dry fed, $9.50@10.50;
best handy weight butcher steers, $8@
9.25; mixed steers and heifers, $6@7;
handy light butchers, $5@6; light butch-

ers, $4@4.75; best cows, $4.75@5.25';
butcher cows, $4 (07 4.50 ; common cows,
$2.75@3.25; canners, 32.25603; choice

light bulls, $5695.50; heavy bulls. $4.50@
5; stock bulls; $3.50@4.50; feeders, $5@
6.25; stockers, $4.50@6.50; milkers and
springers, $45@90. .
Veal Calves—Market 50 cents lower:
best, $14@14.50; others :4'@13.5o. -
Sheep and Lambs—Market steady.
Best lambs, $14.75@15; fair lambs, $12.50
((213.75; light to common lambs, $8.256
10.50; buck lambs, $13@14; fair to good
ibfiegzp, $6107.25; culls and common, $3@

hogs, $13.35@13.40.
EAST BUFFALO. —— Cattle — Receipts,
700; market dull; very little trading;
mostly lower. Calves—Receipts. 300;
market slow; no change in prices. Hogs
——Receipts, 2,400; market active on light
hogs; heavies steady to 10 cents higher;
heavy, $13.25@13.75; mixed and yorker-S.
$13.65@13.85;. light yorkers, $13.50@
13.75; pigs, $13.50; roughs. $11.50; stage,
$7@9. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 400;
market slow; no change in prices.
CHICAGO—H o g s—Receipts, 20,000 :
active; good and choice, 140 to 210-111
selections, $12.75@13.15; ‘top, $13.30;
majority. 225 to 300-111 butchers, $12.50
@13; packing sowshlargely $10.65@11;
bulk. better strong weight killing pigs,
$12.50(a)13; heavyweight hogs, $11.90@
13; medium, $12.35@13.25; light, $11.35
((013.30; light lights, $11.25@137.25; pack-

ing sows, $10.35@11.15; slaughter pigs»,

$12@13.15. Cattle—Receipts, 7,000; bet-
ter grades, fed steers, 150 to 25c higher;
spot, up more .011, heavies; ~no strictly
choice offerings here: best matured steers.
early, $14.75; yearlings, $14.50; grassers
and short—feds, steady to strong; stockers
and feeders, steady; she stock and bulls,
steady to strong; spots, 10c to 250 up;
bulk, $12@13. Sheep—Receipts, 25.000;
fat lambs,.weak to 25c lower; mostly
15c to 25c off; early sales, westerns, $15
@1550; some held higher;- early bulk,
natives, $14.75@15; few to city butchers.
$15.50; 82—lb California clipped lambs;
$13.50; odd lots, fat native ewes, Steady.
at $6.50@7.75; few choice light weight

feeding lambs, steady at $15.75.

 

A GLANCE AT THE MARKETS
('U. S. Bureau of Agriculturau Economics
Washington. D. C.)

For week ending September .5. »

'NOTHEB week of low prices—ha;
Arounded out a full minth of down—
ward trend. The whole main list,
grain, feeds, hay, cotton and some lines
of live stock and general produce, 'sagged
off a little further. But prices are as a
rule still considerably abovethe low point.’
of the year and some are much higher
than last season.’ The weakness is ex-
plained by the increasing new supplies,
the somewhat better crop conditions and
the moderate production with good de—
mand and a fairly satisfactory position
for’ producers, in .most parts, of_ the
country. ,
Butter receipts are lighter since the
heat wave in the West and prices recov-
ered isomeWhat. Quality :seems, net-suite,
up tomidseason standard. Ste” stocks
are increasing faster than ai" 7" ‘

    

hon. _ ~

”Live stock has lost 1;.
advance, but finished
and fight MSW .
above the year-3139.

late date aggre- .

Hogs——Market prospects lower. Mixed

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, Week of September 13
UNSHINY weather with moder-
ately cool temperatures -about
the first day of the week be-
ginning September 13 is to be ex-
pected in Michigan. Shortly after

. the beginning of this week the tem-

perature will begin to warm up rap-
idly, By Monday -or Tuesday there
will be an increase in cloudiness.
stronger wind forces and rain. In
some sections the precipitation will
be heavy

About Tuesday or Wednesday the
skies will again clear and the tem-

perature fall suddenly to much low-

er readings. .
From all indications it appears

“that the balance of the week will

remain cool for the season with
some unsettled weather, cloudiness
and showers during the latter part.
Week of September 20

At the very beginning of this
week in Michigan the temperature
is expected to make a decided up-
ward move which will continue
over Monday. Readings will reach

,considerably above‘ the seasonal nor-

mal. During most of this same time
there~will be showers and rains in
many~ parts of the state.

About Tuesday storm conditions
will clear temporarily for the, week
with, a slight drop in temperature.

During the next few days, there
e tem—
perature of the state. However.
the sky will become cloudy and the
weather generally unsettled tb
showery. About Saturday the tem-
perature pf the state will be cooler.

Warm and Wet

The , e temperature during
October, November and December in
mohigan this year will rdnge slight-
U above the seasonal normal. Pre-
cipitation will be plentiful for all
needs of growing crops over most
districts of the lower peninsula of
the state during this same period.

 

 

loss
5,? The loss will

31‘ ‘ 1 ~st6 is

stop when the building is erected'
and the machinery: placed in it. The
loss from exposure will equal a high .
interest rate.

One trouble on the
average farm is that we lose by ne-
glect on the things that the average
man in any other business will care
for.

-Do we find any fields where an in—
vestment in some good fertilizer
would pay? I know of a number
of instances where an investment in
this line would yield much larger
dividend than the best bank stock
Very often this investment will yield
three hundred per cent. We have
seen this yield in just the additional
crops to say nothing of the improve
ment in the land. Of course, this
may be an exception in most cases
but we are usually safe to say that
it will yield a dividend from fifty
to one hundred per cent. Another
advantage in this investment is that
it is a quick return on the money.
We do not have to spend months
and years in trouble wondering
whether or not the proposition is
going to pay. We do not get this
quick return on the “Wild Cat" in—
vestment although it is sometimes
promised, and we never hear of it
again.
, We have mentioned the invest—
ments in houses on the farm and
also the fertilizer. Now, What about
the farm tools needed? How many
farms do we find where there are all
the farm tools that can be used to
an advantage and save time and la—
bor. It may be that a mowing ma-
chine or corn planter is needed.
There are times when one of theSe
implements would be worth num—
bers of dollars just for one day’s
use. Of course, we can sometimes
borrow one from our dear neigh—
bor but suppose he is using it on
the very day we have our land ready
to plant or the hay is ready to be
cut. Then we have to wait unti:
the next day and it rains. Here ou1
hay is ruined or we have to work

ur land over again before we can

nt it. Before we can realize it
the week is gone and we are in the
same old rut; At last we get the
corn planted but it is so late that
some of the long dry spells ruin it
and the crop is a failure. Do you
know of an investment in any kind
of a bank. that would have been
worth more than to have invested
one hundred fifty dollars in a plant—
er and mowing machine? Also this
dividend will come in each year.
We can save our money when the
is here and not have to wait

an in most cases loss.

A farm will never pay when con-
ducted on a careless scale and no
study is made of its conditions. It
must be conducted on the business
plan just the same as the banking
business or any other line of work.
When we see things we need let us
buy some of them even it we have to
borrow the money. In most cases
the profit will overcome the inter-
est on the money we borrow to get

BROADSOOPE FARM, NEWS
AND VIEWS
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clover. the benefits accruing from
the use of commercial fertilizer be—
ing the salvation of the clover or
grass se
' We will sow some timothy at
time of sowing the wheat. It does
not always seem advisable to sow
any great quantity of timothy in
the fall. for it often interferes with
the clover seeding in the spring,
sometimes nearly, if not quite kill-
ing out the young clover. A little
timothy sown in the fall is quite a
success in the first year of the mead-
ow. We will sow it back of the
disks on the drill, as experience has
shown that much timothy seed is
covered too deep if sown 11 front of
the disks.

one of the corn fields is to be
sown to wheat this fall, and us-
ual we will go over the groin just
once with the disk harrow. We oft-
en wonder how we ever run the
farm without a disk» barrow. Com-

. menial fertilizer will be used. as

this field is so far removed from
the barns and yards that manure is
not easily taken to it. However,
with fertilizer for plant food, and

' clever for humus, the field is quite
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‘ ‘ A litter of cobs— and corn
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Worthless rubbiSh that represents a big investment in seed
and fertilizer and hours of work in the broiling sun. Is it
any wonder the wooden crib is being condemned by thou—
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"lcorrsider my Martin the best crib
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