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g-g-LAWRENOE «3*:3:;;:;y_::y_~_-g;1;;_1@333: ject lessons for the other counties. the land fails to produce profitable in the history of the "Grange th'e Mich- _ ,

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i Afifim" amendment as planned, the proposal increase the yield of certain crops dur-

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gggyggg-zggomfigNZT------:_-_-____ "-_~-_-_-:§;38 different counties, particularly as to in the problems] ofthe. soil, however,

densrty of population and taxable know that the cashing in of sod fertil-





All Sent"iio‘s'tpald"“"" b . '

o m to: postage _ y Mrs. Clelghton Johnson, of Lowell,

cum“ mmmmon 5 c a year c property, and it is essential that all ity to meet the demands of stimulated





chairman of the committee on home

BATES or ADVERTISING . _ ‘ . .

cents perliue agate type measurement, or crooner the people Of every county keep in the production has left many falms in such economies, which declared for a new





so . . . . .

Inoh<14agatellnesoer lnah) W‘DW‘m-m advm‘a‘ closest possible touch with county af- condition that profitable agriculture is home economics building for the Mich-





ment inserted for less thai $1.50 each insertion. No . . . .

°b19wmmwmmmwfi ”159m“ 1“ ”my “me- fairs. If greater economic efiiClency poss1b1e only through the proper use igan Agricultural College and for the‘

extension of the system of visiting





Member Standard Form no 1:“ {mggatlon and in county government can be secured of fertilizers. _

. , Audit Bureau 0 on - . without sacrificing this principle it is The kind and quantity of fertilizers county nurses. A detailed report will

Egg? ”31133323. Cfifig’ifitfitfi: gagghogoeshs unquestionably desirable. But a radi— to use are problems that must be work— be given in next week’s issue





cal change from the representative ed out by the individual according to

government by a board of supervisors his farm and conditions under which





The Grange adopted a report offered





 





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DETROIT, DECEMBER 25, 1920 elected from the lesser civic units of he is farming. As a general proposi News Of the week.





 





the county is a matter for careful con- tion it will pay to use a rather heavy W d d D

sideration and experiment, rather than application of anure and fertilizer on e "e5 ay, ecember 15-

CURRENT COMMENT wholesale adoption, hence the wisdom a smaller acage and grow soil—im- THE assembly or the League ofNa-

Oil/[Ernie in coun- of the promoters oflthe plan in not proving crops on the balance of the the limitation of armaments by the

Our County ties 15. the. slogan advocatlng any definite and compul- tlllable land and not attempt to grow powers for the next two years by

. and aim of a group of sory change in county government. large crops on more acres than one can agreement among them.—~The budget

Govern- public spirited citi- . handle to advantage. All kinds of com- estimates of the various state agencies

ment zens who are advocat— mercial plant foods are expensive, and ggafimhggggoxggattehe$5979380t6’38 filial!

ing a plan which - unless one is ready to meet the other canic eruptions and earthquakes. alogg

would permit the establishment of a Inventory essentials of crop production he is sure the frontier of Chile and Argentine

commission or other revised form of Your to find them unprofitable, both from d0 111.1101! damage-l





T will pay every

farmer to make an

inventory of the fertil—

ity resources of his





government where the majority of the Resources lan d at the start of the standpoint of the year’s production Thursday, December 16. '

electors in any county voted in favor operations rather than of crops and the permanent fertility of ‘ I 'HE Bethlehem Steel Corporation

of such a change. The idea which this the soil. refuses to sell fabricated steel to





waiting for a marked decline in crop ' builders and contractors in the New

yields or a succession of crop failures . York and Philadelphia districts, to be

to force the use of purchased plant UR readers Will erected on a union shop basis—The

fogds. When one has practiced a ra- Ralston- remember prevl- California Farm Bureau Federation





. . . 0 c - , completes the formation of a million

tlonal system of crop rotation and live Nolan us omment in these dollar corporation to take over on a





group is advocating is based on the

premise that the county board of sup-

ervisors is in reality a legislative body,

Without an executive head, and that





more economic business results would columns on this bill,





, ‘ . . . p . stock feeding, with a view of maintain- five-year lease a tWO-million-bushel

Bo. seguéed b3; abolizhlng f0: 21:51:33; ing and increasing soil fertility, and Bi” (H. R. 12,397) new grain elevator at Oakland.~

1S 0 3’ an prOVl mg '0 - . ndin ' ,

d h d 11 less and less D8 g m congress.

ating executive department. fin S t e lan becoml 3 Friday, December 17.





productive it is evident that something This 13 the bill championed by a com- A RIOT between the ringing con-

With the promotion Of this idea in is needed to correct soil conditions or mittee 0f manufacturers and mer- stabulary and the Manilla police

view a meeting was held at Lansing a furnish actual plant food for the grow- chants, with headquarters in Chicago, results in the death of eleven men.—

Year ago, at which a commtitee was mg crops. which proposes a federal tax on land The United States Senate Passes an





appointed to study the problem and If clover and other legume crops fail values to provide for a reduction of at irritfsftlfifficgfl201331355: ta") 1139?}:3 tel:

report at a later meeting. This com-.to make a satisfactory stand the use least twenty-five per cent of the fed- tension of liberal credits for exportation





mittee, composed of Elvin Swarthout, of lime may prove more profitable eral tax on business. The committee of farm and other products—A break

of Grand Rapids, Prof. Robt. T. Crane, than the purchase of commercial fer, is still working, soliciting subscrip glitléhg coal market permits the city of

of Ann Arbor. and Rep- Orville 13- At tilizers. On most stock farms, how- “0118 from business men to Promote “himgrgi‘ggc’m $3338 coal f" i“

wood, 0f Newaygo county, reported at ever, the judicious use of certain chem. the passage Of this bill to saddle‘ a new 8 . ' .



a public meeting held at Lansing last ical plant food‘s along with the supply tax on land values. We have before us EN Tgurday, December 18,



week. At this meeting those present of farm manure will increase the yield a recent letter of solicitation from the S A and house leaders agree 0“





_ . . a program providing for an emer-

from Wldely scattered counties “3301* and improve the quality of farm crops. committee, forwarded from the office gency tariff measure to serve as an





ed three conclusions, viz., thatachange Reports of field tests in different parts of the Michigan State Farm Bureau. embargo on importations of wheat,

in the form of county government is of Michigan indicate that phosphorus Organized agriculture will be on the cotton, wool, beans, potatoes, live stock

vitally needed; that it WOUId be 119088’ is the one element needed to increase jOb to fight this bill, 'WhiCh these in' and meats°_The IrISh home rule b1“





3313’ to submit a constitutional amend- crop yields on the majority of stock terests will attempt to for” through ggggflbtgnlfigglgleeaégua finefibgrg





ment before anything could be accom- and dairy farms, as well as on farms the new congress, But individual 61" the League of Nations—The popula-

plished in county government reorgan— where no system of animal husbandry fort will count and should not be neg— tion of the United States on January

ization, and that it was desirable that has been practiced for years. Results lected. See 01‘ write your newly elect— 1' nass enumertltggdwiglflihe ngoug‘geonth:

the voters of the several counties from the use of acid phosphate have ed congressman and urge him to op- “9 “s w“ ' ’ ' a a °





, , Michigan is ofliciall ven as 3,668,-

should elect the type of government to been more Satisfactory than raw rock 9058 this bill WhiCh WOlfld impose new 412. y gi





 





be used by popular vote, thus forcing phosphate, due undoubtedly to the de_ tax burdens on the already overmed Sunday’ Deccmber 19-

the issue on 110 one bl“ giving the peo- ficiency of organic matter in the soil. farmers 0f the country. THE first assembly of the League

ple of any county the opportunity to ”The advisability of using fertilizers of Nations which has been in ses-





better their form of government r ex— carrying nitrogen and potassium de- STATE GRANGE MEETING. sion at Geneva, Switzerland, since No-





. . . . tst ndin

per uncut in that direction. Pursuant pends largely upon the fertility of the zgggsgéghz’dfimt‘fi: gigs; 8138“):

t0 thlS program a general commlttee land and the kind of crops one is grow- AT the annual meeting of the Mich— appears to be the founding of the In-





“ seven members was appointed to lug. If the soil is deficient in nitrogen igan‘ State Grange held last week tel-national Court Of Justice.———Seven

further the plan. Thls committee in' and no manure or cover crops are at Grand Rapids Albert B. 000k 0f employes 0f the United States navy

eludes P C G‘lb rt Traverse C't ~ - . ' . ’ are drowned whlielattemptlng to cross

' ’ 1 e ' - I 3” plowed under the meld °f “”5 ’3 sure 0““30' was “nammmmy elected the Kanawha river in West Virginia:

Elfin Swarthout, Grand Rapids; 0- E. to be limited to the amount of that Master to succeed John C. Ketcbam, . . 2° ‘

“'11va Detroit; F- 11- Baldwm, Esca- element that becomes available during of Hastings. Other officers elected “Md?” December - "





naba, and 0- ROY Hatten, Of Grand the growing season of the crops. This were as follows: C. H., Bramble, of ONSTANTINE 0f Greece, removad





' . . m the throne of that country by

Rapids» holds true Wlth regard to the supply Tecumseh, overseer; Mrs. Dora B. 36,1530; the allied powers during 1911





Regardless of the merits of the pro- of potassium, although most of our Stockman, of Lansing, lecturer; Miss. is" welcomed back to Athens following,

posai, its advocates are to be compli- soils contain sufficient quantities of Jennie Buell, of Ann Arbor, secretary. the recent plebiscite which favored has

wanted for their spirit of fairness in this element to maintain the yield of Mrs. *Allie Bennett, of Kent county, return—The bodies Of 200 dead are





the proposition of self-determination general farm crops for many years. Mr. John C. Ketcham, of Barry county, Efiefirgfi‘zfg, tho Efiigfl‘i‘i‘feisz‘fiingg

by the voters of the several counties, provided, of course, that the other com Mr. George B. Horton, of Lenawee that the French government has decid-





regarding a change in the form of ditions of the soil are favorable for its county, .and W. F. Taylor, of Oceans. ed to divide Syria into four states.

county government in case an amend- becoming available at proper periods county, were elected members of the Tuesday, December 21_ _



ment providing for such a referendum during the growing season. executive committee. ~

is submitted and adopted. There can Many farmers who have changed A resolution was adopted opening iii bill develops in the house Of





 





be no serious objection to the submjs- over from own growing to dairying or the way- to establishing workingrelas representatives,_4Augomobfin,Emir”,

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clan of such a proposed amendment to stock raising have discovered too late tipns with the Michi an State. Farm , .. ., . . .

the constitution, providing sufficient that such a system will not restore fer- Bureau. some of the Ethel-resolutions eggghm-vgzggfif mfifigfi’ :eufiofl

time is stream:- the voters to study tilityand at the same-time give a sat-radopied‘ were those using mmfiuyhahmm-w ,. . '

_ stoma“; “diatom themelvee u— istactory-pmflt withoutthe use broom-n “salmon-otimmm; the cm. ”I” in. , .. '

tom import. and possible results..That-~memial plant foods. TAs a'result they 'pi'et‘e‘ reorganjaiatiohsof She-“Staté-Zgove’l? , ' .

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PPOSITION to the emergency tan -
, HE reputation of our good friend,

’_ Hairy Vetch, has suffered much

from the unapprbpriate 'appela-

,“Sand _.-Vetch "' Because ”of the

connection, many who would otherv‘viSe

find advantageous use for this valuable

Issuine, hold, firmly to the conception

.that it is adapted to sandy soil. I have

been told: “You can’t raise it on our

heavy clay soil.” ' *I have had the satis-

faction to demonstrate that on average

clay soils that this crop will do as

- wiell 'as”‘on ‘a sandy loam, and much

better than on many of the light sands,

and my impression is that it seeds as

fjwell, and a clay loam soil will require

lees seed for the acre:

. ._ . .“It makes me think I’m back in the

f L- » old country,” a Polish gentleman told

:3 . nme as I showed 'him'a field in full

E, .. ' bloom. He said that in his country

.. ‘ the soil was a, heavy clay, in his par-

-_ , ticular locality and that the crop grew

1 luxuriantly, and was equalled only by

I the stand we had. The ground on

which this particular crop was raised

was quite low and lacked underdra-in-

age. This soil,’as is true of all un-

drained clay soils, was subject to heav-

ing, yet the root system of hairy vetch

is such that it will hold well in such

soils. In this it is better adapted to

' clays than other legumes. It further

has the advantage or being able to

withstand soil. acidity to a consider-

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red clay knoll, where the soil is so

acid that litmus paper will change col-

or almost instantly. There many

plants show very vigorous growth.

These features indicate that the name

“Sand Vetéh”_ is inappropriately ap-

plied. , -



I have observed one particular spot

for three years. Thisis the ”wettest

part of a clay farm. A few seed had

been accidentally dropped there, and

for years, the owner told me that he

had been fighting the plant, fearing

that it would take possession of his

farm. He cut the growth and would

burn it, but duringnthe drying process,

perhaps sufficient seed would mature

and shatter to- continue the stand. I

explained the value of this plaht, and

this farmer and neighbors have secur-

ed seed.



[Considerable encouragement may be

given the sale of seed by those who

have some to spare. I believe the

grower can well afford a centrifugal

machine for separating the mixture,

and should carry an “ad” in the state

farm paper. The fall of 1919 I found

considerable difficulty in getting extra

seed. I ordered from a seed house in

early August, and was unable to se-

cure shipment until the latter part of

September. This made it rather late





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ICHIGAN cattle feeders can



well feel proud of the splen-



' did showing made at the annual



live stock exhibitions held the



; past few years at Buffalo. The



accompanying picture shows the



grand champion . carload of



-_ steers, which were fed and ex-



hibited by E. A. Beamer, of Len-

awee county. After the awards ,



were made the steers were sold



in the auction ring. Conditions



‘of the ,trade were so bearish and



_ prices had broken so badly that



_ the successful bid of $15.25 by



. New York butchers gives an



, "” erroneous impression of the very



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H carried. This is not the first win-



nings of Mr. Beamer at this



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RICES of farm products continue

to decline. The situation on tho

farms in large sections of the coun-

. Ttry daily becdines acute. Insistent de-

‘mands for relief are coming from all

.. - parts, of the country. Petitions and

._.demands for immediate emergency

remedial legislation have encumbered

‘ p the mails of representatives from the

1 ,,farming districts. Delegations of farm-

ers and senators and congressmen

from the great agricultural states have

presented the urgent needs of farmers

,in emphatic language at the hearings

and conferences, and on "the floors of

the house andsenate.

~ Congress is fully informed as to the

otual conditions“? Nevertheless, with





 

 





 





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for,planting, but owing to heavy snow,

and continued cold weather during the

winter, the growth was more satisfac-

tory than anticipated.



Fruit growers, particularly in ’the

east, tell me that if it were possible to

secure hairy vetch they would plant

it more extensively than they have

done at present. When the merits of

the legume became known, there will

undoubtedly be many times the de-

mand there is at present. At one time

I interviewed over fifty grape growers,

and only found two who had used this

legume and rye as cover crop,. while

many recognized its value, yet declar-

ed they were unable to secure seed.



There is wonderful opportunity for

vetch growers to organize. Michigan

will probably be our largest source of

seed for some time, and it was on the

farm. of J. M. Tyler, of Jonesville, and

that of Rev. Mr. Young. of i‘Iillsdale,

that the writer became thoroughly en-

thused with the possibilities of the

plant. Mr. Tyler is probably the pion-

eer vetch'grower of that part of the

state, while Mr. Young built up an ap-

parently worthless farm to consider-

able degree of productivity by' the use

of this legume.



The value of the plant as cover crop,

as green manure, and as a nitrogen





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gatherer, and its abilities to withstand

hardship, will extend its use beyond

the requirements of the fruit grower

and gardener. The dairyman, the pork ‘

producer, the poultryman and the, wool

grower will find it advantageous.

Where alfalfa is hopeless, vetch will

do nicely. We find cows relish it as

pasture and hay, hogs are fond of the

plant and particularly of the small

ripening pods. The chickens pick at

tender plants, and a farmer who has

started in an experimental way, told

the writer his barn was not strong

enough to hold his Jersey bull when

a f01kful of vetch hay was brought to

him _



The possibilities of this wonderful'

crop are appreciated by but very few,

and this year above all others there

seems to have been a falling off in the

demand for this seed. It may be in

View of falling prices, the migration

from the farm during earlier months

of the summer, that they did not give

much thought to a permanent and con-

structive system of agriculture. Other

farmers believe that when one has

vetch it. is there to stay, but the cen-

trifugal separating machine has solved

the problem for the wheat grower.

However, we hope that hairy vetch

will be so persistent that no other

crops can be raised in competition

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blue libbon on a load of two-

y can ~01d He1elo1d steers, and the

first year the show opened he

carried away the grand cham-

pion carload money, Mr. Beam-

er is not only a successful feed-

er of beef cattle and hogs, but.

he is a recognized agricultural

leader and owns one of the best

farms in southern Michigan. He

has anolher reason for feeling

proud. His 12-year—old son, Miles,

was awarded the highest honors

on two calves shown in the boys’

and girls’ class at this same live

stock exposition. An account of

Master Beamer’s success appears

on the Boys’ and Girls’ page of

this issue. We wish to extend

to both father and son most

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by certain senators to delay action,

and a very small group of senators can

do much to thwart the will of the ma-

jority.. Notwithstanding all the talk

about the importance of agriculture and

the necessity for fostering the farming

interests as a means of safeguarding

the food supply of the people, there

are few men in congress outside the

strictly agricultural states and dis-

tricts who show any interest in the

farmer’s_.we1fare, and‘ many manifest a

spirit of opposition every time a prop-

osition aiming to benefit agriculture

comes before congress. These men, it

is evident, are going to do their best

to delay the agricultural relief bills,

until necessity compels them to be

laid aside for the passage of appropri-

ation bills.

- .HE proposed‘embargo on wool has

‘created much discussion. In urging





Congress Slow to Aid Agriculture





14 Few Lawmakers Seem Amcmm to Delay Aaron—By E. E. Reyna/d:





thing is done very soon, as fal as the

wool industry of the United States is

concerned, the industry will perish.”

The statement was made by Senator

Smoot that “South American wools

are now selling at nine cents a pound.

The Cleveland Woolen Mills the other

day bought aJSouth American clip of

wool, 1,500,000 pounds, in round num-

bers. It cost them twenty cents a

pound with all expenses and commisa

sions paid, delivered at the port of

entry. We today have in the United

States over 800,000,000 pounds of wool.

Not five per cent of the last clip of

wool in this country has been sold.”

An embargo on wool'was urged be-

fore the house ways and means and

the senate agriculture committees, by

representatives of the wool growers.

Dr. S. W. McClure, of the National

Wool Growers” Association, told the

senate committee that the embargo





‘situation is absolutely hopeless for the





   





supply of wool now in this country to

meet the demands of the nation for

two years, without the production or

importation of another pound, and

there are enormous supplies in ‘other

countries that have been unable to-

transport their wools for the last three

or four years. These statements led

Senator Kendrick to suggest that

“with the door left open for other

wools to come into this country the





   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 





wool growers.” . -



Senator Warren said, “the govern-

ment of the United, States at the close

of the war had on hand some 600,000,-

000 pounds of wool that it has been

putting on the market from time to’r

time, which, of course, has added to _

the overhead; and a large portion of

that wool was bought originally in

foreignlcountries. There is at the».

present time in the neighborhood
hat has helped'an overload, which has

Locumulated not only inwforeign coun—

,itries but here at home. The trouble





[here is not the low price of wool so _, .

firmnch as it is that there is no market agriculture committees designed to re- lsphere.





1» here for wool.”





is to continue in growth.





FTER a lengthy debate the joint

resolution of the h'Ouse and senate





lieve the agricultural situation passed





enacted by soliciting sealed‘b’ids, and "tan that is essential, 'if the industry nationality. already/residing here in «lustre





any one fiscal year. The “provisions

of .the bill do not apply to immigrants

who are nativeéborn or naturalized cit-

izens of countries of the western hem-

Statistics presented by Sen-

ator Dillingham show that this restric-





, -Woolen manufacturers are protest— the senate in an amendedeorm and tion would not interfere with the nor-

ingi against an embargo on wool,.but was sent _to the house for further ac- mal immigration from northern Eu~





are willing that the sheep raisers





tion. The resolution’directs the sec-





rope, but would reduce'the number of





should have a forty per cent tariff on retary of the treasury to revive the immigrants from southern and eastern





wool.





The Sheep men are demanding activities of the War Finance Cor—por— Europe and Asia to a third the normal





an embargo until a new tariff schedule ation, “with the view of assisting in'immigration from these countries.





can be put into effect.

MICHIGAN’S congressional delega-

tion has indicated to the Michi-

gan State Farm Bureau that its sup-

port will be behind any measures that





may be introduced in congress this riod 0f one year, was passed by the riod of six weeks.





the financing of the exportation of ag-

ricultural and other products to for-

eign markets.”





HE Johnson immigration bill, pro-

hibiting all immigration for a. pe-





Representative James W. Fordney,

of Michigan, chairman of the house

ways and means committee, announces

that hearings on a general revision of

the tariff would begin on January 6,

1921, and continue thereafter for a pe-

January 21-22-24





winter intended to protect the sheep house'on December 13, but its defeat are the dates selected for hearings on





industry of Michigan and the United





is predicted in the senate. Brothers





Schedule G, including agricultural





States which admittedly is in jeopardy and sisters of citizens are exempted products and provisions.





because of huge financial losSes, run-

i'ning into millions of dollars,





from the provisions of this bill. In





The Capper-Volstead bill passed the





which discussing the Johnson bill, Represent- senate on December 15,- and was sent





have been suffered by the wool grow- ative Knutson, of Minnesota, said that, to the .house for a. conference 0f





ers of Michigan and the country

‘through the virtual collapse of the wool

' market. The farmers of the country,





“Spain is a seething mass of anarchy,

and its government is dumping it on

the United States. If tonnage were





amendments. Senators Nelson, Dilling-

ham and Overman were appointed con-

ferees on the part of the senate. It

is not thought that there will be any





through their organizations, are sup- available from ten to fifteen million serious disagreement in conference,





porting the American Farm Bureau

Federation in its effort to have enact-

ed at the present short session of con-





Europeans would migrate to America

within a year.”

Senator Dillingham, of Vermont, has





and it is probable that the bill will

soon be ready for the President’s sig-

nature or veto.





The object of the Capper-Volstead





gress an embargo on wool, wool prod- introduced a bill in the senate limiting bill,,as explained by Senator Nelson,





It is believ-

afford





nets and frozen muttons.

ed that such legislation will





American sheep producers the protec- cent of the number of persons of such.





immigration of any nationality admis-

sible to the United States to five per





5





‘is to allow the various farmers’ or-

ganizations of the country to operate

freely, without being directly embar-

rassed by or having the department of





. Michigan Agricultural





STATE FARM BUREAU news.





HE State Farm Bureau traffic de-



partment is now actively engaged

'in handling claims for members and

checking up on freight bills. Its work

in securing refrigerator cars for ship-

pers has been considered excellent,

considering the prevailing shortage

throughout the state. H. S. Spencer,

president of the Fruit Growers’ Ex-

press Company, writes the department

that “we have every reason to believe

that we will be furnished service next

year as we have been in the past.

Plans for the acquisition of additional

equipment are under way.”



The elevator exchange has made a

provision whereby all members of the

State Farm Bureau may do business in

hay, grain and beans if they so desire.

The success of the bureau is based

upon its ability to sell grain for a bet-

ter price and less overhead cost than

the farmer can secure through ordi-

nary channels. It says business can

be done economically only through or-

ganizations working on a purely coop-

erative basis and would fail entirely

if it tried to deal directly with individ-

uals. Its provision to offer service to

farm bureau members who are not

members of cooperative elevator asso-

ciations provides that County Farm

Bureau members may become mem-

bers of the exchange with the under-

standing that farm bureau locals in

counties thus taking membership will

be organized as soon as feasible. By

this method members of any County



. Farm Bureau may secure the services

of the exchange.



More than two hundred cars of com.

modities for farmers have been hand-

led throughltlle purchasing department

since November 1. This department

has been buying bran, middlings, flour,

ceal, cottonseed meal, wool twine,



. draintile, fence posts, and other com-

, modlties for members at prices which

have been a saving over current quota-



tions. These savings are made thrOugh



the Combined power of salesmanship



and volume buying. The business is



being done through cooperativ, asso-



mations and, County Farm ureaus



collect signed orders for these





”ties and fer-ward them to the





state office. This department also does

business only through organizations

and would find it impossible to make

savings for the farmers if it were deal-

ing with him direct. Purchases are be-

ing made only upon the receipt of bona.

fide orders from organizations.





MICHIGAN LIVE STOCK MEN MEET





IN JANUARY.





THE thirtieth annual meeting of the

Michigan Improved Live Stock

Breeders’ and Feedel-s' Association will

be held January 12-13, 1921.



On Wednesday, January 12, will oc-

cur the meetings of the various allied

organizations, as follows:



Michigan Sheep Breeders’ and Feed-

ers’ Association.



Michigan Swine Breeders’ Associa-

tion.



Michigan Horse Breeders’ [Associa-

tion.





Michigan Holstein-Friesian Associa-

tion.



Michigan Guernsey Cattle Club.



Michigan Jersey Cattle Club.



Michigan Hereford Breeders’ Asso-

ciation.



Michigan Shorthorn Breeders’ Asso-

ciation.



Michigan Aberdeen Angus Breeders’

Association.



Michigan Red-Polled Breeders’ As-

sociation.



Michigan Poland-China

Association. »



Michigan Duroc Jersey Breeders' As-

sociation.



Michigan Berkshire Breeders’ As-

sociation.



Michigan Chester-White

Association.



Michigan Oxford Sheep Breeders’

Association.



,On Thursday, Janualy 13, will be

held the general meeting of the parent

association, which embraces all of the

other organizations. Several speakers

of national repute have been obtained

for this program, including H. R.

Smith, of the Union Stock Yards, Chi-

cago; W. L. Houser, president of the

Wisconsin Live Stock Breeders’ Asso-

ciation; O. E. Bradfute, president of

the National Farm Bureau Association,

and R. R. Graves, Dairy Division, Unit-

ed States Department of Animal Indus-

try, Washington, D. C.



There was never a time when there

should be closer cooperation among

be live stock men of the state than

at the present time. Grave problems

very seriously affecting the farmers

are at present beforeour national leg-

islatiye body and will soon, be under

consideration, by our state legislature.



» the farmer is to receive, his just dues

it is necessary that they get together





Breeders’





Breeders’





and stand solidly back of needed legis-

lation. It is hoped that we may have

a large attendance at these meetings

and that our sentiments be made

known in a very definite way.





SUGAR BEET COMMITTEE

REPORT.





CONVENTION of delegates from



sixteen important sugarbeet pro-



ducing counties of Michigan was

held at the State Farm Bureau offices

at Lansing last Wednesday. The re-

port of the committee of five chosen

at a meeting called in October by the

State Farm Bureau and Consisting of

A. C. Smith, of St. Clair county; Clar-

ence Oviatt, of Bay; L. H. Kirtland, of

Monroe; Thomas Price, of Saginaw,

and C. E. Harriot, of Clinton, was pre-

sented and after the discussion of each

item separately the report was adopt-

ed as a whole as follows:





Three meetings have been held by

your committee of five, created at

your last meeting, held on October

19, since that time in efforts to

prepare in detail a plan which might

improve methods for the marketing

and production of sugar beets. These

meetings were held on October 19,

November 3 and December 14. *



The problems involved have all been

carefully reviewed, full consideration

having been given the attitude as we

understand it, of the beet growers over

the state, calling for a more equitable

price» for their beets; the attitude of

the manufacturers which seems stead-

fastly to call for dealings with individ~

uals rather than with a unit of grow-

ers; the advisability of the circulation

of contracts making the State Farm

Bureau selling agent of the sugar beet

growers in Michigan; the question of

the advisability of including in such a

contract provisions which would com-

pel growers to market all beets through

this agency; the advisability of pur-

chasing and distributing seeds direct

to the growers instead of having this

effort continued as in the past by the

factories and further, other correlated

matters.



It was found. after careful analysis

that while a contract making the farm

bureau or any organization the selling





agent of the growers for the ensuing

year or series of years could be written,,





that, unless it contained a provision

absolutely binding upon the grower, it

had no value as it would not interfere

in any way,with a grower, who had

signed up, executing independently an-,

other agreement with the, factories and





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w. Einstead cf giving them



you ought say, .We' pro-

vide in. the secOnd section that ifthey-

go to extremes, if they aim to enhance

prices unduly or to create a monopoly,

then the matter can be heard'before

the secretary of agriculture or the

Federal Trade Commission, as the-

case may be, and after the secretary

of agriculture or the. Federal Trade

Commission has‘ made a decision in

the case, it can be brought up. in the

district court of the United States and

litigated.” 1'





The bill as passed by the senate pro-

vides that the Federal Trade. Commis‘

sion, instead of the secretary of agri-

culture shall pass on complaints

against any cooperative association.



The bill to create a federal live

stock commission and to regulate the

meat packing industry has been laid

aside under a unanimous consent

agreement to take the vote on January

24, 1921. '



In the District Supreme Court, Jus-

tice Spafford refused a request for a

further delay in the litigation in which

the plans by which the packers pro-

posed to dispose of their interests in

the stock yards are involved, and has

named December 21 for, argument in

the matter. It is evident that the gov-

ernmentwill demand that the court'

appoint trustees to take over the inter

ests of the, packing concerns.



For the purpose of determining the“

actual facts in regard to how much

farmers’ paper is outstanding, the sen‘

ate committee of agriculture has wise-

ly passed a resolution calling upon the

Federal Reserve Board to furnish it

with a complete report of credits ex-

tended to separate industries and com-

mercial concerns.





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two or more parties for the express

execution of certain purposes. It is

not binding on one party should the

other party fail to execute his part of

the agreement. Hence, while centracts

could be executed with the growers

making the farm bureau selling agent

for them, if the factories refused to

buy .these beets from the agent, the

other contracting party or the grower

would be free to deal individually and

separately with the factories as the

farm bureau, as selling agent, would

have abrogated the agreement by anon-

fulfillment of its undertaking to sell

the beets. .

Thus .it may be seen that for a com

tract of this nature to be effective it

must contain so-called “teeth” which

would bind growers ‘into a unit not to

produce beets if the factory buyers

refused to deal with the selling agent

of the growers. -





There is no question that each one

of the twelve thousand odd growers in

Michigan has the absolute and unqual-

ified legal right to refuse to grow sug-

ar beets for any reason he may see fit.

He likewise has the absolute and un-

qualified legal right to delegate anoth-

er the sole and exclusive right to rep-

resent him in making’ a contract with

the sugar company, and in case of

their refusal to deal with his duly ap-

pointed agent, to.\refuse to grow a sin-

gle sugar beet. ’





But, can these individual rights be

exerted collectively and in pursuance

of a common understanding, to compel

the sugar companies not to pay them

any particular or higher price for their

moduct, but merely to compel them to

deal with their jointly appointed agent

or representative, and in.case of the ‘

companies! refusal to- jointly and col-

lectively agree not to raise any sugar

beets‘?‘ ‘



There are no statutes existing in

Michigan or nationally that clearly de-

fine collective, bargaining or the line

of demarcation between it and a com-

bination in restraint of trade, or in

other words, a monopoly or trust.



The Michigan anti-trust statute spe-

cifies: that a trust is a combination of

capital, skill or arts by two or more

persons or associations of persons for

the purposes, among other things, “to'

limit or reduce the production, or in-.

crease or reduce the price of mer-

chandise or' any commodity; to prevent

competition in manufacturing, making,

transportation, sale or purchase of

merchandise, produce or any com-V

modity.” ‘ I ' ,



And, “that it shall be unlawful for ‘





two or more persons or ”Wiations‘bti ,1





persons to makeor enter intern-one".

acute orcarry outfanycontractssgohllmé

tions or agreements,” by which the "

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I _ him that period means a Supreme suc- breeding purposes.





'wise to separate from the flock the eight pine stumps in one of his fields





‘ come no time should be lost in getting





/. it becomes hungry and chilled perhaps

1 too late to be revived. Ewes that re





mannered by tying them in their pens breeds of cattle upon poor, scant pas-

and compelling them to let the lambs ture as it is to put the small, diminu- . 35





 





 





 





Wes and Lambs





HE thought of the prudent shep— ducing ration. Make creeps so that the

* herd is always toward his ewes; lambs can go to troughs in the alley-

if pregnant he plans to bring ways and eat wheat bran, cracked corn

and a little oilmeal. "A few oats will

"Day by day he cautiously‘ conditions help out and be especially valuable it

them for the coming of the'lamberor the lambs are to be developed for

Feed both ewes

cess or a miserable failure. The re- and lambs liberally and judiciously.

sponsibilities rest upon his shoulders; —————_————————



and if he loses a large percentage of COMPARATIVE COST OF STUMP

the lambs at lambing time it is some BLASTING IN SANDY AND

fault of his management. CLAY SOILS.



A wise shepherd can feed his ewes’

liberally without overloading them 0 those unfamiliar With blasting,

with too much'fat. He can plan to a stump iS a Stump- The ordinary

give them opportunity to walk ' about farmer W111 130th to a stump in a field

and exercise em}, day when the and ask how much it ought to cost

weather is pleasant. He can feed-once I0 get that stump out. If you ask him,

a day in some distant part of the pas- “Is it standing in a dense clay soil or

hire; or adopt some scheme to over- .3“ 10056 sandy 8011?" he Will reply in

come the tendency to sluggishness on surprise, “What difference does that

the part of the ewes. make?”





Feed liberally, but do not overload It is because. 0f the general ignor'

them with too much fat, means that ance of the begmner as to this feature





the young lamb, developing in the body of blasting that most of those trying

of its mother, should" have an abund- stump blasting for the first time fail

ance, of protein, the ingredient of lean to obtain satisfactory results. .

flesh, blood, nerve and brain. It should However, thekmd 0f S011 1n Whmhfi

also have lime and phosphorus to make stump ls standing makes all the dlf'

benes. - If the ewes have alfalfa 01. 010- ference in the world. A stump in sandy

ver hay and roots or ensilage it bal-

ances things up nicely. These feeds

are rich, both in flesh and bone-mak-

ing materials. If the alfalfa and 010.

ver are cut and put up at the right

time and the roots and silage are prop-

erly stored and preserVed they may

be adequate. Even then it is usually

wise to feed a little grain feed. A lit-

tle oats, corn and bran make a safe

and economical grain ration. It makes

more vigorous lambs and fills the ewes'

udder with milk. The ewe that brings

forth her lamb without having enough

force stored up in her body to fill her

udder with milk is not likely to oWn

her offspring. There is something

about an udder full of milk that is al-

most akin to mother love. Animal

mother love lies more in the udder

than in the heart.



Success lies in neve1 withholding

protein and bone- making feeds nor soil must be loaded differently and

feeding them too much. Feed to have loaded much moie heavily than a

the ewes in good condition at lambing stump in clay 5011' I know for I have

time, ’but avoid getting them sluggish been blasting stumps for nearly forty

from over-feeding. To feed them along years and have “sad many tons 0f d3"

on the middle-ground, requires skill and namite on such work. _ .

(experience, but it is a proposition that To give your readers a httle 1nfor-

must be mastered before one can suc‘ mation on this subject, I will cite two

need in bringing 'a flock of ewes or three blasting jobs that I did in





through a safe and happy lambing 1917' . .

period On Clarence Brown’s farm, the 3011





As lambing time draws near it is is alight sandy type. He had twenty





 





 





 





 





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ewes that are near their time. If a WhiCh he wanted to get rid Of' It re-

number of small pens are available it quired 149 pounds Cf dynamite, 114

will be well to give each ewe a sep- feet of fuse and twenty-eight caps t9

arate pen so that she will have aquiet dispose Of them. It COSt him $38'77'

place to lamb An early lambing, pro- I used as high as eighteen pounds of

vided one has good conveniences dynamite under one stump, twelve un-

brings to grassa strong crop of lambs der another and from one and a half

and to market a, bunch of heavy- to ten pounds under the rest.

weights. Early lambing is safe and ~Just compare the above with the

sure if one has prop’er shelter and cost of some stump blasting I did for

gives the ewes and lambs painstaking Eugene Allen on whose farm a clay

attention. With a comfortable shed, a soil predominates. He had eighty-one

strawy bed and a little extia care, few stumps to be taken out. I did it With

lambs will be lost — fifty-two pounds of dynamite, 150 feet

Rarely is it necessary to assist the 0f fuseand eighty-one caps. The work

ewe at lambing time, yet it is well to COSt hlm $14'11' The stumps were

he on hand as there will be times elm, oak, maple, ash and baSSWOOd'

when a little help will mean the saving 'lnese stumps were 0f about the same





of al 1 - average size as the stumps on the

a“? uab e ewe and lamb If twins Brown farm, yet I was able to get out





them nursing, for the ewe frequently eighty-one of them for a little more





for ets to find

g her second lamb, and twenty-eight out of sandy soil.





F. E. CAMPFIELD.





fuse to own their lambs may often be It is a great mistake to put the large





   





31.16 may vigorously .regist at titre breeds upon a rich, luxuriant pas~





ture The breed Should be selected to

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Will you‘ please send me a. recipe





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ing twenty-six cows)? I have not the

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perience. ‘



Gratiot 00. Mrs. A. W. W.



The way to make whitewash, is to

slack the lime, stir it thoroughly and

let it settle for a. short" time.

will be a certain amount of sediment

in the bottom. Add only a. suflicient

amount of water to make the white-

wash work satisfactorily in‘the' spray

pump. Of course, you cannot have it

too thick or it 'will clog up the spray

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the only rule that is necessary to

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this whitewash it will stick a little

better and be a little more durable.

If you spray your cow barn you should

add a disinfectant. Any good commer-

cial sheep dip is all right, or use coal

tar‘ disinfectant. Add about one gill of

this sheep dip to two gallons of white-

wash and mix it in thoroughly. This

.will- in no way interfere in applying

the mixture with the spray pump and

it will keep your barn in a sanitary

condition. C. C. L.





PREPARING CHICORY.





I raised a little chicory to try for

coffee, and would like to know how to

prepare it. Would this be the right

time to dig it, or is it too late?



Jackson Co. F. S. A.





Chicory roots increase in weight

more rapidly during the last part of

the season than at any other time;

however, frost should be guarded

against, since a frozen root is spoiled

if allowed to thaw out in the field. If

sliced while still frozen and put in

kiln to dry out, but little damage is

done.



The preparation of chicory is quite

simple. The roots should be carefully

washed, out into pieces not more than

half an inch in diameter and irregular

in shape and placed in shallow biscuit

or pie pans in the oven when there is

a gentle fire. To test when done re-

move some of the larger pieces and

allow to cool’ and if sufficiently dried

they should be brittle, while if under-

done they are more or less soft and

pliable. ~





GROWING PEAS FOR CANNERY.





Will peas do well on clay soil that

is well drained? Will the harvesting

interfere with haying or wheat har-

vest? About how many loads of vines

per acre? How much could two men

harvest per day with a two-mile haul

to the .vinery? What is a fair average

yield of shelled peas per acre?



Shiawassee Co. G. L. K.



There is no better soil in which to

grow peas than a well-drained clay

soil. The great danger from growing

peas is that a draught will strike them

just before they fill and this is more

apt to. happen on light soil than on





”clay loam.

Harvesting early peas, that is, Alas-





‘ kas, is quite apt to come at the same





time that you would want to cut clover

hay. Sometimes you can get the clo-

ver hay out before the pea harvest,

but many times they come together.

Iteis impossible to state how‘ many

loads of peas can be grown on an acre.

This depends on soil andweather.





the peas. as they .can,be,cut with a

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ed at once on the wagon, or you can .

get a, regular pea harvester which



throws the peas off to one side in

gavels. As a matter of fact, the pea

harvest must be done when the peas

are ready to can, as it only takes a.

few days before they are too: large,

consequently you must get help enough





to handle your acreage in a. reasonably





short time. .

Peas, like all other crops, vary 89‘

much ‘in yield that it is difficult to

answer your last question. Peas ought"

to yield you a. ton per acre, of shelled

peas. Many times they do not, and

then again they yield more. I have

grown sixteen tons of shelled peas on

twelve acres and then I have had

crops that would not yield over one-

half ton per acre. C. C. L.





BEET TOPS FOR FEED.





What do you think of beet tops and

beet roots for feed for milch cows?

Do you think beets would make the

milk taste or have any peculiar smell?



Shiawassee Co. Mrs. G. McK.





Beet tops and beets are both splen-

did feeds for dairy cows for part of

the ration, but it will not do to feed

them in large quantities, especilaly

the tops. If they are fed in large

quantities it will taint the milk, and

also has a. diarrhetic action which is

not good for the cows. But in small

quantities, say one-half bushel night

and morning will do the cows no harm

and will improve the ration. All cattle

do better if a part of the ration is a.

succulent food. This food helps them

digest and assimilate the dry part of'

the ration so that beet tops and beets

add even more to the ration than their

food analysis would show. C. C. L.





RATION FOR CALVES.





PleaSe give me a balanced grain rar

tion for calves about six weeks old,

and is whole shelled corn good to feed

to small calves?



Shiawassee Co. R. S. B.





Six weeks old calves ought to have

some skim-milk as part of the ration.

If they only had a little it would be:

much better than none. With this milk

they ought to have some form of grain.

For instance, wheat middlings makes

a. nice grain ration to feed to young

calves. This can be stirred into the

milk so that they will get all the feed.

It is an excellent thing as soon as pos-

sible to teach young calves to eat .oth-

er grain. They can eat shelled corn,

cats, or barley. Any of these grains

without being ground. Sometimes we

have to fuss, with them a little in or-

der to get them to do this, but it only

takes a short time to teach them. Be-

sides getting this grain they ought to,

have clover hay and a little corn silage

if you have it. In fact, any roughage:

you feed dairy cows is good for calves

just as soon as they are old enough to

eat it and they will eat it much young-

er than many people realize.



If you lack skim—milk at .all, then a.

gruel. consisting of mixtures of many

kinds of grains, the more th etter,





is "about the best substitute you. can





give, and after a calf gets to be six

weeks old he can get along pretty well

if you take pains in giving him this

gruel. The grain should be thoroughly

mixed and then water added sufficient-





ly to make a rather thin gruel so the, ,





calves can drink it readily. It ought to ,.

be fed warm. . C. C. L. ‘-





fNorth Carolina, Arkansas andVNOfibh





Dakota farmers have progreséd to _





point that state org 0.1.718» will *

famed “. l a ,
,3 age.

r to have this straw, especially the oats

'1 @3317. so it will be available as fall





ram winter reed.





’ very rapidly.

“kept‘cleaned up about the sides of the





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condition. Wheat, oats or rye straw





, that has been badly weathered and





farm they shodld be utilized in a

' ' Not





ige depends on the use made of it;

tho roughage, whatever it is, must be

good Jquality We have good rough-

We and inferior roughages and nearly

' farmer will have some of both.





- ’Straw is pretty universally produc-





K id. '1 know a dairyman who would not





consider it as a supplemental rough-

We make it a point every year





It would be disas-

trous to success to fill up the mangers

with nothing but straw, but when we

feed silage or linseed meal a craving





' _-_ is created in the animals for a little





of this dry, bright straw, so much so

that when a herd of twenty and more

was to a stack of the straw each day

hit an hour or so the stack diminishes

if the refuse straw is





stack and used for bedding if dry, or

spread on the fields, we are able to

secure a great deal of nutritious food

from our straw.



‘Wle also store from ten to twenty

tons. of straw in the barns, either blow

it in at threshing time or bale from

the stack as soon as possible after

threshing. Baled straw is nice to feed,

as it comes in easily handled flakes.

When a flake of it is thrown into the

rack it is compact, palatable, and eas-

ily munched by the cattle, sheep or

horses; in fact, I think it superior to

loose straw because the sweet flavor

of the straw is retained better and

dust is not created in handling.



, l have heard many men say they

could not get their live stock to con-





; sumo much of the coarser roughages.





One should not expect . an animal to

out very much at a time. These rough-

*ages should not be fed merely to 1111

- an animal; when a certain feed is giv-

en, no matter what grade it is, it

should be given to nourish the body of

an animal. A few pounds of straw

given with other feeds will satisfy a

dairy cow' 3 appetite for straw, and if





she relishes it there is no question but"





, what it has been of. value as a feed.

*j‘ 3 Recently I saw a small herd of cows

and calves whose biggest part of the

ration was straw and shredded fodder





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and it was a rather unthrifty looking

herd.

_ The best way to utilize the meme

farm roughages is, so it seems to me,

to feed them on a “freechoice” plan,

like Mr. Evvard worked out for hogs

at the Iowa station several years ago.

Put the roughage where it can be

="';1‘c'ached easily or where it will be ac-

possible at various times, feed the live

’ "stock liberally of other feeds and they





. will develop a liking for the roughages *





and consume large amounts or them

“ during the course of the year. We find

“possible in this way to. utilize prac-





all the coarse roughage produc-_





‘The cornstalk when out and shocked

may have considerable feeding value,

but when thrown in racks or spread

as a field the stock does not get very

finch sustenance from it, largely be-

cause it is hard and cannot be easily

masticated. When shredded its value

as feed is increased considerably.

‘ ‘ put in the silo we have a strong



to the grass pastures. It is with

page that our stock consumes



the, other roughages. Much



its when feeding line





'nther dry feeds. and.





most pales-





bleached before threshing or has been

poorly stacked or has lost much of its

bright color and sweetness; straw that

is badly infested with rust; corn fod-

der which is immature, or very old and

rather musty—these will be largely re-

jected by the stock. The value of a

roughage depends much on its quality

and freshness. . J. L. Jus'rzcn.





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8H RINKAGE OF H068.





XPERIMENTS show that where



stock cars are protected on the

north during stormy weather, hogs

will shrink a pound and a half less,

going to market. ‘



A pound of shrink or a pound of fill

at the market are just the same as a

pound of meat, when selling to the

packer. If a farmer can fix his car so

that his hogs will be comfortable and

feel good when they arrive at market

he will not have much shrink. The





more nearly normal conditions can be





provided the less will be the shrink.





It has been found that a mixed lot

of hogs obtained from several farms

are liable to have a greater shrink

than where the entire shipment has

been obtained from one farm. This is

due to the tendency of fighting. Fight-

ing often proves fatal to fat hogs. A

hog fattens from within and as he

gains in weight he presses against the

lungs. During the extreme exertion

incident to fighting his “engine”

(lungs) is not able to keep up with

the demand and he suffocates inward-

ly. Hogs from different farms driven

to town and yarded together frequent-

ly start a fight while in the yards that

they renew when loaded in the car.

The cramped quarters proves an added

exertion and when taken out dead at

the market it is a case of “smothered”

which is another kind of shrinkage

that could be avoided by keeping to-

gether in an open lot for a day or two.





SHORT COURSES AT M. A. C.





1TH the opening of the new year _





seven special winter courses will

get under way at M. A. C. Headed by

the eight-weeks’ course in general ag

riculture, the list includes two weeks

of dairy manufactures, eight weeks of

dairy production, eight weeks of hort-

iculture, eight weeks of farm mechan-

ics, four weeks of poultry husbandry

and four weeks of advanced poultry

instructionz _



. The work in general agriculture is

divided into periods covering two sea-

sons. It is similar to the sixteen

Weeks’ course which opened in No-

vember, except that it is less compre-

hensive. That in dairy production takes

up all phases of this specialized branch

of farming, where possible being pre-

ceded by at least one term' 3 work in

general agriculture. The other dairy

course takes up the theory and prac-

tice of butter and cheese making, with

instruction in Babcock testing and sep-

arators, creamery calculaticms and me-

chanics and the connection of bacte-

riology with dairy manufacturing.





Practical methods in fruit growing





.will be taught in both the horticultural





and poultry courses.‘ In the former,

fruit diseases, fruit insects, apicul-

ture, soils ,and orchard. machinery

come in for discussion, while the latter

though mainly devoted to poultry man-

agement, includes same work in fruit





growing and the control of fruit dis- /

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lieslore ’lhe Potash





During the past few years farmers have been urged to bend

every effort to produce maximum crops without giving

muc consideration to the effect on their soils. Established

rotations were broken up and the very best parts of the

farm put into the most needed crops, while the poorer

parts were neglected.



11111 a Willy it was a return to the pioneer' s method of mining

t e soi .



Today' is the period of readjustment for the farmer as well

as for the merchant and the manufacturer.



The farm labor situation and the uncertainty of future

prices are such that prudence demands that the cost of

producing a unit of crop be reduced as much as possible.

This requires more crop units per acre and a return to the

rotations known to be best for a given locality.



The great factor' 1n reducing the cost of crop production is

the right method of feeding the crops.



The composition of commercial plant foods has been pro.

foundly changed during the period of Potash famine. Phos-

phoric Acid has replaced all or a part of the Potash 1n Ameri-

can fertilizer formulas, while just the opposite has taken

place in Europe, where there was a shortage of phosphates.

Now is the time to get back to normal again and to return

to the fertilizer formulas that were so profitable and satis-

factory in the past. But this cannot be done without

effort on the part of the farmer and without sufficient

notice to the manufacturer to prepare for the change.

Therefore think the matter over carefully, and if your

previous experience has shown you that





Potash Pays





notify your dealer that you wish to use fertilizers with 5 to

10 per cent. of Potash and a little more to make up for the

drain on the soil during the Potash famine.





And do it right away, for it takes time for the manufacturer to import it

and it is only fair that he should know what your demands will



The price of Potash has fallen much faster than the prices of farm prod-

ucts so you may feel assured that you can again get a profit from its

use. The main oint is to insist that the right kind of fertilizer shall be

ready for .youw en needed. In order to insure this, prompt action on

your part 15 essential.



Take up the matter with your dealer at once. If we can help you write to us.





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. HE published announcement that

the Public. Domain Commission

has ordered that hereafter no



Christmas trees be cut on the state

lands for commercial purposes should

arouse general approbation. At a time

when the state is endeavoring in a.

painfully inadequate way to restock

its cut-overs with new growth to re-

place that removed by the lumbermen,

there is little to be said in favor of

the removing'of thousands and hun-

dreds of thousands of young spruces,

balsams and pines which, if given a

deCent chance to grow would become

merchantable timber. We have to de-

cide whether" or not to indulge our-

selves in a temporary pastime at the

expense of future necessities of our

lumber industry. The -past season

209,000 young trees for planting were

shipped to the upper peninsula from

the state tree nursery at Higgins Lake.

This will not go far towards replacing

the havoc wrought by the Christmas

tree gatherers. Indeed, the total num-

ber of acres planted to trees by the

state’s forestry department is less than

one-one-thousandth of the total acreage

of the cut-over lands now found in

Michigan. If after nearly twenty years

of reforestation work, Michigan now

has but 9,124 acres of planted trees on

its own lands, we can readily see that

it will be a good while before artificial

planting re-stocks the deforested area

of Michigan.



In response to a telegraphic sum-

mons from Dean H. L. Russell, of the

College of Agriculture, University of

Wisconsin, J. A. Doelle, of the Upper

Peninsula Development Bureau, recent-

ly attended an important meeting at

St. Paul, Minnesota. The meeting was

called by Governor-elect Preus, of

Minnesota, for the purpose of consid-

ering the problem of development in

the upper great lakes region, and

about twenty men especially interested

in these problems were present. Mr.

Doelle was appointed the Michigan

representative on a committee of four

to formulate plans for a second meet-

ing which will occur in St. Paul, next

January, for the purpose of framing

a definite legislative program, both

state and national. The Wisconsin

member of this committee is Dean

Russell, and the Minnesota. member,

Mr. J. H. Hay, deputy-commissioner of

agriculture of Minnesota. The chair-

man of the committee is President E.

G. Quamme, of the Federal Land Bank

of St. Paul. As the matter now stands

the program for the January meeting

will involve consideration of such na-

tional problems as rural credits, in-

cluding the extension of land security

credit, personal credit, and coloniza-

tion; great lakes waterways; the util.

ization of salvaged war explosives;

forestry, including federal and state

action on forest regulation; extension

of federal regulations of rivers and

highways, regarding drainage improve

ments ' and navigation, and such reg-

ional problems as land classification,

bureau of information service to in-

coming settlers. the, development of

the tourist business, including the con-

servation of fish and game, scenic high-

Ways and game refuges; land clearing

Work, and community planning. It

will be readily apparent that this pro-

gram involves many matters of great

concern to the agricultural develop-

mom of Gloverland.



A recent. visitor to the Otter Lake



district of Portage township, Housman



county, is. enthusiastic over the indict

tions of progress there. This is the





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the large, holdings have been disposed

of to settlers, mostly Finns, and it/was,

Iiotedthat the younger generation, in-

stead of leaving the district, is marry-

ing and taking up new land there with

a view to permanent home-making. It‘

is said to be the intention of the

Wooster Lumber Company, of Chas-

sell, to continue its logging railroad

through this district and on to Sidnaw.

If this is done, it will greatly assist '

the development of the Otter Lake sec-

tion, and will also afford a new short

line to the copper country for the Chi~

cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway

and its copper range connection. .





The St. Ignace Enterprise expects

several consolidated Schools to be es-

tablished in Mackinac county in the

near future. This is in line with a res-

olution adopted at the recent annual

meeting of the Upper PeninsulaEdu.

cational Association held in Escanaba,

which reads: “We favor such consol-

idation of rural school districts as will

make it impossible for any school to

have less than twelve pupils in regular

attendance, allowing for appeal only

in exceptional cases of trying geo-

graphical situations; and no school dis-

trict should be allowed to exist in the

state of Michgan whose boundary

lines do not include sufficient assess-

sable territory to provide a first-class .

school in every sense of the word."

The latest figures from the department

of public instruction show that there

are now twenty-eight consolidated

schools in Michigan organized under

the state-aid act of 1917 and 1919 re-

lating to rural agricultural schools. It

is to be hoped that Mackinac county

will materially swell this number, as

the Enterprise indicates it means to do.





COMMITTEE OF SEVENTEEN

MAKES STATEMENT. ‘

ELVING into the complex mech-

D anism of the American system

of marketing farm products the

Committee of Seventeen of the Amer-

ican Farm Bureau Federation, in ses-

sion at Chicago, pauses a moment to

give out the following statement:





Resolved, that we deem it morally

wrong and highly detrimental to the

interests of agriculture and the con-

sumers to permit the practice now in

vogue of selling grain, cotton and oth-

er farm products which the seller or

his principal do not own at time of

sale. This practice is commonly known

as “short selling."



Resolved, further, that we do hereby

petition congress to enact such legis-

lation as will stop this practice at the

earliest possible date.



The Farmers' Marketing Committee‘

of Seventeen recommends that the sys-.

tem for handling the grain crop of our

country to the best interests of the

producers and the public should in-

clude the following:



First. Farma-oWned elevator 0011b.

panics and sales agencies to operate -

on the local and terminal markets of

the United States. .



Second. Farmers’ export companies:

and sales agencies to operate on for-

eign markets for the purpose of hand- ,

ling the exportable surplus.



Third. The grain growers of the

United States should as soon as pos-

sible by mutual contract or otherwise

arrange for the sale of all grain on the

~basis of cooperative bargaining. ~



Fourth. That the foregoing shall be'

carried into effect with the ultimate

view of the protection of the just

rights of the producer and the order

marketing of farm products;



. The committee \wishes to assure the1

grain producers of the country that'it'

keenly appreciates ithe *{necess‘ity‘ or?

prompt- setion, and that as quickly

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:F’ “l Haywal‘dv the tester, gave‘the re~

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' In this report‘Mr. Hayward gave the





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ber 01' cows, 237; pounds of‘milk 5,450 ;

' test, 4.2 per cent; .pounds of fat, 232.9;

Cost of feed, $90.05; income over cost

Of feed, $59; returns from $1.00 bf feed,

‘ $1.65; cost of one pound of fat, 360;

cost of 100 pounds of milk, $1.65.



The highest milk production record

for the association was made by a

grade Holstein owned by Charles

Lempke, With-.3 record of 11,943 pounds

of milk and 354.1 pounds of fat. The

highest fat production record was

made by a grade Guernsey owned by

Paul Schnelle,‘ with a. record of 6,700

pounds of milk and 445.6 pounds of fat.

The best' herd record for both milk and

butter-fat was the grade Holstein herd

of Charles Lempke, ten in number,

that produced an average of} 9,538

pounds of milk, and 317.1 pounds of

(fat. The next herd in point of butter-

fat was owned by Paul Schnelle, the

herd numbering twelve grade Hol-

steins and Guernseys, averaged 6,700

pounds of milk and 315.1 pounds of fat.

"There were other good records but

these were the highest. ,



Among the 237 cows, eighty produc-

ed over 250 pounds of fat; thirty-two

produced over 300 pounds; eleven pro-

duced over 350 pounds, and four over

400 pOunds.



Mr. Hayward has been a fine tester

- and every member dislikes very much

to- have him leave. Much of the suc-

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to his thoroughness and interest in the

work. This work has been very suc-

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- The burlap from old sacks is fine for

protecting the windows as the material

is. coarse enough to stop draughts but

still permit plenty of air to enter. Near-

ly every poultryman accumulates a

supply of wornout burlap, sacks which

can be pieced together for curtains.



If the curtain frames are hinged to

the top of the window, the usual plan

is to hook them to the ceiling of the

house when they are raised. They

should be so arranged that the birds

cannot roost on the frames. Of course

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“A combination of curtains and win-

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light to enter. If the entire open-front

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HE writer once had the chance of



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The peach trees were always given

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Everywhere the forest people were

preparing for the winter that would

fall so quickly when these golden Sep-

tember days «were done. The Under

Plane of theforest—those smaller peo-

ples that live in the dust and have

beautiful, tropical forests in the ferns

—-found themselves digging holes and

filling them with stores of food. Of

course they had no idea. on earth why

they were doing it, except that a quiv-

er at the end of their tails told them

to do so; but the result was entirely

the same. They would have a shelter

for the winter. Certain of the birds

were beginning to wonder what the

land was like to the south, and now

and then waking up in the crisp dawns

with decided longings for travel. The

young mallards on the lakes were par-

ticularly restless, and occasionally a

long flock of them would rise in the

morning from the blue waters with a.

glint oi" wingswand quite fail to come

back. And one night all the forest

listened to the wail of the first flock

of south-going geese. But the main

army of waterfowl would, of course,

not pass until fall came in reality.



But the most noticeable change of

all, in these last days of summer, was

a distinct tone of sadness that sounded

throughout the forest. Of course, the

wilderness note is always somewhat

sad; but now, as the leaves fell and

the grasses died, it seemed particu-

larly pronounced. All the forest voices

added to its-the wail of the geese, the

sad fluttering of fallen leaves, and ev-

en the whisper of the north wind. The

pines seemed darker, and now and

then gray clouds gathered, promised

rain, but passed without dropping their

burdens on the parched hillsides. Of

course all the tones and voices of the

wilderness sound clearest at night—~

for that is the time that the forest

really comes to life—and Dan Failing

"sitting in front of Lennox’s house,

watching the late September moon rise

over Bald Mountains, could hear them

very plainly.



It was true that in the two months

She had spent in the mountains he had



'4“ learned to be very receptive to the



voices of the wilderness. Lennox had

not been mistaken in thinking him a.

natural woodsman. He had imagina-

tion and insight and sympathy; but

most of all he had a heritage of wood

lore from his frontiersmen ancestors

Two months before he had been a res-

ident of cities. Now the wilderness

had claimed him, body and soul.



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few miles each day, and even then he

wbuld come in at night staggering

from weakness. He climbed hills that

seemed to tear his diseased lungs to

shreds. Lennox wouldn’t have been

afraid, in a crisis, to trust his marks-

manship now. He had the natural cold

nerve of a marksman, and one twilight

he brought the body of a lynx tumb-

ling through the branches of a pine at

a distance .of two hundred yards. A

shotgun is never a mountaineers

weapon—except a sawed-off specimen

for family contingencies—yet Dan ac-

quired a certain measure of skill at

small game hunting, too. He got so

he could shatter a grouse out of the air

in the half of a second or so in which

its bronze wings glinted in the shrub-

bery; and when a man may do this a

fair number of times out of ten, he is

on the straight road toward greatness.



Then there came a. day when Dan

caught his first steelhead in the North





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could see more clearly now, with his

unaided eyes, than he had ever seen

before with the help of the lens. And

the moonlight came down through a

rift in the trees and showed that his

face had changed too. It was no longer

so white. The eyes were more intent.

The lips were straighter:



“It’s been two months," Silas Len-

nox told him, “half the four that you

gave yourself after you arrived here

And you’re twice as good now as when





you came.”

Dan nodded. “Twice! Ten times

as good! I was a wreck when I came.





,Today I climbed halfway up Baldy—‘—

within a half mile of Snowbird’s cabin

-without stopping to rest.”



Lennox looked thoughtful. More

than once, of late, Dan had climbed

up toward Snowbird’s cabin. It was

true that his guest and his daughter

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whole west than this—the play of a complications. The love of the moun-

fly, the strike, the electric jar that car- tain women does not go out to physical

ries along the line and through the inferiors. “Whoever gets her,” he had

arm andinto the soul from where it is said, “will have to tame her,” and his

never quite effaced, and finally the fur— words still held good. The mountain

ious strife and exultant throb when the women rarely mistook a maternal ten-

fish is hooked. There is no more beau- derness for an appealing man for love.

tiful thing in the wilderness world It wasn't that Dan was weak except

than a steelhead trout in action. He‘ from the ravages of his disease; but

simply seems to dance on the surface he was still a long way from Show-

of the water, leaping again and again, bird’s ideal.

and racing at an unheard‘of speed And the explanation wassimply that

down the ripples. But now and again life in the mountains gets down to a

amateur fisherman without souls have primitive basis’, and its laws are the

tried to pull him in with main strength, laws of the cave. Emotions are simple

and are still somewhat dazed by the and- direct, dangers are real, and the

result. It might be done with a steel family relations have remained un

cable, but an ordinary line or leader changed since the first days of the race.

breaks like a. cobweb. When his maj- VMen do not woo one another’s wives

esty the steelhead takes the fly and ‘in the mountains. There is no soft-

decides to run, it can be learned after ness, no compromise: the male of the

a time that the one thing that may be species provides, and the female keeps

done is to let out all the line and with the but It is good, the mountain wom-

prayer and humbleness try to keep up en know, when the snows come, to

with him. have a strong arm to lean upon. The

Den fished for lake trout in the lakes man of strong muscles, of quick aim,





of the plateau; he shot waterfowl in of cool nerve in a crisis m the man





the tule marshes; be hunted all men that can be safely counted on not to

her of living things with his camera. leave a youthful widow to a lone bat-

But most of all he simply studied, as tle for existence. Although Dan had

his frontiersmen ancestors had done courage and that same rigid self-con—

before him. He found unceasing de- trol that was an old quality in his

light in the sagacity of the bear, the breed, he was still a long way from a

grace of the felines, the beauty of the physically strong man. It was still an

deer. He knew the chipmunks and the even break whether he would ever

gray squirrels and "the snowshoe rab- wholly recover from his malady.

hits. And every day his muscles had But Dan was not thinking about this

hardened and his gaunt frame had fill- now. All his perceptions had sharp-

ed out. ened down to the finest focal point,

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front of the house. The moon was

above the pines at last, and its light

was a ’magic. He sat breathless, his

eyes intent on the silvery patches be-

tween the trees. Now and then he

saw a shadow waver.



His‘pipe had gone out, and for a long

time Lennox hadn’t spoken. He seem-

ed to be straining too, with inefl’ectiVe

senses, trying to recognize and name

the faint sounds that came so ting-

ling and tremolous out of the dark-

ness. As always, they heard the stir

and rustle of the gnawing people: the

chipmunks in the shrubbery, the goph-

ers who, like blindmisers, had ventur-

ed forth from their dark burrows; and

perhaps even the scaly glide of those

most~dreaded poison people that had

lairs in the rock piles. '



Then, more distinct still, they heard

the far-off yowl of a cougar. Yet it

wasn't quite like the cougar utterances

that Dan had heard on previous nights.

It was not so high, so piercing and tri-

umphant; but had rather an angry,

snarling tone made up 'of ows and

broad, nasal yahs. It came tingling

up through hundreds of yards of still

forest; and both of them leaned for-

ward.



“Another deer killed,” Dan suggest-

ed softly.



“No. Not this time. He missed, and

he’s mad about it. They often snarl

.that way when they miss their stroke,

just like an angry cat. But listen—”



Again they heard a sound, and from

some far-lying ridge, they heard 1 our-

ious echo.

only a tremor of it remained; yet ev-

ery accent and intonation was perfect,

and Dan was dimly reminded of some

work of art cunningly wrought in min-

iature.

sembled the cougar’s cry. It was un-

questionably a wilderness voice—no

sound made by men or the instruments

of men; and like the cougar’s cry, it

was simply imbued with the barbaric

spirit of the wild. But whle the cougar

had simply yowled in disappointment,

a sound wholly without rhythm or har-

mony, this sound was after the manner

of’s song, rising and falling unutter-

ably wild and strange.





CHAPTER II.

AN felt that at last the wilder-

ness itself was speaking to him.

He had waited along time to hear

its voice. His thought went back to

the wise men of the ancient world.

waiting to hear the riddle of the uni-

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its great, brooding silence, that the

whole mystery and meaning of life

would be in a measure revealed. He

had asked questions—never in the

form of words but only ineffablegyearn-

ings of his soul—and at last it had re-

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laton of the very heart and soul of the

wilderness



And because it was, it was also the

song of life itself—life in the raw, life

as it is when all the superficialities

that blunt the vision had been struck

away. Dan had known that it would

be thus. It brought strange pictures

to his mind. He saw the winter snows,

the spirits of Cold and Famine walk-~

ing over them. He saw Fear in many

guises—in the forest fire,“ in the land-

slide, in the lightning cleaving the sky.

In the song were centered and made

clear all the many lesser voices with

which the forest had spoken to him‘

these two months and which he had

but dimly understood—the passion,

the exultation, the blood-lust, the

strength, the cruelty, the remorseless,

unceasing struggle for existence that

makes the wilderness an eternal battle

ground. But over it all was sadness.

He couldn’t doubt that He heard it

all too plainly. The wild was revealed

to him as it never had been before.





“It’s the wolf pack," Lennon told

him softly. “As long as I have been

in the mountains, it always hits me

the same. The wolves have just joined

together for the fall rutting. There’s

not another~song like it in the whole

world.”



Dan could readily believe it. The

two men sat still a long time, hoping

that they might hear the song again.

And then they got up and moved

across the cleared field to the ridge

beyond. The silence closed deeper

around them.



"Then it means the end of the sum-

mer?" Dan asked.



“111 a way, but yet we don’t count

the summer ended until the rains

bneak. Heavens, I wish they would

start! I’ve never seen the hills so dry

and I’m afraid that either Bert Crans~

ton or some of his friends will decide

it’s time to make a little money fight-

ing forest fires. Dan’ I’m suspicious

of that gang. I believe they've got a.

regular arson ring, maybe with un.

scrupulous stockmen behind them,

and perhaps Just a penny-winning deal

of their own. suppose you know about

Landy Hildredth—how he's promised

to turn state's evidence that will send

about a dozen of those vipers to the

penitentiary?”



“Snowbird told me about it.”



“He’s got a cabin over toward the

marshes, and it has come to me that

he's going to start tomorrow, or maybe

has already started today, down into

the valley to give his evidence. Of

course, that is deeply confidential be-

tween you and me. If the gang knew

about it, he'd never get through the

thickets alive.”



But Dan was hardly listening. His

attention was caught by the hushed,

intermittent sounds that are always

to be heard, if one, listens keenly

enough, in the wilderness at night. “I

wish the pack would sound again," he

said. “I suppose it was hunting.”



“Of course. And there is no living

thing in these woods that can stand

against a. wolf pack in its full





- strength.”





s‘Except man, of course."

“A strong man. with an accurate





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the starving times in winter he’d never

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the dawn. And of course the wolves

and the cougars hunt the deer; It may

be that .they are running cattle, or

even sheep.”



But Dan’s imagination was afire. He

wasn’t content yet. “They couldn’t be

whunting man?" he asked.





“No. If it was midwinter and the

pack was starving, we’d have to listen

better. It always looked to me as if

the wild creatures had a law against

killing men, just as humans have.

They’ve learned it doesn‘t pay—~Some-

thing the wolves and hear of Europe

and Asia haven’t found out. The nat-

uralists say that the reason is rather

simple—that the European peasant, his

soul scared out of him by the govern-

ment he lived under, has always fled

from wild beasts. They were tillers

of the soil, and they'carried hoes in-

stead of guns. They never put the

fear of God into the animals and as a

result there are quite a number of

true stories about tigers and wolves

that aren’t pleasant to listen to. But

our own frontiersmen were not men

to stand any nonsense from wolves o1

cougars. They had guns, and they

knew how to use them. And they were

preceded by as brave and as warlike

a race as ever lived on the earth—-

armed with bows and arrows. Any

animal that hunted men was immedi-

ately killed, and the rest found out it

didn’t pay.”



“Just as human beings have found

out the same thing—that it doesn’t pay

to hunt their fellow men. The laws of

life as well as the laws of nations are

against it."



But the words sounded weak and

dim under the weight of the throbbing

darkness; and Dan couldn’t get away

from the idea that the codes of life by

which most men lived were forgotten

quickly in the shadows of the pines.

Even as he spoke, man was hunting

man on the distant ridge where Whis-

perfoot had howled.





Bert Cranston, head of the arson

ring that operated on‘the Umpqua Di-

vide, was not only beyond the pale in

regard to the laws of the valleys, but

he could have learned valuable lessons

from the beasts in regard to keeping

the laws of the hills. The forest crea-

tures do not hunt their own species,

nor do they normally hunt men. The

moon looked down to find Bert Crans-

ton waiting on a certain trail that





wound down to the settlements, his





rifle loaded and ready for another kind

of game than deer or wolf. He was

waiting for Landy Hildreth; and the

greeting he had for him was to destroy

all chances of the prosecuting attorney

in the valley below learning certain





names that he particularly wanted to“





know.



There is always a quality of unreal-

ity about a moonlit scene. Just what

causes it isn’t easy to explain, unless

the soft blend of light and shadow en-

tirely destroys the perspective. Old

ruins will sometimes seem like great,

misty ghosts of long-dead cities; trees

will turn to silver; phantoms will gath-

er in family groups under the cliffs;

plain hills and valleys will become, in

an instant, the misty vales of Fairy-

land. ‘The scene on that distant ridge

of the Divide partook‘ of this quality

to an astounding degree; and it would

have made a picture no mortal mem-

ory could have possibly forgotten.



(Continued next week).





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selfish Way of grabbing the fun for

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elevating their eyebrows if you confess

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who starve!



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. Saviorhascome down toearth, to live of my sheaves over on his field, so





'us'are much greater than our earth? But on the third night the moon came

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A. Schwendener, St. Joseph; the local representatives. In Detroit,

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‘Negafiunee, and the officers. representative; Miss Blanche M. Ben-

. Communications regarding the home nett, Lansing; Miss Marjorie Potter,

may be addressed to Rev. Albeit H. Flint; Mrs. H. S. Mallory, Ann Arbor;

Mrs. George A. Robertson, Jr., Battle

, The work is carried on in a half- Creek; Miss Harriet Ballard, Jackson;

dozen large cities through local organ- Miss Elizabeth McBratnie, Saginaw;

nations, however. Here a represent- and Mrs. Marguerite Schell, Marquette,





county and places them in good board- "lives. DEBORAH.





a a a a

Good Tidings at Christmas





Our W eel/y Serman—By N. A Mr sze “





E not afraid; for behold; I bring all things. Andowherever this good

you good tidings of great joy news has gone, it has brought peace

which shall be to all the people: for and goodwill. ’

there is born unto you this day in the A Japanese student in America was

city Of David a Savior, who is. Christ very depressed. He began the search

the Lori" Mike 2110. 11. for what he called the beautiful life.



One Christmas eve, in the .1331; Attimes he gave up in despair, and

years Of the eleventh century, a ser- contemplated what is not uncommon

vice was being held in the little church in his native land, suicide. But one

near the castle 0f Fontaines, in Old day he returned to his room with radi-

Burgundy, France- To the service ant face and said, “I have found the

came the Lord Of Fontaines: his Wife. beautiful life. It tells all about it in

and their little son, a Child With golden this little book.” The little book was

locks and blue eyes, who was later to the New Testament. One day an Amer-

become the most influential man Of his ican traveller in the far east was trav-

time. As he gazed upon the burning elling wearily on‘ camelback through

candles around the altar and listened an arid country. Presently the fields

to the singing 0f the hymns, he fell began to look better. They were cul—

asleep. And while sleeping, he dream- tivated, and there was some live stock.

ed he saw the infant Jesus. AS he Going on, the farms became more and

gazed on the tender face of the infant more prosperous, until his party ar-

Lord, so small, yet so mighty, there rived at a Christian mission. The im-

came into‘ his “heart a deep love for proved fields were only a reflection of

the Christ, that never burned out. Be- the improved humanity, that the mis-

fore he died, Europe was debtor to sion had touched.



Bernard of Clairvaux.



It is no wonder that the gospels pic-

ture the coming of Christ as an event

of “great joy.” It is the most happy

event that ever lighted up a dark

world. There are the shepherds, watch-

ing their flocks by night, and they hear

the angel chorus. There are aged Sim-

eon and Anna, who are in raptures, as

they behold the infant Messiah. And

there is the Magnificat of Mary, as she

thinks of the coming King. Hymn

writers have echoed the joy of Scrip-

ture. Hymns that touch on the na-

tivity are radiant with gladness. “Joy

to the World! the Lord is Come,"

“Hark! the herald an-

gels sing," is Wesley’s hymn, while

an American newspaper writer, Josh- normal humanity possible.

iah Holland, beglns his song, “There s _ _

a song in the air! There’s a star in A3 Hebrew .legend runs ’hke “1.153

the sky! There’s a mother’s deep Once there l1ved 1n far Judean hlllS

prayer, and a baby’s low cry!" But two affectionate brothers, who worked





pnobabl y the greatest Christmas hymn their fields together: One had a w1fe

written by an American, was the one and a houseful of children. .The other

by Phillips Brooks. It runs: was unmarried. One mght 1n the har-

“0 little town of' Bethlehem vest time the older brother said to his



How still we see thee liel, wife, “My brother is lonely. I will go

Above thy deep and dreamlesg sleep out and move some of my sheaves over



The silent stars go by; to his side, so that when he sees them





Yet in thy dagnshlviaetisfhmeth in the morning his heart will be cheer-

T391”! everlasam; gear? of all the years ed by the abundance.” And he did.

Are met in thee tonight.” That same night the other brother said





to his workmen: “My brother has

HE good news that Christmas many children to feed. I do not need

brings is the good news that a this wealth. I will go and move some





Christmas means everything to us,

because it is the birthday of a Savior.

A great Person has come into the,

world. His object is to usher in a sin-

less world. He was human, “like as

we are.” He ate, He drank, He lay

down and slept, He became tired with

long journeys, He found it necessary

to pray, He had friends, but the one

difference between him and others

was, He was the one perfect Man. The

great object for which He entered the

world was, to give men victory over

themselves. .He came to found a whole,

healthy, perfectly normal race. Christ

loved hormal humanity, and He was

willing to do anything, pay any price,

suffer any torture, that would make a





among men. As one looks up at the that he shall rejoice in the morning,

starry heavens on a clear night, he when he sees how great is his har-

feohhowsmall he is. What are those vest.” And he did so. They did it

worth, many of which astronomy tells that night and the next, in the dark.





How has have they been there? What out from behind a cloud as they met





., e power guides those stars, who was the place where earth came near-

" all things by the word of his est to heaven.





 





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tertainments that can be devel-



oped Without much .work or

equipment, it is hard to beat “Aunt

“Jerusha’s Family Album.” An Old pic‘

ture frame can usually be obtained

from the attic of some member of the,

community. If possible it should be a

very large frame. A gilded frame

looks the best. A home-made frame

can be constructed frpm four smooth

boards and a little gilt paint.

The characters can be selected from

the community children. They can

dress to represent Aunt Jerusha, the

hired man, big sister’s beau, the mail

man, supervisor and many other peo-

ple of the community whose photos

might appear in Aunt Jerusha’s album.

The master of ceremonies should be

one who can tell good stories or give

humorous descriptions. The evening

of the entertainment the large picture

frame is supported at one end of a

room or community hall. A sheet cur-

tain can be strung on a wire in front

of the frame. As their turn arrives

each character dressed in appropriate

costume poses behind the frame. The

person selected to introduce each char-

acter can relate funny instances of the

life of that character and they can be

true or otherwise, and illustrated with

suitable stories.

If necessary the work can be made

easier for the person introducing the

characters if the stories and humorous

incidents about each one are plainly

written out so they can be read as the

characters appear. Stories can be se-

lected from the humorous departments

of current magazines and made to ap-

ply personally to the life of the char-

acters as they appear in the frame.

The efforts of the actors to look like

photos is sure to be a strain on their

composure. The crowd is apt to try

and make them laugh, and the show

will usually be classed as funny and

worth looking at even if it is ridicu-

lous and does not require much prac-

tice.



Costumes can be worked up by each





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'sentation in public.





Inexpensive Entertainment

- . Bay: and Girl: Can Put on a Good Entertainment i i "

actor from various materials found at =





home. They need cost no money. one





Of the great advantages of an enter-i





tainment ofthis kind. is the fact that





there is no expense, and if 4a small adn.





mission is charged the gate receipts

can all be used for a worthy purpose

and not exhausted in paying bills.



Considerable burlesque on public

characters of the day can be worked

out by dressing certain boys and girls

to represent them. This, combined

with a humorous introduction by the

leader is sure tO_ bring out a good

laugh for each picture in the frame.

The album can also contain historical

characters that are well known in the

school work.



Two characters in various poses can

be introduced to show a. picture of

some historical action; During the

pose a well-worded humorous descrip-

tion on the historical event can be de-

livered to entertain the crowd. For

such pictures in the album it is neces-

sary to haVe a very large frame and

place it far enough back from'the au-

dience to make the effect as good as

possible.



Much of the success of the entertain-

ment will rest in imitating local char-

actors in such a way that everyone is

amused and nobody touched on too

For this reason it is

not a bad idea for the boys and girls

to elect a censor from among the-"old

folks and have this censor observe the

display of the album before the pre-

All the big mo-

have their





tion picture companies





films censored before being shown to i





the public so the boys and girls might

find it desirable to do likewise.



At the end Of the show a voting con-

test might be held to determine the

best picture of each type and then

prizes of very nominal value can be

distributed to the winners. The best

part of an entertainment of this kind

is the fact that it limbers up the crowd





and makes everyone laugh and feel-





good. Then in the social hour follow-

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IMz’cflngdn Boy Takes Blue Rz'ééon at Buffalo





MILES E. BEAMER, of Blissfleld, Lenawee county, twelve. years old, who

won the state championship in the Michigan Boys’ and Girls’ Beef'fiaiti

Club in. 1919, exhibited two Hereford yearling calves, “Pat” and “Mikael? ;



the Buffalo Fat Stock Show, held in Buflalo, New York, Decembesr

which Won first and second prizes in :their “class; and:-“?Pnt’f*§alaogm.

grand championship of the show in the,Boys’_and,.GirlsSSrojai e: V ,

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COMPETITION IN HONEY MARKET-





 





HERE is a necessity for concerted



action on the part of Michigan

"bee-keepers if the home market is not

to be over-run - by California honey,

says B. F. Kindig, expert apiarist at

M. A. C., in his monthly letter .to hon-

ey producers of the state. .



[Because'demand on the part of the

public has fallen off, because sugar

:prices have dropped and because a



- large amount of extracted honey is



: now in the hands of the producers, the

market has tended to slump badly this

fall, and the situation would be criti-

cal even without the menace of the

California inroads.



“The California Honey Producers’

Cooperative Exchange of Los Angeles

is now putting up California honey in

small containers,” says Mr. Kindig.



, “A number of cars of this honey have

already been shipped east and the ex-

change is developing a plan of nation-

al advertising which it expects to put

into action soon. This will place Cali-

fornia honey on the Michigan market

at a price which many will hesitate to

pay for the Michigan honey which is

of much better quality. There are only

two ways to counteract this influence:

one is to advertise Michigan honey;

the other to put Michigan honey into

the home of every honey eater in the

state. What will we do about it ?”



In support of his plea for united ac-

tion, Mr. Kindig points to the attitude

of President-elect Harding, who holds

that farmers should be encouraged to

join cooperative associations to reap

their just measure of reward. He also

points to conditions in Wisconsin,

where regulations have been promul-

gated making it compulsory for all out-

of—state honey to be labeled.



As for the methods to be followed

he declares that “it is becoming more

and more evident that an exchange

that serves its members best is one

that puts up the honey in the packages



'in which it is to be sold to the con-

., ' sumer. Such an exchange is not en-

; tirely at the mercy of the bottlers, but

is in a positionlo do bottling and go

out and find a market for their prod-





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. LEG WEAKNESS IN POULTRY-





 





Please tell me what is the matter

with my hens and pallets. All sum-

mer one after another became lame,

gradually got worse and finally could

hardly walk. They appear well and

healthy and eat well after the lame-

ness comes on. The roosts in coops

are not high. Please tell me the cause





and cure. .

Lenawee Co. Mrs. S. L. S.

In old birds rheumatism may be the

cause of leg weakness. A rapidly

growing cockerel seems more subject

to the trouble than a» pallet. The sick

birds should be isolated. as the lame-

, .ness and weakness keeps them from

obtaining their share of food and they

will be rapidly devitallzed if that con-

tinues.

I Ground bone, milk. and lime water

are needed inthe ration. Oats will be

better than corn as they will give

strength without forming fat. IThe leg

. Weakness most often occurs among

heavy breeds which are growing rap-

.- idly and eaflng heavily. Their weight

15-11mm become too great for their

“strength and they cannot get around.

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soon die. Sometimes an abscess of the

foot Will occur. It is commonly called

bumble-foot and. is due to a prick or

bruise on the sole of the foot. In such

cases the abscess must be removed

and the wound dreslsed each day with

, tincture of iodine until healing takes

place.





RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY FARM-

ERS’ CLUBS.





 





T the recent meeting of the Mich-

igan State Association of Farmers’

Clubs 3. number of resolutions relating

to state and national affairs were

adopted. In the following paragraphs

is given the substance of these formal



statements:

State Affairs.



A change in our school laws to pro-

vide a plan of taxation that will con-

form to a state unit plan was recom-

mended.



The plan of consolidating rural

schools was urged upOn rural districts

and the legislature was asked to

amend the law to make the plan of

consolidation more easily operative.



The organization commended the ac-

tivities of the state police and asked

the coming legislature to appropriate

adequate funds for its maintenance.



The legislatu1e was urged to make

an appropriation sufficient to carry on

effectively the splendid work inaugur-

ated by the State Live Stock Sanitary

Commission, looking toward the erad-

ication of tuberculosis in cattle and

stamping out other live stock diseases.



The wool pooling system and a plan

of manufacturing wool into blankets

and robes were commended.



The legislature was advised and rec-

ommended to provide appropriations

asked f01 by the State Board of Agri-

culture for the erection of needed build-

ings at the Michigan Agricultul a1 Col-

lege, and for the carrying on of the

w01k of the institution.



The association went on record as

recognizing the State and American

Farm Bureau organizations as the out-

standing economic agricultural associa-

tions of the state and nation.



Endorsement was given to the coop-

erative soil survey program of the

Michigan Agricultural College and the

'United States Department of Agricul-

ture proposed for this state.



The work of the State Board of

Health was endorsed and support of-

fered to localities establishing free

clinics and“ visiting county nurses, and

the work of the anti-tuberculosis so-

ciety was commended.



The members believed that the

farmer should be accorded a wage sim-

ilar to that paid to other labor and a

return for his management and invest

ment on a par with that of other in

dustries.



The association asked that adequate

appropriation and suitable accommoda-

tion be extended to the State Histor-

ical Society in order to preserve to fu-

ture generations the records of the

pioneers of our civilization.



The legislature was asked to repeal

the law creating a boxing commission

and legalizing boxing in this state.



National Affairs.

The effort to establish a continuous





waterway from the great lakes to





ocean ports was endorsed.



It was recommended that national

farm organizations be federated in or-

der that their power may be strength-w

ened.



Congress was asked to place an em-

bargo on wool, woolens, sheep prod

nets and beans until a tariff bill can

be enacted.



The full enforcement of the VoLstead

prohibition law was demanded.



' A tax 1ft law to protect the American





farmer against the cheap labor in oth- out»





er countries in the production of cat-

tle, wheat, beans and milk was com-

mended.



Congress was asked to re-enact in-

migration laws barring from our

shares individuals inimical to the best

interests of our country.



They urged the prompt passage of

laws by congress outlawing specula-

tigtn on the futurepriee of farm prod-

u, s. .



The appointment of a. practical





agriculturowns asked.

"In Wisconsin the my 1111191111111:

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ing the name of your lumber dealer.





 





Asphalt Shingle Effect ‘

—Roll Roofing Price is





WHEN cost is an important consideration and quality



cannot be ignored, SHINGLE-CRAFT offers a happy medium

with its asphalt shingle efiect at practically a roll roofing price. , 5-1?

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qualities which have earned for MULE-H I DE smooth finish

Roofing that remarkable record of service:





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Any MULE-HIDE dealer can get Shingle- ,

Craft Roll Roofing for you on short notice I





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your vicinity write to us direct, mention-





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MANUFACTURERS





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POU LTRY





 





PULLEIS! PULIETSI





EIWC have the largest, most up to date SIC. W.

Leghorn farm in Mich. 40 acres devoted entirely

to the breeding of quality White Leghoms 2,000

layers kept the year around.





We still have a few hundred ready to lay pulletl

bcedfromourhcavy wintu' laying strain for solo

Prices quoted on application Baby Chicks and

8 weeks old Pallets in man.



Order Now.





Macatawa White Leghorn Co., Inc.

Hound. Mich.





400 PULLETS





New Beginning To Lay.





The" are stlII aboutdflfloftlws. C. Whit 0‘!“

:Id balmy?“ alto be dm lug .L "I

wee 1n seem r: op redcombe

white. They are now beginning to lay. and wiIlp‘pg:





 





Write us If you are (automated. All our stock is re-



gatlialf; ?Wi1tgu oran t to k 01"51’0“ our 1920

once wyouwan 011111 on e P



m or see allots,



Coda-Io We have“ fine Barred rodlloohCocke l fm



our. well bred Boned Bock colony. Bellini; Ib-





scrip

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION.

M





cw MK! I £00,000

,_ .. _ tor 1921

W Postm PAID 95%

live ”drummed.

FREE feed with each. order. 40 breeds chicks. .g

breeds ducklings. Select and Exhibition nodes.

A hawks week alldyglcrr. Book your order

NOW for ear y spring very. Catalogue free.

stump; appreciated. ~

NABOB HATCHERIES. Gambler. Ohio





Mikkel”! R: I. Rmr We are





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Mich. towns. Tho-nod

to. Write for tree on

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for themselves. CM: “4 Ii15M: Lesions. M' can.

Yearling Hens. We have 21 Lacuna: “White d Rm Orphston-B. Wyariggt’fea: R

rgsndottes. the Inst for this season. These are fine “3‘ T! 1‘0” Poultry Fem. Fenton. Mich.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   





Surplus cockerels II I



Barred ROCkS Hatching one 116:: 3933::



from stock rich in blood of Parks best edlgreod pom.

G.KIRBY, , misusing. Mich.

egg contest winne s e f



Med M3 wltbh yrecords to £90 fitieigin Ebro-lull



per setting Milan P



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NG.

ARRED PI Iynouth

nice thrifty, birds fro

George H. Campbell 3.





 





Circular tree.

Constantine. Mich





coekerels for solo. eon.

izewinningatock“ and 51

Box. 79. Ypsilanti. Mich.





RED-TO-LAY S. G. White L be pod reed

”mall-:3 mated with hgzs seleiged $91sz 0. h



vy ayers. looted cooker-oi bun

Pullets The Ferguson (30.. It 6, Ann 0:919:35; Midi.





CHICKS





form Bred-to-Lay S. O. W. Let-moms.





dors now for soar-lgl Booking or.

el





hatches. 310.50 per 50, $20 per 109.



> ivory posts pmid 3': '



sufi‘iamoon POULTRY FARMS. Hillsd'ale Mich. ' :

andard bred W b l t o ‘





CHICKS ' Stub homsmdBmwn





horns. Bred to- lay. large white cg 11.0 h be

{9) ”5(1) and“ 8'12. 50. Safe argrivj 3112;311:911





“15“!»thth

Wolver eHstcher-y. B. 2. wzefilinégoi/Iicgamlo. gm

CHECKS Purebred S. 0. White and

Bro Le

axing strum. Parcels-p02? brings ghorns. frommb’ogg





door. Safe arrival guannteed. $15. 25

1 per 100 t-

. Royal Hatchery. 11.2. Zeelon‘ifis igIId





 





   





 





   





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For SaGr'eR Dark red $901133th lied sectoral:

RYAN FOSSEN. Hilledsle. was





   

   





 





   

   





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Fowler: M ROCIKS 19%: ”8131131153 pigs”!

11 B row LEE. Hartford. 1111111.





   





 





   

   





Rose Comb Brownx





F O R S A L E Leghorn oockerelo





82 each. White China Geese Botheo

D..E 820118.,” Lewis St.





Him ”Mulch.

trad Rocks are 11.11 hul—





   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

   





   

   

   

   





 





   

   

   

 

 

   





 





M In 88.

have ever

for salmorde

ILL! JUMP. B. 5, Jackson. Mich.

Address BURT SI SSON. Imlay City. Mich.

no large with quality. 3. W. 11:111.. Saline. Mich.

Wardens. A.

OWNING.

Wkicto‘ Chinese Goons,





No Big Beautiful

on up revel

11

Rhode Island Whites ”‘3, hm ,3 no

Rhoda Island lads R 0 51...... 1...: °"°"'

Black Minor-on Muslim pen 11811313]!!th

Gold awm

“Salvage? W“ ‘° 15 63%

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figIo Comb Alan I

him 2 kl Br.

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ched nit). growers mould

ircnlow photos. Johnx Northmi, Clare. ich.

money in oral-“fixed poultry try the 3.1 I.Wbite. stock

andcockerelsfl to 85 each

3- ti 011: 850. Ila/.111 cook bird.

Efren for sale at

O ,

.Mro. Nell Cochran homz. EM

mam-1 Mm Add. laid oil
0! Copy or Cancellations must reach us





on Days before date of publication

>Wildwood Farms

Anguw





Effies Lass 238203 sold on May. 6th for

37100. She was sired by Black Mon-

arch 3rd. We are offering for sale Ed-

itor of Wildwood 295059 a full brother

in hood lines to Effies Lass also four

more choice bulls which'are old enough

for service and sired also by the cham-

pion show and breeding bull Black

Monarch 3rd.





Our herd is under State and Federal

Supervision.





WILDWOOD FARMS

ORION, MICHIGAN

Sidney Smith.Supt.





 





X.





W. E. BCRIPPS. Prop..





W000COTE ANGUS





Imported Herd Bulls

ELCHO OF HARVIESTOUN (45547)





by Jason of Bailindallooh (

EDGA RDO or DALMENY (45501)

by Escort of Harviestoun (- )





Woodcote Stock Farm. Ionia. Mich.





 





 





The 2nd Annual





Mich AberdeenF An 1s Breeder's Ami 11 Sale will be

held atM East rinsing. on Jan.



This spaceA is 0contributed by Geo HalthawsyASon.

Ovid. Mich. A few females and an aged bull to spare

at private sale.





 





bulls and heifers from 6 to

Reg' Aberdeen Aug S 18 mos. old of the very best

of l1reedin.also Berkshire Swine. boars ready for





service an pigsv both sex singles. pairs or trios.

will accept] Libert





onds.

USSELL 0BROTHERS, Merrill. Mich.





He 1d your herd with a son of May Rose Noble of

Jean De Luth 38183 and get type and production

combined We olfer a few sons out of superior A -.

dams. Some old enough for service rite or come

.Vixlld see, together with several near relatives of each.

We a so other at this time a. few high class A. ll. cows.

PAUL LOVE. St. Austell Farm. Jackson. Mich.

Having decided to sell part of my herd



For sale of pure bred Aberdeen Angus cattle.





onsistin of males and females of diflerent ages

I: AgND NEW P. EITEL, Vermontville, Mich.





 





Village Farms Guernseys





or sale High [grade milking cows. heifers and

alter calves. A so registered bulls from 1 month to

serviceable Flage whose dams are on test and making

reco Write or come and see the herd. or



n Herdsman. 0. J. Winter Prop. Sebewaing. Mich

—REGIBTERED





GU ERNSEYS BULL CALVES





Containinguliiylood of world champions.

fllCKS’ GUERNS FARM, Saginaw. W. S. Mich.





 





UERNSEYS— —Federal lInspected. Headed by only

G son of Carrie of il lhurst. exchnm ion ofA.

class. 5 bulls underlO mos. ., 1 a dandy w use dam iAn

olasthas given over 50le. milk No l‘emnles to spare.

G.W .& H. G. RAY , 4111i. east of Albion. Mir-h



LV FS whose





GUERNSEEB $8,222.. CA dam made





19:30r109liro, 904:1}T #312801! Their mother s sire s dam

’ m ”a

m 8 a HICKS. Battle Creek, Mich.





istered Guemseys

a 0 months all? bull (100%) satisfaction for 8100. A

nice hei 85'. 08 North Adams. Mich.





 





50.

M. WILLIAMS,

Registered Guernsey cows 8 register

For sale02 ed bulls ready for service. call or write

NEBELS. B. 2. Holland. Mich





Guernsey bulls two ten months old

RegiStered excellent breeding back of them.

' GEO. W. REEVES. R.,7 Grand Rapids. Mich.





of May ose Breedin.

Guernsey BUIIS Their dan¥s have recor s

4‘20 to 660 lbs. fat also afew cows and heifers are

altered. H. .Wigman, Lansing, Mich.





 





Mr. Ilalur illark. Mombor Farm 1. Mar-





1111 Council Alhany,l. 1.1111111:





“Twelve years ago, my Hol-

stein start cost $1,100. The

thinking farmed can decide as

'to the financial end. I now

have eighty head and have

sold as many dollars worth of

cattle as I have bought and

have made much more in milk

than I would have with scrub

or grade cattle.”





\ Sand for Free Booklet:





The Hoistsio-Frlosian Association of America

164 American Bldg" Braillehoro, Vermont





 





 

 





 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





"Holstems of Quality





[Hegergfrgmgolflm monts old. All regis-

s n

" u j151A.HrlficY.intRochester. Mich





 

 





 





40 Head "





Large Type





Poland

China Gilts





BRED TO {





Sale takes place under cover.





of sale day. Get a sow bred to one of these boars.

Everything immuncd.





for catalogue.





Col. Ed. Bowers





Auctioneer





Wednesday

Jan. 5,1920

at farm near





Manchester

Mich.





 





F’s Clansman Grand Champion at Michigan State Fair 1920

Smooth Buster first Jr. yearling boar Michigan State Fair 1920





All trains will be met A. M.

Send





A. A. Feldkamp





Prop.





 





Mil. DAIRYMAN!





Are you using a first class herd sire?

You can’t afford to use a poor one.





We have good ones of all ages list-

ed at reasonable prices.





Let us know your needs.





The Michigan Holstein-Friesian

Association





II. M. IIOIliIlII. lr.. Field Seculary,

Old Slain Block. lensing. Michigan





NOTICE





The Winwood Herd





on Nov. lst will move their Herd of

Pure Blood Holsteins 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 obget busy it

want a son of Flint aplecrest oy

at your own price.





JOHN H. WINN, (Inc.)

Michigan





 





Roscommon,





Superior Holsteins





Bulls all sold but are now booking orders for our

expected fell crop of





Bull Calves

sired by my new herd bull. a grandson of

May Echo Sylvia





My sire’ 3 two nearest clams average over 35 lbs-

butter and 800 pounds milk in seven days“





A. W. COPLAND

Birmingham, Mich.





Herd under state and federal supervision





" I t ‘ Friesian heifer and bull calves. purebred

0 3 3'“ registered and high -grade ce up.

Splendid individuals and breeding. rite us your re.

quiremente. Browncroft Farms. McGraw, N. Y





The TraVerse Herd





We have what you want in BULL CALVES. the large,

fine growthy type. guaranteed right in every way.

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

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

quotations. stating about age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL

Traverse City, Mich.





 





accepted in payment of finely bred reg-

. Good "Ole istered Holstein bull calves.) Quality

of the best and at prices within reach of all Write.

11110.1) 11.01.1131“: assdr. Mich.





“Ton Nolch” HoIsIeins





Buy a “milk" Bull of Quality from the Breeders

of the world’ s onl cow to produce 800 lbs. milk in 7

da 8. having an 800 b. daughter.



6111‘ advertised bulls are selling fast.



Here are two good ones:





No. 1. King Vale Colnntha De Kol, No. 307701'

Born Oct. 11. 1919



A “TOP NOTOH” individual backed by fifteen

dams who average 30. 73 lbs. butter in 7 days.



Price $175. 00 I. o. bHowell.

No.2. Cornucopia BWaBne Segls King, No.318409



Born 80 6



His 4 nearest dams average 25. 39 lbs butter in 7 da 5.

Dams. a22 lb. cow with n aughter who produo

744 lbs. milk and 1543 lb b.s butts ntwo consecutive

years. Price 3125.00f. o. b Howell. ,

No.1 Bull about one quuarter white.

No.2 Bull about half and half.





McPherson Farms





Our herds underU





 





S upervision.





 





lk 1b. 11 be new»

507 5 lb. Shims mo‘fsgrand 1311311 r hatevfgf(i§e E0 an‘

Butter Boy 3rd Due inM or. (2027 11.111111 Phloem .





Terms. TL! \IcLAU'LI N BedferiM





Howell, Michb i 1,...





For 8an HoIsIein-Friasiané





A bull calf ready for service. Combines show

type and produi tion.



Herdsire. Model King Segis Glista. whose grand.

dam is Glista Ernestine, the only cow of the breed

that has six times made better than 30le. butter.





Grand River Stock Farms

Corey J. Spencer, Owner

315 N. East Ave. Jackson. Mich.





HEREFORDS





 





- $100





Registered Holstein Bulls





Best blood in America. Read for ser-

vice, grandson of Kin of the ontiacs.

Herd sire King of the ontiac Segis.



Herd under State and Federal Supervision.





JAMES B. JONES FARMS

ROMEO. men.





An introduction





Mr. ilalry Farmer, Mr. Ilolslein Breeder Mooi

lilIIG FLIIII





ALL THREE are working to a common purpose-#0 in-

crease 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 lol‘ the work.



We have it on high authority that there are none better

individually.



His three nearest dame each averaged to produce 1001be.

butter and 2100 lbs. milk per month for 8 full lactation per-

iod with an average of 3.8% fat.



His dam is one of Michiganje greatest family—three full

sisters that have produced over 30 lbs. butter in seven days.

two of them producing over 700 lbs. milk. and two of them

producing more than 10001110. butter and 21000 lbs. milk in





ten months. _

His sire is the direct descendant of three eneral

fin lb-

yearly record cows.

His test will each





tions of 30 lb. cows and two generations of

first three sisters to enter year]

produce more than 8001bs. butter 1111 17000 lbs. milk

as heifers.





in King FIInI HeIn You Improve Your Hard Through

One 01 His Sons





A son of this great young sire suited to headan

herd in Michigan. grade or purebred can be seen r25

i6} Ggaesee County and we want them all to stay in



i" an



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

what you feel you can aflord to pay and let us help

you find ’1?“ what you want in Genesee County. the

center of lichlgan' 8 long distance dairy cattle.





Ilcnrida Farm Elmcrosi Slack Farm

Walter T. Hill 6. L. Spillane 8. Son Co.

Unison, Mich. c1111





(IIuny Stock Farm





Offers the best selection of young bulls from 8 to

12 months we ever raised: out of dams up to 29. 70

for aged cows and over 26 lbs. for 2 r. olds

Yearly records up to 24000 lbs milk and 000 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 fsire, whose

dam is a 30 lb. 10 yr. old maternal sister 0 Dutch h_land

Colantha Denver who made lbs.i in 'ldays and

lbs. butter and 25431 lbs. milk in 1 year. Several carry

the blood of both these sires. -



Teyh are extra well grown straight and right. One

or these at the head of your herd is bound to increase

productio



Send for pedigrees and prices.





ll. Bruce McPherson. 11.11.11. Mich.

Here is A Good One.





A yearling son of Maplecrest De K01 Hengerveld.

The sire having three sisters. each with records of

overlmo pounds of butter in a year. two of them

former world cham ions. Calf s dam sister to three

each with records 0 over 1200 pounds by Pontiac Aeg-

gie Kykeornd This combination of breeding has

produced more 1000 to 1210 pound cows than any other

of the breed. It firefigtenoy counts, where can you





 





 





 





e us] it? Price or nick sale.

lcrest Farm. Mgr. F. .Lay. Kalamazoo. Mich.

Federal Old enou h

Accredited Herd Bu“ For sale for setvicge.





ecords, 7 da. milk 467m.butter2080 305d.



lk s16,1215é butter 648. Shehas 2 A. 11.0. daughter-1:.

His sire 3 lb. grandson of Colantha Johanna Lac .

anthd ree heifer calves 7 mos. old not related to bul .

All to r3500 Vernon Clough. arma. Mich





RC} ' Holstein Friesian Bulls read

8" and priced tofiell. Lvht in co





 





 





for service

or and richly

Akron, Mich.





 





1.51.1910





   





Heifer born





1191113181191

b11111. Price “Era“i‘rg‘





 





 





 





   





<vice Jan. 15th.





' and Sultan‘ s





1 Shorthorns





“K213114111. 8111111130111 'f i

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ford Bull Bargams --





In order to reschev eryarmerl‘ and



good bulls 1 will offer for a limited time a

ones at $100470 $125 ages 12 to 18 mo.



Farm six miles So. of Ionia, cm. Tel. 1224.





Jay Hal-wood & Son, lonia, Mich





 





Cows With calves at side, open or bred

heifers of popular breeding for sale. Also

bulls not related.





Allen Bros. Paw Paw,Mich.





Address Until June 1st. 1921.

907 Osborne Sh, Kalamam, Mich.





Hereford, p“. Sale Fairfuxand 1111.1wa





150 Reg. head in

reduction on all sires choice females! or sale-Na

me your needs. Earl C‘. M.cCa1-ty Bad Axe. Mich.





 





F0! 8.18 )1

Real. Adams: 2.151114% fi'fniimak 8°" 1113311711. *3





eight miles south of Marshall, Mich





Very Handsome Jersey”





bull calf, born July 4th 1920.801ld mighty”

and breeding such as to satisfy the most. tical.

Skid db£3xforldhis Chounpion“f‘rox‘lMari out o:

Ox or s s r noses. Roxie 0 near

8311 lbs. milk. 468 lbs. butter with min calf

milked 50 lbs. per day with 2nd calf. Sister to

Sadie: Crown Princess 16578 lbs. milk 103’] lbs.

butter in one year. Dam of call. Eminent‘a Tor-

mentor Bess, lst. prize at Kalamazoo Fat. 401

lbs. butter at two ears old 521le at three yrs.

old. Priced very ow quality considered. only

.75. 00 A few older ones at the same price





 





 





C S. BASSETT. Kalamazoo. Mich.



The Wildwood Farm 1

Jersey Cattle Majesty strain, Herd on S scored.

ited 11st Bot M. testing constantly done. nlla for

sale. ALV'INB ALDEN. -hone 113.5. Capac. M1101.

Tuberculin tested Jerse herd ulst-

F or sa ei got 10 cows and he sire. cfloaving





heifers coming nfresh to take their place. I will make

a very attractive fro osition on these.

LIVN STUN. 11.10 , St. Johns,- Mich.





 





BUTTER BRED JERSEgrsggm

CB YSTAL SPRING STOCK FABM.‘

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





 





I: s I Jerdey bull calves of Majesty ebmediagfrom

or . 3 good producln stoo vern-

ment “Accredited List. " rite for rice and pedi‘filree

to C. A. AGGETT,’ 11.2. ‘ail'grove. Mi





 





of \ . bull





'lillie Farmslud olorsoluinlé'ma 01.. .1... 1:1?“





Coopersville. Mich.





Jersey Bulls.150 ”W R]; of M. dams 175 to

NOTTEN FARM, . Grass Lake, High,





bulls for sale: From Marguerite te'sPremier

randson 0! Po ”than 1i». 01M .dams.

MIT THA PAR ER. 11.4 , Howell. Mich.





 





 





Jersey





Mex-Male Interested Owl No.111311heads1n herd - ..-:.:.





reat sire and out of at M.





bull calves from this

Leon. ll. 6. Allegan, Mich.





dams for sale.





BIDWELL mm...





that will put weight (in your dai calv -the dill-

:nmnce will soon ay for the bull. was



lootoh and Scotc -topped yearlingsn-egeonab

We guarantee every aalnlm obe a breeder

Test. One hour from Toledo. 01110,}!





BIDWELL STOCK FARM,

Box D, Tecumseh, Michigan





we,





 





Bloomdale Shorthorns‘





See our cattle get our prices gnd arseding before buy-

r s e. . '





111g. Both bulls and females

CARR BROS, A 00., Bad Axe, Mich.





The Maple’s Shorthorns





Kirklevington Lad, bi; Imp. Hartford

Welfare. In service, ulls or sale. -





.1. v. wrsr-z,





Richlanrl ' Shorthorns





Imp. Lorne, Imp. Newton cham ion and

Sterling Supreme in Service. e offer

for quick sale: Five snatch Bulls, best





of breeding. Three whites at $1000 each' One

mime. t.$500 one red at 8400 No females for“

as e. -





Public sale ChicagoT Oct. 2th8

c. .PRESCO a. SONS.

\ Tawas, City Mich.





BRANCH ceoUN'rY FARM I

American Polleed eSl'ioriliorn Cattle





For Sale two splendid bulls now read for service.

and two younger ones that will be read for light eer-

We alsoareo gefide‘d“ ttiietimessfew



bred cows andgbftflegri Herd hes “3:71.110 wri

1 cos very reaso 10 ten]



11.. 131.111.011.11“. 0111641111311.th

Good Scotch bredbulle, cows and



heifers D“

_W. B. McQUILLAN‘:~





“Milfin





 





 





wants.





 





 





scan. 36611.

w E11111 bShortho ‘





vergififfu _,i‘g'rc1®;e





 





[dang .





Three Hereford bulls, siret Ella’ s Walker. .





SHORTHORNS '





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j TEE acreage of wheat and rye sown

«. ~ . this full in Michigan is consider-

:‘ab’fly less than last year. The acreage ‘

~‘of wheat now onthe ground is about

four per cent less than the average

annual harvested acreage for the past

fifteen years; The acreage of rye was

more than doubled during the war,

rooching‘an estimated acreage of 900,—

' 000 acres in 1919. There was a marked

decline last year, and a further de-

‘creased acreage was sown this fall, al-

though it is still fifty per cent greater

than the- . pro-war average. The De-

cember Crop Report for Michigan, is-

: ». sued by Verne H. Church, Agricultural

, Statistician, United States Bureau of

Crop Estimates, “and Coleman C.

.Vaugham-sectetary-ot state, also shows

that the average monthly wages paid

by farmers, :dmg_.:'the _.past season

‘ l ’ were twenty‘fivc per cent greater, and

' day wages from’fiftee‘n to twenty per

cent greater than in the previous year.





The acreage sown to winter wheat

. , .. » is estimated at 839,000 as compared

. with 922,000 sown last year, a decrease

‘ . of nine per cent. Dry weather greatly



.1‘2' . -' hindered the preparation of the ground,



'- which, together with a shortage of la-

-. bor, caused much to be sown late and

Ti?“ appreciably- decreased the acreage.



" Germination was slow and uneven, but

ample moisture in November and mild

weather have given the crop a chance

to overcome the handicap with which

. is it started. '_The condition is eighty-



~.~ nine per cent which is one per cent

V. . below the ten-year average, and three

_' .4} * ' per cent less than last year on Decem—



, her L The amount of wheat marketed

‘ at mills and elevators in the state

during’November is estimated at 745,-

000 bushels, and the total amount since

August 1, 5,744,000.



About four per cent less acreage of

rye is estimated to have been sown

this fall, the amount being 635,000

acres as compared with 660,000 last

,1 year and 900,000 two years ago. The

3'. '_ condition figure is ninety-two per cent,



the same as the ten-year average, but

three per cent below the condition

.r: ‘ one year ago.



1. " The average wages for men hired, by



» the month during the past season were

,1 $53 and board, and $75 without board.

, Last year they were $42 and $60, re-



' ' ' spectively. Day wages for harvest la.



bor were $4.10 with board and $4.95

~ without, as compared with $3.50 and



$4.30 last year. For other than harvest

labor they were $3.30 and $4.15, as

compared with $2.80 and $3.60 last



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Fugue of Scar Tissue—My mare

got a bad wire cut, wounding shin be—

low hock joint, the wound has healed

fairly well, but a large bunch of proud-

flesh is left in wound. What will re

ducc this bunch? E. N., Reed City,

. Mlch.—-—It is considered the best treat-

. ment to cut of! such- a fungus growth,

"‘ then apply a saturated solution of per-

‘1 , , manganate of potash to wound (cau-

‘ tious-ly) twice a day. Paint it on with

a small brush. Apply equal parts of

odds of zinc and boric acid twice a

day. Occasionally paint sore with tinc-

ture of iodine. During hot weather

such a wound requires diligent treat-

ment, for if neglected it will surely fill

with fungus tissue.



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, .ed rye. The hogs seemed to thrive.

~ ,. Some time ago I shut them in the pen, i

grained them heavily, found one dead,

- the other morning, but it had not beenl

_ sick. A. (3.,» Memphis, Mich.——The1

” cause of death is most likely to be

.g‘je‘ithcr brain or internal hemorrhagey

r perhaps valvular heart disease.

‘v Week CW-—My six-year—old» - oOW‘

gheshened last spring. Onequarter of

naked and opened. Local veter-

.removed quarter. The wound

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POLAND BHINAS





Thursday, January Bill, 1921





- ‘ 1 At The

Fair Eroumls, Allogan, lichigan





NEVER has there been a better opportunity to procure the

blood lines of the most noted families of the breed and at

your own price.





40 HEAD, 40





Bred gilts, fall yearlings and tried sows, a few fall pigs and

acme extra choice boars, all from sows from such great

cars as





GR_AN_D MASTER—The first big type boar shown actually

weighing over 1,1001bs., the grandsire of the $50,000 boar

and the $17,200 sow sold from the Grover herd.



MASTQDON WONDER—The sire of A’s Mastodon, the grand

champion of Iowa in 1917.





HlLLCREST WONDER—The 1915 Grand Champion.

HILLCREST BOB—By BIG BOB, the greatest progenitor of

the big type breed. All sows bred to either Big Smooth





Jones, from the noted Jones family, or Bob’s Rival by Col-

onel Bob, that sold for $2,800 as a pig.





Don’t fail to attend this sale. Bring the boys with you.

It will be the best investment you can make.





Lunch at H, sale at 12 sharp, come early and look

them over before the sale.





Sale will take place in comfortable buildings, rain or shine.





 





 





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Ben Blykor Brothers, F. B. Lay,

Illegal, lichlgan Kalamazoo, llich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





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Federal accredited Herda. Davidson

ond Hall. Roland and Roland. Tecumseh. Mich.





1 . M Pd“ cattle choice young bulls fromG to 18





mo. old for sale.

IRANK IEBLEB. 3.1. Grand Ledge, Mich.





h H "ll“ Bull calves for sale from 3 mos. to

2- 1 your old. sired b famous Charmer

grand son of CharmerlQNIntemat. anal Grand Chans-

yian. WEnTBltOOK BROS, Ionic, Mich.





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Registered Berkshires. Grills. and Bows bred for Ag“

May and June furrow. A yearling Boar and a w

younger.Spring pigs. Chase Stock Farm.Mnrlotte.Mlch.





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B ' i dBorkshires for sale. Two young boars.

e '3 are ready for service, two young gills. a now.

youn of either sex Let me know our





Breakwater Dumc Jerseys

BOARS—Ready for Service





Big tychsrgc bone and rugged with plenty of qual-

ity. This is your chance to buy high class individ-

uals at reasonable prices.



Open Gilts



of choice breeding and right type. Panama Special.

The Principal 4th. Orion Cherry King. and Great

Orion families. Now is the time to buy before the

demand takes all of the good ones.



Write us for Prices and Pedigrees

Mail orders a Specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed.





BROOKWATER FARM





ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

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





 





Spring pigs by Walt’s

Orion, First Sr. Yearling

Detroit, Jackson,Gd. Rapids and Saginaw 1919





Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich.





 





DUROC JERSEY SWINE





for sale 2 yr. old herd boars, Warn” boars and boar

pigs. also bred cows and gi Its. rite for pedigrees and

p cos. Come and see them.



THUS. UNDERBILL ll: SON, Salem. Mich.





For Sale 231:23 ”gr-says of the big heavy

CHAS. BRAY. Okemos, Mich.





Bows and silts bred to V\ alts King 29499

Duroc who has sired more lot. and 2nd prize pigs

at the State Fair in’ last 2 yeam than any other DurOc

boar. Eve one Will a money maker for the

huver. t. and price list.

unwrox BARNR R'i‘, St. Johns. Mich.





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Duroc Bears 1, .3... on, 0,,”

King number 169259 son 0 the $10,000.00 amnion

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A LARGE NUMBER OF THE LEADING HOLSTEIN BREEDERS OF THIS COUNTRY





PURCHASD THEIR FOUHDATlON STOCK IN NEW YORK. STATE





alvelyrlrm'the tops of its leading herds. It



will be by all odds the best opportunity to



choosclrom. Eve popular blood linelswell pus-chum inundation animals such as have



represenmd. Both and short time record mnetomakethe breed in other states and



animals may be secured in this sale. The such as represent the greatest Holstein



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is an excellent individual: everyone is number from 30-lb. dammmgirg “Willi;



guaranteed free from disease. and behind records oinote represented.



each ofleriug stands the state assoclatlon. The catalog will be ready January Ist-

Get one. Loolir it over and wire a. reservation





combining the leading breeders of every

to Secretary Zimmer who will see that. you





section of New York. 7

This is the first Opportunity aflordod buy- are» comicrtably quartered and cared for





or: in a. New York State sale to select exclu- during the sale.





NEW YORK HOLSTEIN ASSOCIATION

E. R. Zimmer, Say” Syncuse, N. Y.

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- Duroc Jerseys Boar: BM" °‘ “h“ "‘3" “a”

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wrlte M6 hoovy bone registered Demo Jer-

sey boars readyifior service.



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Draco Jersey boars from 6 mo. to lyr. old. Young

sows old‘enough to breed for spring litters all in

good condition undatlnir p .. . Safe delivery ar-

alteed. W. E HARTLEY. Alma, ich.





DUROC JERSEYS

Carey U. Ed moods, Hastings. Mich.

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Champion 1: r. and out. of good bi dams Cholera

Immune and satlslaction guarantee . Also fall pigs.

either sex, not related.



N. L. HILL, J15. Mackinaw. Ill, Tazewell, Co.





Central Mich. 0. l. C.





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December 21, 1920.





Wheat.

Detroit—Cash N0. 2 red $1.96;

March $1.91; No. 2 white and No. 2





mixed $1.94.



Chicago—No. 1 mixed $1.76; No. 1

northern $1.75.



Corn.



Detroit.———Cash No. 3 yellow,

830; No. 4 yellow, new 780.



Chicago—N0. 2 mixed 72%0; N0. 2

yellow 78c.





new





Oats.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 white 530; No.

3 white 511/20; No. 4 white 481/2c.

Chicago.—No. 2 white 49@491/2c; No.

3 white 48%@49c.

. Beans.

Detroit—Immediate and prompt are

lower at $3.90 per cwt.

Chicago.—~White beans steady. Hand-

picked beans choice to fancy $4.25@

4.50; red kidney beans $9@9.50 per

wt.

0 New York—Market is dull. Choice

pea, new $5.25; do medium $5.50@

5.75; red kidney $10.





Rye.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 rye $1.60.

Seeds.





Detroit—Prime red clover $12.25;

February $12.50; alsike $17; timothy

$3.50.



Toledo.——Prime red clover, cash and

December $12.10; alsike $17; timothy

$3.40.





Hay.



No. 1 timothy $26@27; standard $25

@26; light mixed $25@26; No. 2 tim-

othy $24@25; No. 1 clover mixed $23@

24; No. 1 clover $22@23; rye straw

$14.50@16; wheat and oat straw $13.50

@14 per ton in carlots at DetrOit.





WHEAT





On the bear side there is an increase

of 40,000,000 bushels in our wheat crop

and reports that Argentine wheat was

turning out even better than expected.

Also the visible supply increased over

5,000,000 bushels. 0n the constructive

side, however, was the discovery that

33,000,000 bushels out of the 48,000,000

in the visible was at the seaboard of

Buffalo waiting export. The Canadian

visible decreased nearly 3,000,000 bush-

els. The Saskatchewan crop estimate

was reduced 25,000,000 bushels which

is in line with current belief that the

Canadian official estimate is toolarge.

The Australian estimate was reduced

12,000,000 bushels. The British com-

mission has taken nearly 3,000,000

bushels during the past week and the

total export sales in five days were

around 8,000,000 bushels. It is said

that larger amounts could have been

sOld were cargoes available. This has

taken place in spite of the close of

lake navigation, reports of slow flour

trade in England, and close approach

of the time when shipments can be

started from Argentine. The world’s

stocks of wheat and flour in second

hands is said to be the smallest for

December 'in ten years.





CORN





The corn market is weak. Receipts

have increased perceptibly but by no

means have they reached midwinter

volume when the size of the crop is

considered. The price is most unsatis~

factory so that producers are disposed

to hold except when compelled to sell

to obtain ready cash. Demand is slow,

especially from industries. Export

sales of around 5,000,000 bushels for

January and February, shipment have

been made. The live stock population

is gradually reducing but still remains

rather large compared with pre-war

levels. With lower prices, farm con-

sumption of corn will be heavy.

Strength in wheat will affect the corn

and oats markets but the position of



—corn is weak and will remain so ap-

parently for the next two months.





SEEDS





As in nearly all other crops, the

government report showed an‘increase

in the clover seed crop over earlier

estimates. Total was placed at 1,760,-

~y 300 bushels compared with 1,341,000



_ ushels last year, 1,197,000 in 1918, and

1.488.000 bushels in 1917. Wisconsin



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week, alth gh the report caused a de-

cline. Trade buying is still limited al-





though heavy seeding next spring is

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expected.

‘ FEEDS





The big decrease in the purchasing

power of farmers represented by the

decline in the value of their crops, the

unsatisfactory markets for live, stock,

open weather and cheapness of farm-

grown feeds causes very light demand

for wheat and oil mill by-product feeds.

Prices eased slightly during the week.

Linseed oil meal has lost practically

all its premiums over cottonseed meal.





BEANS ~





Wholesale grocers are out of the

bean market until after the first of the

year and inventories have been com-

pleted. A few.dealers have been forc-

ing the market and the result has been

a further decline of 25c to $3.25 to

growers for choice hand-picked beans

in_ the dirt, and $4 cleaned f. o. b.

Michigan points. The action of con-

gress as to an embargo or duty on

beans 18 being watched closely and

such a measure, if passed, would» im-

mediately affect prices, although at the

present time, the 'domestic market is

below the foreign and no importations

are coming. The government report

estimated the total crop of six states

on December 1 at 9,075,000 bushels, a

decrease of 289,000 bushels from the

November returns.





HAY -





According to the bureau of markets,

buyers are purchasing hay only from

hand to mouth because of the belief

that prices should be lower in line

With prices for grain, While producers

refuse to sell because of extremely

small returns. Severe weather which

would stimulate consumption and any

other factor likely to affect shipments

would have a big influence on the mar-

ket. The average price to producers

at $16.72 compares with $20.15 last

year and $13.18 for the five years of

1914-1918.





’undergrades and





EGGS AND POULTRY





Egg prices have been suffering re-

cently from the effects of t high al-

titude as consumption ,ha been re-

duced. Prices are high notwithstand:

ing the decline when costs of other

foods are considered. Poultry prices

are holding up well in contrast with

the weakness inother meats. Latest

quotations are: Chicago.——Eggs, fresh

firsts 68@69c; ordinary'firsts 59@64c;

poultry, spring chickens 25c; hens, gen-

eral run 20@21c; roosters 18@23c;.

ducks 260; geese 24c; turkeys 38c.

Detroit.—Eggs, fresh candled 70@73c;

live poultry, spring chickens 24@25c;

leghorns 20c; heavy hens 24c; small

hens 18c; roosters 18c; geese 24c;

ducks 32@33c; turkeys 42@43c.





BUTT ER





A slight improvement in the butter

market was seen this week with a.

small advance on all grades. Fancy

butter was especially in demand while

storage holdings

moved more slowly. Some of the Dan-

ish butter has been rejected because

of being out of condition. Receipts

were lighter than last week at Chica-

go, Boston and Philadelphia and ac-

count to some extent for the recovery.

Prices are as follows: New York 550;

Chicago 51%0; Philadelphia 55%c;





Boston 530.

CHEESE





Absence of demand characteristic of

the holiday season featured the cheese

market during the week. Country mar-

kets are barely steady with receipts at

distributing points showing increase.





POTATOES





The government report showed an-

other increase in the potato crop, the

final returns being 430,458,000 bushels

compared with 357,542,000 bushels last

year and a five-year average of 382,-

113,000 bushels. Potato markets con-

tinued dull the past week. Growers in

certain sections are said to be holding

for higher prices. Northern round

white stock at shipping points has de-





 





 





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Markets for December 22.





DETROIT





Cattle.



Receipts 1,025. Market strong, due

to light receipts.

Best heavy steers ..... . . .$9.50@11.00

Mixed steers and heifer

Best cows

Handy light butchers . . . .

Light butchers . . . . .

Best cows

Butcher cows

Common cows

Canners

Choice bulls

Bologna bulls ...........

Stock bulls

Feeders

Stockers OIOOOOQOC'OUICOO

Milkers and springers. . . .$



Veal Calves.





Receipts 1,224. Strong on the good





grades; common and heavy slow.

Best .................... $13.00@14.00





Others 4.50@11.00





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Receipts 5,734. Market is generally

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Pigs and lights 0 o o o o o o o o o 10.2



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 6,165. Good lambs strong;



common lambs and sheep dull.

Best lambs ......... . . . . . $10.25@10.50

Fair lambs ......... . . . . . 8.50@ 9.50

Light to common 4.00@ 7.50

Fair to good sheep . . . . . . . 4.00@ 4.25

Culls and common . . . . . . 1.50@ 2.50





CHICAGO





Hogs. ‘

Estimated receipts today are 21,000;

holdover 11,691. Market mostly 10 ,

150 higher. Bulk of sales ,$9.20@9_.3 ';

tops $9.65; heavy 250 lbs up medium,





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mon, medium, good and choice at $9.40



@955; heavy packing sows 250 lbs up



smooth $9@9.10; packing sows‘200 lbs



up rough $8.80@9; pigs 130 lbs down



medium, good and choice $9.40@9.75.

~ Cattle.



Estimated receipts today are 5,000.

Market mostly 25@500 higher; bulls

steady. Beef steers medium and heavy

weight 1100 lbsup choice and prime

$13.25@14.60; do medium and good $9

@1325; do common $7.75@9; light

weight 1100 lbs down good and choice

$10.40@14.50; do common and medium

$6.75@10.40; butcher cattle, heifers,

common, medium, good and choice at

$4.85@10.50; cows, common, medium,

good and choice $4.50@7.85; canners

and cutters cows and heifers $3@4.50;

do canner steers $3.75@5.25; v'eal

calves, light and handyweight medium,

good and choice $8.25@10.50; feeder

steers common, medium, good and

choice at $6.25@9.25; stocker steers,

common, medium, good and choice at

$4.35@7.90; stocker cows and heifers

common, medium, good and choice at

$4.25@6.25; western range cattle, beef

steers, medium, good and choice at $7





5 @10; do cows and heifers medium,

‘ good and choice $4.85@8.25.





Sheep and Lambs. V



Estimated receipts today are 9,000.

Market is mostly 250 higher and 500

higher in spots; sheep strong to 250

higher. Lambs 84 lbs down, medium,

good, choice and prime $9.50@11;50;

do culls and common $7@9.25; spring

lambs medium, good, choice and prime

at $635629; ewes medium, good and

chmce $3.50@4.50; ewes cull and com-

mon at $1.50@3.25; breedin ewes full

mouths to yearlings “@5160; yearling





wethers medium, good (and choice t‘

$8.50 0 . a





Hero today medium .and'hea be I

e ‘ at '@‘10.25“‘ :3 ”$8





l_.’





clined further to $1-.15@1.30. ‘-

whites bring $1.35@1.50 “M13

at Chicago. At Detroit, the ,

stock is $2.25@2.40 per 150-1b..





’ APPLESL





The government report indicated

total apple crop of 240,646,000 site A

compared/ with 153,238,000 .bushe' s , ,

year and ‘a five-year average of 292:"

698,000 bushels. The cbmmercial 05“"

was estimated at 36,272,000 11

compared with 26,223,000 barrels,

year. ‘





DETROIT CITY MARKER





Potatoes are. selling around the" d ..

lar mark with the range from" 902:1

$1.10; cabbage, 50@94c; apples 500

2.25; onions 750@$1; pork 15@18c

poultry 25@28c; veal 18c. These pric-.

es represent wholesale values.





FARMERS LOSE. FIVE BILLIONS 0103"

- cnops. ‘





’\





HE government report as of De-





cember 1 shows that the total“ .





farm value of the principal crops pro-'

duced in 1920 was $9,148,519,000.com~‘

pared with a value of $14,087,995,000 .

for the crops raised last year, 'a de-





crease of nearly $5,000,000,000 upon





the most abundant harvest in our ag-





ricultural history. Such is the farm- :

er’s reward for increased production





urged upon all classes last year. and-"

such is his contribution to a lowercast

of living.





live stock, wool, dairy products and

other things which come from the

farm. ' .

A leading New York bank has re- '

cently announced that business has





lost about $2,000,000,000 as a result of ..





trade depression and perhaps $1,000,-

000.000 in profits that might otherwise





have been received. Shrinkage in=,in- ,4





ventory values is reported to-have lost

$3,000,000,000 more. Since farmers





have lost large additional amounts in.

the same way, particularly through re-'





ductions in the value of live stock on





farms, it is obvious upon whose shoul- '3

ders the, biggest burden of donations.

has fallen. - . :g' *.





.. -.»' 3





A RECORD HARVEST. ,





HE December 1 crop report of .t e, _‘

United States Bureau of Crop ,? ,

timates was filled with _,surprises._ The "

total wheat crop is placed at 790,000,-

000 bushels compared with 750,000,009

a month ago, 934,000,000 last (year and





a five-year average of 822,000, .00 b11811-

els. The corn crop is estimatedfit

3,232,367,000 bushels compared with-

the November estimate Of 3,199,:

000,000 bushels, 2,858,509,000 harvested

last‘ year and five-year average of, 2,7

760,484,000 bushels. The oats crop -WQB

estimated at 1,524,055,000 bushels, a

increase of 80,000,000 over the Novem

ber estimate, and compares with.

248,000,000 harvested last year and

five-year average of 1,414,558,000b



els. The barley yield was also increa’

ed over the preliminary estimate but.

the rye crop decreased slightly to_-,,69,

000,000 bushels, compared with 80.00 ,

000 last year. Unpublished results. of

the census returns were used in {as

mating the yields, it is believed, .1

this caused the big revisions compare

with‘the preliminary returns. .. '





NOTICE TO GRAPE snows-Rea





The National Grape Growers’ A353

ciation will hold its second annual!

convention at Cleveland, Ohio, on

uary‘ -11, 1921, with headquarters

the Hollenden Hotel, For further

ticulars and reservations, commtin

with Secretary W. H. Asbury‘, U

ville, Lake County, Ohio. Every





jcoMme LIVE STQCKSALEQ





Bred -80We-January' .5, 'TA.‘

kamp, Manchester,.1£ichigan,



Po and;Chln'a—+Holstelno. "t. f'

anuary 6, Hillcrest‘ ”

Fair Grounds, Allie -



Holstein-Friesl'an'neaf



_ York. Holstein





. answer"





To this loss must also be I,

added the decrease in selling price of ‘





 





Obcmrotcbnfidufie‘nuw-mwmu





- s... A _. .._.... .





In-L-Lfl 4|





null-hm A...“ mu
,-





r-57' Beet committee I-R’eports - -





scoot such article, commodity or

Wrtationiat a fixed or graduated

mw..0r,by which they shall in any

manner establish or settle the'price

army article, conimodity or transpor-

‘7 "hetwc‘en‘them or then'iselve‘s

and others, so as to directly or indi-

rectly preclude a free and unrestricted

competition among themselves, or any

purchasers or consumers, in the sale

or transportation of any such article

”or commodity or by which they shall

agree to pool, combine or directly or

,. indirectly unite any interests that they

' may haire connected with the sale or

transportation of any such article or

commodity, that its price might in any

” manner be affected. Every such trust

as is defined herein is declared to be

unlawful ‘against public policy and

, ' ., id.” ...... ,

- 'Further, "that all contracts, agree-

_'ments, understandings and combina-

tion made, entered into, or knowingly

assented to, by and between any part-

ies capable of making a contract or

,agreement which would be valid at

law or in equity, the purpose or object

or intent of which shall be to limit,

control or in any manner to restrict

or regulate the amount of production

or the quantity of any article or com-

- modity to be raised or produced by

mining, manufacture, agriculture or

' any other branch of business or labor,

or to enhance, control or regulate the

market price thereof, or in any man-

ner to prevent or restrict free compe-

tition in the production or sale of any

such article or commodity, shall be

utterly illegal and void, and every

such contract, agreement, understand.

ing and combination shall constitute

a criminal conspiracy.” ,



Then another section of this same



statute provides that “the provision of

this act shall not apply to agricultural

products or live stock while in the

hands of the producer or raiser nor to

the services of laborers or artisans

who are formed in societies or organ-

izations for the benefit and protection

of their members.”

' These last two quoted sections ob-

viously are in opposition to each other,

making a correct interpretation of how

this law might operate it binding con-

tracts were issued, practically impos-

sible to gauge.



An exactly similar provision to the

last previous quotation, in the Illinois

statute, so far as agricultural products

are concerned, was held unconstitu-

tional by the United States Supreme

Court on the ground that it denied the

equal protection of the laws, contrary

to the fourteenth amendment to the

United States Constitution.



In view of this set of facts, which

make it obviously seriously question-

able the endurance and validity of any

binding contracts which might be is-



. sued by the farm bureau or any organ-

ization to growers ,of sugar beets in

Michigan and because an attempt is

being made to have congress enact

legislation absolutely defining agricul-

tural collective bargaining, your com-

mittee came to the decision that it



.would be unwise, until a test case



.might prove growers’ rights to agree

, to sell, and sell as a unit, to recom-

mend issuance of contracts that would



undoubtedly be contested by the sugar

companies legally if they threatened

to accomplish their specified purpose

and probably be adjudged criminal. An

unfortunate legal precedent thereby

might not only be set for Michigan’s

organized agriculture but for the na-



tion’s. Such ‘a precedent would mili-

tate against eflorts to establish con-

stitutional legislaan covering the sub-

ject of collective bargaining.



Investigation as to advisability of

securing seed and distributing it to





. contracting growers with the farm bu-





reau was considered. Objections were

that-such a program would be purpose-

' less and unless the factories could be

forcedjo buy the beets grown. It was

found that seed in adequate quantity

cbuldbe secured and though laid ‘down

in Michigan for slightly less than the

twenty-five cents per pound the fac-

tories have been securing for their

seed. the gross saving would not be

material enough to warrant establish-

ing the machinery necessary to accom-

iiplish the task.



“this time little thought was given:

. 0 subject of cooperative factories as

not time enough between now

gbo 1921 boot harvest to finance

uild such an establishment. It

exceed _ how ever,.that this was a

that should be exhaustively



lately investigated.

Shrike 01311110110: ,1 a}; this comgitt-

,, , , sugar __ e

’3 Manny end

, 9t sele-





tion- within the next year, or possibly

the next few years, it was agreed that

it is time that definite efforts be com-

menced-looking toward the answers to

the problems in the beet industry.

With this thought in mind, it was the

consensus of opinion of your commit-

tee, after all considerations had been

carefully weighed, that a big forward

step in betterment of sugar beet pro-

ducing and marketing conditions may

be taken immediately and in harmony

with this judgment the following rec-

ommendations are submitted for action

at the pleasure of this convention.



1. That the executive committee of

the Michigan State Farm Bureau cre-

ate a sugar beet growers’ department

of the Michigan State Farm Bureau

which will have an advisory board of

five members to be elected by the rep-

resentatives of the sugar beet growers

of the several sugar beet producing

counties of Michigan, placing the sug-

ar beet growers in position to work in

harmony and conjunction with the oth-

er interests in .the Michigan State

Farm Bureau. '



2. That all publicity for the beet

growers and their department of the

Michigan State Farm Bureau be band-

led through the regular publicity chan-

nels of the Michigan State Farm Bu-

reau.



3. The sugar beet department of the

Michigan State Farm Bureau put in

circulation in the various sugar beet

producing counties of the state, when

the advisory board may deem the time

appropriation contracts in the form of

power of attorney for individual grow-

ers to sign authorizing the Michigan

State Farm Bureau to act as selling

agent for beets grown by the individ-

ual over a. period of years; that this

solicitation of these individual con-

tracts be made locally in each of these

several counties under the supervision

of the sugar beet department of the

Michigan State Farm Bureau; that

these contracts further include a

pledge of the individual, supported by

a collateral note for an appropriate

sum, to pay to the sugar beet depart-

ment of the Michigan State Farm Bu-

reau a sum amounting to five cents per

ton of sugar beets that he may grow

for the financing of this department of

the Michigan State Farm Bureau and

its development, such moneys to be as-

sembled in the various counties for the

sugar beet department of the Michigan

State Farm Bureau.



4. That the immediate work of this

sugar beet department of the Michigan

State Farm Bureau include efforts to

have enacted appropriate legislation to

facilitate the solution of sugar beet

marketing and production problems;

complete investigation preliminary to

building and equipping sugar beet

manufacturing plants, such investiga-

tion to include all Costs, available and

appropriate sites, machinery, etc., an-

nual labor survey in cooperation with

the various sugar beet refineries in the

state intended to make possible the

securing of the best type of labor in

adequate numbers; improvement of

seed culture and distribution: improve-

ment of unloading devices, methods of

tare, etc, disposition of by-products of

sugar beets.



After the adoption of this report

Mr. C. E. Ackerman, of Shiawassee,

was elected as Michigan delegate to

the national federation meeting of

sugar beet growers. An advisory board

was then chosen by election as fol-

lows: Mr. Reavy, of Tuscola; L. H.

Kirtland, of Monroe; James Price, of

Saginaw; C. E. Harriot, of Clinton, and

A. C. Smith, of St. Clair.



The accredited delegates from the

various counties to this meeting were:

Wayne—August Bunte and John Near;

Isabella—Paul Mossholder and W. J.

Hazelwood; Gratiothert Millinger

and Arthur Humphrey; MonrocLFred

Van Baron and Robert Stearns; Tus-

cola—D. B. Pinkerton and C. P. Hoov‘

er; Barry—W'm. McGhan; Clinton—

Albert Nicols and George Fiedewah;

Lenawee—Otto Wagner and H. F.

Knoblauch; Lapeer—John Phelps and

W. B. Wilson; Missaukee—Abe Londt-

ke, J. W. Schaefer and W. E. Bowler;

Eaton—Clifford O’Niel and P. Smith;

Sanilac—Phillip O’Connell; Saginaw—

Henry Miller and Deb Terry; Midland

—G. F. Histe; Shiawassee—A. Denni-

son and C. E. Ackerman; Bay—C. R.

Oviatt. ’





After several addresses by delegates





and mm mmmd.





 





 





.Wool markets in the United States

quieted down after the' slight, spurt of

the preceding week when about 4,000,-

000 were sold. Foreign markets con-

tinue to slip, the latest auction in Lon-

don being at the lowest level of the

season on crossbreds. Australian grow-

ers are resisting the decline by heavy

withdrawals from their auctions. The

American Woolen Company sold over

8,000 pieces of overcoating cloth dur-

ing the week, prices averaging about

30 to 40 per cent of the January, 1920,

opening prices on these goods. Goods

prices formerly at $2.40 were sold at

80c and most of the goods sold below

$1 a yard. Figures on wool consump-

tion during October show a total of

38,510,000 lbs., which is about the same

as during each of the preceding

three months. Normally, consumption

averages about 50,000,000 lbs. monthly

although that figure was exceeded un-

der war and early post war conditions.





The reduction of 221/2 per cent in wag- .





es of textile workers affects cotton

workers chiefly but some woolen mills

are included. Latest quotations at

Boston partly nominal are as follows:

Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces, delaine

unwashed 45@48c; fine unwashed at

30@31c; one—half blood combing 33@

35c; three-eighths blood combing 28@

290. Michigan and New York fleeces,

delaine unwashed “@450; fine un-

washed 29@300; one-half blood un-

washed 32@34c; Wisconsin and Mis-

souri and average New England one-

half blood 28@29c; three-eighths blood

26@27c; one-quarter blood 24@25c.





 





 





Mr. POULTRY FARMER:





We make a specialty of White Hennery Eggs and

have created a profitable mnket for your eggs the

year around. We pay the highest premium for your

Hennery Whites—We remit same day shipments

arrive. Ship OftonuShlp by Expreu

GEO. R. ELDRIDGE CO.

494-18!!! Street, Detroit. Mich.

Remember! We guarantee you nil-cutlets with Ivan Ihipunnt





Holmes,Stuwe (30., 445‘Riopelle St.





Commission Merchants. Dressed Beef, Hogs, calves,

Poultr . Live a Dressed. Provisions, etc. Correspon-

dence “cited. Ref. Wayne County a Home Savings

Bank. Bradstreet. Detroit. Mich. 0311.288?





HA





homespun smokgfio and chewing





Kentucky tobacco. 10 lbs. . 20 lbs. $5.00:

100 lbs. SlBflOfP-ul Ford. Agent. J onesboro. Arkansas.





 





 





Ship to The Old Reliable Home

Daniel Mc Cuff ey’s Sons,

623-625 Wabash Bldg" Pittsburz. Pa.





to sell dependable fruit

Men Wanted Iran and shrubbery. Big

demand. Complete co-operatlon. Commission

paid weekly. Write for terms.

Willem Sons’ Nurseries. Rochester. N.Y.





 





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_





POULTRY





 





an n I M Carver and Whittaker'q strain.

I I I s Cocks and Oockerols. Price from

83 to $5 each. Alfred Deichmann, Pigeon, Mich.





White Wyandottes 23,03“? efitgfiofi‘,’





Coclllxerfils from gage withszgltfiggmgragefi. andSSJJO

ec.‘ ore-ing. or”.

a IR‘TNK DoLONG, 8.1g. Three Rivers,Mlch.





TURKEYS





Michigan's best. Giant Bronze breeding stock. Very

large, excellent color. health and Vigor fgamnteed.

N. EVALYN RAMBDELL. nia, Mich





 





 





Pure Bred Bronze Turkeys





Mrs. EUGENE RAMSDELL. Hanover, Mich.

White African Guineas so





“In“ Hana“ Tum” acres of them. Reference C.

H. Burgess. Prat, Poultry Mich. Agri. College. Fan-

torsalo. Alden Whitcomb. Byron Center. Mich.





Bourbon Rod lurks :,





prices. OH





 





Evans strain. Large well

marked birds. Write to:

A . LBEATTY. Milford. Mich.





Bourbon Red Turkeys Select your

breed' stock now.

H‘H 83:38.. R. 3, Augusta, Mich.





HOGS





Down With Pmes a? #3} 313,13“ the evens °

WEBER BROS” Royal Oak, Mich.





For Sale

SM





 





 





 





choice spring pigs either sex. Booking orders

for fall gigs. We register free and ship 0. 0

A. J. ABKER &. SON, Belmont, Mich'





0MP:

D.





 





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

. - guts, bred lots of spring gigs and this fall pigs

either sex. good growth stock mile west. of Depot,

Citz’s. Phone 124. Otto . Schulze, Nashville, Mich.





0 @2333: 2nd Jutliyfboars acngoopien gilts.hRecord-

0 r so pal or e

guaranteed feeder. F. O. Egrgess, Bgfhficonffifihé





O. I. C.





 





Servicenble boat’s. A few extra

good boats at farmers' prices.

H. W. MANN, Dansvllle, Mich





 





Fall pigs by C 0. Big Callaway have size



and qualit and are priced right.



C. J. THO PSON, Rockford, Mich.



o Bred Gilt: for Man. and Apr furrow

° .1. C' also a tow choicenervice ho to

0mm Linn sroox “an. Maui-oi. Mich.





O. I. C’s





 





 





Closing out sale of big type Poland Chin hogs. which

‘ to ntu the work of veers of constructive

as. in m including our three

‘ _ 'ich. usher" {lav "Giant Buster". “A



a!!! Bob 01:! the best yearling





filer. W





92199310





 





Pgland China’s spring bogll-f'lready to

we thlifialmmuno mm o era.

ry . No. 2. Manchester, Mich.





large Ell".





A. A. FEL KAMP,





a few choice boars

iL. S. P. C. ,, “mm pm

ilts bred to Black Giant one of the best pigs out. o

1. this fall. Also grandson ofTho Clansman and

Harrison Big Bob. H. .SWABTZ, Schoolcraft,Mich.

Spring guts bred for March and

m% 80') "38,060" April and some sows b to Big

‘ Bo his sire was champion of the world. his dam’s sire





was Grand Champion of Iowa State FBII‘.

O. E. GA BNANT, Eaton Rapids. Mich.





 





 





 





‘ Strictly Bi Type with

For Sale 0.1..C. Swme, quality, E“... a :9.

good boars and gilts left of same type and blood lines.

that won torus at Ohio and Michigan State Fairs.

Priced very cheap. Write us before you buy.

NEWMAN'S STOCK FARM.

MABLETTE. MICE.





My! Oh My! What An Opportunity



We are now offering a few choice big ty oPoland

China'Boai-sjrom Big Smooth Jones,one of t e breeds

best sues, from dams by such noted sires as Grand

Master, Hillcrest Wonder, Mastodon Wonder and

Hillcrest Bob.



You can‘t get better broeoeding. Individually they





will please Hyou. P

Kalamazoo, Mich.





1"] (‘0 .

ILLCRES'I‘ FARM.

L. _ “I '. P. C.

70 head of Poland Chinas at private sale. Am offering

8 ring boars from 840M) 560 and gilts the same price.

messengers Hrs.”

rm on e rs c o co. ,

CLIfiIfi. Address F. '1‘. Hart, St. Louis. Mich.





ILL





 





 





 





some fall boar pigs good enough to head any

me and see or write





L. R.LE0NARD', 3.3, St. Louis. Mich.





Spring boars and gllts now ready

5:; 0T° 13' C. to shi . Something good at a right

(‘ ,.





“I. J. HAGEILSHAW, Augusta, Mich.

falfi





Big Type P. 0. some very choice boars double im-

mune. out; 1100 lb. sire and mammoth sows from

Iowa a greatest herds.E,J.Mathewson.Burr Oak.Mich.





Big In" P. C. a few first class. 200 lb. boars left also

herd Co





 





 





n of the Clansmau r A pril [arrow also

pigs registered and delivered to your town for 82)

DORUS HOVER, Akron. Mich:





I ‘ Poland Chinas sprin gilts bredtog-rnnd

m .0 if,





 





' oland China Brod sows and gilts at ba nin rt

also spriniboars and fall pigs, either 51:11. p 08..

C YDE FISHER, R. 3, St. Louis. Mich.





Big Iml’oland China: at 10%” prices. Both





sex. all ages, and bred

cows and finite.

G. A. BA MGARDNER, R. 2, Middleville, Mich,





 





Edgewood Hampshires

All bred gilts sold. Now booking orders for elite bred

for fall furrow, and pigs for '





lg club work onl .

Depcw Head. Edgewood E'urm, Marlon? Ohio.





“MPSHIBES apt-E‘s boars and fall pigs at a bargains

JOHN w.°§Nffi‘irrafrdfif‘fowstffiroii’fidfi331::





YORKSHIRE-s for service.





Yorkshires cross makes an excellent market hog.

Waterman dz Waterman,Packard Rd.Ann Arbor.Mich,





 





Boers ready





' For December we will take orders to



39.0"” ofl.’ 19% spring gilt; bred for Mar. and Apr?



[arrow 1921 at $50 each excellent breeding. Gilts to be

pped when safe in pig. Write or come and make



your own selection at once.



RUSH BROS. Romeo. Mich.





SHEEP.





350 Bred Ewes 16 Oxford Hams





LISTEN? WISDOM





W :b-high prices. UNWISDOM rwhu the W.

WISDOM bu]: intelligently an a low mar/let.



No farm product turn: 30 quit) «a SHEEP.



Slurp will 71m again be a: CHE/{Pin America.





THESE YOUNG EWES, mostly 23 and

35 Western Canadian Rams turned with

them Nov. 10th. No guesswork when

lambs Win come. Does that mean any-

thing to you? Delaine Combing fleeces

averaged over 8 lbs. GOOD SHEAR-

ING EWES with their double crops of

lambs and wool are the only absolutely

Farm money-making proposition in

Sight. Put that in your pipe and come

and smoke it with me.



PRICED TO SELL as Ihave contracted

the use of my barn-room and pastures.

WILL ALSO SELL 22 of the only sen-

S’lble and economical shee racks made,

for hay and rain. FARM IN NORTH

CITY LIMIT Concrete roads to the

west and North.





T. F. B. Sotham, Saint Clair, Mich.





' ' lambs, ll

Shropshire Rams one, ,gegmljsgrggg

right. CARL TOPLIFF. Eaton Rapids, Mich.

Shropshires latices“swimm-

W. B. McQ UILLA , R. 7, Howell, Mich





Wool-Mutton Shropshire Ram.





bred, priced right.



' Shropshire Rams and ewe ll

Heglslmd sale. Well-wooled with oz: aid 33:3?

Priced to Dell. . F. Mouser, R. 6, Ithaca. Mich.





Registered Shropshire Ewes

and rams. Jno. Grieve, R. 3, Fowlorville, Mich.

Reg. Hampshire Down ram lambs, oneregistered





Shortborn ball on f. 9 mo..s ti (1 fall if

Berkshire pig. M. o Mo-herpt 15%;; cmfinfi‘gg





wad 3 Sheep? Association send an dnnd



bootlet with list of breeders. Write MFOB



A- TYLER. 22 Woodland Ave. Detroit, Mich.

Registered ram: and ewes 32





"ampsm'efi. senate-acre

SHEEP





 





 





as! r

mu m.’

A. n. FOSTER. Allegra, filthy.





 





Let American Hampshire Sheep





Bred Ewes, Rams. Jone: cattle





ll either-em.

L330 iUNEv. Adrian. Mich.
if S Mouth ailment

Nasal catarrh





oe’oqeooeovfissi





~-_......,...'no-





V p" ‘ I O O I O O I



'2" Lymphangltis o a n e e o o e e n .1713



, Malignant sores . . . . .~ .

C Q 0 I 5.. I647

COCOIIIII00681

Open joint . . . ...... . . . . .160

‘ Partial loss of power... . . .583



paralysis

Pica





Innocence-nee.





Pinworms . ”6&7

Recurrent ophthalmic. .617

Rheumatism . . . ..160 289, 583

II.'..I....II..O'...249

O O I l I I O D l I. 77

Shy breeder . . . .249, 747, 777

Sidebone . 7

Slight bowel hemorrhage.. 85

Small worms ........ . . . .

Some blood in milk . . . . . .647

Sow fails to come in heat. 160

Sp rain . 713

Sprained fetlock joint . . . .647

tendons ...... 465

Surfeit sores ............289

Sweeney ....... '. . .....777

Swollen throat . . . . . . . ..289

Tuberculosis . . . . . . ,. .. . ..195

Twin calves ............ 160

Umbilical hernia . . . . . . . ...713

Vertgo .............. . . . .681

White scours .......... . .195

Worms .............. 583, 681

Live Stock and Dairy. .

Ames swine tests ........ 655

Are condensaries making

filled condensed milk?.286

Beet tops, feeding to sheep;501





Breeders should be more

prompt with papers . .660

Creditable dairy stories. . .120

Credit for the live stock

producer ............. 363

Dairy cattle congress ..... 491

industry, expanding the.365

Dairying, present status M755

to restore in devastated

France .............. 660

Diluted milk best for feed.303

Fall pastures, utilizing. . ..175

Fat cows and heifer prices,

trend of ............. 388

Feeder steers, buying for

greatest margins ..... 202

Good pastures necessary..301

Hairless pigs, treatment for

........................ 662

Harvesting corn with hogs373

Hog prices, fluctuations 111.304

flogging down corn ...... 422

'Hog house, a practical. . ..405

Holstein tours prove great

success 326

International Belgian horse

show . ..49

live stock show . . . .. . . ..720

Lamb prices, seasonal be-

havior of ....... . . . . .358

Live stock awards at

Grand Rapids ........ 493

at State Fair ..... 342, 390

commission men

dilemma .......... . ..287

marketing problems . . .503

Michigan State Holstein

sale 649

Milk producers hold annu-

al meeting ........... 539

National dairy show, 1920

................... . . . . . 534

wool pool urged \. . . . . . .306

Olen men busy ....... .. .135

Polandehina breeders ac-





.........64?’





9 State Hort. Society





289 ,





”1111

more enjoy tour.

hold annual meeting

grewers to make tour.

Is 'cherry selling a gamble?03

................ 4

Michigan fruit growers

meet ,

Nut culture in Michigan..367

growers meet at Wash-

ington . . .560

Root cellar, a handy .....341

Rot of apples in storage. .562

Spray in fall for curl....341

I Q I I O O 726

To encourage use of ap-

.437





ples

Vegetables benefited by

' freezing ............ 662

Vegetable canning cr'dp

growers organize . . ..599

growers meet 254

growers meet at Colum-





6 Sorghum recipes





' tic period, t

Red Cross roll call. ......611





Seeing and hearing . . . . .48

September calendar ..... 321

Shelves, two handy .’ ..... 55

Smallpox, facts about. . . ..770

Some women love to over-

do ........... . ....... 610

. ....... 739

St. Clair county tour. . . . .

Tab collars, new. . . . . . . 54

Taffy recipes ...... . ..... 643

The next first lady ....... 456

real trouble with the

school .. ............ 642,,

Wanted, someone to do the

' disagieeable work . .. 54

Washing, reducing the.. .105

Waterproofing a rug. .187, 353

Well planned meals . . . . .574

What is freedom? ........ 280

What milk does for kiddies61





Where are you classed?..516





2 My does Mary lie?. . . . ..419





Poultry and Bees.

Beekeepers.’ schools ..... 645

keeping good business. .510

Better farm flocks ....... 527

Breeding poultry for utility 5

’ 7 1





Colds, treatment for . . . .

December poultry hints. . .742

Exhibit birds at their best.644

Farm poultry flock, the..581

Fattening poultry, rations

for .................. 580

Free range poultry, prob-

lems ................. 173

Getting the bees ready for

winter 43

Hens vs. pullets for egg

production ........... 580

Inventory the farm flock. .476

Keeping breedersmigorous708

Michigan beekeepers meet

at Boyne City ........ 6

Mixing poultry manure. . ..

October poultry hints. . . .

Save poultry equipment...

practical articles

September poultry duties . .

Spotting the layers ...... 4

State Fair laying contest..

Swarming bees .......... 41

Turkeys, facts about . . . .708

Winter eggs. essential for.678

Household.

About criticising ......... 674

A merry heart .......... 458

real opportunity to help.770

Are you getting or giving?

........................ 352

August calendar ......... 156

Before Mary begins school

7





Books and dinner pails“

Canning corn on the cob.

Chatham conference, the..





1. Children and fire





Choosing the day’s food. .

Community nurse, the. . .

Conference at M. A. C. . . .

Cookies and kisses .......

Cooperative play ....... ~..540

Corn, preserving in brine..187

Crochet, double scallop...642

Daisy table mat .......... 488

December calendar ...... 706

Diet suggestions for indoor

folks 738

Dill pickles

Doily in crochet .......... 574

“Every step in canning”. .353

Fall fabrics and modes. . ..610

First aid to plumpness. . . .321

Getting even with social

graftels ..... 124





5 Giving old furniture a new





Rape for sheep pasture.. 35

Sheep on the dairy farm. .115

summer care of .

Shippers of live,

make protest . ....... 288

Shipping gate, standard. .509

Short-fed specrais at Inter:

national .............. 163

Shorthorn breeders’ picnic:l 1

........................ 1

State fairs spur to dairy

cattle exhibits ....... 37

Straw, how tofeed ....... 614

- Summer Holstein breeders'

‘4 meetings ........... .111

Think rate too high ....... 22 5

To feed, or not to feed?. .235

Tuberculin test criticized

. and defended . .. ..... 1:666

Vitamines essential

growth ......‘.'....... 66





W8? the cow-testing asso- -' -





elation ..............





Horticulture.





I A methan- in; apples”

_ cranberry marsh. .727

"for these eggs. 295





on. .220





.204 '





lease of life ......... 384

Goitre, some facts about. .738

Good healing lotions ...... 575

Handkerchief, borders for.280

Home account books, de



mand for

Home- made cooker

Hot weather helps 22

Household helps,p 81, 105. 419,



489, 611.



Housewives’ calendar ....244

If you can without sugar; 80

In Cloverland ............ 281

Is ‘ woman’s work ever



done? ............... 218

Javellen water for bleach-





7 Jelly‘ and butter from same





apples ............... 643

Machinery of ’government.489

Marriage vs. a career....320

Memory vs. imagination. .157

Michigan home agents or-



ganize

Mustard pickles ........ 353

New dean at M. A. C ..... 771

Newer knowledge in home



making





October calendar . . . . . . . .457

Pattern service. 55. 81. 104.

125, 157. 321,. 643

Pie,» making and. baking. .244

Pman wool for. a com- ‘

for





_. ».

,9. ‘4;





., 707; '16, Fir-bearinganim





457 576 How much down we?“





Women and the new dem-

ocracy ...............245

as voters ..............124

who may vote 541

Would standardize fabrics' 23

you like a free library?.675

Yuletide cakes 67

Boys and Girls.

A big opportunity.

A farmer with horse sense578

An unpleasant visitorIH . . . .641

Babies, red yellow and blue





. 542





Bantams, raising for pets. 4.22





1 Bear thief, the





Boys’ and girls’ books.

there first ........ . . . . m.420

can succeed with rabbits31





dairy cattle clubs ..





Bryan, W. J. message.... 24





on ............. . . . . . 740

Can you keep it up? ...... 543

Clubt boy raises good poul-





1 Canning, some observations





try

Don’ t start with scrub Steelém

Farm dog, how to care for.454

Father, sons and Ayrshires





Fifteen teams enter judg-

ing contest .......... 27

Gogebic boys and girls win

honors 612

Going too near to danger..579

Hereford cattle for boys

and girls ............ 772

Hogs need shade and wa-

ter .................. 216





7 How I felt duiing first





aeroplane flight ...... 126

I got started .......... 640

I raised my potatoes...677

It is teamwork that counts

........................ 740

Jersey cattle for boys and

girls 7

Knights of the farm ...... 490

Laws relating to fur-bear-

ing animals

Lenawee live stock club's..542

Letter from Uncle Ed....355

Michigan boys at the Inter-

natiogl ........... . . 640

score ... .............. .518

Muskrat takes on added

importance . . . ...... 354

My crop of beans ........ 154

No hard luck stories....543

Painting on china ....... 579

Pheasants, hatching and

‘ 2





Pig club member wins

prize at Gogebic fair. 640

Rosen rye, dialogue ...... 216

Seeing w01th- while things .126



Sheep story, an inteiesting

57





Starting with pure-bred

stock 61

State Fair, trip to ....... 82

Thinks boys and girls do-

ing big work ........ 247

To judge cattle .......... 82

Wayne county club work..106

When boys and girls enter

the field ............. 676

Why beginners fail ...... 318

not off for college? .....

pure-bred stock? ...... 641

Wireless explained ...... 154

Woodchucks, home tanning

of ................... 2 47

Young folks’ round table. .246





. Magazine.

A little surprise for Mabel.636





56 “And the door was shut"..672





Armistice Day, 1920. . . . . .608

Buried from the town hall.242

Can a boy be religious?.. 20





04 Cheers from the side lines .

1 Novemberug calendar .. . . . .576





...-noose...none-ooeeoeom

Does the church have any

influence?





0.0.0.0....





to skin ..............637

God-’3 vacation country. . .382





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How strangers 3061....382Gettings, canard





Inventiveness of animals

Men and trees



SNative plants of Michigan. 638

Raising the dead ..........

Songs of thirty centuries. .737

Speeding up rural churches18





Thanksgiving habit, the. .638

church in the country. .214

courage of the Francon—



ians

God of battles .

old home ............ ...

people Chiist admires. .123

Valley of the Giants, 18, 48,

76, 102, 122, 148, 180, 212

240, 274, 314, 348, 380, 414,

448, 484, 512, 536, 568, 604

value of the individual. .182

value of trade-marks . . .572

Voice of the Pack, 668, 700,

734, 766.





1 Voting your religion ..... 538





What can make me happy?





3 Grading

6 Grain exhibits at M. A. 0.551 *





4 Handkerchiefs





4 0 Hillsdale





eggs o-eeoeeeeo,





GrandRapidstair........259 ‘

50Grange walkers 72





Guernsey cow ....... . . . ..755

. . . . . 42g





Gusler, PlOf. Gilbert.

Hens vs. pullets for laying

..580





Hills, Clifford, and calf..

county farm .

scenes ....... 624, 625, 646 '

Hog house ............... 405

piices . .304

Holstein herd of H. W.



Hancock ........... .171



H 0 m e demonstration

agents ..,156 218

Hot lunch club. .......... 154

work ............. 186,1691

Horse show prize winners.472

Howard, J. R 754

Huron county farm scenes688





3 Jersey cow ............ 115





do we get out of it?” ..350

When God sleeps . . . . . . .103

Will churches face the

facts? ............... 312

You must take sides ...... 514

POETRY.





9 Did you? .......





Germ free

Home





. Life





Little. white schoolhouses . 519

Living them over ....... 452

My laddie’s calls ......... 738

So near an yet— ........ 127

Summer (1 ........... 124

To a cricket ............. 458

Illustrations.

Administration building at

State Fair ........... 253





8 Adrian community market.627





Aeroplane on farm ....... 591

Arlington experiment farms

........................ 723

Auto tour scenes ........

Average farm prices ..... 623

Ayrshire cattle breeders.. 56

Barred Plymouth Rock. . .561





4 Bathing child .......... -. .320





Beal, Dr. ”W. J ............ 113



Bee hives ............... 431



“Black Ruler,” Internation-

al grand champion ..720





6 Blasting stumps ......... 235





Boardman home ......... 229

Boys and calf ............ 188

and team .......... 429, 478

and White Leghorns. . . .188

Boys 420

judging team .......... 676

Branch county farm scenes

45

Buell, Dorr D ............ 294

Buell, Thomas B ......... 526

Cabbage in Cloverland..

Calf club ............ 24, 341

diluted milk for ........ 303

given as birthday pres-

ent .................. 246

county farm

scenes .......... 336, 337

Canning club ............

out of dams 3..22





9 Chatham test plots ...... 40"





Cherry grbwing on farm of

B. J. Morgan .......... 721

Children with lambs ..... 386

Club members at M. A. C..740

work in Cloverland, 278, 490

Collars, new tab .......... 54

Colony house on runners. 43

Committee of Seventeen. .501

Cooperative play ......... 540

threshing scenes





4 Corn field ........... 334, 621





in Cloverland

on muck

storing seed ........... 557

Cow and heifer prices. . . .388

testing Kent Co ........ 471

Coykendall, H. G., Prune

Growers’ Association. . 473

Crochet .................. 642

Curing soft corn ........ 752

Cutting hay .............. 65

wood ......... 589, 719, 149

Dairymaids feed thirsty

visitors

Doily

Eaton county club boys...





farm scenes, 136, 137, 150,"





151

Farmers’ picnic .......... 371

Farmstead of Allen Goodall

........................ 561

Fat steer prices .......... 202

Father and sons enter part-

nership .............. 188

Feeding poultry .......... 126

swine ................. 653

Fueled cooker .22, 517

Flint Pauline ............ 727

Foregstwry in’Michigan 117, 231,





Frankenmuthu ...... 450, 460

Fruit exhibit, Oakland Co. 695

growers of Santa Anna40



alley ....... .

orchard E. W. Lincoln. 35

packing plant .2.......265

Genesee county farm seen





my ..........296. 297, 300 307





'Worths pats





Junior judging team from

. - Gogeb 10

Kent county farm scenes

.......... 552, 553,554, 582

Kotesky, Miss ........... 740

Lamb feeding scene ...... 685

prices ................. 358

Leaf hoppeis ............ 725

Leghorn cocke1el and hen. 751

Lenawee county calf club. 542

Library, Spies public ...... 658

Live stock marketing. ..503

Livingston, Ge01ge,of U.



8. Dept. of Agr ...... 203

May Echo Sylvia ........ 666

Michigan boys at Internar



tional 640



scenes, 33, 89, 293, 525, 719

State Fair .. .199, 397, 454

Milking scene ........... 704

Ministers at M. A. C, 18, 184

Minnesota’s champion Hol-

steins ............... 471





7 Mohler, J. D .............. 39





Montcalm county farm

scenes ............ 36, 37

Muskrat den ............. 354

Next first lady and her

home ..456

Nicolson, J. W ........... 376

Nuts in Michigan... .367, 374

Orange tree ............. 595

Ottawa county farm scenes

............... 368, 369, 370

Picking daisies .......... 124

Pie rack ................ 244

Plowing for wheat ....... 167

Plymouth Rock cockerel





and hen

Poland-China pigs, 255, 286,

529





Poland-Chimes, of L. B.

Stokes

Potato exhibit at Hillsdale

fair . . . ..740

yields and prices ...... 694

Potato spiaying .......... 67

Poultry, bettex flockQ of.

................... 527, 533

exhibit at M. A. C ...... 644

house ............. 469, 742

Powell, G. H ............ ..401

Purdue’s team at Interna—

tional .

Rabbit husbandry . . . . . . ..318

Back for ensilage . . . . . . . .338

Raisin drying scene .....555

processing plant ...... 435

Red Rock wheat ........ 551

Rosen rye ............... 216

Rye on Manitou Islands..657

Saginaw county farm

scenes ...... 68. 69, 70, 71

Schools, consolidated in

Genesee county . .. ... .661

See-sawing126

Sewing club members.

Shiawassee county farm

fishes, 432, 433, 435, 442, ,





Sideboard transformed. . ..384

Silver, Gray .............. 754

Squash field ............. 549

St. Joscph county farm

scenes,158,169, 190,191

Strawberry harvest ...... 185

Stump blasting...... 475, 476

Sunflowers .............. 659

Sweet clover, annual ..... 41

Swine feeding tests ....... 655

Table mat ............ ..488

Taylor, Dr. W. A ......... 257

Traverse Co. farm scenes.593

Train ............... . . . . 404

Trucking milk 365

True, Dr., of Dept. of Ag...135

Turkey feeding ......... 318

Tuscola county farm scenes

...... 200, 201, 202, 222, 223

Wallace, Mrs. R G ...... .478

Upper- peninsula demon- .

stration





Queen-nee





Washing machinery ......418

1Wayne county farm scenes .





Wheat prices in Chicagei. .655

When farmers Sell their

. H. .....10...





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It pays to plan a remodeling job or a new dairy

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The dairy barn is your factory. your workshop, in use al-

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poor arrange-

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