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I LIKE to know that my neighbors are my friends. So do you. iness in the matter of winning friends. That is what we must be

I heard a man say recently, “I don’t care what the people of willingto. do in, our efforts to be well thought of.

this neighborhodd think about me. I am going to do just as _I ' Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people

hate a mind to do,.and it is nobody’ 3 business." - who are in their own nature friends, only they don’t know each

But he did hot mean it. He did not know what it would other. For instance, our farm work may be getting behind. We

mean for himself and his family to cut loose from everybody in are not feeling well. It looks like, rain. Over comes our good

his neighborth in that way. He could not do it, it he tried , neighbor and lends a hand.- He puts the very best there is in

ever so hard. We need and must have loyaf friends. Real, true him into helping us out of our pinch. If need be, he brings his

friends are our greatest JOY. -. team over and stays till things are cleared up. Now, yOu know

_ And the only way to get loyal friends is for us to do things that; man is your friend. He may be rough, a man with the bark

that will make us worthy or them. Every man will have Some 1 on, buthis heart is in the right place.

thing to do for his friend, and something to bear with him. '. Do you do the same thing when he is in deep water? If you

This sides not mean that we shall be all the while ﬁshing for ~ do, then he i1 warranted in saying, “Sam’ 3 one of the bestneigh-

. the 300d Will of, others. That sort or a man we idespise. No man ,bors I ever had, a true friend of us all. ”

can expect to and a. friend withOut faults: nor can he propose ‘ Winning friends costs something. Everything worth having

himself to he so to mark Without reciprocal action there can costs. But do you want anything you do not pay for? or course

be no “333% at M hieudship. We like good. square bus» you don't. No real man does.


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DETROIT, SEPTEMBER 6, 1919


CURRENT COMMENT


HERE is no doubt

that one of the


N ecessmes chief causes of the

Versus general complaint re-

Luxurnes garding the high 0°“


of living is. the pres-

ent tendency among wage earners to

spend their money freely for luxuries

for which they pay exorbitant prices,

while they attribute their inability to

save to the increased cost of the pri-

mary necessities of life. A few ex-

amples will serve to illustrate this

fact: _ ’ ,


One of th most striking of these ex-

amples will appeal with peculiar force

to the dairymen who contribute to the

Detroit market milk supply, and who

have heard strong echoes of the con-

sumers’ protests at the advance in the

price of milk which was necessary to

give producers a small margin over the

Cost of production and insure an ade-

quate future milk supply. Yet these

same consumerswho complain so hit-

terly regarding the increased cost of

this necessity pay a much greater in

crease for the same product in the

form of a luxury, apparently without

even a murmur of discontent. With

the price of ice cream sodas at seven-

teen cents, including the two-cent war

tax, there is no apparent lack of pat-

ronage of the very numerous stands

where this luxury is dispensed in al-

most inﬁnitesimal units of food value

as compared with a quart 'of milk, yet

at a higher cost to the consumer than

a quart of milk delivered at his door.


This natural tendency on the part

of the consuming public to be indul-

gent as to the price of luxuries, but

critical as to the price of necessary

foodstuffs has contributed greatly to

the prosperity of a multitude of “soft

drink" vendors and a faw large manu-

facturers. The latter fact is attested

by the published auditors' statement

of the Detroit Creamery Company, the

city's largest ice cream manufacturers,

showing a proﬁt of eighteen per cent

on their capital in 1918. But it is a

tendency which contributes largely to

the present situation, and which must

be a factor in the ultimate solution of

the economic adjustment of living

costs.


. Another example 'of this tendency

which we believe to be typical came to

our attention during the past week. A

workman entered a store in a prosper-


asked for dress shirts The proprietor


I (of the store, who waited on him, show-


him a standard line of $3. 50 shirts.

j as he himself wore. but the cued

., was not satisﬁed and asked to


’ a better, grade. He was then


day 111 the shops


the attitude of a larger element”. of


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but: they sold for $12.00.: “All. righ

rep-lied the 0m “silty. should“

I wear a g


This attitude 13,6! course. not uni}

versal, but it is undoubtedly typical of


wage earners at the present time. It

is an attitude which contributes to the

present presperlty of the; merchant,

but Which bodes ill for ﬁle future, so

far as the reduction of living costs are

concerned, since high wages dissipated

in extravagant luxuries are incompati.

me with cheap foodstuffs.


Just a few years ago when the “mov-


ies” were rapidly developing they were


a cheap source of popular diversion

and entertainment , at an admission

cost of ﬁve. or ten cents. Now, with

the movie habit ﬁrmly established in

the lives (if so many people, the pic-

ture houses have long waiting lines at

greatly advanced prices. made up of

patrons who formerly spent little in

attending theaters. Moving pictures

are of great value from aneducational

as well as an entertainment stand-

point, but the thrilling serial‘or the

startling feature play is in most cases

the more powerful magnet to draw

proﬁtable houses, and their appeal to

the imagination may easily become so

strong as to eclipse the more practical

needs of the hour, thus being typical of

a habit of thought, or lack of it, which

has contributed to the present econom-

ic problem and which complicates its

solution; ’ _ _ ,


The farmers of Michigan and the

country have not acquired this habit

of indulgence in transient luxuries.

Rather are their savings invested in

substantial comforts which will make

life better worth the living. They will

be satisﬁed with a labor income which

will afford them a reasonable return

on their investment and a fair meas-

ure of the comforts of life. Under the

present labor and economic conditions

this program is not compatible with

cheap foodstuffs. It is thus a logical

conclusion, that both consumers and

economists must realize this fact. be-

fore our reconstruction crisis is past,

lest foodstuffs become scarce as well

as high in price.


NE' of the most


" important prob-

lems confronting the

many Cooperative

Live Stock Shipping

Associations in Mich-

igan is that of improving the quality

of the animals offered to the trade and

making more intelligent grading of

the shipments. '


Of course,-the upgrading of the live

stock of a community so that every

animal shall be a good one of its class

is a slow process, as it is going to re-

quire considerable time to induce

farmers to discard scrub sires and re-

tain better females for breeding pur-

poses, and unfotunately conditions for

ﬁnancing live stOck improvement in

many communities are not the most

favorable. In many instances 'mthe need

for immediate cash prom mpts ma ny

farmers to part with animals, the keep-

ing of Which for a longer‘ time would

prove proﬁtable. It seems to us, how-

ever, that members of Cooperative

Live Stock \ Shipping Associations

could, by working together, do consid-

erable to inﬂuence local bankers to

help ﬁnance stock feeding, and in this

way improve the ﬁnish and quality 61


Stock Ship.

'ping Asso-

ciations


the animals shipped from the commu-

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nity.

Anether


against the complete success of the


Cooperative 311113913? Association, as


it exists moor. is use latte pm 01

twg or. threehead


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foature which mllitates '


station. or where as possible


shift“ 1 got {8.00 per eral smaller associations to 3111;); car- so“

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railroad or

balloon by. inolEdia: shipments from

several stations; and then reloading


andgradmgthemeoastohavethemmuﬁonda‘y,’


come up to. the grades er standards do-

mended in the big market: where they

are consigned. .


Live “stock so bunched could then be

graded at the yards andsold inearloads

of equal quality to better advantage

than individually. With hogs of like


quality and ﬁnish at,“ say two hundred


and forty pounds, gathered in a car».

load, good quality steers,


_ and other

grades of stock similarly grouped,

quick sales at -top prices for the var-'

ious grades could be made. '


such practice would mean the coop-

eration of the several associations in~

terested, also considerable business

management, but the methods would

provide opening for suggestions 1301

still greater activities so that the time

of at least one good man could be fully

employed in looking after the manage-

ment. Among other possibilities that

suggest themselves in this regard is

that of disposing of stockers, feeders

and possibly breeding stock to the best

advantage of the community where

they are raised.


A good stockman employed during


certain times of the year could be of


great value to the farmers of the sev-

eal communities by buying and selling

carloads of the kinds of stock needed

for feeding by the farmers. Similar

action with regard to the selection and

distribution of improved breeding stock

could be conducted with a reasonable

degree of success. ,


In regard to marketing hogs, which

branch of the live stock industry is of

particular interest to the farmers of

southern and central Michigan, some

more intelligent method of grading the

animals than that now in effect is nec-

essary if top prices are secured at the

big market centers. By properly grad-

ing all shipments of hogs at the ship-

ping point, or the shipments from sev-

eral points, each hog of prime duality

and desirable weight for the best pur-


‘pose would bring the top market price


greater competition among the buyers


would be encouraged, and the produc—.


or would be encouraged to impove the

quality of his hogs and ﬁnish them

properly for market. As grading is now

practiced many farmers who ﬁnish

large droves of hogs for market hesi-


tate about joining cooperative associa?


tions and sending their well-condition-

ed animals to market along with those

from farmers who ship mixed carioads

of,poo_rly' conditioned hogs. By prop-

erly grading and shipping better lots

of more uniform hogs the associations

would not only secure better prices for

their shipments, but it would tend to

induce more progressive feeders to

support the movement. - '


The Cooperative Live Stock Ship-

ping Associations in Michigan have

met with remarkable success and the

extension of the work to include the

linking up of \the different associations

along these * lines is . a» matter that


should receive attention in3thevimme-


diate future... Such cooperative eﬁort

would ultimately result‘ in the im-

provement of the live stock of the

state as well as eliminating producers

losses through the saving of the mid-

dlemen' s toll.


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[cultural Society will


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balloon,

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. the 1.69 000 persons

on the grounds ..wer re completely ab»;

sorbed in the hundreds and thousands


of attractions and in learning the

things that one eon learn from intent} ' ‘


gently displayed exhibits. In mum;

ins issues of this journal our readers;

will get comprehensive reports on the

various departments of the fair. with

special attention given to the educa.‘

tional features. ‘


News of the week

Wednesday, August 27.


AILWA shopmen throughout the


United totes start balloting on

the question of accepting proposals

made by President Wilson and direc:

tor-general of railroads. ——The War De-

partment orders the resumption of re-

cruiting men for overseas duty. -—Each

high school in Detroit will be provided

with a military oﬂicers’ training corps.

——Packer representatives testify be-

fore Judge Weist at Lansing—Five

million Germans have ﬁled applica-

tions for permission to emigrate to

American—The afternoon markets at

the Detroit city marketing places are

meeting with generous patronage;


Thursday, August 28.


ORKERS' representatives in ses- ..


sion at New York decide to make

another appeal to the United States

Steel Corporation before ordering a

general strike—Polish insurgents in

upper Silesia surround the German

garrison in Myslowitz. ——The Ohio Su-

preme Court upholds public ofﬁcials in

seizing and selling at public auction

food products that were being hoard-

ed.-—Attorney-General Palmer makes

the announcement that the . enforce

ment of the prohibition law through

the country will be prosecuted with

vigor. -—-State Geologist R. C. Allen re-

signs after ten years of service in the

above capacity.


Friday, August 29. -


HE Railroad Administration» an-.


nounces that it will undertake to

restore full railroad service on Satur-

day and that all striking employee who

do not return to work will ﬁnd their

places ﬁlled. ——-The proposed strike of

street railway men in Pittsburgh is

called off. ——Pre'sldent _Wilson will

leave Washington Séptember 3 to‘ tour

the country to give the people an ac—

count of the treaty of Versailles. mmhe

United States Grain Corporation pur-

chases nearly a half million barrels of

ﬂour at from $9. 90 to $10. 30 per bar-

rel -—France pays $400. 000, 000 for all

American Expeditionary Force’ s prop-

erty in that country. except that with-

held for return to the United States——

Cossack forces capture 13, 000 Bolshe-

vik troops and disperse 20, 000 more

near Koslov; while General Denlkine

moves rapidly forward and threatens

Trotsky' s army.


Saturday. August 30.

AILMEN heed the warning of the

United States Railroad Adminis-


tration, and return to their work.—

Hearings before the Interstate Crim-


.merce Commission on grain rates from


northern to eastern points will be held


Septetmber 8.-—Field Marshal Foch 9.1-,


lows Germany to increase the number

of troops in Rhineland for. three

months after the peace treaty comes

into eifect.—-—Canada establishes the

license system for all middlemen who

handle wheat. —Michigan State Fair

opens under unusually favorable con-

ditlons.

- ' Sunday, August 31. _ ,


HE Council of National Defense


charges that woolen. cotton and

shoe industries cartel; production to

advance prices. f’ershing res

fuses to testify before house commit-


tee investigating affairs in connection .


with the American Expedition forces.

-——Following a three-day meeting, ﬁns

eluding a conference with President

Wilson, labor leaders announce that

there is yet hope of averting a strike


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, T HE factors which will determine


“the quality of the rural school

are the ability of the farmer ad-

equately to support the school and to

spare his children from work in the

ﬁeld, while they complete the course


. of study.


“'The working man is asking fdr short-

er hours, higher wages and lower cost

of living. The farmer is demanding

higher prices and lessened cost of pro-

“duction so that his income may be

raised and his hours of toil shortened.

0bviou’sly, both of these things cannot

happen at the'same time. Which will

have to yield, or where the line of

compromise will ﬁnally fall, no one

can say; but to‘ keep in delicate ad-

justment these vital forces will call for

all the wisdom and courage we pos-

sess. ’


No one can yet say how far we may

go in one direction without bringing

our industries into chaos, or in the


’ other without bringing our agriculture


into decay. Both‘the working man and

the farmer must have suﬂicient wage

to support his family fairly, and in any

reasonable view both must be consid-

ered. I shall speak for the fa1mer.


To place him where he is merely

producing a meager subsistance for

himself and his family with scant sur-

plus to sell as a result of employing

all the daylight of all the members of

his family in hard physical labor, does

-not meet the terms of a permanent so-

‘cial , justice.


At present all the child labor laws

on the statute books in this country,

I am told, speciﬁcally exempt farm

children from their protecting inﬁu~

‘ences. Are farm children of less im-


’ portance than citychildren? Are farm


tasks which children perform, such as

milking cows and picking cotton,'less

hurtful to the growing child than tasks

performed in a. sanitary and well sup-

ervisedcity factory? Is cheap food so


fundamental to the welfare of society'

uthat we are justiﬁed in sacriﬁcing the


children of the open country that it

may be had? It justice demands that

the child in the city be free to attend

school without the retarding inﬂuence

iof physical labor, should it not also

demand the same protection for Coun-

try Children? I shall not attempt to

answer these questions except by rais-

ing a'more fundamental one: ’ Is it not

best for all children, both rich and

poor, that they be taught to work and

‘given an opportunity to combine rea-

sonable but productive labor with

.study and recreation, all u’ﬁder condi-

tions which will not rob them of their


' childhood, nor injure their bodies or


their morals? Whichever way the last

question is answered, the truth is self-

evident that young people on the farm

have the same rights as do those in

town. .General and unrestrained child

labor ought not to be any more neces-

sary on the farm than in the factory.


If the head of the familyin the City'

claims it as a right, while working'

” alone and without capital, to be able

,to support his family decently, the

head of the family on- the farm while ‘


working a reasonable number of. hours


with an average capital of more than '

345111.000. ought to be able to accom-

yplish the same result. ‘ 1


The rural school, the great laggard


Fin “- ’12,; educational procession, lacks , ,


From on dddrerr Made 5 Dr. H. J. W atom at t/ze recent meet-

gift/1e National E ucatzona/ Arrocz'atzon at M z/‘wauéee,

re 1456?; industry and agriculture presented t/zezr view:


= on Me subject. .


the farmer alone, our city school sys-

tem; If We collected the country folks


into villages to live and had them go.


out to the farms each morning to work

the some], church and social problems

would be enormously simpliﬁed.

by this act we would sacriﬁce the in

dividual farm home, an institution

which has reached its highest develop-

ment in America and doubtless has

contributed more to American ' inde-

pendence of thought and action than

any other single factor In this move,

also, we would be taking the ﬁnal step

toward the establishment of an Amer-

ican farm peasantry and be confess-

ing failure in our attempts to main-

tain in this country a permanent rural

civilization. _


A recognition by society of the prin-

ciple that the adequate and proper ed-

ucation of the children on the farm

is a part of the responsibility of the

state and nation as well as of the local

Community, and entering upon a policy

of taxing all the people to supplement

the meager funds now available for the


—rural schools, would meet‘ the prob-


lem of adequate support. But this has

is own dangers. It would be making

of the country people objects of char-

ity and would in the end impoverish

rather than enrich their lives. Also

entering upon such a policy would be

a confession that opportunity in the

country does not enable those who live

there to provide a decent education

for their children, and young men and


But '


Dr. W ater: .rpoée for flu! Amerzcan Farmer.


women of discernment would quickly

run away from such conditions. The

ultimate result of such a policy would

be to accentuate the drift from the

Country to the city.

We ought to try to meet the issue by

a system under which the farmer can

help himself by giving his children,

out of his own earnings, the same ad-

vantage that children in the city have

Agriculture has always 'been a basic

industry, but never was society so

dependent upon this industry as now.


'Never would it have made so much


difference in the welfare of everybody

as to how its ﬁelds are tilled as at

this time.


All the good land located where men

want to live and raise families has al-

ready been occupied. Within the next

half century, we shall have to double

the food production 'of the United

States to meet the needs of- our in-

creasing population, to say nothing of

the material required to meet the in—

creased standards of living. This doub~

lingof food output cannot come as a

corresponding increase came, a little

more than a quarter of a century ago,

by doubling the land under the plow,

but it must come from the land now

in cultivation, land which is no longer

of virgin fertility, but is washed and

worn and in need of rest and repair.

Increased food production henceforth

must come through greater intelli-

gence and skill in farming, or from

longer hours of toil and fewer oppor-


Cﬁz’ldren of t/ze Farm Must Have Equal Opportun-

zkiey with City Children to Get an Education


and Choose a Career.


tum‘ties for those who live on the land.

The only remedy for this fundamental


situation, therefore, is to give the chi]?


dren who soon will farm, every advan-

tage that education can afford and the

stimulus that opportunity brings. Ful-

ly nine-tenths ’of the American farm-

ers go directly to their occupations

from the rural school. To teach these

pupils with instruction which will

make them more Successful husband-

men and business men and better citi-

zens is to attempt to do in the ungrad-

ed, one-room school, with an inexperi-

,enced, immature teacher, more than

we hope to accomplish in the city

grades and high school.


In considering the importance of the

rural school, especially in the light of

this fact, we naturally think of making

it an instrument for teaching the farm

children how to farm and partly by

means of that which we teach them,

and partly by means of what we will

withhold from them, to keep them on

the farm. We are always interested

in keeping farmers’ children on the

farm and view with alarm their com-

ing to town to live. It does not occur

to us that, if the farm possesses so

many advantages over the city as a

place in which to live and to make a.

career, our ﬁrst duty is to our own

children and that we should be bring-

ing them up with a desire to live in

the country and till the soil.


In a democracy, the utmost freedom ‘


in the choice of an occupation is the

fundamental right of every child and

must not be abridged. If the public

schools of the city sought to make

blacksmiths of the sons of the black-

smith and to train the sons of bank

directors to follow in the footsteps of

their fathers, the country would be

shaken with protest because the public

school, the most powerful agency left

us with which to promote democracy,

was being employed to break down

democracy.


The boy and the girl born in the

country are entitled to as much free.

dOm of choice of occupation as are

those brought up in town and are en-

titled to as substantial help from the

public schools in making an intelligent

choice. Besides, if we attempt to use

the rural schools as a means of forc-

ing country children to stay on the

farm, we shall fail. Every other effort

along this line which has ignored the

fundamental principle of equality of

opportunity has been futile.


I think it may be accepted as axiom-

atic that the intelligence of the people

on the farm in any country ﬁnally is

directly related to the income derived

from the farming business, as compar-

ed with that from similar enterprises

in the same community. People will

stay on the farm if the opportunities

are as good in agriculture as in other

industries. If the opportunities are not

as good, the intelligent and ambitious

will leave the farm. If farming is al-

lowed to become unproﬁtable, as com-


_ pared with other occupations, it will


be given over to a less eﬂicient class

than that which now tills our soil.

While the rural school curriculum

may need to be somewhat reorganized

we must keep clearly in mind that,

when country and city children meet

in high school or college there must be

no inequality in opportunity or choice


of course, and no difference in the


thoroughness with which they- have

been prepared to carry higher Work.


And 11' the larger group which will new I '


or go beyond the elementary grades,

when they meet from the coup. and


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News of the


PROMOTING RURAL TRUCK

. LINES.


0 promote rural motor truck lines


for quick delivery of perishable

goods from farms to markets, Gover-

norSmith, of New York state, has ap-

‘ pointed a highway transport commit-

tee, the duties of which will be to

formulate a program for the develop-

ment of rural motor truck express

routes where they will aid most in giv-

ing the farmer a mele direct outlet for

his produce; to give publicity to the

public utility of the rural motor ex-

press, and to recommend legislation

necessary to protect the interests of

1 the public in the operation of motor

truck lines.


Buffalo is the center of an extensive

system of rural motor truck express

lines radiating out along the state

roads in every direction for a distance

of ﬁfty miles.


The trucks are operated on schedule


1 time. One farmer delivers a few bush-

els of apples or pears along the road

side; another farmer a crate of eggs

or poultry. Still other farmers have

for market a few bushels of carots, or

potatoes or other vegetables.


The truck comes along, gathers up

these small consignments, delivers

them to the city market, makes the

sales, and delivers the returns to the

farmers on the return trip. They also

bring back groceries, and other sup-

plies odered by the farmers.


This plan encourages the growing of

a variety of products, and helps the

small farmer who formerly was handi-

capped by not having for sale at any

one time enough’garden truck, fruit or

other products to pay him to make a.

trip to the city.


Many small lots of apples .or other

fruit that formerly went to waste on

the farm for want of a market, are

now made to yield proﬁtable returns

through the medium of the motor ex.-

press.


Some of the truck lines are owned

by commission merchants in Buffalo.

others by individuals and transporta-


' tion companies. It will be one of the

functions of the state committee to

regulate these lines to prevent over-

lapping and wasteful competition, and

develop a more efﬁcient system of

transportation and distribution—E. R.


WOU LD CONTROL PACKERS’

CARS.


ECLARING that the step is neces-

sary to control the business of

the ﬁve largest packing companies, the

Federal Trade Commission in a special

report to President Wilson, recom.

mends that the operation of refriger-

ator cars, and of cars used for trans-

portation of meat animals, be declared

a government monopoly. It recom«

mends further that the property con:

cerned, including icing stations and

other facilities as well as the cars, be

acquired by the government and rail-

roads thereafter be licensed to own

a d operate them. The big packers,

th report says, now own ninety per

cent of all the refrigerator equipment

in the country suitable for the trans-

port of fresh meat.

1 “The present country-wide system of

distribution by the ﬁve big packers

has grown up from their control of re-

frigerator car lines in conjunction with

various pools,” the report says in part.

; “In‘turn the volume of trafﬁc of the

ﬁve packers has enabled them to- se-

cure from the railroads-advantages ov-

er competing shippers. Formerly in

, the shape of direct rebates, thes‘e' ad-

] vantages are now usually in expedited

, co to the big peeker cars; in fan

,yogahle mixing rules which include all

'> “ diversided- products and even.


ing industry; by allowances paid to

some of the big packers by carriers


for a part .of the transportation sen


vice; by favorable arrangements and

lease of stock yards by the railrdads

to some of the big packers; and by the

sale to the railroads of bumping posts

manufactured by a subsidiary of Lone

of the big ﬁve.


“The small independent packers’

cars are 'misused and diverted, fre-

quently being out of his service for ex-

tended pehods, in several instances as

long as six months. In 1917 the cars

of the “big ﬁve” and their subsidiary

companies maintained an average of

80.8 miles per car day, while the aver-

age for cars of their competitors, the

independent packing companies, was

only 54.5 miles.” .


The c0mmission’s investigation, the


«report says, of the private car owner-


ship has developed the fact that while

packers, claim losses, “a proper revi-

sion of their car accounts” shows car

operation has netted some proﬁt. This

amounted to 6.8 per cent in 1912, 3.4

per cent in 1914, and 4.3 per cent in

1917.


GRAPE CROP OUTLOOK GOOD.


ROSPECTS’ continue good for a


successful season for the grape

growers of Michigan. as the yield will

be a big one and the quality is very

ﬁne. Grape juice manufacturers have

contracted for heavy supplies, but no

price has been set in the contracts as

the current market price Will be ‘paid.


The contracts call for the entire crop


of the grower at the market. Con-

cords will move beginning about Sep-

tember5


Housing ‘Farm TOols


grlcut


to 10, while some of the ear-


h" ‘ ;-


lier varieties will be in sooner. Grow “Fine furs are now in good demand

are are talking in ﬁgures of $100 per in Franoe, Holland. and England while

ton 3'3 they say that the 008*. Of W staple mesons furs are selling brisk-

duction h’as increased and they would ly in Belgium, France and the neutral

have to have that ﬁgure to net as countries. Apparently high prices have

much as they did last year. not proved a deterrent to the fur man-

. ufacturers throughout Europe. ’

GOOD TRADE IN FURS.

' ' a syndicate of large French buyers,

HE fur business in the leading who had heretofore dealt in Leipsic,

countries of Europe at thepresent has been formed, with a view to pur-

time is just about as prosperous as it chasing their furs direct in America.

is in the United States, according to I have found the same tendency in

Norman H. Bacon, who returned re- other European* countries, 50 that, if

cently from an extended business trip transportation facilities permit, it is

abread. Mr. Bacon was for ﬁfteen very likely that the fall and winter

years Fur Trade Commissioner of the auction sales will be attended by a

Hudson’s Bay Company of Canada, very large number of European buy-

With headquarters at Montreal but ers. In any event, there are certain to

about four months ago became presi- he numerous and large purchases

dent of the New York Fur Auction made here for European account

Sales Corporation. “There can be no doubt that the

“While on the other side,” he said. world’s stock of raw furs of practical-

“I visited England, France, Belgium 1y all kinds is very short. As goods

and the neutral countries in an en- came to market in Europe they were

deavor to get a ﬁrst- hand view of re- quickly snapped up with an advance in

construction in Europe as it affected prices Unless the exchange situation


the fur trade in general, and especially militates too strongly against Europe, .


New York as the fur market of the the late belligerent and neutral coun-

World. In all of the countries I visited tries on the other side of the Atlantic

I found the fur business in a prosper- will be prepared to pay even more

one condition Apparently the sudden than the present high prices, as the

Signing of the armistice brought about manufacturers are anxious to obtain

a slump in Europe. just as it did in raw materials with which to bring

this country, but if anything Europe their factories to capacity production.

was quicker than We were in realizing

the great opportunities open to trade THE BETTER COUNTRY SCHOOL.

as soon as the peoples of the world re.

turned to their peace-time occupations.

The early 59" mg showed a general re town to transact business or discharge

vival of the fur business over there, their duties, as members of a great

with prices increasing daily and with democracy, there must, be no advan-

a steadydemand from both dealers and tage which one group has over the oth-

manufacturers or by reason of a better education Obs

tained in the public schools.


With this conception of our school

system in mind, I cannot see how the

rural school should be essentially dif-


(Concluded from preceding page).


T the present price of farm tools

farmers who have not given them

good care have greatly increased their

cost of producing farm crops. If a cer-

tain implement lasts ten years, its cost

can be divided up among ten crops. If

it only lasts ﬁve years, the charge

against each crop for the use of that

tool must be twice as great. Nothing

saves tools more than a dry storage

place. The fence corners of the state

undoubtedly harbor many thousands

of dollars’ worth of tools that are rust-

ing out and rapidly becoming ﬁt sub-

jects for the junk dealer.

According to the Wisconsin College

of Agriculture the farmers of that

state are losing a. million dollars per


. year on machines that are left out in


the winter. 'They say that ten per

cent of the farm machinery of the

state is left out in the snow and rain

while $400 invested in an implement

shed would yield. twentymine per cent


ferent from the town school in its ob

ject, its scope and its excellence. It

all seems to me to be summed up in

about these statements:


Children of the farm must ‘have

equal opportunities with city children

to get an education and choose a car-

eer. Everyone familiar with the facts

knows that at present they do not have

such opportunities. To make this pos-

sible there must beiarger school units

in the country and there must be a.

good high school within easy reach

of every country boy and girl. But

important as we recognize the consol-

idation of schools to be, we should not

money to haVe them in a protected make the mistake of relying upon this

shed 80 that they can be oiled and re- movement as the sole remedy For a

paired in bad weather when other long time to come, perhaps always, we

work may be impossible. - shall have many one-room, one- -teacher


A place in the tool shed for the schools and for years yet the majority

scythe and the garden tools comes in of our country children will be edu-

handy. Then they can always be found cated in such schools. It is here,

when needed. The power sprayer therefore, that attention should be cen-

WhiCh is 0111? used a few days each .tered. The primary peed 'is a better

yearcan be protected from the Weath- paid teacher. Solong as the farmer is

er and it ‘is an expensive outﬁt which willing to pay his farm hand-higher

needs the best of care. . wages to plow his ﬁelds and feed his


On the modern farm there is a good stock thanto the teacher employed to


“I found it interesting to note that


chance to invest a large amount of

money in equipment and it is danger-

ous business not to protect that.in-

vestment so that itlwill yield the max-.

imum of service. City consumers who

think of 'modem-jfarinizlg‘-..is.s" easily

done with unto-date tools do not real-

ize the large ambunt of capital that is

necessary to properly eqqu 9. large

farm-. with the modern machinery.

Farmers do know what it costs and


on $1, 000 wdrth of machinery. Surely .how much ménéy can be tied up in


the condition is not much better in


implements which are only needed a


Michisan when! many iarmors can and few days leg year. It pays to have a


valuable machines without protection tool shed henever. it is possible It

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While all that has already been said

regarding the inability of the farmer

unaided to build and support a school

system in the country comparable with

that of the city is true, yet the farmer

is able to support a better school than

he now has. When his property pays

as much school “tax in proportion to its

value and earning power as town prop-

erty does. he will have a vastly better

school than new. - . .

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HE West Michigan Fair, under

the efﬁcient management of Sec:

, retary Lyman A. Lilly. is mak-

ing every effort possible to retain all

of the live features of an agricultural


7 .and live stock exhibition, and at the


same time provide clean and healthy


amusements for it's patrons. In dis-

cussing the problem he has faced in

improving the character and educa-

tional features, of the big fair, Mr.

Lilly said: “My experience as 'secre-

’tary of two “county fairs proved to my

satisfaction that the fairs Which are

best ﬁlling their mission as an uplift.

ing factor in agricultural life are those

Which are forcing the midway features

into the background, replacing them

with free amusements appropriate for

presentation in front of the grand-

stand, and which may be secured at

an outlay proportionate to the amount

of money set aside 'by the board for


" such features.”


Mr. Lilly is a man capable of evolv-

ing plans and successfully putting

them into action, rather than one who

looks after routine work. By prevail-

ing upon his" board of directors“, to

adapt his ideas of making the West

Michigan Fair one of greater agricul-

tural and educational value and provid-

ing cleaner and more intereSting


amusements he set about the problem"


of securing such features and innova-

tions as will annually afford something

out Of the ordinary; something not to

be seen except at some similar big ex-'

position. . D


West Michigan people, most of them

at least, saw their ﬁrst aeroplane at

the West Michigan Fair, and 'also saw

their ﬁrst female aviator. At this fair

a host of them saw their ﬁrst automo-

bile races and learned, through actual

timing, that the gaSoline car could

travel 'at the rate of more than a mile


"and Startling things


‘a minute on a regulation track. Trashy


stuff, labeled instructive amusement

has never. found a welcome there and

unless there is a radical change, never

will ﬁnd one. But the discoverer of

something new in automobile speed;

samething different in dirigible and

something faster than 1.58 in trotting

will always ﬁnd a‘ welcome. People

who visit this fair will always ﬁnd new

that are Warth

while.

- Many people have an idea that a

big fair can be conducted'successfully

along strictly agricultural and'educa-

tional lines, but the secretary who

neglects to provide interesting innova-

tions soon ﬁnds to his sorrow a-decid-

ed falling 3off in his box ofﬁce receipts.

No great fair can draw large crowds

or prosper ﬁnancially without depend-

ing upon some kind cf'moern innova-

tions t3 draw out the” people. to the

territory it is serving. If there is any-

thing that a big fair needs more than

anything else it is innovations, espe-

cially when practical men are entrust-

ed with their introductidn.


Another matter in which Mr. Lilly

has shown a progressive spirit is that

of increasing the interest and support


T ». e an With a Mission


the work is being promoted than it

will be in the years to come. From the

results of last year’s efforts along

these lines the future holds great

promise for this kind of werk at the


.West Michigan Fair.


One of the most impreSsing agricul-

tural features of this fair is the mag-

niﬁcent horticultural exhibit. West


*Mi'chigan is famous for its good vine-


yards and orchards, and it is only nat-

ural that these interests be given prop-

er consideration at the fair. The‘fac't

that this phase of the fair has become

famous for the excellence of its exhib-

its merely goes to Show that the man-

agement is alive to the importance of

making it really representative of the

agriculture of the territory it serves.


While the horticultural features of

the territory have been given due

prominence the live stock departments

of the fair have never been neglected.

During the past eighteen years the

beef and dairy cattle interests have

been encouraged and the competition

among the various breeds and classes

has been so keen that few breeders

have found it easy to capture the blue.

Competition has at all times been open

to the world, and that fact has made


of the young people of ‘West Michigan.

The increasinginterest in the exhibits

of the boys' and girls’ clubs is growing

rapidly. Such work is sure to give the

future fairs a lot of good material to

build upon and create a- greater inter-

est in the breeding and exhibiting of

pure-bred live stock. This kind of

work requires a lot of painstaking at-

tention on the part of the secretary

and its results are less apparent while


power vehicles and


it a battleground for some of the best

herds of the country. Sheep and

swine have been given liberal premi-

ums and despite the encroachments of

implements the

horse department has been fostered

and premiums have been kept at the

very highest level, making it worth

while for the breeders of the state to

make Grand Rapids an ideal place to

make comparisons of their stock.


' Work


Manufacturers of agricultural impleo

ments , and modern farm equipment

from all parts of the country have al-

ways made it a point to make strong

exhibits at the West Michigan Fair.

The many requirements of the rich

farmers of this


diversiﬁed section


making it especially proﬁtable for

them to cultivate this ﬁeld thoroughly.

Inventive genius has blessed in rare

fashion the farmers of America and it

is only natural that these blessings

should ﬁnd sxpression at such places

as the big fairs.

of the management to foster and en-

courage the exhibition of all labor-

saving implements that will lighten

the burdens of the farmers 'of Mich-

igan.


Much of Mr. Lilly’s success as sec-r


retary is due to the efforts of Dr. S. E.

Dodson, one of Michigan’s progressive

men whose fancy runs to horses of

all kinds. While Dr. Dodson is not

from the soil he is an enthusiastic ad-

mirer of the purebred horse and his

in promoting Memorial Day

work-horse parades has made him a

national ﬁgure in exhibitions where


good horses are a prominent feature.


In short, the West Michigan fair

has always been an excellent place for

the farmers of Michigan to meet and

visualize the improvement in the live

stock and agriculture of the state and

nation. What has been done to build

up theSe features has not been neg-

lected in the poultry and pet stock de-

partments. These exhibits always af-

fording interest to visitors Who ﬁnd

them more interesting than h0rticul~

ture and general live stock husbandry.

Horse racing and other features that


go to make up a ﬁrst-class big fair are ,


all given proper consideration, making

it of interest to every member of the

family.


It is the constant aim ’
' ‘es. They simply boycotted us.

. .grain stood on the tracks ﬁve to ten


N Illinois we organized the State.


Association t h r e e

The association was


Agricultural

' years ago.


made up of two representatives "from.


every county having a farm bureau.

From these representatives we' select—

ed a chairman,asecretary,avice-pres-

ident and a treasurer'to do business

‘for the farm folks of Illinois. These

ofﬁcials were to represent the farmers

~ wherever they needed to be represent—

ed. They were supposed to champion

the farmer’s came in the legislature, in

congress or wherever problems of vital

'.importance to the farmer were being

considered. About twenty-ﬁve coun-

ties in Illinois had afﬁliated with the

,state organization up to January of

“this year. The membership fee was

one dollar but this small fee made it

impossible for the association to do

the things the farm folks needed to

have done. It is important to have

money enough back of an organization

to. promote anything that is right, eq-

uitable and fair to all.


We do not, as farm folks, wish to

control everything, but we ought to be

in a position to stand up and correct

an evil when we come in contact with

it. The business of the state associa-

tion in Illinois is not to destroy other

interests, but to understand the oth-

er interests’ problems and to help them

to understand ours; to let them know

that we have an investment as well as

they, that we have overhead expenses

and are entitled to {a fair margin of

proﬁt, that if we work sixteen hours a

day we should be paid for sixteen

hours, and if we work eight hours we


. should be paid for the eight hours. In

other words, we should have a proﬁt

in our business; we should make it so

attractive that the farm boys and girls

will desire to stay on the farm because


, the business is worth while. We want

to make our homes better, our roads,

our schools and our community better.

We can do these things and more if


.we will get behind an organization

with purpose and money, and select

the proper men to carry out common-


sense plans that aim to improve con-g


ditions and work. justice.


I want to tell you of some of the

"things that we were forced to do in

Illinois. We organized cooperative e1-

evators in 1903, but could not ﬁnd a

single commission house in the city of

-.Chicago that would handle our pro-

duce. Why? Because the organized


'grain men served notice on commis-.


‘sion folks who handled the farmers’

grain that such commission men could

not do business with the old«line hous-


Our


days without a single man bidding for


tit, and when we sold we were obliged

'. to take from three to ﬁve cents under

the market. The result was that we

were forced to extend our organiza-

tions to handle these problems for our

farmers. As a result our state, Iowa,

Nebraska and other grain growing

states were organized to take up the

prdblems connected with the handling

Of our grain crops.


At that time transportation compa-

nies gave the line-house shipper ten

.dollars’ rebate on every carload of

grain that theyhandled for him. This

gave the line shipper an advantage of

I practically one cent a bushel. We also


' 1 found it almost impossible to secure ‘

The prices offered,


' rgsites for elevators.

rt'grains varied in different commu-


for the. cooperative elevators "to


. line dealers could use was employ-.

9d tic/“our disadvantage. g


niti‘es to make it as difﬁcult as possi- _ ,


acceed. In fact, every device that the '


During the past ”ﬁfteen years, espe

cially the laSt four or. ﬁve years, we

have developed organizations in twelve

states and through them. have correct-

ed many abuses. For instance, corpor-

ations have been active in advancing

freight rates upon farm products.

Three times during the past ﬁve years

we haVe had hearings before the inter-

state Commerce commission and the

utilities commission of our state on

the rate question. Through our organ-‘

ized effort and the employment of cap-

able men, we were able to prevent the

advancement of freight rates. Last

February the government proposed to

advance rates again but we made our

protest, and when the government saw

we had an organization extending

through twelve states, the proposal

was withdrawn. "


Not many years ago the'system of.


grading grains was deplorable. At one

time a 'saloon keeper of Chicago who

did not know wheat from rye or corn

fromoats, was selected as grain in-

spector through his political inﬂuence.

This situation has since been improv--

ed and we now have better grading

rules, and inspectors who have passed

difﬁcult civil service examinations. We

have also insisted on and secured a

moisture test that is giving quite sat-

isfactory results. Many other things

of direct ﬁnancial interest to our farm-

ers have been favorably - adjusted

through the power of this organization.


Let us return now to‘farm bureau

problems. In Illinois we had practical-

ly the same difﬁculties you have had

here in Michigan in starting these

farm bureaus. One of the big prob.

lems has been the method of .ﬁnance.

In the past the fee required to become

a member of the bureau has varied.

Some'thought that a fee of $2.50 to

the county farm bureau would take

care of all expenses; others thought

$5.00 would be necessary, and the ex-

tremists held that $10 was none too

much. The tendency». among those best

acquainted with the work is to in-

crease their estimates of the amount

of money required to take care of the

farmer’s interests. In Illinois we are


‘ trying to establish a uniform fee sufﬁ-


ciently large to enable the'organiza-

tion to do effective work. If we put

ten cents in this work, we will ex-

pect to secure ten cents’ worth of ser-

vice, but if we put ten dollars into it,

we can then expect ten dollars’ worth.


A Poor Farmer Gets the Right Vision.


Our state organization was support-

ed by a $100 fee from each of the or-

ganized counties. With this money we

were supposed to do the things. that a


‘ ture on a level with other industries.


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state organization should do for the'


farmer members. But this was found

inadequate, So last February about

three hundred representative farmers

and farm advisers met at Peoria and

took upthe matter of reorganization.

For a whale day we: debated .the ques-

tion of ﬁnancing the state association

without reaching any decision- On .‘the

second day a farmer from one of the

poorest agricultural counties of the

state started the ball rolling in the

right direction. He said: “I have a

boy in France, and .if this organization

doesn’t provide funds sufﬁcient to‘get

behind our farm problems to make

farming what it should be for my boy

when he returns the whole business

isn’t worth anything. I had better quit

the farming business right now unless

we can have some means of handling

our problems effectively. I want my

boy to stay on the ’farm when he comes

back, but he will ‘not do this if it is not

a proﬁtable business. We must there-

fore put enough money into this organ-

ization to enable it to put our agricul-


This speech started things. The men

present began to realize what a pow‘

erful farmers’ organization might do

in a state like Illinois. They realized

further that to secure service from

such an organization ample funds must

be available to meet situations as they


arrived. As a result, these men adop-.


ted a'plan which provides that each

member of a county association pays

to the state organization a fee of $5.00

per year. Now, following out this plan

every member we have taken into the

farm bureau since the ﬁfteenth of last

March has paid a fee of $5.00 to the

state association, besides paying to the

county whatever fee the county organ-

ization decided upon. 7


We have now gone far enough with

the work to get an idea about the ser~

vice that can berendered, and we are


ﬁnding that there is no limit to what


our‘ people are asking us to do. We

must send men to Washington, to

Springﬁeld, to the phosphate ﬁelds of

Tennessee and to every conference

that has a bearing upon agriculture.

These representatives voice the senti-

mentswfthe farmer members, and

they learn something of the problems

of other industries. We are satisﬁed

that through these expressions and un-

derstandings many of our difﬁculties

will be easily ironed out.

these things requires a considerable

capital, for only men who have a suc-

cessful business, can be sent upon such

missions, and these men must be paid

for their time. ‘ '


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' the side.

,, secured 1,054 memberships, and in De

Kalb county ninety-seven per cent of.

- the farmers or 2022 men became mem-


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Now this is a farmers organization.

We do not expect anybody to be active

in- the directorship or our Work who

does not aetually own a farm and op-

erate it, and furthermore, we do not

want to run the organization with pub.

lio funds. There are too many strings

to pull when we use public money.

This is our own business and we should

not expect other classes of people to

aid us in running it. Furthermore,” out-‘


side ﬁnancial help would compromise '


our working plans.


An executive board of thirteen men

was agreed upon. One man was se—

lected from each or the thirteen“ con-

gressional districts of the state. Every

one of these men owns a farm and

works it. These men started the state

association work. They called a meet«

ing of one hundred representative

farmers, and atthat meeting each of


these farmers subscribed $100. making ~


a fund'of $10,000 to start the organiza—

tion work. That was the ﬁrst real

money that the Illinois AgrlCultural

Association had.


With this fund the thirteen members

of the executive committee and the

presidentk Mr. Scott, prepared for ac

tion. They planned tovgo into the var-

ious counties and put on a campaign


to buildup the .membership in the V


county farm bureaus. Mr. D. O. Thomp-

son, advisor of McLean county, a man

of exceptional ability, was hired as

state secretary. Mr. Thompson called

me from my farm'work where I had

been constantly employed for the past

thirty-three years, to get farmers who

would go out and solicit memberships

for the farm bureau. County agricul‘

tural advisors were asked to recom-

mend farmers from their respective

counties who might be able to get away

and help in this oganization work. In

less than a'week I had seven pros-

pects, out of which I picked four that

I felt were the right fellows. They had

a vision of the future, understodd pret—

ty well the, psychology of 'men, Could

meet the arguments of a'farmer on


most any questibn he might propose.


and give an intelligent answer in away

that would satisfy the suspicibus.


We started in Lake county. Here

they had 400 nﬁambers in the farm bu-

At that

time the federal government threaten-

ed to prosecute, the dairy farmers for

ﬁxing the milk prices, and this helped

us in securing followers. In, Iroquois

county we secured 447 members by

merely calling a general meeting and

asking for $5.00 memberships. Our

next countypwas Woodford,‘ which we

worked during very inclement weather


«where we secured 429 members. In


McLean county we had nine men werk-

ing, which . as later increased to

tWelve, and in about eighteen days’


gtime with- some days lost because of


rain, we got 2.308 farmers into the or-

ganization at $10 apiece. Heremany


‘of the farmers asked what we were go—


ing to do with all the money we were,


"getting, but up to this time we did not

have money enough to carry\0n the

“ organization work and send men to

the places where the farmers should


be represented without borrowing on

In Logan county- eight med


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' and scientists.


'and liver and kidney trouble.

sweet cider can readily be made avail-


'ordinary type of soft drinks.


N these days it is unwise to over-

look any resources that will add

good nourishing {cod to the na-


tion’ s supply *

Therefore it is surely in order to


.—


7 = again call special attention to the im-


portance of preperly utilizing that


‘ large proportiOn of the apple crop


Which grades below standard. In many


‘ states the percentage of cull or cider


apples runs'fully one-third of the, total


.and, it is frequently. estimated that


thousands of tons of s'uch'apples are

wasted each year.


Waste should be reduced to a minimum.

Another important consideration is the

good proﬁt that the‘ utilizing of these

apples affords the grower. , '

While a portion of the large culls

may be evaporated to excellent advan-

tage, the most practical way of divert-

ing this enormous waste into good

food is by pressing. Practically all

the valuable and nutritive elements of

fruits are contained in the juice. The

other parts consist largely of cellular

tissue and are of little value except to

retain the juice, which in ripe apples

runs as high as ninety per cent. There-

fore a short .cut to conserving the‘ rich

lifesustaining'elements possessed by

even the smallest of cull apples is by


ﬁrst grating and pressing, then work-


ing up the juice.


A modern hydraulic cider press will

extract an average of a little over four

gallons of cider. from each bushel of

ordinary undergrades. This juice can

be readily converted into a variety of

food products that are not only appetiz-

ing and nourishing, but most of them

are in concentrated form convenient

to market and easy to preserve. Sweet

cider, cider vinegar, boiled cider, apple


'syrup, apple jelly, apple butter and

‘pasteurized cider are all in active de-


mand and can be sold at a better net

proﬁt than is usually obtained from

the apples in a fresh condition.

Even the pomace need not be wast-

e.d It is being used extensively as feed

for dairy and beef cattle, and for hogs

and sheep. Many pronounce it equal

to ordinary cern silage. Pomace also

has a distinct value as jelly stock be-

cause of its dectin content which is

not impaired by drying. Frequentlya


" the pomace is repressed, the resulting


juice being used for making vinegar or

Jelly ,


Fresh sweet cider and pasteurized

cider’ are highly recbmmended as a

health drink by eminent physicians

Sweet cider is a tonic

as well as a nutrient, containing nat-

ural salts and acids of special value in

the correcting bf stomach complaints

Pure


able as a delightful home beverage the

year around and is far superior to the


cal preservatives should be avoided,


‘but pasteurized to one hundred and


sixty deg1‘ées for two hours and seal-


lng tight is effective for preventing


fermentation.


McMz/lml


One of the staple food products from v


No one will deny,

that this loss along With all other fOOd


Chemi- .


waste apples that is in universal de-

mand is cider vinegar. Pure cider

vinegar commands a premium on the

market.


In the precess of transforming cider

into: vinegar; two distinct fermanta-

tiOns takerplace. First is the vinous

or alcoholic fermentation which is the

changing of the sugar of the cider into

alcohol, caused by the action of cer-

tain natural yeast bacteria. ‘ Second is

the acetic‘ fermentation by which,the

alcohol thus formed is changed to vin-

egar acid or acetic acid. The alcoholic

fermentation may be accelerated by

the addition, of yeast, using a cake to

each‘ ﬁve gallons, dissolved in warm

water before adding. The acetic fer-

mentation is also aided by the addition

of good vinegar containing some moth-

er of vinager. It is important to al-

low plenty of room for air in the bar—

rel during all' stages of fermentation

and also to maintain the temperature

between sixty and eighty degrees.

Care should be taken not to start the

second fermentation until all the sugar

in the cider is changed into alcohol,

otherwise the change to vinegar will

be 1etarded or prevented altogether.


There exists in this country a poten»

tial market for boiled cider that would

consume a hundred times the amount

now produced if the product could only

be obtained. Boiled cider is the fresh

juice concentrated by evaporation in

the ratio of ﬁve gallons reduced to

one. In this form it will remain in a

perfect state of preservation for years.

It is dark brown in color and of a syr-

upy consistency. It has an extensive

use both commercially and in the

kitchen, being especially desirable for

making mince meat and apple butter

as well as having a multitude of other

culinary uses.


By continuing the evaporating proc-

ess until the cider is reduced to the

ratio of seven to one the product be-

comes jelly, which makes a delightful

tart spread. To please varied tastes

it may be sweetened and any desired

ﬂavoring may be added. A ready

market at attractive prices awaits all

apple jelly offered.


Sugar and sugar products are high


nad a practical use of the generous

sugar content 0f apples is. therefore,

especially acceptable. An extensive

series of experiments by the Depart-

ment of Agriculture resulted in the de-

velopment of a method of making ap-

ple table syrup which produces an at-

tractive article of very ﬁne ﬂavor.

The process is as follows : Stir into

seven gallons of sweet cider ﬁve

ounces of powdered calcium carbonate

——a harmless, low-priced chemical»—

and'boil in a large kettle ﬁve sminutes.

If a large vessel is not available the

cider may be boiled in batches. Pour

the cider, after beiling, into glass jars

and allow it to settle until perfectly

clear, which will reguire about seven

hours. Return the ,cieaxj liquid to the

preserving kettle, being careful not to


(Continued on page 290).


Feeding


the Millions


NCREASING the food supply of the


world is the most vital problem


which man must solve. The burden

of this solution rests heavily upon the

shoulders of’the farmers of America.


The service rendered by the Standard

Oil Company (Indiana) in producin


fuel and lubricants for the economiCéﬁ

and efﬁcient operation of farm machin-


ery has made it possible for the farmer.


to cultivate a greater acreage, produce


larger crops, and get them to market:


at least expense.


By maintaing its comprehensive system

of distributiOn, the Standard Oil Com-

pany (Indiana) makes it possible for the

armer to get his requirements of petro-

leum products easily, regularly and

quickly.


By virtue of this complete service on the


part of the Standard Oil Company.


(Indiana), he may, literally,‘ ‘make hay


while the sun shines.’


He is independent of the health or

endurance of horses. He can plow,


cultivate or harvest when these tasks a


He can have a com-


should be done.


glete cycle of activity, operating even‘


y shifts, if necessary. He can plan his

operations en a deﬁnite schedule to

produce a steady, constant supply of

farm products for you and your family.


Thus is illustrated how you beneﬁt by

the service rendered by the Standard Oil

,. Company (Indiana) to the farmer. These

are beneﬁts accruing to the world at large

, which accentuate the usefulness of the

Standard Oil Companyﬂ ndiana) as a pub-

lic servant and emphasize how com-

- pletely 1t discharges its obligation as such.


Standard Oil Company


(Indiana)

. 91Q S. Michigan Avenue,


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Chicago, Ill. .

‘ m;
HE members of the state farm

bureau federations must now do-

cide the extent of next year's

.food production on their farms. Pres-

1 out agitation over the high cost of liv-

ing attempts to saddle in large meas-

“ure responsibility for high prices on'

farmers, who, while discerning their

: share, justly refuse to bear any great

‘. part of the blame.

In the present chaotic state of af-

fairs the farmer says to him who wish-


“Come, let us reason together.” In

the whirl of affairs clear thinking is

difﬁcult; formulation of statements

, v well-nigh impossible.

Today, however, the farm bureau

9“ federation of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,

Iowa and Nebraska, potent factors for

increasing production in the heart of

the meat, milk and grain producing

sections of the United States, indorse

the following statements through their

authorized ofﬁcers, 0. E. Bradfute,

president Ohio Farm Bureau Federa-

tion; J. G. Brown, president Indiana

Federation of Farmers’ Associations;

‘1). 0. Thompson, secretary Illinois Ag-

ricultural Association; J. R. Howard,

president Iowa Farm Bureau Federa-

tion, and F. C. Crocker, president Ne-

braska Farm Bureau Association.

. Original Price Not Cause.

A CThe high cost of living is not due

to the original price of the farm prod-

uct to the grower. The government

minimum price for wheat does not de-

termine the ‘cost of a .loaf of bread.

Fixing a resale price at $1.50 a bushel

would affect, if reﬂected tor the con-

'sumer, very little the cost of living

for the average family. Average wheat

consumption in this country is about

six. and a half bushels per year per per-

son. Reduction in price to $1. 50 per

bushel would mean a saving of $4.94

annually per person, or $24.70 for a

family of ﬁve. This is nothing at all


acreage and correspondingly small

crop next season which would result

from discouragement of the producer.

. The high cost of living is not due

to‘the storage of meats, vegetables,

fruits, eggs and poultry in the season

» when these are, produced in surplus

against the season of short Supply.

~Po'pular as is the hue and cry against

ﬁ shortage" of foodstuﬂs, it is a palpable

giﬁffact' that modern storage methods are

" :thegreatest food savers in the world,

saving food in time of plenty and sup-

,plying it in time of scarcity, and, more-

over, *maintaining a steadier level of

priCes throughout all seasons for any

given commodity. lndiscriminate re-

strictions on food storage will serve

“only to wastefully glut the market in

the harvest season of meats, vegeta-

bles, fruits, eggs and poultry at a price

disastrous to the producer, and create

a dearth of these products out of sea-

.son at a prohibitive price. But food

.> storage for speculatiV‘e purposes is in-

tolerable.

Exports Not to Blame.

The high cost of living is not due

to exportation of food and clothing

any more than it is due to our hea‘vy

exports , of manufactured goods, ma-

”Zchinery, etc., of which the farmer is a

heavy purchaser. An embargo on food-

stpffs to bring down the [high cost of

listing will be as demoralizing to Amer-

.,_ can agriculture as the embargo placed

” “toodstuifs was to French- agricul-

in the time of Louis XVI More-

. the high cost is not merely a lo-

or national consideration "It is a

' tier. Applying a ﬁrst aid reig-

, , ethane tb create and foster anar-

and revolution abroad should not


e F armor 1‘ an


T/ze Fol/owzng Article 2: eno’orrea’ 5y t/ze Oﬁcer: oft/1; Indiana, film, .510, Iowa,


_ es to arrive at the facts as they are,


compared with the reduction in wheat.


Neomséo and M zc/ngan Form Bureaus.


be the policy of the. United States even


at this critical luncture.‘


The high cost of living is not due to

lack of desire or effort on the part of

the farmers to produce to'the limit of

their physical ability. Not within the

knowledge of the present generation

have‘all the farmers so extended their

every energy in a concentrated effort

to produce to the last kernel and pound

all the grain and meat preducts need-

ed to feed a hungry world. The oper-

ation of the short-hour day in the in-

dustrial centers and talk of shorter

hours and ever advancing pay has

made it well nigh impossible for any-

where near the normal supply of help

to be maintained on farms. The day-

light saving plan has mitigated against

maximum production by reducing ma-

terially the practical working hours of


miles of the city, as well as in Chicago.


Following the Chicago street car

strike, a strike of the Aurora, Elgin &

Chicago Electric Railwivy employes

which threw thousands cut of employ-

ment on account of lack of electric

pewer in the towns along this line left

the small Aurora meat packing houses

without power to run their refrigerat-

ing plant. There were about tenrthou-

sand pounds of meat Spoiling. It is

said the manager appealed to the head

of the union for power to keep this

refrigerating plant running and prevent

the spoiling of this'meat, and the in-

soient reply hurled back was, “I don't

give a damn if all-the meat in the Unit-

ed Statesrots." Such are a few which

the daily press records of the many in-

stances of premeditated stagnation in

production which shortens supply and


T/ze /zzg/z cost of [zwng at t/ze prevent time

z'r due to a stagnation 1n manufactnnng good:


and prepared foods, [are of econo ﬂy in ﬁnd -

e


[z'c expenditures,- mangou/atzon an


xtra‘va—


gantproﬁt: ofmz'a'd/emen and 1ncreased ”4723-“

portabon cost: and not to any fax/are on ‘

t/zepart of American farmers to produce eco-

nonzzcal/y anaI aﬁnna’ant/y.


the day on the farm, especially in so

far as the hired man’s labor is con-

cerned._


Success Against Odds.


Following a beautiful promise of a

bountiful wheat harvest, a most do-

structive attack of scab and rust cut

the wheat yield very materially. Un-

timely heat and drought shortened the

oat crop and adversely affected the

corn crop. The long hours and stren-

uous diligence of the farm operator

have, in spite of these adverse circum-

stances, put the crop across; as he

harvests and markets it he wonders

somewhat if he, with his disregard of

the time clock and his recompense bas-

ed'on a gambling game in which the

natural elements deal the yield and the

middlemen deal the price, has not been

pulling the short end of the hitch.


The farmer has not struck, walked

out or otherwise slackened in produc-

tion. He has increased his effort, ex~

tended his-operations to the limit of

physical ability and ﬁnancial credit,

and striven to feed the woorld, believ-

ing the world would fairly and gladly

recompense him. Instead, he ﬁnds in

many prominent places those who in

their eagelness to ﬁnd an answer

where thele is none and to shun the

real facts of the situation, who point to

him with scorn and malevolence, say-

ing, “Thou art’the culprit.”


Stagnation in Trade. .


The high cost of living is due to a

stagnation in production of manufac-

tured goods and prepaled foodstuffs.

Every labor strike that shuts doWn any

plant engaged in the preparation of

foods, or the making of clothing, that

shuts down ,a mine or a mill, adds to

the high cost of living. Shortly rafte1"

a strike of the Union Stock Yards and


packing plant employes the wholesale


price of fresh meats advanced ﬁfteen

to thirtyaﬁve per cent, directly due to

the short kill and consequent small

supply of fresh meats. In Chicago one

hundred thousand men have been out


plays into the hands of these who ﬁx

the price to the consumer.

Price Manipulation, Too.


The high cost of living is due to

price manipulation and extravagant

proﬁts of middlemen. Refer again to

a Chicago situation. A small group of

milk wagon drivers at one of the milk

distributing plants struck for $44 per

week and regular commissions. All

the other milk distributors at once de-

clared a lockout against their drivers.

After tWO or three days of sparring

the employers agreed to meet the de-

mands of the men and announced a

one-cent per quart advance in the price

of milk to the consuming public.

Analysis of the arithmetic of the case

shows that it took about four-tenths

of that cent to pay the employes. and

that six-tenths of each cent was added

to the proﬁts of the distributors.


‘ Food on the table costs out of all

proportiOn to the price to the producer.

Part of the reason for this is due to

the short hours and high wages for

labor, part'to the exorbitant proﬁt of

the several middlemen “between the

producer and the consumer, and a

considerable part to. the eXtravagance

of the consumer in methods of pur-

chasing supplies. Without going into

an analysis of who gets it, compare

the difference in price or choice beef

on the hoof. ”at eighteen cents a pound

with that of a moderate meal fer ﬁve.


at any one of. theimodest hotels, the "


meal consisting of steak, potatoes.

corn, bread and butter and codes; cost-

ing $11. 00. '

Farmer Got seven Per cent.

01' this $11 the proditoer of the food,

the farmer, got about as follows Beef,

two pounds, thirty—six " is"; pptatoes,

thirteen cents: brea‘ taro cents; but

ter. «remnants, colon. ovum mum

at, four cents: m1 Wonty cents, not.

ing a total a; This


WW9 cents


of work for months and all building op. _ g, "f;

erations have been at a standstill bB- 1.


close the carpenters


up building operatic“ in many small

towns within a radius or one hundred


.. rework?“ .

mnsnmmm'mamued


it; "futonporoout_ V

by the my; ii not WWII!!! the:

above price fertile


This illustration shown: the extremes


of exorbitant proﬁts of the middlemen

and the extravagant practices in the

consumers in purchasing, including

probably all the evils that are contrib-.

uting in large measure to the high cost

of living to the consumer. A reduction

to the producer in the price of these

foodstuffs to a point which Would stag-

nate production of grains; produce and

nieats, would have an inconsequential

effect upon ﬁnal prices to the cone

sinner.


The high cost of living is due to the

failure of practically all folks to prac-

tice even ordinary economy in public

and private life. A program of hard

road. building, contracted at almoSt

twice pro-war costs per mile, due to ad-

vance of pricevof materials and labor,

has been delayed and interfered with

because of the "fact that delivery of

building material has been delayed by

tying up transportation facilities.


Rail Men’s Demands. .


The question of lack of economy of

public spending was broughtwithin

the focus of the American public’s at4

tention in July when the railway broth-

erhoods demanded of President Wilson

that he bring down the cost of living

immediately, threatening a demand in

wage increase amounting to a total of

$800,000,000 a year, payable necessarily

from one of two sources—revenues

from increase of freight rates orlfrom

a deﬁciency appropriation, either of

which would add to the Cost of living.


A lack of practicing economies in

private lifemay be illustrated without

end. Theaters and places of amuse-

ment, resorts and watering places, are

crowded with beautifully gowned Wom~

on and handsomely tailored men. The

price of shoe shines has doubled and

trebled, yet One must wait his turn,

though he could shine his own shoes

at home for less than one cent. So il—

lustrations might be multiplied, an

showing that lack or practicing plain

economy is a great contributing factor

in maintaining the high cost of living.


“Passing the Buck. ”


The high cost of living is 'due to

shitting individual responsibility for

the present state of affairs and each

component of the people .of the na-

tion seeking self satisfaction, instead

of the answer to the great world ques-

tion. This is our national state of

mind. Instead of doing our national

and individual best to produce more

goods, so that there may be enough for

all at a reasonable price, each is try-

ing to better his own condition at the

expense of the other fellow.


There is a limited supply in .the

World .Just now we are quarreliug

”over the division of What we have. If

.we Would stop quarreling' and go to


:Wdlfk, we would soon increase pioduc-


tion so that all would have plenty.


Under war pressure\ when ﬁghting a.

foreign foe farm production was not

shortened it was increased tremen<

dously. Upou the fair or unfair atti‘


tude and action of capitalistic monop-

:olies and organized labor, . upon the

.) sanity of their next immediate Dr0~


nouncements affecting national and in-

tornatiOnal adalrs, depen «the deci-

811511 or the Assam "

ping his next yo
.


letter Fa


‘ V, dd the man who is striving along


3, the road of accomplishment the

g, f‘How~_,he: did'it” of'one success-

;tul man is worth more than whole vol-

umes of advice. _ ‘ 5


‘It was the realization of this (funda-

mental idea that prompted four live


p wire county agents to organize an In-


ter-County Better Farming Tour. It

might almost be called a rapid ﬁre

panoramic fair" The four county

agents are to be congratulated upon

the unquestionable success of the un-

dertaking.


“The value of such an event cannot

be overestimated ; " here the interested

observer has the opportunity to see the

best of the ﬂocks and herds in the en-

vironment in which they were. develop-

ed. They get at ﬁrst hand live ideas,

from the most progressive farmers in


'the several communities in regard to


every branch of farm work. To the

young farmer this is of especial value

and the appearance of so many of the

younger men’ on this tour 'was evi-

dence‘of their “appreciation of the op-

portunity.


On Tuesday morning, August 12, the.

long line of automobiles left the court

house at Jackson, and winding their

way down through the blisy streets

and out over the country roads trav-

ersed the four counties in four conSec-


.utive days,“ stopping here and there to

‘inspect this ﬂock, that‘herd, a ﬁeld of


alfalfa here. and. one of soy beans or


. clover there. It was a jolly, happy, pro-


gressive and greatly interested bunch

of men whoimproved every minute of

the trip, and. who were equally eager

to disseminate and acquire information

in regardp‘to all phases of better farm-

mg.)


'37 O , T . . ‘ i


The, route covered“ and the farms

visitedwere as follows: .

. JaCkson County—Rice ‘Seed Farms


—.-1,200 acres of seed crops; M. L. &

John Noon—Duroc Jersey hogs and


self-feeding experiments; H. F. Prob- _


art-Jersey herd and dairy barns; St.

Austell Farms—Guernsey herd; Board—

man Farms—4Holstein herd; W. E. Liv-

ingston, Parma, Poland-China herd;


"J. A. Campbell & Son~—Holstein herd;


J. F. Thompson & Son—Hereford cat-

tle and Percherons.


Lenawee County—Adrian Communi-

ty Market; F. S. Thayer, the tubercu-

lar test from the farmer viewpoint;

Lenawee County Inﬁrmary—soy beans

as a hay crop and as silage; A. E. 11-

lenden and E. R. Illenden—Cost of pro-

duction under drouth conditions; L.

W. Harwood—Holsteins; Witt Bros.—

Poland-China hogs; E. A. Beamer—

Stock feeder; Davis &6Hall—,—Milking

Shorthorns; Bidwell’s Stock Farm—

Scotch and Scotch-topped Shorthorns.


Washtenaw County.—~A. A. Wood &

Sons—Rambouillet sheep; Jay Smith

——Shorthorn‘s; Brookwater Farm—Du-

roc hogs andJersey cattle; C.-& O.

Deakes—Jerseys; Bazley Stock Farm

-———Holsteins.


Livingston County.—W. W. Knapp

~Shorhorns; Wm. McQuillan—Short—

horn cattle, Shropshire sheep, O. I. C.

hogs; J. G. Hayes—Holstein cattle,

self-feeder'pigs, common and Grimm

alfalfa; Charles Heeg—Holstein' cat-

tle; Smith & Parker—Jerseys; Silas

Munsell—Holsteins; Robin Carp—Hol—

steins; Armstrong Bros.-‘-Shropshire

sheep and Poland—China hogs.


The self-feeder at the Noon Farm

attracted much interest. It is the in-

vention of Mr. Noon. The bin of the


feeder-is suspended from an iron rod


through the top center. The grain com- '


ing down on either side of the bin is

worked back and forth by the hungry

porkers, the swing of the bin is regu-

lated bya screw adjustment regulat-

ing at the same time the ﬂow of feed.

Mr. J. Hayes, of Livingston county, al-

so exhibited a self-feeder; this was of

the home-made stationary type. Hr.

Hayes says he is feeding corn ﬂakes

and tankage exclusively through same.


The Community Market at Adrian

was also of marked interest. It is a

cooperative market established by the

business men of Adrian and serves as

a‘clearing house for odds and ends of

the garden as well as for the major

, (Continued on next page).


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products of the farm. There the farm-

er always ﬁnds a market for whatever

he has to sell, and there, too, the gro-

cer and consumer can purchase their

daily supplies fresh from the farm. The

surplus is sent to Detroit by motor

truck. .


Soy beans and corn growing togeth~


er for silage, also soy beans seeded in“


drills for hay and seed, were seen at

the Lenawee county farm; these crops

of beans showed a growth of, from

three to four feet and gave an- idea‘of

their wonderful possibilities as an

emergency hay crop.


During the trip many interesting

talks were heard. At the Thayer Farm

Mr. Thayer and Dr. B. J. Killham gave

some interesting talks on tuberculosis

and the federal work in detecting and

controlling the disease.


Mrs. Dora Stockman, member-elect

of the State Board of Agriculture, gave

a twenty-minute talk Tuesday noon. At

the Beamer farm, Mr. E. A. Beamer

picked out his best feeding steer and

also his poorest and gave a good idea

of the type of steer he likes to buy for

feeding.


T. G. Hayes exhibited his- Holstein

herd which recently won the ﬁrst place

in the economy production contest con-

ducted by M. A. C. Mr.- Hayes’ total

cost of production was $2730 per hun-

dred pounds, value of same amounting


A Better Farming Tour


preceding rm)


to $2.828 per one. hundred poundsJinak-

ing a net proﬁt of nearly ten cents per .

hundred pounds. The four best cows

produced an average of 18.139 pounds

of milk. ‘ ' I


The several herds of Shorthorn.Jer-

sey and Holstein cattle were given a

great deal of attention, a detailedde-

scription of" which would much more

than ﬁll the space allotted to this

story. The general realization of the

necessity xfor pure-bred sires in all

herds, foretells as nothing eISe would,

an era of dairy prosperity and supre-

macy for Michigan. I. O. C. and Du-

roc Jersey hogs were well in evidence

as were also the Rambouillet and

Shropshire sheep. They were all of

the purebred type, and of remarkable

quality.


The time of the year for a Better-

Farming tour was perhaps not alto-

gether well chosen, as so many who

would have liked to have attended

were kept at home by the farm work

which could not be neglected. And it

is quite probable that should another

tour be staged next year, the time will

be later in the fall, probably in Octo-

ber or early November. Nevertheless

those who did attend this year were

well satisﬁed and went home with new

ideals, broader visions and a fuller


knowledge of the possibilities in their

chosen life work.


NEW WHEAT PRICES FOR LOWER

GRADES.


NNOUNCEMENT that the United


State Grain Corporation would at

once declare the basis on which it will

purchase the various-lower qualities of

wheat was made recently by Julius H.

Barnes, United States Wheat Director,

following an all-day meeting at the ofﬁ~

cos of the corporation, 42 Broadway,

N. Y., during which Mr. Barnes dis-

cussed wheat grading and prices re-

ceived by farmers for wheat with var-

ious members of congress, representa-

tives of farmers” organizations and

vice~presidents of the Grain Corpora-

tion.


In discussing the conference Mr.

Barnes pointed out that the relative

prices which the Grain Corporation

might ﬁx would bear a relation to the

guaranteed price at the terminal mar

tots only and not to the current price

which in such markets as Minneapolis

is ruling thirty to. forty cents choirs

the guarantee hula and that no at-

tempt would be made by the Grain

Corporation to roilect any premium

basis above the actual'guarantee price.

He added that with the execution '01

sovonteen W contacts between

the Grain W bid the W

mm: and More boy producer who

felt that he was as: being: may treat

ed iii modes and price could by sub—


' is convenient to apply;


er, as to the proper relation to the

guarantee No.1 price at the terminals,

but not as to its IrelatiOn with any pre

mium basis currently ruling in the ter-

minals and outside of the Grain Cor-

poratio‘n buying.


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CHICAGO 'MILK PRICES AN-

NOUNCED.


After much deliberation and careful

consideration of the present conditions

regarding necessities and food prod-

ucts,'the Marketing Company has de-

cided to accepthfor the September milk

of their members, $3.55 per cwt. for

milk testing 3.5 per-cent butterfat, de-

livered at country plants, with the us:

ual four cents a point above and four

cents below that test. Milk delivered

f. -o. b. Chicago will be $2.75 per can.-


vMARL FOR PLASTERING sl‘LO.


FOR the past two years I have used


marl fresh 1 the bed to plaster

cracks in to. stave silo.a It is plastic

and adheres to any surface well, also

It can be ap-

plied as the ﬁlling progresses so~it is

not necessary to waste any time be-

fore starting to an silo. It can be ap- .

M with a gross; or with the hoods -"

as it. does no‘ aim to the hands. and

it my lg milled it will not harm the


33m A ”mm in the ladder of


the bile makes a short 3% or patching.
ThinkWhat the TuéeHas to


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of the race driver. - _ ,


For'all im rtant track‘records, from one

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. _ What . commutes a legal fence in

“ .Mich’igan? Does it have to turn hogs

' and sheep‘.?- Can a man put stone on.


the line to he "kept, up» by the tarmer

adjoining? ‘ ' - . ‘ ‘ O. K.


In thelast analysis, 'what' censtitutes


. a .legal fence is a unset-ion of fact to


be determined by the fence-viewers if

the case is put "to' them by demand for


a better fence, or by the jury if it


comes up in a suit for damages. The

statute declares: “All fences, four

and a half feet high and in good re-


wire, (ﬁ‘ stone walls, or any combina-

tion thereof, and all brooks, rivers,

ponds, creeks, ditches and hedges, or

other things which shall be Considered

equivalent thereto, in the judgment of

the fence-viewers within whose jur-

isdiction the same may he, shall be

deemed legal and sufﬁcient fences.”

The supreme court has said the fence

should be so constructed as to turn

the stock ordinarily kept on a farm;

but it has never decided, in speciﬁc

application just how small stock it

must turn. Those who have tried it


, know that small pigs will get through


a pretty good fence if there is some-

thing they have found to be good on


pair, Consisting of rails, timber, boards,


‘ LEGAL relics—Hoe. ,ruour. f” .10.... Iwould not think the Sweet


clover could be safely seeded later

thanSeptemberl, even on sandyvloam

soil. it seeded-as late as this, it will

post to sow about three peeks Fof oats

per acre with the sweet clover, as'a

protection this winter. If this seeding

is made on bean ground, it Will be bet.

ter not to_ plow. Prepare a good, seed

bed by surface cultivating. I believe

the chances for getting a seeding will

be better in the spring than in the

fall. ~ This land can be prepared in the

spring by ﬁrst discing it well, then

keep it well dragged until the middle.

of May to the ﬁrst of June, then seed.

If lime is needed, apply it this fall~or

early next spring. If sown in the

spring, a light seeding of cats or bar-

ley might be used, although the chanc-

es are better if seeded alone.


D. WOODMAN. .


LEGHORN HENS DIE.‘


I had this spring 100~pure-bred

Brown Leghorn hens; since then I

have.lost,, on the average of_four a

week. They seem to be in sound

health except for a lameness that

comes in their right legs, and from

my ‘observation, it soon develops chol-

era. I ha’ve tried copperas, commercial


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ONE YEAR


YO P Y

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mention the Michigan Farmer


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alter the beans, or simply dragged in


' whether this


my observation thatgan alfalfaseeding feeder which/prevents the bags 1m


Writing to advertisers.


a m 55 obtained easier"_ thF-"Teﬂfmimg'ﬁfﬁw


the other side. We doubt the court poultry compound, have doctored for


requiring a farmer to maintain a fence 23:31“ﬂagsgléggﬁgntgg’gagﬁymaﬁg

that will exclude very small pigs. But die. '1 am becoming discouraged, as


some farmer may some day pay the care and attention seem to be of no

cost of getting a decision on the point. use; they die anyway. L V

. A. .


Undoubtedly a legal fence should be 'Lapeer 00- ‘ .

such as to turn sheep that are not The lameness and emaciation indl.


breachy. cates tuberculosis in the, ﬂock and

A farmer has a right to store stone there is no cure. The sick birds should


Lon any part of his farm; but he must be killed and burned or buried very


In B - a 1 » .,

$531}: The Monitor Family ”mun..." not store stone on his neighbor's land deep. Disinfect the house and Flow up


without the neighbor’s consent.- If the yards or range. Do not use such

stored in such a'manner as to make a ﬂock for breeding DUI‘DQSBS but plan

the building of a fence at that point on getting a new start next year With

impossible that might excuse failure strong vigorous birds. The liver most

to build. We give no opinion on that. often shows signs 0f the disease, be-

* JOHN R. R001). ing covered with grayish~white nod-

, ules. When a ﬂock showsthis disease

it pays to have the birds inspected by

a veterinarian and he will be able to

Is my neighbor compelled to build determine if any are healthy and suit-

his share of the fence hog-tight? able for food purposes. Do not try to

Cass Co. W. L. G. continue with a' flock. that contains

The statute declares that all fences many sick birds as it is quite hopeless

four and a. half-feet high, in good re— and only leads to disappointment and

pair, consisting of rails, boards, wire, ﬁnancial loss. ., R. G, K.

stone or other things which shall be

considered equivalent thereto in the

judgment of the fence viewers shall ’

be deemed legal and sufﬁcient fences.

The statute seems to leave consider- Eggs: 3??? f223df§°§2 :rtitlzle regirg‘

33319 to the Judgment 0f 'the fence have about 300 buslli‘els,gand Vfglflﬁclikg

Viewers. The only expressmn on the to know how .to feed to best advan-

matter by our supreme court was in a tage. Whole, ground or cooked, alone

case concerning a railway fence, in or in combination with other ‘feeds? I


. . - expect over one hundred bushels of

which the court said the fence should barley. Can I afford to buy corn as a


be of reasonable strength to turn ani- part ration? Is rye suitable for young

mals usually kept on farms and turned pigs?

by fences in this country. There Gratiot 00- R. B- C-

might be difﬁculty in compelling the Extensive feeding experiments con-

neighbor to fence against little pigs. ducted in Denmark indicate that rye

Tradition has it that no pgg ever grew meal ranks a little below corn meal in

fast enough to Outgrow a hole he had feeding value for hQES- {‘33 general

found in 'a fence; and our experience proposition it will pay t0 feed ground

leads to the'conclusion that small pigs rye along With other grain feeds. For

will go through quite sman holes—R. young Digs a mixture of equal parts of

' , . 'rye and barley ground together and

WHEN To sow swear CLOVER. ted at the‘rate of one hundred pounds

. with ten pounds of tankage. should

I would hire to askrif sweet clover produce good results. For [fattening


RIGHT TO HOG-TIGHT FENCE.


FEEDING RYE TO HOGS.


should be sewn in the fall or spring to hogs a mixture of rye, barley and com


get best results. If sowed 011 bean meal, proportioned equal parts, should

ground should the. ground he plowed Drove both economical and efﬁcient.

Such’ a grain mixture will produce a


goddahape?’ , . ‘ _ . p

.L ,. 2.13am (30.. v", , , ., H. J. K. better quality of :pork and the hogs

1‘11;- iill do . a good deal upon Will milks 13MB npid gains than will


nd is-Jight or heavy and 542.1119 003,3 if {0.4 153911031 819119- I

was. segmenting no soil.- or, believe that you an ‘33“! so We


~ ”some, Hz}. ‘8. undo, ' L rotunda that“ ‘ lime third‘oom mealtime/panorthem ' .-


infest ag. essentialfor sweet ”clover as Feed the Mimi” mm mm - '.


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Your. article on Lifting the Farmer’s

Financial Load was surely good. But,

how is a young man deserving to get.

a- start with a few hundred dollars in

personal property, going to buy a farm,

when he has to give security on" two

dollars to get one, and those 'are the»

very ones who need a lift? I have just

had. a sorryexperience with‘ the land

bank myself. Our local‘committee re-

ported favorably, ”as did the appraiser,

on my application, and then the land

bank turned it downysaying they were

controlled by our loCal committee and

the appraiser. I am quite sure the 10-

cal committee did all they could for


. me, so it .rests betweengthe appraiser


and the bank. When the appraiser was

here he said I‘could have the money

on the security I offered, but I am out

my application fee and have no loan

granted. What shall I do?


Monroe Co. J W. K.


As I outlined in my article, every

farmer making application for a. loan

through the Federal Farm Loan sys-

tem, should. secure ﬁnancial/aid to the

extent of ﬁfty percent of. land value

and twenty per cent of building value.

Why this young man did not receive

this amount I cannot say. The very

fact that his local loan committee rec-r

ommended that his loan be granted.

added to the fact that the federal ap-

praiser, advised him that he could se-

cure the loan. must mean that some

misunderstanding occurred ’between

the appraiser and the land bank. It is

the duty Of the secretary~treasurer of


through which this loan was ﬁled, to

take the subject up immediately with

the secretary of the land bank of the

district, and ascertain Just why a farm-

er is rejected when an appraiser, who

is the legal representative of the land

bank, advises that the money will be

forthcoming. ‘


There is a possibility that the ap-

praiser made certain statements in his

report to the land bank which caused

the executive committee to repOrt ad-

versely upon this application.


Unless there is a misunderstanding

between the appraiser and the land

bank, this is a plain case of ”passing

the buck,” a custom altogether too

much in evidence between land banks

and the applicants for loans. They

advise the farmer whose application

is turned down that the appraiser re-

ported adversely, or that there was

some technical reason, rather than

having the ability to come right.~ out

and state their reason.


Federal appraisers as a class have

been altogether too free in advising

farmers that they could have the man

ey they asked for. Many of them so

advise farmers when they know that

they have no intention in recommend-

ing any part of the loan being granted.

The system can well do without a

class of men who are so devoid of in-

tegrity as to make such free state-

ments. Truthfulness and frankness is

required in the Federal Farm Loan

system as in any other system. A

federal land appraiser should come to

the farmer-borrower with every friend-

liness,’ and discuss the subject of the

loan with perfect freedom. Aloofness,

way-offness, etc., do’ not aidthe farmer

and the system to get acquainted as

they. should. . ‘


The Michigan Farmer recently re-

ported a part of the‘address delivered

(in the columns of the Congressional

Record), ‘against the Federal Farm

Loan, in which a national” banker rep-

resentative from a Pennsylvania dis-

trict advises readers of the wholesale

manner in which loans are beinggrant‘

ed There I is ' no‘t‘a solitary : grain of


/


', truth... in.~'this‘, statement." and [the con-7


fgre’ssman who made it'knows it‘just as

well as I do. The land.banks are, rath-

er, rejecting: farmers by. the ‘,Wholesale,r


Mains should be granted many or th'smi and “5'“ gram" ‘ The?


or $300,000,900 in clOsed loans. more

than. ”(29,000,000 had been gregiestcd-


the national farm loan association,


-with hand-sprayer while the grain is


“Soak and Skim" method. 7;:Sti'r the


4 ,/ ’


Granted . “’


,.


closing only seventy-ﬁve nor cent: of »

all. loans applied for. ‘Therefiis‘no

Wholesale loan business in these‘ﬂ'g-

ures. ' ‘ 1’ .4 -/ .,


‘__The aim of this congressman is to

hide his real purpose. He desires to

start a propaganda movement to re

move the present exempt clause‘in the

Federal Farm .Ipa’nactwhereby Fed-

eral Farm, Loan bonds would be taxed

if- he 'had- his-way. This means that

the farmer’s interest rate wouldbe in<

creased, Federal Farm Loan mortgages

would be less attractive to the farm- .

ers, and the banks .of the country PT

would again enjoy their former'usuri-' " '

ous harvest of farmer loans.


Every farmer in the country should

immediately write his representative

and senator at Washington and advise . ,

them to keep the Federal FarmLoan . ‘ .. j, ‘

bonds free from taxation. Agriculture

demands that this be done. There are

hundreds‘of millions of municipal and

public service bonds free from taxes.

Why not also the farmer’s? .


E. W. GAGE.


TESTING SEED WHEAT EOR

STINKI'NG SMUT.


Will_ you please advise me through

your service department .how’ to treat

seed wheat for stinking smut


Allegan Co. _ G. H. B.


There are three common ways of ap-

plying formaldehyde for the control of

stinking smut of wheat. In all these

methods there is danger of injury to

the germination of the wheat unless.

directions are followed closely, be—

cause formaldehyde airs slowly. 'Wheat

so treated must not be covered too

long and must be planted at once.


After securing clean grain/of good

variety, the farmer should fan the

grain thoroughly to remove the light,

shriveled grains and smut balls. The

grain should then be treated by one of

the following methods:


1. “Wet method.” Dilute formalde-

hyde. Sprinkle the grain until thor~

oughly wet with solution of one pint

of formaldehyde to forty gallons of wa-

ter. Cover with blankets or sacks for

two hours. Spread out/ thinly to 'dry

and sow within twelve hours‘.‘ Format

dehyde treatments are necessary for

crop protection but they must, be giv-

en carefully and with scrupulous at‘

tention to directions. Allow for the

swollen condition of the grain. '


2. “Dry Method, (Concentrated

Formaldehyde):. The convenience of

this method is its chief advantage. On-

ly those who will follow directions

carefully should employ it since con-.

siderable loss resulted duringthe past

season through improper handling.


,Apply formaldehyde, full strength.


«'— =.~,I»M«M'


or...) ”1.. x . >


\ «umar-w. -» ,4


being shoveled over and over. Use at

the rate of one pint. to ﬁfty bushels,

half a pint to‘twenty-ﬁve bushels, one-

ﬁfth pint‘ to ten bushels, etc.‘ A dose

is a. dose—~this is as strong as formal-

dehyde can safely be used on Wheat.


Cover the grain four hours—abso-

lutely no longer. Then'spread to air

in swarm, dry place for an hour or

two. It is unsafe to leave grain cover-

.ed or sacked over night. Formalde-

hyde cannot be thoroughly aired out .

of grain. Therefore, plant at once.

Treat no_ more grain than can be sown

the same day. -. ‘

-3- "‘Soak and Skim Method", Ex-

cessively smutty wheat is probably un-

safe“ to plant, Stinking , smut can. be

practically humiliated, however.“ by the-


grain ’slowl‘yinio a solution ef‘One pint .

‘01}-!oz‘maldehydeto‘v‘forty gallons ,r of

water;”"”ThenTskimbff 't e‘irsniut' balls

in: Should be

taken out 'at once." dried, up planted

immediately.


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.. If, you want to keep your house warmer this winter with less fuel, less bother,

without dirt or dust, heed the advice of the 35,000 Homer users and install a


Homer Pipelcss Furnace now.


Come and look over our shoulder as we open the day’s mail and see for your-

self the genuine enthusiasm, over Homer. Heat, expressed in Homer users’ own

words. Thes‘e‘letterslmay help to solve your arm heating problem.


Home Baxter ups in Wind-


‘ Here’s an interesting Ist- Here’s one from way down


nor, Wis.I suns this once;— ter from Edwin Stou hton in New Jersey. 5. J. Ridg-


“For twelve years have in Kalamazoo, Mic .:— way ofTuckerton writes:—

tried to beat my house with " “We have had the leasure “I was using three stoves

one of the best “old style pipe of usmg one of your urnaces and only heating four rooms.

furnaces" made, and last for the last four years, and Since installing one of your


winter was the ﬁrst time the we bless the day you sold it furnaces I have heated the


house 'wssevenlyheatedinall to us. whole house of eleven

rooms, and your furnace “We heat ﬁve rooms to an rooms with less coal and

drd not use half as much 85 degree temperature, had no trouble in keeping

coa’l as the'pipe furnace and we use on an average the temperature from sev-


costing me over‘ three times 4% tons a! gas coke per enty ,to eighty degrees


as much money to install." year.


No More Messy Stoves


Why put up with the bother and inconveniences of

dirty, mess stoves that require constant attention.

When you mstall a Homer Pipeless Furnace you rid

yourself forever of this disagreeable bother, dust, and ‘

dirt. You keep your rooms and walls, your furniture,


without forcing the heater."


I.


Pipe Furnaces Waste Fuel


Installing a ipe furnace means tearing u ourﬂoors

and walls—thepm stallation takes days, and lag; is expen-

eive—the heat must travel through pipes and much of

It never reaches your rooms—your cellar is warmer than

the upstairs rooms and» you cannot store your vegetables


curtains and drapes free from smoke, ashes and dirt— or fruits there. And the average pipe furnace is waste-


and at the same time you and yourdfar‘niily enjoy plenty ti

can a , esscos . opera on.


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It Heats—It Ventrlates—lt Satisfres— 2 .

Inner Lining, which insures 8 pets

feet circulation throughout the en-

tire house whenever there is a ﬁre

n the Homer.


It beats and ventilates the

whole house, keeping the


rooms ﬁlled with pure, moist

warm air.


It is the only furnace equip-

ped with the Thermo-Seal


Ten years 0, Mr. S. D. Strong, resident of the Homer Furnace Company, 3 It burns any fuel satisfac-

offered the pixinic the ﬁrst patentc mas furnace. Today there are more tonly—hard or soft coal,

Homers in use than all other Pipeless _ aces combined. Np stronger conﬁ- , coke, wood or slack.

deuce in a furnace can be expressed than by the universal adoption of the Homer 4 It delivers more heat with

and the Homer pipeless heating princx 1 less fuel. »


e.

The Homer Furnace heats and ventilates through one combination register. Its 5


design is based on sound laws of nature.


In'tbe great outdoors warm air rises and cool air, being heavier, descends. And , ‘ register


so it is with Homer heat.


Perfect Circulation ' 6


On leaving the center section of the register the warm air rises, spreads out and


is deﬂected by the walls and ceilings. The steady ﬂow of warm and pure air ﬁlls ' 7


every corner and nook of the house and forces the return air back through the


It beats the entire house

through one combination


It does not interfere. with

cold storage because it keeps


the basement cool.


It can_be installed in one

day’s time—mo tearing out


outer portion of the register to the furnace, where it is heated again. Our the walls or disturbing the plaster.


famous Thermo-Seal Inner Lining insures this circulation.


Save: 30% to 50% of Fuel'


The Homer is the great saver of fuel,

because it is designed and constructed

to use the maximum amount‘of heat

generated by the ﬁre.


The Homer radiator, with its long

travel, supplies more heat in the hot

air chamber and sends less u the

chimney. And because _the omer

water pan furnishes the right amount

of moisture you will not need so great

a temperature to keep. your house

comfortable, for moist air heats more

thoroughly than dry air.


‘These features mean that you will

save with your Homer a third to a

half the fuel other systems would re-‘


quite to‘ maintain. A

Lasts a Life- Time


THE HOMER is made by the ori ‘-

nal pipcless furnace men. From t .e

ash pit to the combination register, it

is the productionof expert workmen

and honest material: thaihi‘ whlaiy we

are abs to. guaran ee* e. sting

qualities of the Homer. . A . ,


The Homer is madeto last alifc-

time. , It will burn hard or soft co'al,

coke or wood or slack-fin fact any

fuel, and'deliver the manmum amount

of heat. -


The Homer cast parts are made of


, Open winter last year means-a long, cold winter is coming. Now is the time for you to ﬁnd out how

Homer heatwill solve your heating problem-how itvwill bring greater warmth and. comfort into your home

this winter with a big saving infuel and times The coupon will bring you information about right heating

[that will be of immense value to you Whether you install a Hornet Pipeless Mace or not. ' -


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Ezecial Strokel iron. It was selected saws.


cause of its excellent heat-With-

standing qualities and its ability to 9

stand the severest breaking tests.

Homer Cleanliness 10

The Homer does away with useless


It costs but little more to

install than an ordinary


All cast parts- are made of

guaranteed Stroke! Iron.

It is the Original Patented

Pipeless Furnace.


pipes. It will remove the ever present

objections to stoves in hvmg rooms—

the smoke ipes, the carrying of fuel


and ashes t ough the house., No dirt, The Homer is: achasy toF set up sis/I an ordi-


e omcr urnace an cuts

ness assured. a square hole in your ﬂoor for the rgister, 7


connects the register to the furnace, runs


, the smoke pipe to the chimney, and the


no dust, no pipes, no ﬁnes—cleanli-


Homer Convenience


nary stove.


One Day to Install


Because it is simple in design and Homer is ready to ﬁre. There is no need

operation, the Homer is convenient to of mussing up your house or disturbing your

manage. Any woman can run it easily , walls and plaster. The whole operation takes

and successéui‘ly. 'It‘gedraft conbtgols only a few hours.

are operate rom e rooms a ve.


There is nothing complicated about TheHomer Guarantee Protects You

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The Homer is the ﬁrst furnace that . store, church _or one-room school-house, dur.


sendsAall the heat to the living rooms i118 the beeﬁng 8688011 If installed In ac-

and the cellgr permanently cool. - cox-dance With the suamntce-

It can , set up In your COld,8t,°r§¢c ‘ The Homer Furnace Company further

09““ Without (1808“ 0‘ “HMS guarantees for a period of ﬁve years from

vegetables. « date of installation ‘to replace any casting

_ g It is suitable to any cellar of six feet used in connection with said furnace (ex-

depth ormore. It can be operated in cepttgrate and shelter) if said casting is

a space six feet square. _ shown to be defective.


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THE humblest city homes are well-lighted and have I

You have earned the right to these

conveniences. You certainly ought to have them for


Up-to-date homes like this one have the things that

make life worth-while. The Colt Lighting and Cooking

Plant stands in the corner of the cellar, cow-barn, or

outhouse. Occu ies no more room than a couple of

ghts the house and barns.

cooking, too. No other lightin plant does that. Nothin


No skill

to operate - it’s automatic.


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years and can tell you all about them.


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’ tion you may furnish along these lines

_ will be greatly appreciated.


‘numerican count of the fruit in the


Wilt-you please advise me regarding

the legal requirements for packing,


,;grading and shipping grapes, pears,

apples and other farm products, both,-

for local and distant markets‘!‘ I have,

22 been informed that several changes

have been made in the laws governing,


the size of packages and the marking

Any informa-


Berrien 00. F. D. H.


Standard Apples.


(Act No. 75, Public Acts of 1917).

AN ACT to ﬁx standards for apples,


groWn in this state when packed in


closed packages, and to regulate the


packing and sale of such apples.


357. Section 1. The people of the

lstate of Michigan enact. The stan-

dard grades for apples grown in this


state when packed in closed packages”


'shall be as follows:


: First, “Michigan Standard Fancy"

‘shall consist of hand picked, properly

packed apples of one variety, which


iare well- -grown specimens, normal in’


,shape, uniform’ in size, of good color

ifor the variety, and which are free

.from dirt, insect injury, fungus dis-

f ease, bruises and other defects, 'except

such as are necessarily caused in the

loperation of packing. “Uniform size”

shall be construed to mean that ap-

ples contained in any one package

shall not vary in size more than one-

half inch in diameter; ’


l Second, “Michigan Standard A”

shall consist of hand picked, pxoperly

packed apples of one variety, which

are well grown specimens, normal in

shape, of not less than ﬁfty per centum

of good color for the variety, and

which are practically free from dirt,


' insect injury, fungus disease, bruises


and other defects, except such as are

necessarily caused in the operation of

packing.


Third, “Michigan Standard B" shall

consist of handpicked, properly’pack—

ed apples of one variety, which are

well grown, and practically free from

insect injury and fungus disease: Pro~

' vided, that the apples having healed-

oyer insectpunctures, small scab or


defects which, taken singly or collec~

tively, do not materially deform or dis-

color the fruit or injure its keeping

quality shall be admitted to this grade;


Fourth, “Michigan Unclassiﬁed”

shall consist of apples which do not

conform to the foregoing speciﬁca-

tions ,of grade, or which though con-

forming, are not branded in accord

ance therewith.


358. Sec. 2. In the interpretation of

this act as a tolerance of six per cen-

tum below the standard shall be al-

lowed in the Standard Fancy grade,

ten per centum in the Standard A

grade, and ﬁfteen per centum in the

Standard B grade. Such tolerances

shall apply in size, color and other

grade speciﬁcationsand shall be com-

puted by counting or weighing the

specimenswhich are judged to be be-

low the standard for the grade in any

respect, and those which are round to

be smaller than the minimum size,

marked on thepackage.


359. Sec. 3. In all of the grades

speciﬁed in this act, the apples includ‘

led in the face or shown surface shall

[fairly represent the size and 'quality

’of therapples in the package.


360. Sec. 4. Every closed package

containing apples grown in the state

of‘Michigan which is sold, offered or

consigned for sale, packed for sale, or

shipped for sale, shall bear upon the

outside of' one end in plain letters or

ﬁgures,"or both, the name and address

of the person by Whose authority the

apples were packed, the true name of

the \vai’fet-y, the grade of the apples

therein contained when packed or- re?

packed, and the minimum size or the


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blotch infections, fruit spots, or other


Variety is not known to thefpacker or

the person by whose authority the ap-

ples are packed or branded, then such-

varieties shall be designated as “1111‘-

known.” Every package of apples


the same end of the package the name

and address of the person by whose


authority it is repacked, such name


and address to be preceded by the

words “repacked by." The letters and

ﬁgures used in‘marking or branding

closed packages of apples‘under the

provisions of this act‘shall be of a size

not less than twenty- -four point gothic:

Provided, that closed packages con-

taining apples Which cannot be readily

marked on one end, ‘so as to bear con-

spicuously the information herein spec-

iﬁed shall be marked or branded in

such other conspicuous place as may

be prescribed by the regulations pro-

mulgated hereunder.


2361. Sec. 5. The marks and brands

prescribed, in this act may be accom-

panied by any additional marks or

brands which are not inconsistent with

or do not in any way obscure the

marks and brands required by this act.

Apples packed and branded in accord!

ance with the United States apple

grading law, approved August 3, 1912,


shall be exempt from the provisions,


of this act.


362. Sec. 6. The minimum size of

the fruit in all grades shall be determ-

ined by taking the, transverse diameter

of the smallest fruit in the package.

Minimum size shall be stated in varia«

tions of one-quarter of an'inch, as two

inches, two and one-quarter inches,

two and one-half inches, two and

threequarter inches, three inches,

three and one~quarter inches, and so

on, in accordance with facts. Mini;

mum sizes may be designated by eith~

er ﬁgures or words and the word “min-

imum" may be designated by the use

of the abbreviation “min."


363. Sec, 7. It shall be unlawful

for any person to pack for sale, ship

for sale, offer or consign for sale, or

sell, in 'closed packages, any apples

grown in the state which are not grad-

ed, packed and marked or branded in

accordance with the provisions of this

act and the regulations made hereun-

der, or closed packages of apples bean

ing any false statement. design, or de-

vice regarding such apples within the

meaning of this act. .


364. ‘Sec. 8. Any person who vio-

lates any. of the provisions of this act.

or of the regulations promulgated here-

under, shall be deemed guilty of a

misdemeanor and upon conviction

thereof, shall be punished by a ﬁne of

not more than $50 for the ﬁrst offense

and not more than $100 for each sub<

sequent offense: Provided, that no

person shall be prosecuted under this

act. who can establish satisfaCtory evi-

dence that no part of the packing or

branding of the apples concerned was

done by him or under his authority

and that he had no knowledge that

they were“n"ot packed and branded in

accordance with said provisions and

said regulations.


365. Sec. 9. The word “person” as

used herein shallbe construed to in-

clued individuals, corporations, part~

nershlps and ass'ociations. The act,

commission or failure of ,any official

or employs of any person, when such

ofﬁcial oremploye is acting within the

scope of his employment or ofﬁce, shall

in every case, be deemed also the act.

omission or failure of the person, as

wéll as of the Ofﬁcial or employs. The

words “closed package” shall mean a.

bin, barrel; basket, or other package,

the contents of which cannot be in-

spected When such package is closed


366 Sec. 19. It shall bathe duty of


the Dairy and Food Commmsioner to .

2.diligiently enforc h


which is repacked shall also bear upon .
A foundation of good farming. Land

that will grow good clover will ordi-

narily grow good corn, geod oats and


, good wheat.“ Of course, the growing of


clover in itSelf makes the other crops


I produce more bountifully, but clover


will not grow on poor land.

The first requisite for clover is a.


i , sweet soil. A sour soil can be made


5' ‘1 ' ‘ sweet by liberal use of lime, either in


‘1 3, the form of ground lime‘stone or burnt


. 91:. hydrated lime.


If plant food is lacking in the soil

it must be supplied before good clover


‘or any other crop, will grow. Some


. farmers try to supply this plant food

' ‘- - through the long-time process of ad-


‘ ding small amounts of manure and

turning under a. sod now and then.

This plan may maintain fertility but

it will seldom add fertility. The small

crops grown on the impoverished ﬁelds

do not supply sufﬁcient humus-mak-

ing material to get the soil into a loose

mellow condition, and since but little

plant food is available from year to

year, no progress toward higher fer-

tility is made.


_ It is poor business to spend years in

trying to “bring up” badly depleted

soil by cropping and culture methods

alone. There is nothing to build on.

It is far cheaper in the end to buy

good fertilizer at ﬁrst and grow crops

which will not only pay for the labor

expended but will leave humus-making

roots and stems in‘large enough quan-

tity to improve the soil for next year’s

crop. After a year or two of this lat-

ter sort of treatment, most any soil,

except the lightest sands or heaviest

clays, will grow good clover.


J. W. HENCEROTH.


GETTING READY FOR WHEAT..'


- This Fall Many Michigan Fields Will

be Plowed with Tractors.


A HEAVY DROP OF PEACHES IN

YORK STATE. '


REAT concern is felt over the

continued dropping of peaches in

western New York. With picking time

but a short time away and many of

the peaches well toward full size, the

fruit in‘lmany orchards shrivels and

drops. This condition is not conﬁned

' to isolated orchards, but is quite gen-

eral over much 01? the territory.

Entomologists and experts have

been called in for consultation by

some of the big grOWers, but it is im-

probable that anything can be done

to check it- now. While it' is not estab«


lished it is believed by many that the


condition is an aftermath of the Se- ‘-

yore winter of 1917:1918, which left I

the trees in a weakened condition gen. ’ on K r


a


thousands outright, _


With vitality lowered those trees I: ‘


which did survive are new unable to


LL over the countrrclover is thé—l


erany,‘ and iii addihon killed tens 61.2 A


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trade do in winter time, replied, “Wal,

sometimes we jest set and think; and

then, agin, we jest set!”


Farmers, quite like ﬁshermen, natur-

ally Tall into similar classes; that is,

some who both farm and think, and

others Who merely farm. The ﬁrst

lead; the latter follow.


There is strongcomplaint at pres-

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not being molded by country people

themselves; that farmers are __not be-

ing led by farmers. Is the fault not

partly our own? Have we a clear

enough conception of what constitutes

farm leaderShi-p?


The man who “Just farms,” follow-

ing the practices of his grandfather, is

fast dropping out of the race and may

not be considered in any discussion of

farm leadership.


The Leader who Farms Surpasslngly

Well.


The ﬁrst type, then, of farm-lead-

ers, is a man who is in evidence in

any prosperous farm neighborhood.

He is What one farm agent calls a

“real farmer." So he is. He is the

bone and slnew of food production. He

cultivates its clean ﬁelds; he erects

its substantial fences and he builds its

big red barn. He grows its bumper

crops, sleek herds, huge vegetables

and prize-winning fruits. This man

looks after the interests of his farm

ﬁrst of all and grants few departures

from its routine. The “leadership” of

such a man is mostly of the silent.

though substantial, sort, and it is “for

the most part material in quality.’ If

we had no other type of farmer than

this, agriculture Would blaze few new

trails, would produce few new varie-


stock‘. and multiplied kinds of choice

fruits, but it would suffer sorely nev-

ertheless.

The Leader Who Experiments.


Leadership as we think of it calls

for experimenting and initiative in

farming lines, but when these gifts oc-

cur in an unassuming man, even his,

neighbors often fail to recognize him

in the sense of a leader. ‘ A man in my

county,

winter fell a victim of the present in-

ﬂuenza epidemic, illustrates well this

type of farm leadershipmthe kind that

steadfastly, and, with studious devo~

tion applies itself to problems of soil,


any oﬂ‘lcial recognition of himself.-


When the news of this man's pass-

ing was announced by the papers, tel.-

ephones clicked in distant parts of

the county and strained voices asked,

“That isn’t our Mr. 3Foster, is it?"

This sense of loss over the,county

was not due alone to the characteristic

kindness of this man, although one of

his immediate neighbors said of him,

“We have grown to depend upon him

as a leader in everything we sought

to achieve as s. neighborhood and he

never failed us.”

devoted 1:0 farming that. he leaves

those who did not meighpor with him


. farther along the" way of scientiﬁc ag-


riculture. He was a city lad who came


A. to the cmmtry, deliberately (1110081113

remains as a life worm-1W“ 013/ g.

money rewards; he applied his 111.1," =

mm 111 chemistry. Wavy seam


sics, to his ﬁelds and animals. He

was an enthusiast in applmg nei‘v


ties of grains, improved strains of live-


Charles L. Foster, who last.


feeding and breeding, without seeking ‘


Bin he was also so .


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knowledge to we met sells. his ummmhmsmoasasrw

Chin W and his poultry ﬂock. ture‘schieﬁains. magnum. to that

Elsi-seaming the: balance that was of- strain at corn, which. was perhaps

ten in. the wrong- side of his mneial Michigans standard when scientiﬁc

record, he followed the lure of experi- selection 0: seed corn came into vogue

mentatlon and of helping others in his Mr. Hathaway Had to hlskc‘redlt‘ seven

favorite lines. . He well know that if 111 strawberries, grapes and other

others were given cows, bred to pro- fruits which he had originated and

'duce more butter-fat, and hens. . bred, tested out by rigorous culling process-

fed and culled to laying standards, they es. His nurseries, hOt-beds and or-

could proﬁt frOm them. His delight chards were feeders for 3. wide range

was to produce these types of animals, of territory and many a home ground

discover the best feeding ration for and school \yard are now graced by

them and sharé his ﬁndings with liis mature specimens that came from that

neighbors. A near friend said of him, rare old farm. Could‘VfCertain square

“This sometimes opened the door to yards ofgthat farm ﬁpéak app-language

imposition, but he Would say he would whiCh we mundane humans under-

rather receive a little less than his due stood, they might tell a. marvelous

than expect more. story of their former owner’s long and


I doubt if many of us viewed Mr. patient effort to‘ produce a flower, or


Foster as a “leader,” and yet, now _

that we talk of him and look at the promised ﬁner or greater yields.


large vacaint place he has left, some- A year 880 I walked reverentlyfﬁl

how we realize that he was, in his say it .advisedlyj—throush the ﬁne'ar-

quiet, unseeking way. a true leader in chard 0t splendid towering Chestnut

the fundamentals of good farming_ trees which this plant lovers‘et years

built-up soils," balanced feeding and ago. .1 went out into the remnants 0f

breeding for business purposes. What was 01108 a wonder-garden—


There was, a generation ago, anoth- went to taste again the anlse which

er Michigan man who, even more. re- grows in the corner where it grew in


markably exempliﬁed this same unob- my chlldhood—walked along the 91d

trusive sort of what for a better name, paths to smell again the box which

we term farmleadership. I refer to bordered the beds, and recalled the

Benjamin Hathaway, of Cass county. rare spec1mens of imported ﬂowers.

Here was a man who sought no oﬂi- and shrubs which Ithls man collected

cial positions bu}. whose w'ork left an from distant connmsseurs and brought

indelible impression on progressive ag- to our mland country neighborhood.

riculture. His work was with plants Others. besides these men have done

and fruits. Before the days of Bur;- a. similar work for their localities and

bank and others of brilliant record, every one Of them has been in his

Mr. Hathaway patiently explored the ﬁeld a farm leader.

uncharted ﬁelds of plant improvement but point to the type. Too often they

through seedlings, grafts, and cross- are unrecognized as such; sometimes

fertilization. As a result “Hathaway’s underrated because they do not meas—

Yellow Dent” corn would of itself en- me. up to the common standard or

what is called “success.” Advancing

agriculture owes much to such men

and there are more Of themmf greater

or less degree, than we usually sus-

pect. As a people we need eyes to

discover them.

,The Leader Who Organizes.


We have thus far considered these

who are content—more than content—-

to do their work on their own premis-


‘es. There remains another group of

farm leaders who, while tilllng their

ﬁelds and harvesting their craps, do

so with a. mind on their social, eco-

nomic and citizenship relations to

their neighbors, state and nation. To

this group belongs many a farmer who

holds political ofﬁce of one. kind or an:

other as a. public trust. To this group.

also, belong those who” see the, value

of united effort among their class.

BY MRS- L- M- THORNTON' Men of this type hays considered

Wlsizg 211113 31:31:31 Winds breath and NW farming in a large sense. They have

' » seen the need 0‘}? inﬂuence. of many

Argoggrgﬁgginrolling plain focussed upon legislators. They have

From a cricket army owing realized the utter futility of an 111111-

That the snows Will soon be falling vldual struggle against big business

suﬂﬁeé ﬂﬁggébeyond recalling combinations. Moreover, they have

" felt the pull of service for public be’t-

When the garnered grain ﬁelds In tomcat Governor c. o Luce, .1. T.

Stubble brown, Cobb, C. W. Nickley and J. Webster

W321; at 1325113311: or HR sky Chllds were others of that sturdy, fear-

Of the beeches turns to yellow, less cast of characters, of those times.

When the queue lent and—mellow who deﬁed precedent and championed

Like the note d a 30.6110 ', the organizing of farm forces These

Fall is here . pioneer men 1m. been succeeded by’


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”Oh dear!” gasped the little teacher expected to make an indeﬁnite stay.

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“Never you mind Joe,” put in Alix felt it incumbent upon her to do the

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Mercy! she could not for the life of her

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snickered Joe be plowing the western woods when

Two bad boys you’ll say Perhaps her good sense told her the nearest

they did enjoy their teachers trepida- locomotive was hundreds of miles

tion, yet at heart they were considered away


as good as any lads in the settlement, Ah she understood DOW _


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speak of them as they were, considerable hill, (16111.1(le in part Of

When there came a lull in the storm it“ timber growth by the hand'of the

lumberman. Off to the southwest grew

a clump of dead pines. These were

writhing as though in agony; the r911gh

bark and limbs were dashed through

the air, followed immediately by the

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of her pupils had a mile to go 'through

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director at. Whose place the teacher hill She olung to her hat. darting to

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curely locking the door. Hdescription .


A sudden ﬂash and stunning roar . The foot of the hill was piled high

startled her Hesjtaﬁng but a moment with fallen timber. Where once was

she gathered her skirts about her, and (C ntinued n a 280)' ‘

made a swift dart down the road. She o o p Se

‘was soon in the shadows of the wood.

There was no wind. The dead calm

Was actually oppressive. Miss Trude .


rolled and gyrated across the woods.

tearing a complete pathway through,

leaving nothing standing in its Wake.


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. A well deﬁned wagon read now pre- till we get home. I feel all right now,


sented a wall of fallen” dead pines and Alix, quite able to walk, and so thank-

green h'émlock. Slowly Miss Trude ful to you—"

made her way down the incline, tread-

ing daintily over limbs and rifted tree the boy

trunks which littered the way. you with our- yarns, then run away as

> She halted before a mass of fallen 10.0 and I did. Can you ever forgive

timber which seemed to defy further us, Mi“ Trude?” \


progress. The air was much cooler

than befOre the storm How could she sur ed him, the smile accompanying the


get around that mass of fallen trees to words very 300311118 t0 the’ boys heart.

the road beyond? ~She wondered how He had not yet reached home when

far it was Night was n6t very far he saw the apprbach of the wind storm

off Where were Alix and Joe? Had and turned back to look after his teach-

they been exposed to the fury of the er knowing full well how frightened

cyclone? Would they miss her it alive she was sure to be “You- saved my

and come back seeking her? life, Alix. I can’t swim a strOke, and

The girl sat down on a fallen tree I was too frightened to help myself "

an cupping her chin in one hand, sat ' “Thanks, Miss Trude,” blushingly

cross- -limbed gazing at the magniﬁcent spoke the boy. The two weie standing

ruin all about her.‘ . now. Taking her arm he led the way

It was yet nearly a mile to the home to the road, which was not obstructed

of the director. Along an ordinary by trees on ”“3 side 0f the creek


road this would not have seemed far," The two had ”0t proceeded far when

but the obstacles now in

‘daunted the girl from way down east.

With a deep sigh she rose and began ing

picking her way to the left, keeping

along the edge of the devastated strip,


big farm horse, with Joe Bixley driv-


exclaimed Joe, wheeling his wagon


Crossing afraid all the way that I’d ﬁnd you

By miraculous chance she found a both drowned It was Alix suggested


narrow lane seeming untouched, down coming back for you, M135 True " .

which Miss Trude made her way with JOe assisted the teacher to a seat 111

the ﬂeetness of a doe. She feared night thg wagon.


might come on with her still in the You/get in With Miss ’Trude and

woods. A light broke in the west; she drive, Alix, I 11 ride behind.


was approaching an opening Ah there Alix folded his dry coat about the

was the glitter of water in the distance shoulders of the teacher, then followed


—Rudiman’s creek on arampage the instructions of his chum. Two

The girl pushed on, soon discovering rather crestfallen boys they were as


woods near the bridge intact. A near- adventures Of the day

er approach, however, shoWed her one It“ take 3' week for the men to

end of the bridge gone, the water clear out the road, ” said Alix. “I’d no

growling like a caged lion as it swept idea we were gomg to have such a.


in swollen ﬂood along between banks. wind. I talked simply to scare you

A single timber remained undestroy- this afternoon when the thunder crack-


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311111.119 twisted 11111 a big knot at the

back 0! her head then langb‘ingly calls hit thoughtless, _


her way. As she stepped foot upon the it Miss Trude 7"

quaking timber her ears were assailed “I- suppose you enjoyed it at any

rate,” she returned. . . ,

creek. On the opposite shore appeared “At first we did' ” admitted Alix, “but

one of her pupils, Alix Donal,d whose after we left the schoolhouse and, saw

face glowed with exertion. He had that storm coming, knowing you were

been running, and was plainly very all alone back there, I tell you it set

much excited us boys to thinking, didn’t it, Joe?” .

“Oh, Miss Trude," he called, “stop “That’s what it did," agreed theboy.

where you are. That timber isn’t safe! "I never felt so cheap in.m_y life. If

Wait till I come to you!” --if you’d been drowned, 01' blown

The boy had\ spoken too late. The~away,-Miss Trude, I’d have never for-

teacher’s small feet were already on given) myself I; think my dreams

the unsteady stringer. One instant would have been haunted till I’d die

it’s bad enough

footing, the next she was precipitated anyhow-i I can see-that your gcmn is

quite ruined by the muddy water of

Simultaneously with the splash of Old Rudiman, for WhiCb I-think you’d

her body upon the water Alix had toss- be justiﬁed in sending in a bill for

ed aside his coat and plunged into the damages. ”

stream. The boy Was an expert swim- 1

The serious countenances of

life making a success of his dash to her two boys gave her cause for much

Although both were

Rudiman’s creek been wider by a Sin- forever teasing. she knew they were

gle rod both would have been drowned. pure gold at heart, and she Was quite

As it was Alix dragged her free. of ready to believe the incrdents of this

the water by the hair of h'er head, day would prove of lasting beneﬁt to

which came uncoiled in his grasp. This them” both—perhaps to herself as well.

hurt beth the boy and his teacher, but Miss Trude did not lose a day from

it seemed the only way, and he did not her duties because of what the young

hesitate an instant. The two sat on teacher (16818118.th as her one bad af-

the bank drying on a lrt‘tle, Waiting to ternoon. '

recover their full sensesebefore setting “‘Do you know, teacher,” said Alix

?‘ ‘_ one day, some Weeks later, “that ad-

The strong hands at the boy wrung venture at Rud-iman’s creek cost me

the water from the. masses or raven several nights loss a: sleep"; and I know

raced the head of Miss it’s made Joe and me better boys;

or drying it the best pout-.- don’t you- think soi’.’ - '-’


soil-Ed she.

, sure 119 an, 1 semen-

' _~they're all in the creek,” 1113er a devised the


“Lucky I turned back as I did,” said -

"It wasn't fair to frighten”


“‘_I’ll forgive you, at least ” she as-


the way a light wagon appeaied drawn by a.


Ah, here you are and wet th1 ough'"


hoping she might come to a point for about, springing to the grOund. “I was'


to her joy that the storm had left the they rode slow1y homeward after the '


_ ‘ A smile irridiated the face of Miss .

.mer, yet withal he had the time of his Trude


“You were very good before, only a.

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Johnny—“Huh! I bet youdidri’t

have a good time at your birthday

party yesterday.” ' .


Willie—~“I bet I did."


. Johnny—“Then why ain’t you sick

. loday ?” .


WOULDN'T TAKE A CHANCE. -'


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Hard work never .killed anybody,” re-


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Customer (angri-ly)—-“Waiter, ,, there

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pened.”


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Jenkins—“How is it that you never

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VVinderby—“Oh, I’m always wrap-

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Visitor—“How long has this man

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four weeks.”


ADVICE TO A sOLoIER.


“Remember, my son,” said his moth-

er as she bade him good—bye, “when

you get to camp try to be punctual in

the mornings, so as not to keep break-

fast waiting.”


JOHNNY ON THE SPOT.


A youngster went into a merchant’s

busy ofﬁce. Not getting immediate at-

tention he approached the boss and

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_ “You do, eh?” said the merchant.

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forthwith, as far as applicable, be (13- Fruits and vegetables.

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commodities. contents cannot readily be s‘een or in-

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inches, outside measurement; and the 207' Sec. 2. Every person who, by

thickness of staves not greater than himself or by his agent or employe,

four tenths of an inch: Provided, that packs or repacks fresh fruits or vege-


any barrel of a different form having tables in closed packages intended for

a. capacity of 7,056 cubic inches shall sale in the open market, shall cause

be a. standard barrel. The Standard the same to be marked in a plain and


‘barrel for cranberries shall be of the indelible manner, as follows.


following dimensions when measured First. With his full name and ad-

without distention of its parts: Length dress, including the name of the state

of slaves, 261/20 inches; diameter of where- such fresh fruits and vegetables

heads 161/,= inches; distance between are packed, before: such fresh fruits

heads, 2514 inches; circumference of or vegetables are removed from the

Ibulge, 58%, inches, outside measure~ premises of the packer.or dealer.

ments; and the thickness of staves not Second. The name and address of

lgreate‘r than four- tenths of an inch such packer or dealer shall be printed

369. Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful to or stamped on said closed packages in

sell offer, or expose for sale in this letters not less than one- quarter inch

state, or to ship from this state, to any in height.

other state, territory, or the District 208. Sec. 3. No person shall sell

of Columbia or to a. foreign country, a, or offer, expose or have in his posses-

barrel containing fruits or vegetables $1011 for sale in the open market, and

or any other dry commodity of less fresh fruits or vegetables packed in a.

capacity than the standard barrels de- closed package and intended for sale,

ﬁned in the ﬁrst section of this act, unless such package is marked as is

or subdivisions thereof known as the reduired by this act.

third, half, and three- quarter barrel, 209. Sec. 4. No person shall sell or

and any person guilty of a wilful vio- Offer, expose or have in his possession

lation of any of the provisions of this fer sale, any fresh fruits or vegetables

act shall be deemed guilty of a miSde- packed in a closed or open package,

meanor‘and be liable to a ﬁne not to upon which paékage is marked . any

exceed $100, in any court of this state designation which represents such

having jurisdiciton: Provided, how- fruit as“‘N0. 1,” “Finest,” “Best,” “Ex—

ever, that no barrel shall be deemed tra. Good ” “Fancy ” “Selected,”

below standard within the meaning of “Prime, ” “Standard, ” or other superior

this act when shipped to any foreign grade or quality, unless such fruit or

ycountry and constructed accOrding to vegetables consist of well- jgrown‘ speci.

the speciﬁcations or directions of the mens, sound, of nearly. uniform size,

foreign purchaser if not constructed in normal shape, good color; for the var

conﬂict with the laws of the foreign rlety, and not less than ninety per

country to which the same is intended cent free from injurious or disﬁguring

to. be shipped. : bruises, diseases, insect injuries or

370. ' Sec. 3. Reasonable variations other defects, natural deterioration

shall be permitted and tolerance estab- and decay in transit 0r storage ex-

lished by rules and regulations made, cepted.

by the director of the bureau ofstan- 226. Sec. 5. No perSOn shall sell or


5851115 are 311310112611 to enter upon of Commerce. Prosecutions for of-', .,

the premises of any person. within this tenses under this act may be- hegim -


vided however. that any grades or force and effect from and after. the .
packed in any pack-age in Which the


faced or shown surface gives a false


jrepiesentatir'm of the contents of such


package, and it shall be considered a

false r‘pie'sentation when more than

twenty per cent of such fresh fruits or


' vegetables the substantially smaller in


size than or inferior in grade to, or


' different in variety from, the faced or


shown surIaCe of such package, natur-

a1 deterioration and decay in transit

or storage excepted.


227. Sec. 6. Every person who, by

himself, his agent or employe, know-

ingly violates any of the provisions of

this act shall for each such offense, be

deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and

upon conviction thereof shall be pun—


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ished by a "ﬁne not exceeding $10, or .


by imprisonment in the County jail for

'a period not exceeding thirty days, or

both such ﬁne and imprisonment in ,


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the discretion of the court.

Standard for Baskets.

(Act No. 74, Session Laws of 1917).

AN ACT t6 ﬁx standards for climax

baskets for grapes and other fruits


and vegetables, and to ﬁx standards ' H


for baskets and other containers for‘


small fruits; berries and vegetables,


.and to punish violators of the same.


350. Section 1. The people of the

state of Michigan enact, that stand-

ards for climax baskets for grapes and

other fruits and vegetables shall be

the two- quart basket, four- -quart bas-

ket and twelve-quart basket, respec-

tively. '


_(a) The standard two- quart climax

basket shall be of the following di-

mensions: Length of bottom piece,

nine' and one-half inches; Width of

bottom piece, three and one-half inch-

es thick; thickness of bottom piece,

three-eighths of an inch; - height of

basket, three and seven-eighths inch-

es, outside measurhment; 'top of bas—

ket, length eleven inches and width

,ﬁve inches, outside measurements.

Basket to have a cover ﬁve by eleven

inches, when a cover is uSed.


(b) The standard four-quart climax

basket shall be of the following dimen-

sions: Length of bottom piece, tour

and one-half inchesythicknesw of bot-

tom piece,- three-eighths of an inch;

height of basket, four and eleven‘six-

teenths inches, outside measurement;

top of basket, length fourteen inches;

width, six and onevfourth inches, out-

side measurement. Basket to have

cover six and one-fourth inches by

fourteen inches, when cover is used;


(c) The standard" twelve-quart cli-

max basket shall be of the following

dimensions: Length of'bottom piece,


sixteen inches; width of bottom piece,

six and one-half inches; thickness of

bottom piece, , seven-sixteenths. of an

inch; height of basket, seven and one-

sixteenth inches, outside measure-

ments; top cf basket, length nineteen

inches; width nine inches, outside

measurement. Basket to have cover

nine inches by nineteen inches, when

cover is used.


351. Sec. 2. That the standard bats:-I


ket or other container for small fruits,

berries, and vegetables’shall be of the


l


following capacities: namely. dry one-j


half pint, dry pint, dry quart, or mul-

tiples of the dry quart.

(a) The dry half-pint shall contain


'16 8 19 cubic inches;


(b) The dry pint shall contain 83

6-10 cubic inches.


(c) The dry quart shall contain 67

2-10 cubic inches.


I


352. Sec.,3. That it shall be unlaw-l


ful to manufacture for shipment, or to


sell within the state any climax bas- .- .

, kets. or other- containers for small .

truits,“berries,_‘ or vegetables, whether '

. ﬁlled or unﬁlled which do not con-


term .to the provisions or this set: any


, person guilty of a wilful «matron at;

any” the pmvisions of this act shall, 3


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We do not deal a great lot 1n the spectacular but every year

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER,
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A MONG my earliest recollections

stand out prominently the sheep


which my father kept on his


I’jfarm in the western part of New York


state. One such ﬂock holds a promi-

nent place in my memory. It was made


111’ entirely 0f Merino sheep 0f ChOice member the number in that ﬂock, but ill‘ustration. The picture was taken by the W66 lambkins and attending to the 4, I .

Quality, by WhiCh we set great store. if there were ten, then at the end of- our youngest son. wants of the mother sheep; , More than 3“


The days when we went to “73511 our I one of these was thus tided over when l

sheep before shearing vwerelred—letter chilled, by being brought into the 2

days in my boyhood life, for the creek .house and 'warmed by the kitchen


in which this work was done was some stove until the breath of life came


three miles from our home and I was back to it. ._ .

privileged to go with father and the The ﬁrst sheep our oldest boy ever ,I -

other men and help to corral the s eep had was a gift of the ﬁne old farmer , { .


in the little yard close down by the

water’s edge, from which they were

taken in their turn to be dipped, back-

deep, into the creek and their wool

cleansed from the dust and other ac-

cumulations of the winter‘then at an

end. My father was very particular

that the wool he offered for sale should

be as clean and free from any objec-

tionable matter as possible. In those

early days I came to love sheep, and

my love for these animals never has

faded away since.


Then came the great War of the Re-

bellion, which robbed us of father, for

he never came home, seeing his last

service at the battle of Gettysburg;

but mother and her six boys and girls

kept the sheep, hoping at ﬁrst that the

War would end and father would come

back to shepherd not only his ﬂock of

sheep, but the other little ﬂock he lov-

ed so well. All through those years it

was mother and I——for I was the old-

est of the six—who cared for the sheep.

I remember that at one time we kept

a little group for a neighbor who had

not as much pasture as he needed, on


me Boy to Man-é-é-Wlti


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the old plan then in force among the

farmer folk of our neighborhood, doub-

ling once in four years. I do not re-


around, always seeking the best, until

we had Shropshires, a little group of

which is shown in the accompanying


Sheep Have Always Held a Good Place in Our Farm Life.


the four-year term we returned the or-

iginal ten and had ten for our own

proﬁts. In“ these later years at home

it fell to me to wash and shear the

sheep myself, which I did more than

once.


After we bought a farm for our-

selves in the southern tier of New

York state, in Broome county, we had

sheep of our own. The day of the

Merino’s had gone by in that section

and we had little by little shifted


The days of washing wool as de-

scribed earlieixin this story had then

gone by, the wool being sold unwash-

ed, but one of the early summer jobs

was shearing the sheep, a job from

which I wasdater relieved by our old-

est son when he was strong enough

for such work. Many-a night have I

gotten up in the spring of the year to

go down to the barn to see how the

ewes were coming on when the lambs

were coming; and when I was not at


home becausef‘of absEnce at the county

seat, serving onthe board of supervis-

ors, or at the state capitOl where I

served as member of the legislature,

mother and this oldest laddie were the


ones who made these trips, caring for


grandfather, whose farm was three


miles away, on the hills of Broome

county, at Mt. 'Ettrick, where lived as

ﬁne a body of Scotch farmer shep-

herds as this country ever knew, one

of whom Was ’Squire William Hogg,a

direct descendant of the famous Ett-

rick Shepherd of Scotland. It was

grandfather’s plan to give every grand-

son born intothe family a lamb as

soon as he was large enough to keep

and take care of itf and that little

Nan was beloved as few lambs ever

Were, and Laddie had the offspring for

his own for many years, until he had

a nice flock, of his own


So that sheep have always held a.

good place in our farm life, and no one

rejoices more than we do to see these

creatures coming to their own once

more. The farmers of Broome county

have lately sold their wool on the co-

operative plan for ﬁfty to sixty cents

a pound, realizing by this'method ﬁve

or six thousand dollars more for the

clip than they otherwise would. And

we hope for better things for the days

to come.


Prize Letter Contest--—“Thc Circus”


FIRST PRIZE.


The Circus.

One day my mother, sister and my-


self went to the city to see the circus,‘


and as we wanted to see the whole

‘performance we went to the grounds

right after dinner.


First, we went into a large tent


. where they kept the animals and there


We saw elephants which caught the

peanuts which the people threw to

them, with their trunk, and also some

camels which had two humps and oth-

ers one. One animal Which I saw was

the blood-sweating hippotamus, and he

certainly was a big, queer-looking

beast. /


‘ About two o'clock we Went into a.

'still bigger tent, and here we took our

seats, for in this tent we were to see


' the show.


Soon the clowns began to come in

and they looked awful funny. After

they had gone out ladies came in who

swung on ladders, and others swung

with the ropes held between their

teeth. ,


Horses, ponies and dogs together

did tricks, and there also was a man

and woman who walked on a rope...


Something that was very pretty


' were] the different groups of statues


day not quickly forgotten—Ruth E.

Johnson, Gowen, Mich. Age twelve

years.


HONORABLE 'MENTION.


The Circus.


On August 2 the combined circus of

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey

came to Lansing- My papa took my

two sisters and little brother and my-

self. I saw many strange things. The

parade was very nice. First the horses

came, and little ponies, the camels,


the elephants, then came large wag-

ons, some of them had lions in, some

bears, and tigers. I went into a side

show and saw two little ladies and

three little men. They were about

three feet tall. One little lady and

man had just got married. They seem-

ed very happy and they danced for us.

- I saw a wild man, a man that was

eight feet six inches tall. He was very

large. I cannot tell you all the things

I saw, but these are the ones I remem-‘

ber the-best. We got home at ten

o’clock at night. I was Very tired, but


was glad I had gone.—Lucille Patrick,

Dansville, Mich. Age ten years.


HONORABLE MENTION.


"The Circus.


Oh! the thrills that I experienced

when I was told that on the morrow.

we would leave early for the circixs.

The day of the circus dawned bright

and clear. We left for the city about

twenty miles away. We arrived about

eleven-thirty, just in time to see the

parade, which was the longest' I have

ever seen. After the parade We lunch-

ed at a cafe and about two o ’clock left

for the circus. It took us about ten

minutes to purchase our tickets and


followed the crowd into the tent which ‘


contains the animals.

Among the animals that I had never


' seen and are uncommon to most of the ,

circuses, are the giraﬂes, hippotamus,’


kangaroo, zebra and tigers. The com-

mon ones were bears, elephants, monk-

eys, camels, seals and a few others.

Upon arriving at the big tent we


. bought some peanuts and took our


seats. Soon the bugles were bloWn by


-: the heralds and all the pérfornlers par-


aded around the arena. Aniong them

being Cinderella. Queen of Sheba,


:1 many, court 3esters, Qingand queen.

knights of the middle ages. Chinese .

princes and, men- hunters, - mattresses .


9 composed of ladies all dressed in white


and white horses. They were motion-


we and looked as though they had v ‘


been carved out of marble.


3 e ccrtainly had some good laughs


in; the different 0193118 who came and

’i "rfermance.
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.Atept we saw me

,_red-hot5;

. crackeriack. »


4 * : warmer, Detroit mien.


.........


A tired party left for home about

ﬁve thirty after a most exciting day. ——


' Louise Gregory, Bay City, Mich. Age


ﬁfteen years.


GIRL_ ENTERS SHOW RING WITH

RHODE ISLAND REDS.


“" OROTHY YOUNT, Lincoln coun-


ty, N. 0., is the proprietor of the

best “one-ring circuS” ever owned and

operated in the Tarheel State, accord-

ing to her own statement. Instead of

using clowns, trained ponies, troops of

acrobats, elephants: snake charmers,

and wild western cowboys to disport

themselves and amuse the spectators,

Dorothy works‘ with Rhode Island Red

hens, and her fowls cater to the plaud-


its ot? the state at large.


Two years ago the poultry

agent of North Carolina, a representa-

tive of the United States Department

of Agriculture, examined Dorothy’s

ﬂock. He admired the birds and sug-

gested that she_ exhibit a few at the

state fair that season, and he promis-

ed to return in the fall and assist in

Selecting her exhibition fowl. That is


how Dorothy happened to go into the ,7


“circus business.” At the ﬁrst show

she attended she was awarded ﬁrst

and second honors on 3. Rhode Island

Red cockerel, and ﬁrst and third prizes

on a Rhode Island Red pullet, and fur-


' thermore, sold all her ’winners at high

Later '


prices before she left the show.

in the winter, at Wilson, N. 0., she ex-

hibited and captured other honors. At

this exhibition the judges pronounced

her cockerels ﬁt to show in any com-

petition.

More Prizes Won.

Then Dorothy assembled a ﬂock of


forty females and three males, and in .


the spring of 1918 began keeping rec-

ords on her birds. That year she sold

$178 worth of foundation stock, some

of the cockerels selling as high as $15

apiece, while the pallets brought as

much as $12.50 each.- Dorothy culled

out and marketed $59.22 worth of.un~

satisfactory fowl from the ﬂock and

disposed of $72.50 worth of eggs for

hatching purposes, as well as $32.30

‘worth of market eggs. During this pe-

riod her 'feed bill totaled 3139. which

left her a net return of $209.02 from

her forty hens.


Our Prize Contest


0 the‘boy or girl writing the


best letter, of less than 260

words on each of the following »

we will give a cash prize of 81.


Subject of letter to be mailed

by September 15:


“The ﬁrst day of school."


Subject of letter to be mailed

by September 22:


“My best Kodak Picture.”

(Inclose the picture with the

letter).- .


Write neatly with ink on one

side'of the sheet only. Giveyour. ..

‘ age. full name and address.


/ Addressayosr letters to The

Bow and Girl? W. Melissa


me- shews. got some :

on goods. ice... cream and 5


club ‘


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Ring Neckecl Pheasants


We can now make shipments oilour birds.

They will lay next spring—are easy to

raise and do not eat one-half as much as

chickens These birds are not subjeotto dis-


e—sro hardy and unrelated You can sell

th ir voung and eggs at good prices—they

are much more proﬁtable than chickens.


Single Pheasants .6 6.00 Each

5 Hens.1 Cock (Pen) 30.00


Genuine was Mallard Ducks


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Wil 11y next 5 ring. Fine esting~good decoys—

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5 Ducks. 1 Drake (Pen)


Bloomﬁeld Giant Bronze Turkeys


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OockeA-els . . $.00 to 354» Each

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. Toms . . . . 36.0) to 50.“) Each


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Rhoda Isl land Red chickens for

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_We want the tamer poultrymen and women of Mich-

iﬁs n to know the Homestead Farms work: It is I work

at unites the interests of people.

Every bird we send out is guaranteed to be true to

representation; any bird not satisfactory may be re-

turned.

Pallets and Yenrllnganhite Legllorn yearling Pul-

lets In lots ofﬁ 12, 25 or 50. A limited number of

Barred Rock spring Pallets.

CocksroIs—Barred Rocks W bite Rocks. White Orplng

tons. S C. Black Minorcaa, S. U. and It. 0. White and

Brown Leghorns, Anconas. ’

Guineas. Ducks,'0eese--White Pekin, Gray Toulouse.

Turkeys--Bronze, White Holland. Bourbon Reds.

Robnblts--Belgisns,New Zeelands.Rufus Reds. Flemish


Please send for Full Price List and for Spring Oats-


log. it you do not have one already ‘

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION,

Bloomingdnlo, Michigan


Md Rocks Exclusively. Baby chicks all sold.

Thanks all our customers. Order

early for next season: H. . Pierce. Jerome, Mich.


A o g contest dwinnors.eggsfromstraln

Bured Rocks 55th records to 290 ”is 19111182.“)


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p” n‘ " FKED ASTLING Constantine. M11111.


Fow.er’ s 3115 Rocks 93i§3ﬁir§fm mm]; °W

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or sale “Buy the Best‘ " egs for hatching frpm 200

strain Barred Plvmout Rock. $2.00 perla .85. 00

for eggs H. B. PROOTOR Grand Haven. Mich.


March Hatched R 1. Red Cockerels


Both Combs. Write for priceiund order early.

Interlokes Farm. 30x69 swrence. Michigan

.Pekln Ducks. W. Chi-


RIC Bro museums

' ' WI! nose Geese. Place orders early for

young stock. Mrs. Claudia Betta Hillsdale. Nyilch.


Minor-can Eggs from Eenl. 83. 00 per 15.

stor eg 8'7. 00 per

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Save rkGolden and White Wyandottes youn breeding

awaken Oct..01st


holceoockeralps 310 15. Write


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SC. Anson: cockerels. ‘ ’“ $31332” £6.33?

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Please Mention The Michigan Farmer


cent issues of a widely read wom-

en’s magazine, Zona Gale launches.

her idea of the coming methods in

housekeeping. To begin with Miss

Gale divides a housekeeper’s work in‘

to four classes, cooking, cleaning, laun-

dry work and chamber work. A real

housekeeper may be excused a smile

at Miss Gale's glib summing up of our

duties. If that were all there is to it,

who of us would need help? Itis the

thousand and one little things which

nobody notices unless we leave them

undone that wear us out.

At any rate, taking her classiﬁcation

as it stands, she is going to settle the

whole thing by sending mother out as


IN a series of three articles in re


. a wage earner, hiring an eight-hour-a-


day trained specialist to do these four

things, bundle the children off to

school and inaugurate a system of com-

munity kitchens to send in the meals.


« She, with poetic license, fails to say

‘what is to be doneAWith-the children


before they can go to school, who is to

nurse the baby during its early months


, or who will walk the ﬂOor'with it


nights. For, of course, mother being

a wage earner, will need her sleep

just as poor dad needs his now.

Taking these articles at their face

value, there is still the germ of a goOd


Community Work Shops "


out in more thickly settled farming-


idea in them. That isthe thought of‘


community kitchens. It will probably


be many a year before farm homes

would come to the idea of buying, all


their meals from a community kitchen,

and in fact it is doubtful. whethersuch

a scheme would pay in ' the country.


When Writing to Advertisers.


Distances are so great, transpdrta'tion


25 Cents


" Will


a Big Package of

POSTUM _

CEREAL


Weighing over a

pound, net.


What are you paying

for coffee?


i


buy


facilities. so ‘- limited that» it would

scarcely -.be feasible. Though with

“jitney” service“ it might be Worked


districts. But cooking is only one of

the many forms of work which go on

in a farm kitchen. .


A ta

day with a tired sigh, that if she could

only. get someone to do her washing


she’ wouldn’t aSk for'anything more in "


life. How. many thousands of farm

Women, who 'this morning are tugging

heavy.‘pai1s of water and lifting tubs

which. they .know they have no' busi-

ness to touch, can ' echo her senti-

ments? Why couldn’t :you have a com-

munity laundry; a cooperative affair

where your work could be done for a

moderate price? You have coopera-

tive creameries which are successful,

and a few districts already have coop-

erative laundries. The scheme is en-

tirely feasible and easily put into ex-

ecution. All it ‘needs is a leader 'who

will talk long enough and convincingly

enough to get the thing started. Once

relieved of the drudgery of washiday

what woman would voluntarily go back

to it?


There’s your canning, too. What a

lot of time it takes, just in the busiest

season when .your garden and poultry

demand extra time and there areal-


, cannery?


woman told me the other,


ID


The - girls who have been

learning how in the clubs could, do the

neigthrhood canning and earn their

own pin money. In a few schoolsthey


are already trying it olit a little. The -

-women send their own cans and rub-


bers with the fruit or vegetables and

the girls do the work for three cents a;


can. Wouldn’t it be worth that much -


to you to get the canning done? ,

Why wOuldn’t a cooperative bakery

be practical? I am not sure of this ﬁg-

ure but I am almost pesitive that one

girl told me she' and her mother baked

up a barrel of ﬂour a month. Often

they are up scrubbing the ﬂoor at mid

night. They might get that scrubbing

out of the way by feur o’clock in the

afternoon if someone else baked those

pies and cakes and all those countless

loaves of bread.


It is in such ways as these that the

farm women must get help if the girls

are to be kept on the farm where‘they

are so sorely needed. For certainly

no up- -and- -doing 1919 girl is going to

devote her young years to such gruel-

ling work as she sees her mother tied

41p to. One look at mother’s drooping

shoulders, tired face, roughened hands

and fading complexion, is enough to

decide daughter that life in a city with

labor- saving devices is more to be desir-

ed than the broad, free expanSe of the


ways two or three more toxcook for. country, with‘ all the hard work-it

Why couldn’t you haVe a cooperative entails. DEBORAH.

[By Lydia M. T Izamton . a


IN the home where tomatoes ale 8.

popular product of the garden, they

will be found on the table twiCe a day,

but if you become tired of the plain

sliced or stewed article, try the follow-

ing, some of which will make tasty

supper di:shes


. Escalloped Tomato. _


Put. cold meat of any kind—or of

several kinds if yoil""ha..ve them—'—

through a meat chopper. In a butter-


ed baking dish put a layer of sliced ~~

cold boiled potatoes, then a layer of ..


the meat, over this a layer at sliced

ripe tomatoes and a sprinkling of salt

and pepper. Repeat until the dish is


' ﬁlleda Over the top put a scanty layer


of bread crumbs dotted with butter.


i


Pour in a‘cupful of rich sweet milk

and bake forty minutes.

Tomatoes and Macaroni. .


Boil one cupful of macaropi in salt-

ed water until tender. Cut six pieces

of bacon in inch pieces and put in a

pan over a slow- ﬁre until part of the

fat is tried out; add one medium-sized

onion chopped and the macaroni which

has been previously drained. Stir in

a' small .teaspoonf'ul of sugar, 11 piece

of butter, and one and a ~halt ,cuptuls

of stewed tomatoes. Cook ﬁfteen min-

utes over a ‘moderate'ﬂi‘e, then set

aside to cool.

in the beaten yolks of two eggs; re-

turn to the ﬁre and reheat. being care-

ful to remove M1939 the eggs begin to

curdle. which will be at about the boil-

ing point. "Serve With a few very thin


strips of- sweet green pepper scattered."

over the top. .


Tomato Scramble,


,g Beat: tour eggs slighth'. season with "

1 Salt and pepper and turn into a". butter.

ed frying pan. Stir the e383 until they


- . ‘ : ‘ till


,When quitetcool, stir‘


dry as baked beans


a cupful of stewed tomatoes, stir up

once, then serve hot on buttered toast.

Tomato Rabbit.


To one-fourth cupful of milk add one

teaspoon of butter, one- half {tea-

spoonful of salt and a little; red


. "pepper and mustard, grate‘in on’e-lialf

.» pound of mild cheese and heat slowly


until cheese is nearly melted. Beat


ﬁve eggs in a. separate dish and add


One cupful of stewed tomato—not too


juicy—to the hot cheese mixture. Cook


two minutes and serve on toast. '

> Tomato and Olive Salad.


Pare ﬁrm yellow tomatoes and cut

them in pieces about as large as a

chestnut. Mix with stuffed olives cut

in half lengthwise and serve with a.

cooked or mayonnaise dressing.


Tomatoes with Dumplings.


Pare and slice the tomatoes and put

in a kettle of a suitable size. Over\the

top put corn meal dumplings made of

milk, salt; baking powder, and equal

proportions of corn meal and wheat

ﬂour.

ﬁre and cook until the dumplings are

done A little water should be put in


the bottom of the kettle to keep the .


tomatoes from burning until the juice

egins to cook out. Serve with slices

of fried bacon over the top. ' 7

' Beans with Tomato Sauce.


Cook the. beans until all extra water

has boiled out, leaving them almost as

Serve with a

sauce made of one cupful of strained

tomato juice, one tablespoontnl ﬂoor.

one tablespoon butter, and Season with


attend pepper. ﬁttrihe mixture wien


. _ . " inside (m..larsesn1o§ b:

tome fps. C IOQh'WO dozen to}!


Put the kettle over a moderate ‘
mites.


ﬂirty .- . ‘

' ' ‘l‘omatoee and choose.


_ and let stand in a cool place. When

‘chilled‘, spread with a paste made of

cream cheese or cottage cheese, ﬁnely

chopped green pepper and a little pa-


prika. Place two slices" together sand-


“ wich fashion and serVe on lettuce with


a little salad dressing to which a little


.‘ * ﬁnely chopped onion has been added.


i . Tomato Spice.


‘4 ', To thrde pounds of skinned and slic-


g’. ‘ four cups of sugar and spices to taste.

< Boil down until it is the consistency of


meats.


Tomato Jelly Salad.

I To a pint of strained tomatoes, sea-

‘1 soned, add one- -fourth package of gela-

tin. mold in cups and when cold turn

onto lettuce leaves and serve with sal-


is the addition of a little ﬁnely chop-

ped cucumber or stuffed olives.


ENTs.


a


"has a series of bulletins which every

' thinking parent should pas-.sess They

are “For Parents of Children,” “For

Girls and Young Women, ” “For Boys,”

“For Young Men. ” Write to the board

of health at Lansing for these, asking

for only the ones for which you have

actual use.


MICHIGAN FARM ER PATTERNS.


Any of the patterns illustrated may

be secured by sending order to Pattern

Department, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,

enclosing the amount set opposite the

patterns wanted. '


No. 2907-2931.—-Ladies Costume. The


.waist, 2907, cut in seven sizes, 34, 36


38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust meas-


--ure. Size 36 requires 3% yards of 27


inch material. Skirt, 2931, cut in sev-


, en sizes, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and ,34


1‘ inches waist measure. Size 24 renuires


2% yards of 50-inch, material. Width


‘ of skirt at lower edge is about 1%


yards. Two separate patterns, 10c for


each pattern.


No. 2926—Ladies’ Dress. Cut in sev


en sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40.43, 44 and 46


inches bust measure. Size 38 re uires


four yards of 54-inch material. 3mm


of skirt at lower edge is about 1%

yards. Pric 10 cents.


i“: ‘ m. 2.174.111.1131... out 111 tour

‘ gill “mega tour yards at 40-inch ina-


M Dress-

‘6.’ 8. 1Q 12‘ mmcgi in 0111‘

3% at .3"!


‘ Slice large ﬁrm tomatoes, drain, salt ‘


ed tomatoes add one pint of vinegar, _


=- Jan). taking care not to let the mixture__

scorch. This is delicious with cold-


ad dressing. A nice variation of this.


BULLETINS FOR THINKING PAR- _


The Michigan State Board of Health


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faction.


ﬂavor

WHITE should be used.


Money back if ‘ it does not give complete satis-


,and splendid


GRAND farms, MICHIGAN.


“The flour the but cooks use"


For exacting women who place quality above

. price; who realize true economy is practiced

' when complete satisfaction is obtained.


Of cOursc, a good cook will be able to bake ' - — -

good bread and biscuits from the ordinarily

,‘ good ﬂour. .

' ‘ ' But if you desire something A LITTLE —

BETTER, more light, ﬂakier—With a deli- ,.

color—LILY


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lGO-Acre Michigan Farm

$5500; Mile to


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fenced nature home Wood ,.good apple orchard, fruit.

8-room house, large modern stock barn, siloé poultry,

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he following lands and


we HEW For sale gtock 1?” acres of ﬁne 21%:

, w l locate easy arms. acres

{Eéiergvseg‘llgsnds mealsdwin, on daily mall route, close

to school, all ionced with woven wire, 20 acres under

lino state of cultiva ion, 6 acresd in twiddmh 70 acres more

ofonme tractbrushe, lo ddan burn sheep nnoh

of 310 acres, slit enced flvinfg water, 70 acres of t

ranch cleared, 30 acres of wh ch is under ﬁne stat e f

cultivhtion with fruit orchard. House 26: Shoe

sheds an barn 64x80 . Tool house 16132. 170 e eephll

this season’s lam‘llasf. We lashevfhree iitno Stock Ranc es.

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MWTA farm 0 gportunities are described

and 111ch din a book just issued

b the U. 3.3.. B. .ﬁdmlnistration for the information

0% home seekers lnneeota 0 Here strategic locatlo oh,

dependable climate. fertile soils abundant rainfal

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7 level, cla loam. Well fenced and

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50th so rds. Im roved we no countr $8.,000

mt cash. HO MAN REAL ESTATE AéEN'cy'

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Gladwin County Productive I

Investi ate this desirable section before buying a

farm, t will pay rite for information.

U. G. Reynolds. ula win, Mich.


120 Acre; farm, low price 50acresclear. 10 Maple


ti mber, rest pasture. New building 1%

milefromE. O. LStatlon, etc. Owner, H. DeG root,

Northland, Mic


evade grazing land 82 peer acre. 81 cash per acre

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Cut in


No. 2729—Ladies’ Costume.

seven sizes, '34, 36, 38," 40, 42, 44' and 46

inches bust measure. Size 38 requires


six yards of 44-inch material. Width

of skirt at lower edge is about 1%

Price 100.


No. 29542874~A Smart Coat Suit.

Coat 2954 cut in seven sizes, 34, 36, 38,


_. 40,42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure.

». Size 38 requires {our yards of 44 inch


mat’erial. Skirt 2874 cut in serum sis-

es. 22, 24. 26, 28. 30, 32 and 34 inches

waaiist ﬁctisﬂuire. 1) Sizwai'equires three

y s - no ma The width

at skirt at lower edge is about 1%

yards. Two separate patterns 10c for

88161! D!“ are


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No. 25134211111111 Short Clothes Set:


Cut in ﬁve sizes, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years.


Size four requires for the dress 2%-


yards. For the petticoat 1% yards.


For the combination 1% yard of 36f


inch material. Price 100.

. No. 2955—Girls’ Dress. Cut in four .— »

sizes, 4, 6, 8 and 10 years. Size six re-


quires Zlé yards of 42-inch material.


Price 10c.


Ne. 2750—Ladies’ Cover- all Apron.


Cut in four sizes, small 32- 34; medium?


36-38; large 40- 42, and extra large 44-

46 inches bust measure. Size medium

will require 4% yards of 36-inch mate-

rial. Price 10c.


No. 2043-—J.adies’ Service Dress. Cut-

in seven sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and

46. inches bust measure. Size 38 re-a‘V


quires 644 yards of 86-inch material.

Width of skirt at 1

yards. P110010“ ower edge is 2%.


. w -.1 m," .2 ,- - -

r. wt =2”:- ..
LKEHaholeinthemilkpail, the costofhand

milkingisabigdrainondairyproﬁts. ‘


“I have had a great deal of trouble in the past in

keeping competent hired men, particularly dining '

winter,” writes Mr. Clarence Vose, Kenosha, Wis.

“Last fall I purchased a Success Milking Machine

and let my man go in the fall. Milked 22 cows

all winter with the Success and am highly pleased

with it. It has made money for me.”


SUCCESS 3.5%” MILKER


is the greatest time and labor saver on the dairy farm. In

every herd, from eight cows up, a Success Outﬁt will quickly

pay for itself, and make your cows pay you extra prof-

its for many years.


The Success has so few parts that it is easy to Operate and the upkeep

cost is next to nothing. No pulsators or other complicated contrivances—

no big expensive vacuum tank or pipe line to install or bother with.

The teat cups are the simplest made — ﬁt perfecﬂy, yet have no rubber

linings to wear out.


The simple and durable construction of

the Success Milker accounts for its long,

trustworthy service.


The OpenValve accounts for the steady,

uniform action, which means contented

cows and better milk yields.


Most sanitary milker made—keeps down

bacteria count.


Let us tell you how a Success Mllker will

make bigger dairy money for you. Write for

catalog.


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HE 70 lb. bag is


just the right size

for farm use. It is easy

for the dealer to stack

them up and again it’s

easy for the buyer to

place them in a truck

or wagon, automobile or

buggyandkeepinagood

dry place in the house.

It is convenient to open

at the top and a simple

matter to take out the

” salt. Being packed in

a good bag, it is less expensive and

much easier to handle than a barrel.


For these reasons we pack

COLONIAL ,

SPECIAL . FAWR'S‘.’ .


SALT

in 70 lb. bags.

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" “ “reader.


* . Variations 4 1n . Milk .T'estsii


S a general proposition milk is a


product that is fairly uniform in


composition. At the ‘Maine ex-

periment stgtlon‘ the fat content of the

milk from a herd of mixed cows ﬂuc-

tuated on an average of 3.75 per cent

of its usual amount at each milking,

and the total yield of butter-fat varied

from eight to ten per cent of its ordi-

nary yield at the same time. Never-

theless the milk yield and composition

of cows that are on official test shows

same remarkable variations, “in'some

cases the percentage of butter-fat vary-

ing frOm 2.7 to 6.7 per cent in the dif-

ferent milkings of two consecutive

days.


What causes these variations in

milk tests of individual cows? As a.

rule they result from the succulence

and nutritive value of the food, tem-


food, temperature of the weather and

the health condition of the cow. The

ordinary dairy cow on dry winter feed

or good pasture in summer. Will Show

less variation in the per cent of but.

ter—fat produced than during months

in which her ration is frequently

changed. The ﬁrst principle of main-

taining, a uniform butter-fat test is

uniformity of feeding and management

since cows regularly fed and handled

show more uniform milk and butter-

fat production. -


It is always a perplexing problem for


the breeder of registered dairy cattle

to determine accurately between the

difference in milk tests due to hered-

ity and those due to feeding and man-

agement. When one studies the varia-

tion in milk tests made by individual

cows he is frequently led to believe

that heredity plays a less important

part in determining the per cent of

butter-fat produced than is popularly

supposed.

_ Successful breeders believe and

maintain that the only way to perma-

nently inﬂuence the percentage of but-

ter-fat is through the breeding of the

animals. That is, that every cow main-

tains a certain deﬁnite percentage of

butter-fat that is normal for that par-

ticular cow. While changes in age,

condition, environment and feed may

temporarily change the fat content of

her milk for brief periods, she will

eventually return to her normal test

and maintain nearly the same average

for each period of lactation.


Of course, it goes without 'saying

that the well-fed, properly treated cow

will show a higher per cent of butter

fat than the same cow wduld if poorly

fed and badly treated. Exceptions

may be noted, but asa general breed-

ing proposition families that prbduce

milk with a low percentage of fat will

continue to produce cows with that

characteristic. Innumerable experi-

ments conducted in an effort to in-


, crease “the test of milk have failed


On the other hand it is a well known

and generally recognized fact that if

a cow is fed a heavy ration of rich

protein feeds during the period she is

dry, she will not, only store up on her

body an , excess of "lean protein ﬂesh,

but will also, when fresh, if fed a nar-

row, but stimulating ration, milk off

this surplus lean meat, at the same


1 time showing a percentage of butter-


fat considerably above her normal test


A .This probably. explains why it is possi-

bio for sums of the famous Meeders-'

of dairy @3111 to make Such. wonderful .

thirty-day and sixty-day :1


better?“ records. .1 ~ .

The beat saw 111“ the world it. given


perature and nutritive value of the”


improper food and care would prob-f


ably fall considerably below her nor.-


‘mal test. Her production of butter-fat

might differ greatly from what it would. .

when she was given proper treatment. ,

Sustenance and attention are there-3


quisites ,of obtaining a maximum per-

centage of butter-fat from the individ-


ual cow, the same as they are in Oh-:


taining a maximum ﬂow of milk. The

cow that makes a credible record as a

producer of fat does so because she

receives a line of treatment calculated

to bring out the best of her inherited

possibilities. ' W M. K.


AMERICAN CATTLE FOR URU-

‘ GUAY.


HREE leading beef breeds and one-


dairy breed are represented in a

shipment ' of forty-one head of pure-

bred cattle which recently left on the

ﬁrst leg of the journey to Montevideo,

Uruguay. . The cattle are consigned

to E. Parreja Reissig at that port.


' The selection was made in this coun-

try,on Mr. Reissig’s order through the

various breed organizations, the ,ac-

tual shipment being made through the

export department of the American

Shorthorn Breeders’ '

which sent a consignment of

breed to South America a few months

ago.


Mr. Reissig ordered the cattle, act-


ing as the representative of‘a group of"


prominent cattle breeders in his coun-

try, to whom the animals in this con-

signment will be distributed by him on

their arrival.


Twenty one Herefords, twelve Short-v


horns, three Angus and ﬁve Holsteins


make up the number going. The Here-l


ford group is: made up of six bulls and

ﬁfteen cows; four bulls and eight cows

are Shorthorns, two bulls and one


'cow‘ are Angus, and two bulls and


three cows are Holsteins. .


The cattle went east by rail for the

coast and will sail for their new home

on the steamer West Avenal from New

York


The Hereford herd of E. H.- Taylor,_

J r 'of Frankfort, Ky., contributed ﬁve

animals tothe lot, headed by «the bull

Woodford 30th 691553. S. H. Velie, of

Kansas City, Mo.,~~and¢Herbert Hazlett

of Eldorado, 'Kan., each'had four ani-

mals among the whitefaces selected,


"while S. Moser, of Kansas City, had


three, and Walter Yost, of the same

place had two. J. W. Van Natta, of

Lafayette, Ind.; H. C. Cox, Lee’s Sum--

mit, M0,, and J. N. Camden, Versailles,

Ky., had one each.


Lodi, Wis, was triply represented by


a Shorthorn from each of three herds \


there, those of— Stasley F. Miller, C.

M. Herr ..& Son, and Reynolds Bros.

being represented. Anoka Farms, of


Waukesha, Wis, had two animals, as.

did also E. B. Thomas of Audubon,‘


Iowa One animal each was drafted

from the herds of James Brown, Dun-

dee, Ill.; Eben E. Jones, Bloomington,

Ill.; Carpenter & Ross, Mansﬁeld, 0.,

Edward Kemp, Tifhn, Ohio, and A R.

Fennérn, Avoca, Iowa. i


The Angus bull Enrits 293813 and

the cow, Queen of Buckley-vie 9th 284-


925 from the herd of the Rosengift'


Stock Farins, Kelley, lime, and the

bull Bar Marshall 3d 287263 from Es-


char & Ryan at 11111111, Iowa, completed

}the beef breeds. ~


190$


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(Continued from page 260)


1.31  ‘ea _}n garmBurcau *


politicians who are anxious to revise


tytiagent 1 378 men were enlisted at our fundamental law. and try to put


$10 a membership. Farmers in the

poorer counties; of the state also re-

spondedu In Edgar county where one

would declare that the farmers would

not pay the price, 212 memberships

were secured.


In one county the farmers threw up


l‘their hands saying, “Oh, the member ..


ship tee is too much, we can't pay it. "

But inside of ﬁfteen minutes a sliCk-

tongued chap representing a magazine

and some scientiﬁc works that could

be bought by the payment of $1.50 a

month for each of twelve months came

into ask the endorsement of the farm

bureau that he might sell the [works to

the farmers of the county This man

was evidently getting $18 a year out of

farmers or he would not be in the bus-

iness. Now, why will farmers spend

their money for things of this charac-

ter and not support the farm bureau?

Farming is not much of a business,

and farmers have very little faith in it

if they are not willing. to back up the

business with ten or ﬁfteen dollars a

year. There are many things to do

and they can be done with the proper

support.


'Now‘let us turn our attention to


some of the things our association has


accomplished since its reorganization.

Our legislative committee has been at

work since the first of March. Through

their effort we, have secured the best

legislation in the interests of agricul-

ture that has ever been enacted in our

state. Not a single law went through

that was unfair, and we killed some of

the worst bills that could have been

proposed from the farmer’ s standpoint.

One of these was the scavenger bill.

This bill provided for a scavenger or-

ganization in each cOunty. If an ani-

mal died the farmer would be obliged

to report to this organization and they

‘would come and remove the animal

and charge him $10 for the service.

Then they endeavored to enact a' bill

providing that no one except a trained

nurse could be employed in case or

sickness. This was during the inﬂu-

enza epidemic when we Were glad to

secure anyone to aid in the sick-room.

~A'Veterinary bill which prevented the

owner' of live stock from administering

ﬁrst aid to his own animals, but requir-

ed that one secure the services or a


’ registered veterinarian, was killed by


:our committee. These are samples of

measures that our association kept

from the statute books of our state.

:The work, however, was not all neg-

ative. The committee was largely re-

sponsible for putting some very good

laws in eﬂ’ect.

statute that makes it lawful for farm-

»ers- to market their produce coopera-

tively. This law also gives farmers

the right to set a dust price on their

goods the same as do manufacturers

of machinery. -Governor Lowden said

‘that he did not know. whether the law

was constitutional or not, but that he

.was going to sign it anyway, because

.he believed it was right. Right now

_one_of our organizers, Mr. Cooper, is

under arrest for cooperating with oth-'

ter farmers in- selling milk. If this law

holds then it will be impossible for the

.interests to .use the courts in prevent—


_ing"~ farmers from securing the advan;


tages of cooperative selling and buy-

ins


We also have the problem of revis-

ing our state constitution. We as farm


Chief among these is a‘


then there who will give just consider-

tiOn to the farmer’ s interests. The con-

stitution must be equitable to all class-

es, and agriculture must have its place

in the constitution. Remember. how-

ever, that we are not in politics, we

are merely trying to put a little com—

mon sense into the public’s business.


The progressive farmers should not

have any trouble in developing an as

seciation that is big enough to do the

farmer's business here in Michigan.

When the call was sent out for the

meeting at Ithaca, New York, laSt Feb-

ruary to organize a national federation

of Farm Bureaus twelve states were

represented, but not a single one of

them had any financial backing. There

is no use bringing a child into the

world with no prospect of clothing it.

In New England farm bureaus have

been promoted with public funds, but

public appropriations for farm bureaus;

state associations and a national or-

ganization will some day not exist. For

this reason we should start at the

foundation and provide money enough

to take care of the farmer’s interests.


Other projects have been carried out

by our home association. We have ef-

fected shipping associations 'of differ-

ent kinds in various counties of the

state. Cooperative wool market asso-

ciations have been organized with a

big warehouse located in Chicago. Our

members have handled practically all

of their wool through this organiza-

tion. Dealers were paying from thirty-

two to forty-ﬁve cents. A report from

the warehouse the other day stated

that the members would receive some-

thing like sixty-four cents a pound for

their wool. We are also investigating

the packing interests. We do not pro

pose to do anything until we know

what is the right and proper thing to

do. Congress-is considering the Ken-

yon bill, which provides restrictions on

some of the activities of big business.

It is not our purpose to destroy the

packers or other big concerns, but we

do want to take charge cf some of the

things that are lawfully our own.


The farmers oilllinois need lime

and raw rock phosphate to secure the

maximum of production at the lowest

cost. Several years back a number of

Illinois farmers secured an" option .on

phosphate fields in Tennessee. Some

large. concerns are. now trying'to get

hold of this phosphate» land; So we are

sending a committee of our organiza~

tion to Tennessee to investigate the

proposition. If this committee ﬁnds

that the outlook is such as to warrant

the formatiOn of a stock cempany, the

farmers will organize such a company,

put in grinders and furnish raw rock

phosphate to members of the associa-

tion at cost.


These are some of the things we

haVe accomplished in Illinois. As we

go on in the work, we see unlimited

opportunity for serving Our members.

At almOst every turn there appears a

chance to save money for and defend

the rights of the rural folks. Our plan

is to-have this one big organization: to

champion every cause of the farmer.

We believe it is far more economical

to have one strong organization than

it is to form an organization that has

is single problem in view-.- If you get

Michigan farmers to understand the

big idea about this Work, I am sure


you will have no difﬁculty in securing ,


their moral andﬂnancial support.


. bureaus are going to sift out the petty


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land of war and famine. If. 'isk'a


' dangerous pest. So‘alarmed over. its at?


rival on'bur shores are the authorities

and farmers that they have" secured‘aln

appropriation of $75,000 from the New

York state legislature and congress

has been asked for an appropriation

of one-half million dollars for the ex-

termination of the borer.


The corn borer made its ﬁrst appear—

ance in Massachusetts in 1917, and has

already infested an area near Boston

of three hundred and twenty square

miles. This area is now under strict

quarantine, and no corn can be ship-

ped out ofthis district. Corn can be

shipped from points outside the infest-

ed area through Boston1to other points

beyond the quarantined district, but it


cannot be consigned to Boston and

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A few weeks ago an infestation of

th borer was found in corn stubble

covering an area of four hundred

square miles near Schenectady, in the

lower Mohawk valley. Four hundred

men employed by the New York state


authorities are engaged in the work of .


extermination in this area, but as the


infested ﬁelds are on the river ﬂats it


is feared that infested stalks may be

carried down the river and deposited

on the banks of the Hudson river far

below the present infestation.


In April the discovery of corn bor-

ers at Milford, Connecticut, led toin-

vestigations which led to knowledge

of a wide distribution'in that-vicinity.

A representative of the state entomol-

ogist is assisting the Milford corn

glowers in clearing up their infested

ﬁelds.


These widely scattered infestations

all developed within two years, indi-

cate the rapidity with which the corn

borers increase and their capacity for

spreading over a. wide range of terri-

tory.


The coming of this dangerous pest

is a matter which concerns the farm-

ers of the west .fully as'much as it

does those of New York and New Eng-

land. It is exceedingly-'dlmcurlt to con-


trol, and farmers . even? in the" infested .


region are slow to realize :its destruc-


tive capacity. Duringamecent meet- .

ing of farmers in, Albany, at which the .-


writer was present,- State Entomolo-


gist E. P. Felt and other experts,-

spoke of the work' being d0n'e to sup-3.


press the borer hr Schenectady county.


' ' and the need for greater eﬁortzdn the


part of the farmers whose ﬁelds were


infested One of these farmers, how--

‘ever, said the blackbirds were doing

{more damage in his ﬁelds than the

‘ corn borers, and he thought: the state

: 211013111 better devote its energies to1ex-x

. terminating blackblrds.‘.;_§_ 1.


HE European corn borer. is an


corn and foddér corn. hm; .011 celery,

potatoes, beans, beets and several oth-

or plants. In eastern Massachusetts


it has been especially destructive to

sweet corn, and if it should be allowed


to: spread unchecked the great sweet

corn industry .of New England and

New York'WOdld soon be destroyed.

State Entomologist Felt reports that

“during ﬁeld counts" last year, federal

and state agents found on a quarter of

an acre of sweet corn one hundred per

cent of the ears infested, and in such

areas an average of forty-six caterpil-


lars to a plant. 1 As many as 311 full-


grown caterpillars have been found in


'one hill of corn, and 117 i'n‘one plant.


Badly affected stalks arehoneycombed


and this causes them to break or‘to


lodge. The cars may be blighted by


the pests working in the supporting


stalk, or the cob may be tunneled from


top to bottom and from side to side

and many of the kernels do.

stroyed.” '


Dr. Felt estimates that the general

prevalence of the cornstalk borer in

the ﬁelds of the United States would

result in annual losses of a billion

dollars or more. This being true, the

necessity for utilizing all the warring

machinery of the nation against the

corn borer will be apparent to all. It

is a national menace, one of-the most

destructive and dangerousenemies of

farmers that have‘come _to'1this coun-

tryst. E. R.


UTILIZING CULL APP'LES.


. (Continued from page 263).

pour hit any of the sediment. Fill the

vessel only about half full *as it foams

up when boiling. Add a leVel teaspoon

of the lime of carbonate for the seven

gallons of.liquid' and boil rapidly until

a temperature of 220 degrees is reach-

ed, or until it is about one-seventh of

the original volume; and the consist-

ency of maple syrup when cooled rap-

idly, and poured from a spoon. To in-

sure clear syrup the cooling must be

done slowly. A good way is to set the

jars of syrup in a wash boiler of hot

water and'allow the whOle to 'cool. Use

this syrup like any other table syrup,

and as a ﬂavoring adjunct. Also as a.

sauce for puddings and ‘for making

browtu1 bread, fruit cake, candy, etc.


Apple butt’er has long been a stand-

by' as a‘ staple food and table delicacy

and merits a place in the diet of every

family. A favorite home recipe is as

follows: Boil three gallons of apple


cider down to one and one-half gallons.

Pure and quarter sufﬁcient apples to


make three gallons. Pour over these _

sumcient additional cider to cover ap-

pies well. After cooklng until tender

run thrpugh colander, then add boiled

cider and boil down to desired thick- - .

aces. When nearly done add one and
'STATE‘GRABI


Provided, thatnothing herein contain.-

.sale, or shipment of- climax baskets,

.baskets or other containers for small

.fruits, berries, and vegetables when


, tries when such climax baskets, bas—


:1aw otgthe country to which shipment

is made or to be made. .


and test of climax baskets, baskets, or


- and the Dairy and Food Commissioner

shall establish and promulgate rules


9


..act when he can establish a guaranty


* other containers to such dealer, and in


N6 AND PACKING.

, ’ ‘ LAW. ‘ ‘

(Continued from page 283).


‘ed shall apply to the manufacture,


intended for export to foreign coun-


Akets” baskets or other containers for

small fruits,_ berries and ’vegetables


accord with the speciﬁcations of the '


foreign purchasers or comply with the '


353. Sec. 4. That the examination

other containers for small fruits, ber—

ries, and vegetables, for the purpose

of determining whether such baskets

or other containers comply with the

provisions of this act, shall be made

by the Dairy and Food Department,


and regulatio'ns allowing such reason-

able tolerances and variations as may

be found necessary. '


354. Sec. 5. That it shall be the

duty of each presecuting attorney, to

whom satisfactory evidence 0 ‘ any

violation of the act is presented, to

cause appropriate proceedings. to be

commenced and prosecuted ,, in the

proper courts of the state for the em .

forcement of the penalties .as in such

case herein provided. '


355. Sec. 6. That no dealer shall be

prosecuted under the provisions of this


signed by the manufacturer, whole-

saler, jobber, or other party residing


_within the United States from whom .


such climax baskets, baskets, or other

containers, as deﬁned in this act, were

.purchased, to the effect that said cli-

max baskets, baskets or other contain-

Vers are correct within the' meaning of

this act. Said guaranty, to accord pro-

tection, shall contain the name and

address of the party or‘parties making

the sale 'of climax baskets, baskets or


such case said party, or parties shall

be amenable to the prosecutions, ﬁnes

and other penalties which would ’at-

tach in due course to the dealer under

the provisions 'of this act.


356. Sec. 7. That this act shall be

«in force and effect from and after the

ﬁrst day of November, 1917. "


I Table Grapes.~ '

(Act No. 107, Public Acts, 1913).


VAN ACT to regulate the packing for 5


shipment and sale of table grapes,

and providing penalties for violation

thereof. -

212. " Section 1. The people of the

'state of Michigan enact, no grapes


.that are not ripe, or are the fruit of ,


unhealthy vines, or are for any reason

unhealthy or in a state ordecay shall

be packed for shipment by any grow-


Ver, packer or shipper in any package ,

or basket of less than sixteen~pounds -


‘ capacity.

213. Sec. 2. Any person or persons

found guilty of violating any of the

_ provisions of this act, in any court of

competent jurisdiction, shall be deem-

ed guilty ‘of a misdemeanor and shall


3


be punished byla ﬁne of not less than ,


, $10 nonmore than $100, or by impris-

\onment in the county jail-for not/less

.‘than ten days nor more than ninety

days, of bylboth such ﬁne and impris-

‘ .Onment in the discretion of the court


“SCALECIDE” kills the adult


Psylla, and, if Sprayed béfore

they lay their eggs, control‘ is easy

and _eﬂ‘ective. Therefore spray in

Fall or early .Winter. .


And this same spraying will also

control Blight Canker Which is the

source of infection for Fire Blight.

No cutting-out is necessary.

“SCALECIDE” meets every re-

quirement without cutting or

painting.


- But don’t expect to clean up your


orchard in one season. Two or

three years of faithful spraying with

“SCALECIDE” will secure practical

control of Pear Psylla and Blight,

and invigorate 7 your orchard.

“ ‘SCALECIDE’ makes a tree out-

grow its troubles. ”


A fruit grower near Buffalo, N.Y.,

who failed to control Pear Psylla


,     sylla an

alcan _Be, Controlled by Fall _Sprayi


“Makes a three Outérow Its Troubles? T


with Lime-Sulfur, losing his entire

crap in 1916, “became desperate”

and tried two barrels of “SCALE-

CIDE”. In 1918 he wrote:


“We were delighted when June

came to ﬁnd no trace of Psylla nor

any since, , and, instead of sooty

twigs, had the most beautiful foli-

age imaginable. In justice to

your material, I think you ought to

be in possession of these facts.”


We recently visited several large

orchards, embracing 150,000 trees

of all varieties. Two years and a

half ago, when we ﬁrst saw these

orchards, many of the trees seemed

past redemption from Blight and

Canker, but after three dormant

sprayings with “SCALECIDE”, they

are now in perfect health and vigor,

and loaded with fruit, while other

orchards, in the neighborhood are

badly blighted.


We would like to give you more information about “SCALE-

ClDE” and the names of these and other big men who are


‘ making money by neing it.


guarantee and name of dealer near you.


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Change of Copy or Cancellations much reach us ..

Ten


Days before date of publication _.,


bull call, sired byour imported-


“EDGAR 0i DALMENY”


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 see-

ing good stock on "Wildwood" and believes that


Till-2 BEST IS NONE 'I‘OO GOOD.

"Edgar of Dalmeny" won the Michigan Grand

Championship lasit 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 consented to sell toT re uce the fast grow-

ing herd. Write


WILDWOOTD FARMS


ORION, MICHIGAN

W. E. SCRIPPS. Prop.. Sidney Smith,Supt.


WOODCOTE ANGUS


Established in 1900.

TYPE--QUALITY~-BREEDING


The herd (tested annually) is absolutely

free from tuberculosis.


A few bulls (no females) for sale

WOODCOTE STOCK FARXI, Ionia. Mich.


Bred cows. heifers alnd bull

CIOVCI’IY Angus calves of good breed ng‘.

GEO. HATEAWAY a SON Ovid. lllh


REGISTERED


GUERNSEYS


Young bulls of quality for sale,

backed by enerations of large produc-

ers. Alltu erculin tested. Come apd

look them over.


AVONDALE. STOCK FARM,


WAYNE, MICH.


Registered Guernseys


Choice bglay Rose Bull Calves—at prices you can

afford to pay.

J. M. WILLIAMS. North Adams, Mich.


G Pure Bred Bull Calves from one to

“em—WY two months old 850 each‘ ‘registered. "

WALT ER PHIPPS FARM, 80 Alfred St. Detroit, Mich.


GU E R NS EY SERES‘SILRRE

Con alnin blood of world champiwonss.

HICKS' GUBRN BY FARM. Saginaw.w .Mich


GUERNSEYS must reduce herd. so offer

a few choice females of

Glenwood breeding also bulls. all stock of A. R. breed-

in% herd tuberculin tested.


'1‘. . HICKS, - - - - Battle Creek. Mich.


For Sale: Guernsey bull Ncalf fawn and white 10

months old a beauty. N'ancy s Se§11e1m56736z Sire,

Halcyon Sequel 22326: Dam. Nancy‘ s ncy

.W. R. Baker. 1360 West Fort St. Detroit. 6“OO‘Mich


For Sale—St. Austell Dal-

Guernsey BUIIS ton. 43028; born December.

19l5. Sired by Don Dlavolo of Linda Vista; Dam Lang-

water Suffragette. A B. 2346 Class .4585.t ..8 butterfat.

Also Niavara 2nds Duke,50564; born December. 1917.

F. E 'Robson. Room 307 M.O. R. R. Depot Bldg Detroit.


Bull and cow. Also eight

Reg. G_uernseys highgrade cows and heif-

ers. Price right. 0. W. Comfort, Engadine. Mich


3 cows. due this fall

Reg Guernseys FOI' sale-2 yearling heifers, l

yearling bull. Eugene Wilcox. Bangor, Mich.


‘75 gets 1% mo. old gdson Maplecrest Korn. Reng.

27lb. dau hlter of Johan Hang. Lad. and 18.48 alb-

daughter ofM


Jane Paul A. Dam is my best milk.

or. Terms.M


FIL. McLAULIN, Redford Michigan.


$150, 000 For Prizes,

Publicity And Extention Service


Breeders of Holsteins unanimously vot

ed to quadruple the fees for recording trans-

tors of their cattle sold. and spend the in-

come therefrom to place the merits of this

greatest of dairy breeds before the public.

If interested in


HOLSTEIN CATTLE


Bend for our booklets—and inform yourself

on how to make money in breeding dairy cattle


THE HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION

OF AMERICA Box 164, Brattleboro, Vt.


L

Traverse Herd


We have what you want in BULL CALVES the

large ﬁne growthy tvpe. guaranteed right in

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

O. ancestors. Dam' srecords up to 30 lbs. Write

forirpeéiigrees and quotations. stating about age

as e .

RAVBRSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL

' Traverse City. Mich. 1


THE HOLSTEINS


At Ma le Avenue Stock Farm are under Government

Th entire :herdhave distbeen tuberculin

' AV bevy? wanyghatm

, . . .. 0y y. no

‘1 5.. reiidy for any.


and not one


wer. any Question a“


“llama Fayette on.


HOLSTEIN S


The 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.,y Howell, Mﬂ/

“Winwood Herd”


TERED

Holstein- sFriesian Cattle


FLINT MAPLECREST BOY


His sire is Moslecrest Korndyire Hengerveld. His

three nearest

days. His dam and granddam both made over ribs.

of butter in one year. It is the yearly cow we Are

lookian or to deliver the good Flint Ma lecreet

noys am is G] uck Vassar 3911mm lbs. 0 butter

days “779d 121 lbs. in 30 days. or butter fat test


We have a few choice bull calves about ready


for 5service and one or two read. Remember“ we are

breeders and not dealers in catt 9. Our priceis right.

breeding considered. Write us your wants, or come

and ook this herd over before you b1 1y. and see for

yourself. You will be glad you came. erd tuberculin


tested.

JOHN H. WINN, inc.


Lock Box 249, Roocommon, Mich.

Reference Rosoommon State Bank.


Wah-Be-Me-Me Farms


Pure Bred Registered


Holstein-Friesian Cattle

Herd Headed by

Segis Pontiac De Nijlander


A 32 lb. grandson of Michigan‘ s great 35 lb. champion

cow, Pontiac De Nijlander. His dam, . Oak Valley

Korndyke Beets Segis F an. 32. 06 also a Mlchia

p1ize winner last ear and a prize winner in the at-

1onal' Ass' 11, all e asses. as a 4 year. old last year Her

dam' is a_. randdaughter of Kingﬁegis and as a 5 r. old

has 731.’ o be milk 29 47 lbs. butter in 7 days a 2948.4

lbs. milk, 116. 9 lbs. butter in 30 days. Segis Pontiac De

Nijlander' s dam as a four vear old (she is 5 yrs. now)

made 122 1 lbs. butter and 2721 lbs. 111 ilk in 30 days.

Write for list of bull calves from 18 lb 2 year olds to

over 30 lb.d ams Have a ﬁve year old 1-011 of Rag ADE]:

Korndyke 8th a half brother to the $125,000 bull

sale. Also Bigi'l‘ ype Poland China hogs sired b a. litter

mate to the Illinois Grand Champldn Albert .Wade.

Prop. White Pigeon. Michigan.


accepts in payment of ﬁnely bred reg-

‘ ‘00d IIOIC istored olstein bull calves. uality

of the best and at prices within reach of a ll. rite.

(11110.1).(1‘LARKE. - Vassar. Mich.


CLUNY STOCK FARM


lOO--REGISTERED HOLSTEINSu-IOO

When you need a herd sire remember that we

have one of the best herds in Michigan. kept un-

der strict sanitary conditions. Every individual

over 6 mos. old regularly tuberculin tested. We

have size quality and production records back-

ed by the best strains of breeding.


1te us ourwa nts. -

R. BRUCE \NIcPHE SON, Howell, Mich.


NO more bull calves to offer until next fall. Place

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

is onlthe state and federal accredited her list.


A. I“. LOOM S, Owosso. Mich.


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

b1eeder. 30 lb. Pontiac breedin Priced to sell.

B. B. Reavey. Akron, ﬁlichigan.


REGISTERED heifer and bull calves, of the best

breeding 1n Holsteins for sale. Sag ecial

C. H. GIDDINGS,


price on 2


heifers and bull. oblevﬂle, Mich.


ERSEY COWS are ada -

able to any climate. Hae

in the North—hardy in the

South.


Always efﬁcient yieldél‘s

of the richest quality

milk—always de end-

able and gent e— '

always a pride to

their owner.


J ERSEY $


Jerseys consume less

feedthananyotherbreed.

Every dollar you put into

Jerseyfeeddoublesitsvalue

in the milk pail. Her milk

averages 5. 87% butter fat.

Butter and cheese made from

Jersey Milk 1a the bestobtainable.

Let us mail on free some interest-

ing daltga 9.3.5 information about the


erse 1‘

.J~ 111. y ee\rican Jersey Cattle Club

322-M, 7-112 3mm New‘l


But. CALF. solid color. VbI


Sired new Star’- magnum! W15“:

sBo’pe tion . ng 0:16 «lawn in“:


‘0' rice 553 “ﬁlm Jonah!


ems each over Elolbs. of but in 7 .


: 1-.MILKING' SHORTHORNS. ..._ :5


You buy a Jersey 11111] VwitlL t '

heifers will make better cams til

The surest Way to accomplish this i

bull sired by a. tested sire and a tested ,

this it is desirable to get a: 51111.01”; _

lines and as typey as poSsible Laét ”mm loss

buy a bull from a breeder Whom stansmg f bus-

ines ethics are beyond question. . .

Brookwater Farm oﬁers fyou all of these and

more-several choice rea or

er bulls~ at prices that wi lmalre them proﬁtable

toxgu Visit the farm or write. *


Brookwater Farm, A1111 1.1.... Mich.


Herbert W. Mumford

~ .. nor


anger


.1-ms'tead Jerseys. tfew heifers bred to

freshenF this fall also earllngheifers; and two 01;

thmR. ofM. cows. Colon .L-illie. Coopersville.Mi¢h;-'


nun-12R Bneo mg’ht‘sm


CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK AR


.serviceand young. ~.


VOC

' BiredmheV 34.1.5"


J. Bruce Henderson '


' .1... ,m' .g 1.

”$03912“de n or 01;“ng , . , '

B. Monroe, an. ' I;


BUROC SCIWSISt


thesl're 0 prize win— ~ .

nors lastw year. clad» red to Orlorr‘s anc 1.11”»

real 11 Bum, mron Baas MW

Johns, loll!o ' -


.....


DUROC JERSEYS


0111171? U shamans. ﬂagella. Mich.


boars.


Silver Creek”. Odom. Michigan.

La e B. of M. Jersey herd. Bull andheifer

M‘l’k cal‘yl'es sired by 911. no he the new World’s

Champion. Sophie's lso .0 Bede and

RVIN FOX. Allec’dn’. ich.


The Wildwood Jersey Farm


Bullsfo salob Majesty' s Oxford Foxm d Em-

inent smell 150984 and out 02R of-SL Mn-

jesty dam-.5 0A VIN human. ea'pm. Mich


Sal Rogiste red Jone bulls road

For e for service and bul calves y

. 8M1 TH t PARKER. B. 4. Howell. Mich.


JERSEYS FOR SALE


Two young cows due to freshen in Oct ,onebred heif-

er due to reseh n in Dec” two heifer calves drop


last Dec. All are recorded or0 el_ ible‘. No bullsorp bull

calves at present. Will shleo .Newman' 3 Stock

Farm. Mariette. Mich.


Herefords


20 cows and heifers for sale.


ALLEN BROS... Paw Paw,Micl1.


Polled and named blood nus-V


Herefords embrace Fairfax ax. Po lied Por-


feotion and Prime Lad 9th breedin. Prl ioesreasonable.

COLEA AGARD NEE. ndeon, Ml loll.


' Bob Fairfax 494027 at head of berg.

HOIEIOI'IIS Stock for sale. either polled

horned any a. BPrioedri rig h.t RL‘axMeC ABTYr


Sec’y. ‘ . B. Aas’n. Bad A'ARLXe. Mich.


Harwood’s White FaCes


Owing to labor shortage will sell one

half m herd, consisting of 120 head of

Reg. erefords, yearling and two year

old heifers, cows with calf at side, re-

bred to ton" bull. Ten short earling

bulls. Priced right for quick sa e.


JAY HARWOOD, -: Iohia, Mich.


Justtwoyearlln left. Herd-

Hereford BUIIS header qFality. vim will buy

on sight at the price. E.J.’1‘aylor. remont,‘ Mich. ’


BIDWELL 51101111101113


F or Beef and Milk


Registered bulls. cows and heifers. Good Scotch and

Scotch Topped for sale. In ime condition. Modern

sanitary equi ment. under state and Iederal

sn ervision. arm 10 mHinutosf rom.N

1 our from Toledo. Ohio.

trains. riot


BIDWELL STOCK FARM


Box B. Tecumseh. Mich.


Shorlhorn Callie at both Sex for Sale


W. W. KNAPP. Howell. lﬂchl‘an.


Richlan'd Stock Farm


SHORTHORNS

HOME OF THE MICH. CHAMPIONS

We offer for sale a few good dual pur-

pose cows with calves at fact. Also

two three year old bulls suitable for

range purposes. We invite his action.


RESCO‘I'T & SO

Oﬁce at Tawas City, Mich. Herds at Prescott. Mich.


p


Shorlhomvégrs Scotch and Scotch Topped odws and he?


pricUed 1n. an-seed them

write w. UILL . 11.7.e .Howell. Mich

Sh rth rn of h and

For 5319 chtoh9l'o sped «Stalin...» r'chers

arson and Whitehall


gill? Animiidi'l'iiMl'g‘wthnbsum-1.1mm

n. o e e. e

Breeders Ass. Joyhpn Schmidt, ozocbneed City, Michr


300*“ lowed [loss For his." 153 “:30", “1: “10h

M3V. Butler. Williamstonri 9.3


N 1121. shun-1,219 es. Feb. 11 c

Shorthorns uiwsoid‘. Central 9308mm);

Breeders' Assn... Oscar Skinner. 8693'. won. Mich


The Kent Co. Shorthorn Breederslagve both males


11 d fe ice for sale.

L. n. LE’bNAi'iiS Sea. - , - Caledonia. Mich.


BV rt d best 3 tea Ir: d

Milkingo ho hogrev'iﬁxexBulls For 3 e 1 mi)“. :31


year old URTZ, Mason, Mich.


SHORTHORNS “4°32 algdixigogii'u xiii?

ale. Louis Bubbltt. Williamston, Mich


Malfw ﬂab ShamTpmiﬁﬂe females


glib 513,818

2....mu are. as... masters"


sarcasm amass; ~1de


Automobile meets all “


.W .out of Eureka


Ls Pgwﬁouunll


‘ Registered Dunc Board '

We hay ochoicen lot of spring bo oars, sired butch

boils raJackson selected bmmi‘l'o'o

'ces are within every farmers

roach. TheJennings rms.Ba‘iley, Mich" R. F. D.N 0.1


DUROVCI Jersey spring boars sired by Orion Cherry

001 2nd. with size and feeding qualitiee‘.

._O. Taylor; Milan. Michigan.


87341 recgrdﬁd from Jag 1.31.... 1. 19.

JOHN 338‘s WEB? 1133? ”35.3 Jilin “ "hill


THE WORsLoD’S CHAMPION


big “1703100133 ck of .11 age-for sale. Her!!!

(‘l-olloway Edod. theWorld: d' Ohaawio


0. boar assisted byC Bohoolinaster. Grand horn-


on boar of Miohlgan.Ne York and Tennessee state


rs. so. 0.0 61 itan alter. un tedSonior


Poe-r pig where or s wn-aiid Grand. _on of O -

ahorna state at our cataloguem Grandells


prize hogs, Cass! City“ Michi ism. ,

Vnths old boar and


0.1. C‘ creme.»- .. .. 111.; B

s n s y- an e a one.

..‘lednwlbod took Farm.$eeiand’, Mich.


o. I. C’s Big l.ty'poboars of April and May

G. P.Andre'ws, , Dan'sville. Mich.


Shadowland Farm

| o. 1. C.s


' 200 to 300 1113. from prize win-

Bred Gllts ning stock. A few fall year-

lings and 2 yr. old sows. big type, growthy- boars

of all ages. guaranteed as breeders. Everything

shipped C. O. D. Express £3":de registered in

buyer' 3 name. J. CARLJ T'l‘, Mason,Mich.


V 0. I. C. and Chester White Swine


Strictly pBi: Type with nallty. Spring pigs of March.

andA arrow. As 0109 at of boars. Will only

spare a "few more ts at present. Will ship 0 O.


and record them ree.

Newman' a Stock Farm.. Mariette. Mich.R. No.1.


9 Brad gilts all sold. Plent of s 1ing

0° [0 C 80 Flréigs {ﬁt ood enouiih3 to 13th C.p. D.

GEES, 3. Mason. Mich.


o "‘0': One gory gottm yaearling ibtoar.d 8:13 thi:

sp rin p s 00 or. regsere ree

mile west of pD¢¥gi1thitizens Phone 124

0 B. SOHULZE.e lNashville, Mich.


0. ' C’s. One extra good fall boar and spring pigs


for sale. Stock0 re tered free and -

anteed satisfactory Johno ilk. R. 2Alma. 151115;.


0. I; C. 20 Choice Young €335.51?“ .. few


Clover Leaf Stock Farm. 11.1. Monroe. Mich.


Raise Chester Whites

Like This


the original big producer-V3:


HAVE thousand!!!) fbroeders on the road so

my mecca: 513%” can‘help' you. I want to “finest one hosn from

WI; “1113'?“ ails—VII... Honour 1mg;

mom.“


I. I. “I’m: “3.1’. D. 10.


Big Type Poland Chinas. 2.


Sired by Smooth Mastodon a son of A' s Masto~

don and litter mate to the lliinois Grand Champ-

ion. Boar pigs and gilts. bred sows from above ,

sire and Bi Bob dams. the big boned. deep. long .

bodied kin at farmer’s prices.


Wah-be-me-me Farms

‘ White Pigeon, Michigan. ‘ ‘


For 25 Years


We hav been din

T pe Igoland lbﬁlnaéﬂ


3ft the most 11 proved bloodin . Our new herd

Mich nster" is a mighty ﬁmdmn Lgreat

Giant Mouw 'l on" 2." ' ‘1


in l Litterof 14J We re offer-in a me sows gbred

For fall arrow. (3.2me%. Erma... Mich


LARGE TypetP. Oh ithelargest'inll/lich Springboars


now readyt o hi.p Boats for the breeders and .,

boars for the farmers. Come and see the real large .

t pa with quality. Free livery from Parma fuminh ' .

.9181”. Jr the ”saw“ Sewers


a r e 012 9 uses no as ver-


ti i.erd .E. Livingston, Fixer-ma, ‘lﬂch ..-


“at


Big Type Poland China“... “‘th

3‘? streams


out of Upsomo 11111th

{31.1.1 :1 egg him an.


m 13311111111311


for -


$1511. a.- snﬁsduo
an? ,

*or‘ as corn.

' farm woman! determines the size of


the time ,when the ”farmer plans the

next- year’s farm. acreage.— In short, F


farmer plans his "whole 1920 program.

i the American farmer. .-


7 -._‘. H.._-


i of preparing and purveying the neces-


é-(Conti ued'r‘fromjpage 264). ' -


to beengaged in. ;Now is the .timethe'


next year’s ﬂock of poultry. . Now is


now isthe season when the eﬂicient‘


.x'Right now,

holds in his hands thepower to deter-

mine quite deﬁnitely the size of next

years crop of" wheat, milk, meat,

cheese, butter, poultry, eggs, in short,

all foodstuffs, and with that, to deter-

mine Whether or not the world’s table

will be abundantlysupplied. next year.


Recogniie’ Responsibility.


responsibility in this matter—provided,

however, that every other good Amer-


ican citizen or foreigner within our '


borders will let the scale drop from

his own eyes and witness that he also

has an individual and an organized re-

sponsibility that cannot be shifted. The

“American farmer does not sympathize

with artiﬁcial or political quackery,

which befogs the real issues, but is im5

potent to give even passing relief.


The. American farmer_is willing to

meet the issue squarely. If‘prices cut

to the home all along the line—farm

products, wages, manufactured goods,

rent, wholesalers and retailers’ proﬁts

-——will bring the desired result, which

he rather doubts, he will go as far

along that road as any, but he will not

go alone. Let the whole brotherhood

of man go the full route. If increased

production will clarify the situation,

the American farmer will jointly with

all of his fellow citizens, buckle his

belt for a most strenuous campaign of

production. but here again he is deter-

mined that he will not work alone.


If capitalistic’ monopoly wants

enough food produced that it may be

feasted, if organized labor wants

enough food produced that it may be

fed.

enough food production so that they

may occasionally eat, let them stand

forth now at this time, when the farm-

er must determine his 1920 food pro-

duction program and declare by deeds

-—cutting out profiteering in goods and

Wages, going honestly to the business


sities of' life, geing honestly to the job


of doing a full day’s work for a. full '


day's pay—their willingness to coop-

erate. Failure of these forces to do

this now will be a boomerang that ere

the next cycle of the seasons will ef-

‘fect. a condition of living now un-

dreamed of. '


MECOSTA FARMERS BUY CATTLE

, IN ONTARIO.


HIRTY—FIVE head of registered‘


Shorthorn cattle were recently pur-


chased for distribution among farmers ,

of Mecosta county. Jacob Klinefelter, ’


supervisor of Colfax township, R. W.

Wigle, cashier of the Big Rapids Sav-

ings Bank, and Paul H. Smith, County

Agricultural Agent for Mecosta Coun-

ty, were selected as a purchasing com-

mittee and made the purchase in the

vicinity of Myrtle Station, Ontario.

The car was made up partly of eight-'


month-old heifers which will be used’


for Junior Calf Club‘ work, a number

of two-year-old heifers, a few three-

year-old cows, and: three yOung 'bulls.

.The cattle arrived in Big Rapids,'Sun-

day,‘ August 24, and were exhibited at

the Fair Grounds un'til’li‘riday, August

.29? at which time they were distribut‘


.Dﬁift‘ofthe, mir-


eld among farmers from' nearly? every '


i


decor-ding, to the " dl


We


their he will sell“ his corn as beefs.

' Now as ‘the'tii‘ne; silos '

”.‘must‘be’ﬁlled itfeeding operations are


' [The American farmer, individually ‘

and in his organisations, recognizes his ‘


if the do-nothing dawdles want 1


1'...

1‘


etata‘s or i“

”We?” but ' steamer.- '

‘ ‘ ‘me hate


You


money.


. for it.


'- DRILLING GRAIN

. w-.,. :'__-~ .2


V ’ h _

~‘ $711. J..."


_”

5226"”, 4' '


. .ﬁ»


' .- should


one of


electric


- '._.;.r;.l\.-....-_...' H...

’ HARVESTING GRAIN


or implement will make for you

the more you are willing to pay


Consider then what a tractor will

make for you in dollars and cents

-—how much man power it saves,

how many horses it displaces, and

the more and better work it will

do. That is the way to

tractor—the purchase price alone


When you buy a Moline-

Universal Tractor you get


plants on wheels.

3 completely equipped

tractor, with self starter,


lights, belt pulley, power

lift gang plow—everything

you nee .


Of Power Farming?


buy a tractor to . make

The more money a tractor


tractor, but a complete system 0

power farming. The Moline-Unis

versal enables you to do all farm


You not only buy a quality


work including cultivating. One


buy a


not inﬂuence you.


the ﬁnest power

You get


PI mute

Cullivntore

Grain Drilh

Lime Soworo


governor, electric


Automobile.


The Moline Line

of Implements


Plow-

(eteel and chilled)

Hon-om


Wagon.

MolInoUnivei-enl Tractora

Stephan- Snliont Six


man operates both tractor and ima

plement from the seat of the

implement.


Actual ﬁgures from over 200


farms in 37 states show that the

Moline System of Power farming

saves an average of l% men and


5 horses per farm.


Figure what such a save

ing will mean to you. Con»

sidered from this point oi

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Big Type P. 0. Choice bred sows from Iowan greatest

herds, the big bone roliﬂo kind with size and

E. J. MATH SON. Burr Oak, Mich.


quality.


Big Type Poland's all sold out. nothing for sale at

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Big Type P. C. Spring Pigs

Either sex. A. A. WOOD a SON. Saline, Mich.

B T. P 0. Some of the best males I ever raised Two


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FIRST EDITION.


The markets in this edition were re:

vised and corrected on Tuesday after-

noon, September 2.


WHEAT.


Threshing returns continue to disap-

point producers. In Illinois the farm-

.ers now predict that the average yield

will not exceed 17 bushels per acre.

Very little plowing has been done for

the new crop, and in a large portion

of the winter wheat area there is too

little moisture to prepare a satisfac-

tory seed bed. Since a week ago the

United States Grain Corporation has

announced a change of prices for the

lower grades of wheat. Practically all

country elevators are full of wheat.

This is partly due to a shortage of cars

for moving the grain to marketing cen-


ters. Following are the quotations at

Detroit:

No. 1 red ..... . . . . . ..... $2.27

No. 1 mixed 2.25

No. 1 white ..... . .. . . 2.25

No.2 red ....... 2.24

No. 3 red ............ . 2.20


CORN.


At the opening sessions of the corn

markets this week trade took a bullish

turn following a reduction in estimates

on the yield in important corn growing

states. A much smaller crop than was

expected a month ago is now predict-

ed. The chief bearish news has been

the decline in hog prices. The Chicago

market is quoting September corn at

$1.77% and December at $1.37. Fol-

lowing are‘ the Detroit quotations 6


No. 3 corn ......... . . . . .$1.


No. 3 yellow, ........... 2.00


No. 4 yellow ....... . . . . . 1.98


No. 5 yellow ............ 1.93

OATS.


Returns from threshing show yields

that tally up well with earlier expecta-

tions on the oat ctrop. For a month

or more back farmers have ﬁgured on

a small yield of this cereal. In the

market prices are generally following

those of corn. On Tuesday the trade

opened a fraction higher than Satur-

day, and quotations continued to as-

cend. Following are prices quoted at

Detroit:


No. 2white ..81


No.3 white ...............80%

No.4 white ...... ..........791,é

No. 3 white (new) ....761,é


RYE.


Receipts at country elevators are in-

creasing, while prices have weakened,

being quoted at $1.40 for cash No. 2

on the local market. .


BEANS.


The bean market continues light

and steady. Lacking any specula-

tive interest and export demand, the

dealers have very little to do just now.

Quotations on the various markets do

.not represent actual sales in most cas-

es. In New York choice pea beans are

quoted at $8.50; common to fair $7@

8.25; medium choice $8.50; red kidneys

choice $13.50@14. The trade is slow

at Chicago, where the market is feel-

ing the inﬂuence of the ﬁght on the

high cost of living. Hand-picked pea

beans, choice to fancy are quoted there

at $8.75@9; do fair to good $8@8.50;

.re kidneys $11.50@.12. Detroit’s mar-

ke is inactive and easy, with prices

steady to $8.10 per cwt, for immediate

and prompt shipment. 4


FEEDS.


The feed market shows no change,

and the Detroit quotations to jobbers

are: Bran $47; standard middlings

$56; ﬁne middlings $64; coarse corn

meal $81; cracked corn $83; corn and

oat chop $63 per ton in 100-lb. sacks.


SEEDS.


. ,In Toledo prime cash cloverseed is

.quoted at $29.75; October at 29.90;

prime cash alsike $29.75; October al-

sike at $24.90. The Detroit market

quotes red clover ‘at $29.50; October at

$29.50;. timothy $5.50. ,


.,_ HAY.


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- , Consumers of hay are having dime ,_


‘ enlty in- satisfying their Wants. De-

‘ Mtfprices are unchanged asidlows:


Q 1"27. . .


4310 market is Qprov-.


5" a. ’.\tiinothy $31.50@32; standard. at

.. ;l ht mixed $|29@_60:,,»Nq.-1:= 11 ice

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ing, with clover selling especially well. due in partto the storage of Canadian combings‘old inBoston at 80c a pound.


Quotations are: No. 1 timothy $33.50

@34; No. 1 light mixed $29@30; No. 1

clover mixed $30@31; No. 1 clover at


$30@31. .

POTATOES.


Prices show a ﬁrmer tendency with

the demand good and supplies coming

in moderately heavy. Early Ohios are

selling at $3 per cwt. for- ﬁeld run.

On the Chicago market the demand

and movement is slow with the market

unsettled and prices steady; the Early

Ohios, ﬁeld run, are“ selling theregat

$2.40@2.60 per cwt. The Pittsburgh


'market is in a similar position, having


liberal supplies.


BUTTER.


A ﬁrm, active market with prices

working gradually to a higher level ob-

tains in the majority of our large cit-

ies. The greatest advance is seen in

prices for top goods. Lower grades

have moved upward only a fraction of

a cent. At Detroit there is a fair de-

mand with the trade ﬁrmer at 52@

52%c for fresh creamery ﬁrsts. No

new export orders are reported though

there has been further inquiry from

various European countries for Amer-


ican butter.

CHEESE.


In the public warehouses of New

York, Chicago, Boston and Philadel-

phia, there is a rapidly increased ac-

cumulation of cheese. This may be


; cheese _

"ever, is developing a ﬁrmer tone', and


in bond. The" market," how-

jobbers and chain store operators are

showing more conﬁdence in present

prices by purchasing liberally for near

future wants. At Detroit Michigan

ﬂats are jobbing at 31@311/§c; bricks


34150; Michigamsingle daisies 32c and


Wisconsin twins at 31%0. In New

York whole milk, current make, gener-

ally average from 29%@311/40. No ex-

port business is reported. .


EGGS.


No important change is reported in

this market. The quality; of current

receipts sho'ws a somewhat larger pro-

portion of geod eggs. The demand for

fresh stock is growing apace and more

of storage stock is being used than a

week ago. At Detroit fresh eggs are

jobbing at 43%@480 per dozen. ‘In

New York the western fresh gathered

whites are quoted at 50@65c.


WOOL


The big buyers of wool are already

ﬁnding that the supply of good grades

of wool are inadequate for the needs

of the coming year. Consequently they

are scouring the world for supplies to

supplement the home stores. 'It is now

learned that the exportation of wool

from Australia to the United States

may begin in June of 1920 instead of

at the end of next year. Last week

100,000 pounds of Ohio half-blood


Live Stock Market Service


Reports for Tuesday, September 2nd


BUFFALO.


Hog 'prices ruled from 25@500 high-

er on this market today. Lambs and

veal calves were steady, while' cattle

sales were on a weak basis.


DETROIT


Cattle. -

Market dull. All grades 25c lower

than Monday, and 750 lower than last

week’s close.

Best heavy steers ....... $12.50@13.00

Best handy wt bu steers. . 10.25@10.75


Mixed steers and heifers 9.25@ 9.75

' Handy light butch'ers.. . . . 7 50@ 8 00

Light butchers .......... 675@ 7 00

Best cows ........... . . 850@ 875

Butcher COWS ........... 7 50@ 7.75

Cutters ...... . .......... 625@ 6.50

Canners .............. . 5 75@ 6300

Best heavy bulls ........ 8.50

Bologna bulls ........... 7 75@ 8.00

Stock bulls ............. 7 00@ 7 25

Feeders ................. 9 00@ 9.50

Stockers ................ 00@ 8.00


7.

Milkers and springers....$ 75@ 125

Veal Calves.


Market 500 lower.

Best .................... $22.00@22.50


Other grades 10.00@1_8.00

Sheep and Lambs.

Market dull; 25c lower.


oooooooooo


Best lambs .......... . . . . $13.00@13.75

Fair lambs .. ...... _. . . . . 11.00@12.50

Light to common . . .' . . . . . 8.00@10.00

Fair to good sheep. . . . . . . 8.0061), 8.50


............. . . . . . . 4.00@ 6.00


Culls

- H one.


Market steady to 25c lower; heavy

grades very dull.


Pigs ..................... . “18.50


Bulk of mixed ...... .. . . ._ ‘20.00@20.25


Heavy . . . . . ............. 18.00@19.00

CHICAGO.


Hone.


Estimated receipts today are 12,000;

holdover 6,169. Market on the better

grades is very slow, mostly 25@50c

lower than early; packers’ grades are

strong. Tops $20.80; heavy 250‘ lbs

up, medium, good and choice $17.50@


19.50; medium 200' to 250 lbs, medium,~


good-and choice $18@20.25;glight 150

to 200,1bs, cemmon, medium, good a y

choice . $19@2.0.$0:f lightilights 130 to,

150 lbs. -.comman ' medium, good . and

choice $18.50.@19..50; ..heavy packing


sows 259 lbs w.- smooth tiazoairzsg


packing .‘sowh‘zno libs up; 176‘ ' $15.

@1625: was 7:130:11», identiﬁed;

goodies! 6119‘! .1 ' .47 »_. .


‘ heifers;


nd‘ $6.50'@7:'m11k9r§ and sprinters

"150' per head ‘. ‘FI‘ 4'


choice and prime $15.85@18; do medi-

um and good $11.50@15.85; do com-

mon $9.50@11.50; light weight 1100

lbs down, good and choice at $13.75@

17.50; do common and medium $9.25@

13.75; butcher cattle, heifers, common,

medium, good and choice $6.75@14.50;

cows, common, medium, good and

choice $6.50@13; bulls, bologna and

beef $6@9.25; do canner steers at $6

@925; veal calves, light and handy-

weight, medium, good and choice at

$10.50@20.25; feeder steers, common,

medium, good and choice $6.75@10.25;

stocker steers, common, medium, good

and choice $6.50@8; stocker cows and

heifers, common, medium, good and

choice $8@10; stocker calves, common

medium, good and choice $11@15.75;

western range cattle, beef steers, me-

dium, good and choice $8@12.75.

Sheep and Lambs.

Estimated receiptstoday are 32,000.

Native and western lambsare steady.

Sheep steady to lower; feeders 25@

50c lower. Lambs 84 lbs down, medi-

um, good, choice and prime at $12@

15.25; do culls and common at.$7.50@

11.50; - spring lambs, medium, good,

choice and prime $10@11; ewes, medi—

um, good and choice $7.25@8.50; ' do,

culls‘and common $2.50@6.50; breed-

ing ewes, full mouths to yearlings at-

$8.25@14.50; yearling . wethers, medi

um, good and choice 8122561214. * >


BUFFALO. , , ,


Monday. September 1; 1919.

_ ‘ Cattle. ‘ _

Receipts 235 cars; slow, 50@75c

lower; prime steers $16@17; best ship-

ping steers $13@13.50; ,medium "ship-

ping steers $12@12.50; best yearling“

steers, 950 to 1000 lbs $15@16; light

yearlings‘, good quality $12.50@13.50:

best handy steers $11.50’@12.50;-’ fair


to good $11@11.50;» handy steers and


heifers $11@11.50; bestifatlcow‘s .3105.”

10.50; butcher . cows. ; $8@8.50; cutters '

$6.50@6.75; canners1$5@6; fancy bulls

$10.@10;50; butchering {bulls ‘ $82639;


'common bulls $7 @8; best feeding strs’


$10.50@11; medium feeders '$8@9;

stockers $7.50@8;50; light cammggsg


u


9"..."9135


. ner.


During 31117 the cons ption 0f wool

in this country incre' sed ‘15 per cent


over the amount’used‘ in June, and 21 .


per cent» over that need in May.


DETROIT CITY MARKET


, Apples and potatoes are ‘otfered


more plentifully‘on the city markets. .


with prices declining. The, best. pota-

toes are now ~selling,at._$2.50 a bushel,

and ’small sizes "at $2; plu‘msare'more

abundant at $-3@4 per bushel, while

peaches and pears are getting Scarce,

the former selling at $2.50_@4, and the

pears at $2@4; apples bring $2@2.50

per bushel; cabbage '75c@$1.25;' an-

ions $2@2.50; peppers_$1.50; summer

squash 50c;— tomatoes $1331.25; eorn

12@200 per dozen; grapes 25(01300 for

3-lb. basket; hens 33c per lb'; spring-


ers 32@35c; fresh country eggs 480; .


butter 55 @ 60c.


GRAND RAPIDS


‘Wholesale egg dealers repoi‘t. many

cases received last week which upon

being candied show shrinkage as high

as two dozen per case, indicating long

holdirg. During the war government

regulations ﬁxed penalties for market-

ing stale eggs which reduced the

shrinkage. These regulations ended

with the war and producers have re-

turned to their old practice. Reports

from many of the large potato raising

counties in western Michigan are that

the little leaf hopper, is doing great

damage to the late crop. They cause

the leaves to curl and turn brown at

the tips and edges, causing what is

termed tip burn. The M. A. C. is send-

ing out a recipe for control of the in-

sect

there was a. drop in the price .of green

hides of 150 per pound in this market,

or 20 per cent. Prices of farm prod-

ucts, to growers, the past week were

as follows: Potatoes $2@2.50 per bu;

hay $30 per ton; apples 75c@$1.50 per

bushel; grapes $2.50@3 per bushel; to-

matoes $1@1.25 per bushel; eggs 41c;

No. 1 «dairy "butter 45c; pears $1.50@

2.50 per bushel; peaches $3603.50 per

bushel; oats 75c per bushel; rye $1.30

per bushel; white cabbage 750 per bu;

osage melons $1.50@2.25 per bushel;


hubbard squash 3c per pound; broilers a


24c per pound live weight; plums at

$2.50 per bushel. ’


news OF THE WEEK.


_(Continued from' page 258).

Monday, September 1.


ENERAL PERSHING sails: from ,


_ France for the United States——

President Wilson announces that rhe

will call a conference of capital and

labor to put the whole question of Wag-

es on a different footing—The Wife of

President Garranza, of Mexico, reaCh-

es the border town of Eagles- Pass,

preparatory to, making a tour of the


United States—Munich, Bavaria, is -


under martial 1aw.—<—Czecho-Sloviaka

is preparing to go to war against Pol-

-and.-—A threshing rig explodes near

Carson City, Mich., burning. machine

and barn and scorchin the crew.—

Seven persons are dea

Ohio, as a result of a private club din-


Tueoday, September 2.


.IN his message to the Mexican con- '


‘gress, President Carranza upholds


the soverieignty of his country, de-


=clares that thegovernment is rapidly


growing in strength, and that the fu- '

ture of Mexicois exceedingly hopeful. ‘

v—-The federal government is‘sues'sub- _

<poenas fer complete records ‘_of meat .

mixed , $12 @1150?” western .packers in forty cities throughout'the '


country ‘to' be placed before a“ federal


grand-jury in Chicago.—.Followin’g the ‘


race rioting at Knoxville, Term..— troops

restore Order.—The attendance at. the

Michigan. State Fair on Monday reach-

ed 160.000, 9. newrecord: ' ' * ‘e


THETIME FOR BETTER THINGS. ,


things in .9111: farming; "


During the. month of August,


at Alliance, .


This. is the, year‘taggik for better I
of this amendment inferior horses


with: it!!!


an...


' .f ‘. '~ mom has j'Wihe‘é cl '0' In em; " Roch. ”f .

' ‘ has been; tokens are:


each-simmer,

by. a, new; 0."


ation known as the

Irendeduoit' Fruit Juice" Company. cap-

italiaed" at $150,000.

puny waiséoriginally ,. organized in 1.832


“ and put out, vineyards on the slopes


that rise' from Irondequoit Bay.“ y-l'g‘or

years the fcomp’any has supplied retail

druggists largely and sold in all, states

hr the union. As early as. 1909, it be-

came , evident to the managers that

prohibition was only ”a matter of time.

The manufacture of grape juice was

begun. in armed], way,., together with

fruit products. The‘ new company is

the outgrowth of this start. In 1916,

the ﬁrst wine grapes, some of them

" set seventy-ﬁve years ago, were pull-

ed. Since then this change to other

kinds of'grapes has been ”steadily go-

ing ferward and the“ replanting was

completed this spring."


Reﬂecting the changed/policy in the

grape business, is the information that

the Grimley packing house in the Lake

Keuka district, which has been closed

for several years, will be reopened this

season under the direction of grape

growers. For several years the pack-

age - grape business .. has been permit-

ted to lapse and about all attention

was paid to producing wine. grapes. It

is now realized that the package end

.of the business preSents- great possi-

bilities. - ._ '


The crop generally is .» in excellent

condition. Already some talk of price

is he'ard, with unconﬁrmed reports

that oﬂfers have. been made up to $100

per ton. It looks as though the grapes

would ripen a fortnight 'ahead‘ of time

which means that the crop will. likely

escape all frost. damage.


RvosmE' MARKETS.


LONG the main traveled highways

of Niagara county in Western New

York the roadside market is a new de-

velopment of the past two or three

years. On a recent trip through this


. county I saw these markets‘on farm


after farm. 'Some of them were quite

pretentious With a ﬁne display 'of fruit.

vegetables and eggs, and an attendant

in charge. Others consisted only of a

few baskets of tomatoes or fruit with

a “for sale” sign and the price tacked

to a post. ' .

The possibilities in the roadside mar-

ket‘are limited only by the location of

..the farm, and the ability of the fender

‘ to produce and» display attractively

those good things of the farm that

meet the requirements of the city con-

sumer. Every year more town folks

are getting the habit of running out in-

to the country in their automobiles

and buying their vegetables, fruit,

poultry and egg supplies direct from

the farmer. It is a trade worth culti-

vating. , E. E. B-


To EXPORT HORSE MEAT.


_0 open up the channels of trade

for some of the inferior horses in

this country that do not pay for their

keep, and to increase the meat supply

in some of the larger cities in the

United States and abroad where horse

meat is used for human food, the Unit-

ed States Department of Agriculture is

authorized by congress to‘ inspect

horse meat and horseameat products.

The amendment to the regulations

governing meat inspection by the De-

partment was passed by congress on

July 24. with an appropriation of $100,-

000 to carry on the work during the

ﬁscal year ending June\ 30. 19.20.

~whue it is expected that as a ,result


fthjto’ughout- the mkyﬂllhnslanght.


. _ cred for fh‘umaﬁ‘ momma 'a


that especiallyfor the small horses

.37. either; wild) on theawestern

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The {wine com-x -


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. charmed modem... .9...- :2 * ‘


<


- ,. " isneeded hints stockff that when»!

. (able to. ,.pay- for its, keep. , Elimination-

Lame undesirable horses. not only will


save feed for more» «worthy cattle and

sheep, but will addihides'tothe leather

Supply. and; increase «meatlstocks. f g ‘

Every establishment in which horses

are‘slaughtered. tor the-preparation of

food products. for transportation or


sale in interstate or foreign: commerce,


.must be federally inspectedpundenthe

new regulations. All horse meatafor

export' trade mustbe inspected. ' The

”slaughter of horses and «the prepare:

tion and"'..handli'ng of horse meat must

be conducted in eStablishments sep-

arated twin those in which otherani-

mals are killed and handldd.


'All horse meat or horsemeat prod-

ucts must be conspicuously labeled or

branded “horse meat” or 5"‘horse-meat

product,” and must bear the statement

“ULS. Inspected and Passed by the


U. S. Department of Agriculture.” The L,-


regulations list a number of horse

diseases which, if found in any animal


slaughtered, will cause it ‘to be con-


demned as food. _

One of the most important reasons

for the new regulations is that many


foreign governments will not import ,


horsemeat from the United States un-

less it is federally inspected.


Brieﬂy, in making possible the utili-

zation of horses for meat, the regula-

tions place the matter under federal

supervision, thereby insuring that the

product is clean and wholesome.


The regulations, it is explained,

merely provide for the inspection. The

number of horses 'used for meat will

depend on the extent to which harses

are 'marketed for' that purpose and

likewise on the demand for the pro-.

duct. -


NEED TILE.


Cheboygan county farmers are anx-

ious to have a tile manufacturing plant

located in their county.- Much tile

drainage is needed, but tile now must

‘be shipped two hundred miles or more.

They have good clay for manufactur-

ing tile. 'Anyone interested should cor-

respond with the County Agricultural

Agent, Cheboygan, Mich.


NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.


Button—Receipts of butter have run

considerably higher than .last week.

However, that is not due to increased

production throughout the country, but

rather because much of the centraliz-

ed butter that ordinarily has‘gone to

Chicago has been diverted to this mar-

ket because the Chicago packers have

been curtailing their purchases of but-

ter since the recent agitation against

the‘hoarding of food supplies. Local

consumption of butter is running high-

er than for some time and it is expect-

ed that 'it grill continue good as many

of the sunmmer vacationists are re-

turning to the city. There has been

no export demand of late but several

inquiries from exporters have led

many to feel that we may expect some

active export business soon. The mar.

ket has been very active and strong

throughout the week and the price of

butter has advanced one and a half

cents since last Saturday. High qual-

ity butter continues scarce and is eag-

erly purchased, whenever any does or.

rive. The price advance is not affect-

ing the under-grades to 'the same de-

gree as the higher quality stock. How-

ever, there is a somewhat stronger de-

mand for under-grade stock.than has

been in evidence. for some weeks here-

tofore. Established quotations 'at the

close on .Friday were as follows: Ex-

tras 570; higher scoring than extras


57%@68c; ﬁrsts 53@56%c; seconds

50@521,§c. -- _ . '

Chee_se.~—The cheese market has


been active and a stronger tone has

developed during the week. Local de-

mand has been strong and large or-


"ders have been placed/by wholesalers


and large chain store operators. The

production of cheese is considerably

greater 'than at this time last year and

greaterstoeks are in public warehous—


cs This thought, however, that-local


and "foreign demand will be strong

enough to care for all stocks that have,

accumulated. ,._Considez:able. Canadian.


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watershed Le-‘ismsll amountiof" . "


export ,. bainess. is.» being done with it.


.ohotanonswat the closeFriday'wére‘: : '

Commonsto good. 26®29c; average run. -~


29%@130%c;1 specials 309461231 tic. ,


.‘Eggs..—;Receipts of eggs have ibeen


higher ,eduring; the weeln ,That- is


because of the embargo of- some time

ago. The quality, of the stock. being


received is slightly. improved! but as .


yet dealers ﬁnd” it diﬂi‘cult to meetthe

demand, for high" quality stock. In. or-

der..to get better stock many dealers

have resorted to the use of storage!


eggs during . the week. The market


can be ‘said to be ﬁrm and the price


tendency has been slightly upward dur—-


ing the week. Quotations are: Firsts

'48@51'c; extra ﬁrsts 52@54c; extras

65@56c.


Poultry.——Receipts have been heavy

and the price has worked downward.

Demand has materially lessened dur-

ing the week. Quotations are as fol—

lows: Spring chickens 33@35c; fowls

33@34c; old roosters 22c; ducks 30c;

geese 20c.


CONDUCTED BY DR. W. c. FAIR.


Indigestion—Crihbiter.—Some time

ago I purchased a thin horse; gave

him condition powder, also one pound

of worm powder. He also cribs, and

with good care and plenty of feed he

is weak and don’t pick up. -I am in-

clined to believe he has back or kid-

ney trouble. When stepping from one

side of stall to the other he trembles.

When worked he perspires too freely.

E. C. D., Fowlerville, Mic11.——Give him

40 drops of ﬂuid extract nux vomica,

1 oz. tincture cinchona and. 1/2, oz. of

Fowler’s solutios at a dose in feed

three times a day. Give 1 dr. acetate

of potash at a dose in feed or in drink-

ing water once a day. He should be

well fed, not over-worked, and if he is

heavy-coated, clip him.


Indigestion—My cows are inclined

to eat wood. I also have two cows that

give strong tasting milk. F. K., Rich-

mond, Mich—Put three tablespoons of

powdered wood charcoal in each cow's

feed two or three times a day and

turnher on grass as soon as possible.

Give cows that give the strong tasting

milk a teaspoonful of hyposulphite of

soda in feed twice a day. Change their

feed.


Warbles.——Some of my cows have

warbles and I wish you would tell me

what to do for them. R. F. L., ,Litch-

ﬁeld, Mich. Open skin, squeeze the

grub out and kill it, dust boric acid in-

to openings daily, until skin heals.


Overheated Black Mare—I have a

black mare that seems to be in good

health, which pants badly when the

weather is very hot. What can I do

for her? T. D., Soldan, Mich—First

of all, it is well to keep in mind that

the horse which becomes over-heated

is suffering more or less from indiges-

tion, not. in a ﬁt condition to do hard

work; furthermore, black-colored hors-

es never stand the heat as well as the

light-cbloredones. Give her 2 drs. of

chloride of ammonia at a. dose in wa-

ter three or four times daily. If she

is large it will do no harm to give her

three dram doses on hot days.


Diseased Tent—Cows with Three

Tests—Last June I bought a cow, and

three‘weeks later one teat hardened.

Later on it broke open in several plac-

es. I was inclined to believe it a bee

sting. The teat is of blue color. I at-

tended an auction sale .of cows lately

and noticed several cows with only

three good teats. Is this caused by

disease? E. P., Black River, Mich.—

Apply one part alum, two parts oxide

otzinc and three parts boric acid to

sore teat twice a day. Bacterial ud-

der infection is ofen spread by milker

being careless and not milking the dis-

eased cowlast, or cleaning the hands

after milking those with diseased teats

before milking a well coyvv.


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A , Daniel McCaffrey's Sons.

, 623-625 Wabash Bldg. Pittnbmsh’Ps.


Mr. POULTRY FARMER:


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have «acted syn-on is market for your one the

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canary Whites cram d’ hi tr

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Commis- on Merchants. Dressed Be$-R&..Mves-


thought to have? been- due to for—wardé .

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bushel of ain. %t buying buttermilk of certain

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Wait a mlnute.buyHnmpshires. The Amorlcan Hamp-

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tl booklet with list of Breeders. Some near you. -


rite COMFORT A. TYLER. Secretary, 22 Wood-

snd Ave.. Detrort, Mich.


Ingleside Farm Offers


30 recorded Shropshires-lZ ilock headers 25 yearling

rams for ran 8 or rode use 43 ewes-mostly yearlings.

Herbert E. ow . Ionla. Mich.


' Shropshire darling rams

idle wad Std FMS from prise ginning stocks.

Make your selection early. Oliﬂ' Middleton,proprietor,

Clayton, Mich. R. 3.


‘ Am offering 16 curling rams and 8

Shropshircs Ecol-ling own or Senator Bibb breed-

ing. . J. T OMPSON, Rockfor . Mich.


' Rams Bred from McKerrow's

ShmPSh‘res'u—Holkor 275(014259R)377379 Eng-

lish strs :1. Dan Booher, R. 4, Evert, Mich. H‘


write . or


For Shropshire Yearling Rams can 0,,


ARMSTRONG BROS, 8.3. Fowlerville, Mich.

and ram -


80 Reg. Shropshire Ewes i331? or sale.


Jno. Grieve, Fowlerville, Mich. R. F. D. No. 3


F Three Registered Oxford Yearlln R ms

or sale 840 each Re 5 a


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Don't wait. J. Robert Hicks, St. .Ioliris,oi‘riilc:lh.c “10


Registered Oxford rams. 2 l b 1.

For sale. 2 and 3 years old beautilgisfn (333.812

Abbott. Mich.


Phone Deckervllle. 793 R. 2, Palms,

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The Winchester Bitten. no uellete out of a

poseilglo “I. or 7“ of the that charge. evenly

diltnbuted; no birds as! through


How big a bag will you‘bring back?


HEdifferencebetweenabulg-

ing bag and a lean one is

often a question of gun and

shells and not of shooting skill.


Make sure you have the right


game-getting combination—shells ,


that kill when the aim is true, and

a gun that; enables the shell to

make its best pattern.


Good shell patterns ‘are either

allowed or prevented by the char-

acter of the gun barrel—the cham-

ber, bore and-choke. ,


Faulty chambering even more

than faulty choking tends to mash

and “ball” the shot, making pellets

fall short or ﬂy wide.


And if a gun is faulty in its most

vital art, the chamber, the chances

are t at the bore is also carelessly

made. '~ " ' '.


From chamber to choke, the

barrels of the famous Winchester

Repeaters are bored to make the

shell throw its highest pattern.

They are free from shot-jamming

defects. They let the shell do its

full work.


“Line" test the barrel


Point a Winchesterbarrel toward

the light and look through the bore.


‘ Model 12. Hammerleu take-down repealing shotgun. Hole in 1: gauge. mama - i


71 1b.;iu16 au e.weioh¢aboluclbo.;fin . m M‘MIWM ‘ c - ‘l

po/‘pulhr with minus: and new We. 606“..ng _' we. ‘


It looks like a highly polished mir-

ror. Not a false shadow throughout

the bore. Sight throu h the bore

at a horizontal black ,ine on the


window. This line will throw a“‘V’~’v

shadow in the bore. Tilt the barrel


till thepoint of the “‘V” touches


5‘ The “Line” test

Perfect borerof Win- " lrregularities revealed

Chester barrel revealed in inferior shotgun her-


under “Line" test, rel under “Line" test.


the muzzle. The perfect “V” shows '


absence of irregularities. "


This is the “gLi‘ne’v’test of a per- -


feet, bore. No faulty barrel : can


pass this, test—thé “V” Will be.


distorted.


What ® means


This mark on' a 'WinChester barrel

means &that the gun [has passed the

“Winchester, Provxsional and“ Deﬁnitive


I'll-II av-


Proof”~test, having been ﬁred many-

times for smooth action and accuracy,

and strength-tested by ﬁrin 2-5 to 40

per cent excess loads. T is stamp

stands for 'Winchester’s uarantee of


, quality, with 50‘ years of t .9, best gun-


making reputation behind It.


Your dealer will show you,“

Winchester Guns and Ammunition


Before yOu take to the woods this? ‘


Fall, get your dealer to show you amni-


/ Chester Repeater—Medel 97 for harm

‘mer; action; Model 12‘ to: hammerless.


Put one to your shoulder, try its al-

a’nce, see how beatitifully it han les.

Your Sportsman's instinct will‘tellyou

it’s-2th; best weapon you could choose.»


'. Leading hardware and sporting , .oods;


dealers in everycominunity carry . m.-

ch'ester Arms-and Ammunition, They


.\ will be glad ,to assist, you in selecting

ptvhe gun best' suited to your. needs.

. Upon request, wemill-mail yen, freenf ‘

‘ ch"a‘rge,"f the complete catalo ‘fof‘,Wi’n-


chester gunsganid ~l93ded 3‘19] 541‘ V


'wmcnasre’ngEreArmd? agnostic): 9- "


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_ ’ Important Notice .

. The chamber, bore and muzzle choke»

of all Winchester Shotguns are named to

micrometer measurements for the-partic-

ula‘r Winchester Shells they are meant tow


uniform ‘att'em results by shooting Wine

cheater ell: in Winchester guns. The

' two‘ are made for each other.» ‘ _


shoot. You'willgg'et the highestand'in'oi'tj ' '