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Noadvertls— 33331131333- ee'for n {33.111 he {pg .50 enchinse inse.rtion No obiectionable odvertlsments inserted at any time. Member Standard Farm Pagans Association and Atudi Bureau of Entered no Second Clan Msttu' Detroit. Michigan. Under voumn cnv. DETROIT, OCTOBER 2, CURRENT COMMENT N line with the de- clared intention of at the Poet once“ the Act of March 3,1879 NUMBER FOURTEEN 1920 The Farm the officers of the Bureau Michigan State Farm Program Bureau to keep that organizatiom strictly out of politics, is their recent an- nouncement that the bureau’s legisla- tive program will not be made public until after election. There will, we believe, be no doubt in the mind of any student of business and political economy regarding the wisdom of this course. Nothing could be more fatal to the future success of this promising organization than its entrance into partisan or personal politics. Its pro- gram, if sound and backed by a united membership will command the atten- tion of the state's legislative and ex- ecutive departments regardless of their personnel. Adequate farmer represen- tation in the state government is most desirable, but its accomplishment is more properly the function of interest- ed, individual farmers than of the heads of their organizations and the individual voters have a habit of decid- ing these matters anyhow. S a general propo- sition the best Inve’t’ng place for the average Surplus farmer to invest any Capital surplus capital which _ he may accumulate is in his own business. In very many cases a comparatively small additional investment in the farm business will not only pay good interest on that in. vestment, but will as well, add to the earning power of the capital already tied up in the business. This is par- ticularly true where better drainage is needed, where lime is needed as a soil amendment to encourage the growth of clover or other legumes, where the live stock needs improvement, where labor-saving equipment is required for the economic operation of the farm, where buildings need repairing or re- modeling to adapt them to present needs or lengthen their period of use- fulness, where orchards can be profit- ably planted as a source of future in- come, where home comforts or conven- iences will make farm life more at- tractive and better worth the living, and in a thousand other cases which cannot be enumerated here. In a great majority of cases, surplus "capital on. be more profitably invested in the farm business than allowing, and where this is not the south. next best use to make of it is to loan it to , some other good farmer in the tenan- pity, on adequate security, of course, in aid him in proved! hearing his am More everywhere are being solic- ited for subscriptions! " ' V' Tty oi! stool; company enterprises, some ‘ of good promise from an invest1hent standpoint, others purely Breclfiaflve, and some actually fraudulent. This has been true eyer since the close of the war. dub to the fact that farmers had been liberal purchasers of government bonds as a patriotic duty and a strong appeal could be made to them to ex- , change these securities at par for in- dustrial stocks which the skilled sales man could show to promise far greater earning‘power. And with the develop- ment of an increasing stringency in the money market the vigor of this class of solicitation has been re- doubled because of the increased diffi- culty in seeming new capital for any kind of enterprise. Regardless of the character of the stock investment offered, the exchange of government bonds for it is generally doubtful economy. The bonds will yield a regular interest income in pro- portion to their safety as an invest- ment, and will return the principal un- impaired at maturity. At the same time they will remain the most liquid of all investments, most easily con- verted into cash in cases of emer- gency and the best of collateral for temporary loans. Government bonds are an exceedingly valuable business asset for any man. Few farmers have too many of them. On the other hand, while money in- vested in industrial stocks may pay as well as the stock salesman says they will, the probability is that they will not. Even good industrial proposi- tions are uncertain as to futhre prof- its, being dependent for same on the quality of management given them in addition to the uncertain vicissitudes of business conditions with whichrthey will be confronted, while the law of averages is strongly against a profit- able return from investments in specu- lative enterprises. During this period of inflation and exploitation, the Michigan Farmer has been offered and has refused thou- sands of dollars’ worth 0f advertising of industrial stocks, ranging all the way from wildcat oil promotion enter- prises to legitimate and promising manufacturing and financial business- es, because we have believed the sur- plus farm capital of Michigan could best be used right in the local farm communities where‘ it was made, as well as because of the impossibility 'of being certain of the soundness of the investments offered. ECENT trade de- !- velopments ' indi- Co . t}: cate that the peak of Pr,“ inflated commodity Levels prices has been pass-v ed, and that a sharp downward readjustment is in progress all along the line, cuts of from fifteen to thirty per cent having been an- nounced by leading firms in many lines Of trade. ‘This general reduction in commodity values has been reflected in the grain and foodstuffs market dur- ing the past week. The' decline -in these markets has not, however. been nearly so pronounced, due to the fact that values in these lines had already been discounted as generally as was possible by manufacturers using them as raw material and by speculative buyers. In fact, the farmer's products are about the only ones in which the law of supply and demand has operat- ed to lower prices since the war, and in this case the operation has not reached the consumer to any notice- able extent. There in plenty of clock to be taken up between prodmr and consumer without radial lowering of general price levels “the producer If foodstnfs. Of course, the lowering of M commodity prices is a factor to be taken into consideration in aV tom will: . trend should not «at meow than earner 1111111111 this season 61 the year. . . , Farm Bureau News DOZEN eleveto’rs'have signed the contract with the Elevator Ex- change Department of the Mich- igan“ State Farm Bureau. Favorable reports have come from many more. When twenty have signed, which will probably be within the next two weeks the exchange will begin, business. Thomas B. Buell was elected secre- tary and business manager at the meeting of the board of control Sep- tember 21. Mr. Buell is a delegate to the board from the State Farm Bureau. Sales manager is Joseph Wickens, a man who has. studied grain marketing all his life and handled grain for four large successful firms. Important provision was made in re- gard to small elevators whose annual volume of business is less than ten cars. Such elevators may join the ex- change by signing the contract and providing a $500 collateral note. They will pay the regular handling charge of one per cent and also $10 on each car they ship. This 310 will be cred- ited to the elevator until the business has raised this amount to ',$200 when expected. - u » 111. second grader has been hired rm ‘, now on it will be posdible for the department to issue warehouse re:- ' ceipts for between 30, 000 and 40000-15 The amount of - wool actually graded up to date is past. ' pounds oi! wool 11 day. the million mark. News of the week Wednesday, September 22. HE. troops under General Wrangel in southern Russia capture several railroad points from the bolshevists— Japanese statesmen believe that noth‘ ing can be done with the race ques- tid‘n in California until after our elec- tions. -~—The New York assembly cunts three socialist members while two oth- ers resign. ——Ford Motor Company re- duces the price of cars from fourteen to thirty- -one per cent. ——-The 5700, 000,- 000 of enemy .property in this country will not be available for liquidating ' claims of American citizens against Gaermany if a separate peace is enter- e 1n 0 Thursday, September 23. HE people of the Chinese province of Shantung are starving and a $100,000,000 fund is necessary to bring relief.——At the peace parley between Poland and Russia an agreement is reached that the independence of bor- der states must be recognized. —’l‘he the elevator will be given a full mematéampaign train of democratic nominee bership in the exchange. The State Farm Bureau is beginning to see the end of the extensive cam- paign for membership which began last October and has been pushed en- ergetically in one county after anoth- tr er. Secretary Bingham believes that the total membership will be 100,000 by January. There are now five coun- ties in the upper peninsula and eight in the lower peninsula. to be canvassed. The present membership as reported to the state office is 84,358, which, hoWever, is considered conservative in the light of the fact that many mem- bers brought in by follow-up work have not been reported by the county agents. The agents are being asked this week to send in their total membership figure. Campaigns for membership are now going on in AlCona, Kalkaska, Muske- gon, 'Houghton and Isabella counties. Ingham county begins a campaign Oc- tober 11, with Dickinson, immediately after. No arrangements have‘yet been made with the farmers of Iron, Gage- bic and Ontonagon for campaigns. The State Farm Bureau still maintains its policy of. not putting on a campaign until there is a definite request on the part of the resident farmers. The only parts of the state not thor- oughly organized are a few counties in the center of the lower peninsula and a few in the west end of the upper pee ninsula. So thoroughly representative of the farmers of the state is the mem- bership, the State Farm Bureau can be considered from now on as the truly qualified “voice of the farmer.” Twelve counties have signed the con- tract with the seed department to do all their seed business through that central agency.' Half a dozen more have promised and are only waiting for the signature of‘the‘president or a. favorable occasion for a. meeting. The state’s alfalfa. order which Mr. 'Nicolson’.‘ dimctor of the seed depart- ment, will take out to Idaho with him in a few weeks may total one hundred and fifty thousand pounds. The state seed department has made arrange ments with the alfalfa growers of the northwestern states to take a very large part of their best surplus prod-V . not, providingtho buying is dens short- ly other threshing. Michigan homers are lucky that the lessen is late out salience, they are enabled to ease.- _ 11.; orders in time. Michigan is was 31k, «mm uwnmmmwmgfiw Mmmmmms‘ . , ' ~ Some tumors have been comb I ox is wrecked near Phoenix. Aria—- The American relief administration has started a. movement to care for 2,500,000 destitute children in Europe. ——A monthly survey of Germany’s eco- nomic situation shows that (industry has taken another slump in that coun- Y- ' Friday, September 24. THE massing of Bolshévlst armies . 1n the region of Minsk and Lida indicates to military observers that the Reds plan a new onensive' on Pol~ and in the immediate future.—The' fed- eral government will be asked to ap- point a. commission to effect a solution of the Japanese-American problems;— Church workers assembled at Atlantic City declare that prohibition has 11» creased church attendance and lessen- ed materially the work of rescue mis~ sions.-—The leading nations of the world are represented at a conference at russels to discuss world financial prob ems. Saturday, September 25. PROPOSAL for an armistice to be agreed upon in ten days is made at the Russo-Polish peace conference. ——A commission from Denmark is sail- ing to this country to arrange for the ‘ sale of 260,000,000 pounds of butter.— The interstate commerce commission approves a further increase in express rates averaging thirteen and a. half poi" cent. “There was a considerable de- crease in both exports and imports. during the month of August. —A new record for a month’s traffic through the Panama. Canal was established in Angus Sunday, September 26. _ IOTING by Korea students at Gensan, Korea, res ited in twenty- five persons being killed and many Japanese industrial houses stormed.— The Mexican government closes all saloons along the Mexican- United States harden—Polish armies are clos- ing in on the Reds at Grodno. -—Italian workers agree to return to owners mills recently taken by force. ——Two persons are killed and three hurt near St. Clair when an automobile is struck by an interurban car. Monday, September 27. FFICIALS in Washington believe living costs throughout the United States will reach a level twenty per cent below that which prevailed dur- ing the war period ~Bituminous coal operators plan on mining 12,000,000 tons of coal per week until December 1 to meet the demands this coming winter ——-Tho Chilisn government an proprintaol 315, 000.0» to construct a, ' railway some the Andes. Tuesday, “member 8. O arisen neorurious‘mwm in We and the; . me the «o of commercial relations. «The ilk Commission redness he. W Mon“ 3 1 ik d n- ' 111m 1111. your 1.1, m. «m- degh‘33:;§;,.‘1r.tfi.:w" m WW' unseen” method? U son was well learned back in the , ' YOuthful jack-knife days. . mend to be shown. Further, -_ inconsistent many of us are. not allow the other fellow to trick us m. niainder were satisfied with the pres-- RADE eha 196k-knives, sight un- seen!" Nearly all of us can re- . member when as youths, we were often greeted by such a chal- Yes. and we bit until stung ‘ iii "a nobladed affair in exchange for ‘g 7 2...... bright tinhbladed pride and joy. Would you buy a bull by the “sight Not much. that les- We now de- we not only want , to know the animal’s his- tory but that of his ancestors as well. No more of this “sight unseen” busi- .. 116.313.. ”That is good common sense but how We will in the purchase of an animal; but each ' year we go on and play the “sight un- seen” deal on ourselves with the corn . . crop, the value of which is greater than any one branch of our farming industry. - Good Blood Counts. ‘To be sure, good looking ears are selected by many of us from the crib» or perhaps from the shock at husking We; but, what is known of these ears? Nothing much,‘ save that they are about the right size, are well fill- ed out at the butts and'tips, and that they came somewhere from the corn field. If one wishes to build up ahigh-pro- adding herd he would not be satisfied by merely knowing that the animals selected for the foundation stock were justpleasing to the eye. No, he would carry his investigations much further and in addition to selecting typy, nice- appearing animals he would be certain that they came from high-producing strains. . The value of high-yielding foundation stock is not confined alone to animals, for the laws of nature are equally as true with the plants. Good blood counts in both cases. “By their fruit so shall ye know them.’_’ Environment vs. Heredity. In selecting seed ears from the shock or crib we are unable to ascer- tain whether the fine appearing ears owe their development to heredity or to environment. This is all important as the former may be tlansmitted *1 ‘. while the latter is not. The great majority of cribselected ears are produced by plants that have unusually favOrable conditions under Which to grow—hence such cars do not, owe their fine qualities to good breeding but to the extra plant food, moisture and sunlight afforded them. These do not make the best seed as they do not necessarily carry high- yielding ability in their blood. In order to. know that the selected seed ears are capable of producing high-yielding progeny we must, as in the case of animals, know something of « their ancestors. This necessitates the Studying in the field of the parent plants which bear the ears. Field Selection. Going into the field shortly before harvest one may select seed that may be counted upon to substantially im- prove next year’s corn crop. One should be equipped with a sack tied across the shoulder which, when filled, may be emptied at the end of the rows where the corn may later be conven- iently gathered. The first thing to attract the atten- tion of the selector is a good ear which is borne about hip. high and hangs at a sloping angle. When such is found the plant should next be considered. If there are missing hills adjacent this ear should not be selected for it prob- ably owes its goodness largely to its favored environment. However, if the plant is growing under uniform condi- tions we may quite safely attribute its quality to heredity. If the plant is strong, of good average height, free of suckers and multiple ears, we may consider the ear to be valuable for seed, especially if it be well filled out and has matured. The maturity factor is one of prime importance to Michigan farmers for our growing season is none too long. In going through most fields of corn it may be readily noticed that there is a wide variation in maturity. Those ears, other factors being even, which show that they have matured within the nor- mal growing season, should be chosen. After a year or two of such selection it will be found that the maturity prob- lem is quite well under control. In crib or shock selection the tendency is to select late maturing ears which acquire abnormally long growing sea~ sons to complete their growth and in the average season are often caught by frosts with the result that the fol— lowing spring finds a shortage of seed and many poor stands of corn. Storage. No good stock man would ever leave his sire exposed to the cold, damp winds of the fall and winter, but often one may observe seed corn hanging on the back porch‘ or in some similar place. Seed corn should be as care- fully housed as the breeding animals. This is especially true in the early Good, Corn andI Good Hogs g0 Hand in Hand cars Corn Crop Select Seed Ears Til)“ Edi/~33» A.,L. Biééz'nr, Extension Speak/2&4 114.14. 6". fall when the corn contains a high per- centage of moisture, after thus mak- ing it very susceptible to injury from frosts. The seed ears should be gathered the same day that they are selected and stored in the attic, furnace room, or some other place, where a good free circulation of dry air about each ear is to be had. Under such conditions the moisture will soon be reduced from forty-five or forty per cent, to twelve or fifteen per cent, which is sufficient- ly low to withstand zero weather with- out injury. Even after the corn has been dried out it should not be expos- ed to damp airfor it will gather mois- ture and then be easily injured by freezing. Value of Field Selection. Usually enough seed may be select- ed in a day to plant the next year’s crop. Experiment stations and many corn belt farmers have clearly demon- strated that the crop may be increased to the extent of three to four bushels per acre by good field selection. This means $75 to $100 more for the corn crop, hence we may calculate a. day spent in the field selection of corn is worth that amount. Not many of us can afford to miss a. day’s wages of $75.00. Two of Michigan’s best corn men have practiced field selection for some time. These are Jesse Pickett and Robert Duncan, the originators of the two varieties which bear their names. C. V. Towne, of Greenville, has made considerable progress with his Golden Glow corn. In 1918 Gilbert Van Wy- nen, of Holland, obtained Golden Glow seed from Mr. Towne and has field se- lected his seed for two years. This year Mr. Van Wynen has an estimated ninety-eight per cent stand, his plants are vigorous, even in height and ma turity. The writer recently Visited this field and was struck with the fact that the plants carried such fine ears, which in nearly every case are borne about three and a half feet from the ground. The “sight unseen” method of crib selection does not pay. The time to select is when the most evidence is available and the most corn present to select from. That is in the,fall and not in the spring after three-fourths of the 010p has been fed out. Saving Dollars Through Wise Planning " J. A. Howenrtine Manes Careful Study of Forty Farmstead: ‘ I N a recent survey, forty representa- tive farmers were asked if they were satisfied with ’the field and building arrangement on their farms. Twelve of these replied they did not "think their farms were properly ar- . ranged and most of these were in doubt just how their particular ar- ~ ,.rangement could be bettered. The re- Fi-t ’Inninder of the forty seemed to have v~gWen no thought to the arrangemtnt ' of their farms and were content to op- erate them' over a field arrangement _Iaid out many. years before. Of the forty, eighteemexpressed a desire to , rearrange their buildings, while the re- den. orchard, and permanent pasture farms it was evident that little thought had been spent in their arrangement. On several, the farm buildings were located in the corner of the farm and with no thought of their relation to the fields. In other instances good farming land was allowed to remain idle simply because its location was too far distant from the barn to per- mit economic handling of crops and manure. In all cases no record had been made of the location of the tile drains except in the memory of the person installing them. _ Usually the layout of a farm has been'flxed by previous owners. “The location of the fields, buildings, gar- were established many years previous. In a majority of cases changes for the better can be made without much in- convenience and without a great ex- penditure of time and money, if the owner has a definite plan in mind and develops a scheme or schedule for making changes from year to year. A number of factors enter into the arrangement of a farmstead. If the farm is considered as a manufacturing establishment, with the barns and out- buildings; as the central plant, the field as producers of raw material, and the house as home, the problem of ar- rangement is simple. The layout of a. farm should not be the result of acci- dent or haphazard planning. .The re- sults brought about by a carefully thought out design and a thorough consideration of natural factors and the type of farming to be followed in- dicate the presence of a few simple principles. Buildings should be arranged pri- marily from a utility standpoint. The number of trips taken from the farm buildings to the fields on the average one hundred and sixty-acre farm in the course of a year number about nine hundred. It is essential that these trips he made as short as possible for . the saving in time and distance will amount to a great deal in a year’s time. For the highest degree of econ- omy a location near the center of the m 111 a", 3...... , "i‘toa‘n‘x‘u . 1 farm is undoubtedly the best. All the " fields are accessible from the barnyard and very little time is lost in going to and from the fields. Hauling of farm crops and manure is reduced to a min- imum and'when"we consider that 'it 'costs the average farmer practically half a dollar to haul a ton a mile this saving in time and distance is. consid- erable. The water supply is concen- trated and accessible f1om all the fields. The axes in lanes is reduced to a minimum and the expensive fences to maintain them are practically elim- inated. Except in cases wherthhe public road divides the farm most farm build- ings are located close to the highway. This placing is not as efficient as the former, but in the minds of many has advantages which more than offset its disadvantages. It is easily accessible, and affords ready communication with school, town and rural delivery. The position of the house should be given primary consideration. It is best to locate it on a slightly elevated, Well drained area, not less than one hun- dred feet from the road. ' Distances of one hundred and fifty and' possibly two hundred feet are probably more desir- able, in that the dust nuisance is re- (luced and a greater degree of privacy secured. An attractive approach to farm buildings over a winding drive through an open expanse of lawn, prop- erly decorated with shrubs and vines, will do wonders in dispelling the im- Ncws 0 ASK FOR NATIONAL SELLING AGENCY FOR VJOOL. ARMERS and shepherds in thir- teen middle western states have pooled thirty million pounds of wool and these farmers, through their State Farm Bureau representatives, are ask- ing the American Farm Bureau Feder- ation to create a national wool selling agency in order to dispose of these holdings at the greatest advantage to the producer and at the same time to make it possible for the mills to better serve the consumer of woolen prod- ucts. This action was taken at a meet- ing of the presidents and secretaries of the midwest organizations at Man- hattan, Kansas, last Week. Under the present arrangement the various states are competing in the market and buyers are taking advan- tage of the situation. Cooperating these states should get the full market price based on world supply and de~ mand. The 1ep1esentatives feel that by reason of the large holdings buyers will be more anxious to get on a trad- ing basis than where it is possible to deal with each state separately. It is suggested that the national selling agency be created by adding to the present wool committee of the Ameri- can Farm Bureau a member from each state where the wool has been pooled. “No matter what price this wool brings, the principal of wool pooling is economically sound,” said J. F. Walk- er, chairman of the committee. “Farm- ers have done their own warehousing and grading, and will sell direct to the manufacturers. Last year they have profited from ten to fifteen cents per pound over the old way of selling to the country buyer at the front gate. This has not made the consumer pay more but has encouraged production.” To Stabilize Live Stock Markets. The whole middle west is now work- ing out 'a system of marketing live stock cooperatively which seems des- tined to stabilize markets. At this meeting it was decided that the coop- erative live stock shipping association . gigs of organization, with one mana- ' , ger and shipping points over the coun- the first logical step. The county _ pression that the house is a place “where children are raised,” and the barn a place “where stock is kept.” The barn and other buildings fem the factory of the farm so that their relatitm to one another is important. As a rule, the barn should be situated back of the house, never between the house and the road. ‘A placement by the side of the road where it limits the view from the house is not desirable and should be avoided unless some un- usual reason makes it advisable. A direction opposite to that of the pre- vailing wind is desirable. It reduces fire risk and tends to carry the odors of the barn and stable away from the house. Yards and feed lots should be placed where they are protected from prevailing winter winds. A grove of rapidly growing trees is a good feature in connection with farm structures, when placed in such a position as to serve as a windbreak against severe winter storms. ' The location of cribs and granaries demand individual attention so that the exact placing of these structures cannot be specifically designfeu. “M1? to intervening buildings. planning the anangement of these buildings it is a good plan to disregard the routing of the man and give $1.1 consideration to the most efficient handling of feed, stock and waste, for in most cases -a change of owners takes place before the buildings are worn out. Different kinds of farming will require different arrangements, for it is Obvious the the requireme ta I of dairy farming are distinct £19m those of a grain farm. HoWever, a few simple rules can be applied to the plac~ ing of cribs and granaries. First, these structures should be placed where they fire accessible from the field. Where grain farming is ‘followed, the placing of the cribs and granaries is fairly simple for it is net necessary to re- move large quantities of feed several times a day. Sheep, dairying, and hog raising require the removal of large quantities of feed several times daily, so the shortest distance between feed storage and feed lots is the most effi- cient. Apply the old saying that a straight line—is the shortest distance between two points. Do not carry feed around intervening buildings. The machinery shed and .shop, if combined in one structure, need not be placed close to the other buildings. It is a good plan, however, to have it placed so that the homes may be tak- en from the barn, to the watering trough, to the machinery and then to the fields with vexy little interference If this building is used as a location for the powe1 plant or the lighting system of the “term, a ceht1°f “nation is desir- able. The water system on the average farm is one of the easiest handled. Water can be piped easily from place to place. Water tanks can be located where needed, doing away with the .must he worked out' around: the or source of water. A windmill, gaso- . line engine or electric power can be . used in supplying running water to all parts of farm buildings. The placing g» of water tanks and troughs under par- 7: tition fences, so that they are accessiv ' ble from either side of the fence is a» good feature. The accompanying pho‘ tograph shows a plan of this kind. The danger of fire is an objection to the. close arrangements of buildings. Many farmers have wisely located their buildings several rods apart to lessen this risk. That this is a wire precaution cannot be denied but it: would seem that with a few simple fire preparations, lightning rods, sevv era] chemical fire extinguishers, with insurance, would justify a close art rangement' when the saving of time and labor over the period of a lifetime is considered. Convenience and economy of opera.- tion are the essential points to consid- er in planning a field arrangement. Very often, however, it is impossible to I‘secure an ideal arrangement in re- spect to these two requisites, for athe plan of the farm is often influenced by uncontrollable natural factors, such as the contour of the land, differences in soil, streams and other natural ob~ structions, prevalence of highways and ‘the like. The type of farming and the rotation system should bear a Close relationship with the layout of a farm. the Agricultural World ty was recommended. A committee of thlee, consisting of Howard Leonard of Illinois; H. D. Lute, of Nebraska, and E. G. Ketner, of Ohio, was appoint- ed to draft a uniform plan of organiza- tion. The State Farm Bureaus recom- mended to their national organization a thorough investigation of the advis- ability ef establishing live stock com- mission firms at stock yards in the middle west. The primary idea in es- tablishing shipping associations and commission firms is not to save the commisison but to be in a position to better regulate supply so that heavy gluts and sharp fluctuations can be avoided. It was stated that the action of this same body six months ago, to make quarterly surveys of live sto’ck on hand and the probable amount to be marketed, fits in well on the stabil- ized market program.‘ Marketing Holds Farmers’ Attention. The markefing of dairy products was discussed and a recommendation made to the national association to call a conference of all cooperative market- ing organizations seems to hold the center of attention of middle western farmers. At the national grain mar- keting conference called by the Amer- ican Farm Bureau Federation in July, a similar conference for live stock marketing was asked for. This confer- ence will be called the fore part of October and all farm organizations will be represented. The fruit and vegeta- ble growers have asked for a national conference which will be held soon. The next meeting of presidents and secretaries of middle west State Farm Bureaus will be held at Columbus, Ohio,- November 9-10. - ———‘ URGE LARGER CREDIT FACILITIES FOR FARMERS. DDITIONAL credit facilities for th agricultural interests of the country were urged before the federal. reserve boald last week by a delega- tion representing a number of farm or: ganizations. Spokesmen for the delegation declar- ed that the present credit policy of the ~ federal reserve system had reacted" ".~ ‘ mas. against farm interests and urged that greater emphasis be placed upon the need. of financing agricultural products more adequately. ° W. P. G: Harding, governor of the federal reserve board, reiterated to the delegation what he has told several other groups that every possible con- sideration is being given agriculture, but that it is not within the province of the federahreserve board to give the-banks specific instructions as to just what loans to make. Mr. Harding indicated that there seemed to be no action that the board could take at this time. SCANDANAVIA OFFERS MARKET FOR .u. s. APPLES. CANDANAVIA offers a good though limited market for American ap- ples and prospects for a successful year in this trade are encouraging, according to the Fruit Trade Commis- sioner of the Canadian Department of Trade and Commerce. 1 Great Britain, the United States, Holland, Switzerland, and Canada are the chief sources of the apple supply of Scandanavia. Practically all of the imports from Great Britain, however, must be credited to apples from trans- Atlantic sources, re-exported. The an ples received from Germany also in- clude large quantities of re-exports from Hamburg. It is evident, there- fore, that American apples comprise a large part of the Scandinavian apple imports. Dutch Crop Complete‘FaiIuI‘e. Owing to thefact that the prices of transAtlantic‘ apples in Sweden are tee high for ordinary consumption un- til the cheaper varieties are exhaust- ed, home- -grown and Dutch apples hold the market there until after Christ~ Holland and Switzerland have been the chief sources of'Sweden's ap- plesupply since 1917, because war con-. ditions curtailed trans-Atlantic ship ping, Since the Dutch apple cropis a complete failure this year. the demand should be satisfactory for AmenCan “apples, lapth in boxesahfl 111 barrels. Al‘aruletheeeis wreflsmde mend for imported apples in Denmark before the middle of December, .on ac- count of home and Dutch supplies. 0w- ing to the/-failure of the Dutch crop, however, American apples in all prob ability will find an early market there this year. I In Norway, the home-grown and Eu- ropean imports supply the market un- til November, after which date trans~ Atlantic shipments are in demand. The main season for shipping American ap-' ples to Norway is from December to March. Throughout Norway the red varie- ties command the best prices, Bald- .wins, Kings, and Ben Davis packed in barrels being special favorites. Prac- tically no demand exists for» green or cooking applesp In the box packs, the varieties especially desired are Jona- thans, Spitzenbergs, Winesaps, and _ Arkansas Blacks. Rome Beauties are good sellers but are less popular than more highly colored varieties. The Yellow NewtOWn is not appreciated ex- cept when red varieties are unavail- able. INCREASED AREA UNDER SUGAR BEETS IN BELGIUM. HE culture of sugar beets in Bels gium has considerably developed this year, planters having been encour- aged by the promise of remunerative prices. It is estimated that there has been an increase of forty per cent in area sown. There Were in' 1914, 140.- 000 acres of ground devoted to sugar beet growing for sixty-eight sugar facé ~ tories, while last year there were 102.- 000 acres for eighteen factories, and this year 112,500 acres for fifty-six fuc-~ tories. The sugar‘production‘this year is expected to be 160,000 metric tons. NUT GROWERS so MEET. . The tenth annual convention 'of the . » Northern Nut Growers’ Association 3.: will be held at Washington, D, 0.. on. October 7-8. The rapidly growing pops, ularity of the "better grades Of; his yamut kernels ’ Scanned for the stimulating in We.“ 6‘ @f‘ r.u-»W’-\ , _ ,_ rac Of .mCrlcan Cooperation T fie Stary oftfle Co/zfornza Ernzt Growers’ Exeéonge—By Herman Steen (Copyright 1920. Standard Farm Papers, Inc ) div-«(fa ,3» \. _» fortunes, however, " . the growers, but ofl.‘ them. The men . creasing their holdings. was money in the orange and lem- er on‘industry of southern Califor- nia. The foundations for many large fortunes were laid in those days. These ‘were not made by best known to the receiving tellers of the banks were those whose business was to handle the fruit on its journey from the producer’s to the consumer’s table. The growers were apparently known only to the money lenders. ‘ The farmers had trouble enough, goodness knows, in growing the fruit, with frost, bugs, flood, draught, and a few Other things to overcome. But growing the fruit was a snap compar- ed with selling it‘to good advantage. The growers were three thousand miles from the Atlantic seaboard, their principal market,“ and their product was highly perishable, and the best transportation service was rather in- different; their fruit was not well-es- tablished on the eastern market, and had to compete with the well-known Florida oranges and lemons; the sys- tem bf diStribution was so inefficient that growers often had to pay the freight bills and give away the fruit. Above all, the market was ruled by speculators and commission men. The future for the grower was painted in black and mounted in ebony. Upon Sound Economic Basis- Today there is no farming industry in America upon- a sounder economic basis than the citrus industry of south- ern California. In Q/e years out of six, prices are secured equal to, or well above, the cost of production. The groWers are prosperous and are in— As evidence of that fact, remember that good or- ange land around Los Angeles sells from $1,500 to $5,000 per acre, and a large share of the orchards pay a rea- sonable return upon these tremendous valuations. The consumer has not suf- fered, for he is today using two or three times as many oranges and lem- ons as he did a quarter of a century ago; in fact, the consumption of these fruits is increasing year by year. This transformation of the citrus in- dustry from. the verge of ruin to the acme of success is one of the marvel- ous stories of American agriculture. It is a story of pioneering along the paths of cooperation, a story of men with courage and a big idea that triumphed ‘over obstacles that towered toward the skies. ‘It is a story of success with- out the assistance of good luck and Heaven-sent help, except as such help comes to those With stout hearts. Doing the Job Themselves. ll‘he big idea that saved the citrus industry was, “Farmers must do the job themselves.” Out of that idea was ACK in “the early nineties there born the California Fruit Growers’ Ex- change, the largest and best-known co- operative marketing organization in America. During the year ending Aug- ust55, 1920, it handled for its 10,500 members~ over $57,000,000 worth of or- anges, lemons and grape-fruit. It is a big cooperative agency owned and con- trolled by the growers themselves, which handles over seventy per cent of the citrus fruit of California from the growers to the wholesale distribu- tors in the cities. The California Fruit Growers’ Ex- change is a selling agency only. It does not buy fruit from its members A: general manager of the C alifornta Fruit Gro‘werr' ‘3 ,1 _ _ H. Powell, Ila: WéléR/Ilu qnem'on done more to- rwa rd t/ze ertablirltment of the true principler of co- operation in America that any otlzer one penon. H i: work 11a: gone far to- rward bringing tbepublic to a general underrtand- ing of the dzference be- tween a eooperatz'rve or- ga'nization formed for tbe benefit oft/1e member: and a corporation formed for peatniary profit. nor from anybody else. It sells the fruit which its members produce, and turns back to them the full price se- cured, less only the necessary cost of selling. It makes no profit for itself. It will be well to keep these things in mind as its plan of operation is un- folded. Local Associations Ineffective. When the orange and lemon grow- ers first organized nearly thirty years ago, they formed lecal associations—— one for each community. These local organizations either rented or bought a packing house and prepared the fruit for market. It was thought that these local associations would solve the whole knotty problem of marketing citrus fruit. It soon developed, however, that the practical effect of these local shipping associations was to largely eliminate the old speculators and make these as- sociations the speculators. Because each local association operated inde- pendently, it had‘ no knowledge of what the others were doing; the result was that the New York market might be flooded with oranges, while Chicago had none. Then-came a tremendous rush of oranges to Chicago, an over- loaded market and no oranges at New York. Under these conditions it was not hard for the speculators to break up many of the. local associations. Must Cooperate, Not Compete. The remaining associations, how- ever, finally joined hands in 1895 in forming an overhead clearing house. “We realized that we must not com- pete against each other and that was what we had been doing,” said F. Q. Copyrighted by Harris & Ewing Story, the venerable ex-president of the exchange, who told me the story. “We organized the exchange so that we might work together, and not out ,each other’s throats.” At the present time there are two hundred and eighteen local associa- tions which are organized into twenty district exchanges. These district ex- changes in turn have joined together in the central overhead organization, the California Fruit Growers’ Ex- change. Its headquarters are in Los Angeles, the heart of the citrus dis- trict; its gene1 al manager is G. Harold Powell, national and international au- thority on cooperative maiketing. Three Jobs, Three Organizations. Each of the three organizations—e central exchange, district exchange, and local associations—have their sep- arate and distinct work to do. The local associations own or rent a pack: ing plant; their job is almost entirely to take care of the mechanical details necessary to get the fruit to market ,thing that induced speculation. properly. For instance, they employ squads of pickers who take the fruit from the trees; they hire trucks to haul it to the packing houses; they grade and pack the fruit and load it upon the cars. Not all of the fruit is picked and hauled cooperatively, but most of it is because a more uniform product is thus insured.” The district exchanges sell the pro- duct. The central exchange keeps the district in various cities, and provides the necessary machinery for selling. It maintains a staff of eighty—nine salar- ied agents in the principal market cit- ies whose business it is to sell the fruit when it arrives on the market. Every district exchange, however, has the final word whether it will accept the price offered, so the agent gets the best bid available and notifies the ex- change, which accepts or rejects. Can’t Fix Prices. "We do not fix prices on oranges and lemons, simply because it is impossi- ble to fix prices on a perishable pro- duct like ours,” said Powell, in reply to a question. “We do attempt to stabilize prices, however, by holding off of glutted markets, and by market- ing approximately one-fil‘ty—second of our product each week. Should the whole market he glutied, we would simply ask our members to suspend picking for a short time. Oranges and lemons do not have to be picked any one time, but may stay on the tree for a considerable time. I want to empha- size that we do not attempt in any way to fix prices, but we do succeed measurably in stabilizing the market by using the means at our command.” The chief purposes of the organiza- tion, according to Pewell, are to elim— inate speculation in citrus fruits at the expense of the growers, and to reduce the cost of distribution. Naturally, these two things act to the benefit of the g1'.owers “We have no quarrel with the speculators and middlemen,” said Powell. “We have no antagonis- tic speculators, but they have been eliminated simply because we have found a cheaper and more efficient way of doing business. We did not organize simply to put those fellows out of business,but to do better busi- ness ourselves than they were doing. If they have been forced out, it is their fault, not ours.” Eliminating Speculators. The first great step forward by the California Fruit Growers’ Exchange was when it worked out the system of delivered selling. It did away with the practice of selling oranges in Cal- ifornia, because that was the very This struck one group of speculators a body blow. Next it eliminated brokers in the big market cities and substituted r. “some: for Marketing their own Products, the Poor Fruit Growers of Sarita Anna Valley Soon Became Prosperous. " salaried agents. This eliminated an« other group of orange and lemon spec- . Nature. The exchange now and, for ,many years past has sold in carload lots to wholesale fruit dealers, who in turn distribute to the retail trade. Sev- eral officers of the exchange who I questioned stated that they did not an- ticipate going farther into the trade than they aheady have, unless it should prove necessary for them to do so. “Owing to the perishable nature of our produce, we cannot exercise arbi- trary control over it, even should we desire,” said Powell. “There is pre- served complete and free competition between individuals and between local associations. Our exchange simply finds the market and gets together all the available data on supply and de‘ mand; we furnish this to every separ- ' ate local association. Every man re- serves the right to pick his fruit when he wants to and to sell when he wants to, though we may advise what to do. As a matter of fact, our records show that approximately one-fifty-second of the crop is delivered each week, a fac- tor which is absolutely necessary in stabilizing markets.” Pooling the Crop. The pooling system is employed in dividing the proceeds from oranges sold. Each local association handles this to suit its members. The princi- ple of the pool is that all growers re- ceive the same price for their oranges, regardless of the time sold or the price received, provided they are of equal quality. In other words, all the re— ceipts go into a common treasury; when all the oranges are sold, the money is divided among the members in proportion to the amount of pro- duce. Some associations have a yearly pool;. that is, all the oranges of one crop are pooled together. Growers re- ceive a payment each monthas fast as money comes in for oranges sold. When all the oranges of the year-are sold, a final payment is made. Others have a new pool every month, and final division is made every thirty days of the money received for the or-' anges handled during that time. There are many kinds of pools in the orange and lemon associations; the method of handling these is rather complicated to an outsider. made clearer in discussing non-perish able products like raisins, and -will be left until next week’s article. Contracts with Growers. The California Fruit Growers’ Ex- change has a contract with each of its ten thousand five hundred members binding them to deliver their products to it. These contracts cover a twenty‘ year period, and may be revoked if no- tice is given during a certain seas/on. “It is highly necessary for a coopera- tive marketing organization to have its member bound to deliver their prod- ucts to it for sale.” said Powell. "Lack of this feature has killed many cooper- ative agencies in California. Our con- tract has been upheld in the courts. On the other hand, a cooperative soci—" ety must haVe a deeper loyalty than that—a religion of cooperation among its members, if you please—but the contract is an absolute necessity? Formerly the California Fruit Grow- ers’ Exchange was a capital stock cor- poration, as also were the district ex- changes and the local associations. "It is fundamentally wrong for a coopera- tive agency of any sort to have capital stock,” declares Powell. Several years ago the change began to the non-profit plan of organization without capital stock, and most of the associations and exchanges are now on that plan. A levy on sales is made to furnish the capital needed to operate. This keeps the working capital in proportion to This principle can be' the business one I. the individ “ ‘ certain amount is retired each ear a180~usually that which was paid in the fifth year before. This point will be discussed more fully in a special article on financing cooperative asw ciations—which will appear later in the series. Advertising “Sunkist" Fruit. As seen as the California Fruit Growers’ Exchange was strong enough to stabilize prices to a reasonably de- gree, the citrus industry began to be profitable. Then came a period of in- creased planting of trees and conse quent increased production. It is sim~ ply another illustration'of the fact that the easiest way. to secure large produc- tion of any product is to insure fair re- turns. After a time the shadow of over production hung over the growers. It was warded off for many years by effi- cient distribution of fruit. In 1907 the exchange embarked on a brand-new experiment by starting on an advertising campaign in Iowa, where the virtues of “Sunkist” or- anges and lemons were extolled. A forty per cent increase in consumption resulted. From that modest start "grew the preseht sis-fem vet advertising “Sunkist” orangarand lemons allover the United States. Nearly $500,000 an- nually is spent on advertising. “This has justified itself in many ways,” commented Powell, “it has kept con- sumption well ahead of production and has been the very backbone of our success. " Fundamentals of Cooperation. Powell is a man of business, whose kindly philosophy on cooperation is known. the world over. “The harsh method of big business cannot be ap plied to a farmers’ movement, ” he told us. “Cooperative marketing has a creed all its own. There are certain funda- mentals which must be observed in any produc‘ers’ cooperative organiza- 9 .5 Ffi‘stof all. it must be founded up- on economic necessity. It must begin in a small way and must not proceed faster than its member. Producers I must stick together and have a high degree of loyalty to the organization and to each other. "Next, a cooperative agency of pro- ducers must be owned, managed, con‘ trolled and financed exclusively by pre- ducers. There can be no combination of growers and distributors or of grow- ers and consumers. Their interests are fundamentally divergent. The cap- ital contribution should be kept as nearly in proportion to use made of the organization as possible. It should be literally an industrial democracy work- ing in business, therefore all members should.have an equal vote, regardless of the amount of stock held. ' Producers Only. “The membership in a cooperative organization must be producers ex- clusively. Producers are the only ones with an interest in the land. Others sooner or later try to dominate it, and capitalize its success. The one—man- one-vote, rule is of equal importance; it is based upon the equal voting pow- er of men. It gives confidence to small producers. “A cooperative organization must be held together by the benefits to its members, not by compulsion. We are all human, therefore, it is absolutely necessary to have a membership agree ment providing that‘the individual pro- ducers must market their products through the organization. . “It must also be founded upon a spe~ cial crop. Bean growers and cotton growers cannot cooperate. Each farm industry must be organized by itself. The group wi in the "organization must be actuate by a common inter« est, a common purpose and a common ideal.” OUR SERVICE DEPARTMENT DOWER RIGHTS. Can a woman bargain or sell her dower right to her husband in the state of Michigan? Can a woman hold as her dower right a third with the buildings on, or are they just entitled to a third interest in the whole place? Does a woman get a third in case of the death of her husband, or the use of a third?——C. B. Dower can be released only by the wife or her guardian (if she have one) joining in the deed of the husband con- veying away the property, or by a sub. sequent deed by the Wife to the pur- chaser or his grantee, or by a settle ment on the wife before marriage (if of full age) and with her consent in lieu of dower. If she attempts to make a release to the husband by agreement after marriage she may after his death ' elect whether to take the provision made for her by such agreement or to claim her dower according to law; wherefore such post-nuptial agreement is not effffectual. The dower right is a life estate in all the land owned in inheritance by the husband at any time during the marriage, and not released by the wife. Unless the parties agree as to as- signing the dower out of particular property, the court will set out the dower for the wife, in severalty if cap- able of equitable; division; but if not then dower will be assigned of the in- cOme of 'the property. J. R. R. HENS WITH CANKER. ‘ Can you tell me what ails our chick- ens? The old fowls act like young chickens that have the gapes. They soap for breath and have what look like cankers in the mouth and wind- pipe. They don’t look right, then get diarrhea and die. W. W. Canker is a disease that affects the mouth and throat and the inflamma- tion of the membranes causes the bird pain in swallowing. It usually devel- ops from exposure which has first brought on colds or roup. The tumors which form can be taken out with a sharp knife and the wounds painted with full strength Zenoleum. Wash- ing the wounds with peroxide of hydro- gen may also be beneficial. Isolate the sick birds in a brood coop where they can easily be caught for frequent doc- toring. It sometimes takes quite a while to bring a bird back to health when suffering from canker. Like all poultry diseases prevention is, of course, the most satisfactory. K. BLACK SPOTS ON POTATO LEAVES. My potato plants which have looked green up to date are now showing tar- ry black spots on the leaves. The tu~ here are sound but small. Is this blight and what shall I do? Livingston Co. V. V. W. The leaf trouble described is early blight, although there may be some tip burn or hopper burn also doing dam- age to your potatoes. Early blight is a fungous disease of the potato and the 'condition which you describe of the, tubers remaining small is one of the things associated with this type of leaf disease. The growth of the tuber de- pends on the health and activity of the leaf surface. Where the leaves are weakened the tuber production is weakened. This type of disease does not cause any rotting of the tubers. It is too late to control this disease now, and you doubtless will harvest a fair crop if the rainfall is sufficient to “make potatoes.” It is the extra growth that stimulated, green vines make that you have lost as a result of this dis- ease. Next year if you have good po- tato soil I would advise consistent spraying of the tops with BOrdeaux mixture, making about five applications and putting lots of spray on the leaves. ' G. H C. SPOTS ON APPLES. My Jonathan apples last yeai devel- oped a peculiar skin spot which com pletely spoiled their appearance and made marketing a problem. They were all right when put into the cellar, but by Thanksgiving you could hardly find a good one. The skin lost its fine flavor and took on a rank taste. What was the matter and what can I do to prevent it this year? A. V. The disease you describe for Jona- than occurs on some other varie. es.- such as Grimes, Arkansas Black, weal- thy, and Wolf River. It is so common on Jonathan that it is called Jonathan spot. Its cause is not known, but it is not believed to be due to a parasite. It would seem that the diseased con- dition is due to some type of surface scalding, due to improper conditions scalding is reduced to a minimum. Michigan conditions of apple packing favor Jonathan spot. The apples stand about in the orchard, alternately heat— ing and sweating for some days and then they are'stored under warm stor- age conditions. If the over-heating and the sweating in the orchard are avoid- ed and if the apples are placed in prop- er storage Jonathan spot will not be so serious. G. H. C. ANIMALS RUNNING AT LARGE. Regarding a reply which appeared in your Service Department in regard to stock running on highways, I do not exactly understand the answer, so am writing to ask if it means that persons have a right to run their cattle and horses in the highways during the summer months?——P. By Comp. Laws (1915), See. 7447 cited in the reply referred to, anyone may take up stray cattle running at large between November 30 and March 1; but it does not follow that cattle may ‘run at large the rest of the year. 'Unless there is a vote of the town- meeting for the year that cattle may run at large, it is the duty of the over- seer of the highways of- the town to take up any cattle. found running at large any time of the year, and anyone may take up any cattle found in ' the road running stray in front of his as the fruit is ripening. This disease‘ premises at. any time of year by C. L. formerly of great damage to western shippers, has been reduced markedly by proper handling of the fruit after picking. The fruit should be placed in cold storage promptly. after picking and held under cool storage~near thir-‘ ty-two degrees F., with proper ventilav tion provided. Under such conditions (1915). See. 7287. And even if the town should vote that cattle might run at large. anyone might take up .and an, pound any cattle found on his m 1323,: whether fenced 301‘ am. at; m I time pf year, and the reader than how long it takes cattle m- large to go off - t " ‘By' I T. . " FTER a game it is always inter- ! eating to" talk over the plays. A , v ‘comparison of our foresight with- » 3 out hindsight may or may not be com- forting. Practically all the cherries K are now out of the hands of the pro- ducer, but of course only a limited per-«.— centage are in the possession of the consumer. Hence the game is still-go mg on for a large army of us. _ . Last year the cherry man made some money. He had a good crop in gen- eral and the price was good, too. The shock of this actual cash in his pocket was but to stir' up dreams for another year. Therefore, early this spring and summer it. was thought by many that the price might be even better than last year, inasmuch as production costs had advanced even higher. Most growers were wise enough to know, however, that nothing could be defi- nitely figured out‘ until some,estimate of the countfi’s crop ofxcherries was available. , As time rolled on‘it became quite evident that the crop would be large although in "some sections it was not up to last season. Canning companies were reluctant to make contracts and growers generally stood pat. Now it .it clearly understood that the cherry has but a short picking season. After being removed from the tree it can be held but a short time in the fresh state 'unless actually frozen or at least held at a low temperature. In Michigan there is about ten days difference in ripening between the southern and northern ends of. the ‘cherry districts. In other words, the ”Early Richmond in'Berrien county rip- ens about July 1 and at Traverse and Bellaire about July 10. Then comes the major producer, Montmorency, running usually a week to ten ~days after Early Richmond, and finally the English Morello trailing the rest by a week to ten days. This means that taking Michigan as a whole the pro- ducer relinquishes his hold on the crop in about twenty-five to thirty days and the average individual grower is har- vesting about one-half that time. You can quickly figure out how easy it is for the local markets and the usual heavy receiving centers to become gluttedeand consequent low prices pre- vail. » ' Without going to unusual extremes I know that some growers have re- ceived this year per bushel packed in crates so low as $3.00, and that others have received $8.00. Why all this dif- ference? Certainly it hasn’t been all cupidity on the part of buyers nor sim- ple mushiness in the sellers. It may be natural enough for each to blame the other, but to get anywhere the growers have got to study the question from end to end, beginning ‘right after one harvest to plan the next and act in unison on a program. This spells organization _for business and not f6r Pickfi'm’ i mutual admiration, nor combined bait— ‘ ing of dealers. To 'go back and analyze this differ- ence in sales price. We agree that the most vital cause has probably been faulty distribution. Whose fault is it? Here is a whole mountain of problems to dig over. Four dozen doting. rela- tives in their blind devotion may send one baby four dozen teething spoons; four hundred cherry growers in their blind eagerness to dispose of a crop may send a dozen cars of fruit to a one-car market. Cause number two is perhaps due to the fact that some contracts were made before the harvest was on. These sales were mostly neither the highest nor lowest. It was a game of guessing on the part of each player and conserv- atism was the dominant feature. Now the next consideration is one of grade and pack. I want to go over this at some length although it perhaps has not had the influence the past two years that'it should. In other words, having no definite standard grade causes a lack of confidence which tends toward a low “no-risk” price rather than a wide range. It is true nevertheless, that some of our high markets were struck by pro- ' ducers who had, established a reputa- tion for quality. Value received is what rules in the final accounting. Buyers- and sellers must remember that wheth~ er it is by contract or in the open mar- ket, quality grade is the most fixed item to govern sales. The Michigan Potato Exchange which has handled a large part of the crop for the local as- sociations has guaranteed a number one grade and .mades sales F. O. B. This is not usual for cherries except where the buyer actually sees each lot before shipped. 4 When the tree has lost its leaves either by the leaf fungus, insects or otherwise, its fruit is not first-class in any sense and when sold mixed with other lots we can depend that the price paid is for a medium or low grade. Even where—an association operates its own cannery it will be found just as imperative that the stiffest kind of grading be practiced, for if the success of such an institution is based on any- thing it is on the individual receiving in proportion, to that which he deliv- ers. A premium must be paid for quality. Slackness of pack was noted in some instances. If the boxes lack noticeably in being full it makes a depressing ef- fect on price. The best growers oval. the boxes to the fullest degree possi- sible as an insurance of a level pack- age at its destination. Confusing fea- tures that enter in and make difficult a clear basis for marketing the cherry are these facts: Many growers are ir- responsible relative to the ripeness of the fruit which they put on the mar- ket. The flavor and quality of a cherry Here’s, the Real Test—Let Fruit Growers Tell You What They KHOW About the U tilitor“ Write for Your Copy of This Booklet Today prises one of the most interesting recommenda- OUR new “YES” book of owner testimonials com- tions for power farming equipment of this type ever prepared. The owner letters in this booklet have all been unsolicited on our part. Every claim we have made for the Utilitor has been justified by those who use this machine. Its dependability, usefulness, mechanical fitness and the service back of the the Utilitor have measured up to the expectations of hundreds of fruit growers, truck .7 farmers, berry ranchers and many others who gain their living from the soil. If there is, or has been, any doubt in your mind about the usefulness and economy of the Midwest Utilitor, write today for a copy of this “Yes” booklet and read for yourself what Utilitor owners know about this machine-through actual performance. Our “Yes” booklet comes to you free without any obli- gations whatsoever. Keep abreast of the times. Write today! “Lots of Power-Full of Pep—Never Gets Tired” ~Denton, Mich., June 15. 1920. Dear Sir: In reply to yours of 16th will say that I think the UTILITOR is a very good tool to have on a small farm. I have used it quite a lot this spring and find that I can do almost any- thing with it that can be done with a horse. It has lotsof power and is full of pep all of the time, and never gets tired. I have used it to cultivate ber- ries of all kinds, also corn and pota- toes, and find Ican do a very good job on all ofthem. Have not had any bother with it and is always ready to go; just keep gas in the tank, water in the radiator and oil in the crank case and it will tire any man out if he keeps it going all day. Yours very truly, "Very Practical on My Small Fem and Orchard” Detroit, Mich, July 1, 1920. Dear Sir: With reference to your letter of recent date I wish to say in reply that it gives me great—pleasure to recommend the UTILITOR to you. I have found this machine very sat- isfactory and practical for use on my small farm and orchard and have been very much pleased with the re- sults which it has given me. I repeat that it pleases me to rec- ommend the UTILITOR to anyone inquiring about the merits of this machine. Yours very truly, R. H. Schumacker. (Signed) Chas. R. Clark. DEALERS—A profitable business can be isfies the owners. dealers in your territory who appreciate complete factory cooperation. Write today for all the profitable facts about a Utilitor franchise. built on a product that eat— We want the right kind of MIDWEST ENGINE COMPANY SALES DIVISION I INDIANAPOLIS, U. S. A. Look for this” ame YOU will find Joy Eclipse on just the stove you want—the one that combines econ- omy of time and fuel with attractive appear- ance and a perfect baking oven. The Oven heat is even and easily controlled. Bakes and roasts to permciion. Hot-all-over- top saves fuel and effort in pr meals. The flame, which heats the first two lids. passes under all' six as well, making entire top a cooking space. without increased fuel consumption. You can cook and iron at the same time, without heating the oven only in the range which bears the name Joy Eclipse. See your dealer. He will gladly show you the , . many desirable features. Write for catalog No.193 and Eclipse Cook Book. The Eclipse Stove Mansfield Ohio I, You 7/ “The Mark of 13,111; ‘ a Perfect Th Baker” . ese . , /' Features HobAli-Ovem-Top Cook entire meal at the same time. uickly and eas- il -no shi us or huddling ,x pots and pans over: lids. Adlustabie Oven Demet- Not just‘ ‘open" or “shut.” but regulates heat to just the degree you want. Accurate Oven manometer No more testing. Steady heat. gauged by thermometer. to fit the recipe. White Enamel Wiped ofwlth a damp cloth. Clean and sanitary. Cool Kitchen Hot-eli-over-top without over-heal the oven or the room. Saves almost half the sl. / r or the kitchen. This hot-all-over—top feature is found ' Company I i___ f l E I g I : 4 Treat Your Herd the Roberts Way ass to Sure Results 1 Andy-— Successful for 30 Years you can Stamp Abortion Out oryoun “PM“ Keep It Out ASK FOR "The Cattle Specialist" Sent free on request. Anwers every questio on per-minim Abortion“ :- com. Tells 8!!!ng your own herd at DR. DMD RWOBERTS VETERINARY co. Inc. «email-"mm ._ MINERAL'sr. ~ HEAVEé‘... Q49 COMPOUND w ”30$“ Muunrycam rdruimmh F03 HOESEI um; 0008. “ml. GI... m 29:.j'\ q ‘Il arenas... ems... m 1'ely no other machine mannowpull NEWTON 'S _. - Cures Reeves correcting In ‘ cause—Indige- ‘1 ”imduWuTzf‘: soda-801mg“ (15mm “OH MY comm. 1M“ OI, J . StopLosmgCalVeS ‘g‘ Stulilip giller \ 30 Days Instantly MsnyKirstinowner-s nlles'ty’i‘h‘tlionmt s‘t’um‘g lull'to‘o 1mm sews-scams Monm- K__‘E.°u=8tump Puller “pouch chomp When stump starts, throw machine tointo a?“ W ... . m we.“ .... v ikt.e special pet- leandF restryBu ue Wh he MW ch!“ o no ya ya thesom Micklyeully. , ands Six Months to Pay! V e .197 . use-m humus: with stems of varying length. Home differences in weight and keeping quai- ities. You may buy in sixteen or twen- tMonr- quart cases, by half bushels, and by the pound. There is room for . a little standardizing here. Unquestionably the bulk of the crop is canned soon after picking. A large percentage in normal years by the housewife. Another method is by freeze ing up solid the fresh fruit and holding in this manner in cold storage houses. it is then delivered to hotels, restau- rants and pie factories as, required. The amount dried is not large but this type of preservation seems promising. Juice concerns take a great many and undoubtedly this demand will increase. Just which of these outlets should be most worked by an organization is questionable. but none of them could be neglected. There is now a National Cherry Growers’ Association, organized last spring, with Michigan, Wisconsin and New York representatives. Supp/2k: s/zaula’ be on a Preferen- 1221leth THE farmer has suffered through lack of transportation facilities. Feed products are worth nothing to producer nor consumer unless they can be delivered to the market. In our highly complex social system it is difficult to draw a clear delinea- tion between essential "and non-essen- tial industries, but one thing is very certain, and that is that agriculture is the hub about which all else revolves. The farmer is dependent on many phases of the manufacturing industry to supply his needs, but absolutely ev- eryone is dependent upon the farmer. ' Since 1915 the volume of freight band- led in this country has increased forty- five per cent. During 'the same period the increase in number of freight Cars amounts to only two per cent. At the time that the government as- sumed control of the railroads the freight car equipment aggregated ap- proximately 2,400,000 cars. The maxi- mum life of a freight car is twenty years, therefore, in order to maintain this number of cars in proper condi- tion, to say nothing of providing for additional needs, it is necessary to build at least 120,000 cars per year. During the twenty-six months in which the railroads were operated un- der government control, only 100,000 freight cars were built which is some- what less than one-half the number necessary to maintain the customary totay of,ussble cars. ‘ As a result of this, the railroads now T find themselves requiring 260,000 new freight cars for immediate use. ‘ An increase in rates has been re- cently granted, but it will be months and even years before our transports- tion systems 5a; be restored to their normal emoiency. At best. the rehab- Militation' of the' railroads will be a slow process and will not solve the problem- A. J. Rog- ers, of Beulah, Michigan, is'an oiiicer. nits. _ em . stems. beliedvitiiaststeihs, am out Mum in making deals, on he of much service. They could work through some already existing eeonlnto ic organizations like the farm bureau or its enlisted branches. To reiterate start the {ball rolling now for but sea- son and get set on approgram'. It’s the business of the producer to better conditions not now to his liking. A mutual cooperative understanding of the growers representing over one- half of the sour cherries produced in the United States will be able to mar- ket the crop at as high a figure as the law of supply and demand will wan rant. The price received will be main- tained uniformly for the grades estab- lished and guaranteedby such an as- sociation. And best of all, the grower can stop worrying about the most of his marketing problems. He will know that the business is being done by ex- perts at as low a cost as it can be per- formed. He knows what this cost is and has a representative control. it will then become his big problem to produce quality stuff at the lowest pos- sible per unit cost. TransportatiOn a Problem American Farm Bureau Federatybn Believer Farm Product: and of moving this year’s crops of food- stuffs that have been stored in local warehouses since last season. Until such a time as the railroads are in a position to adequately handle the situation, the only solution seems to lie in the direction of granting a preferential treatment to all farm pro- duce held by the farmer for shipment, granting the same consideration to all goods consigned to the farmer that are required by him in the successful conduct of his business. Through such a procedure, food- stuffs now lying in remote rural ware- houses will become available for con- sumption and it will be possible for the farmer to get delivery on feed, seed, fertilizers, implements and farm machinery and other necessities. Such a plan would serve to stimu- late agriculture and would help to re- store normal conditions. ELIMINATE EARLY MOULTERS."’ THE beginner with poultry soon finds that there is a time in the fall when the eggreturns become very low and often it is just the time when feed bills are high and he wishes to buy all food not raised on the farm and stack it up for winter. This period of slack production usually occurs somewhere between August first and December first, and the length or time ltlsstsdepeedsontheskiiloithe poultryinsn. Why do the egg retards fall at this time? Because there are momsnyearlymoultinghensinthe flock which have caused Musing eggs. And the pallets srd not the early hatched birds tm It! in the early fall and keep it up througllmlt ' the winter. a1 .. i .. ) I. By Harley the‘ total , profits 'trom many terms. .n’l‘hese profits depend in Large ‘5. infantile upon the, care or the. hogs, and “good care of the hogs calls for an up-- " to—‘date and sanitary hog house. . " Money put into a good hog house is 7well invested under any circumstances, but when market ho'gs are up around . fifteen cents, good shelter is all the more important. The floor plans here shown illustrate a popular arrange- ‘ ment which is proving very satisfae tory on a \great many farms through- out the corn belt. ‘ ,r’ ’ The outside dimension/s or this house are ,-twenty-tour feet by thirty-seven teet, six inches. It contains twelve ~ —_ \ Jr— .._ W “.— till] separate pens each six feet by eight in the clear, with an alley four Ieet, ten inches wide; running the full length of the building between the two rows of pens. Practically all hog raisers have agreed that a pen six by eight feet is large enough for a sow and her litter, indeed a five by eight-foot is used by some with good results. There is an outside door at each end of the alley. Then a door opens out- ward into the alley from each pen, so that the hogs may be separated and moved from one pen to another with convenience inside the building. Each pen is also supplied with an ‘ outside door so that separate runs or yards may be built on the outside for 7? 3.: HE profits from the hog crop lustrates these different materials with from a very important item ot,.proper detail. M. Ward The hollow building tile is being used by a great many with very 'good re sults. On account of the dead air spac- es in the tile, such a house will not freeze it there is stock in it, no matter how ‘cold the air is outside. The hogs are more comfortbale in cold weather and do not require so much feed to keep them in good condition. - Wood is the most commonly used be- cause ~oi the ease with which it is worked into a finished building. But if a wood building is constructed as warm- ly as one built othollow tile or con- crete blocks the cost would possibly be the same or higher. The root in all cases will be of wood .__— ° and two-by-four number one yellow pine rafters, twenty-four inches on cen- ter, sheathed with one-by—four roof boards, number tWo lumber spaced two inches apart if wood shingles are used. If prepared roofing is used one-by-six dressed and matched boards should be used. A heavy three-ply prepared roof— ing covered with crushed slate will give a good roof for twenty to twenty- five years without any attention. This makes a very warm roof for winter use. The metal roof windows let the sun- shine strike every part of the building during the day. There is no better dis- infectant for a hog house, no more efficient destroyer of disease germs known, than plenty of bright sunlight. k 3‘1-‘5‘ ~ g .r a j .\\\\\\W -- m: \ .. s élNDJVIDUAL PENS : i . ~ 3 § Home in: neck - s \‘ ‘ h g FEEWNG ALLEY N ‘ s K g 51‘s.: PANEL ES §l 3‘ E- [:5 § cmmt races 5 « § § summon L PiN : \ § \ § RtMaVAbLt PA Hmong \ V s\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ - \ FLOQR. PLAN ””7”"? each. In decent weather this door Plenty of sunshine is better and cheap- could be left open so that the pigs could have the use of the outside run and inside shelter at will. These small doors should be twenty- tour inches wide and thirty-six to forty- two‘inches in the clear. In cold Weath- er a piece of burlap or ducking hung at. the top of the door, with "a stick a little shorter than the width of the door . nailed across the bottom to prevent the ‘ _ wind from blowing it back, will help ‘ materially to keep the pigs warm. The pigs will soon learn to lift the curtain when. they want to go through. The board doors would not then need. to be . closed except in very/bad weather, or while the pigs arelvery small. ~~4~The walls of the building may be at firesmaterials: wood. hollow building. or concrete. _,The cost of theater-dif- good Warm- building trees 3.99an 11- er than buying medicine for the hogs. ' Fresh air is also an essential feature of any well-constructed hog house. Ev- ery farmer knows how soon the air in the ordinary pig shed becomes foul when filled with hogs. Hence to insure healthy hogs some' provision for ven- tilation must be made. This is providr ed for in the plan shown by two ven- tilators. These ventilators are espe- cially valuable during the cold weather in the winter when the doors and win- dows are closed for protection from the cold. ‘ ~ Such a house is especially adapted for broad ' sows during the tarrdwing season. Each sow and litter can be provided with a separate pen and out- side run, until the pigs are old enough to, be. Weather in. slates-lint. The-.1114 . divfinal 21’an are also useful .i'or. wean- \\\" ' / \\\\\\\\\\\\\ \ r "III/III} \\\\T\ Mn. all; ‘ 31/1/11,” I: labor. pipe and fittings, which any local dealer will supply. See prices below ibr various sizes ofooutfito. lDEAthrcola Radiator Boiler Farm. Home . Heating (no cellar needed) When the cost of your heating is figured on a yearly basis, the IDEAL-Arcola heating will be found to be the cheapest heat in the world, for it lasts forever—heats every room—uses no more coal than a stove, never needs repairs, is clean and easy to run. It gives you the same delightful warmth that city residences have. Outfit ldence. Worcester, Spring minghnm, Detroit, Chicago, c Any dealer will furnish in sizes to suit rooms and climatic conditions. N3. l-B Sige IDEdQL-Arfiol. with 100 sq. fit. of Mullins $142 32:. - at . .. .. is .. . ii: Cool 3 4-3 1; " ‘: " 250 " “ 251 I. I u 300 u a 290 no. l-A 3:5. mnemon- with 135 sq. ft. of Radiation use Pu 2_A I. I. u 200 I. u m Hm! :: M :. z: 3 2: 265 :1 z 251 M u_ g:2 u u u u :00 u u :49: Prices include Expansion Tank and Drain Valve. Prices do not Include labor. pipe and fittings used in installation and which are supplied by the local dealer at extra charge. Radiation is of regular 38-111. height 3-column AMER suit your rooms. Outfits mgred complete I. o. b. our-nearest warehouse. at Boston, Prov- . . d (Mm. , Albany, New York, Philadel his. Harrisburg. Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Wneh' gton, R chmond, Bufl'alo, Cincinnati. ilwaukee, Minneapolis. St. Paul, Des Moinee, or St. CAN Peerless, in sizes as needed to ndianapolie Bir- ionic. £11815 hard or soft coal. Sh tpped complete for immediate installation The beauty of the IDEAL-Arcola method is that no cellar is needed. Everything is on one floor. The Arcola is placed in any room that has a chimney connection. go running to cellar. Same water is used over and over again for years. No Buy now at present attractive prices for outfits complete! IDEAL-Areas outfits consist of the boiler and radiators to heat various size houses. Write us your regmrementsl Unlike stoves, there are no coal-gas leaks in the living-rooms. The IDEAL- Arcoln elivers the soft, radiant warmth of hot water—not the dry burnt-out atmosphere of ¥gvmang$here is no fire risk to building' ' -no danger to children—fire lasts for hours] e Catalog showing open views of houses, with the IDEAL- Arcoln Boiler in position will be mailed (free). Write today “iffigtmmw Rm CQMELNY ”mat.“ Write to Did you -ev \c a beating . - , Storm in o - . Refle \ Slicker ? _ Oh Boy! that's ' protection, foryou. Mommas AJJ'OWER CO. , memo i356 , 8357014. MA55. 'zou ins: purposes. The pigs can b shut in / Mm mum; poi-mm AW " ' 'L a: soaeseosoeeeseoeo “WV """inzflt: m gauge as , . snin"\“"- \ ‘2 .J Igm L ’gmsh and gfigiueli’tflh? :31 that ms in B ow; fluolc host! or oar-ear for “ulcer; . gumbo-k. Heed figure. and all enroll ”an"... ”enact: Dru-Mu and Me. radiate from u it; . ' 35:3“ :1; 1: see W Simple but WT ‘ UPI—mu cum to duo—2 so as n P ”if... a nun. . . more. It pays roll to invgtinte. Cohlog‘l’filE. 'llne ENJ'. Bonnier 00., South Bend, Ind. We” "' 1' ' "719% so“? with”). {- «mm»: ”inqwea In Kitchen Hours Why not make the kitchen more attractive? Install a ’iS‘tandarcl" One-Piece White Enameled Sink—have hot or cold running water ready in- stantly when wanted—save yourself that disagreeable trip of running out to the well—— save time in preparing meals and washing dishes. You can install ‘és’tandard" Sinks in any home. Ask a Contracting Plumber or write us for color-plinted catalogue of ’LStandard" Plumbing F ix- tures for the Farm. Standard Sanitary ‘mfiqfio. Pittsburgh tattdard” ”kITCH Eh“ SINKS (Amy Not. Get Full ._ - mam V .._ \— Profits .7. Analysis shows that more than one third of the nutriment of a corn crop is in the fodder. Only a small part of tr e nutriment in the fodder is ever actually used when handled the old way. it blows away. leaches away in the weather. is trampe’d under foot, and washed away. ,Fully one third of every corn crop so handled is therefore wasted. USe Your Fodder Put it into a silo or shred it into your loft, and safe against weather and deterioration. ounce of good there is in it. The one Big saving you’ve overlooked Use an Appleton Husker and Shredder or an Appleton Combination Husker and Silo Filler, for a year or two, and you will wonder how you came to‘ pass up this big money saving all these years. Thousands ofthcm in use, and every one showing a big annual profit. Put an end to fodder waste today by sanding for our F REE BOOK Ask for special information on Itover'eilago, also free. Write nearest branch ' addressing Dept. 23. r. . Appleton Manufacturing Co., Batavia, 111. V n r“ ,. if“? you have it where it will-be Your stock will get out every Branches at Omaha, Neb- _ ’Mlnneapolis, Mm. Coluntbufi‘ Ohio. mm. ' . n fleshy I Sioux Falls; S..,rxberdoon, 3.1!. ’ mision the fifteen stock yards, inelud‘ » per cent of all live stock received at now exists, but it contains elements, to strengthen the packing “house" monop- oly "qu such time u the defendants are directed or their steel: in the hold- ‘ the weaning v‘peri'ml. floors for the Shotes. Farmer Representative: something must be done to regulate the packing industry for the benefit of producers and consumers, but there is a difference of opinion as to methods of solving the problem. The Farmers’ National Council has presented a plan which would place the packers directly under the super- vision and orders of a federal food commission, but representatives of the other farm organizations are not in. clined to give their endorsement to this proposition. Dr. T. C. Atkeson, Washington representative of the Na— tional Grange, favors rigid government inspection of meats and packing plants to protect the public. He believes that the federal government should guar -antee to everybody who wishes to en- gage in the business of meat packing equal opportunities and privileges; that the railroads own the refrigerator cars and stock yards, and be compell~ ed to furnish these facilities on equal terms to large and small plants, re- moving all discriminating factors be- tween the producers, packers and con- sumers. All the farm organization representa- tives have voiced their opposition to the packers’ proposition to transfer the stock yards to a“dummy” holding company, and will send a protest to Attornetheneral Palmer against a transfer of the stock yards in any such manner. This is in line with the de- mand for rejection of the “big five” packers’ scheme, made by the federal trade commission in a report to the attorney-general. The packers’ plan, which provides for the sale of the stock yards in fifteen cities to F. H. Prince & Company, of Boston, was op- posed ' by the commission on the grounds that it would enable the pack- ers to increase rather than diminish their control of the stock yards. The object of the. government litigation would not be accomplished by the packers" plan. According to the com- ed in the scheme, handle seventy-three all the yards in the country. THOUGH the decree provides for a total divestment of stock interest by the defendants,” says the commis- sion, "this plan leaves the way\opcn for them and the non-defendant packer interests temporarily and for the non. defendant packer interests permanent- ly to acquire absolute control of a holding company that will own fifteen of. the principal stock. yards of the, country, whereas‘ now they have ma—' jority control of but eleven of them- teen.” “The amalgamation of the yards through the promotion of. Mr. Prince not» only will be a greater monopolize.- tion of the stock yards business, than Fin; company by order either. court: The acts 'of'tlre”e61ftrcctihg‘ 'pfrtiss eul- . bodied in the plan provide, for the re- Kdammit or warm less than any , , wv'amammwhieh W to the The partitiOnS ‘can be made renew able and when the sows are through‘ large or too small for the purpose of, farrowing they can be removed and it any individual reader, he could foil _ can be used. for two large sleeping Federal contrOI of Packers 072 a, Comm-071 Plan Qf Control EPRESENTATIVES Of’ the farm organizations maintaining Wash- ington headquarters? are holding conferences for the'lpurpose of formu‘ lating a definite agreement and line of er legislation. Theylall are agreed that. way. out, a few days ago, when a committee of live stock producers, including some maturing this fall, and it was the be» lief of the cattle men that a which ance from the board that» it approved credit extension by the Hits ‘ somewhat relieve the new. contra“ the brunt Harlicgyin icy ' exam this“ house ,avgrag'e tanner. It. the "home is, toil the same plan of construction and fit ‘ 3 the 8129 to his individual needs. - . ' are Efldmwm'ng to Unite per cent in the holding company, but " in no way indicate that this interest is to be other than permanent. At pres~ ent the‘”packer defendants show an- ownership in these yards that amounts to thirty-eight per cent of. the total voting stock outstanding. The plan . permits the defendants to hold up to a I. forty-nine per cent of the holding com- ‘ pany’s stock. Furthermore, some of the family estates, trust funds or mem- bers of the five packer families who are not defendants in this case, are nevertheless large holders in these stock yards. The plan makes no pro.- vision for the divestment of the non- defendant packer interests, nor to pre- J vent further acquisition up to the com- plete control or total ownership. ' The non-defendant; packer interests own seventeen per cent of the voting stock ‘ of the fifteen yards in addition to the thirty-eight per cent owned by the de- fendant packers." . . ‘ Packer legislation will be up for i‘: hearings before the committees early in the coming session of congress, and it is evident that it will require the / united efforts and wisdom of the live stock interests, combined with the ? great national farm organizations, to meet the attacks of the well Organiz‘ ed, experienced packer lobbyists and attorneys, and secure action which will meet the present needs of the' . l stock raisers. Probably the most ur- { gent need at this time is a united , agreement of all friends of packer con- . l trol legislation upon a definite program _. i to be followed during the committee 1/ . . hearings. _ ' “ 5‘ Speaking of the Kenyon-Anderson l ’1 bill which provides for the creation of .‘ a commission to regulate the opera.- tions of meat packers through a sys- tem of licensing, Gray Silver, Wash- ington representative of the AmeriCan . Farm Bureau Federation, says: “Un- der this. arrangement the handling of stock yards, refrigerator cars, market reports, and all other features of the packing business would be under con— stant supervision and inspection by employes of the commision and all unu fair practices readily discovered. The rulings of the commission could be en- forced under penalty of loss of license to operate.” ~ . I 7‘ The live stock situation is in a. bad V This information was brought action to be followed in regard to pack- \ 1, of the leading cattle men of the west, appeared before the federal reserve board and asked for relief from what 1 was described as the impending de- l structidn of the live stock industry ‘ , through curtailment of- loans. They ,3] petitioned the board to enable and en— " courage the banks of the federal rc- serve system to aid them financially in feeding and marketing their prod- ucts. The committee predicted serious consequences to the country and ruin of the live stock industry throughout the west unless bankers and cattle loan companies discontinue ."calling‘" loans. Millions of dollars in mm are you . amm- a we wars! tass- _ ‘ Lose 10 Bushels of Corn bid Y“ >,_ . Out ofEVerleOYou -' . , if- _ Cribbed Last Year? k ham '1“: (IVE—’45.“. 4 .1. a4; ERE you one of those who lost a big share of their corn last ‘ year 3’“ The U. S. Department of Agriculture says that 20% of the , nnual corn crop is lost between the time it is harvested and consumed. ’ i ‘he farmer bears the biggest share of this loss. Every farmer knows that it is practically impossible to store corn in wood . . cribs and old rail pens without a heavy loss—the older the crib the greater the .-;; p . '. loss; The farmer who uses the old wood crib lost fully 10% of his crop. Rats i, and mice wasted some of it; rain, snow and dampness spoiled some of it, and ' fire destroyed the whole cm in many cases.- Think of it, at least ten bushels 7 J , ' 5. ," . .lifi' . . 1‘ out of every hundred were ost, With corn. and grain prices as high as they are, and prospects of gang still higher, this old,rout-of-date, wasteful method _ ‘ _ of storing your crops is pretty expenSive. ., .n. - ' Peter J. Lax, the Seed Corn “King” HOW These Farmers Sta (1 A“ "‘8 "am" 0"” _ ppe “I think your Martin "Corn-Sever” Crib is the best crib built. It I build :- “ my more cribs. they surely will be our crib. I think that it com growers throughout the United States used artin Cribs for storing their corn. they en 11k . 'Ihat Loss and Saved mmovermmoooowmho mm: l‘. ‘ :3” . . strayed by rats. mice. fire and mouif’r’ahll’E’l‘ER J. Lox."§ii§i§§$§lii§f'i33f ‘_ . I. I undreds of Dollars .nirsaazgwmrtmaraaasteam-am . '14 ”we-“'5“ , es» . Mg... ~ .7 room“ , he...» a : y - _ . . \w . . Thousands of farmers have fOund that they can stop this big loss and make = more money by storing their crops in Martin Steel “Corn-Saver ’ Cribs and Bins. , These modern steel cribs prov1de clean, well ventilated storage for corn and , grain and protect every bushel from loss. Safe from rats and mice—safe from mould —— safe from fire and thieves-.- safe from loss of any kind.» Read what these farmers have to say about them: . z . - "Since 1&8! I have built three "I boufiht m Martin Cribbe- "T h e Martin Crib saves "Last fall I bought one, of “a, ' wooden cribs that were sup. . muse I t_oug t it would pay money for its owner. It is ourMartin“Corn-siiver"Ci-ibs. \,- posed to be rot and mouse meabig intereston my inveot- positively rat mouse and yneice and I set it up in a t; proof and each proved a delu- ment. on the extra cornit would weather-Egon I don’t have very short time. It has saved ) aion. At last seeing a Martin save. I figured it made 025.00 to carry insurance on it. me many a dollarb protecting ’ Crledecided tohave one. My extra for me on every 100 My cousin gets big prices for every bushel from 088 and 1m- _ eornthet our was not well ma- bushels of corn. I think it is every ear or corn put in his roving the comb proper cur- mabnt all"!!! m-dltintood the best corn cri on the mar- Msrtin Crib, as the ermino- ng. I would not be lit for tWice wiggfklsgafi '15:?! ”2%.“; hot, because it saves all the tion has always tes around its cost if I could not get an- . has 1...“ m” “n.1, Tam m", corn and cures it better than 94 to 96 percent." * other. My only re at _is that , try to form without - Ila-eh any othc crib." W. 1. La Rue, I did not bu a artin_Crib ' own." John Ii‘~ Linkmeyor. Prop. Crystal Sfirin Stock years betare.’ R. H. Fritz. L. A. COPP. mchwood. Ohio Be I di sun, on arson. Ky. . -‘——\ Mt. Holly. 0. FL: This Bi - FREE Book ~. i A That Tells Howau K _ ‘CanDoThe Same ”ll JEWEL _.,, on A in... per cent of your com If you want to save this 10 . and grain craps that are now being wasted and destroyed, thenwrite for our big new corn crib book. We will send it to you free and postpaid. It tells how Martin Cribs are built of corru ated galvanized steel and are rat-proof, fire-proof, bird-proof and. thief- ..... . '} proof./ Ft explains how their patented ventilating system keeps out all rain and Live Stock Gum Faster and , Thrive Better snow, yet cures the contents rfectly—rhow their patented construction makes Where Mam“ Cribs Are Used . it possible for, you to use the artin Crib successfully for storing both corn and “Jim: tlhggg‘fiuittgofgenlifineybggrtgsrll? equipnéextxg. {my ligament , ; small grains such as wheat, oats, rye, etc., thus getting two extra profits from Sugar" “‘1" witnesses. torsygu? ge‘l‘iix'iiinyo‘r’aey‘i“ "f "" ‘ ; your Martin Crib each year. It shows why Martin Cribs are cheaper than wood . hm ‘82:“ pad-‘35 ’53 '35::‘3031355 $833; , ‘Eana‘i‘e‘isflml. 335369; E ' 4 ‘ cribs, are easier to erect, and last a lifetime without repairs. Better write for its'étiiéé‘siiiié‘e‘i3'2'h?o$3§rfimtffle‘i'imtlfl 8:19:53 mm?" ‘5 58"" [1‘ . l yoPr copy oli this:l big, corn crib bookt todatiy.t lierrtiember, it IS A- 0- HOYT- Foetom- om. ' ree. t ta es 0 y a postage stamp o ge l . us ’ ' f ‘ , fill out the coupon and mail it at once. The 0%,“:‘331, fifigmmgfigggffifig" nw‘ , am using two of our Martin Cribs. One of them I had full of wheat: l I nud'sold it out. and till it with corn, The other is full of oats now. For storing corn and grain, I do not know of any crib thatjs better than the Martin. Theanre flrwpmt.nt-proot and all the groin you at in you surely get on ' R. R. POTTER. 0rd. ebraslra. Martin Steel Products Co. 2510 Adams Street Mansfield, Ohio ‘ . ..... ‘ Copy of This BigfflEE Book ...... THE attractive kitchen dresser illustrated here suggests the beauty and utility of all Curtis Woodwork. Curtis woodwork throughout will add much comfort and character to the home you build. Are you acquainted with the Curtis ser- vice to those who are interested 1n Better Built Homes? If not, here 13 the oppor- tunity to find out all about this remarkable service, which is as available to you as your lumber dealer is accessible. Curtis entrances, porches, windows, Stairways, bookcases, Sideboards, kitchen dressers, buffets, chests of drawers, clothes closets, and other permanent built—in furni- ture will give your home that charm you most desire. All Curtis Woodwork is created to be beautiful as Well as conve- nient and economical, and has been de- signed by Trowbridge 8c Ackerman, New York architects. C URTI WDDDWDRK “’ "The Permanent Furniture for Your Home” ’ Isn’t this the KITCHEN you have wanted? The Curtis Companies also retained e 8: Ackerman to design over two mehundred artistic practical houses. Pictures, Inns, and descn escriptions of them are offered you as the initial ate in the selection of your new home. sk your Curtis dealer to haveass send you FREE a portfolio of “Better Built Homes." If there 15 110 Curtis dealer' 1n your town, send 25c in stamps (50c in Canada) and the portfolio you desire will be sent you direct. Ask for “Better Built Homes ” Volume VI, if you are interested 111 houses of three, four, and live rooms; Volume VII, for houses of six, seven, and eight rooms; Volume VIII, for houses especially designed for farm use. Get acquainted now with Curtis Woodwork and Curtis Service, so that when ready to build, you will not be overlooking the many possibilities that this Woodwork and service offer you. CURTIS SERVICE BUREAU, 4099-5099 So. Second Street, Clinton. lo. 38 S London Litter Carrier does nwny with back-straining wheelbarrow -- carries manure [mm barn to pit or spreader-saves one handling. Biggest labor save? on any farm. A boy operates it Capote Ventilators—"Ensu- 1 ' leakksém. ,, ' . Write Us “’3'.” Saves Half :he BarnWork‘ I “donated imw (Continued from page 406). the live stock and other food-pioduc- lng industries as vitally essential, and he added that while the board could not compel loans by any banks, it had planned with the reserve banks for aid forxthe farming interests to the extent of almost $1,000,000,000 this year. I ‘ N reporting the results of its first cost of production investigation in the business of cattle feeding, the United States Department of Agricul- a precarious venture, more likely to be unprofitable than not. The average cost of corn-fed cattle in Nebraska laid down at the market was $14.91 per hundred-Weight for 2,293 headfed in the winter of 1918-19.; in a survey study during the winter of 1919-20 it was $13.83 for 3,041 cattle, and an av- erage of'\$13.39 fol' an additional loss per head of $3.17 for the 1918-19 fed cattle, and of $10.69 and $14.57 on the two groups fed last winter. Similar investigations are being made in Illi- nois, Missouri, Iowa and Indiana, re- ports of which will be issued soon. Indicating a tendency toward a slackening in industry, the department of laborLs bureau of labor statistics re— ports in its industrial survey that ten out of a total of fourteen representa- tive industries showed a decrease in the number=of employes on the pay roll in August as compared with July. The number of employes in the auto- mobile manufacturing industry de- creased ten per cent during this pe« riod. The same report also shows that twenty-seven of the forty-three stand— ard articles of food consumed in— the American homes decreased in price between July 15 and August 15. The retail price of potatoes fell forty-four per cent and the price of cabbage went down forty-one per cent; The drop in sugar was fourteen per cent’ and most kinds of meat decreased in price. Several leading national farm organ- izations represented in Washington, such as the American Farm Bureau Federation, National Board of Farm Organizations and National Grange. are doing effective work in the inter- ests of farmers, and their representa- tives are men of high standingdn con- gress and administration circles. They are deserving of the support of every farmer. It is also -true and quite gen- "fi orally understood by those who are EveryDay OB fosthelsam whet mdainerydoesfor the field—releases man power—makes it possible‘otone mu todothe week of several—helps solve farm hand scarcity Handling cow. main: and evening. heading and voted thehun. are lob- ' done with the help: born is ' equipped with London Steel 5 and Stan- chions. Litter and FeedCu-tieu, 1&chan Bowls. You will find your burn more conven- Sent—- a big Increase in an! t be dthtyourcoweshow hep no: r"xlcyieldlseumuo211$better greater comfort and regular antenna. Easily installed at moderate not in any ham. Co. Mg“. “My, GL1: London m medm_224-Pugecllhlot first." -—_"'-—-—. “mid—shows lmdel mUIIEIIM m& 31.11. mandfihnchsonnlitternnd : p1,...gimums “1.33“... “s" mums-41.“ if” ....... m ' ’ ‘ PM y onmg s. owes --~ "‘ I ' WWW Hmaunnndcallseww ‘l Umwbuildkemdfiohnnbfllim M— ' 1 1—1."... as. W * loom}: etc llZ-pnge encyclopedia auburn I , _ building. Sent on request. , I .. -5?“ _ familiar with the situation, that there are other organizations here claiming to represent the farmers, composed largely of a. few self-appointed leaders, who arepersistently meddling with almost every proposed measure in which farmers are directly interested that comes before congress, and they manage to-got their nanies prominent- ly mentioned in the daily papers as the representatives of “tens of mil- lions” of farmers. The “All-American Farmer-Labor Cooperative Commis- sion” is one of a large number of so- mlled tanner organizations making strenuous efforts to force itself into the front line or public attention. I am unable to oohnect this organization with the Farmer-Labor party, although the name has a familiar sound and its demands are mostly along the some lines. These organizations may besup- ported by a following of farmers, as they claim. If so. their former follow- ers are not only wasting their good money. but actually hindering. the Wont of practicable farm legisla‘ tlonbyoldtnglnthepmotlohofalot of 13111:: schemes and My propo [anions which lacktbe remotest possi- bility of ever becomin‘jhva.‘ smthumbelngmlvedm wmmmmm oughly aroused to the need for the ear- ‘ 1y passage of the" French 1111: ‘ {Eb- ‘ , Federal Control of Packers ' , p In New York, Ohio and other eastern states where the sheep muons . ture says that “cattle feeding in Ne-_ ' braska during the past two years was ric bill. are organized in county and state wool growers' associations, vertised at thetairs. While there are several other branding bills before the congressional committees, the lending wool growers have decided to make their fight for the French bill and are urging all farm organization represent- atives to confine their efforts to push~ ing this bill. If there is a. member of congress who has not heard of the French truth-in—fabric bill, it is prob- able that there are no live, progressive wool growers in his district. HE American Farm Bureau Feden ation Washingtonofllce is making considerable progress with its arrange- ments for developing the custom man- ufacturing of woolen blankets and sultlngs. The replies from woolen manufacturers are favorable to this proposition, indicating that if they can secure enough raw wool- to make it worth while they will be willing to work it up for the farmers into yarns, blankets and fabrics of various kinds, on a custom or toll basis. As the farm folks are consumers of wool to the ex« tent of two-thirds of the total wool pro- duction of the country, it will be seen that a general movement of this kind would not only give the farm folks a. supply of woolen goods at cost of pro- duction, but relieve the market of a. vast quahtity of wool. It is suggested that County associations and state fed- erations of wool producers that are pooling wool, could make arrange~ ments with a woolen mill to manufac- ture a part of the wool in the pool for the members to the advantage of both producer and manufacturer. The digest of the democratic and re- publican platform in parallel columns with the fourteen planks of the Amer- ican Farm Bureau Federation, together with a summary of pending agricultur- al legislation, sent out to the State Farm Bureau by Gray Silver, Washing ton representative of the federation, is receiving much attention from farm leaders and ‘the' farm press. It is ex- plained by Mr. Silver that this is a. strictly nonpartisan, though political, educational activity undertaken now for the first time by organized agricul- ture. It is intended to give the plat- forms as they relate to agriculture side by side, without comment or partisan bias, allowing the reader to make his own interpretations. The outline of pending legislation of special interest to the farmers gives them a compre- hensive idea. of the bills to beacted upon during the coming session of con- gress, and will enable them to vote in- . telligently for congressmen and son- ators.——E. E. REYNOLDS. FARM BUREAUS PROMOTE BET- , TER SEEDS. IN every one of the fifty-seven coun- ties where a.‘ Farm Bureau exists. there am plans under way for the forming of a seed department which will work under contract with the seed department of the Michigan State Farm Bureau. according to latest re- ports from the state bureau. Twelve county departments have al- ready been organised. They have made the State Farm Bureau their sole agent for purchasing field seed outside of the county. ' This state-wide organization is pool- ing its orders of Seed and dealing di- rect with growers and large concerns of the country, demanding absolute guarantee as to purity and variety. Al- , ’ * fall‘s growers of Idaho and south Dn- lnota havecontnetodtoaslldhocttov msmnsuummmyyn. ~ mmwmmmm- ummmmm _ ' this seed is northern row. the merits or the bill have been conspicuously all- 5 Value of ' j: - , . ' M‘u‘mc‘m ,, l \ \“\“‘ x i \ \ \\\\‘\‘\‘\\\‘ \. . u . 7 Nil ; ,. ‘ ‘4. i.“ "Fl-1”,. (U. ' '. I mu W E‘WW‘I'? ”a , . ‘ . - 1,—— m an ‘79”. Dependable Paints may cost a little; more in the package- but they, are cheapest 1n the end. Delaying to paint adds to ultimatepainting and repair cost; neg- llect means decay from hard weather wear. It’s better to save the “surface now‘. than to save the pieces latenx - EATH'& 'MILLIGAN PAINTS" are the best; known insurance' against decay: They. save more than: they costd Repairs "are costly and rem building is‘almost"prohibitive-briefly. painting twillsave all and add value; . I, DeEndable‘ {or 22 Years} There are morethat 75 distinct Heath 8: Mi-lligang JDependable Paint and Varnish; Products - one for every purpose around the farm and home - inside or out. Each of high quality. ’ mlili A NewpatHnted’Pla for Choosing Color Schemes? eMNAcTUAL c010, , .;. if Heath;&Mdhg. ‘. f" an'Manuf‘mg 6”pr ' 183139)!“ Street .. f ‘ tron which you alone can supply. Chasm Illinois - Look for“’ou'FDetEndable TradeéMark\Where'fi you trade and also on every package. If your dealer doesn’t carry Dependable paints, write us. (for the name of a dealer who does. At the same Ltime, fill out the coupon below for acopy of our iLREE.-BOOK “How E‘Paint” Ehdiinteresting Color Schemes. (a new PatentedkPlan); Unless you give the informatlon required below, we .cannot send you these plans —— for they are individually,» prepared for you—using the informa- ‘ 1 [You can now get De- pendable Varnishes for every purpose as well as Paints.— Be sure it ’3 ‘Heath & Milligan Dependable Paint] illIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIll-Ill: ; . Heath & Milligan Art Dept. 1831 Seward St., Chicago, 1“.“ Please send me a copy of your free book “How to Paint” and individual color suggestions. EXTERIOR. Note—Send photo of house if possible and answer these questions: . 1 Present color ............................................................ Color of adjacent houses .................... ’ .......... - .................. Amount of foliage ....................................................... Direction building faces ................................................ .. lNTERlOR. Note — Send a ground floor sketch of rooms , State which rooms you wish to decorum l Present finish of walls ....... ._ . . . . . . . .................................... Color of woodwork ......................... Floors ....................... Color of draperies....... ........................................... What finish of furniture?. . .‘ ............................................ My name is ...... . ..... . .............................. ‘. . Address ................ . . . . ............................ . 1847 R. Fl D OOOOO O IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ’ ' (395151!“sz “6600 m.f\x\~,—- " "‘ ' M“ »! ‘V i" x, * _ y ‘. ‘8.— Mm“! « i I ’ i { fiv . , a . Get Our Wholesale “Direct-to-You” Price on This Pipeless Furnace Save Money in Buying—Save More in Simple installation Put your heater in the basement. Think of heating your whole house with one fire—warm air coming up through one register in the living room floor. Think of getting rid of the muss of carrying fuel and ashes through the house. Think'of saving the job of setting up stoves in the fall and taking them down again in the spring. Think of doing all your home heating from the basement with a heating plant that actually costs less than a good stove! That’s exactly what you can do with this Kalamazoo Pipeless Furnace. You get a complete warm-air heating plant with a simple, easy plan of installation. And you get it direct from the manufacturers at the wholesale price. Here is the greatest money saver in a home heater that we believe has ever been offered. It has saved hundreds of thousands of dollars for Kalamazoo customers. It has provided greater comfort throughout the home and it has saved fuel bills too. “First time we ever had the whole house warm" says one customer. “We no longer roast in one room and freeze in the rest.” . Another customer writes: “We have an eight-room house and every room is a warm room. My hat is off to you as manufactiirers of a pipe- less furnace that really does the business. Also want to say that this is the first winter that we have ever kept the vegatables in the cellar from freezing.” Write for the Kalamazoo Catalog How will you heat your home this winter? Let us answer the question for you. Let us send you this big Kalamazoo Catalog and tell. you how Kalamazoo Pipeless Furnace owners everywhere are saving money and living in warm homes. John 1. Wagner of Ritsville, Washington, saved $200.00. He states: “Others asked me almost three times the price of a Kalamazoo.” Jos. L. Rudolph of Duffy Mawr, Pa., says: “I figure that I saved exactly $95.00 and I am entirely satisfied.” Why You Save Money Because you deal direct with Manufacturers. You get wholesale “Direct-to-You” prices. You get the results of years of experience in furnace building—you get a simple, easy plan of installation with a wonderfully well- built furnace. ‘ You save at least from 25 to 40 per cent and you get a heating plant that will ' burn any fuel-and last for years of sat- isfactory service. Mail the Coupon —- Get’ Our Catalog Let us send you this book free. No obligations. Simply find out what “A Kalamazoo—Direct-to— \ You” means for you. This. is your year to save 0 0 money. It’s our year to help you do it. Qv “in, $0.9 $&\ Also get our money-saving otter on stoves, 4% \ ranges, Cream separators, phenographs and the other articles listed in the coupon. Ask far gaming No. 909 \Kalamazoo Stove Co. ' “mm A Kalamn 19.9 ‘ “ than i Vim _ A-» n \. Miss' Violet Oliver will decorate President Wilson as “Knight of the Raisin,” in publicity campaign of raisin growers. ,v.\¢/. The University of Prague sends these Czecho-Slovak girls to the United States for study. Even the women of the Island understand that the road to heart is through his stomach. of Rn'pa a man’s Friends consult- ing with sister of the Lord Mayor of Cork, who is hunger striking in Brixton prison. v A bucking machine used at the train- ing camp of Columbia University to Sinn Feiners and Unionists rioting in York St., Belfast, Ireland, with clubs - put her gridiron warriors in shape for and bfictlgs. The Unioniis'ts 'in the foreground are shown driving back their a strenuous season. opponen . ‘ ' ‘ {I ‘ Oomflxht by Underwood t Underwood, New York ~.uu. r. 1 '1' least one of the ”stores in your neighborhood will have a window dis lay of Colgate's Ri boa Dental Cream. These windows will he ready to photo ph begin- ' hing Octo er lat. m-.-w.m.m.~-e——. - , v 'x Anyone not over sev— enteen years of age may try for generous money prizes, which will be given forthe best hoto- graphs of a Co gate y. cowards Rl BBON. DENTAL CREAM I iau su tum» . . $1005. 00 in Prizes Look for a store window with the Colgate pictures and packages in it. The dealer Will gladly let you take a picture of his wmdow. k on the hack covers of some of the 115 CASH PRIZES Eat ur hate-reph- ln ti: gatert. for which 0 toher magazines where you will find all the prizes will be awarded rules of the contest. Or write so Colgate &C0.. "' “11"" . .Dept. 44, I99 Fulton Street. New York. for p... .hw’ho... particulars. mph . . . ioo Ask an older friend who take: pictures or the For the 3 next man from whom you buy films to advise you F51; -1'o‘5°:'d' how to photograph window's. Taking pictures a“? . {’3 ml. through plate glass is a tricky 'operation and For “n 10‘ am one that you may never have trxed before. best . . $5 a And let parents remember, too, that by encouraging the boys and girls to enter this unique contest, there is not only added zest to ‘ Kodak—ing, but a fresh interest in theor‘riport- ance of brushing the teeth regularly, night and of ‘ “monk "mace“. morning. The delicious flavor of Ribbon g5. “mug“. of .5. ”in. Dental Cream is an important help in forming tied for. that habit for health. Colgore'a—Ule safe dentifrice—is imbued by more dentists than an other dentifrice. Individual or Gommunily Thresher Prize. will be awarded Before January 1st. and winners will be announc- edin nearly 1921 issue of this magazine. In case PORT HURON 20x34 TRACTOR SPECIAL THRESHER This machine has good capacity and can be operated with any small steam engine, or gas tractor. Will do excellent work in all kinds of seeds and rain, (including clover, timothy, alfa fa, peas, etc.) and is fully guaranteed the same as our standard size threshers. Save your own grain; thresh when most convenient and accommodate your neighbors. It will take only a small portion of your timeun custom work to pay for the machine, as well as power to o erate it. We can also furnish secon -hand steam engines or tractor, to operate same. 18 Horse Power will run it. We can ship from stock same day or- der is received. Write wfiir catalogue, or, If in a hurry, quire u: at our expenu. remnant: EIEIIE & TERRIER 00.. Port lluron, lick. LE'l' us nu your sins. HOP-Oar Oew hide. Caltor other skins with hair or far on. an make them into ooatsflor men and women).robes. girl or gloves when so orderedtovbour Dude all east yea on than u then and be worth more. y Der Illustrated outdo. gives a lot of information. It tells how to take at end oantor hides: how and when we pay the height both ways; about our safe dyeing process on cow and horse hide. calf and other skins' about the tar good- and game trophies we sell. finder-my. etc. Then we have recently got out an- other we can our Feel-lea beet! wholly devoted to fashion plates 0 mute. ”chm and other line for meats. 31:: pricey; grater menu reeled- 3h.“ afleott. genus (lo t: res to O or“; an M ' atiou. 400 “In“ PO“. Ahudred lines brighter than her- osene lamps. rue 96 per cent. ahead 4 per cent. common ' Cleanuodorless—econouucal. aeeoLu'rier can III ly safe. even if tipped over. LIGHT. WITH OUR HATCH N" I). , newsstand.“ "‘1 m lo. Iotablilhed It“. \ data. the battle is not ours. but God's.” Our Weekly Samar—By N. A. McCum ' FTER the return of the British A ships. to home waters following the signing of the armistice, Sir David Beatty, from the flagship, sent the following message to all the ships of the Grand Fleet: 'It is my inten- tion to hold a service of thanksgiving at 0:00 p. in. tonight. for the victory which Almighty God has vouchsafed our arms. and every ship is recom-» mended to do the same.’ ” ' During the, German push in March. 1918. Field Marshal Haig was at the religious services one Sunday morning. Whenthe chaplain had concluded the service, the commander-inchlof of Great Britain’s forces went up to the chaplain. thanked him for his mes- sage, and then said, “Remember, chap. the thunder of guns and the cries of the dying are heard. Moreover. these commanders believe that prayer helps. Prayer makes a difference. Prayer “changes things.” They do not give up prayer because the enemy prays to the same God. ‘ “ "God fights on the side of the big- gest battalions," said Napoleon with a sheer. But that was before his Rus~ sian campaign. That was before those little white messengers of judgment, the snowflakes, fell and smothered his army, and turned him back a defeated man. God did not fight on the side of the biggest battalions in the Battle of the Marne, when a thin line of French- men held back the Teuton hardes. It has not been explained yet why the Germans did not go on "toward Paris, save the explanation of a French offl- csr: “Le boa Dleu, monsleur, le hon Dleu.” (The good God, air, the good God). Abraham Lincoln, General “Stone- wall" Jackson, Robert E. Lee, General Gordon, the hero of Khartoum, all be- lieved that prayer to the God of the Bible helped in the day’s fighting. Lin- coln told General Slckles that he con- sidered Gettysburg an answer to prayer. , Marshal Foch is another notable ex- ample of the praying fighter. Private Evans. of California, wrote his parents that he saw a man in an old shiny unla form enter a battered church, and kneel in prayer. By the eagles on his collar, Evans knew that this man was a general of the French army. His curiosity was aroused and he sat down in the church and waited for the gen- eral to come out. The man remained in the kneeling attitude for three-quar- ters of an him. Then he arose, and, accompanied by one orderly, passed down the street. Evans followed. He noticed that soldiers saluted this man in great excitement. Women gazed at him in reverence. Children tagged af- ter him. Evans inquired and learned that it was Foch. He also learned that it had been Foch's habit for years to give some time to prayer every day. Is this one explanation of Foch’s mil- itary success? General. E. H. H. Allonby, the dellverer of Jerusalem and the Holy Land after a thousand years of Turkish mismle, is the son of a man who devoted much time to the study of the prophetic por- tions of the Bible. Just before the Palestine campaign began, General Al- lenby attended a prayer meeting in Cairo, to ask the divine blessing on the arms under his command. He makes no secret of his joy and satis- faction of being the deliverer of an- cient Canaan. He and his attendants entered Jerusalem on foot, the day af- ter it surrendered. General Pershing's attitude on things religious is well known. Some way. these fighting men turn instinctively to God as the battle draws on. A large proportion of them are religious men as a life habit. The late Lord Roberts said he had conduct- ed family worshlp every day for fifty years. Lord Fisher, another of Brit- ain’s sea fighters, loves sermons. When he was a captain, a visitor called one Sunday morning. “The Captain has gone to Berkeley Chapel," said the ser- vant. “Will he be in this afternoon?” “No, he said he was going to hear Can- on Liddon at St. Paul’s." “Well, then, this evening?” “In the evening he is going to Spurgeon’s Tabernacle.” Someone has said that man is “in- corrigibly religious.” Whether that be so or no, the religious instinct comes 11L 1! CRES— Goat: ”"171 Be Goat: Regardless—- 6A0, me GOVERNMENTM By Frank R. Leer ‘ WANTS COATS MILK 80 I BOUGHT ‘i ”ON "LL- A FEW com’s FROM THAT my“ - Go our AND lTALlAN 00%NBTEE034‘D , ' «3 MILK MY 0 Q OVER mos gw , THE ITALIAN l . . Ill n I lJIHLlHI out of its hiding into the ppm, when ‘ Power and Ligfit ’ wit/1 t/Je Qpiet Km)" . . >fl9 Finest Slor E er . Wriflenfir F armgrs fifiree Have You Received Your Copy Yet? 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D City and Star: ._, gt“;‘ :1 VALL/E : 71““ A ROMANCE 0F . i I By Pm “It does. .You place the contraption -—hide it, rather—in ~the room where the conspirators conspirei then you run wires from it into. another room where the detectives listen in son the receivers.” 1 “Could George Sea Otter install it?” “I think he could. There‘is a print- ed card 'of instructions, and I dare say George would find the job no more baf- fling than thé ignition-system on the Napier." “Will, he tell anybody?” “Not if you ask him not to." “Not even you?” ' “Not even a ‘whisper to himself, Shirley.” “Very well, then. Please send him over. Thank you so much, Bryce Car— digan. You’re an awful good old sort, after all. Really, it hurts me to have ' to oppose you; It would be so much. nicer if we didn’t have all those red- wood trees to protect, wouldn’t it?." “Let us not argue the question, Shir- ley. I think I have my redwood trees protected. Good-bye.” He had scarcely finished telephon- ing his home to instruct George Sea Otter to report with the express pack- age to Shirley when Buck Ogilvy strolled into the office and tossed a document on his desk. “There’s your little old temporary franchise, old thing,” he announced; and with many . a hearty laugh he related to Bryce the ingenious, means .by which he had ob- tained it. “And now if you will phone up to your logging-camp and instruct the woods-boss to lay off about fifty men to rest for the day, pending a hard night’s work, and arrange to send ‘them down on the last log-train today, I’ll drop around after dinner and we’ll fly to that jump-crossing. Here’s a. list of the tools we’ll need.” “I’ll telephone Colonel Pennington’s manager and ask him to kick a switch- engine in on the Laurel Creek spur and snake those flat‘cars with my rails aboard out to the junction with the main line,” Bryce replied. And he called up the Laguna Grande Lumber Company—only to be informed by no less a person than Colonel Pennington himself that it would be impossible to send the switch-engine in until the following afternoon. The Colonel was sorry, but the switch-engine was in the shop having the brick in her fire- box renewed, while the mogul- (that hauled the log trains would not have time to attend to the matter, since the flats would have to be spotted on the sidetrack at Cardigan’s log—land- ing in the woods, and this could not be done until the last loaded log-train for the day had been hauled out to make room. “Why not switch back with the mo- gul after the log-train has been haul- ed out on the main line?“ Bryce de- manded pointedly. PenningtOn, however, was not trap- ped. “My dear fellow,” he replied pat. ronizingly, ‘jquite impossible, I assure you. That old trestle across the creek my boy—it hasn’t been looked at for years. While I’d send the light switch- engine over it and have no fears—'- “I happen to know, Colonel, that the big mogul kicked those flats in to load the rails!” . “I know it. And what happened? Why, that old trestle squeaked and shook and gave every‘evidence of be ing about to buckle in the center. My engineer-"threatened“ to quit it I sent;- him in again.” ‘ ' “Very Well. PM until murmured“ comes 9‘“ Y OF TH E I» suppose I’ll. have ti), § I ANT _. THE RED‘WOODsl ‘ “ . B: Kym f L of the shop,” Bryce replied resignedly, . , . and hung up. He turned a troubled face to Ogilvy. “Checkmated!” he an- 1 - 'nounced. p“Whipped to a frazzle. The Colonel is lying, Buck, and I’ve caught _ ‘ him at it. r As a matter of fact: the mogul didn’t kick those flats in at all. - The switch-engine did-and I know it... Now ‘I’m going to send a man over “to snoop around Pennington’s rounld- , , , house and verify his report about the " _' 1:11,] ‘ switch-engine being inthe shop.” - i E l 1- He did so, Half an hour later the ' ' i . messenger returned with the informa- _ . tion that not only was the switch-en- ' gine not in the shop but her fire-box ~ had been overhauled the week before and was reported to be, in excellent. condition. “That settles it,” Buck Ogilvy mourn- ed. “He had gum-shoe men on my trail, after all; they have reported, and the Colonel is as suspicious as a rhino. He doesn’t know anything, but he smells danger just the same.” “Exactly, Buck. So he is delaying the game until he can learn something definite.” He drummed idly on his desk for several minutes. Then: “Buck, can you run a locomotive?” “With one hand, old man.” ,, (a, _ “Fine business! Well, I guess we’ll ‘ ‘1 put in that crossing tomorrow night. ' The switch-engine will be in the round- house at Pennington’s mill tomorrow night so we can’t steal that; but we -. can steal the mogul. I’ll just send 1. word up to my woods-boss not to have » his train leaded when the mogul comes up late tomorrow afternoon to haul it / down to our log-landing. He will ex~ ‘ plain to the engineer and fireman that our big ball donkey went out and we couldn’t get our logs down to the land- ‘ ing in time to ‘get them‘ loaded that day. Of course, the engine-crew won’t bother to run down to Sequoia for the night—that is, they won’t run the mo- gul down. They’ll just leave her at our log-landing all night and put up- for the night at our camp. However, if they should be forced, because of their private affairs, to return to Se- quoia, they’ll borrow my traCk—walker's velocipede. The fireman would prefer that to firing the big mogul all the way back to Sequoia.” “Yes,” Buck agreed, “I" think he would.” “There is a slight grade at our log~ landing. I know that, because the air leaked but of the brakes on a. log-train I was on a short time ago, and the train ran away with me. Now, the en-' 1 glue-crew will set the airbrakes on the . mogul and leave her with steam up to 91 throb all night; they’ll not blow her . ,_ . down, for that would mean work ”firing . ' her in the morning. Our task, Buck, ’ , will be to throw off the airbrakes and : jj let her glide silently out of our log- gag} landing. About-a. mile down the road - 1- “ we’ll-.stop, get up steam, run down to -' the junction with the main line, back. . in on the Laurel Creek spur, couple A on to those flat—cars and breeeze mer— . rily down to Sequoia with them. They _, , , will be loaded waiting for us; our men will be congregated in our dry-yard just , of Water Street near B, waiting for us 1 _ ‘ ~ I“, to arrive with the rails—«and bingo— .1; a.» we go to it. After we drop the flats, .' .i’ 4 We’ll run the engine back to the woods ,' f“ and leave it where we found it, return . ‘ “ ‘ a—flying on the velocipede, if it’s there, , or in my automobile, if it isn’t there. ” You can get back in ample tim_e,;tos superintend the cutting of we cross mg!“ . ' ‘ ‘ ' , i“ ““ 7"‘Spoken like a.“ ,, “were thorns: W raw: J 08“”: , ‘1" r... .stone,” _ toast as be fixed Mrs. P.’s green orbs > with his own. J‘Poundstone, your very in W" out of the woods. CHAPTER XXIX. AYOR POUNDSTONE and his wife arrived at the Pennington home in Redwood Boulevard at six-forty—five Thursday evening. It was with a profound feeling of relief that His Honor lifted the lady from the modest little “ilivver,” for once inside the Pennington house, he felt, he would be free from a peculiarly devilish brand of persecution inaugurated by his wife about three months previously. Mrs. Poundstone wanted a new automobile. And she had entered upon a campaign of nagging and complaint, hoping to wear Poundstone’s resistance down to the point where he would be willing to barter his hope of salvation in return for a guarantee of peace on earth. “I feel like a perfect fool, calling up on these people in this filthy little rat- tletrap,” Mrs. Poundstone protested as they passed up the cement walk to- ward the Pennington portal. Mayor Poundstone paused, Had he been Medusa, the glance he bent upon his spouse would have transformed her instantly into a not particularly sym- metrical statue of concrete. He had reached the breaking-point. “In pity’s name, woman,” he growl- ed, “talk about something else. Give me one night of peace. Let me enjoy my dinner and this visit.” “I can’t help it,” Mrs. P. retorted with asperity. She pointed to Shirley Summer’s car parked under the porte cochere. “If I had a sedan like that, I could die happy. And it only cost thirty-two hundred and fifty dollars.” “I paid six hundred and fifty for the rattletrap, and I couldn’t afford that,” he almost whimpered. “You were hap- py with it until I was elected mayor.” “You forget our social position, my dear,” she purred sweetly. He could have struck her. “Hang your social position," he gritted sav- agely. “Shut up, will you Social po- sition in a sawmill town! Rats!" "Sh~—sh! Control yourself, Henry!” She plucked gently at his arm; with her other hand she lifted the huge knocker on the front door. “Dammit, you’ll'drive me crazy yet,” Poundstone gurgled, and subsided. The Pennington butler, a very supe- rior person, opened the door and swept them with a faintly disapproving glance. It is possible that he found Mayor Poundstone, who was adorned with a white string tie, a soft slouch hat, a Prince Albert coat, and horse- shoe cut vest, mildly amusing. The Poundstones entered. 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Foreman part you can now own 011921533!ng .with his prey. a. bit strong!” ‘ “Have another ” her hospitable host suggested, and he poured it, quite ob-‘ livious of the frightened wink which the mayor'telegraphed his wife. . “I will, if Miss Sumner will join me,” .Mrs. P. acquiesced.‘ , . “Thanks. I seldom drink .a cocktail, and one is always my limit," Shirley replied smilingly. “Oh, well,” the Colonel retorted agreeably, “we’ll make it a three-cor- nered festival. Poundstone, smoke up.” They “smoked up,” and Poundstone prayed to his rather nebulous gods that Mrs. P. would not discuss automobiles during the dinner. Alas! The Colonel’s cocktails were not unduly fortified, but for all that, the two which Mrs. Poundstone. had as- similated contained just sufficient “kick” to loosen the lady’s tongue with- out thickening it. Consequently, about the time the piece de resistance made its appearance, she threw caution to the winds and adverted to the subject closest to her heart. “I was telling Henry as we came up the walk bow greatly I envied you that beautiful sedan, Miss Sumner,” gushed. “Isn’t it a perfectly stunning car?” ' Poundstone made one futile attempt to head “her off. “And I was telling Mrs. Poundstone,” he struck in with a pathetic attempt to appear humorous and condescending, “that a. little jitney was our gait, and that she might as well abandon her passionate yearning for a closed car. Angelina, my dear, something tells me I’m going to enjoy this ‘dinner a whole lot more if you’ll just make up your mind to be real nice and resign yourself to the inevitable.” “Never, my dear, never.” She shook a, coy finger at him. “You dear old fightie,” she cooed, “you don’t realize what a closed car means to a woman." She turned to Shirley. “How an open car does blow one around, my dear.” “Yes, indeed,” said Shirley inno- cently. “Heard the McKinnon people had a man killed up in their woods yester- day, Colonel,” Poundstone remarked, hoping against hope to divert the con- versation. “Yes. The fellow’s own fault,” Pen- nington replied. “He was one of those employes who held to the Opinion that every man is the captain of his own " soul and the sole proprietor of his own body—hence that it behooved him to look after both, in view of the high cost of safety-appliances. He was warned that the logging-cable was weak at that old splice and liable to pull out of the becket—and sure enough it, did. The free end of the cable snapped back like a. whip, and—J’ “I hold to the opinion,” Mrs. Pound- stone interrupted, “that if one wishes for a thinghard enough and just keeps on wishing, One is bound to get it." “My dear,” said Mr. Poundstone im- pressively, “if you would only confine yourself to wishing, I assure you your chances for success would be infinitely brighter.” There was no mistaking this rebuke; even two cocktails were powerless to render Mrs. Poundstone oblivious to it. Shirley and her uncle saw the mayor’s lady flush slightly; they caught the glint ofmurder in his honor’s eye; and the keen intelligence of each warned them that closed cars should be a clos- ed topic of conversation with the Poundstones. With the nicest tact in the world, Shirley adroitly, changed the she had observed in the window of a local dry- goods emporium that day, and“ Mrs Poundstone subsided. About nine o’,clock Shirley, in re- sponse to a meaning glance from her relative tactfully conveyed Mrs. Pound-‘ stone upstairs, leaving her uncle alone Instantly Pennington got down to business. she’ subject to some tailored Shirt—waists ' 'coinplish a laudable public “Well ’-’ he queried. apropos 611191.11- f to‘ th ‘ road?” " v 2' “Oh, the usual amount of wind, Golf" onel. , that outfit.” , - Pennington studied the end of his ‘cigar a. moment. “Well, I don’t know ‘ what to think of that project either,” he admitted presently. “But while it looks like a fake, I have a. suspicion that where there's so much smoke, one is likely to discover a little fire. I’ve been waiting to see whether Or not they will apply for a franchise to enter the city, but they seem to be taking their time about it ” “They certainly are a deliberate crowd,” the mayor murmured. “Have they made any move to get a franchise ?” Pennington asked blunt- ly. “If they have, I suppose you would be the first man to hear about it. I don’t mean to be impertinent,” he ad— ded with a gracious smile, “but the fact is I noticed that windbag Ogilvy enter- ing your office in the city hall the other afternoon, and I couldn’t help wonder- ing whether his visit was social or official.” “Social—so far as I could observe,” Poundstone replied truthfully, wonder- ing just how much Pennington knew, and rather apprehensive that he might get caught’in a lie before the evening was over. “Preliminary to the official visit, I dare say.” The Colonel puffed thoughtfully for a while—for which the mayor was grateful, since it provided time in which to organize himself. Suddenly, however, Pennington turned toward his guest and fixed the latter with a ser- ious glance. “I hadn’t anticipated discussing this matter with you, Poundstone, and you must forgive me for it; but the fact is —I might as well be frank with you—— I am very greatly interested in the op- eration of this proposed railroad.” “Indeed! Financially ?” “Yes, but not in the financial way you think. If the railroad is built, it will have a very distinct effect on my finances.” “In just what way?” ‘ Disastrous. ” “I am amazed, Colonel.” “You wouldn’t be if you had given the subject very close consideration. The logical route for this railroad is from Willits north to Sequoia, hot from Sequoia north to Grant’s Pass, Oregon. Such a road as the N. C. O. contem- plates will fap about one—third of the redwood-belt only, while a line built in from the south will tap two-thirds of it. The remaining third can be tapped by an extension of my own logging- road; when my own timber is logged out, I will want other business for my road, and if the NC. 0. parallels it, I will be left with two streaks of rust on my hands.” “Ah, I perceive. will!” “You agree with me, then, Pound- stone, that the N. C. O. is not designed to foster the best interests of the com- munity. Of course you do.” “Well, I hadn’t given the subject, very mature thought, Colonel, but in S the light of your observations it would appear that you are quite right.” ‘ “Of course I am right. I take it, thelefme, that when the N. ,C. 0. ap- plies for itsfranchise to run through Sequoia, neither you nor your city council will consider the proposition at all.” ' . “I cannot, of course, speak for the city council—.—” Poundstone began, but 7 Pennington’s cold, amused smile oze , ' further utterance. .“Be frank with-Jne, Poundstone. So it will, so it I I am not a child. What 1 .wOuld like to know is this: will you exert every of: fort to block that franchiSe 1n menus. conviction that by so doing you‘will ace ‘ Nobody knows what, to make of" ‘_ care, at this time, to go on record.” he ”replied evasive‘ly. “When I have had time to look into the matter mere thor- oughly—” . ' “Tut-tut, my dear man! Let us not , , , 7/ , , straddle the fence. Business is a game, ~ , «I . , . W552; " and so is politics. Neither knows any 3 . sentiment. Suppose you should favor this N. C. 0. crowd in a mistaken idea that 'you were doing the right thing, and that subsequently numberless fel- low-citizens developed the idea that you had not done your public duty? Would some of them not be likely to invoke a recall election and retire you and your city council—in disgrace?” 7 “I doubt if they could defeat me, Colonel}; “I have no such doubt,” Pennington replied pointedly. Poundstone looked up at him from under lowered lids. “Is that a threat?" he demanded tremulously. : ' p , - _ ._ ~ g, ' ”I “My dear fellow! Threaten my I, . 7' (j . _‘_ ., . _ _ , .J‘ L I! . IILL / \ " guest!” Pennington laughed patroniz- ., . _ , - ~ ' . ingly. “I am giving you advice, Pound- . l , _ ' . ' l L'\ \ fl 0 n ' ~ . ‘ . ‘ ‘ // stone—and rather good. adVlce, 1t ,3, .55.- lug-j?— / strikes me. However, while we’re on the “We“ 1 1.... “° “sham 1“ “I would rather give up my car '1 " ' ”1,.azzm 1" ‘. A u MT ’3' e. telling you that in the event of a disas- trous decision on your part, I should d k h S" A: ’9 ' r. .r/vn‘ - ,. E . , l, I not feel justified in supporting you.” an eep t e l ent amO ‘ J; ' u p i 617:},{73’77‘3’39 .. a . . , I; '5: "° .1 .He might, Wlth equal fl‘ahhfessi 115“? On thousands of farms the Silent Alamo has become rhé’hlsi’ii’ _ said: .1 would. smash you. To his absolutely indispensable. The comfort of having safe, gheSt h‘S meahh‘g was hht Obscure- brilliant electric light everywhere; running water in Pouhd'smhe Sthfhed the Pattehh 0f the the house and for the stock; power to operate the rug' and Penhh‘gmh’ watChmg h‘h‘ churn, separator, washing machine, sewing machine, Sharply' saw that the man was ‘hs‘ electric iron, etc., etc., is such a Supreme joy that al- tressed. Then suddenly one of those most anything else would be sacrificed. brilliant inspirations, or flashes of rare . . . . This"NoRuinousVibratlon" , . _ , Mr. Blpes of Brownton, Mum..- puts it this way. He says: Guaranty is attached to each intuition, Wthh had helped so mate- it! can, on the strength of my actual experience, recommend Silent. Alamo plant. It is the rially to fashion Pennington into a cap- the Silent Alamo as the best of all farm light plants today. I figiggfggrgfihggggagggffl tain of industry, came to him. He re- yvould rather give up my car, and keep the Silent Alamo, realiz- solved on a bold stroke. mg the many more advantages derived from it.” “Lets “0'3 heat about the buSh' ‘ The “No Ruinous Vibration” Guarantee Poundstone,” he said with the air of a‘ . . father patiently striving to induce his Look for the tag on every genuine Silent Alamo child to recant” a lie, tell the truth, and is'fhe “h, dderful aficiency agxd relialgility of the Silent Alamo - . . , . ! arge y ue to e total a sence o excessive vibration—the ‘s‘ave ’hlmself f1 om tie parental :1 ac};- most ruthless enemy of mechanical things. All that terrible jar- lfou Ve been domg uslness Wlt le ' ring and rattling and banging is gone. Read the “No Ruinous vy; I know it for a fact, and you might Vibration" tag at your dealers. It is attached to each Silent as well admit it.” Alamo. Ittells the whole story. Poundstone looked up, red and em- . The Silent Alamo is so perfectly designed that it will operate barrass-ed. “If I had known—-—” he be- efficxently without being anchored to a special foundation. Starts an atthe pressofa button. Delivers a tapered charge to the batteries. g ' . _ _ Motor automatically stops when batteries are full. Motor auto~ “Certainly, certainly! I realize YOU . maticallystopswhenoil gets toolow—alsowhen water getstoolow. £533” acted in perfect gOOd faith. You’re like Practically impossible to overheat or burn outa bearing. All the majority of people in Sequoia. parts fully enclosed. Hasfamous Ide Super-Silent Motor (Rotate You’re all so crazy for rail-connection ing Sleeve Valve.)“Write us for The Silent Alamo book, also for with the outside world that you jump cgmplete data on No RidinousY1bratlon”and what It means. _ -> . rite today. Inthe meantime,vunt thelocal Silent Alamo dealer. “ at the first plan that seems to promise . Electric I”. you one. Now, I’m as eager as the MMOFARMUGHT conceneral Officcsfl-‘ZQ TowerBldg.,CHlCA60 others, but if- we are going to have a P 1"“ “Hindu" Michigan railroad, I, for one, desire the right ’ ” . EIeCtrical Accessories kind of railroad; and the N. C. 0. isn’t AnySilent Alamo dcalercantakeyour ordcl' for the the nght kind—that not for the a- _ _ :rar::rl‘.*:rssgizsasaeliminates terests I represent. Have you promls- cal convenience: or for any special device you want. ed Ogilvy a franchise ?” (Continued next week.) (75) LICE PROOF Sunshlne Hollow Items ‘- HEN ROOST .1 .11. , ..' -. Ry Rube Rubicon ne Man Oscar Putnam always seems to get mere done than his brother Simon. 502:1}30 a gag—SW01”? :9 fltgb3'coal Scarce! . . . r on one. or net 'etion Cuteh—l - When the kids hid the milk stools, 01:9er very Lowmrétygcww baled lets you start mdevsfgp :33 Simon fussed around for half an hour. gleam the 3.?3v‘21k°73‘wfi ffififi'ggfiighigfifig£2,39fi33‘1‘1 Oscar just inverted a feed bucket and 8 “hi” ‘ -88 er“ °d °" Whack" easy ‘0 mm” Th° mo - er evermvented. Does OTTAWA fella trees and saws l n - theworkoflOtolEmen. ‘ . tt bl 08h- mllked all his share of the cows and “’5‘“ Hmwaglmfpgegggggggg half of Simon’s. That's just the way ‘ AW '06 SAW iigefihttpiflw. With Oscar about everythlng. Folks -— 5e§grftgnBésr§miaAl say that he is going to amount to some- 0"“ “m" 7"“‘83W' “90 by Pam?" Log Saw. ' ' Balanced Crank Sinai. Pulls Over 4 H-P. Ho er cooled. ‘ I i 211:“; but Simon would starve to death t Oscitll‘aeflngABlti‘ilt-ig Mggnegw ngglottteriessiverbnlzgdod. ‘lEasy w'etfirtit‘vfin’ gfhggimrandpgutf Proof Roost that so many hundreds . ‘ \ W88. . mm c e 8 of. W Bl ' . en Op 8 are ; ' l e couldnt WOI k Oscar for 111051: _ . notsawling,:ngineruns[:umps. eed mill. cream separate ea or", échfitrapulley etholl‘dfifi Bee: A ents Vl’lglxlltg ‘pricea and Atiullgl‘ everything he gets. . numbed flash or Easy Payments Get 0hr Easy Pay- N R00 PERCH co.. Dexter. Michigan . .7 . ‘ ; — nt inn t urchase Israel Lambert says there is some- k . , '- . and findout how eaayitls to own an'ger‘rgwnt.’ fiaspaid . . . , . . for itself oveir and overs all: while its thousandsofownem thing sort of nice about a farm. And ‘ . w » have used t. Only Bod direct m factory to user. _ ”at” "can Israel has grasshoppers, rheumatism " 1‘ i .41, l ’ , , 30 Days Trial—10-Year Marian!“ breeding Colonies ofsthekagt 3333):? taken “0mm and a mortgage. But he likes birds, , 1 . . g " Special ””9” Now fii'g'fkfflsfiifi‘da‘ii 8008.0.wmta 3315350 PULLETS fresh air, friendly cows and lots to ‘ “’3 ’ '~ - ' .‘i’a‘afltfii‘mmfi? “'3': 91"“ lift. °'.‘.’::"‘“e‘m %§' ”53.2“ “hm“ ’ , ,,' . . . cry I loo 0 :- van esnow. -- nae eat. and says you can get most every- “t" . ‘ . ' ‘ Free Book Senses?”- Wfi.“§.‘.§.‘ti‘°§ zoos. o. iv'il‘efia’é‘fifl“ °”’ ”“3” thing on a farm that rich city fellows \ ‘ ' ' ‘ ‘ ’ ' ”A“ "u' “mm' "W“ hm M 1: ‘° l3. " ”a“ 3005.0.Anconas coc ‘- ‘ m m 1 M on. hm. KBRELS spend thousands to buy at country ~.- ‘ WA co” 500 w St” WC. glared and White Books: Rhode Island Bods: Whit. \ . yondottes. English White Leghorn; 8. O. Anoom clubs. ‘ , ‘ , We chalibe pleased to answer in ulries nboutlany 05 Sunshine Hollow farmers try to .do i . . ' {fighwm fi'figmimfifi, "Eliza?!“ °" the best they can with what they have. POULTRY l00K! cglggs $15 A 100 "Pl I It the only food raised was produced .- BARRED ROCKS gnwmoggfd-Mggggmngogg Eih'fllii‘fl’f": ta Factory Prices Free Booklet ; sheen . n 1. “83C! Dost R513 ASS. ATION llets d . . P‘llfl’hito an oockerels From thorough bred Kalamazoo. hitchin- b fame“ with absolute! _ id Oookorols. Pallets. April hatch “Nor “'3 an- 11 a" week in ct. and Nov. 0 t l Bum y . - y 88.1 “01' ”1'8“! dl 03“] 9 . Olrou or free- mp8 apxxl'yreolated. abob Hatcherlegi‘iggl‘beiegeg: ’ good pmdllcelg?nhl<8g3 “553333?" bound to ma equipment. you could take a census of} hblmnn POUL'IRY PLA , thtsworth. Ill guaranteed and ship d on appmmlmnd mflm . 9888 from strain d catalog. A tow erred all)!“ P lets. lit-1mm, , , , I 0 contest w lo 5.. c. White horns. Ragga! am: . rm. 3"“ RN.“ wfln record-bi: ~a your. mm “In: Farm. Holman n l ‘ . owhmm he: ,"m'fi-‘ifififlb’iip" la. Oimular‘rree ‘ » ”.3 IA.- man" s cc ' and; Mich. sandman faults, mum“. ,I .' 4" ‘i A _______ 1. 'out was. the, 01d In With the New Business men consider it pro- fitable to scrap a piece of anti- quated machinery and sell it for old metal. That’s agood rule to follow in the home, when the work of many stoves can be done with greater effi- ciency, economy, cleanliness, saving of labor, lessened consumption of ins and smaller initial cost by a C01 The Perfect ~ . )PlPilESS lllRlAii In addition to its unmatched feature of economy, it gives a peculiarly grate- ful automatic circulation of moistened. fresh warmth through each room in .the house. Scientific construction and simplicity of. parts make this furnace positively automatic in op- eration—needs little care and runs long on one feeding. It’s money profitably _apent to install one. Read the whole convxncmg story in our book. “The Last Word imEconomicaI Heating"—-it 's cheerfully mailed If you say so. The Schill Bros., ' Company, \ Crestline, Ohio I Morley Bros., Saginaw, Mich. Distributors Farleglitmg Want A 91 k. w. generator directly [connected with a 2 H. P. air cooled motor. Capacity 45 20-watt lamps. Willard storage battery. Dealers wanted. Write for particulars. REGAL GASOLINE ENGINE CO. Division Street, Coldwater, Mich. “loo" Cluster Metal Shin ru— gated, $tandin€vSeam, Painted or Galvanized Roof- mgs, Sidings, allboard P_aints, etc., direct to you at Rock-Bottom Factory rices. Positively greatest offer ever made. Edwards “lien” Metal Shingles cost less; outlast three ordinary roofs. No paintin or repairs. Guaranteed rot, fire, rust, lightning proof. .. . . . Free Roofmu Book . Get our wonderfully low rices and free sump es. We sell direct to you and save you money. Ask for-Book No. 1067. ' Low PRICED GARAGE: ' on prices on Ready-Made -ProotSteel Garages. S". V any plac’ e, Send postai for _' Wk showing styles. _ .. Altos use. 00.. . . Gil-int! 0. - “Ink-St. .. . mun-newsman Earner When mung Advertisers , i Woman’s Interests . .St. Clalr County Tour Under t/ze Guidance of County Leaders, we Find Inspiration in Visiting Modern Farm Homer F the extension workers of St. Clair Icounty carry on their work with the same energy and utter unconcern to personal consequences with which they drive through the county, unpar- alleled success cannot fail to crown their labors. Certainly nothing could equal the perfect abandon with which County Agriculturist C. L. Brody and Miss Clara Waldron, the home agent, took the road on the morning of the day when the Farm Bureau of St. Clair county made its second annual farm home convenience tour. Not that they demolished speed laws, of course. But there were certain miles to be travel- ed that day and neither driver let such trifles as freshly worked roads, or oc- casional bad spots caused by recent rains, alter the time schedule. They were in the game to put it through, and they did it, just as they are put- ting through their work in the county, with energy and good nature, and a whole- souled determination to make the grade, whatever the ob- Stacles. ' The drive started in Port Huron, picking up autoists as they swung down the road by the river until when St. Clair was reached fourteen autoists car- rying eighty tourists were ready for the vis- its of inspection. From St. Clair the drive was inland, past fields of corn and grain, old or- chards and flourishing gardens, to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Eisen, of St. Clair township. Mr. Eisen is secretary of the farm bureau for his township and a leader in farm bureau work. The farm home has been completely made over during the past year as a. result of the inspiration they received during the tour of 1919. ’ ' To the women in the party the din- ing-room and kitchen were the points of greatest interest. Last year the house consisted of living-room and bed- room across the front, a. room which served as kitchen and dining-room back of the living-room, and to the right of this a, small pantry, stairway, and a little room 'used as storeroom, or upstairs cellar. This part of the house had a shed roof. The roof has been raised and a second story put OVer it, the pantry, storeroom and stairway torn‘ out and this space made into a, kitchen, and the room which did duty as dining-room and kitchen as well now serves as dining-room alone. Between the kitchen and dining-room are well constructed cupboards, with a. sliding wall panel which permits pasf sage of supplies from room to room. A thoroughly modern sink is on the end wall by the cupboard, so dishes may be washed and stored without extra steps. The house is not entirely fin- Kellogg, East - ished as'labor conditions reach build ing as well as farming. Water is in- stalled and the upstairs is to haves which have been tried and recomm perts of the Michigan Agricultural College. regarding these machines can bathroom as well as four bedrooms. A feature of the bedrooms worthy of note was that all the rooms has cross- ventilation except one. Here Mrs. Eisen explained, the carpenter abso- lutely refused to put in another win- dow in spite of her pleas for more air. A deck, or upstairs porch, is to be ad- ded, for airing bedding and shaking rugs. Below this will be a shed with a sink, where the men may wash. The living-room and bedroom have been thrown together into one large living- room, with an open stairway at the end The house has been remodeled with the one end in view, to make it convenient and easy to work in. A drive of a few miles brought the party to Belle River, just out of Mar- ine City, where a picnic dinner was served. Following the dinner Mr. Brody and Miss Edna Smith, home Power washing machines have robbed washday of its terrors for many women, but electricity and gas engines are not within the reach 0f every farm woman’s pocketbook. Most of them, however, can afford a hand-power machine, and there are two good ones Lansing, Michigan. agent leader, made short talks. Mr. Brody pointed out how the farm bu- reau, first organized to help the farmer solve his problems, has developed into -a business organization, and warned his hearers that it must not be allowed to grow selfish or failure will follow, as it has followed every organization which worked only for self. The bu- reau must make as its chief object the development of the individual into a well—rounded character and a superior citizen if it is to fulfill its highest pur- pose, according to Mr. Brody. A plea for boys’ and girls’ work as the best foundation for the future ‘of agricul- ture and as the greatest assurance that future problems of state will be in re- sponsible hands. Miss Smith exhibited an interesting chart on which she had outlined an es- timate of the probable time spent in the different forms of housework. She allowed two and a half hours to three hours for meals, ’two hours for dish- washing. an‘hour for care of bedrooms, a half-hour for “straightening up,” and one totwo hours for care of the chil- dren, as work ‘which must be‘ done daily. ‘In addition there is the laundry work with three ‘to five‘hours for wash- ing and two to four hours for ironing, one to three hours for mending, five or six hours, for-special cleaning, and four hours. :rp'rl, .8D92m1~‘;' baking. 513:9 farm iwoman’s day, according to~ this esti- mate, which took no note of outside work, is therefore thirteen hours. Miss} Smith advised a. careful study of indi- vidual needs with a view to cutting out all unessentiais and saving time, and suggested as helps, sinks, kitchen cabinets, dish drainers, washing ma- chines, and all real labor-saving de- vices which the pocketbook can afford. The next farm visited, that of North Wesbrook, exemplified the value of household machinery. Mr. and Mrs. Wesbrook have recently moved into a. handsome brick residence, thoroughly modern, and with the exception of electricity, with all the conveniences of the city. Electricity is to come as soon as the power company are ready, but already Mrs. Wesbrook has her power Washing machine, which she runs by means of the gas engine. '01? course, there is running water, a pres- sure tank in the basement sends the ended by the housekeeping ex- Detailed information be secured by writing Miss Ruth water to all parts of the house. There is a bathroom on the sec- ond floor and a toilet on the first. A vacuum cleaner cleans the rugs,'hardwood floors make cleaning easy. Hot water heat, and loadsof windows which insure the sun and air w h i c h the eight Wesbrook chil- dren need to keep them rosy, are other desirable things. A feature of the house is the cabinets for china, built beneath the pil- lars between the din- ing-room and living- room, and similar cas- es for books in the liv- ing-room pillars. The r h o u s e is large, .but Mrs. Wesbrook says the work is easier here than in the smaller house with- out its modern helps. 0. E. Robie, of the Michigan Agricultural College, ex- plained the water system and the sen tic tank to an interested crowd of men and women. The poultry farm of Joseph Bren- ner, Jr., in Chinatownship,‘ was full of interest to the poultry raisers. Mr. Brenner has four hundred birds, and is just now gathering two hundred eggs 3. day. He has three poultry hous- es—has just completed. one thoroughly modern and e'Xplained his method of ventilating the building. A 'special house shelters his incubator, which holds 3,600 eggs. . It is divided into six hundred-egg sections, and Mr. Brenner plans to have two sections a;week hatch. , - ' , A drive of ten miles into the’south- west corner of the county brought the party to the farmk'of H. J. Vogt & Son, in Cisco township near Adair. Here interest centered in'nineteen acres of as fine corn as can be found in Michi- _ gan. Messrs. Brody and Robie ex~ plained dust the 'stop‘ was made to show the advantage of tile draining. A , year ‘ago the field, was undrained. Pin the spring One sank in the-bogup ‘to the knees. The. Vogts, father and sonic - dccidedéto tile drain it3 ‘ newness... ,1 .. arena «iris; ‘ 7' _\ “W. w ,M-w‘—r_ L” y H .—...'.,\.~_.~r—~’ planning to drain eighty acres more this ,fall. The corn on this field was in'excellent condition, while in an un- drained field adjoining, it turned yel- low after a late rain.‘ Five hundred 1’35”» it is ' z A good clothes rack which can be pulled up to the ceiling out of the way when not in use; it may be used to dry wet clothes in winter or to hold the ironing. The rack is strong ’ and well built, and is also recom- mended by the college. and forty-eight barrels of water run out of the drain every twenty—four hours, according to an estimate made by Mr. Vogt. The last stop was to have been at the home of Mrs. Ida Quick, but owing to a confusion in, dates the family were not at home. Here a dumb waiter and other kitchen conveniences have been shalt-rest”: ., ve rods apart. The work cost." i? an acre, but the result has been - so satisfactory that the owners are} A: flour. - .. Lookforthe ' ROWENA trade-mark . on the sack .. know it. of the Wheat grain. ~in lukewarm rain water. " brighten installed. BE SURE TO REGISTER If you have not registered, do it now. You must be registered by October 16th, if you want to vote for President in N ovem-ber. WHY DOES MARY LIE? A certain mother who was much sur- prised that her small danghter lied‘ very frequently and seemingly without cause, would have been filled with shame had she recalled how often she had said to her maid in the child’s hearing, “Te’ll Mrs. Blank that I am not at home.” ' The right home training is the great- est force for morality. The character of the individual is determined by the way in which it is begun. . Were the right influence, example and environment given to all children there would be no need for reforma- tories; a verbal pledge would be as binding as a written one and the name of the profiteer would not be upon ev- ery tongue. FOR CLEANING DAY. Every housewife knows how the 017-1 on of an oil stove rusts and that if it is not properly oiled or greased every week or so it will soon wear out. If a little lime is sprinkled on a board and placed in the oven after baking it will absorb all the steam and prevent the rust from forming—Mrs. J. J. O’C. ‘ To make a good home-made duster, soak pieces of soft flannel in paraflin oil over night, wring out well and wash This will \gather up all the dust and leave a good polish on iloor and furniture—M. A. P. Dampen the dusting cloth with equal parts of . turpentine and kerosene to Mrs. J. J. O’C.‘ 1 I use plant-r as! Paris a not nil: in walls when" the nail. IQ“. loose, ad, for a vagrant of other as“. but use! -'to be truiifibythmeb'oo’on—W ing stifl-ui‘wmibmlwuw .r through-[flit Amuse-tau Jim”. to 1* amuse wanna-r mat as It the dwelt turnitura—. « it in uniformity, texture, color. _ appetizing, tender, white and delicrous. THE SIGN OF ' The Best Food Known is Baked from Flour No other food compares with the breadstuffs baked from As far back as we know been the staple fo'od of- the nations. . But flour always has been and always Will be the food reliance of most of the people of the world. ~ ‘ Lily White “The Flour the Best Cooks U se" is an example of the possibilities of modern milling to convert raw Wheat into a perfect flour. _ Science has shown how to get the most nutrlment out The milling processes employed in making LILY WHITE arevthe most advanced known in the world today. In the first place it is cleaned four times, scoured three times and washed once before going on the rolls for the first .break. . Second, only the best part, the heart of the what gram, 18 used in LILY 1 WHITE. Next the raw material is made flour by the “SIX-break system”——scientific, thorough, LILY WHITE is never touched by a human hand—«is even sacked automatically. N o flour. surpasses Everything baked from it 18 flavory, Makes equally good bread. The ancients rolls, biscuits and pastry. Try LILY WHITE. It is guaranteed. Your dealer has it. s. VALLEY CITY MILLING CO. 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Ship to Bil and «19:3: "The Check That Satisfiu. ” FREE Wonder Bank“ Secret- oft!" gate-t Prie gut and tho-Load on“ Fai- ‘ Specialists in tanning Horse. Cow. Call or any kind of hide with hair or fur on it. We make robes. ‘ -coats, caps, gloves. mulls, rugs. . _ etc..to your order. Yousauemoneu . ,' - and we saveyour furs. cham- logofnylish furéamnnts; Flew. instructions for handling furs. Fur ’ garments and goods of all kinds repaired and made like new. [Wemmntlame-ndnmallwne. birds-ad Self alignirg TENssION ., fl“ (ll-m mm __ Raising THINK my bantams have given me more fun than any other pets I ever kept, and I have had a. considerable experience with creatures of different kinds in fur or feathers It isn’t worth while to bother with mongrel bantams, but if you can find well bred birds, they will prove a constant delight. 'There are many different kinds, and the smaller you can get them, the bet- ter. Some kinds, like the Plymouth Rocks and the Brahmas, are simple pocket editions of the larger breeds of the same name. Other kinds, like the Seabrights, the Japanese, and the Booted Bantams, are wholly different from. foWls of any other kind. The Seabright bantams are among the kinds in which boys delight. They are exceedingly diminutive, weighing only about 25 ounces. The Seabright cock is a perfect little dandy. I—Iis mate has very pert, independent ways, but {ted air, is about the most amusing struts about as though he were lord of all he surveyed, instead of being such a tiny bit of flesh and feathers that you could almost crush him in your hand', or hide him in your pocket. It’s a curious fact that both the hens and "the roosters have feathers that aih laced exactly alike. Moreover, the shape of the two sexes is, almost identical, both having Wide spreading tails and wings which point to the ground just back of the legs. There are both golden and silver .Seabrights, one having plumage of golden yellow While the other has. silvery White fea- thers. With both, each feather is evenly and distinctly laced all around with a narrow edging of lustrous black. I am telling all these things about the Seabrights because they are among the most interesting of all fowls, and every boy ought to know about them. They are really a made breed. That is, they were deliberate- ly worked out by an Englishman, Sir John Seabright, for whom they were named. For 30 years this man de- voted much of his time to mating and breeding bantams in order to produce a certain fixed type. The Seabrights are good pets for boys, and so are the Cochin and the Brahma bantams. In fact, these two just named are prob- ably the best breeds for boys to start with, because they are very hardy, do not mind cold weather, and are very easy to handle. Perhaps more Cochin bantams are kept than any other kind, and any boy may well be glad to own a little flock of well bred birds. They weigh only about 30 ounces, and with their deep, plump, well-rounded bodies, short legs, and abbreviated necks, they look like little feather balls. Their legs tend so low that the-y completely hide the feet. Altogether they should be miniature duplicates of larger Cochins. If you prefer Brahma bantams, you will find them almost as handsome and just as small. There are both the light and dark Brahmas, and while they are not as pert as the Seabrights, they have a very engaging and friend- ly manner. In fact, few bantams will allow as much handling as the Brah- - mas. There is one distinct advantage in. lo. keeping the larger bantams like Coch- ins, Brahmas and Plymouth Rocks be so they lay 6833 the rooster, with his smart, high-spin bird in all the poultry kingdom. He are covered with feathers, which ex- ' which,- while _ ll, are still large enough to use fer 4‘. By E. I. Fam72gt072 cooking. They are usually very good layers, too, so that if you raise ban; tams of these breeds, you can make them pay in eggs for all the feed they Consume; Of course, you would be 3glad to contribute your time ”for the enjoyment you get working among them. Sometimes men who raise pheasants are glad to buy bantam Cochin hens A Seabright Bantam Cockerel. to use as mothers. In fact, the ban- tam Cochins are famous as 'sitters, and oftentimes several hundred are to be found inlittle coops scattered over game farms, sitting on the eggs of the different wild birds. Probably the breeds which I have named include most of those which boys should choose for pets, at least when they first start out as fanciers Later, if they want to raise some of the rarer bantams, they can get a few 4 antams for Pets ,— specimens 0f the Japanese or Poll both of which are exceedingly hand- some. The Polish bantams have a large topknot, while the Japanese bans tams have a remarkable tail develop- ment. The tails have long,~swordlike sickel feathers which point almost straight into the air. They also have very large ,combs and very short legs, so that they seem almost as though walking about in a sitting Posture. 'Al-'- V together they are to be classed as one of the curiosities .of the bantam family. , Being so diminutive, bantams re- quire only a small house. In fact, a few bantams can be kept readily enough in a dry goods box or a piano box. It is important, though, that the house be dry and free from draughts. It need not be'especially warm, if sheltered from the winds.’ It is much more important to have plenty of fresh air. Feed your bantams just as you would older hens, except that you should give them only craCked grains, and should avoid over feeding. It doesn’t take very much grain and‘ mash to keep bantams in good condi— tion. green stuff in addition to the grain, and keep fine oyster shells and grit where they 'can get at them at all times. While bantams will Scratch like larger fowls, they are so small that they do very little damage, and often- tMes they can be given the run of the garden or the lawn, in which event they will pick up a large part of their own rations during the summer. I know of few pets which require so lit- tle care, and which give as many re- turns as do bantams for the attention bestowed upon them. Boys and Girls There liirst Wale/z T/ze772, See 2f T/zz's 2': Not True—By Uncle Ed HE farmers of a certain county held a picnic not long ago. One thing those who had their eyes open noticed, and that was that the boys and girls were first on the ground. When things began to be done they were there, ready to see and to take part in the exercises. If'you will give this matter some at- tention, you will find that it is almost universally true. Boys and girls are There 2': no Butter «Shim/{fig Man Staci: Judging, fir the Jun-4‘ » 2'07“ Breeder. in the front ranks. No slackers, no laggards among them. They are wide awake and ready to take advantage of every situation. There is this good thing about the matter. When these young folks come to take their places on the farm as owners and managers and begin really to do business, things are bound to hum. Another thing is true. There is room for every single one of these live boys and‘girls right Don’t forget togive them some ' "1' Her. Seven . Toes. Fer'an chap tells me that he has a kitten, which has seven toes on each of her front feet. By the way, did you ever think how many your kit- tens have? And ,did you ever see a cat that had seven toes on her hind feet? We would really like to know about that. But what I am interested in now is whether that seven-toed-er, as the boy calls his kitten, catches more mice than do the kittens with only five claws. And the boy tells me she does. That she is the greatest kit- ten to catch mice they ever had on the farm. If that is so, then we can see that the seven toes amount to something. No use having an extra allowance of resources of' an kind unless you make good use of the] . A boy might have a dozen knives in his pocket, but if he kept them there, they would not do him much good. It is the use we make of our time, our talents and our strength that counts for most. What do you do with yours? THE BEAR THIEF. S the bear descended the mountain the warm’September sun began to melt the snow and it slipped from the overhanging branches to splash upon the leaves and rocks below; this she did not like, for, by the force of its fall, it drove its chill moisture into her coat, so she sought a small meadow on .a flat surrounded by trees, where the sun shone warm,” writes Charles L. (“Grizzly”) Smith in an article on “The Grizzly Bear at Home,” in Boys’ Life. “Her unerring nose led her to a small mound of fresh earth beneath ' the snow. with one sweep of her paw she brushed the snow aside and dis- closed a small hole in the ground. This was the home of a Columbia ground squirrel and from early in July. he had been industriously collecting and stor- ing roots for winter use. He had dug a hole deep into the rocky soil going down at a steep angle for a distance of about three feet, then to one side for a few inches then on an incline up for about eighteen inches, then off again on a level where he had evacuat- ed a large area capable of holding a. peck or more of edible roots. He had then dug a small tunnel to one side of this granary and evacuated another round compartment the size of a man’s hat which he filled with dry shredded grass, to form a warm dry wall; this he used as a bedroom. ‘ “The bear by long experience knew the internal arrangements of the little squirrel’s domicile and of the plentiful store of roots to be had at a minimum of labor, so shehsbt to work at once to despoil the little fellow of his hard earned stores. She tore at the tough sod and roots and broken stones, mak- ing a large hole and finally reaching the treasure. The little store was in- complete, yet she found it ample to repay her for the labor expended, for it would have taken hours to have lo- cated and dug each of these roots for herself. After she had cleaned out the little storehouse and caught and eaten her benefactor, she went on down the mountain.” Edgar Holly only had forty acres of land and when he told folks about it, they said, “What a dinky little place, how do you make a living?” So he bought 200 acres of Swampland near- by and it didn’t cost much and it’s not.a M“ l Egolendid individualss andb R. 2. Minkl’ri any good now. It increases his taxes but not his income. Now he says he has 240 acres of land and city folks say, “What a fine big place, you must ' do pretty well in these days whenm “N" food is so profitable.” Edgar says that ‘ 1 ,folks often go daily on acreage but don’t care a whoop about how much a I shallow makes on each acre‘. BREEDERS’ DIRECTflRY Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach on Ten Days before date of publication Wildwood Farms Anguw Effies Lass 238203 sold on May 6th for $7100. She was sired by Black Men- arch 3rd. We are offering for sale Ed- itor of Wildwood 295059 a full brother in blOOd lines to Effies Lass also four more choice bulls which are old enough for service and sired also by the cham- pion show and breeding bull Black Monarch 3rd. Our herd is under State and Federal Supervision. WILDWOOD FARMS ORION, MICHIGAN W. E. SCRIPPS. Prop" Sidney Smith.Supt. wooncors ANGUS Imported Herd Bulls ELCHO 0F HARVIESTOUN (45547) byJ seen of Balllndalloch EDGA RDO OF DALMENY $501) by Escort of Hurviestoun ( ) Woodoote Stock Farm. Ionia. Mich. Registered Guernsey bulls. Ms Rose Fggesale breedin cheap it taken soon Obme or w John Ebe s 3.2 Holland. Michigan. SPRING DELI. FARM GUERNSEYS For 3083310ch Choice of two bulls ltwo and threglyearsm old; 61 vs month nourishes“;e Indiana. CW” Bun! Busto of mSmilidgo” 131-111, ,born 3113‘ 31,11ng who‘s rixeyof theRidao G p ace Riverside Mylo-lg: an 3 l“ £33211“ 1.131011. B‘11:'l.°n"311..1..., 111.11. G lie I pinned: bred ”mm in tom mascara-weeks}: l 35.1.3.1: pnwzfi'mmw prices. ' . Guernsey bulls from 3 months For sale- to 6 months old. Their sire is DOT'I‘IE'S PRINCE No. 44696; his dam has an ofiicial yearly record of 647 lbs. bButter fat t. L J. YERS Goldwater. Mich. GUERNSEYS— ——Federsl Inspected. Headed by only son of Carrie of Hillhurst. exchamgion 01A A. class. 5 bulls under 10 mom. 1 a druid ose dam in olasthas given over 50 lbs. milk No emules to spare. G. W. Jr R. G. RAY, 4 mi east of Albion, Mich. G U El R N S E BULL CéIJVES whose 19. 460mm 909. 05 fat. Thellgiihgsher’ 5d Eire' £13111: made 15.109310 milkT 7'18. 80 f.at ..V HICKS. Battle Creek. Mich. Registered Guernseys a 6 months old bull (100%) satisfaction for 3100. A nice heifer calf $150. J.M MWILLIAMS, North Adams. Miclr. G U oE R N 5 EV S sttfiltit‘ttg otn aining blood of world champions. HICKS' OOUERNSEY FARM, Saginaw W.S. Mich FOR SALE Registered Guernsey heifers. I{oarlings and calve E. A. BLACK, onto 3 Howard City, Mich GUERNSEYSR Blfl Sigdresxh‘lg Guamsey GEO. N. CRAWFORD R. 2, Holtcn, Mich. Paid in milk for Purebred Holsteins The Reveille, Bellingham, Wash, re- ports that the Pacific Condensary Co., sells high-grade Holsteins to the ranch- ers at cost, taking payment in milk. The company needs more milk and by introducing Holsteins expects to make dairying a profitable industry, thus increasing the acreage in dairy farms as well as the milk out ut per average cow. Just another ins nce of the standing of Holsteins among busi- 'ness men. Send for free Illustrated Booklets. The contain valuable information for an Dm Fman' ‘ THE ROWIN-FRIBSIAN ASSOCIATION I“ Hudson Street Bnttloboro Vermont. — 31.06111. butterflwmiggm. :3 mldamdanaoabuu. halal-L WM Medium prices It is easier to find good clothes at high prices than to find good clothes at medium Stylcplus, however, stand out the nation over as Suits and overcoats of really distinctive quality at prices never extreme. Their fabrics are all-wool; excellent; their tailoring exceptional. Their guarantee is full and absolute; satis- faction is certain; assured. Buy at a clothing store where you have the chance to see and try on the clothes before you pay for them. their styling Sold by one leading clothing-merchant in most cities and towns. (Dept. H ) for name of local dealer. Henry Sonncborn & Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md. Write us -WinnWood Herd- Flint Maplecrest Boy No. 166974 ' Has Made Good one of his SONS will raise your herd to a higher standard and better production we have them for sale at moderate prices. A Few Females For Sale —0UR JUNIOR HERD SIRE- Sir Ormsby Skylark Burke No. 264966 .3 bgother to the world champion cow over all ree s. DUCHESS SKYLARK ORMSBY Michigan’s best. bred Ormsby bull. Better get on the list for one of his sons out of a daughter of Flint Maplecrest Boy. JOHN H. WINN, (lnc.) Roscommon, Michigan H 0 L S 'l E I N S. Long Distance MIME 8113;: Five dams av. 1186 lbs. butter and 24771 It lk 1_.yr Bulls all sold. State and Federal Su is 1111 in A. FLEMING. he, Mich. OUR HERD SIRE [B Model King Segis Glista ya 30 lb. son of Lakeside Kin Segis Alban De Kol. His dam Glista Fenelle 32. 37 lb 5. Her dam Gl lsta Er- nestine 35. 96 lbs. His three nearest dams average over 38 lbs and his forty~six nearest tested relatives aver- age over 30 lbs. of butter in seven days Write for pri- ces on his sons Grand River Stock Farms Cory J. Spencer, Owner Eaton Rapids. ich. “TOP NOTCH” HOLST EIN S McPHERSON FARMS COMPANY has raised man great milk cows. —— l omcmiy P need 842 lbs. milk in '1 days .. fl 3394 lbs. milk in 30 days 1 120 lbs. milk in 1 day 811 lbs. milk in 7 days over 10000 lbs. milk in 100 days 105 lbs. milk in 1 day " " 1867 lb Others under test are making lasargeamlll‘llkraol car 01% flfne 10:1 of yauréig bullsifion; 31 11110 the to 2 year- or s e e a " production in your herd m u an increase milk Our horde are under U. S. supervision. McPHERSONF FARMS C0.. Howell. Mich. The Traverse Herd We have what you want in BULL CALVIS. the large, fine growth: type, guaranteed right in every way They are from high producing A. R. 0. ancestors. but 11 records up to so lbs. Write for pedigree: and quotations. stating about age desired. _ Traverse City. Mich. TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL. at 4 hush. hail: lint m- ' . Hr. Dairy fli’lllll‘, Ir. ALL THREE are working to a common purpose-to in- crease the production of Michim Dairy herds. We believe all three should work together. We feel sure that no Michigan bull has ever been better equipped for the Work. We have it on high authority that there are none better individually. His three nearest dams cad: averaged to produce 100 lbs. butter and 2100 lbs. milk per month for a lull lactation per- iod with an average of 3.85 far. _ His dam is one of Michigan‘s greatest family—three full sisters that have produced over 30 lbs. butter in seven days. two of them producing over 700 lbs. milk, and two of them producing more than 1000 lbs. butter and 21000 lbs. milk in ten months. _His sire is the direct descendant of three aficio- tions of 30 lb. cows and two generations of ‘ lb- yearly record cows. ‘ is first three sisters to enter yearl test will each produce more than 800 lbs. butter an 17009 lbs. milk as heifers. Let King Filnl Help You improve Your Herd Through One 01‘ His Sens A son of this great young sire suited to head any herd in Michigan, grade or purebred, can be secured iNY'lI’Gfiluesee County and we want them all to stay in . 1" an. Writ: us about your hard, tell us what you need and what you feel you can afford to pay and let us help you find just what you want in Genesee County, the center of Michigan's long distance dairy cattle. liennda Farm Elmcresi Stock Farm Waller T. Hill 6. l. Spillane &. Son Go. Dawson, Mich. Clio, Mich. From dams With good records. BULL CALVES SIRED BY 45 lb. BULL. BULL CALVES SIRED BY 34 lb. BULL. BULL CALVES SIRED BY 33 lb. BULL. PRICES VERY REASONABLE. Privelege of return if not satisfied. A. W. COPLAND, Birmingham, Michigan. Herd under State and Federal Supervision Odors the best selection of young bulls from 8 to 12 months we ever raised; out of dams up to 29.76 for aged cows and over 26 lbs. for 2 yr. olds. Yearly records up to 24000 lbs. milk and 1000 1m, butter. Sired by our Senior Herd Sire. Maple- crest Application Pontiac. whose dam made 35 lbs. butter in 7 days and 1344 lbs. butter and 23421 lbs. milk in a year. or by Dutchland Kon- igen Sir Rag Apple, our Junior Herd sire, whose dam is a. 30 lb. 10 yr. old maternal sister of Dutchland Colantha Denver who made 36 lbs. in 7 days and 1315 lbs. butter and 25431 lbs. milk in 1 year. Several carry the blood of both these sires. They are extra. well grown. straight and right. One of these at the head of your herd is bound to increase production. Send for pedigrees and prices. ll. Bruce McPherson, Howell. Mich. I have live registered Holstein-Frie. sell or Lease sian bull calves from A. R: 0. dams from 8 to 4 months old. “King Ona" strain. Will sell or let out for two years without charge, you to use for breeding arbthgeri return to me . IS, “Morris Hills Farms" Mt. Morris. Michigan on our Ranch at Clare. several fine we Have! Holstein Bulls, at prices ranging from $50.00 up. Will furnish pedigrees. The records back of each individual are good. Add ress LLIAM C. GUliNWELL. Saginaw halich, HOlSleln Friesian heifer and bull calves, purebred registered and high-grade. Price $.21) up. Splendid individuals and breeding. Write us your re- quirements. Browucroft Farms, McGraw. N. Y. accepted in payment of finely bred reg- ‘ 600d "Ole istered Holstein bull calves. Quality , of the best. and at prices Within reach of all. Write. GEO. D. CLARKE. . - - Vassar. Mich. Holsteins of Quality for sale. Heifers from 8 to 24 monts old. All regis- tered and sold subifict to tuberculin test. . A. HARDY, Rochester. Mich BARGAIN PRICES heifers and young bulls ready for service. JOSEPH H. BR WER. Grand Rapids, Michigan onpure bred olstein F s I 4 Holstein heifers, 3 2 yrs. old, 1 3 yrs. old, or a 0 1 with calf by side others to freshen later from heavy producers 8450 takes them all. E. S. NASH R. 3, Howell, Mich_ 81200 Buys five good young reg Holstein cows. Some fresh others freshen soon. Very prominent breeding. All guar. ()K. B. B. Reavey, Akron, Mich. HEREFORDS 20 Cows and Heifers of popular breed- ing for sale also bulls not related. i l 40— -,HEAD "40. Good, High Class Registered _. Cows. Heifers and Bulls INCLUDING A FEW COWS OF THE DUAL ‘_ PURPOSE on MILKING STRAIN . This sale will be held ‘Southerh Michigan Shorthorn Breeders’ Association All stock is sold on consignment from members'of this Associa- ' under the auspices of the . ALLEN BROS. Jersey bull calves of Majesty breeding from For sale good producin stock. He on Govern- ment ‘éAicredited List." it”)? for firice and pedi ree Tecumseh, Michig’an We Now Have a number of choicely bred scotch females of any a“: for sale also three hulls from 6 to 18 months old. it our herd before buying. Sold 5 calves for 85400. CARR 81103., t 00., Bad Axe. Mich. 130:: D, PAW PAW, MICHIGAN to . TAGGETT, airzrove,Mlc . . h d 3 h id, 11 ' ‘bull calves of leasin Herefords. in“ 5:352:12... ::.:”..i..:.“°.i.:i3 R e s gist epr ,e «3 Jersey “Warmth an. , e . anya e. ' e . produc on. rice ve ow qua ycons re . gift? sex hominoii ficieoanri's, g Balexe.riEdIigh. o. s. Bagsncri‘, alamazoo. Mich. . 4 Reg. bulls 5 to 8 mo. old. Prices ' Re later of Merit HeI'BfOI'dS ' reasonable for quick sale visitors Jerseys For sale, stogk of both sex. welcome. Reed Schultz, ,R. 3, Homer. Mich. , mlth and Parker. Howell, Michigan. HEREFORDS lillio Farming £02333 2 R. of M. bull calves, one year old is tall. IE,”\ Coopers le, Mich. D. S. Polled Herefords ' Herd headed by Banner Bullion. 81593.3. (18242) son or '. grand champion Bullion 4th. For Sale—A few good polled and horned co this great bull. Also three fine bull related to him. Correspondence solicited. bred to ca ves not Jersey Bulls gram R. of M. dams 875 Ito norrnrlwri‘ii’h. on... Lake. Mich. Shorthorns. Efifln‘fiéfif’fidfi’fi‘ mpion heads hard, one scotch two in. old Cole 8: Gardner, Hudson,Mich. Sultan or... hard bull by 1 stress as we... n... .‘\ ,. Richland Shorthorns Imp. Lorne, Imp. Newton chain ion and Sterling Supreme in Service. e offer for "quick sale: Five Seotch Bulls, best v' var". ‘r of breedin . Three whites M31000 esch‘ One :21“ finish“ . pngfiedat .28No females for e. c as. e c .. . ,. Taverns, . Mich. . ° -. Hoar‘é‘ot positing where they m y be'turned under with- out first being hauled out to the field. mai is always to be considered. In hog- ging‘ down corn the animals receive a great deal of exercise which keeps them contented and vigorous. Instead ofrooting around in sloppy pig yards , as is often~ the case, they are working; , " in clean fields which, as one may ob: serve, is, of no small benefit to them. Before examine _ “in. h says one. or our southernfméfil gan farmers. "I have‘rlfirty gees fhlred- men who will profitably hand a. fair portion of my corn crop. Not only Will they husk the com, but use: .haul and crib 1t, and at the same time put some good name back onzthe: land for me. Best part of the. deal18 that they are not charging me recent” for their labor either. While they are working. with the com I will he get- ‘ , ting a. lot of next spring’s work out of ‘ the way.” ' .‘ A lucky man, you may think. Per-L haps so, but there are thousands more . just like him, for with ten or more h’ogs on the farm, one may harvest " considerable of the cosn crop at excom- paratively low expense, which if judi- ciously managed will at the same time produce a good amount of pork. rWith the present day market situa- tion confronting us it is important that we place our hogs on the market at , the lowest cost possible. Husking corn and hauling it to the feed lot will pro- duce pork, however, this requires con- tion and is of a quality which commands attention siderable labor which is rather scarce } " - and too high-priced for the returns re. .3 a, o ‘ o ceived on the present market. Such a. 3 H 1 ll S.d a l e M l C h practice cannot be termed as the -‘ ’ C cheapest and most efficient. ' Experience a Good Demonstration. ,‘ FAIR GROUNDS In the past the practice of hogging down the corn has often been scorned T d O . 5 1 by many Michigan farmers and termed a u es ay, Ct. , 9 2 O “a lazy man’s trick.” Corn belt farm~ _, ers and several agricultural experi- 5'. ment stations have utilized this sys- For Pa‘rticularsand Catalog Address tem of Pmducmg P°rk and report very favorably concerning it. Substantial , ' .daily gains with little man and horse JOhn SOUthworth’ seC., Allen, MlCh' labor involved have_convinced many , ANDY ADAMS, Sales Manager and Auctioneer growers 0f the 3°“ndness °f taking ad‘ / .. ‘ _ vantage of the willingness of hogs to ,/ husk their own corn. 1 p - P It is not so much the question of pro- . I . ducing more pork to the acre but rath- . er one of producing the. most at the H 0 I 818 I n D l s e rs l 0" 8a l 8 lowest cost. Hogging dewn the corn \- . appears to be the answer to the prob- * lem, especially if we consider the val-. no to the other‘crops of the labor sav- e Ch asl en Farms ed in handling the corn harvest. \ Advantages. " 24 registered and 48 grade 'Holstein cattle will be sold ateleven o’clock, Thurs- The advantages to be gained from day October 7 at Chaslen Farms three miles from Northvflle, Mich. hogging down corn may be briefly Pure bred Hollsiteinsh cgnsist ocfl 12 cows that fwill be fdeSh' at date of sale‘or summed up under three heads. First :igrzi‘xyewuh ca , 9 e1 ers un er one year 0 age'an 3young bulls fit for of all, andt 01;? that is of utmost im- . . t f 2 cows under six 1’ a . . portance .a t e present time, is that ghalgfi viilllhtg lfri'ZShodlrs 1lsieaily with calf at date of gigs lfalangcg’ liieil'egéordtii’dg: the practice ‘5 ideal from a labor-sav— 9 one year of age. *ing standpoint. Every farmer is aware One 2800 lbs. pair of mules, full brothers ,4 and 5 years of age and 4 horses 0f the amount 0f man and horse labor ° will be 501d, » ‘ ' that is required to cut, husk, haul and Farmers desiring a herd boar will find 200 Duroc Jersey swine on the farm crib corn, and then feed it out to the _ to fnake selections from. 10 head of pure bred Shorthorn bulls will be priced hogs in the pen. The expense of these right at private 5319- operations may be largely saved and , at the time of the year when there is ' usually a great rush of out~of~door urs ay, 0 0 er . - ‘ . l I Then there is the fertility problem A}; that must be considered. In feeding , 0- "I & LI Al YOUNG, PrOPSI "or'hVIIIO’ "Ichl corn in the pen there is almost always a waste of valuable fertility. If any of The Wildwood Farm [BIDWELL SHORTHORNS the manure made is returned to the lighsisgaiiilglillif’l‘égiin'tfifiétgfdd fign'ii’tfiifigrigi You Can Buy soil it is accomplished at quite an ex- ' . sale. ALVIN BALDENf Phone 1 -5, Capac. Mich. ghg’glilflrggeficflh)p:%nwgigyhftg (a: ’gufid“§y “If?" pense and only after many hours: Of 3 , good Boom, and 320mb?” of, ,2,,fi;,',_ £2,335?“ laborious and not altogether pleasant . j Bugs}: 315mg Emilifigaigus gggmmrggga gm‘grggggfgmrgggmagm maze; work. When harvesting their own corn, ’- I, "' Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan. BIDWELL STOCK FARM the hogs are making manure and de- s. it directly upon the land. They are also leaving cornstalks The general health of any farm ani- Managementofths Qorn Fishy, . .Miiiig”°“§£3¥§i§§‘i.§m;"a§;l‘fifi , - Defining: a; , i‘imda a: e n t3 . 3 t3 ' 0 _ .. f The number of hogs that an acre ~ tion. They will work in the corn. pay tuition from their boss. ”What be permitted to cov- - 50]..le an area at one time or ' .ey‘wm mt do a clean 30b of pastur- ing ,and hence a waste of‘ good feed will carry depends largely upon the field of the corn and the size and vig- or of the hogs. A fifty-bushel crop of corn will .carry ten fione-hundred-pound pigs from eighteen to twenty days. Three fall shotes and six spring pigs maybe counted upon to clean up an; acre of fifty-bushel corn in fifteen to twenty days. One should approximate the amount of corn that will be hogged off and lay plans to keep" them on that area until they» have cleared it up. A method commonly used in the corn belt is to roll down a portion of the field. The hogs seldom bother the standing corn as they find the knock- ed clown corn so much easier to pro- cure. After the portion of the field' that was rolled down has been cleared up an additional amount should be rolled and the hogs will find this new] ready feed in a short time. ‘ Some practice ’the system of stretch1 ing a temporary fence through the corn by whaving hog wire in between the stalks. It is not necessary to make this fence very substantial as the hogs seldom attempt to go beyond it as long as there is. good corn left within the enclosure. Some believe it advis- able to knock down some corn when using the fence system, especially at first when the idea is rather new to the hogs. When that part of the field that has been fenced off is cleaned up the fence is moved over and the ani- mals allowed to enter the new clean pasture. The fence system necessi- tates a little more work but is thought by many to be the best. Balance the Ration. Although the hogs are apparently glad of the mortunity to obtain their own food in their own particular man- ner it has been the experience of feed- era that they should be provided with other things besides corn, which is high in carbohydrates, but does not meet the protein requirements of the hog. This protein element may easily be supplied and the hog allowed to obtain it as his appetite and body needs re- quire. We are like];r to consider the hog as an animal devoid of all sense, however, he has often shown better judgment concerning the choice of his food than some of the so-called higher animals. Many Michigan farmers planted soy beans in their corn last spring and thus have provided a very good pro- tein supplement for the corn feed In ‘4 Trips. Across America Essex 4’ Times Breaks Record San Francisco to New York——3347 Miles In 4 Days. 14 Hours. 43 Minutes First Essex San Francisco to New York —-4 days, 14 hours, 43 min. Lowers Record ”hours, 48 rain. Second Essex New York to San Francisco —-4 days, 19 hours, 17 min. lowers Record 22 hours, 13 min. Third Essex . San Francisco to New York—~4 days, 21 hours. 56 min. Lowers Record by 5 hours. 35 minutes. Fourth Essex . New York to San F rancxsco—S days, 6 hours, 13 min. This car took a longer route and also ran into storms. Yet it broke the former record by 11 hours, 19 nn'nutcs. A Proof of Reliability Never Equalled The first test of an automobile carrying U. S. Mail across the Amer- ican continent was made with the light weight, moderate priced Essex. trans-continental record both ways. And it resulted in establishing the Essex as holder of the The performance while of momentous importance in the world of speed and automobile sportsmanship—is of greater value to the motorist. Weight in the most difficult and hardest road service. Also Holds These Noted Records Many other unmatched Essex records forcast its ability to break the transcontinental records at will. For it removes all doubt about the reliability of light For instance it holds the offic- ial 50-hour endurance record of 3037 miles in 50 hours. It holds the 24-hour dirt track mark of 1261 miles, made by an owner—car, which had previously seen over 12,000 miles service. And it holds the world’s 24-hour road mark of 1061 miles, made over Iowa coun- try highways. Yet these records are significant only because they show the en- durance and reliability of every Essex car. ability of any Essex to duplicate these feats. Essex Motors, Detroit, Michigan They speak for the which may be of considerable value Bull calves for sale. from times. to ‘ . . , 3, ' I n‘g. Rad Pollld 1 year old. sired by Famouswamor this fall m hogging off the corn. AI- 8 anal. 8 am '0" 0 a n ”'3 er 3%.? 3°“ °f (”W Willfilié‘lf E12331“ i§$ ‘il‘l‘é‘f falfa fields adjoining the corn may be : ' ' . A ‘ ‘ . utilized to supply the protein. ably one of the best systems is to firs?" Gl’mfl‘thls place self-feeders in the corn fields first prqduce of dam- Grand Ch mm them. wen by in the sale. Sale date 0cm 28. Write for ca Plenty ’of good fresh water should Immune- and use tankage, shorts, or oilmeal. Prob- Showed ten head at the Michigan State Fair and won second on under a year boar. second and fourth. pig First aged sow, second senior yearling. First and fourth under a year. E. R. LEONARD, ST. LOUIS, NlICH. Regls May always beavailable. Troughs may be placed at convenient places in the field and daily attended to. . Provided with the corn, water, and a protein feed, the hogs may be de- pended upon to balance their own re; a frequent visit to the watering trough; O. I. C. SOWS FOR SALE One of the Best Herd: in Michigan Young sows due to furrow in Se" tember. _ ’TYPE breedmg. ment. Choice individuals of Bl express and re ‘ster in buyer's name. .J' CARL ‘ EWETI', Spring bears ready for ship- I ship C. O. D. pay R. 5, Mason, Michigan. and sold. by us. : Fine Registered and occasionally drop over to the self- feeder for their protein handout. The found in groups contentedly discuss- CAT'I'LE SmRTHORNS~Imp Mysie Prince in service bred , g . dot of the . th be lby J. Dnmohsir‘e grzdulflJWm. Duthie. Stock for mam time ey may . Shorthorns mnemwhmd buns. cowsand as e. . . M, Union City. Mich. l: . W. B. MCQUILLAN. R. 7. Howell. Mich. ing the topics of the day and at the same time laying on pork in a most M EADOW Kills Mo _ . due Valuers to": met sine. I'm- Iale femalesof all satisfactory manner With very little at- am... renown ls. swam ms. lend headed by Sll var Klnf. full brother of lavender Sultan Pur- l For Sale 19 Shot-thorn registered good breeding 0'10“, first Sr will sell rhea The JENNINGS 1" RM 8, Bal lay. a Donor. Mich liking fiharthom 3 mos. heifer calfflfi bred heifers . . m not i and serviceable bulls at farmers' prices. Central . Milking ballsfifiolgimn. firm kneading, M c . Shorthorn Asso. Oscar Skinner Sec.Gowcn.Mich. IWE'I'Zy Mm m for sale 2 v7. 0 Polled cattle f r sale hulls from 4 to 181110845130 of Merit Both male. Red cows with calvgs 3’ side and heifer‘s. 3153531500233 93:," “fiat em . {Hid-Wu G. A. ALHOON. Bronson, Mk1). ’ ‘ , p.» T1108. UHDERHIL for sale. ARTE!!! Donna. Lancer. Michigan ' W. lane“ noun. S!)Mhm Bulls flighttom mad-.1". . MW cattleaholce ”whims from6t018 ., | .. . . Booted: as am imam: gauges»: M. G. mosi'l'sn arse llifiegitskiresfikapldu 1 nice. i prize 1'. ear as si 1: State Fair. b W. é. Every, Manchester. Mix 0. H. WH TNEY, HOGS on now ' I. First on blecders herd, first on exhibitors herd, first on get of sire, . - m ampion sow, senior champion sowandjunior champion sow. All of Ber kSI’llr es Size w ‘ 'I Big Bob and his blood Will be represented strongly talog and information. All hogs on the farm cholera it}: quality is our special- nto your wants to dc SONS. Usseo, Mich. tered Berkshires. Gilts, and Sows bred for April ' _J one furrow. A yearling Bohr and a. few youngerfiprmg pigs. Chase Stock Farm,Murlette.Mich. gainers. 550 to 600 lbs. 17 Berkshire pics for 5830 roliflc. large litters. . Merrill, Mich. Spring pics by Walt’s . Year! i ng K to close out. Apfillch DOUG“, Jukflflth. Rapids and Saginaw 1919 Phillips Bros,Riga,Micl1. DUROC JERSEY SWINE _ ldherdbmm. eel b not §Vrirm “mama to for pedigree: L & EON. Salem, Mich. Grand Ledge. Etch] . W. o. finfi’tbflfipflfi' u. travails-bred »— - THREE GREAT Hoisrnn m I? n 1, : OCTOBER '9'20'2' 7 we!» llilo ’ ‘ ,' Mia Boone-Hill, (in. s - Del. 21 Blanchard " Leonard .& Fisher 5 Del. 28 ~81. Louis .g i ~ : llhas.Welzol&Sons lid. 29 } llliaca 3; : 86:16:31 firm herds that have passed at least one clean test under state w'BrGWbaker & sons 00'. 30 ’ EISi. ’5 3;; an era supervision. ‘ ' ‘ ' These firms. members of Central Michigan Poland China Breeders’ ‘ '- All high'dass mdlyiduals' ~ Assn., will present to the public an offering of Poland China swine, . , h All h‘gh‘record ammals‘ such as has never before been offered in the state. The sales will 7 ‘ . ‘. be held at above named places and will give the farmer an opportunity : ‘ . r. I . . . . . . . Easl Lansmg. Wednesday. 0clober 20"! Hz.senescence:r::£::szrchdni‘sashes:no..- Second Michigan State Holstein Sale Jackson, Tuesday, Oct. 19th,“ 70 Michigan’s Best Holstein 70 l - - - - - ~ - time, for these firms will sell to the highest bidders sows and boars of — * 75 head carefully selected mdrvrdnals, including twocompletedispersals. the hj hest individual merit from the best blood lines of the breed. ‘ » i .; Co]. a A. Ecll‘tfilart of Illinois alatridtsCol.l . Edt Blowelrs of Indiana will ' .5 do the se ing. ese men are Is as we‘s oc sa esmen, and it w' p ”"0830, Thlll'Sday, "GIOber 2 I 3| do the breeders and farmers of our good old state an untold amount .7 . . . . , , of good to be at the sales. It will help 0 get them acquainted with the ;; 80 head, lush-class cattle, Including complete dISPersal 0f the HIHIS breed from an educational standpoint. Michigan is recognized today, 5} herd, headed by the best son of Hengerveld DeKol. as never before, as a state that produces as good hogs as any state in . the Union. It is now u to the breeders and farmers to produce hogs 7. ' 1%. of more and better qua ity. Quality always brings the top price on the ch . R H I 'l I open market as well as in the sales ring. _ I ; ti - “Ice egl 0 s Blns Write for catalogs to the above firms or the secretary of the association. " ? Poland China breeders are urged to jom .the association. Write to ' j ; Sold With 60-90 Day Retest Privilege secretarY- . . 1‘ cEHInHL Mlomoln Pouno chA . ‘ ' The Michigan Holslcin-Fricsian Association BREEDERS’ ASSUUIATIBN , , H- W-LNcrton. Jr-. Field Secretary E.ll.LE0llAllll, St. Louis, Pros. 8.A.BOONE, Blanchard, Scc’y. ‘ - I C H. ‘ Old State Bl°°ks Lans'Ws M'Gh'ga" W. M. KELLY, For T/ze Michigan Farmer : _ ‘ ’ I I ’ . mb ’ . 0f the t ‘2 ,~ d b10011 ; West Mlchlgan 3 Great Sale of "m “W” 2:15.25 hissing; “sag... 0 you. W. 1%.Bartley. Alma, ‘ I Iv Rae-stanza Fnsl Conclgnmcnl Sale immense» right and from Grand Champion stock. Write or b t- H 0 L S T E I N C A T T I. E of Pure Bred numc Jerseys Dulééaakiaishléfr .. glellvery.310.00 each. LAKE SIDE STOCK FRUIT 114 head of High Class Cattle at the West Michigan To a. now At ARM' “”°"“°’- Wm?“- State Fair Grounds [Armada Fair Grounds Dunc Joram.figgcfifiég%i°i§é?§§cgoz Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the last day of the Fall- ‘ Duroc Jersey {fib'ltfi‘éf‘fixd‘fi gable . MONDAY, 001'. 18, 1920 OCT 8 192-0 anon “caresses-Mire .. - ' 5 ounce JERSEYS c; '3 A splendid lot of carefully selected cattle to choose from, .where the . . . _ ‘ . 0 U. Ed d , H tings. Mich. buyer can select anytmng he wants from a chooce heifer calf to an unusually To consist of 30 head of open gilts, my “1°” 8 “3 ' ' . - Oh st Whl . . tch ' good 32-Ib. YOUNG HERD SIRE. lspring boars and a few sows With suck 31g 1‘ bogus; 180 t 333.1 eggiggdsgfil .{tgng-rgg \ , Among our offerings will be about a car load of very desirable yearlings mg pigs. ggragyfit-gi‘mamghgfgg ogrgfgdafiiggglgfigg ‘ and two-year-old heifers from the noted Traverse City State Hospital Herd. , breed.Wlildwmd Prince Jr.. ojnh.and0homplonx. " T C't h 'fers a saf ' If . ' Cholera immune. Satisfaction guaranteed. moat; tEhéfio §$Evlii I Y 6' re e m ca 1:0 an $8.000 Grandson "acomb 605"“, nuryc Jersey to. L. HILLJB. . mkinaw.TazewollOo. m H. A. Washburn will disperse his entire Government and State Accred- ited Herd of 25 head of choice cattle,.including a 29-lb. cow and her six- Bree ers Ass n. months-old bull calf. Monroe & Lewis will also disperse their entire Government and State Col. J. E. Ruppert, Auctioneer , ‘ _ Raise Chester Whites , Accredited herd of 15 good females including two splendid daughters of a For Catalog Address 5 ‘ _ II'Ee TI is 28-lb. cow. - ‘ Robt. J. Chase, Armada, Mich :3 “:46de big prod Clarence Bisbee will disperse his little herd of five females, including 5.- . . a 29-lb. daughter of a 34-1b. sire, and a 24-1b. daughter of a 30—lb. cow safe in [-1008 . ,. calf to a 33-lb. bull. We will also have a car load or two of good fresh milch cows of good _ type, and a car load of springers due to freshen in November and December. cows and 'lts bred to Vi alto Kin 29499, Duroc who has 3153:: more let. and 2nd Edge pla- ‘ . " at the State Fair in last 2 years than any or, or Dumo HAVE stat-ma thousands or! breeders on the road so We will offerla car load 1or mgre tof goodl cows due to freshen during 3031'. Eveéyténo gillicgelatmoney maker for the ‘ snooefigdgnhelpyou. lignthboPlacetineho no... the winter or ear y spring' a so a on a car oad of good yearling heifers, ‘1 er- a 4'1 X . - um evmeommun w .3. m1... “1%.. ‘ ’ ' ' - . TON BARNH Bl. St. Johns, Mich. ted mfinoeorlydev pprn ready arm a and a car load of chemo heifer calves. These yearling heifers and heifer N W mold was. sermon? um Honeytmm '3 I. U. “I’m, R, F, D, 10. 901'th m calves are good individuals; most of them are out of high record sires and a number of them are from good A. R0. dams. OAKWOOD ‘FARM DUROCS ' We can furnish {on With anythin from a weanling There will be two 29-lb. cows in the sale, a 25-lb. cow, a 24-lb. daughter pg toaboat of 1era heading 31.1 bar at redosonnblm - ’ I of atso—lb. cow, and other good A. R. 0. cows that space does not permit us to mama. “mimic?" efitnbnsuwnoni’gges :33. ”ca 8 or s amulnn men 10n. - , - - ’ . - - 1 b dtof Jl an . bi 4; 01.0. St ,1: ‘f 11 f' Lnerd ‘ The 32-lb. bull calf lS Sll‘ed by a 30-lb. son of King of the Pontiacs and 12 Choice RRWDE, $922 of fighting 33,-, 0‘25, headggeby Calfowaffida file¥§21§§ fi‘filfimmm Is one of the best young bulls ever offered in a Michigan sale ring. We.- bretdiltancks Cherry rlob KlngNumber 169259. Son 0.1131,“, assisted by C_C.8choo]mum.emnd also have a 31-lb. 2-year-old bull in the sale, two desirable 29-lb. bull calves,- ?§m°tn°ém££§v§h§o%§i°’iigs?%g’d‘ionlgsin‘hd' “' Chamvlon boar of Michigan. New York and To - . a splendid yearling bull out gt 1? 21f.818-lb. cow and a 31-1b. sire and several TQE'JENNINGshAB..-.s. B. 1. Bailey.Ml0h 11888 state fairS- MSOHC-C-Gianthtervun 9' other good bull calves out o ig -c ass sires and good A. R. 0. dams. 5°11?” §°m°ib8§i ‘ifg-“h°i°l’:'di‘.°w‘é€?° Gr”: . . Duroc Bonn and Gilts .1031“: :fncgandelf’s 013288112 8 Caisson (fined. Nearly all the cattle in the West Michigan Sale at Grand Rapids come “Hm at :25 .50 wk. mm and “man, 5 9 3 ' y _ _ . from herds that“ are tuberculin tested regularly under the Government and bu e . e. d°natmcion guaranteed. hose , . . , ' windiredited Herd a... and a We of these herds are “rum to «055°?headstones»?enchant-E7 Central ’Midl. 0. l. C.‘ x “ If inter sted in the cattle offered at the West Michi an ale WRITE J 1“” M“: 0m?" I!“ “ - “mum“ , _ ’ ‘ , . . I f FOR A SALeE CATALOG. , g s ’ , lime Ad’idwa. ; , 11.2% % TL‘lJizég Smile Breeder 5. fl. Sale Catalogs will be out October lst. , mmgh’m , , . ‘ V “.Ann’ 3013 Home! “um '0; mm _ .. V , "pp , , f 7- y, w r“'w',i'u‘° smmnm V , , . “I. R,- l-IARPER,‘ Sales Manager. Mlddlovlllo, Mich. - wmgmg ‘ c mfiohmyg ,. l ‘ 4 FAUSTINDAGKUS. Pedigree up»: 2 cat. o. i.j PERRY.Auoflonoor W , ,- » , V ~ 0.0.x, :- Sop ., h 3'“ Dropped Nov. 15, 1916, Honoria’s Star, by Imp. Bijmi's Star and out of Imp. Bijou’s II. Site’s dam,,Imp. Honoria III, of the quartiei's. This bull’s dam is Dairy’s Buttercup, by Hal- cyon Star, by Imp. Bijou’s Star, and of Imp. Village Bijou II;his granddam is Imp. Daisy III des Paijsan’s. We offer this grand indiv- idual, rich in Island breed- ing at $500. Detroit Creamery Co. Certified Milli Farm, Giulio! Road, near Mt. Clemens, Mich. ' .{o ‘ Eight young boars and spring pigs for June shipment. ER LEAF STUCK FARM, Monroe. < ich. in; pl , we 0 0. 5‘ meat. Mich. type Poland for Se . far- all sol , guar- antee estislaotion. Akron, Mich. oopring pigs and yearlltngg‘g‘lgths. p . . re s managiiiirsne JOHN . WILK, AlmanaMichtj I One last fall boar wgt. #35, two last tale and this fall pig ile west of De ot' Otto . Bchulze. Nashville. M ch. Poland Cliiiia Special Boar pics sired by Monster Big Bob and from our ..host sows. priced right for immediate shipment. Ell—boned, strong-backed, smooth fellows from popular blood lines. Write for information or visit the farm. BOONE-HILL 00.. Blanchard, Mich. L. S. P. C. Everything sold previously ed. 25 spring pigs placed on the bargain counter for me. of Sept. pairs or tries not nk' Shoolcraft, Mich. HOGS’ two 'dtaii it bred C H E S I; EfR sS tria‘ggar of Vgildwiiod ' Jr. bro i or t. arrow: spr ng gs. Prince F. VPPALEXeApNDEB. Vassar. ich. 9 A few choice late fall and winter 00 I. C 8 beers, nlso a fine two our old boar. WEBER 81208., R. No. 2. Royal nk. Mich. O. I. ’5 OLD . 9 Booking orders for 0' I"C' 8 register free‘and shag)! A._J. BA {KER it SON. Bel [M for Miller Meadows L. T. P. O.'s at Marshall , Calhoun 00. Fair. Sept. 21—35 CLYDE WEAVE R, (Jerome. Mich Registered Bl EOE sag-g5 Oisiéns gate bre ro .we ing ' s. or 'hsp m: 's w ‘ DORUS noviid. Gilts bred for July andA . f r w. 0. I. C. Also spring furiowed pigs. us a to . G. P. ANDREWS, Dansville, Mich Gilts bred for Se t. furrow o 0 I ' C 0 and spring igs. p F. C. BURGESS, R. g, Mason, Mich. ’ Some fine 3 0.1,. l 8 Willem inevory way. xiii-ll“ b ed lot 1 i - , r s o spr n gigs either sex. good growth stocg m Oitz's. Phone 124. u' in. H. O. SWARTZ, Big Type Poland Chinas Our herd is representative of the best in Big Types. Chaice boars for sale now. Wesley Hile, R. 6, Iowa, Mich. \ .. We have a 131' 0 number of sp 'n L” T’ P' c' and summer fiifis ready to shipriiliE ed hysuch houses “Ha rt's Blac rice." “Leonard's ." the “Model Olansmun" and “Prospect Yank" a great son of the 340.000 Yankee Write for prices or come and look them over if {131111;er in the m 0% HART. FULCHEB J's 0L address F. T. art. St. Louis. Mich. FOR SALE Polsnd Chimes. We have 45 head of boars ”to pick from at farmers prices come at once and piok yours or write for further particulars. they are y Long Bob 2nd. and from dams. we also hnvcvomeeighteen months old sows to furrow in Meier. Freak J. Noble t Son. [1.3, DeWitt.Mich. losing on sale of b t Pol Chin . re resents the we‘ri {allots ends of 8&3:ng Lam‘d ' E” ”8' udlngourthmgreat bears, “met. at. ' - u Giant" “Butler'l niches?" . “t ”we" ' A a Vs) E2539 by “in , of the bait yearling respects in Michigan greet , le bl hon , ierfiilé'ru “5. Mini. me getyour pick. Jno. 0..But I”. h'.‘ “I” We suit to sell you a a. i- nt in will ui'imr‘iii‘uamm'i H 0. guarantee sat! ' We BULL Willie {lordaii Buttercup 5,4674 Sircd by .4 AN'OTHER' New MARKET. EDITOR M years. Before that Professor Guslei ,graduated eight years ago. ed on a. farm in northwestern Ohio. During his educational career Mr. 1 Gusler devoted special attention to oral summers in the study of methods - of doing business in the stock yards. The newly established Bureau of Mar- kets commissioned him to investigate . a number of big markets and collect information upon the factors influenc- ing prices of various kinds of live stock, meats, and animal lay-products, and the methods of reporting these various markets, and‘later on to inves- tigate the market classes and grades of live stock as a means of devising a uniform classification which it could use in its market reporting work at . Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City and East St. Louis. He spent some time on each of these markets and on all the prin- cipal other centers, studying the spe- cial conditions at each one. As a re- «. Professor Gilbert Guslcr. suit of his findings the hog classifica- tion which the bureau now uses, was put into effect and modifications were made of the cattle and sheep classifi- cations. ' We are enabled to give the readers of The Michigan Farmer the benefit of Mr. Gusler’s knowledge of the markets and his ability as a farm market an- Agricultural News ‘Association with headquarters in the Northwestern Uni- versity Building, 31 West Lake Street, Chicago. Being a farmer by birth and education, he is deeply interested in the problem of justice to the producer, in the markets of the world. He sees the markets from the viewpoint of the producer, not from the standpoint of the manufacturer, speculator or con- sumer. His is a tremendous job to in- terpret the trend of the markets for you each week. He will welcome sug- gestions. But we warn you: ‘Do not call him “Professor.” He never liked that title. He says he is not in col- lege any more, and dignity does not go in the stock yards, the grain mar- ket, the warehouse or the green groc- ery. At any rate, we are sure you’ll be glad to meet Gilbert Gusler, our new markets man. eiH z EET. ournew markets man, Gil- bert Gusier. He came to us from the University of Illinois where he was a member of the faculty of the Depart- ment of Animal Husbandry for five taught animal husbandry for three years in the Ohio State University, - from whose College of Agriculture he. He also holds the degree of Master Science in Animal Husbandry from the Univer: sity of Illinois. He was born and reara live stock marketing. He spent sev- alyst through an arrangement with the ‘ on N?! 1:: AR' M "s R _ ... 9 can save fully One third. our .feed, possible to feed eyery third hog free Mifltolineflggg modified Buttermilk. tending to insure erfect assimilation of feed. It helps tone up a system so that been are Jess subject to disease, and tactically insures gained 2%poundspethssdperday. Professor-W. University Tested 3, c o m b a while Ass’t. Prof. of Dairy Husbandry at Missouri University conducted; scientific test on Milkoline and found that Milkohne fed hogs put on more weight and showed .825796 more profit than not fed Milkolme, . Graham I successful feeder of Middletow Hon said $80 worth of Milkohnc made him an extra rofitof $420. Lee Jackson of Wappingers Filling. Y.. says M‘ilkoliue fixed up a bunch of shoamlnfincstylennd ingrestforbrood sows. 9 . Milkolinelsguaran- Can t Spoil. “mum... .0..- or mould. It will keep indefini in any climate. Flies do not come near it. It is always uriforin, and is guaranteed to make you money or it doesn’t cost you cl Ever’ {3'31 mtffiuanfigiegetfltfiogflfl you Gallon Milkoline has a base of pasteurized and sterilized, It is guaranteed not to con- tain any sulphuric acid or anything of an injurious/ _| . ‘ nature to hogs or poultry. " .1, Milkoline i; Aids Digestion: figmug‘; .21; a ‘3'!"an ,n m . sets f" N Y 1: to Cali- dens £0 a you 0 e ' uting on your .-: fiflhfigghe pumnneygrscllave proved own famifm'W hen fed as directed Milkoline ':. that Milkoline helps and assists digestion, mixture (one part Milkolme toBOparts water “ \ y 1801i ' it by fee I '12:! ’/ e /‘ l l' / / or swill) costs only 2c 0 gallon. ' Full feeding directions free. It is shipped In convenient; kegs and barrels which we supply free. The , prices are as follows: 6 gal. $7.50; 10 gal. $12.50; 15 gal. $16.50: 32331. $32.00; 55 33!. $19.50. It pays to buy in barrel lo to because you save 60c a gal. over the 5 gal. quantities. 30 - Day Guaranteed ‘ You are safe in ordering any Trnal. quantity of. Milkoline today. Feed one half the shipment to your hogs and poultry in a thirty test. then it you aren’t entirely satisfi retina theyuuseg part tons at our expense nnd we’ll immedi- iitely refund every cent you Enid us. We are so confident that you will nd Milkohne the best money tinker-on the farm that the . .Bculovard Bank of Kansas City sub- stantiates this offer. You are the sole Judge. money order. or check, to us or our nearest dealer and we will shifiimmediately. Our booklet, “How to Hustle envy Bogs to Distributed by— . SCHWARTZ BROS., . nameonacardwill Market" will be saw on request-your Saginaw, Mich. A BSORB'NE will reduce inflamed. swollen Joints, Sprains. Bruises, Soft Bunches; Heals Boils. Poll Evil, Quittor, Fistula and infected sores quickly as it is a positive antiseptic and germicide. Pleasant to me; does not blister or remove the hair. and youcan work the horse. 82.50 per bottle, delivered. Book? free. ABSORBINE. JR..the antiseptic linimcnt for mankind. reduces Painful. Swollen Veins. Went. Strains. Bruises; stops pain and inflammation. Price 81.25 per boxilc ai denier. or delivered. Will tell you more if you write. liberal Trlul Bottle for 10¢ in stamps. W. F. YOUNG. I“. 2681'smnla Si..8prlnufield. Mass. J ig Type P. (l. Bred g‘ilts. Full yt-urliiigs. prize \illl- l A fine lot, of imported and hem: or improve the old one call for Just. what you wan O. H. W' A he: FOR SALE Also some choice Diiroc SH ROPSHIR-ES I‘f sired by Imp. Berry No. )63 for sale. Also a few Shropshires iiers. out 1100 lb. Sire and mammoth .' m-s from ’ ' sire imported Mint-on Rem Iowa's greatest herds. E.J..\ athewsoiiJSuri'Beikbiich. Shropshires Li’ml’s .32”. some ewes. 2 yearling rams. DAN BOUHItli. R. 4. Evert. ;\ ich. WHITTUM FARM SHROPSHIRES e bred yearling ewes rice to start a new flock at the farm or write Eaton Rapids. Mich. Hillcrest Shropshires nice lot of Ewes and Rams of all ages Olll‘fltlt‘k is ided by McKerrow 3164 a son of Senator Bibby write or call on J Middlcville, liich. and wins for sale. A fine (-ha t. HIT’J‘UM, li. . & C. A. W'ILLIAMS. 35 Registered Shrorishire yearling ruins and rum lambs. _‘ Jersey hours and gilts. CLIFFORD MIDDLETON. Clayton. Mich. earJ ing and amb rams owes. RTliUli DODDS. Lapeer, Michigan Am oil‘orinr: one choice two year rum and a few good yearlings. C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford, Mich. Big Hob Mastodon pigs takes the cake. book your order now. Fall hours and gilts sired by a grandson of Disher Giant. open or bred to Big Bob fQi‘Sept. ‘23 yearling sons. 0. EGARNANT, Eaton Rapids, Mich B IG T. P. Ohinns for sale. A few tried sows. spring Shropshires Shropshire Rams ’,’ yearling Rams that have size and typo, for sale. ARMSTRONG BROS. 11.3, Fowleri'ille, Mich. imbs, yearlings and boars. A1 . l sboth sex. Recorded tree in buy-- . ,‘ _ ‘ ‘ ( no 2 yrs. old. priced er‘s name. L‘st shamberlaln. Marcellus, Mich. “31W CARL JOI’LII‘I‘. Eaton Rapids, Mich, am offering Large Type Poland China Sows, bred Shropshires Y‘mrll‘lg and rams. WM! quality. Ito F's Orange, at reasonable rices; also fall pigs. W B l\ 131,011! lmlgurted stock. . Write or Call Clyde Fisher, St. ouis, Mich. ll.}{.3. ‘ - “‘01 ILL/‘1‘. 1‘. 7. Howell, Mich. Large Type Poland China pigs. both sexes now ready. write for description and prices. RALPH SHERK, Caledonia, Mich Lindhurst Poland Chinas .Stock for sale at all times. Public Sale Oct. 3’3. WM. H. LIND, Alto, Mich. b POLAND CHINAS W. J. HAGELSHAW, Augusta, Mich. LARGE TYPE 8 l P.C. SWINE. Ono yearling boar. Registered Hampshire El reasonable. Wool-Mullen Shropshire Rams. Registered Rams all to the Grand Bred by Iowa State 0 heep both exes prices Lone Cedar Farm. Pontiac. Mich. Good strong in- dividuals. royally . Alleg'zui. Mich. HAMPSHIRES . ages. Bred’for size. type. quality. ”‘0 at head of flock, I. S. . No. 25463. iiult brother Cliiimpimi ewe at International 1918 ollege Also a few good ewes. W. W. CASLER. Ovid. Mich. red, priced right. A. H. FOSTER one full yearling boar, fall pigs, a. few more bred sows. R. W. Mills. Saline, Mich. Reg. Oxfords. fi curling rains and rain lambs. reedingewes and ewe lambs. . Good individuals i'ices ri t eonurds B. T. P. 0. See exhibit at Mich. State Fair, ' . g ' , . get your name on mailing list for public sale Oct. UC'H HODGINP' Yale, M‘Ch‘ 28. Doubleimmune. ER Leonard, Bt.Louis.Mich.R.3. Let Americz H h’ Sh . . 1 Type Poland China's. Everything immuned by want a Sheep? Associationm Hei‘imps Ollie dazsp ar 8 double treatment. eat me at Detroit,orJack- booklet with list of breeders. “'rite OMFOR sou airs. A. A. Feldkamp. R. 2. Manchester, Mich, A. TYLER. 22 Woodland Ave. Detroit; Mich. ARGAINS on Big ty 0 spring and summer Poland . - ‘ China Pigs also year ing Shel-thorn bulls, bull and Co‘lmnlds 33.22121 a;‘g;‘:;,.§“fi ’52:; colswolds heifer calves- Robert New. Pwrsom Mich- dian'rams. ii. M. BORTE . Britten. Mich. '7 ' boars best BigType POIand China blood 340 Re Oxf d R ready to ship “330 '.F k()li', .. ‘ ~_ g. or anlssas d , . ' . ”hm“ ran "’r R 2 Sfll‘ne' “”11 dellvered. J. Robert Hicks. St. fibrin? flufnd Oxford rains and ewes si (1 ‘b H AM Ps H l R E s 5.. 5,1,... ,.. .31.... .. .2. new" so. . o . ’a ms, ic . one 78-3 De k ‘ 1914 . - . . . . - 1920 cerwllo Choice Spring boars. popular breeding. Booking ,1 e t. t I t! orders for fall pigs. All stock Cholera Immuned TO $2235 aiauih: fouling; $131132 lgffgifiii‘g: and guaranteed Breeeders. Satisfaction guaran- sonable prices they are a fine bunch. ‘ teed. ROBT. J. KNIGHT, Cass City. Mich. FARM Angola, hid. it. glillllEll’S HAMPSHIRE For Sale 4 Full Blooded Ramboulett rams 2n dollars each. ddress Lake Michigan’ ALLEN ANGELL, Hubbard Edgewood Hampshires All md ts d. N h Several fine yearling rams. Extra. x ‘ tor gall 1:110:31 and pg Iggkgjiguc?:gegfgzgfiis bred Egrhgal: 200‘ fleeces, (1)30 fiefifim". . A. l . Depew Head. Edgewood arm. Marion, Ohio. Rho“ “5%.. “fin-R ,. ll ' A b r Mich eading packer ,states that ex- ne :2. . .o. nn r o . . port demand continues healthy along I m foamin— ti)" pig. nowai'ew bred slits .- . 1m . d . With strong buying of pork prod- Joaniiv.'é%o§°n. 86.84?! giggling. Mich. HORSES ucts by domestic consumers, especially hams, bacon and shoulders. Heavy in- YORKSHIRES BRED GlLTS roads have been made into stocks. The ' Min BAY MARE . lard market has been uneven, influ- mm. 3131* FARM. sum-no. Mich. T . ‘~ ' was. sud-bog); llard..ord’er_' sliced by the slump in grains but is still show: the price or a month ago. Packard Rd. viz-Inuit: c WATER . . Aim Arbor. Mich. right inovery «my. w nce come and see 510! gr s SHEEP, Gerinany is said. to have placeda big during? the week. . . . write 'L. .1. mun. cs Hnrlbut m- Delm' 0 Rings 1&0. ‘ but“ . .. siren-disgust Percheron ‘ “mud inst-f; M l ‘ ° filfihflggi Ashtobulo.0,.l 3.1.. nausea “K‘”"°°“°f‘qu.'rii3e...uu. .ll GRAIN QUOTATIONS September 29,- 1920. Wheat. Detroit.—Cash No. 1 red $2.39; De- cember $2.23; March $2.20; No. 1 white and No. 1 mixed $2.37. Chicago—N0. 2 red $2.34@2.35; De- cember $2.33; March $2.17. Corn. Detroit—Cash No. 2 mixed $1.20; No. 2 yellow $1.25. Chicago.~No. 2 white $1.25@1.27%; No.- 2 yellow $1.24%@1.27%. Oats. Detroit—Cash No. 2 white 600; No. 3 white 581/2c; No. 4 white 551,60. Chicago.—~No. 2 white 56%@5714; No.3 white 58@581/tc. Beans. Detroit—Immediate and prompt are lower at $5@5.25 per cwt. Chicago—Steady. Handpicked beans choice to fancy at $6.50@7. New York—Dull. Choice pea $6.50 @675; do medium $7.50. Rye. Detroit.—Cash No. 2 $1.78. Seeds. Detroit—Prime red clover spot at 14.25; October $14.25; December at $14.75; alsike $16; timothy $3.75. Toledo—Prime cash $14.50; Decem- ber $14.80; alsike $16.15; timothy at $3.50. WHEAT Immense export sales of American and Canadian wheat estimated at as high as 15,000,000 bushels in three days were made during the past Week. Nevertheless, prices declined sharply due to a revision of sentiment. Cana- dian farmers are selling freely and some American holders have had their confidence shaken by the big decline in corn and oats and deflation in other commodities. The movement in the southwest especially is heavy. Export buying was largely for the Continent as Britain is said to be supplied until the southern hemisphere crop is harv- ested. Flour buyers in this country continue. to hold off and the market de- c1ined the past week. Many calcula- tions of the surplus available for ex port from the United States during the present crop year have failed to in- clude a big carry—over of flour which is sufficient to add the equivalent of 50,000,000 bushels of wheat to our sur- plus. The Canadian crop estimates vary a great deal, but Winnipeg issued an estimate of 300,000,000 bushels which. if correct, should make avail— able about 50,000,000 bushels more not included in previous summaries of the world’s supply. The International In- stitute of Agriculture at Rome esti- mates .the crop of Australia, South Af- rica and Argentine as 28 per cent larg- er than last year. ' CORN A remarkable September warm spell running nearly two weeks has done much to remove the danger of frost damage to the corn crop which seemed probable a short time ago. Estimates upon the proportion of the crop that is now safe vary from 35 to 90 per cent in different sections of the corn belt, but that there will be nearly a record yield of merchantable corn seems alto- gether likely and the total crop cer- tainly has not decreased since the gov- ernment’s estimate on September 1. Corn prices are down to around the lowest figures on the crop, while the new crop prices are at the lowest level since early in 1917. Corn has sold at around 80c for December shipment in the central west and under $1 for old corn. ‘Just where the post—war level will be is unknown but there is noth- ing‘in sight at present to lift prices much above the level to which they have fallen. Farmers are cleaning out their old corn before time to gather the new crop arrives. Chicago re- eaviest since 1914. The east, south- fieipts during September were the <- West and south are well supplied with 1 new corn and Argentina is able to take .i‘gcare of half of the eastern coast de- mand. OATS Oats prices have declined with corn although the price! will undoubtedly. ~ stimulate consumpt'qn and there isa 1*rising belief that y are near rock bottomflas the pregnacer in the north- like] " :2} m- : IIIIIIII’VVI Choice-steers and yearlings are strong I '1' west is not getting much above forty cents and in some instances less. This is materially less than cost of produc- tion. _ SEEDS Prices of clover and timothy seed declined last week, influenced by the break in -other farm products and ab- sence of demand. ,Dealers who wish to accumulate do not believe that pric- es have reached bottom and purchases for immediate consumption are not sufficient to match the selling. FEEDS Luxuriant fall pastures and forage crops, prospect of an enormous corn and oats crop with record yields of kaffir and milo tend to keep buyers out of the feedstuffs market. 'Mixed feed makers are unable to buy because of small demand for their product. Can- ada and Argentina are offering mill feeds to eastern points. Latest Chica- go quotations per ton (100-11). bags) in carlots are as follows: Bran $45; standard middlings $53; flour mid- dlings $62; cottonseed middlings, 41 per cent, $63; cottonseed meal, 36 per cent $59; gluten feed $62; hominy feed $62; old process oil meal $66; tankage $115. ~ HAY The premium on good grades of hay continued to widen last week so that the latter probably furnish the better feeding value for the money. Declines in corn and oats prices make the hay prices seem high although the latter also declined the last week and in- creased freight costs is a factor. De- troit—No. 1 timothy $3161733; standard $30@31; light mixed $30@31; No. 2 timothy $29@30; No. 1 mixed $29@30; N0. 1 clover $28@29; rye straw $13.50 @14; wheat and cat straw $12.50@13. Buffalo—Timothy No. 1, at $35@36; No. 2, $32@33; No. 3, $28@30. POTATOES A new low point for the season was reached this week. Trading became slow, due partially to the unsettled condition of the market and the hot weather was also a retarding factor. Shipments are rolling at the rate of approximately 600 cars per day and will probably become heavier. Quota— tions at the close of the week were'as follows: Chicago———Northern whites $1.50@1.75 per cwt; Northern Early ()hios $1.65@1.95; eastern cobblers $2; Giants $1.75. Detroit—Michigan $3.25 @350 per 150-lb. sack. EGGS AND POULTRY High prices for fresh eggs has de- flected part of the demand to the use of refrigerator eggs. Prices advanced during the week and the outlook is for a considerably higher level this winter as stocks are small and demand, in- cluding export, is broad. Latest prices upon poultry and eggs were as fol- lows: Chicago—~Eggs—Fresh firsts at 54@541/éc; ordinary firsts 48@50. Poul- try—~Spring chickens 29c; hens, gen- eral run 300; roosters 220; ducks, old and young. 300; Indian Runners 26@ 28c; geese, old and young 23c; turkeys fancy 450. Detroit~Eggs~—Fresh cand- led 53@57c. Live poultry—Broilers 35 ((1736; Leghorn broilers 30@320; hens 34@35c small hens 32@33c; specially fat hens 37@380; -roosters 20@22c geese 186-17200; ducks 36627380; turkeys 406245c. BUTTER Demand for and comparative short- age of the finer grades of butter caus- ed greater firmness than has been seen on the markets for some time, during the past week, and prices on all mar- Live Stock Market service * DETROIT Cattle. Cattle market steady but slow. Best heavy steers ....... $11.50@12.00 Best handy wt bu steers 9500171000 Mixed steers and heifers 7.75@ 8.25 Handy light butchers . . . . 7.00@ 7.25 Light butchers .......... 4.00@ 5.15 Best cows .............. 8.50 Butcher cows ........... 6.00@ 7.00 Common cows .......... 4.75 Canners ................. 4.50 Choice bulls . .. . ........ 7.25 Bologna bulls ........... 6.00@ 6.75 Stock bulls ............. 5.00@ 5.25 Feeders ....... 8.00@ 8.75 Stockers ................ 6.00@ 7:00 Milkers and Springers . . . .$ 65@ 100 Veal Calves. Market steady. Best ...' ................. $18.00@19.00 Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00@14.00 Hogs. Market slow and lower. Pigs ....... .............$15.00@1550 Mixed hogs ... . . . . . . . . .. 16.50@16975 Roughs IIOIIOIDOCOOIID 13.75 Stags ooooo cocoa-ounce)... 10.00 Boars ............ -. . . . . . 8.00 Sheep and Lambs. ' Market steady. Best lambs ..... . . . . . . . . $13.25@‘13.50 Fair lambs ....... . . . . . . . 11.00@12.00 Light to common ....... 6.00@ 8.00 Fair to good sheep ...... 5.50@ 6.00 Culls and common . . . . ‘. . 2.50@ 3.50 CHICAGO Hogs. Estimated receipts today are 12,000; . holdover 12,340. Market slow 50@75c lower. Bulk of sales at $14.75@16.50; tops $16.80 early; heavy 250 lbs up, medium, good and choice $15@16.35; medium 200 to 250 lbs medium, good and choice $15.75@16.50; light 150 to 200 lbs common, medium, good and choice $15.75@16.50; light lights 130 to 150 lbs common. medium, good and choice $15@16.25: heavy packing sows *‘250 lbs up smooth $14.65@~15: packing sows 200le up rough $14.25@14.65: pigs 130 lbs down. mediumfigood and chpice $13.50@15.5o. ~ - ~ - Cattle. . Estimated receipts today are 11,000.; to higher, grassers and butcher cattle slow. Beefsteers medium and heavy weight 1100 lbs up, choice and prime $16.75@18.75; do medium and good at $12@16.50; do common $9@12; light weight 1100 lbs down, good and choice $14.50@18; do common and medium at $8.50@14; butcher cattle, heifers com- mon, medium, good and choice at $6@ 13.75; cows, common, medium, good and choice $5.50@11.50; bulls, bologna and beef $5.25@11.25; canners and cut- ters, cows and heifers $4@5.50; do canner steers $4.50@10; veal calves, light and handyweight, medium, good and choice $14.50@17.75; feeder steers common. medium, good and choice at $7.50@12; stocker steers, common, me dium, good and choice $5@9.75; stock- .. er cows and heifers, common, medium, good and choice $5@8; western range cattle, beef steers, medium, good and choice $9@14.25; do cows and heifers medium, good and choice $7.50@10. Sheep and Lambs. Estimated receipts today are 23,000. Sheep steady to higher; lambs steady to lower. Lambs 84 lbs down, medium, good.~choice and prime at $11.50@14; do culls and common $8'@11.25; spring lambs medium, good, choice and prime $8.75@10.75; ewes, medium, good and choice $5@6.25: ewes, cull and com mon $2.50@4.75; breeding ewes, full mouths to yearlings $5.75@9.75; year- ling wethers medium, good and choice $12@13.50. BUFFALO Cattle. Market is 50@75c lower than last week’s close. Dry-fed prime shipping steers $15.50fi11650: best do $13@14: medium do $12@13; native yearlings $11.50@16: fat cows $9.50@10; butch- ering cows $750538: fancy bulls $86 $2.50: other bulls $5.50@7; stockers and feeders $6628: milkers and springers $50@125.‘-‘ Calves $20.50. / Hogs. , I Market lower. Heavies and mediums $17.50; yorkers $17.50; pigs $16.! ’ W * , SheenandLambcr- . Lower .with top lambs 81314.50: ' as follows: kets advanced from two to three cents. Under—grades_advanced but little until the advance on top grades turned at- tention to, them because of relative cheapness, a change which has in- creased the belief that the advance will hold for some time. Both domestic and Danish butter in storage are being moved into consumption at ‘prices close to those prevailing on fresh prod- uct. A cargo of 1,800 casks of Danish and one of 15,997 boxes of Argentine arrived during the week. The hot , ’ weather the past week has tended to cut down the yield of butter and has caused some deterioration in quality. Closing prices on 92 score butter for the week ending September 25 were Chicago 590; New York 620; Boston 61c; Philadelphia 61%c. WOOL ’ Purchases of wool are still few and of small size. The marking down of textile prices during the week has not encouraged buying of raw materials, but should increase consumption of fin- ished goods. Boston states that wool prices are a little easier and five to fif- teen per cent declines occurred at the London government auction compared with previous sales.‘ The inception of plans for the formation of a national wool pool should remove any remain- ing lack of harmony in the selling pol— icy of the various state pools. Quota- tions from various markets are some- what at variance but all such quota.- tions are largely nominal. PEACHES. Peaches, along with nearly all fruits have been on the toboggan the past week. Michigan growers suffered se- vere losses because of refrigerator car shortage and much stock is said to have been lost on the trees or at,the packing sheds. A large amount of in- . ferior stock has been arriving on the Chicago market and selling down as low as 250 per bushel, while fancy El— bertas’ ranged, from $2@2.50. The fruit ripened within a short space 0! time due to the recent warm weather. DETROIT CITY MARKET Markets were light and buying "gen-. _ erally slow. Potatoes moved generally between $1.30@1.40 per bu; tomatoes 60c@$1; grapes moved slowlyat $2.50 @3; peaches $2@4; apples 750@$1.75; cabbage 40@5OC; crab apples at $2@ 3.75; onions $1@1.50; pears $2@3 for good quality. ONIONS All varieties of oniéns have now sunk to the same level and are moving slowly. ‘There is a heavy crop and op— ' erators are feeling their way carefully before buying for storage. E DETROIT ‘MILK PRICES. Producers of milk in the Detroit area. will be paid on a basis of $3.80 for all milk during the month 'of October, while Detroit city prices will remain unchanged, according to the decision reached by the Milk Commission on Monday. COMING LIVE STOCK SALES. HorseS—October 4, W. B. Otto, Char- lotte, Michigan. Shorthorns—Oct. 5, Southern Michigan 'Shorthorn Breeders’ Association, Hillsdale, Michigan. Red Polled Cattle-October 5, William Cottle, West Branch, Michigan. "' Holsteins—Octcber 6, C. A. Wilson, one and one-half miles south of M. A. C., Lansing, Michigan. Holsteins—October 7, Chaslen Farms, ' Northville, Michigan. Duroc JerseyS—October 8, Macomb, County Duroc Jersey Breeders’ As- sociation, Armada Fair Grounds, Ar- ' mada, Michigan. qustelns—October 16, John B. Martin, Holstems—October 18, West Michigan Sale, State Fair Grounds, . Grand Rapids, Michigan. . HOTStelns—O‘c‘tober 22, Howell Sales Company, Fair Grounds, ~,Howell.~ Michigan. " Michigan Poland China dates and lecations. ' . Association, , , Pd and l' ' ”EDW'Chifla—October 2630. Central}- Breeders-g , ssociation... See. advertisement” . I Ho‘l‘te’m‘w ich' ; j .. _, .3. ~< Yearling: 8.8.50@9;50.; --W6thers at $7@: , M. _ ‘ Jean flktm “an! 750,ewe3$650@ofl5 , _, I,” 1 l. 3:; ‘f \ . . ll ’3'; \,\‘ 6.7:- I ' i 2' i o b (I Z. I l a)" l,“ . ” (I . or! b so, ta acme." . ANUFACTURERS of condensed. milk are in a predicament, While the price of “germs at an extranely high level it was easy for them to con- tinue, to demand high prices for their ‘products._.especially for sweetened pro- :micts, on the' grounds that the prevail- ing prices for sugar were so high that they could not afford to manufacture condensed milk at lower prices. They have been successful in keeping prices high on that plea, even though it was contrary to the agepld law of supply and demand. However, the bullish movement on the part of sugar prices lather upset their calculations, and they now see that they must cease manufacturing condensed milk in or- der to clear the supplies which they» haVe on hand. They are at present more than loaded with stocks. It is reported that one large manufacturing .concern has fully $75,000,000 tied up in finished condensed milk. There is an authentic report that all the condensaries throughout the coun- try will refuse to accept milk at their plants during the months of October, November and December. It needs no elaboration to prove that farmers who have been patronizing condensaries will .be confronted with a serious prob- lem during the three coming months. It is feared that many of them will be forced to dispose of their herds as they are absolutely unprepared to care for their milk. With the market for con- densed milk limited, and with a tight— ened condition prevailing in the money market, it is difficult to be optimistic regarding the immediate future of the condensed milk industry. There has been a sharp decline in prices of sweetened condensed milk during the past month. While the quo- tations on advertised brands have been maintained, they are entirely artificial. Were it not for the fact that manufac- turers of the well-known brands are backed by huge finances, there would be a sharp break in prices. The man- ufacturers of unadvertised brands, who are, in most cases, less able to with- hold their stocks from the market, are offering their goods at greatly reduced prices. Demand is not strong for any class of goods. Local consumption is no more than normal and there is prac- tically no inqury from abroad. pears that conditions cannot improve for some time to come. SEASON'S Hit)“ EST CATTLE THE season’s heaviest run of cattle, * attracted by the recent advance—- especially on in—between grades of steers—coincided with a dressed beef market which was $1@2 lower due to the September hot spell and a series of Jewish holidays. For the first time this season the ten market run exceed- ed that of last year during the corres- ponding period, although the increase was slight. The range movement was heavy, both from the northwest and the southwest. Strictly corn-fed cattle are in a class by themselves and have held steady. Some of the lower grades are as much‘ as $2 cheaper although a $1@1.50 de- cline catches most of them. An excess of grass steers has clipped 50c@,$1.50 from butcher cow and heifer values. Bulls held steady except the trashy kind which are about 50c lower. Can- ner values have not been damaged, al- though hides are worth only about one-third tonne-half as muCh as last year and are hard to sell at that. Heavy grassy calves continued theirl downward course, but other kinds are steady at most markets. A heavy movement of grass cattle is in sight for the next few weeks. The range run is undoubtedly short, but probably its deficit will be made up to a considerable degree by an increase in the supply of cattle from the corn belt and the southwest, as cattle short- age over the country as a whole is probably less than advertised. Until this seasonal run is over, pronounced strength in cattle prices is improbable. Local slaughter at 69 markets for the first eight months of this year is only .6_per cent less than that of last year which Was a record. The August de- crease was 5.2 per cent. ‘ . SHORT FEEDERS ARE BUYTNG. I?“ demand is fltful, many of the regular: in the industry saying that all incentives are absent. Cen— mente we: the money situation are listed, but there is little evideled of reel immanent. The themes in the ,1 a re: makes desirable feeders 1:. .-. but the majority of buyers are ”“ ‘ to take out the luv-priced . feeders are buying, tempt— claam cem and the high cattle V. * have declined. slightly .yA '.' L“ .Mr. POULTRY duringtheweek. exists for values going much below the. present level ' during: this fall. The stacker and feeder movement from markets since January 1 is 17.9 in cent under that of last year. The Aug- ust decrease was 28.8 per cent. SEPTEMBER HDOG BULGE SUB» AFTER an uninterrupted rise 'of about $2.75 within a few weeks the market reached its pinnacle on Monday when $18.25 was paid at Chi- cago. The reaction on the following three days Was about due to decreased ' buying by eastern shippers‘and to the opposition of packers to a further ad- vance. Fresh pork prices~advanced during the week, but the slump in corn and lack of steadiness in the provision market impaired the confidence of sell. ers of hogs. The run may continue light for several weeks but during Oc- tober usually the movement expands and packers make preparations to buy on a low cost basis. The long deferred period of a profit- able feeding ratio seems to have ar- rived as the average price of hogs at Chicago. was about $16.40 and No. 2 miXed corn sold at $1.25, a ratio of 13.1. The change in the corn price level , Naipaul-slit as“! . _ snamununununumnunununonunlmunonununummununununununuoununummununununununumunununng. ' :x will be a factor this winter but the outlook for a relationship favorable to hog feeders is good. Hog slaughter at 69 markets during the ‘first eight months of the year is 10.9 per cent less than that of last year. LIVE MUTTONS ARE CHEAP. PRICES of live muttons slid down- ward again last week, although the run continued to be about three-fifths of that of last year. Foreign frozen lamb and Canadian dressed product. keep consumptive channels clogged; the market for wool is still sluggish, and hide prices are back almost to the pro-war Western lambs are about 750 lower than a week ago but? natives lost twice as much ground, Mutton should be cheap when choice; native ewes sell at $5@5.50. Not only: is the range run smaller than last year. but the proportion of feeders is unusu- ally large. Lamb feeders are buying freely at prices $1 above those of last year, al- though fat grades are cheaper. Prices upon feeders show only minor changes for'the week. Breeding ewes are go- ing cheap. VETERINARY. Bursal Swelling—I have a mare 4 years old that has small puffy bunch on lower outside of hock. She is not lame, is worked on farm. Can this bunch be removed? J. V. K., Cold- water, Mich—Painting bunch daily with tincture of iodin will have a ten- dency to reduce it, but will not entirely remove it. It will not cause lameness. Chronic Cough—For the past several years my 14-year~old horse has been troubled with cough, this spring he seems to be worse and is now showing symptoms of heaves. Have been giv- ing him 1 part oil of tar, 4 parts raw linseed oil. G. L. T., Camden, Mich.— Give him ounce doses of Glyco Herion (Smith) in feed 3 times a day. Feed no clover or dusty, musty, badly cured fodder. Notice that his stable is well supplied with fresh air. 0 a papilla?” City NQW winter. “080.00 I! one“. In ‘ t V ~ beet-eke. thy?" FMJW "3me lo“: . and m. evene- . er! ' Elli. um mm o... m wutm'fiwwm’fifi' PAW :. “ . 33mm"?muz ~ GEO. R. m 5 S a: 3 t a E :3 I: I: I: n 1:: E a i5 x: :3 g a I: :I: z: :I :z :1 :x: I: 3 z x: z I: :z I: 2: :2 =2 :1 n c I :l I: 2‘ :I I: :2 I: 3 a: :3 I :l I: z 3! :I: z: :t S :1 x: a I: z I: :2 I: :1 1: :l I: :l: a: :l‘. a: :2 I: :l x: :l: x: :x a: :x 3: :1 I: 3 x: :2 :I: :3 a: :3 5 x: :1 E '53-.- g g :2: I: :3 3: :1 E an: :3 E a: :x :1: AM as '- How $1 the principal dairy states, properly. A sensational statement! Yet it is but simple fact proven by cow testing and other milk records in many herds. Water—the simplest means of increasing milk yield, that element which is almost as free as air, yet as important as high priced feed—is usually disregarded by dairymen. Those dairy farmers who realize how greatly milk flow is increased by James drinking cups are reaping huge prgfits on their ixwestments. An investigation made among us- ers of Jamel Cups show an average increase per cow, per day, of 2.45 lbs., proven by the milk records of 28 herds (739 cows). 2.45 lbs. per day is about 490 lbs. for the season, which at $3.50 per cwt. totale more than $17.00. $17.00 clear profit additional, per cow, secured merely by giving the cow all the water she wants when ehe wants it. n: thle investigation, one herd report- ed an increase of 5 to 10 lbs. per cow; three reported 4 lbs. average increases; three says lbs.. six 2 lbs; three 1% 1133.. one 9% lbs.; one $8.56 during the winter: one 05- one $10: one reports 3% increase; one 8‘; two 10%; one 12%%;one 20%; and The of. So an MAPLE SYRUP MAKERS YOU GET BEST RESULTS WITH Evaporator Finest quality 0‘ syrup with saving Can be Added to Dairy . farmers“ Profits lhislllntor Four billion pounds more. mimjlgflgggrsat Jamang fiyddo'monmh d7mim.fl02.2’fz‘nueapolithfinn " ‘ L 31—421;- 2: - 000.000; simply by watering cows one saysasfié‘fi increase. These reports from 28 herds are con- firmed by many other reports and invee- tlgatione. the details of which are set forth in the James Educational Depart- ment Bulletin No. 4. Send for Bulletin No. 4 today. and also ask r . W FREE BARN soon: This 320 page book tells all about Jemee Drinking Cups and about other James Inventions that increase milk yield, save labor. and save feed. It also contains ecores of pictures of ham exteriors and interiors, together with blue prints and many pages 0“!)- formation on barn planning, ventilation. and arrangement. Both the book and Bulletin No. 4 are eent free on request. if you state number of milk cows you own. Ask for James Way Book No. 27 25 § 2 . Labou- Saving Equipment for the Dairy Bar-n ‘ 5: alln‘u‘u‘uTunuuunufiununununununununfnloommmnlmmmnununununununmnununununmununulilo??? hampion time and labor. Write for catalog and mention num. . ber of trees you tap.~ ‘ v Spouts. Tanks Order CI Sugar Makers Early Supplies. CHAMPION EVAPORATOR CO., Hudson, 0. at; Go kh U. P. F. in li'llansio Holmes,Sluwe Co., 445 Riopelle Sl. Poultr . Live a. Dressed, Provisions, etc. dence Bank, Bradstreet. HA __ 623-625 Wabash Bldzn KE . Army style,dark , gray, Single I 34" Wei ht 4% lbs. each. about 55% wool. Price $8.00 We have a good demand for fancy fresh eggs and will pay you 600 per dozen, delivered Detroit. cases. Eggs farmers. included for express ship- strictly new laid shlplped direct by Old, stale or broken eggs w‘ l he settled for what they are worth. Thian-icegood for week end- ‘Oetober 9nd, 1920. A ERI AN BUTTER dz COMPANY, Detroit. Mich. ments mmlssion Merchants. Dressed Beet, Hogs. calves. . _ Correspon- ilwited. Ref. Wayne County t Home Savings Detroit, Mich. Cad. 2878 Shlp to The Old Reliable House Daniel Mc Cuff ey’s Sons, Pittsburz. Pa. blankets. size 64 warm auto robe. each. Same size 100% fine wool army, aki blankets, $10.00. Prepaid to any point in S oney refunded if not satisfactory. Send 0.. order. N.- HAIT. Cleveland, Ohio durab 0; would also make good PlymOuth Bldg, W A N T E D 3" ”iiflt’wfg’g‘é‘iffiof‘i’igiig n the city of Flint. Mich. Address Box M2102, care of Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich. an wanted: Married man as foreman on alarge farm, , none but first class man need apply. lie- foiaeziece; required: Call Citz. Phone 198 between 5 . M. Frank Burnham. Bellevue, Michigan Fflll Pith, flick. apples' from the grdund. no ladder cessary, best. picker made. 31 for metal part and to" di roctlone W.8’I’AFFELB, Bo'x m4. Saginaw. w. 8., Mich. luv sauce Peers “tram: 5: w "M your station. M. 1!. care of ' igan Former Ree-Thresher for sale, like ow Halt price. bun Mp for: paid bwor.~ I.AlNDT. Seaman. Indiana. _ . Fare: and Far. Luis Firm , tone eo.‘ . . 4944m- Struc. Detroit. Mich. lone-lieu Wemnsm mull-nette- with eminence. I ”Hal‘llll' 109 acres on fine lake. good buildings, ' ‘ | 0 02:1 1.500needo‘d rite 1' lot . euclidean-i. lager-inching. 5313: ’ $1,000 Cash Secures lGO—Acre Equipped Farm with Pair horses, 3 rows, young stock. pigs, poultry, ma.- chlnery, wa ons tools, hay, oats. potatoes, near town, markets, so 00151; has produced 300 bushels potatoes acre; creek-watered pasture, large herd, estimated 7,000 cords wood. 700 cords bolt timber, 5,000 posts. market close by;variety fruitmew 6-room house,barn, arage, poultry house, etc; owner called away. makes ow price $4,000, only $1,000 cash, easy terms. Details fingre 8t) btsgms‘lé at Big INoLw I‘llusérateél Catalog Farm :1 gains- L a cs. . us‘ on . 0 rec. STROUT FARM AGENCY. b‘l-i BO. Ford Bldg" Detroit. Wonderful Opportunity TO PURCHASE Rich Productive Farms For A Home —— or As a Paying Investment IF INTERESTED WRITE FOR CATALOGUE ROGERS BROS. SEED CO. ALPL‘NA, MICH. Farm, timber and deer preserve 80 acres, 1 ' house 12x_16, barn 18x24. Thirty acres healéyct‘lg: berahuntmg lodge on the premises; deer plentiful- %.mile from 800 River; saw mill at DeTour 4I miles. Logs can be rafted on Soc River to mill- timber cnoughon the place to pay for it; 60 mile; from 500 good auto roads. Price $2,000.00 — E. T. WOQD. Rockwood. Michigan McCLURE-STEVENS LAND co. - We have for sale 15,000 acres of .fin ‘ ‘ lands, well located, close to schools.“ tfigclmvl’gc’m on easy terms. A fine farm of 529 acres, all well improved. good bulldmsS. basement barns silos or. chords. all modern Improvements. A sheep ranc'h of 310 ficrds' ailhfenccédkwell Entered. good building ore. ar 3. recs oc ranc , and watered. 8‘ Well fenced, grassekd McCLURE-STEVENS LAND CO. Glad win. Mich. FARMS .FOR SALE in New York State. 310 acres, ' tillahlc.4 miles from stationfigfiffifé Ffllgiggg;mgafiree stein cows. 12 head young stock. all crops harvest dol- unharvestcdmomplete equipment tools, he“ W, “i, or etc. 810. rite for catalog. H. . _ 39%,,5?’ ll arm Sabtlement Ash. deepexstown, New Yolk' WANTED ate macro h Good first 01 . r. on salary or mocks?” 1:53:53: 1 6 one who has had agricultural cello rail-n20 :12? toned. and therein 1y understands all ads of stock Address r. 0. Box 0. 31-7, Seal-av. Mich. ' ‘fEs 1‘E fruit lands in B rte ngmfi; belltTIEkAfor froe'oloogag o¥é2¥$::rhm: HeRACE G. KRAKE, Agency. Column. M or rent. at once Moore. Dal For 8'3" ranch. new house. silo, cow fixdé’m: ’ running water. productive soil. Ad E. n. SKIR Branch. Mich. . ist ' " ' shades: of th paporofor r’nore‘tlrien may». , methods truthful advertising’and bigjsavuigs ‘- “ ‘ ' ' "ant at..feo c, ”theFall andWIlltEI' 0 1920 M'"‘”°”‘ ‘at a 53"“ ll . ll ' ' ' ll ‘ " Angle Steel Fence Posts -- , '- ~ - , ‘ $ 85 Typical 0f the many top as ea II I II n Ct" A N LC3—46 OOOofthese " *7 0' » . remarkable savmgs , ‘9'th drive ’angle steel, . "4" . 3 here in Chicago’s great- DOIH ‘ l '5 3~ est stock of millwork.‘ ‘ fence cats have come to no . . a '7 GEachl MM“ t???“ for our New READV— All Material front Our Latest Fit-h at?“ pmhaseogmamé he“ , ‘i it“. enera ateria 00 now. tom e governmen . ran . > « . ‘ o ‘ "m “H We mamas“... Big Purchases Offering Sensational Savings , M mg. mg. nu... made no... .t a ,e. . , ‘_ . 2. rileaw, instige dfiors giiilnufgctuged gem . ' , . . - . . markable ea mg. 6t£tg lkongo Handling: 15‘ . ‘ ‘, ' ,; ' ,eowrm ' ' - 0 in. ic:es‘ n- l ., 2.. 51:31:19.1»... no. “snags: .5: Quick whom-that ,8 the his Impprtant POI!“ for you to keep in E15? 783:9... on one‘side aiming .3361- . _. .=_ l doshowing]iihifidelgecggmg‘flndlige:lgefat 61:: mind as you look over this random selection of bargains from our great stocks. _ wires on the other side in alternating . - - ' ‘ . ‘ l 53. 8in.16ft. 8in. 2n.‘s in. is ft. ' 85' In years gone by, we have successfully completed sensational sales, distrib- Dosltions ‘0 “14.11110 wife on every style ‘1' ' -'i “In State size wwmd~ 8°18 vflceeach $45 uting the world's finest products to our farm friends in every section of ”I ‘eflgg; 0%}; 2;? em? I ‘ 333cc ,» B;- l " the country. - - Ma» ”We! . Lots of 500 or more each . 30C l 1". And now we come to you with opportunities greater than ever. You’ll wait a long , a \ , _ . ‘ . . 1 time before you'll have another chance like this to save money. _ Our great purchases of complete - W7”; “‘4‘; | .2 » p army camps. merchandise, building material and general sup l-ies from the government and other ' ‘ sources are nationally known- Every item in our stocks was ought by us at a genuine bargain. so 9 it's easy for us to ofier them now With big economy to you. x _. ' ‘ Am ‘ e c l Buy from this page and the free books in the coupon below and you buy as we _ ' l , E do~bargains only—nothing but bargains. And. remember. direct dealing with us means more than i 2:. 1 "‘ ‘ just a. big money saying- It means guaranteed satisfaction as to quality. prompt shipments and the . g ’ fair. square deal” treatment that has been the corner stone of' our success through more than a \ ‘ , = A- ‘ Order Now FromThls List quarter century of honest public dealing-l, "‘“' if” “ ' ‘1 \ré-a. ' , Take our advice and buy your roofing now. I‘ ates! '0 or "III Snaps like these go last when our low prices "A RBIs BROTH Ens col A fire: quantitoltougrl: by us at less than “ome generally known- Y0“.m“5ta“ mm“ Chicago House Wrecking Co. Owners "The Great Price Wreckers" the actual costo manufacture. Fine barbed - .3 to get y°‘" Share 0‘ these saY‘"gs' wire made under rigid government super- Gold Medal Roofin vision. 12 gauge open hearth steel wire with . No.|.¢4-—Rawhide atone faced gold medalgofin one Of a Hundred Guaranteed mu" 90"" bar.“ 9‘ "‘v ”"9". Spaced 3 ‘n' ’1 guaranteed fifteen years. Fire resisting specia Read _ c "t H om es l tl‘l apart. Order quickly from specral lots beIOW- l coalting.d Full Hills of 108 sq. t. complete with y n e . 4 poll“: Palnted stock n l s Hisi‘é‘iaii'é‘é'ék - - - - H 8r” 8 FR E E 300 k of Plans i‘ahfiamf aiiszssmnasw" Fa R h'd R f' Let the world’s leading house specralists 626 reels or more per reel . . 81.66 mous aw I e 00 lng lan your home and furnish the m teri l f 't Th 100 reels or more per reel . . r 1.70 No. Les—Rawhide roofin in three weights-a game ictured h S b I H a l 3 Off! ' e 60 reels or more per reel . ‘ L75 I high grade covering in rolfs 108 sq. ft. with nails ~ 1:) - a eon care u y p anned .rom Sug- 25 reels or more per reel . . 1.80 ~ and cement. ll Eggs weiggt guarantfed twelvfi Faislrtéowefiegil‘agigdogl 5113130on! our farm friends. A ' Less than 25 reels per reel . . ‘ 1.85 ~ years. per ro . ; me ii weig t r r0 , . . _ 8‘ 2n 0 imposm a ear c , ‘1 ,,: _ $2.65; light weight per roll $2.15. W a built With big economy ‘The Harris Wagingp an e "o Lc:_=;‘;i'.": gglgflfifinfi‘figm “I, , 2' Corrugated Metal Roofing Guaranteed Ready-Cut System izl‘lgfiiizztt‘lchsirffim .fi‘llzinidoi‘ttz "" A large quantity of corrugated metal roofing in , ,, This and all Harris Homes built many times Wirfi'zfieo “’1‘ reel contains 750‘“. . 33 55 l‘. various weights; secured in big government and ' V - with extreme satisfaction and big economy Our won- 100 we]‘3 or more per {eel ' ' 3'60 ' . fggetnggflcgfigesriclelstw’ill1213133022128?le and our ‘ derlul. improved Ready-Cut System of .fi‘imishing 50 :ggl: :; #8:: 3:: recs] : , 8:66 1 I We “can furnish 100 . ft. of” cor? 5" "anufacture‘ tram material machine cut is the only way to build your ”5'39"" “10’9“" "’9' r 3-70 rugated metal sheets as ow as . . $3.00 , ideal home right Without wasting a single penny. Le” than26 "e" p“ "a ' ' 3'75 L .; randt new Simplified bundling system instantly understood by _ "‘ “PRESTO-UP” Bolt together - , n m read- you can't co m... Barbed Bottom Hog Fence I: 6 Bl ‘ P ' t Pl Off Blue prints of uni- G r d H I o r e ne '1" an ers (om 88818 038! to I I z} 3 ages an ouses - read and readily understood furnished without charge. Ask 26 "In "'8“ l ' No. ITCS—The wonder Selected quallt for complete details of this Harris Home. . , P l ‘ buxldmss of the are- Y Mail the Coupon New" or .1; wonderful because they ‘ Rod ’ ., ' are so sample. Your ‘ c ' summe!‘_ Omeorgarage I I No: Lee—Spools! barbed boloin alvanized hog l erected in a few hours A c L b d B Id t cl d t N . n to wiroamf No. It later- ' . .. —-only tools needed a rmy am um er an "I lngs afgdiftleh-n‘eSildsgywireg'StaysspacedGin. apart. .1 -. _ vawHV—r. . hammer and a wrench. . . . . . _ Spacobetweenlmewires trombottomupwards are: ‘ / numerous styies and sizes illustrated and Millions of feet of high grade lumber and complete buildings are ready now forim- 3' 8. «11%- 556 and“ “1- 10° '0‘”? "9"“ ‘25 "”- s ) f' described in our complete free Presto-Up mediate shipment from our latest purchase—Camp Merritt at Tenafly, New Jersey. Also plumbing 28 la. lush Der rod. 32:. min-hill! per rod. 390 I, ‘ ‘ook. Mail coupon now. This material and general building supplies su1table for construction of buildings of every kind. If you can fly poll-sweeten!!! “MMVE’O “0‘0""! small car size garage, complete . . $164 use material of this kind. mail coupon for complete catalogue of government and general material. {infégfigrwh ‘flm'nl W90“ tam fem . ‘ Harris “Cream GetteF Se arators ‘ h. ' " ' Time to Pay It l*ou Wish B-athroom . 1:?Ivgggssbwestasgfcorn5heners A No LCIZ—These splendid machines . have made a wonderful record in all $22? i'igl‘l‘ilfo‘liillé’o'rgfflllcgo‘l sizes-all seasons of the yearin all parts day free trial with a anntee of of the country. Newest model cream positive satisfaction. Orggr now from separators. easy to clean. easy to turn. 32!: :3: get full particulars with easy to oil and now—easy to own. ' Patented exclusive improvements Witt! NO. 1 — $34.50 everywhere-found only in these He. Lose—Forth man who shell. excellent separators. oornfor his own use, Cs city 50 to '15 Fully guaranteed to get all the cream— bushels per hour wrths lap. engine. the best cream separator you can buy re- Watts "0. 4 ‘- $19.50 iii-dices of name make or price. We’ll ‘ l < (Li. , . 5- _ .J, ~: No LOIS—With cleanin stem gake your old separator of! your hands 8' - - eob'stacker and grain daytgor'.’ Shell of your new cream getter. 1 L ;— T“ —-.— . . T for yourself and a few neighbors. Size m, {3,5,1}... oer In, 5.1. prim No. LCIO—Splendid value is offered us this claim Watts N'o. 7-52574’ "‘ 1 * 175 * $34 95 plete bathroom outfit. Consists of white porcelain enameled ”°- “31°“wml 9‘“de WNW * z r 250 * 38290 bath tub5it. long.30in wide. fitted with nickel plated connected signogfggdggfggggfigggr lowing liberally for it toward the purchase _m 3 375 55.50 waste and overflow and nickel plated double bath cock. White t ; i e' , . 5 500 59.95 porcelain enameled lavatory. size 17x_19 in. with nickel .plated We‘zelutmfi; manus;eggah6ur. No' Lela-W9“. No“ 4 '9‘ Indicates “1,19 fix”, All 7 750 6800 trap ‘and faucetts. Closet outfit includes white vitreous - , I _ Corn Sheller with clean- mchinesready for shipments 9 950 75:00 earthenware wash down bowl with highly finished golden fiihor'filzoi'ooné'flirciti‘c'ido‘lioam in: system. cob stacker, . _ . - _ N . “”34 owed Cream Getter Junior oak tank. copper lined. seat and cover matches tank. equipment'wuonboxeievat .. ,w, “stain elevator and automatic fi'fiiflfl; 30;:3 5:23:22 Se$amtorcaprdldi€y3001bm an hour 333 50 Here’s your chance to buy an outfit worth upwards $85 on cob stacker sn‘d feeder on 383.1 libs-v39 feeder as shown. $99 50 l o o . I ~ I . sent with "den on metal stand, each ' of $100.00 now ion... . . .. .. .. .. .... . . .... hitch truckawapaeityéwbu. perhosr. Sak price now .. F rou hs 1.00 ' ' Ir ' New filxea fialls " n" i Guaranteggg‘ '1; T g ' Chemical Indoor Toilet W” ”P“ M"- 8° not as - ., . e g.?- H.331" \ Brings to you every convenience __ ‘ of the modern toilet. sanitary 59% Ne. Lch—Ourbigcomplete 53'. fiffi’infix , and easily do . . . '5':le of Ppipel offers wonderful gngflgdsigestlrogn 5' I' No. tell—No plumbing needed ”gain a, 35?“? .‘fi". ‘h' 100 n, “:3" X l" ; Po. 9.0117853: "If” firm—[r afl‘émz‘é‘iofnés‘s :31- No. LCZO—The trough you °"- Put“ '" ‘3' ave hoped and waited for. ' h . . figvg’gigghafigéggk Can’t tip—flared legs. Ideal indi- (.- .. J, a i v .1 l‘.‘ . . timid s-—- to n . ,. - _ with this improved chemical in‘door toilet: now offered It Baum-money so‘v- handyassorhnent 'v , -, > t. "‘ {@Y‘W .‘ ' bmm'rerni. :2.“ 8:01;? or? 821.: oéigggg fir??o:::lll fitted with regular closet seat and cover. “’93- “Mb“ '9' “1? “WWII” ' “W'W 5‘ . 7 ’3‘} ‘ 9‘ ‘ - r to ads!“ ids i di 1 ' l ) If.“ 1;...“ iGuaranteed burn point 7ln. wl e. 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