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Detroit. Michigan. Under the Act 0! March 8. 1870

VOLUME CLIII. NUMBER FIVE





DETROIT, AUGUST 2, 1919

CURRENT COMMENT





1TH threshing

Wheat well under way,

Grades and the marketing of the

new wheat crop is a

matter of concern to

the average farmer.

This ought to be an easy and simple

matter, under the government price

guarantee, but a new factor has been

injected into the marketing problem

Which is likely to be a disturbing ele-

ment during the early marketing pe-

riod at least.



The guaranteed price will be main-

tained at the primary markets desig-

nated by the Food Administration

Grain Corporation, and under gie con-

tracts made with that government

agency by wheat millers and grain

dealers, these buyers of wheat are re-

quired to pay, on the basis of federal

grades, this guaranteed price, less the

cost of shipment to primary markets

and less a reasonable handling charge.

This reasonable handling charge is not

fixed by the grain corporation, which

assumes that millers and grain deal-

ers are operating on fair margins gov-

erned by local conditions, but in cases

of complaint the grain corporation

promises to make an investigation in

each individual case and render judg-

ment as to what constitutes a fair

handling charge in such case. In the

meantime wheat growers must depend

upon competition among buyers to

keep this item at a reasonable figure.



Another factor of the market which

seems likely to cause confusion if not

dissatisfaction, is the application or.



‘- the federal grading rules to purchases

of new wheat. Under these rules,





 





 





 





 





Prices





which were published in detail in cm"





, issue of July 19, :lack of quality in any.

of the points upon which the grade de-'

pends will throw the sample into the



next grade. A fraction too light in

weight, a fraction too much moisture,

a kernel over the tolerance percentage

of rye, and the grade falls, taking the

price down with it. With No. 1 wheat

as the standard for price basis, the

price for No. 2 is fixed at three cents

less than the price for No. 1 and the

price for No. 3 seven cents less than

the price for No. 1. Grades lower than

No. 3 are to be purchased upon a basis

of comparative ‘valuation. Notwith-

standing the comparatively good qual-

ity of our wheat crOp this year, early

experience woiild make it appear that





_ , a‘ Considerable percentage of our crop





_ will grade as No. 3, on a strict appli-

«patina of the federal grading rules.



But many of the buyers will not be

“ Wauinlpped with suitable apparatus to





gods the grain accurately. in which 1'





me there may be a casual inclina-





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sample tor, .reicren63 to

the zone vicepredident of the grain

corporation for determihation as to

grade. -



In view of these complications it

will be the part of wisdom for the

tarn‘1er who has wheat to sell, to sub-

mit samples to the buyers within easy

reach and get bids on same before

hauling in- the wheat. Milling demand

should keep the handling margin rea«

sonable, with a wise degree of care

“and discrimina on on the part of the

wheat growers. ichigan wheat grow-

ers should hesitate befbre selling good

wheat at prices much'below those fix-

ed by the Food Administration at their

local points last year, although increas-

ed freight rates and handling charges

may lower the price by two or three

cents per bushel. A greater reductiOn

should not be accepted without inves-

tigation.



O





. HE reader who





The will take stock of

the farmers of his ac!



P ersorla’ quaintance in his own

Equation community will find





among them many 11-.





lustrations of success or failure which

careful analysis will show to have de-

pended, not upon the element of luck

as we are too often inclined to charge,





\but upon the personal equation in the





individual case and the degree of em-

ciency with which the farm business

has been conducted. And in this fact

lies a lesson which cannot be disre-

garded, if agriculture is to maintain its

rightful place in the comparative bus-

iness scale.



Organized effort is the new slogan in

our agricultural development, and the

possibilities for betterment along this

line are indeed great. But organized

effort must be backed up by personal

efiiCiency if the most desirable results

arefio be attained. No amount of bus-

iness organization for the distribution

of our products can make our business

satisfactorily successful without effi-

ciency in ’the production end of our en-

terprise. The personal equation will

continue to be the limiting factor of

our success no matter what our organ-

ized associations may be, and even

the organized effort in which we may

be engaged will be hampered by any

considerable degree of personal ineffi-

ciency among its members.





These facts will be best illustrated

by personal examples which may be

found in every community. These ex-

amples will be most conspicuous in the

highly specialized branches of farming.

Every one of us who is not satisfied

with our attainments, as none of us

are who will be honest with ourselves,

will profit by a careful study of the





.methods . followed.- by .our neighbors





who. are more success-fol along. any giv-

ensyline of. eflbft'.' The formationyof

this habit will be exceedingly profit-





able to every farmer who has. not al-





ready acquired it.





OME‘ of the advan-





Fighting tages which may

the Gr as 3' unexpectedly accrue

to the farmers of any



hopper county through the





.medium of a well or-

ganized county farm bureau have been.

well illustrated in the-excellent results

which have attended organized efforts

to‘ check the ravages of grasshOppers

in some of the cmmtles of northern

Michigan this year. The grasshopper

pest has been a ' serious menace to





profitable crop production over consid--.





arable areas in northern Michigan this

year. But in a number of counties

where county farm bureaus are in up-

oration the pest has. been successfully

combated, with ‘comparatimly little





loss to growing crops. In seine of these "

. 1 __ comma, the boards of supervisors ‘ 4

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Railroad officials have been quick to

grasp" the importance of this work and

to cooperate with the communities by





the use of poisoned bait on their rights.





or way. i .5, ' . O





In every county where such a cam-





paign has, been conducted. the present





saying will exceed the mute cost of

maintaining a county agent, to say

nothing of ‘thefnture benefits which

will. accrue from this work, and the

other lines of community activity. to

which the county agents have contrib-

uted. And this is but one 'of manyil-

lustrations which might be cited to

prove the .value of county farm bureau

werk when the farmers of a county or

a. community avail themselves of its

advantages.



One reason why many of us rim to

derive a maximum of benefit from this

source is that it costs us next to noth-

ing. If we had an investment in it we

would insist on getting our money’s

worth. This "is undoubtedly a strong

argument for the inauguration of a





campaign _in every agricultural county





of the state for a membership drive in

the county farm bureau. The result

of such a drive would be to increase

the value of the work many fold, since

many more farmers would become ac-

tively interested in it, thus making it

possible to accomplish along many

other lines a. measure of the good re-

sults which have been accomplished in

fighting the grasshopper pest in some

of our northern Michigan counties.





RODUCERS. con-



Stabilizing sumers and the

distributing trade are



the Fruit all interested in the



Industry growth and develop-





ment of the canning



and preserving industry. The stabiliz-

ing influences of this rapidly growing

industry are already being felt, and it

is freely predicted in the fruit trade

circles that the demand for canned

fruit, evaporated fruit and fruit juices

is sure to become an economic safety-

valve for the commercial fruit grower.

Years ago? the business of canning,

preserving and drying fruits, and the

manufacture of fruit juices, was start-

ed in an effort to provide the growers

with an outlet for cull products. But

during recent years such a demand

has sprung up for these products, that

plants for canning, preserving, drying

and making fruit juice are doing such

a tremendous business that they are

becoming strong competitors of the

general trade for fruit products. In-

many fruit growing regions the can-

ning factories and. fruit juice. plants

have contracted the entire fruit crop.





in' establishing pricesi





plantings.



Producers and consumers” are, won-

dering how this comparatively new in-

dustry is going to affect the future de-

mand and prices for fresh fruit. It

may reduce the demand for fresh fruits

for home canning to some extent, but

so long as prices of manned and pre-

served fruits maintain their present

levels only a small percentage of

housewives will abandon ho-me -can-

ning and depend upon the grocery and

dé‘licateSsen Store for ready-made sup-

plies. Besides only a small part or the





fresh fruit that reaches the blg city.





markets is used for canning and pre-

serving purposes, hence there is little

danger of 'ca‘nning factories ruining

the market fer-- fresh fruits of superior

'quality. Practically every that grow-_





 





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manufacturers at, grape. juice have

been the purchasers. The demand for

pure apple juice is attracting the at-

tention of soft-drink manufacturers in

different localities and thousands of

dollars are being invested in equilr

ment for its manufacture. Commer-

cial fruit growers are benefiting from

the increased demand under the new

conditions, and with such an outlet for

fruit of all grades the industry is sure

to prove more profitable and less haz-

ardous than it has been during the





' past twenty years or more.





News of the Week





Wednesday, July 23.



THE French cabinet is given a vote



of confidence by the Chamber of

Deputies, thus supporting Premier

Clenien‘ceau' 3 program. ——Belgium cele-

brates the allied victory and the re

turn of peace. —-The United States Pa-

fleet is enroute southward

through the Atlantic for the Pacific

coast—Eleven. persons were injured

in aiwreck on the G. R. & 1. near Pe~

toskey.—The state of Michigan charg-

es that the telephone rates for this

state as ordered by the post office de

partment were ,“fixed” by the wire

companies.—Mexi¢an bandits are re-

ported to be holding American citizens

at Fresnillo, Mexico.-





Thursday, July 24.





USSIAN troops on the northern



front are reported to have muti-

nied and joined the Russian Reds.—

British miners agree to go back to

work as soon as the wage scale is fix-

ed.—General Villa is reported to have

disbanded his entire Mexican forces.

——United States Senate passes the ag-

ricultural appropriation bill. —Polish

tioops capture Tarnopol in eastern Ga-

licia. —According to dir tory reports.

Detroit has passed the lion mark in

population. —Germany's new financial

program calls for the raising. of 25 000, -

000, 000 marks annually.





Friday, July 25.





HE Soviet armies threaten to sur-



round and capture more than 5, 000

British ‘soldiers on the Archangel

front. —During recent riots in Egypt 800

natives were killed and 1,600 wound-

ed. -—The London Times suggests the

creation of two provincial legislatures

in Ireland, one for the three southern

provinces and the other for. the prov-

ince of Ulster.——Aerial mail pilots at

Belmont Park; New Jersey. «go out~on

strike because of the order to fly in

foul ‘weatherr—Rents in Chicago are

scheduled to advance from ten to thir-

ty per cent around October 1.-——A num-

ber of Russian, provinces pledge sup-

port to the all-Russiangovernment un-

der Admiral Kolchak. ———The War De-





pertinent orders 1411» battle planes to ~~ ‘



San Antonio, Texas » ' ,. ' «

so that; they are becoming-abigifactor

Contracts. for .

9-.future' o’mph running from" five ’to tea-1. " '

years have encouraged fruit growers

“in many localities to make extensive“





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ed by the Hungarian Soviets to over

whelm Rumania.——The strike of aerial

mail pilots in New York is called‘off.

——Chinese troops are fighting Japanese

forces in the Amur province of Siberia.

—-—President Wilson announces that the

American military expedition in Siber-

ia will remain as long as protection for

the Siberian railway is needed.





Sunday, July 27.





ATIONS friendly to China are en-



tering into a financial arrange

ment with the oriental _country to re-

lieve her government of the necessity

of making loans under unfavorable

conditions .-—Hea and continued

rains are damaging the Georgia peach

crap. ——-Ten cooperative creameries of

the San Joaquin’ valley, California,

merge. givinga ‘total membership of~

1.100 dairymon l'lwho own 23,000 cows

that produce upwards of 83 009,090

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Saturday July”

Sale to consumers ‘

of feed licences in the hands of “

the war. Document is being urge-a in

congress. tinned Statics eons:

rules unmet; the sale of an beer- with -.

.more than: one-half of one per cent 30!: ._ ;

alcohol. -—4vA military offensive is stnrts'





 

 





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has demanding too much space for

p ,1 ~ treatment in this one article, the fol-



“ ‘ lowing resnme ofq-ecent developments

. .. . L and progress in implement design and

1» an enumeration of what the market at-

, _ fords today is not without practical

value. "





we begin with machinery for con-



‘ serving and‘inCreasing' the fertility of

the farm, manure, straw and fertilizer

Spreaders, and the like. Nearly all

manure spreaders are now made with

some mm of wide-spread apparatus,

some perhaps a little more efficient

than others, probably the worst fault



‘5 Of any of then; being the tendency to

wind themselves with tough straw or.

marsh hay and to clog and increase

the draft of the machine. Personally,



1' have but little liking for a retum ap-

ron spreader, as the return mechanism

is about as complicated and as likely

to get out of order as anything about

the machine, and while its weight is

net so great as half the apron of the

full apron Spreader, yet I cannot see

where the disadvantages of its compli-

cation and the bother of always hav-



1 ~ ing to see that the apron is returned

before the machine is ready to “be load-

ed, is offset by any practical advan-

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spreaders now being 50111 are of the

endless aplon type. Excepting where

it is intended to use a mechanical

loader, I am inclined to favor the low-

down extended four-truck type rather

than the higher -machine having all

, four'wheels under the load. The in-

creased draft'of the former is so slight

. that it will never be noticed in actual

" work, but change from pitching into a

low maChine to loading ,a high one, and

you will notice the difference quick

enough. It is true that the spreaders

with the front wheels under the load

, ’ as now "built, are much lower than

those of a few years ago; at least one

maker having practically succeeded in

putting the front wheels under the

load and yet retaining a low—down

front truck construction by means of

an “automobile” type of front axle,

the front and rear wheels of this

" spreader having the same width of

track. In buying a spreader it might

be well to consider whether or not the

wheels are so spaced that the machine

, can be used for top-dressing row crops

or for strawberry mulching, and there

are jobs for which some spreaders are

adapted for which others will not

serve. some spreaders may be equip-

ped with lime hoods, at least two

' makes are furnished with extra top

boards for increasing the capacity of

the machine in drawing light manure,

one at least can be equipped for dis-

tributing the manure in rows, a device

' of particqu value to market garden-

, , _ers,m melon and cucumber growers, and

s - four spreaders are now furnished with

1 straw spreading attachments.





This brings us to the straw spread-

or, a machine of comparatively recent

introduction and one whose use will



. probably remain semewhat restricted

" ~ «to localities that are largely grain rais-

.7 ing‘ and where the straw is neither balv

zed and sold- or fed and used for :bed-

ding fer live stock. There are new,





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this, that by far the larger number of .





exclusive of manure spreader attach- .

ments, at least seven of these ma- 7

shines on the market and there is no : f

“standardization. only tnoirof thembe-





plete machine, truck, rack, spreading

apparatus altogether; being a rather

bulky machine. Five of- these ma-

chines are advertised as being also

adapted to spreading manure, one

maker claiming that his machine will

spread manure over twenty feet wide.

I 'ddubt very much if they will be able

to compete in this respect‘with the

regular manure spreader, as four of

them require two men for their opera-

tion, a driver and a man to help feed

the spreader, as the aprons or carriers

of these machines are short and nar-

row, the‘ longest of them being ten

feet. Further, as mmmted on a flat

rack, they would.be unhandy to load.

As these machines are wagon attach-

ments they cost but about half as

much as a regular manure spreader,

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L. “enmeshed. machinery and equipment he hitched behind the wagon like a

hay, loader, and the seventh is a com-’





was more work» to work the loader

than it was to load the manure, and

that there was so many places around

the barn where they could not be used.

There are now, however, two ma-

chines on the. market that may be re-

garded as fairly practical and where

large quantities of manure are to be

handled, or where only non-robust la-

bor is available, they are worthy of

consideration.



As for lime spreaders and commer-

cial fertilizer distributors, 'I can but

mention the narrow truck “broadcast-

er” type, a lime spreader with a har-

row attachment by. means of which

the material is spread and harrowed

into the ground at one operation, the

row compost drill in use in the south,

and the fertilizer attachment for cul-

tivators, by means of which commer-

cial fertilizers are distributed to grow-

ing row crops at the time of cultiva-





 





Modern ”Machinery Increases the





with a wagon box and give better ser-

vice than would at first thought be ex-

pected. These restrictions do not, of

course, apply to the combined one-man

straw and manure spreader which is

intended to handle both materials.

Anyone who contemplates the pur-

chase of a straw spreader should fa-

miliarize himself witlf all the makes

as each has sOme advantage peculiar

to itself, as for example, a device for

saving the grain left in the straw, a

feature of one make.



There have, from time to time, been

placed on the market various small

crane-like affairs designed to serve. as

manure loaders but none of them have

ever reached any extensive use. The

trouble with most of them was that it





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





Efficiency of Both Land and Labor.





tion. At least two makes of cultivat-

ors are furnished with these attach-

ments, and there is a separate attach-

ment that may be attached to most

any cultivator.



Coming now to the actual tillage

tools, beginning with the plows, the

most prominent features are the de-

velopment” of tractor plows and the

elimination of left hand, wood beam,

and other obsolete types.



Practically all the newer light trac-

tor plows are of the self-lift or auto-

matic type, may be furnished with

combined rolling coulters and joint-

ers, have quick detachable shares,

and may be furnished with a variety

of bottoms to suit soil conditions.

Mention may also be made of the self-





 





- lift light tractor disc plow, a plow





- of the “Meeker” type used by garden- ,





. in fact, practically taking the place of





(chardist but of almost equal value to





with interchangeable disc and mould-

board bottoms, and special plows for

plowing stony land. Here also may

be considered the peculiar machine .

known as the “once-over” tiller. This

implement which is made in both

tractor and horse plow sizes, consists "

of .a. rotating knife member which is.

held in the furrow slice asit is turn-



ed by the mould-board. This “rotor"



is driven by a small gas engine mount-



ed on the frame of the plow or, in



case of engine plows, by power from



the tractor. This “rotor” revolving at



high speed threshes and pulverizes



the soil to a perfect seed bed at a



single passage of the machine. An-



other curious implement that is pri-



marily a plow is the “once-OVer”



quack grass killer. This machine is



mounted on wheels and bulks about



as large as a road—grading machine.



There is first a- sixteen-inch plow-



share, followed by an elevator some-



what on the plan of that of a potato



digger, but with a solid or continuous



carrier, which elevates the furrow



slice to a revolving cylinder very sim-



ilar to that of a threshing machine



which thoroughly threshes and pul-



verizes the soil, which is then passed



back to a revolving screen which al-



lows the finely pulverized soil to drop



back to the furrow, while the quack



grass and other roots are retained to



be passed to an elevator which depos-



its them in a wagon that is driven



along beside the machine. This ma-



chine is engine-driven, and as might



be expected, requires a fair-sized trac-



tor to pull it, and it is, of course, a



rather expensive affair. Neither 'of



these machines have as yet come into



very extensive usage but they are in- ‘

teresting developments that hold—prom-



ise for the future. Of the common



horse-drawn plows there are to be



mentioned a new very light and sim-



ple riding plow, harrow and sub-soil



attachments, and two deep-tilling



plows of the disc type, one of which



while not adapted to quite as deep



plowing as the other may be convert-



ed into a two-furrow shallow disc



plow.



In land rollers the tendency is to

ward an increased use of the bar and

corrugated types, and also of various

forms of pulverizers, crushers and

roller harlows some of these last,

particularly a “westeln” double star-

wheel design, are vely efficient imple-

ments.





A very prominent feature of the

tendency toward the better tillage of

the soil is the increasing use of the

double disc harrow, the solid disc '-

proving to be more popular than the g . J

cutaway. Perhaps the last word in h

this implement is the double disc,

solid in front, cutaway rear, equipped

with tongue or fore-truck, transport

trucks, and so designed that the rear

discs may be readily detached. There

are now a number of special engine

disc harrows conveniently designed

for control from the tractor, and a.

new horse-drawn single disc harrow

with offset gangs that leave no uncut

center ridge.





Other implements that deserve more

extensive use are the curve blade

harrows and pulverizers of the “acme"

and “killifer” types, for some purpos-

es to be prefe1red to the disc, and

the light straight blade disc barrows





 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 





 





 

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

 





 





 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





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very fine seed beds, these implements,





   

 





hand raking. Another good implement

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News of the





'T'eRAIN CORPORATION PROFITS.





 





in the current extraordinary price for

live hogs, which is $23 per hundred-

weight or twenty-three cents a pound.



Figuring seventy head per car, the

farmers Of the United States must load

,every market day one thousand cars

to supply the demands of European

buyers, to say nothing of the quanti-

ties consumed by the users of pork in

this country. ,. .



Corn has reached the $2.001mark re-

cently forecast for the principal mar-

kets of the United'States mainly as

result of the lofty prices for hogs. New

wheat is being fed to many hogs in

the United States, as the bread grain

is approximately at about the same

price level as corn. The southwest

must ship in corn while it has'wheat of

the new crop on its own farms.



NO change to lower prices is .antici-

pated in the hog market until about

the‘ latter half of September or Octw





EPLY to criticism contained in a



_ dispatch from Washington of the

fact that the Grain Corporation, in

twenty-two months’ operation ended



' July ‘1 last, had recorded a profit of

about $23,000,000, Julius Barnes,_pres-

ldent of the corporation said recently.



“0: the $23,000,000 carried forward

as earned surplus, substantially $4,-

500,000 was excess profits made by the

mills during the crop year 1917-18 and

required to be refunded. The general

protection to the public in flour prices



‘ is not represented at all by the excess

profits required to be refunded, but by

the deterrent that such refund of ex-

cess profits would be forced, thus keep-

ing flour prices continuously through-

out the year at a fair relation of the

stabilized wheat price.



“The Grain Corporation used of the

funds of the National Treasury, as cap-

ital, substantially $50. 000, 000 for the

first year and 3150, 000000 in the last

year. This was money borrowed from

the people in the form of bonds.‘ we

conceived it proper to earn interest on

that money while set aside for our use

and $10,000,000 of the $23,000,000 re-

ported was interest on national capital

employed in this business.



“During those two years neutrals not

associated with us in war had no scru-

plea in requiring us to pay very high

ocean freights. We had a sound con-

ception that, this being true, it was

proper to conduct our sales to neutrals



' on a basis of moderate profits. The

Grain Corporation bought and resold,

largely overseas, nearly $2,000,000.000

worth of goods, and the net profit se-

cured in this vast business was one.

half of one per cent, or $9,000,000,

making up the balance of the $23,000,-

000 reported earned. The corporation

was fortunate in not having lost a dol-

lar by fire and in exceptional freedom

from marine sinkings.



“For two years it has not been a

question of the Grain Corporation hold~

ing the price of wheat at the guaran-

tee level so much as preventing it from

soaring above that fair~price level, and

this was done successfully in. the pro-

tection of both producer and consumer,

until within the last three months,

with insufficient power and with a cr0p

evidently under the estimates, wheat

prices have ruled somewhat above the

government buying basis, and even to-

day are above the ‘level at which the

government will buy.





spring pig crop will begin moving. The

removal of the trade' blockade against

Germany is a bullish factor, for it will

permit the reopening of the branches

maintained prior to' the war by Ameri‘

can packers in that empire, which is a

large consumer of pork.



In the United States labor is so well

employed that it is consuming pork in

heavy quantities. The laboring masses

are normally the largest consumers of

pork in the United States.





 





BRAZIL TO BUY CATTLE.





 





IVE stock breeders of the state of



Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, have

determined to grade up their cattle

with American stock in order to meet

the needs of the meat packing indus-

try, according to a report of the Amer-

ican consul at Porto Alegre to the De-

partment of State, under date of May

7,1919.



Rio Grande do Sul is one of the

most important stock raising states in

Brazil, statistics showing that there

are eight million cattle in this state

alone. Heretofore Brazil has imported

but few cattle from the United States.

According to official statistics the

United States exported 923 cattle to

‘Brazil during the fiscal year ended

June 30, 1913; only three during 1914,

413 in 1915, one in 1916, sixteen in

1917, and fifty-nine in 1918. American

breeders of pure-bred cattle should

find this a fertile field, as the'follow-

ing report of the consul will show:



Demand for Young Bulls.



Some three thousand cattle breeders

in this state are associated, with head-

quarters in this city. The construc-

tion Of modern American packing and

refrigerating plants has caused an in-

creased demand for heavier beef cat-

tle and the more progressive breeders,

through their association, have asked

to be placed in touch with breeders in

the United States who have young

pure-bred bulls for sale. Beef breeds

are chiefly in demand, but there is also

a field for other classes.



Well illustrated catalogs should be

furnished, and descriptive matter used

should be in either Spanish or Portu-

guese. English will not bring the best

results. ' _



Over Eight Million. Cattle. *



“Official statistic indicate that there

are over eight mil On head of cattle

in this state alone, and experts say

that with modern methods there is am-

ple room for forty million head. These

figures give an idea of the vastness of

the prospect, and there is a good op-

.portunity here for our American breed-





 





HOG EXPORTS TREMENDOUS.





 





LTHOUGH the southwest has rela-



tively shorter supplies of hogs

than any other important producing

region in the United States, one of the

large packing plants of Kansas City is

working four gangs of employes pack-

ing hog products for export. Each gang

packs an average of two thousand

pounds an hour.



Every piece of pork, including hams,

bacon and the cheaper cuts as well, is

carefully examined by a federal meat

inspector prior to being packed for ex'

port. In the process of packing, ma-

chinery is used to put the maximum

amount of meat into each box. In

the packing of’lard for export, barrels,

tins and wooden boxes are used. The

latter are considered the cheapest. The

general quality of the pork products

going for export is fully as high as

the average of the pork and lard con-

sumed in the United States.



80 great is the volume of total hog

. exports from the United

.' m that it is estimated this coun-

- to this market.



~jihhuut. seventy thousand live hogs to

man the neat and lard being pun

,m,:h? Winners. The enormous





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export business is the principal factor be registered when expensive catalogs





her, when matured hogs from the 1919,





are sent. ”





 





TO, BAR “FOOD SPEGULATORS

FROM ARMY SALES.





 





benefit to growers who are Flaming





' "to set out new orchards, or enlarge ‘





their old ones, not only in New York

but other apple growing states.





WHOLESALE grocers. are protest- neglected in orchard surveys and in.

mg against permitting speculat- vesti'ggfiong._m E R





ors and brokers to become bidders for

army food supplies. They contend that __ .

the proper test to be applied to- such

bidders is to make them demonstrate.

that they have an organized outlet for

afoods through regular jobbing or retail

It is unfairvto the public, they

assert, to allow the government sur-

to fall into the

hands Of speculators whose only inter-

est is to hold them for higher prICes

or else to sell them to foreign cOun-

tries. Speculators have overbid whole-

sale grocers for government goods, ex- ‘

pecting teach the merchandise in Eu-





trade.





plus food supplies





rope.





agreed 5. terms.





 





FARM BUREAU HELPED.





 





OUR county sheep association is



gradually reaching its goal of fifty

members, says the Clay county, Iowa,

There are ov-

er ninety farmers who are sheep own-

ers in Clay county and it would sim-

ply be a business proposition for ev-

eryone who may have only one fleece

for sale to join the organization. If

there isn’t a pound of fleece sold

through the association, it has already

justified its existence by the prices

jumping from thirty-five cents to as

high as sixty cents in many localities

It has meant thousands of

dollars to the sheepmen of the state.

The local dealers are doing everything

possible to break up the organization

and as one prominent agricultural

paper put it, “it is time for the sheep





farm bureau exchange.





in Iowa. '





men to stand behind their guns."





 





PROFITS OF APPLE VARIETIES.





 





HE pomological





Other information regarding orchard





conditions in their relation to produc-

tion and profit will he gother‘ed. cov-

ering the type of soil. ehltnral meth-

ods. pruning.

ers if they will extend their activities methods.





Woodmen“

Theworkwillbesinfn





Branches of American Wayne county, where it is planned to

banks are now established in this, get results on two hundred fond fifty

stgt‘e,’ and payments can be arranged fruit farms with ma acres or mot‘e of

through Fth- The njau mtter can bearing" apple





orchard" r, 5 .





A plan whereby these food supplies

might reach consumers in this country

at prices which would allow for only a

reasonable profit to handlers has been

submitted to Illinois congressmen and

to the quartermaster general of the

army, and has received the indorse-

ment of a good many wholesale groc~

ers. As outlined by R. J. Rawson,

manager of the canned goods depart-

ment of the} McNeil & Higgins Com-

pany, the plan in a general way pro-

vides for the fixing of an upset price

to the consumer on staple corn, peas,

and string beans of two cans for twen-

ty-five cents, or $1.40 a dozen. and that

the price to the government be based

on a figure which will allow a fair

profit to the wholesaler and retailer.

Advertisements would be published to

inform the public that the army food

supplies were being marketed on the





department of



Cornell University is making a

survey of the apple orchards in west-

ern New York for the purpose of as-

certaining the relative profit derived

by the growers from the differentwa»

rieties of apples. This will be deter.

mined by the yield for the last five

years, together with the average price

received for the same grades Of each. the mat few years

variety. In addition each grower will

baasked to give his preference regard-

ing both fall and Winter varieties





aromas!





 





CREAMRRIES MERGE. -





 





AIRYMEN of the San Joaquim

Valley, California“, numbering 1,100

have merged their ten cOoperative

creameries with 'an aggregate appraise-

ment of $288, 432. 02 and bycome a unit





fornla.





 





MOVING cATTLa- FROM THE , ’

NORTHWEST.





 





EVERYTHING is in working order



to help the live stock men in the

drought-stricken regions of the north

west. The government is prepared» to

have enough cars to handle the stuff

going to pastures in the cut-over lands

of Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota

and for the stuff which the owners

want to ship to market.



Talks with live stock men from the

range country who have come to Chi-

cago in the last few days show the

true conditions. In fact, no explana-

tion is necessary, the condition and

receipts of cattle, show plenty of evi-

dence of the conditions on the north-

west. range.





riving so far carry as much flesh as

last year. Two years of drought has

hit them hard. They not only lack in

weight, but quality as well. Where the

rancher has had bay to feed instead of

pasture, the cattle .look good; but

where the stock has had to rustle a

living, they look awfully poor.



Many cattle ‘men will go out ”of bus-

iness. Some of them have closed out

already. Cows, calves, yearlings and

twos are being shipped. Some of the

stuff is going to market, and a lot of

it to other localities where there is

feed and water.





 





MODERN FARM MACHINERY.





 





(Continued from preceding page).

The sulky weeder or riding mulcher

as it is sometimes called, is a much

lighter implement and may be equip-

ped with grass and grain seeder at-

tachments. It is particularly adapted

to the needs of the grain and alfalfa

farmer who wants to cover a large

field in a short time.



But slight changes have recently

been made in grain drills, that is. with

the exception of the designing of spe-

cial tractor- drawn designs. The use

of narrow, three and four-inch drills.

does'not ‘seem‘to be increasing very

fast, and as for other crop ‘planting

machinery, a special four-row bean

planter, the motor corn planter as

combined with the motOr cultivator,

large four-row listers, and a potato

planter that cuts the seed as it plants

it, completes the list.



Nor has there been any marked

change in the design of the new culti-

vators placed on the market within

There is some in-

crease in the popularity of the shal-

low or surface type, some very eifi- ,

cient one-horse implements with wide

cultivating sweeps or blades that cut

"all the space between the roivs being

offered, and attention may well be

called to devices for weeding in or





close to the rows. brush weeders. f

tobacco hoes, some new three and {our





row beet and bean cultivators, and

the motor onltivators 0; Elliott the

not





 





This information should be Of" much if:





The '

matter of profits has too otte’n been





Of the associated dairymen of Cali~





, Hardly any of the range cattle ar-
Men who are old and bent with years are the only ones who have experi-

enced the successive triUmphs that marked each step in the evolution

Wfrpmithe old hand tools to the modern self-binder.





Harvest- Methods of Old





By J. H. Brown





URING, these exceedingly busy

days of wheat harvesting, and

especially this season when such

enormous yields of wheat are in sight

on almost every farm~ in southern

Michigan, we wish to call attention to

the fact that around the writer’s. farm

home near Climax, a farmer named

Hiram Moore invented and built the

first halvesting machine in the whole

wide world. _

And just a few 'days ago we went

out to‘t-he Post-Tavern Farm and took





' a picture of the latest method (if cut~'





ting ~wheat. ‘On. the George Brinin-





s’tool farm, while the Ceresco Farm-j





ers’ Club was holding a movie stunt

under our direction, we posed two

pioneer farmers cutting rye with an

old grain cradle. The cradle is over

eighty years old and we are saving it

for the local historical society.



These pictures represent the two

extremes’ of methods and machines for

cutting "wheat. The first goes back to

.the days before the Civil War when

wheat grew almost like a weed on

many fauna in the southern counties.

The hand cradle was to be seen at

work in patches and small fields full

.of stumps, and sometimes iii larger

' fields of twenty acres or more.



-' In those days farmers, like the two

pioneers ,busy in the eradling scene,

could swing a cradle against the grain





and cut a wide swath. Since then

many young men in the cities have

cut Wide swaths for a spell; but what

they harvested was not the grain, but

a dizzy head and bad breath from the

distillation thereof.



Farmers Ransom Markham and

George Brininstool, although they have

wandered about their farms on this

mundane sphere for nearly three-quar-

ters of a Century without getting diz-

zy from the grain they took from the

soil, show they can still cut Wide

swaths and bind big bundles with

hand-made bands just as well as in

the days before the Civil War. We

hate to tell how wide this swath is

that Farmer Markham is cutting, but

we have heard old pioneers claim they

could cut and lay a fine swath from

eleven to fourteen feet wide, short

measure.



In this picture it will be noticed

that the rye is heavy and tall. In fact,

the grain cradle needed seven fingers

instead of the usual four. It is diffi-





“Cult to cut such tall and heavily filled





grain by swinging the cradle high in-

stead of low. Inorder to cut the stalks

easily and cleanly, even when the

knife is sharp, it 'is better to swing

the cradle to out not over eight‘inch-

es from theground.



This old cradle has been gazed at



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’ Micfligdn Potato Grower: Exchange Held 1122mm] 1“

Me End of a Year of 81g Burma;





HE members of the Michigan

Potato Growers’ Exchange and

their officers are to be congratu-

_ lated on the very successful business

season the y have just closed. The re-

. edits of the first year’s work almost

dazzles the imagination of the ordi-

nary mortal and certainly thrills his

In twelve months’ time the 10-

‘cal units have been increased from

twenty-nine to fifty-two, the member-

T‘ship from around four thousand to

nine thousand, and the year’s business

reached nearly to the two million

mark. ' 1 .



The officers of the central exchange

and the various locals have had a big

task before them. Eveiything was new

and they weie obliged to feel their

way along. The men were constantly

facing new situations and it would

,have been a miracle among miracles if

there had been no differences of opin-

ions as to how the work should be ex-

ecuted. And being thinking men who

“felt keenly the responsibilities they

were carrying it is not to be wondered

at that occasionally these differences

developed into severe tests to those in

charge.



But this bouncing young organiza-

tion is living and heathy today be-

cause of its broad-guage leaders- and

the presence among the membership

of the genuine spi1it of cooperation.

These men were thoroughly sold on

the idea that farmeis to do their bus1-

ness most efficiently must perform it

through an o1ganization. In all their

efforts the leaders of the Michigan Po-

tato Growers’ Exchange did not lose

sight of this compelling necessity, and

it was their loyalty to the main princi-

ple that helped them over the rough

places, to care for the tremendous bus-

iness done and to attract others to

unite with Michigan’s greatest cooper-

ative enterprise.



An idea of the organization and

growth of this fa1meis business con-

cern may be gained from a biief of

President DOI'I D. Buell’s address. de-

livered at the annual meeting held at

Cadillac July 21-22. He was unable to

say just where the movement started.

It came into being as the result of a

spontaneous outgrowth in several 10-

calities. At the 'psychological moment

Hale Tennant, State Agent of the Fed-

eral Bureau of Markets,

appearedon the scene and

crystallized enthusiasm in-

to real cooperative organ-



‘ izations. In August of

1918 authorized represent-

atives from thirty«three of

these newly formed units

met at Traverse City and

brought into * being the

Michigan Potato Growers’

Exchange. Actually bnly

twenty-nine of the associa-

tions affiliated themselves

in the central exchange.

Cadillac was selected as

headquarters and directors

were chosen. The primary

object in the minds of the

pioneer members was to

use this organization to

sell potatoesv-the most im-

portant cash crop grown

by the members. Con-

sequently contracts were

made with the members of

each local to handle their

surplus potatoes Selling

arrangements were enter-

ed into with the North





‘6 American Fruit Exchange,





which concern sent G. E.

_ Prater” as sales manager.

Hardly before the [details





of organization could bewhipped into.





shape, ca-rlnads of early potatoes were.





ready to be marketed. When the main

crOp ripened the number of cars rap-

idly increased from a half dozen to





ten, twenty, thirty 11. day, and during:





the busiest season tr. e shipments went

as high as forty-five cars in a single

twenty-four hours. The total business





amounted to $1,808,.,16.- 74 up. to June 7

30. The largest membership of any of‘





the locals is found‘at Cedar, -where

they have two hundred and seventy-

four, while, the greatest amount of bus-





general reports when less than one-

half of the locals furnish the needed

information. Mr. Buell has observed

that Wherever local managers come in

and get ,aequsinized with the; practices

at the central. ofice; there cooperation

is greatly imp1:6v.'ed through a better.

appreciatiOn of the necessity, of mak-

ing reports and replies promptly.



A further suggestion was made that





tions be undertaken. This, he; declar-

ed could be accomplished thro'ugh a

warehouse superintendent authorized





The Whole Delegation was Taken to “Park on the Lakes” for Banquet.





iness was done by the Hart Associa-

tion, amounting to $137,000. One asso-

ciation having only seventy-three mem-

bers shipped seventy-six cars of po-

tatoes.



As a 1esu1t of the satisfactory mar-

keting the number of member associa-

tions increased rapidly during the year

until now there are fifty~two locals, or

nearly twice the number that joined in

the scheme a year ago, and besides

organizations in other communities are

ready and anxious to become members.

This success was attained despite the

fact that the selling force faced a de-

clining market during the' largerypor-

tion of the marketing season. 6



Mr. Buell also mentioned that the

chief criticism offered by farmer mem-

bers was that returns were made too

slowly. This the president hoped could

be coriected to a certain extent this

coming year. He added that the Ex-

change would be assisted in attaining

this end and other advantages as well

through more prompt cooperation on

the part of, the local associations.

Many locals failed to make reports on

anticipated shipments which placed

the central exchange at a disadvan-

tage: It is difficult also to make out





to go about carrying the best ideas

from one association to another. Com-

petitions could be arranged so that ev-

ery official would be inspired to take

the utmost pride in the work he is

endeavoring to do.



In the report of Secretary-Treasurer

Wood the prices received for the dif-

ferent grades of potatoes during the

several months of the marketing sea-

sdn were given. No. 1 sacked pota-

toes averaged $1.66 per cwt. mr Jan-

uary; $1.452 for February; $1.455 for

March; $1.294 for April; $1.981 for

May, and $1.605 for June, or an aver-

age for the six months of $1.666. Dur-

ing this same period No. 1 in bulk sold

at an average of $1.488, and No. 2 bulk

at seventy—eight cents per cwt. The

total average price for the season’s

shipment was $1.627. There were 2,118

cars of potatoes and 109 cars of ap-

ples. hay, beans, buckwheat and other

products sold.



Sales Manager G. E. Prater, Jr., had

prepared a lengthy detailed report of

his work. It is interesting to note how

the sales of potatoes were distributed

over the country. The following tabu-

lation shows the various states to

which shipments were made, the num-





ber of cars forwarded the number offl

buyers to Whom. sent and the number -

of cities taking shipments:





‘- ‘ __ No.01 No; of No. of



State. ~ ’ .Cars. Buyers. Cities.

Alabama H'.‘ . .y . 1

Connecticut 1" ....... 31 j -

Dist. of Columbia 11 ‘

Florida . . 8 ”

Georgia _ ’

Indiana ....f'."i....170 "

IllinOis ‘ ' ‘





Louisiana ..... 1 . . . .

Massachusetts ‘. . .‘

Michigan

Maine



Missouri

Maryland



New York ..

New Jersey . .....

New Hampshire...

North Carolina

Ohio '

Pennsylvania .

Rhode Island

South Carolina . . .

Tennessee ,,

Virginia . . ......

Wisconsin



West Virginia . .



_ In all, there were 2,118 cars Shipped

to 401 buyers in 186 cities in twenty-

six states. It was learned from the re-

ports that the losses, or the difference

betWeen the price agreed upon and the

price actually received by the Ex-

change, averaged largest in the states

of Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania.

This difference for the entire season's

shipments amounted to $8.93 per car.

Mr. Prater stated that the majority of

the rejections were due to large per-

centage of scab and to growth cracks,

but that not a single car was rejected

because of the size of the tubers.



In the organization of the Exchange

plans were' adopted whereby it would

be possible to handle other products

than potatoes, and to buy materials

needed by the members, notwithstand-

ing the fact that the organization was

called the potato growers' exchange.

Ten local. associations provided in their

organizatiomto take advantage of this

provision. Hay, beans, apples, and

buckwheat Were the principal crops"

sold outside of potatoes, according to

to the report of H. A. Arnold, special

sales manager and purchasing agent of

the organization. As the members were

not obliged to sell these p1oducts

through the Exchange, as was thee case

with potatoes, the directors did not.



anticipate a large business

however, during the few

months. that this depart-

ment has been in action,

$177,866 worth of these

products" were sold and

$68,836 worth of materials

were purchased.- The ma:

terials ~bought consisted

largely of bags, seeds"and

spray materials. .

Mr. Arnold suggested

that every important line.

of» produce be handled in a

similar manner to that em-

ployed 'for selling pota-

toes, and that an expert

be engaged for managing

the sales of. each product.

Binding contracts to sell

these' products through the

associations should be

made with the members. i

' Some confusion and dis-

advantages resulted where

the purchasing of mate:

rials could be done

through either the locals

or the central Exchange.

,Where several managers





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by Repairing Stone Bruises





GOODYEAR Tire that looked

perfectlysound on the outside

blew out one day. The owner, Mr.‘

> J. G. Jenkins, of 2106 Maryland

' "Avenue, Louisville, took it to a Good-

year Service Station. Examination ‘

revealed a fabric bruise on the inside

[of the tire—probably caused by

(bumping into a sharp curb. The

‘ f‘bruise had been neglected so long

that it had developed into a serious

fracture whose edges caught and

pinched through the tube, causing

’ the blow-out. _ The Goodyear Service

Station Dealer advised the use of a

Goodyear Rim-Cut Patch. With it

Mr. Jenkins got 2, 000 more miles

{ram the tire.





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OT even the thick muscular

Goodyear All-Weather (Tread

can protect the inner ‘plies of fabric

tires when cars are backed sharply





against square curbs or strike ob-

, ,jects at high speed. - . ,





In such cases the innermost layers

of fabric are sometimes stretched

beyondtheir elastic limit- and some

Of the threads have ,to break.





The tire is weakened at this point,

the fracture enlarges, and eventually

the tube is pinched by the ' jaws of

the resulting fabric break and a





blow-out follows.





Generally such tires can be satis-





'faCtori1y repaired.





Goodyear Service Station Dealers

and many car-owners use the Good-

year Rim-Cut Patch to temporarily

repair such bruises until it is possible

to have them permanently vul—

canized.





If the tire is too old to be worth

vulcanizing, the Goodyear Rim-Cut





Patch, securely cemented in, makes





a permanent repair enabling the tire

to deliver a great many additional

miles.





This most effective inside boot is so

constructed that it will repair any

possible injury—a cut through the

top—a blow-out in the side, or even

a rim-cut.





It gained its name many years ago,

before Goodyear improvements had

produced tires constructed to elimi-

nate rim—cutting.





For Cord Tires the Goodyear Cord

Patch is used in the same manner as

the rim-cut patch.





Lesson 4 of the Goodyear Con-





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servation Course tells you how to ‘





detect and repair stone bruises——

ask your Goodyear Service Station

for it, or write to Akron.





The Goodyear Tire 8: Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

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51’; :jV'ruRmVPs FORV cow'rEsD.





. ‘ 1 have been told that 11 turnips are

; fed to a new it will cause the milk to

i become tainted, and the butter will

be very Door and salvy.

Kalamazoo Co. . E. M

, It might be possible to Iced a cow

enough turnips so that it would taint

the milk, but if turnips are fed in a

sensible way just as you would any

other root crop, there is no danger

whatever from this. It won't do to

. feed a cow entirely on turnips. , She

must have hay and she ought to have

grain. When you do this, give her

f as much as one- -half bushel night and

.morning; it will 'not taint the milk,

and they make a splendid cow feed.

There is no root crop that is more

relished by cows than either rutabag‘

as or turnips.



You can taint the milk of cows by.

feeding them in excess any of the

root crops or any rank growing plant

fed in a green state, if you allow them

to eat too much of it at first, but if it

is fed in a rational way, feeding a

modest amount at first and in connec-

tion with other foods, there is no dan-

ger of tainting the milk through any

of these foods. C. C. L.





 





 





 





 

 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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PLOWING U NDER ALFALFA.





 





If V. P., of Allegan county, will get

a plow provided with a steel point he

will be able to plow under his alfalfa

without having to stop every two

hours. A. H. G.



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VARIETIES OF ALFALFA.





 





I have ten acres of land which I am

preparing fo1 alfalfa. Will you please

advise me which variety is best adap-

ted to my section of the state? Do

you believe it will pay me to go to the

extra trouble and expense of sending

away for Grimm or Cossack seed, and

where can I send for these varieties?



Hillsdale Co. J. H. R.



' If this land has been well prepared

that is, lime applied if necessary, and

well prepared otherwise, there is lit-

tle chance of failure provided he sows

hardy seed. There is no question

about the value of Grimm and Cos-

sack as compared with the common

\sorts. An alfalfa variety test that has

been put on the Cass County Poor

Farm has demonstrated this beyond

the question of a doubt. We regard

the Cossack as being a trifle superior

to the Grimm or Baltic. The Grimm

and Baltic a1e about the same. The

hardy Dakota and Montana strains

come next and the common is way be-

low eveiything else. It reminds one

of a herd of cattle. Your common a1-

falfa might be compared _to the scrub,

the, hardy northern grown strains

would put you in mind of grade ani-

mals while the Grimm, Cossack and

Baltic certainly are pure-breds.





 

 

 





   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

   

   





tures about these hardy varieties that

we are not all familiar with. I will

attempt to give ,_ some of, them. First.

extreme hardiness and long lived;

second, superior yielding qualities;

third, more extensive root systems;

fourth, more frost and draught resist-

ant»; fifth, less seed required per acre»;

sixth, less danger of getting noxious





grown in the United»~States because



noseed of these varities is imported.

. These hardy varieties may be ob

-.1tained from most any reliable seed

:1 company. D. W.





VETCH FOR HAYV.





 





 

 





; \. I am thinking of sowing rye and

75111111141118 fall for buy. What variety

'1 wquid you advise and how "much seed;

‘ germ" ls retch and rye hay

cure?





 

 

 





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for dairy cows? Will it come up with

clover hay? Can it"be fed to horses?

Could it also be used to pasture pigs

and horses?

Livingston Co. W. K.

There is only one kind of vetch that





we know very much about in thisf





country and that is supposed to be the

best variety. All Others

discarded.¢ This ‘one' vetch [is known

as hairy‘vetch and also as sand vetch

and winter vetch. This plant has pro-

duced wonderful results in bringing

up run- -down land. It is adapted to

most any kind of soil and will grow on

soil that is so much run down that

ordinary crops will not produce prof-

itable returns. If this plant is used

for hay it must be sown in connection

with some other plant, like rye, other-

wise it lays flat on the ground and it

is impossible to harvest it for hay.

The rye, however, helps hold it up so

that it can be cut with the mowing

machine. If sown with the rye you

could use about a bushel of vetch and

a bushel of rye to the acre.





In many Sections it is quite common

practice to sow sand vetch at the last

cultivation of the corn. It will grow

nearly all winter and can be plOWed

under in the spring. In this way you

can accumulate quite cheaply a large

amount of vegetable matter in the soil

and this is the very best quality of

vegetable matter because the vetch

plant belongs to the leguminous fam-

ily of plants; that is, plants which

bear their seed in pods and like other

plants of this family, it has the pow—

er of obtaining free nitrogen from the

atmosphere through the bacteria in

the nodules on its roots. .



There is no mystery about raising

vetch at all. Sow it any time you

would sow winter wheat or rye, or





sow it earlier in the growing corn, or.





you can sow it in the spring for a

cover crop, but if you want to harvest

it it should be sewn late in the season,

like wheat or rye, and then matured

the next year.



This plant makes splendid hay. It

is fully as rich in protein as alfalfa

and when made into hay it should be

harvested and cured in the same way

as clover hay or alfalfa. C. C. L.





CRIMSON RAMBLER R’osss.





 





Please tell me what to do for my

Crimson Rambler rose bush. It is cov-

ered with a white mold and seems to

be dying. The flowers are pale and





only partly open

Eaton Co. ‘ ,Mrs. J. W. P.





Replying to the inquiry regarding

the Crimson Rambler roses, will say

that without the specimens of the af-

fected parts I do not feel quite safe in

making a satisfactory reply. Crimson

Rambler roses are comparatively free

from diseases of any sort, although I

have sometimes seen them attacked by

insects, though not often-1'

incomplete-desoription of the‘ trouble,

the first thought that comes tone is

that it has an'attack of mildew “though

I have never seen a Rambler so af-

fected. It is often ”the case, however,





that Ramblers are planted in all sorts.





'Ot illeprepared places, and it is well

recognized among all plant growers





that wherever the strug 16 for oxist- .

numb of Calhoun '..Ccf in his criticism





once is keen, and especially among

males. they have so: good many enemies.

The simplest remedy for this mildew.





.to take a. «county of the «was of





{have been ”





From the '





Sulphur, say two for three'tablespoom

fuls, put it in a common ten-cent emp-

ty salt bag and dust the plants with it,-

when they are’ thoroughly dry.—-T. G.





 





SEVEDING ALFALFA.





 





I don't want to cast any reflections

on W. M. -.,K page 940, of your June

28 issue, but if R, P. 1),, of Calhoun

coomy, wishes to sow his five acres

to alfalfa I would like to see him do

it this year. The quicker he can get

it started the better it will be for him

and not wait a year or two. A few

years ago I had a clover and timothy

sod that had been mowed two years.

I took off the hay and plowed it in

July, keeping ground worked well,

and sowed to alfalfa the last of Aug-

ust after a nice rain, and had good

success with it.

good to apply before sowing, but tell

R. P. D. to be sure and get hardy,

northern grown, non-irrigated seed,

and keep soil worked down well until

sowed I didn’t need to use lime. I

was born in Calhoun county over forty

years ago and live on my farm in Cal-

houn county now. I do wish more

fauners would use alfalfa. It is great

hog pasture after two years old.



Calhoun Co. J. A.



In answer to R. P. D.’s question on

seeding alfalfa on sod ground late in

August, I would say this, his chances

of’failure are much greater than his

chances of success. Good seedings of

alfalfa may be obtained on sod ground

.but not without very careful prepara-

tion. A good deal depends upon w‘heth-

er the land in question is heavy or of

a sandy loam character; if it is the

latter type, I would prefer a good sod

to anything else. If the land is of a

heavier type, hence a bettengrass

land, it is necessary to precede your

alfalfa seeding with a cultivated crop.

and if the land is in need of lime it

may be applied before this cultivated

crop is planted. The spring following

this land would simply betsurface cul-

tivated and kept well worked until ap-

proximately the first of June when

your seeding would be made. . If R. P.

D.’s land is light to medium weight

‘soil I would suggest.that he plow this

sod during the latter'part of August

or September. If lime is needed, and

very likely it is, apply it as soon as

the ground is plowed. Use the max-

imum amount of lime rather than the

minimum. Drag this ground perhaps

twice then let it lay untilspring. As

soon as the ground is fit to work in





the spring disk this land thoroughly, ’





then keep it- well worked untilahout

the first of June. The‘ alfalfa may

then be seeded without any great

danger of grass running it out for four

or five years. The gentleman in ques-

tion will'have less trouble from this





source if he uses hardy Grimm, Bal-'





tic, or Cossack alfalfa seed. No nurse

crop should be sown with this alfalfa

seeding. If it should be necessary to

make a seeding as late as the middle

of August to the first of September





it would be advisable to sow. about,

three peeks 0f oats per acre to pro.

tect the young alfalfa. during the win--





tor. The cats will make quite a. growth

and will die down after the first or

second hard free-£1 thus affording a

good deal. of protection by covering

up the young alfalfa plants.





I calm -_agree with Mr. J Al Bar-





.of the way W. M K. answered this his

unity. It is porfectiy evident} that Mr.





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Airfield knowrthat a. r 1) a chm;

r’forsuccess would be very“ slim unless

he could make the weather. to order. -:—





It would seem to me there would have .1





to be three conditions. present fer the- 1 . .

success of this venture this 15111; 11m. ‘ ,

land that is not in need or linie; sec- 7

mid, moderately





light land;

plenty of rain. It is very probable

that we will not get plenty of rain,

also, if this medium light soil there

is not one chance in one‘thous'and but

that he needs limeqnite badly. If he

has heavy soil and does not need lime

he cannot seed with success as late

as this because of controlling the

grass sod, and furthermore, his alfalfa





will not get large enough to go thrOugh '





thenwinter. On the heavy land it. will

heave out unless it gets a very good

start before cold weather sets in.



D. W.





A SUCCESSFUL SEASON'S WORK.





 





(Continued from page 110).

ly get the idea that if it could not séu

to the central Exchange' it would be

possible. to make arrangements with’

the .locals, consequently a higher price

would be quoted. Mr. Arnold believed

that it would be better to make all pur—

chases through the central organiza-

tion largely for the above reason.



Many products he felt should be car-

ried in stock, and to. do this a ware-

house of sufficient size would be re;

quired. He believed that on. imple—

ments alOne, a saving of many_thou-

sands of dellars ‘could be made for the

members if satisfactory service could

be given.



Following Mr. Ainold’s rcpo1t the

question was discussed as to whether

the Exchange ought to contract to sell

their entire surplus of potatoes





through a single private selling agency '





as they had done the past year. On

this point there appeared to be some

sincere difference of opinion, some

thinking that to be free to ship‘to any

organizationwould inspire competition

and a desire to render the utmost ser-

vice, while others felt that the past

season had been a succesSful one and

that the present arrangements ought





to be continued for at least another ‘





season- The matter, of course, was

considered for the purpose of giving

the officials an idea of how the various





associations felt about the matter. The





board of directors will decide definite-

ly what will be done.



During the meeting C. E; Bassett,

recently with the United States Bu-

reau of Markets, but now in charge of

the field work of the North American

Fruit. Exchange, which does the sell-

ing of— the Exchange potatoes; empha-

sized the fact that it‘ was not onlygnec-





es‘sary to have quality and quantity. in





such an exchange, but that there be a

copyrighted brand or' label by which





, thatquality could be identified in the -





market. It takes time for a reputation

to. beCome established and the Ex-

change growers must realize that, if

they hold up their standards, the job

of marketing will become more easy

and their profits will thereby increase.

“Don’t expect too much the first year

—you have much to ”learn; You have

had some cars rejected on account of

their» condition





had rejections and have always paid





you a price that Would cover their 1083- .



gear from? these rejections, Your job is »

to so [gross hat-yest, grader sack and ‘

load your products as ‘to remove your ’

:own mistakes and your selling manna ‘

cry will be able‘ to report fewer dam-*1 _:

blunts... increasing confidence. . with





 





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NYONE traveling through the





state cannot but observe that it.





is not all level farm land, al-

though a great share of the best gen-

eral farming area is comparatively

level. Up in our section of the state

we are, many Pf us, trying to farm

the hills. . .



The northwestern Michigan coun-

ties do contain some of the fairest

work of the Creator and the tourist

cannot but be fascinated with the var-

ied sky line, broken by hills; paintedc

landscapes of the artist may be daily

realized by the poorest inhabitant of

the hilly sections, as he simply locks

through the picture frame of his own

cottage window.



As We come to understand the in-

trinsic value of a beautiful country-

side, we realize that the saying, “You

can’t make a living on a beautiful

view,” is not altogether true. It is

the beauty of the trees, lakes, streams.

hills and plains which attracts tour-

ists and resorters; that they who thus

make their stay with us in the sum-

mer do not add to the prosperity of

'the community in the broken hilly

country, no one could honestly say.





Not only do the hills lend beauty to

the countryside; they also are more

free from unseasonahle frosts than

the surrounding lowlands. Ask any

high school boy who has studied phy-

sics, and he will tell you that cold air

is heavier than warm air, and gravi-

tates to lower levels. Many have no-

ticed in driving over broken country

on a clear still night, that it was much

colder in passing through a ravine or

dip in the road, than in other places

of higher level. ~



Unseasonable frosts are dreaded in

any section, but particularly so in the

fruit growing regions. If the oats or

clover are nipped they will come on

again, but if the fruit blossoms go

through a killing frost, another year

will have to go by before a crop of

fruit can be grown. Put together

these two facts—the danger of a late

spring frost to fruits and the natural

protection from frosts afforded by a

site elevated above the surrounding

lands, and we have the argument for

fruit growing on the hills.





I think we have named all the ad-

vantages of our western Michigan hills

for farm purposes-—unless, indeed, it





be added that many such farms which:

are so rough as to be unthinkable for.





farming as ordinarily practiced, can

be bought for a song; you get more

'land surface than the“

states, too.



It will not take an Indiana settler

from the corn belt, who buys a cheap

hilly farm and tries to keep up his old

Indiana practice in farming, more than

one season to find out the disadvan-

tages of hillside farming. Even grant-

ing that the soil may be rich in virgin

fertility, and that it does not wash

badly after heavy rains, and that the

farm is protected from winds which

so frequently blow the sand and seed-

ing away—there still remain enough

objections to the hillside farm to pro-

;voke serious study.



This is the age of agricultural ma-

chinery. Our forefathers could per-

haps make a living on a hilly' farm

'_ nearly as well as from a level one,

when most of the planting and her-

[vesting on either farm had to be done

It does not take a very

bright student to figure that the rea-

son present day bean and corn grow-





, you, on very rough land cannot accum-





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By E. H Broom





ulate fat pocketbooks is because they

have too great a cost of produCtion in

hand labor as compared to the ma-_





chine labor cost of. the dweller on a

level. farm. For instance, the writer

has lived six years in the hilly part

of. Benzie county, and not one check

rower for planting corn has he seen in

use. The owner of'a two-row riding

cultivator living on an eighty-acre

hilly farm does not use said cultivat-

or but about once in three years—dust

when the crop rotation permitscorn

in the only level field on the farm.

Hilly farms are hard on horses,

men and tractors. Only the most =pow~





erful and sand-proof of the caterpillar

type of tractors are of use on hills.

and it is doubtful if they will displace





horses because of the difficulty in man-

aging turns; v keeping the. "outfit right

side up "when running around the

slope.



Here again we come to a distinct

advantage afforded by the orchard and

hillside combination as compared to

the general farming proposition on

rough land. No machine has or will

he invented to take the place of the

human maChine in most of the opera-





tions connected with fruit growing.





We still plant trees by hand, prune by

hand,~ thin and harvest by hand. In

all these operations, we can compete

with the grower-whose location per~

mits him to do many times more wOrk

than we can do, on crops other than

fruit, where he can" use labor-saving





 





 





The Live Stock Far-mer





By G. H. Comz





S one travels a long distance



through the country, he is con-



stantly impressed with the var-

ious types of farms that line the road.

Some show a very prosperous appear-

ance. Fields and meadows stretch

away in a green rolling panorama, and

sleek live stock graze contendedly in

the distance. Grain waist and head

high, nods in the breeze; the smell of

clover sweetens the air, and there is

a thrifty appearance to all vegetation

that bespeaks a fertile soil and care-

ful cultivation. Invariably modern farm

buildings add ,the final touch to the air

of prosperity and success that hangs

over such places. And if you have

been schooled in the ways of farming

you know at once that these are live

stock farms, and that live stock was

the key to their success.



But there is another type of farm

that the traveler encounters. It has a

hang-dog appearance. The fields are

green but the crops look poor and

stunted as though starved of the ele-

ments needed for full development.

The absence of cattle or sheep denotes





.a lack of interest in live stock raising





and appearance of the crops. It usu-

ually also explains the run-down ap-

pearance of the barns and house, for

the ,man of experience knows .that

without live stock to replenish-the soil





'of the elements that are annually. tak-

en away by‘the crops, there cannot-be





the highest success.





Show~me a community where‘live-





stack is 'not raisednnd'l will show

you a community. where public im-

provements are lacking. the roads and

schools are poor, the farms are not

producing profitably and the buildings

are out of date, money is scarce and

the rate of interest is highgthe young

people from this community are leav-

ing the farm and going to the city. ‘



On the other hand, show me a com-

munity where good live stock are rais-

ed and I will show you a community

of prosperous, contented farmers.

Their roads and schools are of the

best. ~Farm buildings are is good re-

pair and their homes have all the mod-

ern conveniences. Their crops are

good, money plentiful, and rates of in-

terest are reasonable. The young peo-

ple from such 'a community are stay-

ing on the farm. They can see the ad-

vantage of such a life over that of a

shop life in the city.



Some way must be found to feed the





great numbers of people who have

flocked from the farms to the cities

the past decade, and the solution of

this problem is resting with the farm-

er. The fact that this increase is go-

ing on and that meat contributes a

large part of the diet of the average

American family makes it reasonable

to suppose that we will never see any

cheap meats again for any length of

time.



At the present time good live stock

is bringing good prices for food pur-

poses; but we can not see but what

the man who is breeding purebred

farm animals of quality, will get very

high prices for all the animals he can

spare for breeding stock for several

years to come.



The possibilities of the live stock

farmer are almost unlimited and al-

most unbelievable. .The men who are

getting results in their breeding op-

erations are reaping rich financial re-

wards; cattle, horses, sheep and 'hogs

of quality and that are typical of their

type are bringing enormous prices;

there seems to be scarcely a limit to

the prices that men will pay for breed-

ing animals in an effort to increase

the value of their hero and its pro-

geny. The man' thatcan produce" the

highest class of live stock at thistime

need not. go begging for his reward.

as. there'are many men‘just waiting to





hear his price; and then. write the,





check. Themanithat can and:~is breed





is now doing and he need have no

fears as to being able to be well re

paid for his efforts.



Let us all boost for the livestock

farmer, not because he needs it, but

because our country, needs" live stock

farms, instead of grain farmers; let us

boost for them because it makes for

prosperity and, happy contented farm-

ers and because it contributes more

largely than any other branch of farm-

ing to maintaining the fertility of our

farms, let us boost for it becauseit

makes us independent and prosperous

and beCause it brings us everythihg





that is‘good. Let us all have this for.





our slogan,"‘Better and more dive stock

on every farm," yes, let us go one bet-

ter m6 have another slogan equally as





applicable and here it is, “Pure-bred.





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machinery against our hand lather.

To be honest in the matter, we can8





not cOnscientiously argue for fruit

growing. even. on many of our hills.

'Tliere are enough desirable orchard





locatiOns in the state which still await

discovery and development, to render

many of the more ‘steep- hills and irf

regular tracts in Michigan 3. very dis-

tant consideration to [anyone who

wishes to develop a paying orchard.

For while it is true that some slope

and elevation is highly desirable for

frost protection—air drainage as the

orchard engineer says—it is also very

evident that if the. topography .is not

so broken as to interfere with the use

of tractors in cultivation, a consider‘

able saving in cost of tillage is afford-

ed by «the elevated but gently sloping

orchard site.



There is one way of getting around

the tillage problem on a steep hill

where nothing but fruit can be .grown

——don't till. Spade or hoe around the

trees, especially while young, to keep

the mice away, and let the grass grow

—if possible, encourage the growth of

sweet clever or alfalfa. The grass

must be cut for mulch, after the most

approved sod mulch methods, all the

vegetable growth between the trees

being allowed to go back into the soil,

and preferably, haul additional mate-

rial in the form of manure, straw,

spoiled hay, etc., to use as a mulch

where the normal growth is too thin.

On the steep hillside orchard there is

also the problem of hauling a. heavy

spray tank up the hill. A suggestion

here is the method practiced on hill-

top orchards in our section. Build a

cistern on the hilltop, and put a roof

over it for shedding water into the

cistern. The empty tank can be haul-

ed up the hill, the cistern water siph<

oned or tapped off, and the spraying

done in such a-manner that the tank

will be nearly, empty before a return

for refilling beComes necessary, after

having sprayed out on the way down

hill.



We know of several farms where





the original stand of timber has been





taken off, the land cleared, and the soil

farmed until it became too discourag-

ing because of the evils of the hill~

side, when trees were again set our for

reforestation purposes. This is prov-

ing a sensible investment providing

the cattle are not allowed in the tract.





On“ two adjoining: farms where the

hills wéreyoungmountains, and the'

owners =had given up cropping them: '

and— used them for permanent pasture,-



After the trees; .

’- were planted they were given the right“

ing geodvstock, should s-tayon'therjob‘

and redouble his. energy-andv‘do." his

best to produce better animals than be





white pines were set.





of way‘on the one farm while the cat-





'tle were still permitted Lin the other “'5'

> It needs no argu.r '





would~be piner'y

ment to convince any observer of the

two plots of trees of the fact that even

reforestation .of a hillside calls for

some effort on the part of the owner.





There are' still many woOded hill»





sides; ravines, and gullies, l'h the brok-

en lake and stream region of beautiful

western Michigan. Surely the lessons

to be obServed in denuded and sand-





blown hillsides, washed by the rains,





ought to teach us that such areas were





never intended by the Creatorfor any» V





thing more than a permanent forest or

woodlot By selectIVe thinning, always

leaving enough trees to shade the

grass and shrubbery 'out of the forest

floor, it will be possible to retain on

many farms a permanent woodlot,





which will he an asset for fuel when.





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What Fixes the Value Of a Tractor?





The value of a” tractor to you depends mainly

upon the number of horses you can sell after you

have bought it. The price you pay for your tractor

should not be very much greater than the saving

you make in horses and harness and feed. The

saving in time and labor, doing your work at the

right time, increased acreage—these help make the

'buy a good one. But horse displacement is the great

determining factor in tractor value. 'This should

be the determining factor in its price.



Anyfarmer can thus figure out whether or not

he shOuld have .33, tractor. '





The Samson Tractor is priced on that basis.

It is sold on that basis.





If the Samson Tractor (Model M) will not dis-

place three horses on your farm, we do not want

you to‘buy.





This policy is new in the tractor industry, but it

is the most fundamental of economic principles.





You can buy a Samson Tractor with its value

equal to its price because it is produced in volume,

sold efliciently, and service is available to its owners

on a basis just and fair to all.





The price is $650, f. o. b. Janesville, Wisconsin

This includes Belt Pulley. and Governor—Platform and Fenders, $50.00 additional





Should you have a Samson? We can help you answer

that question. We want to help you. The Samson Model M

is a two-three plow tractor. The kind and amount of farm-

ing you do determines whether it is the tractor for you. If

it isn't, we don’t want you to buy one.





To help us help you we will-need some information. Please





'fill in the coupon fully and carefully and mail it today-

We want to send you also a copy of our little book.—

“The Samson Tractor Story.”

This book will give you the information you have been

wanting about this tractor—the most talked-of product of

the whole farm power world.





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102 Industrial Avenue, Janesville,’Wisconsin





The Samson Tractorgis made by a division of

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HE real worth of the milking

. ~. machine is asserting itself since

so much of the work on the farm

is performed by large implements that

cut down the number of men needed

to keep up the work in the fields. It

not only saves time and meney, but it

makes it possible to regulate the num-

ber of cows kept on the farm to the

mount of feeding materials produced

at a profit. Rapidly it is downing the

prejudice that has led many farmers.

unacquainted with these economic ad-

vantages, to assume that it is imprac-

tical on the average dairyvfarm.

Naturally it has been the dairy farm-

er of means who has demonstrated to





milking machine “makes good.” It

takes a‘ grasp of economic principles

and some patience to ‘readjust the

barn and field work so that the milk-

ing machine will fall in with the reg-

ular routine of the year and give max-

imum returns on the investment.

Farmers were slow to accept the trac-

tor as a suitable implement for their

use. They are buying them now by

the thousands, convinced that they will

do for one farmer what they have done

for others. The milking machine and

power outfit costs about one-half as

much as a good farm tractor. It is»

wholly a utility machine and in ordi-

nary drudgery of the most irksome

kind it pays for itself in the saving of





. help in the barn.





The experimental stage of milking

with machines has passed. The scar-

city of good milkers and the difficul-

ties in distributing work on the dairy

farm evenly throughout the year has

prompted many dairy farmers to in-

vest in milking machines. Reasoning

stubbornly along the lines that it

would cost more to operate the ma-

chines and do the necessary stripping

many dairy farmers have blinded

themselves to the year’s accomplish-

ments. Perhaps a few minutes are

lost in preparing the cows and follow-

ing the machines to get the strippings,

but what is that compared with the

tired hands and time spent in getting

the bulk of the milk.





The milking .machine is not fool

proof. A lot of good mechanics are

not sufficiently in sympathy with the

cows to make good milkers. Thou-

sands of good milkers are not good

enough mechanics to operate a milk-

ing machine successfully. The oper-

ator must be in sympathy with the

cow so as to cater to her likes and

dislikes and enough of a mechanic to

keep his machine in condition~ to do

good work. He must be both a cow

man and a mechanic to get the best

results with the mechanical milker.

As a rule, failure reSults from the fact

that the operator is a better mechanic

than he is a cow man. The man who

has milked the cows by hand knows

their peculiarities and can adjust the‘

machine to suit the different cows.

Each cow must be handled‘and milked

differently. - If all of ‘the cows ‘are





treated alike the machine cannot give





its best results, but by understanding

the cows and adjusting "the machines

properly-any of the loading milking

machines will do practical and profit-

able work. - ‘ . _ 3

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himself and to his neighbors that the"





to beginusing they‘rmechanical milker'

ma! condition after the {reckoning pe-





riod. 'During the later part of the~

lactation period some (if the cows are

likely to hold up their milk often

enough and long enough to cause them.

to dry up earlier than they..otherwisel

would. At the beginning of the milk;

ing period the cows milk more nearly

alike. The further the cows advance

in the lactation period the more they

differ in their peculiarities of milking.

It is these peculiar traits that the ma-

chine, operator must watch and en-

deavor to adjust the machine so that

it Will do its best work throughout

the entire milking period.



Fitting the teat cups to the cow and

keeping close watch to see 3 that the

teats and udder are in normal condi-

tion are important points in operating

the milking machine. The cups should

fit the tests so that they will get a

straight and proper grip and the pul~

sation of the machine should be regu-

lated to suit the individual cows in

the herd. The operator should under-

stand how to adjust the machine to

give the proper length of squeeze and

length/of release in order to make, the

machine do good work without discom-

fort to the cow. A short, quick pulsa-

tion is not suitable for a cow with

long teats that is a hard milker. On

the other hand a long, slow pulsation

is not suitable for a cow with short

teats that give out the milk easily. The

man who operates the machine should

know his cows and adjust the machine

to meet their individual requirements.





Always wash the cow’s udders and

moisten the teats before the milking

begins. Then, if there is some disor—

der with the teats or udder, such as

garget or inflammation, she‘ will at-

tempt to kick or become uneasy.

When the full milk stream is over

strip the rest by hand. This gives an

opportunity of becoming familiar with

the cow’s udder and knowing exactly

its physical condition. It also trains

the heifers to stand for either hand or

mechanical milking. If any of the

cows have udder trouble milk them by

hand until they return to theirnormal

condition.



Ke‘ep the teat cups clean and ster-

ilize them after {each milking. Never

use them on a cow that is affected

with teat or udder trouble. If proper-

ly cared for the teat cups are not any

more frequent distributors of bacteria

than the milker’s hands. Naturally,

filthy, germ-laden teat cups willuset up

infection in some form and the use of

unsterilized Ateat cups can have but

one result finally. From careful ex-

amination of milking machines on

many dairy farms it is a wonder that

udder troubles are not more prevalent

than they are.



A few object to the milking machine

because of hand~stripping to get the

last few streams of milk. But no man

can operate a milking machine suc-

cessfully unless he keeps in close per-3

sonal touch with the cows he is milk-

ing. An experienced man can operate

the milking machine all day without

becoming fatigued. .He can strip the

cows without becoming tired. but put ?

him to milking all day '

soon seek other employment.



The milking machine Will make

clean (and sanitary milk, and it hang:





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- which some tractor salesmen try to con-

vince him, you might suppose that the

farmer -never did any 'thinking "for himself.





You will hear them telling him how

many wheels his tractor ought to have, or what

it ought to look like, or some other inconse-

quential detail—appealing to his eye instead of

his intelligence.





Now, the farmer is a practical man.





He is looking for facts—not theories

or impressions.





, He is looking for a tractor that will do

his work, and do it economically, and last a long





' time.





And the more critical he is, the more





determined to get at the facts, the quicker he

.comes to the G O Tractor.





For eight years the G O Tractor has

been the standard among practical farmers all

over the country. Because of its advanced driv-

ing mechanism, it is the easiest tractor on the

market to control and the most economical to





 

 





 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 





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operate. It has six speeds forward and six re-

verse—a right plowing speed in any sort of soil;

a right speed at the belt for any kind of machine.

It is the most powerful tractor in America for '

its weight.





Years are added to its life by the dust-

proof casings on its gears. It was the first tractor

to enclose its gears in an oil bath. It has no gears

or chains on the traction wheel to be cut by sand

and gravel.





The G O Tractor is the four-whee1~,four-





-cylinder type—the simplest and most practical





type of all. Every part of the motor and driving

mechanism is instantly accessible. Adjustments

can be made by anyone right on the ground,

without the aid of special tools.





The farmer with a practical mind, who





[is looking for indisputable facts, and good sound





horse-sense—not “talking points”——we shall be

glad to send some further information about the

most advanced tractor in America and about the





. company behind it—its guarantee and the ser-





vice that goes with it.





The General ~Ordnance Company

Tractor Division

Western Sales Office and Factory:

CEDAR RAPIDS. IA.

- Executive and Eastern Sales Office:

Two WEST 43rd STREET. NEW YORK





Eutern Factory:

DERBY. CONNECTICUT
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HERE is no “joker” in this price. We are

not telling you one story in this advertise—

ment and then leaving it for our dealers



to break the sad news that the advertised

price won’t buy a tractor unless you pay extra





for a lot of necessary features. The Titan

dealer won’t charge you extra for “starting and

service” before he can deliver the tractor. He

won’t show you a machine stripped of many

essential parts—belt pulley, fenders, platform,

governor, drawbar, tools—and then tell you

that you can have these things by paying extra

for them. The Titan at this advertised price

is a complete 3-plow kerosene tractor.





Then there is another thing. We are not experiment-

ing at your expense when we sell you a Titan 10-20.

There is real farm machine and tractor manufacturing

ing experience back of it. We have been in the farm

machine business for 88 years and have been supplying

tractors for 14 years. Not another company in the

world knows the farmer’s power and machine require-

ments as the Harvester organization does.





Would you entrust your bank account to a man who

had never had any experience in handling money?

Will you risk your farm profits in a tractor built by

designers whose knowledge of farming is limited to

books and a drawing board? It will pay you to think

about these things when you buy your tractor.





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Starting, and Instruction Service





Another “joker” of some tractor concerns is to charge you a large “starting

and service" fee—extra. This is another way of getting a low price for adver-

tising purposes. But you can’t get the tractor without paying this charge.

They make it compulsory. The International dealer gives you this service





without cabin on to a extra for it when on bu‘ a Titan 10-20. Free tractor





schools inauguirated by as, also benefitTitan purchasers in all Era of the 933m .‘





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We have reducedthe Titan 10-20 price $225 Youcan ’ ,

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original , price includes:





Friction Clutch Pulley





A large, wide friction clutch pulley, made inifive

sizes, equipped with safety shield, is mounted -'

directly on the crank-shaft of the low—Speed, steady ‘

Titan engine and delivers the full poWer to the ,‘

driven machine. The Titan 10-20 can be quickly

backed into the belt because of the location of

the pulley and the belt clears the front wheels

and other parts of the tractor by a generous

margin. It is notenecessary-to dig holes for the

front wheels to get belt clearance. The Titan ’ ‘



pulley was not put on as an after thought. The designers did not Overlook it in





 





the first place. Some tractor builders committed this very serious error, due to j





lack of farm knowledge and experience. To remedy this error, they designed a

small make-shift pulley, in one size only, attached it in an awkward place, and

charge you $35 to $40 for it. The Titan 10-20 friction clutch pulley is furnished





without extra charge.





Throttle Governor,





Some tractors are sold without governors because, I .,

perhaps, the designers did not know that one was

needed. Which is the best economy—to pay an

operator a salary just to sit on the tractor and ad-

just the fuel to the load variations when engaged

in belt work or let a throttle governor do it with-

out extra cost?--do it automatically, perfectly.

The Titan throttle governor saves fuel, prevents

grain losses by delivering uniform power to your

thresher and lengthens the life of both tractor

and driven machines. You get this govemdr

without extra charge.





Some tractor builders ut a

D raWbar hook and eye affair oi: the

tail end of their tractors—and call it a drawbarl

They seem to have overlooked the fact that a

farm tractor not only pulls, plows but also

mowers, hay loaders, grain binders, harvester-

threshers, etc., each requiring different hitch ad-

justment. Perhaps they didn’t know about these

other machines. Look at the Titan drawbar.

Note the provisions for a wide range of adjust~

ment both up and down and sidewise. The Titan

it is furnished without extra cost.





 





 





' The designers of some tractors

Fenders evidently did not know that .

the drive wheels throw dirt, dust or mud over ‘ r‘

the operator and machine unless fenders prevent '

it. The Titan 10-20 has such fenders. They are

also a “safety first" feature. The state of Michigan

has passed a law prohibiting the sale of fenderless

tractors. Titan fenders are furnished without the

$40 to $50 extra chaLge made by the “low-price"

manufacturers.





so





Some tractor designers apparently never. sat in a tractor seat

Platform ten hours a day or more, jolting over rough fields, so they





can‘t appreciate what a relief it is for thefitractor operator to rest himself now ,





and then by standing up, withOut lasso! time. You will appreciate the Titan 10-20

platform that enema you to ’do this. It is a comfort feature furnishedzregularly

with every Titan 10729 tractor-W ,, .





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T0018 A complete set ofsixteen toOlsis furnished with every Titan 10-20.

.This handy tool-kit is provided in spite of the fact that Titan‘lo—ZO

tractors get out of order less frequently than any other tractors in the world.

Some traCtor concerns whose tractors really need frequent adjustment and repairs,

furnish nothing but: two or three wrenches. They tell you that their product is

so good that it doesn't need, adjustment. Do you believe this?. As a matter of





fact, they omit necessary toolsfor‘ the same reason they omit the essential features 5





described above—to make a law _“camouflage price"! ‘The Titan 10120 com-

plete tool kit is furnished without extracharge. ‘ , . p "I ' "





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lain who operated a machine gentle. She secured the lion, which is named “Tawny Pershing,” wnen a Financial Department of the

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Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels explaining to newspaper corres- Ambassador Juserand, of France, (center), standing in front of the French

pondents With the aid of a huge globe, the course followed by the new Embassy in Washington, D. C., with American officers on whom he had

Pacific Fleet, in its voyage from Hampton Roads to San Diego, Cal. conferred the Legion of Honor on behalf of the French Government.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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~ For? years we have carefully watched the field wor‘r

of every Bates Steel Mule built. fiance in Model D

Bates Steel Mule we ofler all the improvements of

7 years—proved by actual use. There Is not a doubt-

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the oliicial test of Ohio State University the Bgtes Steel Mule glowed 21

the 8 plow tractors entered. But of fastest importance is t

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part in contact with soil.

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that we like to. visit along about





‘ autumn time.— Not behause’i it has a





fine herd of blooded stock; not be-

cause it is an up-to-date farm with fine

equipment where we can see the latest

ideas of modern agriculture in opera-

tion. 0n the contrary, we like toyisit





this farm simply because it lacks ev-.





erything that is modern and up-to—date.

We wouldn't want our farm to look

like this farm—nor would we want any-





A one’s farm to. resembleit for ‘that- mat-





ter. When we .go to “'Uncle John’s”

farm we go just to see how things

were once and enjoy a. certain primi-

tiveness about the place.



The old rail fences dividing his farm

into fields are always inviting us to

follow them—and we always do. Fol-

lowing these old rail 'fences offers

something of the charm of exploration





for every length‘ of rail brings some-





thing new and unexpected to'view. Yet

there are some nooks for which we al-

ways look, having become familiar

with them in other years. As we walk

along beside its zig-zag course we see

the rusty ivy and the woodbine climb-

ing over the rails in places—the bitter-

sweet with its clusters of crimson ber-

ries in other spots. Wild plum and

poplar trees grow close beside it and





_ every once in a. while we come to a





shag-bark hickory nut tree or a black

walnut tree. Then we watch for a fox

squirrel to run up its sides and flatten

out on the opposite side of the trunk.

Sometimes one will scamper along the

top rail just ahead of us and we feel

the urge to “take after” him and “tree"

him as we did once long ago. Then,

too. we frequently find a woodchuck

hole under the fence and speculate

upon the possibility of its being a

skunk den. Once in a while we will

come upon a wild-grape vine running

up to the top of a. wild cherry tree, its

bunches of purple grapes hanging in

great profusion beside the many black

cherries on the tree. And again a tan.

gle of wild raspberry or blackberry

brush in some fence corner will make

us wish that we’d been there last sum-

mer to salvage the berries. A strip of

hazel bushes gives us a chance to fill

our pockets with the little round nuts

which we used to crack between our

teeth in school days.



In the fields which these old rail

fences enclose are stone piles and

around each stone pile is a little jun-

gle of vines and bushes and sometimes





.a. few trees. We like to, explore each.

of them and see if we can find any

traces of wild inhabitants. As we walk





towards them between the rows of

corn stubble we ask ourselves why it

is that the corn fields on an old-fash-

ioned farm are always full of big gol-

den pumpkins lying between the

shocks. They cover the whole corn

field with a sprinkling of big golden

dots. When we have made our way

through them to’ the stone, piles we

generally find the den of some animal

under the stones and it one of the

trees near it be a nut treewe mayrsee

a red sanirrel sitting~ gracefully upon

a limb with his tail curled tightly over

his back. We like the company of





needles‘slyfiisturh'them. . ‘

T339, met on ~“Unclc John's’f mm



is not cell-rind 'oflby'a‘sysi’omvof un-



dergroundfltile. Instead more is 'a‘n





' ‘th‘eio' wild friends of» ours aha; negot-





open stream which we follow. striking.





o! from the, rail fence whereit crosses





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DOWN among the hills arid dalestoix tracés'of muskrat and mink, quite ,





often «We see a big brown muskrat

swimming up the center cf the creek

like some canal boat making extraor-

dinary speed. And when» he catches

sight of us~plunkl he dives straight

down and is gone. Sometimes we find

a. coon traokvalong the bank—for all

the world like a little baby's tout-print

in the soft mud. Probably Mr. Raccoon

was hunting for frogs or fishes: Some-

times We catch sight of a long-nosed ‘

pickerel who has wandered up the

stream. from the lake. into which it

drains. It’s a fascinating stream—this

creek—and if we are beguired into fol-

lowing it to whére’ it joins the blue

lake we wistfully gaze out over the

pond-lily pads and wish for a. fish pole

and a. can of worms.



There’s a. swamp on the back end

of “Uncle John’s” farm which we like

to tramp through, too. In the autumn-

time it is as colorful as a painter's

palette. ’Around the edge of it is a

fringe of yellow golden rods and crim-

son sumac. Farther in there are patch-

es of green cat-tails and scarlet and

gold maples; yellow-leaved willows

and russet and brown swamp oaks,

while near the ground is a tangle of

brush varrying in greenness according

to Jack Frost’s whim. Scattered

through the swamp are little knolls

which “Uncle John” calls islands,”

because they were islands once, he

says. Back in this swamp we are sure

to “jump” a cotton-tail and see him

scamper away through the brush. And

generally we flush a. partridge who ris-

es on roaring wings to disappear

through the tops of the poplar and wil-

low trees. Once in a while we “scare

up” a whole bevy of Bob Whites. In

the center of the swamp is a pond and

we skirt its marshy shores looking at“

the neatly shaped conical houses the

muskrats have recently constructed

and prophesy a “hard” or a “light"

winter, according to the way the hous~

es are built. Once in a while a stray

duck will be paddling acroSs the placid

surface of the pond.



There are many little nooks and cor-

ners in this old-fashioned farm which

we like to visit. Just because every-

thing is old—fashioned—and undisturb-

ed. And also perhaps because we like

to see the wild inhabitants who live I

in its neglected nooks. After we have

made all the rounds we cut across to

the road, going by “Uncle John’s" low

squat house with its many-paned win-

dows. ‘On the way there. we pass his

herd of some half-dozen ‘cows.; They

are representative. of the place—brim

tile and black and White—of no partic-

ular breed. Generally one or two have

bent and twisted hornSche result of

some encounter sometime. Near the

house are the chickens—Brahmas.

Rocks, Minorcas and Leghorns. “Uncle

John” says that they lay better “mix~

ed.” If “Uncle John" is around he al-

ways invites us to go down cellar and

have a glass of cider which‘. he tells

us, “isgettin’ pretty good.”



W6 never suggest any changes er

improvements ,‘to’ “Uncle John." He is

an ’old man——nearly sixty~and we '

know» that ”he has neither the energy

nor the ambition. tovhave things chang-

ed. Besides. if things were whafigdd

warm! Waldn't’seemufie home io

him. Thongitooiweflike tobave it just

as ~ it? ‘is-elin " sour-momma :1;on





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engineer, desig‘nedthe Cletrac Tank-Type

Tractor to do most of the work. formerly done by

horses and mules—to do it better, quicker, cheaper——

and to, do'vit- tuteloe months in: the. year. -





A million American farmers can profitably use such





. ' a tractor.





It does far more than merely plow. That is only

the beginning of its usefulness. It goes right through

with the entire preparation of the seed bed—from

plowing to seeding. And in addition it reaps, binds,

threshes, hauls, cuts ensilage, fills silos, saws wood.

digsrpotatoes and does many of the numerous other

chores always necessary about the farm.





The Cletrac stands on two long "feet" each 50

inches long by 6 inches wide. And because of this

immense “foot" surface it is kept on top of the soil by

the same principle that enables a man to walk on

snow shoes. This distinctive construction enables the

Cletrac to work efiiciently on wet or sandy soil. lt

permits it to go over the seed bed without sinking in

—and without leaving two tracks of packed down

soil behind it. The same principle that made the

“tanks" so successful in the mud of Flanders gives the

Clettac the ability to work practically anywhere.





The Cletrac is only 96 inches long, 52 inches high

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moment. Geese." said Field the toward the window as if for more?





Company’s posts. The servant, or be done.” .

more '- properly, Orderly-Sergeant The Factor shrugged his shoulders

Gosse, late of the Scots Guards, de- slightly: “Well, as to that, I think





1y at his master’s face as he did so. different things, Hume "

The Chief Factor, as he turned round, “Will you leave the matter in my





:5 unclasped. his hands from behind him, hands until the morning?”





took a few steps forward, then stand- ' “Yes, of course, and glad to do so.





"111g- still in the center of the ream, You are the only man who can ar-

‘- read carefully through a letter Which range the affair, if it is to be done at





hexhad held in the fingers oi: his right all. But I tell you, as you know, that

hand for thelast' ten minutes ’as .he everything will dependmpon a leader,

scanned thepvast wastes of snow that even if you secure the men. So you

stretched away beyond Great! Slave had better keep the letter for tonight.

Lake to the Arctic Circle and theBar- 'It may help you to get the men togeth-

ren Grounds. .' He} meditated a mo- er. A woman’s handwriting will do

ment, went back to the window, looked more‘than a man’s word any time.”

out again, shook his head negatively, ,

and with a sigh _walked over to the ing at the Factor, but they were study—

huge firepla'Ce. He stood thoughtfully ing something else. His face seemed

considering the floor until the door o'p- not quite so flesh as it was a. few mine

ened and Sub-factor Jasper Hume en- utes before.



ter’ed. The Factor looked up and said: “I will see you at ‘ten o’clock tomor-

“Hume, I’ve something- here that’s srow morning, Mr. Field,” he said quiet-

been worrying me a bit.‘ This letter 1y. “Will you let Gosse come to me in

came'in the monthly batch this Imor'n- an hour?”



ing. It is from a WOman. The com. “Certainly. Good night.”



pany sends another commending the Jasper Hume let himself out. He

cause of the woman and urging us to walked across a small square to a. log—

do all that is possible to meet her house and opened the door, which

wishes. It seems that her husband is creaked and shriek-ed with the frost.

a civil engineer of Considerable fame. A dog sprangupon him as he did so,

He had a commission to explore the and rubbed its head against his breast.

Copper Mine region and a portion of He touched the head as if it had been

the Barren Grounds. He was to be that of a child, and said, “Lie down,

gone six months. He has been gone Jacques ”



a year. He left Fort Good Hope, skirt- It did so, but it watched him as he

ed Great Bear Lake, and reached the doffed his dog-skin cap and buffalo

Copper Mine River. Then he sent back coat. He looked round the room slow-

all of the Indians who accompanied 1y once as if he wished to fix it clearly

him but two, they bearing the mes- and deeply in his mind. Then he sat

sage that he would make the'Great down and held near the firelight the

Fish River and come down by Great letter the Factor had given him. His

Slave Lake to Fort Providence. That features grew set and stem as he read

was nine months ago. He has not. it. Once he paused in the reading. and

come here, nor to any other of the looked into the fire, drawing his

forts, nor has any word been received breath sharply between his teeth. Then





, from him. His wife, backed by the he read it to the end’without a sign.





-H. B. C., urges that a relief party be A pause,and he said, “So this is how

sent to look for him. They and she the lines meet again, Varre Lepagé.”

forget that this is the Arctic‘region, He read the last sentence of the letter

and that the task is a well-nigh hope- aloud: ‘ .



less one. He ought to have been, here "In the hope that you may soon’give

six months ago. Now, how can we do me good news Of my husband, I am,

anything? Our fort is small and there With all respect



is always danger of trouble with the Sincerely yours,



Indians. We can’t force men to join “Ross: LEPAGE."

a. relief party'like this, and who will ‘Again he repeated “With all respect,

volunteer? Who would lead such a ,sincerely yours, Rose Lepage.”



party and who will make up the party The dog Jacques looked 11D- Perhaps

to be led ?” it detected something unusual in the

The brown face of Jasper Hume was voice. It rose, came over, and laid its

not mobile. It changed in expression head 011 its master’s knee. Jasper

but seldom; it preserved a. steady and Hume’s hand fell gently on the head,

satisfying character of intelligence and and he said t0 the fire, “Rose Lepage,





inquiring, debating kind, that moved youdare not writé to your husband if

from one thing to another as if to get you knew! You might say 'to him then.

a-sense of balance before opinion Ors‘WVlth all love b1“ DOt ‘Wlth all re-

judgment Was expressed. The face spect’”



had remained impassive‘, but the eyes He folded the letter and put it in

had kindled a little as the Factor talk his pocket Then he took the dog’s

ed. To the Factors despairing ques- head between his hands and said: .\





ply. The eyes were debating. But stow” The dog blinked and. pushed

they suddenly steadied and Jasper" its nose against its master’s arm



Hume said sententiously, “‘A relief “Ten years ago two young men who

party should go” ' had studied and graduated together at

“Yes, yes, but who 15 to lead them 9" the same college were struggling to-

Again the eyes debated gather in their profession as civil en-





handing him it. _ -the other was Jasper Hume. The one

Jasper Hume took it and mechani- was brilliant and persuasive, the other,»





The Factor had moved toward the Lenase could have succeeded in any

Hume had- only,





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SK Mr Hume to come here for a. Turning... uickly, Jasper Hume walked .





u Chief Factor, as he turned from light; and with his back to his supey

the frosty window of his ofilce at Fort not he read the letter. Then he turn-

Providence, one of the Hudson Bay ed and said, “I think this thing should





parted on his errand, glancing curious- so too, but thinking and doing are two





Jasper Hume’s eyes had been idol? ~





force. The eyes, however, were bf an you can write to Factor Field what





tion there was not an immediate re- “Listen. Jacques and I will tell you a .





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thought item, he‘gdevel‘ope "it; lib o‘er-T





«"i-Lfe‘cted' it, he wasroady to give it to.





the world. But he, was seized with ill-

ness, became blind, and. was ordered

to a warm climate for a year. 'He left

., his idea, his invention, behind him——

his complete idea. While he was gone

his bosom friend stole .his perfected

idea—yes. stole his pertected idea, and

‘sold. it fortwenty thousand dollars. He

was called a genius, a great inventor.





- And then he married her, Jacques.

Yea neyer saw .pretty Rose Yarcoe, ,





who, .llking two men, chose the one

who was handsome and brilliant, and

whom the World called a genius. Why

didn't Jasper. Hume expose him,

Jacques? Proof is not always easy,

and thenhe had to think [of her. One





has: to think. of a woman in such a .





. case, Jacques. Even a dog. can see

that."

He was silent for a moment, and





then he said, “Come, Jacques. You ,





will keep secret what I show you."



He ’went to a large boxe in the cor-

ner, unlocked it, and took out a model

made of brass and copper and smooth

but—unpolished wood. '



“After ten years of banishment,

Jacques, he has worked out another

idea, you see. It should be worth ten

times the other, and the world called

the other the work of a genius, dog.”





' Then he became silent, the animal





watching him the while. It had' seen

him working at this model for many a

day, but had never heard him talk so

much at a time as he had- done this

last ten minutes. Jaspar Hume was

generally a silent man; decisive even

, to scverity,’careless carriers and Shirk-

ing underoificers thought. Yet none

could complain that he was unjust. He

was simply straightforward, and he

had no sympathy with those who were

not the same He had carried a drunk-

en Indian on his back for miles, and

from a certain death by frost. He had,

.for want of a more convenient punish-

ment, promptly knocked . down Jeff

Hyde, the sometime bully of the Fort,

for appropriating a bundle of‘ furs be-

longing to a French half-breed, Gaspe

Toujours. But he nursed Jeff Hyde

through’an attack of pneumonia, in-

sisting at the same time that Gaspe

Toulours should help him. The result

of it all was that Jeff Hyde and Gaspe

Toujours became constant allies. They

both formulated their oaths by Jaspar

Hume.‘ The Indian, Cloud-in-the-Sky,

-~ though by word never thanking his

rescuer, could not be induced to leave

the Fort, except on some mission with

which Jaspar Hume was connected.

He preferred living an undignifled, an

un-Indian life, and earning his food

and shelter by coarsely laboring with

his hands. He" came at least twice a

week to Jaspar Hume’s log—house, and,

sitting down silent and cross-legged

before the fire, watched the Subfactor





working at his drawings and calcula~





tions. Sitting so for perhaps an hour

or more, and smoking all the time he

would rise, and with a grunt, which

was answered by a kindly nod, would

pass out as. silently as he came.



And now as J aspar Hume stood look-

ing at his “Idea," Cloud-in-the-Sky en-

tered, let his blanket fall by the hearth-

side and, sat down upon it. If Jaspar

Hume saw him or heard him, he at



. least gave no sign at first. He said in

a low tone to the dog, "It is finished,

Jacques; it is ready for the world.”



Then he put it back, locked the box.

and turned toward Cloud-in-the-Sky

and the fireplace. The Indian grunt-

ed; the other nodded with the' debat-

ing look again dominant in his eyes.

The Indian met the look with stoic

calms There was something in Jaspar

Hume’s habitual reticence and decis-





‘iveness in action which appealed more [,7

. , .to Cloud-in-the-Sky than "any treedom '

« of speech? could possibly have done. .





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' by over thirty thousand people" in an

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ing up alt one end and a pioneer farm-

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in wide swaths the whole width of the

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for the man behind With his rake to

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ed the entire length of the parade

route.



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grain all at one operation. 'In 1898

this machine was perfected.



But in the writer’ s farm home neigh-

borhood, long years before he- -was

born, a farmer named Hiram Moore in

1836, over eighty-three years ago, in-

vented and built a combined wheat

harvester and thresher that was a

complete success.



This machine was crude in design,

clumsy, heavy construction, mostly of

wood and iron, and was built by Hiram

Moore on his farm in sight of the R.

F. D. monument in Climax, Kalamazoo

county. The next season when wheat

was almost dead-ripe on a level field

of thirty acres of black prairie soil,

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daylong. It cut a swath fifteen feet

wide, threshed and cleaned the grain

and elevated it into two-bushel‘bags

on a platform. There were two wag-

ons and teams that had hard work to

keep up with the harvester and haul

the wheat to a granary a few rods

north of the field where the log build-

ings were located.



That machine was followed all day

by a crowd of pioneer farmers, their

wives and children, instead of going

to the old log church near by. When

night closed in the entire thirty acres

of grain were harvested, threshed,

, cleaned and put into the granary.





 





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ty, Was a personal and close friend 01

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many ways during these p1oneer”days ;





or farming hereabouts. Both )Mr. .

BroWn and Frank Hodgman left ster-

ies of this. wonderful machine and its





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Hiram Moore, Inventor of Combined

Harvester and Thresher.





operation in Climax and around SchOol-

craft.



The first scalloped sickle with finger

guards was invented by Hiram Moore,

after he had tried out a dozen or more

devices to cut the wheat. He also in-

vented the first device for throwing a

machine into and out of gear. A new





July was pulled by twenty horses all .method of starting and operatingthe

‘sickle.





Revolving racks and aprons

for cutting and conveying. A revolv-

ing wire network screen for carrying

off the threshed straw. A retainer to

prevent the loss of wheat from the

straw and chaff, and several other

aids. ' '



Moore made the serious mistake of

taking out patents on the machine as

a whole. In those days Mr. Morgan,

of Seymour & Morgan reaper fame,

came to Climax to see Mr. Moore to

get him to assist in' the developing of

the combined reaper and mower that

was used by many farmers in Michi-

gan before the Civil War, and was lat-

er on advertised in the columns of the

Michigan Farmer in 1855.



Several of the Moore harvesters and

threshers were made and one was op-

erated in 1837 on Secretary A. M.

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arms folded, watched the fire. For half

an hour they sat so, w1iite man, Indian

and dog. Then Jaspar Hume rose, went

to a cupboard, took out some sea-ling-

wax and matches, and in a moment

melted wax was dropping upon the

lock of the ‘box containing his Idea.

He had just finished this as Sergeant

Gossevkno‘cked at the dobr, and imme-

diately'after entered the room.

"‘G‘osse," said the Sub-factor, “find

Jeff Hyde, Gaspe Toujours, and. Late

Carscallen, and bring them here.” ser-

geant immediately departed upon his

errand. Jaspar Hume then turned to

Cloud-in-the-Sky, and said, “Clou’ddn-

the—Sky, I want-youto go a; long jour-

ney hereaway to theBarren Grounds.

Have twelve dogs ready by nine

o’clock tomorrow morning." >

Cloud-in-the-Sky shook his head

thoughtfully, and then after a pause

said,"‘Strong—back go too?" ”Streng-

back Was his name for J'as-par Hume).

But the other did not or would not

hear. The Indian, however, appeared





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satisfied, for he smoked harder after- .





ward, and grunted to himself many

times. A few moments passed, and

then Sergeant Gosse entered, followed

by Jeff Hyde, Gaspe Touj‘ours, and

Late Carscallen. Late Carscallen had

got his name “Late" from having been

called “The’Late Mr. Carscallen" by

the Chief Factor because of his slow-

ness. Slow as he was, however, the

stout Scotsman had more than once

proved himself sound and true accord-

ing to Jaspar Hume's ideas. He was,

of course, the last to enter.



The men grouped themselves about

the fire, Late Carscallen getting the

coldest corner. Each man drew his to-





bacCo from his pocket, and, cutting i-t,,





waited for Sub~factor Hume to speak.

His eyes were debating as they rested

on the four. Then he took out Rose

Lepage’s letter, and, with the group

looking at him now, he read it aloud.

When it was finished Cloud-in-the-Sky

gave a guttural assent and Gaspe Hou-

jours, looking at Jeff Hyde, said, “It is

cold in the Barren Grounds. We shall

need much tabac.” These men could

read without difficulty Jaspar Hume’s

reason for summoning them. To Gaspe

Toujours’s remark Jeff Hyde nodded

affirmatively and then all looked at

Late Carscallen. He opened his heavy

jaws com or- twice with an animal-

like sound, and then he said, in a gen-

eral kind of way:



“To the Barren Grounds. But who

leads?"





Jaspar Hume was writing on a. slip ~





of paper, and did not reply. The faces

of three of them showed just a shade

of anxiety. They had their ”opinions,

but they were not sure. Cloud-in-the-

Sky, however, grunted at them, and

raised the bowl of his pipe toward the

Sub-factor. The anxiety then seemed

to beydispelled. -



For ten minutes more they sat so,

all silent Then Jaspar Hume rose,

handed the slip of paper to Sergeant

Gosse, and said, “Attend to that at

once, Gosse. Examine the fond and

blankets closely." .

The five were left alone.



(Continued next week).





 





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tions’ by making little mills for the bought, while the farm work comes to

creek that ran back of the house. As a standstill. How fine’it is when the

the boys grew bigger, the mills became boys can step in and say, “I can fix

more extensive and worth while. that, Father?! Money is saved, time

Among the first practical machines conserved and the work of the farm

was one to churn with, run,by water. advanced as it could not possibly be

They had by this time thrown adam if this mastery of tools‘did not exist.

across the stream and their mills be- Many a good turn may be done for

gan to take on a more important na- the neighbors where the boys are able

ture. - to handle tools properly. It does not

To make a long story short, the day take long for the people living round

came when they had a good substan- about to learn that John Brown has a

tial mill. With the help of their father ' boy that can “do anything with tools.”

they made an overshot water wheel to The farmer in such a predicament is

provide the motive power. This was always willing to pay for the service

followed by a turbine which took up rendered, but that is by no means the

less room and furnished more power. best part of it. The help given at the

I have more than once admired the right time, the lift over a hard place

genius displayed in that wheel. Fin- and the kindly feeling that comes are

ally an engine came to take the place the finest reward possible.

of the water wheel. And the boys did

all sorts work in their mill. They

made fine eehiyes; they put in turn- Our Prize Contest

ing lathes a d earned a good deal of

money off an on getting out spindles DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS:

for bedsteads and childrens cribs; For the days of real sport there’s

they made cider for the farmers of the no time like the good old summer time

country for miles around in the fall; ’Your letters on “Fishing and SW11!!-

and, in fact, turned their mill into a ming” were éSpecially interesting to

, _ me, and I wish we might accept the

And one of the beauties of it was invitation of Albert Snyder, and all

that the boys loved to be at home bet- have a good old fish and swim to

ter than they did to be in any other gether.

place. They rarely went dovvn town Don’t you think it would be a fine





,at night, although there was a village plan for we Michigan Farmer boys and





not far away. They were reading or girls to go into camp semetime next

studying up some machine or doing summer and spend a Week or ten days

some odd job in the shop. Among oth- fishing and swimming and getting ac-





, er things, they had a wheel they hoped quainted with each other?

would solve the problem of perpetual





If yes like the idea write me a per-





motion. 01 course, no one ever has sonal letter telling me just how you





succeeded in doing that; but there are tbink it sllDlllda be arranged and pes- ‘.

few who have not Worked at it if they sibly we may be ablé‘to make it come





   





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each'week at this kind of sport. 1 first ‘ \





learned to swimby having my father

tie a rope‘around my waist and drop

me over the side of the boat into deep.

water. (Some scare, I tell you). This

Was two years ago, and now I can dive

and swim in three different ways, but

likeethe side. stroke best. In the lake

that we live‘ by there are several kinds

of fish, the most common are bluegills,

perch, black and speckled bass, also

bullheads and eels, and I have caught

my limit in most of them. About two

weeks ago I caught twenty-five blue-

gills in about an hour, then we had

to. eat ‘them before I could catch any

more that day. The largest fish that I

have caught was a black bass \seven-

teen inches long. I got three bull-

heads that weighed five pounds, and





eight speckled bass that weighed about ‘





one pound each.



I wish the editor and all the boys

and girls who write to the Michigan

Farmer were here to enjoy this sport

with me. I am a young farmer four«

teen years old, work hard on the farm





the time, 0 joy, the Fun—Albert 0.

Snyder, Benton Harbor, Mich.





 





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' I live with my grandma on a. farm of

267 acres, about a quarter of a mile

from Portage Lake. I am thirteen

years of age.



I have been”able to catch fish ever

since I was big enough to hold a fish

pole in my hands- We have all sorts

of fish here in this lake. The largest

bass I ever caught weighed four and

a_ half pounds before it was dressed.

We are allowed to spear white fish

«here in the fall. Uncle Will and Uncle

Earl have speared over 340‘ fish in one

night, sometimes they catch them that

weigh four pounds.



I can swim five different ways, on

my back, dog-fashion, sailor-fashion,

under water, and on either side. I can

dive, and float on my back. This lake

is half a mile wide and last year I

swam half-way across. I have not tried

it this year. I think every boy and

girl should know how to swim. I dove'

five feet yesterday and brought up a

large stone. I can also turn over in

the water. ‘



We have a diving dock. spring-board

and tobbogan slide in the lake.



. Maybe you think my letter sounds.

fishy. but we have a fine summer re-

sort here. If you don't believe me,

come and see for yourself.r~Neita M.

Willing." I’inckney. Michigan.> ' * f-





 





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wentto a river near Our home. ‘I- had,





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too much noise. My brother told me

to be quiet or I would not catch any

fish.





My' oldest brother baited my hook





and I threw it in‘the water. I sat down

on the bank to fish. As. little sunfish

was my first luck. He was so small

'that» we threw him back into the wa-

ter. I put my line back in the water

and a large fish came and was nibbling

at the bait on my hook. It was about

a footlong. I Was very much fright-

ened. I called my brother. ' I threw

the fishpole at the fish and ran. By

the ‘time my brother reached there the

fish was swimming away. .They both

laughed at me. Then they tried to get

me to go in bathing. I? would not go

because I _was afraid the fish would

bite me. 1‘ know— better not—Hazel

Waflori'sparta, Mich. Age fourteen





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Ecomes up to make me glad I’m

living in 1919. Of course, 1919

has its faults, what with the senate

wrangling over the League of Nations,





peace treaty, and the Germans acting

as though they hadn’t been given far

less than they deserve, you could hard-

ly call 1919 the golden year. But at

that, it has given us a great many

things to feel good about, not the least

of them prohibition, war time and oth-

erwise.



The thing I am most glad for today,

though, 'is the different idea about

Christianity, that it is to be a religion

of doing instead of one of net doing.

Why, just a few years ago most ev-

eryone thought of Christianity as a. re-

ligion of negation, at least they did in





‘the town where I lived. If you were





a Christian you mustn’t do things that

somehow or other you just naturally

wanted to do. You mustn't play cards

nor go to shows nor read novels nor

dance, nor drive nor swim nor row on

Sunday. You mustn’t joke and laugh,

and some even went so far as to say

you musn’t wear a ribbon on your hair

nor a ruffle on your dress nor a bit of

lace on your lingerie.



Today, though, in 1919, we don’t

hear so much about crucifying the

flesh as we do about lending a hand.

And it is so much more in harmony

with what Christ really taught. As I

remember it, He gave just two com-

mandments and they were both “do”

ones. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy

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bor as thyself]? And He told His fol-

lowers that when the Great Judge di-

vided the sheep from the goats it

would be on the principle of whether

they had gone out and helped their

brother, not as to whether they had

kept all the Jewish ceremonial law.



I can’t recall that He ever forbade

anyone getting out the car on the

Lord’s day. On the contrary, He just

went about on Sunday as He did on

Monday and Tuesday—doing good.

And when—the Jews took Him to task





for breaking the Sabbath He calmly.





told them that the Sabbath was made

for man and not man for the Sabbath.



There are a great many people to-

day living narrow, poky lives under

the mistaken idea that it is the Chris-

tian thing to do. As a matter of fact,

Christ never anywhere said a word to

give one the idea that it is wrong to

enjoy life. And He did a great many

things to show you that He was what

we’d call a “good mixer” today. If

you will really read your Bible instead

of seeing in between the lines the ideas

that some churchman has implanted

in your mind, you’ll see that Christ

went about to all sorts of affairs and

mingled with all kinds of men and

women. Didn’t the poor'old Pharisees

complain that He was a “wine-bibber”

and “a friend of publicans and sin-

ners ‘2” They wanted to tie Him down

to their religion of negation, but He

wouldn’t be caught. His idea was a

life of service to His fellows, mixed

with such simple pleasures as His

times gave. He went in for everything

that makes for a well-rounded life, and





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loser ts freshness. Theseat ‘ little girls can enjoy their playnut-otsdoore.‘ .

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' . CCORDING to the testimony of

the men themselves,‘ some '

‘ threshing day dinners. are to be

remembered for their excellencies, and

others are to be remembered for other

reasons. But if the energies of work

ing men tare to be kept at par, they

Working men

appreciate plenty and a good flavor.

The good flavor is attained by cooking

to. the right degree and seasoning

'carefully.‘ ‘ ‘ ' '

Preparing the threshing dinner is a

heavy task for the housewife and she

should have plenty of good help. PIre-

sumably, she is informed beforehand

when to expect the threshers and to

make her preliminary preparations.

Then she' must decide on her bill of

fare. Here is one meant not to be

arbitrary, but suggestive: Bread and

butter, chicken-pie, mashed potatoes,

cottage cheese, new beets, fresh or

canned fruit,» fresh tomatoes, fried

cakes, apple pie, 'tea, coffee and milk.

The day hero're the threshing all the

baking except the chicken pie should

be got out of the way, plenty of White

bread, half a dozen pies, a lot of fried

cakes, a‘ big loaf or jelly cake, or two

small ones.

On this day also the chickens should

be killed, dressed, and cut up. Thus

the flavOr of the meat will be improved

and time and labor for the next day

saved. Reckoning the proportion of

chicken to the number of persons,

there should be one good-sized chick-

en to each six persons. The number

of men required to run a threshing

machine varies .with the conditions and

neighborhood. Some need twenty men,

and others get along with fourteen or!

fifteen.

To accompany the chicken, rice may

be cooked according to the .JapaneSe

method. This is delicious served with

chicken gravy. Wash the rice in cold

water over and over ag in till the wa-

ter runs or: clear. Then add cold wa-

ter‘enough to stand in the pan three

times as high as the rice, and salt.





 





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Cook fast until nearly dry. Then re-

move the lid and allow to dry on the

back of the stove. Thus_the grains

will stand out white and flaky. Add

no milk or butter or anything else,

this would only spoil it.



The chicken should be cocked ten-

der, boned, and made into pies be-

cause in this way it will go the farth-

est. And everybody likes‘ chicken pie.

‘But it should be so managed that there.





will be a plenty of. good rich gravy for -





the potatoes and rice.



If the threshing isto be prolonged

to the supper hour, there must be an-

other hearty meal.





cooking, she should have a big pan of

beans boiling. These can be baked for





supper and if well- prepared will be ' ‘





appetizings,





Theefonowing supper; menu is; Bug, _





'Vgested- and will not‘requ'ine a'gr'eat





deal’of work: - Bread and ; butter, bah? F’

ed’ pork: and beans, roast potatoes with _'_

milk gravy, cabbage - salad with ‘soiir f

_ cream dressing, apple. sauce; cake, tea,





caries and ’milk. .





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This “Southeast” test is invited by the manufac-

turers, the Empire Rubber and Tire Co., Trenton,

N. J., because it is the severest and therefore the





best.





Make the test with an Empire Cord—the





highest achievement in tire making—or with an

Empire Fabric—the nearest to the Cord to be found





among fabric tires.





And when you make the “Southeast” wheel test,

mount the tire with an Empire Red Tube inside.





The problem in tire making is mileage. The prob~ r ‘ -

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Many Empire Red Tubes sold 6, 8 and 10 years ago

are still rendering “as good as new” service, Money

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part of the original cost of the car—not another,





item_ in upkeep.





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Na redeentgtalk With M. E. Dickson

of the college poultry, staff, he rec-

ommended carbolineum, as a sure

cure for mites. ’ In“. paintihg the; roasts

and nest, boxes with 'this mixture, it





i should “not” be allowed to .toulch. the

: hands :01‘ blisters Will result.,.-’I‘hefipoul-





-try must not use the nestsrol‘ roasts

until they ,are dry. The advantage

over kerosene oil is the faCt that one

application will last for a. long time





i - *while'the‘oil -must [be used about once

each Week “during the summer to give ,





thorough protection.



Now .is the time to plan'any new

poultry hou’Ses So that they can be 'fln-

ished before the cold. rainy days of

fall. The .house 'will be much hea.lth-'

,ier for .thébirdsfif all the dampness is

dried out of it on the hot summer

It is'also practical, to have the.

,house ready for. the pullets early in

the fall ‘so that they will not need to

be moved after starting to lay. A sud-

den change in housing may cause early

laying pullets to cease production or

pullets that are‘nearly ready to lay





' -may be delayed several weeks.





This is often a good time to pur-





‘chase the foundation stock for a flock





of pure-bred poultry or a new cockerel

to introduce better blood into the farm

bock. Breeders are beginning to break

up the yards and flocks that they have

used to produce hatching eggs in the

spring and sometimes valuable birds

are for sale at nominal prices which

would never be on the market in th

early spring. ’

Remember that the greatest success

with poultry has been by men who

specialize in one breed. They are able

to concentrate their energy on the

careful production of one kind of birds

and there is a great deal to learn about

each breed. The owning of one breed

of pure-bred poultry means a saving in

equipment and fencing. The birds

look better in the flocks and there is

less danger of having some mixed

Stock. The dairymen who succeed

with one breed of cattle are found in

every community. You do not see a.

farmer keeping two or three pure-bred

Jerseys, a pure-bred Holstein and pos-

sibly a, collection of pure-bred Guern-

seys,vAyrshi'res and Brown Swiss all

running together. The practical dairy-

men owning pure-bred cattle specialize

'on one breed and the poultrymen and

poultry owners on the farm will have

better success when/they concentrate

more and cease trying .to‘ spread their

energy over a large number of breeds.

Late hatched chicks are all right if-

they receive good food and good care.

Otherwise they may develop into stunt-

ed birds and the mortality rate will

cut out all chances of profit. Try and

isolate the late hatched chicks from





. the elder stock so tha-ttheyoung birds





will have scheme at the feed hoppers.



When the young chicks «cannot be

isolated from the 'old birds place, a

poultry crate on the range or build a

crate that .they. can sgneeze through.





 





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broody hensin coops‘ in such a. Warm}





house. The broody coups-can be plac-

ed outside. Sometimes it pays to have





.a. feW'nests outside of‘the houscini'the ‘





shade. of large trees where.the birds





can lay-their eggs without suffering

from the heat. This may prevent them-





from, stealingmheir nests.and placing

the eggs where they cannot befound.

Hens, like all other animals, must suf-~

for from heat as well as from» coldand





all the, protection they receive from -





the heat'increases their-vigor and their

ability to~produce eggs. . ,

VVeasels, skunks and rats will enjoy

hunting arOUnd. the poultry house at

night. It pays to close the poultry

house each night at sundown to keep

such pests from eating from the; feed

hoppers Or killing he birds. In many

sections where these pests cause ser-

ious loSses .it will pay to keep a good

ratdog and chain him in the poultry

house or givethlm a; kennel in the

house. A good dog does not have to

kill many pests to pay his board bill





and a. few hens and chicks saved each





year are worth more than the table

scraps, oatmeal and skim~milk that the

dog may need.



Watch for hawks during the sum-

mer and try and give each one of the

thieves a scare with the shot gun; that

will help reduce further visits. If the

hawks are not frightened when they

visit the poultry range they will soon

learn to come back regularly for their

chicken meals and soon bring several





hawks with them. Certain hawks will _





fly over the range at almost the same

hour in the early evening and it pays

to have the dog or the gun ready. for

them. A good dog can be trained to

watch for hawks and run at them

whenever they sweep near the range.

The dog detracts them from the poul-

try and they fly away for easier prey.

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Feeding Economy





HE cost of producing eggs and



‘ poultry meat has increased until

many large poultry plants have

ceased to operate and many farmers

have reduced the size of their flocks.

There was a time in several towns





 





with which the writer is familiar when'





certain people kept large flocks of poul-

try in the suburbs and sold eggs to

their neighbors and to -the grocery

stores. When these producers compar.

ed the price of feed with the price of

eggs, many of them reduced their

flocks to the size needed for home use

and sold no more eggs or poultry meat.



This reduction in the docks has re-

duced the poultry products rapidly and

now the price has reached a' stage

where there is a chance of some profit

in the business and many poultrymen

are planning on increasing their flocks.

However, grain is high and these com-

mercial flocks’ will not-pay much mon-

ey under present cenditions. The pro«

fessional poultrymen (cannot make

much moneyat the present high price

of feed unless he is' selling hatching.

eggs and breeding stockat prices high-

er- than the"-market will pay. Q'Tlier pro-

fessional poultryman who has limited

range and muchvfeed to buy, Cannot





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. line.- ’sEconomy'in poultry feeding 'ac- ‘, H





cording to our opinion. ,means an am-

plevclover range that is well g shaded





by fruit trees and protected by a, wind? _ p





break so that the birds can‘use the

range except in the winter and during

severe storms. ~To fe'ed‘as cheap as

possible we believe the poultryman

should have enough acreage to keep_a

few cows and then make butter and

have the skim-milk and buttermilk to

feed to the poultry. This gives the

farmer a waste product that helps to

stimulate egg production by furnishing

the hens with animal food. It saves

the." purchase of beef scrap which is

'quite an expensive, though otherwise

necessary item. The sour milk can- be .

given in sanitary feeders or used in

a wet mash with excellent results.

The uSe Of'green food in poultry ra-

tions has not been appreciated and

winter and summer the birds need it.

The farmer will usually have plentyof

clover for winter use and there will be

cull vegetables available for poultry

feeding. Oats can be soaked or boiled

and fed to the hens and they will eat

large quantities of this egg-producing

food. Boiled pumpkin mixed with bran





is a stimulant to develop laying pul— m

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lets in the fall. Bran is one of the

best poultry foods and'it can be com-

bined with sour‘milk and boiled vege-

tables, making an appetizing and very

healthful mash.



Economy in poultry feeding means

giving the hens enough to cat by us-

ing all of the waste products and home

grown feed that can be produced. Sun-

flower seed and corn can be grown

on the poultry range if the birds are

not turned in until they have made a

fair start. When such crops are culti-

vated the hens obtain bugs and worms.

In the fall the sunflowers can be brok-

en over and the birds will harvest the

seed for themselves. At threshing and

corn husking time there is always

some waste grain which the poultry

can clean up.



The greatest handicap in the pom-

mercial poultry business is the fact

that the market price of eggs is deter-

mined by the thousands of flocks of

mongrel hens which are running on

the farms and producing eggs without

the owners knowing anything of the

cost of production. The bright spot in

the poultry future is the fact that the

farmer poultryman can beat the rec-

ord of these mongrel flocks, which are

often poor layers, by improving his

stock and raising quality birds and

then striving to keep them well fed on

the home-grown feeds and waste pro-

ducts which has enabled the farm

flock to turn out eggs at 'a fairly Small

cost of production compared with the

commercial poultryman. .





There is no reason why a pure-bred

flock of bred-to-lay fowls should not

be maintained as cheaply as a flock of

mongrels. The difference in the re-

turns to the owner is worth consider-

ing. A farmer can grow a crop of po-

tatoes; raspberries, tree fruits or corn

on every acre of range used by his

poultry. All the waste products of

the farm can be used to produce eggs.

The gravel pit will furnish the grit for

the hoppers in the poultry house. The

necessary green food can all be raised

in the garden and in the clover field.

The day of the well managed farm





flock has arrived as people are begin-





ning to appreciate the valu'e of fresh

eggs as never before. Meat is scarce





and high and eggs" will probably fol-





low the trend of meat prices. There

is a good “future for well managed

poultry flocks in the hands of practical

» farmers but the man whobuys allihls





feed and sells eggs and poultry. meat ,

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vouched for by the Department



ongriculture warrant a sustained

production of crops for which

good prices are assured.





The greatest single factor today

in‘making possible increased

crops at a lower cost of produc-

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Hyatt Bearings in tractors and

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sults with less labor. In addition,

Hyatt Bearings are used in such

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threshers, plows, windmills, etc.





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April Hatched Leghorn cock’ls





from e as of Hoganized flocks. White-Brow -B R.

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per setting pre aid by P. P. Circular free.

FRED ASTLING. Constantine. Mich.





Fowler’s Bull Rocks smear seesaw

B. B. FOWLER. ilertford. Mich.





 





 





or sale “Buy the Best" 6 for h t hi 1'

Fog strain Barred PlymoutfilgsRock. :23) :gr {5,35%

for 4.. eggs. H. B. PROCTOR. Grand Haven. Mich.





LEGHORNS, ‘ ' . Pokin Ducks, W. .

R.C. Brown nese Geese. Place orders earlyothgr

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Breeding'Cockerels. A ril .

3.,0. “f [Gghorn ed. from stock that prgducggtgiio

winners in 1918 state demonstration contest. Order

quick If you want. them. 33 each: 2 for £5.

Bunnybrook Poultry Farm. Hillsdale. Mich.





 





S C Brown Leshorna. Heavy'layins strain. Cooks.

. - cooker-sis and yearling hens for sale. .

Floyd Robertson. R. 1. Lexington. Ind.





Snowy Wlite Rocks ”h“ siféo'fi’riz (1.32455 "Fiat





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'2‘»
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n Dayd before date of publication





bull calf, sired by our imported





“EDGAR oi DALMENI”





recently sold in Scotland at the Perth

Bull Sale for the record price of 2,100

guineas, or $10,584.00 in our money.





This goes to show the quality of the





ABERDEEN ANGUS I





that Mr. Scripps is breeding. He enjoys sees:

inc good stock on “Wildwood” and believes that





THE BEST IS NONE 'I‘00 GOOD.





"Edgar of Dalmeny" won the Michigan Grand

Championship last Septemeber at the Michigan

State Fair and was a winner in his class at the

Chicago International last December.



We have _a few females with calves at foot and

re—bred to 'Edgar of Dalmen " that Mr. Scripps

has consentedto sell toT re uce the fast grow-

ing herd. Writ e To





WILDWOOD FARMS





ORION, MICHIGAN

W. E. SCRIPI'S, Prop.. Sidney Smith.Supt.





WOODCOTE ANGUS





Established in 1900.

TROJAN-ERICAS and BLACKIIIRDS (Blackened.





The herd (tested annually) is absolutely

free from tuberculosis.





A few bulls (no females) for sale

WOODCOTE STOCK FAR\i. Ionia. Mich.

Bred cows heifers and bull





CIOVeI'l Angus 1 r d breed in

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I Registered Guernseys

co May Rose Bull Calves-at prices you can





Ohoi

"“1 w ””3. M. WILLIAMS. North Adams, Mich.





REGISTERED





GUERNSEYS





Just two young earling bulls left,



ready for service. ome and look them



over quick, or write. They are the

d ones. Priced to sell.





AVONDALE STOCK iFARM,





WAYNE, MICH.





G Pure Bred Bull Calves from one to

uemse’ two months old 8508 “r gierst e.d ‘

WALTER PHIPPS FARM. 80 Ali’reedc St. Detroit. 14Mich





GU00 E R N S E Y $5311.41? IEIII’IE

blood of world champions.

IIICKS' GnUIIRNEB v FARM. 51.1.1". w.s Mich





GUERNSEYS must reduceherd, soolier

a few choice females of

Glenwood brooding also bulls, all stock of A. R. breed-

in hard tuberculin



12%. HICKS - - - Battle Creek. Mich.





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For Sale: Guernsey bull calf fawn and. white. 10

months old 121 beauty, Nancy’s'Sefiuelcy l56736 Sire,



gakwmfl' 893119 2326: am Nancy's

kerz. 1360 West Fort St. Detroit Mich





 





HOLS'I‘EINS IN

" : MINNESOTA.

After a six year study of

dairying operations on over

l 20 farms in three different

/ fiat-ts of Minnesota, Prof.





0004 of the State xperiment Station finds

thatpedlhirying is the most profitable in the

“Holsain section" of the state.



In he aver e profit per cow was only

810.10.1nt1909 it hzfglncreased to 838 45 per cow,

or 43 per cent on capital invested. Increase was

due to improyed herds. purebred registered

Holsteins having been substituted for grade

Shorthorns. As soon as dairying is put on a

systematic basis. The Holstein cow comes to the

front. If facts and figures mean anythingto yen,

send for our illustrated tedliterat ure.





HOLSTEI N CATTLE





Bond for our booklets—they contain much

valuable information.





IIOLSTIIIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF

AMERICA. Box 164, Bnltlehoro, VI.





The Traverse Herd





We have what you want in BULL CALVES the

large fine growthy ty pe. guaranteed right in

every way. They are from high producing A. R.

0. ancestors Dam' 8 records up to 30 lbs. Write

for pedigrees and quotations. stating about age

desired.



TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL



ffravonao City, Mich.





THE HOLSTEIN S





is Avenue Stock Farm are under Goverment

oupervigionJI‘h he entire herd hAave just been tuberculin

tested and not one reactor. Agood place to buy that

bull you are looki ng for, an Ihave two very fine.

richly bred, andc esplendid individuals ready for any

amount of so I want to answer any question



you may ask about them.

L. E. CONNELL. Fayette. Ohio





:75 g’ets 1% mo. old gdson Ma rest Kern. anlie—1r. an

lb. dau hter of Johan, egg. Lad. (1.18.401





daughter ofM Jno Pa am is m anbest milk.

or Terms. M LAd{$1, Redfordy Michigan





 





 





 





 





 





 





DIRECTORY i



‘Ohangleeof Copy or Cancellations muchreac bus

erdsirerem



_ have one of the bestherds 111 Hi





loo--REGI5TERED

When you need ah





over 6 mos ol ly tuberculin 13m ..

have size. 111111 ty. én'd oduction recorc jbaek

ed by the boot strains of breeding. ‘





R. BRUCE 'VIIIIIIFHERUI mile well; Mich





der strict ”maraconditions Every





 





 





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' HOLSTEIN S ‘





4The young bulls we have for sale are





backed up by many generations of

large producers. Buy one of these

bulls, and give your herd a “push”.

Full descriptions, prices,etc. on request.





McPherson Farms Co., Howell, Mich.





() more bull calves to offer until next fall. Place

your order for one from next fall’ s cm My herd

is on the state and federal accredited her list.



A. F. L00 IS, Owosso, Mich.





 





 





eg. Holstein Bull born Dec. 22, 1918 light color.

Siies 20 dams average over 30 be. rice 75 Reg.

and Delivered. J. Robert Hicks, St. Johns, Mich.





 





LIGHT colored Reg. Holstein Bull 15 1110. old. Sure

bleeder. 30 lb. Pontiac breeding“ Priced to sell.

B B. Remey. Akron ichigan





accepted in payment of finely bred reg-

‘ 600d "ole istored. Holstein bull calves. uaIity

of the best and at prices within reach of all. rite.

GEO. D. CLARKE. Vassar. 1.11.211





“Winwood Herd”





‘ REGISTERED





Holstein- sFriesian Cattle

FLINT MAP4I.ECREST BOY





file sire is Moslecrest Korndyko Hengerveld. His

three nearest ams each over 30 lbs. of butter in 7

His dam and granddam both made over 1232“».

t is the yearly cow we are



Flint Ma lecrest





 





days.

of butter in one year.

lcokinfifor to deliver the goods

303' s am is G1 uck Vassar Bel 3057 lbs. 0 butter

11 7 days and 121 lbs. in 30 days. or butter fat test

is 5"]. This looks about right tothe man who goes

to tne creamer We have bull calves from- " weeks

to 1’ months od. From A. R. 0. do me and sired by

Flint Maplecrest Boy, which we willseIl at tadai

farmers price breeding considered. Just think

more cows to freshen which means more bull calves.

Let us know your wants. We will make terms on

approved notes.





JOHNH. WINN, Inc.





Lock Box 249, Roccomrnon Mich.

Reference Roscommon State Bank.





EGISTERED heifer and bull calves. of the best

breeding in Holsteins for sale. rice on 2

heifers and 111111. 0 xi GIDDINGS 85.011111 116, Mich.





' ' ' We have six beau-

ciom Grads Holslem Honors 1.1.1 g...1.1101.1.111

heifers, perfectly marked. 3 past astZ years old and bred,

3, fifteen months old. large enough to breed. These

heifers are about perfect and are priced right.



The Jennings Farms, Bailey, Mic F. D. No. 1





Jersey Bull Call





For sale a four months old Jei‘seyBull Calf out of an

rted cow, Cons of Galilee 240782 and siredb

Fis erton Toronol)uke 151513 who' is a double ranb

son of Hood Farm Pogis 9th. His dam a grand nu h-

ter of Figgis. Senior and grand Champion Cow at t

St. Louis Worlds Fair 8100 for quick sale. Also two

bred heifers sired byD the same bull

Ira W. Jayne. R. F. 2 Fenton. Mich.





JERSEY BULLS





Rea dy for oervioo‘l‘O BSALE

WATERMAN l WATERMAN. 3Ann Arbor. Mich.





BUTTER BRED 111.112.81.111...

YSTAL SPRING STOCK FA ”It

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





M l LaneR of M. Jersey herd. Bull and heifer

all e calves sired by a no lhow the new World' 11



0. Redeg and

IN III'OX14‘4.Allegan.g ich.





ILLIE Farmstead Jerseys. Yo bulls ready for





service from M. cows. A few red heifers and

cows. COLON C. LILLIE. Coopersville. Mich.





Jersey Biull, lgiroldie Foxhall Lad No.

For Sale“ Page sxFo 11111111111211.1113

Dam Goldie Sophia No.3452'1&. t is bull is solid color.





black tongue and switch, dropped Mar. 10th. 1918, an"

extra line individual good enough that Iwill ship

him 0. D. lso a 4few bull calves ddress

NEWMAN' S STOCK FAR R. 1. Mariette. Mich

The Wildwood Jersey harm.

Bullsfor saleb “muesli-{s Oxford Fax 134214 andEm-

inent 0934 and out of R. of M. Map

jesty damsya IVIN PA LDAEN, Capac. Mich.

Registered Jeme bllIIIS

For 58316 for service and dbuIl calves

MITHdPARKEli en. 4. HowelI. Mich.





HEREFORDS





8 bulls from 7 130410 months old,

Prince Donald and Farmer bréed-

ing for sale. '





ALLEN BROS., Paw Paw, Mich.





Polled a finned blood ll

Herefo embrace Irifax. » Polled Pg:





io ndPri oLadOthb eedi . Pri ‘ l.

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Champion. Sophie's Agnes





 





ready





 





 





 





head of herd.





 





IIITII Bob Fairfax 494027 a

In of, Stock, {3.1; sa‘lg.‘ olth‘e



r11 . :-

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MW Write. phone or better to come





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One or The 3.11 31111211 111113111 Michigan.





0 herd bull; 5 cows. 3 with calves at foot; 1 24 1111111111111; 1

we; ol.d Those cattle are in “gallant mhrdiuon‘dnd can “maidens





 





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o heifers, cows with on

"bred to tony boil.- Top Q





“JAY HARWOOD





bonsho





"revving rings . ’

, 1144331111? herd, consisting of 21111111141.

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BIDWELL WEI"?





Registered bull's cows 1! heifers. Good Scotch and



Scotch- Topped 101- s’ale. 31115111119 condition.



sanitary 0equi mont. . under state and “3:11-81!

suvisige n. arm 10 minutes 11011111. pull



1 our éom Toledo, 0 o. Automobileuu



trains. rite





BIDWELL STOCK FARM





30x3. Tecumseh. Mich.





Shorihorn Callie oi both Sex iorSaie





W. W. KNAPP. Bowen. Michigan.





Richland Stack F arm





SHORTHORNS .-



. HOME OF THE MICH. CHAMPIONS

We offer for sale a few good dual pur-

pose cows with calves at foot. Also

two three year old bulls suitable for

range purposes, We invite inspection.





.PRESCOTT & SONS,

Oflice at Tawas City, Mich. Herds at P1escott, Ill 11 h.





 





 





 





Scotch and Scotch Topped cows and hell'-

Shnrlllflmvgem prlcedrl ri.ht Come and see them or

write ~ B.McQUILL N R. 7 Howell 1111- 11





Milking Shorlhoms 3'13’10 £331.13?“ ”‘1”5





DAVIDSON & HALL. Tecumseh. Mich.





 





 





Shorthorns of Quality Scotch and

For sale Scotch To ped descendentsofArchers

Hope, Avondale, Maxw ton Sulton and White Hall

Sulton. model ty e. b the scola Co. horthorn

Breeders Ass. JO 11 So midt. Sec. Reed City.Mich.





81:ch loaned now: For 81|1.31;‘3?."h.“駧“°h'

V.Bntler Williamston, Mich





New list, 27 bulls; 28 females. Feb list



SIIOTII'IOITIS all sold. Central Mich Shorthorn



Breedets' Assn” Oscar Skinner. Secy., Gou‘en. Mich.



The [out Cofihorthorn Breeders have both males

and females for sale. Ask about them. -



L. H. LEONARD Bec.. - Caledonia. Mich.





 





 





Shorthorns of best Bates breedil and

Milk; “go .I. 0. SW wine Bulls for solr 1 mos. to 1

year Old. . E H. KURTZ Blason Mich





SCOTCH and Scotch Tog Shorthmns. Young

bull for sale. rice ht for quick

sale H. E. Hartwell, Williamston, Mic





Bates Shorthorns ghméle extia fine cows

J. B. Rommel. Mason, Mich.





 





 





 





HOGS ‘





Registered Berlnhir e Boars; ready for service. A few

gilts and sows bred fer Ma and J1merofar w. Also

spring DIES- CHASE STOCK ABM. Marlette. Mich.





Attention Breeders and Farmers £33; ‘3. 3'3;

that Duroc Boar for fall service. Web

Corkers. March tfigs “ill weigh 100 lbs.

InspectiBon Solicite Prices 1ery reasonable.

BROS. ., Oakwood Farm,





 





 





Romeo, M ichigan.





Duroc Opportunity





What would the earning capacity of 11 Brook-’

water Boar be in your herd? A mid- west breeder

states that the Brookwater’ boar he used added

from $75 to $1.00 to every gilt bred to him.



It payed this man to use one of our boars it will

pay you. '



We have seVeral that We are oiiering at priceswhich

appeal to the small breeder who must of necessity

be a conservative bu) er. Vi e have a; ew that are

good enough to be used in high mass herds at

prices in keeping with their in individualit and

breeding. Money invested in a good her boar

very speedily increases the v aloe not only of

what you sell but what 1-011 keep. Send for price

list or better, 1 isit the farm.



BROOEK WATER FARM, Ann Arbor, Mich.

HERB MUMF 0RD owner,



J. 11111114011: TIIVENDERSON, Manager.





SEVERAL GOOD





Dumc sows bred to Orion' s Fancy King. Boar pigs

ready for servic c.e

NEWTON BARNHART, St. Johns, Mich.





DUROC JERSEYS





 





 





 





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, .c‘ kFafln. 29.11.1111, ,‘

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11.1» Andrews. neuritic. 19.111.





 





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O. I. c, ‘4‘ Bred slits 111150111. PIénterpof 44811111].





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5 Cloverleaf Stock Farm, - fl. '11331’33’ ..



’ Onevo sopdyear 1103.111”.

04- I. 4c: ry l'I-glristerfed free. 3‘





mile west 0





who? 11s





054th E, Nashville, Mich.





We have been edinssig

for 25 Years lpe “Poland thlna can

emosta pro moved bl Ines. ur new herdboai'



9‘ ic ehigan ester" is amighty 1011-1111111:

“Giant Buster" dam‘ ‘-'Mou11 s ies Queen 2." 95911111





breedin ! Litter of 14. We aBre offering some sons bred.





 





for fall arrow. J. 0.3 TLEB, Portland, Mich.

! good r1111 bear and



o 4'0 C 3- for Onowfi 5M re lstered fmepandy



anteed satisfactory. ohn 0.11.2 Alumna





 





 





- Raise Chester Whites ,3.

Like This





the original big producers ..





HAVE started thousands of breeders on the roan m4

I can help you. I want to placebos

my great herd in nevery community where? am 0:13,





rose ted 0:11qu {me early mdivmm“ Ioneyfrom umrgfism "4:5,“?

, s. I. serum.“ '3, 11'. 11.10 mm!!!





 





B161 ype Poland Chlnas—A litter EiéGerstdaie Jones

( arter); oneb Gemdale Kinl erst) and a nbe

bunch of pigs by ammoth Ben The stretchy,

growthy, smooth well marked pigs1 we 4like to sets. A

pricing them for mmediate delivery. Would dbepleas

to have you come see them. pick your pig and take him

home w th you. They su1e will bear your inspection.

Both bears and sows for. sale. 8 miles strai ht 11011:

of Lake Odessa; 5% miles from Saranac 8 m ice from

101111 “F1111 come 11m serv v.ed wiisLEY 1111.11,

R 6, Tonia, Michigan.





 





LARGESTigs Type P C. in Mich. Nothing at prrsent.

Spring too oyoung to ship. Have 60 the best I

ever raised which I will offer later. Come and see two

greatest boars in state; L' s 13 Orange 291847 and Lord

lansman 330207. W E. Liv ngston, Parma, Mich.





 





Tan OLD FASHIONED spor'rnn CHINA one.

1111 I¢§°12§°1n1 farrow flJUNE 11.111 LY— 111..



p we

.3 WWIELImAms, North Adams, M1011.





LS.P.C."1:’..‘$1‘1".’1‘3.‘1’1“1.‘ 1°“ W 1"-

II. 0. SWARTZ, Schoolcraft. Michigan.





‘ ‘ 't I .

fBig Type LEW“! 911mg 3.1;..2..b3f‘§¥.. 11:11::

8 . .

B°I€iic111n§fii?“°.‘§“° iri’i‘aié‘viué’?" 1313111313:





0.11am ion herd of Big Type P. C Nothi fog

sale but faII pigs orders booked for s ring “14413?

11.1. ONARD, St. on.





BIG Typ 8P. 0. boars all sold. Nothing 'now until fall.

I thank m ncustomers for their patronage 8

pigs coming 0. E. Ganiant, Eaton Rapids, Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





Large Type P. 0. Nothing for sale now. Will be in mar»

ket with better than ever this ta) 1.] If herd stufl

W. J. HAGELSHAW. Augusta. Mich.





Big 'I'ygem P. C. £92?“





A..WOO





 





bred for August "10

tember f.arrow

Saline, Mich.





 





3' EC .Ghoice bred sows “01111

I: mm E. herE bone arrgliflc kind wiallm size and





 





quality. ATHE 0N Burr Oak. Mich.

T Poland's all sold out noth f



Bipgreeeyrft‘z Booklniorders for up ig‘:m Tim



my customers Chamberlain. fiardellus, Mich.





 





PolandN Chinas ll Id. Ge

MammOth Jones No. 817249.3 11135100: Gers’tdaarI:

Jones heads our herd. Clyde Weaver. Ceresco. Mich.





Will have better male th

BIS Type P} C‘ for fall trade. Its insseagln. over

OHN D. WILEY, choolcraft. Kiel.





I wishto thank my costomers for their loyalty. It

‘ was necessary to delay some shipments on account

of extreme heat. If in need of a boar from foundation

bloodof first class quality. don' toverIookthe fact that

I can furnish you such at once. Also '1“ with , ‘3'“

fariow 50011.8 C‘A‘a King J06 red to Monster

Big Hob. None better. 0 Boone, Blanchald, Mich.





 





 





 





 





ED. HEY DENBEB‘K, Wayland, Mich.





DUROC JERSEYS





Will sell bred sows and Ask for

catalogue. many U. 1119111111135” Hastings, Mich





C my 89 flag“ boars d by Orion Cherry

DMOO w.2nwid. [than and eedi qualities

W.C. Taylor, Milan. Mica: gen ,





 





 





 





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11:11“;le York on Tennessee state

0 1:31:13th foisted Senior





 

 

 





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u 0 at soul 01' BROW-

JonN w. sNIr'imn. 4.. 11115“ 111011.,





THE 'woRLp's CHAMPION





IifadmyOL 0111.141... buy-Bob .tho “dud?“ O amplono. Her]?





agionof Ok- ..





Fall pigs either sex also ep ring ngp airs ot akin.-

SL132 by the Grand JOhaRmd'iifn a (1 £11 Ior rnmlgam i431“ HORSES'

D U R o c--J£R SE Vs Pure Bred‘





313.11.11.11 131-111 11......





We have some extra good Belgian Stallions for





~ sale. c’oming three and four fears cld. They are





heavy. of good comfoi'mat on and sound. You

can see their sires and dams. They are raised in

Michigan and acclimated. We have no agents on

the. road for which you or wemonld haveto p'a.





' You cannot buy them any better nor cheaper





the world. Our studs and mares carry the best



blood Belgium has produced. We trove this



their pedigrees. We invite you to see 0111-1111271



before buying. You can see them anym day (1me



Week Except Sundvyéss Write for partcul



catalogto torthe SSO SUGARi COMPANY.

- rie Farm





‘BREED4ERS OF PERCHERCNS





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and from the contact of the milk with

the rubber tubing. In the mechanical

milker the milk travels through about

twenty-thin inches or rubber tubing,

which can be kept clean and sanitary.

The other rubber tubing is for air

vacuum and pressure. .

Many dairy farmers have a well-

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milking machine is condemned for de- ,

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eye of an owner who does not know

how to use it. Heblames‘ it because

he does not know his machine and his

cows. Usually he makes matters worse

when he tries to correct his failure to

watch his cows' peculiarities by monk-

eying with the machine. While these

machines require but slight attention,

so far as ordinary work is concerned.

they should be kept clean and have

intelligent inspection at intervals.





 





VETERINARY.





 





Mange—Itchy Skim—I would like to

know what can be done for a mare

that has an itchy condition of the skin.

During the winter we treated her for

lice. This treatment failed to help her.

She was examined by our veterinary,

who prescribed, but failed to give perv

manent relief. I treated her three

times. Her skin is dirty, she is in-

clined to bite some parts of her body.

W. W. 8., Linden, Mich—It will do

her a whole lot of good to wash her

with soap and water, adding one

kerosene and 30 parts water. Doubt-

less she is filthy and if, so her skin is

itchy. Give her 3 drs. or Fowler’s solu-

tion at a dose two or three times a

day.



Loss of Vision—About the first of

May my three-year-old Percheron colt

began to have one sore eye; rst wa-

ter dripped from it, later mucus and

finally a film veiled eye, which after a

time cleaned off. Now both eyes are

affected, showing much the same

symptoms I have mentioned. What

had I better do for him? A. J. _C.,

Perry, Mich—Dissolve 40 grains of

boric acid, 40 grains of borate soda in

a quarter of a pint of clean water and

apply to sore eyes two or three times

a day. Give him 30 grains potassium

iodide at a dose in feed or' in drinking

water three times a day. Remember.

a. bright light, or feeding too much

grain will irritate inflamed eyes.



Cow . Has Sore Eyes—Kerotitis

(Corneitis).———What can I do for a cow

that is troubled with sore eye? The

eye seems to inflame, cover with film.

then a white spot appears and opens.

I have applied burnt alum, now I be—

lieve she can see a little. I might add

that several of my cattle have this all-

ment. C. B. L., Vanderbilt, Mich.—

Place the cattle in a darkened stable,

give green or sloppy feed, it their bow-

els are costivo give. a quarter-pound

dose of sulphate soda in one quart of

.water daily. Dissolve 3 grs. of nitrate

silver in one ounce of rain water and

apply to eye three times a day. It ul-

ceration of the eye occurs apply equal

parts calomel and boric acid daily.





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The markets in this edition“ were re-

vised and corrected on Thursday af-





ternoon, July 31.





 





 





WHEAT. "





A firmer tone prevails in our wheat

In all of the winter wheat

growing states threshing returns are

It is now estimat-

ed that the total wheat yield of the

country will be from 200,000,000 to

300,000,000 bushels below the July es-

the federal government.

Not only this, but a large proportion of

the grain will grade very poorly. Dur-

ing the week ending July 18, 33,793.-

000 bushels were received from farms.

amount marketed

during the corresponding week of 1918.

One year ago No. 2 red wheat was

quoted on the local market at $2.22 a.





markets:





very disappointing.





timates of





This exceeds the





bushel. Present Detroit prices are:

No. 1 red ...... ........$2.261/§

No. 1 mixed 2.24145

No. 1 white ........ .. . . 2.24%





CORN.





prices have . .

.The weather conditions have





Corn

upward.

been unfavorable for

ment.

tion of the corn belt much damage has

already been done for lack of meis-

ture. Some estimates place the reduc-

tion in corn propsects at fully twenty-

five per cent. Should dry weather con-

tinue for a few days longer, the situa-

tion will become serious. Crop reports

from Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Kan-

sas are decidedly pessimistic. On the

Chicago market No. 2 mixed corn is

now quoted at $1.99; No. 2 yellow at

$2.01@2.01%; September corn $1.951A3;

December $1.687/8. One year ago at

Detroit No. 3 corn was quoted at $1.65.

Present prices here are:





No. 3 corn ............. $2.05



No. 3 yellow ............ 2.10



No. 4 yellow ............ 2.08



No. 5 yellow ............ 2.05



No. 3 white ............ 2.13

OATS.





Only a fair amount of oats is being

received, with the market firm at high-

er prices and a fairly good demand ex-

isting. The stronger position occupied

by corn and wheat has been a bullish

factor in oat trading. A year ago stan-

dard oats were quoted locally at 781/90

per bushel. At Chicago No. 2 white

cats are now quoted at 78%@79%c;

N0. 3 white 78%@80%c. Detroit prices

have advanced as follows:





No. 2 white ............. ..85'



No. 3 white ...............841,§



No. 4 white ........... ....831/3

RYE.





Notwithstanding the increased re-

ceipts of rye, the market is gaining

strength rapidly, largely for the reason

that this grain will be used to substi-

tute where wheat cannot be secured.

The price has advanced over a nickle,

and Zis now quoted at $1.64 for cash

No. . .





BARLEY.





A larger amount of trading in barley

is reported. The outlook in many bar-

ley growing districts is disappointing.

Premature ripening promises to cut

the total production. The grain is quot-

ed on the local market at $2.40@2.50





per cwt.

BEANS.





The beam crop is developing under

fairly normal conditions, although the





dry weather has stunted the growth Others





somewhat in certain localities. The

market is somewhat firmer and in New





$6.75@7.75 for common to fair.





shipment being $8.25 per cwt.





HAY.





tive, and receipts are

quate to supply the needs. Trade is

firm. No. 1 timothy is quoted at $31

@32; standard timothy $306331; light





No. 1 clover $25@26. .



' . 4,, PittsburghrW—While, the demand for



m hay ,is 7%‘3316 market is bare

a





mixed $30@31: No. 1 mixed! $27@28; ing markets by DreYentinx fun opera‘ W95 ‘me'fim' 890d?“

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taken a turn





crop develop-

Over a very considerable por-





for pigs and

Lambs brought $16.75 and calves $20.





Best heavy bulls . . . . . . . .

Bologna bulls ...... q .....

Stock bulls .............

Feeders ........

Stockers .

Milkers and springers. . . .$





mixed hogs 50c higher.

The demand for hay continues ac- Pigs --

scarcely ade- MiXed





‘. Estimated érfiémfi' th‘ ‘m: 9.000”:

s are held firmly. holdover 9,895. . Early tn .9 on masts?





 





No. 1 timothy a quoted at assassin);

No. 1 light mixed $34@36; N0; 1 clo-

ver mixed $28@29; No. 1 clover at





$25@26.

' FEEDS.





Prices are steady excepting corn and

oat chop are lower. Quotations are:

Bran $45; standard .middlings $54;

fine middlings $57; coarse corn, meal

$81; cracked corn $82; corn and oat

chop $63 per ton in 1004b. sacks.





SEEDS. '





The crap outlook is unsatisfactory.

Prime red clover is quoted locally at

$29.50; October $31.50; timothy $5.50.





POTATOES.





The early‘potato crop is short and

market prices have been held at high

levels. The northern commercial sec-

tions report the crop as developing sat-

isfactorily. Farther south damage by

dry weather is reported. Colorado

acreage is estimated at 92,000. South-

ern potatoes are now selling in De‘

troit at $6.75@7.50 per barrel.





BUTTER.





A firm trade exists with the demand

good. According to the Bureau of

Markets, the butter held in public

warehouses shows an increase of 1,-

489,397 pounds during the past week,

or a total of 24,608,124 pounds, com—

pared to 17,837,972 pounds a year ago.

Some export buying on English ac-

count is noted in New York. At De-

troit fresh creameries are quoted at

511/2@53c; in Chicago the market is

higher at 48@531/zc; in New York

firm at 521/z@561/2c; in Philadelphia

trade is steady with western creamery

extra at 56%0.





EGGS.





Although the local market has ad-

vanced prices, other centers are hav-

ing about steady markets. At Detroit

fresh candled current receipts are

quoted at 43%0; do firsts in new cases





45c; do extra firsts, graded in new

cases 46%@47c.

cage is holding firsts at 42@43c; 'ordi-

nary firsts 39612401,“; storage packed

firsts 43%@44c. ,The range in New

York is from 52@66c, and'in Philadel-

phia western firsts bring $15@15.60 a

case. - v





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Tematoes are now coming to mar-

ket and are selling at $3.50@4 a bushel

or $1 peck; butter beans $1.25@1.50;

per bushel; cabbage $1.25; apples $3;

huckleberries $8@8.50; blackberries $8

@9; dry onions $3; new potatoes $1.75

@250 per bushel; red raspberries at

$14; poultry 34c per pound.





WOOL





There has been free selling of both

foreign and domestic wool the past

week. While receipts continue heavy,

extensive buying has kept supplies re-

duced. Considerable flece wools re-

main in the growing states, especially

where country pooling organizations

have secured control. Michigan de-

laine wools are selling in Boston at

78c; quarter-bloods from Ohio bring-

68@700; three-eighths blood 72@73c.

Shipments for the year to date are

153,804,581 pounds below the receipts

for the same time. ,





CANNED GOODS ‘





A firm feeling prevails in all canned

goods markets, and high prices con«

tinue to obtain. Demand for. fancy

and standard grades of peas is heavy,

with offerings light. To aid the firm

position of the market in peas comes

news of a shortage of»3,000,000 cases

in the Wisconsin pack alone. Western

buyers are paying 50c per case above

opening prices to secure supplies. To-

matoes are also strongly held under a

good spot demand and with prospects

of a short pack. The position of the

market for canned fruits is not notic-

ably changed. Offerings are small. An

active demand fornew pack fruits at





 





 





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Reports for Thursday, July Slst,





BUFFALO.

Buyers here today paid $23@23.25

$24 for mixed hogs.





DETROIT





Cattle.

Receipts 2,200. Market dull at Wed-





nesday’s prices or 500 to $1 lower than

last week’s close.

Best heavy steers

Best handy wt bu steers. .

Mixed steers and heifers

Handy light butchers. . . .





Light butchers .......... 6.25@ 7.50

Best cows ..... ......... 9.00

Butcher cows . . . . . . . .

Cutters .......

Canners ......





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Veal Calves.

.Receipts 1,231. Market steady.





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 1,469.





IIIIIIIIII H.°.g.s'-. O I I

Receipts 2,429. Pigs 25c higher;





CHICAGO.





Riots and street car strike are affect-





 





 





good and choice hogs 50@75c higher

than yesterday; very few packer hogs

sold; general market weakening; tops

at $23.60. Heavy 250 lbs up, medium,

good and choice $22.85@23.35; medi-

um 200 to 250 lbs, medium, good and

choice $21.80@23.60; light 150 to 200

lbs, common, medium, good and choice

$21.60@23.50; light lights 130. to 150

lbs, common, medium, good and choice

$21@23; heavy packing sows 250 lbs

...... $12.50@14.00 up, smooth $21@21.75; packing sows

9.50@11.00 200 lbs up, rough $206321; pigs 130 lbs .

8.00@ 9.00 down, medium, good and choice $19.75

7.50@ 8.50 @21





7.00@ 8-50 ’tically no trading; few sales stead to

5.75@ 6.00 strong; asking higher y

5-00@ 5-50 steers, medium and heaVy weight 1100

8-50 lbs up, choice and prime $16.50@18.50;

8-00 do. medium and good $12.25@16.50; do

7-00 common $10@12.25; lightweight 1100

8.50@ 9-50 lbs down, good and choice at 5$14.25@. /

7.50612 8.50 17.50; do common and medium $9.50@ /

75@ 110 14.25;.butcher cattle, heifers, common, '

medium, good and choice ' $7@14.50; ,

cows, *

Best .................... $19.00@20.5o choice $7@13.75; bulls. bologna and“ /

.................. 1~0.00@18.00 beef $8@12.50; » canners and Cutters. ’

cows and heifers $550607; do canner

Lambs very dull, $2 steers $6@9;

[York holders of Michigan pea beans lower than Wednesday’s

are asking $8 per cwt. for choice and Sheep steadyv

Medi- Best dry-fed lambs . . . .$

um choice are quoted at $150. On the Fair lambs . . .. . . .. 12.50@13.00

Detroit market an advance of 45c is Light to common ....... 10.00@11.00

reported for this week, the present Falr to good sheep

quotation for immediate and prompt 011118





 





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Estimated receipts today 5,500. Prac-





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common, medium,r good and





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opening; handyweight, medium, good and choice - j ',



_ . $15.75@16.75; feeder steers, common, I." ‘

’ 14,00 medium, good and choica $7.75@13.75; ‘



stocker steers, common, medium, good . «



and choice.’$7@11.25;



7.50@ 3,00 heifers, common, medium, good and , ,



4.00@ 3,00 choice $6.75@8.75; do calves, common, , ‘

medium, good ‘and choice $9.50@16.75.





do cows and ‘





. Sheep and Lambs.

Estimated receipts today 8.000.. The





 





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sharp advances *_, is Lrepcrted.





GRAND RAPIDS;





f f Continued. hot weather, without rain





has practicallyfuined the/early potato

crop in the Grafid‘Rapidsimarket area.

Digging is general andittakcs “75" to

100 hills for. a bushel of potatoes. They

sell at $3 per bushel. _ Corn and beans

'Lare badly injured and many pieces of

buckwheat are ruined by long drouth.

Pasture feed is so short» that dairymen

are feeding their, cows, Dealers. in

dairy feeds and mill, stufls' state they

are selling more dairy feeds now than

in mid-winter. Oil'mea'l, the protein

base of all dairy feeds, is $92 per ton

in- this market. Dealers state it will

go to $100. ~Their advises are "that the

,English government has placed an or-

der for 80,000 tons~ of oil meal at $92-

.per ton,»‘delivered at seaboard. Deal-

ers‘ in beans advanced the price to the

growers to $7 per cwt. last week. New

hay is‘ very‘ firm at $21 per ton.





 





NEWS OF THE WEEK.





 





(Continued from page 106).

Monday, July 28.





. NNOUNCEMENT is made from

Berlin that Emperor William of





Germany. has not renounced the throne '

' of Prussia—Congress arranges for the





welcome of General Pershing upon his

return to this country.——A demand for

a nation-wide investigation of exorbi-

tant food prices is manifesting itself

throughout Ohio and other states and

Ohio county prosecutors will urge ac-

tion upon the part of thevfederal gov-

ernment—A series of woe riots in the

negro district of Chicago results in one

death and, a number of injuries.





Tuesday, .July 29.





RACE riots in Chicago Continue un-

abated and troops are sent to re-

store order.7—The federal trade com-

mission declares that big packers have

an interest in twenty-eight of the fifty

principal lice stock markets of the

country, imanipulate prices, eliminate

many competitors, and restrict the





, heat supply by discouraging produc-





tion—Street car strike in Chicago con-

tinues. ‘ *





 





 





 

 

 





 

 





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' 3550' per dozen. . ,, ' ,

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.gralnand forage exhibits by the chi.





cage Baird of Trade at the first lnter- . '





national Grain V and Hay show to be





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tional Live Stock Exposition, Novem-

ber 291.0 December 6, 1919. The Mich-





' will help leok‘atter any crop exhibits

to_ be entered by farmers of the state

and in fact urges ‘that a large and rep-

resentative number of exhibits of all

kinds of grain and grasses. both sheaf

and threshed, be saved now in prep-

aration for this show, which will give

opportunity to the farmers of this



. state to show just. what they have





‘ties of grain, and to show the diversity



and excellence of Michigan's crops.

All exhibits sent to the ‘State Fair



and desired to be sent to the West





Michigan State Fair will be forwarded .





7 there by the Michigan Crop Improve-

‘ment Association. Save-your material

for sheaf samples now.





 





NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.





 





Button—The receipts ' of butter are

greatly on the decrease, 12,000 less

tubs of butter having been received

this week than last. Buying interest.

-hoWever, has not been consistent and

the market has been extremely sens1—

live. The week opened with very ac-

tive‘ trading and remained so until

Wednesday, when the price advanced

a. halt cent. The advance, however,

caused a strained feeling and the mar-



' ket has beenweak since that time and

the advance in price has been lost.

There has been a considerable new

‘speculative interest during the week

and more stock has gone into the

warehouses than did last week. Local

demand has been good. Established

quotations on Friday were as follows:

Extras 53%@54c; higher scoring than

extras 541A@55c; firsts 5l%@53%c;

seconds 49@51c. ‘



' Cheese—The cheese market' has

”been firm all the week and the price

.has advanced slightly. Reports indi-

cate that production is falling off quite

rapidly. Much of cheese being receiv-

ed is from medium to interior in qual-

ity. Export demand has quickened

slightly during the week, some Scan-

dinavian orders having been booked.

There were further inquiries from

both European and Asiatic countries.

,Local buyers are placing large quanti-

ties in warehouses. Quotations are as

follows: Common to fair 28@31c; av-

erage run 311/2@32%c; specials 32%

@33lAc. _



' Eggs.——-Receipts of eggs have de-

creased materially. Quality of eggs re-

ceived is, on the whole, poor. There

. is an over-abundance of seconds, but

an ”insufficient supply of high quality

;eggs to meet the demand. Some deal-

ers are shifting to storage eggs in'or-

1 der to meet their requirements. Trad-i

ing on the whole has been ratherl

‘ quiet since Thursday. Established quo-v



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:‘ old rooster-slaw *' turkeys ‘ 30c: ducks

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‘ On August21 the Farmers' Clubs of

Michigan will hold a picnic on the

Michigan Agricultural Campus, where



.the following program will be given:

, Cemmunity singing, led by Mr. J: S.

. Taylor; address of welcomeby Dr. F.

TgKedzie, president M. A. (3.; response

. by C. Gorden,. president of picnic asso-

ciation; secretary-treasurer's « report

5 by Mrs. S. R. Holmes; reading; Mrs. C.

:Burkhart, Howell; solo. Mr. J. s. Tay—

_ lor; from 'six to ten-minute" speeches

by Prof. F. G. Cox, farm crops depart—

- ment; Dr. M. M. McCool, soils depart-

ment; Trot. A. C. Anderson, dairy-de—

_ ;Vpartment; Prof. G.‘ Brown, ._ animal

‘F‘it‘i‘iiiig’yhfim'éh‘ih " “will? W‘

, , ; _ ' man; an. strat-

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tractor made. Its rating is based upon only’tlo% of its

maximum power efficiency—a 20% overload capacity.

The OilPull power plant is a low speed; heavy duty

motor, built complete in Advance-Rumely factories and

designed especially for this tractor, and to operate

on oil fuel. The weight of the OilPull and the weight

distribution is absolutely correct to realize the full

power developed by the bmotor. Ask any OilPull

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'0 ~ 9 Actual work in the held over a

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test. Ten years ago the first OilPull tractors were sold

for breaking sod’ in the Northwest—the toughest job

a tractor can tackle. And these same OilPull: haVe

been at it ever since, giving year after year service.

The first OilPull built is still on the job—over 15,000

are now in service.



The OilPull frame is of straight steel members-—

without bends or splices—to best resist twists and

strains. OilPull gearing has always been made a bit

larger and heavier than you might think necessary.

OilPull shafting is the same—all of special steel—the

OilPull crankshaft is built to U. S. Naval specifica—

tions. Motor parts are ground to the thousandth part

of an inch. There is no better tractor wheel made than

the OilPull—we’ve been building engine wheels for over

80 years. Oil cooling eliminates evaporation, freezing,

rusting, clogging. overheating-and saves power.



Ask any OilPull owner his opinion of OilPull

dependability.



. 7 Fuel is the biggest item of expense in

Economy ' a tractor’s operation and oil fuel—-

common kerosene—is the cheapest fuel available. Real

oil tractors are made. not “made over.” The OilPull is

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The OilPull will operate successfully on kerosene under

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And to back it up, every OilPull tractor is guaranteed

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under all conditions, at all loads to its full rated

brake horsepower. The OilPull has established the

record for the lowest fuel cost. It will plow an acre of

ground at less cost than any tractor built—bar none.

Ask any OilPull owner his opinion of OilPull economy.





' ' ° 7 Simplicity and case of operation are

Simplicity. “inbuilt” in the OilPull. There is

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The OilPull' design allows for high front wheels,

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A large belt pulley on the right hand side driven

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- 7 Service as Advance-Rumely practices

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At each branch is carried a complete stock of

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- p The OilPull is built in four sizes,

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each capable of delivering the proved OilPull power.

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Every‘Bump is a Little Collision in Itself





OMBINE the bumps your Ford is compelled to Withstand in a.

year, or even six months, and you would have a collision that

would tear it to pieces.



Just because you can’t notice the injury day by day is no sign it is

not taking place. -



Prevent the effects of the bumps from reaching the vital parts of your

,Ford Car or Ford One Ton Truck and you will find a saving of more

than one-third in the up-keep and tire expense. You also will find that

at least fifty per cent has been added to its life and resale value. '



Hassler Shock Absorbers afford this protection for every Ford. They absorb the

“little collisions” before they get a chance to do their damage. .



Hasslers are proving their worth on more than a. million Ford Cars today. Look

and you will see that one in every three Fords is now equipped with the Patented

Hassler Shock Absorber. And while the saving is remarkable, yet a large percentage

of Hassler owners purchased them'because of their easy riding qualities. Any Hassler

owner will tell you that the additional comfort alone is worth more than the cost of

Hasslers.



We might also mention that gasoline mileage is increased; that steering is made

easier, adding to the safety of the car; and that greater speed is made possible, giv-

ing more practical value to the car. -



Hassler Shock Absorbers can be applied in a. few minutes. They do not require

marring of the Ford. There arevtwo types; one for the 'Ford Passenger Car and

another for the Ford One-Ton Truck. ' _





lO-DAY TRIAL OFFER





Find out for yourself what Hasslers mean. We do not ask you to risk your

money. The Hassler dealer in your vicinity will put them on—let you use

them for ten days—and if you are not pleased they will be taken off and

your money refunded in full. Write for descriptive folder—name of the

nearest dealer and trial order blank.





The Hassler Guarantee: “Absolnte Satisfaction or.Your Money Back" ' A





ROBERT H. HASSLER, Inc., 1144 Naomi St., Indianapolis, Ind. ,

Canadian Factory: Hamilton, Ontario

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