1172 Independent - Farm Magazine Owned (1724’ Edited in Michigan fildahe'Growers: Market FOwn Beans Suécessfully—A Few Remarks on Michigan’s New . nut 4 radmg MWSfiPe-‘Iig’eea Wheat Averages 29 Baskets Per ACre V ’g - - “ ‘ ‘ _ s ICHIGAN, with a prospective . . production oi 945,000 tons, holds second place this year, according to a statement issued by " Verne H. Church, U. S. Agricultural ‘ , Statistician and L. Whitney Watkins, Commissioner of Agriculture. Colo- rado outranks it with 1,230,000 tons. ' Utah reports a crop of 928,000 tons; Nebraska, 656,000; California, 531,- 000; Idaho, 331,000; Ohio, 322,000 and Wisconsin, 117,000. The total ‘for the United States, according to the September estimate, is 6,109,000 tons of beets and a prospective yield of 792,000 tons of sugar. The sea— son has been generally favorable for the crop in Michigan this year, and most fields are in a thrifty condition. Diseases are less prevalent than usual. ,7 ~ WESTERN MICHIGAN POTATOES GROWERS TO HOLD SHOW “ OT more potatoes——but better ' potatoes” is the slogan of the Western Michigan Potato As- sociation in planning its first potato show to be held at Greenville, Oc~ tober 29-31. It is a good slogan. Perhaps too much attention has been devoted to increasing the acreage and not enough to improving the quality of the crop. The idea of the show L l _., _. 4.....- __ “g“ i is $0 sucourase intel‘ést iii bettering :- ta‘tOes and "some ot'the’ best known and most sucbessful potato growers in Michigan are giving liberally of their time and experience [to make this show the best of its kind ever staged in Michigan.“ A hearty invi— tation to compete at the show is ex- tended to all potato growers of this state. Premium lists are nowavail— able and entries can be made any time up to 9 A. M. October 29. Ad— dress your inquiry to V. I. Whitte- more, secretary, Greenville, Mich.’ RECORD BEAN CROP EPTEMBER is usually the critical month in determining the vol- ume of bean production. With good prospects earlier in the season, growers' hopes are often dashed to the ground by wet weather during the harvesting period, and what may have promised a good yield actually. becomes a partial crop of poor qual— ity. This year, conditions were gen- erally favorable up to the ”end of August except that blight and an- thracnose, the two menacing diseases of Michigan beans, were prevalent in various sections, according to a state- ment issued by Verne H. Church, U. S. Agricultural Statistician and L. Whitney Watkins, Commissioner of Agriculture. The vines were well podded and the pods were well filled. . ,3! 0,9698, ’ . witlx2‘the- prevailing ’13, .. , . cause a considerable picliage. “The September 1 estimate for other lead- ing states Was as follows: New York, 1,924,000 bushels; _M0ntaua,‘ 4:64.— 000; Colorado, 2,525,000; New Mex.- ico, 179,000; Idaho, 1,722,000; Cali— fornia, 2,965,000. The total crop of the country was estimated at 17,- 569,000 bushels as compared with 13,327,000 last year and 16,004,000 two years ago, FIRE PREVENTION WEEK OCTOBER 77-10 INCEJt is to’ his home that every, '. Pennsylvania, man instinctively goes in quest of absolute safety there is grim irony, more than a little, in the rev- elation that somebody’s dwelling suf- fers attack by fire every three min— utes, approximately—that the aver- age‘yearly destruction, of homes ap— proaches..$66,000,000. Plainly, the safety that he seeks is not found around the average American” hearth. It appears from the published, re- cord that four of the six leading causes of 'fire in the home—Defec- tive Chimneys and Flues; Sparks on Roofs; Stoves, Furnaces, Boilers and their Pipes, and Matches—Smoking —indubitably are preventable by the exercise of proper care and common sense. . ~ # Railroad Permanence _ Michigan’s 23 railroads make steam from coal. Their fuel supply is assured for generations '— tO come. So, in the future, as in the past, Michigan crops and products will flow out and suppli will flow in—by Rail. A solid, adequate and permanent Railroad planthas been built upinMichigan. Onthis plant, as a cornerstone, rests Michigan’s present prosperity, and its hopes for the future. Michigan people are justified in their faith in Michigan Railroads. That faith is built on solid achievement. mm “mummies-an.- - 1‘ . . E’s-.y'n wu- - ’K. T“?! swim-Mun:- ‘ “9 ,.. p RI-But or course. _ name to! 28,701.00 While the total agricul proportion will go into comments chuneisf‘accordinpto a statement— f . issued by Vern-e H. Chumh,‘ U. S. , Agricultural Statistician and L. Whit- ney Watkins, “Commissioner of Ag- riculture. From a commercial stand.- point, Washington leads with a "cropf ,, of 8,150,000 barrels, New York is second with 4, 809,000 and Michigan is third with 1,770,000. Virginia reports a crop of 1,221,000 barrels; 992,000; West Vi‘r‘ ginia, 674,000; Ohio, 652,000; Illi- nois,, 1,250,000; Missouri, 658,000; Arkansas, 850,000; Colorado, 792,,- 000; Idaho, 1,384,000; Oregon, 1,- 428,000; and CalifOrnia, 1,202,000. The Michigan crop is better than last year,-both in quantity and quality. It is estimated that 57 per cent of the State’s .cro'p consists of winter, 24, per cent of tall, and 19 per cent of summer varieties. The heavy‘ volume this yearis in the western part of the State from Allegan County northward, the percentage increasing toward the north. EXPERT ADVISES FARMERS TO TAKE CARE OF'WOOL ETTER care in the production and preparation ' of wool for market on the part of farmers of this country would bring them thousands of dollars of additional revenue every year. This is the conclusion of J. F. Walker of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, who has just completed a trip of investi- gation through a large number, of woolen mills in the eastern part of the United States. “Sorters at mills are paid 'on an average of about a cent a pound more for handling wool produced in this country than they are for sort- ing those from ,Australia or South America," says Mr. Walker. "‘On these imported wools practically all eign matter is eliminated before it is offered for sale. Onelarge mill visited has ceased to buy Ohio wool -. and is buying all imported wool because of the saving in waste." ,WILL HANDLE 50,000 BALE OF OOTI‘ON UR (thousand bales of cotton. have already been delivered to the Louisiana Farm Bureau Cotton Growers Association. Hun- dreds of bales are coming in every day. G. L. Wooley: secretary mana- ger, estimates that the association will handle 50,000 bales this year. To date the deliveries are prac- tically double that or the same per- iod last season. Fifteen cents has been advanced immediately on all shipments of cotton. MUSINGS 0F A‘PLAJN FARMER F SAW black birds today. Signs of. winter are creeping on. Zounds! It's just around the corner. I am not prepared. I must inspect the cow stanchions and get my last year’s boots vulcan- ized. ‘ Some of these mornings we will wander out into an icy blast and old King Winter will be hard upon us. Don’t forget to drain the radiator. I don’t like winter. a lot of endless drudgery. I walk around in a circle during the winter months “pitching out .what I have pitched in during the summer months. Sounds foolish, don’t it, to handle things twice? . I! [could sell out I’d go to Florida and sell real estate. _ Or hoe water-~ melons! Or-hunt sharks! Or do some:- thing! - 3 But you can’t sell a farm unless it. is on a trunk line. So I’ll stay here and pitch and pitch. ‘ ~ Tomorrow I’ll pitch beans. 111: a tewdays I’ll pitch corn for the silo. When we house the’stock I’ll. pitch <’ , ‘I; am some pitcher ' ’”‘*' ' '55. to de.'9n‘-’a:~¥srm prong , to micro t I “unpack " _ tutti crop 4,... 75 not quite aslarge as'a year ago; ‘39. quality is‘much better and a larger ' of the 'poor quality wools and tor-_; i t? i It brings on , e4 brie -other“ " I,“ mf- _.. " .' M _, l .ww/z e — was... , ' ‘5 E recently completed 'what we consider .a successful season, . haying handled 15,000,000; ”pounds of Great Northern beans and nettedjhe growers better than $5.30 A -per cwt. over and above one reclean- hg, handling, storing, insuring, sell- ing, shipping and all overhead ex- pensesu This'is probably 30c more than the average price received by ~»the growers not in the Southern Idaho‘ Bean Growers‘ Association. In Montana the average price, as given by three different sources of inform- ation was from $4.75 to $4.90. . 'Not only have the Assdciation members been benefitedby the order- ly marketing of-“their beans but also the outside grower in that the price . to him has been boosted at least 1k /‘-. — " (3,; / l ‘ cent per pound. .. Four successful years 18 our re— cord thus far, and there seems to be no good reason why this record should not continue, for we have thtroughly demonstrated that the Association is of very practical value to the farmers of Twin Falls and vicinity. Our'members are boosters for the Association almost without exception and it is generally conceded by the outsider that it has been the one most important factor in. stabil- ising the prosperity 'of this farming community. We have had no bank L failures and as stated recently by one \ of our bankers, beans are the reason why, and without question the Asso- . ciation should be given the credit for the satisfactory returns to the farm— ers on this product. It has been the prop that has prevented this section from falling into the same degree of business depression as has prevailed so generally, for the past four years, throughout the farming sections of Our country. The Association beans are reclean- ed, stored, insured, sold and shipped ', at a contract price by our selling agents, the Southern Idaho Whole— "sale Grocery Co., of Twin Falls, Ida., under the direction of the nine Asso- -ciation‘ directors, who, during the 'shipping season meet at least once each week. This plan has worked very satisfactorily and, appeals to us as the logical one, cooperation among ‘ farmers in » producing the product and cooperation between the farmers i 1 Only Farm if-Magdzine Owned and. Edited in Michigan SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1925 They Are “hoxGrOWers MarkctOwn Beans Successfully Aesociation ls Interested in Cooperative Marketing Efforts of Michigan Growers and Believe Working Along Right Lines By H. T. BLAKE and a business concern familiar with marketing in the selling of the pro- duct We feel that, estimating conserv- atively, had 75% instead of about 40% of the Great Northern beans grown in Southern Idaho been sold through the Association the net to the growers would have been at least, 25c per cwt more, or added to their profit $3.00 per acre, or increase the ' value of the bean crop of this section by approximately $100,000.00. We thoroughly believe that sens- ible, sane, enduring, (not fitful) co- operation will eventually prove a cure-all for our troubles-and that for a cooperative organization to be a success it must be willing to grow gradually to the larger accomplish- ments it desires to attain and have honest, intelligent and efficient man— agement. We do not feel that we need federal aid except to safeguard our business transactions and enable us to finance ourselves on terms sim- ilar to those of other business organ- izations. “Interested in Michigan I am very much interested in the cooperative efforts of the Michigan bean growers and I know, from the four years experience of the South—' ern Idaho Bean Growers Ass’n, that these efforts are along proper lines. Now, because we have made some mistakes and met with a fair degree of success. I am sure some of our conclusions as to what is proper and what not proper in the workings of a cooperative bean growers asso- ciation would be, at least, of inter— est to our Michigan friends. We are convinced, first of all, that the agreement between the grower and the association must cover a period of three or more years and that it must include a provision re- FEDERAL GRADES FOR BEANS HE Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the U. S. Department of ’ Agriculture has issued tentative U. S. standardsfor bcans. The grades are somewhat differ-cut than those submitted at the meet- ing of Michigan bean interests in Lansing last April, having been re- vised to include constructive suggestions made by the trade, both privately and at public hearings, and they are designed to give the most accurate and equitable basis of determining- quality. Fact 01's are defined and their limits are dcfinitcly fixed so that the grades may be rigidly applied. This eliminates flexible tolerances which when i left to the individfial judgment of inspectors or others intcrprctjng the grades permit wide variations in the results. ‘ beans are as follows: The grades for pea No. 1, shall be well scrccncd and good natural color and appear- ance, containing not more than one and one-half pcr ccnt total split and damaged beans with not over two hundredths of one per cent of foreign material. No. 2,.shall be, well screened and may be slightly off color, contain- ’ ing not more than one tenth of one per cent of other beans, and not more than one tenth of one per cent of foreign material. No. 3, may be dull or of poor color, containing not more than five per cent total split and damaged beans, not more than one half of one per cent of other beans, and not more than one half of one per cent of foreign material. Entered as 2nd. class matter, Aug. 22, 19 at Mt. Clemens, Mich., under act Mar. 3. 18 17. 79. quiring the delivery of all the mem- ber’s beans to the association, A satisfactory organization cannot be maintained for a shorter period and it is very necessary that we know to ,a reasonable degree of certainty the quantity of beans to be stored, cleaned and sold during a season. From our experience, I do not be- lieve the plan of members selling a part of their beans for cash and pooling the balance through an as— sociation would work out succsss— fully. The volume of association beans must be large enough to be a real factor in the bean market. We consider that we should control at least fifty per cent of the Great Northern beans produced in this dis— trict. Our success thus far, we feel, is largely due to the arrangement we have with an established business organization experienced in the handling and selling of beans. The association members grow the beans and our selling agents store, clean, insure and sell them under a defin- ite contract price and under the close supervision of the association's directors, who are in all matters supreme. These selling agents han- dle and sell only association’s beans and, where possible, under an asso— ciation brand. Though our present contract does not so require, I feel that all correspondence in reference to sales should be on association stationery. Advanoc to Members Under the conditions which pre- vail here, we consider that an ad— vance must be made to our mem— bers of at least one cent per pound on delivery of their beans and fur- ther advances made as fast as the sale of beans will justify. \Ve have usually paid three cents by Decem— ber lst and made a final settlement by March 1st. To make the early advances we secure the necessary funds by short time loans from our local banks; longer loans from the Federal Intermediate Credit 'Bank and by discounting bills of lading. Wc paid out last season approxim- ately $1,000.00 in interest on these accounts. The overhead of the association (Continued on Page 23) - A Few Remarks on Michigan’s New Fruit Grading Laws By HERBERT NAFZIGER ‘3 ’ 0L DING it! Now I’ll have to buy a peck measure full of rubber stamps and learn the law all over again. These fruit grading laws are just like them pet lizards that change color every so often. Every time you look at ’em they’re different.” Having gotten all this off his chest, my neighbor, Ed McIntosh, cheerfully bought the necessary stamps and proceeded to obey the law to the letter. _ Ed McIntosh was wise. He knows, as does every intelligent fruit grow- ver, that an adequate, well enforced grading law is the _very life blood of his business. Who wants to go back to the days when Wormy, scabby; dishonestly _' faced stuff could be, poured on the 1 market: kill- ’ _ demoralizing prices, ling demand, disgusting Our custom- ';’e}i.. the consumer andrggiving Michi- ganfruit a black "9”,? ; A,Needlegs to ..= ’ those days. arquoneibforever.‘ .stronfg cdmpetitfeg,' to face. . ctiim iran‘d jtha‘ta they lid maintain a good. wers'nowada'yS -%8316 that ,, .1' ‘ ii slat state George F. Waldo, of Cornwallis, Oregon, said: , . ‘.‘Throughout the Northwest the various Grower’s Cooperative Asso— ciations have long maintained local men for inspecting packing houses, and fruit coming into storage for grade and condition. “These associations through their inspectors, tried to keep their grades‘uniform for their entire pack throughout the season. Fruit leav- ing the-storage for eastern ship- ment was also inspected for condi- tion and to recheck the grade. “Some associations at the present time issue certificates to buyers up- on . such, inspection. This service has in many cases been veryeflici- out. The grading rules of most as— sociations are higher than those laid down by the States. It has been largely through the efficiency of this system that the western boxed apples have built up a reputation for uniformity ofwgradeand quality in eastern markets.” '.Notice that he says, “The grading rules 'of most associations), are higher..- than those ‘ é». . * bribe-a . dustry face like situations. q vertising Michigan fruit. .. {icing-v is undoubtedly essential to laws but they even go them one better. Ultra strict grading laws are sometimes a source of regret to a grower who has a large lot of all kinds of fruit to sell. However, as business farmers we must look the facts in the face. We must improve or revise our cultural practices in such ways as will enable us to grow a high percentage of the better grades of fruit and then we must grade and pack our fruit as well as or better than our stiffest competi- tors. ' To sayvthat Michigan apple grow- ers are up against strong and ever increasing competition from the Northwest is perhaps a trite render-k but trite sayings are usually true ones and if we are going to hang onto the best apple trade against the Northwest we must do as they do. This" also holds good with our grape growers as regards competié‘ tion from California and New York, and mafiy other branches of the in- Much has been said and written about ad‘- Adver- ccess -: in any .uprtoLdate .merChan- k. +s< ,., dising program. However, before one cent is spent for advertising, before a single line of publicity is printed, We must be certain that we are offering goods which will re- ceive and merit the approval and admiration of our customers. To glowingly advertise an infer- ior article would be to deliberately establish a reputation as cheats and liars and an enormous efiort would then be necessary to eradicate the sour taste from the mouths of our customers. ' Don’t you think then that my neighbor, Ed McIntosh, is right in his belief that an adequate and well enforced grading law is the life blood of his business? ‘ Changes in grades are naturally irritating and inconvenient for the grower and sometimes the reasons for the changes are hard to under— stand. However, we must remem- ber that no man—made thing was ever perfect and undoubtedly many future changes will be needed be- fore our grades are right. Any fruit grower who has not seen a copy of the new grading laws can. obtain copies for the asking by sending .a ,card to the State Depart~ ment of , Agriculture at Lansing. :Michigan. iéreéd * 3"HH4E .lacking the spectacular— ' ity of last year’s record yields the recent Michigan wheat 'arvest has brought with it much formation which should be worth hile at planting time. vThree varieties have apparently stablished themselves in the esteem . f the farmers of Michigan. Those haying fertile soils of the heavier type are doing best with Michigan’s famous leader, Red Rock. David ‘Kfiiker, of Palmyra, had a 22 acre field of this variety yield 36 bushels per acre and a smaller one 27%, despite Southern, Michigan’s dry spring. ’Dry weather is particularly adverse to Red Rock, too, because of its large kernel, but on soils Well- drained, yet retentive of moisture, this wheat apparently has yet to “find its equal for consistent yielding ability. , The new Berkeley Rock wheat, a bearded hard red winter variety, is 'also destined to become popular in Michigan. Berkeley Rock is the re- 'sult of a cross between Red Rock. a soft red winter wheat and Berke- ley, a hard red winter type. The late Professor F. A. Spragg, selected out a pure line of Berkeley Rock having the short dark red berry of hard wheat, the winter hardiness of its Berkeley parent, and with it the stiff straw and productivity of Red Rock. He had in mind the low—lyv ing heavy soils of the Thumb dis— trict when he bred this variety and red wheat growers of that section and the Saginaw Valley have found it very satisfactory. New \that Smut Proof? In bringing out Berkeley Rock Wheat the plant breeders incident— ally developed with it another very desirable characteristic. This new wheat is apparently smut proof. Dr. (This is the nineteenth and concluding installment of Mr. Flood‘s European travel Series. “'0 liopc you 111nm enjoyed the series and would apprm-iaie it very much , if you would write us telling whether or not you would like to haw 11s publish . another series of article-s on Mr. Flood's ‘ travels in a different soci‘ion of the world.) ARIS is the “capital” of Europe; it is the center of as many ..~ things in Europe as New York City is the center of things in the .United States—the center of every— thing that is at all worth while, in the opinions of the proud Parisians and the blase New Yorkers who be— ?lieve that the rest of the country 7 exists simply as a background for the great city at its “head.” That proud, fascinating, beautiful old city on the Seine Rifer has been the political court of Europe in the past, and it bids for the honor yet today. It is the theatre lobby of the old world, and the whole city is a magnificent composite of mu— seums and art treasures. monuments . and cathedrals that make it the art gallery of Europe as well. It is the , C'modiste shop, the fashion plate, of ”the world, and since it rules the hearts of women it is the dictator ,0f the men as well. Van Dyke re- ' cognized this when he wrote: ,“London is a man’s town, with power in the air, . And Paris is a woman’s town, with flOWers in her hair.” fiParis is the ‘ hub of all that has been famous, and infamous, through he ages past, and it is so today in ‘ 'oth extremes and all the means he— ‘ tween. Whatever the tourist or the ' (zen, wants, from the literature nd romance of the ages past to the . ra—mode’rn crazes of today, viola! ‘ s all in gay Paree. If one wishes _i‘o'_Wse over the musty pages of digital history, breathing the ' of centuries of monks and u sts and holy wars and unholy : r clearing his lungs of that, It i! ‘ "Wishes to bask in the heavy- - (d, deadening, sweet, perfume j'woman’s town, with flowers 9 hair," or, keeping pace,still - it. withthe proud strides of. ’ 9.11:; one Wishes to leap head- - ma the} mad, . intoxicating By H. C. F dimers Show Increasing Amount of IntereSt m Three varieties Developed By M. 'S. 2C. RATHER ‘ , Extension Specialist in Farm Crops, M, S. C. G. H. Coons of the plant pathology- department of Michigan State Col— lege has tested it for stinking-smut resistance three years. The seed of several varieties Was thoroughly in— fected with smut spores and planted side by side. Nearly all wheats were badly smutted except Berkeley Rock. This had only two or three per cent smutted heads when other varieties similarly treated were sev- nty to eighty per cent diseased. Dr. Coons states that for practical purposes Berkeley Rock .,wheat is essentially immune to stinking smut. Field inspectors for the Michigan Crop Improvement Association‘ e- lieve that Berkeley Rock is also im— mune or at least quite resistant to loose smut, the disease that black— ens the heads just as they are form— ing and leaves only bare stems. In the three years the Michigan Crop Improvement Association has been inspecting and certifying this wheat hardly a head of loose smut has' been found. Herbert Mueller, Sag- inaw farmer, has this‘to say ‘of Ber— keley Rock, “Berkeley Rock wheat is no longer in the experimntal stage and may be recommended to Michigan farmers entirely on its merit. My field is entirely, free of smut while other wheats in‘this lo- cality are badly infested.” Brown Brothers, of Ithaca, have had unusual successwith the Berke— ley Rock variety. In 1924 their yield was 45 bushels per acre. This year a five acre field did better than 30 bushls per acre. Spring drought lowered the yieltLbut the quality of wheat these growers produced was remarkable. G. P. Phillips, Belle- vue; E. C. McCarthy, Bad Axe, and Farley Brothcrs, of Albion, like American Banner wheat. These Calhoun county growers are great bclievcrs that “Blood will tell” and practice their belief by using only the most improved varieties. By FRANCIS A. FLboo frenzy of the wildest night life and most reckless dehaucheriewthat old wise, wicked city of Paris will pro— vide for it all. Our experiences in driving our own car, the Old Gray Goose, in rur— al England and in London had been so completely satisfactory that our editorial party discussed the advis— ability of repeating the stunt during our two week’s Visit in Paris, buy— ing a second-hand jitney and then selling it again just before leaving town. But everywhere the people who had been .in Paris advised against it. “You don’t know Paris,” they said, and we admitted that. “You’d never be able to get around—you wouldn’t know where to go and you couldn’t drive your car there if you did; you wouldn't be able to handle it." I took that last remark per— sonally when two American ladies that we had met in Amsterdam scof- fed a: my suggestion of driving a car in Paris and said that I couldn’t handle a car there. “Why, I’ve driven a car in most of the big cities of the United States including Los Angeles, San Fran- cisco, Chicago and New York City,” I told them, “and. I ’ve been through the most congested districts at the hours when street trafiic was at its height, and I’ve never scratched a fender. I herded the old rGray Goose through the maze of London’s left-handed traffic with my passen— gers going to sleep in the seat be— side me. Listen. Have you ridden in automobiles in all of those cities yourself?” I asked them. “You ain’t seen nothing yet!” This was the emphatic opinion of them all, and we couldn’t under- stand it—until we had seen it. And then we all decided that until one sees the traffic in the streets of Paris he has never really seen busy street traflic at all. He may have seen streets so crowded with cars that there was not room for another one, but in Paris all of these cars, crowd- ed as they are, are tearing along at breakneck speed and making room for more. It is a fright! When we finally landed in that much-touted city at the Gare—du— Nord, we piled the most of our bag— gage in one taxicab with “Dean” Hopkins to guard it, then Colonel Cobb, the leader of on); party, and most of the other men climbed into »mo'ose” theyf simply go—but '1" ma F. H. Knox and '00., Portland, are others vwho strongly Berkeley Rock. ‘ , . Probably no variety of wheat has added more new followers recently than AmericanBanner. This is a bald white wheat of long standing but its prominence has been more recent, coming up with the demand for white winter wheat on the part of food products companies and pas- try flour millers of ,this state. American Runner" is the light land wheat growers’ friend. It does not require the great supply of nitrogen and organic matter needed to devel— op the harder red wheats, though of course, the better the land the better the yield. In '1925 American Banner has led other varieties in the tests because it has been‘better able to withstand the adversities of the season. W. E. Eckerson, Route 4, _Jackson, Clarence Heinlein, Vassor, and ,R. E. Hebeler, Burt, all secured better than 30 bushels per acre with American :‘Banner this year and their wheat all tests over 60 pounds per bushel, an unusually good weight for White wheat. The average yield for all American Banner wheat growers in the Michigan Crop Im— provement "Association this year is 29 bushels pertacre, while Floyd Walworth, of Corunna, reports an Almerican Banner yield of 39 bush- e s. Growers of white wheat in Mich- igan need no longer feel that their product will be discriminated against on the market. [In ‘ most places white Wheat is bringing the same prices as the better grades of red and for the past two or three years there has been a tendency to even 'pay a premium of two or three cents per bushel for good pure soft white wheat like American ‘Banner. American Farm Boy Decides Paris is the “Capital” of Europe the next cab in line and Cobb gave to both drivers the name of our ho- tel where reservations had been made—rand their first taxi ride in Paris was on! Doctor Bereman and I got into the next taxi in line and when the driver asked us in French, “Where to?” which didn’t sound like any- thing I’d ever heard in the class room where I’d “learned” the land: guage, we suddenly realized that neither of us knew the name of the hotel. And all the rest of our bag» gag, was already disappearing in the midst of a Paris traffic jam. If we should lose sight of them we would be stranded in that unholy city without our baggage and with- out our friends with no chance at all of ever finding them. It was one of those great mo« ments! I completely smothered that poor driver with language. I snapped all the French at him that I knew, and the doctor seconded with all the German and Swedish that he thought he knew. We told him to “beat it” and “go get ’em” and “va- and “skidoo”, and the doc.- tor in his excitement even tried him on some Pawnee Indian words he had picked up in South Dakota. We motioned toward our departing friends, and finally I was inspired. I pointed to them like a small‘ boy points toward a fleeing cat and yell— ed “sic ’em!” He got the idea. We were off! And it was a wild ride. It is hard enough to keep up with a Paris taxicab starting from scratch, while we had a 50-yard. handicap to start with. It is no won~ der that Joffre was able to save Paris with his‘taxicab army in 1914. There seem to be no traffic rules in - Paris except to get there and do that in the quickest possible time. Every driver is his own traflic oflicer, and the ‘right-of—way belongs to who- ever gets there first. The streets are crooked and they cross at all, angles and any‘trafilc rules would- V of necessity have as- many exceptions as irregular Frenchf'verbsy and, so thoydo.gp!“” geven?‘ after all] V « recommend '- v 1|. a... ward Rossman, “PET PORKERS.”—“This is the kind we raise,” writes Ed— FARNI (‘OUPLE.—-\V. “'ime- “SO 1F. PUMPKINS!”—-—These pumpkins and one. squash \vere of Goodrich. “You can pick me out in this miller, Goldwater, and Myrtle, raised on the. farm of Mr. and Mrs. l". Wolf, of Palms. The, picture because I am the one with the hat: on.” Lawton, “'ashington, I). (‘. squash measured one yard long. ‘ u.» .. ,.... . . . . ‘ Am ‘ “HELLO, FOLKS!”—J amen, PRIZE “'INNERS AT THE COUNTY FAIR.—’l‘his is Jack Shay, Jr.. of Mer- APPLE l’l(‘l(ING TIME. “A bar- sxnall son of Blr. and Blrs. Clyde rill, with his team. llis team in a winner at the county fair and Jack is mighty rel of Duchess" sent in by Ario Reid, . Harris, Houghton‘ Lake. proud of it. Do you hianie him? Neither do “'1'. “'illimnshurg. 'mld’As‘ .‘ SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN NA'BIE‘D “U. S.” 0R HAVING A GOOD TI)lE.——This is a ““‘l‘l “'ll,L NOT [5le HUNGRY ’l‘lllS (‘OHING \VIN— \ “A;VlERICA.”——’Lile S. Nelson, of Alma, is real proud ,ot' his picture of the small son of A. \\'. ’l‘lCR." It is butchering day on the Klassen Farm, ,near ; “real American horse" as he_ 'aiis her. Notice the whiio Swift, of Bowling. He loves the stock Fremont, and Harry Mast and Peter Klan-sen have, four spot on her side, shaped like the United States. He claims on the farm and plans to become a fat 'porliers hanging up. 'l’eter Klassen sent the picture there is a spot; on the other side that; resembles Cuba. farmer when he grows up. to us. 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There never was a summer quite long enough to meet my approval. Never was one long enough to enjoy the flowers and trees as IOng as I would like. Never a summer long enough for the Broadscope Farm folks to accomp- lish half what they would like, in work and play. There are count- less things we would do if summer would only linger a little longer. However, much as We appreciate the summer time, when it has to end we are very glad there is a fall season to follow. What a calamity if winter stepped in as soon as sum- mer had made its exit. I don’t know when fair dates could be any better inserted in the calendar notwithstanding the fact fair times are very busy times with us. ‘ There is the wheat ground fit- ting to finish; wheat to sow, corn to cut, and the spraying of potatoes must not be neglected and the fairs only perplex us by coaxing us to at- tend them—and when we would heed their call, we discover just how busy we are on the. farm! Every farmer in the state seems ready to admit that his adjoining counties have good fairs, but neVer half as good as his own county fair. ~ Well, the farmers are right—their own county fair is best. We Hills- dale county farmers think the same, and, like all the other farmers, We have just cause to think so, and are never too busy to to see our own county fair! In picking fair dates Hillsdale county alwalys seems to grab the last dates of the season. It is so late it does not have much competition, the dates this year be- ing Sept. 28 to Oct. 3. * it * Club Work Hillsdale county enjoys the "honor of being in the first rank in boys’ and girls’ club work. At fair time one is reminded of the vastness of club activities as the club workers are, in most instances, completing their projects. It was my privilege to witness the final loading of the club workers cars as they were about to leave for the state fair at Detroit. There were’ five car loads of live stock, and another car of equipment and supplies. These cars contained sixteen Guernseys, thirty~ two Jerseys, and twenty-four Hol- steins, making seventy-two head of cattle. There were forty-five hogs, eighty—six sheep and several crates of chickens. Fifty boys accompan— ied the stock and fifty happy boys they were! I suppose five hundred dollars would have been a small sum to offer them for the smallest calf in the shipment! -. ' The boys were all dressed in work shirts and overall. The \freight cars were all’large ones, of the automo- bile type, and a. second 'floor W83- , each On these floors the boys“ had ‘ The cars were ‘ L. W. MEEKS car. , their lodging places. ‘all in" all, the boysywere quiterceme Situated. Thai ' It means ’ n wsmzd View '8 I. ,‘7 eke, Hillsdale County , ' With" the boys was our Conn-tyifia Club Leader, Louisf Matthias, and each' car ”had a by passenger train. ’Each boy and. girl furnished provisions—potatoes eggs fruit, etc, and the" mothers, assisted by ‘the —boys and girls, were to pre- pare and serve the meals during the ten day stay at Detroit. Part of the equipment were two sleeping tents‘ and a cook and eating tent. _ "" an a: w' ' ‘ [Clover Seed; - , _ As has been mentioned in a for- mer article,the second growth on clover meadows Was extra fine, and blossomed very profusely. It looked like a wonderful crop of clover seed in the making but for some reason it did not fill well in many fleldm. and a greater portion of this second growth was cut for hay——and it made extra nice hay, containing timothy or' alfalfa too. The prac— tice of mixing some alfalfa seed with the cloverat seeding time seems quite general—often this a1- falfa does surprisingly well and quite as often it gets two or three inches high and disappears, the clover evidently crowding it out. ~A nearby neighbor, in whose wheat the seeding failed this spring thoroughly dis‘ked the field after harvest, and sowed alfalfa. A disk , drill was used, and the seed sown as deep as wheat or oats. The weather conditions at this time of moisture were ideal, very warm with plenty of moisture and seed sown on Monday was up nicely the following Saturday. The field is quite green now as the plants are about two inches high. This is a very unusual happening. What a picnic, we would have if we could always reseed after harvest, and with such success! This field is in a high state of fertility and I be- lieve the alfalfa will be large enough when winter comes to With- .stand its freezes. II II! * flogging Down Corn Mention was made in a former article of a field of corn we planted for hogging down. The fodder was needed, so we went through the field and knocked off the ears and then cut the fodder with the corn binder? before turning the hogs in. This corn made a. good crop, and was lready for feeding in ninetypdays from time of planting. This is the first time in several years we have had mature corn ninety days after planting. Years ago that was all the time a'corn crop needed. Late years it has needed one hundred and twenty days, and generally several more——which, often, it did not get. This corn is of the Pony Dent va- riety, one of the earlier sorts. ‘It seems good policy to plant at least one ’field to. some early sort. One objection to this, often heard, is that these early sorts do not gener- ally yield as high as later varieties. This objection is partly overcome in our field this year as'we planted'it only three feet apart each way. This gets about One third ‘more hillsvon the field: ‘ . ‘ However, granting the later corn yields more per acre, there are other things which offset the. yield. The earlier corn furnishes feed for starting the hogs two or three weeks earlier and this may be the differ- ence between profit and loss at the. time the hogs are sold. This early corn is quite sure to , mature a. sound crop, ,Where the larger later corn‘ frequently gets frosted and makes poor Quality teed. ‘ If one does not want the crop' for hog ‘feed, the earlier corn spreads out the corn harvest over a longer period [by enabling one" tonotgonly been cutting earlier; but 1111 ‘g‘ .tQO. V,Ab0utj' “311%,...“qu . , 'qnire,'a-~ye ‘ rot. 8.0. . man in, charge. ; About thirty-five girls, accompanied- eight or ten mothers, went by . ' —~—-.\V._u ,C-hevrolet has now built 2,000,000 cars -— the first manufacturer of. automobiles with mod— ‘ern sliding gear transmission to reach this tremendous production. 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' Only Heat,” because Ken-I ter Metal Mender carriesl its own flux. , It will pay for itself many times over and over in the number of uses you will have for it. 15,... . ‘ Look at the opposite list and see what need you have for it right nowl Then go to your dealer. rnEs‘ Soldering Booklet Write for i I!!! .5 (Continued from Sept. 12th issue). “ muffler in the box was your ’ father’s,” she told him. , “He had it on the day he disappeared. The— other things,” her voice choked a little. ,“are the things he must have had in his pockets. They’ve been lying in water and sand—” He gazed at her. “I understand," he said after an instant, “You mean that they prove his death." She assented gently, without speaking. As he approached the box, she drew back from it and slipped. away into the next room. She walked up and down there, pressing her hands together. He must be looking at the things now, unrolling the muffler. . . . What would he be feeling as he saw them? Would he be glad, with that same gladness. which had mingled with her own sorrow over Uncle Benny, that his father ~was gone—gone from his guilt and his fear and his dis- grace? Or would he resent ’that death which thus left everything unexplained to him? He would be looking at the ring. That, at least, must bring more joy than grief to him. He would recog— nize that it must be this mother’s wedding ring; if it told him that his mother must be dead, it would tell him that she had been married, or had believed that ”she was married! Suddenly she heard him calling her. “Miss Sherrill!" His voice had a sharp thrill of excitement. She hurried toward the sun room. She could ‘see him through the doorway, bend-. ing over the card table with the things spread out upon its top in front of him. “Miss Sherriil!” he called again. ‘iYeS.’l . He straightened; he was very pale. “Would coins that my father had in his pockets all have been more than twenty years old?" She ran and bent beside him over the coins. “Twenty years!" she repeated. .She was making out the dates of the cains now herself; the. markings were eroded, nearly gone in some instances but in every case enough remained to make plain the date. “Eighteen-ninety—1893— 1889,” she made them out. Her voice hushed queerly. “What d0es_it mean?” she whispered. He turned over and examined the art- icles with hands suddenly steadying, “There are two sets of things here," he concluded. “The muffler and paper of directions—they belong to my father. The other things—it isn’t six months or less that they’ve lain in sand and water to became worn like this; it’s twenty years. My father can’t have had these things: they were somewhere else, or some one else had them. He wrote his directions to that person—after June twelfth. he said, so it was before June twelfth he. wrote it; but we can’t tell how long before. It might have been in February, when he disappeared; it might have been any time after that. But if the directions were written so long ago, why weren’t the things sent to ‘ you before this? Didn’t the person have the things then? Did we have to wait to get them? Or—was it the instructions to send them _,_that he didn’t; have? , Or, if he had the instructions, was he waiting to receive word when. they were to be sent?” “To receive word?” she echoed. “Word from my father! You thought these things proved my father was dead. I think they prove he is alive! Oh, we must think this out!” He paced up and down the room; she sank into a chair, watching him. “The first thing that we must do,” he said suddenly, “is to find Out about the watch. a. a tan wanna." Micah; and" COM? b! Mill Delmar What is the phone number of the tele- graph office?” - She told him, and he’ went out to the telephone; she sprang up to follow him, but checked herself and merely waited until he came back. “I’ve wired to Buffalo,” he announced. “The Merchants’ Exchange..1f it is still in existence, -must have: a. record of the presentation of the watch. At any rate, the wreck of the Winnebago and the name of the skipper of the other boat must be in' the files of the newspapers of that time.” ’ ' ' “Then you’ll stay here with us' until an answer comes." . ’ ‘_‘If we get a. reply by to-morrow morn— ing; I’ll wait till then. If not. I’ll ask .. you to forward it to me. I must see about the trains and get back to "Frank: ’ . fort. I can cross by boat from there to Manitowoo—that will be quickest. We must begin there, by trying to find out who sent, the’ package.” « “Henry Spearman’s already sent to have , . that investigated.” Alan made no reply; but she saw his lips draw tighter quickly. “I must go myself as soon as I can," he said, after a. moment. She helped him put the other articles back into the box; she noticed that the wedding ring was no longer with them. He had taken that, then; it had meant to him all that she had known it must mean. . . . , In the morning she was up very early: but Alan,- the servants told her, had risen before she had and had gone out. The morning, after the cool northern night, was chill. She slipped a. sweater on and went out on the veranda, looking about for him. An iridescent haze shrouded the" hills and the bay; in it she heard a ship's bell twice; then another struck twice—— .then another—and another—and another. The haze thinned as the sun grew warmer, showing the placid water of the bay on which the ships stood double—a. real ship and a. mirrored one. She saw Alan re- turning, and knowing from the direction from which he came that he must have been to the telegraph office, she ran to meet him. ' “Was there an answer?” she inquired eagerly. He took a yellow telegraph sheet from his pocket and held it for her to read. “Watch presented Captain Caleb Staf- ford. master of propeller freighter Mar- vin Halch for rescue of crew and passen- gers of sinking steamer Winnebago 011! Long Point, Lake Erie.” 1 She was breathing quickly in her ex- citement. “Cale‘b Stafford!” she ex- claimed. “Why, that was Captain Stat- ford of Stafford and Ramsdell! They owned the Miwaka!” “You asked me about that ship—«tho Miwaka—that first morning at break— fast!” “Yes.” A great change had come over him since last night; he was under emotion so strong that he seemed scarcely to dare to speak lest it master him—a leaping, exultant impulse it was, which he fought to keep down. / ‘ “What is it, Alan?” she asked- “What. is it about the Miwaka? You said you'd found‘some reference to it in Uncle Ben— ny’s house. rWhat was it? What did you find there?” "The 1nan——” Alan swallowed and steadied himself and repeated—”the man I met in the house that night mentioned “The man who thought you were a. ghost?” “How—how did he mention it?"' “He seemed to think‘ I was a ghost WHERE OUR READERS LIVE ven’t you a picture of your home or farm buildings that we can print under this heading! Ha f ‘h Bu ’ness Farmer’s _ . Erectilhgigolii‘efl nffigbgggails ghgw u? well. Do not send us the negatives. Just a zoo print. large'family where you live. Kodak ictures } i 5 3 s f 3’ f “chum ”The‘Miwaka was‘Po‘st wi gall her, ‘ :‘ ple—oflieers and crew—no one knows .howpr where l" ~ " “All except the one for whom the Drum didn't beat!” "' v ‘ A "What‘s that?” Blood pricked in her cheeks. “What do ypu mean, Alan?” , "I don't know yet; but I think I’ll soon find out i" " (Continued in Oct. 10th issue.) " , ' ' 'WHAT THE NEIGHBORS SAY ‘BELIEVES WIDE SLEIGHS — ' ARE BEST EAR EDITORz—I would like to D answer Mr. F. 'W. Fenton, Sag- inaw, Michigan, who wrote in “What the Neighbors Say” January 17th. _ ‘ «I am past fifty and have drove ‘ team winter and summer ever since I could harness a horse by standing on a box placed at their side, so should know something of. conditions of , . winter roads in Michigan. — While it seems that the law to ' regulate the wide or standard width of sleighs fell through or, is not being enforced, it would be a geod thing for heavy sleighs as well , ‘ as light and narrow sleighs and cut- ters. , ‘ In the first place, wide, heavy sleighs carrying heavy loads would be but a trifle heavier in construction and would not be noticed in draft carrying a heavy load. They would operate better in eVery way on rough ground or on the road before it was packed. By packing a wide or “stan- dard” track it gives the hauling team a better chance to work. or course the law for wide or standard track sleighs would not affect owners of light sleighs carrying less than a cer- ' tain tonnage or other light passenger sleighs or cutters. Also this kind of a track would give the automobile owners a chance to get out on the roads and use their cars it they wish- ed. However they would not always stay in the track and the next car or horse-drawu vehicle . would perhaps atollow it in that way making the road wider and this would lessen the dan- ger of light sleighs or cutters tipping over. . Certainly automobile owners and rural people should not be deprived of the use of their autos in winter as ' they need them as much in the win- ter as in the summer. They certainly pay as much as the Saginaw owners ... . fl. whats-w- . - A» 0. With all due regard for Mr. New- ton, I do not think his contribution in this respect contains one true statement. It would not cost $14 to ofthe 0 Bay and Slate” I 12,000 Dealers Display This Sign NANY A fATHER onKS 5°“ WAY WHITE R08! GASOLINE ll’l’lllllll/[lll’lllll’ V. U I I I I I I. ‘ 4 “Alice notation" m—uwm—m Extra Heavy - SwelDrums . . 80c Per-Gal. Half-Drums . . 85c Pei-Gal. 10—Gal. Cans . 95c Per Gal. 5-GaLCane . $1.00 Pei-Gal. l-Gal. Cans . $1.15 Per Gal. Prices subject to change ”an En-ar-eo Mom , on m Ioed Care There’s Only One Sign to Seek If You Want Pure Motor Oil For Automobiles, ' Tractors, Trucks, Lighting Plants, Etc. _ DON’T drop in “any” place when you need motor oil. . . Never ask for just “oil”. Always wait ’till you see the Sign of the Boy and Slate, and then ask for En—arvco. For nearly half—a—century En—ar‘co has been bought by those who know good motor oil when they use it—that’s the only way to “tell” good oil— by using it. 1 There’s as much difference between VEn—ar-co and low grade motor oils as there is between salt—water and rain-water. En-ar-co is softer than velvet. It finds its 'Way and forms a cushion between the closest-fitting bearings, thus keeping the moving metal parts from rubbing and clapping noisily and destructively together. In action, under the microscope, En—ar—co Motor Oil looks like millions of tiny ball bearings, making it easy for one metal surface to glide over another—keeping the moving parts cool, because each globule of and valves. my car young.” the crank—case to dilute the oil until it becomes valueless as a lubricant. The En-ar'wo seal also keeps surplus oil from creeping up into the head of the motor to form ruinous carbon on spark plugs There’s more life and lubricant in a quart of En—ar-co than in a gallon of low grade oil. That’s why users say “Envar-co keeps But nobody can judge oil without using it. So look for the Sign of the Boy and , does not make him a, rogue or other . ,sayy'that lat one tin‘ie owned a" car .r-and at «the same time tried to be 9., ~ good an ind widen out the average heavy sleigh. Wide sleighs would be serviceable. Il‘hey would help to break the track for automobiles. As I stated before a wider track would be better for all. As for “mixing things all up" I don’t really know to whatJle refers. Some things are better for being mix- ed, apple pie and other things I might name, so we will let that statement stand. Wide sleighs for hauling would make better-roads in every way, as they work better in deep or light snow andare easier for the teams to draw. In that way they would pay back to the farmer all he paid out to have them Widened to the stan- dard track width. Surely no one need to be deprived of the use of their property as lots of the sleighs now in use need new sleigh beams and rollers anyway. Regarding his remarks about mo— torists, I think he is entirely wrong as after all they are only Michigan citizens who have bought and paid tor their cars and in some cases have bought the right to drive' over their own roads. ' ‘ In closing I would liketo ask Mr. Newton what they do to make travel—4 ing more tolerable for teams, light rigs, bicycles or pedestrians? One thing they have done is to bring about-the splendid rural road sys- tem. Because a man is-a car'owuer _. undesirous person as many of them ~ use their cars to help the poorer and less fortunate brother. I myself can strious. citizen. 3*? 33: to Mr- liewtonm, . { MyName it i. , g . ' En-ar'co will absorb terrific heat without “breaking down”. Between pistons and cylinder walls En-ar-co, under compres- sion, becomes a tough, resilient, sliding seal, keeping unburned gas from passing down into Slate. Say, “I want that Good En-ar—co Motor Oil”. Then watch results. Soon you’ll find yourself always saying “En—ar—co” when you want the best lubricant that money can buy, or man canmake. run Nil-riots“. narmmc conrANr Producers, Refiners and Marketers of “Quality” En-ar-co Products for Nearly Half a Century Branches and Service Stations in 112 Principal Cities of the United States ————--——-— a. , ‘ ~ Send for the EN-AR-CO Auto Game FREE! The National Refining Company, 702J24 . National Building, cleveland, Ohio l enclose 4c in stamps to cover postage and packing. (Send Envarvco Auto Game FREE. . Street or R.F.D. Nfl ' Represented inTNew York. Chicago, St. Louis and Minneavonl W Milan Grinnell ~ fihis travels in Europe. enjoyed these articles as' much as we have. Many of our readers have expressed themselves ‘as immensely interested in every one of them distinctly his own. , y and uninteresting to most folks but Mr.‘ , SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. 1925 Edited and Published by THE RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. loo. GEORGE IA. BLOOUM, Pmldent m. Clemens. 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"The Farm Paper of Service" HOLD THOSE BEANS URINIG a recent talk we had with an eleva- tor man who is located in the bean growing district of Michigan he pointed out to us that if the bean growers of Michigan would hold on to some of their crOp instead 01 rushing it all on the market as soon as it was threshed that they would save themselves thousands of ' dollars. He further suggested that he could see no reason why the growers of Michigan could not get 5%c or 6c per pound for their beans as last year California growers were getting much more than the growers of Michigan. We have always pointed out to our readers that they harm themselves more than anyone else when they unload their beans onto the early market. Everybody seems to want to sell at that time and as a result the price declines rapidly. Dry beans can be stored very satisfac- torily in the farmers’ own bins and if all of them would market just what part of their crop they absolutely had to in order to take care of their immediate financial needs and then market the rest of it on a real businesslike basis, we be— lieve there would be little complaint about the price received. USING MORE RADIOS VER 550,000 farms in the United States are equipped with radio according to the esti- mate of the United States Department of Agriculture after a. nation wide survey conducted through the county agents. This cpmpares with 365,000 farms last year and 145,000 farm in 1923, ‘meaning there has been an increase of over 400, 000 farm-owned radios during the past two years. It is estimated that 19, 000 farms in Michigan are radio equipped and comparing this to the number of acres under cultivation we find that there is one set for around every thousand acres of used land. We fully believe that the inter- est in radio during the next several months will pass anything in the future. This summer there have been numerous reductions in the prices of sets and of the accessories, bringing a good set fully equipped down within the. reach of almost every family. Many farmers reported that they installed their radio sets primarily to receive weather and market reports. To these farmers the radio was a business asset and at the same time they pur- chased something that would 'give the entire family a great amount of pleasure and entertain— ment, especially during the long cold winter ev- enings. 'We should like to see a radio set in ev- ery farm home in Michigan, because through the radio the farmer will come in closer contact with the world at large. WHAT DO YOU WANT? N this issue we are publishing the last article I of a series of articles appearing in our columns written by Francis A. Flood about We hope that you have because M. Flood has a style of writing that is The average tra'vel article is . , are ' 1 ' . about the peeple and userted manymhumorous by Mr. Flood on his travels in Alaska and we , ‘the subject, so instead of publishing this letter paragraphs telling of th- troubles of the party' of farm paper editors he was with. As the say- , ing goes, “it was a good story well told. ”- ' Now we have an opportunity to secure a series only a producer’ s problem. Every One connected with handling produce ~is vitally concerned, aid is responsible for the comparative high 'Quslity want to know if you would] be intereSted ‘in them. 'Or have you hadvallr‘the travel articles you want for the present? If you Would like to have us publish these articles on Alaska tell us -—a; post card Will (lo—but we want to know your decision in the matter. Your decisidn will be our decision. ‘ [our people. 9 32131116 BEANS HE textile industry, » with its back to the wall because cf high wages and short skirts, - HATS OFF TO THE DAIRY COW pean has figured out a use for the strings of WELL—KNOWN manufacturer has made ‘the A statement that the cow is a liability, and in time she will be eliminated; A scient- ist recently indorsed this through the daily press andin the same paper we read a story abbut the National Dairy EXPOSitiOD t0 be held this year _ planter out of business, perhaps We need not be- at Indianapolis, Indiana, October 10-17- When some unduly exercised over string-beans or hair— we compared the two we had .to smile. When ’tonic _W°°l' , , , we thought of this national exposition held every ' ' ' year in honor of the dairy cow, where this year around 1,500 prize winning individuals of the five leading dairy breeds from the best herds in the United States and Canada will compete for honors, our fear for the future of the dairy cow vanished. She is making a living for a great army of people on farms and keeping alive an- other great army in the city. Time has added to her prestige, she is more essential to man to— day than at “any time in history. vegetable. This news came to us ”on the heels of a report of a hair tonic that would make a sheep do a year’ s work in wool production in two months. genuity did not put the sheep man or the cotton ALL’S WELL 111 MICHIGAN ‘ HE Nebraska farmer knows relatively little days, the. two states are not so far apart. In soil. crops and -markets, they are widely diver- gent. ,Productively, ,the Wolverine state does not’ and never can- compare with the Corn Belt. Generally speaking, it has not the soil, but it has same advantages that should enable the farmer there to be even more prosperous in some respects than we may be. Michigan is a great- industrial state. The automobile industry clone gives employment [to millions of capital and thousands of men. This gives the Michigan farmer his own market; protected from the com- petition of other states by thecost of transpor- tation. This far more than Offsets some of the disadvantages the Michigan farmer meets in pro- duction. Too, the diversity of crops aflords for the Michigan farmer one of the first essentials of a profitable agriculture. ' The value of Michigan field crops last year was about $275,000,000. Hay led at about.$60,- 000;,000 and corn ranked second. This sug« gests profitable dairying, and the Michigan farm- 'er is tending gradually in that direction. In “MEMORY DAY” C not forget that September 30th is “Mem- ory Day” and has been set aside as a day to be devoted to caring for the cemeteries within the state and beautifying the graves of our loved ones. The Michigan legislature set aside this day at the instigation and request of J. T. Danielle, of Clinton county, working with the State Association of Farmer’s Clubs and the State Grange, who felt the need of sucha days Decoration Day was. already set aside for the same purpose but it came in the spring and it was urged that a. day in the fall also be observed. Commenting on the day Mr. Danielle says: “As a people, are we not bowed down to Mammon, while forgetting, seemingly, the nobler attributes of our being. The condition of many of the graves of our dead, give back the answer. And shall the condition be permitted to remain, and with your consent and approval, which will be true, if you put forth no earnest, active effort for better conditions. ” Let us observe this day, collectively or individ- ually. If no organized efforts are put forth each in his own way can do-his bit, but let us all do state ranks first. We might not reard that very much of a distinCtion, for the average farmer is well acquainted with the old saying about land that is “too poor to raise white beans." The production of fruit, garden crops, beets, celery‘and several products that we do not think of as very important in the Corn Belt indicates about farming or farm conditions in Mich-- igan, even though as distance goes nowa-l. the production of white beans, the Wolverine how a state like Michigan may take advantage, . ~ g " ll . the best but will use more 351 it. _-This is not~ is confronted by another menace. A11 Euro- ” string beans; he has patented a process of, this, Since the paper cloth of Germany in— '_ all are working toward the same and This £86! _ _ fruit and the large amount of it (301111qu by that bit- V of _,the opportunities in agriculture to cash in ‘ ) , ———_' on anything for which there is~a demand. -' ' WHAT’S YOUR IDEA? The gradual improvement of agricultural con- ditions in Michigan is comparable to- what one finds almost everywhere. The value of agri— cultural produzfs in that state increased about 50 per cent during the last three years, and the purchasing power of the farmer’s dollar advanc- ed from approximately 75 cents in 1923 to 90 cents in 1924. This strengthening of economic conditions is reflected in a much'happier and hopeful state of mind among farm folks. Recently we were invited to meet the farmers .of Michigan, and address them at their Farmers' Day at the Michigan State College. The weather was most unfavorable—it “rained all day. Del spite this, the attendance was surprisingly large. Not less than 7, 500 people were present. This is E have a letter from an Osceola county subscriber who writes that in March or April We published‘a letter in regard to wide or standard guage farm sleighs, the writer stating that the wide or standard guage was not what the farmer wanted. He complained'to us that the fight regarding the change in name of the College came up about that time and crowd- ed the sleigh question out of our columns, and he urges that we re-print the letter and ask for views of the farmers, especially in the northern section of the state. By all means,“ neighbor, we want the opinion of our subscribers on ,such a .WOrthy subject as this. We have one or two letters in our files on which has already appeared we are going to pub- for their stateCollege 01' Agriculture. lish what we have in our files and will welcome comments from any of our subscribers. Your comments will be published in our columns and' your name withheld if you desire. are ahead of us. We stress this point, for the contributions that a good agricultural college _ . ' agriculture is an item of major importance in H UQIITY any agricultural state. ‘ , BIG 1? ' The average NebraSka farmer hardly would HAT fr “It from t 15 country can compete change his lot for that of the Michigan farmer. successfully on the English markets With We would not advise it, for we believe that the fruit grown in Europe illustrates the im- portance of a. high quality product placed before 1 the consumer in good condition. Apples are grown in Europe, yet apparently ,1925 exports from this country and Canada will exceed those of last year. Edwin Smith, foreign marketing . specialist of the Department of Agriculture, at-1 tributes this to scientific methods-T of production, standardized grades and packages and conser- vation through handling and refrigeration “ - says that more of the same thin cross far better. However, Michigan is a great agri'e Editorial in. August 15,1925 Issue ft The No- brask'a Farmer. __ .« an evidence of the loyalty Michigan farmers feel__ ~ In this _ laudable" respect the farm folks of that state. and experiment station make to the progress of' cultural state" and is gbing to be greater. -—-An~ \ natural agricultural resources of this state are >:.§-§cw.1fi1‘1~,gesng. laws in force in many cf the states. has been selling at a premium and the general public knew it so the “shady” promoters took advantage of the fact to market some most un- desirable property making a profit ' of several hundred per cent. And ' the oil fakers never quit. Millions of dollars are paid out for oil wells that are on paper, and never pass that stage of development, every year‘but still there Seems to be a» never ending stream of ready vic— time. “It is the small things that .I Count” they say, and it can well be applied to fraudulent deals when you consider the number of “Work- at—hmhe" schemes that have been exposed as fakes. In the majority of these schemes the amount of money collected from the victim av- eraged less than $5. There are many agencies at work to protect the~ inexperienced investor and it is ' ; becoming increasingly hard for the s‘windlers to find victims, but there . will always be some who forget to investigate before investing. STUDYDIG FILING BY MAIL E have'before us a letter from one of our subscribers asking for” the information about a correspondence course in filing. It seems that the information given to .. our subscriber by the school would indicate that big wages awaits ,the graduate of this fine course. The subscriber has ambitions to become a filing superintendent, if the oppor— tunities are as great as indicated. . Wages vary to some extent but we believe those paid state employees at 5 Iansing would be as high as the average, and filing clerks in the Cap- italreceive $1,000 to $1,200 a year according to their experience and ability. A filing superintendent in the two or three offices where they , have such receive considerable more of course, but their duties are always involved in other duties so it would be hard to judge what they would received if they were merely filing superintendents. . Employment for one doing filing exclusively would be limited as the average stenographer understands this work and during slack times there are nearly every day in the- average office she can do the filing. "Usually an increase in filing means an increase in stenographic work so ad- ditional help of this kind would be procured. Even though filing might take up most of the time the majority of companies would prefer to hire someone who has knowledge of other Thor or am deportment n to ere- toee our subscribe” from lreu'dulent deellnoe z! mile» treatment by pomns or concerns at , In "OI-Iv me we will do our but to melte- ' Wooten settlement or force ectlen, for which no charge for our services will ever be . mm, mildln n:g . xiv-m claim I: e poll-up enh- to The lull Former m.mm lonermrothen 6 mos. old. .. olelmlenetleeelnerwnmo- , '7 ”I! another. bee“tlod_.et first bend end not I W. In ll ““1“"! at“ ,,¢I'Ioe. I“! port u" ”c public still pay cut over ' 31,11000, 006 000 this year to pro- meters of fake stock companies, “wild cat" oil wells, and financial ‘Mia'rds, in spite of the blue sky Las't year the public was victimized -' for Well over a billion dollars and " a" report recently issued by the Bet— ‘~ . .te'r Business Bureau of New York intimates that the gold brick artists ' can claim another “normal” year. Considerable is being done through legislation to protect the public, . but there are always some who are I ready t0 _‘ r '. - , ‘_ . long enough to smelt cheese. This is good = Mixed Mustard 'Pioklesc-A quarts small ‘hot or cold, it is fine for picnic dinners. :01" sliced cucumbers, one quart sliced 'or‘ We all. think it great—Mrs. Geo. Short, small onions. 2 quarts sliced green toma—r‘ Manistee County. .toes, one cauliflower or chopped celery. ' i._._._..__._ . Let them stand in brine 0f one pint salt Sweet Pickled Pears.—Peel as many' »; and 6 quarts of Water.for 24 hours. Then . pears as you intend to use and cutthem -.. drain. - . 'in halves and take out the cores. Make . 3 .. a syrup of two“ pounds of sugar, 1 quart . ”mains—One CUP ,flour, two cups 0f of vinegar and two teaspoons of cloves, ‘ .. sugar. five tablespoons ground mustard, drop the pears in and boil until they are 3 one tablespoon tumeric powder. Mix these tender but not broken. Then place in I ’ With enough 001d Vinegar to make a cans and cover with the hot liquid. 1 . . 9m°°th 93'5th pour this into, tWo quarts Peaches and sweet apples are pickled the . r . of weakened vinegar, add the figetagl‘is same way except that I stick a whole “test ‘ ”on for five minutes andccan.—- rs, 6. clove into each half of each pear.———Mrs. . . bert MacLaren. Oceana ounty. Delbert MacLaren, Oceana County. all 6dlt’0n Thousand Island Pickles-.——4 quarts of sliced cucumbers (peeled), 1 quart onions, Green Tomato Pickles.-—Slice one peck o‘fjoilG/lnniversary‘ of green tomatoes and let them stand in ‘ 1 pint vinegar, 3 cups sugar, 11/2 tea- . . — spoons tumeric powder, 2 tablespoons Salt water over night. In the morning . flour, 2 teaspoons celery seed. Boil onions drain well through colander, put into a St CBOO until tender, drain and add the other in- preservmg kettle, put in 1 ounce Of'WhOIQ ispices (mixed), 2 pounds of brown sugar gredients, boil for five minutes and can. _ . ~ \ __ . t a L ren, Oceana Count 4 and nearly cover With Vinegar, bOil slowly ' -«Mrs Delber M c a - y until tender then put into cans and seal. ~ rec —-Mrs. Delbert MacLaren, Oceana. County; Cucumber Relish—4 qudrts chopped cucumbers, put these over the fire in a « ‘ preserving kettle, then put in 1 teaspoon Sweet Pickled Carrots.—-—Boil whole each cinnamon, cloves, mustard, V2 tea:- medium sized carrots until tender then . spoon ginger, 2 teaspoons celery seed, 2 pack into cans. Boil for five minptes 1 / tablespoons salt, 1%, cups sugar, 1% cups quart of vinegar, 3 cups of sugar and 2 vinegar, boil five minutes. and cam—Mrs. tablespoons of mixed spices, pour this hot ‘ Delbert MacLaren. Oceana County. liquid over the carrots and seal.-—-Mrs. ‘ Delbert MacLaren, Oceana Coimty. Clove Cu'oumbers.——4 quarts sliced cu- cumbers, 2 teaspoon ground cloves, 1 tea- Make the most of the fine flavor of spoon» whole cloves, 3 tablespoons salt, winter squash by using a little sugar and 1% cups sugar, 11/2 cups Vinegar, b0" plenty of ‘butter for seasoning. ’ five minutes can—«Mrs. Delbert MacLaren, Oceana County. ‘ \ Beet Pickles.——Wash beets and cook un- WOMEN’S EXCHANGE til tender, then peel and pack into cans. F you “"0 something ‘0 exchange, we wlll Into each quart put one tablespoon full grim it FREE under this heading providing: of salt and two tablespoons of sugar and lrs't—lt appeals Itolworlnizg ang is g bftnmlilel , ~ - __ oxc angcs no out nvov . econ — w . cover Wlth hot Vinegar anél seal. Mrs. go In three'llnos. Third—You are a paid-up Delbert ,MacLaren, Oceana ounty. subscriber to The Business Farmer ”and attach 3 ta" Eadd‘ress labgl frommabrecent éssue‘ to rave . - . xc an e o ors w e num are an n- Tomatoes and Spaglietti.—-—1 quart .can sorted in t 0 order received as we have room. tomatoes, 1% packages of spaghetti. 1 ——MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR. Editor. onion,~ salt and pepper, sugar and cheese. . Cook the spaghetti in salt water until 129 (I 't 0 t 1' f B t f 7’: tender drain puntomatoes in with 1 large , r"— ‘ "‘13 ""13 M “5 511) 0F. cone 0 ' . ’ , Babys Breath. ornamental rass or pink everlast- Onion' a, httle salt and pepper and 3 lug flower.-—Mrs. C. Sass, 1. Clayton, Michigan. . 61180111112ng in Stylish Garmenrsiw . A, A1 D S T 0 G 00 D D R E S SIN G 22$:stress;metastases;sanitizers; as we do in style apparel exclusively, with our permanent buying M _ . I: was AND ssun IN YOUR SIZE , headquarters in New York City, this immense mail order institution '5 5225. A Pleasln Style for ,stout Women with Slender HI s.—-—Oiic could use linen. ercale, tin ' ' . “”3 g; brogd cgitnt ior this Styllxe.4oTl_ie If’attern is out. {iii/9 Sides: i836 ,, 1 , t4,_ 1 , :1, ,2 , 52; 18 nationally known as Style Headquarters. inc GB “5 measure. .4 inc 3128 requires yams 0 Incl ma erla “71. at ‘h] ' ' ' 0 - . 3? contrasting material for collar, cufi's and pocket facings.4 Width of skirt at the foot is 2 1A. yziyrds. . at“ atestlcatdog,¥ith its greatvariety .Of newest iaShlol‘s' {3 the finest we haveissued 5220 A Po ular Slip Over Dress with New Features ——'rin’q model shows the "kick” )liiit at the m - our 15mm he Womens Wearing Apparel seem“ ’9 greatly enlarged and the *3 centre front, and slight fullness at the shoulders below the yoke‘ extensions. of the back. his Pattern seal?“ devoted to Men S and Boys CIOthmg ofiers Styles and values WhiCh cannot be :~ is good for flannel. .tlll) 311k. gnliirfig‘ginhnld chgmefn. 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Bloomers alone wi 2% yards. E - . . very page of our 30th Anniversary Catalog offers savmgs that Will surely astonish cu. V" - M del for a Mas uerade or Fancy Dress Adam—Muslin prints, sateen mil ~re>e ‘ 3 - . . Y manage! iilatgr‘igl’s fog this style. .iihe pattern .is out in 5 Sizes. 6_8_ 1042 years for alumni“ We are celebrating our 30 years of growth and success by offering Special Valuestoout 14-15, years for Misses, and 38-40, and 42-44 inches bust measure for ”Adults. To make the Suit customersmevery department. for a. 88-40 inc11 me 8% ”"13 0f 27 men nmtewfl' The Gap requlres 1’" yard. As you turn over the a es of [h be til 1 al '11 ° kl see unelf 4851-5181. A Jaunty Two Piece §ult:——This seasonable model may be developed in. chiiriuecn, that the hundreds of p g . l I? an “b cat. 0g, yfi'uhw'l Clum. Y ‘0' yo . m... M. a. are. M333. not: new as: - n. - “3““ 3W” “F3“ W ‘° “ ”mm“ 93‘" em” 3, measure. Tie 1r 3 ~ 1, 43 45 “a 47» inches. The width of the skirt Ext the swings. is is your opportunity to buy reliable, guaranteed merchandise at genuine ' hi measure 35, 3 , 39 _ corresponding p 'foot with plaits extended is. 3!. yard. To make this for a medium Size W). require 5%. yards of 40 inch material. 5215. A Popular Goat style. Any of this .. season's coat materials may be used to make this attractive model“ The collar may ,be rolled high {is in the large View, or low and Wltll_0pell fronts as in the small View. The Pattern is cut in Sizes: 2, 4, 6 and 8 ears. A 4 year size re- quires 1% yard of 4 _inch 'niaterml With % yard of contrasting material for collar and culls. 5218. -.A Popular Style—The Inew figured and bordered. Silks are excellent for this type of dress. The design l‘lfilmplq and easy to develop. The Pattern is cut in 7 Sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40. 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. A 38 inch Size re- quires 194 yard of 54_1nch material with 53; yard of contrasting material. to trim as illustrate . 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DUTY Cord Tires, for passenger cars. bun andtruch. are available from Goodyear Dealersin the follow- inc-lees: ’30x3%(Cl.) 30:5 (8.8.) 32x‘ (8.8.) 33 x4}{ “ 331‘ “ 33:5 “ 32 x ‘1‘ ” 34 x 5 " 34 x (K " 35 x 5 “ For those who desire balloon tires Goodyear makes a com- detelinefincludingtheHEAW DUTY type in certain duo. (I harder the serv— ice, the better the new Goodyear HEAVY DUTY Cord Tire shows its mettle. It’s built to stand the gaff. Heavier, tougher, more massive all through. extra—powerful body built of SUPERTW lST; the thicker sidewalls reinforced against rut- Wear; the tread a deep—cut full All—Weather. If you drive hard and fast, you need this tire. Its extra- stamina will pay you big dividends. Goodyear makesa tire co‘fit every need and every pocketbook. Buy Goodyear Tires from your local Goodyear service station dealer. He is conveniently located and can give you immeo diate delivery. And his service will help tires all the mileage the Goodyear factory COWht 1925, by m Goodyear Tire} Rubber 00.. Inc. Good tires deserve good tubes—Goodyear Tubes . 1‘5 \\ \- \‘f‘ ' av? ‘ , ‘Per-fié.é’f The gm],— if: get out of your built into them j - EAR girls and boys: "wagers we do“ to Eathel Fay Sharp? . She. won first prize on a motto for our jolly family, and now ' the. 1 judges declare she wrote the best song using our motto "Do Your Best.” Shall we have to_bar her from competition _ in future con- tests? My! ‘My! I hOpe not. But you can not blame "Uncle Ned for the decision on the‘wsong because it was too big a job for him and .he turned allot the songs ever to pro- fessional musicians to pass judge- menton. After hours of work the contest for first place had narrowed down to two, Eathel Fay Sharp.) of Akron, and Mildred Brassgalla, of Mullet Lake, and it seemed impossi- ble, themusicians told me, to decide which of the two had written the best_song. Finally, it was decided that the song Written by Eathel had more in it about the motto and page than the one composed-by Mil- dred. so Mildred had to be contented with second prize. Both songs were written to the tune of “America.” A very appropriate "tune for our song, I think. We are doing our best to be good Americans and I am glad our song was written to this tune. Aren’t you? . The remaining eight in the ten leaders are: Blanche Cook, Elsie; Margaret Collins, Onaway; Dorothy Chase, Pelleston; Jesse Smith, ,Pe- toskey; Alberta Brat, ' Charlevoix; Alma Mojeska, Bay City; Elizabeth Yoder, Maple City; Dorothy Hayes, Owosso. ’ How does it seem to be back in school again? Doesn't it seem good to meet some of the schoolmates you have seen only once or twice since school let out last spring? And N o Commissions /% Farm Loans N 0 Bonus N 0 Mortgage Tax N 0 Stock Subscription Congress has made it possible, by passing the Federal Farm Loan Act, for us to loan farm owners money on very favorable terms. Write us for full information. Loan T emtory— 0/270 an! M fobg 72 anion 3mm éturk limb flank of Detroit (under Government Supervision) 702 UNION TRUST BUILDING DETROIT, MICHIGAN i them. when vacation came you were glad to put away your books, but now you are just as glad to get back to I hope most of you passed your grades so that you could have new books instead of going back to the old ones. Well, :do not forget our motto when you are in school, and “Do Your Best.”—UNCLE NED. OUR GIRLS AND BOYS Dear Uncle Nam—After not seeing my letter in print will try again. Being al- most a new member I Will describe my— self. I am five feet four inches tall and weigh about 85 pounds, my age will be between 11 and 16 the 21st of August. The one guessing my correct age will get one of the longest letters I have ever writ— ten’. I have brown hair and grey eyes. Well I guess that is enough for the sub- ject, will tell about something else. I do not live on a farm. My father has a small garden every year. We have 15 chickens, a dog and a cat, we call the (log ”Jiggs" and the cat f‘Kitty". Uncle "Ned do you get a pin for having your letter in print? If this letter hits the waste basket I wish it would hit so hard it would fly up on your desk again. I guess I will have to leave you for this time. but before I leave who can guess this riddle? Why does Calvm Cool— » Before "You B Write tor the facts about the wonderful This marvelous engine gives from 1% kerosene. anchorage. and does all chores. . an. Easy starting—no cranking. Plenty Tremendous value. for details and FREE trial ofier on ~' Edwards Motor Company. av...as. gram Light, easy to move, free from vibration. of power for every purpose. Low FACTORY PRICE—FREE TRIAL OFFER Thousands of satisfied users. Write now to 6 H. P. Gasoline or Requiresno Pumps, saws, grinds, this amazing engine. , 234 Main~St..Spl-in¢fiold,0hio ~ ' I” - HsroNE 4RINGS DIA N. 11;”! MOND . ~ ”All; .. v.3” " - ‘“ Tones! ore, ., _. Use Cuticma “ 5031’ And. 0mm? . 5' ” err . Overheadll' gth ear idge wear red, white, and blue suspend- ers? I will give the answer the next time I write.——Louise Rattle. Box 179, Trenton, Michigan. _ -~~—To win a pin you must compete in one of our contests—and you must Win a prize. Come again. Dear Uncle Ned:—-I’ve been waiting. Oh, ever so long, for you to welcome me into your merry circle and, at last, gath— ering up all my courage, I entered. I .wonder if I shall be allowed to remain, or shall I have to continue living outside this happy group of boys and girls? One day I seemed very gloomy, when a beautiful fairy appeared before me and told me about the Childrens Hour. Now I am in the midst of a merry making group. ' ' ‘ I have always lived by the waysrcle and I have? seen many things. Pleasure cars pass by my side but they stop not to gather this lonely flower. How_ often I have watched small children gathering flowers by my side, _bu\t~I have always .been hidden from view that they could not see me. I would rather remain here because before long my companions were withered and dead and never returned to me. " p ' .‘ I will describe“ the scenery around me. When my eyes rove around they settle- first on large fieldsrof waving corngiloldts of ripening wheat and oats, and iflnally on the great. greenfwoods which serve as a background .forthls wonder-tut scen- than .1 '7 "L: . .._.C'olors:,i BLUE ' grew no more. , blue sky. a I than When I know thatflbackahome the roses It looks rain-y get wet. Farewell. "happy? cousins and Uncle Ned. farewell.—"Wayside Rode.” Dear Uncle Net—Thank you; very. very ' 1 much for my lovely pencils and case." I was in Jackson visiting tor a week wh. any parcel came or I should have m and thanked you before'now. I lino my new button very well and I hope all the cousins who have theirs will like (it as' well as I do mine. We have three little calves. ,Two of them are red and white, and we haven’t named them yet. The other one is black and white and we named him mes. We also have four cows, and their lines are Bessie, J enni‘e, Daughter and M. How‘are those for cows’ names? I have a sister who will be nine years dd in - ’ ten days and together we named M. ' Uncle Ned, did you'ever see the m'ov- ing picture *"White Fang"! It's I. won- derful picture, the story of a dog. We saw it last week and if you have not seen it it’s certainly worth the money. Give my best regards to Mr. W. Basket and tell him I hope he starves all week. Thanking you for your lovely “Surprise" package, I am your niece (I’m proud to ’ say that).—Margaret Fish; Manchester, Michigan. .Dear Uncle Nedz—I live in Nashville, Michigan. This is near Hastings which is the Barry County seat. There is a vfine fair there each year. ‘The most in- teresting thing this year was the auto- mobile races. Four cars lined up for the start. two was yellow, number three was grey. and number four was white. These were all good racing cars. The race Was to be twenty laps .or ten miles. It was started with a. great racket, and the cars were soon going their full speed. Nun- ’ber one came ahead. There was great excitement in the crowds. But the block car had.engine trouble and had to (no out. Then number three forged ahead with number two a close second. The three cars were now very. close together. The engine of number two got so hot it caught fire. This held the crowds at- tention till the fire was put out and then the race again held the crowds interested gaze. Number three was now the‘leader and number four close behind. There was only one more mile to race. The crowd in the grandstand arose to see the 'winner’s happy smile as he drove number three the winning- car across the line. This was the end of the best part for the crowd but not for the winning driver. For him the best part was yet to come. He quietly walked to the judges stand ‘where a roll of bills was presented to him. I also enjoy the horse races but like the automobile best. Your friend.~Helen Brumm, Nashville. Michigan. OONUNDRUMS When has a man tour hands?——When' he doubles his fists. ' What is that which you cannot hold ten minutes, although it is as light as a‘ feather?——Your breath. What is the worst weather for" rats and mice?——when it rains cats and does. What is that which never uses its too for eating purposes?—A comb. . KEEP THEM 1 ousssmo ‘. ASK someone TO ARRANGE SEVEN c2055 m... I SO THAT you CAN coum FIVE MATCHES fiITHER CROSSWISE . .. 09. UP AND DpWN‘ ' hapn’uegs fiat" that beautiful “region. . 0r 1 ..: I» ‘ were able to fly to the Sunny South ' so: Imust hide or I shall” Number one was black, number .. Val: . 3-»... >3}an 7le H, .l. . ply ' to serum” retinas-fits . _ ' . fighterthefffziend‘ly citizen 8 ,0; the , -‘ Interehureh‘tmirement days said to, 1 r "at f ' ' ' Li‘siéiih,‘ ' phase in religion from a love of the ‘ -naterial,xand_ the literal to‘ a love of ' . the spiritual; ' or in the spirit?_ N‘word. Jesus spoke it and incarnated ' say if ’that were fundamental? "Christians thru accepting the letters Omani Can anything be more plain? . ligion of Christ. mt: use sp— ‘ 1y? 'No heal miss-1.1." " , 'so,'7th'e' “real fight of the church lies iir’ the field ofshiftingthe em— thal and Wealthy church, "Phy- _ from outward sub- —st‘an"éfe to inward reality. What kind Uof' faith is valid to you? Is it a be— lie! in baptismand the sacred com- munion? Whichbaptism? In water Which is univers- ally recognized asChrist's baptism? Then which is primary? Could you *belie’ve‘in the resurrection from the dead and yet be dead in your soul? what establishes “the validity of one's faith? ' ' I was listening to Dr. -——————. a. noted preacher. All the ministers in the congregation were invited to-.a banquet that was to close the church drive'that Was on. But, said the speaker, you had better not come un- less yoii believe as we do. And he read to us their declaration of faith, emphasizing the physical and threat— ening aspect of Christ’s second com-_ ing. Thiswas fundamental to him and he felt it must be to all else there could be no fellowship at the banquet. I left the church that night'wondering Whether the preach— er had ever caught the persuasive and charitable spirit of the Master. I did not go to the banquet. But a question is not settled until it is settled right. And biased opin- ions of church leaders and groups can not do this. Let us consult uni- versally recognized authorities. Paul is up again. He speaks out of a broad experience in world fields. He compels ' attention. “Follow after love”, says he. ”If one has not love he is nothing." He may be ever so eloquent, so prophetic, so learned, so correct in faith, and he may go .. to the extremes of self-devotion; but, says the apostle, if he has not love he is nothing. Have we discovered anything fundamental here? Have- n’t we struck something final and fixed? After all, isn’t love the finale of religion? And again, “If any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his.” “As many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God.” Verily, fundamentalism in religion lies in the realm of the spiritual rather than in the realm of dogma. - . ~ But we are yet to hear the final it. “By this shall all men know ye are my disciples if ye have love one for another.”, This is substantial religion. What was the matter with Dives? Didn’t he have an orthodox belief? Well, the record does not say. Why doesn’t it say? Would it But ' ’what was the fundamental reason that Dives was consigned to hell? He had a selfish and unbrotherly spirit. Recall the scene at the last judgment. Some are going into eternal life.~ What is the sole test applied? The spirit in which life has been lived. “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these ye have‘done it unto me." Christian doctrines and forms are im— portant, but dare we say they are vital to life? The substance of Christianity is spirit rather than form. . Whatrthen, is fundamental to the life of God in the‘soul of men and in the heart of society? The spirit of love even asJesus loved. The only unpardonable sin is to deny the Spirit of- Jesus. We can be nominal of Christian doctrine, .but men shall know that we are followers of the Christ only th'ru love one toward an- fi‘o be»..“r’oetedand gr'oumled in love” ' _.,t-he-fundainental,thing in the ref. Jun safely in the strongest winds. In any condition of Wind ' Thoma-o on. ‘ as .. more 9&3 “7 1%Im pougds, has: feeding materials. bag that bears his label. ‘ magnet shown above. Ask the nearest dealer Thousands of cows die mystericiusly every year. Tens of thousands become ill—mysteriously. In nine cases out of ten the real cause is probably something in the feed which should never have been swallowed by the cow. Ingredients for dairy feed, when they reach the mill for ~ manufacture, a1ways contain dangerous metal—nails, bolts, screws, wire, pieces of scrap, invisible steel fuzz. This is no reflection on the manufacturer. No matter how carefully he buys or stores, junk from fields, freight cars, wagons and other sources will find its way into But it is his responsibility that such death-dwing metal shall never reach a customer in a That is why every ounce of Larro, just before it goes into the sacks at the mill, passes over the giant electro- You buy nothing in Larro that can cause death or illness to any of your cows. Home mixers, or purchasers of feed that is not similarly ‘ safeguarded in manufacture, have no such protection. '- They risk sickness and possible death to their cows with every pound of feed they put before them. 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'l‘heAennotor. l8 wonderfuny efficient/in the light- winds, which are the prevailing ones. The self-oiled motor works With practically no faction-and the wind-wheel of the Aermetor ismade torunin ehghtest breeze. It is also amply strong to , , _ ’ or weather you may be millet the Auto-0 _ our will givewou the best of service. It ' mad” 51th? company which established the steel windmill business 38 years ago.us e MOTOR CO. . we!” moll- W?“ 3:1me TO masses PLEASE 3\ Pu SHIP YOUR LIVE POULTRY DRESSED POULTRY DRESSED GALVES D H088 STING PIG TIME RABBIT8 T0 DETROIT BEEF CO. Detroit, Mich. .813 years] baths :3 d b ‘ h ' same one on a un mat. $250,000.00 (ythum “an; . Rxoun t returns. rite for {no shippers o. MW!“ ' . F GARLOCK - WILLIAMS C0., Inc- 2463 HOPELLE ST., DETROIT, MICH- WE SOLICIT YOUR SHIPMENTS of live poultry, veal and eggs. 1 Our commission is 5%. 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Contributions Invited—Questions An eréd PREPARE FOR GREAT SEASON IF you are a real radio fan your receiving set has gone thr ugh hundreds of hours of opera during the past nine monthsa “pd has received little attention. he B batteries have no doubt delivered a great deal of current. since they were looked after; The antenna has“been subjected to the wear and tear of the elements as well as be-' ing covered with coal smoke, etc. The solder connections on the re-. ceiving set have plenty of fars and rattles to shake them loose. There are really four primary causes for a set not functioning ‘pro— perly—tubes that have been abused electrlcally (by this we mean burn- edtoo bright) or mechanically bat- teries down, faulty conditions of the set, and weather conditions. Very often the falling off of signal strength and noises In the broadcast receiver is caused by something be- ing loose in the set itself. It must be borne in mind that summer radio was ushered in after the radio set had gone through a long winter season of nightly oper- ation for hours at a time and is very much in need of replacements and a general overhauling. Radio housecleaning starts with the antenna and ground, or the wave reception part of the radio set. The first thing that should be done is to overhaul the ground con- nection. Thisds done first by re- moving the ground connection, whether it be on the water pipe or otherwise, scrape the wire ground clamp and pipe or rod driven into the ground, whichever it may be, and securely replace the clamp. Of course if the connection is soldered well this will not be necessary. ' The second step is caring for the antenna. This is accomplished by taking down the aerial and looking it over thoroughly. See if the in- sulators have any cracks in them— a crack in an insulator will cause a. great deal of trouble, especially in damp weather, as it will cause a leak which will partially ground the system. It the wire used is bare scrape it with a knife to remove .the coating cf oxide and dirt that has formed during the time of its, lnstallation. Look ’over the joints to see that they are well soldered. When putting the aerial back up be sure. that it does not touch any trees and see that the lead- in is well insulated from any part of the house. The next thing to look after is the -receiver. This includes many things: First. the heart of the set- the tubes. Take them to some re- liable radio dealer and have them tested. They should test at least one milliamper on a regular tube checker and if they donot test this high you need new tubes. The next thing to go after is dust—dust is very easy to get out of a set but causes much trouble while there. The place where it does the most harm is on the condenser plates. Dust can be removed from conden- ser plates by means of an ordinary pipe cleaner. Bend the cleaner in- to an oval using the two ends as a handle and run the rounding part through the plates which will re- move the accumulation very nicely. ' A" new cleaner should be used on each condenser, however. Other parts of the set will ac: cumulate ,dust which will in turn absorb more or less moisture and thereby cause the set to be noisy. These are the panel places between binding posts, the base-board or the sub-panel and in some cases the re- sistance wire on the rheostats gets corroded badly. Dust is removed from the base board or sub panel by means of a dry cotton cloth; corros— ion is removed from the resistance wire by scraping with a knife blade or a fine emery cloth. The last thing to round into shape is the battery system. The solution in a storage battery should test between 1, 250 and 1, 300 when the battery is fully charged, 1,200 _ at half charge and at 1,150 it is dis- charged and should be recharged before further use. VETERINARY D EPARTM ENT PIGS COUGH I have twenty pigs two months old. They weigh about seventy-five pounds each. They grow and seem healthy but a. few began to cough and now several more are cough- ing. If they run they cough as if they were choking. What can I do for them and what causes it? Sometimes they cough when’ they eat. I feed them middlings and milk, also oats—G. R., Hastings. Mich. THINK these pigs are sufiering from intestinal parasites. The history sounds very much like they are suffering from the belas- caris marginata. The sucking pig usually gets the egg of this parasite from the teat and udder of the mother. It is swallowed and in the stomach and intestines hatches in.— to the larva state, then migrates to the liver, lungs, the spleen and oth- er organs. The worms ultimately get into the lungs, liver, the blood making their way up the bronchi, stream and enter the air passages trachea and pharynx and then pass down the esophagus into the stom- ach and intestines where they de— velop into mature worms and pass out with the feces or. emain for some time in the intes inal tract giving off large numbers of eggs with the feces.‘ The treatment which has found most satisfactory in these cases is the administration of Oil of American Worm Seed at'a dose rate of one fluid dram to a hundred pound animal preceded or fellowed immediately by two fluid ounces' of castor oil or the worm seed oil may be given along with the castor oil. Doses for pigs may be determined from this basis. given with a dose syringe or by the stomach tube. » Pigs once infected with this par- been asite become unthritty and do not __ make nearly as rap!d gains as those, tare raised with -- best " more ad. The drugs may be. ‘ / vent this trouble is under the Me- Clean County System of Swine San- itation as developed in Illinois un- der the supervision of the Federal Bureau of. Animal Industry. By this method sows are thoroughly washed and scrubbed just before farrowing and placed in farrowing pens which have been thoroughly cleaned with hot water, soap and lye. Within ten days after farrow- ing the sows and litter are hauled in crates by wagon or sled to a clean field and kept there until the young pigs are at least four months old. By this time they have ac- quired resistance to infection with ascarides and to the effects of in— festation. By this system the losses among young from pulmonary and intestinal ascaridiasis are avoided. The saving and increased growth of the pigs amply pays for the in- volved expense ,and trouble—John P. Hutton, Assoc. Prof. of Surgery and Medicine, M. S. C. NEW~lNVENTlON SAVES MILLIONS A Lamp that Burns 94% Air. A new oil lamp that gives an amazingly brilliant. soft, White light, even better than gas or electricity,- has been tested by the U. S. Government and 35 leading universities and found to be superior to 10 ordinary oil lamps. It burns without odor, smoke or noise—-no pumping up, is simple, clean, safe. Burns 94% air and 6% common kerosene (11031011). The inventor. J. G. Johnson. 609 Wr lake St, Chicago, 111., is ,omertng to send a. lamp on 10 day’s FREE trial, or even to give, one FREE to the first user in» each locality who will help lilm introduce, . 11:. Write him today for full pornoularsy _ , ,‘ Also ask him to explain how you can .mroiin with 33 saving silage, are its merits. ‘ . silos have troWeled cement Walls ’ and are smooth as a creek, but our troubles were around the ther'e spoiled_ silage appeared until nil-6 deors are sealed 1: 1133mm consistency to be trow- sled in at the point of contact. The ease of fitting and, at no cost to- gether With the greatest success doors, clay was used. Where imperfec- tions exist in stave silos mud can be. used to advantage. Where one has a fierce pump and gasoline en- .ggine a temporary pipe line to the {.7 -, 11' 7 I - r-top of the silo and aJthorough wet- {v [ting down Of the silage from the 1 . . 'f pout air pockets and spoiled silage ’ ' fthan an‘ extra man tramping. There top, will do more service in keeping is a good deal of poor engineering ‘in thinking tramping around and ~_ around is essential to silage mak- ing. The weight of several tons of *water to press down and drive out ‘carrying these characteristics . sisters. the air is much more efficient. Wa— ter'is more and more essential in case of more mature corn or in case of delay in filling after cutting the corn. The short hay crop calls for every possible item of saving in si- The average value_ of silage can be figured as 40 or lage this year 50 per cent of the worth of clover or alfalfa hayq—Jas. N. McBride. LINIB BREEDING I am writing you in regard to a call I would like to keep. We had a regular Holstein-Friesian bull that sure was a good one. I had a cow from a pure Holstein-Friesian bull, then I bred her to our own bull and got a heifer calf. Then I bred this hei'ler calf to her father and I have a dandy bull calf. *Now I would like to keep this bull/and use him to what would be his mother’s half I was talking to a veterin— arian about it and he called this bull calf are bred, and he said it was all r ght to inbreed that once and now to keep this call and use him back would bevllne.breeding.—- L. 1%., Whittemore, Mich. N the'firstplace, there is no doubt but what the bull calf himself is an inbred calf as he contains 75 per cent of the blood of his sire. Now when this bull is bred to his mother’s half-sisters, it —-the‘ result is the intensifying of the blood of his own side beyond the 75' per cent, it would indeed be approaching the questionable point, inbreeding. If, however, these half-sisters of his mother did not contain any of the blood'of the original sire, or in other words, the father of this calf, then no particular harm should re- sult in such use. We should remember that in in- breeding we fix very closely the characteristics of the sire and the dam. If the characteristics so fixed are superior, then the use of the bull “gets us ahead" faster than from the use of an ordinary bull. Of course, in inbreeding we fix undesirable char— acteristics as well. I should think in advising this case, it would all depend on whether or not the original sire used, ap- proached the ideal, as closely as pos— sible, which this breeder has as to type and breeding. If such is the case, then using this calf in the way you-mention should fix these good points. The use of the bull as indi- cated by you Would indeed be line breeding as you suggest providing of course the females to which he is mated contain none of the blood 'of the original sire. Line breeding, which is the mat- me together 01' less than 50 per cent of. the same blood is to be commend- 1811.311 line breeding we do not 1 g t_ Quite such a number" pandesir , animals :as we. do. I: led; 'Line‘breedingJS the ; * hands :01 “an lain clay mud, mixed~ EXCLUSIVE ‘ 17 Feautures l. Easily removable—can be donned and put backin nilfly. 2. Top and bottom teed—a big nature. . 3. “Licktite'flnstenersneverwork 4. Valve Holder can 't move. 5 Bow! as rigid all one piece. 6. “Stay Put" fastenings always stay pu u.t 7. .lnmesway Paddle for opera:- vnhe. In 113' 8. No danger of overflow. 9. Keeps floors dry. 10. Can clean without removing it I called . 'l'rou bio-preventing strainer. War edlnlecs. lion-stick valve always works. . Replaceable Fuller B all Ext-tn Lnr Bowl 1‘. Attach to ood or Steel Stalls. 11. Aooeulblllt y. MN. Yo BUY Them Ft. Atkinscn’ Wis. VJ two or three months. —and YOU Taylor, Fond du Lac, Wis. ., says: can having used other makes. the best. ” . _p1us Send for This Book ONE . Getposted on this important, money-mak- mg, time-savmg convenience. Send today PrOfit for our New Jamesway Book. Satisfy yourself that the Jamesway I IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Direct Drinking Cup is all and more than we From claim. Stop losing money daily. Mail cou- Jameswau Drinking Cups Did It They will do it for you. You can’t afford to be without: them. If you don’t put them in, you’ll pay for them just the same—over and over again—in the loss of milk every .L. H. Klaas, of Illinois, writes: “Our cows increased in milk production 25%. In three months this paid for our cups. Before, we were paying for them every three - months and not getting them.” Don’ t make the mistake of putting in a cheap _\ drinking cup. If you do, you buy trouble. Wm. N. appreciate your Jamesway Drinking Cups after Yours are by far Prove it Yourself I State ................ St. No. (B.E.I) --“I surely II I IJAMES MANUFACTURING CO-.,- Dept. A15 I ..Ft Atkinson,Wis., Elmira, N.Y., MinneapolisJWinn. :Scnd me your Free Book on Barn Equipment. Factory 323.2%. T° 0.... :N... _________ j _________________________________ _ James Manufacturing Company Em. ..... - ................... .......... Minneapolis, Mind. or R.F.D. ........... . - ' 1.1.1“ I I ‘ IIIIIINWH II’H / I ,/ REMEMBER, it’s buta short dis- tance from your cow’s udder to the cream pitcher—the but— ter plate—the nursing bottle. Keep her surroundings healthful, free from disease germs, and clea'n smelling, with Dr. Hess Dip and Dis- infectant. Provide a wallow for your hogs. To each 25 gallons of . water, add about one quart of Dr. Hess Dip. Your hogs will do the rest. Good night lice and disease germs! Use the sprinkling can—in the poultry-house for lice and miteS, wherever there is filth or a foul odor. DR. H3558: CLARK, Ind.- Ashland, Ohio DRJ-IESS 111p to encourage the growing of ure-b I. Gents (300) per-2 agate lne per- Insertion. or u. 0 per Inch, less 2% for cash I!“ following date of lnsertlon. E FRII. some can oehow many Ilnes It wlll flll. Advertisements Inserted under thls heading M reputam‘ breeders of lee Stocx at speclal low ends on the farms of our renders. advertlslna rate Fourteen agate llnes to the column Inch I! sent wlth order or paid on or before the 10th N YOU UR AD AND WE WILL PUT IT IN TYPE Address all letters. IREEDERS DIRECTORY, MICHIGAN Iuomsss FARMER,M1’.CLEMENS,MIOH. To avoid confllcting dates we will wlthout cost list the date of any live stock sale in Michigan. If you are considering a sale ad- vlse us at once and we will claim the date for you. Address lee Stock Editor, M. B. F., Mt. Clemens. IOHIGAN'S PUR R-E BR RED M LIVESTOCK AUGTIONEER Write or wire for terms and dates. G. P. PHILLIPS, Bellevue, Mlchlgan. CATTLE j}: I? GUERNSEYB MAY — GUERNSEYS — ROSE STATE AND FEDERAL ACCREDITED B1111 calves out of Dams up to 877 pounds fat. Bulls whose Dams have up to The homes of bulls; Shuttlewick May Jumbo of Briarbank and Holbecks’ Golden night of Nordland. From Dams pr0< ducing 1011.18 fat. 772 fat and 610 fat. GEORGE L. BURROWS or GEORGE J. HICKS, , Saul naw. W. 8.. Mlchlaan. HEREFORDS WE HAVE BRED HEREFORDS SINCE 1860 Our herd bulls are International Prize Winners. Stock of all ages for sale, at Farmers prices. Write as for further mform mastic Fee d Herefor s that fatten quickly. GRAPO FARM, Swan: Creek. Michigan. FOR SALE—REGISTERED HeEREFOBDS. ONE herd bull, seven cows wit R. W. BA KAER. Marinev City. Mich. BED. , P91414130 JERSEYS REG. JERSEYS. POIIS 99th OF H. F. AND Majesty breeding Young stock for sale. Herd fully accredited bv State and Federal Government. nte or visit for prices and description. GUY c. WILBUR. BELDING. Mich. FOR SALE—MY ENJ'IRE HERD OF REGlS- tered purebred Jersey» cattle all good producers. J E. Morrls. Meadowview Farm, Farmlngton. Mlch. SHEEP E SHEEP FOR SALE—RAMS, ALL AGES OOTOS< Wolds, Linnolns KaKralmls and Tunis. ép approval. LoROY UNEV. Adrian, Mlchlgan.0 DELAINE Sheep—six Decks of Good Delalne Ewes. Good size, good ages, good sliczuers. Price Nine Fifty per head. F. E. Dodge. Peoria, Ohlo. SllflOPSl-IIRES REGISTERED SHROPSHIRE SHEEP. 40 YEAR. ling ewes earling rams and ram 111 kind that have leased since 1890 mbs The c. LE EN a SON, Dexter. Mloh. HAMPSIHRES HAMBSHIRES FOR SALE—DRE!) all-1's FOR Fall litter and 5 ring boar Pigs no ta JOHN W. 8NY ER. SLJohns, l’ll’lohlgan. R. 4. FOR L _. HAMPSHIRES :31“ E srnthme AND 1513 sex. S. W. TEED, Meslck, Fla. Mlchlgan. . BERKSHIRES IERKSHIREO. HIGH M8 , may M« »- Put it On— The day of cheap land is past. Fertilefvir- gin acres are not available to the man wanting increased yields. The present day ’ don’ t put problem is soil fertility maintenance. Thousands of farmers in New York Central Lines’ territory are making farming more profitable by correcting soil acidity with lime and limestone. They have adopted the slo- gan: “Put it on; don’t put it off!”. The New York Central Lines are continually it off! “SWEET” soil is essential for eflicient ‘crop production. encouraging methods of soil culture which mean greater income from the acre cultivat- ed. To assist farmers in our territory is good business for all concerned. 3’47. 1 in N _ and the New York Central and Subsidiary Lines Agricultural Relations Department Offices New York Central Station, Rochester, N. Y. La Salle St. Station, Chicago, Ill. 466 Lexington Ave., New York, N. 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No obli- I ation b ' ' Engine, writing. _0r, f interested, for our VlilteEnginonorks -in-1 Saw 3 or Pump talogs. ee. ’ 7757 With Bldg, Kill!!! City. In. 7757 [lupin lid... Pittsburgh, PI. Dewberry Plants 4 for 25c; 25 for $1.00. 12 Grape Vines for $1.00; 3 Peach Trees, $1.00; Iiollyhock seed, 10c package. MARSHALL VINEYARD. Paw Paw. Michigan. THE FOLLOWING BOOKLETS ARE FREE: No. 151—FAIIM SANITATION. how to prevent diseases common to livestock. No. 157—006 BOOKLET. Tells how to rid the do: of Bees uni to help prevent disease. No. loo—HOG BOOKLET. Cover the common hog diseases. , ~ No. 18S‘IIOG WALLOWS. Gives complete direc- tions for the construction of a concrete ho: wallow. No. 163—I’OIIIJRV. How to get rid of lice and mites. and to prevent disease. Describes and telb prevention of Cured His Rupture I was badly ruptured while lifting a trunk several years ago. Doctors said my only hope of cure was an operation. Trusses did me no good. Finally I got hold of something that quickly and com— pletely cured me. Years have passed and the rupture has never returned. although I m doing hard work as a. carpenter. at All Drug Stores. ANIMAL INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT OF DETROIT. MICH- Itmn on No. 1 In Original Packages tarsus Parke, Davis & Co. There was no operation, no lost time, no trouble. I have nothing to sell, but will give full information about how you may , find a complete cure without operation, if ‘ s~ .you write to me, Eugene M. Pullen, Car- High Produberx, C o , - Pallets Leghorns. Ere Quality & Sta. ockerels Gm. . Blue dz Gold White Su erior ndord Vhite Lezhorns, ‘Rhode Island Barred Rocks, I. Reds. Wh. Leg- ruin: RS ‘. .penter, 82M Marcellus Avenue, Manas- nan. . J. Better cut out this notice 1mm and show it to any others who are rup- STA Egomaygi may Faxifpta life tint)!” least “ e sery'o ,fl' , tan emorry ”gang” of sheep. giltwna— Adv.) . ; ' in Bin. k M‘ 1o 'u. "i‘: ”came dammit.“ Its: '. “Icentsfea'chi? T ' ly cheap in Paris.” fl One where it, washard to see, 'theywould ‘stand' on the pfiws, loo-k. the ’ arewr. . -011. can, ride an ride before the meter ‘ Will'register three francs, and a. franc 'was'worth about a nickle when we‘were there. The easiest thing in the world is to calla Paris taxi because the streets are so full of them, and the next easiest thing is to pay the bill after riding half-way across town. And one of " the hardest things in the world is to find one’s way about town on foot. Hence, everyone takes a taxi. [But nearly everything side in Par- is is cheap also. We saw Faust at the French Opera, certainly one of the finest theatres in the world, and .. our good box seats coSt us about '75 cents or a. dollar each even after paying the scalper’s commission, which is about the only way that one can buy tickets to most of the better Paris shows. The Follies Bergere, L’Opera Comique, and all the other shows are.equally low- priced. One pays almost as much in tips to the taxi-driver, the man who opens the taxi door, the man who opens the theatre door, the W0— man who leads one to his seat; the woman who hangs up the coats and hats, and all the other tip-takers with which Parisis so infested, as for the ticket of admission itself, especially if one is an American, for they are especially imposed upon. The Parisians devoutly believe that, every American tourist is 3. ”mil» lionaire” and it is useless to argue to the contrary. / . Visit Cathredral of Notre Dame We visited that old old cathedral of Notre Dame whose hideous stone gargoyles have grinned .down upon the pomp and majesty as well as the poverty'and misery of Paris since the time when it was built in 1180 A. D. We would be proud today of a building in the United States of any size that is 300 years old, and yet that cathedral was a little over 300_years old when Col- umbus discovered America; it was 600 years old at the time of the Re— volutionary War—and it“ is still in good repair and will probably still be standing when many of our great- buildings have been “replaced." Two American girls and I went to church there one beautiful Sunday morning, partly to see the great cathedral, :partly to hear the fa- mous pipe organist of Notre Dame, and partly, in fact, because it was Sunday morning and time to go to church. Services were going on when we arrived. We were met at the door by some women carrying plates for us to deposit the inevitable gift, a few francs perhaps. A franc is only a nickle, but it is a very respectable little tip at that. trance to the main aisle were .men in elaborate robes in little box-office , \ enclosures who also expected and saw to it that they received another little gift from the visitor. Halfway down the aisle a woman usher took us in hand, led us to a seat and, de— manded pay for her services. I figured that I had paid enough and told her so. She persisted and I bade her begone. Arguing in church over a tip for an usher may sound a triflle sacri- ligious and uncouth, but I had al- ready learned from experience and from advice of old residents that the American is constantly imposed upon by the Parisians who will ar- gue for a little larger tip, no matter how large it is in the beginning, be— cause they know that an extra half- franc makes no difference to the Yank at all, and it means so mucn to’them. The American will usual— ly give them that much more to get rid of them; and the Parisians have learned it. If the American girls who had not been in Parifi even as long as I had, had not insisted that I pay her off, we would probably have been arguing over that half- franc yet. And that was several months ago! ' m ‘All during the service, the people. mostly tourists and mostly Ameri- cans as ourselves, apparently,;were' coming in and going out. would stand in the aisle, or,_~if they were in the back part of the church tion ' lover and t 9 etc a mg or file roses. and. sewn . Venus 'de "Milo and tdeingedx-Vic' t Guarding the en- . ' They ' ' quite a.“ li , . '5 tiful‘rorigi‘nalsr of the" Mona _~ . ,,_ the Gleaners, the .Angelu’s;gthfe Dance of the Nymphs, as 'well as the tory. The statue that appealed.‘ . me the most, however,- .was that great masterpiece in bronze,. The ' Thinker, by Rodin, erected in aili‘efi fect setting in the gardens of Ro—L'. din’s Museu A more powerful re- presentation of the omnipotence of, thought could hardly be ,conceivod,’_.f_ it seemed to me, and my friends had to drag me away. ' From the Place de la. Concerde .- with its old Egyptian obelisk dating back to 200 B. C. which marks the : 'spot where the old guillotine once stood and snipped off the heads of so many hundreds of French people whose only crime was the fact that ,_ they happened to be lined up «with the side out‘ of power, we rode in a horse-drawn hack up that grand— est avenue of them all; the Champs- Elysees, over a mile long and majes- tic in its width, up to the great Arch of Triumph that I had heard so much about. 'Buried beneath this" great arch lies the, Unknown soldier of France and a torch is kept burns ing continuously at the head of the tomb. On some days, we were told,‘ it is necessary to haul away several truck loads of floral offerings that are deposited over this unknown grave by.visitors_from all over the world. - We mounted to the very top of the famous Eiffel Tower whose flag pole reaches up into the clouds for" a. little over 1,000 feet above the ground and even at that dizzy height there are little shops selling souven- iers and refreshments to the bewil- dered tourists. We paid homage to the tomb of Napoleon and did ev- erything that a respectable tourist in Paris is expected to doe—but af- ter two weeks it was time to come home, back to the United States of. America, and we sailed on the good ship Veendam, a neat little trick of 15,000 tons or just a little over one- fourth the size of the Leviathan on which I'had sailed from New York two months before. ' 'Took Ten Days To Cross " It took the Veendam ten days to cross from Boulogne to New York and it had taken us just five days going over on the Leviathan. But in spite of the fact that some of the passengers nick-named the little boat the “Slodam” on account of its speed, everyone, except those very _.. few who were a little sick, enjoyed the whole trip—the Dutch crew and . the German waiter, and the cosmo- politan passenger list and all. Traveling, like virtue, need not be its own, and only, reward. For with all its glamor, thrills and pleas— ure, it. seems to me that one "of the richest gifts of travel rests in the fact that the more we see of other lands, the better we like our own home town, and this is true of some places in particular. I have written nineteen articles in this series on my observations in ' Europe, and the most pleasant task for me to do now Would be to sit back and reflect upon that trip, not ’ for the purpose of enjoying the " memories of what Isaw abroad, but for 'the greater purpose of getting a far greater enjoyment quiz of it all by comparing these foreign scenes with the common, everyday " scenes of my own America, with which there is really no comparison after all. . - g I have never been dissatisfied with this great country of ours, and after having a standard of compari: son to judge it by in the future I certainly never shall be. ’There is' J really only one country in the world‘ in which I would be satisfied to live and that is the, “United States of America. And to those who do not like it here and Who are constant- ly finding fault with our govern- l ment or our laws, or any other “of the many things which all operate . together to make our country great, i would simply say to them go overs- , and see how the other half lives.__ :'- and then come. back and be happy..." "‘.Vive. L’Amerique!" -' . W. .4»mv w»- ~ * I think inn ..BUsINEss ,mens,,is.,the best farm paper: we eke, and wetak'e ' ‘ .‘of 4,” May , .3“..th ‘ ' ”n-1e3 ' fidw T0 Gon'mOL BLA- om AD ItlSEasy IN TURKEYS I , ,. . ~: .. i, UCCESS or failure in the produc- '. It". I f i ‘ I. - , \ tion of turkeys on a commercial ' Lit-7f 1' to ' OP -' scale’has been dependent large- ly upon the success of the grower in N ow is the time ,. 2; to plant your dol— lars to yield you a profitable har— ' "-\ 0 avoiding the ravages of. blackhead ,byMal disease, Since no proved remedies ’ ' - were available for combating black- and ' head disease, the fortunes of the turkey grower lay in keeping out of the way of it as long as possible and I . 2 ’ “ - a ', . It saves quitting the business when the dis- t - . ' ease finally overtook him, VCS — —-- Many/a turkey—growing district in [71716511.]! . ‘I . 'Il . _ . M I the older settled parts of the east ' 2 ' ou oney. has been forced to abandon this . - porfitable industry when this dread- . - ‘ ed disease once put in its appear- ‘JSPEEDY . ance. SERVICE _ Unfortunately for the turkey grower little progress toward a practical solution of this problem Many afour 01',- of control was made in the study of « , the blackhead disease in turkeys un— . ' ' \ til very recently. Many remedies yders are 5 zppe had been proposed for the control 0 .- I at; Iblackhead, but the result: fraom ' eir use were very genera y 1s- Within SHOWS appointing. 'Most all treatments -- ‘ o ' were based'on the principle of in— afi'er we recezve testinal disinfection and strict san— ~' , ’ . - itation. Whatever good may have come from these methods of treat~ them,and 70C ~ ment can no doubt be attributed to the sanitary measures carried out. CONSUMERS POWER PREFERREeIilieHARES ‘ ‘uI‘IAx-:§kr. - A Good Investment in a Sound Security ' tically a 0 Recent investigations show that an-‘ Ga: and Electric Semi” to 1:96 -.~'. tiseptics, dilute enough for the tur- , , - '- -- fr , ' key to tolerate, can have little dam- “WNW“ quilrzfizn cm“ and ((14335 OurEmp/aveey” ’ » e a ance are aging effects on the blackhead or— v , g , , ganism. , ~ N I f t' D' . ’ sthped tum‘hm 222222.12, C O n S u m e I‘ S p O W e 1‘ t k ' . f t I ‘ 24. Hours , mw 1221:2222? 2222 3:: SPLENDID , gress toward combating the black— head disease. Perhaps the most im— 0 m a n portant ‘step in this progress was made when some new phases of the ‘i ' ' . VALUES , life history of the organism causing ' the blackhead disease Were discov- . o o ered. Recent investigations by the '2' Eve IS Guar' Rockefeller Institute and Harvard WHEN WRITING T0 ADVERTISERS, PLEASE MENTION I i ' University, indicate that the black- THE BUSINESS FARMER {2 ~ mam 6 head organism does not ordinarily _ ' , " {~52 an P/eas you produce blackhead disease except in inf" o association with the common cecum , ‘73 oryour moneywm worm. It would seem, therefore, . i)? > . if our fowls are kept free from this a ' | be returned__--_ intestinal worm, that there will be ' _ . little likelihood of blackhead dis— ease. , ,. ROUP IN POULTRY 51; 1“ ASK our CUStomers 0UP is a highly contagious dis- ‘ Pro is ., II {them are manyin Kim-Communigi ease. It may be distinguished I ease Farm ; from the common colds by its "CY f profits . ' arm I .4- * _ offensive odor, which is not present to larger HE Sui-65‘: way fields fenced hog‘fight ' in the common colds. .j outer .a'nd' Imcr Damp cold weather and damp or astohaveygig crops. og-dot‘g‘ is; —',‘j _ ‘ drafty houses all favor roup. Fowls on can 1'0 - ed. In ‘5 - clathm and ‘with pale {heads and those that :33, pasture fields 1313 gisgrofit from every re ‘Iz . Shoes for mthe sneeze a great deal should be only can you geta time add to the f6" :51? 2.9 I . watched as they are usually carriers field and at thelsame I, j: . Ifamdy 6" Dry “11:33:: are three types of roup,—— tility Of theSOI- o .1; W 3 eye, nose and mouth. Eye rowp b , gOOdlsr Ru 5 is usually noticed by the eye be- ‘ o um 13' : I1. , w .. coming swollen and pus forming F i I: v . .ewe y Fur in the eye cavity. An offensive o e_Joint ence 5’". ; , . mlture ”Auto tffnw; stands around most of the Hlng . 1formu1a of open ’ o - ' our specla to eXaCt In the nasal type of roup the is made from ire is drawn. - / :9 . IIsuppllCS'SpOI't-é cavity .of the nose becomes clos— hearth Stgils's’igzrgincedithat ‘S’afigogr f? g, :i / ed with pus. The fowl will stand augev heaviest ‘30 . , :15 if ’m .GOOds and around with its mouth open and Ed against rusté’g $255;qu appl . f3“ 5“ ‘ ,lRadlo Supplles “1%,, gas" “’5, bieath' t k 4 2‘“ “if cagolumbia Hingg'fimifiie‘ion. ‘ . - . e mou ype a es on a wire. , e an ex. ‘ . ' "if _ [rmntSMHa-rdware alilllthf'rllltlc form alllld appears as strong; tightéyhgagrgven its ment under I, I J. I _ ye ow s or ye ow1sh white Structlonan re service‘ ' '1 -' -. Stoveswpurnaces patcfiles on ttlllle mucous membrane the tests of seve Z' ced‘ and . v.» : . o e mou . v . Super- In ’ . ' pi.- II: \ \Farmin Tools If the fowl is not a valuable fn‘s'fgoflfnézmfi‘m All of our fences fiszeHed in qual‘ty ' l ' " I ' one, kill it and bulrn or deeply iSuper-Zinced oFEnco are guaranfieffll “They include the gov- ’. I . lIiIlIilry the, carcass and the head. lCualogue, both Free. and durab‘htydstylesof farm and Pig; " e head is the .source of infec- ‘ entappfove 11 distinc : 7’ f‘aC‘l‘ everytélflgfbr tion and if allowed to remain on iigrréences, 8mg Ougrzg‘fgi gence's,gateS‘ J ' ° the ground will surely be a source fences. “r, - - our assur- , 1‘56 [fidlvldlud/u-lflé’ of, further trouble. Clean out the 5 ll“\\\\\\ ’ law”: posts, and Wife fifflzfidydurabmw' H ' house and disinfect it thoroughly. inlfisi‘tufi-s \ cher of uniform qualg name of agent ‘ I, .2 07726"? [£6 1' arm Clean out the pus from the eyes and m\\\\\\‘f“\l\_\\ii\\\ I av? ‘te for book“:ts an nose and dip the fowl’s head in a ’ , f'z/f”\\\ “a; you. ’- f"'fI I , '\ dfla’ [fig ”oréyéop‘ 4 per cent solution of some good I I“ _ -. 1;: _. disinfectant. For the mouth type clean the patches of pus, with a ‘ ~ .% 1"In _ 3 .. % m - dull knife and .touch the affected . , ; fifilfisn‘fimimmsm ‘ With nmte—D- ' 1 Pittsburgh Steel Co; I H. Hall. , New York. city ————————-— 709 Union Trust Building, -- “Ix . i, _ ’ . . Somewhat, But Not Quite Pitt“) 1, Pa. “ ‘ “8 CHARLES WILLIAM STORES. I", A little fellow was learning from his - ~—I “'8 ’ -;481:Stoml'3ufldilig, New York City 311!“ about Grant, Lee, and other famoul ’ I, I Gentlemenlplease send me FREfiduFm Had" 'mea‘sé’u‘nd me"FREE""§¢PV'of Your'new cataloi - “'41?" of the (jivll War. "I” that th. , 1 mama's“ Super-Zinced Fm Catalogue. I , air?“ ndWiméu ,, , 7 _ , ., banjo Grant We pray to in church?" In ' " ’. V " ' '- , . x ' ‘inqutredlnno‘cently. - _ y A Name; L z. *‘ffinjoinrghurqh? Young mist-.3“. . : » f . ' '1 ’ ‘ , { “Ni, 1 H,” a ‘ .o.tii""> i flir‘v‘l‘ntyitv ’ I ' " l A4; 01.. 2 .9 229% “I , present time “winter wheat acreage is the talk. Future of Farming Looks Very Bright Livestock Man Advises Purchasing Stock Cattle Now By W. W. FOOTE, Market Editor. » RMING interests are, certainly looking up. and at no time since the war have farmers felt in such good spirits. Farms are held at full prices in the middle west and farther east, and values are higher rather than lower. Farmers are getting out of debt, fewer mort— gages are being made, and debts are being paid off. One of the most important developments of the pres— out time is the wonderful increase in road building, this country spend- ing money at the rate of. a billion dollars a year for its improved high- ways. By this means farms are brought much nearer markets than in the past, and farmers are utiliz- ing trucks in place of shipping by ‘ rail in a fast increasing degree. In many farming districts farm values are beginning to respond to the growing demand for small tracts of fertile land, and within a few weeks farms in Nebraska have changed ownership at from $150 up to $325 an acre, depending on the improve- ments. In the two Dakotas values are climbing, and sales show ad- vances of 25 per cent in North Da: kota within two years.~ In‘the Illi- nois corn belt few farms are be— ing sold, not many owners wanting to sell. In Iowa high—class farms have been bringing from $200 to $250 an acre. In that state the state census is indicating a small decrease in poulation on the farms, but through the increased crops due to increased efficiency brought about by machinery and better methods of farming, fewer farmers are pro— ducing more stud. Everywhere the general use of the radio on the farms has brought farmers into close touch with the daily markets and the government reports on the weather, the crops, and other things of interest. In short, farming me— thods are being revolutionized throughout the United States and in the future work on the farm may be expected to be less strenuous and earnings surer, making due allow— ance for the right kind of soil and the right way of working the acres. Our lilxports Growing According to a recent government report, the value of all exports from the United States in the year ending June 30. 1925, was $544,000,000 greater than in the preceeding year. At the same time agricultural cx- ports increased $403,000,000. Thus .agriculture including forestry while contributing 51 per cent of the to- tal exports of the United States also 'contributed 73 per cent of the in- the preceeding year. in agricultural ex- may be more than crease over This increase ports, however, {accounted for by increased exports of wheat, cotton, rye, and barley. The values of other important agri- cultural exports either were lowwr than in the preceeding year or show- ed only slight increases. The value of bacon exports in the year ending June 30, 1925, was only $34,000,- 000 as compared with $51,000,000 in the preceding year. Other pork products showed decreases below 1923—24.. The “Theat Problem Many advisers are ready to tell the farmer what to do about fixing his wheat acreage, plenty of Michigan farmers who pay no attention. to the outside world and simply go on cultivating the same number of acres, no matter what the wise ones say. The1e _ always danger of being carried awaly by big crops and cutting down the wheat acres too much, as there is of. sowing too much wheat when .the price is away higher. At the a greatly excessive Of :course, this points to. lower pric- , es next fall, provided the crop turns out Well, and provided there is a large harvest of spring wheat, but _~ all this is like counting the chick- ‘ ~~one hefOre they are hatched es this tall are much higher than». to recs 13mm as a result of smaller. Pric- but there are. supplies and large requirements. Within certain limits the farmer is a speculator, and he can never know how his ventures will turn out ul- timately. At the same time it is best teJearn what other farmers are doing, and some time ago the gov- ernment reported that it looked like an increase of 9.7 per cent in the winter wheat acreage of the country over last year, which was 6.5 per cent more than the acreage of the autumn of 1923. Andiur- thermore, it is learned that farmers in nineteen countries of Europe have been raising up to 92 per cent of the pr'e-war acreage, while the area devoted to wheat in Canada; Australia and Argentina is 53 per cent above the pre-war average. ,As for the present crop of wheat it may be said that it looks like a maintenance of the price $1.50 per bushel. According to the late government crop report, the wheat crop is approximately 700,2 873,000,000 bushels harvested last year. The estimated oats crop is 1,462,000,000 bushels, comparing .with 1,542,000,000 bushels grown in 1924. The corn crop is estimated at 2,885,000,000 bushels, comparing with 2,437,000,000 bushels last year. The tame hay crop is given as only 81,000,000 tons, comparing with 98,000,000 tons last year. The potato crop is reported at 344,000,- 000 bushels, comparing with 353,- 000,000 bushels last year. The bean crop is given as 17,600,000 bushels, comparing with 17,500,000 bushels last year. Good crops of apples, grapes and peaches are reported. ‘ Late sales for September delivery were made on the Chicago Board of Trade of wheat at $1.52, comparing with $1.29 a year ago; corn at 94 cents, comparing with $1.16 a year ago; oats at 39 cents, comparing with 48 cents a year ago; and rye at 87 cents, comparing with $1.03 a year ago. ‘The visible supply of wheat in this country is much less than a year ago; that of corn about normal; that of oats far larger than a year ago, and that of rye much less. Prime Cattle Sell Higher J. A Huber of Washington County, Iowa, was so fortunate as to sell 15 head of prime 1364- —pound Hereford steers on the Chicago market a few days ago at $16. 35, a new high top for the year. On the same day he sold 27 head of superior 1357-pound above - Her-stores at $16.25. of steers were purchased in south— western Kansas last October and. were tattooed on 'a ration. of corn, clover hay and -molasses feed. 0n" the same day a stockma‘n from ,Mis~ souri had a shipment. of 55, choice - Whiteface yearling's" on the market . which averaged 972 pounds. and sold for $15, the top for the day. for. little cattle. These steers were bought on the range last fall, when they cost $7.50, having been origin- ally New Mexico Herefords.. They were fed largely on crushed corn and molasses. Prime heavy cattle are selling far. higher than yearlings. Unusually large offerings of cattle last week caused a sharp decline in prices near the close, the bulk of the steers going at $9 to $14. 50, with common‘ to prime steers selling at $7 to $16. 35 and the best yearlings at $15 to $15. 25. Butcher cows and heifers sold at 8.4 to $13, Canner and cutter cows at $2.50 to ($3.95, bufls at $3.50 to $7.50 and calves at $6 to $15, calves of the better class sell— ing unusually high. Stockers and feeders were active and 75 cents to $1 higher than two weeks earlier, with sales at $5.25 to $8.75, largely at $6.50 ct $7.50, whilestock and feeder heifers sold at $3.50 to $6. A year ago beef steers were selling at $6 to $11.40 for common to prime grades, and thirteen years ago they brought $4.65 to $8.35. Time to Buy Stock Cattle “Revival of pastures by- recent rains and the fact that new corn is ready to cut and feed should prompt feeders to take the present opportun- ity to lay in stock cattle, and Chicago is a good place to buy at the present time, ” says Everett C. Brown, presi- dent of theNChicago Live Stock ex- change. , “Whatever damage may have been done to the corn crop as a result of drouth, the fact remains that it is close to a 3,000,000,000 bushel crop and that its value will depend large— ly' on cattle and hog feeding. It is definitely known that the hog crop is short and will be throughout 1925- 26 and the number of cattle acquired for fall and winter feeding so far this season has been considerably below normal, and, if present beef con- sumption is maintained, which is probable, far below the ‘country’s needs. Potato Crop Further Reduced The Department of Agriculture re- ports that drouth and other field troubles reduced the estimated po— tato crop about 8,000,000 bushels during August, so that the present indicated total of 344, 400,000 bush- els is 24 percent or 110, 000,000 THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKETSUMMARY and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks ago and One Year ago ; .r Detroit I Chicago . Detroit ‘ Detroit Sept. 21 Sept. 21 Sept. 9 1 yr. ago ‘VHEAT— No. 2 Red $1.69 $1.69 $1. 33 No. 2 White 1.70 1.70 1.35 No. 2 Mixed 1.69 1.69 1.34 . 0011x_ _ ' No. 3 Yellow .99 1.04 1.24 No. 4 Yellow 1.19 011%; (old)—— _ ’No. 2 White .49 719% @ .40 .49 .60 he. 3 White .46 :1.)@ 391,4. .46 _.58 [1th - 4 Cash No. 2 1.01 .82 ' 1.04 1.04 ' BEANS— ,» ‘ C. H. P. th. 4.75 / 4.40 5.65@5.70 POTATOES— ' Q ‘ New, Per th. 2.00@2.10 .1.§O@1.6_6 . 'HAY— ~ ' No. 1 Tim. 23.50 24 No. 2 Tim _ .7 . ' N o. 1 Clover 18g 19 Light Mixed 23 23.50 The two 1519-" bushels less than the 1946115 18 percent below average precinct of the last five years Condition aimed another six points to '13 cent. Meat serious dech in Maine, New :York, WiScon'sin Minnesota. production 41; proportionately fights both in the early and intermediat shipping states and in the late or, main crop sections. ; Altogether. this .is the lightest potato crop in sev— eral years. Gembined production in nineteen early and intermediate states is now estimated at 61, 772, 000’ bushels and all the late states have} - a forecasted total of 282, 619, 000‘ For the first group, this represents a 30 decrease, and for the main states a decrease of 23 percent from last year. Hogs Growing Scarce Supplies of hogs are {mocking scarcer all the time, and prospects are good for higher prices in the future. the combined receipts in seven west— ern packing points were only 18,- 600 ,000 hogs, comparing with 22,- 330,000 a year ago. Recent sales were made in the Chicago market at $10. 85 to $13. 50, comparing. with $8.10 to $10 10 a year ago and $6 1 to 8.25 fOur years ago. “TREAT -A quiet and steady tone prevailed in the wheat market last week. Most of the dealers are inclined to be bearish believing receipts will soon show an increase. So far Michigan growers have not shown a desire to sell, there being quite a feeling that prices should go higher. Canada has a good crop this year but not much of it is expected to find its way into the states. All wheat received on the Detroit market to date has found a ready market going mostly to local millers. CORN ' The corn market is dull and easy with demand very light. There are plenty of sellers and few buyers. OATS Oats are firm but 'quiet. are running light, but stocks at many points are heavy. Prices on futures are lower, December and ' May being at new lows for the sea- son. The new crop is selling 5c‘ and 6c under old oats. RYE - Following the trend of wheat dur? ‘ ing. the past week rye is slightly lower in price and the market is quiet and steady. BEANS Due to reports“ of crop damage the price of beans at Detroit ad— vanCed some last week. Whether demand improved or not makes lit» tle difference at this point as the price is apparently pretty well con- trolled. lishing an article about the ‘South- ern Idaho Bean Growers Association that should, be of interest to all Michigan growers.‘ The writer, Mr. Blake, explains how the Association- operates and expresses much inter- -est in what the growers of this state are doing. Be sure to read it. POTATOES ConsumerS‘ are taking pets-toes about as fast as they appear on the market and a firm tone prevails. HAY ‘ The* better grades of hay are scarce and firm at advancing prices . - demand is good. grades are steady..- BUTTER AND EGG3 The _ .19“? Detroit: Eggs, Michighri first, V31 @3511. Butter er fiery “@4535 " Chicago. Eggs. , . . ‘ .Butter cream. and Compared with last yea For the year to late date I Receipts 1.“ On page three we are pub—' . ,gm OPPORTUNITY “roam: rouse ‘ 1‘ I - “beam 511 that-estm'l'hue ~.:. _- ‘ ‘ ' can ‘ m 111351.911 claimed”? is: 111:: ‘ v11 47 bulb -- w firm"- rung-and early sugar fac- terlu contract for a kind heels an attractive cr nd 1‘ rlm'— $1211.... GUIR‘NSI! on neuron: nun canvas eze.oo,-nyw1ma. W Par-s. . 'SWINE . .nn ' _ r.r.o.srrnnn SEX.ANY ego. Ocean to plane.” 1;. A. Clark. St. fig ’HOIMPUX ' mam Amati”. mach inch. aim momma-mm $11” 111101: pruned!" " s F ms {gallium 133‘" ll. ,, Wlmnlnmnmlmuu . gm LANDS \ unfilfedomfirgmteg isghlfl: farms some onwithe boil“:I 4:1an 10 per cent down ”main” m . acre; tons ~ 49 busil’eolrs barley. 77m sls winter what. lmilk condens- co'nstant market. lambs and other stock profitable. - excellent prices. when bred for early met memos. .B tSunrOo 21141!!! e 11 ee .. is. I”Lunar. Colored tone :bfimoi f a in yo 0 rental. price.‘ ddreds Baillich. 241 etc. A Businem er‘srme 1'. _Mt. Clemens. HELP WANTED REPRESENTATIVES WA N T E D-J—lflCHIG tN gen slash sndw through intervi We shi direct urges Men-331'. Look 30: 13.. Saginaw. Inch. MID—BY 1515. MARRIED :42.“ by axon lamb 1111mm inns: , Brin- ens. Indian. DAIRY CATTLE » Vmsroox Home scum P. mm mxm mus. x3. 11.11% when“ mm mum-.111 MY n-nm Booms no '1- ”am :11... 1.. ”en-me“ ilniitedmn 1'1! muse comb Rhodslsian wan: 1 mm mwsm memo . ram-1g :3. so can h"Ont “1:11:81; ‘ y“!- Illa-$4. 1111111m ship 0. 0. °-"' Worth. New imam. Ohio. oco: 01:sz 1mm 1 . - Tog-1822536 mhfié'nclha 51.2%?5111 5&3; ”fin" received. ', Wm? TOW—G $1.25 tn 33:011. $213? mmmmri' l Gm, VIAGRA“ _ ol- MK). LIA! We 1,50, 1— 32.: . 5 m. ‘fifififi :21” eighths bloods 11311131 are quite firm ~ wheat, now selling well. ' 1:119 ' oer. fools «was at. 50c 1‘11 the mass. A large quantity of this “Donut available at a slightly lower; figure. - A GLANCE AT THE ’ MARKE'I‘S (U. 8. Bureau of Agricultural Economics) Washington. D. 0.. for the week ending September 19. The height of the market season draws near with the outlook for cash returns fully as good as last season. There is perhaps a little more cotton this year at about the same price. and more com which will be turned into meats at higher prices. There is quite as much spring Winter wheat is light but bringing high prices and there was large production of the other grains. Potatoes are less in quantity by one—fourth but twice as high in price and there is an average crop of apples of bet— , ter quality at about the same price. *Dairymen, stock feeders and poultrymen will have plenty of feed and their pro- ducts are not low in price. Perhaps the hay shortage is the worst general feature but even that does not apply to all sec— tions. Except in districts that suffered most from drought and Winter kill, the situation is considered good. Demand is first class and should stay so as long as business of nearly all kinds continues good. Export trade promises to take care of most lines having a surplus over the needs of the home market. WHEAT Prices lately have responded somewhat 50 latest crop conditions Wheat is off a. little on better reports for spring wheat production. It appears that the world wheat supply may be six percent more than last year, but our wheat market this season is likely to be less affected by the foreign market situation. Wheat has been coming to market slowly. Corn is held less fiunky despite reports or further drought injury. Oats are plentiful this season and as one of the cheaper grains are being taken by feeders. Week of' September 27 S the week of September 27 be- gins in Michigan temperatures will be rising and the sky cloud— ing up. Then will follow storms of rain and wind that will probably last until Monday. During Tuesday and Wednesday there will be a con- tinuation of warm temperatures with rain and probably wind. There will be a. change to clearing weather in this state about Thursday but the last two days of the week will see more rains. About Friday temperatures will take a sudden drop- in the state and the weather will re- main moderately cool throughout most of Saturday. - Week of October 4 The cool weather that started last week in Michigan will be rapidly moderating during the early part of 11111 week but will again take a fall about Monday or Tuesday. The weather during the greater part of this week will be fair. The exceptions will be about Sunday and Monday and again during the last two days of the week. Temperatures during the day time will be warm» and the nights refresh- ingly cool. The characteristic rain- fall during the storm centers will be light and scattered showers. October Weather Temperatures in Michigan for the month of October will average about normal. During the first half of the month they are expected to run be- low the seasonal normal but will be the reverse during the last two weeks. \ ‘was the excess cost on sacks over ’11 we own too snore more—r0113 60 Vintners 50 diluent ”an amp]. 1 or four- 11-31111 so.e°s1°mlmu. °' ° i359" Mggl‘aOhéhoe 3's... 4%. %.0h1m¢o. ' / caoounms. S. LUB- m Jon-omen. On or experi- fimm 113.3% W I‘m“ 23m some any lulu. 1110?. P9321 1111111.: 1 1 with our selling agents. on beans and to encourage the the past four years from about three W sell this the other grains but export trade ln‘barley has been active. The! are good feeding grains. Flaxseed is up six centd on the general shortage of pro- duction. . . ,an CORN New corn b‘egan to arrive at Chicago a month earlier than last year. The corn market is fairly steady but not set- tled as yet. Mill feeds, except corn pro- ducts. have worked a. little higher; on good demand and limited stock at hand. Good hay is selling well but trade is slow for the poorer grades. LIVESTOCK ‘ Market supplies of livestock are mod- erate and price tendency slightly upward. Demand for feeder stock continues active. Lightweight hogs sell readily at top prims. Fat lambs advanced about 50 cents. Demand good for fresh meats with a slight upward turn of prices. BUTTER Butter markets firm. Prices are fairly blah but drought has cut into pasturage and impaired the prospect of heavy fall production while hot weather has injured quality. Storage stock is less than last year but more than the average. Current supplies are not accumulating. Prices are about steady but holding with some dif- ficulty under slack demand from the trade. Foreign marks-ts - show little change. Cheese prices bold easily and tend slightly upward in response to a demand from consumers. no great surplus in storage and conditions recently not very favor— able to heavy production. PRODUCE The produce season nears its height. Shipments of leading fruits and vegetables exceed 20.000 cars a week which is one— third more than the year-round average. Earliness continues a feature of the sea— son to the last. also rather light pro- ductlon. A further decrease of 9.000.000 bushels of potatoes and fully as much in sweet potatoes were main items of the September report. Since the report was issued the weather has continued too dry in various_ southern and western potato sections, and some damage was caused in northern districts by hard frosts. Prices of green produce in general have slanted downward since midsummer but have held better in September than in August. The level is still above last season for potatoes, peaches and cabbage. It is about the same or slightly lower for apples, pears, cantaloupe, onions. celery and sweet po- tatoes. LIVESTOCK MARKETS CHICAGO.——CATTLE——Fed steers strong; trade active; most feed offerings of value to sell at $11 downward; best matured steers scaling 1,443 pounds, 313: 1.082 pounds at same figure: she stock steady; canners and cutters strong: bulls steady; best heavy bolognas. $5.35: veal- ers steady: bulk to packers. $l4@14.50. HOGS—Active; light and heavy weight butchers strong to 10c higher than Thurs— day’s average: light licbts and slaughter 1112's advanced lOfril25c; packing sows. 10025c higher: bulk better, 160 to 225 pound weight. $13.25fi13.50; top, $13.50: good and choice 240 to 325 pound butchers largely $12.90@13.25; 140 to 150 pound mostly $12.85@13.20: bulk packing sows. $11.25@11.90; strong weight killing pigs largely 81150613: shippers took 6,500: estimated holdover 3.500. SHEER—Few late sales steady; others mostly 25c lower; bulk desirable fat native lambs. 31561711125; top. $15.50; culls mostly 311631150: fat ewes mostly. $6027.75; heavies downward fat native to $5: few feeding lambs $15.50; others, $14@15. EAST BUFFAII‘L—CA’I‘TLE~ A c t l v e an.“ ””1“ lvigher. CAI.VE>‘r—~A.:: '. R00 hivhu (hoice. $15.75@16.50: fair to 1:1; 3 11361“ 15 50 culls. ”@1150: heavy 611‘9; grossers, $5fl6. HMS—slow, 15471250 lowm heavy, $13.50fil4: mixed and yorker-s, $14; light yorkers and pigs. $13.50@13.75 rougbs, $11®11.50: stags. 8739. SHEEP ANT) LAMBS-—Acflvc; lambs. 25c higher, $9016 others unchanged. IDAHO GROWERS MARKET OWN BEANS SUCCESSFULLY (Continued from Page 3) is very light, being .71 per cent of the gross sales during the present season, at least one-half of which and above the contract price of 10c During the past three months the association has done considerable field work among its members, the object being to determine the best [ cultural methods for Great North- planting of better seed. Many fields have been rogued and :1 real cam—' paign is on to improve our beans both, in quantity and yield. .By selling our beans cooperative- ly. we have increased the return per pound to our members during cents, to about five cents, (last sea-. son’s not was about $5. 30 per cwt.) and we earnestly hope that the Michigan bean growers will be. at cbdpeffitin starts as and may to be harder to east equally as Successful in their aBIG PAYJob? 1Hue'lredsofneo whomeremem new atom; BIG MONEY ~my 32000 9‘ $5000 a you. 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