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Have you heard: about the new motor oil, IsO-Vis? It’s an " important
discovery that Will save, you money    all kinds of trouble!

Iso-Vis is altogether different from. other  oils. It behaves
differently. It ives instant and completa ' lubrication! It puts an end

to dilution tron lee! It. cuts down repair billet

“How can Iso-Vis  all this? How is it differ- .

ent?”—~you ask! It’s a story that will interest you
——-a story you ought to know.

While you are plowing corn or cutting hay, a
group of men you have never Seen are working {011'
you every day in the research labOratories, of the
fitnmtard Oil Company (Indiana), They are prac-
tical Sonatina at long experan and intensive
training. Their work is carried on in the field as
well \‘as in the laboratory.

For many years these men have been working on
the problem of dilution. .It’s your problem—but
you have so many others'you undoubtedly never
have given it much thought. .

The farmer, of necessity, usually keeps his car
in an unheated garage. On a cold morning it is hard
to start. Do you know the reason? flMotor oils
generally have been so thick in cold weather that
the engine could not turn over readily—they would
not flow onto the bearings and the engine was
not lubricated until after about ten minutes of
“watming up" or Operating, ‘

Oil of the past was too. heavy to start easily. But
it soon becomes thin. The fact was established that
motor oils lost two-thirds (if their viscosity (lubri-
cating efficiency) before the car
had gone 200 miles. That was
your problem of dilutiqn! Ygu
realized -it in terms of trouble
and repair bills!

Some “peOple said that noth-
ing could .be done about it. But
the scientists of the Standard;
Oil Company (Indiana) followed
the farmer’s method. They just
kept on working. Working ta.
' improve the lubrication of 
 and  treats)»,

Standard . 0i]   Michigan Avenue.” 

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Two years ago these men succeeded in solving- 7

 problem of dilution. The ‘Standard Oil Com-
pany (Indiana) recently announced Iso—Vis, the
result of their work, after thoroughly demonstrat-
ing its eflicieiicy in hundreds of Standard Oil Com-
pany (lndiana) cars and trucks. Iso-Vis is not an
experiment. It is an established achievement»
Enthaeiaem  high.- The world’s leading ante“

.motive engineers say that Iso-Vis is‘ the biggest

forward step that has been made in the lubrication
of the automotive engine. \ ‘

Iso-Vis is different from all other motor oils. If V

is the only motor oil whose viscosity stays within
the zone of correct lubrication. Iso-Vis has the
right body to start with and it maintains that body
until it is drained of. ‘

I No need to worry because'the garage isn’t heated.
No longer is it necessary tokeep the “choke” out
for miles. Iso -Vis gives instant lubrication under
extreme cold weather conditions. The oil circus
lates through the lubricating system immediately.
,The engine is. quick and eager! After a thousand
miles of motoring Jae—Vie has not thinned out.
Dilutiqn troubles are over when you use Iso -Vis!
It casts more per quart, but
less per mile!

There are grades of Iso-Vis
made especially for trucks and
traders Which will save your ex-
pensive machinery and reduce
 worries and your repair bills.

Isa-Vis is a discovery that will
help you. I The Standard Oil:
Empany (Indiana) offers Iso-
 as another proOf of its friend-
ship for and co-operatiorl with
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 of .the deepest reasons why

_ like farm 'lifeis because it pros
vides such “staple opportunity

for those precious periods of undis-
turbed thought, Contemplation [and
constructive planning of which a per-
son“: the"'city is deprived to such
‘a large extent by the hustle and
hustle and constant crowds and con-
fusion of metropolitan environment.
 Lenioy themorning chores most.

’ The livestock, their appetites whetted  
a .by the long night’s wait, seem glad v.
' ‘ There’s a sense'of satin. « .
faction in realizing how dependend.‘

toseeme.

they are and knowing that my efforts
contribute materially to their happi-
ness, well—being and cententment.
The lingering darkness of the; de-
layed dawn gives a sense of seclusion
and undisturbed privacy which is
conducive to connected thought.
The mind, rested and refreshed from
the night’s repose, is unusually alert
and tinged with that element of op—

- timistic vigor which is necessary for

the accomplishment of anything con-
structive and worthwhile, whether
in the realm of deed or thought.
’Twas thus one morning as I play-
ed valet to my row of horses and
barnful of other livestock that there
flashed across by consciousness that
ancient proverb of old King Solomon
in which he observed ,“As a man
thinketh in his heart, so is he". »

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Back in' college days I had thought ’

of those words in connection with,
the psychological formula, "First a
thought, then that thought tends to
express itself in an act, then the act,
a few times repeated, becomes a
habit, and the habits grouped to-
gether make the character”.

But out in the barn doing chores
this particular morning, I thought
that I sensed another way in which
this ancient proverb might ‘be ap-
plied to the Michigan farmer of to-
day. So I reworded the saying to
make it more specific and asked my-
self if it were true that "As a farmer
thinketh in his heart, so is he”.

' Some of my thoughts along this line

I here write down for the consider-
ation'of the members of Tm: Bus-
nvnss Fumes family as we pass
through the portals into the waiting
year of 1927.

When'Solcmon, in another portion '

of Scripture, wrote, "Where there is
no vision, the people perish" he prob-
ably had a number of things in mind,
But I think that among them was the
thought of the value of ideals, hopes
and dreams .and of the mysterious

- alchemy of life whereby these dreams

tend to became realities.

On a secret page in a notebook
that nobody else knows anything
about I: have a list of things over
which is written the one suggestive
word "DREAMS". They are all
things that I want and hope to have
for my farm and home. I don’t get
them all at once, I didn't expect to,
but-gradually they are coming, One
of the greatest verses in the bible
places hope as among the three most
fundamental elements in life—“Now
abideth faith, HOPE, love, ‘these
three . .' . ."l ~
Time Is Life ItSelf '

Time is one of the most vital,,yet

r one of the most elusive, factors in

our existence. There is a saying
thattime is money. The trade—mark
on the typewriter on which ,I am
writing. these paragraphs goes a step
further for it bears this slogan $50

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, ._  SATURDAY, JANUARY 1,,1927

=  *  _, V'sy STANLEY M. rowan:

LansingCorrespOndent of Tmi BUSINESS Fanmm

 ' _ 'WATCH non memes LEGISLATIVE REPORTS

 1927. session of the State legislature begins the first week of

the-New Year and you will be pleased to learn that our good

‘ friend, Stanley M. POWell, is going to be “Johnny-on-the-spot,”
' with his eyes and 'ears open and a good supply of paper and pencils,

to get  news.

V To our old readers we need not comment regarding
. his legislative stories because most of them have followed the stories
Withmuchinmt,andwnewreademwewanttosaythat thisis

a hobby with Stanley, and he has made a study of it, so he knows

‘ what he is talking about.

As during past sessions he will be pleased

to answer any of your questions relative to legislative matters. Watch
for the  article to appear in our next issue.

 

 

refer to such general matters as farm
layout, arrangement of fields, pro-
ducts to be sold, crop rotation, sys-
tem of fertility maintenance, live-
stock to be kept, labor requirements,
etc. Each of these items‘is so im-
portant that unless it is settled pro-
perly we cannot hope for success or
profit, yet too often we leave these
basic factors to chance or circum-
stance or follow down the costly rut
of antiquated precedent.

At this season of the year it would
be well for every one of us, no matter
‘how successful we may consider ouw
selves to be, to check over these
points and see if we are following
the wisest policies, and practices.
Let’s think .them over in our own
minds and discuss them with our
families and those who might give
us helpful counsel, such as the county
agricultural agent or some especially
successful and progressive neighbor.

“As a farmer thinketh in his heart,
so is be.” How well our buildings
and fences about the farmstead illus-
trate that truth. None’ of us have
unlimited means, nor can .we have
everything that we want all at once
or just as we might desire it. But
if we have thought out and settled
upon a general plan and have a defi-
nite picture in our minds as to just
how we would like things to be, we
can work‘toward that dream with no
lost motion and make every step
count. Then as we are able to build
it, each tool shed or garage or ice
house or hog pen or poultry house
or fence or whatever it may he, falls
into the place assigned it in our plan
'and makes its proper contribution
toward the convenience, efficiency
and appearance of the farm.

Must Luck, to the Future

Another illustration of the fact
that wefarmers must take time by
the fore-lock and do a little planning
well in. advance and put these plans
into action is in connection with the
landscape about our homes. I’m
not speaking so much of posey bed
and the more fancy varieties of lawn
beautification, but, of shade trees,
wind-breaks and hardy shrubs which
add so much to the attractiveness of
a farm home. Rome was not built

'in a day, neither do stately elms and

shapely maples spring up in our
dooryards at our bidding, but it takes
a very little time and effort to get
the small trees of the desired vari-
eties started growing in the proper
place and then with the passing
years we can see our dreams come
true. We might almost say, “As a
farmer thinketh in his heart, so will
his farm grow to be."

With orchards and small fruits the
same rule holds true. First must
come the plan, then the planting,
then the watchful waiting and in—
telligent nurture and with the pass—
ing years the plot of ground so dedi-
cated, utilized and tended, comes to
have a surprisingly increased value
and earning power.

If a man has a leaning toward
pure—bred livestock, a well—thought
out plan and its patient application
will bring the desired results with‘a
maximum: of satisfaction and a min-
imum of expense. A farmer pays
dearly if he tries to jump in and out
of pure-breds as a child jumps the
rope. If a man gets the fever and
goes out to buy a full quota of pure-
breds all at once, the old—time breed-
er usually holds him up for a long
price. Then, if after a few years
he decides to clean out this particular
breed and specializes in something
else he usually has to dispose of his
herd or flock at considerable sacri-
ties.

The man who is in the habit of
dreaming and planning and looking
ahead will start in a more modest
way with a few of the best females
that he can afford and in a surpris-
ingly few years the multiplying pro-
cesses of Nature will have built up
a pure-bred herd or flock of the de—
sired number and of pleasing type
and quality.

The Farm Reflects the Farmer

Perhaps I am a little severe, but
in general and under normal condi-
tions, I think quite a fair means ‘of
judging a farmer is on the basis of

. the condition and appearance of his

acres and farmstead, for as I have
pointed out above in a multitude of
other ways which will occur to each
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LATEST REPORT ON mCHIGAN BEAN CROP

severe loss to Michigan bean growers during the past season is,

evidenced by the fact that 174,000 m, or 24 per cent of the

~ ~  writ-Med was not harvested.- The special reportjust
'7 “W by 1.1. Whitneywakine, Commissioner of Agriculture and
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salable, leaving a crop 915,299,000 bushels of
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 Message of  dad'sensiblc Encouragement for  V.

year, bepomes more and .more a mir-
ror and picture not only of the. ac-
tions, but of the thinking and plan-
ning of the man in charge.

What .a wealth of meaning and
worth there is in that good old
Grange teaching, “liave a place for
everything and everything in its
place”. A general policy of orderli-
ness and neatness will pay big divi—
dends, not only in appearance" and
personal satisfaction, 'but ,in actual
saving of time and effort.

If sched- I .
nice and system have helped other 2

kinds of business to achieve succesa. 
might they not aid to boost agricul- ‘

ture in the same direction?

On the farm there is an abundant I
opportunity for us to make our heads .

save our heels. Often a little plan~
ning will save fifteen or twenty min-
utes or more a day in doing our
chores. An easily swinging gate
will save many hours useless effort
and annoyance in the course of the
year. An hour well spent in the
winter in putting some tool in shape
may save five hours in the rush of
seeding or harvest. I fear that some
of us are a little inclined to take it
too easy when the work isn’t especial-
ly pressing and then complain most
of the time about our hard lot.

While these statements certainly
hold good on a one-man farm, they
apply with even more meaning on the
larger places where there is the time
and effort of one or more hired men
to direct. Here system, foresight‘
and planning are most essential if
the proprietor is to get value received
from his men and make the farm
enterprise show a balance on the
right side of the ledger.

No One Else Will Do It

In preaching this stern doctrine of
self-help and proclaiming this gospel
of personal economic salvation
through carefully laid plans faith-
fully carried out, I trust that it is
unnecessary for me to remind my
friends who are BUSINESS FARMER
readers how thoroughly I believe in
the necessity of organized chart for
the solution of some of those prob-
lems which all of us farmers have
in common, such as marketing,
freight rates, legislation, taxation,
community affairs, etc. I am utterly
committed to this idea of the necess-
ity of an organized agriculture and
am convinced that only through loyal
teamwork can we farmers take our
proper place in public progress and
receive fair treatment and an equal
chance along with other industrial .
groups.

Yet there are some things that
even an actively functioning farm
organization will not and cannot do
for us, indeed we may go further
and say must not do for us if..the
farmer is to remain on an indepen-
dent and self respecting basis. Each
of us must make our own personal
plans relative to the intimate details
of our farms and each of us must to
a large extent succeed or fail as those
plans are wise or lack wisdom and
as they are carried out or let fall by
the wayside in neglect as is the sad
and untimely fate of so many of our
good intentions.

It is my earnest hope that some
of the sound ideas that I have
brought to remembrance in the fore»
going paragraphs may help each one
of you' to achieve a little larger
measure of success and satisfaction
in the months which stretch out

Just ahead. As I wish you each a.
’sincere “Happy New Year" may I

add the hope that you will resolve to
take Old Father Time into partner»
ship during 1927 and learn the value
of planning and foresight and may;
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' FRANK
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who lost eight
hens’ but won
a reward o f
$50~00 for find-
»ing the thief
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,HE chicken stealing business in

Michigan, and Oakland county
’ in particular, has received a ser-
The announcement

hieves ’caused them to sit up and
[take notice, but it'was the payment
“of-a reward that proved to them we
were in earnest, and if ,they didn’t
=—._.hend~ their ways they might be a
"‘“guest” of the county and State for
a time or be obliged to pay a rather
high price for their poultry.
 However, if there are any that are
still in doubt theyshould talk to
Frank Watkins 'of Holly, 'Frank
Schram, sheriff of Oakland county,
or' Clarence Mower, late of Holly but
v  now in New mrk state. Frank Wat—
‘  kins will be pleased to tell him how
:1 he won a reward of $50 ofiered by
‘ THE BUSINESS FARMER, Sherifi Schram
 - will explain how. unhealthy Oakland
* «county is for chicken thieves, and
,Clarence Mower will prove by his
’ 'own experience that it isn’t a profit-
.able business to be into. -
Frank Watkins lives on a hundred
" and sixty acre farm on the Dixie
3- 'Highway, out of Holly, and he has a
small but good flock of chickens.
At first he had sixty in the flock but
it'paSsed through several raids and
on the morning of November second
there were only twenty-two left.
That night eight more disappeared.
It was time to act, in the estimation
of Mr. Watkins, before he lost the
entire flock so he started out the
next morning to catch the thief.
( "i Early last spring a family moved
into his neighborhood. Several of
the folks around there, including Mr.
Watkins, were suspicious of them be-

ICHIGAN is the leading state in
the production of beans and
consequently there are avail-

able in this State large amounts of
gc‘ull beans that are worthless except
for feeding purposes.

Our bean growers produce an an-
nual crop that has averaged 4,845,-
000 bushels since 1914. This aver-
ages about 9.8 per cent cull beans or
unmarketable stock. This year, un-
fertunately, the percentage of culls
is much higher, reaching 25 per cent
.in some cases, with an average of
17.9 per cent. This, with a high per-
centage of moisture renders many
,tons of beans available this year for
feeding purposes. The total produc-
tion in the State is estimated at 6,-
624,000 bushels. Of this amount, 5,-
299,000 bushels were salable to ele-
vator and bean buyers. Whep these
are picked 4,350,000 bushels will be
available as hand picked beans. This
means that this year we have left in
he State the large amount of 2,274,-
000 bushels of unsalable or cull
beans that can only be used for feed-
‘ging purposes. The above figures on
"the bean production of Michigan
were furnished through the courtesy
of Verne Church, State Statistician.
. ~The great need of Michigan dairy
‘ ows is for more protein in the ra-
tion. Cull beans are quite high in
this nutriment, containing nearly as
= much as gluten feed.
., Beans contain 18.6 per cent digest—
‘ .ible and 47.4 per cent total digestable
V This is about half the
mount of protein and nearly as
311th total nutriments as cottonseed
meal contains. .

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First Reward: in." O .
Watkins Who Lives Near Holly .

Cgrower and dairyman knows,‘

‘ hem with palatable feeds, such -‘

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many beans cause COW . ,mo on'the t
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cause none Of them showed. any de-

sire to work, yet they seemed to get '

along and have plenty to eat and
wear, so he immediately thought of
them. There was a light snonall
on the night of the second so foot
prints were visible and by'the early

morning light of the third he fol-,

lowed them right to the door of the
home of the family under suspicion.

Proceeding to a telephone he called .
Sherifl Frank Schram of Pontiacwho ' 5
"from neighbors.

came out ri’ght aWay, Accompanied

by Deputy Walter Arnold (and Special.

Deputy Hadley Horton of Holly,
ready to make an arrest but 'they
found that their man'was in Flint.
Waiting until he returned they dis-
.covered four of the chickens in the
basement and fouryo'f them being
cooked for a big dinner. '

The man, Clarence Mower,, was
placed under arrest at once, taken to
Holly and tried before Judge Patter—
son. .

Apparently Judge Patterson has

little use for chicken thieves because ~

he promptly passed judgment "Of $65
fine and ninety’ days in jail, and that
evening, less than 24 hours after the
c h i c k e n s were taken, Clarence
Mower began his sentence in the
county jail at Pontiac.

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er family was undesirable in ‘this
State, as the sons were rapidly learn-

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ing their father’s “trade,” so after '
paying'~the' fine and serving thirty .

’daysofv‘his sentence, Clarence Mower
was released and, with his family, '

sent back to. the state they came
from, New York. This was consider-
ed “the. mostsatisfactory way’ to get
rid of an entire» family which has
apparently earned a living by stealing

Ever since the Mower ‘ family
moved into that; neighborhood farm-
ers on all sides of_ them have missed
chickens, potatoes, ‘ and other pro-
duce. Of course, the farmers had
their suspicions butrno proof, until
Mr. Watkins caught them. with the
goods and put the head of the family
in jail, where he belonged. And
now, not only has Mr. Watkins done
himself and his com‘munitya serfice
but he is fifty dollars richer than
he was when he started ~his..investi-
’gationjbecause THE BUSINESS FARMER
sent him a check for that amount on
December 11th.

We were very pleased to reward
Mr. Watkins for his" work and We
wish to commend Judge Patterson

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The above is a picture of the $50.00 check we sent Frank Watkins as reward for the
part he played in arresting an Oakland county chicken thief.

By' J. E. BURNETT

Associate Professor of Dairy Husbandry, Michigan State College

BECAUSE of the continuous wet weather last fall there are prob-
ably more oull beans in Michigan at present than there has been
for many seasons and the problem of how to use them profitably

confronts the grower.

Prof. J. E. Burnett, of the Michigan State Col-

lege, suggests that they make a very good feed for our dairy cattle,
because they are quite high in protein, a great need in the ration.
How to prepare the beans for feed and different rations are taken up

in his article.
them in to us.

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cause for this is not known but it is
thought to be due to the particular
kind of protein that beans contain.

Beans, when cooked, seem to lose
much of these undesirable character-
istics. It is, therefore, a common
practice to boil beans for dairy cows.
The feeding value is not changed to
any appreciable extent.

Because beans were being fed
widely over the State and yet no one
knew very much about their feeding
value, feeding'trials were conducted
during two winters in the dairy herd
at the Michigan State College.

In these trials a group of twelve
cows was divided into two lots of

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six each. One lot was fed a ration
containing 250 pounds of ground cull
beans. The other lot was fed the
same ration except that it contained
125 pounds of cottonseed meal in
place of the cull beans. At the end
of 30 days the rations fed the two
groups were reversed and a second
30 day period started. At the end

‘of this time the rations were again

changed and final 30 day test made.

The ration was changed in this
way to prevent the individuality of
the cows from influencing the re-
sults, if possible. The milk and but-
terfat produced during the different
periods were compared and it was

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‘ FRANK j‘
SCREAM;
sheriff of Oak-1..
'  county, is
making 1 i f e ',
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.2.._eiforts to rid. Oakland» caunty ofsuch. 3

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‘ ine,.which is evidence that they‘ are
heartin in accord with our,program.

Judge‘vPatterso'n' does not let red 
tape tie. up his action on such cases 4‘

. andthe Sheriff wastes no time in get-.

ting hi’syman. ,
.“During’ the ‘past

have sent 26. men frOm Oakland
cdunty to the State prisons at Ionia

_ and Jackson to serve terms of from

- mixture.

~.six months to ten years'for stealing,
" chickens,”
(writer, “and we are out to get every-

one of them operatingin-this county ..

that we can, even if we have to work
all night to' do it." r
Who Will Be Next?

This is only the first one out of
twenty rewards of $50 each, which
means there are $950.00 left out of
the $1,000.00 we posted to fight the
chicken thieves in Michigan. We
want to spend the entire $1,000.00
in this way because it will save our
readers many times that amount, not
only in chickens but other products
of the farm as usually the party who
steals chickens also takes other
things when possible, just as the
Mowers apparently did.

The rewards are ofiered 'to any
one securing the arrest and convic-
tion of a person guilty of stealing

poultry from the farm of “a paid—up-§
subscriber to THE BUSINESS FARMER, 
and applies to local and state police .

‘officers as well as private citizens,
so as to encourage the bringing to
justice these parasites now living on
the farmer.
lucky one?

Turning Lossllnto Profit By Feeding Cull Beans to Dairy Cattle

found that the cows produced very
nearly the same amount of milk on
the ration containing beans as on the
ration containing cottonseed meal.

Cows that were fed boiled beans
produced milk just as efficiently and
no more so than the cows that were
fed ground beans. Usually, however,
it is cheaper to grind them than cook
them because of the cost of fuel and
the labor involved.

Rations containing beans should
differ, depending upon the kind of
roughage that is fed. Usually I do
not recommend that beans make up
more than a quarter of the, grain
I The other feeds that are
used should be as palatable as pos-
sible. ‘

A ration that has proven satisfac-
tory with alfalfa hay consists of 400
pounds of ground corn, 400 pounds
ground oats, 250 pounds of ground
cull beans and 50 pounds of linseed
meal. If hay is used, the ration
should contain more protein, such as
300 pounds ground corn, 400 pounds
ground oats, 250 pounds ground cull
beans, 175 pounds of linseed oil meal
or 150 pounds cottonseed meal. A
ration to go with mixed hayis as fol-
lows: 300 pounds ground corn, 300
pounds ground oats, 250 pounds of
ground cull beans, 150 pounds lin-
seed oil meal and 150’ pounds cotton-

, seed meal.

Reports have come tb me of dairy—
men that are feeding their cows en—
tirely on cooked beans as a grain
mixture. I would not recommend this
practice because when the cows get
alfalfa or clover they, are getting
more protein than they need. ‘Under
such conditions the cows are apt to
become very thin. ‘_

Unfortunately, I cannot make any

definite recommendations for feeding.

cOoked ‘cull Ubeans .becaiise,mthe
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MARKET.—The calves are twins and ready for of Harrisville, Alcona county, sent us this picture Mrs. Freeman Corel, of Spring Lake, have been
market, according to Edward Schirmer, of Rich- taken during the deer season this year at the Turtle married that long. Mrs. Clarence Rittenhouse, of
mond, Maeomb county, who is the owner. Luke Club, near llillman, in Montmorency county. Ada, Kent county, sent the picture.

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L. Ousnamer, Ortonville, sends smile on Ellsworth Peterson’s face? Bet his dad Just gave him a calf or sheep, don't RIED.——-And that “somebody” is,
this picture of her granddaughter. you? Ellsworth lives near Stephenson, Menominee county, in the Upper Peninsula. Karl Dillenbeck, of Woodland. ,

 

 

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THE MILKING LESSON.—Lloyd, 5-year- “TOOT! TOOT! LOOK OUT EYER’BODY!”——If you don’t RAISING THEM ON A BOTTLE.——Frank
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Campbell, of keep out of the way Roland Hunkey, of Elsie, Clinton Luesing raised these two pet lambs on a bottle,
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw county, has plenty county, will run right over you with his—well, we don’t and one sold for $9.50, the other for $11.00.
of help when he milks the cow.‘ Even the know what he does call it—but you better watch out anyway. That is as much as we can tell you "about the
family (108‘ takes an active interest in the He has a very serious expression on his face and apparently picture because Frank’s address has been lost

we are sorry to say.

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have about two ton of goo I
squash, but there does not seem
“be much of any sale for them at
,  Could you advise me of a
good way to .keep them until later
ilh‘the winter—W. G. W., Scotts,
Michigan. - -
WOULD say that it is quite pos-
sible to keep hubbard squash in
’ . good condition for over a considé-
“erable period of time if they are
r properly handled. They should not
. beallowed to become bruised in any
, way, nor should the stems be broken
‘off. They should be stored in a. dry
place that is fairly warm. It is a
mistake to storesquash of any kind
in a damp cellar for dryness is one
of the "essentials towards good keep-
ing quality.

One grower near Detroit has a
small green house and it is his cus-
tom to remove the soil from one
bench, place his hubbard squash on
the bench and give them bottom heat
for a week or two before placing in
storage. They are dry and cured
and when in this condition, if pro—
perly stored, they will keep for many
months—Geo. E. Starr, Asso. Prof.
Aof Horticulture, M. S. C.

MOTHER’S PENSION

' Can you give me some information
about the mother’s pension law?
What mothers can draw a pension
and about how much to each child
and who do you apply to for a pen-
sion? My sister’s husband died re—
cently, got killed in an auto accident.
She has a home and two little chil-
dren. Is sick and unable to work
and would like to know if she could
draw a pension on the two children.
,-——C. B., Clio, Michigan.

|' wmow with a child under 17
years of age and who is unable
to properly care for it is entitled
‘to a pension not to exceed $10.00
nor less than $2.00 per week, with
$2.00 per week for each additional
child. Take it up with. the local
probate judge.—-Lega1 Editor.

 

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Which would be the earliest and
[best corn to sow to cut when past-
;ure is short or is there anything
that is better than corn?——Reader.

ORN can be sown quite thick with
a grain drill to be used. for soil-
ing purposes. I do not think
anything will make the growth for
your purpose that good seed corn of
istrong germinative power and well
éadapted to your conditions should
‘ give you.
I would sow the corn at the rate
of 8 to 10 quarts per acre in rows
{42 inches apart and cultivate
a couple of times. This will give a
large amount of palatable, succulent
food when the pastures are brown
and dead.—J. R. Duncan, Instructor
fin Farm Crops, M. S. C.

TEACHER AND CHILD
I would like to know how the law
is about a teacher grabbing a child
with her hands on the face by his
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sion and on throwing him down on
the floor. She left a scar of each

finger nail where she put her finger
nails. All the marks are on his face.
The reason was a lie told by another
child—A Subscriber.
HE school law is silent on the
question of what means a teach-
' er may take to enforce and
maintain proper discipline ()in her
school. She is charged with the duty
of maintaining such discipline. The
Supreme Court has established the
fact that the teacher has delegated
parental control of the children un-
der her care. Courts have uniformly
sustained the teacher in the use of
reasonable punishments and have
held that teachers are liable for any
physical injury to the children.——G.
iN. Otwell, Superintendent of Rural
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' I i SHARE on FARM

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. 'staying home with my parents for
‘.’.twenty-eight years, that is, since I

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ishty acres. liter the’last
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chores around the barn and mother”
did all the work in the house.~ I»
did- not receive any set. wages but
they gave» inc some money wheneVer
I needed it and they had it. Now
when father dies will the rest get
just as much as I will? I don’t
think that is right after I helped
clear up the farm.—-—S. W., Auburn,
Michigan.

is very diiiicult to answer this

inquiry. However, I see no rea—

son why you shouldn’t have farm
going wages from the age of twenty-
one, at least, taking board into con-
sideration.

I would advise that you go over
this matter in detail with some
friend well versed as to the legal ~
side and try to arrive at a fair
charge. Then take the matter up

  

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a settlement. .Or/ you can file a claim
of wages at the time or settlement of
the estate if you chose to do so. It
would be Well for you tosecure legal ,
advise ,‘on this mutton—F. T. Rid-
dell, Research. Assistant, M. S. C.

POSTING LAND

What is the proper and legal way
to post your farm to keep hunters
and trespassers off? Do you have to'
post notice on the four corners of
the farm? Does the ground of
notice have to be black and the let-
ters white?—-C. E., Sheridan, Mich.
——The notice should be placed where
it would be most conspicuous and
where it could most easily be seen.

' The notices do not have to be any

particular colon—Legal Editor.

FEE-gamma by HERBERT NAFZIGER, Berrien County = D
(Mr. Naleger will be pleased to answer {our questions recording the (run and orchard. There

is no charge for this service If your subscr
reply by early mall.)

HEARD AT THE GRAND RAPIDS
FRUIT MEEI‘

F. ROFKA'R, Port Clinton,

Ohio: “Apples at retail move

just twice as fast at 3 pounds

for 25c as they do at 2 pounds for

25c. The barrel ‘is not a desirable

- _ package from'
t h e retailer's
viewpoint; it is
too large. White
folks want tart
apples, but ne-
groes are very
fond of sweet
apples.”

‘G. W. Prater,
Grand Rapids?
“The successful
m e r c h andizer
does not consult
his own tastes,he
consults his cus-
tomer's tastes."

Robert Anderson, Covert: “Para-
cide can be safely used to kill peach'
peach borers on trees of all ages
but on young trees the amount per
tree must be reduced." ~

Ralph Rees, Rochester, N. Y.:
“Southern competition for our Duch~
ess and other early apples is due to
increase.” .

H. A. Cardinell, M. S. 0.: “Most
growers in Michigan are herding
their orchards instead of managing
them." -

Luther Hall, Ionia: “Funguscon—
trol is easy. There is no excuse for
scab in a modern apple orchard."

George Friday. Coloma: “The only
real measure of an apple variety’s
merit is it’s quality. No matter how
well it sells at present it has no
potential value if it does not possess
high quality." “As yield per acre
increases, the cost per package de-
creases.” “The apple grower who
had good varieties and a high per-
centage of A grade made money even
this year."

Frank Famsworth, Ohio: “There
is a 'real opportunity in market—
ing under-grade apples in glass jugs
as refined sweet apple cider."

 

Herbert Nafslger

WHERE OURLREADERS LIVE

ptlon is paid In advance and you will receive a personal

.2.

W. S. Perrine, Centralia, Illinois:
“There are 3,000,000,000 peach
trees in southern Illinois. When they
all bear, look out!"

Wm. Meikle, Wenatchee, Wash-
ington: “Keep strict cost accounts.

They will teach you some surprising .

lessons." .

Professor U.‘ P. Hedrick, Geneva,
N. Y.: “The huge per acre crops of
Europe are produced at enormous
expense of human labor."‘

L. A. Boyd, Berrien county: “My
idea of a real marketing organiza-
tion is a chain of retail fruit stores
owned by the growers and operated
on the same plan as the market
which has been such a success on
the Municipal, Pier in Chicago."

‘Dr. C. A. Bingham, Columbus.
Ohio: “Measured by the cost, food
value and beneficial effects upon the
system, the apple is one of the best
foods known. Apples are rich in
vitamins; particularly C. and \ B
which promote growth and develop—
ment; therefore children are greatly
benefited by the free use of them.
The apple is a friend to health and
a foe to disease. It starts all the se—
cretions into vigorous action and
floods the system with a new tide
of life. Eat an apple every day.
throw your powder and paint away.
To eat: an apple on going to bed, will
make the doctor beg his bread.”

 

HORTICUIII‘URAL NOTES

The Farmer's Cooperative Associ-
ation of Eau Claire was recently:

added to the membership of the

Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc.

 

The South Haven Fruit Exchange
enjoyed good success duringlthe past
season in marketing their cherries
and strawberries by the “cold pack"
or freezing method. The fruit is
pitted and hulled, placed in barrels
with sugar added, and frozen. It is
then shipped in refrigerator cars to
pie manufacturers who place the
fruit in cold storage for use as
needed. '

 

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~ still it. freezes -- in” the ‘ cylinder and
causes it; to break;-——A.: P., Weidman,
Michim.‘ . » , , . -
THE method that is usually used.
‘ "to prevent a pump from freez-
ing is to dig a  pit approxi-
mately 5 feet deep. This pit, is to
have drainage if possible. The cyl-
inder should be at the bottom of the
pit. Above the cylinder in the pipe.
line drill aihole approximately 1A"
in diameter. known as a blood hole.
This permits the water to drain back
as the pump is use at will not let
the water leak on fast enough to
hinder to any ext t the operation
of the pump. The well pit should,
of course. be covered over; with plank
or preferably a concrete’covering and

  

a.

. may have a man hole to get into the

pit. If the well is exposed it might .
be necessary to put a layer of straw
or corn stalks or similar material.
over the well platform in extreme
cold weather. However, it would be
.a' rare case “where this was neces~
sary.———F. E. Fogie, Ass’t Professor
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WHO OWNS THE STRAW?

I have rented a man’s farm by
verbal agreement and the subject of
straw was 'not mentioned. One or
two years he baled straw and kept
money. To avoid trouble I did not
say anything. Last year I drewra
little home to use. I live on an-
other farm. The straw was not baled
.that year. This year I feel that I
ought to have my share as we are
baling again, but he objects. Please
give me the law on straw where the
farm is rented for one-half crop
rent. Does- it make any difference
if straw is not stacked by either
party? Who holds it if owner stacks
straw? Also if renter stacks it?—
I“. C., Saranac, Michigan.

TRAW is. considered the same as
grain. Therefore, the tenant
has a right to his share unless

otherwise agreed upon. The major-
ity of farm leases provide that the
straw . remain on the farm and be
converted into manure—F. T. Rid-
dell, Research Assistant in Econom-
ics, M. S. C. \

TRIMMED HIS TREE

The tree trimmers of our village
went into my yard without permis-
sion and cut 10 big limbs of. the
nicest tree in town, and spoiled it.
What is to be done?-—D. H. C., Dun-
dee, Michigan.

HE city has a right to do a rea-
sonable amount‘of trimming of
’ trees that extend into the street,
provided it is actually necessary for
the public's use of the street for
travel, or other public utilities. as
telephone and electric light poles and
wires. Any unreasonable damage
done in such work could be charged
against the city.———Legal Editor.

 

HAS NO RIGHT

We would like to know whether
the county agent has a right to dig
a big ditch along the road and make
no outlet for the water and leave it
run across the land and drown out
the crops?—Mr. H. 8., Mt. Forest,
Michigan.

—-—'I'he highway department would -

have no right to divert the water
from its natural course, 'so as to
flood the adjoining farm..——Legal Ed-
or.

VERBAL CONTRAQI‘

I have rented a farm from a fellow
with the understanding I was to
haveit for as many years as I want-
ed to run it. I moved on and got
ready to go to work. He now has
come and ordered me not to farm.
so what shall I do? I didn’t get any
contractgnade out, I Just 'took his
word forxit, I thoughtflhe was all
honest, but I have got witnesses that

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shbp nun ate. y, and generally . , .e
selfless were his shoe 9119‘. .1} ,9
parry ‘him over the [shut gowns;

To us, a black season seems
vague thing, tor We never have su
times. he‘lnazny people think the
MMter season is a'solack tinge on all
fiarms, egrcept dairy terms. True,
80'. e farl. rs apnea-.1" to have a sleek
time durfii this season of the
is  ou’ as .IblISY

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to a complis all

seems n} as. '. .. _. .
the york I s I ‘ that should be ' .
{we ‘ e the regular farm ” ,es
« to _ o rst, and the fl gone r—
able time it done  “ ould they:
and the We "ye hre " fl

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if it, ,hu 'as it is to

woi? v5.01) hens we' think a'gittle saga
 installing some conveniences
will be profitable. I believe iar‘toq
many try to get by with .as small an
outlay of time and money on'their
buildings as they can. However,
there is a possibility of this 'being
false economy.

Two or three years ago, a writer in
a farm paper stated that a farmer
Show Mt 9 psi any more 0A1 farm
tr ‘ Is 7thaxi‘imiie(zessau‘y,.3123 thaw?!-
hea’, expense Would be too great for

the finished'produc‘t to stand. ow.

the writer there is something beside
the monetary side to thee things,
action.’
It is noticeable all other" lines of
endeavor are spending more on build,-
ings and line fixtures that seem {ab-
solutely necessary, just as the most
,M , eople demand oak floors and
har wood trim in their new houses.
They want their automobile complete
with all the latest extras. .YVh -?
Not ,hecause it pa 5 out in ‘a fluanc a1
way, but rather ecause of satisfac-
tion, and that is the way I ieela‘bout
{arm improvements. To the average
tar-mar his work is more or less
famous, and often monotonous, and,
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' id not stay and help his

: conduct the farm and try and

work into partnership with him. His

reply was, “Things are too unhandyh
Dad doesn’t believe in labor ‘aving

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barn (an, I wongt stay for that rea-

8.9m” Ans h.e didn't '

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the old We ’bsfii‘uss if y s “1‘0 un-
heard?!" me ’_01Morder :of t gs is
spas a: a .‘ (,7 p e", I xter fall, is
"091?r vgtrortz {the sgjfi'st‘taqgon 5ft will
bring, and this idea. seems .to cause
much of it, in these modern times,
to be spent for satisfaction.

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invested in satisfaction pays
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show, is 110:5 Win sways the
Issue of an. 1st, 1 7. deems

hardly/possible oid’1926 is'about to
Sommetewher base! Yes. ishe‘ ‘has
99.41 M?" . air 1,11 . .Py  .3:  yet
.951 the Whole, rep, 5*, wasp! she been
a little lb, tier than t ‘e avera‘g’e,‘ and :
honestly ‘hasnl’t'islieflli-ke o‘u'l" Wives,
been a little better than we deserve? :
W. e _ l , as t i ‘
the ‘ alin‘qtan‘ inqtgleq $3.156  ‘eseprg: '
y ‘t'é‘  in . f x , expense and ;
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‘ mn'nm'ron; I see .on the

‘llEat

a Mere Farmer” because western
flown apples are sold in Michigan

vand I wish to say, I have, bought

apples in Alpena grown in Weuat-
chee, Washington, and: they sold at
three for ten cents while apples
grown within .a few miles of Alpena
sold as low as fifty cents per bushel.

' I have been at Wenatchee, Wash-
ington, "The Home of the Big Red

‘Apple” as they advertise it, and I

on display .that
They haven’t
any better landand‘ almost same
climatic conditions as Alpena has
but they grow-apples almost exclu-

saw an . :‘apple

-sively or did when I was there in
-' 1,906.

Land was valued at $500.00
per acre and if in bearing trees
$1,000.00 per acre. They do every-
thing for their trees, cultivate, fer-
tilize, and spray, watch for and
eradicate blight, tent caterpillars,
scale and every other kind of enemy
to their trees. They hand pick,
carefully grade, polish, . and. wrap

, each apple in tissue paper.

"in

. The Alpena county apple growers
just “don’t” do any of these things.
The orchard is generally in a tough
old award that keeps the water out
almost as good as a root and if not
4 award (sod) it is “cropped”
which is much worse. No fertilizer.
I saw one farmer scattering a little
manure on top of the old tough sod,
which only made the grass grow
thriftier and the sod tougher and
impervious to Water, that the
starved apple roots were perishing
for and the poor old neglected trees
looked like an old horse that had
been left out to run to the straw
stackall winter. '

I believe if the Michigan apple
growers will do all the Wenatchee
apple grower does for his apples,
there would be no western growu
apples sold in Michigan.———C. H. 8.,
Alpena, Michigan.

BENEWING DRIVERS LICENSES

EAR Editor:~—-—l read you editor-

ial on the traffic problem and I
quite agree with you on the
necessity to have universal law every-
where. Also having one license plate
for the life of car and let the gas
tax take care of the financial end;
but when yo'u advocate every driver
renewing his license at the beginning

_ of the year, I hardly think you have

considered what that means. I don't

BULLETIN SERVICE

 

 

 

Bulletin No. 4r—SEE’D CORN CURING
AND STORING. The selection of seed

‘ corn this fall is a‘vory important prob-

,rc : library. ,

lem and the iniomati given by Prof.
D. F. Rainey and Prof. . E. Fogle of the
M. S. C. in this circular bulletin will prove
a great help to you.

Bulletin No. 5.—'I'HE GOSPEL —0)‘
.GOOD FEEDING. This bulletin tells
how to feed profitably according‘ to prac-
tical experience and was prepared by the
former editor of a dairy publication.

‘ Bulletin No. Or—BEFORE YOU IN-
VEST. Many of you have often wonder.-
ed about first mortgage bonds.” an in-
vostment. This bulletin will give you
considerable information regarding them.

I Bulletin No. 'i.—-FARM SANITATION.
This really consists of two bulletins one
on how to build a concrete hog wallow
and the other on dipping livestock, and
livestock «mas-17m: suggestions as to
 Very helpful to. have , in your

Ar

 ‘3' 1 . page of November 
 . * . I:  - '20th; issue 91M; B: F. an article
Michigan _¢Apple‘s."‘ .
/which contains a criticism by. 'fJust

“as ,_

know, how, many drivers; licenses. ,
.there are in» this state; my own num-

ber. taken out six years ago is over

. the/"half million mark, so I presume

by.» this time there must be at least

{a couple of million more and if every-

one has to undergoa re—examination
at the beginning of the year, I can
iorsee a sweet time for the unlucky
drivers. It is bad enough now to
have- to stand in line .on a winter’s
dayto get a car license but the time
consumed by that would be nothing
comparedto what it would take to
examine and test every driver. Those
who like myself live a dozen miles or
more from town, would have the
pleasure of driving there and prob,-
ably finding a few hundreds more
aheadof them, then waiting around

-all day for our turn which wouldn't
reach us, then go home and repeat

the operation another day. I suppose
the notary publics are at the back
of it for a chance to collect another
quarter each year oil the motorist.
Guesa they don’t like it now that one
may make out his own application
for a license for his car. After all
the drivers’ license doesn’t mean
much. I have been driving six years
and never yet been asked to show it.
Of course, it there was an accident

  one
No win his 

drive agcar if newts disabled by any.

maximum: In  Opinion-"finest of
the accidents are  not, by in-
ability butby sheer recklessness and

.no driver’s examination, would cure

that, the’bnly way is to stop them
entirely, at any rate, that is the opin-
ion of L. Holmwood, Oakland County,
Michigan. .

 

FROM A HATCHERYMAN

'0 the Editor:—I am interested in
this chicken stealing proposi-
tion. We own a considerable

bit of accredited poultry, including
an accredited hatchery. We enter
birds in several of the foremost con-
tests in America and so you see a
theft from us would mean more than
just the meat and egg value of the
birds. It would cost us many hund-
reds oi dollars to replace the. breed-
ing we have built'up. Chicken steal-
ing makes'my blood boil and I fight
it in my community tooth and nail.
I appreciate your efforts but I
think if it is ever worked out, it
must be by each community. Unless
stealing is highly organized, and I
think it generally isn’t, it is often
done by a bunch of rotters in the
community. The farmers of any
community generally know who the
thieves are even if they can't prove
it. Now, if they will get together
and fight it they can stop it either
by ‘biufling the thieves out or, if they

       
  
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

  

’ 7 fljtlie'vfsrmerl bod-nerve enough
I think/a good plan would be to raise?»
$5020 or $1,000 in‘ the general townri’~ , 
ship election and place it in the hands
of the town board to be used toflght
stealing in the townéhip, eithef' an

ves.

rewards or to hire special detect
etc., when necessary. This looks ex-
pensive but when we consider the
value of birds stolen it is small. It

-'is claimed in an article in the last-

issue of the Michigan Farmer that in

20 counties in Indiana and Illinois'

246,900 chickens were stolen. It is
time _for farmers to wake up and
light, It is surprising how many do
nothing, expect someone else to do it,
or are afraid they will offend some—
one.
until we wake up and hit the thing
hard. The sheriff’s force is gener~
ally unable to help a great deal.
They are generally unwilling to do
much until the damage is done or
are too busy with other crime. Keep
at it and wake the farmers up be-
cause ii this thing isn’t checked We
will have to quit certain forms of
farming..——L. F. Heasley, Allegan
County, Michigan.

Enclosed please find check for $1.00 for
which you may enter my subscription
for three years. We have left the farm
f0r a while and don’t see the M. B. F.
any more and are lost Without it. Will
you please enclose copies of the last three
issues? You see We don’t want to miss
any of the information which they might
contain—Arthur J. Brown, Shiawassec
County.

 

  
  

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EING. -really interested in the
sketches about pioneering .in
Michigan I thought to add a
bit of my experience as a pioneer in
the wilds of Gratiot county.
a vertiable pioneer and the son of
a pioneer, having lived in this coun-
ty seventy years as boy and man.

In 1854 there was quite an exodus.
from Northern Ohio to central Mich-
igan. My father, John Wesley Chaf-
‘fin, was
Wood county where there was a
super-abundance of limestone out—
cropping the surface making "farm-
ing rather a work of discoureage-
ment. Having favorable reports of
good cheap land about 40 ,miles
north of the capital of the state he
and some 5 or 6, of his neighbors

I am.

t that time a resident of,

., E9 No; m
. MICHIGAN: ;
*By CHARLES M. CHAFFIN

time the land office' was thrown
open and my father gave up the
land bought of Mr. Hoofman and
located on the northwest corner of
Section 30, North ,‘Star. This quar—

‘ter section being fractional or short

on the west side of the township
contained 125 acres instead of 160.
For this he paid $1.25 per acre. The
first few settlers bought «for 50c per
acre. This proved to be a good .lo-
cation, as a state road was soon laid‘
out past his place from Lansing to

‘ St. Johns and Gratiot Center and *on

to St. Louis and is now M-14 with
traffic totaling about one car a

' minute‘going from 25 to 55 miles

an-hour where the ox teams pulled
their loads winding through the
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won second prize.

benefit.

F all the entries in our Michigan pioneering contest this story
The author is Charles M. Chaflin, of Ithaca,

Gmtiot county, and he begins his story over seventy years ago,
starting in Ohio where he was born and then telling how they came
to Mlichigan andvsettled in Gratiot county.
border of Clinton county was considered about the lilnit of civilization
in that direction so the Chsaflin family settled in the wilderness.
we will let Mr. Chaffln tell his own story which is entirely true as he
went through the experiences himself and now relates them for our

At that time the northern

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resolved to cast their lots in what
seemed to them a better location to
secure homesteads.

So in June 1854 this emigrant
train started.
teams with the cows tied behind the
wagons, my father with Joseph
Teed, John Evitts, Harley Evitts,
their mother, Clara Evitts, her two
daughters Harriett and Adeline,
Jacob McAvory, Alex McDaid, and
J. L. Beecher came to Michigan. My
father and Mr. Teed each put a horse
into a team to bring their respective
families. So bidding good-bye to
old Ohio we journeyed to the “Land
of Promise" leaving limestone and
lime kilns for brush fences, brush
heaps and log heaps.

Being five years old I have dis—
tinct recollections of some of the
scenery, especially do I remember in
some places of red raspberries and
flowers of the mountain columbine,
also of passing through the covered
bridge across the Maumee River and
of some of the towns we came
through—Jackson, Lansing, DeWitt,

.St. Johns, and on to Maple Rapids,

where I remember we stayed at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Payne.
Maple Rapids wasthen known as the
Northern limitof civilization. It
is an established fact that Mr. Payne
was the first settler in Gratiot
county on Section 31, Fulton town-
ship. His family consisted of him-
self and wife and thirteen children.
After the lapse of eighty years you
can find'—Paynes in Fulton.

In Gratiot County

In an early day the only road ran
by his house. His ample log house,
with cheerful old fireplace, blazmg
logs piled high, and with well filled
table, was a favorite and desirable
resting place for all either coming
to or going out of the woods.

And now we were in Gratiot, the
land of mosquitoes, leeks, deer,
bears, wolves, and a various assort—
ment of other animals destined later
on to help feed the inhabitants of
“Starving Gratiot.” From‘ Payne's
we journeyed on in a northeastern
direction, our objective point being
the neighborhood of the Barnaby,
Hoofman and Franklin families, five
miles south and two miles east of
the center of‘Gratiot, now Ithaca.
From Levi Smith’s place, situated
one mile west and one-half mile
south of what is now the village of
Pompeii we were of necessity obliged,

six miles, though. Barnaby and
Hoofman had preceeded us but fall
en trees had :to ‘be ,removed._ ;

on accountqu the landlol‘liceifor
some unexplainable :reason being
temporarily closed my. father'and
Teed bought ‘ a tract-bf fland
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double "~1ng ~asiiia.~1i‘ty.j 

to ’cut our way particularly the last

Horse teams and ox.

5 1‘:

three miles or less per hour—if the

mud holes were not too deep and
the wagon tires stayed on and the
oxen had fed up well on leeks and
browse. ‘

Builds, Log Cabin

Before leaving the Hoofman place
my father got his house logs ready
and proceeded to erect a good sized
cabin. On account of scarcity of
help after four days of pushing,
pulling and lifting, the body was put
up.
To the average man in that day
or this the building of a log cabin
in a dense forest with no lumber or
nails nearer than 25 miles would
reasonably seem like a “Herculean
task” but “where there is a will,
there is a way” and to will was to
do. My father and mother were in
the prime of their life. Father was
about 31 or 32 years of age and
mother a few years younger and
labor was duty and love was law.

When the body of a good sized
log house was raised the heavy work
was most done. Now came the fin—
ishing. A roof must be put on and

 
  
 
 
 
 

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joistsfa'nd sleepershaving been” laid ,

' the ends must be cobbed‘up‘in this '1 .
Way; as each log was laid in its"
Lplace it was stood on ends, with the

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following log some what shorter
in order to obtain the required
pitch for the roof. _ ‘

No rafters, no roof boards, poles
were laid horizontally the length of

v the building, the ends resting on the

cobbing at each end.’ Commencing
at the eaves a layer of oak shake, in
lieu of shingles, split from oak bolts
about 31 or 3% feet in length with a
tool called a fro, resembling some-
what an iron sledge 6 inches to two
feet ‘long with pright handle, were
laid on these poles. As each layer
was put on, overlapping as in shing-
ling any building; it was‘ held in
place by weight poles, separated
from each other by blocks of some
hard timber placed between at in-
tervals and so on. up tothe peak

.where a cap was placed when the .

builder got nails, none having been
used as yet in the roof.
A fire place must of necessity be

- built,. or often called an out-door

chimney. The fire place was an
ample opening enclosing a structure
made of split basswood, slabs
notched and built up six or eight
feet high and perhaps six feet wide,
on the top of this a four square
funnel was built or rather a stick
chimney high enough to create a
draughtand allow for the egress of
smoke. This was plastered thor-
oughly with plaster which stifl clay
made from nearby clay banks or
knolls. This was put on from bot—
tom to top. This chimney was ne-
cessarily out of doors. Indoors was

a hearth in front of this steadure. .'
‘The chinks or crevices between the

logs were sealed with a plastering of
clay mud.

Now floors must be laid down
above and below. For the lower or
ground floor father took his ox
team and wagon and brought
matched white ash flooring from
Matherton or Fish Creek, a distance
of 2 miles through the woods. The
upper floor was of puncheon split
out of basswood logs.

I think the sash glass and lumber
for the window casings was bought
and brought at this time. Our Mr.
Teed was a carpenter. He made the
door and window casings, also the
door, which had wodoen hinges and
a latch of wood with the latch
string always out for neighbors
seeking shelter, lodging or food.

And now the families being set-
tled in their new home in the dense
forest they must wrestle with the
hardships, pleasures, and rewards
to hewing out, clearing and improv-
ing a farm in a new country.
(Continued in January .15th Issue)

 

 

MEEYI.‘ PROF. H. C. RATHER OF M. S. 0., FOLKS

 

H. C. Rather

T is hardly necessary for us to introduce H. C.
Rather, Extension Specialist at Michigan State
College, as he is so well known in nearly

every section of the State, but we have a little in-
formatiou about him that most of you do not
know so we are going to pass it along. Mr. Ra-
ther is a product of Huron county, having been
born on a farm near Bay Port one stormy Sep-
tember morning in 1895.
being of fine black clay loam soil he received
early [training tin weeding sugar beets, pulling
beans by hand, pailing cows, and acting as pilot
of the various farm machinery. '.The riding cul-

The “Home Eighty"

tivator was operated almost exclusively by him and the only reason
he has been able to figure out why his dad made him official oper-
ator was that possibly his conscience failed to bother him when he

tore out a few hills.

In 1910 the folks. moved to Elkton and took

young “H. C." along, but even a training in the high school of that
city failed to kill his desire to get back to the farm, and he finally
decided to go to college if necessary in order to become a farmer '
again. He entered M. A. C. in 1913, taking up athletics, general agri-
culture, and debating. 'It is believed that he acquired an argumentive
disposition from three years’ experience on the College debating

team.
in Marquette county.

He graduated in 1917 and that summer did extension work
Fall found him anxious to win the war, or help

at least, so he joined the Field Artillery and spent a‘ year in France,
with two months at the front during the St. Miheil and Meuse~

Argonne oflensives.

,Upon being discharged fpcm the service he

worked with an advertising agency three ,months, then spent six

' ' months back home on the farm.

On April first, 1920, Prof. Cox,

head of the farm crops department of   a posit   ‘

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tion as extension specialist. and has has ., Andria   ‘
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TEXT: “Lord, let it done this 1031'
Ciao." Luke 1838. ‘ i
“ ' CERTAIN man had a fig tree

planted in his vineyard,”—but

. get your Bible,‘ brush the dust
from it, and read this parable your-
self to see what a figless tree you
have been the past year and how
good the V‘inedresser is. 'Justice
says, “Cut that tree down;” but
Mercy pleads, "Wait a little longer;"
and you are begging, “Give me an-
other chance this year also and I
will do-better.”

I will better bear the fruit of a
consecrated memory. I will remem-
ber to trust in the Lord though his
prunings have been many and his
purgings severe. That faculty that
we call memory often forgets how
\to look backwards in praise and
thankfulness. But, at' this New
Year’s season, in whatsoever state
we are, we areyresponsible for how
and what we remeber. Many of my
readers are now going into the
winter of life. Out of the storms
and trials of the past they come
with broken health and small or no
accumulations. Time has been rude.
Losses have been great. But losses
may be mercies and time is only of
human creation, so let us live in the
realm of trust. When we put Christ
into our memories, we have learned
withPaul how to go on “sorrowing
but always rejoicing."

And then, many of us have such a
malignant memory of those who
have sinned against us. Jones says,
“I’ll remember the crookedness of
Smith as long as I live." But what
for? Will it' help Smith or sweeten
Jones? Don't'you think we can train
our memories to forget evil? Well,
we must if we would have them
serve Christian ends. We are not
ruminating animals. Why chew over
' what is past? This is a pois0n we
must get rid of else our social
memory will become to us a curse.
Through the mercy of Christ, Time
will heal wounds and- cover ruins.
his good this year that we think
more rightly about our'neighbors
and feel more merciful ,toward our
enemies in the name of the Father
and Friend of us all.

We need God in our memories as
well as in other faculties of our na-
ture. If we can see nothing high
and holy in the past, it is sure we
have but a blighted hope for the
future. Many “things in the bygone
are hidden and mysterious as to
meaning, but when our memories of
these things are associated with
trust and consecration, they are
robbed of their disquieting powers.
Now, that we are here at all, is
through the mercy of the Vine-
dresser, and we shall do well this
mr to not forget 'to burn incense to

“And if it bear fruit thenceforth,
well; but if not thou shalt cut it
down.” This calls for a new crop of
repentance and obedience. To have
remembered a past'full of blessings
is to provide motive for the fruits
of penitence and service. We are
differently positioned in life. The
sands of time are about run out for
some; but for others the hour glass
is almost full. No matter, every
life is to bring forth fruits meet for
repentance. The Vindresser's appeal
is heard and for the fruits of re-
pentance are we spared. Think you
that those Miamians were sinners
above all the rest because they
were so storm-distressed? I tell ye.
nay; but except ye repent ye shall
all suffer and perish.

We are mercy trees of God’s gar-
den and a New Year is proclaiming
for us another chance.
in: will win for as standing with the
Husbandman. But, “every tree
therefore that bringeth not forth

fruit, (:is hewn '< down and ' cast
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repentance alone is- not repentance

at all. It lacks reality. Our para-

.ble tells us that folks lilat are fair

without and unrepentant within, are
not fit for the vineyard of God.

“I shall'dig about it and dung it."
Here are hope and expectzzn'y. But
the vinedresser bases his hope on
past experience with trees. He
hoped this one would bear as others
had. And this was reasonable. To
venture to draw a lesson, we may
learn from this that past provi-
dences have a certain light that is
thrown on the pathway ahead. The
Old Year filled our cup full and sure—
ly the New Year will also. Yet it is
not at all certain the New Year will

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, outlier musings in. farms
-of-~the earthly.  may sound a
note, of alarm, but it is just ‘to’ say
that if our hopes and expectations
run along the line of the material
chiefly, we may be in for a sad dis-
appointment. We hope for sunshine,
but there may be shadows. But for
the devoted Christian, his future is
safe-guarded in the light of God’s
mercies of yesterday.

"‘Hope that is seen is not hope.
‘ * " " But if we hope for that
which we see not, then do we with
patience 'wait for it.” This is the
hope that is set on God and fills all
our future with certainty. Our
hopes for health, prosperity, and

’ peace may be fulfilled. Let us pray

that they may. But yet, these are
but temporary satisfactions. These
eventually cloy the hunger of the
soul while it longs for everlasting
sureties.. A hope set upon God an—
chors the soul and prepares it to
wait calmly for the death shadows
ahead. Whatever the darkness may
be, the Christian knows he “cannot
drift beyond his love and care.”

So, in the light of past blessings,
and in'the reality of a hope that

 
     
    

 

 helpéus to wait until the clouds 

roll by, let us bear a real crop‘of
repentance and get a good start for
the next twelve-month.
portunity demands new pledges and
fresh resolutions.
good accidentally.
and care to grow a fruit-bearing
tree, and so does it to grow a tree
that will fruit in character. Thank-
fulness for the past, repentance in
the present, and hope for the future,
are fixed principles on which the
life may safely build.

The New Year, as a toxen of God’s
mercy, suggests to all the chance of
fresh beginnings. But it will not be
new long. It is soon gone and
passes away as a vapor or the ebbing
tide. Happy is he who realizes the
value of time before it is too late,
and who through faith, hope and re-
pentance, rids his life of the things
that hinder the fruits of character.
Let us improve another New Year’s
chance to establish ourselves anew
and better in the soil of God’s vine-
yard.

Bank accounts grow fastest if you save
first and spend what is left, instead of
spending first and saving what is left.

A new op— .

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956 World

hinks Well of §

Buick

ACH NEW YEAR  Buick
still more firmly established

in public favor.

Old friends remain, new friends
are won by this famous motor car.

Brilliant achievement is the basis

for this high regard.

Today, Buick has an engine vibrw
tionless beyond belief, the century’ 5
finest contribution. to the pleasure

of motoring.

And a score of other exclusive fea—
tures testify to the nevervceasing
search by Buick for the new and

better thing. The Sealed Chassis,

Vacuum—Cleaned Crankcase

and Thermostatic ‘ Circulation

Control are typical examples.

Buick could not ofl'er so much at
so moderate a price, if the world

did not buy so many Buicks, and

if the savings of great Volume
were not continually poured back
into Buick quality.

Look to leadership for value.

Only a very satisfactory motor car
could have held first place for
nine consecutive years!

BUICK MOTOR COMPANY, FLINT, MICHIGAN

Dwision‘ of General Motors Corporation

THE GREATEST BUICK EVER BUILT

 

   
      
   
   
   
   
   
  
   
   
  
  
  
  
  
   
   
   
   
  
    
  
   
    
  
   
   
  
  
  
  
   
   
 
 
 
 
 
   
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
  

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A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU

ATHER TIME has turned his hour glass to
record the passing of another year, and an
old man, known as 1926, has laid down his

pen, closed his book and gone on into the past
to make way for a young man with a book that
has never been opened. This young man, whom
we know as 1927, has bright eyes and an eager
expression on his face as he mounts a stool at
Father Time’s desk, opens his book at the first
page, and, with new pen and fresh ink, begins
to record the happenings of this new year.

Will this young man be kind to us? We are
all asking that question with a great deal of con—
cern. Twelve months ago we asked the same
question regarding 1926, and. what has the
answer been? Some say "No," but we do not
believe there are many who can truthfully give
that answer; that is, if they stop and take an in—
ventory. It is true that some lost their bean crop,
and we had the corn borer with us, and there

’ were many other things that gave us lots of

worry, but we are not going to starve or go
without clothing.

Here in Michigan we do not put all our eggs
in one basket by staking all On one crop. We
grow several crops, and if one fails we have the
others to fall back on. We are much more for—
tunate in this respect than most other states and
there is no one who appreciates it more than the
man who tries taming in some other state for
two or three average years.

Taking year in and year out, we folks of Mich-
igan have much to'be thankful for and can con-
sider that we rank above the average as far
as kindness of the years is concerned.

That 1927 will show a little more kindness to

‘ you than did 1926, and each succeeding year be

still more kind is the sincere New Year wish of

f THE Bosmsss Ramon, its publisher, editors, and

others at the home office who have their part

= to do in getting out this publication.

CATOHING CHICKEN 'rmnvns

hope that every chicken thief in Michigan
gets hold of a copy of this issue of THE
Business PM. Of course, we do not
want them as subscribers but we would like to

, have them read about Frank Watkins and his

experience with the thief that robbed his chicken
coop. It would thoroughly convince them that
we have not declared War with a cap-pistol but
are out after them with a big gun that it regis—
tering hits.

Almost daily we receive letters from various
parts of the State telling us about the activities
of the chicken thieves and we cannot help but
feel we hays not been any too early with our
campaign which is getting under way in fine
shape, gathering speed rapidly. Thieves have
become so active in some sections that farmers
have been required to take up arms in defense
of their property. ~

One of our subscribers living near Greenville,
whose chicken coop had been visited several
times by thieves, heard a noise the night before

   
 

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ran. and : times

the farmer finally captured him and he protested
that he was uninjured. However, upon rushing]
him to the hospital it was found, that he had
been hit and he died within a short time.-

The farmer in question is a highly respected
citizen in his community, while the thieves have

no standing and are regarded with suspicion by

all. The former was arrested, charged with
manslaughter, and'his case is on the Calendar

of the Montcalm circuit court to come up about.

the middle "of January.

What will be the verdict? Will this farmer
be found justified fn defending his property
from thieves, or will he receive a sentence of
several years in prison? ‘Human life “must be
protected, it is true, but we urge that the judge
be slow in condemning this farmer. If the
farmer cannot protect his own property who will
protect it for him? He must protect it himself
and it would seem this man was justified in
protecting his. V

A verdict in his favor will do much to stop
the stealing of chickens in every part of our
State, but if the verdict is against him the effect
will be quite the opposite.

We were pleased to reward Mr. Frank Watkins
with a check fer $50.00 for catching the chicken
thief in Oakland county, and we hope that we
will be called, upon to pay out the remaining
$950.00 we have posted, as we are anxious to
do all we can to encourage the bringing of these
thieves to justice, but it rests with our courts
to meter out the proper punishment to accom-
plish what we are striving for—to make chicken
stealing a dangerous and unprofitable business
in Michigan.

 

LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE

“ S a farmer thinketh in his heart, so is he,"
is the thought that caused Stanley M.
Powell to write the article which appears

elsewhere in this issue and has, no doubt, been

read by you before this.
It is taken from that old proverb -of King

Solomon with which most of us are familiar,

“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." What,

a lot of truth there is in it. How true it is that
our thoughts form our habits, and our habits
form our future. The farmer, his wife, the la-
borer, the city businessman, the student—every-
one, rich or poor—has examples of it every day.

Not long ago we read a statement in the
newspaper that Mussolini, dictator of Italy, was
suffering froman incurable disease, and doctors
had said they could not help him, but, it went
on to say, the doctors found this man is actually
conquering the disease by will power. In other
words, he is “thinking” himself into being a
well man. This seems almost beyond reason, yet
scientists of Italy declare it to be true and stake
their reputations on such a statement.

The man who thinks himself a failure never
made a success of any job that he tackled, bo~
cause he knew he would fall before he started.
We know of young men with an agricultural
college training who have failed to make a suc—
cess of farming, not because they didn’t have
good farms or the right equipment for carrying
on their operations, but because they felt that
farming was a losing game before they went

 

I‘M LIGKED AGAIN
’M licked train; all through the sixty
I yearsthatlhereuvedi-thieoldvue
of tears, I‘ve picked the. men who made
aloeingflght: efiWPveMIknow
I‘ve voted right: I’m licked again; but that '
isnodlsgraeeiflhavehadthenerveto‘
boldly face the batfle’s r’bar, although I
stand alone, mid work and  for prin-
ciples I own. I’m licked again; but ’tll
my dying hour I’ll fight the men who in
usurped the power themselves to say w
lawethopeopleneedtofroethcm from
‘ the grasping shylocks' greed. I‘m licked
again: but I can laugh and smile; because
no polifldan’s lees-lug guile has swerved me
from the path I mean to tread until I'm laid
with the forgotten dead. 0 yes, I'm licked;
butlhavenonegrets; I'llflghtagain'till
agriculture gets a just' reward for the un-
WWII“ takes to'wrest the harvests,
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thief to halt; he shot, intending to frighten hlmT‘
into stopping. The thief «utilised to runfbut“

  

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often to refresh your memory. 1 q .  ’
“As a farmer thinketh in his heat-tiso is“ he." .-

‘may have a bill he desires passed.

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THE GAS TAX
,VERY' day the plan of building and main-
taining our,8tate highways by increasing the
gasoline tax and eliminating the annual
weight tax is gaining friends in math counth
and city. We have strongly advocated this
plan for some time because " we feel that the.

user of the highway is the one who should pay, ,.

and the more he uses it the "more he should pay.

Enough different groups about, the State have »
endorsed it so that we expect to it soon
brought up for consideration by 0 ‘ wmakers.
Increase the gas tax_ and make the license plates
good for the life' of the car thus eliminating
the annual scramble, is, the most equitable plan
that we have ever heard of and one that will
prove popular with the general public, we feel
sure.

 

REPEALING Laws

SPECIAL committee has made a study of

Michigan laws and are planning on recom-

mending to the next legislature the repeal
of 150 laws, embracing more than 860 sections,
which they declare are obsolete.

We are inclined to feel that the committee has
been very conservative in their work. Double
that number and there would still be many laws
left just as good as new because they have never
been used, and probably never will be.

The lawmakers of our nation are great vote
traders, to the harm of the country. One fellow
Maybe it
doesn’t amount to the snap of your finger but
it is a hobby with him or with some friend so
he swears by all the thunder he will get it
passed to prove his political power to the folks
back home. There is where the vote trading
comes in. He votes for the other fellows' bills
if they will vote for his, regardless of whether
they concern his voters or, not. Perhaps his
bill will be amended before it gets through so
that its power to act is gone. but he got the
bill passed anyway, and that is whathe started
out to do. The result is hundreds of laws of no
use whatever, some of them contradicting each
other. ~

Stop‘the vote swapping. We will have less
obsolete laws and perhaps our lawmakers could
devote more time to laws really needed.

 

‘* TAKE INVENTORY
HERE are many reasons for taking an inven-
tory to find out just where you stand nuan-
cially but probably the four outstanding
ones are: To show your net worth above all
debts; it will show whether or not you’are ahead
of last year; it can be used as a credit state-
ment when you what to get credit at the bank:
and it gives you a list of property, something es-
pecially useful if a fire occurs or aneetate has
to be settled. *

At the first of the year is the best time to
do it, both from the standpoint of time and
labor, but if you can not get to it now, plan
to do it the first stormy day when farm work
is at a standstill. :

 

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URING the coming session of the State
. Legislature a bill will be presented to rein-
troduce capital punishment in Michigan.
Several times since capital punishment was abol-
ished in this State eighty years ago attempts
have been made to pass bills reintroducing it but
every time it has been defeated. Now sponsors
of the latest bill feel there are enough in favor
of it to pass it. - '
What do you think about capital punishment,
folks? Do-you think it would be the means of
helping to stop this wave of crime, or do you V
believe that more harm than good could come
from it? Certainly it is a big question, worthy
of discussion.

 

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v; ' DUNNING

"ANY of our subscribers who fol—'

lowed 'our advice about rc-
' , turning ties they received from
"Paunee Bill, The Blind Tie Man
are now somewhat concerned over
the dunning’“ letters they are receiv—
ing. There is no need for worry .be-
cause he is not going to Antimony
legal action to get the ties or the
money. He
people cannot be held responsible for
unordered merchandise sent them
and they cannot be’ forced to pay
for it or return it.

.One of our subscribers attached a.
clipping from M. B. F. to one letter
he received and sent it back. Later
'he received a letter, he said, from
“Paunee Bill” declaring our state-
ments were false. Our statements
have all been based upon facts be-
cause we do not want to- slander or
libel anyone, but where there is
someone victimizing the readers of
M. B. F. we intend to publish the
facts about them and their proposi-
tion. That is what we have done in
regard to “Paunee Bill” and what
‘ we will continue to do.

“Paunee Bill” would have folks
believe that he has very limited capi-
tal and makes his literature very pa-
thetic. According to an investigator
his business is housed in a four-
story building and he employee about
200 people. Just around the corner
from his place of business is the
factory of . the St. Louis Knitting

_Mills, a $30,000 corporation from
which he buys his ties. .

Samuel Presberger is his right
name, but by aflecting a western ap-
pearance'he has gained the name he
now uses in his advertising. He is

44 years old and married. He has .

been a cowpuncher, clothing sales~
man, nickleodian spieler, vocalist and
cigar manufacturer. Previous to en—
tering the necktie business he sold
“Paunee Bill Cigars."

Unordered merchandise shipperl

‘ through the mails is a nuisance and
will be prohibited by law some day.
At precent, we are informed. there is
a bill pending in Congress which will
put an-end to this business it it goes
through. In the meantime if all to-
ceivers of such" merchandise would
hold it and write the sender that it
would be held until personal repre-
sentative of the individual or com-
pany called for it they would do a
lot to discourage this method of do-
ing business. '

ANOTHER BLIND TIE MAN

T must be' that “Paunee Bill” is
finding his tie business a very
profitable one bebause we are

hearing about others starting up in
the same line. The latest is “Neck-‘
tie Tyler, the Blind Tie Salesman"
and he too lives in 81:. Louis, Mis—
rsburl. The literature of the two men
is very similar, although their otters
are slightly diferent.

‘ “Necktie Tyler” has 4 neckties for
$1.25, and if you buy them you get
a safety ranor free. The way he lig-
ures his “berg ” is three‘50c ties

for $1.00, with the fourth tie thrown.-

in at the bargain price of 26c. Then

the $1.00 safety razor is given away

with the bargain lot of ties. Sounds
‘ like a whole lot for the money. in
fact too much, doesn't it? 1
One of his slogans which rather
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good judgment and most of us follow v
it whether we have our eyesight or

not. 7
~ We are investigating “Necktie Ty-

. ler" so that we, can give our folks.
, complete details regarding him and

his operations. Certainly the loss of
one’s eyesight is a very serious handi-
cap and we admire the pluck of the
men who make a success of life in
spite of it but we do not consider
the methods these.blind tie salesmen
are using as worthy of admiration.

SEEK RECEIVERS FOR TWO
BUILDING AND LOAN ASS’NS

HARGING that the Michigan
Mutual Savings Association and
the Home Guarantee Associa-

tion, building and loan companies of
Detroit, have violated the practices
prescribed for such organizations,
Attorney General Clare Retan has
filed petitions in the Ingha'm circuit
court asking that receivers be ap-
pointed concerns.

The Michigan Mutual, with several
oflices about the State, is capitalized
at $14,500,000. It is alleged that the
company set up fictitious earnings to
satisfy the stockholders, showed
loans on their books of $141,250
which were not made. made borrow-
ers pay interest on the face value of
the loans although the company re-
tained 10 per cent, made unjustifi-
able loans, and did» other things con—
trary to the rules of the State de-
partment. There are said to be more
than 110,000 shares of stock.

The Home Guarantee Association
is said to have set up a fiscal selling
agency, known as‘the Home Fiscal
Agency, handling sales for the par-
ent company. This stock was sold,
withdrawn and sold over again, total
sales amounting to around $13,000,—
000, the State alleges. According to
the petition the company’s accounts
are now so involved that no funds
are available for members who wish
to withdraw, excessive loans are
made, and the selling agency collect~

ed 10 per cent of all the money paid »

in for stock, plus. 20 per ‘cent of
premiums for borrowers, and the
membership fee of $20 per 81,000 of
stock. There are about 11,000
stockholders. n

“FRESH FLORIDA OBANGES"

“Fresh Sweet Florida Oranges $3
per box of three hundred large size.
Sound fruit and satisfaction guaran-
teed or money back. We pay ex-
press charges. A box of these makes
an appreciated Christmas gift. Re-
mit with order. ACME FARMS,
Gainesville, Florida.”

HERE recently came to our office
T an order for several insertions
of the above advertisement.
Many other publications throughout
the country received the same adver-
tisement and it appeared in some of
them but we hesitated to publish it
because we were not tamiliar with
the company. We desired to protect
our readers at all times so we
thought it best to investigate before
accepting it and the result of our in-
vestigation caused us to refuse the
advertising. ‘

We found that the “Acme Farms"
is associated with D. W. Nichols of
Atlanta. Georgia, who is now under
arrest charged with using the mails
to defraud in connection with Ful-

' ghum Hatcheries. Further, investi-

gators were not able to find any such
farm as “Acme Farms” located in or
near Gainesville. so the entire matter
has been placed in the hands of the
Federal Government and it is expect—
ed that the operators will be behind
the bars within a few weeks.
According to late information the
postoffice officials at Atlanta, _Ga.,
have uncovered what they describe

. as]: million dollar swindling scheme

on the part at certain individuals
who are placing small advertisements

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Secured by

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Northwest Corner Cadillac Square and Bates Street, Detroit

40 Stori'es, Basement and Sub-Basement, for Stores and Ofliocs
Borrower:_Barlum Realty Co.. John J. Barium, Pres.

Normal Income Tax Up to 2% Paid by Borrower
Tax Free in Michigan

In addition to the security offered
for this issue by the building and
land, conservatively appraised at

: more than $4,500,000, the bonds

bear the personal guarantee of
John J. Barlum, one of Detroit’s
wealthiest citizens and leading
business men, and also of Thos.
J. Barlum and Louis P. Barlum.
The combined net worth of these
men is several times the amount
of the bond issue.

The estimated net annual rental
income of the Barlum Tower, after
making all deductions, including al-

lowance for vacancies, is $461,997,
more than two and one-half times
the largest annual interest charge.

Security: The bonds of the Barlum
Tower are secured by a closed
first mortgage on the building and
land and are a first lien on the net
income from rentals.

Form of Bonds: Bonds are callable
at 101 and accrued interest during
the first five years, and’at 1001/2
and accrued interest thereafter.
Bonds are dated April 1, 1927.
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Left at the End at the Year"

. V MWker, a Public Formula Radon.

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'5 ’ I ‘HE important part that Milkmakcr plays

,9; in Michigan dairying is probably best set
forth in the claims made by hundreds of Mich-
igan's leading dairymcn who have used Milk-

5 maker continuously for one or more years.

' These dairymcn tell us that they have secured

the following results by the use of ' er,

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. l. Cows have kept up in better flesh and
bettcrgiiysical condition.
2. ws have maintained a larger and more

even flow of milk.
Bligh Calves better developed and stronger at
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calving time; no retained afterblrth and no uddcrotimblc.

The strongest advocates of course are those dairymcn who have used Mllkmakcr con-
tinuously since it came on the market in 1922. _

Buying a Better Herd

These men have realized that in buying and using Milkmakcr they are assuring themselves
of a better herd of cows two or three cars hence.

In buying a b of dairy feed you 0 not buy the feed for the feed itself, butfor the
ultimate results 0 tained. The results to be obtained are not necessarily determined by
the price of the feed. ‘ The real value of the feed is determined by the per cent of digestible
protein and digestible nutrients, both of which determine results. .

A common phrase among users of Mllkmaker is “More milk with more cow
left at the end of the year.

Ask for booklet on “How to Feed for Economical Milk Production."

trouble with cows at

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Lansing, Michigan

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_- It may be .
 “smile of a baby, the song. of,a"bi'rd.
{The dtough'of a hand or the thrill of a
. ee

’The sparkin a jest or the faith of a

creed; _

It may be in little,‘ it may be in much..—
The hem of a garment, perhaps, that we

touch.

But happiness, always the light of our
days, .

Come into our presence in numberless
ways. "

It may be the lilt of a song which we

 hear, ~ .

An eye with a twinkle, an eye with a
tear;

It may be a boy with a mischevious ‘ '
smirk,

It may be a. pond where the pickerel
lurk,

A patch of blue sky overhead, or a tree,

A garden, a mountain, 9. bit of the sea,

A lane that is shady where true lovers
stray— _ ‘

Where happiness isn't no mortal can say.

There’s nothing too large and there's
nothing too small

To offer the joy which we seek after all.

It may lie in a poem some artist has
penned,

Or a few written lines which a loved one
may send, ‘ ~

It may be a picture, it may be a book,

It may be a kiss, or it may be a look,

Oh, it may be anything under the sun,

From many a trifle is happiness won..

0f minutes, not years, are our memories
made—

The life of a blossom which hastens to
fade,

The light of a sunbeam, the weight of the
breeze,

Too tenderly fashioned, too fragile to
seize;

A word that was spoken, a smile that is
gone, "

A song that is finished, yet still ringing
on,

And we learn as we draw to the close of
our days,

That always about us our happiness stays.

VISITING SCHOOL

WAS looking over the Christmas

gifts one can make and find

many I sure will make, also the
holders my little girls can make.

I would like to tell how we moth-
ers are doing at our rural school and
we like it as do the children and
teacher. About once a month, on
Friday afternoon, the mothers go to
school and the teacher has games
and spelldowns and the mothers
have a lunch. There is a chairman
to suggest what to bring and she
gets a mother to go in with her and
furnish and then the next meeting is
turned over to someone else until
passed around. This brings the
mothers to understand the teacher
and children better and they see
what improvements are needed, also
if our children are let go with dirty
faces and clothes which a teacher
sure gets tired of seeing. I believe
all parents should stick by the
teacher and in this way we get to
know her better. If it wasn’t for
this, I for one, never make an ef-
fort to go to school to visit.——Mrs.
0. H. G., Manton, Michigan.

SYSTEM MAKES DISHWASHING
EASIER i=
YSTEM in washing dishes elimin-
ates a large part of the drudg—
ery. Use a dish scraper to
clean the dishes of all food particles.
Put the food in the garbage can,
never in the sink. Pile the dishes
according to size before starting to
wash. Wipe out greasy pans with
paper. This makes the work easier
than if the dishes are left scattered
over the table, , with each to be
scraped as it is reached.

ADVICE FOR THIN PERSONS
HE overweight person is receiv-
ing advice on every hand. It
is seldom, however, that there
are suggestions for the underweight
adult.

To be sure, continues Marie C.
Doermann, foods specialist at. Rut-
gers University, underweight in peo~
pie over thirty is not so serious a
matter as overweight, nevertheless
everyone wishes to be as near the
ideal as possible.

. Most underweight persons are
small in stature, high strung, and
“always busy. If you are one of
these, ' rest and relaxation “several

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plan for it, and think about it.

in 1926 and fqrgetthem.

what happiness really is—
do you agree with him? If
so, our New Year will be
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Sleep ten hours at night in a well
ventilated room.

Out~of—door exercise is very im-
portant, but avoid becoming over-
tired. Sunshine is our best medi-
cine, and we may have it free of
charge. Simple food attractively
prepared often stimulates the appe—
tite. Gradually increase the amount
of food eaten at each meal. Rich
pastry and fried foods, and candy
between meals are to be avoided.
Include in your day’s meals one
quart of milk, three vegetables, two
fruits dark cereals and breads, eggs,
some fat (cream, butter, bacon, sal-
ad dressing), meat once a day, and
simple desserts. A lunch in the
morning and in the afternoon at a
regular hour may be beneficial if it

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Edited by use.

EAR FOLKS: A Happy New Year to you all! None of us are so
foolish as to expect a whole year of happiness, as we gaily return
our thanks for this cheery greeting, but one thing certain, we

will not find any happiness in this New Tear if we do not look for it,

.Everytask‘wedo,isflrstdoneinourminds,soifweare
looking for happiness, let us first open our minds, clear out all
thoughts of enmity, dkcord 'and even your sorrows. Put them back

Now take inventory of yourself and your home and you may be
surprised to find how much you really have to be happy about. I

We all know that there are “rough” places in the road ahead,
but need that spoil today’s journey? With a clear head, a firm grasp
on the steering wheel and faith'fn‘an Almighty God, we will safely
make the “curves” around which we cannot see. I >

Watch for the sunsets, plant some flowers, listen for the birth—
all these things will take your mind from the petty worries of each
day and bring a bit of the New Year’s happiness.

on this page Edgar Guest tells you, in his beautiful way, Just

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does not take away the appetite for
the following meal.

Codliver oil is to be recommended
especially during the winter months.
Begin by taking a teaspoonful be-
fore each meal and gradually in-
crease the amount to one table-
spoon.

Watch the scales, but do not ex-
pect rapid gains in weight. A slow
steady gain of a few ounces each
week is much more desirable.

RENOVATING FEATHER BED
ERE is a plan to renovate a
featherbed: To make pillows
weigh bed, divide, put equal

quantity in each pillow, have ready
cheese cloth bags, one for each pil-
low. Sew up side, haste all around

Nutritious SchOol Lunches For the Children

day when a school lunch
consisted of “anything
could be picked up on the spur

of the moment” should be a thing
of the past in every home. A cold
roast beef sandwich, a piece of cake,
a dill pickle and a bottle of tea,
may have been deemed suflicient
fifty years ago, but since dietitians
have proved a large percentage of
our school children to beunder-
nourished, such-a lunch will not do.

Parents who find it difficult to
make their children eat certain
needed foods breakfast time, or for
the evening meal, may obtain their
desires quite often through the mid-
day lunch, whether it be served .at
home, or carried away to the school
house.

After a walk in the morning, a
period of study, and possibly a re—
cess of hearty and healthful play,
even a “fussy” child is likely to be
hungry enough to eat and drink
whatever is in the lunch-box. If the
sandwiches are filled with heavy
foods, the desserts are heavy also,
and the beverage one that is not
filled with healthful food constitu-
ents, the lunch is not likely to be
of a great deal of aid. On the other
hand, a date and celery sandwich,
a glass of milk, some fresh fruit,
and a tapioca pudding will combine
to furnish many calories, healthful
salts, needed minerals, and neces-
sary vitamins. ‘

The much talked of vitamin

' should appear in the school lunch

each day. Milk, green vegetables
and. fresh fruits are famous for
their vitamins, so these foods should
always be remembered during the
lunch-packing hour. ‘

An apple one day, an orange the
next, a peach for the fourth, and
then an orange again, such a change
will be welcomed by the children
and will furnish vitamins in attrac-
t‘i've, form. ,
    tor
Honda"? 8 .-.b’é.$_fiuftbhtt¢r,sandvi§=h.
for Win. Jelly sandwich for
Wednesday?“ a bakedabean and

chopped" olive mém' ‘95  "

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that ’

Friday—here again there is variety
and attractiveness.

Of course the average child will
want more than one sandwich. Let
the other one consist of a meat or
fish sandwich if you. wish—but be
sure that all of the sandwiches on
any one day do not consist of such
foods.

A small themes bottle of milk is
at all times desirable, unless you
may Wish to substitute some lemon-
ads or grape juice during very hot
weather.

The school lunch dessert should
be a light one, but it should be a
nutritious one. A tasty tapioca
pudding will always please, and here
is a recipe for one that will prove
an easily digested and very nutri-
tious dish. Furthermore, it is econ-
omical—which means much to many
of us:

1 quart hot milk, 1,5 cup quick-
cooking, tapioca, 1 egg, % cup sugar,
pinch of salt, flavoring-

Cook tapioca and salt 15 minutes
in hot milk in double boiler, stirring
frequently. Add 1 tablespoon of
cold water to the egg yolk and beat
wel. At the end of 16 minutes, stir
the egg yolk and sugar slowly into
the milk and tapioca. Cook untilgit
begins to thicken like custard. Re-
mover from heat and whip in the
beaten egg white. Add vanilla.
orange, or“ any flavoring desired.
The white of egg may be used as
meringue if preferred.

Such a recipe may'be varied in
dozens of ways, so that it will never
lose its interest with the children.

For instance, this cream is deli-
cious poured cold over any fruit or
berries, either fresh or canned. Rai-
sins, prunes, figs, dates, ’
may lie stirred into it while cooling.

The cream may hematie the night
,before for'suppersnd enough saved
as take care of the. childrens" lunch-
:es'the following» day” ‘Or, it may be

 early r in 591° momma, snd.’
 ‘9yer the fruit, just before the
children start ‘- forgljz-sehooie-or thef

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weigh. ‘ When right amounti's inbag

:‘ I put across basting in ' cheese cloth
bag. Pull thread and separate. from

bed. Place, On boiler or small tub
with two pailsof water in. Put on
stove and have come to boil while
feathers are being got ready. Turn
pillow tick over bag to keep steam in
feathers. Steam fifteen minutes, turn
and steam fifteen minutes. To dry
well hang on line in sun and wind
taking in at night. Keep out on line
two days. Pull across basting
thread and shake feathers into pil-
lo wtick.

closed in pillow. Have bed on table
with so it will be easy to handle
near kitchen stove. To steam bed
make two large bags, steam is for
pillows. A window screen or fam-
ning mill-sieve will do fine to put
under pillows or feathers to let the
steam go into the feathers. ' Don’t
let any steam escape.——-Mrs. M. 2..
Ypsilanti, Michigan.-
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Another Request for Sousa—I wish I
had the words to the songs: "The Boy‘-
Best Friend Is His Mother," “J’ust.as the
Sun Went Down", and "Break the News
to Mother,” also "The Miner's Child."
I wish our good paper could add a few
songs to our paper once a month um,
I know it would be enjoyed. I guess I
will close for this time and bid you good—
night—Mrs. -G., Manton, Michigan.

Can You Help Find This?——I would like
to get a copy of a song which I have
heard but once. Those who knew it say
that they have fergotten it, so I am writ-
ing to see if any of your readers have
the song. I do not know the name of it
but the chorus is something like this:
“She was going for a pardon, on a wild
December’s day. A pardon for her dad.
who’s sight was fading fast away. She
said her little brother and sister would
be glad, If she could only bring to than
their poor old blind dad.” Ifwould be
very thankful if I could find it.—V.'G..
Evart, Mich. '

Several Songs Wanted—I have several
times wished I could get the words to
several songs. Would you please try to
get them for me? I know it would be
impossible to have them all printed at
once because there are seven. Please
have them printed if possible, if only one
at a time. They are: 1. “Sunny Tennes-
see." 2. “Cast Out On the Cold Streets
Lies Poor Little Jee." 3. "Who Will
Take Care of the Caretaker’s Daughter?”
4. "Red Wing." 5. “Just As the Sun
Went Down." 6. “The Little Rose-Wood
Casket." 7. "Bring Back to Me My
Wandering Boy."-—-Miss Thelma K., Mo-
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So's Your Old Mam—I do not how
when I have had as many good laughs
as I hadth I went to see this'picture.
It kept the audience laughing almost con-
tinuously with fun that only W. C. Fields,
the featured player, can produce. Mr.
Fields was a ge favorite for many
years and went into the movies
where he is
himself.

This picture is a very human tale of
the trial and tribulations of Samuel Bis-
bee. glader and village character of Wam-
keagus. The despair of his wife and
daughter, he has invented an unbreakable
glass windshield which he hopes will m.
their fortune.

At a big convention. he displays his
wares but picks en the wrong windshield.
Taking deliberate aim at what he believes
to be his own car, a' brick goes through
the glass much to his surprise. He tries
again-and again, but doesn’t succeed in
finding the right windshield. As a-result
of this failure, Sam has to resort to the
efforts of his feet in endeavoring to catch
a train.

On board, he is accidentally thrown
into contact, with a beautiful princess.
They compare notes and she promises to
look him up if she sho ld ever arrive
in Waukeagus. Unkno to B-isbee, a

couple of neighbors witness, this and im-'

mediater spread the rumor of impending
scandal when they arrive home, afraid to
see his wife. he hides at a friend's house.
Then the princess comes to town!

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of some kind (onewof condolence or con-
gratulation, a "party" call. etc.) and need
not‘ last ,longer than fifteen or twenty
minutes. Should a-‘hostess reserve Sun-
day as an “at home” day, a formal call
should rather be deferred for a week day.

.Form‘al calls should not be made on holi-

days. Formal calls are paid: _
1. To express condolence for a death

' p in the family or other untoward event.

2. To express congratulations of some
sort.

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‘   formal call must _
b0 paid? :‘It acknowledges, in obligation

3. On' a bride when,‘ after her honeyr

moon, she has settled in her new home.

4. To acknowledge a dinner, or other
party (dinner calls should be paid the
following day), a ball. luncheon, opera,
matinee, etc. ‘ p

6. In country districts _or in a village
or in a small town, neighbors pay a for-
mal call on new residents whose acquaint-
ance they think worth making.

6. A bridesmaid always calls formally
on the bride's mother after the wedding.

AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING

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5811. Child's Play costumes—Cut .in 6 Sizes:
a. 3, 4, and 6 years. . year size requires
‘fi yards of 36. inch material, With
contrasting material.
5658. qulee' Apron.—Out in 4 Sizes: Small,
4-36; Medium, 38-40; Large, 42-44; Extra
4_6-48 inches bust measure. A Medium
size requires 8 yards of 36 inch material.

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home city. , 5’ "

8.; Accepted. custom allows mothers.
wives, andsisters to serve as proxies for
sons, husbands and..brothers on most
formal call occasions, aside from dinner
acknowledgements.

    

9. A young man who owes his invita- ‘

tion to a reception or dance to a friend
is never excused from paying the hostess
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Bean Leah—I am sending a recipe for
“Bean Loaf" that we all are very fond of.
1 cupful of cooked beans; 1% cupfuls of
bread crumbs: 1 cupful of cooked tom-
atoes; 1 cupful of- rich milk or cream:
pepper and salt to taste. Mash the beans
fine and add the other ingredients. Bake
in a buttered pudding dish for one hour
in a moderate oven. This is very nice
for lunches. Onion and sage can be
added if liked. Serve cold in slices.—
Mrs. C. S., Shiawassee County.

Favorite Becipes.—We have been read-
ers of Tan Busians FARMER for a long
time and I always tum first to the Wo-’
men’s Page, as I enjoy reading the help-
ful hints and recipes. I have a family
of nine to work for so am always glad
of any hints-on making the work easier
or new cooking recipes. Perhaps someone
would like a few of my favorite recipes
and as I am writing will enclose a few.
The first is called Grandma’s Cake and
as it is made without eggs it will perhaps
come in handy right now while eggs are
scarce and high. Now as I have made
this lots longer than I intended I better
stop right now.

Grandma's Cake—2% cups brown of
sugar, 2 cups sour milk, 1 cup chopped
raisins, 1,5 cup shortening, 1% teaspoon
soda dissolved in milk, 1 teaspoonful each
of cinnamon and cloves, about 3 cups
flour. It is best to bake a little tester as
some flour thickens more than others.
This makes a very large cake.

Apple Pudding—3 tablespoonsful but-
ter, 1 cup brown sugar, stir over slow
fire until melted, then add six apples or
peaches peeled and sliced and pour over
them the following batter: 1 egg beaten,
1,5 cup brown sugar, 1,4 teaspoonful salt,
‘5 cup milk, 1 cup flour, 11/2 teaspoonsful
baking powder, bake until apples are
done. Serve with cream and sugar or any
preferred sauce.

Sour Cream Pie.—1 cup raisins seeded
and chopped fine, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1
cup sour cream. Mix altogether and bake
with two crusts—Mrs. H. C., McBrides,
Michigan.

Apple Fruit Cake.——-I am enclosing a
recipe for Apple Fruit Cake which is
fine. Three cups chopped apples cooked
in one cup molasses. Let cool and then
add one cup sugar, one cup sour milk,
2/3 cup shortening, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup
currant’s, V2 cup nut meats, 2 teaspoons
soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon
cloves, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 egg, 3 level cups
flour. Bake in moderate oven—E. 'l‘.,
Belding, Michigan.

Chestnut Dressing for Poultry.——1 pint
fine bread crumbs, ,1 pint shelled and
boiled french chestnuts chopped fine, salt.
pepper, and chopped parsley to season,
15 cup melted butter. This is in answer
to the request from “Mrs. A., Macomb
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strips and roll in flour that has previously
been seasoned. Prepare 1 cupful each
of sliced onion and sliced carrots. If the
latter are old, first boil them for fifteen
minutes, drain off the water, blanch in
cold water and remove the skins. Select
a large baking dish or meat pan and put
in alternated layers of the meat and vege-
tables. Add lfi cupful of diced salt pork
and a generous- dredging of flour. Put
in enough water to cover and bake for
one "and one—half hours. Then cover with
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Valentine’s day is a happy day  yr. .

That makes us feel so very any. '

Washington’s birthday we all celebrate.

Because of his brave deeds so great.

Easter’come- and we are glad

For rabbits eggs are to be a- tad.

Fourth 01 July We have lots‘of fun -

Shooting oi! rockets, torpedoes and guns.

Then comes September's happiest day

And we all skin happily back to school

‘ and play. , ‘

Then Hellowe’en with its witches and
spooks, ‘

We’re scared to denth just by their looks.

Then Thanksgiving comes our way.

And turkey'wo’ll have this holiday.

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311158319: his candles, his toys and guns.

So this is a listen: our holidays

Which we celebrate in so many ways.

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EAR girls and. boys: It I were a
poet I would write you a beauti—
ful poem about the New Year

and what it holds forth for us,
or if I was-a great writer I would
prepare a wonderful essay about
1927 and yourselves. However, I
am only human and the composing
of poetry is quite beyond my possi-
bilities while my ability to write will
never win fame for me, yet there is
no poet or writer who can wish you
a “Happy New Year" and mean more
or have more feeling and sincerity
behind it than your Uncle Ned.
Why? Because you are my nieces
.and nephews by adoption through
the Children’s Hour, and all of you
mean very much to me. Your let-
ters telling of yourselves, your
homes, your good times, and your
ambitions, have shown me that you
have a personal interest in the de-
partment and Uncle Ned, and, with

no intent to brag, I feel that in a.

small way I have been the cause of
your becoming interested, which
makes me very happy. I know that
the girls and boys who belong to
our department are the kind that
respond quickly to requests to send
letters, cards and small gifts to those
less fortunate than ourselves, that;
spreading happiness along the path—
way of life, and this too makes me
happy. In fact, I am sure the finest
girls and boys in the entire world
belong to the Children's Hour and
each one of you mean very much to
me.

There, now I am getting senti-
mental, nnd I must not do that, so
I must stop such writing.

But let’s hope_192'l is very good
to you, that you have good health
and happiness, are a better girl or
boy than ever (if that is possible),
pass all your grades in school with
high marks (on your report card),
write often to Uncle Ned and try all
of the contests. How is that for
good wishes?-—-UNCLE NED.

 

 

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Dear Uncle Nedz—I’m a boy ten year-
old, live on a farm sud attend the district
school. Am in the fourth grade. Have
for pets mml part angom can, named
Orange, Blackie, Rattan. Tiger, Grlmllton
nnd Gray. Funny is the mother 0! them
all. Also own a the wetland pony named
Pet. She is a beautiful dappled grey and
weighs tour hundred and forty pounds.
broken to ride and drive. I also have a
harness and buggy for her and I only
wish some of the merry cousins could
come andshare in the pleasures here at
WildWood Farm. I sure dollops 'to so.
how this letter looks in print as we take
the M. B. F. and like it very Hutch.—
Garland Snell Glover, Fowlervllle, Inch.

——You must have a happy uqu with all
your pets, Garland, and I m sure many

with you it it was possible for than .to
do so.

 

Dear Uncle Ned and Cousinst—I lave

not written for a long time, but please ,

don't think I am forgetting an shout this
delighqu cub. for Indeed 1 sun setting
Interested ev ~ry day. I with we got the
II. B. F. every week. I neurlysald every,

  
 

 

   

    

   

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make. . I hope-f Kaunas and-yon 
Let's elect officers:- such as, President.

. Vice-President. 7-:Secrutary 'Treasurer. »

We would 118.178 evéry member send dues

every month and raise a. fund fo'r the

poor children. As we have our motto and .

colors, every person could work for n. pin
as we have been doing. We could de-

cide about dues later on. I hope you will i

like 'my suggestion. .
The best ,way to elect these oflioers, I

think would be to pick out six or eight '

members of this club,» to be elected.
Their numerator! photographs could be
printed on our page. Then the cousins
and elect (out of the six or eight) the
emcers. I think \President, Vice-President
and Secretary would be sufficient. And
you, Uncle Ned, would be *our' adviser,
take care of the dues, etc.‘ The Secretary
could gather material for a large book
which could contain some of the best
poems written” by our members, also stor-
ies, letters, report of contests and win-r
hers and photographs sent in by our

cousins, which would, I think, he very in- '

teresting andhelpful Work for Our club.
, The President could suggest new contests

and plan other work with the help of the

Vice-President and Uncle Ned.

If the officers lived far away from each
other they could correspond with each
other and I think would get along just
as well as if they lived close to each other.

If this suggestion is favorable I hope
we can use it. I think we would have a
better and larger club. I hope you will
forgive me, Uncle Ned, for taking up so

much of ,your valuable time. I will close

with hopes of seeing this in print. With
lots of love to all, I am your loving niece,
Mildred Darby, Route 3, Standish, Mich.

—If the members of the Children’s Hour
want to follow Mildred’s suggestion I
wish all would write and tell me so. I
think the idea is a. very good one and

will await your letters commenting on it »

With great interest. There is no time like

the present to get it under way, it you
want it.

 

Dear Uncle :—-Well, well, I haven’t writ-
ten for a long time. Oh. Uncle Ned, if
anyone losses their button can they hays
another if they work awfully hard for it?
I lost my button while I was away and
I want another one so bad.

I wish it would stay warm weather
awhile longer. I am going to write to
some of the cousins and see if they won't
write to me. Well, I guess I have said
enough for one time so will close—Your
niece, Doris Wood, Route 1, Ithaca, Mich.

——-—About time you were remembering us,
young lady. [I am sure you can picture
how serious I looked when I wrote that
first sentence, but I could not look that
way long because it would hurt my face
as I smile all the time.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—Uncle Ned, wouldn’t
it be nice to have a contest and see who
could get the mom words with Q. V. -W.
X. Y. Z., or, any others?

Say cousins, wouldn't you like to have
Uncle Ned publish questions and answers
for us? I mean If we wanted to know
the answors to questions to write to him.

My birthday was yesterday, December
1st. I was eleven mold. —

I will close so as to lenve room tor
the other letters—Grace Schram, Omar.
Michigan. '

-—You make some very ma suggestions.
And as for answering questions from all
the girls cud boys I want all of mom to
know that I will be pleased to do my very
best to answer any and all questions they
send me. (Income, you know, I mean
serious questions. not just nonsense. I
,may not be able to answer all but I will
3? 3y best. Could anyone do more than
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Dear Uncle Nedz—I would like to have
these two verses printed and would like

to get one of your buttons. The two
verses are:

Jack and Jill went up the hill,

- To get a pail of water. ._
Jack fell down and broke a two dollar bill
And I, got a dollar and a. quarter.

[Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard,
To get her poor daughter a. dress,“
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In the year of 1893 I was attacked by
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flicted know for owrthree years. I' tried
rem‘edy“after remedy, but such relief u
I obiainéd was'ooly temporary. F‘inany.
[ found a treatment that cured me com-
pletely‘and' such a pitiful condition has
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joints) ‘rhmm. to’try the nut value
of my improyed (‘Home Treatment” to!
it: remarhble'healing' power. Den’t aim!
 a cent; simply mail' your name- and-11$
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you have used it. and it has prom ibelf
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tinz rid of each 'ro‘mr oi' rheumatism.
you may send the price of it. One Dollar. .
but understand“! do not want your many
unleas' yon"’aro perfectly satisfied to
it. ‘Isn’t that fair? Why In“. 
longer; when relief is” thus  you the.

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What a satisfaction to go down the line at
milking time—every cow without a trace of
sore teats or udder. No hard milking; no loss
of milk through restlessness and discomfort.

Bag Balm, the great healing ointment is
compounded especially to keep' in perfect
health the delicate tissues of the udder and
teats. It shortens the labor of milking by
‘keeping the teats soft, silky, pliable. ~

ForCakedBag,Bunches,Inflammation,Sore
Teats, teats cracked or chapped, stepped on, ‘
for any injury or cut, Bag Balm heals quickly.
Often the healing is accomplished betWeen
milkings. Clean and pleasant to use -can-
not taint the milk. ,Has hundreds of uses on
the farm.

Big 10-ounce can, 60c. at feed dealers,
general stores and druggists. Sent direct it
your dealer is not supplied.

DAIRY ASSOCIATION 00., Inc.
Lyndonville, Vt.

    
   
  
  
  
  
   
    
     
   
   
     
  

    
  
  
  
    
     
  
  
   
  
  
   
   
   
     
    
 
 
  
  
      
 
    
   
   
  
    
  
  
  
  

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,. BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

Ads under this heading 30c per agate
line for 4 lines or more. $1.00 per
insertion for 3 lines or less.

 

 

 

    

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onfllctlno date: we will without
cos-{o llaIIOIghec date of any live stock sale In
Michigan. If you are considerinq a tale ad-
vise us at once and we will clam the date
for cu. Ad recs Live Stock Edltor. M. B.
-F.. Mt. Clemens.

'1 a cunt
’HEBEFORDS ‘

Stock of all kinds for sale. Farmers prices. Our

t‘onal Winners.
herdcghligh Ilgfiglfisl. Swartz Creek. Michigan.

Hereford Steers

100 lbs. 69 Wt. around 1000 lbs.
$3  33333 1125 lbs. 81 Wt. around 825 lbs.
46 Wt. around 560 lbs. 60 Wt. ail-oundn 600 

‘ 't , dark reds, dehorne , we mar e
(Haggfogdmhszeers. Good grass flesh. The . beef
t e are usually market toppers when finished,
Will sell our chOice of one car load from any
. bunch. Cyan also show you Shorthorn steers,
yearlings or 2 year old.
.V. V. BALDWIN. Eldon. Wapello Co.. Iowa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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GUERNSEYS

R’s PRICES FOR BULL CALVES SIRED
5:511”): popular blood lines-$50.00 each. \lcl’rit‘e
for circular. WOODLAND FARMS, Monroe. lc .

 

 

 

 

 

 

JERSEYS

Six Year Old Bull Sold

bulls soon read for service

we have two $23!] Performance hisjesty dams,
dam bull, Brampton _DOI'r
pedigrees and prices.

OMRENOE B. SANBORN, Otisvllle. Michigan.

v ' - ......‘| ULLs OF FLYING Fox
,Fon 8A.'-E'I‘wozi|i‘i?iiliIisato eighteen months old.
$310113 25 to ‘
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GISTERED GUERNSEY BULL
3.15.255 340‘Eeach.’ Sired by Son of Langwater‘
Fisherman. E. A. BLACK. Hons-deny, Mich.

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cations cheerfullyfianswereddggg  r W -'   r x: *'

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Extension Specialist in Animal Husbandry, Michigan State College

IX out of the "twenty-three ton

litters produced in the Michigan

, Ton Litter-Contest this year be-
long ,tomTuscola  “M

‘These men also will be awarded
$125.00 of the $260.00 cash prizes
offered in connection with the ‘con—
test.

This contest in pig raising and
growing is open to any farmer in
the State and is supervised as an ex-
tension project by the Animal Hus—
bandry Department of the Michigan
State College to demonstrate the
best and most profitable methods of
pork production. Each contestant
who is successful in making one lit—
ter of pigs weigh one ton or more
when 180 days old is eligible to
membership in the Michigan Ton
Litter Club and is awarded a gold
watch charm. The Hammond Stan—

dish Packing ‘ Company, Parker
Webb Packing Company, Detroit
Packing Company and Sullivan

Packing Company, all of Detroit,
furnish cash to supply these charms
and also part of the cash prizes,
While other prizes are offered by
Swine Registry Associations.

The accompanying table shows the
rank in the contest of the successful
producers, the number of pigs in the
litters at weighing time, the breed—
ing of the sire and dam of the lit—
ter, and the litter’s Weight when 180
days old.

The heaviest litter, weighing 3107
pounds, wins $25.00 for Mr. A. C.
Landenberger of Albion. Harry
Ward of McBain, John H. Uhl and
Son of Unionville, Buys Brothers
of Harvard and David Thompson of
Akron each win $5.00 from produc-
ing the heaviest ton litters of eleven,
ten, nine and eight pigs respectively,
These prizes were Open to fanciers
of any breed from scrubs to-regis-
tered stock. '

In the special prizes was where
the Tuscola county men came in
strong. Of the three prizes offered
by the National Duroc Record Asso—
ciation for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd
heaviest litters sired by a registered
Duroc boar, Albert Pearce of La-_
peer Wins $25.00 and John H. Uhl
and Son of Unionville Win the $15.00
and $10.00 prizes. Uhl and Son also
Win the American Duroc Jersey As-
sociation special of $10.00 for rais-
ing the greatest number of Duroc
Ton Litters from one herd. Two
Chester White Swine Record Asso-
ciation specials go to Tuscola county.
The $30.00 for the heaviest Chester
White Litter goes to Henry Lane of
Fairgrove and the $25.00 for the
Chester White litter having the
greatest weight per pig goes to Find-
lay Brothers of Vassar. David
Thompson of Akron wins the $25.00
special offered by the Newton Pack-
ing Company of Detroit for the heav-
iest Hampshire litter.

These prizes and medals will be
awarded at the Michigan Swine
Breeders Association meeting held
next February 2, during Farmers’
Week at the Michigan State College.

The Ton Litter Contest has been
a fine demonstration of t e super-
iority of the purebred hog. In the
three previous Michigan contest not
more than one-fourth to one-third

county farmers. ..

of the ton litters have had'grade
dams. and all of. the 54 litters were-
sired by p rebred boars. A larger

number 0 “grade; litters are listed

this year but the dams of these are
mostly well selected high grades and
most of them were, bred to purebred
boars. The crossbred litters have
consistently made about as good a
showing in ton litter contests as
purebreds but no better and it takes
purebreds on both sides to make
crossbreds.

In addition to breeding a large
part of the success is due to the
management and feed. Stories are
being prepared by the/ growers of
how these litters were handled and,
fed and most of them are full of
good information for the average
farmer of Michigan whose average
sow produces just about one-third
as much live pork in 180 days as
the average for these ton litters.

While the heaviest ton litter in
Michigan is justone ton and ten
pounds lighter than the World’s
Champion Ton Litter produced by
the W. T. Rawleigh Farm, Freeport,
Illinois, our producers are making
a good showing. No extravagant or
uneconomical method of feeding has
ever been used to produce unusual
gains in any of our contests. Our
heaviest litter for each of the four
contests in the last four years have

 

 

A COUPLE OF RECORDS
EAR Eddtor:—I notice an
account in The Business
Farmer of the weight of '

calves when born. I think that
Mr. Webster and I can beat the
record given, as we had one
calf born in December, 1925,
weighing 129 pounds when 3%
days old, and one born in
March, 1926, weighing 132
pounds when one day old and
when this calf was 29 days old
weighed 220 pounds. These
calves were grade Holsteins.—
S. S. Teed, Montcalm County.
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weighed 2840, 3074, 3025 and 3107
pounds. The average weight per‘
littter has been increasing, starting
with 2269 pounds in the first co'n-
test, 2340 pounds two years ago,
2417 pounds last year and 2435
pounds ayerage this year.

The record of Harry Ward of Mc—
Bain, Missaukee county, in these
contests has been most interesting.
He is the only man to have produced
more than two ton litters during the
four contests and he has produced
one each year. The last three lit-
ters have all been produced by one
sow and I believe he has had only
one sow on his farm the last two
years. Starting with a record of.
2272 pounds he placed 7th in the
first contest, with 2418 pounds he
again placed 7th in the second, last
year with 2690 pounds he was 5th
and this year with 2750 pounds he
was 4th. How much more profita-
bie would pig raising be to Michi-
gan farmers if all our litters re-
ceived such care and made such rec-
ords.

 

BIICHIGAN TON LITTER CLUB WINNERS FOR 1926

 

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Owner Address Litter Sire am Weight

' .Landenber er Albion, R. No. 2 14 P. C. V O. C. , 3107
23.3% ‘Aivfjs. Drake&S%n Utica, R. No. 3 12 C. w. (on) c. . (Gr.) 3%:
3rd H. Brado Goldwater, R. No. 4 12 S. P. D. . (CGI'.) 2750
4th Harry Ward McBain, R No. 2 11 0.1. C.  C. . 2626
5th Albert Ifjearce Iggpeer, R. No. 5   C. . 2614

ane ir rove . . . .
 Eggrlbiyi. Barth Banggor, R. No. 5 11 D. J. (Gr.) ’0.. C. (Gr.) 
8th Hen VanSteenis McBain, R. No. 1 12 O. I. C. (Gr.) Mi G 2600
9th John .Uhl&Son Unionville, R. No. 1 10 D. J. C. .C( re) 2484
10th Peter Zylstra Zeeland, No. 2 12 O. I. C. (Gr.)   r.) 447
11th John H. Uhl & Son Unionville 11   C. . ( r.) 426
12th H. M. Randall , Tekonsha 12 . . . C 2365
13th Hugh’ Ward Fowlerville 10 O. C. 8. C, (Gr) 225
14th Clarence Bhasius (Star%, 11;. flick; 1   d C. D. . , 224
. Broo e un e , . . . . ,

 Walter Elliott Goldwater, R. No. 3 12   
17th Buys‘Brothers .Harvard, R, No. 1 9 0.“; C. 218
18th Findlay Brothers Vasmr, . No. 5 10 H} . D, 218
19th David Thompson Akron, R. No. 3 1% P (13111). P. 218
20th Roy Bartlett,  Sterling, R. 2 9 8.1). s, 212
21st; R. G. Elliott Paw: Paw, R. No. 4 1  J. , C, 211
2nd JayWierman WChesaning R. No. 3 19 8?.“ _ D. _ a“
23m' Leonard Manney ,Mooré’.£§ark. R. N .. r _ . .- __ ,,

  

    
 
     

  
  

  
  

 

 

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(Phone main 4881)
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Swedish Formula ,
Stops Abortion

Gives Amazing Reeulte in Worst Caeee

Now Available to U. 3. Farmers

John W. Froberg, who
brought to this country
the formula of the famous
Swedish abortion treat-
ment, has saved many of
America’s finest herds
through its use. The treat-
ment has made a remark»
able_record in Sweden by
freeing lar e dairy dis-
tnctslitera rotten with
abortion. Jr; 11 . 0‘
berg is a native of Sweden
. an a successful dairy-
man, guaran its re~

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full information about the yalue of this famous form-

ht.
an JOHN W.

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of small rain. ave conical- '
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E. A. CLARK. Breckenridge. Mich.

  “was. A s”: area-z
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mfihnhlsps'rocx Fanmgs'. Caenovla. Michigan.

Registered Duroc Boars

R d 1’ service, $40.00., Bred sows and gilts.
F31 Iingt These are typy and immunized against
cholera. We guarantee to please.

LAKEFIELD FARM, Dept. F. Clarkston. Mich.

H O R S E S
FISTULA-HOHSES °""E°' $5-°°- 35"”

no money until cured.
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weight about 1100 or'1200. ay well bred, a.
pacer. Mrs. M. J. Zanltz. Ypsilanti, Michigan.

P E T S T O C K
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do’ftof me 'On '. cattle? It is the
" large: black louse that resembles the
hog louse—P. 0., Grant, Michigan.

' ET 95 po'undpot sodium ilouride
and mix with .2 pounds of tal—

_ cum; dust a little of this in
the hair of the cattle along the

. back and brush it through the hair

thoroughly; this must be done very
thoroughly to kill the lice; then;
keep them in the dry for 48 hours.
This should kill the lice.

sow Nor FED PROPERLY ’

I had a litter of little pigs. I
saved four of them until they were
3% to 4 weeks old. They were
nursing their mother. The mother
had skimmed milk, linseed meal and
,middlings. The little pigs were nice
and fat. There” is a cement floor in
the pen but had lots of straw. The
pigs always shivered and they died
one after another. Please let me
know what was. the matter with
them.- Last year we had the some
trouble. When they were four weeks
old they all died. In the summer
time they are out in the pasture.—
H. V., Trenary, Michigan.

THINK your trouble has been

v that you have not fed your sows
properly; the feed you mention
would not make a complete feed for
a nursing sow. When on pasture it
may do fairly well on account of the
pasture .or grass shesecured. The
cement floor would really have noth-
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WHEAT AND OATS KING

Herman Trelle, homestead farmer of
Wembley, Peace River, Alberta, Oanhda,
was crowned both wheat and oats king
at the last International at Chicago. He

is an American by birth, Idaho being ’

the state in which he was born 31 years
ago. He has 480 acres i1: Canada.

 

 

The Business Farmer broad-
casts daily, except Satlirday
an d Sunday, through station
WGHP, of Detroit, on a wave
length of 270 meters.

8:40 to 6:50 ......  School
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TOO MANY BROADCASTING
STATIONS
EAR 'EDITOR: Hard for me to
keep you on the, radio, too
many stations. Some times it is
O. K., other times. poor. I think
something will have to be done it
we get anything. I think the best
way would he to have say from 7 to
9 o’clock-.in the evening for educa-
tional programs like farm talks and
the others; and Only one or two
stations in every' state on the air at
that time. ' .
Yes, they say we abuse free speech
but: they are abusing free air until
nobody will Vget'anythin‘g. Yes, ' I

‘know there are others; besides tarm-

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hulled oats and a little tankage and
possibly a little corn would have
made this a much better ration.

HORSE HAVE WORMS

Two of my horses look rough,
hide bound, and one of them passed
a-worm aboutpeight inches long, as
large as a lead pencil in th middle
tapering to a point on eit or end.
They have good appetities and seem
to feel good, but look had. We feed
shredded corn fodder, alfalfa and a
small amount of corn. What do you
advise giving for a tonic and worm
destroyer?——.T. P. M., Highland,
Michigan.

0R worms in these horses use
following: 1A, ounce oil of
chenopodium in a quart of raw
linseed oil. This to be given as one
dose after the horse has been
fasted twelve to eighteen hours. For
a tonic nothing will be better than a
tablespooniul of fowlers solution of
arsenic on the feed night and morn-
ing for three or four Weeks.

 

 

SKIN DISEASE

I have Angora cats that have a
skin disease which is similar to
mange but seems hard to cure. The
cats scratch it which makes it very
irritated. It seems to come only on
their head and neck. It is a small
dry eruption and sometimes gives
off an odor. Do you know of any-
thing that might remedy it or what
would be the cause?-——-F. E. 0., Al—
gonac, Michigan.

ET some mercurochrome solu-

tion of your druggist and a

small camels hair brush and
paint these eruptions night and
morning. This is not irritating and
will not be difficult to apply.

EATS LITTLE AND MILK
FLOW OFF

I have a. cow that is oil! feed. Eats
only little or anything I give her.
Dropped cit in production from 6
quarts down to two gills or nothing.
I bought her last month, then she
had a bunch (hard) on left side
ribs. Now another has raised just
back of first one. Is poor, weak,
and droopy. She is a four year old
Holstein—A. E., Haines, Mich.

WOULD suggest that you give

this cow a tablespoonful of li-

quor potassii arsenitis on the
feed night and morning for three or
four weeks. The bunches might be
painted with tincture of iodine every
day for a few days. Feed her well.
Liquid extract of our vomica and
gentian, equal parts, and give her
a teaspoontul night and morning
with a little water as a drench
would be good tor a couple of
weeks.

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,oHIoKEN Pox

LAST season, particularly in the
‘

months of January, February

and March, chicken pox was pre~
valent in many sections of the state,
causing a heavy loss of thousands
of birds and an untold loss in egg
production. The aflected areas last
season could easily be traced to a.
few sources of infection, and due to
no precautionary measures the dis-
ease spread rapidly over townships
and even counties, affecting practic—
ally every flock in these vicinities.
Chicken pox is again reported in sev-
eral localities and precautionary

'measures should be taken at once

to curb.the spread of this dreaded
disease, affecting the head, nasal

passages, and throat and usually is

first noticed with the appearance of
yellow Wart—like nodules or scabs on
the comb and wattles. These spots
change color rapidly soon becoming
black or dark brown in color. Ac-
companying these external lesions,
the bird usually suffers from cankers

-in the throat and windpipe, the af-

fected birds gasp for air for several
hours, and die. Death usually being
the result of a canker in the wind-
pipe which completely shuts ofi the
bird’s supply of air, death resulting
from strangulation.

In severe out-breaks, the eyes be-
come swollen, cankers appearing in
them, and a condition similar to
roupe, developes. In many cases the
birds are not able to see, and death
follows. When accompanied by cank—
ers and eye lesions, the disease does
nbt take a heavy mortality, but us—
ually it is accompanied with these
conditions, and it is not uncommon
for the mortality in the adult flock
to range from ten to fifty per cent.

Examine your flock carefully to-
day. Catch and examine carefully
all suspicious looking birds that seem
to be sufferingqfrom colds or roup,
and look them'over closely for pox
marks or scabs. If chicken pox is
found, take immediate drastic steps
to prevent its spread toyour neigh—
bors’ flocks. Potassium Permanga-
nate should be kept in the drinking
water, as it may help to. prevent
a spread of the disease from bird to
bird, as the drinking water is the
usual source of dissimination of the
disease. If only a few birds are af—
fected, remove them from the flock,
and treat them individually, altho
this isolation will probably not pre—
vent the spreading of.the disaese
through the remainder of the flock.

Birds affected, should .be fed the
most palatable foods‘obtainable, the
pox or scabs should be painted with
iodine and-if throat cankers are pres—
ent these also should be treated with
tincture of iodine. When an individ—
ual bird is seen gasping for breath,
the mouth should be opened, and the
thum placed under the throat throw—
ing the entrance to the windpipe up
into the mouth, and usually a canker
will be seen just inside the windpipe.
With the aid of a hairpin, this canker
can usually be dislodged, and the re-
sulting injury should be painted
with tincture of iodine. Many birds
can thus be saved. When the eyes

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are affected, a' twenty percent 'solue-
Ltion of argyrol‘should be placed in
the affected eye, and this treatment
will usually clear 'up an eye infec-
tion in a few days. A drop of this
argyrol solution administered with
an eye dropper daily, is very effect-
ive, in clearing up “bad eyes."
There is no flock treatment that
is effective. Every effort should be
made to increase the feed Consump—
tion of the flock, as the birds carry-
ing considerable weight seem to have
more resistance to the disease, and
are not so seriously affected as birds
in, heavy production that are lack-
ing in body weight. ' ”
’ ‘The disease usually goes through
a flock in six weeks, ecting pract-
ically every bird in the. flock al-
though many birds have consider—
able disease resistance, and will con.-
tinue to lay without interruption. '

Care should be taken to prevent
the spread of the disease to neigh-
boring flocks. All visitors should be
kept out of the pens and sparrows
should be screened out as they. are
often carriers of this disease from
flock to flock.

If you know of any pox being pres-
ent in your community, remember
that it will reach your flock only
through the introduction of new
birds from diseased sources, on the
feet of visitors, walking through
your houses or yard, or by sparrows,
and every precaution should be tak-
en to prevent these possible sources
of infection—J. A. Hannah.

TUBERCULOSIS IN POULTRY
SPREADING RAPIDLY
,NQUIRIES our veterinary editor

has been receiving for some

little time lead us to believe“ that
avian tuberculosis is rapidly spread-
ing throughout the State, and now
even the slightest doubt of the truth
of this has been erased from our
mind by the results of the tests of
Dr. T. S. Rich, Federal inspector in
charge of tuberculosis eradication
and hog cholera control, which have
been made public. .

Last summer a survey was made
of 25 flocks in Hillsdale county
These flocks were picked at random
over. the county and it was found
that 68 per cent of the flocks—not

68 per cent of the birds—-—were dis“

eased. On eight of the 25 farms
no evidence of tuberculosis of any
type could be found. On 17 farms
either poultry or swine, or both,
were found infected, and on eight
of the 17 only poultry had the dis-
ease. ’

Dr. Rich declares that, as infected
hens can transmit“ the disease to

    
 

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their offspring through the eggs, ,

there is an opportunity for poultry-
men and hatcherymen to engage in
the production of baby chicks that
can reasonably be guaranteéd free
'of tuberculosis. Hens can be tested
in much the same way as cattle.

No system of marketing, however, ef-
fective, can be put into operation that
will permanently solve all of the prob-
lems of merchandising agricultural pro-
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, TONIC FOR VPHICKENS
J EAR‘ EDITOR-:71 see so many

"inquiries in y0ur paper about.

worms in chickens. I have a. re-
ceipt for chickens that will keep
them healthy the year around; It is
as follows: 1 1b. copperas, 1 gallon
boiling water, one ounce Sulphuric
Acid. Be sure to add acid after
water is cold, otherwise it will ex-
plode. I feed my chickens ground
oats, mash each morning and add
one tablespoon in mash which is us-

ually‘mixed in scalded sour milk or -

warm waiter and I always. have
healthy chickens and good layers.

Oats makes a sweet—meated chick—V ’

en, where too much corn makes

chicken meat oily, strong and 'too ~-

much so for the health of the hen. I
also steep oats in the winter time,
let them "cool and feed in a long
trough made of Six inch boards for
that purpose, but steeped oats
should not be used until after frosts
in tall and not after grass gets green
in the spring as then it is too loosen-
ing. For my part don’t think much
of dry mash and self-feeders but fa-
vor a scratching pen—Mrs. J. C. L.,
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FEATHER EATING AND DOG FITS
O the Editor:——I saw a request
in the poultry department ask—
ing for a remedy for feather
eating. Now I had a flock of chick-
ens that did the sage thing and I
gave them salt; that will cure the
habit— Am never bothered any more.
Just throw out coarse salt so the
flock can get at it at all times and
no more trouble will you have with
leather ee.ting._II P H h
I also saw w  ., ers ey.
igan, has a dog that as fits also.
E. R. W., Kingston, Michigan. Now
if these folks will scorch egg shells
on the stove and pulverize them fine

and give' on food or in milk two or '

three times a Week the dogs will
never have anymore flts. We had a
dog that had fits and I was told to
give egg shells and he doesnt have
them any more. One or two shells
at a time is plenty. This is a simple
remedy and a cure.—Mrs. P. E,
North Branch, Michigan.

 

GLASS CLOTH

I have heard of and read about
glass cloth, said to be a substitute
for glass, and Iaam wondering just
what it is. What do you think ot'it?
A. K., Macomb County.

LASS CLOTH is a strong loosely
woven fabric, impregnated with
a new substance, which solidi-
fies, giving the cloth a transparent
body, with, the weather resisting
qualities of glass. But doing more
than glass in that it admits the life
giving'ultra-violet ray. It w dis-
covered by a western farmer. '
Numerous experiments by experts
from agricultural colleges and else-
where have proven the value of the
product when, used as. a -glass sub-
stitute in poultry houses," scratch
pens, brooder houses, hotbeds and
coldframes. Poultrymen in partic—
ular have shown much interest in
this new product and many otgathem
are making the change with’good re-
sults.

DETROIT CAPON MARKET
When does the market for capons
open in Detroit? We have quite a
number but this being our first ex-
perience we do not know when the
market opens—Mrs. D. R. D., Flush—
ing, Michigan.

—-——The Detroit c'apon market Open-s
about February 1st.

FREE EGGS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS

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dollartakeninwillgomwardstaxes. ‘ Md

Thattherailroadsin l926willha devotemorethan ear!»
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ThenationalgovernmenthascutdownthenationaldebtfromJanuaryl, '
4920, to January 1, l926,by about $4,250,000,000—fourmd a waiter billions.
Inuthe same mtervaLthe debts ofstate andlocalgovernmentsha
increased by about 6% billions—$6,750,000,000. v.

During this  beggimrmedetal debt reduction, the state and local
governments e g obhgations' 20 tim fast th
theolddebt. During this same pefioddebuofstatiszdlocx em

‘oombinedhavebeeninanredfitimesasfastastheywere orethewar.

' The total public debt of all‘forms of government in this °
higherthan attbe peak ofthewar debt in 1919. ’ comm? “
Thenationnldebtisbeingreducedattherateofthr uarters f
billion dollars a year—$750,000,000. ee q o ‘
State and local debt is being increased at the rate ofmore than a billion
anda quarter dollas a year-$l,250,000,000.

From January lst, 1920 to January lst, 1926 national vernm t
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Dunng' a abs-eased same periodmcurrentbiiipenditures by state and local governp

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M m “in n dollars a year—WMOOO—and
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Have we not reached the danger line!
Is it not time to retrench state, county and local expenditures?

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1600 chicks also gave him additional revenue. Birds from this same breeding now heading Michigan
international Contest in egg production. All our stock blood-tested, and every female trapnested from
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  p N the whole’the farmers of the
“ <‘ country have had a more pros-
porous year than usual, and it
may be said that to a very large
extent the farmers of Michigan have
accomplished a great deal for them-
Balm by placing in practice the
diversity of crops, as well as the
always sensible custom of smelting.
,every tilled acre produce as much
;as possible through intense cultiva—
' tion. There» is no secret in the
methods of. highbv profitable farming
in general, and more than ever, it
has. become necessary to use the
greatest possible skill in carrying
out approved modern methods.
Right here, much credit is due to
the farmer boys who are teaching
their fathers wonders in improving
'the production of potatoes, corn and
other crops per acre, as well as in-
creasing the breeding of hogs and
,aheep. The general use of radios
by farmers is a big factor in farming
and stock raising, and it is bound to
become still more so as time goes
on. In fact, the future of farming
requires~ imperativer that new
methods be placed in general prnc~
tics, and among these may be men-
tioned careful spraying of apple
trees, potatoes, etc., great care in
the selection of seed com, the use
of up~to—date farm machinery, trac—
tors and silos. The many agricul-
tural colleges are doing great things,
Vand they are going to do still more
in the future in the development of
practical farming.

Farmers are anxious to increase
their profits, and there is a growing
determination, to curb the rapidly
increasing taxes on farms, legisla-
tion may be demanded. Then
there is a feeling of dissatisfaction
because the purchasing pOWer of the
. farmer’s dollar lags much below that
‘of pro—war times, while nearly all
other commodities have undergone
large advances in prices. The man-
' ufacturing industries of the country
have greatly prospered, steel especial-
f ly so, and-a dividend of 40 per cent
:is expected by the stockholders of
the United States Steel Corporation.

Rally in Wheat

Despite the general bearish condi-

tions, wheat advanced recently on

r the Chicago Board of Trade to $1.43,
comparing with $1.73 a year ago.

. According to the government De-
cember crop report, the wheat

; crop of the country amounts to 833,-

. 000,000 bushels, showing a gain of
156,000,000 bushels over the crop

i harvested a year ago and 32,000,000
bushels less than two years ago.

I There is a large winter wheat acre-

. age, and the world's supplies of
:wheat are estimated as more than

‘ the requirements, North America

.' having an estimated surplus for ex-

‘ port of 325,000,000 bushels, or

; about 100,000,000 bushels more

j than a year ago. Furthermore, the

’ estimated wheat surplus for export

of 325,000,000 bushels, or about

[ 100,000,000 bushels more than a

1 year ago. Furthermore, the estim-

3, ated wheat surplus for export of Ar-

{ gentina and Australia is placed at

1’ 65,000,000 bushels moss than a year
iago. Oats have advanced to the

: highest‘price of year, selling recently

\ at 47 cents, comparing with 40 cents

a year ago. Reduced rye, barley and

. oats crops for 1926 are reported by
the government, but rye has sold

( lower than a year ago, the foreign
:demand being poor. Corn is mar-

? keted freely, and it sells around 75

‘ cents, or about the same as a year

’ ( ago. Raising corn for the market

7 does not pay as a rule, and it should
r be fed to stock on the farms. Corn
prices show weakness, 9. late govern-
ment report on the prospective sup-

‘ ply of pigs being construed as boar-
ish, as the aggregate supply for 1926
was only 4 per cent in excess of
1935.111 11 com belt antes. -
. W’for Heavy Steers , ~

} ., For a longtlmowellfatunedllght
 yearling cattle, especially baby
 have been far the highest

   
 
 
  
   
  
 

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lWed heavy steers have spill at
unusually large discounts, the re‘
sult ‘ being serious losses to cattle
feeders. ‘ Recently a big demand has
started up for weighty steers,_and‘
they advanced sharply, while year.
lingo sold at steady prices. There
was a great falling oi! in the re-
ceipts of cattle, as is customary
around the holidays, and the aver-
age quality of the offerings was

‘ much poorer than in previous weeks.

A large share of the beef steers sold
at $8.75 to $10.50, the extreme
range of prices narrowing materials
1:. Steers sold at $7.251» $11.15.
and a few lots of choice year-lingo
went at $12.50 to' $12.70. A year
ago steers sold at $7.35 to $12.60.

'  severe greetings.”  .ain wage-1
oven shoved tar-tendency to_;recover a .

little duringthe holiday some. The
podth of, better", and choose is
mostly

I . ramble . but  rolled 6
doWn—a little way from the top. Feed -—

and hay markets changed .but "little,
although; a few lines advanced
slightly. 'Not‘much happened in the
fruit and vegetable claso.‘ Fat lambs
and some kinds of beef sold decided-
ly lower. It ,was an active and

rather favorable market season for}

poultry. ,
Wheat 4

Wheat toward the end of the year
has been going down on reports of
increased production in Australia
and Argentina and up again follow-
ing decrease h estimated western
winter wheat production. But the
tone of the market is rather dull.
Argentina's gain of 43,000,000
brings the world supply a little

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Recently the best heavy steers
brought $11. Stockers and feeders,
have had a fair sale for the last of
the year at $6 to $7.85, no good ones
going below $7 and sales largely at
$6.50 to $7.50. Stock and feeder
cows sold at $4.25 to $6.
Good Demand for Hogs

Extremely small recent Chicago
receipts of hogs, in combination with
a lively demand for hogs to ship to
eastern packing points, made a
higher market, and sales ranged at
the close of the week at $10.60 to
$11.90, comparing with $8.75 to
$11.60 a year ago. Combined re-
celpts in ,seven western packing
points for the year to late date
amount to only 22,178,000 hogs,
comparing with 25,049,000 3 year
ago and 30,953,000 two years ago.
Recent Chicago receipts averaged
but 229 pounds in weight, the light-
est since March 1, 1925 and seven
pounds less than a year ago.

'A GLANCE AT THE MARKETS
Bureau of Agricultural Economics,
United States Department of Agriculture.
ARM markets seem to be in line
for a quiet opening of too new
year. "No news is good news”
and at least there were no further

and ' hay prices have been fairly
steady with a few advances particu-
larly in cottonseed meal.
. Livestock 

Fat lambs declined 75c to $1 at
Chicago the week before Christmas,
selling at lowest prices since 1923.
A sharp drop in yearling steer values
happened at the same time, after
Christmas buying was over. Other
classes and grades of cattle dis-
played little net change, while hogs
showed slight declines. Most kinds
of meat were selling lower.

Poultry

Turkeys sold 5 to 80 higher in the
Christmas market than during the
Thanksgiving season. The active
trade in November had cut down the
supply available for the later mar—
kets, especially in southern shipping
sections. Other dressed poultry sold
well at fairly steady prices although
shipments were heavy. Live poultry
was in less demand but the supply
was mostly cleaned up during the
holiday market season.

Eggs ,

Eggs are in good supply for this
time of year. Reports from the farms
and the quantities received at city
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WHEAT—

No. 2 Red $1.40 $1.40“ $1.40 $1.93

\ N“ 2 White 1.41 . 1.41 I 1.94

No. 2 Mixed 1.39 1.89 1.98
CORN— "

No. a Yellow 38 .7275 .80

No. a Yellow 31 .79 .81 ‘
oars—(Now) A

No. 2 White .5455 .4515 .52 .47

No. 3 ,Whito .51 )5 . .49 ~ .46
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BEANS—— , ‘

o, u, p, m 4.80@4.85 .9453 4.85@4.90 4.75
POTATOES— ,

(New)Per cm 2.83 @1100 ‘ 23398.00 3.70 @100
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No. I Thu. 17 18 20322 18@17.50 21 »

No. 1 (Rover 17@ 18 V 25320 _ 16 17.50 80 21

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less than in December, 1936.=-"The_‘ 

“general tendency ofi‘eggiprlce's from
now until spring is 'usually-.gradu-

production.

aly’ downward. caving to increased. <

\ Butter
I Butter production,
'terrupted by the severest weather, is

large for the winter season but do- . ;

mand is also active, as shown by the
firmness of the price situation most
'of the time and by the heavy with—

drawalsstrom storage.- bringing the  4'

December holdings .ov'er 10,000,000
pounds lower than a year ago. This
position has» strengthened the mar:

. ket undertone ani- encouraged hlgg- _
0 2

era to insist on best prices.
possibility of‘coutinued foreign com-

petition under present market oondl- V _

tions tends to checkany sharply ris-
ing tendency.

Potatoes in December ranged gen-
erally $1.75 to $2.35. per 100
pounds in producing sections and
sold between $2 and$3 in the vari—
one large city markets. The tone
has been a trifleweak at times, al-
though prices have held fairly well
lately with some tendency to re-
cover whenever there was a letu'p in
the shipments. Carlot movement
has been a little heavier than last
season and there is no great dispo—
sition to buy for future needs. Prob—
ably the low prices of so many

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except  ind ‘-

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other farm products tend to restrict ‘

the potato market. -

BEANS

We are having a typical holiday
bean market. Elevators are anxious
to sell while buyers are not showing
much interest. It is to be hoped
that demand becomes good After
the New Year and that prices make
some gains.  .

nnraor'r Borrna AND EGGS
Butter—Best creamery ‘in tubs, 440
480.
Eggs—Fresh receipts, best quality...“
@445“ per doz; cold storage. 29636150.

DETROIT LIVE POULTRY

Springers, fancy heavy Rocks, 4 lbs
and up, 25@26c; medium and small, 21
@230; large Leghorns, 20@210; small,
18@19c; extra large hens,,5 lbs and up,
260; medium hens,
small, 180; stage, 18c. Large white ducks.
30@31c; small colored ducks. 25027c per
1b; Young geese, 7 lbs and up. 220. Young
turkeys, 8 lbs and up, 46¢: per lb.

DETROIT SEED MARKET
Clover seed. cash. domestic $22.75; im-
ported, $20.40; January, $17.85. Alsike,
cash, $20.50; March, $20.75; Timothy,
(£33516, old, $2.65; December, $2.85; March,

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

DETROIT, Dec. 27.——Cattlc: Receipts.
377; opening active and Ready; beat De-
troit yearlings, dry, $10.50@11; beat
heavy steers, 38.506935: best heavy
weight butcher steers. $7.50@8.25; mixed
steers and heifers, “@736; handy light
butchers. $5.50@6.60; light butchers, $5
@prest cows. $5.50,@d; butcher cows.
“5005.50; cutters. $1504.35; macro.
$303.75; choice light bulls, $666.50;
bologna. bulls, $5.50@6.75; stock hulls,
$5@6; feeders. “@125; stockers, $5.50
@625; milkers and springers. $55@90.
Veal calves: r-Receipts, 66: 50c higher;
best, $15.50@16; others. $4®15. Sheep
and lambs: Receipts, 1,188; steady; best
lambs, $12.75@13; fair lambs, $10@11;
light to common lambs, $6@9; fair to

‘ good sheep, $5 @625; culls 'and‘common,

$263. Hogs: Receipts, 191; romect:
mixed; $12.25. " , p '
CHICAGO. Dec. 27,—Hoge—Receipts,
21,000; “@250 higher; top, $12.15: bulk,
“1.50612; heavy weight, $11.6‘5@12.16;
medium Weight, 81130691110; light
weight, $11.60@12; light lights. 311.400
12; packing sows, $10.50011.25; pigs.
“1.80012. Cattle—Receipts, 20,0 0;
strong; calves, receipts, 8,000, at y:
beef Iteere—gocd and choice, 310611.26;
common medium, $109.50; yearling-s. $1
011.50; butcher cattle—Arenas. sun’s

        

     
       
      
  
  
  
   
  
    

  
 
 
 

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uary 2nd. Storms of rain, sleet or

snow/are to be expected during the
opening days.

During the middle part of the
week temperatures will drop quite
low for the season but only for a
By Friday there

igan, the temperature at this time
becoming quite moderate for the
Season. '

Near the end of the week there
will-be more storms‘ot rain, sleet or
snow together with high winds and

gales. ’
Week of January 9

Although Sunday of this week in
most parts of the state may be most-

' 1y fair, the following day or so will

bring rain, sleet or snow storms with
much wind.

Temperatures will be moderate
during the first and middle part of
the week but there will be more de-
cided cold weather begining Satur-
day 01 this week or Sunday of next.
This will then be the beginning of a
general downward trend of the tem-
perature that will continue until
near the end of the month.

Storm conditions will materialize
throughout the state during Thurs-
day and Friday at which time there
will be high winds, rain, sleet or

snow. However, precipitation is not

expected to be as heavy as during
storm periods of first week of Jan-
uary.

Cool Weather in 1927

Withflthe possible exception of a
couple months in the spring we are
of the opinion the greater part of
192'? in Michigan will be cool. The
extremes in the weather about
April this year will prove detri-
mental to the Michigan farmer.

COUNTY CROP REFORM
(Continued from page 17.)
don't look right. The long siege of wet
has made them look uncomfortable. Hogs
still scarce but gaining. Milk advancing
in price outside compteition.—-—~E. R.,
12-23-.26.

Monroe (SJ—Shredding corn and har-
vesting sugar beets is by no means com—
pleted on account of weather conditions.
Farm sales are numerous and auctioneers
Since the announcement by
the publisher of THE MICHIGAN
INESS FABMER of the $1,000 in rewards
for the capture and conviction of chicken
thieves they have made themselves scarce
throughout this section of the country.
Livestock is wintering nicely. Late sown
wheat is diong .fine. We wish the pub-
lisher and subscribers of the M. B. F. a
gapgy New Year.——-C. W. Eisenmann, 12-

 

Rillsdale.-—No snow. Weather moder-
ate. Much complaint about poor feeding
value of corn fodder. The heavy frosts
before it was cut seemed to reduce its
feeding value -more than half. Feed mills
are very busy placcs as much ground
feed, is being fed to keep milk flow near
normal. Quotations at Hillsdale: Butter—
12?,2660; eggs; 47c don—L. W. M., 12—

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  _Thousands . 0f Former Victims Made Well
' ‘ and Sound by ' Wonderful New  
ery That Heals Rupture Without
Operation, Danger, Pain or Delay v  

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Thousands Tell of Their

Complete Recovery

Now you can end your rupture troubles
—FOREVER. For at last science has
perfected a safe, comfortable, inexpensive
method that really HEALS rupture.
Dancers, athletes, sportsmen, and people
who do hard, tiring work, have been en—
tirely healed in this new way. Thou-
sands of men, women and children have
been healed of rupture by this marvelous
new discovery, after everything else had
failed.

No matter how severe, or long-standing
your case may be, you can now look for-
ward to a happy, healthy life—free of
rupture troubles—free of cruel, gouging,
old-fashioned trusses which force their
way into the rupture opening in order to
help retain it: and by so doing actually
prevent its healing.

Trusses Retard Healing
Proper circulation is“ impossible, and the
constant irritation caused by the bulging
pad tends to lessen the chances of the
separated parts to grow together.

If you resorted to an operation, it
would conm‘st of bringing the tissues to-:
gether—re-wedding the sections, and hold-
ing them together until nature could have
an opportunity to mend the abdominal
wall.

But operations, are, always pain-
ful. and expensive—and often fatal. You
can, avoidthe knife, as have thousands
who have been freed from rupture suf-
' fering, this sane, safe, inexpensive way.

New Method Heals Rupture

The scientfic Brooks Appliance-rebuilt,-
improved and re-created—retains the rup-g.

‘ ture with . ease 'and safety—sand at the -

same tinie' promotes ' HEALING. Circué

Painful Rupture Will Sap Your
Vitality and Shorten Your Life
Ill—Fitting
Trusses Only Prevent Healing
—Cast Them Aside. No Need
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People Like These fro All Walks
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of Grateful Letters Received Are
Expressions of Praise from:

Brooks

ENGINEERS

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ARTISTS EXECUTIVES
ATHLETES FARMERS
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BOYS MACHINISTS
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CARPENTERS MASONS
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lation is free—there are no chafing straps,
no cruel steel hoops. You can run, jump,
swim, bend—resume your normal activ-
ities. And all the time the Brooks Ap-
plaince will be working to heal you.

Here is the secret of this wonderful,
new appliance. It lies—not pushes—on
the rupture. Its soft air cushion of hy-
genic rubber gently brings the torn edges
together. Nature does its part—the edges
knit and your rupture is sealed. ‘You are
Well and sound.

Working or sleeping—the Brooks Ap-
pliance is faithfully hastening your re-
covery. The patented air cushion, so light
and comfortable, is designed so that every
movement tends to close the wound,
rather than force it open. Absolute clean-
liness is assured. The entire appliance,
which weighs only a few ounces, can be
washed daily.

Heals Young and Old

Rupture strikes everywhere. Little
children, young men and women, rich and
poor of all ages suffer from this dreaded
thing. Many have gone through the bet-
ter part of their lives, handicapped by
cruel, awkward trusses, unable to enjoy
the sports and pleasures they desired,

But now that is all unnecessary, as is
proved by the experiences of thousands of
men, women and children who have been
healed of rupture by the .Brooks Appli-
ance. Substantial citizens, people prom-
inent in their communities, write of their
complete recoveryf-not only relief, ,but
complete healing of .the rUpture'. ,They

have done away with their appliances—.

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they are-well and sound once more.

 

ReadWhatFormerSufferers Say:

Mr. E. W. Morgan, 1425 W. 37th St..
Norfolk, Virginia, writes: “I was ruptured
severely and had three operations per-
formed on me. Every one of them burst
open again, and I spent hundreds of dol-
lars for worthless trusses. Nothing helped
me until I tried your appliance, which I
can say has entirely healed me. I am a
yard brakeman and my work is hard;
straining, setting brakes, running and
jumping—and my rupture never shows the
least sign."

Mr. George Montgomery, Box 23, Mar-
quette, Iowa, says: “I was ruptured for
seventeen years, and had worn every type
of truss made. None of them did me
any good. I sent for your appliance, and
from the day I put it on my rupture
never came out again.
to discard it."

Thousands of children, too, have been
healed of rupture this new way. Read
what this grateful parent says: “My little
boy was ruptured when a baby. I sent
for your appliance and it healed him en-
tirely. He is now 6 years old, stout and
healthy.”——C. J. Akers, Box 121, Lilly
Brook, W. Va.

Thought He Would Die—Now Well
“I was badly ruptured for more than
17 years, but thanks to your wonderful

appliance, ,I am well and sound." writes
3, Bob—-

Mr. Howard Hilyer, Route No.
caygeon, Ontario, Canada. “I was told I
wOuld die of strangulated-hernia unless
I had~ an operation, which I dreaded.

Four years ago I sent for your appliance ’ ‘
.-—b.nd it entirely healed 'me. My work is I
rougw and heavy, but I payer. have.  q . ~
. slightest'trouble froimruptgre'.”  '~ " ""' "

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Rupture Considered Dangerous

Rupture exacts a. heavy toll tfom those.
who wait too long. You are handicapping ‘
yourself if you disregard this condition.
Employers, insurance companies and army
officials recognize the dangers of rupture,
or hernia, as it is scientifically known.

You must not neglect your rupture—
because it can be HEALED. The won!
derful Brooks Appliance can heal you—
just as it has healed thousands of other
former sufferers.

Test It Free

We want you to see this marvelous ape
pliance—WEAR it—see for yourself how
it retains yOur rupture and works to
HEAL. Only by wearing can you really
appreciate its worth. ‘

Because it has proved its power to heal
in thousands of cases—because we are
confident it will do as much for you—we
will let you try it free! If satisfactory
——comfortable—if it does all we claim—-
keep it. If it fails to meet your requires
ments, the test has cost you nothing.

Never Sold at Stores

. Unscrupulous advertisers are endeavor.
ing to sell the public a cheap substitute
for the Brooks Appliance, claiming that
it is genuine. Do not be misled by im-
itations and substitutions. The genuine
Brooks Appliance is never sold through
agents nor at stores of any kind. Every
appliance is made at Marshall, Michigan,
to your individual requirements. Look
for trademark bearing portrait of C. E.
Brooks which appears on every appliance.
None other genuine.
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No need to suffer longer with old fash‘
ioned trusses—no need to delay your ,re-
cover from rupture. Send today for
FRE trial offer of the scientific device
that has healed so many.

FREE TRIAL OFFER ,

BROOKS APPLIANCE CO. ' I
881A State Street. Marshall, Mich. .
Without cost or obligation on my part. I

I lease send me, in plain, sealed envelo , 
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