An Independent

Farm Magazine Owned and
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[THE EASTER RABBI'E

Read- In this issue: , —“How Does the Future of the Wool Market Look?”-— “Increase Your Profits
From Your Potato Crop By Planting Certified Seed ” ——“Sweethearts For Fifty Years
and Over’ ’—-“Are You Interested In Growing Some Peppermint This Year”

 


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ERR are several quarantines in
effect in Michigan that the
farmer should become familiar
with, but perhaps the most import-
ant one is the one relative to the
European Corn Borer. It is as fol-
lows;
“The fact having been determined

by the U. S. Department of Agricul-
; titre that an injurious insect, the
;. European Corn Borer (Pyrausta nu-
bllalis Hubn.) not heretofore widely

prevalent or distributed in the State
of Michigan, exists in the Dominion

of Canada and in the States of Mas-
~ sachusetts, New Hampshire,
moat,
~ York, Pennsylvania,

Ver-
Rhode Island, New
Ohio and in
certain counties of Michigan as fol-
lows:

“Counties of Monroe, Wayne,
Lenawee, Washtenaw, Macomb, Oak-
land, Livingston, St. Clair, Lapeer,

Maine,

.Genessee, Sanilac and Huron.

“Townships of Taymouth, Birch

, Run, Frenhenmuth, B rid g e p o r t,
I Blumfleld, Buena Vista,

Saginaw,
Kockville and Zilwaukee and the

1' City of Saginaw in SAGINAW COUN-

Which Question

The European Com Borer nuance»

TY; Merritt. Portsmouth, Hampton,
Frankenlust, Monitor, Bangor and
the City of Bay City in BAY COUN-
TY; Napoleon, Columbia and Nor-
vell in JACKSON COUNTY.

“Now, therefore, I, L. Whitney
Watkins, Commissioner of Agricul-
ture for the State of Michigan, un-
der authority conferred by Act 196,
P. A. 1925, do hereby establish the
counties, townships and cities above
defined, a quarantined area in the
State of Michigan and forbid the
movement 'or distribution from any
point or points within the described
area to any point or points outside
of such quarantined areas of any of
the following commodities grown
within the quarantined area of the
State of Michigan from the Domin-
ion of Canada and the States of Mas-
sachusetts, New Hampshire, Yer-
mont, Maine, Rhode Island, New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, of
corn, including ears and all parts of
the stalk, all sorghums and sudan
grass, cat and rye straw as such or
when used as packing, cut flowers or
entire plants of chrysanthemums,

asters, comes, asses. hotlyhocits
and cut flowers and entire plants of
gladiolus and dahlias except the
bulbs thereof, without stems. (Ex-
emption— clean shelled corn and
clean seed of broom corn.)
“Provided that out and rye straw
as such or when used as packing, cut

flowers or entire plants of chrysanf‘

themums, 'astors, cosmos, zinnias,
hollyhocks and cut flowers and en-
tire plants of gladiolus and dahlias,
except the bulbs thereof, without
stems, shall be permitted into Mich-
igan from the Dominion of Canada
and from quarantined areas in Mas-
sachusetts, New Hampshire, Ver-
mont, Maine, Rhode Island, New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio when
accompanied by a certificate show-
ing they have been inspected and
found to be free from the European
Corn Borer. The inspection and cer-
tification shall be in accordance with
the rules and regulations set forth
by the U. 8. Department of Agricul-
ture in Quarantine No. 43 (Third
revision). These same crops shall
not be moved outside of the quar-
antined area in the State of Michi-
gan unless accompanied by a certi-
ficate issued by either an omcial of

 

 

RE you content with buying feed

simply on the basis of “How much
Or are you farsighted
enough to look further into the feed
question and ask“ How much milk will I
get in return for the cost of this feed?”

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more milk. And

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to a fixed standard, to insure unvarying
perfection in the finished feed. It costs
something to insure absolute cleanliness
and freedom from tramp iron and steel.
But those things make Larro produce

a feed that produces

more is naturally worth more.

If all feeds produced the same amount of

milk—or kept cows in the same condition
-you’d be justified in buying on price
But they don’t.

alone.

It costs more money to use only choice
ingredients in Larro and to blend each one

Next time you buy feed remember that
you are buying results—not price, nor

protein, nor individual feeding theories.
Ask yourself, not—“What does it cost?,”

There is a dealer near you

but, “What will I get?”~—and you’ll never
feed anything else but Larro.

THE LARROWE MILLING COMPANY

DETROIT

 

I have been feeding
Larro for two years and
find it the bestfeed I can
buy, as it put my cows
in better condition, also
gave me increase in the

Spencer, Mass.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

arro

The Safe Ration For Dairy Cows

 

I have fed Larro for
about two years. I have
fed a good many differ-
ent kinds of feed, but I
am having the best
results with Larro of
any feed I ever fed.
Clyde C. Bates
Kinsman, Ohio

 

 

 

Also a complete line of Poultry Feeds—as good for

yourchickensasourDairyFeedisforyourcowa-

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the State to National postman ct

Agriculture. ~

“Provided that nothing in this or-
der shall be construed to prevent
the free movement of the plants and
plant proddcts covered by this quar-
antine from points outside the quar-
antined area to points within the
above quarantined area.

“No person growing or control-
ling corn or parts thereof, shall sell
or give to any other person any such
corn or parts thereof to be taken
outside of the quarantined area.

“This order shall apply to trans-
portation companies,
automobilists, hucksters and others.

“All previous quarantines that
may be found in conflict with the
provisions of this quarantine are
hereby annulled.

“This notice’ of quarantine shall

bgzeffective on and after January 2
“IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hand and at-
fixed the omcial seal of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture this second day
of January, Nineteen H u n d r e d
Twenty~Six.—-L. WHITNEY WAT-
KINS, Commissioner of Agriculture."
The penalty for violating this
quarantine is given as follows:

“Section 5 of Act No. 196, Public
Acts 1925, reads as follows: ‘Any
person who shall violate any of the
provisions of this act shall be guil-
ty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof shall be sentenced
to pay a fine of not less than twenty-
five dollars nor more than one hun-
dred dollars and the costs of pro-
secution, or by imprisonment in the
county jail not less than ten days
or more than ninety days, or by both
such fine and imprisonment at the
discretion of the court for each and
every offense!

“Paragraph 7426, Section 16 of
Act No. 91, Public Acts 1905, reads
as follows: ‘In case the owner, or
the person in charge of trees,
shrubs, vines or plants, infested
with a destructive insect, or a dan-
gerously contagious disease, refuses
or neglects to carry out the orders
of the State Inspector (Commission-
er of Agriculture), or of the town-
ship, village, and city inspectors,
within the period stated in the no-
tice served upon him, the state,
township, village, or city inspectors,
respectively, shall employ such aid
as may be necessary to carry out
their orders and recommendations.
In case the owner refuses to reim-
burse them for the expense incur-
red, it shall be certified to the town-
ship board, or village, or city coun—
cil, who shall allow it, and spread it
as a special tax upon the property
concerned.’

“Rules and regulations promul-
gated July 27th, 1925, are hereby
annulled.

“These

rules and regulations

‘shall be effective on and after Jan-

uary 14, 1926.”

HIGH SCHOOL TESTS FARMERS
SEED CORN
HE agricultural department of
the Fremont High School thru
its instructor, E. B. Holden, is
offering to the farmers of Newaygo
county the benefit of its equipment
for the purpose of testing seed corn
for spring planting. The seed corn
situation in Newaygo county is
alarming this spring according to
Harold Stinson, county agricultural
agent and numerous tests thus far
made show that less than 50 per
cent of the corn is fit to plant on
account of low germination. Even
some of the corn which was harvest—
ed before the frost last fall and
which was properly cared for dur—
ing the winter is showing only aver-
age germination while crib corn is
practically worthless for seed pur-
poses according to Mr. Holden. The
vocational agricultural department
of this high school has been built
into the curriculum with the aim of
service to the rural community and
many farmers are taking advantage
of the numerous offers made by the
department.—S. S. Nesbit.

 

As we are changing our address will
write you at once as we do not want to
miss even one copy of this big, little
paper. A paper rightly named—business,
all business—a paper to depend on.
Please keep the M. B. F. coming to—
F D. Vestaburg, Michigan. .

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lemons, Michigan.

SATURDAY, MARCH 27,1926

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-_ How Does the Future of the Wool Market Look?

Well Known Shiawassee County Farmer-Writer Answers This Question For Readers

HE price situation for wool in
Michigan is one where the

‘ grower is the innocent bystand-
er. He is not even consulted, inter-
viewed or interrogated. The factors
in favor of. a price in line with wages
and cost of production are waived
aside, as the lanyers say, as being
immaterial. ‘The duty on wool does
not measure the difference between
foreign and domestic wool for Euro-
pean buying in Australia is strong
as well as firm prices at the London
auctions, and little foreign wool
coming into the U. S. at the present
time.

The trouble with the Boston wool
market quotations is that dealers
cannot get those prices. This is
called a nominal market. To under-
stand the situation Eastern buyers
are not buying, and this “laying
off” is seasonable in the sense that
by so doing they expect to get W001
at a lower price.

There are about 1% million more
sheep in the U. S. than there was
in 1925. This figured in wool is
around 8 million pounds, is not a
surplus for we have to import many
more millions to supply our de-
mands. a

Population and per capita con-
sumption increase is not far behind
this additional wool and should fair-
ly well balance. The facts are that
farm marketing has little or no
power in price‘making. Cooperative
selling without influence on prices is

By JAS. N. McBRlDE

a carefully nursed palliative by
many who prey upon agriculture.

Michigan wools are being bought
in some places at 30 cents per
pound although the general opinion
is that medium grades of good wool
will be sold at 35 cents. To the
man who can hold wool and is not
obliged to sell one may safely pre-
dict above forty cents, although he
will have to wait.

The wool trade is just a little dis-
concerted over the probable entry of
the Ford Company for something
less than one million pounds of
wool. The time is not far distant
when Detroit will be one of the large
factors in wool manufacture. The
quantity of cloth used for automo-
bile upholstering is an item of in-
creasing importance, in fact much
more so than decreases in other
lines dictated by fashion. The ex-
portation of autos takes wool out
out the country which is not the case
of clothing to any extent. The fa-
bric used on auto seats is heavy
weight and demands strong fibre
wool. Top linings not subject to
wear can use cheaper wools.

Over-Worked Talking Points

There are two overworked talk-
ing points by the buyer, which are
well to know. First, that hurry and
chaffy wool with modern machinery
and cloth carbonizing are not nearly

so serious defects as represented.
This is well known to the mill men,
but many dealers sincerely believe
the discount should be heavy. Sec-
ond, that unless your wool is sold
before the close of the season there
Will be no market for it and you will
have to carry it over until next
year. The demand for wool at sev-
eral Michigan and adjoining state
mills is constant and the less than
carload rate on wool in bags is a
small item.

Not Profitable

Conversely to this the wool from
fed lambs has not been profitable to
the manufacturers. The latter als
ways finds this class of wool shrinks
excessively in scouring and has
weak fibre. The loss in noils or
short broken pieces in yarn making
is an objection. The vast amount
of lambs’ wool pulled and scoured
from pelts always seems to have the
first call from the mills who can
use it. Packer buyers of lambs al-
ways carefully figure pelt values and
are perhaps closer buyers than the
wool dealers in this respect.

The Dickinson bill does not in—
clude wool as at present drafted,
but it would be admirably adopted
to handle under legislation to care
for seasonable surplusage. There is
no actual surplus, but the failure of
present demand makes a buyers

market. With the surplus law work-
ed out as to wool there would be

wool growers’ associations in the re-

spective states who would meet say
at Chicago and establish a base price
on the different grades with due 81-
lowance for freight rates. Suppose 50
cents was the basic price for quarter-
blood with other graduations as to
demand. Then the equalization or
price insurance fee would be deter-
mined say at 8 cents per pound. This
would make 42 cents paid by the
dealer and on the Michigan clip
around $500,000 collected. When
wool was not taken at the base price
then it would go into storage with
this insurance fund to meet any
losses. The safe price to reckon wool
prices would be the London market
plus the tariff. This base would put
wool above 50 cents at the present
time, and would make the tariff fully
protective. The unused portion of the
insurance fee would be returned to
the grower. The chances are it.
would never be used since the grow-
er would be in a position to say
“take the wool or leave it” just as
the buyer now says “take my price
or you don’t sell.”

The wool grower who furnishes
wool for automobile upholstery
would be in the same position as the
steel manufacturers and could base
prices on the general price level.

This type of market organization
would bring over $1,000,000 to the
Michigan wool crop for 1926.

Increase Your Profits From Your Potato Crop By Planting Certified Seed

By H. C. MOORE

Extension Specialist, Michigan State College

0 potatoes run out? This ques-

tion is often asked by potato

growers and it can be answered;
Yes, potatoes do run out or degener—
ate, but they need not “run out” if
some care is taken in the growing
and selecting of the seed. Some of
our very best varieties today are
those that have been in general use
for a long period of years.

Careful observations in many
Michigan potato fields will convince
anyone familiar with potato growing
that growers are experiencing con-
siderable difficulty from this potato
degeneration or so called “running
out”. The run out conditibn is in-
dicated by small, weak hills also
by hills of normal size that have
their leaves rolled and remain very
stiff throughout the growing season.
Other signs of run out plants are
the ones showing a mottled condition
of the leaves. Instead of the leaves
being a uniform dark green color
they are decidedly blotched or mot—
tled with light and dark green.
These are some of the symptoms of
the so called virus diseases includ-
ing leaf—roll, and mosaic which are
most responsible for the running out
of the seed potatoes.

Since these diseases not only pro—
duce weak and off—type. plants, but
also cut the yields from 15 to 60
per cent or more it is imperative
that those growers who are anxious
to make a profit from potato growing
plant seed free from such troubles.
Unfortunately it is impossible to se—
lect seed from a bin with any degree
of assurance that it is free from
these virus diseases. The diseased
plants very often produce well-
shaped, medium sized potatoes that
most growers would naturally select
for seed. The only efficient way to
secure seed free from leaf—roll, mo-
saic, etc., is to do the seed selecting
in the field, Where consideration can
be given to the vigor and health of-
the plant. The prevalence through-
out the country, of these virus di—
seases has caused the development of

-/seed potatoyinsgection and certifica-

tion work in several states. In 1920
Michigan began to inspect and certify
seed potatoes. The amount produced
in that year was approximately 25,-
000 bushels. For the past two or
three years the annual certified seed
production in this state has been ap-
proximately 300,000 bushels.

To insure the seed being free from
not only virus, but other serious di—
seases, fields listed for inspection
are examined carefully by inspectors
working under the direction of the
Michigan State College. At least
two fields showing any appreciable
amount of disease are rejected. The
seed that does pass the field inspec-
tion is inspected after being dug,
and any lots that show such troubles
as serious scab or scurf injury, off-
type potatoes, etc., are disqualified.
An inspection is made at the time
the certified seed is loaded on board
the cars, so that "re purchaser will
be assured of getting a carefully
graded product. Certified seed po—
tatoes are shipped in new sacks con-
taining 150 pounds and each sack
is sealed with a lead and wire seal.
The official certification tag of the
Michigan Crop Improvement Associa—
tion is attached to the seal.

That certified seed is really im-
proved seed is borne out by the fact
that during the past few years sev-
eral hundred tests have been con—
ducted comparing Michigan certified
seed potatoes with non—certified.
The results of all these tests show
that certified seed outyield non-
certified seed by approximately 50
bushels per acre. Not only is the
yield materially increased by plant-
ing certified seed, but the market
quality of the potatoes is much bet-
tered. It is impossible to produce
potatoes of the best market quality
from culls or inferior seed.

Growers of certified seed potatoes
have to follow the very best cultural

practices that are recommended by

the Michigan State College. In the

first place it is necessary that they
practice a long rotation of crops, not
planting potatoes on the same land
more often than once in four or five
years. It is necessary that they
plant certified seed and that they
treat it with corrosive sublimate for
the control of scab and black scurf.
All certified seed potato growers
practice hill selection methods, se-
lecting methods, selecting their seed
at digging time from a special plot.
Their certified fields are isolated or
well removed from any other potato
fields, thus preventing the spread of
infectious diseases by means of in-
sects.

To further control insect pests and
foliage diseases, at least five appli-
cations of bordeaux mixture com-
bined with arsenicals and nicotine
sulphate are made each season with
high pressure Sprayers that maintain
200 pounds or more, pressure. In
additionto these practices, certified
seed growers are required to rogue
their fields very carefully during the
growing season. All diseased or off-
type plants are removed, both tubers
and vines being taken from the field.

These good cultural practices com-
bined with the rigid inspection ser—
vice and high standards of inspec-
tion help to explain the high quality
of Michigan certified seed. It ac,—
counts for the 90% increase in yield
per acre from certified fields that
has taken place in the past five years.
Likewise, it explains the excellent
results that have been so generally
secured in Michigan and other states
with Michigan certified seed potatoes.
Almost 100,000 bushels of the certi-
fied seed is planted each year by
Michigan growers compared with
only 20,000 bushels four years ago.

This year, due to the general seed
potato shortage throughout the
country, it is expected that there wlli
be an unusual demand for Michigan
certified seed by out of state growers.
It is hoped that Michigan growers

son is the Irish Cobbler.
question this is the best early variety
for most Michigan districts.
very satisfactory yields when planted
on fertile soil and carefully sprayed
with bordeaux mixture. It is the ;
variety most extensively planted by" :
market growers in the Detroit area.
Last yeai these growers bought sev-
eral car loads of certified Irish Cob-
bler seed.

listed can be purchased from the
Michigan Potato Growers Exchange,

Cadillac, Michigan or from individual
growers. ’

certified seed and the inspection and
certification work can be procured
from the Farm Crops Department
Michigan State College, E. Lansing."

will fill their seed requirements at
an early date and that those growers
whose potatoes are not up to stand-
ard in the matter of yield and qual-
ity will replace their inferior seed
with certified seed.

This is a most opportune time to
buy certified seed since this year
there is less difference between the
price of certified seed and N0. 1
table stock potatoes than there has
been in the past three or four years.
It requires this year only a bushel
and a half of No. 1 table potatoes
to pay for a bushel of certified seed,
whereas, last year it required two
bushels.

The varieties certified this season
are Russet Rural; White Rural;
Green Mountain and Irish Cobbler.
These are the standard varieties for
Michigan. The Russet and White
Rural varieties are most extensively
grown in the Lower Peninsula while
the Green Mountain is most gen-
erally raised in the Upper Peninsula.
The rural varieties will withstand
dry weather conditions that often .
prevail in the Lower Peninsula. ' ‘
while the Green Mountain variety
is not so well adapted to these con-

ditions.

The only early variety of certi-
fied seed available for sale this sea-
Without

It gives

Certified seed of all varieties here

Detailed information on sources of.

   
 
   
  

  
  

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HE sweethearts in popular books

no atlays are young with most
of their life before them and as
‘-n as they become happily mar-
ed the story is brought to an end

‘ith the understanding that “they
ve happily ever after.” Young
vers are fine, God bless ’em, but

'e are very much interested in the
d lovers at present. Those who
arried, as they do in the books,
(I then continue to be sweethearts
r thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, or
‘ore years, working side by side.
aring the joys and sorrows of life;
rely their story is a beautiful one
ud worth telling at least briefly.
' r contest to find the longest mar-
ed couple in Michigan is bringing
mus many such stories which we
egoing to pass along to our read-
s at the same time publishing pic-
res of the heroes and heroines.
erhaps the heroes are not quite as
ory as they were when the story
gan, or the heroines as willowy,
t they are still sweethearts and
e hands of time have drawn them
oser together with the passing of
9 years.

Of the several photos and stories
e have received up to this date we
ave chosen three at random to
blish this time. They are Mr.
d Mrs. Hiram B. Oliver, of Neway—
; Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Pockling—
n, of Tecumseh; and Mr. and

I EPPERMIN’T is well adapted to
growing on well drained muck
soil and requires from 100 to
0 days growing season. Climatic—
1y speaking, good corn weather is
od peppermint weather.

Due to the abnormally high
ice of oil, $30.00 to $35.00 per
und‘, at the present time everyone
ants to get into the peppermint
me regardless of either soil or
imatic adaption.

Since there is sufficient muck land
"ailable in lower Michigan and
orthern Indiana, if planted to pep-
rmint, to produce more than
ough oil to supply all the U. S.
m.amds and 200, 000 pounds for
port if necessary, the Farm Crops
partment does not recommend
panding the average by growing
int 011 upland soil which might
:tter be devoted to adapted upland

With this word of caution for
”Se who are contemplating em-
rking in the peppermint business,
_: will discuss the cultural prac-
"65 for the benefit of those who
located in the proper climatic
and have the right type of. Soil
are intending to grow this crop
the first time

Planting

eppermint is not grown from
d as many suppose but is propo-
d by planting the roots and run-
which have nodes every 1 or
aches from which flew pants

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flare is the first picture to be published in our longest married couple contest.
Hiram B. Oliver of Newaygo, while on the right are Mr. and Mrs. G.

Sweethearts For Fifty Years and Over

Much Interest Shown in The Business Farmer’s Contest to Find Longest Married Couple in Michigan

~Frank Oliver, of

By MILON GRINNELL

Mrs. Noah Groesbeck, of Warren.

The longest married of the three
couples are Mr. and Mrs. Oliver.
Both Mr. Oliver and his wife, Su-
san B., were born in this state and
have lived their entire life to date
in Michigan. He is now 87 years
old and Mrs. Oliver is 83. They
were married October 1st, in the
year of 1861, and have lived, until
recently, on their old farm near
Clarksville, in Ionia county, thich
they’still own and their son James
works. Eight children were born to
this union but there are only five
of them living at present. They are:
Eunice Rounds, of Grand Rapids;
Newaygo, with
whom Mr. and Mrs. Oliver are now
living; Manley Oliver, of Big Ra—
pids; James Oliver, of Clarksville;
and Tina Chorley, of Newaygo. They
also have twenty-three living grand—
children and 21 living great-grand
children.

Mr. and Mrs. Pocklington, of Te-
cumseh, Lenawee county, are the
second longest married couple

whose pictures are shown here. They

celebrated their Golden Wedding
nine years ago last November, being
married in 1866. This couple lives
on their farm three miles east and
one mile south of Tecumseh, where
Mr. Pocklington was born seventy-

nine years ago. His wife was
born in the state of New York, her
parents moving later 'to Albion,
Mich. She too is seventy—nine years
old, her birthday being in February.
They had three children, two living,
a daughter, Adah, who has always
lived at home, and a son, Frank,
who resides two miles north of Te-
cumseh. The third child, a son,
died nine years ago. They have two
grand children. “We work our own
farm, hiring no help except at
threshing time," writes Mr. Pock-
lington.

The third couple, Mr. and Mrs.
Noah Groesbeck, of Warren, in Ma-
comb county, celebrated their Gold-
en Wedding last July, in the same
farm home they entered as bride
and groom in the year 1875. Mr.
Groesbeck, who is the son of one of
the first settlers in Macomb county,
Chas. Groesbeck, was born on this
same farm 75 years ago. Canada
was the birthplace of Mrs. Groes-
bec'k, and Windsor was the city. She
is now 70 years old. Mr. Groesbeck
is a first cousin to A. J. Groesbeck,
governor of Michigan.

Can You Qualify?

So far we have heard from near-
1y" 'twenty couples ”who have been
married from thirty to sixty-five
years, and representing 17 counties

Are You Interested in Growing Some Peppermint

By PROF. J. R. DUNCAN

Instructor

in Farm Crops,

Michigan State College

 

 

WE have received so many inquiries recently about the growing
of peppermint in llfichigan that we [decided to publish a general

article on it.

Prof. Duncan has covered the subject to the best of

his ability considering the length of this article, and further details
will be supplied to any who desire them.

 

 

Prepare the ground as for sowing
any crop—firm and level.

When ready to plant, mark the
ground off with a furrow rmarker,
spacing furrows 3% feet apart, in
which you will plant the peppermint
roots. The furrows should be four
to five inches deep. Disc markers
can be bought on the market or you
can use a home-made one with five
inch cultivator shovels.

The price of roots at present is
$300 to $500 an acre and one acre
will set 8 or 10 acres depending on
weather conditions between now and
planting time. Freezing and thaw-
ing sometimes seriously injure the
roots. Secure the roots and plant
as early as you can get on the
ground in the spring.

The roots for planting should be
placed in good sized piles at con-
venient places on the field and cov-
ered with dirt to prevent drying out
before planting.

 

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The man who is to do the “set

ting” provides himself with a sack
suspended by straps from the shoul-
der, tears roots into small bunches
and fills his sack, then proceedsto
the open furrow and with one mo—
tion strings a bunch of roots out and
throws them in the furrow ahead
of him and with his feet drags dirt
on top of them as he moves forward.
An perienced {man can set from 1
to 1 A», acres a day.
The First Year

The first year‘ mint which is set

in rows is called “new" mint; it

costs the most to produce, but in re- ‘

turn yields the most oil.

When the mint comes up hoe and
cultivate to kill weeds. Do not al-
low maretail or any other ragweed

'or smartweed to exist among your -
Before cutting ‘-‘

peppermint . plants.
time send men through the field to
pull any the cultivator has missed.
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0n the left are Mr. and Mrs. Noah Groesbeck of Warren, in the center are Mr. and Mrs.
C, Pocklington of Tecumseh. .

in Michigan out of eighty-three. We
want to bring the number of entries
up to a hundred if possible and have
every county in the state contesting
for the honor of having the longest
married couple. Can you qualify,
or do you know of. any of your
neighbors who can?

To enter the contest the couple
.must be married twenty-five years
or more, and we must be supplied
with a picture of them together with
information on how old they are,
how long married, how long they
have resided in Michigan, what oc-
cupation has been, number of chil—
dren, grand—children, great-grand<
children, and any other points of in-
terest about lives that our subscrib—
ers would like to know about. The
prizes are: First, $5; Second, $3;
Third, $2. Photos will be returned
to the senders after we are through
with them.

Come on folks, dig up an entry.
We haven’t announced a closing
date as yet forthe contest but we
will not be able to'keep it open for
very long so get your entry in be-
fore it is too late.

'Watch for more pictures of Mich-
igan's pioneers and stories about
their married life. Perhaps we can
publish more of them in our next
issue at which time we, no doubt,
will announce the closing date of the
contest.

This Year?

First year mintVis cut by men
with scythes‘ or with a short sickle
bar on the ordinary mower. This
harvest comes the latter part of
August. The mint is wilted, forked
into good sized piles and is’ready
to load and haul to the still.

Late in the fall the entire field is
plowed four to five inches deep. In
the spring it is worked thoroughly
with the disc harrow, leveled with
spike tooth harrow and rolled with
heavy roller. Harrowing to kill
weeds is continued until the mint
is six inches high. One or two trips
over the field later on will be suf-
flicient to remove all obnoxious
weeds. This mint will be ready to
cut from the 15th to 25th of July.
It is cut with the mower, windrowed
with the side delivery rake, allowed
to wilt (not dry out) and hauled to
the still. “Old” mint yields from
one-half to. three-fourths that of
“new” mints The portion of. the
field from which you wish to get
roots to extend your acreage should
not be "fall plowed but left undis-
turbed after the crop is taken off,
then by running a plow about three
inches deep, driving the team strad-
dle of the row, you can throw out

" the roots so they can be shaken out

of the dirt with pitchiorks, loaded
on wagons and hauled to field to be
planted and places in- piles .at can-

  
     
   
 
   

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Aren’t they sweet? The picture was sent to us by Estella, little daughter of Mrs. Nelson Simkins, of children of Clifford Knight. The photo came from
William Wernette, ot Remus, Mecosta county. Tyre, Sanilac county, in the kitteu's basket. their great grandmother, Mrs, M. Page, Middleton.

ONE KIND OF HORSE POWER.——“This is my son, George, Jr., YOU’RE WRONG. ANOTHER KIND OF HORSE POVVER.—James Gaylord, of Man-
and my husband with our tractor in the field where they are plow- —This picture is two celona, Antrim county, is a great believer in the old fashioned horse
power (also mule power according to the above) and he is shown

ing,” writes Mrs. George McCastle, 01 Hespcria, in Newaygo county. sisters, B e t ty and
"George Jr., usually handles the tractor as his father lost an arm Francis Kliedo, of here starting his spring work. Notice the two hired men standing

a few years ago.” Eikton. in front of him.

SOlVlE PUNII’KINSb—Tliis is Mr. and

WATERMELON! 0H BOYl—Byers, BUSY DAYS.—When building a new house everyone is pretty busy but
Firs. Keifer, with their daughter, of Ken-

;randson of Mrs. A. L. Hooker, of Union Raymond Britton, of Battle Creek, his uncle Howard, and Bob, the Aire—
City, eating watermelon. Doesn’t it dale, stopped long enough to have their picture taken. Mrs. Diary Brit- dull, in Van Buren county, out in the
make your mouth water? ton, Traverse City, sent the picture. pumpkin 'patch.

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pounds. If you oanscare up a better pair or a pair —'-lea, daughter of Mr. and having a great time riding their donkey. The expression on tho-
7, 9G“! I’ll :takfi. my, hat, 0“. to the driver,” writes. Mrs. Hugh Reid, of Cliflord, donkey’s face indicates he is not very pleased over. it. The chil-
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BOARDING HELP

When a man rents on one-half, is
it rulable for him to feed all the
corn huskers or threshers or crews
of men or should the man owning
the farm feed one—half of the men on
such occasions? We rented a place
on halves this spring, and we had
twenty-two acres of corn, we hired
a machine to shred and husk it and
I paid my half of the bill, but the
man who owns this farm says I am
supposed to feed all the men. How
about it?——R. W.

HERE is no set practive relative

T to just how the board expense

shall be cared for. Sometimes

the landlord helps bear this expense,
especially for the machine crew.

If the tenant exchanges labor with
his neighbors the board is offset
when he works for them. It is the
tenant’s duty to furnish the labor re-
gardless of how procured and the
board of such help would fall upon
him unless otherwise agreed upon.
-——F. T. Riddell, Research Assistant,
Michigan State College.

RULES FOR MEASURING HAY

Will you please advise me as to
rules for measuring hay? Thanks.

———0. K., Coopersville, Mich.

OR rectangular haystacks the
distance over the top times the
width times the length times a

certain factor equals the volume of
the stack. The factor which should
be used varies with the shape of the
top of the stack. The more nearly
the top of the stack is shaped like a
circle the more hay it will contain
for the other dimensions. If a
small stack has a cone shaped top,
use .25 as a factor. If a stack of
the same height has a top shaped
like a circle, use .31 as the factor.
If the stack is extremely tall and
cone shaped use .31 as the factor.
If another stack is of the same
height but has a top shaped like a
circle, use .37 as the factor. The
factor for stacks of medium height
are: .28 for cone shaped and .34 for
round tops.

Another rule is that the distance
over the top minus the width, divid—
ed by two, equals the height, and
then the height times the width
the length equals the volume.

The cubic feet in a round stack
equals the circumference of the
stack at the base times itself times
the height, divided by a factor. For
cone shaped stacks the factor is
25; for stacks shaped like half a
sphere, the factor is 19; and for
stacks with vertical sides up to six
or eight feet and a flat top, the fac-
tor is 15. Fifteen many also be
used as the factor for stack with a
decided bulge but the circumference
should be taken half way between
the ground and the point of the
greatest bulge.

After the cubic feet has been
found the following table can be
used to find tonnage:

Height Cu. ft.
of Stack Settled per Ton
10 to 12 ft. 30 days 613
10 to 12 ft. 60 days 512
12 to 15 ft. 30 days 512
12 to 15 ft. 60 days 422

The same rules may be used for
measuring well settled hay in a
haymow or shed.

TRACTOR MISFIRES UNDER
HEAVY LOAD

I have a Fordson tractor which
I am having some trouble with, and
thought maybe you could help me.
It starts easy and runs smooth with
a light load but with a full load it
will misfire. I have put on a new
timer and have new plugs but that
does not seem to help. Compression
is good.-——-P. S., Cass City, Michigan.

RATHER frequent and usually
A unsuspected cause of the con-
ditions you describe is insum—
cient clearance between the valve
stem and tappet. This cause not
trouble under ordinary conditions
but under a heavy load the exhaust
valve stems are so expanded by heat
that they hold the valve off its seat.
Another frequent\ cause is partial

 

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Inquiries must be nccmopanled by full name and address. Name not used If so requested.)

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serve

Prompt, careful attentllon

jet, which permits enough fuel to
pass for light loads but not enough
for heavy loads. Sometimes water
in the carburetor bowl will produce
a similar effect.

If both valve action and fuel sup-
ply are all right under heavy load
conditions the ignition must be to
blame. Usually it is a case of the
coil not generating sufficient pres-
sure and amount of current to main-
tain a spark of igniting strength
across the spark plug points. If the
spark plug points are too far apart
the resistance will be too great for
the spark to jump across through
the high compression which exists at
heavy loads. The spark should not
be required to jump more than 1/32
of an inch, and may be still less as
long as it does not produce mis-
flring when the engine is running
idle. Even the best spark plug in-
sulators permit some leakage of cur-
rent, and this leakage increases with
the degree of heat, so that a weak
spark may be lost when the engine
is very hot.

Spark coils are also less efficient
as they get hotter, and if one or
more of your coils are weak this
weakness may be aggravated enough
by the heat of the hard working en-
gine to become incapable of spark-
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I enjoy reading The Farmers Ser-
vice Bureau and learn from its pages.
Am keeping my papers for future
reference.—W. K., Linwood, Mich.

 

 

working under full load conditions
you should be able to take the cable
off the spark plug and get a spark
at least 5/16 of an inch long from
the terminal of the cable to the cyl-
inder head. The spark strength may
be greatly reduced by the vibrator
points being worn,, dirty or out of
adjustment. Every Ford service sta-
tion of any size has special appara-
tus for testing and adjusting coll
units.—-—W. J.

DEEDING PROPERTY TO WIFE
AND DAUGHTER

Could a man give a quitclaim
deed of his property to his wife and
only child, jointly, to be recorded
after his death? If so, would the
wife have to sign the deed? Could
assignment of mortgages be made
in the same way as per above, and
if so, would it be necessary for the
wife to sign the assignment? The
object in both cases would be to re-
tain possession of the property in
the man’s name during his lifetime
and save probating after his death.
S. D. Hartford, Michigan.

ROPERTY could be deeded to
wife and child jointly and the
wife would not have to sign the

conveyance To accomplish your
purpose, however, it would be bet-
ter to deed the property to a third
person and have him deed a life
estate back to you with remainder
to the wife and child jointly. The
husband's interest in the mortgage
could be assigned to the wife with-
out her signing it.—Legal Editor.

CHILDREN ARE. HEIRS

Two years ago my mothe who
lives in the state of Ohio ' de a
Will leaving all her property to her
children. After that she married a
wealthy, aged farmer of the same
state. About a month ago she had
an operation and died. What we
want to know is this—does her hus-
band get a share of her property?
If so, can her children put a claim
in on his property when he dies? If

so, what share cam he or the children

cla’im?-—-P. G. S., Blissfleld, Mich.

-——-The children would be entitled to
all property devised to them by their
mother’s will, and the second hus-
band Would not inherit any of it.—-
Legal Editor.

COULD NOT TAKE PROPERTY

If a husband and wife own pro-
perty jointly and have debts on
same and the wife falls heir to
some property, can she be forced to
use this money to pay the debts she
and her husband have contracted?
——-J. 8., Coleman, Michigan.

AM of the opinion the wife's own
I separate property could not be

taken for the purpose of paying
obligations which she and her hus-
band have contracted jointly.——-—Le-
gal Editor.

TUITION

We have in our school a nonresi-
dent pupil. He stays with his sister
and goes to our country school and
is in the eighth grade. His parents
are living about four blocks from
the schoolhouse. The question is
this, should we not ask tuition and
also how much tuition should we
ask?——R. H., Tekonsha, Mich.

HE above states that a pupil is
a non-resident pupil and at the
same time that the parents of
the pupil live about four blocks from
the schoolhouse. If the parents of
the pupil are legal residents of the
district, the child is a legal resident
although he stays with his sister
rather than his parents. In this case
he is a resident and not a nonresi-
dent pupil.

However, if the pupil is a non-
resident pupil, the board of educa-
tion have authority to charge tui-
tion. They have authority to deter-
mine the amount providing the
amount of tuition cannot be greater
than 15 per cent' in excess of the
per capita cost as determined by the
census list of the district.——G. N.
Otwell, Dept. of Public Instruction.

NO FUND FOR RELIEF OF
AGED PEOPLE

Is there any fund in the State of
Michigan that is applied to the re—
lief of aged people that are totally
blind and have no income but have
to depend on the charity of friends?
-—0. G., Glennie, Mich.

KNOW of no fund in the State of

Michigan that is applied for the

relief of aged people who are to-
tally blind and have no income but
have to depend on the charity of
friends—Chas. J. DeLand, Secre—
tary of State.

GROWING CHRISTMAS TREES
ON MUCK

I would like to know if Christmas
trees do well on muck lan‘d? Would
hazel nuts grow good on low land,
muck?——G. L., Langsburg, Mich.

HRISTMAS trees could be plant-
C ed on muck land providing the
drainage 'Was good. The trees
best suited for the growing of
Christmas trees are Norway spruce.
Hazel nuts do well also on muck
soils provided the drainage is good.
——R. F. Kroodsma, Extension Spe-
cialist in Forestry, M. S. C.

COMPENSATION SHOULD CON-
TINUE

If widow was getting compensa-
tion paid her by a manufacturing
company for the death of her hue-
band, said compensation being a set
amount. If she was married again
before said compensation was paid
in full could they stop it, or would
she receive it the same as before?
Said widow has one child by deceas-

ed husband.-—-Mrs. H., Shepherd,
Michigan.
———Subsequent remarrlage of the

widow would not stop the compensa-
tion she receives for the death of
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Soil is the farmer’s working capital. On its proper hand:
ling depends the profits of the year’s work.

A perfect seed bed, plowed, harrowed and pulverized at
just the proper time is the best crop insurance”

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Over half a million Fordsons are in use and farmers
everywhere report their help in building a proper seed
bed increases not only the quantity but the quality of
their yield.

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payment plan which makes it easy
for you to be sure of a better
crop this year With Fordson power

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On June 6th a year ago Immel
Bros. of Yellow Bud, Ohio,
had 108 acres in corn.

On that day the Scioto River
overflowed and covered their
corn field until June 12th.
Replanting, of course, was
necessary.

On June 21st, using Fordson
tractors, they started to pre-
pare the Iand again, finishing
June 28th. They cultivated
this corn three times in ten
days with Fordsons and two
row cultivators.

The certified yield, was 6,480
bushels of good quality corn,
or $5,184.00 worth of corn
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The circle at the bottom shows this same seed after it

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The circle in the middle shows a magnified sample of

the trash that was removed from the ordinary “ cleaned”
seed by Dickinson’s re-cleaning. Besides dirt and very
Weak seeds it contains six different kinds of weeds—-
enough to make a lot of trouble, and cost a lot of money.

Does Re-cleaned Seed Pay?

Ask your nearest “Pine Tree” dealer for a free copy

of “ The Harvest In The Bag,” a new book on seed testing
and seed judging that gives facts and figures of value to
No matter where you buy your seeds, it
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If your dealer doesn’t have it,

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, Busy Days
. S, I’ll say these are busy days
. on Broadscope Farm. In fact,
it has been a very busy winter.
There seems to have been more
work to do than in former "Years.
The cold, rainy
weather last fall
delayed the con-
struction of our~

potato storage
house, and kept
us from doing
much of the reg-
ular farm work
ordinarily done
in the fall. The

storage part was
completed sufli-
ciently to enable
us to place the
potatoes in it
about December
1. Then for the next days we husked
corn in the field. It was real cold,
but we accomplished considerable.
Still, half the crop remained to be
husked, and as it was all binder
out we drew much of it and stacked
it near the barn. We have been
husking this as it was fed out. There
are several acres of corn yet in the
field, and if spring will hold off a.
few days longer, I have great faith
we will get our fall work done yet!

Then after the corn and fodder
were hauled, in December, we fin-
ished the laying house, which is the
upper part of the potato storage
building. This took some time and
with log hauling, word cutting, etc.
March first arrived all too soon. This
month, on a certified seed potato
farm, brings a rush of business
which most farmers do not have.

For various reasons, it is quite
impossible to fully grade certified
seed stock in the fall. Until this
year, the major part of our crop
was stored in pits, and could not be
graded until the weather became
suitable to open them, which, in
many springs is late. Having our
crop in the storage house has en—
abled us to work at grading, etc.,
and this surely will facilitate the
shipping when suitable weather
comes. Some orders have already
gone by express. Express rates are
quite high, but many farmers in
Ohio and Indiana like to green
sprout the early seed potatoes and
are willing to pay the extra trans-
portation charge.

Another thing which consumes
considerable time in March on a 'po—
tato farm, is disposing of the cor-
respondence. This has been unus-
ually heavy with up ‘this season, and
while it requires much of our time,
it is pleasant work and no mail
ever brought too many inquiries.
Not all the letters contain orders.
(Some simply want information
about how we play this or that part
of the potato game. We are very
glad to answer such letters.

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Green Sprouting

Speaking of the Ohio and Indiana
farmers green sprouting early seed
potatoes, reminds me that this sub-
ject is a timely one right here in
Michigan. It is a practice seldom

 

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different problems and he ls siw a led to lve
charge. ddress him care of MayflflF. and “you
are a paid-up subscriber.)

followed in the Wolverine State, and
if we do not watch out, those Buck-
eye and .H'oosier farmers are going
to cut circles all around us in early
potato production. Fact is,
and Indiana are fast coming to the
front in the production of potatoes;
A few years back, and they almost
believed they could not grow pota-
toes on their soils. Disease,
suited varieties and poor seed with
a lack of practice in potato culture,
were the causes of this belief.
with certified seed, and the conse-
lquent suitable, disease free and
hardy varieties, they have found po-
tatoes quite suitable to much of
their land, and are quick to grow
them. Many car loads of table stock

which Michigan once sent to these-

states, have to find another market.
‘One not in touch with the situation

Ohio I

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would hardly realize how many
more spuds are grown in these
states than formerly. ‘ There are ‘

different ways of green sprouting
seed potatoes, but for the average
farmer who only plants for his own
need, he can green sprout the'seed

right back of his heating stove, or '
if a furnace is used, place them near ,

it. Use crates as containers, and do
not fill completely full. The bottom
crate should be set on an empty
crate. But the wife objects? Well,
maybe she won’t if you explain to
her that you will have new potatoes
about two weeks. earlier by this
green sprout method. If you are to
treat the seed for scab, treat it be-
fore sprouting. 'Do not cut the seed
until ready to plant, and then very
carefully that no sprouts are brok-
en off. Don’t drop the cut seed into
a pail, or other container; lay it in,
and lay .in the ground, out side
down-covering only about half the

depth you will eventually want it.‘
* 3k * ’

A Sudan Grass Letter

A timely letter comes from a
Calhoun county farmer. It shows
what he thinks of Sudan grass as a
pasture plant and hay substitute.

“As a reader of the M. B. F., I
read the Broadscope Farm writer’s
article on pasture shortage and the
possibilities of Sudan grass as a pas—
ture plant. My opinion of. Sudan
grass is very favorable. I sowed
some in an old garden spot last
spring, and owing to weather condi-
tions, my other pasture did not last
long, so I turned eight head of cat-
tle in this Sudan grass two hours
each day; one hour in the morning
and again in the afternoon. Never
had a piece of ground do me so
much good before. I also sowed
four acres for. hay on a very poor
piece of land, nearly all sand. I
out about eight tons of hay.

I sowed twenty two quarts to the
acre, but I think it was too thick.
Eighteen quarts would be better.
The hay was not hard to cure, about
the same as heavy timothy. It was
sown with a drill about July first,
This year I shall sow June first, and
try and cut for hay the second time.
It rained for a month on the hay
last fall, but it was very green in
color when I drew it, and all stock
seemed fond of i .”.—-—J. E. 0.

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TEIE,AND MEASURES

DEAR EDITOR: I wish to second
the motion of Mr. Meeks, “Why

the bushel?" Nearly every-
thing we buy from the store is
bought by the pound or package
containing so many pounds or ounc-
es. I think it would be easier to
read or listen to a market report
that was give nentirely by pounds
instead or bushels, peeks, hampers,
or bunches.

A few years ago potatoes were
sold by the bushel. Now they are
sold by the hundredweight. As
times change let us change with

. them.

or times or time, why
does Michigan have three or Ear?
Would not one be better? We are
getting as bad as the Mose, who
have a. different length yard for the
butcher, bake-r and candlestick nak-
er. Let us have one time and one
way of selling or buying farm pro-
duce, that is, by the pound—L.
W. Betcher, Lenawee County.

 

CONDITION OF FARRIERS

' R EDITOR: Occasionally we

hear a man who is on the pay-

roll of some farm organization
say that the talk of a depressed ag-
riculture in Michigan is all bunk or
some similar statement. Not long
ago I heard Mr. George Lord, chair-
man of our state tax commission,
say that if he had it in his power he
would absolutely exempt a large
proportion of the farm land in
Michigan from taxation during the
present economic conditions that
have impoverished the farming in-
dustry . I asked Mr. Lord if he

‘ would give me a written statement

expressing his opsion as to Michigan
agricultural conditions. He replied
that he would glady give me such
a statement and that I could use it
in any way that might give it wide

, publicity, as he said it is high time

that the pubic was given the fleets
in no uncertain terms. I enclose
a copy of Mr. Lord’s statement. I
would like to see it published in

‘ your paper as the people of Michi-
- gen should read this wholly unbias-

ed and impartial statement from a

g city man and a man of national re—

putation as a tax expert. In view of
what has been said in certain quar-
ters in regard to Michigan joining
the movement in Washington for
legislation to releve the deplorable
conditions now existing in the farm-
ing business, Mr. Lord’s statement

, is timely—Peter B. Lennon, Genes-

see County.

"My Dear Mr. Lennonz—Referrinsr to

our talk yesterday relative to the eco-
nomic condition of the agricultural in-
dustry, I will say to you that for the
last two years I have been making quite
a study of the matter following a. survey
made of many of the agricultural coun—
ties of the state. Prior to making this
survey it was hrrd for me to believe the
agricultural industry was in such a de-
plorable economic condition as many
would have me believe. I know now that
few of the statements of the many that
have been made relative to the matter
have been over-drawn.
....“The average farmer today is not mak-
ing any net income from the operation
of his farm. In many instances I found
where farmers were obliged to borrow
money with which to pay the taxes upon
their farms. In a great many instances
I found farms had to be abandoned by
the owners thereof because they Were un-
able to make both ends meet in the oper-
ation of their farms. This is a condition
that is hardly known in the industrial
centers of our State, and that ought not
to be. It seems to me there should be
a get together movement on the part of
the various industries in Michigan so
that each might learn the economic con-
dition of the other fellow.

“The cause of this economic condition,
in my opinion, is partly the fault of the
farmers themselves, in that they lack
proper organization essential to profit-
able conduct of agricultural business.
It is true that the farmers have various
organizations, but the do not Seem to be
pulling in the same reaction and where
you find a condition like that on y ‘
not vex“:Y mueh 00d can possibly r" t

to the farmer. t is needed ‘ 9, co-
opm eve spirit we hg’ an the ”more
of the Stator-a. of ‘ tibh

that wife! work out to the gen“ welfare

of tlglebtannmg interests. , . fl
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find that the farméxiwmfififluhg ‘
get the new and or tire invade d
r-réeintheabieo'dthow. we use

instances where fruit raised in Michigan
has been m to the (lineage mksts
and cold in commission hm That
some fruit would be brought back m
Michigan and sold to the wholesaler, in
turn to the retail dealer and finally to
the eon-sum. Where there are so many
hands to dip into lite revenue derivd
fr:— thenlooftammmthehrm-
er is sure to get a. small portion of tin
revenue for his labor and his investment.
That audition m be «and before the
farmer can hope to receive from the
operations! hh fan: what is due him:
ample revenue to provide to: his .
to stock his farm and maintain it in

than they now receive from their pro-
ducts a.nd their labor. Under the present
system of marketing farm products I
candmwnooaler conclusion!!!“ that
the dinner is getting his life's blood
muoeaadmtothmandthatlsaneoe-
nominal wrong.

“We often see staements in the press
and other publications of the eniomoua
crops raised in Michigan and other states.
and the large aggregate of these crops.
This may all be true. but the fact still
remains mat of the value of these crops
the fennel-s receive a. very small share.
scarcely enough to support the average
family in a manner that it ought to be
supported. I understand that there is a.
bill now before Congress having for its
purpose giving relief to the agricultural
interests. I have not yet had time to
examine the measure, but anything in
that direction would receive my support,
and I sincerely hope that something may
become byCongl-esswgranteomem-
its! so that the farmers of our land will
again know that title in the United States
is worth living.

“With kind personal regards. I am.
Cordinlly yours.”——George Lord, Chair-
man.

 

LUTHER BUREANK

_ EAR EDITOR: Surely much cre-

dit should be given to Mr. Bur-

bank for what he has done in
the vegetable kingdom though he
has not yet combined the milkweed
with the eggplant in such manner
as to secure a good material for
custard pies. Butlseriously, as Mr.
Burbank has announced himself as
an Infidel, what of the spectacle of
his presenting his shocking views
from the pulpit of the Congrega-
tional Church in San Francisco,
seated on both sides of him were
ministers who at the conclusion of
his talk shook hands with him cor-
dially and thereby indicated their
approval of his views and this oc-
curred in a building dedicated to the
worship of God. As to those reput—
ed instructors in religious matters.
the Bible tells us that “When the
blind lead the blind, both will fall
into the ditch" and it would seem
that the leading of these ministers
would thus result. It is earnestly
hoped that Mr. Burbank, now 77
years old, will be caused to see the
fatal error of his views ere God
calls him from earth. And is not
our nation drawing away from the
teaching of the Bible and well for us
will it be-if we cease our wishing to
gather material possessions and
turn our thoughts and efforts tothe
possessing of that which will afford
us true happiness in this world and
joy unspeakable in that world to
which all are going. God help us to
be truly wise in this most import‘lnt
subject—J. '1‘. Danielle, Clinton
County.

 

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DEAR EDITOR: There was a
slight mistake in the story on-

titled “ ‘Success or Bust’ in the
Chicken Business," concerning my
baby chicks, it should have mad
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“ STITCH in time saves nine."

This is one of those old say-
ings with which our grand-
fathers regulated their lives and a
mighty good rule it is to this day.
Sometimes, how-
' ever if the stitch
is not made in
‘ time even nine
4 times nine will
not repair the
' damage. Time-
liness, which is
one of the first
requisities for
successful spray-
ing, is o ften
quite a problem
in the early
spring when the
ground is. soft
and the buds are
-\ swelling.

Take for instance the spray for
peach leaf-curl. If this spray is to
be applied in the early spring it
must be completed before the buds
begin to crack. As soon as the bud
scales separate it is too late for the
“stitch in time” as the fungus of
leaf—curl will then gain entrance
where the spray cannot reach it and
a cool, wet spring will result in a
sever attack of the disease. Every
peach grower has seen orchards af-
fected by leaf-curl. The leaves are
curled, swollen, and distorted and
are often lacking in coloring matter.
The fungus damages the tree and,
incidentally, the grower’s pocket—
book, in several ways. It stops the
important process of sugar manu—
facturing in the leaves and in se—
vere cases the trees will shed all of
their leaves as well as their crop of
fruit. Spraying for leaf-curl should
not be neglected even when a crop
of fruit is not expected. because the
loss of its leaves is a severe blow to
a tree, the effects of which are far-
reaching. Loss of leaves will make
the formation of fruit buds for next
year’s crop practically imimssible.
It will also cause the tree to go into
the winter in a weakened condition
which will make it very susceptible
to winter killing.

The sporcs of the leaf—curl fungus
Winter on the outside of the bark
and buds of the tree and in this
stage are easily killed by spraying
with lime—sulphur solution. The Ex-
periment Station at East Lansing
recommends a combination leaf-curl
and scale spray applied curly in
spring before the buds swell. Twelve
and one—half gallons lime—sulphur to
100 gallons of water is the strength
recommended. If you are ccrtain
that your trees are free from scale
then this strength can be out in half
for the leaf—curl alone. Spraying
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dropped is also recommended to
control leaf-curl alone during the
following season.

Several seasons ago a severe at-
tack of leaf—curl caught many grow-
ers napping and thousands of trees
looked as though their leaves had
been scorched and shriveled by a
great flame. When the tourist sea—
son opened many visitors from other
states became inquisitive about the
“new variety of peach trees” which
they saw along the road. It so hap—
pened that in this season the tender
peach buds had escaped all frost
injury and a good crop of peaches
would have been harvested by these
growers if they had practiced a lit—
tle more foresight. Peach crops do
not come often enough to make
chance-taking of this kind profit-
able. The lcaf—curl spray should be

; regarded as a form of insurance and

when the damage caused by this
fungus is considered it is mighty
cheap insurance.

HIGH FLYERS

4N the old days when a man want-
1 ed to express the impossible he
would say, “That cannot be done
any more than a pig can fly.” The
time came, however, when 2. humor-
ous pilot took a pig up in an acre—
plane, just to prove that nothing is

  
 

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old apple orchards. A budding or—
chardist would look up at his sky-
scraper trees and then down at his
hand barrel-pump and would say,
“It would take a flying machine to
get those trees sprayed." Ha! Ha!
What a joke! But, hold on a min-
ute. Last year aeroplanes were used
for the first time in dusting orchard
trees!

This is not a wild dream. It was
actually done in Georgia’s large
peach orchards. The plane flew low
over the orchards, releasing the dust
which «was blown into a cloud by the
blast of air from the plane’s pro-
peller and settled on the trees be-
low.

Acre—dusting for orchards is still
in the experimental stage but who
knows; in future years the drone of
air-motors may supplant the famil-
iar chug-chug of the spray rigs in
the belt.

DI. S. C. TO HELP MELON
GROVVERS

E growing of muskmelons is

an important industry in south—

western Michigan. This busi-
ness has long since passed the ex—
perimental stage and the growers
are now confronted with a serious
fight against various diseases and
insects. It is with great pleasure,
therefore, that the growers heard a
recent announcement by Dr. V. R.
Gardner, head of the Department of
Horticulture at M. S- C.

Dr. Gardner announced that an
expert from the experiment station
would be permanently located in the
melon district this year to put on
definite experimental work on dis-
eases, insects, and plant breeding
and “to make a careful, thorogoing
analysis of the melon industry.”

TRIMDIING RASPBERRIES

We have Cuthbert raspberries and
would like to know when to trim
and how short to trim them. Which
is best, hill or hedge rows?—4G. T.,
Birch Run, Mich.

N trimming your Cuthbert red
I raspberries we would advise the
following treatment. As soon as
the crop is harvested cut out the
old canes which bore the crop but
leave the young shoots alone. Early
the following spring. bcforc growth
starts, give the young shoots a mo-
derate heading back. cutting back
any tips which were winter killed
and heading back those canes which
have grown to excessive length.
Where the canes are too thick in
the row thin them out to about 6
inches apart.

As for bill" or hedge rows we
would advise keeping them in hills
for the first two years and then al—
low them to grow in hegdes, being
careful not to let the hedges get too
wide.

SPIIAYING
Having a small farm set out to
apples, peaches, pears, plums, cher-

ries and grapes I would like to know
when to spray and what to use. The
apple trees seem to have scale. Some
of the peach trees bear a small fruit

and shed their leaves early. What
treatment should they have? In
trimmnig 3—year—old peach trees

should they be trimmed heavy or
light?—~W. H., Marne, Mich.

OUR peach trees which shed
their leaves are probably suf—
fering from the Peach Leaf—

curl disease, which is controlled by
early spring spraying with lime-sul-
phur solution. This spray must be
applied before the buds swell. Scale
on apple trees is also controlled by
early spring spraying with lime—sul—
phuu

We would advse you to give your
peach trees a light pruning. Head
back. the main branches slightly and
then practice a moderate thinning
out of the small branches. Heavy
pruning has a dwarfihg eflect on the
trees and causes them to come into
bearing late. _

For full and detailed information
on spraying and spray materials we

would advise you to 'write to The ,

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TEXT: “But now being free from sin
and become servants of God, ye have
your fruit unto sanctlflcation, and the
end eternal life.” Romans 6:22. of 8:1, 2.

E sat just in front of the writer.

He was well—groomed, atten-
tive and sedate. But before the
meeting ended he was shouting

“.Halleluiah” and “Glory to God.”
These good folks called this sancti-
fication. Was it? How different
from that old man who never shout-
ed in meeting, but often was found
praying in a little clump of bushes
at the rear of his little farm. We
missed grandfather lMartin when he
was gone for he was kind and
fatherly to all, and we believed his
to be a holy life.

But what is sanctificationl? In
Romans, the sixth chapter, it has,
particularly, a setting of conversion
or initial separation from sin; while
in the eighth chapter, the believer
is triumphantly freed from the do-
minion. of sin through the constant
operation of the .Spirit. This is
practical holiness. But to our text.

“But now being made free from
sin.” This is the initial setting
apart of the Christian, his first and
conditioned release from the tyran-
ny of sin under which he had been
living, and his getting away toward
the perfect life. The writer is say—
ing not a word about absolute per-
fection here. He knows he has not
reached it. It is enuf and import—
ant for him to take the steps that
lie ahead toward the goal. Any-
thing else is unsafe. Paul had
found in his life a tendency, a law
of sin that was working danger to
him. “Wretched man that I am,
who shall deliver me out of the body
of this death?” The bondage was
so great that it (was robbing him of
his noblest capacities and finest in-
heritances. And thiswas so of the
Roman Christians. But this is uni-
versally true. We see it in the lives
of men about us; men who are in
the iron control of sin, and who go
on madly in disobedience and trans-
gression and finally slip into the dark
night of despair. “'To whom ye
yield yourselves servants to obey,
his servants ye are whom ye obey,
whether of sin unto death, or of
obedience unto righteousness.”

So, we all have an obligation to-
ward sanctification, or holy living.
First, we have the obligation of ac-
ceptance. Our Eternal Friend asks
us to live in confession of .him; 'a
life dedicated to high desires and
unselfish living. ‘But how often we
have said, “Well now, that sounds
well, it is a beautiful ideal; but go
along Heavenly Messenger, we can-
not seriously attempt such a thing
now’ The apostle did that for
awhile and then one day he found
himself gripped by a helplessness
that was tragic. Then there he sur-
rendered a condemned conscience
and found emancipation of spirit.
And Paul would generalize the
teaching that nothing will efiect the
necessities of our own cases but a
faith union with Christ Jesus. Not
literalizing his commandments, but
a deep, surrendered, and mystical
union with his spirit.

We “become servants of God” in
this state of union; whereas, for—
merly, we were “servants of sin.”
No, we dare not sit down and lux-
uriate in a promised realization of
perfection. We have received the
Holy Spirit and have access to the
Sanctifler so that we might grow in-
to ho_1.iness We have been made
free from sin, yet sanctification has
just begun. The question now is,
“Are we willing thru Christian serv-
ice and thru humble submission to
the fiery ministrations of the spirit,
to pay the price unto a blameless,
the not faultless life?”

“Ye have your fruit unto sancti-
flcatlon." This is the obligation to
grbwth and fruit-bearing. We now
hear our Master's voice relating the
vine parable. ~ “Abide" and “frn_it’_’
are the key words. , A11 am

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abide, that is, think and live in the
realm of the Spirit, we have our
fruit unto blessed fellowship with
our Lord and His'people. We say
“unto’ because the life is tending in
that direction. ‘It is one continuing
effort to work out salvation, to give
expression to the liberated spirit
within. The first work of sanctifica-’
t1on is the gift of spiritual power,
but the applying of this [power is
the work of a lifetime, and it will
yield for us a constant growth in
Grace. We are debtors to do this:
we are bondservants of the Cross.
And this is not painless. Crucifixion
has its agony and ignominy. The
Holy Spirit has laid upon us the
obligation to renounce the flesh and.
to announCe the joy of living in
Christ. His spirit we are to ferment
into all the relations of life. To
live and work thus is an indication
that the flesh is dieing and we have
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and the leaven that will purify the
meal. Our individual renewal in
Grace is a process, a development.
Tho the life is purified at the center
it takes time to get sin out of the
blood. But sins are destined to
drop away in proportion as we live
in conformity to Christ.

But someone asks about 1 John
3:9: “Whosoever is begotten of God
doeth no sin, because his seed abid-
eth in him, and he cannot sin."
John’s treatment of the sin question
is a paradox. In 1:8 he says, “If
we say we have no sin we deceive
ourselves and the truth is not in us."
Here the writer seems to say to the
enlightened, to those who have ac-
cepted Christ, that they must not be-
come indifferent to right conduct in
life because sin is real; and the not
in the inner life, in the intentions
of the heart, it is in the outer mar—
gins and liable to break out in law-
lessness. Therefore “he that doeth
righteousness is righteous.” Con-
duct ‘is the test. Sanctiflcation
is not in" feeling that now we
have been reborn God will is-
sue an amnesty from all responsi-
bility for fleshly indulgences. We
are not holy just because we sit in
halleluiah pews and feel that way.
“Everyone that hath this hope set
upon him purifieth himself.” We,
ourselves, must desperately strug-
gle against sin, and we will if Christ,
abides in the life. «St. John’s letter.
is to the end “that ye may not sin.',
And if any man sin we have an Ad,
vocate with the Father.” Here the
aged apostle seems to say, “Lean
on the Advocate and do the best

you can, and he will do what you’
can't do."

“And the end eternal life.’ A man
said to the writer recently, “Will I

go to heaven if I do the best I can?”
But was this man doing the best
he could to purify himself? When
we have come into possession of the
new and living power of Christ, and
are doing our best with this power
against inherited weaknesses and
against evils without, we have be-
come children of God. And we are
to become more like Gad if we
throw into this gap between earth
and heaven our own consecrated ef-
i'forts. The conditions and limita-
tions of this life should intensify the
character we started with when we
were converted. We have oppor-

tunity to bear “fruit unto sanctifi-fi

cation” until our coffin arrives.
We have nothing to do with that
stretch of existence from the grave

'onward; yet, our, future will de-

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. OATS 0N CLAY

I would like to know the names
of certain kinds of oats adapted to
clay and clay loam soil. We have
had taro different kinds but have
not found them satisfactory. What
we want is a kind that yields heavi-
ly and does not lodge easily. Our
land is“ in a good state of fertility.
W0 years ago a neighbor had six-
ty bushels to the acre on lighter soil
than ours.-—J. W., Marne, Mich.

HE Worthy Oat variety is con-
sidered the most satisfactory
for Michigan’s heavier types of

soil. It is much stiifer strawed than
most oat varieties and seldom lodges
seriously.

Growers in the vicinity of Fair-
grove, on heavy land, have averaged
between 70 and 80 bushels, for sev—
eral years and report no serious
losses from lodging.

Paul Clement of Britton the past
year secured a yield of slightly over
100 bushels per acre on 14 acres,
with the Worthy variety.

A list of individual growers of
Certified Worthy Oats may be ob-
tained from the Michigan Crop Im-
provement Association, East Lan—
sing, Michigan, and seed may be
purchased from all the leading seed
companies or from the Michigan
Farm Bureau Seed Service, Lansing,
Michigan—H. C. Rather, Extension
Specialist, M. S. C.

CUTTING ALFALFA FOR SEED

When is the proper time to cut
alfalfa for seed? Should it he cut
a little on the green side or not?—
M. C., Alanson, Mich.

iLFALFA should be cut for seed
when 60 to 75 per cent of the
pods have turned brown.
Alfalfa is handled for seed much
the same~as June clover and may be
threshed with a clover huller or
with a grain separator when prop-
er adjustments have been made.—
0. R .Megee, Associate Professor of
FarmvCrops, M. S. C. ,

sow SWEET CLOVER IN FALL
OR SPRING?

I am planning on sowing sweet
clover and have been told that the
best time to sow is late fall or early
winter. Could I sow on bean ground
this fall and make a crop of hay
next year?—~L. G., Rhodes, Mich.

WEET clover seeded late in the
fall, just before the ground
freezes, does not usually ger-

minate 'until the following spring
and behaves very much the same as
spring seeded sweet clover.

When sweet clover is seeded in
the spring a crop of hay is not us-
ually secured the first season un-
less conditions are exceedingly fa-
vorable. Spring seedings are more
dependable than fall seedings.—— C.
R. Megee, Associate Professor of
Farm Crops, M. S. C.

SWEET CLOVER

I would like to ask the readers of
your paper if any of them ever rais-
ed sweet clover and alfalfa success-
fully on sandy soiL that was very
acid from the top down as deep as
one wants to dig by applying lime
stone? If they did how much lime
did” they use? Can one have per-
manent pasture of sweet clover on
such land by sowing seed on it ev-
ery year early in the sprin and on
the same piece of ground If so,
how many .acres w uld it take for
seven cows? Does et clover
make good pasture for sheep?—
A. S., Bronson, Mich.

ANDY soil that is very acid will
S usually produce a seeding of
sweet clover after the acid has
been corrected by some form of
ground limestone.
The amount of limestone that
should be applied will depend upon

. the aCidity and this may be deter-

mined fairly accurately lfy the
"So’iltex" method. [I would suggest,
that, you send a sampleof the soil
eifhe'r- to your county agricultural
his C. Wairtment at
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7 for the winter.

ground lime
stone is an average application
however, in some cases considerably
more than this should be applied
while not always is it necessary to
apply as much as this.

Occasionally instances are found
where farmers are able to secure
permanent sweet clover pafiure by
seeding each spring or by pasturing
rather lightly the latter part of the
proceeding season and allowing the
sweet clover to produce seed. The
majority of the farmers, however,
find it is better to rotate sweet clo-
ver with other crops. .

Under favorable conditions, three
acres should take care of seven
cows, however, if conditions are not
very favorable it may require four
or five acres.

Sweet clover makes excellent pas-
ture for sheep—C. R. Megee, As-
sociate Professor of Farm Crops,
Michigan State College.

Two tons of finely

SPRING WHEAT

I have a field of clay loam plowed
last fall, oat stubble turned under,
and I would like to know if this
kind of soil would be 0. K. for
planting spring wheat. How much
seed should be sown per acre? I
have heard spring wheat would not
grow in muck, unless one was
“lucky.” In other words, was not
a sure crop or anywhere near it.
Would be very grateful for any ad-
vice you may give me on the sub-
ject.”—J. H., Elsie, Mich.

S a general rule, spring wheat
does best on clay loams, silt
loams, or clays, under Michigan
conditions. These soils are gener—
ally moisture retentive and if they

are located in the northern part of '

the state where spring wheat does
best, will frequently give large
yields of this crop. Spring Wheat
is precarious during the average
year in southern and central Michi-
gan but on fertile, moisture reten-
tive soils of "the “Thumb,” the
northern part of the lower penin-
sula, and the upper peninsula, the
crop will yield favorably. Six peeks
per acre should be planted as early
as it is possible to get on the ground
in the spring.

is generally preferred. On muck

soils, spring wheat does not, as a
rule, fill well and is inclined to
lodge—J. F. Cox, Professor of

Farm Crops, M. S. C.

[Q] The Egerience Pool @

Bring your everyday problems In and get
the experience of other farmers. Questions ad-
dressed to this department are published here
and answered by you, our readers. who are
graduates of the School of Hard Knocks and
who have their diplomas from the College of
Experience. If you don't want our editor’s
advice or an expert's advice, but Just plain,
everyday business farmers' advice, send in
your question here. If you can answer the other
fellow's question, please do so, he may ans-
war one of yours some day! Address Exper-
ience Pool, care The Business Farmer, Mt.
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ed some very helpful suggestions
from it, for which I am very thanks
ful and am now giving my experi-
ence when a friend of mine bought
an old run—down farm in Macomb
county and hired me to superintend
the farming.

There were twenty acres that I
fitted for wheat. I sowed the wheat
with a disc drill and one sack of fer—
tilizer to each acre. The wheat came .
along very good. Got a fair stand
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acre. I drilled it the same way I
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Theflfz’cfiz'g an
BUSINESS FARMER

SATURDAY, MARCH 27,1928

Edited and Published by
THE RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. lno.
GEORGE M. SLOGUM, Presldent
Mt. Clemens. Michigan -
DETROIT OFFICE—2- 144 General Motors Building
ReDresented in New York Chicago. St Louis and Minneapolis by
The Storkumnllusiness Farmer Trio.
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James W. H. Weir ....... R; o Editot
Charles A. Swingle." Legal Editor
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REV.Dav1d F \Varner .......................................... Religious Editor
Herbert Nnmg" ---------- .Fruit and Orchard Editor

G H' .......... Veterinary Editor
Robert' J. Mcrn‘olga‘n' ______ Circulation Manager
H. 3 F’ Hlphns ............................................ Plant Superintendent

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Should any reader have any cause for complaint against any ad-
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QUARAN'I‘INES
HERE are several quarantines in effect in
Michigan that the farmer should become
familiar with. perhaps the most important
one being the one relative to the European Corn
Borer, a pest that is slowly undermining one of
the important branches of farming in this state.
Others are on the alfalfa weevil, 011 shipment and
sale of raspberry plants, the Japanese beetle,
chestnut trees, and tall barberries and mahonius,
all of them of great importance to Michigan
agriculture.

As space will not permit our publishing all
of these in our columns at this time we urge
that you secure copies from the Bureau of Agri—
cultural Industry of the State Department of
Agriculture, at Lansing. One can easily break a
law because of ignorance but ignorance is not
accepted by the court as a reason to escape pun-
ishment. Get copies of these quarantines with
out charge at an early date and study them
carefully.

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MICHIGAN ’S LONGEST BIARRIED COUPLE

HE first pictures to be published in our long-
est married couple contest appear on page
four of this issue, along with the history of

each couple. It was our intention to publish a
page of them at this time but we were so short
of space and had so much material to print
which we thought important that we had to use
only three chosen at random from the many
we have received to give you a fair idea of the
the entries in this contest.

Of these three couples all have been married
for at least a half century. For fifty years and
more their have shared life together, working
side by side, and now as they approach the twi—
light of life thcy look back over the happy
years with a most thankful feeling. They have
done their share to make the world just a little
bit better place to live in and they have reason
to feel content.

So far we have board from sixteen counties and
have upwards of twenty entries, but we want
more before we close the contest. We want every
county in Michigan entered and would like a bun—
dred contestants. Will you help us? This con-
test is open to any couple married more than
twenty—five years but as the longest married are
to be the prize Winners they should have a Gold-
en Wedding anniversary to their credit at least
to stand a chance of winning any of the three
prizes. These prizes are: First. $5; Second, $3;
Third, $2. Be sure to send in complete informa—
tion about the couple as well as a picture.

FAR!“ LEGISLATION

was an unusually cold night outside and a

high wind was forcing its way into every

crack and cranny but the little group sitting
around the big stove in the Four Corners grocery
store did not notice it. Why should they? There
was a. good fire in the stove, with a plentiful
supply of fuel nearby, and their whole attention
was given to “swapping yarns." The nationality
at each member at the group was under discus-
sion. when Hinz- Bm'n spoke up that he lied
French English and German blood in his veins.

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spot a mouthful of tobacco juice in the general
direction of the box of ashes. shifted his cud
from one side to the other and, without turning
his head in the direction of the wit, replied,
“Gosh say, I had indigestion the whole durn
time." .

Farm legislation seems to be about in the
same position as Hiram. The farmers’ organiza-
tions cannot agree and endorse any certain bill
so it looks as though there will be no legislation
for the particular benefit of the producers of this
country passed during this session “of Congress.

The farm bureau has endorsed the Dickinson
bill but it has been declared that this bill is
regional and sectional and is far from command—
ing general farm approval. The National Grange
nd Farmers' Union are opposed to it, apparently
because of that, feeling there is a need for legis—
lation that would benefit all farmers. As long
as the farm leaders and farm organizations fail
to agree we cannot expect Congress to take very
seriously the requests for farm legislation.

But we wonder if the rank and file of farmers
in Michigan really believe that their problems
are going to be solved through legislation. Isn’t
it really up to themselves more than anyone else
if the problems they have are worked out?

COUNTRY DOCTOR PASSING

note with concern the passing of one of

the nation's greatest institutions, the old-
fashioned country doctor. We regret his
passing because we have always felt that we
needed his kindly assistance and there would
continue to be a. place for men of his type, re-
gardless of how rapid progress we might make.

Well do we remember our old family physi-
cian, a typical old—fashioned country doctor, who
has long since gone to his Reward. He knew
everybody for miles around, called them by their
given names and was loved by all. It was he
who brought the babies of the community into
this world, and stood at the bedside of the aged
and dying to make their passing more pleasant
if possible. He never failed to have a name
ready for the new baby, played the role of peace-
maker among the married folks and cupids
among the unmarried, advised on business deals,
was always ready for a horse trade and had a
fund of wholesome stories that everyone enjoyed.
In fact, he ministered to the physical and mental
ills of his community, falling not onecven
though many times the only pay he ever received
was a. “Thank you.“

The country doctor works more for the love of
mankind than for money, and few there are who
have been able to retire to live on the fruits of
their labor. Perhaps this is the main reason that
the ranks are thinning, the average person’s
thoughts being of a more selfish trend nowadays.
with money the first consideration in any pro—
fession. Also the automobile is bringing the
specialists of the city to within a few hours of
the farm or small town home, thus making com-
petition keener and dollars fewer for the country
doctor who usually isn’t up to the last moment

 

The Business Farmer Editorial Ballot

Below we are listing several features or departments
In The Business Farmer with asquaro opposite in which
we will appreciate your indicating by number the once
you read regularly in the paper in the order of their
importance. That is, if you like the scrinl story bcst,
write the figure I in the square opposite that feature,
the next choice should have the figure 2 in tho square
in The Business Farmer with a square. opposite in which
are desired may be written in the blank spaces.

This ballot will be publishcd for several issues so
that each member of the family may ‘vote his or her
preference. When the children vote their prefercnce
they should give their age, also Be sure to sign your
correct name and address and mail to the Editor of The
Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mich. Thank you.

Feature Articles
Picture Page
Broadscopo Iiarm
Service Bureau
Soils and Crops

[j Publisher’s Desk
The Farm Home

E] Childmn’s Hour

Dairy and Livestock

Veterinary Dept.

Sci-mun Poultry Department
Radio Department Farm Mechanim
Serial Story Fruit and Orchard
Handy Hiram Harry Vetch

Whore Readers Live
What Neighbors Say

Markets
Weather Forecasts

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(111 science but has a wonderful knowledge of
mankind based on years of personal contact.

We do not believe there is a group of men who
have had more to do with the building up of
our great nation than the old-fashioned country
doctors and we are sorry to see them’ falling 'by
the wayside in the march of Time.

FIVE YEAR‘S MEAT CONSUMPTION

HE' Department of Agriculture's figures
showing the per capita. meat consumption
in this country during the past five years are

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1925 1924 1923 1922 1921
Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs.‘

Beef ................................ 63.1 62.1 61.9 60.8 57.2
Veal ................................ 8.8 8. 3 7. 9 7.3 7.0
Mutton and lamb ........ 5. 3 5.3 6. 2 5.0 5.9
Pork (ex. lard) ............ 77.1 86. 3 86.1 75.7 72.3
Total meat .............. 154.3 162.3 161.1 148.8 142.4
Lard ................................ 18.4 15.6 15.4 11.3 [1.3

Let us note the steady but not rapid increase in
beef consumption, even at a time when low pric-
es boosted the consumption of pork to the extent
of ten pounds or more per capita. Consumption
of mutton and lamb remains almost stationary,
though most of us would have estimated increase
if we had been guessing about it. Probably con-
sumption of lamb has increased while consump-
tion of mutton has decreased in recent years.
The significant lesson of the table is that per
capita consumption of one or even of two meats
can be expanded without lessening the consump—
tion of the‘ other meats. The effect of abundance
and cheapness of any one meat is rather on the
price of the others than on the quantity con-
sumed.

PROF. HORNER’S BOOK ON MARKETING

HOSE of you‘who followed the interesting
and instructive articles on marketing milk
by Prof. J. T. Horner, head of economics

work in agriculture at the M. S. 0., will be very
much interested to know that there is now a. book
on the market written by Prof. Horner entitled
“Agricultural Marketing."

This book has come out at an opportune time
as interest in marketing farm products was nev-
er as great as at present because of the produc-
er’s desire to take on this work and get for him-
self a. fair profit, yet sell at a reasonable figure.
Interest along this line is bound to increase.
Our universities and colleges are putting in
courses on marketing to train our young men for
this work, the number of cooperative farmers'
associations giving attention to this subject is
increasing constantly.

Prof. Horner’s book is written to be used as
a textbook by those who are teaching agricul-
tural marketing but it Is very interesting for
anyone to read and deserves a place in any farm
library. The book is cloth bound, contains 249
pages, and sells at $2.50.

FABJWERS RADICAL ?

CCORDING to the National Industrial Con-
ference Board the people should be greatly
alarmed over a. radical tendency among the

farmers of our fair country. They claim to have
found this out through an investigation cover-
ing a year. We claim that either they didn’t
take time enough or they didn’t investigate it
thoroughly, because they have the real farmers
of this country sized up entirely wrong. The real
farmers, the men who form the largest part of
our agriculture, are not radicals, but there are
some so—called Moseses who are radical and they
are blowing off a lot of hot air and claiming to
be helping the farmer when they are really hin-
dering him. If the board went to these fellows
for information they certainly got an eartul of
wailings but they learned little about the real
farmer. The real farmer is continuing to till
his soil, improving his methods each year. and
slowly through cooperation working out ways of
marketing more efficiently with a fair profit
coming back to him. He is not getting any fa-
vors and he is not asking for them.

The farmer a radical? Let’s hear another
good joke.

EATING MORE BUTTER

UTTER consumption in the United States has
B increased about thirty million pounds per

month since 1920, which, according to the
U. S. Department of Agriculture. has greatly
stimulated the American dairy Industry. How-
ever, there Is still plenty of room for greater use
of. butter. We can follow the ex'ample set by
our Canadian neighbors. In Bounds m nor
capita consumption in mud twenty-down
pounds. while in the If“ m it fit!!!

  
 

     
  
 
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
 
 
 
   
   
    
   
    
   
  
  
  
    
 
 
    
  
   
 
 
  
 
  
  
    
   
   
   
  
 
  
 
    
  
   
  
   
 
    
   
  
  
 

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FEDERAL RESERVE LIFE INSUR-

ANCE COMPANY OF KANSAS

have had several inquiries

recently about the Federal Re-

serve Life Insurance Company,

of Kansas City, which indicates that

. Michigan is being flooded with cir-

cular matter from this company and

we want to warn our subscribers re—
garding them. '

Under date of March 13 we re-
ceived a letter from the State De-
partment of Insurance which read,
“We have to advise that the Federal
Reserve Life Insurance Company of
Kansas City, Kansas, is not author-
ized or licensed by this Department
to transact business in the State of
Michigan. Consequently, any bus-
iness placed with them by Michigan
residents is not valid and is unen:
forcible in the courts of this State.

CHAIN LETTERS

“Just thought I would send you
a chain letter which was recently
wished onto me. I think a write-
up from you would be very helpful.
This note was sent to me coming
from a mere acquaintance. I do not
feel it is a friendly wish but just
I’m someone to count nine. I fell
it more of an imposition as I have
five hungry men and a half. dozen
youngsters with a baby for good
measure and sickness in the family
too-—-so I sure appreciate the neigh—
borly kindness in asking me to write
nine letters when there is always
socks to darn and cakes to bake.
I'd rather read the good old M. B.
F. I think at times such letters do
cause trouble as one will often worry,
therefore I’m writing to ask you for
a few lines in the M. B. F. as I
think you may bring peace to many
minds. Your old reader, ‘Busy Bee’
of Grand Traverse County."

“I have been getting chain letters
for the last week and I wish you
would expose the scheme through
the Publisher’s Desk. I never an-
swer them but there are many who
do and waste their money and time.
Tell them to burn the letters up.—-
Mrs. M., Kalamazoo County."

0 doubt most of you are familiar
with the chain letter scheme
and how it works but for the

benefit of those who may not have
heard about it we will gladly explain.
Usually you receive an unsigned let-
ter that reads somewhat like the fol—
lowing: “Dear friend: A . friend
has sent me this good luck letter and
I am sending it on to you so as not
to break the chain of good luck.
Copy this and send it to nine per-
sons to whom you wish. good luck.
The chain was started by an Ameri-
can Army officer and should go
around the world three times. Do
not break the chain for whoever does
will have some bad luck. Write
nine letters within twenty—four hours
count nine days, and you will have
some good luck. It is positively re-
markable how many times tradition
has been fulfilled since the chain
was started. With success to you
and yours."

It appears that an American army
officer at the time of the Spanish-
American War wrote the first letter
of this kind and mailed it to a friend
‘as a. joke. The friend took it seri-
ously and wrote the nine letters re-
quested to as many friends several
of whom in turn, sent letters to their
friends. The number of letters sent

9 Collection is,

The purpose .0! this department I: to Iro-
teet our subscribers from lraudulent dealings
or unfalr mm b
a distance.

In every one we wlll do our best to make
a satisfactory settlement or force action. for
whloh no charge for our services wlll ever be
made. provldlng:

1.——Tho elalm la mode by a sold-up sub-
oerlber to The Business Farmer.

2.—Tho clalm Is not more than 6 mos. old.

Sa—The claim Is not local or between poo-
lo within any distance of one another.

he“ should be settled at first hand and not
attempted by mail.

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and people involved have multiplied
until there is probably not a coun—
try in the world where these letters
have not gone, and the chain has
gone around the world many times
over three. Of course, there is no
reason for your having good luck
just because you send these letters,
nor will you have bad luck if you
fail to pay any attention to such a
letter if you receive one. Do not
waste your time but consign such
communications to the waste basket
or stove.

LOOK OUT FOR “HERBAE
PRATI" ,

ANY persons have been victim-
ized by the Zenith Lawn Ac-
cessory Company, a firm with

numerous mail addresses, engaged
in selling a grass seed mixture for
lawns under the coined name “Her-
bae Prati.” The Post Office Depart—
ment has denied the company the
use of the mail. According to the
United States Department of Agri~
culture, grossly erroneous state-
ments as to its suitability for lawns
have been made. Its qualities have
been proclaimed in such phrases as
“The boss of all grasses;” “the
world’s most beautiful b1ue-grass;”
“a lawn in 30 days anywhere;” “it
will grow where other grasses have
failed in any soil or climate;” “heat,
cold, or shade will not affect it.”

An analysis of the mixture made
by the department seed testing lab—
oratory showed it to be composed
mainly of meadow fescue and Italian
rye grass. The victims have paid as
high as $1.50 a pound for the mix—
ture, Whereas, according to the de-
partment. the constituents of the
Herbae Prati mixture could have
been purchased from reputable seed
firms for not more than 18 to 20
cents a pound.

The postal fraud order has put a.
stop to the use of the mails by the
firm, but traveling agents are still
active throughout the country, es—
pecially in the Southern States at
present, selling “Herbae Prati” by
house to house canvass and to local
seed handlers.

Meadow fescue is not a lawn
grass. In the humid sections of the
United States it is a good meadow
and pasture grass when used in mix—
tures with other grasses, but it may
be said unqualifiedly that it is not
a desirable laWn grass nor is it
drought—resistant in the commonly
accepted sense of the term. Italian
rye grass is sometimes used for mak-
ing temporary lawns or as a minor
constituent of permanent lawn mix-
tures for quick and temporary re—
sults. Meadow fescue and Italian
rye grass are not turf-forming grass-
es, but grow in bunches much the
same as timothy, and therefore, it
is impossible for them to make a
velvety turf. By‘nature of their
growth they are not aggressive
against weeds and creeping grass-
es, and they are no more tolerant
of shade than is Kentucky bluegrass.

ARTeRAr'r flTATIONERY GO. OUT
OF BUSINESS

UST the moment we learn of a
new company that has a "work-
at—home” scheme we start inves—

tigating, so we will be prepared

to advise our readers about them‘

and their scheme. So when we no-
ticed the advertisement of the Art-
craft Stationery 00., Box 1102, Kan—
sas City, Missouri, in a Michigan
daily paper we got busy. Their ad
read: “Earn money at home address-
ing our advertising cards. All ma-
terials furnished. Send stamped
envelop for particulars,’ and we ask-
ed them to tell us all about it and
supply us with the names and ad-
dresses of some oftheir workers.
Our letter was returned to us with
the information that the company
was out of business. Has any of
our subscribers had any dealings
with the company?

 

. We have taken Tun Busmm Fauna
from its beginning and have a five year
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. ASSKQUAM brought the mackinaw
'aLd cap Which Alan had worn on
. ., Number 25; he took from the bed
the new blankets which had been furnish-
ed by Sherrill. They waited until a farm—
er appeareddrivinga team hitched to a
low. widerunnered sled. The Indian set—
tled Alan on the sled, and they drove off:
The farmer looked frequently at Alan
. with curious interest: the sun shone down.
idassling, and felt almost warm in the
still air. Wassaquam. with regard for
the frostbite from which Alan had been
suffering. bundled up the blankets around
him; but Alan put them down reassur-
ingly. They traveled south along the
shore, rounded into Little Traverse Bay,

and the houses of Harbor Point appeared

among their pines. Alan could see plain-
ly that these were snow-weighted ‘and
boarded up without sign of occupation:
but he saw that the Sherrill house was
open: smoke rose from the chimney. and
the windows winked with the reflection
of a red blaze within. He was so sure
that this was their destination that be
started to throw off the robes.

"Nobody there now," Wassaquan indi-
cated the house. "At Petoskey; we go
on there."

The sled proceeded across the edge of
the bay to the little city: even before
leaving the bay ice, Alan saw Constance
and her father; they were walking at the
water front near to the railway station,
and they came out on the ice as they
recognized the occupants of the sled.

Alan felt himself alternately weak and
reused to strength as he saw her. The
sled halted and, as she approached, he
stepped down. Their eyes encountered.
and hers looked away: a sudden shyness.
which sent his heart leaping, had come
over her. He wanted to speak to her. to
make some recognition to her of what
she had done, but he did not care to
trust his voice; and she seemed to under-
stand that. He turned to Sherrill instead.
An engine and tender coupled to a single
oar stood at the railway station.

"We’re going to Chicago?" he inquired
of Sherrill.

“Not yet. Alan—to St. Ignace. Father
Perron-—the priest, you know—went to
St. Ignace as soon as he recovered from
his exposure. He sent word to me that
he wished to see me at my convenience:
I told him that we would go to him as
soon as you were able."

"He sent no other word than that?"

"Only that he had a very grave com-
munication to make to us."

Alan did not ask more; at mention of
Father Perron he had seemed to feel him-
self once more among the crashing, charg-
ing freight cars on the ferry and to see
Benjamin Corvet. pinned amid the wreck-
age and speaking into the ear of the
priest.

Father Pen-on, walking up and down
upon the docks close to the railway sta-
tion at St. Ignace, where the tracks end
without bumper or blocking of any kind
above the waters of the lake, was watch-
ing south directly across the Straits. It
was mid-afternoon and the ice-crusher
Ste. Marie, which had been expected at
St. Ignace about this time, was still some
four miles out. During the storm of the
week before, the floes had jammed into
that narrow neck between the great lakes
of Michigan and Huron until. men said,
the Straits were ice-filled to the bottom;
but the Ste. Marie and the St. Ignace
had plied steadily back and forth.

Through a stretch where the ice-
erusher now was the flees had changed
position, or new ice was blocking the
channel; for the Ste. Marie, having stop-
ped. was backing; now her funnels shot
forth fresh smoke, and she charged
ahead. The priest clenched his hands as
the steamer met the shock and her third
propellerb-the one beneath her bow—
sucked the water out from under the
doc and left it without support: she met
the ice barrier, crashed some of it aside;
she broke through, recoiled, halted, charg—
ed. climbed up the ice and broke through
again. As she drew nearer now in her
approach. the priest walked back toward
the railway station.

It was not merely a confessional which
Father Perron had taken from the lips of
the dying man on Number 26; it was an
accusation of crime against another man
as well: and the confession and accus—
atlon both had been made. not only to
gain forgiveness from God, but to right
terrible wrongs. If the confession left
some things unexplained. it did not lack
confirmation; the priest had learned
enough to be certain that it was no hul-
lucination of madness. He had been
charged definitely to repeat what had been
.told him to the persons he was now gomg
to meet: so he watched expectantly as
the St. Marie made its landing. A train
,of freight cars was upon the ferry. but a.
single passenger coach was among them.
and the switching engine brought this ca!
first. A tall, handsome man whom Father
Perron thought must be the Mr. Sherrill
with whom he had communicated ap-
peared upon the car platform; the young
man from Number 25 followed him, and
the two helped down a young and beauti-
ful girl. ,

They recognised the priest by his dress
Ind me toward him at once.

"Hr. Sherrill'fl' Father Pcrron inquired.
Sherrill assented, taking the priest's
hand and introducing his daughter.

“I am glad to see you safe, Mr. Staf-
ford." The priest had turned- to Alan.
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Alan trembled at the priest’s sign of
confirmation. There was no shook of
surprise in this; he had suspected ever
since August. when Captain Stafford's
watch and Wedding ring had so strangely
come to Constance, that he might be
Stafford’s son. His inquiries had brought
him. at that time, to St Ignace, as
Father Perron's had brought him now;
but he had not been able to establish
proof of any connection between himself
and the baby son of Captain Stafford
who had been born in that town.

He looked at Constance. as they fol-
lowed the priest to the motor which was
waiting to take them to the house of old
Father Benitot. whose guest Father Per-
ron was: she was very quiet. What would
that grave statement which Father Per-
ms was to make to them mean to‘him—
to Alan? Would further knowledge
about that father whom he had not
lmown. but whose blood was his and
whose name he now must bear, bring
pride or shame to him?

A bell was telling somewhere. as they
followed the priest into Father Benitot’s
small bare room which had been pre-
pared for their interview. Father Perron
went to the desk and took therefrom some

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had very much the same connections and
competed/ for the same cargoes." \

“I begin to see!" .Father Perron ex-
claimed. "Please go on."

.“In the early nineties both lines still
were young; Stadord had, I believe. two
ships: Corvet had three."

"So few? Yes; it grows plainer!"

"In 1894. Stafford managed a stroke
which. if fate had not intervened, must
have assured the ultimate extinction of
Cox-vet's line or its absorption, into Staf-
ford's. Stafford gained as his partner
Franklin Ramsdell, a wealthy man whom
he had convinced that the lake traffic
offered chances of great profit; and this
connection supplied him with the capital

whose lack had been hampering him. as -

it was still hampering Corvet. The new
firmr—Stafiiord and Ramsdell—projected
the construction. with Ramsdell's money.
of a number of great steel freighters.
The first of these—the Miwaka. a test
ship whose experience was to guide them
in‘ the construction of the rest—was
launched in the fall of 1896. and was
lost on its maiden trip with both Stafford
and Ramsdell aboard. The Stanford and
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notes which he had made. He did not
seem, as he looked through these notes,
to be refreshing his memory; rather he
seemed to be seeking something which
the notes did not supply: for he put them
back and reclosed the desk.

“What I have," he said, speaking more
particularly to Sherrill, “is the terrible.
not fully coherent statement" of a dying
man. It has given me names—also it
has given me facts. But isolated. It
does not give what came before or what
came after; therefore. it does not make
plain. I hope that, as Benjamin Corvet’s
partner, you can furnish what I lack."

“What is it you want to know?" Sher-
rill asked.

“What were the relations between Ben-
jamin Corvet and Captain Staflord?"

Sherrill thought a moment.

"Corvet." he replied, “was a very able
man; he had insight and mental grasp-—
and he had the fault which sometimes
goes with those. a hesitancy of action.
Stafford was an able man too. consider-
ably younger than Corvet. We, ship
owners of the lakes, have not the world
to trade in, Father Peri-on, as they have
upon the sea; if you observe our great
shipping lines you will find that they
have, it would seem. apportioned among
themselves the traffic of the lakes: each
line has its own connections and its own
ports. But this did not come through
agreement. but through conflict; the
strong have survived and made a division
of the trafllc; the weak have died.
Twenty years ago, when this conflict of
competing interests was at its height.
Corvet was the head of one line, Stafford
was head of another. and the two lines

from the lakes. Is that what you wanted
to know?”

The priest nodded. Alan leaned tense-
ly forward, watching; what he had heard
seemed to have increased and deepened
the pritst's feeling over what he had to
tell‘ and to have aided his comprehension
o t.

"His name was Caleb Stafford,” Father
Perron began. “(This is what Benjamin
Corvet told to me, when he was dying
under the wreckage on the ferry.) ‘He
was as fair and able 9. man as the lakes
ever knew. I had my will of most men
in the lake trade in those days; but I
could not have my will of him. With
all the lakes to trade in. he had to pick
out for his that traffic which I already
had chosen for my own. But I fought
him fair. Father—I fought him fair, and
I would have continued to do that to the
en .

" ‘I was at Manistee, Father, in the
end of the season-December fifth of
1895. The ice had begun to form very
early that year and was alr ady bad;
there was cold and a high ale. I had
laid up one of my ships at Manistee.
and I was crossing that night upon a
tug to Manitowoc. where another was to
be laid up. I had still a third one lad-
ing upon the northern peninsula at Man-
istique for a last trip which. if it could
be made. would mean a good profit from
a season which so far. because of Staf-
ford's competition, had been only fair.
After leaving Manlstee. it grew more
cold, and I was afraid the ice would
close in on her and keep her up where
she was. so I detenmined to go north
that night and see that she got out.

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of a steamer in. distr’ the four
blasts which have sounded in [my
ever since!

saw the steamer’s light; we went new .
and. Father. it was his great. new ship-é
the Miwaka! We had heard two days “
before that she had passed the Boo: we '
had not known more than that’of where
she was .. She had broken her new shaft.
Father. lhnd was intact except for that.
but helpless in the rising sea . . .' "

The priest broke off. “The Miwakai I
did not understand all that that had
meant to him until just now—the new
ship of -the rival line, whose building
meant for him failure and defeat!

“There is no‘ higher duty than the res-
cue of those in peril at sea. Ho—Ben-
jamin Corvet. who told ,me this—swore
to me that. at the beginning none upon
the tug had any thought except to give
aid. A. small line was drifted down to
the tug and to this a hawser was attached
which they hauled aboard. There hap-
pened then the ilrst of those events which
led those upon the tuginto doing a great
wrong. Ila—Benjamin Corvet-e-had taken
charge of the wheel of the tug; three
men were handling the hawser in ice and
washing water at the stem. The whistle
accidentally ’blew. which those on the
Miwaka understood to mean that the haw-
ser had been secured. so they drew in
the slack: the hawser, tightened unex-
pectedly by the pitching of the sea,
caught and crushed the captain and deck-
hand of the tug and threw them into the

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sea.

“Because they were short-handed now
upon the tug. and also because consulta-
tion was necessary over what was to be
done, the young owner of the Miwaka.
Captain Stafford, came down the hawser
onto the tug after the line had been put
straight. He came to the wheelhouse.
where Benjamin Corvet was, and they
consulted. Then Benjamin Corvet learned
that the other owner was aboard the
new ship as well—Ramsdell—the man
whose money you have just told me had
built this and was soon to build other
ships. I did not understand before why
learning that affected him so much.

“ ‘Staiford wanted us' (this is what
Benjamin Corvet said) 'to tow him up
the lake; I would not do that, but I
agreed to tow him to Manistique. The
night was dark. Father—no snow. but
frightful wind which had been increasing
until it now sent the waves washing clear
across the tug. We had gone north an
hour when. low upon the water to my
right, I saw a light, and there came to
me the whistling of a bony which told
me that we Were passing nearer than I
would have wished. even in daytime, to
windward of Boulder Reef. There are.
gather. ndo people on that reef: itssides

ragge roc go strai lit (1
fathoms into the lake. 3 own forty

" ‘I looked at the man with me in
the wheelhouse—at Stafford-and hated
him! I put my head out at the wheel-
house door and looked back at the lights
at the new great steamer. following safe
and straight at the end of its towllne.
I thought of my two men upon the tug
who had been crushed by clumslness of
those on board that ship; and how my
own ships had had a name for never
losing a man and that name would be
lost now because of the carelessness of
Stafford's men! And the sound of the
shoal brought the evil thought to me.
Suppose I had not happened across his
ship; would it have gone upon some reef
like this and been lost? I thought that
if new the hawser should break. I would
be rid of that ship and perhaps of the
owner who was on board as well. We
could not pick up the tow line again so

close to the reef. The steamer would
drift upon the rocks—' "
Father Perron hesitated an instant.

“I bear witness," he said solemnly, “that
Benjamin Corvet assured me—his priest
-that it was only a thought: the evil
act which it suggested was something
which he would not do or even think of
doing. But he spoke something of what
was in his mind to Stafford, for he said:

" 'I must look like a fool to you to
keep on towing your ship !'

“They stared, he told me, into one as-
other’s eyes. and Staiford grew uneasy.

" “We'd have been all right.‘ he an-
swered, ‘until we got help. if you'd left
us where we were 3' He too listened to
the sound of the bouy and of the water
dashing on the shoal. 'You, are taking
us too close,‘ he said—‘too close!’ He
went aft then to look at the tow line."

Father Perron’s voice ceased; what he
had to tell now made his face Whiten as
he arranged it in his memory. Alan
leaned forward a little and then. with
an eflort, sat straight. Constance turned
and gazed at him; but he dared not look
at her. He felt her hand wanm upon
his; it rested there a moment and moved
away. '

"There was a third man in. the wheel-
house when these things were spoken."
Father Perron said. "the mate of the ship
which had been laid up ,at Manistee."

“Henry Spearman," Sherrill supplied. '

"That is the name. enjalrnin~ Corvet “
told me of that man the. he was young.
determined, brutal, and’set upon getting
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mo now and scrambled after him.‘ The
tug leaped suddenly; there was no longer
any tow holding it back, for the hawser
had parted; and I knew, Father, the
reason was that Spearman had cut it!

" ‘I rang for the engine to be slowed,
and. I left the wheel and went aft; some
struggle was going on at the stern of the
tug; a. flash came from there and the
cracking of a shot. Suddenly all was

’ light about me as, aware of the breaking

of the hawser and alarmed by the shot,
the searchlight of the Miwaka turned
upon the tug. The cut end of the hawser
was still upon the tug, and Spearrnan
had been trying to clear this when Staf-
ford attacked him; they fought. and
Stafford struck Spearman down. He
turned and cried out against me—accus-
lug me of having ordered Spearman to
cut the line. He held up the cut end
toward Ramsdell on the Miwaka and

_ cried out to him and showed him by

pointing that it had been cut. Blood
was running from the hand with which
he pointed, for he had been shot by
man; and now again and a second
and a third -time, from where he lay
upon the deck, Spear-man fired. The
second of those shots killed the engineer
who had rushed out where I was on the
deck: the third shot went through Staf-
ford’s head. The Miwaka. was drifting
down upon the reef; her whistle sounded
again and again the four long blasts.
The fireman, who had followed the en-
gineer up from below, fawned on me! I
was safe for all of him, he said; I could
trust Luke—Luke would not tell! He too
thought I had ordered the doing of that‘
thing!
" 'From the Miwaka, Ramsdell yelled
curses at me. threatening me for what
he thought I had done! I looked at

Spearman as he got up from the deck.-

and I read the thought that had been in
him; he had believed that he could cut
the hawser in the dark, none seeing, and
that our word that it had been broken
would have as much strength as any
accusation Stafford could make. He had
known that to share a secret such as
that with me would "make” him on the
lakes; for the loss of the Miwaka would
cripple Stafford and Ramsdell and
strengthen me; and he could make me
share with him whatever success I made.
But Stafford had surprised him at the
hawser and had seen.

" ‘Moved to denounce him, Father, as
I realized this; I moved—{but stopped.
Ho had made himself safe against ac-
cusation by me! None—none ever would
believe that he had done this except by
my order, if he should claim that; and
he made plain that he was going to claim
that. He called me a fool and defied me.
Luke—even my own man, the only one
left on the tug with us-——believed it! And
there was murder in it now, with Staf-
ford dying there upon the deck and with
the certainty that all those on the Mi-
waka could not be saved. I felt the
noose is if it had been already tied about
my neck! And I had done no wrong,
Father! I had only thought wrong!

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,. 'Dear Uncle Nedz—Sssh! Is Mr. Letter
'Gobbler really asleep and snoring? All

right then. I’ll just step in for a while.

‘01:! Uncle Ned and cousins I’ll bet you

think I 113% forgotten you!’ But no, I
have thought of you often. But you must
remember I have much work to do be—
work. Uncle Ned, I
thank you ever so much for publishing
my last letter, because I've received the
most, nice letters from some of the
cousins. So that I'm a little afraid I’ll
have to rob some banks to get enough
money to pay for the stamps to answer
them.

But Nncle Ned and cousins too, don’t
you think that if I‘m a good girl and
do as I’m told, father will give me enough
money for them? I do.

Though I have failed to write to you
before I have not failed to read the

, «Children's Hour in the M. B. F. and

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was so glad to read that dear Jeanette
Olsen was so nicely remembered by so
many of the cousins.

I intend to write to you too, Jeanette
but I’m going to wait until you are more
ready to answer any more letters.

In my last letter I promised to tell you
of my sight seeings and of my travels.
But Uncle Ned, I do wish I could remem-
ber all I hav forgotten. I am going to
begin with the state in which I was born,
Arizona. My father owned a large farm,
but as many of you know it’s so warm
and dry down there that farming isn’t
so successful. Because of the dryness
and warmth (because we very seldom
had rain) we had to water the crops.
That's what we call irrigation. Well I'm
going to tell you how we did it around
where we lived. We had windmills which
pumped water day and night into large
pond-like places, when the pond was full
we'd open large valves and the water
would rush out into the fields in ditchvs
of which there were many in each field.
Sometimes the water would make holes in
the sides of the pond (the pond looks
something like a bowl) and we had to
go around the pond often so that we

'cOuld get the holes repaired before they

got too large.

The soil around the pond was moist
so we planted our gardcn truck around
it. We had a large grape yard by it too.

We had diving boards in this pond and
people always came from towns to swim.
Instead of seeing nice green trees in the
woods, you see large bushes that look
as if they had dried up. They have
thorns and look just like rose bushes
dried up, without leaves. \Vc didn’t have
to go out and hunt for rabbits. instead
we had to fence all our crops (with fenc—
ing like we use in our chicken yards) to
keep them from eating up the crops.
There were many wolves too. And at
night you could hear them howl in the
Woods all night. ’l‘hc)‘ always know
when somebody butchers and then you
have to look out or Misc they’ll get your
meat. The people trapped the wolves a
lot. But there’s so many it doesn’t do
much good. It’s very dangerous to walk
in the woods especially barefooted (which
the children are most all the year around)
because there are many poisonous rep—
tiles. Especially rattle-snakes. I remem-
Once when I was walking in the Woods
I was barefootcd and I stepped into a
hole and after walking a few steps on
I turned to look back and there was a
large rattle—snake coming out of the same
hole I’d just stepped into.

I hardly ever went away from home
because the people live so far from each
other.

It’s dangerous for young children to go
most any place along the road because
there are many ranchers and they drive
large herds of cattle along the roads
daily. In real dry weather you can see
a herd coming a long ways off because
they raise large clouds of dust.

I wonder if any of the cousins know
what the children have for pets down
there. Donkeys and mules!

Before I’d ever seen a school house
my father and I went to town one day
and we went by a different way than
usual and I saw a large house-like build—
ing with donkeys and mules all around
the yard tied to bushes and poles. I
asked father what the place was and he
told me it was the school house and the
children rode the donkeys and mules to
school.

Wouldn't you like such a pet? They
are too lazy for me now but down there
I had a donkey and in my next letter I
will tell you how I got it and how I rode

1* it. That is if you would like me to. I
would this time but my visit is getting together.

 

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EAR girls and boys: The prizes

have been awarded in another

hard fought contest, our last
“What’s Wrong in This Picture”
contest. And maybe you don’t think
it was some job to pick the three
best ones out of well over 500 en-
tries.

After hours of deliberation first
prize was awarded to Mary Buby,
Omer; second prize, a fountain pen,
was captured by a boy, Ernest Cor-
Win, of Grayling; while a box of
paints as third prize went to Mary
Bakes, R. 2, Coloma, who won a
prize in our first contest of this
kind. Looks like it was a lucky day
for Marys, doesn’t it?

The mistakes in the picture are:
1. Words “dog’s," “cat’s” and “al-
lowed’ incorrect on the sign; 2.
One handle missing from wash boil-
er; 3. Word “cigarettes” misspelled;

DO YOUR BEST
BLUE AND GOLD

4. Potatoes are not sold by quart:
5. Word “cider” misspelled; 6.
Dogs and cats should not be in gro-
cery; 7. Dollar sign not in correct
place on sign on shoes; 8. Shoes are
both for one foot; 9. Pear sign is
not on pears; 10. Bananas growing
upside down on stalk; 11. Mice do
not come out where there are peo-
ple; 12. Man has his hat on cross-
wise; 13. Ducks are not kept on
shelves in grocery store; 14. Wheels
do not match on wagon; 15. Boy
has nothing by which to pull his
wagon; 16. Numbers on face of
clock are backwards; 17. Cat’s tail
should not be bushy; 18. Five fin-
gers on one clerk’s hand. Do you
remember how many you got right?

In the next issue I will announce
the winners in our Washington and
Lincoln contest, and no doubt, start
another contest, so be on the look-
out for it.——UNCLE NED.

 

 

long and some other letters want to come
to visit too. So I‘ll close for this time
with my best regards. Your niece—-
Lempie Suhonen, Fairfax, Michigan.

—V\’hat an interesting letter you writc,
Lempie. To be sure we want to read
more about that donkey and your travels.

Dear Uncle chz—I am real glad to be
a member of the Children's Hour, and I
thank you for the nice letter and pretty
pin I received from you. I always do try
to do my best and find it much easier
than slipping through a thing, as people
call it, when we don’t do our work well.

I will try to help you out some, as
much as I possibly can. I hardly have
time to write, but will certainly take time
to write to all thosc who write to me.

I haven't any poems ready to hand in
yet. or to send to you rather. but will
write up some little poems when I find
time. Do you care for poems that are
funny or the other kind? \Vell I hope
you like funny poems. I do and I think
every one ought to so that they might
have a laugh once in a while. This
makes me think of the piece ”Smile a
little bit”, dosen't it you Uncle Ned?
I think this is quite suflicicnt, so will
close. Your niece—Esther Caister, Deck-
er, Michigan.

——We enjoy both humorous and serious
poetry, Esther, so send us some soon.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:~—I have never writ-
ten to you before, and would like to join
your merry circle. I have been going to
write to you and some of. the cousins
before but have neglected it. I like your
motto and color.

Well, before I go ay farther, I will de—
scribe myself. I am live feet, five inches
tall, I weigh 108% pounds and have blue
eyes. light brown hair, I am in the 7th
grade and will be fourteen February 27.
Have I a twin? Oh, yes, I forgot to tell
you I have bobbed hair, of course.

For pets I have a cat named Pussy,
a dog named Jack, also a rooster named
Dick, and a pullet, iiddy. Mother says
that my rooster runs just like me (Ha!
Ha!), you just ought to see me run then.
I have three brothers, one older than I
and the other two younger. My oldest
brother is twenty, the one next to me is
eleven and the one next to him is nine.

We are having sleigh ride parties and
we have lots of fun. The first night
there were eighteen there, the second
one there were fourteen, and the third
thre were twelve.

I have a mile to walk to school. We
have about fifteen pupils in our school.
Our teacher is from Newaygo. She is
sure good to us children. We had a
Christmas tree and a program and it
was very good. Two schools went in
We have taken the M. B. F.

for nine years and I am always the first
to get the paper and read the letters on
the children‘s page. Your story you had
in the paper was very interesting.

Every» night when us kids want to get
the barn chores done early I always milk
a cow so they can get done to go to the
sliding party with us. The one that is
eleven is the only one that goes with me.
I enjoy answering your puzzles, but never
send them in, but some time I am going
to surprise you. I will be very inter-
ested to read the letters I receive from
the boys and girls and will try and an-
swer every one I get.

Every time I go to the sleigh ride
parties I always dress like a boy and the
rest of the girls do too. Well, I bet you
are getting tired of reading this so I
will close, as ever, your niece—«Miss Jes—
sic Lovell, RI, Box 60, Woodville, Mich.

P. S. All of the cousins that can and
will please write to me.

——A very interesting letter, Jessie, and 1
am expecting to hear frmo you often.
Tell us about some of your good parties.

Dear Uncle Ned:——I have written to
you three times, this makes the fourth
time. I have only been lucky once, that
is, I only had my letter published once.
I have written to you three times before
as I said. but I have never yet told you
where I came from.

Two years ago last August I came over
from Englnad. I had a very nice trip
over. We started July 4th and arrived
here July 14th, in Canada rather. \Ve
had to wait in Canada two weeks before
we could come to America because the
quota was full, that is they only let in
so many every month. While we were
in Canada we (my mother and I) were
very surprised to see so many colored
people. We had never seen any colored
people before, only at the railroad sta-
tions. We had a very nice trip coming
over, also very nice weather.
dances on the deck of the boat, we also
had fancy dress balls. We came second
class and it was the most wonderful trip
I ever took. Better than‘ when I told
you that I went to Niagara Falls.

The boat we came on was called the
“Ausonia”. It weighed 14,000 tons. It
was only reckoned as a small boat, but
we thought it quite large. These are
some of the things we did on the boat.
We played games on the deck in the
children’s play room. Of course, I was
only ten years old when I came over so
I was able to play with the smaller chil-
dren in the play room. We just had a.
two-berth room. It had a port-hole in
it. We had very good views of the
ocean. At night the decks were all lit
up with electric lights and we sat on
deck and watched the lighthouses throw

their warning light across the

We had >

Sometimes we would have a chance to

see another boat from a distance. It'

was a very nice sight to see another ship
all lit up. There were stores on the
boat, also two librar.es, one Writing room.
one drawing room. two decks, five large
kitchens, lots of store rooms and I don’ t
know how many berths, there were sev-
eral hundred anyway.

If I see my letter in print in the next
M. B. F., I will write and tell you some
more about my trip over here such a!
coming down the St. Lawrnece River.
Your niece.-——Margaret Underwood, Omer,
Michigan.

—I am sure you could give us a most
interesting story about your trip from
England because what little you have al-
ready told here is very interesting. I
wish you would write me a. nice long
letter telling all about your trip, from
beginning to end, so that I can publish
it right on our page for all to read.
Will you do this?

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—Well, here I am
again. Hello cousins. I tried to enter
your merry circle once before but failed,
but I didn't give up. I hope ~I may enter
this time. We have been taking Tm
Bosmsss Fulani: about a year and I
surely enjoy the Children’s Hour and also
“The Indian Drum."

Have you ever been' to the House of
David, Uncle Ned? Probably some of
the cousins live at Benton Harbor where
the House of David is. I will try to
tell you about it. You get on a train
and ride through a beautiful park to
about the center of the park, then you
get off the train which is very small, the
engine being about four feet high. It
runs on a track about a foot wide. After
you get off the train you wander around
to see the beautiful things. They have a.
zoo, a swimming pool, a beautiful house
called the House of Jerusalem and an—
other called the House of Bethlehem.
They have a little house which is very
beautiful. It is only about three feet
tall. Another beautiful thing is cobble-
stones built up in the shape of a boat
and filled with flowers. When you have
to go home you get on the train again
and go back a different way than you
came. The men have long hair and
whiskers. Perhaps you are wondering
who is doing all this chattering, so I
will tell you. I am fifteen years old,
have dark brown, bobbed hair and blue
eyes and am five feet tall and weigh
about 118 pounds. I have only one pet
and that is a snow white kitten whose
name is Fluffy,

I would be glad to hear from the cous-
ins and will answer all letters. I must
close my chatter as this letter is getting
long—Thelma Warner, Route 2, Box 32,
Jackson, Michigan.

-——No, I have never been to the House of
David and I enjoyed very much reading
about it. Write again.

Dear Uncle Ned:———I am going to tell
you of a trip we took last summer. One
morning about seven o'clock we started
out for Long Lake if you know where
that is. It is about thirty miles the
other side of Pontiac. When we got
about twenty miles from home it started
to rain. It rained until we got about
four miles from the lake. Then it stop-
ped. When we got to the lake it was
just ten o’clock. We stayed around the
house until our dinner was ready. We
ate it happily. After dinner we went in
swimming and had a good time. Then
We told stories on the bank until four
o’clock. Then we started for home. It
took us three hours and ten minutes to
get home. We went to bed happy. I
hope you all know this is true. Your
niece,——Helen Scheuer, Route 1, New
Haven, Michigan.

——-Wasn’t it nice that it stopped raining
so your day at the lake was not spoiled?
I’ll bet you enjoyed yourself immensely.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am writing to tell
you about our new horse. He is a black
horse and very lively in everything.
When we first got him he was afraid
of me. But after we had him awhile I
liked him. First we had a horse that was
Very skinny, but he didn't match our
other black horse, so we got a new
horse. His name is Dock. From your
nephew,—Herbert L. Runnal, R3, Birch
Run, Michigan.

——Dock must be a very nice horse and

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By PROF. H. A. CARDINELL 7
Extension Specialist, Michigan State College

S there anything more discourag-
ing to the owner of a young ap-
ple or peach orchard, especially

during the formative years that the
trees are being trained, than to have
an outbreak of blight kill the limbs
intended to be the framework of the
tree for the future? Then there is
the risk that this disease may trav-
el rapidly down the trunk and pos-
sibly destroy some roots. Fire blight
is caused by a bacteria which. lives
in the bark wherever it can gain
access. Being a bacterial disease it
differs from the many fungus dis-
eases usually present in fruit trees.
Since blight lives and travels be-
neath the outer bark, and usually
in the sap stream or combium, it
cannot be controlled by means of
applications of spray or dust.

Fortunately only a few varieties

of pears, apples and quinces are
extremely susceptible. Ordinarily
Transparent, Wealthy, Banana,

Wagener, Tolman, Johnathan, Crab
and Greening varieties are very sus-
ceptible in the apple kingdom; while
with pears Clapp’s Favorite and
Bartlett are the most injured by
this disease. Seldom, however, is
any variety immune.

Where to Find Blight

Every owner of apple, pear or
quince trees is familiar with the
stage of blight that attacks the new
growing tip of the branches causing
them to wilt, leaves turn brOWn and
die early in the summer, and the
damage has usually run its course
by August. Very few, however, are
familiar with the canker that forms
and is responsible for carrying the
disease over the winter. Blighted
fruit spurs, water sprouts and suck-
ers which are compeletely blighted
often result in a brown sunken spot
at the base of the twig characterized
by cracking of the bark around the
margin of the canker. These cank—
ers should be removed before blos-
som time. Another form of canker
is to be found in limbs where blight
has traveled from the tip of the
branch downward into two—year or
older wood. These should be cut
away making the cut into healthy
bark. Where suckers are found
blighted about the trunk and root
system it will pay to remove some
earth and examine crown and roots
for any discolored bark.

While the tree is dormant is the
only logical time to remove blight.
The bacteria are less active and less
tissue need be removed than is true
with summer cutting. Also, more
time is available at that season than
during the summer rush.

The only used tool is the farrier’s
knife to be had from any black-
smith shop or hardware store. Ev-
ery suspicious looking canker should
be examined by means of carefully
cutting into the outer bark in the
margin of the crack to see if it is
red or brown in color; if it is green
no blight is likely to be present.
Ninety per cent of cracked areas or
cantankerous looking spots are not
the result of blight, but are caused
by harmless bark fungi. If the in-
ner bark appears red or brown it
is likely to be blight and the bark
should be sliced away until all dis-
colored bark has been removed. It
is then time to apply a disinfectant.

Disinfecting Solution

Dissolve four half—gram tablets of
cyanide of mercury in one—half pint
of warm water and add one and one-
half pints of commercial glycerine.
This must be kept in glass and there
is nothing better than a glass top-
ped pint fruit jar. It is deadly
poisonous and should be labelled
and handled as such. This material
should be applied to the margin of
the bark by means of a half-inch
brush, after all blighted tissue has
been cut away. Absolute thorough-
ness will result if a package of car-
dinal red dye is dissolved in the
above mixture. Tincture of Cudbear
may be used instead of the dye. The
colored disinfectant will mark the
wounds treated. It is not necessary
to disinfect small cuts out on the
ends of branches. but should be ap—
lied to cut made on the main, large
limbs and on trunks and roots

Occasionally large areas of bark
will . be removed on large limbs,
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and often results in the death of
the limbs above and roots below
this injury. If the tree is valuable,
it will pay to bridge this injury by
the common bridge graft.

In extreme cases the entire half,
or often all of the trunk, has lost its
bark in the removal of blight, and
even the roots may be scraped in
completing the work. A permanent
tree may result if the exposed wood
is given a coat of paint, then two,
three or four seedling or nursery
trees (of the same species( pear for
pear, and apple for apple) are
planted about the trunk, and the
tops grafted into the healthy bark
above the injury. These nurse trees
will feed the tree the rest of its
life and do a good job of it, too, at
a total cost of one to ,three dol-
lars. Isn’t a sound top worth it?
Fruit growers do it regularly, no

‘matter whether the cause be blight,

mice, rabbits, or hired-man blight.
A farrier’s knife, a dandy box
scraper and’a Merribrooke melter
for keeping brush wax warm during
grafting, when the
pounds resin, one pound beeswax,
one—half pint raw linseed oil and
oneohalf pound lampbla’ck is used.
The only time summer blight
cutting appears necessary is in the
case of young vigorous growing
trees. Blight usually overwintcrs
on old trees and is spread by in-
sects, etc., to young trees. Such trccs
should be watched, and when blight
appears it should be cut out, being
careful to out six to twelve inches
below the last visible sign which
bark usually has a water soaked
appearance. Disinfect immediately
and burn the diseased twigs so that
insects may not leave the wilting
twigs and again reinfect the trees.

STAR/1‘ CORN BORER STATION
AT MONROE

STABLISHMENT of a

European Corn Borer experi—

ment station in Monroe County
this spring, with the Michigan State
College and the bureau of entomol—
ogy of the U. S. Department of Agri—
culture cooperating in the project,
was announced here this week by R.
S. Shaw, dean of agriculture at the
college.

An entomologist from the bureau
of entomology at Washington and a
crops man from M. S. 0'. will be in
residence permanently at the new
station. A complete experimental
program aimed at study and devel—
opment of methods of controlling
the dangerous crop pest will be un—
dertaken. The corn borer has al-
ready spread over much of south-
eastern Michigan, offering a prob—

lem of immediate and vital impor—,

tance for the agriculture of the
state. '

That the work of the new station
will be purely experimental in na—
ture is pointed out by authorities at
the college. The State Department
of Agriculture, at Lansing, is handl-
ing quarantine and other control
measures for the corn borer. The
Monroe substation will merely aim
at developing information necessary
in adequate control work.

The entomology and farm crops
department at M. S. C. will have di—
rect supervision of thecollege and
of the Monroe station work.

EXPAND NOON PROGRAMS OVER
STATION WKAR

OON programs sent out on week

days from radio station WKAR,

the Michigan State College,
have recently been expanded great-
ly. Weather forecasts have been
broadcast from this station at 12
noon, Eastern Time, for the past
year, but in recent weeks bulletins
on state highway show conditions
and answers have been added. Live-
stock market reports from Detroit
and Buffalo markets are also to be
added to the WKAR noon programs.

His Method

Customer: How is it that I have not
received a bill from you?

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By Anne Campbell .

The old-time pedro party
Was quite a. grand afi‘iair,—
The Murphys, the McCartys
An’ that young wife 0' Marty's 5:.
Who liked to go toparties— ‘
They always gathered there.

It was a social function

When Sterlings had us in,—
The Cavanaughs, young Carney,
An’ Jim O’Toole an’ Barney,

So lately from Killarney

Were rarin’ to begin!

We always had some prizes,
The booby an’ the best,

An’ jokes all kept us laffin',
While cider, we were quaffin’
The old folks bent on chaffin'
Tess Carney, an’ the rest.

When hearts were trump, for instance,
‘Twas always heard with glee,

For Bert, he buzzed young Bessie,
An’ Bill walked out with Tessie,

An’ Charley called on Jessie,

An‘ Omar went with me.

Before we passed the doughnuts,
The chairs stacked in the hall,
Someone would start in playin’
While all the gals were swayin’,
An’ Marty stood up, sayin‘,

, "Salute your partners all !”

We never had a party

‘Without that end in sight.

‘Twas always, “Do-si—do now,

Join hands an’ bow down low now,
Then grab your gal an go now,
An' sashay to the right!”

“Twas twelve sometimes an’ after
Before the fun was through.

We hated to be goin’,

But saw how late ‘twas growin',
An’ thought 0' mornin’, knowin’
That there were chores to do.

The tinkle of the sleighbells,

The horses, roan and white,

The snow so gently fallin’,

The bob sleighs, crunchin’, haulin’— w
The voices—stifled now—callin’,
“Good-night, dear friends, good—night!"

A picture that will linger
In memory for aye!
The old-time pedro party,
The square dance called by Marty,
The old friends, true an’ hearty,
Of a remembered day!

(Copyright, 1926.)

BETTER KITCHENS FOR
BETI‘ER HOMES

N line with suggestions from

many sources for making bet-

ter homes are several points on
kitchen planning from the Bureau
of Home Economics of the United
States Department of Agriculture
cooperating with Better Homes in
America.

One of the first things the home-
maker thinks about in a better
home is a well arranged, well-equip-
ped kitchen. That does not mean
that she is kitchen minded either.
It means rather that she knows
where convenience counts most in
a house. In most family kitchens at
least 1,000 meals are cooked dur-
ing the course of every year. Surely
for any job that comes as regularly
and often as getting three meals a
day, every step saving, time—saving
arrangement possble should be in-
cluded in the plan and the equip-
ment. The points that make for
convenience in the kitchen are as
follows, according to the Bureau of
Home Economics:

First, last, and all the time in
planning and equipping a kitchen,
says the bureau, think about the
work to be done in it.

If building or remodeling a kitch-
en, make it oblong and with no
more floor space than actually need-
ed. A kitchen is a workroom. Spa-
ciousness is paid for in miles of
useless steps.

Study the relation of the kitchen
to the rest of the house. Make a di-
rect connection from kitchen to din—
ing room in the common wall be-
tween them. See to it also that
there is easy access to front and
back doors, to the telephone, and
to the stairs to the cellar and wthe
second floor.

Arrange for adequate ventilation
in all weathers and for good lighting
at all work centers at night as well
as during the day.

Screen windows and doors against
household pests. Flies particularly

are a. menace to health.

Choose finishes for floor, walls,
and woodwork that are durable,
suitable in color, and can be kept
clean easily.

Select furnishings that fit the
wall and floor space and, will pay for
Welsh

_ The Farm Home at
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Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

What do you think of the modern day girls and

boys? Do you believe the world is better off today than it ever

Was or do you think the opposite? What do you think of the
following statement by a writer in Success:
—-who casts her vote and makes her own living can put across things
that her mother never knew—and put them across successfully. And
they are going to bring their children up to do the same thing. - I
tell you the world tomorrow is going to be a whole lot better place
to live in than it is today”? Let’s have your views on this matter.

Personally, I agree with the writer of the above statement. I
believe our girls and boys are better than they were when most of us
They are more informed about the
world and prepared to make their way and protect themselves. Their
amusements as a whole are better.
theater of today with declarations that it is going to the eternal bow-
wows, but compare the hair-raising old fashioned melodrama of a
few years ago with the kind cf plays you see today and I think you
must agree there has been an improvement instead of a degeneration.
I think the Eighteenth Amendment is a benefit to the country and
not the cause of crime as some would have us believe.

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able pieces, and compare prices
carefully.

Make sure that there is an abun-
dant supply of hot and cold running
water and a sanitary drainage sys-
tem. Decide on the most comforta-
ble height of working surfaces.

Group all equipment, large and
small into compact work centers for
preparation of raw food, cooking,
serving, clearing away and dishwash-
ing, and any other activities done
regularly and often in the kitchen.

Arrange these groups from left
to right following the order in which
the various jobs are done,

The kitchen is above all else an
place to prepare and serve food.
Limit the kitchen to this use, if pos-
sible, and arrange for laundering
and such work to be done in another
place.

BLACK DYEING

. GOOD black may be dyed over
A any shade except dark brown

or red with straight black dye.
If you desire black over brown or
red. use about one—fourth package
of navy blue with each package of
black. The blue kills the rusty effect
which brown or red is apt to give a
black dyeing.

The material should be weighed
carefully while dry and the dye used
according to the weight of the ma-
terial.

One package of wool or silk dye
will color one pound of wool ma-
terial or a half pound of silk. One
package of cotton dye will color one
pound of cotton, linen, rayon or
mixed goods. If your material is
silk or wool stitched with cotton or
mercerized thread, use cotton dye.

When you have less than one
pound of material, less dye should
be used. A convenient way to di-
vide a package of dye is to dissolve
one package of dye in exactly one
quart of boiling water. One pint of
this color solution equals one-half
package of dye. One—half pint of
this color solution equals one-quar-
ter package of dye. Eight table-
spoonfuls of this color solution
equals one-sixteenth package of dye.

Stockings and other light weight
articles will weigh only two or
three ounces. Weigh them careful-
ly and use four tablespoonsful of
color solution in your dyebath for
each ounce of material to be col-
ored. The remaining color solution
may be kept for future use.

The correct amount of dye for
the weight of material is important
in black dyeing because less dye
than required will give a bluish or
grayish black and too much dye will
give a bronzy black due to excess
color on the surface of the fiber.

It will be necessary to redye a
grayish black,_ but a bronzy overdye
can be remedied by washing off the
excess dye with hot water and mild
soap suds.

There are three essential points

A for all successful heme dyeing. First
use correct: amount "or dye; second“. .

 

use a large dye receptacle for even
pentration of color; third, stir con—
stantly. On these three points de-
pends the depth and uniformity of
color depend—Eleanor J. Bresee.

PROPER LAUNDERING PRF-
SERVES WOOLENS
ROPER washing methods are im—
portant to preserve and prolong
the usefulness of woolen cloth-
ing. With care, even outer clothing
made of flannel and other woolen
materials may be laudered With fair
1y good results.

Shake the clothing before it is
washed, to get rid of any loose dirt.
“Lukewarm water and suds from a
mild soap are best. Hot water tends
to shrink the garment and mat the
wool fibers, and this destroys the air
spaces which have much to do with
the warmth of wool materials.
Strong soaps should not be used as
they contain large amounts of alkali
which weakens wool fibers and
makes the garments wear out more

quickly.
Several waters, all of the same
temperature, are desirable. Wool

needs careful and thoroughu‘insing,
but a small amount of glycerine or
just enough soapsuds to make the
water feel smooth in the last rinsing
water will make the wool soft.

The garments should be shaken
well and pulled into shape while
they are drying. Drying by a fire
or freezing are both hard on woolens
and it is best to dry them slowly at
room temperature. If the materials
must be pressed this should be done
with a warm irln. Dresses, skirts,
and suits may be pressed with a hot
iron if a damp cloth is put over them
so that the iron does not touch the
wool.

Woolens should be washed before
they get very dirty as they cannot
stand soaking rubbing or boiling.
The soap should always be in solu-
tion so that none will have to be
rubbed on the garment and after the
washing the woolens should not be
twisted or wrung by hand. Wringer
machines may be used but if the
laundry is not equipped with one the
garment should simply be squeezed
as dry as possible.

AN IDEAL WORK JACKET

-THE old sheepskin coat has served

only a part of its usefulness

when the ducking or corduroy
covering wears out and looks too
shabby to be worn anymore. If the
skin is still good, it will make an
ideal lining for an ordinary overall
jacket and no better light coat could
be worn while choring around the
farm. Remove the old collar. Cut
the old ducking or other covering off

‘the did coat being sure to leave the

part of it that is directly sewed to
the skin still attached. Leave the
buckles and fasteners or the loops
and buttons on the front. Then care-

fully fit the skin into an oversize:

jacket andfaiftea it there by,

- popper and try it again.

  

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A BAKING SUGGESTION
IFT baking soda. in the flour in-
‘stead of dissolving it in hot
water or milk when mixingup
the recipe for chocolate cake, sug-
gests the home economic authorities
of the Agricultural College The cake
will be lighter and nicer. This me-
thod of using baking powder applies
to cake and other recipes.

TO POP OLD POPCORN

F the old popcorn won’t pop, try
I putting it out in the cold for a
few hours, then put it into the

If it does-
n't pop, feed it to the chickens or
pigs. Chilling the kernels will make
even the best popcorn pop into much
larger kernels. Quick expansion of
air in ide the kernel makes it pop
and t quicker the expansion takes
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7

Wants Waffle and Doughnut Recipes.
—I would like to ask the ladies for a.
good recipe for making waffles and also
yeast doughnuts. I will be pleased to
get these recipes. I am enclosing two
good tried recipes, one molasses cookies
and a graham cracker pudding. Try
them out and see how you like them—H.
K., Muir, Mich.

Flowers and Tree's.—How should I
proceed to make a bed of hardy lillies
and can you suggest a list that would
be suitable for south central Michigan
and to include all colors? Are trees of
the Oriental Plane hardy? Also Allan-
thus and Alder? I would plant these
for a windbreak and to protect a fruit
farm if they are suitable for the pur-
pose..—-Mrs. D.

-——To prepare a proper bed for lillies,
the soil should be thrown out to a depth
of two feet; at the bottom place six in-
ches of well rotted cow manure, upon,
this twelve inches of good clean garden
loam and. over it an inch or, so of clean
sand. Upon this sand the bulbs are best
set about eighteen inches apart and cov—
ered with this same loam as below. A
well drained soil is very essential and if
necessary artificial drainage should be ap-

plied in the form of coarse gravel or'

stone.

Spring planting is usually resorted to,
although some varieties may be planted
in the fall. During the summer- a mulch
of grass clippings or litter is. desirable
or even a plantation of low growing
plants like verbena or dwarf petunia is
sometimes used. This mulch keeps the
ground and the roots cool and helps in
the production of the new bulblets for
the next season. During the winter a.
six, inch mulch of manure is advisable.

The following are useful: Funkia sub-
cordata—Day Lily, white; Hemeracallis
flava—Day Lilly, yellow; Lillium, auran-
tium, Lilium speciosum, fall planting, full
sun; Lilium canadense, yellow, red 'or-
ange ;; Lilium tigrium—Tiger lily; Lilium
Krameri, Lilium Brownii, Lilium Bate-
manil, Lilium superbum, crimson orange.

Plane trees are perfectly hardy and
so is the Alder but Ailanthis or Tree of
Heaven is not thoroughly so, particularly
in the northern parts of the state—«Alex
Laurie, Floriculture, M. S. C.

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Wants Recipe for Canning Sardines.—

I would like to get the recipe for making .

mustard sardines for canning—Mrs. 8.,
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The Processional in Church—As the
bridal processional nears the chancel
where the bridegroom is waiting( the
ushers and bridesmaids in the lead (where
the chancel, as is often the case, has
steps) ascend the chancel steps and ar-
range themselves in two lines (girls in
front line, men behind them) in front of
the choir stalls.

If preferred, they may divide into two
groups, on either side of the main aisle
of the church, standing in front of the
first pews (which is not a good plan
since it makes it harder for those in
them to see),or they may group them-
selves around the altar. If a vested
choir has led the processional its members
will,“ of course, have taken their places
in the choir stalls, and do not enter into.
the problem of arrangement. The maid
(or matron) of honor always stands be—
hind the bride, to the l.eft

Flower girls and pages are accessories.
They stand wherever they will be least
in the way, practically. and where their
picturesque costumes will blend most ef-
fectively and happily with the whole
wedding picture. It should always be
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There is no power. but of God; the
powers that be are ordained of God.
Rom. 18:1.

Persistently afilrm that there is no
power but of God—but that which is
manifested in Good. It will be a. usable
truth when once you get it fixed in your
consciousness, an ever present Help, a.
Comforter, a, Support, 2. Protection. No
evil can come near you, for evil has no
power. and is helpless befcre Good. To
believe that it has power and to fear it,
is to deny your God, to move away from
His protection, to give yourself into the
hands of the enemy, to be at the mercy
of fate. The power which evil appears
to have, comes from the beliefs of “the
mind of the flesh”—ls its law.

The power of sin is the law (Mortal
law).....(1 Cor. 15:56. This is the above
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Molasses Cookies.——One and one-half
cups of lard or drippings, one and one-
half cups of sugar, one and one—half
cups of sweet milk, one and one-halt
cups of New Orleans molasses. Dissolve
four teaspoons of soda in the molasses,
two teaspoons cinnamon, one tablespoon
sugar, one tablespoon of vanilla. flour to
mix it not too stiff. Bake in quick oven.

Graham Cracker Pudding.—One cup of
graham crackers rolled fine. one cup of
sugar, 8. pinch of salt, one—half teaspoon
baking powder, three eggs, one-half cup
of walnut meats, one taespoonful of
vanilla. Mix dry ingredients, beat egg
yolks until light and add to dry in-
gredients. Then add the vanilla and beat
in the walnut meats and last fold in the
Whites of the eggs well beaten. Bake in
muffin tins and serve with whipped
cream. This serves six and is excellent.
——H. K., Muir, Michigan.

Canned Tomatoee.—-—In the Personal
Column, I read of the trouble Mrs. W‘. of
Berrien county has with canned tomatoes.
I had just exactly such trouble with to-
matoes. I lost forty quarts the first sea.-
son. I began to think it over as I never
before had such “luck". We had moved
our garden spot and .I thought some-
thing in the soil caused It, so I planted
tomatoes on a. different spot with the
same results. Then I figured it must be
the tomato itself. Our seasons are short
so I had planted the Earliani variety.
In looking the seed catalogues over one
mentioned the fact that the Ear-liens. was
not a good canning tomato. That season
I planted the Stone and Maules Success
and my canned tomatoes were fine.
Planted the same last season and every
can has been extra nice and fine flavored.
There will be no more canning of early
tomatoes for me as I am quite sure it
is neither bacteria. nor improper heating
as I am no expert—just an ordinary farm
woman. There are so many helps and
good things in THE BUSINESS FARMER, I
hope we shall not have to do without it.
-—-Mrs. W. J., Omer, Michigan.

lillnce Meat with Jelly.—I saw in M.
B. F. a request for mince meat with
jelly by Mrs. M. of Saginaw County, will
send one. Three pounds of beef cooked
thoroughly and chopped fine, to one bowl
of meat add three of chopped apples, 8.
little suet, one pound raisins, one pound
ourrants, one tablespoonful salt, one tea—
spoonful each of cloves and cinnamon,
grated nutmeg, one cup of vinegar, two
quarts of berry juice, one glass of jelly
of any kind, sugar to sweeten as wanted.
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A New Kind of Cake—I am sending
you a recipe for a Love Cake which was
sent to me tortry my luck at but I don't
think it is very good to eat. Ha! Ha!
See if anyone else has good luck with it.
One cup of kisses. one tablespoon of hugs,
mix well together, add one cup of teasing
and one cup of squeezing, season to taste.
Bake in a. young man’s arms in a. dark
room and beat it when the old man
comes name. Ha! Ha! Some cake—Mrs.
R., Tuscoola County.

Marshmallow Frosting.—White of one
egg, one cup sugar, three tablespoons
water. Place in double boiler over hot
water. When water begins to boil beat
continually for seven minutes. Water
must boil the whole seven minutes. Pour
this over six marshmallows which have
been cut into pieces and beat until
smooth—Mrs. E. M., Saginaw County.

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If you want bakings that are

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Remember the old-fashioned
mustard plaster Grandma
pinned around your neck when
you had a cold or a sore throat?

It worked, but my how it burned
and blisteredl

Musterole breaks up colds and does
its work more gently—without the blis-
ter. Rubbed over the throat or chest,
it penetrates the skin with a tingling
warmth that brings relief at once.

Made from pure oil of mustard, it is
a clean, white ointment good for all
the little household ills.

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tinsmith if you had plans from
which to work.

The equipment consists of either
a low or high pressure boiler, and
an unloading platform in which the
tubs are installed. The tubs may
be galvanized iron six feet diameter
by 7 or 8 feet in depth. Two tubs
will take care of quite an acreage.
A tinsmith can connect the boiler
with the tubs with a six-inch tin
pipe to carry the steam and he can
also put in the pipe to carry the
oil laden steam to the worm which
need only consist of tin pipes where
the steam is condensed and oil and
water separate and flow out the end
of the pipe into a. receiving can.
Separation is produced by arranging
a perforated pipe over the worm so
that cold water flowing through it
will drip down on the worm.

Peppermint is a. pretty good crop
to raise on suitable muck land in
conjunction with other muck crops
The hay, after the oil is extracted.
is nearly as good feed as timothy

but being somewhat laxative should

be fed along with other roughage.

If one goes into the mint busi-
ness he should be in such financial
shape that he can hold his crop of
oil over a year in case the price
slumps. Also, it is no use to jump
in one year and out'the next.

Mint yields anywhere from fifteen
to fifty pounds of oil per acre. The
average for Michigan is given by the
United States Department of Agri-
culture as twenty-seven pounds.

Some men have made big money
in this business while a great many
little fellows have gone broke at
it, but if a man does not put all his
eggs in one basket but raises it in
the rotation year after year there is
a good living in it.

The cost of producing mint is

”hard to 'eshntta‘a‘wnlngio' the ib-

normal price of roots. ,- Normally
the cost of production would be
$1.75 to $2.00 per pound of oil. A
small community still woud cost
from $500.00 to $2,000.00; a. suit-
able size possibly costing about
$1,200.00.

TO INCREASE MILK FLOW

I have a nine year old cow, weigh-
ing 750 pounds, giving 20 quarts
of milk daily. I want to increase
her milk flow.

the kind of food and how much to
feed—Reader, Kent City, Mich.
WONDER if a mistake has not
been made in the weight of the
cow, which is given as 760
pounds. If this is the real weight I
would say that 20 quarts of milk per
day was a very excellent production
for her. I do not know of course
what percentage huttertat this cow
is producing but evidently since she
is a small cow she is probably a
fairly high tester. I would suggest
feeding this cow one pound of grain
ration: 500 pounds of ground corn,
300 pounds ground oats, 200 pounds
bran, 100 pounds linseed oil meal.
The above grain ration is based
on the idea the cow is.,belng fed al-
falfa hay and corn silage altho you
do not state what kind of roughage
the cow is getting. If she is getting
timothy hay such a ration would not
contain enough protein for a cow
producing as she is.—J. E. Burnett,
Associate Professor of Dairy Hus-
bandry, Michigan State College.

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HE hackamore is a temporary
halter used for leading or
tying either horses or cattle.

It is easily and quickly made and
is secure when properly drawn
up.

In making a hackamore a long
rope is usually used. One end is
passed around the animal’s neck
(fig. 1) and tied with a bowline
knot. A half bitch is then thrown
in the rope and passed over the
animals nose (fig. 1). In a like
manner a second half hitch is
made below the first and passed
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is left tied for any length of time the rope b is passed through the
loop c below the half hitch as indicated by the arrow ~in fig. 5.-—The

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summon or A new SIRE
' By Dr. Geo. II. Conn

HE American dairymen would
find dairying more profitable
and more satisfactory if they

would give more attention to the
selection of their herd sires. There
is no denying the fact that the bull
is the most important member of the
flair-yin; herd.

Many dairymen consider the pur-
chase of a herd site an expensive in-
vestment or a tying up of capital
which they delay as long as possible.
If they would realise that all im-
provements in the dairy herd de-
pend upon the sire. they would be
more anxious to purchase desirable
herd sires rather than to attempt to
buy as cheap it sire as they can se-
cure. No improvement in the dairy
herd can be secured unless it be
through the sire. The dairy herd
sire should have immediate produc—
ing ancestors in at least 2 or 3 of
the latest generations.

Pedigree

The herd sire should be bought
with as much production ancestry
in his pedigree as can be afforded by
the dairyman. No attempt should
be made to purchase a sire with as
little outlay of cash as possible.

Before purchasing a herd sire, the
dairyman should have well formu-
lated ideas of the type of dairy cow
he desires to breed. He should then
select a herd sire that will produce
this ideal type that he has in mind.
This establishment of type in the
dairy herd can only be brought
abOut through the use of a satisfac-
tory sire. The sire should always be
superior to the cows with which he
is mated.

The dairy herd sire should repres—
ent, by his own individuality, the
things that the dairyman wants in
the members of his herd. While the
breeding and individuality indicate
fairly accurately the sire’s ability to
reproduce these qualities in his of!-
spring, the record of his dam and
her immediate ancestry, as well as
the production record of his sire,
will determine this more accurately.
The herd sire should have a record
of production for the immediate pre—
ceding dams and the sires should
have proved their ability to sire high
producers. If a bull has not re-
ceived production ability from his
ancestors, he cannot transmit it to
his oflspring. Breeding, together
with production records, should be
given due weight with individuality,
when selecting the herd sire.

The sire should always be a pure
bred, never anything else. Occa-
sionally some individual will retain

' a herd sire from a grade cow that

has unusually outstanding quality
and type, but such sires are always
a disappointment for the reason
that the breeding of this sire has
only been proved on the sire’s side
and the reversion on the dam’s side
usually is great enough that the an-
imal is unsatisfactory as a sire.
While it would be possible to de-
velop a high producing uniform lot
of dairy animals from grade or com-
mon cattle, to the point where they
would have the same merit of pure
breds, this would probably require
a century of time or at least several
generations of time. No individual
can afford to take such a long time
to develop a herd when pure breds
can be purchased so easily. Pure
bred sires are the result of selection
and development of a herd of many
generations and sometimes several
centuries. For this reason it is fool-
ish to think of using anything but
pure bred sires, because breeding
and development have been carefully
regulated for many generations.

The progressive and practical
dairyman will select the breed that
is best suited to his conditions and
for which he has the preference and
then stick close to this breed. .It
should be kept in mind that there is
no best breed and that all of them
have advantages that the others do
not possess. The breed should not
be selected without making a care-
ful and exhaustive study at it.

When buying a herd bull. .pay

new money for it to secure an an.

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individuality, remembering that the
better bred bulls with high produc-
tion records are rather scarce. there-
fore cost considerable money. The
price will depend upon the record of
their ancestors and upon their in-
dividuality. The testing of cows is
very costly and for this reason many
good cows are not developed, there-
fore this contributes to the scarcity
of bulls from record dams and has
a tendency to keep the price for the
more desirable herd sires, consider-
ably higher than it otherwise would
be.

Interior bulls are more costly
than good ones and should never be
purchased for use in any herd. Ii!
possible it is best to buy a mature.
tried sire. It is often possible to
buy a sire which is from 4 to 6 years
old or even older for less money
than the breeders ask for a young
untried sire or immature animal. It
is more satisfactory to use a tried
sire, as you can see the offspring
that he has sired and know the good
points, as well as the poor ones of
the sire. When purchasing a young
calf to be used as a sire, one is nev-
er sure just how they will develop.

In some localities where there are
several breeders with the same breed
of dairy cattle, they organize clubs
of four members each, each one pur-
chasing a bull of equal value; at
the end of each 2 years, these sires
are exchanged and in this way the
owner is able to have a much better
sire than he otherwise would have
and it is only necessary to purchase
a new‘sire every 8 years. This is
a very good practice for the small
breeder and is becoming more pop-
ular each year.

FEEDING NEW BORN LAMBS
AND PIGS

Please advise me how to feed and
care for new born lambs, when the
mother dies or disowus them. Also
how to feed and care for new born
pigs when mother dies or disowns
them.-—~I. H., Charlotte, Mich.

HE best method of handling new
born lambs or pigs when the
mother dies is to give them to

another mother which may perhaps
lose her lamb. The loss of a lamb is
much more common than is the loss
of the mother and for this reason
one usually has a place for all of the
lambs *or pigs.

The raising and feeding of a lamb
by hand on the bottle usually costs
more than the lamb is worth unless
there are children who can take up
this work for the pleasure they de—
rive from it. The man who is busy
with other work usually has not
time enough to take care of an or-
phan lamb.

The milk from both pigs and
ewes is richer in protein and fat
than is cow’s milk. I would not,
however, advise altering the milk
in any way other than to give them
the milk from one of the cows that
produce a rather rich milk. Where
the mother dies soon after birth of
the lamb or pig it is, of course, ne—
cessary to give them a small amount
of castor oil to take the place of. the
colostrum or first milk.

In starting out little pigs they
should be fed sweet whole cows’
milk six to eight times daily. For
the first few days a pint per day is
suificient after which the amount fed
may be increased to a quart per pig
daily.

Young lambs will take a slightly
larger amount of milk than will lit-
tle pigs. In either case, however,
pains must be taken not to feed too
much. Little pigs will usually
learn to eat about three weeks of
age when the milk should be sup-
plemented by some corn placed in a
self-feeder where they can get it and
also a small amount of digester
tankage. The little lambs should
be given access to a grain mixture
or, equal parts oi! cracked corn,
crushed oats and bran.—-tGeo. A.
Brown, Professor, of Animal Hus-
bandry, M. S. 0. ~

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t‘lhe Springtime (bnditioner

Smmcrmn is the time that farm stock
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Feed it before freshing. It will relieve
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of worms. It will put your young stock,
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summer gains.

Fit your team for spring work with a
course of Dr. Hess Stock Tonic. It gives
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.HIS is just a plain tale by a
plain farmer of an eXperiment
carried out with a much herald-

ed, new forage crop.

On May tenth I fitted a. small
piece of not over rich ground by
plowing and dragging with a spring
tooth drag.- I dragged this ‘piece
several times and finally sowed ten
pounds of Sudan Grass seed the first
of June. The piece was about a
half acre as I wanted to try the new
crop on a small scale first. A month
later I would not have given ten
cents for the crop as the seed had
come up thinly and looked weak and
spindly. About July (first a hot, dry
spell set in and the Sudan grass was
just suited by that brand of weather.

It grew amazingly until -.August
fifth when it averaged six feet tall
and was well seeded out. I cut it at
that date with a mower. The result:
ing hay was much smaller in volume”
than I expected and had the addi-
tional feature of not sticking to-
gether so that it was almost impos-
sible to get a. forkfull up on the
rack. It cured easily enough but
had an exceptional shrinkage so
that I got but a small jag of hay.
The stack ate it readily but would
not eat the stalks as they appeared
to bo woody.— I used them for bed-
ding as there was always a big
bunch of stalks left in the mangers.

I might add that the mowing was
a hard job and made the team a
lather of sweat to pull the cutter
bar through. By the latter part of
August the grass was again about
three feet tall and much finer than
before. I cut it again and again
was much disappointed in the vol-
ume of hay as it seemed to shrink
away until there was little to rake
up. This time the stock cleaned the
hay to the last spear. About two
weeks later the grass had grown
enough so that I pastured a cow on
it for some time until the grass was
eaten down.

That was two years ago and I did
not plant any wSudan grass last year
and shall not plant it again. From
my experience I get these results:

Sudan grass is a soil robber: it
is difficult to handle unless cut with
a binder and cured in shocks like
wheat; it does not produce the vol-
ume of hay its apparent growm
should warrant; if out too soon it
withers away while curing and if
left too long the stalks—many as
large as a lead pencil—become
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N February 1 and 2 a majority
of the Michigan Cow Testers
assembled at the Dairy Building

for the fourth Annual Cow Testers’
Conference. Seventy men out of
the 108 Testers on the job in Mich-
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in helping improve the tone of the
dairy industry in Michigan. They
are imbued with the spirit of ren-
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The 108 'Testers on the force test
approximately 30,000 cows each
month. Needless to say they find
many star boarders but they also
render much help in improving ra-
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the Michigan Herd Owners.

These testers assembled at the

land develops a dangerous poison—-

prussic acide—when it is frosted, so
never pasture stock on frosted field
of the grass. If I am‘ again in need
of a catch crop foraforage I shall
plant ensilage corn, amber cane or
even common corn in drilled rows

and cultivate as I am positive that,

either would produce more and bet-
ter feed than the much touted Su-
dan grass. Naturally one experi-
ence is not at all conclusive but I
strongly advise trying it on a small
scale if at all. ~

 

MILLET HAY POOR FEED
FOR SHEEP
I have a quantityvof Hungarian
millet which I cut for hay and feed

.before it is ripe, or the seeds‘fully

matured. I wish to know of its
feeding value especially for sheep.
Can I feed it to sheep the same as
you would other hay, or would it
be injurious to them? Kindly let
me know of its feeding value—E.
A., Marion, Michigan.

IL‘LET hay at the best is not a
satisfactory feed for sheep, be-
ing rather coarse, containing

too much fiber and is apt to cause
digestive disturbances unless fed in
rather limited quantities. Person-
ally, I would prefer good corn stalks
to millet hay for sheep. In using
millet hay, therefore, I would adVise
that it constitute no: more than
one-third of the roughage ration.—
Geo. A. Brown, Professor of Animal
Husbandry, M. S. C.

MOVING EN SILAGE

Can ensilage be moved and kept
fresh or in feeding condition for
three months? If so, explain how.—
Mrs. Mc., Breedsville, Michigan.

T ,would not be possible to move
I silage from a silo and keep it
fresh or in a feeding condition
for three months. In fact, it could
not be kept for more than a few
days at a time. Any attempt to
move silage from one silo and place
it in another proves injurious be
cause of the fact that air incorpor-
ates through the mass and it is
impossible to repack the silage suf-
nciently tight to exclude the air. As
a result of it any organism may
start working in the silage and it
spoils quite rapidly—Prof. Geo. A.
Brown, Professor of Animal Hus-
bandry, M. S. C.

Once planted. cover crops take care of
themselves—as well as of the soil.

When Cow Testers Gathered At M. S. C.

Dairy Building, Michigan State Col-
lege, during Farmers’ Week to lis-
ten in on a program prepared
for them by the staff of the
Agricultural College cooperating
with the Dairy Department. The
main speaker of the day was Presi-
dent K. L. Butterfield, president of
M. S. C. He pointed out to the
testers that their’s was the. biggest
job that they are doing at present.
Dean R. S. Shaw, Dean of the Col-
lege of Agriculture, encouraged the
men and stated that their work was
one of the most extensive pieces of
extension work in Michigan. Pro-
fessor Reed, Head of the Depart-
ment, also spoke very encouragingly
regarding the future of the dairy
business in Michigan.—A. C. Balt-
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veal that there, is a wide vari-
ance in the number of years use
that different'farmers get from a set
of harness. Some reported as‘ short
a life as two to five“ years for their
harness, while in .some cases as
much as twenty-five years use of
harness was reported.

The life of a harness depends on
several factors: 0n getting good
hides, on proper tanning methods,
on the nature and amount of work
done with the harness and on the
care given the harness.

The favorite hide for harness is
Northern Steer hide, and since there
is a great difference in the quality
of hide on different steers, expert
selection is necessary to' procure the
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ness.

A steer hide is toughest at the
ridge of the backbone and grows
thinner and less strong as it spreads
toward the belly. The choicest har-
ness leather is cut from the backs,
of the hides.

After selecting the choicest hides,
the quality of the finished leather
depends a great deal on careful and
scientific tanning. The strength of
the leather depends a great deal on
whether or not the tanner gets all
the lime out of the hide. In tan-
ning leather, the hide is first soaked
in a lime water solution, this loos—
ens the hair and also loosens the
tissue of the hide, so that it will
remain pliable. The hide must soak

VETERINARY D EPARTM ENT

Edited by DR. GEO. H. CONN

 

(Questions gladly answered free for paid- -up

HEIFER MILKS HARD
We have a heifer that had her
first calf last month. The flow of
milk is very strong and she milks
very hard. Can anything be done to
make her milk easier?——A. N. H.,
Charlevoix, Michigan.

DO not know of a thing that you
can do that will assure you any
satisfaction in trying to make
your cow milk easier than she does;
most people sell them after bother-
ing with them for a time; they are
very unsatisfactory as I need not
tell you. J

COW HAS INDIGESTION
I have a heifer that came fresh
about six weeks ago. Am feeding
ensilage, corn fodder, ground oats,
and barley and some cotton meal.
About all that she eats you after-
ward find in the manger‘as she vom-
its up and she seems to be getting
worse. Would like to lcnow at once
what is the cause and what to do
for it.——G. B., Columbiaville, Mich-
igan.
UR cow has indigestion, but
since you do not say how you
mix your feed it is going to be
difficult to tell you what to do.
Would suggest though that you use
some ground corn and some wheat
bran with your feeds that you have
mentioned. Give this cow a table-
spoonful of fowlers’ solution of ar-
senic night and morning on some
ground feed. Do not over feed her
for a while.
DOG HAS WORMS
Can you tell us what is the trou-
ble with our collie? She is about
ten months old and has what we
call fits. Has had six or seven of
the attacks at intervals since she
was about four months old. The
last one recently whenh her pups
were ten days old, and s e does not
seem to be very well now. She be—
comes very nervous and barks con-
tinually in a shrill excited voice and
runs about swiftly as if being pur-
sued. Seems to be in great fear and
pain at the time. The attacks last
about thirty or forty minutes and in
the course of an hour .she appears
quite normal again. Does not froth
or snap at anything, although, of
course, we. are afraid of her. May
it be caused by worms? If so what

  

  
 
  

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~=..to.agnsm 430M: .m..pao. m

in this lime solution for at least one
month.
The next step is to wash out this
lime solution before putting the hide
in the tan bark liquor. This is a
very important operation, upon
which depends the wearing quali-
ties and strength of the leather, pro—
viding of course the hide itself is of
good quality. To properly dissolve
the lime from the hide, the water
must be changed many times. Every
particle of lime must come out, or
else the tan bark liquor cannot
penetrate the hide and do its work.
he old fashioned bark-tan pro-
ces requires about six months for
completion. It is difl‘icult to tell
by looking at a piece of leather or
feeling of it, whether or not it has

been properly and thoroughly tan-
ned. The real test is a pulling test,
and there are special machines

made that test leather straps for
pulling strength. It costs money to
tan good leather, hence good har-
ness is economy in the long run.
Keeping harness well oiled so that
rain and dust cannot penetrate it,
is a big factor in prolonging its life.

Dust and dirt that accumulate
under buckles and other friction
producing parts of a harness is an-
other thing that shortens its life. It

forms a grinding compound that
gradually ears away the leather.
The mod trend in harness mak—
ing is to move as many of these

friction spots as possible, but it is
also a good idea to wash harness
thoroughly at intervals, and give it
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anise, 15 minims; chloroform, 20
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water for eighteen hours then give
half of this and feed lightly with
milk. Then in a week or ten days
give the balance of this in the same
manner.

Chenopodium,

COW GOES BLIND

I have a cow five years old that
went blind last week and I would
like to know what caused it. Her
get hurt. She is a very heavy milk-
eyes are not sore and she did not
er and I am feeding ensilage, alfalfa
and clover hay, corn meal, ground
oats, bran, and middlings. Do you
think putting very green corn in
the silo could cause it. I give salt
regular. The cow is not sick—A.
T., Ada, Mich.

HIS is likely commn blindness
or periodic opthalmia; we do
not know what causes it. You

might try the following with her:
three ounces of potassium iodide in
one quart of water; give one table-
spoonful three times each day on
some ground feed. Keep this where
it will not freeze. If this does not
bring back her sight, there is noth-
ing you can do. The green corn
would not cause it.

POLL-EVIL

Some time ago our horse had a
nail punched in his head, right back
of his right ear. There has been a.
small swelling there till lately and
it is beginning to get larger. What
can it be and what can be done for
it?——V. H., Evart, Michigan.

OUR horse is possibly develop-
ing a poll-evil, which is the
same as a fistula only it is lo-

cated on the back of the head; get
equal parts of tincture of iodine and
glycerine and paint it well night and
morning with a small stiff brush
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(Editor's Note: This is the fourth article of a
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D. E. Spotts appearing 0 our columns.)

FEEDING FROM TEN WEEKS T0
MATURITY

By D. E. Spotts

ONTINUOUS growth throughout
the summer Would be the main
aim after the chick has been

weaned and placed on the range.
By avoiding set~backs due to im-
proper feeding or management, ma.-
turity will be reached more quckly
and more uniformly. Some factors
which influence their growth after
the weaning are: 1, Characteristics
which have been inherited from the
parent stock; 2, Local surroundings;
3, Food. .

The undesirable inherited charac-
teristics which are most pronounced
are: loss of Vigor, strength, and
health, club to breeding the adult
birds which lack these characteris-
tics; small size ,which may be
caused from breeding immature pul-
lets. The rapidity of growth, the
feathering, and the ability to forage
'are inherited characteristics, but
vary with the different breeds.

portant factor to be taken into con—
sideration, as the best—bred chick,
possessing all desirable characteris—
tics, if not given desirable conditions
in which to grow, will not develop
its inherited characteristics to their
full capacity.

Young stock should not be con—
fined to close quarters, where they
will not make satisfactory growth
because of the limited supply of
green food and lack of sufficient
room for exercise. Free range con-
ditions should be provided and, if
possible, where there is plenty of
shade. Range having no shade or
succulence has very little more val-
ue than a restricted range. Shade
is very necessary for growing chicks
and should be provided in abun-
dance. Natural shade is desirable
and may be provided in the form of
growing crops, bushes or trees. Such
crops as corn, asparagus, sunflow-
ers, rape, rye, and buckwheat are
ideal, as the chicks not only fertil-
ize the land, but also keep down
weeds and eat destructive worms
and bugs. It is well to have a part
of the range in cultivated crops, as
it furnishes a dry range when the
grass is wet. Where artificial shade
must be furnished, brooder houses
can be raised 12 to 15 inches from
the ground. Also artificial shelters

 

I’ .by no means. as: effective. as plow-

of burlap over wooden frames prove
very satisfactory. However, the
natural shade is much better for the
chick, as it is cooler and generally
more sanitary.

Mash and Grain Rations

The mash and grain rations are
very important; also, a. large supply
of green, succulent food material is
necessary. When free range condi—
tions are provided, green food is us—
ually found in abundance. Where
it is necessary to grow a. large num-
ber of chicks on a limited area, it
is a good plan to divide the land into
two parts, placing the colony house
in the center of the field with a port—
able fence placed on one side of the
house, and later moved to the other
side. This will permit rotating the
W0 areas and growing desirable
crops to supply green food. Peas
and oats can be sown early in the
spring ,followed by rape and buck-
wheat later.

Not only is it desirable to rotate
the range to permit the growing of
green feed, but also from a sanita-
tion standpoint. Land which has
been used continuously for range is
very apt to become infested with
diseases and such parasites as
chicken worms. The direct source
of many tape and round worms has
been traced to ranges on which
chickens have been allowed to run
for a period of time, Without the
land having been plowed or in any
way disturbed.

upon the ran eto wash out Impuri-
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The surroundings are a very im- _

Many poultrymen who have their;
, .yards located upon a slope depend

  

line and fmwinz of «operand the

restriction of birds from the range
for apart of the time.

. Control of Disease

The control of disease presents
problems of a. character somewhat
different from the control of disease
in other domestic animals, due to
several causes: 1, Because of the
close association of the fowls in the
flock, worms, or any infectious dis-
ease which gains access to' the pre-
mises, is likely to spread rapidly;
2, Fowls seem to show less resis-
tance to their natural diseases than
other animals; 3, The same care in
nursing cannot be given to fowls as
to other animals and, in general, the
value of the bird does not warrant
the time spent on such cases.

The control of these diseases must
be governed by the specific nature
of each disease and its avenue of
entrance to the flock. As it is known
that many of the most common dis-
eases and internal parasites are
brought into the flock by unsani-
tary conditions of the hen-house
yards and range, it is well to form
the practice of moving the chicken
range and yard for a time each sea-
son, plow or spade the yard, and,
if possible, grow some green food.

When growing chicks are under
range conditions, it is very satisfac-
tory to feed a well-balanced mash
in self—feeding hoppers and supple-
ment dry mash with a crack grain
ration. The following mash, figured
on a ton basis, can be recommended
for use on the range: 600 lbs. corn-
meal; 400 lbs. ground oats; 400 lbs.
bran; 300 lbs. middlings; 100 lbs.
meat scraps; 80 lbs. calcium carbon-
ate; 80 lbs. bone meal; 40 lbs. char-
coal. This ration should be fed
dry in self—feeding hoppers, and
should be kept before the birds all
the time.

Twice a day a cracked grain ra-
tion of equal parts of corn and
whole wheat should be fed. This
method of feeding allows the chicks
to balance their own rations and
gives the weaker ones a constant
supply to which they can have ac-
cess. Dry mash in self—feeding hop-
pers tends to equalize growth and
produce a more uniform flock at
maturity.

YOUNG TURKEYS LALIE

I would like some information on
young turkeys. Last fall they
weighed between 1% to 2 pounds
and were well feathered out. I put
them in a small coop by themselves.
They were all right for a time and
then one got lame and could not
use its feet and legs. It would eat
and drink good for a time until fin-
ally it could not get up. After a time
it died. Now. another one is affect-
ed the same way—Mrs. O. 0., Char-
levoix, Mich.

HY would it not be a good plan
W to sell the turkeys you have

and get fresh breeding stock
another year? If you want to treat
them, I would suggest that you add
the following to their ration: 5
lbs. of bone meal, 5 lbs. of ground
shell and 15 lbs. of meat scraps to
each 100 lbs. of mash feed. This
will no doubt help as your-trouble
is likely due to lowered vitality
caused by improper feeding—Dr. G.
H. Conn.

 

MORE CHICKENS AND EGGS

. IN increase 4.7 per cent in the

number of hens and pullets of

laying age on farms January 1
this year over January 1, 1925, and
a. production of chickens on farfs
a production of chickens on farms
last year 4.2 .per cent greater than
in 1924, are estimated by the De—
parment of Agriculture.

The total value of the chickens
produced on farms last year was
about 12 per cent greater than in
1924 and the average chicken pro-
duced was worth 7 per cent more.

The largest increase in the pro-
duction of chickens last year was 14
per cent in the East North Central
States, followed by increases of 13
per cent in the North Atlantic Di-
vision, 12 per cent in the Pacific
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White Diarrhea J

Splendid Success of Mrs. Ethel
Rhoades in Preventing
White Diarrhea

Mrs. Rhoades' letter will no doubt
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from White Diarrhea. We will let
Mrs. Rhoades tell it in her own
words:

“Dear Sir: I see reports of so
many losing their little chicks with
White Diarrhea, so thought I would
tell my experience. My first incuba-
tor chicks when but a few days old
began to die by the dozens with
White Diarrhea. I tried different
remedies and was about discouraged
with the chicken business. Finally
I sent to the Walker Remedy 00.,
Dept. 528, Waterloo, 1a., for a $1.00
box of their Walko White Diarrhea
Remedy. It's just the only thing
for this terrible disease. We raised
700 thrifty, healthy chicks and nev-
er lost a single chick after the first
dose."—-—Mrs. Ethel Rhoades, Shen-
andoah, Iowa.

Cause of White Diarrhea

White Diarrhea (Coccidiosis) is
caused by a protozoal organism of
microscopic size which multiplies
with great rapidity in the intestines
of diseased birds and enormous
numbers are discharged with the
droppings. Readers are warned to
beware of White Diarrhea. ,Don’t
wait until it kills half your chicks.
Take the “stitch in time that saves
nine." Remember, there is scarcely
a hatch without some infected
chicks. Don’t let these few infect
your entire flock. Prevent it. Give
Walko in all drinking water for the
first two weeks and you won’t lose
one chick where you lost hundreds
before. These letters prove it:

Never Lost a Single Chick

Mrs. L. L. Tam, Burnetts Creek,
lnd., writes: “I have lost my share
of chicks from White Diarrhea.
Finally I sent for two packages of
Walko. I raised over 500 chicks
and I never lost a single chick from
White Diarrhea. Walko not only
prevents White Diarrhea, but it
gives the chicks strength and vigor;
they develop quicker and feather
earlier."

Never Lost One After First

Dose

Mrs. C. M. Bradshaw writes: “I
used to lose a great many chicks
from White Diarrhea, tried many
remedies and was about discourag-
ed. As a last resort I sent to the
Walker Remedy 00., Dept. 528, Wa-
terloo, Iowa, for their Walko White
Diarrhea Remedy. I used two 50c
packages, raised 300 White Wyan-
dottes and never lost one or had
one sick after giving the medicine
and my chickens are larger and
healthier than ever before. I have
found this company thoroughly re—
liable and always get the remedy by
return mail."——Mrs. C. M. Brad-
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per cent in the South Atlantic.

Total production of eggs in 1926
was slightly larger than in 1924, re-
ceipts at the five prinicipal markets
being about 15,500,000 cases or
about 1 percent more than in 1924.
The farm price of eggs in 1925 aver-
aged 301,é cents a dozen, compared
With 26.4 cents in 1924, and 27
cents in 1923. The total value of
the 1925 farm egg crop increased
about 17 per cent over that of 1924.

WRONG RATION
Please can you tell us the cause
of our White Wyandottes pullet’s
actions? When they are about to
lay they fall over on their side and
some times on their head, you can
feel the egg inside, after a few
hours or after the egg is laid they
seem alright—Reader, Charlotte,
Michigan.
OUR hens are getting a ration
that is too constipating; add
some oil meal, bran or some-
thing that Will act as a laxative;
once each week dissolve one pound
of epsom salts in some water and
mix this with the mash for 100 hens.
Give this to them at one feed. See
that they get plenty of exercise and
that they are in the sunlight as
much as possible; furnish them
plenty of water or milk to drink—-
Dr. G. H. Conn.

HATCHERYMEN STUDY ACCREDI-
TATION AND CERTIFICATION

N Wednesday, March 10th, 1926,
O at the LaSalle Hotel, Chicago,
a meeting of representatives of
the Accreditation and Certification
Groups of the middle west, met to
consider some of the important
problems facing the accreditation
and certification movement at the
present time. This meeting was at-
tended by Professor H. A. Bitten-
bender, representing the Iowa State
Accredited Hatcheries; H. M. Lack-
ie, Bureau of Markets, Madison,
Wisconsin. representing the Accredi-
tation and Certification movement in
Wisconsin; T. S. Townsley, Colum-
bus. Ohio, Field Manager, Ohio
Poultry Improvement Association,
representing Ohio Accredited and
Certified Hatcheries; H. W. Day,
Bureau of Markets, Springfield. Ill..
representing Illinois A c c r e d i t e d
Hatcheries: H. L. Schrader, Colum—
bia Missour, representng the Accred—
ited and Certified flocks and hatch—
eries of Missouri; Lyle Frank, of
Carlisle, Illinois, W. L. Stuffer of
Mt. Morris, 111., representing Illinois
Poultry Association; Doctor L. E.
Hensley, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
and J. A. Hannah, East Lansing.
Michgan, President and Secretary~
Manager, respectively of the Michi-
gan State Poultry Improvement Ass
sociation, representing the accredit—
ed hatcheries and poultrymen of
Michigan; L. VanAppledorn of H01—
land, Michigan; Mr. Chas. L. Isbell,
representing the Federal Trade Com—
mission; Professor L. E. Card, of
Illinois; A. A. Yoder, of the Poultry
Tribune; Frank L. Pratt of tne
Poultry Journal; Mr. Keifer of tne
Prairie Farmer; Mr. Reese V. Hicks,
Secretary and Manager of the In—
ternational Baby Chick Association,
also in attendance.
After consderable discussion of
the accreditation and

the Manhattan Plan for accredita—
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persons, hatcheries, and poultry-
men, using the terms “certified” and

“accredited” in their advertising,
the following resolutions were
adopted.

WHEREAS, the terms accredited and

certified as applied to poultry breeding
stock, baby chicks, and commercial hatch—
eries has come to have a definite com-
monly accepted meaning in the minds of
the poultry-keeping public, as represent—
ing superior quality, on account of the
good work and extensive publicity which
has resulted from certified and accredited
projects of long standing in a number
of states, and

WHEREAS, the situation created by
certain hatchet-ice in recently advertising
certified baby chicks without meeting the
generally recognized standards for pro-
ducing such chicks, has tended greatly
to injure the work of poultry improve-
ment being carried on in the various
states, by confusing the public mind on
the question of what are accredited and
oeiatifled chicks, flocks, and hatcheries,
an

WHEREAS, a. tentative uniform na-
tional plan of accreditation and certifica-
tion was adopted. at the National Con-
ference meeting at Manhattan.
on August 10th,

Kansas
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FEEDING FROM TEN WEEKS TO
MATURITY

By D. E. Spotts

ONTINUOUS growth throughout
the summer would be the main
aim after the chick has been

weaned and placed on the range.
By avoiding set-backs due to im-
proper feeding or management, ma-
turity will be reached more quckly
and more uniformly. Some factors
which influence their growth after
the weaning are: 1, Characteristics
which have been inherited from the
parent stock; 2, Local surroundings;

,.Food

The undesirable inherited charac-

teristics which are most pionounced
are: loss of vigor, strength, and
health, due to breeding the adult
birds which lack these characteris-
tics; small size ,which may be
caused from breeding immature pul-
lets. The rapidity of growth, the
feathering, and the ability to forage
‘are inherited characteristics, but
vary with the different breeds.

portant factor to be taken into con-
sideration, as the best-bred chick,
possessing all desirable characteris—
tics, if not given desirable conditions
in which to grow, will not develop
its inherited characteristics to their
full capacity.

Young stock should not be con-
fined to close quarters, where they
will not make satisfactory growth
because of the limited supply of
green food and lack of sufficient
room for exercise. Free range con-
ditions should be provided and, if
possible, where there is plenty of
shade. Range having no shade or
succulence has very little more val-
ue than a restricted range. Shade
is very necessary for growing chicks
and should be provided in abun-
dance. Natural shade is desirable
and may be provided in the form of
growing crops, bushes or trees. Such
crops as corn, asparagus, sunflow—
ers, rape, rye, and buckwheat are
ideal, as the chicks not only fertil-
ize the land, but also keep down
weeds and eat destructive worms
and bugs. It is well to have a part
of the range in cultivated crops, as
it furnishes a dry range when the
grass is wet. W/here artificial shade
must be furnished, brooder houses
can be raised 12 to 15 inches from
the ground. Also artificial shelters
of burlap over wooden frames prove
very satisfactory. However, the
natural shade is much better for the
chick, as it is cooler and generally
more sanitary.

Mash and Grain Rations

The mash and grain rations are
very important; also, a large supply
of green, succulent food material is
necessary. When free range condi-
tions are provided, green food is us-
ually found in abundance. Where
it is necessary to grow a large num-
ber of chicks on a limited area, it
is a good plan to divide the land into
two parts, placing the colony house
in the center of the field with a port-
able fence placed on one side of the
house, and later moved to the other
side. This will permit rotating the
two areas and growing desirable
crops to supply green food. Peas
and oats can be sown early in the
spring ,followed by rape and buck-
wheat later.

Not only is it desirable to rotate
the range to permit the growing of
green feed, but also from a sanita-
tion standpoint. Land which has
been used continuously for range is
very apt to become infested with
diseases and such parasites as
chicken worms. The direct source
of many tape and round worms has
been traced to ranges on which
chickens have been allowed to run
for a period of time, without the
land having been plowed or in any
way disturbed.

upon the ran 0 to wash out impuri-
ties, etc. , The, of course, to much
.better than nothing. at all, but it is
by no means. as eflective as plow-

 

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The surroundings are a very im- ,

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(We invite you to contribute your experience in raising poultry to this
Questions relative to poultry will be checrfufly answered.)

restriction of birds from the range
for a. part of the time.

3 Control of Disease

The control of disease presents
problems of a character somewhat
different from the control of disease
in other domestic animals, due to
several causes: 1, Because of the
close association of the fowls in the
flock, worms, or any infectious dis-
ease which gains access to> the pre-
mises, is likely to spread rapidly;
2, Fowls seem to show less resis-
tance to their natural diseases than
other animals; 3, The same care in
nursing cannot be given to fowls as
to other animals and, in general, the
value of the bird does not warrant
the time spent on such cases.

The control of these diseases must
be governed by the specific nature
of each disease and its avenue of
entrance to the flock. As It is known
that many of the most common dis-
eases and internal parasites are
brought into the flock by unsani-
tary conditions of the hen—house
yards and range, it is well to form
the practice of moving the chicken
range and yard for a time each sea-
son, plow or spade the yard, and,
if possible, grow some green food.

When growing chicks are under
range conditions, it is very satisfac-
tory to feed a Well—balanced mash
in self-feeding hoppers and supple-
ment dry mash with a crack grain
ration. The following mash, figured
on a ton basis, can be recommended
for use on the range: 600 lbs. corn-
meal; 400 lbs. ground oats; 400 lbs.
bran; 300 lbs. middlings; 100 lbs.
meat scraps; 80 lbs. calcium carbon-
ate; 80 lbs. bone meal; 40 lbs. char—
coal. This ration should be fed
dry in self-feeding hoppers, and
should be kept before the birds all
the time.

Twice a day a cracked grain rai-
tion of equal parts of corn and
whole wheat should be fed. This
method of feeding allows the chicks
to balance their own rations and
gives the weaker ones a constant
supply to which they can have ac-
cess. Dry mash in self—feeding hop-
pers tends to equalize growth and
produce a more uniform flock at
maturity.

YOUNG TURKEYS LAlIIE

I would like some information on
young turkeys. Last fall they
weighed between 1% to 2 pounds
and were well feathered out. I put
them in a small coop by themselves.
They were all right for a time and
then one got lame and could not
use its feet and legs. It would eat
and drink good for a time until fln-
ally it could not get up. After a time
it died. Now another one is affect-
ed the same way.-—Mrs. O. C., Char-
levoix, Mich.

HY would it not be a good plan
W to sell the turkeys you have

and get fresh breeding'stock
another year? If you want to treat
them, I would suggest that you add
the following to their ration: 5
lbs. of bone meal, 5 lbs. of ground
shell and 15 lbs. of meat scraps to
each 100 lbs. of mash feed. This
will no doubt help as your trouble
is likely due to lowered vitality
caused by improper feeding—Dr. G.
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MORE CHICKENS AND EGGS

. IN increase 4.7 per cent in the

number of hens and pullets of

laying age on farms January 1
this year over January 1, 1925, and
a production of chickens on farts
a production of chickens on farms
last year 4.2 .per cent greater than
in 1924, are estimated by the De—
parment of Agriculture.

The total value of the chickens
produced on farms last year was
about 12 per cent greater than in
1924 and the average chicken pro-
duced was worth 7 per cent more.

The largest increase in the pro-
duction of chickens last year was 14
per cent in the East NOrth Central
States, followed by increases of 13
per cent in the North Atlantic Di-
vision, 12 per cent in the Pacific
COast States and 7 per cent in the

   

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Splendid Success of Mrs. Ethel
Rhoades in Preventing
. White Diarrhea

Mrs. Rhoades’ letter will no doubt
be of utmost interest to poultry
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Mrs. Rhoades tell it in her own
words:
“Dear Sir: I see reports of so

many losing their little chicks with
White Diarrhea, so thought I would
tell my experience. My first incuba—
tor chicks when but a few days old
began to die by the dozens with
White Diarrhea. I tried different
remedies and was about discouraged
with the chicken business. Finally
I sent to the Walker Remedy 00.,
Dept. 528, Waterloo, 1a., for a $1.00
box of their Walko White Diarrhea
Remedy. It’s just the only thing
for this terrible disease. We raised
700 thrifty, healthy chicks and nev-
er lost a single chick after the first
d-ose.”——Mrs. Ethel Rhoades, Shen-
andoah, Iowa.

Cause of White Diarrhea

White Diarrhea (Coccidiosis) is
caused by a protozoal organism of
microscopic size which multiplies
with great rapidity in the intestines
of diseased birds and enormous
numbers are discharged with the
droppings. Readers are warned to
beware of White Diarrhea. _Don't
wait until it kills half your chicks.
Take the “stitch in time that saves
nine.” Remember, there is scarcely
a hatch without some infected
chicks. Don’t let these few infect
your entire flock. Prevent it. Give
Walko in all drinking water for the
first two weeks and you won’t lose
one chick where you lost hundreds
before. These letters prove it:

Never Lost a Single Chick

Mrs. L. L. Tam, Burnetts Creek,
Ind., writes: “I have lost my share
of chicks from White Diarrhea.
Finally I sent for two packages of
Walko. I raised over 500 chicks
and I never lost a single chick from
White Diarrhea. Walko not only
prevents White Diarrhea, but it
gives the chicks strength and vigor;
they develop quicker and feather
earlier.”

Never Lost One After First

Dose

Mrs. C. M. Bradshaw writes: “I
used to lose a great many chicks
from White Diarrhea, tried many
remedies and was about discourag-
ed. As a last resort I sent to the
Walker Remedy 00., Dept. 528, Wa-
terloo, Iowa, for their Walko White
Diarrhea Remedy. I used two 50c
packages, raised 300 White Wyan-
dottes and never lost one or had
one sick after giving the medicine
and my chickens are larger and
healthiel than ever before. I have
found this company thoroughly re-
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per cent in the South Atlantic.

Total production of eggs in 1925
was slightly larger than in 1924, re-
ceipts at the five priniCipal markets
being about 15, 500, 000 cases or
about 1 per, cent more than in 1924.
The farm price of eggs in 1925 aver-
aged 30% cents a dozen, compared
with 26. 4 cents in 1924, and 27
cents in 1923. The total value of
the 1925 farm egg crop increased
about 17 per cent over that of 1924.

 

WRONG RATION

Please can you tell us the cause
,.of our White Wyandottes pullet’s
actions? When they are about to
lay they fall over on their side and
some times on their head, you can
feel the egg inside, after a few
hours or after the egg is laid they
seem alright. ——-Reader, Charlotte,
Michigan.

OUR hens are getting a ration

that is too constipating; add

some oil meal, bran or some-
thing that Will act as a laxative;
once each week dissolve one pound
of epsom salts in some water and
mix this with the mash for 100 hens.
Give this to them at one feed. See
that they get plenty of exercise and
that they are in the sunlight as
much as possible; furnish them
plenty of water or milk to drink.—
Dr. G. H. Conn.

HATCIIERYMEN STUDY ACCREDI-
TATION AND CERTIFICATION

N Wednesday, March 10th, 1926,
O at the LaSalle Hotel, Chicago,

a meeting of representatives of
the Accreditation and Certification
Groups of the middle west, met to
consider some of the important
problems facing the accreditation
and certification movement at the
present time. This meeting «was at—
tended by Professor H. A. Bitten-
bender, representing the Iowa State
Accredited Hatcheries; H. M. Lack-
ie, Bureau of Markets, Madison
Wisconsin, representing the Accredi-
tation and Certification movement in

Wisconsin; T. S. Townsley, Colum-
bus. Ohio, Field Manager, Ohio
Poultry Improvement Association,

representing Ohio Accredited and
Certified Hatcheries; H. W. Day,
Bureau of Markets, Springfield, Ill.
representing Illinois A cc re dite d
Hatcheries; H. L. Schrader, Colum—
bia Missour, representng the Accred—
ited and Certified flocks and hatch—
eries of Missouri; Lyle Frank, of
Carlisle, Illinois, W. L. Stuffer of
Mt. Morris, 11]., representing Illinois
Poultry Association; Doctor L. E.
Heasley, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
and J. A. Hannah, East Lansing.
Michgan, President and Secretary—
Manager, respectively of the Michi-
gan State Poultry Improvement As<

sociation, representing the accredit—
ed hatcheries and poultrymen of;
Michigan; L. VanAppledorn of H01—

land, Michigan; Mr. Chas. L. Isbell,
representing the Federal Trade Com—

mission; Professor L. E. Card, of
Illinois; A. A. Yoder, of the Poultry
Tribune; Frank L. Pratt of tne

Poultry Journal; Mr. Keifer of tne
Prairie Farmer; Mr. Reese V. Hicks,
Secretary and Manager of the In—
ternational Baby Chick Association,
also in attendance.

After consderable discussion of
the accreditation and certifiction
movements in the various states, of
the Manhattan Plan for accredita—
tion and of the activities of certain
persons, hatcheries, and poultry-
men, using the terms “certified” and
“accredited" in their advertising,
the following resolutions were
adopted.

WHEREAS, the terms accredited and
certified as applied to poultry breeding
stock, baby chicks, anu commerch hatch-
eries has come to have a definite com-
monly accepted meaning in the minds of
the poultry-keeping public, as represent-
ing superior quality, on account of the
good work and extensive publicity which
has resulted from certified and accredited
projects of long standing in a number
of states, and

WHEREAS, the situation created by
certain hatcheries in recently advertising
certified baby chicks without meeting the
generally recognized standards for pro-
ducing such chicks, has tended greatly
to injure the work of poultry improve—
m'ent being carried on In the various
states, by confusing the public mind on
the question of m: are accredited and
certified chicks, flocks, and hatcheries,
and

WHEREAS, a. tentative uniform na-
tional plan of accreditation and certifica-
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OUR BIG HUSKY CHICKS ARE MONEY MAKERS. EVERY BREEDER

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White, Brown, Buff Leghorns, Heavy Mix .......... ... .$6. 50 $12 50 $80. 000
Barred Rocks, Black Mnorcas, . I. Reds, (both combs) ........................ . ........... 2.50
White Bufi' Rocks and Wyandot'es, Buff Orpin ngtons ............................................ 8.50 1600 77. 50

Langshans ................. 9.00 17.00 82. 50
Brahmas $12. 00 per 50, $22.00 per 100.
y 1111.11». $1. 1111 11-1 1111) 1153.111119 chicks
l1v11 delivu') g11:.-11r111t111l.l’1)stage prepaid.
National Iiunk. Ilutrhing eggs. Free catalog.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

White 01- lngtons, Silvel Ill/yandottes, White and Black
Light We ght Mixed 5.50 per- 50, $10 00 per 100; Ligiht)
Sheppard’s Anconas 7.50 per 50 $14 00 per 100.

32- 00 per 100 less. Send 259) with order. 1000/}

If less than 100 ordered add 35c c1tra.l’r.1nk reference: 1:. It.
LAWRENCE HATCHERY, R. 7, Phone 76761

BARRON TANCRED WHITE LEGHORNS

EXCLUSIVELY. STATE ACCREDITED FLOCKS AND HATCHERY.

 

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STAR HATCHERY, L. 'I'nlNHOLT, Prop. 80 x T. HOL LAND. MICHIGAN.

 

Egg Produced Elgin White Leghorns

1i wrous and peppy

Tom Barron mating with Tam-red 111;:1l1s Elizin chicks are huge,
Flt-,iu chicks are Michigan

the kind that bring profits. Will cmnpletely statsfy you.
State Accredited. Wr1te for free (‘utalog and l'iicc List.

ELGIN HATCHERY, Ed Dykema, Prop., ZEELAND, MICHIGAN.

 

 

 

   
  

 
 
  

CERTIFIED CHICKS

From Michigan State Accredited Stock. Egg Llno

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S. C. White Leghoms
Barred Rocks
Rhode Island Reds

Michigan State Accredited
Better Chicks—at Less Cost

  

Bufinew Bret! While Leghorns Only. Our businea
is breeding hettvr Baby 1‘l111-ks. As :1 n-sult two
of 1111111111419 are Michigan State CERT ”31150.
Our Super \i:. 1ti11; 11'111t 1113 direct blood lines of

Males are from hens
Many sires closely
111-11. Ikee Catalog

.104 and ‘106 ‘cgg champions
with 200 to 292- egg records.
r1l.1t1-(i to 'l‘:11n1r(1'1ls 33111151.;
tells all. \Vrite for copy

J. PA TER e. SON.
R. F. D. No. 4, BoxB, Hudsonvllie, Michigan.

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evening except Saturday and Sun-
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Strong, healthy, free ran a stock.
cred and Tom Barron hits Leghorns.
S. C. R. 1. Beds Park's Barred Rocks.
Best blood lines in the country.

Yo n will make greater profits this year
with B- F‘ Chicks. Write for low price
and free cit-loo tod- y."

Save$5 to s8—Factory Prices\

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This brooder raises more and better chicks atlow- ’

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UMMEn-FREDRICXSON 1 mm to ol ‘,9 loft
POULTRY FARM :2:ng than any other breeder. Also burns

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MCHIGAN

BREDW BABY CHICKS 1001mm»

We have not only selected our breeding stock and mated our birds for b at results, but V; have inod
the Michigan fAccredited Association. A11 inspector from the Agricultural College a proves everyjobird.

work is for 60m p11 rotection and gives you the most up~to- date in bah chi ck 3. Write tefor literature
and price list. at c icks cost no more and you can feel safe. 100 live delivery. Writeto

Get Our Illustrated Literature.

We have prepared a big, illustrated& circular which tells all about our chicks. It is worth your while
toget it i you expect to buy chick

PRICES Our prices are reasonable. Our chicks are good. Write today.

WASHTENAW HATCHERY, 2500 Geddes Road, ANN ARBOR, MICH.

FROM STATE ACCREDITED FLOCKS

EXCLUSIVELY. Strong, Healthy Chicks from these selected flocks In-
spected and 0111 led by expert State Inspectors. CNarefully selected for heavy
laying abilities. ENGLIS ARRON and RE STRAIN WHITE
LEGHORNS, S. ROWN BLEGHORNS, SHEPPARD ANCONAS, BAR-
RED ROCKS R|?0DBE ISLAND REDS and Assorted Mixed Chicks. Post-
paid and Full Live Delivery Guaranteed. Bank Reference. Wr1te me at
once for Circular and full price particulars.

WINSTROM HATCHERV. Albert Winstrom, Prop" Box c-a, Iceland. Mich.

 

 
  
  
  

P L A Y s A FE Body orlillgd flrom I‘hccineEgDRI'TEDt FARMS. Our‘ flocks are Inspected
an on y 311 or 2 ns (- ors R’Illnd‘ a roved b M. 8.

Chicks from heavy laying strains only. HILL Olgzle'FA is W133: sim lyya Hatchery, but
a! 0Breeding Farm and when Bett ter hicks arec to be hatched will atch them.

00% Live Delivery Guaranteed—Prepaid prices 1 50 0

. Tancred strai s. 0. White Loghorns," ................... $4.00 $1. 50 $14.00 $61. 00
Lay yng strains Barred Rocks 5, 8.0. Reds ............. 4. 50 8.05 6.0071.00
Laying Strains White Rocks and Wyandottes,... .. 5.00 9.00 11.00 82.00
Order right fromH this ad in til-1101 Gconfidence. or Dun Mercantile Agency. Send at

once for “TTRU FUL" CATA
COOPERSVILLE, MICH.

Buy Michigan State Accredited Chicks

From one of the founders of the chick industry 24 years in the bus-
iness. An old reliable hatchery which has been putting out guaranteed
chicks for years. Our flocks are the result of careful breeding and cull-
ing over a period of years. All our flocks have been state accredited and
our Male Birds have been legbanded by the state. en seen our chicks
recommend themselves. 0. White Leghorns, Barred Rocks, Rhode
Island Reds. Dr. L. Heasiey Egg Basket Strain Bufi' g 01115.
Write for free catalog.

Meadow Brook Hatchery & Farms,

Box M, R. R. No. 1. H. De Pree Sons. Holland, Michigan.

   
        
  

 

 

 
    
 
 

  
 
 
       
  
      
  

 
 

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Every breeder inspected and passed by representatives of Michigan State College.
100% live delivery prep'ud. Order from this

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Varieties Pric so: On: 100 500 10 00
White esLeghorns (Tancred) .................. $3.15 $1. 00 $13. 00 $62.00 Write for
Barred Rocks (Parks strain) .................. 4. 25 8.001.2 00 Special
8. c. 6‘: R. 0. Rhode Island Reds, ...... 42 8.0015.00 12.00 Prices

  
  

Special Matings Higher. Mixed Chicks $10. 00 per 100. All heavics $12. 00.
Free catalog tells all about Lnkevicw Chicks. “p’ritc today.
LAKEVIEW POULTRY FARM, R. R. 8, Box 3, HOLLAND, MICHIGAN

ACCREDITED CHICKS AND EGGS

White1 Leghorns—Ancoinas. Chicks hatched from free
range. Michigan State Accredited flocks. Send for our
catalog and prices on chicks and eggs. We guarantee
100 per cent Live Delivery and insure chicks for one
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M. I). WYNGARDEN, Route 4, Box 2, ZEELAND, MICH.

MICHIGAN STATE CERTIFIED CHICKS

FROM PEDIGREED, BLOOD TESTED, TRAPNESTED s. 0. WHITE LEGHORNS.

Every bird in our flocks is Michigan State CERTIFIED a step higher in the scale of cod
chi(ks than Accruliled Stork. Write at once for you1 (opy of the ‘Story of Sunrise Fargm. ”

£18115itrriy)es thpgali‘illlléflr better flocks and chicks, and how you can make a big success with
noun: ,0, W. S. HANNAH & SON, GRAND RAP"),
BOX B SUNRISE FARM MICHIGAN

 

“MICIIIGAN’S BEST” BABY CHICKS

When clouh buy Pine Bay Chicks you get (hicks that are that of all bred right and secondly,
hatche N9 ht. We have been in the business since 1004. Yeaily we have increased our
capatity to take care of 0111 mods Our stock has demonstrated its claim to a place among
. Michigan’s Best. Black Minorcas, S. c. White Leghorns s. G. Mottled Anconas

“iite for 3111311111 pnus on large numbers. l’ine ’l’my Chicks are vigorous, easily
raised. Parent stock reared in Michigan climate is healthy and hardy. Send for free
(lesuiptive (ntulog and rice list. 100 % Live dilivcry g11a111nteed 1 arcel I’ost paid.
PINE‘ BAY POULTRY:FA M, Box 1 —A H0 LAND, MICHI IGAN.

   
   
 
  
     
  

   
 

 

 

PERFORMANCE. is what counts

To insure large egg production with profitable results you must BUY RIGHT CHICKS. Strong,
healthful stock with blood lines of PER MA CE. You can urchase our years of hatching
and breeding experience by ordering our chicks today.

BORST & ROEK HATCHERY, Dept. 2, ZEELAND, MICH.

 

 

 

 

We hatch S. G. White Leghorns, Anconas and

Barred Rocks. Send for descriptive circular giv-

ing full information about our high egg bred

lines and why we can sell these chicks direct to
you at jobbers prices.

MICHIGAN POULTRY FARM

BABY CHICKS

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merit of A3rlculture‘, said. '
representatives of the variou '

the National Poultry Council, and the
various agricultural colleges of a. major-
ity of the states,
THEREFORE, BE _IT RESOLVED,
that the representatives of the ofi‘lcial
accredited and certified movements in the
states of Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Illi-
nois, Michigan, and Ohio, assembled at
Chicago, Illinois, March 10th, 1926, do
hereby earnestly request the United
States Department of Agriculture, or the
proper division thereof, take immediate
steps to afford Federal recognition of
and protection to the official accredited
and certified work now being carried on

terms of the Manhattan Plan.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a.
copy of this resolution be sent to the
Secretary of Agriculture, to the Chief of

Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry,
and to the Senior Poultry Husbandman
of the United States Department of Ag—
riculture, and that notice or this action
be given to the press.

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WHEREAS, the term accredited and
certified as applied to poultry‘breeding
stock, baby chicks, and commercial
hatchcries, has come to have a. definite
commonly accepted meaning in the mind
of the poultry—keeping public, as repre-
senting superior quality on account of
the good work and extensive publicity
which has resulted from certified and ac-
credited projects of long standing in a.
number of states, and

WHEREAS, the situation created by
certain hatcheries in recently/advertising
certified ba-by chicks without meaning
the generally recognized standards for
producing such chicks, has tended greatly
to injure the work of poultry imp-rove—
ments being carried on in the various
states, by confusing the public mind on
the question of what are accredited and
certified flocks, chicks, or hatcheries, and

WHEREAS, a tentative uniform na-
tional plan of accreditation and certifi-
cation was adopted at the National Con-
ference meeting at Manhattan, Kansas,
on August 10th, and 11th, 1925, called
by Doctor M. A. Jul], of the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture, and‘attended by
representatives of the various state ac-
crediting and certifying organizations, and
of the International Baby Chick Asso-
ciation, the National Poultry Council and
the various agricultural colleges or a. ma-
jority of the states.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED
that the representatives of the official
accredited and certified movements in the
States of Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Illi—
nois, Michigan, and Ohio, assembled at

 

 

   

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Chicago, Illinois, on March 10th, 1926.
do hereby request that the poultry and
farm journals cooperate in the campaign
against false and misleading advertising
by refusing to accept ads of accredited
or certified breeding stock or baby chicks,
unless the person or firm offering the ad
has met the requirements. of his own
state official accreditation or certifica—
tion body for producing accredited and
certified chicks. We agree to cooperate
with the publishers by furnishing them
the names and addresses of brokers in
chicks, who maintain no hatchery or
poultry farm, and afford unfair competi-
tion to legitimate hatcheries and poultry

plants.
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A permanent committee was
decided upon, subject to the call of
the chairman at any time, to take
up emergencies as they may arise,
aflecting accreditation and certifica-
tion work, and whose function shall
be to use its influence to bring about
the adoption of the Manhattan Plan
of Accreditation and Certification
in all states carrying on this work,
and whose purpose shall be to stand—
ardize the inspection service in the
various states, so that the standards
for accreditation and certification,
and the standards of inspection will
be nearly identical as possible in the
various states, thus eliminating
confusion in the minds of chick pur- .
Chasers.

J. A. Hannah of Michigan was se-
lected as chairman of this Commit—
tee and given the power to appoint
a representative of each of the
states represented at this meeting,
this appointment to be made after
consulting the recognized accredit-
ing agency in the various states
involved, these selections to act
as a permanent contact commit—
tee of the states in the mid-west
carrying on accreditation and cer-
tification work, this committee to be
enlarged from time to time, as other
states «become interested in the
work.

 

CANCER—FREE BOOK SENT ON
REQUEST

Tells cause of cancer and what to
do for pain, bleeding odor, etc.

[:w l E1! iii
and certifying organizations, and of the
International Baby Chick AesociatiOn, ‘

in the different states under the general-

the Bureau of Agricultural Economics,“

  

 
 
  
 
 
      
    
   
       
   
 
  
 
 
    
   
      
   
     
  
   
   
   
    
    
 
  
  
    
     
    
   
  
    

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and Tom Barron

8.0. White Leghorn j

CHICKS

manger: State Accredited
Chicks Are Better Chicks

All our flocks are Individually inspected by
the Mich an State College of Agricul
individual banded with state seal and
numbered leg nd. Insures highest quality.

160 Finest Tancred Males and FinestLarge
Torn Barron Males now head our flocks. Beet
bloodlin knee in the country.

Order From This Ail-glow W

100-$15°500-$‘7260:1000-$140.100%liveheel
delivery guaranteed. Every order gets 2;:
personal attention. This is our twelftheesson.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Catalog free.

xnouns narcnamr

R. R. ‘3. 30‘ 3, Holland. "I‘ll.

ACCREDITED CHICKS

From pure—bred, eav la flocks.‘
Ingéecctedns and culledz why ngAql'E IN-
ZE WINNERS.
lat and 2nd Cockerel and 6th Pullet
Second Best Display at Holland and
\Iuskegon Shows.
TANgRED STRAIN WHITE LEG-
NS, arrow WN LEG "onus, l
BARRED ROCKS. .
100 % Live Delivery Postpaid
80 Ellen AND UP. /
Send at once for Free Catalog, full particulars and
detailed prices. Bank eferen n.ce

HILLVIEW HATCHERY

0. Raven. Prop. ‘Box N Holland, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 
  
 
   
  
  

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Is A Better Cluck

'1 .Eyery Michigan State Accredited
Hatchery has had all its flocks in-
* id;vidually inspected by the Michigan
State College. All male birds have
been individually leg banded with a
State sealed and numbered leg band.
Parent stock of all accredited Chicks
is pure-bred and free from all major
s t- a n d a. r d disqualifications. All
breeders approved are true to type
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“Michigan State Accredited” in the
advertising of Michigan Accredited
Hatcheries is your guarantee of the
truthfulness and reliability of the
advertiser's statements.

Such advertising has been approv-
ed by the Michigan State Poultry Im-
provement Association and by the
Michigan State College.

For a list of MICHIGAN STATE AC-

CREDITED HATCHERIES and further
information. write

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Barron Whlte Leghorn-
from wonderful egg

foundation stock; Tenor-ed
.{g/fl Lennon-no} Sheppard's
Famous Ancon-e rom remarkable

‘ egg record foundation stock; Park's
Bred to Lay Barred Rooks. Hun-
dreds of letters testify to our custo-
mers’ success. Reports show customers raising
up to 95% of their chIcks; pullets layinl at 4 to 5
months of a e- 734 flock reduction by pul she (raised
from Silver ard Chicks in Sept. as compared with
{prod action expected of good standard layers;
prizes won in hot competition at shows. Every chick
carrys the breeding and ancestry necessary for suc-
cess. Free booklet gives facts about breeding and

results obtained with our chicks. erte for It now.
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low vitality or disease have been
removed.

Mich.State 0&‘66’ PUI'C‘BI'CCI
W BABY GHIGKS

Stronger, Healthier, the kind that Live
and Grow. Superior bred, Tom Barron,
and Morgan—Tancred Strains S. C. White
Leghorns. Also Hollis Strain White
Wyandottes. Superior chicks are bred
for heavy egg production, type and
color. FREE Catalog gives valuable in-
formation on raising Baby Chicks.

New 1926

cotulo

Slow Ready
Low Prices

, , and
Special Discounts
on

Early Orders

Big Discounts on Early Orders

SUPERIOR POULTRY FARMS, Inc.
Box 401, ZEELAND, MICH.

 

 

 

WOLVERINE S. C. WHITE LEGHORN
°°’ BABY CHICKS

H.000 SAFE ARRIVAL
WMICHIGAN STATE ACCREDITED

WILL GUARANTEED
TELL
Wolverine Leghorns have large lopped combs;
big, deep bodies; are uniform in size and ten)
and produce quantities of large, white eggs in
winter when egg prices are high. Satisfied cus-
tomers everywhere endorse Wolverine Baby Chicks.

Bred for Size, Type and Egg
Production Since 1910

All breeders accredited by Michigan State College and
Michigan Poultry Improvement Association. nt buy
any chicks until you have our new 1926 oatalogo explain-
ing our matings in detail and how you can have greatest
success with poultry. Write for copy, its FREE

WOLVERINE HATOHERY & FARMS
H: .2- mm OWIIIDJI' MANBMIQH
ENGLISH

ma White Leghorns

MICHIGAN STATE ACCREDITED

The Big, Deep Bodied Hens with Large
Combs that Produce the Large White Eggs

Your success with poultry depends on your foundation stock. Start
right. Our new 1926 FREE Catalog tells how and what to do to
raise chicks profitably. Send for your copy before you buy any chicks.

OTTAWA HATCHERY
Route 10, Box 42-3 Holland, Michigan.

HOLLAND HATCHERY‘I‘K ,3”...

will pay you to investigate one of Michi an ’s oldest and best hatcheries. Eighteen!
rs' experience. Every chick ched rom selected. rugged, freewange breeders
finial]: pass ssed by nspectors from Michigan State College. Absolute satisfaction in
e hands of old customers necessitated increasing our capacity.

. C. White Leghorns ”“3"“ S. C. R. I. Reds

_ ENGLIISH
_ conas Barred Rocks

SMATEDL
AMERICA
' 'SEND FOR OUR FREE CATALOG.
‘1~ our Michigan State Accredited Chicks of an old reliable concern with an estallished re utation
r sduare dealing. 100 % live delivery prepaid. Get our valuable Free Catalog before piecing ”“1; order.
N APPLEDORN BROS. HOLLAND HATCHERY a. POULTRY FARM, R7-B, Holland, Mlchlgan.

eIiable Chicks Make Reliable Layers

cannon WHITE Lsouonus— unconns—wmrs wvnnoo'n'ss
//§;:o\x\ ALL FLocKs Mlou. STATE accnsnlrsn

his car’s matings include lat on Production

Class 1WhiteLeg Leghorns, Western ichigan State

1st. Pen Production class Anconas and 1st

and}I 2nd gens Production Class White Wyandottee
Hollan Community Fain.

one in Selection, Culling Br oedin and the

introduction of high bloodlines from 0‘11... high -

"record stock have made possible this threat

stock we have

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Mich. state College. East Lansing. Mich.

. Leading Varieties, Mich. State Accredited

Purebred Chicks, Pullets

Circular free. Liberal ediscount on early

orders. Membe er oft B. C. A.
Falrvlew Hatchery & Farm

[22,—- Iceland.

J. A. HANNAH, Secretary

 

Mlch.

BRED—TO-—LAY

Tancrod—Hollywoodunarron Stralns
If! bland Leghorn: are sturdy Northern Bred,

have many enviable winter egg laying records
0111' breeding methods assure strong, vigorous
chick] that grow rapidly and mature early. Nin no
out of Ten Highland hicks will be shipped this
season on orders fromb customers who buy from
us year after year.

SPECIAL PRICES and EASY TERMS
Write today for your copy of 0111 lREll‘ Catalog
EARLY LAYERS and price list. atalog illustrates Highland pro-

an duction matings, tells feeding methods and gives
PROFIT PAYERS. other valuable infornmtion

Highland Poultry Farm, Box X, Holland, Michigan

 

TANCRED HOLLYWOOD BARRON WHITE

LEGHORN BABY CHICKS
MICHIGAN STATE ACCREDITED

Five of our hens laid 270 eggs at the 1925 Michigan International Egg
Laying Contest Ten birds 1924 contest avers ed 232 eggs. We also hotoh
Brown Leghorns. and Anconas.Dism1n1t N )W on early orders FREE
Catalog gives full particulars and tells why leading egg farmers choose Wyn-
garden Strain Chicks Send for copy at once

WYNGARDEN FARMS & HATCHERY
Zeeland, Michigan

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BRED --- TO --- LAY BABY CHICKS '

FROM MICH. STATE ACCREDITED FLOCKS

Every bird in our flocks has been inspected and
approved by the Michigan State (ollege and the
Michigan Poultry Improvement Association.

We are hatching this year, big, strong, pure- -bred
Chicks, better than we have over hatched before.
\Ve hatch S. White and Brown Leghorns,
Mottled Anoonas Black Minorcas. and Barred
Rocks. Orders are coming in now for delivery
as late as May. Early orders mean better sernce.
Send them now.

We Guarantee 1 00 %
In

Good Heat of
M I C H I G A N International
not order elsewhere until you new Baby Chlck
ACCREDITED. 1926 C.atalog now ready. Write for ‘i‘REEur Copy Assoclatlon.

AMERICAN CHICK FARM, Box B, Zeeland, Mich.

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Michigan accredited chicks from flocks which have gm d f 1
Our White Leghorn Cock Bird won lst at Eastern M12111cailrelgloulitrispe§higv€
1926 in both production and exhibition classes. We won Ogrst in 0pull’et oclass‘
Prices (Postpald) On: 00
S. C. White LOQIIOI‘US -------------------------- $4. 2050 $1. 550 $1140 00 $61. 50 $130.00
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Stockmen Rushing Cattle and Hogs to Market

Wheat and Rye in Strong Position; Other Grain-s Easy
By W. W. NOTE, Market Editor.

RMERS are trying hard to ad-

just the general agricultural

conditio n s from individual
points of view, and some of them
feel almost bewildered by the ad—
vice showered on them by govern-
ment oflicials and others. However
most of our Michigan tarmers have
a very good idea of existing condi—
tions, and all of them fully realize
that; the future is always more or
less uncertain and that all they can
do is to act on plans that appear
to promise fair profits ultimately.
The federal department of agricul-
ture cautions farmers from being
carried away with advanced p: ices of
potatoes caused by last year’s short
crop, and probably it is a safe plan
to abstain from increasing the po-
tato area and to give the best of at-
tention to the acres devoted to this
important staple, paying extra at-
tention to spraying and being more
exacting than in former years in se-
curing the best of seed. Most farm-
ers do not require reminding of the
substantial profits to be derived
from the dairy industry. and they
were much gratified recently by the
ratification of the bill increasing the
import duty on butler from eight to
twelve cents. The growth of the
dairy industry is marvelous, and the
Iowa creamer-lee nearly doubled
their butter output in five years.
The prices paid for the several
grains up to now have been dis-
appointing to farmers, but those
who raised plenty of corn and were
so fortunate as to have enough hogs
to consume it will have no com—
plaints to make. Hogs are valu-
able farm holdings these times, and
doubtless they will continue to be
profitable in the future, as in the
past. Cattle are making good re-
turns when properly bought as
yearlings feeders and marketed as
fat hooves. It is very unfortunate
that Colorado and other sheepmcn,

in their eagerness to make sales,
glutted the Chicago and other mar—
kets and ihcreby brought about
great declines in prices. Michigan

middle western farmers
retain their ‘aith in sheep, but they
usually do not overdo the sheep
breeding industry.
Our Foreign Trade

Getting back to normal business
in the war stricken countries of.
Europe is necessarily slow, and ad—
vances in prices of farm products in
this country tend to check their ex-
portation. - One of the most import—
ant changes is the greatly increased
exports of Canadian wheat, and it is
evident that the United States has
a lively competitor in this line. Ger-

and other

many, however, still needs Ameri—
can foodstuffs, and during the last
year its trade with the United

States aggregated in value $634,-
595,756, an increase of nearly $55,—
000,000 over the preceding year.
There was a gain in our exports of
nearly $30,000,000 and increased
imports of nearly $25,000,000.
Preliminary estimates of Ameri-
can foreign trade t‘or February,
issued by the department of com—

merce, show an unfavorable trade
balance of $30,000,000. Total ex-
ports for the month are put at

$353,000,000, as against imports of
$389,000.000 and these figures com-
pare with exports of $397,195,833.
and imports valued at $416,767,339
in January.

The unfavorable balance in Feb-
ruary nearly equals the favorable
balance of 37,289, 065 in the same
month last ye a1.

Fair Prices for “meat

As the supply of contract grade
wheat in Chicago elevators was
nearly all disposed of a few weeks
ago, active speculation has been
transferred from May to July wheat,
and prices for the latter month de-
livery firmed up, ruling about the
same as a year ago. Late sales of
July wheat were made around $1. 44-,
a few cents higher than last year,
while I“! can sold down to 77
cents, comparingwith $1.18 a year

about 5

 

ago, the weak feature of corn being
large supplies in the country and in
the large markets, with the hog
shortage decidedly, wheat is in much
the strongest position of the several
grains, with the last report showing
the visible supply in the United
States reduced to about 37, 000,000
bushels, comparing with about 66,-
000,000 bushels a year ago The
visible corn supply is ample aggre-
gating nearly 35,000,000 bushels,
and exceeds that of a year ago.
Farm reserves of oats are heavy, ex—
ceeding those of a year ago. and
the visible oats supply is reported at
nearly 57,000,000 bushels, comparo
ing with about 69,000,000 bushels
last year. Rye visible stocks are be-
low 14,000,000 bushels, comparing
with over 23,000,000 bushels a year
ago. May oats sell around 40 cents,

cent increase in shipments, and ac-
tive imports from Canada, Cuba and
Bermuda. The recent omcial report
of holdings evidently. is having its
efiect especially in the North Central
region. Rumors are drifting in that
remaining stocks are tasl; decreasing
throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Michigan. A few stations are
said to be practically cleaned up.
General shortage in the East and
South is reflected in the wide dis-
tribution of Northern and Western
potatoes“ Some cars from Michi—
gan have been going as for East as
New York City and South to Florida
and Texas. Idaho potatoes have
been selling in Washington, D. C.,
while Colorado shippers have sent
some cars to Georgia, Florida and
New York State, in addition to reg-

ular outlets in the Southwest. Even.

Nebraska has been taking some 001-
orado potatoes, thus indicating that
Nebraska’s holdings are greatly re-
duced. The Pacific Coast situation
is not so promising, as holdings in
Coastal cities are two or three times

 

 

 

M. B. F. MARKET REPORTS BY RADIO
VERY evening, except Saturday and Sunday, at 7 o'clock, eastern
standard time, the Michigan Business Farmer broadcasts market
information and news of interest to farmers through radio eta»

lion WGHI’ of Detroit.
270 meters.

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lower than a year ago:
while May rye sells around 90 cents
comparing with $1.20 last year.
Farm reserves of grain, wheat ex-
cepted, are much larger than in av—
erage years, and much larger profits
are derived from feeding to stock
than from marketing. Whenever
the export demand for wheat starts
11p in earnest prices are quick to re—
spond, and a short time ago it had
a substantial rally on large sales to
foreign buyers. Late reports from
southern Oklahoma are that corn
planting is going on actively, and
the prospect is that an increased
corn acreage will be put. in by farm-
ors in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas.
A short time ago it was reported
that oat seeding was nearly finish—
ed in Oklahoma and was well along
in Kansas.
Potato Prices Advance

A further advance of from 10 to
50 cents per 100 pounds has taken
place in potatoeSp A late report is-
sued by the Department of Agricul-
ture says: “Potato markets were
featured by a strong tone, a con—
siderable advance in prices, a 20 per

as heavy as last Spring. This affects
the movement of potatoes from Ida-
ho and Washington.

Southwestern Cattle Movement

The spring movement of cattle
from Texas will be a little heavier
than last year, with a similar num-
ber moving from New Mexico and
Arizona, according to a report issued
by the United states division of crop
and livestock estimates. The report
places the total number to move from
the three states to outside points at
least 703,000, compared with 778,—
000 last spring and 685,000 two
years ago; in addition to this num—
ber the movement of cattle from
Texas points to other points within
the state is estimated at 426,000
head compa red with 410,000 last
spring and 455,000 two years ago.

“A problem that confronts the live
stock producer is the wide spread
that exists between what he gets for
his product and what the consumer
pays for it,” says Dr. C. W. McCamp—
bell, of the Kansas State Agricultural
College. “This condition is becoming
worse each year. One reason lies
in the growing custom of grocery

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‘THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMARY

and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks Ago and One Year Ago

 

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Deti wit Chicago Detroit. Detroit
March 23 March 23 March 10 1 yr. a 3'31.

WHEA rr-

No. 2 Red $1.00 $153 $1.77

No. 2 'White 1.70 1-74 1.76

No. 2 Mixed 1.09 1-73 1.76
OOR-N— ’-

No. 3 Yellow .74 .69@.71 .75 1.13

No. 4 Yellow .69 '70 1.13
0A TS—

No. 2 White .44 39% @AO -44 .53

No. 3 White .43 .39 54 @ .39 lo .43 .52
RYE—~- .

Cash No. 2 .84 ~86 1-16
BEANS——

o. H. P. th. 4.15 @ 4.20 4-10 5-65 @ o- 75
POTATOES——

New, Per cm. 4.30 @440 3.70 @ 4.10 4-00 @ 4.00 1.07
HAY——

No. 1 Tim. 22.50@23 22@24 23.50@24 16@16. 50

No. 2 Tim. 20@21 18@21 21.50 14@15

No. 1 Clover 20 @ 21 21 @23 20 21 13@ 14

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easy and My mter thanpdemand.

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stores to handle meat as a sideline}.
This method of handling increases

overhead waste and direct cost 0.!
handling. In my opinion there. is
only one practical solution to this
problemfiretailing meat by packer.
This could be done with a tremend-
ous saving bf overhead labor and
waste. Consumers could have cheap-
er meat, the producer higher priced
live stock and the packer greater
profits. Any possible dangers re-
sulting from monopolistic tendencies
could be much more easily reached
and overcome than present expensive
methods of retailing.”
The Hog Produoer

Recent receipts in the Chicago
stock yards have increased in num—
her, being in a recent week ahead
of a year ago, but the combined re-
ceipts in seven western packing
points [or the year to into (him
amounted to only 5,,821000 hogs,
comparing with 7,865,000 a year ago
and 8,633,000 two years ago. Prices
continue much higher than in me“
past years, although much lower
than a year ago, when hogs sold at.
$13 to $14.50 Two years ago, how-
ever, hogs were sold for $8.50 to
$7.50. Stoc‘kmeu are making their
hogs much heavier than in most
former years, .and light weights still

sell at a substantial premium. Late
Chicago receipts averaged 259
pounds, the heaviest in over five

months, comparing with 229 pounds
a. year ago and 230 pounds two
years ago. Many farmers now sell
direct to packers, and more than 20
per cent of all hogs are sold in this
way. Hogs sold recently at $10.30
to $13.85.
Cattle Market Ghltted

Stockmen greatly overstocked the
Chicago market with cattle during
the past week, the supplies largely
exceeding those for recent weeks
and a year ago, and as the demand
was no better than usual, prices
were mainly from 35 to 75 cents per
100 pounds lower. South Dakota
shipped in fat steers freely, and
about 50 cents was taken 011 weighty
offerings. Of late the better kinds
of cattle have declined the most,
with more of them offered, and year-
lings sold better than long—fed steers.
The cattle supply in the country is
apparently ample for all wants, and
more have reached western packing
points this year than a year ago.
The bulk of the beef steers sold re-
cently at $8.50 to $10.50, with com-
mon to fair light weights at $7.75
to $8.50 and the better class of fed
steers at $10 to $10.50 and prime
lots early in the week at $10.60 to
$11. Steers of good quality sold as
low as $9.25. A. year ago common
to prime steers sold at $7.65 to
$12.25 and ten years ago at $7.25
to $10. Cows and heifers have been
selling at $5 to $10 and calves at
$6 to $13. Stockers and feeders
sold at $7 to 9,‘large offerings caus-
ing a further decline during the week
of 25 to 40 cents. Stocker and
feeder cows and heifers had an out-
let at $4.75 to $6.75.

WHEAT

Wheat is responding quickly to
news of crop conditions and foreign
markets, although prices do not
change much in either direction.
The strong point of the market is
the light country supply, 13 per cent
under last year. The weak future
is lack of brisk export demand.

There has been a tendency for prices ‘

to work higher. More or less crop
damage is reported but in. general
conditions are said to be favorable,
especially so in the northwest.

CORN

There seems to be quite a bit of
feeling that corn prices are low
enough, and commission houses are.
ready buyers on any break caused
by over—supply. Both receipts and,
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In California they are finding 8; mar-
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dredweight more than the market at
Detroit on the Michigan product.
As Michignn produces the but
white 11% been in the country there
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POTATOES

shipment figures lately. As soon as

lowed by declines at other points.

meats and the price recovers. Maine.
‘ Minnesota and Idaho: seem. to be sup-

plying most of the: potatoes for the
. market at present.

According to the U7. 3. Department
at Agri‘euflsre- farms are going to
increase their white potato acreage
(Ithis year 4 3% over 19235. If. is be»
'lieved that this slight increase is
reasonably safe, but over production

‘ should be guarded against.

_— mm MARKETS
DETROITWev—Market sl’osv and

about steady; to choice yearn-1113's,

dry fed, $9.5‘0‘@'1‘6h50; best heavy steers.

dry ted, $9 @ 9.50, ; best handvyweigh-t
butcher steers, $7’.25@9.25; mixed. steers
and: heifers. $7.50 @ 8.50‘; handy light

butchers, $6.25@7.50; light butchers. $6
@625; best cows, $‘6.25@7: butcher cows
' $4.75 @575; common cows, $11 @4150; can—
n-ers. $~Il@4; choice light bulls. $5.506?
63.50; heavy bull's, $5 ((116.50: stock bull's.
‘34.?)0/106; feeders, $6.51)@7.75; stocker’s,
36107.25; milkers and springers, $456,175.
Veal Calves——-Markct steady: best, $15.50
@16; others. $7.50@15. Sheep an d
Lambs——-Market slow;
@14; fair lambs, $12.5-0@13;
common lambs; $100v11.75;
sheep, $7 (118.50; culls and common. $361)
4.50: Hogs—«Market prospects steady:
mixed hogs. $13135.

EAST BUFFALO—Cattle. receipts 175;
fairly active and“ steady. Calves. re—
ceipts 300; active; choice 501: higher. $16

light to
fair to good

@16. 50; fair to good, $12.504015.50; culls,
$8@12;y heavies, $6@9; grassers, $4@6.
Hogs. receipts 4.000; slow to strong, some
'cases 251: higher; heavics, $1:2(q)12.75;
‘ mixed. $13.50@13.75; Yorkers, $1.4:@
14.25; light yorkers and pigs, $134.50;
roughs, $10.75; stags, $7@8.50. Sheep

and Lambs, receipts 1,000; slow and nit--
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Week of March 28

HIS week begins in Michigan
with high gales and change to
much colder temperatures and

during first part of week readings
will remain more or less below the
seasonah norm-val.

Rain, sleet or snow will fall at
very beginning of week, if at all,
(inning this storm period, after which
the skies will clear up and a couple
cold, sunshiny days will follow.

During the latter half of the week
temperatures will show'a rising tend—
ency with the result readings will
range above the seasonal normal.

Although we expect fair weather
to rule over most all the week, there
will be an unsettled and changeable
period around Friday and Saturday
when winds will increase in force
and there. will. be light, scattered
showers.

Week of April 4

With temperatures above the sea;-
soual average at beginning of this
week in Michigan and cloudinses
general we are expecting showers
in most parts of the state.

During, and just before the middle
of the week the weather will clear
up with. the result the days. will b
sunshiny and warm in most counties.”
especially in the southern.

This period? of sunshine is expected
to be of short duration with the re-
sult that by Thursday at the latest
there will be rain, sleet on snow in
many part-s of the state accompanied

 

l sonal normal;
l normal to below the average.

Apr-11’ Wet
Percipitation during the greater
part of April will be above the sea-'
temperatures will be

Potatoes have followed along with ;

shipments total much over 600 cars .
a day prices drop at Chicago, fol— '

3Then; the lower prices check SW'

best lambs, $13.75 .

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1 SINCE ORGANIZATION OUR EX-
‘ PERIENCF. HAS BEEN
NON-.ASSESSABLE

With one payment per year the company
has built up a full legal reserve with
total assets on January 1, 1926,
of $704.1 52.4 1

    
    

This remarkable growth is due to the following rea~
sons 2

1. The company started at the right timer—in
1915, when traffic was light.

2. It. started in the. country districts where lines
so were light.

3. Rates were worked out and tested in a care-
ful manner.

4. With state-Wide operation, it not only equal-
izes the risk but brings the service to the automo-
bile driver in any part of the State. ,_

5:. The company has never borrowed a dollar
but has paid: its claims in full and established a
full legal reserve.

8. The company collected $358,317.45 more in
premiums in 1925 than its nearest state—Wide
competitor.

7. The company has "passed the experimental
stage and is able to stand the shock of serious
claims. It specializes in automobile insurance
and its officers. adjusters and agents have there-
fore had ten years of experience to aid you in
serious claims.

Call on Local Agent for

Citizens’ Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
Howell, Michigan

 

 

 

 

        

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ACCREDITED
CHICKS

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QUEEN ACCREDITED CHICKS. ()IVFICIALLY IF W'l} (.l\ll YOU SCIIOl S M\l)IC-T0—Y01lR
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horns represent 12 years of 1":111ful l)1‘(8(llll{l to your friends .13 samples of 0111 $10 M‘mleJPm
Tancred Hollywood S. C. VV_'hite Leghorns. Browns, ()rdcr shoes to sell at $6.85? \1lvlsu us today
R. (I. Reds. Ask for prices and 1-‘irculm fre1. Your complete outfit will go fmmml llllanhltoly
Queen Hatchery Zeeland. Michigan. free at (1n19.lc]1t. 2017'1‘,.j|,,v\[flde Shoe
B Och System, 932 Wrightwood Ave... (hi:- 1 r0
SI’ECI'AI' SALE. WE ARE NOW 0 .- :1
orderslfor our special sale which starts May YQl It DARREN ('OWS CAN 1314‘ MADF
22nd.Sen1l for our veiy instructive catalogue S'ife with (.1111... {or mm”: ‘rvf‘mlh ‘R' .
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A Ashbaugh. Lake City, Mich. FTLUAlI ”)3an BEFORE CHRIST. FREE
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also "lolouse Geese. Aldon \Vh1tcomb. Byron TIN) LAT“ Tl)‘('I1ASSlB‘Y
Center Mi1higa11.1_
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approval. H. S. Peter. BUrt. Michigan.
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MISC- E _
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