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[his is your chance tosrn'e money ant Illl out w rat‘n \ il’ 1113 nr’my 0‘- these 1‘1””. lrorlr Page . v , , , . h .. i ) . ., , y. _ ' . ,.,. blackiuc will do for you on liklzl‘) TRIAL. Then if you want to keep the FAQ-l; luthlLR ‘. . _ _ . , trial, « .i..y pay rntut otter on the lortuble lagc hlrlkue. a you can pay for it on easy monthly terms. . (1mm 3:. I’11.]‘2it,(Ti/ailivk,iiiliiiil22,3”; - - t - - n .. 4‘“ or) . . , = _ This is the most liberal straruhtdorward “try—betore-you—buy otter ('Vt'r' rnzlde on a power luxriitlred \rnore letters mm those Name ........... . . . . .. .............. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a Nhlker. ‘1 ou can‘t atlord to pass it by. bend the coupon and 11nd out all about it at once. mm“, 5,, you m1, 5”. NM what m Page l\lilker s are doingr for others. y .. - 1 ----------- ~ ---------------------- .. BURTON PAGE COMPANY mm ., - I I Would you like to be a USER AGENT Y . . . . . . . . . VOL. XV, N0. 13 MAIM‘H :3, 1928 - .'.,4...., ”7“?“ h vr-‘wv‘m. «w: '7 '"M‘ .w-fiflm" ' W:wfi'“““' ,wyrf 5‘ .— :0 Jr 53 IT IS THE WELL GRADED PRODUCT THAT BRINGS THE TOP PRICE m, a i fleeides To ‘1 ‘ ,/ in this imam: flan Not Miss Special Announcement am M. ii 592 Siewr ‘ Recordsm-“Monroe Farmer flfhvmw‘: ”‘1’“ ‘- 6% Change in Present Gamiim e “Em: Must Observe New Law“?m I" (i 33m * ‘ éf‘armaér fir" 4' w u, :2“. my “"“ {an tffiw a; a: an; immneamucxm.’ I s: to serve the customer well and save him moret -Betause this policy has been rigid . 1y adhered to throughout the twenty— six years of the Company, it is known as a different kind of chain store. It is different because the Merchant in charge selects merchandise from a large staff of expert buyers in.\ the world’s markets to meet the needs of the people of his community—having a financial intei‘est in his store he naturally is keenly interested in every. civic move that will make his Coma munity a better business place and a better place in which to live—though strictly local in its Service and inter ests, it brings to its customers the fan reaching advantages of National buy. ing resources. Dry Goods, Clothing, Furnishings and Shoes, for theEntire Family VERY J. C. Penney Company Depart ment Store is welded to local needs 0n the solid anvil of Service. Today, as in 1902 when Mr.} C. Penney opened the first . store of What is now a Nationewide Institution, the policy is _ r —-—_..._.::>l_ll is”? /W Street Examples—— of Economies! WSW at }.C. Penney Ways-sores. Qualitygoodsstqusnsisypien, buiit in m specific-rises. famous for satisfaction given. For Women and Misses: «MS—Silk and» rayon full fashioned hosiery, good weight ............................ 447—SiIk-to-sop full fashioned hosiery, medium Ieidic . .. . 1.9 , 449—?uresilkfullfsshnnsdhesiery Helotop. 1.49 ' ALIS—Sheer silk-twp M fashioned hosiery. chiflon weight ....................... 1.49 Hand Jags in bakss, fleeing, shapes and colors to harmonize with new Spring outfits, For Men anal Young Mess: 98’ 138,238 Suits in hard-finished worsteds, tweed: and cas- ' simeres——desired models, patterns and colors, 19.75 and 24.75 Work Clothes and Footwear for farm and shop—the kind that helps in the day’s work and satisfies the pocketbook. were “quality—always at a saving” J. C. Penney Company Department Stores, with Thrift as the guiding spirit of all Buying and Selling plans, are essen— tially Economy Centers of their individual communities. To ' see how much can be put into a community——rather than how ' much can be taken out—is the foremost consideration in the operation of each store. You will be pleased with the values and you wiil enjoy its “home- town” spirit of neighborly helpfiilness. Our Spring Store News Catalog is ready. It tells an interesting story of Quality and Savings. If you have not received your copy,_piease write for it.‘ 5' u I 33;. i x '1. A‘s-a ‘ M,“§..~. A. , . ‘ ' ,Home Ofl‘ices: 330 West 34th Street, New York City—40 Stores in Michigan, as Follows— Adrian Big Rapids Albion Cadillac ,Allegaii Calumet Alma Caro J . Alpena ‘ Cheboygan ’ Battle Creel; Cultivator Benton Harbor W Crystal Falls Escaiiaba Ironwood Holland Kalamazoo Ionia - » [Hangar . Iron Mountain ‘ Manistee Iron River Manistique Mmkesm , Souk Ste. Mari ‘ Niles ' ~ St .” . e 0m T g C" , W ‘ Vraverse‘ ity . a- \\ a“ v an. A_‘ A-‘Hh-l ,_, , .- ‘l.‘-‘ _._-u «Les—u.- ‘1 has—s u ‘. sgiiPaul Clement, Britten, Monroe county. , .. ‘ Mr. Roscoe Masters, w‘ho- war: the second award in Region One, is a new contestant; however, he ob- tained a yield of ninety-nine bushels per acre. Mr. Otto Wagner. of Riga, was third with a. yield of ninety-three bushels. Mr. Wagner has been a consistent leader‘ since 1924;, in. that year, he took. the first. prize. With very few exceptions, the‘growers in 1927 finished in the same order in yield as they did. in margin above cultural costs of production. , Award. Medals . I (Each year, the Michigan Crop Improvement Association award 3 medal: of achievement to the grow- er: obtaining the high yields. A ,,gold. medal, is given to- those obtain- ing a yield of one hundred bushels a silver one to those with eighty—five bushels or over- In 192“}, there were more V (winners of Michigan Crop Improve- ment Association medals than in any other previous year. The. winners and their yields are as follows: ._ lGold: Paul C. Clement, Britten, 10? bushels. Silver: Roscoe Masters, Waldron, 99 bushels: Otto Wegner, Riga, 93 bushels; George Bruce, Britten, 86 (Continued on Page 3'4) The idea. of doingayvay with the , annual scramble after license plates has been gaining pdpularity for the last. couple at years. Many feel it of. dollars if licenses could be issued Would save much time and thousands that would be good for the life of the car. The cost of the license would be figured. at so much. per hundred-weight of the car. When— ever a man sold. histar‘ he would have to send a record of the transfer to the Secretary of State, just as is done at present. , A bill containing these three fea— tures was introduced into the 1927 session of. the State legislature and had very good chances of gaming. until Governor Green insisted that (Continued on Page 34) l’f W tition you to give . .. w w... v.3 , toil. Iffllmfinmtxomthoflxst hart. TO THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN . AND MEMBERS OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE: E. the undersigned residents of the State of Mic selves fnfavor of; .tax' law that m1! raise our plates good for the filifeofithe car for which sold, , . ‘ ‘figfit’trllékfi‘fllilhw “to fake the place'of Apt. No. 150, of {E5 Mining . present ”admits: law, and other lawsrth-tiwouldoonflnctwnhthe 'r ' — believe this» bike only fail" and just wayxto to: fonhzghwny ‘ ’ favorable attention to ‘ 4?“. >...; .,_ 3‘”. 3%...{1L . ‘ ~‘ “hi7; 4‘" an“; ; - , shoot you. can put: another The more names..m get the Hm do hereby; "gasoline taxto four [of this kind that my ems ' MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER GAS- TAX PETlTION ' u m in favor a! the suggested change in the present tax on automafles- fox-"bum“ of gum duet ammo? $29!“:ny tools-cap, mgr. - c: - 0 paper. mgsnmwsyotlngot all your nefflibors signed up “on the dotted line.” of The Michigan Bauhaus rumor, Mt. Clemens. your better. 6 on Public g and maintaining highways clip u. out, paste it at lb “31in.- giVo both name W ‘ at “whom of the first. and continue. to add non forward the petition to the Editor of our own freegwill‘, declare-oun- ,, cents, provide; permanent license and eliminate; the, weight fig: 4011"?!” am . cm . and and “dross,“ .1932...er ism 01W» ‘ I UNCLE GEORGE AND CLEO.——Cleo “MY SISTER AND HER SCHOOL- “WHOA, MAva—Little Lavon Davis LOOK THE OTHER “KAY.— “ is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert MATE."—“Ethel Fisher and Sarah niece of Mrs. Delos Salisbury. Montcalm Freda \Vickersham. of Cheboy— Hopkins of Montcalm county, and Uncle Del’rester, two farmerettes," writes county, makes Max stand still while his gan county, is ready to take a. George is a brother to Cleo’s daddy. Clarte Fisher. of Barry county. picture is being taken. bath, so look the other way. TAKE WARNING, THIEVES!—If chicken thieves visit the SISTERS—“Our two daught- HOLDING DOWV‘N THE STRAW STACK .—Some Bay City farm of Hugh Tennant, of Presque Isle county, Miss Ida, Wildey ers, Jean and Genevieve,” folks called on Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dietzel, of Arenax- county, and James Tennant are planning to give them a very warm writes Mr. and Mrs. C. W'. and their picture was snapped while they were on top of the welcome. ' “’elker, Jackson county. straw stack enjoying the scenery. N03MAN.——Gnndchfild Joseph “'ATCHING THE PRETTY BIRDIE.—Jose‘ph and IMary are twins and the LOLA HUMPHREY. 0F “(TRON Beebe. Os'ceola county, with his dog, children] of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Baron, of Monroe county. The “pretty COUNTER—“I11 the seventh grade and “Pa, 1.” birdie” seems to hold their undivided attention. gomg strong.” .4 m mm} mark-Boom Holman. IS n WNG A SWIMZMING LESSON—You are dWWcmw “tibia-WWW um Byron CW1!- “tacos-11%“ W am.- his 5min“ lam H the home of an“ M Minivans—h. most successful crops show ever held in the state. The number of com- petitors and educational exhibits was more than, doubled~in both the grain and potato departments. Over 900 competitive entries in the open c l a s s e s, Smith—Hughes Vocational classes, and the Boys and Girls 4—H Club classes made a display that will long be remembered by the record Farmers’ Week crowd that viewed them. ' ' The entire show was housed in two mammoth rooms in the new Dem- onstration Hall. One room, called the arena, was given over to general assembly meetings and a,huge com— modity exhibit featuring the produc- tion, potatoes. This exhibit, cooperatively staged by various departments of the college, the Michigan Crop Improve- ment Association, the State Depart— ment of Agriculture, Michigan Pota- to Growers’ Exchange, Michigan Cer- tified Seed Potato Growers’ Associa— tion and seVeral implement compan— ies and private dealers, occupied the entire wall space at each end of the arena. The keynote of the exhibit was “GROW BETTER POTATOES” and ways and means of doing so were very effectively portrayed. The competitive potato exhibits were arranged on long tables sur— rounded on three sides by this mam— moth wall display. Both county group ,and open class spud honors were ' carried off by'Otsego county farmers under the able leadership of their county agricultural agent, A. Lytle. To Leon Mankowski, Gay— lord, went the honor of having the best peck of potatoes. Lloyd Skel— ton, also of Gaylord, placed second in the open class, second in the seed class, first in the class for the best potato and for the greatest number of individual winnings. Honors in the Russet Rural class went to Ed Sutton, Central Lake, and in the any other variety class, George Harrison, Manton, won with a splendid sample of White Rurals. The “Better Seed Trophy” award— ed by the Michigan Crop Improve- ment Association to the county agri— cultural agent having the largest number of winning exhibitors from his county in all potato, grain and seed classes was awarded to Don Jewell of Tuscola county. Mr. Jewell had a total of 13 winning exhibitors to his credit; seven in grain, corn and seeds and six in potatoes. The thirteen, exhibited 30 winning sam— ' ples of outstanding quality, tWo of which Were sweepstakes winners over all. County Agents A. C. Lytle and Clair Taylor from Otsegoand __Ea‘t0n counties respectively tied‘~for runner—up honors, each having 10 winning exhibitors. The grain show was held in the new Ball Room which adjoins the :_' _, URING the recent Farmers’ Week : f . at Michigan State College, W01- 3 , ‘ verine farmers witnessed the marketing and utilization of' C.‘ Farmers" Week, Crowd V ie'uied. Oveere Hundred Competitive Entries A in All Classes at M. S. C. 'l ‘ By P, H. Extension Specialist in "Farm large arena. With ample floor and Wall space 'this show in connection with the egg and honey show made a very attractive and colorful dis- play. A total of over 525 corn, grain and seed entries representing all de- partments, 255 dozen competitive egg exhibits, 12 collective honey and beeswax displays surrounded on all sides by eleven educational wall ex— hibits of varied nature proved highly edtkational to the visitors. ' 00m Show The corn show was the largest ever witnessed by a Farmers’ Week crowd. The entire Lower Peninsula was generously represented by the best corn its farmers had to offer. Beginning with the southern four tiers of counties or district one. Kuhn brothers, Vicksburg, carried off high honors in yellow dent, fol- lowed,closely by A. W. Jewett, Jr.,' of Mason. ’Over 30 contestants made this class one of the keenest in the entire show. The highest award in the white—cap or any other dent class went to William Folks of Han— over, a top winner in this same class last year. Fifty ear class honors in district one were captured by A. W. Jewett, Jr., Mason, with an excellent sample of pedigreed Polar Dent. Milo Rob- inson, Union City, came in for second honors. District two, or the remainder of the state was well represented by exhibits. J. C. Wilk, St. Louis, and A. P. Shankel, Wheeler, both of (lratiot county, were first and second Winners in the Yellow Dent class. These same winners likewise placed MILLER Crops; Michigan State College , in the same order in the‘ fifty ear class .from district two and the single ear class open to the entire state. The pedigreed corn classes served, to acquaint the visitors with the leading Varieties generally recom— mended for uSe in every section of the Lower Peninsula. P. A. Smith, Mulliken, duplicated his achieve- ment of last year by winning first in the Golden Glow class. Mr. Smith is an outstanding grower of high quality certified and registered Gold- en ‘Glow. The M. A. C. Dent class, well represented by growers through- out southern Michigan found Allan Eaton of Grand " Ledge and Roy Wright of Butternut the holders of the blue and red ribbons respectively. Pickett honors went to Milo Robin- son, Union City, and Jesse W. Pick— ett of Caledonia. . First honors in Duncan and Clem- ent’s White Cap classes went to A. W. Jewett, Jr., Mason, and P. C. Clement, Britton, respectively. The Polar Dent class, an added feature this year, was made up of a goodly number 01" contestants. A. W. , Jewett, Jr., Mason and Farley broth- ers, Albion, captured first and second honors respectively. The job of selecting a swoepstakes ten ear sample over all, demanded very close and intensive study on the part of the judges. The sweepstakes ribbon was placed on a beautiful sample of Wilk's Yellow Dent corn exhibited by J. C. Wilk, St. Louis. Another added feature to the corn show was the grading class, the pur- pose of which was to detmmin} the skill of certified corn growers in pro- Thcse ten ears of Yellow Dent Corn, exhibited by J. C. Wilks, of St. Louis, won the sweepstakes at the 1928 Michigan State Seed Show, at M. S. C. during Farmers’ Week. ducing ‘corn of the highest grade. First and second honors went to A.’ ‘W. Jewett, Jr., Mason and Arthur C. Schafer, Unionville, respectively. Fifteen contestants competed. in this ' class. \ Leaving the corn classes, the visi- tors next had occasion to view 'the winning small grain and seed sam- ples. First and second honors in ' rye went to H. Herringhausen, A1— pena, and Earl Hayward, Bay City, respectively. - In the soft red winter wheat class, F. L. Houghton, Alto, and C. D. Finkbeiner, Saline, carried off first and second honors. Honors in the Berkeley Rock and semi-hard winter Wheat class went to J. C. Wilk, St. Louis, and G. P. Phillips, Bellevue, respectively. The white winter Wheat class was very popular this year with approximately 35 contestants com- peting for honors. E. E. Pike and son and F. H. Mantey, both of Fair- grove, broke into the winning class and captured first and second prizes, respectively. F. H. Mantey brought added honor upon himself and his brother seed growers by winning - first and sweepstakes in the six-row White Spring Barley class. D. A. Geddes, Saginaw, followed with a red ribbon. Michigan Black Barbless barley winners were Howard Hardy. and Earl Hayward, respectively, both of Bay City. Mr. Hardy, a new ex- . hibitor at the show, exhibited an ex- cellent sample. Again Mr. Mantey brought home the bacon by winning first and sweepstakes in cats." The cat class comprised the largest number of high quality samples ever assembled, and‘ towin in face of such keen com— petition can be regarded as a real achievement. The high quality of the Michigan white pea bean was again proved to the visitors in a class made up of samples entered frOm nearly every bean growing section of the state. First and second honors went to J. C. Wilk, St. Louis, and George and L. G. Hutzler, South Manitou Island. respectively. . First honors in red kidney beans went to D. A. Geddes, Saginaw. Al Hagelshaw, Union City, claimed sig- nal honors in the red clover class ex- hibiting a sample of exceptional purity and appearance. Fifteen competitive alfalfa seed exhibits made up the largest Mich- igan grown alfalfa seed class ever assembled at the show. A. L. Wright, Deckerville, a pioneer in the production of alfalfa seed took the blue ribbon followed closely by Wes- ley Motz of Elkton. Probably the success of the entire show can best be expressed in the Words of Ira H. Butterfield, father of the president of Michigan State Col- lege and a pioneer of Michigan agri— culture, “The most outstanding ar- ray of exhibits I have ever seen in all my years of experience." Poultry Dealers of State Must Observe New Law EPORT‘S continue to come to us that some of the poultry dealers in Michigan are not living up to our new law which requires a record of every purchase. Some of these buyers are ignorant of the law which went into effect September 5th, 1927, and when it is called to their atten- tion they hasten to comply with it at once while there are others who seem to treat it rather lightly. This new law was passed by the last legislature for a purpose and that was to help curtail the thievery going on in rural sections of Michi- gan. If a man knows that when he sells some poultry he must give his name and address, tell if the poul- try belongs to him and if not from ‘whom he purchased it, and have the dealer take the license number of his car or truck, he will think twice be- for attempting to market stolen poultry. These records are to be kept by the dealer for a year and be available at any time for inspection by officers of the law. ' -- Anyone can see the value of keep- ing such records, and the dealer who deliberately ignores the require- ments of this law, after being fully informed of it, is a good friend of the thieves and deserves being re- ported to the officers. Further, farmers should not market their su'rplus poultry through him. If there are any dealers in your locality who are not observing the new law ask them if they know about it. If they do not, explain it to them and advise that they can se- cure the necessary blanks without charge from the office of the Secre- l‘ABT OF THE EXHIBITS AT M. S. C. DURING F‘BMEBS' WEEK This picture gives you a small idea of the fine array of exhibitsdn two of the eight" shows held during Farmers’ Week' at .M. 8. seed show, at the left, corn borer exhibit and a. 0. this winter. near the wall, is part of the egg show, and on the wall in]; display on the production of better chicks. In the foreground is the Various prices ’ were shown on the stand Just back of the seed show. \ I tary of State at Lansing. ' A letter from them will bring a supply. If they treat the whole matter as a. joke and show no intentions of com- plying with the-law tell your local officers. Also send us their names and addresses. Send List of Dealers We want the name and address of every poultry dealer in your locality so that we may have a complete list of them at this office and we will greatly appreciate your taking the time to send in a list of those you know in your community. We need this list so that We can send to them the names and address of folks who buy the poultry marker we'are sell- ing, and we will want to cerrespond with them from time to time about preventing rural thievery. If we are going to stop it, all of us must work together. Officers, dealers, farmers, and us, all must do.~their,,share .tofput ' the chicken thie‘f in .1116 right coOp. All shOuld' adopt'the slogan, “Cell the Thief and Save the Chicken,” and live up to it. 7 , , -. 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F., a .. _ very limited amount of seed was released this year and this amount was allotted to a number of the growers who have been producing small grain seed under the direction - and certification of the Michigan 5-: Crop Improvement Association. As a rule, there has been but one allot- ment to each county and as there were only two hundred fifty bushels ot- the Spartan seed at the beginning, this supply has been entirely taken care of. Undoubtedly by planting time in 1929 there will be a sufii- cipnt amount of this seed available for the demand at that time. ——R. H. Morrish. BUYER USUALLY PAYS TAXES . (I own a house and lot that I value at $500.00 at present. It is rented. Now if I offer it to the renter at a. price and the rent to go on as pur- chase money, do I have to pay taxes and fire insurance until the amount is paid or does the renter?-—-L. M., .Carson City, Mich. HIS would depend upon what you agreed between yourselves. Ordinarily, the purchaser pays the taxes and insurance when he purchases property as in your case. -——Legal Editor. 7;. ”ta/I- :1 'T‘ 5:: .. , SAND VETCH Will you tell me how sand vetch will do for a hay crop for feeding cows and horses? Can I get a crop the rst year and how is the best .2 way to plant it?—J. G., Ingham 33;“; _ County. ‘ “ “AND vetch is sometimes sown with oats during the early , spring and the crop harvested when the oats are in the late milk or early dough stage and pods are form— ing on the vetch. The quality of hay secured is good arid the yield is fair. The oats and vatch seed may be mixed, using 2% 0r 3 bushels of oats and about 20 pounds of vetch seed per acre. ———C. R. Megee, Associate Professor of Farm Crops, M. S. C. I , ' STAY FULL LEASE PERIOD . When we are leaving a farm from werking on shares, shall we stay un- til the owner settles or if there is trouble in settling, can we refuse to leave until our share of the feed is fed out? How can we settle when there is not written agreement? If he refuses to pay for feed can we sell our share and how many days ' before we move must he pay us, or shall we sell feed?—G. W., Jackson COunty. .3; “ 0U should stay on the farm the 2‘" ' full lease period. Any food left ’ at the time you are ready to leave should either be sold and pro- ceeds divided, or if you can not agree with the. landlord as to price ahd method of dividing the proceeds, I would suggest that you and the landlord call in disinterested parties to make an adjustment for you.' This can be done by each of you ap- pointing a representative and the representatives appointing a third "4.114.; .-. >4- ' affic It in ' ; Spartan Barley and are won: t v'. fling where one could get some. " member. You and the landlord of course», agreeing at the outset to abide by the board’s decision.-——F.-T. Riddell, Farm Management, M. S. C. TRANSPORTATION TO SCHOOL Does the school district have to furnish transpOrtation for children ,who have to go over two and a half miles to school?—-F. W. W” Ada. Michigan. WOULD say that in all districts I other , than rural agricultural school districts the law gives to the board of education authority to determine whether or not transpor- tation shall be provided. In rural agricultural school districts, no pu- pils are required to walk more than one mile. In no district can children under nine years of age, living more than two and one-half miles from the schoolhouse, be compelled to at- Fred Connor, a young Marquette county farmer, takes his pen in hand to show thalL/ tend school; unless transpoi'tation is previded -‘—‘G. N. Otwell, Dept. of Public Instruction. ' SEVERAL EDUCATIONAL , , QUMONS can a majority of voters in a school district call a special meeting by Signing a petition? And if they can, can they compel a director who is not giving satisfaction, to resign? Our school voted on paying full tui- ' tion and $40 per year transportation charges "for each pupil past the 8th grade. At this meeting only a small percentage of the voters were pres- ent. Can this be voted on again and voted out, as we have no conven— iences in our own district and our school board will not do anything for our own school. At present the chil- dren carry water over a quarter of a mile and are gone during a whole .. SHE‘S '11 "DA'RN‘ BIG WORM BUT 1‘14. GET ‘ER EVERY WC: 4/ not only does the early bird get the worm, but the “bird" who does not practice proper rotation of his crops “gets" the soil fertility “worm.” . How‘ to Save on Cost of Fuel NE of the common "causes of O waste with all heating systems is dirty boiler fiues.‘ An eighth of an inch of soot on the heating surface of the furnace or boiler, is estimated will increase the coal bill twenty per cent. To prevent this, clean the fines once a. week with a long handled wire brush. The chim- ney needs cleaning yearly, or oftener when soft coal is used. This will increase the draft and -_lessen the fire‘ hazard. . Another method of savingfuel is to keep the air in the house moist. At least two degrees lower tempera- ture are needed when the air is moist. Some people claim that they feel quite comfortable at even 10 degrees lower. ‘Moist air is also bet- ter for the health. Ten gallons of water a day are not too much to evaporate in a medium— sized house. A house with a hot air furnace needs a big water pan-with a large surface exposed. The pan should be set well up in the warm air space to allow rapid evaporation, and' it should be placed. over the combustion chamber. The pan may be kept fill- ed automatically with a float valve device. Pans of water kept overgor inside the registers are of some help. For steam or' hot water heaters. evaporation pans may be bought which are designed especially for the purpose and which usually hang on the back of the radiator. Each radi- ator should have one such pan, and to be effective, it must be kept filled. Wicks or pads of absorbent material hanging behind the radiator with one end in the pan of water increase the evaporation. While these pans are of some help, they do not usually evaporate more than a small frac- tion of the water necessary for best results. ._ “1111! ch Ids-en high School and , treasurer has one of each,» which '- .takes @175 tor tuition plus $40161“ , . transnortation. So these three take -'_ $345 but of..ou1: district each Tsar * Yet our school hoard refuses to put down a well. for our school which at the outside was: not cost over $200, ' _» and would last fol": years“ Then they ' hired the}? same teacher this. year be-i v ‘ cause they got hep: ekeaper and she? “ has no control over scholars What can we, the parents of: this school district, do to help matters? Talks with the teacher and the school , » board prove useless. ——Reader_, Mich. ’ HE school board in any district organized under the general ’laws must call a special meeting of the district upon petition of at least five school electors of the dis- trict, provided the business to be transacted at that speCial meeting . can legally come before the electors. A special meeting of the district could not be legally called for the purpose of compelling the director to resign. A school board has authority to determine whether or not they will pay the transportatiOn for eighth grade graduates. The action of the electors on this question is not neces- sary and would be without legal -force. The legal voters have authorityito determine whether the district will pay high school tuition in excess of sixty dollars per year per pupil. Action taken- by the electors at the annual meeting " would prevail for that current school year and until some subsequent vote of the district to discontinue the payment of such excess. The school law provides that it is the duty of the schdol board to fur- nish a water supply. Authority is given to the school board to employ the teacher. Members of the school board are , regularly elected at the annual meet- ‘ - ing held in each district. A major» ity of all votes cast has been neces— sary to a choice. -—G. N. Otwell, Dept. of Public Instruction. VERBAL CONTRAUI‘ I have a farm in Alabama deeded to me by my husband. He had made a verbal contract with a man there, giving him the privilege to pasture the land or cut hay' for five years, the renter fto keep up the fences and pay $50 a year for the privilege of the pasture and hay. A notewas taken for the first $50 but no further notes being made. The renter used the place for more than one year but fails to pay nd ignores all corre- .,, spondencex—s . 0. A., Charlotte, Mich. ‘0 GREEMENTS for a longer period than one year are not enforce- able, so it is doubtful if you could recover under the agreement. However, you would have a right to recover. for the use of. the place on , a quantam meruit basis, that is, the man using the place would be under obligation to pay a reasonable amount for the benefit he has de- rived from the use of the place.— Legal Editor. HERE’S .HOW .— / When Cows Chew on Wood By Ray Inman hen (ow: chew SrONES on CLOTH 1T 19A 51013 or UDEPRAVED APP- ETITE ~ oueu ALLYT To coon QUALITY 01: 50151-20 ~ ~ ~ A++—A- 31w GOT To oven ATIN' «518111001 quT‘s THAT Cow. you 51110 THAT 1 ATm‘ Wooo T11. sue F wooo @5335:ng 3......“ cm: 110va mm. mews cow WAS ES-‘BG’T‘EIf’J e“— no.» «a «Maw 9*" Wmmcgms "“3” ~m - ”"0““ see ewes :me NIFTIEST SHE' s 9 0 LIME FIRES #00,. cows areon pastare GNE THEM ALL THEY WANT OF GROUND LIMESTONE-.2? SALT, HALF AND HALF ~~ ( ””06“" $112 wAs— 811-er eo-r EVER ET. ' i NOT on pc‘iSture MIX 3 L35. OF GROCND LIMESTONE OR WOOD A$YE5 WITH EACH I LBS OFGRA‘N~~~~~ oou FEED MOULDY Rename! FINE! Mow HEY PI , IWON‘I‘HA Ase-r116 1x1N‘ wooomnes WITH "m GRAN-‘- JUST LEAD TH’ cows ,A 1. -r 'EM Fem PA 711' GRAIN $1150 5 BURNIN' 561‘ 5 onto (01h I mptl‘ovecligeft 51:10!) K Le GENTIAN ~ A LB. BICARBONATE OF SODA~‘/4Le.Nux VOMICA~ 1 DRACHM ARSENIC ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ MIX AND FEED ONE TABLESFOON ER COW N IGH‘I’ AND MORNNG IN MOISTENED GRAIN N ~ ARI! YE suns we ILJFED he. 5 ‘ gggm‘m HAT sum: Tee“ *3.» ‘c! M Am" A, SAID we HAD'T'O TAKS’FSRYOQR, 111mm. _. . . g . __l IT IS within your power to shorten the time required to grow and mature first. quality crops by the" liberal use of proper type plant foods. Think ”what this means—being prac- tically able to do away with immature 'soft corn and chaffy wheat and to secure the higher prices realized for best quality grain! _ . Springs are frequently late, and frosts too often come early. As natural soil fertility decreases, soft corn increases and nubbins multiply. The increase in immature com the past few years is not so much due to change of season, or late, wet spring, but to the. constant depletion of the original plant food minerals from the soil. Cornland soils are becoming more, and more unbalanced as crop after crop is taken off, with a never- ending removal of the minerals necessary to plant life. Much formerly fertile soil has given up so much of its available plant food minerals and nitrogen that its power to produce nitrates for the early spring needs is diminishing. The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion during 1926 and 1927, by using 300 to 400 pounds of a complete fertilizer together with manure, has decreased the time be- tween corn planting and silking from 20 to 30 days, on one soil type, as compared with “no treatment” plots. Shortening the growing period may be . of great impor- tance in fighting the corn borer. The secret of maturing creps Quickly is forcing the; early growth of the plant. "Little or nothing can be done to shorten the time between the flower and the ripe fruit, or between silking and mature corn. Much / can be, done to shorten the time betWeen .7— uality crops. . . And HOW7 seeding and blooming Or silking. The nitrogen , in manure and other organic material in the soil must first be converted by soil bacteria into ammonia and then into nitrates, before it can be utilized by plants. The soil in these northern climates is cold and wet in the spring, and these bacterial processes are slow. This delays the formation of ammonia and nitrates from manure and Soil organic matter, and suflicient nitrate is generally not available from soil sources soon enough to force as early, quick and heavy a root, stalk and » leaf growth as the plant should have. This immediately available nitrogen should be supplied, and with it an abun- dance of soluble phosphorus to develop rapid root growth and to force early, heavy fruiting, together with potash to insure good sap .cirCulation, cell development, starch formation and plant health. 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Get the 1928 Isbell Seed Book- lt's 'a valuable guide for grow. in great cro. Gives com: . O ‘ e ”‘ nil-Kl.“ . H ‘3' like—films m“ till", ’ gait. five. 8.".l8llgla DO Mm ql “drained. ion-mite V Y. , . Q. m . F 'i'. would 73133 . ".._L‘ any people write for Broadscope Farm News [and Views 7. ' Edited by L. w. MEEKS. Hillsdale, COunty‘ (M Mr. lookc’ advise on dmfimnmc and he I: always glad to II the. th benefit of his wide experience Wflhoutfil Address him of Mr B. F. endoyou IIII race. in a personal reply by early—mill W N IN Could-no lithium.) . ' ‘ 1 Will Sweet Clo'ver Turn the Trick? .“ AM writing to you for/a little information, as I read your ar— ticles in M. B. F. and enjoy them. I have a. farm of 80 acres' consisting of deep much, and run.- ning to shallow muck and sand which r e a l l y makes a. black sand. Now the front 40 has been . hay for five or '- six years to eight years, and it is run into June grass and timo— thy and clover is pretty I l g h t, which heretofore produced 3 to‘ 3% tons to the acre. _‘ “Now I want to build it up, and would sweet clover do the trick after I put a cultivated crop in to. kill the Junegrass? Could I. put. the sweet clover in the last cultivation, or would it winter kill? Would it. get. enough start so I could plow it under the following spring and seed to timothy and clover? Land ‘is well For a cultivated crop I plan on putting in corn, early notar- toes and stock beets, as I find that last year my mangel wurtzels were pretty severe on the June grass. "The land has been hayed to death, all taken off and nothing put back, and I want to build it up to original production. -If I have not stated this case just right give me your ideas and I will certainly ap- preciate same on how to best build this ground up. Thanking you in advance, R. A. K., Shelby, Mich." Well, Mr. K., you are not alone with a had that has been “hayed. to death." There are thousands of them. and thousand more that have been pastured to death. It is no small job to get these fields back to “original production." By your description I imagine you have a very good soil to begin with. It is more than likely these hay crops have used up considerable of its lime content, and before trying to build it up I would test it for lime and if it needs it, by all meansi'apply some before you spend good money for grass seed. It is a. certainty, the way I see it now, that ground lime- stone is far better than agricultural lime. You would have to use three fourths as much agricultural (hy- drated) lime as you would ground limestone. and the former would cost about twice as much. You are all right in growing cultivated crop to kill the June grass. We find that sweet clover is very certain to winter kill when sown in corn the last cultivation. You would not go wrong to wait until the next spring and plow it early, or if the June grass is all killed you could disk it early and sow the sweet clover then. By all means use in- oculation on the seed. I would put L. W. Meek: producing .. in some Mammoth deferwlth it. A little alfalfa, too, would be a good thing. three pee-ks of barley per acre, which may _be harvested. These grasses should give good growth for plowing under the following spring, or it can be cut early for hay and the after vgrowth left until the next spring and then plowed ‘under for corn. Following this corn with barley and clover as before, should get the land well started toward “original produc- tion" again. You will profit by broadcasting a. good application of complete fertilizer, say 300 or 400 lbs. per acre just before you plant the com. If manure is available use ‘ it along with the fertilizer. If pas- Would not sow more than‘ tum is needed, more than the crop of : barley. you could sow 1% bushels of cats per acre and send as with bar- ley. When the oats are four to five . inches high they are to be pastured. We have done this, and it doesn’t seem to, hurt. the young clover plants any. salt but stock should not be kept in the field too long. In no case should stock be left when the clover plants get large enough for them to find. All the foregoing has been successfully ' carried out in good ordinary seasons. but if one has. a field very low in humus his chance of getting the clove started is much. more certain when they are seeded alone. 0 i ll Short of Pasture I “I would like to ask if yourflDe— partment. knows anything about Su- dan grass for cow feed, as I will be short of hay this year and would like to know if Sudan grass would be good for cows—L. F., Hosting, Michigan.” We have never grown Sudan grass only as a test in our garden to see what. it really would do. It cer- tainly made a wondeful growth and was out at a height of six inches when it was two feet high, came right on and was four feet high long before frost time. I can see no reason why it would not be a good cow feed to grow. But, L. F., re- member this—it is of the sorghum family of plants and contains an ole-O ment that frost turns into a deadly poison. If cut for boy when it should be it will then give some pas- ture, but do not pasture after frost. O I O Oatsandl’eas I know of no better crop for an emergency feed for any stock than good old oats and peas. Out at the proper stage ibis 'of the very highest grade of hay. Many think it is equal to alfalfa. The hay should be cut when the oats are in the “milk stage.” The quantity to sow per acre will depend on the fertility o! the soil. On rather poor soil two bushels of cats and three peeks of peas have been recommended. This amount may be greatly increased on better soils, and if some have had Wm: tmdrubmvlnmf-uor Show the other 'n‘icombsrs o The Business Farmer's largo mlly where you live. Kodak oroouriahtilthoihtuhlhonunuii. Mammal-henna“ «v Where Our lleaders Live . in! under lib headlno? icturu res. Jun o 000 print. m iotlldr. nnd Mrs. (LE. _ ' ' nth! 210 ‘ote. Considerable pasture will rev 1. 7. - find is that I wish it came once a. week.— great value when hay was scarce. The corn is drilled rather closely, about eight inches apart with rows 3 1k feet. It is cut with a binder and when well cured hauled and stored in the barn or~stacked without husk- ing. It certainly is a good feed. There is going to be a shortage of ’ hay on many farms this year, and some of these substitute crops will prove very practical on such farms. at: It a: " ‘ Is It Any Improvement? James and I have been drawing- straw into the barn. He did not know what Dad was thinking of most of the time, as he was not old enough to remember “them good old days’ when no such thing as a wind stacker was known. .In “them” days a farmer had to have from two to five men on the straw stack, accord- ing to its size, and when the thresh- ing rig pulled away it nearly always left a real straw stack. Now with wind stackers you really do not need any man to help with the straw, and whether a man does try to stay on it or whether the blower just puffs it out with no one on the pile to try and cover up, it makes little differ- ence—when the rig leaves the job it very seldom leaves a straw stack— ' invariably it leaves a pile of straw ALWAYS RELIABLE EAR EDITOR:—-The only com- plaint we have against your highly respected magazine is that it does not come often enofigh. The Business Farmer comes to us like a. friend "on a. visit” who has lots of interesting things to tell us which we can bank on to be reliable. Un- like some of the others who display tricky advertising, and place the Al- mighty dollar above everything. But in the end their loyal subscribers are duped out of considerable hard earn- ed cash.—G. H. Barbour, W'ashtenaw County. which is more like a pile of chaff. The barn roofs are half covered with the chaff, too. But the worst is yet to come. Along in the winter when you want to use straw for bedding, you find you have only a pile of broken stuff that can hardly be car- ried with anything but a tub or can- vas sling. As far as .trying to load it on a wagon and haul it into the barn, you have some job on your program in more than one way. Boys like ‘James seem to take this chaf- fy stuff as a matter of course, not knowing that any better way for taking care of the straw was ever in vogue. But with Dad it is different. I always feel that the man who first originated the wind stacker must have “had it in for the farmer” and then to add to it, he went and incor- porated .“The Farmer’s Friend” as a part of his trade mark! In some cases where straw is put into the barn direct from the machine, the blower is some use, but the s-traw' from a modern self-feeded, wind We have found- corn fodder to be of» stacker thresher is almost a joke when used for anything but feed. For our henhouse we find it is a very poor substitute for floor litter. But, at that, it is possible the wind stacker has been a means of uplift to the farmer. For, as one man was heard to remark, after spending five hours on a straw pile, “It’s the worst place on earth for a human to work and if the punishment which is said to be in store for some of us is as bad as stacking str'aw behind a wind stacker, I, for one, will be a good boy from now on.” I would not The only trouble I You bet I want my paper_ get along without it. 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It helps us and helps you FISHlb- (melee {roan Pickerel round 7c par Ital! I’ilggrkerel12 hourglass dressed 9c: e c; errins dressed 8515c: damn, good line To; samepheadiiac; ‘Buckers 01-1 oflui do Ii'iounders codflsh 13 rp do mck'erel 12c; unci- but 1855c; oxiv'hness h12c‘ crum- {Badman 15 lb. boxes ta. xenclncio 5. t be for 30:“:th Drdere n mun wanted. “For rieties 585d for complete list. One- haif cent per lb. loweriu 100 lb.o rders. FISHER FISH COMPANY. GREEK ”V. WIS. Eiome—madc Remedy Stops Cough Quickly IFinest cough medicine you ever used. Family. supply easily made. Saves about $2. i Q leelI's Seeds QQYield More You can make more money from your garden and crops when you plant dependable seeds—adapted to your soil. The work of preparing the land and planting is the auntie whether {Bu use oordinaryseedor pedigreed seed. But tells the story: added profit—often don is or tri le—comes from usin aria, big-yielding. ichigan- grown. Isbeli‘sh see 49 YEARS OF BETTER SEEDS For nearly a half century, Isbell's have been deveio‘pin yield, vitalit and hardiness in easeess ex times as, careful selection, better-grow , v donethis. 200. customer-shave edible rofit- buildimr quality—they plant Iebell’l edseeds your at her year and get bumper crops. BTW ourown Minn!“ ubuy direct! run a, saving money and e noting all risked ”Widen? "All mum WDAY/ alumnae». “MWQ' 153 loch-ole 8t. lookout. “I‘ll. Send your 19238eed Ann direct- ' from-grower prices on Que! 2 in, 1 gist for “2 You might be surprised to know tint the best thing you can use for a severe cough, is a. remedy which is easily pre— pared at home in just a few moments. It’ 3 cheap, but for prompt results it beats anything else you ever tried. Usually stops the ordinary cough or chest cold in 24 hours. Tastes pleasant—~chi ldren like it, and it is pure and good. Pour 2% ounces of Pinex in a pint bottle; then fill it up with plain granu~ lated sugar syrup. Or use clarified honey, instead of sugar syrup. Thus you make a full pint—a family supply—but costing no more than a small bottle of ready- made cough syrup. And as a cough medicine, there is real- ly nothing better to be had at any price. It goes right to the spot and gives quick, lasting relief. It promrptly heals the in- flamed membranes that line the throat and air passages, stops the annoying throat tickle, loosens the phlegm, and soon you cough stops entirely. Splendid, too for bronchitis, hoarsness .and bronchi a asthma Pinex is a highly concentrated com- pound of Norway pine extract and palat- able guaiacol, famous for healing the membranes. To avoid disappointment, ask your drug- lyé ounces of Pinex" with di- rections. Guaranteed to give abso- lute satisfaction or money promptly 331‘; refunded The Pinex 00., Wayne, Ind. ’ » M1539; n’umflw TAXATION SYSTEM EAR EDITOR: I notice some figures recently made public which states $950, 467, 998' was returned delinquent for taxes of 1926. 8, 275, 445 acres, which is nearly one-fourth the entire acre- age of our State. Isn't it about time to revise our system of taxation? There must be ‘ a. reason for'this. Where will this condition lead to? I am interested because a road building proposition has just been put over here which is very far be— yond what our people can afford at one time. , It is going to burden as -with grinding taxation for‘ many years to came. That is not all either. Many good folks cannot pay these taxes and the leaders in this com- munity must know it. Will it not be disastrous to our State to be burdened with these confiscated lands? What will it profit our common- wealth to pau'perize its citizens? Should there not be a limit to which our officials can go in this matter? It is outrageous here, and there are more propositions, that if‘car- ried, would add much larger amounts to the. taxes we already have. Unless something is done soon there will be a lot more of de- linquent tax lands in this part of the State. Many simply refuse to con- sider the danger ahead. Argument does not get anywhere. What we need is to limit the power some of- ficials now have. I notice too that in your February 4th issue you mention that four—cent gas tax idea. is gaining. Fine. Push that plan and push till it succeeds. Those who pay gas bills can use less gas and do less Joy riding if they dislike the tax; just the same as the man who dislikes dog tax, can keep fewer dogs. Newspapers say there is much ar- gument going on in Lansing. What we'ueed'is action, and we need it quickly. Our best people are being hit hard. Those who own little real estate or none at all are voting for unjust taxes. There is need of prompt action in this line. Delay means disaster. Send speedy relief.——Mrs. Florence Howard, Monroe County. OBJEO'IB EAR EDITOR: Your special cor— respondent in his write-up on the annual Farm Bureau meet.- ing,”says that a resolutoin offered by me at the banquet, endorsing Frank O. Lowden for President, was “snowed under.” As a matter of fact the resolution was carried over— whelmingly, only a few Hoover democrats yelling “No.” Let us have the truth. There are enough news- papers in the country flooding the nation with propaganda intended to stifle any legislation that will give the farmers a. square deal without the farm papers joining in the chorus. With taxes on farm land in Michigan already confiscatory and farm lands practically without value in the open market the newspaper scribes and millionaires and the fel- lows on the ever increasing public pay roll are telling how prosperous the farmer is. The present governor is now telling again how he loves the farmer and it he is electedagain farm taxes will be lower. —-Peter B. Lennon, Shiawasee Co. . THIEVES EAR ; EDITOR: I am a reader of your paper and I like it very much; in fact 'I believe there isn’t a farmer anywhere in the Union who wouldn’t like your paper, that is with the exception of the chicken thief. ' I read in the last issue one of our friends said he Would like to start a fund witha dollar from each sub- scriber to dxlifit cues thief. am very: much var of such is. notice a reader mount we: we; _ : Bunk. , I \ thieves who stole nine turkeys of him and he settled with them for $50 and $34 cost because both of them had families. Now I‘ certainly could- not give this man credit for doing that because he did not think of his fellow farmers who have lost lots of poultry. A large family should not be an excuse for stealing. Perhaps their families are learning to steal. I would like to know if this man did get any reward from' the M- B. F. fund—Reader, Sagi- vnaw County. ——No this man did not receive one of our fifty dollars rewards. One of the rules is that the guilty person or persons must. serve a Jail or prison sentence. Any man who starts out to steal should think about his fam- ily before he commits the crime, and ‘ if he does steal and gets caught he ‘- should be made to suitor for it. SECURITIES COMMISSION EAR EDITOR: Under the head of “Purpose of Securities Com« mission” in a recent issue you say, ,“some people feel that if you commission passes on an investment security they are recommending said 1 security to the public.” Why shouldn’t people feel that, way? Of what earthly use. is the: commission? Why shouldn’t the approval of a state commission stamp a security as a safe invest- ment? Do you mean to say that the commission would pass favorably, upon a Security that was not safe? Reading farther through, it would seem that way. the act, “0n accepting this security HELP FABMEB EAR EDI‘l'Ollz—I have taken your paper oil and on for the last fifteen years and do believe you are doing more for the farmer than on the other tum papers or books put together and hope your good work will to on. Your: with respect—E. ll. Rockwell, Jackson County. for filing, neither the State of Mich- igan or the commission have under- taken to pass upon the worth or value of the security." How is a commission 'going to prevent fraud and deception unless it passes only upon securities that are safe invest. mental I ask again, of what value is such a commission? May I not ask if this so—called commission is not a bunch of political parasites and ."old men of theses” that we are lugging around on our backs? I am only a farmer with a low retreating forehead. I admit I don’t know much. If I was smart I would- n’t be afarmer. I would be on some “phony" commissionx I just can’t get this commission business right in my poor feeble mind. If you can spare the space I wish you would explain how this commiss on func- tions and why—Eugene Potter, Allegan County. -The Michigan Securities Commis- , sion is appointed to administer the Blue Sky Act as placed on the statute books by the legislature, Neighbor Potter, and any criticisms of the functions of that department should be directed to your representative or senator who assisted in passing the act. The (present law provides that the Commission shall take~into con- sideration as to bother or not there is any fraud in the secuity being sold and if it is being sold on fair terms. MONEY SYSTEM EAR EDITOR. I wish to com- ment on the letter of Samuel You quote from- 1 1 1 1 l I 1 Smith in your January 21st 15- . sue. I have given our money system considerable thought and feel that it could be greatly impromd and feel that it must be changed it we are to saVe cur affiliation. I think his plan is 0. K. but do not see the need— ot registering everybody. I would movememmm arm on that ‘ I _ on; of the. shots (It-W m 1 l 1 ‘ ove 1 L the l‘ i ‘. sho cou " set pur ‘ ext unann—ieeeh—n'A H t . 'v'i *dsfliévi‘t wo oi: billy of.‘ the at he ' consumer and - wan: I think it ‘ 1 e greater results than ..-..Haug‘en bill for Mary- ' gene‘l‘lle‘n Brink, Ottawa .County. EBDM A ‘fanT-IN" , ER EDITOR;——-I have: papers and * magazines galore" to ”read .. sand the Boer-mazes Fame is my , - o'rite. I wish sometimes, it was a ’- weekly. I am ahnbs‘t always shut in ‘_ cummunicathn'fi’fivith the outside- , - werld. I like the sermons and songs . . , that are ’prflifediin "the‘ M.“ B. F.—‘- ‘ . .Mffi. R. D. 3., 00nstantine, Mich. ‘ MUSINGS OF." A PLAIN FARMEB lar “plain. farmer”. writing and I’ll be glad toturn this space ‘ over .to him When he is able and has . the inclination to take it, as his shoes are too large for me. It # I . ‘ I have just attended a meeting of ‘_ - county farm organizations, called to— gether by our county agent, for the .. purpose of working out a. program of extension work for 1928. t t t The result was a well rounded, * .: 1p to 'date_farm betterment program, made and approved by all present. . s o Ii - . If you have never met yOun'e‘ounty . 4agent you better. step into his office and get acquainted. - ' - _, s 1 s s : Tell «him about‘your farm prob- lems. He'win be glad to help you solve them. That is his business. '.~*‘His- advice-p deesnit come C. O. D. O ffeither. ' .. I t t - 1' The cook» informs me that the .woodbox is emptyand that I can ' ' empty thevash. pan if I am not too ff. busy. 7 . ., ' 1 - '. . I , t t t Isn’t life wonderful . I This is B-U.-M signing off! O l ’ . t - 5.150 "long; felks.——A Plain Farmer, remont, Mich.) ‘ - ‘ _(The bulletins fluted un ‘ . m , see. some are ' Mutant of Astloulturo. nu turn! colleges. and many 1 our. er- wimraneistsawu'**"°'°....""°“"'» list those which. rln our ”infill-".39? and n 1 11! ‘ ‘l bu sent to You without charges of oil’s 't ml.)c No. 2.—-MODERN WATER SUPPLY. No. s.—SOIL»FERTILIZERS. ' «.210. 4.-—SEED CORN CURING. . (no. 5.——GOSPEL OF GOOD FEEDING. ’No. 6.——BEFORE YOU INVEST. - o. 7.—-—FARM SANITATION. _ , o 8.~—FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS. , g1_1'o'.~» 9.—FROM EGG To MARKET. ; 11o. ll.—MINERALS AND FEEDING. gimp. 12.-—LINSEED OIL “MEAL. No. Isa—FIGHT THE CORN BORER. No..14.—UNDEB.-GRADE APPLES . No. l6.—-—TIRE CARE; -,.No. i7.~FARMERs' TAX GUIDE. (No. Is.——BARNs :AND“ HOW To BUILD. 110.. isle—CONCRETE. BUILDINGS. 1 o-‘ 20.141110. .1 3 AND‘ EETLES. o. ‘2n—FEE ING FQRrEGGS. .1 ,. mo. 22.—-—CHICK CARE. Em) ’EEEDING- * 11.16. _ zs.—-—BETT.ER GRAINS LAND.» HAT. 1159.1343-400 Foops W14 RECIP 'rNo.‘:.25.——FARM LEASE WIRES 1. .No. 26,—ORCHARD. MANAGEMENT .No. 27.-RASPBERRY PLANTATION..- . 11516; 29,—.FLIEs IN DWELLINGS. . . _. “inc. sonar-MORE MONEY FROM cows... ,JW. gsc-eQULLING FARM FLOCK. ‘ nausea—POTATO GROWING. ‘ 5.. Jo.-135.;£RBI7‘I~TABLE ORCHARDS. ' BREED GREY BEST EwEs I 1" breeding. season pt?» the money lender.-4—= 1.9.1.16 the nmsparpergand radio are myI. ~ HIS is not Mr. Ballard, our regu-‘. ' l, Es,~ 1119. liar—POULTRY FEEDING SECRETS. I ‘ qua in» and all the e BUICK WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, You‘probably never think of Buick as selling for only $1195—and yet you can buy a Buick and true Buick. quality at this extremely low price. You have your choice of three popular Buick models—the roomy Sedan, the trim Coupe or 3116 smart Sport Roadster. ‘ And you can have it on terms so liberal that youvneed not deprive yourself of the joys of Buick ownership. , . LuXurious bodies by Fisher in: distinctive Duco colors . . . flashing getaway and the virile power of ' Buick’s famous valve-in-head ‘ engine . . . supreme riding comfort resulting from 'Buick’s Loveioy hydraulic shock absorbers and Buick’s cantilever springs. ' . ‘ Only Buick offers these fine car features at such moderate prices. See and drive a Buick. We _ will be glad to demonstrate at any time. SEDANS suits to $1995. 1 coupes $1 195 to $1950 SPORTMODELS $1195 to $1525 Allprs'mfi o. 5. Flint, Mich, over-m! tax to be added. Tbe G. M. A. 16. - finance plan, I e most desirable, is available. BUICK MOTOR COMPANY, ’FLINT, MICHIGAN Division of General Motors Corporation Candid! Paeto‘n'es: McLAUGHLINoBUICK. Osbawa, Ontario amour Buick fiaiures «r Study this list of unrivaled Quality Features — f 1 f Loveioy Hydraulic Shock Absorbers, front and rear Smart low-swung Fisher bodies Form-fitting tailored sent cushions Rich color harmonies. inside and out Bullet-type headlamps Adjustable steering column The Buick Double-Lock (One turn of the key locks both ignition and steer- ing wheel) The famous Buick Sealed Chassis— with every opennng pert sealed in- side I dirt-proof. dust-proof, water- tight housing Triple-sealed engine Vacuum cleaned crankcase» One universe”! iqint, instesd of. two or three—and automatically lubricated Buick mechanical 4-wheel- brakes Torquectube drive Five-bearing surface steering gear Controllable-beam headlight Balanced wheels ' ' Air filter Oil filter Gasoline filter Thermostatic circulation control Automatic belt control Vacuum ventilator (no oil dilution) Spark plugs sealed against water Engine mountings of resilient rubber - 0th from on rear Series I 15 five- ssenger two-door Sedan—In ides csrfor general fam- ily use. 3:195 f. o. b. Flint, Mich. BUICK WILL BUILD THEM MY '3 Barge a..." . FRE sadneofing 34 I c Ht (I? c- A 59195.5“ E SI [05 salesmamrimgrys umromderoctfot sounder 1: mm processes. Special “and! You OWNow! '1 "" ozPencm- I5 , Baeriré mcmssnsnoco” mum-1m _ Earliest . ; I lsJung'eWnynheed.Bi red _ [lee Q " " ‘1 early as July (th. Not ngenrher obe _‘ :-‘ had anywhere. As a special ofler will ; send you a pkt. of this Tomato and pkt. , of bbnge, Carrot, Cucumber. Lettuce, Onion Radish,Parenip. Superb Aster-s . and Everlasting Flowers. all 10 . kn. for 10¢. Duo bl“ for Ichith enehprder. Honey back not satisfied. Catalog of Seed Bargains FREE. Sand tachy- l. W. lung Seed Co. Sta. A Randolph, Wh- Tomato, Gatesjtee: * ,5 . IIIBOHR‘ Postspaint' for itself on 20 acres. WRITE FOR PRICE ON NEW FARM TOOL Hundreds sold. Fits any old or new, wood or steel, 2, 3 or 4 section barrow. Peoria Harrow Grass and Alfalfa Seeder sows all grass seeds to uniform depth. Low down; no waste. Cuts work in half. You cannot afford to waste your time and seed. Pays Buy only the seeder— . so cheap everyone can get one. ‘ . Special introduc- tory price. Write quick. - .Peorin Drill and Seeder 00., , 8047 N. Ferry Ave" Peoria, Illinois. Compare These Samples " of Alfalfa One frdn'i a field inoculated with Nod-O-Gen. and l. the other from an unin'oculated field. Not only larger and better stands are obtain- edbyinocu- lation, but the nitro- gen is ob- minedfrom the air in- s t e a d o f robbing the soil. Clover andAlfalfa require anabun- dance of nitrogen, especially for r their early growth. Better stands, bigger crops and higher feeding value in the hay are obtained by inoculating the seed with a vigor- ous pure culture of the root nodule from the air an convert it into plant food for the use of the crop. Every experiment station recom- mends inoculation. None-GEN surest ante Easiest nitrogen gathering root nodule bacteria—the right kind for each legume crop or group of crops—scientifically prepared in America’s leading commercial soil bacteriological labora- tories. It is put up on special food jelly in patented stopper bottles that prevent contamination and at the same time provide ample airandfood to preserve life and vigor indefinitely. Every four-acre size bottle contains over 500 million live bacteria. Nod-043a is the easiest of all inoculanes to use. No special tools or utensils are needed' inoculation takes but five or ten minutes and can lie done any place that is convenient when you are ready to sow. Results are sure. HOBO-GEN INOCULATION is produced in the soil laboratories of The Albert Dickinson Co., and sold everywhere by dealers whohnndle Dickinson's "PINE TREE” Farm Seeds. If your dealer doesn’t have NOD-O-GEN, mail the coupon below with a dollar bill, and n four-acre size bottle of NOD-O-GEN will be sent you at once, postpaid. . u.— a. ‘c Apum cullureof N NOOULE EAUERJA '3” Forlnscuialmg “I h‘ 14' ..— .. .v. “a“: n.. u...- ..-.....u u. u-qu- -o- ........ ....... _ . $1.00 . brings , / $100.00 .. .._.. -—. 11-... .:2:: . .'.. ..... The Albert meltinson Co., Box 788 A, Chicago, Ill. ‘0. N Please send _______ .four-acre sire bottles of NOD-O-GEN for (namedcrop) ........ to: I Name I R. R. or Box No. ...................... ... l M” — ~.~—..- ‘--...— ~u- ..-. 5.... i255 c" ssso P130: " '. Go ‘ 3.5.; .1 new manual (0 M , (was. ‘ “"“P‘: ‘ m: 4, -. ~.-.. 4; 7 ‘ Buy NOD-O-GEN now undbecuxe of having it on hand ready for plant- ing time. It keeps indefinitely. Town | (Be sure to mecify name of crop to be inoculated) bacteria which dgather nitrogen . flod-O-Oen is a pure culture of vigorous , ' READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS TO KNOW WHAT IS BEST AND WHERE TO BUY MudgflxdamuooGlmd'flh “doubvnbe tooth dings—at no "House’s-arc!” Permanent—m2; “LAWN file fion‘sftrueflon costs yog no me than flu-e 1' B V p r ago-’13:? 33.21%: auminer.‘ vac-u. bulldlnrboo'k—free'. wru- “muool’ank 8| Silo Co. Dept. K Kalamazoo. lids. Savelabon— Increase Profits If you grow grapes or her- ries you need thegood work and labor - saving advan- tages of the horse - drawn John Deere-Syracuse Grape and Berry lloe Withiuyoucsn do the work ola hoeerew. Itdoesathorongh ' job killing weeds and stirring the soil. Its consistent use prevents mildew, increases the quality and quantity cube fruit. You can set this hoe to throw toward oraway from the row. Its hoe bhdegets underthe foliage- no danger of damaging the vines. You can easily guide it around posts and vines. A spring-tooth cultivatorctuchment can be hm nished extra. A Huber "Supreme” will reap- bigger profits from the grain you - thresh. Built oversize thread»- out to assure maximum capacity. . Made in five shes—e size (or every threshing requirement. Send for your copy of the Huber “Scpresne” Gabe. THE HUBER moo.» ms nuns: use. co. Union, on. M ml n," me «new- ‘ (It then It on warm: regarding rellll crnsr and he will be and to servo-you Ill you are a bald-up subscriber.)- motun' me like amend, L write 'to not. out awn won-I ml! will I” U“ ‘0 m TEXT: f‘There is one body and one spirit." Ephesians 4:4. “ O.y0u believe that .the Churclf , of Christ ' , visible, * * * or is it a spiritual union working in each individual?" This mall-bag query involves ele- ments; of such general importance. that the writer would make open reply. First of all, the question implies choice; 'that is, that‘ we may either look upon the church as an organ- ization, a piece of human machinery; or as a spiritual order without a cor— porate body. But this conception is faulty. Our text makes the Spirit and the body as one; as comple- ments. Repeated references in Ephe- sians show the church to be a body of belieVers in whom is the fullness of Christ. Sea 1:23. And 3:11 is an orderly picture of the church or- ganization and its purpose. Only the other day an intelligent grand- mother said to the writer, “I believe that religion is the neighborly spirit, and in this sense I am religious. But I don’t believe in the church as a necessity." There are multitudes like her. And among these skeptics are many educated and cultured. Doubtless, some of these are down on the church because of clashing denominational machinery and the deifying of creeds and sacraments. We empathize with these folks in part, but. cannot join them. ' Jesus says nothing about the church in name until he finds a. Peter, 3. "living stone" with which he begins to build it. And then he picks up another and another until he has a few rock men masoned up into a. visible, brotherly structure. This he calls the church; and declares that it will be built up into such strength and proportions as to overcome the gates of hell. When we follow this simple story .in the Gospels, we are driven to the conclusion that wher- ever and whenever men confess faith in Christ and allow His spirit to con- trol, they irresistibly are drawn into a concrete and organized fellowship. This is the end of Christ work on earth. But this institutional work is to go‘on through His disciples. Be- fore he departed, he charged the twelve with responsibility of disci- plining the nations in his name, and baptizing them. Baptism, in itself, implies at organizational home for the Spirit, of which it is the struc- tural door. It is the visible rite of induction into the new Christian or- der, the church. The genius of this plan has since been proved again and again. The Master’s words, “For where two or three are gath- ered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them,” have in numberless communities, taken on actual form in the corporate body knoWn as the church. In this way, the work of Christ has moved along through the centuries in organized and therefore orderly fashion. Jesus is an organization ‘ Christ is no ghost. He is embodied in “His church. . And this church is the social institution that has been » called out from the world for. the very necessary purpdse of proving to the world that a. social order can be, i built upon the basis of loving co- operation. But more than this; that in such society only is there freedom and permanence of life. But in the matter of cooperation. many of us are mlaw unto ourselves. We readily admit that the idea is al- right, but we refuse to clothe it with a body: an organization in and. through which it can work. In the . writer’s community, the business men and a. few farmers have been trying to organize a milk coopera- tive for some weeks, but it is not yet accomplished. “Why? Much selfish indifference. Lack of fellow-feeling. No social conversion. Fundamental- ' ly, cooperation is the fine art of‘ neighboring. It is the result of the higher urge to friendliness and social unity. The profit motive alone is in- adequate even to a. satisfying busi- ness fellowship. An agent of a Southern railway, which was having labor trouble,'declared to the writer that he believed that only the spirit of Christ would enable men to get along together. Verily. ' And so Eddie Guest sings, “He is the riches who “ can say,~ I have neighbored down the'way.” This is illustrative of our need of that highest of social orders, the church. One cannot find his earth- way alone. Surely, one must see that the law of the complete life is' social. It is conditioned on a fellow- feeling and brotherly love. The so- cially austere soul is a terriblylop— sided creature. He had just re- turned from his homestead cabin in the far Canadian North. seen another human being for nine months. His looks were proof. What a ragged, stunted, and incomplete man! “W'ell,” said he, “I didn’t want to die up there all alone.” Of course not. But neither did he want ‘ to live any longer alone. None of us does, and none can. Our physical, mental and social well—being is brought about through merging our lives with others. This calls for th organization of society. God made . us, not for self and solitude, but to live together in a social covenant. God is no anarchist. Malachi 2:10. ,Now, it will be admitted that the highest order is Christian. The Christian has the spirit of Christ. And no one need be in the fog as to What the Spirit is and what it will do. His acts have been long written. The Spirit of Christ is the spirit of loving helpfulness on behalf of men; all men. It materializes in fellow- ship and cooperation. It brings men together into a common family; into the “one body.” This one body or church provides the necessary work- ing nucleus to the attainment of uni- versal brocherhood. The purpose of the church is vitally put in the Mas- Ma _._.___..._....a_..._.._..._r._........__.._ _.Lm.~-.....m..._._ . y. . ,. . . . . mmroéwlnmnax . ' . 3 m moot." in“! (sebum z» m we . n { He hadn’t ‘ l; . 25 Rhode Island Red hens recently. com is sourced disease. " ' a“ baptism. "We all” constitute the church organization. All this is ac— tualised in the realm of the Spirit. XWe are many in‘one for the purpose of giving the World an example of a , perfect social order. Wherever Christ’s spirit is, there is his church. His spirit is related to the church as the blood is related to the physi- cal body. Without either there would be no body; but with either 3 there must be a. body. The 'church' ‘ is to be understood, through the l Spirit, and the Spirit gets substance in the church. .Of course, the church is a. visible . organization, and it is necessary. It ‘ is Christ’s organized instrument for .‘ imparting his life to, society. And society cannot be saved without it. 3 Join it. You are not where you be- ‘ long until you do. (granular-nuns . F. a a reward of o to the pol-eon reopen: In for arrest on eonvlctlen of mono on v ammo y om - subscriber. and $25 reward where other 03:. fruit. strain. or tram my to the value of $10 or more are taken. Write In for complete rules governing menu of rewards.) Rhode Island Beds Disappear.— E. Y. Ellis, living near Morenci, lost Some one forced their way into his chicken coop. Officers are investi—~ gating. Steal Geese—Someone visited the barn of Major Phillips, of Phillips— ville, one nightand carried away sev- eral geese.- Mr. Phillips has offered a reward for the return of the geese and will make an example of the guilty party if caught. Send Them Up, Judge—Judge Vreelan‘d, of Plymouth, believes that chicken thieves are the most despis- ed of petty criminals and only stiff fines“ and sentences Will cure some of them. He has given some of his medicine to several thieves that have come before his court. Active in Montcalm County—- Early one recent morning two Dear- born policemen saw an automobile~ traveling without lights. The officers stopped the car and discovered the two men operating it had some stol- en geese in their possession. Further questioning brought out the fact that they had stolen considerable poultry in nearby territory. » Had Stolen Chickens—Searching for chicken thieves Sheriff Kamfer- book, of Grand Rapids, found a large quantity of chickens in the basement f‘ GET THIEVES AND FBAUDS EAR EDITOR:—I appreciate your ability and grit getting after chicken thieves, and also other petty thieving. I hope you will have an abundance of good luck run- ning down the night hawks of all de- scription‘.—J. H. Bury, Jackson County. of a. house in that city. He arrest- ed two young men who seemed to oc- cupy the house, after close ques- tioning they. confessed that they had stolen the chickens, from different farmers. . They were also found guilty of breaking and entering a store. , ,_ V . 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Work- — &§"A .A-‘IIZIt‘I' n" m ' mi. .inin lflifcfuhbiofi'uu. gulf. n 1’34?" clove a personal-reply by me J . ' “THE onannnls-r's PEA'YEE TO A . BEE : By Herbert‘Nafziger UZZ around, buzz around little bee, I am placing my trust in thee. Carry life-givingpollen from bloom to bloom, , Carry hope and good fortune and banish all gloom; . . Buzz around little bee, Much depends on thee. Buzz around little bee, buzz around, Let the fruit laden limbs touch the ground; Oh let us have fruit in bountiful heaps, 0h bring in the joy that a good harvest reaps. Buzzaround little bee, Much depends on thee. AVAILABLE NITROGEN LEADS TO APPLE CROPS HE business of growing fruit is being, placed on an efficiency basis in such rapid fashion as to be almost bewildering. Take the revolutionary discoveries in the how and wherefore of feeding trees to make them bear. Kraus and Kray- bill at the Ore- gonyStation showed us the relationship be- tWeen available nitrates in the soil, accumula- tion of carbohy- drates i n t h e buds, and blos- som formation. " This started the ball rolling and threw the white light of knowledge on that mysteri— ous habit of biennial and irregular bearing in‘apples. It also led to an enormous increase in the use of fer- tilizers. Patient experiments in many‘ states then proved that quickly avail- able nitrogen applied early in the spring is the most important fertiliz- ing element. Why must it be quickly available, and why is it best applied early in the spring? Here observations on the importance of spur and terminal growth dove-tailed into the picture. The fruitfulness of an apple tree in general and of its fruit spurs in par- ticular was found to depend largely on. the amount of annual growth made by the tree. This growth is most efiective when it takes place early in the season. But early in the spring the ground is cold and the supply of natural nitrates in the soil is low. That is why the nitrate fertilizer should be applied early (about a month before blossoming) and explains why the fertilizer should be in quickly available form. Another advantage in having the fertilizer quickly available is the fact. that its effect should be over by midsummer. At that time tree growth should slow up and come to a stop, to allow proper ripening of the Wood for the winter’s siege, and give the well grown spurs and shoots a chance to form their blossom‘buds for another year. Incidentally the use of fertilizer was found to be of great benefit in increasing the set of fruit. It instills strength and vigor into the leaves which surround each blossom clus— ter, and these leaves in turn feed the blossoms and enable them to set fruit, even though some of the seeds fail to develop because of faulty pol— lination. ' , 4 Still another benefit came from' the use of nitrogenous fertilizer, and that was an increase in the size of the fruit. A recent study at the Michigan station showed that 34.2 per cent of the culls produced by Michigan apple trees are culls be- cause they lack, size. This certainly demonstrates the importance of size. The increased use‘ of fertilizers also brought its problems. The trees became thick, foliage was heavy, and the apples showed 'a tendency to ’ Herbert anliger lack color.‘ 3 Lack;of-\COlor only our? phasized the importance ofstoppinx growth in midsiummer‘anu . _ _ ed another chapter to the story .51 cover cm 3. Furthermore; to" ' ‘ : Eamnnnnn‘n'rxuzrdn II ' royal-ulna the fruit and orchard. 11.... "go‘s-Won is paid In 'odyanoo end you wlll ro- d thrust“? j 1 on booed l telligent pruning program came into practice, and the old fashioned tree butchery went into the discard. ' The old way was to "open up” the trees. Great gaping holes were cut into the bearing surface which not only reduced the yield, but also caused a jungle of - suckers to spring forth to defeat the purpose of‘ the pruner. Another effect of the removal of large branches was the failure of the large pruning wounds to heal. Decay set in, heart-rot resulted, and the‘ life of the tree was cut short. The modern method of thinning out small branches, especially in the tops, to allow sunlight to filter through the trees is a better way. This way of pruning has led to a. much greater appreciation of the im- portance of sunlight and its effect on the fruit spurs in the lower parts of the tree. Studies in Wisconsin were especially helpful here. ‘ These studies not only showed that spurs cannot produce in the dark, but also showed that the stimulating effect which the cutting itself had upon the remaining spurs was of great assis- tance in causing annual bearing. Thus one discovery leads to an- other. Observant growers, are re- sponsible for some. Experiment sta- tion men are responsible for many more. These patient eager search- ers, many of them working in un: deserved obscurity, are ever studying Nature’s ways to find the truth. Some will say, what good comes of it? All of these discoveries only lead to increased productiOn and lower price. The fact of the matter is that the discoveries lead to in- creased efficiency. They place a greater value on intelligence, energy, and up-to—dateness. The man who puts the discoveries of scientists into _ practice- increases the quality and GETS BETTER EAR EDITOB:—-We sure enjoy reading the many helps that are in the M. B. F. It gets better each time. We surely enjoy reading how M. B. F. helps put the chicken thieves in the right. coop. “7e are paid up for five years.. We think a lot of M. B. F.——Horioe Lewis, Me- costa. County. quantity of his production per'acre. But by so doing he greatly reduces the cost per unit. His taxes and other overhead expenses are divided among many bushels instead of. a _ few. His labor bill is drastically 're- duced because he produces more per man. And last but not least he in- creases the consumption of his pro- duct by giving his customers a better article at a. lower price. Inother words the modern farmer is follow- ing in the footsteps of big industries. TRANSPLANT IN SPRING I wish you would please tell me whether grapes can be transplanted after vines are four years old, and when would be the best time to do it.—A. H., Berrien Springs, Mich. F you have a. large number of I vines to transplant we would say that you could expect better re- sults by planting afresh with good strong one year old plants. One would expect however that a plant only four years‘old would standa better chance than one more aged, especially if the four year old vine is not large for its age. You may possibly expect the best result by ,,doing the transplanting very early in the spring. Trim the vine back very severely at the time it is trans- planted and keep the ground around it worked up to prevent drying out. __________———-—- f: . I have been a subscriber for a' long time. I would be lost without the M. B. F. It helps me with my farmvalso in busi- ness.——J. J. -V.. East: Jordan, Mich. Am paid up four years in advance and. am very much pleased with M. B. F. It h '9“). “the :wtual position and needs Elmmnwhot- the‘iacgnone. organs _, ..... p.,. .. - ._ _._ ch. . WP”). j (gnaw, ' .betterco oriafidllerenhhndmim- m i - ' ~7 “ ‘-" . _ ._ , - , ‘ “3’“ ”a“ ,- i I} 3 3:“- ' -' WI.- ‘: -': ,1, Units. just what the farmer needs. Am pleas- : that youtry your best to place before . *w—“*.—_fi -—---.~..~—-——-— A... r . .;' . , \ , they drain about two rods on each I apart. E cultural Engineering. M. S. 'I know of is to ofiuse the overhead ~ of sticks about 7 or 8 feet above the ~ G TILE » I would lthe to know how to tile- with three er four inch clay tile as I never laid any..——O F. G., Big Rapids, Michigan. WOULD SAY at the outset that for ordinary drainage I would not use less than 4 inch tile. Three inch tile have not proven very satisfactory for farm drainage as they very quickly fill up. Of course, the first thing to do is to determine whether there' is satisfactory fall. This can be done either by a eur- veyor or if it is only a small job, a. carpenter‘s level can be used. Set the carpenter’s level on a box orbar— rel about in the 'middle of the line and sight on a stick at either end. In this way the amount of fall can easily be determined. The tile should be laid about 21,5 feet deep on an average. Of course, where it has .to pass through hills or where there is not sufficient outlet, this may have to be varied somewhat. In laying the tile in order to keep them true to grade, the best method line method. ith this scheme sticks about 4 feet are set on the proposed ditch about 50 feet apart and a cross bar is put on each pair bottom of the proposed ditch, and a chalk line is stretched upon these grade bars by using a 7 .or 8 foot pole depending on the height to which the grade bars are set. The proper depth of the ditch can be measured at any point by simply measuring between the chalk line and bottom of the ditch.‘ In laying tile care should be taken that joints be fairly water tight, al- though in heavy clay ground this isn’t so important. Tile lines may be used to drain out depressions or holes in the field or put in parallel lines to uniformly drain a level area. It should be remembered~ on lekl ground that tile will not drain to any distance on either side of the line. When tile are laid 2% feet deep on comparatively heavy clay, side. 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Remit by check. drs. . monei-order or registered etter; stamps and urr n t first-clue mail "g" 50%- r‘gceinvedyomm We acknowledge Address all letters to MT. CLEMENS. MICHIGAN Advertising Rates: 55c eper agateu line. 14 lines‘to the column Inc h 772 lines to the Flat clee at out and Auoto rulesele Atdvertlslno: We oder special low rates to reputable breeders of live stock and poultry: write RELIABLE ADVERTISE R8 . will not knowin acctept the advertisin of any rson or . We all} firm who we do not eve to be thoroughly honesty an reliable. Bhoul d any reader have anv cause for complaint 3 inst an ad- vertiser in these columns. the ublisher would sppgciate n: im- mediate letter bringing all fee to light. In every case when tngsa __ sa:y saw your advertisement in The Mich gen Business Farmer! It will guarantee honest dealing. "The Farm Paper of Service" WE INCREASE OUR REWARDS EARLY eighteen months have passed since we made our announcement that we were declaring war on the rural thieves in Mich- igan, that we were posting a thousand dollars to pay out in rewards of fifty dollars to put these thieves where they belonged—behind prison bars. Looking back over this period we are pleased with what has been done. While we have not paid out the entire thousand dollars in re- wards we have spent three times that much in our fight against these sneak thieves. Many of them are now serving time in State prisons be- cause of our work while others have been forced to leave Michigan. Besides these there are many who stopped stealing and found an honest way of earning a living rather than take any chances when there was a price on their head. Last July we added five hundred dollars to our fund to be paid out in rewards of $25 where other farm livestock and property Was stolen, exempting automobiles and trucks. In 'his issue we are pleased to announce that we are now posting an additional $2,000 and all rewards in the future will be $50. As we stated when we entered this fight, nearly a year and a half ago,” we are in it to stay until thieves working in the rural communities are looked up or they get out of the State and we ap- preciate the fine support and cooperation we have had from variOus sources. CIRCU LATE A PETITION N this page in the last issue we had something to say about raising the gas tax to four cents, ' issuing permanent license plates good for the life of the car and eliminating the weight tax on pleasure cars and small trucks. Further, we said you would hear more from us in this issue. On page four we are publishing a short article along with a heading for a petition which we wish you would cut out, attach to a sheet of paper and cir- culate among your neighbors to get. their sig- natures. Can we depend on you? _Thanks, we knew we could. KEEP FARM RECORDS RMER BRISBANE couldn’t get ahead even though he did work hard and try to save. He was anxious to pay off the mortgage on the faann and he wanted to send his children through college, but it seemed as though it took about all he could make each year to keep up the interest on the mortgage and pay his taxes. Rather discouraging, and you cOuld not blame him for feeling down—hearted about it. His good wife suggested that he have a visit with Neigh- bor Jones who apparently was. making both ends meet and then some; in fact, the family had many of the luxuries of life the Brisbanes bbiild not afford. She understood that he kept a record of Senses. The story :61: i: learned that evening appears. on page three 61'- this issue and we are sure you will find it very interesting as well as instructive, ‘ especially if' you hays not been in the habit of keeping records. »~ THE COLLEGE RUMI‘UE - AST fall there appeared on this page an edi- torial suggesting that posSib‘ly .the purpose for which the Michigan State College was founded was being forgotten. It was originally an agricultural college to train future! fanners but it looked. very much to us as thought it was rapidly becoming a. university with. agriculture only one of the many subjects. No longer was it a farmers’ college. ' Since then, considerable water has flowed under the bridge, so to speak. There has been consider- able dissension, both within the College and with- out. Some of it has been politics, some has not. Some got into the hands of the‘daily press, some did not. Among the facts brought out is the one that the College is about $250,000 in the hole and there has been a reorganization of the power to handle the funds. Further, President Butter- field has gone to Europe on a leave of absence for six months and Dean R. S. Shaw has been, appointed acting president by the State Board of Agriculture. Rumors are that President Butter- field intends to resign before the six months are up and _.M S. C. will be looking for a new head. He denies it. It is too bad that this trouble could not have been ironed out privately because it will not help the reputation of the College, but now that it has become public property let us hope that it goes through to a finish and when it does clear up agriculture at M. S. C. will regain the position' it once held. HAVE YOU A SIGN? AVE you one of ouf‘ Protective Service Bureau ‘ signs posted up in front of.your' place? If you haven’t you ought to get one. Many of our subscribers have had them up for years and they report that most of the agents traveling through the country do not stop at their house like they used to before the sign was put up. THE BUSINESS FARMER and its work are known to most agents, especially those defrauding the farm- ers and they have no love for it. Thesign 1114 dicates that a friend of M. B. F. lives there so they pass on to the next place. Clip the coupon'on the opposite page,.fill it out and mail to us with ten cents, preferably' in stamps. Your sign will go outby an early mail. APPRECIATION OMEONE said, "Absence makes the heart grow fender," and there is a lot .of good old-fashioned truth in it. Take the man from Holland, Ottawa county, who recently re- turned from a visit to the Netherlands, the land of his birth. “I’m sure glad to get back to this country, the best on earth," was his comment when he again set foot on American soil. He found many people idle in his native land, get- ting only 25 cents an hour, equivalent to 10 cents in our money, when they did work, and at the same time paying 85 cents per pound for the cheapest cuts of meat and 35 cents per pound for sugar. "We are in clover compar. with my native land," was his verdict. V It would; do most of us good to take a trip'to Europe or some other foreign clime. we would appreciate more what a. wonderful country we have in our_America. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF US? HAT do, you think of M. B. F. and its various features? Is it meeting yourneeds or is there something lacking? We want to know. If there is any way that,it can be im- proved in your estimation we will greatly appre- ciate having you tell us. Our rapid growth in cir- culation indicates that We are satisfying a large per cent of the farm folks in Michigan, and many of them write and tell us so, but if we heard from all of our readers perhaps we could do a better job than we are doing at present. Nothing is perfect but we want THE BUSINESS Fumes to be as near perfect, in your judgment, as it is possi- ble to make it. Lists hear from you before you get into the midst~of spring work. . . Big Rapids, Mich. I hired man he told me, "Say, it you sup-, pose while you're away, that I'll do two men's work or more and out cold beans from out the store. you’d better-"guess again.” Then that blamed ‘mun walked out and left' me first! I told Mirandy that, by 'inm, I guessed we’d have to stay to hum, Miami ain’t noplnce for. us without someone at home to, fuss around and, keep livestock fed, the cows all milked, and 'ev’ry head 'of swine filled up with good hot swill; I thought we'd best stay home until ,we got a man L we could trust, then no for Florida or bust! Mirandy said my‘ neighbor. tried an ad in that there classified department where the want-ads be. “If he can get one why can't‘we?" Mirnndy says; and so I wrote the editors: little note and says, “Just get me, if you can, a good old-fash- ioned hired man; the kind that don’t chase round all night, but works and keeps the stock fed right.” I, put that letter in the 'mail, I hope that want-ad will avail to .get "som9__man that is a peach; so we can go down to Palm Beach! 1 V - PETER PLOW ’S PHILOSOPHY o »’ There is a sayin’ the worm will turn, but I guess that don’t refer to this corn borer, ’cause he keeps travelin’ straight ahead. Either I read it some place or somebody was tellin’ me, that they have about wiped out the crime wave in Scotland by chargin’ for board and rent in their jails. When does a fellerls popularity. reach its great- . est highth? Just before. election-time and when he is thinkin’ ’bout buyin’ a car. All the politi-1 clans are after him one time and the auto sales- men the other. I heard of lots of lazy men but never did I hear of one quite so lazy as a fellow what just moved into our community. He’ s so lazy he rides in an old flivver so he won’t have to knock the ashes off his cigar. _ ~\ The other day a car went 225‘ miles an hour down‘ in Florida some place. I wonder what's become of the fellers that used to say fifteen miles was travelin’ too fast and the auto never would. become popular with folks because it was so dan- gerous tiavelin’ at such a. high rate of speed. Guess they got smothered in the dust long time ago. Ever hear this one? The boss on a buildin' job had just hired a darky who appealed to be the lazy kind He watched the cblored boy slowly walk up to a ladder and begin to climb it. “Here, » where you goin’?" the boss called to him. “I’se carryin' dese bricks up do ladder," was his reply. Not seein' any brick the boss says, “Brick? What brick?” “Well, to de Lawd’ s Sake, ” exclaimed t/he darky, “if Ah didn't done fo’ got dem brick. ” ‘ ~ 9 comets synN'rs .\-_ 'Nov. 7- 10. e—Greenville Potato Shgw, Greens. 2.37.9 ville, Mich. . Nov. 14- 16 -———Western Michigan Botato Show, ' .1- “ 7&6 Burmesaifiarmé ”.Jigifgfihi“ It 13 an 1mm WI “I“ [18* 0'1"“th mflllm'h “Panama“ I! WEI-If! om Wm no obmai‘fu - "1" We“ olnallm ls "iéflhor to The sunfl- .2._—-1'ho 'olalm- Ir ., .. “org“ diata’ri its"? 5"“ étzmm 3"“ on: hand and mi “Addendum all lattara. gI’vInIIM lull i’IiartmIiIaia. amounts. flai, «on ad- can label fromt t'ha tron t or to prove that you are a fluid-ups 0:” bar...” 'I'III BUSINE'S: OFIRHER“ Oolloofilofl IO! - R 'rhiiu Fdlifllh as ‘ll'otal: “um rIibor Ozallm .FIIod” ’ Amount Involvoc . Irotsl Hummi- I lmount Secured menu «In- : ern'vG PRODUCTS COMPANY HE Viking Products Company, ~ garth, Judd. Fees are set at from one dol- lar for a local resident fur buyer’ s license to fifty. dollars for a whole- saler’ s license. flare for a non-resident local A fee of fifty dol- or trawling dealers is required, while .a resident traveling license costs 'ten dollars. ‘ “For the most part, ” says Mr. Ho- “the majority of persons en- gaging in the funindustry promptly secured licenses, and have kept .‘ themselves clear from charges of " handling Michigan fur 0112 which there is a closed season, while some have had to face judges and pay ' heavy fines for being delinquent be- z fore they believed that the Depart- ment intends to strictly enforce the law. There is no excuse for handling “illicit fur in Michigan, nor no sound Leipsic, Ohio, has been deniedi the use of.,the mails _by the pest 'mi'fice department because it was be- lieved that it was defrauding .the public. an individual by the name of C. J. Ericson, advertised ln~ the wanted" columns of newspapers for Women “to do steady work em- broidering, etc., pay guaranteed.” An investigation revealed that they ‘Were disposing of a so-called “work-' ing outfit” at $1 instead of supply- ing employment. It is estimated that the promotor of the scheme “help , The company, operated by. book more than $25,000 from wo-. {men within a-year. 'Those 25,000 women will probably remember to investigate before they invest next time. MIGTT Fm DEALERS PPROXIMATELY 20 arrests and, about the same number of con- victions of dealers operating without proper license as required by law, and others trading in illicit furs have been reported by the Law Enforcement Division of the Con- servation Department so far during the present fur season, according to George R. Hogarth, Acting Director. The 1927 legislature passed an Act (number 185) which requires \all persons, firms and corporations engaged in the, business of selling or dealing in the furs, hides, and pelts of fur-bearing animals to procure from the Conservation Department a license to operate. ,All ,moneys re- ceived from the sale of such licenses ' blue eyes. re pn why the renewal of annual licenses" should be delayed.” ‘WIIERE IS WILLIAM DONOVAN? N January 12th .a. man, giving the name of William Donovan, ' of Newark, N. J., appeared in Easton, Pennsylvania, putting up at the best hotel. He then Went to the newspaper office in that city and had an advertisement inserted in the paper. The ad read: 4 SALES- LADIES—to canvass and take orders for articles that every housewife needs. This is a straight salary and commission job. Working hours 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. Also would like to hear from lady who has car to take charge of female crew. Apply Hotel Huntington, 5 to 8 P. M. Ask foer. Donovan.” One lady with a car applied. Mr. Donovan asked if he might borrow her car a short time to make a few deliveries. S‘he consented, and ap- parently he is still delivering pack— ages because he has not returned the car to her. Further he skipped his hotel bill. Donovan is said to be between 45 and 48 years old, has blond hair, partially bald, is about five feet two or three inches tall, stout, and has The car he took was a blue Essex sedan, bearing Pennsyl- vania license No. 40—145. If you see‘him report it to the nearest of- ficial .at once. Just a. line to thank you for your kindness in the matter of the company which I wrote to you about. I received a. check in full payment yesterday. ——Reader. Order Your Protective Service Signs Now MEMBER ‘ ’ «r» WAN“ BUSINESS PaommSnmchunsm ‘sign for our readers. ever it has been posted, has acted as a warning to fly-by-night agents and other folks trying .to defraud the farmers. They had better lay of! from farms R many years the Michigan Busi- ness Farmer has been providing an attractive protective service This sign/ wher- posting this Protective Service Sign. Crooks and frauds don’t like to take chances with an institution with a reputation such as the Michigan Business Farmer has built in the past ten years. _ . Order one of these attractive two-color metal, waterproof signs, 11% inches long by 5 inches wide; post it in an attractive place in front of your farm and watch the crooks pass you up. It’s worth many tinies its cost. saves you bother from agents who are not selling on the square and acts as a protection from thieves in general. We sell this sign at actual cost to us-—no profit from our readers. as only ten cents and receive your sign by return mail. protected re Send Your home is rewqrd money, WHETHER THIS SIGN IS DISPLAYED 0R NOT—but it. acts as an additional. warning to thieves and crooked agents. This spring and summer crooks will be active on the rural routes once more; display the Business Farmer Protective Service Sign and they won’t even stop at your door! - . . The Michigan Business Dunner, _ {_ Mount Clemens, Michigan. . ‘3», 1 '1 ”COUPON I1 5W' I enclose ten cents (lilo as} cover cost of some include » .1 a - Please send me by return mail one or your Protective Service c 11.411.» 1); N9. - I1 :57." ' ' l. \ h ‘ i I i . .l V ‘ ’_ - ' ,.1 , ~l ‘ ' M nodd‘uIOQ‘OUIC‘ODIOEICOOII‘ODOI ' ;. l ' s - . "- ' . .. . éoqoaoo ”Ego to: the’game and fish protective WHEN the Federal Bond & Mortgage Company 3, i makes a new customer, it has usually made a ' ’- ‘ lifetime customer. On our books are the names of hundreds of men ' f and women who have found that this company’ s A securities are safe, non—speculative, liberal in yield --high_grade in every respect. So they have gone on purchasing these bonds, year after year, with consistent advantage to themselves. Federal Bond & Mortgage Company First Mortgage Bonds are leaders 1n the investment field. We be. lieve you will find it profitable to investigate them before you purchase any securities again. Mail the coupon below for information concerning our current afierings. FEDERAL BOND ("a-IMORTGAGB C0. Griswold at Clifford T . (D e tro i t; SIX PER CENT FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS Federal Bond & Mortgage Co., Detroit, Michigan am Please send me information on your current offerings. ' Name L Address SPEAK A 6000 WORD for The Business Farmer when writing to advertisers. It helps us and helps you fltIGHBOR DAVE 5m- ”1“" pa per days If COSTS a lal’ ‘1' SET" ready "for One a Them mrplane Tllgk‘l's T Europe bill” Dill says Th, COST—a SlarTIn’ aInT‘ n‘l’ edo WITH you galln There upKeep after- you 3'1" SWIFT-ed . buym fence I5 liKe Tl'ToT Kecpln up ordinary fence is, what maKcs IT Too expenswe. use. _.==::’ . BuT L_2_C_E§_D "Fence Is d1fi‘crefi'liIL5l'3 Several T171125 as Ian because Th“ Coatin’ 15 seven Times heavier, an‘ ‘f'our Times «Ker. An’ Codfin IS lead- 14 “Ki: 1' Tcllyo u ow you can 33' o IEADCLAp fence for less 1’an your ordinary fence been <05 m’ . VII-IT? In Tomsh'l‘for I928 (Erodes. ” Address 4T1?) , EIGHBOR DAVE P5 A“ "° “PK."P‘ i «T THE/lawman WIRE 6.1.), Be Sure an erTE. Mom-IDSVILLE, VVA. lil‘l\“l\l\l\l\ - FIRE ' LIABILITY we have good openings'for representative farmer agents. THEFT C0l7LlSION PROPERTY DAMAGE Write !\}'\ A All 1'. 1-\ i\l.\ 1'. _ Insurance Dept. - - MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU 221-227 N. Cedar St. Lansing, Michigun . WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR HE two years following the em in which the Muirs sold out and came to Colorado, and bought a ranch offer on the we“ side of the divide, were hard ones. Not only did the bottom drop out of the cattle market - but a hard winter killed off a large number of their cattle. Things looked I ' "my dark, especially to Doug Summers, an orphan who came west with the Muira. and Mary Muir, because they were planning on getting “.1“ just as soon as they could get a little money put aside. Doug being ex- pert rider. decides to earn some money riding bad horses. A prize of $1, 000 1 . is oil'ered to the man who can ride Catapult and Doug has his are on that , -- '_ rumba memoran- and one: poultry ‘ STOP THIEF! The Business Farmer Shows Way To Stop Chicken Stealing HICKEN THIEVES are taking ’a million dollars a year out of the C pockets of the farmers of Michigan! We are going to do all we can to stop these thieves and want to know if you are going to work with us. In fact, you must work with us if this campaign is to , be a success. Knowing that our rewards can not entirely solve the problem we have given much thought to it and now recommend the following things be done: 1. rhutm good looks on the doors of all buildings and either bar windows or fasten e sh 2. Install bui-glar alarms. 8. Mark poultry with an identifying mark which is registered with poultry dealers, sheriffs, and The Business Farmer Protective Service Bureau. 4. Organize county-wide anrn- thief associations. 6. Learn to , a so When necessary. 6. Enforce poultry dealers’ reglstratlon I’law. UP TO YOU These things are what you must do to protect your property! Locks can be bought at any good hardware store. Burglar alarms can be made by anyone who is at all handy and we will gladly furnish free of charge plans .and instruc- t1ons for both the silent and gong type alarms. THE GONG ALARM We recommend the gong type burglar alarm which is installed inside the poultry house and makes a lot of noise when released, It is a thief scarer rather than a thief catcher because Mr. Thief will run right out from under his hat when it goes off. Being all inside the coop the thief can not disconnect it so that it will continue to ring until turned off by the owner. If you do not care to make one we will sell you a complete outfit, ready to instzatll,y 'for $6. 50—me bare cost of manufacturing and shipping. OUR POULTRY MARKER There are many poultry markers being sold to the public but none of them seem to be entirely satisfactory. Also we found most of them tdo high in price for the average farmer. So we got in touch with a Chicago manufacturer who guaranteed to make the kind of marker we had in mind, putting a different num- ber on each one so that no two farmers would have the same mark, supply enough special prepared ink to mark a hundred chickens and pay mailing charges to the door of the purchaser for $1.50 each. sellmg these at just what they cost us, because we want to serve our readers in every way possible. THE BUSINESS FARMER’S Poultry Marker can be bought only through us as we have the exclusive right to sell it in Michigan. If you urchase 9. BUSINESS FARMER Poultry Marker you get a mark—the initials “M F" combined with a number—which is sold excluswely to you so that no one else will have poultry marked like yours. It is a simple operation to apply the identifying mark on the web of the fowl's wing and it lasts for the life of the bird We keep a record of all the markers we sell and supply this record to all poultry dealers and sheriffs in Michigan as well as chiefs of police in the larger cities. Then when a dealer is offered any poultry he can determine at once if it is the rightful owner who is selling it. If it isn’t and the party cannot produce a bill of sale from the rightful owner then the dealer can have him arrested and charged with stealing. That means that thieves are going to be careful about taking marked poultry. Order your marker TODAY before your coop is visited. It doesn’t pay to lock the barn after the horse is stolen you know. BUSINESS FARMER’S POULTRY MARKER AND GONG ALARM help the farmers of Michigan protect their property from thieves we have arranged to furnish them with BUSINESS FABXER Poultry Markers (these can be used for other livestock) and burglar alarms of the gong— type at cost. The marker costs $1. 50, incwluding enough special indelible ink for 100 birds, and full instructions on 110 to use. Extra ink is sold at 35c for 100 gang‘s), 65c for 250 birds, and $1 00 for 500 birds. Remember, your name and the number of your marker will be registered with poultry dealers and sherifls in Michigan. -— ORDER BLANK The Business Farmer Protective Service Bureau. Mt. Clemens. Mich lgan Kindl send to me the following with complete directions for use. 12 teen to mar rk all my oultryw Business Farmer' s Poultry Marker and will not sell or transfer this marker or allow lite housed except on my poultry or livestock. ... ................. Business Farmer Poultry Markers Q .8150 ”ch .................._Exh'a Ink (100 birds, 36c; 250 birds. 65c; 500 birds‘ $1)........................... ..... $6 50, each nnsfnnid ................._.Gong- type Burglar Alarms @ (Batteries not inchuied. Three dry célls need 8‘ I up including my checker money order for Name ' ‘ . Address, ' V We accepted his offer and are , The cost of the gong alarm is . prize. (Continued from the February 18 issue) felt the impact. In fact, so savage was the collision that he was buried against the boiler head. but recovered in time to see the car hurtled straight for the hundred-foot drop into the river. CLEAR up there on the engine, Doug . The lights went out with the shock, and the roar of the motor was stifled. A wo- man's wild scream rent the still air of the night. , When the ear lights went out, leaving everything in darkness. Doug wrenc‘hed open the fire-box door. and the reflection from the white-hot fire inside illuminated * the scene. He saw the car, hanging perilously on the brink of the drop, miraculously bai- anced. And as he leaped down from the engine toward it, Terry bounded into the path of light. “Quick, Doug!" he panted. of wind will send it over." From within a blurred voice sounded. “Is it safe to get out?” “Be still 1” hissed Doug. “Don't move till we tell you to. Silence in the car!" “What are we to do?” asked Terry thru set teeth. "Hold on her till we petrify?’ “13m going to let loose," replied Doug. "Can you hold it alone?" “Try it !” gritted Terry. ever.” Doug rushed to the engine, backed the plow around the bend, uncoupled and hacked to within a few feet of the car. “Stay with her," he said, “till I get this chain on the axle, then let's see her get away." Inside the car. "A breath "But not for- a woman’s quavering ’ voice emitted a lament—confused, inoc- herent, shrill. “Be still in there i” ordered Doug rough- ly. “We’ll have you off in a. second." “Aye, aye, sir i" said a second voice, a girl’s, it sounded like. As Doug swept the chain around the axle, he decided that whoever it was, she a plucky miss to speak in that tone at such a time, or else didn’t realize the peril of their position. However, he wast- ed no time in voicing such sentiments, but fastened the chain securely and tied it to the coupling pin of the engine. He opened the throttle and yanked the big car back into the middle of the roadway as tho it were a. tin toy. “Anybody hurt in there?" asked Terry, making out, now that he had time to look the car over, four or five persons. “Nothing serious, I believe,” said the voice that had spoken first. “Shook up and bruised a little and scared.” The speaker stepped out, a bit unsteadily, and Doug realized Sid Stutgart. As Terry stepped up to him to steady him, he smell- ed liquor strongly. "That was a fool way to round a curve on these roads,” he said bluntly. “And it's a bgiger fool thing to drink anything stronger than water when driving on them." "Don’t rub it in so hard, old chap,” said young Stutgart, ruefully. “I know it now. What are we to do?" He looked at a smashed front wheel and crumpled fender, bent axle and demolished head- light and windshield. “You’d better come up to our place for the night,” said Terry in a softer tone. He leaned over the back seat and address- ed the occupants, two of them: “If you folks are able to get out, we can take you to our place on the engine. It’s only a little ways.” “Oh, I’m a1r1ght " said a sprightly young voice. “Feelings hurt worse than anything else. Are you hurt much, moth- The other person managed a shaky laugh. . “Scared sill)”, I guess. is about all," was the answer. “When I saw that engine be- fore us, and the cliff—” Stutgart introduced the women as his sister and mother, were on their way to the camp to get ready for the general influx that would come later. Terry decided Stutgart must :have been more than ordinarily drunk to 'start over such a road at such an hour, but didn' t say so. “A steam engine,” he explained apolo- getically, after a glance at their dresses, is not exactly suitable to ride in with that kind of clothes. If you people won ’t mind waiting. bring down the ca. " “Never mind”, said the sister. "I would like the experience of riding on a steam, engine once. anything. _ She His plans do not meet with the approval oi the Muir family. explaining that they . I can run- up to the house and Mother won’t mind, and Sid oughttobethankmltobeebietoridson. - . JI J Doug, and Terry saw the rest of them .-aboard. Mrs. 811th suppressed a little scream at the clamor of the engine when Doug opened the throttle, but they made the trip over to the house mfely. and Terry hurried in to arouse the folks. It was a pretty scared looking trio when they were inside the lighted living- room. ,. “Bad out you've got there," said Doug. indicating an ugly gash on young Stut- gart’s forehead. Stutgart wiped at it with a blood—stain- ed handkerchiet. “Windshield got ‘me there," he said cheerfully. “Fay, you’ll have a peach of a black eye by morning. How are you, mother? All together?” "I believe so," she said, laughing nerv- ously and sinking into a proferred seat. ‘fThat was a. lucky spill,” said Doug. “I mean," be corrected hastily, “It turned out luckily." There was a general laugh at that sally , then they all got acquainted. It was late before they retired that night; mightly late for farming folks, and June nights are short. Whén Doug did finally roll in beside Terry, he groaned thankfully. "Mister Man i” he ejaculated, "but won’t it be tough rolling out in the morning !“ Terry snored by way of reply. They were up, however, breakfasted and out in the field before their company arose, wrestling with the four-foot sage brush. After two trips across the field, Doug gave it up and admitted that the brush Wouldhave to be got rid of before they could plow it. “But it’s not the engine’s fault,” be de- fended. The plow is too light. It jumps ' out of the ground and drags along and gathers brush like it's hungry." “What else could it do?” demanded Terry. “That stuff keeps piling up under it. It would raise Pyramid peak itself,“ you'could drag it across this field.” Doug was star“ g at the plow with corb rugated brows. "‘ at we need,” he said, is something to drag over that brush heavy enough to break it off that won’t 1111 up. Something that will just naturally wear it out." “When you git all this brush wore out, ” vouchsafed Mort, Who had come out. there’ ll be a whole lot more were out too. including a steam engine and a. boy or two.’ “Dry up i” said Doug. "If you can 't use your head to help us out here, keep it shut!" He studied some more. “Tell you, Terry,” he said, "let’s take them plows and beams off and use the frame. It’s heavy enough to'vsfear this stuff out. And after we get it broke off and uprooted we can take-the hay rake and kind of bunch it and then burn it.” "we can try it," said Terry. "We’ll never gel: a crop out it we have to clear this brush by hand ” Doug’s idea worked. That great frame slid over the brush without gathering enough to dampen its weight. and crushed »a11d broke the brittle stems to powder. Once across and back and a. fifteen—foot swath ‘was ready for the. rake. When they came to the house for din- ner they found that their company had called a car from town and gone on up to their camp. They were not regrettul of this; they were busy. . 'They broke the brush on the entire field, almost two hundred acres, in a little (Net a day. Mort followed with the hay rake, bunching it, and Mr. Muir followed him with a torch. Dust, flames and smoke darkened the sun. The boys came out coated so deeply with dust. that they were hardly recog- nizable. Mort swore many a. lurid oath before he had finished his job, and came thru with his clothing torn to tatters. , “I lost two teeth in that job," he .vowed, “one eye, nearly, all my clothes, and the rake has got just two whole teeth in it. If there’s any more of this kind of work, Terry you can tell your paw to hunt a ' new hand. I’ll be quittin‘.” “One good thing about you, Mort," said Doug, grinning widely, “is you always wait to holler until a job is done. Now, most people .start in before they begin the job. It’s all over now; we can put '- them plows back on the frame and turn this upside down in a. week.“ _- It was worth seeing Straight across ‘ the field the old engine would tow that plow, leaving a broad strip of freshly turned black dirt in its wake. For two weeks. at least. therfarmed in a big way. At, the aft: of tligtbtlnlle, three hundred ’ 'tfi an arey were sleep But they went ,1; in: to. do it. .311er , likefi'to endit ridingup on the ram and me whetdhe cattle are doing?" ‘ “Suits. me," said "Doug. “Guess it -'in-' ludes‘ Mort, too. don’t it?" c “Of course,” said Mr. Muir. “Mort especial ’n ( . The taxes of them set out after dinner. Doug settled in his saddle with a sigh of satisfaction._ / ‘ “Never knew a saddle to feel so good.” he said, ”or the feel of a horse men Mort grinned. “Wait till you set down in a sadde cinched under Catapult’s belly,” he said.‘ “You won’t be sayin' anything about a saddle feeling so good then.” “Is that so?" said Doug. ”What do _ ou know about old Catapult!” y “Plenty." Mort assured him. - “When you set down in s. saddle that’s on him, or trytosetdown init,youwanttohesure to have a piece of rubber to bite on, and you'd better have one oi these new-mat- ick cushions to light on, too, when he do- cides to separate from you." “Just so’s you're around," Doug sl— sured him “I muldn’t ask for marine softer." ‘ - Mort giggled. " “Trouble with you, Dong" he said, is that you ride a; little, but you know it too blamed well. You ain’t never had ' to reach for the sky very high yet. When your time comes, you'll m all the higher.” “I don‘t aim for that time to cmne." said Doug, “not as long as the cinch holds." Mort turned to Terry. "Listen at him," he jibed. "Thinks that there’s nothing but a broken cinch that can pile him. Why, Doug, the Bar Slash Bar keeps a string of broncs, regular cow horses, any of which could throw you so high you could look over Mount 0m. Bight up in their corral by the summer camp. “We’ll ride up and look them over some day.” said Doug. "We’ll have more time now for a. while.‘ The first thing they saw after they entered the range was, a dead steer. Mort dbmounted and pulled out the en- imals tongue. Drew his knife and made an incision in the neck. - ~~ , “Poison,” he said briefly. “The blood is dark as Imp-black." ‘That looks like one our our steers“ said Terry. “Let’s turn him over so we can see the brand." They tied their lariats onto the dead animal's legs and turned him over. Brand, Bar Z Ban—their brand. Mort coiled up his larlat thoughtfully. “Poison’s bad this year.” he said admon- ishmgly. “Don't be surprised if we find _ more of them." “Suppose we separate,” suggested Doug. “and in that way We can cover more ground.” "Meet up at the old salt ground under the peak," suggested Mort. “Then we can tally up." Doug swung to the left and rode on. He saw few white faces bearing their brand, but great numbers of the Bar Slash Bar, also a few bearing a brand lWBO KNOWS OF A HEAVIEB LAMB? BUCK lamb, born February 43h on the lohn fun), in Midland county, weighed 13% pounds on the day it was born. How is that for n routine—Editor. strange to him. And he found dead ones. too, with appalling regularity, most of them bearing the Bar Z Bar. Evidently the southern stuff was not as susceptible as were the Herefords. He found Terry and Mort waiting for him at the salt ground when he came out into the little park then an hour later. Terry’s face was “very grave, and Mort was tailing. “Never heard of anything like it." he was saying. “Doug, we found sixty—nine head, all told. wearing the Bar Z Bar. How many did you find?" “Thirty," said Doug. “They’re every- where." . “Ahnost a hundred !" exclaimed Mort, “and we know we didn't find them all. Terry, kiss your wattle money good—bye this year. Be lucky to get thru with, breeding stuff." “Be 1110K? it we get thru at all." said Terry, dully. "This just about finishes us. I don't understand it." “They were starved when we turned them out," explained Mort; "ready to eat anything. The spring is late and the larkspur is the first thing that comes 011,, “and it always seems worse at a late spring. Besides, them dogies have cleaned the pick of the range.” ' “But they’ll all be dead in another month at this rate/f said Terry; “every hoot of them.” . (Continued in the March 17th issue) ‘ Grvmg livestock insufficient water is a common mistake in reading. Emcee, linarketing is as much the .Mera‘fljiflfi'memcient production, says Notethe shuppena etrating point on the The point on this tooth is reversible, giving it double wear. \ . tooth. head point. other spring tooth barrow. The teeth are very sharp so that they penetrate easily. It has the strength so stand up under ' teeth. tooth bare, wheels and frame are not only strong, but the smaller parts and connection are equally strong. Here is another advantage --it’s a combination horse and tractor barrow. For use with horses, assemble the levers on the rear of the sec- tions; for tractor use, simply change these same levers over to the front of the sections: Write us for our literature on El OLIVER CHILLED PLOW WORKS “Plowmakers for the World” GENERAL OFFICE and WORKS, SOUTH BEND, INDIANA KILLING gum 6M - \\ it ‘ ‘ ‘ work such as seed bed preparation and other work where a spring tooth barrow is used. , OF COURSE you can’t take an ordinary spring I: The Oliver alfilfa tooth has a narrow grass . - shank with a spear is also an ideal barrow for regular field S 00th barrow and handle quack grass like you can with the Oliver M] Special Quack Grass Harrow. But at the same time you can doall of your general field work with the} M], so that when you buy it you are buying a double-penpoee barrow. There is no other barrow like the Oliver M]. Its work in complete eradication. of quack grass is a revelation to farmers who own it and to their neighborswho see it work. THERE IS NO OTHER HARROW LIKE IT—You will not need to worry about ’ , the M] dogging—it has more clearance than any " . hard usage in the heaviest growth of quack. The quack grass control. ‘— Doubles Yearly Profits EHickoom,Sauk Coun- ty, Wis., made this remarkable record by improving his stock and feed- ing modem rations. Six years ago he had 23 cows, and made $1009 over feed cost. Today with only 17, he makes $193 2-! Why feed and house and care pauses” ‘ This free book will help you do the same -— by feeding modern rations for higher profits PER HEAD. t" _ With 1/3 Fewer COWS NEXT to the sun, the wind is the greatest \{owTo Maid Money Verdi ."9 \XNSE‘ ED \il' \l The Universal Protein Feed Sorextmanimals,when you too can make a better living with fewer head? Send for this big free book of practical rations. Learn how Linseed Meal pro- vides plenty of protein—qual- ity of protein — conditioning value....Mai1tbeoouponl Power for Pumping Water power for raising water. The sun lifts a tremendous quantity of water every day which is scattered in mist to the ends of the earth. The wind, with a few simple pumping devices, will lift fresh water from beneath the surface of the ground and put it right where you can have it ,- when you want it. With '. _ modern equipment for agi- ‘ » A pumping water "v * there is nogood . » “”4”“ reason why any .. ' . "‘ family should be — 5 .. without an ample supply of fresh running water at very small expense. Of all the devices for pumping water the Improved Aste- Oiled Amour, the genuine self-oiling windmill, is the most economical and most reliable. It runs for a year, ” or more, with one oifingand requires frantically no at- tention. ust put it upand let it run day and night. , The gears run inofl,ina . tightly enclosed case, and ' every moving part is con- stantly lubricated. The Ante-Oiled Aer-our runs in a breath of wind, but is so strongly built it canbesafelylefttomn , in the severest storms. The Auto-Oiled Aermotc of today has import. ant added improve- ments which make it ‘ more deerdedly' than everthebestofitskind. ' Forfldt WWW ' AERMO’I‘OR CO. 2500mm "w“ ‘ - . 4.".- .5. 1.1.1 LINSEED MEAL EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE, .. Fine Arts Bldg, Hilwaukee, Wis. Send free booklet No. 313-3. “How to Make Money Feeding Linseed Heel.” “. . .— - The New “£81.?ng Giticur, _-1 CK; Shaving FotTehdel-‘lfiaee‘s‘ ' mmm;hrnmpm . OME farmers go broke while others succeed, and .here’s a secret of many of the successful ones. They ' GET THE GREATEST POSSIBLE PRODUCTION OUT' OF EVERY ACRE THEY CULTIVATE. It costs just as 9 much’ in'time, labor, and seed to get poor crops as it - does to get good ones. It’s entirely a matter of proper ‘ cultivation. STUDY KOVAR CONSTRUCTION Look at the high arched tooth which the center hitch buries into the ground at exactly the right draft. , Com- plete flexibility of frame causes 'a hinging action of the teeth protecting them against breakage and preventing accumulation of rubbish from the field. Chrome vana- dium steel in teeth and high carbon steel in body make an implement without an equal. BIG SUCCESS IN MICHIGAN Every year sees more of these sturdy general cultivators and quack grass diggers in use in this state. ,They are proving to be exactly suited for soil conditions of this state. GET FULL INFORMATION Learn all about this cultivator for your crops’ sake. Write distributor or direct to factory now. W. J. HARDY, DeckerviIIe, Michigan Distributor “ _ ‘ Jos. J. Kovar 00., Owatonna, Minn. “The Original Quack Grass Digger” Please send me information of the KOVAR Cultivator: Name .................................................................. Address ...... State ....................... . V: ‘ ‘L . ' I . I" ' . . . . .. "v. . ‘ ,-. 4’ .. 1 . , . -' . u . 4.1 ”('4 ... , , fi . 9- '.~. . J . x . ( , ”I , . ‘ u - ;-’, . . j ‘ , ; vl ' .. ‘ _ , _ ‘ _. as . . > - v > . . I ’ . .« 9 ' .5, , . ‘ « . .. .‘ .. > . . - , . n “THE FARM PAPER OF SERVICE” . That’s us, folks. If we can be of serv1ce do not hesitate to write in. Advicecosts nothing if you’re a paid-up subscriber. The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mich. , .‘ m.,/A ”t new mom SELECTED sinus New crop, tested seeds, sure to produce. Sold for 58 years to satisfied customers. Prices reasonable. Extra. octago- free with every order. Eree— arge catalog with 700 pictures of vegetables and flowers. Send your own and neighbors addresses today. H. H. SH U MWAY, Dept.“ RockfordJlL Ev WKAB owns BEAN MARKETS AGE-NIGHT ~. EAN market reports, formerly given over the Michigan State ‘ College radio station,:.WKAR, ,- at noon, are now broadcast at the be- ginningof the station’sev'ening radio school programs. , The change was'requested by the Michigan Elevator exchange, the or- ganization which furnishes the re- ports. The reports are given now at 7:15 p. m., eastern'time, on Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings; at. 7:30 p. m. on Tuesday; and at 8:15 p. m. on Wednesday. \ The college station has also start- ed a series of broadcasts of Michigan State College student vesper services, each Sunday afternoon from Etc 6. eastern time. AERIAL AND OTHER QUESTIONS Please tell me how to make a ground or sub-antenna. Can com- mon aerial wire be used ’and how should it be insulated? Should I dis- connect 'my ground from set when using sub-antenna? Would audio transformers having a ratio of 3% to 1 make any particular difference in a. set using a ratio of 3 to 1? Please give trade name of good transformers. Will any five-tube set bring in clearly a 250—watt station in Kansas City with a Chicago and a Nashville station broadcasting on nearly the same wave length? Is the-three dial set of today more ‘sat- isfactory than the'one dial aside from the tuning convenience? Will be very pleased to hear from you.# C. S., Isabella County. HERE is no substitute for a good overhead aerial, and the strength depends upon the height and length. Loops, sub—antennas, anten- na plugs, etc., undoubtedly pick up some energy, but the signals will al- ways be weaker than with a regular aerial. Part of the radio wave travels in the ground and for this reason it is possible to receive radio signals in mines, in submarines, etc., but the reception is always poorer than above the ground. We recently had some correspond- ence with the manufacturers of the so-called Sub-antenna and they promised to send us one for experi— mental purposes as soon as the ground is thawed. The usual ground should be used With the ground an- tenna. . Once on a camping trip We made some experiments with tw0 grounds. One was. a wire thrown «into a~small stream and the other was a metal . ilar quality. . J rod .driveiifinto ’theigsfojund about" lit) * - .tejet. pawdsdrnm: .thexrvater. The aerial-gecnnectionipt fie‘receiver “was connected to L 91,193 ~. ground. and . the ,regular. ground: terminalito, theothsr. Insulated wire was used except the part «which was in the .Water; which was bare copper. This system gave very good reception although not as good as an overhead aerial. _ 9 -You could probably notnotice the difference between 3 to-l and 3% to ' 1 transformers ifgthey were of-simr- General ‘Radio, All American, Thordarson, Silver-Mar; shall, Jefferson and‘ many other makes are reliable. . ' ,. We doubt that you‘v‘vill be able ’to . get a 250 wattstation in Kansas'Ci'ty with any degree of reliability even if there were no interference. The average radio user, especially the women, will not take the; trouble to tune carefully and for this reas n the single control set is genera 1y more satisfactory than .a three dial set. Just as good results are possi- ble with the three dial set and per— haps better since it often happens in the cheaper grade of single control sets that the three ‘tuned circuits tire not exactly matched and so the sin- gle control cannot get the most out of each stage. 0 controls are; a good compromise. since we are slip- plied by Nature with two hands. 3 SET S'QUEAIVIS I have a home radio and when many stations are broadcasting and my set is at the highest amplify" g point it will shut off and when t e electricity is turned off and back fen it is alright again for a while. Pledse tell me the cause and how it can be fixed—A. H., Merrill, Michigan. F your radio set squeals whenl‘it I “shuts off” by itself, the trouble is probably due to too much re- generation so that any slight dis- turbance starts oscillations. If it is a regenerative set all you need to do is reduce the tickler a bit, or if‘it is a set with radio—frequency ampli— ‘ fication adjusting the neutralizing condensers should fix it.- .9. On the other hand, if the set sounds‘entirely dead when this hhp- pens, the trouble is almost sure toibe in some of the battery connections. Look for a loose wire or dirty clip on the storage battery. It some times, happens that the grid leak will jar out of place."W_‘hen this happens, the detector tube will “block” on very strong signals-and the set will seem to, shut off for a second and then come back on again, 5 (sometimes—repeating this action with ‘ a. popping sound. :: ‘ THE FARM GARDEN 3 By 0. H.'HARDEH (Question madly Answered) ‘ 5" Swinekilledonhigh- ways; dan'y cattle dead frombloat;pure ‘ bredsmixedwithscrub SENSATION One of the most productive oats in cultivation. '15 bu. and upward per acre are frequent with large white gigaty {liabimhiwifigifing fit-46 {gm er measure u. o e 3 es qua y. e, , , fire making an exceptionally low price in quan- sues; bad blood between neighbors- 'tities- Y0“ 8110““ b 351mg?“ twatggsewfitg theseareonlyafewofthe manypenal— ar arage - 8 ED COR N Cap? Excellent welders ties a poorly fenced farm must bear. and never fail to ripen. Choice seed as low R. BRAND FENCE as 82.75 bu. Also barley, grass seed, soy beans ’ “Balvauneoled"—copmr Bearing etc. Write for circular and samples. Theo. Bur‘t & Sons, Box 20,Melrose,0. Can’t be meted up from the bottom, or broken down from the top, when properly erected. Full length, picket- like stays, wavy strands and can’t-slip. knots keep it hog-tight and bull-proof. No other fence can match “RED BRAND.” We put capper in the steei,like old-time fence. This adds years of egg“ wear. Qur ' tented alvnnnal proc- welds on an extra heavy coating of zinc. This keeps rust out and long life in. - _ What has beenyqdr ex- ' , penance With or withOut fence? We will pay or more for each letter ' tweuse. Write for de- tails.cetal and 3 inter~ ‘ econ; is that ten homythers have e . .mpremomymth - . tight m , ‘KINKAD': GARDEN TnAc'ron over and Power Lawnm A Practical. Provcn Power Cultivator for Gardeners, Bubnrbanites. Truckers. Florists. Nurserymen. Fruit Growers. American Farm Machine. ism-33m Av'. S.E., ' . . gunmen. Illa" . treatment in regard z ‘6 soil,’ temper- .erag'e ransacked nat‘knpwledge. , ~~Excessivaidifeatv and¥.:erowding of - SEED FOR NORTHERN MICHIGAN ‘I would like to know where to get the best garden seed for planting in northern Michigan._' Also I would like to know how to grow house plants, if the soil should be rich. I planted some flower seeds I 'pur- chased in a package in Ohio and when the plants came up they were slim and seen died. I planted them in regular soil and sand mixed.— —W. L., Hermansville, Mich. OST any of the seedsmen adver- tised in THE Busmnss FARMEE should be able to provide you with seeds adapted to Michigan. It is more advisable however to pur- chase seeds separately‘rather than in ' collections as you . did with your house plant seed. . . . These. collections often , contain seeds which are not adapted to the use of the amateur plant-growing. Too ‘ often they re uire :a' varied , strife and.fertilia§r;9tw11§ch the av- plants .in the ”seed row would. tend: to ' ‘ worth thejaflaé gyms. never.» Successto 'prod'uceggl'im weak plants. s ch as f““*“: ' aspen . ~ . 13' ‘ ‘ ' neath. I cannot account for the plants dying down unless the 902i} used was infested with the fungus disease known as “damping off."~ ' This will often have a serious effect on plants grown indoors although the field from which it was taken produced good farm and ., garden crops. Inasmuch as some flower seeds germinate best, in clear sand ‘or quartz sand and others require a .moderately-rich soil it would be im‘- possible to recommend a soil as you do not state what plants you are growing. After germinating most plants thrive‘best in a moderately rich. sdila , ’I -, . You bet I take: great pride "in reading ' your paper. It is good, very good—AB; F. Shively, Manistee County. , ~ i ‘ Pleasechange my addressto Olivet‘as~ We are"moy~ing.to .afai‘rn there. Could not operateaéta'rifi without the help awe” ' get tromzlg p. Fee—T; R. F. ,. Britcltardff mmeftorecast galone;xis. Q99.iels:, Barry County. 9..- ires- .. -- rs. in.) J,- 3.. i ~ V’s—K'fi‘fi-vren,“ . - .:‘ " . " ‘ 3“ 1 _‘ 1 Y 1 _ ., t , r < ;. p . . PERIENCE is teaching me» . new it seems to live in ‘a hos- ‘ ' . wpital. are sick but a very good place to be away from when.I One is well.” i ’4 ,_ 12'. Treaunen'ts for Smuts A farmer writes ~ Dear Uncle Nedz—Knock! Knock! May I come in. Uncle Ned? Oh, thank you?! dint wont to any a few words. Will you; please excuse me for. not writing sooner? You see, I in"; been ill with-n. very Eli Motto. Do YOUR Ear” Colors: BLUE AND GOLD. ooldandthoughtitlwrotewdlml mmmunwnmmtm . , cousins, not mentioning Mr. Waste Bask- . ct. I’m rather practical don‘t you think?- ‘1 1 Well. my presidential career is over isn‘t it? I think I have been a. rather lazy president and didn’t do .mueh to help the Club. It Uncle Ned hadn’t been one of the ofllcers this poor Club would have sank beneath the borders of the un- known. I have received many letters from mem- bers of the Club and intend to write to them all. Even though I don‘t live on a. farm I’m still a “farmerette” and We h-L‘..._....._.._ 10’ DE LAN' SAKE, WHO AM DIS? “Undo Ned and blessed chillens,” be- gins the letter that accompanied this picture. “bawdy! Atlas’ I’se don’ gone, nn’ foun’ a pitcher of mah se’f. A11 5110’ do admit I'se not maidens han’somo but you mus’ all adult '31; beauty am only a clear skin game, so ['90 not gwine to worry one bit ’bout mah beauty sleep. Yours for a. ‘darky’ day. -—Eathel Fay Sharp, Akron, Mich." Now who would of guessed it was her? couldn’t get along without the M. B. F. Still we hope to go on a farm soon. Well I guess my flew words are spoken, and I Wish the cousins and new officers at most prosperous and happy New Year. It is too late to wish you “Merry Christo mas” but I hope you all had one. I cer- tainly did. I made an eight day visit to Standish where we used to live. Loveingly, Mildred Darby, 1110 N. Henry St., Bay City, Mich. —-You are too severe with yourself, be- ' cause you were a good president. I am sure allot the cousins will agree with me on that. Let’s hear from you every now and then even though you have left the farm, ' - the first this were discarded at one-halt; the age the car will be whelr the a: is four times the present ago of the last tires. How old is the .drIvefl—E. J. Archer, Allegan . County. ' (Can you work this one out, girls and boys? Try it and then look- for . the answer which appears elsewhere in this issue. I will not tell you the page it is on, but you can find it it. you will look real hard.—~Uncle Ned.) ‘ . Riddles What not is the best with bread? But-1 ternut. f What nut reminds you of a dog? Shell- bark (hickory). , What nut do you dislike to have on your feet? Acorn. ' What not makes you think of baggage? A chestnut. at nut makes you think of a girl you know? Hazelnut. ’ ‘ What nut makes you think of a country in South America? Brazil. What nut bears the name of. a vege- table? Peanut. What nut makes you think of canning time? Pecan—Aron Marie -Harrison, R. 1, Bronson, Mich. Tongue Twat' ere Robert Rowley rolled a round roll round, a round roll Robert Rowley rolled roun . If Robert Rowiey, rolled a. round to 1 round, where rolled the round roll Robert Rowley rolled round?———Lousia Markham, R. 3, Athens, Mich. The cat ran up the tree with a large lump of liven—Walter Carlson, R. 1, Box 8, Tustin, Mich. ,/ A Game to Play ,BKD LIGHT HIS is a good game for younger child- Tren, and can be used with any num- ber. One player is chosen to be “it," and stands at the extreme end of the filed or gymnasi or large room. with his back town the center. The other players group at the opposite end. The one who is “it” counts to ten as rapidly and clearly as possible then shouts "Red Light,” and turns around quickly. While he is count- ing, the other players can run toward him. but as soon as he says “Red Light,” they must stop and must not move while he iss looking at them. If he sees a player move. be send: him back to the starting line to begin again. Then he turns round. and the game proceeds as before. The first player to reach the line on which “it" is standing, wins the game, and may be "it" next time. Another Letter from Our New President (In the last [issue there was a letter from Eathel Fay Sharp, our new Presi- dent, written betore she learned that she had been elected Now that the news has recahed her she has again taken her pen in hand to thank every body for helping elect her. Of course, as she is President even Mr. Waste Basket must be careful about gobbling up her letter, so here it is in print.——Uncle Ned) Dear Uncle Ned and joyous cousins:— Do I write too often and too much? But listen, just give me a few moments at- tention for I want to kindly express in mere words the' many, many thanks I tru- ly owe to all you dear boys and girls for helping to nominate and elect me as Pres- ident of 0111' Club. It was a great pleas- ure and surprise to see my. name on the ballot as runing for President, but I was greatly astonished when I ran to the mail I was real cold but I took agpeek before I left the box) for really and trully I did not expect to win. Just think of it, I am President, really President, which I least ever expected to be in my childhood days. , I have been a member for quite a few years, if my memory serves me right, I have been a mmnber for about eight years. I have the first letter Uncle, Ned put in the paper with my name in it. Say, wasn ’t I proud then, and- I never dreamed Our Page would grow as it has and I would become President. I trully pledge I will ever do my best in everything I do. especially for Our Page. " I wonder if Helen B. Kinnison was as I surelyhave takm much pleasure with M. B. F. since we have taken it for I have made so many friends through Our Page. One girl in particular that I wrote to, from near Lansing, came out to our place to get married, which was a'great sur- prise to me. There are so many other departments besides the Children’s Hour that I enjoy, such as the woman’s page, “Our radio," Rev. D. F. \Varner’s department, and there are some helpful hints in the advertise- ments if you will read them. I think the work done for the benefit of the farmer to stop chicken thieves is a wonderful help. I am sure it is one of the best things in M. B. F. but, of course, it is not the very best because our Children’s Page is the best, I positively know. I still have a few suggestions left yet, )Uncle Ned, and I am going to tell you box and opened the ‘M. B. F. (yes for all “ what they are. , First, as there are not many boys lets have a week some time just for them. 01' course, there are lots of boys but I mean not many that write to Our Page. Second, I suggest if we officers put our pictures on Our Page Uncle Ned must too. Don’t be bashful, Uncle Ned. I bet you weren’t when you ‘pmposed” and I bet you are just as good looking now; as you were then—at least you are just as - good anyway. I'm sure my lace 13 not my fortune by all means, but u km: 118 I'm respectful and keep a. good name what else matters? , Let’s all work with ”on“ W the “ Lordbleueaohnndeverymmdl hulyhopothattheu'mnotbeonexene from Our Circle when the no: and- for a. broken and: league as maggot):- ness for mouse. on sure 1‘ mnhalloatmmmIMtnve m . I HE ton Annual? museums ‘ ' T ‘vocatibnsi Agricultural ‘ High . school Grain Show was held during Farmers’_ -Week at Michigan State College under supervision of the Farm Crops Department. Over 40 Smith Hughes High Schools sent in samples for exhibit. One school sent in 50 samples, an- other 25, and several 10 or more. , The sample of grain was grown by the boy making the exhibit and was a part of his school project. Forty- seven samples of beans were exhib- ited in the class for white beans and it was one of the finest lots of beans ever exhibited at a show. Excellent exhibits of potatoes, corn, wheat, sweet clover, and other seeds were also on display. The list of winners and the schools they represent follow. 10 Ears Yellow Corn Class 1.-—-1, Geo. Leach, Marshall; 2, N. Colbry, St. Louis; 3, M. Dresback, St. Louis; 4, L. Crozier, Charlotte. ' 10 Ears White Corn Class 2.——1, Earl King, Adrian; 2, C. Dershem, St. Louis; 3, Wm. A. Weir, Hanover; 4, G. Hendershott, St. Louis. 50 Ears Dent Corn . Class 3.—1, L. Bedwerick, St. Louis; 2, L. Crozier; 3, Geo. Leach; 4, N. Colbr‘y. Single Ear Class 4.——1, Harold Kingsbury, Lapeer; 2, M. Dresback; '3, L. Bedwerick; 4, Ray Griffith, St. Louis. Wheat Class 5,—1, Maynard Secore, Eaton Rap- Ids; 2, P. Welsh, St. Louis; 3, M. Mellon, ' Grant; 4, M. Lelland, St. Louis. Rosen Rye Class 6.—-1, N. Schultheiss, St. Louis; 2, M. Leland. Oats Class 7.—-—1, N. Schulthesiss; 2, Ralph Ward, St. Louis; 3, Roy Grifiith; 4, Vol- Vey English, Breckenridge. Barley Class 8.—1, R. L. Myers, St. Louis; 2, Ralph Ward; 3, Carl Johnson, St. Louis; 4, Elton Foler, Mason. , White Beans ' Class 9.—1, R. L. Myers; 2, Grace Pope, Mt. Pleasant; 3, Glenn Rykert, Williams,- ton; 4, Leonard Clark, Breckenridge. \ Complete Schedule ITH the slogan “More tons per vz acre—Greater Profits” the Sug— ar Beet train being operated over the New York Central Lines in cooperation with the Michigan State College is scheduled to begin at Mason on March 5. From Mason it will go to Eaton county, then through the Saginaw Valley and Thumb district, winding .up at Monroe on March 17. The purpose of the train as out- lined by the State College Special- ists is to assist the farmer in produc- ing more tons per acre, to assist the sugar companies in full capacity op- eration, and to bring about a better spirit of all. Sugar beet specialists and soil specialists will make up the crew. Soils will be tested and recommenda- tions made on the use of lime and fertilizers. There will be charts and pictures showing experimental data on fertil- izers, time of planting, depths of plowing, thinning, and spacing, and cultivation, and crop rotations. Ev- erything that is known about sugar beets will be discussed on this train. One of the feature exhibits of the train will be a complete display show- ing all operations from planting the seed to manufactured sugar. Michigan is one of the leading sugar beet producing states of the United States, ranking from second to fifth according to the season. The past two years have been poor, and the state has dropped back consid- erably. With proper methods of production there is no reason why the state average of 8.2 tons per acre cannot be raised to at least 10.2 tons per acre, which is the av- erage for the United States the last three years. ' There is money in sugar beets when 12 to 16 tons are being.produc-_ ed and it can be done. There is little or no ,money in 8 tons per acre. ' The three car train-will be full or interesting exhibits and lectures and motiOn pictures will be‘given at each st'on-if. _,_ . .v . .No sugar .beet grower can miss, this opportunity. ., afforded by: . the Michigan-estate; College and the New .- 5: 1:4 . .4 'shouldf'be ready to 'sell ‘the following 13;: them in athe».sspsing. - . . ' y: Beans Peters, St. Louis; 4, M. Mellon. ,. SoyBeans Class 11.—~—M. Dresback. Field Beans Class 12.——Alf. Peters. ‘ Buckwheat Class 13.—-—1, C. Henderschott; 2, El- 'wood Walker, Dansville; Mend'on. , ‘ Vetch ' Class 14.—N. Schuitheiss. Alfalfa Class 15.—None. Sweet Clover Class 16.——1, O. Conley, St. Louis; 2, M. Dresback. ' Red Clover Class 17.—Roland Wade, Okemos. Alsike Clover Seed Class 18.-———None. Russet Rural Potatoes Class l9.—1, Lewis Koch, Millington; 2, Dayton Graham, Walled Lake; 3, Floyd Spencer, Lapeer; 4, Carl Nielsen, Lapeer. White Rural Potatoes» Class 20.—1, Gerald Tilsworth, Lapeer; 2, Lowell Harrison, Manton; 3, Ray Northrup, Breckenridge; 4, Arthur De- mers, Ironwood Twp. (Cooks). , Any Other Late Class 21.-——Bertha Horton, Millington; ' 2, Richard Paulus, Breckenridge; 3, Ray Northrup; 4, Lloyd McPherson, Milling- ton. .. Cobbler Potatoes Class 22,—1, Everett Harrison, Manton; 2, Charles Laxton, ‘Mason; 3, Hester Pop- our, Ironwood Twp. (Cooks); 4, M. Pot- teck, Dansville. Any' Other Early Potatoes Class 23.—1, Arthur Demers; 2, Ivan Harrison, Manton; 3, Walter Leseney, Mason; 4, Vernon Moldenheur, Big Rapids. Largest Number of Entries Class 24.——1. St. Louis; 2, Charlotte; 3, ”Lapeer; 4, Mason., Number of Points St. Louis, 190; Lapeer, ridge, 27; Manton, 24; Millington, 21; Charlotte, 15; Ironwood Twp. (Cooks), 15; Marshall, 14; Mason, 13; Adrian, 10; Eaton Rapids, 10; Okemos, 10; Dans— ville, 8; Mt. Pleasant, 7; Vicksburg, 7; Walled Lake, 7; Grant, 5; Hanover, 4; Mendon, 4; Williamston, 4; Big Rapids, 1. Won 2 9 ; Brecken- ol Sugar Beet Train York Central Lines, to get informa— tion to help him improve his crops. On account of most of this terri- tory operating on Eastern Standard Time, the schedule is madeaccord- ingly: Mason, Mar. 5, 2:30 to 6:00 P. M.; Charlotte, Mar 6, 9:15 a. m. to 12:00 nooh; Eaton Rapids, Mar. 6, 2:00 P. M. to 6:00 P. M.; Ches- aning, Mar. 7, 9:15 A. M. to 12:30 'P. M.; Owosso, Mar. 7, 2:00’ P. M. to 6:00 P. M.; Lainsburg, Mar. 7, 7:00 P. M. to 10:00 P. M.; St. Charles, Mar. 8, 9:30 A. M. to 12:00 Noon; Saginaw, Mar. 8, 2:00 P. M. to 6:00 P. M.; Auburn, Mar. 9, 9:00 A. M. to 12:00 Noon; Midland, Mar. 9, 2:00 P. M. to 6:00 P. M.; Stand— ish, Mar. 10, 9:30-A. M. to 12:30 P. M.; Pinconning, Mar. 10, 1:30 P. M. to 5:00 P. M.; Mt. Forest, Mar. 12, 9:30 A. M. to 12:00 Noon; Bay City, Mar. 12, 1:30 P. M. to 6:00 P. M.; Munger, Mar. 13, 9:00 A. M. to 12:00 Noon; Reese, Mar. 13, 1:00 P. M. to 4:00 P. M.; Richville, Mar. 13, 7:00 P. M. to 10:00 P. M.; Ash- more, Mar. 14, 10:00 A. M. to 1:00 P. M.; Owendale, Mar. 14, 2:00 P. M. to 5:00 P. M.; Vassar, Mar. 14, 7:30 P. M. to 10:30 P. M.; Vassar, Mar. 15, 9:00 A. M. to 11:00 A. M.; Caro, Mar. 15, 1:00 P. M. to 5:00 P. M.; Blissfield, Mar. 16, 9:00 A. M. to 1:00 P. M.; Ottawa Lake, Mar. 16, 3:00 _P. M. to 10:00 P. M.; Deerfield, Mar. 17, 9:30 A. M. to 12:30 P. M.; Monroe, Mar. 17, 2:00 P. M. to 6:00 P. M. ' BARRY CLUB AGENTS BEGIN DUTIES ARRY county‘s new club agent, Miss Beatrice Boyle, began her duties at the first of this year. She will give her time mostly to the interests of girls, enrolling them in clothing clubs in the winter and can— ning clubs during the summer. FEEDING CALVES FOR BEEF 'PRING beef calves may be wean? ed in the fall. If kept in the , ,feed lot during the winter, they spring-before .the’iiies and hot weath- ' ClassIOa-olf John Baxter. Brecken- ridge; "2, Carl: Rishel, Vicksburg; 3, Alt. ' 3, Jas. Gorman, r er-come. Do not try to use pasture \\A - : ‘.K=T=:Ht-E-.R If you want extra traction and long tread wear in addition to balloon me comfort, be sure you get this quiet-running new-type Goodyear All-Weather Tread If you lived in Akron Even if you lived in Akron, the world's rubber center, you could buy no better tires ' than you can right in your home town. For the Goodyear dealer .in your town sells the world’s finest tires—and sells them at prices that you can afford. When you buy from him, he recommends the right size and type of tire for your car, mounts it on the rim for you, and’fllls it With air. All during the long lifetime of that tire. he helps you give it the care and attention it should have to deliver you maximum results. Thousands of motorists like you have proved by experience that the combina- tion of Goodyear quality and Goodyear Dealer Service is the cheapest in the end. You enjoy the benefits Of dependable and trouble-free performance and of helpful local service, and you save money while you are doing it. Goodyearmakcs a tire to suit you—whetheryou want the incomparable All—Weather Tread Goodyear, the most famous tire in the world, or the thoroughly dependable but lower-priced Goodyear Pathfinder The Greatext Name 2'72 Rubber r. W assumaoodm m a Rubber 01:..an -_._ ' ) . - . ~ are ‘ . , , : changing leaves. but’t‘havea sign. very sure God walks in mine. -- ' rLANNING rim FLOWER ' GARDEN . .g': ._ ;' OW is the time to begin think- ? " ing about the spring and sum- : mer flower garden, planning the details ahead so that ,when the ac- tual planting season comes seed will . be sowed in the places where it will -‘_thrive the best and the blooms and foliage work most harmoniously into =i the beautiful whole of the garden. :Blending‘ colors in pleasant effects {in the flower plot is not as difficult Ian undertaking as it may seem at ‘first thought. All it requires is a ,little study. It costs not one cent "more and takes no more work. ’ Cosmos make a lovely annual bor- der. They are not only colorful, but :grow in such lofty profusion that .they make a very effective screen §for a vegetable garden or any other { bit of ground that you would wish to Icut off from the general view. Pe- :tunias and morning gloriescan be ; used for the same purpose. Creamy , and pink columbines, forget-me-nots, and early phloxes .grouped with borders or small rbeds of tulips. One must always keep in mind however, the resulting color.effect. Pansies, pinks, sweet Williams, larkspur, Canterbury bells, sweet rocket, asters, and verbenas are late summer bloomers and will continue to flower quite late in the fall, if all the blooms are kept picked. Large clumps of the intermediate snapdragons in their lovely shades of pink or soft rose will brighten many a plot or border. And further, the snapdragon comes early, often with the first bulbs, and lingers late. Snapdragons, however, lack one quality—fragrance. For this reason they need a companion flower. Stocks grow well with them, coming in many shades, and sometimes alsting many shades, and sometimes lasting through several years. The large double flowered ten-week night- scented stock should be tucked away in any garden for the evening fra- grance. Calendulas will carry on well all through the summer, if they are not allowed to. go to seed. We must give nasturtiums a place in the garden, too. Be sure to plant them in a poor, dry soil, so that they will bloom abundantly. For early autumn, we have zinnias and asters. The double—flowered dahlia—zinnias run through a wealth of rich shades, and make the late summer garden beautifully colorful, contrasting effectively with the In choosing asters, be sure to select a strong-stemmed variety; and, if killing frosts descend early, avoid the latest flowering ones. CAN MAIQE GOOD DUSTER DUSTLESS duster can be made at home which will serve satis— factorily. Soak clean cloths in a quart of water to which a table- Spoonful of kerosene has been added. Let them dry before using them. Cloths treated in this manner must be kept away from fire. ' HAVE CHILD’S STOCKINGS LONG TOCKINGS for babies should be from one—half to one inch longer than the foot. Cotton and wool or silk and wool mixtures are good for cold weather. Another fiber mix- ed with wool 'makes it shrink lessin laundering and makes it less irritat— ing to tender skin. AVERAGE DIET LACKS ESSEN- TIAL ELEMENTS DIET of meat, potatoes, white bread, pastry, butter substitute, and coffee lacks four essential vitamines and furnishes insufficient amounts of the elements calcium and iron, both of which are needed for ' ' body building and health, according " to statements of nutrition specialists at Michigan?- State College. The additions or substitutions ' ,gishould hes-museum, 9 above 3,176 our, 6883; yachts 08» sm- ooch.- and: butter.» mega 199d:- can often be. ~rlal h‘f‘s m prudent}: so much sewing! social, and econOmical. good citizens. terested in this community club movement. Yours for a better com- munity, - -- Aw . - . m t, my“ ~ " g EAR FOLKS: . Have you a wOmen’s ‘ U you haven’t, have you thought abohti‘flie need or one? If you ., are interested in better, living conditions, better frames, better 4 schools, better local and State government, undyon know ’of other 1 women in your neighborhood ,who are, then , why not meet together .at regular intervals to discuss these important subjects, organizing yourselves to bring about these much dpsired .betfle'rbconditions? Is your community everything that it should be"? Does it satisfy all the needs of its people? No? Do you bewail its shortcomings among your friends and family? Talking alone never accomplished anything; it’s action inspired by the “talking over” that brings the big results. And it is organized, cooperative action that winsall thebittlcs. You may think you are too busy to devote one afternoon in two weeks or once a month to outside activities. ‘ So much mending to do, There’s no reason at all why you can’t darn John's socks or patch Junior’s trousers While you’re outlining with your neigh- bor folk a definite campaign to keep the younger generation interested in home and clean, wholesome entertainment. rules and regulations against your finishing the handwork on your new house dress while you contribute your share of suggestions to the discussion on saving time and energy in housekeeping, and reap your share of benefit from the experience of your sister club women. Do not be pontent with being merely a ' Mothers’ Club, a Sewing Club, , a Civic Club, or a Social Club, but be all these things combined. Do not confine your acbivities to one aspect of the life of your neighbor- hood, but branch out and endeavor to take in every phase—political, Let these meetings be open forums for weigh- ing any problems that may arise in your careers as home-makers and The time you invest in such an organization will be amply paid for over and over again. selves but to your families and your community. Between now and the next issue of M. B. F., be thinking about or- ganimng such a club as I have suggested here, or expanding the one you already have to cover a wider territory. her, we will talk about methods of forming the community group, and in following issues we will outline constructive programs to pursue. Let’s stop talking and start doing! " In the meantime, I shall be only too glad to hear from anyone in- fW,‘ address mun-n: Mn. Annie Taylor. can The? lulu-u Fun-r. m. m. mamas. , There should be no kL You owe it; not only to your- i In the March 17th num- will supply the vitamins and minerals lacking in the first group of foods. The vitamins are needed for body growth, to build up resistance against respiratory, stomach, and nervous diseases, and to permit the body to utilize the lime and phosphorus pres- ‘I ent in foods. Lime is an eliminator of dental bills, and iron enables the red corpuscles to carry a full load of oxygen. The inclusion of meat in the meals three times a day is likely to result in disorders of the organs of elimi- ms. 10 soon DRESSING 6049.—Ladles' Dress with slender Hlps.———Cut in 8 sizes: 38, 40, , ,_ , . , 50_and 52 inches bust measure. ' A.44 inch size requires 4 179 yards of 39 inch material together With % yard of contrasting material for facmg on collar, and tab cut crosswise. If cut lengthwise 1% yard 15 inches wide is required. . The width .of the dress at the lower edge with phnts extended 1s 2 ‘36 yards. re. A 12 year sue company Dream—Cut in 4 sires: 083%10, 123‘ cm on collar. mains ,nlfisrisl. for belt. out Mums. “ ._ ’WFM—Outin‘lhu: 84, 88, 3, 4,2 and Adinches bust measure. A Bg‘inch‘1i16' requires 8 ’yards of 86 inch ma- “ “amen“,rpuausmw ”- us“ '1‘0 with his bindinc as will require 8% yards. . 001 PM ' Julius-cut in m: o s. 10 12 mi ms. 12')“: also rowing 195' :- , ‘7‘. . Ind 14 m requires - . - ' ' with 9‘ ard of con- 0 89 inch material ether y BE SURE TO GtV‘E SIZE ALL PATTERNS 13c EACH... 2 FOR 25c POSTPAID 1 ADD 10c FOR srnme MID gunman 1928 Fnsmon Book om from this or rm-mor much or The lulu-u fun-r. liq also . and-dorm DWI“,- Mahmud-mu , E , mmrm ,L..J _ - can You Remit—My grandmOther who came from Montana used tolmake what she called. “Ohmflf' (as' negro. I can spell it). It was made of boilodpotatoel which were mashed and formed“ into a dough with flour. This dough was rolled. out and put into a greased oblongpan and baked until brown on top. Sliced apples and bits of pork fat were part of the in- gredients, but I don’t remember just how they Were put in. As Tm Baum _FARMER goes all through the state, it may strike some Swiss family, amonxthe older members of whom someone ’mkht know how to make this dish. ‘It was mighty good; I know. I surely would like to try it and taste it again—Mrs. E. H. M, . Saginaw, Mich. . Infantile Paralysidéls Infantile paral- ysis Contagious? What are the first . stages of it, and what is a‘preventative for it. I have a fourteen months old baby, very strong, well, and active, but it is close by, and I want particulars—— ‘Mrs. W. B., Hale. Mich. ~ —Infantile paralysis is a communicable disease dangerous to the public health. The first stages of the disease are charact- erized by a rise of temperature and un- usually gastrointestinal disturbance. There is no preventative for it. The only thing to do is to keep the baby. away from other children and to keep it out of crowds—Guy L. Kiefer, M. D., State Commissioner of Health. Song Requests.—I wonder if anyone has the song, “The Old Rocking Chair. '—Mrs. F. S. Wants Just 0ne.-—I would like the song entitled: '.‘Little Black Me.”—Mrs. H. Clio, Mich. Folks at Our Hm Like—- (We are starting this little corner so that the families of THE MICHIGAN BUSI- ans FAriusR can exchangeitheir favorite recipes and «food combinations. What special meal or dish do your folks eat with joy when. it appears on the ta e? Write and tell us about it.) Spanish Diem—Dip a\ pork chop or a. partly lean piece of pork “in flour and fry. When done remove ,meat and leave just enough meat frying to make a good gravy. Add 1% cups of sweet milk and thicken until creamy. Add to this gravy, 1 medium sized onion [or morehhop» ped fine, meat cut up in small pieces, 1% cups boiled rice, 1 to 2 cups tomatoe- either cooked or raw. Season with.“ and pepper and let simmer together for about 10 min. Any bits of meat you may have left over from previous meals may be substituted for the above meat. This is very tasty and makes a very nice “Ono Dish Meal."——Mrs. H. R., Stanton, Mich. Favorite Songs ERIN'S GREEN 8110“ One evening so late as I rambled On the banks of a clear purling stream I sat myself down on a bed of primroaes, And so gently fell into a dream. I dreamed I beheld a fair female Her equal I ne’er saw before, As she sighed for the wrongs of her country As she strayed along Erin's green shore. I quickly addressed this fair female, Saying, “My Jewel, come tell me your . name. . For in this country I. know you re I. stranger, Or I would not have asked you the earns." She resembled the Goddess of Libertv And of Freedom the mantle she were, And she sighed for the wrongs of her, country, « As she strayed along Erin’s green shore. "I know you are a true son to Gramul, And my secrets to you I’ll unfold, For here in the midst of all dangers, Not knowing my friends from my foes. I am a. daughter of Danuel O’Connell And from England I lately came o'er. I have come to awaken my brethen- That slumber on Erin's green shore. Her eyes were like two sparkling (lla- .monds, ' Or the stars on a clear, frosty night. Her cheeks were like two blooming roses. . And her teeth of the ivory so- White. She resembled the Goddess of Freedom. And green was the mantle she wore _ Bound around with shamroeks and roses That grew along Erin's green share. In transports of joyfI awoke. - , Am: found I had boon-in u dream. l WWII _ are be ”£015er amtitandpu lishltunder Wflitconheused. , sail heItlnftlln‘lrethiscorneritu'u )- The new school ma ’31!!! was anxious to learn if any talent existed among her stud- ents, so on the second day of the school I - term. she asked: “Do any of you ever write poetry?” -For a moment or so there was silencelin the room, then a little boy toward the rear spoke up: “No, teacher. we can’t write poetry. We' re too young to get a poetic license.” ——Miss V. G. 7” What To Eat WASH DAY MENUS On wash daysoroteoningdays, do you and it annoying to-dmp.whatever you happen to be doing to prepare a. meal? I remember that my ‘Grandmother used to almost always give us an old— fashioned New England boiled dinner on the days that she was busy with the family wash. ‘Ve undoubtedly would not have had this so often. had she known of other one- dish meals, and nOWadays when folks are constantly oontriving new ways to save time and labor there are many such meals from which to choose, so that the family need not grumble about ‘ always having the same thing" on the days that mother is "too busy to hiss much." ‘ 1. American Chop Suey. Bran muffins. Cottage cheese and pineapple salad. Sponge cake. American Chop Suey.——-1 tbsp. fat, 2 onions sliced, 1 green pepper shredded, 95 cup rice, 1 tsp. salt, 3 cups stock. Try out the pork fatvwhich has been cut in pieces. 'Add more fat if necessary to make 2 tbsp. In this brown the onions slightly, add the shredded pepper, pork, sliced mushromns, and sliced celery. Put in the rice, salt and stock, and cook slowly from thirty to forty minutes. 2. Baked ham with potatoes. Cabbage salad. Biscuits with honey or jell. Baked Ham with Potatoes—Place slices of ham in frying pan. Fill almost full with thinly sliced potatoes or as many as are needed). Sprinkle a little flour and a dash of pepper through potatoes. Pour milk over this until just covered. Bake in an oven slowly for about 45 minutes or or » mnmmflfit amount? was lmwean 1 “P mat “0°“. “Peek 0’ ‘pennerlithm. drippinssltwpbread .. u . cup spaghetti, '2 m coaxed that, 1 can crumbs, 1 tbsp. butter, 3!. tsp. salt. Boil the. spaghetti broken into one inch pieces in '. water until tender. Combine with cooked meat, tomatoes; meat stock. drip- pings, salt and pepper.- Place in a but- tered baking dish, cover'wlth .‘buttered crumbs, bake until brown. 4. Chili Con Carne. (diced apple and celery). canned pears. Chili Con Com—J lb. cooked kidney beans, 1 lb. hamburger, 2 large onions, 1 tbsp. butter, 1 qt. tomatoes, Chili powder to suit taste. Salt. Brown the onions in a large frying pan with the but- ter, then add the hamburger. After this has browned, add the tomatoes and the kidney beans. Season with salt and as much Chili powder as may suit the taste. Let simmer slowly for one hour. 5. Corn beef pie. Spinach salad. Prune whip. Con Beef Pia—Alternate layers of raw potato’ slices, finger lengths of carrots, sprinkling with. flour and add dots of. but- ter, salt ‘31:?! pepper. Repeat these layers until the dish is full. ‘ Lay very thin slices of fat salt pork over the top of the dish. Finish with buttered crumbs. Add half milk and half meat stock. Bake until the potatoes are tender. Serve hot with must- ard pickles or any other preferred relish. Waldorf salad Cup cakes and Children should have candy. as dessert for a'meal, not at all hours of the day. When washing windows, add a little kerosene to the water. It will make the Work easier. To seal jelly, place small pieces of par— .afl‘in in the bottom of the glasses. Pour the boiling liquid over it. The paraffin will rise to the snflace and harden. WOMEN’S EXCHANGE if ya: have something to when“ In all u Eat—u up some nu ma. no on! Involved. Second—n will that loan. TIN—V 6-0. out“ order received I- u have M... -—Illl- ANNIE "VLOR. em- 163.———Bourbon Bed Tom for another.— Mrs. A. M. Curtis, Route 2, Fife Lake, Mich. Tricks in Trade of Home Dressmaking B! .38. m I. “use POCKETS ET-IN-PDCKET—Marh the place indicated for the pocket slit with a. lead pencil the exact width of pocket (Figure 1). Cut the pocket 10 inches long and one inch wider than the mark. ‘Place pocket on blouse, right sides together, the upper ,edge of the pocket 1 inch above the lead pencil mark. Stitch the width of the presser foot from the mark all around making a square corner. Cut on the mark and diagonally at S" ""“" ' ”" ‘ """""”7 r...--,.....-..----_..-....-m. be you have trouble with Iotdn ”out” the corners (Figure 3);. Turn the pocket then to the wrong side of blouse. Press edges back well let- ting enough of the material of the pocket slip over enough to form a piping. Baste all around the edge of the slit and stitch. Fold .the poc— ket in half with all the edges even. Stitch pocket up and over cast all raw edges (Figure 6). Figure 7 shows right side of pocket when fin— ished. The ends of pocket may be fin; ished with a bar tack or arrowhead. 1\“““““'V“‘\VV“V““ 1“ -g-u-.---------.----- ...... 3 P. r: .l 0‘ . uuwg‘ “w “ “cop—nu...- 7. .-.-..... .........-.. ........ . “hr-1t kiln a trout help to you it yordo. uni the brine! article United States is known / \ :4' \ ”l spring. La Salle St. Station, Chicago, Ill. 466 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y GROW ALFALFA‘ 01' Sweet Clover this year GOOD farm management always includes the grow- ing of some legume crops, particularly alfalfa or sweet clover. The successful production of these crops requires a soil of neutral or alkaline reaction. Lime or limestone makes the condition of the soil favorable for the growth of these crops when it is applied to the land in the proper amounts. About one-fifth ofrthe crop producing area of the ‘ Most of this area is in the central and eastern states. The New York Central Railroad always has advoca- _ ted the liberal use of liming material and the growing ' of legume crops as good farm practice. 3‘ .g' Plan now to apply lime to your soil this PUT IT ON—DON’T PUT IT OFF! Boston & Albany—Michigan Central—Big Four—Pittsburgh & Lake ' and the New York Central and Subsidiary Lines Agricultural Relations Department Ofl‘ioes New York Central Station, Rochester, N. Y. l 3‘ to have acid or sour soils. 1-. .—....-...—~p—.-q,., ”wg-sw ~ru. 68 East Gay St., Columbus, 0 ., Michigan Central Station, Detroit, Mic 902 Majestic Bldg" Indianapolil,l ' SPEAK A 6000 W08 .0 for The Business Farmer when wrl advertisers. It helps us and helps Don‘tneglectaeolfl Just Rub Away Danger Serious illness often starts with a cold. Ward off your cold: with Musterole (it may prevent pneu- monia). Don’t take chances. At the first warning sign, rub Muiterole on the chest and throat. R - ~ Eagles, penetrate: and drawn out soreness. Musterole, Is a counter irritant that helps to break up a cold. For prompt relief from chest cold,croup and bronchitic. tonsili- tie, neuralgia, rheumatism and headache, pain: in joints and chilblains rub on Musterdo. Keep ojor handy. , To Mothers.- Musterole is aka madct'n rudder Fa rm for babies andunafl chil- dren. Ask for Children’s Munich JmE a Tubes mm mm A MUEl'AIID rum ltflCflIGAN BUSINESS Fm ‘flMFamPaperotservice TEILYOUBFRIENMABOUTBW last—It.“ not a on: In. no. sun-z); “$8.31.”. "1 ' ' SEND NO MONEY” h l . l' “ I 1 f ' { U ' 1 nun ' .A | ’4' , \ '5 3%.,” .1» ., ’- é- [I ullpalls come from .51 [hi ________y com The power to digest liberal quan— tities of heavy foods—the energy 2‘ to assimilate and turn into milk 1.; all the milk—values of the winter 3;. diet is all that is needed to pro- 32 duce heavy yields during the "period of barn—feeding. Kow-Kare makes heavy winter feeding profitable—and safe. It is not a food—it simply regulates and conditions the cow’s digest tion and assimilation so that she can eficiently handle her nat- ural diet—at a profit. Kow-Kare is highly concentrated Only a little is needed to keep average cows above average yield. A tablespoonful with the feed one to two weeks a month does worlds for the milk flow—and for the general health and power to resist disease. The cost is only , _ a fcw cents per month per cow. When there is real trouble, when prof- its are threatened by such disorders as Barrenness, Retained Afterbirth, Abor- tion, Scours, Bunches, Mill: Fever and similar troubles Kow’Kare comes to rescue quickly and surely. Thousands of dairymen would not keep cows with- out this efl'ective regulator and remedy. Condition Cows for Calving For safely freshening cows, for vigorous ves and eedom from disorders Kow—Knpre ccgves just the needed aid to .3. cows. n tables oonful with the ' feed two or three wee s before and after calving. Your druggist, general store, or feed store will suppl you. Large size $1.25; six cans $6. 25. mall size 65c. d for free book, “More Milk from the Cows You Have.” Contains many VIIuabIe dairy hints. DAIRY ASSOCIATION ’ CC., INC. Lyndonvillo, Vermont .112 mm mm or ssnvms' . at Is 'our slogan. vnntage of this tree servi: e you are . sling something. o Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens; Mich. ‘ 1 5.“ U ' g | . Absorbine rod strained. puffy " ankles, lymphsngitis. poll evil. fistula. boils, awellings. Stops lameness and sllsys pain. Heels sores cuts, bruises. boot chutes. Does not blister or to- move hair. Horse can be worked while treated. At drucgists. or $2.50 post- paid. Describe your case tor special instructions. Wfiorse book 5-8 whee. ins. WM 8 ll 1‘33 swellinggihe “Thsngyou tor the 3 3 3‘. “i ; _, It you do not take' >working. '1 " 1.1.51 E. Huron—Cold wave following plea», ant week with go’od wheeling. No crop conditon change, prices stronger on reeds. , Young stock at war prices for cattle; very few steers on feed; stock hogs plent— , iful. Many sales billed for the next month. Our early prediction that the farm depressing had run its course will have to be revised for at least a. year. Stove salesmen in house-to-house can- vass are putting out many on the de- 4 terred payment plan—E. R., Feb. 20. '~ Kent.—We are having a regular snow storm today. Many people are or have been sick With cold, influenza or gripp. Beans took ,a tumble from. $5.85 a hund- " red but are slowly coming back. Taxes are higher than last year. Corn very poor and short. Potatoes not moving very fast. Too cold for distant tar-there to hawl to town. Demand for seeds of all kinds improving but not many sales for alfalfa seed and clover. Quotations from Grand Rapids: Wheat, 51. 32; com, 98c; oats, 60c; rye, 90c: white beans. $7 50; pctatoes, 90@95c: butter, 480; eggs, 26@27c.——S. W., Feb. 19. Midland.—Won’t be long now. Meadow larks are here. Everybody cutting wood. Hunting season closed and guns hung” up. Ground bare and wheat suffering. Freez- ing and thawing; more rain than snow. Beans have taken drop to scare rest of them into elevators. Quotations from Midland: Wheat, $1.33; corn, soc; oats. 520; rye, $1.01; beans, $7.20; potatoes, $1.00; butter, 460; eggs, 27c.—B. 0., Feb. 19. Hillsdale (N. W.).-——Having some snug winter w'eather now as change from mild weather of past two weeks. Little snow fell Saturday but all blown into drifts now. Roads are passable'for cars. Quite a. number of auctions past two weeks. Eggs beginning to be more plentiful with corresponding decrease in price. Eggs down to nearly summer price, 25@27c dozen. Good cows scarce and high priced—C. H. Feb. 20. Montcalm.—-—Having worst snow storm this winter: dreadfully cold and blizz- ardy. Potato prices better and quite 101: being sold. .We held our fourth F. S. C. meeting, Thursday, February 16, 43 were present. Veal calves high. Butter and eggs lower each week. Quotations at Montcalm. Wheat, $1. 30: com, 500; oats, 50c; rye, $1.00; beans, white, $7. 05; red. $8. 25, potatoes, 80c; butter, 460 eggs, 25c. -—Mrs. C. T., Feb. 20. St. Joseph—Farmers haven’t very much to do at present except cutting wood and hauling manure. Stock doing well. Wheat does not look extra. good. Young'clover seems to be standing winter good so far. —-—A. J. Y., Feb. 20. Monroe—Thermometer around zero. Little snow. Good winter weather. Can- not tell much how of condition of winter crops, but many fear we have not had enough snow to protect them. Papers say there is no food shortage, so many feel there is no special need to raise more crops at existing prices. High taxes do not encourage farmers as many cannot raise enough to pay expenses, at prices given. Hired help too expensive; many do not realize cost of raising crops. Quotations from Monroe. Dairy feed, $51. 00 ton; turkeys, dressed, 50@550; heavy hens, 20@220; calves, alive, 12c; hogs, alive, 6@8c; wheat, $1. 40; com, $1. 40' , oats, 55c; rye, 950; potatoes, $1@ 1. 25: butter not quoted; eggs, 300. —Mrs. F. H., Feb. 20. Saginaw (N. W.).——Havlng another cold spell; no snow to speak of. Not much grain going to market. What few beans farmers have they are holding them. Out- look for wheat is getting slim; not hurt much yet. Few auctio 5. There will be enough rough feed to finish cattle through winter. Not much hay being marketed. Hons picking up slowly on eggs. Quota.- tions from Hemlock: Wheat, $1.33; corn, $1. 00; oats, 52c; rye, 900; beans, $7. 50; potatoes, $1.60; butter, 46c; eggs, 280; —-F. D., Feb. 20. ' Oakland (N. W.) .—SOme farm auctions. Nothing doing on farm but chores and getting plenty of wood so there is plenty or time to go to auctions. Some go fish- ing. night. More bee trees w'ere cut here last fall than ever before and lots of honey in most of them. Quotations from Holly: Wheat, $1. 34; oats, 55c; rye, $1.00; beans, $7. 05: butter, 40c; eggs, 35c.——J. D. 0.. Feb. 21. Osceola.——Mild Weather caught cold; another blizzard hit: us for the last two days. It filled roads so the plows are Fine today. Six below zero. Not much doing only chores and cutting Wood. Ice harvest nearly done; 10 inches and nice quality of ice“ Very little snow. Quotations from men: , Wheat, . 90%;; earn, 85c; oats, 55o; rye, 800; (beans, sues; _; Thermometer two below zero last ' W. M. Feb. 2'21 3 nee plan 3530;110th $1; 10: butter. (Octmeggsg. are—R. I. 0.. w— ‘ » . B‘E‘ T 9 ‘ ._ o ‘ 3 ,1 :6 mu mm W _ 2 r ,» r 9' . v v 4! .'e- r q.) 1's oov vs- 3a 6‘ . go . ‘ . . . - ~ H0 N (5: 13? 0,165.83, , ' 'i' , ‘ QT , 4‘ 6 J" v a a has; ‘ "rfifl 4'0 Y . .r “,7.“ row, \ o .1. ‘ Kent " 4, — V’ \P. g ‘2' ' . 5‘? ' 0“" ‘45 ob ‘ s ' Q ‘31 fl \ 0 ‘1 6 r a z k Q. ' & ING’ ‘\ v ’ 0' we“ 13' v3 ‘94? rt ,h 0615 ' I ‘4‘ ' l‘ g 9‘3 to 0‘3” " ' _ 7* ‘ 2. 4‘ BRA‘ \r V 6 6 (9 v4, 6 c" .9" “CH $1; $6 0e Genesee.—Winter has not been as se- vere-as many predicted. It will not be long now before farmers will be busy getting their spring work started. There has been many auctions this month. Many more are advertised for March. Ben East, former farm boy of Holly and now connected with Grand Rapids Press, lectured at Fenton Monday on Michigan’ s outdoor life. Quotations from Flint: Wheat, $1. 36; com, 951:; oats, ,;530 rye, 98c; beans, $7. 50: potatoes, $2.10; but; ter, 50c; eggs, 35c.—H. S, Feb. 23. Alpena.—-—Havlng our first real winter weather. About a foot of snow on level and roads drifted in places, and impass- able. Quotations from Spratt: Wheat, $1.20; oats, 57c; rye, 800; beans, $7. 00‘; butter, 45c; eggs, Mew-R, H., Feb. 19. 0tsego.——N0t much doing; hauling ma.- nure and cutting wood about all. There was bad storm on twentieth. Boys and girls are having tun skating and skiing. Some roads opened for car and team and some are drifted. Snow plows busy open- ing roads. Quotations from Gaylord: Wheat, $1.10; corn, 55c; oats, 480; rye,’ 85c; beans, $6.00; potatoes, $1.00; but- ter,-50c; eggs, 38c.—-—H. J., Feb. 21. Isabella.—We are having some cold blustry weather now. Farmers busy cut« ting wood and doing chores. Some put- ting up ice. Have had nice winter up to date. sold in this locality, except potatoes and they are cheap. Quotations from Blanch- ard: Wheat, $1.30; corn 45c; oats, 55c; rye, 95c; beans, $7.05; potatoes, 70c; but— ter, 45c; .eggs, 25c.—H. H., Feb. 21.- W.‘ Lenawee.———Weather changeable. Farmers- not doing much but chores. Lambs beginning to arrive. Pigs and chicks will be next. Eggs dropped on market. Milk is $2.30 for 3.5 fat; hogs very plentiful, teed getting scarce. Some selling hens because it does not pay to feed them. Lots of men out of Work. Quotations from Camden: Wheat, $1. 39; cats, 50@550; potatoes, $1. 25; butter, 500; eggs, 26.-——C. B, Feb. 21. Shlawassee (N. W.) .——Zero one day, mud the next; not much doing except chores. Not many beans left in farm bins. Some chicken thieves around; one man reported 30 chickens stolen in day- light while he was in town. Every one ap- preciates what THE BUSINESS Fumes is doing and has done to rid the State of that deplorable pest- Quotations from Elsie: Oats, 55c; beans, $7.35; butter, 50c; eggs, 24c.—G. L. P., Feb. 23. Saginaw (E. S.).——We have had some snappy weather past week, but today it is quite moderate. No snow on ground. Several auction sales held past two weeks, ' milch cows bringing good prices; farm tools not going so good. Several farms sold for cash or exchange for city prop-I _erty recently, purchase price bringing no more than actual value of buildings. It will soon be time to select various town- ‘shlp officers. I hope every' loyal citizen will express his thoughts at the caucuses and vote for the best men and women, which 'Will mean a better government—— E. C. 11.. Feb. 23. Hillsdale.———Farmers.are all agreed that cows pay better than anything else~on farm. Hayis in‘ demand at from $7 to $10 per ton. being marketed. Fewer sows were bred for spring farrowing. Auctions well at- tended. Many talking tractors, orderingp Considerable moving for the: spring is planned. Eggs going cheaper but considerably higher than 1927.41... Keep salt before horses. at all times. I Their great, relish for it shows that: they , need it, It is best to give salt separate .tromtheteed _ ., ‘ GA .3 and film-111.1112 field the W cultivate 1101111me to these , modynnhsdso' TherelslsMYERS your eedr-d MYEgllsenxblem troublofree. a, sbhibrd deep or epenshallow wens—:1“: do bvhad . silencedne. ”Sim: “ ill-'ilnm cspa'dtles up soMO 10, Wgsl— V “Wed ”3?. Headquarters for Pumps. Most of farm produce has been‘ would You Pitch Hay Wearing a Fur .j-Over- coat?« etmany a horse is Yut. throu h heavy eldwork thitsl .winteigovercoato .Dust settl esun- der the hair. the horse sweets and lathers, seal- ing the cot the skin. deucesing’ the clency horse 25%. CLIP THEM! rsesnnd mules workbetter 91:de better. $353.!” Will outwork mthemfimgo‘gse eveg Work time whompedm horse. You'll get morewor Eelfiei‘lwa wearable .' clean milk. better milk. i tdmvgillfitgotui cs sharpening for ollki temper. P l or 8011p. Sold' 111 30 sizes at Write fortre hooklfi. . 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BREEDERS”e DIRECTORY, naannna’s nmncronv Advertisements lnsemod under this heading for reputable breeders of Live stock at special low testo enémuragea the growing of pure—brads on the farms of our readers. 0c) per agate line per Insertion. if sent with order or paid on or before the 10th of month SEND IN YOUR AD ANDI WE Addrss all otster. MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, Our advertising rate Fourteen agate lines tothe column Inch WILL PUT IT IN TYPE FREE: IT. ELEMENS, HIGH. “‘5 » . emu YOUR. 4;" M . 11.9.1150 To avoid conflicting dates we will without cost, list the date of any live stock sale In Michigan. If you are considering a sale ad: vlse us at once and we will claim the date for ou. Address Live Stock Editor. M. B. F.. t. Clemens. Mar. 7. —Guernseys—Mich. ers, Ass’ 11, Box ing, Mich. 6.—-Poland mines—Oscar Pigeon, Mich. . a. C. Cummins, Pent- water, Mich., R. 2. CATTLE GUERNSEYS V31 }uernsey Breed— 1018, East Lans- Mar. Voelker, GUERNHSEV DigleY gALVEdS, .381." SEXES',’ ii a ure re upped prac (A KyIEOOD FARMS. Whitewater, Wis. GUERNSEYS. 4 BULLS. AGES RANGING from 4 to 16 months Priced cheap for quick sale. PAL MER, Balding, Mich. SHORTHORNS FOR SALE—ONE ROAN BULL 10 MONTHS old. Sired b R0 111 Peer 21473, Junior Champion at Indianapo IS ml. 919. Dam Mamie Sultan ter of Rolselawn Hetty, Grand Cham- pion of M1c1lgun 1919. High class cattle priced reasonable. G E . B RDIcK. Mgr., Branch County Farm, Goldwater, Mich. RED POLLED FOR SALE—RED POLLED BULL AND HEIFER MAPLE GROVE FARM Russell M. Cottie West Branch, Mlch., R. 1. JERSEYS ERSEY BULL GALF TWO MONTHS OLD am made 163 lbs. butter fat in 90 days. 850 registered and crated. ELDRED, Twin Pine Jerseys. Remus, Michigan REGISTERED JERSEY BULL FOR SALE four years old. B. este (i. Price reasonable. HUGO SCTHOLTZ, Onaway, Mlhc. 77.»: Farm Paper of Serw'ce— That’s us, folks If we can be of service do not hesitate to write in. Advice costs you nothing if you are a paid—up subscriber. ——T}ze Bruin”: Farmer, Mount Chm. Michigan HOIBTEINS XOHLSTEINS ”Amalia/711,2 years Holsteins have been bred for ruggedness. They thrive in all climates and sections without ex- pert care and produce profitably under varied conditions. Write for literature “the WW HOLSTOEI NWFRIESIAN 230 East Oh1:WSu'eec°H Chlago. mind] BULL CALF Ready for Service At Ionia Reformatory, Tag No. 416 SIRE: 1c110. Sylvia King Model sire of tw elve daughters with records above 30 lbs. butter in 7 days. DAM: Ionic. Fobes DeKol a young with a record of 28. 20 lbs. butter in 7 days. Write for Pedigree BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY J. E. Burnett, Director, Lansing, Michigan FOR SALE—SEVEN HEAD OF REGISTERED Holstein females. Six cows and one earling ' _Th will be fresh in March. alance Reggien in 182Wber. All hav vs C. T. A. records and are T. B. tested and free from abortion. Write for further information. HARRY BROWN, Breedsvlile. Mich. SHEEP FOR BALE—#5 REGISTERED a'Sflflfilzglll'llRE as“? goonrslfifow. om. lichqd Phone 48-5 FOR SALE—GOOD YOUNG DELAINE OR Shro rs ewes. Price 13" ”Iii. A. TAYLOR, ew Dover, Ohio ‘mixture. —J. E. Burnett, WY and . (We invite you- taco lanes in re 1er “as livestock me ent. Quest EIGHT HERBS RETESTED IGHT herds were retested during January in Michigan dairy herd imprdvement associations. herd of 0 J. Becker, member of the Ingham-Lansing Association, com- posed of 7 grade Holsteins and Guernsey’s is the highest butterfat producing herd for Michigan for this period. This herd tested by Leslie Wilcox averaged 1,348 pounds milk and 61.67 pounds butterfat and was re- tested. A neighbor to Mr. Becker Mr. O. J. Moore, a. member in the same association owns nine pure- bred and grade Holsteins which also were retested and averaged ,53.47 pounds butterfat under four times a day milking. Other herds which were retested are as follows: Doan Straub of Berrien county; Barn No. 9 of the Detroit Creamery, Macomb county; Henry‘Meyers of OCeana county; Wm. Wright of A1— legan county; 0. O. Dunham of'Ber- rien county; and Oscar Wolf of Gra- tiot county. . The high cow for the State during the month is owned by the Detroit Creamery herd in Macomb county. tested by R. N. Barney. This cow under official test milked four times daily and retested produced 3,512 pounds milk and 116.2 pounds fat. Out of the 18,840 cows reported for January, 119'? were found to pro- duce over 50 pounds butterfat. There were also 6 purebred sires purchased by members and 165 cull cows found to be unprofitable and sold. Michigan dairymen are de- pending largely on good legume roughage, mainly alfalfa and corn silage plus a balanced grain mixture in their feeding program in order to get greatest dairy profits—A. C. Baltzer. FEED FOR CALVES I have two Guernsey calves about eight weeks old and am feeding them skim milk and a little ground oats and corn. They seem to like it real well. What I really want to know, is it all right to feed these calves this ground oats and corn ,and if it is, about how many pounds a day should each calf get and is there anything else I could add to this to make it better?—T. L. B Bay City, Mich. HE feeding of a grain supple- ment to calves that are getting skim milk is recommended be- cause the milk has had the butter- fat which makes a large proportion of the carbohydrates of milk re— moved and the grain aids in replac- ing this energy giving nutrient. Calves of this age probably need about a pound a day although'calves vary markedly in the amount they will eat. It is all right to give the calves all the corn and oats they will clean up each day. It is preferable not to give them more grain than they will eat in 24 hours as calves seem to prefer fresh grain to grain that they have previously worked over. A very good calf mixture con- sists of three parts corn, three parts oats, one part bran, one part linseed meal. Very good calves can be raised by using only corn and oats. If you wish to you can feed whole corn and whole oats for a. period to the time the calf is three to four months old as calves seem to prefer the whole grain to the ground grains and eat them more readily. However, the ground grains are preferred after the calf is three and a. half to four months-old. The grain should be fed by hand, giving an allotted amount as after this time they eat more grain than they need. If the grain is unground it will tend to pass through the digestive tract without being digested. ~I do not think it is necessary to feed bone meal to calves that are being fed liberally on skim milk as they should have a very bountiful supply in the milk. Ho'wever, if you wish to try feeding bone meal it will do no harm. I suggest that it be put in a box in the calves’ pen and they be allowed to take what they want from the box rather than forcing them to eat it with the grain ' The. ’ Part of the f‘knack” of making money from dairying lies in' keep— ing a constant watch of the udder and teats. If the delicate tissues of these important organs are always normal and comfortable the milk flow is free and generous—the job of milking is made easy. Bag Balm 1s a wonderful healing. penetrating ointment—prepared e9 pecially for the care of injured or stepped—on teats, cuts, inflammation, caked bag, bunches or cow pox, ‘ ‘ Bag Balm has no equal. Healing beo gins at once, irritation disappears. Bag Balm is clean and pleasant to use—cannot taint the milk. Big 10— ‘ ounce package goes a long way and ’has hundreds of uses for all animal sores, harness galls, etc. 6°C at feed dealers, general stores, druggists. Mailed postpaid if hard to obtain locally. Booklet “Dairy Wrinkles”- sent free. Dairy Association 60., Inc. [calm-m Ifyouwantnstnllionorapairofm MSendfiat the 1928 P:rd1eron Review. Free. Address PEROHEMN SOCIETY OF AMERICA El! Iandnsld. Secy. Union suck Yards. Chicago 7 FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—REGISTERED black Percheron Stallion 1. 7 years old, weight 1,900 lbs. P. E. S,AOK Muir, Mich. FOR SALE—FINE REGISTERED SHIRE STAL- llon. Brown Age fivey rice reasonable. BERT GEORGE, Garland, Michigan Pfercheron Stallion. Wonderful six Year Old Son f$40,000 International Grand Chain ion Carnot Corey Farms, lrice very reasonable. ew Haven, Michigan. SWINE HAMPSHIRE BRED GILTS NOW READY To ship.o HSpring Boers cheap JO W. SNYDER, St. Johns, 1ch., R. 4. . AUCTION SALE MARCH 6' 36 Spotted Poland China sGilts. 3 boars. from State Fair Prize winning lock OSCAR VOELKER, sPigeon, Mich. n U R o c s o w 's and bred gilts sold at a sacrifice. Never a hem time to start in the hog business. Fall piss service boars. We guarantee elitisfaction. LAKEFIELD FARMS, Glarkston, mohu. FOR SALE—o. 1. c. BOAR “WHITE scorn" N 116425-17 1. 27. Two others from “White Sgote” Dam ‘tatawe Girl" No. 4076270 W. B. V l. 28. o c. E. MASTERS. Spring Lake, Michigan. BIG TYPE ‘ERKSIgIREHOREVfiFABIO Ev erythinz on! b stock I" f 1'! reedingwso prices 'to gator pile» FA SNII Haven. glen. \ X ‘; I l i ‘ 3 V ‘ ' - - o 1' .'-11_ EAMBS ,IN 36 MONTHS " V, 2110 e’we allownwith three lathe la the tether on 1.1 lambs born Inside of 88 nonths. Seven of them were born within 12 months. She is _owned"by C. II. McLean , and Son of Gratlot County. V . . n , . ' ' sang a, on. use. a. coal ' mmmmam c a, WABTB I would like to know what will take warts off a cow’s teats, and whether the remedy‘ can be ‘used while she is milking—F. J. W., Battle Creek, Mich. IVE this cow a tablespoontul of fowlers solution of arsenic on .her grain night and morning and paint the warts with the, same solution after-v each milking; this should remove them in less than two weeks; do not continue it for more than 30 days. Hoes: EAT 0H1, CKENs I would like to know if there is anything that will stop pigs from eating chickens. They are fall pigs. ——-«S., Corunna, Mich. ‘ . F you feed these hogs 1/; pound of tankage and some milk night and morning it might keep them from eating chickens; they usually start this because they are not get- ting the right kind of feed and the thing that is most often lacking is the protein. It is well worth a trial any way. > , [LICE 0N SHEEP Am writing you about my sheep as they are covered with little gray lice. What I want to know is how to kill these‘ lice before lambing time as they begin the middle of March. Would there be any way of. using a good sheep dipT—Subscriber, ‘ Rhodes, Mich. DO not know of anything that you I can do excepting to dip them just as soon as the weather will per- fi mit. It maybe that if you have a good warm day soon that you can dip them and then bed them down well at night and pen them in a warm place and get by this way; hardly think you will be able to dip them before they lamb. Better look to the place that you are keeping them and have it cleaned up‘b'efore another winter. ‘ ‘ HORSE SWEATS IN BARN ' I have a horse that is bothered with sweating in the barn unless the barn is real cold, also has some itch on‘skin. Otherwise in good condi- tion and seems healthy. Kindly ad- vise me what to do for hen—H. 1-1., Bark River, Mich. you are feeding corn discontinue it and feed oats, bran and oil- meal to this horse ; give this ani- mal one tabléspoontul of. towlers solution of arsenic on the feed night and morning for 30 days. Groom this horse well once each day. _. RICKETS I have a bunch of fall pigs that have been doing well on corn until the last few weeks. Now they are beginning to get stiff in their hind- quarters. Please advise me it any-“ thing can be done.-——N. D., Rose City, Michigan. ' OUR pigs have rickets which is caused by their not getting the right kind of feed; get-some tankage and in each 100 lbs. mix 15 pounds of bonemeal then give each ‘ pig 1% pound night and morning in some slop made with middlings and ‘ [some oilmeal if it is available. Give each (pig a tablespoonful of cod liver {oil night and morning it you can in .»'->mil‘k4&10ng with the other mixture. _ ‘ , tilpigs a small bunch of .1; ayxo‘eat at. Let ‘ «o: in the sun- , ~ rill nfimit. . Single Unit ' Com " See and Try a DE LAVAL The best way to judge a new 1928 Golden Anniversary Do Laval Separator is to see one, and better still to try it side-by—side with any other. We do not believe anyone can. that and not choose a De Laval. Improvements are: Beautiful gold and black finish; completely enclosed gears; im- proved regulating cover and float; tunable supply can' easier start- ing and turning; oil window and the “floating bowl." “ Golden Series ” machines are dealers everywhere. They will begladtoshowthemtoyou. / _ o l now on display by De Laval , .' . De Laval x. . Points the Way to Still Greater Dairy Profits 1 years ago the dairy industry was undeveloped - and relatively uniniportant. Today the dairy in- :5 dustry is the largest and most vital industry in the - world. It has more far-reaching eflect upon the health 5 and prosperity of this country than any other industry. \ ' I, Fifty years ago Dr. De Laval invented the first practical : i centrifugal cream separator, and dairy authorities every- 5 where now say that the cream separator has done more than any other factor to make modern dairying possible. First in the beginning, De Laval Separators have kept ‘ \ ' the lead ever since, not only in numbers in use but in w * continued improvement of design and construction. Now the new 1928 “Golden Series” Separators, com- memorating the 50th De Laval Anniversary, mark another step forward. _They are the most complete, eflicient and ““ / beautiful cream separators ever made. They must prove a source of pride as well as profit to every owner. The rapid increase in the use of De Laval Milkers is now causing as great a change in dairying as. De Laval ' Separators did years ago. There are already thousands in use, milking more than one million cows with extremely satisfactory results. Because of their gentle yet stimulating and miform \ action De Laval Milkers milk with better results than can be obtained in any other way. They enable one man to milk two to three times as many cows as can be done by hand, and produce clean- er milk. Sold for cash } 1' ' MILKERS or on self-paying terms. See your De Laval dealer or write nearest oflice below for full information as to either separators or milkers. '1'!!! DE LAVA]. SEPARATOR C0. '1 De-Laval ' ' r / , ' J. TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER to_milk as eliectively as any milker made, regardless of ice. Finest naturals and construction throughout. ‘l'led and proven thousands of faunas. Sales doub- ling yearly. Cows e itsgentle, soothing action.Sam hours of drudgery. Delivers clean, top-price milk. Easy to operate and keep clean. Many styles and sizes. . §endforimhwdiv¢ booklet Na. 50 FREE. 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Liréétrick: : I ' Prevention..fimiation, at ‘a 133‘- losses in the State. rectors representatives from change, ciation, livestock producers, press, and daily press. Detroit, on April 10 and 11. Purpose of the Essay Contest 1. To develop an interest in the the farm to the consumer. 2. To develop and stimulate the highest ideals of agricultural pract- ices in agricultural education. 3. To create more interest among the Agricultural High Schools of Learn How to Heal Your RUPTURE Ruptured people are amazed at the mi- raculous results of a simple Home System for rupture that is being sent free to all who write for it. This remarkable inven- tion is'one of the greatest blessings ever offered ruptured persons, and is being pro- nounced the most successful self-treat- ment ever discovered. It brings instant relief and does away with wearing trusses forever. Thousands who formerly suffered the tortures of steel trusses are now rejoicing in this freedom from the danger and dis- comfort of rupture. There is nothing like it anywhere and hosts of ruptured persons are astounded at the ease with which their * ruptures are healed. Free trial treatment of this Muscle Strengthening Preparation are being mail- ed to all who write. , It is an original painless Method. No operation, no danger, no risk, no absence from work or play. Send no money; simply write.0apt. W. A. Ceilings, Inc., 13311 Collings Bldg" Water- town, N. Y., for freé‘home treatment with - full information and it will be mailed you in sealed package. Send now—~today. It may. save wearing a. torturing'truss. for life.——(Adv.) YE A R "W velope. ject in any style. a1. They ' maybe the result of: ems. interview, .’ or, ;~ ience', _ . . . study; ‘ They “must be "original; _‘ Michigan, by ofiering prizes for the best essay on livestock loss preven- tion. ' If Rules and Regulations 1. Each contestant must be reg- ularly enrolled male student in 9. Vocational High School of Michigan. 2. Any subject on livestock loss prevention will be acceptable. ‘ ._ Suggested topics are: 1. What my community is doing to prevent livestock losses. 2. How ‘my community can re- duce livestock losses. 3. Why livestock loss prevention should be carried on. If the student so desires, he may select one of a few specific subjects, such as: 1. How proper handling in ship- ment will reduce livestock loss. 2. How proper feeding will re- duce livestock loss. 3. Why the producer of livestock is eventually the loser when an ani- ma? dies or is crippled. 3. The essay must be limited to 1,000 words. 4. Each contestant must furnish three copies of his essay, each of which shall be typewritten on good quality oifice paper, approximately 8% by 11 inches. Write on one side of paper only. Neatness and accur- acy will count. 5. The name of the author shall not appear upon any copy of an es- say, but each contestant shall affix to his essay a sealed envelope with his name, address, name of school, and teacher contained therein. 6. All essays must be in the hands of the secretary of the Michi— gan Livestock Loss Prevention As- sociation, 336 Michigan Central Terminal, Detroit, Michigan, by Monday, March 26. 7. will be notified on or before April 7. 8. The two contestants who sub- mit the'best essays will be the guests of the Michigan Livestock Prevention Association at their annual meeting at Detroit, April 10 and 11, with all expenses‘ paid, including railroad fares. . 9. The winner of first place will be required to read his essay some? time during the meeting. 10. The judges for this contest have been selected and are: Mr. B. A. Walpole, Michigan State College; Mr. Burt Wermuth, Editor, Michigan Farmer; and Mr. E. A. Beamer, Pres- ident of the Michigan Livestock Ex- change. 11. One copy of the essay will be retained permanently by the Mich- igan Livestock Loss Prevention Asso- ciation. The other two will be re- turned to contestant if accompanied by his self addressed stamped en- Suggestions _ - .The‘ rules given above leave ,the contestgnt tree to write on the subs Essays may be personal or they may be impartial»- observation. . 'gcogexltwssrfiah‘l"! eta cent meeting of'lits Board‘o‘f; Di-r‘ rectors, voted to conduct an ' essay contest among the Vocational Agri-' cultural High Schools of Michigan. The Michigan Livestock Loss (Pre- vention Association is an organiza- tion endeavoring to reduce livestock It ls'an organi- zation open to all, and has as its di- the farm bureau, Michigan Livestock. Ex- Detroit Livestock Associa-' tion, State Department of Agricult- ure, Michigan State College, Michi- gan State Veterinary Medical Asso-. State Grange, stockyards, railroads, farm The Association was‘ organized in 1926 and will hold its second annual meeting at the Fort Shelby ' Hotel, prevention of loss to livestock from " The winners in the contest the driver’s age will then befour times the age of first tires were when discarded, or " in time) equals 15 years. Fifteen times ‘two is 30 years,or‘p1_:eeent #86 of driver. library you - countycagr cultural agent, yo "1' stite agricultural» college,“ or .vm..ewn 0 ii. structor on proper feeding ”and care of , livefitock; ll of them will be able to "give you information Cathie . subject or tell" you? where you' can findiitfm” . 3 1, p 4 V‘Write ”about some phase of the work ’ that. you are most familiar With. , ‘ : For further information address 0. B. Price, Secretary," "Michigan Live- stock Loss_p,_Rrevention Association, 336 Michigan Central Terminal, De- troit, Michigan, or 7B. A. Walpole, Vocational Agricultural Department, _Michigan State College; East Lans- mg. MORE CREAM FROM WARM MILK EPARATE milk on the farm while it is still warm. The fat will then flow readily thrOugh the ma— chine. .85 degrees or more for the average separator. When the temperature is 85 or lower more fat is left in the skim milk. Speed of the machine will also aflect the amount of fat left in the milk. ' eon-1.1mm on. HELPS DE- VELOPMENT HEN shotes or calves fail to de- .. velop well, pure and freshcod- liver oil is good. Tardy growth, weak legs and back, or swollen joints . are symptoms. Feed the animals each a teaspoonful to a tablespoon- ful daily for five or six days. -Thrif— ty animals do not need this oil. HOME GROWN FEEDS SHORT OF PROTEIN OST farm-grown feeds have an excess of fat and carbohy- drate and a shortage of pro-& tein. Therefore the percentage of protein contained in a commercial concentrate is one good measure of its value. Know the analysis of commercial concentrates bought, so they will supply what your feeds lack. FARMER BRISBANE DECIDES TO KEEP FARM RECORDS _(Continned from Page 3) not only been able to increase my returns on dairy cattle, but have made improvements on all of the enterprises. I have changed my en- tire farm plan since I began to keep records. Together with these rec- ords I keep an account of each field and a record of the yields of my labor and getting better yields there— by, making my net returns much higher than they were five years ago." - ‘ The temperature should be. I .a; .m-‘ of . _ enable splendid, sturdy. convenient etadchion at an attractive price. It. is built of heavy matenai, shaped j ,t and onoeyp. is ‘ there to stay. 'Pm-ti anchor is rust- proof, The price is only $8.95. Single - post stalls as low as $7.60 coniplete. ‘ - Write for complete details. We ‘ bufldafulllineofbarnequipment. . Ideal Barn Equipment Co. Thefinaiheflt. ' the kind of feeds isthebaknceoryourb-nkbook. mm Wonder feeds have given cater to feedersfor years. Auky‘our bean- not supply you write us today for FREE illustrated Dairy and Poultry Books. dealer' '3 ‘ mete. Noohlnga' fun. Arc-adv Farms Milling Co. ”(.52Bmhm. ' “also,“ wants TODAY tor FREE POULTRY 45- FHEE and DAIRY BOOKS W wnmn walnut; 1'0 Aliyah-mamas ‘ runes-n MENTION.’ 3.; q “Well, Mr. Jones, I am glad to ‘go over these records with yen and to learn how you have made, use of them; you certainly must get a lot of satisfaction out of them. When is the best time to begin keeping rec- ords?" ‘ . “I began the first of January, but any time betWeen then and the first of April is very satisfactory.” “I appreciate this talk with you very much, Mr. Jones, I am going to see the county agent tomorrow and get started in keeping records at once. And I am going to try to get into a cow testing association, too.” After making this decision the tw0 farmers exchanged everyday pleas- antries and devoted some of their time to the excellent radio program before saying goodnight. AGE OF DRIVER This is the answer to the problem'of. the children’s ' page combining the ages of the first and last three equals six years. When the ear is four times the present age of the last tires one—half the age of the car will equal to the ,age firSt tires were discarded, or twice the age last tires are now, and is equivalent to two—thirds and onethird of 6.-Thus dz is divided into periods of 4 and 2-years which by state- ment of roblems makes car eight years old when four... times present age of last tires or twice the use, of first. One-half 4 times {equals 16,11e'ss 1 (34 increase , THE 'menm’arr'numss FAB”! BEAUTIFUIfiWARM BED BLANKp BTS OR A TO ROBBS IN ax. CHANGE FOR WOOL! You can' double the our ofhyour extreme t'plan. unmet-costs ed.‘ Payment fox-blankets can be ’ in all wool. or part wool and acme cub. ‘ Let send 1 tailsquou “Thaw-"amp etc it, (bid we oppon- ' ‘ iiést ' this: week. . We. . Man. the . critic»: ~ of; the, m. ‘ R EDITOR —I see by your ebruary 4th iSSu‘e’ that “M. 01‘; of Gaylord“ wants gs know of a‘ cure Ior' ringbone. for 2 years standing, Was so lame I cofild not Se her, "and was planning ' oh Ruling-f fier. Last summer I start- ed as use ‘fSa‘ve-the-Horse". m6 mars helped dr’aw over 300 tons oI shgar beets. Lameness gone and on! gement greatly th very highly of! the remedy. Hafi. taken yOur paper for several years and always read the veterin- ary department. wYourS for success. —-_G. M. 0., Newport Mich. RINGBONE OR SPAVIN EAR EDITOR: .1 saw in your February 4th issue that “M. 0., tilt Gaylord” has made inquiry tor ringbone remedy. I have a re- ceipt that has been highly recom- mended and I know of one horse that was cured. It is also good Ior spavin. Here it is: 1 oz. l‘audanum, 1 oz..tur'pentin'e,1oz‘. oil of tar, 2 on. immonia‘, and 1 dram blue vit- 301. Mix with IreSh lard and put on with paddle, being careIul not to get it on the flesh. -—L. M. R., Hesperia, Mich. ‘ _ . I COW LEAKS MILK EAR EDITOR. —In a recent issue I noticed an inquiry from a _ "reader at Paw Paw, I believe, asking-“tor a remedy for a cow that leaks milky About two years ago I had a cow that leaked her .milk and ' readha valuable remedy, not cure, in Tm: BUSINESS FABMER. I had it fill- ed at the\ drug store and it sure worked fine Ior me. , It was made up of two drams oI tincture oI iodine and two ounces of collodion. After milking the end of the teat should be dried and then sealed/with this, using a small cam- els hair brush. I;only put it on in the morning in the,.winter time, but in summer when (I turned my cows back to past- ure field in the evening after milk— ing I used it then also. . I hope the reader will use it and would be pleased to know it he is pleged with the results —D. P., Stookbridge, Mich. BEES WILL PAY FOR THE LIMESTONE :HILE in Arcola. 111., last winter I was attracted by the above headline as I am a beekeeper and my interest grew as I ap- proached the exhibit at the County Institute which' consisted oI a small pile of limestone, some honey in .the comb, an up-to-date' hive and [seme very ’interesting pictures. \A great .trio——'bees, limestone, sweet Clover,——we found they worked to- ‘gether and paid for the privilege. Two boys started out to prove this by purchasing one colony of bees. Them to get a good stand of sWeet clovéi' they bought eight tons of limestone at ‘a cost of $14. 40 which they applied to. two acres 01' ground. Their one colony of bees produced 90 pounds of honey- which they sold on the local market Ior 20c per pound making a total cash revenue of $18. 00——more than they paid for the limestone. The Fest‘er Bros, 01 ,fArcola, have proved that it pays to. sweet clover in more ways than 30W I have a ‘ mare 16 years [old that: had rin'gbonob Used _ A one and one-half bottles and last fall -’ reduced . I - LAM for . m.,1‘_0‘-0>~h.‘-- 1—. .1 you Smoke I pleasure —then Camels are Q 1928, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem. N. C. made for you- Mild, mellow, fra- grant—there’s a world of enjoy- ment in smoking Camels " «Today, as for many years, Camels lead by billions, and they continue to grow DUNDEE Agégl-EISIIED CHICKS W PLEASE M E N 'r 1 o N STOCK ALL BLOOD- TESTED FOR WHITE DIARRHEA FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS. You can save money by ordering Dundee Pure—Bred, Mich Accredited and Blood-Tested Chicks. Leghorns. directions on how to raise baby chicks for greater profits. 1 0 0 % live delivery. DUNDEE HATCHERY & POULTRY FARMS We hatch B. P. Rocks, R. I. Reds, and S. C. 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Shi FREE BOOK 0“ MODERN POULTRY HOUSING Write for our free booklet on modern poultry housing. You can make your chicks Iafefrom fire mu Wanted Liberal . t! Avuihbl l {5‘00 chick i l b In 1 nth do- 8 n I I. co 0 on... or any on Mm eontinuoushrooders ppedkii'ockeddown.E-sflyerocted. . rats .disesse, etc. moles-1m.- .5329 r 1 o. Royal Leghorns are known as the strain backed by contest winning bloodlines. Winners of the Michigan Contest in 1925. Record of 303 eggs in the American Contest in 1926 and already this year making excellent records at Bergen, N. J. and Quincy, 111. You can rest assured that this strain is bred of high, production individuals. 75% of Our Business is From Old Customers The strongest endorsement we have is from our old cus- tomers who have tried our chicks and know what they will (10. Royal strain can be depended upon for a. high average flock production. Our new catalog is free to you and Id“ help you. ROYAL HATCBERY a FARMS. S. P. Wiersma, Prop. 3. 2, Box B Zeeland, Michigan CONTEST REOORD 803 E (368 Our Chicks are hatched from free farm range breeders. Every chickis Michi an Accredited which means it is from breeders that have passed the official inspection of poultry s lecialists under the supervision of Michigan State Poultry Improve- ;Iéent associaiions. Refer you to State Commercial Savings Bank. Order from this 1 00 500 1 000 B. c. Whlts a s. 0. Brown Leohorns.. $3: 25 $6. 25 $12.00 67.00 110.00 Barred Rocks 50 1 6.00 17.50 1 50.00 Reds .. 4.00 1.15 15. 00 12.50 140.00 Lloht Mlxed ..... .8.00 4.50 8. 00 eavy Mlxed ............................. 8.1 e. 50 5 12 .00 Mlxed Chicks 810. 00 per hundred our free catalog. It tells all about mated grades. Writc for it HUNDERMAN BROS.,R. 3, Box 45, Zeeland, Mich. HIGHLAND LEGHORN Edfifigriiegduction .%ated to ma] em m to 30 egg pedigreed ancestry. CHICKS SHIPPED 0. 0. I). Pay for your chicks when they arrive. know you will be pleased and we are willing): to take all the risk. his assures you of 10 lipvee cifdelivery and shipment exactly when you hi it b k d thl SP‘EthAL 1','s°‘t:l“.1111I N t. 1 G 1 our Io r force: 000 smon wogvea sooun e oil-"1.1531313 catalog which gives complete details. rite for copy todosy. Have been bred for high egg production for madly generations. They are particularly well adapt ted Commercial egg farms. Their Jorge size and rugged constitution enable them to stand up under extreme conditions Every male and female inspected by authorized inspectors Index supervision of Michigin State Poultry Improvement Association. MICHIGAN ACCREDITED—PURE BARRON STRAIN 0111' catalog slows pedigrees and gives a full description of the pen we imported direct from Tom Barron. England. The males in this pen were out of a 298 as Hen that layed eggs weighing 30 ounces to the dozen and were sired by a. 801 egg male The females records range from 259 to 2.71 This is the founda- fion you et in Pioneer Leghorus. Many males direct from this 'pen now head out uglVe are Breeders and have spent many years With this one strum. WRITE FOR SPECIAL DISOOUNT NOW R. R. 10. Box 11. Holland. llchloan DILIGENT CHICKS Dll) ['1‘ And will do it for you DILIGEN'I‘ CHICKS became DILIGENT LAYERS and heat than all ianfudnr neighborhood, enter order for 500 March delivery, a customs ust Do hesitate to send your order. You will studied. Thirteen years of honest dealing behind us. Pullets after May first. Place note our NEW LOW postpaid&r1ces 1...). 15 151,210 321 8582930 32242. WM?“ ”M ""’"° '5' 25 “14300 21.50 erno a. 0. been . 1.25 «no . 21.50 01.50 Hired (Helm Only) .. .............. 0.25 12.00 ' 28.0K-‘6150 army an. m J. , . 11.11.0193?“ Harcurnv a P0 , r , . “out“, new." ne'w highWays that had been planned, ite. to the rural sections. against defeat. worst. , . Meet in 1929 in 1929. Plans . headway to call a special session. sued the call before you read this. This session is being called at the re— quest of Detroit to assist that city. Whether it will convene long enough to permit the discussion of any other matters we can not say but if we talk to our senators and represents.- tives about the tax and send them letters and telegrams after they get to Lansing we will keep it fresh in their minds. Further, if enough pressure is brought to bear they will , probably take time to at least discuss the matter. But, granting that the next regu- lar session of the legislature will be .—r bushels; Ford Lownsbury, Britton, 86 bushels; Arthur Lutz, Saline, 86 bushels; Ernest“ Gilbert, Waldron, 85 bushels. Bronze: D. E. Harvey and Sons, Jones, 80 bushels; Earle King, Pal- myra, 78 bushels; George Brablec, Britton, 78 bushels; Harold Spink, Mason, 75 bushels; Fritz Mantey, Fairgrove, 75 bushels. White Cap Was Favorite In Region One, the variety known as Clement’s White Cap seemed to be the favorite. Four of the growers in that region planted this variety and obtained high yields. Clarage, a variety developed in Ohio, also yielded very well for the two growers who planted it. Mr. Masters of. Wal- dron who won second award in Re- gion One, need this variety and ob- tained a yield of ninety—nine bushels per acre. . Mr. Gilbert, of Waldron, planted a. variety of his own selection as did Mr. Ferden of Chesaning. The vari- eties known as Duncan, Silver King, Murdock and Pickett showed up as being very dependable in the locali- ties where they were grown. Pick- ett was grown by three farmers and two of these obtained yields of over seventy—five bushels per acre. Polar Dent, the most recent variety to be added to the list of those certified by the Michigan Crop Improvement Association, was planted by two farmers. In Region‘s Two and Three, the well known Golden Glow seemed to be the favorite, undoubtedly because of its early maturity and good yield— ing ability. Six growers planted this variety, and two grew M. A. C. Yel— low Dent to good advantage.’ ‘chet Clover in Rotation Sweet clover, in the rotation, seerzed to be important to the win- ners in the 1927 contest. The three high men in Region One plowed up sweet clover seeding ‘or land that had grown sweet clover in'1926 for their cor-aground. In 1926, high yields were obtained from fields that ' had produced alfaIfa. the previous year. Thus, legumes in the rotgfin and commercial fertilisers or manure were important factors in obtaining high yields. Only one grower in the twenty-nine did not use either ma.— others fused one or both in their corn fields. Twenty per cent acid still I ”though puma fifteen radon anal- the lawmakers all get behind a b II,” increasing the gas tax to three cents: and leaving the remainder of the; law unchanged. He told them that the money was needed to build and maintain ‘roads, that if it was not passed the State could not build the so they sidetracked the other bill and voted for the Governor’s favor- This was a: great disappointment It was under- stood that Gov. Green was going to favor the first bill instead of oppose it so they were unprepared to fight But there will be more sessions of legislature and next time they can be prepared for the The next regular session will be are now under Perhaps Gov. Green will have is- nure or commercial tortillas}: The phosphors was mergrade e! seminar-- tortillas: most commonly seem . ms were niece use or by the grow-.3 'too to start a campaign to get support for such a bill. All of You remember the Wilson case. You remember the petitions that were circulated in every rural section of the State. Nearly a. bun- dred thousand people signed them. Can you imagine the effect that peti- tions with a. hundred names on them would have on our lawmakers? Do you not suppose ' that they would sit up and take notice? They certainly would, one hundred per cent. Circulate Petititms So let us get these names on peti- tions, if we want to have such a bill made a law in Michigan. We are publishing the heading to a petition, addressed to the Governor and the members of the legislature. Read over the wording and if it ex— presses your feeling in regard to such a bill clip it from the paper and attach a long sheet of writing paper. Then circulate this among your neighbors, getting them to sign their names and addresses, if they feel the same as you do about it. After one sheet is filled attach another on the bottom of the first one, and continue to add sheets until you get all the signers you can. Please write on only one side of the sheet as peti- tions with names on the back are not acceptable. Also each party must give their address. Theil when you have finished with your petition mail it to us so that we can put it in proper hands for consideraton. Monroe Farmer Chosen 1927 Corn King (Continued from Page 4) In 1928, the Five Acre Corn Grow- ing Contest will be continued in this State. It is hoped to make the scope of this project much broader and by the continuation of the re- gional division it is planned to in— crease the interest on the. part of more com growers throughout the State. ~ In 1928, instead of giving a com- modity prize as sweepstakes award. this award will be in the form of a silver cup or trophy and regional prizes will be awarded in each of the three districts as in 1927. Milk, skim milk and butter-mini are rich in lime. A mare may be put at light work at the end of two weeks after fouling. Building a good herd with scrub bulls is as liard as building a good house with refuse lumber. Always burn or bury dead chickens to prevent spread of disease. Flowers improve the appearance of the farmstead. DAIBYMAN'S SONG 1 By Eva Henderson Davey (Tune: Cowboy Song—Whoopee-ti-yi—you.) As I was a— walkin’ one mornin’ for plea- sure, I met an old farmer a- -1eadin’ a cow ' His hat was pulled low an' his face it was glomy, An' I thought to myself, What’s 11 fret- tin’ him now? Chorus: Whoopee-ti-yi—yo, get along you old hoard- er, You’ve ate and you've not paid your keep; Whoopeee ti— —yi- yo, get along you old board- You re esold to the Butcher, he’ll put you to sleep. Some cows they give milk that ls nearly. all water And calves it would take ahnost Pure cream to fat, Now just think it over and m quite truly, Could anyone make any money by that? -So if what type want is an income from the first. time that it can be giveli'l -.: Ber-ides consideration, new is none thousand - jam and be kind that 1- Send for catalog an No advertisement less than ten words. all advertisers in this department, no exceptions and no discounts. 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W esthausei Nurseries, Sawyer, Michigan NUT CROPS—THE NORTII'S FUTURE SOIL production l’iogressive faimcrs are planting groves of improved grafted nut trees. Learn )11 by Read “Save America’s Nut lleritzlgc,‘ and l\ut Growers.’ John W. Hershey, Nut Trees, Down— ington, Pa. market for all kinds of goods, farmers and their families. appear in this department. tising. Wood, Rabbits, the first possible issue. Name No. of words in advt............. Amount of payment enclosed................ ADVERTISE Our Readers Report Splendid Results with Classified Advertising Among our more than 92,000 subscribers, there is an unlimited supplies and equipment used by If It ls.Worth Anything—You Can Sell It There is practically no limit to the variety of offerings that That’s why everybody reads them. Every- one of our readers is invited to make regular use of Classified Adver- It cost little—and does business. 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PET STOCK THOROUGH- BRED WHITE AND YELLOW (‘ollie pups, eight weeks old. Price $5 and $10. Wilbur liig‘ford” Ovid, Mich POSITION WANTED MARRIED MAN DESIRES STEADY POSI~ tion on dairy farm. Address Box 50, Michigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mich. EXPERIENCED SINGLE MAN WANTS JOB f.ar1n Lesli 1e Adams. Mt. Pleasant, Mich. HELP WANTED SINGLE MAN, FOR GENERAL WORK ON Holstein Dairy Farm must be good milker and (xive de- references. Mich. Comfmtable room, good home. age. experience, wages ex ected, Ullinaiin Farm. R. 1, ianchester, feeder. tails, R. P WANTED A DAIRY FARMER WITH FARM equipment to operate or work on shares a 200 acre farm 1m as from Detroit. I will supply from 10 to 25 milking cows. In answering state equipment in detail and age of horses. Box 52. Michigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mich. WANTED TRUSTWORTIIY SINGLE FARM hand. Reed Rider, Almont, Michigan. FARMS EXCHANGE FF RH SMALLER 00 111 re stock farm M. ave, Mich. FOR SA Ll; pi opcrty. Lakeview FARM; CLAY LOAM; Fleet- Rowe, 268 Af‘Rl1 20 acres Maple timber. Terms. FOR SALE 111114. Buildings; ric plant $50 per acre. llva1't,1\li(higan. FOR SALE MY FARM OF ONE HUNDRED AND ninety 111-‘1cs.115 acres improved, balance timb-. or. One of the best stock farms in this county. \lso a line lake that borders on the east side, Kylitl} good fishing. Joseph Chanting, Silverwood, i l(‘ l. IIEAL’I‘III IWILL SELL MY 1‘llfinr all paiticular, write A. C. 1( h ON ACCOUNT OF i0 ac”! farm. Ketchuin, Rodney, \VAN’l‘l1ll)~li‘f.()UR AND FEED aMILL IN EX— change for 95 acre farm. 12940 Patton Ave.. Detroit, Mich. TOBACCO GITARAFNTEED IIOMESPUN TOBACCO—CHEW- pounfds. $1. .1; 10— $2. Smoking? 10- United 11 free! l’ay postman. rm- r)P1pe Kentucky. ers. B'urdwell. l-IOMF SPUN TOBACCO—RIPE, chewing, 5 lbs. $1.50;1 Smoking, 5 lbs. 25 Fanncrs Union, Mayficld, 1. TUCKY Smoking 1 0 Pay when received. Kentucky. SWEET, MELLOW. pounds is .0 Chewing aged. . Kentucky Farmers. $1.50. \Vingo. v MISCELLANEOUS MAKE $25. 00 DAILY SELLING COLORED raincoats dand slickers‘. Red Blue. Green.0 etc. 2.95. Free. Commissions daily. Outfl tflt Elliott Bradley. 241 Van Bureau. Dept. ,Chicago. 1' rec. B K—L W E START YOU WITHOUT A DOLLAR SOAPS, E\tracts. Perfumes. Toilet Goods. Experience Unnecessary. Carnation 00.. 530, St. Louis, Mo. ELIJAH COMING BEFORE CHRIST. FREE Boo k. B. Megidd Mission. Rochester. N. Y. BEST QUALITY CLOVER HONEY. 5 LB. M pail $1 postpaid. Ilonier Buzzard, Fenton, IC 1. 3 SHIRTS FREE AND $7.00 AN HOUR. NEW plan. Amazing values. Fashion Wear Shirts, Dept. 38, Cincinnati, Ohio. FOR SALE QUILT I’lliCES. cale and ginghains. 3 lbs. $1 Morgan, Vicksburg, Mich. 300 FUL'L SIZE,UNRUL1‘D LETTER HEADS and 300 good white envelopes, all iicévitoly lprinted with name, address and business, ' )ollars. postpaid. Suitable for Farmer Busmess0 Man and all others. Money back if wanted. Shipping tags, Statements ‘ards, etc, equally low prices. The Braytons, Freeport, Mich. MEN, GET FOREST RANGER JOB; $125- $200 111.0 and home furnished; hunt, fish, trap. For ((lletiails write Norton 347 Temple Court, Denver, LOVI‘ LY PER.- Mrs. George BUY DIRECT FROM MAUFACTURERS. ONE . barrel dishes. Not less than 100 ieces. Con- tains not less than 12 cups, saucers,a sizes plates, oatmeals, sauce dishes, platter, sugar, etc., gactory imperfections. Fm %r{._-g decora ed 39. 0 Barrels unlimited. {S f'reiged is oyer $100 we pay the difference free from- ~0ur Warehouses, Bostcm. or ‘Nevvfi1 ork. China, Inc.. Dept, 440, Boston, fl ‘_ EKLYI DEM QTRA ee,.°fliludm and Dust: cm udingb two ac crl cr-‘y. Get 5. 00 outfit? 15kg?“ 7 3 A Washington. 11111133150 ' “fig!" 2.; 1 creamer, { -- “ r \ . Quality-Bred and Quality-Hatched iii _ Lakeview chicks grow rapidly into reaLmone . We win '\\ 5 and hold our customers by supplying only stock b for profits. The Best Strains of Money-Making Breeds are represented in our laying flocks. Dependability and production proved by test. Official Records up to 252 eggs at Michigan egg con- test, 1925. Our Barred Rocks won silver cup. Holland Fair 1927. 215 eg hen at Natl. Egg Laying Contest, Mountain Grove, Mo., 1927. All our flocks are Michigan Accredited and regulars}!l proved by authorized state inspectors. Chicks are Smith-Hat e3: ively and vigorous. 100% live delivery guaranteed. Get Our Big FREE Catalog It tells all about the famous strains from which Lakeview chicks are hatched. S. C.W. horns for egg production. Your choice of g. 9. standard heavier bree ' rizedwinning Barred Rocks, White Rocks, Bufl' Orpingtons, White yandottes, or S. C. Rhode Island Reds , -all high grade stock. We will ship 0. 0. D. Don’t delay your reservations — If per chick books your order. Write TODAY for catalog and special price list. .tlon. Large percentage of business to satisfied old customers. .. A LAKEVIEW POULTRY FARM s I as. J. ROLE. Prop. I Box 3 Holland, men-lg.- Member International Baby Chick Association I I I I I ‘ ‘ "l otinvestigate one of Michigan’s oldest and best hatcheries. Twenty It will pay you from rugged free range breeders officially yeals’ _experiences. Every chick hatched . accredited by inspectors supervised by Michigan State Poultry Improvement Associa- WHITE LEGHORNS - English Type and American. BARRED ROCKS, ANCONAS. “lover a Bum Ito In Sixteen Consecutive Years" so writes a customer who has. been purchasing chicks from us for sixteen consecutive years. Some record, you’ll agree. Your Michigan. Accredited chicks bought of this old reliable concern with an established reputation for square dealing are sure to please. Get our Free catalog that tells all. HOLLAND HATCHERY AND POULTRY FARM Van Appledorn Bros. R. 7-B, Holland, Mich. Hollywood and Tancrcd Strains annd English Type. S. C. White .Laghorns. 'Also Brown Leghorns, Anconas and Barr ,Rocks. All large type Production. Bred Birds. Bred for 15 years for heavy cornmercml egg production. hvery bird indiVidually handed and inspected bh an authorized Inspector. .In breeding; up the Famous Townline Egg Laying Strain. we ave bred, not for a few high record lens only, but for HIGH FLOCK AVERAGES Our Direct from Farm to You Method, saves you 5 to 10 cents per chick on this High Quality Stock. FREE CATALOG tells how we hatch, breed, cull, inspect and raise our stock. Tells what to feed ; genuine Poultry Guide. and how to be successful. Full instruction on the Care of Baby Chicks. A Write us. ; TOWNLINE POULTRY FARM, R. 1, Box 208, Zeeland, Mich. S. c. Wh. Leg- horns 8 ensue - Mich! an Ac- orns creditgd Chicks _ , . (Dr. Heasi -—Every 23»:- ‘ . ._ - _ ,; Egglrilfim or approv y authorized Sta ' /. v; ‘ Bag-ea Inackgs 'mmm l Meadow Brook 'aid ° ‘ ~- "' ‘ s. c. R. I. Reds a». Take time to investigate one of Micliifiau’s oldest hatcheries. Every chick hatched rorn proven blood ides and fronrrugyed free in . winning was made in Production and Exhibitiql classes in stro corn etl ion. of our business is to satisfied customers. Get our big free cata 0g . Its free. delivery prepaid guaranteed. Henry Mree sons. Proprietors MEADOW BROOK HATCHERY, Box B, Holland, Mich. Twenty-six years in business. 3 breeders. The above Our biggest share ' 0% live INC: CHICKS ' ° ' ‘ ' that are bred from proven blood lines. MIChlgan Accredlfed Cthks Every breeder wears at sealed leg band in- dicating official approval by authorized state inspectors. mmediate shipment. BIG DISCOUNT NOW! PAY $1.00 DOWN—BALANCE c. O. D. Pay for your chicks when you get htcm. Send $1.00 and we will_ship C. O. U. Get our big new catalog. It is free. It Will helpyou. Your climce of three / profitable breeds. 100 % livc delivery guaranteed. Hutches every week now. BRUMMER FREDERICKSON POULTRY FARM, Box 26, Holland, Mich. - Den—r Customer: , Are You Making a Profit From Your Labor and‘lnvestment? if you are not, then we would like to show you how you can do so. If youare then let us shosxv yoil‘ {10W ttO increase ttillati: profitt k ‘ 1w 3 the semen—always good . iatis er cus omers say is our soc 1H ay _> ‘ . Algrvite {plrci’r‘iformation on our B. P. ROCKS, R. I. RED, 8. c. W. LEGHORN and P. ROCK B C . Also—'~GHINGHILLA, FLEMISH GIANT and NEW ZEELAN'D RED RABBITS. MILAN HATOHERV & FUR FARM]. Box 7 MILAN, MIGH. ACCREDIT.ED_ GHICKS Buy your chicks from heavy lay flocks that are ofllcially~accredited by in- $13,“ suplervised byhamchlgan tote College agd ofd $34232?!th atdtlée . (190 Show ebostdimlay »a.rre,, e rou- tion does. u try and ‘ on 8. Cl.) B. ,1. M’athormcflm-mw . I. lul' mulch. MICHIGAN f i Amm m m RAISING , ,adifficult operation, as some would think.‘ Yet a few things are necessary for proper care and raising of chicks. Chicks without much preparation or very. much equipment, but your loss- es will be heavy and your profits will be little if you do not use the proper methods and proper equipment in 'caring for your chicks. You should be prepared a, little ahead of the time that you receive the chicks so that when they come you will not have to delay putting them immediately in their future home. Comfort is one thing chicks must have if they grow and thrive as they should. In order that they be comfortable. you should have their home ready for them when they arrive from the hatchery. VNaturally, the first thing should have a house ready for them. One of the first principles of a home is that it should be comforta- ble with a. dry floor, plenty of fresh air and if possible, so that direct sunlight _can reach them through either one of the modern substitutes for glass or else through one of the windows without glass over.it. In very few localities is it profitable to risk the chicks without windows of some kind. Open sheds for chicks are not successful in any climate ex- cept possibly in the extreme South. In selecting your house, bear in mind that freedom from drafts and damp floors, plenty of sunshine and fresh air are necessary for growing chicks. ' Warmth is also necessary. The warmth is supplied by your broader or brooder stove" but no brooder or brooder stave can warm up a house to the proper temperature for baby chicks if the house is full of cracks and openings, and has drafts and damp floors. more fatal to baby chicks than a little cool air, although baby chicks must be kept moderately warm. The modern way of brooding baby chicks calls for plenty of warmth under the brooder, with an opportunity to get away from the heating unit out into air not so warm but Where the chicks can exercise and eat. With the modern brooders and brooder stoves, there will be an abundance of heat, if your house is at all com- fortable. Plenty of heat can be pro- vided if you will watch your brooder stove and keep it properly fired up. For the first week the chicks should be kept close to the heating unit with strips of building paper or fine mesh wire about eighteen inches wide set up on edge to keep them near the brooder. It is well to put the brooder stove to one side or the back of the house so that the chicks will have a chance to be away from the extreme heat when they eat and exercise. In se- lecting a brooder stove be sure and get one that has more capacity than you plan to.put chicks under it. In other words, do not crowd your chicks into too small a brooder. It is far better to have a'brooder too large than to have one just large enough. One _of the big mistakes made is putting too many chicks in one house or around one brooder. The floor should be covered with some litter that 'is free from dust and will not be harmful for the chicks to eat. Fine cut alfalfa or clover, even clean straw and wood shavings are used. Peat moss is widely used and proves not ‘only good for the chicks but makes a good'fertilizer afterward. Some use a thin covering of sand on the floor with a. good litter on top of it. You must not overlook enough water fountains. One water foun- tain to each twenty—five chicks is none too many. The same propor- tion should be for feed hoppers as the chicks must be able -to eat easi— ly‘or they will not eat’ enough. ‘ Crowding in the house and crowd- ing under the brooder stove are two of the most cbmmon mistakes in the way of housing and equipping baby chicks. ' ‘ _ Too little 'roo‘m for the chieksto I Wand atmthe next most serl- ' esteem in ' ‘ ,, slams baby/chicks isnot “sues- You can raise - ‘ experience. , Remedy. you ’ Dampness is perhaps ‘ Diarrhea Remedy. . z a Wtqwd .2. macaw ' We Experience 8,3: Mrs. c. M. ' f ' WW in preventing White . p . _ . . rhea‘ ..~ .. The following-letter will no doubt are who have had serious losses from - White Diarrhea. We, will: let Mrs. Bradshaw tell other experience in her own words: “Dear Sir: I see reports of so many losing their, little chicks with White Diarrhea, so thought I would tell my _ I used to lose a great many from this Cause, tried many remedies and was about discouraged. As a last resort I sent to the Walker Remedy 00., Dept. 630, Waterloo, Iowa, for their Walko White Diarrhea I used two 500 packages, raised 300 _White Wyandottes and never lost one or had one sick after giving the medicine and my chickens are larger and healthier than ever be- fore. I have found this company thoroughly reliable and always get the remedy by return mail.”-——Mrs. C. M. Bradshaw, Beaconsfleld, Iowa. Cause of White Diarrhea White Diarrhea is caused by micro- scopic organisms which multiply with great rapidity in the intestines of dis- eased birds and enormous numbers are discharged with the droppings. Readers are warned to beware of E White Diarrhea. Don’t .wait until it kills half your chicks. Take the “stitch in time that save nine." Re- member, there is scarcely . a hatch without some infected chicks. Don’t let these few infect your entire flock. Prevent it. Give Walko in all drink- ’ ing water for the first two weeks and you won't lose one chick where you lost hundreds before These letters prove it: * Never Lost a Single Chick Mrs. L. L. Tam, Burnetts Creek, Ind., writes: “I have lost my share of chicks from white Diarrhea. Finally 5 I sent for two packages of Walko. I 7- raised over 500 chicks and I never lost a single chick from White Diar- rhea. Walko not only prevents White Diarrhea, but it gives the chicks strength and vigor; they develop quicker and feather earlier.” Never Lost One After First Dose Mrs. Ethel Rhoades, Shenandoah, Iowa. writes: “My first incubator chicks, when but a few days old, be- gan to die by the dozen with White Diarrhea. I tried difierent remedies and was about discouraged withthe chicken business. Finally, I sent to ‘ the Walker Remedy 00., Waterloo, Iowa, for a‘ box of their Walko White It’s just the only thing for this terrible disease. We raised 700 thrifty, healthy chicks and , never lost a. single chick after the first dose." ' You Run No Risk We will send Walko White Diar- rhea Remedy entirely at our risk—~ postage prepaid—so you can see for yourself what a wonder—working rem— edy it is for White Diarrhea‘in'baby chicks. 89 you can prove—as thousands have prov- -- en—that it will stop your losses and double, treble, even nadr is your roflts. Send 500 for ck- Wal 0 or slim for extra large boll)?— give it in all rinkmg water and watch results. You ll find you won i; lose one chick where you lost doaens before. Its a positive fact. You run no risk. We guarantee to refund your money promo“! if you don t find it the greatest little chick mver you ever used. The Pioneer Nafional Bank. ,0 oldest and strongest bank in Waterloo, 1a., stands back of our guarantee. , Walker Remedy Gm, Dept. 580. Waterloo. Iowa THE BUSINESS FARMER . TELL YOUR. FRIENDS ABOUT IT! Ross 1‘ METAL i . ROSS ‘BRO‘ODER HOUSE GALVANIZEF“ PREVENTS ALOSSES N. Near round—no corners for crowd- ng—rat and. vermin proof. New excluswe idea in cross ventilation. - . Combination ventilator audible. Glass Windows. Diameter 12 lerHriMlmflgfilem—om on less momma Bob fl” y' l B be of utmost interest «teapoultry rais- ; ..°"“Why don't any ‘f; Hens Eat more We have had t .0, after time. The mgsgl’igfikéedm time don 't need anymore — they eat." The Proof is Here W WI: nag-She‘ll limestone 43% less museum: laid mm gimestono: cg? anhlyfused as the chicks and layinghens. or com about Sensual: found that oneG t produced ate mm: a gain both farm the meet and the grit us “mm GRIT mm the.” it “o‘is clean and healthful. Itis pure lime- hiingh Calcium. lt furrii i‘gobgism d Asmall r can tructure. amount of earl Grit will do more good than larger amounts of other grits and shells. “Less grit to buy and moreeggsto to’sell‘ isbomeoutin actual pm when you use PEARL GRIT. threeeizoe: F Chi ingBirds Le or chi. Growb c e 6- one a; ‘0 “‘9‘0‘0 ‘3 q.- r“‘ 593”.“ «4'0 «a 6%. All Alive and Showing Amazing Growth! W. R. Brown,aprominent south- ern poultry r'aisenwn writesi“His- tory is repeating itself. My first hatch off, ninety-five chicks from one hundred five fertile eggs, chicks two weeks old last Sunday.Allalive andshowamaz- ing growth and development. I am feeding your formu FREE You will find our bookletl'Feed fromthe Eggto the Market! ’ not only interesting and instructive but full of vital in- formation on feed- ing, breeding, culln ing and marketing. The book is free,“ you send your feed dealer's name. COLLIS PRODUCTS CO. M 1‘ IOWA wins wmmo 'ro anmrrsnns V MNHON rm: openness IABMEB 9 as suns Tod not our in: Mitzi-5.15 ind “near when: your. fleck °‘ Pearl Grit” TheOhielathleCoupeny- one of ., one another trying) d drink and then go under ’ od'er hungry and thirsty. Again, it pays in the long run to ~ usualLy is far more dependable in heating and service than makeshigt equipment. —R. V. Hicks, Interns— tiOnal Baby" Chick Ass’n. f STORAGE STOCKS POULTRY AND EGGS LIES THAN A YEAR AGO MALLER storage holdings of poultry, eggs, cheese and apples February 1 compared with Feb- , ruary 1 a year ago, and increased supplies of butter, meats and lard cultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture. Total stocks of poultry are placed at 117,972,000 pounds compared with 145,076,000 pounds on Febru- ary 1, 1926; case eggs at 25,000 cases as against 253, 000 cases a year ago, and American cheese 41, 693, 000 pounds against 46, 026, 000 pounds. There were 1,254,000 barrels of year' as against 3,178,000 barrels ” last February, and 9, 806, 000 boxes compared with 10, 435, 0-00 boxes. Holdings of 2, 321, 00 bushel baskets of apples are reported for February . 1 against 2,037,000 bushels last February. Total stocks of creamery butter February 1 are placed at 28,296,000 pounds against 17,952,000 pounds last year; meats 794,319,000. pounds against 750,563,000 pounds, and lard 83,780,000 pounds against 69,- 576,000 pounds. (. RICKETS OR LEG WEAKNEBS We started in the poultry business last spring with 500 chicks. Had good luck with them at first but later ,they got lame and seemed to lose the use of'their legs. Please tell me what I should have done for them. Also pleasé tell me how to avoid so much frost on the inside of coop in cold weather. Coop is 20x22, shed vroof type, and has ventilator near roost. I keep windows open as much as possible—0. W., Ionia County. THINK that if you will add 10 pounds of alfalfa meal, 5 pounds of bpnemeal and 2 pounds of cod liver oil‘ to each 100 pounds of mash feed that you will overcome this rickets or leg weakness with which you are bothered. It is caused by the birds not getting a complete ra— tion; it is deficient in lime and phos— phorus. It is evident that your ventilators are not workjng. If they were you would not have any dampness in your house working it will draw off this mois- ture. It might help by extending those ventilating fines to within a couple of feet of the floor. If they haven’t the proper construction so that it acts as a suction it may not be possible to create a draught through them. If you can locate any barn equipment man he could no doubt tell you how to get these to working properly. .- LOOKS LIKE 3011p Some of my hens have what I call roup. Their nose stops up, their eyes get watery, then swell and pus forms. Finally the eyes are swollen shut, and after a time they die; Can you give me a remedy? Have been feeding a ration made up of 100 lbs. ground meat scraps, 1 lb charcoal and salt, all mixed and fed in a feed- er.—J. M.,’ Imlay City, Mich. THINK you have roup. One of the first things to look to is the ventilation; the house must have fresh air all the time without drafts. ~ The walls and ceilings must not be damp or wet. Remove all sick birds as soon as they are found. Clean your house often as you have been doing. I think that if you will double the amount of horn in your mesh and then add 30 lbs. of bonenieal and 12 ignts at cod liver Oil to cash batch tat it W1 help greatly in overcom- ing this trouble. This Should also ' laying. 7 x use only the most substantial equip- ment for brooding chicks as the best ‘1 are reported by the Bureau of Agri- ' apples in store- on February 1 this , If you get these to. bite condition torn All Larro mashes con- tain the correct amount of dried buttermilk - mineralsf- vitamins. Results prove they have everything necessary, in ”just the right proporv tions, to make an ideal feed. Only highest quality ingredients'are used, the uniformity of which is constantly assured by exclusive standardizing processes used only at the Larro Mill. ItistheLarropolicy to make onlyrationlofsuchqmlltyeemylofl the feederthegreatest posiblc profit. ThatiewhysVe makeoflyw fedfmemhmnonlyonecsnbemouprofiuble. What will become of those chicks of yours? Are they here for a few days only—or will they live and grow as you want them to do? Your choice of a starting ration will largely decide the success you have with them. Better play safe and give them a ration you know is right. There’s no guesswork about results when you feed Larro Starte'r.’ Not a single pound of this wonderful ration was offered for sale until three years of testing at Larro Research Farm had proved beyond all question that it would return the feeder the biggest possible profit over the feed bill. Thousands of poultry raisers since that time have found-that Larro Starter is utterly different from any chick ration they have ever fed -that it reduces chick losses to a minimum—makes chicks grow faster and more evenly—- builds health, vigor and resistance to ' disease—starts chicks right on the road to productive maturity. Put a brood of chicks on Larro Starter now! Feed it together with Larro Chick Grains, following the directions printed on the sack. You ’11 be aston— ished at the results you get—and you'll prepare your chicks to pay you later the biggest possible profit over the feed bill. Ask your Larro dealer about Larro Poultry, Hog and Dairy Rations. ‘If you do not know who sells them, write The Larrowe Milling Comv , ‘ puny, Detroit, Michigan. FEEDS THAT DO No'r'VARY Chick Starter Chick Grains ‘ Growing Mash Growing Grains Egg Mash Scratch Grains arro" 3 I '9 M ..,, a ‘. -mé ., {sentime- “ OME of the big lines, like corn and cotton, are still giving a . good account of themselves. Wool and .most fruits and vegetables also tended upward after the middle ”of the month. Live stock lost a lit- tle of the early February gains. But— ter cheese and eggs keep on going dOWn. Ups and downs have been fairly well balanced for the farmer , who has a little-of almost everything ' to sell. Cattle A top heavy cattle market fell of its own weight during the week end- ed February 18. Price breaks which in the case of the higher grades of medium and heavyweight slaughter steers were severe, reflected a narrow shipping demand in line with a weakened condition of the dressed beef trade. Declines enforced at Chi- . cag’o on such steers ,during the week, ' added to a slumpy conditon of the market the previous week, left val- ues on good and choice grades with weight $1.50 to $2 below the previ- ous week's high time. Fat cows and heifers, in modest sympathy with the general steer trade, declined unevenly, the better grades losing most. At the week’s high time veal calves were $1 to $1.510 higher than the previous week end; but an $18 top had receded to $17 by the (nose. A few loads of fleshy feeders sold up to $12.25 to $12.75, such being destined a short turn .in nearby feedlots. Grazers from distant points as well as from ;- the Corn Belt were free buyers of » ‘ light stocker steers largely at $9.50 ” t01$11.50 in partial preparedness for the approaching grass period. Hogs Recent u-pturns in the corn market were partially credited with the heavier shipments of “hogs. Senti- ment of trade interests, however, is that producers will not continue to ’so' liberally feed a market that is generally believedto be around bed rock prices of the season and, al- “though pork products are accumulat- ing rapidly in storage, some improve- ment in live hog values is probable, ' the moment supply pressure is re- ‘ lievd. Lard is getting a decent clearance and selling well relative to the price of hogs. Retail dealers have passed on a considerable portion of athe decline in wholesale pork pro- duct prices to consumers and in- creased consumption is resulting. The closing top February 8, at Chi. L» cage was $8.45 with bulk of good and choice 170 to 210 pound $8.30 to $8.40. ~ Sheep . Closing price levels on fat lambs February 18, at Chicago as compared with a week previous were steady to 25 cents lower on the lighter weight fat lambs. Wool markets continue firm, holding recent gains and mak- ing new ones on domestic grades. Prices of Wool cloth were reported j‘ rising with the cost of the raw ma- * terial. Receipts of corn at the principal markets the third week in February were only about half of those of the previous week as a result of bad road conditions. Demand active from practically all sections. This - resulted in a steady advance in corn " prices at all of the important mar~ ’ kets. No. 3 yellow corn was quoted February 18 at‘Chicago at 99 cents .to $1 per bushel, St. Louis 95% to 96% cents and Kansas City $1.03% to $1.04. delivered on track at Gulf 'ports. . Wheat Smaller shipments of wheat from the Southern Hemisphere, together ‘with active, buying by domestic mills strengthened the wheat market and paused a moderate price advance. 5m ifigpply of high protein wheat-s ' 1 lift «premiums were admCedIlighte - i?! for both spring and hard. winter . dly equal to current demand ~ \ wheat. wheat tended to«hold prices .firm for rye, oats and barley. The sharply higher prices for corn and a small advance in cats helped widen the market for ‘b‘yeproduce feeds al- though weather. warmer than usual - over most of the United States tend- ed to reduce feeding requirements. Wheat feeds, ruled firm ‘but prices of cottonseed .meal were barely steady at a number of “markets. Stocks .of cottonseed meal and cake at the.flrst of February were about 20 per cent larger than a year ago. Stocks of cottonseed on hand at mills February 1 were only about two-thirds of-the amount held at the corresponding date last season. Lin- see‘d meal held barely steady, al- though oi‘ferings continued to be closely marketed. Gluten feed was generally firm while hominy prices were advanced, partially as a result of the higher corn prices. Bay 4 Hay »markets continued quiet. Light receipts and country loadings were the principal strengthening ’ AllGralflS Appearlnieoo‘d Posififinz: ,: .97“. mome-up .15. cents. and are *now ' Livestock Loses Some of Early F eb-ruary Gains . ' By Market News Service, Bureau of Agriculturallnconomiel, U. B. D. A. . (Special_to Tm! annmss Fauna) 1' ' The strength, in ‘corn and ' higher than "at this timefllast‘ year. A . 25' cent gain'in'slouthern Idaho was . very encouraging- after ~ the drags? ceasell. in that State. Top of $1.25 = was reached onVRusset Burbanks, . and this stock t‘ouched $2'in‘ the Chi- cago carlot market. Northern Round Whites sold‘as h‘igh‘as- $1.80 in Chis ' - cage. ~ er‘n sections report- intentions to Many of the important south- plant more-heavily this year, and "the ' net increase of acreage in 10 early States may be at least 5 per cent. Evidently. southern growers are hopeful of a good spring market. . Butter 7- " _ The slump in butter prices to lowest/ point of this year, and 9 cents lower than in. March 1927 is the result of liberal fresh supplies. Production seems to be ahead of last season and storage holdings are 40 to 50 per cent greater. Cheese prices alSo tended lower and are below the - level of a year ago, owing to the . same cause; increasing-supplies. ' BEANS CHP beans passed the $8.00 mark last week with receipts small and de- mand good. Later the market re— versed, receipts increasing while de- mand dropped off. The price had reached $8.05 but with the reversal in. the market it declined a nickel, ending the week at $8.00 per hun- ' MARKET REPORTS BY RADIO DAILY HE Michigan Business Farmer was first to broadcast farm market, reports in Michigan (January 4, 1926)._ Market reports and farm news are now available as follows: to 7:00 P. M'.; WKAR (277.6), 12:00 M.; WWJ (352.7), 5:45 P. M.: WGHP (277.6 meters), 6:05 ' WCX-WJR (440.9). 4:15 P. M.—Editor. factors in the face of the dull in- quiry. Prices during the past month have shown the usual seasonal tend- ency downward with timothyehowe ing the greatest "declines. Prairie prices were also at. the low point of? the year to date; and were around $6 lower than a year ago. Alfalfa prices while shov‘ving a decline from the high point reached in January were somewhat above the prices of last season and reflected the rela— tively large demand for this class of hay this season. Fruits and Vegetables ' - Fruits and, vegetable markets seemed to ride on a: wave of higher prices last week. Except for one or two products, the situation_ was much stronger than it had been. Potato prices in northern /_.Maine dredweight. Many dealers seem to be of the opinion that this is just a ‘ temporaryslowness and the market‘ will pick up again soon. ‘ Light red-kidneys are quoted at $7.75, dark reds at $9.00. DETROIT name AND EGGS Butter, firm; creamery in tubs, 88 to 90 score, 42@45c. Eggs,iirm;. fresh firsts, 29@29%c. ' DETROIT LIVE POULTRY Commission merchants’ gross re- turns per pound to farmers, from which prices ‘5 per ‘cent commission and transportation charges are do. ductible. , ‘ i Firm. Hens, colored, 4 lbs. up, 29c: x THE BUSINESS F ARMER’S MARKET SUMMARY and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks Ago and One Year Ago Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit Feb. 28 Feb. 28 Feb. 14 1 yr. ago WHEAT— ' No. 2 Red 31-55 331-48 $1.37 No. 2 White 152% 15;! in! 3 1'45“ 1.38 No. 2 Mixed 1-52 K 1-45 36 1.36 l / “fly-F "‘I.' . CORN— , ' . No. 2 Yellow 1-04 - 1-02 .79 , No.3 Yellow 1-01 .95@.96 ~99 .76 OATS ~ . ' No.2White 432% o58@.601,~é ~62 .‘ .50 No. a White 60% .5654 @.59 .60 , .47 .. . ‘ RYE—- Cash No. a 1-20 1-17 1.97 , BEANS— . ' ' ‘ .POTAToEs; ’ . _ per cm. 2.16 2.19@2.25 2.17 2.50@2.oe No.1 Tim. 1,; 14 18 19 1.3@14, 1_8@.19 No. 2%. 10 11 15' 17 ' .10 '11. ’16@17 . £0,100".- . 11, 12.50 -1s@19' . 1.1. 12.59.. f18@1.9 flight Mixed 18 '14 ' 1§@19 gaggle . ..;5:_.11_@4137 gz. Beans dram . ”a ' _ ‘ 'l ....»' , 16,000; estimated held'oy -‘ ~~ . gauge; grains, um:- sci-ergo: " 3,11“...de : ., ae , . we aim “‘th Salesman magnum” small. - and staggy, . . .9» 332911. up. 36*@38¢; sundries}! Ducks, 4% lbs. 'up.,'8 ‘ Geese, 21c. ,, . v_ ' ‘ ' SEEDS , ' DETROIT: Clover: seed,,- [058.11. imported, old, $14.90; March, _ $15.85; domestic" cash, "$10.00;, March,$16.50-. Aisike, cash, $15.95: March, $715.95. 'Timothy, cash, $2: -' March, $2. 3 ' ‘ ' -' BOSTON WOOLMARKET The. Commercial Bulletin says: “Moderate activity is. reported ~ in the wool market, in spite of the holiday . and the depleted stocks offireol’. _ Some manufacturers evidently need wool for special requirements quick- ly; and. others are willing to buy wools at a. price. for more remotegje- qiiirements.‘ The foreign .markets are very firm, although American has been less . conspicuous among the. . buyers of late. The foreign primary markets are rapidly nearing their close. Contractingjin the 'west has _narrcwed very considerably, ‘but the market Tis still, against the buyer. Further. openings of menis wearlines at advances of 5 to 12 %c a yard over last year in fancy worsteds confirm the earlier advances and the tend- encyof prices upward. Mohair _, is ' rather quiet, but very firm. The rail and water shipments. of wool from Boston from-January 1, 19.28 .to February 23,1928, inclusive were 37,175,000 pounds, against 32,384,- 000.. pounds for the same period ::‘last year. The receipts from January 1, I 1928, to February "23, '1928, inclu-‘f' sive, were 35,695,900 pounds, against 42,001,200 pounds :for (the same period last year. Quotations are ~as-follows: .Michigan and New .York fleeces, Delaine unwashed, 44 @ 45c; one—half blood combing, 480 49c; thre‘e-eighths blood combines.“ @52c; one—quarter blood combing, 52c. ’ .. . , ‘ . _ - LIVESTOCK _ . DETROIT, Feb; 28.——Cattle market on- ening slow; may close, lower. Fair . to good yearlings, -'$171@13; fair to good heavy steers, $11@13;50; handyweight 'butcher steers, $10.50@12 ; fair to _. good .heifers, ‘$9.50@11 ; common light butchers, $8@9.50; best cows, $8.50@'10; ‘cutters, $6.25@6.75; c‘anners, $5.50@6.2_5; choice lightbulls, $8.50@10,; bologna: bulls, $7.50 @850; stock bulls, $6.50@8.50; feeders, . $8@10; stockers, $7.50@10; milkers and springers, $75@115. , Veal Ca1ves.—-—Market steady; :best, . lambs, $16©16.25; fair lambs, $12.50@14; i light to common lambs, $10@12; fair to ‘ good sheep, $6@8.50; culls and common. $3@5.50. ’ _ Hogs—Market prospects slow; milked hogs, $8.60.. ' - EAST BUFFALO—Dunning & Stevens report: Market steady. Hogs: Market . strong: medium,- $8.60@8.75; heavies, , $8.40"@8.60; yorkers, $8.60@8.75; pigs, ,$7.75@8. Sheep and lambs: Market slow; top lambs, $16.25@16.50; yearlings, $10@ 14.50; wethers, $10@10.50; ewes, $8@9.50. Calves, $17.50. . CHICAGO—Cattle: Steer trade steady to easy, hardly enough in fresh receipts to make market; stale, light offerings very dull at $11@12 ;' some carrying Suitable weight ' at $11.50@12; best fed steers, $14.85; few loads, $12.25@13.65; best light heifers, $11.50; light heifer trade be- ing fully 50c under early in week; no choice kinds here’: co‘w market dull; bulls, steady; vealers, strong. to 250 higher, mostly $14.50@15.50; Outsiders, $16@17. Hogs: Closed active- and strong; general trade 10c to 150. higher than yesterday’s , average; spots.‘ on heavy butchers 20c to 25¢ up late; top, $8.30; bulk desirable 1.70, ‘ to‘210—lb. weights, $8.10 @8.25 $220 to 250 lbs. $7.85@3.15; 260 tesoo lbs; $7.7m 7.95 ; choice-.300—lb. averages. late.-upward, ' .10 $8; ' few big W' ht butchers under $7.75} best: light 1 ts, $8.@8.25,:- bulk; $7.25@7.75; pigs largely $6.25@6.75; few selected strong . weights $7,@ 7.25; . thing. . light kinds $6 and below; shippers. wpk ‘ ' ‘ .0. 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Hw».- . . {g One-Eighth Cost of Glass and Better- Admits ital ‘ l 1 l ’ Ultra -Violet Rays from the Sun " The most powerful force in sunshine. is the Ultra-Violet Rays nature offers us. This portion of sunshine is necessary to keep plants, animals and chicks alive and healthy. They are what build up the body and keep away disease. These rays cannot pass thru plain glass. That’s Why chicks die behind glass, scientists discovered. The three things a chick must have to win its fight ‘ against death are food, wa- ter and Ultra-Violet rays (actual sunlight. Many peo- ple overlook sunlight and wonder why their chicks die. Do you know that chicks it kept under plain glass deprived of Ultra-Violet Rays, get weak legs, run down, lack vitality, and fin- ally die? This photo proves what Ultra-Violet Rays will do. The large, healthy chick received the Ultra- Violet Rays thru Flex-O- Glass. The small, sickly one did not, as it was kept under plain glass. Flex—O- Glass lets the Ultra-Violet Rays pass thru it which your chicks absorb. Every chick will stay healthy and reach maturity much soon- er if kept under Genuine . .. .Fle’x—O-Glasfs. The swing 1 ,. . . mo er The “epochs is true or pigs an Tm PmnllgiliusquB d Brooder House plants. ' WEAmERPROOF HE—u—AHI—AHHHI Keep Your C ; icks Healthy .- IWitli "Ultra -7Vio’let- Rays-Indoorsi Prevents Rickets (weak Legs), Diseases and Death-i-Your Chicks Will Grow Like Weeds BWeekslold under Flex-0431MB 8 weeks old under glass Both chicks from in the brooderw housesshownbelow Baby chicks must have the sun’s Ultra-Violet Rays or they won’t grow; they get sick and finally die. Scientists andpoultry experts learned Ultra-Violet rays are just as essential as food and water. These rays will, not pass thru plain glass windows, and you can’t afiord to turn your' baby chicks out in the slush, cold and unsettled spring weather to catch cold; get roup and diarrhea and die. But this problem has been solved. Under Flex-OeGlass your chicks absorb the sun’s vital Ultra-Violet Rays indoors. These rays pep the chicks up, make them scratch and exercise vigorously and activate and vitalize their blood; this keeps the chicks warm and healthy. They’ll grow like weeds under F-LEX—OJGLAASS. » > ' Users Everywhere Report Wonderful Chick Success We just wish we had room to print the letters and pictures. we get from Flex-O-Glass users every day, and even from scientists and poultry experts, telling the amazing results they have raism-g chicks under Flex-O—Glass. Many report not a single death—but these hundreds and thousands of letters and pictures would fill many books the size of this magazine. Below are just a few of the actual letters in our office. BEST BY TEST Hoffman Poultry Farm 01 Indiana writes: “We placed F L E X - O - GLASS by the side of one window that was Put Genuine FlexéO-Glass on your brooder house windows or just replace the south. wall of your poultry house with Flex—O-‘Glass easilyr Thousands have done this with amazing success—and Flex—O—Glass costs only 3V2c a square foot. You can’t afford‘ to be without it. Flex-O-Glass is very durable, guaranteed water and weather-proof, easy to put up and only 15 sq. yds. are required far 300 chicks. Have broilers and lay- ing pullets one-third sooner. Use this same scratch shed in the Winter. months for 100 hens and gather eggs‘all winter. It brings more fertile eggs in the spring for hatching. RAISED 99.3% “In February, 1926, I ordered 120 yards. 'Thru the help of FLEX-O-GL‘ASS I I" USE 8 YEARS d ' ex—O-Glass Broo er Eadie Flhas raised 1,000 healthy chicks each year for 3 years and the Mex—0- Glass isstill O. K. Owned y M“ and “agitating; gillflllkkt‘irggaLASS boosters in Bassett, Nebr. covered with (another product). .The differ— ence; in the color of the light w a s qu1ckly noticeable. Also, the chicks piled up in front of the FLEX-O- GLASS Window, but left the space in front of the other entirely empty.” have raised 993 chicks out of every 1,000. My neighbors have bought: from you on my r e c o «m mendation."-— Enterprise P o u l t r y Farms, Sacramento, Calif. There is Only One Genuine FLEX-O-GLASS Guaranteed Most Durable All glass substitutes are not Flex-O—Glass. The genuine is made on a special cloth base having a scientifically calculated mesh that admits the most Ultra-Violet rays. keeps the heat in and cold out, and at the same time is doubly strong and extremely durable to resist wind, rain, ice and snow for many seasons. Users ‘fllld Flex-O-(xlass stays bright and new much longer. There is only one Flex-O—(zlass—(xuaranteed to satisfy. Other manufacturers can not copy the weather—proof formula, thoroughly covered by patents pending and every yard marked for your protection. Get genuine FLEX-O-GLASS and avoid dissatisfaction. Used all over the world. 8 PECIAL“ $5 "u“ OFFER will send you 15 square yards. (135 sq. ft.) long, post paid . 4 - - lass Mf . Co. gPeF‘Elggi—(OELASS ii a roll 3 feet Wide and 45 feet Sh d for $5.00. Use the FLEX-O—GLASS 15 days on a Scratcéit- e , Brooder House Windows or Hot Beds; also for Porches. fiolrm \\' Doors, Windows, etc. If you are not then more than satis dec, V‘ just send it back and your money Will be cheerfully refunde . g You take no risk. This paper guarantees us reliable. 13f 6m want a larger roll on trial, send $9.50 for 30 yards é if . ft). Mail a check or money order today. 4 Hour e1- P vice. Take advantage of the money back guarantee flees TRIAL OFFER. Mail this Guarantee Coupon. now. POSTAGE ‘ PREPAID (About Who per Sq. Ft.) d. 36 In. wlde, 50c, I 1 1! covers 3x3 n. or 9 sq. ft. 5 yds.. $2 . . 400 a yd. covers 3x15 ft. or 45 sq. ft. 10 yds.. 8.50 . . 3603 yd. covers 3x 0 ft. or 90 sq. ft. 25 ds. $8 . . 820 a novel: air-Is n. or 225 sq. n. 100 ds. '- 80 . . cow-l x 00 ft. 4’ 0¢l l GUAnANrss COUPON I I FLEX-O-GLASS MFG., Dept. 414, 1451 N. Olcero Ava, chlcago, Ill. ~ Find enclosed $ ........ . ....... . for which send me ................ yards I of Flex~0-Glass 36 inches wide, by prepaid parcel post. It is I understood that. if: I' am not, satisfied after using the FLEX- I O-GLASS for 15 days I may returnit and you will refund my lmoney without question.» - - ‘ . I 900 Name: WW! vd- . 80:; am). 1 American Medical . Ass’n, Oliio, Iowa. and Kansas State Exw Oar! Kueger. of Sumner, Iowa. writes us: “Last spring we had 425 chicks in a FLEX—O-GLASS brood- er house and only 6 -died. In our brooder house with glass windows we lost half the“chicks. The chicks we kept behind FLEX-0- we ever raised. No special GLASS are thenbest chicks Easy to ' INSTALL mill work, no elaborate frames required to make a Flex-O-Grlass scratch shed ' s_ with on. ‘ or to replace poultry house this wonderful material. Won’t tear off. Easily removed and re-installed. Rain, snow and sleet do not affect it. Lasts many seasons. U T TACK OVER gflgKEN WINDOWS Why waste money on. storm doors Flex-O-Glass—only 335a a and Windows? square foot expensive glass Tack ——right over screens or over sash to replace broken neat. lggass ngdtifvik f, w ter-ti . won’ . rea , . proo Ailild yofir rooms Will be bright- Wind- looks er than with glass windows and doors. l, Illlllll" My“ 11-...— Opals" wT, . k -—'r’ickets.~ Beco , I e- I .___-.' fission].- ,, ociation. ‘ ~ tack cancerous. . Enclose Your Porches Transforms from cold snow trap to warm useful, sun-lit health-room or children's lay Ult a-Violet lgays "s aching legs . mmended for robes; b . th . a» ’n- 'Juat_ Stations , Found Genuine Flex-O-Glass ondertul Help to Baby Chicks The American Medical Association tested ' FLEX-O- GLASS for 63 days. Their report—a six—page edi- torial in the May 6th Medical Journal—shows that Flex-O-Glaas admitted the Ultra-Violet rays that plain glass stops, and that weathering had no effect upon its light transmiting qualititee. Another conclusive- fact brought out in the test conducted lg this leadinz scientific authority, is that chicks which are kept under Flex-O-Glass gained weight 33 1-3% faster than the chicks that remained alive under plain g n: and Cheaper» Than Glass For Hotbeds Gardners—get stronger, bigger plants that will grow when transplanted. Because FLEX’O-GLASS ad- mits concentrated Ultra-Violet rays and Infra-Bed (heat) rays, it makes plants row much stronger and faster than when under plain g ass. (Glass stops these rays“) Have lants earlier. Get. more money for them. FLEX— GLASS is installed much easier, holds. heatbetter and costs far less _an glass—only afic- a square ,foot. Scatters light Just are needed. Does not chill like glass. Frames are lig ter and easier to :, handle. 15 yards of FLEX-O—GLASS cove bed of 135 sq. ft. ,1de for greenhouses begun: «111$ fuses sun glare. Measure your requirements and‘take advantage of our Free Trial Offer today. ' MAKES HOG HOUSES LIGHTER Flex-O-Glass windows make interior much lighter than. glass because sfinshine. is difiused and sent to’eyu . inside, corner, lttle pigs grow» much mam—ready 3. marketafirlier—when given Ultra-Violet rays morgue Flex-0f