“N, 1472 Independent Farm Magazine Owned and ' Edited 2'72 Michlgan WAN!“ COAL” “I SHOULD WORRY ABOUT THE HIGH PRICE OF In this ivsuei-—Agricultural Service Station; for Fox nties—Michigan Hatcherymen Join to Protect by Chick Buyer§~Reascns ‘1‘ or Scurplus of M.lk on Detroit Market Interests of Ba “ll“ ‘\\\\\\ - I l New York Central Lines are continuously striving, in every way, to aid the farmer in- crease his profits from milking herds. Our Department of Agricultural Relations is constantly co-operating with cattle breeding associations, agricultural colleges, farm bu- reaus, and progressive farmers, for the pur- pose of improving the quality of dairy cattle. Fewer and better cows mean better milk and more profit. Transporting milk from farm to city is a considerable part of our day’s work. 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DIRECT FROM PRODUCER oo-ors 'lfelping those fairs that are trying pie-uphold these deals? 1,; x ., EN Calvin Coolidge, Presi- dent of the United St tes, sits down to lunch Mo day, De— cember 7, as the guest of the Ameri- can Farm Bureau Federation, he will be sitting down to a practical» 'application of co-Operative market- ing, for all of the food-stuffs for that luncheon are being furnished by co- operative marketing organizations. And on Tuesday at noon, there will be given a co—operative luncheon to the entire convention. Under the direction Of the co—op— erative marketing department of the American Farm Bureau Federation. arrangements have been made for the supply of eggs by the Atlantic Coast Poultry Producers Association and the Utah Poultry Producers. There will be chickens and turkeys furnished through the Utah Poultry Producers and the Atlantic Coast Poultry Producers Association and others; bacon and ham by the Na- tional Livestock Producers Associa- tion; milk and cream by the Dairy- man's League, the Stephenson, Illi- nois, Co-operative Milk Company and the Quincy Co-operative Producers; maple syrup by the Vermont Farm Bureau Federation; cheese by a Wisconsin co-operative; p o t a. t 0 e s from the Idaho Producers Union; Land O’ Lakes butter from Minne- sota; nuts from the California Wal- nut Growers Association; citrus fruit from the Florida and Cali- fornia cooperatives and Federated Fruit and Vegetable Growers, and even the cigars at the end of the meal will be furnished by Kentucky tobacco co-Operatives. The list is not yet completed. FARM BUREAU USES WEED SEED TO HEAT WAREHOUSE ONS of Michigan weed seeds that used to go back into the soil to harass the grower of good things are mixed with the coal that is used for stoking the furnace that heats the Michigan State Farm Bureau at Lansing. They are obtained from the agri- cultural seeds which the bureau handles for its patrons. The weed seeds burn with fierce, blue white flames. Mixed with soft coal they do a good share of the heating, thus serving a useful pur- pose instead of passing out again to continue their work of destruc- tion. RAILROAD PARTICIPATES IN COUNTY FAIRS NE of the interesting things 0 seen at five of our county fairs in Michigan this fall was the educational exhibit put on by the Agricultural Department of the New York Central Lines. This exhibit is entitled “The New York Central Lines’ ‘Road to Success in Farm- ing'.” It is centered around a. large oil painting, five by ten feet, which pictures a road passing through sev- eral counties which are named as follows: Equipment, Livestock, For— age, Cash Crop and Business Coun- ties. These Counties are divided up into townships and the road is laid out through Good Equipment, Grade or purebred Livestock, Legume For- age, Certified (registered) Seed, and Farm Accounting Townships. It carefully avoids such townships as scrub livestock, timothy, ordinary markets, etc. The largest cities lo- cated on this road are Dairying, Al— falfa, and Cow Testing AssociatiOn. A large river, Sour Soil River, flows through these counties and seems to prevent the road from getting into Legume Township. 'By means of Limestone Bridge, this obstacle is overcome and the road leads straight through the town of Alfal- fa. According to Mr. W. H. Hill, General Agricultural Agent, New York Central Lines, this exhibit is an attempt on the part of his de- partment to encourage the county fairs in the struggle against the car- nival idea. He 'said, “If we abolish the carnivals and midways from our county fairs we must substitute something else. We believe that the fairs were instituted for their in- spirational and educational benefits and we are ready to do our parthy , with this Railroad exhibit this year: , Tuscola, Washtenaw, Hillsdale, «0t- sego and Cheboygan. MICHIGAN EXPERIMENT STA- TION AMONG LEADERS HE Michigan Agricultural Exper- iment Station, with branches at Grand. Rapids, South Haven. Mancelona, and Chatham, ranks, among the best in the United States in undertaking to solve the multi- tude of problemémin agriculture. The scope of the experimental work in the United States, according to station specialists, is revealed in a classified list of the different pro- jects prepared by the ofllce of experi- ment stations at Washington. This shows that projects dealing withheld crops lead in number, hav- ing a total of 1,817. Corn leads the field crops with 170 projects under study, wheat follows with 164, po- tatoes 162, cotton 99, alfalfa 82. cats 81, and soy beans 68. Horticulture ranks second with 962 projects, of which 400 deal with orchard fruits. Apples lead in the orchard projects with 115 and peaches follow with 45. Small fruit experiments total 135. Vegetables comprise 275 projects, ornamentals, 65, and nuts 50. The third largest group is animal production with 926 projects, in- cluding among others. poultry 206, dairy cattle 191, swine 189, sheep and goats 81, beef cattle 77, and horses and mules 12. Plant pathology is another large group having 482'projects, of which 47 deal with potato diseases. Projects in economic entomology number 472, of which 38 relate to bees and 22 to cotton insects. LAWS RELATING TO FUR ANI- MAIB TO CONSERVE SUPPLY ;‘ AKING an unprime pelt is a. deliberate waste of one of na- ture’s most valuable and beautiful gifts, and not until trap- pers and raw-fur men learn to look upon it as such will the best use of our valuable resources in fur be realized." Speaking on the subject of necessity for careful fur conser- " vation, Frank G. Ashbrook, in Farmer’s Bulletin 1469, Laws Relat- ing to Fur Animals for the Season 1925-26, points out that if the un— prime animals now killed every year were left for breeding stock, the an- nual catch would probably not be decreased more than 5 per cent, while the supply of wild fur animals would without doubt be increased 50 per cent in five years. Fur is in prime condition for har- vesting at one brief season only. An open season of more than three month’s duration is not justifiable anywhere in the United States. The average quality of pelts would be much higher if laws made seasons shorter and uniform for areas hav- ing the same climatic conditions. If the fur business is to maintain its position among the great industries of the country the continued source of supply must be assured. The maintenance of the fur sup- ply is primarily the business of the states. The United States Depart- ment of Agriculture administers the Lacey Act, regulating interstate commerce in wild animals, and sup- plements state legislation in efforts for conversation of fur animals. The attitude of the department is one of cooperation and not of Federal control. This bulletin contains a complete list of all the laws in the various states and Canada relating to fur‘ animals for the coming year. Regu- lations affecting the interstate ship- ment of pelts are explained, and the legislation enacted during the year is reviewed, with all import— ant changes noted. A recommenda- tion is made that trappers be requir- ed to turn in an annual report of furs of ea'ch species taken, from which an estimate could. be made of the total number and value of the furs taken annually. The status of fur-farming in this country and Alaska is steadily improving, and is; discussed in another‘section. The bulletin may be obtained while the .suppl lasts, by addressing ‘ h" 'itede D, ' ,. ' The following “fairs. were favored“ - ‘ V él‘ -;.~ . cries, BUSINESS FARM ER The Only Farm Magazine Owned and Edited in Michigan Published 81- W lily at LOleniens, lighten. Agricultura SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1925 Etntered as 2nd. class matter, “18.22813” .Clemens. Mich, under act Mar. 1 Service Station for Counties Well Known Farmer Suggests Plan for Counties That Have Not Taken Kindly to County Agricultural Agent System By JAS. N. McBRlDE OME counties in Michigan have not taken to the county agent system and in some others the foothold was not maintained and the service suspended. These state- ments are not arguments against or criticisms of county agents, but a condition of facts with a. suggested plan to meet the situation described. These counties are under existent conditions, not the beneficiaries of federal and state appropriations wlfich for the next fiscal year would be $1,800.00 per annum for counties having this service. In other words, these funds derived from national and state taxation are not paid in or to these counties and are paid in counties where the county farm agent system is in operation. Equity in service is fundamental in the U. S. and approximation of equality of. opportunities under a democracy is one of the great tests of government. The plan sugested to serve in their non-agent counties would be the division of a county into prob- ably four districts while say four contiguous well-settled farm town— ships as a unit. In each district would be a resident farmer as the agricultural agent of that unit. This farmer, preferably a state college graduate or student at one time, but not as a legal necessity, to be select- ed by the respective extension di- rector from a list of eligibles certi- fied to by the respective supervisors of the townships making up the unit. These agents on their own farms would devote say a minimum of five acres to demonstration work of seeds, fertilizers, solutions, etc., as prescribed from the Michigan State College. In order to provide against duplication unnecessarily it would probably work out that one district agent be a pure seed enthus- iast, and others horticulture, poul- try, dairying, and live stock feeuirg, in their special farm practices. The respective divisions of. the Michigan State College like farm crops, soils, dairying and others would in this way have their own county repre- sentatives and demonstration cent- ers. The certification of eligibles by the township supervisors is sug— gested as a happy medium of lodg- ing responsibility locally and the fin- al selection by the extension head in securing fitness for service. The expenditure of say four hundred dollars for such services would make the position comparable financially rather above that of the ordinary township official and we all know that the leading township offices rarely go begging. For this reason the agent of agriculture wOuld be more or less sought after and the capacity for service would be the op— portunity that would hold these agents at their best, like any other public official under close observ— ance. New and improved seeds would be spread and ‘tested state Wide. New methods would be prov— en or disproven in actual practice. Also Agents of State These men should be in addition, agents of the State Commissioner of Agriculture also in the admini- stration of sanitary regulation for live stock. Of the sum previously mentioned as might be made avail- able for each county there would be left fifty dollars per district which might be profitably used for district and state wide conferences. New ideas both agricultural and econom- ic would be exchanged and exert a marked influence with a rapidity not now possible. An expression of agri- cultural viewpoint would come from these men as a body directly in con- tact with the farm yet with an edu- cated background that today is not possible to summon or secure. Have Working M orlcl There would be in the farm office of these agents a working model for the individual farm office. There would be the bulletins and special advices from the College. One could also assume that the leading farm papers would be there because up- to—date farmers are subscribers for and readers of agricultural journals, I asked one progressive, wide- awake farmer 110w the place of agent with the possibilities of service would appeal to him. His answer was eminently practical for he said: “I use the best seed I can find, plant, and cultivate this land in the best way I know and think as well if not a little better than the aver— age and discuss farm matters with my neighbors any way. I pay out around $400.00 per season for hired help and I certainly would be glad to cooperate with the State Colleg in any of their plans for improve- ment in all farm matters.” I want to enter a protest against referring to this proposed service as a bonus paid the farmer. If it is so called, then much of the pres— ent service rendered by demonstra- tion agents might be referred to in a much more depreciatory manner. The theory of agriculture actually applied by the man who has the theory and makes it an art is con- sidered many fold more valuable than where theory is expressed only in words and its application left to others. St. Paul so firmly united faith and work in‘ practice that I feel it would work well in agriculture. The direct service it would be to the State College would be the con- tact with its representation on the farm and among farmers. My im- pression is that rural community progress would find leadership among these agents in a manner not now provided-for under existing or- ganization. Put Up Neat Sign A neat sign on a neat appearing farm, for example “State College Service Station” or some similar ex- pressive term, would become the center of inquiry and interest among farmers. A seasonal sign might an- nounce one acre of Robust beans, one acre of Duncan’s Michigan corn, one acre of grain with phosphate, one acre without, one-quarter acre certified seed potatoes planted, etc. The next year the seasonal sign woud announce the yield or results. The agent whose main vocation might be poultry for example would announce on his special bulletin board——a poultry house, Michigan or Missouri model, breed of fowls. average yield per hen of eggs, etc. The ideal of all educational insti- tutions is service which is brought about largely by contact of persons whose problems are sympathetically studied where they exist. He who talks with men does not get quite so close to them as he who talks and walks with them. The farmer agent of agriculture has possibilities well worth while to try out. Michigan Hatcherymen Join to Protect Interests of Baby Chick Buyers ByJ. A. HANNAH ICHIGAN State Acoredited Chicks are now assured for the coming season. For many years, th‘ere has beemén the part of Michigan hatcherymen and the chick buying public of the State, a desire for an accredited chick a pproved by the State, thus assuring the chick customer that he was getting what he desired in the way of livability, purity of strain, and production abil— ity in the chick’s purchase. It is no secret that a few hatcherymen have exploited the public consistent— ly, advertising high egg records, 300—egg strains. etc., and were ace tually wholesaling the chicks put out, buying them from other hatch- and re—selling them without any knowledge of the quality of the parent stock or of the conditions un- der which the chicks sold, were hatched. Most of the hatcherymen of this state have honestly endeav— ored to put out chicks of the high« est quality at a reasonable: price, and have been discouraged at the apparent ease with which a few ex- ploiters of the buying public were selling chicks at an unreasonable price, considering the quality, and getting away with it. To Establish Feeling of Security To counteract the unfair adver- tising practices on the part of a few hatcheries, arid “to establish a feel- ing of security on“ the part of the chick buying public, and to insure a high quality chick, the hatcherymen of Michigan have banded together and wiyerganized Michigan ”to _ produce eggs economically, birds that are rejected, both males their supervision that guarantee the chick buying public that chicks com- ing from accredited hatcheries will be well bred for production, true to type, hatched only in incubators that have been properly managed, and regularly disinfected, and that the advertised promises of the hatchery .are truthful and will be lived up to to the letter. Stocks Being Inspected All of the flock owners furnishing eggs to accredited hatcheries must be members of the Michigan State Poultry Improvement Association. Their flocks are now being inspected by inspectors furnished by the Poul- try Department of the Michigan State College, and these flocks are carefully gone over, and all birds showing any signs of weakness, immaturity, or disease, are removed. Birds that are off color or that are not true to type, are removed. Birds that are culled from a production standpoint, lacking the ability to lay economically, and to transmit that quality to their offspring, are re- moved, so that before that flock is passed, it is a flock of uniform pure bred birds free from standard dis- qualifications and having the ability and to transmit that quality to the off- oflspring. All of the male birds are individually handled by the State In- spector and, each male bird that has been approved, is leg banded with a state sealed numbered band. The their tails clipped. and must be disposed of Within ten days after the time of inspection. One inspector spends his time visit- ing flocks that have already been in- spected, to make certain that all re- jected birds have been disposed of. After the flock has been inspected, the rejected birds have been dis- posed of, and the required number of state approved, leg banded male birds are on the farm, that flock is accredited, and the owner is issued a certificate of accredation. If the flock is of inferior quality, or the owner refuses to dispose of the re— jected birds, the flock is rejected, and can not become accredited this season, nor can it sell eggs to any accredited hatchery. Eggs from Accredited Flocks Accredited hatcheries must hatch only eggs from accredited flocks, must disinfect their incubators reg- ularly, must carefully inspect all chicks shipped, rejecting small and undesirable chicks, must ship all chicks within 36 hours after the time of hatching, must hatch no ac- credited chicks before February first or after July first, of any season, must keep an accurate record of all egg purchases, chick sales, etc., these records open to the inspector of the State Association at all times. The hatcheryman also agrees to live up to all the rules and regulations of the Association, to abide by the decision of the Accrediting Board and Board of Directors, to submit ~proof copy of all advertising circu- lars, , pamphlets, catalozs. etc., to the Secretary of the Association, be- fore the publication of these adver- tisements or pamphlets, and all ad- vertising must be approved before publication, by the secretary or oth- er duly authorized person. He also agrees to live up to all of his adver- tised promises and guarantees, and should he fail, to abide by all the rules previously enacted, or any oth- ers that may be enacted, he has agreed to pay limited damages, to such an amount that makes it cer— tan that no hatchery can afford to break the hatchery agreement. Seventy-Two Hatcherymen Sign Seventy—two Michigan hatchery- men with a hatching capacity of over 2,000,000 eggs at one setting have signed a hatchery agreement with the Association, and are now having their flocks inspected by the state inspectors. There are now six state inspectors in the field, working continuously in order that the 300,- 000 hens and 28,000 male birds may be seen and handled before the com~ ing hatching season. Michigan farmers are thus assur- ed a better quality of chick, and of honest treatment by those hatchery— men that have become accredited and the words “Michigan State Ac- credited Chicks” or .“Michigan State Accredited Hatchery” should instill confidence in the chick purchaser, in those chicks, or in that hatchery and the Michigan State Poultry Improve- ment Association, with its one thous- and members, made up of Michigan poultrymen, is prepared to stand be- hind “Michigan State iAccredited ' Chicken} ti (In this article, the fourth of a series the. marketing of milk. l'rof. Horner kes up the problem of surplus.) HEirelationship between the of- ficers and members of a cooper— ative association is one of the most important problems. There hOuld be organization such that the ' member could be informed about certain essemials of the business and the funda- mentals of coop- eration. T h e r e are certain prin— ciples of coopera— tion which must be followed if success is to re— sult. There are. also. certain bus- iness principles which must not The officials of the co— know what. these and "see that the accordance Members should be giv— understauding' of these ‘ same essentials. This is a big job but it is one which must be done in ;_‘ a thorough manner if success is to result. There are many things which the members 01' a milk producers’ sales “ association should about j, the marketingr of future :Prof. J. '1‘. Horner be neglected. 5operative should fundametnals are | 1: business is conducted in i with them. en a clear understand milk. ln : articles I am going to discuss some of these, it will be impossible. (it Q. course, for me to deal with every problem which confronts the market. In dealing with some of these problems I am going to think of them and speak of them in terms used by the farmer. The phase of the market which is most misunder— ' .stood of all is, l think, that of sur— "iplus. Let us examine just what this term “surplus” means. According to the method of buy- .ing milk in the whole milk markets or this country, surplus means that quantity of milk produced in a cer— . tain market area above the require— : ments of the market for lluid milk. ' In any situation there is no use to make a fuss about things unless 6: conditions can be changed. Now the points in question are: 1. Is there a surplus? f 2. Can it be eliminated? 5, 3. If there is one and it can’t be eliminated is the price received for milk just? During the past ten years im— :5 provements in the methods of hand— i, ling milk have made it possible to bring milk from great distances. frJust how far milk can be profitably "‘ shipped to a market is diflicult to tell. There seems to be no reason- OW would you like to sit down to a dozen Thanksgiving (lin— ners all at once? Just think .of adding to your own good Thanks— giving dinner the good Thanksgiv— ing dinners of a lot of your friends " and neighbors! Some feed, as the ;~ children say. And then all sitting 1 down together to enjoy the dainties T'Vthat a Whole neighborhood of cooks have prepared instead of just the qnes always served in your own home. I think you‘d enjoy it, just as we did here in the Carpenter Community in \Vexi‘ord county. Ever since we organized the Car- penter Community Meet in Novem— ber 1921 we have been having all kinds of suppers; oyster suppers and a; game suppers and ice cream and cake suppers and pot luck suppers. 13m: this time it was a dinner and instead of each family furnishing in: one or two articles of food gyery‘ family brought along a whole thanksgiving dinner. , ..We had turkey and chicken and , tgatbfbitand. braised beef: mashed po- games and scalloped potatoes and '” to salads; jellies, jams, pre— , fruit salads, pickles; pump- . {as an dmince pies and berry and apple pies; fruit cakes and cakes and loaf cakes with 11- By PROF. J. T. HORNER Head of Economics Work in Agriculture. Michigan State College able limit to the distance from the standpoint of physical handling and keeping. A news item taken from November 6, 1925' issue of Hoard’s Dairyman reads as follows: “Florida is reaching out for an essential food supply, to take care of its great in- to Miami. The shipments are past the experimental stage, except as a matter of gauging the continued de— mand, and there are indications that the use of tank cars will soon be be— gun in this enterprise.” In the No— vember 13, 1925, issue of this same flux in population, by drawing 011 «glairy paper there is a note to the Eastern and Central Pennsylvania. The distance which is bridged o‘er in this unusual development is s - nificant o; the closeness with which production of milk is gauged to de- mand in this whole eastern terri- tory. Although there are thriving dairy sections nearer Florida than the Pennsylvania counties which are now supplying this demand, it has been found there was ‘not sufficient surplus to be economically assem~ bled and shipped there from any point further south than the Penn- syvania line. The present carload shipments are going forward from Harrisburg and Lancaster, 1’a., the milk being carefully selected and handled, shippd in cans in iced cars, effect that whole milk is being ship— ped from Iowa to the Baltimore and Philadelphia markets. These in— stances show that it is physically possible to ship milk hundreds of miles and if price conditions are fa- vorable such shipments will be made. Science has made it possible to ship milk long distances and keep it sweet for days. Milk may come from almost any producing section into the consuming market. The day when the farmer near to the market had a monopoly in that market is gone. Milk produced in any part of the middle west might come into the great city consuming markets. Since milk may come from such DID YOU RAISE You are wrong! here in the right is Joseph tall corn, grown on his farm. \oung. of Owendale. seen in this Bi:llt‘-—-—llnill Anton Brassingcr This stalk of red cob. whltc dent silage corn was grown picture shown on the right. on their farm in Sanilac county and measures 14%; Michigan, and the corn was grown on Michigan farms. standing beside what he considered “'0 too thought it was about the tallest we had ever TALLER CORN THAN THIS? These pictures were not taken out in Iowa, they were taken right In the picture on. H011)“, and son o’flllll‘fi.‘0f Ardmorc, sent in the feet high. Can you beat that? f you can let us hear from you and send in a, picture to prove it. When Neighbors Get Together For Thanksgiving Dinner By EVA HENDERSON DAVEY ings and frostings of chocolate and jelly and cocoanut and goodness knows what else (I couldn’t sample them all). And coffee and milk to drink. Everything was ready at about 12:30 (1’. M.) and we all sat down at the long tables except the chil- dren, who stood up. They didn’t mind. No doubt they all knew they could eat more standing. (I stood too part of the time.) Of course eating a dozen "Thanks— giving dinners all at once takes quite a while. The smaller children had to be helped. Coifee and milk had to be poured, and then every- body insisted on passing everything all the time for fear someone would miss something. lut finally din— ner was over and the children ran off to play while the men sat around and visited and the women cleared the tables (placing the remaining food on one) and washed the dishes. Then we had the program. It be- gan with a prediction regarding what. Thanksgiving Day in 1950, would be like, and included an ac- . count of the .cqmtnz .. he fl Pilgrim - trust. ...v ’ $1.: “Q are a talk recalled from the Thanksgiv— ing feasts of God’s people in earlier times, the Passover, etc., when they gave thanks for care and protection and deliverance from their enemies, songs, recitations, and at last each one was asked to tell one thing for which he or she was thankful. One woman, recently come from Kansas, was thankful she was here with us in Northern Michigan on that cold stormy day. Perhaps that indicates how warm hearted she is and also how responsive she has found us natives. At any rate I think She must have referred to the people rather than the'place‘ for few people find a cold climate ideal in winter. It made me think of a conversation I heard between two women in another state regarding Michigan. Said the first, speaking of the sand hills and waste cut over lands and cold winters: “Michigan, that’s a poor place." Said the other, thinking of the delightful time she had there and the beautiful sum— mer; “Michigan! I’m just homesick to go back to Michigan. are. so _warm hearted and friendly The people ,, each family returned Teasons F... Surplus of Milk on Detroit Market Are Farmers Receiving a Just Price For Excess of Receipts Over Fluid Milk Sales? a wide section of territory, it is im- possible to expect that there will not be more produced than can be sold as fluid milk. There must be suf- ficient production to provide us with manfuactured dairy products. This quantity which goes "into manufac- tured dairy products might come in- to the fluid milk market and it will come into these markets if the price is attractive. The demands of the fluid milk market vary from day to day and if the milk distributor is going to meet the demands of his consumers ev— ery day, he must have more than sufliCIent milk. It is estimated that from 5.to 15 per cent more than fluid milk requirements are needed £22316 safe. Tdhis margin must neces— y e ma into - tured product?r some manufac Out of the surplus, or the excess of receipts over fluid milk sales must come sweet cream (unless it IS purchased from other market areas) and milk for buttermilk, cot~ tage cheese and other manufactumd products. The time is never going to come when all milk which comes into the market will be sold as fluid milk. There will always be what farmers have been calling “surplus” There is no other way to eliminate this because there must be milk for these other purposes. Farmers living near the‘city mar- kets hope to keep the fluid milk market for themselves and let the milk for manufacturing purposes come from other sections. This is impossmle because it is so easy to bring this milk from great distanc- es. The Detroit milk market is not owned. by the producers who are close 1n. There is no way that this market area can be restricted and producers some distance away kept out of the market. The market is gomgto attract the milk needed and the higher the fluid milk price the greaten the distance from which milk w111 come. The only real ad— vantage which close-in producers an have over those living out some distance IS the difference in trans- . portation costs. If .we mean by surplus the excess of milk production over the require- ments for fluid milk, we must recov— nlze that there is a surplus in tlie Detroit milk area and there always Will .be for the area will keep ex— panding as rapidly as demand in- creases. There is no way in which this surplus can be done away with. It is necessary that We have more milk than needed as whole milk. ‘The next question about surplus milk is whether the price is just. The price of manufactured dairy products is made by world condi- tions. The butter market is not (Continued on Page 20) a quite long life right here was thankful for always having had such good neighbors. A girl, sitting next to the food ta— ble was thankful she was near the food, proving that she still‘ had space for more and wasn’t like the little girl in the Thanksgiving story, mournful (more’n full). One former resident, back for Thanksgiving, was thankful that the community spirit still lives in the Carpenter Community. Quite a number (mostly boys) were thankful that they had stopped eating when they did. One woman was thankful that she hadn’t eaten as much as the man who sat opposite her, and it is pro- bably just as well she didn’t. Men can stand some things that women can’t. But I am in a position to say that the man in the case probably did not eat any more thanmeach of several others whom she» could not see. A good healthy appetite is something to be thankful for. Along toward evening the men began to think\of chores and the women got the‘ children together and gathered upatheir dishes and We @129 ,tf é} E1 muss” (DIAKS Alpenu, and they are sure death to weeds on farm. .Was snapped. .,sz..-,_ .1“, 2-- .,.A < ‘ GREAT FRIENDS.-——This is Lucille Pe- terson. Maple City and her dog, Nero. Her parents are 1dr. and lVIrs. I’. 0. Peterson. Jane Donley, of Sandusky, is giving her brother, Verle Richard, 8. nice IN THE WINTERTIME.—-Dolores sleigh ride. They are children of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Dionley, of Sandusky. ; Wynnwww . u .. 4w . -‘ ”Ma-«i ”uwvmmh “JUST HOME FROM SCHOOL."—That is the title Vera Shank, of Ubly, gave this pic- ture she sent. to us. Everybody seems hap- ny. Maybe Mother has .in’s't announced supper. FAIR ARM‘Y TO BATTLE \VEEDS.———Tliese young ladies are, left to right, Ida, Emjlie, Emma and Pauline (ioldvrs, of the Golden's of They were just starting out for the field when this Smith i ' ‘mumy DON A Ill) lint-slings. Ilunuid Farmer conws.‘ t LI Ii ES :1. g: 'zilHlHIlll (Arundmu, is M. R. of Mr ‘. w rii vs. when J. Th e F.—llouuld (Hmsll‘nd, “See how Business ’I‘ II R ICE ————H rand mot her, lnnlu- HH- Is‘nln‘llzt CAN YOU this ram sheared 481/2 grounds of wool. BEAT THIS?——At one year old When He is owned 8 years old he sheared 45 pounds. by \V. llleyers, Clark Lake. “WELCOME” TO THE TOP 0’ MICHIGAN POTATO SHO“‘.—-A view of Home of the exhibits at the'third annual Top 0' DIichigan Potato. Show, No- vember 4, 5 and 6, at Gaylord. IN THE Jack, is just about the best dog in the world. say he plays hull with them. 1*} _ (i‘l‘lN'lCltA'l‘lONS mother hzlslu-ts shown county. picture to us. “CO‘ME filetz, GOOD OLD and hero. Curtis, PLAY \VITH Joan, small daughter of of Hunt. O F “A SK ET \V I‘).\ VERS. all worked to Indians Shepherd, live in the HON: M E !”-——Helen Mrs. Charles SUM MERTIME.-—-I{ arold and Lorraine Khode. of )11. Pleasant, think their dog, They EVERYBODY HAVING A GOOD TIllrIE.———The youngsters always have a. good time when Dad will play with them. and we suspect that Dad enjoys the romp. -fully as much as the children. ture was sent to us by Mrs. Estella Widdis, of Baroda. This pic- young “ONLY TWO DAYS OLD."—‘-No wonder" the colt looks so interested. A fluelookhli '» lady as an escort is not a common thing. Sent in by Mrs. J. Fraley, of Leno}; SEND NO MONEY Warm ahrmlem‘mr Wilson?“ Examine goods and if you are not convinced that you have more than your money's PAY 0N ARRIVAL Worth we will gladly return your money. Don't delay. Order now before the article you want is sold out. Brand New Army 0. ll. Wool $'69 floats Coot $8.00 to snake. Special extraordinary bu gain. A brand new govern- ment 0. D. wool blouse ov Canvas leggins Free Wiill Government 0. D. Wool B:eeolres New Army Regulation all Wool O. D. Brwches. Thee are the best quality 0. D. wool breechee you can buy no matter how much more you pay. They are made 0! the finest wool serge end melton materials with large double knee and have assed rigid inspection. glam 28 to 40. Pl us Price. . . . 53'39 Postage I Pair leggins FREE Willi Each Pair Breeches army omeere horse covers made or double tilled lo 0:. duck. Lined with gray wool blanks g. vy web front and ms fastener and en lo. 76 has long. They are the but waierproo m on e market and have passed the aovu-nment's l n. Really a 87.50 value. price. p us postage ..................... Extra saving If you buy 2 for $4.19. legislation army olive drab all wool heavy knitted doves with extra. long snug fitting wristlets and double mile. This is a tremendous bargain. 29c .pluspostage ........ c 1 pairs ror 53.39. ' an barrage: ' " U. — sT.DAU|. .MAIL 0111)}: Depl. 3'3 Pure Wool Worsted Heather llropsticir digit!) 8° “Grill $2.50 For Women and Girls Smart all worsted wool heather (iron stitch stock- ing, combining warmth and fashion. Has reiniorced toes and heel. Deep garter tops that are reinforced to resist gar- ter strain. Brown heather only. Small slam only, 7, 75,8. 8”. 9. Forth 81.25 a pair. r I ‘ l 2 pairs 103?..mfiagef. 98¢ Sizes 9V2 U 8. Arm Field Shoes. Made of the but loathe to 12 obtainable“ eoit toe; we tongue; glove finish inside; solid lengthen counter. Three full super guahtg sols, almost rm his to wear them out. mes 56 to 12. 8 price $1.98 Plus Postage. .‘3 7)} O , Soc 5 95; A genuine army regu- lation pure wool MINN. . , Stamp Out Tawny/051's with these Christmas Seals [fill YIELD BUAHANIEH] ll] llllllBlE IN A‘ WEEK Many things have been advertised to make hens lay, but W. B. Mack, the widely known poultry advisor, is the first to ever offer a premium for hens that won’t lay satisfactorily after using his simple system. Mr. Mack, whose advice has been fol- lowed succmsfully by thousands, recent- ly made the following statement: “I be- lieve that any poultry raiser can double or triple his egg yield within one week by following my simple system and add— ing certain elements to the feed or water. In fact I am so sure of it you can tell the public I will send full instructions and a package of ingredients, usually sufficient to get at least 600 eggs, to anyone who will write me.” Poultry raisers who want many times more eggs need not send any money but merely name and address to W. B. Mack, 338 Davidson Building, Kansas City. Mo. Frill instructions and package of ingre- dients will be sent by return collect on delivery mail for only $1 and postage. If at the end of one week you are not get- ting at least twice as many eggs, or if not satisfied for any reason, Mr. ack will not only return the purchase price on request, but will also pay you an ex- tra quarter for your trouble. Mr. Mack is absolutely reliable. and his sincerity is proved by his“bffer to actually pay a premium to anyone who is-not more than satisfied—(Adv) SELL YOURfURE-BRED Pom mm: THROUGH Tina husmnss (A Clear-inn Department for farm all crmrleinto or requests lor- inioemation a you. day troubles. e are inquiries must be acomopanled byiull name and address. lame not used if so requested.) Prompt, oe’re'ul attentiioo iron to this department. here go tel-v SALT AS FERTILIZER Some time ago I was talking with one of my neighbors about limeing our soil to sweeten it. He said _“why don't you use salt?” YVhat I want to know is what effect does salt have on the crops? If it does have a good elect on the soil, how much would you apply to the acre? ——H. A., Kingsley, Mich. ALT has been used by investigat- S ors as a fertilizers. In some instances increases have been obtained—in other places the yields have been decreased. In Michigan we have tried out salt on sugar beets and found slight increases in yield, but none to compare with yields ob- tained by other fertilizers. In view of results obtained here in Michigan, and also by other investigators, we do not recommend applications of salt on the soil. Whether salt does any good or not, it will not correct the acidity of the soil. Some form of lime is the only material to use for this—O. B. Price, Soils Special- ist, M. S. C. POSTING FARM I would like to ask if a farm is posted with “No hunting allowed” signs does that prohibit the owner from hunting? If a notice is put in a paper that hunting is not allowed on a tract of land does that give the conservation department permission to turn that tract of land into a. state game preserve? How are game wardens paid? Have hunters the right to hunt in the highway if the land is posted on one side, but not on the other?—F. P., Owosso, Mich. HE posting of lands against hunting under the provisions of Section 3 of Act 366 of the Public Acts of 1925, does not pre- vent or prohibit the owner or per- son in possession thereof from hunt- ing thereon during open seasons on the various kinds of game, in ac- cordance with the provisions of the statute. The publishing of a notice in a local paper stating that hunting is not allowed on any certain tract of land does not give the conserva— tion Department permission or auth- ority to turn that tract of land into a game reserve. The machinery for dedication of lands as game refuges or reserves is provided through Act 360 of the Public Acts of 1913. Under statutory provisions, game wardens are paid at a rate ranging from $3.00 to $4.50 per day with certain allowances for necessary ex- penses; however, district wardens are allowed $1,800.00 per year. The fund from which they are paid ac- crues from the sale of hunting lic— enses and permits provided in ac- cordance with the provisions of the statutes. Relative to hunting on highways. it is our opinion that public high— ways are built and maintained for travel and traffic in the various forms between different points and not as a hunting ground, and while we find no cases covering this point, we are inclined to the opinion that hunting, shooting “or fowling within the boundaries of highways, where the abutting lands have been posted against hunting, might be consid- ered trespass—D. R. Jones, Dept. of Conservation. AGREEMENT WAS WITH FIRST PARTY A leases land to B and is to re- ceive one-third of the crop for his share, nothing being said about de- liver. A takes his share of wheat and oats direct from the machine and draws it to his barn and does the same with the straw. B does nothing to the delivering except to lend A his horse, A having only one horse. This was all satisfactory to all parties, till before the corn was harvested. A sold out his farm to C. Now the corn is all husked and lies in the pile, each shock with its bundles tied and laid over it to protect it from. the weather. Now then. C thinks B‘ should stack t3; fodder and: crib the husk one shock skip two, over the entire field. What is the correct thing to for B to do in this case, and what is the usual way when B furn- ishes and does the werk'I—Old Sub- scriber, Bangor, Mich. B's agreement was with A and not C——thus he is only obligated to carry out the agreement as de- cided upon at the outset. Relative to harvesting of crops the tenant is generally obligated up to the point of division of said crop» Said point of division depends on conditions of contract. Generally when the landlord gets one~third of the crop, the tenant carries the harvesting to completion and bears all or two-thirds of the expense, such as twine, seed and ma- chine hire. Thus, under such con— ditions, the tenant would be under obligations to draw the corn and fodder.—-F. T. Riddell, Department of Economics, M.‘ S. C. DIVIDING PROPERTY Will you kindly inform me, what the laws of the state of Michigan are regarding property in the husband's name only. Where there is a wid- ow and children left? What share can the widow hold of the personal property and also the real estate?— Reader. PON the death of the husband one-third of the real property would go to the widow and two- thirds to the children. The personal property would be divided the same way—Legal Editor. YELLOW OCHRE NOT FLOOR PAINT Can you please tell me if yellow ochre can be used in painting in- side floors, and if so, how to use it. —M. R. D., Grand Ledge, Mich. ELLOW orchre is not a good paint for floors. White lead is the best pigment for floors or woodwork. For priming coat on new white pine, hemlock or any soft wood, use the following: 12 lbs. white lead, 8 lbs. red lead, 1 gallon raw linseed oil, 1 to pints turpentine, 175, pint Japan drier. Break the white lead and red lead with 1/2 gallon of oil and stir until thorough— ly mixed, then add the other V2 gallon of oil and stir until thorough— ly mixed; then add the turpentine andndrier. This will make nearly two gallons of priming paint. Have the floors thoroughly clean the brush the paint across the cracks in order to fill them. Then brush out smooth and evenly length- wise’ of the boards. For boards such as yellow pine, we use less oil and more turpentine, say, =34 gal- ion of raw oil and «one gallon of turpentine. For the second coat use as fol- lows: 20 lbs. white lead, 1 gallon of raw linseed oil, 1,5 gallon turpen— tine, $4, gallon good floor varnish, and 1 pint Japan drier. This amount will cover about 1,300 sq. feet. In tinting this to a stone color, use 1 lb. raw Sienna, ground in oil and a very little lamp black, gradually stirring in until you get the desired shade. The tinting colors should be added while the lead is in a paste, or before the turpentine is added. If you do not care to purchase all these separate ingredients and mix them, we would advise you to pro- cure ready mixed floor paint, the de- sired color and follow directions. As the pigments are all ground togeth- er, you will get a better paint and the cost is about the same as that of raw materials—S. B. Howard, Fore- man Painter, M. S. C. HOGS GO THROUGH EENCE A and B join farms for 160 rods. A has 80 rods of woven wire fence and B has 40 rods of- woven wire fence and 40 rods with three barb wires only. B rents. his farm to C ‘ for moneyrent. A plants a piece of corn . that he . wishes or 7 . on: 4‘s, __ A... .. i? 3 N.» ' «vi-n» rrflrfi'fi'”W-.W‘— } 5 l 5 z 4‘ l ; commence ”proceedings. against him 191' damages and to"k_eep his hogs on B’s tarni'i Can-I Climates those hogs in any way as B does no build ‘a suitable fence to turn the hogS?'—- W. F. S., Howell, Mich. IS only reguired to maintain a legal fence between his farm and his neighbor’s; A legal fence is defined as a fence suitable to turn stock which are commonly raised in the community. As to whether this means hogs depends on the circumstances of the particular case. If a three wire fence would be considered a legal fence in your locality, A would not haVe a right to allow his hogs trespass on the farm of C.——Legal Editor. "ANDY H I fill M’S DEPARTMENT AUTO CASING GRAIN CHEST HEN desiring to have some method for securing grain from _ a full bin for feed a 12-inch section cut from an old auto casing can be utilized for the spout very readily and but three other short pieces of boards are required to complete the arrangement. A section of above length is cut at about a 45—degree angle with the face of the casing. A piece of one inch board is cut with a slot as wide as is the casing and about 10 inches deep. The casing is nailed to the inner surface of this slot with four or six penny nails. Another piece of. board is cut with lower end curved to conform to the inner cross sec- ton of. the casing, this to answer as the slide to shut off the flow of the AUTO CASING FOR cream CHUTE =QR FEED L -, grain. This is held in place against the surface of the side of the bin by a piece nailed across the two up— per parts of the board supporting the casmz. This makes a chute which will not be broken off should a wagon wheel hub strike it and one which will properly run the grain in any meas- ure or sack.—McV. STAPLE CLINCHER FOR STEEL POST OST steel posts are prepared with holes or slots for receiv- ing staples for holding the line wires to place. It is necessary to in- sert the staple after placing it over the wire, then bending the ends so “N For clinching staples on a. steel post as to clinch it and prevent it from pulling back through the slot or hole. A tool that will help one do this work alone is made from a pair of ordinary fence pinchers. A small slot is cut, in each jaw of the pinch- -’ers so that the points of the staple will pass through them. The pincher handles are then simply pulled apart spreading the staple sufficiently 96 that it will not pass back through «‘-"the' hole yin the post. ‘= can then beused it‘turther clinching A hammer unoceesarY—G. ‘G..,1M. v. , 'l" *- 'n i. This: is the Mechanical Power Age VEN the airplane is now being experimented with to aid agriculture. Out west, the orange groves have been sprayed“ by the airplane.‘ Down south, an airplane has successfully done the work of many ground dusting machines in applying arsenate to kill the boll weevil in cotton. These are extreme signs of the times. They are not everyday farming methods, but they serve to remind us of the tremendous changes that are coming about in agriculture and that affect the prosperity of every man on his farm. The mechanical power age is here. The ownérs of close to a million farms are letting brains and power farming equipment take over the work of hired hands, horses, and limited horse-drawn tools. They are seeing to it that one man doubles and triples his day’s work. As a result, the Department of Agriculture shows that there were 109,000 fewer hired men on the farms in 1925 than in 1924-. Millions are saved to the farmers in wages; yet production is greater than ever before. Producing costs are reduced and extra profits are the reward of farmers who have become power farmers. M McCormickDeering machines seek always to be ahead of the times. It is the business of International Harvester inventors and engineers, trained in the field and helped by the experience of 94 years of farm equipment progress, to equip the farmer with time-and— labor—saving, yield-increasing, money-making farm machines. Today the McCormick—Deering dealers are providing the farmer with 2 and 3—furrow plows, Z—row cultivators, 10—ft. binders, harvester—threshers to cut and thresh at one operation, pickers to pick and husk the standing corn, big—scale hay-harvesting tools, and a long list of other efficient machines bearing the old dependable name, “McCormidoDeering. ” These wonderful machines are made for tractor power. McCormick—Deming tractors have opened the way to great developments in modern farming. They are not only perfected for drawbar and belt work but they have shown the way to power take—off operation by which the tractor engine runs the mechanism of field machines, relieving the bull wheel of its heavy load, doing away with slipping and clogging, and increas- ing efliciency. McCormick—Deering machines and power make the com- bination for profit. Together they will lead the way to prosperity during the new year, 1926. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY of America ( Incorporated ) 606 50. Michigan Ave. Chicago, Ill. Profitable Farming Starts at the Store of the McCormick-Deering Dealer SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSISTI Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for Headache Pain Colds Neuritis Neuralgia Lumbago Toothache Rheumatism Accept only “Bayer” package which contains proven directions. Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and lOO—Druggists. 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D.” Shift- v :mmmxnuawazem Yea/Mm . to Get—All There is Out of Rummy Some sections offer the farmer good climate, but not productive soil. Other sections provide good soil, but the climate makes farming a hard and uncertain task. In the South, the farmer’s effort is favored by both good soil and good climate. The lands respond quickly and bountifully to cultivation. The climate is mild and equable—extremes of heat being as rare as extremes of cold. Rainfall is abundant, and evenly distributed. The growing season in some parts is practically year-round. Farmers are making more and living better in the South. You will too. Let us send you full information about opporunutkm in the South for the branch of farming you are interested in. No cost. No obligation. Write today to G. A. PARK General Industrial & Immigration Agent Louisville & Nashville Railroad Dept. MB-l, Louisville, Ky. Goes Down Every My!” THERE MUST BE LIGHT IN THOUSANDS OF MICHIGAN STORES AND HOMES Let Tnzlv Leg/2t Earn For You By Investing In CONSUMERS POWER PREFERRED SHARES Tax Free in Michigan “ASK OUR EMPLOYEES’ l r' MAKE YOUR OWN HOPE ' O.‘ All ‘ inludin ha fork to I. i _“The Farm Paper of Service" _; 9 w dimes gums?" sine {iii if}: i'ELL YOUR FRIENDS anoint: THE BUSINESS FARMER £332.39 - » q s and Viéws ~ dited~ by L. W. MEEKS, Hillsdale County , .Broadscope F arm Ne Sure It Is! EADERS of these columns will remember an article in one of‘ the September issues wherein the writer was lamenting because summer was nearly gone, and the fall season was waiting just around the cor- ner, very soon to make itself evi- dent. It was stat- ed that if sum— mer really had to go, what a bless- ing it was to have the beauti- ful fall season to enjoy before winter set in; and “What a ca- lamity it would be if winter time followed directly the summer with no fall season between" and this is just what has happened! There has been no fall season and it sure is a calamity. There never was so much work undone on Thanksgiving day as this year. Southern Michigan nev— er had a better corn crop than this year and there was so little husked and so few stalks drawn at the ap- proach of winter,‘ as there are this year. It seems most all the farmers had planned to Shred some of their crop, and I only know of two or three who have done it. It simply has been out of the question, as there have been only two or three days in the last eight weeks when corn was dry enough to shred. Among many other things for which we are thankful is the fact that corn is not perishable in low tem- peratures as are potatoes or apples. Corn, when well matured, as it is this year, will stand a great amount of rain, and be nearly as good as ever. Notwithstanding all this, I would give considerable if our corn was all in the crib and the stalks in the stack! Our corn in the fields was all cut with a binder, and is tied in bundles. This is quite an advan- tage if it must be drawn before it is husked and this seems to be the program this year. ill '0! if: L. W. MEEKS Excuse Me The storage house is not yetcom— 'pleted and several hundred bushels of potatoes are stored in an impro- vised room in the large tool shed. We have an oil heater in this room and also a brooder stove. The oil heater answers the purpose of keep‘ ing the mercury high enough in the tube on ordinary cold days, but to- night there is prospect of penetrat— ing cold, as the wind is quite brisk, and I must go and start a fire in the brooder stove. ll: * 1!: Letter from Vicksburg A communication from Vicksburg has just reached me and this friend wants a little more quack grass dis— cussion, and, while ‘a discussion of the merits of this or that kind of a snow plow and the why and why not of wide tread bobs would seem to be more appropriate at this writing, I always like to be neighborly and talk on the subject the other fellow ha brought up. There is, perhaps, no better way to inform this Vicksburg friend about the ways of quack grass, to him, than to tell of the introduc~ tion of quack grass into Southern Michigan, or, perhaps I should say, which as he says is something new into Michigan. For several years we lived on a farm only half a mile from the farm on which quack grass is said to have been introduced. The story, as it has several times been related to me, is substantially as follows: About the time Michigan was ad- mitted to the Union as a state, an Englishman came to the United States. After a short “sojourn in New York State, he f‘Went' out west to Michigan,” and became the owner of a good sized tract of land, part of which isthe farm, above mentioned, and-*itiwuanthis ,M..bnr _ as; first, he ripen. was a scarcity of hay, owing tonn- favorable weather conditions ‘ at seeding time and these conditions continued for two or three years. During these poor hay years he long- ed for a meadow of quack grass, such as he had seen in Old England. He well knew a quack grass mead- . ow would need no reseeding, like clover, and that dry weather did not hinder its growth as much. So when he learned that a friend in England was planning to come to America. and would surely flndfhim abodt the first thing after his arrival, he Wrote and told this friend to be sure‘and bring him some quack grass seed, as there was none in America that he knew of, and he wanted to start a meadow. In due time the friend and the quack grass seed arrived, and to the farmer I suppose it was a day of great importance when he sowed that seed. It surely was a day never to be forgotten by all of Southern Michigan at least. The quack grass grew fine, and aimost before he knew it he had his quack grass meadow, and what a success it was! Neighbors were en- thusiastic about it, and many came from some distance to procure roots with which to start a similar mead- ow on their farms. It seemingly was qiute evident to them, at that time, that quack grass would not produce a seed crop of fertile seed and transplanting 'of the roots was the method used to start new areas, and I’ll say it was a suc- cessful method, too. I am inclined to think it was far too successful and, yet, a man who owned one of the. original quack grass farms (and it is now one solid mass of quack) told me he would not have the quack eradicated from his farm for con- s1derable money. I cut the grain on this farm for several years and nev- er knew a real poor crop to be grown. I have cut wheat there which yielded twenty-five bushels to the acre, and there was at least half as much quack grass in the field as there was Wheat. It grew as tall as the wheat, and the straw stacks from the wheat crops were eagerly devoured by the stock, and good feed it was, too. I have known this farmer to plow up oat .stubble for a wheat seeding, and there would be so many great long quack grass roots dragged out, that it was quite impossible to pre- pare the wheat ground without re- moving these roots. A hay rake was used to bunch them and they were drawn on‘ to fields intended for corn the next spring. .Some manure, eh? This farm always had good corn cro'ps. There surely was al- ways something to plow under! This farmer was quite determined quack could not be eradicated once “ it got a good start. ‘Said'vhe had tried it on small areas, just to See; buthe never tried it the correct way. His method was to plow it early and deep and drag until time to sow Wheat. This would kill most trouble— some weeds and grass but not quack grass! To kill quack grass you must plow very shallow and not early in the season. Wait until it is all head- ed out, and begins to lose its robust green color. At this time it has put all its life into the crop above ground, and the root system is in a very weakened condition. Shallow plowing then will put most of the roots on top, and will put all of them where a disk or spring tooth harrow will, if used often enough, completely discourage their-growth. The grass may be pastured or cut for hay before plowing and it is" much better to do this or burn the piece over. There will be rroots enough to jostle without the“ hay crop being added! This Vicksburg correspondent says quack is new in his vicinity. This being the case no doubt it has net become a solid mat over ajvery large territory. ,Small patches, say arod or two square out by smothering/it ’ ‘ we ‘r‘v'—"‘-——rr\’;o ‘ho the, ground. [It this is carefully done the, quack will disappear. Being a new ailment, quack grass naturally causes a farmer much wor- ry and uneasiness, but admitting it is bad, it might be woise.’ Suppos-. ing, for instance, nothing would eat _ it? FRUIT and ORCHAR Edited by HERBERT NAFZIGER THE RABBIT ’AND MOUSE PEST NE day last spring a neighbor 0 came to the barn where I was doing chores and said, “Say, Herb, come here, I want to show you something.” The tone of grief a n d a n g e r in which it was said caused me to im- mediately climb down from the hay-mow to see what was wrong. When I reached the barn floor h e s a i d n o t a word but simply held out a three year old apple tree which he had just cut off. Herbert Naleger One 100k at that tree showed me that words of explanation were un- necessary. Every particle of bark had been gnawed from the trunk and lower branches by rabbits. In some places holes had been gnawed into the wood and some of the small- er branches had been completely out off. The tree was ruined beyond re- pair. “And that isn’t all,” he snap- ped out. “There are about 40 trees just like it out there and a lot of others considerably damaged.” Can you blame him for feeling bad about it? Can you blame him if he says, “Rabbits are one of the worst pests we’ve got and the thought that they are actually protected by law makes me sick!” Many a promising young orchard has been ruined by rabbits and mice and even old trees are sometimes ,severely damaged. Contrary to pre— vailing ideas rabbits not only dam— age trees during the winter but also sometimes attack trees in the sum- mer, when other feed is plentiful. On our own place, during the past sum— mer, a number of newly planted trees were ruined by these pests dur- ing the months of July and August. The rabbits seem to acquire a taste for apple bark that is insatiable, and where they are plentiful the trees need protection the entire year. Mouse injury is usually confined to the winter months but is often very severe. The only effective pro- tection seems to be the use of fine mesh woven wire protectors around the trees coupled with an energetic campaign of extermination against the rabbits. Protection of the na- tural enemies of the mice is also helpful. Crows, snakes, owls and hawks are great mouse destroyers and could well be protected by the fruit grower. The use of repellant washes against mice has been tried and found wanting. During the winter of 1918 the experiment station at East Lansing made thorough tests of a number of these washes. » The following were tested. 1. Concen- trated commercial lime—sulphur. 2. Concentrated commercial lime—sub phur with slaked lime to make it thick. 3. Concentrated commercial lime-sulphur and lead arsenate. 4. Sulphocide. 5. Whitewash. 6. Whitewash and lead arsenate. 7. Strong Bordeaux mixture. These materials were made extra strong and thickly painted on the trees but gave little or no protection. The wire protectors should be made of 174-inch mesh gavmized wire netting. Sink them several inches into the ground and let the ends overlap some to allow for growth of the tree. These guards are also a protection against sun- .scald. 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The flurry was blowing be- fore the bow again; back through the snow the ice-shrouded shimmer ahead re— treated. Alan leaped away and up to the wheelhouse. Men were struggling there—the skipper, a mate, and old Burr, who had held the wheel. He clung to it yet, as one in a trance, fixed, staring ahead; his arms. stiff, had been holding Number 25 to her course. The skipper struck him and beat him away, while the mate tugged at the wheel. Burr was torn from the wheel now, and he made no resistance to the skipper’s blows; but the skipper, in his frenzy, struck him again and knocked him to the deck. Slowly, steadily, Number 25 was re— sponding to her helm. The bow pointed away, and the beam of the ferry came beside the beam of the silent steamer; they were very close now, so close that 1 the Searchlight, which had turned to keep __ on the other vessel. shot above its shini— inoring (li‘Cli and lighted only the spars; and, as the water rose and fell between them. the ships sucked closer. Number 25 shook with an effort; it seemed op— posing with all the power of its screws some force fatally drawing it on—oppos— ing with the lust resistance before giving way. Then, as the water i’cll again, the ferry seemed to slip and be drawn toward the other vessel; they mounted, side by side . . . crashed . . . rccoiled . . . and crashed again. That second crash throw all who had nothing to hold by, flat upon the deck, ihcn Number 25 moved by; astern her now the silent steamer van- ished in the snow. (longs boomed below; through the new confusion and the cries of men, orders began to become audible. Alan, scramb— ling to his knees, put an arm under old Burr, half raising him; the form on- circled by his arm struggled up. The skipper, who had knockcd Burr away from the wheel, ignored him now. The old man, dragging himself up and hold— ing to Alan, was staring with terror at the snow screen behind which the vessel had disappcared. Ills lips moved. “It was a ship !" he said; he seemed speaking more to himself than to Alan. “Yes”; Alan said. “It was a ship; and you thought " “It wasn’t there!” the wheelsinan cried. "It’s—it‘s been there all the time all night, and I'd—I‘d steered through it ten times, twenty times, every few minutes; and then—that time it was a ship!” Alan's excitement grew greater; he seized the old man again. “You thought it was the Miwaka!” Alan exclcamed. “The Miwaka! And you tried to steer through it again.” “The Miwaka!" 01d iterated the word. waka !” He struggled, writhing with some agony not physical. Alan tried to hold him. but now the old man was beside himself with dismay. He broke away and start- ed aft. The, captain‘s voice recalled Alan to himself, as he, was about to follow, and he turned back to the wheelhouse. The mate was at the wheel. He shout— ed to the captain about following the Burr's “Yes; yes lips re— the hil— other ship; neither of them had seen sign of any one aboard it. “Derelict!" the skipper thought. The mate was swinging Number 25 about to follow and look at the ship again; and the search- light bcam swept back and forth through the snow; the blasts of the steam whistle, which had ceased after the collision, burst out again. As before, no response came from behind the snow. The searchlight picked up the silent ship again; it had settled down deeper now by the bow, Alan saw; the blow from Number 25 had robbed it of its last bouyancy; it was sinking. It dove down, then rose a little .—sounds came from it now—sudden, ax- plosive sounds; air pressure within hurled up a hatch; the tops of the cabins blew off, and the stem of the ship slipped down deep again, stopped, then dove without halt or recovery this time, and the stern, upraised with the screw motionless, met the high wash of a wave. and went down with it and disappeared. No man had shown himself; no shout had been heard; no little boat was seen or signalled. _ The second officer who. had gone below to ascertain the damage done to the ferry, ’ came up to report. Two. of the com-- partments, those which had taken the - crush" of the collision, had flooded; any l stanu'y; the emissions-“were regime‘s—W only. (leakins‘b'a. little. the 0 car W Comm by Edwin Burner Water was coming into a third compart- ment, that at the stern; the pumps were fighting this water. The shock had sprung elsewhere; but if the after compartment did not fill, the pumps might handle the rest. Soddenness already was coming into the response of Number 25 to the lift of the waves; the ferry rolled less to the right as she came about, beam to the waves, and she drop ed away more dully and deeply to the eft; the ship was listing to port and the lift of the ice-heaped bow told of settling by the stern. Slowly Number 25 circled about, her engines holding bare headway; the radio, Alan heard, was sending to the Richardson and to the shore stations word of the finding and sinking of the ship and of the damage done to Number 25; whether that damage yet was described in the dispatches as disaster, Alan did not know. The steam whistle, which continued to roar, maintained the single, separated blasts of a ship still seaworthy and able to steer and even to give assistance. Alan was at the bow again on lookout duty, ordered to listen and to look for the little boats. He gave to that duty all his conscious attention; but through his thought, whether he willed it or not, ran a riotous exultation. As he paced from side to side and hailed and answered hails from the bridge, and while he strained for sight and hearing through the gale-swept snow, the leaping pulse within repeated, “I’ve found him! I’ve found him!” Alan held no longer possibility of 'doubt of old Burr's identity with Benjamin Corvet, since the old man had made plain to him that he was haunted by the Miwaka. Since that night in the house on Astor Street, when Spearinan shouted to Alan that name, everything having to do with the secret of Benjamin Corvct‘s life had led, so far as Alan could follow it, to the Miwaka; all the change, which Sherrill described but could not account for, Alan had laid to that. Corvct only could haVo been so haunted by that ghostly ship. and there had been guilt of some awful sort in the old man’s cry. Alan had found the man who had sent him away to Kansas when he was a child, who had supported him there and then, at last, sent for him; who had disappeared at his coming and left him all his possessions and his heritage of disgrace, who had paid blackmail to Luke, and who had sent, last, Captain Stafford's watch and the ring which came with it—-the wed- ding ring. Alan pulled his hand from his glove and felt in his pocket for the little band of gold. What would that mean to him now; what of that was he to learn? And, as he thought of that, Constance Sherrill came more insistently before him. What was he to learn for her, for his friends and Benjamin Corvot‘s friends, whom he, Uncle Benny, had warned not to care for Henry Spearman. and Then had gone away to leave her to marry him? For she was to marry him, Alan had read. It was with this that cold terror sud— denly closed over him. Would he learn anything now from Benjamin Corvet, though he had found him? Only for an instant a fleeting instant had Ben- jamin Corvet’s brain become clear as to the cause of this hallucination; constern— ‘ ation had overwhelmed him then, and he struggled free to attempt to mend the damage he had done. More serious damage than first re~ ported! The pumps certainly must be losing their fight with the water in the port compartment aft; for the bow stead— ily was lifting, the stern sinking. The starboard rail too was raised, and the list had become so sharp that water washed the deck abaft the forecastle to port. And the ferry was pointed straight into the gale now; long 'ago she had ceased to circle and steam slowly in search for boats; she struggled with all her power against the wind and the seas, December s... ; a. desperate insistence throbbing in the thrusts ‘of the engines; for Number 26 was fieeing—s—fleeing for the '.western shore. She dared not turn to the nearer eastern shore to expose that shattered stem to the seas. “ . Four bells beat'behind Alan; it was two o’clock. Relief should have come long before; but no one came. He was numbed new; ice from the spray crackled upon his clothing when he moved, and it fell in flakes upon the deck. The stark figure on the bridge was that of the second officer; so the thing which was happening below—the thing which was sending strange, violent wanton tremors through the ship-was serious enough to call the skipper below, to make him abandon the bridge at this time! The tremors, quite distinct from the steady tremble of the engines and the thudding of the pumps, came again. Alan, feeling them, jerked up and stamped and beat his arms to regain sensation. Some one stumbled toward him from the cabins now, he saw as she hailed him——the cabin maid. “I'm taking your place !" she shouted to Alan. “You're wanted—every one's want- ed on the car deck! The cars—" gale and her fright stopped her voice as she struggled for speech. “The cars— the cars are loose!" CHAPTER XVII “He Killed Your Father" Allen ran aft along the starboard side, catching at the rail as the deck tilted; the sounds within the hull and the tremors following each sound came to him more distinctly as he advanced. Taking the shortest way to the car deck, he turned into the cabins to reach the passengers’ companionway. The noises from the car deck, no longer muffled 'by the cabins, clanged and resounded in terrible tumult; wth the clang and rumble of metal, rose shouts and roars of men. To liberate and throw overboard heavi— ly loaded cars from an endangered ship was so desperate an undertaking and so certain to cost lfe that men attempted it only in final extremities, when the ship must be lightened at any cost. Alen had never seen the effect of such an attempt, but he had heard of it as the fear which sat always on the hearts of the men who navigate the ferries the car loose on a rolling, lurching slip! llc was going to that now. Two figures appeared before him, one half supporting, half dragging the other. Alcn sprang and offered aid; but the injured man called to him to go on; others needed him. Alcn went past them and down the steps to the car deck. Half-way down, the priest whom he had noticed among the passengers stood star- ing aft, a tense, black figure; beside him other passengers were clinging to the handrail and staring down in awestruck fascination. The lowest steps had been crushed back and half uptorn; some mon— strous, inanimate thing was battering about below; but the space at the foot of the steps was clear at that moment. Alon leaped over the ruin of the steps and down upon the car deck. A giant iron casting six feet high and yards across and tons in weight, tumbled and ground before him; it was this which had swept away the stops; he had seen it, with two others like it, upon a llat car which had been shunted upon one of the tracks on the starboard side of the ferry, one of the tracks on his left now as he faced the stern. He leaped upon and over the great casting, which turned and spun with the motion of the ship as he vaulted it. The car deck was a pitching swaying slope ; the cars nearest him were still upon their tracks, but they tilted and swayed uglily from side to Side ; the jacks were gone from under them; the next‘ ears already wdfe hurled from the rails, their wheels screaming on the steel deck, clanging and thudding together in their couplings. Alen ran aft between them. All the crew who could be called from dock and engine room and firehold were struggling at the fantail. under the direction of the captain, to throw off the ears. The mate was working as one of the men, and with him was Benjamin Corvet. The crew al- ready must have loosened and thrown over the sternlthree cars from the two tracks on the port side; for there was a space vacant;’ and as the train charged into» that space and the men threw themselves“ upon it, Alen leaped with them. (Continued in December 19th issue) WHERE OUR ,READERS LIVE Haven't you a picture of Show the other members 9 are all right if the details show up we 'our home or farm buildlings that we can print under this heading! ‘ siness Farmer’s urge ‘ _ . ’lhe Bu 1]. Do not send us the negatives, Just a 300 print. family where you live. Kodak ictures The . “4~W:. .:' . ~ w. 4......fvfi—W‘W, M ,/ '..., . ,av “'l 0.. .- . wow... ""“ ’ . «'1 The 0 building. am located an the’t' em“ WHERE JOSEPH TAYLOR AND ‘WI . 1 we ”semifinal; ; . . .M.“ M ..._..._--W..W ... ,.»’".-.,. ,,. e" 4... " a W"! m ' definite-thins made intincreas d offerings and, sag: .1 TEXT: “And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee those forty years in the wilderness, that he mght humble thee to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart.” Dent. 8:12. TOP that man, just the average man, and attach a thought dis- cerner to his brow. What does it say? Money, possession, comfort. Our elders these days are doing a good job at showing youth how to keep self and a comfortable end in mind. Society that is living off the bounty of a Personal Providence too seldom looks up to say, “Father, I thank thee.” Let us examine a text that asks us to face a God “in whom we live, move, and have our being.” “Remember all the way which Je— hovah thy God hath led thee.” Of all the reminiscences of Israel, the Wilderness experience is most con- stantly present in the Hebrew mind. The Exodus, with its following pil— grimage, seems to be the most im- pressive of Israel’s history. The in— spired author brings it up as evi— dence of the love and care of God that his children might hold him in conscious nearness. But this is typical of the journey— ings of all men and movements and of the physical and moral agencies that promote progress. We hold God as the cause of our hunger but also as the one who supplies our feed. He gave manna regularly in the wilderness. The regularity of God’s laws and his providences are great reason to remember him in gratitude. “The weather is so dry. Has |God forgotten us?” But that man is more conscious of self than of God. Whoever has known the sun to rise so irregularly or the sea- sons to act so capriciously as to de— prive us of food and all sustenance? It’s the part of reason and faith to see in these things the presence and goodness of God. The streams in the desert flowed so constantly, the manna came so regularly, and the pillar of guidance was so unchang— ing, that those things excited little wonder in the Israelitish mind. How about the gifts left every morning at our door,—the dews from heaven, the bright sunshine, and the refresh- ing rains? Ought they not to fill our hearts with thoughts of a Per- sonal Caretaker who gives us this day our daily bread? But homes, schools, and church- es are also the outgrowth of the life of God in the world. Are these agencies succeeding in making 11s conscious of their Giver? And is our familiarity with the dollar mak— ing us more conscious of “In God We Trust?” It is to be regretted that commercial fervor and indus- trial tension have so invaded the home as to make its atmosphere too unfriendly to a Kind Providence. Almost gone are the memories, cus— toms, and altars of other days that brought us close to God. Why is home—life banishing such old—time friends? We are living in a modern today but we do well to treasure the moral regards of an old-fashioned yesterday. To forget God in the home is to secularize its life and in— itiate a general downward trend of society toward an inferno. Godly homes make safe schools for our hopefuls and friendly churches for all. “That he might prove thee to humble thee.” This is the purpose of God’s leading all the way. Our humility consists in recognizing that we do not live by bread alone. Is— rael was dependent. Her people were living from hand-to-mouth. “God held the key to her cupboard.” That should humble the proudest heart. But how about this generation? We yet live by bread plus. But our slowness in comprehending this is evidence that Moses was far advanc- ed in God— consciousness. “To prove thee.” Israel was put under a testing discipline. God was supplying her daily needs and he jealously asks for recognition. The Feast of Tabernacles was set for this Recognition was crifices. And here it was impressed that all support for both inner and outer life came from God; that a Kind Spirit was back of all material benefits. And here gathered the strangers, fatherless, and widows, and hospitality flowed freely. But what ingratitude yet re- mains! How strange to have men and nations refuse an acknowledge- ment of God and assume to live by bread alone! This is a dreadful creed and makes for a worship of things and a life centered in surface. comforts. What folly in such ca— reering! Getting happiness by any means, fair _or foul, is the goal of multitudes. / But too late did they learn that Happiness is a shy and elusive maiden. She must be more seriously wooed. And history re- cords the sad and crushed fate of nations that would not hear the Di~ vine Voice. “The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small.” Wisdom has always been standing at the parting of the ways to cry aloud this truth which is as relentless as the cycle of the seasons. Men live, nations live, by leaning on the breaSt 0f the Eternal. We are to continue our harvest festivals and invite in the stranger fatherless, and widows. God is ask— ing us to recognize him through be- ing hospitable to our neighbor. The social challenge is marked since the day that Jesus ate with sinners and ordered dinners for the outcasts. Do we care to see God in social need? Do we mean to live by the name of Jesus? llut this preacher is sure that we cannot catch his convictions and understand his purposes until we take more time to sit at his feet. The world is being devastated thru poverty and disease. Christ’s high calling is to lave off the vain pursuit of trifles and pour out hos— pitality into these social depressions. Of course, some folks have not be- cause of sloth. They refuse to learn from the ant “to provide bread in the summer.” But the crying want of the earth is here, for the most part, because of a competitive and selfish philosophy of life. This is true beyond cavil. And then, there is the blight of disease. Dr. Foulkes says, “Half the human race has nev- er had a physician. Ninety per cent of the women of the race have never had medical attention.” So, unless we be depraved, we will face these grim realities in the name of a God who is proving us thru his bounty. “To know what is in thy hea1t.” It was the inner life of lsrc e1 that was on trial. What is in your heart? What is your view of life? A letter came in my mail the other day from a farmer who said that his rule of life is “The Golden Rule.” The con- tribution such a man makes to soci- ety is distinctive in its practical re— cognition of God. One can walk by this rule only thru impulses disci— plined by God. How foolish the man who forsakes this rule of other- ing and sets his heart only 011 at— taining the promised land of “milk and honey!” His only hope for the future is to eat to the full. This is madness and. death. Long, long, ago, God gave his people a beautiful secret. And though Jesus came to reveal it, yet it is hid from masses of men. Bread for animals is enuf; but humans need inbreathings of God’s spirit to keep from pining away. History and experience have taught us that even physical life tra— vails in bondage without God. 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Veterim mry Editor ROI!“ J Moln‘ olguL _,_._,.__._,___ __ _f‘irculatlon MIMI“ Henry F. mp kins ______________________________________ "Punt Superintendent Publlshed Bl-Weekly ONE YEAR 800.1’W0 YEARS 31. FIVE YEARS 32 The date following your name an the address label shows when your subscription expires. In renewing kindly send this label to Mid mistakes. Remit by check. draft money-order or registered r stamps and currenc are at your risk. We scknowledle b! first—class mail every do lsr received. Idvertlslng Rates: 45¢ per agate line. Inch. T72 lines to the peg g.e FIM rates. lee Stock and Auctlon Sale Advertlslng: We ofler special low at. h) reputable breeders of live stock and 13011117; write ‘1“ RELIABLE ADVERTISERS We will not kno .vinglv accept the advertising of any rson or firm who we do not behave to be thoroughly onest an reliable. Should any reader have any cause for complaint against any ad- rertim in three columns the guhlisher would appreciate an im- mediate letter bringing all he to light. In every case when "Tm"! lay: ”I saw your advert .sement in The Michigan Business meri" It will guarantee honest dealing. "The Farm Paper of Service" 14 lines to the column WANTED—BIG MAN TO MANAGE FAIR is but a few days before the annual meet- ing of the Michigan State board when it is expected a new manager for the State Fair will be appointed. Who this man will be can only be surmised, and the political forecast- ers are making wild guesses as to his identity. Some have it that the job is going to be made a political football and the man that gets it will be one to whom the administration is indebted. By all means let us hope not! The State Fair is first of all an agricultural exposition and the man directing it should thoroughly understand agriculture and be able to work with the farmers’ organizations in this state. To make the fair 8. success agriculturally the manager will need to work with the state de— partments, our agricultural college, our live stock associations, our associations promoting better seeds, better crops and better markets, the Grange, the Farm Bureau, the Cleaners. All of these organizations should play an important part in and exhibit at the annual exposition. The manager must also be able to work with the manufacturers and city dealers who are, or should be. prominent among the exhibitors each year. There is room for both the rural and city exhibitors and they both should be there with the farmer in the majority. The farmer is interest- ed in the progress made in the industrial world, the city man is interested in what his country brother is doing, and the farmer is out to show the world that he has produced something better than his neighbor. It is at the fair that we note the progress of our state for the past year. The manager of the State Fair should also be the best salesman in Michigan because it will be up to him to stage a fair that will sell our own folks on Michigan more than ever, and will prove to the visitor what a wonderful state we have here. The man who directs the Michigan State Fair should be a big man in more ways than one be- cause he has a big job before him. We urge that the qualification of each candidate be subjected to the most careful analysis and only the man who comes up to these requirements be ap— pointed. MODERN GIRIS AND COLLEGE TRAINING OR years we have watched with great interest the masculine trend of the courses in our colleges taken by young women. We have read about and heard women leaders of our country and others urging the girls to prepare themselves to be capable of earning their own living. Very able men have applauded this view. It was talked that it was not for women’s best interest to be dependent upon marriage for fin- ancial support, and her chances for a really happy marriage are increased if she is able to make her own living. We have always endorsed these views to a : certain degree, but felt that hand in hand with this training there should be something on home ' economics, care of the sick and child psychology, [and it was with pleasure that we recently learned that Dr. Clarence Cook Little, president of the University of Michigan, is advoCating this. The years have proven the fear that girls with ; business training would not marry areigrounds loss, ' sections stands. she is the same Woman at her much in the business of keeping house. Most men love a good home and are most happy with a woman who understands how to make home attractive and prepare meals that are ap- petizing. It is only natural. Since the days of Adam and Eve it has been so and it will con- tinue to the end of the world. The training in the ways of earning a living is fine for our young women. ' Every day we hear of young married men suddenly dying and leav- ing their young widows with perhaps several children to support, and many of these widOws have no profession aside from house-keeping so they must secure work in a factory or store, .re- maining away from their children all day, in an effort to keep their family together. If they had received a business training during their school days they would have been spared much suffering and worry. because they could secure a profitable position in some suffering and worry, because they could secure a profitable position in some business with opportunities for advancement. We believe every girl should receive this train- ing, but she should also know about making a home and the care of children. We hope the heads and instructors of our schools and colleges will encourage a union of the two different branches of learning for our girls. CERTIFIED BABY CHICKS N every profession there are individuals and I concerns out to get all they can with little thought as to what they give their customers. Not only do they hurt themselves but they make it difficult for the conscientious firms to succeed because they cause people to be suspicious of the whole profession. This‘has been true in the hatchery business, just the same as any other line, and the hatcherymen of this state are band— ing together into the Michigan State Poultry Im— provement Association to protect the purchaser of Michigan baby chicks from unfair dealings. As stated on page 3 of this issue “Michigan State Accredited Chicks" are assured for the coming season, and they are backed by the Michigan State Poultry Improvement Association with its one thousand members, so the purchaser can place his order with the confidence that his interests will be looked after. N0 MICHIGAN CORN AT INTERNATIONAL HE European Corn Borer was again brought T prominently to the attention of Michigan corn growers when shortly before the Inter— national Hay and Grain Show at Chicago, it was announced that no entries from this state would be accepted. This bar also affected all other where the borer is known to exist. A generous share of the awards on corn have come to Michigan in the past and our growers were planning a better show than ever for this year’s International. Of course, it will not be lifted until we eliminate the borer from our cornfields, which is another reason that we must fight, and fight hard. Our winnings at the International proved that Michigan produced some of the fin— est corn grown ‘any place in the country and increased the demand for seed from this state. Now it is branded as unclean, and we must battle the borer to death to again establish our reputa— tion for good corn. \VHA'I‘ IS A FRIEND? HAT is a friend? Have you ever stopped a; to ask yourself that question? No doubt you never gave such a question even a thought. You have friends, plenty of them, but you never stopped to think why they were your friends, or why you considered them as friends. The other day we read a short editorial on this subject that we feel sure you will read with in— terest and we are publishing it. “What is a friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can go naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. He does not want you to be better or worse. When you are With him you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent. You do not have to be on your guard. You can say what you think, so long as it is genuinely you. He understands those contradictions in your na- ture that lead others to misjudge you. With him you breath free. You can avow your little vani- ties and hates and vicious sparks, your meanness and absurdities, and in opening them up to him they are lost, dissolved on the white ocean of his loyalty. He understands. You do not have to be careful. You can abuse him, neglect him, tol- erate him. Best of all you. can keep still.with him. It makes no matter. He likes you. He is like fire that purges all you do. He is like water that cleanses all that you say. He is like wine that warm you to the bone. Ho under- Youeouweepwilhhtm Wwithhim' cart as her ' sister who prepared herself far making ”a home; but when she marries her training does not help“ smooth it all friend, I repeat, is one with whom you dare to be yourself. " Isn’t that. a fine definition of a friend? With your friend you feel at ease, you say and do as you wish knowing that he will understand; in other words, you are yourself when with your friend. The writer put into words what many feel but cannot define. BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS Y the time you read this no doubt all of you will have received a letter from the Mich- igan Tuberculosis Association urging you to purchase the Christmas Seals enclosed. In the same letter they told you abOut a few of the things that they are doing, how they use your pennies to carry on their fight against tubercu- losis. During the year ending November 1, 1925. they examined over 2,000 people and discovered 500 new cases. Perhaps most all of the people found to be tubercular would never have been examined if it had not been for this organization, or at least a large percentage of- them would have delayed going to their physician for examination until the disease was in the advanced stages. In other words, your dollar and our dollar helped to save the lives of over 500 people in Michigan within the last year. A large percentage of the people examined free at the clinics were farm folks, but in spite of the fact much of their time is spent out in the open air, many were found to be suffering from the disease. The largest amount of money that the Asso- ciation asks you to contribute is small but if you cannot spare it give what you can, because they need every cent that can be spared to continue the noble work they are doing. BETTER FAthfl'NG LL over the country there is a. growing de- mand that agricultural colleges minimize training in professions and do more training of students in real farming. There will always be a percentage of young people from the farms entering the professions, but it should not be the business of the farmer colleges to train them in that direction. Norway has 42 agricultural colleges besides high schools and training schools to teach farm- ing, all confining themselves to producing better tillers of the soil. Ohio is providing training schools to fit young farmers for doing all the repairing of machinery and building work of every description on the farm. Farm colleges in our country will have to make a better record in this direction. NOT NECESSARY OR many years the tendency has been toward fewer associations for recording purebred livestock. In some cases, where two or more associations were recording animals of the same breed, they have consolidated. This is true especially of sheep and swine associations. The breeders believe that one strong organization is better than two or more not so strong. They are right. The principle of one association for each breed is correct. In defiance of this principle a few men have organized a new record or regis- try association for Holstein cattle and we are asked whether breeders should support it. They should not support it ,or any other insurgent Holstein association. The Holstein—Friesian As— sociation of America is the organization which is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture, by foreign countries and by the breeders of this country. It is a very' competent organization in promoting the breed, helping the breeder and protecting the public. The wise breeder, big or little. will stick to it. WHAT IS IT? HAT is a fresh egg? That question bobs W up every year. usually about this time. when somebody is prosecuted for selling cold storage eggs as fresh. If memory is cor- rect a French judge decided some months ago that no egg over ten days old could be called fresh, but there is no generally accepted defin- ition. The storage men contend that the word “fresh” means the condition or state of the egg. not the age of it, and that good cold storage eggs are really fresh eggs. The law does not agree with their definition, nor is it likely to; but coni- sumers are slowly learning that cold storage products are usually good and the prejudice against them is waning. There .never was. any sound reason for such prejudice; nor is there‘any reason why eggs of any kind. should not sell for what they really are. All this reminds us that we admired very much the good taste of an En.- glish farmer on whose gatepost we ssw - “Recent ‘Egge'm a « " and loves you. A; . A! . , ”AMA,“ 2 .«m s W V i ,l‘ -——~.J'-'~w “w _ it}: . _ Kenyan-d a... My... POINTS FOR INVESTOR " OW to Avoid Bad Investments” is the title of a chapter in a. pamphlet issued by the United States government, and we are here publishing ten points given that all should study. At least one of these points will apply to nearly every in- vestment offered you. 1. Mining Stock. The best look- ing mine in the world may prove a “white elephant." Mining is a very expensive undertaking and the risks are unusually great. There is a say- ing that “a mine is a'hole where fools dump in their money." 2. Oil Stock. Drilling for oil is costly. The hazards are great. Oil investments are speculative and in a. class with mining investments. 8. After every important discovery or invention there comes a host of schemes, “airplanes”, "radio”, “wire- less." The promoters of these may have only the best of intentions but frequently their enthusiasm is about all they have to sell. Look before you leap. 4. 'An investment in real estate in some distant place is sometimes as dangerous as mining stock. People have been known to buy swamps ad- vertised as “sea—shore frontage." Know what you are buying before you invest. 5. f‘Land development" schemes frequently do not pan out. At best it is a long time before any money comes in from sales. Investment in new companies that are going to “sell by mail" should generally be avoided. 6. Patent rights and processes. It is, rarely the patentee who makes the money. ’7. “New manufacturing methods" should always be closely checked and investigated. 8. An investment requiring a quick desision is often a fake. If there isn’t sufficient time to “sleep over it”, something is probably wrong. 9. “Special inducements" in cash discounts or stock bonuses urging you to be one of the first to invest are suspicious symptoms. 10. “Tips" alleged to land you “on the ground floor" are rarely to be taken. Those who are “on the ground floor" will monopolize the opportunity. SUCCESS SEWING SYSTEM HEN the average person thinks of fraudulnt companies their first thoughts are of oil stock. but we doubt if promoters of wild- cat oil wells get as many victims as the “work-at-home" schemes of the fly—by-night companies all over this country. Dealing in stocks re- quires the transferring of large sums of money while a deal with the fly—by-night companies with theu‘ “work—at—home” schemes involves only a few dollars. There are a number of agencies doing every— thing they can to put these compan— ies out of business and the operators behind the bars but in spite of this they seem to be on the increase. The latest company to feel the hand of the post oflice department is the Success Sewing Machine Sys- tem of New Jersey. This company had a glove sewing scheme, and the victim was required to send in three dollars with the application. The company said this was “to protect ourselves against those that would have us teach them this remarkable little industry and then after learn- ing how to make a living at home as he Collection Egg The purpose of this department It to pro- tect our subscribers from fraudulent deef'nce or unfair treatment by person: or concerm at a distance. In every case we will do our best to make a satisfactory settlement or force action. for which no charge for our eervleee will ever be made. providing: 1.—The claim is made by a paid-up aub- eorlber to The Busineee Farmer. 2.-—-The claim it not more than 0 mos. old. 8.—-The claim is not local or between peo- le within easy distance of one another. , e should be settled at llrat hand and not attempted by mail. Address all letters, firm full particulars. ‘emountz. dates, etc., one up also your ad- dress i tram the Went cover of en lune ,to prev that you are a paid-up bar. THE BUSINESS FARMEI. Collection to: ' “ - It. cleanse. loll. dl November 21. 92!! m égoialme Med 1 - ing, leave us to bear all the expense of packages, the gloves, etc., to say nothing of the cost of letter writ- instruction booklets, transpor- tation charges, etc.,” Pretty fine’to have the customers finance your business and take all the risk. No wonder such companies can go out of business over night. STATE HOLDING STOCK OF MINING COMPANY HE petition of the Golden Age Junior Mining Company of Boise, Idaho, and Lansing, Michigan, for the release of $135,— 000 worth of escrowed stock was re- cently refused by the Michigan Se- curities Commission. The commis- sion has been holding this stock pending the submission of proof that the company has claims which will yield gold-bearing ore of commercial value, and refused to release, declar- ing that the company’s liabilities amount to more than the sum which would be realized from the sale of the stock. It is stated that the com- pany is keeping between 15 and 20 miners on its payroll because the law of Idaho is that an employe may not be discharged until he is paid in full and there are no funds to pay these men. It seems that the miners are not taking out ore at present as the shaft house on the company’s property recently burned and was not insured. The company was organized in 1916 by people in and near Lansing and we are not sure whether any of our readers are financially inter- ested or not. The commission gave the organizers permission to issue 1,000,000 shares of common stock, of which 250,000 shares went to the incorporators and 600,000 shares were placed in escrow, leaving 150,— 000 shares to go on the open mar- ket. On three different occasions the commission authorized .the re- lease of blocks of this escrowed stock, which accounts for the dif- ference in the number» of shares turned over to the commission and the number now held. GE'IS HIS $20 BACK “I received the check for $20 and wish to express many thanks.’ I nev- er expected to recover this money and never would have only for yOu. Your Publisher’s Desk is certainly productive in keeping the unwary out of traps as Well as getting them out after they are caught. Again I thank you.”—F. P., Gratiot County, Mich. HIS subscriber signed up with a T correspondence school in Indi< ana to take a course in short story writing, with the understand— ing that if he was not satisfied With his course he could get his money back. The course cost him $20. Helcompletes the course in about three months, and, deciding that he had not received the benefit he should for this sum of money, he wrote the school demanding a re- fund. He received a letter from them to the efiect that he was not entitled to a refund because he had completed/the course in such short time. Most of their students requir- ed in the neighborhood of a year to complete it, they declared. There was considerable correspondence and Mr. P. found he was no nearer to getting his money than he was when he wrote his first letter so he asked us to do What we could for him. Af- ter several letters back and forth we finally got the check for $20 from the school and sent it to our sub- scriber. THANK YOU “I have received a letter from ——-—-—— of Detroit, enclosing a check for $3.60, the amount of my claim for three egg crates lost, and return express charges. I thank you most heartily for your assistance in this matter, without it we never have accomplished anything."——Mrs. N. 0., Benzle County, Mich. I enjoy reading your paper. and I would not be without it. Receive many helpful things from it. I wish you good luck.— Hre. J. Weber, Crawford County. , Allow me to say you print a. good farm _paper.-—-Launnoe- L._._ y- . Le’aawee “(157‘)“ 13‘ First Normal Income Tax Up to 2% Paid by Borrower Federal Bond 8? FEDERAL BOND & MORTGAGE BUILDING, DETROIT Mortgage Real Estate Gold Bonds The implicit con- fidence of a long and growing list of farmer-clients is one of our greatest assets. 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Guest Somebody said it couldn't be done. ' But he with a chuckle replied That “Maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried, he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it. Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that ; At least no one ever had done it ;" But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew he’d begun it. With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin, Without any doubting or quiddit, He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he done it. There are thousands to tell you it can— not bc done, There are thousands to prophesy fail- ure ; There are thousands to point out to you one by one The dangers that wait to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, Just take off your coat and go to it; Just start to sing as you tackle the thing That “cannot be done," and you’ll do it. SEVEN STOCKING TOP CHRIST- hIAS GIFTS AST Christmas no gift which came to our house called to mind the donor more often, or more gratefully than a set of three pot lifters made of seven inch circles of black cotton stocking, quilted, with eyes, nose, and mouth outlined in appropriate colors. A braid of the stocking material looped at the top represents hair and serves as a hanger for the holders. The same woman made rag dolls for her grandchildren out of cotton stocking tops, using a home made pattern and stuffing the shape with cotton. Black, white or brown stockings were, used for these, and they were dressed out of the piece bag. A most realistic monekey was made out of a brown cotton stock— ing.‘ Gray would do as well. His exceedingly long tail was braided. rSocky’s daughter is a cover for a hot water bottle for a child to take to bed. It is made double, of four pieces of stocking material, padded lightly and sewed together so as to make a lined bag with an opening at the mouth. The mouth is large enough to ad— mit a tall bottle with a fitted cork which can be fastened securely. With button eyes, realistic yarn hair, and hot water in the bottle inside her, Socky’s daughter makes a nice warm bed fellow. Four wool stocking legs from which the feet had been hopelessly worn, cut open and pieced together, geeky Slim Sisters delngl‘il Make him out {4’ of black or - white. the seams catstitched, and the lower 'edge crocheted, made a serviceable petticoat for the bottom of a little girl’s Christmas stocking. The tops of a pair of bright col- ored wool socks were cut open, laid flat and sewed together with an opening at the top for neck, and at top of each side for armholes. When a shell edge was crocheted around neck, arm-holes and bottom with bright wool, the resulting slip-on sweater delighted a small boy. ~. Six absorbent wash—cldths were ' ,, made out of as many legs of white cotton, stockings, cut open and em— . . cheted around with colored cre‘chetN is better, cottons—:14. Graciarotteg. .;,~. ,. ex ‘ The selves. pneunwnia, or even tuberculosis. tracting it. to get at least 12 hours of sleep. a reputable doctor. out into the sunlight and fresh air a part of each day, and get plenty of sleep and you will not often contract a cold, but if you do you will soon throw it off. H Address letters: Mrs. _/«,(J‘"T',a;nzvé.rf Far .ADeDMnent for the Women Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR EAR FOLKS: It does seem like everyone is suffering with a cold these days, and only a few are doing anything to cure them- ‘ People, as a rule, do not consider a cold as seriously as they should, and, as a result, they often fall an easy prey to Plenty of sunshine, fresh air, sleep, rest and easily digested food are the best preventatives of colds. One should drink plenty of milk and eat eggs, vegetables and fruits to help the body build up good resistance. dren with a. cold should be kept out of school, not only to recover more quickly from the disease, but also to prevent others from con- Let the children play out of doors for an hour before the noon meal to stimulate the body and create an appetite for food, then rest followed by more play and sunshine, supper and then off to bed Eat easily digested foods at regular hours, get Annie Taylor, care The Business Farmer. Mt. Clemens, Michigan. . ~ “Ii lili 1: 1T. ii! 4 , _1i5‘llllll . MIL ii» iii” Sweets are taboo. Chil- If the patient needs medicine call fw, \_._ KEEP A HEALTH BUDGET HERE is no question but that T the Federal budget works. We see and hear. favorable com— ments about its efficiency published or spoken nearly every day. There is no question but that a health bud- get Works, also. In keeping the health budget a man or woman is putting by a nest egg for the rainy day without which any money budget, hOWever careful- ly followed, will be useless. In planning the health budget you will center everything about the l’//CROP ___..___Edited by C. J. WRIGHT, St. Joseph County-I: 111711 117 prove the rule every American man- ufacturer today stands with one foot on the price of labor and the other on the. price of raw materials, boosting with both hands the price of his OWn product. What we need is efficient, democratic, industrial government, to define and suppress profiteering and maintain some equitable relation between com- modity prices and the wages of cap— ital and labor.-—-Stacey Brown, Ion- ia County. NARROW SLEIGHS BEST EAR EDITOR: My subscription to THE BUSINESS FABMEB will expire shortly and in order to keep the wheels moving, I am ro- newing my subscription by sending you $1 for two more years. I do not agree with those that ad- vocate wide sleighs. They are all right in the woods or separate tracks on the highway, but on gravel roads where autos are running you would kill a team in a short time. The chains on the auto dig up the gravel so that an empty sleigh would run hard. With a narrow sleigh you can break a track along side and haul a load, most of the time. Late years sleighing has been poor on ac- count of drifting. I approve of the stand the Grange took relative to heaters for schools. A great many districts here have paid dearly for this experiment. There is some talk of bringing suit for damages on this account. I am pleased that we have at least one farm paper that is trying to help its readers as much as it can, in le- gal as well as other questions brought to its attention. The space devoted to “What, the Neighbors Say" brings out problems for gen- eral consideration—G. A... Traverse City, Michigan. Contributions Invited—Questions Answered DOFB IT PAY TO IMPROVE SOIL? N the past I have spoken of re— building the soil of our farms, and have pointed out ways it could be done, and, no doubt, some of the readers have believed it and some have doubted it and some have deeméd it too costly to try. But whatever the viewpoint, this fact remains that each year we are getting less off the land we are working unless we have done some- thing of this sort, and with each lowered crop yield there still re- mains just as much plowing, har- rOwing, and fitting, and as much time used to sow as when we get larger crops. This condition will never change, and you can expect just as much work and more worry\ as the years come and go if you stay in the rut and follow the way the majority of us are doing now. New ideas that cost something to put them in operation are passed up by the majority of us. Ten or twelve years ago when we. first began to hire in order to grow clover we were ridiculed by our neighbors and rela— tives and talked about in a confiden— tial sort of way as having a burr or two loose, but on the whole we were harmless. But today we see those who had our welfare first in their hearts are doing the same thing whenever their pride will let them. This was to. be expected as there were no movements worth while, but what had their martyrs, and all wise but loving friends that were so much interested in one’s welfare that if they could keep us from de— ing things, they believed they were rendering us a worth while service. Remember when Columbus said the .world was round he was called coo— coo and yet his conviction carried out and made possible that we are enjoying the things we do today in U. S. A. , When Ben Franklin said that , land plaster was good to use he was .ondfiren when he sowed d and iwhen I the words spelled by the growing crop “This is Land Plaster” they still scoffed, but on the soils of Washington and Oregon and the western land it is a fact, that they need land plaster, as they are low in sulphur, but on Michigan soils cal— cium carbonate or lime or marl or oyster shells is the better form of lime to use. In Pennsyvania lime has been used for centuries and Lancaster county is the leading agricultural county in the world. Yet you have heard groups of men argue that if you used lime or fertilizer once you had to keep it up and after a few years of their use the soil would become hard and worthless. This is about the same kind of argument as they used in 1600 or thereabouts when they burned people at the stake because they were witches. Superstitions have been one of the greatest draw— backs of the progress of the world, and 99 per cent of all farmers in the world, or men in any other pro- fession, have their pet superstitions that while they will not admit it, it has a niche in their make-up while it sheds its influencing rays along their pathways. Some plant their potatoes in the moon and cut their hay by the signs, plant their trees, shear their sheep and many other things according to old family customs and traditions. It costs money to bring up land to where it is profitable to farm, but it can be done within reason and the farm will pay for it while being done if managed right. If you will pardon me for referring to a per- sonal incident where this has been done, I will tell you what I did with a farm of one hundred acres that had been share rented for over thir- ty year‘s and everything sold off . that way. Hay and grain and clover was practically unknown on this farm for twenty years or more. I used the landlord’ s entire share from this land to buy. lime and fertilizer and ,A Cow PRICES 25 lb. Pail $2.25 lmlb.Drum 8.00 l000 lbs. 75.00 2000 lbs. I40.00 Except Far West. Canada and For South no! and until Disc. return DR. HESS is the Business C020 Dr. Hess Stock Tonic REMEMBER—When you buy any Dr. Hess product, our responsibility does on are satisfied that your investment is a profitable one. Other- 9 empty container to your dealer and get your money back. Every cow in your herd can be put in milking trim with a course of Tonic and Regulator It contains Nux Vomica, the dairyman's favorite remedy; the greatest of all nerve tonics. It contains Quassia—a stomach tonic; whets the appetite, promotes digestion. It contains Calcium Carbonate (Lime Salts), so necessary to cows in milk and during pregnancy. it contains Calcium Phosphate (Bone- meal), one of nature's important minerals.- lt contains Dim‘etics to keep the kidneys active and Laxatives to keep the bowels regular, so that there is no clogging of the system during heavy feeding. Excellent for cows at calving time. Feed it before freshing. Good alike for all cattle. Costs Little to Use. Mix justZ pounds Dr. Hess Stock Tonic with each l 00 pounds of feed. 8r. CLARK, lnc., Ashland, Ohio Dr. Hess Dip and Disinfectant Keeps" he Dairy and Stables Healthful and Clean Smelling Insist Upon This supply you. 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Free St is Catalog, prices and samples. Don’t s in your hides and furs elsewhere until you get our proposition. HILLBDALE BOB]: a TANNFING 00., Hillsdale, Mich. .firfl/I/h wake» the Giant ' that .Milkavmaking machine, 0U can avoid the winter milk slump and equal the sum- mer production scale only if you fortify your cows against the sudden change to dry, rough feeds. When milk-making organs are vigorous and active, profits are sure. Losses pile up only when there is failure to fully utilize expensive feed to produce the maximum volume of milk. Kow-Kare Added to the Feed Makes Big Milk Yields Kow-Kare brings your feed money back, plus a real profit through added quarts of milk. By strengthening the assimilation and digestion your COWS are made to thrive on natural foods. The all-medicine ingredients act quickly. While aiding your cows in getting from their feed every possible ounce of milk, Kow-Kare at gfrtshteh‘atafrgecégvge 1:“?ng the same time builds into them the power to re- not umu Januai‘y 10th, sist disease. It serves this double purpose with- 1924, that I bega rles out really costing you a penny, because the 0f experimems ”1 . . re ard to milk roductlon. added milk yield pays for Kow-Kare many Afié, carefully!) weighing times over. the‘nrnilk and feed of two heavy producers for two weeks I commenced feed- ing one tablespoonful to them once per day and af- ter the third day, the re- sultswere at onceapparent in increased milk produc- tion, there being no changes in ration, and at the end of two weeks I stopped the Kow-Kare and they fell back to their former mess of milk for the two weeks and upon re- suming its use again they came back up to their for— mer records, and since then! feed one tablespoon- ful once a day to all milk- are and the results are gratifying." Can You Doubt ? Read how other cow owners increase dairy profits with Kow-Kare. From F. P. La Chausse, Carthage, 1V. Y. — March 30, 1925: "Having fed Kow-Kare for ten years more or less to cows ofl" feed and for various disor- Treating Cow Diseases Try Kow-Kare for cows off feed and see how quickly they regain appetite and production. It makes both cow and calf strong; prevents re- tained afterbirth and other disorders. For all cow ailments arising from weak di- gestive and genital organs—Barrenness,Re- tained Afterbirth, Abortion, Scours, Bunches, Milk Fever, etc., Kow-Kare is a reliable home remedy. Thousands of dairymen say they would not keep cows without it. ‘ $1.25 and 65c sizes. If your feed dealer, general store or druggist cannot supply you, order direct. Be sure to write today for our valua- ble free treatise, “The Home Cow Doctor.” It is filled with useful dairy information. DAIRY ASSOCIATION CO., Inc. Dept. 12 Lyndonville, Vt. "cw-KARE F amous-Conditioner ,... . cow LosingTheeralves If they are,you are losingmoney! Youcan stop this loss yourself AT SMALL COST Write for FREE copy of “The Cattle Specialist,” our cattle _ paper. Answers all questions asked during the past thirtyyears about this trouble'm etiws. Let us tell ou how to get the “Practical Home eterinarian , a . we Stock DoctoryBook,without cost. Veterinary advxce FREE. Write us tonight about your live stock ailments. A postal Will do. Dr. David Roberts Veterinary 00., Inca} 52 Grand ., x g _ , _ ,— _, ~__g » . ,_. .—>_ r _. ,2»... _-_"/=~,’ c4 .=s-7—~_.k-T— -;—— -,—.- — ,_,- n — -. Dewberry. Plants . HAVE YOU POULTRY FOR SALE? , AN ’ ,4 f 25 ; 25 f $1.00. 12_,e. e vinegar.- AD IN M' B‘ F' 31.3%: ackPeach fifteen. $1.0,0z' allyhock“m‘; -‘ ~ ' - 10c package. . ‘ ,— ’. , - . ’1. g ' - WILL SELL IT. g 'MKRSHA'LI.’ VINEYARD" . , buttertat will weight» PLENTY OF “ALL WOOL” SUITS HERE Frank Lennemans. of Eagle, owns this flock of sheep and lambs. DAIRY and LIVESTOCK (We invite you to contribute your experience in raising live- stock to this department. COW TESTERS GIVE FEED HELPS ‘MONG the many activities that ‘ go on» in a Cow Testing Associ- ‘ ation some of the biggest bene- fits are returned to the mem— bers are the feed helps given by the cow ster. The definite value of getting a record on each cow and having a. complete record on the herd, has proved immensely valuable to many cow owners. Further, many dairy- men have been able to get a new vision of the value of good sires through the Cow Testing Association work. In addition to these points however, the feed help obtained through the tester has possibly re- turned the biggest money values to many Michigan dairymen. The pres— ent membership of nearly 3,000 dairymen in the 112 Associations operating in Michigan realize the great benefit that feeding brings to the pocketbook. The single illustra- tion from a member’s herd brings out this point strongly. The tester found in September that each cow in a herd of ten cows was being fed four pounds of ground oats daily. The member was feeding each cow equally. No adjustment was being made to the actual milk and butter— fat production of each cow. The tester, Oscar Dowd, of Hillsdale county, checked up on the require- ments of each cow and found that one cow producing 50 pounds of but— terfat during the month was being very sadly‘ neglected. He recom— mended that this cow be fed at least ten pounds of grain and another cow that was producing around 35 pounds butterfat for the month, that she should receive eight pounds of grain. In this way Mr. Dowd distri— buted the pounds of feed more pro- perly to the individuals in the herd. _ At the end of the month the herd owner found that he had fed a lit— tle larger amount than he had been accustomed to feeding. The addi- tional expense involved in this larg— er feed amount was $7.36. 'The Cow Testing Association Herd Book revealed to him, however, that this small additional expenditure had made him an increased return over feed cost of $18.70. Making the fee fill the needs of the individual cow is a problem in itself and the help that the cow test- er can give on this point is money saved to the member. For winter feeding conditions all Michigan dairymen should consider the needs and requirements of the individual animals in the herds. Treating them all alike is bound to cause mis— treatment and under—feeding or over- feeding in some instances. In other words the best results are not ob— tained from the feed that is being put before the cows. Good rough— age, especially alfalfa and a succu— lent feed such as silage, is the basis for best results. In addition a mix- ture of grains fed in the proportion of one pound of grain daily to each pound of fat produced in a week will usually supply the proper amounts of nutrients to the dairy cow.— Dairy Extension, M. S. C. BUTTERJN GALLON OF CREAM How much butter will a gallon of cream produce from common cows, and are purebred cows any better? —M. A. B., Vermontville, Mich. HE exact amount of butter that can be churned out of a. gallon of cream will depend entirely upon what you: cream teggs. A gal; - 1? cream that, tests _ per cen Ian 0 8.1.}..pounds. Questions cheerfully answered.) Calculating the amount of butter fat in this gallon of cream I find that there is 1.69 pounds of butter- fat. Legal butter contains 80 per cent butterfat. Therefore, there could be made from this one gallon of 20 per cent cream 2.01 pounds of butter. The comparison of a gallon of milk produced by a common cow and a gallon of milk produced by a purebred cow will depend entirely upon the butterfat test. But this is no lway to compare the ability of a grade with a purebred. The best method of comparing cows is on the basis of total pounds of butterfat produced ’by a cow for one year or a sufficient length of time to make a fair comparison. There is more difference between a poor pure bred and a good grade than between good grades and likewise between a. good pure bred and a poor grade than be- tween good pure breds. The only way to judge a cow’s merit is to weigh the milk and test for a year. This is best done by weighing the milk each day and testing once a month. The most satisfactory meth- od to carry this out is to join a cow testing association and have a cow tester do this work for you. Any one having at least six cows should be a member of a cow testing associ— ation. It is only through such a. system as this that you can put your herd on a real businesslike basis. A cow testing association can do this more effectively and cheaply than the owner can do it himself. There are now three cow testing as- sociations in Eaton county and there certainly would be an opportunity for you to put your herd in one of these associations by getting in touch with Mr. Clair Taylor, your county agent—O. E. Reed, Profes- sor of Dairy Husbandry, M. S. 0. MILK COWS MUST HAVE .MINERALS ILK cows undoubtedly suffer more from the lack of suffi- cient minerals than do most any other type of farm animals. The reason for my making this state— ment is this: the cow required min— erals for her own body maintenance, for milk production and for the pro— duction of her young. Since from 4 to 6 per cent of the animal’s body is composed of minerals, and, further since each and every part of the body requires minerals for proper functioning it is evident that cows (especially dairy animals) [must have large amounts of minerals in their feed to make any larger herds are limited in milk production solely for the reason that they do not have sufficient minerals in their body, or do not secure enough thru their feed to make and larger amounts of milk. In a thousand pounds of milk there is about seven pounds of minerals of which one— sixth is calcium or lime, and since but a small percentage of the ani- mal’s body is made up of minerals the cow will give off in every 6,900 pounds of milk providing she weighs 1,000 pounds, a volume of minerals equal to that found in her body.— Dr. George H. Conn. 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The homes of bulls; Shuttlewrck May Exec B uel, Jumboof Brlarbank and Holbecks’ Golden ight of Nordland. From dncinz 1011.18 fat. 772 fat and 610 fat. GEORGE L. BURROWS or GEORGE J. HICKS. . -' Seaman. w. 8., Michigan. 8 pro- FOR SALE—REGISTERED GUERNSEY BULL, en mo. old. Large 1; e Poland Chins. Swine. both sex. ARTHUR J. 000. Dryden. Mlch FORTHE BEST GUERNSEY DAIRY CALVES. Seven weeks old at $20 each, will ship 0. . D. L. TERWILLIGER. R1. Wauwatosa. Wis. PMGTIOALLY PURE BRED GUERNSEY DAIRY calm, $20.00 each. Shipped C.O.D. Satisfaction teed. L. SHIPWAY. Whitewater, Wls. HEREFORDS HEREFORDS —— OLDEST HERD IN U.S. We have some ood hulls for sale. Farmers prices. GRAPO ARMS. Swartz Creek. Mlch. JERSEYS FLYING FOX JERSEYS for solo. Two bulls of serviceable age and five calm two weeks to eight months of age. These Nib are from old selected Dams and are priced so the beginner can buy. Our herd of 27 cows had an average test of 6.8 for the past month. I. RUHSTORFER cl SON. Kawkawlln. Mlchlgan REG. JERSEYS, POGIS 99th OF H. F. y breeding. Young stock for sale. Herd accredited b State and Federal Government. or visit or prices and description. UY G. WILBUR. BELDING. Mic SHORTHORNS ONOITHORN BULL 18 Mo. Old. Red Ducheu of em. a reel red-harder. Also other bulls, red white and roan: cows; heifers and Shropshire rams lot .16. W. E. Morrlsh and Sons. Fllnt, R5. llllch. fl" SHEEP ’fi SHROPSHIRES Registered Shropshireo Brod ewes of axes tional quality. also ewe and ram lambs. 0. LE ON & SONS. Dexter. Mloh. SHBOPSHIBES el‘enFIEiile.3,r>di(ri£:'(Eva? 023T): DAN BOOHER. R4. Eval‘t, Mlch. SWINE HAMPSHIRES SPRING BOARS NOW READY TO SHIP. Bred Gilts later for spring furrow. JOHN W. SNYDER, R4. St. Johns, Mloh. E51 PET STOCK RABBITS FLEIISH GIANT RABBITS $2.00 AND UP. ' Bucks $2.00. Am selling out. OSCAR EIGHER. Elkton, Mlchlgan. POULTRY .‘ . nurassspunm Thousands novl‘It low prices.Trapnesled. C W pedigreed. Egg contest winners for years. Pay alarm-co them. Complete satisfaction gusrlnteod Write to‘ly (or specialsnle bulletin and big free cltclogm - cu. .- Illlms. 9‘2 Um", queue NAPIDI. Anon.- EGG” WHITE WYANDOTTES—MY CHOICE BREED- cockerels are now reaéig for shipment. Their will please you. Fr Berlin, Allen, Mich. BAR ED PLYMOUTH ROCK COOKERELS. Stand rd color and shape. Bred from heavy pro‘ (incurs. \Vrite for prices. W. O. Oofl‘man, Route 8. Benton Harbor. Mlch. TURKEYS TunKEYs—M. BRONZE, B. RED, NARRA- . gansett, White Holland Hens. Toms, Pain and tune no akin. Hi best quality at lowest wines. WALTER-BROS.. owhatan Polnt, Ohlo. isgomwd Glent‘Bronze Turkeys. Thoroughbred, -strains. Vigorous and large. Toms $12; _ Hens $8. Mrs. Edgar case. R2, Benmnla. Mich. A BIG SAVINGS The Business Farmer, l yr......$ .60 .I’oople’s Home Journal, 1 yr.... 1.00 Total cost“ ........ ..... .....31.00 J ’ magazines with all re- $1 rintlonc to The «hubs-"u 7 xxx-id. 1* j ., ' vnrnRIN-ARY: -. .7 -~_" i , -‘DEPARTMENT . Edited by DR. GEO. H. CONN ‘ f _ BLOODY MILK We have a cow that gives bloody milk from one teat. Came fresh about 2 weeks ago. Will you kindly advise what to do?———Mrs. P., Ben- don, Mich. ‘LOO’DY milk is caused by hem- orrhages in the udder and these in most cases are the re- sult of failure to milk the cow out before calving or else due to impro- per feeding. Would feed this cow rather lightly for a time and see if the udder would not get healed up and strong again. This will natural- ly decrease the milk flow for a time but it will increase again later. You might get the following tonic and use for a. couple of weeks, powdered nux vomica, 2 ounces, powdered gentian 2 ounces, powdered licorice root 4 ounces, powdered sulphate 4 ounces, powdered iron sulphate 4 ounces and powdered calamus root 4 ounces. Give one tablespoonful on ground feed night and morning. STEANIED BONE MEAL OR GROUND FEED We have a registered Jersey cow four years old that comes in heat regular but fails to get in calf. Is there anything we could do to help her?——F. P., Melvin, Mich. HE best recommendation I could make for the cow that doesn't calf is to give her 1/3 of a pound of steamed bone meal on some ground feed each day. Give al- falfa or clover hay and feed a bal- anced ration. Keep this animal in the sunlight as much as possible. RADIO DEPARTMENT By JAMES w. H. WEIR, n. E. HOW To RENEW TUBES RADIO tubes like some of the old- er humans, eventually lose their “pep” under the strain of constant work and require a. rest or need to be rejuvenated. This re- juvenating process, as applied to va- cuum tubes, is not as serious an operation, however, as the one some humans undergo in the search for youth. It is known as “reactivation” and is said by the Bureau of Standards radio experts to renew the sensitiv— ity of electron tubes of the thoriated tungsten filament type. The thoriated filament was de- veloped by the General Electric Co., which has also developed the meth- V Ode of reactivating tubes of this type. The Bureau of Standards has found that the reactivation process is quite successful, and frequently makes a wonderful difference in the results obtained ‘with a receiving set. The process is essentially the operation of the filament for a very brief interval at a specified high voltage called “flashing”), follow- ed by a lower voltage for a longer time (called “aging”), all of this with no grid or plate voltage. The flashing reduces some of the thor— ium and the aging forms the re- quired surface layer. The follow— ing schedule of these operations is the result of extensive experience of the Radio Corporation of Ameri— ca, and is published here by cour- tesy of that company. FLASHING Filament Radiotron voltage UK and UV 199 ............ 10 volts UX and UV 201-A.... 15 volts UX-120 .......................... 10 volts AGING . Filament Radiotron , voltage UX and UV 199 ........ 4.5 volts UX and UV 201-A.... 7.5 volts UX-120 ........................ 4.5 volts Time 30 sec. 1 min. 1 min. Time 10 min. 10 min. 10 min. "”Exactly the same procedures ap- ply for C and CK tubes as for the UK tubes of corresponding number. Thus, C and CX—299 correspond to U and UX-199, C and CX-301-A to U and UX—201—A and CX—220 to UK 120. The WD-11 and WD-12 types of tubes cannot be reactivated. In carrying out this schedule it is absolutely essential to have a voltmeter of a good degree of ac- curaCy and to use a Watch- No ' -. ‘ ' its. are lured. this' New De Laval ‘ out of our skimmilk. THESE people were surprised to see a new De Laval Separator skim a quart of rich cream from a can of their skim-milk. They thought their old separator was Balance in 15 Eng Monthly Payments doing good work, but the new De Laval proved it wasn’t. Satisfy yourself that you are not losingcream in this way. Ask your De Laval Agent to bring out a new De Laval and try this simple test : Alter separating with your old separator, wash its bowl and tinware in the cklnn-nsllk. the skim-milk at normal room temperature ands-unit through a newDeLavnl. Have the cream thus recovered weighed and tested. Then you can tell mctly if your old machine In wasting cream, and what a new Dc Laval will save. The new De Laval is the best cream separator ever It is the crowning achievement of 48 years of made. cream separator manufacture. SEE and TRY the New skim cleaner The new De Laval has the wonderful “float- ing bowl”—tl_ie great- est separator improve- ment in 25 years. It is guaranteed to skim cleaner. It also runs easier with milk going through the bowl, on lasts longer. Send coupon ho. low Ior none. 0! on:- Do Laval [out and 12:1.“- ~ a? 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Every price quoted means a big saving to you. Everything offered is tested by our own Radio Experts. In fact, the best experts compiled this Catalogue for you. Write for this 52 Page Book. It is yours free. Our 53 year old Policy For 53 years we have sold only quality merchandise under a Golden Rule Policy. You can rely absolutely upon the quality of everything shown in this Radio Catalogue. Write to the house nearest you lor our free copy 01 Ward’s new Radio Catalogue. A dress Dept. 5-R Montg omer ”mm‘j’iVV’ard ECG The Oldest Mail Cider House is Today the Most Progressive Mm (Imago KanmCity ShPauI Portland,0re. Oakland. can. liaWol-th l-iReasons For Surplus 0f MilkOnMarket .1 1 (Continued from page 4) based alone upon the supply of milk In any one area or the demand of a particular consuming market. Con— ditions throughout the world deter— mine the price for the manufactured products. Every market dealing in whole milk bases the price of the surplus ulpon world manufactured markets. The methods of doing this Vary in different sections of the country. In some markets special classes are designated for milk used for sweet cream, ice cream, cheese, butter, condensed, evaporated, and other purposes. In the Detroit mar- ket there is one class for milk sold as fluid milk and one class for that used for all other purposes. There seems to be advantages of many clases over two. One advan- tage of two classes is the simplicity of the system. It is just one step removed from a flat price for all milk. Many farmers believe that the flat price is the best basis on which to sell milk. I shall discuss this point in a future article. In summary it may be said that there is a surplus in the Detroit market and there always will be. The price which is 'paid for this surplus is based upon the dairy pro- ducts manufactured market which is beyond the control of any locality. If there is anything wrong with the return which farmers receive for their surplus milk, it is due to the fact that all surplus milk is placed in one class and paid for at one price rather than in several classes de— pending upon whether it is used as sweet crean, ice cream, condensed, evaporated, cheese or otherwise. This matter of several classes is one which should be" given ‘much careful 'study. » .. Milk producers of the, Detroit area? should ‘not forget that the prices which prevail .in this market com— pare very favorably with those in other parts of the country and that the return to dairymén is such that milk production is being encouraged, rather than discouraged. Producers of any commodity in any market with conditions as favorable as they are in the Detroit area at this time should be very hesitant about mak— ing changes in their methods of marketing until they are sure they have a plan which will bring about a better permanent market. THE RABBIT AND MOUSE PEST (Continued from Page 9) this write to the State Game Warden for permission to use a ferret. Then after each fresh snowfall track the rabbits to their holes and clean them out with the good old method “. . . . dfld we saved $135 07¢ Mi: piano l/imugk #16 Michigan Emilia; Farmer Piano C/i/é.’ ” improved wonderfully in the last “I I OW beautifully Dorothy plays. She’s How do account six months. you for it, Mary?” “It's the new piano, Auntie,’ nine—year— old Dorothy spoke up, blushing with pride at Aunt Emma’s compliment. “There’s such a difference practicing on this nice new piano and on that old tinny thing we used to have. My practice hour is gone before I know it now.” “Yes,” her Mother added, “Dorothy used to grumble and watch the clock whenever she had to practice. She seemed to be losing interest in her music. One day I had a long talk with her teacher. She was Very frank with me said she thought a new Piano was all that was needed. You know, Emma, the old piano was pretty well played out. Forty years of the kirfd of usage that piano got would wear out any instrument." ”I quite agree with you, Mary,” Aunt Emma. replied. “The last time you men- tioned it you said you wanted a new piano but you were afraid you couldn’t afford it.” “That was the whole trouble, Emma. We’re paying for our home and I didn’t want to get a piano until I could afford a really good one—one that would last the rest of our lives.” “But you couldn’t ask for a finer piano than this one—it has a wonderful tone and I know the splendid reputation of Cable Pianos. One of my friends bought a Cable Piano years ago—I remember clearly, for it was just after Jackie was born. Honestly. Mary, that piano is as good today as it was the day she got it." “Yes, this is a very fine piano. We had it here for thirty days’ free trial. I had Dot’s teacher come in and try it. She praised it highly—said it would make a lot of diference in Dot’s progress. And it has.” “Then you changed your mind about being able to afford a good piano?” Aunt Emma queried. ”Yes and no. You see it was this way,” Mother explained, “I happened to be look- ing through THE BUSINESS FARMER and noticed an ad about a new Piano Club which was being formed to help the readers save money in buying a good piano. I sent in the coupon and in a few days received a complete description of the Whole plan. I realized immediately what an opportunity it was and took ad- vantage of it at once." v “What is this Club Plan, Mary?” “Well briefly, it's this,” Mother ex- plained further. “The Cable Piano Com— pany gets a hundred BusiNEss FARMER readers who want to buy pianos and en— rolls them in the Michigan Business Farm- er Piano Club. Naturally the Club gets a special priCe on so large an order. We saved $135 over the regular retail price of this piano.” “You were certainly lucky,” Aunt Em- ma interrupted. “But that‘s not all,” Mother went on. "We were allowed special easy terms of payment. We paid only a little down and the piano came to us by prepaid freight for thirty days‘ free trial. \Ne had the privilege of returning it wth a full return of our deposit if it was not entirely satis— factory. But, of course, we are elated over the piano and now we’re paying for it on small monthly payments which the Club arranged for us. I never dreamed we could buy a high—grade piano on such easy terms. We don’t miss the money at all.” “Were you allowed to make your own selection or did you have to take this par- ticular model?” ”Oh. no. We could have had either an upright or a baby grand. This is a player piano. By pulling this little knob the pedals come out and the music records go right in here.” She laid aside Dot’s prac- tice book and pushed open the sliding doors of the roll compartment. “That's wonderful! I thought it was a. regular upright piano. I'd never have dis- covered it was a player piano if you had— n‘t told me.” “Daddy‘s crazy about it,” spoke up little Dorothy. “He plays it every night—and you should hear him sing. We have sev— eral song records with the words printed right on them.” “Yes,” Mother said, player piano. I was par- tial to a baby grand but “Jim wanted a. show up, the Cable Piano Company agrees to repair it or give us a new piano. They— 're a forty-five—year-old concern and one of the biggest manufacturers in the in- dustry. I know they‘re perfectly reliable and will do as they say.” “Yes, there is no doubt of that. You certainly were fortunate, Mary, in being able to deal direct with such a big fact- ory. That’s unusual—I never heard of it before.” “This is the first time done, they tell me." “Do you think I could get a new piano through THE BUSINESS FARMER Piano Club?” “Yes, indeed!” replied Mother, reaching for a recent copy of THE BUSINESS FARMER. “See, here is another ad—the first Club was so successful they're form- ing another one. Here, mail this coupon right away and you can probably get in on this Club. I don’t suppose it‘s all filled up yet because this issue just came yest- erday. They’ll send you all the necessary information and the blanks to fill out.” “I’ll do it today, Mary.” Aunt Emma responded. “I’m not going to let an op- portunity like this slip by. Where is your pen and ink? I’ll mail it at once.” IF YOU are contemplating the pur- it's ever been chase of a. piano, either a grand, upright or player, by all means investigate the benefits and savings of the Michigan Business Farmer Piano Club. Any reader may be- come a member—no fees, no dues. A new Club is now forming. Mail the coupon today for full particu- lars. Address .Maalager, hfichigan Business Famner Piano Club, Care of Cable Piano 00., Cable Building, Chicago, Illinois. Copyright 1925, The Cable Co. TEAR OFF AND NIAIL I gave in. You see und- er the Club Plan we can exchange this one any time within one year and get full credit for all we have paid in. We would- n’t lose a penny if we decided to exchange it for a baby grand, or any other model. And we’ve a written guarantee that will protect us in years to come. If any defect City Munagerflfiichigan Business Farmer Piano Club, Cable Piano 00., Cable Bldg., ‘ “’abash and Jackson. Chicago. Please send full details of the Piano Club without obligation to me. I am interested in ( ) Upright ( ) Player ( ) Grand Name ................ ..................................... ...--.....-uu-..."nu-unnuuu... 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The\ends of the scions are then nailed down with small brads and covered with graft- ing wax. in, ,1 ‘¢.,4~,.Z. , ,_ DOES IT PAY TO IMPROVE SOIL? 2, (Continued from Page 17). i in eight years time clover was grow- ing in every field 011 the farm. The wheat crop increased from 8- 10 bushel in 1917 to 31 bushel in 1924 and the corn this year will go fifty bushel per acre where fifteen years ago you would get a peck to a half bushel of nubbins out of a shock of corn eight hills square. A record of the expenses has been \ kept and it may be interesting to note that in eight years the taxes have been'about $1100.00, the fence bill for eight years has been $900.00 and the lime and fertilizer bill for eight. years has been $800.00, or. $1.25 per acre per year for the 80 acres of plow land on the farm, and this increase has been due to the use loads of manure in hundred and forty leads in 1924. The fields have had from one and one-fourth tons of lime per acre to five tons per acre, but the general application has been two and one—half to three tons; from three hundred to six hundred pounds of acid phosphate has been used per acre on the fields. Some of the clover crops were seeded alone in the corn stubble in the spring when the land was too poor to raise two crops at once and in three fields there has been the clover crops turn- ed under. All the straw was used on the farm either as manure or spread on sod ground in the fall and i plowed under in the spring for corn. » We have had several entire failures of getting clover to catch in rye’ even after the ground had been lim- ed with three tons per acre, but we had faith and patience and tried again. This farm has increased production three fold in eight.years and the cost of the material used amounted to $1.00 per acre per'year for the land under the plow. 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What kind of feed should I feed in the feed hopper, I always feed beef scraps—Mrs. A. H., Ann Arbor, Mich. O obtain a maximum winter pro- duction from a flock of 90 hens, I suggest that you feed your hens dry mash in open hoppers all the time. This mash, either prepar- ed by a good commercial feed con- cern or mixed at home, made up as folows: equal parts corn meal, wheat middlings, bran, ground oats, and meat scrap, and one per cent salt and two per cent ground lime< stone or dry marl by weight. In ad— dition to the dry mash, the birds should be fed scratch grain of equal parts corn and whole wheat, fed twice a day, the heavier grain being given at evening, and in a deep lit- ter of straw, so that the birds will be induced to exercise. Ninety birds should eat about ten and a half pounds of both scratch feed and of dry mash per day. It is advisable to enclose the birds after the advent of snowy weather, either keeping them confined all winter, or providing them a good house, and allowing them to run out doors all they wish all winter.——J. A. Hannah, Extension Specialist in Poultry Hus- bandry, M. S. C. RICKETS We are troubled with some of our hens getting lame. Sometimes starts in one leg getting worse until they get entirely paralyzed and finally die. Just seems to be in the An- cona hens, never had any Leghorns bothered in this way as we keep both kinds. It just. started last winter and since this time have lost six or seven. Sometimes they are taken lame all over and sit and flop around and finally die the same as the others—H. S., North Branch, Mich. HIS condition is likely rickets; there is a possibility that there may be a tubercular infection also. I rather favor the rickets; clean up and disinfect to make sure that there is no danger from infec— tion. Then feed as follows——use~ yellow corn and middlings in the ra~- tion and 5 per cent of bone meal (poultry bone) and the same amount of grits in the ration; that will be 5 pounds to the 100 pounds. Some green feed is also desirable. Keep the flock in the sunlight as much as possible. It would be a Wise thing to give them some whole milk for a while—Dr. Conn. (HOW TO RENEW TUBES (Continued from Page 19) Either alternating or direct current may be used for heating the fila- ments. The apparatus necessary for carrying out the process is simple. The filament is connected to the necessary source of voltage, noth— ing being connected to the grid and plate. A voltm ter is connect— ed across the fila ent terminals. If alternating current is available the source of voltage can be a small transformer, such as those for running doorbells or electric toys. 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NCE more old winter is with us and farmers have more leisure, although there are lots of chores to attend to, with cows to milk, hens to feed, as well as cattle, hogs and sheep to look after. It is aS'Sumed that farmers have wood lots and that they cut down trees for fuel, which means cords of wood to saw and split, but it seems un- fortunate that so many farms fam- ilies deprive themselves of the great happiness of the beautiful old-fash- ioned big fireplaces in the living room, we used to call the sitting room. These fire—places are capa— ble of burning nearly all sizes of wood, and are cheap for furnishing warmth and comfort, besides mak- ing a wonderful picture as the fire lights up the room. In the long win- ter evenings the farmer and his fam- ily have time to talk over the needed farm improvements for the coming year, and it may be stated here that the better times have already been reflected in most farming districts by the large use of paint, something that always pays richly in brighten- ing up the house and barns. Then there are in numerous instances new farmhouses to be built and the progressive farmer will realize the importance of buying a first class book showing designs of houses, these books costing very little and showing how a handsome home costs little or no more, than a cheap and ugly one. In progressive agri— cultural districts farm houses are going up that add materially to the actual value of the farms, and in one very noticeable respect larger windows and outside green blinds make the home extremely attractive. The year has proved a good one for most farm products, and it is espec— ially pleasing to our Michigan farm~ ers that at last prices for wheat have had such a good advance. The soaring of potato prices is likely to encourage farmers to plan a big acreage of potatoes for next spring. This would be very likely to bring about lower prices. The Advance in \Vheat \Vheat is one of the leading sta— ples grown in Michigan, and the sharp advances which have taken place during recent weeks mean. a great deal to our farmers. The rise in prices has come as a genuine sur— prise to many farmers who had be- come so accustomed to the repeated declines following advances that it was hard to .have faith in the future market. However, the old law of supply and demand still governs ul- timately in wheat as in other com- modities, and not, only is our supply of wheat small for the season and growing very slowly, but reliable advices are that the wheat crop of Argentina, our powerful competi- tor, is much reduced. and this is adding to the bullirh sentiment. Meanwhile, the visible wheat stocks in the United States are down to 37.670,000 bushels. comparing with 90,926,000 bushels a year ago. A Melbourne cable says harvesting of wheat in Australia has commenced, and the expertable surplus is still estimated at only 56,000,000 bush— els. How high wheat will go is un— certain. VVeelis ago the popular opinion was. that it would sell around $1.50. but of late leading traders havo fixed on a, considerably better price, with sales recently around $1.64 a bushel. Declines take place at times on selling by speculative owners, but recoveries follow in good buying by the “shorts” and cash buyers. Exporters who are in the habit of buying ex— tensively in our markets have ex— pressed regrets that they failed to buy weeks ago when prices were Wheat has been selling a little higher than a year ago. while a little more than two years ago it sold close to $1. Corn still sells far lower than a year ago. but ..recent quotations were Husking is going on actively, and husking bees are taking place here and there. Much corn is going into cribs, and many farmers have a good surplus for marketing. Late sales were made on the Chicago market of December wheat at $1.661/z, com- paring with $1.55 a year ago; De- cember corn at 75 cents, comparing with $1.14 a year ago; December oats at 39 cents, comparing with 53 cents a year ago; and December rye at 93 cents, comparing with $1.35 last year. Iowa Farmers Dissatisfied “The agricultural situation has improved since 1921, but is is ap- parent that many Iowa, farmers still labor under the handicaps of large debts, high operating expenses, high taxes, high interest rates on short term loans, and also widely fluctu— ating and often unsatisfactory pric— es for their products.” This is the conclusion on a report made to Secretary of Agriculture .lardine today by Nils A. Olsen, as— sistant chief of the bureau of agri— cultural economies, and Albert C. Williams, member of the federal farm loan board, who were dispatch— ed to survey what was regarded by the administration as an unsatisfac— tory economic situation in Iowa. “The question of credit .0 aid the orderly marketing of Iowa corn has been brought into prominence by the recent severe drop in prices,” says the report. “It should be remembered, of course, that the new corn sells at a discount because of its high mois- ture content. The decline of corn prices is viewed with concern by the people of the state, and especially by farmers who sell for cash a large part of their crop. “The recent break in prices is a result, primarily, of the large corn crop produced this year. Recent es— timates place the crop at 3,013,000,— 000 bushels. and for Iowa at 477.— 386,000 bushels, which is the largest yield in the history of that state. An analysis of the situation, how—. ever, indicates that several factors Will tend to offset the increased crop." Feed Your (him to Ho s In a recent radio address by Pres- ident Everett C. Brown of the Chi— cago Live Stock Exchange he gave this advice: “So far the country has pursued a commendable market— ing policy, which has been conduc- tive to price maintenance. The growers: position has been fortified by conservation of pigs and light hogs, which exerted a demoralizing influence on fresh meat trade a year ago. . “Every possible artifice has been resorted to for the purpose of de- pressing hog values below $10.00. A recent prediction that hogs will soon reach $8.00 was an incident in that campaign, which has been frus— trated by competition at the market . and refusal of growers to be stam- peded. “My personal analysis of the hog situation and prospect, which I have given serious consideration for busi- ness reasons, is that the logical pol— icy for growers is to feed their hogs corn worth 50 to 60 cents a bushel with reasonable assurance of double ing its value. Any farmer marketing his hogs on the present market will make splendid profits by replacing them with young feeding pigs on 50 cents to $1.00 break on present pig val— ues. ‘ “If this policy is pursued by the farmer the president need have no concern over future corn values as the average farmer will show a bet— ter balance in his country bank a year from today than today.” BoOm in Lamb Prices Recent meager offerings of lambs in the Chicago stock yards put pric- es up to the highest point of the season, with the t0p"$16.75, while top feeding lambs went at $16.25. Charles H. Shurte, long identified with the Chicago sheep market, said recently: “The barn has been full of lamb buyers from New York and Michigan every day this week. It is safe to say they have not; been able to buy one load of feeders where the' wanted twenty. We know the country has not got them on feed like they usually have and this explains the shortage in re- ceipts. It is hard to make every- body believe this. There are many in the trade who still believe the C‘untry is alive with sheep. It is not, and before long, they will wake up to the fact that there is a short— age. We are predicting very high prices for both feeders and killers all winter.” Heavy Cattle Sell High Supplies ran pretty large in the Chicago market for Thanksgiving week, and prices averaged around 15 to 25 cents per 100 pounds lower for the greater part of the cattle, the bulk of the beef steers going THE BUSINESS FAiiMsn’s MARKET SUMMARY and (‘omparison with Markets Two Weeks ago and One Year ago U Detroit. ('hieago Den "tit Detroit Dec. 1 Nov. 30 Nov. 17 1 yr. ago \VHEAT— No. 2 Red $1.81 $1.74 $1.61 No. 2 \Vhite 1.82 1.75 1.62 No. 2 Mixed 1.81 1.74 1.61 COR-N— No. 2 Yellow .92 .95 1.21 No. 3 Yellow .91 .75 .94 OATS (oltl )— No. 2 \Vhite .4435 39% @.41 .44 .5515 no. 3 \Vliito .43 K .39 @ .4014 .43 .54 3‘ RYE— Cash No. 2 .94 .87 1.29 BEA NS— C. H. p, t‘wt. 4.95@5.00 5.05@5.10 5.10@5.15 PO“: ‘A TO [CS—— New, Per ('wt. 150633-34 3.00@3.25 3.30@3.65 .93 HA 1— .. . No. 1 Tim. 22.50@25 25@27 24.50@25 18@ 19 No. 2 Tim. 21@22 21 @24 21 @22 16@17 No. I Clover 20@21 22@24 20@21 15@ 16 Light Mixed 23@23.50 25@26 23@23.504 - 17.@ 18 Tuesday, Decefnber 1.——All grains unchanged. Bean market steady; 1302‘ tatoes quiet. Poultry easy .{to firm. Butter and £838. 1.11 Wnd ‘ >13“ much like. thise of, two years ago. at $8 to $12. .made of choice to strictly prime heavy steers, which were strong to 25 cents higher. Good steers found an outlet at $10 and over for weigh- ty lots, with choice to extra kinds. including some show cattle at $11.50 to $15.25, while common to prime yearlings sold at $7.26 to $13. One year ago beef steers were sell- ing at $6 to. $13.75. Butcher cows and heifers are salable at $4.25 to $10, calves at $6 to $12 and stockers and feeders’ at $6 to $8.60, mainly at $6.75 and $7.75, these being much higher than a few weeks ago. Stack and feeder cows and heifers sell at $3.75 to $6.25. tle averaged 25 cents higher. , The Hog Outlet . Chicago’s receipts of hogs during Thanksgiving week were far smaller than for corresponding weeks one and two years ago, and prices had some good advances, an unusually large proportion of the offerings be— ing sold to go to eastern packing points. There was a regular scram- ble among buyers for the moderate supplies of choice hogs, which sold quickly at a liberal premium over underweights. For the year to late date combined receipts in seven leading western packing points amount to only 22,775,000 hogs, comparing with 27,423,000 one year ago and 28,090,000 two years ago. Late sales were made as high as $11.85 and some prime light lots sold at $12. The $11.85-pound hogs were such as sold a week ear- lier at $11.35. WHEAT Foreign crop news continue to be the main factor in deter-mining the trend of the wheat market. Early last week bullish reports came from the southern hemisphere and prices advanced sharply, but later it was stated that damage was not as bad as at first estimated and prices eased off. Buying for seaboard improved some while millers continued to be active in the market. Receipts show no increase, farmers being inclined to hold. H CORN The corn market is dull and steady, with prices unchanged. Wea- ther for husking was good the last few days of last week and the trade expects an increase in receipts this week. There is practically no old corn for sale. OATS Oats are considered a bargain at present prices and the demand is improving. Shipping sales last week were the heaviest in months at 185,- 000 bushels, including 100,000 bush- els to exporters. RYE Rye was easy and declined on the closing day of last week but previ- ous advances left the price higher than quoted in our last issue. " BEANS Although the market has been steady beans declined in price dur- ing the fortnight ending Saturday, November 28. The general feeling is that prices are going to go higher and-if your beans are dry an’d'iyou can hold them it should prove profit- able to do so. There is an old say- ing “There is many a slip ’twixt the cup and the lip,” but all facts at this time point to a higher market, and our judgment is based on present indications. POTATOES Growers are being blamed for some of the decline in the price of potatoes. It is said that many have shipped potatoes damaged by frost and they arrived in a rotting condi~ tion. This was not done intentional- ly, it is believed, but growersship- ped stock before they had an. oppor— tunity to find out if it was~frozen., POULTRY DETROIT ~.—— Live Po " ” s; 3:, ultry 9s a. An exception was“ Choice cat-v ' T""~‘:£‘—"“ medo I'D-its.“ 31‘ (DB-QDI'WEDHWDCD Bmtbfi‘fc- _ only 1 I W U or 5: “'10?" ”HEW “ ‘ 23@2 keys, 8 lbs or better, 30@32c per ‘1 Ib. GRAND RAPIDS—Poultry— Heavy fowls, 18@220 lb; Leghorn fowls, 12 @14c lb; roosters and stage, 10c; springers, Leghorns, 15 @18c; Rocks, Wyandottes, and Reds,18@22c; ducks, 18@22c lb; turkeys, young toms, 8 lbs @34c; » old turkys, 27@29c lb. CHICAGO—Live Poultry—~—Steady Fowls, 17@24c; springs, 24c; tur— kys, 32c; masters. 15 175c; ducks, 18 @2013; geese, 17c. up 32, I Bike, boN'T . WEAR A muss BE COMFORTABLE— msrnmgciegfigga ineengggu' hIlcll: w goo rupture sufferers immodioto rs- It has no obnoxious s n or p15. Automatic Air Cush om .. . sud draw that the broken .- . N0 solvesor posters. WIDIO. . "a. e. l- “on“ Sent on trial” to promo“,o its worth. was of imitations. Look for tnde—mukbenrl ngportrut and ]signature of (IE. Brooks which oppearson Appdianco. None genuine. 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Arrivals at the principal markets east of the Rockies are reported to be running about 10 per cent small- er than at this time a year ago. LIVESTOI‘K MARKETS EAST BL'Fl“ ‘ ‘ U—C a. t. t l e—Slow and steady. Ca ' —Active, 500 higher; choice, 315 Q: l , fair to good, $12.50@ 14.50; culls 1.11112; hoary. $6@9; grass- ers, $4@6. Hogs—Active. 1563“ higher; heavy, $12@12.15; mixed. $12.25@12.40; Yorkers, $12.40@12.50; light Yorkers and pigs. $12.75; roughs, $9.75@10; Stags, $6@8. Sheep and Lambs—-Active, 50c higher; lambs, $9@16.75: yearlings, $8@ 12.50; wethers, $9.50; ewes, $2@8.50; mixed sheep, $8.50@9. 111’- CHICAGO:—;Cattle,—Genera1 trade fed steers steady to strong; off lots yearlings and two year olds sorted off show string upward to $10.25; some weighty bullocks, $14.50; best yearlings, $13.50; bulk show rejections, $13@14.50; she stock strong to 250 higher; bulls steady; vealers fully steady at $10@11 mostly to packers. Hogs—Active, 15@35c higher; lighter weights scored full advance; bis,r packers bought sparingly; bulk desirable 160 to 210 pound yeights $11. 60@11. 75; prac- tical top, $11. 85; better grades, 225 t0325 pound butchers largely, $11. 55@11.G5; majority 110 to 150 pound selectidns, $11.75@12; bulk packing sows, $10.40@ 10.85. Sheep—Fat lambs active, strong; spots, 25c higher; bulk better grades handy and medium weights, $16.25@ 16.65; few choice loads to shippers and city butchers, $16.75; most cull natives, $12.50; choice shorn lambs, $14.75; year— ling wethers. $13.25@13.60: few feeding lambs, upward to $16; aged wethers, $11 ; fat ewes upward to $8.50. W'eek of December 6 OR the week beginning December 6th in Michigan temperatures ' start off ran ging considerably above the seasonal normal. At the same time there will be rains in many parts of th state together with strong winds. About Tuesday there will be a clearing up of the weather but as there will be another storm appear- ing over the far Northwest at about the same time, the fair weather will not last. In fact, more rains may be expected in many parts of this state about Wednesday and Thurs— day. The weather for the latter part of the week will be generally fair caused by an extensive area of high barometric pressure. Week of December 13 The fair weather of last part of previous week will run over into the week beginning December 13th. Temperatures at the beginning of this week Will be rising and by Tuesday Will be considerably above the seasonal normal for the state. About Monday or Tuesday cloudi— ness will increase in Michigan and then will come rain and high winds followed later with sleet and snow. These conditions will last until just after the middle of the week when there may be a short respite from cloudiness. 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