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Oh! the old swimmin’-hole! whare the crick so still
and deep

Looked like a baby—river that was laying half
asleep,

And the gurgle of the worter round the drift just
below

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Before we could remember anything but the eyes

0f the angels lookin’ out as we left Paradise;

But the merry days of youth is beyond our
control,

And it’s hard to part ferever with the Old
swimmin’-hole.

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“THE OLD SWIMMIN’-HOLE”

In this issue: “Growers From 26 Counties 1‘9ur Fruit Belt” — “Eaton County Farmer Gets Thiev '1
‘Nuntber’ ” .- Also Artieies 0n Farmers’ Day At M. S. C. and Results of Alfalfa '
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4,000 Turn Out for Farmers’ ID

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1927

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Experimental Work Instructs, Good Talks Interest and Numerous Contests Amuse
Crowd Attending Annual Event

AILY tasks were forgotten by

4,000 Michigan farm residents

as they turned toward the tenth
annual Farmers’ Day held at Michi-
gan State College. This event which,
in the beginning, was intended to
acquaint citizens of the State with
the scope of the work being done at
the College, has become so popular
that visitors return year after year
and always find something new in
equipment or experimental work.

Farmers' Day this year concluded
a week of group meetings at the
College. Sister states and foreign
nations have had representatives on
the campus during the entire week
and some of the prominent inter-
national flgures in agriculture have
worked together in an effort to de-
velop a program that will advance
agricultural interests.

Some of those familiar with the
crowded events of Farmers’ Day beat
the clock a trifle, and arriving the
night before, camped out on the
College picnic grounds. These folks
were perhaps able to see everything
scheduled for their entertainment,
but anyone that arrived later than
8:00 A. M. certainly did not.

The College farm now contains
1,345 acres and there is some work
of interest on nearly every acre.
Representatives of the many depart-
ments were stationed at their de-
partment’s experimental plats to ex-
plain the work being done there.

The truck crops plat contains a
number of varietal tests that are be—
ing run in an effort to find new vari-
eties of vegetables that will taste a
little better or have a more pleas-
ing appearance. The busy city
housewife selects her vegetables very
often upon a basis of appearance,
and the truck farmer must cater to
this sort of buyer. If a combination

‘ of good looks and fine quality can be

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bred into a variety, this one will
displace the old favorites in the seed
catalogs.

Forestry has become one of the
most popular projects and the for-
estry plantings are no longer limited
to the counties in the northern part
of the State. A steady stream of
visitors passed through the College
forestry nursery and saw beds of
pine trees now only a few inches in
height but which in years to come
will clothe some hillside with silent
grandeur.

Study Experiments

Experimental work in farm crops
'covers many acres and includes most
of the crops grown in Michigan. This
year s. new barley and an improved
strain of wheat have been increased
and seed will be distributed to Mich-
igan seed growers. The barley is a
two-rowed smooth awned variety
and the wheat was developed to sup-
ply 9. grain that would make a fine
pastry flour.

The experimental plat showing a
comparison of frost resistance be-
tween Polar Dent corn, developed at
the College, and some of the better
grown northern sorts shows that the
Polar Dent went through two hard
frosts after planting with much less
damaged sustained than any other
variety in the plat.

One plat contained four acres of
a biennial sweet clover which is
threeweeks later in blossoming than
the common sweet clover. The ori-
ginal plant of ~this new clover was
discovered by a Cheboygan county
farmer. The variety promises to be
a better pasture crop than that com-
monly sown by Michigan farms

The College livestock does not out--
fer in comparison with animals
owned by individuals or corpora-

International

champions.

greeted 'Farmers’ Day Visitors in the
new horse barn, and animals being
fitted for the fair circuit this fall
were judged by a critical group
whose opinions have been obtained
in the school of experience.

Pens of birds in the International
Egg Laying contest drew their share
of attention. The records of some of
the hens in the contest excited con-
siderable comment. Farmers not di-
rectly interested in poultry raising
seemed to believe that some form of
magic was involved in caring for
hens that fail to lay eggs only 50
or 60 days throughout an entire
year. Many farm women left the
contest pens with a determined look
that presaged a raid upon the grain
bins at home. Father is going to
have to go to mill for bran and mids.

Plowing Contest

In the plowing contest most of
the younger entrants passed up the
two-horse walking plow event and
signed on the dotted line to com—
pete in tractor plowing. The equip-
ment and horses were furnished by
the College and back furrows had
been struck out for each contestant.
Demonstrations for the control of
corn borer this year have brought
out.the fact that many farmers do
not take advantage of the adjust-
ments on their plows so that the
best possible job of plowing can be
done.

In the College contest all plows
were wrongly adjusted and each en-
trant was given 15 minutes to cor—
rectly adjust the plow and complete
one half bout of plowing. Then all
contestants started together and
completed two and one half bouts.
Winners were determined by skill
shown in adjusting the plow, quali-
ty of work done, and time taken to
complete the plot.

Winners in the two-horse walking
plow division were John Heimstra,
Zeeland, first: C. B. Rockwell, Cas-
sopolis, second; Jesse Laxton, Leslie,
third; R. D. Spear, Mason, fourth;
and John Hawkins, Hudson, fifth.

First place for plowing done with
four horses on a sulky plow was won
by H. T. Cantrell, Mason; and the
other place Winners were H. 0. Skin-
ner, Dimondale, second; John Haw-
kins, Hudson, third; and Walter
Wilcox, Evart, fourth.

A dry soil and an alfalfa sod
proved a hard combination for sulky
plows both horse and tractor drawn.
The ju iges awarded first place to
Lawrence Every, Mason; second to
Alfred Grueber, Frankenmuth; third
to E. A. Clark, Breckenridge; and
fourth to O. J. Webb, Charlotte, in
the tractor plowing class.

Horseshoe Pitching

Nothing counted but ringers in
the finals of the horseshoe pitching
contest. Ringside opinions were
freely offered that the finalists had
magnetized the stakes and shoes.
Elmer Fought, St. Louis, defeated
Tom Serrine, Midland, in the finals,
but not until the dust settled about
the last ringer was the result deter-
mined.

A slender but wiry individual
from Bath tossed a milk can twenty-
scvcn and a half feet and won the
milk can pitching event. The win-
ner, H. L. Brooks, Bath, threw the
'milk can one foot further than F. C.
Richards, Howell, who bettc1ed the
toss of E. G. Fair, Jackson, by four
inches.

One hundred dollars was won by
the choir of the M. E. Church, Bliss—
field, as first prize in the choir sing—
ing contest. Sixty dollars went to
the St. Paul’s choir, Warren; thirty

Hardigan Alfalfa Leads 1n Variety Test

By HOWARD RATHER
Extension Specialist, Michigan State College

ARDIGAN alfalfa, bred a few
years ago by the Michigan State
College for seed producing abil-

ity, ranks right at the top as a hay
producer according to the results of
an alfalfa variety test recently har-
vested on the J. L. Wedge farm in
Sanilac county.

The test was planted on Mr.
Wedge’s farm in 1924 by D. F.
Rainey of the Farm Crops Depart-
ment of the Michigan State College.

.Nine varieties were included and
good stands secured with each. The
next year there was but little differ—
ence in the plots grown from north-
ern seed, but the Argentine alfalfa
already had suffered some from
winter killing.

After two more winters the various
kinds of alfalfa began to show their
true worth. The Argentine and Tur-
kestan stands killed out almost en-
tirely; the variegated varieties of
alfalfa proved most hardy, while the
northern commons, led by Michigan
grown seed, followed in order. Har-
digan, in one cutting, outdistanced
the Grimm by over one—third of a
ton of hay per acre. Grimm and
Cossack were practically tied for
second in the three-year-old race.

The results of this test are almost

,Jdentical with those secured by Pro—

fessor 0.1%.. Megee at the Michigan
State College Experimental farm and
are quite significant, particularly as
the alfalfa seed growing industry
spreads throughout Michigan.

Apparently alfalfa seed grown in
the regions of a northern humid cli—
mate deserves first ranking in hardi-
ness and Michigan Common Alfalfa
seed should find a ready market at a
premium over other common alfalfas
for corn belt, northern and eastern
states.

Hardigan alfalfa is living up to
the fondest hopes which those who
have known the variety had had for
it. Not only does t more than double
the Michigan farmer’s seed growing
opportunity, because of its profuse
blossoming habits and ability to set
seed, but, according to several years
of careful trial further supported in
the Sanilac tests described above,
Hardigan is Michigan’s best hay pro-
ducer.

The variety is now being increased
by members of the Michigan Crop
Improvement Association working
under supervision of the Farm
Crops Department of the Michigan
State College. Two hundred sixty
acres of new seedings were put out
the past spring as seed growing dem-
onstrations in which the Michigan
Crop Improvement Association, the
Michigan State College, and the New
York Central and Pennsylvania rail-
roads cooperated, while about 150
acres of older seedings will come
into seed production this year.

Following are the yields records
of air-dry hay from the first cutting
in the Senilac county test as taken

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dollars to the M. E. Church choir,
Hayes, and twenty dollars to the
choir from the Congregational
Church, Pinckney.

Dean R. S. Shaw was chairman of
the afternoon program. President
K. L. Butterfield welcomed the
guests to the College and introduced
two representatives of international
agricultural organizations.

Several Good Talks

Dr. Jacob Lange, dean of the
Smallholder’ s Agricultural School,
Province of Fueu, Denmark, gave a
lucid description of the problems of
the Danish farmers and the progress
made in improving agricultural con-
ditions there. Doctor Lange said
that the Danes have a proverb, “Too
much dirt on your boots makes you
a conservative." This he said meant
that the holders of large tracts of
land were opposed to modern ideas.

The Danes find that their best in-
terests are served by dividing the
land among small holders and pro-
moting cooperative effort among the
farmers. ()ne statement that Doctor
Lange made which appealed to his
audience was that the immigration
laws of this country are the personal
affair of this nations, and subject to
determination on that basis.

Dr. Asher Hobson, U. S. delegate
to the International Institute of Ag-
riculture at Rome, said that in no
country is the business of agriculture
paying a fair return for labor and
interest on the capital invested,
when a fair value is placed upon this
capital investment. Continuing, he
stated that the American farmer
should be sympathetic with any at-
tempt to raise the standards of liv-
ing of foreign farmers as at the
present time the foreigner has an ad-
vantage in world markets due to his
ability to subsist upon a smaller re-
turn for his products.

C. W. Pugsley, president of South
Dakota State College, told his audi-
ence that increased ediciency in pro-
duction, the establishment of better
marketing systems, and national and
state legislation designed to give ag-
riculture equal advantage with all
other industries were, in his opin-
ion, all necessary for the improve-
ment of agricultural conditions.
President Pugsley stated that the
movement of farmers to the city was
not in itself alarming to him, but
that figures which show that, recent-
ly, a large share of this migration is
made up of young men are just cause
for alarm.

Agricultural» prosperity in the the
future depends upon the retaining
upon the farms of a fair share of
boys born on the farm, according to
President l’ugsley, and he believes
that the time is near at hand when
this nation must decide upon a policy
of the equality of agriculture with
other industries or else sacrifice ag-
riculture to build up the cities.

National aid in increasing effi-
ciency of production and assistance‘
in establishing markets are vital
nccds, according to this speaker, and
there should be an adjustment of tax
burdens in many cases.

President Pugsley thinks that; the
establishment of a deep-sea—water-
way would result in immediate bene-
fits to the farmers of the northwest,
and that the establishment of ocean
ports on the Great Lakes would aid
all industries in this section.

The speaker's conclusion is that
we are in the midst of determining .

the future status of agriculture and 1‘ 5 V

the answers found for the present
day problems of farmers will in a
great measure influence the future
prosperity of farmers and the nation
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.N July 26, 27, and 28 a caravan
- of fruit growers from 26 Mich—
, igan counties and from seven
g states made a tour of the southwest—
‘ern fruit belt of Michigan . The oc-
Vcasion. was-the annual tour of the
Michigan State Horticultural Society.
.Many interesting things were seen
5 and many lessons learned. While
7 the personnel of the caravan changed
“somewhat during the three days, yet
‘ a train of from 50 to 75 automobiles
* was constantly in line, each car
» flying the American flag as the offi-
cial insignia of the tour.

First Day

The pilgrims assembled at the
Graham Horticultural Experiment
Station, which is located 4 miles
west of Grand Rapids. This well
.conducted and beautifuly located
station deserves to be visited‘by
every fruit grower in Michigan. The
first thing of horticultural interest
which greeted the eyes of the tour—
ists was some very interesting pollin—
‘ ation work with McIntosh apple
trees. The limbs which had been
, pollinated with McIntosh pollen were
completely bare of fruit. Those
which were pollinated with Jonathan
pollen were loaded, thus showing in
a striking manner that McIntosh is
self-sterile. Spy pollen gave a fair
set, Wealthy and Delicious a good
set, and Greening pollen gave no set
at all. The Greening was said to be
a very poor pollenizer for any
variety.

As the tourists walked over the
station grounds they saw peach trees
on which the moderate and “long”
pruning systems had proved the best
They saw young Spy apple trees
which had been girdled to make
them come into bearing, with results

hus far in the negative. A block of
.._lum trees on which the fruit had
been thinned in previous years were
~‘bo much more vigorous than the un-
thinned trees that the project
looked like a fertilizer experiment.
Rows of heavily pruned young apple
trees looked weak and dwarfed be—

  
  
   
   
   
 
    
 
 
  
   
       
     
      
      
    
  
 
   
   
    
  
   
    
  
    
    
 
   
    
  
   
  
   
 

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ing was very marked on Spy and
Duchess, and not quite so striking
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Alton Hall, of Charlotte, is poison to
chicken thieves. He recently followed an
auto in which there was stolen poultry,
:‘ got the license number and later received
" . 360 from I“. B. F. for his good work. Mrs.
flu is shown standing beside him.

takes real moral courage to get
up in the wee small hours of the
morning, coolly dress, get into
your car and chase a chicken thief
down the road. It is easy enough to
sit around the corner store and tell
how brave you are but it takes real
men to do what Orris J. Hall and
his son, Alton, did in running down
a chicken thief who had been work—
ing systematically, stealing hundreds
of chickens in the vicinity of Char-
lotte. .
About one o'clock on the morning
of June 1st, Orris J. Hall was awak—
ened by his faithful dog, Bobtail.
obtaiin had noticed a car on the
road and had heard some commotion
cross the road from the Hall home
nd his doggish instinct told him
ere was something wrong and in
is "language of a good healthy bark,
*"wo'ke his master. Mr. Hall 1m—
ediately arose, dressed and started
investigation. He heard some
squawking and found that
69 were just leaving. themhen
of his": neighbor, Antes Bowserr.
the, time Mr; Hall appeared on

   
   
    
 
   

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Seven Other States Represented InAnnual Trip of Michigan Horticultural society

  

 

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By HERBERT NAFZIGER

Editor Fruit and Orchard Department, THE BUSINESS FARMER

Grimes. A block of young Golden
Delicious showed very severe winter
injury and killing at the collar,
while adjoining Red D e l i c i o u 8
showed practically none. A red rasp—
berry variety test indicated that the
Cuthbert is still the “old reliable.”

‘Dinner was served to the tourists
on the station lawn and Prof. Gard—
ner made a few remarks on the
apple scab situation. Said he, “Lick
scab before blossom time or it will
lick you.” While‘ this is the worst
scab year in perhaps two decades,
scab can be controlled in any year.
Three-fourths of the failure to con—
trol scab this year was said to be
due to the fact that the early sprays,
especially the pre-pink, did not go
on in time. “Three days too late

was as bad asthree months too
late,” said Prof. Gardner. The-
growers were also warned against
using new and untried spray ma—
terials, but were advised to use
standard materials and let the exper—
iment stations do the experimenting.
Visit Getz Farm

From the Graham Station the car—
avan wended ts way to the Geo. F.
Getz estate; located 4% miles north-
west of Holland. Among the at-
tractions here were a well stocked
zoo; and a large vegetable garden
under irrigation. 0f chief interest
to the fruit growers however, was a
greenhouse full of ripening fruit.
Great clusters of both blue and
white grapes hung from the roof.
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AN "011 HENRY" BUT NOT A CANDY BAR

The tractor you see here was made from a. Ford touring car and is used to plow and
cultivate a garden. H. \V. Finkbeiner, of Iluron county, is inventor, manufacturer,
owner and operator of this “Oh Henry.”

with beautiful fruit were trained
fanshaped on wires, in the European
espalier method. Bearing apple trees
and fig trees were seen growing in
large tubs, and muskmelons trained
upright on‘ wires with the heavy
melons supported in net sacks were
a sight to behold.

The next stop was at the O. H.

Roth farm, near Fennville, where
Prof. H. A. Cardinell gave a night
dusting demonstration. Both horse
drawn and tractor drawn dusters
were used. One of the tractor dust—
ers was driven by a power take-off
from the tractor. Trees of various
size were dusted and large old ap-
ple trees were dusted with the outfit
moving down the row just a trifle
faster than the average man can
walk. Gas-light flares were used
for illumination. Prof. Cardinell is
conducting comparative dusting and
spraying experiments and is expected
to present his findings at the soci—
ety’s meetings next winter.
Second Day

On the morning of the second day
the horticultural pilgrims assembled
near Fennville—at the farm of Geo.
DuVall. Here a wonderful crop of
South Haven peaches was seen. At
the D. W. Wadsworth farm were
seen heavy crops of Spy, McIntosh,
Snow and Jonathan. The fruit was
very clean, being free from blemishes
and aphids. The orchards on these
two farms presented examples of
extreme clean culture. Not a weed
to be seen.

Between Fennville and South
Haven a stop was made at the F. M.
Barden place where the caravan
drove out through a large and heav-
ily laden peach orchard.

At the James Nicol pear orchard,
near South Haven, was seen the re-
sult of pollination work carried on
by Stanley Johnston, superintendent
of the ISOllth Haven experiment sta—
tion. A large screen cage Was built
enclosing two Bartlett and two Seck-
el pear trees. Another cage enclosed
two Bartlett and two Bosc trees. In
each cage was placed a colony of bees
during the blossom period. In the
Bartlett-Seckel cage the Bartlett
trees were bare of fruit, only two

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Eaton County Farmer Gets Thieves “Number,”

the scene, he found that Bobtail had
surprised the thieves and they were
hurrying to their car which was
waiting on the main road abdut
twenty rods from the chicken house.
They drove away without lights and
Mr. Hall immediately started in
pursuit.

In the mean time‘Mr. Hall’s son,
Alton, had heard the commotion
over at the old homestead, saw his
father’s car back out of the yard and
race down the road. He followed in
his own car and there was a merry
chase on for three miles Where the
chicken thieves turned on to a cross
road and the two Halls lost track of
the thieves. The father decided to
go on home but the son was deter—
mined to run the thieves down and
he crossed over to a road a mile
north and headed directly to a car
coming as ‘he had thought they
would probably make that circle.
When he met the car he immediately
turned around to follow the trail.
When the chicken thieves saw his
car turning to follow them, there
was another wild chase across the
country for about five miles. Alton
Hall was able finally to get close
enough to the car to get the license
number and when he had accom-
plished this he returned to his home
and the sheriff was immediately
notified and a warrant sworn out
for the party carrying the license
number obtained by Alton.

Alton’s mother immediately wrote
THE BUSINESS FARMER thedetails of
the exciting night ride and all of the
rules and regulations required by
THE BUSINESS FABMEB in paying the
$50.00 rewards were livedup to.
Thirty-five or forty chickens were
stolen from our reader, AmosBow-

   

By R. J. McCOLGAN

ser, and when the writer called on
Mrs. .Bowser, he was given a com—
plete story of the details of the rob—
bery and was told that Alton Hall
was surely entitled to the reward
money in this case. We later talked
with the authorities and everyone in
the neighborhood agreed that Alton
Hall rendered a real service to the
community in running down the
chicken thieves involved in this case.

The sheriff, in looking up the li—
cense number in Lansing, found that
the car belonged to Richard Eggles-
ton of Lansing, a former Charlotte
boy. When Eggleston was arrested,
he immediately pleaded guilty. His
companion, Miss Dorothy Scott, a
waitress at the Rec Hotel in Lan—
sing, demanded an examination and
she was dismissed with the payment
of costs. Eggleston was sentenced
to serve from nine months to five
year at Ionia.

Sheriff H. W. Boorn feels that this
same Eggleston has been instru-
mental in stealing hundreds of
chickens and now that he is safe in
the “coop” at Ionia, that there will
be less chickens stolens around Char-
lotte and that the farmers can rest
a little easier at night.

We, of THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS
FARMER, want to congratulate Alton
Hall on his courage in running down
these chicken thieves. It is the busi-
ness of the chicken thief to steal and
he goes prepared to defendwhimself
in emergency and there have" been
many cases where the farmers have
been shot by thieves. All of this
Alton Hall know whenhe (took: that
wild ride after the chicken thieves
on the night of June 151; but he. was

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determined that his neighborhood
should be made safe and he did not
hesiitate to take his life in his own
hands following the thieves until he
had accomplished his purpose. Had
he lacked courage Eggleston might
still be operating in and around
Charlotte instead of being quietly
tucked away at Ionia. ‘ .

With the same determination as
that shown by Alton Hall, we feel
that the chicken thieves will even—
tually be driven out of Michigan.
When every farmer determines that
he will not stand for these night
prowlers, then it is going to be a
mtighty unhealthy day for these para-
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Bobtail, the family pet and Watch dot.

is really the one entitled to the reward.
according to the Halls, because if it had
not been" for his barking and making a
, 31 not have; learn-
ed aboutatvhe thieves an . the next morn-
ing, and menu, wouldheve been too late
, ~ «Whom.

  

 

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HAPPY

and Mrs. Wm. Pfeil, Saginaw county, kept an orphan boy
at their home.
having a wonderful time.

“GIDDAP, PONYl”—Derr‘al and Kathleen
Lane, children

SUMMER. FOR ORPHAN.—La.st summer Mr.

SOIVIE HUNTER, SAY

He played with their daughter, Elaine, county, for the picture.

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WEi—We are “BIONTCALLI COUNTY FARRIER .”—This is Mr. and

indebted to Harry Robeck, Gladwin liIrs. Clarence Hazelton, oi‘ Moncalm county. Mrs. Hazel-

Sort of looks ton’s sister, Miss Marie Davis, of the same address loaned
the picture to us.

 

ISN’T HE PROUD?—Ponies are nice for children to ride and BIARRIED FOR. FIFTY YEARS.—We con-
of Mr. and Mrs. D. 8. Lane, drive but when it comes to doing work we need horses like this gratulute lur. and Mrs. L. L. David, of Gene-

who are Genesee county readers of M. B. F. one. Frank A. Horn, of Barry county, writes, “This is Jiln Smith see county. They have eight children, 19

Nice pony they have, isn’t it?

“WHO WILL BE OUR HORSE?”——-So speaks the
children of Mr.
county. According to their mother they enjoy the Mrs.

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with his Percheron stallion, the best in Barry county.” grandchildren and nine great—grandchildren.

 

 

FRIENDS.—Mrs, Hazel DeGroat, of TENDING SIIEEP.—The young shepherd is Karl Nicke and

and Mrs. George Zieske, of Monroe Montcalm county, advises that this in the young lady with him is his sister, Selma. They are minding

‘picture page very much. Sanders.

JUST LOAFING AROUNn.—Fm_m Delta county in the Up-

per Penin‘sula, comes this picture. It was sent. in by Miss B.
Caron and she advises us that the three girls are, right to left,

Evelyn, LaBlanc,
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“VIRGINIA BRAM-
BLE ENJOYING HER

_BATH.”:—-Sernt in by

Mrs. Walter Bramble,
Calhoun county.

Lilliwn a. sheep for their grandpa, Samuel Smith, Montcalm county, th
sent the picture to us.

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READY FOR MARKET WITH A LOAD 0F POTATOES.—“My son“.
Lee with our team in front of the barn,” writes Newton Jaqanys, of
Montcalm county. _Note the sign with “Maple Center Farm, N. Jequa'ys,
Prop." on it. It is ‘a. very good idea to have a‘. name for your farm,
particularly it you maintain a roadside market. - »

      

 

 

 

 

        
   

      
      
     

   
  


     
 
 
 
  
  
 
  
  
 
  
 
  
  
    
   
  
   
    
  
  
  
   
  
    
   
   
    
     
 
   
    
   
   
    
 
    
  
  
   
  
  
  
     
   
 
   
  
   
 
  
   
   
  
 
    
  
   
 
 
    
  
   
   
  
   
  
   
  
 
   
  

 

 
   
  
    
  
   
  
  
 

     
  
     
    
 
 

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During a long dry season, will it
filial]: potatoes any to bank them with
~.dirt? We applied rotted barn ma-
nure on our potato ground and pota-
toes are scabby. Does this effect
them? Will you please give us the
formula for scab _treatment?—J. 1).,
Byron Center, Mich.

URIN‘G dry weather it is not ad—

' visable to bill up the rows of

potatoes. Level cultivation is
preferred in dry seasons. When the
'rows are rigged very high the soil
dries out much quicker than it does
where level cultivation is practiced.

If there is any of the potato scab
organism in your soil it is lkely that
heavy applications of manure ap-
plied shortly before the potatoes are
planted may increase the amount of
scabby potatoes. It is advisable to
apply stable manure the fall or win-
ter previous to planting.

Formaldehyde, one pint strength
to forty gallons of water is the solu—
tion that will help control potato
scab. The seed is soaked in the so—
lution for thirty minutes.

A disinfectant solution, however,
that is especially recommended now
is the corrosive sublimate solution.
It controls not only scab, but black
scurf disease on the tubers. The
strength of the solution is to use
four ounces of corrosive sublimate to
thirty gallons of water, soaking the
potatoes for thirty minutes. You will
get detailed
seed treatment from Extension Bul—
letins No. 49 and 125 from Michigan
State College—H. C. Moore, Exten-
sion Specialist, M. S. C.

ATTENDING SCHOOL

I would like to know if a child
has completed its eight grades at
school and has a diploma and is
under sixteen years of age, can they
be compelled to attend school until
16 or may they quit if they like?—
A. G., Burr Oak, Mich.

CHILD cannot be compelled to

attend school after he has
passed the grades offered in
that school. Therefore, in a pri-

mary school distrcit no pupil can be
compelled to attend after he has re—
ceived a county eighth grade di-
ploma. If he lives in a graded school
district which maintains high school
he must enter high school and attend
until he has reached the age of six-
'teen unless excused by the proper
authorities as provided by law—C.
EL. Goodrich, Deputy Supt. of Public
Instruction.

TRES‘PASSERS

A farmer owns a piece of land, a
stream of water runs through, it is
not a river but is a dredged creek.
Hunters and trappers seem to think
they own the Whole of it, setting
traps and hunting at all times. Is
there a law that will keep them off
land that you own and pay tax upon?
Have posted in county paper. They
cut wire fence to go along the
stream. I am unable to keep it
fenced so it will hold stock on the
low land—G. R., Woodland, Mich.

THER people would have no

right to hunt or trap on your

land without your permission,
and you could bring legal proceed~
ings against trespassers to collect
damages—Legal Editor.

VERBAL AGREEMENT

I wish to ask if I rent a farm by
verbal agreement for one year, has
the man I rented it from a right to
serve a paper on me to move in
thirty days? I have kept my part
of the agreement. Can he put me
off?—H. M., Goodrich, Mich.

F you have a verbal agreement to
I rent the place for a year, the
landlord could not compel you to
move until your year was up, pro—
vided you have kept your part of the
agreement—Legal Editor.

FURNISHING TRANSPORTATION
l I live a mile and half from school
but my children have to go two miles
and three—quarters to school on ac-
count of there not being any road
across. Can I compel the township

them all last fall one way and would
like to know if. I am compelled to
"pay my school tax. There is a mile
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It is a hard road to build, very Wet
in the spring and fall on account of
river running along side of it for a
half mile—S. J. 8., Lincoln, Mich.

N a primary or graded school dis-
trict the school board have au—
thority to provide transportation

for such of the children of the dis—
trict as in their judgment should be
furnished with such transportation.
However, whether or not any trans—
portation shall be provided in such
district rests entirely in the discre—
tion of the school board. The school
sites in such districts are determined
by a 60 per cent vote of the qualified
school electors.

In township unit districts the
school board has authority to deter-
mine where schools shall be main—
tained in the township district and
they also have authority to provide
for the transportation of pupils with—
in the school district.

Ten or more qualified school elec—

tors who are aggrieved at any or-
der, action, or decision of the school
board with reference to the main-
tenance of school or the transporta-
tion ofpupils may appeal from the
action, order, or decision of the
school board to the Superintendent
of Public Instruction. Upon receipt
of such appeal, the Superintendent
of Public Instruction has authority
to confirm or to amend the action
taken by the school board—G. N.
Otwell, Supt. of Rural Education.

INHERITANCE TAX

If four persons inherit four thou—
sand dollars apiece from a preson
who is not a relative what sum would
each one have to pay to the State?
N. J. T., Bannister, Mich.

N estates passing to,persons who
0 are not relatives of decedent, a

tax of 25% is payable to the
State—Legal Editor.

 

 

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Jeots of general interest. .
this department write your news and send
letters are suitable for publication or not.)

. What‘the Neighbors Say ,~

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WANTS LAW

EAR EDITOR: I see a few

articles on the way to handle the

chicken thief. Now I would sug-
gest that there be a law enacted that
any person found on the road with
chickens, no matter who, between
sun down and sunrise the next morn-
ing, on conviction be fined $500.00
together with one year in jail. I be
lieve in making things strong enough
so they don’t break easy and that ‘a
fellow will know when he breaks it.
Yours for right—C. H. 8., Shelby,
Michigan.

FAVORS PERMANENT LICENSE

PLATES
EAR EDITOR: Burt Osborn,
Benzie County, expresses the

sentiments of nine—tenths of the
people of the entire State when he

says we got a rotten deal in our leg-
islature and I must say that of all
the dilly-dally sessions we have had
in the past, this one takes the cake
for being the most bull-headed and
our Governor is not so very far be-
hind in some respects. Of course, he
has done many good deeds but made
some bad ones that take the shine
off the good ones. If it hadn't been
for his threat to veto, we would have
had a. permanent auto plate law in
connection with the gas tax and
nearly everyone would have been
satisfied but now we shall oppose the
gas tax until we get the plate law.
Oi? course we had some good honest
men in the lower house that tried to
give us a square deal but there was
too much opposition. Our represent-
ative from Shiawasee county did all
he could for us but failed to win.
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6 Where Our Readers Live ‘9

Haven’t you a picture of your home or farm buildings that we can prlnt under this heading?
The Business Farmer’s large family where you
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other thing we are sadly in need (if
and that is an income tax to relieve
real estate and we are goingvto hare
it sometime or know the reason why.,.
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PHEASAN'I‘B
EAR EDITOR: In June 18th is-
sue “J. P. G." makes a com-
plaint regarding pheasants. To
settle an argument, I would be in~
terested to hear your opinion.

It seems to me that a farmer has
a perfect right to destroy at will
pheasans, skunks, rabbits and simi-
lar pests where they do damage to a
farmer’s property. I am blessed with
all three of these nuisances and
while~rabbits have so far done no
noticeable damage, still last night-a
skunk visited all .my six poultry
houses, fortunately closed tight, and
yesterday I found the pheasants had
raised "hob” with my corn. Surely
we can shoot other thieves, besides
chicken thieves, or is there to ,be
only a strictly open season on the
latter?

I also read in M. B. F. regarding
the further introduction of rabbits
by some party. Is there no means of
curbing this sort of thing? I
thought everyone knew of. Austra-
lia’s bitter experiencewith introduc-
ing rabbits, or to come nearer home,
ask any farmer in eastern Nevada
what he would do to anyone trying
to introduce more rabbits there.

In short, Michigan is no place to
introduce rabbits, we have not,
enough wolves, coyotes, lynx, etc. in
our forests to keep down this and
other pests—T. R. A., Millington,
Michigan. ’

 

PHEASANTS

EAR EDITOR: I saw a little

letter in your paper from

J. P. G., of Lansing, wanting
to know how he could get rid of the
worst thief the farmer had, the ring
neck pheasant. The best remedy I
know of is a good shot gun loaded
with buck shot. A few treatments
and they won’t be in the corn or
grain field—E. S. G., 0naway, Mich.
——~But you forget, neighbor, that it is
against the law to kill the ring neck
pheasant except from October 25th
to 30th each year. Should the law
be changed?———Editor.

ENJOYING ARTICLES

EAR EDITOR2—We are enjoying

George Slocum’s articles and

the little map makes it more
easily understood even by the fourth
grade children in our family. We
all, even the two-year—old enjoy the
pictures “Thru Our Home Folks Ko-
daks.”———Floyd LeClear, Barry 00.,
Michigan.

 

 

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(The bulletins listed under this heading

are free. if you want a copy of one or

more just list them on a postal card or

in a letter and mail to us with your name

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LIST OF BULLETINS.

No. 1.—POULTRY RATIONS. ~-

No. 2.——MODERN WATER SUPPLY.

No. .3.———SOIL FERTILIZERS.

No. 4.—SEED CORN CURING.

No. 5.———GOSPEL.OF GOOD FEEDING.
No. 6.——BEFORE YOU INVEST.

No. 'l.—FARM SANITATION.

No. 8.—FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS.

No. 9.—FROM EGG TO MARKET.—
No.‘ll.—MINERA_LS AND FEEDING.
No. 12.—LINSEED OIL MEAL.

No. 13.—FIGHT THE CORN BORER.
No. l4.——UNDER-GRADE APPLES.

No. lar—RAISING APPLES.

No. ie.——TIRE CARE. '

No. lit—FARMERS TAX GUIDE. .
No. 18.—BARNS AND HOW TO BUILD. ,
No. 19.—CONCRETE BUILDINGS. 5
No. aim—Horns AND 13m.

No. 21.—-—FEEDING FOB EGGS.

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You can plow more acres in
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Timothy for Seed _
‘ MONG several letters I have just
answered I find several along
the same questioning, and this
causes me to believe there are many
others who are thinking of the same
things. One of.
these is about
timothy seed. I
have often won-
dered why there
was not more
timothy g to W n
for seed in Mich-
igan. Many
farmers grow
timothy to sell
for hay, an (1
many times to
harvest it for
seed would pay
better. The straw
, makes a very
good feed and often is as good as
timothy hay which has become over
ripe. It is threshed with a grain
separator, a. special timothy screen
being used, and any thresherman
would be glad to obtain such a
screen if he had occasion to use it.
Hay is rather low priced, while tim-
othy seed is high, and it seems many
timothy fields might profitably be

made into a seed crop. »

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Weeds

The correspondence I am receiv—
ing, together with our experience,
all indicates that weeds are particu—
larly troublesome this year. Many
readers write and ask how to “get
rid” of wild morning glory, smart
weed, etc. There is no way of stop—
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seeds in the soil. The only thing that ,

can be done is to not let any more go
to seed. This means some hand
pulling, for cultivating will not tear
all of the growing plants loose from
the soil. Some think some sort of
chemical might be used. The use
of chemicals for such weeds is not
practical in Michigan. In western
states, some fields entirely covered
with wild mustard have been treated
with chemicals, but I have not
known of it’s being done in Michi-
gan. Speaking of pulling weeds by
hand, the writer knows all about it
——-in fact I think he could qualify as
master of the art.
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More Sweet Clover

If I were asked to name the most
talked about farm crop or plant I
would yell “Sweet Clover.” Few, if
any plants, are more popular topics
in the correspondence I receive than
sweet clover. Everywhere where I
go I have it talked to me, in one
phase or another. Well that’s all
right. Sweet clover, the long de—
spised, neglected weed, is coming
into its own. It can and will be the
However,
from some of the letters I receive I
fear it is going to dissappoint some
people. They expect too much of it.
It is commonly called a weed, be—
cause it will come up and grow fine
along hard dry roads, in old gravel
pits and any old way side place. But
it has a different naturewhen you
want to tell it where and when to
come up and grow!‘ How like some
of us humans; we like our own way

 

and are happy when we do as we
please, but are very much at vari-
ance with the world in general when
we are corraled and told what to do,
and when to do it. Put it dewn
where you can not help but notice it
frequently enough not to forget it—
sweet clover will not thrive in a soil
deficient in lime. And while it may
grow on newly plowed or loose soil,
it is unwise to sow the seed on any
but firm, solid ground. These two
things are absolutely essential if
sweet clover is to be a sure thing.
It may grow on freshly plowed soil,
but the chances are against its be-
coming a good stand. And strange
as it may seem, it will winter kill if
it» does not get a, good start in the
fall. Today a man asked me if he
could not plow his oat field after the
oats were down and sow it to sweet
clover for pasture next year. Sure
he could, but he would quite likely
lose his seed. If this had to be re-
sorted to for pasture next year, I
would rather “simply disk the out
stubble and not plow it. Then if
sufficient rain comes to make the
seed start soon and grow fast, it
will no doubt go through the winter
all right. But for this August seed-
ing, we find the early summer plow-
ing, that has been harrowed at fre—
quent intervals all summer up to
about August 15th is the place to
sow it, if results are what we, are
after. -
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Pasture

Every year the problem of pasture
seems to get more serious. I am
asked many questions about this or
that for pasture. Fact is, if these
farmers who are always short. on
pasture would try hard enough to
establish on. pasture crop system, they
would cease to have a. pasture short—
age. Too many farmers keep their
stock on pasture fields too late in
the fall, and twice too many farmers
turn stock out to pasture unreason-
ably early in the spring. The poor
pasture of mid—summer is often
caused by this early grazing. It
seems a very opportune time to state
our old friend Rye has been neglect-
ed of late years. One of the best
farmers I have known kept consider—
able stock for the size of his farm,
but he had a system of handling
them- in regard to pasture. He
planned his fields so a small field
next to a lane would be sown to rye
early in the fall for early spring
pasture. He kept his cows on this
until the clover and other pasture
had a start. He seeded this field to
clover and I never knew it to fail.
This clover was pastured one year
and then what? Why he manured
it well, and grew corn on it for the
third year. What did he do with
the corn? Why, when it got a good
fair" size he began to cut it and
throw it over in the lane for the
cows, to supplement his other pas-
ture feeds and incidentally keep his
milk flow up, when other farmers
had theirs going down and when
butter fat was going up! We, on
Broadscope Farm, do not pose as
dairy men, but if the time should
come when we do, you will see three
fields of four or five acres each. W811

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I—The Great Wagon. Road

“ AY ggod-bye to 'em," insisted a
S skinny trapper, whose buckskin

shirt was gray with dirt, “things
is bad on the road this spring—murdering.
robbing and sculping. No good horses
like them will ever get thru."

Duncan, being neither a Moravian nor
a pacifist. was not disturbed by these
remarks as the Germans who stood
around. Scotch and red-haired. prayers
and dissnal prophecies all bored him.
Why didn’t they start?

He stuck his head out between the
flaps of canvas that covered the rear end
in the Connestoga. wagon. About forty
or so of the German inhabitants of Both-
lehem, Pennsylvania, were standing about
and listening to the sober and measured
exhortations of one of their number.
Brother Grundvig. tho he was not going
on the trip, was willing to talk about the
road and its dangers; presently he would
lead in another prayer. It was the year
1170, and the roads in the back country
were still not overly safe. No doubt a
small amount of praying seemed not un-
reasonable. Duncan sighed. and at the
sound the despondent trapper turned to-
ward him. He spat on the ground and
shook his head.

"Babies, too," he said as he looked
squarely at Duncan. “Suckling babies,
so to say. They should ought to leave
you at home if the rest don't care what
happens.

“Sculped they'll be." he declared, “and
you, too. Things is bad on the road this
spring." ‘

Brother Grundvig raised his voice——
he may have heard. At least he spoke
of how the Moravians had come over to
America years before. how the Lord had
prospered them in their new home, how
they had tounded colonies here at Beth-
lehem and even in the far frontier at
Bethabara in North Carolina. He told
his listeners how the sound of trumpets
had miraculously frightened ofl the Chero-
kees from Bethabara in 1786 and how
the Lord would most surely guide this
little train safely down the long road
from Bethlehem to the Carolina colony.

Duncan pulled his head in again, and
thought how he would like to crack the
trapper‘s head with s. tom-ahawk. His
youthful look was sometimes a. source of
irritation to him, the very often he found
it usefuL Sixteen years old. he was only
four feet four. and had a mild, innocent
expression more fitted to an unusually
cherubic boy of ten. ~

Two men climbed into the wagonseat.
A whip cracked. The wagon lumberod
01!. The flap was thrust open hastily.
and Brother Grundvig. trotting behind
the wagon. panted: "A good journey,

Duncan. May you find your uncle well."

Duncan McAfee said something unin-
telligible and blushed. He was grateful.
TheeldGermanhsdbeengeodtchim.
Duncan's father had been killed by a
falling tree soon after the tamlly had
come to Pennsylvania. in 1766. His
mother had died just three months ago.
All of this had moved Brother Grund-
vig to sympathy. He found that the boy
had an uncle in Hillsboro, North Caro-
linie. and had oilered to send him to his
relative by the first wagon train that
went down to the Moravian settlement in
that colony. Dimcan had accepted that
otter, but only because he was anxious
to get away from Bethlehem and the
country around it.

The Moravian’s solicitude for his ten-
der years some secret mirth.
How did Brother Grundvig think he and
his modier had lived four years on the
frontier? His hurting and trapping had
done it. It was eharactsriado of him.
that he had carried his furs to a trading
post some distance away. There the
trader thought the boy was acting as an
errand boy for some old trapper. In the
village he was shy and apparently timid.
This was a habit of deception that had
grown on him.1ust as there had grown
on him the habit of breaking the trail
inthowoods.ofdoublingbacktosee
if he was followed, of always keeping
under cover. To make others think he
was young and futile was good cover of
one sort. just as a good senen of dog-
wood was good cover of another sort.
Be cherished his skill in both. The wag-
ons rattled slowly along. The men on
the seat talked in slow German. Duncan
listened for a. while, then curled up with
his head on a sack of cats and went to
sleep.

It was several days later that they took
the ferry at Mecklenburg. crossed the Po-
tomac, and climbed up the ridge that
shut them oil! from the valley of the
Shenandoah valley, at Stauntcn. Shawnees
country of a sort, altho all the way the
road led thru a section just one step back
from the frontier. Into Chamber-stun.
thru which they had mccnfly passed,
fugitives had poured during the trouble
of ’65 but the savages themselves had not
penetrated that far. So, farther down the
Shenandoah valley, at Staunton. Shawnees
fresh from the slaughter of whites at 00w
Pasture. had come within a tow miles of
the town. At any time a really serious
raid might break thru the chain of fron-
tier posts. making havoc m the valley
of the Shenandoah.
.Geingupthehillbackotlleck-lenburg
(the name was later W to Shop-

, herdstown) the teams passed a man, on

feet. He fell in beside Duncan as they
went on uphill. The Horavhn drivua
were up ahead, walking also.

 
  

corner of his eye. He. dd not‘ ..
-_ .gellow'sleoks. Hisalrwaehardly’thatot
than of the backwash: neither had he

can was pulled down low over his eyes.

"To my uncle's," said Duncan. very in-
nocently.

b The man seewled. “Where might that
6.!)

Duncan was deliberately
“South of here—oh, a long way."

“Beyond Frederickstown‘l" the fellow
asked.

“I do not know." said Duncan. “Broth-
er Steiner lmews the. We ahead."

The stranger left h and went on to
talk with the Moravia-s. Duncan kept
his place. He did not know why the
strangerwassocurioqbuthehadno
idea of satisfying tint eos‘losity. He was
Scotch, and cautious.

When» they camped that night, the
stranger stayed with than. no '
freely with the Moravian They answer-
ed him with politenem: they did not like

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kept his skin capeaalthowhile.
Theyalllaydcwnbytbeilretosleep.
Duncan woke once to look acre the
flrotowhere the stranosrlay. Them-o
hsdblazedupasecoadbshowthatt:
his

cap had worked of! the men while
slept. Therewasadoncaron
forehead.

In the morning, the man left them.

“Better take the leftahand road after
you leave Augusta Court House,” he warn-
ed. "The other road h under watw'a
good ways. Big rains thh spring.”

Brother Steiner the-had him and mid

route of travel out of the Horavians.

"Why would they brand a man w“
an 'R’ on his forehead?” Duncan asked
Steiner later in the by.

That happened, “or explained. b
runaway bond servo-ta. Hen were
brought over from w to serve five
or ten years or longer as bond-servants.
to pay for their menu. or debts. or tor
crimes. If they ran away and weso
caught, an "a." for runaway. was brand-
ed on their foreheads.

"Whatoausedyoutohkofitr‘ihs
leader inquired curiously.

dared," .Duncan
into silence again. He did not mentitm
the ”R” he had seen a the stranger's
forehead.

They found few out parties on the
road south. This was annual. For
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TEXT: “We know that the Whole world
lieth in the evil one.” 1 John 5:19. “Be
'not‘ fashioned according to this world.”
Romans 12:2.“ “The kingdom of the world
is to become the Kingdom of our Lord
and his Christ.” Rev. 11:15.

N interested subscriber Writes,
“Have got something on my
mind. Folks and the Bible tell
us that this is an evil world. What
should be my relation to this
world?” It is hoped that the fol—
lowing will give some practical help.
“The whole world lieth in the
evil one.” The world in this state—
ment cannot refer to the created
earth and the totalit}r of material
things. These the Creator pro-
nounced good. But it does refer to
the World of folks that, like mother
Eve, choose to live Godless lives.
This evil world was described by
Jesus in the words, “Men loved the
darkness rather than the light; for
their works Were evil.” John was
an intimate of Jesus and probably
took much of his phraseology from
him. Therefore, the world, to the
apostle, carried the meaning that
Jesus gave it; that is, that part of
society that rejects Him as its
Savior. .
Now, St. John says, “We know”
this. The “we” points out those in-
dividuals Who are Christian believ-
ers, and have passed out of darkness
into light. These occupy a point of
vision from which social darkness is
clearly seen. The apostle, having
climbed to the summit of spiritual
discernment, looks about upon the
aggregate of society and sees so
much, evil, that he concludes “the

" Whole world lieth in the evil one.”

The more Christian one is, or the
more one is‘ximmersed in the life of
God in whom“‘is no darkness at all,”
the more sensitive one is to an evil
environment It is Sunday morning.
I look out ‘of my window to see a
large car stop by a stream. Two men
are soon ready for fishing. Now, I
feel that these men are doing wrong
and so long as they practice evil
they belong to an evil world. They
are living in the darkness rather
than the Light. They show little or
no regard for holy days or things.
It is one’s deep and abiding sense of
God that makes one able to sense
any» sin. The more unspoiled the
heart, the more sciled the world.
God gives his children keen judg-
ment on the moralities of life. Yet,
you say that you do not fish on Sun—
day. But how much pleasure rid—
ing do you do in that new car? Is
it possible that both of these pleas—
rures violate the sanctities of the

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by a distinctive garb and ‘great out—
ward pretension. His neighbor, who
was greatly in need, must sell his
property. The trim professor of the
brotherly Jesus did not want this
real estate (?) yet would be brother-
ly to his neighbor and offered him a
price. The price was half of what
the property was worth. His broth-
er’s misfortune became his fortune,
and he was glad. Where did this man
take counsel? Of this evil world, of
course. This the world says is but
business tact or ability. But God
“covetousness” and associ-
ates it with “fornication, unclean-
ness, passion, evil desire.” This man

  

would do well~to quit his stage-
playing at Christianity. But there
are many like him in spirit and prac-

tice, and God is my witness. Fun-
damental morality is “Thou shalt
not steal.” Jesus warns, “Keep

yourselves from all covetousness,”
but “Love your neighbor as your—
self.” Yet some people find pleasure
in'the world in the measure in which
they can ape the world in business
shrewdness and property accumula—
tion. May God save us from sham
and worldliness of spruce preten-
sions and endow us With a heart
religion that gives to a neighbor, in—
stead of tactfully, though legally,
robs him of any good. Verily,
Christ is our pattern. Choose this
evil world if you will, but you shall
be known eventually by the gods you
have served. “Be not fashioned ac-
“The kingdom of the world is to
cording to this world.”
become the kingdom of our Lord and
his Christ.” This becoming process
is charged up to the Christan. Posi—
tively, he is related to the world as
leaven is related to meal. He lives
in the world, but is not a part of its

   
 

But more :as a lightholder 01".
Christ he would drive away the .
darkness, and reconcile the world to '

evil.

God. Yet, there are some that say 3
that it cannot be done. To these, the ~
world is so full of evils that the -
spirit of Christ cannot or will not
save it. They expect Christ soon to
come and do the work for them. »
Other professors make friends of the

world and adopt its program of. life.
To such, the passing gains and pleas-
ures are substantial and satisfying.
These should be warned by the in—
spired teaching, “Whosoever, there-'
fore, would be a friend of the world
is at enmity with God.” But the
Christian who is stout in the faith
of the Christ, says, “The evil of the
world must and can be overcome by
the good. The Great Healer must
be brought to the bedside of a sick
society.” This is the primary rela-
tion of every believer to the world in
which he lives. His vocation is to
mold customs, institutions, and
pleasures not Christian patterns. In
doing this, he shares in the triumph
of his Lord, who said, “Be of good
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Day of Worship? But this evil
world does many things on every
day that the Christian does not do.
God has given him such a measure
of Light perception as to Well illum-
inate the dark, devious ways of the
flesh. The writer gratefully recog-
nizes that much of society has been
: leavened and the Christian view of
f life prevails considerably; but,
nevertheless, at the heart of much of
I.‘ our living is the spirit of the world.
This spirit works out in ways and
in institutions which the Christian

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,' What is our relation to this evil
3": world? Negatively, it is, “Be not
" fashioned according to this world.”
Here, world means practically the
same as it does in the mind of John.
It refers to the set of Godless men,
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PAYING FOR THE CLEAN-UP

HE European Corn Borer clean-up was a suc—

T cess, about 95 per cent of the pest having

been destroyed in the total area under quar-
antine and possibly a larger per cent in Michigan
Where the program was followed almost to the
letter. And now some of our good '"iends are
writing us to learn why they have not received
payment for their work.

Nearly 86,000 farmers in the infested area are
entitled to checks for their work. During the
last week in July these checks were being sent
out at the rate of about three thousand per day
so it is possible that most of this 86,000 have
been compensated for their time and trouble.
But if your field passed inspection and you have
not received check covering your work drop us
a line and we will look up the matter for you.

Some are expecting to be reimbursed for parts
of their crops destroyed, like where grain was
planted last fall on corn stubble and it was nec—
essary to me a stubble beater this spring, but
the government set the limit at $2.00 per acre

'and a figure higher than that cannot be paid.

There is no question in our mind but what the
farmer suffering such lanes is entitled to more
than $2.00 per acre. or course, he must do the
workatanycostifhewishestosavohlscrops
from the borer, but be is not only fighting to
save his own crops but his neighbors’ who live
beyond him, who have not had to face the prob-
lem yet. He is standing between the borer and
his com-belt neighbors, fighting their fight as
well as his own, and he is entitled to just compen-
sation if he does the job right. He should not
be given a profit, neither should he suffer a loss
that is more than his share.

OUR NEW STORY
F there is one type of story that we never get
tired of, it is the tale of the frontier, of the
days when our forefathers had to clear away
the dense forest to build*thelr ‘humble cabins and
till their little farms, planting and harvesting
their crops with their musket near at hand be-
cause of the danger of being attacked by an en-
emy lurking in the forest. While we may enjoy
reading any type of good clean story, there are
none that give us such keen enjoyment as do the
adventures of these hardy pioneers. Perhaps it
is because there still flows through the veins of
everyone of us the red blood of our adventurous
forefathers.
We doubt if there is a man living who, when
a boy, did not dream of the pioneers and listen

» with open-mouth wonder as his grandfather uns

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folded wonderful tales of the country in their
day. Also his games included the adventures
told him by his hardy ancestors, just as our
boys of today live over again the days of the
Revolution and before.

We are inclined to feel that those dreams and
inspirations have helped cause thousands of
country boys to become leaders is var-Ion h-
dustries and even the hood of our country.

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Up" lathe wants-um“
you are going to like it right from the
of the first chapter until the final word of the
last chapter. It is full of red-blooded action with
a historical background. Don’t miss it.

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WENTGAB TAX
A CANVAS of various sections of the State
reveals that at least ninety per cent of the
farmers were strongly in favor of the bill
establishing four—cent gas tax, giving permanent

license plates, discontinuing weight tax on pas- _

longer cars and lowering it on light trucks which
was presented before our last Legislature but lost
out-in favor of the straight 3-mt tax on gasoline.
Most of them felt it the most fair way of taxing
to build and maintain highways and they were
much disappointed when the Governor chose to
sponsor the other bill. They boosted for the
two-cent tax now in effect because they believe
the man who uses the road should pay in propor-
tion to use and the proposed bill was even more
fair than the present law. However, our Gover-
nor tells us we must have more money to build
the necessary roads and the gas tax being the
best way to get it farmers are not taking an
active stand against the increase which goes into
effect September 5th. They are thankful that the
money is not going to be raised by tax on their
land.

CONTROL RATHER THAN SPEED

HIRTY-FIVE miles per hour will no longer

be the speed limit in Michigan after August

14th. From that date the motorist’s slogan
must be “DriVe Safely" as the speed at which
he travels is left to him, but he must have his
automobile under control so as to not endanger
the lives of the public. Reckless drivers will be
severely punished.

This is a change we have favored and talked
for years. Why have a limit of 35 miles an
hour when there are many times and places that
the motorist can travel 40, 45 or 50 miles with
perfect safety to all and other times when 10
miles is too fast? Make the examination for
driver’s license something to be respected with
the understanding that reckless driving will cause
the license to be revoked and we need have no
worry about a speed limit.

GENERAL PROPERTY TAX

PEAKING before the governors of various

states convened at Mackinac Island the lat-

ter part of July Governor Fred W. Green at-
tacked the general property tax, declaring it must
be made to apply equitably to present conditions
or abandoned.

“The general property tax, in operation, at
least, is founded on the supposition that real es-
tate constitutes the bulk of all property and the
principfl source of wealth,” the Governor said.
“In a modern industrial state this supposition is
absurd. We must find a way to make the general
property tax bear upon personal and even intan-

_ gible property or we must find some new tax

system to displace the present one.”

We do not know of any statement that the
Governor might make that would be more popu—
lar with the farmers than this. Perhaps he will
be able to bring about a change in our method
of taxation.

ISN’T IT TRUE? '

SN’T man an unusual creature? He claims to
be highly civilized, yet eighty thousand
strong he sat watching the Dempsey-Sharkey

fight the other night and the more they pum—
meled each other the more he was pleased. Pun-
ishing blows dealt by either man brought forth
cheers of approval. Besides those at the ring-
side there were hundreds of thousands who,
thanks to the radio, sat in ther own homes all
over the country and received reports of the

fight, blow by blow, as it was broadcast by ex— _, I

perts. At times one imagined they heard the
thud of the gloved fists of these modern gladi-
ators. We must confess that we sat near our
radio straining our ears, as did the rest of the
hundreds of thousands, for fear that we might
miss one detail.

Yet man claims to be so more highly civilized
today than he was centuries ago.

 

Politics makes strange lbedfellows, but they

soon get accustomed to the same bunk—St. Paul .

 

TheU.8.marinecorpsiskeptbusybeeenso
some! the backward nations are so forward.—
”Bloodlines.

“ Th Business Farmer” ""'-'""' It 1:) as Institution #Sawrs!

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' chicken thieves on a holiday.

 

Y neighbor say it onus seems hero’s lots
more folks who think up schemes be got
the cash without no toil than there are

the cash without no toil than there are
tillln' of the soil or working for their daily bread;
too many of 'em loot instead and take the cash
away that we have garnered by our tell, by goo.
They come to see us with a flock of oil and silver
mining stock, they sell us remedies for hooves,
nod ev'ry one, before he leaves, has got some
money of of us and that's what make my neigh-
bor cuss. They tell us how to cure a horse in some
new correspondence course, or else, if we will
sign some notes they'll show us how to euro our
shotes of pip or what it is they’ve got. if its chol-
era or what.

When fellers come around to me and tell me
where to sign, by gee, I grin a little in their face
and run them tellers of! the place. ] whistle to
the dog and say, “I don't want any stock today,
it ain’t no use to tell me that I need a dose of
anti-fat or that you'll make me young and spry.
I never was no hand to try St. Peter’s ell for
rheumatlz or any liver pills, gee whil. Hy liver
isn't out of place, there uln’t no moles upon my
face, you couldn’t sell me no town lot i- Mississ-
ippi, where it's hot. I’ve no desire for a block of
Sure Fire Oil and Copper stock; in fact, I ain’t
got any dough, so Just take my advice and go.”
Just then my dog begins to whine and the- birds
with the silver nine or what it is they’ve got to
sell forget the yarn they've got to tell, they never
like to take a chance of gottln’ bitten in the posts!

 

 

'0 PETER ”M m e

 

 

 

 

Our Editor was tellin' me about a sharia here
in Michigan who refused to run down some
I don't dare pub-
lish his name 'causo if I did the county would be
over—run with these roost-robbin’ cusses the
night before the next holiday. Guess he's en-
couragin' a sort of “Do your robbin’ on holidays
while the law takes a vacation” campaign.

An Ohio dairyman has refused $1,500 for a
freak Holstein with two heads, three eyes, one
body and two hearts. I ’spose he figgers when
she grows up she may give more milk than two
cows seein ’3 how she’ s double in other ways an'
he ain’t takin’ any chances of gettin' boat out of
anything.

The way some officers have been gettin’ after
chicken thieves is causin’ many of them mean
cusses to “fly the coop" out of the state.

 

'. come EVENTS

 

 

 

August 13.-—U. P. Farmers' Annual Roundup,
Chatham, Mich.
August 22-25.—Annual meeting” Vegetable
Growers Ass’n of, America, Syracuse. N. Y.

August 26.-—Fifth Annual Sand Land Confer-
ence, Howard City, Mich.

Aug. 30-Sept. 4.—West Michigan State Fair,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Sept. Sam—Michigan State Fair, Detroit, Mich.

Oct. 17—22.—National Dairy Exposition, Mem-
phis, Tenn.

Nov. 1-3 .-—'l‘op 0’ menus Potato Show. Gay-
lord, Mich.

Nov. lo-lze—Greenvllh Potato m, Green-
ville, Mich.

Nov. 26-Dec. 8.-—Is¢eruetionol the least ls!

posit!on, Chicago, 1!.

 

 

        

 

 

 

 


    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  

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“FREE LOTS" PROVED RATHER
' EXPENSIVE
/ AVE you had the thrill of solv-
ing a simple puzzle in an adver—
tisement and then being in-
formed that you had won a free lot.
in a section that was going to be
about the most popular part of the
country within a year or so and the
value of your lot was headed shy-
ward‘! Isn't it a wonderful sensa-
tion? All you had to do was pay the
cost of the deed and a few other
things—a matter of only a few dol-
lars. Felt like taking the next train
instead of sending the money by
mail, didn't you? But after you
jent your money, and then sent some
more, passibly a couple of times-—
well, before you got through with it
you wished you had of taken the
. train instead of sending the money
because you would have saved your
money if you had seen it first.

The Maia Sales Corporation of
New York City was recently stopped
from using the mails by the post
office department on the charge that

 

 

PICTURE AGENT

EAR EDITOR: We think
M. B. F. just fine and
would not be without it.
We took out a subscription for
seven years so it will be com-
ing for at least five years yet.
We admire the way you go
after the “frauds." I have bit
on several of these things my-
self, including the picture
agent. “M a fine, smooth-
! tongued fellow he was, but the
‘ one that delivered the pictures
was an . altogether different
person, and what pictures! _\
We didn’t accept them 811;?)

consequently a scene—M

1)., Tuseola County.

 

 

they were defrauding the peeple
with a “free lot” scheme which net—
ted them from 500 to 4100 per cent
on their investment in Florida real
estate. Not a bad profit on “free
M8.”

They bought land in Florida at
$28.50 per acre, divided it into lots
251100 feet, and then “gave" away
every other lot. At first they
charged $9.85 to get the papers on
the “free" lot but this was later
raised to $12.85, then $14.85 and
finally to $19.95. As a 25-foot lot is
not wide enough to build a house on
the winner was offered an additional
lot for only $69.85 which gave him
3 fifty foot frontage. In this way,
according to the evidence, land
bought by the company for $28.50
an acre sold from $171.00 to
$1215.00 an acre. All land was to-
tally unimproved.

 

IAKING THE “MYSTER " OUT OF
“mormmmsrsnv”

one of our January issues of this
I'Nyear we had a short write- -up re-

garding “Motor- Mystery" put out
by the M— M Laboratories of Chicago,
§Illinois. The company put out some
rkind of dope which was to be put in
the gasoline. Their advertisement
Ewes headed: “Gasoline, 14c a Gal.

[Chicago Man Discovers Miracle that v

i Gives 1250 Gals. at 14c a Gal.—
'Needed Only Every 60, 000 Miles.”
In their literature they make great

 

The Collection Box

not Is department I: to protect
3 “Imagine” . g, 01 fraudulent deallngs or un-
i fair treatment h nelson: or concerns
dictum: 0.0
case will do our best to male
in "'3." mascot or force option. for

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person from $200 to $250 a year,
and they would guarantee agents
$100 a week salary, with a commis-
sion that would make their‘earnings
from $200 to $300 a week. Besides
this they supplied each agent with an
automobile.

We were inclined to be rather
skeptical about it, feeling that if it
was such a wonderful thing, it would
not be necessary to advertise for
agents because everybody would
want to buy it and there would be
more people applying for the agency
than they could take care of.

Just what "Motor-Mystery” was
remained a “mystery" to everyone
excepting the promoters. Even the
folks who purchased it and put it in
the gasoline used in their automo-
biles were unable to figure outhow
they got any benefit from it. In
fact, it was such a “mystery" that
recently the Post Oflice Department
denied them the use of the mails,
charging that they were defrauding
the public.

FARM LISTING GAME

Will you please tell me if you
think the Western Sales Agency, 9th
Floor Palace Building, Minneapolis,
Mnnesota, is a good concern to ad-
vertise a farm for sale with ?—L. E,
B., Calhoun County, Michgan.

HE Western Sales Agency is D.

F. Bush, whom we have dis-

cussed many timee in the col-
umns of THE BUSINESS FARMER doing
business under a new name, but ap—
parently his proposition has not
changed one bit.

Like all the rest of the fellows
operating farm listing schemes, he
wants a listing fee, which is any-
where from two to ten dollars, de-
pendng on how much of a sucker
you may be. For the money you
send these so-called real estate
agents they promise to list your
farm in their catalog and send you
buyers. They may do the listing all
right but we have never been able to
find anyone in the State of Michigan
who had buyers sent to them after
they paid the, cost of the listing.

One cannot have these fellows put
out of business for defrauding the
people because they are not commh-
ting an actual fraud but they are
right next door to it. They actually
list the farms, we have found, and
probably would send buyers if they
ever had any, but of course, they
cannot send them if they cannot get
them.

CHEAP INSURANCE

Am writing in regard to some in-
surance. There is an agent around
here trying to_sell a $5,000 insur—
ance policy for $1. You must also
subscribe to the Farmer’s Wife to
obtain it. Now what I want to know
is if this insurance is any good.—
F. D., Alpine, Mich.

S you fail to give us the name
of the company issuing this
policy we can not give you in-

formation as to their reliability, but
we do not think much of cheap acci—

dent insurance policies regardless of.

how reliable the company putting
them out may be. The premium is
too low to make the policy of much
value. Of course you are only gam—
bling a dollar but we are informed
that only about 30 cents out of
every dollar paid for policies is re-
turned to policyholders through
claims, so you can readily appreciate
how small your chance of benefiting
from it is.

You state that one must subscribe
to the Farmer’s Wife to get a policy.
That's part of the game with several
publications we have received re-
ports on. The insurance is used as
an enticement to get names for their
mailing lists. Our agents sell M.
B. m, not insurance.

    
  

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$525,

Theatre under 30-year lease to W. S.
Buttctflcld Theatres, Inc. Hotel in
successful operation Score: and
oficeo completed and being leased.
The total security as ap raised
two bankers and a romfnent burs?-
nessman ofAnnAr orisvaluedat
4 $977,275.

The bond issue amounts to 54% of
the value of the security.

Bonds are secured by a closed first
mortgage on land owned in fee
simple, and buildings now erected
Theatre under construction

properties

Bonds are callable on 60 days’ notice
at 102 and accrued interest.

 

 

, Insurance for $52 5,000 is carried for

protection of bondholders.

Tax free in Michigan. The normal
Federal income tax up to 1V2% 15 paid
by the borrower.

Federal Bond

All expenses, including allowance for vacancies

Net Annual Income, which is more than 2% times
greatest annual interest charge

Full details 7nd] be obtainedb
or pbomng to C erry 8100

89’ Mortgage Co.

Griswold and (Jifiocd Streets - Detroit, Hichigan

lummmmumnmammmoam

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First Mortgage Serial 61/270 Real 13mm Gold Bonds

Secured by
MICHIGAN THEATRE, STORE and OFFICE BUILDING
and ALLENEL HOTEL
ANN ARBOR, MICH.
Theatre Leased to W. s. Butterfleld Theatres, Inc.

thereon; also a first lien on rentals
from the buildings.

The rental from the theatre alone is
more than enough to pay maximum
interest charges.

Under terms of the theatre lease, the
lessees pay all taxes, insurance and
upkeep of the theatre.

The theatre will have all modern
equipment and a first lien on this
equipment will guarantee the rental
land performance of all terms of the
case.

Conservatively estimated gross annual income from all

. $98,520.00
12,1 32.00

$83,388.00

Bonds are in denominations of $500
and $1000. Maturities from 1930 to
1939 inclusive.

Serial reduction of loan. Monthly
payments of interest and principal
provided for.

Price: Par and accrued interest to
yield 6V2%.

writing this Company,

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Federal Bond a Mortgage Co.
Detrmt, Michigan

Send me full information on the hfichigal

Theatre and Allencl Hotel Bond Issue.

Reserve bonds for me,

amounting to 3—.—

M.B.I'.

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LET’S HEAR FROM YOU. We want you to write us your
criticisms and suggestions about M. B. F. to help us make
it better in every way. It is your paper and the editors are
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That each intends to do what's right
And treat each other "honor bright."
How little to cunplain there’d be

If I knew you and you knew me.

Whenever we ship you by mistake,

rOr in your bills some error make,
_ From. irritation you'd be free

If I knew you and you knew me.
Or when the checks don't come on time,

’We'd wait without anxiety

If I knew you and you knew me.

Or when some goods you “fire back"

“.Or make a "ldck" on this or that .

We’d take it in good part, you see,

If I knew you and you knew me.

With customers a million strong
Occasionally things go wrong—-
Sometimos our fault, sometimes theirs-—
Forbearance would decrease all cares;
Kind friend, how pleasant things would be
If I knew you and you knew me.

. Then let no doubting thoughts abide

or firm good faith on either side;
Confidence to each other give.
Living ourselves, let others live;

} But any time you come this way,
'- That you will call we hope and pray:
' Then face to face we each shall see,

‘ until they are needed again.

And I’ll know you and you’ll know me.
EASE HOUSEWORK FOB. WARM
WEATHER

UMMER housework can be re—
duced to a minimum if all un—
necessary furnishings are stor-

ed in the attic or some other place
If use-
less furniture and over-draperes and
rugs, cushions, and pictures are re-
moved the house will be cooler and
it will be easier to clean.

‘coetaein etaoin eteoin etaoin etaoin

ugh over—curtains and drop-

eries in doorways may be desirable

'in winter, they usually make the

house warmer in summer. One or
two pictures on the walls are usually

‘enouxh so the room will not look

from the side seams.

too bare. And smell rugs on the
most used parts of the floor, with
only the furniture actually used,
makes more room and helps keep
the house cool.

Housewives who remove excess
furniture and decoratiohs seldom
make many changes when winter
comes for the house is easier to clean
and to keep pleasant. A lamp and a
few books on the table, a pair of
candle sticks and a bowl or clock
over the fireplace or on the bookcase
may be all the trimmings that are
needed. And these are usually more
attractive than when they are so sur-

"rounded by other objects that they

seem lost in the confusion.

MAKE JELLY BAG WITH
ROUND END
AKE the jelly-bag round instead
of pointed, for it will be easier
. to clean and will permit the

 

' fruit juice to drip through it more

readily.

A jelly-bag recommended by ex-
ports is made of a yard of 36-inch
cotton flannel of medium weight and
of half a yard of strong, linen tape,
at least half an inch wide. The fin-
ished bag has straight sides and a
wide, rounded end. It is fifteen
inches deep and thirteen inches wide.

Bits of fruit pulp are less likely
to get through the bag if it is made
with the nap of the flannel on the
inside. French seams should be used
and these and the inch-wide hem at
the top should be finished on the out-
side of the bag so that seeds and
bits of pulp cannot lodge in the folds.

The tape should be cut in half and
used for two loops attached across
the bag like handles a few inches in
A rod or
broom stick may be put through

these loops to suspend the bag while

the juice drains.

BEWARE OF DRYING CORN
WHEN OANNING
NE hundred ears of Golden Ban-
tam corn should fill 12 to 15
pint jars when canned. One

' should not try to cut up so many

cars at once that some of the corn
might dry out. It must be kept
moving.

A stiff bristled brush is best for

[ removing the silk after basking.

After the ears have been cleaned,

'1 they should be blanched by boiling
them for five minutes and .. flung-e

date cold water for one to two min-
tes. The third step is the cutting
cm the cob, in thick or thin strips

  

desired. Do not out too deep. In

dreamcdofhissonthernhome.

happy" and I wondered if
each one of us could not
make more people smile if
we were as quick to gasp
the opportunity. ‘

 

 

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EARFOLKS: Whflodflvingthroughtheoutskirtsofaneigh-
boring city a short while ago, where many foreigners made their
home, the traffic signal stopped our car in front of one house

where three Mexicans (judging from the size of their hats) occupied
thefrontporclnonesifl-gonthoroningplayhgnnwoordion.

Alittlegirlinourpartywatchodhimamoment,thonliftcdhcr
handstotheearwindowandclappedforhiml

’l‘hesnilethstcoveredthoboy‘sfacewaspleasanttosoeandthat
little incident may have brightened a lonely day, as he played and

Perhaps he could not speak one wod of English, but like mudc,
this little gestnrocarries a universal‘message of approval, friendli-
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scraping the cob the back of the
knife should be used rather than
the cutting edge.

Pack the corn moderately tight,
and do so by shaking rather than by
pressing. Fill the jar within half an
inch of the top. Then add one half
a teaspoonful of salt to each pint,
fill the jar with warm water to the
top of the corn and agitate it to expel
all the air.

Wipe off the tops of the jars, etc
the rubbers in place and then the
covers, but only partly spal them by
placing the top clamp in position and
leaving the side clamp upright.
When so packed the corn should be
processed 50 minutes. Quart jars
should be processed 180 minutes. At
the end of that period clamp the top
tight, cool the jars and store them in

a,cool dry place—Prof. W. R. Cele.

0W0 GA MAY

Eorchard and garden may sup-
ply a part of cne's Christmas
gifts. The question of what to

give one’s friends is an annual one
and many are guilty of waiting until
the last few weeks and selecting gifts
hurredly. They may then be unsuited
to the individual.

Jam, jelly, fruit butter and relish
has an appeal to all. When canning
the home supply, some of these pro-
ducts can be placed in small, attrac-
tive containers and set aside until

the holiday time. Both glass and
ordinary Mason jars may be pur-
chased in one-half pint size, which
makes an attractive package for gift
products.

If these jars are wrapped in white
tissue paper and tied with Christmas
colors they make a dainty gift for
the most fastidious person. Canned
products may be sent through the
mail if they are placed in corrugated
cardboard.—-Mrs. H. S.

 

Personal Column

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Likes M. B. F.—I have been a sub—
scribe:- to Tan Busmnss Famous a good
many years and My do enjoy read-
ing the page of the Women’s Department,
edited by "You". I have derived a great
benefit from each and every copy, the
cooking recipes, “Aids to Good Dressing,"

etc., and would like to ask for the loan ,

of that Acrop‘lane block if I may, “please”.
I have’ never asked a favor before, but
trust you will be able to accommodate
me for this.

Tan Busmnss Fannie is surely an

ideal farm paper, and I read it from
cover to cover. I never intend to allow
my subscription to run out—Mrs. William
Spooner, Huron County.
-—Glad to loan you the pattern, dear
friend, as well as any others I have.
These are for all of our good friends as
I have previously said in these columns.
No obligations, just request and you shall
receive. Thanks for your good words
about M. B. F. We are tryiing to do
our best—Mrs. A. T.

Business For the Farmer’s Wife '

HAVE been keeping my eyes open

for prospective business for the

farmer's wife, business that will
fill her pocketbook and put a glad
song of independence in her heart.
There are two avenues of business at
this time, which as far as I know,
have not been worked at all.
Through these the farmer’s wife, if
she be efficient, thorough, and clever,
can profit very materially. These two
avenues of business are quilt making
and preserving.

There is a demand for old things
these days. Women of wealth are
collecting old furniture, old glass,
old lace, old weaves of cloth. The
new styles do not harmonize with
the old. If a woman has a four-
poster bed, a marble—top dresser, a
colonial high boy in her bedroom, a
silk spread on the bed is out of place,
no matter how expensive it is. Noth-
ing will fit the general atmosphere
like an old- fashioned patch-work
quilt and embroidered pillow cases
to go with her antiques. Such a
quilt, neatly pieced, neatly quilted,
will bring a good price. It can't be
a hit-and-miss stair of all sorts of
colors. It should be of two colors,
soft and harmonious. The quilt is
for decoration and not for utility.
The more attractive it is the more
money it will bring. The city woman
will not take the time to make it,
but she wants it and will pay a good
price for it.

Another thing the city woman will
not do is to stand in a hot kitchen
and preserve delicacies for winter
use.

In fact, she is generally at some

cool spot trying to have a good time

at that season of the year. If she is
athomeshehasacooktodoher

   

work. And but few of these cooks
know the fine ins and outs of kitchen
work. They can make a salad, but-
tered toast—sometimes—fry ' eggs,
bake a chicken and manage a cut of
roast beef, after a fashion. But
they know nothing of the culinary
art as the cooks of twenty-five years
ago knew it. Probably it is not
necessary. If my lady wants a cake
she sends to the bakery; if she wants
ice cream she sends to the corner
drug store; if she gives a dinner party
she calls in the caterers. She finds
this the. line of least resistance. Her
way is the quickest, the safest and
the least trouble. '

But the preserves and jellies she
buys are not satisfactory. Some-
thing is lacking. They have not the
taste of the old-fashioned, honest—to-
goodness fruit preserves and jellies.

My lady wants the best for her
family. She will even pay more than
it is worth to get nourishing palata-
ble, delicious food for her family.
it must please the palate. She de-
mands that.

If the farmer's wife can produce
the goods and can reach the city
women through the proper channels,
her pocket book will be filled and
her heart will be made glad.

Various papers and magazines are
filled With information as to how
busy and ingenious women are
earning money to supply their actual
needs, or gratify their taste for bet-
ter clothes, books music, pictures ;
but whatever the incentive, there are
hundreds of farm women earning
their own money in a hundred ways,
and almost any term woman can du-
plicate the achievements of others.
or gain inspiration that will enable

‘Me the WWayto Go
, Day", “Where the Silvery Colorado Winds _

  

  

hertodosoinothing GWM.

 

several Inga—I would like toget
following banged. ‘Tuuflhl Ohio". ”Show
Home". “0 Perfect

Its Way." “Poor Papa.” ' I do not know

the title of this song but the first verse ,

is. "Go bring me a cup of cold water.
To cool my parched lips." the Cowboy
said. But e're I turned the spirit had
left him. And gone to its Giver. The Cow-r
boy was dead.”—Mrs. H. H., Pigeon. Mich.

    
  
     
   
   
     
     
 

  

Songs.—I would appreciate it very
much if you. could get the words to the
following song-s: “I’m a Stern Old loch-

lor”, “In a Little Spanish Town", “It '

Made Me Ham”. “Uttle Log Cabin In
The Lane", “Answer to the Prisoner’s
Song."-—Miss F., Addison, Mich.

 

“Subaru Frioteho"—Wlll you kindly

send me the words to “Barbara Frietoho”! ‘

r—MI‘B. McK., Alpcns. Mich.

 

“Way Out West in Kansas.”—My hill-u

band would like to have you publish the _

words to the song, “Way Out West in
Ksnsas."—-Mrs. I. F. J., Grand Rapids.
Mich.

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Old and New.—-Would like to receive
the following songs: “0n the Shores of
Pennants-sin" ”Won't You Come Over. To
My House and Play You’re My Little
Girl”, and “Just A Bird's Eye View of
My Old Kentucky Home".-——E. W. Iillwoli.
Michigan.

 

Another Quilt Block—Tho quilt hm
design g in this issue is some-
what more complicated than any of the
recent ones published but it is very at—
tractive when properly made. If you
want to borrow the quilt block I have so
that you can cut the pattern I will be
onlytoohappytoloanlttoyoubutl

 

 

Aunt Abble’s Quilt.

must request that you return it by an
early mail because I always have so many
requests from dimerent ones and I always
like to take care of them just as soon as
possible. All requests will be taken care

of in the order they are received. By the

way, if you have not requested previous
patterns that have appeared in this col-
umn there is still plenty of timer-Mn.
A. T.

Wants Cold Jam Becipm—Has any of
the readers a recipe for making cold
raspberry jam‘l—A Reader, Levering.
Michigan.

An Old Song.——-I would like the words
to the song, “6h, Where Is My Wondering
boy Tonight?”—-Mrs. G. C., Marlowe,
Michigan.

1— 2-:

-—if you are Well bred!

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Table Scuba—Serving the meal. All
housewives should adopt a form of serv-
ing for their families which best meet
their needs. The form of table service
adopted may incorporate. the principles
stated but the absence of those princi-
ples would be no indication that the meth-
od being used was not a proper one.
The important thing to always remember
in meal serving is to secure attractive-
ness, quietness, quickness and adherence
to outstanding accepted principles 'of
table service in the manner most easy
for the housewife.

 

 

 

For the Movie Fan

 

The Beloved Boguc.—Hero is another
one of John Barrymore's starring vehicles
and it goes back into the days of early
history as did "Don Jaun”. In “The Be-
loved Bogue”, Mr. Barrymore appears as
tho vagabond poet, Francois Villon, who
flourished in the fifteenth century. The
poet becomes the favorite of King Louis
XI. saves the throne of France from the
intrigue of the duke of Burgundy and
wins the king‘s must to marriage with
his ward, the
is slightly “cent from the actual life
of the “bond poet but it makes a much

more intercom; movie. There are scenes “

in the torture chamber which'aro some-

what unpleasant but as a Whole you will

enjoy Mr Ban-ymore's excellent acting

hempbtodasam

fair lady Charlotte. This.

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You made me think you cared for me,
And I believed in you,
You told me things you never meant,
And made me thing them true.
I gambled in the game of lbve,
I played my heart and lost,
I’m now a. wreck upon life’s sea,
Alone, I paid the cost.
Chorus:
You made me what I am today,
I hope you’re satisfied,
You dragged and dragged me down until,
My soul within me died,
You shattered each and every dream,
You fooled me from the start,
And tho you’re not true,
May Godbless you,
That’s the curse of an aching heart.

The dreams I dreamed of future joys,
You smiled although you knew

Deep down within your faithless heart,
They never would come true.

Still further on you led me till,

My paradise I saw,

Then with one word you banished all,
My hopes forever more. .

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Recipes

 

 

 

Dandy Cocoa Cake.—-—1 cup sugar, 2
eggs, 3 tablespoons melted lard, 1 tea-
spoon vanilla, 1 cup cocoa. Stir into a.
thin paste with boiling water. 1 cup milk,
3 teaspoon baking powder, flour. Cream
sugar, lard and eggs, add vanilla and co-
coa, stir, then add milk, flour, and bak-
ing powder. Beat ten minutes put in
greased pan.

Date and Lettuce Salad.—I head of let—
tuce out fine, 1 cup dates out fine, 1/2 cup
nut meats out fine. Mix together and cov-
er with salad dressing and the kind you
like, serve on a leaf of lettuce.

Salad Dressing.—1 can Eagle Brand
Milk, 2 eggs, 3’4 cups vinegar. Put to-
gether and beat with egg beater. Set
away a few minutes till thick. This will
keep a long time in a. cool place—R. I.
W., Holly, Mich.

Frozen Custard.-—~One quart milk, 1
pint cream, 1 cupful sugar, 2 eggs, 1 tea—
spoonful vanilla, 3. little salt. Heat in a
double boiler the milk, one-half the sugar
and the well-beaten yolks until the prop-
er consistency, which usually requires
about 30 minutes. Set aside to cool. Add
vanilla. Whip the cream and add to it
the beaten egg whites and the remainder
of the sugar.‘ Add this to custard and
freeze.

Coffee Ice Cream.—Scald together 11/),
cupsful milk and 1/2 cupful fresh-made,
strong, strained, black coffee; then beat
together 2 eggs and 1% cupsful sugar, to
which add a pinch of salt. Stir into the
.egg mixture the coffee and milk, gradu-
ally. When mixed, stiir vigorously for 2
minutes and cook in a double boiler until
thick. Then add, gradually, 1 quart of
cream, stirring constantly._ Let it stand
15 minutes and then freeze.

 

Peach Surprise Ice.—1Peel and chop 2
quarts of ripe peaches, add to them 1%
pounds sugar, 2 cupsful cold water and
the whites of 6 eggs. Do not beat these,
but put all the ingredients right into the
freezer. The dasher will whip the eggs
While the freezing is going on. The same

kind of» “surprise" may be made fo any' ‘
kind of “surprise" may be made of any
gether. '

 

Frozen Punch—1% cups water; 2 cups
sugar; 1 small bunch mint; 3 cups weak
tea or ginger ale; 1/2 cup lemon juice; 2
cups orange juice. Boil sugar, water and
mint together for 5 minutes. Chill, add

_remaining ingredients; strain and freeze.

Orange Ice.——2 cups water; 1 cup sug-
ar; 1 teaspoon grated orange rind; 1 cup
orange juice; one-third cup lemon juice.
Boil water, sugar and orange rind 5 min-
utes; cool, add lemon and orange juices;
strain and freeze.

Fruit Sherbert.—2 cups sugar;
water; 2 oranges; 2 lemons;
2 bananas; White of 2 eggs. Boil sugar
and water 5 minutes; cool; add pulp and
juice of oranges, juice of lemons, finely-
chopped pineapple and bananas rubbed
through a sieve. Freeze to a mush; add
Egg-whites beaten stiff and continue freeze

g.

2 cups
1 pineapple ;

Winter Ices.—-3 quarts of water; 2
pounds of sugar (4 cups) ; juice of 2 lem-

. one; 1 heaping teaspoonful of gelatin; 1

quart of fruit or fruit juices.

 

 

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5858.—Ladles Dress. (“ut in .) sizes: :34, 26,
38, 40 and 42 inches bust measure To make
the Blouse for a. 38 inch size will require 17/3
yard of 40 inch material. To muke the Skirt
requires 2 yards of 40 inch material, and 1 yard
of 32 inch lining for the 11nderbody.’l‘he width
of the skirt at the lower edge with plaits extended
is 2 15 yards

5812. ——-Bo s’ Suit.
6 years. A
inch material.

6861. -—-Ladles' Undergarment. (‘11t in 4 sizes:
Small, 34— 36; Medium, 38-40 ; Large, 4244;
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Shoulder straps of ribbon requiie 1 yer r.d

5876.-——Chlld’s Dress. Cut in 3 sizes: 2, 4
and 6 years. A 4 year size requires 1% yard
of 36 inch material. For trimming as illustrated

1% yard of bias binding is required.

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EAR girls and boyst—We have
had several different kinds of
contests but the one I am start—
ing in this issue is entirely different
than any of the others. I feel sure
you are going to like it. It is called
the corn game and you have to an-
swer nineteen questions with one or
two words using the word corn in
the answer. Here are the questions:
1.——What corn is a city of New
York?
2.———What corn is part of a window?
3,—What corn is part of a box?
4.-———What corn is red limestone?
5,—What corn is seed of the oak?
6.—What corn does Johnny like to
eat?
7 .-—-What corn is an important part
in every foundation?
8.—What corn is a musical instru-
ment?
9.——What corn are the inhabitants
of Kentucy often called?
10.—-What corn is a city in England?
11.——What corn is used in baking?
12.—What corn surrendered at York-
town?
13.———What corn is smoked? -
14.—What corn is served green?
15.—What corn is a pest in corn-
fields?
16.-—-—What corn is found in the eye?
17.——What corn comes in cartons?
18.~—What corn is the dialect of the
people of Cornwall?
19.—What corn is diagonally,
parallel?

To give you an idea of how the
contest goes I will answer a couple
of questions for you and after that
you ought to be able to get the rest
of them. Take the first question, its
answer is Corning, N. Y. The an—
swer to No. 5 is acorn, and N0. 17 is
answered with two words, corn

not

flakes. There now, I have answered
three for you. You get the rest of
them.

Prizes? You bet! We will have

four of them. The Grand Prize goes
to the boy or girl sending me the
first correct or nearest correct list
of answers, second prize to the sec—
ond, third to the third, and fourth to
the fourth, and all answers must be
in my office by August 20th. These
will be more of our Mystery Prizes,
the winners not knowing what they
are going to get until they receive
them, and all of the readers will
learn about them after the contest
closes.

Vacations have caused a mix-up in
our judging of the letters entered in
our three contests—“What’s Wrong
In This Picture?”, words from “The
Children's Hour” and “Ask Me An—
other”——but before this issue reaches
you all of the persons who judge
these letters will be back on the job
and prizes will go out shortly after.
Of course, I will tell all of you about
them.——UNCLE NED.

   

Colors: BLUE AND GOLD

  

   

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Our Boys and Girls

 

 

Dear Uncle Ned—As you told me to
write again and I have a craving for
companions, I am. I have been a. wee
bit afraid to write again beam—aw
gee, but I hate to tell you,—-—I broke my
pin. Aw Uncle, don’t look so reproach-e
able, honest I didn’t mean to. You see.
I was washing and I wanted to wash my
apron and of course my pin was on my
apron for everyone to see and I ran it
through the wringer. Of course, I didn’t
rescue it in time. Uncle, I am sending
another stamp, won’t you pleaae send me
another one? Please. Thank you folks
for your letters, I just love to write let-
ters.

Folks, when people say a tanner is a.
backwoo man, don't they ,make you
angry? They do me. I have met a "lot
of farmers and their families and most of
them were as modern as the city folks.

I think those artists who poke fun at us
are really enjoying us. Don't you think
that’s the truth? At least my grand-
mother said that was so and I believe it
—too.

Won't someone tell me some outdoor
games to play? Please do for I like to
play, and, oh yes, ones that you can play
by firelight. If you were here I would
give you all a marshmellow.

There, Uncle, do I get the pin?
gee. but you’re good!

Three cheers and a tiger for the farmer,
farm, Uncle and we kids who farm! Your
“doggone poor farmer."—Idolia Smith,
Luther, Michigan.

P. S. Please folks when you write, as

I want you to, enclose a snapshot if you
can. Thanks!
———Now who, even a,"‘stern" old man with
long gray Whiskers like Uncle Ned, could
refuse such a request? I couldn’t, so
Idolia received her second pin. What do
you folks think about her defense of the
farmer?

AW

 

Dear Uncle Ned—This is my third at-
tempt in writing you a letter but have
never seen it in print. I will describe
myself now as the other people in your
club do. I am ten years old and in the
eighth grade at school. I have light hair,
blue eyes and a light complexion. I wish
school would hurry up and start. I like
school very much indeed. We live on a
85-acre farm southwest of Owosso. Our
farm is now for sale. It is very pleasant
on the front 'porch and also on the front
lawn. I have one brother, Wendell, 13,
and also a twin brother and sister Whose
names are Donald and Donna, at the age
of five years. I am drawing a picture,
too. I am hoping that Mr. Waste Paper
Basket is to sleep when this letter arrives.
I remain, Your Niece.—-—Marjorie Wait,
Owosso, Mich.

—Sorry I cannot publish the picture you
sent in because it is made with blue ink.
Next time use white paper and black ink.

 

WALK TAG
N this game everyone must walk.
No matter how close “it” may
be, no one is allowed. to move
faster than a walk. “It” must also
walk. It helps to liven up this game
if boundaries are fixed.

 

 

A MESSAGE FROM PRES. BUTTERFIELD OF M. S. C.

O the Editor: I am glad to
T respond to your request
for a statement regarding
the Boys and Girls Club Work
for the State of Michigan. It
has my hearty and enthusiastic
support. I think it is being
handled with great skill and I
wish for its rapid and contin-
ued growth. I look forward
to the time when provision will
be made by which boys and
girls on leaving school will
have the opportunity, the in-
centive, and the leadership to
keep up their study and edu-
cation throughout life.

.I also believe the type of
work done in Boys and {Girls
Clubs is good work to be car-
ried on while they are still in
school.

The finest thing about the
work, after all, is the way in
which it reveals the splendid
material that Michigan is still
producing [in the new crop of“
boys and .--Kenyon L.
Butterfiold, President of Mich-
igan State College.

   

 

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Emmet—Past two weeks have had ideal
growing weather but getting dry now as
we have had no rain for ten days. Wheat,
rye and barley about ready to out. Each
a. fair cropr Oats not so good. Potatoes

planted first. part of June looking good.

those planted atter '15th, poor stand.
Beans and all fruits look like short crop.
Quotations at Petoskey: Egss, 350 (102.;
butter, 40c lb.—-—R. D., Aug. 3.

Berrien.—Son‘io rust appearing in melon
fields. Growers spraying. Quotations at
Berrien Springs: Red raspberries, $3.00
to $3.60: blackcaps, $2.25 to $2.50: dew-
berries, $2.25 to $2.35; apples, A grade,
32.75, B grade, $1.25; pears, $3.50‘to
$1.75; huckleberrles, $5.00.—H. N., Aug.
4.

Wald—And still no rain; it is three
weeks since we had enough to even lay
dust. Everything beginning to show ef-
fects of hot dry weather. It has been fine
weather for threshing out of fields; there
being no dew, they start early in the
morning. Good many waiting to thresh
out of fields as grain stacking is nearly
lost art. Grain yielding fair. Oats all
cut. Some farmers have started cutting
second crop of alfalfa. Farmers receiv-
ing checks from government for work
done in corn borer clean—up. Early planted
corn tasseled and some sllked—C. 11.,
Aug, 4. 4

Chippewa—Hearing about half way
through with normal crop. Light frost
August I done slight damage. Peas. flax,
barley and wheat an average stand but
late. Not as hrge an average of eats
planted as last year. Potatoes not more
than fair stand. Quotations: Creamery
butter, 420 lb.; dairy, 300 1b.; eggs, 240
doz.—L. A., Aug. 2

Tnseola (Wk—Wheat all cut and in
harm. Some threshing being done with
light yield of wheat for amount of straw.
Oats beginning to ripen with short growth
of straw. Corn coming along good but
outlook in some fields is doubtful. Beans
not looking very good on account too
much rain. Sugar beets looking fairly
good. Quotations at Vassar: Hay $11.00
per ton; com, 950 bu.; oats, 380 bu.;
rye, 710 bu.; wheat, $1.17 bu.; beans,
$5.75 cwt; potatoes, $2.75 cwt.; eggs, 25c
doz.; butter, 45c lb.—J. T., Aug. 4.

St. Josepha—Crops better this year than
for long time; in fact, they would be
hard to beat. Farmer Littlefleld had a
wheat crop that ran 56 bushels to acre.
Hay and oats also heavy yield. Small
fruits abundant; huckleberries, dewber-
ries, blackberries, etc. But peaches not
good, or plums. Threshers busy. Corn
big stand here in spite of late spring.
Quotations at Sturgis: Wheat, $1.19 bu.;
corn, $1.00 bu.; oats, 400 bu.; rye, 85c
bu.; potatoes, $1.50 bu.; butter, 4-5c 1b.;
eggs, 22c don—LC. 11., Aug. 4.

Coca—Wheat threshing almost over,
some barn threshing to be done yet and
next week oats will be run through. Corn
tasseling and needs rain to set ears well.
Dry weather good for clover seed but not
for young seeding. Early potatoes not
large crop but with some rain, late ones
may make up difference. Quotations at
Marcellus: Wheat, $1.19 bu.; oats, 500
bu.; potatoes, $2.00 cwt.; eggs, 19c (102.
—W_ H. N., Aug. 4.

Shiawassee (N.“’.).—-—0uts harvest iin
full swing; good crop. Barley and wheat
turning out good. Corn worst I ever
saw. Beans not very good. Pasture all
dried up. Need rain bad. Sugar beets
looking good but need rain. Quotations
at Elsie: Wheat, $1.22 bu.; oats, 460 bu.;
beans, $5.60 cwt.; butter, 450 1b.; eggs,
23c doz.—G. L. P., Aug. 4.

Montcalm.—-Oat harvest on. Lots of
potato bugs. Some threshing being done.
Some frost in this locality last night. Corn
backward and lots of fields just' half
crop. Beans and potatoes looking good.
Pasture short on account of dry weather.
Quotations at Stanton: Oats, 50c bu.;
potatoes, $1.50 cwt,; butter, 450 1b.;
eggs, 23c doz.—-C. T., Aug. 2.

W'exford.———Crops on low ground quite
badly damaged by frost on night of Aug-
ust 1. Lack or rain also keeping things
back. Potatoes look good. Corn still be-
low normal. Cucumbers short crop, just
beginning to produce. Cherry picking be-
gun and raspberries plentiful. Quota-
tions at Cadillac: Wheat, $1.10 bu.;
corn, 80c bu.; oats, 550 bu.; rye, 85c bu.;
beans, $4.00 cwt.; butter fat, 44o 1b.;
eggs, 160 doz.—E. H. D., Aug. 4.

(lenesee.—Farmers busy threshing or
hauling grain to barns or stacks. Oats
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yielded good. _ Beans and late potatoes
promise to be good crop. Second cutting
alfalfa nearly ready. No rain here since
first of week. Quotations at Fenton:
Wheat, old $1.17 bu.; new $1.15; corn,
$1.10 bu.; oats, old, 50c; new, 35c; rye,
750 bu.; beans $5.70 cwt.; potatoes, $1.50
cwt.; butter, 440 1b.; eggs, 29c doz.—H.
S., Aug. 4.

Outlet—Corn and beans looking fine
considering late start corn got. Thresh—
ing is order of day. Wheat and rye yield—
ing well and quality good: wheat 30 and
20 bushels to the acre. Plenty of show-
ers. New oats being harvested and shock-
ed up heavy. Some farmers still haying.
Peppermint was far gone, when rain
came to rally very much. August 2nd,
frost this morning. Quotations at Car-
son City: Wheat, $1.20 bu.; oats, 47c bu.;
rye, 85o bu.; beans, $5.75 cwt.; potatoes,
$2.50 owt.; butter fat, 45c 1b.: eggs, 22c
don—B. R., Aug. 2.‘

Saginaw (N. W.).—Wheat all in barn,
some threshed. Yielding from 20 to 30
bushels to acre. Some shrunk, some is
not. Oats about ready to cut. Early sown
will be good crop. Late not so good.
Beans and corn coming on good since
rains. Some fields extra good while some
poor. Beans in bloom: lots of weedy
fields; they may average 05 per cent of
crop; too early to tell yet. Wheat going
to market as soon as threashed. Quota—
tions at Hemlock: Wheat. $1.14 bu.; corn,
$1.00 bu.; oats, 36c bu.; rye, 85c bu.;
beans, $5.70 cwt; butter, 48c 1b.; eggs,
24c doz.——F. D., Aug. 1.

Karena—Much hay still to out. Alsike
and fall wheat getting attention. Cuti-
vating also demanding it. Great short—
age of strong-arm help has developed
lately. Alsike threshing started; reports
of bushel to load. Beef cattle being pick—
ed up. Drovers cleaning up on stud since
county decidied to test for T. B.—E. R.,
July 25.

Indra—Wheat and rye being cut and
some being hauled and stacked. Weather
quite warm. Roads are pretty dusty.
Corn very poor. Beans are fair, also po-
tatoes. Cows not milking as good as
while back. Strawberries were failure,
the first crop. Second crop promises to
be not much better. Nothing going to
market only cream and eggs. Butter fat
went down.—F. K., Aug. 2.

Monroe.—Fine weather prevails. Gen—
erally speaking, crops doing very Well
for season. Not much harm from corn
borer about here. Grain threshed thus
far yielding fairly well. Quotations at
Petersburg: Wheat, N0. 1, $1.23; No. 2,
$1.21 bu.; oats, 38c bu.; barley, $1.30
bu.; rye, 850 bu.; corn No. 3, yellow, $1.30
cwt.; buckwheat, $1.85 bu.; eggs, 24c to

250 (102.; dairy butter, 250 to 450 lb.— .

F. H., Aug. 4.

Hillsdale.—Necd rain very much. T00
dry to plow. Oats about all cut and
threshing started. Much spring seeding
has (lied for want of moisture. Corn is
coming slow. Corn borer clean—up checks
are beginning to be received. About 3000
farmers in Hillsdale county to get them.
———L. M., Aug. 4.,

St. Joseph—Threshing in full blast.
Wheat and rye yields good. Few oats
threshed. Corn good but behind. Mint
ready to cut. Second cutting of alfalfa
being made. Some fall plowing but pretty
dry. Young clover fairly good. Apples
will be short crop—A. J. Y., Aug. 4.

Lenawee (\V).—Vthat about all thresh-
ed, yield good. Oats about all cut, some
good, most fair. Barley not yielding best.
25 to 30 bu. to acre. Corn backward,
growing slow. Most 'of wheat was smutty.
Large acreage will be sown this fall.—
C. B., Aug. 4.

“'ashtenaw.—Last 10 .days have been
favorable for harvesting. Threshing has
begun. Wheat, oats and barley best in
yours. Second cutting of alfalfa in pro—
gress. We have had plenty of rain dur~
int,r whole season. Corn doing well but
lmhind. Fruit prospect fair. Quotations
at VVhitmore Lake are: iii/heat, $1.20 bu.;
oats, 400 bu.; rye,’ 800 bu.; beans, $5.00
cwt.; butter, 380 1b.; eggs, 25c doz,——A.
WV. S., Aug. 5.

Alpena.——Haying about done. \that
cut, also little barley. Corn doesn’t grow
very fast, Potatoes good. Quotations at
Spratt are: W'hcnt, $1.15 bu.; oats, 500
bu.; rye 70c bu.: beans, $5.00 cwt; butter,
400 1b.; eggs, 25c doz.——R. 1—1., Aug. 4.

Missaukee.-——‘Ve need rain. The weath-
er has been fine for haying but pastures
are gettinig short and cows are dropping
off in their milk. Some wheat looks very
good and is now being harvested. Corn
very backward, nights too cold. We had
a. bad frost on the morning of August 2
which did considerable damage on low
ground. Too dry for plowing. Cream
430, eggs 23c.——J. IL, Aug. 3.

Defiance (Ohio).—-Fine summer weath—
er; few showers. Vegetation looks fine.
Wheat threshing begun, yield 20 to 35
bu. Oat harvest commenced; will be fair
crop. Corn doing well but must be late
fall to mature. Quotations st Bryan,
Ohio: Wheat, $1.24 bu.-; corn, $1.40 cwt.:
oats, 40c bu.; hogs, $9.50; hay, $6 and
$8; butter fat, 42c 1b.; eggs, 22c doz.—
W. E. B., Aug 2.- ’ ,

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MICHIGAN HAS FOUR BIG
DAIRY DAYS
XCEPT for one factor the history
of Michigan’s “Four Big Dairy

Days" could be written “suc-
cessful." This disturbing point was
that the attendance was slim. All the
careful planning by those in charge
of the meets could not buck the ep-
position set up by Jupe Pluvius,
Ceres, Herpicide or whatever God
of the Elements decided that this
year seasons should lag about two
weeks. Instead of the little lull
period usual in late July, farmers
found plenty of unescapablc labor in
late haying and wheat harvest.

As it was about 100 breeders tore
away to come to Pontiac State Hos-
pital on July 26th, about 150 to
Kalamazoo State Hospital on the
27th, 200 to the institutionals at
Ionia the 28th, and to Traverse City

State Hospital on the 29th, about

200.

The program on each day was sim-
ilar. Before dinner J. E. Burnett.
Associate Professor of Dairy Hus-
bandry, Michigan State College, gave
a. demonstration of true dairy type
on animals he selected from the in-
stitution herd. To make his points
perfectly clear Professor Burnett
referred frequently to the True
Type statues—cow and bull—which
were parked beside the elevated plat-
form.

Following the demonstration came
a parade over the platform of out—
standing members of the institution
herd. H. W. Norton, Jr., director of
the Michigan Bureau of Animal In-
dustry, announced the facts of inter-
est regarding each bovine notable.
Norton, who has general charge of
the 13 institutional herds of Michi-
gan, also gave a brief history of the
founding and present management of
the local unit.

Everyone was given an opportun-
ity to go through the barns to inspect
the cattle. A placard over each ani-
mal announced interesting facts——
name, age, records, breeding.

At noon came a picnic dinner with
the institution furnishing lemonade,
coffee and ice cream.

Speakers on the afternoon pro-
gram included R. S. Shaw, Dean of
Agriculture, and O. E. Reed, Head
of the Dairy Department, Michigan
State College; D. D. Aitken, ex—pres-
ident of the Holstein~Friesian Asso-
ciation of America, and Earl J.
Cooper, Director of Extension of that
organization—J. G.

00W TESTING NOTES
HE Macomb No. 2 Cow Testing
Association has been completed.
Earl Jackson who relieved Cast
per Blumer just before the end of
the present testing year reports that
the 250 cows tested averaged 303
pounds fat and 8,140 pounds milk.
The majority of the members in this
association have been testing for a
period of years. It is noteworthy
that of the fifteen herds which aver-
aged above 300 pounds butterfat
production, four herds exceeded this
amount of, fat for four years, and
four for three years. The members
who have led this association during
this period of four years are as fol—
lows: Frank True, Wm. Manska,
Holmuth Ebeling, and Wm. Krause;
for three years, Ervin Fenton, Ar-
thur Plageans, Clifford Hopkins, and
Wm. Church. The owners of herds
averaging this amount for two years
are: Harry Krause, John Clark,
John Gamm a: Son, and Wm. Toles;
for one year. Ervin Burnam, Clare
Shun & Charles Pratt, and M. Mont-
gomery. .
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The Macomb No. 3 Cow Testing

Association, George Hoke, tester,

concluded a year of testing work
with an average similar to the fig-
ures found in the Macomb No. 2 As—
sociation. The average production
for this organization was 311 pounds
butterfat and 7, 947 pounds milk for
the 26 her'ds under test. Improved
production has largely been due to
better feeding methods and the em-
playing of legume roughages in the
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thur Fistler, Emory Chapman, Eu-
gene‘Inwood, Herman Pagel, Samuel
Bade, Wm. Kaatz. During the past
year the herds averaging this
amount were: George N. Lake, Wm.
Hahn, Sieger & Hagedorn, W. C. In-
wood, and Alger Chapman.
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Dairy herd improvement associa-
tions are considered the natural
thing for dairymen to belong to
around Rives Junction, Jackson
County. For six or 'more years a
testing association has been active
among the dairy herds in this vicin-
ity. Jack Barnes, tester, reports that
the year’s work closing April 30
showed 310 pounds butterfat and
9,032 pounds milk average produc-
tion for the 334 cows under test dur-
ing the year.

CONSUMPTION OF MIIAK
INCREASIB
4,000,000,000—poun’d increase in
the quantity of whole milk» pro-
duced in the United States was
the record of the year 1926, as com-
pared with 1925, the Department of
Agriculture announced July 29.
Approximately 47 per cent of this
was consumed as milk for the house-
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CAKE!) UDDER

I bought a cow last spring and I
noticed a few days later that one
quarter of her udder was caked and
about a week before she freshened
her whole udder caked so bad she
could not lay down. It did not seem
to have anything in it. I went to a
veterinary and he gave an ointment
but it did not seem to help any. It
took me two months to get the cake
out of three—quarters of her udder
and the one that was caked first is
still caked and at some times worse
than at others. Her appetitie has
been good except for two or three
times during the year but she stays
thin and I am graining her heavy.—
R. R., Mason, Mich.

ET the following for the cow’s
udder: Tincture of iodine, gly-
cerine, equal parts of each.

Paint on each day with tooth brush
or other small brush. For internal
treatment get the following: Fluid
extract of belladonna, 36 ounce;
fluid extract of phytolacca, 1 ounce;
water to make 1 pint. Give one
tablespoonful night and morning as
a drench in a small amount of water
Do not feed her much corn. Give a
laxative as needed.

BONES BECALm SOFT

I am writing to ask if you can
give me any information about my
cow. She seemed to be well and was
giving about 70 pounds of milk a
day but finally decreased to about 35
pounds a day. One morning I found
her lying down in the barn and she
had lost the use of her hind legs.
She tries to get up with her legs
spread apart. Has a. very good ap-
petite.
give me the cause for the same?—
'|' AM of the opinion that this cow

just milked herself to the point

where the bones became soft and
she has probably broken one of them
in trying to get up. Inhould advise
you to have a good veterinarian look
at her at once. This accounts for
the reason that she fell off in her
milk yield. Many cows do this if
they are not fed a mineral rich food.
It is not likely that she will recover
from this.

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BUDDING (IBERRY TREES
When is the best time suited for
budding cherry trees and is budding
better than grafting for the cherry?
Can you graft with any degree of
success where you cut your grafts or

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tree and set
them at once on
apple or cherry?
Also can you de-
scribe the meth-
od so that an
amateur can get
scions to set?
There is no one
h e re in this
neighborh o o d
that has do n e
any grafting. I
have a young
orchard coming
into bearing and
some of the fruit is not the kind
I want and I would like to change
it, if practicable—P. 0., Sandwich,
Illinois.

HE time for budding is any time
during the summer after about
the first of July. Yes, we be-

lieve you will have better luck bud-
ding than grafting in the case of
cherry.

'Cutting the scions for grafting
and setting them at once can be done
in the early spring when the trees
are dormant. The reason for this is
that in grafting the scion must al—
ways be dormant.

First have your dormant scion
wood ready. Then cut off the stub
where you intend to graft, making a
clean cut with a fine toothed saw.
Next split the stub down a short
way. Then trim two scions, one for
each edge of the stub. A scion should
have three buds and should be of the
previous year’s growth. The top of
the scion should be cut off just above
the third bud. The lower part of
the scion should extent about an
inch below the first bud and should
be trimmed in a wedge shape, with
one of the wedges slightly thicker
than the other.

When your scions are ready, hold
the split in the stub 0 en by lightly
driving a grafting t l or a screw
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scions into the edg
next to the bark, on at each edge.
The wide edge of t e trimmd por-
tion of the scion sho ld face outward.
The scion itself sho Id be tilted out-
ward slightly, and the first bud on
the scion should c me even with the
top of the stub. This first bud
should also face outward.

When the scions are in place pull
the screw driver out of the split.
The split will then spring together
and hold the scions tightly in place.
Now wax the graft, being careful to
cover all exposed and split parts both
on top and down the side of the stub.
Also ,put a dab of wax on the tip of
each scion. The underlying prin-
ciple of grafting is to see that the
cambium layersvof the celeb and the
stock come together. The cambinm

layer is a thin layer between the

bark and the wood and is the live,
or growing part of the tree.

 

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Growers . From 26 Counties Tour F'nnt i» Belt

(Continued from page 4)

In the Bartlett-
Bosc cage the trees were well; laden.
Hand pollination work also showed-
that the Bartlett cannot be pollin-
ated by Seckel, nor by its owu pol-
len. Bartlett pollen was found to
be poor on all varieties except Bosc.
As an all around pollenizer under

commercial conditions, Mr. Johnston-

recommended the Howell. Wind
pollination was found to be totally
inefiective as against pollination by
the honey-bee. Mr. Johnston also
took occasion to clean the honey-bee
of all blame as a carrier of blossom
blight. Other insects such as ants,
hoppers, etc. were said to be the real
culprits.

At Friday Bros. orchards, near
Coloma, was seen a ten year old J.
H. Hale peach orchard which this
year is bearing its first crop. The
credit for this crop is given to sev-
eral colonies of bees which were
placed in the orchard last spring.
The reader of this article will prob—
ably have noticed by this time that
the entire tour seems to have had a.
“bee in its bonnet.” The honey-bee
was surely elected as the fruit grow-
ers’ first lieutenant.

Orchard Ranked First

At the Verne Wormen farm, near
Coloma, the growers inspected the
apple orchard which ranked first in
a study made of 100 orchards by
Prof. Gardner. The results of this
study may be found in the M. S. C.
Special Bulletin No. 161, “Varieties,
Locations, and Men in Apple Produc—
tion.’

The last stop of the second day
was made at the Carl Lindemann
farm near Millburg, where Mr. A.
B. Strand has been carrying on ex-
periments with muskmelons. Mr.
Strand uses a 7-14—100 bordeaux as
a spray; and 3001 pounds per acre
of a 3—12-4 fertilizer, put on in two
application. For the striped beetle,
lime dust is used containing 4 per
cent of nicotine sulphate.

Third Day

On the last day of the tour the
caravan formed at Jean Klock Park
at Benton Harbor. This is a beau—
tiful municipal dunes-park, with a
paved road running along its entire
length close to the bathing beach.
Mr. Gorby of Apples for Health, Inc.,
addressed the growers here and told
of the progress of this movement to
advertise apples to the American
public. It is proposed to do one
million dollars worth of advertising
each year over a four year period.
The organization work is expected to

be finished soon and then the real ‘

work of the organization will begin.

At the John J. Gard farm near St.
Joseph the tourists beheld a 40 acre
pear orchard bearing a large crop.
Mr. Gard advised that pears be plant-
ed 20 by 24 feet.

The Henry Bartz farm yielded an
inspiring sight. Eighty acres of E1—
berta peaches and Concord grapes,
all dusted. Mr. Bartz is a firm' be—
liever in high soil fertility and his
farm amply demonstrates the wise—
ness of this belief.

Near Berrien Springs the tourists
nearly lost themselves in a forest of
peach trees on the farm of John
Warsco. Mr. Warsco was said to
have purchased this farm eight years
ago with the intention of going out
of the fruit business, and now the
place is almost 100 per cent planted
to fruit.

At Ballard Bros. farm near Niles
was seen a large orchard of bearing
Spies and McIntosh. These trees

 

were planted in sod, in dynamited
holes, and have been in sod ever
since. ‘ The trees are in first class
condition and grow well.

At Sawyer the Keith Bros. straw-
berry farm was visited. Thirty acres
of Mastodon everbearers were seen
in one field. A two wheeled tractor-
cultivator and a gang with hoes is
kept constantly at work. The rows
are placed three feet apart with the
plants sixteen inches apart in the
rows. The berries are on new
ground but this 'is further enriched
with 300 pounds per acre of a. ter-
tilizer containing five per cent nitro-
gen and twelve per cent acid phos-
phate, added in three applications.
At Keith Bros. the dusty but happy
pilgrims were treated to ice cream
and fresh strawberries, and many a
staid fruit grower was seen sidling
up for a third helping.

After the strawberry treat the
tourists travelled back to visit the
Benton Harbor fruit market, and
then disbanded to scatter to their
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BROADSOOPE FARM NEWS
AND VIEWS

(Continued from page 8)

fenced, and not far distant from the
barn. These three fields will be used
just as the above mentioned farmer
used his.
101 III it
Wheat

Threshing is progressing at a.
rapid rate, and the yield of wheat
seems to be rather disappointing on
many farms. There was straw
enough to indicate a, large yield.
The heads seemed well filled, but
the berry itself somewhat under-
sized. The question is asked, what
is the cause of it? The lack of
sufficient phosphorus is, without
ques ion, the main cause. The fine
wheat growing weather in the spring
caused a growth of straw, and the
available phosphorus in the soil was
not suflicient to properly develop the
berry. It is a good practice to use a
fertilizer carrying a high content of
this element, and isn’t it good news
to know it is really the cheapest
element of plant food we have to
buy. We find it pays to use 20 per
cent acid phosphate. On many farms,
properly managed with a legume sod
and barnyard manure plowed under
in the rotation, just plain acid phos-
phate is all the additional plant food
required by most crops. But if one
is to grow a special crop like pota—
toes, sugar beets, etc., he may prof—
itably use nitrogen and potash, as
well as phosphate. We expect to do
some experimenting with Raw Rock
Phosphate. If it works out as we
are quite sure it will, it will be bet-
er and cheaper source of phosphorus
than acid phosphate.

POINTS ON WEANING CALVES
E sure that calves have learned to
B eat some feeds that keep them
growing before attempting to
wean them. When, weaning, take
them away from the cows abruptly
if possible, and keep them where they
can neither see nor hear the cows.

PROVIDE SELF-FEEDER FOR
YOUNG PIGS

HE first opportunity to assist the

T sow in feeding the young pigs
comes when they are about three

Weeks old.

A creep should then be provided in
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will present itself in July, when
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60-11). Idaho feeding lambs at arounld ($13.00;
cwt. This will be as cheap as t ey Wllll sel
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feeders will sell at from ($14.00) to ($15.00)
cwt. in August, September. and October, because
of great losses in the feeder lamb producmg states
of Wyoming. Oregon. and Montana. Most of these
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Opportunity

and Nebraska feeders, and we are advrsed
these losses in these states were 40 ”a,
means that these Colorado, and Nebras a feeders
will be short 40% on their contracts at_time of
delivery, and they will then have-to go into the
0 en market in order to fill their re uirements,
wrich will help force the market on eeders up-
wards in October. The lambs out of Idaho, and
Washington will be 85% fat, which means that
there will be few feeders through the summer
months, and that they Will sell from ($14.00) to
$15.00) cwt. all summer an fal The reason
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LIMZBER NECK

I would like to find out what ails
some of my hens. They turn their
heads back towards the tail with the
throat up and some times turn the
head from side to side as if they had
some sort of spasm. Could worms
cause it? I saw one hen pass worms
a couple of days ago. What would
one give the flock and how much to
rid them of worms?———-Mrs. R. J. M.,
Mendon', Mich.

Y opinion is that your hens are
getting some spoiled feed. It
may be mouldy grain or some—

thing of that sort. That is the way
poultry act that have limber neck.
You must find out what feed is
causing it and then not feed it any
more. You might help them some
by feeding cod liver oil for a while
in their mash; give them 2 pounds in
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T. B. IN POUI/I‘RY

About five weeks ago in discover-
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or white spots all over the liver, we
sold them. Now we are very anx—
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fore we can have more. Will you
please write us at once telling us
What to do?—C. R., Delton, Mich.

0U must clean up and disinfect;

remove all rubbish and manure

away where flock cannot get to
it. Use boiling water and put one
pound of lye in each 35 to 40 gal-
lons. Then after you have scrubbed
with this disinfect with a good stock
dip. Then whitewash. oSprinkle the
yards with lime and plow them up.
If you can, move your house to a new
location where chicks have not been
kept. Be sure to get your next
stock from a clean flock.—Dr. Geo.
H. Conn.

 

NEIV HOME IN LANSING
O render still better service to its
extensive business in Michigan,
the J. 1. ‘Case Threshing Ma-
chine Company has just moved into
its new place of business at Lansing.
The new home is a practically fire-
proof building erected for the pur-

 

 

New Home of Case Threshing Machine
Company in Lansing.

pose intended. It is‘ a modern brick
building with an abundance of light
for display floor and shop.

This new house is located at 413-
417 North Cedar Street, which is one
of the main highways leading into
the city. It is a locality that has an
abundance of parking space for
farmers’ cars.

The Case Threshing Machine Com-
pany has enjoyed a big business
amongst Michigan threshermen and
farmers for many years. It has had
a. branch house in the state since
1899. Its first branch was at Jack—
son. In 1909 it moved its head-
quarters to Lansing where it has
maintained its service to owners and
customers ever since. In the new
building will be a. complete line of
sample machines as well as a full
line of repairs and extra parts for
immediate delivery to the territory
it covers.

E. L. Schultz who has been in
charge of the old head-quarters will
continue in the same capacity in the
new home. “E. L.” is well and
favorably known throughout the ter-
ritory and is well posted on all local
conditions. With the facilities that
the new home offers, the Case Com-
pany are now in a. postion to render
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notch condition for steady, profitable laying. It
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season of production has lowered their vitality and
robbed their bodies of the elements that go into
the formation of eggs. These must be restored if
you are to get plenty of fall and winter eggs ‘when
prices are at their peak.

    
   
   
   
   
  
   
   
   
  
 

    

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Here is what William Ellery Bright of Waltham,
Mass., nationally famous Brown Leghorn breeder
wrote on February 2nd, 1927: “just as an example
of Larro production I am giving you some figures
for last week from eight pens of pullcts raised on
Larro and still fed on Larro. This is a 64% pro-
duction which is pleasing, and the condition of

the flock is the best I ever had.”

  

          
     

        

        
 
  

    
  
 
 
  
 
  

 

 
   
     
 
    
  
   

 

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Pen 6, 2 1 pullets,
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Make sure of your fall and winter profits by start-
ing your flock today on the Larro feeding program.

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‘Most Markets Reflect Good Business

Abundance of Green Pasture Ruins Hay Market

AS each week passes by moderate
changes are noted in the vari-

ous markets for' agricultural
products and business in the United
States is gradually developing more
activity. During the summer busi-
ness has been going through a period
of slow and orderly readjustment of
consumption and production and al—
though there have been no flares of
activity thus far this year there has
been more evidence of stability in
industry. That is to be commended
more than short lived periods of
frenzied activity which are usually
followed by dull times. The out—
look for the last half of this year is

,for moderately expanding activity in

‘ most businesses.

While there are
some which are bound to come out
at the small end of the barn, as long

'as most industries are enjoying ac-

tivity, times are good.

The outcome of the corn crop this
year is the subject uppermost in the
minds of farmers. The outcome of
the crop will be of paramount im-
portance to business generally but
more largely to the business of cat-
tle and hog feeding. The weather
has been very unfavorable for corn
growing this season and some of the
late planted corn will never be more
than fodder according to farmers
who are unfortunate enough to have
some. Others, however, say that the
ears are silking and some cars are
a foot long already and in certain

.‘sections, what corn there is will be

1 good.

Thus far stockmen have con-

’ fined their purchases of feeding cat-
‘tle to light weight stock suitable to

j much on feeding steers.

go on pasture and until the corn
crop is made they are not figuring
There is an

‘abundant of grass and an unusual

crop of hay in the country and there
will be plenty of feed for stock al-
though fat corn feds will undoubtedly
be scarce next year. The high price

1 of corn during the past few months

" pected to be lighter.

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has forced a lot of hogs to market
and prices broke. For the next
month or so supplies of hogs are ex-
The abundance
of grass on the ranges out west is
not only retarding the seasonal
movement of western grass cattle
to market but is also tending to hold
back lambs. Two or three extra
weeks on lambs does not cost the
sheepman a cent but it increases the
weight of the lambs and as a conse-
quence prices for heavy lambs have
been much lower than for the lighter
weights.
Big Hay Crop; Prices Low

The abundance of green grass in
the country has played havoc with
the hay markets and prices are low
and the trade very draggy. With a
record hay crop in sight, large ship-
ments of hay are expected to be
crowded into market channels during
the 1927-1928 season and the proba—
bility is that only good grades will
pay much for the baling and hand-
ling. Poor quality hay is expected to
sell so low that it will hardly pay
for baling and shipping. A recent
estimate made by the government in-
dicated 3% millions more tame hay
this year than last year. With a
short corn crop in sight and probable
high prices for grain and other con-
centrates, demand for hay will un-
doubtedly be stimulated and will be
of assistance in moving stocks.

At Clii(ago best timothy hay was
recently quoted at $20 and $21 com-
pared with $23 and $25 a year ago.
No. 2 timothy and grass was listed at
$14 to $15 compared with $17 and
$21 a year ago, Alfalfa hay ranged
from $13 to $22 according to quality
compared with $18 to $25 a year
previous. Prairie hay at $12 to $15
was $6 per ton under a year ago.
At Kansas City quotations on timo-

"‘ thy hay ranged from $11 to $11.50

for best down to $8 to $9 for cheap-
er quality. Alfalfa hay was at $18
to $19 for best and at $10 to $12 for
low grades. Prairie hay at Kansas
City was quoted at $8. 60 to $10.50

, per ton.

While hay is cheaper then a year

ago other feeds are generally higher.
Old process linseed meal 34 per cent
was recently quoted at $50 the same
as a year ago and cotten seed meal
at $43 was $8 above a year ago.
Tankage, 60 per cent, at $65 was
slightly under a year ago but stand-
ard middlings at $34 shows an ad-
vance of $8 over a year ago.

Corn 30c Above April

Corn prices at around $1.05 to
$1.10 for future delivery are 30c
above the low time in April and cash
corn at $1 to $1.08 at Chicago also
shows a similar advance. Wheat
however is but very little different
from a year ago at $1.36 to $1.44 at
Chicago. Reports of damage done
by rust and smut in the spring wheat
sections are causing markets to fluct-
uate somewhat but comparatively
little net change in prices have been
noted during the past few weeks.

Beef Cattle Sell Higher

Medium and just good grades of
heavy cattle have slipped backward

ers east of Chicago report hogs at
$11.50 and $11.75 but at the western
points best light weight butchers are
bringing $10.25 and $10.50. The
average top price at fourteen of the
large eastern and western markets
averaged around $10.95 all last week
compared with a similar average the
previous week and $13.50 for the
corresponding week last year.

In the lamb trade at Chicago
choice natives closed the past week
at $14. 00 for top and western lambs
flirted with the $14. 50 mark having
sold around $14. 00 a few days pre-
vious. There has been some demand
for feeding lambs recently at $12.50
to $13. 50 but most corn belt sheep-
men have not forgotten the lesson
of last fall when they scrambled for
feeding lambs which came back dur-
ing the vulner at losing prices. They
are willing to take out thin lambs
now but the price is the determining
factor as to the breadth of the de-
mand. Some say if they can get
what they want around $12 or less
they will go to it. As soon as the
movement of Montana lambs is in
full sway there will be more of a
variety to pick from but since grass

 

 

M. B. F. MARKETS BY RADIO
UNE in the M. B. F. market reports and farm news broadcast on
Monday, “’edncsday, Thursday and Friday nights at 6: 40, east-

ern standard time from WGHP of Detroit.

It is broadcast at

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recently but strictly finished offerings
have shown strength at all markets.
Hogs have maintained their recent
advance fairly well selling at $10.80
to $11 during the past week for top
light weight butchers. Lamb values
suffered a drop but quickly recov-
ered the loss when receipts were
light late in the week. It is a sup-
ply and demand proposition in cat—
tle and sheep markets but storage
holdings of pork products continue
to be counted as a big factor in the
hog trade. Storage stocks of lard
and provisions are increasing de-
spite the wide advertising campaign
for meat consumption and particu—
larly hams and bacon. The hog
market has shown material improve-
ment over a month or two ago but
if there was better outlet for provi-
sions, there would undoubtedly be a
sharp rise in the market on live hogs.
Many in the trade feel that advances
are due nevertheless and some look
for $12 hogs at Chicago before long.
Top hogs at some of the market cent-

has been so plentiful in all range
territories, most of the lambs mar-
keted will be in good flesh. Demand
for breeding stock has been reflected
by some shipments of good yearling
ewes at $13 to $14 and above. The
ordinary breeding ewes however are
quoted around $7.50 to $9 and fat
ewes were listed at $5.50 to $7
mostly.

Cattle Margins Are Big

Finished yearlings are gradually
advancing closer to the levels at
which their big brothers are sellng,
and there is now a difference of only
50c between similar grades of little
cattle and heavy weights while a.
month or two previous the margin
between the two amounted to $1 to
$1.50. Best light weight cattle at
Chicago last week sold at $14.25
with prime heavy steers making a
new top at $14.60. These prices
hark back to the fall of 1925 for an
equal and the general tone of the
market reminds one of the gay mar-

 

 

THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMARY
and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks Ago and One Year Ago

 

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Deti r)it. Chicago Detroit Detroit
Aug. 9 Jug. 9 July 26 1 yr. ago

WHEAT—

No. 2 Red “-38 $1.87 "-36 use

No. 2 White 1-37 1-37 1.36

No. 2 Mixed 1'36 L35 L35
CORN—

No. 2 Yellow 1.-17 1.09 1.10 .89

No. 3 Yellow 1-15 1.08 .87
OATS

No. 2 White -54 1A .47 $4 @ .48 1,4 .53 .47

No. 3 White -52 14 .45 54 .@ .47 1.4 .51 .46
RYE——

Cash No. 2 1.01 34% 1.05 1.04
BEA NS—

0. n, p, 0‘", 6.05 6.05 4.10@4.20
POTATOES-—

per Bbl. 4.25@4.50 4@4.25 4@4.25 2.65@2.83
nar— A

No. 1 Tim. 15@16 20@21 15@16.50 22.50@28

No. 2 Tim. 1.3@14 18@19 18@14.50 20@21

No. 1 Clover 14@15 19@20 14@15.50 19@20

Light Mixed 14 @ 15 : 19 @20 14 @ 15.50 21 @ 22

1
Tuesday. August 9.—Wheat weak. Corn scarce and higher. Bean market

cull. Hay quiet. Butter and eggs unchanged. Berries steady and receipts light.
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kets on fat cattle during that'time.
The trade is in marked contrast to
the dull affair of a year ago when

the majority of steers were long feds.

rolling in fat and selling at such rel-
atively low prices owing to their
abundance. Margins of profit to the

 

 

 

cattle feeder all year have been very ‘
gratifying but as a number of stock- ‘

men have said after pocketing their
roll, “this makes up for the money
last year’s cattle didn’t make." Re-
cent sales at Chicago have shown as
much as $6 and $7 gross margins
over feeder costs last fall.

Although a few small shipments of A

Western range steers have trickled
into the market recently, the move-
ment is not expected to begin until
after the first of‘ September or later.
Ranges have afforded plenty of grass
this spring and summer and stock-

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their cattle back as long as they can

take advantage of. the feed. Since
the condition of the cattle will show

evidence of liberal grazing, it is ex- .

pected that thin stocker and feeder
steers will be scarce and consequent-
ly high. A spread of $7.50 to $8.50
has represented some shipments of
thin grass steers recently compared
with a, spread of‘ $10.50 to $14 for
many killing steers of medium to
choice grades. A year ago it was
$6 to $6.75 for bulk of stocker and
feeder steers and $8.50 to $10 for
the bulk of fat steers. With corn
high and the poor prospects of a
new crop, fat corn fed cattle will
decrease and cheaper grades will
show a proportionate increase thus

tending to widen the range of prices.-

Finished stock will maintain a posi-
tion far above the general run of
steers. The same condition is evi-
dent on cows and heifers and other
classes of bovine stock. Fat corn-
fed cows suitable for the kosher
trade are selling up to $9.50 and
better at Chicago while thin grassy
dairy cows are going at $4.50 and
$5. Thin grassy heifers of stocker
flesh are available at $5.50 to
$6.50 and fat baby beef heifers of
choice quality and condition have
sold in load lots at $12.75 during
the past two weeks. A little differ-
ence in quality and condition means
considerable difference in the value
of the animal this year but last year
it was the reverse and thin stock

 

 

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looked relatively high in comparison ,

with fat stock. For the past month
bologna bulls have been
well, mostly at $7 to $7.50 and the
urgent orders for good dairy bulls
indicates that sausage grinders are
doing a good business.

A GLANCE AT THE MARKETS
(Special to Trim Busmnss Faun)

selling ‘

Market Ne‘v‘vs Service, Bureau of Agrh ‘
cultural Economics, U. S. Department of ‘

Agriculture.

HE markets are beginning to reflect
the advance of the season wiith its
shifts in sources of supplies of fruits
and vegteables, new grain crops coming
in, backwardness of cornr lending uncer-
taity to cash corn and hogs; and hot
weather effects on egg receipts and butter
production.

they are on a slightly lower level than
last year.
Wool
The Boston wool market was firm. The
largest sales reported were of three.
eighths bloods 56s strict combing Ohio
wool at 44140 in the grass.
Corn
The uncertainty as to the supply of

corn this year has been the principal‘

strengthening factor in the market and
has held prices of cash corn around $1-
$1.03 per bushel at the principal central
western markets.

Wheat

Prices are better for some,
products and lower for others. Combined. .

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The wheat market weakened under in-

creased receipts, together with a falling
off in both domestic and export demand,
and prices declined somewhat. Carryov-
er July 1 was about 24,000,000 bushels
larger than a year ago, so that if this

year’s crop is as large as indicated at the

first of July, this year’s supply will!»
about 45,000,000 bushels larger than llast
year. High protein wheat is rather scarce

and bringing larger premiums than last '
Soft winter wheat movement in in- . '
creasing but the demand is only moderate. " "

year.

Rye and barley prices are working tower!

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temperature will

higher
relate out feed requirements
in "wine sections of as Southwest, but
dry weather has causbd some increase In

" reading in scattered localities in the
;North Central States. Southern dealers

are. otter-lug cottonseed meal rather freely
and have been accepting lower prices in
order to make sales.

Hay.

Light receipts and some improvement
in demand strengthened the hay market
at the close of July, but pasturage was
generally good and demand is not of great
volume. There is a fair demand for good
quality timothy hay. Western alfalfa
markets are draggy except for the best
quality and that which is suitable for
dairies.

Butter
. Butter markets were unsettled and
slight declines occurred. Trading is slow
and of such a character that it is dial-
cult to form a definite opinion of future
trends. Receipts at markets have been
lighter but into—storage movement fairly
heavy. Production is irregular and de-
clining more in some sections than in
others. Trading in cheese distributing
markets was generally quiet.

E ggs

Egg markets are steady to firm and at
prices slightly higher in eastern markets
than a week ago. Receipts are dropping
off both in quantity and quality, due to
the influence of hot weather. Storage re-
ports indicate that the time is almost
here when storing will cease and dealers
will begin drawing upon reserve stocks
held in cold storage warehouses.

Poultry

There was no material change in poultry
‘markets. Hot weather is having some ef-
fect upon demand for live poultry. Dress-
ed poultry has moved slightly better.
There have been a few light prIce ad-
vances.

Potatoes

The potato market broke about the
middle of the week under the rather heavy
receipts and the poor demand. City prices
were set back farther than the shipping-
polnt quotations. The Chicago carlot mar!
ket declined suddenly to $1.30-$1.35 per
100 pounds of sacked midwestern Cobblers
and then recovered slightly. Other cen-
tral cities reported a range of $2-$2.75.
Variable quality and condition of receipts
in New York City depressed that market,
so that eastern Cobblers could be had
there at $2-$2.75 per barrel and Long
Island and New Jersey sacked stock at
$1.35-$1.50 per 100 pounds. Heavy rains
in the Kaw Valley of Kansas, and rainfall
in New Jersey stopped potato digging for
awhile, and markets may have chance to
recover. Eastern Shore shipments have
exceeded all expectations and have al—
ready, passed the 20,000 ear mark, with
considerable quantities still to come. Vir-

. ginia last week shipped three times as

many potatoes as during the correspond—
ing period in 1926. New Jersey was be-
coming very active.

 

 

Week of August 14

TORMY days are expected in
many parts or the slate at the
beginning or the week of

August 14th. These will be in the
nature of severe wind and electrical
storms. There is some probability
the weather will clear up somewhat
about Wednesday but more storms
are expected in the state Wednesday.

The temperatures will be general-
ly warm throughout the state during
the greater part of the first half
of the week and continue over into
the latter part. However, for the
state and week as a whole we believe
that the temperature readings will
register below the seasonal normal.
It will be a good week for meadows
and pasturage.

Summer electrical storms and
high winds will continue over into
Thursday and Friday and perhaps
Saturday. About this latter day the
start downward.
\Veek of August 21

During the very early part of the
week of August 218t there will be
electrical, rain and wind storms
after which the temperature will
drop rapidly to much lower readings.
Between this and the middle of the
week the sky is expected to be most—
ly clear.

Although there may be some
heavy rains during the middle part
of the week we are not expecting
them to be gener ,. . However, there

' :will be. some bad Wind storms.

'At' the close 0: the week there will

‘i‘alsozbe some local showers in scat-

tere'd'counties with increasing cloud-
iness'and rising‘temperatures.

 

, per acre,

price gained 10
mmmmmanditishoid-
ing fairly well although the market is
doll with very little trading. Light red
kidneys are quoted at $6. 00 and dark reds
at $5. 25. .

DETROIT LIVE POULTRY

(Commission merchants’ gross returns
.per pound to farmers, from which price
5 per cent commission and transportation
charge”! are deductible).

Market is steady. Hens, colored, 24c;
leghorns, 18c; cocks, 16c; broilers,3
lbs. up, barred rocks, 32c; reds and white

 

rocks, 30c ; Orpingtons, 3 lbs. up, 27c ;
all colons, 1 $5 to 1 5%, lbs., 20 99 @ 22c
Ducks. white, 5 lbs. up, 230 , smaller or

dark, 20c; geese, 18c.

DETROIT BUTTER AND EGGS

_ Butter steady and unchanged: best
creamery in tubs, 36% @38c. Eggs steady
and unchanged: fresh firsts 24@26c.

DETROIT SEEDS

Clover seed. cash imported, $14; Octo-
ber, $18; December, $14.85; domestic De-
cember. $17.75: Alsike. August, $15.75;
December, $15.75; January, $15.75; Tim-
othy, cash, $2.30; December, $2.30.

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

DERTOIT. — CATTLE—Receipts, 217:
market steady. Good to choice yearlings,
dry fed, $10@12.50; best heavy steers.
dry fed, $9.75@12; best handy weight
butcher steers, $8@9.75; mixed steers and
heifers, $8@9.20; handy light butchers,
$7.75@8; light butchers, $6@7.50; best
cows, $7@8; butcher cows, $5.50@7; com-
mon cows, $4.25@5‘; canners, $3.76@4.50;
light bulls, $5.50@6.50; feeders, $6.256
8.25; stockers, $5.50@7.75; milkers and
springers, $65@125.

VEAL CALVES—Receipts 37']; market
strong, 50c higher. Best, $16@16.50;
others, $8@15.50.

SHEEP AND LAMBS—Receipts, 469:
market steady to slow. Best lambs, $13.50
@14; fair lambs, $11.50@13; light to
common lambs, $6@11 ; fair to good sheep,
$5.50@7; culls and common, $2@4.

HOGS—Receipts 740; market steady,

Mixed hogs, $11.25 ; heavy yorkers,
$11.50; roughs, $7.50@7.75; pigs and
lights, $11.50 ; extreme heavies, $8 @ 9 ;

Stags, $6.25.

EAST BUFFALO, N. Y. (United States
Department of Agriculture)———HOGS, light-
weights, steady to strong. Pigs active 25c
higher; weighty hogs slow, about steady;
bulk desirable 160 to 190 pound weights,
$11.50@11.75; few 130—pound averages up
to $12; 200 to 225 pounds mostly $11.25
@1150; 230 to 250 pounds, $10@11; 260
pounds up, $96010; packing sows steady;
largely $7.75@8.25; Cattle, nominal.
Calves, steady; top vealers, $16. Sheep,
steady; good fat lambs, $14; culls around
$11.

CIIICAGO—CATTLE—Generally steady
on catch as catch can basis; grassors and
short fed stale steers, predominating at
$10.50 down to $8; she stock generally
steady, bulls weak to 25¢ lower; vealers
firm; most grass cows, $6607.25; grass
heifers $7. 25@850; sausage bulls, largely
$7 downward, vealcrs $144015.

HOGS~Market closed with most of 10
to 25c adxnnce lost, top, 811:100 to 200
pounds $10 60"“ 110. 90; 220 to 250 pounds,
$9. 75@10. 65; 260 to 300 pounds $0519.75;
packing sows, $7. 75@8. 10; light weights,
$8. 25((08. 40; best pigs, $10. 25 (1)10 50; bulk,
$9. 75 @10. 25.

 

FIFTH ANNUAL SAND LAND
CONFERENCE

ESTERN Michigan county agri-

cultural agents, extension spe-

calist‘s and M. S. C. representa-
tives will meet at the Pennsylvania
Railroad demonstration farm two
miles south of Howard City on Fri—
day, August 26th, for the fifth an—
nual sand land conference. Mr. R.
G. Carr, assistant county agric11lt11r~
a1 agent of the State will speak on
“W’hy Western Mi(l1igan County
Agcnts are Interested in the Penn—
sylvania Railroad Demonstration
Farm,” and Mr. John Sims, soils cx—
tension specialist, will discuss the
subject, “The Future of Our Lighter
Soil Types in Western M1clng1n ”
Dean Shaw of M. S. C. will also be

on the program with an interesting
talk.

HARDIGAN ALFALFA LEADS IN
SANILAC VARIETY TEST

(Continued from page 3)

by R. H. Morrish, crops specialist,
Michigan State College: Hardigan,
2. 05 tons per acre; Cossack, 1.83

tons per acre; Grimm,
acre»;

1. 81 tons per
Michigan Common, 1.57 tons
Liscomb,153 tons per
acre; So. Dakota Common, 1. 43 tons
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Adrain ................ \Vileox Hdwe. Co.
Alabaster. ....I‘). E. Christensen
Albion ........ ....Albion Maytag Co.
Algonac... ....... C. F. Bertrand
Allegan.... ....... Vos Electric Co.
Alma.... ......... Alma Maytag C0.
Almont. ..Lapeer Co. Maytag Co.
Alpena .............. Alpena Maytag Co.
Ann Arbor ..............................
........ Ann Arbor Maytag Store
Armada ............ Russell J. Lawrence
Bad Axe. .......... Slack Brothers
Bangor ............ J. G. Miller & Son.
Battle Creek ..........................
........ Battle Creek Maytag Co.
Bay City .......... VValton—Morse Shop
Beaverton.. ..... A. '1‘. Brown, Jr.
Belding ............. Brown—Hall Co.
Belleville .................. John E. Rice

Benton lIarbor....Cutler & Downing
Berville .............. arker HdWe. Co.
Big Rapids ...... Bennett Electric Co.
Birmingham....IIawthorne Eleo. Co.

  
  
   
 

Blanchard .................. N. C. Mason
Brant .................. A. J. Locke
Britton.... ...Alexander Gibson
Bronson ..... Forbes Maytag 00.
Brown Cit) .................... Lorn Koyl
Buchanan....Hamilton & Anderson
Burnips .................. John Hocksema

Cadillac....Kryger—Currier Film. Co.

 
  
   

 

  

Caledonia ..... ...“7egner & Clemens
Capac ................. John A. Bower
Carleton. .E. \V. llartsig
Caro .......... ..Fer J. I’urdy
(‘ass (‘ity ................ Earl Chisholm
Cassopolis...Hamilton & Anderson
Cedar Springs ............ John Buecus
(‘enterline ........ Rinke Hardware (lo.
Charlotte... Charlotte Maytag (‘0.
Chelsea ...... 1helsea Hardware (lo.
(Thesaning ...... Chesaning Elect. Co.
Clare... Hare Ildwe. & Implt. Co.
Goldwater .......... Forbes Maytag Co.
Coloma .......... Coloma Hardware Co.
Columbiaville ............ R. C. Osborne
Coopersville ...... Durham Ildwe. (Io.
Covert .............. E. C. Vanderboegh
Croswell .................... C. \V. Lindke
Crystal .............. Joe E. Price
Davisburg.. ..... Clyde A. Nelsey
Dearborn... ..Nuendorf lldwe Co
Decatur .......... H C. \Waters & Co.

Deckerville..Stoutenburg & \Vilson
Detroit .............. Detroit Maytag 00.
Dowagiac....Hamilton & Anderson
Drayton Pla-ina...Nobl$ N: ,'Elielps
Dundee........” .......... Cauchie & Gray
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Edmore ................................
Edmore Hdwe. & Implt. Co.
Elkton .......... George Wilson & Son
Elmira....S. J. Bur-do Gen’l. Store
Elsie ...................... M. E. Williams
Evart .............. Bregenzer Hdwe. Co.
Farmington..N. J. Eisenlord & Son
Fennville ............ Dickinson Brothers
Fenton ............. E. A. Lockwood
Flat Rock ................ M. F. Keenan
Flint ............ The Flint Maytag C0.
Fowlerville .......... \Vill Sidell & Son
Frankdnmuth ........ A. Neuchterlein
Fraser ............ Arthur H. Schneider
Freeland" ......... Bench & Burnett
Fremont.. .Henry Van'l‘atenhove
Gaylord... ......... John M. Brodie
Goodells... .Lew1s \V. McCuo
Grand Haven ......................
...... Grand Haven Maytag Co.
Grand Ledge ..........................
........ Grand Ledge Maytag 00.
Grand Rapids ........................
...... Grand Rapids Maytag Co.
Hale .................... Nnnn’s Hardware
Hamilton ............ Harry J. Lampen
Harbor Beach. ........ \Villiam Glass
Hart .......................... R. J. \Veitzke
Hartford. ...J. W. Walker Hdwe.
Hastings... ..Hastings Maytag Co.
Hemlock... ............... J. E. Fuller
Hesperia ........ Husband & Anderson

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

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HE fact that the Maytag is the only washer equipped

with the in-built gasoline Maytag Multi-Motor, is not

the only reason that it is purchased by more farm homes . . 1
than any other washer. City homes also have shown a
distinct preference for the Maytag, and with the exception
of the power plant, the gasoline Maytag and the electric
Maytag are identical in design and construction.

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that cleans itself, empties itself.

Washes everything thoroughly
clean without hand-rubbing. Its .
all-metal wringer sets close to
the water line, automatically
adjusts the tension for a thin
handkerchief or a bulky.blanket
and wrings both dry.

The Maytag has won world
leadership because of its speed
and thoroughness of washing,
because of its big capacity tub,
because. of its compact, space-
saving design, because of its
sturdiness—a cast-a 1 u m in u m,
one-piece, seamless, lifetime tub

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A Free Trial Washing
in Your Home

No cost, no obligation whatsoever: Write or phone any Maytag
dealer listed below. Do your next washing with a Maytag. If it
doesn’t sell itself, don’t keep it.

THE 'MXYTAG COMPANY. Newton. Iowa

INDIANAPOLIS BRANCH: 923 North Capitol Ave., Indianapolis, 1116.

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Holland ............ DeVries & Dornbos Middleton ...... Middleton Hdwe. (‘0. Plymouth ______ Conner Hardware 00.

Homer .......... Albion Maytag Store Midland ...... 11. C. Eastman Pontiac _______ ...1’onitac Llaymg (‘10,

Hopkins ..Vern A. Washburn Midland ................................ Port Hope ______________ Engle &. Smith

Howell ..... Charles H. Sutton Maytag Multi~Motor Sales Co. Port Huron ............................

Hudson .......... II. T. Dillon & Co. Milan ................ Geddis & Norcross ........ Port Huron Maytag Co.

Ida .............. N. A. Wiepert & Sons Milford ....... ...Reid Hardware Co. Port Huron ____________________________

Imlay City..Lapeer Co. Maytag Co. Millington ______ Fred B. \Vills & Co. ........ W. P. Smith Hdwe. Co.

Ionia .................... Ionia Maytag Co. Minden City ........ Frank E. Mal‘lon Prairieville ................ F. Hughes

Jackson ..... ..Jackson Maytag Co. Mio .............................. Orvin Kurtz Reed City ................ C. It. Ringler

Jonesville ................ Olin M. Beebe Monroe ............ Monroe Maytag Co. Riverdale .................... R. E, Moblo "1

Lake Odessa.. .LaDue & Snyder Mt. Clemens .......................... Rochester... ..George Burr Hdwe. ‘

Lakeview ........ ...Wood Hardware ........ Mt.’ Clemens Maytag Co. Romeo ........ ....W, George Smith l

Lamb ............................ L. H. Fitz Mt. Pleasant .......................... Rothbury.... _______ H. F. Newman

Lansing ............ Lansing Maytag C0. ........ Mt. Pleasant Maytag Co. Royal Oak ________ Peters Washer Co.

Lapeer .................................. Muir ............ Branyun.IIar(lware CO. Saginaw ........ Smith Hardware 00.

....Lapeer County Maytag Co. Muskegon....Mnskegon Maytag Co. Saginaw... .. M. \V. Tanner Co.

Lawrence ........ J. Thompson 61. Son New Baltimore..Fountain Elec. Co. Saginaw ...... ..VValton-Morse Shop

Leonard... .Frank Hardware Co. Niles ............ Hamilton & Anderson St Charles ...Thorsby Furn. Co.

Linden... ...... M W. Johnson North Branch....Daniel Orr & Sons St. Clair ...................... E. S. Hart

Linwood... ............. T .7. \Vriglit Northville .............. J. N. Van Dyne .. .St. Johns Elec. Shop . l

Ludington.... ..I’alm Furniture Co. Ousted ............... Glaney Brothers Sandnsky. ...... Otis Hardware Co.

Mancelona... ..Sehroeder Furn. Co. Otsego... ..The Jones Hardware Saranac ........ Wilkinson lldwe. Co.

Manehester.. ....... Fred G. Houch Ovid ........... ...Marshall & 015011 Saugatnck.. ....... Koning Hardware

Manistee ........ Warren A. Graves Owosso.. __()wosso Maytag (30. Sebewaing. J. C. Liken & Co.

Marine City .............. A. J. Rochon Oxford. ..Jolmson Hdwe. Co. Shelby ................... A. J. Rankin

Marion .......... Marion Hardware Co. l’arina .......... George W. Hunn Sheridan .............. .A. L. Stebbins

Mariette. .......... Schlichter Paw Paw... ll. C. Waters & CU- South Haven ..........................

Marshall. ....Albion Maytag Co. I’errington .................. E. 11. Lucas Mersons Furn. & Music Store

Maybee... ....C. & G. Hochradel 1‘etersbnrg__..A. C. Gradolph & Son " South 1tockwood..._J0hn Strong Co. -

Memphis ............ llaight’s Hardware 1’etoskey..A. Fochtman Dept. Store Sparta ............ J. C. Ballard & Co. I ‘

Merrill .............. ..Alex McDonald l’ewamo ........ I‘ewamo Hardware (‘0. Standish. ...Gwisdala Implt. Co.

Metz ............................ Philip Sytek l’igeol .................. E. l’uul & Son Stanton ______________________ Glen Gardner
Strasburg .................... J. F. Meyer
Sturgis ......... ..Forbes Maytag Co. '
Tawas City ................ Fred Luedtke ‘
Tecumseh._._Baldwin Hardware Co. ‘
Temperance ................ R. W. Brunt 1
Three Rivers ...... Forbes Maytag Co.
’l‘ipton ................ Conlin & Shroyer {

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Tmfant ................... A. G. Miller ‘
Unionville.... .J. H. Kemp & Co. 1
Utiea ...................... E. W. Hahn
Waldenbuig . ..VVilliam Stiers

 
  
  
  
  
  
 
 

Warren .......................... Fred Lutz
\Vatervliet ............ II. Pierce & Son _
\Vayland.... .M. L. Looyengood

Wayne .......................... John JL" Orr
West Branch. ...E H. McGowan

   
  

   
  
 

   

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Wheeler... .....:..C.“"W’.' Lanshaw
Wyandotte... ..Gartner Hdwe. Go.
Wyandotte ...... Russell Supply Store
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