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this journal to prepare an article

upon a most vital point of farm

economy—the water supply—and in so

doing is using his experience, gained

frOm actual practice, in connection

with a farm of: about one hundred and

seVenty acres All deductions herein

given are equally applicable to farms

of larger or smaller area, the princi-

ples remaining the same.



The water supply for the farm must

:be wholesome, .copious, of absolutely

dependable quantity, and provided at

The source of the supply

must be carefully investigated and re—

liable data gathered. With this in view

atopographical survey of the property

to scale must be prepared, upon which

map should be indicated'as accurately

as possible all important features; the

general character of the earth, loam

or sand low-lying, seepy, wet ground,

drainage areas, contours indicating the

relative elevation of one object to an-

other, prominent“ rock out-croppings,

trees of size or particular beauty,





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. clumps of shrubbery and growing veg-





station of various kinds, fence and

property lines, ali’vwater courses and

meandering brooks. _



The location‘of the house and farm

buildings having been determined, the

search for the permanet source of war

te'r supply can be undertaken, consid~

ering the location desired and the

Quantity of delivery necessary. The

search must be most thorough. All

promising sources of supply and their

drainage arc, must be carefully inves-





tigated, to preclude the possibility of





pollution from surface wash, particu-

larly in winter. Low- lying,





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ment of desirable softness, and yet be

absolutely unfit for use. A sample

should be sent to the State Board of

Health for a complete chemical and

biological analysis, which will be fur-

nished gratis and repeated under rea-

sonable circumstances. The report

furnished will be found most reliable

and conservative, and will interpret

-the results in a most fair-minded man—

ner, and must be strictly followed, be

this disappointing, discouraging or per—

plexing. It may even condemn the

supply, in which case the supply must

be abandoned and forgotten, and a

pure one diligently sought. The chem-

ical analysis will indicate the chemical

composition of the=sample; the bio-

logical, the pathogenic germs present,

if any. There is abanefulimpression

along the Country-side that a polluted

running brook will in its meandering,

expunge itself. This'is generally true

as to suspended matter, but is abso-

lutely false concerning pathogenic

germs which itmay contain; these

willendure and multiply. The writer

has had various experiences upon this

point. There can ‘be no dependence

placed upon the appearance of a water

‘—~it must positively be analyzed before

acceptance.





- HEideal source for the permanent

water supply for‘the farm is the

bubbling spring with its sandy bottOm,

through which it bursts. It must be

thoroughly explored; all its tributaries

and branches traced and unchvered,





 





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and the‘ encumbering material remov-

ed, so that there may be every assur-

ance of a constant and copious deliv-

ery, and must be Surrounded by a wa—

ter-tight masonry wall, extending well

above the surface of the surrounding

ground with a curb, to divert any sur-

face flow, as shown in Fig. 1, and be

housed for protection against the en-

trance of foreign substances.



The meandering brook which may

cross the property, and may have a

foreign source, whose volume may be

large and constant, and appearance ex-

cellent, may be most tempting, in des-

peration, but it must not be accepted

without reserve; that portion within

the property may be safeguarded and

protected and the flow carefully guard-

ed, but that outside the property lies

beyond your control in any manner.



The driven well as a source of wa-

ter supply is much better than that of

the open well——it is quite safe from

surface contamination and from sub-

terranean, too, if sunk deep enough,

but as a rule its capacity is rather

limited, on account of the manner of

sinking, and for this reason is usually

employed upon small units.





HE artesian or bored well as a



permanent supply for the water

system will be found almost indispen-

sable when the demand may be great.

Its cost is usually uncertain, until the

well has been completed, tested, and

quantity of delivery is definitely

known. The permanency of the deliv-





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ery, too, is not always dependable, and

will be found to shrink in proportion

to the number of neighboring wells.

For theSe reasons, this form of supply.

is generally employed only when the

other methods appear doubtful, and

where cost is not too,great a govern—

ing factor. It can be sunk at any de—

sired point.



The open well with its rope and,

bucket as a source of the permanent

water supply, in these days of progress

and scientific advancement, should not

be given serious consideration. The

sentiment which surrounds it is very

pretty; the poets in verse have so of—

ten referred to it as a symbol of rural

romance, a trysting place for the coun-

try swain; a quaff of whose refreshing

water is so relished by the laborer in

the hot fields—~but from. a hygienic

standpoint, it is a relic of the past. It

readily becomes a receptacle for many

strange things, some of which reaches

it intentionally, some by accident. It

is easy of contamination, both from

surface wash and subterraneous in-

fection.



It is poor economy and indifferent

designing to lead the delivery of the

spring directly to the points of con~

sumption. The spring may be of such

capacity that this may be possible, but

as a rule this will not be the case. To

meet this situation, a retaining reser-~

voir will be found necessary, as shown

in Fig. 1. This reservoir must be most

carefully built of masonry, absolutely

water-tight, and of such capacity that

it may retain a week’s supply. The-

bottom must drain to a center point

which must be provided with pipe and



valve, so that the reservoir





 





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seepy ground, which may ap-

tempting when" the

search is most difficult,

should not be accepted too

readily. It will be found of

investigate

the sources of supply of the

neighboring farms; their

proximity the quantity and

reliability of the flow, the

character of the water, the

methdd of pumping, etc.

Where the source ofaper~_

manent water Supply‘ has

been selected, its rate or de-

livery mustbe ascertained.





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cleaning and repairs. The

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to that for the spring. At

one end of the reservoir,

forming a part thereof, must.

be built a small chamber, as

shown in Fig. 1, to intercept

grit or any foreign sub-

stance, into which the over--

flow from the spring emp-

ties. 'The connection with

the reservoir is provided

with a renmz'ztbie c0pper





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trance of foreign material.

The location of the reservoir

must naturally lie below the

spring, to. receive the flow

by gravity, and its location.

should be adjacent to the

center of the farm activities ”

if possible. It is most dé~~

sirable to have the water ,,

supply system such that?

there may be agravity dis;

charge from the reservoir ti"?

points needing service, 531'



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DETROIT, JUNE 12, 1920





CURRENT COMMENT





SURVEY of the

banking situation





 





 





Financing in several of the more

Orgamzed prosperous farming

Farmers communities indicates





that many country

bankers have failed to support the

County Farm Bureaus in their efforts

to organize farmers’ cooperative asso-

ciations to handle farm supplies and

\ market their various products. On the

other hand, some of the most progres-

sive bankers in the state are working

in close harmony with these organiza-

tions and supporting any movement

which will insure greater financial

prosperity to the farmers of their com-

munity.

Just how far any individual banker

should go to support these farmers’

organizations is a question which must

be decided in his own mind, and so far

as “immediate profits are concerned

there may be some excuse for the

bankers hesitating to finance these 1111-.

dertakings, but it certainly appears a

rather short-sighted policy on the part

of country bankers in general to with-

hold their financial and moral support

from any movement which will add so

much to the resources of their patrons.

If a banker’s deposits are not sufficient

to meet the business needs of his farm-

er patrons, how can he expect, that

they will ever be any greater, unless

he does something to make their busi-

ness more profitable. If something is

not done to put-their business on a

more profitable basis through better

methods of farming and the feeding of

more live stock, bank deposits In our

.rural communities are sure to dwindle

during the next few years.- If farmers

are paying out large sums of money

each year for commercial fertilizers.

which they would not have to purchase

if they had the money to stock their

farms with suitable kinds of live stock,

that money is going out of the commu-

nity for fertility which would be left

without cost if the farms were support-

ing profitable herds and flocks. It is

dimcult, indeed, to ’ understand how

Dmsrossive country bankers can fail

,tosuaport their County Farm Bureaus

Several months ago when a wave of

named and radicalism threatened the

‘oountl‘z, bankers were among the first





» to malice the need of some safe and

. sane organization that would insure

the former a square deal with other





 





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rm: between farmers and business

men In More}. Do they still believe

hat“. ism» should have what he-

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em Deny them who financial "

support and you are inviting the W“? M Bureaus cast wrenches so. inur- '

conditions which now Will! in the portant Work to do in this connection ,

and its appointment inst at this? time;





03 bill, now pending in' congress, were offi-





banking circles of North Dakota.

' is a fortunate factor in the“ solution of





. ‘ , T the first called the transportation problem.

' he ex- . ' ,

The Nob” meeting of t

ecutive committee of

Land'Tax the Amerim Farm American Farm Bureau





Referendum Bureau Federation,



held in Chicago last

week, the detailed results of the ref-

erendum taken on the Nolan land tax





Exmm'w Meeting .





OUR’I‘EEN members of the execu—



tive committee of the American



Farm Bureau Federation met in

Chicago, June 2-3-4, .and accomplished

.some definite pieces of work. Three

working. departments were created and

appropriations made and committees

appointed for putting them into imme-

diate operation.



An appropriation of $40,000 -was

made for the American Farm Bureau

Federation Educational Bureau.



A Bureau of Farm Economics and

Statistics was allowed an appropriar

tion of $35,000 for the remainder of

the year. The purpose of this bureau

is to collect information and figures

having a bearing upon the production

of farm crops and live stock and giv-

ing knowledge of the world supply and

demand. Its field for investigation is

to be the world, or such part of the

world as may control, or have an influ-

once upon the prices of American agri-

cultural products. The establishment

of such a department was urged at a

recent meeting of the executives of the

mid-west state bureau federations at

the call of the Illinois Agricultural As-

sociation. It was shown that in some

instances American products were sold

cheaper in foreign markets than at

home.



A third important department that

will be put into actual and active op-

eration in the near future is the B11—

reau of Transporation. This depart-





cially reported. This bill, as \previ-

ously explained in these columns, pro-

vides for the raising of public revenue.

by a tax on the privilege of the use

and enjoyment of lands in excess of a

valuation of $10,000. In sending out

this referendum the Farm Bureau offl-

cials made the following explanation:



“The object of this act is to raise

public'revenues. It is not supposed

that it will do away entirely with,

but be supplementary to the present

income tax laws. The proponents of

this and similar measures believe that

land does not at present bear its just

proportion of taxes as compared to

the industries.



"In considering this act you should

not allow the fact that the revenues

therefrom will come in principal part

from the farmers to prejudice your

judgment, but should consider it in re-

lation to fairness to other interests;

and whether or not it would be of suf-

ficient burden to affect the land values,

rentals or incomes and thus affect pro-

duction.”



The report of this referendum show

that 359,626 farmers voted on the prop-

osition, of which 357,266 voted against

it, as compared with a total for it of

2,260 votes. Farmers of 520 counties

in eighteen states participated in the

referendum. Nearly half the votes in

favor of this tax plan were cast ‘in

Illinois. in seven states not a. single

vote was cast f01 the propositiou.



The results of this referendum show

conclusively that more than, ninety-

nine per cent of the Farm Bureau

members voting on this proposition

are opposed to it. Aside from demon—

strating this fact in a forcible man-

ner, this referendum has illustrated

the practicability of quickly ascertain-

ing the sentiment of the farmers 0f

the country on any important question

of public policy. Steps were taken at

this meeting to submit a number of

other questions in a similar manner in

the near future, as a guide to the'ef—

forts which will be made by the execu-

tive committee along legislative lines.





water rates on farm‘products to se-

cure, if possible, an equitable basis of

charges for handling these products

and other commodities. The reasons

for the prevailing car Shortage is anr

other matter that is to be investigated

and an effort will be made to mini-

mize this hindrance to profitable mar-

keting. Clifford Thorne, railroad rate

attorney, who is employed by the A.

F. B. F. to represent them before the

Interstate Commerce Commission, re

ported. some of his findings at the

meeting. .



The executive committee went on

record as favoring equitable propm-

tionment of rate increases._ between

freight and passenger rates. Fifteen

thousand dellars was appropriated to

begin work in the bureau of transpor-

HOSE who have tation.





Car Short- carefully followed A. H. True, director of the States

nd the trend of the mar— Relation Service of the Department of

age a ket for cereal grains Agriculture at Washington, declared





Grain Prices during recent weeks, that in his department only men who



will have noted that have reached the age where they have

shipments have been intermittent, de become settled and a change of work

pending on the can supply, and that is undesirable or young inexperienced

prices have fluctuated accordingly, to men will accept the salary allowed.

the advantage of the grain handlers After Dr. True’ 5 report a resolution

and speculators in the primary mar was passed urgently requesting con-

kets. The logical explanation has been gross to reclassify the salaries of the

advanced that the switchmen's strike United States Department of Agdcul~

resulted in an accumulation of cars in ture at an early date during the next

the market centers, and that as a session, and to remove limitations of

shortage of spot grains became up the salaries to be paid to scientific and

parent long strings of these empties research specialists of the department

were rushed to the grain producing and that of the first assistant to the“

areas to replenish the dwindling secretary of agriculture

stocks. This resulted in the means The work of the live stock produc-

e! abnormally heavy OW“. of 9113’ «nominee of attecn was mad

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‘ciation, was an. urgent supporter of

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ing that the work of the committee

was too important to let rest for

months at a ”time—Gamma





NeWs of the Week





Wednesday, Jun 2.



PRESIDENT WILSON’ S plea for an



American mandate over Armenia

is rejected by the United States Sen-

ate. —Congress moves to adjourn on

Saturday, June 5.—-The supreme court

decides that ratification of a constitu—

tional amendment is not subject to





submission to a popular refeiendum, -





thus sustaining the position of the

d1ys.——-Anthracite miners and operatr

ors acCept the President’s offer to up

point a commission for deciding the

coal wage controversy—A million dol—

lars’ worth of Yucatan sisal is de-

stroyed by fire at Galveston, Texas.





Thursday, June 3.





A SEVERE wind storm destroys a

half million dollars’ yvorth of prop-

erty near Blanchardville, Wis.—~Polish

troops attack the Russian Bolshevik

forces along the Beresina river, with

the Polish offensive progressing favor

ably—Soviet Russia is seeking to es-

tablish commercial relations with

western Europe, in order to secure

needed manufactured articles—The

tentative draft of the Republican na-

tional platform is given its finishing

touches at conferences held in Chica—

go. —At least six men were killed by an

explosiou in a coal shaft near Cokes-

burg, Pa

Friday, June 4.





BY a vote of 323-3 the house adopts





and sends to the senate a resolu—‘





tion repealing all war-time laws except

the Lever Food Control Act and the

Trading-with-the-enemy Act.——Congress





passes measure providing increased , ‘





pay for postal employee. —Thc United.

States will not be officially represented

in the coming conference of the allies

with the Germans at Spa. —-The Lou-

isiana house of representatives adopts

the federal suffrage amendment, while

the senate federal relations committee

reports favorably on its ratification.

Saturday, June 5.

PRESIDENT WILSON vetoes United

States budget bill which he be-

lieves to be unconstitutional, and ap-

points a commission of three men to





settle the wage controversy between





anthracite coal miners and operators.

-—French aeroplane Goliath breaks all

world records for continuous flight by

remaining in the air over twenty-four

hours, in which it covered a distance

of 1,915 kilometers. —T100ps have re-

stored order following industiial riots

at Bristol, R. I.-—Fifty-eight measures,

including the merchant marine bill,

and one providing for the exclusion

and expulsion of aliens from the Unit-

ed States are approved by the Pres





ident.

Sunday, June 6.





HE census bureau announces that



the population of New York City

on anuary 2 was 5,621,151, an therease

of 17 9 per cent over 19;10 of Boston,

747 .923. an increase of 11.5 per cent;

of Buffalo, 505, 875, an increase of 19 4

per cent. ———Th_e British establish a; nav—

al base at Reval on the Baltic, which





gives that country commanding ports ‘





over European Russia. —It is reported





the car service commission that s.





the freight congestion in this country

is slowly improving. —Parccl post ser-

vice betwnen the United States and





Hungary is suspended because lat-





ter country cannot guarantee do

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was sung cut by a trio of Eaton



county farmers who pulled up to

the end of a long line of vehicles at

the warehouse of the Michigan State

Farm Bureau with an auto load of

wool. Every sort of vehicle from a

clumsy wheelbarrow to a substantial

motor truck was in that line. Farmers

from far and near were there deliv-

ering their 1920 wool ,clip.‘ The gen-

eral conversation of those waiting for

their turn at unloading, showed a spir-

it of. wholesome enterprise and good

nature which suggests big develop-

ments in the cooperative movement in

this state.



“You’ ll learn something here today,"

was the greetingof a neighbor to the

trio as he hurried home in his car to

hustle up the farm work. ‘



“Here’ s hoping,” went back the reply

as the hum of the motor died away in

the distance. Inside the building,

standing behind a table ‘in the sorting

room they found the sorter, an agree—

able personage, intent upon his work.

He was classifying the fleeces of a

flockmaster living near Mason. As fast





as one fleece was disposed of another '





was put into the sorter’s hands by a

helper.



As the newcomers watched the man

at his work, they could see no rule or

reason for dividing the fleeces into the

various piles about the table. But when

these men who had produced the wool

for several years had made a survey





' of the warehouse and observed the

wool in the different rooms they could





see at once the uniformity of the fiber

of the fleeces in each pile and from

this they concluded that the man, in

some mysterious manner, was doing

his job well



“Why did you throw that fleece

aside?” asked a ruddy-faced member

of the group. .



“A dead fleece,” came back the re-

ply of the sorter who never took his

eyes frOm his work, but who seemed

willing to talk. “And this one goes





‘, out because thejowner waSocareless in





placing it upon a floor strewn with

chaff. in'the last load we had a few

fleeces that. were taken from the

After a mo—

ment of silence’he continued, “Here is

a bad piece or business. These tags





literally torn to pieces.





should be kept separate from the

fleece and put in a sack,” and he pull-

ed out a- bunch of the dirtiest sort of

taggings which had been wrapped into

the center of the fleece: “Some sheep

men think they can fool the sorter,

but they don’t.”



Some of the fleeces he passed with

little examination, while others were

Coming to

one which fell in the latter class, and

which unfortunately was tied' firmly

with three strands of string each way,

this skilled man was led to give the

audience a sermonette on the use of

twine. “You farmers use more twine

than is necessary,” he continued as be

wiped the perspiration from his fore—

head with the sleeve on his left arm,

“Usually two strings each way around

the fleece is sufficient, and often where





If You Haven't a Truck—Well,





the clip has been properly taken from

the sheep’s back, is of medium size

and 'well rolled, one string each way

is ample. The use of binder twine was

quite‘ common at one time, but the

idea has been pretty well worked out

of the minds of sheep owners. About

the only time we now have to contend

with it, is where the farmer runs out

of wool twine and is unable to get

enough to tie the «last few fleeces so

he has recourse to binder twine. The

reason it is objectionable is because

the vegetable fibre will not take the

dyes the same as does the wool, and

since the fibres, once caught in the

fleece, cannot be, removed the wool

‘must be used for purposes .where

cheaper wools are used, and sg is sold

on the basis of the inferior classes.”





W 00/ Pooling Mates Farm Bureau W are/muse a Busy Place

W acre Farmer? Gat/zer Some Practical Ideas.-—W. Trude.





“And here is another little matter

that I have learned in connection. with

the Wool business, and that is that the

farmer is very well paid for taking his

scythe out and cutting down the bur-

docks, pitchforks and other weeds in

the sheep pasture and around the

barns merely to keep the wool free

from the burs. Wool containing burs,

seeds, chaff and other foul stuff is dis—

counted from ten to twenty per cent.

And for the same reason don’t keep

the sheep around a straw stack. You

don’t need to be much of a mathema-

tician to figure it out. Of course, this

‘was not so important when you sold

your wool in the old way for the local

buyer generally discounted on the

price anyway; but now you sell your

fleeces on their merit and so the mat-

ter becomes of financial importance.”





 





Do It Anyway.





And By this time the trio and the

other farmers‘who had gathered about

the table were convinced that this new





scheme of handling wool put the trad--





ing on a business basis. There was

nothing just about the old method; it

penalized the man who exercised care

in growing the wool and in preparing

it for market, while the careless fellow

was given a premium. But here, un-

der this new plan, the wool was being

put on the‘market strictly upon its

merit. The flockmaster who sees that

his sheep are supplied with sufficient

food and water, are housed against

extreme weather conditions, and are

kept in a healthy state throughout the

year is paid for this trouble in the

better price that his wool brings. The

lazy man, on the other hand, can no





longer expect returns on work he has

not done. -



At the office it was learned that to

date there had been received at the

warehouse 126,385 pounds of wool. This

amount had all been brought in by

auto, truck, wagon, bicycle, wheelbar-

row, and generally from territory

within a radius of fifty miles of Lan»

sing. Some farmers had essayed to

come much farther, even up to a hun-

dred miles, to see, they said, how the

wool was graded. Of this 126,385

pounds, about 110,000 pounds had al-

ready been sorted and the following

figures show how it has been running:

There were 10,688 pounds of half-blood

staple; 4,690 pounds of delaine; 39,741

pounds of three-eighths-blood comb

ing; 8,232 pounds of three-eighths—

blood clothing; 34, 584 pounds of quar~

ter~blood combing; 4,236 pounds of fine

Cloiwhing





To furnish a basis for comparing the

values of the various grades, quota-

tions from a Chicago house are given

and also the prices received last year

by the Illinois Agricultural Association.

For one-half-blood staple the Chicago

home quotes seventy to seventy-five

cents, and the Illinois farmers were

paid seventy-three cents last year; for

delaine the respective figures aresev-

enty to seventy-five cents and seventy-

eight cents; three-eighths-blood comb-

ing fiftyione to fifty-six cents, and six-

forty-three to forty-eight and sixty-one

ty-five three-eighths-blood clothing at

cents; one-fourth-blood combing forty-

nine to fifty-three and sixty cents; fine

clothing forty to forty-five and fifty-

nine cents.



After a consignment is graded each

grade is weighed and the’ quantity

credited to the owner. The various

grades are then put in their respective

piles which, before the season is well

along will, in case of some grades,





grow into the hundreds of thousands-





of pounds. Having these large lines

of single grades it is possible for the

farmers cooperating through the Farm

Bureau and the Wool Growers’ Asso-

ciation to secure returns that could not

have been obtained had the wool been

offered in individual allotments. Back

of the whole arrangement, however,





stands the faithful work of the wool





sorter.
ond in the United States. Com-



mercially, Lenawee county is the

first county in Michigan where farm-

ers, business men and bankers have

adopted a working program to develop

farm resources, improve business meth-

ods, and finance the business of farm-

ing. Socially, it is the first place this

side of Utopia where the farmers, bus-

iness men and bankers meet on com—

mon ground, understand each others’

problems and work in harmony for

community betterment.



Natural then, and not strange, is it

that the County Farm Bureau has the

enthusiastic support of farmers, bus-

iness men and bankers who are all

working to develop the natural re-

sources and make Lenawee county an

ideal community in which to live and

do business.



A. E. Illenden, who has served as

president of the County Farm Bureau

since it was organized seven years ago,

believes that the first essential of

prosperity in a rural community is a

better understanding of farmers and

their problems among business men

and bankers and a better knowledge

of business and financial problems

among farmers. His experience in

Farm Bureau and Grange work has

convinced him that much of the unrest

among the farmers is the result of a

short-sighted policy on the part of bus-

inessmen and bankers who have neg-

lected to cultivate the farmer, study

his requirements and give him service

in keeping with the value of his busi-

ness, and, likewise, to the fact that

farmers have failed to know the busi-

ness man and banker and understand

their problems. “In Lenawee county,”

says Mr. Illenden, “we have made ev-

ery effort possible to have business

men come out to our picnics and

Grange meetings and get acquainted

with us. In that way they have come

to know us better and have a more

thorough understanding of our busi-

ness and problems. In return the bus-

iness men and bankers have done

many things to entertain us and foster

a friendly feeling. Efforts along these

lines have contributed largely to our

mutual prosperity and happiness. I

doubt if there is another county in

Michigan where farmers, business men

and bankers are working in more per-

fect harmony.- Of course, there is





A. GRICULTURALLY it ranks sec-





more or less unrest among our farm

ers at the present time, but most of

these troubles





come from outside





this ‘-





liner Bullion, the Thousand Dollar

re by





A Bunch of Out-standing Holsteins on the Hartl‘and Farms.





 





sources rather than from within the

county. We are confident that the

Michigan State'Farm Bureau can be of

great benefit to us in handling some

of these outside problems.





“Before the recent driVe which gave

us a total of nearly two thousand four

hundred members,” says President

Illenden, “we had perfected plans to

centralizethe buying power of all our

local cooperative associations, so that

we could pool orders for feeder cattle,

sheep, fertilizers, coal, feeds and seeds.

Just how we will handle this business

under the new order is another prob-

lem, but we are in hopes that we can

get away from too many small asso-

ciations and duplication of effort. We

have several plans under consideration

whereby we can give the needed ser-

vice and not make it necessary to have

an elaborate and complicated system





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King Alfonso Lyons, Junior Herd Sire at Maple City Stock Farm.





of financing the business. We believe

that every man who has paid in his

ten dollars is entitled to some kind of

service without being forced to help

finance another scheme to get any ben.

efits from his investment. ”





HE National Bank of Commerce at



Adrian stands out as a notable

exception to the trend of bankers to

ignore the farmer. Its record is in

marked contrast with that of many

other Michigan banks whose ethics

bear all the earmarks of their Jewish

prototypes. The contrast continues as

one travels over some of the other





counties where the bankers have re-





fused to finance farmers’ cooperative

organizations and endeayored to hold

up appropriations for County Farm Bu-

reau projects. When asked how the

bankers of Michigan could best serve

the farmer, President R. C. ROthtuss

promptly replied: “Get back of the

County Farm Bureau. Ask the tamer

what he wants and what he needs to.





Heading Into Lenawee Unitary, ,Oar Ctr-cm!





 





 

 





Farms W ézcfi Have Aided Lenawee





less today than under pro-war condi— lack of understanding of its purposes, "





tions. It is time we did something for: judging from the manner in which





the farmer as well as for the benefit they ignore it and fail to acquaint





of the consumer. their customers with its advantages.

“It is my judgment that if the farm- The Farm Bureau was organized for

ersare provided with financial aid and the sole purpose of providing a central

the proper cooperation of various gov- organization in each county to which

ernmental agencies controlling trans- all farmers, whether members or not,

portation, marketing and distribution might look for information in regard

they will be able to work out their to all farm problems. It is in charge

problems in their own way, for the of a man who is acquainted with every

benefit both of themselves and the con— phase of country life and capable of

sumer. Faulty marketing facilities, giving definite advice and securing in—

excessive transportation costs and ex- formation on all matters peltaining to

CESSiVG moms to the middlemen have agriculture, such as soil fertility, test-

more to do with the high cost of liV- ing of seeds, prevention of disease, or-

ing than insufficient production. The ganization of cooperative marketing

railroads and othenagencies of distri- associations and Boys’ and Girls’ Club

bution are absorbing most of the prof- work. The county agents have innear-

its of farming. The failure of the gov- 1y every instance measured up to the

ernment to furnish reliable statistical job and are furnishing this kind of in-

information in regard to production of formation and assistance to all who

crops and the demand for them in the apply, and are seeking by every means

markets of the world, and proper at their command to widen the sphere

means of distributing them quickly of their influence. I cannot understand

and cheaply to the points where they why the country banker has so con-

are needed compels the farmer. to of— sistently and persistently ignored the

fer the fruits of his labor in a specu— COunty Farm-Bureau.

lative market and accept whatever . “The purchase of good seeds and

price is offered. If the government purebred live stock is a kind of work

does not see fit to correct some of bankers should support.‘

these glaring faults in our system of hard to estimate the annual loss in

distributing farm products, the farmer crops to the state of Michigan through

must set about it in his own way. He the sowing of poor seed and feeding

does not want advice on how to pro poor live stock. Every county agent

through his sources of information is

in a position to contact these things if

his services are needed, and every

banker should lend financial. assist-

ance. The banks can render service

to the farmer through the Farm Bu-

reau by assisting in the organization

of farmers” shipping associations and

local marketing plans and many other

lines of work. Cattle and sheep feed~

ing is another phase of business to

which bankers in many counties are

not giving proper support, and by

their neglect they are overlooking a

great opportunity. In Lenawee coun-

ty, where the feeding of live stock has

become more general than in any oth-

er county in the state, during the past

year over one thousand carloads, or

approximately three million dollars

duce more crops, but he does Want as- worth of cattle and sheep were ship<

sistance in producing more cheaply pod in, fed during the winter and ship-

and in marketing them at less cost. ped out during the spring worth five

The business of the farmer is to pm- million dollars. It was estimated by

duce crops. The business of the bank- Mr. Coffeen, county agent for Lenawee

er is to assist him in financing his county last yearflthat the ‘total value

farming operations and the various of live stock shipped out of the coun-

agencies upon which he is dependent ty was about ten million dollars. Add

for the things necessary in the produc- to this the monthly pay roll of six hun-

tion of corps. There you have the dred thousand dollars, or seven mil-

crux of the whole situation. The bank— lion annually, and you have some idea

er is outside of his proper sphere when of the gross income from live stock

he undertakes to do for the farmer operations in Lenawee county. '

anything but to finance his proper re- “Certain bankers inform their farm-

qufi-ememgy er patrons that their deposits are in

_ . sufficient to take care of th

AVING assisted in- the organiza- for live stock feeding. For £35312?

tion of the Farm Bureau. what is who, at this day and age; pretends to

the apparent attitude of many bankers, be serving his community as a banker

both collectively and individually, at should, this is absolutely no excuse at

the present time? Some of them seem all. If he hasn’t got the money to loan

to have forgotten its very existence, to farmers when their business do:

or at least they display a complete mands it, let him go to his city corres-





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make possible an increase in producfi





ti0n on a basis which will yield a liv-

ing profit for himself, and at the same

time provide the amount of food neces-

sary to feed the people and avert the





conditions of radicalism new threat- -





oping us. The cost of tile. tease,





posts. 800d. machmm. and everything

whichgoesintothecostotoperatins





a farm has. increased, so that the net

profits from many terms ape actually





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pa. can’t get it there, ion the Federal

--11eserve System and put himself in a

position to serve farmers as they are

If his deposits

are less than the needs of his commu-

nity, how can he expect that they will

ever be any greater, if he does noth-

ingto make the farmers realizemore

from their business. If something is

not done to build up the fertility of



our soils through the feeding of better

live stock, bank deposits will be less

ten years from now than they are to-

day. If the farmers are paying out

thousands of dollars a year for com-

mercial fertilizers'that moneyis going

out of the community for something

which should be left without cost if

the farmers were stocked with all the

live stock they could carry.”





ALPH J. CARR, who accepted the





position made vacant by County-





LAgent Coffeen’s resignation the first

‘of April, is thoroughly qualified to car-

ry on the work so Well organized in

Lenawee county. Mr. Carr graduated

frOm M. A. C. in- 1908, spent two years

at the University of Missouri, three

years with the United States Bureau

of Animal Industry at Washington, D.

0., one year on a dairy farm in Living-

ston county and two years as county

agent of Monroe county, Michigan.



In discussing his work in Lenawee

icOunty Mr. Carr gave the following

outline of his aims and projects: To

improve marketing conditions and to

strengthen the present organizations

and to give the best service possible to





every} Farm Bureau member without -.





additional cost, rather than develop

new. associations without proper finan-

cial resources. In fact, the views of





Mr. Carr and the members of the ex- ‘





ecutive committee may be summed up

about as fouows: For the. Farm Bu-

reau of Lenawee county to pay cash

for every carload of supplies purchas-

ed through the Michigan State Farm

Bureau and to distribute it to the 10-

cal cooperative. associations. To make





. managers of these associations bonded





agents of the County Farm Bureau to

collect and remitvto the County Farm

Bureau. Mr. Illenden, the. president,

believes that the farmers in a commu-

nity that’is well served by local mer-

chants and dealers should be slow to

form cooperative associations through

which they must assume the risks and

absorb the shocks the business is sure

to meet With it they undertake to han-

dle too many lines. Just how far the



mere may have to go to improve

conditions intheir particular localities

depends precisely upon how the local

merchants and dealers meet the situa-

tion and seek to iniprove. their service.

What the farmer wants, and what' he

is going to have, is straightaway busi-

ness methods If- the local merchants

and dealers are willing to get down to

brass tacks and' give the farmers of

their communities the needed service

there is no reason why their business

On'the other hand, if





 





a ,_ *aflana/ Reputation





pendent banks and borrow it, and if





some of them continue to buck the Old.





game and refuse to give such service

as the farmers need, then! the farmers

can determine which of these men can

give the service if properly sustained

and give, them their business. And if

these methods fail to get results they

can organize a. cooperative association,

hire a competent manager and run the

business themselves: In some commu-

nities the farmers are saving money

in buy1ng seeds, feeds, fertilizers, coal

and general farm supplies. This diffi-

culty added to the attitude of the local

merchants in one or two rural commu-

nities in the country have forced the

farmers to get together, not to pro-

mote their own selfish interests, but

to secure a square deal in prices and

quality of'goods purchased. Fortunate-

ly this condition does not obtain in

many. communities in Lenawee county.





OYS’ and Girls' Club work is to be



given proper attention, and plans

have already been perfected to put

calves and pigs out to as many boys

and girls as possible this year. Mr.

Harwood, ,of the County Holstein

Breeders’ Association, and Mr. Roth-

fuss, the banker, are assisting in this

work. The day Mr. Rothfuss consent-

ed to driye'out and have his picture

snapped with the club leader, boy and

calf, he said: “Understand, I am not





ter seed is being encouraged and there

will be the closest 000peration with

the new seed department of the State

Farm Bureau. Other projects will not

be neglected during the year.





ENAWEE county is well organiz-



ed cooperatively. Over at'Blissfield

the “Circuit Rider” met George L.

Porter, of the Farmers’ Cooperative

Grain and Produce Company. Mr.

Porter, decked in his blue jeans (and

by the way, they were not the fancy

kind worn by city clerks who draw

$30 per week, but the regular old farm-

er jeans), was calmly dictating letters

to his secretary and looking after a

little business that totals more than a

million dollars a year. The associa-

tion has two hundred and ten mem-

bers and pays dividends on the amount

of business done through its office. R.





 





 





The Kind that E. A. Beamer Likes to Have Around.





pramoting the work, but merely help-

ing Mr. Carr put it on a sound financial

basis. He is anxious to get the work

under way, and the only thing he lacks

is financial baCking to take care of the

loans and prizes. It is a splendid op-

portunity for me to do something

which will be appreciated by the bays

and girls and by their parents. Of

course, it is good advertising, but I

want to forget all about personal prof-

it ,or advertising and get a comprehen-

sive plan of financing the work under

way. We have other public-spirited

bankers in Lenawee county. I want

you to give Mr. Carr and the Farm

Bureau all of the credit, for we are

leaving it to him to work out the de-

tails." ' ‘



Poultry work is another project in

which -‘Mr. Cagrr is interested and which

he aims to put on a solid foundation

in Lenawee cOunty. Dates have been

arranged for culling demonstrations

and field work will be vigorously push-

ed during the season. The use of bet-





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C. Clement is president and the direc-

tors are:

lauch, ‘A. E. Parker, H. H. Atwell, E.

A. Beamer and O. D Porter The bus-

iness is about equally divided between

farm crops and live stock.



At Ousted the Cooperative Shipping

Association has a turn—over of two hun-

dred thousand dollars a year. B. A.

Onsted is manager. The president is

F. B. Stoddard, and the directors are:

A. F. Maxwell, W. G. Shepard, Wm.

Newell, George L. Smith and Percy Al-

derdyce



The Morenci Cooperative Shipping

Association did more than $120, 000

worth of business last year. The pr es-

ident is Will Shafer, and V. B. Col-

grove is manager. The past year’s bus-

iness consisted chiefly of stock ship-

ping, but the seed and fertilizer busi-

ness is steadily growing.





The Munson Cooperative Associa-

tion did something like 200,000 worth

of business last year. Philip Cole-

grove is manager; S. Venson, presi-

dent. Will Joughin, I. E. Seathers,

Andrew Ferris, N. B. Ferris, Melvin

Wright and W. R. Poucher, directors.



At Tecumseh the Cooperative Asso-

ciation does an annual business of a





   





The Home of Some of Michigan’s Finest Herefords.





A. E. Bradley, H. F. Knob-_





E. L. smith, Frank J. Willett, E. H.

Fairbanks, Arthur A. Smith, W. H.

Knight and T. C. Elinger, directors,

has a turn-over of $225,000 a year.

Live stock and farm supplies are hand-

led. M. W. Farrah is manager.





The Clayton Cooperative Associa—

tion handled $200,000 worth of produce

and farm supplies last year, and ex-

pects to do a much larger business

this year. D. C. Gage is manager; C.

J. Hart, president, and the directors

are: N. J. Morey, George McClouth,

Ralph Tew_, Earl Colbath, M. A. Baker





and L. B. Carr.





At Hudson the COOperative Associa-

tion handled $257,000 worth of stock

last year. Earl Bates is president, and

the directors are: R. H. Wade, M. E.

Tripp, Charles E. Osbourn, Lewis

Johnson, A. W. Nye and J. L. Beale.

This year it is the Farm Bureau re-

ceiving station for wool.





NOTHER institution, the Commu-



nity Market at Adrian, while not

strictly a cooperative enterprise, is rep-

resentative of the cooperative spirit

between the business men and farm-

ers of Lenawee county. It is financed

by the business men of Adrian and its

purpose is to handle small lots of farm

produCe on practically a cost basis. Its

volume of business is large and the

farmers are always assured of a place

to dispose of small lots of farm pro-

duce which in the aggregate amount

to thousands of dollars a month. It

is doing a great work in fostering the

community spirit in the county. The

manager is L. H. Remus.





Seneca and Addison also have coop-

erative associations which do about

$100,000 worth of business a year. Ex-

act figures were not available from

these associations as the managers

were not at their offices when we made

the rounds. ,



After visiting some of these prosper-

ous cooperative associations it certain-

ly tries one’s patience to hear a lot of

poor boobs shouting that farmers don’t

know enough to manage their own bus-

iness. Some of these old Thaddeus

Holdbacks, who are always pulling in

the breeching instead of the collar,

should take a few days off and visit





some 01" the modern cooperative or-‘





ganizations and see how the business

is transacted.

home and be of some use to their com-

munities, instead of sitting down and





yelping like a hound pup about the.





It is just such

jelly-spined individuals





poor, abused farmer.

weak-kneed,





 





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little over $400,000. The manager is

John McIntyre; the president is A. 0.

Howard. Directors are: John Ca1-

h'oun, Wm. Wilson, C. H. Bramble,

Ernest Daisher and Lee McConnel.

' ‘The business consists of stuck ship- ’

ping and general farm supplies. g ' - 1 ' *

The Adrian Cooperative Association Mu” Reamer, the championship Foedv'

with L. W Harwood president and 1 er of the Calf Clubs of Lenawee;





,. «(inlay 23
‘ HE A Lenawoe County HolStein

. Breedel’s’ Association is organized

Itor business. The oflicers are: E. L.

Smith, president; L. W. Harwood, man-

ager and vice-president, and C. A.

Reed, secretary-treasurer. There are

about fifty-five members and twenty of

the herds are under federal inspec-

_ tion'. Among the active breeders are

R. P. Clement, of Adrian, who has for

" a herd sire Royalton Canary Prince by

Canary Mercedes Pieterje Hartog and

out of Royalton De K01 Fern with a

seven-days’ record of 34.6 pounds of

butter, 628 pounds of milk. He has

sixty~five Holsteins and thirty are the

daughters of his herd sire.



C. E. Winnie has fifty~five head of

purebreds, headed by King Segis Lake-

side De Kol who has ten A. R. O. daugh~

tors. Mr. Clement has recently pur-

chased a half interest in Mr. Winnie’s

herd sire. For a junior sire Mr. Win-

nie has a King Lyons, bull from a twen-

ty—six-pound three-year-old heifer. The

farms are at Adrian.



R. A. Baker, of Adrian, keeps about

twenty» purebred Holstelns and is the

third generation of a family of H01-

stein breeders. His herd sire is Ogden

Jutl'ron Butter Boy, a thirty-pound bull

and a twenty—seven—pound sire. Mr.

C. B. Faler owns a half interest in this

sire and keeps about fifteen females.



'0. J. Hart has about thirty-five head

of purebreds and his herd. sire is a

thirty~pound son of King Lyons. Mr.

Hart’s farm is situated near Clayton.



Mr. Will, Gallop, of Medina, has the

honor of having bred that great cow

Lenawee Calamity Pet. Mr. Gallop

has some excellent daughters of Jo-

hanna Concordia Champion in his

herd. He is breeding these cows to a

son of Inez Pierteje.



Oscar Carlson began with one Hol—

stein cow, McKinley Beauty, seven

years ago, and at the present time he

is the owner of one hundred acres of

land and has a herd of ten daughters

and granddaughters of McKinley

Beauty and one of the best herds in

Lenawee county. “ Mr. Carlson’s farm

is near Adrian.



Fred Knoff, of Blissfield, keeps about

thirty purebreds and has Traverse





News 0





PROPOSES COOPERATIVE SUGAR

BEET REFINERIES.





 





0W that the Sugar Beet Growers’



Association’s efi'orts to win a new

price scale on the 1920 crop from the

sugar refiners by refusing to plant

beets have proven vain, the Michigan

State Farm Bureau has entered the

controversy with an entirely different

program intended to obtain for the

boot growers a more favorable price

for their product in 1921. Efforts will

be made by the Farm Bureau to estab-

lish cooperative sugar beet refineries

in the sugar beet territory between

now and the time the 1921 crop is out

of the ground.



This announcement was made by

representatives of the State Farm Bu-

reau at a meeting of the directors of

the Sugar Beet Association when

their records for the year were closed.

The boot growers’ directors appoint-

ed a committee to assist in the execu-



.1319” of the Fun Bureau program.





Reports presented at the meeting

and a survey made previously by the

fFarm Bureau showed that apprent-

.mately only half or the normal boot

other: in Michigan has been planted

3 year, aconditionthatis sureto

out-tail extensively the operation of the





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F. R. Myers‘has tvtelvé grand to-





males headed by a son or The Mighty

Monarch, and whose dam was a daugh-





ter of King Korndyk'e Sadie V‘ale.’ RS.

Curtis & Son. of Adrian, base a fine

herd, headed. by a’son 01' King Pontiac

Champion, and from a twenty-six-

pound daughter of Korndyke Seals Jo

henna.



F. S. Layer E. LSmithandLW.

Harwood have about seventy-five pum-

breds, mostly daughters of Royal

Ormsby 3rd, King Segis LakesideDe

K01 and Korndyke Hengerveld De K01

9th. They are breeding these females

to a son of Pabst King Pontiac Lad,

who carries a double cross of King

Pontiac Champion, his dam being a

daughter of Korndyke Segis Johanna.

For a junior sire they are using a line-

bred Ormsby bull sired by Sir Ormey

Banostine Champion, 9. son of Duchess

Skylark Ormsby. His dam is a thirty-

pound daughter of Sir Pieterje Ormsby

Mercedes.





VER at Hudson we visited E. E.





Cole, of Cole & Gardner, breed-‘

Like many





ers of Polled Herefords.

other breeders of beef cattle, Mr. .Cole





found the dairy busingss too confining,





and decided to keep beef cattle. Al—

ways an admirer of the whitefaces be-





cause of their uniformity of color and.





markings he naturally invested in

them. Convinced that the demands or

the future will call for polled cattle he

is changing his herd over to that type.

Some of his polled cows and his herd

sire, Renner Bullion, a, son of the fa-

mous $9,500 sire, Bullion 4th, and from

the good cow May Renner, show the

ideal blocky, meat-making type so

much prized by the best breeders of

Hereford cattle. Two classy heifers

from that famous sire, Imp. Constel-

lation, a hali~brother of Starlight the

bull that sold for $45,000 in England,

are being bred to Renner Bullion, and

Mr. Cole is looking for great results.

Messrs. Cole and Gardner have three

farms and are well, equipped to handle

purebred cattle. At present they have

about thirty Herefords and plan to get

in the business on a. larger scale dur-

ing the next few years.





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times Duroc fillet-soy wine or the most W





popular lines. fol? breeding. Their new

one Waltfsflrion, is ono of the out-

standing bears of the breed. His dam

is a daughter of the great Joe Orion.

one of the really great sires of the

breed. Walt’s Orion, won first' prize

in the senior yearling class at the De-

troit, Grand Rapids, Saginaw and Jack-

son rairs last fall. The boys have a

splendid bunch of sows and nearly all

of them are of the large, upstanding

type so much in favor at the present

time. This spring’s pig crop is coming

along nicely and the animals that are

to be taken to the fall shows are a.

choice lot.

now and September they expect to

exhibit on the western circuit this fall.



At Tecumseh is the famous Bidwell

Stock Farm where they breed some or

the best Shorthorns in Michigan. Bid-

well has one of the best equipped

breeding plants in the country and the

owner has spared no pains or money

in getting together a herd of excellent

cattle. Some of the animals are of

Scotch breeding and the bunch of

Scotch—topped young stuff has quality

to. spare.

inspection, and the animals are kept in

ideal breeding condition.





LIVER LAWRENCE, Class, of 1910

, at M. A. C., is putting‘int'o practice

on. his two—hundred—acre farm some of

the things he learned at East Lansing.

His herd of twenty grade Holstein

cows averaged 7,568 pounds‘of milk

per cow last year. It is a good exam-





ple of what weighing, testing, culling'





and the use of a purebred sire will do

in improving a dairy herd. The cows

are not fed on heavy concentrates and

receive only ordinary farm care. The

flock of three hundred and fifty White

Leghorn hens averaged one hundred

and fifty-six eggs per hen last year.

Mr. Lawrence-has his farm well Seeds

ed with alfalfa and alsike, and is con-

vinced that this mixture gives a thick~

or stand and. yields more tons of good

hay than when the alfalfa is seeded

alone, especially on fields where the

soil varies in character. A close stu-

dent of farm management and an ac-

tive worker in the Farm Bureau he is





If nothing occurs between ,





,The herd is under federal.





' State Grange.





ty

purebred Holstein‘s. and has an old

amt! «new dairy shot;

ords have been made with the~ cows

and the business is conducted sirloin

as a milk-making proposition.

herd sire is King Pontiac Jewel Segis.





The”? .





W. B. Ford, of Blissfleld, invited us

to go over his one hundred and thirty- .





acre farm where he grows clover, ale .

fall's. wheat and sugar beets, and feeds ,





six hundred lambs a year. Mr. Ford





has put in eleven miles of tile-drains .

and recently he refused an offer of

$320 an acre fer the farm.

of the leadersin More“ at the county. .

.At Britten we found Thomas J. Rix- .

om preparing one hundred and ninety .'

Three trac~ -





acres of ground for "corn.

tors were being used and the work





was nearly completed. -Mr. Rixom has ,

five hundred and twenty acres of won- .





derfully productive land. He feeds





about one hundred head of Cattle, Six,

hundred lambs and two or three car-.

He is feeding a.

carload of cattle to show at the Buffalo -





loads of hogs a yeai.





Fat Stock Show along in December.





. At Fruitridge we visited some of the

dairy farms owned by George B. Her-r

ton, who was formerly Master 0! the.

Mr. Horton has a one.

hundred and twenty-acre timber lot-

for which he recently refused an odor





of $80,000 for the timber over one foot

in diameter. The farms contain nearly

fifteen hundred acres and are operated





by tenants on the partnership lease.

is contract





system. At present he

agent for the Grange and a member

of its executive committee.





T Blissfield the “Circuit Rider" in-





terviewed the president-and cash-f

ier of the Jipson-Carter State Bank.





The enormous business handled by the

banks of Blissfield in financing the cat-

tle and sheep feeding business which





He is one -





had its beginning less than twenty 5

years age should prove interesting to ‘





farmers in communities where good

bankers are scd‘rcer than hen’s teeth.

According to the information furnished

by these gentlemen the first carload

of feeding steers was

Blissfield and paid for with money

(Continued on page 920).





the Agricultfiral World





the beet district are so serious as to

indicate that even much of the crop in

the ground is not apt to be placed on

the market. This labor shortage was

one of the main reasons for the de-

mand of growers for a new contract.





 





A COUNTY SEED DEPARTMENT.

EATON county has established a



seed department as a branch of

the State Farm Bureau Seed Depart—

ment. This will operate in the county

exactly as the state organization does

over the larger territory, keeping its

product in quantity sufllcient to meet

the demand at home and marketing

only the surplus outside through the





medium of the state onice. Require-

ments will be met similarly.





COAL SITUATION SERIOUS.





 





FFORTS are being made by the



Marketing Department to arrange

to meet the coal requirements this

summer or the various county and lo-

cal Farm Bureaus. The coal situation

is a difficult one. The market is dis-

tinctly a sellers’, demand exceedmg

supply, and if Michigan farms are to

obtain coal necessary for threshing;

and-other uses this summer-liaison





much a question of price, as getting

the coal. Units are urged to ascertain

what they can do locally in purchases,

advising the state office as to price

and quality of coal obtainable. The

price of the coal the State Farm Bu-

reau will purchase will be at the pre-

vailing market figure. Units desiring

the Marketing Department’s aid in the

purchasing of coal should communicate

that fact as early as possible, together

with definite orders, the only basis

upon which the department can do

business.





 





BILL FOR STUDY OF’ MARKETS

ABROAD FOR FARM PRODUCTS.

BILL establishing a commisison

to investigate conditions in for~

eign countries relative to markets for

agricultural . products of the United

States has been introduced in the sen-

ate by Senator Smith. of South Car-

olina. _

The bill provides that a commission





.of five members shall be appointed by





the President. two 0! 1m shal rep

resent the portion of the omit!





where wheat corn, or cattle are grown





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cotton section on column com





It further provides that the commis-

sion shall investigate conditions infor-

eign countries relative to the creation,

expansion, or development of markets

for products of the United States, such"

as wheat, corn, cattle, and cotton and

products thereof and shall determine.

as far as possible, the manner and





means for creating, expanding. or def





vel'oping "such markets.





 





FARM BUREAU. KEEPS BUSY.

W 00L is coming into the Farm

Bureau warehouse at Lansing in

such large quantities that arrangements





have been made for the securing of air”





other building in the capital city. Al-





ready more than a half million pounds .





of wool have been assembled for the





unloaded at -





pool, indicating that early estimates of 7

a total. pool of two million pounds .





were ultra-conservative. IFarmers of!

forty-seven counties in the state are

cooperating in the pool, the first ever

attempted on a statewide scale in

Michigan. '





Definite arrangements torthoopua-a _

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' 2 " 2- .. that inhabited the W shops,

. or box hives kept by our fathers,llved

1 1 their lives in peace. undisturbed by

-T :r interference .n'om the beekeeper.

1 All that individual had to do Was to

' 2 an. and. watch the cording and going of

*2 ~ 2; 2 his little servants, and When a swarm

T1". ~138de from a hive to persuade it, by

1 means known to every beekeeper, to

1 “‘2 enter and occupy 3. Spare hive. Then

-2 When the honey season had passed,

the heavier of the hives were set Over

a_ pit and the bees killed with sulphur

so that the honey could- be cut out

and used. In many. an-goldfarmhouse

in Ontario today can be found a. pile

of hives up in_th'e attic, from which

honey can be 'cut with a knife, and

the bees of which [were killed off in

this way. The system is simple and

easy, and the only objection to it is

that whereas ten to fifteen pounds of

honey used to be considered a fair

crop, under modern methods we can

get/eighty: one hundred, or even in

2 a-good season, one hundred and fifty

pounds of honey from ajsingle colony

and at that we do not need to kill a

single bee.





2

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21 . To do this, however, we have to

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prevent swarming. Every up-to-date

’1’beekeeper knows that the hive that

1 does not swarm is the one, that will

head the list in honey production, and

. 2 .. ‘most' of the methods of management

q’ . 2 fl? used in modern bee-culture revolve



1;. 2 9'15 ‘3 around the problem of swarm control.

122 = . 1 The bee has two dominant instincts.





SWarming, the latter being the mode

ofnatural reproduction. If we prevent

, swarming, they will continue to gather





j .3 21 ho ey without stopping, and it isun- .

4’. denthese conditions that ”the large!





crops are secured.





11\ , 'It has been found that when too

NJ great a number of colonies of bees

1 are kept in one locality, there is trou-

ble owing to overcrowding. Bees will

fly a couple. of miles for nectar, but

even within that radius they will be—

, , gin to crowd eaéh other if more than

' E. 1 i a. certain number of colonies are kept



;in one place. When it is considered

1-11that a. strong colOny numbers about

.2 - thirty thousand bees it will be seen

by ’ 5. .’that hundreds of colonies need many

11 miles of country as “pasturage.” The

large beekeeper produces honey by the

carload, and to do this he needs to





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EEDERS~ have abundant reason for

. F balking at current high prices for

1‘2 , ? foodstuffs. Their objection to pay-

ing “high. prices for feeds is growing.

Whether it will result in a lower mar-

ket. in coming months is, however, a

mooted question. The fact that money

is tight and that deflation in business

has begun in earnest are favorable. to

2 . lower prices. Another influence which

,1’ 2 increases the hepe that values will

turn down is the broadening use of

_, 1 pastures over the country and the cons

1 sequent reduction in consumptive de-

‘ 1 1 new for feeds. Lower prices for cat-

2'11e and hogs also are bearish. But the

.\transportation situation is adverse to

the righting of prices on feeds to a

, lnlineflwith the returns from the





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1:.2‘ ‘ ' that of honey gathering and that of .





”in the face of heavy losses that have





yards of from fifty to one hundred Col-

onies three or four miles aphrt,- ac-

cording to the locality, and traveling

around to work them in an automobile.



It would be impossible for beekeep-

ers upon this scale to allow natural

swarming. They cannot be present in

all their yards and to maintain a man

at. each yard would be a great ex-

pense. Every swarm that issued would

fly off and be lost, and with it most of

the expected crop of that season. So

here again the problem of swarm con-

trol has to be considered: .



“How do you stop them from Swarm-

ing,” is a question often ,asked and

when. the methods outlined are ex-

plained, “How do yen increase your

bees, if they cannot swarm?” Even

under the best of conditions there will

be some lost in winter, and there is





By Hy W Safidez‘r

2 ”ft-keep colonies of bees in hundredsgahd

I even in thousands, locating therd in





size colony by making three colonies





into four, or four into five, by taking

a couple of frames of brood and bees

from each and putting them into an

empty hive, giving the new colony a

queen or queen-cell asbefOre.



Queens are sold regularly by the





breeders, and many beekeepers find it





best to send away and buy thembThey

come through the mail in little cages,

and the breeder guarantees safe ar-

rival. If they are purchased, it is a

very easy matter to make an increase.





011 the other hand, if one has time it is





not very hard to raise queens. The

hives should be regularly gone through

in the earlysummer, and the presence

of queen cells on the combs indicates

that the bees are preparing to swarm.

This inspection should be made at

least once a week and when a colony

is found in this condition the bees

may be shaken or brushed off the





 





[In Large Commercial Apiaries. the Hives Are Often Arranged in Groups.





usually a need for expanswn, so that

we want to make new colonies arti-

ficially.



Two ways are used by the big bee-

keeper to make increase. In one he

makes little colonies called nucleii,

consisting of two or three frames of

brood and bees, to which a queemcell

or queen is' giVen, and which, if made

early in the season will grow into a

full size colony in time for winter.

The other method is to make a full





Fccd Prices and





west will soon be completed over the

entire producing territory, and the bay

of the 1920 crop now is moving mar-

ketward, though only in a small way

at this time. Advent of the movement

of new alfalfa is usually a sign of a

readjustment in prices. Hay markets

already areundergoing such a change.



Why do feeders continue to pay ab-

normally high prices for feeds in the

face of depression in live stock mar-

kets? In recent months this query

has been quite often heard. A per-

plexed bear, who had placed so much

confidence in his belief for lower feed

prices because of the sharp declines

in- cattle and hogs, is seeking light on

the question. He has wondered why

the. feeder continued to buy feverishly





 





combs onto. empty ones, or sheets of

foundation, and the brood put above a

queen excluder in the upper. part of

the hive. This will prevent swarming

and as the young bees hatch out the

cells will be filled with honey and can

be extracted later. Care must. be tak-

en, however, that no queen cell is al-

lowed to mature on these combs, for if

a young queen should emerge it might

cause the colony to swarm in Spite of

all precautions. Only where queens





are needed for making increase as de- , . »

scribed above will any cells be kept,

in all other cases they should be de-





stroyed.' Where needed they may be





kept a few days till sealed over, and





then they can be given to the new

hives.



When‘ handling queen-cells care

should be taken that they be not jar-

red or shaken at all, for the queen in-

side will surely suffer if handled rough-

ly. They must not be chilled or ex-

posed to the hot sun, and they must

be introduced to bees that are in the

right state of mind to receive them.

Now that seems like a large order,

but in reality it is very simple. Here

is the plan that we use in our own

apiary and it is nearly always suc-

cessful.



When “swarming time” has arrived

we shake the bees off as described,

and kill all cells except a few from

the best queen. These we leave in the

upper story of her hive to mature.

Three days later we take frames of

brood and bees and make our hives

up, placing them where they are to

remain permanently, and closing the

entrances with grass, stuffed in tight,

so that the bees can return to their

old homes The next day we take the

brood combs from the breeding queen,

each with one or more queen cells, and

carefully distribute them to the new

colonies. These bees will eagerly ac-

cept them because they have been

queenless for a day, and we are care~

ful to keep the cells from heat, cold,

or rough handling.



The new hives are just left as they

are, and in time will release them-





selves as the grass in the entrances





withers. By this time they have for—

gotten their old home, the young queen

will have hatched out, and in due time

will mate and lay eggs. If this proc-

ess is carefully attended to as good

colonies as were ever obtained from

swarms will be the result



The numbei of combs taken for each

new colony varies according to the

season. At the opening of the sum-

mer two frames will do, but as the

season shortens more must be taken

as they will have less time to build

up. In July we generally take three,

early in August four, and after August





10, only full colonies are made with1





six or more frames. It is useless g0-

ing into our long northern winter with

a weak hive for it will be sure to

perish.





PrOSp€CtS—By Sanders Soy/mm],





son over fat hogs, now are being of-

fered freely at a discount of approxi-

mately $1.50 to $2?00 per hundred-

weight under matured weight hogs.

Stocker and feeder cattle also have re-

cently declined sharply. While the

strained credit situation is an import-

ant factor tending to reduce purchases

of’ live stock for feeding the anomal-

ous position of feeds is discouraging

any breadening of beef-making’activ-

ities. This is being felt more and more

in feed markets, not only bringing

about reduced demand for feeds on

markets, but allowing a larger surplus

of feeds in the ocuntry flow into com-

mercial channels.





C ORN is: fluctuating sharply, but ad-



vances predominate. The grain in

the past few weeks sold well above

$2. 00 a bushel, $2.17 having been paid

by feeders in Chicago. The advance





is. accounted for by the same explana-





tion that has been used since values





 





ter season. Congested transportation

its resulting strain on markets, lack

of corn in terminal elevators and in-

sufficient receipts to meet the current

demand, is the answer. The situation

has not materially changed- A sharp

break in prices, amounting to about

twenty-five cents a bushel in a single





-week, resulted from an order by the,





Interstate Commerce Commissiou at

Washington requiring eastern and

southern lines to provide a total of





six hundred and sixty empty cars daily 1





to western roads for thirty days. With-

out attempting to analyze the car or-

der, market operators rushed to sell





corn, both cash and the deferred de-1





liveries, fearing a heavy movement of

the grain to terminals. The trade rec-

ognizes that only lack of cars is hold;

ing up the market, and any action tend

ing to relieve the strain causes selling

pressure. The speculative interests,





however, failed to closely analyze the 1_'

order. No preferential treatment is r__e- f,





(Continued on page 918)





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. present emergency.





Lawmaéers Fall. To Get» Some Medea! Measures on Federal Statute Books





0R several days prior to the ad-

journment of congress it was ap-

parent to observers here in Wash-





ington that the four or_five important





agricultural measures for which the

farm organizations 'have contended

throughout the long session, would not

It ”is true the house on

Memorial Day, by a vote of two hun-

dred and thirty-three to fifty-eight,

passed the Volstead 'farmers’ collec-





tive bargaining bill and it was sent to,





the senate And by unanimous vote

the senate agriculture committee pr-

dered a favorable report on the Wads-

worth Kahn bill authorizing the oper-

ation by the war department of ni-

trate fixation plants at Muscle Shoals

and Sheffield, Alabama, through a cor-

poration to be organized under the

direction. of the secretary of war. This

bill has had to meet strong Opposition

in. the house, but it is believed that

this would have been largely removed

if it had provided for the naming of

the commission by congress or by the

farm organizations



Congress has had a long drawn out

session, characterized by much discus-

sion and playing politics, with little ac-

complished in beneficial legislation.

More than nine hundred bills have

been introduced. Of these only a few

more than three hundred have become

laws, and they are mostly appropria—

tions for bridges, individual pensions,

relief for contracting companies and

other local objects. The Cummins—

Esch railroad law returning the rail

roads to their owners is probably the

most important act in which farmers

are especially interested.



With nearly six hundred bills on the

calendar to be acted upon less than a

.week before the date set for adjourn-

ment, and every one of these bills

backed by a senator or representative,

or a faction demanding attention, it

could be readily seen that there was

little chance for agricultural legisla-

tion, although the farm organization





representatives have made a strong





fight up to the very last day of the

session.



A number of new propositions are

being promoted here which will un-

doubtedly be presented in congress

next fall and are worthy the attention

of farmers and discussions in farm or-

ganization meetings.





REPRESENTATIVE of the fruit



and vegetable shippers has come

before the Interstate Commerce Com-

mission with a proposal to finance the

needs of the railroads for refrigerator

cars, on plans for the apportionment

among the carriers of the $300,000,000

revolving fund provided by the govern-

ment. He suggests that the commis-

sion authorize the formation of a cor-

poration along the lines of the Pull-

man Company to procure the needed

equipment and have charge of the dis-

tribution of refrigerator cars in facili-

tating crop movements. It was ex-

plained that such an arrangement

would remove the necessity of many





refrigerator cars lying idle during the





off season, and give more efficient ser-

vice in all sections .during the ship-

ping season. Itxwas agreed by E. V.

Brown, chairman of the equipment





' committee of the Association of Rail-

; way Executives, that such a corpor-





ation might be successful during the





Senator Edge, of New Jersey, pro-





“ ‘ poses legislation that will place thes

_ mace-president in charge or the nation» .





a! budget, which is to be- developed

w the govarnment, making his office

one of greater usefulness and import-





ance. Governor Allen, of Kansas, re-

cently appeared before the sonata la-

bor committee, and urged the estab-





lishment of a federal court of indus»





trial relations similar to the Kansas

industrial settlement court.

dent that the people will demand leg-

islation providing for protection from

strikes which paralyze and ‘tie up

transportation systems. Labor organ-

izations are opposing both the Kansas

industrial court and Senator Poindex-

ter’s anti-strike bill. But when a rail-

way chief comes before the public and

declares that he will feel compelled to

refrain, from trying to prevent the

men from striking unless they are

awarded a minimum wage of $2,500 a'

year, there is a sentiment developing

quite strongly in and out of govern-

ment circles, that the country will de.

mand one or the other of these alter-

natives, an industrial court in which

all labor disputes on transportation

systems must be settled, or an effec-

tive anti-strike law. The Poindexter

bill as reported by the senate inter-

state commerce committee, would

make a felony of any proven intent to

obstruct or prevent the movement of

commodities in interstate commerce

by persuading persons to quit work or

by destroying property, and would pro

vide for the punishment of persons

who through violence or threats, pre~

vent employes from continuing work.

The anti-strike provision of the Cum-

mins railroad bill as added to the

Poindexter bill. would prohibit two or





It is evi-~





more persons from consipring to bring

about a strike that would tie up: inten-

state commerce.





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‘ RESOLUTION introduced by Sen-

ator Cummins,,ol' Iowa, calls upon

the naval affairs committee of the sen-

ate to inquire into the advisability of

the United States government owning

and operating coal fields capable of





supplying fuel for the navy, the army





transports and the merchant marine.

This plan, like the Muscle Shoals ni-





trate plant, is proposed as a measure?





of national defenses as it would insure

the gover'nment a supply of fuel at all

times and at a. minimum cost. The

supply of gasoline and oil is running

short, and therefore this government

coal mine development could be a

measure of conservation, leaving the

gasoline supply for motor use.



It has been suggested to the naval

affairs committee that coal fields ad-

jacent to the Virginian railway in

West Virginia be purchased by the

government along with the railroad

which extends to the naval base near

Norfolk. -There are 125,000 acres of

coal lands which are undeveloped, and

fifty-six operating coal mines, that can

be purchased, and would, it is estimat-

ed, furnish four billion tons of coal.

The government is now paying $6.25

a ton for this grade of coal.

been shown by experts that if the gov-

ernment owned the coal road to the

seaboard,

the hold of its warships at Nerfolk at





 





 





Yellow Jacket---

Walt/l Out For It!





ARMERS throughout the state, or



at least throughout the lower half

of the lower peninsula, should be on

the watch now for the'plant known

variously as .Yellow Rocket, Winter

Cress, Bitter Cress, Saint Barbara’s

Grass, etc. This is a weed which has

been introduced into Michigan during

the past few years, but which has

spread very rapidly in a short time.





The plants are beginning to head

out now and resemble bunched, very

much branched mustard plants. The

leaves are shiny, and somewhat divid-

ed, and the flowers are exactly like

mustard flowers except for their con—

siderably smaller size. Mustard, how-

ever, will not be in flower for six or

eight weeks or more and will then

have a single tap-root and one main

stem with comparatively few branches.

Yellow Rocket, on the other hand, has

many large, heavy roots, and usually

from three to a dozen or more stems,

each very much branched. The num-

ber of flowers produced is enormous,

the seeds ripening from the tenth of

June until the end of that month, rare-

ly longer. A good-sized plant, by no

means of unusual size,’ will produce

over” three hundred thousand seeds.

These seeds mostly germinate during

the summer or fall, producing tufts of

shiny, dark green, somewhat divided

leaves, but without any visible stem.

These leaves live over winter. In Eng-

land ’ and other parts 'of Europe on

Saint Barbara’s Day, December 4, the

people go out and dig up this plant fer

greens, sometimes digging away the

snow in order to find it. This accounts

for the name Whiter Cress, Saint inan-

bar-a s; Grass, etc. Wken spring comes

the plant has a thick crown and Well-





developed roots and is able to start '





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going to seed.





 





growing as soon as the weather begins

to warm up.





Because of the large number of

seeds produced, one plant allowed to

go to seed will sometimes seed down a

field so thoroughly that thousands of

plants will appear the next year. For

this reason it is highly desirable that

steps be taken now before the seeds

are matured, to destroy whatever

plants are not easily pulled up, but are

best spudded out with an implement

like a duck spud. A few hours of la—

bor may mean the saving of days of

work next year., Mowing will not pre-

vent the plants f1‘0m seeding, as the

lower branches are horizontal below

the level of the cutting bar on the

mowing machine so that although the

top of the plant may be cut off these





‘lower branches produce large numbers





of seed. Although the plant usually

dies after the seeds are mature, if it

is continually cut off as in mowing the

plant may remain alive throughout the

season and live over until next year

to produce its seeds then. When the

seeds are ripe many of the pods re-





main cn the dead stalk which breaks





off and may blow around in the wind

for some distance, scattering the seeds

as it goes. The writer observed this in

one garden in East Lansing, where the

plants from a neighboring field blew

over and lodged in a row of string

beans. That tall there were thousands

of young plants of the Yellow Rocket

where the bean row had stood, and

next year there were a. great many

plants to be dug up to’ prevmt their

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HE need of a better system of





loans and credits for farmers was

very emphatically impressed upon the





senate finance éommntee a few days 7





ago, by representatives of farm organ

izations. Senator Copper, as spokes-





man for the farmers, said that discount ' '





rates recently established by theied—

eral reserve board are pinching farm-

ers and in Kansas are forcing them to





pay nine per cent for their money. ~.





“Our pastures are empty in many plac-

es’, 3. condition which has never exist-

ed in Kansas before. Farmers cannot

afibrd to borrow at present interest

rates,” said Senator C‘apper.



In its report just made, public, the

agriculture committee of the republi-

can party’s policies, of which Senator

Capper is chairman, urges that a na-

tional commission be appointed to ,co—

ordinate all rail, water and motor

transport with adequate facilities for

receiving, handling and transporting

food between cities. The importance

of this proposal is emphasized by the

present situation of the New York

state barge canal.

way, with magnificent harbors in the

cities through which it runs,

structed at a cost of hundreds of mil—

lions, is practically idle. Few boats

disturb its waters. Its harbors are

unoccupied. This condition is due to

the fact that the terminal railroads,

although congested with:

freight, refuse to turn it over to the

canal for shipment. It is arguedthat





.a law which will compel the practi





coordination of rail, canal, river and

motor traffic will be an effective means

of improving, our transportation ser-

vice and prevent freight congestions

and embargoes.





The Farmers’ National Council,

which maintains headquarters in Wash-

ington, has sent to each of the two

leading political party national com-

mittees a statement of policies which

it asserts is endorsed by 750,000 farm-

ers. The main plank in this platform

declares for . government ownership





and control of railroads and govern--





ment ownership of the merchant mar-

ine. Other planks are the “restora-

tion of personal liberty” by repeal of

the' espionage and sedition acts,{ex«

empting farmers’ cooperative organi-

zations from prosecution under the an-

ti-trust laws, and a tax on land and

other natural resources held for spec‘

ulation. Whether the author of this

platform had in mind the Nolan Land

Tax bill in his reference, to this mat-

ter I cannot say, but it is a fact well

established that the representatives

of the Farmers’ Natiohal Council are

closely allied With the American Fed-

eration of Labor leaders, among whom

are Congressman Nolan, introducer,

and Attorney Ralston, author of the

Noland land tax scheme. /





FEDERAL control of wheat products



ended June 1, which means the

passing- oi’ the government guarantee

of $2.20 a bushel for wheat established

during the war. As soon as a few ex«

isting contracts with dealers are com.

pleted the ‘United States Grain .Coré

partition will wind up its affairs and





.9355 onto! existence. Dealers, except, ,

those having contracts at fixed figures.

are new {root boy and ‘sellat such





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Greataudience of 2, 800 people couldn’t tell which

was singing—the New Edison or. Anna Case.

Startling “Dark-Scene”, Test ends in overwhelm;

‘ing triumph fOr Mr. 'Edison."s new phonograph.

James Montgomery Flagg tells the story.





(See New York papers of rllarch 11th.-

“Times”, ~.“Sun and New York Herald”,

‘ 'Morm'vng' Telegraph’ ’ ‘ ‘Evening-Jlail ’ ’f‘Even.

ing Sun’?,“Globe”a “Evening Telegrwm”.)

' Suppose you could have in your oWn home a

phonograph exactly like the famous Official

Laboratory _Model which triumphed in this

startling test!



——a- phonograph that had actually rivvalled one

of the world’s greatest sopranos! ~





' ——a‘- phonograph which, by its marvelous art,





had kept %,800 N ewYorkers glued to their seats !

Well, it was just a regular Official Labora-

tory Model which Mr. Edison used in this





- astonishing proof _of the New Edison’srealism.





Carnegie. Hall, New. York





On March 10th, 19%0, in Carnegie Hall, New

~York City, the great event came off. Anna

Case, the superb American soprano, was there;

she had been asked by Mr. Edison to make the

test. Noted music critics, newspaper men

and James MontgomeryrFlagg were there; they

had been asked‘to witnessthe test. ’



- ”The famous auditorium was packed to its top-

mOst gallery. Curiosity ran» high. Everybody

was Wondering what Mr. Edison was going to do.





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stood unemotionally in the center of the stage.

Then Miss Case. She draped her beautiful self

in an almost affectionate posture against the

phonograph. One of her own song recordings

was put on the instrument, and they, Miss Case

and the phonograph, sang together. Then she

would stop, and her other self would continue—

then together again—I looked away and then

back again ——and it puzzled me to determine

which was at the bat! She sang a charming

duet with herself, too———one of them doing the

alto business—+1 couldn’t say which.



“Then the tallest pianist in the civilized

world, sometimes called Victor Young, played

a charming thing, accompanied by himself via

the phonograph—lifting his fingers away from

the keys now and again. I could SEE him

stop playing, but I couldn’t HEAR him stop.

It was remarkable.





~ The Dark Test





“Then the big stunt of the recital—the dark

scene. .



“Miss Case began singing with the phono-

graph. At a certain stanza, the house was

I was

shooting out my ears like periscopes to detect





the second-when she would stop and leave the





I was sure I got it! But she seemed





sta ' .

to be back again! Then I knew I was being





completely deceived. . .





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“The flood of light came on again—but no

Anna! Only the self-possessed and urbane

phonograph standing there, singing away.



“It was quite wonderful. The audience

applauded. Two girls behind me said, ‘Goo-

gracious!’ It was both charming and astonish-

mg.”



-—James .Mo7ztgomery F lagg.





Guaranteed Duplicates





You can have an instrument every bit as good

as the one that performed so wonderfully in

Carnegie Hall.



The instrument used in Carnegie Hall, New

York Cityton March 10th, 1920, was an exact

duplicate of Mr. Edison’s original Oflicial Lab-

oratory Model, which cost him three million

dollars to perfect.



Your lOcal Edison dealer also has a duplicate

of this famous three million dollar original.

He’ll be glad to show it to you. \Vhat’s more

——he’ll guarantee this instrument to be able

to sustain precisely the same test as that

made at New York City on March 10th.



Look in your local newspaper for your

Edison dealer’s advertisements. T ake' the

whole family along when you go in to see the

famous Official Laboratory Model.





NOTE—If you don’t know who your nearest Edison

dealer is, drop us a postal, We’ll tell you, his” name

and address, and mail you, with our compliments, 9.

copy of that fascinating book, “Edison and Music.”





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for three or four days’ use in case of

the latter, and at least a Week’s sup-

ply in the case of the former, but which

in the case of the latter should not be

of smaller capacity than eight hun-

dred and fifty gallons. The super—

structure for sustaining the tank may

be of steel, if the tank be of large

dimensions; of wood .or pipe if the

size be moderate. It mustbe well

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supply and discharge pipes through the

bottom, and overflow, which must ex—

tend to the ground.





0 lift water to the desired eleva-

tion, pumping will have to be em-

ployed. The pumping equipment best.

adapted for the problem under consid-

eration will have to be carefully stud~

led, so that the highest efi‘iciency with

low cost may be obtainable. There

are a variety from which to choose,

which difler but little in principal with

'the exception of the centrifugal pump.

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equipment

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in the simplepump are most element-

ary ”and consist or a cylinder, with in-

let and outlet connections, which are

provided With check ' valves, and

through which cylinder "actuates' a- prs-

ton‘fi'od With piston head‘st end, con-

taining valves which open with down-

ward stroke and close with upward.





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HE oldest, simplest and most com



nomical method of pumping of

modern times is by means of the wind.

mill, but its source of motive power is

unreliable, necessitating a large re-

serve supply.



The red hot-air pumping engine of

our boyhood days has given excellent

service, is simply built and fairly effi—

cient in operation, but has been gener-

ally superceded by more modern

equipment.



Pumping by gas engine motive pow—

er has become most general. It is

simple in construction‘and economical

and efficient in operation. It should

be used in conjunction with a triplex





power pump, but may also be employ—





ed in connection with deep well work.

The pump may be driven from the en-

gine through reduction gearing or belt-

ing, the latter being less noisy.



The use of electricity as the motive

power for pumping is most ideal, is

usually available at all' times, and is

under absolute and instant control.



Raising water by means of“ the cen-

trifugal pump is rarely used for small

units. but is most popular for broad in

rigation work upon a large scale,

where suction lift is low. It is most

econmnical in operation and is usually

need in coofimction with an electric

motor. .



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ply for the entire farm where the

points demanding its use are somewhat

separated, has not been found efficient

or economical, but it has a Wide de:

mand where the area of its use is lim-

ited. It is most simple in construc-_

tion, can be placed in any desired lo-

cation, under certain conditions, is

practically automatic in operation, but

in appropriate sizes tor work to be

performed will be found to cost more

to install and maintain. The apapratus

consists of a; steel resenting cylinder,

which is amomaueauy hopt filled and;

under proactive by an electric motor

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Have no manure so will have to buy

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potatoes are to be hand-planted and

fertilizer sown broadcast. What kind

and how much would you advise me

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after planting? , , ' S. T. L

Inasmuch as two crops have been

grown on this field since you turned

dovm a clover and and with no stable

manure, it is quite probable that the

land is deficient in nitrogen to grow a

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fertilizer, that is one containing .nitro

gen, phosphoric acid and potash, would

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as high as one thousand five hundred

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tilizer, but it is necessary to have it

present in liberal quantities to give

best results, then the crop that follows

the potatoes does not need fertilizer

but will utilize what the potato crop

leaves. C. C. L.





CORNSTALK SILAGE.





I have been thinking. of filling my

silo with Just cornstalks and have the

cobs taken out and crushed with oats

and feed it to cows that way. Is there

any appreciable difference in the way

the corn is fed?



Macomb Co. A. A. P.





Dry cornstalks can be made into

quite a palatable food when out up and

run into the silo, using plenty of wa-

ter so that the mass will settle down.

become practically air-tight, and fer-

ment. This can be done in any good

silo. This is getting to be quite aficom-

men practice where one wants to sell

the .corn or feed it as a grain; in fact,

there are husk-91‘s and silo tillers on

the market now so that one can husk





' the corn with a machine and run the





stalks into the silo fer ensllage.



It is a question whether one would

get better results in this way, than

he would to cut the corn and the ears.

stalks and all, into the silo at the

proper stage of maturity. A careful

experiment would seem to show that

you would get greater returns by put~

ting the whole plant into thesilo, but

it you do need the ear corn for teed-

ing then it can be husked and stalks

enslloed separately. It the corn. is not

hushed then you could feed the crush-





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you choose.

The usual .custom' is to have the

renter do all the work, furnish the'





seed and get two—thirds of! the result-





ing crops, the land drawing one-third.

However, this is only a general out

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gain is made between the parties gov- ' ;





erned by conditions. For instance, it

the land is in splendid shape for corn,

8 man can aflord to grow a crop for a.

smaller part of it than he could if the

land was only average land. So in. al~

most every case conditions demand

that a special bargain be agreed upon

between the renter and the landlord.

' C. C. L.





CALF MEAL FOR PIGS.





I have some pigs about four weeks

old that I am raising by hand. I have

been told that calf meal is good to

feed them. What is your Opinion of

it? Also, how much could be fed at

one time to five pigs and how would

you prepare it?. I have milk to feed

with meal. H. G. ‘



This product ought to be, a good

feed for real young pigs. Calf meal is

supposed to contain food. nutrients in





similar proportion to the nutrients





found in similar proportion to the

nutrients found in milk so that it can

be used as a substitute for milk in

feeding young calves. It would seem

to be equally as valuable for pigs.



I would recommend that you make

this into a thin gruel and feed it warm

at first. As the pigs grow, older you

can substitute one-half wheat mid~

dlings for calf meal which will make

the ration a little ,bit cheaper and grad-

ually you .can substitute wheat midv

dlings entirely. If you could spare a

little milk at first to mix With the calf

meal gruel it would be all the better.



C. C. L. ,





sunFaeE WATER AND DITeHEs.





A neighbor and myself disagree ,





about my surface water. Across one

corner of -my place the water drains

onto him and he claims that I will have

to put tile acrOSS him about twenty

rods to a county ditch. Some of this

water comes across the line from an-

other neighbor. Please tell me what

I can do in a case like this—P. J. H.



Neither party owes any duty or has

any right to make drains on the land

of the other to carry of! surface water

in the absence of binding contract. If

they cannot agree recourse must be

had to a public drain by applying to

the drain commissioner under the stat-

ute to lay out the drain and have it‘

put in and apportion the tax for same.



‘ J. R. R. ’





THE NOTICE TO THE FENCE-

VIEWERS. '





I wish to know it it is necessary-to

serve a written notice on, the highway

commissioner in order to have him

serve notice on a neighbor to have

him build a line fence? I served ver~

bal notice about two years ago and

the commissioner took no acting.





The statute says nothing about the

notice being in writing, though that





-would be better; but it does require





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through this year which will drain

land. Would it be a good plan to burn





01! the "muck, as it is only a. foot deep .





and has a; good clay bottom?



St. Clair Co. _ , H. S.



Securing a catch of grass seed on

muck depends on a number of things.

It depends not only on the kind of

muck but- also, on its condition Some

of, the reasons for a failure of seeding

in the spring, on muck, are these:



When seeded with oats or barley





’the grass seed may be smothered out.





If the soil is not rolled thoroughly the

grass will dry out and die at the first

hot, dry spell. A host very often at





the critical time after germination will " ‘





kill the seeding. The absence of the

minerals, particularly phosphorus and

potash on muck, which has been run,

may cause a loss of seeding. A tall

seeding will fail because of the effects





of freezing and thawing, which pulls j





the plants.

Keeping these points in mind, the

following suggestions may be noted:





First of all the soil should be thorough~ .





ly prepared, which includes thorough

rolling. A large part 'of the type of





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muck which is in St. Clair county is 1’ A





deficient in phosphorus and will cer» ;





tainly show results if phosphorus has

not been applied recently. It musr be

remembered that when grass seed is

planted with a grain it is subject to

the smothering influence of the rank

growth of stems and leaves which the

grain makes on muck. .

The most successful seedings have

been made on thoroughly prepared

ground just after the oats have been

taken off. The grass will make a

strong growth during the summer and

fall. 'It Should be rolled before going

into the winter. In the spring it, should

be rolled again. Too much emphasis

cannot be placed on this latter sugges—

tion. If the muck. is rolled in the

spring, a large number of the plants

which .would have otherwise died will





.. grow.





in view. of thefact that alsike is a

.grass which will stand considerable

moisture we have assumed that alsike





and timothy is the best type of grass -





for muck. This is true to a large ex-

A-rtent but on many of our mucks which

are w"en drained and which dry out in

thesummer, the alsike and timothy

fails. Observation has been made

along the lines of othergrasses which

will be valuable for this purpose. Some

work has been done with white sweet

clover. Alfalfa, as a rule, will not

thrive on muck. A mixture which has

been known to be very adaptable for

hay and also for pasture has been al~'

eike, timothy and red-top and perhaps

some orchard grass mixed with it.

. I Wouldnot under any circumstances

burn oi! the muck. if it is only 'a foot

deep. Gradually, as this soil is worked

the clay will work up into the muck

and make a high quality soil.

probability if the muck were burned





over, the Stiff clay would become poor .





after the ashes from the muck had

been utilized by the first two or three

crops.

This is a subject which has not re—

delved sufficient attention, but along

which lines we are gathering informa-





" *tio‘n. , We would be pleased to hear





from any of our muck farmers as to

their experiments with this important

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Farmers everywhere are enthusiastic over

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In all tillage operations the Cletrac pulls

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The firm, sure grip of the broad metal

tracks turns practically all its power into

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The Cletrac doesn’ t pack, “dig-in” or form

hard— —pan. Its weight 18 only 4/ pounds per

square inch of tractive surface.





Even .during the dusticst operations the

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The PREMO JR. MODEL

B is a well-made, substantial,

reliable camera in every re-

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snapshots in good light, time exposures, home portraits, landscape and

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Your protection in buying a Utilitor lies in the fact

that this machine has been forced to prove its own

dependability and usefulness before any. man would





attempt to sell it to you.





 





“Long before we attempted to establish a

selling organization for the Utilitor, we sent

our engineers and agricultural eXperts over

the country and told them to stay until they

had: proved beyond the shadow of a doubt





that the Utilitor would perform satisfac- -





torily under the conditions placed_upon_ it.



They tried the Utilitor in all kinds of soil

breaking, cultivating, seeding, truck garden

work, nursery work, fruit cultivation and last

but not least they conducted an exhaustive

test of the Utilitor on belt work from run—

ning a grindstone to cutting wood.



We found that in certain parts of the

country for field work special rims were

necessary; in other parts of the country we





found that guards on the machine to protect ‘





the plants were necessary. In fact we

found many things to correct and several

things that the Utilitor could not do, such

as working on steep hill sides and in swampy

lands. - .



But we proved above all else that with

the adoption of the changes found necessary

as a result of the many gruelling tests,

that the Utilitor was unquestionably a

power farming utility that would appeal to

the practical farmer and food raiser as a

cost-cutting, profit-building piece of ma-

chincry. a: a: a: ‘* a a:



We then told the selling field that we

were ready to do business with them. Now

here is where all this begins to concern you.





These hard-headed keen merchandisers

had no trouble in seeing the necessity for

such a machine, as the Utilitor, but they

were not content to accept our word alone

for what the Utilitor would do—-how it

would hold up——how well it would work.



They readily saw that the resources and





experience of the Midwest Engine Company .

were behind every Utilitor in the form of the ,





most comprehensive servicesystem to own-

ers which they had ever seen instituted.





Still they were not satisfied. They wanted 1

to know first hand what the Utilitor would .

do in usage, because THEY were the men .

Who had to show YOU what the Utilitor ,





WOULD DO.





So they conducted their OWN tests. It

has been estimated‘conservatively that the '





Utilitor has undergone tests in the hands





of salesmen and dealers involving practi- j

cally every possible use —— some 4000 :

ACRES having been used to PROVE to .





these _ men that the Utilitor IS BUILT





RIGHT, STAYS RIGHT and is applicable »





to the. work for which it is intended.





What happened is this—the Utilitor sold :





itself to the men who would SELL IT TO

YOU.





Can you ask for a better, a safer method





of investigating the Utilitor than to KNOW





FIRST that the man who sells it knows '





that it thoroughly lives up tothe expecta~

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of General Obregon into Mexico City followmg his 1909’” 1m 1‘

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appeared while stopping off at a New York

hotel on the way to Southern Africa where

Mr. Zann h0pes to emulate “Tarzan of the

Apes,” with “Jim” as his best man.





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THE VALLEY OF





A ROMANCE OF THE REDWOODS

By Peter B. Kym!





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The helpless hulk of the woods-boss

descended upon the Colonel’s expan-

- sive chest and sent him crashing earth~

ward. Then Bryce,.war-mad, turned

to face the ring of Laguna Grande em-

ployee about him.



“Next!”. he roared.‘

pairs, or the whole pack.”



“Mr. Cardigan!”



He turned. Colonel' Pennington’s

breath had been knocked out of his

body by the impact of his semi-con-

scious woods—boss, and he lay inert,

gasping like a hooked fish. Beside him

Shirley Sumner was kneeling, her

hands clasping her uncle’s, but with

her' violet eyes blazing fiercely on

Bryce Cardigan.



"How dare you?” she cried.

coward! To hurt my uncle!” ’



'He gazed at her a moment, fiercely,

defiantly, his chest rising and~falling

from his recent exertions, his knotted

fists gory with the blood of his enemy.

Then the light of battle died, and he

hung his head. “I’m sorry,” he mur-

mured, “not for his sake, but yours.

I didn’t know you were here. I forgot

———myself.”



“I’ll never speak to you again so

long as I live,” she burst out pas

sionately.



“Very well,” he murmured.

bye.”

ed and made off through the green

timber toward his own logging-camp

five miles distant.



CHAPTER VI.





‘NIITH the descent upon his breast

of the limp body of his big

woods-bully, Colonel Penning-

ton had been struck to earth as effec-

tively as if a fair-sized tree had fallen

on him. Indeed, with such force did

his proud head collide with terra firma

that had it not been for the soft cush.

i0n of ferns and tiny redwood twigs,

his neck must have been broken by

the shock. To complete his withdraw-

al from active service, the last whiff

of breath had been driven from his

lungs; and for the space of a minute,

during which Jules Rondeau lay heav-

ily across his midriff, the Colonel was

quite unable to get it back‘. Pale, gasp-

. ing, and jarred from soul to suspend-

ers, he was merely aware that some-

thing unexpected and disconcerting

had occurred.



While the Colonel fought for his

breath, his woodsmen remained in the

offing, paralyzed into inactivity by rea‘

son of the swiftness and thoroughness

of Bryce Cardigan’s work; then Shir-

ley motioned to them to remove the

wreckage, and they hastened to obey.



Freed from the weight on the geom-

etric center of his being, Colonel Pen-

nington stretched his legs, rolled his

head from side to side, and snorted

violently several times like a buck.





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After the sixth snort he felt so much

betth that a clear understanding of

the exact nature of the catastrophe

came to him; he struggled and sat' up,

looking around a little wildly.



"Where——did———Cardigan——-go. 9” he at

last managed to gasp.



One of his men pointed to the tim-

ber into which the enemy had just

disappeared.



“Surround him—take him,” Penning-

ton ordered. “I’ll give—a month’s pay

——to each of—the six men that bring——

that scoundrel to me.

ly! Underdstand?”



Not a man moved. Pennington shock

with fury. “Get him,” he croaked.

“There are enough of you to do—the

job. Close in on himneverybody. I’ll

give a month’s pay to—everybody.”



A man of that indiscriminate mix

ture of Spaniard and Indian known in

California as cholo swept the circle of

men with an alert and knowing glance.

His name was Flavio Artelan, but his

straight black hair, dark russet com—





Get him—quick— .





Her uncle got uncertainly to his feet.

“Not on your life," he growled. and

in his cold gray eyes there danced the

lights of aI'thousand devils. “I told

you the fellow was a. ruflian. Now,

perhaps, you’ll believe me. We’ll hold

him until Rondeau revives, and then——”





Shirley guessed the rest, and she

realized that it was useless to plead-—

that' she Was only wasting time.

“Bryce! Bryce!” she called. “Run!

They’re after you. ‘ Twenty of them!

Run, run—for my sake!” '



His voice answered from the tim-

ber: “Run? From those cattle? Not

from man or devil.” A silence. Then:

“So you've changed your mind, have

you? You’ve spoken' to me again!”

There was triumph, exultation' in his

voice. “The timber’s too thick, Shir-

ley. I couldn’t get away, anyhow—so

I’m coming back.” \



She saw him burst through a thick

et of alder saplings into the clearing,

8837' half a dozen 'of her uncle’s men

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solve this problem.





 





Boys’ and Ctr/5’

HE educational value of the Boys' and Girls’ Club movement

is none the less because of the emphasis that the clubs place



upon productive work and the earning of money.

labor” there has been a merited protest, for child labor is the de‘

liberate premature exploitation, of the nation’s most precious re-

But to exclude boys, and girls from all participation in

productive work would be to deprive them of the kind of experi-

ence that will best fit them to “pull their 'own weight” when the

time comes for them to take the oars. The problem is not to keep

children away from work, but rather to induct them into it gradu-

ally and with an eye single to its educational influence.

and Girls’ Clubs represent an organized and





Clué Movement





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plexion, beady eyes, and hawk nose

gave him such a resemblance to a fowl

that he was known among his fellows

as the Black Minorca, regardless of

the fact that this sobriquet was scarce-

ly fair to a very. excellent breed of

chicken. “That offer’s good enough for

me,” he remarked in businesslike

tones. "Come on~everybody. A

month’s pay for five minutes’ work. I

wouldn’t tackle the job with six men,

but there are twenty of us here.”



“Hurry,” the Colonel urged them.



Shirley Sumner’s .flashing glance

rested upon the Black Minorca. “Don’t

you dare!” she cried. “Twenty to one!

For shame!”



“For a month’s pay,” he replied im-



pudently, and grinned evilly. ‘ “And

I'm takin’ orders from my boss.” He

started on a dog-trot for the timber,

and a dozen men trailed after him.

,, Shirley turned helplessly on her un-

cle, seized his arm and shook it frano

tically. “Call them back! Call them

back!” she pleaded.





IL JOKES—Valet Rayr Have V0101: Ways:





a sick steer; and at the shock of their

contact, she moaned and hid her face

in her trembling hands.



Half man and half tiger that he was,

the Black Minorca, as, self-appointed

leader, reached Bryce first. The cholo

was a squat, powerful little man, with

more bounce to him than a rubber

ball; leading his men by a dozen yards,

he hesitated not an instant but dodged

under the blow Bryce lashed out at

him and came up inside the latter’s

guard, feeling for Bryce’s’ throat. In-

stead he met Bryce’ s knee in his ab-

domen, and forthwith be folded up like

an accm dion.



The next instant Bryce had st00ped,





caught him by the slack of his trousers





and the scruff of the neck and thrown

him,.as he had thrown Rondeau, into

the midst of the men advancing to his

aid. Three of them went down back-

ward; and Bryce, charging over them,

stretched two more with well-placed

blows from left and right, and contin-

ued on across the clearing, running at





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tip Speed, for he realized that for all

the desperation of his fight and the





losses dready inflicted on, his assail-





ants, the odds against him were" insur-

mountable. I



Seeing him running away, the La-

guna Grande woodsmen took heart and

hope and pursued him. Straight for

the loading donkey at the log-landing

Bryce ran. Beside the donkey stood

a neat tier of firewood; in the chop-

ping block, where the donkey-fireman

had driven it prior to abandoning his

post. to view the contest between

Bryce and Jules Rondeau, was a dou-

ble-bitted axe. Bryce jerked it loose,

swung it, whirled on his pursuers, and

rushed them; Like turkeys scattering





.before the raid of a coyote they fled





in divers directions and from a safe

distance turned to gaze apprehensively

upon this demon they had been order—

ed to bring in. I





Biyce lowered the axe, 1emoved his

hat, and mopped his moist brow. From

the center of the clearing men' were

crawling or staggering to safety—with

the exception of the Black Minorca,

who lay moaning softly. Colonel Pen-

nington, seeing his fondest hopes ex~

pire, lost his head completely.



“Get on my property, you savage,”

he shrilled.



“Don't be a nut, Colonel,” Bryce re-

turned soothingly. “I’ll get‘ off——when

Iget good and ready, and not a second

sooner. In fact, I was‘trying to get

off as rapidly as I could when you sent

your men to bring me back. Prithee

why, old thing? Didst crave more con-

versation with me, or didst want thy

camp. cleaned out?"





He started toward Pennington, who .

backed hastily away. Shirley stood

her ground, bending Upon Bryce, as

he approached her, a cold and disap‘

proving glance. “I’ll get you yet,” the

Colonel declared from the shelter of

an old stump behind which he had tak4

en refuge.





“Barking dogs never bite, Colonel.

And that reminds me: I’ ve heard about

enough from‘you. One more cheep out

'of you, my friend, and I’ll go up to my

own logging-camp, return here with a

crew of bluenoses and wild Irish and

.run' your wops, bohunks, and cholos

out of the county. I don’t fancy the

class of labor you’re importing into

this county, anyhow.” ' '



The Colonel, evidently deciding that

discretion was the bette1 part of val-

our, promptly subsided, although Bryce

could see that he was mumbling

threats to himself, though not in an

audible voice.



The demon Cardigan halted beside

Shirley and stood gazing down at her.

He was smiling at her whimsically.

She met his glance for a few seconds;





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a minute ago ?” , He glanced toward

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ing, and the Colonel promptly aban-

doned his refuge and retreated hastily

in the direction indicated.



The heir to Cardigan’s Redwoods

bent over the girl. “You spoke to me

—-—after younpromise not to, Shirley,”

“You will always

speak to me.”



She commenced to cry softly.

loathe you,” she sobbed.



“For you I have the utmost respect

and admiration,” he replied.



“No, you haven’t. If you had, you'

wouldn’t hurt my uncle—the only hu-

man being in all this world who is

dear to me."



“Gosh!" he murmured plaintively.

“I’m jealous of that man. However,

I'm sorry I hurt him. He is no longer

young, while I—«well, I forgot the chiv-

alry my daddy taught me. I give you

my word I came here to fight fairly—”



“He merely tried to stop you from

fighting.”



"No, he didn’t, Shirley. He interfer-

ed and fouled me. Still, despite that,

if I had known you were a spectator I

think.I should have controlled myself

and refrained from pulling off my

vengeance in your presence: I shall

never cease to regret that I subjected

you to such a distressing spectacle. i

do hope, however, that you will believe

me when I tell you I am not a bully,

although when there is a fight worth

while, I never dodge it. And this time

I fought for the honor of the House of

Cardigan."



“If you want me to believe that, you

will beg my uncle’s pardon.”



“I can’t‘do that. He is my enemy

and I shall hate him forever; I shall

fight him and his way of doing busi-

ness until he reforms or I am ex-

hausted.”



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war to the finish—and I am leading a

forlorn hope. If I lose—well, this 'will

be good-bye.”



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then added that he thought his parents

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tendency now for people who have

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take a. lax attitude toward the church.

A man will say, "Well, I had to go to

church when I was a” boy, and now 1

don’t go, and I .don’t make my children

go.” It is as if he were to; say, “I had

to be honest and tell the truth when a

boy, but now I cheat whenever I can,

and I never tell the truth if I can 119'.”



It is true that parents will some-

times make religion hateful to their

children, by constantly nagging about

it, or by emphasizing the stern and

hard aspects of it. But for one father

who ‘does that today there are ten who

do not emphasize it enough. The fact

is, parents do not realize that they are

swindling the child out of his greatest

heritage, when they. neglect his relig-

ious development. They may think

that it is a favor to the grewing boy





to let him go his own way, and become.





religious or not, as he pleases. But it

is a favor that turns later into a. curse.





YSTEMATIC and loving care of the

child’s religious life is the greatest

bulwark against wrong-doing later.

Judge Fawcett, of Brooklyn, bears this

testimony: “Approximately two thou~

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. before me in my five and a half years





of service on the bench. During all

this time I have never had to try a

man who was at the time of the of-

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young defendant if, he was a member

or an attendant at a. Sunday School,

and I have never been answered

‘Yes’.” The fact is, religious training

is a tremendous help in many ways,

to the growing child. The most pow-

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ied under, in the class room, is a

Scotchman. He is a professor now in

an eastern university. He is the son

of a Scotch Presbyterian minister,

who was the dominie in a small village

for fifty-one years. This professor is

one of the authorities now on Shakes-

peare, and basedited an edition of the

great dramatist. He told me one day

how he first became interested in

Shakespeare. “My father made all us

children sit around the table every





morning after breakfast, and read the





Bible and Shakespeare, for an .hour.





And we couldn’t get out of it, either.”





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you against either the Bible or Shakes-

peare.” “Not at all,” said be. “It

was the biggest piece of early training

I had.” Another man said less than a

month ago that his father read a chap-

ter of the Bible after every meal, three

times a day, and the children lived

through it. This man’s‘ knowledge of

the Bible today is deep and lasting.

He, too, is an educator of prominence.

Lookat the ease of the late Dr. J. L.

Snyder, president ofthe Michigan Ag-

ricultural Collegefor twenty years. It

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“HE _ figures on home influence as

brought out by interchurch survey

are interesting and vital. There are

one hundred and sixty-eight hours in

the week. Of these the boy or girl .

spends twenty- -five in schoOI, and two'

(we hope) in church" and Sunday,

School, while fifty-six 'hours are spent

in sleep. That leaves eighty-five hours

during which the child is under home

control. He spends three‘ times as

many waking hours at home as he does

in school, and forty-two times as many

as he does in both church and Sunday

School. If there is not some religious

influence brought ,to bear on him,“

where does the fault lie? Experience

shows that the country is the best

spot for the growing boy. Bad boys

are being taken constantly frOm insti-

tutions to farms and there theyare

being remade. The old saw, that “God

made the country, man made the city

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town,” does not hold true, when re:

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Sunshine Hollow Items

‘ By Rube Rubimn





When Eliza Swaty came to our little

village and started the Gem Lunch

she had only twenty-five cents in cash.

She worked hard for many years and

served fine meals, which were the talk

of the farmers who dropped in for

lunch on marketing days. Eliza died

the other day and after the bills were

paid even the original capital 0f twen-

ty-five cents was missing. But sheshad

lots of friends and everybody misses

the little Gem Lunch.





Mort Higgins is now out of a. job.

He used to mash potatoes at the Gem

Lunch because he had a wooden leg

and would work cheap. He says a.

man with a wooden leg has advan-

tages. He can fasten up his socks

with thumb tacks and it don't take so

long to take a bath. --



When Walter Jones went down to’

the store after overalls laSt week he

found that Milton Dobson‘, the bank

clerk had bought the last pair. Walter

hunted up Milton and‘bought the over--

all s at half~price. " Milton had only

worn them half a day and then hung

them in" the attic. Folks can’t econo-

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suits while VWValter never has more "





than one besides his overalls.



Dan Malt’oy has sent his mother a

bonus for services rendered from 1885

to 1895 rocking his cradle, filling his

bottle and other duties too numerous

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ment tothetoad in the dust.”





,“As you will it, Shirley.” He turned *





away. “I’ll send your date backwith

the first trainload of logs from my

camp, Colonel,” he called out to Penn

nington. .

Once more he strode away into the

timber. Shirley watched him pass out

of her life, and gloried in; What she





both temper and spirit, and Bryce Car-

digan calmly, blunderingly, rather

stupidly (she thought) had presumed

flagrantly, on brief acquaintance. Her

uncle was right. He was not of their

kind of people, and it was well she

had discovered this before permitting

herself to develop a. livelier feeling or

friendship for him. It was true he

possessed certain manly virtues, but

his c'rudities by far outweighed these.



The Colonel’s voice broke in upon

her bitter reflections. “That fellow

(.‘ardigan is a hard nut to crack—I’ll

say that for him.” He had crossed the-

clearing to her side and was address-

ing her with his customary air of ex-

pansiveness. “I think, my dear, you

find better go back into the caboose,

away from the prying eyes of these

rough fellows. I’m sorry you came,

Shirley. I’ll never forgive myself for

bringing you. If I had thought—4:111:

how could I know that scoundrel was

(filming here to raise a disturbance?

And only last night he Was at our

house for dinner!”



“That’s just what makes it so terri-

ble, Uncle Seth,” she quavered.



“It is hard to believe that a man of

young Cardigan’s evident intelligence

and advantages could be such a boat,

Shirley. However, I, for one, am not

surprised. You‘will recall that I warn-

ed you he might be his father’s son.

'l'lie best course to pursue now is to

forget that you have ever met the

fellow.” '



, “i wonder what could have occurred

to make such a madman of him?” the

girl queried wonderingly. “He acted

more like a demon than a human be

ing.” -



”Just likehis old father,” the Col-

onel purred benevolently. “When he

can’t get what he wants, he sums. I’ll

tell you what got on his confounded

nerves. I’ve been freighting logs for

the senior Cardigan over my railroad;

the contract for hauling them was a

heritage from old Bill Henderson, from

whom' I bought the mill and timber-

lands; and of course as his assignee

it was incumbent upon me to fulfill

Henderson’s contract with Cardigan,

even though the freightrate was

ruinous. ’



“Well, this morning young Cardigan

came to my office, reminded me that

the contract would expire by limitation

next year and asked me to renew it,

and at the same freight-rate. I offered

to renew the contract but at a higher

freight-rate, and explained to him that

I could not possibly continue to haul

his logs at a loss. Well, right away he

flew into a rage and called me a rob

ber; whereupon I informed him that

since he thought me a robber, perhaps

we had better not attempt to have any

business dealings with each other—

that I really didn’t want his contract

at any price, having scarcely sufficient

rollingvstock to handle my own logs.

That made him calm down, but in a

little while he lost his head again and

grew snarly and abusive—to such an

extent, indeed, that finally I was forced

to ask him to leave my office.”



“Nevertheless, Uncle Seth, I cannot





understand why he should make such .





a furious attack upon your employe.”

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I OOKING through the pages of





the various agricultural andlive

stock publications,

the advertising section, one is impress-

ed with the frequency of thé Father

& Son announcements. The sale cats

alogues coming from all parts of the

great purebred live stock breeding

ground to a. very large extent are is.

sued in the name oleather & Son or

Father & Sons. '11 is a. wholesome

arrangement and one that comes about

quite naturally—this Father &' Son

form of partnership.

Twenty years ago I began traveling

among the scattered breeding estab





particularly ,





Father and bon Partnersh1p





T 07221022, Edzz‘or of T lze Short/20m m A merzca





of a few Shorthorns, a few sheep and

a few acres of land—a modest breed-

ingestablishment, but it grew and

since that day it has become one of

the'larg‘est and best known in this or

any other country.- And it has done

this because this young man staid on

the job and gave to the business the

best that he had in him.



I remember so well, back in 1896,

when the first purebred Shorthorn cow

came to our farm down in Kansas at

a cost of $80. She was the only pure-

bred female included in a neighbor’s

sale and my father purchased’ her for.

the price stated. There were three of





 





 





These boys grew enthusiastic over the live stock game when their father

guided them beyond the common work of the ordinary stock owner to the

finer and more subtle practices of the skilled breeder.





lishments of Iowa and adjoining states.

There were many boys, just manifest-

ing their initial interest in the business

of live stock improvement, doing the

chores about the barns who have since

become partners in the business along

with their fathers and in not a few

cases have succeeded to the business

when the «father tired or passed on.

Not a few of these boys have ttained

very marked success and have become

widely known and respected for the

useful part they have played in the

building up and broadening of a great

industry.



What more logical plan could be

followed than that the boys on the

farm should become interested in the

herd and in due time have a financial

share in the returns and an induce~

ment to encourage larger returns?

There~ is always the incentive to take

up such a plan if the live stock is‘of a

high order. In this single fact lies the

basis of many successful partnerships

and a perpetuating influence in the

business. But lacking this essential-—

live stock of a high standard of merit

and attractiveness—many and many a

young man, who would otherwise have

made a useful asset in this construc-

tive business, has left the farm to

make his way elsewhere. ~



There come to mind a few who have





'gradually'moved ~along up the ladder





of progress who started in as boys,

and’ 3. little below the bottom round.

I think of Frank Harding, nowgeneral

executive of the American Shorthorn





Breeders” AesOciatlon, the most influx





ential post 111 Shorthorn circles in the

world. _ , _ ‘

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Vlzmet him first is.1898,,at.ih°- , ,5 ‘





us boys and many a talk we had re-

garding the worth of such a cow and

the possibilities of building a herd

from her female ofl‘ispring. Our neigh-

bors, many of them, said she wasn’t

worth any more than a good grade

cow. But somehow we felt that. we

could see something more in her. When

her calf came it had level lines and a

breedy look and we encouraged our

father to buy a few more registered

females for the herd. Then one day

my father talked about a partnership

arrangement and the firm became T.

K. Tomson\& Sons and Was succeeded

by Tomson [Brothers when my father

passed on ten years ago. We didn’t

have 'much land to begin with nor

many cattle but we did have a large





mortgage and other debts' of varying-





amounts. In time the‘dand increased

in acreage several times its-original

area and the cattle increased innum-

bers and very much in quality and in

value. And all the time we have had

a. growing attachment for the business

and a. lessening of the financial lia-

bility.



Now we have some boys coming

along in their “teens” who are taking

a. little hand in, the affairs. The pros-





pect is that they will contmiie the bus:





iness and the firm name long into the

future. '



Only a few weeks ago the American

Shorthom Breeders" Association pre-

sented an oil portrait to the Saddle &





Sirloin Club, Chicago, an institution of





unique and far-reaching influence in

improved live stock affairs. I waits in-

cited to be present at the prose enta-





 





this great industry and the fine asso«

ciations that} are always a. dominant

factor in. its progress. My younger

brother James :haswbeen called many

times to various parts 'of the country

to act as judge in important shows the

outgrowth of early study of the types

We grew ilf the earlier years of our

experience and the improvement we

were able to make along through the

years that followed.





I think of the firm of F. Bellows &

Sons, of Missouri, .in the days of low

prices and hard times. And I think

of Bellows Brothers now, and the part

they play in the leading Shorthorn

shows and the sale averages which

they make at their annual sales at

their farms. ranging from over two

thousand dollars downward. one after





' another the Bellows boys became part-





ners of their father and now the sec-

ond generation has reached maturity

and has a. share in the business which

is conducted on more than a thousand

acres.





In Michigan there is a firm, 0. H.

Prescott & Sons, of Tawas City, that

has in a brief period shown the Wis.

dom of Father & Son partnership and

is doing untold service for the state

because of the Shorthom activities in

which they are engaged. Prescott &

Sons believe in high standards and





are scattering over Michigan and other-





states the kind of Shorthorns that Will

add millions of dollars to the wealth

and provide years of happy, prosper-

ous activity to the thousands of young

men who will become partners with

their sires on'many farms in the days

that are yet ahead;





These father and son partnerships

which I mentioned are in no way ex-

ceptiontal. There is a long, long list

that’ I could name, the principals of

which are winning ‘success and attain-

ing contact and reputation that is price-

less and that cannot be attained in any

other way. It is rather significant that

most of those who are making their





way upward in this alluring vocation,

would prefer to make one, dollar in this





line "than several in any other. It is a





compliment to the business and topthe'





class who become affiliated with it.





There are many “thousand boys and

young men who would make useful

partners with their fathers? if encour-





aged to .form‘this relation. The 'Father.





& Son style of firm is .the ideal for this

particular vocation. It inclines to a.

continuation or improvement. It car-

ries on a work that may not be com

plated in a brief period. It serves to





capitalize the good-will, the: prestige-





which the years have acquired. It aids

in establishing an individual ' type.

scarcely any phase of the plan can be

considered in any Vother'than a highly

favorable light. And how certain are

the profits to accrue where reasonable

judgment is displayed a fair amount

of energy is applied.





The nature of the business is in it-

self an educator.

contact. With the outside world-9a.





great develomr. . There is always 1‘1 .





broadenihg ou

agemant. 1‘





There is frequent“
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I‘WOULD JOHNNIE RATHER RAISE.’





HOGS THAN CORN?





 





ARE Johnnie and Mary Inore inter-

ested in raising hogs than corn?

Summaries show that in sixty-four

counties conducting Boys’ and Girls’

Agl 1cultural Clubs, youngsters in fifty-

seven counties are joining pig-raising

clubs. They are forming corn clubs -

in but five counties. Interest in other

live stock raising projects also exceeds

that of crops. Inthirtyme counties

boys and g1rls have joined poultry

clubs, and in twenty-seven counties,

dairy and beef calf clubS. Garden and

potato clubs will be conducted in only.

a few counties.



Among the girls, the (fanning and

general preparation of foods is appar-

ently four times as popular as the mak-

ing of clothing, since food clubs will

be conducted in titty-four counties and

clothing clubs in but twelve. _



While the lines of club work in each

county are selected by Boys’ and Girls’

Club leaders and representatives of

schools, civic and other organizations,

the choices are based on the interests

of the boys and girls.





 





WHAT THE WOODSMAN SEES.





 





 





”0U can always tell a trained woods?

. man from a tendertoot, because

. the tenderfoot sees only the obvious‘

things that are plainly evident, but the‘

tiained woodsman notices the little:

things that are unusual or out of the

ordinary. For example, the tendertoot

walking through the woods will see a:

lot of trees that look all alike The'

skilled woodsman will notice that one'

tree is bent in a peculiar shape, or has"

a knob or burl on one side. When he

sees that tree again he will recognize

it and know he is on the right thing

The tenderfoot will be startled by the

sound of two trees rubbing together or!

of bushes cracking with the wind. The

woodsman recognizes these as ordi—l

nary sounds, but he hears the faintest

snap of a twig, made by an animal

step ing on it. The tenderfoot walk.

ing 11 a trail sees only the path in

.front of him, which looks all alike.

The woodsman' will notice the slight-

est .mark in the trail that shows that

some-animal or person has passed be-

fore him, and he will be able to read

these marks and tell the tale of what

has happened.



“The first thing tor a scout to learn

in stalking is to notice little things

that are out of the ordinary and learn

what they. mean: to read the record

that every living creature leaves be-

hind him, telling the story of his life

and doings."——Bors’ Inn.





GIRLS TO ASSIST IN HARVESTING

FRUIT CROPS.





 





 





 





The Horticulntr'al Department of the

Michigan Agricultural ($011699 informs





us that girls may be secured for bat- ,





vesting fruit crops in this state by

writing to Miss Rosamond T. Bennett.

Field Secretary Woman’s National

Farm and Garden Association, 1780

Stevens Building, Chicago.





Courses in agriculture, household art

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J graduations; of oannmg strawber-



‘ rice and making curran-t jelly; this

year, of national political conventions,

and last—~but most important of all to

the humaii race—of . weddings. And

though hard-headed old folks are

,growling that no one but the very rich

or that class which rushes in where

angels fear to tread, would, ever marry

this year,. engagements all point toa

bumper crop of June weddings for

1920. In spite of twenty-two-cent sug-

ar and $7.00 spuds, threats of no crops





to carry us through the coming year,

and houses so scarce that landlords

can charge any rent and get it, ‘young

folks are blithely planning to enter

into the holy state of matrimony.



All of which is simply to serve to

introduce the most important thing

about the wedding, after the bride—-

her dress. What she shall wear-and

how it shall, be made and what she

will need to go with it, are questions

agitating thdusands of girls just now.

I hope she doesn’t absolutely haveto

be practical and” decide .to wear her

“going away suit,” for I want her to

have a real wedding gown upon this

one great day of all her life. And I‘

want her, if she can possibly manage

it, to have white satin, for that has

always been and always will be, the

typical gown. What girl ever dreamed

of herself as a bride without a vision

of a satin .go'wn, draped with net ‘or

chiffon, and enveloped in a clOudy veil

of tulle? What. movie bride ever were

anything else? And what grandmother

ever told of any other sort of gown?

Get satin, if you can afford all the

accessories." . ‘ .



If you can’t atto'rd the Satin—and

good satin is so highpin price thisyear





   





 





 





 





A-White Gown; Tulle and FloWers for the Day of Days.





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Th e” .Wét’l d1fl Gown ,





UNE is theLmonth of roses and decrees that a‘bride’ must not appear ,

with arms uncoyered, so if you have-





a short-sleeved gown, wear long white.

gloves. With your gown ,you must

have white stockings, and slippers, and

dainty lingerie, so an these things

must be reckoned in when you are

counting up‘ what you can spend for

the dress. ‘

If you decide in favor of a suit, ob.-

serve the same rule of simplicity. Buy

the best, and the simplest. Do not be

led away by a striking design which

will quickly be out of fashion. Navy





blue is the leading





color this season,

probably because ev-

ery woman can wear

_it audit is always

good, but tan, brown,

copen, or gray may

be chosen if you pre-

fer. Buy the best

material you can, as

that is true economy

in the end. Velours,

silvertones . and 00v.

ert are good, and

there is a beautifully

soft material known

as peachbloom. Tric-

otine, too, has its ad-

, mirers. With the

suit you must wear a.

hat, and the wedding

veil may be 'repalced

by one of the smart

flowing veils 'which

fashion favors, this



season. . .



The Weddin



Breakfast.

. 'If .it is a morning

£4

want to follow it by

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for your attendants, .the clergyman,

and perhaps'a few friends.

afternoon wedding, you can give a re-

ception 'as large or as small as you

wish. If you are giving a breakfast,

the following suggestive menu. may.



help you: V ‘

' Strawberry Cocktail

Half a spring chicken Creamed peas

New Potatoes

Asparagus Salad

Silver Parfait



Coffee





To make the strawberry cocktail,

mash the berries, and for every quart

of berries used allow the juice of one

lemon and of one orange, ‘one cup of,

sugar and four cups of water.





whole strawberry in each glass. In~





stead of the cocktail, you may prefer, . _ f





to serve strawberries au natural, that

is with the stems on and hulls unre-

moved. They should be _ carefully

cleaned and chilled, and served with

powdered sugar into which they may

be clipped. . . . ‘



A dainty asparagus salad is made by

mixing . chilled ,, asparagus tips with

either French or mayonnaise idressing.





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.If it is an‘





Assorted Cakes :





Chill,

and servein cocktail glasses with a. .





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werry continually tor tear the food is

not clean gr thatéthey‘will be poisoned

by it. or course, the accounts of mo-





‘ . mains poisoning are far too numerous,





‘1 particularly 'in . summer, but even

.v granting that it is risky to eat some

‘ 5. things in public places there are still

'~ enough safe foods to insure against

1 starvation, and no one need stay at

7 home or carry a lunch for safety it a

few) general rules are observed.

’4 First or all, avoid the particularly

, dangerous foods, and especially if the

‘ weather is mild. ,Most farmers have

had experience of meat spoiling in a

. mild winter at some time, and every

' housekeeper knows howfood decays in

summertime, even lead cooked in a

clean kitchen and handled by clean

hands. Cold boiled ham, pressed





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~ tato, um _ beans, corn on the Ooh,





a sexy, ,lefi» lettuce, green onions or





was . imam





vegetable. inch-was a baked sweet so

crea-med turnip, browned parsnip, cel-





creamed onions, 'or baked beans will

do .very nicely, capped by a desSert of

baked apple, a ripe banana, an orange,

a. ripe apple, a bunch of grapes, figs or

some fruit that is abOVe suspicion.

Eating between meals should be

avoided by all, but a glass of cool milk

will refresh and revive without de-

ranging the stomach. A glass of but-

termilk or grape juice will answer the

same purpose and the appetite will be

keen for the next meal. No one ar-

gues that food away from home is as

satisfying as home cooking, but at

least one can go away in comfort and

safety by observing a few simple

rules in eating.”——H1LDA RICHMOND.





TO COOK DRIED FOODS PROP-

ERLY. —





ODERN housekeepers with their

improved methods of canning

have had little experience with drying

fruits and vegetables. Wartime emer-

gencies led‘ many to try drying, but





 





.Grandmotflcr’s Strawéerry Sfioftmée





 





' W0 and oneohalt cups otsitted flour, one cup of sour cream, pinch of





salt, one level teaspoon of soda,





the flour, salt, and baking powder togetherk Dissolve the soda inva table-

spoonful of boiling water. Add to the cream. Stir into the dry ingredients”

making a soft dough. Roll into a thick, round cake and bake- in a. quick





oven. When done, split with a hot, sh

ed, sweetened berries, cover the top

crate with a few whole ripe berries.





in a pitcher by itself.~—-Dom'As Wsnsrsn.





 





half teaspoon of baking powder. Sift





arp knife, butter lightly, fill with crush-

wlth SWeetened, whipped cream, dec-

Serve the sweetened strawberry juice





 





 





chicken, oysters, fish, left-over meats

made into leaves or salads. and such

foods need not“ be touched at all it

there is the slightest danger that warm

weather 'or careless handling have

ruined them. '



Good, honest, roast beef is as satis-

factory as'anything, with baked pota-

toes, or potatoes roasted in the meat

broth, while beef stew or'short ribs

with potatoes and gravy rarely cause

trouble. Indeed, beef is far more sat:

.istactory than pork or chicken aWay

from home in almost any method of

serving, unless it be hash or some



’ “fmade ‘dish” obviously composed of

left—overs. Roast mutton is also good,

but not so ommon. Veal . should be

wielded as it is immature meat and



not Mom. Fish, oysters and

lobster Ear hem water and in warm



[millet- “id be viewed with. sus-



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" ,as emetic“ will not M 91'





the problem of cooking the dried food

was a big one.



Dried vegetables should not be held

over from year to year as they lose in

quality. if you have both dried and

canned food, use the dried first, re-

serving the canned until the spring.



Dried corn is one of the vegetables

which keeps in good condition a long

time, it it is good at the beginning.



Dried vegetables may be soaked two

or three hours in warm or cold water,

then cooked. Or they may be put at

once into boiling water and simmered

a long time.



Use only a small quantity of water

for soaking, and cook in the same wa-'

ter. Three cups of water to one of

dried vegetables is enough. It is waste-

ful to throw away the water in which

the vegetables are soaked.



Salt towards the end of the cooking



Allow one cup of dried-vegetables

tome two persons.



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Beat City Folks At Their Own Game





comforts and luxuries unknown to country dwellers.

Nothing is more absurd!



As a matter of fact, farmers can be as well ofi in the mat-

ter of conveniences as city folk.



Take the two vital matters of lighting and cooking, for

instance. You, Mr. Farmer, can have light in your home just

as efficient as city figs. Your wife can have every City cook--

ing convenience. e -





CITY people have an idea that they enjoy all sorts of





CARBIDE LIGHTING AND COOKING PLANT





is self-operating and produces gas with scarcely any looking

after at all.



It takes up no more room than a couple of apple barrels

and is easy to install. It doesn’t cost a penny to operate

when not in use. ‘



The gas generated by the Colt Plant gives the nearest

light to actual sunlight and floods home and farm buildings

with mellow, restful light at a snap of the fingers—no

matches needed. It does away with dim, smelly oil lamps,

saves the dirty work of trimming and filling.





And in the kitchen the Colt Plant instantly provides the

hottest cooking flamo known to science. It does away with

keeping a fire burning when you don’t need it, insures a

cool, clean kitchen even during the hottest weather. It

abolishes mussmaking fuel and the back-breaking work of

carrying it.



In addition, it keeps a gas-burning iron piping hot just

as long as yen want to use it!



More Colt Carbide Li bring and Cooking plants are in

use today than ever b ore. A cure indication that the

American Farmer appreciates a home plant that will supply

fuel that will both light and cook.



Why not have these advantages in your home? Write us

for particulars and learn how easy it is to install and use

a Colt Carbide Lighting and Cooking Plant-no need to

experiment—investigate the one system that has been in

successful operation for twenty-one years.





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1 " ' , ‘ ,1: -' ducklings are about five weeks 01, . ..

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care and more quality Into them! - ’ , ’ ' - ‘ o ' . ' " . 1' "TI. are a little over thirty-six hours- old , .

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Blue Buckles beat all wear-servme records ~ ~ . ‘ - meal and bran mixture mentioned -





above. Ducks need green feed and it

can be given in the form of grass clip-

pings or vegetables; Ducklings ’neéd-

plenty of water given in dishes deep '

enough so that the water will cover

their nostrils. Sour milk can be given . ,

them in mashes. But do not give them .

sour 'milk to drink as their eyes and

bills may become badly stuck up with

it. Ducks do not need water for swim- .

ming but some breeders think they do

better if they have access to a pond or ,

stream. The presence of a body of

water is apt to insure an abundance

of frogs, insect life and green food,

which helps to produce duck meat at

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MEAT SCRAPS FOR CHICKS.





How old should baby chicks be be-

fore one can feed them tankage or

meat scraps, and which is the better

of the two? Would skim- milk, sour or -

sweet, have any bad effect on the

young chicks?



Ingham Co. D. J. S.



When chicks are a week old a little

meat scrap can be fed to them in the -

dry mash. For chicks from one to three

weeks old a dry mash containing eight

pounds of bran and two pounds of beef

scrap is sometimes recommended. The

meat scrap is better than tankage and

it is more relished by young chicks.

Sour milk is a fine feed for young

. chicks and should be before them at

_____ . _ _ ' - " all times. It acts as a preventive cf



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' ' milk sour as frequent changes from

. . sweet to sour milk have been found to ,

Bu Y rJne hicks‘eyt’fi’h . ‘ , .' . . . .'

POULTRY 1101my”t7 000“r 130' 2:0,” C 251136501: fifi'fi'figfig . .. CH ICKS cause digestive d1sorders. Of course,

I 1' use 0 0 V H ' '

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terms. - 11. 11. PIERCE. Jerome, 1131.111. C H I C K S C H I C K S IIHQMBSTBAD FARMS dishes durmg warm weather so 1t pays 1

CHICKS AND EGGS 12ch .1.........1...11..s mam-133mg s °° s:.32.'.1"*13233.7 t° always use 1‘ 5°“ G‘ K“

utility 8. (1W eLe horns and Mottled copes . rdct e delivered

Rose and Single (2510!?!) .m'RPI 11%}le BgrredPnglztauth Btrong.tst15rdyf chicks s] iip 31311825 everywhere paglceellmt at “yogli-kdgragrc pair

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Chicks 1'12: ‘° L33. “tethered”. 1.2.3

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Baby ChiCkS Eleven leading malaise. bredtfrglln none in the state demonstration farm work. Winners, . -. “1:933“! and eel-ti

it: rim Bend. 11§°fi§st€19§te§°cgmiog° an gg'rize limit: “f. 3%;1‘331 Toled'g $1330 .I'OilngifteyagnihShowsm 810.50 per ». It: wzrmgftez::égs:zlgoultry days ago. NOW his head iS getting

hip Poultry Yard and Hatcheries. Dept. B. Marion. 0. Sunnybrook (”Poultry Farm. fifiodm dale, ich $311241): Eggfiifiyfihflaks :11 11‘s atlsfactory hatch from (11133113; 221100 W A 1

hits horns. bred to lay. After Chick Leahorns, dMinorcas, S anish, Houdan Cam- 5. Efficfinhoaende pen only Oockerel and five Pallets. Th . th h ,‘

Baby cMCkSS Apol‘ 1 will sefi chix and eggs from my s”fines, Red 3, Rocks, rpingtons. Br man. large egg conformation. e appearance 0f e cad would





rit f r n Wyandottefi Tyrone Poultry Farm. Fenton. Mich . - ; '1: well help . . .

fifflggfgh gxgthviTIi’Y hfnfifis Hillsdale, Mich_ gggdrgfenfixup 88:10 aWihliiy‘ist‘fiiigdm‘ the Home- mdlca’te that the tuykey has blaCkhead'





Barred Rocksw egg contesltd winners eggs from 11111111.?) stead Farms plan of cooperation. This is a disease which nearly always





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BARRED ROCKS. Egg; 3:. “33332; per getting high“ hbyre§?P? tgueulgryige. M 11 STATE. FARMS ASSOCIAEOE; n kills the young poults it attacks, but . . ..

tromheavylayincstrsin. $2Der15. S5per 45. Prepaid by D ASTLING, Constantine, '0 ' Dash 1, K18 uni-moo. |¢ . an Old bird may recover. ‘ It has been ’





-. . parcel post. R G. Kirby. Route ] EustLansing, Mich. . . ‘ ,

DAY OLD CHICKS 3.3-,“ {fffl‘ififi‘f 3‘33, found to be caused by a connective ~ ".

tissue parasite. In some sections it . ‘ f .





Eiflturdy Baby Chicks and egglsford hatching White chicks From heavy layings str ain nth season.

has nearly put an end to the turkey A





891‘ (”“5 Barmd RM" 1111.11 ‘1'“ Breeder and Send for price list to GIT Y LIMITS HAnTOHERY.

Illnct from the World’s 11119111111111.1111 business If you have this trouble it ,.





1' St l Wh’ to Le horns the best

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We have shied thousands each _

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the y; . .





Iogue free Brummers Poultry arm,Holland. Mich.

and White Leghorn Cock- for-8 rin d l' b kl t dtestimon “a

Buff Le horn Aerewls efrom 200 egg strains. now p 9 ivory, 0° 9 an

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8- an Dr. alILLIA'M“ SMITe Petenburg, Mich 0 White L B Immediate delivery on a” “310‘”

Edgewood Chicks'3 3. “'1‘" “m“ ._ in: b “as - ful to have vigorous breeding stock.

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» 1 and White).a.nd Wyandottes (Silver-laced and White). oookerels left It B FOWLER. Hartfordiuich 3.0.3.. Reds . - 97.50 190 00 G. K. 7

WE HA ATGH the eggs of Hoganized flocks on range on Ban-ed Rocks , 20,00 , . .

separate farms. OrescentEgg Company.Allegan Mich. DANGER If chix and 0888 Is: Up 0““!th delivered in onetothmweeh. :

not 111p d 11911 t ea“: » ’

hicks S. 0. Brown, English White Leghorn and 100, 000 Ohix. this seasonper Best Blooded dock or Write ”a“, for catalog. #3:, - WHEN EGGS ARE F ERTILE

She ard strain Anconas. Order now for June and rodn cod at low prices noted. Selected U ty, , Mal, your: order now for pronmt vary. ‘

July de fifv. V-ery Brink R. 1’ Holland Mich exhibition trapnested stoc 16 varieties. Hate 111:3: Eu '1." ‘r‘un‘m coup‘ Y —-——-— .

i gallons. Ducks. Book your orders earlfi. v um ! 1 I have a flock 0f siXteen Wyandotte. ..

. - . gsnppointment Stamps apprec lated. eel: . emu"... ”T ,

1 Buff Leghorn Baby Chicks atohel'y126E Lyon sc. Grand Rapids. waif-I . ”'hens How long must I wait after .





 





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JW so earl-rival aran . 50::

°m “n 11. 5. noi and. Mich. prepaid! finiéxnfie
Thofolifl'w‘ills Wm Vere. elected

' fermeensninx year in the. Michigan

: Mfiilssdciation. (State Branch or





' the "‘Americ‘an’TPonltry Association), or





the election just closed:



‘President, John Conroy, of. Battle

Creek, Mich; vice-president, J. W.

' Fleming, Muskegon, Mich; secretary,

C.‘ H. Burgess. East Lansing, Mich;

treasurer, John Tomlinson, Dearborn,

Mich; executive cominittee, (one-year

term),.Henry Keenan, Detroit, Mich;

' H; S. Nobel, Muskegon Heights, Mien;

(two~year term), Joseph Toynton, Pon-

tiac, Mich; Neil A. Dewar, Flint,

Mich; (three-year term), W. S. Beebe,

.Owosso, Mich; Hazeiton B. Smith,» of

Niles, Mich. J. W. Derees, election

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PREVENTING FEATH ER EATING.





 





I have a. flock of twenty chickens

that have started to eat their feathers.

Is there any cure for this? I have giv-

en them oyster shell, ground bone and

everything I thought they required,

but nothing seems to help till-pm];





Some breeders have found ‘that

feather eating can be stOpped by paint-

ing the feathers near bare spots with

powdered aloes dissolved in alcohol.

This habit seldom occurs in flocks on

farms that have free range‘. It can

often be prevented among birds on lim-

ited range by giving them plenty of

litter in the poultry house in which

they can scratch and by feeding a bal-

anced ration in the dry mash hopper.

Plenty of beef scrap in the ration may

satisfy their craving for the feathers

and the bit of blood that they obtain

on the end of each. Sometimes one

bird may start the habit and if that

bird is isolated or killed immediately

it will stop the habit from spreading

through the flock. ‘ G. K.





 





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. I bought several geese last winter

and have ‘a nice lot of eggs. I had

intended using an incubator, but the

neighbors tell me that goose eggs can-

not be successfully hatched in the in-

cubator. Is this right? I have two in-

cubators and have been successful

with chicks and ducks.



Gratiot Co. B. T.





' Most poultrymen find that it does

not pay to try and hatch goose eggs

with incubators. They take so long

to hatch and so much turning and

moisture that the best results seem to

come from hatching under hens or

geese. A hen will cover four or five

goose eggs. Early in the season they

can all be given to hens. Later the

eggs are saved and placed under the

goose when she becomes broody. We

would not advise you to try and hatch

goose eggs extensively with an incu-

bator unless you can afford to experi-

ment. ‘ G. K.





POULTRY BUSINESS HINTS.





 





In the poultry business it is the man





who sells the goods that makes the.





money. Therefore every poultryman

must try to produce quality stock so

that the other man will be anxious to



‘ that the other man will be anxious 0

buy. "Always something good for

sale" is not a bad motto for the farm-



' er poultryman who wishes to make the

business pay. ' .

Repeat orders are necessary in de-

vplooing a profitable poultry hisiness.



_ The bm.‘ who purchases a. cookers!

this {all may be in the market for





magmas. It lathe satisfied





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heats and then knocksand spu‘ttcraAnd

' these are the symptoms ’of improper lubri-

cation that indicatc that bearing surfaces are





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refined as we know how, in a grade to fit

the requirements ofcvcry car. The red Star

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even the smallest. 4' M “"“ 'I

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and is used in great quantities by the

Ford plant at Detroit. by hospitals,

state institutions. etc.. etc. Sure death

to mes, mosquitoes. ants. roaches. bed

bugs and many others.

or druggist. Cheaply refilled. with

package Hofstra in 250. 50c, and 81

uses. It not at your dealer. we'll

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Experimenl‘i'nfi .With vbariousb mu? 0 ran 3 product throughout the entire seven years of its

may. prove w 1c bis t e estt;h alt Is is an ex- history is shown by the number of permanent

pensive and trou esome me o Mohawk users. Actual records kept by Mohawk

To know positively the kind of materials and dealers 51,0“, that 85 per cent of all motorists

workmanship WhiCh go into a t“ 6‘41“?) is the who buy their first Mohawks use Mohawks ex-

safest method 0f choosing. clusively thereafter.

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Wildwood Farms

AnguJ‘





Home of Edgar of Dalmeny one of the world’s

greatest sires.



He produced Erodemas. 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) fat stock show in Dec. 1919.

(The latter is Englands . equivilent of our Chica-

go International. )



Edgar is now an

here for the purpose

countr



Edgai" s calves are as yet too young to offer for

sale but they are a. promising lot and are being

spoken for fast.



We have a few choice young bulls by Black

Monarch III who won the Mich. State Fair

Grand Championship in 1914— 1915— M1916 still for





sale.

Our herd is under State and Federal supervision

l A visit will interest you. write for particulars.





WILDWOOD FARMS

ORION, ' MICHIGAN

v.3. scarrrs. Prop.. \ Sidney Smith.Supt.





 





 





American Citizen, and is

of bettering the breed in this





‘wooncors ANGUS





Established in 1900

Trojan—Erica; and Blackbirde.





Write for 1920 Bull sale list.

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM,





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At 9 sonable ricec. Registered Aber-

FOI' Sale (198111.111 s bu is from ten to twenty-two

monthsot age. NG BR ROS. Davison, Mich





registered Guernsey bull calves. Ms Rose

Three ,olosely relatodtoSpottswood Dairy

mles. Langwater Nanci“ ngwater Hope



on Dal





flggtefi? “formats sy 3rd, cows

t ave the liggheri mi k and butter fat production

0 the reed. Cal ves si by Albany’ 11 Kin of Anna





arm: his grand dam bpottswood De. Pearl.

$311.1.owe, Robin-011M Grand Rs ds. lick.





Registeer Guernseys “3“};

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G U E R N S EY £321; or... 8.222;:

19. 460. 20 milk. 909. 05 fat. Their mother's sire' s dam





made 15.10910 milk'i 778. 80f

.HIOtKS. Battle Creek. Mich.





 





FOR SALE Three Aberdeen-Angus bulls.



e20 months, nine months



and seven months Bredaigrom the best stock in Amer-

ica. Also 320 acres land in Isabella Ooun



BRIN’] UN F. HALL. Belding. Michigan





 





Guernsey Bull Calf. Linded of Walter Phipps Farm.

Born May 2-1919. $100 .00 f. o..b Novl or Birming-

han. Walter Phipps Farmdfl Alfred St. Detroit.lMic

Registered Guernsey bulls. May Rose

FOI’ sale breedin cheap it taken soon Come or

Write. John Ebe s R, 2 Holland, Michigan.

~REGISTERED





GUERNSEYS BULL OALVES





Containin blood of world champions.

HICKS' GUERN EY FARM. Saginaw. W.S. Mich





 





 





 





H rdol Federal inspected. Bull calf Guernse 11.7 mos



. d. sired by a son of Img. Bpotwoo sSequel.

Dam.a high class cow ofA. R roeding. takes

him. 5 others 3 tofi mos. old priced right. sSatisfac-

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





 





REGISITERED lHolsteln bulls sired by King Zerms

Alcartra Pontiac,son of the 000 bull; some from





..O cows 0.11. Giddinés, Gobleville, Mich





Winnwood Herd





—-SENIOR HERD SIR

Flint Maplecrest Boy (166974)





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

of his sons ready for service and some little fol.-

lows straight as 11. line and priced right the daugh-

ters of Flint JMaplgcRrestR Boy are making good.

HER D SIRE-—



[1 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 is the best bred Ormsby

bull in Michigan his dam a daughter of King

Segis Pontiac she is a sister to King Segis Pontiac

Count and the $50. 000 bull King Segis Pontiac

Alcartra. we said get a better bull (we got ours)

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

crest Boy will make some herd sire.





JOHN H. WINN. (lnc.)

aosconmon. MICH.





 





 





 

 

 

 

 





 

   





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One. His sire





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Holsteins of Quality





Fifteen High Grade Holstein Cows For Sale

E. A. HARDY, Rochester, Mich.





OUR HERD SIRE

Model King Segis Glista





By 1130 lb. son of Lakeside King Segis Alban De Kol.

His dam Glista Fenelle 32. 37bs lbs . Her dam Glista r-

nestine 35. 96 lbs His three nearest dams average over



1 and his torty~six nearest dr'olatives aver-

age over 30 lbs. of butter in seven days. Write for pri-

ces on his sons.





Grand River, Stock Farms





_C. G. Twist, Mgr. Eaten Rapids. Mich.





 





 





A BULLY 6000 BULL GALF.

Born July 1919 His six nearest dams havegood yearly

records.An10n them are three worl 11 records





Good lndl'.vld11a

good herd all he will cost. You can 't pay too much for

this kind. I have a fine four months bull. not quite

so well bred but a nice one.



L. E. OONNE ELL Fayette. Ohio





nicely marked and worth in any





 





REG Holstein Bull has been my Senior Herd 111111.20

dams average 31 lbs must sell to avoid inbreeding as

I have 18 daughters of his. J. R. Hicks. St Johns. Mich





HOLSTEIN





BULL CALVES FOR SALE





From dams with good records.

BULL CALVES 5111111) BY 45 lb. BULL.

BULL CALVES SlRED. lb. 3.01.1.



. ULL CALV 1.. BULL





BPRICES VERY REASONABLE.

Privelege of return if not Satisfied.





A. W. COPLAND,





Birmingham, Michigan.

Herd under State and Federal supervision.





Hatch Herd





(State and Federal Tested)





 





 





' Ypsilanti, Michigan

1 i 0.1m young sires, yearlings and

, younger; out of choice advanced

. registry dams and King Korndyke

‘ Own- da 6 lbs





 





the interior seaboard points. ‘





 





'com The current market, around

32. 00 a bushel is the highest on record

for this period, of the year, and about

twenty cents a bushel from the peak

of values reached in August of 1917.

Despite the numerous bearish factors

surrounding the trade, it is difficult to

look forward to any general depression

in prices, though further advances





future.





be safe to manifest a downward scale

of prices, but until August, at least,

the trade (manifests little hope of bear—

ish pressure. Weather conditions and

progress of the corn crop should be

followed closely. for these will be im-

portant influences on price fluctuations.





Backwardness of growing oats in

many. sections of the country have

strengthened the new crop deliveries

of the grain. The technical position

of the market has not materially

changed; the movement Continues

light, stocks are not increasing to any

extent at terminals, whiledemand is

being well maintained as the season

advances. Carlots of oats are selling

around $1.05 to $1.10 a bushel, having

reacted from a top above $1.20 in

middle west markets, the highest level

in the history of tlie grain trade. Oats

are in a strong position, but a break

in prices could come at any time, so

care is necessary in making purchases.





HE high protein concentrates lack



a consumptive demand. Cottonseed

cake and meal are being offered freely

in the southwest, but crushers are not

making a. determined effort to dispose

of their product, fearing that too great

pressure would bring about a break in

prices. Stocks of cottonseed feed in

hands of crushers are considerably

above normal for this season of the

year, and the market is expected to

enter the summer in an easy position

'so far as supplies. are concerned. Prices

on forty-three per. cent protein feed

are holding around $60 to 362.50 per

ton, for carlots. basis crushing’ plants

in Texas and Oklahoma. Demand from

feeders is extremely light. Such heavy

losses have» been suffered by cattle

feeders in their fattening operations





in recent months that they are disin- _





clined to buy high-priced feeds, such

as cake and meal. Consumption is

very light in the feeding belt, cattle

operators rationing their scant hold-

ings with unusual care. Fertilizer

manufacturers are buying small quan-

tities of meal, largely off-colored ofier—

ings, paying around $7. 25 per ammonia.

unit, basis Memphis. Buying from

this source is a strengthening infill.1

en'ce in the general market.





While no excessive stocks of linseed

cake and meal are available, the‘mar-

ket for- this protein feed is in a1 simi-

lar position to that or cottonseed prod»

ucts. Demand is lacking, and feeders

manifest little if any interest in the

market. More flaxseed is being re-





"ceived from the Argentine, but some





difficulty has been experienced in re-

cent weeks in moving thegrain into

Crushers

have some old Qrders on their books,

but jobbers and other buying intereéts

are not eager 1111 their old contracts to

be filled. OER}; to a dearth or buy}



, Slime cfiisli





 





pate no material improvemient in the 3

, corn situation on this account ' "

.1 A division of sentiment prevails as

*1 to the probable cOurse of prices for





seem improbable for the immediate;

If there was a hope of 1111-.

, provement in the car supply, it would ‘





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terred deliveries, and prices for July

' or later shipment are around $67 to

. , $68 a ton. There is prospect fer a.

' , sharp increase in the acreage to be

‘ devoted to flaxseed in the northwest,

which tends to add to the already

weak. tone of the market





ILLFEEDS apparently have reach-

ed their top. Offerings available

on markets of the country are increas-

ing in volume, while demand has fall-

e‘nv‘off.‘ But there is need for a Can-





ev’en yet, as prices will probably hm:

recede. An erroneous belief prevails

ameng many members of the bran and

shorts trade that if ever prices of the

, , Wheat offal start downward the reces-

{L ' sions will be radical, owing to .the

' h present extraordinary level of prices.

' But this is not the case. Mill produc-

3 tion of flour is increasing only slowly,

the output being far below the actual

grinding capacity of the plants. The

out—turn of bran and shorts, therefore,

is light, and there is no abundance of

the feed on markets. 01' course, were

the feed to be offered in large volume

axradical break in prices would doubt-

less result, but prospects for demand

for flour are not encouraging to a

heavy output the remainder of the old

crop year.





 





Bran on the Minneapolis market is

selling around $52 a ton, higher than

a month ago, but as much as $3.00 a

ton under the peak of prices. In Kan-

sas City spot or prompt offerings of

bran are bringing $51 to $52, $50 for

all June shipment, and $46 to $47 for

July delivery. St. Louis quotes its mar-

ket at $55 to $56, and Chicago is on

“practically the same basis. Enlarged

use of pastures has materially reduced

the interior demand for feed, while the

approaching movement of new crop

alfalfa to market is causing dairymen

to hold 03 in the hope of purchasing

the new hay at a lower figure. Bran

should be bought only as it is needed.

The time for heavy purchases will not

come until the market in the middle

west recedes to a level around $40 or

less. Drouth or other unfavorable

‘weather would doubtless hold up the

market at an extraordinary height, but

with normal conditions, such as pro-

“ vail at present, and with good grass



prospects, bran. should continue to

work down.





Shorts are easing along with bran,

but as anticipated, the premiums on

the heavier oflal is widening over bran.

,Gray shorts in Minneapolis are selling

up to $64 a ton, Kansas City quotes

the market at $59 to $60, St. Louis

around $62.50, and Chicago $60 to $62

a ton. Hog producers are using the

wheat offal sparingly. There is now a



' premium of about $8.00 a ton on shorts

over bran, which doubtless will be

maintained for the next month or two.

Any further recessions in bran, how

ever,



, . course on shorts.





HE position of the hay markets is

bearish, more so, however, in prai-



rie and alfalfa than in timothy and

clover. Prairie, which has boomed in

price in recent weeks as a result of

enormous buying in the southwest by

Canada and the Pacific Northwest, in

which sections drouth conditions have



. caused much suffering, is again weak-

ening, having declined more thah $5.00

a ton from its high point. It is very

probable that prairie will continue to

ease off in price as the season advanc-



. do, use “or pastures having cut down

', demand very sharply. Prairie in Kan

see City is some]: ma $13 to $24





servative policy in the offal market





will be followed by a similar





a Magnifier 186*] ion in St Louis.

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We know who: goes into Headlight Overalls.

service with an absolute guarantee. The extra quantity and extra quality of

column: Headlights unsure extra comfort oedemawcor. Rmdon'tget





That's





why we cover their





double wear out of Headlights, you get your money back.





LARNED, CARTER & C0,, DETROIT





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BL. ”dim ~LLL TE





Holstein Registrations and

Transfers Indicate Great

Prosperity





The total number of purebred Hol-

iitein- -Friesi‘an cattle imported from



olland Was 7, 752, and from these have

3mg? all the purebred Holsteins in



e nit ted States and Canada, as well

as the numbers ex ortcd to A

South Africa, New aloud, Mexico and

elsewhere. The Herdbook of The Hol-

stein- Friesian Association shows a total

of 783,427 registrations and that of Can-

ada 100,725. The transfer record indi-

dates a state of demand and it is of in-

terest to‘ KDOW that 1n 1918, 94, 465 trans-

fer: were recorded.



Europe will look to America to replace

her breeding stock depleted by the war,

and values of American Holsteins will

make substantial advances.



Know the Holstein facts from our

various booklets. Send for them to-

day and become a Holstein breeder, or

owner.



m mmwau ASSOCIATION





1“ Wu. Street

W Vacant.





 





The Traverse Herd





HOLSTEINS





MCPHERSON FARMS COMPANY

hanlsod man mot milk cow 3: ——

mmmuyr Produced mm nilkin'ldnn





3394 lbs.m

l ” ” m lbs.m





00 l

659 lbs. ilk in 'I dun

" ” 13751111. milk in 1 out

Other! under but are making hm mi 1000

A fine lot of young bulls from 3 months to 2 years

old for sale. Get a “milk" bull. and increase milk

production in your-m he





MCPHERSON “hFARMS WCOB,





cLuuv STOCK

FARM





A Semi-01mm Brod Bull to Head

Your Head

anlooreu Application Pontiac No.132652. hands

Our Herd

His dam's record is 1344.3 lbs. butter 23,4212

lbs. milk in 365 do 3. and 35.103 1133, butter and

Elbe. milkln days.

One of bk sons from our good record dam will

carry than great blood lines into Your" Mord.

For Pedigree- lnd Prim write to





R. Bruce McPheroon, Howell, Mich.





uporvislo a.

HoWell. Mich.





 





 





We have what you want in BULL CALVIS. the lam.

lino growthy type. guaranteed right in every way

They are from blah producing 11.3.0. oboe-sore.

Dom'orooudoupto 30 lbs. Write for pedigree: and

Mao-I. “do. oboe: to bind.





TRAVERSE CITY CiSTATE HOSPlTAL





“TOP NOTCH’”





butter 715 lbs. milk in 7 days Idleosa

Pontiac Lass you can have her 3115011 for

His dam is da later of fM lecrest Kern

L.McL ULIN. edford. Mich





HEREFORDS





20 Cows and Heifers of popular‘breed-

ing for sale also bulls not related.





ALLEN BROS.

raw PAW, MICHIGAN





42.5 lbs.





£1150” terms.





 





 





Hm gosh porch.“ 3110M IOU have

head; we ofler you an thin desired





either Ion. horn llod

.1, 1e. $351510 calm“ may: Axe. men.





HARWOOD

HERE F 0RDS





egos. o to. females. cows with allot alt-“do. one.

or hrs





31 f 1.» Us old -



baton. "“33 smug/1n?“ enough for so:



Jay Harwood & Son. lonia, Mich.

Farm 8n Mile: South of Ionic





The Wildwood Fermi





Cattle (figs: nmmgoéd 3n Sting accred-

sole. ALVIN 3 Phone °l31mf1m ‘3):





BUTTER BRED Jimma SAL?“





BPHINO 3T

Bil"! “gem 0k. 00 Mlohllon.





Allen: County.

m SALE «Loam Rnlol gig-St.





Lumber-(nod blood he. Jets SW for

WM“ éermnn, Pookude. Ann Athenflich _





F“ 3". Jersey bull gives of “ kaigubteodlngtrwgr





n Go

ment“ mull "

to in! bed Lin “Write forfdoo and “Mixes





Jersey Bulls ready tor service





 





 





EL Pm Id Jerseys—Arm MW broil.»

on next toms





 





 





 





for: :efi‘m '

am am e.Coononrllle.Mloh '





Wyfimon “”503?





‘m_ cm“ bullc





11me .13me
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NOT 0:405



NUT oven 14%:



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No matter how much milk your





A‘Balanced Ration-Mixed

By Automatic Machinery





You get more milk with Larro because

it isn’t a one-sided ration, but a nutri-

tious balanced food.





The protein is there—in just the pro-

portion to maintain the highest possible

milk flow over a long period. the carbo-

hydrates are there too, and the other

necessary elements-all the ingredients

scientifically mixed by automatic ma-

chinery with just one purpose in view,

toproduce milk-pail results—at the same

time maintaining the health of the cow.





The cows like Larro because it’s palat-

able-tastes so good—and it's so digest-





 





An Extra Full Can

for the Milk Truck





That is what Larro and the Larro guarantee reproduced at the left

assure you—a certainty of increased production from your cows.





ration Larro must make them produce more.





DEALERS: Send for Sales Plan





cows are giving on their present





ible that an unusually high percentage

is utilized in actual milk production.





Same Guarantee for

Seven Years





This is the same guarantee of more mill:

which has stood back of Larro for seven

ms. To the man who is not‘yet a



0 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 same as it was

in the beginning—that its quality will



‘ never be changed.





If your local dealer does not carry

Larro write us for information,





 

 





 





 





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:- Bale. Jersey bull ready for service sired by Fly-

Gay Lad . Dam record 472.5 lbs. butter

Notten Farm. Grass Lake, Mich.





SHORTHORNS





You Can Buy





mg Foxe’s

M75 lbs. milk.





BlDWELL





a bull that will put weights on your dairy calves-

the difierence will soon pay for the bull. Now selling

Scotch and Scotch-topped yearhngs, reasonably

priced. A roan. senior year] he, a. Missre of ,Villager

breeding. a herd bull prospect, Federal Test.





BID WELL STOCK FARM,

Box D, Tecumseh, Michigan





R093! Bruce half brothers sold for sss,0m.00

one Oluny Proud Augusta going to and Wm

Duthies of collyne's her at; 821,000.00. One bull and

number of females or sale. _

CARR BROS. &; 00. Bad Axe. Mich.

Norman Carr. Secretary. .





Richland‘ Stock Farms





Home of the Michigan Champions.

Shorthorn Sires in Service:





IMP. Lorne. IMP. Newton Champion. Sterling

Bupseme; Why not buy a young bull bohead

your hard that. carries the blo ed that is making

Shorthorn History. Only a few real headers

left. Write your wants.





 





795521 heads our herd. Three





3





C. H. PRESCOTT & SONS. Town City. Mich. ,





Bhorth eras of Qualit Scotch and

For sale Scotch To pod descendgntsofArchers

nope. Avondse. Max w ton Bolton and White Hall

Bolton. Model Type. by: the Oscola o. orthorn

Breeders Ass. John 80 *midt. Sec. Reed City.9Mich.





Central Mich. Shorthorn Breeders Asso. olfer

40 bulls, 88 females. write for new list.

OSCAR SKINNER. Sec. Gowen, Mich.





8 t h d B t h '1‘ ed

Shorthoms bfilsancllhleifergoggiced :nght.





sultan Chanfliion heads hard, one scotc two yr. old

. 0rd ball by ed Cumberland priced right.

H. J. FLOWER dc SON. Milo. Mich.





One Shorthorn 33:}; 3,133?“ months 014:

, TED WALDO, R. 3, Grand Ledge. Mich.





“I. “.fll 0’.- flmflhom ‘33". hsve males and





females of quality



- for sale. A. E. RAAB. Sec, Caledonia, Mich.

" snonrrnonrs. 'Clsg bred bull calves

,, . Birds under Federal upervlslon. .

mildew: & all. Belsnd & Belsnd. Tecumsehflflcll‘

.- ‘ Good Scotch ' bred bulls. cows and



Oflhorns ‘ irers ' lo ed‘right, “



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UILLA . n.2, EoWell..Mich’.’





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the dairymjgn. . 9 , 9

crop of alfalfa is, not . “00W '

the producer. The bulk of theirs

cutting over the southwest was'of.po§r" j





.9 quality, much having been damaged

filly rains and unseasonably. cool” tom};

.9 paratures during the harvest 'periodlfl ‘





The hay is very weedy as a rule, and

net particularly desirable as a. feed/fur

dairy Stuck. 4 In‘ scattered localities

where the first crop was put“ up in

good shape, dealers bought the cutting

around $25 a ton, basis f‘carsQlor early

market shipment. As a rule, 'however,

little new hay. in the southwest has,

sold above $15 to $17 a. ton, this includ~

ing the average grade.‘ Early arriirals'

of alfalfa of good quality are bringing:

firm prices, but dealers are discount-

ing sharply the damaged or unsound

offerings. The market for old crop.

alfalfa is holdingaround $383 ten for

the best, and down to $19 a. ten for the

cheaper grades, but these figures will

not hold when the new hay begins

moving. 7 Timothy and other tame hay

displays strength, owing to the scant

arrivals and strong southern and east-

ern demand. It is probable, too, that

tame varieties will maintain a. compar-

atively strong tone for Some time yet.

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loaned to the farmer by them. Bliss-





. field at that time had two banks with





combined resources of less than $200,-

000. The next year other farmers de- .

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experience was so‘ satisfactory that"

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Sweet Clover Doing Fine on the Farm

of Otis Wegner.





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activity. The banks have several times

found it necessary to arrange their re;

sources so as to be prepared for a.

heavy demand for cattle loans'in the

fall of each year. The loans are car-

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ing year, when the cattle are sold and

_the loans paid out of the proceeds.

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reserve through ‘the' summer months,» ~

or a. large line of short-time Linvestr‘ '

ments, but the result of their Store-

sight in encouraging this. demand have

justified this inconvenience and the

sacrifice of interest rates. For today

the two banks in-Blissfield, located’in

a purely agricultural‘cOmmunity, and

with keen competition frOm _ banks .

within ten miles .in every direction, .

.now have resources of over, $2,200., ”





‘-:——more than eleven times. their totals





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nether wards. just a few more cattle





and sheep to supply fertilizer will put

Lenawee county in the lead among the

great counties of the United States.

The Jipson-Carter State Bank believes

in cooperative organizations and is

willing to aid them in any undertaking

which will build up the resources of

the community and keep more Lenav





wee county money in Lenawee county.





H. W. Porter owns and Operates

three dairy farms consisting of five

hundred and ten acres near Weston.

Mr. Patter is also a banker and serves





his community along the same-lines as ,





the other progressive bankers of his





' county. He operates his farms with





tenants on a. partnership basis. He is

a booster tor the Farm Bhreau, and a

successful banker and farmer. -He is

breeding purebred Holstein cattle on

his farms.





Executive Board Lenawee County

Farm Bureau.

A. E. Illenden. president, owns and





operates a one hundred and sixty-acre .





farm near Adrian. He keeps Shorthom





.cattle and Poland-China hogs and





feeds about one thousand lambs each

year. Corn and alfalfa are his chief

crops.



Elmer A. Beamer, vice-president, is

recognized as an expert cattle feeder.

He owns and operates a splendidly

equipped stock farm near Blissfield.





Each year. he feeds about seventy-five ‘





cattle and one hundred and fifty hogs.

No roughage is sold and large quanti-





ties of grain are purchased. A leader '





in all movements that tend to improve

the comunity in which he lives. '



Otto Wegner, director, is recognized

as a live-wire farmer. He owns one

of the best one hundred and thirty-

acre farms in Riga and feeds cattle

and hogs. His chief crops are corn,

barley. alfalfa and sugar beets. Every-

body feels that the community is well

represented.



John Hawkins, director, is a promi-

nent farmer and breeder of Addison.

His Poland-China hogs are known

throughout the county and state. His

tour hundred-acre farm is devoted to

plain farming and stock feeding. He

is a new member and has never been

active in public work. A good tumor

and business man.





V. B. Colgrove. director. of Morenci,

has served as township supervisor and

is manager of the cooperative associa-

tion at that place. In company with

his father he owns two farms. He is

an active worker and believes in the

cooperative way of getting results.



Charles M. Case,‘d1rector. or Adrian.

owns and operates a one hundred and

eightyocre farm and breeds Percheron

horses arid Hampshire hogs. Mr. Case

is well known and it is generally con-

ceded that the farmers will get able

representation when he is on the board.



151. C. McMahon. director, of Deer

field, owns and operates an eighty-acre

“form. He practices general farming

and is an authority on all affairs that

When to do with the management eta

small farm. He has a thorough under-

standing of the problems or the men

who are operating smaller farms and

should give them the right kind of

leadership on the board.



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owns a two hundred acre farm and

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FIRST EDITION;





The market reports in this edition

were revised and corrected on Tuezuay

noon, June 8, 1920.





WHEAT





There is no activity in the wheat

market, and exporters are not anxious

for shipments. At Detroit quotations

are as follows: . ‘



.No. 1 red .$3.10

No.1 mixed ............- 3.08

No.1w1hte"..‘...uc..... 3008 ‘

No.2 red ............3.07

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No. 3 red

CORN





Very limited business was done on

Monday and prices dropped five cents,

although they are higher on the local

market than general conditions in oth—

er markets warrant. Present quota-

tions at Detroit are:





 





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yellow . . .

yellow. . .





.........'1.97

yellow............ 1.93

yellow..-.-.......'1.90





OATS





Oats have not been coming in in

sufficient. quantities to keep dealers

promptly supplied and the demand is

active all the time. Present prices on

the local market are as follows:





2

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No. 2 white ............. $1.23



No. 3 white ............ 1.22



No. 4 white . . . .......... 1.21

RYE





The demand for rye is very light and

the trade is dull. At Detroit Cash No.

2 rye is quoted at $2.20 per bushel.





BEANS





Prices are easy and there is not

much doing on the local market. Pres‘

ent. quotations are $7.65 per cwt. for

choice pea beans. At New York choice

pea beans are quoted at $8((D8.25 per

cwt and red kidneys at $15.75@16 per





cwt.

SEEDS





There is very little doing in the seed

trade and prices on the local market

are as follows: Prime red clover at

$25.50; alsike $25.50; timothy at $5.60





per bushel.

FEEDS





The range of prices in mill feeds

remains about the same as last week.

Local quotations are- as follows: Bran

$58@59; standard middlings $59@60;

fine middlings $606362; coarse corn

meal $75@77; cracked corn $86; chop

$72@73 per ton in 100- -pound sacks





HAY





The supply is very light and prices

on the local market are firm at the

following quotations: No.1 timothy

$37. 50@38; standard $36. 50@37; light

mixed $36. 506337; No. 2 timothy $35. 50

@36; No.3 timothy $32@35; No.1

mixed $35. 506536; No 1 clover $35. 50

@36; rye straw $12. 50@13; wheat and

oat straw $12.50@13 per ton in carlots.



At Pittsburgh conditions have about

returned to normal and there is no sur-

plus arriving. The maiket is strong

at the following quotations: No.1

timothy $45©46;standa1d timothy at

$44@45; No. 2 timothy $43@44; No.3

timothy $40617 42; No. 1 oat straw at

$18. 50@19; No. 2 oat straw 318((F18. 50;

No.1 wheat straw $18@18. 50; No. 2

do $17. 50@18; No. 1 ryel $18. 5061319;

No. 2 do $18@18. 50.





POTATOES





The potato market is’ being supplied

chiefly with importations from Den-

mark. No supplies are coming in from

Michigan points and Canadian supplies

are practically exhausted. At Detroit

these Danish potatoes are quoted at

$13 per 150- pound sack. New potatoes

frOm Florida are quoted at $19@20





per barrel.

BUTTER





At Detroit No.1 creamery butter is





quoted at 49@50c per pound.





CHEESE





Prices are declining and the recentP

' break. in Wisconsin has affected senti-

Offerings are ' _ . _

increasing and present quotations on“; ' ’i L

the local market are as follows; Mich- ' :

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ment in Other markets





sets 25

make 32 c; brick 29c;Io





271:; Mich! single dsisi

i8 , $1119 ewes





. sin twins 2561225150;





limbur'ger 32@

3254c; domestic block Swiss 32612360;

wheel Swiss 3561236 0.





POULTRY





At Detroit the market is easy and

present quotations for live poultry are

as follows. Broilers 60@65c per lb;

hens 36@37c; small hens 34@35c;





roosters 21@22c; geese 250; ducks 38'





@400; turkeys 44'@45c per pound.





EGGS





The market is easy and MondaY’S





, quotations at Detroit were as follows:





No.1 fresh 40@41c; storage packed

extras 42@42%c per dozen.





While restricted credit is hampering

the wool business all along the line;

stocks have not accumulated in east.-

ern centers. Just as the Boston and





other eastern buyers were starting af-'





ter the new clip'in the west, the finan-

ciers of the country began the with-

drawal of credit which, accompanied

by general depression talk discouraged

buying generally. Not only this, but

in the fleece and several territory

states the pooling of the clip by grow—

ers has been on a very large scale.

Cars for shipping are also scarce.

Hence the movement. east has been

small. British wools, however, are not

selling well in Boston due, undoubted-

ly, to the credit situation. Buyers show-

ed up at the Fall River mills this week

which indicates that goods are in de~

mand and that jobbers are not meeting

the situation. It is difficult to inter-

pret values. Boston, dealers estimate

the best unwashed delaine at 75c.





GRAND RAPIDS





Egg market this week is lower at

35@360 bid. Receipts have been larger

than a week ago and three cars ship-

ped. The hide market took another

slump and is weak and very unsettled.

Prices are: No. 1 green_14c pound;

No. 2 12c; green calf: No. 1 320; No.

2 291/20. Wool is also much lower at

the following prices: Fine and re-

jects 30c; medium unwashed 350 per

pound. Farmers are marketing what

surplus potatoes they have, selling on

the city market at $4.50@4.80 per bu.

According to the report of the Michi-





gan Potato Shippers’ Association the scoring than extras 551/,»@560; firsts's





total number of cars has been 8,800 55612559511; seconds 48651506.





against 11,063 a year ago. story





A. C. Aspinwall states that" approx}: marketing conditions;

mately 95 per cent of last- season ...

acreage is under cultivation this your; week,

The crap bulletin issued by Meteorol should





ogist C'. F. Schneider for this week.

says it has been\the best for all kinds

of vegetation, germination and growth

Corn and sugar beet plant near com-

pletion; some corn and early potatoes

are above ground; bean planting is in

progress; winter wheat mostly in good

condition, but some fields rather thin;

winter rye in or near bloom and apple

“blow” generally above the average.

Farmers are marketing what surplus

hay they have but prices are lower at

$29@30 per ton on the city market.





 





NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.



Butter. ——The receipts of butter this

week, while 25 per cent greater than

for last week, are at least 50 per cent

under normal for this season of the

year“ There is every indication now,

however, that within the next few

weeks production will be back to nor—

mal. Butter still shows the influence

of winter feeding but the greater part

of that arriving begins to show a de-

cided grass flavor. As yet speculators

are storing no butter as they do not

consider the quality of that being re-

ceived high enough for storage purpos-

es. Without doubt, the coming week

will witness free speculative buying.

Speculators will move much more con-

servatively this year than in previous

years because of the tightening up of

banks so far as the loaning of money

for speculative purp0ses is concerned.

It is very probable that less butte1 will

be stored this year than in former

yea1s because of the condition of the

country’s finances. The market took

a decided slump because of the in-

crease in leceipts this week and the

price fell five cents. However, it now

seems that conditions are nearly nor-

mal and that we may expect a fairly

stable market for some time to come.

Without doubt, there will be some

price fluctuations but none of any de~

cided nature. Quotations at the close

on Friday were: Extras 55c higher





 





 





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Cattle prices are generally 500 high-

er than last week’s close. Heavy hogs

are 25c lower, although yorkers are

10c higher. Calves are mostly $17;

lambs bring $16.50.





DETROIT

Cattle.

Receipts 446. Canners steady; oth‘





er grades $1 higher.



Best heavy steers . .$13.00@14.00

Best handy wt bu steers 14. 00@15. 25

Mixed steers and heifers 11. 50@12. 75

Handy light butchers . . . . 10. 50@11. 25

Light butchers 9.00@10. 25

Best cows 10.00@11.00

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Canners ..... ........... 5.00@ 5.75

Best heavy bulls 9..50@10 25

Bologna bulls 9.00@ 9.50

Stock bulls ...,......... 8.00@ 8.75

Feeders OIDOOIIOOOOIQIIOO 10000@11U75

Stockers ........... 8.50@ 9.50





Milkers and springers . . .$‘ 85@ 115

Veal Calves. '

Receipts .917. Market strong.





Best ................ . . . .$ 18.00

Others .................. 10. 00@16.00 ,

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 244. Market dull.

Best lambs ........ . . . . . 17. 25

Fair lambs . . . T .......... 13. 00@15 00

. Light to common . . . . . . . . 9. 0061212; 00 ,

Fair to good sheep . . . . . . 9. 00@10. 00

Culls ' ..................... 3.00@ 7. 00





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Market strong to higher.

1% p





and choice $13. 65@14. 45; medium 200

to 250 lbs medium, good and choice at

$14. 20@14. 70; light 150 to 200 lbs, me-

dium,

light lights 13010150 lbs common.

medium, good and choice $12.50@14.50;

heavy packing sows 250 lbs up smooth

$12.40@13.35;. packing sows 200 lbs up

rough $11.75@12.35; pigs 130 lbs down

medium, good and choice $10. 25@12. 75.

Cattle.



Estimated receipts today are 11,000.

Caners, bulls and calves are steady;

other classes 35@50c higher. Beef

steers medium and heavy weight 1100

lbs up, choice and prime $14. 40@15. 50;

do medium and good $12. 75@14. 50;

do common $11.35; light weight 1100





lbs down, good and choice at $13. 85@ ~

00 15.10; do common and medium $11@





13.85; butcher cattle, heifers, common,

medium. good and choice- $8 40®13. 75;-

cows, common, medium,

beef $7@11. 50; cutters,





caners and





cows and heifers $5@8. 10; do (gunner. '

steers~ $6e50@8. 50; veal calves, light .

and handyweight, medium, good and





choice $12. 50@14. 50; feeder ,steers

common, medium, good and choice at





calves, commbn. medium, g0od and

choice $7. 50@10. 50.





Sheep and Lambs.

Lambs 84





o

wfisflami 50; do 85 lbs

choicel and “prime





£5,755

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good and choice $14.15@14.70_;*





geod and.

choice $8.15@12; bulls, bologna and '





;$9. 50@12. 15; stacker steers, common, ‘-

medium, good and choice $8@11. 40; ,

stacker cows and heifers cbmmon, me- '

dium, good and choice $7. 25@9. 75; do





medium, good, choice and .





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Estimated receipts today are 12, 000.





 





Cheese. —-In sympathy" with b

the '1

cheese declined considers“ ”t

It is very natural

be price declines because

increased production. Prices are no





 





noar the point where it will bet~ \ ‘1





getting

possib e {for speculators to lay in

stocks. HQWever, as yet there has





been no speculative buying. General ..

demand is looking ans stocks are ac-vj‘

There is no export do-

Held“

cheese is moving fairly well but aft re-. ,

Quotations on fgeéh .



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cumulating.

mand at. the present. thine.

duced p1ices.

Cheese are: Fair to good 27

average r'un 25372@26c; specials

27¢ per pound.





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Eggs. ——Receipts of eggs have been"

. fairly liberal and there has been a tree





   





speculative buying, with the result that ’ V'





prices of all “modes of eggs have ad-

vanced. The average quality of eggs

being received is below the average.

Quotations are: Firsts 42@44c; -extra

firsts 45@47c; extras 48%@49c.

Poultry. ——Receipts of

have been fairly heavy but .cOnsump-

tive demand has been light.





live poultry V





Prices of .





practically all grades of poultry, with

the exception of broilers, which are in





light supply, have declined to some ex-.





tent. Established quotations are:l

Fowls 35@37c; broilers 65@75c; old

roosters 180; turkeys 32c; ducks 23@

25c; geese 20@220.





COMING LlVE STOCK SALES.





 





Poland-Chinas, Oct. 26, Whaley Hile,

Ionia.





Big Type Pol'and-China Sale Circuit in

Central 'Michigan, October 2630.





Secure in Lambs—I would like 'in—-





formation about our lambs. We have

fifty- three ewes;





about the middle of March. The first





thirty did well enough, but about that "h

I then bad s.-





time our well went dry.

to haul water from the swamp to sup—





they started lambing :





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ply them. Two days later all of our .





lambs, a day or two old, took scours

and died within twenty—four hours. We





changed back to well water, but our?





lambs continued to die as fast as they





came,‘ and they continue to die. yet.

Wesaved about half— a dozen out of

about forty. The first symptOm we

notice is their hind legs get wet, great

weakness sets in and they soon die.

Have fed the ewes dry chopped corn-

stalks free of mould, mixed hay and

mixed grain; oats, rye and peas. H. S., -





Prescott Mich. ———Such young lambs are . , , .

Doubtless the change of water caused _ .fl, . ., ._ ,

lambs ' ,



might perhaps have resisted the infec-- '





not benefited by giving them (1

their sickness and death. Older

tion. I advise you to clean and disin-





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‘ pear. at any time, and this is a remind— _

, or. to farmers engaged in the bag in- .

- duStry that in making shipments more '





than ordinary care must be used if

10sses' of hogs in transit are to be

sycided. In past years large numbers

of dead hogs have been taken from

cars arriving at the stock yards, and

they meant serious losses to country

owners. This season so far extremely

hot weather has been very little ex-

perienced, and it is evident that most

shippers of hogs are using extra care

in getting them to market.



An object lesson was taught recent-

ly when thellowa Experiment Station

Sent “to Chicago two carloads of heavy

packing hogs which averaged three

hundred and forty pounds, when the

weather was the hottest yet experi-

enced, without losing a single animal.

But this does not seem quite so strange

when it is knowu that every known

precaution was used in their shipment

from the thick bedding of sand in both

cars to the liberal quantities of ice

used in the cars. Three hundred

pounds of ice was hung in six sacks in

each car, and some of the ice was left

when the hogs were unloaded. That

experiment station hardly ever loses

-a hog in transit, as it takes every pos-

sible pains to prevent losses. When

the weather'is very hot it hangs as

much as one thousand pounds of ice in

each car. Not long ago the National

Live Stock Exchange held a specially

called meeting in Chicago to decide on

what would best conserve hot weather

shipments, and a number of sugges-

tions were prepared for the informa-

tion of country shippers, including

bedding cars with sand, avoiding prod-

ding the hogs, furnishing ice and fre-

quent sprinkling on long trips to mar-

ket. Shippers were also cautioned

against too liberal feeding just before

starting on the trip, as this causes the

hogs to become overheated—F.





THE WATER SUPPLY FOR THE

FARM.





(Continued from page 902).



be of no avail, lacking the necessary

air pressure, which situation might be

most serious in case of fire. The grav-

ity system of supply for general farm

use will be found very satisfactory.



The hydraulic ram for raising water

will be found most useful; its cost of

operation is very low. but it can only

be employed where the quantity to be

raised is small in comparison to that

needed for operation— Under ordinary

conditions it has been found that one-

tenth of the water passing through the

ram can be raised to a height ten

times that of the fall to the ram from

the source of supply.

.The wate1 supply system for the

farm and its pumping equipment must

be designed with the greatest care and

forethought. Its efficiency must be of

the highest standard; its cost of in-

stallation and maintenance low.





FARMERS NEGLECTED.





(Continued from page 900).

made to have the government continue

its price guarantee another year. Quite

a number of representative grain grow-

ers from Oklahoma and other western

states; coming to Washington to at-

tend hearings and conferences, said

they favored an extension of price con—

trol, providing some other agency of

enforcement were established to take





7. the Dlaccof the Federal Grain Corpor-





“16111111120 was a general feeling,

however, that under the mnagement





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been fairly treated by the corporation





 





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CHICKS Order





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White Leghorns $18. 00 $9. 325 $52 .00 R.

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Now _at sLow June Prices





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Red 20. 00 [0. 25 5. 25





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Use th ANHUAL P. C. Bred Sow Sale March 13.





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AT CHICAGO

You can BUY all types of FEEDING

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BOARD OF TRADE. CHICAGO





Mr. POULTRY FARMER:





We make a specialty of White Hennery Eggs and

have created a profitable market for your eggs the

year around. We pay the highest premium for your

Hennery Whites—We remit same day shipments

arrive tan—Ship by Express





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494-l8th Street, Detroit, Mich.

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,For.Best Net Results,

Skip to

CULOTTA & JULL





Detroit, Mich.

Q‘Enough Said 1”





Holmes, Sluwe Co., 445 Riopelle St.





Commission Merchants. Dressed Beef Hogs. calves.

Poultr- .lec a D’°"%"3- Provisions, etc. Correspon-

doncor lici 1:.od Rot sync Countyd! Home Ssvm



Bank. Bradstreet, Detroit. Mich. Gad." 8





Ship to The Old Reliable House



Daniel Mc Cuff ey ’3 Sons,



623-625 Wabash BldE . Pittsburz. Pa.

F 0 R S A L E Ten head of register-

ed Holstein heifers

under one your old, eight. head of yoarllncs.‘ your

pick of ten head of cows 4 to 6 yr old out of a herd of

twent dour. All due to freshen before Oct. lst one

two old bull sired to the Flander' sbuil villain sired



by Kin of the The Pontiac‘ :4 and out of one of King



Seals est dau hter with an A. R 0. record of 331bs.

edam of the bull ha a A. R. 0 record ot2937 ~100.





Here is a perfect- bull. on sea 't of labor condition with

me must sell this stock hclome and see these cattle in-





ataad o writi it oat-lib

t :15 f. B BARK”, Northvlllo. Mich.

26 miles from Detroit. electric our every hour.





HOGS





BOARS! Oh Boys!





Sons and (grandsons of the Mighty Giant Buster. The

bi bone useful kind. Priced for a quick sale.

{1.130 .‘,BU'1LER Bell Phone, Portland, Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Big Bob M pigs takes the cake. book your

order now. a 1 hours and slits Bi)? 8. 0grandson

of Blake: Giant. open or bred to 813.23“

yearling sons. 0. E. GARNANT, BoBbufplds. lob

with qualms at no-





Big Type Poland Chinasm ”“19 n:-

gbou sex and nndgi

immune. Mich





1.311111% 2,

r“ ?m Polands all sold isollit' ’l‘zatcht ligated for

ll BI‘L 81111011 come . 1‘08 8 00 01' an 6

inc-anon. 1.0%.; MBllB‘RLAm lll‘arcel

o “334;?” 141%





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W. J. HAGELSH Augusta, Mich.

LARGE TYPE P. C. SW INE. One yearling boar





few mow bred sous. R. W.M ills. Saline. MiL-Ll

Poland China Brood Sows 533$; figirfifgfif‘fi

Maplewoud Stock Farm. Allegan. Mich.

FOR SALE Afew L. 'l‘. P. C. gills being bred for

August and Septimber furrow

A.A.Fcidkamp. Manchester. Mioh., B. F D. 3

Registered Bi





FOR SALE China. gills bro typo Poland





for Sept far-

row.weixl1in2225lbs.f01‘550 sprin {’Bil‘w

untee satisfaction. DORUS H0 Akron. Mb )1





HAMPSHIRES





Spring boar pigs, sired by Steuben's Perfection

and Cherokee Jim. lst prize 1nd. State Fair. Other

winners at other fairs. Tried sows bred. Satis-

faction guaranteed. Will ship 0. 0. D. Address.





STEUBEN’S HAMPSHIRE FARM





R. R 3, Angola, Ind.

Edgewood Hampshires





All bred gilts sold Nov. booking orders for gilts bred



for fall fni row and pigs for pig club work only.



Dope.“ Head. Edgcwood Farm. Marion. 0th.

bred gilts now ready to ship and spring





HamPShire and full igs from new blood lines.

JOHN W. SNYD R. R. 4. St. Johns. Mich.





SHEEP.

KIDS





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

some grown up. I can offer _10 Katy ood voung Shrop-

shire eues that. will lamb in A n for 3400.100 ir

lambs contracted to me shoul not more than,l pur-

chase price next fall. Also 10 might) nice ewe lambs

for $350. 00. Come and see the em

8. L WING. KOP "-KON FAR‘HS Goldwater Mich.

Shropshire yearling rams

Idle Wild Stock Farms fromgriu winninzstock





Make your sclectRlog early. Cliff Ml dieton Proprietor





Clayton. Mic



250 Re Shmpshires offered past season all sold

(1 d R g.tAf¢t3?11-S 111153.513“; can supfily anyfthing



nee 8 axis or Imus an ramso suns



high quality. Limbs. Dexter. inch.





want a Sheep 7 Let Amerk an Hampshire Sheep





Assoclat on nd dand

bonklet with list of breeders erfe oomronl

YLER 2" Woodland Axe Detroit Mich





POULTRY

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Incubator will run until Aufi. 11th i flgou are in want

of White Le horns, Barred oc ks or rown Lozhorns

at 320 81°10 . Place your ordel now E'lN ON

OHIO EN HATCHERY Box 244,1“ enton. Mich





HICKS; $13.“) per 100 Standard Bred White and

08m wn.Lo¢homa Bred to lay. largo shite eggs.

Parcel post will dbrin them uptoyour door Safe





amtehd rite tor catalogue or order di-

“Wolvo rno Hatchery. B. 3. Z.soland Mich.





33 mm: 100. K 1

I. B. Bmm inborn... °‘ .1. mull... flood.

.80! $1.“ fora.

R.S CLAUDIA BETTE. Hillsdale. Mich.

S c Brown ELeghoms Excellent .|

0 rs 1mg e.





100 ”. Floyd gBobcggomflm 1. Lexinmn.

Sn Enoch nd 6 cl ctr-111mm

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