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too great‘for even the long day’s trip.

Today the automobile and good roads
have changed it into a pleasure spin of
a few hours. Gone are the incon-
veniences of shopping of yesteryears.
Gone with the Indian, the scythe, the
square piano and the bad roads.

The radio, the automobile and the
newspaper are fast making the City and
Country one—not only in space, but in
needs and desires. Today the family in
the farmhouse demand the same up—to—
the—minute styles, the same variety to
choose from, the same quality and sav-
ings, the same advantages of personal
selection as their City Cousins.

The J. C. Penney Company Depart-
ment Stores, located in nearly 1,000

cities and towns over the United States, are mpplyingthie
demand in a m09t satisfactory way. Fast trains thundering

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hat at ............ $3.98 For Boys,_ at .......... 98c

Jacki—Exquisite Toiletries
For refined and particular women, exclusive with our

Stores ................................. 19C to 98c

Two of Our Famous Footwear Values
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Shoes, at ....... ,. $3.98 er sole, at. ........ $4.98
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Chic Hats for Woman. ............. $2.98,. $3.98, $4.98

Our May White Goods Presentation
Table Linens, Sheets, Pillow Cases, Spreads and Towels.
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I WENTY-SIX YEARS AGO this month—when this nation-
wide retail business was founded by Mr. J. C. Penney—

a trip to town meant starting before daylight and arriving
back home after dark. In countless instances, the distance was

across a continent, carry the styles of New York and the best
Wred goods of the World’s markets to ad: Main
Street: of the Nation, placing them in our Stores within. emy
reach of the mat remote homes. ‘ ‘

Drive to the nearest town where there
is a J. C. Penney Company Store and
see for yourself if we cannot save you
money on Dry Goods, Clothing, Fur-
nishings and Shoes—everything needed
by man, woman and child.

Purchases in carload lots and by the
thousands of dozen for our many
Stores enable us to give you prices
that save you money. Look at the
quality of our goods, too, for it is
Quality alone that determines whether
the price iseconomical‘.

"Millions of Customers and All of
Them Friends” isn’t mereiy a slogan in
our Stores, it’s the result of 26 years
of giving helpful, conscientious Serv—
ice. , We shall strive to be increasingly

, worthy of your confidence. Make our Store your headquar-

Men Under 35 Years, Experienced
in Selling Our Lines Are Wanted
to Train for Co-partner Store '
Managers. Write for Details.

Home Oflices: 330 West 34th Street, New York City—40.-.Stores in Michigan, as Follows—

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SATURDAY, APRIL 14.. 1928

  

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Entered as 2nd class matter,
Aug. 22. 1917, at Mt. Clemens,
Mlch.. under sct Mar. 8, 1879.

 

 

 

 

 

THAT widow lady with the
two children toilfully. try-
“ing to keep her little
brood together and depending
for their sustenance on ~ her
eggs and poultry, will rest a
little easier—-
—-that old farmer who wrest-
ed his farm from the forest
when he came as a picneer in-
to the heart ‘ of Michigan’s
wilderness, 'may be relieved of
one worry—
—-your own wife and children
will have less cause for anxiety
if you are detained past dark
BECAUSE—é
—within three months’ time
we predict every neighbor-
hood, in every township, in
every county, in the 'State of
Michigan, will be bristling
with organized Minute Men
alert and ready to defend the
lives and property of their
neighbors.
From every corner of the

State have come letters and even tele-
phone calls advising us of our readers’

The Minute Man Project Is A Huge Success!

 

 

 

 

Motto: “Alert!” -'

Purpose: To protect the lives and property of farm families.

Pledge: "Pledging my allegiance, first to the United States of America,
I promise to stand ready, at any time. to give my full services
for the lawful protection of the lives or property of any neigh-
boring farmer or his family within a radius of twenty-five
miles from my own home, so help me God!”

Obligatiom Only to live up to the pledge made, to the best ofyour
ability and without any further promise of recompense.

Organization: Strictly volunteered service from male members of farm
families.

Qualifications: Any able-bodied male citizen of the United States,
residing on a farm and making his livelihood from farming,
not less than 21, nor more than 70 years of age. ,

Requirement: Every person desiring to become a member of the
Minute Men, must sign the above pledge which is deposited in
the files of THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, Mount Clemens,
Michigan, whereupon this publication will issue an identification
card, properly numbered, and an emblem which can be worn
only by a member. Both the card and the emblem are the
property of THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER and are loaned to
the member only for so long a period as he shall remain true
to the pledge given.

Dues: None.

Correspondence: All letters regarding this organization must be ad—
dressed to: The Minute Men, Care of THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS
FARMER, Mount Clemens, Michigan.

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every male between the ages of 21 and 70
residing on a farm in this state, will want
to wear.

These buttons are being rushed for de-

 

 

ecuting attorneys.

farmers and anything I can
same. I will be very glad to do.

Ofiicials‘ lndorse Movement

PACE permits us to quote only a few of the
letters we have received from every section
of the Stpte from~ different sheriffs and pros-

“In reply to your letter of the 8th, beg to ad-
vise I am very much interested in protection to
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There are no dues expected
from the Minute Men. The only
contribution its member will
make of any name or nature,

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will be the ten cent registration. 1
fee which will cover only part?

of the cost of the emblem,
identification card, and neces-

sary postage. THE MICHIGAN;

BUSINESS FARMER will assume

all expenses in connection with .

the organization of the Minute-
Men, over and above this small
registration fee, at least for the
first year.

You Should Act Promptly

It is obvious that our readers

are going to respond to this an-
nouncement in such numbers
that it may require a delay in
getting out the necessary ap-
plication cards, so we beseech,

in advance, your patience. We ‘-
will work day and night to get i

the application cards mailed to
you, and later to get the emb-

lems and identification carde-

made out, but the task is a great one.
It will be a case of first come, first
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livery and should be in our hands by the
time this issue is read by our more than
400,000 readers in the State of Michigan.

In addition to the emblem, an identifi-
cation card, bearing the name of each
member of the Minute Men, will be made
out on receipt of the application card.

Hundreds of Farmers Join Up

ITERALLY hundreds of letters have been re-

ceived from farmers.

a few to show you how this movement is go-
ing like wild fire throughout the State.

‘I have been special deputy game warden for
14 months.
ing 7 cases of law violations.
er, weighing 185 pounds and 6 feet tall. I strictly

“’e wish to quote just

My record of arresting and convict-
I was 21 last wint-

“In view of the fact that the writer has a farm
of his own, he would be glad to receive one of
your metal signs for posting on the farm.”—Je-
rome S. Borden, Sherin', Kalamazoo County.

Sherifl Chas. I. Gaylord, Cheboygam County,
writes: "I will do anything thatrmy office can do
to protect the farmers of our county. Outline
glint you want done or what you are thinking of

0 ng. .

Undersheriff F. E. Meyers, Gladwin County,
makes the following constructive suggestion:
“Your letter regarding organization of the Minute
Men, received, I think this will be a good prop-
osition and would suggest that you appoint three
men in each tow ship to be approved and depu-
tized by the sheri of the county and they should
be armed, and should be under supervision of the
sherifl. I. believe the plan suggested is a wise
one and that you should be commended for taking
an interest in defending and protecting farmers.”

“Anything that I can do to assist you will be
cheerfully done.”—-John A. Stewart, Prosecuting
Attorney, County of Iosco.

A. L. Sayles, Prosecuting Attorney, Luce
County, writes: “This ansWers your circular en-
titled ‘Minute Men Agaln 0rganized.’ You may
consider me ready to help in every way possible."

Plan of Organization

It is hoped that one or two in each
township will take the leadership in or-
ganizing the Minute Men in their locality.
The coupon at the bottom of this page is
inserted for the purpose of allowing our
friends who are willing to secure the co-
operation of their neighbors to order the
necessary number of application cards.

This application will call «for the age,
weight, height, color of hair and eyes, and
some other necessary information, from
each proposed Minute Man.

Registration‘Fee

.These applications are to be returned

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volunteer to do‘all as required for a Minute Lian."
—\Villard E. lloskins, Algomatine.

“Am sending for application blanks and infom-
ation of ‘The Minute DIen.’ Your paper beats
them all.”-——Earl Hewitt, Fyre, Mich.

“As a long and steady subscriber of The Busl-
ness Farmer, I must say they are doing more
than their part to try and protect the farmer,
and must say I am more than willing to do my
part at any time, day or night, so kindly send me
an identification card and emblem, and I can get
plenty more men to join me.”——L. J. Bosaw, Mil-
ford, Mich.

“VVill you please send me particulars» of the
‘Minute Blen’ of how to take the pledge and where,
and also if possible at home. Send me 75 or 100
blanks to take in members.”—-John Gerren, Clare,
Mich.

“I have signed the Pledge and I want to be-

.(‘ome a. member of the Minute Men. I am 21

Please send me the emblem soon.”—

 

 

years old.
Frank Manchik, Lenox, Mich.

 

 

 

whereupon the identification cards and

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emblems will be sent to our reader who

 

 

 

 

willingness to organize the Minute Men

in their neighborhoods. \
Evidently no greater de-
mand was ever felt than for a
protection over and above that
offered by the old system.- Pros-
ecuting attorneys and sheriffs
have told us that they will
cooperate to the limit. That
they are ready and willing to
deputize a few of the Minute
Men in each neighborhood to
give them the necessary au-
thority for making arrests.
’ 50,000 Emblems Ordered
So.,sp0ntaneous has been the

', responSe. that we have: not hes— .
‘ placing our order ,
W1 1191‘ the; arrest-makers '

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organizes the local group and will be dis-
tributed by him.

 

 

 

 

ORGANlZATION APPLICATION

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The. Minute Men,
Michigan Business Farmer,
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

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We will send out the appli-

cations in regular order as received.
Representatives of THE MICHIGAN BUS-
INESS FARMER acting for the Minute Men -

will, as rapidly as possible, call
on all Sheriffs and prosecuting
attorneys in the State, advising ;
them of this plan and urging ;
that a sufficient number of -
members be deputized to make
the project hogtight.
Please Re-Apply

To the large number of folks .
who have already written .us
for application blanks we Wish

to ask that they re-apply, using : -

the form given here, because
we need the information re-
quested to keep our files com-
plete.
mation but not in the form
needed as we published-info:

regular blank, so please send
\«in this blank even though you
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was on a Wednesday, back in
the fall of 1916, that my wife
‘ bought a live hen from" a neigh-
' ‘bor, for our Sunday dinner,” said F.
J. Eichelberger, of Farmington,
‘ Michigan. “She put the hen out in a
' little 4x4 coop that was in our back
yard. The next day that hen laid an
egg and on Friday another egg. So,
when Saturday came, my wife said
we wouldn’t kill the hen until she
, stopped laying.
‘v‘ ”Well, that hen laid five eggs the
:next week. The wife felt sorry for
the hen as it seemed so lonesome
all by itself, so we bought 17 more
- lLeghorns to keep her company. I
made the house a little larger, and
they sure did lay. We were fortun-
ate in getting hens that were good
layers, I guess.

“We had a sick friend in Detroit
and gave her a dozen fresh eggs.
Then she wanted to buy them every
week. She told her friends and they
also bought our eggs, because it was
so hard to get good, fresh eggs then.
We candled each egg, to be sure none
having blood spots were sold, and no
egg over three days old went to these
customers. My wife 'kept a record of
,‘how many eggs she sold, and the
cost of the feed, and our profit for
one month on 18 hens was $19.00.
Eggs were then 750 a dozen.

“That sort of opened my eyes. I
was tired anyway of the job I had
wonking in a. store and I figured that
if I had a thousand hens, and could
:make a dollar profit on each hen per
month, that would be some money!
So I took a correspondence course in
poultry work, and that was my be—
ginning in poultry raising and egg
production.”

That is the way in which Mr.
Eichelberger told 'how he happened
to get interested and began raising
chickens, the start of his success.
Like many others similarly situated
he did not see any great future in
the store job he had back in 19%.
He wasn't exactly happy in it. Yet
we might not be writing of his in-
teresting and profitable experience,
had that hen not laid her egg, thus
saving herself from ‘the Sunday
kettle.

“Soon after that,” continued Mr.
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_ ' Mrs. Minerva Timmlermau, who owns and

. operates a 140 acre farm in Mason county,

can not be referred to as one of the

“weaker sex,” because she, with the as-

sistance of two Indians, does a. better
Job than many a. man.

ECAUSE farm help is hard to get
"‘ Mrs. Minerva Timmerman, wid-
- ow, has successfully farmed 140
acres along with only the help of
two Indians for nearly nine years.
_ For several years her only assis-
tance was. an Indian and his step-

, bud * contracted tuberculosis
"we spending a year with Indians.
"- fine unable to work and went to
in July. Mrs. Timmerman not

   
  

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A Live Hen Bought from a Neighbor for Sunday Dinner Changed F. J. Eichelberger’ 3 Future

By E. Q. GRABILL

20x60 feet in size. Then I bought
1000 baby chicks in April and had
good luck raising them. And they
laid well that first year for us. But
my dreams of the extra large profits,

like I had made before on the 18

(hens, did not quite come true.
Bought Five-'Acre Farm
“My lot wasn’t big enough, so we
bought this five acre farm, going in
debt for it. I liked the location be-
cause it was near enough to Detroit

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best birds, they have developed a
very high laying strain of birds.
Later on Mr. Eichelberger realized
it .would be more economical to
hatch his own chicks, instead of
buying them, since he needed so
many to furnish him with the re-
quired number of layers. ‘His first
incubator was of the mammoth type,
with a 3200 egg capacity. After
taking care of his own requirements
he had chicks to sell, thusincreasing

Mr. E. J. Eichelberger, of Farmington, has a very flneymodern poultry house and his

flock shows its appreciation by’layinz plenty of eggs.

Of course the house is far from

everything needed to get eggs but it does help put lots of them in the nest.

to have the advantage of the city.
market for eggs. As we were going
into the poultry business in earnest,
to make good if possible, we decided
to give the place a name by which it
might become known, and called it
Oakland Hills Poultry Farm.

“The first house we put up out
here was 20x150 feet, to house a
good number of layers, as egg pro—
duction was our first aim. We
bought the best foundation stock of
a pure English strain of White Leg-
horns, known for their large produc—
tion.” It is on this stock that Oaik-

’ land Hills Poultry Farm has built a

very successfu'l,business. Through
selection and breeding from them

How a Widow Farms 140 Acres

his income. Each year he has in-
creased his hatchery capacity.

“Our old customers,” he said,
“bought chicks of us year after year,
because they laid so well. There is
no place where quality pays better
than when it comes to the chicken
business. The consumers like good,
fresh eggs, and farmers know it
pays to buy good .chicks from a good
laying strain."

A little over four years ago the
poultry house was destroyed by fire.
It was of the baffle front type, and
had not given entire satisfaction,
there being some trouble from mois-
ture. It was also hard to hold the
temperature in anything like a satis-

By G. PEARL DARR

death the following ”year.
girl’s brother, who had also spent
many years on the farm, returned to
take the girl’s place.

The place is gradually being seed—
ed to alfalfa.

two apple orchards. One orchard is

the oldest in this section, about 50,

years, and is still bearing vigorously,
several Greening trees bearing at
various times 35 bushels to the tree.
A large part of the orchard is in
Grimes Golden, a splendid commer-
cial orchard variety. A large part
of the younger orchard is in Wag-
goners.

Mrs. Timmerman believes in diver-
sified farming and keeps cows and
poultry to keep 'up the fertility of
the soil.

A well kept vineyard of Concord
Grapes bring in {profitable returns
every year, while a beautiful orchard
of 60 dwarf pear trees is a feature
of the place. It came into bearing
when three years old and has neVer
failed to bring from $100.00 to
$200.00 yearly. ,

Past 68 Years

Though past 68 years of age she
is here, there, and everywhere on the
farm not only superintending the
Indians’ work but helping to harvest
and sow with her own hands. There
are few days that she did not put in
16 hours a day and. accomplishes
more than many women half her age.
When told that she works hoe hard-
for a Woman of her age, she replies
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Then the ‘

About ten acres is in _~

but worry and trouble that lack- of

acres of Golden Bantam sweet corn
for a factory and with the help of
the two Indians pulled every bit of
the corn and loaded it upon the
wagons to be ready for the factory
trucks.

That year, finding that the wheat
ground was not prop 1y prepared,
she pidked up stone om the field
and loaded it upon a wagon, while
the man harrowed.

Injured Hip

'- On July 3, 1926, she injured her
hip while driving a team, on a hay
fork while unloading hay. She was
forced to go to bed until March,
1927. She suffered acutely from the
injury, but continued to give direc-
tions about the farm work the entire
time.

In March 1927, still sufi'ering but
without the'aidl of crutches, she be-
gan to bobble about, slowly at first
but enough. so she could supervise
the running of the farm, which was
beginning to show the absence of
her capable hands. Though she
could not walk far, she was driven
about the fields by means of horse
and buggy.‘ '

Pruning, spraying and cultivating
again was started in her orchards,
with the result that, while many or-
chards had no fruit in 1927 , she har-
vested a splendid crop of nearly
every variety of apples, whilefthe
pear orchard was loaded.

Though still unable to walk very
much, taking a man, to drive her
truck, she secured tdp prices for her
«fruit- in caveat nearby-towns}

    

factory manner, as the inside tem-
perature followed rather closely
that of out—of-doors. ‘
Builds Shed Type House

When it came to planning for the
new house ‘Mr. Eichelberger decided
to build a. closed houSe, of the shed
roof type. It was built with tile, and
an insulated cement floor and an in-
sulated ceiling, to help hold in the
heat from the birds, and to keep a
more even temperature in the house.
This house has now been in use a
little over four years. A modern
ventilating system was installed.

Mr. Eichelberger believes that the
right kind of housing and care is
very important in poultry success.
“Our poultry house " he says, "is
perfectly ventilated. We have no
trouble from moisture. There are
no chickens with colds, It does not
freeze in the hou,se even in the cold
weather. The hens are always happy
and working. We have running
water piped to the house and that
saves considerable time, as well as
making sure the birds have all the
water they need all the 'time. Many
poultrymen fail in that one thing.
We have everything arranged so car-
ing for our laying hens will be con—
venient.

He houses 1100 hens and pullets
during the laying season. Last year
his birds, for ten months of the

year, averaged from 55 to 68 per‘

cent production. The best produc—
tion was in the time of the year,
when egg prices are high. The eggs
are sold to hospitals and to private
trade. No one has ever been asked
to buy eggs from this farm. But one
customer has told another, and folks
drive out and ask for the eggs. There
is no trouble and no expense in sells
ing them.
Wife Is Real Partner

Mrs. Eichelberger helps a good
deal'with the hatchery end of .the
business, and likes it. She takes
pleasure in helping turn out beauti-
ful, round, fluffy chicks. She likes
to handle them. In fact she is a real
partner in the entire program at
Oakland Hills.

The layers are fed a commercial
buttermilk egg-mash. Mr. Eichel-
berger says he used to mix his own,

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Although the farm work takes up most
of her time, Mrs. Timmerman's home does
not show any lack of care.

30 and 40 miles north of her home
and bought several loads at rea-
sonable prices directly from the
fields.

Though she has reared six chil-
dren, they are scattered from Hono-
lulu to Washington and other sec—
tions and though they would like her
to move to the city, Where she might
live at ease, she declares she has
worked and planned for thirty-two
years upon this farm to get the home
she wants and intends, “To die in
harness, in the home she loves."

New Home ’

For many years the family lived
in a small house, but 18 years ago
built the one in which Mrs. Timmer-
man now lives. A carpenter did the
work on the outside, but Mr. and
Mrs. Timmerman and daughter did
most of the finishing of the oak and
maple interior. Oak flooring was
bought in the rough and after being
brought from the mill. to which it
was sent, Was carefully finished by
the family. The small library has
oak beams and two beautiful oak
doors with glass knobs are especially
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"COME ON, I’LL RUN YOU A RACE!”,——Robert TWO YOUNG

F. Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Clark, of Saginaw our two young farmers in our backyard,”

county, challenge; you to a race. That smile’on his Charles Bishop, of Cheboygan county.

face indicates he is quite confident of his ability to planning about
win. they get to be big men like papa.

*BONITA BLOSS.—Bonita is the A BIT OLD FASHIONED .—Mrs. George Trees, Clare county, semis us this pi -ture. MARY

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milton It is a bit old fashioned as the up- -to- (late picture showsa.
Bloss. Monroe county. a crowd standing around ofl‘ering advice.

“OUT FOR A SENT—This is Clifton Willson and his DADDY’S BIG lVIAN.-——NIarv.in,
Ed-

“sweetie” of Antri- county, according to Mrs. Rex Petrie, who small son of Mr. and like.
live in Charlevoix county. ward Hank, of \Vuyne county.

FARMERS—“This is a. picture of THE BEST OF FRIENDS. —Mrs. Charles

writes Mrs. Boyer, of Eaton county, sent us this picture of

Perhaps they are Helen and Phil Savage. She says they are gay-
nll the Work they are going to do when ing, “Do not think us old fashioned because we

wcar curls and love. our pet horse."

.lANE.—-—llcr parents are

fellow changing a, tire itl1 Mr. and Mrs. Robert (lulick, and

they live in Gratiot county.

“W'E PUT THE C(HVS IN THE BARN.”—-So says E. E.
Twing. 3rd, and his dog, according to hire. E. E. Twing, Sr.,
1 ifc of the agricultural agent of Mecostu. county.

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. WAS brought up on a farm near
'Eaton Rapids, Michigan, and,
’ ”after finishing high school, I
went to Work at the electrical busi-
‘ness for a few years. I left the Chi-

V cago Telephone Company in 1907

'and settled down on Mrs. .Lundberg’s
father’s farm of 50 acres, where I
have spent the past twenty years.

' The soil when turned over to me was

*in a. high‘state of cultivation, the
kind that didn’t need any fertilizer,
for it had never been robbed, but
green manure had been plo‘Wed un-
der often including rye, buckwheat,
oats and clover.

The first crop of wheat I harvested
was eight bushels per acre, which I
considered a failure. I knew there
was something lacking. We dis-
‘cussed commercial fertilizer in
Grange, of which I had become a
member and thought I’d try it out.
I sent to Detroit for a ton by local
freight and sowed it on 14 acres,
leaving strips. The strips were a
. failure, but I received 30 bushels per
acre on the field. I was convinced
at once. The stand of clover was
fine. I sowed five acres by applying
the fertilizer broadcast as I didn’t
own a fertilizer drill, but had to go
some distance to hire one. On this
field I received 21 bushels per acre
and had a good catch of clover, but
the five acres without fertilizer were
a faliure this time also. I then
bought a fertilizer drill and began
‘to use fertilizer more generally. I
studied what literature I could get
on fertilizers and got ideas from
other people and went to a fertilizer
factory and saw it manufactured.

I bought some more land and now
have increased from 150 acres to
256. Some of this 106 acres which
I bought was badly run down. I
commenced to plow under clover
where it wasn’t practical to draw
manure on account of the distance
from the barn, and to summer fal-
low the land» We take great pains
.in plowing and when a stone is in
the way we remove it and turn under
all trash and never sow or plant a
crop without thoroughly fitting the
ground. A good seed bed is easily
planted and doesn’t need the care.

Tile Low Spots

The first thing I try to do is to
tile the low spots in the fields as our
land is clay with a red clay subsoil.
This enabes us to get on the fields
earlier in the spring than would be
the case with the wet sags. It in-
jures this Michigan land to work it
wet for it gets lumpy. I have done
all the heavy work with a tractor for
4 the last ten years and find when it is
too wet to work a tractor the land
should not be worked, for best re-
sults. Besides, tiling does a lot
toward correcting the acidity of the
soil. I have put in about 500 rods
of tile besides paying over $700.00
in county drain tax, but I consider
this pays for itself in a couple of
years and does away with disagree-
able wet sags.

I follow the practice of plowing
under clover about once in two ro—
tations of four years each. Some—

HERE'S HOW

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By E. A. LUNDBERG, Eaton County

times it’s for beans that are planted
the middle of June and at other
times for summer fallow. /

On some of the fields which are
over three-quarters of a mile from
the barn I plow under clover or
straw once in each four years. We.
are handicapped when plowing with
horses in getting the clover plowed
under in June, but with the tractor
it is easily done. I might say that
we worked eight horses on 150 acres,
but with a tractor we keep five light

horses and the same hired help on .

256 acres. The fifth horse is seldom
worked. I keep 40 head of regis—
tered Holstein-Freisian cattle, about
15 being milkers, and 25 registered
Oxford sheep. No hogs as I don’t
like hogs and have found I can live
without them.

Manure Haulcd Direct to Field

The manure is drawn direct to the
field in winter. We try to cover all
our corn ground in this way but as
soon as the ground gets soft we leave
it in the barnyard, as I won’t let any-
one cut ruts in the fields, which does
more harm to our soil than the ma-
nure can bring back. The rest of
the manure is left until We get the
summer—fallow plowed, which we do
in June. Then we use the tractor

and the manure spreader and top-
dress as far as it will go.

I raised 93 bushels of oats per
acre after plowing under corn stub—
ble. I always plow under my corn
stubble in the fall if possible, plow-

ing up the clover sod and manure»

that had been plowed under for corn
and also getting some benefit of the
commercial fertilizer from the appli-
cation on the corn and sowing 125
pounds of 16 per cent superphos-
phate.

Fitting “'heat Field

The yield of 54 bushels of wheat
to the acre on 7 1%; acres was obtained
by plowing under clover that was
sown for that purposes. I have never
bought any clover seed but always
raise my own. This field the-Can-
ada thistles persisted in getting in.
We spread a straw stack onxmost of
it in the spring and had some job
to plow under. My son, Harvey, 13
years old, operated the “tractor and
I would follow the plow to keep the
straw going under, then followed
with a roller a/nd..drag and then top-
dressed it with barnyard manure
which cleaned out the barnyard, and
then dragged it during the summer,
at least once each week.

The day after Labor Day we

An Outstanding 4-H Club Member

NE of the Outstanding boys in
0 club work in Michigan is Clar-

ence Merchant, of Tuscola coun-
ty, a boy 16 years old who started
with a pure bred calf four years ago.
I say outstanding because he has
produced two grand champions in
two Years. He was a typical farm

be? yet not unusually interested in

the farm. His first calf seemed to
tie him up with the barn work and
very soon another calf was pur-
chased. The first calf was Michigan
champion Holstein heifer in 1926 at
Michigan State Fair in competition
with good calves from many counties
in the State. She was bred to a bull
whose dam produced 1273 pounds of
butter in one year and gave birth to

a fine heifer calf. His second calf
carried off championship honors in
1927 at Michigan State Fair. She
was unusually smooth, typy, well
fitted two year old but lacked udder
development when shown. She
dropped a fine bull calf January 18,
1928, and since then has been on
test. Her milk record for eight
weeks following freshening is as
follows: lst week average, 40.5 lbs.;
2nd week average, 44.2 lbs.; 3rd
week average, 46.6 lbs.; 4th week
average, 47.6 lbs.; 5th week average,
50.9 lbs.; 6th week average, 52.8
lbs.; 7th week average, 53.3 lbs.;
8th week average) 53.5 lbs. She is

milked three ti s daily and her
milk tests 4.1.— lillis Campbell.

 

 

Clarence Merchant, of Tuscola county, with his grand champion females and their

calves.

To Repair the Paper Roof

The four animals are valued at $1,000.

   

Use Plenty of Barnyard Manure and Commercial Fertilizer is My Motto

drilled the wheat at the rate of 1%
bushels per acre and 200 pounds
16 per cent superphosphate. I would-
n’t advise anyone to use 16 per cent
superphosphate unless they had a
clay soil with plenty of organic mat—
ter such as this field had. The 16
per cent phosphate did the best
work. The average yield for Mich-
igan in 1927 was 21.5 bushels; our
field made 54 bushels.

I averaged 43 bushels per acre on
40 acres of wheat. But in the field
after oats, without manure, I used
a complete fertilizer-—a 2-12—2. I
would have had a larger average, but
I made the mistake of using 16 per
cent superphosphate on a ten-acre
field after beans, where, if I had used
one with high potash as a. 2-12—6, I
would have raised the average con-
siderable. This field was low in or-
ganic matter. Clover will be plowed
under this year in this field.

Buy Proper Grade

By continuous experimenting, I
found out that the fertilizer com-
panies don’t manufacture the dif—
ferent grades of fertilizer just to sell
them, but to supply something for

.our indivdiual needs- It would be a

waste of money to buy 16 per cent
superphosphate if we needed a com‘
plete fertilizer. You can sell some
farmers any kind of fertilizer, as
they depend largely on the agent’s
judgment and sometimes he will sell
the one he gets the largest commis«
sion on. I wouldn’t buy a cheap
fertilizer just because it is a cheap
one, if the land needed a higher
grade.

I am growing legume crops to feed
and plow under. Some of the newly
acquired land had been robbed for
years and never had a pay crop, but
by plowing under clover‘and using
commercial fertilizer, I actually had
44 bushels of wheat per acre on
seven acres of this land and now I
have put it in sweet clover to plow
under this summer and will soon be
able to raise any crop on it at a.
profit. Land with plenty of organic
matter is easier‘to work, and I don’t
have the weeds to contend with when
plowing under green manure that I
do in barnyard manure.

Always Uses Fertilizer
I wouldn’t plant a crop of grain

'Without using fertilizer as it costs

too much. to get the ground ready
and we have to pay for the fertilizer
if we don’t uSe it by a reduced pro—
duction, which I find is rather expen—
sive after going to all the other ex—
pense.“ We, therefore, cannot afford
to sow a crop without the use of com-
mercial fertilizer. I am beginning
to use phosphate in the barn with
the manure. I have used commer-
cial fertilizer the past nineteen years.

There is nothing as encouraging to
me as to see a bumper crop growing.
It does more to stimulate a farmer
when he gets the blues, besides help—
ing when the taxes are due.

I am in the farming game to make
money, besides a living, as well as
being back to nature. It is an in—
dependent life, but we must not be

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DO NOT FEED HONEY TO BEES

I have some, honey that I bought
to feed my bees as they did not ‘make
enough. The people put it in a cop-
per boiler. It was in this container
about six weeks so the other day I.
took the comb out and there are 6

. quarts of extract-honey. Now I am
, wondering if this honey is safe for

the bees and if. there will_..be more
than they can eat. Would it be al-
right for table use?——-A. S., Dryden,
Mich. _

E never advise. beekeepers to
feed honey to their bees for
the simple reason that one

can never be sure the-honey concern-
ed is free from the germs of foul-
brood. Many beekeepers have lost
many. dollars by feeding supposedly
disease-free hOney to their bees.
Therefore, I suggest that you use
this honey for a table sweet and
should the bees need feeding, sug-
gest that you make a syrup of equal
parts of sugar and water brought to
a boil and allowed to cool to room
temperature before being fed in a
pepper-box feeder made of a syrup
pail having a cover punctured with
50 or 100 small shingle-nail holes,
the feeder being inverted driectly
over the bees on a day when the out-
side air temperature is as high as\
70 degrees—R. H. Kelty, Asst. Prof.
of Entomology, M. S. C.

GROWING CANNING PEAS _

Can you tell me where I can get
information about canning factory
peas? What would be a fair yield on
a good clay loam soil in Presque
Isle county? When are they sown,
when harvested, and how much seed
per acre?——O. B., Millersburg, Mich.

T is quite possible to grow satis-

factory crops of canner varieties

' of peas for seed if conditions are
favorable. The best soil for this pur-
pose is a clay loam which is retent-
ive of moisture.

About 55% of the peas which are
canned are of the Alaska variety.
This pea has a smooth seed and like
all smooth seeded peas it is compara-
tively hardy and may be planted
very early in the season. In fact it
may be planted as soon as the ground
is in condition to work, probably
some time in early April. The seed
is drilled with an ordinary grain drill
at the rate of 3 bushel per acre. They
should be planted at a fair depth, 2
to _3 inches, in order to get them
down into good moist soil. It is
quite likely that an application of
two to four hundred pounds per
acre of a fertilizer which runs high
in phosphorus will be well worth the
expense of buying and applying. The
peas some time develop so as to
reach canning maturity in about 65
days from the time in which the
seed is sown. They remain in can-

 

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iod after Which theymature 'very
rapidly so that“ theyéshould be ready
for harvest in possiblyifiil‘daw from
'the time the seed is fibrin. 1.1;. is well
to harvest these before they have
reached the deadripejcondition for
they will make better seed if they are

cut afltrifle on’the‘ green side and if

left until fully mature it is likely‘
that many of the seeds will become.

lost through shattering of the pods.
It is customary to harvest a crop
using an ordinary mowing machine
with cutter bar equipped with lift—
ers and bunchers very much the same
as the canner harvests the 'green
crop for canning. It is somewhat
difficult to predict just what the
yield may be for so much, depends on
weather conditions during theg-row-
ing period. It is quite possible to get
a yield of a ton or more of dry seed
per acre but this is a rather excep-
tional crop in this state. It is quite
likely the crop will range somewhere
between 1,000 and 2,000 pounds per
acre—Geo. E. Starr, Assoc. Prof. of
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I have owed a bank a sum of-

money borrowed on- a chattle mort-
gage and they have charged me 12
per cent and sometimes as high as
24 per cent. Is that lawful?———Mem-
ber of M. B. F., Twining, Mich.
EVEN per cent is the legal rate
of interest in Michigan and a
higher rate cannot lawfully be
charged. You would have a. right to
recover amount of interest paid are
the legal rate.-——Legal Editor. '

SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN
INCOME .

A man rented .a farm.

 

The man

who owned the farm furnishes ev- ?

erything and the second party gets
one-third.

If the owner buys two ‘

heifers to grow into cows, would the 5

second party get one—third of the ‘

gain off the cows? As the landlord
bought two heifers and one cost
$39.00 and the other one $29.00,
these two heifers are now worth
$100.00 apiece. The one we fed

seven months and the other we fed 3

two years before they came in.——E.
J., Pottersville, Mich.

NDER the conditions you state, .

the tenant would participate in
the income of the heifers from
the beginning of the lease. This

could be handled in two ways: First, '

through a difference in the inventory "

value at the beginning [and end of

the leasing period. second, through '

the tenant buying his share of heif-
ers at the outside. The latter plan

is the more fair, in that it relieves g

the landlord from carrying the full ’
Such \cases as you state *

investment.
should be definitely agreed upon at
the outset of the lease period—Leg-
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m Questions Eternal

HERE seem to be three questions
which may properly be, called
the “Questions Eternal” for

farmers. Every week one, and some—
times several letters .come to me,
asking one of
these questions.
'8 om e lnquirers
seem to think
their individual
problem is dif-
ferent than that
of any '0 t h e r
farmer, but they
are not. In gen-
eral, all farmers
have the same
perplexities. Here
is a sample letter
on Mr. Q u a ck
. Grass. ‘It seems
this farmer has been harboring Mr.
Quack about as long as he feels he

wants to, and is inquiring how best
to kill him.

“Please will you give me the best
means of killing quack grass. I haVe
forty acres of \quack that has not
been plowed in ten years. I want to
plow it this. spring. What would be
belslt to seed it with?”~—C. M., Harris-
VI e.

I'll say in the beginning that all
you farmers who know how to kill
out quack, can now turn to the mar—
ket page and read that, for you won’t
be interested in reading for the
steenth time how I advise the death
penalty to be administered to Friend
and Foe—Mr. Quack. Yes, I have
known farms and seasons when
quack grass was really a friend, in
pasture and hayfields. It never was
in a grain field or truck crop. Mr.
C. M. has endured, or possibly en-
joyed quack for ten years in one
forty-acre field, and I advise him to
put up with it again this year until
around August first or a little later.
Then plow the field very shallow and
be sure to plow a furrow narrow
enough to entirely cut off the slice.-
Quack, at this time of year, has ex—
hausted its stored up energy which
the roots contained in the spring and
this is why spring plowing will not
kill it out. Now you have it. plowed,
get your disk harrow and disk it
good and proper. Watch it closely
and when green shoots begin to ap—
pear ta‘ke your spring tooth drag and
get busy. Better leave your drag
right there in the field and every
time you see a green shoot show
itself get the drag in operation at
once. Keep this up until winter
comes and next spring plow the field
and put it into some cultivated crop.

 

L. W.

Meeks

 

You will no doubt be lonesome for a
while, when working this cultivated
crop—Mr. Quack. will, in all prob-
ability, be gone. But cheer up. you
will soon become accustomed to his
absence and eventually you will feel
paid for your effort in driving him
away.

Another man wants to plow his
quack grass field this spring and
then work it until August and‘seed
to alfalfa. His chances are very
small if he expects to kill out the
quack grass by this method. It might
be done, but it its almost impossible
to kill quack grass roots during the
forepart of the summer. They are: so
full of vigor in the spring and early
summer, by August they have be-
come exhausted and are quite easily
discouraged. .

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“That Is Value of Manure?

A subscriber at Birch Run wan

to know what the value of a load .

manure is. 'That question’s proper
answer is, “more or less.” Loads
vary in weight. 1Manure varies in
plant food elements. Fresh stable
manure is worth more than leached!
yard manure, etc. -But the figures as1
given by Mr. W. W. Weir, of the
University of Wisconsin, shows a
ton of average mixed yard manure,
contains approximately ten pounds
of nitrogen, two pounds of phos-I
phorus and eight pounds of rpotaissi-ll
um. *When nitrogen is fifteen cents
a pound, phosphorus eight cents and
potassium eight cents, one ton of
such manure has an intrinsic fertil-
izing value of two dollars and thirty-
four cents. But at best such figures,
are ,not very reliable. They do show!
however that manure is‘ very valu—
able, and its value is greater than
plant food analysis show it to be. For
manure is of great benefit to soil as
it adds organic matter or humus and
develops a bacteria which is a won—
derful help to: plant growth.

In a recent issue Mr. Braun was
telling what it cost to keep horses!
per year. Then what it would cost.
to keep a tractor to do the work thei
ihorses did. His figures showed the
tractor would be the cheapest power
to farm with. Granting this is true
by the figures he gives, let’s be hon»
est with the dear old horses and give,
them credit with the by-product, ma-
nure. We have five horses on Broad-l
scope Farm and I’m telling you if‘
you want to buy all the manure they
will produce this next year and re-
move it from the farm you will have
to write a much larger check than
you think.

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CALLED. MICHIGAN’S BEST COUNT! AGENTS
The winners of the two cups awarded for outstanding
agricultural agents in the lower peninsula in 1927 were B

accomplishments by county ,
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'nral classes at the Marshall high school,

at Michigan State College during Farm-
ers’ Week‘last winter. George’s agricult—
ural teacher, I). H. Stark, says he is a.

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checked Wit-h- i; v 1609 that
had no manure, and corn,
. wheat, clover and timothy were

grown. Eight tons of manure were
applied to the' acre—four to corn
and four to wheat. he test showed
the manure had produced crops
enough over and above the check
plot to give the manure a value of
$4.69 per ton!

It you will refer back to the anal-
ysis of manure just given, you will
note it shows manure is low in phos—
phorus and quite high in nitrogen
and potash. This only goes to prove
that manure should be balanced by
adding phosphorus—twenty percent
superphosphate can be purchased for
about $31.00 per ton and from two
hundred to four hundred pounds per
acre, applied with manure will give
most excellent results.

Now. don’t say the Broadscope
man is knocking the tractor. He he-
lieves the tractor has a place on
many farms and many farmers are
making a mistake in not owning one,
but when comparing cost of tractor,
and cost of horse power, I am going
to give Prince, Queen, June, Belle
and Dan credit for a by—product
which I value highly, and while
many uses can be found for old crank
case oil, it isn’t very valuable at
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Bulletin Service

(The bulletins listed under this heading
are free. Some are Issued 1: the . s.
Department of Agriculture, otllers by agri-
cultural colieges, and many I) o

titers. We carefully consider the bulletins
that come to us irom different sources and
list those whioh, In our opinion. are of
greatest value to our readers. If you want
a copy of one or more Just list them on a
postal card or in a letter and mail to us
with your name and address. They will he
sent to you without charge: of any kind.)

 

No. 2.-—MODERN WATER SUPPLY.
No. 3.—SOIL FERTILIZERS.

No. 4.—SEED CORN CURING.

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

No. 7.—FARM SANITATION.

No. 8.—FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS.
No. 9,—FROM EGG TO MARKET.
No. 11,—MINERALS AND FEEDING.
No. 12.—-LINSEED OIL MEAL.

No. 13.—FIGHT THE CORN BORER.
No. 14.—UNDER—GRADE APPLES .
No. 16.-——TIRE CARE.

No. 17.—FARMERS’ TAX GUIDE.

No. 18.—BARNS AND HOW TO BUILD.
No. 19.-—CONCRETE BUILDINGS.

No. 20.—IVIOTHS AND BEETLES.

No. 21.—FEEDING FOR EGGS.

No. 22.—CHICK CARE AND FEEDING.
N0. 23.——BETTER GRAINS AND HAY.
No. 24,—100 FOODS FROM 4 RECIPES.
No. 25.—-—FARM LEASE SYSTEMS.

No. 26.—ORCHARD MANAGEMENT.
No. 27.—RASPBERRY PLANTATION.
No. 28.—POULTRY FEEDING SECRETS.
No. 29.-——FLIES IN DWELLINGS.

No. 30.——MORE MONEY FROM COWS.
No. 33.—CULLING FARM FLOCK.

No. 34.—POTATO GROWING.

No. 35.—PROFITABLE ORCHARDS.
No. 36.—TRACTOR LUBRICATION.
No. 87.-—MODERN POULTRY HOUSES.
No. 38.—POULTRY, SWINE DISEASES.

 

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GAS TAX IS FAIR,

EAR EDITORz—In regard to Gas
tax, I think it all 0. K., and the
only fair proposition there is, as

a. farmer does. not get ,as much
chance to use the roads, especially
in this northern section. I/do not
believe in the permanent plates. I
think plates ought to be put out at
cost once a year on account of out-
laws and the plates get pretty rusty
looking at the end of the year.—E.
M., Copemish, Mich.

 

FARM RELIEF
EAR EDITOR: I' have several
matters I desire to discuss
through the columns of your
valuable farm paper. First, I am
very much in favor of your fight
against the thief, but while'we are
concentrating our minds on this fel-
low lotus not forget some of the big
fellows who, under the guard of the

unjust laws, are taking right before‘

our eyes and in day light more than
any bunch of criminal thieves in the
world possibly can.

First there is the unfair law which
compells 26 per cent of the wealth
producing property to pay 85 per
cent of the taxes. .This system con-
tinually worked will eventually con-
fiscate the farms and the homes. We
must have a different tax system or
young people will have no desire to
own homes and farms.

Second, we will have to be very
careful about whom we elect to rep-

resent us in our legislative halls. The '

men who get there today do not seem
to be the men who stand upon princi-
ples and will fight regardless of
whom it will hit until truth does tri—
umph. They seem after election to
spend their time organizing rings
and blocks, they barter and trade
for power from favored money in-
terests to assist them in holding
their job and when they are not mak-
ing themselves secure they are out
selecting our candidates for our
higher offices which our primary
system is supposed to do. What we
need today is men of the Roose-
velt type, men who are big through
and through and not so much on this
soft pedal stuff.

Third, I wish to call attention to
the Michigan State Banking Commis-
sion which is appointed by the Gov-
ernor. This commission is supposed
to operate for the good of the people
of the State and I think it generally
does. But just at this time there is
a tendency on the part of State banks
This, I am informed,
is being pushed by the commission,
especially with farmer and country
banks where loans have been re-
newed from time to time, regardless
as to whether the security is good or
not. This policy pushed too hard
has a. tendency to lower the value
of farms as it forces them on the
market, and a tendency to lower
farm prices, especially where a sur—
plus must be dumped on an over-
supplied market.

Right here I wish to ask why the
name of the Governor of the State
of Michigan appears on posters
tacked up in many Michigan eleva-
tors advising farmers to sell beans
at $5.00 per hundred, recommending
that as a fair price, when beans are
now selling at $9.00 per hundred.
Are we coming back to the Hoover-
ized conditions where the farmers’
wheat price of $3.00 per bushel was
set at $2.20? Are not such things
as this just what makes it necessary
for this farm relief legislation? I
say, let us have less of these farm
relief measures and the farm relief
problem will take care of itself.

If this position taken by the bank-
ing commission is well grounded and
not politicsit proves that the break-
ing down of Michigan agriculture
has started; in earnest and must be
taken into consideration or thein-
stitution of the farm home owned in;
dividually will soon be a. thing of the
past. » . . 5

You may perhaps ask"what are
banks doing with the money collect-
ed in on their called loans! Letting
it pile up in the vault: in reinventing.

it in-.ism..mtureet Idoaotthink

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investment and this money is‘

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curities approved by the securitiet
commission, another political organ-

ization which I think, perhaps, is un- ;
duly influenced in okaying semantics .
that. show merit purely for the rea- :
son that they are enjoying specialf
legislative favors and economic eon-

ditio-ns, which places industry and'
cities in a favorable position eeo-I
nomically and agriculture at a dis-i
advantage. Therefore, [or the time

being, farms are aruncertain and an .
undesirable investment for banks on '
account of the loans becoming frozen ,
because the farmer cannot meet his .
taxes, interest and various. other

war expenses from nearly pro-war

prices of his produce.

Fourth, this condition of agricul-

ture long continued makes a feeding :
ground for a vulture not much bet-g
ter than a thief, namely a. money;
lender who makes short time loans
at a rate of interest stated on the
paper, 7 per cent, plus discounts of2

from 10 to 50 per cent besides at

cash bonus. ‘

The remedy is simple. First, unite
politically on a man for president‘
that is known to be for and will in— i
sist on a square deal for agri- '
culture. Elect no man to congress ,
unless he has similar qualities. Get 3
a tariff that will protect agriculture i
and the farm worker, just as much i
as industry and the industrial work- 3
er, or if this cannot be done then 3
lower the tariff on industry and let |
down the immigration bars. Organ- ,
ize farmer banks and farm market- 3
ing corporations and stop depending ‘
on listening to professional politi- I
clans. Get rid of the. government I
paid farm experts as leaders and
farm organization managers. Cut
out unnecessary and extravagant
buying. Stop over—producing for an I

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over-supplied market. Don’t plow
up all your farm. Keep at least
one half seeded down. Keep a set

of books that show gains and losses
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FABMERS' FRIEND
EAR EDITOR :—Your fight
against thieves and fraud and
\your attitude during the Wilson
case proves you are the farmers’ true
friend.—-J. E. Slighly, Bennie County.

 

 

then close them once each year.
Don’t be wheedled into buying by
these super high-powered salesmen
who make you believe you can be
made rich quick. Look out for the
easy payment plan, the chances are
in the end two prices are paid.

Get into politics, you are still in
the majority, for although farmers
have decreased three million in the
last twenty years 60 per cent of the
people of this country depend direct—
ly on agriculture and most of the
rest indirectly and the voters of the
country will vote with you as their
interests and yours are one. Before
you vote a tax on your property be
sure it will not confiscate it.

Write your congressman to insist
on a larger tariff on sugar. You
know that you cannot raise beets for
$7.00 per ton and pay these high
labor and fertilizer costs on the aver-
age tonnage per acre or gross re-
ceipts for $35.00 to $56.00 per acre
when it will cost you on the average
of $65.00 per acre to produce the
crop. Michigan sugar stock is on
the market of 1% and our 1? sugar
factories are liable to lay idle this
your. Congress can do much for
Michigan by placing an adequate
tariff on sugar.

The present high prices of beans
will no doubt in the and produce 3
surplus but since there was no sur-
plus last year on account of damage
to the crop by weather and also a
very short crop-this your on account
of dry weather and'TWIth the world
going in . for: a ibisgnavy- program
there. - must; be! his surplus built up

, before very'lotw prices on beans will

commie. .‘f‘l‘heretore. beans will

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are interested in the farmers produc-
ing a Surplus of all crops to carry
over in case of crop failure or ex-
treme demand on account of war or
extraordinary navy demands like in
the presentfizase. In case there is a
surplus the government should step

.in and handle a certain amount of
such surplus and not allow it to be
{used as a football by the interests

to batter down the price of not Only
the surplus but the entire crop to

,such a low level that farmers re-
‘ceive nothing for their wages and

nothing for their capital invested.

Farmers and business men of
rural towns .and cities of the State
of Michigan, let us rouse ourselves
into. action, let us all write our con-
gressmen and senators to get behind
the McNary-Haugen bill which will
soon be up and insist that they pass
the .bill. As organized farmers let
us call our local organization to-
gether and go over these matters to-
gether, pass the resolutions neces-
sary and send them down to con—
grossH—C E. Ackerman, Ex-Mgr.,
Michigan Sugar Beet Growers Asso—
ciation, Durand, Mich.

SENDS M. B. F. TO A FRIEND

EA’R EDITOR:——~I have been a

subscriber to your paper for

nine years and expect to be a.
subscriber as long as it is published.
I think every farmer in the State
should take THE BUSINESS FARMER,
for the few cents it costs, compared
to the good it is trying to do for the
farmer; trying to save his chickens
and produce, besides all the good in-
formation it gives us otherwise. I
am going to ask you to send a friend
your paper for, three months with my
compliments, and send the bill to
me, that is, if he is not already a
subscriber.——L. J. B., Milford, Mich.

 

 

 

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Y anxiety is increasing every
hour. This P. M. I was in a.
state of great agitation, strain-

ing my eyes for a glimpse of our two
(1 a u g h t e r s returning from high
school.

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We live on a sponge road and this
season of the year the culverts are
out, sink holes are numerous and it’s
a constant strain on my alreadyover—
burdened mentality.

It * *

While doing the evening chores I
lined up the whole department of
highways in the feed room and gave
them a sound, constructive lecture
on road building.

* it it

Just as I was about to fire the
whole bunch for insubordination and
neglect of duty I heard the roaring
motor of old “47” coming into the
yard. Dropping my silage fork I
rushed to the garage just as the girls
were closing the door.

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“How did you get along?” says I.
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“Fine," said they in chorus. “We
didn’t have to use our low gear until
we got into our own yard.”

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“Well—," said I, and returned to
the stable, much cowed. However,
I still have a grievance against the
road builders.

II t *

While chastising ‘these imaginary
engineers I neglected to replenish
the .bed for thethree sucklings. At
milking time Mrs. B. discovered it.

III III

“Why didn’t you give the calves

fresh straw?” said she.
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“I was building— roads,” said I
meekly. And she gave me a lecture
which made me feel like a coxcomb.
And I vowed that should I be com-
pelled to endure another/such a call-

'ing down I wOuld change the whole
schem Of my nature and be a heart— ‘ '
”less woman hater. .

“KING AND SPENDING

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TEXT: 'These things have I written

'unfto you that ye may know that ye have

eternal life." 1 John. 5: 18.

0‘ you know the “know” book?

Are you acquainted with its

message? The word "know(’
which is found in our text, occurs in
John's first epistle veryfrequently.
This is significant. It excites our cu-
riosty. But more; it challenges seri-
ous inquiry. What is it we should
know?

“These things." Summarized, they
are, that “God is Light” and to be
saved is to walk in this light. One’s
interpretation of salvation depends
upon one’s understanding of the es-
sential nature of God. In three
words, John has-simply and adequ-
ately told it. Does this mean physi-
cal light? Certainly. The light in
the burning match, the evening
lamp, the electric bulb, as well as
the sun above; all these are from
God. Says Warren H. Wilson in his
recent book, “For the round of life
that passes through our bodies and
makes them a temple of the Holy
Spirit, passes through the orchard
trees, the garden plants, the cattle
in the stalls, and the sheep in the
fold. If they were not there we could
not glorify God, for we could not
live.” Reverent science ,is doing
much to reveal this light that rays
out from a. provident Creator. Al-
ways, our eyes are being dazzled in
its beams and all creation is being
saved through it. “And the earth
was waste and void; and darkness
was upon the face of the deep;
“ " * And God said, let there be
light; and there was light.”

But the sacred writer would em—
phasize the moral nature of God; His
passionate love and spotless purity.
In this connection, he says that “in
Him is no darkness at all." This
has its practical meaning in the fact
that the light of God has been fully
revealed in Christ, and therefore,
there is no excuse, for spiritual ig-
norance. In Christ, God is perfect
and self-giving light. This is the
center ofthe apostle's message, and
he speaks from experience. He had
met the Christ aforetime and had
had fellowship with him. He de—
clares,\“That which we have seen and
heard we declare unto you also that
ye also may have fellowship with
us.” So, if the message of the
author seems mystical, he is now
about to make it practical. The logi-
cal procedure is, first knowledge,
then action, and finally character.
To know what God is like is to be

saved if we act upon it. But, alas,
what failure in action! Enlighten-
ment alone can not save. We must

walk in the light.
confession of sin.

Therefore hearken! “If we say we
have no sin, we deceive ourselves,
and the truth is not in us." Now
none of us wants to be deceived or
go astray; so what is the truth about
the sin-question? If we allow the
New Testament to be the carrier of
our religion, we are sinners. And it

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answered 0 Rev.

we allow our experience to be teach-
er, we sin. Of course, this doctrine
is unpopular with many. Just the
same, every human knows the shame
of loving darkness rather than light.
He knows what it is to try to get
away from conscience. No wander-
ing in green meadows or absorption
in business can suppress her voice.
And to command her to be still is to
have her strike back. Whether one
calls it sin or something else, one
knows those times when one does

not feel at home with God. Con-

science will not let one have peace
in the doing of sin.

Yet, the apostle says, “We know
that whosoever is begotten of God,
sinneth not." Clearly so. With the

life of God in the soul, one does not '
One’s normal, habitual f

motive sin.
intention is not to sin. But can this
person apply to himself the words
that Christ applied to Himself, name-
ly, “Which of you convicteth me of
sin?” No, no. We shrink from such
a claim. This is offensive in the ex-
treme. There was but one such
Being. The rest of us have discov-
ered that the more we know that
God is light and the more clearly we
see His image, the more shadowed
our own image becomes. Travel

stains do not show so much on a. ;

soiled and worn garment, but the

least splash of mud makes Mary's '
new white dress look badly. As one's :
character whitens with experiencep?

every little sin-spot bothers one
greatly. Listen in at the key—hole of
some old saint’s roomva-t the time of
evening prayer.
that pleading,
me a sinner."

But John reduces walking in the
light to a sociel relationship. His
brethern contended they were saved,
but he knew they hated one another.
So be cautious, “He that saith he is
.in the light and hateth his brother,
is in the darkness until now ” Do
you know you are saved? Well, do
you love your fellows; even your en-
emies? Would you do them good
instead of evil?
here. With great earnestness we are
told that the proof of walking in the
light is practical righteousness;
plied Christianity. Listen at this:

“God be merciful to

,“But whoso hath the world’s goods,

and beholdeth his brother in need,
and shutteth up his compassion from
him, how doth the love of God abide
in him?” Verily, professing right-
eousness is nothing; but doing right-
eousness is everything. What mat-
ters if we sit in the front pews and
join lustily in “The Old Rugged
Cross?” This Cross is so virile in its
demand for character and conduct
that it cuts its way through any emo-
tional gush to where it can purify
every detail of personal living and
all the social relationships of life.

Now, how may we know we may
have eternal life? Not by observing
creeds, learning catechisms, or any
other external transactions. What-
ever place such institutions have in
the Christian system, the author of

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we must know this. We must recog-
nize that there is something in our
fundamental nature that disturbs
our relationship with God. It is sin.‘
And to know it is to hate it; to re-

volt against it; and to desire its op-\

posits which is righteousness. At
this point we are given help. We
reach this new state through the ad-
vocacy of Christ. “If any man‘sin,
we have an Advocate with the
Father.” He who is trying to walk
in the light, has Christ by his side.
He will make mistakes. Yet there
is something in the constancy of this
Divine companionship’ that is so real
and searching as to find the sin-spots

in our nature, and keep us worship~

ing and enjoying the God of light.
How do you know you are saved?
Are you trying to appease God
through rites and ceremonies? The
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I want to know how to put down
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Mayville, Mich.
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on which you can use a. heavy maul.
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There is not any knOWn method
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which blossomed full, Mr. Newton
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enclosed in a. cage designed to keep
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THE NEW ENGLAND SEVEN

THE New England States have‘

picked out a list of seven stand—

ard apple varieties which they
called the “New England Seven.”
These varieties are being recom-
mended as a preferred list and as
being best suited to that region. They
are McIntosh, Baldwin, Delicious,
Wealthy, Gravenstein, R. 1. Green-
ing, and Northern Spy.

YES, “'E HAVE TOO MANY
BANAN'AS

ERE are two interesting quota-
H tations from the agricultural

outlook report of the U. S. Bu-
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“Production of most fruits and
melons has reached a point where
it is difficult to market these crops at
satisfactory prices in years when
weather conditions are favorable for
good yields.” . . . “Imported fruits,
especially bananas, are an important
factor in market supplies. The (luau—
tity of bananas brought into this

country annually has increased
steadily during the last 10 years and
in 1927 was 89 per cent greater than
the quantity imported in 1918. The
importance of bananas in our mar-
kets is indicated by the fact that for
the five year period ending with 1927
carloads have approximately equalled
imports of this fruit in terms of
the carload apple shipments of the
same period.”

This leads us to believe that “farm
relief” is not always as complicated
as it seems. All that is needed in
this case is to follow time honored
precedent and slap a good stiff tariff
on bananas. ‘

PRUNING TREES

We would like to know what time
of the year to prune trees and how to
prune them.——P. C. L., St. Ignace,
Michigan.

RUNE your trees any time during
P the winter or early spring be-
To

fore the leaves are out.

prune bearing trees thin out the.

smaller branches especially in the
top, to let the sunlight through the
tree. Cut out dead branches if there
are any, and remove twigs and small
branches whic-lr rub or interfere
with each other. Do not cut off
large branches. Cherry trees need
very little pruning, if any.
trees need more, but do not prune
too much. Each branch should have
its “place in the sun," but do not
cut big holes in the bearing surface.
It will only mean a lot of suckers to
cut off next year.

ANTHRACNOSE AND BLIGHT

I own a fruit farm and have about
three acres of red raspberries. These
raspberries are getting anthracnose
and I would like to have you give me
information on spraying, when to
spray, what to use, etc. They also
have cane borers and cane blight. If
you will give me informtaion it will
be very much appreciated—R. T.,
Lundington, Mich.

OR anthracnose on your red rasp—
berries we would advise you to
spray early in the spring just

'as the buds begin to Show a little

green. Use lime-sulphur solution
mixed at the rate of 5 gallons of
lime—sulphur to 50 gallons of water.
This one spray ought to hold the
disease on your reds. Later spraying
is not advisable because it is very
apt to burn the leaves.

For cane borer and bli‘ght cut the
old canes out immediately after har-
vest, get them out of the patch and
burn. If any blighted canes appear
during the summer they had best be
cut out right away. The borer has
a. habit of girdling the tips of the
young shoots during the summer,
causing these tips to wilt and die.
Keep your eyes peeled for these wilt-
ed tips next summer and cut them
off below the girdle and burn them.
That is a “stitch in time” which gets
the borer before he can do much
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:ENNETH ‘B. MONTIGEL, prose-
cuting attorney of Gratiot coun-

ty is to be commended for his
in prosecuting chicken

just served public notice on all per-
sons engaged in purchasing poultry

' that they must comply with the
. terms of Act No. 100 of the Public
Acts of 1927. (Hall Bill).

Failure
to comply with this act Mr. Montigel
states is handicapping the public of-
ficers in their endeavors to catch
thieves who are causing great losses
to the farmers, especially at this
time of the year. After due and
timely _warning poultry buyers who
do not comply with the terms of this
act will be prosecuted in Gratiot
county.

This same warning should be giv-
en out by the prosecuting attorneys
and sheriffs in every county in Mich-
igan. All M. B. F. readers should
see that this law is' being enforced
in their own county. This law alone
will save thousands of dollars for the

farmers of. Michigan. Why not en-
force it?
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Act. No. 100, which is better

known as the Hall Bill, requires that
V poultry buyers must fill out and file
a blank for all purchases of chickens.
Among other things a description or
the breed of the chickens is given,
owner’s name from whom purchased,
number purchased, etc. The buyer
must also secure license number of
party selling him the chickens. if the
party is driving a car. There are
hundreds of cases where information
of this kind would have enabled of-
ficers to trace the thieves and make
an arrest. Without this information
there is more often than not, no clue
tofollow. Blanks for poultry buyers
are furnished free of charge by the
Secretary of State at Lansing. If
you have a friend who buys poultry,
tip him off to comply with the Hall
Bill, Act. No. 100, for arrests are
going to be made in the near future
of buyers who fail to purchase
chickens according to law.
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Those chicken thieves are clever.
If they gave as much time and
thought to making an honest living
as they do to being crooked, they
might be some of our leading cap-
tains of industry. One thief recent-
ly conceived the idea of inserting a
warm rod into a chicken coop and
when the chickens put their cold
claws on it for the sake of its
warmth, he withdrew the rod and
poured the chickens into a sack. The
invention worked great until the fel—
low was finally caught with five hun-
dred pounds of chickens. He is now
under a $500 bond awaiting trial.

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Chicken thieves in Tuscola county
rubbed it in recently by robbing the
hen coop of Deputy Sheriff Glen
Truax of 24 chickens:—

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J. A. Richards, secretary of Ber—
rien County Farm Bureau. has just
issued a notice that his organization
will pay a reward of $25 for infor-
mation leading to the arrest ard con-
-viction of anyone stealing from the
farms of Farm BureaTi members in
Berrien county. That’s fine business,
Mr. Richards. THE BUSINESS Fnaunc,
which started the movement to drive
rural thieves out of Michigan, is only
to happy to see other organizations
fall in line, for the more money there
is in it to fight the thieves, the
greater inducement it will be to get
these long fingered boys “Safe in the
Arms of the County Jail.”

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If the rural. thieves of Michigan
knew how the applications fer mem-

‘ bership in Busmss Fumm’s “Min—
ute Men" were rolling in, they would
sure stop, look and listen. When this
mighty Armyioi Sturdy Sons of the
Soil finally gets organised with their

motto of ever “Alert” before them,
why look out you human parasites,.

‘ for» your day is doomed.
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s e the story. of how Mrs. Wesley

ylor._ chased, five thieves into the

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on a farm to occupy her time. The duties of
home-making are enough to keep any farm mother
busy; and to—day, we realize that the back-breaking
labor that used to make farmers’ wives old before
their time, never was “woman’s work.”

No labor-saving device has proved its value on the
farm more thoroughly than the electric washing

machine. 'At the touch

of a button, little G—E

motors on washers, pumps, and- other devices will
do many tasks while mother does something else.
Hours of time—her most precious asset—are saved
at the cost of a few cents for electricity.

Ask Your Power Company ;

If your farm is on or near an electric power line, ask the

1 power company for a copy of the new G—E Farm Book
which explains more than 100 uses for electricity on the

farm.

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For the benefit of asthma sufferers, Mr.
Charles Dean, 910% Virginia Ave, Indi—
anapolis. Ind., tells how he got rid of this
stubborn disease. Mr. Dean says:

‘I_ began havmg asthma in 1912. Kept
getting worse and couldn’t do a day’s
work. I would wheeze and choke and if I
walked a square, I had to lean a inst a
post and rest. In October, 1923, began
, f came very rompt-
ly, and I continued to improve, ga ing 13
pounds in weight. I feel perfewy well
again and Naoor' is the only medicine
that ever brought me relief.”

Hundreds of other sufferers from asth~
ma. bronchitis and chronic v.
reported their recovery'after years of at-

Their letters, and a booklet of
information about these diseases
will be lent free b Naoor Medicine 00.,
59’ Suite Life B '.,. Indianapolis, Ind.
No matter how serious your case, write
for this Iree booklet. It , give your
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0N EYEAR 500, THREE YEARS Si, SEVEN YEARS S2

The date following your name on the addr ress label shows when
your subscription expires. In renewin ii kindly send this label to
avoid mistakes. Remit by check. drs mono -order or registered
letter: stamps and currenc are at your ris We acknowledge
by first-class mail every do] I- received.

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Live stock and AuctI’one Sale Advertlslno:
rates to reputable breeders of live stock and poultry:

RE LIABLE ADVERTISE RS

We will not knowingl accept the advertising| of any rson or
firm who we do not be eve be thoroughly onest an reliable.
Should any reader have any cause for complaint against any ad-
vertiser in these columns, he ublisher would appreciate an im-
mediate aletter bringing all light. In every case when
writing saty "I saw your advertisement in The MichIgan Business
ll‘armerl" It will guarantee honest dealing.

"The Farm Paper of Service"

And they asked me how I did it,
And I gave ’em the Scripture text
“You keep your light so shining,
A little in front 0’ the next! , .

They copied all they could follow,
But they couldn’t copy my mind
And I left ’em sweating and stealing
A year and a half behind!
—Rudyard Kipling.

JOIN THE MINUTE MEN
E announcement in our March 31st issue re-
garding the organizing of The Minute Men to
protect the lives and property of farm fam-

; ilies in this State brought forth a flood of letters
‘1 from sheriffs, prosecuting attorneys and farmers,

all highly praising the movement.

All ready 8.

;, large number of farmers have signified their in-

i'tentions to join in the work.

Many have re-

; quested authority to form an organization in their

-J . community.

Some of the sheriffs have stated

' they were ready to deputize these Minute Men.

When THE BUSINESS FARMER started out nearly
two years ago to fight rural t'hievery in Michigan
hundreds of letters were received telling us that
this work was very much appreciated by the
farmers of our fair State. For some time it was
a. single handed uphill fight but gradually other
rural organizations began to appreciate the seri-

; ousness of the situation and they too took an ac-

tive part. We have sincerely appreciated any
assistance in this work which we pioneered and
we hope still more organizations and groups will
see fit to become active along this line. Only
through united efforts can we hope to drive Mr.

' Thief away from the farms.

Part‘ of that united efiort can come from The

3. Minute Men who will give rural sections that
’ police protection which they lack.

2 agricultural society, ,
president and president for a number of years.

On page three of this issue is another article
on the organization. We hope you will read it
through and then clip the application, fill it out
and mail it in right away.

IRA H. BUTTERFIELD
ITH the passing of Mr. Ira. H. Butterfield
Michigan agriculture lost a wonderful
friend and staunch supporter. Born on a
farm near the little town of Utica, Macomb
county, in the year of 1840, and living most of

his life close to nature he knew the problems of

the farmer as only the farmer himself knows
them. He early identified himself with the State
serving as secretary, vice-

He was a member of the State Board of Agricul-

. ture for four years and later acted as a secretary
» of the Michigan Agricultural College. He was also

secretary of the

. . foremost in his plans.

’ “about Michigan agriculture than any man «living
today.
. “teemplete history of the State agricultural society,

Michigan Shorthorn. Cattle
Breeders' Association and of the Michigan Im-
proved Livestock Breeders. In the various posi-
tions he held in public life the ambition to serve
agriculture to the best of his ability was always
He probably knew more

But a. couple of years ago he wrote a fairly

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did in connection with Michig
establishing an “Ira. I-I. Butterfield Special" in
Many of our readers perhaps
knew him personally. ,Others ,knew of him
through various articles which appeared in our
columns, the last one he wrote fer us being pub-
lished last October.

The man who lives so that the world profits
through his living has not lived in .vain. Agri-
culture hasmuch to be grateful for to Mr. But-
terfield because he gave it his best.

   

 

OOUZENS’ FARM p
LITTLE less than two years ago Senator

James Couzens announced that he was losing _

$35, 000 a year in operating his 774-acre
estate, known as Wabeek Farms,.near Pontiac,
and he offered to let some good farmer operate it
rent free and tax free if he could find someone
who would farm it right. Thousands applied and
he finally decided in favor of Mark and Frank

Williamson, making a five-year agreement with ’

them. Within the last few weeks this agreement
has come to an abrupt end, the Williamson broth-
ers have moved off and the Senator is now in sole

,. possession of his estate.

Calamity howlers are shouting, “They failed!

_ Even though they got the farm without rent or

taxes, they found it impossible to make any
money at farming!" But did they fail? The
Williamsons say they did not and the Senator
claims they did not succeed.

Figures show that the Williamsons cleared
around $8,000 during the eighteen months they
were on the farm, while it cost Senator Couzens
only $8,000 a year in taxes and the rent he would
have collected for the use of the farm, compared
with $35,000 per year when he operated it
himself.

If the ‘boys had paid rent on the farm they
would have lost around $20,000 during the
period, they were there, according to estimates,
which would indicate, off. hand, that even on such
a fine farm as Senator Couzens' with its $125,000
cow barn and other buildings and equipment in
proportion, it is impossible to make money, in
fact such a report was given out-to the country
through the press.

The trouble with Wabeek Farms is that Sen-
ator Couzens has a. show place rather than a.
practical farm. His buildings were put up with
the thought of making them attractive instead of
practical. Visitors appeared at the farm daily
and wanted to be shown around, taking up the
valuable time of the Williamson boys or their
hired hands. Further, they were obliged to em-
ploy more help than should be necessary to oper-
ate that size farm because the fine barns and
equipment were not practical.

GOING TO ENTER THE CONTEST?

ID you read about our contest on fixing up the
farm home yard which was mentioned on
this page in the last issue, and are you going

to enter? We hope you did and you are. Be sure
and, get a good picture of your yard before you
start to do anything with it because we will need
such a picture in judging the various entries. We
will give you complete details about the contest
in an early issue—but in the meantime GET
THAT PICTURE!

CAN YOU ADVISE HIM?

PROFESSOR of. botany in the agricultural
1 department of one of our middle western

universities wants some help from the far-
mers of Michigan. He writes us that hundreds of
farmers throughout the. Canada thistle infested
area are firm in their belief that a certain date or
time exists when a‘single cutting will eradicate
the pest and he wants to know this date or time
so_t~hat he can give it a. trial. If you have any
information on it please write in to us‘and we
will put the information in his hands. It will
all be greatly appreciated and given a trial.

' fine .
: agriculture by

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L'AST ISSUE OF GREAT VALUE

EAR Mr. Grinnell: I have road The

Business Farmer issue of March 81st

and desire to compliment your paper
on putting out’ such an issue. An issue
of this type cannot help but be of great
value to the poultrymen and the poultry
industry of Michigan. ‘

We appreciate your co-operation and as-
sure you that you are doing a wonderful
work in Michigan agriculture. -—-C. G. Card, 7'
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I New York. friend, he says to me, while I
was fixin’ up‘my tee, “You farmers from
the Middle West, fuss round as if were

possessed. When crops are good you rent and
cuss because you’re got a big surplus, then when
the drouth or rain or hail or floods or early frosts F
curtail the yield, you can’t keep still. You want
McNary-Haugen' 5 bill to guarantee you profits, *~
though you may crank up the our and go a. gall-
vantin’ down the road without the corn a-bein'
hood. .
"A farmer surely does complain in summer,
'when there's too much rain. he’s got a. pain in
. autumn. too, each time we get a heavy. dew. The
weather is too cold or hot. he’d rather ha‘ve poor

and send his congressman some mail. You may
your dues to send some man to Washington, that’ s
got a plan to pass a law to make you rich, for
politics you’ ve got‘ an itch. you seem to think
that congress should put in your crops and saw’
J your wood." What more he’d said I do not know,
I hit my ball so awful blow, and as that teller
turned his back it hit his head an awful crack.
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The Cotton-Textile Institute is tryin’ to get
folks to use more cotton 50’s the cotton farmers
can make more money. Recently I noticed they
was advocatin’ larger bed sheets. That’s a. good
idea, I think, and right here and now I want to
boost for longer tails on them cheap cotton shirts.

I understand that the King of England recently
declared a half holiday and all of the business
places in that country closed all afternoon. The
Prince of Wales rode a horse without fallin' off.

The way them congressmen down at Washing-
ton are dodgin’ the bill appropriatin’ money to
fight the corn borer I’ m beginnin’ to think' they
want to “Worm” out of payin’ farmers for cleanin’
up to get rid of the worm.

I read in the paper how it cost a whole lot of
money to fill the big airship, the Los Angeles,
wit-h gas ’cause it is a. special kind. Ain’t it too
bad there ain’t some way they could use the gas
some of them congressmen broadcast in the “Haul
of Fame” down at Washington? If they used
that kind I suppose they couldn’t get the airship
down once they let it loose.

Credit is alright in some ways, and in other
ways it ain’t. Take our wars, for instance. If.
we had to pay in‘advance for them we wouldn't
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Ever hear this one? Two tellers were arguin'
’bout smart men. One said, “Now take that man,
Daniel Webster, who Wrote the.dictionary; he
sure was a. smart man.” The other man said,
“You don’t mean Daniel, you mean "Noah.” To
whic_h the other feller said, “You can’t fool me
that way, ’cause I know-it was Noah who built
the ark."

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May 1- 7. “National Egg Week. ,

Oct. 30-Nov. 2. ——Top 0’ Michigan Potato Show,
Gaylord, Mich. ,
Nov. 7-10 —Greenville Potato Show, Green-
ville, Mich ‘ ( .

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“STRETCHING” THE FACTS
. GLOVER, “specialist" in charge,
of the Scientific Height Increas-
ing- Companyr of Sausalito, Cal-
ifornia, was sellingxa stretching ma-

chine to short folks who ‘wanted to .

be tall until Uncle Sam investigated
his proposition—and they denied him
the use of the mail on charge/pf
fraud. Apparently it was a very
profitable business. while” it lasted
because few short folks do not wish
they Were tall. .

Sam’s investigators stepped in they
found Mr. GIOver in somewhat the
same boat as the bald-headed barber
. who recommends a certain kind of
hair tonicas a sure cure for falling
hair—he was short of stature. If
his stretchigg machine was such a
success why was it that he was
so short? » The government could not
answer the Question and neither

could Mr. Glover apparently, so it /

was decided to charge him with
fraud.

It appears the machine worked
mostly on people’s pocketbooks and
bank accounts.

DID YOU GET A HANDKERCHIEF?‘

“My dear friend: As I came across
your name and address I decided to
write to you at once. The idea struck
me that if it .layed in your power to
be a friend to me and help me you
would. And this is the favor I am
going' to ask «of you if you would
help me to dispose of some of my
lovely drawn thread work which I
do for my living among your friends
and acquaintances and try to get
them interested and to secure me an
order for some as I am in great want
and if I could sell my work it would
help me along so greatly to provide
food and clothing for myself and
little ones. Do listen to my appeal
and try to help me all you can. I
shall enclose you a handkerchief to
give you and others an idea of the
kind of. work it is. The price is
$1.00 do try and sell it for me. But

 

this can give you only a slight idea ,

of the real beauty of it, it can be
done in various patterns and designs
imaginable both for ,- house use as
well as personal wear. 'Lots of the
work is sold over there by kind
friends for folks here so I hope to
meet in you a kind friend also. Trust-
ing to receive soon a favorable reply
from you I remain yours sincerely,
Mercedes Hassell.

”If you cannot get $1.00 I will be
willing to take 75 cents or 50 cents
a piece if you could sell a quantity
for me.” ‘

HAVE any of you received a letter
similar to the above, written on
a letter head carrying the name
of Mrs. Mercedes H‘assell, Central
Avenue, Windward Side, Saba, D.
W. I.”\with a lady’s handkerchief
enclosed? We did the other day and
we are wondering if we are of a
“favored” few or ‘if our “dear friend”
is trying to build up a large circle
of “friends” in this State.

In the first place this lady did not

need'to address us as “my dear,

friend” because we have never made
her acquaintance, in fact, we do not
know a single person residing in
India. And in the second place we
have no use for any person sending
out unordered merchandise. If she
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\VHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR

HE two years following the one In whlch the Mull-s sold out and came to
l Colorado, and bought a ranch over on the west side of the divide,
Not only did the bottom drop out of the settle market
but a. hard winter killed of? a. large number of thflr cattle.
pretty dark, especially to Doug Summers, an orphan who came west with
t Mulrs. and Mary Muir, boonuse they were planning on getting married
Just as soon as they could get a little money put aside.
pert rider, decides to earn some money riding bad horses.
is oflered to the man who can ride Catapult and Doug has his
His phns do not meet with the approval of the Muir family. The third
winter was a. terror and it was June before the cattle could be turned out on the
sorry looking lot.
many of them got poisoned on giant lurk-par and they died on every hand. It
looked as though the folks were going
some new lend ud try raising more wheat.
called "Wild Cat” and Doug and Terry bought a large plow from o neighbor. no.
turning home with the plow after dark on automobile ran into them but no
one was hurt. They Med it was one 0! their neighbors, Sid Stntgart and his
Next morning they got at their work of clearing and
lng. After they got this work done, Doug, .ferry and Mort started out to
range t.) see how their cattle were coming slug. 'llhoy tonnd plenty of dead ones.
Sutton main to ride some untamed horses.
the night there and erose the next morning before the rest to ride one of the
bad horses in thoeorral. While looking them over he learned that lay Bhtgart
was also an early riser and intended to weteh him. He . halt
The first time he mounted he was t town, being sought
unawares, but the second time he conquered. ,

 

amour

Things looked

Doug being on ex-
A prize of $1,000
eye on that

To make matters worse

to lose out but they decided to break up
They had a steam. engine they

He spent

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(Continued from March 31st lune)

OUG rode another bad horse that aft—
Dernoon. At least they said he was a

bad horse, but he was play compared
with Hobo. They kept him until late at
night and he went home by starlight,
against their urging to remain, his head
spinning again.

He did succeed in stabling his mount,
but somehow he had trouble in locating
the door of his bedroom and upset most
of the furniture of the sitting room in a
vain effort to do so. Terry came at
length and led him away from a medicine
closet into which he was trying to climb
amid sundry crashes of bottles and a.
medley of smells. Next morning he awoke
with another of those headaches and as
surly as a spring bear.

“Where’s all that smell of turpentine
and iodine coming from?‘{he wanted to
know as he dragged on the boots Terry
had taken from his feet when he had to
put him to bed.

“From you," said Terry pointedly. “You
broke every bottle in the medicine chest
last night."

‘How in the thunder did I do that?"
Doug wanted to know. "I don’t remem-
ber anything about it."

“Don’t suppose you do,” said Terry,
fixing him with a look. "There must
have something happened to your mind
else you wouldn’t have been trying to
climb into it."

Doug digested this. ‘

‘I must have made a little noise," he
said finally.

"Noise!” exclaimed Terry. “A locoed
steer turned loose couldn’t have made
more."

“Did I—er, say anything?" asked Doug.

"Doug," said Terry earnestly, “I always
thought that cussing was something a
fellow got good at by practice. If you
ever had any practice before, I don’t know
when it was, but after hearing you last
night, I'll sure have to change my mind.
It beat anything I ever heard before or
expect to hear hereafter."

Doug drew a long breath. He arose
presently and tried to smooth his tousled
hair.

“They’ve been waiting a good while.”

It was a silent lot that was gathered
aruond the table—a. grave lot. In their
eyes, Doug had committed an all but un—
pardonable sin. Not a word was spoken
until the meal was finished. Several
times Doug tried to catch Mary’s eye,
but she was always looking some other
way when he looked at her.

Mr. Muir pushed back his plate and
cleared his throat nervously.

"Douglas,” he said—he always address-
ed Doug by his full name when under
emotional stress—”Douglas, I don’t want
to be hasty in many decision, or unjust;
but we talked this matter over last night
after you came in. We had plenty of
time, and I don’t think it would be called
a. hasty decision.”

“Talked what over," growled Doug,
irked by the funereal atmosphere and the
seriousness with which they were taking
the affair. He hadn’t done anything so
wrong. Lots of folks got lit up once in a
while.

Mr. Muir frowned at his tone.

“I had hoped you would look at it dif-
ferently,” he said; “but this household
can’t and won’t countenance such carry-
ing on. Either you’ll cut loose from that
kind of a bunch, and all like them. or
you’ll have to cut loose from us. That’s
final.” He sat looking at Doug, waiting.
“If you want my answer," Doug said
loudly. "I can mighty soon give it to
you. Nobody can tell me who I can or
who I can’t run around with."

He swapt his hat from a chair where
he had dropped it when he same in during
the night, slapped it on his head and
stalked from the room. Mary, he noticed.
looked very miserable as he did so.

Terry overtook him at the corral. 'nzere
were tears in the lad’s eyes n he laid
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“Come on out to breakfast," said Terry. ._

   

“Doug.“ he chi-seer: Wifi'Y‘EW '

can’t. I knew it had to come, But red
member, no matter what comes or goes,
you can always count on me.”

“Terry, old boy," said Doug, his eyes
filming, “you did your best for me. It
everybody was like you, there’d be a.
whole lot less fights in the world.

He entered the stable and took down .

his saddle and bridle.

“Can I borrow a horse to ride to town
on?” he asked.

“Borrow !" siad Terry. "You take your
pick of the bunch, Doug. It's yours. And

listen, Doug; don’t go too far away. May- "

be we can get this thing straightened up
after a while."

Doug threw the saddle on Blutch, a lit-
tle roan he had always ridden and claim-
ed.

“Terry,” he said, “it’s hard to tell
where or how I’ll wind up now that'I’m
on my own. Think of me at my best.
old boy."

"Wait," said Terry; “aren't you going
to say good-bye to Mary?’

Doug hesitated; then his toes harden-
ed

"No," he said. "She looks at it Just
like your father does. It won’t be any
use. It's best just to ride away and let
things ride as they lay. People's ideals
don't change in a. minute. Good—bye.
Terry.”

They shook hands with averted faces;
and so Doug rode away. Terry stood for
a long time without raising his eyes, and
when he did his sister stood beside him.

“Terry,” she said. “he never even said
good-bye to me !"

“Sis," said Terry, “buok up. It will
look different after a. while. Doug’s got
-too much'Ngood stuff in him to go to the
dogs. He’s a. real guy. Mary."

“Don’t I know it 1" she said, crying;
and so went back to the houm.

At the house she found her father still
wearing a formidable facade.

“He's gone l” she said flatly. “You drove
him away. I hope you're satisfied.”

Mr. Muir stared at his daughter, but
said nothing.

“You shouldn't talk that way to your
father. Mary,” said her mother, gently.
“He did what we thought was right. He
did it for Doug’s own good."

“Do you think," said Mary, passionate-
ly, “that it will be better for him out
among the kind or people he‘ll likely be
with now? Do you think it will be better
for him to be in a line camp with a crowd
of drinking mistering, swearing cow-
punchers? Do you?"

“If he isn’t strong enough," Mr. Muir
pointed out, “to go straight even in such
company, he isn't streng enough to be—
come a member of this family. You know
that, Mary. It was the only way."

“But Doug isn’t used to such things,”
she faltered. “It's hard for any boy
brought up as he has been.”

“Hard, yes," said her father. “But nec-
essary. You Wouldn't want him around
here making a scene regularly as he made
last night. would you?"

She shook her head at that. It was an
unpleasant recollection.

“He'll come back,” said Mr. Muir. “He’ll,
be glad to come back. And he'll have.
some reason to him when he does come”.

“He’ll never come back I” said Mary
vehemently. “You know that as well as
anyone. He'll' never come back of his
oWn will.” . .

“It will be better," her father pointed
out, “to put of! this discussion. In the
frame of mind you’re in. as well as the
rest of us. we can't see clearly. God
knows, I hated to see Doug go as much
as anyone—as much as if it had been
Terry. Now, then,” he continued. more
gently: “let’s just drop the subject for a.
few days. Then we can see and think
better."

And so it was dropped. Doug's name
was not mentioned in that household for
many a day after that except when ,
unguardedly referred to him. Mort hell
on undisgulsed admiration tor Doug, and
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mained silent.

"We need him all right," said Terry.

Next day the stage driver on the star
route scattered posters announcing the
fair to be held in town on the Fourth.
Doug’s name was down as riding Hobo
in the mile race and also down as riding
Catapult in the bucking contest.

Mort was reading the announcement
aloud when he came to that.

“Give me that paper,” said Mary, and
snatched it from him.

“Must be something wrong about that,"
said Terry. “Riders in the bucking con—
test don’t usually know what horse they
draw till just before the ride."

“If you'd waited till I finished,” said
Mort aggrievedly, “you’d understand.
Catapult is a special feature. There’s five
hundred dollars down to anyone that will
ride him. None of the punchers will take
a. chance with him in a. contest. because
they know blamed well they won’t have
any. These fellers around here know
they ain’t in his class. I’m plumb sorry
to hear Doug is going to tackle him."

“If he can be ridden, Doug can ride
him,“ declared Terry.

“He can’t be rode,” declared Mort. “At
least he ain’t been rode to date.”

Mary was staring at the program with
Wide eyes, her face gone white. All the
page was a blur except those few words,
and they stood out with stunning bold-

ness:

“Doug Summers on Catapult.”

The paper containing the racing pro-
gram came a few daysbefore the Fourth,
which fell on Saturday. Friday all the
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even the riders, came down via horseback
and stopped at the Bar Z for the car
Which mechanics from town had repaired
and left there to be called for when want—
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It was late in the afternoon when they
came, and even tho the Muirs as a whole
did not think well of that crowd, they
were urged to stay for supper, and ac-
cepted the invitation.

“I see,” said Spence Lossing, “where
Doug is to ride Catapult tomorrow as a
special attraction.”

“To see that lad ride anything, any
time, would be special,” put in young
Stutgart. '

“Where is Doug?” asked Spence. "He
hasn't been up our way for a week or
more.”

“He's over about town,” Terry told
him. “Getting ready, I reckon.’_’

“How have your cattle losses been?”
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tion.

“Why, not so bad," Lossing assured
him. We’ve not lost many. Have you?”

“We’ve been hit pretty hard,” said Mr.
Muir. “The boys reported over a hund—
red dead some time ago. And when you
consider that we have but about three
hundred on the range, it's what I would
call heavy. But we’re new up here," he
qualified.

“A hundred!” exclaimed young Stut-
gart. “That is a. stiff loss. I’ve not been
out on the ranch much, but I’ve not run
across many dead animals bearing our
brand. Not over a. dozen or so and we’ve
got over two thousand on this range, all
told, mostly whitefaces, too.”

Lossing looked around at the others un-
easily.

(Continued in April 28th issue)

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0 not attempt to raise cauliflower

as ‘a spring or summer crop-

unless you have means of pro-
ducing good strong, well hardened
plants ready to set in the field by
April 10th. It must head up either
during the cool» weather of early
spring or late fall and will not head
during hot weather. The bulk of the
crop is grown as a fall crop and suc-
cess is more assured with fall cul-
ture. Sow the seed about June lst
and set the plants July 15th to 20th
for the fall crop. ,

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Much has been said and written
recently as to whether or not culti-
vation is necessary except as a
means of weed control. Those au-
thorities who maintain that cultiva-
tion is an unnecessary operation ex-
cept as a weed control measure
would undoubtedly" make exceptions
to their rule if they had some of the
heavy clay soil of our locality in-
cluded in their experiments and ob-
servations.

In sandy soil I venture to say that,
providing weed infestation was not
bad, good crops might be produced
with a minimum amount of cultiva-
tion. As in this type of soil the
“dust mulch” is of limited benefit as
a means of moisture conservation.
On the other hand the “dust mulch"
is very important on heavy clay soils.

But if as the advocates of both
systems admit that cultivation is
only necessary in weed control it
leaves little room for argument as
we all have weeds or soon will have
if we cease to cultivate. So I do not
think the cultivation will become ex-
tinct in the very near future.

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lightly over the surface and found I
was bringing a" great number .of
small sprouts of Weed seeds to the
surface. ~ ‘ ‘

When I was nearly‘done I was

called away and the spot I left un-'

done __never got raked. In three
weeks the spot left unraked was
full of weeds while that which was
raked was exceptionally clean.»
Since that time we rake all client

_fine truck crops and have done very

In Peter Henderson’s book on gar-

dening we find this advice: “Do not
cultivate to kill the weeds but culti-
vate the soil in such a manner that
Weeds can not grow."

In other words kill the weeds be-
fore they can be seen which is at the
time they are sprouting.

Since reading this some years ago ‘

I feel that it has paid well for the
space it has occupied in my memory.
I recently had its value brought to
my attention rather forcibly. I had
planted a bed of carrots and just at

the time the seed was sprouting we

had a heavy shower. When the soil
dried it formed quite a crust over
the bed and I realized something
should be done.

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little weeding to keep our gardens
clean. ‘ ' , '
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Plant protectors designed: to pro-
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made of glass substitute material are

giving fairly good results but their '

cost ($5.00 to $6.00 per dozen) pro-
hibits their profitable use on a large
commercial scale. My observations
lead me to believe that the best plan
would be to provide a few more sash

»which will permit giving the plants

more room and holding them until
danger of frost has "passed. -
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Kohl Rabi

Those who are troubled with tur-
nips getting wormy or bitter during
summer months would do well to try
khol rabi as a substitute.

They possess a taste which is sim-
ilar to the turnip. They should be
harvested and eaten before they are
too old as they start to get tough
and woody when left too long. Sow
the seed early in the spring in rows
4 to 20 inches apart and thin the
plants to 6 or 8 inches apart. ‘

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When I buy what I believe to be
the best seed obtainable regardless
of the cost my conscience is clear
even though I fail to produce a crop.
I do not mean to say that high priced
seed is always the best, but on the
other hand good seed is usually high
priced. “

There is a vast difference in the
labor and expense of growing high
quality seed as compared with low
grade seed.

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sometimes a by-product of canning
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AVE you ever had any experi-
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quack grass? I have a letter on

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i couraging doesn’t it?

' asking. the first part of the above

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question. T h i s
gentleman found
some thistle balls
in his seed oats
and' wished to
know if the oats
would be safe to
plant. He stated
that there were
no seeds in the
b a l l s that he
could discover.
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plenty of experi-
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V. 0. Braun

.had some of the same disliking en-

counters with this common perennial
weed pest. No doubt many of you
have the same problem of which Mr.
E. J. has been confronted, and prob-
ably you have also found thistle balls
in your seed oats.

Like the old adage: Wherever
there is smoke there is fire—you
may also state where there are this-
tle balls there are thistle seeds.
Perhaps you can not find these seed
as Mr. E. J. states. If so, they might
be in either one of two places. If
they ripened before the oats were
cut, the wind distributes them over
your field, and in this instance you
need not worry about sowing them,
as they are already sown and will
probably yield you a good crop. If
the cats were out before they were

; distributed, the separator probably
, pounded the seeds out of the balls,

and some of them are in your seed
oats and some are in the straw stack.

. Take your choice: you may sow the

oats and secure a crop of thistles or
you may draw the straw out as ma~
Sounds en-
The above
statements are facts and I use them
thus to impress upon your mind first
of all, to always out these “donkey
deserts" before they go to seed. This
is quite a task, and I’m sorry to say
that it hasn’t always been done on
Spring Water Farm, but it should
have been done, and I think I’ll see
to it that it is done in the future.

A good fanning mill will separate
these thistle seeds from the oats.
Every farmer should run his seed
oats through a fanning mill this
spring whether he has thistle seeds
in them or not, in order to secure
the best oats for seed. By taking
some of the seed oats from the bot~
tom of the bag and spreading them
out on a piece of white paper thistle
seeds can be detected if present. A
thistle seed is a small cylindrical
shaped object measuring about five
times in length, its thickness; one
end is tapering and the other end
flat. These seeds can be taken frpm
the oats quite satisfactorily, but if I
were in doubt of thistle seeds in my
oats, I certainly should secure new
seed.

II It Ill
Exterminating Thistles

From the experiences that I have
had of hoeing thistles as a lad on the
farm, I should almost be tempted to
assert that they cannot be extermin:
ated. I still have a very vivid mem-
ory of the blistered hands, the aching
back and the scratched bare legs
which accompany this detestable
task. If you have a boy and wish
to drive him from farming just give
him the task of h‘oeing the thistles
from the corn field, some very hot
day when the rest of his pals wish to
go down by the old swimming hole

and take a plunge.

HOWever, by modern methods Can-
ada thistles can be exterminated.

. Frequent and thorough cultivation,

or, moWing to keep down the top
growth, will eventually starve the
roots and ‘kill the plant. , They must
be mowedibefore seed forms. Alfalfa m
is an excellent crop to use in thistle

gradication. _ We secured a success-

.fnlfalfa two years ago on
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and thefrequent cuttings and crowd-
ing effect of the alfalfa has com-
pletely eradicated the thistles.

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Quack Grass Problem

I have some inquiries on the eradi-
cation of quack grass and I’m sure
some of you farmers have had
trouble with this weed. We had a
small patch several years ago on
Spring Water Farm and because it
wasn’t taken care of properly we
shall be forced to do considerable
work this summer to exterminate it.
Because of its persistence and the
ease with which it may be spread by
either roots or seeds, quack grass is
recognized as being on a par with
the Canada thistle in our list of weed
pests. Clean, frequent, and thorough
cultivation in dry weather which pre-
vents top growth and thus starves
the roots, is the most effective
method of killing it. Small patches
of quack grass can be destroyed by
frequent hoeing with a sharp hoe or
by covering with tar paper weighted
down with stones. Large patches
can be eradicated in. the following
manner: Plow in mid or late sum—
mer, turning the sod to a shallow
depth. Disk and cross disk this sod
with the disks set straight in order
that the sod will be well out in
pieces. Harrow at weekly intervals
with a. drag and when dry the roots
and runners may be raked up with a
hay rake and burned. The following
year, after deep plowing, the field
should be planted to corn and with
frequent cultivations the quack grass
can usually be killed in this manner,
but it is far from an easy task. It
can be very easily spread with a drag
and cultivator. When a quack grass
plot is cultivated or harrowed, no
other part of the field should be har—
rowed until the plot is finished and
the tool thoroughly cleaned.

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Pleasant Surprise

I was very pleasantly surprised a
few days ago when Mr. I. J. Mathews
called at'my office to make a short
visit. Probably every farmer in
Michigan has read one or several of
Mr. Mathew’s feature articles on
various agricultural subjects. He is
regarded as one of our best agricul-
tural writers and his interview was
a real pleasure on my part. Mr.
Mathews, in his articles, treats agri—
culture as a business; the largest and
most important business in the world
today- He shows how agriculture is
a science and must be dealt with in
that manner; that education and re-
search are a part of this great indus-
try just as much as they are a part
of any other industry. And perhaps
the most important and most im-
pressive point of all which he stress-
es is that we need men in this indus-
try with vision, with brains and with
magnetic power to carry on the work.
When agriculture is thought of in
this manner and treated as such
among the farmers of today, and
when the young men see in it as
great a challenge as they do in other
lines of endeavor, then we shall have
a better and higher type of agricul-
ture and a more satisfied farm life.
I wish that every farmer might see
agriculture in the same light.

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Keeping Hogs

One of my friends asked me this
question a few days ago: Would
you advise me to sell my hogs now
and take what I can get for them or
keep them? Am I not losing money
feeding my corn into eight cent
hogs? This is a very good question
and I know that most of you would
answer at once that this gentleman
was losing money. I know that we
are all disgusted with the hog mar-
ket. We are feeding thirty shoats on
Spring Water Farm so this question
also concerns me. Before answering
it however I think We ought to figure
on it and have somadata‘npon which
to prove our statements. I. put the
problem before my Animal Hus—
bandry Class as follows: A man buys
a two month old pig for five dollars.
He feeds’ him a balanced ration until
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contest on “My Favorite Breed

of Chickens” is coming along
fine and there are still a couple of
days before it closes so I can not tell
you the names of the prize winners
at this time. However, I do want
to say that the letters show a lot of
thought and it is going to be a real
difficult task to pick, out the winners.
I have been reading them as they
come in and- they have made me
very hungry for my favorite food——
fried chicken. Next time I will be
able to tell you who were the lucky
boys and girls.

But we can not go any further in
this letter withOut starting a new
contest. This time I have something
different, something that you never
'heard of before, I’ll bet you. It is
an auto contest. Seeing that this is
the day of the auto I think you
“auto” be able to get this contest
right in no time. Below are 12 ques-
tions for you to answer and the first
11 Questions is the name of a cer-
tain make of automobile.

1. What car is used to generate
heat?

2. What car is made of green
cheese?

3. What car is a river in New
York?

4. What car was once a rail
splitter?

5. What car means'to avoid?

6. What car provides a crossing
for a stream?

7. What car
bread maker?

8. What car was a noted French
explorer?

9. What car first experimented
with electricity?

10. What car is a noted violinist?

11. What car is two letters of the
alphabet?

' 12. Which is the best ad in this is-
sue, and why? Answer this in 200
words.

Remember, get your letters in as
soon as possible because it is the first
four that are correct and neat that
get the “Mystery Prizes” this time.—
UNC‘LE NED.

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we expect some children to grow up and
be decent men and women when their
parents are drinkers? This country is
supposed to be dry but I think it's “wetter"
than it ever was before. It we can get
the prohibition law obeyed just think

,how much more sunshine there would

be in this World. Even in the darkest
homes there would be some. .Your‘ want-
to-be niece—Sophie M. Kompik, Pent-
wator, Mich. T
-—-Gla.d you like M. B. F. We are trying
our best to make it interesting to every-
one who lives on the farm. What you
say about an education is very true and
I hope you succeed in getting a. high
school training. After that you may go
to college. If our men and women got
any benefit froni' drinking or smoking
these habits might be all right- but they
are harmed rather than benefited. No,
the country is not “wetter" than it ever
was, but the liquor interests try to make
us think it is so they can get us to vote
for the saloons again. Never! Some day
people will not know what liquor or to-
bacco taste like, but that will not be for
many Years yet.

Dear Uncle Ned:—Tonight I have been
reading M. B. F. and, as usual,- turned
first to ”The Children’s Hour” page.

Today the county Jersey cattle club
met in Allegan. Daddy was elected pres-
ident for the third successive year.

I am twelve years old and in the eighth
grade in the Buys school seven miles
north of South Haven. We have just fin-
ished a. spelling contest, the Pierce-Ar-
rows against the Chryslers. My side lost,
so the Pierce-Arrows will treat the win-
ners to ice cream and cake. I wish you
would surprise us and attend the party.
~Hope Fowler, South Haven, Mich.

—-I too wish I could “surprise” you, be—
cause I just love ice cream and cake.

Dear Uncle Ned:-—Just finished read-
ing the letters on Our Page among which
Was our President’s letter. Hurrah, for
Eathel! I am sure she will make a. good
one, aren’t you Uncle Ned and everybody
else? I agree with all her suggestions.

We’ve been taking M. B. I“. for a long
time and I think it is great.

Yes, Uncle Ned, have some more con-
tests. You always give such lovely prizes,
I hope I win one. Your want-to-be-niece.
-—Stella Wrona, Box 54, Pellston, Mich.
——'How do you like the kind of contest
we had in the last issue, Stella? Or pos-
sibly there is some other kind that you
have in mind. If you have tell me.

 

 

Tongue Twisters

 

 

What kind of a noise annoys an oyster?
A noisy noise annoys an oyster.——Florenee
.Stockmeyer, R. 1, Hunger, Mich. '

Talk about the saw you saw sawing
but I saw a saw sawing and of all the
saws I ever saw sawing I never saw the
saw that could saw like the saw that I
saw sawing in the saw mill.-—F. L. R.,
Brimley, Mich .

You know and I know and everybody
else knows that your nose is longer than
my nose—Lamor Mitchell, R. 3, Lakeview,
Mich.

 

 

Our Boys and Girls

 

Dear Uncle Nedt—We’ve been receiv-
ing the M. B. F. for only a short time,
but I think its just a dandy. It’s chuck-
ed full of interesting things to read.

In my opinion, I think young and old
need an education. If we are too shift-
less to learn-in school from our books
and keep in mind what the teacher tells
us, we‘ll learn things later in life through
experiences. Although I didn’t get a.
chance to start in high school two years
ago I am still thinking of getting a high
school education one way or another.

Don’t you think, Uncle Ned, that it is a.
terrible disgrace for women folks to drink
and smoke? Yes, men too. How can

 

Riddles

 

Why is a girl's belt like a garbage
can? Because it gathers the waist.

What tree is like a, girl? A peach tree.

What is the difference between am~
mania and pneumonia? Ammonia comes
in bottles while pneumonia comes in
chests—Viola Cook, R. 3, Ada, Mich.

Why is heaven like a. bald-headed man?
There’s no more parting there.

What building has a. thousand stories?
The public library.

What is it that you should always keep
when you give it to others. Your word.

What is an oyster? A fish that is built
like a nut—Arm‘s. Marie Harrison, R. 1,
Bronson, Mich. '

, C '
Scouting for Farm Boys
Boy NORA-lotion. Waterman-nut,
(Airing-irk- man; muting filo-Id be m to to
Scotti-3‘“, The Buda- m. It. We. nu.)

 

 

mom-Em FOR OFFICE-
OMINEES thus far are: Elton
Hiekmott, at Birmingham, and
David ion Mauls, of Cement
City, for Ch ,1: liar-old Merrill, of
Dansvflle, tor Sachem; John James
Cameron, 0: Cum-ll, and Charles
Mower. of 3mm, tor Scribe;

 

Claude Em. at ~ Hfiflagm: and

Harold Snyder, oi Trennry, tor Wam-
pum Bearer.
‘ t t o
‘ Fur the Girls

' We have had several inquiries
about some organisation for girls.
There are laterali good. organisation,
mum. .0 T Scoutflt W

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eir‘ ; has '2 _ at ,
Lexingtonl'Avea-N w—York. *ity. The '

Camp—Eire Girl‘s‘iislocate-d at 31 East
17th Street, New York. The Girl Re-
serves is ‘a branch of the Young Wo-
men’s Christian Association and can
be reached through the national
headquarters of that organization in
New York or through Y. W. C. A. of-
fices in the priincipal large cities of
the state. The other girls’ move-
ments mentioned also have offices in
most of the larger cities.

Any of these offices will be glad to
furnish information to girls wishing
to start units.

8 t It:
- Start a Paper _

Amateur journalism always has
been an important feature of. Lone
Scouting. We should be glad to com—
municate with any ambitious boy or
group of boys who would like to
start a Lone Scout paper. Of course,
the first requisite is a hand printing
press, multigraph, mimeograph, or
other machine for printing your pub-
lication. Such a project would not
only be interesting, but educational
and perhaps profitable, as well.

i t 1‘

Keeping Us Busy

Whew! The Scouting Editor is
getting almost swamped with the
mail that is coming in to him from
boys all over the State who want to
be Boy Scouts.

Some are planning to start troops,
others are taking advantage of the
farm patrol plan, and others are join-
ing TIIE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER
Lone Scout Tribe.

* t 1‘
Write Clearly

One thing we do want to ask our
correspondents is to write their
names and addresses more clearly.
Sometimes we can hardly make out
what the names are supposed to be.
Every once in a while a boy protests
because we have misspelled his name.
in an article or letter. Usually it is
because his name was so poorly writ-
ten that we could not make out all
the letters. Then, too, a letter some-
times goes astray because we could
not tell for sure what the boy’s ad—
dress was meant to be. Help us,
Scouts and Scouts—to-be! Write every
name and address plainly, or better
still print it, and be sure that your
address in full is on the letter as
well as the envelope. Sometimes the
envelope is separated from the let-
ter and then we cannot find your ad-
dress.

* ll: *
Report Back

To the boys who are trying to or-
ganize troops or patrols, we would
ask that you report back to us often
and ,tell us 110w you are getting
along. Maybe there is some way we
can help you. Ask us! We are hop-
ing that our efforts will mean the es-
tablishment of Scout troops, patrols,
and Lone Scouts all over the State of
Michigan and we are anxious to do
anything we can to help bring this

about.
t l t

Send in Your Votes
So far only a few ballots have
come in on the election for officers
'of the M. B. F. Tribe. Send in your
votes, you Lone Scouts!

 

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{JPHOLSTERY
CLOTH

RSHEETING‘ '

BURLAP
(SPRING CELLS '

Method of
Upholstering

In upholstering a Fisher Body the seat
and back cushion spring assemblies
are covered with cloth and a hair
pad is laid on top. On the hair pad
is placed the upholstery cloth. The
flutes, or pleats, of the upholstery cloth
are first stuffed with cotton batting
and sewed by hig‘ ly skilled workers.
After the trimming material has

SPIRAL
SPRING

 

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COTTON

  

COTTON,

PADDING
CLOTH

COVERING

been applied and sewed to place, the

bottom of the cushion is covered
with textile leather, and the cushion
is ready for installation in the body.

All who inspect cars equipped with Body by Fisher are
impressed with the beautiful and luxurious upholstery,
RoLL whether the cloth used is mohair, velour, broadcloth or
worsted. All Fisher upholstery cloth is subjected to the
most severe tests to assure that it will give long service
without undue wear or fading. Cushions and backs are de’
signed with special attention and utmost care for comfort
and durability. Saddle/back type upholstery springs are
used, to fit the contours of the human body, thus provid/
1ng~ maximum passenger comfort. A seat cushion of the
conventional type, under five inches in height in the rear
and seven inches in the front, contains 50 spiral springs.
The backs also contain 50 springs of a lighter gauge wire.
To completely trim a Fisher Body, about 225 separate and
distinct operations are necessary.

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THE BUSINESS FARMER

When Writing Ad-
vertisers Mention—

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HAND TAG
HIS is a good game for young people
Tot school age and should be played
in a barn or some other suitable
place. It is like ordinary tag, except that
anyone is safe who is hanging from a
rafter or beam in a barn, or from the
limb of a tree if it is played outdoors as
it may be in the summertime. Anyone
who has his feet on the floor or ground,
may be chased, and if he is caught, be-
comes “it.” The game may be continued
indefinitely.

 

 

Jokes

 

 

NOT HERE
“Hey, Mike," said a workman to the
other atop, “don’t come down on that lad-
der on the north corner. I took it away.”
-——Viola Cook, R. 3, Ada, Mich.

 

REAL CATCHY
Modern Shopper: “Have you anything
snappy in rubber bads?”
Clerk: “No, but we have something
catching in flypaper.”——Vioia Cook, R. 3,
Ada, Mich.

 

LOST HIS CAR

Man: ~"My wife has run away with a. ,

man in my: Cary",
Friend: "Good‘heavens! “Not your‘new
car?"—_—Viola Cook, R.- 3‘, Ada, Mich.

     

 

 

   

  

barium carbonate or any

VVi not iniure human beings.
livestock, dogs, cats, poultry,
yet is deadly to rats and mice every tune.

Poisons are too dangerous

K-R-O does not contain arsenic. phosphorus,
deadly poison. _
Made of powdered squill as recommended
by the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture in their
latest bulletin on "Rat Control."; - »

’ Without Poison

A New Exterminator that is

Absolutely Safe to use Anywhere!

"One of our good customers tigfiitnlfhtinuussihle
. 'We hear 0

gathered 105 dead rats on his
a 2-ounce package of —

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fi d' 30 or 40 ratsafter using K-R-Q
3,22% igh‘lrgily successful and ahpuld please
you." Wolgamot's Drug Store. Richwood. O.

7 So at your druggist; large size (four tunes
as much) $2.00. Sent postpaid direct from
us if dealer cannot supply you. 801.!)
.M‘lfll. The
K—R-O Company. Springfield. Ohio.

 

Here’s the Way
to Heal Rupture

A Marvelous Sclf-Hmnc-Trcatment
That Anyone ('an Use on Any
Rupture, Large or Small

COSTS NOTHING TO TRY

There is no longer any doubt but What
the plan used by Capt. Cullings is the only
way to completely heal rupture without
any operation.

And it costs you nothing to try it.

If you are rutured, no matter how bad
or, how long, send your name and address

ito_7Ca.1)t. .W. A. Collings, Inc., 133R Coll-

ings ’Bldg., Watertown, N. Y.. and try
free the wonderful invention that healed

' him of the worst two ruptures you ever

heard of. He threw away his truss; nev-
er had to wear it again. His two large

. ruptures, that had kept him bedridden for

years, were both held naturally by.,,his
own muscles without support, of any kind.
It wasa marvelous cure of rupture: and
you can ~haVe a'free trial. of his Wondere-
ful home treatment by ‘merely_ sending

“name and address,- no charge whatever.~
. Don’tffail' toxsen for. thisfiee'trvaR

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{wondered lenely as a. cloud ‘

That floats on high o’er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,
:Ac‘host of golden daffodils; ,-

- ' QiBeside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

  
 

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way

They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a. bay;

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
. Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company.
:‘ I gazed—and gazed, but little thought
' What wealth the show to me had brought.

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
‘ They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
‘ And then my heart with pleasure fills,
3/ And dances with the daffodills.
--Wililam Wordsworth.

 

RE women losing interest in

i
I THE DAISY CLUB
I home dress-making?

is an emphatic “No!”

Ten Mason county clubs working

under the extension leaders from
East Lansing find their enthusiasm
growing from lesson to lesson. Not
only do young mothers with growing
. children derive benefit from the
_ classes, but the middle-aged, whose

children are grown and gone find
5 pleasure and profit in learning new
sewing kinks.

In the Daisy Club are several
members who formerly made a busi-
ness of dressmaking. They are es-
pecially enthusiastic over the work.
Many find the lesson on care of the
machine worth all the effort put into
a year’s work. Probably nothing in
the household is more neglected than
1 the sewing machine. It is like the
‘ wind-mill on the farm, so badly
needed, so daily necessary, and so
persistently neglected, especially in
the matter of oiling.

One member says that, before
_ taking up the work in the sewing
class, each sewing attempt meant a
game of hide and seek for her scis-
sors, which were usually parked in
the most inaccessible place. Her
thread was scattered “thither and
yon,” the right size needle was no
where to be found and the measuring
tape in “Johnnie’s” expert fingers
might be tied around the cat’s neck

engine. Every attempt to sew meant
a loss of. considerable time. Now with
a sewing box in a convenient place,
holding necessary equipment, sew-
ing is a pleasure.

As the majority of men_love to
fuss with machinery so the majority
of women have an innate love of
sewing. The advantage of home sew-
ing, especially where pennies must
be counted, lies in the fact that bet-
ter materials may be bought it the
extra cost of making need not be
, considered.

one woman after using her ma-
chine for years has only just now,
through the class, learned to use the
sewing attachments, and finds them
f a real time saver. The study of ap—
f propriate styles for dififerent figures;
I the study and adaptability of com-
: mercial patterns; the necessity,
' urged by every pattern company that
J women be measured each time a pat-
‘tern is purchased; the design and

 

suitability or materials for under-.

wear, have proved especially helpful.

It is a far cry from the Mother
Hubbard house-dress to the present
‘ dainty, Well-fitting house frock, and
where is the woman who cannot do
her work better for knowing that she
is becomingly and neatly clad?—
» 'G. Pearl Darr.

 

FAVORITE LABOR SAVERS

BSERVATION of hundreds cf
kitchens has convinced Marion
C. Bell, New Jersey extension
specialist in home management, that
Ethree articles of great utility to
~ housewives are a dish drainer, a
_, comfortable kitchen stool, and a

, tray wagon.

'"' With the aid of a dish drainer.
many housewives are using boiling
Water instead . otttoumls for drying:
rifles. By . ‘

The Free-
soil Daisy Sewing Club’s answer

or used to hitch his wagon to a toy.

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see Life and doubt God?

laughed and sang.

doorway.
harder.

lands.

last retreating baffled and
beaten to his kingdom far in
the north. And Shingebis, the
diver, laughed and sang on!

 

 

be more sanitary than using towels.

The stool is made use of while the
housewife is washing dishes and pre-
paring vegetables, thus avoiding the
tedium of' standing in one position.

The tray wagon is used for taking
food to the dining room as well as
for bringing dishes back to the
kitchen sink. .

Mrs. Bell points out that there is
other equipment on the market for
saving labor, but‘the drainer, stool,
and wagon seem to be extremely
popular wth the women who are
now using them.

 

USE GOOD RUBBERS IN
CANNING

HE safest course in canning is to
discard all old rubbers and buy
only 1927 ones from your gro-

cer. If you do use left—over ones,
test them by stretching them out to
twice their size and see if they will
spring back to their original size
and shape. Then told them and
pinch them tightly between xthe
thumb and forefinger.‘ If the fold

, I» Am» ‘1 4 .
. —‘ Edited by m. ANNIE "EATER ,
EAR FOLKS: Again we behold the Miracle of Spring, the miracle

of living, growing things forcing their, way upward through the
brown earth and coming once more into the sunlight. Who can

And no one tells the story of’the Miracle of the Spring more beau-
tifully than does our own beloved poet Longfellow in his Indian legend,
Hiawatha. Do you member the story of the Four Winds in the fore-
part of the book, how the fierce Kabibonokka, who was the North
Wind, came hum-yin; and howling southward over the frozen earth
and found Shingebls, the diver, fishing. among the rushes? The story
goes that Kabibonokka was greatly angered at finding Shingebis still
in his domain when everyone else had long ago departed to warmer
lands. So he came to the diver’s Wigwam at night and heaped up the
snow in driflss about it, shouted and blew down the smoke flue, trying
to put Shingebls’ fire out, shook the lodge poles and flappcd the cur-
tains of the doorway, thinking to frighten Shingebis. But Shingebis was
not afraid; he had four you logs for firewood, one for each month of
the winter, and plehty of fish for food.
Then Kabibonokka. entered the Wigwam, but
Shingebis did not care; he only turned. the log a little to make the
fire burn brighter, continuing to laugh and sing. Great. drops of sweat
fell fast and heavy from Kabibonokka’s forehead, until defeated and
maddened by the heat and laughter he rushed

In fury, be stamped upon the earth and snow and made it
He stamped upon the lakes'aad rivers and nude the ice
thicker. {then he challenged Shingebis, the diver; to come out of his
Wigwam and wrestle with him naked on the frozen ferns and moor-
Shingebis fearlessly went forth, and all mt he wrestled with
Kabibonokka, until the North Wind’s panting breath grew faint and
his frozen grasp feeble, until he reeled and stinger-ed backward, at

goof/am.

address letters: Uri. Annie Taylor. can The Dunne-a Farmer. Mt. clemem. Illemuan.

He sat by his warm fire and

headlongthmugh the

  

 

 

shows no signs of cracks or holes,
you may be reasonably sure that the
rubber is all right.

 

ONE-PIECE GARMENTS GOOD FOR
FOR CHILDREN
NE—PIECE garments supported
by the sholders are preferable
for children. If there are bands,
they are apt to become tight, restrict
circulation or interfere with diges-
tion. A good test for children’s

clothes is that they leave no mark on

the body.

 

SHRINK NEW MATERIALS

T is always wise to shrink the ma-
I terial which is to be used for
wash dresses. Fold the material
and place it in a tub of warm water.
Either squeeze out the water gently
or put the cloth on the line to drip
dry. Press the goods on the wrong
side before it quite dry. Very thin
material may be rolled between sev-
eral thicknesses of Turkish tbwels,
wrung as dry as possible and pressed
immediately.

 

 

 

 

resonate—with joy-was sweeten. engine.

The little brook ._was babbling its tune.

The ivillage bells at moon were gally ring-
HE, J ' , A ‘,,

The world seem’d brighter than 2. ha“.
ear moon: ‘ .

For there within my anus I gently press-
ed you, , _ 2

And blushing red, you, slowly turned
away, 4 . . .

I can't forget the “way I' once caressed
you; '

I only pray we’ll meet another day.

Chorus:

In the shade of the old apple tree,

Where the ”love in your eyes I could see,

When the voice that I heard, like the
songof a bird,

Seem’d to whisper sweet music to me:

I could hear the dull buzz of the bee

.In the blossoms as you said to me,

With a heart that is true, I'll be waiting
for you ‘

‘In the shade of the old apple free.

5«I've really come a long way from the city,

_And though my heart is breaking I’ll be
brave. .

'I’ve brought this bunch of flowers,

I think they’re pretty,

To place upon a. freshly moulded grave;

. If you will show me, father, where she’s

' lying,
Or if it’s far just point it out to .me.
Said he: “She told us ‘when she was dy—

ing,
To bury her beneath the old apple tree."

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

Wants Candy Recipe—I am wondering
if some of the readers can tell me how to
make a nut or peanut brittle that has
granulated sugar sprinkled thickly over
it.—Mrs. H. M.

4

 

Have You Thin—Will someone loan me
the September, 1927, issue of the Illus-
trated Companion? I will return it.—-—

  

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Mrs. F. D. Smith, Route 4, Bufialo, Mo:\'*

 

More About Poplcss Popcorn.—In your
issue of March 17th, I noticed the ques—
tion asked how to make popcorn pop. We
had. that experience. Take one quart of
shelled corn and add one teaspoonful
water, mixing well. Put in loosely woven
sack and hang in a cool damp place for
a few days. It will pop as good as ever.
,-——Mrs. L 11., Ingham county.

————__.______‘

Lard Helps Make Cor.- Pon—I read a
request in the last M. B. F .for a method
to make corn pop. I have Very goodsuc-
cess with some eight-year-old popcorn
by placing a generous tablespoon of mo
in a five-quart aluminum kettle. Let it
get real hot, put in mice handsfuls of
corn, and cover. Shake so it will not
burn. After it has popped, put the salt
on while it is still hot—«Mrs. A, E., Huron
County. a

Cock Roaches.—-Please let me know the
the best way to get rid oi! cock reaches
in the house without ruinigatiom. I want
some kind of poison—P. L. .

In a dwelling house, we ordinarily rec-
ommend the use ofborax (not bonnie ,

 

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acid but plain borax) to get rid of cock I}
roaches. Get this in fine powder form and 1

9

sprinkle it under sinks and everywhere '
the roaches travel. ‘The roaches will get
it on their feet, and When golfing it off.
their fleet to clean them, they will get it
in their mouths and die—Prof. .R. H.
Pettit, M. S. C.

 

 

 
   
   
  
  
  
   
  
   
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
  

 

 

   
 
  
     
   
   
  
 
  
 
  
  
 
 
  
  
   

 
 
 
 
 
 

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8088.——Just the simple. good lookinig dress you
need to wear under our spring coat. It should
be made Egan one o the printed silks which are
so much jam now, or you ‘
Cut In E since: 84 .36, 38, 40, 4 , and

fl _ hunt ups-Ire. me 38 requires 1 yard
of 32 Inch utensil for the underbod , 3% yards
ess, an '56 yard 12
mug of the cascade.

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SHOPPE“ "TROO'K

‘ 41o tyou in doubt with what‘to trim your new
sprung rock? Lace'wfll .make it the last word .in
e. 1m fabric as being used extensively, not
onlf: for trimming, but for entire dressesas Well.
author, especially suede, and. metal link belts
are extremely pular 'and are heme worn in place
of bolts of sel material. _
Navy blue is "the" color, so the fcsluon experts
us, or e smart spring suit and ensemble.
Black 13 the predominating color for evening We?i'.
aGay‘ printed silks and polka dots are smart or
a e.
is have almost no trimming at all. For the
rt they are made of felt and. a. soft cal-
-'th just a rhmestone pin, a. buckle,

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7th“ little Maud, with M
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Delicious
this recipe, you had better hide the cookie
jar. as they won’t last long.

1 cup each of sugar and Shortening, 1 ;

egg. 11% our) sweet nnl'k‘ , pinch of salt, 3
cups flour, 2 tsp. baking powder, and 1
tsp. flour, 1/2 cup water. Boil mixture
until thick. Spread between two cookies
and bake. Shredded cocoanut may also
be added to this filling—«Mrs. C. W.

 

 

“ What To Eat

 

 

Reduce Without Starving.—Have you
gathered more flesh around yo\ur waist '
line, hips, and thighs in the passing year ;
than becomes you? Do your friends and
family teasQ~ you about being “fat?” Well,
reducing is no longer as painful as it used 1
o be. We can still eat and grow thin..

ieting is not a question of going without
food but of eating-the proper food. It’s
the cake, pastry. candy, butter, cream
cheese, and starchy foods that puts on
the pounds and keeps them there.

Can you remember so. oatmut very little
bread. says. halt a allocate meal, and ‘.
.Q “tuck”: ,
Bread is NOT the “Stat! of fife."

 

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Summer is just around
the corner, and it is in
order to suggest a cruise
on the Great Lakes as
part of your vacation.

We would be pleased to
help you plan an outing
of two, four, six or eight
days” duration on the
Lower Lakes, and supply
you with pictures and
descriptions of pleasant
places: Niagara Falls,
Mackinac Island and
others.

If you contemplate an
automobile tour, plan to
make part of the journey
by boat. Our overnight
service between Buffalo
and Detroit; Cleveland
and Detroit, is used ex—
tensively by automobil—
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Saginaw (N. W.).--Had two big snow
storms last week; ground covered with
snow; frost all out but too wet to do any-
thing but, cheres. Net many auction
sales: had two in Hemlock with horses
brought in but not many sold; they were
shipped from Detroit. Wheat seems to be
right so far. Quotations from Hemlock:
Wheat, $1.55: corn, $1.00; oats, '61c; rye,
$1.08; beans, $9.10.; potatoes, $1.35; but-
ter, 480; eggs, 260.——F. D., Apr. 2.

St. Joseph—Wheat is greening up also
clover and grasses. A few farmers have
started to plow but all field work ”was
suspended on account of recent snow
storm. Snow about all gone again. 1928
chicks are beginning to arrive. Corn bor-
er cleanup has also started. .Livestock
looks well. Farmers complaining of poor
luck with lambs and pigs—A. J. Y,
Apr. 2.

Hillsdale (N. W.).—Election day. Quite
a. little interest about it amongneighbors.
Nice spring weather caught cold and we
had one of the hardest snow storms of
the winter, last week. » Some odd work
caught up while it was nice. Some farm-
ers drawing manure. Most of neighbors
getting anxious to sow cats. A few baby
chicks around neighborhood but not as
many as last year. Eggs are fair price
at 25c.—-C. I-I., Apr. 2. ..

Kent—Quite a large number of auc-
tions and well attended. Most farms are
rented in this county. Do not find vac-
ant farms. There are a. few changing
farms. Spring lambs beginning to arrive
and some good looking. Stock wintered
fairly well. Not many potatoes for sale.
Do not see any seed corn for sale. One
of the worst blizzards we have had in
1927-28 winter hit us Monday, March
25th. Wind was strong enough to tear
off large canvas from hay stack and carry
near a. mile. We also had several cold
days. Friday another cold blizzard hit
us, but cleared up; thawed out quick.
Cold nights, warm days. Sloppy under
foot. Everybody sorting seed potatoes
and replacing Worn parts in machinery.
Wheat and rye look very good, greening
up well. Quotations from Lowell: Pota—

thru on any spots- No "seridus crop ‘Tfi

dmweported.g' Seedgrain at sales bid
up far aboveinarket- quotations. Hard to j

get acreage for, beets”. ‘Ground suitable.
naturally fertile, '2 getting scarce. Some .

land changed owners; ‘Withou’t buildings. at , -

$25.00 per acre ;- on county road; appraised ,-
1926 at $50.00 per acre. ~Ordinary:taxes
$1.25 per acre. Ail-level'clay 100111.40 ;
years cleared. Quotations from Bad Axe:
Beans, $9.00; milk, $1.90.—E. R, Apr. 2.

Genesee.——-The snow is rapidly disap-
pearing that fellpd‘uring the storm lajst’
Friday. . The weather being now very
warm. Fields are too Wet for very much ‘
manure drawing. Dairy cattle are still
bringing high prices at auctions. Maple
syruphas been made in good quantitites.
Many farm families are buying their
spring chicks. Quotations from Flint:
Wheat, $1.54; corn, $1.00; oats, 700; rye.
$1.08; beans, $9.35; potatoes, $2.15; but-t
ter, 520; eggs, 30c.—H. 8., Apr. 2.

Shiawassee (N. W.).'——W8.rm rain last
night; roads in bad condition; sweet clov-.
er heaved very bad; other seeding good;
feed gettinig scarce. Big acreage of sweet
clover and eats intended; ground «too wet
to work, but every one ready as econ as
conditions‘permits..——G. L. P., Apr. 5.

 

CRAWFORD AGENT DIFB
. D. Bailey, county agricultural
agent in Crawford county since ,
July 1, 1921, died April 3. Mr. '2
Bailey was the owner of a farm near .
Gaylord, and the theories which he 3
preached to the farmers of Crawford .
county were carried into successful
practice on his own farm.
Mr. Bailey’s long residence in

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toes, $1.00; eggs, 25c.—S. K. W., Apr. 1.

Saginaw (S. E.).——Spring has come at
last. Several fine showers the past week
with more rain today. Ground very soft
and full of water. Frost about all out of
ground. Wheat looking green except
where ice and water killed it out on low
spots. Not much doing except chores and
repair work. Election over with, with a
heavy vote polled. Results did not im-
prove matters any here. Quotations from
Birch Run: Wheat, $1.54; corn, $1.00;
oats, 60c; beans, $9.60; potatoes, $1.10;
butter, 50c; eggs, 26c—E. C. M., Apr. 5.

Sanilac.——Farmers anxiously waiting
for ground to settle. Fine April showers.
Wheat looking fine. Good acreage was
sown here. No one likes to hear beans
mentioned; one wonders when they will
quit soaring. Hay scarcely worth bailing;
some will hold it over. Grass seed being
sown. Sweet clover cheap.» Roads very
bad. Repairing fences, trimming orchards
is about all that is being done here.
Quotations from Decker: Wheat, $1.56;
corn, 90c; oats, 65c; rye, $1.10; beans,
$9.50; potatoes, $1.10; butter, 600; eggs,
24c.—-A. C. McK., Apr. 5. -

Luce.—Farmers not doing much. Bring-
ing in a, few potatoes; $1.50. Eggs, 400;
butter 500. Snow nearly all gone in
clearings. Raining today for the first
this spring. Rivers not open yet so water
is high—Mrs. O. L., Apr. 5.

Midland—Heavy thunder storm we had
followed by fierce snow and wind storm
left ground in bad shape and still there
remains lots of snow. Nothing doing on
the direroads and that is why we have to
walk to town. Quotations from Midland:
Wheat, $1.54; corn, 90c; oats, 61c; rye,
$1.11; beans, $9.10; potatoes, 900; butter,
48c; eggs, 250.———B. V. 0., Apr. 1.

Montcalm.—Lots of moisture. Roads
have been almost impassable for cars.
We will all be glad when spring comes to
stay. Auctions quite numerous. Cattle
going high. Lots of flu and pneumonia
around here. Some seeding hurt to an ex—
tent. Quotations from Stantonz. Wheat,
$1.46; corn, 50c; oats, 600; rye, $1.00;
beans, $7.50. to $8.00; potatoes, $1.10;'"
butter, 50c; eggs, 23c.——Mrs. C. T., Apr. 2.

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The respondent was being examined in
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our March 3rd issue We pub-
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being born on a farm in Midland
county that weighed 13% pounds at
birth, and we asked our folks if any
of them could beat it. Could they?
Well, four of them came right back
at us and beat it four ways for Sun—
day. And now we are publishing
four more letters commenting on the
records established and giving some
more record weights. Are there any
more that we haven’t heard from?—
Editor.
O 0 3

Dear Editor: I note in M. B. F.
under heading “Some Heavy Lambs”
some extraordinary weights of lambs
at birth. Will say that John Cram-
ers’ buck lamb weighing 19 pounds
at birth is the heaviest that I ever
heard of. '

I also have a record hard to beat.
I had a. registered Hampshire ewe
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ing 14, 121/2 and 9 pounds reapec-
tively, making a total of 35%
pounds. I also had another Hamp-
shire ewe give birth to three weigh-
ing 301/2 pounds—E. F. Goodfellow,
Clinton County.

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Dear Editor: Was reading your
Dairy and Livestock in‘March 3lst
issue and noticed sbme fine i‘ecords
in regard to lambs, but I can go Mr.
Clemens, of Ogemaw county, one
better. Mr. Clezmens’ twin buck
lambs weighed 241/2, pounds when
born. On March 6th, 1927, one of
my Slhropshire ewes gave birth to
twin ewe lambs weighing 25%,
pounds at birth. Yours for fine sheep.
——H. W. Geiger, Ionia County.

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Dear Editor: We read about other
lambs so will tell you of our record.
How is this for a buck lamb? It
was born February 15th and weighed
20‘ pounds. On April lst it Weighed
51 pounds. We like the M. B. F.
very much..—J. E. Puncher, Allegan
County.

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Dear Editor: I note in the M. B. F.
about the weight of lambs. I have
a female lamb 21 days old that
weighs 35 pounds—John Zanto,
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EATON FARMERS FINISH FIFTH
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ANS KARDEL of the South
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A summary of the five years work
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were sold or disposed of as un-
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Evidence is again at hand that
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One of the leading herds has a feed
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income over feed cost was $167.00
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)am producmg 500 lbs. fa . Sire: Prize wmnmg
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38 head of cows and heifers, 7 young bulls.
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I am writing in regard to a horse
I have. I just bought this horse
and she seems very sore. I do not
know if it is in her feet or in her
shoulder. Could you tell me the best
thing to do for her, it it is in her
feet, or what to do if it is her shoul-

der?-——L. T., Lyons, Mich.

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will do this as well as anything, or
tying an old burlap sack around each
foot and keeping it wet with cold
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working it.

WARTS AND RING WORKS
Can you tell me what is good for
warts on cows’ teats? What is good
for ring worms on cows? I bought
a cow at a sale and she has two sores
on her face, I think they are ring
worms—B. L., St. Charles, Mich.
IVE this cow a tablespoonful of
Fowlers’ solution of arsenic
night and morning on the feed,
and paint the teats with the same
solution after each milking. For the
ring worms either tincture of iodine
or mercurochrome two per cent solu-
tion, painted on once each day will
bring about a cure in a few days.

FEED TANKAGE AND BONEMEAL
We have eight pigs thirteen weeks
old that are eating good but don’t
move around much. They are lame
and we notice their toes are turn-
ing black. One of them turns its
front feet under when it walks. We
have been feeding them middlings
and milk. We also gave them a
bath but them don’t seem any better.
We would like to know what we
could do for these pigs.—G. R...
Cedar Springs, Mich.
ET some tankage and with each
G one hundred pounds of it mix
fifteen pounds of bonemeal;
give pig one quarter pound of this
mixture night and morning in the
milk you are now using. Also give
each pig a tablespoonful of cod liver
oil. Give this night and morning
also. Give them a small bunch of
alfalfa or clover hay each day if
you have it. Your pigs have rickets,
and the only thing to do is to make
these changes in their feeding.
Please report how long it takes 'to
bring about recovery in them.

BREWER HOLSIEINS MAKE
RECORD
W0 pure bred Holstein cows
owned by Joseph H. Brewer of
Grand Rapids, have just com-
pleted very creditable records for
butter and milk production.

Celia Cornucopia Segis produced
28.44 pounds of butter and 608.3
pounds of milk in seven consecutive
days.

Blythefield Canary Nig Cornucopia
produced 29.67 pounds of butter and
638.3 pounds of milk.in seven con-
secutive days. Her best day was
96.4 pounds of milk. If a. pint is a.
pound the world around, this cow
produced nearly one hundred pints
of milk in one day. The tests were
conducted by an official of the dairy
husbandry department of Michigan
State College. The two cows mak-
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herd to be sold at public auction
April 18th at West Michigan‘ State
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1927, show for the Larrvaed Holstein herd of
Guy S. Reed, Summit Station, Pennsylvania.

The average production per cow was 10,809 lbs. milk,

353.1

That’s the kind of evidence to go by when selecting
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profit left over when the feed bill is paid.

Even if Larro should cost more than your present
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feed enough pounds of Larm as it is light and bulky.
You’ll find it is more than just a milk producer. It

keeps

dition. It makes them live longer and make more
money for you at the same time than any other
ration you can feed.

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specialist aLthe New Jersey College . .

. Everlasting atten-.-

' tion to every detail should be' the

rule of the range during the sum-s.

of Agriculture.

mer months. .
“The growing birds must have a

constant supply of fresh water and

sufficient mash hopper space must be
provided,” says Mr. Black. “Mesh
is responsible for maximum growth
and it should be always available. If
the birds will not eat sufficient mash
in the houses, place some sheltered
hoppers on the. range:

“Our twovgreat disease troubles,
coccidiosis and intestinal worm in-
fections, can be controlled only
through sanitation. Clean and dis-
infect the houses frequently. That
flies are Spreaders of tape-worms
cannot be overlooked and every ef-
fort should be made to discourage
their presence on the range. Don’t
allow rubbish and manure piles to
accumulate, for they furnish ideal
breeding places for this pest. Treat
the manure piles liberally with hy-
drated lime.

“Finally, attempt to adjust the
mash and grain ratio so that the pul-
lets do not come into production .too
early. Aim to allow five months
for the growing period of Leghorn
pullets. Then, before they come into
a heavy lay or when they are laying
about 10 per cent on range, move
them to the laying pens and endeavor
to get them in prime condition by
feeding scratch grain heavily. Rest
assured that the careand pains thus
taken will be repaid, and that a
flock of well-grown, healthy pullets
is not only a source of profit but also
of deep satisfaction.”

CHATTING WITH THE AGRI-
CULTURAL TEACHER

(Continued from Page 23)

six months old on present feed prices.
He sells the hog at six months of age
weighing two hundred pounds at
eight cents per pound; how much
money does the man make or lose?
I think this is a fairly good problem
and I’ll wager a good number of old
timers couldn’t work it. The class
had very little difficulty with it and
I’ll give you the answer as one boy
found it. He is a farm boy from
Owosso, who’s name is Byron Jones,
and a bright young fellow, who will
some day make a real farmer. '
From two to four months of age
he fed the following ration: eight
pounds middlings; six pounds barley
feed, eighteen pounds skimmed milk;
two and one—half pounds tankage
and thirty pounds of corn. He fig-

ured the hog an average weight of.

eighty pounds for that period.

From four to six months of age.

he fed the following ration: six
pounds middlings; four pounds barley
feed; fifteen pounds skimmed milk;
one and one—half pounds tankage
and twenty—five pounds of corn. He
figured the hog an average weight of
one hundred fifty pounds for the
second period.

The rations balance according to
feeding standards, and are the
amount of feed for one thogsand
pounds of live weight for twenty-four
hours. The following prices Were
used which are a trifle low in some
cases.’ Middlings two dollars per
hundredweighlt;
five cents per bushel; skimmed milk
twenty-five cents per hundredweight;
tankage four. dollars and fifty cents
per hundredweight; corn seventy
cents per bushel. Cost of feed at the
above prices equals nine dollars and
two cents. Total cost of pig equals
fourteen dollars and two cents.
Total profit, one dollar and ninety—
eight cents.

This problem of courSe is not per-
fect, but I should call it very good
for a high school boy and it goes to
show the kind of work being accom-
plished in the agricultural schools.
The problem does not include cost of
labor, insurance, etc., but from these

figures we can at least conclude that -
if the price of hogs does not raise ,

we shall be forced to drive our old
car another 17923. ‘

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EAR EDITOR: — In a recent is—r

sue I see that a subscriber from

Rhodes wants to know what to,

do for lice on sheep. Not having
his name, I will refer the subject to
the paper. If they will buy Black
Flag powder at any drug store, and
rub it intd the wool or hair that-
oughly, down the back and tail,
around the ears and under the legs
of any animal infested with any kind
of vermin such as lice, mites, etc.,
they will soon be free from the pest.
May have to apply more than once.
You can drive fleas from any dog
with one application. Put him onto
a paper and see them drop ofl. Rub
it in well to the skin.. It is entirely
harmless to animals, but do not get
it into the eyes. This Black Flag
'powdervis useful in' many ways, and
will eliminate bedbugs, after the
room is cleaned, and prevent return
of the pests, by sprinkling all over
the springs and mattress and where-
ever they might be. Also throw
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with perforated top. Other insects
are killed by the first application.
Also good for moths in furniture or
rugs. .

Here is another pointer that might
prove useful some way. Instead of
Castor oil for young stock, use olive
oil. Get it at the grocery. It is the
best for the smaller animals, and
fine for kidneys and bladder. Also
for stomach and bowels. More of an
”all around medicine for them, and
less powerful. Cheaper besides. This
is the best thing for your dog and
cats if they need care. For distemp<
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pets are difficult hings'to doctor.

Put it on their foo .—C. Hyde, Saint

Joseph County.

WHITE WONDER BEAN

EAR EDITORz—I read in a re‘
cent issue of a farmer asking
about the White Wonder bean.

I wish to express. an opinion. We
raised some for the first time last
year. They were‘ a very nice bean
and had a good [yield for the season,
as we had a very poor bean year. I
counted sixty pods on one stalk. No
pod had less than .five and six beans
in it. They were two or three weeks
earlier than some other kinds. They
were planted June 19, 1927, and
commenced harvesting September
19. " Could have harvested one
week earlier but the weather was so
dry and hot. They were the nicest
beans we ever raised. Had about
4% acres and got 54 bushels.
Some drowned out. They were not
on very gobd land. —-E. J. K., Caro,
Mich.

WANTS LETTER ON SOY BEANS

EAR EDITOR: ——Would like to
have some one send in their ex-
perience raising soy beans for

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County. . ,
Nothing age- five his husky brave

' men (2) Walked up in front of Mrs.

Taylor's home. and tour of then
waited in the read while the hero of
the group went on into Mrs. Taylor’s
yard amid shot some of
«her turkeys from out of a tree where
they were roosting. Mr. Hero start-
ed to pick up the turkeys and make

his departure when Mrs. Taylor ap-‘

peared on the scene. Then things
began to happen. Five men ran up
the road, across a. field and on into
the woods where they were camping,
all because one woman full of cour-
age and righteous indignation, was
as close on their heels as she could
be——and reports have it that Mrs.
Taylor is some runner.

She finally overtook two of the
men and asked them their names
and where they lived; These brave
fellows soon told her where she
could go, as far as their names and
addresses were concerned, and that
she could start there at once. But
Mrs. Taylor didn't feel Inclined to
follow their instructions—she was
going. {to lead this little band of out-
laws herself and if they didn’t want
to talk to her why she knew of some.-
one they would talk to.

Mrs. Taylor took the license num-
bers from their ears. then rushed to
a nearby telephone and called three
neighbors who hurried to the scene
just in time to block their cars across
the only road of escape for the
thieves. In. this manner they held
the men until Sherifl' Kanehl arrived.
The Sheriff didn’t lose any time but
immediately hauled the men into
Court where they pleaded. guilty.
Every mother’s son of them were
given a heavy fine and finally sent on
their way much wiser for their ex-
perience with one woman they
couldn’t bluff for a mhmte.

We are happy indeed to pay Mrs.
Taylor one of our $50 rewardn Mr.
Taylor was sick at the time of the
robbery and the burden of "carrying
cm” was left entirely upon Mrs. Tay-
lor’ s shoulders. We know that these
five thieves together with 99, 999
other readers of. anmmss Fm
will agree that Mrs. Taylor was more
than capable ot carrying the load
during, her husband’s illness. If we
had more women and men too, it you
please, like Mrs. Wesley Taylor, it
wouldn’t be long before rural thieves
in Michigan ceased their operations.
The moral of this little story is——
how far would you go out of your
way to chase a group of chicken
thieves? We have plenty of folks
who are willing to talk about it, but
there is a noticeable shortage of
folks like Mrs. Taylor who “do”
something about it. Think it over.
——Robert J. McC'olgan.

HOW TO FASTER BROKERS
S SOON as the coekerels can be
identified, they should be. sep-
arated from the pallets and fed
for growth until two or three weeks
before they are to ,be. marketed.
Strict attention should be given to
water supply, range and shade. It
pays also to keep the water con-
tainers clean, as a means. of avoid.-
ing spread of disease. To get the
most for them they should he mar—

. keted in a well finished condition.

Feed the following ration: so pounds

. of cornmeal and 40 pounds of. red

dog flour, moistened with sour skim-
milk or buttermilk. This mixture
may be fed twice. a day (morning and
noon). Start. feeding as much of
these feeds as they will elm up in

[ about 15 minutes at a feed. Gradu-

ally increase the amount until on the

3 fourth day they have enough to keep

them busy tor halt an hour. The-
evening teed my consist of cracked
corn which has been soaked in skim—
milk or buttermilk for a to! hours.

In eight to twelve days when the -

birds begin to show a lock of appe-
tite, they should be mad or
slaughwtered

It hardly pays the poultry raiser
to attempt ante fattening. confine
to pens and man yards for the last
two weeks—The Farmer. -

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The kind that win and lay. .5 per 15 eggs.
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IMPERIAL WHITE PEKIN DUCK EGGS, $1.50
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TURKEYS AND GEESE

WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS WILL PAY

your taxes in December and interest on the
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pay more profit than any two cows. Easier to
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Trapnesting 400 birds under Record of Perform-
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BABY CHICKS FROM KILLBOURN'S CERTI-
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New York state egg laying contest, for weight of
Over 700 birds entered in this 'ears .
. Also Michigan Accredited iuff and
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Kilbourn Poultry Farm. Flint. Mich.

CHICKS. WE HAVE HAD .EIGHTEEN YEARS

experience in hatching chicks of, standard va-
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Write for prices. S ecial discount on five hundred
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MYERS PURE BRED CHICKS 1009/6 LIVE
delivery.‘ Postage‘pre aid, four leading breeds,
White Leiguorns White \ yandottes, Barred Rocks.
R. I Re s.1“locks bred for efi production, send
Myers Hatchery. 1:. Pleasant. Mich.

 

 

 

for circular.

COFFMAN’S BARRED ROCKS. BREEDING

pens headed With males haying nineteen years
actual trap nests records back of them, 258-310
eggs per year. Cockerels, Eigs and Chicks for sale.
Warren Cotfman. Benton larbor, Mich., R. 1.

WHITTAKER'S REDS. BOTH COMBS. GRADE

A. R. O. I’ Trapnestcd. Grade B, Michigan
Certified. Michigan‘s Greatest Color and Egg
Strain. Chicks and Eggs. Catalog Free. In-
terlakes Farm, Box 2, Lawrence. Mich.

BARRED ROCK CHICKS OF THE BETTER

grade our specialty; Michigan Accredited. Strong
and husky; Bred-To-Lay strains. Reasonably priced.
Order now, insuring April delivery. Iiowes Ac-
redited Hatchery. Essexville, Mich.

BETTER BABY CHICKS FROM STATE FAIR
Winners production class. Eightilper cent of

 

 

 

 

(fiur kchidbsrdgos to old customers.W Ecveii tbiiefidiii
00 mg er . ivm rices. ' . ’
Hatchery, Litchfleld. Mich). n e l c e

 

8. C._W. ENGLISH LEGHORN CHICKS, APRIL

delivery $10.00 per .100” iscount on orders
of 500 or more. Satisfaction and live delivery
fliersanteed. Henry Waterway, Holland, Mich,

HEYBOER’S POULTRY FARM a HATCHERY

Algonac, Mich. \Vhite Leghorns and Barred
rocks baby chicks for sale of stock that is bred for
reduction, all breeders being trap-nested. Send
or catalogue and prices.

BABY CHICKS. SEND FOR OUR CATALOGUE

and price list, before you buy anywhere else.
We have Barred Rocks, White Leghorns. Ben
Archery Poultry Farm and Hatchery, Hart, Mich.

CHICKS—GENUINE ENGLISH WHITE 'LEG-

horns, overlaying’combs and non-setters. Barred
Bocks‘ 203-233 records. _See display adv. Hill-
3ide‘1iatchery, Holland, Mich.

 

 

 

 

BUFF LEGHORN CHICKS AND EGGS FOR ’

hatching: Circular. Hillcrest Poultry Farm,

Bath . Michigan.

BABY CHICKS—ROCKS, REDS AND
horns. Each week, beginning Feb. 13

sock bloodtested and M1 . Accredited.
tchery. Jeromer Mich. w. , ,. . .

 

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Pierce

   

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DAY OLD TURKEYS—RAISE IN BROODER

_house or try chicken lien. Easily raised as
chickens. Return five times the profit.
Bronze and \Vliite Hollands. $1.00 ea
prices on more than fifty poults. Eggs for Hatch-
ing. ' Pine Creek Turkey Roost, Route 4, Holland,
Michigan, .

EDGEWOOD GIANT BRONZE—EGGS FROM
large _hardy northern turkeys. Sires Winners at
International, including largest tom exhibited. Mrs.

 

REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED SEED CORN

Clement's white .cap yellow dent, Pickett's
yellow dent and Michigan yellow dent (a very
early dent). Certified \Vorthy oats and sweet
clover. Why kc a chance on common seed when
our scientific method of drying and preparing our
corn insures germination and vigor, \Vrite for cir-
cular and sample. Paul C. (llcmcnt, Britton,
Michigan. Membcr of the Crop Improvement As-
sociation. Dcpt.

IMPROVED REID'S YELLOW DENT SEED
corn, high germination. 95%. $3.50 per
bushel. M. G. Stollcr, l'aulding, Ohio.

REIDS YELLOW DENT, KRUG, DeWALLS 100

Day. Grown from disease free scci for five
years. Nubbcd shelled and graded. '3.:,0. Gcrin-
inalion {Vi-100%. Guaranteed. .Folder free. De
\Vall Seed Co. Growers, Gibson City, 111.

SEED CORN—NORTHWESTE RN DENT, FLINT,

Armstrong, Golden Jewel and Minnesota Thir-
teen. 95% test. Price, 2.50. Frank Stcoh—
brlin, “'agner, S. D

SEED CORN, CLEMENTS WHITE CAP, MICH-
igan Yellow Dent. $4.00, satisfaction guaran—
tccd. “'i'itc John Mitchell, Holloway, Mich.

CERTIFIED SEED CORN, CLEMENT’S WHITE
(Jiip Yellow Dent grown in Livingston county.
James Catrell, Gregory, Mich.

CLOVER SEED FOR SALE—MEDIUM AND
Mammoth, $19.00 per bushel, free from nov-

 

 

 

 

 

 

oiis weeds. Alsikc, $17.00. Alsike and Liltlc
white clover about 1/2 mixture, $13.00 pcr 1m.
Timothy seed. ”2.50 Manchu ‘Soy Beans, $2.;i0,

Canadian variegated Alfalfa. 3%.. . pcr bushel
Idaho blackfoot lriinni Alfalfa in scaled bags,
bags free, $24.50. Northwestern Alfalfa. $15.00.
All Alfalfa 99.50 purity and better. ags, 5c
'cach. M. G. Stollcr, Paiilding, Ohio.

CERTIFIED IMPROVED ROBUST SEED BEANS

Choice in every respcct. One to nine bushels,
nine dollars bu., tcn or over, eight scvcnty-firc.
Bags free and freight prepaid Michigan on ordcrs
rcccived before May. .I\ccci'itiince of your clicck
insnrcs dclivery by; May 15th. No checks cashed

 

 

 

 

 

our selection. assorted, for one dollar, prepaid any-
where iii Lnited States. Northern Michigan grown,
full of pep. producing wonderful flowers. Catalogue
of one hundred varieties sent with order. ()ottrells
Dahlia Gardens, Route 5, Traverse City, Mich.

 

Edgar Case, Benzonia. Mich. before May. A. Cook, ()wosso, Mich.
PURE-BRED BOURBON RED TURKEYS AND SWEET CLOVER SEED WHITE BLOSSOM
_ eggs in season. F. J. Chapman, Nortlivillc, cleaned Scarificd Germination and purity gnar-
Micliigan. antced 95 %. $0 bushel. Monroe Bros. Essex-
: ville, Mich.
BULBS NEW YORK GROWN SEED— WELLS! LIGHT
rcd Kidney beans, disease-resistant, productive
strain. Two yczirs‘ successful demonstration in
DAHLIA BARGAINS—25 TUBERS, RED, Michigan. ()fl‘icial Refcrcnces. “'ritc for sample
white, pink, yellow, purple. Named Varieties. and DUNS. 1‘}. F. l’lullliihl‘eY. lra, '- Y-

 

SCIENCE AND PRACTICE DEMONSTRATE IM-

proved American Banner wheat. ,“Yoilverine oats.
Improved ohnst'beans best for Michigan. A. B.
Cook, Owosso, Mich.

 

 

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I am always glad when it comes.

pure Yellmin-ieen, Lavender Rose Oban, Rod
and ‘Vi’liite, Midnight Black. Red Delica. White—
shadiiig Pink. 2 each of above collection, $1.00
prepaid. 1201‘s. Ben]. Peters, Saginaw, Micli., Gratiot

 

12 ASSORTED DAHLIAS 75c, ASSORTED
Glad'iolas 25 large 50c, 25 blooming size 25c.
Tiger lilies each 15c. Postpaid. John Nelson. R. 1,

Cadillac, Mich.

 

 

SEEDS

CERTIFIED WOLVERINE OATS. BRIGHT
heavy melding. Prompt shipment. Free samples.
Davenport Terry & Son, Cliesaning, Mich.

SEED CORN. CERTIFIED STANDARD VARI-
cties. Northern grown, fire dried, thoroughly
tested, guaranteed. Monro Brown Seed (30., Bay

 

 

 

City. “'15.
REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED GOLDEN
Glow Seed Corn. Germination 96%. in—

spected and. certified by Michigan Crop Improve-
ment Assocmtion. Write for circular. Lawrence
Cromer, Charlotte, Mich., R. 9.

SEED CORN—DUNCAN YELLOW DENT. REG-
}stered and certified. E, York, Three Rivers.
Mich., Route 4.

 

 

REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED SEED CORN
Polar Yellow dent and Jewett Yellow flint. Reg—
istered grade $17.00 per bu, 56 lbs. shelled apd
graded. Certified grade $0.00 per bu. 11...!
from Polar yellow dent for eiisilagc, $3.50 per
bu. Arthur W. Jewett, Jr., Mason, Michigan.

GOLDEN GLOW SEED CORN THAT WILL
please you. Grown from rc. lstered seed, field
selected before cut. racked. arti cial and air dried,
shelled, graded, germ 98. Price $5.00 bushel, two
groi‘nom $4.15 Iliushel. Reineitnlierlwe zen wlgit we
, guaran eet as re irescn e . to] G. olliii,
Mt. Pleasant, Mich, H. 8. p

FOR SALE—REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED
Golden Glow Seed Corn. Germination 97%.

 

 

.Iirifipected by Michigan Crop Improvement Associa—
:M' .

Write for circular. P. A. Smith, Mulliken,

10.

“IT SURE DOES THE WORK!"

Just a few lines to let you know that your paper cannot be beat.

 

l third day after paper was out—Otto H. Romper-t, Tawas City, Mich.

My alfalfa seed is pretty well sold out so you can mail me your bill
for advertising.—A. F. Longpi-c, Curran, Mich.

 

It sure does the work. Sold dog

 

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DAHLIAS—PARTHAS WARM RED VICTORA, ‘ SWEET CLOVER SEED—YELLOW BLOSSOM.

\\'liiie Blossom and Grundy 7(‘o. $0.00 pcr

 

 

 

 

 

 

bnslicl, bags 45 cents each. M. G. Stoller, Pauld—

iiig, Ohio.

NORTHERN GROWN CERTIFIED WHITE
Rural Seed Potatoes. Good stock. 1“. D. Shunt

way, Buckley, Michigan.

STRAWBERRY ANTS—DUNLUP 1000—
53.50; Big Jim rcinier Coopcr 1000———$3.00;

500 $3.77. (‘uinbcrlzind Raspberry 1000~—

$11.00. Fred Sliiiilcy, Bangor, Mich.

ELDORADO BLACKBERRIES—THE BEST

surcst crop and most profitable knmmeelooo

for $13.00. 100 for $2.00. (il'lillf‘chlH‘S‘ 1011‘10'0
ycnr for $1.00. li'it'lccii one your 3. 1.00. Luigbt
kinds. red. white, blue. 100 two ycnr S 1.1”)

Special low priccs on 1000. l‘lvcryibing to plant.
Big Nursci'y. List l-‘rec. Prestige Nurseries, A!—
lcgziii, Michigan.

EVERGREENS—SIX TRANSPLA‘NTED TREES
$1.00‘~two Juniper. ‘_’ Arbor-Min. ‘._’ Sprncc.

 

All 0 to 12 inches. ”only. grow :inywlicrc. any
soil. Hcrcii eithcr kind $1.00. Bcst bargain of
year. Other kinds all sixcs. Sure to live. Ship—
pcd right. (lct acquainted List frcc. Prcslagc

Nurseries, Allegan, Michigan.

 

THE BEST IN CERTIFIED RASPBERRIES,

Blackberries, Striiwbcrrics. (loosebei'rics. (lrnpcs.
Cherries, Apples, Asparagus. Rhubarb, Ornament:
als. \Vlint varictics do you want? llow many!
get our prices. llarris Cross Nurseries, Bangor,
Iicli.

 

STRAWBERRY PLANTS—TWENTY-FIVE VAt-
' ’ 1.

riches. Finest plants grown. \Vc prove
Mastadon Big new I‘in‘l‘DCtll't‘I‘——]00 for $23.50.

Champion Everbearing Best lliijored strawberry in

all the world—.100 for Slum. 100 Premier
(June) for $1.00—1000 for $0.00. 100 “zir-
field and 100 Dunlop for $1.00. 1000 $4.00.

Complete Nursery list—everything to

Order now. . .
Prestnge Nursery, Allegan, Michigan.

plant free.

 

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With The Business Farmer now reachln ' - ' v
‘ , 8‘ nearly a, hundrd thousand subscribers, ..
. there Is an unlimited market for all kinds of goods, supplies and equipment used

There Is practically no limit to the variety of offerings 'that appear in this do-

why-everybody reads them. ' .
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NUT. CROPS—FROM GRAFTED

'bl‘lllg big money. Better than life
this ad. to bring our instructive
catalog to you immediately.
Nut Tree Nurseries,

_NUT TREES
insuruncc. Use
1 land“cdulilntiomil
‘ . 0 iii '. ‘r'l . .
Downingtown, Pa. L 5 fly

PLANTS—STRAWBERRIES $3.00, 1,000: 100

 

 

 

Mastodons, $2.00 Itusl)bel'ripg Bl l -kl ‘ p .- ..
Grapes. ‘vllnh‘snli ”Ci .' ‘ ,., ‘ it Vlblllts,
Three Oaks, Mich," 1 cc list. (lilICllPdi Nursiry,
100 MASTODON EVERBEARING

“'orld‘s Largcst Strawbcrries. $1'75'

. Last Chance.
l\ew Biifi’alo, Mich.

PLANTS

Order Today. Edwin Li'bke,

 

D. FROST PROOF CABBAGE AND ONION

 

 

 

O. 0.
Plants. Quick shipments All Vii" t' ff
,_ .. . . i '
me, 1,000. $1.00 Farmers Plant 50.],6Tifltciii: '
COPENHAGEN, WAKEFIELD FLA '
fi'oslproof ('nbbngc plants. $1.00, {009191-1253 ‘
Elluln Onion. 1.( ‘ Tomato, $1.00; (lollzird
.’1. ; .ubgy hing Pepper, $2.00; l’orto Bil-Ii
lotato, $1.in. Good plants. czircfully packed.

Prompt shipments.

llitlll’lll Pl ‘ .
l-enrgni. Q . ant (,o., Quitman,

 

MY FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS WILL ‘

make licaded cabbage tbrcc, wccks before your ‘4
home grown_plants. l makc prompt shipments all ' ‘3
lending varieties. Post paid 500. $1.50; 1000 ‘
$~nlih luxprcss $2.00. 1000. Spccial prices ori ‘
1;?th qui'i‘iiitittiesl. Tolllllltfl) and pcppcr plants same

.. rs cass inns, r o.‘ "2 ' ‘ “
P. I). Fulwood, 'I‘iftion, (1a. 0 ta “1 mp“! m moss.

 

 

SEND NO MONEY. C. 0. D. FROST
) (‘abbzigc 'zind Onion Plants. All vfi’rfiggf 3"
lroinpt shipment 5300, (37m: 1,000, 1.00. 1

Standard Plant (‘o., Tiflon, (in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LIVESTOCK

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HEREFORD STEERS FOR SALE 2 C A5
avgivcragfpgj? lbs.) 10!; zivcriigc 020 lbs. A5181 '5;
‘age I i is. 1. cars All 2‘ '~ s. ' ' A;
oi‘licrs. John ('nrrow, ()li::llfil':l,h(i:(1i:il. lxnow 0E ..
GUERNSEY ORt FIOLlSTEIN HEIFER CALVES. ’1
, ,rcu inc. . . s. ' l ' ' ‘
li‘cvni. \Vhitcwai‘gru“'isilm’ed L. 0. D. Lakewood , +
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TOBACCO

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GUARANTEED HOMESPUN TOBACCO—CHEW-
a ing 5 pounds. $1.25; 107$; Smoking 10-
.. l.o0. 1pc frcc! l'iiy postman. United Farin-

ci's. Bzi rd well. Kcntucky.

TOBACCO: KENTUCKY SWEETLEAF.

low, Aged. Smoking 10 pounds $1.40.
31.4.». Pay when i'cccived.
l'ryorsburg, Kentucky.

MACHINERY

FOR. SALE MONITOR
.(Il‘lll nearly ncw.
Michigan.

 

MEL- W;
> (Tliciving
Ixcntucky Farmers.

 

 

 

 

‘ ROW SUGAR BEET
1.. O, Bately, Pennville,

PET STOCK

MAKE. BIG PROFITS WITH CHINCHILLA
Biilibits. Rciil money makers. \‘l’rite for facts.
SR-l (onrzid’s Ranch, Denver, (‘olorado.

 

 

 

 

WHY WORRY ABOUT CHICKEN THIEVES'."
Buliriiy‘Iachrmaii Police puppy. ll. S. Peter.
r., . ic l.

 

PURE-BRED FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS, UN-
4.50.

 

 

 

related pair, 3 months 011. L ‘
Norton, Three Rivers, Mich.,(R. $3. eonard.
‘9
REGISTERED PERCHERON STUD COLT,
coining :2 years old. A good one. Arlo l'l.
Bash. lv'orcst. ()liio.

 

 

HELP WANTED

TEACHERS 'FOR SUMMER MONTHS: VALU-
nblc iczicbiiig crpcricncc. Must be able to
work AVIHIUIIIJ supcrvmion; loynl. coiiscicntious and
:iinbitioiis; generous salary. \Vi‘ile I'lduculors As—
sociation, Francis Palms Bldg, Detroit, Mich.

MISCELLANEOUS

BUY DIRECT FROM MAUFACTURERS. ONE
l):ll‘l‘(,‘l dishes. Not less than 100 pieces. ('on—
tains not less than 1;! cups. saucers. all s cs plates,
ontniciils, saucc dishes, plattcr, sugar, crcainer.
ctc.. $5.50 Factory imperfections. Sonic on
decorated. $9.00. Barrels unlimited. If freight
is over $1.00, we pay the difference. Sliiiped
frcc from our warehouses, Boston or New lork.
l'nitcd (‘liiiiii, Inc., Dept. 440, Boston, Mass.

“EVERY-DAY-PAY-DAY—PLAN”——
why worry? You can make $30 bi
distributing “'hitincr Products to
your friends. Experience unnccessary. “'e teach
you how free. Earn while learning. Team and
wagon or car needed. Write ’l‘-U~D>A-Y for arm~
ers‘ "Every-Day»Pay—Day-Plnn.” The II. C. VVhit<
incr Company, Earnibcpt. 0A, Columbus, Indiana.

 

 

 

 

 

FA RME RS’
Mr. Farmer,
$130 weekly

 

300 FULL SIZE, UNRULED LETTER HEADS
_nnd 300 good white envelopes, all neatly printed
with name. address and business. Two Dollars.
postpaid. Suitable for Farmer. Business Man and
all others. Money back if wanted. Shipping tags,
Statements. (Bards. etc.. equally low prices. The
Braytons, Freeport, Mich.

FARMERS WOOL MADE INTO BLANKETS,
batting and yarn at fair prices. Send‘ for-c1rrn1- ..

lrs.. Monticello “’oolen Mills, (Estab. 1800).

l\ onticello, \Visc. ’- V -

EARN as A DAY GATHERING EViERG'REENS. .. ‘
:roots. herbs. Booklet free. _Bontaiiical 6r,

 

 
     
 

 
  
   
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
     
  
 
 

 

 

CAN YOU SELL HOUSE PAINT- AT $1.98 BER ' .
gallon .and barn paint at $1.30? Lowest DI‘ICBS"‘““‘
In , merica. Beat all competition, deal;ers;.and ~
mai order houses. Money back guaranteefto
every .. customer. . .Experience unnecessary, - no“ (19.- .
livering orrcollecting. .Just talk to propett own-t
ers, about these low prices. $50163; ' 0,
easily made. Check mail you each ..‘ .
at once for Free Sales tflt. with ,
formation. oFarm & Home Paint 00..
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We have had this Question
asked time after time. The an-
swer is simple: “Hens don’t need
any more than they eat.”

THE PROOF IS HERE

Maryland t Station in comparing
Lime Stone with Oyster Shell found: “The Limestone pen consumed
43% less material but laid 20% more eggs.”

"Limestone can be safely used as the sole source of Calcium for growing chicks
and laying hens.‘
Kentucky Experiment Statlol found that Limestone Grit produced by far the
most eggs and the hens ate much less of the grit, thus making a gain both ways.
PEARL GRIT ls Carefully Selected Limestone. It is clean and health-

f 111 It 18 pure limestone, high 1n Calcium. It furnishes the

necessar egrindi action 1n the gizzard, also insures ample suppl of Calcium for
bone artie sitiei strilicturfef. At small atmoupt Ofljt will V123 as muc (Food as larger
amoun s 0 gm rpm ess e ec 1ve ma er1a s ess gri 0 an more eggs to
sell"' is borne out in actual practice when you use PEAR GIUT.
Made in three sizes: For Chicks. Growing Birds and Laying Hens.

THE OHIO MARBLE COMPANY
PIQUA, 01110
We Have Dealers Everywhere. Ask Your Dealer

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ow ooi May and June Orders

Placing Your Order Now Insures Delivery

HOLLYWOOD WHITE LEGHORNS

MICHIGAN ACCREDITED

Large size, produc tie on type, egg bred Icghorns. Known Layers and Profit Payers. Producing
largt real “’1 HITE 144.8 lrolific producers in winter as well as in other months. A Popular
Bree for Commercial Egg Farms, as the eggs command premium prices on leading egg markets.

Our Contest Pullets during January this year produced eggs averaging 25 ounces to the dozen.

Ineal Customer reports over $3. 00 per bird profit and had best grade of eggs at the local
‘3' producers association, which has a membership of about 400 farmers.

We have PURE HOLLYWOOD LEGHORNS and HOLLYWOOD MATEO LEGHORNS at
prices that are right.

BARRED ROCKS AND ANCONAS

Two very popular breeds Order at once for May and June delivery
Our supply of these is limited. All Michigan Accredited from choicest
breeding stock.

“e guarantee Live Delivery and Pay the Postage. Will ship

0. O. D. Write for our Catalog which explains our stock in detail.
WYNGARDEN FARMS & HATCHERY
Zeeland Box B Michigan

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
      

Rural “Gold Seal” Clhicks are making a record of profit performance.
Their story of abundant, large sized, pure white eggs, is boldly written
in the bank books of our Customers.

See our page ad in this paper’s special issue of Mar. 31

Tells how Rural “Gold Seal” Chicks were developed, Explains our
Easy Buying Terms, tells of our FREE OFFER and our Special Low

Prices.
Furthermore, Rural’s Ironclad Guarantee protects you, and assures

you of receiving quality bred Chicks.

BUY AT THESE LOW PRICES

Bural “Gold Seal” Commercial Grade Hollywood Foundation S. C. “lhggtz’lreghorns.

“3103230 $57 50 $110.00
$8.00 PAY ONLY ONE CENT

Assorted Chicks, in any
quantity. per 100 - - PER CHICK DEPOSIT

Pay the Postman the Balance When He Delivers Vom- chicks

Rural Poultry Farm

BOX 4-! ZEELAN'D, anemone:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

    
    

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V 3 used to
brooding of chick; should
portable and placed on ground

where chicks have not been raised

for at least three previous seasons.

The house should be thoroughly

cleaned, swept, scrubbed with soap

and water, and flooded with a good
disinfectant. In setting - up the
broader stove, the ‘chimney should
be cleaned and replaced with new
pipe if ncessary, a damper placed in
the pipe and the temperature regu-
lated so that‘s. uniform temperature
of from 85 to 95 degrees is main—
tained at a distance one inch above
the floor, two to four inches outside
of the outside rim of the canopy.

One limited warm area should be

provided where the chicks can go to

get warm and they should be re-
quired to eat and exercise in a cool

room, outside in the sun, or in a

part of the house removed from the

hover where the temperature does
not exceed 65 to 70 degrees“

 

PROFIT AND HAPPINESS FOUND
WITH POULTRY

(Continued from Page 4)

but found out that the commercial
egg mash was just as good, and a lot
better mixed, and saved him all of
that time and extra work. The
layers get all they want of this dry
mash, and every other day get a good
meal of moist mash, with cod liver
oil in it. It is fed at the rate of
three pints to each 200 birds, mixed
in about twelve quarts of mash with
hot water. Commercial scratch,
grain, is fed at four o’clock in the
afternoon, all they will eat then,
with some left in the straw for early
morning. The electric lights are
turned on by an alarm clock at from
3:30 to 4:30 a. m., according to the
time of the year, and the daylight.
The working day of the birds is
about 14 hours. From 10 to 12
pounds of grain is fed to each 100
hens.

The Eichelbergers started in elev-
on years ago with just $200. 00. They
were in debt for their farm, for the
hen house, for just about everything.
But that hen intended for the Sun-
day dinner had given them a real
vision of work they knew they would
like. Maybe their dreams were a
bit high, for a profit of a dollar per
month per hen is only found by he-
ginners, with a good pencil and a
big sheet of paper.

“But today,” says Eichelberger,
“we are independent, we have made
some money, and love our work,, as
is is a real pleasure." That is a
combination it is impossible to beat,
it is a real pleasure.” That is a
both in the same job.

As we looked at their pretty and
modern 'bungalow, their fine hen
house in the midst of the orchard,
the well—kept lawn, and saw the
smiles on the faces of the partner
owners of Oakland Hills Poultry
Farm, we couldn't help thinking
they owed a. whole lot to the hen.
Rather than follow the so-called
called “blue bird of happiness” it
looks like a better bet to follow the
hen.

GROWING 54 BUSHELS OF
WHEAT TO THE ACRE

(Continued from Page 6)

so independent that we are not at
home when the farm needs attention.

I have used some lime and have
a nice lot of alfalfa growing. The
soil seems to grow alfalfa without
lime. Have iaised alfalfa for about
12 years.

My practice where I plow under
stubble or green manure is to use
phosphorus, but where I have noth-
ing to plow under I use a high grade
complete fertilizer and have had
good results with an 0-10—10 and for
beans 3. 1—10—3 mixture. It not only
gives a better yield, but matures the
crop earlier.

We raise’ corn, oats, wheat, beans,
hay, some sugar beets, and potatoes,
and with the milk andSurplus stock,
we havenearly (Va. continuous income
and don’t depend on any one crop.

The hay and. straw is all used up on
‘the farm and returned to the soil.

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“.Dear Sir: I see reports of so many
losing their little chicks with White
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experience. My first incubator chicks
when but a few days old, began to
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was about discouraged with the
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-—Mrs. Ethel Rhoades, Shenandoah,
Iowa.

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Cause of White Diarrhea
White Diarrhea is caused by mi-
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ware of White Diarrhea. Don’t wait
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Mrs. L. L. Tam, Burnetts Creek,
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I raised over 500 chicks and ‘

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and never lost one or 'had one sick
after giving the medicine and my
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ways get the remedy by return mail.”
—Mrs. C. M. Bradshaw, Beaconsfleld,
Iowa.

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Grains Are Holding Steady or Making Gains

‘ Cattle Active Beceause of Small Receipts—Hogs Turn Weaker

By Market News Service, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U. 8. D. A.

(Special to THE BUSINESS FARMER)

OME of the force that bring lower
prices began to take effect here
and there about the first of

April. Heavy supplies of various
lines had been attracted to the city
markets by the rising prices of the
month before. Shipments of other
products begin to increase rapidly
anyway at this time of year. The re-
sult was market disturbance and
some small losses in price of vegeta-
bles, eggs and butter. Cotton, grains
hay and livestock hesitated without
much change, the reserve Supply of
these lines being generally very mod-
erate. Wool and stored fruit acted
as if. holding market positions too
srtong to give way until new supplies
are in sight. Conditions in the bus-
iness world seem to be slowly on the
mend, suggesting good consuming
demand for coming crops.

Potatoes

The range of potato prices at
North Central shipping points declin-
ed slightly aound April 1 to $1.85 to
$2.15 per 100 pounds. The south-
ern Idaho market on Russet Bur-
banks had weakened to $1.40 to
$1.50. Maine potatoes were selling
about 15 cents lower in eastern mar-
kets. New Bliss Triumps from Texas
held firmly in consuming centers and
still brought $5 per 100 pounds sack-
ed, at lower ”Rio Grande Valley
points. ~

Grains

The rather close adjustment of the
prospective supply of bread grains to
probable requirements, together with
the strength in the domesic situation,
caused a firm market for feed grains.
Rye and barley prices were advanced
on light receipts. Soft winter wheat
showed a further market advance as
a result of the diminishing supply
and urgent demand. Prices of mill-
ing grades advanced as ,much as 4
to 5 cents per bushel the last of
March in the principal markets. This
sharp advance in soft winter wheat
strengthened the market for hard
winter and prices of this class of
Wheat were advanced 1 to 2 cents
per bushel. Spring wheat markets
also tended upward and premiums
Were held steady. Light offerings of
barley maintained a firm market for
that grain. The higher prices for
bread grains was the principal
strengthening influence for corn,
since receipts were slightly larger
and demand only moderately active.
Industries and feeders continued to
be the principal buyers.

Hay

Favorable weather for western
ranges, together with the approach
of the pasturage season in the South-
west, restricted the demand for feeds
and was largely responsible for the
lower prices of early April. Prairie
hay marketing has been about 10 per
cent smaller than last year, but the
total movement of alfalfa was about
the same with heavier marketings
from the western areas offset by a
smaller movement from the North
Central States. Decreased receipts
at important markets confirm the
light movement. Prices of prairie
hay have been materially lower than
last season, when there was an active
demand and prices relatively high.
Alfalfa prices this season have fol-
lowed fairly closely those of recent
years. This increased popularity and
market demand for legume hays is
being reflected in a decided shift in
acreage from timothy to clover and
alfalfa in the North Central States.
Prospective demand for hay is only
moderate. There appears to be fair
inquiry for timothy for work teams
in the. eastern and southern States
which may provide an outlet for
some of" the surplus timothy from

the Northern Central States. Inquiry ;

for dairy alfalfa may slacken *some- 3.
" what with the improvements of past-

urage although a continued move-
. ment to the important dairy districts
adjacent to large cities may be ex-
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market and in orders for cattle and
the final results they had on the live
cattle market were suggestive, indi-
cating what a relatively big change
even slightly better conditions can
make as long as receipts continue
small. With this feature in mind,
the week’s trade was more or'less
suggestive of the future, causing

some in the trade to predict $15

heavy steers by May. Such an ad—
vance would be dependent on two
factors at the moment unknown, that
is, the size of the crop of heavies to
be marketed and the complexion of
the beef trade within the'next few
weeks. Concerning the available
crop of weighty steers, trade opinions
are divergent, some taking the view
that Nebraska, Kansas and South
Dakota have a sizable sprinkling of
heavies to run, others believing that
good prices since the first of the year
have induced finishers to unload. No
doubt light yearlings will expand

feed, as estimated on March 24, is
The man- .

eliciting trade comment.
ner in‘which‘su'pplies were shut off
from. the Missouri River markets and
Denver, when prices broke at‘ the

opening of the closing week in'_
MarCh, hinted at a bullish attitude

in the now only important immediate
source of sizable fat lamb supplies.

Wools

Further trading was reported in
eastern markets on. contracted wools
for future-delivery, but this business
was spotted and some firms are not
inclined to offer '.their"contracts7be-
fore the wools are sham and graded.
The strong situation ’with slightly up-

ward p'rice tendency in foreign mar-'

kets tended to give added support to
the optimism created by the strong
statistical position of raw wool stocks
in this country and prices hold well.
Eggs

Egg markets are beginning to
Show the usual seasonal decline und-
er the influence of heavier receipts.
The amount of buying 'for storage
isb rather limited as yet, but with the
month of.) April now at hand, it is

expected that the into storage move-

ment will gain considerable headway,
Prices are slightly lower in early

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MARKET REPOR’IS BY RADIO DAILY

THE 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:

WGHP (277.6 meters), 6:05

to 7:00 P. M.; WKAR (277.6), 12:00 M.; WWJ (352.7),5915 P. Md
WCX-WJR (440.9), 4:15 P. M.—Editor.

 

 

numerically, but that class has
shown few signs recently of figuring
in anything but an active, although
somewhat fluctuating market.

‘ Hogs

The hog market fluctuated at Chi-
cago, but turned weaker toward the
close and final prices at Chicago were
mostly 10 to 15 cents lower than a
week earlier. Closing top was $8.50
with bulk of the better grade 170
to 220 pound averages $8.25 to
$8.40, desirable 230 to 260 pound
butchers mostly $8.05 to $8.30.

Sheep and Lambs

A substantial increase in the mar-
ketward movement of sheep and
lambs, the supply of which at eleven
markets was about 40,000 in excess
of the week previous, turned the
market into'a buyers’, rather than 8.
sellers’ affair. Whether Colorado
and Nebraska lamb feeders have the

estimated 550,000 lambs Still on

April than the week before, and on
some grades the tone of the market
was weak, regardless of the Easter
holiday demand from the Jewish
ket is steady. Receipts are heavier
than last week. There has been con-
siderable buying in anticipation of
holiday demand from the ewish
trade. Heavy fowl is in great de-
mand, with fancy stock finding the
most ready sale. Dressed poultry
shows very little change.

Butter markets were exceptionally
unsettled around the first of the
month. One apparent influence was
the future market at Chicago, since
delivery of March options had to be
completed during the week. Move-
ment to Chicago was heavier than us-
ual for that reason, resulting in a
temporary shortage at eastern mar—
kets. In general, production is in-'
creasing, at a favorable rate for the
season.

 

 

THE BUSINESS F ARM‘ER’S MARKET SUMMARY
and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks Ago and One Year Ago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit
April 10 April 10 March 27 1 yr. ago \
WHEAT—
No. 2 Red $155 31.74% $1.66 .31 as
No. 2 White 1‘75 1-65 132%
4 No. 2 Mixed 1'76 1-65 1.31 it
RN— '
00No. 2 Yellow “)8 1.o1@1.02 1.08 _78
No. 3 Yellow ' 1°05 1.05 .75
OATS ‘ . “
No. 2 White ~66 .60@ .62 .65 .51
No. a White ~64 36 .57 54 @151 y. .63 as .43
YE—
Gash No. a ' 1'24 1022 1-26 J 1.05
, ~ .
BEANS—
0. Ho Po 0’" 9'50 9.00 4.35
POTATOES— ., " ~
Per th. 2-50 *_1,_.50@2.oo "2.50 2,50
HAY— " - . ' . . \ I
No. 111m. 18@14 * 17 18 1‘8@ 14 17@1s
'eNo. 2 Thu. 10 11 . > 15 16 \ 10@ 11 _ 15@ 16
‘v 74510.1 Clever 11 12.50, _. .17 @18 11 _ 12.50 17@ 18
, ma- Mixed 13 @ 14 1;7@ 1s .13 ,, 14 15’@ 17

 

   

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_ , _‘ BEANS

It is reported that during the last
couple (of weeks bids 011 Michigan
CHP beans were'made as high as $10
FOB Michigiil1 butzzmostfplaces it
was not quoted above $9.85. 'Just
what will happen in the market is
open to the wildest guesses; Some
are predicting $11 and even $12
before the new crop. There is little
consulation to the farmer in the
present Skyward trend of the market
as most of the beans are out of his
hands. .However, it will cause, an
extra large acreage to be planted this
Spring which will result, no doubt,
in over production next fall, if
weather conditions are favorable.

 

DETROIT BUTTER AND EGGS .

Butter easy; creamery, in tubs,~88
to 90 score, 42@43%c. Eggs easy;
fresh firsts, 27 @ 280.

 

SEEDS
DETROIT—Clover seed, domestic
$17.25 ; alsike $15.45; timothy $2.05
bu.

CHICAGO—Timothy seed, $3.10 .

@3.85 cwt; clover seed, $20.75@
27.75 cwt.

 

nn'raorr LIVE POUIJI‘RY

(Commission merchants’ gross re-n
turns per pound to farmers, from “

which prices 5 per cent commission
and, transportation charges are de-
ductible.)

Demand steady; broilers, 1% to 2
lbs., rocks, 52c; reds and others, 45

@50c; Springs, 3 to 4 lbs., 32c; 4%

to 5% lbs., 30c; coarse and staggy,
25c;’leghorns, 24c. Hens: Colored,
30c; leghorns and Anconas, 25c:
Cocks, 18c. Ducks: White, 4% lbs.
and up, 83c; colored, 30c; small,
25c. Geese, 21c.

 

LI V ESTOCK MARKETS

DETROIT—There was a fair supply
of cattle and the market was active on
cow stuff of all kinds, somewhat Slower
on all others, especially on the heavy
kinds. However, at the close about all
were sold. Good milkers and springers
continue in active demand, prices holding
steady to strong. Fair to good yearlings,
$10.50@13.10; fair to good heavy steers.
$10.75@13.00; handy weight butcher
steers, $10.50@12.25; fair to good heifers.
$9.50@11.25; common light butchers,
$8.25@10.25; common butcher cows, $6.50
@7.75; best cows, $8.50@9.75; good
butcher cows, $7.00@8.75; cutters, $5.50
@625; canners, $4.75@5.75; light butch-
er bulls, $8.50@9.75 ;‘ bologna bulls, $7.50
@825; stock bulls, $7.00@8.25; feeders,
$9.00@10.75; _stockers. $7.00@10.50;
milkers and springers, $75:00@125.00.

Good veal calves were fairly active and
50 cents higher than at the close last
vveek, common kinds being a little draggy
but 'steady.

Sheep and lamb quotations will "be for
clipped stock as very few weols are com-
ing. Best lambs, $14.50@14.75; fair
lambs, $12.00@13.00; light to common
lambs, $9.00@11.50; fair to good sheep,
$7.50@8.50; culls and common, $3.00@
5.50. , ,

Mixed butcher hogs were active and
35 cents higher than» at the close last
week. Lights were 150 higher, roughs
steady to 250 up, and others steady. Mix-
ed hogs, $9.10; yorkers, $9.10 ; 'pigs, $7.00
@725; lights, $8.25; stags, $5.50; roughs,
$.25 @150; extreme heavy, $7.50@8.50.

CHICAGO—Hogs: Mostly 100 to 15¢
higher; light lights and pigs 10c to 25c
higher; better grades showing most ad:
vance; top, $8.85; butchers, medium to
choice, 250 to 350 lbs.; $8.10@8.50; 200
of 250 lbs., $8.30@8.85; 160 to 200 lbs.,
$8.10@8.85; 130 to 160 lbs., $7@8.65:
packing sows, $7.20@7.80; pigs, medium
to choice, 90 to 130 lbs., $6.25@7,.75. Cat~
t1e':,Largely nominal market; undertone
steady to strong on all classes except cut-
ter cows; ltter, after advancing sharply
this week, getting no dependable outlet:
best steers, $14.35; slaughter classes
steers, good and choice, 1,800 to 1.500 19.39
$13.50@15.25; 1,100 to 1.3001lbs.,.$13.25
@1550; 950 to 1.1001193" $1,2.75,@14-75;
common and medium, 850 "113.3,! w;»'~$3'.§0@
13.50; fed yearnngs,‘good" d chums.~ 750
to '950 lbs.,“9$12_.50@1‘4.,59.4,
and choice, 85031ng downr ,,
cows, geodand chalcfin "iiiflllgz
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Calves and Live Poultry

Detroit Beef
Company

HOST RELIABLE
HOUSE IN DETROIT

Write for new shippers Guide
3 tan and Quotations.

Detroit Dee! Co.

19” “fluid: ea, Detroit, men.

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BABY CHICKS

White and Brown Leghorns, Barred,
White and Bun Rocks, R. 1. Beds,
Bun Orpingtons. White Wyandottes,
Black Minorcas.

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Cured His Rupture

l was badly ruptured while lifting a
trunk several years ago. Doctors said my
only hope of cure was an operation.
Trusses did me no good. Finally I got
hold of something that quickly and com-
pletely cured me. Years have passed and
the rupture has never returned. although
I am doing hard work as a. mentor.
There was no operation, no lost ime, no
trouble. I have nothing to sell, but will
give full information about how you may
find a. complete cure without operation, it
you write to me, Eugene M. Pullen, car-
penter, 133A Marcellus Avenue, Manas-
quan, N. .7. Better cut out this notice
and show it to any others who are rup-
tured—you may save a life or at least
stop the misery of rupture and the worry
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92 lbs. down, $15.50@17.10; médlilm’,
$14. 75@15. 75, cull and commen. $13. 25@
14.75; medium to choice, 92 to 100 lbs.,
314. 60@16. 85, ' ewes, medium 'to choice,
150 lbs. down, '$8@10.50; cull and com-
mon, $3.25@$8.75; feeder lambs, good and
choice, $15.25@16.75.

EAST BUFFALO—Dunning &: Stevens
report: Cattle: Steady. Hogs: Strong;
$8.25@8.50; pigs and lightGwith.52—e6tox8
medium and mixed, $9.15@9.25; heavies,
$8.75@9.10; yorkers, $9.15@9.25; lights,
$8.25@8.50; pigs and lights, ”@150.
Sheep: Slow; wool lambs, $17 ; clipped,
$15; YearlingS. ”@12; wethers, $9.50@
10; ewes, $7.50@9; calves, $17.

 

 

 

Week of April 15
first one or two days of this
week will be mostly fair but
with the temperature below the

seasonal normal. About Tuesday or
Wednesday temperatures will moder-
ate under the influence of increasing
storm conditions. During the mid-
dle days of the week there will be
some rather heavy
wind storms. These will continue
over into Thursday but about Friday
we are looking for a short spell of
fair weather. This week will end
and the next week begin with renew-
ed storms of more or less general
rains but probably not as severe as
we expect those of the middle of the
week to be.

The general weather conditions
for the week of April 15th are ex—
pected to average drier than the
week beginning April 22nd. This
latter week will have more extremes
and changes.

Week of April 22

General rains will be the rule over
most parts of Michigan at the begin-
ning of this week, being the tail
end of the storm that was predicted
to make its appearance in the state
at the end of last week. With the
storms at this time will be censider—
able wind. Before the middle of the
week there will be cool to cold
weather and fair skies in many

counties.

More general precipitation is to be
expected about Tuesday or Wednes-
day and in some parts of the state
will probably run over into Thurs-
day. Although there will probably
be some fair weather shortly after
this storm center, we are of the
opinion there will be more stormi-
ness as the week ends.

 

Defiance (0hio).-Spring weather in
earnest past few days. 68 degrees yest-
erday. Oats being sowed on wheat fields.
Also barley which will be a larger acro-
age than common. But very little will go
on market as will be fed to pigs. Our
corn is getting pretty low. Lots of fall
plowed ground and we hope and expect
a good year, as work is getting a good
start. The hay crop will be light. Clover
nearly all frozen to death. Quotations
from Bryan, Ohio: Wheat, 31. 53; com,
$1. 50: cats, 550; rye, $1. 00; barley, 85c;
potatoes, 85c: butter, 480; eggs, 25c.—
W E. 13., Apr. 4.

 

 

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buy inst ordinary Leghorns—

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and be assured of deIIvery when you want It.
Ive and satisfactory delivery guaranteed.

City Limits Hatchery, P. Rezelman, Prop., Holland, Mich.

 

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Also _Mixed Chicks.
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Michigan Accredited. Heavy Lay in Type ENG-
LISH AND TANCBED \VHITE LEGHOBYNB, yBfiOWN LEG-
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Order NOW for preferred delivery dates.

Write for copy and learn at.

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farmers; 11 retired farmer who is a leader in your 3,:
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN

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Write today for complete information about our Large English type S C.Wh1'te
Leghorns and heavy laying Barred Rmks. ('-1rclully brul strains that are ro-
timed to make good winter layeis on your farm Evu'y breeder careu ully
selected for silt: and cm, production

FR E CATALOG GIVES LOW PRICES—WE SHIP C.

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money makers. ()nc cent per chick 11mm books yur onlcr. 81111-311111 (3.
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chicks to customers within 20 miles of 11s who know our square dealings and

quality of our stock. VILLAGE VIEW POULTRY FARM,
3, Box 8, Iceland, Mlchigan.

Are Bred-to-Lay
and D0 Lay

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hove seen the
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American Chicks

S. C- \Vhitc and Brown lmghorns, Am'onus, lilnclc Minorcss, . _
Reds and Barred Rocks of High Egg Bred Blood Lines, from fast growmg, quick
maturing Strains. All Michigan Accredited. Orders now bemg booked for Spring
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We Guarantee 100% Safe Arrlval In GOOD HEALTH
Overnight shipments to all Michigan and Nearby Points

AMERICAN CHICK FARM, Box B, ZEELAND, MCIIIGAN

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BRUMMER FREDERICKSON POULTRY FARM. Box 28, Holland. Mich.

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ACCREDITED
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You can save money by ordering Dundee Pure— Bred, Mich. Accredited and
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directions on how to raise baby chicks for greater profits. We guarantee

100% live delivery.
DUNDEE HATCHERY & POULTRY FARMS BoxB DUNDEE, MICHIGAN

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FIIRVIEW Pure Bred Chicks and Pullcts are Michigan Acrrcdited. Big Type Leghorns.

Originated from the Barron Strain. Official Records 269 to 201 eggs.

5. C. WHITE LEGHORNO R. I. REDS WHITE AND DARRED ROCKS

BIG DISCOUNT NOVVI
Pay only 81.00 down and the balance C. O. I). alter you see the chicks. We guarantee
satisfaction.

FREE 1928 CATALOG tells the story and gives approved methods by which our breed-
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and our Live and Let Live Prices.
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ance . breeders before buymg elsewhere. Broiler chicks 80/11:). 01111 shp a once. .

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For home. with electric-
il the Ma (as I: am!!-
afie with clidrlc motor.

kl: or Farm Homes

Without
Electricity

The Maytag Gasoline
Multi-Motor is a skillfully
made, modern, dependable
little gasoline engine, exclu—
sively a Maytag feature, and
so popular with farm homes
that have no electricity, that
Maytag has b ecome the
World’s largest producer of
engines of this type and size.

Compare the two washers
above and you will see that
the Multi-Motor takes about
the same space as the electric
motor. There are no belts to
line up. It is a part of the
washer and starts with a step
on the lever.

Maytag Radio Programs

9:00 P. M.

WHT, Chicago, Tues. Wed., Thur., Fri., Sat..
WCCO, Minneapolis, Fri.. 8:30

bring s

T IS like adding a day of leisure to the farm-

wife’s week when the Maytag does the

washing. Of course, she will probably
spend the extra hours with her garden, her
chickens or'her children, but it’s a valuable
gain anyhow.

There will‘be no more hand—rubbing when
the Maytag comes—not even on the edges of
collars, cuffs or wristbands, on overalls smeared
with machinery grease. The Maytag flushes
out the grimiest dirt by water action alone.
That is why the daintiest clothes are safe in
its satin-smooth, cast—aluminum tub—the tub
that keeps the water hot for an entire washing,
then empties and cleansitself.

Deferred Payments You’ll Never Miss

THE MAYTAG COMPANY, Newton, Iowa

Founded 1894
INDIANAPOLIS BRANCH. 923 North Capitol Ave., INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

   

            

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# New Freedom for the Farmwife,

The New Roller
Water Remover

has large soft rolls that spare
the buttons, remove both the
surplus soap and water evenly
regardless of lumps and seams
in the clothes. It automatical-
ly adjusts the tension for a
thick or thin garment, swings
and locks in seven different
positions, has a handy feed
board, a self—reversing drain-'
board, and an instant safety
tension release.

There are some other val—
uable Maytag features and
you can learn all about them
by a free trial washing.

FREE TRIAL for a week's‘

Washing

Write or telephone any Maytag dealer.

P. M. WHO, Des Moines, Sun.,- 7:15 P. M.
KDKA, Pittsburgh. Tues. and Wed.. 10:00
P. M. WBAP, Fort Worth, Mon.. 8:30 P
KEX, Portland, Ore.. Tues. and Sat, 8:30 P
KSL, Salt Lake City. Mon.. 7 P. M. KZL,

Denver, Mon.. 7 P. M.
How: designated are standard time at the stations named

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Ask him to send you a Maytag, either
powered with an electric or a gasoline
motor. Do a big washing—it will take an
hour or so, and you will see’why the
Maytag has been awarded firstplace by
the farm and city women of America.

 

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