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“1 left my Dad, his farm, his plow,

Because my gilt became his sow.





I left my Dad for evermore

Because my. pig became his boar.”





OT all the pigs owned in boyhood

Ndays by farmer boys return to



father’s ownership as‘rhymed in

the accompanying couplets, but the

little rhyme too nearly tells the truth

to be pleasant. This condition should

be a menace to the peace of every hog

man’s'conscien‘ce until he enters into

a better working agreement with the

sons growing up on his farm. Early





cooperation between sire and son-





_would. often prevent later regret by

.both, and many a father grown old in

the. business would retire from his





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HE editors take special pride in presenting this

story from the pen of Robert J. Evans to the





boys of Michigan. Mr. Evans, who is secretary of

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one of our leading live stock assomations. has had





a wide experience studying and observing the rela»

tionship of. fathers and sons in the business of

breeding purebred live stock. What he has to say

to fathers and sons too nearly tells the truth to be

pleaSan’t. Boys, read this story and pass it on to

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son, while the latter was developing

into manhood. .



()ne of the cases which the inquiry

from this paper brought to my mind.

carries with it so much of the ideal

condition that we could not refrain

from trying to present to your readers

a story that would give to senior read»

ers food for thought, and give them a

vision of the possibilities that lie in

team work between them and their

sons.



It is fortunate for any boy to be

well born. It is still more fortunate

it' he be born of parents who have



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VOLUME CLIV. NUMBER TWENTY

DETROIT, MAY 15, 1920





CURRENT COMMENT





0 other single fac—





 





 





The Rural tor in moulding

a high type of cit-



. iSChoo’ izenship has been of

Problem comparable influence





to our public schools.

And in days gone by our country

schools have turned out a gratifying

proportion of the best type of Amer-

ican citizens, largely because of the

class of matured men and women who

made teaching their profession and

the country schools their field of use-

fulness.



But other lines of effort have yield-

ed greater reward for service, and

gradually, yet surely, these capable

men and women have yielded their

places to inexperienced girls, who

turn to teaching as a temporary occu-

pation, and are thus willing to serve

for smaller pay which it generally af-

fords as compared with commercial

work. And for the most part, the

schools have grown smaller, which

generally means less efficient as well.



The present need is for larger

schools and better teachers. This is

a change which it seems apparent can

be secured only through a change in

our country school system, by which

at least the more advanced grades

would be taught in a centralized

school.



Early experiments along this line

were not as successful as their advo-

cates had hoped, but present condi-

tions are more favorable to the suc-

cess of the plan. The general discus

sion of this subject would seem to be

desirable as a means of crystallizing

rural ideas as to the best method of

revitalizing our country school system

and making it measure up to the

needs of the present generation.





N view of the spec—

ulative estimates of





m Farm shortened production

Labor on M i c h i g a n farms

Situation this year on account





of the difficult labor

situation, the Michigan State Farm

Bureau recently made a survey of the

state to determine the facts. This

survey was made statewide, and the

data secured were gleaned from: the

. most reliable sources, hence the result

of the survey, while only approximate,

may be taken as an accurate index of

, labor and production conditions on

Michigan farms.



The figures compiled from this sur-

voy show that the farms of Michigan

at» Short 24, 900 farm hands this year,



and that the percentage of decrease

in cultivated lands as compared with





   

 





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due to ageném ammonium- '





ore to. gax'nble on the proposition that

the needed labor will appear at har-

vest time. The result of this survey

also makes it clear that the farmers of

the state are not inclined to place de-

pendence for harvest needs on city

vacationists, who are inexperienced in

farming and obviously cannot be of

great value during thetwo weeks' pe-

riod which most of them would spend

in aiding production, nor would this pe—

riod of aid serve the average farmer’s

needs



A fact developed by this survey

of special interest to a large class of

farmers, is that the dairy industry of

the state is being particularly affected

by the farm labor shortage. Reports

from the various counties were practi-

cally unanimous in that dairymen were

reducing the size of their herds, the

consensus of the estimates being that

during the last year dairy production

has been reduced in Michigan to the

extent of 11.3 per cent.



The facts developed by this survey

are passed on to our readers to enable

them to better judge market conditions

as they develop with the harvesting of

the season’s crops. While the situa-

tion is not a matter for felicitation. it

at least points toward remunerative

prices for the season’s products, even

though they will almost certainly be

below normal in quantity.





 





VERYBODY loves

an optimist better

11 a. pessimist.

ery one of us would

rather live in a cheer-

ful atmosphere than

in a. slough of depression. And aside

from the greater pleasure derived from

such an atmosphere, which is largely

a habit of thought, it will in most cas-

es prove an important factor in our

business success. A hopeful and opti-

mistic outlook will aid us in making

the best of discouraging conditions in-

stead of succumbing to them and giv-

ing up the battle as "of no use to try.”

Optimism is always a virtue to be ap-

preciated in us ‘by others, as adding

to the charm of our perSonality. It is

as well a more substantial virtue in its

effect of keeping up our business

morale.



The man who is able to devote his

energies to making the best of a bad

situation, instead of giving up to it or

complaining about it has won 9. worth-

while victOry over a. natural tendency

and made a long stride toward busi-

ness success. Right now the country

and the world is inneed of more optim-

ism. May it emanate in large meas-





Keeping Up ma

Business

Morale





‘ure from the men and women of our





farms. ;

. HE conservation

. of soil fertility is

Conserving an important factor of

SO!) farm management,

Fertility particularly to the

' great class of Ameri-

can home-owning farmers. And there





is a gratifying and very general appre-

ciation of this fact among Michigan

farmers which promises well for the

future of our agriculture. But new and

unusual conditions are constantly aris-

ing which make the problem a compli-

cated one for many farmers.



Judicious Crop rotations, the periodi.

cal use of legumlnous crops, and the

use of chemical soil correctives and

plant foods have been the common

means employed to the desired end of

conserving and improving soil fertility.

In recent years the oxigonciea o! the





tablished crap rotations, and produc-





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occasion have necessitated the varia- cfi

tion or abandonment of fried apt! on.





of

in the rotation .on many‘farms . -



01 all the factors in tho conserva-

tion of soil. fertility on the average”

man m on: W W

m. is the. roost W and should

be most rollgiously adhered to. Whore

clover seeding; have habitually failed,

some form or lime should be. used as

a soil corrective that the growth of the





plant may be encouragodwby the stim- .





ulation of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria

for which it is the host plant. The con-

stant use of clover or some kindred

legume, as alfalfa or sweet clover, will

be found profitable. ‘In fact, this will

help to make the industry profitable

where it would otherwise fail, hence

the wisdom of making any other sacri-

fice necessary to maintain this great

factor in the conservation of soil

fertility.





.OR no class of

farmers has the





pa"? situation been more

Pflces and discouraging than for

Prospects those engaged in





dairying. They have

been confronted by a falling market

for their product and rapidly rising

production costs, These conditions

point unavoidably toward decreased

production if long continued. But they

just as surely point toward a. reaction

which will make the business more

profitable in the end, which is a fact

every dairyman should keep in mind

in mapping out his future course.

Withoutoquestion the skilled dairy-

man is in the best position to reap an

adequate profit from milk production

under normally favorable conditions,

and if our large class of good dairy-

men will keep this fact in mind they

will surely profit from it. If, instead

of going out of the business entirely

as many are doing or contemplating,

they would reduce their operations by





disposing of their poorer producing-





cows; they would be taking a long

step toward ultimate prosperity. If

the dairymen of every community

would organize a cow-testing associa.

tion, they would place themselves in

a position to intelligently wood the un-

profitable individuals from their herds,

thus enabling them to better survive

the present crisis and profit from a

return of normal production costs or

an era of more compensatory prices,

which will surely follow present con-

ditions.



Valuable cows should not be snort»





FRANK H. WILLIAMS





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The recent death of Frank H.

Williams removes one of the lead- .

workers for the uplift of agri-

ture in Allegan county and in

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News of the Week





TuesdaykMay 4.



OLISH troops continue to drive



Bolshevlk forces back and are now

within fifty miles of Kiev; two hun-

dred American— built, locomotives one

said to have been captured by the

Poles .-—An international time human

is being installed in Belgium by which

time signals will be transmitted to

railroad and water transportation

agencies throughout the world—Revs»





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lutionists improve their position in the .





Mexican imbroglio. 3

Wednesday, May 5.





OHNSON leads Hoover in the race



for the support of California in the

republican nomination for president.‘—~

Great Britain and Russia deal directly

in the arrangement for a trade parley.

——.Carranza.. receives ultimatum to ab-

dicate the office of president of Mexi-

co on May 15.—America's 'ofl‘lcials are

investigating Japan’s political aggres-

smns in Siberia.——Utah’s eight repub-

lican delegates will go to the national

convention uninstructed. —— Japanese

trade is feeling the full effects of the

financial crisis now being experienced

in that country.





Thu rsday, May 6.





HE advance of the Polish troops-



toward Kiev is creating conster

nation among the Bolshevist dictators

at Moscow—Delaware senate - passes

woman suffrage amendment to federal

constitution—A new Spanish, govern—

ment has been formed under Premier

Dato.—Carranza’s army appears to be

rapidly crumbling before Mexican revo

lutionists.———The railway strike in

France is reported to have been broiln

en.—The Soviet government of Russia

is warned to protect property of for

signers—The searcity of material for

the manufacture of newsprint paper is

the basis for another advance in paper

for July 1.



Friday, May 7.



ARRANZA is reported to have fled



from Mexico City.——According to

the war-risk board there are 641,900

veterans of the world war who are de-

pendent upon the bounty of the coun-

try for future existence—German dele-

gates will arrive in Paris shortly to

discuss economic problems in which.

France is interested. ——Iowa boys’ and

girls’ club leaders are holding confer‘

once at Des Moines.——Despite the drop

of seventeen cents in the wholesale

price of butter in New York the retail

price has declined only seven cents.



Saturday, May 8. ~



C ONFERENCE is held in Chicago



under the supervision of Julius

C. Barnes, United States wheat direc

tor, for the reestablishnmnt of an open

market for . wheat ——Representative

Flatt, of New York, is appointed a.

member of the Federal Reserve Bank

Board—Eastern bankers are opposed

to additional loan fund for railways.—





,One hundred stock exchanges organize





tofight the proposed tax on all stock

transactions .—Connecticut may call a

special session of her legislature to

act on the 1atification of the suffrage

amendment.

Sunday, May 9.

EXICAN affairs are becoming

incre favorable to 1evolut-ionists.

vera. Cruz and Laredo fall to the robe

els; Carranza] s aid slaughters political

foes in Mexico City, which brings the

president near arrest; Francisco Vlila

yields to the control of the new revo

lutionary movement. -——The Louisiana

legislature will again vote on the sut-





‘ frage amendment and leaders are hop-





ing it will be the thirty-sixth state to

ratify the measure and thereby extend

suffrage to all women in the country.

Monday, ‘May 10. 4

GERMAN government troops evic-

uate Essen and Mayonce. -—The in-

creased service demanded from the

parcel post during rat ay labor tron-I





.bles and the increased losses of par-

eels, are rapidly depletlngottho appro.





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“; before 3,, r gt:

: g . the XEth Annual Convention

Mot the 'Chambgr git Commerce of the

" ‘ 7* United State’sl g ,_

‘ The chaihber is distinctly a business

men’ s organisation, having headquar-

‘ ters~in washmgton. Heretofore it has

' confined its efforts almost entirely, if

not exclusively, to industrial relations

and the problems of labor and capital.

Hence, it is very encouraging to the

farmer that this recOgnition of his

Pproblems should be - presented at this

> time when everything is in a state of

deterioration after a period of war and

? destructive pursuits.



The subject of discussion for the

session was “Agriculture ’in Relation

to Production.” Hon. E. ,T. Meredith

. 'explained the government's part. He

\ outlined very clearly the work of the





 





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Department of Agriculture and how it



“9 has assisted production, how the cer-

eals have increased from thirty-eight

bushelsfor each man, Woman and

child, to fifty-two .bushels, and the part

of each division of the department in

maintaining production. He deplored

the fact- that appropriations for the

maintenance of the Work have been

cut and that present salaries are too

low to attract capable men and hold

them.



“The buSiness men and the daily and

business press should support the De-

partment of Agriculture as a business

prOpOsition. Agriculture is the very

r‘basis of business,” said Mr. Meredith.

“No other department touches each

_ one of you as often. It inspects your

beef, stores your eggs, raises your cot-

'ton, the fabric of your auto tires and



‘ tells you whether to take an umbrella

‘ ‘ when you go to the theater.

say you are not interested, that you





 





t T is very certain that no state in

4 ' the Union has the facilities for

, handling wool" at lower .cost ‘than



‘ is given to Michigan sheepmen. The

2 purchase of a warehOuse in Lansing

‘for this and other purposes sufficiently



/ large to store tWo million . pounds of



- wool, equipped with complete fire ’pro-

tection, low insurance and a system of



- receipts as a bonded warehouse, will



‘ . make the lowest cost of handling ever



. . known to the wool grower.



: , ‘ . . Those engaged in actually handling



' ' the money are under bonds and 'a. most

complete system of grading, storing

and selling has been worked out.



3::- ' There is practically local option in

" . each county for assembling wool. The

~. county agent or someone else,” there

4- , is no‘county- agent, becomes t e rep-

' i ‘ ' resentative of the Farm Bureau, from



Whom sacks are obtained. A' c00per-

s. ative; elevator, live stock shipping as.

: Meociation or local elevator may be‘the





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





1‘ assembling place.

, sheep owners may be sacked on the





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The wool of large.





farm. Assembling days and points are .

, arranged for, but in no case is it ex-_

pected that the cost will exceed one





' ' fronting the. farmer, the business man,





and the nation. He said in part:





' “Judged by the price which the farmer





has received for the last year’s c1op





loompared with the cost of Production,

farm values of food products are the





lowest in many years. This statement

you will note implies that the cost of

farm‘ operation is tremendously high;

an item which is mo often overlooked

by the public in its judgment of the

farmer’s prosperity.





“In considering agricultural produc-

tiqn, allow me to say first that under

present conditions an increase in thet

farm yields over the past year is utter-

ly impossible. But if it were possible,

let me ask, would it be desirable or

necesisary?‘ Allow me to call your at-

tention to two or three facts:





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‘.‘There has been no shortage of food,

food products or clothing within our

borders. No one has gone hungry or

ill clad. Soup kitchens and bread

lines are forgotten elements of national

life. Standards of living have every-

where advanced. If food is high. it is

not because. it is scarce. To increase

the amount of food would not cheapen

it, since more could not. be consumed,

or disposed of under present condi-

tions. To produce more would mean

waste and the economic costs which

went to produce the waste would nee-g

essarily be added to the cost of that

whichwas consumed. Moreover, it is

not the price paid the farmer for his

product that determines the cost of

the food or clothing. To ever have re-

duced costs of living must mean re-

duced costs of transportation, market-

ing and distribution; and the lessening

of the margin betWeen the price which

the consumer pays for the ham and

that which the producer gets for the

hog.



“Agricultural production, moreover,

has already overloaded the marketing





‘Under-production would,





 





cOuntry. Just. now the country elevat-

ors are filled to the roof with wheat,

corn, oats, with no market outlets.



“If there is 110' place at home or

abroad for thesurplus to go, why. pro-

duce 'a surplus? Should not the farmer

as well‘ as the manufacturer study

carefully, supply and demand, and not

produce more than can be' marketed at

a profit? Has the public any more

right to ask the farmer to grow his

crops at less than production cost than

to ask the manufacturers of shoes or

steel to manufacture their products at

a loss? Agricultural over-production

means a waste of energy and fertility.

It depletes the future food supply of

the unborn generations. it must; be

avoided.



“I trust you will not get the thought

that I am an advocate of under-produc-

tion. Far indeed am I from it. Ade-

quate production must‘be maintained.





in, cripple all industry and react upon

the farmer himself. The farmer is the

largest single purchaser of food, shops,

clothing and lumber. He.uses more

steel annually than do the railroads.

Under—production in any of ,these es—

sential lines becomes a vital factor in

increasing the cost of agricultural pro-

duction.



“The time for invento1y is at hand.

P1esent stocks must be counted. The

future is to be considered. What is

to be the policy of the captains of in-

dustry of the next decade regarding

agriculture? Is it to be a period of

enforced competition with food prod-

ucts brought in as ballast 1'01" ships

carrying outgoing cargoes? Is the hand

which has fed and nurtured the nation

to compete with the cooley and the

serf? If so, then the farmer must de-

mand the same import protection

which he has ever contended should

be granted the manufacturer. He has

always insisted that the American

laborer must be better fed and better

paid than any other laborer in the

world. Must his brain and brawn now





Farm Bureau Fumz'r/zer Splendid Equz'pmemfm

Hand/272g 1929 Wool 0/221.





one hundred and fifty thousand pounds

of wool contracted for, to be handled

through the Farm Bureau.



When the wool reaches the ware-

houSe it will be weighed in bulk to,

check with assembler’s weights, then

graded by an official wool grader into

a dozen or more grades as demanded

by the various mills and sold on these

grades. When the wool is graded

any consignor can, on application have





seventy- five pel cent of the estimated

value 1emitted to him. Plans me be-

ing considered that will allow the con-

signor to use his local assemblers’ re~

ceipt at his home bank and the remit-

tances may be made consignor to and

through the bank holding the shipper’s

receipt which is used as collateial. If

this plan is used it p1ovides immediate

cash for the wool clip.



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own sustenance. And when the'time

comes that we depend on other nations

for our food supplies, we must bepre-





pared to guard every road of thevhigh «

A permanent agricultural policy .

and a measure of national defense is.





seas.





vastly more important to our whole

citizenship than is a. national naval or

military program.





“Hence the farmer urges that indus-





tly now give ca1eful thought to the

future of its basic mate1ials. There

are no name acres of tillable lands to

be brought under cultivation, barring a

few million that at great cost may yet

be irrigated and small tracts of wet

land which may sometime be drained.

But in amount these are insignificant.

America, then, must feed and clothe

her growing population from lands now

in tillage.



“Can it be done? Only the ignorant

or the pessimist would say ‘No!’ Ag—

ricultural science already has done

much, but in reality has only tickled

the field of possibilities. But science

is dependent upon man to transform

knowledge into reality. Good roads,

schools and churches and home own-

ers with modern homes are vitally es-

sential to production and these will

come when the farm 111arket comes

into its own. These conditions of la-

bor and price schedules which at pres-

ent make an increased production im-

possible, must be adjusted.





“Sometime—and may that ‘be soon

~there shall be serious thought given

to the agriculture of the future. Defi~

nite policies will be adopted that the

food supply of America may ever come

from her own bOundaries, produced not

by a peasantry, but by an educated and

thoughtful husbandry. Then, and not

till then, will agriculture, labor and

capital be each in its proper setting.”





Facilities for Pooling Michigan Wool, the Best





be maiketed through the association

because it gives volume selling poWer.

This system of wool marketing as it

is being worked out will give the var-

ious wool marketing assetiations the

power to adjust p1ices on the basis of

pioduction costs Ohio and Iowa are

the pioneers in wool marketing asso—

ciations and this year practically all

the north middle states are establish—

ing state selling associations. The

Ohio wool growers last ye ar were ad-

vantaged around ten cents per pound

over local ma1 ket range of prices. The

local wool buyer has as a rule, never

made much money in this line, he be

ing the mere agent and handler for





. the big dealers and was powerless to





pay the prices that the market w’ould

warrant.

grain and farm crOps editor of Rosen-





baum’s Review, a trade journal, has-





this to say of wool buyers’ practices:





“During the war the United States . ‘





government assumed control of the

wool business. It established concen-

tration points, fixed values of eachvlot

as it came to market and limited deal-

ers’ profits, but the latter in many cas—

es, especially in the farming states,

ignored regulations and by making

misrepresentation to growers, profit-

eered in brazen manner. Long before

the 1918‘ clip had been marketed this

was recognized and assurance given





by Lewis Penwell, in charge of wool, '

control, that these dealers would be 9





be placed at parity with that of low-

waged competition? If that is the pros ‘

gram of the future, definite prepara—

tion should be made to meet it for! ”

it would very soon create a'situation





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wherein we would not produce “our;





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54D.
{impugned and middlemen m ,d‘e‘fied ~





,e‘hwjpre in possession of illegifl."

mate pronto. Nothing more is heard

f 'cplleétién, or restitution, of a sum

variously estimated at $600, 000 to $1,-





"~ 000, 000, although fourteen months have





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elapsed since the last of government

controlled wool was valued.”



This same condition has gone on for

years .and it was only 'until government

co’ntrol- revealed it that wool growers

could lay their hands on the weak

spot in the system which undervalued

and undergraded their wool. It is to

be said, however, to the credit of one





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PRICES FOR MICHIGAN’S IMPROV-

ED SEEDS. .





 





 





ECA'USE Michigan has become the

seed producing state for the Unit-





ed States and Canada as far as the





cereal grains are concerned, the board

of directors of the Michigan Crop Im-

provement Association has fixed its

scale of seed prices in relation to the

prevailing market figures more than a

month earlier than is usually the case.



This year is the first in which the.

association is cooperating with the





' newly created seed department of the





Michigan Farm Bureau in the sale of

the registered seed grown by the asso-

ciation’s members. J. W. Nicolson,

manager of the department, formerly

was secretary and treasurer of the as-

sociation and a member of the farm

crops department at M. A. C., and

therefore will be in a position to 000p

erate closely.





Requests for information about pros-

pective seed costs have multiplied this

spring. They have come from surround—

ing states and from distant (agricul-

tural sections. It is believed that the

unprecedented demand is the result of

the splendid showing made by Michi-

gan grains at the International Hay

and Grain Exposition at Chicago last

November when Rosen rye and Red

Rock wheat captured a large share of

the awards.



“The average price of the Chicago

market,” said A. L. Bibbins, secretary

of the association, following the meet-

ing of the directors at East Lansing

last week, “during the time of July 15

to the time of printing the seed list

(about August 5), will be taken as the

basis for the price list. To this price

will be added the following margins

which will cover the increased cost of

producing and marketing registered

seed.



"Rosen rye, Red Rock wheat and

American Banner wheat, lots of one to

five bushels, $1.50; six to twenty~four

bushels, $1.25; twenty-five to ninety—

nine bushels, $1.00. Michigan winter

barley, lots of one to five bushels,

$1.25; six to twenty-four bushels, $1.00;

twenty-five to ninety-nine bushels,

seventy-five cents.



“For example, if the average price

of wheat on the market for this stated

period be $3.00, then the association

price will be 44.25 for six to twenty-





Mich-is





not distributed this to .the growers.

Every wool-grower who sells his wool

in the old way is simply fastening, this





system of undervaluation which the

~war revealed and withdraws his sup-





port to the sales system of the united

wool growers through the Michigan

Farm Bureau at cost, which probably

will, if the volume is large, not exceed

two cents per pound after reaching

the warehouse. In conversation with





a local wool buyer recently he stated





firm 0' who: handlers that

they have reimbursed the United ,

States government and the latter have , ' ‘ . 3e . . _,

past methods of web! selling compelled has opened the way for new h,





dealers to pay a, price which meant a

safe margin and the grower insured a‘.

profit to someone other than himself,

even though prices should fall. To‘thee

farmer who has realized a profit on

selling live stock through a coopera-





tive livestock shipping association, or





a potato grower through the potato

exchange, or a dairyman through the

milk producers' association " it may be

said that the abuses of the wool sys-





its to the wool grower. . .





Landon wool auctions have shown

firm prices and this is also true of, the,”





eastern markets, although a bear pride .'





movement is usually engineered ‘dur-T '-





ing the spring buying season for the

sole purpose of getting wool ch





The price Of wool could be multiplied

by one hundred percent and then rep-

resentab'out one-fifth of- the Cost of a .

Suit of clothes.





the Agricultural WerId





four bushel lots, and $4. 00 £01 larger

amounts. For amounts of one hundred

bushels or more it was decided that

buyers should negotiate in regard to

price with the State or County Farm

Bureau.——HENSHAW.





 





LAND BOOM IN WEST HOLDS.





 





HE Farm Mortgage Bankers’ Asso—



ciation’s questionnaire to corres-

pondents in‘ twenty-two states regard-

ing the land boom brought information

thus summarized by E. D. Chassell,

secretary of the association:



“March 1, settlement day in several

Mississippi valley states, passed with

failure of less than one per cent of the

sales. Iowa, the ‘storm center’ of the

boom, reported scarcely any failure of





sales except forfeitures by speculators-





without money. Conditions in other

states were similar. The well-defined

impression is general that values have

held steady and will continue, although

the future depends upon crop returns.



“Most lands came into competent

hands. Purchases in the southwest

were well financed by local banks and

lean companies. Rocky mountain and

Pacific states had considerable activity

and expect nearly all obligations will

be met promptly. Montana and North

Dakota, owing to poor crop conditions,

have had comparatively ‘little land

movement, but expect more this year."



Mr. Chassell concludes: “Local

banks, with the aid of the Federal





Reserve system, were easily able to

handle the situation created by the

dropping out ofp'joint stock land banks

and federal land banks at a critical

time. The present has been cared for.

National and international conditions

will govern .the future, but with such

developments as we may reasonablyfex-

pect, future payments will be met with

normal promptness. Mortgages con-

servatively placed on improved farms

will continue as premier security, their

stability least affected by strikes, wars

and financial convulsions."





FARM LABOR SHORTAGE ACUTE.

O





EPORTS secured by the federal



department from its representa-

tives in practically every state-in the

Union show that the supply of hired

{farm labor in this country is only

about seventy-two per cent of the nor-

mal supply, compared with approxi-

mately eighty-four per cent of a nor-

mal supply a year ago. This year's

shortage is almost exactly the same

as that of two years ago when large

numbers of men were in the military

service.



The present shortage has arisen in

spite of the fact that farm wages are

fifteen to twenty-five per cent higher

than last year. The Situation, unrem-

edied, cannot fail to have an unfavor-

able effect on production, according to

the United States Department of Ag-

riculture, and will tend to prevent any





Farmers’ Automobile Trip

By .7. H. Brown





URING the past winter a num-

ber of‘ farmers of southern Mich-





igan, some officials of the Michi-

gan State Grange and Farmers' Clubs

in the extreme southern counties,

have personally asked, and written, us

regarding our conducting an automo-

bile tour to some distant and promi-

nent place or noted l'eSOl‘t next sum

mer after the close of the wheat har-

vest. A score or more car owners

have asked us to take the matter up

and said they would like nothing bet-

ter than a ten-day or two weeks" tour





~At first it ,Was thought that the

Michigan Farmer might take charge

of such a tour, and the writer, as “Field

Editor,” and a sort of veteran in auto-

mobile touring and camping, might

take charge of the details. After due

consideration it was thought best that

the writer assume the entire respon—

sibility of publicity, arranging of de-

tails and take personal charge of the

tour from beginning to end; also to

personally attend to all correspond-

ence connected therewith.





Andsowonownnnounoeihefirst





and outing, camping out nights along automobile tour of Michigan Farmer

the way and cooking meals whenever folks, to start Monday morning. Aug.





the opportunity presented itself.





.lL—fllways Ready to Ilelp a Ellawrin Trouble.





(Continued on page 772).





reduction in the prices of farm prod? -





ucts. While the total aereage uh?

doubtedly will be reduced as a result

of the present situation, it will not be

in as large proportion as the reduc-

tion in the labor supply, because the

farmers with their families are exert- 7

ing themselves to the utmost‘to over-

come their handicap.





HOME-MAKING AND Jumoa WORK

FEATURED BY NEW YORK

FARM BUREAU.





 





0W that the county agent is es



tablished in ”fifty-five New York

counties the plan of county organiza-

tion includes two other features, con-

sidered equally as important. Home-

making, the second feature, is less

than half organized and junior work,

the work for boys and girls, has hard~

1y more than its foundation laid.





The State College of Agriculture

considers this last feature to be even

more important than the others, be-

cause it afiects the farmers of the fu-

ture. Its work proper is to push spe-

cialized activities of a practical nature

among the boys and girls of the state.

under the direction of. a trained spe-

cialist. The work 'will be participated

in, as far as funds are concerned, by i

the State Department of Education,'

the State College of Agriculture, and

local workers who are sufficiently in-

terested, to supply a, portion .of the

funds needed. In several counties. of

the state the county bankers’ associa-





‘tions are underwriting the work, which





is admitted on all sides to be of prime

importance throughout the state. "Corns

mittees have been appointed to start

local campaigns to raise the amounts

needed in the various counties.



The State Department of Education

gives $600, providing $1,200 is raised

from local sources. The State College

gives $25 per month for the first two

months and then after the county. is

thoroughly organized, $50 per month.

In the writer’s county it is estimated

that $1,500 will be needed in local





.funds to make up the amount required





to put the work on a sound basis.





In Wayne county for this your 01-





torte will be limited to the raising of

corn and to canning and sewing dubi-





All are eligible to enlist in the work





up to the age of twenty years





—By Frank R. Leer





 





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' 161115 shortage of cars and motive pow-

.::,_er and congestion or traffic at termi-

1. ,1 -Iials haVe played a more vital part in

swaying these basic price- making in-

“ -_ finances than ever before.





Markets

are on an artificial level Railroad re:

stilction's on country shipments as





’wen as the movement from terminals





to consuming areas, have forced prices

to a level far above their actual value





to the feeder, whether dairyman, hog





producer or cattle handler





Conditions to Consider.



“When the producer buys corn at the

country auction sale, Or privately from

his neighbor, thebids are usually bas-

ed upon the price prevailing-at the

nearest market. The producer seldom

considers . the value of. the corn, or

other grains and feedstuffs as well, by

the returns from his feeding opera-

tions, which should be the correctvbas-

is for reckoning values. He overlooks





« the fact that serious delay would p10b





ably be encountered in shipping the

grain to market and that as a re'sulttof

the delay the market price, is inflated.

The country price should make suffi-

cient allowance for this condition. The





producer who fattens hogs and cattle .





for market quite often is heard to com-





plain that he could 'have realized a-





greater profit—4r offset a loss—by

marketing the corn or feed in the raw

«form.

modity' upon the market Walue, and





‘ overlooks the fact that he_probably





made every effort possible to obtain

cars for shippingto the terminal but

failed owingto car shortage or 'con-

gestion of traffic.





Not only the produceis, but other

close observers of market fluctuations

have. overlooked the transportation

phase. in analyzing probable price

changes. _ However, the larger operat-

ors taresaw the difficulties under which

the market Wauld progress because of

car shortage and similar factors. This

element bought corn for future deliv-

ery in large volume, not necessarily

because they wanted the .grain——they

really wanted only the profit—merely

because they saw little hope for im-

provement in the mavement of grain

toiternfinals' from the country and a

consecuent§ increase in the visible

The bearish element placed





largest crop of corn in history was har-

vested last fall. The fact that com,

both. the carlots and the futures, have

advanced apprOximately fifty cents ea

bushel in the past ten weeks. indicat

who has profited. ;- 1 ..

Money Markets Give trouble.

Still another influence, the import-





once of Which as a price-swaying fac- ~

tor has become pronounced,

‘ tight position of money markets.





is the





broad sense the fluctuations in prices





" will ‘i’opr sent a contest between fac-

unding- the financial situation > ~‘





He bases the value of the com— 3





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great extent by the financial situation,

is a question. It may not be felt until

late in the fall; again. some predict

it may scan be felt.



Corn Values and H69 Prices.



At the present Writing, cash corn. in

Chicago and other middle west mar-

kets is selling around $1.75 to $1.81 a

bushel. Some express the belief that

$2 will be paid for, the grain at ‘termi:

nal markets before the summer Season

is far advanced, basing this forecast





largely on the probability of a contin—

ued tight car supply and





slackened





movement resulting from activity of

farmers. in the fields. But the “bulls”

have failed to consider the fact that





» hogs, the heaviest Consumers of com,





me selling at approximately $5. 00 per

hu'ndredweight less than a year ago,

while the coarse grain already is high—

er than a year ago.





* Oat Prices Touch New High Levels.





Strength of an abnmmal chaiacter

plevails in the oat market, the high

est levels in hislmy being paid for the

cereal. While the traffic situation is

an important factor in the oat. trade,

there is an acute scarcity of the grain

at both interior and terminal points,

resulting from the short crop a year

ago. 'There is a heavy consumptive

demand for oats, coming from the





 





 





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and the demand'supply situation, pan





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, money markets is, of

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”the rising scale of pric-





hat. extent it is yet-'1'“.





Farm Boyy’ and Cir/5’ C/ué IVoré





Y/te Broad Aim and I aim of flu: Splendid Movement 25 here

grow by Hon. E. T. Meredzt/z, Secretary of flgmu/ture





OYS.’ and Girls’ Club Work is one of the important features of

| the Agricultural Extension Work conducted by the States’ Re-

lations Service, United States _yDepartment of Agriculture,

eration with the State Agricultural Colleges and 'local agencies for

the purpose of improving agricultural

throughout the country. These clubs are organized to improve farm

and home practices by instructing the boys in correct agricultural

.methods and the girls in home-making; to assist them in demon—





home; to aid in the development of cooperation in the family and

in the community; to create a more favorable attitude toward the

business of farming and home-making by encouraging property own-

ership and the feeling of partnership; and to make rural life more

attractive by p10viding ciganization which tends to diminish iso-





These objects are in piocess of attainment. Wheiever club w01k

laige1 yields have been obtained,

better pigs have been raised and finer cattle, both dairy and beef,

The motto of .the clubs is “To Make the Best

Registered animals are now common where only a few

years ago they were unknown, and there is a systematic effort to

cull out scrub live stock and poultry.

been made by club members on lands which were considered as

worthless, and little girls are vying. with the best packers in can-

ning and preserving fruitsand vegetables,

potent factor in helping to make the farm home more attractive





The average yield per acre made by club membe1s in the giow-





yields made in the states in which the members a1e located. Many



people, seeing a boy or girl here and there engaged in club weik,



do not realize the value of the produézts produced by these young



In 1918, while under the stress of war and

responding to an appeal made to club .members in the furrows

“over here” to help feed theboys in the trenches “over there,”

the records in the office show that these young people produced food

and feed to the value of more than $20,000,000.



The money value of the products of club members is only a

small part of the value of club work. Many boys and girls have had

their vision of life enlarged by "club membership.

en and are taking college training.

the country especially have profited in enrollment from the clubs.

~tiny boys and girls have made their own money to defray their



tbllege expenses :in club activities.

“returned to the farms or have engaged in extension work as county

Rural life has been gieatly. enriched in 1ecent years by

the trained leadership obtained from agricultu1al clubs.

suits obtained in this work justify many times the expenditures

"made in securing them and appeal strongly for a large develop-





in coop-





conditions and practices





improvement of the farm and





Large yields of crOps have





and are becoming 9.





times as large as the average





Many have tak—

The agricultural colleges of





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south, where spring planting work is

progressing on a large scale, and frOm

the east and middle west. Foreigners

also have bought cars freely, but the

high level of prices has restricted this

trade. It is improbable that oats will

suffer any sharp downturns on the old

crop, owing to the short supplies avail-3

able. Prices for the cash grain have

advanced to a level aiound $1.10 per

bushel, and the May deliveiy at this

w1iting is up to $1 00 p91 bushel. New

crop oats are ‘inaking only slow pro~

gress, and a late 1n0vement of 1920

offerings is expected.

Bran Consumption Restricted by High

Prices.



Wheat feeds are attracting attention

by their ability to maintain prices at

extraordinary levels. Though it is

quite often heard that bran and shorts

have reached such a price level that

further advances are impossible, the

market has been slowly mounting up-

ward, and quotations which a. month

or six weeks ago were termed as re—

markable might now be considered a

“low” figure. This is the basis for the

extraordinary conditions which sur—

round the offal trade. Speculative 0p-

erators who for some time have main—

tained that the top has been reached

and that further upturns “are impossi-

ble” sold “short” in the hOpe of realiz—

ing a profit. But the impossible has

become the actual in the bran and

shorts trade.



Relief is in sight, but. not so long

as the strike of switchmen maintains

its grip on transportation. Demand for

flour over the country as a Whole has

improved considerably, but restricted

shipping conditions have acted as a.

serious check against an. increase in

mill operations. Mills have been forc-

ed to further curtail Operations, either

because of inability to obtain cars for

loading out flour or to obtain wheat

to maintain activity. Bran and shorts

production has necessarily been furth—

er curtailed, and, with the reduction

in the output, prices have steadily

mounted upward. Bran already has

reached a figure which has forced a

sharp reduction in the consumption by

dairymen and other buyers. This, to—

gether with the fact that the season

when pastures will be available over

practically the entire country already

is at hand, indicates a. very light ac—

tual consumptive demand in prospect.

The demand for bran even at present

extraordinary price levels is not ac—

tive, as market conditions might re—

flect, the strength being due more to ‘

the acute scarcity of supplies.



At this writing bran is selling

around $50 to $51 a ton, sacked, for

carlots in Minneapolis. Chicago quotes

values around $54 to $56. St. Louis at

$57 to $58, and Kansas City at $52 to

$54. In the eastern markets the price

level is around $60 to $63. Indicative

of the abnormal situation in the bran

market is the fact that millsin the far

west, along the Pacific Coast, are mak—

ing extensive‘shipments of the offal

as far eastward as the Atlantic Coast,

including the New) England states.

The freight rate on such shipments

amounts to $1.00 per hundredweight.

which is even higher than the average

pre-war price for the feed. The far

western mills have been operating on.

a fairly active schedule, and without

sufficient local demand to absorb offer-

ings, premiums have been obtained on

the distant shipments. Never before}

in history'have such shipments been

made, nor will they long Continue, ow-





ling to the abnormal rate:. The ban h.





nude on. 113% pa. or
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RESIDENT J. 1R. H0-ward,‘ of the

American Farm. Bureau Federa-

tion, has returned to Washington,

after having. made an extended trip

throughout the farming sections of the

country, where he has. investigated the

food production situation.

Conditions Affecting Farm Production.





Mr. Howard presents a rather

gloomy prospect for the consumers in

the large cities. Every immediate con-

dition'indicates lower production. The





..labor shortage is practically identical





everywhere. Easy hours and high

wages in the city have drained the

farm of its labor supply. Iowa is 150,-

000 farm workers short of her needs.

Alabama farmers are leaving untilled

one million acres of cultivated land

formerly devoted to the production of

food crops. Thousands of farms in New

York state will lie idle this year for

lack of labor. Throughout the entire

country farmers are letting their fields

stand in hay or pasture because they

either cannot get, or cannbt afford, to

pay the prices demanded by farm

labor.



The southern farms are being de-

serted by colored laborers in about the

same proportion as the northern farms

are being depleted of their white la-

bor. An attempt will be made to main—

tain the cotton acreage, owing to the

high prices for the staple, but there





‘- will be a heavy reduction in food crops.





The seasonal conditions are worse in

the south than in the north. Planting

is late and the weather has been un-

favorable for growing crops. The Farm

Bureau membership is increasing in

the south as in all other sections. It

is especially strong in Tennessee and

Arkansas. ,



in New England Mr. Howard found

a spirit of progressiveness among the

farmers, who have the advantage of

good markets, but many are flocking to

the manufacturing cities. The Farm

Bureaus all through the New England

states have voted for a membership

fee of five dollars, which will enable

them to build up strongly efficient

county organizations as a permanent

foundation for the national federation.



Live Stock Produced at Loss to



Farmers.





The meat situation is especially bad,

according to Mr. Howard. ii‘armers

have been producing hogs at a tremen-

dous loss. The market for beef cattle

is unsatisfactory. Farmers are pro-

ducing more beef animals than ever

before. The government statistics

show an average for ten years of 65.-

477,000 head, while in 1919 there was

74;584:000 head, an increase of 10,000,-

000 head of cattle over the ten-year

period. -But owing to the larger ,, de-

mands for some cuts of beef over oth~

ers this increase in cattle numbers is

not helping the situation or benefiting

the farmers. '



The people have got money to buy

the best cuts and they demand only

the best. This has developed a situa-

tion where there is a difference of be-

tween eight and twelve cents a pound

between the forequarters and hind-

quarters, and a government investiga-

tion shows that a very large propor-

tion of the butchers are «not buying

the-forequarters. There are about four

hindquarters to one forequarters sold

to. the retail trade, which indicates

that the cattle producers. will have to

develop a breed that prbduces all hind-





»? (quarters or the people will have to





change their methods of buying meat.

This discrimination between the hind-





Quartet; and the forequarters of beef

is causing Serious losses to the pro-





, another.





.would smoke them out.





_ Measures Rearing





Are Hawng a Ham’rBerrfiwzfln Our

' National Legu/atwe CWéer





gressman E. B. Howard, of Oklahoma,





who has introduced a'bill in'the house.





designed to curb sugar speculation, by-

forbidding resales from one dealer to

It has been found that there

are frdm tWo to seven non-essential

dealers between the refiners and the

retailer. ' Representative Howard’s bill

would limit the number of sugar hand-

lers from the refiner to the broker,

wholesaler and retailer.





Sugar Speculation Under Cloud.



While Congressman Howard be-

lieves his bill would curb speculation

in sugar, he does not regard it as

meeting the present emergency, know-

ing well that

through congress it would be only af~

ter having passed through a long and

tortuous course. As a remedy for im-

mediate application he suggests a great

national boycott of sugar, candies and

other delicacies made from sugar for

three days each week until prices are





if it should ever get





1y interested because so many farmer

boys jomed the colors- in the great

war, and idle of equal interest to all

because of the taxes that must be rais-

ed to pay the bonus.



The bonus proposition agreed to by

the ways and means committee in-





cludes five optional plans for reward:





ing the soldiers and for raising the

money, as .follows: (1) a cash pay-

ment to all service men at the rate of

$1.25 per day in excess of sixty days

of active service; (2) payment at the

rate of $1.75 per day if service men

wish to take vocational training; (3)

advance payment to apply on ,home

purchase, either city or country,‘ at

the rate of $1.75 per day for time ac-

tually spent in service; (4) paid-up

war risk insurance policy maturing in

twenty years _on basis of $1.75 per day

for time spent in service; (5) loans

to service men not exceeding $1,000 for

reclamation and development of farm





 





 





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Its mattered very little, if crops





Since we joined the State Fa1m





So give us time to figur’, the the





 





Since fVe’ve Signed Up

By Mrs. L. A. Seaman:





We’ve done a lot of diggin’. a workin’ m ighty hard,



We’ve done a lot of figurin’, an’ a hustlin on the farm,

We’ve done a lot of savin’, an’ there ain’t a bit of doubt.

But that things we’ve really Wanted,





F01 raisin’ much or little, the faim took all we had.

So we 1e breathing somewhat easy, £01 we’ll sure get out the wt,

Since we’ve joined the State Farm Bureau an’ all- signed- up.





Its cost a heap of money, to buy things for the farm,

To cheat the workin’ farmer, “profiteers”

We’ ve paid out lots of money to get our crops to grow



And when we went to sell them the prices were so low.



We couldn’t pay expenses, an’, too, the hired man,



With all the crOps we’ve harvested to save our countrymen.

So we’ re feeling more contented, an’ happier with our lot





We’ve reached the time, I reckon, when farmers sure must fight,

An' we must fight together, if we would do it right,





Then get behind together, an’ let us put ’em thru.



For with our heads together, an’ our pocketbooks as well,

There’ll be no “man between” then. when we go up to sell,



So we’ re not a worryin’ any, an’ with frettin’ we have stopped

Since we ’ve joined the State Farm Bureau. an’ all-signed-up. -





lot’s of times we’ve gone





were good or bad,





think good form.





Bu1eau an’ all- signedup.





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reduced. If there is a shortage ol

sugar this abstaining from its use will

allow the supply to catch up with the

demand. If the present shortage is

the work of speculators, the boycott

Congressman

Howard tells me that he is sure a

widespread boycott along the plans he





has proposed would remedy the situa—‘





tion in less than sixty days. He is

preparing for free distribution pledge

blanks to be signed by the people of

each community. He hopes to interest

the granges and other organizations of

farm folks, and consumers’ clubs ev-

erywhere in this movement to abstain

from the use of sugar three days each





week until prices are lowered and.





there is sugar in the stores sufficient

to supply the needs of their customers.



Legislators Uneasy Over Soldiere'



Bonus.



Scldiers’. bonus legislation is caus-

ing congressmen and senators more

sleepless nights and worry than any

Other proposition that has come borers

them for many year-3.15mi they are

largely to blame for the present altim-





 





 





lands. All service men may be bene-

ficiaries of one plan, if in service more

than ten days, except those above the

rank of captain.





The five parts of the tax scheme

are: (1) a one per cent tax on all

retail sales, contracts and leases; (2)

one per cent increase over present sur-

taxes on incomes between five and ten

thousand dollars a year, two per cent-





increase on incomes between ten éndzfarm operations





twenty-six thousand dollars per yl‘ar;

(3) graded increase in tobacco revenue

tax up to sixty-six per cent; (4) a one-

fifth of one per cent tax on all stock

and bond transfers; (5,) a one-half per

cent tax on all real estate transfers.





There is a bitter fight on over the

proposition to levy a tax on all retail

sales, on, elementin congress demand-

ing that the meney for the bonus be

raised by" levying a tax upon excess

war profits This discussion over the

tax feature has attracted so much at,

tendon. that it has apparently over-

married the fact that the Fordney bill

includes the obnoxious features that

we're in the old “dell land. "Settle-





 





and settlement at lands by means or





'7, irrigation, drainage, or other. .method_

0: development ” that this board will‘

be empowered to purchase lando de.

velop {arm units, contract with irriaa-V





tion corporations, build roads, estab-

lish townsites, and “as tapas practi~

cable” employ veterans in the develop:

ment of rthesereclamatlon projects. It.

is further provided that atthe earliest

practicable date each soldier so our

played upon a project shall be allowed

to select and shall be allotted a farm

unit upon which he may construct a

dwelling and make other unmove—

men-ts.”





A significant clause in this soldier ‘





bonus bill land proposition, one worthy

of considerable study, says that “any

unit not allotted to a veteran or re-

partriate within one yeai after public

notice in respect thereto, as provided

by this section, may be disposed of to

qualified citizens under the provisions

of the reclamation laws.”



” It is possible that this resurrected

land reclamation scheme will be al-

lowed to slip through under cover of

bonus legislation, while the friends of

helpful soldier legislation are quarrel-

ing over the methods of raising the

taxes. '

Will Congress Give Farmers Cheaper



Nitrate?



Senate hearings on the Wadsworth-

Kahn bill for the government opera-

tion of the Muscle Shoals air nitrate

plant are completed. In summing up

the arguments for the bill before the

committee, R: F. Bower,‘

agent of the Farmers' Union, made a

convincing argument in favor of the

measure. In the testimony given dur—

ing the hearings little was produced in





oposition to the bill, and much in its "





favor, not only as a military prepared-

ness proposition, but as a means of

supplying the farmers with an abun-

dance of nitrogenous fertilizers and

freeing them from the Chilean nitrate

monopoly. The senate committee on

agriculture is expected to make 3. fav-

orable 1eport, and it is reasonable to

expect that favorable action will be

taken on this measure. Representa-





tives of all the farm organizations"





have appeared for the nitrate bill.





improving Parcels Poet.

Reporting to the senate in reply to

inquiries regarding the parcels post as

a means at tood transportation, Fourth

Assistant Postmaster-General Blake-





lee said the farmers were threatening . ,





to reduce food acreage unless the cost

of living on the farms comes down

Every one of the seventy thousand re-

plies to the post office questionnaires

sent to farmers contaixTe'd— plalnts

against the high cost of living and

The farmers have

written the department that they will

not work fourteen or sixteen hoursa

day to raise food for, city consumers"

who are‘ Working seven or eight hours

and demanding and getting high wag-

es, while on the farms the returns are

not keeping pace with expenses: All

these complaints and the warnings

given the congressional committees

during the hearings, by the farmer-

ganization representatives,

are not sufficient to awaken congress

to the need of prompt action in’deol





ing with the problem or farm. pne— _ ‘





auction.

As the railroads are permitted

der the Each-Cumming transports





authorized to establish “veteran set-

Alement projects for the reclamation: ’ "





legislative ,





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Mr. Barber’s Own Story





f“~Thirty (30) years ago, this roUgh

board was lettered, “FLOUR AND

FEED STOR ,” with Heath &

Milligan Dependable Paint. The rest

of the wood was left bare, never

painted. The board was placed in

. front of the store. and left there for





the rest of the surface.





MICHIGAN DEALERS





All’egan, The Grange Store



An1asa, Amasa Co~0perative

Store



Au Gres, Cole Sproule Hdwe.

Co.





Battle .Creek, Wayne D.

Marsh



Bay City, Ig. Andrzjewski



Bay City, H. & H. L. Hicke-

meyer '



Bay City, The Jennison

_Hdwe. Co.



Bay City, M. G. Kabat ~





 





"Bay, City, E. E. Mannassa





Bay City, Mich., E. A. Mutart

.B‘ay City,Wilton & Mack





' Biofnton Harbor, George C.

Bridgeman

B'errien Springs, H. K. Gra-

44. ham ; ‘ i ‘I





Bessemer, VBesSemer Lumber

Co.



Bloomingdale,

Spayde



Buchanan, Runner Bros.





Caro, F. A. Riley .

Cedar, Ward & Culven——1

Cedar Springs, John Beucus

Charlevoix, Charlevoix Hdwe.

‘Co. ‘



Cheboygan, Geo. W. Thomp-

._ son;





Harrison 8:





"GfildwfitGPQ-z Kerr -;«Br.os.

‘CQY: Pt, Chas;





. Gunsaul

Covlngton, August. Hutala





Dowagiae, L. A. Conlilin\





“East Sau “atuek, 'John Lub-





sbers & "o.





I 53.85: Tawfi‘i A. '34 Merschel

vEdmore. EL; Bates





fiwfifdfibtfl‘gz Mich., H. L.





for 30 years.”





’thirty(30) ears. Recentlyit was taken



down, an ' to my amazement, the let-

ters were raised one-eighth inch above

. Evidently the .

damaging-elements,weather, rain,sun,heat and



cold had worn aWaythe bare wood. But they never

affected the painted letters as far as I could see."





~ ~ . 0 .. _ , V ‘ ,

See If your Dealer 5

‘ The small‘figures after the dealer’s name in

. our dealer in his locality. He ought to know,





Elk Rapids, M. E. Butts

Ewen,"0. Udall





Gladstone, Northws’trn Coop-

erage &, Lumber Co.

Gladwin, Rogers & Neely-

Glen Haven, D. H.,Day

Graafschap, (R. D. from

Holland) Tien & Rut-

gers Co.—~—————-—————-—35





Grandville, C. L. Thomas





Hale, H. E. Nunn

Hand Station, John L. Thies

Harbor Springs, C. D. Lane a

Hartford, M. A. Engle

Hastings, Hastings Lum-

ber & Coal Co.———-——-—— 7

Hessel, Fenlon Bros.

Holland, Scott Lugers

Lumber Co.





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Iron Mountain, John Strong





' Ironwood, Olson-Bergquist

-lshpeming,





Ishpeming Co—op.

Society





Jamestown, Nick Van Haits~

ma ‘





Lake City, R. M. Bielby— 21

Laurium, J. Vivian Jr. & 00.

Leslie, Holiday Lumber Co.

Levering, Wm. ,DeKruif Co.

Lud’ington, H. Abrahamson





Manton, Chas. H. Bostick—ZO



Marcellus, C. R. Miller'



Marshall, F. G. Seaman '& “Co.



MeCords, R. E. Colby



Mt. Pleasant, Breidenstein &

Kane





Napoleon, ‘L. M. Godfrey

Niles, H. T. Richter »

Northport, ’ Kehl .Mercantile





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ere’s one case where Heath & _

illigan Dependable Paint saved the surface

It is convincing proof that good Paint

'We’ll let Mr. M. K.°Bar-





 





 

 





Mill.





E6. US. PAT. OFF.





Nunica, E. S. Baldus

Omer, Mich., J. K. Mead

Ontonagon, Casper Roosen

Otsego, A. E. Wilson

Overisel, W'illis G. Hulsman





Pentwater, Sands & Maxwell

Lumber Co.



Pequaming, Chas. Hebard &

Son



Portland, Buildeizs’ Lumber &

Supply Co.



Prescott, The Eymer Co.



Remus, A. J. Huber——



Roscommon, Rutledge Bros.



Rockford, Deyo~Hessler Drug

Company



St. Johns,

Glaspje



Sand Lake, Sand Lake Phar-

macy



Skanee, Axel Erickson



Stanton, M. H. Bachman



Sturgis, Tobey & Jackinan



Suttons Bay, L. R. Sogge



Three Rivers, T. J. Reed Es-

tate



Trout Creek,

Mfg. Co.



Turner, Turner Hdwe. Co.



Wakefield, Myers Co.



Walloon Lake, Masters &

Haas Boat Co.



White Cloud, E. H. Lemire



wgittemore, M. 0. Collins 8:

on





 





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Van Sickle &





Trout Creek





DEALERS!





' If you want your store to

be Paint Headquarters,

arrange'to have your name





listed like these.





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it saved

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Suppose Your House is Exposed





Now that’s exactly what happens to your

house when you put off painting that’s

badly needed. If the surface 1s exposed,

you are losing money, every month

you delay,whether you know it or not.

Good paint saves more than it costs.

To use it, is the cheapest in the end,

of all policies.





See Our Dealer





There are more than 50 distinct Heath &

Milligan Dependable Eroducts, all of the highest qual-

ity, best by test since 1851. To find them m your town,





look for our Dependable Trade Mark, or write us for

name of your nearest dealer, if his name )8 not listed below.





ADJACENT INDIANA

DEALERS





Butler, C. F. Gengnagel & Son

Cutver, J. O. Perrier & Son

Gary, D. \Vard



Elkhart, Wm. H. Theis





Hebron, Maxwell Implement

Co.

Kendallv-‘ille, A. R. Otis 21





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   





 





 

 

 

 

 

 





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Name is on the List Below





this list, represent the number of year: that he has acted as .

afterJO, 20 or 30 years, just how Dependable our Paints are,





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menl. C0. .



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. (Continued from page. 768).

est 9. from yarious' points in, southern.

Those who live e'astot Lan-

sing. Jackson and Hillsdsle will drive





to Bay City far the first “night 0011- Park.





trol,” Im- camp. Those around Battle

Creek and southwestern Michigan will

drive to Grand Rapids and camp- on’

the shore of Reed’s Lake the same

night, and those tourists who do not

have camping equipment of their own

will be provided with everything need-

ful, as explained further on.



The plan is to run two tours. one

up the east Michigan pike, the other

up west Michigan pike, both ,tours to‘

meet at Mackinaw City the late after-

noon of Friday, August 13. A big tour-

ist camp will be set up for our accom-

modation and pleasure in the park and

.we will all spend Saturday there in a

blg,meeting and celebration that will

include music, speaking by some of

the noted agriculturists of Michigan, a

fine fish dinner, etc. ’ ‘

.From Mackinaw City some of the

tourists may wish to start on the re-

turn trip for home because of limited

time. These tourists can drive their

cars back over a good road by way of

Petoskey, Cadillac, Big Rapids, Mt.

Pleasant, St. Johns and Lansing, as

they may desire.



Some of us expect to cross over

the Straits of Mackinac on the big car

ferry and drive on to Sault Ste. Marie,

commonly called “The 800.” We may

camp out there for two or three days,

then return to Mackinaw City and on

home by way of Cadillac, Big Rapids

and Lansing. It will take about ten

days to two weeks to complete the en-

tire trip to the 800 and return home

in a leisurely fashion. Tourists can

join us along the way and return home

whenever they wish.



We have made full arrangements

with T. F. Marston, secretary of the

Northeastern Michigan Development

Bureau, to take personal charge of the

eastern pike tour from Bay City. This

is the east dlvisiOn of the Dixie High-

way, and Frank F. Rodgers, the State

Highway Commissioner, has just writ-

ten us that the road will be in good

condition nearly all the way during

August. He will make a map of the

route, with all detours marked show.

ing new road construction, etc.,' and

we will print it in' the Michigan Farm-

er some time in July.



Mr. Marston will meet the tourists

in Bay City late in the afternoon of

Monday, August 9. Both a camp and

hotel accommodations will be provid-

ed, as desired by each individual tour-

ist. Tuesday, breakfast at Bay City.

Stop for dinnel‘ at Standish. Stop for

buttermilk at Whittemore (my! that

sounds good). Stop for inspection of

PreScott Farm Shorthoms. Tawas—

swim at Tawas Beach or at State Park.

Supper at camp. Dance at pavilion

at Tawas Beach.



Wednesdy, August 11.——Breakfast at

East Tawas. Visit AuSable River

Dam. Pass through Oscoda, AuSable,

and stop for lunch and farmers’ picnic

by the lake at Lincoln. Pass through

to Alpena for supper, night camp and

breakfast.



Thursday forenoon tourists will be

given a tour of Alpena, and will have

dinner at Alpena State Park. Drive

to Rodgers for supper, lodging and

breakfast. Friday the tourists will

drive to and visit State Park at Ona-

way, where-they will have lunch. That

day they will see some of the fine ap-

ple orchards of Cheboygan county,





 





 





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A truck will accompany ~‘tlie





east pike tour with baggage, Md?"





elude repair men in attendance .on the .





trip.

East. pike tourists will have four

options. Board and lodging furnished;

board alone; lodging alone . And those

who have their own equipment} for

cooking and sleeping in and around

the car will be independent. The price

cf mealsiand lodging will be announc-

ed later on. \ Meals will be served

camp style, and a lodging tent provid-

ed for each family. This plan has

just been Submitted to us by Mr. Marty.

ton.





tour. Those who- take that trip will

surely have one Of the times of their

lives and know far more about that

wonderful northern country by the

time they get back home. .



Those who go up the weSt pike will

assemble at Reed’s Lake late in the

afternoon of Monday, August 9.~ The





writer will head a good-sized delega-





tion of tourists and cars from around





Battle Creek and that section. Both»





H. J. Gray, secretary-treasurer of the

Michigan Tourist and Resort Associa-

tion, and John I. Gibson”, secretary of

the Western Michigan Development

Bureau, will look after the comfort

and entertainment of the west pike

tourists as soon as they reach Grand

Rapids. Tourists’ camps will be set

up at each night control or camping

site, and some will be ideal permanent

camps built eSpecially for motor car

tourists.



Our first night will be at Reed’s

Lake, Tuesday night at Manistee, and

Wednesday we expect; to reach Trav-

erse City in the early afternoon. Here

we will camp two nights and thus

spend a whole day (Thursday) at

Traverse City. Our flue tourist camp

will be located beside the delightful

bay, and Mr. Gibson has promised us

some enjoyable stunts that we will

call attention to in these colunms lat-

er on. However, a finefish dinner and

one or more side trips on and around

the bay, up to Old Mission, etc., are

in the list of treats that every tourist.

will enjoy. Traverse City folks are





going to give us the glad hand, and '





that’s enough mention for a starter. ‘





Music and Speaking will be on the

camp program at nearly every night's

camp on both pike tours. Farmers in

the sections we pass through are invit-

ed to join us and attend the camp

meetings along the way. .



We would be pleased to'have every

farmer along both routes set out along

the road in front of his home certain

signals and a small American Flag.

Later on we will arrange a plan where-

by the signals'in front of each home

may indicate that the owner is a mem-

ber of the Farm Bureau, Grange, takes

the Michigan Farmer, etc. Certain in-

dividuals in each pike tour will have

a handy record tablet and mark down

the signal indications all along the

way. It will be interesting to report

in the Michigan Farmer later what

the records show. Each farmer, or his

son or daughter, will know just when

these tourists will pass by their farm

homes and when “tweet the flags and

signals. " , .





Those who wish to take this ' trip





should write me at Battle Creek, Mich.





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products by their users-





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houses to destroy disease germs

and maintain good health condi-

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HIS. six by elghtdoot colony

house has proved its value

whereithasbeen’used. Itisa

gabto-root house. with the root doors

on one side to be opened for‘sunlight.



The colony hog house has made it-

self almost indispensable through its

adaptability to varied conditions.

When properly built and; used, this

type of piggery has proved very suc-

cessful. Proper housing is essential

in live stock raising of any kind and

more especially swine. Dry, sanitary,





- comfortable conditions must be pro-





vided if one wishes the best returns in

the pork producing business.



Build the plank floor first. Timbers

four inches square for the outside

make excellent runners and a two by

four in the center stiffens the frame.



Next comes the framing work, which

is made of two by four lumber. This

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The size of doorway is twenty-four byr





thirty'inches, but may be made larger,

and: higher, especially by building the

sides higher, say six inches or so.

Some of the large breeds demand





higher doorways than Specified.





In cold weather a piece of burlap or

ducking hung at the top of the door,

with a stick a. little shorter than the

width of the door nailed- across the bot-

tom to prevent the wind blowing it

back, will help materially to keep the





pigs warm. The pigs will soon learn





to lift the curtain when they want to

go through. The board doors would

not then need to be closed except in

very bad weather, or while the pigs

are very small.



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feet high and are placed at equal dis~

tances, or about two feet eight inches

apart. The two by four rafters are

set shown with a center three feet

eleven inches apart. 0n the north

slope, or Opposite the slope where the

doors or windows are to be placed,

there should be some sort of a wind

brace in between the rafters so as to

keep the house rigid at all times.



The siding material used is a ten-

inch dressed shiplap. This material

can be used all over the house for the

doors, roof and siding and will result

in a good tight and warm building that

will be free from drafts.



The roof doors, which are on the

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gun 010p Improvement Associa-

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to distant states to Inocure seed for

Wolverine g1owers, look so fa1 afield

as Scandinavia for a needed variety.



A. L. ‘Bibbins, of the M. A.‘ C. farm

crops department, secretary of the as-

sociation, has announced that it is pos-

sible that hairy vetch seed, of which

there is a marked scarcity throughout

America this year, may be secured

from north European countries in time

for this season’s use.

, A temporary option, subject to in-

spection, has been placed on this sup-

ply and arrangements. have been made

with the seed department of the Mich-

igan Farm Bureau, headed byJ. W.

Nicolson, for distribution to farmers

of the state. The price has not been

definitely set, but it is expected to run

from twenty-eight to thirty cents per

pound.



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' ity. Persons interested sham mall





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by fastening two by four pieces flat-

wise to the sides and ends about six

inches from the door. They are made

removable. ‘



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is provided by leaving an opening of ,





moderate size beneath the ridge pole,

protected by nailing a. wide triangular

board under and flush with the edge

of the extending roof boards. The Wind

is prevented by this arrangement from

sweeping through the house.



This kind of a house needs two coats

of paint. It will thus last longer and

look better and will prove to be a

good investment if cared for properly.

An occasional spraying of the inside

walls acts as a preservative for the





wood and as a disinfectant in the-





eradication of 'lice and mange. Cre—

osote oils are commonly used for this

work.





M. A. C. News Letter





S ELDOM do officers of the Michi- -





Scrap sugar, needed by bee-keepers,

is becoming exceedingly scarce, accord-

ing to B. F. Kindig, of the M. A. C.





entomology department. Several firms .





have stated that they have no scrap

sugar at all to sell.



“This 1esolves our problem,” says

Mr. Kindig, “into two alternatives.

either we can go on the open market

and purchase cane sugar at the prevail~

ing prices or we must keep our eyes

open for damaged sugar which some-

times can be found at freight houses

or wholesale houses. Beekeepers will

have to watch these places carefully

in order to secure the scrap sugar that

accumulates there, because I am in-

formed that candy manufacturers and

other interests are constantly on the

lookout for this class of product. Many

of our losses this past winter are due

to the bees not having sufficient stores.

We must not let that occur again. if

we; can help it.” ,.Hnnsnsw.





   





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At what time should the white blos-

som sweet clover be sown, and how

does one tell when the hay is ready

to cut, how many crops a year, etc.

Please give full- particulars.



Subscriber.

The white blossom biennial sweet





clover may be seeded successfully at





, any time from early spring until the





middle of the summer, provided condi-

tions are right and thorough,p1epara-

tions have been made. Three things

are necessary: lime, inoculation and

scarified seed. 'The same soil condi-

tions must prevail as would be neces-

sary for the successful seeding of al-

falfa; except that sweet clover seems

to thrive better in a soil low in organic-

matter than alfalfa. Plenty of lime

must be used. Probably two tons per

acre would be the minimum applica-

tion. Seed may be sown alone or with

a. light grain crop. If seeding is made

after the latter part of April. it would

be best to seed alone.



If the chop is cut for hay, two cut-

tings may be obtained if the first cut~

ting is made early enough and care is

taken to cut the stubble about six inch-

es high. This is necessary because of

the fact that your secOnd growth





left and not from the crown of the

plant. The usual way is to make hay

out of the first growth and cut the

second crop for seed or pasture it.

The first cutting should be made usu-

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TITLE ABSTRACTS.





My wife’s parents died a short time

ago, leaving a little real estate.

being the only child and heir what

would be the least expensive and yet

legal way to have her name appear on

the abstract of title, 01 is them no

other way than through the probate

court?——B. D.



Abstracts are only abridgements of

what appears on the records. There

are many titles that do not appear ‘of

record. Inheritance is one, marriage

is another, homestead is another, ad-

verse possession is another. The pro-

bating of the estate bars all claims for

debts of the deceased, and the pro-

bate proceedings may be included in

the abstract; but conveyance by the

heirs without any probate proceedings

would pass whatever title they had;

which would be the whole title subject

to possible debts. J .R. R.





 





STOCK 0N HIGHWAYS.





 





There have been several cases here

of cattle and horses killed and inju ad

by autos. Kindly give the laws re at-

ing to live stock running on the high-

ways. Can a man take cattle off the

highway, or does he have to wait until

they get in his crop? There seems to

be many who make a practiCe of allow-

ing their stock to run on the road

where some have no road fences. How

far from the road does a man have to

plant trees in order to not have them

cut down by the telephone company?

They cut them .down here f01 about

five miles and dropped them right in

the ditches or anywhere. Some nice

maples of ten to fifteen years’ growth

have been trimmed up by the county.





'I have a nice grOwth along part of the

front of my farm, and put up a notice

.to not cut anything out, but the notice





has been torn down .-—H.

‘ By Comp. Laws, (1915), Sec. 7447;

any resident freeho‘lder of the town





' may take up 9* w horses, mules, and

gasses, going at large any time of year,

land may take up stray cattle. ’





 





comes from the buds on the stubble ’





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:1. che1wise, private citizens have no

right to take the animals of others not

found on their own premises. A per- .

son negligently killingstoCk of another . "

in the road is liable in damages.



: The statute provides that shade .

trees shall be planted from twenty-~

three to twenty-five feet from the 0611- ,

ter of the road. Telephone companies

have been héld liable for injuries to

trees along the road in putting up and

maintaining their lines. ‘J. R. R.

LINE FENCE.





 





A and B own adjoining farms, and ‘ ' 1,;-

A has notified B to keep his sheep and " .

heroes off his, A’,s land. B hes built

his portion of the line fence but A has

not put up his half. A’s land is fenced -.

on the other three sides. This is wild '

land and no crops on it. Can B be

compelled to keep his sheep and hors-

es off of A's land, or put up A's por-

tion of the fence ?—0. G. P.



If the line has ‘b en duly divided,

and the part assigned .to one has been

built by him, he! can hove an order by

the fence viewers that the other build

his half, and if it is not done he may

himself build it, and have the cost .

added to the other’s taxes, or he may 1

let his cattle run as in this case. .-



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I own property that fronts on lake,

and also runs into the lake. Last

summer a. lumber company were raft—

ing some logs when a storm came up

and most of the logs in the raft were

lost. Now some of these logs wash’ed

up on my property, and after leaving

them there till this winter I hauled

them to the saw mill. A man in this

place bought these logs from the lum- 5

her company and now he claims them ‘1

at the mill. What rights have I in re-

gard to these logs ?~E. M.



The logs belong to the purchaser

from the lumbercompany. The in-





quirer has no rights. J. R. R.





WHEN INTEREST IS DUE.





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A note running four or five years

bears interest at‘six per cent, with no

mention made as‘ to when this interest

should be paid. Can the holder ofthis

note collect interest annually, and if

so can he collect interest on unpaid in-

terest, or is the giver of the note with-

in his legal rights when he pays the

total amount of interest at the, time

the note matures ?——A. F.



In thelabsence of agreement to the

contrary, the interest is all due when

the principal is due}, and there is no 5

interest on the interest. J. R. R. ,- 3





CLAIMS AGAINST ESTATE.





 





Can a wife collect a note from her

husband’s estate, the money being :

loaned to him before their marriage? l

Also, what part of real and personal

property does a widow hold in Michi-

gan, if there are no children and no

nearer kin than cousins'Z—A. B.





The widow would have the same

rights as any other creditor. The bus > -, 5

band’s debts to' her are not cancelled 3 i

by the marriage. She should prove _

her claim to the probate court, and < ,

get an order that it be paid by the ad- , 7

ministrator. 7 J. R. R. ’





 





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We have bought a farm on contract

intending to have a. joint deed. When

my husband made contract it was be-

tween the former owner and himself.

In case of my husband’s death would

I receive contract? How would it be

settled, and also personal property? .,

Could contract be made a joint con~» -

tract ilk—Mrs. . ,~





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CHAPTER 1:. .

0R many years there had- been in-

stalled in Cardlsnn’s mill a: clock

set to United States observatory





graph company. It was the only clock

of its kind in Sequoia; henoe'tolhs set

their watches by it. or rather by the

whistle on Cardigan’s mill. With a

due appreciation of the important func-

tion of this clock toward his fellow-cit

izens, old Zeb Curry, the chief engi-

neer and a stickler for being on time,

was most meticulous in his whistle-

With ‘a sage and prohpetic

eye fixed upon the face of the clock,





1' - and a particularly greasy hand grasp-





ing the whistle-cord. Zeb would wait

until the clock registered exactly six-

flfty—nine and a balk-whereupon the

seven-o’clock whistle would commence

blowing, to cease instantly upon the





stroke of the hour.





It was old Zeb’s pride and boast that

with a single exception, during the 8111*

teen years the clock had been in ser-

vice, no man could say that Zeb had

been more than a second late or early





tion occurred when Bryce Cardigan, in-

vading the engine-room while Zéb was





until the end dangled seven feet above

ground. As a consequence Zeb, who

was a short, fat little man, was forced

to leap at it several times before suc-

cess crowned his efforts and the whis





tle blew. Thereafter for the remaind-





er of the day his reason tottered on

its throne, due to the fact that Bryce

induced .eyery mill employe to call

upon the engineer and remind him

that he must be growing old, since he

was no longer dependable!



On the, morning ‘following Bryce

Cardigan’s return to Sequoia, Zeb Cur

ry, as per custom, started his engine

at six-fiftyeight. That gave the huge

bandsaws two minutes in which to at-

tain their proper speed and afforded

Dan Kenyon, the head sawyer, ample

time to run his steam log-carriage out

to the end of the track; for Daniel,

too, was a reliable man in the matter

or starting his daily uproar on time.



At precisely six fifty-nine and a half,

therefore, the engineer’s hand closed

over the handle of the whistle-cord,

and Dan Kenyon, standing on the

steam-carriage with his sand on the

lever, took a thirty-second squint

through a rather grimy window that

gave upon the drying-yard and the

mill-office at the head of it.



The whistle ceased blowing, but Dan

Kenyon stood at his post, oblivious of

the hungry saws. Ten seconds passed;

then Zeb Curry, immeasurably scan-





' dalized at Daniel’s tardiness, tooted





the whistle sharply twice; wheieupon

Dan woke up,. threw over the lever,

and walked his log up to the saw.

For the next five heurs Zeb .Curry.

had no opportunity to discuss the mat-

ter with the head sawyer. After blow-

ing the twelve o’clock whistle, how-

ever, he hurried over to the dining-

hall, where the mill hands already lin-

ed the benches, shoveling food into

their mouths as only a lumberman

Kenyon sat at

the head of the table in‘ the place of





- honor sacred to the head sawyer, and





when his mouth would permit of some

activity other than ‘mastication, Zeb

Curry caughthis‘eye.





ed across the table, “what-happened

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time and corrected hourly by the tele- ,





with his whistle-blowing. That excep- .





at luncheon, lobped the whistle-cord .





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o’ youm."





replied. “I just stood there like one

0’ those here graven images. Last

night on my. way home from work I

heerd the young teller was back-ehe

got in Just as we was knocking off for

the day; an’ this momin’ just as you

cut loose, 'Zeb, ‘ I’ll be danged if he

didn’t show up in front 0‘ the office

door, fumblin’ for the keyhole. Yes,

siree: That boy gets in at six o’clock

last night an? turns to on his paw’s

job when the whistle blows this mom-

in’ at seven.”



“You mean young Bryce Cardigan?”

Zeb snarled incredulously.



j‘l shore do.” '



“ ’Tain’t possible," Zeb declared.

“You seen a new bookkeeper. mebbe,

but you didn’t see Bryce. He ain’t

no such hog for labor as his daddy be—

fore him, I'm tellin’ you. Not that

there’s a lazy bone in his body, for

there ain’t, but because that there

boy's got too much sense to come bol-

lin’ down to work at seven o’clock the

very first mornin’ he’s back from Yur—

run.”



“I’m layin’ you ten to one I seen

him,” Dan replied defiantly, “an’ what’s

more, I'll bet a geod cigar—a ten-cent-

er straight—the boy don’t leave till

six o’clock tonight.”



“You’re on,” answered the chief en-

gineer. “Them’s lumber-jack hours,

man. From seven till six means work





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Bill Smith was just a P-V-T

A—servlng in the Infantry

And taking orders under me.





A simple cuss he seemed to me;

I never thought that he could be

A teacher of philosophy,





 





Till suddenly one awful night,

In rain and cold and sorry plight,

The Boche attacked upon our right.





Then just before that bloody fight

Bill scrawled this note by candlelight:

(I censored it with blurring sight).





“Dear Ma,” he wrote, “here's just a

line



To.let you know I’m feeling fine.



This kind of life is hard to beat.



You ought to see the way I eat;



,But then we’ve got the finest chow



In all the army anyhow.



They feed us meat and eggs and cakes



Until we all have tummyaches.



Our grub is always piping hot;



That stuff is all a lot Of rot



About our being poorly fed,



And using pigpens for a bed.



Why, listen, Ma, I’m sleeping high



Up where it’s nice and warm and dry;



It’s in a dandy old chateau ,



Where princes slept not long ago.



There’s shower baths and everything





, That I could wish, it I were king.





It sure is great to see the way

The mail from home comes in each





ay;

I guess I’ve had my' full share, too.

Most every day I hear from you.

blow. don’t you worry, Ma, for me;

Im Just as safe as. safe can be. ‘

For we are miles in the rear

And far from any danger here.

I guess the bloomin’ war’ll stop

Before I once go o’er the top.

I’m Just as' happy as can be.

This soldier-life agrees with me.

So, smile, Ma, ’twill’ not be long

Until we sing the Victor’s song,

And greatwlll be your pride and joy

To greet your grown-up little boy.”





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I kept my eye on the office door—I can





tellin’ you the old boss didn't show up

till, ten o'clock, which the Old man

ain’t never been a. ten o’clock business

man atno time. Don’t that prove the

boy’s took his place?" '

Confused murmurs of aflirmation

and negation ran up and down the

long table. Dan tapped with his knife

again» “You hear me,” he warned.

“Thirty year I’ve been ridin’ John Car-

digan’s log-carriages; thirty year I’ve

been gettin’ everythin’ out of a log

it’s possible to git out, which is more’n

you tellers at the trimmers can git

out of a board after I've sawed it of!

the cant. There’s a lot 0' you young

tellers that’ve been takin’ John Cardi-

gan’s money under false pretenses, so

if I was you I’d keep both eyes on my

job hereafter. For a year I’ve been

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tivity, of human endeavor; and to him

111 that moment came the thought:

‘My father brought all this to pass—

and I'iow the task of continuing it is

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been chucked into the slab-fire as ref— I





uge lumber.” (Dan meant refuse lum-

ber). “But it won’t be done no more.

The raftsman tell me he seen Bryce

down at the end 0’ the conveyin’ belt

givin’ that refuge the once:over——so

step easy."



“What does young Cardigan know

about runnin’ a sawmill?” a planer-

man demanded bluntly. “They tell me

' he’s been away to college an’ travelin’

the past six years.”



“We-ll,” drawled the head sawyer,

“you git to talkin’ with him some day

an’ see how much he knows about

runnin’ a sawmill. What he knows

will surprise you. Yes, indeed, you'll

find he knows considerable.>He’s pick-

ed up loose shingles around the yard

an’ bundled ’em in vacation'times, an’

I want to see the shingle-weaver that

can teach, him some tricks. Also, ‘I’Ve

had him come up on the steam car-

riage more"n once an’ saw up logs,

while at times I've seen him put in a

week .or two on the sortin’ table. In

a pinch, with a lot 0' vessels loadin’

here at the dock-an 'the skippers rais-

in’ Cain because they Wasn’t gettin’

their cargo fast enough, I’ve seen him

work nights an’ Sundays tallyin’ with

the best 0’ them. Believe me, that

boy can grade lumber."

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went out‘had betterkeepyour eyes

open,” Dan Kenyon warned '. eagely.

3“There ain’t none 0" you any better’n

you ought to be, an” thingshave been

pretty durned slack around‘Cardig‘an’s

mill since the old man'went blind,j‘but

~4you watch out. There’s a 'change

due. Bryce Cardigan is his father’s

sun. He'll do things ”



“Which he’s big enough to throw a

bear uphill by the tail,” Zeb Curry ad—

ded, 2111' you fellers all know how much

tail a bear has.”



“Every' mornin’ ’for ’thirty years,

’ceptin’ when we was shut) down for

repairs,” Dan continued, “I’ve looked

through that winder, when John Car—

digan wasn’t away from Sequoia, to

watch him git to his office on time.

He's there when the whistle blows,

clear up to the time his eyes go back

on. him, an’ then he arrives late once

or twice on account 0’ havin’ to go

careful. This mornin’, for the first

time in fifty year,

but—his son has the key in the office

door when the whistle blows, an’——”



Dan Kenyon paused abruptly; the

hum of conversation ceased, and si-

lence fell upon the room as Bryce Car-

digan strolled in the door, nodded to

the men, and slid in on the bench to a

seat beside the head sawyer. . .

he said





“Hello, Dan~—hello, Zeb,”

and shook hands ‘with each. “I’m

mighty glad to see you both again.





Hello, everybody. 'I’m the new boss,

so I suppose. I’d better introduce my—

self, there are so many new faces here.

I’m Bryce Cardigan



“Yes," Zeb Curry volunteered, “an’

he's like his daddy. He ain’t ashamed

to work with his men, an’ he ain’t

ashamed to eat with his men, nuther.‘

Glad you’re back with us again, boy——

mighty glad. Dan, here, he’s gittin’

slacker’n an old squaw with hiswork

an’ needs somebody to jerk him up,

while the rest 0’ these l1ere~—”



“I noticed that about Dan.” Bryce

interrupted craftily. “He’s slowing up,

Zeb. He must have been fifteen sec-

onds late this morning—or perhaps,”

he added, “you were fifteen seconds

earlier than the clock.”





Dan grinned, and Bryce went on ser~

iously: “I’m afraid you’re getting too

old to ride the log-carriage, Dan. You

have been at it a long time; so, with

the utmost good will in the world to-

ward you, you’re fired. I might as

well tell you now. You know me, Dan.

I always did dislike beating about the

bush.”



“Fired!” There was unmistakable

finality in Bryce tones. “You’re hired

again, however, at a higher salary, as

mill-superintendent. You can get away

with that job, can’t you, Dan? In fact,”

he added without waiting for the over—

joyed Dan to answer him, “you’ve got

to get away with it, because I discharg-

ed the mill-superintendent I found on

“the job when I got down, here this

morning. He’s beenletting too many

profits go into the slab-fire. In fact,

the entire plant has gone to glory.

Fire-hose old and -rotten———couldn't

stand a hundred-pound pressure; fire-

buckets and water-barrels empty, axes

not in their proper places, fii‘e- extin-

guishers filled with stale chemical——

why, the smallest kind of a file here

would get beyond our control with that

man on the job. Besides, he’s changed

the grading rules. I found the men

putting clear boards‘with hard-grained

streaks in them in with, the No. 1

clear. The customer may not kick at

a small percentage of No. 2 in his No.

.1 but it’s only fair to give it to him at

two dollars a thousand less "





“Well ” purred Zéb Curry,‘ “they





 





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ietailers hollered for a while, ,.

bimeby they got used. to it. " »



“Did my father join that, associa-

tion. 7" Bryce demanded quickly



“Yes. He told Pennington he Wasn ’t

goin’ to be no obstructionmt in the

trade, but he did kick like a. bay steer

on, them new gradin-rules an” refused

toconform to ’em. 'Said he was too ‘

old Lan’ had been too long in business

to start gougin’ his customers at his

timero’ life. So he got out 0’ the asso-

elation. ”



“Bully for John .Caidigan!" Bryce

declared. “I suppose we could make

a little more money by cheapening our





grade, but the quality of our lumber is,





so well known that it sells itself and.

saves us the expense of maintai'ning a

corps of salesmen.” I



“From what I hear tell 0’ the’ Col—

onel,” Dan observed sagely, “the‘ least

he ever wants is a hundred and fifty

pei cent the best of it”



1“Yes,” old Zeb obsexved giavely,

“an’ so fu1 as I can see, he ain’t none

t00 particular how he gets it.” "He

helped himself to a toothpick, and fol-

lowed by the head sawyer, abruptly

left the room—~after the fashion of

sawmill men and woodsmen, who eat

as much as they can as quickly as they

can and eventually die of'old age rath-

er than indigestion. 'Bryce ‘ ate his

noonday meal in more leisurely fash-

ion and ‘at its conclusion stepped into

the kitchen.



“Where do you live, cook?” he de-

manded of that functio‘nary; andIupon

being informed, he retired to the 0f—

fice and called up the Sequoia meat—

mmket.



“Bryce Caldigan speaking,” he in-

f01 med the butchel “Do you buy any

pigs from our mill cook?”



“Not any more,” the butcher answer-

ed. “He stung me once with a. dozen

fine shoats. They looked great, but

after ‘I had slaughtered --them and had

them dressed, they turned out to be

swill‘fed hogs—swim and alfalfa.”





”Thank you.” Bryce hung up. “I

knew that cook was wasteful,” he de«

clared, turning to his father’s old man-

ager, one Thomas Sinclair. “He wastes

food in order to take the swill home

to his hogs—and nobody watches him.

Things have certainly gone to the

devil,” he continued.



“No fault of mine,” Sinclair protest—

ed. “1’ ve never paid any attention to

matters outside the office. Your father

looked after everything else.”



Bryce looked at Sinclair. The latter

was a thin, spare, nervous man in the

late fifties, and though generally cred-

ited with being John Cal‘digan’s man-

ager, Bryce knew that_S_inclair was in

reality little more than a glorified

bookkeeper—and a very, excéllent

bookkeeper indeed. Bryce realized

that in the colossal taskihat confront-

ed him he could expect no real help

f1 om Sinclair.



“Yes, ” he replied, “my father looked

after everything else-while he could.”



“Oh, you’ll soon get the business

stiaightened out and running smooth—

ly again,” Sinclair declared quite con-

fidently. ' , ' j



“Well, I’m glad I started on the job





wtoday, rather than next Monday, as I





planned to do last night.”

He stepped to the window and 100k-

ed out. At the mill dock a big steam

schoOner and a wind- jammer lay;

the lee of the, piles of lumber, sailors

and longshoremen, tallymen and time—

keeper lounged, enjoying the brief pe-

ried 0f_ the noon hour still theirs be-

fore .the driving mated off the lumber-

vessels should turn them to on the job.

does more. To his right and left

stretched the drying yard, gangway on ,

corned by the some my?





 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





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As 13ch 10011911, , a: puff of White

‘steam appearedover the roof-sot the

old sawmill, and thé"m»9'¢19¢11‘"hfsi

‘tle bie'w.‘ instantly that scene of m-

dolence and ease turned to one of ac-

, tivity. The mill-hands lounging in the

gangways scurried ior the stations in

the mill; ~men climbed to the tops of

the lumber-piles,- while other men pass-

ed boards and“ scantlings up to them;

the donkey-engines aboard the vessels

rattled; the cargo-galls of the steam

schooner swung outward, and a mo-





   





 

 

   





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.311; a 't :13ch were scenes .of ac-

tiv’it’ypo‘f- human—endeavor; and to him .

in that moment came ‘ the thought: .

' “My. father brought all this to pass——

and now the taisk of continuing it is

mine!‘ All those men who earn a liv- ‘

ing in Cardigan’s mill and on Cardi-

gam's dock—ethose sailors who sail the

ships that carry Cardigan’s lumber in- '

to the distant marts of trade—are de-

pendent upon me; and my father used

to tell me not to fail them. Must'my

father: have wrought all this in vain? .

And must I stand by and see all this -

go to satisfy the overwhelming ambi-. i'

His big hands ' ’





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





ment later two .great sling-loads of tion of «a stranger?"

.- , ' newly sawed lumber rose in the air, clenched.

(Continued next week).





   

   

 

 





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Our Weekly Sermon)





By N. A. McCurze





RANCHMAN in Montana sent to Chicago for a. fur overcoat.

His tailor let the making of the coat to a Jew. Smallpox

broke out in the JeW’s shop, the germs were carried in the

overcoat to Montana, and the ranchman died. In a town where the

writer lived was a man who kept a cow and sold milk to a few

families. Every child using the cow’s milk was sick. It was then

found that the stable where the cow was kept was in a filthy con-

dition. A quarrel between tWo nations sprang up in Europe. It be-

gan in a town scarcely anyone in America had heard of, and whose

name no one could pronounce. But before the quarrel was over,

men had to go from America, three thousand miles away, to settle

it. We live close together. We are neighbors whether we want to

be, or not. . We influence each other, even when we do not want

to be influenced. There are some families, perhaps, in your neigh-

borhood, with whom you do not associate. They are not the sort

of people whom you incline to know intimately But your children

., - . associate with their children. In school they sit side by side. Your

7, ' boy brings home words and habits that he acquired from that

source. If you get desperate and move away, as I know of one

family doing, you may movealongside some family more objection—

able than the one you left. If being a neighbor is such a vital

matter, it may be well to inquire, what kind of neighbor am 1?

Maybe someone is preparing to move, because they do not like my

family. It is an art to be a neighbor.



The story of the Good Samaritan, told in Saint Luke, is one of

the most pungent and powerful stories Jesus ever told, and that is

saying much, for Jesus was a master of the short story. In this

story he says that a neighbor is anyone whom you can help. If that

was important in Christ’s time, it is a thousand mm more so now.



- People lived far apart then. They were separated by great dis-

tances. There are no great distances now. We live close together.

We contact fifty people now, for one in Christ's time. ” What af-

fects a man in Michigan, will affect his brother-in-law in Texas, We

. are tied together by an army of forces, social, business, racial and

- , class, and we cannot escape. When the switchmen go on strike,

it keeps the flour out of your bin, the coal out of your cellar, and



, - you cannot ship your stock.



A mean neighbor can make us a. heap of trouble. though we

never saw him, and he lives five hundred miles away.





HERE are no “local ills” any more. What is local this even-

ing may be a world cume by morning. We are told by good

authority that if the churches of the United States had spent a mil-

lion dollars in sending missionaries to Russia twenty-five years ago,

y to gpread the gospel of good will and peace, that the results would

. -—-' have been sufiiciént' to offset the Bolshevist frenzy. Why is China

.. l not a menace to the world, like Russia? She has more people,

“ ‘f; y, . they are at least as ignorant, and they have grievances enough.

'i . Well, one reason is, many of the Chinese leaders have been influ-

4, enced by Christian ideals. In fact, not a few of the men in high

'j} ‘ office are professing Christians. 'Y. M. C. A. men and others have

, ‘ spoken to thousands of Chinese students, and theSe meetings are

. . “frequently presided over by government officials, and are some-

' times held in. government buildings. There has been some good

neighboring of China, by Americans. '

Christ taught that to love God aright is the art of arts. And

next to that is the art of loving our neighbor. It must be a great

- art, it we are to love him as we do ourselves. Most people love

themselves enough. John A. Andrew, war governor of Massachu-

setts, said that he‘had never discriminated against a man because

he’was poor, or because he was ignorant, or because he was black.

. Probably if he were living now, he would add, or because he was

foreign-born. . An old couple lost their only son. A year later, they

were sitting‘by the lire one night, in silence and loneliness. Neither

open. It was the anniversary of the death of their boy. There

came a knock at the‘door, and a‘ big powerful man came in and

sat down; He livedvnear by. The excuse he made for coming was,

‘ that he thought they would like to try a few of his Baldwins. But

a the real, reason waa‘he remembered it was a year, since‘the fun-

eral. That mm is one or the best known statesmen in America

maths, TYNE. new: not doing it to make votes. ; He was un-

hit! an Werv,M' those words spoken so long ago,

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HERE’ S one sort of, propaganda

I’d like to see American women

start, and start right aWay. In~

deed, if they don’t start it and keep it

going day andnight for the next dec-

ade, they are going to be a lot of sorry

women. And the men~—Well, they’ll’be

much sorrier than the women. I refer

to a propaganda in favor of women

sticking to housework. .



I am fully aware that just at'present

this would not be a bit popular. With

publicity urging women to get out of

the home and into the trades, business

or profession, any movement suggest—

ing that the time-honored trades of

cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing

and mending are highly necessary and

demand women’s time and thought

would be frowned upon. But, then,

just what are we going to do if all the

women leave these lines of work and

go into factories, offices, schoolrooms

or studios? Someone has got to cook

and wash dishes, and you can jolly

well bet George won’t do it. And

there’s another highly necessary occu-

pation that must be carried on if we

don’t want this generation to be the

last. Women always have done that,

and an office or factory, it seems to

me, ‘would make amighty poor nursery.





Seriously, we’ve got to have homes in

the real sense of the word if we want

to continue American ideals. And we

can’t have a home without someone

right on the job to keep the wheels

oiled and running smoothly. A com-

munity kitchen that sends us our din-

ner, community laundries, and cleaners

who come in by the hour may rid us

of the hard work, if we have the mon-

ey to pay for this sort of service. But

few of us can pay the prices, and even

if we could, this sort of a life doesn’t

spell home. \Ve’ll hear a great deal

this summer about what America

needs, but in reality what America

needs most of all is for women to stop

running about trying to reform the

outside world and help stricken Eu-

rope, and to settle down in their own

workshops and sew on kiddies' buttons.





* Every mother of a daughter should





make it her business to talk up house-

Instead of starting the day with

a groan at the everlasting dishwash-





- ATURE knew just what our jad-

Ned spring appetite needed when



she started the first rhubarb

plan' and every home garden should

have a few of the roots. The leaves

are ornamental enough. for a, place

among the flowers and shrubbery, in

fact, they are quite as good looking as





5 the caladium, which is so commonly

’ used around cann’a beds in city parks.





Several years ago we set out a doz-





, en two- year-old roots that would cost





now about one dollar and fifty cents,

and they have increased in Sine until





’ they have furnished plenty of pie and

.sauce for a large family every spring

,since the second year. 0111‘s is 1150051

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111g, she should start it with a song of

thanksgiving that she has .the dishes

to wash; Even if she doesn’t feel

thankful, if .she’d really like .to pitch

every dish through the window, she-

has no right to let her daughter sense ‘

thise feeling of dissatisfaction. She

accepted the job of dishwashing when

she accepted- her wedding ring, and it

is up to her to make the best of‘it.



I’ll admit that housework has its

hours of drudgery, but what job hasn’t?

For the woman who is tired of dishes

and cleaning, I would recomend the

job of trying to teach the multiplica-





tion table to a child who, by rights, be '





longs in the schoo1 for the, mentally

deficient; To her who is sick and

tired of planning meals and thinking

of something different to eat, I would

suggest trying to think up something

new every week—or day—for a he-

editor who doesn’t know, anyway, what

women want on the so-called woman’s

page. Take it'from one who is humbly

trying to 1111 both jobs, getting some‘

thing for“ dinner that will satisfy the

family isn’t to be mentioned in the

same breath with writing something

which will get by the editor.“

Housekeeping -—- home—making —— 1s

just now under a cloud. Why'I don"t

know. There is no more necessary,

honorable, satisfyingwand just now





'more highly paid—trade or professiOn





if you wish to call it that, than this

first occupation of woman's. Let’s

start a propaganda in its .favor. Let’s

talk up housekeeping. not groan it-

down. Let’s pretend we like it even if

we don’t If we go about it in this

spirit, it will not be long before it will

have lost its tenors and we’ll be sur-

prised to find out we really like it

after all.





Above all, let’s not urge our- daugh-

ters to take up some other line of,

work. ‘ They’re bound to marry as the

sparks fly upward, and it will be ha‘rd-

er for them to settle down to home-

making if we‘ve got them used to some

other line of Work. Let’s’ try to make

it fashionable to be proud of our neat

homes and good cooking. It used to be

good-form to be an excellent house-

keeper. Let's make it‘so again.





DEBORAH.





Spring’ 3 First Fruit





By Lulu G. Parker





that is sheltered from north winds.





Ours extend along outside the chicken

yard fence, whe1e they are as orna-

mental as useful. \Ve mulch them





well with stable“ manure in the liz'e ~ A





fall. This is spaded under or remOv'ed-'

in the spring in order to get. early



stalks for the first pie.



- Last spring we cleai ed "the show off



from one end of the row, and set a.



barrel over one foot, banking it out--

side with horse manure. From under



the barrel we got long tender stalks



several weeks earlier than from the



rest of the bed erhaps a. small hot~ ,

bed franc with a 89.811 would have been





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making.- the more or ~

twice as far. We $3001: the rhubarb

sin: a mac water mm the little half-

inch slices breakdown into ,a mushy





‘ . half cup of sugar.





W. “have:- * and

pensive fruit go





 





sauce, and use it instead of water for

canning the berries. ‘The following

recipes are favorites in our family:



' Rhubarb and Ginger.



Wash and cut the stalks into inch

pieces. To each cup of fruit add one-~

» Boll five minutes

and add'one tablespoonful of candied

ginger. Boil three minutes longer.





. Use as pudding sauce or filling for





cake.

Baked Rhubarb.



Peel the stalks unless the skin is.

very tender and easily cut. Cut them

into inch lengths. Put into a deep

creek or pudding dish with one part

of sugar, two parts of fruit, or a little

more sugar if the sauce is liked quite

sweet. Do not add water. Stand the

crock or dish in a pan of boiling water





' to keep the rhubarb from burning, and





set it in the oven. Bake until the



stalks are clear, but whole. This makes



a. pretty pink sauce and takes less sug-



ar than when it is stewed. A little



lemon juice, or the yellow peel of a



lemon may be added as a flavor.

Rhubarb Meringue.



Stew one pint of rhubarb stalks or

bake it as above. While very hot re-

move it from the fire and add one ta-

blespo‘onful of butter and a few drops





Means to Govern the Child





N Rocéwaod





By Ella E.





0 claim that a child can be gov-



erned entirely by love and moral



suasion is to set at variance the

wisdom of one supposed to have been

the wisest man who ever lived. Yet

there is a growing theory which is be-

ing borne out by actual practice that

children do yield to gentler influences

than. those advocated by the aforesaid

wise man, and that by appealing to the

better instincts, commending the good

qualities rather than amusing antagon-

ism by direct opposition when unde-

sirable tendencies are manifested, the





child is led along in the desired direc'





tion unfolding and developing its life

as no doubt nature intended.



It is impossible to say what would

have been the result in any given case

had an opposite course been pursued,

but it is undoubtedly true that many

children possessed of a violent temper

had it made worse instead of better by

being ruled by force. A case of this

nature calls for rare good judgment

and self-control on the part of the par-

ent. If by any degree of tactfulness

an outbreak can be avoided and the

child safely guided past the danger

signal, it Is the far better method to

pursue.



There are occasions however, when

a firm hand is necessary, even so far

as to follow the Wise man’s advice. Yet

is is doubtful if whipping a child ever

did any real good, although it usually

furnishes a. convenient safety valve

for the temper of the parent.



The older one grows the more syn»

pathy one has for children. This is





why gl’ilndparents are usually not in





favor of much punishment. Things

look different than they used to, and

minor offenses seem insignificant

enough even to be overlooked entirely

rather than to indulge in a hand-to—

hand encounter which some otherwise

eicellent parents seem to consider a.

necessary accompaniment to good gov-

ernment. ' ’ °



One little girl who'is of a rathdr ner-

vous, exitabla temperament yields ,. in-





stantly whenever ‘matters are an:





preaching a crisis if it is suggested





0 ' » that-she go and but on her; very best





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yolks of thre'é’eggs very light and‘whip





them into the rhubarb. Whip the _





whites of the eggs to a stiff froth and

fold them into the mixture. Turn (the

whole into a pudding dish, set the dish

in a pan of hot water and bake in a.

slow oven for fifteen minutes. Serve

with cream. ‘ '





Rhubarb Brown Betty.



Wash enough rhubarb to make three

cups when cut into small pieces. Stir

into the stalks one and one-third cup‘

fuls of sugar. Melt two tablespoon-

fuls of butter and stir it into one and

onohalf cupfuls of bread Crumbs. Put

a layer of buttered crumbs on the bot-

tom of a shallow pudding dish, cover

with a layer of rhubarb, then more

crumbs, and alternate the rhubarb and

crumbs till all is used. Have the top

layer of crumbs. Cover and bake in a

slow oven for half an hour. Serve

warm with sugar and cream.



One-crust Pieplant Pie.



Stew the pieplant until soft. To two

cups of the sauce beat in one table-

spoonful of flour, yolks of two eggs,

and sugar to taste. Line a pie pan

with crust, pour in the mixture, dot

the top with bits of butter, and bake

until firm like custard. Beat whites

of the eggs to a stiff froth, with two

tablespoonfuls of sugar; Spread over

the pie, return to the oven, and allow

it to remain until it is a ‘ delicate

brown. Serve cold.





tractable child imaginable. Her moth—

er considers this better than having a.

scene or trying to conquer her by rea-

son of superior physical strength. Of-

ten the suggestion of. a visit to the

barn to see the calves or little lambs

or even to gather the eggs, answers

every purpose in routing the gather-

ing storm clouds.



I am reminded of a six-year—old who

was quite inclined to make things live-

ly if crossed in his wishes. Left to

himself he was goodness personified.

Yet he could not always be left to him-

self. Lying on the floor of .the living-

room he was amusing himself by lift-

ing first one foot then the other and‘

letting it drop heavily on the carpet.

His mother said nothing for a few

minutes, evidently thinking he would

turn his attention in some other direc—

tion. Finally, without even a sugges-

tion that he stOp making the noise she

said: “John, do you know there are

some roses: out there on that bush?

Don’t you want to go and pick some

for a bouquet?" John scrambled eag-

erly to his feet, his face fairly shining,

and was off after the roses. When he

came back he was too busy arranging

them in a bowl his mother provided

for the purpose, to even think of re!

suming his former occupation. 'Who;

shall say this is not a better way than'

so many “Don’ts ?” . ‘ -



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ceptible to the law of suggestion. Any

physician knows this, and it is model

useful in many ways by the medical 1

fraternity. Praise is better than fav“

finding. Emphasize the good, he gen-

erous even to a child with “Thank you,

dear,” ahd nine times out of ten it5

will respond readily to a parent’s wish-

es. I cannot believe any parent looks

back with satisfaction upon severe pun-

ishment of children;





 





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terthanayoaroldwouldbeableto

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I mean in case the mother was any .





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NE of the first things boys and

girls have to learn in this werld

is to meet hard things with a

cheerful heart. It is not always easy

to do it. Some folks, live as long as

they may, always dr0p right down the

mdment they feel the touch of trouble.

Have you ever seemthat funny little

plant that grows in low swampy plac-

es, often near the woods, which has

little seed pods which snap and fly

away out a. good many‘feet just as

soon as you put your finger on them?

It is quite that way with some men

and women. They “fly all to pieces” if

they are called upon to bear difficult

burdens. '



One of. our boys had a bit of experi-

ence once that gave him a pretty se—

vere test in that way. Grandfather

gave him a lamb, the way he had after

the boys got old enough ”to take care

of it. In due time Nan bore a lamb. It

was a pretty little thing and in fancy

the bOy saw the beginnings of a. good

big flock. Nan had-begun right, at

any rate, and why not count on her to

do still better by and by?



If ever a boy did take good care of

a lamb, our boy did of Nan’s lamb. He

surely was on hand every time the

feeding was to be done, and often be-

tween times, too. And the lamb did

fine. It got so it could nibble grass as

well as any of the sheep; and it was

that fresh green grass that proved to

be the undoing of Nan’s lamb. We had

a. board fence about the barnyard

whole the sheep ran. The panels hung

on iron hooks, quite the fashion in

those days.



Like a great many folks, the lamb

thought the glass on the other side of

the fence looked a great deal fresher

and greener than it did where she was.

And she liked to get down on her knees

and reach under the lower board of

the fence and nip the grass as far as

she could reach. That was the way

the other sheep did; why not she?



~One day the boy came scampering

from the sheep yard, with trouble

written all over his face.



“Come quick, Pa! Come!

lamb is caught and can’t get awayyfl



Sure enough. There wasgtftéflbeau-





fence with a heavy panel of'boar'ds





side, the panel had been lifted high





Nan’s





tiful little thing part way under the"





across her neck. Somehow while she.

had been eating the grass on the other;





The Trouble o a Big BO”





A Great Hope and T fie Em] it Came To—eny Uncle Ed.





enough to unlock it from the hook and

down it came, catching the lamband

choking it to death.



You can imagine how hard it was to

bear up against a. thing of that kind.

It takes'a stout heart to be brave un-

der such circumstances_,but our boy

was a man about it; We were proud

of his way of facing that big piece of





trouble. ~





After the first sting of the loss was

over, he set to work to do the best he

could for Nan’s lamb. He dug a deep

hole at one side of the yard, not far

from where the lamb had been caught,

hunted .up a nice smooth flat stone

from the little stream that ran through

the lane, and with a pencil of stone

put these words on the side of the

marker: .



“NAN’S LAMB.”



Since that time our- boy has had

many things to meet that were not

easy to be borne; but I am sure that

the brave and manly way in which he

faced that loss has helped him to take

with a courageous heart the more ser-

ious troubles that have been his lot.

For we do gain strength by meeting





hail and snow have pelted it.





 





 





 





hard things. It then want to get a tim-

ber for the inset of a: ship, they do

not go deep into the woods, for they

know that trees that grow there may

be tender and snap off when the wind

blows hard. But they seek the tree

that grows out in the open,- where the

storms have whipped it and wind and

There

they get a spar that will stand against

any tempest. , It is so with men. Test- ".

ing makes strong. ‘



But one thing we did after Nan’s

lamb was caught. We got some more

fence hboks, like lthose the panels

hung on, and put one ”above the sec-

ond board of the panel, with the hooks"

turned down. That prevented , the

sheep ever lifting any of the panels off.



In some such way as that'many of -

the most valuable suggestions come to

us. KThey are the result of accidents

like that which took the lamb away, or

they have ‘come because we had to

have them so that losses might be the

better withstood and prevented. It is

fine to keep one’s heart steady in the

time of testing. It leads to real man

liness of character.





 





 





Sire and Son Make

Breeding History





(Continued from first page). «I

pulled away from the thickly settled





.portions of the- country's developed





section where they have grown up, and

have turned their backs on the senti-

mental things of the past and gone to

a newer section to carve for them-

selves and' theirs a home and an in-

heritance. The great men of the na-

tion have been the offspring of pion-

eers, for the builders of a. country seem

to get more into life and get mere out

of it. They have usually been forced

to live in lean circumstances and earn

their bread by honest to goodness

perspiration. These "are people who





can appreciate best‘the good things of '





life that come to them. .



The subject of this story had such

surroundings as described above in his

youth and whatever of substance or

wealth the father attained has been

through. the Duroc~Jersey route .on

their western farm, and during the





 





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Encouraged by a thoughtful

father, Dwight Putman, at an _

early age gains national fame 0

as ,a swine judge.





young life of this breeder in embryo,

while the father was building» a herd

of Durocs and disseminating good

breeding stock to his neighbors all

over the west. After completing high

school this young man spent. some

time at the state university, taking

particularly a course in feeds and.

feeding of— swine and for a- time had

charge of the swine herd of the state -

institution. Scientific knowledge intel-

ligently applied is doing wonders’in

industry today and it

Was to add this to his store of experi-

ence on the farm and in the herdthat

he took this university course. Return-

ing to the herd he at once jumped into‘

their care and conditioning and in his

second year of that work had the pleas-'

tire of seeing a litter he had fitted

walk off with thehighest honors in ”the

futurity' show of Durocs Every year





since ,um dqtedhls firm has dr‘lyen ‘

purple winners into the great shows};-





 





of their own and neighboring states,
“ V - tinetions has-very rapidly decreased,





 

   





enough “to. $130ij

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It engendered the confidence that

could: harm beenjsecured in} no other

way. " ,0 : I 1’ ,A f . .



There is no denying the fact that



much of the success of this herd in

the past four or five years‘ has been

the result of this boy’s close applica-

tion to detail and his undivided inter-

est in the work in which his father



‘ was wise enough to give him a part

when his habits and likes were being

formed.



-It must have been with a good deal

of .pardonable pride 'that the subject

of, this sketch just passed his majority,

departed in September, 1919, with his

bride of a few weeks, to do the mag:

'ing of all breeds at three of the larg-

est fairs on the Pacific coast. We have

it from one of the best posted men in

the United States, who was present at

those fairs representing another breed,

that the young man acquitted himself

most creditably and gave general sat-

isfaction.



Has Dwight Putman made any mon-

ey out of the business, and has he the

vision of the hog business of the fu-

ture that looks good to him? I haven’t

talked with him on that subject but I

do know that he but recently turned

down an offer of a position that would

next year at least, if it didn’t this,

make him a clear salary of $10,000.

Why did he turn it down? He sees

more pleasure, more profit, more out-

come to the management of a good

herd of Durocs than he does in any

other job that has yet been offered.

This isn’t at all bad for a young man

who is sticking to his father's “trade”

and following in the footsteps of a

pioneer in Duroc building.





 





Sunshine Hollow Items





By Rube Rubicon





When the, storm struck Sunshine

Hollow, Norman Pierce was singing,

“Good-Bye My Blue Bell,” accompanied

by his Wife on the back porch. They

changed their tune to, “Oh, How it

Blew Belle,” for just then the family

cow named Belle, went sailing over

the orchard. They traced Belle as

far as Dewitt after the storm, as she

was a heavy milker. When last seen

she was headed for St. Johns at an

altitude of ninety feet. Several times

Belle used her tail as a rudder and

dodged the buildings in the air. Nor-

man will give $10 reward to find out

where it blew Belle.



Herman Wolf has been working out

east in the shipyards and has often

seen them christen ships. His wife

wants to take their baby to church next



' Sunday to be christened but Herman

says he can’t bear to see the preacher

soak little Fritz on the head with a.

bottle,



After the cyclone a farmer came

alongthrough our section and said he

was looking for a. house. We didn’t

know of any for rent and told him so.

He said, “I don't want to rent one, I

just peeped around the cement water

trough over in the next township and

saw my house going in this direction.”





 





THE “HALF-BAGANI.”



Among the Filipinos, apparently, it

is the custom to base your position in

society on the number of men you have

killed. If you have slain five or more,

according to the April Everyland, you

become a “Half-Begani” and are en-

titled to wear a fancy dress costume

every day in the week. If you reach

the magnificent record of ten killed,

you area full .Bagani and may wear a

still fancier dress costume. Since the

American occupation, however, the

number of» candidate: for Beganidis-





 





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Put Avicol in the drinking water.





Most people lose half of every hatch.



and seem to expect it. Chick cholera or

white diarrhoea is the trouble. The U. 8.

Government states that over halt .the

chicks hatched die from this cause.

. An AviCol- tablet in the

drinking water, will positively

save your little chicks from

all such diseases. Inside 01' 48

hours the sick ones will be as

lively- crickets. . Avicol

keeps them healthy and makes

them grow and deVelop.



Mrs. Wm. May. Rego, Ind., writes: "I

was losing 10 or 16 chicks a. day fro orn’

diarrhoea before I received the Avicol. I

baven' t lost a one since.”



It costs nothing to try Avicol. If you

don’ t find that it prevents and promptly

cures white diarrhoea and all other bowel

diseases of poultry, tell us and your

money will be refunded by return mail.

Avicol is sold by most druggists and poul-

try remedy dealers, or you can send 250

or 30c gdayufolg a paclgige 1413511180 post-



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We have installed the

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which will insure chickens

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Chicks and Full of Pop



This is our 11th season.

With the great increased

demand for our 1 hicks and

the fine reports and praise

ue rev 1 1111 from our 1 iistomexs proves that our chicks

are from Stock of Good Quality.. BI'Bd for Heavy E22

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Can we contract tubelculosis from

sick hens? We keep anarge flock of

hens, and now and then. .one will get





» lame. droop around and live for some





months if not killed. Is there danger

in eating eggs soft boiled from such;

a flock? Please explain all you can.

Monroe Co Mrs. A. B.





There is no reliable evidence which

1ndicates that man can contract tuber:

eulosis from tuberculous hens or other





attempts to transmit the avian tuber-

cle germ to mamhave not been at-

tempted. Wh-ile it is possible ,to trans—

mit the disease to some experimental

mammals, the pig seems to be the

only mammal ”highly susceptible to

chicken tuberculosis. In our labor-





' story we have produced the disease in





calves, and guinea pigs can be made to

sickenas a result of the injection of

the avian tubercle (germ: In those in

stances where human victims of tuber-

culosis are to be found in association

with tuberculous chickens, there is ev-

ery reason to believe that the human

disease was acquired in some other

way than through eating either chick-

en or eggs, or through contact with the

diseased chicken.



It is possible for the egg to contain

the avian tubercle germ. The heating

required to soft boil an egg is not suf-

ficient to kill the tubercle germ. There-

fore, eating sof.t-boiled eggs might re-

sult in rare intances in introducing the

live avian tubercle germ into the body

of man. But from what I have said

above, there is very little reason to

fear the consequences of such a pos-

sibility. And yet, I would strongly rec-

ommend against using the eggs or the

diseased chickens. It is the part of

Wisdom to take every precaution in

such matters and it is our belief that.

the best way to handle a flocl: such as

described is to determine through lab

oratory examination the exact nature

of the disease. If the disease-is tuber—

culosis, I would recommend killing the

entire flock and selling for meat those

that are not affected and destroying

those that, arF. In other words, I con-

sider it an economic loss to maintain

a flock of tuberculous chickens. Ex-

perimentally a tuberculin test has been

discovered which is of some assistance

in picking out the affected birds but

this test has not beeh made generally

available and we are not in a position

to recommend it as yet. W. G.





SWELLING NEAR EYE.

Early last fall some of the summer

chickens had a swelling on the left

side of the head. The first one we let

go and the'lump got yellow and broke.

pus running from it. We haverhad

several more since. and as soon as we

noticed them, killed and buried them.

I have a fine flock of pullets, Barred

Rocks and I hate to kill them. Is

there any help for them? Their appe-

tites are good while the swelling is





 





that side. and think it also affects the

other eye. We feed barley, oats, sil-

age, cooked pumpkin; cabbage and ap-

ple peelings.~ I have about one hun-

dred and forty chickens and have lost

Seven or eight of them.



Gratiot Co. Mrs. E. M.





This condition nearfithe eye starts

from a cold and is apt to Occur in the

fall when the birds have been exposed

to cold winds and ”rains. If taken in

the early stages an incision may be

made to theroughly drain the, swelling.

Usually it will be filled with a thick

cheesy pus which easily drains out.

Rub the head of the bird with cam-

phorated Vaseline and isolate it from





- the flock until healed. Sometimes the

Wswelling will .need draining several .

times... Whether a cure. results or not 1





usually dependsupo‘ the h . éfl





 





 





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there, but it destroys the eyesight on.





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mean more or less fussing and doctors





1113 for several weeks. ~G. K.





 





BREEDING AND Francine GEESE





Two years ago I bought three young .





geese, one a. gander.) and am sure all

were of the same hatch Now this

year I have raised one gander and two





geese from the ones I bought. and in-'





tended to keep them for breeding next

year, but someone told me that I wfll

have to change genders, that I cannot,

inbreed geese like one does chickens.

Is this true? What is the best feed

for young geese when first hatched.

also young ducks?



Wayne Co. J. L. H,



It would probably be best to pur-

chase a gander that is unrelated to the

present flock; When young goslings

are first fed they should be given grass

on sod. The second day' they. can be





started on three feeds per dayqof cornI





meal mash or scalded cracked corn.

If the goslings must be confined where

the grass is scarceor tough it will pay

to add plenty of succulent feed to

their ration as they need considerable

of it to keep in health. When the gos-

lings are six weeks old they can be





fattened on a mash given three times.





per day, consisting of equal parts of

corn meal and bran. Some breeders





do not fatten for market until they are,





eight or ten weeks old. . A little sand

and charcoal mixed in the corn meal

mash improves the ration for young

geese.



The first feed for ducks can consist

of one part corn meal, four parts bran

with a sprinkling of low-grade flour

and about five per cent of coarse sand

or grit. After the third day some

breeders add a little green cut rye and

beef scrap. Some duck raisers feed





the duckling‘s for Iabout five,,.days on,





corn meal and bread crumbs; equal

parts. Sometimes hard—boiled eggs are

added, equal to about ten or fifteen





per cent of the mesh and it is mixed -





with milk. Then five per cent of sand

should also be added. R. K.





 





STONE POULTRY- HOUSE.

Will you give me your opinion of a,

chicken house built frbm stone with

wire partitions. I have plenty of the

above mentioned material, and have

been told' by old stone masons that

stone does not draw moisture, is cool

in summer and warm in winter.

Wayne Co. E. R..,A.





If you were a stone mason with

spare time it might pay to work up

your field stone into a poultry house.

But such construction work is rather

slow and if you had to hire stone mas—

ons at the present rate per hour it

would be a very expensive poultry

house. When long houses are divided

into sections it usually pays to make

the partitions of matched lumber and

this keeps down droughts in the house





 





might be"cold.- It is usually ,best not

to have each section more than twenty

feet wide.



The value of a stone paultry. house

can best be judged by visiting the

farms of poultrymen who have been

in the business for many years. I If

stone houses were the best these men

have been in the business long enough

to find it out. But there are few stone





.houses built becauSegofgthe expense .;

- of construction, and iris usually safest .'

to follow the methods of““fibuse build-7





ing generally recommended by the or



periment station; ind the commercial



poultrymen who ‘ aye been making. a.

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A 'long house divided only by wire.





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flock, they will probably not quarrel.





j'l‘hree geese are. nearly always mated





tooneganderunlelstheyarovery





' ' large birds; when the results are often ‘





better if only two geese are mated to

a gender. The sanders will select

three' mates when placed with the

flock. Tooneotthethreehewill'ap

pear to be the most attentive but he

will seem to think considerable ot his

entire family.' When the matings are

made they can remain together for

several years and it one of the mating

is sold or killed it will seem to cause

the others considerable anxiety. Geese

are interesting birds and seem to have

more brains than they are generally

R. G. K





VALUE OF SKlM-MlLK.





What is the feeding value of skim-

milk as compared with meat scraps for

laying hens, and how much do you con-

sider skim-milk worth per hundred

pounds when fed with a balanced ra-

tion?



Washtenaw Co. E. A.





High-grade meat scrap contains 10.7 .





per cent water, 4.1 per cent ash, 60.2

per cent protein and twenty-five per

cent fat. Skim-milk contains~90.6 per

cent water, 0.7 per cent ash, 3.1 per

cent protein, 5.3 per cent carbohy-

diates and 0.3 per cent fat. It is there

fore apparent that a hen must con-





sume a large quantity of milk to ob?





tain as much, protein as in a small

amount of high-grade meat scrap.

Most poultrymen seem to like to 1156

a combination of meat and milk in the

ration. From‘ ten to twenty per cent

of meat scrap can be placed in the dry





mash.» Then sour milk is always plac- '





ed before the birds in crooks. Be-

tween the sou1 milk and the meat

scrap the hens receive enough protein

to produce a profitable number of eggs.



The value of skim-milk depends up-

on the cost of getting it to the farm

and the comparative prices of other

feeds. I know one poultryman who

said sour milk was worth five cents

per quart to him as a feed for chicks

and laying hens. One ’milk dealer sells

sour milk for fifty cents per can when

he happens to have it on hand. At the

present price of other feeds I believe





that sour milk should be worth about





$1.50 per hundred pounds and more or

less depending on the ease of obtaining





, the supply and the value of the poultry





to which it is to be fed. ,





sv’MP-rous OF TuasacULosm.





What is the trouble with my chick-

ens, and can you give» me a remedy?

They begin to droop, get lame in one

leg and seemingly blind, and die. We

have lost about six or eight in two

months. H. P.



The symptoms of lameness and ex-

treme emaciation often indicate tuber

culosis in fowls. A post mortem would





pay to find it there are small greyish‘





nodules on the liver. That is often

the determining factor in diagnosing

cases of tuberculosis in fowls. There

is no cure and it is, necessary to kill

and burn the sick birds to reduce the

risk of infecting the remainder of the

flock. It is very contagious and, it usu-

ally pays to clean up the old flock and

obtain new foundation stock after the





hOuse has been thoroughly sprayed and ,





the soil freshened by plowing. In cas-

es of this kind it will pay to have a





. veterinarian give the flock a. personal

. . inspection.





 





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ER PROFITS





About eighty-four billion“ pounds of milk are

produced in the United States each year.



‘ Of this total the butter industry consumes

approximately thirty-four billion pounds.

But—approximately thirty billion pounds of

the amount devoted to butter-making becomes

skimmed milk—having practically no market as ._





human food.





F someone should come to. you and say



—-“I have discovered a new way to con-

vert your com-husks into paper-pulp, or—

“I can make a new fabric from your wheat-

straw,” or—“I have found a commercial

use for the chaff from your wheat,” you

then would suddenly realize the value of

new markets.





In such manner Hebe comes to you and

says, “I have created a new and more prof-





_ itable market for your by-product, skimmed ‘





milk. I have done this by restoring to the

skimmed milk a fat content-the element it





' lacks to make it more desirable, and there-





fore more readily salable as human food, for

certain purposes. This I have accom-

plished by scientifically emulsifying the fat

pressed from the pure white meat of the

cocoenut with the skimmed milk, creating a

product that serves in the home as an auxil-

iary to the daily milk supply in cooking and

for baking.”





The utilization of by-products is a big

problem in every industry. Gluten, coal-

tar, gasoline and cotton-seed were valueless

by-products until someone found’ a com-

mercial use for them. Skimmed milk is the ,

big lay-product of the dairies ethiny billion

pounds of it are produced yearly.





The greater part of this by-product, which

science tells us is a highly nutritious food,

is being fed to stock, when according to the

Department of Agriculture it could be used





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to better and more profitable advantage as

human food. Hebe points the way to mar-

keting skimmed milk as human food. It is

the first big effort in this direction.





You will ask the question—How is Hebe

to benefit the dairy farmer who is not near

enough to a Hebe condensery to sell his

milk there P





Remember, the Hebe industry is only in

its infancy. It will grow with every can

sold. Every bit of advertising put out by

The Hebe Company will exert a beneficial

influence on the dairy product market as

a whole. Witness the influence on the

market. by the sale of nearly four billion

pounds ”each year to the ice-cream manu—~

lecturers. ‘ While not every farmer is

within shipping distance of an ice—cream

factory, yet every milk-producer benefits

by the demand.





There is no camouflage about Hebe. It

is produced, labeled, advertised and mar-

keted for just what it is—“A Compound of

Evaporated Skimmed Milk and Vegetable

Fat,” for cooking purposes. It is not a sub-

stitute; it is not an imitation. It is Hebe

and nothing else. Hebe creates a distinct

place of its own, separate from the general

class of dairy products. In seeking and

finding its proper place in the market, Hebe

will prove a substantial benefit to the entire

dairying industry, increasing the general use

of dairy products.





You WiH be interested in our booklet, “The Missing Thir . "





Ask us to send you a copy.





There is no charge for this.





Address 2560 Consumers Building, Chicago. ‘





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are helping their husbands to prosper—are glad“ '~\ E

they encouraged them to go where they could makeahomeofthelr“ V

own— save paying rent and reduce cost of li

cauld reach prosperity andin independence by buylng en eeey terms.





Fertile Land at $15 to $30 an Acre





--land similar to that which through men years has {yielded from 20



she! ele of wheel to the acre. gundr

Canada have raised crops in a single season worth more than the whole

cost of their land. With such crops come pros erity,

homes, and all the comforts and convenience; w ich make for happy





Farm Gardens—Poultry—Dalrying





are sources of income seCond only 1 1 grain growing andatock raising.

ood neighbors, churches, _



schools, rural te ephone, etc.,g1ve you the



opportunities of a new land with



veniences of old settled districts.

For illustrated literature. maps, description of

farm 0 portunities in Manitoba. Saskatchewan,

and Al erta, reduced railway rates, etc"

Department of immigration. Ottawa. Can“ or





M. V. Maclnnes,





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WILL HUMAN BEINGS CONTRACT

TUBERCULOSIS FROM HENS?





Can we contract tuberculosis from

sick hens? We keep aJa‘rge flock of

hens, and now and then. .one will get

lame, droop around and live for some

months if not killed In there danger

in eating eggs soft boiled from seen

a flock? Please explain all you can



Monroe Co Mrs. A; B.





There is no reliable evidence which 1





indicates that man can contract tuber:

culosis from tuberculous hens or other

birds. Of course, direct experimental

attempts to transmit the avian tuber-

cle germ to manhave not been at-

tempted. While it is possible to trans-

mit the disease to some experimental

mammals, the pig‘seems to be the

only mammal highly susceptible to

chicken tuberculosis. In our labor-





' atory we have produced the disease in





calves, and guinea pigs can be made to

sickenas a result of the injectio‘n 'of

the avian tubercle I,ge1'm' In those in-

stances where human victims of tuber-

culosis are to be found in association

with tuberculous chickens, there is ev-

ery reason to believe that the human

disease was acquired in some other

way than through eating either chick-

en or eggs, or through contact with the

diseased chicken



It is possible for the egg to contain

the avian tubercle germ. The heating

required to soft boil an egg is not suf-

ficient to kill the tubercle germ. There-

fore, eating soft-boiled eggs might re-

sult in rare intances in introducing the

live avian tubercle germ into the body

of man. But from what I have said

above, there is very little reason to

fear the consequences of such a pos—

sibility. And yet, I would strongly rec-

ommend against using the eggs or the

diseased chickens. It is the part of

wisdom to take every precaution in

such matters and it is our belief that

the best way to handle a. flock such as

described is to determine through lab-

oratory examination the exact nature

of the disease. If the diseasevis tuber—

culosis, I would recommend killing the

entire flock and selling for meat those

that are not affected and destroying

those that arii In other words, I con-

sider it an economic loss to maintain

a flock of tuberculous chickens. 'Ex-

perimentally a tuberculin test has been

discovered which is of some assistance

in picking out the afipcted birds but

this test has not been made generally

available and we are not in a position

to recommend it as yet. W. G.





SWELLING NEAR EYE.





Early last fall some of the summer

chickens had a, swelling on the left

side of the head. The first one we let

go and the'lump got yellow and broke.

pus running from it. We have" had

several more since. and as soon as we

noticed them, killed and buried them.

I have a. fine flock of pullets, Barred

Rocks. and l hate'to kill, them.) Is

there any help for them? Their appe-

tites are good while the swelling is





there, but it destroys the eyesight on





that side, and think it also affects the

other eye. We feed barley, oats, sil-





_ age, cooked pumpkin; cabbage and ap-





ple peelings.‘ I have about one hun-

dred and forty chickens and have lost

seven or eight of them.



Gratiot Co. Mrs. E. M.





This condition neaifithe eye starts

from a cold and is apt to occur in the

fall when the birds have been exposed

to cold winds and ’rains. If taken in

the early stages an incision may be

made to thOroughly drain the swelling

Usually it will be filled with a thick

cheesy pus which easily drains out.

Rub the head of the bird with cam-

phorated vaseline and isolate it from





C ' the flock until healed. Sometimes the-

swelling will need draining several .

Whether. a cure results or not". n





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Two years ago I bought three yOung





geese. one a. gander,, and am sure all

were of the same batch. Now this

year I have raised one gander and two

geese from the ones I bought, and in-

tended to keep them for breeding next

year, but someone told me that I will

have to change genders, that I cannot

inbreed geese like one does chickens.

Is this true? What is the best feed

for young geese when first hatched,

also young ducks?



Wayne Co. J. L. H,



It would probably be best to pure

chases, gander that is unrelated to the

present flock;

are first fed they should be given grass

on sod. The second day they can be





started on three feeds per dayi‘of corn'

scalded cracked corn.‘





meal mash or

If the goslings must be confined where

the grass is scarceor tough it will pay

to add plenty of succulent feed to

their ration as they need considerable

of it to keep in health. When the gos-

lings are six weeks old they can be





fattened on a mash given three times.





per day, consisting of equal parts of

corn meal and bran. Some breeders





do not fatten for market until they are,





eight or ten weeks old. A little sand

and charcoal mixed in the com meal

mash improves the ration for young

geese



The first feed for ducks can consist

of one part corn meal, four parts bran

with a sprinkling of low-grade flour

and about five per cent of coarse” sand

or grit. After the third day some

breeders add a little green cut rye and

beef scrap. Some duck raisers feed

the ducklings for 'about five.,.-duys on

corn meal and bread crumbs: equal

parts. Sometimes hard—boiled eggs are

added, equal to about ten or





with milk. Then five per cent of sand

should also be added. R. K.





STONE POULTRY HOUSE.



Will you give me your opinion of a.

chicken house built frbm stone with

wire partitions. I have plenty of the

above mentioned material, and have

been told‘by old stone masons that

stone does not (haw moisture, is cool

in summer and mum in winter



Wayne Co. , E. R..A.





If you Were a stone mason with

spare time it might pay to work up

your field stone. into a poultry house.

But such construction work is rather

slow and if you had to hirestone mas—

ons at the present rate per hour it

would be a very expensive poultry

house. When long houses are divided

into sections it usually pays‘to make

the partitions of matched lumber and





_this keeps down droughts in the house





When young goslings -





. fifteen >

per cent of the mash and it is mixed -





BREEDING .A.Np FsspiNe Geese;





A 'long house divide’d only by wire ..





might beco'ldx It is usuallybest not.





to have each section more than. tWenty‘ I





feet wide.



The value of a stone poultry house

can best be judged by visiting the

fauns of poultrymen who have been

in the business for many years. If

stone houses were the best these men

have been in the business long enough

to find it out. But there are few stone





of construction, and it is usually safest

to follow t methods ofrh'ouse build—

ing generall recommended by the or

periment Stations! and the commercial

poultrym€n Who have been making. 11.;

study 01!. the bus





.houses built because of the expense .« .
'wfllbetoletthegeeseelltruetw





raised together or. come troln'thesame

flock, they will probably not quarrel.

Three we are nearly always mated

to one gander unless they are very





large birds; when the results are otten ‘





better if only two geese are mated to

a gander.‘ The genders will select

three mates when placed with the

flock. To one of the three he will'ap-

peer to be the most attentive but he

will seem to think considerable at his

entire family." When the matings are

made they can remain together for

several years and if one of the mating

is sold or killed it will seem to cause

the others considerable anxiety. Geese

are interesting birds and seem to have

more brains than they are generally

credited with. R. G. K.





VALUE OF SKlM-MRLK.





 





What is the feeding value of skim-

milk as compared with meat scraps for

laying hens, and how much do you con-

sider skim-milk worth per hundred

pounds when fed with a. balanced ra-

tion?



Washtenaw Co. E. A.





High-grade meat scrap contains 10.7 I





per cont water, 4.1 per cent ash, 60.2

per cent protein. and twenty-five per





cent fat. Skim-milk contains—90.6 per '





cent water, 0.7 per cent ash, 3.1 per

cent protein, 5.3 per cent carbohy-

drates and 0.3 per cent fat. It is there-

fore apparent that a hen must con-

sume a large quantity of milk to ob

tain as much, protein as in a small

amount of high-grade meat scrap.

Most poultrymen seem to like to 1198

a combination of meat and milk in the

ration. From ten to twenty per cent

of meat scrap can be placed in the dry





mash Then sour milk is always plac- .





ed before the birds in crooks. Be-

tween the sour milk and the meat

scrap the hens receive enough protein

to produce a profitable number of‘eggs.



The value of skim—milk depends up-

on the cost of getting it to the farm

and the comparative priCes of other

feeds. 1 know one poultryman who

said sour milk was worth five-cents

per quart to him as a feed for chicks

and laying hens. One 'milk dealer sells

sour mill: for fifty cents per can when

he happens to have it on hand. At the

present price of other feeds I believe

that sour milk should be worth about

$1.50 per hundred pounds and more or

less depending on the ease of obtaining

the supply and the value of the poultry

to which it is to be fed.





sv’uproms or: TUBERCULOSI8..





 





What is the trouble with my chick-

ens, and can you give me a remedy?

They begin to droop, get lame in one

leg and seemingly blind, and die. We

have lost about six or eight in two

months. H. P.



The symptoms of lameness and ex»

treme emaciation often indicate tuber

culosis in fowls. A post mortem would





pay to find if there are small greyish:





nodules on the liver. ‘ That is often

the determining factor in diagnosing

cases of tuberculosis in fowls. There

. is no cure and it is necessary to kill

. and burn the sick birds- to reduce the

risk of infecting the remainder of the

flock. It is very contagious and it usu

ally pays to clean up the old flock and

obtain new foundation stock after the





heuse has been thoroughly sprayed and ,





the soil freshened by plowing. In cas-

esofthiskind itwillpaytohavea





, veterinarian give the flock a manual

inspection. v





 





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AIN   THE DAIRY

PAY BIG ER PROFITS





About eighty-four billion‘ pounds of milk are

produced in the United States each year.





Of this total the butter industry consumes





approximately thirty-four billion pounds.

But—apprbximately thirty billion pounds of

the amount devoted to butter- making becomes

skimmed mince-having practically no market as ,.





human food. .





F someone should come to you and say



--“I have discovered a new way to con-

vert your com-husks into paper-pulp, or—

“I can make a new fabric from yOur wheat-

straw,” or—“I have found a commercial

use for the chaff from your wheat,” you

then would suddenly realize the value of

new markets.





In such manner Hebe comes to you and

says, “I have created a new and more prof-





_ itable market for your by-product, skimmed ‘





milk. I have done this by restoring to the

skimmed milk a fat content-the element it





‘ lacks to make it more desirable, and there-





fore more readily salable as human food, for

certain purposes. This I have accom-

plished by scientifically emulsifying the fat

pressed from the. pure white meat of the

cocoanut with the skimmed milk, creating a

product that serves in the home as an auxil-

iary to the daily “milk supply in cooking and

for baking."



The utilization of by-products is a big

problem in every industry. Gluten. coal-

tar, gasoline and cotton-seed were valueless

by-products until someone found‘ a com-

mercial use for them. Skimmed milk is the

big by-product of the dairies -7—thirty billion

pounds of it are produced yearly.





The greater part of this by-product, which

science tells us is a highly nutritious food,

is being fed to stock, when according to the

Department of Agriculture it could be used





   





I to better and more profitable advantage as

‘ human food. Hebe points the way to mar-

keting skimmed milk as human food. It is

the first big efiort in this direction.





You will ask the question—How is Hebe

to benefit the dairy farmer who is not near

enough to a Hebe condensery to sell his

milk there 1’





Remember, the Hebe industry is only in

its infancy. It will grow with every can

sold. Every bit of advertising put out by

The Hebe Company will exert a beneficial

influence on the dairy product market as

a whole. Witness the influence on the

market by the sale of nearly four billion

pounds each year to the ice-cream menu--

facturers. While not every farmer is

within shipping distance of an ice—cream

factory, yet every milk-producer benefits

by the demand.





There is no camouflage about Hebe. It

is produced, labeled, advertised and mar-

keted for just what it is—“A Compound of

Evaporated Skimmed Milk and Vegetable

Fat,” for cooking purposes. It is not a sub-

stitute; it is not an imitation. It is Hebe

and nothing else. Hebe creates a distinct

place of its own, separate from the general

class of dairy products. In seeking and

finding its proper place in the market, Hebe

will prove a substantial benefit to the entire

dairying industry, increasing the general use

of dairy products.





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Ask us to send you a copy. There is no charge for this.

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Angum





Home of Edgar oi Dalmeny one of the world’s

greatest sires. _



He produced Erode mas; the grand champion

bull at show in Perth. Scotland in Jan. 1919. and

"He produced Blue Bell a cross-bred heifer

which was awarded the championship at the

Bmithfield. (Eng-l fat stock show in Dec. 1019.

(The latter is Englands. equivilcnt of our Chica-

go International.) ‘



Edgar is now an American Citizen. and is

here for the purpose of bettering the breed in this

country.



Edgar’s calves are as yet too young to oiler for

sale but they are a promising lot and are being

spoken for fast



We have a. few choice young bullsby Black

Monarch "I who won the Mich. State Fair

Grand Championship in 1014-1915—1910, still for

sale. _

Our herd is under State and Federal Sllpel‘V'lSlon





A visit will interest you. write for particulars.





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ORION, MICHIGAN

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Established in 1900

Trojan-Erica: and Blackbirds.

Write for 1920 Bull sale list.





WOODCOTE STOCK FARM,

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' GUERNSEYS- Two orders for the

RegIStered same bull calf the Same day makes

a fellow mad. just one-weft. that will be old enough

for service in n couple of months.



J. M. WILLIA S. North Adams. blich.





 





n Guernsey Hui ls forsalo cheap from 1 to 12 mom be

No old and from good producing and tuberculin

tested cows. 0. E. Lambert & Sons, Linupod. Mich.



Registered Guernsey bulls. May Rose





For sale breeding cheap if taken soon Come or

write. John Ebels H. 2 Holland, Michigan.





 





Three registered Granger bull calves. Nay Rose

breeding, closely minted toSpottswood Daisy Pearl.

Dolly Dimples. Langwater Nancy. Langwater Hope.

Langwnter Daisy and imported Itchen Daisy 3rd, cows

that have the higher ml k and butter fat production

of the breed. Calves sired by Albany's King of Anna

Dean Farm; his grand dam Spottswood Daisy Pearl.

Alec Harper, CtEdwnrd Lowe Robinson Rd , Grand Rnpids.lich.

H d Federal inspected. Bull calf Guernsey's. 7 mos.

3' old, sired by son of Imp. Spotswoods Sequel.

Dam. a high class cow of A. R. breedin . 8150 takes

him. 50thersii to 6 mos. old priced rig t. Satisfac~

tion guaranteed. G. W. & H. G. Ray .Albion Mich.

—REGISTERED





G U E R N 5 EV S Bum. CALVES





Containing blood of world champions.

HICKS' O‘UERNSEY FARM. Saginaw. W.S. Mich

FOR SALE a number of pure bred Hol-



stein heifers, age cows and





ver well bred Holstein bull calves.

J0 EPH H. BREWER. Grand Rapids,





 





Mich.





EGISTERED Holstein bulls sired by King Zerma

«Alcartra Pontiac-,son oft e .000 bu 1; some from

good A. R. 0. cows. 0.11. Glddings, Gobleville, Mich





Winnwood Herd .





~SENIOR HERD SIRE~ /

Flint Maplecrest Boy (166974





4 years old and weighs 3000 lbs. We have a few

of his sons ready for service and some little fel





 





lows straight as a line and priced right the daugh- .





ters of Flint Maplecrest Bov are making good.



v—JUN HR HERD SIR



Sir Ormsby Skylark Burke (249 66)

A brother to the world champion cow over all

breeds (Duchess Syklark Ormsby) 1506 lbs. of

butter in one year. He 18 the best hred Ormsby

bull in Michigan his darn a daughter ofKinz

Sells Pontiac she is a sister to Ring Segis Pontiac

Count and the $50,000 bull King Segis Pontiac

Alcartra. wesaid get a better bull (We got ours)

one of his sons out of a daughter of Flint Maple-

crest Bay will make some herd Sire.

)





JOHN H. WINN. (Inc.

ROSCOMMON, MICH.





 





Burma BOY.§.?SI§1h£moN°E§imi'H?V?M~ , , ~ . .

M ”a “m 8 533. Both calves .almostwall-white and ‘thh





330 lb.cow that magma lbs:

Butter Bo Roi 2nd . 4

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and Raisers and so e heifers

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To Get Profits Celia

Holstein Bull





It doesn’t cost much to make a start,

but every year it will cost more. Some

of the most successful and prominent

Holstein men started with only afew

purebred animals in connection with a

number of ood rades, gradually

weeding outt e gra es and replacing

them wrth purebreds.



Grade up your herd with a purebred

Holstein sire. Then when you’re sat-I

isfied that ou’re on the right track,

you’ll feel li e getting a few cows. Any

good Holstein does ‘the work of tWO

ordinary cows. ‘



But read all the Holstein facts in our

free booklets. Write for them today.





THE HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION

164 Hudson Street

Brattleboro Vermont.





Pure Bred Holstein





Denbrook Farm offers two bull calves

at greatly reduced prices .-. "

No. 1, out a 16 lb. 25 months old heifer,

by a 35 lb. son of Glista Erica, Price

$150., F. O. B.





 





' No. 2, out of the daughter ,of a 19 lb.





three





year old by a son-ofKing of the

Pontiacs. . -





Price $100. ;





absolutely straight top lines.





,much as $10 ,9.





Which is it m1. 3;...;..;...





cons





gt rtadiscmt . ~ a

. ton 'nnderithe spot mar ‘7

ket, with‘ilategjl‘ay delivery ate dis»

counter about $6.009. ten. ' _ ‘ f a -

Shorts are in as strong position cam-9 .

putatively as bran, and When a down-

turn materializes, the heavier - offal

will be slow torecede sympathetically.

Consumption of shorts is heavy until

the opening of summer, spring 'pigs

requiring large quantities of the feed

during the spring season. Shorts pric-

es range up to $62 a ton in Minneap-

olis, $60 ill-Chicago, $57 to $58 in Kan-

sas City! and $63 in St. Lduis. Red

dog, or low grade flour, which has

been used extensively by hog produc- 4

ers. commands a. premium of about

$5.00 a ton over gray shorts. ’

Linseed Market Reacts from. Recent

Slump. . ‘

Linseed cake and meal recedod'to

an apparently attractive level, heavy

buying at the low point forcing a sharp

rebound. From a top of above $80 a

ton on the Minneapolis market, prices

followed a rather sharp downward

trend, reaching a low level of $64 a

ton. But the $64 figure was only short-

lived, a quick rally forcing prices to

around $70 a ton. Slightly more flax-r

seed is- being imported for domestic

crushers from the Argentine, but

crushing activities have been seriously

restricted, either because of a. lack of

seed or strained transportation condi-

tions. Northwestern seed is reported

as practically exhausted. But there'is

no need for concern over the possibil-

ity of a further sharp upturn in lin-

seed feed. Consumptive demand is

eXtremely light, foreign trade is stag-

nant with immediate prospects for the

future not bright so far as export

trade is concerned. It is too close to

summer to buy the feed in more than

small quantities-what is actually

needed.

Cottonseed Prices Headed Doumward.

The cottonseed cake and“meal mar-

ket is in a rut. Price movements are

extremely narrow, downward on the

whole, lack of demand from feeders

giving the market 3; Weak tone. Cake

and meal of forty-three per cent pro-

tein can be bought freely in the south-

west_at $60 a' ton, basis crushing

plants, with the price in the important

middle west feeding belt around $67

to $70. Fertilizer manufacturers are

absorbing the cheaper offerings, but

demand even from that source has fall-

en off. This is the period when de-

mand is normally extremely quiet, but

the dullness is probably more pro-

nounced this year. A depressing in-

fluence is the return of considerable

quantities of cake held at the sea—

board for foreign shipment to be re-

sold in domestic channels.

Forage Prices Soar.‘ .

Hay is unusually strong. The strike

of switchmen has been'more seriously~

felt in the forage trade than in any

other feedstuffs market. At many

terminals the trade has been at prac-

tically a standstill, owing-to inability

of carriers to bring the hay into mar-

ket. So it is difl‘lcult to reveal the

actual state of the trade. Local de~_

mand at many markets has forced a

tight condition. Timothy in St. Louis

is selling as high as $5.2" a ton at this

writing and alfalfa 'at that market is

bringing $45 for No. 1. Chicago quotes

timothy at this writing around $36 to

$42. Alfalfa is selling upvto $36 a ton

in Kansas City, the leading forage cen-

ter. ‘The movement of alfalfa from

the west would probably be of a. lib--

eral- volume. as country stocks are

large and producersare eager [to ma ‘-

'ket tbélrf‘jurmuaining holdings.“ But





mmmfifi'bomparetlvely as large,





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'of milk production.

.sion men, farm bureau service, agri-





,did the high protein feeds.





1 ly. The farmer Should study the trend





 





 





 





 





 





 





.will often amount to a large and im-





~ _ mach- of his grain at home as possible.”





Producing Milk;

By Kalb/l H- Sa-wytr





TRENUOUS efforts are now being

made by the New York State Ag-

ricultural College at Cornell Uni-

versity to educate the farmers ‘Of that

state in ways to cut down on the cost

Through exten-





cultural bulletins, and other means, a

state-wide propaganda hasbeen start-

ed, which, if Successful, will go far to-

ward relieving the great problems

which have' been facing farmers and

dairymen since the close of the world

war.



Clean cow barns, labor-saving de-

vices, efficient use of farm machinery,

cost accounting, and careful manage-





ment of the animals are all advised,‘





but particular emphasis has been laid

on ways in which.the farmer can cut

down on his feed bill, which is his

greatest single item of expense.

Professor E. S. Savage of the ani-

mal husbandry department of the col-

lege, has laid down a few simple rules

which the feeder of all classes of live

stock can well follow. First, the farm-

er should mix his own feed, rather

than buying any of the various brands

of ready- mixed feeds Which are sold on

the market. There are various rea-

sons for this. Careful comparison of

feed prices has shown that the farmer

will save, on the average, at least eight





or ten dollars per cow each year if,





he mixes his feed at home. Further-

more, when the farmer buys a ready-

mixed feed he is at a great disadvan—

tage in not knowing what he is buy-

ing. The commercial feed manufac-

turers do not place a list of the in-

gredients in the mixtures on the bags,

and too often the feeds are adulterat—

ed with cheap, indigestible grains. By

mixing his own feed the dairyman

knows the actual quality of the ration

he is giving his cows, and he can ad-

just the amounts of grain per cow and

the nutritive ratio according to the

needs of the animals. The labor cost





Cutting Down Cost Sofia .





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Better Made- WWM- Greater Comfort





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of mixing the grain at home is neglig-

ible, because “one man can thoroughly?

mix a ton of grain in about forty-five

minutes.



The second. way of cutting down

feed costs, which the farmer should

consider, is to provide a minimum

amount of protein in the ration. Dur-

ing the war, while we were feeding

Europe, the carbohydrate feeds rose in

price much faster, proportionally, than

Since the

close of the war, however, the tenden-

cy has, been the other way, and it is

the protein feeds which are now cost-





of feed prices by securing mdnthly

price lists from his grain dealer or his

county farm agent, and'adjust his ra-

tions so that they will contain only

the most economical feeds at any par-

ticular time. This does’not mean that

the feeder should sacrifice the digesti-

bility of the ration to the feeding of

low-priced feeds, for this is not true

economy. But he should feed more

gluten to balance his ration. if this is

cheaper than cottonseed meal. or vice

versa, when the prices of these two

grains are reversed. Under all cir~

cumstances, however, the nutritive ra-

tio shOuld not be narrower than 1—4,

which provides a. minimum amount of

protein.



The farmer can save considerable

by paying for his grain in cash, when

discounts are allowed by the local

grain dealers for cash payments. When

a three per cent discount is given, this





noth saving for the year.

Lastly. the farmer Should grow ’asfi





 





 





 





 





 

   

 

   

   

 





 

 

   

   

 

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





,liillcrest Stock





Farm





Home of





A 36 lb. Son of the Great King .1 the Pontiacs

OFFERS FOR SALE:

2 Sons of Lillie Burke Segis King, 33 lbs.





No. 1-—-Born Feb. 27th, 1920





Dam .

Johanna DeKol Hartog of Sparta.





3% m, butter 24.36, milk 536.20.



3 A. R. 0. daughters, one 2/ yr.

Butter 25.11, milk 520.



Her sire 40 A. R. O. Daughters.



Her dam Butter 30 .41 milk 526.10.





No. Z—Born April 8th, 1919





Dam

Korndyke Fenecia. DeKol Belle





4 yr. Butter 21.62, milk 475.30



Her sire a Grand Son of Pontiac,

Korndyke.



Her dam, butter 22. 81, milk 512.92



41 A. R. O. Daughters.



2 A. R. 0. Sons.





Herd Under Federal Supervision

SEE THEM AT





HILLCREST FARM, Ortonville, Mich.





OR WRITE





John P. Hehl, 181 Griswold St, Detroit, Mich.





 





Holsteins of Quality





Fifteen H 11 Grade Holstein Cows For Sale

E. A. H RDY ochester ,Mich





ova . psi .

Model 1:111; Segi’s (111.11. H“

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wanted 1 out of final bred

£29...“ ”hessfi‘rfi stasis 1'3

0.30 D BKE. - ¢ - - Yuan! Kid]:





A BULLY 6800 Mill BALE





Born-11:17”. Ehe‘ihxmreotginl have ”as:

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REG. Holstein Bull has been my Senior Herd site.”

demo averag 331 lbs. must sell to 111 old inbrt edlnz no

I have 18 dauzg tern of his. J. R. Hicks, St. Johns Mich





HOLSTEIN





BULL CALVES FOR SALE





From dams w1th good records.

BULL CALVES SIRED or 4511.. BULL.

BULL CALVES SlRED BY 34 lb. BULL.



DBY 33 lb. BULL.





BPRICES vVERY REASONABLE.

Privelege of return if not satisfied.





A. W. COPLAND,





Birnu n¢,hun Michigan.

Herd under State and Federal Supt rvirion





Hatch Herd





.__(State and Federal Tested)

Ypsilanti, Miclngan

Ofiers young sires, yearlings and

younger, out of choice advanced,

registry dams and King Korndyke'

Artis Vale: Own dam 34. 16 lbs.-

butter in 7 days; average 2 nearest





dams 376,1 6* nearest 3393 "

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PS,LANTI MICH.





Who would like a nicely marked Bull calf.

whoooSIrelsaSonofKing of the atomistic“

A.R.O. D; liters and whose dam has just

made over lbs. of butter in 7 da, sand who ,

is a grand-daughter of Homstead 1 De K01



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me o 26 A R. 0.111111111111111. Price

6125.00. Herd under State and Federal

Supervision. Never had a. reactor.

JOHN WY

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Then Her Milk Yield Must Increase

or You Get Your Money Back





For seven years Larro has besn sold under this guarantee—just as

reproduced at the left. To the man who is not yet a Larro user it is

an absolute promise of better results from his cows—to the veteran

Larro user it is double assurance that Larro today is the some

as it was in the beginning—that its quality will never be changed.





A Balanced Ration

That the Cows Enjoy





The cows like Lari-o because it's so

palatable-tastes so good—and it's

so digestible that In unusually high

percentage is turned into actusl





milk production.





You get more milk with Lsrro be-

cause it isn't a one-sided rstion. but





a nutritious balanced food.





The protein is there—in just the pro-

portion to maintain the highest pos-

sible milk flow over a 'long period

and the carbohydrates are there too.





and the other necessary elements-—

all the in gr e d i en ts scientifically

mixed by automatic machinery with

just one purpose in view. to produce

milk-pail results.





Bay Larro Frothour Dealer





Go to your locax’hesfer and bu y

Lsrro under the terms oithis Money

Back guarantee—with the certainty

that no matter how.mu¢h milk your

cows are producing on their present

ration they will do better on Larro.





If your dealer does hot carry Lerro

' write us at once.





DEALERS: Got the Lane Proposition

The Lsrrowe Milling Compsny, 509 Lsrrowe Bldg” Detroit,U.$.A.





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B l' LL CALF





Born Dec.24

, Sex





mm: nIsrANoE





close up dams average above 1200 lbs. butter and 24.000

lbs. milk in]. yr. Bis dam untamed-$00. A.Fleming. leieJlich.





The Traverse Herd





We have what you want in BULL CALV 38. the large,

fine growthy type, guaranteed right. in every way

They are from high producing A. R. 0. ancestors.

Dam's records up to 30 lbs. Write for pedigrees and

quotations. stating about age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL

Traverse City, Mich.

FOR SALE casement: grew... ”2.2::





fine cows best of breeding. sired by a Pontiac

Bull \Vili sell one or the three. _

ROHLFS. Akron. Mich.





 





 





HENRY S.





 





Re istored Holstein Cattle. our herd sire



For sale: borgn March 27. 1917, 8 cows. and 3 heifer

Write for records and particulars toihe

BLACK & “WHITE FARM, Fremont. Mich.





20 Cows and Heifers of popular breed-

ing for sale also bulls not related.





ALLEN BROS. .,

PAW PAW, ~ MICHIGAN





HARWOOD

HERE F O R D S





A'tew young bulls from 10_ to 18 months. well bred. in

fine condition. Special price for the next thirt days

females for sale .at present. Visitors we come.





Jay Herwo‘od 8: Son. lonia, Mich.





' Farm Sin. Miles South of Ion a

J t minced 3 newh rd . now-hey

55W? limiter” “island

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McPherson Farms Co.





FIRST ANNUAL SALE '

at HoWell, Mich., June "8, 1 920'





Herds hs‘ve been maintained for many yearskis strictly breeding herds. and the snimsls





offered for ssle'are of our own breeding.





B. V. KELLY, Auctioneer,





McPHERSON FARMS CO.

Howell, Mich.





and Cluny Stock Farm





We are not sellin'g out. We shall continue to develop what Holsteins we have left. and

in this way will continue .toLboost for all of the buyers of the cattleofiered in this sale.





Our herds are under Federal Supervision. and all cattle over six

tested. and will be sold on a sixty-day guarantee.





Catalogue will be ready for distribution May 20th.!





months old: will be tuberculin





S. T. WOQD, in the box.





For Catalog Write To





01’





R. BRUCE McPHERSON

'HOWell, Mich.





 





TTER BRED JEli§Ev BULLS



.3" FOR SALE



CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.



Silver Creek. Aliegsn Ccunty. Michigan.

Bulls ready for service





FOR SALE it???” ,ancestors. Raleigh-St.





tbreedin . Jerseys stand for economy.

{Ivaafe‘i'finn & Watgrmsn. Packard Rd;Ann Arbor,Mioh.





Jerse bull calves of Majesty breedingfrom

F“ 3". good sproducin stock. Herd

ment “Accredited List." rite for Fries and pcdi we

to A TAGGETT. R. 2. .airgrove. Mic .





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n,eiersreor ennx _,

colwgflefiofegfggll calves. 0.0.Llll_ie.Coopersvillo,B_Ilch





l d f servlc from our herd bull Marguerites

B‘Il’lgdtfiigr? litigant-P?) ‘s99th of Hood Farm. "nd hows

now on test fgr R.otM. mith & Parker. Howe ‘l.Mi_ch.





- egist ‘ d J Buns'rrém

For Sale {‘mdmm "“8” g .,

NOTTEN FARM. Grass Lake. ,Mloh.



' 8 ii sfin rdhe byell—

M11531]? EX T121111}? big: on? Laveender ultsn Jinn

due Unfive is ‘ .





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375$ TA *3". ‘





St. Josephlvauey‘ Shorthornv Ass'n hav





for sale males and of

males of all a on and best breodi .' ’

AARON HAGE. BUOH. Sec-tressfltllgse Rivers.Mich





‘ HOGS





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Berkshires 2‘“ wthawm is our special-

. rig .

~M~G-M06firn as?) °§T “ ““3 Mich.





Registered Berkshires. Gilts, and Sows bred for A ril

May and June furrow. A year r end a ew

Emmet-Spring pigs. Chase Stock Ferm.Msrlette.lich.





I ”in; {£33 us

W n . .

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'4 “KEG Berkshires. Ten ears roe

_ convi ‘00 you thsthe haveythe man)?!





Satisfaction lunar. ~ W





sows end‘gilts bred t: Vt it I 92949

Duroc who has sired more “is: uggdgtgge pins

at the State Fair in last. -2 years than any'qc ‘ois B'u



boar. Eve one M 1 be a money milks: for, 'e





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_ can most :orpt'he other hays, particu-

larly timothy. ' Homegmwn‘ silage “11's :,.





111119 hay. The combination effig'ood’





., corn silage with alfalfa. has no super

‘ rior for-economical milk production.





REATED OATS BEFORE

PLANTING. ' ‘ -





I have twenty-five bushels of cats

which I treated according-to directions

for the dry method, spraying them'

with formaldehyde and water equal

parts, using, one-half a pint for the

twenty-five 'bushels. 'What‘ I want to

know is, can I safely plant this grain

which has now been held a. week wait-

ing for the weather to let me work?



lngham Co. 0. R.





The dry method for applying formal-

dehyde to grains is «properly surround-

ed with safeguards because we have .

come. to know that this chemical acts

powerfully “on grain, destroying the

germination power in some instances.



The only‘ instances of loss on the

farm from holding treated seed which

have come to my attentionhave been

with wheat which is peculiarly sensi-

tive. In thecase of oats, since the

grain is surrounded with a sort of pro—

tecting hull, I believe that the grain

will stand the rather long wait. My

attention was calledhlast year to ex:

pactly this circumstance and on the

basis of my laboratory tests I advised

the farmer to sow the treated grain.

This was done and the crop was as

satisfactory as any oats last year.



If germination test'is possible it

should certainly be tried before plant—

ing. If not, the chance with oats is

not a large one. Of the thousands of ‘

farmers in Michigan who ham; used

the dry treatment last year and the

year preceding, I have yet to hear of

a single case of injury to stand of

oats which was due to treatment. ,1

have known of cases where the treat-

ment was applied ”many times the rec-

Ommended strength and no bad results.



It is not a good thing for a. farmer .

to experiment with his crOp however.

The safest place for any grain after it

is treated is in the ground and I be-

lieve in planting immediately after the

requisite covering period, four hours.

With wheat this is imperative. With

cats, the protecting coat' that nature

has given allows more leeway. , ‘



The question also is asked, can the

treated oats be used for food? We

have fed them to chickens without any "

bad effects" and I have generally ad—

vised farmers to mix them in with

other clean grains for horse feed and

this has been done without injury to

animals. The amount is comparétively

small per bushel. and while formalde-

hyde has a. bad effect on the digestive

process in large doses, judiciously giv-

en seems to be without harmful re-

sults. G. H. “c.





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BLEMAISHED BEAN SEEDS UNFlT

FOR ‘PLANTING. .

whats the" matter with the «be...

when “is; show chewed places which

are yellowed? Are they safe for plant-

mg? A local man has called them ‘s‘n-

thracnosed and says they are polsbn.’ ’

Huron Co. M. 11.."





Beans such as you describe are one

of . the puzzles now to béan"‘ex~perts.

The trouble has all the appearance;-of

insect work, but no insect is known to

do the depredation, The yellowng

which accompanies the, injury suggests.

.bean blight and onesuggestion as to,

the cause of the trouble is that been

blight. attacking ‘the young pod has





\I





caused the-soul‘pn the seed. ', y ‘



If “19 'll'Oublé iaccused» by insects -

that. it snot an ass a ‘

as messes can ., " “





 





 





. than. _
. 55, ‘

ii. Sworktng on the pod above the blem-

, ished bean. Any suggestion as to the

, ' cause, without further observation, is

a, guesswork.





/





' $259;

$2





. Specimens of the trouble have been

found in nearly every sample of beans

examined from certain sections in

Michigan, and samples have been re-

ceived from Idaho and other western

regions. Fortunately the percentage

of such blemished beans is low, and





'* has not been seen to increase measui-





ably the last two or three years since

the trouble was first noted.





Such beans fall into the same class ‘





as the mechanically injured beans and

as such are fit for food but hardly up

to thé’fi‘fghest standard of quality. It

would be well to reject them in pick-

ingbeans for seed purposes, because

the Michigan farmer can not afford to

plant any beans which are not clear

and. brigit and free from blemish.

Beans so picked give perfect stands.

I would fear that the blemished beans

would rot in the ground if the season

were at all iavmable for quick

sprouting.



The trouble is certainly not anthrac-

ncse and no worry about the poisonous

quality need be felt.





 





WASHTENAW HOLSTEINS SELL

WELL.





 





FAIR weather and a small, but en-

thusiastic crowd gieeted the Wash-





tenaw Consignment Sale. of Holstein-

Friesian cattle, held at Ypsilanti, Sat-

urday, May 1. While some of the ani-

mals sold at comparatively low prices,

others that were in good condition and

had credible records brought .good

prices. Altogether the sale was a suc-

cessful she. The individuality and

breeding of the animals in the sales

ring indicates that Washtenaw county

breeders have the quality needed to

attract buyers from ‘other localities.

That some of them shbuld do more





testing is evidenced by the prices»





their cattle sold for. Here are the

sales running above $250:

Consigned by Shady Knoll Farms,

Ypsi lantfi.

Creamella Eagle Bay Glista 231602,

sold for $310; Coronia Hengerveld





Cornucopia 151536, $310; Violet Chorn- '





its. Mercedes 175006, $305; Canary

Fayne Hengerveld 208021, $325; Rag

Apple Segis Calamity 466299. $300;

Calf, born December 12, 1918, sire

217984, dam 127458, $355; Bernardo

Clotholde Rachel 5th 190089, $400; Su-

perior Bernardo Segis 281991. $400;

Lady Boon Jewel Pride 93582, $250,

and her calf at $210; Lady Boon Jewel

Fayne 446319, $800; Oceola Jewel

Payne 446318, $850; Valley Jewel Ban-

ostine 518014, $400; Prilly Ohdine De

Kol Lady, $270, calf sold for $155;

calf born Februaiy 13, 1920, sire 170—

506, dam 140274, $500; Elgin woodcrest

272277, $255; Idlewild Fearless Mer-

codes 212194, $270.



Consigncd by John c. Stellwagcn,



Belleville.



Emily Winona Calamity 189397.

$500; Huron Hill Pontiac Winona 518-

393, $305; Huron Hill Pontiac Louise,

3350; Huron Hill Pontiac Korndyke

518396, $255; Korndyke Barnum Mech-

thilde 218159,



Consigned by Harvey 8. Day Willis.

Pietertje Butter Girl De K01, 3400.

Sonsigned by H. J. Carpenter,-Way§1e.

Rouge-moot Segis Hartog“ 232391;

$255; Dora Jewel Gerben Starlight 455-

584, $300; Janice Jewel Gerben Star-



light 296575, $305. ‘



Continued l. H. Riggs, Belleville.



Rachel Pa e De K01 Butter Boy,





196885, $300; Rachel Pauline Wood-





Crest 255070, $350; Norma Pontiac

Mlgiécedes Butter Boy 196887, $500, calf





Consigncd by Elmer D. Riggs, Belle-





. v is.

Canary Fayn e Hengerveld 2nd 336-

gillg, 3250; Lady Boon Butter Boy 266-





Confined bgt Charles Freeman,

on: on.

Stoneaeres Pontiac Hilton 320324,

Ypsilanti Pauline Hilton 473132,





Continued by H. A. Smith A Son, ,





 

 





 





 





 





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Will be Solo





" At the SIXTH ANNUAL/SALE of





The Livinghtbn County Holstein Breeders

~ , . ,Sale C0.





unwell, Mich, May 27th, 1920





Sale Commencing at 12 o’clock, Sharp





 





 





This sale consists of a ‘fine lot of cattle many of them

with A. R. 0. records or are from record dams. One daugh-

ter of 11.33 lb. cow, one from 31 lb. cow, and one from a

30 lb. cow. Some choice bulls will be offered, from dams

with records from 22 lb. to 29 lbs.





DO NOT MISS r1115 CHANCE

Catalogues Ready May 10th





P. M. TAFT, Sec.





OAK GROVE, MICH. R. R. 1.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Absolute Dispersal Sale





of the Entire Herd of





65 Registered Guernseys





Property of Avondale Stock Farms,Wayne, Mich, Dr. R. J. Palmer, Owner





Saturday, May 22, 1920





at 10:30 A. M.





Other business is the cause of the dispersal and buyers can be assured

of an excellent opportunity to secure high class animals. The best of

breeding and type will be found in the herd and interested purchasers can-

not afl'ord to miss this sale. Held 15 on the State and Federal accredited

list. Wh'oever buys from this herd buys free of disease.





Auctioneers: Love and Benjamin





F. E. FOX, sues MGR.

THE FAMOUS





O. I. C. SWINE





We have the undefeated Herd of the World.



Winning premier breeder and exhibitor at‘

every fair shown in 1919-1918-1 17, includ-

the followin state fairs-«Ohio, ichigau, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky,

Tennessee, klahoma, New York, Alabama, .Tri-state fair Memphis, and the Nation-

al 0. I. C. twice. Stock of all ages for sale. Registered free in the O. I. C. association.



Order now. We will ship any of our stock on up roval allow you to keep

three days before you have to pay for it. You will be your own judge on your





own farm.

CRANDELL’S PRIZE HOGS, Cass City, Mich.





% 0.1. C. SOWS FOR SALE





Onoof theBut He do in Michigan

Spring gills and fall yearlings bred for March, April and May litters. l 5111

C. G. D., pay express and register in buyer' s name. If you want aBl

TYPE sew, guaran





Waukesha, Wisconsin?





 





 





 





right in every way, write me.





 





 





 





BIDWELL





a bull that will lput:p weights otlle your dalnoal ve es—





You Can Buy





the dillerenoe Nowselling

Scotch and Scotch-top year] ,rensonably

priced. A roan. senior you-£23.11. Villager





Hedi.“ herdb bull prospect, Federal





BIDWELL STOCK FARM,

Box D, Tecumseh, Michigan





Richland Stock Farms





Home of the Michigan Champions.

Shorthorn Sires 111 Service:



IMP. Lorne, IMP. Newton Champion Sterling

Bupseme Why not buy a young bull bohead

gem- herd that carries the blood that is making

her-thorn History. Only a few real headers

left. Write your wants.



C. H. PRESCOTT a. SONS. Tawas City. Mich.





ll: Kent 01. Sherlhorn Assn. lgggmmgleéuaiil‘l

for sale L. H. LEONARD, Sec, Caledonia Mich.





CHAS. WARNER Jr. Breech r of Registered Short-

homN Nostock for sale at preeen n.t

Chas. Warner Jr.. Imlay City. Michigan





Mhs SHORTHORHS Clogr bred bull calves

l g Horde under federal upon 1911.11

Dlfldson & Hall, Bound A Beland. Tecumseh. Mich





Good 3 bob l ed 1 11111-1, cows and

Shorthorns Mheifemogricedlri gilt,

W. B.M cQUILLAN. R. 7? Howell, Mich.





HOGS ’





Michigana Faminecs





We breed and sell good hogs.

0. F. FOSTER, Mgr. - Pavilion, Michigan

Spring pies





DUROO JERSEYS. ...a soft





delivery. SIOHWOach LAKE SIDE STOCK

FARM. Pinckney. Michigan.





ROYAL BFED DUROC GILTS





Dams sired by M cthgan Cherry Bred to Jacks

Cherry Orion Kin. N.o 1.60259 Son elect-1188810, 000 champé

ion. Jacks Office his 2nd, all high class stock, writ



tor pr10es.JennlnssF.arms 8.1. Bailey. Mich?





DUROC JERSEYS





Bred gilt. All sold. Get in your orders early for

March8 and April ”#5330 Either sex or pairs not akin

CDT. Monroe. Mich. R. 1.





DUROG JERSEYS





E D. HEYDENBERK, Wayland, Mich.





uroc bred cows and gilts sired by Orion Cherry

King Col. 2nd” bred to All Col. of Sanguine 211d.

First class lot, reasonable. W ..C Taylor. Milan. Mich.





DUROCS for Sale Bred sows and fall pigs of both

sex and a car of grade draft colts.

CHAS BR R,AV Okemos, Michigan.





 





 





 





 





l)urocrod Jersey 30' 1rs Let us fill your order for a herd

boar sired b\ Urions Fancy K111511180 one yearling

and a few fall b03$¥1§® D' s. Defender Col.





8,808 Caledonia, Mich.





Duroc Jersey full and cpl-11g 5139 for sale. We sell

you only the best, sin De sub act to your

apprmul. Register in buyers 11m 11 gar-an antee

satisfaction W. E. BARTLEY, eAlma, lchimn





Chester Whites. Two, long





FOR SALE tall, heavy boned.soptember

boars ofthe bat E” MIME fine its and a few 11 ring

pigs HER E T W 0D. Mai-lotto, le

CHESTERS . .... m .. ...... ..

9 tries r0111 strictly big type



mature stock. FA. few slits b red for May rm

.ALEXANDEB. assar, Mich.





 





 





Raise Chester Whites" .3





Like This

' 1M original big produccl‘ih





 





 





OmlCandChester WliiteSwine





Stdctly 118331-110 Type with unlity. Spring pigs of March

In Ac olce lot of hours. Will only

spare‘n few more gate at present. Will ship .0 0. 0-





andreoord them

Mariette. Mich. B. No.1.





Newman' 11 Stock Farm.



0 l. C and Chester White Swine booking olrders

‘ for spring pigs from big type peoodlbl



Fall pigs with size ‘and quality. I chi C. 0. D. and re.



sister in buyer' 11 name. John 0, W1 Alm11.Mich.





lllast





 





 





I. C. ’s. 2 extra choice last s 111111 gilts.

'fall boars wt.1’l.’>to 250 also fa 1

ever had. Fa 5611119) west 02 spot. Oltiz no

home 124. OTTOB.mSCHULZE.Nashv1fio.





0 l. C’s Am oflering a few Serl’ember pinsthnb





Ocombine size and an alyl

.THO PSON. aRockford, Mich.





 





O I C’s A few choice late fall and winter

0 O boars. also a fine two our old boar.

WEBER BROS. R. No. 2 LRoyal LMich.





o I C9 3 Bigd type serviceable boars. Gilt-

. ' ' M a and mm f.nrrow

G. P. ANDREWS dDANS LE. MICHIGAN

0“ C Gilt! bred for March and April furrow, guaranteed



Herd immuned bv D.





safe with pigs. Fall pigs and stew service boars.

T. F. C. Burgess. 11. 3. Halon Mich.

’ Eight young boars and 5 ring 1

o. i. C 5 for June shi went. p pg“





CLOVER LEAF STOCK ARM, Monroe. Mloll.





LMSPC.





One 400 lb. sow and 7 pics by side. price .100 00.

One 275 lb. gill: and6 pigs by side. price .85 00.





 





 





 





 





   





 





For 5‘10 Shot-thighs of anllty w‘wfi





 





 





 





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, Royal Blue.» ”fimmfifl kg?» 3111 ‘mfi musty-30:6?“





 





 

 





' ' . -WE ’ ’an’ Michigan. Two Choke mhuminrz. Schoolcraft, Mich-

CAM ”Big Type Poland China:





uherd is represenartive of the :nghg

hon





 





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“gamma to lwhoop unto-date blood lines

Come ever see PU





   

 





 





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SHORlllllRNS ‘,





 





ilta the best I .
a. Month Milling

TIM/b” Flank

in your community on this New Won-





derful Mill —- no previous milling ex-

perience necessary





Be a Miller





and have a dignified. permanent

business that will earn you steady

profits the entire year.



Grind your home-grown wheat.

supply your community with flour and

feed. You save the freight on the

wheat going out. and the flour and

feed coming in. _ .



Besides earning the regular milling

profits you get the extra profit of mak-

ing “A BETTER BARREL 0F

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half the power and labor of the usual

roller mill and makes a creamy’white,

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health building vitamines and the

natural sweet flavor of the wheat. _ _



Our customers are given the prwi-

lege of using our Nationally advertised

. Brand.





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" Fomouo ' for its Flavor"





We furnish the sacks with your

name printed on them. OUR SER-

VICE DEPARTMENT examines sam-

ples of your flour every thirty days

and keeps your products up to our

high ”Flavo ” standard. We start you

in business with our “Confidential

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can start in this mQSt delightfully

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Over 2000 communi-

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fore some one else

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‘The Anglo- American Mill 'Co.

I 814-820 Trust Bldg., Owensboro, Ky





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 





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Ham-vamp, IND.





 





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BARGAINS lN SECOND HAND AND

REBUILT MACHINERY





One 8 H. P. I HO Portable Gasoline Engine.



one 10 05 0‘ ll At



One 12 .. .. .. .. ..



One 8-16 Mogul Tractor



One No. 4 Geiser Grain Separator. Feeder. Weigher

and Stacker



One 28-48 Racine Separator. Feeder. Weigher and

Stacker One Owen Bean Thresher



If interested write for prices and full description.

Colby 8: Spitler Cm, - Hart, Michigan





 





Salvage Bull Beans .





Price $40.00 ton. delivered Michigan. Ohio.

Indians. and Illinois points.



These beans have been dried. Some have

splendid feed value-21s protein.



This is the cheapest offering of feed in the

U. S. A. Rush your order.





PORT HURON STORAGE &. BEAN 00.

PORT HURON“ men. -





SPECIAL NOTICE





, Ship your Egg}, Live and Dressed Poultry.

Dressed Calves. Pork, Lambs. & etc, to i





' DENNIS 8: HERRING '

‘ NEW, YORK CITY. N. v. ,

~de 0me Merchants. This oldre—





 





”Ab” pm nu’m ofthe best located houses in ,

N mwmmm Highest Prices end their” ‘





film ”‘3.





. the factors





 

 

   

   





“charm“!

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lifermsr EDITION.“ ”





 





vised and corrected on Tuesday forc-





‘ noon, May 11. . . ~





 





WHEAT





The government crop report indi-





‘ .cates a winter wheat crop of 485,000.-





000 bushels compared with" an esti-

made a year ago of 900,000,000 bushels.





Canadian wheat board advances. price





35@40c. As a result the. wheat mar-

ket is very strong, with prices show-

ing a further advance on the local

market as follows: No. 1 red $3; No.

1 mixed $2.98; No. 1 white $2.98; No.

2 red $2.97; No. 3 red $2.94.





CORN





Sharp advances in corn prices fea-

tured the past week’s trading. Higher

wheat prices, the absorption of avail-

able supplies and rumoredembargOes

on the Argentine surplus were the im—

portant factors in advancing quota-

tions, which in Detroit are as follows:

Cash No. 3 corn $2; No. 3 yellow $2.05;

No. 4 yellow $2; No. 5 yellow $1.96;

No. 6 yellow $1.93. ,





OATS





Small offerings, a good demand and

operating in the other

grains forced oat values on the local

market up to the following: Cash No.

2 white $1.28; No. 3 white $1.27; No. 4





white $1.26.

RYE





Rye values have moved up with the

prices for other grains and on the local

market cash No. 2 is now quoted at

$2.23 per bushel. .





BEANS





There is some indication of imprové-

ment in the bean situation although

from market lcports it is difficult to

ascribe the cause of this to any other

than an attempt on the part of dealers

to encourage a more generous planting

of the crop by farmers. It may be,

of course, that the slightly higher pric-

es for other foodstuffs has reacted

here. On the local market there‘ IS

very little trading with the quotation

unchanged at $7.75 per cwt. for imme-

diate and prompt shipment. New

York’s bean market is quiet and steady

at $8 for choice pea beans and $7.50

for choice mediums. The Chicago trade

reports large offerings and a moderate

demand with choice to fancy hand-

picked pea beans at $7.25@7.75, and

red kidneys at $13@13.50.





FEEDS





Further advances were made and

prices now are: Bran $58; standard

middlings $59@60; fine middlmgs $60

@62; coarse cornmeal $79; cracked.

corn $85; chopped feed $70@72 per ton

in loo-pound sacks.





BUTTER





This market is somewhat guiet, fol-

lowing the recent disturbance duertp

transportation difficulties. In Detroxt





 





 





 





 





 





For Best Net Results

Ship to

CULOTTA & JULL

Detroit, Mich.

“Enough Said!"





 





 





 





 





Use

SWift-‘HAY Service





AT CHICAGO

n BUY all types of FEEDING

13.9%! cfrom and SHIP your surplus to





Swift-HAYnes Co.,





BOARD OF TRADE, CHICAGO





Mr. POULTRY FARMER:





, k s s ciolty of White Honcery Bus “‘1

xvéncaroztedaeprofitsblo market for your on: em

owns. summarize



— e s so

“0:11:32! y (Ship Often—Ship by g ‘ .

' GEO. R. MRIMDGEMCOhh. .

694-1.“: Stroo Do I .1, .

Remember! We gunmen routs; w’ifll "or! “PIS”,





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The markets int-his edition were‘rcr , p . %

‘ery' extra job,





' cries bring 03%@.64





-at ' 46@ 461/20.





 

 





_ ~- .ers_:$.14.59@15: ‘ ewosi $13





cream;



1th osterhrcrcomr



_ g otj£3c2 ‘Now York



trade is somewhat..;st‘eadyjbut dealers



feel a little moret,hopefuL‘ Batu-creams

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On the local markdtconsuinorsyan

packers are buying‘esg‘s. II‘B‘eiyandZa

receipts are quickly absorbed.- >‘De'troit.~

jobers are bidding 44c for No. 1 fresh,

while 4455c is being, asked. Business

in Chicago is duly fair, and buyers are

more or less. indifferent- with fresh

first northerns at 42@42%c. ‘The New





l





York market maintains a. firm tone, ..





with the' best northern produced'eggs





. CHEESE



In , Chicago the warmer weather, to-

gether with increased production'and

an accumulation in storage houses

caiscd~ off prices to stimulate purchases.

The New York market- however, is

firm, with receipts light and the de-

mand.somewhat stimulated by the free

purchasing on export account.





POTATOES





High values have discouraged. the

consumption of potatoes and while the

receipts have been small, prices have

sagged. , Michigan stock is jobbing at

Detroit around $11 per 150-lb. s'ack.





WOOL





Fairly active operations in produc-





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est» has centered, in thorax“



states, somoiln‘dlons‘ fleeces. hay

moved at around, 50c loathe“ qua

bloods, and throe-eighths. bloods

about.600., Shearing in,,Mlchigunjgn .

Ohio has been delayed by demwaavtb"





   

 

 





’ or and frequent rains, and; noodles offf;

importance have been reported-1111mm

"orn'c'cnters. The Michigan State Farm. .





Bureau reports a very generous. oi?-





rivaJ or wodls” from various producing"





counties. Late last week about 40,000

pounds had already accumulated in“ the

warehouse at,221, North Cedar Street,“

Lansing. * _, ‘ ‘ , ' : . :



‘ -G AND RAPIDS. _

There was an advance of ten cents

per bushel in paying price ot‘wheat.

by_milers this week. Prices now are:.

No. 1 red $2.85; No.1 white $2.83.‘Egg

market is a. little lower at 40c per doz-

en bid Dealers report receipts liberal

and three cars were shipped this week.

Farmers are bringing a small quantity

of potatoes tomarket, selling at $4@

4.25 per bushel. Some farm seeds are

cheaper, clover being off $3 per bushel.

The retail price is asfollows: Medium

’clover “$83 per.bushel; Mammoth $34;

alsike $35; timothy $6.75; alfalfa $30;

sweet clover $25. The first of incu-

bator chicks were brought to market

this week, selling at 22c each. The

visible Supply of beans, dealers state,





is only sufficient for seeding if acreage '





is to equal that of last season.





 





 





Live Stock Market Service~





 





DETROIT





Cattle. _

‘Receipts 195. Market very dull at

last week’s close, especially so on the

heavy cattle.

Best heavy steers . . . . . . .$12.00@12.50

Best handy wt bu steers.. 11.50@12.00

Mixed steers and heifers 10.50@11.00





Handy light butchers . . . . 10.00@12.00

Light butchers . . . . . . . . . 9.00@ 9.75

Best COWS . or'ooOIOIOOIIO 9n00@10-00

Butcher cows . . . . . . . . . . . 7.50@ 8.75

canners .nc-ooooooosoo-It V 6-00’

Cutters ....... . . . . . . . . . . 5.00@ 5.75

Best heavy bulls . . . . . . . . 9.50@10.00

Bologna bulls . . . . . . . . 8.50@ 9.00

Stock bulls 8.00@ 8.50





Milkers and springers. . . .$ _r85@ 115

Veal Calves. ‘



Receipts 90. Market strong on ac-

count of light receipts; will go lower

before the end of the week.



Best .................... $17.00@19.00

Others .. .. . . . . .. .. . . 10.00@14.00

Hogs. '

'Receipts 859. Market active.

Plgs 15.25

Mixed hogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.00@15.35

Heavy ..... 14.00@14.50



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 999. Market steady, with

quality very common. ‘



Best lambs .......... . . . .$16.50@17.00

Fair lambs ...... . . . . . . . . 13.00@14.25





Light to common . . . . . .. . 8.00@11.50

Fair to good sheep . . . . . 10.00@11.00

Culls ......... 5.00@ 7.00

. BUFFALO *

Cattle.





'_Receipts 100 cars; light grades 500

higher; heavy grades are ‘slow;~-prime

shipping steers $13.50@14; best ship-

ping steers $12@12.50; medium ship.

pmg steers $11@11.50; Canadian heavy

steers $12@12.50; Canadian steers and

heifers $11@11.50; best native year-

lings 950 to 1000 lbs $12@12.50; light

native yearlings, good quality $10.50@

11.50; best handy steers $11@12; fair

to good kind $10@10.50: western heif-

ers $10.50@,11; state heifers $9.50@

10.50; best fat cows $10.50@11; butch-

ering cows $8@9; cutters $6@6.50;

canners $4@5; fancy bulls $9.50@10;

butchering bulls ’$8@8.50; common

bulls $7@8; best, feeders 900 to 1000

lbs $9@10; medium feeders $86129;

stockers ,$8@8.50; light to common 'at

$6.50@7.50; best. milkers and spring-

ers $75@100; megiums. 55061260.





Receipts 60 cars; steady; heavy $15

@1525; writers/$16.25 ;’~ pigs , $16.50.

ShenandLamibe. .

Receiptsi 20 cars; “steady; to ,lomba

memes: readings 31:5; 16. ,.; wsth'





 

 





 





   





‘18.“;‘calves ..





lbs medium, good and choice at $14.65

@16.40; light 150 to 200 lbs, common,

medium, good and choice at $15.10@

15.50; light lights, 130 to 150 lbs com-

mon, medium, good and choice $14.85

@1535; heavy packing sows 250 lbs

«up smooth $12.50@13.25; packing sows

200 lbs up, rough $12.25@12.75; pigs





130 lbs down, medium,.good and choice





$13.50»@ 15.

' .Cattle.





Estimated receipts today are 21,000:

Beef steers slow and mostly 25c lower.

Other cattle and calves about steady.

Beef steers medium and heavy weight

1100 lbs u_p, choice and prime $13.15@

13.80; do medium and good $11.35@

13.15; do common $10.50@11.50; light

weight 1100 lbs down, good and choice

‘$12.25@13.75; do common and medium

$10.25@12.25; butcher cattle, heifers,

common, medium, good and choice

at-$8@13.60; cows, common, medium,

good and choice at $7.75@11.75; bulls

bologna and beef $7.75@11; canners

and cutters, cows and heifers $5@7.75;

do canner steers at $6.25@8.50; veal

eglves light and handyweight, medium,

good and choice. $11@13; feedersteers’

common, medium, good and choice at

$9.25@12; stocker steers, common, me-

dium, ,good and choice $7.75@11.25;

stacker cows and heifers, common, me-

dium, good and choice at $7.50@9.50;

do calves, common, medium, good and

choice $8@11. , .



Sheep and Lambs.





Estimated receipts today are 6,000.





Market 25c higher; shorn stock quoted

as follows: Lambs 84 lbs down, medi-

um, good, choice and prime $17@19.40;

do culls and common at $11.75@16.50;

spring lambs, medium, good, choice

and prime $13.50@16.75; ewes medium,

good and choice $9.50@12;50; ewes

cull and common at $450439; yearling

wethers, medium, good and choice at

$12@14.50. ‘ -





LIVE STOCK SHIPPING IN MICHI-

GAN BECOMES NORMAL."





 





 





THE following order was issued to

railroads and became effective last

Saturday: . Arrivals of stock will res

vert back to normal conditions, that





is, stock will be loaded at’Mlchig'an ”





Central points on Saturday, the eighth

inst, to arrive in Detroit Sunday morn-

ing the ninth; Grand Trunk stock load-





ed on Monday to arrive in, Detroit on ,

Tuesday morning? ‘Pere ‘Marquette '





stock loaded on Tuesday will arrive on

‘Wednesday. The usual Wednesday

loading otMichigan Central stool! will

also» take 'vplaco, arriving j

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crease. their revenues to this standard

of earnings. If the Interstate Com-





merce Commision grants the demands -





presented by the railroads this sum

Will be realized through increased

freight charges, leaving the passenger





rates at the. present level. The ad»





vanees in freight rates proposed by

* ..the railroad executives are as follows:

Eastern made. 30. 3 per cent; southern

roads, 30.9‘per cent, and western roads

23.3 per cent. This increase, which.

undoubtedlywill be made and may be





necessary,‘ will give another‘ boost to-





} the cost of farm machinery, fertiliz-

ers, stock feeds. and all supplies used

by the farmers. It will add consider-

ably to the already large margin be-

tween -the price’received by the pro-

ducer and that paid by the consumer.

It means that the consumer will have

to pay more for his food or the farmer

receive less for his products.



Hold Up F'arm Loans.



At a meeting of land bank pr’esi~

dents Called by Commisioner Lobdell

of the Farm Loan Board, to discuss

the situation growing out of the ac-

tion of the supreme court in ordering

a rehearing of the suit to test the con-

stitutionality of the Farm Loan Act,

the fact developed that more than

fifymillion dollars have been held up

by the litigation. A large number of

the applications for government aid

had reached the stage where only final

approval was needed to complete the

transactions when it became neces-

sary fer the farm loan banks to sus-

pend loaning operations.





The situation confronting the loan





banks and local associations was said ?





 

 

 





 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

   

   

 





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to be “exceedingly regrettable” but ac- 5“





cording to Mr. Lobdell the board’s

hands are tied. It was also agreed that

expansion of the farming industry was

daily being retarded through inability

of the banks to make further loans to

the farmers.



While the land banks are compelled

to follow the System of “watchful

waiting” until there is a rehearing of

the suit to test the constitutionality or

the act under which the banks operate,

it was stated that thousands of farm-

ers had abandoned their plans for the



extension Of crop production. If there

is a serious food shortage next fall

the interests that are fighting the fed-

eral farm loan system will be in part

‘ responsible for it.



As a means of meeting the financial

needs of the farmers, Representative

Ferris, of Oklahoma, has introduced a

bill in the house authorizing the sec-

retary of the treasury to purchase,

during 1920 and 1921, farm loan bonds

amounting to $100,000,000.——E. E. R





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Bunch in Teat———Lame Sow—«One of

my cows has bunch in teat and for the

past three weeks I have applied iodine

and lard three times a week, but the

hunch is still there. I also have a sow

nine months old that is stiff in fore-

quarters. R. B.. Mason, Mich—Con-

tinue to apply the iodine ointment to

teat. Perhaps it will be necessary

have bunch cut out. Feed sow less

corn, more oats, oil meal. clover, alfal-

fa and some roots. Has she had plen-

ty of exercise? Keep her in a. dry.

comfortable place.



Bone Spavin.——I have a twelve-year“

old mare which is getting a little lump

on the inside of hock joint. I first no-

ticed it last spring, it has gradually

, enlarged and is now causing lameness.

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and grain from the straw stack to pay

your thresh bill, when you hire the

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This is the thresher with the famous “Man

Behind the Gun"-the device that beat: out

the grain instead of waiting for it to drop out.

Sam the grain that others must let go

through the machine. result ofy earsof

study and experience in building threshing

machinery exclusively.

I. S Baker and 15 others of Holton. Ind.. say:

“The Red River 'Special' 15 surely a friend of

the farmers. It' efastest and cleanest

outfit that ever worked for us.’

Wait for the man with the Red River Special

and saw your grain year.

It you want a thresher for your own use. ask

about ‘Juolor" odRivor Special.





WriRto for Circular!

NICHOLS & SHEPARD CO-





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Builders Exclusively of Red River mgxedo!

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s. c. White Leghorn: 1700 82.50 160.00

8. C. Brown Leghorn: 17.00 82.50 160.00

R. C'. R. I Reds 20.00 97.50 190.00

Barred Rocks 20.00 91. 50 190.00





Other breeds delivered in one to three weeks.

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LOOK! cmcxs $15. A 100 UP!

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A G A I N RHODE ISLAND WEI'I ES

win at the eighth national egg



laying contest. we have the world s best strain “Thore-

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LFOREST FEET, Alto, Mich.





 





a $150 for 15. 88 per 100.



B' 8' Brown leghomse Wfiite Pekin duck eggs $1. 50 (’01

8. White MChlneso goose e 39 40 Ocents ncLl



MRS. CLAUDIA lZET'JIS. Hillsdale. Mich.





“000 Hand R ‘3; "1°86 fogs-after hatch.





BURT IIBSON, Inlay City. Mich.

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u” 3-3' Oosoopolis, Mich.

Single Comb Rhode Island Ifiichigghmggg





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Parcel

MRS. AMY 80 TH ORTH, Allen. Mich.

HOGS

00KB 'I‘.;P 0. We are selling at a great sacrifice





for the Tnext 10 days extra good slim to farrow' 1n

Apr. choice tall REWBtO make room for our herd sows

AKER dz SONS, , Elsie. Mich.





MILLER Meadow' s L. T. P. 0 boars all sold. Gilts





sired by General Jones and bred to our youn boar

Alaska. address CLYDE W EAVER. Ceresco. ich.





BOARS! Oh Boys!

Sons anagrandsons of the Mighty Giant Buster.





The

0bone useful kind. riced to: aquick sale.

.BUI‘I ER Bell Phone. Portland. Mich.





 





 





 





Big Bob Mastodon pigq takes the cake, book \our

order non. Fallb boars and gilts sired by a grundtscvn

of Disln- ~r Giant, open or bred to Big Bob fox Sept. :33

yearling sons. 0. I‘.GAR~NAN'I.]‘.1to11 Rapids. Midi





 





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B‘g Type P0131“! Chmas son al)l%‘l;1rlici:s.a Pigs

06f both sex. and bred sows and elite



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Big 2?ng Poland China Gilts Med for

For sale Jul August. and September farrov. “eigh-

111.22; lbs. for ‘60. also Dong-ingo pi s 320 each. guaran-

to. satisfaction. ER, Akron. Midi





 





Big Type P 0 Bred gilts, Fall yenrlings. prize win-

new, out 1100 lb. sire and mammoth sows from

Iowa' 8 greatest herds. E. J. M athewson, Burr Oak, Mich.





 





m Type Polands all sold out. Watch this ad for

3 further announcements. Broodln stock forsnlo

in season. L.L LOHAMBERLAIN. arcellulelic-h.





EONARD‘S B. ’1‘. P. 0. bred sows all sold. Order

booked for be at gigs at weaning time from Mich.

Champion Herd. F. . LeonnrdJR. 3, St. Louis, Mich





 





 





I am offering Large Type Poland China Sows. bred

to F' 5 Orange. at reasonable ]prices; also fRall pigs.

Write or Call Clyde Fisher. St. ou1s. Mich. .3

tlh ANNUAL P. C. Bred Sow Sale March 18.

990For paitfliculars write

H,AW Augusta, Mich.





W. J. HAGEL

largo Type Poland} I'llhina 2.32:“ Hm ““1 BM

1L2. Manchester. Mich





 





 





“Lindhurst” Poland Chinas





Mammoth Ben's Chief No 352167 heads our herd

Bows by Mammoth Ben, Upsome Lad. Joe Mastodon,

Gertsdale Jones. and Capt. Price Pigs hy Mammoth

Ben’ is Chief, Mountain Jack. and Orange Model. For

salefnll boars and lit o si by a son of Bouer' s Mam-

moth Joe Ate“ erd sows priced to 3011.601; in





line for siprinng oars.

Wis . H. IND. Citz. Phone. Alto, Mich.





B T P C All sold out except some Fall

_0 h . ' Gilts, Thanking my customers

JOHN D. WILEY Schoolcraft. Mich

l ARGE "P l’. C SWINE Ono yearling boar.

one full \(- 111 ling boar, fall pigs,a,





few more bred sous. R.V .Mills Saline, Mich.





Poland China Brood Sows £33331,an

Maplewond Stock Farm. A111 gun, MiLh.



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A. A. Foldkamp. Manchester. Mich"





HAMPSHIRES





Spring boar pigs, sired by Steuben' s Perfection

and Cherokee Jim, lat prize 111d. State Fair. Other

Winners at other fairs. Tried sows brcd. Satis-

faction zuaranteed. Will ship C. O. D. Address.





STEUBEN’S HAMPSHIRE FARM





R. R 3.

Edgewood Hampshires





All bred gilts sold. Now booking orders for gilts bred

for fall furrow. and pigs for ig club work only.

Depew Head. Edgewood arm. Marion, Ohio.





' all sold at resent and more later.

Bred Gllts Sp ring igspin season.

JOHN w snvnpnn “h ‘





Johns Michigan.

SHEEP.

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I cannot sell you any more ewes until next fall. To

Home grown up. I can offer 10 very and young Shro .

shixe ewes that willlamb in Apri for $400 00. Their

lambs contxuctod to me should not more than pur-

chase mice next fall. Alsoh llml mighty nice ewe lambs

for $310 00 Come and se(



S. L WING KOPF-KON tFARMS Goldwater “1011.





W‘ Shro hire earling rams

Idle dd StOCk Farms hangar-1m ginningstock.

Make your selection early. 0111! Mi dieton.Proprieto1-.

Clayton. Mich. R. 3.





2 50 R Shropshires offered past season all sold



eg' After Aug. lot can supply any thing

needed Registered Shropshire ewes and rams Of same

high quality. 0.1. Dexter, Mich.

?Lot A erican Hampshire Sheep

want 3 Sheep? 115.033.1101. send you digfii'ly‘





booklet with list of breeders to. Write COMF

A. TYLER Woodland Ave” Detroit. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





   

 





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For Sale or Trade

Registered Percheron Stallions: Brown

three year old. Gray yearling.



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A man afraid of his tires.





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No matter how many pre-

cautions a man may take he will

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the maker put into it.





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number of miles there is no

reason why it should be ex-

pected to go any farther. \



When it breaks down before

it has gone' the limit, there is no

reason why an allowance should





 





The car in the foreground has

a wheel out of line.



' Few motorists realize that a

displacement of only one degree

has the same efli’ct on a tire as if

it was dragged 92/ feet in every

mile.



New tires have been known to

be completely stripped of their

'treads in‘100' miles of running

under such conditions.





 





 





 





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looking for is better tires—not

limited-mileage tires or con‘cili—

atory allowances.





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