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T IS VERYnatural that the first appeal of coop-

eration should be to bring an economical and

just mode of business into operation and such



‘has been the history of cooperative effort. But

once the business of farmingis placed upon an

equitable plane with other industries, then it is

reasonable to suppose that the cooperative m0ve-

.ment will be extended beyond the market place

and the halls of business education and become a

powerful ally in bringing .about a constructive

environment for the members, one that will pro—

vide for their social needs as well as for their business

demands. ‘





uplifting efiect upon the individual that democracy





 





But the criticism is made that cooperation tends

to discourage individual eHort, that organization

will do many things for members that they natur—

ally would do for themselves. Experience abroad

seems to teach otherwise. There cooperation has

rather worked to give to the individual greater self—

respect first through improving his economic out—

look and then by making it possible to enjoy those

finer things of life which came with an improved

environment. In other words, democracy in busi-

ness and social enterprises appears to have the same





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CURRENT COMMENT





E are now hear-



ing and reading

a great deal about the

period of readjust-

ment which is upon

us. In reality it is

merely a period of deflation during

, which money values will increase and

commodity values will decline. If this

process could be so graduated as to

affect all classes alike its accomplish-

ment would result in no great hardship

to any, but the regulation of the proc—

ess is exceedingly difficult, hence the

possibility of an unequal distribution

of the burdens of deflation or price

readjustment as between money and

commodity values.



In such a readjustment, the burden

of readjustment naturally first falls

upon those who have a surplus of com-

modities. It is an established econom-

ic law that when commodity prices

are rising the market in that line is a.

“sellers’ market." In other words, the

owner of such commodities feels that

he is warranted in asking a high price

for his goods in proportion to their

cost, since their replacement value has

risen. 0n the other hand, the consum-

er Who needs the goods feels that he

has no remedy in delaying his pur-

chase, since the price is likely to ad-

vance still further to his greater dis-

advantage. But when commodity val~

ues are falling the market immediately

becomes a “buyers' market.” The own-

er of goods of any kind is confronted

With the problem of unloading his

high priced wares. He will naturally

make a strenuous effort to unload at

a profit, but prospective purchasers

feel that they have nothing to lose and

everything to gain. The result is a

general slowing up of business, includ-

ing production, with a lessened de-

mand and a lower market for raw

material and labor and a consequent

. reaction on values of foodstuffs.



This process of deflation, or the re-

adjustment of commodity and money

values cannot be accomplished without

loss to those who have commodities

on hand which were purchased or pro-

duced at high cost under post war

conditions, whether the owner of such

goods be manufacturer, jobber, mer-

chant or farmer. But, quite naturally,

every holder of high cost goods will

minimize his loss as much as possible,

just by holding up the price so far as

practicable, and second by replacing

his holdings as cheaply as possible.

The manufacturer limits production un-

til he has worked off his high priced

products at a minimum of loss, and

; rs the market on raw mater-a1 and



" ,1', to the best of his ability when

of the formerslow





Deflation

and the

Farmer





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buy

needs only for the same reason. Both

classes naturally strive to -msintain

the same scale of profits which they

have found possible to collect under

the conditions of inflation which have

obtained during recent years. That

they will ultimately find themselves

unable ' to accomplish this end does

not help the present situation, which





is aggravated by this condition, and in.





which the present burden of deflation

falls heaviest on the farmers who have

products for sale which were produc-

ed at the peak of production costs, and

on the consumer who finds himself

jobless, with relatively small reduc-

tion in retail costs; of foodstuffs as

compared with wholesale market val-

ues.



The burden of financing his business

is particularly heavy on the farmer at

this season of the year. It is his nor-

mal period for the payment of fixed

charges, such as taxes, interest, labor,

etc., and his living expenses must

be financed for several unproductive

months. He needs, in a majority of

cases to cash in on his crops to meet

these demands. But for best results

his products ‘should be sold only as

needed for consumption, since they

cannot be forced on distribution in

great volume under present conditions

except at a price so low as to make it

an apparently safe speculation for the

dealer who is skeptical regarding fu-

ture resale values. It is the part of

wisdom for the original holders of

foodstuffs to market their holdings

gradually, in proportion to the length

of the normal marketing season. Such

a general tendency on the part of

farmers would go far toward stabiliz-

ing the readjustment or deflation

process. _



Fortunately for the possible accom-

plishment of this result the credit sit-

uation has materially improved in re-

cent weeks and farmers who are dis-

posed to use their credit to aid in the

process of gradual distribution of their

products will find: it more possible

than was the case at t e peak of in-

flation a few weeks ago. _



t In the judgment of close students of



business economics the business out-

look is comparatively bright. It is the

general belief in business circles that

a period of general business prosperity

rather than of depression is the out-

look in the United States, and that the

check in business activities due to the

process of deflation will be beneficial

in the correction of business extrava-

gances without proving a permanent

check on business prosperity. This

general confidence should be maintain-

ed by agriculture, which is today in a

better position than has been the case

in any similar previous period in our

history.





NE of the great



handicaps in. the

business of farming

is the uncertainty of

remuneration for lab-

or invested in the

growing of crops. This element of un-

certainty is two-fold, in that unfavor—

able climatic conditions may limit the

yield secured to a degree which will

make the investment in growing it

unprofitable, or unfavorable market

conditions may limit the price received

for the product to produce the same

result. Obviously the wise thing for

every farmer to do is to eliminate

these chances so far as possible. This

may, and is being done to a very prof-

itable extent by many individual farm-

ers in the first case, and by the united

efforts of the farmers engaged in many

special industries in the latter case.

The marketing problem is one for unit-

ed action, and substantial progress is

being made along this line. But the





' Moisture

Control

Problems





a. large waste in labor irrigated,

year‘s fine Which must. a - ‘





problem of great economic importance.

Probably the greatest single factor





in this problemmf economic production.





is moisture control. Nature has given





us only a small percentage of soil of





such physical consistency ' as to pro-

yide in a natural Way for the prompt

removal of excess moisture, and at the





same time conserve a-maximum supply-





of needed meisture in periods of scan-

ty rainfall. The great bulk of our soil

area is either too wetfor best results

at planting time or, too dry during the

growing season for maximum yields at

harvest time, hence a large seasonal

waste of labor which it would be most

desirable to avoid.



A reduction in this Wastage can be

most certainly accomplished in the

case of the wet lands, from which the

excess water can be removed by tile

drainage, and an optimum degree of

moisture conservation secured by the

resulting betterment in their physical

condition. True, tile drainage is an

expensive operation, but the results

will warrant the investment. whenever

tile drainage is needed, as it is needed

on a large area of our very best lands.

Tile drainage will in very many cases

be a practical insurance against this

serious wastage of labor'invested in

crop growing operations, thereby in-

creasing the profits as well as the sat-

isfaction in the business. Every owner

of land needing tile drainage will find

it a profitable venture to borrow the

money to make this improvement, if

it is impractical to do this on a scale

which will make it possible to drain

the whole or any large part of the area

needing drainage at once, rit will be

profitable to lay out a comprehensive

plan for the adequate drainage ,of the

whole farm and improve a small area

each year until the plan is completed.

No farmer-owner, and particularly no

going farmer, should be deterred from

making a great effort to accomplish

this improvement where needed. It is

an economic factor of great import-

ance in determining his future econom-

ic success, and should not be overlook-

ed or neglected.





HE farmer who at



times has not felt

a desire to study the

other man’s methods

of, keeping his boys

interested in the ev‘

eryday affairs of the farm must be

a peculiarly constituted individual. A

wide-awake man who has the interests

of his boys at heart will constantly be

asking himself if he has’adopted the

best procedure. A member of our staff

who has visited some of the leading

farmers of the state during the past

few months sums up the situation

thusly: “When our farmers appraise

the value of their boys by the same

standard as they do their colts, calves

and pigs and study the kind of treat-

ment that is best suited for their de-

velopment we Will have a new genera-

tion of farmers with a higher degree

of efficiency and a much greater earn-

ing power.” .



It is time right now to begin to

study that boy and find out what sort

of training is needed to develop his

good qualities. You expect the colts,

calves and pigs from your best sires

to develop into profitable animals if

you give them proper treatment. As

much depends on your boy’s sire and

line of treatment accorded as is the

case with the young animals on the

farm. His value on the farm depends

largely on fitting him for doing things.

All young animals are restless and the

success of developing them along use-

ful lines depends on keepingfthem con-

tented. Many or our successful live





Fitting Boys

To Do

Things





stock breeders have found it possible.





farm. His value on the farm depends





7 ,, the present labor. shortage, because _

production problem, in which-there isrthéy’hav‘happrnisedtbeir there at ,





obtains. The jobber and the-merchant solved by the individual, audit is a 'herdsjand-Milocks t'ojkeepffiefiijn’gfii

sparingly and ‘fOr ' immediate" ‘ .'





ested in the affairs of the farm. other

men have been forced to hold diam; ,

sion sales because the boys found more” '

congenial surroundingsvand greater in-"

come in big cities. .



Boys are especially eager ,to do or '

try hide the things that good farmers,

do. The spirit toexcel is present in

every normal country boy. That is

one of the ambitions that fathers must

encourage if they hold the boy’s inter

est in farming. The ownership of pure

bred animals afford them abundant

opportunity to try and do things better

than the other fellow, and impresses

upon them a larger responsibility than

the handling of scrubs. Boys have

an imaginative instead of a tactful

estimate of the difference betWeen a.

$40 and a $100 brood sow for ex-

ample. In the majority of instances‘

grade or scrub animals are not valued

so highly as pure-breds that sell for!

higher; prices. For this reason they

become interested in blood lines and

consequently give ‘the animals more

thoughtful care. At so critical a time

in the boy’s period of development no

father can afford to break down their

morale by denying them an interest in

the business of the'farm, and nothing

will do more toward making impressi—

ble, enthusiastic workers of them than

getting them started wth pure-bred

stock.



Fathers who doubt the ability of the

their boys to make good with pure-

bred live stock could profit largely by

studying the records made by some of

our Michigan boys at this year’s fairs

and live stock ‘exhibitions. Three

Michigan boys, representatves of their

state by virtue of their records at De-

troit and Grand Rapids fairs this fall,

were placed tenth in the National

Boys’ Club Live Stock Judging Contest

at Atlanta, Georgia, last week. The

contest was nationwide, the best jun-

ior judges from the leading live stock

states all over the country taking

part. Carl Johnson, of Ironwood; Don

Sheppard, of Charlottefi and Porter

Dent, of Vicksburg, were the members

of the Michigan team. All of them

won their places by virtue of actual

victories in competition- Other‘Mich-

igan boys have been winning honors

this fall. Early in October a team fin-

ished seventh in the National Dairy

Show club boys judging events at Chi-

cago. Here Michigan boys scored sec-

ond highest points in judging Hol-

steins, competing against teams from

fourteen other states. The fathers ‘of

these boys have given them an oppor-

tunity to handle pure-bred stock and

they have made good.





News of the Week





Wednesday, October 27.





B ITUMINOUS coal dealers have



pledged themselves to aid the

government in eliminating unreason-

able rates and unwise practices—Den-

mark is seeking a market in this coun-

try for their surplus butter—An ad-

vance of wheat prices is largely cred-

ited to farmers Withholding offerings.—

Credit men indorse the federal reserve

bank system.——Japan puts six ships

1n South American trade—National

retail grocers in session at Columbus

forecast a decline in grocery prices.

Packers submit a new plan for the

disposal of the packers’ interests in

the stock yards.



Thursday, October 28.





STATE of siege in Moscow against

the soviet government is report-

ed.—The government of England

passes an emergency bill giving eon-

cessions to the labor party—Plans

are being formulated by financiers

for the development of Liberia—With

the high cost of living still soaring,‘

France is facing a. serious situation

as winter approaches—The council of

the league of nations approves the

plan for a permanent court .of inter-

national justice.—-The Canadian min-.

ister of agriculture is. endeavoring to

learn why Canada's 86 apples aregsell- . ~

ingin England “118.," ‘ ' ’ ‘ ‘ '

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ICHIGAN has taken the leader-

M ship in the movement for better

' seeds and her fairs and grain

,, shows furnish striking examples of the

’ ' - high quality of the products from her

farms.



The grain show, particularly the one

held in connection with a community

fair, a grange or a farm bureau gath-

ering affords an ideal place where

those who make their living from

farming may meet, show the best prod-

ucts the community has yielded and

discuss the influences which, during

the season, have made for success or

failure.



The community fair as it is being

conducted in Michigan, by catering to

‘the practical farmer rather than the

professional exhibitor, usually avoids

the mistakes made by so many county

. and larger fairs. Large cashepremiums

" are not the rule, nor are they desira-



’ ble.- It is the object, rather, to stimu~

. , lat_e community interest in those crops

{1" most suited to that particular locality.

' . ‘5 Freak exhibits are avoided and empha-

' c i sis placed on those crops and varieties

common to the neighborhood and by

which local farmers actually make



their living.



, ’ Because of the very nature of these

fairs large cash premiums would mean

financial failure. It has been found

that people prize more highly the hon-

or of winning and the certificate, the

ribbon, or the small trophy that goes

with it, than they do any small cash

premiums that could be afforded. Var-

ious utility prizes are very much worth

while and among ‘those offered on dif-

ferent premium lists are: ,



Garden tools for the best garden ex-

hibit; sack of flour for the best peck

of wheat; book on crop production for

the best peck of oats any variety.



Small- cash awards usually are given



‘1 with the ribbons where nothing else is



._ offered. A feature used in many Cana-



; » dian seed shows is that of offering the



, ‘ price received for the grain along with

the first premium. These samples are

then sold to the highest bidder. This

'5 7 is done only when the judges deem the



' first award worthy for such sale.



Practically none of these local shows

‘ charge an entrance fee to the exhibit-

or. That practice never was of any

great value as a source of revenue and

a good live organization.will find no

great difficulty in financing the exhib-

ition in some other manner.



The place for holding these exhibits

is seldom elaborate. The Grange,

Gleaner, or town hall, an empty store



._ building or a special tent is all that is

, necessary. These fairs are very dif—

u” - ferent from the larger commercial

., fairs and, properly conducted, they can

L do much for community development

; V ' as well as the furtherance of crop pro-

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In the farm crops division classes

are providedvt‘or sheaf and seed sam-

ple of the grain and forage crops com-

mon to the community. Ten ear sam-

ples of adapted varieties'of corn, one

peck each of the grains, and a quart of

the seed of alfalfa, the grasses or the

clovers are the usual amounts shown.

It lies with the superintendent of this

division to make the show succesful.

He must personally solicity entries.

The organization at Alpena in 1919

sent out trucks and made a farm ,to

farm canvass for desirable exhibits

and had a splendid show that year.



The selection of sheaf samples must,

of course, be made early. 'Cutting just

before they are mature and curing

them by hanging them from the butts

in a dark airy room gives the grain

sheaves the best color and appearance

for show purposes. They are then

stripped of leaves, tied in bundles

three or four inches in diameter just





should be used forasecondary decora-

tive effect only, for it must be borne

in mind that the value of the exhibit

lies in shoWing the points of some

good crop and not in displaying an

elaborate mass of junk.



Small signs and labels may also be

used effectively as supporting mate:

rial. The great .mistake with signs is

in making them too prominent. Spec-

tators will not stop to read a big chart

going into elabOrate detail. But a small

placard, not over ten by eighteen inch-

es can lend much to the educational

value of the display without lessening

its attractiveness.



Grains and seeds should be selected

with an eye to quality and not merely

for size or possibly some freak char-

acter. He: e is to be represented the

type which if planted would giver the

highest yield and the best quality of

that crop. This proper relationship

was brought out very well in the com-





 





Exhibit of Pedigreed Grains at the M. A. 0.





below the heads and bound with blue

or other appropriately colored ribbon.



The grasses, clovers and alfalfa

should be taken at a time when they

are in best condition for forage pur-

poses. Excessive handling is to be

avoided and if they are sprinkled With

water the night before the sheaves are

made they will better retain their

leaves and show their value as hay

and forage crops.





Many attractive devices may be

worked out with this material. A rope

covered thickly with oat heads, fast-

ened .on by winding with fine threads,

was used by one exhibitor this year.

Some of the exhibitors at Grand Rap-

ids used a similar device in making

letters for the name of the county or

club they represented. Long timothy

covered with oat heads or June grass

was also used. Devices of this nature





 





munity fair at Three Oaks.





All of the

winter wheat shown weighed from

sixty-one and a half to sixty-three

pounds per bushel, and the prize win-

ner, an excellent peck of Red Rock,

came from a ten-acre field which yield-

ed five hundred and forty bushels.

The Saginaw Fair lent much to the

attractiveness of their exhibit by pro-

viding trays for ten ear samples of





corn and uniform peck containers for





the grain samples.





Much community interest was shown

at the Unity Grange Fair in Branch

county in the close competition be-

tween different granges. for the best

display at the fair. Each club set up

their own tent and arranged in it an

attractive exhibit of farm and orchard

products, canned goods, fancy and

handiwork brought in by the members

of the different organizations.





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Crop Exhlblts and Exhibitions





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This live, community deserves spe-

cial mention for the high quality of its

corn show. Because of its character—

istic excellence under conditions in.

this locality the Murdock variety has

practically become the standard for

the community.



And herein lies a great value of the

community grain show. Farmers vis-

iting over exhibit tables see the high

quality of leading varieties, learn of

their ability to yield under the local

conditions, and the tendency is for

each to choose that leading variety for

his next year’s seed. It brings com-

munity standardization and its inher-

ent benefits. All of the wheat shown

at Three Oaks was Red Rock because

for the strong soil of the community it

has demonstrated its ability to give

large yields of superior quality. Near-

ly all the rye being shown in Michigan

today is Rosen. More or less impure,

it is true, but nevertheless showing the

plump berry and uniform high quality

of Rosen. And so with other grains

and com the tendency is to standard-

ize on the variety of superior quality

and yielding ability. And nowhere can

these characters better be brought to

the attention of the community at

large than at the community fair or

grain show. .



Other important features-in crop

production are brought to light at

these local gatherings. As an instance,

farmers in talking over the fifty-four-

bushel per acre yield of Red Rock

near Three Oaks, found that the grow-

er did not seed his wheat till late in

the Ily-l‘ree seeding period for that 10-

cality, thereby avoiding all ravages of

the Hessian fly which had been later

than usual in the fall of 1919, and

caused great losses, especially in

Southwestern Michigan. Seed treat—

ment, eradication of weeds, insect con—

trol, newly adapted varieties, lime,

special light land crops, these are

some of the many topics discussed

amongr the Michigan patrons of crop

exhibitions.



The season for community fairs is

just beginning. Throughout all fall and

winter these one or two—day shows will

be the meeting places for farmers.

Here they may trade experiences, fix

ideals and plan for the further devel-

opment of their farms and their com;

munities. Farmers’ Week at M. 'A. C.

and the grain show held at that time

by the Michigan Crop Improvement:

Association forms a fitting climax to

the one or two—day community shows.

Here is gathered the best the local and

county fairs have shown. and here just

before spring work begins, Michigan

farmers receive the inspiration of their

own superior accomplishment and

those of their neighbo1s an important

stimulus to the development of eco-

nomical c1op ploduction.
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The Late Wm. K. Munson and His Fa mous Grape, the “King."





ECENTLY the Circuit Rider ex-

R amined the stimulating, life-giv-

ing nodules on the roots of some

of the cooperative plants grown from

seed and inoculating bacteria furnish-

ed by the Kent County Farm Bureau.

This sounds like stringing out cause

and effect after the manner of a pro—

fessor from East Lansing discussing

the growing of alfalfa, and it really

amounts to the same thing. »

An impoverished soil and run-down

country-side is not going to develop

nodules of cumulative good-will and

cooperation on a firm economic and

moral foundation, any more than it is

going to produce luxuriant crops of

alfalfa, without careful preparation of

the soil and the use of fertilizer, lime,

good seed and inoculating bacteria.

This is what County Agent Carr is up

against. He knows that Michigan's

most important crop, this year, is co-

operation, and‘that is why he is plan—

ning expansions and extensions of co-

operative work to stimulate interest

and drive home the inspiration for bet-

ter fanning and better business meth-

ods. He has some mighty important

projects under way, and is carefully

preparing the ground, sowing cleaned

seed and using the right kind of inoc-

ulating bacteria to stimulate growth

and the development of root nodules.





NE of Carr’s pet projects is the



Grand Rapids Growers’ Associa-

tion. This is an organization of vege—

table and fruit growers within a radius

of a few miles of Grand Rapids. Under

its new organization program it joined

hands with the Kent County Farm Bu-

reau and made provision for broaden-

ing the scope of its activities so that it

could handle the products of the many

small farms where vegetables and fruit

are the main source of income. Since

its organization, in November, 1919, it

has handled a business of approximate-

ly $900,000. It is now affiliated with

the Michigan State Farm Bureau, and

is being used by that organization as

the western Michigan distributing

branch so that carload lots of produce

and farm supplies may be gathered to-

gether and distributed to the farmers

of that part of the state; thus affecting

a. big saving in transportation charges.

None of‘the business handled for thé

State Farm Bureau is represented in

the figures given for the year’s busi-

ness. The officers are: R. Yonker,

president; W. S. Hannah, vice-presi-

dent; Rudolph Zant, treasurer; Henry





' . Cheney, manager.





1“The Grand Rapids Growers’ Ex-

bhange is one of the best cooperative

organizations in the state. Some of

“in: other organizations may show a

greater volume of business, but it is

‘ 'bttul if any of them havg done so

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the potato exchange and the live stock

shipping association is dealing~with

uniform staple products—grain, pota

toes and live stock in mass. The fruit

and vegetable growers in this section

have a dozen or more special products

and to sell their stuff the association

must be able to handle all of these

crops on a fluctuating market. Pro-

viding storage facilities is out of the

question. Their proposition is to find

good markets and put the stuff on

them in the best condition possible.

For years the gardeners and fruit

growers in this territory depended up

on Grand Rapids as a market for their

produce. A glut one day and high pric-

es the next resulted in tremendous

losses and waste of produce. The av-

erage gardener and fruit grower did

not raise enough to make up carload

shipments to other big markets. He

was at the/mercy of buyers on the

home market. Now the whole situa-

tion is changed. The produce is as-

sembled at the association warehouse

at Grand Rapids where it is graded and

repacked and shipped in carload lots

to other markets. Manager Cheney is

always in' touch with the best markets

in the country, and by the time the

produce is ready for shipment he has

it sold to dealers in other cities. This

kind of marketing don’tmake a boom,

but it does make up the dimes that

make up the dollars. Besides it stabil-

izes the home market and is encour-

aging the farmers near Grand Rapids

to grow more small stuff and haul it to

the city. County Agent Carr has made

many new friends for the County Farm

Bureau through his efforts to improve

the marketing conditions for the vege-

table and fruit growers in this district.

To handle staple products and to buy

farm supplies in large lots and sell to

farmers is an easy matter, and we

have been doing it for years. But to

take a dozen or more kinds of small

vegetables and fruit of a dozen or more

different degree of goodness and bad-

ness and dump them into the big chan-

nels of trade and not lose them in the

process is no small undertaking.





NOTHER efficient cooperative or-

ganization .is the Grand Rapids

Dairy Company, which is owned entire-

ly by farmers who are vitally interest-

ed in community affairs and have their

investments in farms within a few

miles of the city. It is the cooperation

of these six hundred or more farmers

which is giving the city of Grand Rap-

ids milk of a high and dependable

quality. It is strictly a cooperative

concern, ‘the stockholders of which

have a personal and financial in-

terest in the business and qualitynof



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ment it has made steady progress until

today it is handling more than forty

per cent of the milk sold in Grand Rap-

ids, and is -on a solid financial basis.

Since August 1, 1919, it has paid the

producer twenty-nine gents a gallon for

all milk distributed in the city. The

twenty per cent surplus is handled on

a different basis. This year’s increas.

ed business has taken care of the sur-

plus to better advantage, thus tending

to increase the net earnings of the

business.



The plant is one of the most modern

in any city in the country the size of

Grand Rapids. All of the equipment is

up—to—date and kept ’in the best possible

sanitary condition, and care is con-

stantly exercised to see that the milk

delivered to the trade is of the highest

quality. The milk producers of this

territory are to be congratulated for





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Roswell G. Carr, County Agent.





such prime condition, and the fact that

the people of the city of Grand Rapids

appreciate their efforts is evidenced

by the steady growth in the volume of

business handled each month. Heal-

thy cows, strict attention to sanitary

measures and prompt delivery, backed

up by the most hearty cooperation, is

sure to win out in the end. Other cit-

ies would find it profitable to study the

Grand Rapids methods.’ Milk produc-

ers in other states would be able to





gather valuable information from the

work that has been done by this pio-

This year’s business





neer concern.





amounted to more than $1,000,000. The

oflicers are: Lewis P. Ohler, presi-

dent; Garret Zuidela, vice-president;

Cyrus Heinsberger, secretary-treasur~

er; G. E. Jones, manager.



Our first visit among the cooperative

Organizations outside of Grand Rapids

was at Caledonia. Here the Farmers’

Elevator did a business of $622,000 dur-

ing the past year. The present mem-

bership is something over three hun-

dred and new members are coming in

rapidly. A branch elevator has been

established at Dutton, and many farm-

ers in that section have joined. The

concern has been in business about

eighteen months. The officers are:

Jess W. Pickett, president; Melvin R.

Shisler, secretary; E. P. Hutchinson,

manager. Mr. Hutchison is recognized

as a. capable manager and is rapidly

building up the business, both in pur-

chases and sales. The organization is

now affiliated with the State Farm

Bureau. -



The Caledonia Live Stock Shipping

Association did a business of more

than $200,000 last year. '\ The officers





are: Louis Kachele, president; Sid

Geib, secretary; George W. Pickett,

manager.





The Caledonia Cooperative Cream-

ery Association has three hundred and

fourteen members and did a business

of $144,000 last year. The officers are:

Fred Ruchs, president; M. R. Shisler,

treasurer; John Luneke, manager.

AT Alto the situation is somewhat



muddled and many farmers are be-

ginning to wonder how they are going

to reorganize their elevator company

so that they may take advantage of

what the State Farm Bureau is going

to do for its members. In discussing

the situation Mr. Carr said: “It is un

fortunate that one year ago the Alto

elevator was not made into a coopera-

tive company instead of remaining a.

straight stock company when it was re—

organized. So far as the elevator is

concerned it may be operating in the

interest of the farmer who puts his

business through it, but the law dis-

tinctly forbids the combining of stock

companies into a bigger organization.

This prevents the Alto elevator from

gaining membership in the State Farm

Bureau Elevator Exchange. Further-

more, there is no provision for divi-

dends other than those on the stock,

which makes it impossible to divide

any profits or savings except with

those who hold stock and then, of
course, in the proportion to the stock

held regardless of the amount of busi

ness done with the company. From

the standpoint of a farmers’ organiza-

tion, hoping to directly benefit the man

who grows the stuff, there are no ad-

vantages in a straight stock company

over a properly organized cooperative

association, and there are distinct dis-

advantages due to the fact that they

cannot combine with others. A cen-

tral exchange selling all of the produce

of a number of associations can afford

to hire the best salesman they can find

and they can also, by pooling their

buying powers, take advantage of the

ability of an efficient purchasing agent.

And no one can doubt the savings from

volume buying.



“The Alto situation is, however, not

difficult of solution. There are several

ways, as were explained at the elevat-

or meetings. The company could sim-

ply lease their building and equipment

to a cooperative association charging

sufficient rent to cover interest on the

money invested, taxes and depreciation.

And the new organization could join

the‘State Farm Bureau Elevator Ex-



- change and get the benefits from that

organization. Or the stock owned by

men who are not farmers could be sold

to farmers and the company reorgan-

ized into a cooperative stock company

and the change made share for share,

and then they could join the exchange.



“This all depends, of course, on the

attitude of the present stockholders.

If they want to continue as they are

the farm bureau members could form

anothergassociation in Alto and do as

much business as they cared to, tak-

ing advantage of the farm bureau’s

combined buying and selling power.

This, however, would be dividing the

business up and would make it more





difficult for both organizations. Further- I





more, ‘there are a lot of the present

shareholders who are farm bureau

members and should get farm bureau

services which they cannot do and be

loyal to their present stock company.

The right way to do seems so plain to

us that we cannot help but feel that

the whole matter will eventually be

worked out satisfactorily"



The Alto Live Stock Shipping Asso-

ciation is a flourishing organization

and last year did a business of more

tsan $200,000. Allen Behler is manager.



Another live cooperative concern is

the Alto Cooperative Creamery. It has

four hundred members. Earl Colby is





 





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president and manager. Last year’s

volume of business exceeded $200,000,

and the average price paid for butter-

fat was sixty-seven cents per pound.



At Rockford the Live Stock Ship-

ping Association did a business of over

$100,000. It has One hundred and sev-

enty-five members. Rube Brownyard

is president and Jacob H. Alles, secre-

tary and manager.



The Rockford Elevator Association

is anew organization of seventy-five

members. The officers are: Wilbert

Moffett, president; J. H. Alles, secre-

tary. No manager has been secured.





Members of a Junior Boys’





At Cedar Springs a new Cooperative sociation did a business of $50,000 the





Marketing Association with one hun- past year G E JaCObS is president;

dred members has been organized for J Betts vice president

business. The officers are: Lee Stout, tin secretary and manager

president; Vern Beach, secretary ninety membeis



Harold Andrews, manager. The Cedar At MCCOI‘dS the Live StOCk Shipping

Springs Cooperative Creamery did a Association did a business of more

business of $200,000 last year. The of- than $125,000 last year. W- V- BUI‘mS

ficers are: Dennis Verburg, president; is president and G. T. Seeley, manager.

E. S. Turner, treasurer; F. S. Andrews, The Sand Lake Cooperative Elevator

secretary and manager. Association did a $100,000 volume of





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At Lowell the Farm Bureau Local

Association has been organized with

John Krum, president, and E. V. Story,

secretary. It now has seventy-five

members and more are coming in

rapidly.



The Lowell Live Stock Shipping As-

sociation did a $125,000 business last

year. W. J. McCarthy is president and

C. H. Runciman, manager. The pres-

ent membership is one hundred and

sixty.



The Sparta Live Stock Shipping As-





business last year. C. B. Ashley is

president, and Floyd Donielson, secre-

tary and manager.



At Kent City the Farm Bureau As-

sociation has more than one hundred

members and will be ready for busi-

ness this fall. Charles Montgomery is

president; Guy Curtis, manager.



Kent county is a land of diversified

farms; the general topography of the

county being slightly rolling and the

majority of the farms contain a num-

ber of types of soil. In riding from





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Grand Rapids to Caledonia and Alto,

Lowell and then to Byron Center and

Grandville and around to Rockford,

Cedar Springs, Sand Lake, Sparta,

Kent City~and Cazenovia one is im-

pressed With the general adaptability

of the farms of the county for a num-

ber of specialized fruit and vegetable





crops. Dairying, fruit growing, pota

toes, wheat, rye and vegetable crops

were the leading products. Many





farms have rather light soil, but pota-

toes and fruit crops seem to thrive

wonderfully well on these farms. Al-

falfa is fast coming in and Grimm

seems to be in the lead. Dairying is

on the upgrade and many breeders of

pure-bred dairy cattle were found in

various parts of the county. Breeders

of beef cattle are taking a new interest

in their.work and the Shorthorn breed-

ers have a strong county organization.

By and large Kent county banks on a

combination of dairying, potato grow-

ing, fruit and vegetable production.

The market garden area snuggles close

to \Grand Rapids, .while- fruit produc-

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back. Potato growing fits in nicely

with dairy farming on the lighter soils,

but is conducted quite extensively in

nearly every township. Organization

work is going on throughout the coun-

ty and more than two thousand one

hundred members have joined the



County Farm Bureau.



ROSWELL G. CARR, County Agri-



cultural Agent of Kenty County is

a native ot‘ Livingston county. Mr.

Carr’s early life was spent on ahfarm.

After going through the usual experi-

ences of a normal farm boy he finished

high school and graduated from the

Michigan Agricultural College in 1908.

For two years he taught school in

Hillsdale county. Then came a year

in the far west and a year as manager

of a certified milk-plant. For several

years he was director of the Upper

Peninsula Experiment Station at Chat—

ham. Then he served as county agent

in Ontonagon county. In January,

1919, he succeeded H. J. Smith as coun-

ty agent in Kent county.



Few men are better equipped with

knowledge, experience and tempera-

ment for handling the agricultural af-

fairs ot‘ a county than Roswell G. Carr.

His success along these lines in. a.

county where conditions were none too

rosy for this kind of work two years

ago has given him a certain prestige

that is enjoyed by few agricultural

leaders in Michigan. Carr believes in

solving production and marketing prob-

lems before taking up new lines of rur-

al work. Cooperation has been his lead-

ing project during the past few months.



William H. Oliver, president of the

board of directors, owns and operates

a splendid one hundred and ninety acre

farm in Alpine township. Mr. Oliver‘

conducts a general farming business

with dairying as a leader. Last year

his yield of wheat on a five-acre field

of Red Rock variety exceeded fifty

bushels an acre. One of the outstand~

ing crops on his farm this year is a.

field 01‘ Pickett’s Yellow Dent corn.



11. Oliver uses a tractor and finds it

a great conserver of horse flesh, al-

though the cost per acre of plowing

and fitting is about the same as when

horses are used. Potatoes are another

crop which receives considerable at-

tention on the Oliver l‘arm. Mr. Oliver

has served as president of the County.

Farm Bureau for several years and is

regarded as one of the leaders of agri-

cultural thought in his county.



Jesse W. Pickett, vicevpresirent, has

been active in improving seed grain.

One of his achievelents is the develop—

ment of Pickett’s Yellow Dent corn, a.

variety that has become very popular

throughout the state. For a number 01'-

years he has been recognized as an au.‘

thority in breeding better seed grain:

for Michigan farms. Always a leader?

in farm bureau work he is sure to do

his part toward making the Kent?"

County Farm Bureau a progressive or





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prof registered Jersey cattle and a

practical daiiryman. He has a herd of

about thirty head of Jerseys from

-s0me of the most popular families of

the breed. He has aIWays been inter-

ested in cow-testing association work,

but is not conducting the work this

“year for the reason that the work is

not recognized by the state authorities.

A leader in all kinds of community

work he can be depended upon to keep

‘ the live stock phases of the work alive.

Mr. McCready’s farm is situated in

Sparta township.



J. P. Munson, director, is one of the

leading fruit growers near the city of

Grand Rapids. Mr. Munson has fifty-

five acres of fruit of which tl1irty~flve

acres are in bearing vineyard. Apples,

berries, currents, pears and plums

make up the balance of the fruit plan-

tations. The average yield of grapes

on the Munson farm is about eighty

tons. A large portion of the fruit crop

is marketed at Grand Rapids, but the

bulk of the grapes and apples are ship-

ped to the larger city markets. For

many years Mr. Munson has been ac-

tive in horticultural affairs, and has a



’thorough understanding of the needs

of the fruit growers of his county.



. Rudolph Zant, director, is one of the

leading vegetable growers in the vicin-

ity'of Grand Rapids. lie has a large

greenhouse and also grows vegetables

out of doors. lie. is prominent in co-

operative work and secretary of the

Grand Rapids Growers’ Association.

He is an aggressive leader and one of

the men who is making the Kent Coun-

ty Farm Bureau a live business organ-

ization. Mr. Zant has made a success





of his own business and knows what





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the ‘market gardenersfire up against

when it comes to marketing their prod-

ucts. His farm is in Walker township.



Charles Montgomery, director, «is one

of the most extensive plum growers in

Michigan. On his farm near Kent City

he grows other fruit, \but plums and

peaches are his leaders. He is a leader

in the Grange and has been an active

leader in other cooperative work. He

has taken a prominent part in putting

over the‘farm bureau drive in the coun-

ty and has been active in getting his

local township lined up for cooperative

marketing.



Miles Bowman. director, is a breeder

of Shorthorn cattle and president of

the Shorthorn Breeders' Association.

Always active in cooperative work he





is a director of the new cooperative

elevator at Rockford. He owns and

operates a large stock farm and his

cattle are bred along Scotch and

Scotch-topped lines. He is active in

promoting the use of better stock and

better seed in the county. His farm is

situated near Rockford.



W. V. Burras is a general farmer

and grows some fruit. He is active in

cooperative organization work and is

president of the McCords Elevator As-

sociation. He has always been ready

to support any movement to aid the

farmer in marketing his products and

put farming on a more business-like

basis. He has a fine farm in Lowell

township and is regarded by all who

know him as a capable leader.





Majesty’s Gamboge Ladd II, Eardley Brothers’ Jersey Herd Sire.





. M. .R. Shisler. director, ovms and op-

erates. a fine dairy farm and breeds J er-

sey cattle. Mr. Shisler has been an





"active member of the County Farm Bu:





reau ever since its inception. For years

he has been, president of his local

Farmers’ Club. He is director in the

local cooperative association and treas-

urer of the Caledonia creamery. A

live Wire and is now on the board of

control of the Michigan State Farm

Bureau Elevator Exchange. He has

made a success of farming and can be

depended upon to represent the farm—

ers of Caledonia township ably on the

board of directors of the County Farm

Bureau, and the county elevators ably

on the state board of control.



J. H. Alles, director, owns and oper-

ates a farm in Cannon township and

practices general farming. Mr. Alles

is manager of the Rockford Live Stock

Shipping Association and has made

good in building up a business that was

in bad condition when he took over the

work. He is secretary of the new Rock~

ford Elevator. Association, and is one

of the directors of the Michigan LiVe

Stock Exchange. He is an enthusiastic

cooperative worker and a real live wire

with a vision of the possibilities for

cooperative marketing and purchasing

of farm supplies.



F. W. Peterson, director, owns and

operates a good farm in Courtland

township where he practices general

farming and breeds Shorthorn cattle.

Mr. Peterson has had legislative expe—

rience and is particularly well qualified

to represent the County Farm Bureau' ‘

as delegate at the meetings at Lansing.

He iS’familiar with government work



(Continued on page 582).





Or How 2756 Trafiic Department 25 flrrzrtmg tfle Otfler Department: of

tfle State Farm Bureau





HE traffic department of the



Michigan State Farm Bureau di-



vides its energy along two lines.

One of these is direct service to the

membership: that is, farmers, fruit

men, growers’ associations, live stock

shippers, etc. The other is service to

the other departments of the State

Farm Bureau which includes the seed

department and purchasing depart-

ment.



This first service is a new thing in

the business world. Corporations have

, been able to secure the assistance of

eirperts in solving their traffic prob-

lems, but individuals have never been

so fortunate. The second line of work

is very similar to the function of a

trafllc department in any large corpor-

ation. Because of the existence of such

departments large corporations have

seemed to exercise what. individuals

would call a “pull” with the railroads,

when it usually was not pull at all,

Ibut"knowledge, that get results. The

departments of the State Farm Bureau

have the advantage of the same kind

of knowledge.



The public in general, and possibly

farmers in particular, have known very

little about the work of a corporation

traflic department. They have little

idea now of what such a department

does in the State Farm Bureau. To

‘ show how well this agency fits in with

the rest of the work of the State Farm

“Bureau the heads of the departmehts

have been asked to tell how the traffic

department helps out their work. The

manager of the marketing department

says: “We need a traffic department

, routing, filing claims, securing

‘1 nipment, getting rate" information,

thousand andone details relative to



spertation that only a man special-



vi reed in traffic regulations can



When we make a purchase of

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department; if the factory can’t get

cars to ship our order our traffic com-

missioner sees that they get cars. If

farmers of any locality want to know

the cost of an article set down on their

own team track in their own town the

traffic department can give that infor-

mation. The traffic men are in con-

stant touch with the supply of equip-

ment and can tell whether it is neces-

sary to place an order a long time

ahead or not. The department is in

touch with the constant changes in

i‘i‘eight classifications. It takes a spe-

cialist to keep even with freight rate

information. If a cooperative associa-

tion has to have arsenic for grasshop-

per poisoning by a certain date, or fer-

tilizer for a certain time when it can

best be applied the traffic department





. can help materially in getting orders





delivered at those particular times.”



The traffic department is considered

by the seed department one of the

most important branches of the State

Farm Bureau. The seed men have had

occasion many times during the past

season to call for help and the service

rendered touches every phase of their

work. One of the members of the seed

department says of the traffic depart-

ment:



“Practically every shipment of seed

of any size has been traced through

by the traffic department and satisfac-

torily delivered. In one instance a

shipment of seed had to be delivered

on a certain date for planting to insure

the acceptance by the consignee. The

traffic department was notified of this

emergency and in the period of four or

five days got delivery so that tlfi tran-

saction was satisfactorily closed.



"Fuequently the question has arisen

as to the cost of making shipments of

seed to some distant point. It has been

possible by consulting our traffic men

to get the exact rate and thereby gov-





fern delivery prices This ”Meow





be required more as the business in-

‘creases.



“The matter of routing shipments to

insure as prompt delivery, as possible

is another assistance that the traffic

department has been able to give. By

following their instructions shipments

can be sent over lines so that. they

will not get into the congested freight

areas such as Chicago, Toledo, Buffalo

and other shipping centers, where they

might be indefinitely side-tracked. To

be of any value seeds must arrive at

destination by seeding dates. If the

arrival is late there is nothing left but

to sell on the open market at the reg-

ular market price. Difference between

seed prices and the open market price

often represents the profit to the grow-

er in payment for his efforts in pro-

ducing the high— class seeds. The mat-

ter of prompt delivery is of piime im-

portance.



“Quite a portion of the business of

the seed department is in less than

earlot shipments. The matter of tag-

ging LCL shipments is an important

matter and all tags used must conform

to shipping regulations established by

railroads. The traffic department has

been called upon to pass upon the tags

used on such shipments.



“All claims for over-charges on





freight or loss in shipment are refer-’





red to the traffic department. Know-

ing the methods, as well as the indi-

viduals, concerned in these collections

the traffic department can make better

settlements and get quicker collections

than would be possible for anyone not

familiar with the work. In one in-

stance the trafl‘ic department collected

an overcharge of show; forty dollars

on one canload of seed."



What the elevator exchange depart-

ment thinks of the traffic department

is told in the following words by the

sales manager:



I!





ments for any store, or large grain

merchandising corporation is the traf-

fic. Times like_the. present are the

worst ever known on account of the

railroads being turned back to private

ownership. There are times during

winter months when traffic is ‘so block-

ed that an ordinary office clerk is un-

able to get results. If traffic troubles

are taken up by a man experienced in

that line the results are shown to be

very satisfactory on account of his

familiarity with the general routine Ofi

railroad business.



“Railroad freight claim agents can

only pay a certain percentage of all

claims against their corporations if

they are going to make their work a.

success. It is frequently true that

good, honest, and legitimate claims are

returned because the man making

those claims had not the proper

amount of evidence and the claim

agent did not consider them. To com-

bat such situations as these a traffic

department shows one of its greatest



merits.”





LAMB MARKET IMPROVES.





S the Western run is nearly com.



pleted and the native supply has

been cut down, the market should be

on a permanently better basis than

during the last: few weeks. Normally

fat lambs make a rather sharp ad-

vance from November to February,

and there is no reason to doubt its oc-

currence this year, but the wool mar.

ket and foreign lamb importations will

reduce the size of any such advance.

Feeding lambs demand was ”mm

and with greater scarcity prices ad» '

vanced at most ”that! m
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VERY Cooperative marketing or-

Eganization in California has for

one of its fundamental features

the plan of pooling the crops it hau-

dles. 'Under the pooling system, each

kind and quality of product is kept sep-





- arate, and the returns from the .sale of





the crop are divided among those who

prhduced it. In other words, every

farmer receives the same price as

every other farmer for an equal quality

of product.’



For example, the California’Prune





~ and Apricot Growers, Inc., Will handle





around 250,000 pounds of prunes of the

1920 crop.. These, are divided into

grades by sizes—those running from

twenty to thirty to the pound are one

grade, the thirty to ’forty’s another

grade, and so on up to the ninety-one-

hundred size, in which grade the small-

est prunes fall.

Farmers Get a Receipt.‘



.When the farmers bring in their

prunes, the fruit is graded and sorted

Second-class fruit is kept

separate from the first-class, and the

various sizes are all packed separately.

Each farmer’s fruit is lost in the shuf-

fle; all that Farmer Jones has is a re

ceipt giving (him credit for 'so many

pounds of twenty-thirty’s, so manyof

thirty-forty’s, and so on.

_ Let us consider the twenty-thirty

size alone. Suppose there are





By H ermmz Stem





(Copyright 1920 Standard Farm Papers, Inc.)





October at twenty-five cents. The as—

sociation immediately receives $250,-

000. That much of the loan .is repaid.

In November the second one million

pounds is sold at twenty-eight cents,

and $280,000 comes into the treasury.

Another slice of the note is taken up.



In December the thirty-cent sale is

made and $300,000 comes in. The rest

of the note is taken up, and $80,000 is

left in the treasury. There is not

enough to divide at this time, and any-

way there is interest to pay and gen-

eral expenses to meet. The $80,000 is

retained for the time being, though it

belongs to the growers and will event-

ually be paid to them.



Dividing the Pool.



In January the one million pounds

are sold at twenty-seven cents, making

the total amount in the treasury of the

twenty-thirty pool $350,000, less the ex-

pense of selling. The directors on

February 1, decide to pay five cents a

pound on this pool, and the growers

are soon in possession of checks. Then

the last one million pounds are sold,

bringing in $220,000 more. A few col-

lections are slow, and the exact amount

of the expense cannot be calculated

until the end of the season, so it is

necessary to keep a little on the safe

side. A further payment of five cents

is made on April 1, the growers by





into the packing-house and were pack-

ed with thousands of pounds more

prunes of the twenty-thirty size. They

soon lost their identity and nobody

could tell any of them from the others

in that bin, because they were all of

the same grade. Supposing, however,

that the prunes Jones grew (they are

no longer his, because the association

obtained title to them when they were

delivered), sold for thirty cents per

pound finally, while the ones Smith

grew, brought only twenty-two cents

per pound. Each man, however, is

paid the same, as it was not Smith’s

fault that his prunes brought only

twenty-two cents, and it was not to

Jones’ credit that his brought thirty.



Our readers will understand, of

course, that the actual handling of the

pool is considerably more complicated

than this sample shows. But this

story illustrates clearly the general

method of operating the pool. In prac—

tice, the fluctuation in prices would be

much less—~it is probable that it would

not vary one cent per pound during

the whole year.



Used by Every Association.



The pooling plan is used in every

cooperative marketing association in

California. The method of operation

varies considerably in different associ~

ations. The prune and apricot, dried





Very Grower Receives the Same Price





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have only one for the year.

of them operate a “Frost Pool,” which

includes all fruit that has been frosted.





Pooling is Necessary.

Managers and officers of the cooper-





ative associations in California were





united in saying that the pool is a nec~

essary part of the machinery of their

organizations. “Producers should nev-





er be competing against each other in .





the sale of their crops,” said one lead-

ing cooperator. “Every man should

receive for his No. 1 product the same

price per pound as every other man in

the association. The pool idea is ab-

solutely fair, it is just, and it keeps one

man from having an advantage over

any other man within the marketing

association.





The pooling idea has been used to

some extent by i‘armers’ marketing

agencies in thispart of the country.

The most conspicuous example is the

wool pools of the Central States, which

this year include twenty million pounds

or more of wool. This wool is all grad-

ed and sold by grade, every man will

finally receive the same price per

pound for one grade of wool.



Used by Milk Producers.



Several of the cooperative milk mar-

keting agencies use the pooling plan.

For example, the Twin City Milk Pro-



ducers’ Association of Minne-





 





five million pounds of them

in all. The association agrees

upon a price of twenty—five

cents per pound on this size,

which is a luxury grade of

prunes, and much higher than

any other grade. One million

1) o u n d s sell at twenty-five

cents per pound. The demand

is unusually strong, so the as-

sociation raises the price to

twenty-eight cents per pound

and sells another one million

pounds at that price. The

heavy demand continues, so

the price goes to thirty cents,

and one million pounds are

disposed of at that price. Bus-

iness slows up, perhaps, so

the price of twenty-thirty’s

falls to twenty-seven cents, at

which price the fourth one

million pounds goes on the _

market. The remaining one

million pounds does not find a

ready sale, and is finally dis-

posed of at twenty-two cents

late in the season.



The assdciation book-keep-

er counts up his cash, and finds that

the five million pounds brought in a

gross total of $1,320,000. Perhaps one

wholesaler in Detroit went broke and

left the association holding the sack to

the tune of $20,000. That is subtracted.



The average cost of selling prunes

this year, including agents, advertis-

ing, overhead and everything, is two

per cent, let us say. So two per cent

is deducted from“ the $1,300,000, and

the rest is ready to be paid to the

It leaves $1,274,000 to be di-

vided. That figures out exactly 25.48

cents per pound for all the five million

pounds of prunes in the twenty-thirty

pool- this year.



Advancing Money to Growers.



Now, actually, the growers were paid

an. advance 'of fifteen cents per pound

on all twenty-thirty prunes in Septem-

ber, when they delivered. the crop to

the association. The association bor-





--rowed the $750, 000 necessary to pay

this. advance. giving its note at the





fit; We the first .batch of one





 





Raisin-Drying Scene in





that time receiving a total of twenty-

five cents per pound. -



It takes time to wind up the business

of the yeali, so it is August 1, before

the twenty-thirty pool is ready to be

finally closed, the books show that a

final payment of forty-eight cents per

one hundred pounds can be made, so

the directors authorize the payment

and closing of the pool. The money

received for twenty-thirty prunes has

all been paid to the growers, less only





,the expense of selling the crop.





How it Works.



Farmer Jones had five thousand

pounds of twenty-thirty prunes, while

Farmer Smith had ten thousand

pounds. These prunes were delivered

along in the fall, each man being paid





fifteen cents per pound at the time of





delivery. On February 1, both Jones





and Smith received five cents a pound.





On April 1, they received another five

cents per pound. On August 1, they

receive forty~eight cents per one hun-

dred pounds each . ‘



Noiw Jones and Smiths’ prunes went





 





 





San Joaquin Valley.





peach, almond and raisin associations,

as well as several others, employ the

year—around pool. That is, there is

only one general pool for each crop,

and that pool is kept open until all of

that crop is sold.



The egg-selling associations at Los

Angeles and San Francisco, however,

have a new pool each week. For ex-

ample, the eggs of the week of October

17-23 are sold together and the pro-

ceeds divided. The eggs received by

the association the week 'of October

24-30 makes up another pool, and so on.



The citrus growers have several

kinds of pools, these varying to suit

the local associations, which compiise

the California Fruit Growers Ex-

change. One local has one pool, which

closes November 30. All oranges de—

livered between the beginning of the

season and November 30 are in the

early pool. This is sold separately

from the pool which begins December

1, and includes all therestcf the sea-

son’s crops. Some orange associations





form a new pool every month, others





sota, usually sells the bulk of

its milk to distributing com-

panies in Minneapolis and St.

Paul, and makes the rest up

into cheese. The milk made

into cheese may yield one dol—

lar per hundred pounds less

than that sold as whole milk,

but the proceeds from the sale

of milk are divided equally

among all milk producers. It

makes no difference to a mem-

ber of that association wheth-

er his milk goes into cheese

or into quart bottles for city

delivery. He gets the same

price either way.



The Michigan Potato Grow-

ers’ Exchange is another mar-

keting association which em-

ploys the pooling plan. A daily

pool has been devised so that

the returns on all potatoes or

a given grade sold on one day

are averaged up, and each

g r o w e 1' receives the same

price per bushel.



The pooling system is not

as complicated as it sounds.

As far as I could learn, it is one of the

easiest parts of the cooperative system

in California to operate, and instead of

being a source of trouble, it seems to

be one of the best safeguards against

trouble.





WN.L STUDY GAME BIRDS.





 





HE raising of game birds and\fur-



bearing animals has become of

such importance commercially, that a.

course is now being given at Cornell

University to prepare the men needed

to fill the applications continually re-

ceived for men so trained. The course

is of twelve weeks duration, beginning

on November 10. Lectures and labor-

atories are given by the instructing

staff of the college which has a well-

equipped game farm of one hundred





   





and sixty acres upon which over fifiz;





 

 





teen hundred birds are reared yearly.





 





Facilities are such that every student..-





in the course will have a flock, and at;

cubators and rearing equipment as}

signed for—his practice.





 

 





   





 

   

   





Nearly all
ankers Wrestle with Farm Problems

And Other Interesting Item: flan: ”Carriages-85; E. E. Reynold:





T their annual meeting in Wash- some and menacing and it is of the ing under the farm loan act. These extensive. In 1912 pre-war Austria

A ingtou. the members of the Amer- highest importance that individuals farmers were able to get all of this produced 8,500,000 pounds of raw wool.



ican Bankers’ Association devot- and committees return to a normal de- money without paying a single dollar During the same year it imoprted 184,-

ed much attention to the problems. in gree of self-help and self-reliance. Pro- in commissions. Nearly all of this 000,000 podnds of wool and wool yarns

which the farmers and bankers are ducers whose products cannot be sat— amount was lent at rates of interest of for the use of its factories. During

mutually interested. In answer; to a istactorily marketed and whose prices five and five and a half per cent, and 1919, owing to the lack of raw wool

plea for larger salaries for department are falling, are demanding that the none of it was lent for more than six and wool yarn, the woolen mills of

of agriculture employee, in which it treasury intervene. They ask either per cent. If the supreme court up- Austria and Czecho-Slovakia operated

' was stated that more than eight thou- that it deposit money in certain sec’ holds the constitutionality of the act at only twelve per cent of their pre

sand members of the’department's reg— tions or that the activity of the war farmers will again have access to war capacity. Germany’s total con-

ular staff resigned last year in order finance corporation be resumed. Neith— these banks and will be able to get sumption of wool is 464,000,000 pounds

to accept other employment at better or of these things is feasible. It is 1111‘ long term loans at low rates of inter— annually. There is no material sur-

pay, a movement was started by the reasonable to expect that this govern- crest and without commissions. Of the plus of fine wools and plenty of de-

bankers for the purpose of aiding the ment can control a world-wide move- amount loaned under the act, $80,000- mand for coarse wools in Austria and





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





department to secure from congress ment of prices." 000 was Supplied to farmers by Joint Germany. The general inference is

favorable action in regard to salary in- stock land banks and $355,000,000 by that if some means may be provided

creases. . . ‘ HE American Association of Joint federal land banks. ‘ to enable these people to buy that the



Joseph Hirsch, chairman of the as“- Stock Land banks held its annual The chief difference between the market for coarse wools would be im-





cultural commission of the American convention in Washington, while the joint stock land banks and federal land proved.

Bankers’ Association, urged the banks American Bankers’ Association was in banks is found in the plan of borrow-

to aid the farmers Hi financing coop- segsion here. u- may be interesting to ing. The farmer may borrow .direct SURVEY of the world's cereal sup-

erative warehousing and selling organ- note that the farm mortgage bankers of a joint St°°k land bank Whlle he ply Just issued by the Federal De-

izations. “Many of us, I know, have held their meeting at Kansas City in 301“ a COOPemuve farm loan ”50°13“ partment of Agriculture seems to indi-

been fearful of entering the field of September, the tone not the two meet- tion to borrow money from 9' federal cate that it is largely a question of the

marketing," Mr. Hirsch said, “because jugs being widely different. The farm Iand bank. . consuming power of Europe as to

we have been afraid that in doing this mortgage bankers discussed ways and Speaking of the farm loan act. in a. whether our supply of wheat will be

we would come into conflict with our means for putting the farm loan act paper read before the meeting, Frank sufl‘icient for the people’s needs. If

customers, the middlemen, who are out of business, overlooking the needs G. Odell, of Kansas, said that “the men Europe could use the pre-war supply

buying the farmers' products. But it of agriculture, while the Joint Stock and interests opposing the operations there would be a big deficit in wheat

is high time for the bankers of the Land ‘Bankg Association discussed of this beneficent law are doing noth- and rye, according to the government

country to realize that unless farmers methods of supplying the farmers mon— ing more than trying to recover a prof— reports. On the other hand, if she only

can produce and sell their crops with 9y at low rates and on convenient itable business for their own personal used as much as last year there will

some reasonable assurance of a fair terms. , gain. If they care at all for the busi- probably be enough and a small sur-

profit there Will be an inCI‘ORSlng tide At the annual dinner of the associa— 11838 well-being 01’ the farmer and 01’ plus providing the southern hemis-

of men drifting from the farms into tion, State Senator Allen, of Iowa, the nation, it is secondary to their own_phere’s crops are normal. The world's

the cities. spoke of the absurdity of this great Personal business well-being. They grain supply is on the balance line.

“The greatest use of the facilities rich nation living from hand to mouth, will continue to try to befuddle the Any setback south of the equator

of the Federal Farm Land Bank sys- from year to year. He believed the na- minds of Congressmen and senators; would make a serious shortage. If the

tem should continue to be studied and tion should keep a year’s food supply they will continue to milead the press ; situation in Europe improves there

encouraged by bankers, for the proper on hand at all times. His remedy for they will do any conceivable thing would be a heavy demand which would

use of these facilities will not only present conditions provided for the which will play their game if they can develop a real shortage. Basins their

greatly assist in the development of farmers establishing warehouses of only get control again of the business predictions on the small reserves,

our country but will release funds now sufficient capacity to store an entire which congress in its wisdom took those who have studied the situation

employed by rural banks which may year’s crop of grain, so that it would away from them. The farmer himself think the price of wheat is going to

well be used for some of the purposes not be necessary to dump it all onto is not W911 informed as to the gravity be higher,

set forth above. In the campaign to the market at one time, but so it would 0f the situation With reference t0 the A sharp controversy which bids fair

decrease farm tenancy by encouraging be marketed in an orderly way. Mr. attacks on the federal farm 103“ sys- to develop a legal action has arisen

the sale of farm lands to worthy ten— Allen did 110$ propose that the govern. tem. He needs to be informed by the between Dn William C. Fowler health

ant farmers and in the effort to make ment build these warehouses, but did friends 0f the 33’3le and not by its officer of the District of Columbia and





permanent home owners out of tenant propose that the farmers themselves self-interested 9319311933. 8. large milk distributing company in

farmers an opportunity for real service organize cooperative associations and ' New York state, because of the refusal

is offered country bankers." build them. And Mr. Allen said it was HE next meeting of the farmers' of Dr. Fowler to grant permits to the



Preliminary steps were taken at the a SGTVlco Wthh the joint stock land marketing committee of seventeen New York company to ship milk into





convention to organize a $12,000,000 banks should perform to help the farm- will be held at Hotel La Salle, Chicago, Washington. The district health officer

crop export financing corporation to ers in their cooperative movements November 4-5-6. At this meeting Herb- has not only rejected the applications

meet the present situation. The cor— and make it possible for them to get ert Hoover will speak on “Central 002 of the concern because they do not

poration will be formed under the the money with which to build ware- operative Grain Marketing on a Na— furnish a guarantee that the milk

Edge act and start operations with 3 houses. He has already started such tional Scale;” Julius Barnes will speak comes from tuberculin tested cows;

paid-in- capital and surplus of $6,000,- a movement in his own county in IOWa. on the methods of the United States but he has warned the New York con-

000. The corporation will primarily The keynote of the meeting was to Grain Corporation; Victor Murdock cern that it would violate the district

handle the cotton crop, but contem- be found in placards which hung on will discuss the legal aspects of cen- laws if it shipped milk into Washing-

plates financing other farm commodi- the wall and read: “The Farm Loan tralized cooperative grain marketing; ton. The Maryland and Virginia Milk

ties. The plans provide for stock sub- Act has come to stay.” “The long- L. F. Gates will answer the question, Producers' Association is backing the

scriptions on the basis of one dollar term authorized loan has come to "How do board of trade operations health officer in this milk fight. The

a bale on cotton produced and the pay- stay,” “The Farm Loan bond as astand- benefit the grain grower?” and Nor- Dairymen's League is not taking part

ment down of half of the amount, or ard form of liquid security has come man Lambert Will tell 0f the organiza- in the matter. ‘

$6,000,000 of the incorporated capital. to stay,” “The Joint Stock Land Bank tion plan and marketing methods of .

Under the Edge act such corporations has come to stay,” “The Federal Land California Fruit Growers’ Exchange. TO CORRECT MICHIGAN’S BOUND-

are permitted to handle trade accept- Bank has come to stay.” At the meet- Thus all phases of the subject of mar- ARY.

ances or purchasers’ agreements to lug there were such men as Judge keting will be covered, practical organ-

the extent of ten times the paid-in cap- Charles E. Lobdell, farm loan commis- ization, financing, legal and‘methods The state commission provided by

ital, which would enable the corpora- sioner; W. H. Joyce, secretary of the as worked out successfully in Califor- the last legislature to investigate Mich-

tion to deal in such commercial obli- farm loan board; John Lee Coulter, nit; also present methods 0f market— igan’s claims to certain territory now

gations to upwards of $60,000,000. This dean of West Virginia Agricultural ing through the board. of trade and the in the possession of Wisconsin, but

is interesting to northern readers to 0011689, and the Washington I‘BDI‘G- only great central grain selling agency claimed by Michigan under act of con-

.the extent of furnishing a suggestion sentatives of the farmers’ o‘rganiza— we have ever had, the United States gress which admitted Michigan to the

.for the working out of a similar plan tions. Grain Corporation.' Accredited repre- Union and under the first state consti-

adapted to their own conditions and The Joint Stock Land Banks meet— sentatives 0f the farm press Will be tution, has been in session at Iron-

needs. ing Was one of considerable import- privileged to attend this meeting in wood and taken some testimony and

Secretary of the Treasury Houston 'ance to the farmers. Though it repre- addition to the committee 01' seven- made some observations, The difli-

made another declaration on the price sented only one branch of the farm teen. . . culty arose from an error in the origi-,

~ deflation movement, in which Vhe‘said: loan system, it voiced the general C. A. Burton, chairman of the com- nal ‘United States- boundary survey,

“Scarcely had the tendency toward a hopefulness of all the ‘banks, both mission for Austrian relief, has pre- resulting in Wisconsin’s securing from

reduction of the cost of living mani- Joint stock and federal land banks op- sented a statement to the'American three hundred and sixty to four hu-n-

tested itself when counter forces be— crating under the farm loan act. Farm Bureau Federation, showing that dred acres of land, including the no—

gun to operate. Resistance on the part Only a few days before the meeting the textile industries formed the most torious ‘:Hurley,” that of right belong

~of the producer was immediately man— opened, the farm loan case had been important industries“ of prewar Aus- ‘to Michigan. It is necessary, among

. ltested. Every producer is- willing for reargued in the supreme court, and it tria. It is estimated that there are at other things, to determine whit was

' e. products of every ether producer was .the general feeling of all who present 1,500,000'spind‘les {and 40,000 'the main channel of the Montreal my".

“jail, but protests the decline of his heard the argument thatthe court will mill looms‘in‘th'e territory comprising ‘er. which waste serve" as 9the inter





m The first impulse of many who 'uphold~'mewntuu%auty of the act. Austria and cmchmsmv'akia; “for the suite boundary on’l‘h'e horthivest Owii- '

' sear-ch _ ing for a way out is to turn Almost hilt a billion dellaisptiie exact manufacture-oftwooll yarn‘lmd‘ woolen—cramp criesmmélsltnds '. W

an. government, and especially to “honor. bolas Warsaw,» have W sloth. '13 adamant!!!» ‘11 Winn”! “Writs N‘Mfih ‘



“ ‘ attitud is unwhole- borrowed by, rattle of‘banks omrit- and home. weaving dad 5 " ' r
T is not very difficult-to create in.

I terest in unsound doctrines. A bit



of enthusiasm and the juggling of

ideas and words is all that is required.

The idea of the use of muck as a fer-

tilizer was not discovered or manufac-

tured by me. It is an established,

sound doctrine.



Peat and muck are accumulated de-

posits of plant remains which have

been “pickled.” Muck is a decomposed

form of peat. We may visualize a

muck swamp as a big straw stack with

trees and bushes and leaves mixed

through it. These trees and shrubs

have fallen into the vat and have been

preserved with the remains of the oth—

er plants. These remains are largely

organic matter and nitrogen, with oth

er substances washed in from the sur-

rounding upland and the subsoil. The

muck farmer is literally farming on

top of a straw stack or on the top of

nature’s silo.



As these plant remains collect and

go through this “pickling” process poi-

sonous substances are t701med.Alte1

drainage and exposure to the air, these

poisonous elements disappear. It must

also be remembered that. we have dif-





ferent kinds of deposits, the marsh

grass muck, huckleberry soft water

muck, the cedar swamp muck, hard-





wood muck, and the moss bogs, so that

we would expect different results not.





only in forming these areas, but in

their use as fertilizer. ,

Analyses of the different types of





muck and peat in this state show that

they all contain a large quantity of

nitrogen. I mean that the average

would be close to two per cent; that

is more than twice the amount of ni-

trogen that is found in the average

straw. These are facts which must be

kept in mind while considering the

use of muck as a fertilizer.



But, some authorities have said that

in most muck and peat, this nitrogen

is to a large extent unavailable. How-

ever, we must not make the mistake

that the nitrogen will not be made

available later. It would be better to

say that in the condition that muck or

peat is taken from the swamp, in most

cases the nitrogen is unavailable at

that particular time, but Dr. Kedzie

and numerous farmers in Michigan

have shown that nitrogen in the muck

or peat may be made available after it

is taken out of the swamp and before

it is applied in the field by compost-

ing. It may be said that the nitrogen

in straw is not available, every farmer

knows that straw is worth more in the

manure pile after it has been decom-

posed than it is worth spread alone.

Every farmer knows that old straw is

more valuable as a fertilizer than new

straw. It would be reasonable to say

that one should use muck and peat as





Muck as a

By Ezra Lecm, Mac/é Special/21w, M. A. C.





FertiliZcr





he would straw. For example, if a.

soil is heavy clay and one got results

'with straw alone, he will also get re-

sults with muck alone. If he has a

light soil and straw does not Show the

results that this same straw would af—

ter it is used as a bedding, then apply

muck freely in the barnyard to inocu—

late it with the right sort of bacteria

before it; goes to the field. Muck and

peat are valu'ahle as absorbents for

liquids and gases, much more valuable

than straw. In the barnyard a large

part of the ammonia and urine may be

saved by the liberal use of muck and

peat. The use of muck as a. fertilizer

is past the experimental stage. It is

being used and has been used for

years.



Every orchardist knows how seri-

ously he needs organic matter and ni-

trogen. Here is a simple way in which

toget thesematerials if thereis ac-

cess to a muck deposit. The muck has

at least the manurial value of straw

for what itlacks in mineral value it

makes up in nitrogen value. In not a

single instance where composted muck

has been used did it fail to get satis-

factory results.





i-[ere are the facts summarized:

Muck or pea t can be used for a bed»

ding or an absorbent to a better ad





vantage than straw.



If you have been buying straw, the

use of dried muck or peat will save

you the high cost of straw. if you

raise grain, sell your straw and use

peat or muck.



A fertilizer factory in the cast makes

fertilizer by allowing muck to decom-

pose al‘ter it is inoculated with the

proper germs.

is clean. Muck

horses’ feet than





Raw muck or peat.

or peat is better for

straw.



Muck or peat is from two to seven

times better as an absorbent of liquid

than straw and will save all the valu—

able potash voided by your animals

more ciliciently than straw.



Muck or peat abstorbs the valuable

ammonia gas of the manure heap .two

to seven times better than straw.



Muck or peat contains as much ni-

trogen as barnyard manure, if it is

made available in the manure pile.



Peat or muck is largely organic

matter.



Pile muck up closely under cover so

that it will dry out,- then use it freely

in the stables.



it is quicker and cheaper to add or-

ganic matter by the use of muck and

peat‘ than by plowing under green

crops. Sell the green crops and use

muck or peat.



I would draw a ton of dry muck just

as far as a ton of straw for the same

price.





 





 





 





 





 

 





Here’s the Way To Make

Sure You’re Right!





F you want to see a man real downright

happy over the rubber footwear he has

bought, just ask any fellow wearing the





green Snag-Proof label. He’ll sure tell you

that it stands for the best rubber boot, shoe

or arctic you ever saw in all your life. And

he’ll back it up by saying he’s been buying

Snag-Proofs year after year—ever since he

bought his first pair.





That’s the reason Snag—Proofs are so

popular and so successful. Every man who

gets Snag—Proof footwear gets permanent

satisfaction in warmth, comfort and service.

He never changes.





You’ll have the same experience. Look up ,

the Snag—Proof dealer in your town. Give'

him a chance to satisfy you. He’ll take a

personal interest in pleasing you. For he

has built his entire rubber footwear business

on pleasing a customer so well the first time

that he’ll come back year after year. He

wants to make a permanent friend of you—-

and he will if you’ll go to see him. Try it.





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STATE FARM BUREAU news. ing types of live stock, animal feeding". mit; he made the bottom of'the hole





farm management and farm finance. as smooth as possible and placed the





 





. that it intends to place an addi- “70 hours of physical training eac’h thus prepared and placed his dynamite

tional employe in the trafl‘ic depart— week. 111 the wmter the course .m' on top of the. plate; he tied his powder

Iment to handle the adjustment of eludes StUdY 0f breeds, rural orgamza- in a bundle with a. cord around the





against railroads and to audit freight horticulture and. $1101) WOI‘k- . earth, and stones if he could find them,

bills. Adjustments will be made at. Animal breeding, plant diseases, and set off the fuse.



cost. If a claim does not bring a re- stock judging, management of - farm . 4113.3 result was that the force of the

'fund to the member he is not charged buildings, forestry and agricultural explosion is expended almost entirely

for the service. In any case the mem- physics, and-farm law make up the‘ upward instead of downward, first as

ibe‘r cannot losefThe auditing of freight curriculum for the second year. dynamite usually does; the boiler plate





bills has proved 0f benefit to a. great Student activities outside of the prevents whole being blown out below





‘ .number of individuals and ISBOOlEfiOM class room will be conducted for the the stump and" thisincrcsses— the sill





. already. For this service no charge: short-course men on an even larger ciency of the charge by ,at least one

is made. scale than last winter. Organized un- third. /

The first carload of wheat. 501d der the direction of the student own if the soil is very soft the base will

athroush the elevator excham- depart- oil or the college, 'the special classes he cones-yes by the force of the explo.

.ment came from the Farmem’ 0001191“ will take part in athletics, music and clan and after a few shots the base be-

.ative Elevator at Fowler- 03 096mm” debating; with a representative basket- comes badly Warped. their Mr. Hollis-

;23. the Fowler manager telephémd‘ the ball team, orchestra and- debating .t'er' turns. it other-side—up; thus his

.jexchange salesmanager that he had a. team. A trip to the International Live blasting b‘ase stays on the job for a

:car of wheat to sell. The salesman Stock Show at Chicago is a part of the long time.

said he could get 32-95 for it- The live stock work of those who can at-

elevator gave orders to sell. Before tend. . blasting base is that hollow stumps

Tthe day was over the exchange had ' Ashley M. Berridge, one ofthetdivcanibe 'blasfedawafyas easily as solid

secured $2.11 for it. The first WEEK’S rectors 0f the Michigan State Farm ones, being careful to get the charge.

business bears out predictions that the Bureau, has returned to East Lansing well down below the stump. These

“Change W03“ he in a WE‘RE“ to 59' to direct the work of the winter Short- ”were large white pine stumps that

cure five to eight cents mQre than same courses and is DOW engaged m making 'W'el’e being blownpbut the idea, With

grain jobbers. ‘ arrangements for those which will on modifications, could doubtless be used

The elevator exchange mails to 3‘1 on later. The next course offered is in many other places.

its elevator members every day a re- one of two weeks in cow-testing and G. F, DELAMATER.

port of the condition of the market. dairy barn management, from Novem'

This report iS made up a few minutes her 29 to December 10' With the be.





after the markets close and is placed ginning of the new year will open 31m.

immediately in the mail. It contains ultaneously eight weeks’ courses in





‘the current cash quotations on wheat, dairy manufacturing, dairy production, At the Guernsey sale held by E. J.

'rye, oats, corn, barley and beans. One horticulture, farm mechanics, and gen- Himmelberger, of Lansing, Mich, 0c-

more elevator has joined the exchange, eral agriculture- On January 5’ four- tober 27,, forty-five head sold for $16,870.

making a total of twenty-five. The new weeks’ courses in poultry husbandry Included in the sale were three young





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‘ member is the Grand Blanc Coopera— and advanced poultry methods will bulls and several young calves. The





tive Elevator of Genesee county. commence. A two-wee’ks’ course in outstanding feature of the sale was

Official membership of the State gardening will open on January 17_ fourteen daughters of Golden Nassau

Farm Bureau is now 93,171. If certain The first truck and tractor course will of Pencoyd which brought the satisfac-

recent gains known to have been made begin January 31 and continue until tory price, averaging $438. This is a

in several counties were added to this February 25’ to be followed by another very good average considering the fact

the actual membership today would be four weeks of instruction covering the that they were all under two years of

94,000. same ground. age. Among the largest buyers were

A membership campaign in Alger It is also announced that Farmers’ E. R. Frissell, of Minnesota, F. G. Reit-

county commenced Monday, November Week will be held at M A C from er, of Pennsylvania, and F. E. Robson,

1. This is probably the last of the ‘ g ' ' ' of Michigan, who purchased the “top”

, , ‘ , Janualy 31 to February 4. Besides the . th 1 t1 _ _ ld D h of

counties m the uppel peninsula to be extensive exhibits, speakers of nation- m .e sa e, a use yearo uc ess

given a formal solicitation. Gogeblc a1 reputation will be secured and 3. Capitol View at $610.

and Iron counties were completed last number of state farm organizations





week. In Gogebic one solicitor report- will hold their annual meetings in con-

ed three hundred and ten Signed out nection.





2312:: $3332: 12‘: suicide: .. to FAR'TIEM m wane

Im’n county membership will amount curriculum offered in the past ls-the ‘and gone. . The people seem quite

to about four hundred. In two town- course in dairy production, to be given as interested In these agricultural ex-

ships every farmer solicited joined during January and February. This hib1tlons here as 1n the southerupe:

the State Farm Bureau. course is especially des1gned for the mnsula. Slnce the war, boys _and girls

Ingham county attained a member‘ man engaged in specialized milk 9m- club work has. formed an important

ship of one thousand five hundred this dueti,” and Will take up the feefimg Dim 0f the fall exh‘blis’ “fl Mam?"

week Muskegon county has also com and judging of dairy cattle, animal tulue reports ninety prize wmners 1n

' . . . 7 her breeding, testing and records, dairy thls department. luven KeweenaW coun~

pleted “8 camPa‘g’} “”1 a :1”: d barn management, marketing and dis- ty—the most northerly county in the

$131!; I“: 131229322: 3f:ti::v::d Sign case control. F. W. HENSHAW. state—where there are said to be less

than fift farmers, ha had its 'r



counties are expected to be canvassed. this year,yheld at Mohajrk, and mpg;

M an enthusiastic time. Perhaps the most

interesting fair is that annually held

in Houghton county at Houghton. To

A. Wnumber of second- I WAS recently investigating a drain— avoid weather trouble, it is all held in-





year short-course students than age enterprise near Twining, Mich., doors in the immense Amphidrome,

ever before returned to M. A. C. and was rather surprised at the efli- which is used for all sorts of big events,

last week with the opening of the six- ciency with which the stumps were be- but no event attracts the crowds that

teen weeks’ course in general agricul- ing blasted from the right-of-way with the September ,fair attracts—sixteen

ture, the first of the special winter ser- comparatively small charges of dyna- thousand people this year. The agricul-

ies designed especially for men and mite; the soil was sandy and rather tural exhibit is mostly arranged around

women who are actually engaged in light and it seemed unreasonable that the gallery and in its range and qual-

farming or who expect to become farm large stumps could be blown out with ity is a surprise to those unfamiliar

managers, herdsmen or farm foreman. four and five sticks of powder. Mr. G. with Houghton county. Notable among

Total enrollment was close to one hun- 'H. Hollister was doing the blasting and the exhibits is always that from the

dred and fifty, and of these about sixty I inquired as to his method which is Otter Lake Finnish settlement, once

were second-year men. so good that I decided at once to pass one of the most backward sections of

Instruction is outlined so as to give it along to. others; I will endeavor to Michigan, but (since the establishment

a broad training and excellent educa— describe it just as it worked there. of the Otter Lake Agricultural School,

tion in modern agricultural practice. Mr. Hollister had a piece of quarter— usually a prize-faker at the fair. It

The course of study in~ the first year inch boilerplate cut twelve by twenty took the garment prize this year, and

gives a thorough knowledge of funda- inches which he used as ,a blasting the corn prize, and County Agriculture

mentals, while scientific application is base; he used a half of a-post~hole dig— al Agent L. M. Gelsmar assures me,

stressed in the second year. gerto make the hole under ‘the stump, that this corn would have taken the





 





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claims of cooperative organizations HOD. farm marketing. farm dairying, sticks; next he filled the hole» with,





Students entering for the first time which he made. as far below the. crown prize anywhere, and Mr W at {g * "
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5 7f HE canvass for members of the

Michigan State Farm Bureau



' seems to have been thorOugh in

Delta county, and is reported to have





, brought into the fold persons possess-

* ing only a very few agricultural acres.





There are better than one thousand





‘ ~_ members. Since the work of organiz-

ing the county as‘ a whole has been





completed, the prOcess of establishing





.locals has gone forward until some





fifteen have been created. Each local

has its president, secretary and board

of directors. The secretary is the bus-

iness agent of the local, collecting or-

ders‘ for supplies, etc. The secretary

is put under bond and those who place





orders with him give their note in





pledge ‘of good faith. Some eight car-

loads of flour and feed have been or-

dered for the county members through

County Agrilultural Agent D. P. Pat-

tison. The county bureau may also

interest itself in the problem of mar-

keting milk.



I recently took a turn about the Ford

River and Bark River section of Delta

county and found a very well develop-

ed farming region, with' good buildings

and other evidences of a progressive

agriculture. Fall plowing is well along

favored by the exceptionally late sea-





» son. The farmers are settled in com-





munities of Swedes, French and Finns,

and I learned of a prosperous, settle-

ment of Belgians ante-dating the war.

These Belgians are said to have intro-

duced a variety of field-pea of very

excellent quality. The “Garden” area

of the county is said to be over-sup-

plied with marketable field-peas—mar-

ketable if shipping conditions were

more favorable.





Along the lower Sturgeon River,

which enters Portage Lake, Houghton

county, near Chassell, is, or was, a

large swamp. Some years ago exten-

sive drainage operations were under-

taken on this swamp with a view to

recovering a large area for agricultur-

al purposes. The soil thus uncovered

proved ill-adapted for agriculture and

the problem of what to do. with the old

Sturgeon swamp remained unsolved.

An abortive attempt to establish a fer-

tilizer plant here during the war, has

now given placeto new operations in

'the same direction.





Libraries for Rural Readers.

Menominee county has undertaken

some very unusual library work of

great importance to its rural popula-

tion. By a cooperative arrangement





between the Spies Public Library of ,





Menominee, and the county, the city

library also furnishes books through-

out the county. Last year the county

board of supervisors agreed to main-

tain half the expene of the Spies Pub-

lic Library, provided ’its share did not

exceed $5,000. County work was start-

ed in February and there are now thir-

ty branch libraries located in stores,

in most cases, but in one instance in





an ice cream parlor, a school, a resi:





dence and a cheese factory. Thither

books are sent from the Menominee





.library in containers which also are





adaptable as book-cases, there being

seventy-five to one hundred and twen-

ty books per box.“ Since the inaugur-

ation of this work more than eleven

thousand volumes have thus circulated

outside the city. The books include

adult and juvenile reading, with fiction

and non-fiction about evenly balanced.

This information, derived from Miss

Helena Le Fevre, librarian of the Spies

Public Library, seems to indicate, as





. _Miss Le Fevre believes. that there is a.





very important field for. the county



library. ‘



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ty, cities and' townships will expend

upwards of $600,000 for this purpose.

The program includes completion of

the highway from Ironwood to Lake

Superior, already well under way, ad-

ditional work on the “Cloverland

Trail,” and work on, the road from

Wakefield, via Tula to Ontonagon. Ke-

weenaw county, much smaller in re

sources, plans for an expenditure of

$60,000 on its highways, including work

on the famous and scenic “Cliff Road.”

and its extension to Copper Harbor

and the county’s share of the new road

from Lake Linden to Gay, which is to

open up what is said to be an excel-

lent agricultural district. Houghton

county is to do the southern end of

this highway, as well as another road

—that from Chassell to Painesdale,

which will be a considerable time-sav-

er when compared with the present

route by way of Houghton. The score.

tary of the Michigan Good Roads Asso-

ciation reports that seventy-eight per

Cent of the Cloverland Trail is now

completed, but he argues for a tunnel-

way under the Straits of Mackinaw to

facilitate communication between the

two peninsulas.





The annual meeting of the various

county boards of supervisors, recently

held, have had other matters to attend

to. County officials have received ad-

ditions to their salaries in many in-

stances, Delta county having put sev-

eral of them up to $3,600, the Escanaba

papers report, and other counties hav—

ing approximated this. Menominee

county has separated the office of coun-

ty clerk and register of deeds. Alger

county is reported to have rid itself

of the office of county sealer of weights





and measures on the ground that the :





state was amply caring for this work

—-an allegation which cannot be cor—

rect since the state food and drug de-

partment is not sufliciently supplied

with deputies to fully cover the state

unaided. Dickinson county has made

provision for community service, while

Marquette county has discontinued, af-

ter the new year, its support of com-

munity service work among the town—

ships. The three cities of this county

have independently provided for their

own requirements under this head

Chippewa county has been called on to

appropriate some $10,000 for the Dun-

bar Agricultural School, one of two

county agricultural schools maintained

in the upper peninsula——Menominee

county having the other one. The Dun-

bar Agricultural Schools has expended

from all sources—state, county and

otherwise—$126,000 in the past nine

years, it was reported.





AgriculturalAgent L. R. Walker, of

Marquette county, reports the pres-

ence now of sixty pure—bred sires as

adjuncts to the dairy herds of the

county. During the year fourteen

Guernsey, nine Holstein and one Jersey

sire have been acquired. Farms where

such sires are owned are so marked by

a sign indicating the fact to passersby.

Mr. Walker reports also that nearly

every farmer has grown from one to

five acres of sunflower ensilage, which

seems to be becoming popular all over

the upper peninsula. The county agent

has persuaded some farmers to weigh

and test their milk to differentiate the

real producer froin the boarder, and a

number of pure-bred milch cows have

been added to the dairy herds of this

county. Mr. Walker also alludes to

the grasshopper pest, at one time ser-

ious in the county, which was met by





the importation of 4,316 pounds of poi-





son. Arsenical poison is a bi-product





ninsula farmers hays a cheap and con-





venient source of supply in its o'wn '





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The Gasoline

Situation in d

1910 and Now





N 1910 there were approximately

400 thousand cars in the United

States.





To operate these cars there was available

a gasoline production of 7 50 million gal-

lons, or, approximately 1875 gallons per

car.





In 1919 there were more than 7 million

cars and trucks operating in the United

States.





To supply these engines there was avail-

able, according to Bureau of Mines Re-

port, 3 billion, 957 million gallons of

gasoline, or approximately, 565 gallons

per car.





In neither case has consideration been given to

the demand of tractors, stationary gas engines,

or the gasoline required by the arts and indus-

tries. Nor have we considered the large vol-

ume of this product shipped abroad annually.





The above figures are presented so that you

may visualize one of the problems the petroleum

industry has been called upon to solve in the

past decade.





In 1910 the Standard Oil Company (Indiana)

marketed about 20 percent of the gasoline out-

put in the United States, or approximately 150

million gallons. In 1919 this Company sold

about 640 million gallons of gasoline, or about





. 17 percent of the total for that year.





It has been the task of the 7, men who manage-





the affairs of the Standard Oil Company (Indi-

ana) for the 5124 stockholders, not one of

whom owns as much as 10 percent of the total,

to expand the organization not only to keep pace

with, but to keep ahead of 'the extraordinary and

persistent demand for gasoline.





How well they have succeeded is illustrated

clearly by the fact that in the 10-year period

above mentioned, the Standard Oil Company

(Indiana) has taken a leading part in increasing

gasoline production 440 percent, while crude oil

production increased only 94 percent.





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Nut Growers Meet at Washington





Interesting Program Cflaracterizes T fit: Amulet] Serum-By Elmer E. Reynolds ,





F the extent of nut culture in the

I northeastern states were measured



by the enthusiasm displayed by the

members of the Northern Nut Grew-

ers' Association at their tenth annual

convention, recently held in Washing-





ton, it would be a very extensive in--





dustry. The conclusions, however, af-

ter hearing the reports and addresses

at this meeting, were that nut grow-

ing is just emerging from the experi-

mental stage into a commercial prop~

osition of marvelous possibilities in

the states east of the Mississippi riv-

'er and north of the Mason and Dix-

on’s line; that its promoters are real

“live wire” men who are developing

the culture of nuts on a practical, yet

scientific basis. The organization is

promoting especially the improvement

of nut varieties, experimental work to

ascertain the adaptability of species

and variety to soil and climatic con-

ditions, the planting of nut trees along

the highways and for ornamental pur-

poses, and commercial nut growing.





In his address, the president, Hon.

William S. Linton, of Saginaw, Mich-

igan, said, “the particular line of ef-

forts in which this organization is en-

listed is worthy of at least some time

and thought upon the part of all per-

sons interested in promoting the wel-

fare of the community, state or coun-

ty in which they live. Those who will

do their share, and there are thou-

sands of them if the subject can be

properly presented, can add largely to

the food supply of the nation, and pro-

vide real delicacies for every table in

the homes of the. poor as well as in

the mansions of the rich. It would be

but a few years before we would have

in size and quality the aristocrats of

the nut family, in walnuts, hickory nuts,

butternuts, even beech nuts, the same

as in fruits we have the Bartlett pear,

the Northern Spy apple, the Navel or-

ange, the Crawford peach, and the

Brighton grape. Work of inestimable

value is being done by our member-

ship in propagating improved varieties

that will be rich and lasting in results.

We cannot, however, afford to halt for

this development of species as our own

time is too short, but we can cause to

be planted millions of seedlings out of

which will come many choice varieties

of the future.”



Mr. Linton referred to the work of

the American Forestry Association in

promoting the cause of the nut grow-

ers, and said the establishing and nam—

ing of historic trees throughout the

land can well be made a feature of

their plans. He spoke of a resident of

Ingham county, Michigan, who has

evolved a plan of raising historic trees

on the school grounds of his county by

planting walnuts from trees thatgrew

from nuts gathered some years ago on

the grounds of Washington’s home,

Mount Vernon. Mr. Linton would have

these Mount Vernon walnuts distrib-

uted to school children for planting

throughout. the Union. “This very act

of patriotism,” he said, “will .cause

thousands of boys and girls to have

fixed in their minds for youth or age

the value of planting the useful trees

that will in later years produce food

of the very best character for the hu-

man race.” Commenting on the part

his own state is taking in promoting a

better rural life, Mr. Linton mentioned

the fact that five speakers on the nut

growers’ program were Michigan men.





N a “popular and educational talk

on nut growing in America ” C. A.

“Reed, nut culturist of the United





000,000 worth of nuts, and producing

around, $26,000,000 worth of nuts. He

said the black walnut has a greater

range than any other nut; but the

pecan, Persian walnut and fllberts

were being planted extensively. The

Persian walnut is the most important

on the Pacific Coast, yielding from

eight hundred to one thousand pounds

per acre in California. . The Persian

walnut is not of commercial import-

ance in the east, but is at home on

the eastern shore of Maryland, in

southern Pennsylvania, western New

York and Connecticut. The pecan or-

chard industry has made its largest

development in south Georgia. The

growing of fllberts is carried on exten-

sively in the northwest, and several

varieties have been imported or devel-

oped. The first native black walnut

to be named was the Thomas. The

parent Stabler black walnut is in Mary-

land, near Washington. The Ohio

shows a remarkable tendency to bear

at an early age. Several butternut va-

rieties have been brought out by W.

G. Bixby, of New York state, and are

being propagated. One of our most

decorative trees is the native beech,

and it is fine for roadside planting, not

having some of the disadvantages of

the black walnut. The Japanese wal-

nut has been in this country seventy-

five years. It has a flavor of the but-

ternut, and the tree is very attrac-

tive. In Michigan the hickory and

black walnut are being planted along

the highways to a large extent.



The people of the northwest, Mr.





Reed says, are combining poultry rais-

ing with nut culture. Filberts fill in

well with poultry. He suggests that

this same practice should be followed





in the east with equally good results.





FTER referring to the importance

of nut culture, Dr. William A. Tay~

lor, chief of the Bureau of Plant Indus-

try, United States Department of Ag-

riculture, said.that “since the scourg-

ing of our chestnut forests by the

Asiatic chestnut blight has practically

eliminated that nut from consideration

for orchard planting in the] infected

territory until resistant varieties yield-

ing good crops of nuts of acceptable

quality are obtained, we can hardly

say with assurance that we have any

nut of proved adaptability in sight

which is worthy of planting on an ex-

tensive scale for its crop alone on pro-

ductive agricultural land in the north-

ern states; Along the southern fringe

of the north, as in Delaware, Mary-

land, southern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois

and Missouri, exception in favor of

hardy varieties of pecans should be

noted, but in’ the light of present

knowledge orchard planting of the

commercially important almond, Per-

sian walnut, and pecan must be left to

the Pacific Coast and the south.

While large scale operation has not

been attractive, Dr. Taylor says there

is need for localized planting. “Po-

tential food reserves in the form of

fruitful nut trees can be established

at relative light initial investment or

of continuing care and labor on al-





 





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most every farm and by many a road-

side in much of our farming territory.

Black walnut, .butternut, shag bark,

shell bark, beech and other hardy,

long-lived: native trees can be estab-

lished at low cost in large numbers for

beauty, shade, and food production.

Nor should the possibilities of Persian

walnut, Japanese walnut, and native

hazel be disregarded in favored sec‘

tions. While none of these are entire-

ly free from plant diseases or insect

pests, they are, when once establish-

ed, capable of maintaining themselves

fairly clean and sound with little ex-

penditure for spraying or other atten-

tion during the growing season when

the peak load activities of the farm

are On. Why should not their planting

receive more attention and encourage-

ment from our horticultural societies?

For rough land and roadside, planting

they are decidedly more practical in

most sections than any of our fruit

trees, substantially all of which re-

quire spraying and tillage to maintain

productiveness, or in fact, to’avoid be-

coming nuisances by harboring pests

to contaminate the commercial or-

chards of the neighborhoods. While

much has been said in America in com-

mendation of the roadside planting of

fruit trees so common in Europe, most

American efforts in this direction have

proved disappointing because of the

impracticability of giving the trees the

care required. While often promising

at the start they have quickly become

infested with San Jose scale and oth‘

er scales, borers, blights and rots

which can only be prevented or con-

trolled by systematic remedial meas-

ures, such as are rarely possible on

rough lands, in fence rows and on road-





sides.”



If this type of nut culture is suffi-

ciently promising to be worth while,

Dr. Taylor thinks we “need to return

in our study of varieties and strains

of nut trees to the standards and

ideals of the earlier and ruder period -

of American pomology when rusticity

of tree, including storm endurance,

freedom from troublesome disease and

insect pests, as well as productiveness-_

and desert quality were the primary

consideration. This society might well

devote much attention to the securing

of performance records of promising

individual nut trees, with a view to

locating those which possess the in-

herent ability to bear regular crops of

fair quality under the rough condi‘

tions of the average fence row or road-

side of the region to which they are

adapted.



“Do not understand me as in any

sense discouraging the continuance of

painstaking experimentation with a.

View to finding varieties suited to or-

chard planting in those scattered, fav-

ored spots where conditions make suc-

cess reasonably probable. My point,”

says Dr. Taylor, “is rather that in. our

northern states by far the largest po-

tential production of nuts is through

waste land utilization and dual or

triple purpose planting, such as nuts

and shade and in some cases ultimate

yield of highly valuable timber.”



Speaking on the top-working of hick-

ories, Dr. Robert T. Morris, 'who has

a large farm in Connecticut, on which

are growing many kinds of nuts, advo«

cated getting scions and top-working

blocks of small trees. He grafts on

hickories of from one to eight \inches

in diameter, but,the large size is not





practicable. Small trees he cuts back '





to breast level, below the branches. He’





has found that one may top-workrhicka
HE International Grain and Hay



'7 Show to be held at Chicago from



November 29 to December 6, the



same time as the International Live



Stock Exposition, gives Michigan an-



other opportunity to show and main-



tain her position as the leading state



. in the Union for the production of

guaranteed seeds. .



M. A. C. and the Michigan Crop ‘Im-

provement Association find a powerful

ally in the State Farm Bureau in keep-

ing Michigan’s leadership as a seed

state. This was demonstrated at a re-

cent meeting of state representatives

to consider plans for the grainand hay

show. J. W. Nicolson, manager of the

seed department of the State Farm

Bureau, represented Michigan farmers

on this committee. He was able to

bring about regulations in regard to

the show which are decidedly advan‘





 





 





 





 





 





 





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tageous to Michigan farmers. Mr. Nic-

olson, discussing the Hay and Grain

Show as a means to further the inter~

ests of farmers of Michigan in the mar-

keting of guaranteed seeds, says:



“Michigan is far in advance of all

other states in her production of seeds

guaranteed as to purity, germination

and place of growth. Her surplus sup-

ply is of such high grade that the find-

ing of a market is a serious problem.

The‘ Michigan State Farm Bureau is

in an advantageous position to do a

great deal along the same line as is

being followed by M. A. C. and the

state and the international crop im-

provement associations.



“The trouble is that few state organ-

izations are in a position to buy our

seeds. Most of them have no cooper-

ative associations which can collect





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it Favorable soil: and Climate: Coup/ed wit/z an dggrem've

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- a premium and it will, if we take all





bona fide orders and then send them

to us. We have the double problem,

first, of influencing the organization of

seed departments and cooperative buy-

ing agencies in other states and, sec-

ond, of interesting the individual buy—

ers in our product until such a time as

they are ready to buy cooperatively.

.One way to create that interest is

through the International Hay and

Grain Show at Chicago. If Michigan

has a large and excellent exhibit the

seed buyers of other states cannot help

but be impressed by our product.





“When we attended the meeting oi

the committee composed of represent-

atives of several states on September

14_, the management of the show pro-

posed a tentative set of premiums.

Some of Michigan’s best products were

not offered much premium money so

the .Farm Bureau proposed several

changes all of which were readily ac-

cepted by the management and which

will afford Michigan farmers a far bet-





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ter chance to exhibit and win premi;

ums on their products. The committee,

added classes for white winter wheat!

and white spring wheat. The former;

is almost exclusively produced in Mich-i

igan and New York. Rye, one of Mich-i

igan’s largest products, was listed for:

only fifteen premiums but was raised;

to thirty at our suggestion. This state'

took nine of the fifteen premiums last

year and it ought to take twenty-five

of the thirty premiums this year. Ten.

more premiums were added to six-row-5

ed barley and provision was made that;

our Michigan Black Barbless barley?

would not be discriminated against on'

account of its color. This state also,

ought to take the major premiums in.

the soft, red winter wheat class. Red

Rock wheat, developed by- M. ,A. C.,

and extensively grown in this "state,

has been graded by the United States

Department of Agriculture as the best

quality of milling wheat of several

sol‘t, red winter varieties tested in a.

two—year test recently- completed.

There are also other varieties in the

state of such quality that they should

place. '

“Do you know that Michigan has the

only state organization for selling clo-

ver seed guaranteed on all the follow-

ing points: Origin, purity, germina-

tion and year-grown? This is a fact,

and we have a surplus of clover to sell

this year, too. Such a guarantee~is

very important because there is so

much clover seed being imported

which is not adapted to American soils

and climate. Our seed ought to sell at





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show by many farmers will help in

finding this market.





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





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Rot of Apples in storage





HE losses due to the rot of apples



in storage are very heavy each

year. In somesections it is estimated

that apple rot losses amount to twenty

per cent of the crop. The most com-

mon causes of the rot in apples are

black rot and blue mold funguses.



In helping to keep down the amount

of rot in stored apples an expert who

has had much experience in handling

apples, says the storage room should

be kept clean. The rot fungus thrives

on litter and produces its spores 6n

rotten fruit. If the cellar is kept clean

and free from refuse, and no rotten

fruits are allowed to remain there, the





Green Manuring





commonly known as green manur-



ing, is a practice that has been in

use over a long period of time, being

advocated and used by the Romans in

their farming operations. And in all

probability they obtained their knowl‘

edge from preceding generatio

practice has been handed

generation to generation, ea

ding to the store of know]

cerning it until at the presen

has a recognized value in o r systems

of soil fertility. It alone is not the

secret of a permanently productive

soil, but when utilized in the right

way, and in combination with other

recognized practices, it is of great val-

ue. Crop rotation, liming, good tillage.

etc., have much to do with the success-

ful use of a. green manure. The great-

est benefit to be derived from green

manuring is in the amount of organic

matter that is added to the soil. How-

ever, in the case of a. legume, and a

green manure crop should be a legume

Wherever possible, there is also a val-

uable amount of nitrogen added to the

soil.



A green manure crop may be includ-

ed in the rotation, or may be used sep-

arately as a cover crop, or nurse crop.

There are a number of crops that may

be utilized as green manures, but

in general the one ,selected should

have the following characteristics; It

should have a deep root system, the

seed should be cheap, it should be a

legume whenever possible, it should

be hardy, it should be quick growing,

and in case it is sown broadcast, it

should be capable of making a good

growth. Of the various crops [that may

be utilized as green ‘inanures the fole

lowing are well known: Cowpeas, soy

beans, peanut, vetches, Canada field

pea, the various clovers, alfalfa, rye,

oats, buckwheat, rape, etc., all but the





P LOWING under green crops, more





 

 

 

 





time it





. latter four being legumes. The effects





of a green manure crop on the soil may

be considered under three heads, being

the physical, and bacteriological ef-

fects. Physically, a green manure crop

will influence the temperature, mois-

ture condition, and aeration of a soil,

tending to make the soil warmer, cap-

able of retaining more moisture in the

case of a light soil, and allow the air

to penetrate better.





Its action on a light sandy soil is of

a binding nature, tending to make it

more compact and capable of holding

moisture, while with a heavy clay soil

its action is opposite, making it lighter

and. more open, thus insuring better

drainageand aeration. Chemically a

green manure will conserve plant food

by absorption, and by holding many of

the plant food compounds in solution,

in which form they must be in order

to be utilized by the plant. The root

systems of the deep rooted plants es-





 





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various plant foods, and than when-the





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chances for rot infection are largely

eliminated.



This authority says the cellar should

be kept reasonably free, from moisture,

and the temperature of, the cellar kept

as low as possible. The less bruises

and skin. abrasiOns the apples receive

in handling the less rot ‘will there be

in storage.



High temperature, moisture and

stagnant air are all favorable to the

development of rots, spots and scalds,

and it is recommended that a cool, dry

storage, with a continuous supply of

fresh air is the proper environment for.

apples in storage—E. E. R.





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rooted plants. When a green manure

is turned under many different bacte’

ria begin to act on the carbohydrates

and protein, breaking them down into

various necessary plant food elements.

If the crop is a legume and has been

inoculated, nitrogen will be added to





7. the soil through a symbiotic relation





betWeen the plant and certain bacte-

ria. Bacteria require moisture for

their action, and a variation in the wa-

ter content of a soil, as well as a vari-

ation in the temperature and aeration

will have a marked effect on their ac— ‘

tion.





And, as stated above, plowing under

a green manure has a noticeable effect

on the water content of a soil. The

amount of air in the soil will deter-

mine the class of bacteria that will

function the most, being either the

aerobic, “(those requiring air), or the

anerobic, (those not requiring air).

The plant food produced will depend

somewhat on the type of bacteria ac-

tive. The addition of a green~manure

will increase the activity of the bacte-

ria largely through the organic matter

added. The best time to plow under a

green manure is when the crop con-

tains the most moisture, as this en-

couragbs a rapid and more complete

decay. When turning under the crop

it is not a good practice to throw the

furrow over flat as this forms a layer

which may hinder capillary action un-

til the crop has more or less decayed.

As a result of decreased capilarity the

succeeding crop may suffer from lack

of moisture. Also, by turning the fur-

row slice only partly over, aeration

and drainage are greatly helped. Dur-

ing the process of decay of a green

manure crop various organic acids are

produced, tending to make a sour soil.

As a result it is necessary, to apply

lime during some part of the rotation,

or it may be added when the crop is

seeded and may be turned under

with it. H. W. BALDWIN.





MIXING POULTRY MANURE.





 





On poultry and fruit farms the poul~

try manure is a valuable asset for fer-

tilizing trees. The Massachusetts sta-

tion recommend the following mixture:

Hen manure, 1,500 pounds; high-grade

sulphate potash, 170 pounds; sixteen

per cent acid phosphate, 330 pounds.

This makes a total of 2,000 pounds of

fertilizer for orchard use. The approx-

imate analysis is nitrogen 1.1 per cent;

phosphoric acid 3.3 per cent; potash

4.5 per cent.





.Poultry' manure spread on strawber-

ries seems to induce a rapid weed

and grass growth and is not conducive ,

to the production of large quantities of

fruit. The Massachusetts station rec-

ommend the following-mixture of poul~

try manure when it is used on straw-

berry patches: . Hen manure, 1,000

pounds; nitrate oi . soda; moupounds
“The big Goodyear Cord Tires make a motor





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days to do the harvesting that] do in hours—because of my truck on pneumatics.”—E. H.‘





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THROUGHOUT agricultural America

1 today there is many a farmer who can

make a report similar to the one given

above, regarding the all-round utility and

value of a truck on Goodyear—Cord Tires.





Just as the application of motor power





qu1ckens plow1ng, pumping, spraying,

grinding and Other farm operations, so

does truck power aided by the active pneu-

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All those tons oi. produce, stock and

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t0111n handhn and hauling, are rapidly





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Farm products formerly limited to selling

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In the most strenuous of such duty these





A pneumatics demonstrate the rugged stren gth.





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Farmers’ reports of savings and advantages

obtained with pneumatic-tired trucks and

other motorized equipment, will be mailed

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I seeded four acres of oats to alfalfa

and I got a good seeding. When I cut





‘ the oats the alfalfa was from ten to





sixteen inches long in the butts of the

bundle, and it now stands about the

same height. What I want to know is,

will I hurt this seeding if I cut it now?

It looks as though it was too much to

leave on the ground. It might smother

it "out and I do not want to pasture it.



Washtenaw Co. ‘ \J. M. C.



It is not advisable to cut this new

seeding of alfalfa this fall. It would

be much better to leave this on the

ground to hold the snow, protecting

the’ crowns of the plants against se‘

vere freezing this winter. Even old

fields of alfalfa ought to have a pro-

tecting growth in the fall to prevent

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vigorous growth in the spring and with

the clovers a good coverage in the fall

is a great protection for the winter.





I am positive that I injured one field

of alfalfa very much by cutting it late

in the fall. It was so late that there

was very little growth after cutting

and this field was winter-killed quite

badly. Joseph Wing says in his book

on alfalfa that alfalfa should, always

have more or less of a growth when

the first killing of frost comes, this

then protects the plant during the win—

ter. Joseph Wing is one of the best

authorities on alfalfa in this country

and I think we can follow his advice,

and I am positive from my own expe-

rience that he is correct. Of course,

this nice growth of alfalfa looks good

and would make a nice little bunch of

hay, but you have hardier plants and

they will yield much better next sum-

mer, so that you can afford to leave

this as a winter covering. I do not be-





lieve you need to worry about this _





growth smothering the plants. I have

seen such heavy. growths of Common

Red Clover that some plants were

smothered during the winter, but I

have never seen a heavy enough

growth of alfalfa to do this and I be-

lieve that your present growth of this

new seeding will not have any ten

dency to smother and I am positive

that it will be a great protection to

the plant. (My advice would be not to

cut it this fall. 0. C. L.





PECULIAR PUMPKIN VINE.





.—._A_





-What causes a pumpkin vine to pro-

duce a thick band of tissue two inches

or more wide instead of growing as a





tube? — ‘



Wayne CO. J. E. L.



This freak is called a “fascination”

or banding. It results from some in-

jury to the growing tip which leads

the cells to grow in a transverse in-

stead of a radial direction. It is often

noticed in asparagus or dandelions, es-

pecially in those near a patch.



G. H. C.





SUNFLOWERS Dl-SEASED.





 





Our field of sunflowers looks as





‘though forest fires had been through





it._ Some sort of fungus disease has hit



this crop, killing the leaves and injur-



Eng the crop for silage. What is to be

one .





The disease of sunflower reSponsible

for the damage is sunflower rust, caus-

ed by the fungus Puccinia helianthi.

Nothing. is ,kn‘qwnbf .thevmethod of in-

trqduction' of this disease in, nutrient.'





 





 





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known is that the disease is serious

and shortens'each year an excellent

silage crop. Professor Spragg, of the

Michigan Agricultural College, report—

ed in the May Quarterly Bulletin of

the college that some South American

seed showed some signs of disease re-

sistance. This gives Some hope for the

future. At present the disease is un-

der investigation at the agricultural

college laboratories and control meas-

ures may be discovered. The only ad-

vice to be given is to cut the crop be—

‘fore all the succulent leaves are dead

—sacrifice quantity for quality.

G. H. C.





DRY LIME SULPHUR.





 





Is the dry lime-sulphur as economi-

cal and as effective as the lime-sulphur

solution, and how can the dry lime-

sulphur be kept from losing strength

and becoming lumpy?



Mecosta Co. W. A. S.



We have used the dry lime-sulphur

or soluble sulphur compound but do

not believe the results have been quite

as geod as the lime-sulphur solution.

It is cheaper to ship and easier to haul

to the farm because it is without the

water, but in our experience has not

been quite as effective for scale as the

solution.



However, we have stored it success-

fully in a dry attic room by. closing the

drums as tightly as possible. It has

not seemed to become very lumpy. Any

lumps that have appeared are very

small and can easily be pulverized

with a stick. We find the soluble sul-

phur compound handy to mix for small

spraying jobs but believe the commer-

cial orchardist may have more success

with the liquid solution—K.





ENSILOING SHOCKED CORN.





 





I have a stave silo but was unable

to get it up to put in the corn as it

Was cut. So I put it in the shock early

in October. It was not frosted, and

was green and nice, though the ears

were ripe. Should I go ahead and put

that corn in the silo, or feed it out in

the old way? If I put it in the silo

would it be necessary to add water or

would it be all right to fan it in dry?



Benzie Co. F; A. H.





This shocked corn will make good

ensilage if it is properly wet down

when it goes into the silo. If you

would run this dry corn into the silo

you would lose a large amount of it

by dry mold. It is hard to tell you

how much moisture to add. There is

little danger of your adding too much

water. When corn is put in the silo

at the proper time, i. e., when it is

fully matured, and the ears dented and

with stalks in a green condition, then

it needs no added moisture. Now what

you have got to do with dry corn is to

supply as much moisture as the corn

contains sap at that time. You would

want a stream of water, all that would

run through a one-half or three-fourths

inch hole all the time you are cutting.

It is better to have this stream of wa-

ter run into the blower. Some people

fill in one foot or more and then wet

it down, but you never can get it as

thoroughly mixed that way as you can

to have a stream of water run into the

blower when the machine is in oper-

ation.





You will surely get more out of this





shocked corn by putting: it into the}





silo in the proper way than by feeding





   





it'dry. I_ have an idea that it:would~





increase the value‘morethan. on " hird

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“FALL sesame 0F cLovsn AND

' -ALFALFA.



.As' we sometimes experience difficul-



“ ty'in getting clover started in rye and



' wheat by sowing in the spring, because

of insufficient covering, and consequent

drying out, I am wondering whether it

would be safe and surer, of results if

we would sow the clover seed as late

as possible just before snow comes,

leaving it to the actions of weather

and soil to cover it up in early spring.

We have sandy soil. Regarding seed-

ing in wheat, would you recommend

seeding alfalfa at same time wheat is

sown in fall, or 'just before winter as

sugested above in the case of clover,

or should it be seeded in spring and

harrowed in with spike-tooth drag?



While there may be an occasional





failure from seeding clover and alfalfa





 





 





 





in the spring, I am of the opinion that





the chances of failure would be even [

greater if the seed were sown late in l





the fall as you suggest. As your trou-

ble appears to result from insufficient!

covering of 'thegclover seed when sown

on the grain fields in spring, I would

advise more vigorous harrowing. Many

farmers find it necessary to harrow the

ground before and after seeding. There

is very little danger of injuring thel

grain. This summer I observed one

rye field with a sandy loam soil which

was dragged twice with a tractor in

order to thoroughly cover alfalfa seed.

It surely looked as if the rye were

ruined, but the crop was apparently

uninjured by this treatment. and a fine

stand of alfalfa was secured. H. L. B.





POTATOES ARE GREEN AND SOFT.





 





We dug our potatoes a few weeks

ago and find that some of them are-

soft and green under the skin. They

were a little immature, but owing to

successive heavy rains, we were afraid

they would rot in the ground. We

found a few rotted ones, but sorted

them all and put some in a pile in the

field, covering them with paper and

stalks. Some were also put on the

barn floor and covered with burlap.

They seem to be keeping good but

some are wilted. Do you think they.

would keep in a good cellar? I have

a good' cellar, cement walls and ground

floor. There is a platform whichl can

cover with straw. These potatoes are"

the Petoskey Russets. Some say air-

slaked lime sprinkled over them im-

proves them and helps to keep them.

what is your opinion on that? Would

you advise me to keep these potatoes?



Cheboygan Co. g P. J. M.



The greening of under-ripe potatoes

results from too long an exposure to

light. If the green- potatoes occur only

occasionally they are probably the tu-

bers set high on the stem because of

Rhizoctonia attack. If general, then

exposure to light is responsible. In

the case mentioned, it would seem that

covering had not been adequate. It

does not take many hours of exposure

to light to bring about noticeable

greening.



The wilting of potatoes will not take

place with fairly mature potatoes to a

degree to do damage under ordinary

storage conditions. A loss in weight

of ten per cent occurs by spring and

this averages about one per cent a

month. With very immature potatoes

the wilting is more excessive. Espe-

cially is this true of potatoes with

broken skins.



‘ Cellar storage is usually excellent



for keeping potatoes. Air-slaked lime

absorbs excess moisture and this aids

in potato storage. G. H. C. , ‘





 





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u AYBE you have done bet-

M ter in getting farmhands to

work for you than I could.

in recent years I’ve been a sort of a

farmth and chore boy

rolled into one. I was

so busy milking cows,

grinding feed and

pumping water that I

couldn’t get through all

my work in the field.

“Not long ago I began

to notice the good work

done by an electric farm

plant belonging to one

of my neighbors. It

gave all the light need-

ed, but what I liked even better

was that it was a powerful plant,

built with the idea of doing a man’s

work.





_ An outfit that





saves time and labor





“The name of this powerful plant

was Western Electric, and because

I be‘ieved it would give me the help

I needed, I installed a Western Elec-





 





‘The Western Electric Power

, and Light Outfit is a strong

arm on any farm.





 

 





 





tric on my farm. The story of what

it did may interest you, if you need

help too and if you believe an electric

outfit should supply power even

more than light.



The portable “Western Electric



motor make, power milks the

churning easy cows for me.

. .. There’s half an hour

a day saved right

there. It also pumps

water to my house

and barn. Then I

have a line shafting

belted to the pulley

on the engine, and

belted to this shaft-

ing is a feed-mixer,

fanning-mill and

grindstone. I tell you, that engine

can handle a lot of work. The

powerful battery gives all the light

needed, and it runs my wife’s

washing machine and pumps the

water.



“So you see, Western Electric

power is saving me a lot of time.

When harvest came around, I was





 

 





 





 





Western Electric distributors in your neighborhood :





Clayton Gibson, -Telzonsha, Mich.



Western Electric Products Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Thompson Battery Co.. Kalamazoo, Mich.



Lansing Electric Eng. Co., Lansing, Mich.





For territory still available write to Western Electric Co., Chicalo





 





 





 





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with some corn -

still out?”





“Harvest is a time of worry and hard work

to us. farmers —and we don’t always get

the crops in either. Time is short and help

can’t be had. Anyway, that was my fix up

till this year, when I put in a Western

Electric Power and Light Outfit. Of course

this outfit doesn’t do any field work. But

the work it does do saved so much of my

time that I was able to get all my corn in

before the first frost.”





Editor’s Note: Mr. Griesemer is a farmer near

Griescmcrville, Berks County, Pa.





able to work about three hours more

in the field every day. That is why

I got all my corn safely in.”





The battery lasts louder!





The reason the Western Electric

battery lasts so long is that it is

charged without stress or strain. As

it fills, the rate of flow becomes less

very gradually till the current stops

by itself. This “tapering charge”

means long life to the battery.



For more information about the

powerful Western Electric Outfit,

send a postcard for booklet MF7.

The nearest distributor to you will

be glad to furnish it.





 

 

 

 





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THE VALLEY OF "THE GIANTS





A ROMANCE OF THE REDWOODS

By Peter B. Kym





 





 





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CHAPTER XXXV.



VENTS followed each other with

E refreshing rapidity. While the



crew ofthe big locomotit’e on the

crossing busied themselves getting up

steam,.Sexton and Jules Rondeau toil-

or at the loading of the discarded boil-

er and heavy castings aboard two flat-

cars. By utilizing the steel derrick on

the company’s wrecking-car, this task

was '_completed by noon, and after





‘ luncheon the mogul- backed up the-





main line past the switch-engine into

the’Laguna Grande yards; whereupon

the switch-engine kicked the two flat-

cars and the wrecking-car out of the

yard and down to the crossing, where

the obstructions were promptly un-

loaded. The police watched the oper-

ation with alert interest but forebore

to interfere in this high-handed clos-

ing of a public thoroughfare.





To Sexton’s annoyance and secret

apprehension, Bryce Cardigan and

Buck Ogilvy promptly appeared on the

scene, both very cheerful and lavish

with expert advice as to the best meth-

od of expediting the job in hand. To

Bryce’s surprise Jules Rondeau appear-

ed to take secret enjoyment of this

good-natured chafiing of the Laguna

Grande manager. Occasionally he eyed

Bryce curiously but without animus,

and presently he flashed the latter a

lightning wink, as if to say: “What a

fool Sexton is to oppose you!”



“Well, Rondeau,” Bryce hailed the

woods boss cheerfully, “I see you have

quite recovered from that working ov-

er I gave you some time ago. No hard

feelings, I trust. I shouldn’t care to

have that job to do over again. You’re

a tough one.”



“By gar, she don’ pay for have hard

feelings wiz you, M’sieur.”



“Yes, by gar, an’ she don’ pay for

out other people’s trees, M’sieur,”

Bryce mimicked him.



“I t’enk so, M’sieur.” He approached

Bryce and lowered his voice. “For one

month I am no good all ze tam. We

don’ fight some more, M’sienr. And I

have feel ashame’ for dose Black Min—

orca feller. Always wiz him eet is ze

knife or ze club—and now eet is ze

rifle. Cochon! W’en I fight, I fight

wiz what le bon Dieu give me.”



“You appear to have a certain code,

after all,” Bryce laughed. “I am in‘

clined to like you for it. You’re sporty

in your way, you tremendous scoun-

drel!”



“Mebbeso,” Rondeau suggested hope-





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fully, "M’sieur likes me for woods-

boss 2" :



“Why, what's the matter with Pen

nington? Is he tired of you?” .



The color mounted slowly to the

woods bully's swarthy cheek. “Made-

moiselle. Sumnair, he’s tell me, pretty

soon he’s goin’ be boss of Laguna

Grande an’ stop all thees fight. :An’

w’en Mademoiselle, he is in the sad-

dle, good-bye Jules Rondeau. Thees

country—I like him. I feel sad, M’sieur,

to leave does beeg trees." He, paused,

looking rather wistfully at Bryce. “I.

am fine woods-boss for somebody,” he

suggested hopefully. '



“You think Miss Sumner dislikes you

then, Rondeau?”



“I don’t theenk. I know." He sigh-

ed; his huge body seemed to droop. “I

am out of zee good luck now,” he mur-

mured bitterly. “Everybody, she hate

Jules Rondeau. Colonel—she hate be-

cause I don’ keel M’sieur Cardigan;

Mademoiselle, he hate because I try to

keel M’sieur Cardigan; M’sieur Sexton,

she hate because I tell her thees morn-

in’ she is one fool for fight M’sieur

Cardigan.”



Again he sighed. “Dose beeg trees!

In Quebec we have none. In zee woods,

M’sieur, I feel—here!” And he laid

his great calloused, hairy hand over

his heart. “W’en I cut your beeg trees,

M’sieur, I feel bad.”



“That infernal guerilla of a man is

a poet,” Buck Ogilvy declared. “I’d

think twice before I let him get out of

the country, Bryce.”



“ ‘Whose salt he eats, his song he

sings,” quoth Bryce. “I forgive you,

Rondeau, and when I need a woods—

boss like you, I’ll send for you.”





CHAPTER XXXVI.





T eleven o’clock Saturday night

A the deputy United States mar-



shal arrived in Sequoia. Upon the

advice of Buck Ogilvy, however, he

made no. attempt at service that night,

notwithstanding the fact that Jules

Rondeau and his bullies still guarded

the crossing. At eight o’clock Sunday

morning, however, Bryce drove him

down to the crossing. Buck Ogilvy was

already there with his men, superin~

tending the erection of a huge derrick

close to the heap of obstructions plac-

ed on the crossing. Sexton was watch-





ing him uneasily, and flushed as Ogilvy

pointed him out to the‘marshal.



“There’s your meat, Marshal,” he an»

nounced. The marshal approached and

extended toward Sexton a copy of the

restraining order. The latter struck it

aside and refused to accept—Review:

upon the deputy marshal tapped him

on, the shoulder with. it. “Tag! You’re -

out of the game, my friend,” he said

pleasantly. . . ‘



As the document fluttered to Sex-

ton’s feet, the latter turned to Jules

Rondeau. “I can, no longer take charge

here, Rondeau,” he explained. “I am

forbidden to interfere.” _ ’



“Jules Rondeau can do ze- job,” the

woodsboss replied easily.

have not restrain’ me. I guess mebbe-

so you don’ take dose theengs away,

eh, M’sieur Cardigan. Myself, I lak

see.”



The deputy marshal handed Rondeau





'a paper, at the Same time showing his





“You’re out, too, my friend,”

he laughed. “Don’t be foolish and try

to buck the law. If you do, I shall

have to place a nice little pair of hand-

cuffs on you and throw you in jail—

and if you resist, I shall have to shoot

you. I have one of these little restrain-

ing orders for every able-bodied man

in the ,Laguna Grande Lumber Com-

pany’s employ—thanks to Mr. Ogilvy‘s

foresight; so it is useless to try to beat

this game on a technicality.”



Sexton, who still lingered, made a

gesture of surrender. “Dismiss your

crew, Rondeau,” he ordered. “We’re

whipped to a frazzle.”



A gleam of pleasure, not unmixed

with triumph, lighted the dark eyes of

the French-Canadian. “I tol’ M’sieur

Sexton she cannot fight M’sieur Cardi-

gan and win,” he said simply. “Now

mebbe he believe that Jules Rondeau

know somet’ing.”



“Shut up,” Sexton roared petulantly.

Rondeau shrugged contemptuously,

turned, and with a sweep of his great

arm indicated to his men that they





badge.





were to go; then, Without a backward ,





glance to see that they followed, the

woods-boss strode away in the direc-

tion of the Laguna Grande mill. Arriv-

ed at the mill—office, he entered, took

down the telephone, and called vupShir-

ley Sumner.



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And without further ado he hung up.



“What's this, what’s this?” Sexton

demanded. “You’re going to quit? Non-

sense, Rondeau, nonsense! ”



"Irwin have my time, M’sieur,” said

Jules Rondeau. “I go to work for' a

man. Mehbeso I am not woods-boss

for heem; but—I Work." .

“You’ll have to wait until the Col~

onel returns, Rondeau.” '



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Rondeau. You know our rules. Any

man who quits without notice waits

until the regular pay-day for his

money." .



Jules advanced until he towered di-

rectly over the manager. “I tol’ M’sieur

I would have my time," he repeated

once more. “Is M’sieur deaf in zee

ears ?” He raised his right hand, much

as a bear raises its paw; his blunt fin-

gers worked a little and there was a

smoldering fire in his dark eyes.





Without further protest Sexton op-

ened the safe; counted out the wages

due, and took Rondeau’s receipt.



“Thank you, M’sieur,” the woodsboss

growled as he swept the coin into his

p’o'cket. “Now I work for M’sieur Car-

digan; so, M’sieur, I will have zee

switch-engine with two fiat-cars and

zee wrecking-car. Doze dam trash on

zee crossing—M’sieur Cardigan does





not like, and by gar, I take heem away. .





You onderstand, M’sieur? I am Jules

Rondeau, and I work for M’sieur Car-

digan. La. la, M’sieur!” The great

hand closed over Sexton’s collar. “Not

zee pistol—no, not for Jules Rondeau.”





Quite as‘ easily as a woman dresses a

baby, he gagged Sexton with Sexton’s

own handkerchief, laid him gently on

the floor and departed, locking the

door behind him and taking the key.





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In the round-house he found the

switch-engine crew on duty, waiting

for steam in the boiler. The with-

drawal of both locomotives, brief as

had been their absence, had caused a.

glut of logs at the Laguna Grande land-





ings, and Sexton was catching up with,





the traffic by sending the switch-engine

crew out for one train-load even though

it was Sunday. The crew had been

used to receiving orders from Rondeau





' and moreover they were not aware of





his recent action; hence at his com-

mand they ran the switch-engine out

of the round-house, coupled up the two

fiat-cars and the wrecking-car, and

backed down to the crossing. Upon

arrival, Jules Rondeau leaned out of





I the cab Window and hailed Bryce.





“M’sieur,” he said, “do not bozzer to

make zee derrick. I have here zee

wrecking-car—all you need; pretty

soon we lift him'off zee crossing, I tell

you, eh, M’sieur Cardigan?”



Bryce stepped over tothe switch-en-

gine and looked up at his late enemy.

“By whose orders is this train here?”

he queried.



"Mine,” Rondeau answered. “M’sieur

Sexton I have tie like one leetle pig

and lock in her office. I work now for

M’sieur.”



And he did. He waited not for con-

firmation from his new master but pro-

ceeded to direct operations like the

born driver and leader of men that he

was. With his late employer’s gear he

fastened to the old castings and the

boiler, lifted them with the derrick on

the wrecking-car, and swung them up

and around onto the flat-cars. By the

middle of the afternoon the crossing

was once more clear. Then the Cardi-

gan crew fell upon it while Jules Ron-

deau ran the train back to the Laguna

Grande yards, dismissed his crew, re-

turned to the mill-office, and released

the manager.



»-“You’ll pay through the nose for this,

you scoundrel,” Sexton whimpered.

“I’ll fix you, you traitor.”



“You feex nothing, M’sieur Sexton,"

Rondeau replied imperturbably. “Who

is witness Jules Rondeau tie you up?

Somebody see you, no? I guess you

don’ feex me. Sacrel I guess you

don’ try.”





CHAPTER XXXVII.





OLONEL PENNINGTON’S discov-



ery at San Francisco that Bryce



Cardigan had stolen his thunder

and turned the bolt upon him, was the

hardest blow Seth Pennington could re-

member having received throughout

thirty-odd years of give and take. He

was too old and experienced a cam-

paigner, however, to permit a futile

rage to cloud his reason; he prided





I himself upon being a foeman worthy





of any man’s steel.



On Tuesday he returned to Sequoia.

Sexton related to him in detail the

events which had transpired since his

departure, but elicited nothing more

than a non—committal grunt.



“There is one more matter, sir, which

will doubtless be of interest to you,”

Sexton continued apologetically. “Miss

Sumner called me on the telephone

yesterday and instructed me formally

to notify the board of directors of the

Laguna Grande Company of a special

meeting of the board, to be held here

at two o’clock this afternoon. In view

of the impossibility of communicating

with you-while you were on route, I

conformed to her wishes. Our bylaws,

as you know, stipulate that no meeting





of the board shallxbe called without.





formal written notice to each director

mailed twenty-four hours previously.”



“What the devil do you mean, Sex-

ton. by conforming to her wishes?

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of the Laguna Grands stock. sir;

that into consideration.” '





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ed. “You took into consideration your

job as secretary and general man—

ager. ”



He rose and commenced pacing up

and down his oflice. Suddenly he paus-

ed. Sexton still Stood beside his desk

watching him respectfully. “You fool!”

he snarled “Get out of here and leave

me alone.”





Sexton departed promptly, glancing





at his watch as he did so. It lacked.

five minutes of two.~ He‘ passed Shir-

l'éy Sumner in the general office.



"Shirley,” Pennington began in a.

hoarse voice as she entered his office,

“what is the meaning of this directors’

meeting you have requested ?”





“Be seated, Uncle Seth,” the girl an-





swered quietly. “If you will only be

quiet and reasonable, perhaps we can

dispense with this directors’ meeting

which apears to frighten you so." '



He sat down promptly, a; look of re-

lief on his face.





“I scarcely know how: to begin, U11-

cle Seth,” Shirley commenced sadly:

“It hurts me terribly to be forced to

hurt you,'but there doesn’t appear to

be any other way out of it. I cannot

trust you to manage my financial af-

fairs in the future—this for a number

of reasons, the principal one being—"



“Young Cardigan,” he interrupted in

a low voice.



“I suppose so,” she answered, “al-

though I did think until very recently

that it was those sixteen townships of

red cedar—that crown grant in British

Columbia in which you induced me to

invest four hundred thousand dollars.

You will remember that you purchased

that timber for me from the Caribou

Timber Company, Limited. You said

it was an unparalleled investment.

Quite recently I learned—no matter

how—that you were the principal own-

er of the Caribou Timber Company,

Limited! Smart as you are; somebody

swindl‘ed you with that red cedar. It

was a wonderful stand of timber——so

read the cruiser‘s report—but fifty per

cent of it, despite its green and flour-

ishing‘ appearance, is hollow-butted!

And the remaining fifty per cent of

sound timber cannot be logged unless

the rotten timber is logged also and

gotten out of, the way also. And I am

informed that logging it spells bank-

ruptcy.”



She gazed upon him steadily, but

without malice; his face crimsoned and

then paled; presently his glance sought

the .carpet. While he struggled to

formulate a verbal defense against her

accusation Shirley continued:





“You had erected a huge sawmill ‘





and built and equipped a. logging-road

before you discovered you had been

swindled. So, in order ,to have as

much as possible from the wreck, you

decided to unload your white elephant

on somebody else. I was the readiest

victim. You were the executor of my

father’s estate—you were my guardian

and financial adviser, and so you found

it very, very easy to swindle me!"



“I had my back to the wall,” he quav—

ered. “I was desperate—and it wasn’t,

at all the,bad investment you have

been told it is. You had the money——

more money than you knew what to

do with—and with the proceeds of the

sale of those cedar lands, I knew I

could make an investment in Califor-

nia redwood and more than retrieve

my fortunes—make big money for

both of us.”



“You might have borrowed thé men‘-

ey from me. You know I have never





hesitated to join in your enterprises." \





“This was too big a deal for you,

Shirley. I had gsion. I Could see in-

calculable riches in this redwood em-





pire, but it was a tremendous gamble :f

and required twenty millions to swing:

It at the very start. I dreamed of the





 





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that Caribou red cedar, and with the

acquisition of the Cardigan properties

I would have been in position to do so.





-W‘hy, that Cardigan tract in the San





TIedrin which we will buy in within a

year for half a million is worth five

millions at least. And by that time,

I feel certain—in fact, I know—the

Northern Pacific will commence build-

ing in from the south, from Willits.”



She silenced him with a disdainful

gesture. “You shall not smash the

Cardigans,” she declared firmly.



“I shall—" he began, but he paused

abruptly, as if he had suddenly remem-

bered that tact and not pugnacity was

the requirement for the handling of

this ticklish situation.



“You are devoid of mercy: of a sense

of sportsmanship. Now, then, Uncle

Seth, listen to me: You have twenty-

four hours in which to make up your





mind whether to accept my ultimatum ,





or refuse it. If you refuse, I shall pros-

ecute you for fraud and a betrayal of

trust as my father’s executor on that

red-cedar timber deal."



He brightened a trifle. “I'm afraid

that would be a long. hard row to hoe.

my dear, and of course, I shall have to

defend myself.”



“In addition," the girl went on quiet-

;ly, “the county grand jury shall be

furnished with a stenographic report

of your conversation of Thursday night

with Mayor Poundstone. That will not

.be a long, hard row to hoe, Uncle Seth,

for in addition to the stenographer, I

have another very reliable witness,

Judge Moore. Your casual disposal of

my sedan as a bribe to the mayor will

be hard to explain and rather amusing,

in view of the fact that Bryce Cardi-

gan managed to frighten Mr. Pound-

stone into returning the sedan while

you were away. And if that is not

sufficient for my purposes, I have the

sworn confession of the Black Minorca

that you gave him five hundred dollars

Your woods-

boss, Rondeau, will also swear that you

approached him with a. proposition to

do away with Bryce Cardigan. I think,

therefore, that you will readily see how

impossible a situation you have man-

aged to create and will not disagree

with me when I suggest that it would

be better for you to leave the county."





His face had gone gray and haggard.

f‘I can’t,” he murmured, “I can’t leave

this great business now. Your own

interests in the company render such

a course unthinkable. Without my

hand at the helm, things will go to

smash.”



“r11 risk that. I want to get rid of

that worthless red-cedar timber; so I

think you had better buy it back from

me at the same figure at which you

sold it to me.”



“But I haven‘t the money and. I can’t

borrow it. I—-I—-"



“I will have the equivalent in stock of

the Laguna. Grande Lumber Company.





You will call on Judge Moore to com-





plete the transaction and leave with

him your resignation as president of

the Laguna« Grande Lumber Company.”



The Colonel raised his glance and

bent it upon her in cold appraisal. She

met it with firmness, and the thought

came to him: “She is a Pennington!”

And hepe died out in his heart. He

began pleading in maudlin fashion for

mercy, for compromise. ‘But the girl





. was obdurate.





“I am showing you more mercy than

you deserve—you to whom mercy was

ever a sign of weakness, of vacillation.

There is a gulf between us, Uncle Seth





‘ -‘-—a gulf which for a long time I have

dimly sensed and which, because of

my recent discoveries, has widened un-

; ' .tilit can no longer be bridged.”





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trade-mark. It is known to the mem-

bers of the‘ family, and to our friends.

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on us, and we become “set," the trade-

mark has come to stay. It has always

seemed a fearful thing that some

Bible characters must go on with \the

name they have to bear. When Jero-

boam is referred to, it is almost al-

ways the “Sins of Jeroboam.” And

Judas is forever Judas Iscariot, which

also betrayed him.” And then there is

that list of the mighty, who had good

records. Read the eleventh of Heb-

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is no song “of patriotism that rises to

its height. Every name signifies that

the owner had no cause to be ashamed

when his name was called. There is

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(Continued from preceding page).

away from him. “Don't touch me," she

cried sharply and with a breaking note

in her voice. “You planned to kill

Bryce Cardigan! And r that—and

that alone—I shall never orgive you.”



She fled from the office. leaving him

cringing and groveling on the floor.

“There will be no directors' meeting,

as she passed through the general of-

fice. “It is postponed.”





CHAPTER XXXVIII.





HAT trying interview with her

uncle hadx wrenched Shirley’s

soul to a degree that left her

faint and weak. She at once set out

on a long drive, in the hope that be-

fore she turned homeward again she

might regain something of her custom-

ary composure. 7 _

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gave way to a dirt road and terminat-

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that it should be so. Millions are i I:





spent annually on patent medicines,

many of which have been exposed by

the medical journals. ’Tis said that a.

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them, put the concoction in a bottle,





pasted a‘pretty name on it, and sold'





it. Then he made some more and sold





it. Now he has a. house on Fifth Ave-i





hue, and his-family spend their sum-

mers in Europe and their winters in

California. The brewers used to say

that beer was “liquid bread.” But Ger-

man chemists said that the nutriment

in nine quarts of beer can be put on

the end of a knife blade. Two pounds

of bread and three quarts of milk con-

tain sufficient food for a. man for a.

day and may be had for forty cents or

so, while a man would have to drink

seven gallons of beer to get the same





food value, and it would cost him near— ‘





1y six dollars. The business world is

now on the alert against the false in

all branches of advertising. Goods are

supposed to be what their description

calls for. But it is easier to check up

on goods than it is on men. Ever and

again'the rogue appears, and we are

wiser and usually poorer, after he has

“taken us in.” But genuineness, too,

is always with us. I remember my

father telling of the contractor the

church engaged. When the specifica-

tions called for certain lumber, more





than once the building committee,





found him slipping in better timbers,

or substituting hard wood for softy

When the building was completed, he

admitted he had not made much on

the job. “But,” said he, “You’ve got

a good building there.”



Can one change his trade-mark?

Does the hour come when it is “too

late to mend ?” The world says, yes,

there is a point beyond which there is

no chance of change.

of psychology says, no. And the Chris-





tian religion says no. There is always .





the possibility of changing one’s na-

ture and becoming different, of becom-

ing better and truer. The "Scarlet

Letter," America’s greatest novel, is

a study of that subject. And Jesus

Christ came into the world to make

Just such transformations possible.





The Valley of the Giants





riotously around the base of the de-

parted parent trees.

of the thicket thus formed, the termi-

nus of an old skid-road showed and a

signboard, freshly painted, pointed the

way to the Valley of the Giants.

Shirley had not intended to come

here, but now that she had arrived, it

occurred to her that it was here she

wanted to come. Parking her car by

the side of the road she alighted and





proceeded up the old skid, now "newly ,





plunked and with the encroaching for-





estration cut away so that the daylight '- I





might enter from above. On over be

gentle divide she went and down‘to-





ward the amphitheatre where the,





pi 1meval giants grew. And as she ap1

proached it, the sound that is silence"

in the redwoods—the thunderous diap-

ason of the centuries—wove its spell

upon her; quickly, imperceptibly there





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,. gathered them. Farther on, in a spot

. where a shaft of sunlight fell. she

plucked an armful of golden California

poppies and flaming rhodendron, and

with her delicate burden she came at

'length to the giant-guarded clearing

where .the halo of sunlight fell upon

the grave of Bryce Cardigan’s mother.

There were red roses on it—a couple

of dozen, at least, and these she rear-

‘ranged in order to make room for her

own offering.

- ; “Poor dear!” she murmured audibly.

.' . ' ' “God didn’t spare you for much happi-

V ness, did He?”



A voice, deep, resonant; kindly,

spoke a few feet away. “Who is it?”



Shirley, startled, ., turned swiftly.

Seated across the little amphitheatre

in a lumberjack’s easy—chair fashioned

from an old barrel, John Cardigan sat,

his sightless gaze bent upon her. “Who

is it?” he repeated. ‘



“Shirley Sumner,” she answered.

“You do not know me, Mr. Cardigan.”



“No,” replied he, “I do not. That is

a name I have heard, however. You

, are Seth Pennington’s niece. Is some-

~ ' ' one with you?” ‘

" “I am quite alone, Mr. Cardigan.”



‘ “And why did you come here alone ‘1‘”

he queried.



“I—I wanted to think.”



“You mean you wanted to think

clearly, my dear. “Ah, yes, this is the

place for thoughts.” He was silent a

moment. Then: “You were thinking

aloud, Miss Shirley Sumner. I heard

you. You said: ‘Poor dear. God didn’t

- f - spare you for much happiness, did



' He?’ And I think you rearranged my



roses. Didn’t I have them on her

grave?”



“Yes, Mr. Cardigan. I was merely

making room for some wild flowers I

had gathered.”



“Indeed. Then you knew—~about her

being here.”



“Yes, sir. Some ten years ago, when

I was a very little girl, I met your son

Bryce. He gave me a ride on his In-



"' dian pony, and we came here. So I

‘ remember.”



“Well, I declare! Ten years ago, eh?

You’ve met, eh? You’ve met Bryce

since his return to Sequoia, I believe.

He’s quite a fellow now.”



“He is indeed.”



John Cardigan nodded sagely. “So



. that’s why you thought aloud,” he re

marked impersonally. “Bryce told you

about her. You are right, Miss Shirley



Sumner. God didn’t give her much



time for happiness—just three years;



but oh, such wonderful years! Suchi

wonderful years!”

“It was mighty fine of you to bring



flowers," he announced presently. “I

. appreciate that. I wish I could see



you. You must be a dear, nice, thought-



ful girl. Won’t you sit down and talk

to me?”





 

 

 





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been made ready for the peak

load of commerce this fall. That

was by placing large orders for

equipment and making heavy in-

vestments one, two and even three

years ago.





During the period from 1914 to

1919, the New York Central Lines

purchased 925 locomotives, 473

passenger cars and 54,408 freight

cars at an aggregate ecst of $128,~

717,930. Today this equipment

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“I should be glad to," ‘she answered,

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ch 1, tr e 2 in each of next 7 trebles

in previous row, ch 1, form Shell‘in

shellof third row. Repeat around row.



Fifth Row.——Form shell in shell, ch

3, single crochet (so) 1 in each of 14

trebles in previous row, ch 3 form shell

in shell, repeat around ring.



Sixth Row—Form shell in shell, ch

4, sc 1 in first single of previous row,

ch 5, skip 3, so 1,1epeat 4 times, ch 4,

form shell in shell and 1epeat to end

of row.



Seventh R0w.—Forn1 shell in shell,

ch 5, repeat with chains of five same

as in previous row catching in center

of preceding loop until there are 6

loops, ch 5, form shell in shell and re-

peat around row.



Eighth Row.~Form shell in shell,

ch 6, so 1 'in first loop, repeat with 4





Repeat





, more loops, ch 6, form shell in shell

' ch 4, .form shell in shell and repeat





around row.

Ninth Row—Form shell in shell, ch





rows, ch‘ 7, form shell in shell, ch 5,

so 1 over ch of 4 in previous row, ch ‘5

form shell in shell and repeat. ‘



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sc 1 in first space, ch 5, sc 1‘in next

space ch 5 shell in shell and .repeat.



Eleventh Row—Shell in shell Ch 9,

form 2 loops, ch 9, shell in shell, ch 5,

tr e 1 in first space ch 2 tr 0 2 in next

space ch 2, tr c 2 in same place, ch 2,

tr 0 1 in third space. ch 5, shell in

shell and repeat.



Twelfth Row.——Shell in shell, ch 10,

form 1 loop, ch 10, shell in shell, ch 5,





 

 





 





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in last space, ch 5, shell in shell and '





repeat.



Fourteenth Row .—Shell in shell, re-

peat in next shell, ch 2, tr c 4 in first

space, ch 1, repeat trebles in next

space, ch 4, repeat trebles in next sev-

en spaces with 1 st betWeen every 4

trebles, ch 4, repeat 4 trebles in next

two spaces with 1 st between the two





 





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and repeat around row. .;

Fifteenth Row. -—Form shell over ch

of 1 between two shells at point, one

6, so 1_ in first space. ch 6 and rcpe’hfl

around row.





space, ch 3, tr e 1 in same plac'é, ch 3

tr e 1 in same place, ch 3, tr c 2 in

same place, ch 5, so 1 in last space. ch

5, florm shell in shell and repeat.



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11, BC 1 in center of last loop formed,’





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any . more are likely to change as

, flme goes on. Scientists are constant-

" 1y working to find new light on the

,,sabject of food values, so it is not

extremes and follow



But certain things

are definitely established. We know





.that sailors, or soldiers, who are for.a

long tinie deprived of fresh vegetables





and fruits, develop scurvy, which is

cured as soon as the missing foods are

supplied. So we may know to a cer-

tainty that we need those foods to

keep us in trim. We knew that chil-

dren who are not fed enough, milk or

eggs or lean meat are undersized and

anaemic, which shows pretty well that

those foods are necessary to growth

and bodily upkeep. And we know that

however “filling” vegetables may be.

they, do not give us the vigor that

bread and cereal foods supply. So we

can see that all those foods are neces-

sary to keep up in the best physical

condition. .



But the right sort of food is not

enough. It must be handled with dis-

cretion. That is, it must be eaten in

sufficient quantities and at regular in-

tervals. Too much stress can not be



’laid on both these qualifications to

good health. Sufllcient means just

enough. Too much is as bad as too

little, in fact, worse. If we take too

much food the body can not use it fast

, enough. It can neither be taken up as

nourishment, nor eliminated as waste,

and a part remains as poison. What

is known as auto-intoxication follows,

that is, the body poisons itself, and a

train-of ills follow.





I Then meals should be regular. Break-

fast, dinner and supper at the same

hours every day, and no constant “piec-

ing between meals." Growing children

need more than the three meals daily,

but the lunch hour should be regular.

Give them a glass of milk and a sand-

wich at ten, and a similar light lunch

at three o’clock; or, if they are in

school, when school is ever, and noth-

ing more in between. There seems no

end to a growing boy’s stomach capa-

city, but do not let him be testing it

every hour in the day. Fill him up,

but do it at regular intervals.





Chewing—that is as important as

choosing food. Most men and boys,

and seine women, bolt their food with-

out properly chewing it first. The

starch, which should be digested in the

mouth, enters the stomach undigested

and is as good as lost to us, and the

other foods enter in large pieces which

are hard to digest. Take at least an

hour for dinner, and chew the food

long enough to get the flavor.





Don’t drink with the meal. Drink a





> ‘ glass cf water when you sit down, or





ypur tea or coffee at the close.



If you have never given the subject

of eating properly any thought begin

today. You feed your stock a carefully

thought out ration. Why not try it on

yourself? It is cheaper to eat properly

than to pay doctor bills, and lots more





 





GOOD H EALING LOTIONS.





 





BY AGNES MILLER.





HERE are certain healing lotions

that every housewife should have





in the medicine chest, as the ingredi-

ents for some of the best lotions are

found in nearly every home and take

but little time to prepare.



, An excellent lotion for sore or chaff-

ed skin is made by mixing to a paste

a heaping teaspoonful of boric powder,





' .1 a little camphor and a cupful of melted





”mutton tallow. Allow to stand until

‘ small amount and rub well into the

' kin.” To keep the hands in good cen-

Avtion, rub a little of this mixture over



' hetero retifing, covering the

W kid gloves; “Use





   





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food.





Look ferthe

ROWENA

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on the sack





color.





pastry.





There is





 





'hard wheat grown in America.





It is milled to perfection.





THE SIGN OF QUALITY





 





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“The F lour the Best Cooks Use"





Makes the most wholesome, nourishing, economical food.

Of all foods, bread, rolls, biscuits—everything baked from _

are the mest nourishing, the mest Wholesome. Con-

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The cost of flour is lower than that of any other staple





The better the flour the better food it makes.





LILY WHITE is a flour containing the choicest selection of soft and .

Soft wheat improves the flour and

It insures the baking of a good looking leaf of bread. The flour

is correctly balanced to make as good bread as it does biscuits and





just enough haw wheat in LILY WHITE to inake it the ideal .





all-around flour.





The result “is a flour of excellent color and perfect uniformity of granu-

lation. It makes light, tender, White, flavory bread. rolls and biscuits,

and pastry that melts in the mouth.





Use LILY WHITE and beat the “ High Cost of Living.”





teed to give complete satisfaction.





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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

f‘Millers for Sixty Years’f





. After being cleaned four 'times it is scoured

three times, then actually washed, so that every bit of dirt is removed

from the kernels of wheat.





Ask for it at your dealer’s.





It is guaran-





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





STAMMERING

CURED





2,000 Graduate students testify to the

success of the Reed Method of curing

stamrnering. Endorsed by scientists

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1427 Hubbard Avo., Detroit, Mich.

Farms and Farm Lands For Sale





Attention Farmers!





If you want to sell or exchange, your

farm for Detroit city property, write

to us for quick results. *





J. F. llinlz lleal.Eslale 60.,





786 Milwaukee Ave. E. Detroit. Michigan.

. Phone M elrose 281.





Members of the ”Detroit Board of Commerce"

and "Detroit Real Estate Brokers Association".





The Future Live Stock and

General Farm Section





of America

In what a professor In a Northern Agricultural College

sald about the south. The reason 9 that live stock

and crops yield lar er net returns than in any, other

part of the Unit States because of fertile soils.

short winters, long pleasant summers and convenient

markets. Two or more crops 3 year can be grown on

the same land. Long grazin seasons and winter cover

crops uco t costs. ndi cost from one-

to one-half as much as similar lands in Northern and

Good roads. schools. churches and

t 0 South a delightful place to live.

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. For Sale

A First Class Cattle or Dairy Ranch





In Michigan‘s Clover Seed Belt. 1200 acres heavy clay

soil. Hardwood removed 12 years ago. Heavily

grassed to clover blue grass and timothy. There is no

etter land in the state. (Smiles from Millers-burg

and ()nawuy, Surrounded by cattle ranch and farms.

$16.50 an acre, 10% cash 5% year 10 years, balance

12th year or 10% caninbalanoc of payments made with

returns from (Alfalfa Seed Crops) from 30 acres, hur-

vested yearly until land is paid for. interest 61. also

acre ranch proposition 11 miles from Millers-

burg. $7.530 an acre. No cash necessary. if responsible

purchaser will grow annually 40 acres of clover for

seed, and apply proceeds of seed crop on purchase



price until paid for, interest 6%.

JOHN G. KltAU’l‘H, Millersburg. Mich.





 





$900 Cash Secures

120-Acre Farm With





Everything ready for winter. potatoes in cellar, quan-

tity corn and rye; good horse, cow. heifer. calf. poul~

try. wagons. machinery. tools: reductive fields, 2")-

cow Mire-fenced pasture, valuab 0 wood. variety fruit;

new Gotta . barn. elm shade, flowers. shrubs; near

town and .It. good schools: owner retiring, includes

everything at 818(1). only $900 cash. balance easy terms.

Details this and many other equipped farms Illinois.

Michigan, \Visconsln. Indiana and other states.

age 7! Streut's 1313 New Illustrated Catalog Farm

argairis. Just. out. Call or write S’l‘ltOUT FARM

AGENCY, 814 BC Ford Bldg . Detroit. Mich-l an





640 ACRES two miles from Saginaw (seven-



, ty-five thousand pepulatlon).All

clay subsoil,with mixed cla and black loam surface;

good buildings and good ma s:exr'ellent shipping facil-

ities and best markets for stock and produce.0ne-thl rd

first payment and balance as agreed on at ’7 per cent

annually. Other reolty.city property or farming land

in part. or whole; exchange payments; two hundred

dollars per acre; on cash basis $185 per acre; possess-

ion on March 1. 1921 or sooner if required. also on

sale 40.60-80-120J60 acres enfluh‘y solicited. D. H.

Rennie, Real Estate and uslness Exchange, 323%

Genesee Ave., Saginaw. Mich. Bell Phone 3531.

Valley 630-3.





Ionia County Farm





140 acres of almost level clay loam land.nicoly located

on state reward road, close to town. church and

school. 19 acres of wheat. seed orchard. farm is all

well fenced and there is an excellent set of buildin 8

consisting of a 10 room house and one of the best 70 t.

full basement barn in the county. silo. large

hog house. sheep house. hen house, tool house and an

excellent supply of water. Price is $100 racre. on

liberal terms. END FOR OUR NEW ALL CAT‘

ALOGUE 0F FARMS



Lowell. Michigan





FRED A. GODFREY,

Owner 0 ligcd To Go To Another State

elem fully nipped 200 acre dairy farm convenient

to- beat 0301100 3. colleges and university dlvlslb into

homes at big sacrifice, it taken now. w h or





till...“ : m d x a

w u a a” .

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’First Class 120 Acre Farm. 3;}? E12232- 535‘

all imfproved land, productive dark loain, lays level:

good cnces. two wells.9-room house also tenant house.

plenty orchard. fine large barn. other good outbuild-

ings, near school. ‘21) acres wheat, 40 acres meadow.

B he {arm pveryway. $15,000. $6,000 cash. Holman

Real Estate Agency. Lapeor. Michigan.





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Sickness Compels Sale .333 7° 3::

Hadley. four acres woods. ten permanent pasture.

balance first; class dark loam soil, nice stream. good

R-reom house. electric lights, barn 30x60 and 20x84.

Near twelve grade school. 5115 the acre. D. M.





Taylor. Lapeer. Michigan.



180 ACRES loss than 4 miles from State Uni-

. varsity at Ann Arbor good invest-



ment can easily be d1v1dod in 3 parcels, some very



good high class corn and clover lands, near Detroit



black loam soil no trades not. the trading kind actual





values on ly.

Mr. McADAMS, 4368 W. Euclid. Detroit. Mich.

160A. good soil, good





.

Great Bargaln, improvemcntmm‘. Dixie

Highway and electric line betuecn Kalamazoo and

Battle Creek: a lendid surroundings. 1 ml. to market

and high schoo . A money maker and splendid chance

for speculation. Easy terms. Don't wait. Owner.

Oscar E.Burnham, 507 Bank Bldg, Kalamazoo. Mich.





 





 





For sale. 200 acre farm, large house. 2 barnsdzrzmary

hen houSe, potato cellar. new silo. corn crib, tool

shell, sandy loam. mostly lexcl, 150 acres cleared.

Price 87000. 5.; down, will sell tools and stock also if

ltouson for selling )eor health. no hel .

Andrew Rum-lit. INTI, Cadillac, Mic





Wu ntod.





Address



Fine 160 Acre Dairy Farm. {352: Lillifiir’gpkal

turn. with water. flnc new house. new mbdern barn36

x80, London Dairy equipment and Hiuman Milker.

Near shuel. 512;: the acre. easy terms. Elmer Hol-





man. Lapeer. Michigan.

farm good buildings. for sale.





160 A- StOCk small amount down. balance on





contract or will rent for money rent. (Jan give pos-

session soon.

R. 4, Clio, Michigan.





C. F. BARKER.

near Flint.very best soil good 1 ildi



160 Acres owner sick has cut price to £1100 313K8-

terms. aft quick: other bargains. ADVANEH

RuL'l‘L lll Paterson Bldg., Flint. Mich.



Blissfield Farm Land. 90 acres on

For sale stone road 3% mi. from Blissfield. Two

sets of buildings. Well tiled School heuseon one





corner of form. Deal direct with owner.

0. NEWCOMB, Bllnfleld. Mich.





 





 





 





 

 





 

 





 

 





Desirable Eighty Acre Farm





Level dark clay loam, no waste. good buildln s. silo,

school on farm. state road. 310.000 with 82.530 cash.

1: Box 202. Lapeer. Michigan.





for Sale By Owner-at 536* cc flight:

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It is reasonable in cost and





possesses more than the or-

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in purity, dependability and whole-





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Recipe

1/ cup of butter,

1 2 cups granu-

lated sugar, 23/;

cups flour, 1 cup

water, 2 level

teaspoons Calu-

m e t B a k i n g

Powder, 1 tea-

spoon lemon,

yolks of 9 eggs.





 

   

   

   

   

   

   





 





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Coffee at Wholesale

Direct to Consumer





Buy your Coffee at wholesale prices direct from

us parcel post paid. We offer our \Old Colony

Blend freshly roasted. at these low prices, which

will prove the value of buying by mail.

3 lbs. for $1.00

10 lb. for $3.20

30 lbs. for $9.30

60 lbs. for $18.00

Order today, cup test it and if not pleased return

it and we will refund your money._ Send check

or money order State if vou want if. ground.





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Importers and Roasters

226 Jefferson Ave., East .

Detroit. Mich.





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Butter Color





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spoonful to each

l .gallon of winter



cream and out of

. our churn comes

' utter of golden

June shade to

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prices.

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All stores sell

35-cent b o t t l e 8,

each sufficient to

keep that rich,

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the year round. Standard Butter Color

for fifty years. Purely vegetable. Meets

all food laws, State and National. Used

by all large creameries. Will not color

the buttermilk Tasteless.

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warm water :is execuent‘ to apply to





 





 





slight cuts and wounds, and if used at

once is all that is needed, as 'it. is a

fine antiseptic and cleanser. It is a.

good plan to keep a. bottle of the so-

lution ready for use. -





For burns, bind scraped raw potato

onto the burn, renewing when dry. The

potato pulp furnishes the moisture

which the burn has taken out and re-,

lieves the burning sensation.





For a sprain, bathe well with hot

vinegar and salt solution, or with one

pint of hot water in Which one table-

spoonful of epsom salts has been dis--

solved.





For sore or inflamed eyes there is

nothing better than a. boric acid pow-





ISIT your school. Outside work

V is practically ended now, so you

should have time to visit the

school twice this month. Our school

system is due for an overhauling. Visit

your own school, study its defects and

its good points, and interest‘your co—

workers in plans to improve conditions.

Visit your neighbors. That good old;

fashioned custom is rapidly dying out

with the advent of ,flivvers and mov-

ies. We haven’t time to be friendly.

We are losing our power to entertain

ourselves and each other because so

much cheap entertainment is being

furnished us. If you are complaining

of the high cost of living, stop and

think how many people you are help-

ing to make rich through these some

forms of amusement, which cost only

a few cents at a time, but when multi—

plied grow into dollars. So plan some

way of entertaining your friends in

your own home.





HESE cool days are just the time



to make quilts and rugs. And here

is an idea for a little-cost party. Have

a quilting. bee, with a. potluck dinner.

If you do not need» comforts, plan the

party for that woman down the road

who has four small children and no

help. It you would like to get rid of

the accumulation of old black stock-

ings, make a hooked rug. Decide on

the size of the rug you want to throw

down just inside the door. Comman—

deer a grain bag or potato sack which

is in good condition. Wash, and cut

two inches larger all around than the

size you want your rug. Cut old stock-

ings into strips a half-inch wide, start-

ing at the top and cutting round and

round to the heel. Fasten the grain

bag to the quilting frames, and with a

wooden hook, pull the rag up through

the sack about a half-inch, and from

an eighth of an inch to a quarter of an

inch apart. Fill in the entire burlap

with the black stockings. Or if you

prefer, use alternating strips of black

and a color. Or you may have a black

square in the center and the rest filled

in with a contrasting color. When the

“hooking” is done, remove. from the

frames, turn the edges under and hem.





NSIST that the wood supply is look-



ed after. One of the sure signs of

thrift is the wood pile. Which looks

best to you, a substantial pile of care-

fully split wood, neatly corded up, or a

heap of uncut, perhaps rotting logs and

slabs, thrown down any old way to be

dug piecemeal from the snow in the

'winter?





F course you must observe Thanks-



giving. The usual American idea

is to celebrate .with a feast, for which

mother toils for hours, while father

and the boys go hunting, and daughter

dashes about with the dust cloth clean-

ing up for company, and then hustles

to her room to manicure her nails and





 





 





nutritious, _ flood.liliy,_-llleh.





fix up those fascinating ear puffs. Cel-

V,ebrate this year; if . in _





31-3"





 





der" solution. -» in fact, it is the ve;

thing which a. doctor will prescribe for,





 

 

 

 





sore eyes. Take two-thirds of a cupfu





or warm water and dissolve in it orie-

fourth teaspoonful of boric' acid pow? '2

der. Wash the eyes with the solution, 3

using either an eye cup or a soft cloth. ‘



If a child’s mouth is' washed out- .

twice daily with a Weak boric solution, ' ' '





it will be less‘susceptible to infant dis-q

cases. If the child’s eyes are weak or

sore, this same solution will be found

beneficial.





An excellent healing liniment for bad ‘





cuts and wounds of all kinds .is made

with one part liquid carbolic acid, four

parts glycerine and six parts sweet

oil. It is just as valuable among the

stock as in the home.





Calender for November





mince pie made the day before, 8. Sai-





ad, aud home-grown nuts and fruit.





Let daughter make the salad and set

the table, and son get the celery ready

and polish the apples, while father

cracks the nuts and keeps the fire go-

ing. They’ll enjoy the noveltyland

you’ll enjoy the rest.





AKE your Christmas cake now.

Here is a good recipe, and with





the high price of raisins it is relatively '





cheap: Christamas Cake—One cup of

butter, two cups of sugar. one cup of

raisins chopped, one cup of home—can-

died peel and one—half cup of citron

chopped; four eggs, my: cup oil-milk,

three cups of flour, four rounded tear

spoons of baking powder, one cup of

chopped nut meats—any you have—-

half a. teaspoon of salt, and flavoring,

either spices or'vanilla. Cream butter

and sugar, add fruit and nuts, then the

eggs and milk, and lastly the flour and

baking powder sifted together.

in a slow oven and store in the" cellar

in a stone jar. The day before the feast,

frost with a boiled icing.





PREPARING WOOL FOR A COM-

FORTER.





 





Household Editor.——I want to tell

your women readers how I prepare the

wool for comforters. A six-pound

fleece is considered about the right

amount for an ordinary-sized comfort-

er. I' open the fleece and carefully





pick out any loose chaff or straw, then .





I put it in a suds in the washing ma-

chine, adding a tablespoon of washing

soda. I have the water as hot as the

hands can bear, and wash for five min-

utes, then put in another soapy water

the same temperature as the first. Stir

the wool thoroughly then squeeze‘it

out and (ll‘Op' it into warm water in

which a little mild white soap has been

dissolved. Now pick out any dirt that

may be seen, squeeze out again and

put into perfectly clear warm water.

Squeeze as dry as you can and place

the wool on a sheet and lay out on the

grass in the sun to-dry. Never twist

the wool to get the water out, as that

will make it much harder to pick.

While it is drying I‘ pick out any

pieces of dirt that remain and put it

onto another dry cloth. Sometimes it

will be dry at the end of one day, but

if not I spread it out in an upstairs

room to finish drying. The wool is

then ready to work on. I sometimes

have to loosen it up nicely and card it

with the common wool carders, put-

ting a small bunch of the wool on one

carder and combing it the opposite

way with the other one. This may





seem like a lot of work, Bill; When you ‘

see the pile of snow white wool.'you,

for the trouble.—-—Mr§.f '





will feel repaid

A...E. F. ‘





 

 

 





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minis





Bake , .
* (Continued from.‘ 11336573).

“I do not know. Miss Sumner. I had





to sell; there was no other way out of -





., the jam Bryce and I were in; So I sac-

rificed/my sentiment for my boy. How-

. ever, the new owner has been wonder-

fully kind and, thoughtful. She reor-

ganized that old skid road so even an



old blind clutter like me can find his

way in and out without getting lost—

and she had this easychair made for

me: I have told Judge. Moore, who rep-

resents the unknown owner, to extend

my thanks to his client. But words

are so empty, Shirley Sumner. If that

new owner'could only understand how

truly grateful I' am—how profoundly

her courtesy touches me—"



“Her courtesy '2” Shirley echoed.

“Did a woman buy the Giants?”



He smiled down at her. “Why, cer-

tainly. Who but a woman—and a dear,

kind, thoughtful woman—would have

thought to have this chair made and

brought up here for me '2”



Fell a long silence between them;

then John Cardigans/trembling hand

went groping out toward the girl’s.

“Why, how stupid of me not to have

guessed it immediately!’ ’he said. “You

are the new oWner. My dear child, if

the silent prayers of a very unhappy

old man will bring God's blessing on

you—there, there, girl! I didn’t intend

to make you weep. What a tender

heart it is, to be sure!”



She took his great toil—worn hand,

and her hot tears fell on it, for his

gentleness, his benignancy, had touch-

ed her deeply. “Oh, you must not tell

anybody! You mustn't,” she cried.



He put his hand onher shoulder as

she knelt before him. “Good land of

love, girl, what made you do it? Why

should a girl like you give a hundred

thousand dollars for my Valley of the

Giants? Were you”——hesitatingly——

your uncle’s agent ?”



“No, I bought it myself—with my

own money. My uncle doesn’t know

I am the new owner. You see, he

wanted it—for nothing.”



“Ah, yes. I suspected as much a

long time ago. Your uncle is the mod-

ern type of business man. Not very

much of an idealist, I’m afraid. But

tell me why you decided to thwart the

plans of your relative.”



“I knew it hurt you terribly to sell

your Giants; they were dear to you for

sentimental reasons. I understood, also,

why you were forced to sell; so 1-—

well, I decided the Giants would be saf-

er in my possession than in my un-

cle’s. In all probability he would have

logged this valley for the Sake of the

clear seventy—two-inch boards he could

get from these trees.”



“That does not explain satisfactorily,

to me, why you took sides with a

stranger against your own kin,” John

Cardigan persisted. “There must be

a deeper and more potent reason, Miss

Shirley Sumner.” .



(Concluded next week).





Sunshine Hollow Items

By Rube Rubicon





While Max Welton was in Detroit

the newspapers printed a story about

how he was injured saving a woman’s

life from in front of a dashing motor

car. Max is a truthful man and says

that he saw a runaway Ford plunging

down the street-and knocked down two

Women and then broke his leg trying

-to get out of the way.



Melvin Hogan says a man’s family

will do more for him than anyone else.

They stick around when he’s sick and

turn out good to the funeral when he

dies. So Melvin says a man might





just as well spend a lot of smiles and .





decent words right -on the folks at

home and not save them all for the

strangers and acquaintances and keep





 





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kind of salt you use in curing.



Poor salt won’t do good curing. Cheap salt may

turn expensive. meat. Buy the salt that’s safe,

economical, convenient and full strength in flavor,





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It makes the meat tender, firm, natural in color and

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Don't accept a substitute and be disappointed.

Write us, giving the dealer’s name.

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Farmers!





Why pay fabulous prices for

coal? Cut your wood with

a Wade Portable Gasoline

Drag Saw and save money,

muscle, time and labor.





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For Sale Milch Goats gggggssdmm

as 56 grade but really is a x Nubian Doe Cleo atria.

£60.00 also her last sprig-oft; doe Kid fromalé ubian .

Buck 835.00. Toots a 6 Tog doe no papers with.

this doc she is bred to come In late this to] and a car

round million-160. bot does gave 2qtn when has it

anyone w‘ as oundation stock here is as good a

start as can beflloought for the moneys-hMicbiann, Ao-
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T A Farmer With Horse Sense





' VERYWHERE one hears talk of

“cooperation,” and noWhere is

this same cooperation more urg-



ently needed than between father and

son, on the farm. The farsighted fath-

er knows that to an ordinary boy, hard

work and plenty of it, is no induce-

ment to great effort; there must be a

goal, with a prize worth while, and

plenty of points of interest along the

road. And what could furnish more in-

terest, than live stock that is really

worth while?



There never was a better time for

father and son to join interests than

right now. Any number of stories of

success have been written, through the

co—partnership of father and son. Many

of our most successful breeders look

back to the time when their start was

made, in the humblest way, but with

the kindly help and encouragement of

a wise parent, they were enabled to be

‘of real assistance to the father in later

years, and to carry on successfully the

business founded by him.



Right now, land values are entirely

too high to permit of its being used to

raise scrub stock, and expect it to fur-

nish the percentage of profit neces-

sary, for everyone knows that it costs

no more tJo feed and raise first-class

animals than to raise poor ones, the

amount of feed consumed, and the care

necessary are the same, and the return

in enjoyment and profit in raising pure-

breds, is out of all proportion to the

labor involved.



Again, one can use grade draft

mares, and do the work just as efli

ciently, but the colts they produce do

not bring over one-third as much as

average pure-bred colts, and a pasture

full of mediocre animals will not inter"

est the boy on the‘i‘arm nearly as

much as will one outstanding colt

which he can call his own. Neither is

there the incentive to give an animal

the care, that there is when he knows

it is just a bit out of the ordinary.



The father needs to begin early in

sharing the young stock with the boy,

for fewer boys would leave the farm,

if they felt a proprietary interest in

the live stbck of the farm, and a boy

and his father make a great team when

they work together and are interested

in the same thing.



Seldom is it given to a fourteen-





year-old boy to have the. foresight of

maturity, but when Charles Markee’s

father sent him out to buy a calf which

would develop into a sire, fit to head

a herd, the boy could not satisfy him-

self with any calf that he saw, until

he found a young registered animal,

for which the owner wanted four times

as much as for any ordinary calf. Forty

years ago $300 was a good deal to pay

for a herd sire, when one could be

bought for $75, but that same foresight

made the boy insistent that only the

best was worth considering. With the

father’s consent, the bull was purchas-

ed, and became the most prized animal

on the farm. Right then and there,

the boy’s decision was made and an-

nounced to the father, that when the

time came for him to branch out for

himself, pure-breds were what he in-

tended to handle.



Several years later, when Charles

Mai-kee, of Bureau county, Illinois, es-

tablished his own home, nearly every

cent of his savings went into a team

of Percheron mares. When he drove





of ’horses, all being the progeny of

theSe two mares. Finally, I was urged

to put a price on the two, and I set

what I thought was a'price that would

hold them,‘$800, but they were sold

before I had time to change my mind.

There I was—the mares had paid amp-

ly for their keep, by the work they had

done, (for they never missed a day

except at fioaling time), they, and their

offSpring had produced thousands of

dollars worth of colts, and yet—only

forty dollars to be charged off to de-

preciation for all the years I had own-

ed them; and the wife, just like a

woman, she cried as hard when I sold

them as she had when I came driving

them home.



I’ve always used the best sire I could

find, for I figured that if I expected to

raise good horses, the sire as well as

the dam must be the best. Now that

my boys have started out for them-

selves, they all know the value of pure-

bred live stock, and they had some

thing to start with. They are hand-

ling my Percherons now, and I’ve tak





 





A Proud Boy and His Team.





them home, his young wife thought

that he had taken leave of his senses,

and a great deal of persuasion was

necessary to convince her that he

still knew what he was doing.



He says: “That team of mares cost

me $840, but was the best investment

that I ever made. In nine years, that

pair had raised'sixteen colts for me,

and several years later, when I held

a dispersion sale, I sold $7,000 worth





en them into full partnership with me.

They will not‘have the struggle that I

had in the beginning.



I’ve been up into Saskatchewan,

where the boys have moved, several

times in the last three years, and I’ve

seen the way horses are proving out

up there. The fields are big up there,

and every little way, you see a tractor





'lying idle, abandoned in some fence





corner, needing some repair or other,





rusting away, never producing any-

thing, a continuous source of expense,





and horses are doing the work. They‘





try to sell us tractors here, but I' just

figure it this way: If.tractors are no

good in‘Canada, where the fields

stretch to God knows where, how can

they be expected to make money here,

where our fields are patches in com-

parison?





No, sir—1’11 stick to horses, for I,





know from experience that they can

do for me what tractors and autos nev-

er can do, and‘that is, put money in

my pocket and contentment in my

heart." ' ‘





Ahboy naturally takes to a good'





horse, and the wise father chooses

the breed which is popular, and which

has proven itself to be the standard

of draft breeds in America. Every





time he produces a good Percheron ‘





‘colt, he knows that he never need hunt

or beg for a buyer, for the market is

there as soon as the colt is ready.





One of the greatest points in their

favor, is the ease with which Percher~

on mares can be handled, even by the

youngsters. They are sweet temper.

ed and docile, and can be entrusted to

a boy in safety, also they are quick

movers, and are to be relied upon in

an emergency, all very necessary

traits when an animal is to be handled

by a boy.



A lad soon becomes vitally interest—

ed when he knows that part of what

he takes care of, is his own. Then,

too, it is a small thing from the fath-

er’s point of View to consult with the

boy, occasionally, but it means much

to the boy that the father asks his

opinion on certain matters. On the

other hand, the father is encouraged

immeasurably by genuine interest dis—

played by the son.





Every business has its ups and





downs, and the horse business is no’





exception. It is not a dead proposition:

however, but one of the live interests





of the day. Right now, when the horse "





business has come into its own so

splendidly, after a most discouraging

seaSon, is a.most favorable time for

father and son to form a close corpor—

ation, and for father to think seriously

of the old adage, and say, not “What’s

mine is his, and what’s his is his own."





An Interesting Sheep Story,





Our Boys m7! Read Wz'té Interest Wflat 0726 *Man Hm

By J. A. Kazlver _





SK almost any farmer who owns



a flock of breeding ewes, the fea-

ture of general farming which yields

him easiest money, and nine times

out of ten he will tell you, without

hesitation, that his sheep produce the

most satisfactory results of all his

farming projects. The rapid rise of

late years, in the price of wool and

mutton, has added greatly to the de-

sirability of owning a good flock of

sheep. Another big factor in the ques-

tion grows out of the farm labor prob-

lem. High wages and scarcity of good

farm help have cut down materially

the number of acres under cultivation.

In this crisis, many farmers have an-

swered the call of “More Sheep for

, .Michigan,” and have converted the

. land not undercultivation‘into pasture

' fields. By sobbing-the land is getting





rest, thetotal number .





 





of sheep in the country has been in-

creased and the farmer has found a

profitable side-line to general farming.





In the light of the foregoing facts,

the story of Emery E. Nye, of Hills-

dale county, and his flock of registered

Delaines, is of more than passing in-

terest. Several years ago, Mr. Nye pur-

chased eight recorded Delaine ewes.

He added to his flock from the best

breeders, and in an astonshingly short

time achieved rare success. It is only

necessary to set forth the following

facts and figures, to show conclusively

Mr. Nye’s ‘title to‘exceptional success

as a breeder of recorded sheep:



During the past year Mr. Nye sold

in ewes and ”

$1.835.





 





rams stock amounttn to Mad





fairs $1,140. Last year’s wool crop,

one hundred and ten fleeces, brought

$1,069.



In this connection, a single deal in

sheep consummated by Mr. Nye will

be of interest. He sold to Texas par-

ties fifty-two’sheep—twenty-two rams

and thirty ewes. He received for these

sheep the sum of.$1,755, or an average

of over thirty-three dollars per head.



The foregoing facts present, a brief

summary of What may be considered

exceptional success in the business of

raising registered sheep.‘ Mr. Nye’s

sheep business is not his chief con-





péern. He carries on general farming,





and is successful; in the field. ofdi‘veis

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a paying proposition for the average

farmer, Mr. Nye’s answer was signifis

cant. He said it depended on the man.

And is not the man the deciding factor

in any undertaking? What Mr. Nye

has done, others may achieve, but not

all. A 'flock of sheep is a paying in-

vestment these days, for the man who

really wants to win. Time, money,





patience, work—these are some of the _

essentials to success in this as in all ‘





other lines of endeavor.

From his own experience, Mr. Nye

gives the follbwing advice to those





who wish to embark in sheep-raising; ‘

“Start with a few registered ewes-w

‘ Don't be afraid to ,

spend .a little money in starting It '





say five or six.





will cost no. more to. feed'geo'd‘ sheep





 

 





 





 





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‘ farming is demonstrating. The case,

set forth in this article is noteworthy, -.





A ply .the demand. One thing I notice, .

high prices for her work. In that way





‘ene hundred acres can keep a flock of





(returns. By doing this the land will

:get the. rest it. needs. The expense ac-

' count for farm labor can be decreased,

« and in the. end the man who attends

, “strictly to business will be a winner.”





(results, the profit that comes from ex-





some of the many problems of today.

:Perplexing problems‘confrontthe alr-I .

garage farmer. Does not the sheep l

proposition solve some of them? Surc-

ly, it is one way of getting around the





:the' land to become unproductive.

~8hcep'and wool are needed as much as .





tumor with eighty or a hundred acres





.too, she sold a. great. many pieces in





 





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proud 6%. “Any arm... "with eighty or





breeding ewes that will make him easy

money. He can plow and cultivate and

reap less, and at the same tir'ne have

breeding ewes that will make him good





May not these principles be given a

much broader application? The right

start, a willingness to work hard for





parlance—these are essentials of suc-

cess in any line. The sheep—raiser who 1

strives. for success is helping to solve ,





high cost of labor, without permitting '





wheat orcorn on cattle. Let every





keep forty or fifty good breeding ewes,

and Michigan would have a great many

more sheep than she now possesses.

; It is not necessary to attain to the

success of Mr. Nye. Sheep are profit-

able, as many a man doing general





and, ought to serve as an inspiration

to’ all who strive for success in sheep-

raising.





GOING TOO NEAR TO PANGER.





 





HEN the fuse attached to a stick



of dynamite or a bit of powder

burns slowly, you are apt to get in a.

hurry and wonder why it does not “go

off” after it has been lighted. Here is

the story of an old man, that is, he is

old now. Some boys asked him to go

with them to the woods one day. They

had some powder and were going to

have a lot of fun, so they said. But

the boy had some things to do at home

so he could not Very well go, unless he

ran away, which he would not do. He

always has been glad since that he did

not yield to the temptation to play

hookey. The boys went to the woods,

found a hollow log, put their powder

into it and lighted a fuse. They went

a long way from the log, but after a

while when the powder did not blow

up they c1ept up to see if the fuse was

still buining. All at once the charge

blew up. One of the boys never has

seen anything since. I used to see

him groping about in the dark, and

how sorry I was and am for him. The

boy who was true and kept away from

danger will never cease to be thankful

that he keptaway from danger.——L.





PAINTING ON CHINA.





 





GIRL I knew used to spend a good



many spare hours painting on

small china dishes. I do not know that

she ever had any lessons inart. She

just took it up of her own free will and

accord. It was then only a source of

enjoyment to her. But the day came

when she took up the work because

there was nothing else she could do to

keep the wolf from the door. Her

father and mother both went away,

never to come back any more, and the

girl knew she must do something; and

she thought of the china painting. It

was slow w‘ork getting a trade estab-

lished, but her things were dainty and

her friends not only admired them but

bought them for their homes. Then,





the stores of the city where she lived;

and now she has all she can do to sup-

and that is, she never charges very





“she sells many more pieces and people





 





 

 





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0 throw light upon the question as



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more profitable I placed sixty-two hens

and one hundred and thirty-eight pul-

lets in two separate coops on Novem-

ber 1 last. Each lot had equally good

quarters and were fed alike. By March

1 the hens were in debt to me sixty-1

four cents each, and the pullets had a.

credit of thirty-six, cents each, just





. eggs against feed. This placedfithem'





an even dollar apart, so if I had placed

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hens I would have stood at a gain of

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make ready for the new lot in that

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in gain of'pullets in January. While ..

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as did the pullets, they did net gain as _ '





they no doubt would have done had I

continued the meat ration.



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Rations for. F attcning Poultry





Combinations Recommended 53! Come/Z





CUFFLING feet on the board walk

startled Alfred Munn, who was

cleansing his'hands of dirt and

some blood running from deep scratch-

es made by too healthy spurs on one

of his aged male fowls which he had

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. “Why don’t you finish the birds

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“We always felt that it didn’t pay.”



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“I’m not the one who will turn down

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show that he has the goods; but I

must have some of your sage advice

on this fattening business.”



It so happened that the county agent

had that morning received a sheet

from Cornell giving a ration for fat-

tening poultry and this he handed over

to Mr. Munn. It read as follows:



Ration with-~ Milk.



Fifty pounds of corn meal, twenty

pounds of white wheat middlings, ten.

pounds of ground heavy oats. ‘



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p0unds of white wheat middlings,’ ten}, ;

pounds of heavy oats, twenty pounds];





of meat scrap.





Mixed to a batter fresh at each feed- ~





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(three pounds) of water to two quarts

(two pounds) of feed.





Methods and Practice.





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These rations are recommended for ,





both young andxold stock. Birds “off

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profitably fattened. Before putting in

crates, grease for lice below vent and

under wings with equal parts of vase-





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Crate_ Fattening.





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two Weeks, which is usually as long as

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.j,‘ feeding.





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The Farm Poultry Flock





By C. E. Barge”. Poultry Department, M .‘ A. C.





HEN’S life is divided into three

very important periods: Her life

in the broader, on the range, and

Every, period

must receive its greatest attention,

provided she is to produce her great-

est number of eggs. Lack of attention

at any one of these times, the results

are reflected in the egg basket.

Three very important factors must

be recognized and followed in the re

newal if the farm flock is to he made





. to pay.





Her breeding, housing, and feeding.

These three factors manifest them-

selves during the three periods of the

hen’s life. Let one factor be lacking

and the results are problematic.



The farmer should breed from hens

that lay in the winter time if he wish-





. es the new lot of pullets to lay in that





time of the year. Hatch the chickens

early (from April 1 to May 1). From

April 1 to April 15 is best. Hatch the

chickens from hens that were known

to mature quickly, the outward mani~

festation of which is the rapidity with

which she grew her first feathers.

Mate with these hens a cock-bird or a

cockerel that is standard weight and

The male bird should be from a

heavy-laying hen. He must be strong;

he must be vigorous. Remember that

the male bird transmits shape and col-

or and his individual characteristics of

development and growth.



Now that we have settled upon the

breeding and that we have successful-

ly hatched the flock of chicks and that

the entire flock is of the same age, let

us pass to the discussion and show one





, of the ways which has been found suc-





cessful both at the college plant asd

out in the state as well. Care should

be exercised first of all not to feed too

soon after the chicks are hatched. Nev-

er feed young chicks till they are at

least forty-eight hours old. Nature has

provided plenty of food for the first





' forty-eight hours to seventy-two hours





. coop with a hen.





of the young chick’s lil'e. Upon taking

chicks from the incubator, dip their

beaks in sour milk, seeing to it that

each one gets a few drops into its sys-

tem. Sour milk should be before them

when placed in a brooder or in a brood

Never let there be

a time. in the chick’s life when sour

milk is not before him. It is indispen-f





- sable to the‘ starting of a young chick





: in its growth.





It is absolutely neces-





;sary to the growth of the pullet on





‘feeding that brings success.





range. It is one of the great egg pro-

ducers in the laying-house.



From the time that a chick is hatch-

ed it is.a' matter of proper housing and

First of

all let us discuss the question of hous-





3 ing. A good colony houe for young

.‘ chicks should be on every farm. Plans

no: same can be secured by writing

[the Pouttry Department, Michigan Ag-





flcultnrai-College. During the broods

his. A good colony house for young

has plenty of mom. Never over-crowd

' Mr, two hundred and fifty chicks



stove is quite, sufficient





average farm. provided a flock of one

hundred pullets are desired for the

laying-pens.



During the first forty-eight hours af-

ter placing the chicks in the broader

is a very critical time. The heat ques-

tion is one of the most important ques-

tions. If the chicks are in too hot

quarters they are apt to catch cold or





are so weakened that thirty to seven- .





ty-five per cent of the brood are lost.

If the chicks are in too cold quarters

they become chilled and one is apt to

lose from thirty to seventy-five per

cent of them. Heat on the floor under

the breeder should range from ninety-

five degrees to one hundred degrees

and be held at no higher or lower tem-

perature for the first week. Lower the

temperature about five degrees per

week until the chicks are roosting

Place two-by-four’s on edge in the

broader house after the chicks are two

weeks of age, induce them to com-

mence roosting early. When they stay

on the roost at night, artificial heat is

unnecessary. One will notice that the

young chick by this time has complet-

ed its first period.



The next period (range)- is also an

important one. This is the time when

the sex should be separated. If the

colony house has been properly built

upon runners it can be hauled to a

good meadow where the bay has just

been harvested and near a corn field

(two of the mbst ideal places to grow

young pullets). They need theh quiet,

the shade, the insect life and the suc-

culent growth of the new growing

grass. During the months of August

and September place nest boxes in the

house for the early-laying pullets. By

October 1 transfer the pullets to the

laying quarters.

laying house allows four square feetof

floor space per hen. See to it that‘the

house has plenty of fresh air and sun-

shine. See to it that it is well venti-

lated to avoid dampness. See to it

that the house is free from dust, that

it is proof against vermin.



So much has been said relative to

the housing of chicks during the three

periods. Now let us take up the unes—

tion of feeding during the three peri-

ods of the hen’s life. First the chick

feeding ration. Practice retarded or

limited early feeding. Nature has pro-

vided the newly-hatched chick with a

“bread basket” Containing sufficient

food'to last from sixty to seventy-two

hours. Before emerging from the shell

the yolk is absorbed into the body of

the chick for nourishment during the

first three days of its existence. Do

not feed too soon. The first day leave

the chickens in incubator for twenty-

four hours after completion of hatch.

Supply more pure air by opening slight-

ly the incubator floor. The second day

provide plenty of sour milk in shallow

pans for drinking purposes. It helps

prevent outbreak of contagious white

diarrhea and stimulates growth. Pro-

vide chick with grit also. The third

day feed solid food. This should be

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Wildwood Farms

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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.





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UERNSEYS—Federal Inspected. Headed fyonly

son of Carrie of Eli iihurst. exchampion 0

class. 5 bulls under 10 mos.,1 a dandy whose dam in

class D has given over 501bs milk No females to spare.

G. W. s H. G. BAY. 4 mi. east of Albion. Mich.

G U E R N s E Y BULL “ms "11°”

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553 lbs. fat 2 yr. old. Priced to sell. Herds Fed-

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Tihree years old due in Dec.

Guernsey cowss reand dam and several

other ancestors in A. R. Four xyour old dule in Jan.

Chene Sequel Glenwood blood riced to sell



G. A. WIGENT, Waterviiet, Mich.





NOTICE





The Winwood Herd





on Nov. lst will move their Herd of

Pure Blood Hoisteins to their new

home, 1; miles south of Rochester, Mich.

and for the next 30 days we will sell

what bull calves we have cheap as we

will be unable to get our buildings com-

plete before winter. So afiet busy if ou

want a son of Flint apiecrest 0y

at your own price.





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Woodcote Stock Farm. Ionia Mich.

Roscommon. Michigan

od Farm herd of Aberdeen Angus o H 0 L s '1‘ E1 NB

For S’le Oatt‘igol’l head including calves and would D] H R D . s

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For sale breedin cheap if taken soon Come 01'

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Bysa 30 lb. son of Lakeside King Segis Alban De Koi.

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age over30 lbs. 0 butter in seven days Write for pri-

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We have what you want in BULL CALVISJhe large,

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

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(Continued from page 554).

and is a young man with sound b1181-

ness judgment. '



J. F. Eardiey, secretary-treasurer, is-

well-known throughout the state as a.

breeder of registered Jersey cattle. In

partnership with his brother, F. E.

Eardley, he owns and operates an ex-

cellent three-hundred—acre farm ten

miles from Grand Rapids. During the

past few years Eardley Brothers have

devoted special attention to breeding

and developing one of the best herds

of Jersey. cattle in Michigan. At pres-

ent they have about thirty females,

mostly daughters of Golden Oxford

Lad. At the head of the herd is Maj—

esty's Gamboge Lad 2nd, a bull of

splendid type and wonderful breeding

qualities. The herd is now under fed-

eral inspection and every effort possi-

ble is being made to breed healthy and

vigorous cattle that have the ability to

yield maximum returns for the food

consumed.





UST outside the city limits of Grand



Rapids we visited the market gar-

dens of R. Yonkers. Here we found a.

model greenhouse and truck farm. Mr.

Yonkers is a. veteran greenhouse gard-

ener and has made a market success

growing lettuce. tomatoes and cucum-

bers under glass. He has nearly one

and one-fourth acres under glass and

fourteen acres under overhead irriga-

tion. In addition he has twenty-four

acres devoted to growing truck crops

on an intensive scale.



One of Mr. Yonker’s hobbies is grow-

ing improved specimens of vegetables

for producing his own seed. Working

along these lines he has had remark-

able. success in producing vegetables

of superior qualities for market. After

testing some of his melons from seed

he has been saving for several genera-

tions one could hardly fail to be im-

pressed with his success in improving

the qualities of this special crop. kMr.

Yonkers has made a careful study of

marketing problems and is one of the

leaders in the Grand Rapids’ Growers’

Association.



Milo Edieson, prominent fruit grow-

er and breeder of pure-bred Jersey cat-

tle, owns and operates a fine farm three

miles north of Grand Rapids. Mr. Edie-

son makes a specialty of growing flne

apples and breeding high-class Jersey

cattle. At present he has twenty-five

females in his Jersey herd, the major-





. ity being of Raleigh and American





blood lines. His herd sire, McKay's

Sensational Laddy, is a wonderfully

good individual and was grand cham-





Michigan Fair. Always active in any

movement to promote the breeding and

feeding of better live stock in his com-

munity, Mr. Edieson is doing his share

to popularize the Jersey breed of cat-

tle in Kentgcounty.



Another interesting visit was at Wil-

holm Stock Farm, owned and operated

by R. A. Holmes. Mr. Holmes is an

extensive fruit grower and has been

breeding Guernsey cattle for more than

eight years. Apples, pears, peaches





- and plums are his main fruit crops. At





present he is keeping a herd of nearly

thirty registered Guernsey cattle.

Most of the females are of May Rose

and Glenwood breeding, and as a herd

they present a remarkably uniform

and typy appearance. For a herd sire

Mr. Holmes has Brookmead’s Secret

King. a son of Pencoyd’s Royal' Secret.

This young bull’s dam is a full sister

to Brookmead’s May Rose, who made

five hundred and two pounds of but-

ter-fat from 9,766 pounds of milk at

two years of age. Mr. Holmes has been

a prominent exhibitor at some of the

big fairs during thefp‘ast few years and

has won his share of the first and sec-





     





 





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Farm where Wm. H. Lind breeds?

bred Poland China swine. Mr





 

 

 

 





The herd sire, Mammoth Ben’s

is an excellent individual, and one .

the best pigs ever sired by Wes]

Hile’s Mammoth B‘en. Ameng the 'f

males in the herd are Lind’s Firgt

Pick, Boine Beauty, Mastodon Jumbo

Queen, Iowa Lady Timm'and Giantess

Prospect. Mr. Lind has madéyafgoo'

start in the business of breeding pure;

bred Poland China swine and is so

to be heard from. One more crass wit?

top- -nol;ch blood and he will be in flag

with the best breeders of Poland Chins

swine in the countiy. -



No man has done more toward bulia~

ing up the dairying and live stock 111?-

terests of Kent county than Dudley E.-

Waters, farmer-banker, of Grand\'Rap«tk_

ids. M1. Waters has one of the best J

equipped breeding plants in the coun- .

try, and for years he has been buildmf

up his herd of Holstein-Friesian cattle. .

At the present timehe has more than 5

one hundred and twenty females, many .15

of them holding A. R. 0. records whichrfjf.

compare favorably with the leading

herds of the b1 eed Always interested

in promoting his favorite breed of cat-

tle M1. Waters has made it a point to.

sell most of his surplus b1 ceding stock ,

to young men who are just makings ‘

start in the business of breeding puree ’

bred cattle. Working along these lines

he has made many friends and influv"_g:

enced many men to breed better cattle.



All of the cows on Maryland Farms-v '

are from popular lines of breeding and

no individual has been added to the .-

herd that failed to give promise of be- 'ftl

coming a profitable producer at the}?

pail. The milk is sold at a special (.

price in the city of Grand Rapids, and

is produced under good sanitary co’ndi? 7

tions at the farm.



The senior herd sire at Maryland

Farms is Colantha Sir Korndyke Clo-v ,

thilde, a son of Colantha Johanna Lad.‘.

who has more daughters with records. “‘

above six hundred pounds of milk inf?”

seven days than any other sire. His

dam was the first thirty~five-pound

cow. For a junior sire Glen Alex King ~

De K01, a son of Spring Farm Kings,

and out of Tietje Queen De K01, is Wfi“

ing used This young bull combines,

some of the very best blood lines off-1

thebreed. The average seven-day pro-

duction of his dam, her full sister and

the sire's full sister average above” K

forty-three pounds of butter. This

young bull, when mated" with the. ,

daughters of Colantha Sir Korndyke -

De K01, should produce remarkably.~ '

good results.- If size, vigor and heavy « -’

milk yields combined with heavy but-

ter-fat production mean anything in

the general scheme of breeding dairy

cattle, such a. blending of blood lines-3'.”

cannot fail to bring satisfactory results. 1



Among the organizations active in;

spreading the gospel of improved

breeding stock is the Kent Count

Shorthorn Breeders’ Association. "This "

organization has twenty-two membe

and is one of the live organizations "

the county. Plans have been made i:

put on a sale some time in Noven'r

The officers are: M. H. Bowman,,pr

ident; Arnold Raab, secretary.



Mr. Carr is a firm advocate of‘b "

and girls’ club work, but other mm

of pressing importance have do . J _

him to limit his projects along

lines. One of his main project's

Junior Boys’ County P18201111).

officers are: .. , . -

Wm: Roth‘,~sec.r‘7

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Wheat this column is given free to ourcubcodb-

- [scum ahould state fully the bigger] and Iyw of

V one and the. name and address ‘of the writer. lniusll





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asick Horse—You prescribed potas-

sium bromide for my cow; have given

terrier one dram doses for one week: she

' is no better. Druggist charges me forty





 

 





 





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merits an ounce. What do you recom-

mend? N'.

one teaspoonful of acetate of potash at

Ya dose in feed or in drinking water

J twice a day. Change her feed. 1'

I . Chronic Rheumatism—Lemme.—

have a mare, twelve years old, that is

. troubled with rheumatism in both hind

quarters. Can she be cured? Would

- like to have remedy for lampas. M. I.

‘ 8., Coleman, Mich.—-Give her. one dram

of salicylate of soda at a dose three

times a day,-but it may not effect. a

' cure. Lampas seldom interferes With

‘ a iyoung’ horse eating. When treated

it is best to scarify upper gums, but

don't cut back of the third bar, for If

you do you might wound the artery

and have trouble to stop hemorrhage.

‘ Apply one part coal tar and thirty

* parts water to itchy parts of body

"twice a day.



Contagious Abortion—When contag,



ions abortion becomes thoroughly es-

' tablished in herd of cows is it difficult

to ‘get rid of it? Should well cows be

. allowed to pasture with aborters'h C.I

M. B., Charlotte, Mich.-—It takes time;

to get rid of the infection, but it is a}

mistake to dispose of a. good dairy cow

on account of her having miscarriedu

cKeep her, breed her again and she will

very likely carry her second or third

'calf full gestation period. Clean and

disinfect your stable and keep it clean.

Burn or deeply bury dead calf and af<

terbirth, remove cow from well stock,

'kcep her away from them for three or

four weeks. Thoroughly clean and (118-

infect her stall, burn litter. Don’t

breed her for eight weeks. Don’t at-,

tempt to flush uterus unless you have

‘proper instruments for domg so. '



Cow Pox.—-Is cow pox a blood dis-

ease? What is the remedy for it. H.

C. B., Milan, Mich—Cow pox is widely

' distributed. It is a frequent disease

among dairy cows, to which it is

spread by recently vaccinated milkers,



» the cause is evidently an ultrammro-

. scopi’c organism which passes through

coarse but not fine filters. The milker

. ousually spreads it from cow to cow.

The disease may also be propagated

by contaminated bedding, forage or

food. Treatment—No internal treat-

ment is necessary. Wash the udder

with a. one per cent solution of hypo-

sulphite of soda once or twice daily.

Bundhes on Legs—One of our two-

year—‘old heifers has a few bunches on

”hind legs and we have thought it made

he; nervous, but, not lame. S. L., How-

'en, Mien—Paint bunches with tincture

- of iodine three times a week.

Indigestion—I have a cow that came

fresh some twenty weeks ago; since

, then she has gradually lost flesh and

is now giving‘very little milk. G. D.

'8... Grand Rapids, Mich—Increase and

[5‘ change her feed, give her two table-

' spoonfuls of ground or powdered gen-

' tian at a dose two or three times a

.day. The other heifer may have been

with calf, and aborted, without any

person knowing it.



Partial Loss of Power.—Some of my

pigs seem to be losing the use of their

legs, especially the'hind legs. What

is the remedy? J. W.. Standish, Mich.

——.Eeed less corn and fat-producing

food, add some air-slaked lime and

enough of Glauber’s salt to keep the



' bow‘els open. Keep them clean and

’ 'dry. Their recovery is somewhat

« ' doubtful.



Worms—Have three pigs that are

.. troubled with worms, but they are all

. thriving and growing well. A. 0., Mid-

land. Mich—Mix some powdered gen~

flan in feed once or twice daily.



Dainty Feeder.——I have a hog eleven



months old that is not fond of grain,

but will eat green feed, such as cab-

“bbage and grass. C. H., Hope, Mich.—

9, Give him five grains of ground nux

1 and a teaspoonful of powdered

tian in feed two or three times a.

. leehimthekindoffOodhe





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hwlflm—I have a boar twelve





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at foot.

and 6 yearling bulls.





Bulls in service:





Don Fairfax





bulls.





 





 





Thursday, Nov. 18, 1920





at Eaton County Fair Grounds, l P. M.





35 head of high class cattle.

A few yearling and two year old bred heifers

This is an offering of good well

bred cattle, just in pasture condition.

will make good. We ask the breeders of Michigan to

be with us and lend their support and cooperation.





Captain Stamway 733192





Keep On 508019

Calves are by and cows and heifers bred to these good





H. C. Potter and Jay Harwood





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How a Purebred Holstein

Bull will Make Money

for You





The Iowa Experiment Station recent-





ly conducted an experiment under





scrub cows and the resulting he

were bred to another pure bred Hol-

stein bull.



Here's what happened--- .

Dams .average yield, 3255 lb. of milk,

161 lbs. of fat.



Dau hters average yield, 6,313 lbs. of

milk, 61 lbs. of fat. ,



Granddaughters average yield, 11,295

lbs. of milk, 431 lbs. of fat.



In other words, the daughters of the

purebred Holstein bull averaged:



94% MORE MILK



62% MORE FAT

than their dams, and his granddaugh-

ters averaged



245% MORE MILK



168% MORE FAT

than the orginal scrub dams. '



The short cut to greater dairy profits

is a purebred Holstein bull.



Think it over!





Send for free booklets.





THE HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION

164 Hudson Street

Bratdcboro Vol-snout.





—

Superior Holsteins





Bulls all sold but mmbcofingocdmforwr

expected M crop of ~‘

Bull Calves





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Birmingham, . . .Mich. ‘

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the direction of Prof. L. S. Gill tte. A

purebred Holstein bull was mm





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A SIRE TO HEAD

YOUR HERD





Let us help you locate a good Holstein

sire to use in your herd.





We have good ones of all ages listed at

reasonable prices.





Write Us What You Need.





MICHIGAN HDLSTEIN-FRIESIAN

ASSOCIATION





II. VI orlon, Jr., Field Secretary,

late Block. Lansing, Michigan





An Introduction





Mr. Dairy Farmer, Mr. IIoIsIeIn Breeder Mch

IIIIIG FLIIII





ALL THREE arc Working to a common purpoccfio in-

acase the production of Michigan 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 each averaged to produce 100 lbs.

butter and 2100 lbs. milk per month for a full lactation per-

iod with an average of 3.857 fat.



His dam is one of Michigan‘s greatest family—1mm 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 10001bs._buttcr and 21000 lbs. milk in

ten months.



Hie sire is the direct descendant of three enerap

tions of 30 lb. cows and two generations of £201) lb.

yearly record cows.



is first three sisters to enter yearl test will each

produce more than 800le. butter an 17000 lbs. milk

as heifers.

Lot King Fllnl Help You Improve Your llcrd Through

One 01 llls Sons



A son of this great young sire suited to he

herd in Michigan. grade or purebred. can be 53:11:25

in Genesee County and we want them all to stay in

Michigan.



Write us about your herd. tell us what you need and

what you feel youcan afiord to pay and let us help

you find Just what you want in Genesec County, the





center of Michigan's long distance dairy cattle.





inertia hm EImch Slack Farm

Welter 1’. III“ g G. L. Spillane 8:. Son 00.

Dark“. lick. Gill. lllcl.





 





Holsteins of Quality





Ion-uh. are from 8 to is l . All -

tend m flung“ to «bandit: pesto f" m“

A. HARDY, Wet, Mich





 





 

 

 

 





 





alter and MI cum, purebred

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‘.‘To 'No'tch”

HO STEINS





Buy a "milk" Bull of Quality from the Breeders

of the world’s only cow to produce 800 lbs. milk

in 7 days. having an 800 1b. daughter.



Bull advertised last Week was bought quickly

by an Allegan County Dnirymon.



Here's another "Top Notcher“ :—



,King Colantha Genicve Pietertie.

No. 272177, Born Feb. 3, 1919.



Bire's dam a 30 lb. cow with a 31 lb. daughter.

who has a 31 lb. 4 yr. old daughter.



Dam's record :—Butter 7 days 23.26 lbsat 4 rs.



Dam's sire's three nearest dams average 3 .87

lbs. butter in 7 days. Color: about half and half.



Price 815000 f o. b. Howell.





McPherson Farms Co. Howell, Mich.

All herds under U. S. Supervision.



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o the best. and or. prices within reach of all. Write.

GEO. D. CLARKE, - - - - Vassar. Mich.





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“Ypsilanti, Mich.





(In Government Accredited list) offers young reg-

istered sons from 34 lb. King Korndyke Sadie

Vale bull for $150 to $250.





 





tluny’Sluck Farm





Offers 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. nlds.

Yearly records up to 24000 lbs. milk and 1000 lbs.

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 n 30 lb. 10 yr. old maternal sister of Dutchland

Colantha Denver who made 36 lbs. in 7 days and 1315

lbs. butter and 254.31 lbs. milk in 1 year. .Severul 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.





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ll. Bruce McPherson, Howell. Mich.

N 0 T I C E ! itféiifdflti23.1121“





white, born Oct. 2nd 1920, a good one. for a $50 Liber-

ty bond. Write for iodigree of this Holstein hull

cnll’. W. 0. HF] DEL it SON. Pincknoy, Mich.

375 gets 6 weeks old gdson of Maple Crest Korn .lleng.



and Flint Heng. Saline 27.09 butter 561.2 milk





in 7 days. Culf's dam is my best untested cow. Terms.

M, L. McLA ULIN. Redford, Mich.





 





 





Re Holstein-Friesian liulls ready for service

g‘ and priced to sell. Li ht in color and richly

bred. B. B. REA IGY, Akron. Mich.





HEREFORDS





We want 25 heifer calves from our herd bull

RENNER BULLION. We will buy part of them

from you. if you buy cows from us. We will give

you acontract to buy back the heifer calves from

the cows you buy from us, at $150.00 each.

Correspondence Solicitcd.





COLE & GARDNER, Hudson, Mich.





Double Disturber bull at head of herd

Herefords om :32.” ems, bred. 9 yearling and 5

better calves. Fairfax brooding. Bulls an age.



EARL (l. McCAltTY, Ba Axe. Mich.





, lanuntwntn

JERSEY °





Merit Jerseys



won 3 cham-

pionship 16 first

and 5secondprizes

at the Mich. State

Fair.

Ready for service

bulls at profitable

prices.---





Brookwaler Farm,





Ann Arbor, Mich.

H. W. Mumford. Owner

.|. B. Andrews, Mgr.





The Wildwood Farm





Jerse Cattle Majesty strain. Herd 0 St t , .

lted l st. R. of M. testing constantly dxdne.a figfigrggr

snle. ALVIN BALDEN. Phone 143-5. Capac. Mich.





B U TTE R B R E D ”$55113“?ng

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM . >

Silver Creek. Al Iegan County. Michigan.





JERSEY BULLS





Lad M' t b edl u d inadelagh'



, “as re ng. on own



mun & Watzrman, Packard Bd.. n arm,

Register of Merit





Jerseys For Sale, stock of both sex.

.‘mlth and Parker. Howell, Michigan.





 





 





 





 





 





 





Ready for service.

Oxford

Water-

Ann Arbor. Mich,





Jersey bull calves of M t b '



For 1:83.18 gmldt pduifliufin stoclé.ajeseyr~drg‘:1du‘lgg::

men CCl‘Bl l e s ." rite rl -



to o. A. TAGGETT, 11.2, 0-: Ssfiht‘if’hdi‘. r.”

um. Farming Jerseys £.§-.:§.tia.i‘t‘.‘.n¥m-





0- LILLIE- Cooperavine. Mich.

Jersey Bulls {mg of It dams :75 to

Grace Lake. Mich.





NOTTEN FABM’.

§loomdale Shorthorns





by use scrubs when you canb

for 8100 We have two at that “gaggififsloedsggil:

good females.

CARR BROS. d: 00. Bad Axe, Mich





The Maple’s Shampoo





Kirklev' cn‘LAd . ’

W I “2* Hartford





 

 

   





 





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Think Boys an Act, start in the





ill iargeTypePolandchinas





right by coming to





Clarke’s 3rd Annual Fall Sale





and buying some of as good as can be bought any—

where, you can get your "choice of 50 head of top

boars an gilts ' ,





NOV. 9th, I920





sired by



Orphans Superior

L’s Big Orange

L’s Long Program





Lord Clansman

Smooth Wonder 3d.

Arts Progress





This offering will far surpass my offerings of the

past they are the long, high backed, stretchy kind

they are all craving over. Sale held on farm

under cover. Write for catalogue.





All trains will .be met.





‘ AUCTIONEERS





Col. Ed. Bowers, South Whitley, Ind.



Col. Jim Post, Hillsdale, Mich.



Col. Porter Colstock, , .

Eaton Rapids, Mich.





WM. .i. GLAHKE, Prop.





Eaton Rapids, Mich.





[ W. M. KELLY for The Michigan Farmer





Those Who Have Made Arrangements to Attend My Sate Gan Easlly Reach Hanover

In Time for W. R. Ramsdell’s Sale Wednesday, November IOIII.





 





 





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35 Head WEDNESDAY, rov. 10m ‘36“ 2 a

W. B. llAllSllELL, Hanover, molly»





 

   





 





 

 





   





All animals In ,

Hanover ean‘





   





   





ifl'mbm be reached by

munedncertl- way of Janit-

lioato iurnis‘h- son or Hills.





ed with sale. daiodlieit.





   

   





 





   





Smooth Wonder, Senior Herd Sire





   





Among the offerings are gilts from spring litters out of Lady Wonder

and Lady B. sired by ClanSman's Image 2nd. These pigs are well-grown.

carry strong arched backs and have wonderful bone. One of the above



sows will be sold. ' I ,



Fashion Belle, 3. daughter of Big Fashion; her dam, by The iClansman,

will be represented in sale by gilts and boars, sired by The Outpost, the

' boar that sold for $10,000 at 10 months of age, the record price for a boar of

that age of the Poland China breed. Here is one of the opportunities you "

have been waiting for. ~ g 1



Lady Wonder 2nd and Nellie R both go in sale along with gilts from.

spring litters. They are real brood sows and their pigs are hard to beat. _ ,



King’s Giant, one of our herd sires, will be sold along With about five or‘ '

six young boars from the above lines of breeding. All good, strong-backed,

big-type fellows with plenty of quality.



All sows and open gilts will be sold with privilege of breeding to either

of our herd sires if not safe with pig at time of sale. These gilts will be

held and bred at our expense. \ - .‘



-Sale will be held under cover on the farm, Wednesday, November 10th

at 12:30 o'clock. Catalogs will be mailed on request. * '





W. B. BAMSDELL, n. 0., Hanover, llioll.‘





Gill. BILLY WAFFLE W. M. KELLY





Auctioneer For The Michigan Farmer’





   

   





 





 





Those attending W. J. CLARKE’S Sale Tuesday, can reach Hanover in. I





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





time for my sale Wednesday. ,





 





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Shorthorns—Shropshires





The B. D. Kelly Estate will sell





AT AUCTION

WED. NOV. 10, 1920, AT 12.30





on the farm 3% miles south of Ypsilanti, Michigan 30 Shorthorns of the Beef

type with milking ability consisting of 26 females and 4 bulls including the

“Campbell Claret’.’ herd bull Banker 717768 sired by Imp. Hillhead Chief

Dam Imp. Claret 23.



Also 60 Reg. Shropshire sheep of all ages, both rams and ewes. This is one

of the oldest breeding establishments in Michigan Catalog ready Nov. 1.

Lunch at noon. Trains met A. M. of sale day.





ANDY ADAMS, Auctioneer ,

L. C. & W. B. KELLY, Administrators





 





‘ ' ’ SHORTHORNB. Ole bred bull calves . . .

Mllkmg 'Herds under Federal gupervi sion. Flne Reg [Ste “ed Bfgliigui’mpminigfi “‘9'

Davidson it Hall, Beiund dr Beland. Tecumseh, Mich 0. H. WHfiNEY,‘ fignill, Mich.





Scotch and Scotch To ped

Shorthorns bulls and heifers priced r ght.





timersassassssm22;: Brookwater Duroo Jerseys ‘

BIDWELL SHORTHGRNS BOARS—Ready for Service '

You Can I\3uy Pit! tY e,large bone and rugged with plenty 531%.





ity. his is your chance to buy high class





 





a bull that will put. weights on o rdair c 1 es- -

the diflerence will soon pay for theybl‘illi. Ndw gelling uals at reasonable prices.

good dSocial: and Scotch-top ied yeafilings, rgeecmably Open Gilt:

:- cc . roan. son or year ng. a issue 0 near . . . , a i:

B edi . a h d u t Fed 1T 1:. ofchorce breedrrrr and right type. Panama Specml ‘ .;.

re “2 er bu ”08pm: ' era as , » The Prmci _al 4th. Orion Cherry King. and are“: ', ,.

" BIDWELL STOCK FARM, Onon farm res. Now 1's the tune to buy befotethe .





Box D, demand takes all of the good ones. ‘





_ TECUmseh, Michigan . .3,

Richland Shorthorns





Write us for Prices and Pedigrees

Mail orders a Specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Imp. Lorne, Imp. Newton cham ion and

Sterling Supreme 1n Servrce. e offer





BROOKWATER FARM;

for quick sale: Fiv'e Scotch Bulls, best





ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

of breeding. Three whites at31000 esch‘ One





H. W. Mumford, Owner J. B. Andrews, Mgr,

roan at $500. one red at $400. No females for BLUE HOGS. lfidghofimmililkngg weighs: .

"Ile- Iéiblic Sglfigggg?¥‘é8gib~s Write for booklet. Mention this paper. '

- 0 ’ The Blue Hog Breeding 00., . Wilmington,Mau.





Tawas, City. Mich.

Fairlan ghonhgrns- ngrgfbger ..g,.m1.2. DUROC JERSEY SWINE

‘r aeyoung us tom 0 . .

mos. Two are rgndzons of Jewell all sired by We]. for “‘9 5 yr' old herd ham. Winding boarsandbogr

rove' star. Re 3 and roans. prices 8100 to $200, also 31%; $396331: 1"de $131 11‘9- rite for pedigrees and





. t m.

Jagsgtrsagemgegg' g,” 3.5, Niles, Mich, anus. UNDERHILLJI. son. Salem, Mich. .





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 





 





”II-lull- IIIIlI-IIIIl-lI‘l-Illllllliullllilllln





The Sure Breeders





LOOK at a line of Jerseys and note their even conformation.



Straight udders, straight teats, good dairy type i Truly,



Jerseys are the cows without a fault. 200 years of careful breeding



have made them the certain breeders. There are now more bulls owned



by cooperative bull clubs than all other breeds combined. Take advan-



tage of the service offered by the Jersey Information Bureau which

will tell you about The Profit Breed and of the profits their owners



are making with them. Address





"I| Tile American Jersey Cattle Club. 32Hl West 23d 5L, New York





w. B. McQUILLAN. R. 7. waen, Mich.

EADOW Hills Shorthorns. Herd headed by Silo





Good Scotch bred bulls. cows and

Shorthorns heifers prie ed right





 





   





ver King. full brother of Lavender Sultan Pur-

due University's great; sire. For sale females of all

ages, is few young bulls. Geo. D. Doster. Doster. Mich.





 





 

 





Spring pigs by Walt’s

Orion, First Sr. Yearling





‘o S leS e l o n b He. sired by Sultan's Sta - . . ~

1“ (lgrda. A?2J%O fe‘i‘sganii cows. Prices reasonablg. Detront, Jackson,Gd. Rapids and 5381“!“ 1919 ‘





B h C t “I" breeders of American Polled 0 O o . .‘

i Shrggfhornogafitle. (g.‘lfllx.lBurdiok, Mgr,.Coldwater.Mich.v Phillips Bros,nga,M‘tChg .7





 





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l Milking Shorthorns of best Bates breeding. For Sale Egrggt Jerseys of the his heavy ,

n ...

‘ CB Okemos. 'Mioh. ' ,. . L





 





b it 6to 8 0. old for so. e. no.

“ s E. am Ag. BRAY.





KURTZ. Mason, Mich.





 





, sows and gilts bred to Visits no 294'» T

I Milking Shorthorn 3 mos.heifer calf 31?.) breachelierrls Duroc who has sired more list. and 2nd “:36 pin ;-





d erviceahie hulls at farmere' prices. en ra , _

Micllfsfi‘orthorn Asso. Oscar Skinner Seo.Gowen.Mich. at the State Fair in last 2 years than any 0 er Dnroo _5 5 .





St. Johns. Mich. a 5,-





 

 





boar. Everyone will be a money maker for the

. buver. Cat. and price list. .

R d Polled cattle for sale bulls from 4 to 18 mosnlso INEWI‘ON BARNH R1.

e cows with calves Ey side and heifer's.

6' A‘ ALHOON' Bronson.Mich. UROO Boers Ready for service, siredb'tho -

Breakwater tDemonstr .or. . '1"





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0.1. C. B‘O AR S





Qhoice individuals; shipped ,to you c. o. d. express said and guaranteed

right or your money re unded. All stock registers ‘in buyer’s name.





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mo. old fir so 8. Oskwood Gold temp. . Prices 8 an up





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E , R. G (1 Led e, Mich. ' 1 our selection early. mail orders «retell

FRANK REEL 8 run» ‘ lggltdii.y Rush‘l}ros., Oaknrood Farm. Ito-loo, M





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 





for sale from 3 mos. to ' .

lltg. "Oil Polild {agdircgl'dlegir‘ed by E‘anmusOhanner ' pri‘ng boars. A 1" tilts bfli

1 ’ u anr dOh- - DUROCS 5 Se ti to at “

germ“ “wastage was, an... era. _ _ - °'.’ ofinfiofi. M “3&2,

. 5'4.- ,





 





 





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oueuw egg to (me hundred chicks,

$11!.an handfuls of rolled oats,

m mall handfuls of bran. 'Thor-‘

(highly mix ”by rubbing, give four feeds

every three home apart. A dash of,

, fine charcoal and bone meal in above

. mixture is beneficial. Supply sour skim-

milk for at least the first two weeks.

From the fourth to the fourteenth

day give two feeds of commercial chick

~feed (this consistspof finely ground

1 grains), give two feeds of above, raw

egg, cat and bran mixture, give one

feed of green food, sprouted oats, let~

tuce etc. Keep the young chicks hun-

gry an adctive all the time.





cheapen the ration, substitute the fol-

.lowing mash for the egg mixture:

Bran, -middlings, corn meal, ground

oats, equal parts by weight, and ten

per cent meat scrap. Increase the size

of grain feed as the chicks grow older

from fine chick feed to developed size

and finally coarse ground grains. Green

food is a good appetizer and stimu-

lates growth. Meat scrap or skim-milk

~ hastens growth and makes early broil-

ers. A small hopper containing grit,

charcoal and granulated bone aids in

building a substantial frame and tends

to correct leg weakness.

of Man, ground oats and meat scrap

will interest the chicks and prevent

toe picking and other signs of canni-

o balism with young growing chicks.



Some good rations for laying hens

may be made from oats, bran, gluten

meal, meat scrap, barley, buckwheat,

and corn, fed as follows:



Mash—Three hundred pounds fine

ground oats, 100 pounds of wheat bran,

1‘00 pounds gluten meal, 100 hundred

pounds meat scrap, and scratch-feed

made up of the following: One hun-

dred pounds barley, 10.0 pounds corn,

twenty-five pounds buckwheat.



The nutritive ratio of mash alone is

112.5; the nutritive ratio of grain alone

is 123.5; of the grain and mash fed

equal parts, 1:9.4.



Feed the mash in open hoppers; the



' corn as a. scratch-feed in litter; soak

the oats for a half-day and feed moist;

and give the fowls all the sour milk

or buttermilk they will drink. It is

well to allow four square feet of floor

some per hen.

' Another good ration is as follows:

Twenty pounds short-s, twdnty pounds



. ground oats, and twenty-six pounds of



beef! scrap, twenty pounds bran, and

twenty pounds corn meal.





 





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ACCOUNT BOOKS POPU LAR.





 





OLLOW'ING up the distribution of

farm account books throughout the

. state, H. W. Eliot, farm management

demonstrator at M. A. C. announces,

that a. series of accounting schools tak-

ing up the principles of business man-‘

agement in agricultural work will be.

held in various counties over the state,

. ' (firing the coming winter.



It is planned to hold fifty or more of

these schools in about twenty-five

‘ counties between Deecember 1 and

April 1. Arrangements in each’ case

will be made by the county agricultur-

‘al agent, with provision for holding a

school if twenty-five or more men are



lined up to receive the instruction.

‘ ‘ Proper methods of keeping farm rec-

l ‘ ords and account books, including in-

. ventoiries, will be taught, with the fun-

damental aim of putting the farm on

Business basis. By a well-kept ‘set

at ' accounts, farmers may often spot





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their business that are especially.

“paying, experts in farm manage

"contend.





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After the second week, simplify and ,





A dry mash ,





sonata:





Dunc





g, TH E.- MICVHVIHG‘AN‘ FA R M ER

' 1 ounce JERSEYS '





Carey U. Edmonds, Hastings, Mich.





' 'l" (heater Whites.



Big ' ype boars, also tried cows and fall gilt: bred

for Sept. litters. These hogs



at any . Grand champion blood lines of the

, ‘breed, W ldwood

. Oholeyraimfimno. Sethfnction guaranteed





ILLJR. Mackin aw. Taxewell Co.

finder





0C JERSEYS





E. D. WDENBERK, Wayland, Mich.





LEASANT View Durncs. Choice spring boats and

g'llts. Come and see or t our price before buying.

W





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Boa-rs and gilts





 





 





Choice, stretchy spring '





Prince J r.. Rajah. andObampion X. "





by Mich. Path- -





   





1 1G ‘1‘. P. Chin“ lot sale. A few tried sows, spring

boars. Angolan-both sex. Recorded free in buy-

. en's name. L L. Chamberlain, Marcellus, Mich.

I am offering Large Type Poland China Saws bred

'to F’s Orange. at reasonable rices: also fall pigs.

Write or Call Clyde Fisher, St. outs, Mich. R.R.3.





My!0la My! What An Opportunity





We are now offering a few choice big ty 6 Poland

China Boar: from Big Smooth J ones.one of t. e breeds





 

 





 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 

 





best sires, mm dams by such noted sires as Grand

Master. Hillcrest “'onder, Mastadon Wonder and

Hillcrest Bob.





_You can't get better breeding. Individually they

will please you. Price $30 (I)

HILLOR EST FARM, Kalamazoo, Mich.





 





 

 

 

 





. 0. BURLINGAM 3& SUN, Marshall. Mich.

l .



D we Ten-1e fall pigld weeks old,



512'00 for 8- eil‘lher-‘sex 3lllxpress charges paid





‘ d registration papers free. M. A.O. Brookwaterr

ggeeding. 11w. SUTHERLAND. Gd. Ledge, Mich.





 





_ as

All your corn





SAVES All your fodder





Why waste your Eur Com in silage,

when Stover Silage made the Jenney

Silo-Filler-Hmker way answers your

every silage need? Hundreds of users

testify to the truth of this statement.

Saving your born from the S110 and

saving all the leaves, stalks and husks

bring double profit from your fields.





The'Jenney Silo {Filler . Husker [8

ready any time, no need to stop busy

fall work to fill the silo. With ityou can

refill several times a year. It allows

the ears to go into the silo If small,

soft or unfit for cribbing. It husks





 





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Raise Chester 'Whites

‘ Like This

the original big prod





   

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 





HAVE started th

success. I can help you. I want tapioca coal: from





out herd in every community when am not-

as. gm

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SPECIAL





 

 

 

 

 





 





prices on Fall Winterand Boxing

boars during ctober





 





 





WEBER 31:03., a. 2. Royal ‘Oak. Mich. '





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





at re-

Pigs





with quality,





Blg Type Poland Chums snnable prices.



of both sex, and bred sows and gilts.



G. A. BAUMGARDN ER, R. " Middlevllle, Mich.



BARGAINS on Big ty e spring and summer Poland

China Pigs also your ing Sliorthorn bulls, bull and



heifer calves. RODGI‘L Neve, Pierson. Mich.





HAMPSHIRES





I914 l920





Choice Spring boars, popular breeding. Booking

orders for fall pigs. All stock Cholera Immuncd

and guaranteed Breeeders. Satisfaction guaran-





teed.

I STEIIBE'H’S HAMPSHIRE FARM

R. 3, Angola, Ind.





boars. fall pigs and tried sows.quslity. and

breeding unexcelled. Guaranteed. Ham

-R. 1. Three Rivers. Ming:





Edgewood Hampshires





All bred gilts sold. Now booking orders for giltH bred

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

our Head,“ Edgewood arm. Marion, Ohio.





 

 

 

 





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The Janey Silo -Filler-H|uker is in 0am“ odhgiili gdfivlrln.

its sixth successful year. It is sold

under guarantee to be exactly as rep-

. resented and to deal] claimed for at.

‘ You profit as soon as you begin to

use this money-making and time.

'mving machine. You lose money



every year you are without It. ‘





Write fol-Full Particulars Nous





HALL MFG. CO.

Dopt.0 cedar Rapids, Iowa





Ceresco, Mich





 





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| , Eight young boats and spring pigs

'0' I. c *3 for June shi ent.



fiRM. Monroe, Mich.





Central Mich. 0. l. C.

Swine Breeders Ass’n.





Every





 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

   

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 





Hogs of all ages of popular blood lines.

sale guaranteed by association.





DR. H. W. NOBLES,





, spring boars and fall pigs at a bargain.



. . I choice spring pigs either sex. Booking orders H‘MPSMM: l k . . . - _



fast and cleau. It handles eithergreen 0.1.0 8 for mu lei“ “"3 r6 'Ster fr? and ship (1.0g) JOHN WtogNlllllfier?rd§f4?O“StF3%l?d:db/Illl:1lf.

Shredder for YOUT 8111131113 fadder- Look for Miller Meadows L. T. P. C.'s at Marshall SHEEP.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





Rams B. dz 0. type. having size.quality.best

of breeding, riced to sell, write

8, ll. SA DERS. H. 2,





Ashtabula. 0.

FOR SALE





& VVRIGGLICSWORTH,

Black Top Delaine Merino





FOR SALE lgams registered





J. MEACHAM, R. 2, Mini'ngton. Mich.





WHITTUM FARM SHROPSHIRES





A fine lot of imported and house bred yearling ewes

and rams for sale. fine chance to start a new flock

or improve the old one call at the farm or write





for just what you want.

. H. WHITTUM, Eaton Rapids, Mich.





Delaine





Registered Delaine Ram

also 35 owos. GEHRINGE





3.

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Cohoctah, Mich.





 





 

 

 





 

 

 





 





 

 

 





 

 

 





cup “I. coupon—Man Today Sales Mgr. Coral, Mich.

"5:55:25 ""7... p... s.1. 0. I. c. Swine. ass as: a:





good boars and gilts left of sametype and blood lines,

that won for us at Ohio and Michigan State Fairs.

Priced very cheap. Write us before you buy.



1 NEWMAN'B STOCK FARM

R. .





MARI.E'l"l‘E. MICE.



I. C's. One last fall boar wgt, 4'35, two last fall



- gilts, bred lots of spring pigs and this fall pigs

either sex. good growth) stock lg mile west of Depot.

Citz‘s. Phone 124. Otto B. Schulze. Nashville, Mich,





Onto Cedar Rapids. Iowa

Please mail me full‘particulars. ’





 





 





 





 

 

 





 

 





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I. C‘s June and July boots and open gilts. Record-

-ed and express paid for next 30 days each one a

guaranteed feeder. F. O. Burgess. 8.3. Mason, Mich.





O. I. C.



Big Type 1’. C. Bred gilts, Fall yezirlings. prize Win-

ners, out 1100 lb. sire and mammoth sows from



Iowa's greatest herds. l£.J.Mathewsou,Burr 0ak.Mich.

oslng out sale of big type Poland China hogs, which





Cl

represents the work of 2'5 years of constructive





FifteeniHead of

breeding. Everything goes; including our thlfie great





herd boars, Mich. Busts! by Giant BUR tel ,





COWS. and young StOCk Will be .SOld at. Giant" “Butler's Big Bob," Two of the best. yearling

auction on my farm, one-half mile north prospects in Michigan great. length. big bone,

of Grand Ledge on





Come get your pick. Jun. 0. sullen'Portlnnd. Mich.

Tuesday, Nov. 1 6th Big Type Poland Chinas

Sale to begin at lo’clock. Terms.





Youn Bras. Niles, Mich.

F. A. BEASORE, Will se 60 head of gilts, fall yearling-s

Grand Ledge,





 





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Serviceable boat's. A few extra

good hours at farmer-5’ prices.





H. W. MAINN Dansville, Mich.





 





 





and tried sows.





MONDAY, NOV. 15th





Auctioneers Cols. Flesher and Foster.





POLAND CHINAS





W. J. HAGELBHAW. Augusta. Mich.





t pa Poland China’s spring boars ready to

s i . Everything immune from Cholera.

A. A. FELBKAMP. ll No. 2, Mich.





Poland Chinas





Spring hours and gilts from the Sr. Champion

boar at the State Fair at Detroit this year also

Grand-Champion at West Mich. Fair at Grand

Rapids weighing 1025 lbs.



If you want something that will give you sat-

isfaction let us sell you a boar or .





ALLEN BROS., Paw 'i‘lfw, Mich.





L. S. P. C.





Everything sold previously ad. 25 spring pigs

aced on the bargain counter for mo. of Sept.

pairs or trlos not akin.

_ H. 0. SWARTZ, 'Shoolcraft, Mich.





Big Type Poland Chinas





Our herd is representative of the best

in Big Types. Choice boars for sale

now. Wesley Hile, R. 6, Ionia, Mich.

L T. P. C We haven lat numberotaprln





‘ and summer 5 ready to ship SHE

gel ouch boar-sun “Hunt's Bio rice." "Inonu-d's

8

two. coed





oh,” the “Mode! 'Olansman" and “Prospect.

blood ' a grad; Inn of the “0,000 Yankee. Write for

in good condition - pine: or come and look

Guaranteed to cult T market. HART

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HOGS





WHO-0 JERSEY S‘PEBIAI.





Newton Bamhart, Stlohns, Michfi





wm sells choice adoring of brood sows lite and

young boars. The Meringinchdes all of t 9 show .

boars and sows in the 1920 show herd. Most of them



sired by Welt's King (92942) a sand Walt“: Top Col.



Watch for next. week’s list. of onyx-lugs. Sale will be '

held Thursday, Nov. 18th. Write for information.





Newton Dunbar! 78!. Johns,llch.

Duroc Jerse ya





2 jr. yearling boars sire Long Wonder, Jr. Cham-

pion at the Minn. State Fair in 1917. jr. year-

ling sir Giant by Giant Imincible one 81'. year-

limr by Panama Special allpertect individuals

grid wleifgth over 600 lbs. We only have 2 spring



oars e . ‘





CHASLEN FARMS, NorthvillmMich.





hails. 3955mm New: .. .. *

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Manchester,





 





 





 





A 159w re Duroc Jersey.





- at nco 1h . net but ‘

Write Me 1...?" bone 33311...." 9.12% “311:1?-





sey hours for service.

W. .MAYES, L. B. 505, Durand. Mich.





Dun-cc Jerseys





 





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mover-fl you grain tho-

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Hillcrest Shropshires

A nice lot of Ewes and Rams of all ages our flock is

headed by McKerrow 3164 a. son of Senator Bibby

write or call on



R. J & C. A. WILLIAMS.





 





 

 





Middleville, Mich.





 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





35 Registered Shropshire





FOR SALE yearling rams and mm lambs.





Also some choice Duroc Jersey boars and gilts.

CLIFFORD MIDDLETON, Clayton, Mich.





 

 

 

 

 

 





 





Am oflering one choice two year





ShrOPShlres ram and a few good yearlings.

(l. J. THOMPSON, Rockford, Mich.

curling and





SH ROPSHIRES Eaxnb rams





sired by Imp. Berry No. 163 for sale. Also a few ewes.

ARTHUR DODDS, Lapeer. Michigan





   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





imported





Shropshires iiifubs s

rams. DAN BOOHE





Minton Ram

20. some ewes, 2 yearling

R, R. 4, Evart, Mich.





lambs. yearlings and

one? yrs. old, priced

Eaton Rapids, Mich.





Shropshire Rams

right. CARL TOPLIFF,

' Yearling and 1- ms, "th lit .

ShrOPShlres from importeditocll‘.l qua y



W. B. MCQUILLAN, R. 7, Howell, hlich





 





yearling rams. Ewes of all

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ShrOpShlreS ages. Priced righ .

w. B. KELLY Ypsilanti. Mich.





 





yearling or lambs

for sale.



Fowlerville. Mich.

I .‘ d '. , _

Wool-Mullen Shropshire Rams. E1??d...fl鑧2§.ll‘y

bred, priced right. A. H. FOSTER. Allegun, Mich.





Shropshire Rams

ARMSTRONG BROS, R. 3,





 





 





' Shropshire Rams and ewes all a e: f r

Beglslerod sale. Well-wooled with size and qizditg.

Priced to sell. H. F. Mouser, R. 6, Ithaca, Mich.





Maple lawn Farm





nose to toes.





ShropshireS, rams and ram lambs

of chemo breeding. Wooled from

A. E. Bacon & Son, Sheridan, Mich.





 





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and rams. J no. Grieve, R. 3, Fowlerrille, Mich. ;

yearling, and lamb rams, ewes all a e 3“

COtSWOIdS with size and quality, prix-od to sell.“ 3‘ ,,

A. N. BO lTEL. Britten. Mich. "





 





 





Want a Sheep? lilidmfli.“ H





booklet with list of breeders.

A. TYLER. 2‘.’ VVoodl and Ave.





For Sale. 2,?





lbs. price :4” 00. L

OTTO 0.

Registered Hampshire Ram

lings, 20 mm lambs also

Welchd‘zSons, J.

ampshire Down ram





Res“ H

ho'rthorn bull calf. 9 mo.,spring and f ll 1? ~

Berkshire pig. M. G. Masher & one, 3.359333%?





oxrothTfi





0 E. BARKER,

For Sale ggggggeghmtgggmgs I‘eeisterded .na

GEO. 'I‘. ABBOTT,





Registered Rambofillcbt Rams. For sale.

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ampshireflheep

, send you dandy

Vi rite COMFORT

Detroit. Mir-h.





 





'stered Ham

ram lambs.

ambs weigh

KNOB. R.R





pshimyearling rams

Yearling» weigh 175

120 price $30.00.



. 3, Monroe. Mich.





s 1-foady todshlp. 40 year-

a ew goo ewes. A. .

B. Welch. Manager. Ionia, Midi:





 

 

   

   

 





 





lambs. one registered





 





 





yearling Reg.

voted for $50.

Belmont, Mich





choice

and deli

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Goo d bone and co erln .

M. EAGER. flowed, Mich.





HORSES

BAY MARE





Fox-Seleumnd and right in every way. weight abut

no. or





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GRAIN QUOTATIONS





November 3, 1920.

Wheat.



Detroit—Cash No. 2 red $2.21; De-

cember $2.15; March $2.11; No. 2

white and No. 2 mixed $2.19.



Chicago.—No. 3 red $21914; Decem-

ber $2.091/2; March $2.02.



Corn. _



Detroit.—Cash No. 2 mixed 950; N03

2 yellow $1. -



Chicago.~—No. 2 mixed 8911963901405.

No. 2 yellow 901/2@920.



Oats.



Detroit.—— Cash No. 2 white 580; N0.

3 white 56%;c; No. 4 white 53%0.



Chicago—NO. 2 white 551A;@561,éc;

No 3 white 53%@54%c.



Beans.



Detroit—Immediate and prompt are

lower at $4.40 per cwt.



Chicago—Market easy. Hand-pick-

ed beans choice to fancy $4.75@5; red

kidney beans $9.25(a;10 per cwt.



New York—Market continues dull.

Choice pea $5.50@6; do medium $6.25.





Rye.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 rye $1.75.

Seeds.

Detroit—Prime red clover $13.50;

December $13.75; alsike $16.75; tim-

othy $3.30.

Toledo.-Prime cash $13.80; Decem-

ber $14.10; alsike $17.25; timothy $3.40.





WHEAT





The world’s wheat supply shows

considerably closer adjustment to the

probable world requirements than it

did six weeks ago. The reduction in

the United States spring wheat crop

by 20,000,000 bushels, belief that the

Canadian crop has been over-estimated

by as much as 50,000,000bushels, the

change in the lndia crop due to the

drouth and revisions of European es-

timates which increase their import





requirements have been the changing .





factors. An example of the last sort

was the reported sale the past week

of 320,000 bushels of wheat and rye by

New York exporters to Jugo—Slavonia,

a country which a short time ago was

said to have a large surplus of wheat

for export. Cold weather and frost are

reported in Argentine where the wheat

crop is in the last six weeks of growth.

The bureau of markets states, in a

recent summary, that “an analysis of

the world situation seems to indicate

a supply of wheat and rye to meet the

probable European demand unless the

buying power of Central Europe be-

comes much stronger than is now in-

dicated. Other cereals will meet Eu—

ropean demands even on a pre-war

consumption basis.”



The heavy wheat export movement

from United States ports continues.

The total during the last four months

was about 145,000,000 bushels from a

surplus variously estimated at, 230,000,-

000 to 250,000,000 bushels. Of the bal-

ance probably 50,000,000 has been sold

ahead for export. What turn affairs

will take when our theoretical surplus

is sold out is a question. Will Euro-

pean buyers turn entirely to Canadian

grain and then wait for the southern

hemisphere crops, or will purchases in

our markets continue?





CORN





The statistical position Of the coarse

grains is weak, but receipts are small

and prices have advanced, corn even

showing greater strength than wheat

at the week’s close. However, the

shadow of a prospective heavy move-

ment will be over the market for a

long time. At the lower price with

a profitable feeding ratio it is expect-

ed that farm consumption will be very

large even with a reduced live stock

population. Manufacturing demand

from starch and glucose industries is

limited. Perhaps, as last year, the

lowest prices on the corn crop will

be made before the new crop com-

mences to move. The same thing has

frequently occurred in the past so

that the recent low of near 79c on

December corn may be the season’s





minimum. BEANS





Bean markets have been weak, due

to absence of buying for future needs

such as usually takes place at this

season of the year. The total yield is

below the average. but the weather

has favored harvesting. some observ-

‘ ' ‘ trade think the» mar





. are c!





ket is being manipulated.





_ pared with those in California, which





 





 





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Michigan

beans are relatively low priced com-





are cheap enough, and growers are

disposed to hold. The movement from

the state up to October 1 was much

below that of last year, but higher

than two years ago. ’





CKWHEAT





Buckwheat prices are now below

the level justified by prices on other

food stuffs. Milwaukee quotes the

market as slow, with prices at $2.25

to $2.50 per 100 lbs. Higher prices

for other grains, especially wheat,

which appear probable will be likely

to carry buckwheat prices along.





Red clover advanced the past week.

although alsike and timothy did not

share in it. Reports from country

points have been less favorable, but

there is no broad demand, although

prices are only about 35 per cent of

those reached last March. Toledo’s

prices at the weeks close were: 1919

prime red clover, $13.80; 1920 prime,

$14.00; 1919 prime timothy, $3.25;

920 prime $3.40; 919 prime alsike

$16.75; 1920 prime alsike, $17.50.



FEEDS





Mill feed demand was not sufficient

to maintain the recent advance, as

offerings were liberal at the higher

prices. Bran is relatively stronger

than shorts. Linseed meal declined

about $2 and the cottonseed meal mar-

ket remains weak, as the demand is

very poor. Crushers are not active

as they claim seed prices and meal

prices are out of line. Tankage has

sagged along with other protein feeds,

although the discount under former

levels is not so great. There is no

bullishness in the feed trade, but there

is a feeling that the worst is over.

Detroit—Bran, $50; standard "mid-

dlings, $44; flour middlings, $53;

coarse cornmeal, $46; cracked corn,

$47; chop, $41.





HAY





Only light receipts have prevented

further declines in hay, as demand

is very slow. The South is buying

much less than usual. Prices show

little change for the week except that

Cincinnati is lower. All the factors

have been against the market, such

as the open weather, a crop above the





 





average, abundance of other feed ev-

erywhere, reduced livestock popula-

tions, distressing condition‘s among

dairymen and cotton producers, and

corn and oats priced on a per pound

basis not far above hay.





EGGS AND POULTRY





Although the stoéks of eggs in

storage are much smaller than at this

time last year, they are being depleted

at a rate more rapid than last year.

Fancy eggs are very scarce and bring

a big premium. Storage holdings of

poultry were the smallest ever report-

ed on October 1, notwithstanding the

fact that broilers increased about 70

per cent during ,the month. Latest

prices are as follows: .



Chicago—Eggs—Fresh firsts at 58(0),

59c; ordinary firsts, 51@53c. Poultry

—Spring chickens. 26c; hens, general

run, 220; roosters, 22c; duck’s, old

and young, 28c; Indian Runners, 25@

260; geese, old and young, 25c; tur-

keys, fancy, 330. ~



Detroit—Eggs—-—Fresh candled,~ 56@

670. Live poultry—Spring chickens,

300; leghorns, 22@23c; hens, 28@30c;

small hens, 20@220; specially fat

hens 320; roosters 180; geese 26c;

ducks, 28@30c; turkeys, 35@37c.





BUTTER





After the severe decline and weak—

ness of the butter market of the past

two weeks the‘recovery which contin-

ued all last week was a surprise even

to the few optimists there were left

in the butter business. Buyers were

entirely out of stocks and when the

trend became evident and some confi-

dence was restored. buying was very

active. The change to cooler weather

helped the situation, especially on

storage butter. Strength was at first

only on fancy grades, but later the

low prices on undergrades attracted

attention to these and they advanced

also. Before this advance occurred,

however, a lot of undergrade butter

and quite a little of medium grade

changed hands at prices representing

a big loss to the owner. The Chicago

market cleaned up best, due to buying

by the packers.



The market closed firm on fine stock





and fairly firm on other grades. Chi-

cago quotes 92 score at 60%c: New

York and Philadelphia. 620:





Boston,

58c. ~





 





 





Live Stock Market Service





 





 





DETROIT





Cattle.

Market active and 50c higher.

Best heavy steers ....... $11.00@12.00





Best handy wt bu steers 9.00@10.75





Mixed steers and heifers 8.00@ 9.00

Handy l‘ight butchers . 7.50@ 8.00

Light butchers .......... 6.00@ 7.50

Best cows .............. 8.00

Butcher cows ........... 6.50@ 7.25

Common cows .......... 4.00@ 4.25

Canners ................ 3.50

Choice bulls ............ , 7.50

Bologna bulls ........... 6.00

Stock bulls ....... . 5.00@ 6.00

Feeders ................. 7.00@ 9.00

Stockers ................ 6.00@ 7.50‘

Milkers and springers ...$‘ 65@ 110





Veal Calves.

Market very dull at Tuesday’s close.





Best ................. . . .$14.00@?15.00

Others ............ . . . . . . 5.00@12.50

Hogs.



Market 35@50c higher.

Mixed pigs and yorkers ........ $14.50

Roughs ....... . . . ............ 12.00

Stags ...... ‘ .................... 10.00





Sheep and Lambs.



Sheep steady; lambs 25c lower.

Best lambs ............. $12.50@12.75

Fair lambs ............. 9.00@11.50

Light to common ....... 5.00@ 8.00

Fair to good sheep ...... 5.00@ 6.00

Culls and common ....... 2.00@ 3.00





CHICAGO





Hogs.



Estimated receipts today are 8,000:

holdover 6,306. Market 25@50c higher

than yesterday’s average. Bulk of the

sales $13.50@14.20; tops $14.25; heavy

250 lbs up medium, good and choice

$13.75@14.25; medium 200 to 250 lbs

medium, good and choice at $13.90@

14.25; light 150 to 200 lbs common,

medium, good and choice at $135065}

14.25; light lights 130 to 150 lbs com-

mon, medium, good and,‘choiee.r-$13.35



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up smooth $12.90@13.25; packing sows

‘200 lbs up rough $12.50@12.90; pigs

130 lbs down medium, good and choice

$13@14.50.

Cattle. -



Estimated receipts today are 13,000.

Fat classes steady to lower; stockers

slow; calves firm. Beef steers medium

and heavy weight 1100 lbs up choice

and prime $17@18.15; do medium and

good $12@17; do common at $9@12;

light weight 1100 lbs down good and

choice $15@17.75; do common and me-

dium $8.50@15; butcher cattle, heifers,

common, medium, good and choice at

$6.25@13.25; cows, common, medium.

good and choice $5.50@11.25; bulls,

bologna and beef $5,75@.10,75; canners

and cutters cows and he‘it‘ers $3.85@

5.50; do canner steers at $4.50@6.25;

veal calves, light and handyweight me-

dium, good and choice $12.50@14.50;

feeder steers, common, medium, good

and choice $8@12.25; stocker steers

common, medium, good and choice at

$5.25@9.50; stocker cows and heifers,

common, medium, good and choice at

$5@7.75; western range cattle, beef

steers, medium, good and choice at

$9.25@14; do cows and heifers, medi-

um, good‘and choice $6.50@9.85.



' Sheep and Lambs. '



Estimated receipts today are 18,000.

Lambs 25c lower. Lambs 84 lbs down

medium, gopd, choice and prime $11.50

@1375; do culls and common $9@11;

spring lambs m‘edium, good, choice and

prime at $9.75@11.85; ewes, medium,

good and choice $6637.25; ewes, cull

and common $3695.75; breeding ewes,

full mouths to

yearling wethers, , medium, good and

choice $12.50@13.50. -





BUFFALO

hog market h, 't d';'.’ V

with -the.ton-,§<§%s?1%og21‘5%§

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-The cheese markets at distribu ,

centers opened , weak and unsettled

After returns from country marks

were received and quotatiOns reppi‘ted

as the lowest in four. years, deficits.

gained confidence.

ments were made on practically-all

styles in all markets the Chicago mar

ket turned quite firm and eastern mar.

kets later gained strength. .- '





APPLES





The apple market continued dull~

and weak on both barrel and boxed...

stock. The movement into consump-

tion has been unusuallyslow. Ship-





ments show little change in volume.





The northwestern stock is running





smaller than anticipated, which Will





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mean a. smaller crop than was ofli-a





cially estimated. Baldwins at A-Zl/é'

were quoted by the Bureau of Markets

at the week’s close at $4.25 per bbl.

at Western New York shipping points,

$4 to $4.50 New York City, and $3.75

to $4.50 at IChicago. Northern Spies





were $4.75—$5.25 at Chicago, McIntosh ‘





$6-$7, best Jonathans $7—$8. and

Greenings about the same as Bald:-





Wins' POTATOES -





Potato prices started upward the





past week and closed very stron’gg: ‘





Shipments declined to about 975 cars

~er day and demand was mor kéén.

orthern roundwhite stock a vanced





10 to 20 cents at loading points and .





was quoted at the week’s close at $1.50

to $1.60 f. o. b. per 100 lbs. ,sacked.

Eastern and Northern round White

stock held firmly in eastern consum-

ing markets and 10 to 25 cents higher

on middle western, being quoted at





$1.90 to $2.15 at the week’s closeat





Chicago.



Cleveland-Michigan round whites.

$3-$3.25 per 100 lbs. sack; New Jer—

sey Giants. $2.50. ~



Detroit-Michigan, $3-$3.25 per 150

lb. sack. ,





STATE FARM BUREAU MARKET

REPORT.





 





 





Elevator- exchange reports export

demand for wheat in past week strong

because European countries were in

market to replace orders cancelled in





Argentine and market advanced 12 (9





cents. Nation’scorn crop estimated

largest in history and with less cattle

to feed markets advanced 3 cents from

low point. But very little corn will

be shipped in Michigan this year

compared with past years, and same





is true with oats. - Export demand for





rye stiffened market during week four

cents per bushel.

clined two and one-half to four cents.

due to all export requirements being





 





Market Monday de- 7; ,





filled. Seed department reports clover , '





seed market dull, many farmers hold-

ing for higher prices. Government re-

ports indicate 50 percent larger crop

than 1919. Timothy seems near low

level, with slight tendency to advance.

Northwest alfalfa yields disappointing ,

with threshing greatly hindered by

unseasonable snows. Cannot hope to

lower last year’s prices for alfalfa

seed from that district.





DETROIT CITY MARKET,





There was a light supply of produce

and trading rules slow; $1.35@1.401

was the moving price for potatoes;

$1.50 was the top price asked. There,

was practically no demand for apples,

except for the fancy stock which was

scarce.





with very slow demand.

been stronger for the past few days

and reached $1.50 Saturday. Today,

$1.25 was the top price and most of

U118 movement was at a dollar a bush-.~

e .

in good deman .





 





COMING LIVE STOCK SALES.





 





Poland China.——Nov3mber 9, Wm. J,"





Clarke, Eaton Rapids, Michigan. ‘

Shorthorns and Shropshires.——Novem-~

ber 10, B. D..Kelly & Son, Ypsilanti;

Michigan. ~ ,'

Poland Chihas.——November- 10,, W. "

Ramsdell, Hanover, Michigan... _‘

Poland Chinar—vNovember 1'5,‘

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A light ofiering of tomatoes,‘ 2

most of which were not attractive, met- ,

Spinach has . Q .;





Good quality cauliflower continues I
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“nothings



tativEs of the trade in this coun-

7 .Boston‘ quotes the tendency of

s- as lower, althoughit is hard to

by what this. Judgment ,is gauged

transactions are, few.‘ At the gov-





, emigrants auction of carpet wools the

bids





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, reduced production the





”limits so that only five per cent were





withdrawn. Prices on low quarter-

blood territory wools ranged from ten

to fourteen cents in the grease or

twentyéfive cents clean basis. The lat-





“est‘Australian auctions have been firm





and higher on the finer grades, again

indicating that there is no surplus of

such wools. Growers are backing

measures to prevent dumping foreign





wools on our market and to favor the





sale of low-grade wools, of which there

is so great an abundance, to central

European countries. The woolen goods

trade is still stagnant and in spite of

quantity of

goods is large. Many of these are of

low grade but‘high priced. Latest re-

ports show 1,283,204 active woolen

spindles with 975,578 idle and 1,722,396

active worsted spindles with 606,040

idle.





DECLINE CONTINUES IN THE HOG

MARKETS.





 





FTER a momentary show of



strength during the middle of the

week hog markets resumed their down-

ward course, the net loss for the pe-

riod being about 35 to 50 cents at lead-

ing markets. The spread has narrow-

ed decidedly, 60 to 75 cents covering

the bulk at most points. Even pigs,

usually abundant at this season, are

selling only a small distance below the

top. Scarcity and strong demand for

stock pigs are responsible for the un-_

usual condition. Receipts declined the

past week but were larger than a year

ago, a reversal of the comparison that

has prevailed most of the time this

year. Greater firmness was in evidence

at the week’s close and readjustment

to the winter basis may be suspended

for a short time, although there is lit-

tle doubt that still lower prices will be

seen. Fresh pork, cured hog meats,

and lard all declined, the break in

hogs evidently leading the way this

time as consumptive demand has been

strong. Packer buyers urge as one

reason for reducing the price of hogs

that the ratio of corn and hog prices

is too wide. If they have ever boosted

hog prices because this ratio was too

narrow it has not appeared in the rec-

ords, although their opportunities to

do .so have been numerous.





PROVISIONS BREAK, EXPORTS

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OTWITHSTANDING a good con-



sumptive demand and a liberal ex-

port movement, cured hog meats and

lard are distinctively lower for the

week. The British coal strike news

was more favorable than otherwise,

and the export movement reported for

the preceding week was the largest

since last winter. If meat and lard

stocks should decrease as much in Co-

tober as they did in March there would;

be little left. If, as has been common-

_ly believed, packers have been sup-

porting the hog market in order to

provide 'a higher level for the mer-

chandising of their hog products ac-

cumulated during the year, the fact

that these have been mostly closed out

may have caused them to withdraw

their support thus bringing about the

recent break in live hog prices.





 





CONDITIONS AND PROSPECTS IN

THE CATTLE TRADE.





 





I ATTLE markets have been rather





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fractional advance.





uneven the past week with price

changes on steers at various markets

so irregular that trends are uncertain.

A tendency toward a narrower spread

Was noticeable, prime steers declining

slightly at Chicago and Kansas City

while common light steers made a

Good cows and

heifers as well as cutters and canners

advanced slightly, but bulls went the

other way. Calves have recovered

some of their recent losses, St. Louis

advancing $2.50; heavy grassy calves

were less of a burden. Dressed beef





' prices advanced sharply and veal pric-





es were slightly higher.

Receipts were reduced for the week





" andat ten markets were about thirty





per cent under those of a year ago. A





«; lot of Canadian cattle have been arriv-‘





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should show' more-”strength on grass ‘7





beef after another two weeks, although

the final cleanup‘before going into win-

ter quarters is still to take place.

Choice and prime cattle will probably

hold up well until after international

week, but thereafter the outlook is not

especially favorable for a time and

readjustment on these grades will be





mark and steers at $18 is a price ratio

which neither packers nor public will

long maintain. However, the price is

likely to remain at such a level that

feeders will have a fairly prefitable

season.





THE WHEAT STRIKE. ’





 





S UPPLY and demand conditions sta-

tistically favor the success 0f the

farmers’ wheat “strike,” but foreign

buyers have been able to get nearly

all the wheat they need from this

country while prices were low.



Prices advanced the first two days

of the past week, due to belief in the

wheat» strike, and reports of export

sales. Later the trend was irregular

but prices are higher than at the close

of last week.



Most of the reports from the south-

west deny that farmers are holding

their wheat. Terminal receipts in that

section prove little thus far, as elevat-

ors 'are selling their supplies and some

sharp trade observers believe that the

power of the strike is being underes-

timated. Since the world situation this

year 1.5 so closely balanced, the reduc-

tIOl'l 1n acreage this fall may be a

prominent factor next spring when the

world crop summaries for 1921-1922 are

available.





 





NEWS OF THE. WEEK.





(Continued from page 550).





Germany must deliver 275,000 tons of

shipping to the allies in compensation

for the fleet sunk at Scapa Flow.—

British leniency with Germany in the

matter of renunciating the right to

confiscate German property arouses

protest from France—British repre-

sentative on the council of the league

of nations announces that four big

nations are about to become members

of the league.

Saturday, October 30.





HE decline in prices in twelve



basrc items has been the heaviest

during the month of October of any

month since the movement started

index figures showing a drop of 11%

percent during the month and down

20 percent from the year’s peak—Bank

clearings for the past week show a

decline of 6.5 percent—Secretary of

state Colby announces that the United

States will recognize the new govern-

ment of Mexico—Philadelphia textile

mills are to declare for an open shop.

—War is about to be resumed between

Lithunia and Poland—The Greek par-

liament proclaims Prince Paul, son of

the former ruler, as king.



Sunday, October 31.





HE government of Angora is re-

ported to have come under the con-

trol of the bolshevists, Kemal Pasha

and his colleagues being in power.—

Belgian coal miners are talking strike.

———Four hundred cars of Canadian

grapes have found a market in the

United States at prices ranging from

$85 to $125 per ton—Italians and the

Jugo-Slavs will begin direct negotia-

tions in seeking an adjustment of the

Adriatic question.

Monday, November 1.

USSIAN bolshevik forces have

started a violent offensive against

the troops of General Wrangle, who

are operating in the Black Sea dis—

trict.





Another series of two-day beekeep-

ers’ schools will be held this year .in

those parts of the state where there

is a demand for them. Anyone inter-

ested should communicate with Mr.

Kindig, of the M. A C., at once so that

satisfactory dates may be fixed.





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To our customers——





The fur season is close at hand and

we want to say to our many friends and

shippers that the trade is now going

through a trying time. But the fur

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ness and the thinning out of the fakirs

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we advise caution, write us.





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depends on how you prepare yourself now. Trained men ,

(the M.'S. A. S. kind) are constantly in demand and are given

preference. Employers know they have been trained according to .

factory specifications. That’s why a diploma from_ the factory endorsed . '

school in Detroit, the Auto Center, is a real start in business. Qur graduates

will tell you that employers were after them as soon as they finished their course, and _

' that they held their positions when green men were laid ofi‘ ; or that their garage was filled





with work as soon as people learned they had been to the M. S. A. S. in Detroit. It is not

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Start a garage a repair shop. a service station.

There are thousands of openings in good territories. Very

little capital is required when you know your business.

You can sell cars. tractors and all kinds of accessories in

connection with a garage business.



Repair and operate Tractors. Many of our gradu-

ates train and go back to the farm and operate and repair

tractors. There is big money in this work.



Factory and other positions open. The factories

where they are turning out millions of automobiles, trucks

and tractors each year always need real trained men.



Be a Salesman. M. S. A. s. graduates are in great

demand as salesmen. Their complete and thorough

knowledge of the business and the machines gives them

a great advantage over the ordinary salesman.



Have a Tire Repair Shop. Think of the tremendous . i

number of tires that require repairing each day in your .





A Few

Examples

From Our Thousands

of Successful Graduates

' Carl Wright, Campbellsburg, Ky., is 18 years

old. Trained at the M. S. A. S. and is getting over $40

a Week.

Russell Naylor, Deport, P8... is just 20 years old and is managing

a large garage.





J. S. Sterkel. oi Copley, 111., [was a loom Iixer at $18.00 a week. He

trained at the M. S. A. S. and now he has a garage 0! his own paying





'Hand , -

a profit or over $100 a week.





W. F. Harms, oi Eldridge, Iowa, was a farm 'hand at $35.00 a month, Today,





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are $500 a month. in 88 Of Your Own district. Just multiply the number oi cars by four.

Before training, Byron Hynon, at Floyd, Va., was working for $40.00 a month. Now Have a BUS . .6 . Brazing and Welding is a good trade, too. Splendid

he has a halt interest in a garage business that pays a profit of over $1,000 a month. If you have an ambition to have a busmess of your opportumua ior brazing and welding shops,





Beiore training at M. S. A. S., H. A. Bradley. 0! Cleveland- Was a shipping clerk own, there never was a better opportunity .than Or be a Lightin Plant Expert. Many positions ‘ *

at 312 a week- NOW he 113“ a “13111038 0‘ his 0W“ in Cleveland, monthly profits over there is now in the Automobile and Tragtor busmess. Open for service an installation experts in the farm

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Wish to say that this is one o! the best schools in the

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one who is desirous of lsarnin the automobile bush

nose. it is a mcggnizod institu on among the automo- ~

bile factories o! is city. ‘



Their methods of instruction. their lectures

theories are 100, or cent errect. ith all of 9

equipment and wit the prac col work at the student

are able to not in their own organization. I really believe

that. mechanics throughout e country are min on.

great on ortunlty if or do not take advan so their

course. 0 not know otanothor place in a country

that has a: nui‘i‘bor of difleront type motors, chooses

an t roug nus of going into various electrical





'flio Michi n State Auto School in our opinion la the

finest institgaon of its kind in the country. In fact we

Indorse its method of instruction.



We have recommended a great many students to mom

and the results were satisfactory





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The Michigan State Auto School ranks highest. in the

standard of schools. It! equipment and personnel in

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the automobile men of Detroit and is cons dared one o!

the most efficient schools in the country.

if you intend to visitand/ school, than by all mean.

choose the best one. The ichigan State Auto School,

so for news know is the best. You will make no mid-

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